Just as the people in the reception hall were buzzing with speculation, Shi Feng himself finally made it back to White River City.
"This time, Yi Xiao Qing Cheng reacted really fast. I only attacked once, and now it's hard to even find a single player to target afterward." Shi Feng had originally wanted to stockpile more Life Force, but he hadn't expected Yi Xiao Qing Cheng's defenses to be so tight. In the end, he had no choice but to give up.
Having a top-tier player disrupt a guild's development was certainly doable, but expecting one person to completely wipe out a major guild was impossible — especially one that was on guard. Otherwise, plenty of guilds in Divine Realm would have been finished long ago.
After returning to White River City, Shi Feng immediately noticed that the players here had improved considerably in both quantity and quality.
"I wonder how Zero Wing's recruitment is going." Shi Feng opened up the guild system.
During this period, he had been completely wrapped up with matters related to the Candlelight Trading Company and hadn't kept tabs on Zero Wing at all. He had left everything to Shuishui Qiangwei and Hei Zi. As long as nothing major came up, the two wouldn't contact him, so he wasn't worried about guild matters.
Right now, Zero Wing was the undisputed top guild in all of White River City.
Even though they were in a full-scale war with Yi Xiao Qing Cheng and there were battles every day, the gold coins supplied by the Candlelight Trading Company made the cost negligible. If anything, it had become a source of motivation for guild members — they could sharpen their skills through constant combat while earning a hefty side income. Two birds with one stone.
When Shi Feng opened the guild system panel, he noticed that the member count had jumped significantly.
It had previously hovered around forty-something thousand, but now it had surpassed fifty thousand — and the trend was still climbing.
What was remarkable was that Zero Wing's recruitment standards had never been lowered. If anything, they had only gone up, never down. The guild pursued quality above all else, yet the numbers kept rising in a strange and almost inexplicable way. An increase of over ten thousand in one go — it was practically unbelievable.
"Fifty thousand?" Shi Feng fell into deep thought.
In the early days of Divine Realm, a guild with fifty thousand players was absolutely a major guild. Such guilds were typically spread across several cities. Even in a large city like White River City, fifty thousand players was roughly the upper limit. The reason it was a limit was simple: high-resource zones were finite. Once a city's population reached a certain threshold, those zones would become saturated, restricting players' growth speed. That was why major guilds distributed their members across different cities — to allow everyone to develop rapidly.
Now Zero Wing had fifty thousand players, and the recruited members all possessed solid skills. Even if they couldn't be called Elites, they weren't far off. The guild's overall strength already surpassed many second-tier guilds by a wide margin, trailing only slightly behind first-tier guilds. But in terms of peak combat power, Zero Wing didn't need to fear even first-tier guilds. Naturally, abundant resources were needed to raise the guild's overall strength.
"Looks like I'll need to start developing in other cities ahead of schedule."
Shi Feng had never expected Zero Wing's growth to be this fast.
Originally, he had planned to wait another month — maybe even ten more days — before the member count approached fifty thousand. Now he had no choice but to dramatically move up the timeline…
"But let me deal with the Candlelight Trading Company's issues first." Shi Feng promptly reached out to Shuishui Qiangwei.
"Guild Leader, is something up? I'm really busy right now, you know." Shuishui Qiangwei said with a cheerful smile.
She had been run ragged these past few days. Huo Wu and the others were locked in intense special training, and most of the day-to-day responsibilities had fallen on her shoulders. Still, watching Shi Feng send over loads of top-tier equipment every day — including plenty of Gold-grade and Dark Gold-grade gear at level thirty — along with the flood of eager players joining Zero Wing, she was tired but incredibly happy.
Across the entire Star Moon Kingdom, she could confidently guarantee that no guild's Elite members had better equipment than Zero Wing's Elites. Not to mention the core members, whose gear was almost entirely a mix of level twenty-five Gold-grade and Dark Gold-grade equipment — dominated by Dark Gold-grade pieces.
If any other guild found out, they'd be blinded by the sheer wealth on display.
"Somebody wants to come cause trouble. What should we do about that?" Shi Feng said with a smile.
"Who's got such bad judgment? Daring to cause trouble in White River City." Shuishui Qiangwei was first taken aback, then broke into a grin. "Tell me where they are! This lady will bring people over and wipe them out in minutes!"