Chapter Summaries

Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Yue fled Chu Feiyu after learning that barehanded Blade Vibration could not stop his spear. Zhou Yue found a sword in a Loot Pile and went to confront Wanzi Daoren, only to discover his opponent had a golden health bar and a Broadsword glowing with golden spiritual energy.

• Chu Feiyu battered Mu Yawen with his spear, and Zhong Yi realized his charged attacks glowed blue.
• Mu Yawen tried to use Blade Vibration barehanded but failed, while Zhou Yue kicked Chu Feiyu in the face with a charged sneak attack.
• Zhong Yi ordered the three to split up and search the houses in Tianren City for weapons.
• Zhou Yue searched several houses, found armor, and mistook a white longsword overlapping a blue grappling hook for a blue weapon.
• Zhou Yue went to attack Wanzi Daoren and noticed his opponent had a golden health bar and a Broadsword surrounded by golden spiritual energy.

Zhou Yue, Zhong Yi, and Mu Yawen died in Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm and headed for a safer Revival Altar to regroup. They revived into an ambush set by Chu Feiyu and his powerful teammates, leaving them trapped by two ultimate abilities.

• Zhou Yue struggled to damage Wanzi Daoren’s golden armor with his White Longsword, then was nearly killed by Wanzi Daoren’s Golden Saber.
• Zhou Yue tried to lure Wanzi Daoren toward Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen, but learned both were also in trouble, and all three died.
• Zhong Yi led the group toward a distant Revival Altar, where they found Chu Feiyu hiding as a spirit body.
• Zhou Yue, Zhong Yi, and Mu Yawen revived after Chu Feiyu provoked them, then two of Chu Feiyu’s Purple-Armored teammates ambushed them with grappling hooks.
• The two teammates trapped the group with Sandstorm Fury and Scarlet Unknowing, and Zhong Yi learned Chu Feiyu’s full name was Chu Sheng.

Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen returned to Lu Ze’s Naraka: Bladepoint Illusion Realm for another match in Tianren City, where Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen fought their way across Tianren Bridge. Zhong Yi was left stranded in the river valley, and he called for help after teaching Zhou Yue how to counter a longsword combo.

• Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen decided to enter another match and headed back to Tianren City.
• The three cultivators landed near Tianren Bridge, but Zhong Yi accidentally fell into the river valley below it.
• Zhou Yue fled from an opponent with a purple Tang Blade, while Mu Yawen learned to fight with a Broadsword and teamed up with Zhou Yue to pursue a fleeing Ganan player.
• Zhong Yi was surrounded in the river valley and lost the longsword he had found, leaving him without a weapon.
• Zhong Yi told Zhou Yue to use Blade Vibration after an opponent’s two normal attacks, and Zhou Yue disarmed the longsword wielder.
• Zhong Yi urged Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen to finish the fight and come rescue him.

Zhou Yue, Mu Yawen, and Zhong Yi fought their way out of Tianren Bridge and searched Xihe Courtyard for supplies. Zhou Yue found what looked like valuable gear, but a trio of ambushers killed him and looted him, leaving him with nothing.

• Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen fought through two squads at Tianren Bridge, while Zhong Yi revived at the bridge's soul-return point.
• The three headed east to Xihe Courtyard to search for equipment before joining the battle near Immortal Shrine.
• Zhou Yue ignored Zhong Yi's warning and opened a Loot Pile, finding only a few mediocre items, then collected scattered supplies and a Purple Bows and Arrows.
• Zhou Yue found a ruined Golden Armor and entered a small room to replace his Purple Armor.
• Three cultivators ambushed Zhou Yue from the rafters, killed him with a coordinated attack, and took his valuable equipment, leaving only white items.

Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen defeated one squad, but another trapped them with a tornado and a transformed Master Tianhai. Zhong Yi transformed to protect his companions and revealed Tianhai’s golden weak point, only for Zhou Yue to spot Zhong Yi’s own glowing sigil in an embarrassing location.

• Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen used their ultimates to defeat three opponents and recover valuable equipment and supplies.
• An enemy arrow struck Zhou Yue, and Zhong Yi led the weakened team away from a squad waiting above them.
• A Temur trapped the trio in a tornado while an enemy Master Tianhai transformed into a giant vajra.
• Zhong Yi transformed into a vajra and told Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen to target the golden weak point on Tianhai’s body.
• Zhou Yue found Tianhai’s sigil on his neck, then spotted Zhong Yi’s own glowing sigil between his legs.

After a humiliating defeat caused by Zhong Yi protecting the glowing weak point at his crotch, he persuaded Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen to change their team strategy and chose Wuchen for the next match. The trio landed at the overlooked Abandoned Kiln, gathered strong equipment, and prepared to third-party the fights in Tianren City.

• Zhou Yue discovered Zhong Yi's golden weak-point mark at his crotch, and Zhong Yi lost the match while covering it as viewers mocked him on his stream.
• Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen quit after being eliminated, and Zhong Yi explained that a third-party team had attacked them while they were depleted and lacked ultimates.
• Zhong Yi recommended prioritizing third-party attacks and having Temur on the team, so Mu Yawen chose Temur for the next match.
• Zhong Yi selected Wuchen, and the trio landed at the Abandoned Kiln instead of Tianren City to avoid the crowded central area.
• Zhong Yi quickly looted blue and purple gear for the team, then declared that they were ready to third-party the fights in Tianren City.

Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Yue repeatedly fought in Tianren City, but their ambush plan failed when a waterwheel crushed them. As the Dark Zone spread, they survived with the Breath Regulation Technique and prepared to reach safety, only for another enemy to ambush them.

• Zhong Yi teleported his team into the middle of three battling teams, but a collapsing waterwheel rolled over them and wiped out the fight.
• Zhong Yi proposed using Di Sha Talismans to jump into other battles, but the talismans kept exploding on their own team.
• Over two and a half hours, Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Yue dropped into Tianren City twenty-nine times without winning and forgot they had come for the Immortality Mask.
• As the Dark Zone spread, the three took turns using Zhou Yue's Breath Regulation Technique to recover while crossing the poison zone.
• Zhong Yi lamented losing his Golden Saber and Golden Armor and said they would be unstoppable once they reached the safe zone, but an unseen enemy attacked with Sandstorm Fury.

Naraka: Bladepoint surged in popularity as cultivators embraced its battle royale gameplay, while Lu Ze hoped even sect masters would become addicted. The Spirit Cloud Sect’s Sect Master dismissed the new game until a misleading pop-up persuaded him to download it, leaving him suspecting he had been tricked.

• Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen nearly defeated Ganan, but Ganan reflected Zhong Yi’s Sword Qi and used Dragon King Break to eliminate all three.
• Cultivators filled the Naraka: Bladepoint forum with comments about the game, its characters, and campers, as the Illusion Realm rapidly gained popularity.
• Lu Ze watched his Demonic Value increase and wondered when cultivators at the Sect Master level would become hooked on the game.
• The Spirit Cloud Sect’s Sect Master dismissed a Naraka: Bladepoint promotion while cultivating in Minecraft.
• The Sect Master clicked a pop-up claiming cultivators had found Heavenly Dao opportunities in Naraka: Bladepoint, downloaded the game, and realized he might have been played.

Huang Xiao entered Lu Ze’s combat Illusion Realm, Naraka: Bladepoint, expecting an easy victory, but repeatedly lost and was shocked by the Spirit Cloud Sect disciples’ ruthless tactics. After claiming to be the Grand Elder to stop three players from attacking him, he returned to the room and summoned Chao Wendao, who had just suffered the same problem.

