Chapter Seventy-Seven: A Heretical Sect?

Guild [Su Jiu]: “…With a name like this… did I just join a cult?”

The more Lin Su looked, the more she felt she shouldn’t have joined this guild—what on earth were these names? Did they really think they were immortals?

Guild [Great Nuwa]: “Young lady, I advise you to watch your words. Not everyone here is as patient as I am.”

It was a coincidence, really. With everyone busy rushing through quests and the guild chat flooded with progress updates, Nuwa happened to take a breather and caught Lin Su’s comment. Otherwise, no one would have noticed.

And Nuwa wasn’t wrong—among this group of big shots, she truly had the best temper.

The others? Every one of them was forged in seas of corpses and mountains of blood.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the immortal and demon realms were constantly at war, dragging the six realms into chaos. Fuxi fought fiercely to protect Nuwa and the human world.

Surviving such an environment, how could any immortal, demon, or god here have a gentle disposition?

Nuwa had a premonition: with all these restless souls around, neither this game nor this server would ever know peace.

Her instincts proved true. For as long as “Ethereal Beauty” was a sensation, so too was the server Cloudsong a hive of perpetual commotion.

Guild [Su Jiu]: “…”

For some reason, Lin Su felt a chill run down her spine. She sent a string of ellipses and disappeared.

She turned back to the Yunzhou trading platform, checking the silver transaction page—every single order was still marked as reserved.

Yes, not a single order left—they were all spoken for.

Lin Su felt as if a string in her mind had snapped. Were it not for the heat outside making any trip troublesome, she would’ve thrown her mouse by now.

[Su Jiu]: “What happened to saving five orders for me?!”

She didn’t toss her mouse, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t angry. She decided to take it up with Sister Xiu’er.

[Su Jiu]: “#Cursing. You reserved everything—how am I supposed to buy? You promised to leave five orders for me!”

[Sister Xiu’er]: “Hm? Didn’t Luo An’an contact you?”

Lin Su was taken aback. Who?

[Sister Xiu’er]: “Luo An’an, our guild’s regular merchant. I told her to set aside five orders of goods for you, at a rate ten percent higher than the platform.”

Lin Su grew even more confused, hurriedly sifting through the endless string of chat notifications.

She clicked open and closed several private messages before finally finding one from Luo An’an.

[Luo An’an]: “Hi? Xiu Xiu said you wanted five orders of goods?”

Luo An’an’s message had been sent ten minutes ago. In other words, while Lin Su was grumbling about the guild being some kind of cult, Wen Xiu had already arranged her silver.

Lin Su replied in embarrassment, “Sorry, I had too many private messages and just saw this now.”

[Luo An’an]: “No worries. The current platform rate is 1 RMB for 330,000 silver. Ten percent higher makes it 363,000.”

[Luo An’an]: “I have two orders right now, I’ll send them to you first. Give me until tomorrow for the other three, is that alright?”

If she could accept the platform rate, why wouldn’t she accept a better one? Besides, Sister Xiu’er said Luo An’an was the guild’s regular merchant—surely trust wasn’t an issue.

Lin Su’s mind was busy calculating.

She’d thought she’d joined a cult, but now it didn’t seem so bad.

Luo An’an’s trading habit was to deliver goods first, then collect payment. After reporting her bank account, she had Su Jiu prepare a few small items to put up at the market stall.

Two hundred arrived in her account, and Luo An’an returned the stall items to Su Jiu.

[Luo An’an]: “You’re part of the guild too. Come help out with guild quests—most events require a full, high-level roster to unlock.”

Before leaving, Luo An’an sent Su Jiu a reminder.

She could tell Yu Qian genuinely wanted to build a great guild, and it was clear these oddly named members were all close friends of the guild leader.

Now, in the guild’s early days, outsiders like them could contribute more and become founding members. In the future, management would surely treat them well.