Ruo Li: Beep, Ruo Li card.
Mu Yang: What's wrong?
Ruo Li: I'm about to apply for the Pioneer Order. My sister wants you to come and witness this sacred moment. (Helpless.JPG)
Mu Yang: Okay.
...
Back at the Skywing Merchant Guild headquarters, only Ruo Yi and Ruo Li were present. Everyone else was still busy with their tasks.
Seeing Mu Yang arrive, Ruo Yi began applying to Reincarnation Paradise for the Pioneer Order.
["Skywing Merchant Guild" is applying to "Reincarnation Paradise" for a Pioneer Order. Initial Clause 108697 is being judged...]
[Startup Capital: 500,000 paradise coins have been provided.]
[Pioneer Target Application: "Skywing Merchant Guild · Contractor No. 13014 (Mu Yang)" Third World Progress — Douluo Dalu.]
[Qualification Judgement in progress...]
[Contractor No. 13014's affiliated force, "Sun God Sect," possesses 17% actual control over Douluo Dalu, and he himself has 100% control over the "Sun God Sect."]
[Judgement Passed! Please have "Skywing Merchant Guild" and "Reincarnation Paradise" sign the Pioneer Contract.]
A large number of prompts from Reincarnation Paradise popped up on Ruo Yi's end. This was the first time she had seen such a situation, making her a little nervous.
From Mu Yang's perspective, nothing happened. A few minutes passed, and then the Pioneer Order for Douluo Dalu was issued.
Where was the sacred moment?
Was it all special effects in post-production?
"The Pioneer Order has been issued."
Ruo Yi shook her right hand, and a token appeared out of thin air. The front of the token bore Reincarnation Paradise's blood-red Φ-shaped symbol, while the back displayed the Skywing Merchant Guild's Skywing Dragon emblem.
"How are the personnel preparations coming along?"
"Half of them are already sorted. We need to leave a portion of the Employees in Reincarnation Paradise to maintain the guild's operations, and then the shareholders will work in three shifts, managing the Reincarnation Paradise Merchant Guild and the Derivative World Merchant Guild in batches."
The three shifts Ruo Yi mentioned obviously did not include Mu Yang and Lin Su. Lin Su wasn't actually good at this kind of thing; her investment in the Skywing Merchant Guild was purely to support her friends, Ruo Yi and Xiao Xian.
And Mu Yang, there's even less to say about him. Asking him to manage a merchant guild would be like hoping Su Xiao's luck would explode or that the Black Sail Merchant Guild would suddenly stop being so 'black.'
"How will the profits be split between Reincarnation Paradise and the Skywing Merchant Guild?"
This was the question Mu Yang cared about most. The less Reincarnation Paradise took, the more he would get.
"For profits from the pioneered world, Reincarnation Paradise and the merchant guild will split it fifty-fifty. Of the merchant guild's share, you'll definitely get the biggest portion, then a part will be given to the working Employees, and the rest will go to the other shareholders."
Ruo Yi glanced at the agreement and replied.
"Fifty-fifty, that's acceptable."
Mu Yang nodded slightly. A fifty-fifty split was within an acceptable range. After all, Derivative Worlds were formed by Reincarnation Paradise consuming resources, so this could be considered recovering some capital. Essentially, the merchant guild would not lose money.
He didn't pay attention to the latter half of the sentence, as it was already an unspoken agreement.
Even Prue, who had the loosest connection with Mu Yang, tacitly agreed that he should receive the largest share. After all, the Skywing Merchant Guild could pioneer Douluo Dalu entirely thanks to Mu Yang's efforts; the guild at most provided him with a World Key.
Another half a day passed in Reincarnation Paradise. The Skywing Merchant Guild assembled a team of over a hundred people to enter Douluo Dalu. This was just the vanguard; more people would follow later.
Most of the Employees in this team had the ability to detect treasures, so they set off first to investigate the surrounding situation, allowing subsequent teams to immediately start work upon arrival.
The remaining people were not all Employees; many were also plot characters who had signed contracts with the Skywing Merchant Guild and thus escaped their Derivative Worlds.
Most of them possessed some combat ability, so they were dispatched to assist with the detection mission to ensure smooth progress.
However, none of this had much to do with Mu Yang. Although he could also go to Douluo Dalu, it was better for him to stay in Reincarnation Paradise for now.
There was no need to worry about death in Reincarnation Paradise, and it could be said to be the fastest way to increase combat power in the entire void.
There was no need to rush with the Black Sail Merchant Guild's matters. After he developed for a while longer, problems that once required all his strength to solve might be crushed with a single slap.
...
Half an hour later, on a circular Arena.
The expressionless Mu Yang used Blood Flame to condense a large fiery hand, twisting his foul-mouthed opponent into a pretzel.
"Such cruel methods..."
The Employee in the audience listened to the screams coming from the Arena, looking as if he had a lingering fear, as if he had experienced it himself.
"Don't worry, with your strength, you'll never face an enemy of White Face's caliber in this life, so what are you scared of? Even if you did, White Face's sea of fire would instantly burn a hundred of you to death. You'd just black out and die.
Besides, if he didn't go hard, how could White Face do justice to the enemy's vigorous cursing?"
The Contractor sitting not far from the Employee scoffed. He had fought Mu Yang in the Arena not long ago.
Just as he said, Mu Yang merely summoned a sea of fire, and then he blacked out, and the battle was over, completely painless.
The other spectators in the audience nodded in agreement with the Contractor's words.
The best way to deal with insults was to use strength to shut the opponent's foul mouth. Of course, if you could torment them a bit, that would be even better.
[Twenty-two consecutive victories!]
"Twenty-two consecutive victories! This White Face is terrifying!"
Gasps of cold air echoed through the audience, contributing dozens of times to the warming of Reincarnation Paradise.
Mu Yang's figure also disappeared from the Arena, teleported back to the rest cabin.
[Individual battle ended, Victory!]
[Contractor Arena ranking improved, from 8948th to 7013th (Tier 1)]
[Received message from this opponent, view Yes/No.]
Mu Yang ignored the opponent's message. The opponent matched this time was of very low quality.
As soon as he entered, he started cursing as if Mu Yang had killed his whole family, so the message was probably just more insults.
Mu Yang showed no mercy to such an opponent, directly crushing his bones and then incinerating him, letting him experience what cremation felt like.
As for the title 'White Face,' it was spontaneously given by the audience. The reason, of course, was that Mu Yang always wore a white mask that prevented the audience from seeing his face, hence the name.
He continued matching and climbing the ranks, stopping only after reaching the top 500 with consecutive victories. Then, Mu Yang got up and left the Arena.
To be honest, he was somewhat confused about his Tier 1 Arena ranking.
His current overall attributes were only 21 points, with only stamina reaching 24 points, yet he could break into the top 500 in Tier 1.
If he worked a bit harder and stayed in the Arena longer, getting into the top 100 wasn't impossible.
But precisely because of this, Mu Yang found it abnormal. One must know that the maximum attribute for Tier 1 was 50 points, and he hadn't even reached half of that.
Could it be that his timing for entering Reincarnation Paradise was very precise, and the top-ranked Contractors had all just broken through to Tier 2, making the Tier 1 Contractors seem so weak?