Recaps

Lu Ze helped the Spirit Cloud Sect crush Slay Immortals and Attain the Dao with Teemo’s mushrooms and tricks, until the enemy surrendered. After Guo Tianyin challenged them over their banned Heroic Souls, Lu Ze agreed to a blind pick.

• Lu Ze guarded Zhou Yue’s lane, invaded the enemy jungle, and planted Teemo mushrooms throughout it.
• Lu Ze ambushed the fleeing enemy bot lane duo, scaring them into his mushrooms while Zhou Yue and the Spirit Cloud Sect won fights across the map.
• Lu Ze amassed twenty-five Soulstealer stacks and 220 minions in twenty minutes as his team overwhelmed Slay Immortals and Attain the Dao.
• Slay Immortals and Attain the Dao surrendered, then Guo Tianyin blamed Liu Mo and complained that the Spirit Cloud Sect kept banning their signature Heroic Souls.
• Guo Tianyin challenged the Spirit Cloud Sect to let their Heroic Souls through, and Lu Ze agreed to a blind pick.

Lu Ze chose Zed to face Guo Tianyin’s signature Zed and dominated the match, then learned that Liu Mo had died and decided to prolong the fight while Nangong Yuan and the others approached their destination. He announced that he would not return to base until he died.

• Slay Immortals and Attain the Dao accepted Lu Ze’s blind-pick challenge, and Lu Ze chose Master of the Shadows to face Guo Tianyin’s signature pick.
• Lu Ze overwhelmed Guo Tianyin in lane, repeatedly denying him experience and killing him despite trying to keep him alive.
• Lu Ze joined the dragon fight, killed Kog'Maw, and scored a quadra kill against Slay Immortals and Attain the Dao.
• Lu Ze completed his Zed build and bought Quicksilver Sash, then sensed that his Dharma seal in Liu Mo’s Divine Soul had shattered and realized Liu Mo was dead.
• To keep the match going while Nangong Yuan and the others traveled, Lu Ze announced in public chat that he would not return to base until he died.

Lu Ze taunted the Slay Immortals and Attain the Dao team into fighting him without returning to the city, then slaughtered his opponents as Zhong Yi compared his shadow techniques to True Lord Yuelun's. The chapter ended with Lord Tianyin transforming into the missing Rogue Cultivator expert, True Lord Yuelun, as Lu Ze stood at critical health.

• Lu Ze told the opposing team he would not return to the city unless he died, and Guo Tianyin accepted the challenge.
• Lu Ze privately told Zhou Yue he was provoking the enemy to keep them from surrendering, then ordered Zhou Yue to farm minions while he handled the kills.
• Lu Ze repeatedly killed Kog'Maw and Pantheon, then chased Aatrox beneath the tower and killed him while Blind Monk escaped.
• Viewers and sect leaders praised Lu Ze's shadow techniques and invited him to join their sects.
• Lu Ze reached nineteen kills without a death, but his health dropped to a sliver as Lord Tianyin charged toward him and transformed into True Lord Yuelun.

Lu Ze faced True Lord Yuelun in a close Zed duel after Yuelun’s Divine Soul took control of Guo Tianyin’s body. With both players near death, Lu Ze outmaneuvered Yuelun and left the duel’s outcome hanging on his final evasive move.

• Guo Tianyin farmed for ten minutes to close the equipment gap, then rushed toward Lu Ze, who taunted him with Zed’s shadow.
• The Evil Formation’s limit was exceeded, and True Lord Yuelun’s Divine Soul took over as viewers realized the previous opponents had also been captured cultivators.
• Yuelun used Living Shadow and Blade of the Ruined King to chase Lu Ze, but Lu Ze matched his speed and avoided his attacks with Zed’s ultimate.
• Yuelun’s ultimate missed after Lu Ze swapped with his shadow, and Lu Ze used Cleanse to remove both the ultimate mark and Ignite.
• Lu Ze hit Yuelun with a shadow-thrown shuriken, then vanished in a golden flash as Yuelun’s blade was about to strike.

