Chapter Summaries

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.

Zhou Yue’s Earth Spirit Root gave him extra dirt while the group gathered resources and built a house to survive the coming night. As Demonic Beasts approached, the unfinished house offered little protection, and spiders began breathing nearby.

• Zhou Yue complained that his Earth Spirit Root only produced extra dirt, then the group assigned him and Mu Yawen to mine while Zhong Yi and Zhou Qiaoling gathered wood.
• Mu Yawen found a Mine Shaft and mined Iron Ore, while Zhou Yue’s pickaxe broke and he kept digging with his Earth Spirit Root.
• Zhou Yue mistook underground Lava for ore, fell in, and the system announced that Bu Po Bu Li tried to swim in Lava.
• The four gathered materials and built a large house with outer walls but no roof, planning rooms for each of them.
• The four hid inside as Demonic Beasts approached, but spiders appeared nearby after Zhong Yi said the walls would keep the beasts out.

Zhong Yi and the others repaired their shelter and discovered that darkness let zombies spawn inside, then devised a way to lure monsters out and fight them safely. Zhou Yue mistook a Creeper for a weak zombie and provoked it, and its explosion tore open the shelter, letting the horde pour in as the group faced another fight for survival.

• Zhong Yi and the others patched the roof, and Zhou Yue suggested they could build a proper roof by stacking blocks.
• After a zombie appeared inside, Zhong Yi suspected that zombies spawned in dark places, and the group lit the house with more torches.
• Zhong Yi proposed a rotation strategy for luring monsters close and fighting them one at a time, and the four took turns using it.
• Zhou Yue mistook a Creeper for a small zombie, taunted it, and was killed when it exploded.
• The Creeper's blast destroyed part of the house, allowing the surrounding monsters to flood inside and attack the group.

On the fourth day in the Illusion Realm, the group split between mining and building, but Zhou Qiaoling became lost underground while searching for valuable ores. After finally digging her way out, she spotted what looked like a Village, while Zhou Yue cautiously watched a strange person in black.

• Zhong Yi divided the work, sending himself and Zhou Qiaoling to mine while Mu Yawen and Zhou Yue chopped wood and built a house.
• Zhou Qiaoling got lost in the Mine Shaft, ran out of food and pickaxe durability, and kept digging rather than abandon the Raw Iron, Diamonds, and Spirit Stones she had found.
• Zhou Yue set out with Cooked Chicken to find Zhou Qiaoling, while Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen moved into a house and mined through the night.
• On the fourth day, Zhou Yue hid from a strange black-clothed creature that looked human and was unaffected by sunlight.
• Zhou Qiaoling dug out of the underground tunnels into the plains and spotted what appeared to be a Village.

Zhou Qiaoling entered a village in Lu Ze’s illusion and looted its livestock, equipment, and chest while mistaking the villagers’ silence for consent. Zhou Yue assumed the villagers were allies, but demonic-path guards attacked and killed him.

• Zhou Qiaoling arrived in the village, saw its farmland and livestock, and decided to take food when the villagers did not respond to her.
• Zhou Qiaoling killed a chicken and a piglet, then entered a villager’s house and took the iron equipment and ingots from a chest.
• Zhou Qiaoling replaced the chest with a stone and told the villagers she would return to undo the supposed petrification spell.
• Zhou Qiaoling told the others over team voice chat that the villagers were generous and that she had found valuable supplies.
• Zhou Yue emerged from hiding and approached a black-robed villager, but demonic-path guards shot him with poisoned arrows and killed him.

Zhou Qiaoling, Zhong Yi, Zhou Yue, and Mu Yawen explored a Village in the Illusion Realm, where a Blood Moon event killed them and destroyed the settlement. Lu Ze then told the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao that he could erase its karmic ties within a hundred years.

• Zhou Qiaoling led the group to a Village, where the others discovered she had taken the Villagers’ treasures and she divided the loot among them.
• Zhong Yi and the others explored the Village, found a Secret Realm Map, and were defeated by the Iron Golem guarding the Villagers.
• When night fell, the moon turned red and zombies broke into the houses, wiping out the group and razing the Village.
• Lu Ze watched the deaths generate Demonic Value, then spoke with the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao about the cost of running his Server.
• Lu Ze claimed he could shorten the time needed to erase the Fragment’s karmic ties to less than a hundred years.

