Chapter 257: The First Step of the Wuwei Dao Alliance

The Legend player base had grown exponentially more passionate following the cross-regional war of the past two days, and the chaotic melee of over a thousand players on the second day had left both storefronts filled to capacity, drawing protests from other gamers whose playtime was severely disrupted.

Thus, in the wake of that grand battle.

Early the next morning.

"Huh?!" When Ruan Ning opened the doors of her own shop the following dawn and eagerly hurried next door to the Origin Internet Club, she was shocked out of her wits on the spot!

It was one thing that the two-story shop, which originally held fewer than two hundred computers, had mysteriously expanded the previous day, but stepping inside today left her utterly dumbfounded; the interior space of the entire shop had actually doubled yet again!

She could not help but wonder if space-expanding arrays were suddenly free of charge. How could such a grand formation be laid down just like that, and overnight no less?!

Most importantly, the number of computers in the shop had actually risen to a thousand!

"Guild Master... what... what is going on?" Ruan Ning stammered in stark terror, looking as though she had seen a ghost. "Did I walk into the wrong shop?"

"It wasn't like this yesterday, was it?!"

"Mmhmm!" Xiao Mo nodded frantically from the side. "Boss, this isn't the original shop, is it?!"

"Xiao Mo." Fang Qi patted Xiao Mo on her slightly curly, somewhat messy hair, speaking with perfect composure. "As an employee of this establishment, you must learn to get used to these situations."

"..."

Meanwhile, the Jiuhua City branch had expanded to fourteen hundred computers and was now explicitly divided into two major sections—the Legend Guild Zone and the Ordinary Player Zone.

The former was allocated a thousand computers, while the latter held four hundred.

This was to prevent a recurrence of yesterday's situation, where other gamers could not even get a place in line.

Of course, after such an expansion, the shop could naturally no longer be as packed to the brim as before.

With the two-day war concluded, a portion of the high-level players chose to remain in Mongchon Province, where the Red Name Village was located, to grind for experience, while most of the newly joined level-one players looked at their blood-red names and chose to start anew, deleting their characters to live an honest life again.

A massive influx of level-one players flooded the novice villages, and even though the system-version map was immensely vast, and various factions were organizedly expanding into unexplored wilderness, it remained a case of too many monks and too little gruel; even with everyone showing some restraint, small friction was constant.

Naturally, it was at this time that the Royal Gold-Farming Team finally entered their official working phase.

...

"Boss, these teleportation scrolls are incredible!" Several girls tittered behind him in awe.

Fang Qi had also arrived in Mongchon Province with two Taoists and three Mages, but unlike those who had fought their way through in a frenzy, Fang Qi had flown here using Random Teleportation Scrolls.

(Anyone who has played the game should know how to fly this way: endlessly using scrolls until one randoms into the vicinity of the destination, and then running the rest of the way.)

"It just costs so much money!" The girls felt a pang of heartache; though flying over from Bichon Province had taken barely ten minutes, it had consumed a vast amount of gold, and these teleportation scrolls were by no means cheap!

"Guild Master!" Xi Yue asked in wonder, gripping a teleportation scroll in her hand. "Can we forge these Town Portal and Random Teleportation Scrolls on the outside (meaning reality)?"

"And the Dungeon Escape Scrolls too!" The girls were clearly eyeing these items with great fervor; if such treasures could be acquired, would they not simply need to unravel a single scroll to escape smoothly whenever they encountered danger in the future?

They were not the only ones to notice this; at that very moment, Tang Yuan was also holding a Random Teleportation Scroll in his hand.

"Chief Manager." Tao Kun pointed at the scroll and spoke. "There appears to be a seal upon this."

"Using a sealing restriction to lock a spell inside the scroll, and tearing the seal to release the spell to achieve the effect of casting..." Tang Yuan nodded. "Fascinating."

The portal rune formulas of the Town Portal Scrolls in Diablo were entirely alien to the cultivators of this world, who had never encountered a magic system before; even the great cultivation masters were merely in the primary stages of learning and naturally could not research high-tier goods like portals.

In contrast, the creation of these scrolls in Legend was much closer to the cultivation system they had studied for countless years, and it quickly caught their attention.

...

Meanwhile, far away in the Wuwei Daoist Alliance.

Having consumed a vast amount of time, manpower, resources, and energy from the top artifact masters of the major factions, a portion of the research had finally yielded results.

Li Haoran surveyed the rows upon rows of elite cultivators and death warriors sent by the participating factions before him, as well as the sect masters and clan heads in attendance. "The first few runic affixes for basic enchanting, along with the enchanting methods, required materials, and precautions, have been preliminarily researched. Next, I shall teach these enchanting techniques to everyone present. What I can tell you is that suffix enchantments for basic attributes such as Strength, Spirit, and Agility can, in theory, be applied to any spiritual artifact."

"Because our traditional method of artifact crafting has always been a complete blank in this domain!" Li Haoran declared. "This means that our crafting methods may very well enter a brand-new era after today!"

"The enchantments I will teach you next are divided into two categories, one of which is basic enchanting that can be sold externally." Li Haoran spoke loudly. "We shall use this unprecedented technology to break the blockade imposed on us by the Yundian Region!"

"Are there any requirements for the materials used in these basic enchantments?" Ye Songtao asked, a concern shared by many factions, for the Yundian Region had not only blockaded the external channels of the Wuwei Daoist Alliance but had also sealed off the sources of many resources!

In comparison, they were the true giants of the cultivation world, capable of strangling the Wuwei Daoist Alliance effortlessly with a mere word or two!

And the reason was solely because the Wuwei Daoist Alliance had ignored their warning!

Using an insignificant incident that barely concerned them to suppress the entire Wuwei Daoist Alliance to this extent—how ridiculous, and how tragic!

From this event, the Wuwei Daoist Alliance had finally seen the disparity between them clearly.

"You need not worry, everyone." Li Haoran said. "This brings me to the good news I am about to reveal: the materials used for basic enchanting can be found right within our Dajin Country, and in abundance."

Li Haoran ordered his men to bring forward several spiritual herbs, beast blood, and ores.

"Moonlight Herb? Fragrant Stone Ore?" Everyone expressed surprise. "And this beast blood is...?!"

"Black-ringed Snake blood, a low-level demonic beast." Li Haoran smiled. "The power of enchantments made with these things is somewhat ordinary, but they are all local specialties of our country!"

"Hahaha! Splendid!"

"Ingenious! Never mind whether other external forces can decipher these things; by the time they do, they will find that the primary materials for making them are all within our Dajin! Brilliant!"

The crowd immediately erupted in joy!

At this moment, having concluded their research on basic enchanting, this group of Dajin's most powerful artifact masters had already commenced a new round of study.

Jun Yangzi, Duan Buyi, and other elite artifact-crafting masters dispatched by the major sects of the Wuwei Daoist Alliance gathered together; placed in their midst were several golden-orange bullets.

"The principle behind the firing of these bullets should already be clear to everyone." Jun Yangzi held up a bullet. "I can now tell you that the direction of our next research is how to enhance the power of these bullets."

"First, without changing the ammunition formula, we must increase the pressure generated when the internal propellant burns, thereby creating greater propulsion and fundamentally enhancing its power." Jun Yangzi stated. "Second, we need to select more suitable materials to engrave artifact arrays onto the exterior of the bullet."

"Third, the enchantment of bullets and firearms."

"Finally, which is also our most important current step: using our existing materials, such as spiritual herbs and various spiritual ores, to formulate even more powerful ammunition."