Recaps

Lu Ze was shocked when a Sage Manifestation appeared for him, and Zhong Yi explained that the Illusion Realm had created a way for disadvantaged cultivators to earn spirit stones. Lu Ze accepted that extending this path could eventually make him a true sage, while Li Moran decided to try Immortal Abyss Continent Operation.

• A Sage Manifestation named Lu Ze, leaving the cultivators and his master, Nangong Yuan, astonished.
• Lu Ze wondered why the Heavenly Dao had recognized him as a sage when he had only made games.
• Zhong Yi explained that the Illusion Realm let outer disciples, menial disciples, and rogue cultivators earn spirit stones by providing things other cultivators wanted.
• Zhong Yi told Lu Ze that extending this path through the Illusion Realm could eventually make him a sage, and Lu Ze realized he could do so through in-game farming.
• Li Moran watched Lu Ze and decided to try Immortal Abyss Continent Operation.

Lu Ze gained a Quasi-Saint’s fortune and an upgraded Myriad Souls Banner, then saw players mockingly dub him Lu Chusheng. Meanwhile, the Illusion Alliance planned to challenge his success by making their game outrank his in a week.

• The system rewarded Lu Ze with a Quasi-Saint’s fortune and upgraded his Myriad Souls Banner, strengthening its cybersouls and making intelligent NPCs easier to create.
• Lu Ze checked the Forum and saw players agree to call him Lu Chusheng, so he muted the first cultivator to use the name for three days.
• At the Illusion Alliance Base, the four elders worried that Lu Ze’s rise toward sainthood had made their work on Grave Robbing Mode pointless.
• Heart Demon urged the elders to compete for merit by creating demand in the illusion realm, just as Lu Ze had.
• Heart Demon ordered Eight Directions Venerables to rank above Immortal Abyss Continent Operation within one week.

Lu Ze and Zhong Yi examined Eight Directions Venerables’ new Grave Robbing Mode, and Lu Ze explained why its design could not match Immortal Abyss Continent Operation. The Illusion Alliance’s realm had drawn a huge first-day crowd, but its player numbers were already collapsing as the reward rankings approached.

• Zhong Yi warned Lu Ze that the Illusion Alliance had released a new map and mode to compete with Immortal Abyss Continent Operation, and Lu Ze agreed to inspect it.
• Lu Ze and Zhong Yi tried Grave Robbing Mode, and Zhong Yi praised its cultivation-technique combat, familiar mode, and polished maps as potential strengths.
• Lu Ze explained that Eight Directions Venerables copied Grave Robbing Mode’s surface features but missed its appeal, including varied player styles, exciting loot, and searching mechanics.
• Lu Ze admitted that the Illusion Alliance’s generous Spirit Stone rewards were impressive and called its members far too rich.
• Blood Crow and Rakshasa watched Eight Directions Venerables’ player numbers fall sharply after its first day, while only four days remained before the Illusion Realm reward rankings were announced.

Blood Crow and Rakshasa tried to boost Eight Directions Venerables by raising its rewards and red-item drop rate, while Lu Ze noticed their mistake and changed his own Illusion Realms. The rival Illusion Realm’s player count surged, leaving its creators convinced they had secured victory.

• Blood Crow and Rakshasa raised Spirit Stone rewards and required cultivators to stay twelve hours before collecting them.
• Rakshasa persuaded Blood Crow to increase the red-item drop rate despite Blood Crow’s doubts about their deductions.
• Lu Ze read players’ complaints on the Forum and recognized that Eight Directions Venerables’ flood of rare items was undermining its looting system.
• Lu Ze removed the rule preventing players from entering other Illusion Realms during a match.
• Blood Crow and Rakshasa celebrated Eight Directions Venerables’ rise to 380,000 players and believed its rewards and twelve-hour requirement would win them first place.

Lu Ze infiltrated the Illusion Alliance gathering as the Heavenly Dao revealed its rankings and rewards. Eight Directions Venerables placed second, leaving the alliance’s elders waiting to see who had won first place.

• Lu Ze changed his appearance before entering the Heavenly Dao Illusion Realm and spotted the Illusion Alliance members gathered behind a soundproof barrier.
• Lu Ze disguised himself as [Lu Guan] and entered the alliance’s gathering, where he learned how Blood Crow and Rakshasa had contributed to Eight Directions Venerables.
• Rakshasa attacked Lu Ze after he laughed at his boast about increasing valuable item drop rates, but an invisible force destroyed the ghostly figure.
• The Heavenly Dao began displaying rankings and rewards, and the crowd watched as the golden rankings approached their top entries.
• The golden rankings revealed Blood Crow and Rakshasa’s Eight Directions Venerables in second place.

