2731 Phoenix Rains Past

"Alright continue fortifying the fortress, I'll go and collect the dropped loot" Shi Feng then opened up a portal and went to the scene of devastation. He really thought those powers were fools. This was an ancient fortress that survived in a level 140-200 god mode neutral map of course it's defense was amazing how can it be so easily taken. The downside is that Shi Feng had to sacrifice the fortress's other functions in order to use the sun cannon and light barrier, he has to upgrade the fortress to use more of its functions. The sun cannon and light barrier were expensive to use as well, requiring mana stones to repair and 4 units of seven luminaries crystals each to use once, with a 2 day Cooldown. As Shi Feng picked up the dropped loot he noticed a map. This map had an image of the ash blade on it the symbol of the god slayer. "I almost forgot, I have to head to the ruin mountain range!" Shi Feng remembers that the ruin mountain range is a place of death in the game, dying there could hurt your account.

"The guild is not strong enough to defend against multiple superpowers without the main force and me yet. I need to train more experts." If he goes to investigate the ash blade he would be gone for a long time and his disappearance could incite some hostile powers to attack. In order to avoid that the guild needs to have at least 1,000 experts in the realms of refinement. From his current understanding right now powerful first rate powers should have about 20-30 players in the realms of refinement with maybe one void realm expert if they're very lucky. Ordinary superpowers and super first rate guilds have about 500-700 experts in the realms of refinement, top tier super first rate guilds have around 1000 or higher experts in the realms of refinement. With Super guilds having around 2000 of these experts or more. Of course in the future these numbers will shoot up massively, but Zero Wing could remain stagnant in this. Zero Wing doesn't yet have the connections or real world influence to obtain large amounts of training resources to train a massive amount of experts to be the foundation of the guild. The nutrient fluids he managed to get are slowly dwindling and in order to power the guilds realms of refinement training system they purchase high level energy from the Sun and Moon corporation but its not enough. "Looks like I have to take everyone to that place to train." Shi Feng knew of a place in the game that would allow for a large number of the guilds experts to reach the half step refinement realm at least. It was the same place he managed to make a breakthrough and reach the half step refinement realm in his past life. After collecting the loot and finishing business with the fortress Shi Feng logged out the game. Today is the Green Gods company auction. After getting dressed Shi Feng, Liang Jing,and Xioa Yu got on a plane and went to the auction site. The auction was being held in a two hundred floor building that hovered above a clear blue lake and a bridge that lit up in neon colors to welcome the guests. When Shi Feng got there he saw many representatives from the various superpowers and powers with powerful backgrounds not to mention the people from corporations. As they made their way into the building Shi Feng noticed an extremely gorgeous woman mingling amongst the crowd. It was Phoenix Rain, Shi Feng went to greet her.

"Qianyu pleasure meeting you here" Shi Feng said.

"Guild leader I didn't expect to see you here! Looks like you ruined my little surprise." Feng Qianyu said. She knew Zero Wing was tight on nutrient fluids so she wanted to take this chance to get some for the guild as repayment for taking care of her.

"Yeah I managed to get a pass to the auction by luck"

Shi Feng's group and Feng Qianyu walked together towards the auction room when they spotted a familiar person. This person was Liu Shishi or examplerary widow in gods domain the representative of open source corporation. "Well if it isn't Ms Quinyu, the last time we met you were just a little Pavilion master now you downgraded why am I not surprised." Liu Shishi said to her but Quinyu didn't respond. In Fact she slightly got closer to Shi Feng as she watched the man next to Liu Shishi. "Li Wei how are you, it's been a long time" Phoenix Rain asked.

"I've been good. I hope you're doing well." Li Wei said in a slightly frosty tone as he glared daggers at Shi Feng. Naturally Shi Feng sensed the hostility coming from the man, and he wondered what he had done to gain such a reaction the two have never met. Before Exemplary Widow can react for being ignored Li Wei responded.

"Shishi let's go, the auction is going to start soon" and with that they left.

"Shishi I want you to tell me everything about that man Quinyu was next to ok"

Li Wei demanded.

"Big Brother you can't be thinking. Ok I'll get you everything I can dig up"

Shi Feng glanced at the departing group the turned to Phoenix Rain.

"What was all that about, do you have some kind of beef with them?" Shi Feng asked.

Phoenix Rain sighed "it's complicated. Li Wei is the successor to the open source company and when my family's corporation was in danger he came in offering to help save the company on the condition that me and him were to get married. My family tried to push the engagement on me but I managed to finish my training and join the Dragon Phoenix Pavilion and quickly rise in the guild. With the Pavilions help I managed to save my family's corporation and avoid the marriage. It seems he is still butt hurt about it though." Phoenix Rain said giggling.

While Liang Jing was sympathizing with Quinyu Shi Feng had a 'are you serious' expression on his face. This was the most cliched princess story he heard, the next thing he should expect is that Li Wei will get jealous over the fact that himself and Quinyu are close and try to take his anger out on him. But no one is that petty to go too far over a girl. Ignoring his thoughts he made his way to the auction hall.