23.2 - Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1

Chapter 23: Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1 – Part Two

He rested at the inn for one night. When it was time to go online the next day, he walked out of the inn fully energized.

There was nobody in the town, and Xiao Ran walked throughout the quiet and tranquil streets.

The territory around the town was not divided up very logically. There was only a Level 39 instance, Youming Town 1 , and a Level 41 instance, Fentou Village 2 but the grinding areas around the instances were Level 45. Those who traveled to the instances couldn’t defeat the surrounding mobs, and those who came to fight the mobs couldn’t see the two instances. As a result, the popularity of the area had become fairly low.

Xiao Ran passed through the Level 45 grinding area and selected a route with few players. The area was originally deserted, and he arrived at the entrance to the instance without encountering anyone along his path.

The popularity of this instance was far less than the prior day’s Han Bing Xue Field, but that was also a benefit. The avoid the awkwardness of being recognized, Xiao Ran engaged in the story dialogue with the NPC in front of the instance and selected the option to recruit.

Looking at the sparse teammate options before him, Xiao Ran began to wonder if he wanted to play solo, until someone sent a voice message.

It was Naozhong Ni Bie Nao.

“Xiao Ma-ge, are you still attempting instances today?”

“Attempting, ah.”

“Then will we see you in Han Bing Xue Field?”

“I won’t try Han Bing Xue Field today. I’ll go to Youming Town and Beiyou Town.”

“Ah? You got so far away?”

“That’s right.”

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao hesitated for a moment. Thinking of the unpleasant experience of the instance before they encountered Xiao Ma-ge the day before, and the feeling of happiness after meeting Xiao Ma-ge, he finally asked: “Have you formed a team over there?”

“Not yet.”

“Then wait until we meet up with you?”

“Okay, got it.”

A single player is never as efficient as a team. They were running together yesterday, so they should be even more efficient today.

Xiao Ran was bored waiting at the instance entrance. As a game AI, he couldn’t exit the game world and invade the internet, so he opened up the world channel to see what gossip was happening recently.

There were no more than three hot topics being discussed by everyone in the world channel – Pan Long Underground Palace, world domination, and the love or hatred of various great gods.

Xiao Ran had always been uninterested in private gossip, and there was still a waiting period for world domination, so he placed more attention on the current upcoming instance Pan Long Underground Palace.

Most of the shouting in the world chat was about how difficult it was to get the entry ticket fragments, how high the price was, and how attractive gold equipment was.…..

Xiao Ran skimmed the world channel and saw a familiar name, and he couldn’t help but pause.

Jun Heqiu [World]: Shenyao Guild has made a long-term bid for Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1, offering 1000 gold.

One thousand gold, converted into real life currency, was about 80,000.

Immediately underneath, a group of fans and followers bowed their heads to the power of money, and the little cuties begging for support instantly took up a dozen pages.

The number behind the entry ticket represented the order in which the entry tickets were collected. The Entry Ticket 1 meant that it was the first entry ticket to Pan Long Underground Place that had been collected. In the same way, it can be assumed that there were Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 2, Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 3, Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 4……

However, the first entry ticket was the most special one. Only after the entry ticket was collected would the new expansion be forced to open. The other entry tickets would begin to appear, and the collection difficulty would be reduced a lot.

That was why, after entering the instance, the system would give the team certain special rewards.

That is, the team that owns Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1 would have an advantage over others in the competition for the golden equipment. No wonder they had to spend so much money to get their hands on it.

Not long after Jun Heqiu’s news was announced, another announcement livened up the world channel.

Yiting Kan Yue [World]: Shen Ding Guild 3 has made a long-term bid for Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1, offering 1000 gold.

Shen Ding, Shenyao.

Those two guilds had a lot of love and hatred amongst their names.

Zuoye Ni You Pi Yangle Ba [World]: Ah, ah, ah, my wife, come out and watch the gods fight!”

Huangshang Zhe Shi Ximai Ah [World]: Oh my god, holy shit! Shenyao and Shen Ding are going to battle again? This battle is about to turn into a Nikkei post! 4

DW Jintian Fenshoule Ma 5 [World]: Tickets are so expensive! What can’t you do with so much money!

