Recaps

Lu Ze used Demonic Path Escape to draw Spirit Cloud Sect disciples into the Illusion Realm, gain Demonic Value, and improve his cultivation, but Ding Mingcang accused him of harming the sect. After Lu Ze accepted a wager to create a sword-practice realm, he unveiled Plants vs. Zombies to the gathered disciples.

• Lu Ze activated a system that labeled him a Demon Path prodigy, then created Demonic Path Escape to fulfill its mission and began earning Demonic Value as disciples played.
• Outer and Inner Disciples became hooked on the trial, while Lu Ze upgraded it with battles and other features and gained cultivation rewards, including the Myriad Manifestations Xuan Demon Immortal Physique.
• Lu Ze reached Foundation Establishment amid a heavenly phenomenon, then Wang Tai recorded his admission that he had created Demonic Path Escape and brought him before Ding Mingcang.
• Ding Mingcang publicly accused Lu Ze of distracting disciples, but Outer and Inner Disciples defended the trial, and Lu Ze explained how he had built its Illusion Realm.
• Lu Ze agreed to Ding Mingcang’s challenge to create a new Illusion Realm, and Chao Wendao established a covenant that set the stakes for both men.
• After struggling to find a sword-practice concept that avoided combat, Lu Ze developed a Plants vs. Zombies realm and spent half a month creating its story mode, minigames, and Survival Mode.
• At Lingxiao Plaza, Ding Mingcang set requirements for Lu Ze’s new realm and promised not to confiscate his artifacts for a week, then Lu Ze activated the Illusion Tower and revealed Plants vs. Zombies.

Lu Ze’s Plants vs. Zombies realm captivated the Spirit Cloud Sect, and he defeated Ding Mingcang by clearing Endless Mode. He then built a trap-filled realm for the Martial Arts Exchange, where Yang Zhengxin became its first bewildered challenger.

• Zhong Yi mastered Plants vs. Zombies, shared strategies with the disciples, and cleared Adventure and Survival Mode as Lu Ze made the later stages more difficult.
• Ding Mingcang tried to distract the disciples from Lu Ze’s game, but the sect’s Elders adapted it into lessons and training, while Lu Ze introduced Hard and Endless Modes.
• Ding Mingcang challenged Lu Ze’s updates to their wager, and Lu Ze offered to prove Endless Mode could be beaten.
• Lu Ze cleared the fiftieth Endless Mode stage before the watching disciples, forcing Ding Mingcang to admit defeat and serve a month in Repentance Valley.
• Chao Wendao admitted Lu Ze to the inner sect and asked him to create an Illusion Realm for the Martial Arts Tournament, while Lu Ze secured the benefits of a true disciple.
• At the Martial Arts Exchange, Yang Zhengxin questioned Lu Ze’s ability to test Nascent Soul True Disciples, so Lu Ze agreed to build a mechanism that met the Five Great Sects’ C-Grade standard.
• Lu Ze created a trap-filled Illusion Realm based on I Wanna and invited Yang Zhengxin to enter it.
• Yang Zhengxin began the challenge, leaped onto a platform, and was smashed apart by the giant title characters before reviving at the starting point.

Lu Ze created Immortal Realm Supremacy for the sects’ Martial Tournament, drawing cultivators into its campaigns and multiplayer battles while using their defeats to advance his own goals. After the elders accepted his team-battle format, he began the competition and turned its popularity into a chance to sell food to spectators.

• Lu Ze expanded the illusion trials with a leaderboard, and cultivators from the gathered sects began competing for higher ranks.
• Yang Zhengxin challenged Lu Ze to create an illusion about the Righteous-Demonic War, and Lu Ze devised Immortal Realm Supremacy, a strategy game with several modes and sect-specific forces.
• Zhong Yi tested the Spirit Cloud Sect campaign, lost to the Demon Path, and later struggled through the Demonic campaign and War Mode.
• The disciples voted to keep Immortal Realm Supremacy, and cultivators from the Five Great Sects continued tackling its campaigns and battles.
• Lu Ze and the elders completed a formation that enabled multiplayer across Spirit Cloud Sect, and Lu Ze added party lobbies and rankings to War Mode.
• Lu Ze used the alternate identity Nameless to defeat Battle Hall challengers and Li Moran, then explained his plan for the Official Martial Tournament’s team battles and final battle.
• The elders approved Lu Ze’s tournament format, and the system assigned him a mission to lead the Demonic Path against the Five Great Sects.
• Lu Ze held the first round of the sect competition after the disciples trained against Demonic AIs, then arranged to sell food to viewers and charged Nangong Yuan 300 Spirit Stones for a meal.

Lu Ze defeated the Four Great Sects in the Illusion Realm competition, then created a cooperative challenge to teach teamwork and introduced Three Kingdoms Kill to the sect. The stretch ended with Zhou Yue’s disastrous luck continuing through the card game as Lightning struck him repeatedly.

• Lu Ze used mines, spies, and carefully controlled battles to defeat the Four Great Sects, earning rewards and winning the Illusion Realm competition.
• After Chao Wendao asked Lu Ze to teach teamwork, Lu Ze created Four Together, whose traps and coordination demands frustrated the disciples and Elders.
• Zhong Yi, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Qiaoling reached the apparent finish of Four Together while Zhou Yue was left behind, and Lu Ze revealed that the ending was part of the Demon Path’s scheme.
• Lu Ze proposed a Romance of the Three Kingdoms board-game Illusion Realm and built Three Kingdoms Kill with online features.
• The Elders and disciples played Three Kingdoms Kill, with Zhong Yi as Lord, while Mu Yawen attacked him and the other players used their generals’ abilities.
• Zhou Yue repeatedly used Self-Inflicted Injury and later faced Lightning, which eliminated him as Zhou Qiaoling’s Rebels won.
• In a second game, Zhou Yue chose Zhuge Liang, but Lightning revealed five consecutive Spades, and Lu Ze realized Zhou Yue’s Calamity Fate was paired with the Cursed Healing Root.