Recaps

The cultivators continued playing Three Kingdoms Kill as viewers from across the sects watched Lu Ze’s increasingly popular Live Streaming. Lu Ze planned to expand his Servers throughout the Cultivation World, and the chapter ended with elders from other sects asking to join the game.

• Zhou Yue eliminated five Spade cards, then drew another Spade 6 Qinggang Sword and lamented his terrible luck.
• The eight players kept playing, drawing a growing audience from Spirit Cloud Sect and other sects through Nangong Yuan’s Live Streaming source.
• Lu Ze considered how Three Kingdoms Kill could earn Demonic Value and help him open Servers for the other sects.
• Elder Gu Tianheng of Sky Profound Gate sent a Crimson Blaze Meteor gift and asked how to join the Illusion Realm.
• Li Jiujian of Limitless Sword Sect sent a Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin gift and asked Lu Ze to bring him along.

Lu Ze’s Three Kingdoms Kill livestream drew enthusiastic gifts and helped the Illusion Crystal Stones become an immediate hit when they went on sale. After receiving the aura-concealing Artifact he had earned from Nangong Yuan, Lu Ze found that his Demonic Value was finally enough to advance to the Golden Core Realm.

• Lu Ze watched the Elders shower the livestream with expensive gifts, then promised that Three Kingdoms Kill Illusion Crystal Stones would still cost ten Spirit Stones each.
• Lu Ze told viewers from other sects that they could try the Illusion Realm, though they would miss some content without the Spirit Cloud Sect’s Divine Sense Resonance Array.
• That evening, cultivators and Elders crowded the Artifact Forging Hall to buy Three Kingdoms Kill, and Nangong Yuan created an automatic-selling Spell and Artifact to handle the demand.
• Lu Ze reminded Nangong Yuan of his promised reward, and Nangong Yuan gave him the Origin Returning Heaven Concealing Mirror, which could conceal aura fluctuations up to the Transformation God Realm.
• Lu Ze’s Demonic Value reached the threshold for advancing to the Golden Core Realm.

Lu Ze released the Wind, Fire, Wood, and Mountain card packs for Three Kingdoms Kill, drawing more cultivators into the game and making other sects eager for server access. As players anticipated the official version, Lu Ze designed limited cosmetic effects to monetize the game without selling power.

• Lu Ze secretly broke through, expanded his illusion realms to about a thousand meters, and planned to earn spirit stones through skins and effects rather than powerful cards.
• Lu Ze released the four new card packs, featuring generals such as Zuo Ci, Zhang Jiao, Jia Xu, and Crouching Dragon Zhuge, and announced free trials for a limited time.
• Spirit Cloud Sect disciples welcomed the update, while elders from other sects traveled there to access the server-required new version and ranked mode.
• Lu Ze designed flashy limited effects for popular generals and the eight God Cards, hoping to profit from wealthy cultivators without making the generals rare.
• After a week of players discussing strategies and card abilities, the forum announced that the official version would launch the next day.

After Three Kingdoms Kill launched its Mythic Return update, Zhou Yue and Zhong Yi discovered the new Divine Generals and enthusiastically bought discounted recharge offers. Zhong Yi then explored the General Recruitment system, whose rules promised guaranteed high-rank Generals after repeated summons.

• Zhong Yi reviewed his match with Mu Yawen and Zhou Yue, correcting Mu Yawen when she called Xun Yu's skill Gou Huo.
• The Mythic Return update went live, and Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Yue updated their Illusion Crystal Stones to see the new Divine Generals.
• Zhou Yue found the First Recharge Gift Pack and bought it, then claimed a discount on the VIP Monthly Card while Zhong Yi bought one too.
• Zhong Yi opened General Recruitment and learned that tokens summoned random Generals, with higher ranks guaranteed after enough attempts and duplicates dismantled into Heroic Souls.

Lu Ze’s new Three Kingdoms Kill version drew players into recruiting generals and chasing expensive skins, earning him a large amount of Sect Contribution Points. As he worried about how the Sect would exchange them for Spirit Stones, Nangong Yuan summoned him to meet the Elders of Sky Profound Gate.

