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

All eight of Song Gua and Ma Fei's current top cadres have made it onto the Earthly Ranking or its sub-rankings.

With the reputation gained from defeating wild bosses and clearing hellish dungeons, the bandits already have quite a bit of reputation saved up.

Song Gua first checked his reputation balance.

75022!

"Haven't I realized I've accumulated over 70,000 reputation points?"

Of those 70,000+ reputation points, half actually came from the clone.

As mentioned earlier, when a clone gains reputation, it will automatically be transferred to Song Gua's name.

Even if you remove half of the reputation of the clones, the remaining 30,000 is still terrifying.

Through dungeon speedrun rankings, dungeon rankings, dungeon treasure chests, and world bosses, Song Gua accumulated such a massive amount of reputation within a year.

If someone else saw this, they would be very surprised.

Because if you don't enter Glory City, many people will never gain this much reputation in their entire lives.

Even if you spend a month in Glory City every year, without participating in the Star Beast Competition, just relying on daily and ordinary arena ranking rewards, it would take about ten years, or even longer, to accumulate more than 30,000 points!

Upon entering the nine-story pagoda, Song Gua discovered that there was a reputation balance requirement for each floor.

For example, to enter the first level, you need at least 1000 reputation points.

What can you exchange for on the first floor?

Enhancement stones, gems, low-level potions, low-level scrolls, low-quality equipment matching one's level, low-quality skill books, etc.

These are all very basic and common professional resources.

The prices here aren't expensive either.

Enhancement stones cost 10 reputation each, gems cost 20 reputation each, and equipment costs anywhere from tens to hundreds of reputation depending on the part and quality, but the price per piece will not exceed 1000 reputation.

Going up to the second level, you need 5000 reputation points.

It's similar to the first level, except the quality is improved, and you can exchange attribute dew for it.

The unit price has increased accordingly, but it remains the same; the unit price will not exceed 5000.

The third level requires 10000 reputation points.

Some valuable items have appeared here, such as diamond drills for drilling gem holes in equipment and lucky powder that increases the success rate of enhancement.

Fourth level, 20000 reputation.

There's something good here: dragon bones!

However, it's very expensive, costing 10000 reputation points per unit.

Whether it's worth spending 10000 reputation points to increase growth from 0.01 to 0.03 is a matter of personal choice.

Generally, powerful factions will exchange some of their reputation points, as they have a lot of reputation in their public accounts. They exchange these rare items as rewards for their subordinates, which is useful for managing them.

Fifth level, 50000 reputation.

This floor also has star items, such as the Innate Lingzhi, which is used to increase skill slots and costs 20000 reputation points.

As you progress, you need more and more reputation, and the quality and scarcity of the items also increase.

Even the Heavenly and Earthly Law Card can be redeemed.

Each floor contains materials needed for the logistics department to craft items.

After wandering around the first four floors, Song Gua showed little interest in the dazzling array of exchangeable items displayed in the shop windows.

He and the bandits can even take on world bosses, and now they can farm creatures in forbidden zones. Most items can be obtained by chance; it's just a matter of luck.

Song Gua is only interested in one thing that can be bought on the first floor—experience books.

Each experience book costs 500 reputation points. If a person buys one book consecutively within a single day, the price will increase by 50% for each additional book purchased.

In other words, the second book costs 750, and the third book costs 1125.

The price will return to 500 the next day.

"I need to carefully consider the cost-effectiveness before buying this. Even if I have over 70,000 reputation points, I'm afraid I can't afford to keep buying several books every day..."

The amount of experience a skill book can provide is related to your current level.

Moreover, it is increased proportionally, so the specific amounts are not the same.

Song Gua bought a book directly and used it, which increased his Lv32 experience bar by 3%.

That's a significant improvement of 3% at this level.

Wow, that's a huge improvement! I'll take another one.

Reputation -750.

"Almost at level 33! Let's get another one."

Reputation -1125.

"Oh dear, just 0.1% short? I can't stand it, I'll get another one."

Reputation -1687.

"Thump!"

A beam of light descended from the sky, and the Song hexagram was upgraded.

There are also many other professions in the reputation shop.

Seeing a bandit level up on the spot, many people smiled knowingly.

"This bandit has definitely lost his mind."

"Just like me back then, the first time I entered the reputation shop, I bought experience books with all the reputation I had accumulated over the years, and it was all gone on the spot. It still hurts to think about it now."

"There's no way around it, the feeling of gaining experience out of thin air and getting something for nothing is just too good."

"Speaking of which, have the bandits started entering Glory City? I don't think I've seen anyone dressed like this before."

"I hope it's not cosplay. There are so many people who like to cosplay bandits these days, it's hard to tell the real from the fake."

Seeing that Song Gua was about to buy experience books again, the clones hurriedly shouted at him.

"Alright! Can't you buy it tomorrow?"

"What's the rush!"

"He's hooked! He's hooked! That old thief's hooked!"

"No wonder Brother Huo likes to throw things into the gathering core; it's the same old trick!"

Song Gua listened to the advice and stopped.

I regret it now, I really regret it.

"Based on my precise calculations, buying one experience book every day is the most cost-effective option."

Multiple clones:

"You need to calculate that?!"

Actually, Song Gua wasn't at too much of a loss.

After clearing the illusion for the second time, he gained a new ability to create clones, which allowed him and his clones to receive a 20% bonus when gaining experience.

So, after consuming those four experience books, not only did Song Gua level up, but his clones also leveled up significantly.

Song Gua summoned a clone and transferred 500 reputation points to him, instructing him to buy an experience book.

Purchase successful.

I regret it now, I really regret it.

"Okay, here's the plan."

The experience book can only be used by myself, but reputation can be traded.

So from now on, since cadres and I need to upgrade first, we will buy one experience book every day, and others will only need to provide feedback nine times.

Everyone else, from now on, prioritize completing the reputation activities in Glory City each day before doing anything else.

Daily quests in Glory City can earn you over 100 reputation points.

Once you climb up the arena rankings, you'll earn a significant amount of reputation points each day.

If you manage to capture a Star Beast, you'll gain a huge amount of reputation!

As for the Ten Clans Battlefield, I'll have to wait until I find an opportunity to enter using my primary identity; the Federation definitely won't allow bandits to enter.

With so many of us, let's see if our overall reputation has increased or decreased over the course of a year, and then adjust our experience book purchase plan accordingly.

Brothers, you've sped up our experience bar!

The clones all cried out, "Don't be like Brother Huo, secretly upgrading the Gathering Core and then running around farming experience books. We'd be lucky if you did that!"

Song Gua: "We can't rely solely on experience books; we also need to activate the leveling-up mode."

The clones said, "You should farm more experience books."