"Damn it, didn't you hear the little princess say she wanted to go home?"
"End the instance for me right now!"
Rakshasa Lady Ten barked the order, her tone leaving no room for argument.
The next moment, a meek voice came from the void:
"Yes, dear. I'll end the instance right away."
As the voice faded, the bustling Amusement Park instantly fell silent.
At the same time, the other two players, still hard at work, suddenly received notifications in their minds.
[Player Tang Xiaoling has completed a hidden quest. The instance will end early!] [All surviving players will be transported out of the instance in ten seconds. Please prepare yourselves!]
Hearing these notifications, Old He and Roman widened their eyes, their entire bodies trembling with excitement.
To them, it was nothing short of music to their ears!
Having barely survived another day, the two had been desperately trying to figure out how to make it safely through tomorrow, the final day.
Never in their wildest dreams had they expected Tang Xiaoling to end the instance early!
This little girl was practically their lucky star!
The viewers watching the livestream were also stunned by the notification on their screens announcing the instance's early end.
In twenty years, nothing this bizarre had ever happened!
Although they knew Tang Xiaoling was a princess, they had only assumed she could do whatever she pleased inside the instance without getting hurt.
They had never expected her to be able to interfere with the instance's progression!
After all, that was something humanity had failed to accomplish despite twenty full years of effort.
And now a little girl had done it with ease!
"Holy shit, that's like setting off firecrackers in your pants-mind-blowingly badass! The kid ended the instance early with just a word?"
"I knew she had powerful backing, but I never imagined it was this terrifying! Does her family own the instance or something?"
"Tang Xiaoling: just the basics, no applause needed!"
"Now I just hope I get teamed up with this kid when I'm chosen to enter an instance. That would be fucking amazing!"
"Wake up. You're only looking at the benefits. Don't forget how horribly Li Zhuang, Wu Qian, and the others died!"
"Didn't they deserve it? If they hadn't plotted against Tang Xiaoling, would they have met such miserable ends? How come the other two were fine?"
"This is ridiculous. What's there to argue about? Now that the kid's identity is out, anyone who gets teamed up with her will instantly turn into a bootlicker!"
While the viewers argued, the instance's countdown reached zero.
Apart from Tang Xiaoling, the other two players both arrived in a dimly lit space.
Neither panicked. Instead, they cried tears of joy.
They knew this was where the instance results were calculated.
It also meant they were truly safe now!
[Calculating instance results...] [Player He Dayong: Grade C rating. Rewards: 500 Spirit Coins, all attributes increased by 30 points, and single-use item Hundred-Grievance Incense ×5! (Once lit, it temporarily confuses vengeful ghosts and lower-ranked evil spirits, preventing them from attacking the user.)] [Player Roman: Grade C rating. Rewards: 500 Spirit Coins and all attributes increased by 30 points.] [Player Tang Xiaoling: Grade SSS rating! Rewards: 100,000 Spirit Coins and all attributes increased by 100 points! Mid-grade Spirit Artifacts obtained: Evil Spirit Princess Set, Little Ghost Backpack! Title obtained: Little Mischief Demon!]
When the first two players' rewards appeared, the viewers merely looked on with envy.
Their ratings might have only been the lowest, Grade C, but they still received 500 Spirit Coins and thirty attribute points, instantly gaining tremendous strength.
He Dayong, who was in his fifties, had even been lucky enough to receive Hundred-Grievance Incense!
These were all things that could save their lives the next time they entered an Evil Spirit Instance!
But when Tang Xiaoling's SSS rating appeared, everyone's eyes went wide as they stared at the screen in disbelief.
"An SSS rating? What the hell is that? Isn't Grade A supposed to be the highest rating?!"
"This is my first time seeing it too. There's actually a rating this high in an instance! And aren't her rewards completely outrageous?!"
"A hundred attribute points-the kid's instantly become Superman! And two mid-grade Spirit Artifacts!"
"Forget everything else. I just want to know what the hell that title is. Why have I never seen anyone get one before?"
"Maybe you can only get one with an SSS rating..."
But as the viewers exclaimed in shock, they noticed Tang Xiaoling was nowhere to be seen in the results area.
Just then, the scene suddenly switched back to the Amusement Park!
Tang Xiaoling was standing there with a bewildered expression, listening to the notifications in her mind.
Beside her, however, Rakshasa Lady Ten was inexplicably prostrated on the ground, trembling.
And she was not the only one. Every evil spirit in the entire Amusement Park was doing the same!
Just as everyone wondered what had happened in the Amusement Park, they saw something.
A rift suddenly tore open in the blood-red sky!
Then a flash of white light shone above the Amusement Park, slowly forming a screen of light!
Within it, a handsome figure appeared and spoke slowly:
"Sweetheart, did you have fun?"
Tang Xiaoling, who had been standing in a daze, immediately brightened at the sound of her father's voice:
"Daddy! Are you here to take Lingling home?"
The little girl beamed, bouncing up and down.
Her reaction, however, left the viewers puzzled.
All they could see was that white light, without any image at all.
Had they not been able to hear that immensely commanding voice, they would have thought the little girl had lost her mind!
Even so, everyone quickly realized what was happening.
The little girl's mysterious father had manifested before them!
Good lord!
Ending the instance early was already absurd enough.
Now he could even ignore the rules and directly interfere with an instance's manifestation?!
In fact, it was not just the viewers. Even the knowledgeable Ten Elders looked stunned, their minds reeling!
Was that obscured figure Tang Xiaoling's father, Tang Long, the master of Netherworld Fengdu?!
Wasn't this far too terrifying?!
Evil Spirit Instances were formed from rules themselves, yet he could ignore them and project himself inside to speak to his daughter?!
While everyone was still reeling, Tang Long's voice rang out again:
"Sorry, sweetheart. Something came up, so Daddy can't come home just yet."
"But to make it up to you, I found another fun place for you to play, and I even prepared a special present."
"Get ready once you're home. Daddy will arrange for you to go there."
At those words, all the stream viewers, including the Ten Elders, froze.
Could that fun place Tang Long mentioned be an Evil Spirit Instance?
What was this? Was he basically announcing that the instances were his family's backyard?!
As Tang Long finished speaking, an image finally appeared on the screen of light.
A dilapidated building stood in a stretch of wilderness!
But the image was too blurry for the stream viewers to identify which instance it belonged to.
They only wondered why the building looked so familiar.
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