After the Immortal Abyss Continent Operation won first place, Lu Ze was exposed as the masked Illusion Alliance member Lu Guan. Rakshasa challenged the result, and Lu Ze prepared to explain why his Illusion Realm had won.

• The ranking revealed Lu Ze's Immortal Abyss Continent Operation in first place, while Rakshasa and Blood Crow took second with the Eight Directions Venerables.
• The red pillar of light landed beside Rakshasa and Blood Crow, exposing Lu Guan as Lu Ze when he removed his deer-shaped mask.
• Lu Ze mocked Blood Crow for losing his fortune, while Rakshasa accused Lu Ze of cheating and challenged the judging results.
• Rakshasa argued that the Eight Directions Venerables had hundreds of thousands of daily players and questioned whether Lu Ze's Illusion Realm could have surpassed it.
• As Danmu viewers began questioning the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao, Lu Ze noticed its golden light turning black and announced he would explain the loss.

Lu Ze used the Immortal Abyss Continent Operation’s player data to expose how Rakshasa and the Eight Directions Venerables had mishandled their competition. When Rakshasa unleashed his Refining Void Realm cultivation in the Heavenly Dao Illusion Realm, Lu Ze calmly broke through his pressure and shattered his Azure Ghost Mask.

• Lu Ze showed the Immortal Abyss Continent Operation’s player and playtime data, and explained that cultivators could enter it while playing the Eight Directions Venerables.
• Lu Ze said his Treasure Map event gave away red-tier items and mocked the Eight Directions Venerables for ruining item values by raising rare-item drop rates.
• Blood Crow blamed Rakshasa for his financial ruin, threatened to confront him in Luofeng Continent, and logged off.
• Rakshasa challenged Lu Ze’s right to have a superior Illusion Realm and released his full Refining Void Realm Spiritual Sense, forcing weaker cultivators to withdraw.
• Lu Ze dismissed Rakshasa’s pressure, declared that his Illusion Realm stood above Rakshasa’s, and shattered Rakshasa’s Azure Ghost Mask with Sword Qi.

Lu Ze exposed Wei Chengqing as Rakshasa in the Heavenly Dao Illusion Realm, where the Heavenly Dao Fragment erased him before Lu Ze could act. Lu Ze then opened his first-place reward chest and discovered that the Fragment had given him the Cross True Art instead of the Dao Transformation Art he wanted.

• Lu Ze shattered Rakshasa's mask, revealing him as Azure Peak Sect elder Wei Chengqing, and the livestream viewers marveled that Lu Ze had interfered with his projection at its source.
• Wei Chengqing blamed the Heavenly Dao Illusion Realm for Lu Ze's power, but the Heavenly Dao Fragment turned sinister and erased him from the realm.
• Wei Chengqing was forcibly expelled from the illusion realm, spat blood, and tried to flee the Illusion Alliance base, where Blood Crow confronted him.
• Lu Ze received his first-place reward chest and confidently expected to find the Dao Transformation Art inside.
• The chest revealed the Cross True Art, and Lu Ze accused the Heavenly Dao Fragment of secretly swapping his reward and demanded the Dao Transformation Art back.

After the Illusion Realm rankings, Lu Ze coached Li Moran in “Immortal Abyss Continent Operation” while the game “Eight Directions Venerables” continued to lose players. Li Moran found a sword-based way to understand shooting, then asked Lu Ze whether he had entered the upcoming Peak Tournament.

• The Illusion Alliance failed to stop players from leaving “Eight Directions Venerables,” while Rakshasa recovered from injuries and the Azure Peak Sect expelled Wei Chengqing after the Spirit Cloud Sect demanded an explanation.
• Lu Ze received rewards but lacked the “Dao Transformation Art,” then accepted Li Moran’s invitation to coach her in exchange for Spirit Bullets and Level Six Gear.
• Li Moran fought through two teams before a third team defeated her, and Lu Ze reviewed her mistakes and gave her tactical advice.
• Li Moran said she had realized that bullet trajectories were like frenzied Sword Qi, and Lu Ze marveled at her sudden improvement.
• Li Moran asked Lu Ze whether he had signed up for the Heavenly Dao’s upcoming Peak Tournament in “Immortal Abyss Continent Operation.”

Lu Ze designed the Heavenly Dao’s Peak Tournament but refused to compete, then watched Zhong Yi’s knife-running matches as the tournament gained popularity. When the prize pool was upgraded, a system mission sent Lu Ze to the Demon Path Secret Realm to kill righteous cultivators and restore the Demon Path’s reputation.

