The Black Madman's Evil; Gao Linzhi Exploits a Bug

The headmaster rattled off dozens of names in one breath, all of which Gao Linzhi memorized perfectly.

Among these names, some are human, some are not, and some even have player backgrounds.

Yes, some players in older servers are powerful enough to collude with the imperial court and commit all sorts of evil deeds.

Gao Linzhi thought for a moment and decided to try it out first.

After some investigation, he first chose the Black Madman.

Because this guy is indeed extremely evil, infamous, and his crimes are too numerous to recount.

The limits of evil that ordinary people can imagine are insufficient to describe it.

Gao Linzhi chose to use the power of the game to defeat evil-type bosses mainly to minimize the impact.

After all, he is seeking the path to Immortality and needs to maximize cost-effectiveness.

Eliminating an evil-type BOSS would give us a legitimate reason to act.

Secondly, eliminating an evil individual will attract many neutral, powerful individuals who will choose to remain neutral.

Ordinary people would also applaud and give him a thumbs up.

Trying to take down a kind-hearted boss right away will always encounter a lot of obstacles.

Without confirming a sufficient cost-effectiveness, Gao Linzhi naturally wouldn't do that.

No matter how much you promote yourself, there will always be many people who are hostile towards you.

Gao Linzhi isn't some arrogant, domineering protagonist; of course he wouldn't do something so stupid.

After Gao Linzhi determined his goal, he opened the game store and browsed the event items.

[Items for ranking up in the sanctions event]

[Sword Intent Enhancement Rune (20): Each rune increases Sword Intent strength by 20%. If Sword Intent has not been mastered, the bonus will be based on a level 100 Sword Saint.]

[Blade Intent... same as above]

[Staff Intent...]

[Spell...]

Of course, none of this could be broadcast live to the public.

The main concern is that other players might completely lose their temper.

Because many players work hard for years, or even decades, and in the end, their total gains and achievements are only equivalent to a few items from this event.

When they discover this, they Critical Strike naturally be furious.

Actually, once you've thought it through, it's not a big deal.

The money that many ordinary people can earn in their entire lives is nothing more than the passive income of the wealthy in just a few minutes.

Therefore, Gao Linzhi can be said to be very kind, so he stopped streaming game items.

Gao Linzhi glanced at the enhancement items.

The first is the enhancement of various weapons.

Strengthening of Sword Intent, Spear Intent, Blade Intent, incantation, and talismanic arts.

Each enhancement is 20% of the original level.

The superposition of such exponents is naturally terrifying.

Moreover, there are no limits; it can be stacked indefinitely.

Of course, there are limitations, namely, a daily purchase limit.

You can only buy 20 tickets per day, and they are very expensive.

Each one contains anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of Skyfall Stones.

This time, Gao Linzhi chose to use the "Blade Intent Enhancement Talisman".

He had already purchased it.

All the talismans, I buy the maximum of 20 each day, just enough to fill them all up.

The Skyfall Stone visibly descended.

But then he charged again.

We can't use the same thing as last time, that would be too easy to expose.

So this time, he chose to use the Blade Intent enhancement, using more than two days' worth of supplies to enhance 50 times.

It just so happens that he had learned too many skills before.

He now possesses Expert Level swordsmanship.

After 50 consecutive enhancements, this equals 1.2 to the power of 50. A simple calculation will show just how terrifying that is.

The final enhancement is approximately 9100 times.

At this point, the game prompts:

"You have temporarily mastered the Heavenly Dao level Blade Intent."

"When released, it's equivalent to the attack power of a level 150 God of Blades."

After seeing this, Gao Linzhi nodded.

This level of power is sufficient.

A typical boss is between level 100 and 120.

Level 150 is far beyond their tolerance limit.

Even if they use puppets or substitutes, this Blade Intent attack can still destroy their souls, divine senses, and consciousness across the void...

It will cause serious harm.

If one cannot withstand the pressure, it will perish.

Because a large part of this kind of attack on the realm of ideas and concepts targets the spiritual realm.

With this level 150 attack power, he can easily defeat many powerful bosses ahead of time.

This can be considered a bug in the game "Gao Linzhi Ka".

Originally, the enhancement runes in the game were designed for defense, to prevent the government from wiping out players' live-streamed activities in one fell swoop.

