Shortly after the Shifeng used a Return Scroll to leave, District One's Shelter became busy. ¥f,
With the sudden increase in the number of players a Large Shelter could accommodate, many players throughout the Evil Ghost Domain wished to join District One to enjoy better benefits.
Reviewing invitations was also a considerable workload.
In addition, after upgrading to a large shelter, it wasn't as if he could buy a mount right away. He would need to build a taming ground first, and building a taming ground would require a large number of spirit crystals. This would take a long time to accumulate, and he would need to shift the center of development.
Meanwhile, after District One's Shelter was upgraded to a Large Shelter, many Guild Forces in the Evil Ghost Domain began eyeing District One's Shelter, hoping to replace it.
In the past, although District One's location was quite good and its overall strength was quite strong, it was nothing to Guild Forces. After all, they were independent players and posed no threat to them. However, the situation was different now. As the Evil Ghost Domain's first Large Shelter, its influence was simply too great. The Medium Shelters in their hands had no advantage at all.
If they could replace District One, not only would they eliminate potential threats, but they would also strengthen themselves. They would no longer have to work so hard to gather all of their Guild's resources to create a Large Shelter. Most importantly, District One was not created by a Guild Force. It was just a pile of loose sand. They would definitely have an opportunity to take advantage of this situation.
Killing two birds with one stone? Ke Le but not do it?
For a time, the various Guild Forces in the Evil Ghost Domain thought of ways to secretly move their own members into District One's Shelter.
However, despite knowing this, Blue Frost and the others deliberately ignored them. They even asked for sky-high prices.
After all, they were not afraid of those who wanted to replace them.
They could not wait for the various large Guild Forces to send their members over to deliver resources.
Only a small number of District One's upper echelons knew about District One joining the Ling YI Society. The Guild had not announced this to the public. In the eyes of outsiders, District One's managers were very united, strong, and lucky.
Moreover, there were only so many Guild Forces in the Evil Ghost Domain. They knew very well which Guild Force the Shelter belonged to. Hence, everyone believed that District One's Shelter had not joined a Guild Force.
Under normal circumstances, the Shelter's managers would welcome anyone who wished to join a Shelter. This was because joining a Shelter could strengthen the Shelter and provide the Shelter with Soul Crystals. Meanwhile, any player who wished to become a member of District One's Shelter would have to be a Shelter's subordinate. If an outsider wanted to join, they would have to pay 1 soul crystal.
Although the Soul Crystals were expensive, as players reached higher levels, the difficulty of obtaining Soul Crystals had decreased significantly. As a result, the value of Soul Crystals had plummeted. Compared to when Shifeng had first arrived in the Dark Den, the value of Soul Crystals had fallen by at least three times. At this stage of the game, even an elite party would have at least one Soul Crystal. If they worked hard for seven or eight days, they should be able to collect six Soul Crystals.
Even if Blue Frost and the others recruited some of their own people, they would still have 50,000 slots available. If they exchanged 50,000 slots for Soul Crystals, that would be 50,000 Soul Crystals. The 50,000 Soul Crystals collected by the entire Shelter could not compare to the 50,000 Soul Crystals collected by the entire Shelter.
For example, to upgrade the Lion Bar, an individual's investment was only 500, but if the shelter's collective resources were used, it would cost 10000. The difference was 20 times.
With 50,000 Soul Crystals in hand, Zhang Tie's eyes lit up. Not only would he be able to easily construct a Beast Taming Ground, he would also be able to construct two other buildings that could provide specialty products and upgrade them to 2-star status. Then, he would be able to upgrade the Lion Bar to 3-star status, increasing the production of the Hundred Berry Wine once more.
Meanwhile, Shifeng had also returned to White River City with a large number of Attribute Gemstones and Hundred Berry Wine.
