Recaps

After four days of exploiting opponents with sneaky tactics, Lu Ze’s mission progress reached only 80%, so he decided to use scummy tactics against teammates on the tournament’s final day. When he matched with Zhong Yi and Zhou, he panicked and switched his character from Red Wolf to Luna.

• Lu Ze saw that players had copied his ambush tactics, but his mission progress had stalled at 80%.
• Li Moran invited Lu Ze to a party, and he asked her to pose as a helpless teammate so he could recreate a dramatic extraction and blow her up.
• Li Moran refused and challenged Lu Ze to bring a weapon suited to him if they met in a match.
• On the fifteenth and final day of the tournament stage, Lu Ze resolved to use scummy tactics against teammates to finish his mission.
• Lu Ze queued with Red Wolf selected, then recognized Zhong Yi and Zhou in voice chat and immediately switched to Luna.

Lu Ze teamed up with Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue in a high-stakes match and persuaded them to camp the Immortal Bridge. The trio took up positions there, and Zhong Yi spotted someone approaching from the garden.

• Lu Ze, Zhong Yi, and Zhou Yue discovered they had been matched together as teammates.
• Lu Ze proposed using Zhong Yi's Urururu pick and their broken-bridge start to camp the bridge.
• Lu Ze pressured Zhou Yue into agreeing by threatening to ambush knife-running players at the bag-drop extraction instead.
• Lu Ze, Zhong Yi, and Zhou Yue took positions on the Immortal Bridge as the livestream audience reacted to their strategy.
• Zhong Yi spotted someone coming from the garden and warned Zhou Yue.

Teams across the Ascension Base reacted after someone blocked the Immortal Bridge, and [Dusk] rallied four teams to storm it. As the attackers converged, Lu Ze promised Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue he had a plan, while Li Moran noticed one bridge defender had disappeared.

• A Sniper Spirit Bullet killed a Wyvern in the Rat Passage, alerting every team that someone was blocking the Immortal Bridge.
• Shen Yan and Zhou Qiaoling suspected Lu Ze, but Li Moran ruled him out and headed upstairs to look around.
• [Dusk] decided the bridge blockers threatened his lead and fired five shots to signal the teams to attack.
• Every team except Li Moran's answered, and four teams began converging on the Immortal Bridge.
• Zhong Yi panicked and Zhou Yue prepared to fight, but Lu Ze told them not to worry because he had a plan.
• Li Moran watched the bridge and realized only two of the three defenders remained at their posts.

Lu Ze infiltrated the Immortal Bridge Crusade Army and used a surprise attack to turn its squads against one another. Li Moran recognized him in the chaos and went to confront him.

• Dusk gathered players on the Blue Platform, planning to use teamwork against bridge blockers before betraying his allies.
• Lu Ze and Zhong Yi joined the crowd by answering the signal, while Zhou Yue realized Lu Ze had infiltrated the enemy.
• The Crusade Army attacked the Immortal Bridge, but Lu Ze knocked down Dusk and opened fire on the advancing players.
• The army fell into chaos as players mistook one another for Lu Ze or his accomplices, while Lu Ze kept shooting at their feet.
• Li Moran identified Lu Ze as the cause of the fighting and set out to meet him.

Lu Ze completed his mission after crushing the righteous cultivators, then the survivors arranged a series of duels between the two teams. Zhong Yi challenged Li Moran’s side first, but Shen Yan knocked him down, leaving him calling for Zhou Yue to rescue him.

• Lu Ze saw that his actions had completed the mission and invited Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue to loot, but they refused.
• A signal from the Black Hall revealed that Li Moran’s team wanted a fair fight, and the two teams agreed to spar.
• Zhou Yue recognized Mai Xiaowen’s gear and realized Zhou Qiaoling was on Li Moran’s team, so Zhong Yi went first.
• Zhong Yi signaled his readiness and declared that he was not as weak as Zhou Yue thought.
• Shen Yan knocked down Zhong Yi, who called for Zhou Yue to come help him.