Lu Ze persuaded the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to test new game modes, especially Bed Wars, to increase Demonic Value and speed up karma resolution. He demonstrated a Ray Tracing Technique that could greatly improve the Illusion Realm’s graphics, and the Fragment agreed to handle its energy demands.

• The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao examined Lu Ze’s Extreme Survival, Civilization Simulation, and Bed Wars modes, but doubted they could shorten karma resolution to a hundred years.
• Lu Ze explained that Bed Wars would generate Demonic Value through repeated team battles and respawns, and the Fragment granted him a one-month trial period.
• Lu Ze proposed improving the Illusion Realm’s graphics to attract more cultivators and having players supply spiritual energy to cover the increased consumption.
• Lu Ze enhanced a Wood Block’s appearance and expanded it into a realistic forest, revealing his Ray Tracing Technique to the astonished Fragment.
• The Fragment praised the technique but questioned its energy consumption, and Lu Ze challenged it to run the spell, prompting it to boast that it could handle any number of them.

As Lu Ze and Nangong Yuan prepared the Server, Minecraft spread between the Spirit Cloud Sect and the Sky Profound Gate. Zhong Yi became engrossed in studying Villagers, while Zhou Yue returned with a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Lu Ze added Spirit Stone top-ups and Crystal imprinting to Minecraft as he and Nangong Yuan worked on the Server formation.
• Cultivators from the Spirit Cloud Sect and the Sky Profound Gate flocked to Minecraft and shared discoveries on its Forum.
• Mu Yawen focused on building, Zhou Qiaoling hunted for treasure, Zhou Yue trained and fought bosses, and Zhong Yi investigated how Villages and Villagers worked.
• Zhong Yi discovered conditions for Villager breeding and tested them, prompting viewers to joke that he was losing his humanity.
• Zhou Yue returned and showed Zhong Yi a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Zhou Yue asked Zhong Yi to curse his Foundation Establishment attempt, then swallowed a fifth-grade Foundation Establishment Pill and was struck by a Thunder Tribulation. He revived with lingering abnormal statuses and tried to hide his condition from Zhou Qiaoling.

• Zhou Yue told Zhong Yi that his fifth-grade Foundation Establishment Pill had a low success rate and asked him to bless the attempt by predicting failure.
• Zhong Yi reluctantly said Zhou Yue would definitely fail, and Zhou Yue swallowed the pill as a dark storm gathered.
• A Thunder Tribulation struck Zhou Yue ninety-nine times, giving him abnormal statuses before he died and dropped his Backpack items.
• Zhou Yue revived with statuses that made him upside down, twitch, and randomly drop items, then decided to log out until they wore off.
• Zhou Qiaoling arrived, and Zhou Yue claimed that walking upside down was a Cultivation Method while she picked up his dropped Diamonds.

Zhou Qiaoling gave Zhong Yi bamboo slips about Redstone and arrays, then offered Zhou Yue a Secret Realm Pass. Confident in his survival skills, Zhou Yue entered the realm, only to find himself stranded on a lone Dirt Block with the destination dozens of meters away.

• Zhou Qiaoling tossed Zhong Yi bamboo slips titled Redstone Analysis Basics and Array Path Construction Principles.
• Zhou Qiaoling gave Zhou Yue a Secret Realm Pass with one challenge remaining and described its survival trials.
• Zhou Yue entered the Secret Realm, where the rules allowed unlimited revives and required reaching a destination before time ran out.
• Zhou Yue found himself on a lone Dirt Block in a snowy sky, far from the destination, and asked where his tree was.

Zhong Yi figured out how Zhou Yue could use Minecraft’s monster-spawning rules to obtain a shovel and build a path across the sky. He told Zhou Yue to lower his health before jumping into the abyss, leaving Zhou Yue ready to try the plan.

• Zhou Yue grew furious after repeatedly dying on the lone Dirt Block, while Zhong Yi considered how to cross the roughly two hundred blocks to the destination.
• Zhong Yi realized that snow could be collected and crafted into blocks, but Zhou Yue pointed out that he had no shovel or trees.
• Zhong Yi proposed spawning a Zombie that carried a shovel, but Zhou Yue said no monsters appeared when he jumped into the abyss.
• Zhong Yi deduced that Zhou Yue fell beyond the monsters’ 128-block despawn range before dying and told him to exhaust his hunger until he had about two and a half hearts, then jump.
• Zhou Yue understood Zhong Yi’s reasoning and praised his intelligence.