Lu Ze defeated Yue Lun in a near-fatal duel, and Zed’s phantom bowed to him in submission. After Lu Ze deliberately took the Blind Monk’s Sonic Wave, he killed the jungler too, and Team Slay Immortals and Attain the Dao disconnected from the Illusion Realm.

• Lu Ze dodged Yue Lun’s attacks, swapped places with his shadow clone, and killed him with a ghost slash.
• Zed’s phantom knelt and bowed behind Lu Ze, while Zhong Yi and the viewers celebrated Lu Ze’s victory.
• The Blind Monk ambushed Lu Ze with Sonic Wave, and Lu Ze deliberately let it hit him.
• Lu Ze swapped with his shadow clone and killed the Blind Monk with ghost slash and Shadow Blade.
• All five members of Team Slay Immortals and Attain the Dao disconnected and left the Illusion Realm.

After Spirit Cloud Sect exposed the Demon Path’s attack and won the Heavenly Dao Cup, Lu Ze entertained the crowd with three deliberately frustrating games in the final. The team chose their champion skins, and Lu Ze agreed to pick Teemo.

• Lu Ze pushed the towers after the opposing team disconnected, while viewers accepted Spirit Cloud Sect’s victory over the Demon Path team.
• Zhong Yi revealed Spirit Cloud Sect’s strike on a Demon Path hideout, and Lu Ze announced offline tournaments and Divine Soul testing to prevent further attacks.
• A week later, Spirit Cloud Sect swept Azure Peak Sect 3-0 in the Heavenly Dao Cup final as Lu Ze played AP Jester, Neeko, and Zilean.
• Zhou Qiaoling, Mu Yawen, Zhou Yue, and Li Moran chose their team skins, then urged Lu Ze to pick Teemo.
• Lu Ze agreed to choose Teemo as strange phenomena appeared over the Canyon.

After receiving a reward that could restore incomplete spells and finishing his game releases, Lu Ze was pushed by a new system mission to make a horror game that would earn fear points. He settled on a localized version of Phasmophobia and volunteered to catch ghosts, despite Nangong Yuan warning him away from dangerous activity in the Immortal Abyss Continent.

• Lu Ze received the Heavenly Evolution Jade as his reward and used it to complete the Formless Iterative Realm.
• Lu Ze finished the Spirit Cloud Sect's championship skins and game modes as Immortal-Demon Supremacy's player base and his demonic value continued to grow.
• The system assigned Lu Ze a thirty-day mission to use malevolent entities to frighten cultivators and earn fear points.
• Lu Ze decided to create a Chinese-style horror game based on Phasmophobia, using real ghosts and the Fearful Soul Entanglement Array.
• Lu Ze asked Nangong Yuan for ghost-catching missions, insisted on taking one, and heard a warning about deadly disturbances in the Immortal Abyss Continent.

Lu Ze finished creating a ghost-hunting Illusion Realm using the souls he had collected and prepared to test it on Revered Netherworld Soul, a Spirit Transformation expert. Revered Netherworld Soul rejected the invitation as an insult, leaving Nangong Yuan to face his complaint.

• Lu Ze filled the Myriad Souls Banner with ghosts and used them to build a Phasmophobia-inspired Illusion Realm with ghost-detection Artifacts and fear-amplifying arrays.
• Nangong Yuan brought Revered Netherworld Soul, Du Ming, to the Spirit Jade Pavilion to advise Lu Ze about ghosts amid a spreading Ghost Calamity.
• Lu Ze asked Du Ming whether he feared ghosts, then asked whether he would fear them without cultivation.
• Du Ming boasted that he had caught ghosts even as a mortal and declared that cultivators needed mental strength as well as cultivation.
• Lu Ze praised Du Ming and invited him to try the newly completed Illusion Realm.
• Du Ming accused the Spirit Cloud Sect of humiliating him by asking him to test a disciple's Illusion Realm.