Li Moran defeated Zhou Yue in the Wyvern match and prepared for a fair fight against Lu Ze, but Lu Ze ambushed her while disguised as a motionless figure by the passage. He knocked her down with a barrage of .45 Caliber Meat Bullets and joked that he was giving her feet a brutal pedicure.

• Zhou Yue lost to Li Moran in their Wyvern duel, and Zhong Yi revived him.
• Zhong Yi speculated that Lu Ze was confident he could beat Li Moran, but Zhou Yue and Zhong Yi spotted Lu Ze lying prone near the passage.
• Li Moran restored her condition and planned a series of peeks and shots to locate Lu Ze.
• Li Moran leaped out to attack, noticed the dark figure at her feet, and was knocked down by Lu Ze's gunfire.

After the first stage ended, Lu Ze teamed up with Zhou Yue and Li Moran for the second stage, while Huang Yuwen and a masked Heart Demon plotted to target the Spirit Cloud Sect in the finals. The chapter left the six-team qualification battle ahead and Huang Yuwen still hiding the Ten Directions Spirit-Subduing Array’s true power.

• Zhou Qiaoling surrendered, and Lu Ze gave Zhou Yue a Heaven-Replenishing Revival Cauldron in exchange for letting her take the Garden’s loot.
• Lu Ze was forced out of the Illusion Realm, then Li Moran attacked his feet at Glazed Fire Peak after he joked about her temper.
• The first stage ended with 201 qualifiers, and Li Moran rose to first place after winning her later matches.
• The second stage introduced team battles over extraterrestrial Immortal Stones, which Lu Ze modified to grant equipment, a team buff, and two million points when unsealed.
• Zhong Yi and Zhou Qiaoling withdrew, while Lu Ze, Zhou Yue, and Li Moran formed the team Your Jade Feet.
• Huang Yuwen complained about his defeat to the Spirit Cloud Sect, and the masked Heart Demon urged him to save the Ten Directions Spirit-Subduing Array for the finals.

Lu Ze’s team secured first place in the second stage, while the Illusion Alliance secretly used its Ten Directions Spirit-Subduing Array to strengthen Huang Yuwen for the tournament. Huang Yuwen reached the ninth spirit lamp, but the array was destroying his spirit veins, and only three of the Alliance’s thirty recruited Path Guardians had survived the fifth lamp.

• Zhou Yue praised Lu Ze’s coaching, and Lu Ze explained that he had stayed out of fights because he was protecting the team’s carry.
• Li Moran recalled that [Last Dusk] had shown strangely fluctuating strength and seemed able to predict her moves.
• [Last Dusk] qualified in second place on the seventh day of the second stage.
• Huang Yuwen activated the eighth spirit lamp and reached the threshold of the ninth, prompting the Heart Demon to raise his cultivation.
• Huang Yuwen described the array’s hidden enhancements, including automatic aiming and glimpses of enemies’ future movements.
• The Heart Demon concealed the damage to Huang Yuwen’s spirit veins, while only three of the Illusion Alliance’s thirty recruited Path Guardians survived the fifth spirit lamp.

Lu Ze noticed suspiciously large bets on [Last Dusk] and warned Zhou Yue and Li Moran that the team might be dangerous. As the final began, Lu Ze equipped his teammates with tier-five kits and planned to test them by eliminating himself at the start.

• Blood Crow and Rakshasa learned that spectators were already promoting the casino illusion realm, then decided to bet everything they owned on [Last Dusk] after learning the Illusion Alliance had prepared a powerful array and skilled Spirit Lamp users.
• Lu Ze noticed an enormous wager on [Last Dusk] in the casino illusion realm he had created and suspected the team had inside advantages.
• Lu Ze warned Zhou Yue to be careful of [Last Dusk], while Zhou Yue confidently trusted his and Li Moran's chances of winning.
• The six teams entered the final with starting funds, and Lu Ze suggested buying tier-four kits and one gun each for the first round.
• Lu Ze bought tier-five kits for Zhou Yue and Li Moran and said he would grenade himself after landing to test them; Zhou Yue declared that their run would be a failure if they both went down.

