Chapter 159 Luring Away

Inside the guild residence of Yixiao Qingcheng in Baihe City.

"What did you say?" Feng Xuanyang slammed the table, enraged. "Those people actually raised their prices suddenly. Do they really think we are fools?"

"Young Master Feng, please calm down." A slightly overweight middle-aged man advised, "They didn't offer that price for no reason. They have some leverage."

"Leverage? Just them, a couple of advanced forging apprentices? Yixiao Qingcheng has plenty. We don't need them!" Feng Xuanyang frowned, a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

Although his family was large and powerful, he was not the only one competing to be the family heir. He had joined Underworld to become the future family successor. Through Underworld's internal information, he learned about the special nature of God's Domain and frantically entered the game. As long as he made a name for himself in God's Domain, his ascension to the family inheritance would be a certainty.

He had spent a lot of money to poach these people, wanting to strike a blow against Candlelight Trading Firm. Now that they were fully at war with Zero Wing, the daily expenses were substantial. Currently, his efforts against Candlelight Trading Firm were entirely funded by his own money. With only a few hundred million credits of liquid funds in hand, he naturally couldn't spend recklessly.

Advanced forging apprentices were indeed rare, but he could use the money to recruit more than a dozen advanced forging apprentices from the Forging Association. It was better than poaching people who required high salaries and exorbitant compensation, only to find they were useless in terms of life skills.

"Young Master Feng, these two are a bit special."

"Special? Special enough to triple the agreed-upon price? Do they really think they are forging masters?"

"Young Master Feng, although they are not forging masters, they have just learned a rare design, capable of producing Light Stones. These Light Stones will allow players to level up by fighting monsters at night without being restricted by time. Moreover, the cost is low, making it a very profitable venture. Among the advanced forging apprentices in Candlelight Trading Firm, only three can learn it, so they naturally raised their prices."

"Light Stones? There's actually such a good thing. Did you ask how they got it?"

Feng Xuanyang immediately recognized the value of Light Stones upon hearing their use. If he could get the design, he wouldn't need to spend money to poach people from Candlelight Trading Firm anymore. He could directly defeat Candlelight Trading Firm with Light Stones and seize the entire Star-Moon Kingdom market.

"This matter is a secret of Candlelight Trading Firm, so naturally they wouldn't tell these people. However, I have already sent people to investigate the information about Light Stones. It seems that Candlelight Trading Firm has a limited number of Light Stone designs, otherwise they wouldn't have only allowed three advanced forging apprentices to learn it."

"I also heard that the three forging masters of Candlelight Trading Firm don't seem to be making Light Stones, but are instead producing basic Reinforced Armor Plates. It's likely that Candlelight Trading Firm is too busy, so they had the advanced forging apprentices make Light Stones. In other words, Candlelight Trading Firm probably only has three Light Stone designs. If we can poach two of them, it will be a huge blow to Candlelight Trading Firm."

"You're right. If Candlelight Trading Firm really produces a large number of Light Stones, it will be even more troublesome to deal with them. However, man proposes, Heaven disposes. That damn woman, Melancholic Smile, dared to play tricks on me before. Now, I'll let her know what pain is. No matter what, we must poach those two people, and preferably the other one as well." Feng Xuanyang laughed as he thought of Melancholic Smile's arrogant attitude.

"Young Master Feng, rest assured, those two are as good as ours. It's just that the other one is very stubborn, and the price will probably be much higher than these two. In addition, with the latest contract that Candlelight Trading Firm has drawn up, the cost may exceed 50 million." The middle-aged man said cautiously. After all, this was not a small sum. Spending 50 million just to poach three people, the vast majority of which was compensation, because the value of the Light Stone design was initially estimated to be close to 100 gold, and the compensation for poaching three people was twenty times that, which was 6,000 gold. This compensation was naturally not small.

"Go poach them. It's worth it if we can poach all three of Candlelight Trading Firm's people." Feng Xuanyang frowned and gritted his teeth. If he could poach both the people and the design together for 50 million, he would definitely be overjoyed. However, Candlelight Trading Firm would definitely not be so stupid. Even an idiot knew how valuable a unique product was and how much competitiveness it could add to their store.

Afterward, the middle-aged man left the conference room to negotiate the price.

Meanwhile, at the bank warehouse, Shi Feng had rented a private warehouse.

In the bank warehouse of God's Domain, if a player has items that are truly valuable and doesn't want them to be seen in public, they can rent a private warehouse, which has private rooms. Without the owner's permission, no one can eavesdrop on the movements inside the private warehouse. However, the rental price is not cheap; it is not as cheap as the public type and is still calculated daily in copper coins.

Renting a small private warehouse, which can store 30,000 slots of items, costs 30 silver coins per day. Generally, the minimum rental period is one month, which is 9 gold coins. There is a discount for renting for three months, but it still costs 25 gold.

A medium warehouse, which can store 100,000 slots of items, costs 1 gold per day, 30 gold per month, and 85 gold for three months.

A large warehouse, which can store 500,000 slots of items, costs 4 gold per day, 120 gold per month, and 350 gold for three months.

Ordinary players generally do not rent private warehouses, but after players' levels increase and gold coins become easier to earn, many business players will rent private warehouses.

At this time, Shi Feng rented two large warehouses without saying a word, both for three months at a time, one for his own use and one for the guild.

This way, when Aqua Rose and the others extract or store valuable items in the future, they won't have to worry about being spied on by other guilds. After all, this kind of thing is not uncommon in God's Domain. Many guilds have had their secrets discovered by other guilds because they did not rent private warehouses.

Just in case, Shi Feng rented one.

After Shi Feng entered the private warehouse, it looked like various cabinets were placed inside, row by row, very neat and orderly.

Shi Feng directly transferred all the items stored in the public warehouse to the private warehouse in one go. The private warehouse was very user-friendly and immediately intelligently categorized all the items, without the player having to bother with sorting them out.

Shi Feng then opened a cabinet, inside which was a deep blue crystal ball. This crystal ball was the one Shi Feng obtained from the Eternal Temple. However, because this deep blue crystal ball was too powerful, even with Shi Feng's extremely high resistance, touching this crystal ball would cause him to lose 1,000 points of health per second. Ordinary players would probably die upon contact.

"Die upon contact?" Shi Feng suddenly realized, recalling the situation when he obtained the deep blue crystal ball. Wasn't the divine crystal he snatched from the Beast King the same?

It was just that the divine crystal was not sealed at the time, which is why the Tier 4 Sky Knight died upon touching it.

"I wonder if it will work." Shi Feng nervously took out the divine crystal and carefully placed it in the cabinet, wanting to see what would happen when the two crystal balls were placed together.

The moment Shi Feng placed it in, the two crystal balls suddenly emitted an astonishing light, illuminating the entire private warehouse with dazzling brightness. The powerful pressure made Shi Feng feel that his body had become much heavier.

"This is divine might!" Shi Feng was shocked.

At this moment, a system notification sounded in Shi Feng's ear.

System: Do you want to activate the seal and fuse the two?