Made for I Wanna

Spirit Cloud Sect, Sect Plaza.

Disciples came and went, buzzing with talk.

"Did you hear? Junior Brother Lu's gotten himself into trouble!"

"What happened? What did he do?"

"Apparently, the Grand Elder wanted Lu Ze to make the Illusion Realm for this year's Martial Arts Exchange. But an elder from the Azure Peak Sect objected, and Junior Brother Lu got carried away and offered to prove himself on the spot!"

"That's all? What's wrong with that? Junior Brother Lu's talent for making Illusion Realms..."

"You don't understand! The Azure Peak Sect elder told Lu Ze to make a trap-filled Secret Realm, and it has to be at least C-Grade to pass!"

"Hiss... C-Grade? That's tough. The master of a C-Grade trap-filled Secret Realm must have been at least in the Transformation God Realm while alive."

"That's not all! If C-Grade were the only requirement, Junior Brother Lu's read so many books that he'd surely manage... But he actually said he'd make traps none of the elders could get past!"

"What?? Has Junior Brother Lu... lost his mind?"

"Now he's really done it!"

"Traps even the elders can't overcome? How is that possible?"

"I heard the Grand Elder and Sixth Elder are frantic. If Lu Ze can't pull it off, our sect will lose face."

"Let's go see!"

Word of Lu Ze's grand boast in the Nurturing Spirit Hall grew legs and quickly spread throughout the sect.

Countless curious disciples gathered outside the Nurturing Spirit Hall, hoping for the latest news.

At that very moment.

Lu Ze was inside the Illusion Realm, methodically making his preparations.

"Traps? Mechanisms? Heh. Looks like all that work wasn't for nothing."

Lu Ze spoke to himself.

Some time ago, while planning his future games, he had drawn up several options.

Without a doubt, the fastest way to earn Demonic Value was through punishing games where players died quickly.

Soulslike games, such as Sekiro, Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Black Myth...

Or smaller punishing games, such as Celeste, I Wanna, and Cat Mario...

The former required too many resources. He could only start on them once his cultivation rose and his Spiritual Sense could support a vast Illusion Realm.

The latter were far more convenient.

So a few days ago, with nothing else to do, he had organized design plans for several standout punishing games.

Now that Yang Zhengxin had proposed a "traps" theme, those plans had come in handy.

Traps?

It was practically tailor-made for I Wanna!

With that settled, he got to work.

Making I Wanna with cultivation techniques wasn't difficult.

The hard part was recreating the experience of playing it in his previous life.

After all, Illusion Realms here used a first-person perspective.

Lu Ze thought for a moment and soon made up his mind.

He quickly created two versions.

One had the abstract visuals from his previous life.

The other was an Illusion Realm landscape recreated from the original levels.

Players would see the latter while playing.

But if they activated their Spiritual Sense, they could see the former.

Cultivators would have no trouble understanding this.

It was much like using Spiritual Sense to survey the terrain, except the visuals looked a little strange.

This way, cultivators could see every trap across the map without losing their sense of immersion and finding the game impossible to get into.

Once he had settled on the approach, Lu Ze immediately began creating it.

I Wanna's art style was extremely abstract.

Lu Ze's faithful recreation was every bit as abstract.

But he couldn't worry about that.

After all, that old geezer outside had only demanded difficult traps. He hadn't said a word about the art style.

Besides, time was short and the task was demanding. This art style would do just fine.

He had designed the map earlier, and making the visuals wasn't hard.

Once the visuals were done, Lu Ze began setting the properties of the various traps.

Ground Spikes that killed on contact, blocks that could disappear at any moment, and all kinds of obstacles...