Sword Among Us

Happy never found a suitable chance to get rid of Xu Yao, who was a troublesome woman Class One Hall had placed in Mu Clan as a spy, because no one knew about her relationship with Blood Robes, and they did not know that Xu Yao played a despicable role among them.

Even though Happy had the urge to kick her out of Mu Clan so that she would be out of his sight and mind, he never found a suitable reason to do so. He could not tell others that he came from three years later, right?

Hence, when Thunderous Battle told Happy that he wanted to cultivate Flying Dragon and Xu Yao, Happy immediately formed a plan for Xu Yao to expose herself.

Even though he never told anyone about his return to the past, he could tell Thunderous Battle about his thoughts toward Xu Yao.

Thunderous Battle was different from his friends from the University of South China. He did not have any preconceived impressions of Xu Yao, which was why he naturally became on guard once he received word from Happy.

He also promised Happy that he would give Xu Yao a distribution of ten million contribution points. If she betrayed them for money, they could just pick some faults in her and expel her.

No matter what, Mu Clan was a top class sect that earned nearly ten billion taels of silver every day from resource points alone. Along with the profit brought by pill creation, refinement, and the merchants, the amount they earned was even more impressive.

Such a small loss was insignificant.

[Don’t worry, I’ll keep an eye over her for you.]

[Then I’ll have to trouble you. Also, since Mu Clan has developed to this state, it’s about time that we make a draft for a perfect system. I hope that there will be more capable people who will join Mu Clan, since I want us to have fresh blood. Big Brother Thunder, I have some suggestions in regards to that.]

No matter what, Happy came from three years later, so he had learned some things about how some of the successful sects operated. Even though they were just some suggestions, Thunderous Battle soon noticed that the competitive system Happy mentioned would be very effective to cultivate powerful players in Mu Clan.

[We’ll have a Power Rank for each branch, and we’ll take a portion of resources from each branch and accumulate five hundred thousand taels of silver worth of contribution points from them to allocate to the top one hundred players on Power Rank.

[I think the guys from the branches will go mad for it. With the current exchange rate, as long as they can get into the top one hundred, they can basically get 8,000 RMB per month. Besides, if we add in the profit they gain from the game, the sum will be insane!

[This number will be nothing to those who are strong, but the people who are ranked in the top one hundred in Mu Clan’s branches will be our clan’s elites. Getting a place in the top one hundred in Branch Power Rank is the same as being one of the elites of Mu Clan! Their pay will double then! This is a path to fame, but it will also bring them profit.]

[Hmm… As expected, you’re someone who thinks far ahead. Even though we’ll need to bring out thirty billion taels of silver worth of contribution points each month, that sum isn’t even up to half a day’s worth of income for Mu Clan. But this move will definitely stimulate our members to train hard!

[We can even increase our members’ support and loyalty toward Mu Clan with this. And we can also change the situation of the disparity of strength between branches, which is a problem we have right now.

[You sure have a lot of ideas! I believe that once this system comes out, we will have more than eight thousand extraordinary fighters from the eighty or so branches that we have. It won’t be long before we catch up to Class One Hall!]

Thunderous Battle had quickly noticed all the benefits of the system.

He also seemed to see the future in which top-class elites were part of every branch in Mu Clan, which might even lead to them being able to catch up to Class One Hall and its foundation.

Naturally though, Thunderous Battle did not know that in Happy’s previous life, Class One Hall had used this system. However, Class One Hall had only promoted it after the game had been operating for a year, and they had been more or less forced to bring it out.

At that time, Class One Hall had become insanely strong. Rumors had it that they had no fewer than one hundred Illusion Life and Death Pills alone.

It was what had led to Happy, who was alone at that point, to choose to delete his account when Blood Robes turned on him and the woman he loved betrayed, turning all his hard work over three years into dust.

But when talking to Thunderous Battle, Happy knew that the time for him to take revenge had come.

Chivalry Sect was as strong as ever, Towering Palace had a steady foothold in the game, and Mu Clan’s rise to power made Class One Hall’s territory shrink by two-thirds compared to how it was in Happy’s previous life. Class One Hall had already lost its chance to become strong.

Happy knew that since Class One Hall was willing to leave Western Border and Hubei after they admitted to their loss in the gamble, it was impossible for them to have any plans or intention to provoke Mu Clan and Chivalry Sect for at least half a year. Everyone could develop steadily in that time.

Mu Clan had to seize the chance!

Happy also believed that with the stimulation provided by the new clan system, Mu Clan might end up being the sect that will develop the fastest among the four top sects!

*****

Once Mu Clan launched the system, the headquarters in Baokang were the first to implement it.

They held a tournament that lasted for half a day, and the headquarters in Baokang tabulated their top one hundred fighters who fought in the tournament in the style of what they were about to implement in the branches. They set up the headquarters’ Power Rank, and the top ten in this group of people could get five hundred thousand taels of silver worth of contribution points per month. The eleventh to one hundredth person could get three hundred thousand taels of silver worth of contribution points per month.

Then, Thunderous Battle made an announcement.

In the future, each branch will have regular tournaments in this fashion. They would set up a fixed date each month to find out the top one hundred in each branch, and they would provide them with the same rewards.

Once the news was out, all the members of Mu Clan who had been envious of the top one hundred players in Baokang instantly became worked up.

Each branch set up a date to organize the tournament!

But there were quite a number of people who were worried that if Mu Clan sent out billions of contribution points each time, the money in the clan storage would be drained dry.

Then, just as everyone grew worried, Thunderous Battle brought out ten billion from the clan warehouse and threw it into the clan storage.

His act made nearly forty hundred thousand Mu Clan disciples sense that the rewards this time were not an impulse-driven act or a spontaneous idea.

It seemed like the event was there to last.

Mu Clan instantly flew into a ruckus. The people in all branches began to train in a frenzy to fight for the top one hundred spots in the branches. Even though the rewards were not that much, the fame that came with it was great.

Mu Clan’s activity lasted for a month. Each branch came out with their top one hundred fighters, and it was then that rumors spread through the world of martial artists that Mu Clan had done something incredible.

Outsiders had already heard some of what had happened, but many sects just scoffed at it and said that it was not a reliable plan.

After all, Mu Clan had more than eighty branches, and if this lasted, the amount of contribution points they had to give out in a year would be insane. That sort of sum was not something a university student could take out and have the courage to use!

Unfortunately for them though, they clearly did not understand just how many players focusing on occupations were there in Mu Clan, and neither did they know about the daily income Mu Clan had ever since they monopolized the high-class resource points.

When all the elites from the branches gained benefits without any one missing, the world was shocked.

Mu Clan sent out billions every month to cultivate their strong.

Five hundred thousand… Two hundred thousand!

The amount was not high, but to solo players who were rather good but had currently reached the point where it was becoming increasingly harder for them to move forward, it was still very attractive.

One month later, Mu Clan’s members increased from four hundred thousand to more than seven hundred thousand!

Aside from a handful of branches that were set in unique spots, most of the branches Mu Clan had contained a very even number of members between them, and their strength was all increasing at a fast rate. The second tournament of branches was even more exciting than the last!

There were even some of the rather famous players in the game who now appeared in the Branch Power Rank.

Class One Hall and Towering Palace were gradually unable to sit still. When they saw that the discussions among their members were increasing and the people’s hearts were wavering, they were forced to carry out countermeasures of various scales and open up their storage to their members. Even Chivalry Sect’s Lin Xiao was forced to learn something from Mu Clan.