Lu Ze released the ghost-themed Illusion Realm Ghost Town Terror as Spirit Cloud Sect hired Revered Netherworld Soul to teach disciples how to face ghosts. After Lu Ze’s friends entered the new Illusion Realm, they encountered its first frightening scene.

• Nangong Yuan explained that ghosts in the northern Immortal Abyss Continent could pierce cultivators’ defenses and frighten or mentally overwhelm weaker disciples, and Lu Ze suggested his Illusion Realm could help them overcome that fear.
• Revered Netherworld Soul chose a reward plan based on attendance and lessons, then planned to withhold his strongest ghosts so the disciples would fail the final examination and Spirit Cloud Sect would pay more.
• Lu Ze released Ghost Town Terror, prompting cultivators on Immortal-Demon Supremacy and the Spirit Cloud Sect Forum to discuss and challenge one another over the ghost-themed Illusion Realm.
• Zhong Yi gathered Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen at Azure Cloud Pavilion to try Ghost Town Terror, with the group drawn by curiosity, competition, and collaboration rewards.
• The four entered the Illusion Realm, where a blood-red eyeball opened in the darkness before Zhong Yi appeared inside a cozy little house.

Zhong Yi and his team entered the Haunted House Illusion Realm, where they had to investigate a ghost without cultivation or weapons. As the group went inside, Zhong Yi noticed that a breeze had lowered his Sanity Points from 100 to 99.

• Zhong Yi discovered the cabin’s Artifact shop, ghost information, and mode settings, then organized a team and started their first game.
• The team learned that they had no cultivation or weapons and would need to identify the entity and complete optional objectives using clues and defensive items.
• Zhou Qiaoling inspected their supplies, while Mu Yawen confidently led the group out of the carriage toward the Haunted House.
• Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue recognized ominous feng shui around the house as cultivators watched their stream and expected them to make quick work of the Illusion Realm.
• Zhong Yi noticed his Sanity Points had fallen from 100 to 99 after a chilly breeze rustled the pagoda tree outside.

Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen explored the Haunted House, where darkness drained their Sanity Points and the Fearful Soul Entanglement Array made the danger feel real. After they spotted a ghost in a captured image, blood-red embroidered shoes appeared on Zhong Yi’s feet, and every lantern went out.

• Zhong Yi and the others entered the Haunted House, relit its lanterns, and learned from his book that they needed to find the Ghost Room.
• Zhou Qiaoling photographed Zhou Yue and Zhong Yi, and the image showed a blurred woman standing between them.
• Zhou Yue took out the Cold-Pointing Needle to search for the Ghost Room after the group saw the ghost in the photograph.
• Zhong Yi found himself unable to move because blood-red embroidered shoes had appeared on his feet, causing the group’s Sanity Points to plummet.
• Zhou Qiaoling screamed, Mu Yawen rushed over, and a sinister wind extinguished every lantern in the house.

Mu Yawen, Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Zhong Yi searched a dark haunted house for matches as their Sanity Points fell and their protection period ended. Zhong Yi was separated from the others by a Ghost Wall, while Zhou Qiaoling realized someone unseen was holding her clothes.

• Mu Yawen led the group through the dark room with a Spirit Lantern as they searched for the cabinet of matches.
• Zhong Yi warned that falling Sanity Points heightened their sensitivity and that the protection period would last only five minutes.
• After a crow-like cry signaled the protection period had ended, Mu Yawen found the basement entrance and led the others downstairs.
• Zhou Yue noticed Zhong Yi had gone silent and realized he was missing, while Zhou Qiaoling feared that the person holding her clothes was not Zhong Yi.
• Zhong Yi found himself trapped in a room with four doors and descending bloody ghost hands, then spotted a bronze mirror that might help him escape.