Attribute Gemstones were extremely rare. Ordinary players were reluctant to embed them into their equipment. After all, if a piece of equipment was destroyed, the Attribute Gemstones would be destroyed as well. Generally, Attribute Gemstones were safer when used on top-tier equipment. When the time came, they could be replaced with other top-tier equipment.
Currently, the Evil Ghost Domain's Tier 1 Gemstones were even cheaper. Each gemstone only cost 3 Silver Coins. However, in the Starmoon Kingdom, Tier 1 Gemstones cost 9 Silver Coins. In the Evil Ghost Domain, Tier 2 Gemstones cost 30 Silver Coins. In the Starmoon Kingdom, Tier 1 Gemstones cost around 1 Gold. Hence, the price of Tier 1 Gemstones had more than tripled.
Shifeng immediately received 30,000 Tier 1 Gemstones from Blue Frost. These Tier 1 Gemstones had been secretly purchased from the various Shelters in the Evil Ghost Domain or exchanged with Light Stones. Each stack contained 20 Tier 1 Gemstones. In total, they had 1,500 stacks worth of Tier 1 Gemstones. Shifeng's bag was nearly filled to the brim. As for the Tier 2 Gemstones, he did not bring them with him. This was because the Philosopher's Stone could transform Tier 1 Gemstones into Tier 2 Gemstones. The Philosopher's Stone had a much higher success rate than using Alchemy to synthesize Tier 1 Gemstones.
After Shifeng returned to White River City, he immediately headed to Candlelight.
Currently, Candlelight was the most lively place in White River City. It could be said that it was the business center of the entire Starmoon Kingdom. Many forgers and capable people of various Lifestyle classes gathered here. All sorts of advanced goods produced by players were displayed everywhere. As long as it was something that could be found in the Starmoon Kingdom, Candlelight could be found here. As for some of the exclusive recipes, even the Ling YI Society could not obtain them, they could not produce them. However, even so, the variety of goods available was already overwhelming.
Due to Feng Qianyu's help, aside from Starmoon Kingdom, Candlelight also had branches in the major cities of the neighboring kingdoms and empires. Every day, these branches earned thousands of Gold Coins. A Melancholy Smile could barely manage the business.
Candlelight's earning ability far surpassed that of first-rate Guilds. Only super-first-rate Guilds and Super Guilds could compare. However, as time passed, super-first-rate Guilds and Super Guilds would definitely earn more Coins than Candlelight. This was because their influence in God's Domain was far too vast. The resources and channels they could obtain were many times better than Candlelight's.
Although Candlelight could continue to expand, the Ling YI Society could not manage it. After all, the Ling YI Society lacked the manpower and strength to do so. This was also the difference between the foundations of Guilds.
Fortunately, Shifeng had long since prepared for this situation. After all, he had not been the Guild Leader of a second-rate Guild for nothing. Ever since he had entered God's Domain, he had been constantly thinking of ways to improve his Guild's foundation. He had come up with a series of plans, and now, he could be considered to have achieved initial results.
Shifeng retrieved the Philosopher's Stone from the trading firm's Personal Warehouse. He then entered his private Advanced Forging Room and began to synthesize Tier 2 Gemstones.
If he had an NPC Alchemist synthesize high-tiered Gemstones, not only would he have to pay an exorbitant crafting fee, but his success rate would also be low. At most, he could synthesize Tier 2 Gemstones with a 30% success rate. He would need four Tier 1 Gemstones to synthesize one Tier 2 Gemstone. If he was lucky, he would need twelve Tier 1 Gemstones to synthesize one Tier 2 Gemstone. However, Tier 2 Gemstones were only ten times more valuable than Tier 1 Gemstones. Hence, it was not worth it to synthesize Gemstones.
However, the Philosopher's Stone in Shifeng's hands had a 100% synthesis rate when synthesizing Tier 2 Gemstones. Just a single synthesis could multiply the profits of the Tier 1 Gemstones in his hands by several times. Naturally, Shifeng could not let go of this opportunity.
Only, Shifeng's goal was not to make money.
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