Chapter 1 Meeting

Azure Chamber of Commerce Headquarters, Conference Room.

The guild elders of the Azure Chamber of Commerce, who normally found it difficult to gather together, were now assembled in the magnificent top-floor conference room, a rare occurrence. However, each of them wore an impatient expression.

"Xiang Long, what's so important that you're rushing us here? You know we're extremely busy right now. All the major superpowers are frantically increasing the progress of unlocking their Mana Bodies. If we fall behind, it will be very troublesome later on," a delicate woman in a snow-white robe said, looking at Pang Xianglong with considerable dissatisfaction.

"That's right. If it's not a big deal, you'll have to compensate us for this loss," a burly, muscular middle-aged man with red eyes, whose skin faintly shimmered with magic patterns, nodded in agreement. He showed no trace of politeness towards Pang Xianglong, the number one expert of the Pang family.

Pang Xianglong, surprisingly, showed no anger or resentment in response to the woman's and man's dissatisfied questioning.

This was because these two were not only elders of the Azure Chamber of Commerce but also monsters second only to Zui Yan in terms of strength. They were known as the Azure Three Oddities and were more powerful than Pang Xianglong in combat. They were the leading representatives of the non-family members.

"Why hasn't Xiao Ying come?" Pang Xianglong glanced at the empty seat beside the two and asked unhurriedly.

"You know him. Unless there's a guild war or a life-or-death battle for the guild, that leveling maniac doesn't care about anything," the muscular red-eyed middle-aged man said, pursing his lips. "Forget about that. Why are you rushing us guild elders here?"

"Alright, the arrival of 80% of the elders present is enough to make a decision," Pang Xianglong sighed. The Azure Three Oddities were all incredibly powerful, second only to Zui Yan, but they were also free and undisciplined. Even he, the family representative who outwardly led the Azure Chamber of Commerce, could only hope they would listen.

"Pang the Madman, what exactly happened? What made you issue an Elder Mobilization Order? Could it be that something went wrong with Miao Wuyin and the Sword of Violet?" Duan Hanshan looked at Pang Xianglong and couldn't help but smile.

They already knew that Shi Feng had taken Miao Wuyin directly to the headquarters of the Sword of Violet to discuss resolving the issues between the Pang family and the Sword of Violet.

However, in his opinion, this matter would not be easy to handle. After all, it concerned the face of the Zeus Financial Group. If the Pang family took the lead in disobeying, then other forces under the Zeus Financial Group might pay even less attention to the Zeus Financial Group. Therefore, the Zeus Financial Group had been holding on tightly to this small matter.

With Zero Wing's power in the Western Continent, the Sword of Violet would probably not give them any face. It was entirely possible that they would directly attack the Pang family and Zero Wing.

"Ice Old Devil, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. The matter concerning Wuyin has already been resolved," Pang Xianglong glanced at Duan Hanshan and smiled slightly. "Moreover, the matter I want to discuss this time is a great opportunity, one that could even affect the future development of our Azure Chamber of Commerce."

"Affect the future development of our Azure Chamber of Commerce? Pang Wushang went to the Sword of Violet earlier. Could it be that we have some kind of collaboration with the Sword of Violet in an ancient secret realm?" the delicate woman in white robes couldn't help but ask.

If there was anything that could affect the future of the Azure Chamber of Commerce, it would be in the area of training experts.

According to the information they had received, the Sword of Violet had discovered an ancient training secret realm. If the younger generation could train inside, they would definitely receive a tremendous boost.

"You're half right," Pang Xianglong said with a smile.

"Half right? So we're not collaborating with the Sword of Violet?" Duan Hanshan asked in surprise.

"That's right. I'm collaborating with Zero Wing," Pang Xianglong nodded. "Zero Wing is willing to give us forty training slots in that ancient secret realm, but they require us to provide complete inheritance data for the Vacuum Realm."

"That Hei Yan is crazy. That's the foundation of a guild! A mere forty training slots? Only a fool would cooperate with that. Or are you, Pang the Madman, really crazy?" Duan Hanshan said coldly.

He was joking. The inheritance data of the Vacuum Realm was something that the Azure Chamber of Commerce had accumulated over many years. To hand it over for just the sake of training in an ancient secret realm was a pipe dream.

With this data, even an ordinary force could become another superpower within a few short years or a decade. The reason why the various guilds could not become superpowers was that they simply could not compete with them in training experts. With this data, as long as they had money and enough time, they could easily become a superpower and cause trouble for themselves. Therefore, the various first-rate and super guilds never sold any data to the outside world.

The reason why there were so many superpowers in God's Domain now was entirely due to the actions of those large financial groups, who bought some here and some there and temporarily pieced together the inheritance data of the Vacuum Realm. Compared to the data of these old guilds, it was far inferior.

"Xiang Long, if you've gathered us here just for this, then I think the representative of your Pang family should be replaced," the red-eyed middle-aged man said coldly and without any courtesy.

At this moment, not only the red-eyed middle-aged man but the entire atmosphere of the conference room had dropped to freezing point. Everyone was looking at Pang Xianglong with a hint of coldness in their eyes.

The Azure Chamber of Commerce did not belong to a single family. Instead, it was led by five major families and built by a large number of non-family elders, one sword and spear at a time. If someone dared to betray the interests of the guild, it would absolutely not be allowed.

"I know," Pang Xianglong said with a smile, not at all surprised by the attitude of the people in the hall. "But what I'm about to say is the main point."

"What main point? Could it be that Zero Wing can train a bunch of monsters?" the delicate woman in white robes said disdainfully.

Everyone present agreed. A mere forty training slots would at most allow the younger generation to improve to some extent. At best, it would produce one or two monsters who had mastered the Domain. This was nothing to the Azure Chamber of Commerce. After all, they already had some monsters in the Azure Chamber of Commerce, and they could also train them themselves.

"Die Ling, you're actually right," Pang Xianglong nodded to the delicate woman in white robes. "Zero Wing's Hei Yan said that he can help our Azure Chamber of Commerce train three monsters whose Mana Bodies can break through the 100% limit, and even promised to let these three unlock their Mana Bodies within a single day."

"Breaking through the 100% limit of the Mana Body, isn't that something only that little girl from Zero Wing can do?" Duan Hanshan was shocked.

Anyone who had watched Zi Yan Liuyun's terrifying combat power knew how powerful she was. Even a legendary figure like Zui Yan was no match for her. She was definitely a superhuman being.

In the eyes of ordinary players, reaching 100% Mana Body only required time. However, anyone who had unlocked their Mana Body knew that the closer they got to 100%, the more perfect their mana circulation felt. Reaching 100% should be the perfect state, with no room for improvement. Someone like Zi Yan Liuyun, who could break through the 100% limit, was definitely a uniquely talented genius.

How could such a superhuman being be trained casually?

"I heard that little girl Zi Yan say that it seems it's not just her who can do it. There are even stronger people in Zero Wing than her," Zui Yan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said. "From the looks of her, she doesn't seem to be lying. There should be monsters in Zero Wing whose Mana Bodies have broken through the 100% limit."

As Zui Yan spoke, the entire venue fell into complete silence.

Were these people from Zero Wing even human?

In everyone's opinion, it was already amazing enough that Zero Wing had a monster like Zi Yan Liuyun. But such a monster should be one in ten thousand, which they could somewhat accept. But now they were being told that there were more monsters like that in Zero Wing. How could they dare to believe it?

But since Zui Yan had said it, they had no choice but to believe it.

"That's why I invited everyone here. I don't know what you all plan to do? Agree or disagree?" Pang Xianglong glanced at the silent crowd and couldn't help but ask.