Elite Squad Meeting

Even though it took a long time to clear this entire camp, the experience gained was quite substantial.

Yang Jian was just a hair's breadth away from reaching Level 41.

The centaurs here really give a lot of experience!

But to be honest, Yang Jian was very curious.

This road, after all, leads to White Stone Mountain.

It's an essential path to the Royal City.

Now, along this essential path, there are more than a dozen scattered centaur camps.

What's even more outrageous is that there's also a camp the size of a small city, sprawling across the center of the Stone Forest Mountains.

That place is very likely the centaur clan's royal court.

Even if Yang Jian killed off the first wave of centaurs, what would happen when they respawned?

Would this road need to be cleared every time he walked it?

Yang Jian didn't care; he could fly!

His main purpose for coming here was to level up.

But what about everyone else?

Things he couldn't figure out, he'd set aside for now.

Yang Jian decided to keep clearing for now and see what the exact plan for this area was later!

"Boss, all the spoils have been collected!"

After all, they were all wild monsters over Level 50, plus a Level 55 Golden BOSS!

Yang Jian inspected all the drops.

He frowned slightly!

Not to mention the hundreds of blue and purple high-grade materials.

There were also four orange materials!

Among them were seven Baoshan Earth Jades.

Yang Jian directly fed them to the druid king ring.

Since obtaining the Flame Essence in the River of Flames, Yang Jian's druid king ring only needed thirty-three more Baoshan Earth Jades to upgrade!

Now he had acquired seven more!

It's just that this material is quite high-end... In fact, Flame Essence is even rarer.

But who knew Yang Jian would be so lucky!

He found this rare material in the Abyss.

Yang Jian: "Rich lady, please support me!"

Zhou Yue: "Name your price, I'll take care of it!"

Yang Jian: "26 Baoshan Earth Jades..."

Zhou Yue: "Wait..."

Yang Jian: "Rich lady, today I am yours, I'll be waiting for you!"

Zhou Yue: "Alright, I'll WeChat you two yuan, go buy a steel wool scrubber at the supermarket first..."

Yang Jian quickly closed the chat window.

His little heart was still pounding.

No... Big sister, are you toxic?

Yang Jian calmed himself down.

Then he started to check the dropped equipment.

The entire camp dropped a total of 143 purple pieces of equipment.

For four to five thousand centaurs, this drop rate was already very low.

After all, the Golden BOSS alone dropped over twenty purple pieces of equipment.

However, all these pieces of equipment required Level 55...

He picked out a few mage pieces to save for Zhou Yue.

As for the rest, Yang Jian couldn't devour them for now.

His level wasn't high enough; he could only focus on Level 40 equipment currently.

However, the guild's tailors recently made 20-slot backpacks.

After Yang Jian returned this time, he spent another ten hours devouring ten purple 20-slot backpacks.

After all, when you're out and about, the pain of not having enough bag space is something every gamer knows!

In such an almost real world, the pain of not having enough bag space is doubled... because when you throw things away, you really feel like everything is important!

Yang Jian himself could carry a lot.

Mo Song and Bamboo Leaf could each carry four 20-slot backpacks... But Yang Jian also traveled far when he left home!

For example, last time in the Abyss, he stumbled and threw away quite a few good items.

After all, he was gone for over twenty days.

With Yang Jian's monster-killing speed, his backpack filled up quickly!

Of course, the items he brought back were definitely better!

With the aid of the Heavenly Eye, he wouldn't make the mistake of buying the casket and returning the pearls.

The remaining item was a tool related to orange equipment...

【Charred Heart of the Mountain (Orange)】 (Quest Item)

【This looks like an unfinished orange weapon embryo. Take it to Luke Ironfoot, the Blacksmith Master of Zhenhai City, or Blake Thunderhammer, the Weapon Master of Deepwater Bay! They might recognize this item...】

It sounds so mysterious?

Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye to observe it.

【Item: Charred Heart of the Mountain (Orange)】

【Description: The first step in forging an orange two-handed axe. There are several more processes to follow. After investing a massive amount of time and money, players may possess their first truly orange weapon!】

【Note: Don't bring up the orange equipment you obtained before; strictly speaking, those were all stolen...】

【Note 2: The forging quest for the azure sky three realms blade (Orange) has eight steps. Obtaining the quest item is just the beginning!】

Yang Jian wasn't interested in this orange axe.

Not to mention that he himself could forge orange equipment.

Even if he painstakingly created this orange axe, could it replace the 'azure sky three realms blade'?

Impossible!

This item, he'd throw it into the guild warehouse later as a reward for significant contributions!

He'd see which capable subordinate might need it!

He checked the time; taking down this vanguard camp had taken Yang Jian a full four hours.

Of course, practicing the Misdirection skill accounted for a large portion of that time.

But it also reflected, from another angle, how time-consuming and labor-intensive this kind of close-quarters combat was.

