Recaps

Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm kept killing Yang Zhengxin with bizarre text traps, even after Lu Ze changed the challenge to a timed attempt. Yang Zhengxin cleared the first level and entered a much harder second one, where his confidence led him into another deadly trap.

• Yang Zhengxin complained about dying to flying text, and Lu Ze persuaded him to continue by changing the challenge to a one-incense-stick time limit.
• Yang Zhengxin dodged the text trap and crossed the first obstacles, but a disappearing mound revealed the words “Hi, hello!” that killed him.
• Yang Zhengxin tried again, cleared the first level, and entered a second randomly selected level.
• Yang Zhengxin studied the second level’s map and confidently planned a route through its platforms and Ground Spikes.
• Yang Zhengxin landed near a Ground Spike that suddenly expanded to fill the platform, killing him.

Yang Zhengxin repeatedly tried to cross Lu Ze’s trap-filled Illusion Realm, adapting his tactics only to be killed by increasingly absurd mechanisms. He ended the chapter back at the Soul Gathering Array, furious after a Ground Spike accelerated into him.

• Yang Zhengxin dodged a Ground Spike but was knocked from a platform by an Iron Block, then pierced by two more spikes when he tried to return to the starting point.
• A cat killed Yang Zhengxin on the left route, and Lu Ze calmly explained that it was an Immortal Beast guarding an Immortal-Grade Trap.
• Yang Zhengxin found a way up the right side and tried to cross a Ground Spike that tore free with a strip of ground and shot toward him.
• Yang Zhengxin tested several ways to evade the flying Ground Spike, but the cat and the spike’s changing movements killed him each time.
• Yang Zhengxin was flattened again when the Ground Spike accelerated toward the Cave, then howled in frustration at the Soul Gathering Array.

Yang Zhengxin struggled to clear Lu Ze’s trap-filled Illusion Realm, while Lu Ze offered him a longer time limit and a seemingly helpful hint. Yang Zhengxin finally navigated the most dangerous spike trap, only to be smashed to pieces by the hidden cat.

• Yang Zhengxin withdrew from the Illusion Realm and accused Lu Ze of toying with him, but Lu Ze pointed out a gap that could help him dodge the Ground Spikes.
• Lu Ze replaced the original time limit with one level per oversized incense stick, and Yang Zhengxin accepted the challenge to clear at least ten stages.
• Yang Zhengxin memorized the route and raced through the traps, reaching the upper cliff and dropping into the gap on the left to evade a Ground Spike.
• Yang Zhengxin celebrated surviving the spike, but the hidden cat charged out and smashed him to pieces.

Lu Ze defended his trap-filled Illusion Realm after Yang Zhengxin accused him of cheating, and the Elders accepted his explanation. Lu Ze then added a sect leaderboard to the Illusion Realm, leaving the gathered cultivators eager to compete for the top rankings.

• Yang Zhengxin cursed Lu Ze after leaving the Illusion Realm, but Lu Ze argued that its restrictions and traps were legitimate tests of wit.
• The Elders leaned toward Lu Ze’s defense, and Chao Wendao persuaded Yang Zhengxin to stop challenging him.
• Yang Zhengxin left with the Azure Peak Sect disciples after warning that Lu Ze would face judgment again when the Martial Tournament theme was announced.
• Lu Ze secretly adjusted the Illusion Realm and added a leaderboard, which ranked Yang Zhengxin and the Azure Peak Sect first.
• Cultivators from the gathered sects noticed the leaderboard and began discussing how they could claim higher rankings.

The sect elders and disciples prepared to compete in Lu Ze’s illusion trials after he added a leaderboard that fueled their rivalries. Lu Ze earned a surge of Demonic Value and began creating more maps, eager to expand his trials as his cultivation grew.

