There were 197 players from Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls who had successfully passed that layer of traps. The rest of the guild was too afraid to try their luck. There were a fair number of us who had been burned or frozen to death by those traps, and this even included some of our better players. The way these traps were designed sent a very clear message to every player who encountered them. Only first-class players could proceed past that point. Everyone else had to go back from whence they came.

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"Let’s split up into separate parties!"

I quickly took stock of our players and said, "We will split into four parties and the party leaders will be Eve, Gui Guzi, Chaos Moon and I. I know I don’t need to say this but activate your Famous General Skills once we form them. Every party will be composed of fifty players and we will split up to grind. We will boost everyone’s leveling speed this way. There are still many monsters on the first floor of Nine Tigers Soul Suppressing Tower, so there’s more than enough experience points to go around."

Everyone nodded their heads and started to split into the various parties.

Murong Mingyue, Moonlight Stone, Xu Yang, and High Fighting Spirits joined He Yi’s party, which would receive a 50% buff to their stats across the board. Meanwhile, Beiming Xue, Moon Dew, Pure Love, Du Thirteen, and Yamete joined my party. This was quite the optimal...