• Zhou Qiaoling recruited Divine Zhuge with a single draw, prompting Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Yue to spend Spirit Stones on draws of their own.
• Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen recruited divine generals, while Zhou Yue spent heavily before drawing Divine Lü Bu and then duplicate generals.
• Players discovered that Treasure Summon offered no guarantees, and the forum filled with complaints about its cost and time-limited prizes.
• Lu Ze earned 100,000 Sect Contribution Points in one night by giving players temporary Trial Skins that encouraged them to pursue permanent skins.
• Nangong Yuan interrupted Lu Ze and told him the Elders of Sky Profound Gate wanted to see him.

Lu Ze persuaded the Elders of Sky Profound Gate to establish their own Server for Three Kingdoms Kill, partly by promising the coming National War mode and its rewards. As Nangong Yuan brought Lu Ze to meet Sky Profound Gate’s Grand Elder, Lu Ze offered his master a top-tier skin if he would improve his cultivation, leaving Nangong Yuan incredulous.

• Lu Ze and Nangong Yuan entered the Council Hall, where Lin Anzai endured a barrage of eggs from the Elders during a card game until Lin Qingxuan summoned hundreds more and pelted him.
• Gu Tianheng asked Lu Ze to create a way for Sky Profound Gate members to recharge with their own Sect Contribution Points, since rising prices were making it difficult for the Elders to keep playing.
• Lu Ze explained that Sky Profound Gate needed a Divine Sense Resonance Array to open its own Server and described the upcoming National War mode and its skin-naming rewards, convincing the Elders to agree to build one.
• Lin Anzai asked Lu Ze for a Zhuge Liang skin, but Lu Ze declined and explained that the Spirit Stones he earned from the Illusion Realm went back into it.
• Nangong Yuan took Lu Ze to Sky Profound Gate to meet its Grand Elder, and Lu Ze offered him a top-tier skin if he raised his cultivation by one minor realm.

Lu Ze toured the Sky Profound Gate with its Saint, Shen Yan, who asked him to create an Illusion Realm to help him comprehend the Sword Dao. The system then assigned Lu Ze a mission to shake Shen Yan’s steadfast Dao heart, leaving him with a new task and the promise of a system upgrade.

• Chi Shengtian introduced Lu Ze to his disciple Shen Yan and asked Shen Yan to show him around the Sky Profound Gate.
• Lu Ze mistook the Sky Profound Gate disciples’ hostile looks for jealousy toward Shen Yan, but Shen Yan explained that they resented Lu Ze’s notoriously difficult Illusion Realms.
• Shen Yan praised Lu Ze’s Illusion Realms and revealed that, despite being suited to hammer weapons, he wanted to comprehend the Sword Dao.
• Shen Yan asked Lu Ze to design an Illusion Realm to help him practice the Sword Dao, but Lu Ze tried to dissuade him and privately refused to help a righteous cultivator.
• The system tasked Lu Ze with shaking Shen Yan’s steadfast Dao heart and offered a system upgrade as the reward.

Lu Ze agreed to create an illusion realm to test Shen Yan’s Man-Hammer Unification, then built a punishing hammer-based challenge designed to shake his Dao Heart. After three days, the realm was ready, and Shen Yan hurried to meet him.

• Lu Ze convinced Shen Yan to master his hammer before pursuing the Sword Dao and promised to create a Man-Hammer Unification trial.
• Lu Ze chose to base the trial on Getting Over It, believing its infuriating controls would challenge Shen Yan’s Dao Heart.
• Lu Ze used Zhong Yi’s cybersoul to test and refine the illusion realm’s movement system.
• Lu Ze finished the realm after adding scenery styled after the Sky Profound Gate and told Shen Yan it was ready.
• Shen Yan was surprised Lu Ze had completed it in three days, then set off to meet him after learning its name was Getting Over It.

Lu Ze invited Shen Yan to test his new Illusion Realm, Getting Over It, and encouraged him to livestream in hopes of breaking Shen Yan’s defenses. Shen Yan entered the realm, found himself trapped in a jar with only a hammer, and began trying to climb toward the Immortal Sect.

