When it comes to cunning, it's always the old foxes who've lived a long time that take the cake.

*Pollution: Law of True Demon*

*Type: Quest Item*

*Upon possession, all attributes -50%*

This Law of True Demon was the one Wang Linchi had obtained from the underground palace and South Ridge Village.

If it only contained the half from the underground palace, it would indeed be half of the Demon Suppression Legacy. As a quest item, it could inflict extra effects on demon-converted enemies. However, when combined with the other half, it directly transformed into the Law of True Demon, and also carried pollution.

Luckily, God-given World was not to be trifled with. It was fair when dealing with non-Abyss Difficulty dungeons, but when facing the Abyss, it naturally favored the players.

Wang Linchi could turn over this quest item directly to God-given World and exchange it for 10,000 Abyss Crystals. After turning it over, the system would simultaneously delete all copies of the Law of True Demon in the Mystery of Nanling Village.

However, Wang Linchi did not immediately hand it over; he memorized it first.

During this process, the Game System kept urging Wang Linchi to hand it over. This confirmed that the item was very important to the Game System and could be a loophole in South Ridge Village.

This went to show that God-given World's control over each Abyss Difficulty dungeon was not as extensive as Wang Linchi had imagined.

Thankfully, it's understandable. If it could control everything, there would be no need for players to help.

He quickly finished memorizing it and then chose to hand it over.

After this legacy disappeared, 10,000 Abyss Crystals were immediately credited to his account. Additionally, a system notification appeared.

*System Alert: Location undergoing an uninterrupted update...*

There were numerous fixes, but Wang Linchi immediately spotted one of the most inconspicuous update items.

*System Alert: Fixed the bug that caused the ineffective item—Pollution: Law of True Demon—to appear in the Abyss Difficulty of Mystery of Nanling Village. All players currently in this difficulty instance will receive 100 Abyss Crystals as compensation.*

As for the other fixes, Wang Linchi wasn't too concerned whether they were real or fake.

Wang Linchi also received his 100 Abyss Crystals, which were directly credited to his account.

So, as long as one player achieves this, the Game System can use this data to synchronize all parallel developments in this dungeon instance?

This is indeed a good idea. Players can fail countless times, but the Game System only needs players to succeed once. Then, it can take this successful data, like a virus, and overwrite all the failures.

Wang Linchi watched as the underground palace behind him slowly disappeared. It had been forcibly deleted. It wasn't just the Law of True Demon in his hands; it seemed the data from the Mystery of Nanling Village instance Wang Linchi was in had been used. In other parallel instances, elements like the underground palace, Dwarf Monsters, and the Mutated Dwarf Demon King must have all vanished.

The True Magician's face was likely forcibly erased as well.

While Wang Linchi headed to the southern valley to seek the real Demon Suppression Legacy, guided by the information the True Magician's face had provided, he also opened the forum.

Sure enough, one player posted that he had been kicked out of the underground palace while farming the corpses of demonized dwarves, losing a farming spot.

They couldn't defeat the Dwarf Monsters and the Mutated Dwarf Demon King—the Elite Monster and Boss—inside. However, they could still handle the demonized corpses at the entrance of the underground palace, which weren't even Elite Monsters. If players couldn't even defeat those, what was the point of playing the game?

Therefore, after completing the seal, they would swing by to farm a wave before leaving, gaining both Experience and some Abyss Crystals.

Of course, this might turn a one-hour speedrun into two, but they would gain more Abyss Crystals.

The posts contained no swearing, just surprise that the underground palace was actually a bug.

Next, some gaming clubs and studios voiced out. The quest items they possessed had also disappeared, deleted directly.

This annoyed them. After all, half of the Demon Suppression Legacy was a quest item with positive effects. However, the Game System didn't consider optimizing it and just eradicated it completely.

Elsewhere, Wang Linchi might have considered this a blanket solution. But here, he felt it was more like kicking them while they were down.

Between keeping the quest item formed by half the Demon Suppression Legacy and leaving the True Magician perpetually incomplete, the Game System had definitely chosen the latter. This would significantly reduce the True Magician's strength, making it easier for players to defeat him.

