73: It’s more painful to see him making money than for me to lose money!

With the official stamp of approval, the Jing Ci Guild members were completely unable to cause any more trouble.

Previously, when they suppressed Cheng Zhen, they hoped people would spend less money buying his guides and save it for theirs instead.

But now, they couldn't keep up the act.

You say a New Talent doesn't know how to write guides? But it's officially certified!

What if you say big guilds have more experience? I don't care about any of that; it has official certification!

The good reputation of official Raiders put everyone at ease, and they all started buying.

After all, many people were about to enter dungeons soon. Although the probability of encountering the Mountain Sacrifice Child was low, what if they had bad luck? It was just for peace of mind!

Cheng Zhen's guide made a huge profit, naturally, some were happy, and some were worried.

"What's going on? How could the official certification come through so quickly?!"

"You said you were testing accuracy; you've been testing for so many days. What exactly are you good-for-nothing idiots doing?"

"Wouldn't it have been better to release the guide earlier? Now look, he's passed certification, and you're still testing, testing, testing! You're a bunch of useless people!"

At the Jing Ci Guild headquarters, Jing Zhiyuan was so angry that he smashed the table.

Seeing Cheng Zhen's guide post on the forum take off again, and watching the floors stack up one after another, he was green with envy.

How much money must that be!

Why didn't the official department drag its feet this time? Why was the review so fast!

Normally, dungeon review and certification would take more than a month.

Because the official department needs to first conduct a preliminary review of various guides, and after initially determining their feasibility, add them to the test list, waiting for the official Raiders team to go and test the feasibility of the guides.

Under random circumstances, no one knows when they will encounter which dungeon, and at least two teams or more must complete it before certification is passed.

The official Raiders set up many procedures to ensure rigor and correctness, but this also meant the review time would be very long.

Especially since there was only one four-star dungeon in the New Talent dungeon, the probability of encountering it was even lower, and the time would definitely be longer.

The Jing Ci Guild knew this, so they took advantage of the lack of certification to heavily smear Cheng Zhen and promote their own guides.

According to their plan, they would upload their Mountain Sacrifice Child guide in two days, then have their internet trolls promote it, selling a large quantity and seizing the market.

By the time Cheng Zhen's review and certification passed a month later, the Jing Ci Guild would have already sold a large number of guides. People who pre-ordered the Jing Ci Guild's guide wouldn't buy two guides for one dungeon, so the bulk of the money would definitely be earned by them, and Cheng Zhen would only be able to pick up scraps.

The idea was beautiful, but they didn't expect the official review to be so fast.

How long had it been? And it had already been matched?

They couldn't have used two Designated Cards just for a New Talent dungeon, could they?

The number of Designated Cards was so small; they should definitely be saved for farming high-level items. How could they be wasted in a New Talent dungeon?

So, that kid really hit the jackpot, allowing the official department to match so quickly?

Thinking of this, Jing Zhiyuan became even angrier.

Jing Zhiyuan's assistant and several guild members stood by, heads bowed, not making a sound.

They were afraid of being caught in the crossfire of his anger, but they couldn't help but complain internally: If we don't conduct safety tests and something goes wrong, whose fault is it? If the official department finds a problem, won't we be the ones to take the blame?

Besides, who knew why this official certification came down so quickly this time? It's not like we made it pass, so what's the point of taking it out on us?

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While Jing Zhiyuan was raging, the conference room door opened, and a middle-aged man who looked somewhat similar to him walked in.

"Guild Leader!"

All the guild members greeted their boss.

"Why such a temper?" Jing Qingfeng calmly nodded to the guild members and walked over to his son.

Jing Zhiyuan looked annoyed: "That 'advertising space for rent' guide actually passed the review in just a few days. Now it's too late for us to release our guide!"

The Jing Ci Guild's judgment was correct; people who bought one guide wouldn't buy another. They just didn't expect the roles to be reversed in the end, and now the one taking the lion's share was their rival.

The thought of their cake flying away made Jing Zhiyuan grit his teeth in anger.

Although the cost of producing a guide wasn't much, there was still some. For example, contacting other clearers and paying a lot for information; having guild members temporarily halt the production of other guides to work on the Mountain Sacrifice Child guide, and so on…

But compared to these costs, the loss of profit was even more heartbreaking.

One guide costs 1000 yuan; selling ten thousand copies would be ten million! There are so many Raiders, how much money can be made from this?!

Compared to physical industries like selling mobile phones or cars, the cost of a guide was so low it could make them die of envy.

His own failure was certainly sad, but seeing others take the money was even harder for Jing Zhiyuan to accept.

"Complaining now is useless. Let's think about how to minimize losses instead."

Jing Qingfeng turned to the guild members and instructed: "Release the guide as soon as possible, and have people step up the promotion. Maybe we can still earn some from pre-orders. If we keep delaying, we won't earn a single penny."

The assistant and others nodded and quickly left.

After the door closed, Jing Qingfeng gently lectured his son: "How many times have I told you, when you encounter a problem, you should first think about how to solve it. What's the use of taking your anger out on guild members? If it causes dissatisfaction and delays work, re-recruiting people is very troublesome."

Jing Zhiyuan was indifferent: "It's just a few words, what's the big deal? There's only one big guild in Y City; where else can they go after they leave?"

Jing Qingfeng said no more. After all, he just didn't want to delay things; what was the dignity of guild members worth in his eyes?

"Since the guide for this Mountain Sacrifice Child dungeon isn't working out, then let's go make guides for other dungeons."

Jing Qingfeng placed several potions and a Points Multiplier Card on the table. "First, adapt to the strengthening effects of the intermediate potions for a few days, and then go queue for dungeons."

"That Cheng Zhen is indeed formidable, but I hope you don't put too much energy into him. Currently, the most important thing is to compete for number one on the rankings, after all…"

He didn't say any more, but Jing Zhiyuan already understood his meaning.

"Alright, alright, I get it, I get it."

Jing Zhiyuan didn't want to hear him repeat himself, so he took the card and potions and walked out.

However, his thoughts were different from his father's.

Currently, Huangfu Dong's integral, who was number one on the New Talent Rankings, had already been set and would not change.

On the other hand, that 'advertising space for rent,' with two dungeons, his integral was already 500. At this rate, after five dungeons, who knew how high he could climb.

It seemed he still needed to make two-pronged preparations.

Thinking of this, Jing Zhiyuan sent a message to his assistant.