In a normal game, the game designers only need to submit a bug fix document.

The restrictions will be issued the next day.

These symbols are restricted to use only in specific scenarios.

Alternatively, you could limit the usage time of these runes, for example, to one hour after purchase, so that there's no time to Farm BOSS.

However, Gao Linzhi believes that the game's planners and operators have no way to modify the game.

The proposed activities can only be based on combinations of existing game features.

Whatever is proposed in the beginning, that's the only way it can be.

To put it simply, they only have permissions to search and add, not to delete or modify.

This may sound strange, but it's actually quite normal.

This is like someone buying a car; they can use it for business or for going to war.

He could even convert it into Tractor, adding a plow to the back for hauling things.

You could also add some protective measures around the area.

However, he had no way to increase the engine's power, nor could he truly convert the car into a tank.

After all, he couldn't touch the core or the framework.

Therefore, the result of not being able to touch the core is that it is used by Gao Linzhi to actively Farm BOSS and exploit bugs.

After determining the direction for strengthening his sword energy, Gao Linzhi began controlling his Game Character to find the Black Madman BOSS.

I found out where they were by asking around on the Archipelago Forum.

"The Black Madman of the Thousand Islands Sea, that's a guy you can't even describe, he's shattered the very concept of evil."

"It can be described as a typical clever villain, extremely shrewd, never provoking those of the same or higher rank, only bullying those of lower rank and commoners."

"The Thousand Islands Sea is located 6,000 li southeast of the Imperial Capital Island, corresponding to Crane City in the real world."

After finding out the location, Gao Linzhi switched his Game Character's starting location to the Thousand Islands Sea.

From the air, below lies a vast expanse of scattered islands.

They are like pearls, strung together, exceptionally beautiful.

However, according to those players, there is a terrifying BOSS in this beautiful place.

Gao Linzhi was not surprised by this.

That's the downside of the extraordinary world.

A single evil master can bring terror and oppression to countless people.

Moreover, this terror may very well continue until it dies.

According to the information provided by the players, this Black Madman is extremely shrewd.

It never targets the powerful; it only harms the weak.

Moreover, it chose to commit evil deeds within its own fixed territory.

In this way, it will not provoke any entities it should not provoke in unfamiliar territory.

In this situation, this guy is the nightmare and terrifying presence of the weak.

It is far more terrifying than monsters or demons.

Because the latter two are often unconscious, although terrifying, they won't relentlessly pursue and kill you.

But it is not like that.

It is conscious evil.

It not only killed many people, but also committed various forms of torture and murder.

Gao Linzhi had seen many legends about this "Black Madman" on the Archipelago Forum.

After reading it, he realized that the headmaster's introduction was still too brief.

Even someone as neutral as him felt that the other party was extremely evil.

Black Madman's biggest hobby is playing games.

Of course, all the game content is played by real people.

Death is real death.

To put it simply, it's like an "unlimited flow farming model".

What is the greatest evil of this Black Madman?

It has surprisingly incorporated many creative ideas from the offline world.

It has naturally come into contact with players and absorbed many evil ideas from them.

For example, it currently operates a breeding model on a hundred islands—the arena model.

The Black Madman selected one hundred islands with relatively dense populations.

It forces the elders of these hundred islands to select powerful young men every year, then tricks them into training to become stronger. Once they become stronger, the young men are thrown into the arena.

It deceived these young people, telling them that they would eventually become true strongmen and be able to enter the imperial court as officials.

In the end, however, they either become its servants or are killed by its single blow.

Its favorite thing to do is to watch geniuses work hard to become stronger, only to be easily killed by it.

Doing these things gives it a sense of pleasure in stifling genius.

Of course, it is different from other villains when it does evil.

It was very careful not to offend the truly powerful.

For example, when selecting a teenager, if their origin is unknown or they are related to the player, it will not be selected.

It only selects teenagers who truly have no background or connections.

That's why players actually quite like this evil boss.

Because the Black Madman knows that the Game System is behind the players, it won't kill even a level 1 player.

Of course, players shouldn't try to profit from this by taking advantage of the situation.

It will not interact directly with the player.

Unless the player is required to do something.