Otherwise, once the True Magician broke the seal and his face—the one on the Mutated Dwarf Demon King's back—recombined with him, the danger would inevitably be greater.

However, the players didn't understand this; all they knew was that they had suffered some loss.

Come to think of it, God-given World really has no one maintaining it, not even customer service. Wang Linchi looked at the messy forum.

Because of this, many people began stirring things up on the forum. There were no Underworld Soldiers, as account-per-person rules applied. It wasn't like the internet, where one person could have hundreds or thousands of accounts and even use scripts to automate actions.

In God-given World, there was a real-name system. Once an account was bound, you couldn't have a second one, and characters couldn't be deleted.

So, if Underworld Soldiers tried to stir up too much trouble or made contradictory statements, they would be easily identified. More importantly, an account also displayed character level. To effectively cause trouble, one needed a sufficient character level; otherwise, a bunch of level-one accounts trying to incite unrest would be very obvious.

If you only focused on stirring up trouble in the game instead of actually playing, your forum posts, no matter how many, wouldn't outnumber those of normal players.

This commotion will probably last for a while. After all, a resource spot is gone.

But Mystery of Nanling Village isn't the only instance for speed-farming resources. Those who feel they've lost out will probably switch instances later.

Wang Linchi paid no mind to the forum matters. With such a large global population, a bit of chaos was normal.

We're here. This should be the valley.

He closed the forum, with its rabble-rousers, and then looked towards the nearby valley.

I have to say, whoever chose this spot really knew what they were doing. This area is surrounded by mountains and water. Aside from the risk of landslides and mudflows during heavy rain, it's quite good.

Looking from afar, the scenery is picturesque. It's indeed a great place for seclusion.

Does this instance not have boundaries? Wang Linchi looked at the valley. A thought suddenly struck him: if this were true, he wouldn't need to limit himself to the South Ridge Mountain Range and could explore a wider world.

As soon as this idea emerged, he searched the forum.

Ah... so there are boundaries. It looks like there aren't, but they're actually invisible walls with textures. Wang Linchi quickly found a relevant post.

There are many eccentric players out there; someone was bound to have explored this.

Well, so much for that. I thought there might be other ways to play, but it turns out I'm still confined here.

Wang Linchi sighed, then headed towards the interior of the valley.

I've been walking for so long. The South Ridge Mountain Range is just too illogical. There are only flowers, grass, and trees—not a single animal or insect. If they weren't worried about it looking too bare, there probably wouldn't even be plants.

But animating plants, animals, and insects probably poses a computational cost issue. After all, those things can move, requiring extra processing power, and could also lead to all sorts of strange player exploits. Wang Linchi had discovered the difference between the instance and the real world: the ecosystem was completely fake.

With a reboot every three days, there's no need for an ecosystem. Players don't need to eat or drink, and the NPC Natives are already stocked with food. Besides, if the quests aren't resolved, they don't need much food anyway.

They're really cutting costs. No wonder there are some system loopholes.

Wang Linchi quickly entered the valley and began looking for the inheritance location according to the clues.

The inheritance location was very well hidden. It had been left for his descendants, not for his disciple.

He suspected the master and disciple had a falling out over the inheritance. The master held something back, wanting to leave the true legacy to his son. The disciple, naturally unwilling, must have backstabbed his master.

Wang Linchi didn't care about the truth of the matter. He was more concerned that he had found the entrance to the inheritance.

After that person transformed into an Abyssal Demon—a True Magician—he no longer cared about descendants or his disciple. He had become a terrifying, inhuman entity.

Did the lock on the entrance break due to the passage of time? Looking at the hidden entrance, Wang Linchi tried the opening method provided by the face. The process was smooth, except the door didn't budge.

Just as unreliable as I figured. That fellow probably never considered it would break after so long, or maybe he assumed his son had already taken everything...

Wang Linchi muttered to himself and then directly summoned the Saint Master.

He was determined to obtain this inheritance today. If the intended method failed, it didn't matter; he could use brute force to achieve his goal. The process wasn't important; he valued the result.