My first meeting with Long Ruoling

Yang Jian didn't want his travel plans to become widely known.

After sending Zhou Yue off,

Yang Jian used his Hearthstone to return to Zhenhai City.

He then spent some more time with Bai Youyou, who was handling guild errands.

With so many new people suddenly joining the studio, Bai Youyou's administrative staff alone had increased by dozens.

Needless to say, she was incredibly busy!

Fortunately, various external software could be linked within the game, allowing one to play and work simultaneously.

Though a bit strange, it didn't overly delay Bai Youyou's leveling progress!

Especially with four purple-talent teammates... Even though he saw her busy, Yang Jian still told her about his travel plans!

After all, guild matters still needed them to handle.

"If an emergency arises, discuss it with Zhou Yue. If both of you think it's good, then do it!"

"Will we not be able to contact you then?"

"I'm not entirely sure, I might be contactable! But there will be about a two-hour delay in communication. If something really happens, don't wait for my message; by then, the yellow flower dishes would be cold! A general on the field is not bound by military orders, right!"

Bai Youyou nodded, indicating she understood!

Her calmness was mainly because nothing major had happened recently!

The day of the Abyss invasion was still far off.

Zhenhai City had also, through repeated clearings, killed off the entrenched foreign players to the point of collapse.

Either they spent ten gold coins to teleport away, or they quit the game and said goodbye forever!

Yang Jian was no benevolent individual!

Although he didn't intend for one guild to monopolize Zhenhai City,

to foreign players, he was considered a demon king-level figure!

For example, for this batch of 300 million new players, for those foreign players,

Zhenhai City was a forbidden zone... Some players from smaller countries dared to go to Chang'an City and Jinling City, but not Zhenhai City.

After all, Chang'an City and Jinling City were controlled by the Great Xia Federation.

As long as they followed their rules there, they generally wouldn't be easily attacked!

But in Zhenhai City, they were truly beaten up every few days!

What decent person could endure that kind of play!

Were they playing the game, or was the game playing them?

Yang Jian didn't care at all about other players or factions from China coming to Zhenhai City.

Currently, there were only 500 million slots worldwide!

It was estimated that some factions, like Zhenhai City, held about ten slots for emergencies... So, the actual number of players entering the game was definitely less than 500 million.

500 million players were divided among three continents, with each continent having only over 100 million people.

Then divided among seven main cities... To be honest, this number of people was too small for the vast Eastern Continent!

Unless you returned to Zhenhai City or stayed near Zhenhai City,

otherwise, it felt like playing a single-player game... He walked out of the guild stronghold.

Yang Jian entered a main city Auction House for the first time.

Saying it was the first time was a bit of an exaggeration.

But when he came last time, the items in this main city Auction House were empty.

At that time, Yang Jian was the only level ten player... Now, looking again, the items inside were quite diverse.

He roughly flipped through them.

Most of the expected items were there.

Items in the game were now considered hard currency.

Purple weapons above level ten were starting at 500,000 Xia Yuan at the Auction House's entrance for buyers!

Team core equipment like shields started at a million Xia Yuan... Don't ask why people were still selling equipment even though the end of the world was approaching... When the apocalypse comes, a family still needs to eat, drink, and relieve themselves!

When the apocalypse comes, no one will exempt you from your mortgage, car loan, or renovation loan!

When the apocalypse comes, daily necessities like firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea will still be indispensable!

Besides... what if it doesn't come?

So, equipment!

Does it have to be purple? Blue ones can still kill monsters... So, now, organizations like Star Palace, which paid salaries to guild players, were simply god-tier guilds!

If one had advantages in talent or specialty,

the salary and benefits would be even more generous!

Yang Jian didn't look much at the Auction House.

Because the players' levels were too low right now!

The things he needed, they almost certainly couldn't get their hands on!

Saying 'almost' was just to be a bit more rigorous.

After all, there were four to five hundred million people; who knew where a lucky person might emerge... After checking out the Auction House, Yang Jian walked towards the teleportation array.

The originally deserted teleportation array had become busy these past few days.

Because the top new players had already reached level ten and started coming to the main city!

