Zhou Yue went over the clearing logic once more.
First, reduce his health to two and a half bars by starving himself, then jump down at night to meet the monster-spawning conditions.
This would cause a monster to spawn on the dirt block.
As long as it was a shovel-wielding zombie, he could obtain the shovel.
With the shovel, he could gather snow blocks during snowfall.
Using the snow blocks, he could pave a path along the only dirt block, leading all the way to the destination...
Everything made perfect sense, each step seamlessly connected.
Absolutely flawless!
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Without hesitation, he started jumping repeatedly in place, just as Zhong Yi had suggested, to deplete his satiation level.
The sky filled with dense streams of comments.
[But still, spawning a shovel zombie isn’t guaranteed, right?]
[Given Senior Brother Zhou’s luck, there’s no way he’ll get a shovel zombie.]
[Even if it spawns, it won’t drop the shovel…]
[And if it does drop, the durability will be practically zero…]
...
"Will you guys... just shut up! Stop copying Old Zhong’s jinxing nonsense!"
Zhou Yue jumped furiously until his health dropped to two and a half bars.
He walked to the edge of the block, looked up at the comments flooding the sky, and raised a fist in protest:
"Watch closely—this is what it means to defy fate!"
With that, he leaped into the abyss.
Not long after falling, he died at a spot relatively close to the platform.
Just as Zhong Yi had predicted, a monster spawned.
The moment Zhou Yue respawned, his vision was blocked by a mass of green.
"Hehehe, let’s see what you’re holding~~"
Zhou Yue was ecstatic and patted the "zombie" in front of him.
"Sss~ Sss~"
The "zombie" turned around, revealing a horrifying face, its body emitting a terrifying white glow.
"HOLY SHT!!! A CREEPER?!?!?!"
"BOOM—!!"
"This damn illusion is rigged!!!"
...
...
Unsurprisingly, Zhou Yue’s trial in the secret realm ended in failure.
For him, spawning a single shovel-wielding zombie within the time limit was harder than ascending to immortality.
Yet, the cultivators who witnessed this challenge were all stunned by the unique charm of "My World."
In a space with nothing but a dirt block and an endpoint, such intricate mechanics could unfold.
And astonishingly, every change adhered perfectly to the rules of "My World."
Truly remarkable!
But what no one knew was that this secret realm challenge was merely the opening act of the wildly popular "Skyblock" survival mode from Lu Ze’s past life.
Obtaining snow blocks was just the first step.
The real challenges lay ahead.
Those would test the limits of one’s understanding of "My World’s" mechanics and theories.
Compared to endgame objectives like [Defeating the Ender Dragon], this secret realm’s [Reach a destination dozens of blocks away] was child’s play.
As word of this secret realm spread across the forums, more and more cultivators began sharing the various mechanics and quirks of "My World."
As a pioneer, Zhong Yi took it a step further—
He began studying Redstone!
In Lu Ze’s past life, Redstone was a variation of real-world circuitry.
But in the cultivation world, circuits didn’t exist.
Lu Ze had put great effort into merging it with the array techniques used in artifact forging.
Of course, it wasn’t a direct copy—otherwise, there’d be no innovation.
With the help of Zhou Qiaoling’s "Fundamentals of Redstone Analysis," Zhong Yi had begun to grasp its principles and was already experimenting with simple contraptions.
...
...
Time flew by.
While Zhong Yi remained engrossed in studying mechanics and building machines, the other three teamed up to explore.
In the [Spiritual Awakening] modpack, the game was divided into three stages.
The first stage was the early game, where players had just begun Qi Refining.
At this point, aside from a barely noticeable spiritual root, there wasn’t much difference from the vanilla experience.
Players stuck to the classic trio: exploration, building, and survival.
Once players gradually accumulated resources, obtained diamond gear, and were ready to challenge bosses,
they could craft the Foundation Establishment Pill.
The moment the first Foundation Establishment player emerged in a world, the realm would enter the second stage of [Spiritual Awakening]—
True Spiritual Awakening.
Plants, animals, monsters…
all underwent subtle transformations.
At this point, combat and adventure elements would take a slightly larger role.
After all, this was the essence of the cultivation world.
Alongside this, farming, animal husbandry, and creation systems also leveled up.
Farmland became spirit fields, beasts turned into spirit beasts, and tools evolved into magical artifacts.
