Chapter 1 The Sudden Rise

Nie Yan was just about to set off when Guo Huai sent him some news. Guo Huai had just received statistics that some of the members of the Ni Ren Tribe had successfully changed classes. Those who had successfully changed classes included Sun, Shui Se Yan Tou, Xi Huan Jiang Nan, Xia Chong Yu Bing, and Yu Wang Ran Zhi Qing Chun. Among them, Sun changed to a Grand Thief, Shui Se Yan Tou to a Great Swordsman, and Xi Huan Jiang Nan and Xia Chong Yu Bing to Archmages. These four were all within Nie Yan's expectations. Who was this Yu Wang Ran Zhi Qing Chun? Nie Yan was a little surprised. He had suddenly emerged out of nowhere.

Nie Yan had never heard of him in his previous life.

"Who is this Yu Wang Ran Zhi Qing Chun?" Nie Yan asked. In such a large Ni Ren Tribe, it wasn't particularly unimaginable for one or two strong players to suddenly appear.

"I'm not too sure either. Some time ago, Shui Se Yan Tou, Cui Can Dao Guang, and the others took Yu Wang Ran Zhi Qing Chun to a few dungeons and gave him some pointers. I didn't expect that kid to have good comprehension, and his strength even surpassed some of the old members," Guo Huai said. The guild needed new people to constantly emerge from below so that the entire Ni Ren Tribe could continue to grow stronger.

This was also the butterfly effect caused by Nie Yan. Cui Can Dao Guang, Shui Se Yan Tou, Dai Tou Da Ge Qi Zai… In his previous life, these experts rarely gathered together, and no one could imagine how much energy they could unleash after they got together. They promoted each other, and their progress was much faster than in their previous lives. Just a few pointers to the people below could bring great gains to the ordinary players of the Ni Ren Tribe.

Recently, some unfamiliar faces from his previous life had also begun to attract attention, such as Wu Dao and Qi Shi De Wan Ge, etc. Yu Wang Ran Zhi Qing Chun was the most outstanding. They were unknown in their previous lives, but after having the platform of the Ni Ren Tribe, they rose rapidly, dazzlingly. Wu Dao, Qi Shi De Wan Ge, and others were also trying to change to first-tier classes.

The Ni Ren Tribe could be described as a gathering of stars. Especially these newly rising stars, which made him quite gratified.

"Do we have an agreement with Yu Wang Ran Zhi Qing Chun?" Nie Yan asked. As long as these newly emerging members were strong enough, he didn't mind giving them very generous agreement prices.

"Not yet. We're still in negotiations, but he's already nodded. He said that if it weren't for the pointers from Shui Se Yan Tou and Cui Can Dao Guang, and without the platform of the Ni Ren Tribe, he wouldn't have been able to achieve what he has now. One should be grateful for kindness, so he didn't care much about the agreement price. But according to my idea, we should give him the highest agreement price, so I came to ask for your opinion."

"According to your idea, give him the highest agreement price. Tell the brothers below that as long as they are strong enough, the Ni Ren Tribe will give them the best treatment!" Nie Yan said. Anyway, funding was not a problem, and the welfare of the guild members must be improved, especially these top-tier players, who would be the mainstay of the guild in the future. He couldn't let them feel that staying in the Ni Ren Tribe was a loss.

During this period, the Ni Ren Tribe had been fighting fiercely with Zhan Dao Shi Xue, otherwise their first-tier players would probably have exceeded a hundred long ago. But the foundation of the Ni Ren Tribe was still there, and once the situation stabilized, the number of first-tier players would quickly rise.

Nie Yan chatted with Guo Huai for a while and then hung up the voice call.

Nie Yan looked at his level, only a pathetic level forty-seven. As the president of the Ni Ren Tribe guild, it was indeed a bit embarrassing. He needed to reach level fifty as soon as possible to change to a Grand Thief. He searched his mind for a suitable leveling spot.

The Death Ripple was one of the few items that could ignore defense. Its damage was fixed and only effective against living beings. So he had to find some living monsters with low health to farm, and they had to have a lot of experience. Also, it was best if they had a slow movement speed, so he would have enough time to cast the Death Ripple skill.

Nie Yan left Kalore City and summoned the Falkner Warhorse in a hidden place. The Falkner Warhorse swept across the wilderness.

He happened to encounter a group of a hundred or so players heading to a high-level map. They were probably going to deal with a Lord-class creature, otherwise they wouldn't have mobilized so many people. This group of players was from various guilds, and most of them were solo players.

In his previous life, Nie Yan had often participated in such teams. Usually, one or two people would take the lead and hire a large group of players to help them clear the Lord. The items dropped by the Lord would belong to them, and they would pay the players gold coins or credit points.

These kinds of team activities were quite common. When he was financially strapped in his previous life, Nie Yan often participated in such teams to earn commissions. If he encountered some wealthy gold farmers, Nie Yan, at his level at the time, could often get five or six hundred credit points for participating in an activity, which was enough for him to use for a long time.

Looking at this team traveling in the wilderness, Nie Yan's thoughts seemed to return to the past.

What's past is past. Nie Yan sped away.