• Lu Ze declined Li Moran’s invitation to enter the tournament and agreed to visit Sword Inquiry Peak instead.
• Lu Ze presented the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao with a two-stage tournament format, then refused to compete despite a warning not to regret it.
• The tournament began, drawing huge livestream audiences as contestants competed in a fifteen-day randomized first stage.
• Lu Ze watched Zhong Yi stream his knife-running matches, and Zhong Yi extracted with a million in loot after ten days of play.
• A notification upgraded all tournament rewards after contestants’ combined assets reached two billion.
• Lu Ze received a mission to kill 100 righteous cultivators and overturn their understanding of a sage in the Demon Path Secret Realm.

Lu Ze accepted the system’s mission to use Demon Path methods in the competition and entered the Illusion Realm with five days left. His appearance at the bottom of the rankings drew widespread attention and prompted rivals and enemies to prepare for him.

• Lu Ze saw the competition’s upgraded rewards, including the Dao Transformation Art, and decided to register despite the short time remaining.
• Cultivators noticed Lu Ze had entered with zero assets and began planning to target him, with some offering rewards for his dog tag.
• Li Moran heard that Lu Ze had entered and wondered whether she would win this time.
• Zhang Yuxian ordered the Azure Peak Sect to contact other sects and join forces against the Spirit Cloud Sect.
• The Illusion Alliance Leader revealed that the Ten Directions Spirit-Descending Formation was complete and planned to challenge the Heavenly Dao in the Illusion Realm.

Lu Ze prepared to enter his first competition match as cultivators debated whether he was truly skilled in Illusion Realms. As the match began, tens of thousands of spectators waited for his appearance.

• Zhou Yue, Zhong Yi, and Mu Yawen visited Lu Ze and discussed facing him or helping him with Signals, but Lu Ze rejected the idea.
• Zhong Yi told Lu Ze that he and many others planned to skip matches to watch him compete, making Lu Ze worry they would miss out on rewards.
• More than a hundred thousand viewers gathered in the Heavenly Dao Livestream Room and argued over Lu Ze's record and combat ability.
• The You Hour arrived, competitors entered matchmaking, and spectators followed matches into separate livestream rooms.
• Tens of thousands of spectators waited in a dark livestream room for Lu Ze, and the image finally lit up.

Lu Ze entered the competition with little money, spotted an opportunity to popularize a powerful possession playstyle using Red Wolf’s Gold-Eroding Rose and the Rat·18, and prepared to play at the Dam. The spectators and Spirit Cloud Sect gathered to watch as he was matched with opponents.

• Lu Ze received 500,000 spirit stones, saw that the day’s map was the Dam, and bought Red Wolf’s Gold-Eroding Rose skin and a Rat·18 pistol.
• Lu Ze noticed that flesh rounds were unusually cheap and realized the foot-shot possession playstyle had not yet been developed in this world.
• Lu Ze checked the skin’s hidden Easter egg and confirmed that no one had triggered it, then wondered if he would become the playstyle’s founder.
• The Illusion Realm matched Lu Ze with sixteen other contestants as spectators debated his likely strategy in the livestream.
• Chao Wendao and the Spirit Cloud Sect’s elders praised Lu Ze while the sect’s cultivators gathered to watch him compete.

Lu Ze entered a Red Wolf match with only an attachment-loaded Rat·18 handgun, prompting Li Moran to anticipate his unusual strategy. The match announcement revealed that Qinghe and Shanhepo had deliberately lowered their assets to get matched with him, and Zhong Yi realized they had come for Lu Ze.

• Li Moran skipped her chance to compete so she could watch Lu Ze, and she predicted he would enter without armor carrying a Heavenly Soldier Type XIV.
• Lu Ze appeared in the match without a helmet, armor, or chest rig, carrying only a modified Rat·18 handgun.
• The match announced Lu Ze, Qinghe, and Shanhepo as its Star Cultivators.
• Zhong Yi checked Qinghe and Shanhepo's assets and discovered they had dropped below ten million, apparently to enter Lu Ze's matchmaking pool and target him.

Lu Ze ignored the valuable loot near the Administrative Palace and hid in a shipping container, waiting to ambush anyone drawn by its crates. After Qinghe and Shanhepo finished fighting, they headed toward the containers to reclaim their gear, and Lu Ze heard their footsteps approaching.

• Zhong Yi watched Lu Ze bypass the loot and lie hidden in the shipping container while viewers speculated about his plan.
• Qinghe and Shanhepo checked the dog tags after their team won the fight, but found no sign of Lu Ze.
• Qinghe decided to loot the containers, and Shanhepo agreed to search the opposite side.
• Lu Ze paused his hiding to play Three Kingdoms Kill, then heard footsteps and returned to the match, excited for an easy target.

