Qi Sheng withdrew his gaze from the Azure Star Sea.
He had been following the Explorer's progress in creating the "Poem of Scenery."
At its heart, this undertaking served the gaming experience of all players.
It also indirectly helped him build the Player Faction, making the world easier for players to explore while making it more enjoyable.
What surprised him was the Explorer's understanding of Might.
When he first introduced the pressure system, he had not intended to give players a fixed template for a special skill.
That would have been meaningless.
The existing star meridian system needed no embellishment from any external power short of rules.
His core purpose was to plant a seed within the Player Faction.
He hoped players could use it to forge a "path of rules" uniquely their own.
This required players to understand themselves deeply and combine that understanding perfectly with the emotional power they projected outward.
Most players had not even reached the threshold of this.
They merely regarded Might as a special skill, one they considered far weaker than Runes Resonance Weapons, the cultivation system, and other functions.
Since its introduction, fewer than one in three hundred thousand players had spent sacrificial power to unlock the Might function.
Yet the inspiration the Explorer found while creating the Poem of Scenery had inadvertently touched upon the pressure system's most fundamental direction for growth: customized emotions.
Deep control over one's own emotions and personality determined how high one's Might could rise.
Building on the established template of cowardly pressure, the Explorer had begun trying to turn every insight from the journey into one of its "colors."
This was precisely the beginning of a path to strength that led from using rules to defining "custom rules."
Nurturing one's own rules was also a path to