Looking at Nie Yan's back, this group of players caused a commotion.

"That seems to be Nie Yan, the president of the Ni Ren Tribe. I've seen a lot of his videos. It must be him. That warhorse is the Falkner Warhorse!"

"Should we chase after him? I heard that Zhan Dao Shi Xue's reward for killing him has been raised to more than eight thousand gold coins, and any piece of equipment that drops from him is worth at least several thousand gold coins."

"Killing him could get us at least ten thousand gold coins."

"There are so many of us, should we give it a try?"

"You're courting death by chasing after the president of the Ni Ren Tribe. Not to mention how the Ni Ren Tribe will deal with us, can we, a hundred people, even deal with that Nie Yan? Zhan Dao Shi Xue couldn't stop him with thousands of people. Do you think we can stop him with just these people?"

Hearing this player's words, the few people who suggested chasing Nie Yan shrank their heads. They were indeed blinded by money and forgot that the player on the other side was someone they couldn't afford to offend at all. It was one thing for them to hunt down players from the Ni Ren Tribe, after all, the Ni Ren Tribe couldn't record all their names and retaliate against them one by one. Almost all the experts in Kalore City were involved, and the Ni Ren Tribe couldn't possibly pick them all out. But if they chased after the president of the Ni Ren Tribe, then this matter would be a big deal. Did they still want to gain a foothold in Kalore City? The Ni Ren Tribe couldn't deal with all ordinary players, but it was very easy to deal with a few of them.

When they looked into the distance again, Nie Yan had already disappeared over the horizon.

Nie Yan kept running wildly towards the south of Kalore City, crossed a vast grassland, and still didn't stop. He sped for about twenty minutes, which, according to the speed of ordinary players, would take at least an hour and a half of mad sprinting.

He crossed level fifty maps, level sixty maps, and level seventy maps, and Nie Yan still didn't stop.

Various giant creatures roared past Nie Yan, and countless scenes flashed by.

While riding, Nie Yan looked at his quest status. He still had a quest to do, to find the Abak Set and go to see Earl Kelfield. This quest had to be completed within ten days. He received this quest before going to the underground world. Calculating the time, about five and a half days had passed.

He understood that as soon as he saw Earl Kelfield, he would trigger the quest storyline. He didn't know what he would encounter, so it was better to level up first to be more confident.

He also glanced at the Assassin Alliance. The Ni Ren Tribe's expenditure in the Assassin Alliance had reached a staggering 250,000 gold coins. Counting two gold coins per kill, the Assassin Alliance had killed 128,382 people.

This was an astonishing number, considering that the entire Assassin Alliance currently had only over 36,000 people.

The top few people who completed the most quests were, first place, Wang Zhe Tian Xia, with a total of 1,328 kills, and second place, Luo Nan De Qing Wa, with a total of 1,021 kills. There were also fifty or sixty others with kill counts reaching seven or eight hundred.

The two thieves had the most kills because thieves had an absolute advantage in sneak attacks and assassinations, and they retreated after killing someone.

Wang Zhe Tian Xia, Nie Yan suddenly remembered such a person. In his previous life, there were rumors that he had been a soldier and received special training. He didn't know if it was true or false, but his reputation was undoubtedly great. Wang Zhe Tian Xia had once worked for the Dark Ranger, then transferred to the Holy Light Flame, and then to the Triumph Empire. During his time in the Triumph Empire, his reputation once surpassed Sun and Ying Sha, becoming one of the Shadow Dancers. Later, for some unknown reason, he had a falling out with the Triumph Empire and left. In a fit of anger, the Triumph Empire issued a kill order for Wang Zhe Tian Xia. During the chase, Wang Zhe Tian Xia relied on his outstanding assassination skills to kill thousands of people, causing the Triumph Empire to lose face. Later, he suddenly disappeared. There were rumors that Wang Zhe Tian Xia was betrayed, and Po Tian tracked down his real-world location, and then foreign assassins appeared and killed several of Wang Zhe Tian Xia's brothers. Wang Zhe Tian Xia himself escaped.

The matter did not end there. Later, the bodies of Po Tian and another person nicknamed Ye Mao were found in their villa. There were no other wounds on their bodies, only two blood holes were left in their throats. It was identified as being pierced by a sharp weapon such as a dagger. The murderer had received special training. The police retrieved satellite data and found that the other party had used hacker methods to completely erase the satellite video in that area. The murderer was not tracked down. Many people speculated that Wang Zhe Tian Xia did it, but they had no evidence. From then on, the Triumph Empire was taken over by Po Tian's son, and Wang Zhe Tian Xia never appeared again.

This was one of the few vicious incidents that occurred after Faith was launched, and the news media had reported it extensively.

Po Tian was in the same gang as Cao Xu of the Century Consortium, so Nie Yan naturally paid attention to these news in his previous life. After Wang Zhe Tian Xia disappeared, many players regretted it very much. If he hadn't disappeared, he could have been called a legendary thief. There wouldn't just be Sun and Ying Sha, but also Wang Zhe Tian Xia. If Wang Zhe Tian Xia hadn't appeared on the Assassin Alliance's leaderboard in this life and been seen by him, he wouldn't have remembered him at all.