A player, no matter how strong, could not compete with a guild. Feng Ming was a good example of this.

That was why Nie Yan chose to create a guild instead of fighting alone.

Nie Yan sacrificed a lot of time to get Nirvana Flame on the right track. Nirvana Flame was his backing to fight against the Century Financial Group. At least now, he wasn't fighting alone.

Even if someone like Feng Ming couldn't be recruited, he could still be put to good use to fight against Angel Corps. He was a top-notch genius, definitely in the top five most amazing people in the entire game.

He would start collecting information on Feng Ming now, so he would be mentally prepared when he contacted him in the future.

Nie Yan returned to Calore City. While remotely directing Nirvana Flame, he prepared some consumables and continued to level up. He casually browsed the Assassin Union's homepage. The task he had posted to collect magic crystals and radiant crystals had been mostly completed by the players. He had already obtained sixteen magic crystals and twenty radiant crystals.

He needed twenty magic crystals, thirty radiant crystals, two life crystals, and one strength crystal to hatch the Darkwing Dragon.

Currently, there was no way to find the life crystals, so he would wait a while longer.

The Assassin Union was growing in scale. The number of professional players participating in the Assassin Union had reached more than 50,000, generating huge profits every day. Nie Yan's daily income from the Assassin Union was about 60,000 gold coins. This powerful money-making machine was operating rapidly.

As the number of professional players increased, the customer base was also gradually increasing. Some heavyweight figures appeared, which surprised Nie Yan. There were already seven marquises in the customer base, and their consumption in the Assassin Union had reached more than 500,000 gold coins.

Many people spent so much gold just to have top-level professional players level them up or take them through dungeons. These people were definitely very influential in reality.

Nie Yan had an idea. He should find a time to hold a gathering and let his father get in touch with them. This would be of great significance to the Tianxia Group.

Looking at the Assassin Union's professional player rankings, there were many top-level players. Familiar names came into view. The top dozens of people were all well-known figures in his previous life. They were professional players and would not be involved in the gang fights between financial groups. There was no way to recruit them into the guild, but if there was anything he needed them to do, he could post a task in the Assassin Union and set up enough rewards. They could still work for Nirvana Flame.

Nie Yan took a large stack of Death Ripple scrolls and shrapnel magic bombs to the wilderness to level up. After spending about two days in the Lizard area, he finally reached level 80. When he returned to the city, he threw all the equipment he had obtained into the guild warehouse. Then, together with Tang Yao, he continued to hunt for treasure chests. This time, the harvest was obviously much less than last time, but it was still quite rich.

After sorting out everything he had harvested, Nie Yan went to get all the enchanted javelins and put them in his backpack. Then, he took the javelin launcher and prepared to set off.

Nie Yan walked along the street towards the teleportation array. A red stone wall on the side of the street attracted his attention. He paused slightly and remembered that this stone wall had some background. It was the Echo Wall, famous in history. Any sentence spoken to the stone wall would be reflected back.

Next to the Echo Wall stood an NPC named Klaymi, a wise man. He would give players five allusions. As long as they could name the legendary items in those allusions, it would count as guessing one riddle. As long as they guessed any three of them, they could start Klaymi's quest to collect magic rune stones.

Magic rune stones were relatively common items. They could be found in various maps. When embedded in weapons, they could add some additional attributes to the weapons, similar to gems. However, magic rune stones were only effective on weapons. There were seven types of magic rune stones, each carrying one of the seven attributes: fire, ice, lightning, water, earth, light, and darkness, adding bonus damage of that attribute.

Collecting seven different magic rune stones was considered a set. Players could go to Klaymi to receive a certain amount of experience points, and they might also randomly get a piece of equipment. The experience points received could probably allow an level 80 player to level up by about 1%.

Before this quest was triggered by players in his previous life, magic rune stones were very cheap. After this quest became popular, more and more people collected magic rune stones, and magic rune stones became extremely valuable and were scavenged by players.

At that time, Nie Yan would sell any rune stone he found at the trading hall. There were many players there collecting these things. By collecting a set, they could exchange for a lot of experience. Collecting magic rune stones was a game only the rich could afford, and Nie Yan couldn't participate. However, the opening of the magic rune stone collection quest in Conviction provided a large source of income for players like Nie Yan.

This quest had already been announced to the public, but no player had guessed the answers to those five riddles yet, so players hadn't started buying magic rune stones on a large scale.