Lu Ze’s team was ambushed and eliminated by Last Dusk, whose suspicious accuracy convinced Lu Ze that they were cheating. He prepared to investigate their limits and trace whoever was behind them, while planning to spectate the next round after blowing himself up again.

• Zhong Yi watched the match begin and noticed that Last Dusk turned away from Babel Tower and headed toward Lu Ze’s team in Blues Mountain City.
• Lu Ze blew himself up to begin a Guarding the Way assessment while Zhou Yue and Li Moran moved toward the Hidden Treasure Pavilion.
• Last Dusk sniped Zhou Yue and then riddled Li Moran with Spirit Bullets when she tried to scout, eliminating all three teammates.
• Li Moran and Lu Ze judged the ambush suspicious, and Lu Ze concluded that Last Dusk had access to cheats and outside support.
• Lu Ze told Zhou Yue and Li Moran to bring better gear next round, then strapped on a Sky-Swallowing Backpack and planned to blow himself up and spectate.

After [Your Jade Feet] suffered another crushing defeat to the suspiciously powerful [Last Dusk], Lu Ze identified their cheats and reassured Zhou Yue and Li Moran that he could handle them. With their remaining funds, he planned to take all the equipment for himself while his teammates watched.

• [Last Dusk] ambushed and eliminated Zhou Yue and Li Moran, handing [Your Jade Feet] a second straight defeat.
• Zhong Yi suspected [Last Dusk] of cheating but had no proof, while spectators complained and feared for their bets.
• Blood Crow and Rakshasa celebrated betting all their wealth on [Last Dusk].
• Lu Ze watched the elimination replay and confirmed that [Dusk] appeared to use wallhacks, gaze detection, and an aimbot.
• Lu Ze told Zhou Yue and Li Moran to pool their remaining funds into equipment for him, while they sat out and watched.

Lu Ze baited [Dusk] into wasting a shot from [Reaper] while [Last Dusk] advanced on his position. With the shot missed, Lu Ze seized an opening as [Setting Sun] and [Black Snake] closed in on him.

• [Sunset], [Black Snake], and [Dusk] celebrated their advantage and decided to attack Lu Ze's team after spawning near them.
• [Last Dusk] killed Zhou Yue and Li Moran while Lu Ze remained alive in Prison Two.
• Zhou Yue asked how they could beat the better-equipped opponents, and Lu Ze said they only needed to be faster.
• [Dusk] held an angle while [Setting Sun] charged down the corridor and [Black Snake] attacked from downstairs.
• Lu Ze baited [Dusk] into firing at his exposed backside, making [Reaper]'s shot hit the wall.
• Lu Ze prepared to exploit the opening as Wyvern advanced down the corridor without cover.

Lu Ze used a jet-powered backstep to outmaneuver [Dusk] and kill him, leaving only Red Wolf in the fight. After explaining his tactics to Zhou Yue and Li Moran, Lu Ze prepared to face the last opponent with the stolen gear.

• [Setting Sun] activated Wyvern's jet skill, but Lu Ze killed him with three Spirit Bullets to the head.
• Lu Ze baited [Dusk] toward the railing, then jetted backward and killed him with headshots.
• Zhong Yi explained Lu Ze's maneuver as the match became a one-on-one against Red Wolf.
• Lu Ze told Zhou Yue and Li Moran that experience mattered, then healed and put on Level Six Armor.
• With [Last Dusk]'s final member hesitating at the stairs, Lu Ze prepared to attack.

Lu Ze outplayed and eliminated [Black Snake] by swapping his helmet and armor midair, then returned to playing First Sage. After Last Dusk’s squad was eliminated, [Dusk] decided they would ask their Alliance Leader to lend them power and light the Ninth Spirit Lamp.