This ensured the game didn’t devolve into a mindless grind but retained its "creation" core.
Especially since most resources were upgrades or reinventions of existing ones.
Basic resources remained in high demand.
As for the third stage, it began when players reached the Golden Core realm.
At this point, players were akin to endgame players in the past life, free to do as they pleased in the overworld.
Redstone and architecture would likely dominate…
...
The division of labor among Zhou Yue, Mu Yawen, and Zhou Qiaoling was very clear.
Zhou Yue was in charge of killing monsters to ensure efficiency.
Mu Yawen, with his fire spiritual root, could generate fire to improve the success rate of refining.
Zhou Qiaoling was responsible for finally opening the furnace, like having a divine hand to try her luck.
In the end, as expected, the three of them successfully established their Foundation.
The first thing the three of them did after establishing their Foundation was to come to the village to look for the elusive Zhong Yi.
"Strange, what's that? Such a tall stone pillar!"
Zhou Qiaoling pointed at a dark shadow in the distance and exclaimed.
Zhou Yue shook his head. "I don't know. I'm afraid it's another work of Old Zhong."
"Senior Brother Zhong is really something. Could it be that he's been charmed by some vixen in the village?"
The always straightforward Mu Yawen made a startling remark.
"Junior Brother Mu, how can you think about Old Zhong like that? He definitely isn't such a person..."
Before Zhou Yue could finish his words, he heard a very clear roar not far away.
It was the roar of a zombie.
"What's going on? It's daytime now. How can there be a zombie in the village?"
Without saying a word, Zhou Yue immediately drew out his Vajra Sword and prepared to fight.
The three of them followed the direction of the sound and unexpectedly found a strange device.
High in the air, a zombie was trapped on a wooden boat, constantly roaring.
There was a stone brick on its head, protecting it from the sunlight.
Diagonally above its head, there were three beds.
There was a villager standing on each bed, looking at the zombie in horror.
Obviously, the villagers wanted to escape, and the zombie wanted to eat them.
But restricted by the blocks, they couldn't go anywhere.
And Zhong Yi was below them, watching this scene with great interest.
"..."
The corner of Zhou Yue's mouth twitched slightly.
"Maybe it's better for Old Zhong to be charmed by a vixen. At least he'd seem more human then."
Although he didn't know what Zhong Yi was up to, he was sure it was something very immoral.
Somehow, Zhong Yi's back view faintly reminded him of Lu Ze.
"Senior Brother Zhong, what are you doing?"
Mu Yawen asked curiously.
"Ah, why are you here?"
Zhong Yi turned around in surprise.
Compared with the embarrassment of being caught using villagers for experiments in the past, Zhong Yi now looked calm and composed.
"So, what on earth is this device for?"
Zhou Yue asked puzzledly.
Zhong Yi's answer was just two words: "Iron farming."
"How can you farm iron like this?"
"I've discovered that when villagers are frightened, an iron golem will spawn... If you put a campfire under the zombie, you can directly burn it to death and get iron ingots."
Zhong Yi explained concisely.
After hearing this, the other three were all stunned.
"So... you caught 3 villagers and deliberately scared them with a zombie?"
"Yes, Old Zhou, you're quite quick on the uptake."
"Old Zhong, I'm starting to think you're more and more like a demonic cultivator..."
Zhou Yue said with a worried look on his face.
"However, why don't I see any iron golems?"
Zhong Yi spread his hands helplessly. "For some reason, the iron golems won't spawn after continuous scaring... I'm still trying to figure out how to solve this problem."
"Senior Brother Zhong, stop researching these things and hurry up to level up. We've all established our Foundation!"
Mu Yawen didn't understand these things and urged.
Hearing this, a smug smile appeared on Zhong Yi's lips.
"Level up? Hehe, who told you that researching these things can't help with leveling up?"
"How can researching these useless things help with leveling up? Could it be that you can create a high - level magic treasure that can destroy the heaven and earth?"
Zhou Yue was extremely puzzled.
"That's not possible... The formations and magic treasure components in this game are all relatively basic."
After saying that, Zhong Yi thought for a while and added.
"However, it's hard to say... I always feel that this world is full of infinite possibilities."
Zhou Yue continued to ask, "Then how do you plan to level up?"
Zhong Yi raised his hand and pointed at a towering stone pillar behind the village.
"Look, with that."
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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!"