• Lu Ze assured Shen Yan that he would make a swordsmanship practice realm if Shen Yan failed to clear this one.
• Nangong Yuan told Lu Ze that Sky Profound Gate’s Divine Sense Resonance Array was ready, and Lu Ze checked the livestreaming and recharge functions.
• Shen Yan volunteered to livestream his attempt so he could teach other disciples and improve their opinion of Lu Ze.
• Lu Ze activated Shen Yan’s livestream, and Shen Yan entered the Getting Over It Illusion Realm.
• Shen Yan discovered that he was trapped in a jar and could only move by wielding an Iron Hammer, then pushed himself forward and fell face-first into the ground.

Shen Yan livestreamed Lu Ze’s Getting Over It illusion, insisting it was easy and urging viewers to stay cheerful as he struggled with its awkward controls. After repeatedly falling in the first valley, he lost his temper and cursed the illusion.

• Shen Yan assured the Danmu that Lu Ze’s illusion was not difficult and invited them to try it.
• Shen Yan used his hammer to get over a Withered Tree, surprising Lu Ze with how smoothly he cleared the obstacle.
• Shen Yan repeatedly fell on the first valley’s slope as the unnatural controls made his arms work against each other.
• Shen Yan defended the illusion to the growing audience and told them to face it calmly and play with a smile.
• Shen Yan climbed higher while laughing, then a hammer strike sent him tumbling back to the valley floor, where he cursed in frustration.

Shen Yan struggled through Lu Ze’s punishing Illusion Realm while livestreaming, trying to maintain his cheerful image as the disciples teased him. After nearly escaping a narrow passage, he made a mistake and was launched back toward the Homesickness Stone, leaving him screaming in despair.

• Shen Yan repeatedly failed the Illusion Realm’s hammer-and-jar challenges as watching Sky Profound Gate disciples discovered its strange rules and filled his livestream with encouragement and hahas.
• Lu Ze secretly enjoyed Shen Yan’s predicament until Nangong Yuan confronted him, gave him a Jade Pendant that displayed “Spare this hero's life,” and told him to stop tormenting Shen Yan.
• Shen Yan carefully climbed through a narrow passage using oil lamps, while the livestream commenter Fellow Cultivator Conquering Illusion with Senior Shen Yan taunted him about the Homesickness Stone.
• Shen Yan reached the passage’s exit, mistook the pine tree above it for a Welcoming Pine, and launched himself upward with his hammer.
• Shen Yan’s attempt to catch the rocks sent him flying back toward the Homesickness Stone, and a Danmu revealed the pine was a Farewell Pine as he screamed in despair.

Shen Yan struggled through Lu Ze’s punishing Getting Over It Illusion Realm, reaching Sky Profound Mountain before a sudden change in the hammer’s weight sent him tumbling back to the valley. Though devastated, he prepared to climb again, while Lu Ze planned another trap on the route ahead.

• Shen Yan endured the Illusion Realm’s difficult controls and unpredictable hammer changes as he climbed toward Sky Profound Mountain.
• A sudden shift made the hammer too light, but Shen Yan recovered and landed on a floating pavilion near the mountain.
• The hammer became much heavier, and Shen Yan slid from the pavilion and fell all the way back to the valley floor.
• Shen Yan cried out in fury but gathered himself to climb again, while Lu Ze observed that the mission progress had passed eighty percent.
• Lu Ze anticipated Shen Yan’s next attempt and looked forward to the trap he had prepared on the snow mountain route.

Shen Yan endured increasingly punishing obstacles as he climbed through Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm, reaching a new high point after hours of effort. He ignored a woman’s plea for help and aimed for the suspended Water Bucket, unaware that Lu Ze’s real trap still lay ahead.

• Shen Yan regained sensation in his legs just as Gu Worms appeared in his Jar, making his climb even harder to control.
• Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen watched Shen Yan’s livestream, and Mu Yawen eagerly agreed to try the Illusion Realm.
• Shen Yan reached Snow Mountain and endured cold, shifting hammer size and weight, and repeated falls as he climbed higher.
• Shen Yan encountered a jade hand pleading for rescue from inside a log, but ignored it after seeing the warning sign and danmu reactions.
• Lu Ze watched as Shen Yan aimed at the suspended Water Bucket, with the mission progress at 98 percent and another trap prepared ahead.

