"How about it? Are you interested in coming to Excellent Era to serve?" Chen Guo, after revealing her identity as the boss, gave Sun Xiang a serious combo. After sincerely interacting with Lou Guan Ning, Chen Guo truly felt the power of the boss's identity, and she became more and more comfortable using it.

"Hmph, we'll see each other on the field," Sun Xiang said coldly, but after saying that, he thought of a good retort and quickly added, "Hopefully, we can see each other."

"You won't!" Chen Guo laughed. "I'm the boss."

Everyone laughed this time. Chen Guo also knew when to quit while she was ahead and didn't give Sun Xiang a chance to retort, leaving gracefully.

Taking the drawn groups and schedule back to Excellent Era, everyone saw that the result meant that Excellent Era and Jia Shi were in different halves of the bracket, meaning the two teams would only meet in the finals if they both made it. Unfortunately, Xuan Qi and Zhu Xian, two major professional teams, were also drawn into Excellent Era's half of the bracket. To get to the finals, they would have to win against those two teams.

"Three months later, the offline competition officially begins," Chen Guo said.

"Yeah," Ye Xiu nodded, of course, he knew that. The number of teams signing up for the Challenger League varied each year, so the number of online elimination rounds wasn't always the same. However, the offline competition always started in mid-April and lasted for a month, ending in mid-May. This was to avoid distracting players and fans from the climax of the professional league's final regular-season matches and the playoffs.

"Go home and have a good New Year, and then actively prepare for battle!" Ye Xiu announced.

The Spring Festival this year was a bit early, with Lunar New Year's Eve on January 22nd. After Chen Guo brought back the results of the draw, the people at Excellent Era began preparing to go home for the New Year. The first to leave was Mo Fan. He didn't say goodbye to anyone but chose a time when everyone was around to leave without a word, carrying his luggage in front of everyone.

"That guy, he's not coming back, is he?" Everyone discussed.

"Go take a look at his room." Wei Chen went upstairs with a cigarette in his mouth. Entering other people's rooms was no big deal for the unscrupulous Old Wei.

"Damn it, it's locked. Do you have a spare key?" Wei Chen shouted after a moment.

"Forget it!" Chen Guo said. Of course, there was a spare key. But if she gave it to him, wouldn't she be helping Wei Chen's lack of restraint?

"He'll take the key with him, so he'll probably come back, right?" Tang Rou said.

"What if that bastard locks the key inside?" Wei Chen said.

"I'm going, the key's locked in the room again. Boss, lend me the window to climb through..." Baozi shouted at the top of his lungs.

"He's not Baozi..." Tang Rou calmly replied to Wei Chen.

"Alright!" Wei Chen agreed.

Ye Xiu also thought that Mo Fan would return. Although this guy had never said anything, that was just his personality. However, Ye Xiu felt that the current situation was a bit of a dead end.

Ever since he brought this guy in, Ye Xiu had adopted a laissez-faire attitude, letting him do whatever he wanted. But in fact, he had never stopped paying attention to him. It could even be said that he paid the most attention to him.

Ye Xiu had been watching Mo Fan's changes.

This guy had been secretly following the Glory Professional League, pioneering various dungeons after the new version, and had also begun to get used to playing with the team. After all, Mo Fan had a solid foundation. Once he had this sense of cooperation, his progress was quite fast. In Ye Xiu's opinion, pve content like dungeons couldn't bring out Mo Fan's true energy. pvp was what this guy was better at. But so far, there hadn't been a chance to try.

And this kind of attempt also needed a natural situation. Persuade him? Beg him? With this guy's personality, it would probably backfire. Wait for him to ask himself? It seemed unlikely that this guy, who was so withdrawn and indifferent, would take the initiative to speak. This was the dead end that Ye Xiu was aware of and needed to find a way out of.

The others, on the other hand, made Ye Xiu much less worried. Everyone was completing their training content every day as scheduled, and the place to test their skills was still the game. Either joining guilds to fight for Bosses, or battling various opponents in the arena, improving their skills, and accumulating experience. Leaps and bounds of progress would no longer happen to anyone who was no longer a part of Excellent Era, because they were no longer rookies. The following progress relied on this accumulation of bits and pieces, a steady rise.

In the game, the newly released level 75 wild Bosses in the Heavenly Domain were gradually being hunted as players' equipment levels improved. And it wasn't just the materials that were wanted. The level 75 Orange equipment dropped by these Bosses was also particularly valuable now. It had been more than a month since the new version was updated, and there was still no level 75 Silver weapon in the professional circle. The technical departments of the major teams were still actively researching the new level 75 materials. This obviously increased the pressure on the guild departments of each team. If the technical department wanted to research materials, then the guild department had to get the materials for them. Dungeon-level materials had a stable output due to the player base, but wild Boss materials were always a major problem.

To take the lead in Silver weapon development, you had to take the lead in snatching Bosses, and the battle in the Heavenly Domain was endless. The level 75 Bosses had to be snatched, and the level 70, level 65, and so on couldn't be relaxed either! Upgrading to a new stage meant a large consumption of materials. In addition to the new materials, the old transition materials also had to keep up.

