Chapter 1 They Leave Disappointed

These three from Excellent Era could be said to have come full of excitement, only to leave in disappointment. They originally thought it would be a foolproof battle, but because of a character that suddenly appeared, they returned with broken wings.

Just what kind of strength did this Zhu Yanxia have? The lack of information left them completely unable to judge. For professional players, not understanding their opponent was undoubtedly a terrible thing, especially when the other party was also at the professional level. Although they wouldn't care if such an ordinary character died seven, eight, or ninety times, the problem was, repeatedly dying for nothing would be too damaging to their pride, right? Unless absolutely necessary, it was best not to test the opponent's depth in such a shameful way.

"I think..." Wang Ze, who had always been hesitant to take the lead in the conversation, had no choice but to speak again when he saw the two were silent, "That Zhu Yanxia's strength might not be that terrifying."

"Oh?" Liu Hao and He Ming looked at Wang Ze together.

"If she really possessed Su Mucheng's level of strength, why would they have retreated from the beginning? Even if they had confronted us head-on, we might not have gained the upper hand, right?" Wang Ze said.

Liu Hao nodded after listening. "Indeed, from this point of view, we shouldn't have mistakenly thought that person was Su Mucheng from the beginning. But... this person's strength is still hard to say. Not daring to confront us head-on shows that she is indeed some distance away from Su Mucheng. However, Su Mucheng's strength has always needed to be maximized alongside Ye Qiu. Recently, she has switched to a straightforward, offensive style of Gunner, and although her performance is pretty good, there's always something lacking. After all, this isn't the style she's always been accustomed to."

Wang Ze was stunned. He Ming had already picked up the conversation. "Are you saying that if Zhu Yanxia's strength is compared to Su Mucheng, her coordination with Ye Qiu is definitely lacking, but her individual strength is still hard to evaluate?"

"That's right," Liu Hao nodded.

"But how can we gauge her strength now? By having the guild members do it?" He Ming said.

"We're being a bit too hasty. The fact that Lord Grim is Ye Qiu is now known throughout the circle, and everyone knows he intends to rebuild a team and return to the league. I don't believe we're the only ones at Excellent Era who are anxious. Will the other guilds really not make a single move? I'll ask Chen Yehui to change three more characters. We'll find an opportunity, not attack for now, and observe carefully," Liu Hao said.

"In that case, it's best to get a few more characters over here. Changing identities at any time will make it less likely to arouse suspicion," He Ming suggested.

"Keep an eye on Su Mucheng's side from time to time. She created a small account in the tenth server to help Ye Qiu, who knows if she'll stir up trouble in the Heavenly Domain," Liu Hao said.

"Use guild regulations to restrict her?" He Ming suggested again.

"Useless. Those regulations are already turned a blind eye to, and bringing them out won't mean anything until we completely fall out. As for Su Mucheng, I don't think the club is willing to have too much of a falling out with her. We still can't afford to offend this woman!" Liu Hao said, his teeth itching a little.

Su Mucheng couldn't be said to have any backing, but she was gentle and had very good relationships with everyone up and down the club. Although her relationship with the club had become somewhat strained after Ye Qiu was forced to retire, she had shown the professional attitude she should have as a professional player. She still diligently cooperated with the club's competitions or activities according to the contract. But then again, her likability wasn't her biggest protective umbrella. Su Mucheng's biggest protective umbrella was the value she contained.

The peripheral benefits derived from her, such as advertising endorsements and team uniform posters, brought the club a lot of profit. In this respect, it could be said that Liu Hao and the other two in this room combined couldn't compare to Su Mucheng. In the increasingly commercialized professional league, which club would be willing to give up a cash cow like Su Mucheng unless absolutely necessary?

The biggest fatal flaw that led to Ye Qiu's current situation was that he had no commercial value.

"Su Mucheng, just keep an eye on her. Let's go and figure out what's going on with this Zhu Yanxia first. The guild that Ye Qiu established in the tenth server is called Xingxin. You should know Xingxin, it's the name of the Internet cafe across from our club. Ye Qiu is currently there. The guild is named after Xingxin, it seems he has a deep relationship with the people in this Internet cafe. This Zhu Yanxia, might be someone from this Internet cafe. I can find an opportunity to have Chen Yehui send someone to take a look at it." Liu Hao said to the two of them, while also clarifying his plan for the future. After considering this, he felt more secure. It was too rash to immediately have people control characters to chase and kill him as soon as he learned that Lord Grim had entered the Heavenly Domain. How could a professional player not be aware of knowing yourself and your enemy?

"The mage from the three people is offline." In the game, after Ye Xiu and Chen Guo left their original leveling area, Chen Guo tried searching the names of the three characters and quickly discovered that the mage character was offline.

