Summoning Players into My Game

"No wonder the White Feather Gang has been relentlessly pursuing Red Moon Mountain, even persuading the Great Ape Gang."

Lin Qi looked at the record information on his smart watch, unable to calm down for a long time.

Divide and conquer!

For any city faction, it's probably an irresistible temptation.

Compared to scrapping the leftovers of a city, the delicacies of a town are far superior.

Not to mention the income a town can provide, just the exclusive ownership of a small energy ore vein is something even the big families living in Chasing Light City find hard to obtain.

"Judging by the actions of the White Feather Gang, not many people should know about the small energy ore vein's existence, otherwise, even the White Feather Gang might not gain many benefits, and the Cyan Sparrow Gang, unaware of the small energy ore vein, wouldn't have agreed so readily back then."

Lin Qi opened the topographic map recording the small energy ore vein, falling into deep thought.

The small energy ore vein is like a time bomb for Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. If the White Feather Gang makes it public, Red Moon Mountain could be overtaken by the major powers of Chasing Light City in no time.

Of course, everything hinges on the fact that the White Feather Gang genuinely has no chance of obtaining the small energy ore vein, because as long as there is a sliver of hope, they wouldn't spread the news so easily.

Conversely, this also presents an opportunity for Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Red Moon Mountain's micro energy ore vein holds a minuscule amount, only about ten to twenty thousand tons. Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall can take sixty percent, and if lucky, get ten thousand tons of energy ores.

That amount could summon as many as ten thousand players.

But to upgrade the system's permissions, the martial arts hall needs to be upgraded, which requires a vast amount of energy ores.

Besides upgrading the martial arts hall, once players advance to martial artists, their consumption of energy ores begins, and daily consumption could become quite substantial.

Ten thousand tons of energy ores, Lin Qi estimated, could last only three to four months.

At that point, Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would face an energy ore shortage. Although energy ores are available in various cities, due to sustainable growth considerations, the sale is limited and won't supply in large amounts to any faction or power.

Additionally, the supply is limited to suppress the growth and expansion of city factions, or else management would become problematic.

Energy ore veins are not only essential for martial artist cultivation but also enhance the training speed for apprentices below martial artist level.

If city factions could purchase energy ore veins limitlessly, their speed in accumulating extreme apprentices and quasi-martial artists would significantly increase.

Eventually, when quantity turns into quality, whenever a few martial artists emerge in these factions, the city's resources will have to be redistributed, a scenario those high-level residents in the city absolutely don't want to see.

However, the city's limits can't prevent faction powers from traveling to other city's jurisdictions, purchasing large amounts of energy ores from faction powers with energy ore veins.

These petty actions of city factions have always been under the cities' surveillance. Still, since all factions' incomes are low, even if they could buy, they couldn't buy much, and those selling energy ores couldn't sell much either.

Whether it's ten thousand or one hundred thousand tons, it doesn't change the city's landscape.

But a small energy ore vein is different.

Lin Qi had read many historical materials of Chasing Light City, and generally, a small energy ore vein contains over three million tons of reserves. If a faction owned it, it could nurture countless martial artists, which is why it's possible to divide and conquer.

Three million tons of energy ores!

With such vast energy ores, Lin Qi felt like he could build a player town.

With a player town, and nurturing a few hundred martial artist level players, even the high-level residents of Chasing Light City would have to show respect.

With a few thousand martial artist level players, even the top executives of Chasing Light City would need to consider carefully.

Thinking of this, Lin Qi decisively equipped the A6-grade battle armor, heading towards the small energy ore vein discovered by the White Feather Gang. As for the slightly dented helmet, he put it aside to have Luo Qi repair it later.

His silver-white battle armor, full of futuristic technology style, quickly caused a stir among a large number of players.

"Damn! That's battle armor!"

"This battle armor is so cool! When did the Hall Master get it, will the martial arts hall sell it?"

"I've read in the information, this is A6-grade battle armor! With it, an extreme apprentice can suppress an extreme quasi-martial artist. If I had a set now, I'd be invincible!"

"What a pity the Hall Master isn't female, if the game developers could make an NPC version before the public beta, I could borrow some blood from the Hall Master to craft my own battle armor. With the awakening of my Golden Cosmos, I could sweep all factions and unify Chasing Light City."

"What are you thinking? This isn't Holy Clothes, and don't let the Hall Master hear you. If he knows you intend to use his blood, be careful of being expelled directly."

"I don't even dare to think about getting that battle armor. I guess they won't let us buy it before the public test. I wonder if the Hall Master will let me touch it—just a hundred points per touch would be fine, just to feel that texture."

