Chapter One
When Lan He and the others came out of the dungeon, Bound Boat and Lamp Flower Night were still waiting outside. They had been completely awed when the team appeared on TV. They were members of the original team and knew its strength very well. They were 100% sure that the five-minute record improvement was due to that Lord Grim.

Lamp Flower Night, who had previously been quite skeptical of Lord Grim, was now very embarrassed. Finally, he muttered, "He really is a Da Shen (expert), I admire him, I was rude before."

On the other side, Bound Boat asked Thundering Light how they had cleared the dungeon. Thundering Light spoke with great enthusiasm, while Cloud Hermit and Knowing Moon City frequently rolled their eyes: mB (motherboard, slang for "unbelievable"), are you going to exaggerate any more? If you tell it like that, this dungeon should be cleared in ten minutes.

"Alright, the dungeon record has now been broken," Ye Xiu said to Lan He.

"Yes, yes, you're amazing," Lan He responded repeatedly.

"Old brother..." Ye Xiu hesitated.

"I'm here, I'm here!"

"The stuff!" Ye Xiu said.

"What stuff? Oh, oh! Look at me, I was so happy I forgot." Lan He realized that the other party was asking for the promised items. "Bound Boat, where's the stuff?"

Lan He didn't carry the items with him. Even Bound Boat had been called by Lan He to retrieve them after confirming that the record could be broken during the dungeon run. In Glory, a character's movement, jumping, and attack speed are significantly related to their weight. Therefore, when trying to achieve the best possible result, like clearing a dungeon record or PK (Player Killing), everyone tries to travel as light as possible.

Bound Boat came over with the items and submitted a trade request to Lord Grim. After Ye Xiu agreed, the items were placed on the trading bar: 72 pieces of Powerful Spider Silk, 2 Mithril Pendants, and 8 White Wolf Fangs.

"What's wrong?" Ye Xiu asked, puzzled. This was clearly the price he had initially asked for, not the counter-offered amount.

"Brother, you directly improved the record by 5 minutes, saving us a lot of effort," Lan He said.

"Oh, is that so!" Ye Xiu was a little dumbfounded. He wanted these materials not for money, but to build the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella. He only needed 24 pieces of Powerful Spider Silk, and he had asked for 72 to leave room for bargaining. After all that calculation, the other party was now willingly giving him 72. Who would say no to free stuff? Ye Xiu accepted it without hesitation. Besides, what Lan He said made sense. Improving the record by 5 minutes at once had indeed saved them a lot of trouble. Otherwise, they didn't know how many times they would have to compete with other guilds for that 5-minute improvement.

"Thanks!" Ye Xiu said.

"You're welcome, brother, you see..." Lan He only said half a sentence before going crazy.

He left! How could he have already left? This person actually quit the guild immediately after receiving the items. Lan He was just about to start trying to persuade this person to stay in their guild. Giving more items was both because the record was broken so powerfully and because they had confirmed that this was indeed a super Da Shen (expert) worth recruiting.

I knew it! Lan He thought with grief. Talking about price would turn it into a transaction. To win over such an expert, he should have talked about feelings!

"What do you see?" Ye Xiu, who had already left the guild, was still asking about the half-sentence Lan He had just said.

"Keep in touch often, and let's cooperate more in the future," Lan He said weakly.

"Okay," Ye Xiu said.

"Brother, do you want to run a dungeon? Are you short of people? How many people are you short of? Just say it, and I'll call them for you," Lan He said.

"Oh, not for now. I have other things to do, I'm leaving now!" Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, oh, goodbye, goodbye." Lan He tearfully watched Lord Grim leave. Thundering Light, Bound Boat, and the others had already seen the system message "Lord Grim has left the guild" in the guild channel. They were surprised, and as soon as they saw the person leave, they immediately returned.

"Why did he leave?" Cloud Hermit asked.

"The matter is over, so of course he left," Lan He said unhappily.

"Why didn't you keep him?" Bound Boat asked.

"His technique, quitting the guild is faster than I can speak," Lan He said.

Does this also depend on operation speed? Everyone was dumbfounded. Was Lan He driven crazy?

"To win over this kind of expert, benefits alone are useless. With their level, helping you with something is enough to repay the benefits you give them, so they take the items without hesitation. You need to build a relationship and connect emotionally," Bound Boat said.

"Yeah! That's what I was thinking, how did I..." Lan He dejectedly summarized how he had turned a dungeon activity that should have established revolutionary friendship into a transaction.

"Hey, hey, why don't we use the beauty trap? Quickly notify the boss and have him send some beauties over," Thundering Light said.

"Ahem, ahem." Someone coughed.

"Then cooperate with Knowing Moon's actions," Thundering Light added.

"..." Knowing Moon City was speechless about this, only watching Lord Grim's figure, which hadn't completely disappeared.

"Knowing Moon, you've been staring in that direction? Could it be that you..." Lamp Flower Night ran around Knowing Moon City twice.

"You can't wait to make a move?" Thundering Light said.

Knowing Moon City didn't bother with them at all, quietly saying, "Don't you think this person is a little too strong?"

Everyone was stunned, then fell silent.

"We people should already be considered first-tier experts in Glory, right? Even if we're not, Lan He must be, right? But this person's level is even higher than ours, so what level of expert is he?" Knowing Moon City said.

"Ahem, it's just that I haven't played on a smurf (small account) for too long..." Lan He said.

"We're all on smurfs (small account)," Knowing Moon reminded.

"His weapon is even better than mine, I estimate it might be orange-grade equipment," Lan He said.

"He hasn't changed classes yet," Knowing Moon reminded again. In short, everyone had their own advantages and disadvantages.

"Okay, I admit, this person's level is probably higher than mine." Lan He realized that he couldn't save his face. "But there are too many Glory players. It's not surprising that there are such hidden experts, right? It's not like we haven't seen them before, like Around the Bank Willow."

As soon as this name was mentioned, everyone suddenly fell silent. Because they all knew that this was a name that didn't make Lan He very happy.

This person was a very popular expert in their Blue Brook Guild recently. He hadn't had much fame before, but during this period, he had performed extremely strongly in dungeons and various battles in the Realm of Gods. With the guild's attention, his equipment was getting better and better. Many people in Blue Brook Guild were already discussing whether the five great experts should be updated. And the one among the five great experts who was most often compared to Around the Bank Willow was Blue Bridge Spring Snow, Lan He's main account, because the two had the same class, both Sword Masters.

Sword Masters are very popular in Glory due to their martial arts style, and are one of the most popular character classes.

After this Around the Bank Willow was discussed by everyone, he was also very unmodest, often showing off his output records and kill records in the guild channel, saying which expert he defeated in the arena yesterday, how many people he single-handedly took down in the wild map the day before, obviously wanting to compare himself with Lan He's Blue Bridge Spring Snow, just short of directly challenging him to a duel.

And this time, Lan He was ordered to lead people to develop the tenth server. There were already rumors in the guild that this was the guild intentionally letting Around the Bank Willow take over, deliberately sending Lan He away.

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