• Lu Ze baited [Black Snake] into firing his last six Spirit Bullets, survived by swapping his helmet and armor midair, and stuck two Spirit-Draining Bombs to [Black Snake]’s forehead.
• Lu Ze defeated [Black Snake] and eliminated the squad, then explained to Li Moran and Zhou Yue that he had planned the stunt to humiliate the cheaters.
• Zhong Yi and viewers marveled at Lu Ze’s skills, then watched him lie down and return to playing First Sage.
• In Last Dusk’s preparation area, [Black Snake] and [Setting Sun] complained that Lu Ze seemed to have an Array helping him and worried they would lose their granted cultivation.
• [Dusk] rejected leaving the Illusion Realm and decided they would ask the Alliance Leader to lend them power and light the Ninth Spirit Lamp.

Lu Ze's team swept through the fourth round while [Last Dusk] activated the Ninth Spirit Lamp's power to counter him. After Zhou Yue and Li Moran eliminated themselves to spectate, Lu Ze prepared to expose [Last Dusk]'s cheating as [Dusk] studied him from afar.

• Lu Ze's trio wiped out [Green Mountain Soul] and several other teams, quickly climbing the rankings and heading toward the Control Building.
• The heart demon used the Ninth Spirit Lamp's signal to empower Huang Yuwen and the others with the Ten Directions Spirit-Subduing Array.
• [Dusk] activated the Ninth Spirit Lamp and gained the ability to read opponents' movements, then set out to find Lu Ze.
• Zhou Yue and Li Moran killed themselves to watch Lu Ze fight, and Lu Ze confirmed that [Last Dusk] was cheating and vowed to expose them.
• [Dusk] spotted Lu Ze from a Shipping Container and told [Black Snake] and [Setting Sun] to buy him time while he analyzed Lu Ze.

Lu Ze exposed [Last Dusk]'s suspicious ability to track him through cover, then used fireballs and a sudden change in movement to catch [Black Snake] off guard and attack. The Spirit Cloud Sect disciples cheered his play and began suspecting that [Last Dusk] was cheating.

• Lu Ze noticed [Last Dusk]'s shots had become more precise and suspected their cheats had been upgraded.
• Lu Ze used Red Wolf's slides and jumps to bait shots while Zhong Yi noticed [Black Snake]'s muzzle tracking Lu Ze through the crate.
• Lu Ze delayed his attack so spectators could notice the suspicious tracking, then used fireballs to force [Setting Sun] off the bridge.
• [Black Snake] fired as Lu Ze peeked from cover, but Lu Ze abruptly darted out again and attacked with his [Reaper].
• Zhong Yi praised Lu Ze's play, and the Spirit Cloud Sect disciples questioned whether [Last Dusk] had been cheating.

Lu Ze exposed [Last Dusk]'s team as cheaters while defeating [Black Snake] and [Setting Sun] with the [Reaper]. He advanced toward [Dusk], who was still charging his mysterious Heavenly Eye ability and needed only a few more seconds to finish.

• Lu Ze explained that he had been weaving behind a container to expose [Setting Sun]'s suspicious aim, then used smoke to make [Setting Sun] fire every Spirit Bullet into the container.
• Lu Ze threw another grenade and shot [Setting Sun] in the head with the [Reaper] as he jet-boosted out of the smoke.
• Zhou Yue questioned Lu Ze's impossible reaction speed, and Lu Ze joked that he had a system before saying he had trained against even more monstrous opponents.
• Lu Ze loaded two Spirit Bullets into the [Reaper] and swaggered toward [Dusk] at the far end of the bridge.
• [Dusk] told [Setting Sun] that his Heavenly Eye progress had reached ninety percent and took out his [Reaper], planning to hold Lu Ze off until it finished charging.

Lu Ze put away his guns and walked out of the Central Control Bridge with only Crimson Sky, intending to make a daring move while hundreds of thousands of cultivators watched. As [Dusk]’s countdown ended, he fired [Reaper] at Lu Ze’s exposed chest.