Shen Yan’s repeated failures in the Illusion Realm drove him into despair, and he developed heart demons after breaking free of the realm’s suppression. Chi Shengtian took him away and asked Lu Ze and Nangong Yuan to remain at Sky Profound Gate until Shen Yan woke, while Lu Ze’s system upgraded.

• Shen Yan fell from the bucket and was dragged down the wooden route, returning all the way to the Illusion Realm’s starting point.
• Shen Yan repeatedly jumped into the pond to die, then broke through the Illusion Realm’s cultivation suppression as his despair awakened two heart demons.
• Nangong Yuan restrained Shen Yan’s heart demons, and Chi Shengtian arrived and took his disciple away.
• Chi Shengtian asked Lu Ze and Nangong Yuan to stay at Sky Profound Gate until Shen Yan woke, hinting that Lu Ze’s actions might fulfill something for the sect.
• Nangong Yuan prepared contingencies while Lu Ze’s system announced its upgrade, adding the Defense Break System and extra Demonic Value for causing righteous cultivators negative emotions.

Lu Ze’s Illusion Realm helped Shen Yan overcome his Heart Demon and embrace his hammer, turning the disciples of Sky Profound Gate eager to buy the game. The chapter ended with Shen Yan receiving a message that Chi Shengtian wanted Lu Ze to visit.

• Sky Profound Gate disciples speculated that Elder Chi would punish Lu Ze for causing Shen Yan’s Heart Demon.
• Shen Yan arrived on his Flying Hammer and thanked Lu Ze, revealing that he had defeated his Heart Demon and attained Man-Hammer Unification.
• Lu Ze sold Illusion Crystal Stones for ten Spirit Stones each as disciples crowded his pavilion to buy them.
• Shen Yan praised Lu Ze for guiding him and asked about the identity of the livestream commenter, but Lu Ze refused to reveal it.
• Lu Ze quickly made Shen Yan a new Illusion Realm featuring him trapped in a jar with a sword, and Shen Yan decided to focus on hammer cultivation.
• Chi Shengtian sent Shen Yan a message asking Lu Ze to visit him.

Lu Ze learned that Sky Profound Gate had secretly used a Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to guide the Righteous-Demonic War and that the fragment was nearing collapse. Chi Shengtian revealed a prophecy naming the person who shattered Shen Yan’s Dao Heart as the key to saving the sect, and Lu Ze realized the fragment could become his future Immortal World Server.

• Shen Yan brought Lu Ze to meet Chi Shengtian and two other Elders at Sky Profound Gate’s Council Hall.
• Elder Lyu doubted that a Foundation Establishment cultivator could be the person named in the Celestial Decree, while Lin Anzai defended Lu Ze.
• Chi Shengtian opened a passage beneath the Council Hall and led Lu Ze to the sealed Fragment of the Heavenly Dao.
• Chi Shengtian explained that Sky Profound Gate had spent generations of Sect Masters’ lifespans to use the fragment to seek paths to survival during the Righteous-Demonic War.
• Chi Shengtian revealed a prophecy that the person who shattered a Sky Profound Gate Saint’s Dao Heart would be key to resolving the fragment’s crisis, and Lu Ze recognized its potential as his future Immortal World Server.

Lu Ze offered to help Sky Profound Gate resolve the karma bound to its Fragment of the Heavenly Dao by building an Illusion Realm Server that could let it repay that debt. The elders doubted he could create a world the Fragment would accept, but Chi Shengtian chose to wait and see whether Lu Ze might succeed in time.

