The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

it's dark.

The bandit headquarters.

Five or six hundred bandits sat around the second illusionary divine stele for several hours.

They would occasionally let out a strange "hehehe" laugh.

If outsiders saw this scene, they would definitely think it was a cult performing some kind of evil ritual.

"Oh... the history of this illusion is really damn interesting."

The Tianyuan World in the Cloud Mountain Fantasy Realm is a martial arts world.

Well known.

People in ancient times were more conservative.

The history recorded in this illusory divine stele begins in modern society and ends in the zombie era.

Modern people are very open-minded.

They had a really wild time in the apocalypse.

The bandits were drawn in without realizing it.

In front of the computer, Da Congming was typing away on the keyboard.

"Found it, this illusion is in Yatuo City."

A group of people took out their phones and started searching for the location of Yatuo City and related basic information.

"A second-tier city, belonging to the Huaxia Administrative Region, with an urban area three times the size of Yunshan City and a population five times that of Yunshan City, and is one of the cities in the Jiangnan urban cluster."

Jiangnan City is a first-tier metropolis, surrounded by six nearby cities, one of which is Yatuo City.

Yatuo City is located north of Yunshan City, separated from Yunshan City by two other cities.

It looks very far on the map.

It's impossible to walk over there.

The dense fog and restricted areas in the middle are not areas that Song Gua can currently traverse.

There are a few minor inconveniences if you want to take a plane.

In order to reach level 30 as soon as possible, Song Gua had previously planned to open a branch store.

This means sending clones to other cities to compete with professionals in those cities for wilderness bosses and challenge dungeons.

—Challenge dungeons will refresh periodically in the dungeon area. The first team to clear the dungeon will receive a big prize, including a large amount of experience that does not count towards experience fatigue.

Challenge dungeons also have level restrictions, but there are only three types: first job advancement, second job advancement, and third job advancement.

The first-clear reward for the challenge dungeon in the Yunshan City dungeon area has now been claimed by Song Gua.

Whenever a challenge dungeon appears, he's always the first to clear it.

The major guilds assigned people to camp out in the challenge dungeon, and Song Gua also assigned clones.

Whenever a challenge dungeon appears, he switches locations to get there, arriving faster than the big guilds that use teleportation arrays.

He could clear dungeons even faster.

This left the guild in Yunshan City with no way to express their grievances.

Fortunately, there won't be any announcements once the challenge dungeon is cleared.

Outsiders only knew that the bandits had opened the passage, but they didn't know that Song Gua was involved.

In this era, traveling to other cities is not as easy as it was in the past.

You need a "visa," or as they say here, a "city pass."

To obtain this permit, ordinary citizens need to provide some materials to the city management bureau to prove their purpose of traveling to other cities.

For large families and guilds, obtaining this license is very easy.

Just find any excuse like business negotiation or strategic cooperation.

Ordinary citizens like Song Gua would face more trouble.

The fake identities created by the clones are all ordinary citizens—most of them come from welfare homes and have no relatives.

The identity is not the problem; the problem is why I did not travel to other cities.

Tourism is not an option.

What kind of era is this? The area outside the city is full of monsters, and the city is full of tycoons. Who has the mood for tourism?

Therefore, there has been little progress on opening a branch so far.

Song Gua has been keeping an eye out for exchange student programs and visits to other places at the school, but unfortunately there haven't been any recently.

"Jiangnan City?"

Yanzu spoke up.

"What's wrong?"

"Wait a moment."

Yanzu searched on his phone.

"The Special Bureau's youth training camp is located in Jiangnan City."

"Why is the youth training camp in Yunshan City recruiting, but we're doing special training in Jiangnan City?"

"The Special Bureau is a global organization, with headquarters, first-level branches, and second-level branches in various administrative regions."

Second-level branches do not have the authority to recruit new staff independently; they are all merged with first-level branches.

Jiangnan City is like a first-level branch office. Cities within the Jiangnan urban cluster, and those surrounding it, all need to participate in recruitment efforts in Jiangnan City.

"I see, you've put in the effort."

"To go undercover, you must do your homework thoroughly."

In fact, Song Gua already knew this information; all he needed to do was recall Yan Zu's memories.

But that's so tiring. Yanzu says it's so easy.

"The Special Bureau will be selecting trainees for the youth training camp next week. As long as Yanzu can get in, our branch can open! Using Jiangnan City as a springboard, it will be much easier to go to Yatuo City, which is closer to Jiangnan City."

It wasn't difficult for Yanzu to pass the selection process.

The youth training camp was originally intended for recent graduates who had not yet entered university.

As a clone created after the World Boss battle, Yanzu started at level 24, which is already far ahead of his peers.

In addition, there's the S-rank professional Blizzard Warlock.

If Song Gua were to plunder some good equipment from Da San Yuan and Da Si Xi, Yan Zu's combat power would definitely crush his competitors.

If Yanzu can join the youth training camp, he can legitimately go to Jiangnan City, a first-tier city.

There are also six second-tier cities surrounding Jiangnan City.

Keep in mind that they were very close together, and some of them didn't even have a fog zone in between.

This means that you can walk to other cities.

This branch could open seven at once!

Even Song Gua felt there were too many.

He plans two or three, that should be enough.

After all, the bandits are all currently at level 20 or higher.

The reason why they can compete for the world boss is because of Ghost Brother's swarm attack, the ruthlessness of the bandits' self-destruction, the use of the Heavenly Law and Earthly Manipulation, and most importantly, the super-powerful burst of the Song Trigram's unity.

However, even so, Song Gua can only handle level 60 world bosses at most.

If it's beyond that level, he wouldn't want to fight even if it were given to him; the loss would be too great, and it wouldn't be worth it.

……

Yunshan City Special Bureau.

White cloths were hung all over the office building.

A blanket of white.

The battle on the highway resulted in heavy casualties for the Special Bureau.

The victims' families are currently wailing around the building, surrounded by a large crowd of onlookers, and reporters from various media outlets are broadcasting the events live.

Most of the deaths were caused by that old man.

Very few people actually died at the hands of the fake bandits.

There are even fewer real bandits, since they spend most of their time just hanging around.

In Conference Room No. 1, all the top officials of the Yunshan City Special Bureau were present, while outside the office building, grieving family members demanded an explanation from the leaders of the Special Bureau.

However, the work of the Special Bureau is classified, which puts the leaders in a difficult position.

We had no choice but to hold a meeting to discuss what to do.

"We must find that strange old man who possesses the Illusionary Divine Tablet and the Dark Artifact!"

"The matter of the Illusionary Divine Stele is of great importance, and the Federal Bureau will soon send a chief investigation team down to assist us."

"And those idiots pretending to be bandits! Do they think we're the police department? That they can fool us by dressing up as bandits?"

"What? Those hundreds of people locked up in the station right now, aren't bandits?"

"Minister Yu, are you confused? Their life force fluctuations are all 100, how could they possibly be bandits?"

"I never wear that thing! How would I know! Whether they're bandits or not, the key is who's behind them!"

Wang Miao looked at the irritable leaders, wanting to say something but holding back.