Qi Sheng withdrew his gaze from the direction of the Azure Star Sea Area.
He had always kept an eye on the Explorer's progress in creating the Poem of the Land.
At its core, this endeavor served the gaming experience of all players.
It also indirectly helped him develop the Player Camp, lowering the difficulty of exploring the world while making it more fun.
What surprised him was the Explorer's understanding of deterrence.
When he introduced the Deterrence System, it was not to provide players with a fixed template for a special skill.
That would have been meaningless.
The existing Star Vein System did not need any extraneous, irregular force to embellish it.
The true purpose was to plant a seed within the Player Camp.
He hoped players could use it to walk a "path of rules" uniquely their own.
That required players to deeply understand themselves and perfectly combine that understanding with their outwardly released emotional power.
The vast majority of players had not even reached the threshold in this regard.
They merely regarded deterrence as a special skill, believing its strength to be far inferior to Rune Resonance Weapons, cultivation systems, and other functions.
Since its introduction, fewer than one in three hundred thousand players had spent Sacrificial Power to unlock the deterrence function.
Yet, in the inspiration that surfaced while creating the Poem of the Land, the Explorer had inadvertently touched upon the Deterrence System's core direction of growth: customized emotions.
The height of one's deterrence was determined by one's profound control over one's own emotions and personality.
Starting from the established template of cowardly deterrence, the Explorer had begun trying to turn every insight gained during his journey into its "colors."
This was precisely the beginning of a path for the strong—from using rules to defining