• The elders discussed the disciples’ interest in the rankings, and Chao Wendao gave them Spirit Cloud Sect Illusion Tokens to explore the trials.
• Lin Anzai, Li Jiujian, and Wen Lingwu each secretly sent their disciples to compete and bring glory to their sects.
• Chao Wendao ordered Nangong Yuan to produce Replica Illusion Crystal Stones and told Zhong Yi to focus on clearing the trials for Spirit Cloud Sect.
• Lu Ze collected Demonic Value from the elders and disciples, reaching the middle Foundation Establishment stage after earning ten thousand points overnight.
• Lu Ze opened the trial’s backend and began editing a new map to challenge the cultivators further.

Guo Yunwen and the elders of Sky Profound Gate struggled to keep their composure after trying Lu Ze’s illusion, If You're a Cultivator, Descend a Hundred Levels. Guo Yunwen planned to bring the illusion as a local specialty to his senior brother, while Chao Wendao confronted Nangong Yuan about Lu Ze’s nature.

• Guo Yunwen emerged from the illusion shaken after dying more than a hundred times and failing to understand Lu Ze’s traps.
• Guo Yunwen told his senior brother he would bring him a local specialty from Spirit Cloud Sect, deciding to buy more Mini Illusion Towers and Crystals.
• Nangong Yuan left the elders’ lounge after a frustrating night playing the illusion and encountered Chao Wendao, who had dark circles around his eyes.
• Chao Wendao recalled Lu Ze’s brutal traps and asked Nangong Yuan why his supposedly kind, simple-minded disciple had made them.
• Nangong Yuan denied having a disciple, leaving Chao Wendao speechless.

Yang Zhengxin learned that other sects were competing on Lu Ze’s illusion leaderboard, but Xu Huoyao’s attempt to restore Azure Peak Sect’s reputation left him furious instead. At Spirit Cloud Peak, Zhong Yi finally climbed the rankings, only to face an unexpected counting question in the illusion.

• Yang Zhengxin heard that Spirit Cloud Sect had displayed the leaderboard and that Azure Peak Sect ranked last, then asked whether Xu Huoyao had participated.
• Xu Huoyao tried Lu Ze’s illusion, became convinced the traps were being controlled to humiliate Azure Peak Sect, and threatened to attack Artifact Forging Hall before Yang Zhengxin stopped him.
• Yang Zhengxin told Xu Huoyao to focus on the upcoming Official Martial Tournament instead of the leaderboard.
• Zhong Yi endured a series of absurd deaths in the illusion, then vented his frustration by nearly beating apart a Training Dummy.
• Zhong Yi broke through the tenth stage and reached the leaderboard’s top five hundred, only for the illusion to ask how many red apples had appeared.

Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Li Moran struggled through Lu Ze’s punishing illusion game, while Lu Ze refused to give Nangong Yuan its full solutions. The Spirit Cloud Sect gained limited guidance, and Lu Ze received a Myriad Souls Banner as a task reward.

• Zhong Yi quit the illusion after its trick questions about apples and spikes drove him to smash a training dummy, while Mu Yawen pretended to be calm.
• Li Moran emerged from the illusion after clearing level fifty and decided to return to cultivation rather than keep improving her score.
• Nangong Yuan asked Lu Ze how he had devised so many traps, and Lu Ze claimed he had invented them in his spare time.
• Lu Ze refused to give the Spirit Cloud Sect full walkthroughs, calling that cheating, but accepted Nangong Yuan’s offers and shared a few key hints.
• The system announced that Lu Ze had exceeded his task requirements and awarded him a Myriad Souls Banner.

Lu Ze discovered new uses for the Myriad Souls Banner and added a Map Editor to his popular Illusion Realm game. The Four Great Sects’ disciples and elders prepared punishing stages for him to face before the Martial Tournament, but Zhong Yi learned he had to clear his own map before publishing it.

• Lu Ze learned that game deaths strengthened souls in the Myriad Souls Banner, which could be given intelligence and summoned to help with work in the Illusion Realm.
• Two days after the game’s release, disciples continued playing and discussing its difficult stages, while Lu Ze uploaded a Map Editor for them to create their own levels.
• Disciples from the Limitless Sword Sect, Sky Profound Gate, Cloud Immortal Palace, and Azure Peak Sect began designing levels to challenge the Spirit Cloud Sect before the Martial Tournament.
• Yang Zhengxin eagerly set out to build a trap-filled map for Lu Ze, while Zhong Yi designed a twisted stage of his own.
• Zhong Yi tried to publish his map but discovered that he had to clear it once first.

