At the same time, Nine Provinces Forum.
Resentment soared to the heavens.
All were tearful, bloody accusations against the hellish instance.
But as time passed, more and more players like Lin Yi and Jiang Qiu emerged—players who had clawed their way out of the swamp of despair and inadvertently touched upon a corner of the instance's true nature.
Gradually, new posts unrelated to complaints began to appear.
At first, there were only a few posts marveling at the map's shortcuts.
But players soon discovered that the shortcuts were merely the most insignificant part of what Lu Xiu had hidden within this instance—
[This is seriously insane! The variety of weapons in this instance is downright absurd! Straight swords, greatswords, spears, halberds—every weapon has its own distinct hit detection, force mechanics, and recovery frames. Lu Xiu's previous instances were already outrageous enough, but I never imagined she could be even more outrageous. It genuinely feels like playing another game inside a gamified world—how the hell did she come up with this?]
[I still think the map is more insane. Look carefully at the scenery in the distance—that isn't some blurred-out backdrop at all! Anywhere you can see, those walls, towers, and sewers are all real places you can actually reach—if you can see it, you can get there!]
[This instance has so many core attributes, yet it's not unbalanced in the slightest. And that stamina bar management! It's agonizing, but you can't help being amazed. She's a genius. It somehow stays balanced, and there are all sorts of dazzling attribute scalings—how did Lu Xiu come up with this underlying logic? It's unimaginable!]
[This instance really is hard—but I wonder if you've noticed that every time I come back after dying, my feedback gets stronger. Not my character's stats—our control over our