Chapter 238: News of the Treasure Map

"Go practice your moonlight, quit chirping when you've got nothing to do!" Xiao Feng beat his friend down to critical health and said irritably.

"Damn, too fierce, this skill's range is several times bigger than Mang Mei's! Absolutely outrageous!" Li Li quickly gulped down a few heals, filling his HP to full.

"Not bad, it's a cure-all for all kinds of Old Li."

"I'm going..."

The two exchanged a few words, then each went into secluded cultivation.

Zhang Fan came online not long after; in fact, he and Li Li were only about two minutes apart, but because the game's time ratio differs, it seemed longer.

The cultivation process was somewhat boring; Xiao Feng raised his willpower to 970 points, then paused briefly and checked the level ranking.

After not paying attention for over a day, the mainstream players' levels rose considerably again.

Now, the first batch of players from Longguo who entered the game have a mainstream level exceeding 75.

The three major guilds—Gods, Dragon Soul, and Conquest—that Xiao Feng has mingled with all have members somewhat higher level, reaching around 80.

Those who joined the demolition team are even the elite of the elite; now they are even over 90, with a tiny number breaking through 100, currently undertaking third-transfer missions.

According to this trend, in about five or six days, level-100 players will increase; then the borders will open, the Blue Star war zone will unify, and the conflict between Longguo and the international server will begin.

Worth mentioning, the level of Sword Slaying the Heavens is also rising rapidly.

Not sure if it's because being provoked by Xiao Feng's fixed team of six dominating the rankings, he has been constantly seeking out mythic bosses to kill; soloing a boss yields hundreds of millions of experience, and killing many speeds up leveling, now he's already level 148.

This greatly benefits the World Guild.

Because each level-100 mythic boss drops a stronghold construction order; accumulating many, their stronghold level is rising quickly, already surpassing Gods, becoming the first level-4 guild.

When the stronghold broke through level 4, it also triggered a new round of stronghold defense battles, which will start in a few hours; by then, the levels of the World Guild members will also gradually catch up.

Li Li once gave Xiao Feng a bad idea, suggesting he sabotage the World Guild's defense battle and demolish their stronghold.

But Xiao Feng thought it over, feeling the conflict between the two sides wasn't that big; since his solo victory over Sword Slaying the Heavens, there has basically been no further interaction.

The other side obviously has become timid.

If he continues to provoke actively, it might force the other side into a desperate situation, leading to a lose-lose battle, then going offline to beat him into a pig's head—what a loss.

So it's better not to do such things; over time, grudges will naturally dissolve.

Xiao Feng closed the level ranking and continued immersing himself in cultivation.

The speed of willpower increase is quite stable; he asked a few teammates, and everyone's cultivation progress varies slightly.

Like him gaining 5-8 points per hour is still fairly fast; Li Li and Dun Dun might have slightly inferior aptitude, only able to gain about 4-5 points per hour.

Conversely, Mang Mei is the most outstanding, able to gain 7-10 points per hour.

If it weren't for her going offline midway to cook and eat, wasting some time, she would already have enough for fourth transfer.

Time flowed slowly.

Unnoticed, another four hours passed.

Mang Mei's willpower points finally accumulated enough; she left Xiao Zhai on her own to undergo class change.

Xiao Feng's willpower also reached 991 points, only a little short of breaking through.

But at that moment, he suddenly received a message.

It was from High Caishen!

The High Caishen of the Treasure Merchant Association rarely contacts him proactively; usually after selling goods, he informs him that the offline money has been transferred.

This time, however, it's somewhat different; Xiao Feng opened the message and heard: "Xiao Feng, Great God, earlier you commissioned our association to pay attention to the treasure map fragments; we have already collected some."

Treasure map fragments?

"Is that the legendary-quality 【Mysterious Treasure Map】 fragment?" Xiao Feng asked.

High Caishen said: "Yes, that's it. Through bounties, we collected four copies from lone players, and there's one more with Zhan Tian old brother; he also said he's preparing to send it over together to you."

"Four copies, plus Zhan Tian's makes five total!" Xiao Feng rejoiced.

He himself has two copies; adding these five makes seven!

The treasure map fragments total only nine; this means we can soon assemble them all!

"High Caishen, please keep helping me collect; we still need two more to complete the set. Funding isn't an issue; I still have enough gold coins!" Xiao Feng said.

"Alright, then I'll issue a guild announcement, buying each fragment for 30,000 cash; once we have them all, I'll give them to you." High Caishen responded.

"Announcement?"

Upon hearing this news, Xiao Feng had a flash of inspiration.

He is the city lord, after all; doesn't he have the ability to issue announcements?

He doesn't even need a war-zone announcement; just a regional announcement within his jurisdiction will do.

"High Caishen, I'll issue the announcement; I previously completed a task that earned me a chance to issue an announcement, so I can let all players in War City know. Then by word of mouth, it will soon spread throughout Longguo." Xiao Feng explained.

"Ah, this..."

High Caishen, hearing this, felt greatly shocked and quickly urged: "Xiao Feng, Great God, don't rush, don't rush! The value of a system announcement is too high; we can't waste it like this! See how many characters you can send in total; I'll organize this, put out more ads! As long as we can run ads, I won't charge you a penny for purchasing the treasure map fragments!"

As a merchant, he is extremely sensitive to such information; upon hearing that announcements can be issued, he instantly became excited.

In this game, aside from dungeon first-kills and certain specific first-kill honors, there's basically nowhere to post announcements.

A first-kill team name is only eight characters, far insufficient to express the desired advertising content; one can only use as concise content as possible, even using classical Chinese to summarize.

In Xiao Feng's view, this privilege is worth even no less than a CCTV news advertisement in the real world!

Upon hearing this, Xiao Feng also felt somewhat helpless, only able to nod in agreement.

Otherwise, one couldn't say that he could just casually send three announcements each day, telling the other party not to rush, and send another later.

He glanced at the city lord's order announcement privilege, then told High Caishen: "A regional announcement can hold at most 60 Chinese characters, will be broadcast via system voice in the War City area, punctuation included."

"Understood!" High Caishen immediately went to prepare.

A few minutes later, he sent an advertisement via typing.

【War City Treasure Merchant Association branch opening grand welcome, goods 70% off, consignment fee only 1 silver. Also high-price buying mysterious treasure map fragments, mythic equipment and items, all good things welcome, Treasure Merchant Association yyds!】

Xiao Feng glanced, and these punctuation marks were actually English, saving half a character!

He counted carefully, the numbers also count as half a character, adding up to exactly sixty, not a character more or less.

"Tsk tsk, as expected of a merchant, really good at pinching pennies."

He let out a sigh, then he copied the content into the City Lord's Token's regional announcement and published it.

The next second, a voice echoed across the War City's jurisdiction of several thousand kilometers.

【Regional Announcement……】

【Regional Announcement……】

【Regional Announcement……】

This announcement was played three times; within the War City's range, it was almost the same as the System's War Zone Announcement.

In an instant, tens of millions of players within the War City area were startled by this deafening announcement.

"Treasure Merchant Association? Holy crap, that's amazing, they actually managed to get a System announcement!"

"A 30% discount sounds pretty good, let's go check it out!"

"Want to buy a Mysterious Treasure Map? What is that?"

"Uh, I think I have one; I'll go check the warehouse. If their price is high, selling it wouldn't be bad either!"

For a moment, the game was in turmoil, and many people were shocked by this first player-led announcement.

Many people ran to ask Gaocai Shen where he got this.

But Xiao Feng demanded secrecy, and Gaocai Shen didn't dare offend him, so he only said it was obtained by accident.