“It's good to have resolve… but this goal is indeed a bit unrealistic.” After being surprised by Chen Guo's determination, Ye Xiu calmly and honestly said.

“Hmph, of course I know that. I’m just saying that I want to use this as my goal,” Chen Guo said.

“Work hard!” Ye Xiu said.

“Hey! You… you’re going to make a comeback, right?” Chen Guo asked.

Ye Xiu nodded.

“When you make your comeback, you won’t return to Excellent Era, right?” Chen Guo said.

“That’s probably unlikely,” Ye Xiu said with a wry smile.

“How about forming your own team?” Chen Guo suddenly said.

“That’s not a bad idea,” Ye Xiu said, smiling.

“You’ve been planning this for a while?” Chen Guo asked.

“I’ve been thinking about it,” Ye Xiu said.

“If you’re aiming to participate in the Pro League by building a team, the investment will be quite considerable!” Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu nodded.

“Manpower, registration fees for the Alliance, a stadium…” Chen Guo counted on her fingers.

“Oh, you know quite a bit?” Ye Xiu said.

“I’ve been thinking about it,” Chen Guo repeated Ye Xiu’s earlier words.

“Was that since yesterday or the day before?” Ye Xiu sharply saw through Chen Guo.

Chen Guo had obviously learned of Ye Xiu’s identity during the All-Star Weekend, which was why she had had this series of thoughts. What she was saying so expertly now was probably information she had gathered and researched in the last couple of days.

“What, can’t I?” Chen Guo wasn’t embarrassed at being seen through.

“Aren’t you acting on impulse?” Ye Xiu said.

“Of course not,” Chen Guo said. “I’ve thought it over carefully. There’s almost a year before you can make a comeback. We can prepare properly.”

“This will make you gamble with your assets,” Ye Xiu said. Chen Guo’s assets were nothing more than this Happy Internet Cafe. Ye Xiu had been working for a while, so he had a rough idea of the Internet Cafe’s income. He had been in the scene for so many years, so he knew how much it would cost to run a team. It was definitely not something that could be solved with Chen Guo’s Internet Cafe income. The initial investment would definitely require Chen Guo to use her savings. As for how much wealth the owner actually had, Ye Xiu had no idea.

“You don’t need to worry about that! I’m now appointing you as the captain as the boss,” Chen Guo said, holding her head high.

“What? Does that mean it’s established?” Ye Xiu asked in surprise.

“Yeah, this historic moment must be recorded. Come, smile,” Chen Guo suddenly took out her phone.

“Hey…” Before Ye Xiu could say anything, Chen Guo quickly leaned in, and Tang Rou also poked her head over. The phone flashed, and a group photo like a sticker picture was completed.

“Don’t worry, it won’t be leaked,” Chen Guo said with a smile, carefully saving the photo. Ye Xiu turned his head and looked at Tang Rou, who had also suddenly entered the picture.

“Captain,” Tang Rou saluted Ye Xiu.

“When did you two plot this together?” Ye Xiu was speechless.

“You don’t need to worry about that,” Chen Guo said. “In short, the team has now been established, and the initial members are the three of us.”

Ye Xiu looked at the two of them, and after a long while, his gaze focused on Chen Guo. “You can be the boss… As for the players, cough…”

“Can’t I just make up the numbers first!” Chen Guo was angry. Ye Xiu’s meaning was, of course, that her strength wasn’t up to standard if she was a player. Chen Guo was well aware of this, and at her age, there was really no room for improvement. For the team, she could only be an operator. As for being a player, it was at most just a symbolic title to comfort her.

“Alright, now that the team has been established, the first thing you two need to do is level up quickly, then meet me in the Heavenly Domain. I’ll set up a guild there and wait for you. Our development will start with the guild,” Chen Guo solemnly gave the order.

“Can I ask what the team’s name is?” Ye Xiu asked.

“Of course, it’s Happy,” Chen Guo replied without thinking.

Ye Xiu said nothing and turned back to continue playing the game.

“Do you have any objections?” Chen Guo asked.

“No, I’m just asking,” Ye Xiu said. He really didn’t care about the name at all. Chen Guo’s decisive appearance of establishing a team looked like she was serious, but it also felt so casual and rash. Ye Xiu didn’t ask too much, and decided to observe for a while. Anyway, there was nothing substantial to do right now. He’d see if this Big Boss Chen was just having a three-minute burst of enthusiasm!

After they chatted, Chen Guo’s friends in the game also reacted.

In the end, that Ye Qiu fan quit the Excellent Dynasty guild with Chen Guo. The other friends just laughed and glossed over it.

Of course, Chen Guo wouldn’t force the others. She was already very happy that one person believed her. She immediately introduced this best friend to Ye Xiu.

“Lin Shanshui, Battle Mage, good technique, only slightly worse than me,” Chen Guo said.

“Only slightly worse than you…” Ye Xiu muttered. “This tone doesn’t suit you!”