• Huang Xiao cleared the Naraka: Bladepoint tutorial confidently, but a sneak attack killed him before he could enter the match.
• Lu Ze received Demonic Value when Huang Xiao entered the Illusion Realm, and Huang Xiao lost three rounds to ambushes and other unfamiliar tactics.
• Huang Xiao switched to the Spirit Cloud Sect Server, where three players took his purple Tang Blade and surrounded him.
• Huang Xiao claimed to be the Grand Elder, but the players laughed and said he was the eighth person to make that claim before killing him.
• Huang Xiao summoned Chao Wendao, who arrived complaining that players had called him the ninth person impersonating the Grand Elder.

Huang Xiao, Chao Wendao, and Lin Qingxuan tried Lu Ze’s Naraka: Bladepoint, where Lu Ze repeatedly humiliated Huang Xiao and Chao Wendao. Meanwhile, Jiang Lingfeng learned that the game had devastated his Heavenly Dao Mystic Realm and told Du Cheng to copy it.

• Huang Xiao, Chao Wendao, and Lin Qingxuan played Naraka: Bladepoint together, but Lu Ze appeared as White Curtain and repeatedly killed Huang Xiao and Chao Wendao while waiting for Lin Qingxuan to revive them.
• Lu Ze left the illusion realm satisfied, explained that he had tailored the game’s weapons and heroes for cultivators, and planned to introduce the Yang Realm mechanic early.
• Jiang Lingfeng smashed his Illusion Tower after reading Du Cheng’s report that Heavenly Dao Mystic Realm had dwindled to only a few dozen players.
• Du Cheng explained that Naraka: Bladepoint’s larger arena and hundred-player matches had drawn players away from Heavenly Dao Mystic Realm.
• Jiang Lingfeng concluded that the Sect Master had intervened and told Du Cheng, “If you can’t make it... can’t you at least copy it?”

Zhong Yi joined the cultivators in practicing weapon techniques in Naraka: Bladepoint’s new Blade Training Rooms, but struggled against both skilled players and supposed beginners. The chapter ended with him cursing the beginner room after being repeatedly defeated.

• Zhong Yi hosted a Blade Training Room where cultivators practiced Naraka: Bladepoint’s attack counters and developed new techniques.
• Li Moran defeated Zhou Yue after quickly learning charged attack into Blade Vibration, while Mu Yawen explained that White Curtain had recently beaten Li Moran repeatedly.
• Zhong Yi left the expert room to test himself in a beginner Blade Training Room and selected Master Tianhai with a spear.
• Zhong Yi challenged ten players and was instantly killed eight times, while the other two opponents apparently chose not to beat him further.
• The author explained that updates would slow to one per day while they took a short break, and said they were not abandoning the book.

Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen entered Naraka: Bladepoint, where Zhou Yue’s attempt to demonstrate a new combo ended in a humiliating lantern accident. Lu Ze defeated Li Moran again and secured her promise to promote future skins, while Jiang Lingfeng and Du Cheng devised a plan to sabotage Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm.

• Zhong Yi advised Zhou Yue on using Ji Canghai’s ultimate to chain Rising Dragons, then watched him fight two opponents after Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen were defeated.
• Zhou Yue activated his ultimate and launched both enemies, but a falling lantern stunned him and set him on fire, allowing the opponents to attack him.
• Lu Ze defeated Li Moran in their custom-room duel and reminded her that losing the next round would require her to promote Naraka: Bladepoint skins.
• Jiang Lingfeng questioned why Du Cheng’s remodeled Heavenly Dao Mystic Realm was struggling, but refused to remove its cultivation levels.
• Du Cheng proposed that they sabotage Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm by sending in a cultivator whose cultivation was unrestricted.

Lu Ze recruited Li Moran to promote new Illusion Realm skins, while Jiang Lingfeng and Du Cheng tested a Magic Array that let players exploit the Illusion Realm’s rules. As players flocked to Naraka: Bladepoint, the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao asked when it could join in, and Lu Ze hinted that a new mode might give it a chance soon.

