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It was a standard design in many games. Under such forced rules, you could only use specific items to open their corresponding doors.
Even with identical items and doors, simply changing the direction would make them impossible to open, leaving many Players grinding their teeth in frustration.
Whether it was the Great Sage's Golden Cudgel or the Mountain-Splitting Axe in Cheng Tian's hand, both possessed tremendous destructive power. Brute force could break many ordinary restrictions... but the restrictions on the South Heaven Gate were far from simple.
Or rather, although the Black Heavenly Court had suffered badly at the hands of the Three-Party Allied Army, that was only because of an information imbalance. It did not mean the Black Heavenly Court was truly weak.
As a derivative world setting developed from Journey to the West, the spatially expanded Black Heavenly Court had broadly retained a basic framework similar to the Heavenly Court in Journey to the West: The Great Sage's Fury, including Immortals, spells, magical treasures, and so on.
The Human-Racial Bag in Yellow Eyebrow's hands and the Exquisite Pagoda held by the Headless Knight had both undergone some alterations in their effects, but they had basically been derived from the original work.
Thus, the Black Heavenly Court map was undoubtedly far stronger than the six Lower Realm maps. The Vajra Ring that had participated in ambushing the Great Sage might even come flying out from some hidden corner and start bouncing through their own soldiers.
The same went for Black Spirit Mountain. Who knew whether the possibly corrupted Tathagata Buddha was waiting there with his great palm seal ready to strike?
Leaving aside whether the Golden Arhats led by Manjushri and Samantabhadra could trust the Silver Armored Heavenly Soldiers