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Chapter 327 Alliance Merchant Guild
These two abilities seem to have remained largely unchanged, except that their levels have become higher.

However, after the guild was upgraded to level 3, Qin Ziwen noticed that an additional Allied Merchant Guild had appeared.

Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that this alliance merchant guild is quite unique, somewhat similar to a trading post in a game.

However, it is limited to guild members only, and is an internal "local area network" for trading.

Only members of the same guild can trade items through private listings.

Its only function is to save time in transporting supplies.

But all the homes in the community are in the same community; it's just a matter of going downstairs, crossing the community, and walking up a few flights of stairs.

"It feels a bit like a double-edged sword."

Qin Ziwen paced back and forth, then suddenly stopped.

He considered a possibility.

What if the alliance members in the guild were no longer limited to the area within the community?

Is it feasible to cross communities, or even cross maps?

If feasible, cross-regional transactions can be achieved simply by recruiting one member from another community.

Is this the true way to play in a guild?

A glint appeared in Qin Ziwen's eyes.

Verification is easy; simply recruit a member from another community to join the guild.

Suppressing his eagerness, Qin Ziwen continued to take out the function card "Node" dropped by the Mosasaurus after completing the Hunting Ladder mission.

Use cards.

[Activation Function: Level 5 Node]

[Privileges elevated, current privileges: Level 4 (8/16)]

[Level 5 Nodes: Five spatial nodes can be established outside the homestead. Nodes are two-way channels and can only be used on the current map. They cannot be changed within seven days of establishment. A new 'Node Exclusion Zone' has been added: no second node can coexist within a 10-kilometer radius of the original node. If multiple nodes already exist in the area, their permission levels will be compared first; if permissions are the same, the node level will determine which node will be retained.]

The progress on obtaining Level 4 permissions is finally more than halfway complete.

Qin Ziwen secretly estimated that if he was lucky enough, he might actually have a chance to reach Level 5 authority before the end of this map cycle.

Then there's the upgrade of the node level; there's not much to say about adding a new node.

The node cooldown time remains the same, but a new node exclusion zone function has been added.

An area of ​​ten kilometers in radius is not small, especially in the wild, this area is very large.

Furthermore, it can suppress other people's nodes. After using a node, it can temporarily prevent the enemy from using nodes nearby. Of course, the specifics still depend on the level of permissions.

The importance of permissions is becoming increasingly apparent.

Downstream from the forest, a city on a plain.

The city was filled with trees. In a room on the top floor of a three-story building in the city center, a dark blue anchor mark on the wall flickered in and out with the rhythm of breathing.

The mark slowly expanded, and a rotating blue channel appeared out of thin air.

Two figures stepped out one after the other. The one in the lead wore a fox fur cloak, his hands tucked into his sleeves, with flowing hair, thick eyebrows, a hooked nose, and a pair of shrewd, cold eyes.

Following behind was a woman in her early thirties with a yellowish complexion and a string of beads swaying gently on her forehead.

The man with thick eyebrows turned around, his tone familiar: "Sister Ya, the bone-eating trees here are growing really well. I bet this year's harvest will double, right? How about lending me some of the wood core?"

Xie Ya looked up: "What do you need the Wooden Bone Heart for? It's useless to you over there."

After a moment of silence, the thick-browed man's lips tightened slightly: "Don't laugh at me, but the giant rock dragon I left in the desert was killed, its body was completely removed, and not only that, the Soul-Eating Fungus was also wiped out!"

A hint of surprise flashed across Xie Ya's eyes: "So unlucky? So you're thinking of buying wooden cores to pay off this year's taxes?"

"Hmm." The man sighed. "I'm out of stockpiles. It's hard to gather the 'rare items' to hand over this time. Among the people I know, you're the only one who can help me with this."

Xie Ya nodded slowly: "I do have extra Wood Bone Hearts here, I can sell you some, but I remember you kept that Giant Rock Dragon in the desert of a low-intensity map, right? Those who can go into that kind of place are mostly newbies still in the 'Transformation Abyss'. A newbie can take down a Giant Rock Dragon? Are you sure it wasn't some veteran who returned to the old place and wiped it out for you?"

The thick-browed man's lips twitched. "I'm certain he's a newbie because I've been staring at that map the whole time, trying to go back every day, but it kept telling me that there was a 'Transformation Abyss' on that map and I couldn't go back. The day after I was finally able to go back, the Giant Rock Dragon was gone. I checked the battle traces around the area, and it definitely happened in the neighborhood."

The thick-browed man's cheek muscles twitched slightly: "I even used up a card to track them down, and do you know what happened?"

Xie Ya asked curiously, "What happened?"

"Just when I was about to succeed, it suddenly told me I didn't have enough permissions!"

Upon hearing this, Xie Ya was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Your permissions are insufficient? You have level four permissions, how can a newbie in a beginner map have level four permissions?"

The man with thick eyebrows let out a long breath, his tone complex and enigmatic, "Yes, that guy definitely broke through to level four access at the crucial moment."

Upon hearing this, Xie Ya's eyes flashed with a strange light, and she immediately became interested: "The Transformation Abyss within five maps is considered a novice Transformation Abyss. Even if the desert map is his fifth map, how can he break through to the fourth level of authority in just five maps? That Transformation Abyss is quite powerful. He probably maxed out the function cards in every map in the early stages."

"Hmm." The man with thick eyebrows nodded somewhat dejectedly.

Xie Ya chuckled: "No wonder you didn't pursue this further, given your personality. It seems this Tuiyuan has quite a bit of potential."

Upon hearing this, the man with thick eyebrows looked at Xie Ya. The overall quality of an initial member of a Metamorphosis Abyss largely determines the growth curve of that Metamorphosis Abyss.

Take this woman for example. She was one of the last members to join the guild, but she rose to prominence and has now surpassed many others in the guild. She has climbed her way up and is almost at the top.

The reason she was able to grow so quickly was because the members of her Tuiyuan were of very high quality. As far as he knew, she came from an ancient feudal background. Tuiyuan was a bandit stronghold in a chaotic world. Before becoming a member of Tuiyuan, the stronghold was planning an uprising, stockpiling grain, and building high walls.

In this context, crossing over into the beginner map is practically a guaranteed way to dominate.

It received high scores in both the overall evaluation and other aspects.

Then, by snowballing along, they finally achieved Level 4 access in just six maps.

It's not true that the more maps you explore, the easier it is to obtain function cards.

The further you go on the map, the more difficult the tasks on the hunting ladder become.

The environment on the map becomes increasingly dangerous, and many Abyss cultivators can only barely survive in the later stages.

However, in the face of such an opponent with unlimited potential, unless he was confident that he could completely crush him, he felt that it was better to let this matter go and stop before the situation continued to deteriorate, so as not to become a deadly feud.

Just consider yourself unlucky and suffer in silence.

(End of this chapter)