I've Solved This Problem

Artifact Forging Hall.

Inside Lu Ze's pavilion.

"No, it's still too boring."

Lu Ze exited the illusion he had just created, frowning in thought.

The past few days of game development had not gone smoothly.

Although he had settled on the genre, choosing which game to adapt for this world had become a problem.

After deciding to avoid the combat genre, the first thing Lu Ze thought of was Fruit Ninja.

The scenes from his past life—using his fingers as "swords" to slice through countless fruits—were still vivid in his mind.

Accompanied by crisp sound effects, juice splattered everywhere. It was incredibly satisfying.

During the early days of mobile gaming, Fruit Ninja had once ruled the field.

Relaxing, satisfying, simple.

On the first day, Lu Ze had transplanted Fruit Ninja into the Illusion Tower.

But after trying it himself, he was dissatisfied.

The sight of fruits randomly appearing in the air before players cut them apart with a single swing simply lacked the same impact it had when smartphones had first emerged in his previous life.

Besides, the disciples of the Spirit Cloud Sect had all sorts of fancy sword-training methods.

What was so special about slicing fruit with a sword?

Even after Lu Ze increased the difficulty, it still did not feel right.

He also tried replacing the fruits with attacking demons.

But then it was no different from the ordinary illusion trials used for sword practice in the sect.

Lu Ze tried adding some common level designs, such as mechanics for constantly upgrading weapons, skills, or monsters, along with weaknesses...

But no matter what he did, something always felt lacking.

The main issue was that cultivators had far too many elaborate ways to train in martial arts.

Without some truly novel design, it might not even match the effect of Demonic Path Escape.

Or perhaps he could make the game world larger, allowing him to win through gameplay and worldbuilding.

Unfortunately, with Lu Ze's current Foundation Establishment cultivation, the size of the illusions he could create was extremely limited.

Otherwise, he could simply bring over something like Sekiro or Nioh and let those who loved clashing blades fight to their hearts' content.

With the illusion's range limited like this, he could only put effort into creativity.

Lu Ze stared at the illusion designed after Fruit Ninja, frowning as he thought.

"No matter how I design it, I can't avoid the act of swinging a sword."

"Once there's sword-swinging, it turns into a combat theme."

"And if it's combat, then it can't distinguish itself from the sect's illusion trials..."

Lu Ze muttered to himself.

This seemed to have become a vicious cycle.

After all, this was not his previous life.

In his previous life, games did not need much gameplay. As long as the visuals were flashy enough and the impact felt satisfying enough, they could achieve decent results.

But for cultivators, what was the point of combat?

The special effects in those games from his previous life might not even be as awe-inspiring as sparring between Grandmasters.

"Then..."

"What if the meaning of swinging a sword isn't for battle?"

Lu Ze narrowed his eyes.

He tried to find the sole path forward among countless dead ends.

How should he design it so that the disciples would keep swinging their swords?

There had to be a driving force.

There had to be something players could only accomplish after swinging their swords.

Lu Ze became absorbed in thought, unconsciously swinging his sword as he pondered.

With a casual slash, he accidentally missed an apple.

The apple fell to the ground and vanished.

"Wait..."

Like Newton getting hit on the head, Lu Ze suddenly had an idea.

It wasn't logical for something to vanish the moment it hit the ground.

What if it fell onto the ground...

And then grew into fruit?

This sudden train of thought gave Lu Ze a great deal of inspiration.

He immediately altered the Illusion Realm.

He made the space below deeper and raised the character's position into the sky.

The ground became soft soil as well.

"Again!"

The fruits in the air fell once more.

With a single Z-Slash, Lu Ze chopped countless fruits into pulp.

Only one crop—something that wasn't a fruit—was precisely spared by him.

It was a sunflower.

The sunflower fell into the soil.

In an instant, it burst out of the ground.

It grew into a smiling sunflower.

Lu Ze smiled.

He had solved this problem.