Recaps

Qin Ming arrived at the Demon Slaying Platform just as Zhang Yuxian was about to kill the young woman and the demonic cultivator she protected. After striking Zhang Yuxian and identifying himself, Qin Ming gave the young woman a Soul Mark and promised to keep her alive.

• Zhang Yuxian rejected Chao Wendao's plea to release the pair and prepared to kill them.
• Qin Ming opened a spatial rift to stop Zhang Yuxian's blade, then appeared on the platform.
• Qin Ming angrily slapped Zhang Yuxian, who survived because his Lifebound Artifact protected him.
• Qin Ming introduced himself as Zhang Yuxian and the crowd recognized him as the Azure Nether Daoist.
• Qin Ming gave the young woman a paper-crane Soul Mark and told her he would keep her alive.

Qin Ming investigated Master Qing by revealing his memories and confirmed that he had lived righteously despite being born a Demon Cultivator. Qin Ming agreed to take him away and remake his bloodline, while Chao Wendao questioned Lu Ze about how he had brought such a powerful master to help.

• Zhang Yuxian tried to persuade Qin Ming that Master Qing was a dangerous Demon Cultivator, while Lin Huan pleaded for him to be spared.
• Qin Ming drew out Master Qing's memories and showed the crowd how he had escaped the Demon Cult and saved Lin Huan from cultivators who were harming the weak.
• Qin Ming confirmed that Master Qing had never harmed Lin Huan and agreed to help remake his bloodline and guide him onto the Righteous Path.
• Lin Huan and Master Qing bowed in gratitude, and Chao Wendao asked Lu Ze how he had arranged Qin Ming's intervention.
• Lu Ze feigned innocence and said he just made games.

Lu Ze challenged Zhang Yuxian over whether the Azure Peak Sect’s Illusion Realm had truly been created by one disciple, prompting Qin Ming to demand the truth. The chapter ended with Lu Ze daring Zhang Yuxian to swear his claim before the Heavenly Dao.

• Qin Ming praised Lu Ze for creating the Illusion Realm, then rejected Zhang Yuxian’s offer to take Lu Ze and the other youth into the Azure Peak Sect.
• Lu Ze asked Zhang Yuxian whether the Azure Peak Sect’s Illusion Realm had been made by one person, pointing out traces of spells from multiple sources.
• Lu Ze said his own Illusion Realm had only narrowly beaten the Azure Peak Sect’s, and Qin Ming recognized the vast difference in their vote pillars.
• Qin Ming pressed Zhang Yuxian to confirm whether the Azure Peak Sect’s Illusion Realm had been created by one disciple.
• Zhang Yuxian blamed the mixed spells on the sect’s disciples learning from many schools, and Lu Ze challenged him to repeat that claim before the Heavenly Dao.

Lu Ze and Chao Wendao forced Zhang Yuxian and the Azure Peak Sect to defend themselves against accusations of cheating by swearing before the Heavenly Dao. When Zhao Heng accused the Heavenly Dao of favoring Lu Ze, the Heavenly Dao appeared in the storm clouds to challenge him.

• Zhang Yuxian swore that Azure Peak Sect disciples had not cheated and demanded that Chao Wendao restrain his disciple.
• Chao Wendao proposed that Zhang Yuxian swear before the Heavenly Dao to clear his sect's name, while promising to punish Lu Ze.
• Lu Ze pretended to fear being sent to the forbidden grounds, helping Chao Wendao pressure Zhang Yuxian.
• Zhao Heng accused Lu Ze of receiving favoritism from the Heavenly Dao through the Illusion Realm and Spirit Network.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered above them in the form of a face and asked who had said it played favorites.

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao appeared at the Demon Slaying Platform, punished Zhao Heng and Zhang Yuxian, and denied favoring Lu Ze. It then declared that the Heavenly Dao would govern every Illusion Realm and judge those who entered them.

• Lu Ze denied summoning the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao, while Chao Wendao and the crowd reacted in shock.
• Zhang Yuxian burned Zhao Heng for insulting the Heavenly Dao, then wounded his throat and apologized on his disciple’s behalf.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao struck Zhang Yuxian with lightning for trying to deceive it, weakening his cultivation.
• The Fragment declared that it had not favored Lu Ze and said the crowd’s beliefs about his Illusion Realm were mistaken.
• The Fragment announced that the Heavenly Dao would govern every Illusion Realm, connect them to every realm, and reward the worthy while punishing the unworthy.