Zhong Yi was trapped in a Ghost Wall and used a bronze mirror to uncover the changing route out, while each vision and ghostly touch drained his Sanity Points. He escaped through the north gate and collapsed on the basement stairs as three familiar figures approached.

• Zhong Yi used the bronze mirror and first followed its illusion to the west gate, but it returned him to the Ghost Wall as the ghost hands descended.
• Zhong Yi realized the mirror world was reversed and used another vision to identify the north gate, losing more Sanity Points in the process.
• Zhong Yi crept beneath the ghost hands and endured their touches until he forced his way through the north gate.
• Zhong Yi returned to the basement staircase, exhausted, and saw three familiar figures approaching from below.

Zhou Qiaoling, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen mistook Zhong Yi for a ghost in the Haunted House Illusion Realm and shut him in the basement with a terrifying female ghost. The chapter ended with them pinning the Iron Gate down while Zhong Yi desperately tried to escape beneath it.

• A female ghost appeared in the basement, and Zhou Yue dragged Mu Yawen away before she could use her Pure Yang Spirit Body.
• Zhou Qiaoling, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen fled up the stairs, trampling and kicking Zhong Yi in the dark without recognizing him.
• The three escaped the basement and shut the Iron Gate, while Zhong Yi came face-to-face with the female ghost below.
• Zhong Yi pounded on the Iron Gate and shouted for help, but Zhou Yue mistook his voice for the ghost impersonating him.
• Zhou Yue and Zhou Qiaoling held the door down as Zhong Yi battered it, and Mu Yawen jumped onto it until the pounding stopped.

Zhong Yi scolded Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen after the four of them were killed by a Wandering Ghost, then explained what he had learned about identifying evil entities. Despite Zhou Qiaoling's fear, the group prepared to enter the Haunted House again.

• Zhong Yi berated Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen for locking him in the basement, where the female ghost killed him.
• The other three lost Sanity Points in the darkness and were killed by the female ghost soon after relighting their lanterns.
• As a spectator, Zhong Yi observed the Illusion Realm and concluded that a ghost's appearance and behavior could mislead them about its type, so they needed evidence from books and appraisal Artifacts.
• Zhou Qiaoling tried to log off after becoming frightened, but Zhou Yue and Zhong Yi scolded her into staying.
• The four selected their equipment and returned to the Haunted House.

The group searched the Haunted House for the Ghost Room while Zhou Qiaoling encountered a terrifying mirror illusion and discovered a cursed divination item. Zhou Yue found the Ghost Room in the basement, but the Iron Gate slammed shut above him.

• Zhong Yi sent the group to search for the Ghost Room with their Cold-Pointing Needles.
• A mirror illusion made Zhou Qiaoling believe she was twisting her own neck, costing her 20 Sanity Points before the mirror shattered.
• Zhou Qiaoling found the Yin-Yang Bone Divination and drew slips that restored her Sanity Points and produced other effects or no visible result.
• Zhou Yue followed his Cold-Pointing Needle into the basement and found the Ghost Room.
• The Iron Gate above Zhou Yue suddenly slammed shut.

Zhou Yue became trapped in the basement with the old woman ghost and faced its hunt while Zhou Qiaoling, Zhong Yi, and Mu Yawen tested Yin-Yang Bone Divination. The chapter ended with the ghost closing in on Zhou Yue, who had no means to defend himself.

• Zhou Qiaoling drew a Heavenly Net slip and then a Minor Misfortune slip, but neither caused an immediate effect.
• Zhou Yue failed to open the basement gate as the temperature dropped and the lantern flickered out.
• The old woman ghost appeared behind Zhou Yue, causing his Sanity Points to plunge as he fumbled for his Spirit Lantern.
• Zhou Qiaoling, Zhong Yi, and Mu Yawen tested the divination slips and found that their results altered Sanity Points or became invalid.
• Zhou Qiaoling drew a Great Misfortune slip, and Zhong Yi reassured her that the ghost could not yet threaten them.
• The old woman ghost began its hunt, and Zhou Yue realized he had no protective items as it approached.

