Chapter 1 What Does the Leaderboard Mean?

The most direct meaning, of course, is the rewards given by the system based on the leaderboard rankings, and they are very generous rewards. Even club guilds cannot take these rewards lightly, so they will actively strive for them.

Beyond that, the leaderboard is also a symbol of strength. Individual strength, guild strength. Although game events like Hundred Ghosts Night Parade certainly have an element of luck, when you see the final leaderboard, and the top ranks are undoubtedly the professional characters from various teams, you know that luck only plays a decisive role when strength is equal. Faced with the overwhelming strength of professional players, even if ordinary players have good luck, it is difficult to create pressure on the powerful efficiency that professional players possess through their strength.

Club guilds place great importance on leaderboards. Whether it's the dungeon records during the new server's initial exploration, the records for the highest-end dungeons, or the rankings in each game event, the leaderboard benefits are one part. Furthermore, it's about showcasing strength through the leaderboard and expanding the team's influence.

Teams demonstrate their strength through their results in the professional league, but their representatives in the online game – the club guilds – are undoubtedly a more down-to-earth presence. They are not like professional players and professional teams who are active in another space; they exist in the same plane as the vast number of Glory players.

Expanding the team's influence through activity in the same plane is one of the key focuses of the club guilds' work.

The leaderboard is the main battlefield for this.

The major club guilds were very unhappy, extremely unhappy, about the first day of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade event's leaderboard battle.

It was rare for the team's players to be dispatched in full force this time, but the major guilds did not coordinate well with their professional players. In the end, the characters from Happy Guild occupied 9 out of the top 27 spots on the leaderboard, taking away one-third of the seats. In the battle for the top ten, Happy dominated with 5 seats, occupying half the positions. In the competition for the champion, runner-up, and third place, Happy directly dominated, simply not leaving any seats for other guilds.

The guild leaders of the major guilds discovered that they had never tasted such a victory.

The professional player group was also hotly discussing the final results at this time, of course, after Huang Shaotian's angry screen-spamming. Happy's splendid achievements were something even they had to look up to. And from the various guilds, they also roughly knew how Happy had achieved this.

Tang Rou and Bao Zi and the others haven't joined the professional group yet. Within this group, Happy only has Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng. Ye Xiu, of course, was the target of everyone's criticism. After Huang Shaotian's screen-spamming, everyone also pointed their fingers at Ye Xiu, jokingly calling him cunning and treacherous.

"Hahaha," Ye Xiu laughed loudly, "Just say you're jealous!"

Everyone was speechless. They were professional players; they didn't need to rely on this leaderboard to prove themselves. They didn't really care about the influence of the leaderboard rankings. Compared to that, they valued the benefits of the rankings more. And then, probably, the fun. To be jealous for this? Were they that pathetic?

"Jealous your sister your sister your sister your sister!!" Huang Shaotian responded actively, several "your sister" seeming like echoes.

System message: Ya Yu Sheng Fan has been kicked out of the Glory professional player group by an administrator.

Everyone was sweating profusely. Some new professional rookies in the group didn't even dare to speak.

The glorious Sword Saint, the top Sword Saint in the Glory circle, was actually kicked out of the group so easily. Although this senior was indeed very noisy, if it were them, these rookies, they wouldn't dare to treat a god like that even if they were given the courage!

Is this the Glory king of the past, Ye Qiu?

The rookies who had just entered the league were experiencing the sharpness of this former king for the first time. After all, the year they entered the league was the year Ye Xiu retired and struggled in the Challenger League. He didn't appear in this group much, but now, the king had returned strongly, and his first move was extraordinary, directly taking down the noisy Huang Shaotian.

So powerful! So domineering!

The rookies silently looked up to the Ye Xiu god and silently sympathized with the Huang Shaotian god.

"Is there anyone else who's not convinced!!" Ye Xiu shouted.

"Childish!" Surprisingly, there was someone who dared to retort. Everyone looked and saw that it was Da Mo Gu Yan, Han Wenqing. He was someone who rarely appeared in the group to chat, but only someone like the Ye Xiu god could attract him to the group. Only he, who had overthrown the Jia Shi dynasty, dared to directly face Ye Xiu's clamor at this time?

No!

A senior kindly guided the rookies: Han Wenqing dares to face Ye Xiu directly like this mainly because he is also an administrator.

Administrators cannot manage each other, so of course, no one is afraid of anyone. The truth is sometimes so ordinary, quite boring.

"Then, what about the group leader?" a rookie asked, puzzled. The one bigger than the administrator would be the group leader.

"Group leader? Since you entered this group, have you ever seen the group leader?"

"No..."

"The group leader is a player who retired a long time ago and is no longer in this circle. He only left us with this group."

"The group leader must also be a very amazing person," the rookies always said, full of longing.