Lu Ze accepted that the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao had opened illusion realms to everyone, then received a new skill after completing the Demon Slaying Assembly mission. Zhong Yi restarted his illusion from the beginning, and the girl at Sun Moon Villa seemed to recognize him.

• Lu Ze learned that the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao had connected every illusion realm to the network and resolved to keep making popular games.
• Lu Ze received the Myriad Spirits Bestow Life skill for completing the Demon Slaying Assembly mission and entered an illusion realm to study it.
• The story of Qin Ming saving demonic cultivators boosted the popularity of "This Demonic Cultivator Is Not Too Cold," while Zhong Yi returned from Repentance Valley.
• Zhong Yi restarted the illusion instead of loading a save and repeated the Sun Moon Villa mission.
• The girl called after Zhong Yi and asked if they had met somewhere before.

Lu Ze used Myriad Spirits Bestow Life to improve Sutier’s soul so she could carry more memories between playthroughs. He chose Li Moran’s Illusion Realm to test the new soul and seek a strong emotional reaction.

• In Zhou Yue’s second playthrough, Sutier felt familiar to him, while the Role-Playing System prevented him from breaking character.
• Players’ later playthroughs showed small changes that reflected their past experiences with Sutier, which Lu Ze had deliberately built into the Illusion Realm.
• Lu Ze studied how Myriad Spirits Bestow Life could give NPCs intelligence and further upgrade the Illusion Realm’s characters.
• Lu Ze created a new generation of Sutier’s soul that could connect much more strongly with previous playthroughs.
• Lu Ze selected Li Moran’s Illusion Realm to test the improved soul, hoping her muted emotions would yield a large amount of Demonic Value.

Li Moran's emotional response to Sutier's dream broke through the Illusion Tower's restrictions and revealed an opening in the shackles of her Ice Phoenix Sword Body. Lu Ze gained a surge of Demonic Value from the event, but sensed a chilling wave coming from Sword Inquiry Peak as he prepared to advance.

• Li Moran noticed that Sutier's Ice Lotus Mark had raised the girl's level, bringing her closer to the final ending.
• Sutier told Li Moran about a dream in which Li Moran vanished when Sutier tried to hold her, and begged her not to leave.
• Li Moran's emotions surged, breaking through the Illusion Tower's restrictions and severing her connection to the illusion.
• Li Moran realized that her Ice Phoenix Sword Body had found an opening to break through its shackles.
• Lu Ze left the illusion with a large increase in Demonic Value and prepared to pursue a breakthrough.
• Lu Ze felt a terrifying wave of frosty energy coming from Sword Inquiry Peak and wondered why he felt a chill down his spine.

After experiencing Lu Ze’s illusion, Chao Wendao witnessed Lu Ze’s astonishing breakthrough and then watched Li Moran fly toward him in anger. Lu Ze dodged her Frost Sword Qi, but Li Moran summoned more swords and threatened to stop holding back.

• Chao Wendao emerged from Lu Ze’s illusion, grieving over Sutier and furious about the story’s ending.
• Chao Wendao sensed a breakthrough on Sword Inquiry Peak, then saw a more terrifying phenomenon form over Glazed Fire Peak and realized Lu Ze was behind it.
• Chao Wendao marveled that Lu Ze had advanced rapidly toward the Nascent Soul Late Stage and celebrated the sect’s fortune.
• Li Moran flew to Glazed Fire Peak, where Lu Ze dodged the Frost Sword Qi she sent at him.
• Li Moran summoned Profound Ice Longswords and warned Lu Ze she would no longer hold back.

Li Moran tested Lu Ze with sixty-four Profound Ice Longswords, but he withstood them and learned that her emotions had helped her break through. After she beat him again for calling her more like a person, Lu Ze asked her to tell others she had taught him a serious lesson so other powerful figures would leave him alone.

• Li Moran sent sixty-four Profound Ice Longswords at Lu Ze, and he endured the attack unharmed.
• Li Moran explained that Lu Ze’s influence had stirred her emotions and helped her discover how suppressing them strengthened her Ice Phoenix Sword Body, leading to a breakthrough.
• Lu Ze told Li Moran that she looked more like a person than before, prompting her to summon 128 Profound Ice Longswords and attack him again.
• Afterward, Lu Ze asked Li Moran to tell anyone who asked that she had seriously beaten him, hoping to deter other powerful people from coming after him.

Zhang Yuxian and the Illusion Alliance plotted to seize the opportunities of the Heavenly Dao Illusion Realm from Lu Ze. Lu Ze, unaware of their schemes, lay in the Spirit Jade Pavilion wondering what game to make next.