Zhou Yue’s attempt to clear the Secret Realm challenge ended when a Creeper spawned and exploded, while the challenge’s growing popularity inspired cultivators to study Minecraft’s mechanics. After Zhou Yue, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Qiaoling reached Foundation Establishment, they found Zhong Yi experimenting with an iron farm and learned he planned to level up using a towering stone pillar.

• Zhou Yue followed Zhong Yi’s advice, jumped into the Abyss to spawn a monster, and died when the creature turned out to be a Creeper.
• The failed challenge spread across the Forum, where cultivators shared Minecraft mechanics and Zhong Yi began studying redstone with Zhou Qiaoling’s book.
• The game’s three stages of spirit qi revival were explained, and Zhou Yue, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Qiaoling worked together to reach Foundation Establishment.
• The three cultivators found Zhong Yi trapping a zombie near villagers to make Iron Golems, then burning the golems for iron, though the setup stopped producing them.
• Zhong Yi pointed to a stone pillar towering above the village and said it would help him level up.

Zhong Yi demonstrated a Redstone monster farm that rapidly raised his level, then revealed he was researching how to manipulate Villagers’ Spiritual Roots. Meanwhile, Ding Mingcang appealed to the Sect Master to intervene against the Illusion Realms spreading through Spirit Cloud Sect.

• Zhong Yi explained how his Redstone mechanism gathered Demonic Beasts and dropped them until they were nearly dead.
• Zhong Yi killed the weakened Demonic Beasts and rapidly reached the peak of the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• Zhong Yi said he was researching how to exploit Villagers’ Spiritual Roots, prompting Zhou Yue and the others to cover his mouth because they were live streaming.
• Ding Mingcang entered the Sect Forbidden Grounds and requested an audience with the Sect Master.
• Ding Mingcang accused a wicked fiend of creating Illusion Realms and asked the Sect Master for a decree to restore discipline.

Ding Mingcang persuaded the Spirit Cloud Sect Master to investigate Minecraft and promised a decree in one week. After the Sky Profound Gate completed the world-spanning server, Lu Ze returned to the sect and announced an update to expand Minecraft’s reach and appeal.

• Ding Mingcang accused Minecraft of distracting cultivators and asked the Spirit Cloud Sect Master to intervene.
• The Sect Master promised Ding Mingcang a decree and Spiritual Sense inspection in one week, with expulsion for anyone involved if his claims proved true.
• The Sky Profound Gate completed the Divine Sense Resonance Array around the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao, making the server ready.
• Lu Ze returned to the Spirit Cloud Sect and found that Minecraft had fewer active players than other illusion realms, though regular players logged in daily.
• Lu Ze planned to improve Minecraft’s visuals and add new modes to address its low reach and open-ended gameplay.
• Lu Ze announced a next-day update with world-spanning multiplayer, Adventure Mode, custom modes, mod editing, improved visuals, and a live stream.

Lu Ze showcased the Illusion Realm’s updated graphics and new Mod Editor during a livestream, impressing Zhong Yi and the viewers with its expanded possibilities. The chapter ended with Zhong Yi asking Lu Ze to explain Redstone.

• Lu Ze began his livestream and used the Command Bar to bring Zhong Yi into his world.
• Lu Ze enabled Advanced Textures and Ray Tracing for everyone in the server, transforming the Illusion Realm’s appearance.
• Lu Ze showed Zhong Yi a Silver White Flood Dragon and explained that he had created it with the Mod Editor.
• Lu Ze demonstrated a temporary edit that gave him Golden Arms resembling Zhong Yi’s technique, then said players could create techniques, spells, items, and worlds.
• Zhong Yi grew excited about the possibilities and asked Lu Ze about Redstone.

Lu Ze took Zhong Yi to Night City and his giant underground factory to show him advanced Redstone creations, from a Minecraft computer running Plants vs. Zombies to enormous automated farms. Zhong Yi left stunned by Lu Ze’s ingenious and ruthless use of Villagers.

• Lu Ze agreed to show Zhong Yi Redstone creations and flew with him to Night City.
• Lu Ze activated a giant screen that displayed a playable Plants vs. Zombies setup, leaving Zhong Yi speechless.
• Lu Ze showed Zhong Yi an automated Iron Farm that produced about five hundred thousand Iron Ingots per shichen.
• Zhong Yi discovered that Lu Ze had gathered Villagers in a trading hall and left a Zombie among them, though Lu Ze did not explain why.
• Zhong Yi analyzed a crop farm and realized its farmers were being tricked into feeding crops into a hopper beneath a hungry Villager.