• Lu Ze considered the rewards he had gained from spectators’ admiration and decided to take a bigger risk to impress them.
• Lu Ze slung [Giant Wave] and [Reaper] onto his back, then walked toward the bridge exit with Crimson Sky in hand.
• Zhong Yi grew alarmed at Lu Ze’s apparent vulnerability and recalled that a dagger might be able to block spirit bullets.
• [Dusk] waited for his Heavenly Eye to activate while [Setting Sun] and [Black God] urged him to shoot.
• Lu Ze stepped completely outside the glass enclosure, and [Dusk] fired a red-flamed spirit bullet at his chest.

Lu Ze stunned the spectators by cutting down Dusk’s Spirit Bullet with Crimson Sky and then killing him with a long-range shot. As Lu Ze revived Li Moran and Zhou Yue and collected rewards, Rakshasa revealed that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance would lift restrictions on the Ten Directions Spirit-Subduing Array to summon a Divine Spirit.

• Lu Ze stepped onto the Central Control Bridge and timed a dagger slash to strike Dusk’s Spirit Bullet out of the air.
• Dusk lost his Heavenly Eye state in terror, and Lu Ze shot him between the brows.
• The Spirit Cloud Sect spectators and the livestream viewers erupted in shock and admiration at Lu Ze’s feat.
• Lu Ze revived Zhou Yue and Li Moran, received cultivation rewards from their admiration, and explained that the slash depended on precise timing and circumstances.
• Li Moran admitted Lu Ze’s magnificent slash had won her over.
• Rakshasa told Blood Crow that the Alliance Leader had agreed to lift restrictions on the Ten Directions Spirit-Subduing Array, which would summon a Divine Spirit when all ten Spirit Lamps were lit.

Lu Ze’s team entered the deciding round against Last Dusk, whose members tried to invoke a god by lighting the tenth Spirit Lamp. The attempt killed Zhou Yue and Li Moran, but an enormous hand destroyed Last Dusk and shattered the array sustaining the players; the Heart Demon then faced the being whose rules he had disrupted.

• The Heart Demon saw that Huang Yuwen and the other two players’ bodies were failing, healed their visible wounds, and strengthened the array as Your Jade Feet took the lead in supplies.
• Lu Ze told Zhou Yue and Li Moran to clear the map before extracting, then let them take the lead when the deciding round began.
• Zhou Yue and Li Moran found Dusk, Setting Sun, and Black Snake behind the bulletproof window at Dormitory Building One, while Lu Ze recognized their attempt to light the tenth Spirit Lamp and ran away.
• Dusk, Setting Sun, and Black Snake invoked the tenth Spirit Lamp and spun while firing all thirty Spirit Bullets, killing Zhou Yue and Li Moran.
• An enormous hand formed from storm clouds smashed through Dormitory Building One and crushed Dusk, Setting Sun, and Black Snake; the match declared them removed due to an environmental anomaly.
• The Spirit-Subduing Array shattered, and Huang Yuwen and the other two dissolved into blood and pus as the Heart Demon faced two black-mist hands that condemned him for disrupting their rules.

After the Heavenly Dao expelled the cheating team [Last Dusk], Lu Ze, Zhou Yue, and Li Moran dominated the rest of the match and won. As they celebrated on the Immortal Bridge, the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao appeared as Old Granny and killed Zhou Yue and Lu Ze with impossible attacks.

• Lu Ze revived Zhou Yue and Li Moran after [Last Dusk] was eliminated for cheating, and the three agreed to compete for the most kills.
• Lu Ze, Li Moran, and Zhou Yue each wiped out a team, leaving no one alive and securing victory.
• On the Immortal Bridge, Zhou Yue taunted Lu Ze over a near-stolen kill, while Lu Ze suspected Zhong Yi was cursing him.
• Old Granny appeared within range of the Immortal Bridge, and her sniper shot left Zhou Yue with 10 HP before golden fireballs killed him.
• Lu Ze tried to snipe Old Granny, but the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao struck him with rapid red bullets and then golden-red fireballs.