• Zhang Yuxian recovered in a magic array and concluded that the Heavenly Dao Illusion Realm offered immense opportunities that Lu Ze had benefited from.
• Zhang Yuxian blamed Lu Ze for his misfortune and vowed that Lu Ze's good fortune had run dry.
• Heart Demon addressed the Illusion Alliance's concealed cultivators at its new base on Luofeng Continent and claimed Lu Ze had unfairly monopolized the Heavenly Dao's opportunities.
• Heart Demon declared that the Heavenly Dao Illusion Realm now connected everyone's illusion realms to the whole world, so Lu Ze no longer had an advantage.
• Lu Ze lay leisurely in the Spirit Jade Pavilion while pretending to recover from his injuries and wondered what game to make next.

Lu Ze considered how to keep his Illusion Realms attracting players and decided his next project would be a search, fight, and extraction game. Meanwhile, the Illusion Alliance abandoned its attempt to recreate This Demonic Cultivator Is Not Too Cold and shifted its research to Lu Ze’s other Illusion Realms.

• Lu Ze concluded that tearjerkers could earn substantial Demonic Value but would be less effective if released too soon after Sutier’s world.
• Lu Ze chose to keep making online games and, inspired by his previous life’s hit-game trends, settled on a search, fight, and extraction concept.
• Heart Demon asked the Illusion Alliance cultivators about their analysis of This Demonic Cultivator Is Not Too Cold.
• The cultivators admitted they could not understand the Illusion Realm’s complex paths and said recreating it would be difficult.
• Heart Demon put research on hold and directed the Alliance to study Minecraft, Immortal-Demon Supremacy, and Naraka: Bladepoint instead.

The Illusion Alliance celebrated Eagle Falcon’s successful “Cultivation World,” which had drawn disciples away from Lu’s “Minecraft.” As Eagle Falcon expected a Heavenly Dao reward, the Heavenly Dao appeared and declared that those who fell short would be punished.

• Cultivators on the Forum criticized several new Illusion Realms and wondered where Old Devil Lu had gone.
• The Illusion Alliance celebrated Eagle Falcon’s “Cultivation World,” whose traffic had surged after sects urged their disciples to play it.
• Eagle Falcon privately hoped the Heavenly Dao would reward his success and help him rise in status and cultivation.
• A rift opened in the Grotto-Heaven, and the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao appeared before the crowd.
• The Heavenly Dao addressed Eagle Falcon and declared that those who fell short would be punished.

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao punished Eagle Falcon for copying Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm, while explaining that it judged other games according to whether they plagiarized or merely drew inspiration. Lu Ze realized the Fragment enforced a distinction between imitation and plagiarism, and the chapter ended with him calling it the embodiment of intellectual property law.

• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao struck Eagle Falcon with violet-black lightning and drained his cultivation from the Refining Void Realm to the Transformation God Realm.
• The Fragment told Lu Ze it had punished Eagle Falcon for copying his Illusion Realm, but warned that it would punish Lu Ze too if he copied others.
• The Fragment showed Lu Ze how it had judged other Illusion Realms, giving some light penalties, sparing others, and rewarding Secret Realm Battlefield.
• Lu Ze worked out that the Fragment punished plagiarism but allowed games that drew inspiration while changing their designs and execution.
• Lu Ze called the Fragment the Intellectual Property Protection Law incarnate.

The Illusion Alliance faced panic over the Heavenly Dao’s punishments, but Heart Demon convinced its members to study Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm without plagiarizing it. Lu Ze resumed developing Naraka: Bladepoint, and the system announced a new mission involving a Demon Path Treasure Land.

• Illusion Alliance members demanded to resign after many of their Illusion Realms were punished by the Heavenly Dao.
• Heart Demon revealed his Body Integration Realm strength and calmed the crowd with an Illusion-Reality Heavenly Zhi gifted by the Heavenly Dao.
• Heart Demon explained the rewards and punishments the Alliance’s Spiritual Realms had received and urged members to uncover Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm principles rather than copy it.
• Lu Ze began shaping the map for Naraka: Bladepoint after learning that creating Illusion Realms could earn Heavenly Dao rewards.
• The system announced that Lu Ze had discovered a Demon Path Treasure Land and decided to lure Righteous cultivators there to wipe them out.

Lu Ze abandoned his Grand Battlefield plans after a system quest made Firefight Mode far more rewarding, and he began choosing between Zero Dam and Ascension Base. Meanwhile, Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen wondered where Lu Ze had gone, until Zhou Yue arrived furious that the Illusion Alliance had copied another of Lu Ze’s Illusion Realms and earned a Heavenly Dao reward.