• Lu Ze changed Li Moran into a bikini skin, angering her, then replaced it with the Fragrant Snow Water Orchid skin and explained his plan to promote it and the Ice Soul longsword through a staged tournament.
• Li Moran rejected Lu Ze’s staged tournament idea and proposed an in-person duel at Severed Thought Cliff instead.
• Du Cheng told Jiang Lingfeng that their Magic Array let him exploit Illusion Realm rules, including using extremely fast attacks and transforming into a giant Buddha to throw opponents far away.
• Jiang Lingfeng approved of the plan to crush players and make them want to bring their cultivation into the Illusion Realm.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao asked Lu Ze when it could join Naraka: Bladepoint, and Lu Ze hinted that the planned Showdown mode would soon give it more chances to torment players.

Zhong Yi was killed in ranked mode by You Are All Ants, the Heretical Buddha who could grab players across the map, and learned the Forum reports were real. Lu Ze discovered the Illusion Alliance had hidden thirteen Formations to disrupt the game, but chose to let events unfold; the cheaters entered the Illusion Realm again, and he identified Genius Cultivator and Bu Po Bu Li.

• Zhong Yi used his Hu Tao poison-soaking strategy until another Hu Tao attacked him in the poison zone.
• You Are All Ants grabbed both Hu Taos from afar and killed Zhong Yi in Tianren City.
• Zhong Yi told Zhou Yue what had happened, and they discussed whether Lu Ze had created the Heretical Buddha.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao located thirteen concealing Formations planted by the Illusion Alliance, but Lu Ze said not to destroy them yet.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao detected the cheaters entering the Illusion Realm, and Lu Ze identified Genius Cultivator and Bu Po Bu Li.

Jiang Lingfeng and Du Cheng entered a trio match using their cheating formation, where the players recognized them as the infamous Hidden clansman. Zhong Yi rallied the furious cultivators to fight back, while Lu Ze watched from above and waited for events to unfold.

• Zhong Yi and his companions switched from solo matches to trios after repeated encounters with cheating players.
• Jiang Lingfeng and Du Cheng entered a trio match and spotted Li Jiujian, Spirit Cloud Sect disciples, and the renowned player White Curtain among their opponents.
• When Jiang Lingfeng’s name appeared overhead, players recognized him and Du Cheng as the Hidden clansman and condemned them for cheating.
• Jiang Lingfeng and Du Cheng mocked the gathered cultivators and threatened them, prompting Zhong Yi to denounce their crooked methods.
• Zhong Yi declared that he would land in Tianren City and asked the cultivators to face death with him, inspiring many to volunteer for battle.
• Lu Ze watched from above as Purple Thunder surged through the clouds and decided to wait for the confrontation to develop.

Zhong Yi organized the cultivators in Tianren City to gather equipment, build rage, and send out a vanguard against Jiang Lingfeng and Du Cheng. As Mu Yawen and Li Jiujian faced the enemy in the Tianren River Valley, Zhong Yi arrived transformed into a giant Buddha and launched a counterattack.

• Jiang Lingfeng declared that no one aboard the spirit boat would leave Tianren City alive, and Zhong Yi rallied the cultivators to slay the immortal.
• After the cultivators landed, Zhong Yi assigned Zhou Qiaoling to find resources, gathered fighters to build rage, and asked Mu Yawen to lead a vanguard to buy them time.
• Mu Yawen led more than a dozen cultivators toward the advancing Evil Cultivators, while kill notifications showed their numbers rapidly dwindling.
• At the Tianren River Valley, Jiang Lingfeng and Du Cheng taunted Mu Yawen and Li Jiujian as their allies fell, and Du Cheng seized a Hu Tao player to show Mu Yawen his power.
• Du Cheng moved to grab Mu Yawen, but Zhong Yi arrived as a giant Buddha, struck him, and enabled arrows to target the weak point at the back of his neck.