To be honest, the leveling speed of this batch of players was truly incomparable to the first batch.

After all, they all started as 'cloud players,' unlike the first batch when they knew nothing!

From the moment of random talent selection, they knew whether they should go solo or find a mature team immediately!

Organized players didn't have this kind of trouble.

For example, players who signed with Star Palace, after calculating their talents, chose their professions.

Then they reported to management immediately, and management entered the information into the company's system.

The system then matched them based on their strength!

Strong with strong, weak with weak!

According to professions, Star Palace wished they could put all purple talents together, and all blue talents together... Only if there truly weren't enough would they be compatible with one or two lower ones... Fairness?

Balance?

Sorry, no such thing!

Star Palace's managers would not allow gray talents to hold back the strong!

They could quietly farm gold and materials, and still make a living.

If their contributions were sufficient, they could also seek protection in the future... Of course, in principle, Star Palace also adopted a voluntary policy!

If a team was already formed, as long as the team members themselves were willing, Star Palace would not forcibly disband them!

So, when this second batch of players came online, there was almost no wasted time!

What should they do at birth?

Form a team first, what's so good about fighting level one monsters!

As long as the team members knew how to play, they would directly fight level two, or even level three if their operations were slick... No time wasted at the village entrance!

Blood Moon?

Isn't this a benevolent god who sends warmth?

They had set times for rest and specific tasks for each day.

The strong could be online for 22 hours a day!

Much more professional than Yang Jian and his peers back then... More importantly, they had the low-level equipment discarded by veteran players!

Their combat power was incredibly fierce!

Furthermore, the seniors had already paved the way; some strong players began to arrive at the main city continuously after three days!

Watching players arrive at Zhenhai City one by one through the teleportation array,

Yang Jian merely smiled faintly.

"Boss, my father mailed me a pass. If I put it in my backpack, I can see a hidden teleportation point in the teleportation array, which can take me to Shifang City!"

Mo Song conveyed the message to Yang Jian through their telepathic connection.

Yang Jian calmly took the pass Mo Song handed him and looked at it.

【Name: Tian Yao Realm Pass】

【Description: More an invitation than a pass! Requires a powerful figure from the Tian Yao Realm to vouch for one, only then can New World players be invited to visit...】

【Remarks: Activated at the teleportation array, it can and only can teleport to Shifang City in the Tian Yao Realm.】

Yang Jian put the pass into his backpack.

Before he could close his Heavenly Eye, he saw a tall, extremely beautiful female player walk past him!

【Name: Long Ruoling.】

【Description: Game ID: Hua Shanhe, Guild: Star Palace! A lucky individual who received a dream of revelation, barely a half-reincarnator! The World Will wove a nightmare for her where you didn't exist, and now, the dream is over...】

【Remarks: The seventh granddaughter of the current King Long Chi, with a golden talent!】

Yang Jian was stunned when he saw this person's information.

It seemed this person was from the second batch of players?

So how did she get into Star Palace?

He thought about it and understood!

For the second batch, as long as they applied, met the general conditions, and were willing to sign a contract with Star Palace, they could all join!

Yang Jian had considered that various domestic and foreign forces would likely try to embed their people.

But he hadn't expected the royal family to be so generous, using their seventh princess as bait!

Long Ruoling had just teleported to Zhenhai City.

Everything here was still quite new to her.

In her previous life, the place she had the most contact with was Chang'an City!

At that time, Zhenhai City was an alien territory... belonging to various Southeast Asian countries!

Gaoshan City, on the other hand, had become a battlefield where various countries coexisted!

The entire Gaoshan City could be said to have a small battle every three days and a major battle every five days.

It exhausted everyone, leaving them weary.

The excessive attrition from internal strife.

also made the players of Gaoshan City a drag during the later Abyss invasion!

Energy and time were limited; if they were constantly PVPing, where would they find the energy to improve themselves?

So in her previous life, Zhenhai City only existed in the occasional legends Long Ruoling heard... In this life, she hadn't expected to come here to start her new beginning!

Before she could look around much, she saw a player staring at her from head to toe with a strange expression!