• Lu Ze received a quest to divide treasures in the Demon Path’s Treasure Land and make greedy Righteous cultivators kill one another for permanent Demonic Value bonuses.
• Lu Ze realized Firefight Mode would make every cultivator killed inside worth as much as a top Refining Void Realm powerhouse, so he dismantled his Grand Battlefield foundation.
• Lu Ze considered whether to build Zero Dam or Ascension Base first.
• At Qingfeng Pavilion, Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen discussed Lu Ze’s absence and guessed that Li had beaten him after his Illusion Realm provoked her.
• Zhou Yue flew in and announced that the Illusion Alliance had copied another of Lu Ze’s Illusion Realms and received a reward from the Heavenly Dao.

Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen examined the Illusion Alliance’s new Illusion Realm, “Eight Directions Venerables,” and found it closely imitated “Naraka: Bladepoint” while offering Spirit Stones to keep players inside. Zhong Yi worried that Lu Ze’s game might lose its players, but Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen expected Lu Ze to have another Illusion Realm ready.

• Zhong Yi doubted Zhou Yue’s claim that the Heavenly Dao had rewarded the Illusion Alliance, so Zhou Yue showed him and Mu Yawen an Illusion Crystal Stone.
• Zhong Yi entered “Eight Directions Venerables” and recognized that its gameplay was identical to “Naraka: Bladepoint,” though it featured factions and characters tied to the cultivation world.
• Zhong Yi noticed that the prominent characters’ Skills were stitched together from “Naraka: Bladepoint” characters, while the Illusion Alliance’s original characters were unpopular.
• Zhou Yue explained that players could collect Spirit Stones by staying in “Eight Directions Venerables,” which helped account for its popularity.
• Zhong Yi worried that cultivators would abandon “Naraka: Bladepoint,” but Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen said they expected Lu Ze to release another Illusion Realm.

At the Illusion Alliance Base, Heart Demon announced that the Heavenly Dao would award prizes based on the quality of illusion realms, and resolved that the top prize would belong to his alliance. In Lu Ze’s illusion world, the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao took on a new role and gave Lu Ze information that could let him compete for the upcoming rewards.

• Heart Demon revealed that his Heavenly Dao blessing would produce ranked rewards in a month, including a single first-tier prize from the Primordial Era.
• The Illusion Alliance members praised Heart Demon, while he asked whether the Spirit Cloud Sect’s Lu Ze had made any moves.
• A subordinate reported that Lu Ze was recovering behind closed doors, and Heart Demon insisted that the top prize belonged to the Illusion Alliance.
• Lu Ze showed the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao a new work area and gave it a Black Cloak and a Red Mask as its uniform.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao gave Lu Ze a ball of light and said he might still have time to enter the Heavenly Dao’s rewards.

Lu Ze discovered that the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao’s top reward was the Dao Transformation Art, a cultivation method ideal for his Illusion Realms, and resolved to win it. After completing his Delta Force Illusion Realm, he learned the Illusion Alliance had created a Naraka: Bladepoint imitation and claimed a Heavenly Dao reward, but he remained confident he would take the prize.

• Lu Ze learned that the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao had placed the Dao Transformation Art in the highest prize pool and decided he would win it.
• Lu Ze completed the Delta Force Illusion Realm after a month of work with his Cyber Souls.
• Lu Ze caught Zhou Qiaoling’s Cybersoul hiding a Night-Shining Pearl while he considered how to reward his exhausted helpers.
• Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue told Lu Ze that the Illusion Alliance had made a Naraka: Bladepoint imitation and received a reward from the Heavenly Dao.
• Lu Ze dismissed the rival Illusion Realm and declared that the reward belonged to him alone.

Lu Ze launched Immortal Abyss Continent Operation, a competitive Illusion Realm built around choosing gear and extracting resources from a Secret Realm. Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Zhou Qiaoling entered together as thousands of cultivators joined the new realm.

• Lu Ze gave Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue Illusion Crystal Stones and explained that Immortal Abyss Continent Operation let players choose gear and compete for resources in a Secret Realm.
• Zhong Yi invited Lu Ze to join their group, but Lu Ze declined and suggested they ask Zhou Qiaoling instead.
• Lu Ze announced the Illusion Realm on the Forum, and thousands of cultivators entered once it opened.
• Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue watched their Crystal Stone glow while Zhou Qiaoling dismissed the realm as unremarkable, then entered with them.
• An animated sequence began unfolding before Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Zhou Qiaoling.