After waking to a huge increase in Demonic Value, Lu Ze discovered that cultivators had been tormenting themselves trying to clear the stages they designed for his illusion realm. Meanwhile, Yang Zhengxin planned to undermine Lu Ze at the Official Martial Tournament by exploiting the illusion realm’s scale.

• Lu Ze checked the forum and learned that senior brothers and Elders had gained Demonic Value by repeatedly failing to clear their own stages in If You're a Cultivator, Descend a Hundred Levels.
• Lu Ze checked the Myriad Souls Banner and saw that Zhong Yi's soul had grown stronger.
• Yang Zhengxin smashed his Mini Illusion Tower after failing more than a hundred times to clear the trap stage he had designed, and Xu Huoyao soon suffered the same fate.
• Azure Peak Sect decided to abandon the illusion realm and focus on the Official Martial Tournament, while Yang Zhengxin planned to influence the tournament's Secret Realm theme against Lu Ze.
• Yang Zhengxin identified the scale of the illusion realm as Lu Ze's fatal weakness.

Lu Ze and Zhong Yi entered the Nurturing Spirit Hall, where elders from several sects discussed the contents of a competition Secret Realm. Yang Zhengxin proposed a grand illusion realm themed around war, leaving Chao Wendao concerned that Lu Ze could not create one large enough.

• Lu Ze found Zhong Yi nervously inspecting the Nurturing Spirit Hall steps and advised him not to leave the sect for years.
• Lu Ze offered to teach Zhong Yi Jump Stab, and Zhong Yi promised to protect him if he ever left the sect.
• Lu Ze and Zhong Yi entered the Nurturing Spirit Hall, where the elders discussed their disciples’ experiences with Lu Ze’s illusion.
• Yang Zhengxin, Li Jiujian, Lin Anzai, and Wen Lingwu backed making the competition illusion grander, while Chao Wendao worried that Lu Ze’s Foundation Establishment cultivation limited its size.
• Yang Zhengxin proposed war as the illusion’s topic, invoking the Righteous-Demonic War and the need for righteous cultivators to remember battle.

The elders chose the Righteous-Demonic War as the theme for the Competition’s Illusion Realm, despite Chao Wendao’s objections that it was too difficult for Lu Ze. Lu Ze volunteered to create it alone, and Yang Zhengxin laid out the demanding requirements for the task.

• Yang Zhengxin proposed war as the theme, and the elders approved it over Chao Wendao’s concerns.
• Yang Zhengxin insisted that Lu Ze create the Illusion Realm himself, and Lu Ze volunteered to accept the challenge.
• Chao Wendao reluctantly agreed to let Lu Ze try, while Nangong Yuan worried that Lu Ze was taking on too much.
• Yang Zhengxin required the Illusion Realm to depict the Righteous-Demonic War, showcase every sect’s methods, allow disciple representatives to fight together with clear scoring, and be completed without assistance.

Lu Ze overcame the Illusion Realm’s strict space limit by designing a real-time strategy game called Immortal Realm Supremacy. As he built it, Chao Wendao organized the elders to prepare a desperate plan to rescue Lu Ze from prison.

• Lu Ze rejected battlefield games that needed too much space, then realized an overhead real-time strategy game could depict a vast war within a small Illusion Realm.
• At the Council Hall, Nangong Yuan and Chao Wendao explained why Lu Ze could not reuse the space-stacking trick from Demonic Path Escape, and the elders feared losing their sect’s share of low-level Secret Realms.
• Chao Wendao assigned Nangong Yuan and the other elders urgent tasks to create a War Illusion and protective Artifacts, then revealed that they were preparing to break someone out of prison.
• Lu Ze tested a battlefield controlled through a floating screen and chose to combine ideas from StarCraft, Warcraft, and Red Alert into an original game.
• Lu Ze adapted the game’s buildings and units to the cultivation world and named it Immortal Realm Supremacy.

