Main Street of Heavenly Spring, Star Ring Stronghold.
Thanks to the presence of the Secret Pact Tower, the once-desolate main street was now packed with people. A massive crowd of Tier 3 experts had gathered around the five-story Star Ring Stronghold, which spanned roughly the size of two stadiums.
Before Shi Feng and his two companions even reached the main gate, a path suddenly opened up along both sides of the street. A team of over a hundred people was making its way toward the Star Ring Stronghold at a leisurely pace.
Every single member of this team was at least Level 125 — a Tier 3 expert. The worst equipment any of them wore was Level 120 Dark Gold, and it was not uncommon to spot two or three pieces of Epic equipment on their bodies. The two leaders at the front were, without exaggeration, blinding to behold.
That's right!
Not only did those two each have six or more Epic-grade weapons and equipment, but more importantly, both had actually advanced to Tier 4 Classes — one was a Level 129 Tier 4 War Emperor, the other a Level 130 Tier 4 Sword Emperor. From their equipment to their levels and class tiers, everything about them left the surrounding players feeling utterly inadequate.
"Holy crap! Who the hell are these people? Why have I never seen that guild emblem before?"
"If you don't know, you're out of the loop. They're a guild that only recently appeared out of nowhere — called the Hundred Ghosts Roam. Very mysterious, and word is they have an enormous background. The guild has very few members, but every single one is an elite among elites. The weakest among them is a Tier 3 Class holder."
"Right, I remember this mysterious guild too. The man and woman leading them are especially incredible. Before they even advanced to Tier 4, they were secretly challenging the top experts from every major superpower — forty-nine battles, not a single defeat between them. Who would've thought that after lying low for a while, they've both actually advanced to Tier 4?"
"Undefeated even before Tier 4? Now that they've advanced to Tier 4, wouldn't that make them practically invincible?"
The appearance of this hundred-strong team set tongues wagging everywhere, and the crowd couldn't help but feel a measure of respect for the Star Ring Guild.
After all, the Hundred Ghosts Roam guild had always done things their own way, refusing to kowtow to any of the major superpowers. The fact that they were willing to show up for a siege assembly called by the Star Ring Guild was truly a one-of-a-kind event.
"The Hundred Ghosts Roam?" Shi Feng murmured, catching the chatter of the surrounding players. A flicker of surprise crossed his face.
He'd only heard a little about the Hundred Ghosts Roam in his previous life. The guild was quite mysterious, and it hadn't appeared until three years later — shortly after the system's major upgrade. The moment it surfaced, it had shaken the entire Divine Realm.
That was because the guild actually had dozens of Tier 4 experts. Back then, the entire Divine Realm didn't have many Tier 4 powerhouses. Even among the major superpowers, the number of Tier 4 experts hovered around thirty at most, with the richer ones managing just over forty — and that was after long-term accumulation.
But the Hundred Ghosts Roam guild had over thirty Tier 4 Class holders, and those experts had gone on a rampage challenging the Divine Realm's major superpowers, sweeping through the land like a tempest.
For reasons unknown, however, the guild had suddenly gone silent after its gauntlet of challenges. When it next resurfaced, it already had peak Tier 5 powerhouses and was openly clashing with the five great super-guilds.
Although the Hundred Ghosts Roam was going head-to-head with the five great super-guilds, the guild didn't hold a single stronghold on the Divine Realm continent, nor did it contest any resources. All it did was fight — fight after fight — and it drove the five great super-guilds to their wits' end.
The problem was that these people were far too mysterious. With no fixed base, there was nothing to target. Yet their number of peak experts was by no means inferior to any of the five great super-guilds. One could only imagine how much of a headache that caused.
Now, with the Divine Realm's system upgrade arriving nearly two years ahead of schedule, the Hundred Ghosts Roam had appeared early as well. Shi Feng couldn't help letting his imagination run.
"Could they be a guild from another interstellar continent?"
Before he had entered the Primordial Divine Realm, he would never have understood where such a mysterious guild could have come from. But after his experiences there, he knew full well that the Divine Realm's players didn't just come from Earth — players hailed from several interstellar continents.
Perhaps, much like the Primordial Divine Realm, they had been hidden in some other Divine Realm world. The only difference was that their overlap with the Divine Realm continent was closer than that of the Primordial Divine Realm, which was why so many of them could suddenly emerge.
Shi Feng even suspected that the mysterious region Jing Wuming and the others had entered last time might very well be the world where the Hundred Ghosts Roam originated. It was just that Jing Wuming and his group hadn't had time to learn much before they were forcibly sent back.