A person who fears others surpassing them, who is jealous of talent and envious of ability, is acting foolishly. Only by constantly learning from the strong can one continuously improve. Like sun releasing his PK videos back then to find opponents, constantly challenging stronger people, pursuing greater progress, he gradually became recognized as a genius.

Even a genius climbs to the top step by step.

By frequently sparring with sun, Nie Yan could also learn many skills and slowly improve.

No matter what, he had to keep sun around, but also give him room to grow, letting him follow the path he took in the previous life.

Another point was that the future sun, besides being very skilled, also possessed unparalleled popularity among thieves, a figure who commanded a massive following. With a wave of his hand, he could summon thousands upon thousands of expert thieves. One could imagine what such a thief could bring to the Niuren (Amazing People) Tribe.

The Niuren Tribe's glory required countless geniuses to create!

"Nie Yan, Boss, please accept me as your disciple. Teach me how to play a Thief," sun stammered for a long time, finally making up his mind, looking at Nie Yan with hopeful eyes. In sun's view, Nie Yan and Tang Yao were both frighteningly high-leveled, and he had witnessed their prowess outside the Blackflame Forest of Ydan Bedu, where they were practically killing enemies every ten steps. In his eyes, Nie Yan was like a god, high above and unreachable. Today, after exchanging blows, he had once again lost to Nie Yan without any suspense. Therefore, he proposed that Nie Yan become his master, to learn some skills from Nie Yan. However, he was a little apprehensive in his heart, thinking that Nie Yan probably wouldn't agree. After all, how could someone like Nie Yan pay attention to a small character like him?

Nie Yan hadn't expected sun to make such a request. The genius thief from his previous life wanted to acknowledge him as his master. Nie Yan couldn't help but feel a little guilty. The main thing was that the sun from his previous life was too dazzling and eye-catching.

"I know this is a very demanding request, but I will definitely work hard and won't disgrace the master's name, Nie Yan, Master, please take me in," sun said, looking up at Nie Yan sincerely.

From sun's eyes, Nie Yan could see a strong thirst for knowledge, a persistent belief, and a determination to face difficulties head-on. In addition to talent, geniuses also possess some excellent qualities that are difficult for ordinary people to match.

Was Nie Yan worried that sun would disgrace his name? Of course, he wasn't worried about that! Looking at the slightly immature and still somewhat childish sun in front of him, Nie Yan recalled that sun was a very sentimental person. In his previous life, when his friend was killed, he infiltrated the Fortress of the Righteous Wings Guild alone, hunted down dozens of people, and then escaped unscathed. This was also one of his glorious achievements. It was difficult to tie down a genius with benefits, but geniuses could also be bound by emotions. He could start cultivating a relationship with sun from now on. If sun really acknowledged him as his master in the future, that would be great.

Could Nie Yan be sun's master?

There was absolutely no problem in the next three years. After all, if a thief wanted to truly reach the level of a Great Thief or higher, in addition to talent, they also needed extraordinary perseverance and persistence. Even sun would need more than three years. As for future development, it would depend on individual talent. In these three years, Nie Yan would spar with more powerful experts and wouldn't stop there. Perhaps he could barely maintain a lead of five or six years. Five or six years later, if sun's talent truly reached a non-human realm and surpassed Nie Yan, then... It was normal for the student to surpass the master, wasn't it? If Nie Yan could truly comprehend the essence of Shadow Dance and continue to maintain his advantage, that would be even better.

Seeing that Nie Yan hadn't made a decision yet, sun became anxious.

"Nie Yan, Master, please take me in," sun pleaded.

"It's not impossible to take you in. Don't call me Nie Yan, Master, in the future. I'm not that much older than you. You can just call me Big Brother," Nie Yan said. It was really an amazing thing to take sun as a disciple.

sun let out a cheer. He was still a child at heart, and his overjoyed appearance made Nie Yan smile involuntarily.

"Give us the things you brought, then help me send some things back first, and ask your guild leader to put them in the guild warehouse, then come back. We'll take you to level up together," Nie Yan said. He could use this opportunity to take sun to level up and cultivate their relationship. At the same time, they also lacked someone to run between the leveling spot and the city, to help them send the equipment they obtained back and bring them some consumables from the city. Their red names were too severe, and he didn't know how long it would take to clear them, at least three or four days, Tang Yao probably five or six days.

Previously, Nie Yan had been waiting for the cooldowns of Divine Judgement and Sacrificial Strike to complete so he could do the Pickpocketing skill quest. According to the original plan, he would be able to set off as soon as the game opened tomorrow. However, he had encountered such a thing just now, using up Divine Judgement and Sacrificial Strike, so that quest could only be postponed indefinitely.

