Chapter Seventy-Five: The Fallen Camphor Tree (2)

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[Lu An'an]: "There are too many restrictions in joining a guild. I just want to be a merchant, not be bound by too many rules."
Yu Qian saw Lu An'an's reply and guessed that she must also be a merchant in other games, so she's approaching this new game with the same mindset.
[Sister Xiu'er]: "There are ways to make money in the guild. Are you sure you don't want to join?"
[Lu An'an]: "Ways to make money???"
Lu An'an was genuinely confused. What money could be made in a guild? Those guild events only gave tens of thousands of silver coins, which wasn’t even enough for her to buy medicine.
[Sister Xiu'er]: "First, you need to learn life skills, right? After level 10, life skills can only be upgraded in a guild. The higher your life skill level, the more expensive the items you make can sell for. Second, as a merchant, you’ll definitely need to repeatedly farm storylines for rare gear drops. If your health and defense aren’t enough, how will you survive against monsters?"
[Sister Xiu'er]: "If the artifacts dropped from storylines are needed by the guild, they’ll buy them from you with silver. The guild members all need gear, too."
[Sister Xiu'er]: "Third, upgrading all guild skills requires guild contributions. Just doing guild tasks is far from enough, so people post bounty tasks and bounty merchant jobs. Merchants can take bounty merchant runs, and those with cultivation above 80 can take bounty broker runs. You need merit points to exchange for resistance stats, and merit can be sold as well."
[Sister Xiu'er]: "Fourth, on Wednesdays there’s the Bandit Island event. When your output is enough, the Elite Bandit Island will open, and the items there can be exchanged for treasure chest keys. As a merchant, you should understand what treasure chest keys are."
[Sister Xiu'er]: "Fifth, the league matches on Fridays and Saturdays not only reward silver from the system, but outstanding guilds also give extra rewards."
[Sister Xiu'er]: "Sixth, if you join my guild as a merchant, your clientele will include not just my guild, but at least two other guilds as well."
Yu Qian’s list of advantages made Lu An'an hesitate once more.
[Sister Xiu'er]: "You can think it over carefully. Let me know once you’ve made up your mind."
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Yu Qian wasn’t recruiting people at random; she had two reasons for inviting Lu An'an.
First, Lu An'an had already thought of starting a squad right at the opening of the server, making her no different from those merchants in her previous life.
Second, Yu Qian remembered Lu An'an herself.
In her past life, Yu Qian had read an 818 post—a thread exposing a mistress—and the person exposed was her. Because she often supplied dishes to top players, she was misunderstood and exposed by a top player’s wife. At first, many people scolded her, and if she hadn't posted evidence to clear her name, she might have been driven out of the game.
Yu Qian didn’t recall much about the thread’s content, but she remembered Lu An'an very clearly.
Every day, Lu An'an could sell two to four dishes; two out of three storyline runs would yield rare items; every event she’d get vouchers; half the time opening a gemstone box, she’d get a complete stone.
Lu An'an was a bug in "Ghostly Beauty."
She was the true embodiment of luck.
Yu Qian hadn’t expected to run into her, but with the game’s launch time changed, Lu An'an still came to this game, and coincidentally, they ended up in the same server.
Even more coincidentally, Lu An'an took the initiative to contact Wenxiu.
Yu Qian never thought Lu An'an would refuse to join the guild. Anyone with a bit of wit could see from her words how much more money could be made by joining.
Yu Qian found the guild group message on her own account and told everyone to start running the Qiaoyan quests.
Even without Lu An'an, the guild needed to upgrade its buildings quickly, and many top players were still outside, waiting to join.
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The guild’s recruitment limit could only be increased by upgrading the guild house, which required guild funds.
New guilds naturally lacked funds, so together with Wenxiu, Yu Qian bought up all the newly listed silver on the trading platform and donated it all to the guild.
Then they began running Qiaoyan quests themselves.
Everyone in the group was playing the game for the first time, full of excitement—even the tedious Qiaoyan tasks were done with joy.
With so many people, just a few runs each would be enough to upgrade the guild house.
Apart from the house, other structures needed upgrading too.
All afternoon, the four of them were busy with Qiaoyan runs, and Wenxiu kept snapping up silver coins.
Lu An'an, persuaded by Yu Qian, had already joined the guild.
After Yu Qian explained all the things high-level guilds could do and the rewards they could earn, Lu An'an brought her six accounts and joined the Qiaoyan squad.
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