Fortunately, besides the exit and the royal court, there were no other obvious vanguard camps.

So, there wouldn't be too many Golden BOSSes!

Yang Jian had already scouted the Stone Forest Mountains beforehand.

The two camps at the entrance and the exit were more like military camps.

Although some families looked like a family of three, when the fighting actually started, they realized it was an all-out war!

If the entrance had a Golden BOSS leading dozens of elite monsters, supported by thousands of warriors, then the exit would probably be similar.

The other small camps probably wouldn't have such a luxurious setup with a Golden BOSS!

Except for the royal court in the middle of the Stone Forest Mountains!

The centaur royal court looked even bigger than Chi Shan Town.

Why compare it to Chi Shan Town?

Because both here and Chi Shan Town were mountain cities.

The architectural structure was extremely three-dimensional.

Yang Jian suspected that the biggest BOSS in the entire Stone Forest Mountains was hidden within that royal tent!

As Yang Jian was busy leveling up, clearing small camps along the edge, an elite meeting was bustling in Lingyun Studio's online conference room!

It was called an elite meeting, but Bai Youyou hadn't set a channel password.

All ordinary members who wanted to participate could also come!

"Does anyone know why we suddenly had a meeting? Our team was leveling up! We suddenly received a notification!"

"It said it was a sudden notification, so of course, we don't know!"

"Can 'Nonsense Brother' please stop chiming in?"

"It's probably related to the Guild Leader suddenly returning yesterday!"

"Hey, did you all hear the world announcement from before?"

"You just said it was a world announcement... how could I not hear it?"

... The conference room's chat channel was constantly scrolling.

【Administrator Bai Youyou has forbidden everyone from speaking!】

Their chat excitement was suddenly interrupted, but the crowd didn't pay too much attention.

To put it bluntly, everyone was currently fighting monsters around Zhenhai City!

The advantage of an online meeting was not having to run back and forth aimlessly!

A curious person looked at the list of administrators at the top.

Previously, there were only Thousand Years of White Clouds and Qingqing Zijin; now, naturally, Hua Shanhe was added!

Although Yang Jian had explicitly stated that Long Ruoling was only responsible for managing the affiliated guilds, she was now, after all, a Vice Guild Leader.

She should at least have a seat on the main platform!

"Everyone who was notified and summoned to today's online meeting is an elite team of the guild!"

"Now, the guild has a new benefit to announce!"

Bai Youyou paused for effect, waiting for someone to ask a question.

Then she remembered that she had muted everyone...

"We are opening up the qualification exchange for teams to challenge Level 45 Elite Abyssal Monsters!"

East Coast.

A standard five-person team was fighting monsters and chatting at the same time.

"Hey, hey, hey, what's the healer doing? Heal!"

The tank class felt something was wrong.

His health was about to drop below the warning line, but the healer was spacing out.

Fortunately, the team was indeed strong; daring to come to the East Coast with an average level of 38 already represented the overall strength of this team.

Even with hurried healing, it didn't affect the team simultaneously killing four Level 45 brown bears in an encirclement!

The tank was a bit out of breath.

"What's wrong, buddy? Why are you making such a rookie mistake?"

"Shhh, don't make noise, look at the message in the Elite Conference Room!"

"Huh?"

"Holy crap x 4"

Bai Youyou stated dozens of related rules.

Then she opened up the speaking permissions for the captains of the dozen or so invited teams.

"Guild Leader Bai just said that the challenge qualification requires a record of killing a Level 40 or higher Silver BOSS. Does exactly Level 40 count?"

"Yes..."

"Guild Leader, can we apply to participate in cooperation with other teams?"

"No, only one standard five-person team can enter one room!"

"Guild Leader, what does it mean to exchange for one challenge qualification?"

"It means that once you use the qualification, your team enters once. As soon as you enter, the qualification is considered used. Whether you return victorious or dead, we don't care!"

"Guild Leader, I just saw a new Contribution Point Warehouse added to the guild warehouse. It only accepts a limited number of items. Wasn't it open for any donations before?"

"The warehouse for general donations is next door; it doesn't increase contribution points..."

"But all the previous donations were calculated for contribution points this time!"

"Back then, they donated with sincere hearts!"

"..."

They asked dozens of questions in a row.

Bai Youyou answered patiently!

She wasn't running a charity; how could she let people exploit loopholes?

Although the guild had twenty-two players with orange talents and several thousand players with purple talents, there were no more than 20 teams truly strong enough to challenge Abyssal Monsters at this time!

Strength alone wasn't enough; you also needed qualifications!

Just because you entered the Star Palace didn't mean you were one of them.

If you were loyal to the guild, the guild would naturally give you feedback!

Bai Youyou and the other two had discussed for a long time.

They calculated the exchange requirements precisely.

If your team had wholeheartedly served the guild until now, you could basically exchange for two challenge qualifications for free...