"What are you checking that for? It's not uncommon for these people to have dozens of characters in their hands. You have no idea which one is their real person, don't pay attention to it," Ye Xiu said.

"Then this is troublesome. According to what you're saying, any character could be them?" Chen Guo said.

"It really is that troublesome, so let's hurry up and level up!" Ye Xiu said.

"Level up now? Aren't you afraid they'll call more people to come looking for us? If a few more professional-level players come this time, your methods from just now won't work anymore, right?" Chen Guo said.

Along the way, Ye Xiu also explained his entire operational intention to Chen Guo. Ye Xiu's intention in this whole matter was to set up a plan, deliberately trying to trigger this misunderstanding from the other party. If it was a real one-on-three, with a level suppression of 20 levels, it would be a heaven-defying feat to take on three professional players in a one-on-one fight. And a helper like Chen Guo was, frankly speaking, dispensable. It was like two adults competing, a baby on the side wasn't considered any kind of help at all.

And Ye Xiu's previous behavior of operating two characters with both hands was also a forced move. It was impossible to fight the entire battle with his whole heart like that. He also used Lord Grim's character to try to create opportunities, and then use Zhu Yanxia to accurately capture the opportunities, creating the illusion that Zhu Yanxia was an expert.

As for whether Zhu Yanxia was Su Mucheng, Ye Xiu didn't insist on this misunderstanding. The people from Excellent Era and Su Mucheng met each other every day, and this misunderstanding was too easy to be exposed, it didn't have any value. They might misunderstand for a short time, but Ye Xiu also knew that they could expose it soon. But at least the three of them would still think that Chen Guo was an expert, and that was enough. In a three-on-one, they could be fearless; in a three-on-two, one was a top expert they deeply feared, and the other was a mysterious expert whose strength was unknown. In this situation, professional players' habits definitely wouldn't be to attack rashly. No one knew these professional habits better than Ye Xiu.

"Then where are we going to level up now?" Chen Guo asked.

"Just follow me," Ye Xiu obviously already had a plan.

"The people from Excellent Era have already made a move, what about the other guilds? If this really goes on endlessly, how are we supposed to level up?" Chen Guo felt that the situation was severe. If all the club guilds really wanted to target Ye Xiu with one heart, their power in the Heavenly Domain was much more terrifying than in the tenth server. At least the problem of not having enough characters like in Thousand Wave Lake would never happen. Here, the major clubs could use an overwhelming force, truly using a sea of people to push Lord Grim to his death.

No matter how invincible Ye Xiu was, he would always make mistakes after hundreds and thousands of times. One mistake in the Heavenly Domain meant losing 20% of experience. When would there be an end to these days?

Chen Guo was extremely anxious, but she couldn't think of any ideas. She could only control her character and follow behind Ye Xiu's Lord Grim all the way. She turned her head to steal a glance at Ye Xiu's expression, which was as calm as always, which made Chen Guo feel much more at ease.

After calming down and thinking carefully again, Chen Guo also came up with some countermeasures, "You have a very loud reputation now. Why not take advantage of this excitement and build a guild here in the Heavenly Domain? Club guilds pay attention to their image, and if you have a guild to support you, they won't at least openly attack you."

Ye Xiu smiled after hearing this. "They wouldn't openly attack anyway. The major guilds have been operating in the Heavenly Domain for so long, how many wild accounts do they have under their control? They have enough power to attack in secret. So building a guild here really can't protect us. Not only that, it will be difficult to maintain if we build it now. I'm only level 50 now, not to mention I can't do the level 55 dungeons, even if I could, who would be interested in following me to grind level 55 every day? Even if I have the strength, my current strength can't allow others to obtain existing benefits. If they don't get any benefits, why would people mix in our guild? Mix in and get chased down with me?"

"Just say your identity! A huge number of fans won't care about this," Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu smiled. "I can say it, but who would believe me?"

Chen Guo was stunned. That's right. What was special about Glory's esports was that even the most powerful professional character was definitely based on this Glory continent, so professional players, to put it bluntly, couldn't completely separate themselves from the online game. So, there had always been swindlers impersonating professional players to deceive people. Jumping out and shouting "I'm Ye Qiu, building a guild, follow me" had happened more than once. Players had long been numb to it, and no one would believe that professional players would do this. Later, the alliance directly stipulated that professional players were prohibited from doing these things.

Although Ye Qiu was now a retired player and wouldn't be subject to this prohibition, it was really hard to believe that he would just shout "I'm Ye Qiu" like that.

"Then have someone with a status come and prove it for you?" Chen Guo said.