Nie Yan couldn't afford to play in his previous life, but in this life, he would definitely participate. What if he had to invest some money?

Nie Yan walked towards the stone wall and found Klaymi, an old man in a dark red robe, standing beside the wall, thinking deeply.

Nie Yan went up and triggered the quest. This quest only had one chance. If he answered incorrectly, he wouldn't be able to trigger it again.

"Gloomy Sanction, Bloody Knight, Scorching Sun's Judgment, Guidance of Fate, Eternal Law. Young man, do you know what they each represent?" Klaymi raised his triangular eyes, looked at Nie Yan, and asked.

This was a famous riddle. After about two or three weeks, a player guessed that the last one, Eternal Law, might be the Chapter of Order. After another period of time, some people guessed several of the answers. After many players guessed the answers, they didn't spread the answers to the riddles, but instead quickly collected magic rune stones. However, there was no airtight wall in the world. After about three months, the answers to this riddle were made public. Magic rune stones began to be ridiculously expensive, and one or two scarce varieties, including fire and light, were sold for more than a thousand gold coins.

If he bought magic rune stones now, 50 or 60 gold coins each would be enough.

"Respected Mr. Klaymi, Gloomy Sanction refers to the Chapter of Chaos, Bloody Knight refers to the Sword of Modigliani, Scorching Sun's Judgment refers to the Uvik Staff of Flame, Guidance of Fate refers to Pandora's Box, and Eternal Law refers to the Chapter of Order," Nie Yan said slowly. He already knew all these answers. What surprised him a little was that among these five items, Pandora's Box was in his hands, and as for the Chapter of Order, he had synthesized one of the volumes. He had a bit of a connection with this quest.

"Mr. Nie Yan, you are the first person who can guess these five items at the same time. I need some magic rune stones here. Can you help me find them?" Klaymi said.

"Mr. Klaymi, I am willing to serve you." Nie Yan nodded. Klaymi finally issued the quest. Soon, he received a system prompt.

Quest progress: Find magic rune stones for Mr. Klaymi. A set of seven different magic rune stones is required to submit the quest. The quest has no time limit.

"Your journey will begin from this moment. Go find your destiny, Mr. Nie Yan. You are a wise man." Klaymi smiled.

Nie Yan looked at the quest progress. It was indeed this quest, exactly the same as in his previous life. He thought that guessing all five at the same time would give an extra reward, but Klaymi's calm reaction disappointed him a bit. However, getting this quest was considered a successful completion, so he sent a message to Guo Huai, preparing to use as little cost as possible to buy magic rune stones on a large scale.

Regarding the purchase of magic rune stones, Nie Yan used a small trick. Currently, the price of a magic rune stone was about 50 or 60 gold coins, and the good ones were more than 100 gold coins. However, not many people used this thing, as it wasn't as cost-effective as gems. The market still had a lot of magic rune stones, so Nie Yan asked Guo Huai to send people to continuously advertise in various street markets, selling magic rune stones in large quantities for 30 gold coins each, with a minimum purchase of twenty.

Ordinary players wouldn't buy magic rune stones on a large scale. Seeing the price of magic rune stones drop so much, they would definitely find it very strange. Could it be that magic rune stones had become common goods? If anyone really contacted them to buy magic rune stones, they would reply that they had just sold out.

Guo Huai had these men call out 30 gold coins on the first day, 25 gold coins on the second day, and 20 gold coins on the third day, creating the illusion that magic rune stones were about to become common goods and were undergoing a crazy price reduction. They would then take out the magic rune stones in their warehouses and sell them at low prices. Nirvana Flame secretly bought a large number of magic rune stones. Using this method, they could save money and buy more magic rune stones, which could be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"This method is not bad. Not only magic rune stones, but we can also do something with other things, such as gems." Guo Huai said, first using illusions to make the price of gems on the market drop sharply, and then buying them in large quantities. When the number of gems on the market decreased and demand became tight, and the price rose again, then they would sell them in large quantities, earning the difference.

"It's okay to do it once or twice, but if you do it too many times, not many players will believe it," Nie Yan said. Players weren't fools. If the same thing happened more than twice, it would definitely be seen through.

"Even if it's seen through, it doesn't matter. Anyway, we've made money, and it's impossible to lose." Guo Huai smiled.

"You can handle this matter."

Guo Huai went to work, first raising funds, and then arranging the work. This matter must be done very carefully and confidentially.

I'm coughing like half my life is gone. I need to save my old life first.