Lu Ze ambushed Qinghe, stripped his gear, and triggered a hidden song Easter egg before escaping to camp the Extraction Point. The spectators watched Qinghe get revived in a pathetic state while Lu Ze remained hidden nearby.

• Lu Ze knocked down Qinghe with tier-three ammunition and looted all his gear in seconds.
• Lu Ze activated the Gold-Eroding Rose ultimate and triggered its hidden song Easter egg.
• Zhong Yi and the Spirit Cloud Sect spectators watched Lu Ze flee under smoke, reach the Extraction Point, and hide in nearby grass to camp it.
• Shanhepo revived Qinghe, who complained about his injuries and missing gear, while spectators laughed at his drooling, vacant appearance.

Lu Ze chose Urururu and a fully equipped sniper rifle for his second match, then went prone on top of the dam to snipe players in the Shipping Container area. A group of players who had queued to hunt him instead fell victim to his ambush, and the chapter ended with Lu Ze knocking down Flowing Sand.

• Zhong Yi reassured the Spirit Cloud Sect spectators that Lu Ze would take his second match seriously after his earlier antics.
• Lu Ze selected Urururu and a fully equipped [Heaven-Suppressing · Twenty-Five], then rode a zipline to a gap above the dam and went prone to watch the Shipping Container area.
• Flowing Sand and two companions went to Lu Ze’s Hualai workstation and threw explosives inside, but they killed an imitator instead of Lu Ze.
• Flowing Sand’s group split up to loot the Shipping Containers after failing to find Lu Ze.
• Lu Ze fired two Golden Spirit Bullets through Flowing Sand’s skull and knocked him down.

Lu Ze shocked the spectators with increasingly devious ambush tactics in the Illusion Realm, while Heart Demon dismissed him as a threat and focused on finding the rogue cultivator White Curtain. Heart Demon believed victory was within reach as the chapter ended with the audience wondering whether the Spirit Cloud Sect had produced a peerless Demon Lord.

• Lu Ze used a suppressed sniper rifle to ambush three teams from the dam, killing eight cultivators and earning less Demon Path approval than his earlier Hualai tactic.
• Lu Ze chose Wyvern for his next match, then used jets, rooftops, doorframes, disguises, and other hiding spots to ambush opponents.
• Zhong Yi tried to defend Lu Ze, but the Spirit Cloud Sect’s disciples and elders grew so embarrassed that many left their spectator area.
• Heart Demon and his masked followers judged Lu Ze unthreatening and focused on locating White Curtain, whom Heart Demon considered the main obstacle to winning.
• The livestream audience praised Lu Ze’s shameless tactics and wondered whether the Spirit Cloud Sect had produced a peerless Demon Lord.

Lu Ze discovered that the First Saint disciples imitating his Hualai tactics had boosted his Demon Path rating, and he prepared to bring the style to a new match. As the day twelve livestream began on the Baksh map, Zhong Yi recognized Lu Ze’s match opponent as Junior Brother Mu.

• Lu Ze checked his assets and saw that his Demon Path progress had reached 30% after a night of Hualai matches.
• Zhong Yi’s analysis of Lu Ze’s tactics inspired cultivators to imitate Hualai, and the Forum filled with reports of Red Wolves and Gold-Eroding Roses spreading across the Dam.
• The system notified Lu Ze that Righteous cultivators were imitating him and willingly becoming Demon Path disciples, increasing his progress by 10%.
• Lu Ze learned that Hualai players had formed the First Saint Sect and were calling him their patriarch.
• On the twelfth day, Zhong Yi checked Lu Ze’s match roster in the Heavenly Dao Livestream Room and realized that his opponent was Junior Brother Mu.

Mu Yawen and Lu Ze entered the same competition match, prompting Zhong Yi and the Spirit Cloud Sect spectators to watch both True Disciples. While Mu Yawen fought in Babel Tower, Lu Ze ambushed opponents and planned how to exploit the squads converging there.

• Mu Yawen reached nearly thirty million in assets through the competition, mostly by looting what her teammates left behind, and Zhong Yi worried when she was matched with Lu Ze.
• Zhong Yi saw that Mu Yawen spawned near Babel Tower while Lu Ze spawned in Cherry Town, and the two appeared unlikely to meet.
• Lu Ze chose Red Wolf, hid in the Grand Bathhouse, and ambushed Mai Xiaowen, while Mu Yawen's squad fought its way through Babel Tower.
• Zhong Yi switched between the matches as Mu Yawen's squad battled another squad and Lu Ze knocked down Greedy Little Mouse Xinxin.
• Lu Ze watched a squad leave the Hidden Treasure Pavilion toward Babel Tower and realized his Red Wolf choice might let him use his Hand Cannon Artifact to take advantage of the impending fight.

