Recaps

Lu Ze exposed [Last Dusk]’s cheating, won the tournament with Zhou Yue and Li Moran, and claimed the Dao Transformation Art. After mastering it, he set out for a Void Soul Crystal and arrived at the Illusion Alliance’s exchange gathering, where the first challenge was tower climbing.

• Lu Ze completed his ambush mission with Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue, then teamed with Zhou Yue and Li Moran for the second-stage battles.
• [Last Dusk] repeatedly ambushed Lu Ze’s team with suspicious precision, but Lu Ze fought back, exposed their cheats, and defeated them.
• [Last Dusk] invoked the tenth Spirit Lamp, but a storm-cloud hand crushed the cheaters and caused the match to disqualify them.
• Lu Ze, Zhou Yue, and Li Moran won the tournament, and Lu Ze claimed the Dao Transformation Art before mastering it through prolonged practice.
• The Heart Demon and the Illusion Alliance elders planned to obtain one of Lu Ze’s Illusion Towers and arranged an exchange contest to lure him away from the Spirit Cloud Sect.
• Lu Ze learned that a Void Soul Crystal could help with his illusion spells, found one offered as a prize at the Illusion Alliance exchange, and decided to attend.
• Lu Ze traveled to Tianshui City with Nangong Yuan, Zhong Yi, and Chao Wendao, then arrived at Leisure Cloud Mountain Villa as Sikong Che announced tower climbing as the first theme.

Lu Ze’s Slay the Immortal Spire became a hit and won him the wager against Han Xian, after which the Illusion Alliance changed the competition to a Secret Realm auction. Lu Ze answered with King of Auctions as the next challenge began.

• Lu Ze chose Board Games for his Illusion Realm category and helped Zhong Yi develop Brave the Demon-Locking Tower before creating Slay the Immortal Spire.
• Zhong Yi explored Slay the Immortal Spire, enduring repeated deaths as he learned its characters, cards, monsters, and changing runs.
• Zhong Yi developed powerful builds, including a Silent Hunter Shiv deck and an Infinite Loop strategy that defeated the Great Demon and drew more players to the game.
• Slay the Immortal Spire’s playtime surpassed every other entry, and Lu Ze won his wager with Han Xian by severely damaging Han Xian’s Divine Soul with an unprotected strike.
• Heart Demon shifted the next challenge from Illusion Realms to Secret Realms, requiring competitors to hold an auction for the Great Qian Dynasty and compete on profit.
• Lu Ze accepted the new rules and planned to recreate King of Auctions, while Blood Crow arranged bids on the Heaven-Piercing Talisman and other treasures.
• Lu Ze launched King of Auctions as a new mode in Immortal Abyss Continent Operation as its concurrent player count approached eight hundred thousand.

Lu Ze won the Illusion Alliance’s first two challenges, then built an illusion based on “To the Moon” to make Guo Yunfeng cry. As Zhong Yi and Qin Lien searched Gu Yun’s memories for a way to fulfill his wish, Zhong Yi uncovered clues that Gu Yun’s identity and past might not be what they seemed.

• Zhong Yi lost Spirit Stones in King of Auctions, while Zhou Yue also lost money after a risky Deep-Sea Shipwreck bid, and Lu Ze transplanted the game into a Secret Realm.
• Lu Ze’s Great Qian Dynasty Charity Auction earned 130 million and won the second challenge, while Heart Demon arranged the third challenge by asking Guo Yunfeng to judge whether Lu Ze could make her cry.
• Lu Ze created an illusion based on “To the Moon,” and Guo Yunfeng entered the story of Gu Yun, a dying man who wished to reach the Moon Realm.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien explored Gu Yun’s memories, following clues about Lin Xi, her Iceheart Bloodline, their lighthouse home, and the paper rabbits she left behind.
• Their attempts to change Gu Yun’s memories failed, and the main quest required them to find at least four clues that defied logic in his dream.
• Zhong Yi concluded that Gu Yun did not like pickled cucumbers and had never read “Battle Through the Heavens,” then noticed that Wen Qingyun’s red mark matched one beneath Wen Yaoxin’s eye.
• Zhong Yi asked Wen Yaoxin whether Gu Yun had any Gu Worms inside him besides the Heart-Strengthening Gu.

Zhong Yi uncovered Gu Yun and Lin Xi’s lost childhood promise, then helped unlock a true ending that moved Guo Yunfeng to break through. After refining a Void Soul Crystal, Lu Ze created Palworld to aid the Beast Taming Sect, and Zhong Yi’s group explored the new realm and its Pals.

• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien entered Gu Yun’s sealed memories and discovered that his mother had erased his memories of twin brother Gu Feng and altered his personality.
• Zhong Yi and Qin Lien witnessed Gu Yun and Lin Xi’s childhood promise to meet on the moon, then learned that Qin Lien had separated them so Gu Yun would join the Nine Heavens Sect.
• Gu Yun and Lin Xi reunited, married, and ascended to the Moon Realm together, but Zhong Yi woke to find Gu Yun dead and Lin Xi unable to make him remember their promise.
• Lu Ze revealed that Zhong Yi could use the Dreamweaving Spell to turn the dream into reality, and Zhong Yi spent his spiritual energy to activate the formation.
• Cultivators contributed spiritual energy to unlock the true ending, where Gu Feng survived and Gu Yun and Lin Xi lived together, allowing Guo Yunfeng to break through and declare Lu Ze the winner of all three challenges.
• After refining a Void Soul Crystal, Lu Ze accepted He Muye’s request to create an illusion realm that could divert the resentment threatening the Beast Taming Sect’s spirit beasts.
• Lu Ze built Palworld and used the Evil Soul Dream Chi to give its Pals souls, then Zhong Yi and his companions entered the realm and learned to capture, train, and put Pals to work.
• Zhong Yi’s group explored Palpagos Island, built up their base, and spotted a distant High Tower that he suspected might be the key to the Illusion Realm.