Chapter 85: Solving Liyue

"The music here is truly impressive; I didn’t expect that guy actually delivered on his promise."

Zhang Feng, listening to the battle background music of Liyue, murmured quietly, as if recalling something.

Meanwhile, Qin Xiaoyu, watching the livestream, felt a flicker of pride upon seeing players lavish praise on Liyue’s music—and secretly rejoiced.

When he had decided to spend a huge sum hiring a professional symphony team to remake the game’s background music, he had been deeply pained.

After all.

That money was borrowed from Gaohe, and he would eventually have to repay it with interest.

But now, seeing the players’ reactions, Qin Xiaoyu felt he had made a wise decision—how could he possibly say the music was synthesized with an editor if players asked?

"Phew, my daughter’s legs are nearly worn out, but we finally made it to the Seven-Light Statues!"

Zhang Feng’s excited voice in the livestream snapped Qin Xiaoyu out of his thoughts, pulling his attention back to the game screen.

At this moment.

On screen, Zhang Feng was controlling Xiao Keqing as she sprinted toward a Seven-Light Statue.

Chests scattered along the path and obvious puzzles were all completely ignored by him.

Viewers in the livestream, seeing this, immediately erupted in frantic reminders and mockery.

"Ah Nan, stop! There’s a wooden chest under the stairs—pick it up!"

"There’s a torch puzzle on the steps—switch to Amber and light it..."

"Damn, the streamer’s a real hardass—he can see chests and still resist opening them? Is he even human?"

"My OCD is screaming—just pick it up already, or I’m unsubbing. You believe me, right?"

"To be honest, now when I go out to buy toilet paper, I keep glancing at the bushes along the way, wondering if there’s a chest hidden there..."

"Looks like the Genshin design team isn’t that great—this puzzle difficulty is no different from Mondstadt!"

"It’s way too easy—visible at a glance, no sense of accomplishment at all! Did the designers run out of talent?"

"This puzzle task? Pathetic! Guys, next time the devs send out a survey, keep voting ‘Very Easy’!"

Watching the endless stream of comments in the livestream mocking Liyue’s puzzles as too easy and chests as too accessible,

Qin Xiaoyu couldn’t help but sneer.

He muttered silently to himself: "So now everyone’s feeling so inflated? Let’s see how you feel when tackling the open-world puzzles. Don’t you dare go look up guides online!"

In Qin Xiaoyu’s view, over fifty percent of players, if left to explore on their own, wouldn’t solve even half the Liyue open-world puzzles by version 1.1.

By the time Inazuma opens, many still wouldn’t figure them out.

Puzzles like the Dunyu Mausoleum’s Nameless Treasure, Ancient Cloud and the Azure Dragon, Guili Plain’s Treasure of Guili, and the Nine Pillars of Jing’se—all carried considerable difficulty.

Some puzzles, even for Qin Xiaoyu himself, had required immense effort to solve the first time he encountered them.

And these players are complaining the difficulty is too low?

Hah!

This generation of players is just too young.

When they’re driven to despair, scalp tingling with frustration, they won’t think so naively anymore...

The livestream’s chatter about chests and puzzles ended abruptly as Zhang Feng activated the Seven-Light Statue.