Chapter 604: Guild Base Price

"Old Li, are you stuck on the dungeon?" he asked in the team's small channel.

Friends in the same war zone automatically restored their friend relationships after ascension, and even their groups and group chats were retained.

Now the players of the Blue Star Battle Zone have begun mass ascension; all of Xiao Feng's friends on his list have already arrived in the Divine Realm, and the fastest-leveling Li Li has even reached level 269!

Upon receiving his message, the team channel immediately became lively.

"I'm stuck, stuck, this dungeon is too damn hard, Old Xiao, hurry up, or else our 100,000 divine stones will be wasted!" Li Li shouted miserably, as if he had encountered a savior during a robbery.

Xiao Feng couldn't help but wonder: "How many-player dungeon is this that you're stuck? Add me, give the coordinates, I'll be right there."

He knew the strength of the five team members: each equipped with low-grade divine artifacts all over, plus one medium-grade divine artifact weapon, all carefully selected by him, with no junk.

Moreover, he provided many heavenly earthly essences that increased attributes across dimensions, making their overall strength at least three times better than players of the same level.

If even they can't beat this dungeon, it's probably not something current players can challenge at all!

Zhang Fan replied: "We're near an unnamed wilderness about 2000 kilometers east of Xi Qie Cheng; the dungeon entrance is a huge skull. It's a 10-player dungeon, but we only brought five. We thought it would be easy, but we can't even beat the first boss..."

"Ugh, not even being able to beat the first boss is excessive—what level is the dungeon?" Xiao Feng said somewhat helplessly, asking.

At the same time, he opened the teleportation list of Storm Capital and found "Xi Qie Cheng".

Xi Qie Cheng is one of the subordinate cities of Storm Capital, about 40,000 kilometers from the main city, and the teleportation fee only requires 20 divine stones.

【Confirm! Now teleporting to Xi Qie Cheng, please wait……】

The teleportation array activated, his figure vanished from the sight of many players; countless people were startled by his level 415, but before they could take a closer look, he was gone.

After arriving in Xi Qie Cheng, Xiao Feng directly rode the wind and flew toward the target location at astonishing speed.

Zhang Fan explained to him: "This is a level 255 dungeon, but the difficulty is outrageous. Upon entry, your level is reduced by 50%, and the attributes granted by your realm and level upgrades also drop accordingly. We've been suppressed to just over level 130; medium-grade divine artifacts become ineffective, and switching to low-grade divine artifacts leaves output insufficient—even fighting a small monster almost exhausts us to death."

Only then did Xiao Feng realize.

The mechanism of halving level in a dungeon is terrifying; the suppressed strength is absolutely more than half, possibly weakening

by over 80%.

The higher one's level, the worse it feels upon entry; for example, if he enters at level 315, he's suppressed to level 168, all his divine artifacts and chief divine artifacts become ineffective, and his attribute drop exceeds 95%!

Under these circumstances, attempting to challenge the level 255 demi-god dungeon is indeed extremely difficult!

However, it's not completely impossible to clear.

As long as one is domineering enough, smashing a dungeon with scrolls can clear it!

Flying 2000 kilometers takes a few minutes; Xiao Feng had Zhang Fan and the others wait for him.

Afterwards, he opened his friend list, and via the Alliance Leader's chat sub-channel, he conversed with Shen Di and others.

He said: "Everyone, what's the situation with purchasing a base? I've just returned, I'm going to help Old Li and them clear a dungeon, and I'll come solve the problem shortly."

Seeing him finally speak, Zhu Long immediately said: "Old brother Xiao Feng, the rules here in the Divine Realm are completely different from those of Zhu Shen Da Lu; purchased bases don't need upgrading—buying them gives you the maximum scale right away, plus a full set of city construction and maintenance packages. But the price is outrageously high, requiring 5,000,000 divine stones!"

5,000,000…… seems not that much.

Without waiting for his reply, Shen Di explained: "Everyone has just ascended; certifying life professions and work and other essential operations require divine stones, with huge consumption. The exchange rate of divine stones to gold coins has already climbed to 1:6000, so 5,000,000 equals 30,000,000,000 gold coins—even we find it somewhat hard to bear. Moreover, even if we grit our teeth and want to buy, we can't gather that many divine stones in a short time..."

Normal players, after ascending, need to take on some jobs and life professions to have a foothold; otherwise, divine stone sources are too scarce, which is detrimental to cultivation progress and daily expenses.

Jobs and life professions don't take too much time, but the threshold is 10 divine stones per person.

To obtain 10 divine stones, an ordinary player must first do a day of miscellaneous labor; the accumulation speed is very slow.

At present, the main force players have been ascending for less than five days; the total divine stone output of the entire Blue Star Battle Zone is still small, making it naturally impossible to gather enough divine stones for purchasing a base.

They sought Xiao Feng, actually without much hope; it's just that Xiao Feng had previously told them they could come to him with any problems after ascending, so they merely brought it up.

After hearing that, Xiao Feng indicated understanding, hesitated slightly, and replied: "No need to spend money buying divine stones; I'll cover the cost of purchasing the base for you—just pick the location. Only by establishing the base early and developing technology well can we crush the other 71 zones."

Five guilds requiring 25,000,000 divine stones—he can still come up with that amount.

Anyway, there's a State Lord who can freeload!

But hearing that, others don't find it so light-hearted.

Zhan Tian, hearing this, exclaimed in shock: "Brother Xiao Feng, how are you so rich? You can pull out 25,000,000 divine stones without blinking—you say it so lightly!"

That's 150,000,000,000 gold coins! Even at the current exchange rate, it could be exchanged for almost 100,000,000,000 cash!

Moreover, divine stones are priceless but unmarketable!

Xiao Feng said: "It's not exactly easy either. However, having just returned from the Myriad Heavens Battlefield, I feel great pressure. For our battle zone to fare a bit better, for matters that consume massive manpower and material resources, it's better to resolve them sooner rather than later, so I'll squeeze out the funds even if it means painfully selling divine artifacts."

The matter of 1,000,000,000 divine stones is inconvenient to let people know; the impact would be too great.

Moreover, cultivating his own Chaos Tree also consumes a lot; it's not something he can squander at will.

This 25,000,000 is so that the members of the Five Great Guilds won't have to rush about for a base.

Otherwise, countless players, in order to scrape together the money for a guild base, would go a long time without leveling up, incurring huge losses.

Guilds are a very important organizational mechanism in the game's late stage; they can develop technology, mass-produce damage scrolls, war equipment, and other consumables needed for large-scale war. They can also upgrade legion skills, raising the upper limit of members' legion skill levels.

This is something that must be had; if not prepared early, they will surely suffer great losses in future wars!

Xiao Feng clearly understands that if only he alone is at the forefront of the game, it's completely insufficient.

The largest-scale war in this game will be a super-civilization war participated by tens of billions, hundreds of billions, or even more people.

By then, even if he activates the necklace effect, expanding skill scale ten thousandfold, he cannot completely defeat everyone; at most he can clear the field once, after which those people will immediately get up and continue fighting.

And without activating special effects, relying on his Weather Mage talent, he can at most oppose about one million people by himself.

Any more than that, and it becomes very difficult.

This still doesn't consider the situation where the enemy also has super players!

If they encounter a special group like the "Super Dimensional Machine Soldiers," where top-tier players are extremely numerous and the population is also terrifying, they must rely on strong group combat power to have a chance of victory.

Xiao Feng alone cannot oversee the development of all guilds in the Blue Star.

But just the five guilds within his own alliance are fine.

(End of chapter)