• Chi Shengtian explained that Sky Profound Gate could either repay the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao’s karma through slaughter or create a world that let it escape karma, but generations of elders had failed to satisfy its requirements.
• Lu Ze proposed that his Illusion Realms could let the Fragment repay its karma, then described using it as the core of a Divine Sense Resonance Array spanning the Cultivation World.
• Lu Gu challenged Lu Ze’s plan, but Chi Shengtian and Lin Anzai recognized that it might work if Lu Ze could create a world the Fragment accepted.
• Lu Ze left after saying he was willing to try, despite not knowing the Fragment’s requirements.
• Lu Gu questioned Chi Shengtian’s faith in Lu Ze, while Lin Anzai defended his skill with Illusion Realms.
• Chi Shengtian admitted Lu Ze could not accomplish it now but hoped he might succeed in a few hundred years, if Sky Profound Gate could wait.

Lu Ze sought a way to create a world large enough to earn the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao’s approval and bring it into the Server. After learning Nangong Yuan’s Spell for expanding Spiritual Sense space, he realized its pixelated appearance suited Minecraft and decided to let the Fragment create the world it wanted.

• Lu Ze worried that his limited cultivation and small Illusion Realm would prevent him from meeting the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao’s requirements in time.
• Nangong Yuan entered Lu Ze’s room and explained that a Water Drop Spell could enlarge Spiritual Sense space, though it made everything inside blurry.
• Nangong Yuan gave Lu Ze a Small Manual containing the useless Water Drop Spell, and Lu Ze hurried off to try it.
• Lu Ze expanded his Spiritual Sense space by more than ten thousand times and saw that its pixelated appearance suited a block-based game.
• Lu Ze decided to create a Minecraft world and let the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao shape the world it wanted.

Lu Ze completed Spirit Qi Revival, a Minecraft-inspired Illusion Realm adapted for the Cultivation World, and brought it to the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao for inspection. The Fragment joined his world, beginning its test.

• Lu Ze built a Minecraft-style Illusion Realm and adapted its blocks, resources, technology, and systems to the Cultivation World.
• Lu Ze designed balanced Spiritual Roots, Skills, Classes, monsters, bosses, and hidden sects, then named the Modpack Spirit Qi Revival.
• Lu Ze visited the Sky Profound Mountain Council Hall and insisted his Illusion Realm was the best he could make at his current cultivation.
• Chi Shengtian granted Lu Ze entry through the Sealing Array and warned him that the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao was unpredictable.
• Lu Ze placed the Illusion Crystal Stone in the Illusion Tower and invited the Heavenly Dao to inspect his world.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao joined Lu Ze's world as the player "I Am the Heavenly Dao."

Lu Ze used the Illusion Tower’s block-based worlds and the knowledge he gave it to persuade the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to enter the Illusion Crystal Stone. The Fragment’s runes began completing themselves, and Lu Ze told the waiting elders that he had succeeded.

• Lu Ze changed the username of the user called Heavenly Dao and blamed Lu Gu for stealing the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao’s name.
• Lu Ze showed the Fragment how blocks could transform and gave it knowledge about the world’s underlying logic, Command Blocks, Redstone Technology, and mod editing.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao recognized the blocks’ potential for endless worlds and rules, and Lu Ze told it that anyone could become the world and its rules.
• Outside the Sealing Array, Lu Gu criticized Lu Ze while Lin Anzai defended him and recalled how the Fragment had shattered Lu Gu’s Illusion Realm.
• Golden light and incomplete runes appeared around the Fragment, one rune began completing itself, and Lu Ze placed the Illusion Tower beside it.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao entered the Illusion Crystal Stone, and Lu Ze told Chi Shengtian and Lin Anzai that he had succeeded.

Lu Ze received Sky Profound Gate’s Proclamation of Sky Mystery and asked Chi Shengtian to find an Artifact that could enhance his Spiritual Sense. He tried to persuade the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to become the core of a larger Minecraft Server, then arranged for Zhou Yue to try the new Illusion Realm.