Lu Ze completed the framework for Immortal Realm Supremacy, then secretly strengthened the Demonic Faction after the system assigned him a mission to secure its victory in the coming Righteous-Demonic War. On the day he was to submit the illusion realm, Nangong Yuan arrived with a scheme to fake a disaster and replace Lu Ze’s crystal, only to learn Lu Ze’s work was already finished.

• Lu Ze built Campaign, War, Arena, and Map Editor modes for Immortal Realm Supremacy, then tested the Demonic Faction against the Crazy Enemy.
• The system tasked Lu Ze with ensuring the Demonic Faction won the coming Righteous-Demonic War, so he raised enemy difficulty, boosted demonic units, and expanded their campaign territory.
• Yang Zhengxin sealed Spirit Jade Pavilion behind a Barrier while Lu Ze waited to submit his Illusion Crystal Stone.
• Nangong Yuan crashed through the Barrier after staging a fight with Chao Wendao and explained their plan to shatter Lu Ze’s crystal with divine lightning so the sect could substitute Nangong Yuan’s War Illusion.
• Lu Ze revealed that his illusion realm was complete and sound, then told Nangong Yuan they would have to continue the act; he also revealed that he had already bound the Artifact Nangong Yuan gave him.

Zhong Yi entered Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm, Immortal Realm Supremacy, and began its Spirit Cloud Sect campaign, where he learned to move and settle a floating sect. He started recruiting workers and gathering resources as the campaign’s sect-building challenge began.

• Lu Ze presented the Illusion Crystal Stone, and Yang Zhengxin urged the disciples to test it while secretly watching for signs that its illusion exceeded a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s ability.
• Chao Wendao allowed Zhong Yi to enter the illusion and project its scenes for him to inspect.
• Zhong Yi saw the Immortal Realm Supremacy home page, featuring Severed Thought Cliff and Spirit Cloud Sect facing the Demon Path, then chose Campaign Mode and the Spirit Cloud Sect chapter.
• The campaign instructed Zhong Yi to find a site and establish Spirit Cloud Sect, so he moved the Floating Island to a location with three Spirit Veins and settled it.
• Zhong Yi received a mission to recruit Menial Disciples to gather Spirit Stones and learned that upgrading the sect required Spirit Stones and Mystic Iron.

Zhong Yi learned the basics of Immortal Realm Supremacy, built up the Spirit Cloud Sect, and rescued villagers while fighting the Demon Path. After completing the beginner tutorial, he received a warning that endless Demon Cult forces were closing in on him.

• Zhong Yi gathered spirit stones, built a Martial Arts Hall and other structures, and recruited combat units to defend the Spirit Cloud Sect from Demonic Warriors.
• Zhong Yi built a Celestial Secrets Pavilion, explored the map, found a Mystic Iron Mine, and upgraded his sect with new units and spirit beasts.
• Zhong Yi led his troops to a human settlement, defeated the arriving Demon Path forces, and brought the villagers back to his base for resources.
• Zhong Yi completed the beginner tutorial and learned that the Demon Cult had discovered his whereabouts and was sending an endless stream of forces toward him.

Zhong Yi fought off a Demon Path invasion in War Mode but lost his base and died when a stronger second wave overwhelmed him. After returning to the starting space, he took the sect’s disciples’ comments to heart and vowed to restore the sect’s glory.

• Zhong Yi recruited an army and arranged his forces to defend Spirit Cloud Sect against the Demon Path.
• Demon Path assassins and Soul Summoners turned the battle around, forcing Zhong Yi to sell most of his buildings and recruit emergency troops.
• Zhong Yi’s remaining Spirit Archers and Talismaster survived the first wave, but a much larger second force appeared on the minimap.
• Zhong Yi converted the sect base into a Floating Island and fled southeast, but Demon God Soldiers crushed his last three units.
• The Demon Path destroyed Zhong Yi’s base and killed him, triggering his return to the starting space.
• Zhong Yi read the disciples’ comments and vowed to restore the sect’s glory.

