Chapter 1040: Another Divine Artifact

Later Su Sheng also shared the item's attributes in the Team Channel.

Flame Essence Crystal. Zhu Que (Four-colored)

Item.

Description: Inside it seals a fragment of Zhu Que's true spirit; its effect is unknown.

Another inexplicable item.

However, it seals Zhu Que's true spirit, so it's definitely a good thing.

According to the game's background story, the original Demon Army wiped out many civilizations on the continent.

This includes the formidable JingLingWangGuo and the Dwarves, which, before the massive Demon Army, could only meet a fate of annihilation.

Then, the Demon Army, wielding boundless might, attacked the continent's last bastion... the Human Clan!!

The original Human Clan, compared with JingLingWangGuo and the Dwarves, was not weak at all, and even had a slight edge.

However, it could never match the joint forces of JingLingWangGuo and the Dwarves.

So, when the Demon Army with boundless might invaded, the Human Clan's kingdom suffered successive defeats.

Yet, at the critical moment when the entire continent was about to fall,

The four great guardian beasts of the four directions—Azure Dragon, Bai Hu, Zhu Que, Xuan Wu—appeared together.

They protected the Human Clan, directly repelling the Demon invasion and sealing away most of the Demons.

This is why the Human Clan could survive such a terrifying Demon onslaught.

However, although the Demon attack was completely crushed, the four guardian beasts also suffered damage to their true spirits; in the end, they dispersed all their divine power to suppress Demons worldwide, and then vanished into the heavens and earth.

This is the Human Clan's background story in this game.

Of course, this background story does not appear in the official game content announced by Teng Long Company.

Rather, it is recorded in the game's internal books.

This is thanks to YiSiLanDiEr.

When YiSiLanDiEr previously took the form of an old scholar, Su Sheng, while interacting, completing quests, and helping collect books,

Su Sheng also read many books.

This background story is also recorded within those books.

Logically, the true spirits of the four guardian beasts dispersed into heaven and earth, spreading their divine power across the continent to suppress Demons everywhere.

However, unexpectedly, there is a crystal here that contains the true spirit of the Zhu Que guardian beast.

Although it is only a Four-colored Artifact, it still contains a faint trace of true spirit.

It is currently unknown what it does.

However, according to the background story, the four guardian beasts are the core force that helped humans defeat the Demon invasion.

So this item is likely very useful; later I can give it to YiSiLanDiEr to ask about it.

Moreover, after this incident, Su Sheng's admiration for the game's world logic deepened; he feels that aside from some player-friendly settings, this game world is like a real world.

Su Sheng also cannot help but marvel again at Teng Long Company's black‑tech level, which is clearly many times higher than the level of the old 'Heroes of the Nation' game.

No wonder it was chosen by nations worldwide as the main battlefield for New Energy allocation.

"Alright, this dungeon run has come to a perfect end!"

Su Sheng chuckled.

The remaining Yanhuang members also smiled; everyone's haul this time was substantial.

Although the final boss's loot was a colored artifact, no one was disappointed.

It was, after all, expected.

However, at that moment,

Nightcoming Big Bear suddenly lunged forward.

"Heheh~ Chairman, the surprise doesn't stop there."

"There's another dungeon completion reward here; since I'm the Group Leader, the reward is with me."

Nightcoming Big Bear directly traded an item to Su Sheng.

Because the dungeon was triggered by Nightcoming Big Bear's item, the Group Leader gave it to Nightcoming Big Bear.

"What?"

Su Sheng looked at the item Nightcoming Big Bear traded, puzzled, and couldn't help but have his pupils contract.

Colorful!

Three-colored!

The item Nightcoming Big Bear traded to Su Sheng turned out to be a Three-colored Artifact.

Huangcheng Token (Three-colored)

Base item.

Condition: Chairman can use

Restriction: Level 80 Fourth Rebirth.

Description: Using this item can relocate the guild's base to a location in Huangcheng.

When he saw this item, Su Sheng felt both excitement and disappointment.

The disappointment was that the item was merely a base‑relocation tool.

At first glance at the name, Su Sheng thought it could break the Main City limit and upgrade the base to Huangcheng.

After all, the highest guild level a player can establish is a Level‑5 guild.

A Level‑3 guild's base is a village, Level‑4's is a town, and Level‑5's is the Main City.

A player's base cannot be built up to the Huangcheng stage.

But if there were some special item, it might be possible. After all, the game Zhu Lu has changed a lot from the earlier Champions.

Although so far Su Sheng has never seen this item, that does not mean the item does not exist.

But even if it is not a token that can break the Main City limit to build Huangcheng, Su Sheng is still delighted.

It can actually relocate the base into the Huangcheng area!!

That is simply a tremendous surprise.

Under normal circumstances, once a base is built, it cannot be relocated unless it is destroyed.

But if the base is destroyed and rebuilt, it would be a loss.

After all, constructing each base requires massive manpower, material and resources, especially since Yanhuang Town's current construction is already so complete.

Among them are Dwarf Race settlements and the existence of the Elf Sacred Tree.

In any case, if Yanhuang Town were destroyed, it would be a huge loss, even tantamount to uprooting Yanhuang's very foundation!

Of course, Su Sheng now finds it hard to imagine what kind of power would be needed to destroy his own Yanhuang Town.

Moreover, YiSiLanDiEr is stationed atop the Elf Sacred Tree.

Su Sheng even feels confident that at this stage, even if Whole Server players attack, his Yanhuang Town should still hold.

However perfect Yanhuang Town's construction may be, once it reaches the Main City stage, it can only remain within the Zhu Que Main City area.

Later, when it reaches Huangcheng, Yanhuang Town cannot be moved there.

It can only rebuild a base on the Huangcheng side via a sub‑guild.

However, once a guild reaches level 5, the number of sub‑guilds it may apply for is capped at three, and sub‑guilds cannot reach level 5; they can only go up to level 4.

That means, without special circumstances, a sub‑guild's base can at most be built to the town stage—the current scale of Yanhuang Town—and cannot be expanded to the Main City stage.

Conventionally, the layout of most guilds is to leave a primary guild base on the Main City side, then build three town‑scale bases on the Huangcheng side through sub‑guilds, and connect them via Teleport Array.

But now that this Token exists, once the timing is right, one can directly move Yanhuang Town to the Huangcheng side, at worst leaving a sub‑guild town‑scale base here.

After all, the player's main development will inevitably be in Huangcheng.