At that moment, scattered bullet comments drifted across the sky.
[Eh? It really is Senior Brother Shen!]
[What kind of illusion is this? It looks so weird...]
[Why is Senior Brother Shen sitting in a jar?]
[Damn! Another one of Lu Ze's new illusions? Is it hard? Is it brutal?]
...
Seeing viewers enter the livestream, Shen Yan immediately perked up with full focus.
"Hard? No no no, not at all."
Maintaining a smile, Shen Yan painstakingly adjusted the force in his arms.
By now, he had already sensed the real challenge Lu Ze had designed into this illusion.
It was the highly unusual way of exerting force with the arms—
A bizarre sensation that made his mind and limbs feel completely uncoordinated...
Awkward. Extremely awkward.
But remembering Lu Ze's words, he figured he just hadn’t reached the state of "unity between man and hammer" yet, which eased his frustration somewhat.
Suppressing the urge to scream, he pressed on.
"This illusion was designed by Brother Lu to help me comprehend the wondrous state of unity between man and hammer... If any of you are interested, feel free to join in."
Shen Yan said with a smile.
The bullet comments immediately panicked.
[No thanks]
[Maybe next time]
[Just watching is torture...]
...
"How is it torture? It’s just using a hammer to walk instead of your limbs."
Shen Yan retorted.
By now, he had somewhat grasped the trick to pushing forward on flat ground, and he hobbled his way to a thick, withered tree.
"Look at the obstacles in those previous illusions—so difficult! Now look at Getting Over It—just a simple tree! All we have to do is climb over it!"
While chatting casually with the viewers, Shen Yan adjusted his arms and hooked the hammer onto a protruding branch of the tree.
"First like this, then like this... and with a little force—!"
With a sudden twist of his arms, he and the jar went flying into the air—
Only to crash hard onto the branch and bounce back to the ground, looking utterly disheveled.
But despite the mess, he had, against all odds, managed to get past the tree.
This came as a surprise to Lu Ze.
In his past life, this very tree had stumped countless beginners.
As expected of a skilled player—he made it through so smoothly.
If it were Zhong Yi, who knew how many tries it would’ve taken?
Back when Zhong Yi’s digital soul was serving as a beta tester for Lu Ze, even after the entire scene was fully built, he was still stuck staring blankly at the tree.
Even resorting to smacking the tree angrily with the hammer in frustration...
...
Of course, Lu Ze wasn’t worried.
In his past life, plenty of players had cleared the tree in one go, only to lose their minds later anyway.
After all, this wasn’t even the tutorial level.
True to his expectations, Shen Yan soon began tumbling down the first valley slope repeatedly.
The real difficulty of Getting Over It lay in the extreme discomfort of its controls.
After porting the 2D mechanics from his past life into the illusion, it became even more disorienting.
The slightest misstep would make his left and right hands work against each other.
Just like Shen Yan right now.
What he intended to do and what he actually did were often two completely different things.
The longer he played, the more a restless heat seemed to burn through his body.
A simple slope had already sent him crashing down over 20 times!
Meanwhile, more and more viewers were tuning into the stream.
[He fell again...]
[So brutal!]
[His arms are all twisted up from swinging that hammer]
[What kind of sadistic design is this? Just watching makes me physically uncomfortable]
[Only Senior Brother Shen could handle this! I’d be crying if it were me]
[Even Senior Brother’s expression is starting to look off...]
[Adding Lu Ze’s illusions to my blacklist from now on!]
[Agreed]
...
Noticing the growing flood of comments, Shen Yan hurriedly adjusted his expression.
After all, as the face of the Tianxuan Sect, he couldn’t afford to lose his composure.
"Junior brothers, Brother Lu’s illusions aren’t as bad as you think!"
He quickly defended Lu Ze.
"If you find the illusion torturous, it’s only because your Dao hearts aren’t yet steadfast enough."
"No matter how bitter or difficult this is, it’s still just an illusion... If you can’t face a trial meant to temper your will, how can you hope to overcome the tribulations on the path of immortality?"
"We’re just experiencing an illusion—you have to make sure you’re enjoying yourselves."
Forcing a strained smile, he continued:
"Do you know what it means to please yourself?"
"It’s about making yourself happy... Heh, hehehe..."
This sudden burst of motivational speaking left the viewers stunned, and they marveled:
[Senior Brother Shen’s mental fortitude is truly beyond ordinary people!]
[As expected of a natural-born Dao seed]
[I get it, but I’ll still just stick to watching...]
[Let’s all be happy! Everyone type ‘haha’ in the chat!]
[Haha]
...
Seeing the chat play along, Shen Yan felt gratified.
"When playing illusions, we must always smile—no frowning allowed."
With an eerie chuckle, he swung the hammer, inching his way upward.
Higher and higher.
"Like this... playing illusions with a smile..."
The moment the words left his mouth—
The hammer slipped into a crevice in the rocks, and a strange force sent him flying backward, all the way back to the bottom of the valley.
"GODDAMMIT!!! F!!!"
u serious?" Chen Feng watched helplessly as his painstakingly trained disciple, fresh off a championship victory, publicly abandoned him. "You had your chance, but you didn’t appreciate it. Now, face the consequences of your choice!" Chen Feng possessed the "Master System," a treasure trove of supreme martial arts techniques, capable of molding ordinary individuals into peerless prodigies. "Legs like yours? A shame not to train in the Crippling Kick." "Ever heard of a palm strike that descends from the heavens?" "Auntie! I see extraordinary bone structure in you—a martial arts prodigy, one in ten thousand." The once-defiant senior disciple, now watching her juniors rise to fame one after another, dominating the internet, was consumed by endless regret.
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
+【Epic Battles!】 "Your Highness, they say Linxi Temple is miraculous. Won’t you make a wish?" "A wish? It should be making wishes to me." "That may be so, but since you’re already here..." "..." "Fine. Then grant this princess a consort to play with." "He must be obedient, devoted, and utterly infatuated with my body—so much so that he’d kneel and kiss my feet." "Your Highness, that’s not a consort. That’s a dog." "Then add clever, witty, heroic, ambitious yet pragmatic..." "Hmm, that’s enough for now. I’ll add more later." After tossing out these words half in jest, Princess Anle departed the temple—only to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Bodhisattva statue smiling at her. Meanwhile, Yang An, fresh out of university, was having a very bad day. Good news: He’d transmigrated into another world with a cheat granting tenfold combat power. Bad news: He’d immediately fallen into the clutches of a certain villainess. Good news: Said villainess possessed peerless beauty and royal status. Bad news: She was absolutely monstrous!!! In the frozen wilderness, Yang An knelt beneath Qin Guo’er’s feet, drenched in sweat despite the cold. Desperately clutching her porcelain-perfect foot—the very one poised to crush his throat—he could only think: How do I survive this?! Need answers NOW!