Tianmu Zhenjun, Yang Jian?

As the biggest variable in this life,

it would be impossible for Long Ruoling to come to Star Palace as a mole without systematically understanding Yang Jian.

When she was tired from leveling, during breaks, Long Ruoling was always studying this guild leader of Star Palace!

After all, he was too much like a senior reincarnator!

And one who had reincarnated several years before the Abyss invasion... After all, to be able to accurately grasp Zhou Yue, the true Child of the World, this person definitely had something going on!

Long Ruoling walked up to Yang Jian openly.

"Hello, Guild Leader, I am a new player from the second batch. My name is Long Ruoling, and my ID is Hua Shanhe!"

"Good name... Your surname is Long?"

"The current King Long Chi is my grandfather; netizens jokingly call me the Seventh Princess..."

Long Ruoling kept her eyes on Yang Jian's as she introduced herself.

Old Yang wasn't a professional actor.

His expression of shock wasn't quite convincing, a bit perfunctory!

The rebirth experience card arranged by the World Will was clearly very effective.

A person who was originally a fresh university graduate, at a naive and romantic age, now possessed a pair of eyes full of the vicissitudes of life that seemed to see through the world!

With such a simple exchange, Long Ruoling became even more convinced that Yang Jian was a senior reincarnator!

She had investigated Yang Jian's background; it was impossible for him to know her, as she had always been low-key... "Alright, since you've come to Star Palace and Zhenhai City, level up well!"

"Yes, I will, Guild Leader!"

With her talent and strength, she didn't need teammates; she could quickly improve her strength on her own!

Her top priority now was to quickly catch up with the first echelon... After sending Long Ruoling away,

Yang Jian came to the teleportation array.

He directly activated the function of the stealth ring, hiding his name from the system leaderboard.

After all, he was going to cross realms.

What if the New World marked him as a cross-realm teleporter... and then the Tian Yao Realm marked him as an otherworldly visitor... Just thinking about it was exciting!

He opened the teleportation array and checked the teleportation list.

Yang Jian frowned.

There were still only the other six main cities of the Eastern Continent... Chang'an City, Jinling City, Black Dragon City, Dongji City, West Pole City, and Gaoshan City... Yang Jian knew there was also a Royal City in the central part of the Eastern Continent!

But currently, he neither saw the name of the Royal City nor its option in the teleportation array's list.

After some thought,

Yang Jian first activated the necklace's 【Authority: Cross-Realm Teleportation (The authority of a Titan God, now wielded by you)】

When he checked the teleportation list again... there were already seventeen pages of available teleportation destinations to browse!

Yang Jian casually looked through them!

He could go anywhere, and it was free... The Royal City of the Eastern Continent... Nuremberg City of the Western Continent... Manor City and Chongning City of the North Continent... and he could even cross worlds to other continents!

Nordanlon of the Azeroth world... Just by the name, he knew it was exactly like the World of Warcraft game he played in his previous life!

Yang Jian was not surprised at all; after all, he even had the heart of khaz'goroth!

The moment the necklace's name changed, he knew... Speaking of Nathanos Blightcaller, now that he thought about it, he seemed to have heard that name somewhere!

Could it be some obscure minor character from the game he played in his previous life?

If he were called Sylvanas, Varian, Khadgar, or similar,

Yang Jian would have realized the connection immediately... As for seeing the Azeroth world in the list, Yang Jian said he was not surprised at all.

He had already witnessed both the Temple and the Abyss.

The two sides had engaged in so many major battles across so many worlds.

Yang Jian thought for a moment; he didn't yet know the protocol for traveling to other worlds.

Moreover, Mo Song's father was still waiting for him in Shifang City!

He deactivated the necklace's teleportation authority.

Yang Jian used the pass in his backpack.

This time, only one more location appeared in the teleportation array's list:

Tian Yao Realm, Shifang City!

Without further hesitation, he chose to teleport!

The teleportation array erupted with a light different from usual, and Yang Jian vanished!

Not far away, Long Ruoling, who had been observing intently, frowned deeply!

The commotion from the teleportation array seemed like a cross-realm teleportation...