Lu Ze avoided the battle inside Babel Tower and secured the tower rooftop’s Flying Squirrel Extraction slot, setting up an ambush at the extraction point outside. He left the tower as the teams’ fight neared its end, confident the victors would use the front extraction point and that his Extraction Point Bombing would succeed.

• Mu Yawen’s team fought a trailing squad inside Babel Tower as Zhong Yi spotted a fully equipped team approaching from the Hidden Treasure Pavilion, with Lu Ze following behind them.
• Lu Ze entered the tower alone, pulled the switch granting access to the upper levels, and made his way toward the Ocean Palace side while a three-team battle stalled below.
• Lu Ze took the zipline to the roof and handed in two Identity Cards to claim the Flying Squirrel Extraction slot, then left without extracting or looting.
• Lu Ze activated his ultimate and ran out of Babel Tower, expecting the battle’s victors to extract at the point in front of the tower.
• Lu Ze prepared his black-and-gold Hand Cannon for an Extraction Point Bombing, certain the conditions were perfect.

Mu Yawen rescued a stranded Red Wolf at the extraction point, winning the audience’s admiration, while Lu Ze detonated explosives that knocked down several players. Lu Ze was stunned when the blasts raised his progress by 20%.

• Mu Yawen’s squad won the Babel Tower battle, and Zhong Yi spotted Lu Ze hiding motionless in a shipping container.
• Mu Yawen’s squad reached the extraction point, where Mu Yawen reassured his teammate that a distant Red Wolf was only a knife runner, not Lu Ze.
• Mu Yawen signaled the Red Wolf and used his Iron Hook to pull him into the extraction point before time ran out.
• Lu Ze fired six explosives from the west side, knocking down four players and wiping out two teams.
• Lu Ze noticed the system credited him with a 20% progress increase and reacted in surprise.

Lu Ze discovered that his first Extraction Point bombing earned a huge increase in First Sage points because it interrupted Mu Yawen’s heroic rescue, while repeated bombings quickly lost their impact. He realized he needed to keep inventing new tactics, then promised to demonstrate Deep Blue techniques for Mu Yawen in that night’s match.

• Lu Ze bombed the Extraction Point just as Mu Yawen rescued another player, earning a surge of progress while shocking the livestream audience.
• Lu Ze spent the night bombing Extraction Points across Baksh, but his attempts became less effective as players learned to avoid them.
• Lu Ze left the Illusion Realm puzzled that his progress had increased only 30% despite a 20% gain from his first match.
• Zhong Yi explained that Mu Yawen’s rescue had made Lu Ze’s bombing especially shocking, helping him infer that First Sage points depended on how viewers reacted to each act.
• Lu Ze apologized to Mu Yawen, who praised his fireballs and asked him to teach her Deep Blue techniques.
• Lu Ze agreed to demonstrate Deep Blue for Mu Yawen in that night’s match.

Lu Ze entered the Ascension Base match as the Shield Cultivator Deep Blue and used the map’s terrain for an ambush. He left the chapter standing at the edge of Fuli’s deep pit after knocking a Wyvern player into it.

• Lu Ze’s choice to play a Shield Cultivator drew attention from the spectators and surprised the Spirit Cloud Sect disciples.
• Lu Ze spawned at Central Control, crossed into the Core Zone, and headed to the deep pit in Fuli.
• Lu Ze stood openly at the pit’s edge, hopping to draw the approaching Wyvern player’s attention.
• Lu Ze blocked Wyvern’s Golden Bullets, hooked him down from above, and elbowed him into the pit, where he fell to his death.

Lu Ze used pits, water, and baited crates to ambush opponents, turning even Shield Cultivators into First Sages while avoiding death and concealing his strength. He continued developing bizarre tactics across different heroes, leaving Zhong Yi exasperated by his antics.

• Lu Ze hooked two enemies into Fuli's deep pit, then defeated the remaining opponents with the zipline and a G18.
• Lu Ze carried an enemy's crate to the opening beneath a bridge and used it as bait while he hid by the water.
• Lu Ze hooked a greedy player nicknamed Brother Rat into the water and reused the crate to bait another opponent.
• Lu Ze avoided extracting because he wanted to remain alive and keep earning First Sage points without exposing his strength.
• Lu Ze expanded his tactics to other heroes, and Zhong Yi watched him loot, hide, disguise himself, and leave opponents' family portraits.