After the Heavenly Dao tournament, Lu Ze collected the Dao Transformation Art and learned that the cheating array master had been killed, though the culprit appeared to be a Spirit Body. He struggled to master the art without its missing mental cultivation method, then spent hundreds of years of Enlightenment Insight reaching great perfection and prepared to torment Righteous cultivators in his Illusion Realms.

• [Your Jade Feet] remained in first place after [Last Dusk] was disqualified, while [Blood Crow] and [Rakshasa] lost their enormous bets on the cheating team.
• Lu Ze received a Void Soul Pill and claimed the Dao Transformation Art from the tournament’s champion reward chest.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao told Lu Ze that the three cheaters and the Spirit Body array master had died, but it had not seen the array master’s face.
• After half a month of difficult practice, Lu Ze learned the Dao Transformation Art and discovered it had a complementary mental cultivation method that the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao did not possess.
• Lu Ze spent more than three hundred years of Enlightenment Insight to bring the Dao Transformation Art to great perfection, then resolved to torment Righteous cultivators through his story-driven Illusion Realms.

At the Illusion Alliance Base, [Heart Demon] planned to lure Lu Ze into a contest using a Void Soul Crystal as bait, hoping to obtain an Illusion Tower bearing Lu Ze’s spiritual sense and decipher his spell. The elders believed Lu Ze’s poor cultivation talent would make the crystal lethal if he won, leaving the Alliance confident that either outcome favored them.

• [White Crane] asked [Heart Demon] about the Heavenly Dao’s appearance, and [Heart Demon] said he had lost only a clone.
• [Heart Demon] recalled that the Heavenly Dao’s golden runes resembled the spell patterns in Lu Ze’s book, prompting the elders to suspect Lu Ze’s spell involved heavenly dao power.
• [Heart Demon] proposed obtaining an Illusion Tower touched by Lu Ze’s spiritual sense so the Heaven and Earth Four Symbols could analyze it.
• [Heart Demon] revealed a Void Soul Crystal and proposed holding an Illusion Alliance contest to lure Lu Ze away from the Spirit Cloud Sect and acquire one of his Illusion Towers.
• [Heart Demon] explained that the crystal could overwhelm an ordinary cultivator’s spiritual sense, and the elders concluded that Lu Ze’s poor roots made the plan favorable whether he won or lost.

Lu Ze learned that a Void Soul Crystal remained in Luofeng Continent and planned to retrieve it to support his illusion research. He discovered the Illusion Alliance was offering one as the first prize in a recruitment exchange, so he asked Nangong Yuan to accompany him to Tianshui City.

• Lu Ze found that refining his illusion spells made their Spiritual Sense requirements too demanding, and he considered using a Void Soul Crystal to solve the problem.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao revealed that a trace of a Void Soul Crystal remained in Luofeng Continent, where it had killed a Formation Spirit.
• Lu Ze told Nangong Yuan he planned to travel to Luofeng Continent, prompting Nangong Yuan to suspect he intended to join the Illusion Alliance.
• Lu Ze checked the Forum and found the Illusion Alliance's recruitment exchange in Tianshui City, whose first prize included a Void Soul Crystal.
• Lu Ze decided to attend the exchange and asked Nangong Yuan to go with him.

Lu Ze entered the Illusion Alliance’s exchange gathering to compete for a Void Soul Crystal, despite recognizing that the alliance might try to sabotage him. As the gathering began, Sikong Che announced that the first competition’s theme was tower climbing.

• Lu Ze signed up for the Illusion Alliance’s exchange gathering, prompting the alliance’s leaders to prepare illusions intended to make him fail.
• Lu Ze traveled to Tianshui City with Nangong Yuan, Zhong Yi, and Chao Wendao to attend the gathering.
• Lu Ze told Zhong Yi he wanted the Void Soul Crystal and explained that the Heavenly Dao’s supervision would prevent the Illusion Alliance from cheating.
• At Leisure Cloud Mountain Villa, Rakshasa hosted the exchange gathering and introduced Sikong Che of the Myriad Dao Sect.
• Sikong Che announced tower climbing as the first theme.