"What's going on?"
"Has Yan Tianxing lost his mind or something?"
"I recall that Stone Forest Town has a pretty decent arena. Some of the Stormwind Competition participants have been there before. But is that town really all that great?"
"No way, right? It's just a guild town. The FFF Adventuring Party is one of the top five adventuring parties in our Black Dragon Empire. Even first-rate guilds would be falling over themselves to get them to set up there. A mere Stone Forest Town—one word should settle it, shouldn't it?"
"Haven't you heard? Now a lot of experts in the Star Moon Kingdom want to go to that arena for training. I heard the advanced combat rooms there are incredible—they can fully simulate entering players at 100%, and the skill completion rate of the techniques they use reaches 100%. Fighting against them helps you improve faster than sparring with experts of the same rank."
"Exactly. Like Can Yun and Yue Wan'ge from the Fire Cloud Fox Adventuring Party—they've both gone there multiple times. This time in the Stormwind Competition, both made it into the top five hundred, ranking higher than last time. Even their old rivals have fallen to Can Yun now. Their combat power has improved quite a bit."
"Stone Forest Town isn't just about the arena, either. There's also an advanced auction house that supports barter trading. Thanks to the arena and the advanced auction house, Stone Forest Town is now the undisputed number one town in the Star Moon Kingdom."
"I've heard about that too. Now top-tier and well-known adventuring parties from surrounding kingdoms all want to set up in Stone Forest Town, but the Zero Wing Guild only opens five external slots. So every major adventuring party is scrambling to pool their funds, and the competition is going to be fierce. I can't believe even the FFF Adventuring Party is interested in Stone Forest Town."
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The crowd started buzzing about Zero Wing Guild's Stone Forest Town, giving many players in the Black Dragon Empire who had been unaware of it a newfound understanding.
When it came to the advanced combat rooms, many expert players' eyes lit up with excitement.
Rather than fighting experts of the same level, they wanted to improve their skill completion rates even more. At their level, skill completion rates were basically above 80%, and only at 85% could a skill unleash its full 100% power and effects.
Each additional 1% after that led to a dramatic surge in skill power. Especially after hitting 90%, the improvement was downright terrifying.
Now that there was an opportunity to learn and improve their skill completion rates, how could they possibly pass it up?
While players at the venue discussed Stone Forest Town, the major guild representatives in the VIP boxes stared intently at Yan Tianxing.
"This Yan Tianxing has gone completely mad! He's actually willing to put up the treasure map to the Great Dragon Tomb? Does he not even know what the Great Dragon Tomb is?" The major guilds' eyes practically turned red the moment they heard about the treasure map to the Great Dragon Tomb.
Most guilds currently had very little information about the Great Dragon Tomb. However, for first-rate and second-rate guilds like theirs, the collection of intelligence and exploration efforts had already been underway for some time.
So they had some understanding of the Great Dragon Tomb.
One of the reasons the Black Dragon Empire was called the Black Dragon Empire was because of the Great Dragon Tomb. Legend had it that the area was originally the homeland of the Black Dragon race, but for reasons unknown, it had transformed into the Great Dragon Tomb it was today.
The Dragon race had always been fond of hoarding all manner of treasures—let alone a dragon race's nesting ground. The wealth there was beyond imagination. The Black Dragon Empire had attempted to explore it multiple times, but each time they suffered devastating losses, and it eventually became a Forbidden Zone.
If it was the treasure map to the Great Dragon Tomb, obtaining it would yield truly staggering rewards. After all, even what the major guilds had gathered from the outer regions was already astonishing.
Keep in mind, once a player in the Divine Realm reached level 50, the items dropped by monsters plummeted dramatically—even the quality of weapon and equipment drops took a massive nosedive. Killing a level 50 Great Lord only dropped level 50 Iron-rank equipment. But inside the Great Dragon Tomb, killing a level 50 Great Lord could yield level 50 Mythril equipment.
A treasure map was like a treasure chest, except after obtaining it, players had to seek out the location themselves. But the rewards were far superior to those of any treasure chest. Treasure maps had no rank divisions—the level of treasure was determined by the danger level of the location. The more dangerous the place, the better the treasure.