• Chi Shengtian gave Lu Ze the Proclamation of Sky Mystery and promised to find an Artifact that could enhance his Spiritual Sense.
• Lu Ze returned to his residence, where Nangong Yuan asked for Three Kingdoms Kill Skins, and Lu Ze secretly adjusted the game’s probabilities for him.
• Lu Ze entered Minecraft’s backend and found the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao watching Chicks hatch and then killing a Baby Chick.
• Lu Ze gave the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao administrator permissions and promised that players entering the world would prove cultivators could dissolve its karma.
• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao revealed that it had made the Purple-robed Old Man’s cultivation regress for two months, and Lu Ze suggested a harsher prank for next time.
• Zhong Yi offered Zhou Yue a new Illusion Crystal Stone, and Zhou Yue agreed to try Minecraft.

Zhong Yi and his companions entered Minecraft’s Spirit Qi Revival survival mode and split up to explore. Zhou Yue was stranded on a tiny, barren mound in the ocean, while Mu Yawen discovered that punching a tree could break it into a collectible wood block.

• Zhong Yi created a Normal-difficulty Spirit Qi Revival world and appeared in a forest on a mountain, where the group discussed the blocky world and how to explore it.
• Zhou Yue proposed that they split into pairs, but Zhou Qiaoling secretly chose to spawn with Zhong Yi instead of following her brother.
• Zhou Yue spawned alone on a tiny dirt mound surrounded by ocean and wondered how he could escape.
• Zhou Qiaoling spotted a rabbit while Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen set off to look around.
• Mu Yawen punched a tree until a wood block broke free and appeared in her hand, giving Zhong Yi a clue about how the world worked.

Zhong Yi and the others learned Minecraft’s crafting and survival mechanics while exploring the Illusion Realm, but Zhou Yue remained stranded at sea and struggled to find food. The chapter ended with Zhou Yue surrounded by squid and wondering if his misfortune would ever end.

• Zhong Yi discovered the crafting recipes, made a Crafting Table, and explained how tools and the expanded crafting grid worked.
• Zhong Yi advised Zhou Yue to make a Wooden Boat, but Zhou Yue had no trees nearby and swam out across the ocean instead.
• Zhong Yi showed Zhou Qiaoling how to stack dirt blocks to climb out of a deep cave, and the three explored the hills together.
• Zhou Yue began losing health when his hunger ran out, so the others cooked meat while he searched the ocean for food.
• Zhou Yue found only squid instead of the fish he remembered and got sprayed with ink when he punched one.

Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Qiaoling were overwhelmed by monsters on their first night and learned to dig underground for shelter, while Zhou Yue discovered the ocean was dangerous too. The four remained trapped in peril as night continued.

• Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Qiaoling dismissed the warning that night was dangerous, while Zhou Yue remained stranded in the ocean.
• Zhong Yi encountered a horde of Zombies, Bone Fiends, and a huge purple-eyed monster, and the three land-bound players repeatedly died and lost their items.
• Zhong Yi figured out how to dig three blocks down and cover the opening, then taught Mu Yawen and Zhou Qiaoling to hide underground.
• Zhong Yi accidentally opened the shelter ceiling and found a Zombie waiting above, so the three stayed buried until dawn.
• Zhou Yue celebrated the ocean's apparent safety, but three Drowned with Tridents swam toward him, and he blamed Zhong Yi for jinxing him.

Zhong Yi and the others discovered that Experience Orbs raised their levels and awakened Spiritual Roots in the Minecraft world. Zhou Yue finally reached level 1 and learned his fifth-grade earth spirit root gave him a chance to gain extra dirt while digging.

• Zhong Yi and the others emerged at daylight, then killed four zombies and two Skeletons with their fists and collected the monsters’ drops and Experience Orbs.
• Mu Yawen absorbed an orb, reached level 1, and awakened a fifth-grade fire spirit root that set a tree alight with her punches.
• Zhong Yi and Zhou Lingqiao also reached level 1, awakening fifth-grade wind and fourth-grade thunder spirit roots, while Zhou Yue remained short of experience.
• Zhong Yi led the group to fight spiders so Zhou Yue could collect more Experience Orbs, and Zhou Qiaoling accidentally electrocuted him while teasing him.
• Zhou Yue reached level 1, awakened a fifth-grade earth spirit root, and discovered it doubled the dirt he obtained while digging and sometimes affected ore mining.