"Ahem, not bad!" The seniors would always answer like this. Because this senior who created the group really couldn't be called amazing. Of course, being able to become a professional player among so many Glory players, from that perspective, could be considered an amazing person. However, compared to other professional players, he was indeed quite ordinary. It was just creating a group; who said you had to have amazing achievements? The truth was once again so ordinary that it disappointed the rookies.

"Ye Xiu, your grandpa!!" Just then, Huang Shaotian broke back into the group again. His first sentence back was a roar at Ye Xiu. Such a spirit of not fearing power shocked the rookies.

"I'll let you off today," Ye Xiu replied so calmly. After that, no matter how Huang Shaotian shouted, he never appeared again, probably having blocked the group or gone offline.

Everyone finally waited for Huang Shaotian to finish his noise. For a moment, some people even thought that kicking Huang Shaotian out was actually quite good. Why let him back in?

Of course, everyone just thought that in their hearts. Kicking people out and letting them back in was a battle for the administrators. In this scope, it was a battle of gods, and for those of them who were not administrators, no matter how big their reputation was in the circle, they were just little ghosts in this group.

The group was quiet. Everyone could finally discuss some serious topics.

Regarding Happy's great victory in today's event, the professional players were joking, but in fact, they were quite shocked in their hearts.

They were also participating in this event, and they could also lead the guilds to do some things. But why hadn't they done what Ye Xiu had done?

"This guy is really..." Some players wanted to express their opinions, but they couldn't find the words to describe him.

"Glory textbook..." In the end, it was Xiao Shiqin who said this nickname that Ye Xiu had always had, and then he elevated it: "Such a comprehensive textbook."

"Xiao Shiqin, you also faced that Happy team head-on. How exactly is their team?" someone asked.

"What do you think?" Xiao Shiqin asked. Although these people hadn't faced Happy head-on, he believed they had all paid attention to Happy's players. Happy was so eye-catching now!

"Some of the players on their team are indeed quite capable," Lin Jingyan said.

"Tang Rou?" someone said. Tang Rou was indeed the most eye-catching player on Happy's team besides Ye Xiu.

"She's a beautiful girl!"

"Yeah, I almost fell in love with that photo from the last Electronic Athletics Weekly!" Someone sent a particularly lewd drooling emoji.

"I think you're already in love, right?"

"Speaking of which, Happy has so many beauties!"

"Yeah, so lucky, right?"

"The two new girls from Misty Rain are also good!"

"Twin flowers!" Drool, more drooling emojis.

"Can you guys be any more perverted?" Finally, a table-flipping emoji appeared. Misty Rain team's Chu Yunxiu popped up.

The group was silent in an instant.

In the eyes of fans, they are cold, glamorous, and all-powerful professional players, but in fact, they are just ordinary people who are better at playing Glory. They also have all kinds of ordinary thoughts and ideas, good, bad, noble, and lewd... Plus, this is a male-dominated world, so when a beautiful female player is mentioned, some derivative topics inevitably arise because of the beauty, and even spread. Fortunately, Chu Yunxiu jumped out in time and interrupted these men's perversion.

"Ahem, Tang Rou is a very outstanding player. It seems like many teams are interested in her, but she was still able to be retained by Happy." The topic quickly returned to the main subject.

"That girl is very strange. I don't know what she wants..." Wang Jiexi said. He was the one who had extended the most invitations to Tang Rou, and he was also the first to feel confused about this girl's needs. Honor? Status? Money? He couldn't figure out what could move this person. Professional players' job choices were nothing more than these three!

As soon as Wang Jiexi spoke, Li Xuan from the Void team took over his words: "That ghostblade from Happy is also quite good! Wasn't that kid from your Tiny Herb before? How did you let him go?"

"Are you interested in him?" Wang Jiexi didn't directly answer Li Xuan's question because he knew that Li Xuan wasn't asking a question, just casually expressing a thought. Every transfer period has excellent players, and even gods will transfer. Excellent doesn't mean that they will definitely be kept on the team.

"Us? Not yet." Li Xuan denied it. However, he said "not yet." Both Void Twin Ghosts are still at their peak and haven't reached the point where they need to retire. Adding another ghost swordsman isn't necessary. However, Li Xuan said "not yet," does that mean that Void already has some ideas?

"Has no one noticed that hooligan from Happy?" At this time, Zhou Zekai from Samsara suddenly interjected. Chatting in the group is not like a match on the field. In a match, everyone fights hard without showing mercy. Exchanging ideas in the group, however, is about emotions. Strangers will always say less, and old players who have been together for a long time and are more familiar with each other will say more. This is human nature. Therefore, old players tend to be more proactive in group chats, and even if a new player is a god, it is difficult for them to open up a conversation with people in unfamiliar situations. But Zhou Zekai is an exception. He isn't considered too old a player, but he has been able to mingle with the old players and communicate with all kinds of people very naturally.

"Oh, that guy, you've noticed him too? What do you think?" Lin Jingyan said.

"I don't know, I can't see through him," Zhou Zekai said.