At that time, there were droplets of water dripping from the cold stone wall of the Organ Cave, and I stared at the ring glowing white in the lower right corner of the screen, my fingers trembling as I entered the transaction password - for this 4-0 platinum ring of Taoism, I exchanged half a month's food money for a point card. Who would have thought that this seemingly ordinary piece of jewelry would hide a secret that changed the fate of Taoist priests.

Veteran players all remember that the Demon Slaying Ring was definitely a hard commodity in hard currency back then. The mage wears it to withstand the thunder and lightning of the Trap Behemoth, and the warrior wears it to rampage through the Reverse Demon Hall. But few people found that when the Taoist priest wore the demon slaying ring with 3 points of Taoism, the duration of the poison spell would suddenly be extended by five seconds. This hidden setting was not confirmed until someone dismantled the client data packet later, and how many Taoist priests were obviously holding the best but selling them as ordinary goods.

The cold glow of the white gold ring is still etched in my memory. At that time, there was a strange rumor circulating that the level of the summoned skeleton would increase inexplicably if you hung up all night while wearing a double platinum ring. There are brave people who tried to hang up on the second floor of the east of the General's Tomb for seven consecutive days, and as a result, the summon evolved directly from a white skull to a bronze beast. Although this setting has never been officially acknowledged, Taoist priests can always be seen in pairs wearing platinum rings to farm monsters in the mining area.

If you want to say that the most unsatisfactory thing has to be the Titan Ring. It is rumored that the Taoist priest who first broke the Titan accidentally discovered an astonishing pattern when he was squatting at the Reverse Demon Ancient Temple - every time the server restarts at 6 minutes, the eyes of the Reverse Demon Statue will glow red. He threw a soul fire talisman with the mentality of trying it out, and it really blew up a 0-0 Titan with Dao Technique. What's more, when wearing this ring to add blood to the divine beast, the healing technique will glow with a rare jade-colored light effect, and the healing effect will be increased by three percent.

I saw a shocking scene in the purgatory corridor back then: the platinum ring of a certain Taoist boss suddenly burst into a rainbow of light, and the Taoist attribute actually broke through to 10-0. Later, I learned that this triggered the "rage" mechanism of the equipment - when the character's HP remained below 0% for five consecutive minutes, the jewelry had a chance to awaken the hidden attribute. It's a pity that this easter egg was deleted with the version update, and now only the urban legends passed down by old players are left.

The most mysterious is the snake eye ring. There is an old brother who swears that he uses poison spelling on the thousand-year-old vine demon at the backwater swamp coordinates (4,0), and after nine consecutive failures, he will explode the best of the Dao technique 0-0. Although it sounds like a fantasy, some people did do it and really burst out with snake eyes with 0 points of Taoism after doing it. What's even more bizarre is that the skeletons summoned after wearing this ring will carry highly poisonous attributes, and the flat slash will have a green poison effect.

In those years, when I formed a team to brush the copper hammer in the Organ Cave, I could always see Taoist priests fighting for a pearl ring. It has been carefully discovered that when the pearl ring is paired with a soul bracelet, the flight trajectory of the soul fire charm will become spiral-shaped. What's even more bizarre is that the fire runes played in this combination have a chance to pierce the monster and deal double damage to targets in a straight line. It's a pity that no one studied this mechanism in the back then, otherwise the genre of "armor-piercing Taoist" should have been developed a long time ago.

In retrospect, the most precious things are not the attributes that are laid out on the surface. I remember that in a siege battle, the defending Taoist suddenly took off the Tianzun ring and replaced it with a Taoist ring that was 3-0 against the Daoist technique, and the attacking divine beasts that were originally overwhelming suddenly mutinied en masse. Later, it was revealed that this triggered the ring's hidden loyalty stat - when the Daoist Dao Skill Score broke through a certain threshold, it could temporarily seize control of the enemy's summons. This kind of surprise hidden behind the values is the most fascinating thing about the old legend.

There was always a saying in the trading house of that year: "The price tag of the ring is in the hands of the merchant, and the soul of the ring is in the heart of the Taoist." "Those shimmering rings are condensed with many unknown mysteries of the night. Now looking at the dusty demon slaying ring in the warehouse, I can still hear the low roar of the copper hammer hand in the depths of the hole, and smell the smell of incense and candles in the Beechcraft warehouse that will never disperse.