Inside the imposing Tiance headquarters in the Star Moon Kingdom capital, large groups of free players had gathered before the main gate, each one silently waiting for the Tiance Guild's admission review.
This sort of thing would have been unthinkable for the old Tiance Guild, but it had now become a landmark scene in the Star Moon Kingdom capital—one that everyone had grown accustomed to.
Just as the free players waited in silence, a crisp neigh suddenly rang out down the street, and everyone turned to look.
"Wow, so many mounts!"
"These can't be ordinary mounts, right?"
"Those have to be warhorses, right? I heard warhorses are at least Bronze Rank mounts. Tiance Guild is insane—they actually managed to get their hands on so many warhorses."
"I have to join Tiance Guild. If I can get a Bronze Rank warhorse, it'll be worth playing Divine Realm."
A dozen or so players riding different breeds of warhorses rode through the gates of the Tiance Guild, and the crowd watched with undisguised envy. Especially striking was the leader—a valiant and stunningly beautiful woman whose image lingered in everyone's minds long after she passed.
This beautiful woman not only boasted a set of top-tier equipment, but her snow-white warhorse was clad in silver armor, making her look like a goddess descended to the mortal world—radiant and captivating.
And this goddess's name was known to everyone in the Star Moon Kingdom capital.
The Ice Witch, Wuxia.
She had earned that title because, before Wuxia, she had single-handedly wiped out a hundred-man elite squad from the Star River Alliance right at a dungeon entrance. After that, the Star River Alliance had dispatched numerous experts, including Chiyu, whose name appeared on the Experts Leaderboard.
But in the end, Wuxia had defeated them all by herself. She had even personally killed the Star River Alliance veteran Chiyu.
When dealing with the experts the Star River Alliance sent, Wuxia's control over ice magic had been nothing short of masterful. She had used a large-scale ice destructive spell to transform the entire area outside the dungeon into a frozen wasteland—not a single player within its range survived. That was how she came to be reverently called the Ice Witch.
The title of Ice Witch spread far and wide, and before long, every player in the Star Moon Kingdom capital knew Wuxia by that name.
"She's gorgeous! I absolutely have to join Tiance Guild and serve under my goddess."
"Keep dreaming. Do you have any idea that the Ice Mist Legion that Lady Wuxia commands only accepts the cream of the crop among elites? You're not even a full member yet, and you think you can get in? What a joke."
Among the free players, quite a few had been won over by Wuxia's charm and had come specifically to join Tiance Guild. Otherwise, they would have gone to the superior Heishui Guild long ago—after all, the Heishui Guild was backed by the infamous Heishui Corporation, and what aspiring fighter wouldn't dream of joining the Heishui Corporation?
"Guild Master, you called us back so suddenly—is something up?" Wuxia walked into the Tiance conference hall and looked up at Yixiao Duzang seated in the guild master's throne, her eyes full of questions.
The conference hall was filled with high-ranking guild members. Aside from a few masters of life professions, everyone else was generally Level 4. Any ordinary player would have gone weak in the knees seeing this, because among the Level 4 experts present, there wasn't a single one who wasn't a top-tier powerhouse in the Star Moon Kingdom—even the masters of the great guilds would have to show them respect.
"Sit down first. I'll explain soon enough." Yixiao Duzang gestured toward the empty vice guild master's throne.
Hearing Yixiao Duzang say that, Wuxia grew even more curious.