Zhou Qiaoling drew a Great Luck lot while Zhou Yue suffered a grisly death in the basement, only to be revived by a spirit bird. Zhou Yue escaped upstairs and reunited with the others, who wondered what had happened to him.

• Zhou Qiaoling drew the Great Luck lot, Rebirth from Despair, but nothing seemed to happen in the bedroom.
• An evil entity attacked Zhou Yue in the basement, killing him after it touched his eyes despite its promised five-minute protection period.
• A spirit bird enveloped Zhou Yue in its golden wings and revived him, and he found that the basement door had opened.
• Zhou Yue hurried upstairs, celebrating that his luck had turned, while Zhou Qiaoling thought her ominous draws had become Flowers in the Mirror, Moon on the Water.
• Zhou Yue limped into the master bedroom, and Zhong Yi asked where he had gone and why he looked so battered.

Zhou Yue recounted being trapped and killed by the Ghost Room ghost before a divine bird revived him, leading Zhong Yi to realize the bone lots’ effects had all fallen on Zhou Yue. Believing his luck had changed, Zhou Yue drew the final lot and died again when it revealed an extremely ominous result.

• Zhou Yue told Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Qiaoling how the Ghost Room ghost trapped, hunted, and killed him before a divine bird revived him.
• Zhong Yi figured out that the earlier bone lots’ effects had all landed on Zhou Yue.
• Zhou Yue spotted the Yin-Yang Bone Divination cylinder, took it from Zhou Qiaoling, and drew its last bone lot.
• The lot turned black and revealed “Extremely Ominous: The Hour of the Horse Has Arrived.”
• Black deathly energy reached Zhou Yue, and ghostly hands dug into his eyes, killing him again.
• Zhong Yi and the others cried out over Zhou Yue’s corpse.

After Zhou Yue died, Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Qiaoling searched the basement for clues and identified bone-chilling cold and ghost fire as two traits of the entity. They narrowed the possibilities to a Vengeful Spirit or Water Ghost, but when the corridor lights went out, Mu Yawen’s voice came from somewhere despite him standing beside Zhong Yi.

• After Zhou Yue’s death, Zhong Yi led Mu Yawen and Zhou Qiaoling into the basement, which Zhou Yue had identified as the Ghost Room.
• Zhou Qiaoling’s Cold-Pointing Needle detected bone-chilling cold and a dense deathly aura, while the other tools initially revealed no clues.
• Zhong Yi suggested the lantern light might be interfering with their tools, and the flames went out, allowing Mu Yawen to see ghost fire through the Spirit Projector.
• Zhong Yi recognized ghost fire as their second clue and led the group out to retrieve more tools, concluding that the entity was either a Vengeful Spirit or a Water Ghost.
• Zhou Qiaoling tried questioning the Spirit Communication Jade Slip, but it gave no response; after the corridor lights went out, Zhong Yi heard Mu Yawen speak from somewhere even though Mu Yawen was beside him.

Zhong Yi, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen were hunted by a ghost after Zhou Qiaoling mentioned Old Devil Lu, and Zhong Yi sacrificed himself so the others could escape. The settlement screen revealed the entity was a Mimic Soul, disproving Zhong Yi’s confident guess that it was a Vengeful Spirit.

• Zhou Qiaoling mentioned Old Devil Lu through the Spirit Communication Jade Slip, provoking the ghost into a frenzy.
• The ghost erupted from the Jade Slip and sealed the main door, starting its hunt.
• Zhong Yi told Zhou Qiaoling and Mu Yawen to escape while he tried to stop the ghost with an Evil-warding Copper Coin.
• Zhong Yi charged the ghost, but the Copper Coin failed because it only worked when placed on the ground, and he died.
• Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue watched Mu Yawen and Zhou Qiaoling return to the carriage before the settlement identified the ghost as a Mimic Soul.

