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

After completing the Soul Refining Water experiment, Song Gua asked Curious Bro on the regional network.

"Hey Curious Bro, how's Libra doing? Is she alright?"

Curious Guy answers.

"He won't die."

"I just saw the Soul-Devouring Bead smoking, and I thought his soul had been scattered."

"Oh, that's because he was so angry, he was practically fuming."

"He can still get angry, so he should be fine. Experiment successful!"

In this way...

From then on, Song Gua would use the Dark Artifacts at will without any scruples.

Of course, it shouldn't be abused either.

Using Dark Artifacts for such a trivial matter is unacceptable.

Because the Soul Refining Water is not inexhaustible, it still needs to be produced by the Soul Cultivation Illusion.

The opening time of the illusion is irregular, and if the next closing time is unusually long, it could be quite troublesome.

The frequency of use of Dark Artifacts can be relaxed somewhat, which is of great significance.

As Song Gua had previously witnessed, the Dark Balance has a fusion function after it recovers to 10%.

After fusing two second-tier, S-rank talents and level 30 ordinary clones, the combat power is comparable to that of a level 40 or 50 professional with moderate equipment development.

Some clones, due to the perfect fusion of talents and skills, and the high level of their own equipment, pets, and other cultivation elements, can even approach the peak of the second job advancement.

This resulted in the bandit gang having ample high-end combat capabilities in actual combat.

If it's a combination of the Grand Slam, Four Joys, Flower Card, and Chief Suit, these S+ talents after the second job advancement can even rival third job advancement professionals!

Even more so, if they were to merge into one another, and Song Gua were to borrow strength from them, the combined power of Song Gua would result in a geometrically explosive increase in combat power.

Song Gua, who ranks among the top fifty on the Earthly Ranking, is probably considered by the world to be safe below the third level, and even if he can't win against someone above the third level, he can escape.

However, in reality, the Song Gua, with the combined power of fusion and unity, would undoubtedly kill anyone below the third level in a real fight, and anyone above the third level would be severely injured even if they survived.

He's stacked up all the armor he's wearing.

Of course, the "third job advancement or above" mentioned above refers to ordinary third job advancement professionals.

People like Wan Jianyi, Xu Jingsong, and Deng Liduo, or those in positions of power in other major forces, are so highly trained in all aspects that the word "ordinary" cannot be used to describe them.

Even between the same level, there can be huge differences between three job advancements, which become more and more obvious as you progress.

The arrival of the Soul Refining Water opened up a new chapter for the bandits.

In the days since school started, I've mostly been splitting myself up to attend school in Song Gua's place.

Song Gua, the bandit leader, was unusually diligent for a while, busy managing and following up on many projects within the organization.

The bandits have been busy with four things lately.

First, Yunshan City has a stable supply of resources, and the person in charge is Da Congming.

Da Congming rose to prominence at the Yunshan City Mental Hospital and has the best understanding of Yunshan City.

He led a group of bandits to reliably acquire resources such as minerals, equipment, skill books, and training tools for professionals both inside and outside Yunshan City, which was the safest approach.

The restricted areas surrounding Yunshan City have now become training grounds for bandits.

Bandits who haven't been assigned tasks by Song Gua and are experiencing fatigue will team up and go to Da Congming to check where forbidden creatures have recently appeared.

The restricted area is vast, but the number of creatures within it is scarce, requiring a search that teems with danger.

There is a group of bandits with professional talents related to monster tracking who are specifically responsible for finding creatures in restricted areas and reporting to Da Congming, who then compiles their reports into files.

Da Congming not only provides intelligence on the creatures in the forbidden zone, but also contacts the three major families and eight major guilds in Yunshan City to get them to send people to help fight them.

Secondly, the person in charge of the resource competition in the Jiangnan urban cluster is Brother Gui.

This is a large project that the bandits are currently undertaking and will continue for a considerable period of time.

After the second job advancement, Ghost Brother's talent allows him to control more and stronger summoned creatures simultaneously.

Classes like Ghost Brother, who are always accompanied by hordes of summoned creatures, are best suited for combat in the wild.

They raid wild bosses, steal resources, suppress monster riots, and even challenge guilds with those with escalating conflicts.

Ghost Brother is very skilled in the wild, and he is gradually showing the demeanor of a field commander.

It is a place where famous scenes of the weak defeating the strong, the few fighting against the many, surprise attacks and ambushes, and guerrilla warfare are frequently staged.

Once they got to the city, Ghost Brother couldn't keep up.

Because no city would allow him to bring so many monsters in from the wild.

Ghost Brother's combat power is related to the number of summoned creatures he controls; without summoned creatures, he will be much weaker.

Six S+ level bandits, including Dongfeng Paoge, Chief Bagua Tianci, Chief Wanwu Ge, Code Name Xia Qixing Array Master, Code Name Qiu Leiming Builder, and Code Name Dong Shuangmian Moyaoshi, are here to assist Guige.

Pao Ge is really smug now.

Whenever a guild is dissatisfied with the bandits' despicable tactic of self-destruction to seize resources and threatens to challenge them to a large-scale battle, Brother Pao always fires a missile first to teach them a lesson.

After his second transformation, Pao Ge's destructive power is now extremely terrifying, reminiscent of when Song Gua borrowed his power to bombard the Zhao family's barrier.

Pao Ge also earned a fearsome reputation here, and was called "the meat grinder hiding in the shadows" by guilds around Jiangnan City.

With the support of strong logistics professions such as Summer, Autumn, and Winter, Chief One-One and Chief Ten-Thousand can single-handedly kill key figures.

Now, the bandits have established a firm foothold in the Jiangnan urban area.

They didn't have a fixed territory; instead, they operated as guerrillas, fighting in various groups.

They come without a trace and go without a trace.

It gives people the illusion that they always appear out of nowhere, like divine soldiers descending from the sky.

The local guilds tried to ambush them, but often came up empty-handed and could never find the bandits' base of operations.

Every time we thought we had found their hideout, all we found when we got there was a speaker.

This speaker will start playing music when someone approaches; the first line is:

"Haha! I'm just afraid you might come, but you might not be able to leave!"

Immediately afterwards, the traps, formations, and explosives that had been laid in advance began to activate to the rhythm of the music.

As a result, no one dares to look for the bandits' base in the Jiangnan urban area anymore; even if they "find" it, they don't dare to go there.

Ghost Brother and his gang have participated in the competition for wild bosses in the Jiangnan city area multiple times.

As for the results, there were both wins and losses.

After all, their competitors are subordinate guilds of the Five Great Guilds Alliance, whose strength is beyond the reach of any guild in Yunshan City.

After the balance scale's fusion function was allowed to be used more freely, the number of successful contests gradually increased.

Because the bandits after the fusion often have very strange talents and skills, making them difficult for opponents to defend against.

For example, the logistics and combat systems are combined, and defensive towers are thrown directly at people. After the defensive towers land, they can still take effect and fire wildly in all directions.

This truly baffled the bandits' competitors.

The bandits here are also the most numerous. Under the leadership of Brother Gui, the second-in-command and core leader, they are fighting for new territories and higher-level resources for the bandits.

In fact, if the bandits were to go to a third-tier city to fight now, they could easily take over the local forces and make them work for them.

However, Yunshan City has enough basic professional resources.

High-level resources, such as high-quality energy crystals, simply don't exist around third-tier cities, so there's no point in occupying more third-tier cities.

Resources should be sufficient; having too many will only waste manpower to maintain them.

The Song hexagram suggests using all its clones effectively.