Li Moran's technique truly exceeded Lu Ze's expectations.
In his past life, this combo skill was known among players as [W-TAP].
Through precise positioning and distance control, she toyed with her opponents effortlessly.
Clearly, Li Moran had mastered this maneuver to perfection.
"So this is what a prodigy looks like..."
Lu Ze silently marveled.
Such talent was indeed rare.
But—
She was still far from his level.
The battle began!
Li Moran struck first!
"Fine, I’ll let you have the first move."
A faint smirk curled on Lu Ze’s lips as he faced Li Moran’s aggressive charge with utter calm.
Li Moran calculated the distance perfectly, leaping forward with her blade drawn.
She had assumed Lu Ze, with his skill, would dodge with precision.
Yet, to her surprise, he strode leisurely toward her, meeting her sword head-on.
‘What’s going on?’
Confusion flickered in Li Moran’s mind.
But her blade had already descended, slicing into Lu Ze’s body.
Her bewilderment only deepened.
Everyone knew that in Minecraft’s combat mechanics, the first striker held an overwhelming advantage.
Not only had Lu Ze allowed her to strike first—he hadn’t even resisted?
Then, in that split second—
Lu Ze’s sword moved.
The timing was exquisitely precise—the moment Li Moran’s blade connected with him.
At that instant, Li Moran was still mid-air, descending.
A faint unease prickled at her instincts,
yet she couldn’t pinpoint why.
It was as if Lu Ze had deliberately let her strike first.
As if his swing had been intentionally delayed...
A haze clouded her vision.
Suddenly, a surge of danger flooded Li Moran’s heart—
She had struck first,
but Lu Ze landed before her!
She was still airborne!
And now, Lu Ze was charging toward her...
She had initiated the attack,
yet now, the roles had reversed!?
......
......
At the same time.
In Zhong Yi’s livestream.
"As expected of Junior Sister Li, landing the first hit on Brother Bai!"
"Is the infinite knockback combo about to happen again?"
"What’s going on!? Junior Sister Li struck first, so why is she suddenly the one getting pummeled?!"
"Holy—Brother Bai’s knockback combo looks even smoother than hers!!"
Zhong Yi’s voice was hoarse from his frantic commentary.
The chat was stunned by the scene.
[So... should we strike first or not?]
[This is bizarre. Absolutely bizarre!]
[True Disciple Li is completely helpless against Bai Mu...]
[True Disciple Zhong is helpless against True Disciple Zhou, True Disciple Zhou is helpless against True Disciple Li, True Disciple Li is helpless against Bai Mu—so how many Zhongs equal one Bai?]
[Bro, your math’s off. Bai almost got cursed to death by True Disciple Zhong’s mouth before.]
[Can someone explain the mechanics of that fight? Zhong, break it down!]
[I think Junior Sister Li got jinxed by Zhong’s commentary...]
[True Disciple Zhong’s still carrying the game with his mouth!]
......
"Pfft—what do you mean my mouth cursed her?!"
Zhong Yi was exasperated by the chat’s nonsense.
He closed his eyes, replaying the fight in his mind.
Familiar with the game’s mechanics, he quickly noticed something unusual—
Lu Ze’s sword swing had been timed with eerie precision.
Zhong Yi’s eyes snapped open:
"I get it now!"
"Brother Bai predicted Junior Sister Li’s jump-slash and timed his strike perfectly..."
"He let himself get hit first, then attacked mid-air to knock her back too."
"But!"
The more Zhong Yi analyzed, the clearer it became.
"Brother Bai got hit first, so he landed first... but Junior Sister Li got knocked back a second time, so she lands later!"
"By the time she’s still airborne, he’s already on the ground..."
"Low ground vs. high ground—the roles reverse!"
Lu Ze was slightly taken aback by Zhong Yi’s sharp analysis.
He hadn’t expected him to deduce the mechanics of this technique so quickly.
This was another PVP trick from his past life—[HitSelect].
By manipulating attack timing after being struck first, one could flip the battle’s momentum.
[“Bai Mu” has slain “Mo Ran”!]
[+1.6 Wickedness Points]
After pocketing Li Moran’s Wickedness Points, Lu Ze glanced toward the Red Team’s base.
"Why hasn’t Old Man Li shown up yet? Whatever... I’ll go find him."
......
......
White Team Base.
Li Moran respawned at the revival point.
"Whoa! Senior Sister Li, you actually lost?"
Zhou Qiaoling gasped.
"Yeah."
Li Moran wasn’t disheartened. Instead, she closed her eyes, replaying Lu Ze’s every move in the fight.
"So that’s how it is... He did it on purpose."
A faint smile touched her lips as enlightenment dawned.
Within this illusionary realm governed by heavenly laws, every life-and-death battle brought new insights.
And facing Lu Ze gave her the greatest revelations of all!
"One day, I will defeat you!"
Li Moran restocked her gear and set off to track Lu Ze down again.
......
......
Red Team Base.
"Disciple, protect your master!!"
"Master, I can’t beat him either..."
Li Jiujian and Gu Lingfei wore despairing expressions as Lu Ze advanced step by step.
Soon, both fell.
[+8 Wickedness Points]
[+1 Wickedness Points]
"Sweet!"
Lu Ze grinned as the points rolled in. Not one to waste, he also looted the Red Team’s resource pool, taking all the iron and gold ingots.
Then he left, off to visit another team.
The respawn timer was five seconds.
But even he wasn’t cruel enough to camp Li Jiujian’s revival point.
This was a long-term investment.
If he pushed the old man too hard, making him quit the illusionary realm for good, it’d be a total loss.
Better to let him farm a bit before cashing in again.
[Host has impressed righteous cultivator Li Moran with his skill, earning her admiration. Random reward acquired.]
[Reward: Ten Years of Enlightenment Experience]
"Oh? She drops rewards just from getting wrecked?"
Lu Ze eyed the system notification, half-wondering if she had some masochistic streak.
No doubt, Li Moran and Zhong Yi were his two most reliable "experience farms." Best to nurture them carefully.
"Speaking of which..."
Lu Ze checked the time, murmuring to himself.
"The random event is about to refresh. Wonder what it’ll be this time..."
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."
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
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.”
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.