Cultivators flocked to play Lu Ze’s new ghost Illusion Realm, only to be terrified by its ghosts. After Li Moran also struggled with fear, Lu Ze challenged her to clear the highest difficulty of “Ghost Town Terror” before he would duel her.

• Cultivators mocked expert players’ failures, then Rogue Cultivators streamed their own attempts and were repeatedly frightened out of the Illusion Realm.
• Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen were wiped out again after a Painted Skin attacked them, and they realized Artifacts attracted ghosts and Amateur difficulty allowed only five attempts.
• Li Moran emerged from the Illusion Tower shaken by fear, questioned why she had felt it, and then set the experience aside.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao and Lu Ze enjoyed the fear-driven Demonic Value generated by players, while Lu Ze noted that stronger ghosts could torment them more viciously.
• When Li Moran invited Lu Ze to a custom match, he refused and told her to clear the highest difficulty of “Ghost Town Terror” first; her avatar turned black and white.

Liu Ming’s midterm ghost test failed to impress the Spirit Cloud Sect disciples, and he publicly challenged Lu Ze’s Ghost Town Terror Illusion Realm. Lu Ze accepted, setting up Liu Ming to face its highest difficulty.

• Liu Ming complained to Nangong Yuan that the Spirit Cloud Sect disciples had stopped attending his classes, and Nangong explained that they were studying ghosts in Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm.
• Nangong Yuan agreed that if the Illusion Realm proved ineffective, the disciples would be required to attend Liu Ming’s classes.
• Liu Ming’s midterm test had a 95% pass rate, and disciples on the Ghost Town Terror Forum mocked how easy it was compared with Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm.
• Angered by the forum posts, Liu Ming declared under his real name that Ghost Town Terror was child's play even at its highest difficulty.
• Lu Ze saw Liu Ming’s challenge and replied that he would let him try it.

Revered Netherworld Soul challenged Lu Ze to prove his mastery of fear by playing Ghost Town Terror on its highest difficulty during a livestream. He entered Fengmen Village with punishing conditions, and his first step outside the safe zone immediately frightened him back into the carriage.

• Revered Netherworld Soul argued with netizens that the Illusion Realm was useless and insisted his lessons were superior.
• Lu Ze accepted the challenge and created a livestream room, where Revered Netherworld Soul vowed to play the highest difficulty without fear.
• Lu Ze set Revered Netherworld Soul’s game to Ghost Immortal difficulty and sent him into Fengmen Village with severe restrictions.
• Revered Netherworld Soul dismissed the viewers’ warnings, stepped out of the carriage, and was instantly gripped by fear.
• Revered Netherworld Soul returned to the carriage and carefully chose protective items as Lu Ze anticipated the difficulty would keep players from triggering their spiritual energy.

Revered Netherworld Soul returned to Fengmen Village with items to steady his nerves, then faced escalating hallucinations and a terrifying supernatural procession. The chapter ended with the red and white processions confronting each other as his Sanity Points plunged and he realized their ghostly leaders could overpower him even at full strength.

• Revered Netherworld Soul took an Evil-warding Copper Coin, Evil-dispelling Incense, matches, and a Lucidity Pill before setting out through the dark village.
• Revered Netherworld Soul mistook a Spirit Emblem for a person, suffered a horrifying hallucination, and swallowed the Lucidity Pill to restore his Sanity Points.
• Revered Netherworld Soul ignored the viewers' advice to light a lamp and headed toward the ancestral hall.
• Revered Netherworld Soul encountered an encroaching mist and eerie ceremonial sounds as his Sanity Points rapidly fell.
• White Wraiths carrying a black coffin and a red bridal procession appeared, creating a Red and White Clash that made Revered Netherworld Soul fear their leaders could crush him even at full strength.