Lu Ze defended the strategy game Immortal Realm Supremacy against Yang Zhengxin’s objections, and the elders and disciples voted overwhelmingly to keep it. Yang Zhengxin then challenged Lu Ze over reports that the Righteous faction was too weak to defeat the Demonic faction.

• Yang Zhengxin criticized the Illusion Realm for failing to depict a real war, while Chao Wendao and Lin Anzai defended its strategy and battlefield features.
• Lu Ze explained that each sect had unique units and abilities, and that players could cooperate or fight one another in War Mode.
• Wen Lingwu suggested letting the disciples decide, and Xu Huoyao reluctantly said he wanted the Illusion Realm replaced.
• Chao Wendao organized an anonymous vote, and the disciples approved Immortal Realm Supremacy by 23 votes to 6.
• Yang Zhengxin confronted Lu Ze after hearing that the Righteous faction was too weak to defeat the Demonic faction.

Lu Ze defended the difficult Righteous campaigns as a lesson in the sects’ history and urged cultivators to practice in War Mode before attempting them. Zhong Yi discovered the Demonic Chapter but refused its mission because he considered himself a Righteous cultivator.

• Yang Zhengxin accused Lu Ze of slandering the Righteous faction, but Lu Ze defended the campaigns as a portrayal of the Righteous sects’ hardest era.
• Chao Wendao, Lin Anzai, and Li Jiujian backed Lu Ze, turning the assembled cultivators against Yang Zhengxin.
• Lu Ze offered to clear the campaigns himself, but disciples from the Five Great Sects insisted on clearing their own sects’ trials.
• Lu Ze advised the cultivators to master battlefield techniques in War Mode before attempting Campaign Mode.
• Zhong Yi continued struggling with the Righteous campaigns, then discovered that the Demonic Chapter began with a Tier 3 Sect and powerful forces already assembled.
• Zhong Yi rejected the Demonic Chapter’s mission to suppress Righteous forces, declaring that he would not associate with the Demonic path.

Lu Ze’s game settings helped the demonic side win Campaign Mode, while Zhong Yi stumbled through the campaign and unlocked War Mode. After the Crazier Enemy AI crushed him in his first match, Zhong Yi tried to select an easier difficulty but found only even more intimidating options.

• Zhong Yi tried to sabotage the demonic side in Campaign Mode, but his two demonic allies defeated him and went on to wipe out the righteous forces.
• Lu Ze enjoyed the resulting Demonic Value gains and watched his mission progress rise, confident that his difficulty settings kept players from helping the righteous side win.
• Zhong Yi joined the demonic AI to finish the campaign, then realized that completing every chapter unlocked War Mode.
• Zhong Yi entered War Mode against a Crazier Enemy AI, but its relentless attacks flattened his base before he could build up his forces.
• Zhong Yi returned to War Mode to choose an easier difficulty, only to find options labeled Crazier Enemy and Super Invincible Perverted Crazy Enemy.

Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen struggled against the Demonic Army in multiplayer War Mode, while “Immortal Realm Supremacy” spread through the sects and drew a flood of players. Lu Ze completed his task ahead of schedule, claimed a Demonic Path Experience Tome, and secretly increased his cultivation while hiding his true aura.

• Zhong Yi called Mu Yawen to help defend against the Demonic Army, but Mu Yawen brought only slow Body Cultivators, and they both died in the next assault.
• Zhong Yi suggested that Mu Yawen reach sect Level Three so they could test stronger Body Cultivators.
• Disciples and elders from the Four Great Sects flocked to obtain Illusion Crystal Stones for “Immortal Realm Supremacy,” and its forum filled with players discussing matches and strategies.
• Lu Ze’s task to achieve victory in the Righteous-Demonic War finished after one night, and he received a Demonic Path Experience Tome.
• Lu Ze used the tome to gain Demonic Value and level up, then suppressed his aura with the Ice Breath Technique to conceal his cultivation.

Several sect elders challenged the demonic faction together, suffered defeat, and summoned Lu Ze after learning an Outer Disciple had beaten the enemy. Lu Ze agreed to help the elders in exchange for their support in creating an illusion formation that would let cultivators play together across distances.