Although Excellent Era was a small sparrow, it still had the ambition of a swan, and would actively fight for any Boss.

Six new level 75 maps had been added, with a total of eight new level 75 wild Bosses. The total number of wild Bosses reached 82, averaging 11 Bosses refreshed every day, one refreshed every two hours. The intensity of the work of snatching Bosses became more and more powerful. The major guilds were adding teams, and the elite first, second, and third teams were all thrown into the front line, looking for and killing Bosses all over the world. It was said that the major clubs were also increasing the salaries and bonuses of the guild department personnel at this critical time to stimulate everyone not to slack off.

Excellent Era didn't yet have a professional guild department, so it didn't have these conditions. Thus, the long-term planning of Excellent Era and several guilds working together was revealed. The resources that Excellent Era didn't have, they all had. From the core of the initial alliance to the gradual shift of Ye Xiu's focus, Excellent Era was becoming more and more like a freeloader in this cooperation. However, the guilds that had tasted the sweetness of cooperation wouldn't easily cause any disharmony at this time. Because everyone understood one thing, without joining forces, they would basically be spectators in the Boss battles, given their level. In addition, the guilds that Ye Xiu had scouted at that time all had mid-tier team backgrounds, not too high and not too low, belonging to the most stress-free group, and wouldn't compete with each other like the powerhouses, so the time they could work together would naturally be longer.

On Excellent Era's side, finding Wu Chen to come over was to have him manage the guild. When this alliance couldn't be maintained, Excellent Era would have its own guild department, and continued operation wouldn't be a problem.

Constantly fighting for Bosses, Excellent Era's various materials were accumulating little by little. Because there was no development of Silver equipment for the time being, there was no consumption of materials, and they were accumulating more and more.

Ye Xiu and Wei Chen hadn't finished sorting out the materials yet. Some of the sorted ones had already been handed over to Luo Ji. Luo Ji wasn't flustered at all when he saw such a huge and complicated amount of materials. A sentence of "This makes it easier" showed his composure and calmness. In his area of expertise, Luo Ji also had boundless confidence.

January 20th, the first Monday of the new week.

The relatively simple, yet lively Excellent Era "training base" was empty. However, Ye Xiu, Chen Guo, and Su Mucheng were gathered together again at Excellent Era Internet Cafe.

"Aren't you going home?" Chen Guo saw that Ye Xiu had no intention of leaving.

"Oh, you saw my little brother's QQ signature?" Ye Xiu said.

"What?" Chen Guo wondered.

"His QQ signature, he just changed it today," Ye Xiu said.

"How would I know!" Chen Guo rolled her eyes. This was purely coincidental, okay?

However, for Chen Guo, it was an extremely happy thing to suddenly have two more people around to celebrate the New Year with. She had spent so many Lunar New Year's Eves alone that she couldn't remember. She only remembered that one year she was so lonely that she was a little scared, so she let in many children who had run out with their New Year's money to play at the Internet cafe.

Although she didn't charge these children a penny in the end, according to the Internet cafe management regulations, whether or not there was a fee wasn't the key. Accepting so many minors at once was enough to revoke Excellent Era's business license.

It was so much better now, and there was no need to take such risks again. It was just that this Lunar New Year's Eve seemed no different from usual? Why were they still playing Glory?

Chen Guo thought about it and felt a little upset, so she got up.

"What are you doing, boss?" Ye Xiu noticed Chen Guo's actions.

"Watching the Spring Festival Gala," Chen Guo said.

"Do you need to use a projector to watch the Spring Festival Gala? Isn't that a bit exaggerated?" Ye Xiu called out.

"I can see it clearly," Chen Guo said.

"It's scary clear!" Looking at a close-up on the projection screen, with nostrils the size of heads, Ye Xiu was startled.

"Playing while watching," Chen Guo said as she sat back in her seat. With the Spring Festival Gala, it seemed like the atmosphere of the New Year suddenly appeared.

"How much have you done?" The projector was playing the Spring Festival Gala, but Chen Guo habitually looked at Ye Xiu's screen.

"82%," Ye Xiu said calmly.

"How is it so fast!" Chen Guo said angrily. They were also doing the Spring Festival event quests, but when Ye Xiu had reached 82% of the progress, she had only done 31%.

"Do I need to say why?" Ye Xiu said.

Chen Guo was angry.

"Haha, I finished it." Su Mucheng suddenly cheered on the other side.

"No way, how did you do it? Let me see, you cheated!" Ye Xiu was extremely surprised.

"Hahahaha, Mucheng is still the best!" Chen Guo was happy. Su Mucheng exceeded her progress by 69%, but she didn't mind at all. On the contrary, her anger disappeared, because Su Mucheng completed it 18% faster than Ye Xiu.

"How did you do it?" Ye Xiu always had an untiring spirit of research when it came to Glory.

"It's here, you can do it like this," Su Mucheng explained. Chen Guo understood a little, but she also leaned in to listen.

No matter how big the Spring Festival Gala was, it seemed that no one was watching...