The Heavenly Beings of the Gods and Devils Continent had been Players to begin with, with plenty of gaming experience. After the initial chaos, they quickly gathered into guilds.
The Game Company had promised that the top thirty million Players would retain their memories and enter the next Game World.
Organized, disciplined guilds had an easier time surviving and farming contribution points than individuals did.
At present, the four most famous guilds were Fire Phoenix, Black Soul, Storm, and World-Destroyer.
These four guilds had millions of members. They recruited Players ranked within the top ten million in contribution points, as well as Players who had seized usable Divine Artifacts from Players from the Real World.
The leader of the Black Soul guild was called Sui Liang. He had once been a star radiance general under the Metal Heavenly King.
After regaining his identity as a Player, he promptly made the best possible decision, gathering his soldiers and rushing to the Gods and Devils Continent at once.
Instead of destroying towns, they raided more than twenty groups affected by Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix in the shortest time possible, collecting their first batch of Divine Artifacts.
That established an overwhelming advantage for the days ahead.
Afterward, he avoided fighting the gods. Using the guild's ability to farm contribution points as a selling point, he called on Real-World Players who had returned from the Immortal World with Divine Artifacts to join, further strengthening his forces.
Later, when Players from the Real World entered the Game World, Sui Liang plundered another large batch of them. Only after building up his reserves did he confront the gods head-on. The River God had died at his hands.
Of course, to forge iron, the hammer itself had to be hard. Sui Liang personally possessed two Divine Artifacts.