Building a sect from scratch.

Contribution points and prestige points can be accumulated slowly. Even if you fall far short for a while and can't afford the school uniform from the sect merchant, it won't affect your gaming experience.

Wearing a full school uniform and god-tier gear won't improve players' basic skills, nor will it increase their intelligence. As everyone knows, in this game world that almost perfectly replicates the real-world experience, spending money on equipment will only turn players into flashy but weaklings; it won't allow them to dominate the game or acquire invincible stats.

As you can see, the top spot on the power rankings still belongs to the Second Senior Sister [Pig Charges Forward], who never spends any money, while the famous big spender [Master] has successfully dropped from second place to eleventh, failing to even crack the top ten.

But experience points are different. The most significant difference between new and veteran players is the level gap. This game isn't a quick-leveling game; after absorbing Qi, it takes several days to accumulate enough experience points to level up. And level differences often affect players' "kidneys," or mana bars. If the mana bar is low, you can't use teleportation arrays, and there are many restrictions on participating in various activities, making the game very frustrating.

Therefore, such a large number of monsters could raise the average level of all members of the community by several levels. How could Nietzsche bear to let a small group of members monopolize it!

After clearing out the headless man, they picked up a bunch of random weapons and damaged magical artifacts from the ground before everyone gradually dispersed.

Nietzsche, on the other hand, always seemed somewhat melancholy.

"Commander, what's wrong?"

Guantangbao clearly sensed something was wrong. After everyone gradually dispersed, she pulled Nietzsche aside to ask what was going on.

Nietzsche didn't keep him in suspense and answered directly: "Well, I just feel that there are some mineral resources in this area that I don't know how to utilize."

According to the unanimous confirmation of several veteran players who had been lurking in the main group privately invited by Wang Ergou, this underground world possesses extremely rich mineral resources, most of which are high-grade mines.

If you mine these and sell them, you can immediately become sworn brothers with Lu Renya, who became the richest man in Chang'an City by riding the wave of success in the game.

She grew up listening to stories about coal mine owners on Earth back then, which were incredibly popular!
Not to mention, there's also a spirit stone vein here!
The spirit stone vein in the Guixu Realm is equivalent to the gold mine on Earth!
Guan Tangbao scratched her head; this was outside her area of ​​expertise. So, she tentatively suggested, "How about... we outsource that too?"

"Wouldn't that just be giving money away to others? How can you guarantee they'll be willing to spend it? Our community is too weak. If other communities were to seize our resources by force, we might not be able to defeat them!"

The soup dumpling persisted: "Why don't we try hiring an NPC?"

"hiss……"

Nietzsche was quite tempted by this suggestion.

The population in the game is not valuable. The reason why it seems so precious is actually because the population of the Taiyin Sect is valuable.
Outside of the Taiyin Sect, the population is like cockroaches on Earth—they're everywhere!
Putting aside other matters, the manager of the Fortune, Prosperity and Longevity Merchant Guild has explicitly told players that they can help purchase disabled people as laborers, and at a very low price!

Nietzsche thought and thought, and finally made up his mind: "Then let's give it a try..."

...While the newbie community "Eternal Righteousness" was quietly developing, another newbie community, "I Love Farming," was not to be outdone.

During the limited-time battlefield, in order to maximize profits and quickly take over the Ziwei Sect, Fang Xianyu used a maze and the Weak Water to trap many of the Ziwei Sect elders. However, these elders would not disappear in the maze, so Fang Xianyu specially transformed it into a limited-time event dungeon for players to enter and fight to the death.

It would be good if players could kill the elders, but even if they couldn't, it would still allow them to deplete the elders' energy and stockpile of various talismans and magical artifacts.

Because the elders' equipment drops are quite substantial, this limited-time event dungeon has become the most favored dungeon for veteran players and the strongest player groups in the entire game.

The first to take the plunge was the well-trained and disciplined Longshan Gang. It is said that they spent dozens of hours and died countless times before finally wearing down their opponents. They then seized two Heaven-rank spiritual artifacts, two low-rank magic weapons, and dozens of Yellow-rank magic weapons and spiritual artifacts, making almost all the players on the server green with envy!
Even in the sect's shop, you can't exchange for Heaven-rank spiritual weapons!

Once this news spread, all the high-level groups went crazy and started fighting to the death in this limited-time event dungeon. Among them, the group from the "I Love Farming" community had the lowest combat power.

"We definitely can't win by fighting alone, so our main task is to roam and harass," the retired farmer reminded his men again before leading them into the enemy territory. "Remember the sixteen-character mantra: advance when the enemy retreats, harass when the enemy camps, attack when the enemy is tired, and pursue when the enemy retreats!"

"remember!"

Although the members of the "I Love Farming" community seem carefree and some are even notorious for their misdeeds on the forum, they always respond very neatly and decisively when it comes to group dungeons. They exude a special aura, and all members stride confidently and proudly into the limited-time event dungeon.

However, other players hadn't seen these things either, and everyone suddenly got excited and was busy running dungeons.

Just now, Fang Xianyu released a new announcement:
[Official Announcement for Version 1.2.1 of *Ten Continents Chronicles*]: [Thank you very much for your support and love for the game *Ten Continents Chronicles*. We will be updating the game at the end of this month and launching the open beta! Due to limited server capacity, the first batch of open beta slots will be 10000, with a total of 200000 slots to be released gradually. Slots will be allocated through a lottery system. The new version storyline, "Dark World," will also be released at the same time. Please pay attention to in-game announcements for specific update times. Announcements will also be added to the game forums. Thank you for your support. (The actual update content is subject to change, and *Ten Continents Chronicles* reserves the right of final interpretation.)]

All the players who saw this announcement were in an uproar—

Two hundred thousand slots!?

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! Did I see that right?! The developers finally showed some generosity for once?!"

"Wake up! They're gradually opening up 20 slots, but in reality, there are only a pitiful 1 slots available at the start. How pathetic! Which game's public beta launch is this disastrous!"

Some more optimistic players argued, "But at least it's in open beta! If it's in open beta, how far is a full release from here!?"

"With a game planner as stingy as that, you'd be better off dreaming!"

"..." (End of this chapter)