• Li Jiujian, Wen Lingwu, Lin Anzai, and Chao Wendao argued over their defeat by the demonic faction, which had hidden Demonic Blood Assassins inside Carnivorous Kun Beasts.
• Chao Wendao found a Forum post saying four people had beaten the demonic faction, and learned that one of them was an Outer Disciple; the elders decided to get Lu Ze.
• Lu Ze initially refused to help Chao Wendao, insisting he would not condone cheating, but agreed when the elders offered him rewards.
• Lu Ze asked the elders to help fund an illusion formation that would let cultivators connect and play together without being in the same place.
• Lin Anzai realized the formation would require several elders' strength, while Lu Ze said Nangong Yuan had already arranged it and only five elders needed to contribute.

Lu Ze expanded Immortal Realm Supremacy into a sect-wide multiplayer game with parties and rankings, and its players developed new tactics and rivalries. After Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen lost to disciples from Cloud Immortal Palace, Zhong Yi misunderstood an opponent’s invitation to spar as a challenge and asked Lu Ze to join him.

• Lu Ze completed a grand formation with the elders, enabling the Spirit Cloud Sect to access multiplayer throughout the sect, and asked Nangong Yuan how to extend it across the continent.
• Lu Ze added party lobbies and rankings to War Mode, and the game grew popular as disciples created rooms, devised tactics, and disabled sect grand formations for fairer matches.
• Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen teamed up against two Cloud Immortal Palace disciples, but their opponents overwhelmed them despite Zhong Yi’s attempt to use a spy to steal resources.
• Zhong Yi told Lu Ze that a Cloud Immortal Palace disciple had insulted him and invited him to spar at Shattered Rain Tower, while Lu Ze realized Zhong Yi had missed her hint.
• Zhong Yi decided to bring Junior Sister Li to spar with the woman’s junior sister, and Lu Ze agreed to accompany him.

Lu Ze defeated Li Moran in the Battle Hall, where she recognized him as the creator of the game and later led her sect to its first Campaign Mode victory. As the elders planned the Official Martial Tournament, the system assigned Lu Ze a new mission to lead the Demonic Path against the Five Great Sects.

• Lu Ze used an alternate identity to defeat Battle Hall challengers, then beat Li Moran and earned minor mastery of Profound Ice Sword Intent.
• Li Moran deduced that Nameless was Lu Ze, thanked him for his help at the Enforcement Hall, and arranged to fight him again.
• Li Moran later led the Spirit Cloud Sect to its first victory over the Demonic Path in Immortal Realm Supremacy.
• Li Jiujian questioned Lu Ze about helping Li Moran, and Lu Ze explained his plan for the Official Martial Tournament’s team battles and final battle.
• The elders approved Lu Ze’s tournament format and boasted about their sects’ ability to handle powerful Demonic Path enemies.
• The system assigned Lu Ze a mission to lead the Demonic Path against the Five Great Sects and defeat them for a random Artifact.

Lu Ze prepared the highest-difficulty Demonic AI matches for the Sky Profound Gate and Limitless Sword Sect after their Elders demanded a challenge, then hosted the first rounds of the sect competition for a growing audience. After the matches drew interest and inspired a food-selling opportunity, he charged Nangong Yuan 300 Spirit Stones for a serving of pig knuckle.

• Lu Ze agreed to prepare the hardest enemies after Lin Anzai and Li Jiujian insisted their disciples take on the greatest challenge.
• The Sky Profound Gate and Limitless Sword Sect disciples trained against increasingly numerous Demonic AIs over several days.
• Lu Ze held the first round of the sect competition with Zhong Yi commentating, and viewers praised the exciting matches on the Forum.
• Lu Ze noticed the competition’s popularity and contacted Glazed Fire Peak’s cafeteria about selling food to viewers.
• Lu Ze served Nangong Yuan Emerald Braised Pig Knuckle and demanded 300 Spirit Stones, leaving Nangong Yuan outraged when Lu Ze said the other Elders called him a good master.