After all, geniuses were allowed to have a few eccentricities of their own.
But only Gu Chengming knew the truth: he had bought all this stuff purely to win over [Love's Hundred Bones Cry].
In his previous life, when gamers faced a boss with an outrageously thick health bar and hopelessly high defense, but with a certain amount of windup before its attacks, they often resorted to an extreme playstyle.
The players called this playstyle "monkeying around."
As the name suggested, it was like putting on a monkey show: before launching the final attack, you went through a whole series of extremely tedious steps.
Players would keep swapping out specific equipment, swallowing pills with all kinds of counteracting properties, and using self-harming skills with side effects to trigger the "increased damage at low health" passive. Then they would pile on countless short-lived buffs.
The whole process was tedious in the extreme, with almost no room for error. A moment's carelessness could mean dying on the spot because a buff expired or you had hurt yourself too much.
But if that long string of "monkeying around" went perfectly, all the buffs would peak at the same instant, allowing the player to unleash a terrifying strike that exceeded the limits of the current version.
Gu Chengming now planned to recreate this "monkeying around" strategy from his previous life's games.
Since the Hundred Bones Cry Phantasmal Image wasn't going to fight back, she couldn't blame him for stacking buffs.
Late at night, in the small courtyard on Huiyuan Gate's Back Mountain.
After returning to the small courtyard, Gu Chengming carefully sorted and arranged the materials, then began going over the entire sequence in his mind, again and again.
The timing of every step, the duration of each buff, the order in which