Nie Yan suddenly understood some of the principles of life. Whether you are reborn or not, no matter how well you plan the future, no matter how perfect and flawless it is, some unexpected and uncontrollable things will always happen, disrupting your plan. You can only rely on your efforts and everything you have accumulated to take each step steadily. No matter how the plan is disrupted, as long as the pace of progress and confidence remain unchanged, that's all that matters.

"Big Brother Nie Yan wants to take me to level up? Great!" Hearing Nie Yan say he would take him to level up, sun jumped up excitedly. "I'll send the things back right away."

In terms of personality, Nie Yan found it difficult to associate sun with the genius thief who commanded wind and rain in his previous life. Therefore, without realizing it, he first ignored sun's previous achievements and instead regarded sun as a half-grown child.

"This child is quite interesting." Yao Yao looked at Nie Yan. She thought Nie Yan would coldly refuse sun, but she didn't expect Nie Yan to take him in. It seemed that Nie Yan was still quite soft-hearted.

Besides the fact that sun was a genius-level thief in his previous life, the shining points in sun's personality were also one of the reasons why Nie Yan took him in. If he was the kind of person who would be ungrateful, faithless, and treacherous, no matter how talented he was, Nie Yan would tell him to get lost.

sun gathered all the equipment that Nie Yan wanted to send back into his backpack. Because he was too excited, he almost missed a few pieces when organizing the full backpack. He quickly packed them up and smiled awkwardly, then started reading the Return Scroll.

Beneath the halo of a genius, he was just a slightly reckless kid.

After sun went back, Nie Yan thought for a while. He didn't know how long it would take this time to clear the red name. According to the current situation, he wouldn't have a chance to return to the city in the next few days. The money in the Starry Night Potion Shop had already been sold for a lot, at least dozens of gold coins. If he kept it there all the time, it would be too much of a loss. Game coins would depreciate.

Nie Yan thought for a while and asked Guo Huai to withdraw some gold coins from the Starry Night Potion Shop, then go to major cities such as Moon Glory City to buy some prime real estate for the future and transfer it to his name. This way, Nie Yan wouldn't have to worry about the money in his hands becoming worthless. Buying real estate was a sure profit.

After listening to Nie Yan, Guo Huai was very surprised that he was asked to purchase real estate in other cities and asked, "Why don't you buy land in Calore City? It costs transportation fees to go back and forth to buy land in other cities! Isn't that too much of a loss?"

"Who said I didn't buy land in Calore City? Just do as I say. We will develop to other cities in the future, and having land in other cities will be much more convenient then." Nie Yan smiled slightly. He had purchased a full twenty-two pieces of land in Calore City, and at least twelve of these places would be prime real estate in the future, and the remaining ones would also be valuable. The reason why Nie Yan had so much money was largely due to his foresight. He purchased a large number of things that could appreciate in value at the auction house, and then sold them at the appropriate time, earning a lot of revenue. People outside estimated that the Starry Night Potion Shop's daily income was about 20 gold coins, but in fact, Nie Yan's income was far more than that. The specific amount would have to wait until Niao Bu Sheng Dan settled the accounts to know.

After hearing this, Guo Huai was taken aback. It turned out that Nie Yan had already purchased land in Calore City. Although he didn't know how much assets Nie Yan had, what he could be sure of was that the future Niuren Tribe, with Nie Yan's huge wealth as a backing, would have more development opportunities, and a grand plan was right in front of them.

After instructing Guo Huai, Nie Yan also instructed Niao Bu Sheng Dan that it was almost time to collect alchemists in the market, but not to recruit them on a large scale, just secretly collect some. Nie Yan also provided Niao Bu Sheng Dan with a list, which made it much easier to find the target. Although the major guilds also supported some alchemists, they didn't pay so much attention to alchemists yet, and there were not many restrictions. It would be strange if that group of alchemists could withstand the Starry Night Potion Shop's money offensive. After all, the Starry Night Potion Shop's reputation was there, and if they were promised benefits, many alchemists would be happy to jump ship.

Once enough alchemists were recruited, and the things produced by the alchemists began to be accepted by the market, he would open a shop specializing in selling alchemical items. In this way, profitability was certain, and the money earned would not be much less than the Starry Night Potion Shop.

After a while, sun ran back, panting and saying, "I'm back."

With everyone present, Nie Yan said, "Let's go, let's take advantage of the time before the game closes to do some more grinding and clear some red names."

The group traveled through one high-level map after another, heading towards the distant mountains and forests. As they went deeper and deeper into the high-level map area, sun became excited. Were they really going to a level 30 map to grind monsters? Would it be very dangerous? But this kind of dangerous stimulation was even more fascinating.

Perhaps every player who chooses the Thief class has a bit of fanaticism and dangerous factors in their personality.