The new Instance is the Land of Reincarnation, with an SSS difficulty level. This is the most difficult Instance Shen Hao has ever experienced.
After receiving the notification from the game system, Shen Hao immediately opened the website to check the Instance guide.
SSS-level Instance require players to be around level 40 to enter.
Those who can reach this level are considered top players in this game.
Generally speaking, top-tier players are relatively few in number, forming the smallest group among gamers.
But this game is different.
This game has been around for thirty years, and over those years, the number of top-tier players is not small.
Furthermore, once they reach level 40, they no longer need to participate in Instance every month like other players; they only need to participate four times a year, resulting in a relatively lower mortality rate compared to other player groups.
Therefore, although the total number of players at this level is not large, it is definitely not the smallest among all player groups.
Shen Hao was also surprised that he would be facing these top players so soon.
But it was bound to happen sooner or later.
Entering the strategy section of the game forum, Shen Hao quickly found a guide for this Instance, but it didn't contain much useful information.
It seems that players haven't explored this Instance much yet.
However, there is another possibility: the strategy guide was not made public.
Since the latest guide was published 3 years ago, it's unlikely that no teams have entered this Instance for 3 years, right?
This is obviously unlikely; the real guide probably hasn't been uploaded.
These top players aren't short of money; they don't need to write guides just to earn a little bit.
Furthermore, most people don't need their Instance guides, so there's no need to upload them to the forum.
They have a fixed circle and rarely interact with ordinary players. Even if they have strategy guides, they will only circulate within their circle.
Therefore, Shen Hao found it difficult to find detailed Instance guides.
But he doesn't care anymore. The guides aren't very helpful to him anymore. He only reads them to get a feel for the Instance and to know what it's like.
Even without a strategy guide, he's still a boss. If those players couldn't kill the original boss, killing him would be even more difficult.
He definitely still has the advantage.
Although there was no detailed guide, Shen Hao still managed to find out the general situation of this Instance online.
"Once upon a time, this was the place where the dead went on their way to reincarnation. Every soul of the deceased would enter here, undergo judgment, and then enter the cycle of reincarnation to be reborn as a human being."
There are many legends about the Land of Reincarnation.
Some believe that people who die in the real world also enter that place, because one player saw the soul of a deceased relative there.
That is the world of the dead. Those who sinned in their previous life must atone for their sins there before they can enter the cycle of reincarnation and be given a second life in the Netherworld.
Those who commit heinous crimes can never experience reincarnation and can only remain there to suffer torment.
Souls that are pure and without sin do not need to suffer and can directly enter the cycle of reincarnation.
The original Land of Reincarnation allows humans to experience a second life, which is of great importance to humanity.
But the evil Lord of the Netherworld controlled that place. He seized control of the Land of Reincarnation, shut down the cycle of reincarnation, and left all the dead stranded Land of Reincarnation, becoming the source of his evil power.
Now, people have no chance of reincarnation anymore, unless they can destroy the remaining power of the Lord of the Netherworld and break the seal on the Land of Reincarnation, in which case they can regain the right to experience reincarnation.
"As long as the seal on the Land of Reincarnation is not broken, the souls of the dead will forever suffer there."
This is the general information about the Land of Reincarnation, which is also related to the evil Lord of the Netherworld.
But these are the descriptions that players see in the game system, while what Shen Hao sees is different from what they see.
Shen Hao's game system never referred to the Netherworld as an evil entity, and it also had a different explanation for the existence of the Land of Reincarnation.
"The Land of Land of Reincarnation was created by the Lord of the Netherworld. The merciful Lord of the Netherworld saw those suffering souls and felt pity for them."
He decided to grant those souls a second life.
He rebuilt the Netherworld, making it a place where humans could live, and created the Land of Reincarnation, opening up a second life for humanity.
From that time onward, all humankind in the world would enter the Land of Reincarnation after death, where they would be given a second life.
To start a new and wonderful life in the Netherworld, in order to make up for past regrets.
The Lord of the Netherworld was recognized by the world for this achievement, becoming the world's only true god!
This is what Shen Hao saw in his own game system, almost the opposite of what was on the website.
But whether the Land of Reincarnation was created by the Lord of the Netherworld or seized by Him, Shen Hao couldn't be sure.
But he still preferred to believe what he saw.
Because of the relics left by the Lord of the Netherworld that he saw in the Instance during this time, those relics indicated that the Lord of the Netherworld was not entirely evil.
He is cruel to those extraordinary beings, but friendly to ordinary humans.
Moreover, the Lord of the Netherworld had absolutely no need to do such a thing.
The power of the human soul is far less than that of the Demigods of the Netherworld.
Lord of the Netherworld wants to gain power, he could simply absorb the souls of those Demigods; there's absolutely no need to control the souls of those humans.
Clearly, the version he saw was closer to the truth.
Regardless of the version, they all mention that the Land of Reincarnation is an important place for humans to experience reincarnation. If a person dies in the real world, they will enter the Land of Reincarnation.
But now, for some reason, the Land of Reincarnation has stopped operating.
Of course, even if the Land of Reincarnation could continue to operate, people would not be able to obtain a second life.
Because after reincarnation, humans will live in the Netherworld with new identities, but that place is no longer suitable for human survival.
Now many of his doubts have been explained.
For example, why are the Netherworld and the real world so similar, even their languages and writing systems are almost identical?
Because the Netherworld is the world after a person dies, roughly equivalent to what people call the netherworld.
The civilization there was created by the humans of their world, so of course there will be similarities.
According to the information he received, the Lord of the Netherworld created everything in the Netherworld and is the deity who governs Netherworld.
However, the Lord of the Netherworld was already dead, and his remains were devoured by the Demigods of the Netherworld.
The Netherworld is now reverting to its original state, becoming a place like hell.
Shen Hao was already able to guess his mission.
A certain will is attempting to dismantle everything created by the Lord of the Netherworld, and that will is exploiting humanity's ignorance and using human power to destroy everything the Lord of the Netherworld has established.
His mission is probably to stop all of this.
But why did he try to stop it?
He was Demon, and he preferred the scenery of hell to heaven.