Du Cheng used the Heretical Buddha’s powerful attacks to break through the players’ defenses while Jiang Lingfeng attacked the ranged cultivators above the valley. Li Moran charged Du Cheng, and as his Golden Runic palm seized an ally who shielded her, the battle’s outcome remained uncertain.

• Zhong Yi led four Buddha players in shielding the cultivators, but Du Cheng unleashed a barrage of Golden Runic palms that destroyed three of them before the players charged him.
• Li Moran grappled toward the weak point on Du Cheng’s neck, but he renewed his attack as she led the charge.
• Jiang Lingfeng ambushed the ranged cultivators above the valley, killing several before Zhou Yue challenged him with a Tang Blade.
• Li Moran evaded Du Cheng’s first grab with the Ice Heart Spell and pressed her attack, relying on Zhong Yi’s plan and the others’ support.
• A figure swept in front of Li Moran and was caught by Du Cheng’s Golden Runic palm, urging her to carry out the task of slaying immortals.

Lu Ze delayed the Heavenly Dao Fragment’s intervention while the cultivators fought the Heretical Buddha and Hu Tao, then used a Di Sha Talisman to give Zhou Yue a chance to survive and learn Ji Canghai’s fighting technique. The chapter left Zhou Yue facing Hu Tao again, newly confident that he could defeat her.

• Lu Ze watched Li Moran’s allies sacrifice themselves to block the Heretical Buddha’s attacks as she closed in and froze him with Gu Qinghan’s ultimate.
• The Heretical Buddha broke free of the ice and seized Li Moran, while Hu Tao’s speed prevented Zhou Yue from landing his first attack.
• Lu Ze refused to let the Heavenly Dao Fragment intervene directly and created a Di Sha Talisman to help the players.
• The Di Sha Talisman erupted around Zhou Yue, but instead of dying, he entered a white space and watched Ji Canghai demonstrate a combo.
• Zhou Yue returned to the battle having understood how to break Hu Tao’s defenses and declared that she would meet her end.

Zhou Yue used a new combo to trap Jiang Lingfeng in the air, while Lu Ze helped Li Moran escape Du Cheng and turn the fight around. The chapter ended with Zhou Yue naming his flame-transformed weapon technique Wok Tossing.

• Zhou Yue thanked a senior, transformed with the Fire Man's ultimate, and prepared to face Jiang Lingfeng with a white Tang Blade.
• Du Cheng hurled Li Moran toward the Dark Zone, but Lu Ze hooked her out of her knockback and urged her to trust her teammates' victory.
• Li Moran froze Du Cheng despite his formation, attacked his weak point with Ice Soul, and began stripping away his health.
• Zhou Yue used a barehanded lunging punch to stagger Jiang Lingfeng, then chained Rising Dragon attacks to keep him airborne.
• On his fourth Rising Dragon, Zhou Yue's Tang Blade transformed into a golden ladle, and he named the technique Wok Tossing.

Zhou Yue and Li Moran defeated Jiang Lingfeng and Du Cheng in the Illusion Realm, exposing them as the Heretical Buddha and Evil Cultivator Hu Tao. Their victory boosted the Illusion Realm’s reputation, while Lu Ze left the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao furious that he had not been allowed to intervene.

• Zhou Yue used Hook Rope Hundred Severing to overwhelm Jiang Lingfeng, while Li Moran struck the Heretical Buddha’s weak point and reduced its health to one.
• Jiang Lingfeng and Du Cheng found themselves unable to move or leave the Illusion Realm as their disguises vanished and their identities were exposed.
• Jiang Lingfeng tried to claim his identity was a frame-up, but Li Jiujian recognized him and confronted him in the outside world.
• Li Jiujian beat Jiang Lingfeng at Illusion Sword Peak, and the battle’s revelations caused an uproar while the Illusion Realm’s reputation, titles, and Skins gained popularity.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao accused Lu Ze of deceiving him, and Lu Ze replied that he had never promised to let him act inside the Illusion Realm.