Lu Ze’s animation introduced Zhong Yi and his squad to the setting of Immortal Abyss Continent Operation before they entered its multiplayer beginner tutorial. The tutorial turned chaotic when Zhou Yue tried to use his Gun as a club and an enemy retaliated with Spirit Bullets.

• Lu Ze’s animation explained the declining age of magic, the Spirit Artifact-using cultivators, and the three factions to Zhong Yi.
• Zhong Yi registered as Genius Cultivator, enabled multiplayer, and invited Zhou Yue and Zhou Qiaoling into his squad.
• The trio chose their characters, with Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue both selecting the Vanguard Red Wolf, then entered the tutorial.
• The squad picked up Guns from a table, and Zhong Yi began explaining how the weapons worked.
• Zhou Yue struck an Asara Rogue Cultivator with his Bison, provoking the enemy to fire Spirit Bullets at them.
• Zhou Yue questioned the Gun’s quality after his attack failed to hurt the enemy.

Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue tested the tutorial weapons in the Illusion Realm, while Lu Ze’s design aimed to make “Immortal Abyss Continent Operation” more engaging through fast gunplay and varied player styles. Zhou Qiaoling left them behind to finish the tutorial and became excited when a secret cache appeared.

• Zhong Yi showed Zhou Yue how to load and fire the [Mingju-15], but his shots missed the Asara Rogue Cultivator.
• Zhou Yue fired the gun accurately and praised the artifact, then he and Zhong Yi eagerly tried the camp’s other weapons and abilities.
• Lu Ze’s design combined modern-style guns with cultivation artifacts to create short fights and attract a diverse player base.
• Zhou Qiaoling dismissed the weapons as Foundation Establishment Realm junk and left the military camp to follow the tutorial marker.
• Zhou Qiaoling’s quest prompt directed her to open the Immortal Master's Secret Cache, and she grew excited at the sight of the green box.

Zhou Qiaoling, Zhou Yue, and Zhong Yi learned the loot-searching, storage, and combat mechanics in Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm, with Zhou Qiaoling greedily claiming valuable items. After they extracted successfully, Zhong Yi admired the game’s potential but wondered what use the extracted supplies had.

• Zhou Qiaoling searched an Immortal Master's Secret Cache with Spiritual Sense and found items of several grades, including a golden Formation Blueprint.
• Zhou Yue and Zhong Yi discovered that containers held randomly revealed loot, and they learned that the Reincarnation Seal had two secure storage spaces.
• The trio completed a Skill tutorial and defeated an AI opponent near the Extraction Point, whose Soul Casket contained valuable equipment.
• Zhou Qiaoling snatched the AI opponent’s best loot as it appeared, prompting Zhou Yue to shout at her.
• The trio successfully extracted with spirit stones, and Zhong Yi praised the Illusion Realm’s mechanics while questioning the purpose of extracted supplies.

Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Zhou Qiaoling explored the Special Operations Office and prepared to enter Lu Ze’s new extraction-style illusion realm, “Immortal Abyss Continent Operation.” They began their first match with basic equipment and landed at the map as the mission’s command to fight, search, and extract sounded.

• Zhong Yi realized the Special Operations Office was an individual base that teammates could reach through teleportation arrays, and Lu Ze added glowing arrays to make the explanation work.
• Zhong Yi explained that extracted supplies could fund better equipment for future matches, revealing how the illusion realm’s economy linked each match.
• Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Zhou Qiaoling each redeemed a standard Menial Disciple equipment set and queued for their first match.
• The trio arrived by spirit boat, slid down ropes onto the ground, and heard the command to fight, search, and extract.
• Zhou Qiaoling joked that the command sounded like an order to extort and blackmail people.

Zhou Yue, Zhong Yi, and Zhou Qiaoling explored the east side of the Administrative Palace, where Zhou Qiaoling looted ahead of the others and opened a valuable coffer. The chapter ended with her discovering a red-grade gold bar.

• Zhou Qiaoling rushed ahead and looted the building outside the Administrative Palace while Zhou Yue and Zhong Yi followed.
• Zhou Yue and Zhong Yi encountered an Asara machine-gun cultivator, and its Gatling-like weapon shot Zhou Yue while leaving Zhong Yi unharmed.
• Zhou Yue found only a helmet and basic supplies in the machine-gunner's loot, and Zhou Qiaoling teased him about his bad luck.
• Zhou Qiaoling looted the first-floor rooms and opened the [Essence-Sealing Coffer] in the [Steward Hall].
• Zhou Qiaoling identified a golden wine cup and a red-grade gold bar inside the coffer.