Inside the magnificent Divine Demon Arena.
Dozens of large screens hung in the main hall, each displaying battle videos of top players who had reached the fourth floor of the Divine Demon Arena.
The challenges in the Divine Demon Arena were purely a test of how well a player could utilize their combat power, unrelated to equipment quality. Even wearing a full set of Bronze Equipment, one could still pass the fourth floor.
However, for ordinary players, just passing the first floor's trial was no easy feat. Currently, experts who could pass the fourth floor were exceedingly rare throughout White River City.
Even without Magic Essence to attempt the challenges and improve, many players could come here to watch battle videos of top players for learning. Naturally, these videos were only broadcast with the players' consent, which could also help build significant fame.
"Look, people from the Heaven's Burial Guild are here again."
The crowd quickly noticed a group of players walking into the hall.
This group was uniformly level 30, the main raid team members of Heaven's Burial. If it weren't for their effort to secure the first clear of the hundred-player dungeon, they would have already reached level 31.
Even so, their levels were still far ahead of ordinary players. As for Heaven's Burial members' equipment, they were at least level 25 Dark Gold-grade, with most wearing level 30 Gold-grade and Dark Gold-grade gear, dazzlingly impressive.
It should be known that the mainstream equipment for ordinary players was currently only level 25 Iron Rank, while elite players wore some Mythril Rank gear. Comparing the two was like comparing heaven and earth.
"Heaven's Burial has so many experts, and they still come here every day to train and improve. I wonder how strong they really want to become."
"What do you know? Of course, the more experts a guild has, the better. Plus, training here not only improves combat skills but also boosts your ranking on the Divine Demon Leaderboard, earning points to exchange for Dark Gold-grade equipment. It's killing two birds with one stone—why wouldn't they do it?"
"Heaven's Burial is getting more and more powerful lately. Initially, they had fewer than ten members who could pass the fourth floor. In just a few days, it's become twenty, and two have even cleared the fifth floor. In all of White River City, they're only behind Yixiao Qingcheng and Zero Wing."
"That's just because Heaven's Burial has money. Each challenge in the Trial Tower requires one Magic Essence. When we run dungeons normally, it's hard to get even one Magic Essence, and we have to split it among several people. Running dungeons all day might not even get us one. But Heaven's Burial gives their main raid team five Magic Essences per day as a subsidy. That's five challenges per day, for a full hundred people. That's 500 Magic Essences per day for Heaven's Burial. Because of the Divine Demon Arena, the price of Magic Essence has already multiplied several times. Now, one is worth 20 silver coins, and even then, there's a limited supply with room for the price to rise even further."
"Yeah, I knew I should have stockpiled more Magic Essence back then. I could have made a small profit now."
"If only I could become a main raid team member of Heaven's Burial..."
Many players watched the members of Heaven's Burial head towards the Trial Tower, filled with envy.
This kind of daily expenditure was something even the once financially mighty Yixiao Qingcheng couldn't manage. 500 Magic Essences a day amounted to 100 gold coins. Of course, a large portion of these Magic Essences came from the guild running dungeons; otherwise, even for Heaven's Burial, spending 100 gold coins daily would be extremely difficult.
Meanwhile, in the large private room rented by Shi Feng's group, he stood before a full 300 people. All of them had been selected as members of the Black God Legion.
At this moment, the members of the Black God Legion were incredibly excited. They never expected to meet the legendary guild master, Black Flame, in person, and that Black Flame would personally train them. Such treatment was probably unheard of throughout the entire Star Moon Kingdom.
It was well known that the name "Xiu Luo Yi Jian" was known to everyone in the Star Moon Kingdom, recognized as the kingdom's number one expert.
Having the Star Moon Kingdom's top expert guide them was something money couldn't buy.
"First, let me say this," Shi Feng said in a deep voice. "Although you have now been selected as formal members of the Black God Legion and enjoy exceptional benefits, the Black God Legion operates on a last-place elimination system. Behind you are a full seven hundred reserve members. If your strength improves too slowly, you will be replaced by a reserve member. From today onwards, each of you will receive ten Magic Essences to use for challenging the Trial Tower. I will rank you based on your performance inside the Trial Tower. Every week, the bottom thirty will be compared against the top thirty of the reserve team. The winners take their place, the losers flow back into the reserves."
The crowd couldn't help but draw a sharp breath.
This competition was too fierce—eliminating thirty people a week! But they were also shocked by Zero Wing Guild's lavishness.
300 people in the Black God Legion, each consuming ten Magic Essences per day—that was double the subsidy of Heaven's Burial's main raid team members. Not only that, but Zero Wing Guild consumed a full 3,000 Magic Essences daily, equivalent to 600 gold coins. This was insane; even a first-rate guild couldn't produce such astonishing financial power.
What the crowd didn't know was that even if Zero Wing had that much money, it was impossible to purchase that many Magic Essences. Magic Essence had already become a strategic resource for major guilds and was not for sale. They could only buy a little from independent players, and the vast majority had to be obtained by the guild itself.
Before the Divine Demon Arena had even opened, Shi Feng had Melancholic Smile crazily purchasing Magic Essence, using almost all the gold coins earned to buy it. Now, the Candlelight Trading Firm's warehouses were filled with Magic Essence.
With these accumulated stocks, plus the Magic Essence gathered daily by guild members, they could barely support the consumption of 300 people.
"Oh right, I almost forgot to mention one thing," Shi Feng said with a smile. "The top thirty ranked members of the Black God Legion will be invited to special training sessions with the guild's top experts. I think you all have some idea that Zero Wing Guild has a secret special training location. Whether you can go there for training depends on your own efforts."
"Guild Master, you're not tricking us, are we really able to go there?" many Black God Legion members asked with eager anticipation.
They had indeed heard that Zero Wing Guild had a real-life training base that could advance a player's combat skills by leaps and bounds, allowing them to learn legendary high-level combat techniques and become truly formidable top experts.
That was originally a privilege reserved for only a handful of core members. They hadn't expected that formal members of the Black God Legion would also have this opportunity.
"As long as you reach the top thirty, you naturally can go," Shi Feng said, shaking his head with a laugh. The Green Water Villa of the Beidou Fitness Center had only recently completed its full renovation, equipped with all sorts of training equipment and able to accommodate more people for special training. Otherwise, he really couldn't bring the Black God Legion members there.
As soon as Shi Feng finished speaking, the atmosphere in the entire private room instantly changed. Everyone was brimming with fighting spirit, itching to rush into the Trial Tower and frantically improve their rankings.
When Shi Feng distributed the Magic Essence to everyone and announced their dismissal, the crowd immediately surged out of the private room, sprinting towards the Trial Tower at top speed.
This scene left the numerous players in the main hall dumbfounded. (To be continued.)