In the past, Chen Guo would never have tolerated such contempt. But now she had to endure it because she finally knew who this person was. Her skills being despised by such a god was only a fact.

So Chen Guo took a deep breath and pretended not to hear. She continued, “If it’s just the two of us right now, we can’t establish a guild. We need to grab some more people.”

“Yeah,” Ye Xiu nodded. It wasn’t easy to establish a guild in the Heavenly Domain. First of all, there were no newbies here. Those who could enter the Heavenly Domain were all experienced players with a certain level of skill and strength. Secondly, the Heavenly Domain was where players who had transitioned from the normal servers went. If they wanted to join a guild, they would have already joined one in the normal servers. When they arrived in the Heavenly Domain, they would directly transfer to the associated guild. It was difficult to gather manpower in the Heavenly Domain. And guilds built in the normal servers couldn’t be directly brought into the Heavenly Domain.

The general process of establishing a guild was to first build a guild in the normal servers, and then, when everyone reached level 70 and entered the Heavenly Domain, rebuild the guild in the Heavenly Domain. Then, the two guilds would be associated with each other. After the association was set up, players from that guild would be directly assigned to the same guild when they entered the Heavenly Domain from the normal servers.

To directly build a guild in the Heavenly Domain, one had to have a certain amount of influence or use money to砸 (za, throw/砸钱, za qian - spend money). As for influence, Chen Guo could be considered to have some. She was a figure of authority in her circle of friends. But the problem was that they all happened to be in the Excellent Dynasty guild. The Excellent Dynasty guild with Excellent Era’s background had much more influence than Chen Guo’s individual influence. Famous pro characters like One Autumn Leaf and Dancing Rain were all under the name of the Excellent Dynasty guild in the Heavenly Domain. The entire Excellent Era team’s characters could be found in the guild’s member list.

As for the method of spending money, that was a bottomless pit. Moreover, the people gathered by that method would only work for benefits. Chen Guo didn’t want to use that method.

“Hey, can I borrow your name?” Chen Guo asked Ye Xiu.

“It also depends on whether others believe it!” Ye Xiu said.

“That’s true,” Chen Guo said, considering. She had no influence, but Ye Xiu was different! If she used Ye Qiu’s name to start things off, it would be easy to establish a guild. The problem was how to get people to believe it. Over the years, there had been so many scams in Glory that used this method of借鸡下蛋 (jie ji xia dan, lit. borrowing a chicken to lay eggs, fig. using other people's resources to achieve one's own goals) to establish guilds that players were numb to it. If she said now that her guild was built by a certain pro player, she wouldn’t attract interest, but a group of beatings.

Chen Guo thought long and hard, but couldn’t come up with any ideas. Don’t mention her being a spokesperson, even if Ye Xiu himself went out to shout, he would definitely be met with suspicion and contempt. This was already an inherent environment in Glory.

“Going back to the normal servers and building one is really a bit troublesome. The old servers have few new players,” Chen Guo sighed. Her Chasing Haze was from the fifth server, an old server that had been around for many years. Now, the tenth server had just opened, and new players who chose the old servers would definitely have friends or some special reason. In short, they wouldn’t be real newbies.

“Oh! I’ve got it! You can build a guild in the tenth server!” Chen Guo suddenly said.

“I’ll build one?” Ye Xiu was stunned.

“Yeah, it shouldn’t be difficult to build a guild in the new server!” Chen Guo said.

“It’s indeed not difficult…” Ye Xiu said, looking at his character. Lord Grim, with this character’s reputation in the tenth server, building a guild would not only be easy, but his appeal could be said to be unparalleled. There were many super immature newbies in this new server. People like Tang Rou, who had just come into contact with Glory, didn’t care about the Big Three guilds or the professional backgrounds of the guilds at all. They only knew that Lord Grim was the best person in the tenth server, no exceptions.

“Hurry, hurry, go build it,” Chen Guo urged.

“Yeah,” Ye Xiu nodded. If they wanted to form their own team and develop it in the long term, they would definitely need a guild as a foundation in the online game. At this time, if he formed a guild, he could抢风头 (qiang feng tou, steal the spotlight) and grab resources in the new server, which would be considered the first shot in their future development.

So, very decisively, Ye Xiu sent out a message in the world channel that he wanted to establish a guild, to see everyone’s reaction first.

After being silent for many days after the Christmas event, Lord Grim, who hadn’t been in the limelight, suddenly threw out such a blockbuster again. The world channel immediately entered a stage of frenzied refreshing. The message that Ye Xiu had just sent was instantly swept away, but at least the topic in the world channel continued to help him announce it.

On the friend list, messages started flashing even more.

It was Monday afternoon, and there weren’t many people in the game. The ones online in the friend list were mostly the guys from the big guilds. At this time, they were sending messages, undoubtedly to probe for something.

For the major guilds, Lord Grim establishing a guild was definitely not good news.