Elder Gu Tianheng of the Tianxuan Sect: ["Hah! Look at you, old man! Flexing with your 500 spirit stones, huh?"]
[Elder Gu Tianheng of the Tianxuan Sect gifted "Sword Storm."]
Li Jiujian of the Infinite Sword Sect: ["Yeah, I’m flexing. What about it?"]
[Li Jiujian of the Infinite Sword Sect gifted "Sword Storm x2."]
...
Watching the barrage of dazzling visual effects flooding the livestream space, Lu Ze couldn’t suppress the grin on his face.
"Sword Storm" was currently the most expensive gift in the livestream, costing 500 spirit stones.
He had anticipated that "Three Kingdoms Kill" would be a hit among the elders, but he hadn’t expected it to be this addictive.
They were even willing to splurge on gifts just to get a chance to play a few rounds.
The livestream gifts were purchased using contribution points earned within their respective sects.
1 contribution point could be exchanged for 10 spirit stones, meaning a single "Sword Storm" required 50 contribution points.
Though these elders weren’t members of the Lingxiao Sect, given their connections, it wasn’t hard for them to exchange points through acquaintances among the Lingxiao Sect’s elders or stewards.
Cultivators in this world had never encountered anything like this before.
The livestream chat erupted in awe.
["What is this? It looks so cool!"]
["Livestream gifts? Donations? This is something entirely new!"]
["500 spirit stones… That’s my monthly allowance…"]
["Is 'Three Kingdoms Kill' really that fun?"]
["Duh! You think the elders would sit here all afternoon if it wasn’t?"]
["You brat!! When’s the livestream ending? I want to play too!!"]
...
The eight players at the table paused their game, all staring in amusement at the gift effects.
"These livestream gifts sure have flashy effects, huh?" Zhong Yi remarked, impressed.
Zhao Wendao turned to Lu Ze with a puzzled look. "You went all out on gift effects, but the general skills are so plain?"
"General skill effects? Oh, they’re coming! And they’ll be even more spectacular than the gift effects, I promise!" Lu Ze replied with a sly smile.
General skill effects?
Of course they’d have them!
How else could he milk their wallets?
With the illusionary techniques at his disposal, the possibilities for visual flair were endless.
Just projecting the original artwork of the "Three Kingdoms Kill" generals as spectral figures behind the players would be a breathtaking sight.
Zhao Wendao nodded in satisfaction. "Good. That’s what I wanted to hear."
Lu Ze grinned. "You can rest assured."
The eight resumed their game.
Meanwhile, the livestream was flooded with more and more gifts.
All kinds of donations poured in, big and small.
["Junior Brother Lu, can I join in and try it out?"]
["When will these illusion crystals go on sale?"]
["I’m dying of envy over here!"]
["Will the Tianxuan Sect get access too?"]
["If not, can someone just make a physical card version to tide us over?"]
["Nah, without the effects and voice lines, it won’t feel the same."]
["Hurry up and release it! I can’t wait!"]
["Junior Brother Lu’s fame has spread across the five major sects. Will the illusion crystals get more expensive now?"]
["I’d buy it even for 100 spirit stones!"]
...
Seeing the flood of questions, Lu Ze quickly addressed them.
"Don’t worry, fellow cultivators. The 'Three Kingdoms Kill' illusion crystals will be available for purchase very soon."
"As for the price… rest assured, it’ll remain the same—10 spirit stones per crystal."
The chat exploded instantly.
["What?! Still just 10 spirit stones?"]
["That barely covers the cost… he might even be losing money!"]
["Junior Brother Lu is a saint!!!"]
["So generous… unbelievably generous!!"]
["Damn it, why aren’t I a disciple of the Lingxiao Sect?"]
["Is it too late to switch sects now?"]
["Young friend, you truly disregard wealth like dirt? Such virtue! I must gift you something!"]
["Count me in!"]
["Me too!"]
...
[Elder Gu Tianheng of the Tianxuan Sect gifted "Sword Storm!"]
[Li Jiujian of the Infinite Sword Sect gifted "Sword Storm!"]
["Pill-Loving Lamb Meat" gifted "Blazing Inferno!"]
...
For a moment, the screen was ablaze with dazzling gift effects.
Lu Ze almost felt guilty.
But then again, he wasn’t lying to them.
He had promised the illusion crystals wouldn’t increase in price—and they hadn’t.
It’s just that the game would have… optional in-game purchases.
Noticing the escalating hype, Lu Ze swiftly changed the subject.
"Disciples of other sects can also experience the illusion… but without the Lingxiao Sect’s soul resonance array, the full experience won’t be available."
"New generals and card packs will be released in the future. Stay tuned!"
...
...
That evening.
The "Three Kingdoms Kill" illusion crystals went on sale.
The Artifact Pavilion was instantly swarmed, its popularity surpassing even that of "Immortal Realm Domination."
The afternoon’s livestream had been a resounding success.
Even without the internet, word of mouth among cultivators had spread like wildfire.
Elders and powerful figures from other sects even personally visited the Lingxiao Sect to purchase "Three Kingdoms Kill."
Nangong Yuan was basking in the glory.
A crowd of elders and experts fawned over him, begging for favors to skip the line and buy the game.
He had never felt so important in his life.
In high spirits, Nangong Yuan designed a spell and tool for Lu Ze to automate the sale of illusion crystals, solving the crowding issue instantly.
This old man’s artifact-crafting skills are no joke… I’ve gotta find a way to learn them later!
Lu Ze quietly schemed about how to "borrow" some of Nangong Yuan’s techniques in the future.
"Oh, right, Master. Didn’t you owe me a magical artifact?"
Lu Ze suddenly remembered something important.
Before Nangong Yuan had returned to the sect, they’d made a bet.
If Lu Ze won the sect contract against Ding Mingcang, Nangong Yuan would gift him a treasure.
"Of course I remember."
Nangong Yuan generously produced a radiant, multicolored gourd from his palm and tossed it to Lu Ze.
This was Nangong Yuan’s personal storage artifact for rare items—a clear sign he was serious.
"Go ahead. Pick whatever you want."
"I want… an artifact that can conceal my aura."
Lu Ze didn’t hesitate.
Without questioning his motives, Nangong Yuan’s divine sense locked onto an item, which he then tossed into Lu Ze’s hand.
"Here—the 'Veil of Heavenly Obscurity.' It can mask even a Nascent Soul cultivator’s presence. Should be more than enough for your needs."
Lu Ze blinked.
He’d already prepared an elaborate excuse, but Nangong Yuan had trusted him without reservation.
"Many thanks, Master!"
Lu Ze accepted the artifact and bowed deeply.
Today, thanks to the collective efforts of the elders, his "Demonic Path Value" had finally reached the threshold.
He was ready to break through to the Golden Core realm.
[P.S.: Not feeling well. The last chapter will be written tomorrow. Can’t keep going tonight.]
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
