After the Rule Node's exact location was exposed ahead of time, players swarmed into action.
Dozens of Bully Flights formed in a short time.
Large numbers of players parachuted into the Heavenwave Lake region of Black Soul Continent.
The puppet coordination system An Kui and his clanspeople had built was exquisitely intricate. Its combined power could crush the vast majority of player squads.
But against the players arriving in droves, even the most intricate coordination was nothing more than a toy that would shatter at a touch.
As one player commented on Feng Yue's forum post: Congratulations, the puppet formation will be cracked very soon.
The Rule Node, which originally would not have been exposed for another six days, now faced an unstoppable advance by masses of players.
From the moment the forum research enthusiast "Du Shu Po Wan Juan" posted the location he had analyzed to the Rule Node's successful containment, barely an hour passed.
By the time later players saw the trending post and excitedly prepared to form teams for a share of the opportunity, everything at Heavenwave Lake had already been settled. There were not even scraps left.
Throughout this process, layers upon layers of Eagle-Headed Demon Perception swept downward, countless "radar networks" scanning back and forth.
Every resource with even a trace of spirituality was stripped clean.
The players took every last bit of the civilizational foundation left behind by An Kui's lineage.
The entire ancient city beneath the lake was scoured several times over.
Surface buildings, puppet wreckage-even cracks in the bedrock buried deep underground were searched one by one, lest the players miss some hidden treasure.
Two or three players playing "ruins scratch cards" together focused on elegance and care.
When players in droves started scratching, however, it became a brutal sweep.
Before long,