Chapter 159: The Chaotic Situation

Although Zhang Shan intended to go on the ring quest, he could not do it immediately.

He had to wait until after tomorrow, as they still had a guild war against the Unrivaled Guild tomorrow.

Even though Lord Unrivaled had claimed they would forfeit the match, who knew if he was telling the truth?

Zhang Shan decided to wait until the guild war ended tomorrow before making any plans.

Teleporting to the Eastern and Western Capitals was certainly not cheap; a single teleportation cost ten thousand gold coins.

Though he was wealthy now, he could not afford to be wasteful.

Once he went, he would try his best to find it. If he could not find it in a day, he would take two days; if two days were not enough, he would keep looking.

Since he could ride his horse fast now, spending two or three days should allow him to scour the entire Eastern Capital.

As long as the triggering NPC was in the Eastern and Western Capitals, he should be able to find them.

If he still could not find them in the Eastern and Western Capitals, then there was nothing more he could do.

It was impossible for Zhang Shan to run through every single city in the entire game, right?

That was completely unrealistic, and the cities of other countries were simply impossible to visit.

Going there would basically mean becoming a public enemy everyone wanted to beat up.

While they were grinding monsters, Wind and Cloud Blade suddenly shouted loudly.

"Holy crap, the people from the Wei Kingdom and the Qin Kingdom are fighting too."

"What's going on? Why are they going at it as well?"

"It seems to be over a boss. The War God Guild was fighting a boss when they were ambushed by the Tyrant Guild of the Qin Kingdom, and then they started fighting. Go look at the world channel yourself."

"Let me take a look."

World Channel:

"Tyrant Monarch, are you looking for death?"

"Who dies is still uncertain. Your War God Guild has sat on the throne of the top dog for so many years; it's about time you gave up the position."

"Just based on you, Tyrant Monarch?"

"Of course relying on me alone isn't enough, but our Great Qin Kingdom has over ten million players. Overturning you guys is a piece of cake."

"Very well, since you don't want to play nicely, then none of us will play."

Soon, the War God Guild called upon a large number of Wei Kingdom players to enter the Heavenly Gate Pass map.

At the same time, a massive number of Qin Kingdom players also poured into Heavenly Gate Pass.

A full-scale war broke out between the two countries, with the number of participating combatants on both sides reaching hundreds of thousands at one point.

Comparatively speaking, the previous melee between their Wind and Cloud Guild and the players of the Qi Kingdom could only be considered child's play.

With players from the two countries fighting fiercely, players from other countries also jumped in to fish in troubled waters.

The already chaotic Heavenly Gate Pass became even more chaotic.

Even the spot where the Wind and Cloud Guild was grinding monsters occasionally had players from other countries sneaking in.

And they would stealthily stab them in the back.

This made it impossible for the members of the Wind and Cloud Guild to grind monsters in peace. Originally, they thought that with so many of them together and the passage entrance being very narrow,

grinding monsters here should be very safe.

However, the chaos in the Heavenly Gate Pass map exceeded their imagination.

Everyone had bloodshot eyes from killing, hacking at any foreign player with a purple name they laid eyes on,

regardless of who they were.

After clearing out a batch of infiltrated foreign players, Wind and Cloud Blade said with depression,

"Damn it, can we even grind monsters in peace in this ghost place? Should we assign people to take turns guarding the passage entrance, or else there's simply no way to grind."

"Sigh, I even want to go back to Dangyang City to grind monsters. It's way too unsafe here; I've already died twice. If not for the support reviving me, it would have been a huge loss."

"Going back to grind is impossible; the EXP here is great. In the same amount of time, the EXP gained is over a third more than before."

"But it's just way too unsafe here."

"It's fine, just grind right here. We'll arrange ten people to take turns guarding the passage, and call for backup if anyone charges in."

Wind and Cloud Supreme quickly assigned people to guard the passage entrance.

Ever since they experienced the monster EXP in Heavenly Gate Pass, no one wanted to return to Dangyang City to grind monsters anymore.

Leveling up was hard, so since the EXP here was higher, they naturally wanted to grind here as much as possible. Who wouldn't like leveling up faster?

Reaching level thirty sooner meant they could update their equipment sooner.

Most importantly, once they reached level thirty, they could purchase mounts.

Even Wind and Cloud Supreme, someone who didn't want to come to Heavenly Gate Pass at the beginning,

no longer wanted to go back after grinding here for a while.

"Fortunately, we found a good spot. Otherwise, like everyone else grinding in open areas, there's simply no safety to speak of—getting ambushed every now and then. Who can stand that?"

"Indeed, this is a great place for grinding monsters. We must hold onto it and send people to guard it twenty-four hours a day."

"There's probably no need for that. There should be quite a few places like this in the Heavenly Gate Pass map, and in a few days our guild will be able to upgrade to level three. By then, with even more guild members, the monsters here won't be enough to grind."

"That's true. We have to figure out a way to find more maps like this. Maybe we can even find another boss to fight."

"Is it that easy to want to fight a boss? Heavenly Gate Pass maps are everywhere, but no one can beat them."

"I heard some people saw several big bosses deep in the map, and they died before even getting close."

"No way? Aren't those even more fierce than Chakra?"

"Definitely more fierce than Chakra. Chakra is only a level forty boss. The deeper you go into the Heavenly Gate Pass map, the higher the monster level, and the higher the boss level. They're insanely fierce."

"Sigh, let's not think about it. We're just weaklings who haven't even reached level thirty. We'd better honestly grind monsters and level up."

While the outside world was fighting tooth and nail, the people of the Wind and Cloud Guild were hiding right here grinding monsters.

As long as they choked the passage entrance, they were safe and didn't need to worry about being harassed. It was simply a pure land within Heavenly Gate Pass.

As time passed, more and more people discovered their location.

There were also many people green with envy over the monster-grinding map occupied by the Wind and Cloud Guild, and there were even a few occasions where groups of a thousand people charged the passage entrance.

Yet they were all blocked outside by them.

"Do you guys think that with the outside fighting so lively, a national war will actually be triggered?"

"Who can say for sure?"

If it were before, everyone would have thought a national war wouldn't be triggered so quickly, but now that the fighting was escalating, it was hard to tell.

"Should we go join in the fun too? If other people trigger the national war, there won't be anything left for us in the Chu Kingdom."

"How could that be? Although we are grinding here, the other Chu Kingdom players aren't sitting idle."

"That's right, isn't that fellow Heaven and Earth Slaughtering Dragon Blade always active and stirring up trouble in Heavenly Gate Pass?"

"Exactly. If a national war really gets triggered, how could we rely on just this little bit of people in our guild? After all, we only have ten thousand people. Compared to the ten or twenty million players in each country, we can't play that big of a role."

That was indeed the case; player guilds were still relatively weak right now.

They were still only level two guilds, and not even a single level three guild existed.

A guild had at most ten thousand members, which accounted for far too small a proportion within a national player faction.

Whether they went to stir up trouble or not would not excessively impact the enmity value between the Chu Kingdom and other countries.

Unless their guild levels continued to rise, waiting until guild members reached the scale of millions,

only then could they truly influence the situation of a national faction.