Yidui Zhizhang 6 [World]: Obviously only the first one is expensive okay? Upstairs 7 , look at my ID.

DW Jintian Fenshoule Ma [World]: Don’t leave after school, you grandson! 8

Zuoye Ni You Pi Yangle Ba [World]: You seem to be more than one upstairs……

Wang Zuozhe De Kudang Li [World]: @Lingfeng Court, the first two are taken 9 , your family must not be cowards!

DW Jintian Fenshoule Ma [World]: That’s right, the three biggest guilds can’t be separated! @Lingjia Juitian 10

The other two guilds shouted, and so Lingfeng Court, who was the third top ranked super guild, instantly became the target of public criticism and was pulled to the spotlight by various means.

Lingjia Jiutan [World]: Lingfeng Court guild has made a long-term bid for Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1, offering 800 gold.

Lingjia Jiutan waved his hand and Lingfeng Court was a hot topic all over Shenzhou. The accounts without names of the top guilds had begun to make waves on the world channel. 11

Tiantian De Wawa [World]: Weren’t there six super guild in Shenzhou? Why are there only three left now?

Rong-mama Yiyang De Nuren [World]: Right, ah. Have the other bigshots lost their desire to fight for the golden equipment?

Shui Bohe [World]: @Juyi Court @God of the Underworld @Mingkong Hui

After a while the world was filled with ats for those three guilds.

The few guild masters who were still just watching the fun all received blows to the heart.

There was no way out, so for the sake of the guilds’ images, the guild masters of the remaining three guilds also held out an olive branch to the Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1 in the form of three hundred gold.

Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1 suddenly made the world channel go crazy and became an existence as popular as golden equipment.

At first, someone called out the owner of the Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1, but no matter how much they shouted, the owner was like a lurker who was apathetic to the entire world, without showing even a chat bubble.

It’s not that they didn’t take any risks, but there was no need to join in on the fun.

Xiao Ran opened the package, looked at the sheepskin map lying quietly in the corner of his inventory, and couldn’t help but cover his mouth with his hand as he said:

“I didn’t expect you to be so valuable.”

[Prop (Rare): Pan Long Underground Palace Map (Complete)

Item Description: Instance ‘Pan Long Underground Palace’ Entry Ticket 1]

That’s right. The Entry Ticket 1 that was so coveted by the guild masters was coincidentally in Xiao Ran’s hands.

That scene was something that Xiao Ran was completely displeased by.

The public attacks and slander in the world channel hadn’t yet subsided, and another piece of information from Jun Heqiu instantly pushed the auction to its peak.

Jun Heqiu [World]: Shenyao Guild has made a long-term bid for Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1, offering 1200 gold.

Yiting Kan Yue followed close behind.

Yiting Kan Yue [World]: Shen Ding Guild has made a long-term bid for Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1, offering 1200 gold.

It even started to increase in value, ah!

The remaining few guild masters all vomited blood. With teats in their eyes, they raised the price.

The price of the Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket 1 had risen to more than 100,000 cash in an instant.

TL Notes:

Next chapter is. about 3x the length of this total chapter. rip me.

Footnotes

Deep/Secluded Town, Nether Town Tomb Village/ Grave Mound Village God’s Crown (Godhead) Guild Nikkei is the abbreviation for a Japanese financial newspaper, and it is heavily tied to the stock market index and the Tokyo stock exchange DW in raws. I’m not sure what DW refers to, but it’s likely a celebrity couple. Forum ID: a bunch of retards in a long line of forum posts or chats, the first post is the ‘landlord’ and each following one is a floor. Saying upstairs means the person directly before you in a chat. grandson is an insult, opposite of grandfather or father due to age = respect Above in raws, it says that both guilds placed bids on Entry Ticket 1. As that implies they’re fighting over the same entry ticket, only 1 ticket has been taken. This means that the first two guilds are taking over, not that two tickets are taken guild master of Lingfeng Court players who aren’t in the top guilds are all gossiping