The players training in the art of the Shocking God Breathing Technique, working hard to improve their strength in the mine, were all practically drooling over Lin Qi's battle armor.

Armor and battle armor are completely different.

Wearing armor feels like being an ancient battlefield soldier, while battle armor is like being Iron Man. That sleek design, that technology—it's simply awe-inspiring.

Players who participated in the major battles almost had their eyes pop out with envy.

While armor is fine, it can only protect most parts of the body. But battle armor is different; it's full-body protection. Even without the auxiliary features of the battle armor, it can elevate combat strength to another level.

Passing by, Lin Qi overheard the players' conversation and simply ignored it, deciding that in the future, he definitely needed to find more things for these players to do. Otherwise, they'd keep thinking about strange things all day and wouldn't focus properly on the game.

After Lin Qi traveled deep into the tunnel for over twenty minutes, he reached a collapsed tunnel.

"This should be the tunnel recorded to lead to the small energy ore vein. The White Feather Gang was certainly cautious. To prevent later discoveries, they blew up the entire tunnel and dug three others alongside it, crisscrossing inside the mountain to prove there were no traces of energy ores in this area."

Lin Qi glanced at the several profound passages nearby and couldn't help but admire the White Feather Gang's prudence.

If it weren't for the Cyan Sparrow Gang detecting a micro energy ore vein at the mountainside, provoking a contention with the White Feather Gang over Red Moon Mountain, who knows how long the White Feather Gang could have kept it hidden.

In fact, the period the White Feather Gang controlled the small energy ore vein had already been quite long, just that no one was aware of it.

Immediately, Lin Qi attacked the collapsed tunnel with a barrage of Shattering Stone Fist strikes.

Each punch carried nearly three thousand kilograms of vibrating force. Even giant rocks the height of a person turned into countless fragments, or even powdered, under the Shattering Stone Fist's Second Layer realm's force induced by qi and blood vibrations.

With just dozens of punches, Lin Qi cleared the collapsed tunnel, leaving him in awe of the power of the Shattering Stone Fist's Second Layer.

Using the Shattering Stone Fist for excavation is arguably more efficient than a specialized excavation shield machine.

After clearing the tunnel, Lin Qi spent nearly half an hour venturing deep beneath Red Moon Mountain, reaching a naturally expansive cavern illuminated by energy ores emitting a faint glow, making the cavern barely visible.

"Is this the small energy ore vein?" Lin Qi was astounded by the dense energy in the cavern.

He already knew that small energy ore veins benefit physical training.

But Lin Qi hadn't expected it to be this overwhelming.

With each simple breath, not even using any breathing technique, he could feel every muscle cell in his body stirring, as if waiting for a command to devour the pressing energy.

This rich energy even gave Lin Qi an illusion.

That employing the Shocking God Breathing Technique now could directly break through to become a Martial Artist.

"No, I can't break through now!"

Lin Qi quickly suppressed the surge of impulse in his heart.

The Shocking God Breathing Technique, as a high-tier martial artist-level training method fused by the system, could lead to becoming a Martial Artist even if the proficiency of its First Layer wasn't perfect. But doing so would limit more potential extraction, making the future Martial Artist journey smoother.

The reason martial artist training methods vary in quality largely lies in the different foundations they establish—the higher-tier the method, the better the foundation. This is why so many genius experts desire better training methods.

With the system as a companion, his future achievements would not just stop at the Martial Artist level, laying the foundation is most crucial.

"Although I can't use it for a breakthrough now, this place can help players advance. Breaking through to become Advanced Apprentice and Extreme Apprentice should be much easier," Lin Qi thought, while exploring the cavern.

Thinking about letting players come here to train would undoubtedly spawn a batch of Advanced Apprentices and Extreme Apprentices in a short time.

As for Martial Artist level breakthroughs, he would later advise players not to progress without 100% proficiency, as progressing rashly affects future higher-tier advancement difficulties. He believed that if players weren't foolish, they wouldn't engage in short-sighted actions.

While Lin Qi explored the small energy ore vein, he soon discovered that many energy ore processing devices were left in the cavern, ten full sets, capable of using processed energy ores to directly decorate houses, transforming them into individual cultivation rooms.

"What's with this cavern, why is it entirely made of metal?"

With his keen senses, Lin Qi discovered a concealed metal cavern deep inside, feeling an inexplicable familiarity with the metal inside.

"Why does this metal seem to be the same material as the mysterious metal plate?"

Entering the metal cavern, Lin Qi tested the metal covering the cavern. It was exactly the same as the mysterious metal plate from Ghana, both silvery-white, smooth as a mirror, yet unbelievably hard.

Even the top-grade A6 alloy used in battle armor couldn't leave any marks or scratches on it.