In short, players are actually much safer in this archipelago than in the imperial territory.

This may seem strange, but it's actually quite normal.

According to the D&D setting, this Black Madman falls somewhere between lawful evil and chaotic evil.

The overall tendency is towards order, but in pursuit of pleasure, chaos is also embraced.

Of course, despite Black Madman's caution, there are still some powerful figures who disapprove of his approach.

After all, the other party is stifling a genius.

Geniuses often share a sense of mutual appreciation.

Some powerful individuals who had risen to prominence elsewhere came to kill the Black Madman after hearing about him.

However, it also has its own ways of protecting itself.

That is, it had long ago established a legally protected relationship with several powerful and strange creatures in the nearby seas through Method of Sacrifice.

If any powerful beings from other realms attack him, he will hide among those Undersea Anomalies.

No matter how powerful those strong individuals are, they have no way to deal with these Undersea Anomalies.

After waiting for some time, we had no choice but to leave.

Some kind-hearted people chose to take all the local villagers with them.

However, for the powerful, population is not a problem.

After those people leave, the Black Madman will come out, abduct people from other places, dump them on the island, and continue to multiply for decades before continuing to tyrannize and oppress.

What sets it apart from ordinary villains is that it knows a lot about how to raise animals.

This is a far more terrifying kind of evil.

Because you are directly placed under its established order, your fate is predetermined from birth.

And those who are strong have many stories to tell.

Who has the time to stay here and guard it for long?

Everyone's life is precious, and everyone should seize the opportunity to Immortality.

At first, the local people hoped that outsiders would come to their rescue.

As time went on, they resigned themselves to their fate.

They evolved their own survival strategies.

That is to deceive one's own next generation and say that it is all the will of God.

They even actively cooperated with the Black Madman.

They didn't want to ask outsiders to rescue them anymore.

Because if these people leave and you can't take them with you, they will suffer even more severe torture.

This was clearly a very frightening thing for them.

After gathering this information, Gao Linzhi landed on an island from the air.

This is a bustling, large island.

A selection tournament for genius gladiators is underway on the island.

Three young men were coming from a distant village.

They were going to a large city nearby to participate in the selection process.

Everyone was laughing and joking.

These young people were clearly unaware of the truth behind the scenes.

They were three spirited young men.

Two men and one woman.

The man was handsome and dashing, and the woman was beautiful and pretty.

They all came from the same village, and their Zhang Xiaoshan, Li Si, and Xiao Mei.

It's obvious that both Zhang Xiaoshan and Li Si like Xiao Mei.

As Zhang Xiaoshan walked, he turned to Xiao Mei and said, "Xiao Mei, I'm now level 50."

"According to those extraterrestrials, I am now a mid-level martial artist!"

"If I continue to break through my limits, I can become Great Martial Artist."

"By then, I will have achieved great success and be able to request to become the lord of the island."

"By then, Xiao Mei, I will definitely make you my Island Lord's Wife."

Xiao Mei blushed immediately.

Li Si, however, was angry.

"Hmph! Zhang Xiaoshan!"

"When it comes to talent, I'm definitely better than you."

"When the time comes, I will be the island owner, not you!"

"You have talent, but you're not as hardworking as me. Have you ever seen the sea at four in the morning?"

"Alright, alright, you two stop arguing. We still need to train hard and strive to succeed in this selection so we can get guidance from stronger individuals and become even stronger," Xiao Mei advised the two.

The two then stopped.

"Very good, only in this way can the people on the island live a good life."

"Once you become the island owners, all those projects should be stopped."

"Of course," Zhang Xiaoshan said first, "The taxes levied by the authorities now are too heavy."

"Once we become the island's masters and the true powerful ones, we will reduce these taxes."

Hearing this, Xiao Mei finally cheered up.

And at this time...

Gao Linzhi had already seen the three people.

After the assessment, he discovered that two of the three men were indeed highly talented.

They are at least one in ten thousand geniuses.

With this level of skill, they should be able to reach the finals.

That is, you will be able to see the true form of the Black Madman.

Black Madman indulges in pleasure, his true form will naturally emerge.

The pleasure of personally stifling genius, achieved through puppets and doubles, simply doesn't have the same flavor.

Just like how power leveling and playing yourself are different.