After finishing three rounds of AI matches,
the five of them had gotten much more familiar with the gameplay of Immortal vs. Demon.
"Finally, we can play against real opponents!"
Seeing the Matchmaking feature unlocked, Zhong Yi rubbed his hands together excitedly.
"What, didn’t get beaten up enough by the bots?"
Zhou Yue teased.
"Old Zhou, you don’t get it… I was studying the champion mechanics," Zhong Yi said mysteriously, brushing off the joke.
"This Windblade Swordsman is definitely strong—just takes some practice! I’ve got him figured out now. Just wait and see how I carry you later!"
In those three AI matches, his Yasuo had died a total of twenty-six times.
Every game, he fed relentlessly.
But that didn’t stop him from having an absolute blast.
Especially when dashing through minions with Steel Tempest.
That split-second feeling of freedom and exhilaration made him wish he could truly become a wandering swordsman.
"Senior Sister Li, what are you looking at?"
Zhou Qiaoling noticed their team’s strongest player deep in thought and couldn’t help but ask.
"Runes… masteries…"
Li Moran murmured, studying the newly unlocked system.
Back when League of Legends first launched, runes and masteries were one of its defining features.
Though the rune system had drawn plenty of complaints early on,
there was no denying how much it boosted player retention.
Right now, Lu Ze needed players to spend more time in the game.
So keeping the rune system was a necessity.
"This system is really interesting!"
After a quick glance, Zhong Yi was already brimming with ideas.
Runes provided essential stats—a few extra points in movement speed or attack damage could make all the difference.
The mastery system was even more intriguing.
Just from the keystones he saw, Yasuo could be played in multiple different styles.
"Wait, champions cost spirit stones from the illusion realm? Oh, good thing they gave us free trial cards…"
"Let’s hurry up and start! I want to hit level 12 fast—that Flash summoner spell looks super useful."
"Let’s go, let’s go!"
Soon, the five of them queued up.
With Immortal vs. Demon’s massive player base, the match popped instantly.
After three AI games, they’d each found their favorite champions.
"Death is like the wind—always by my side."
The deep, smooth voice rang out almost immediately.
Zhong Yi had locked in Windblade Swordsman again.
"Dammit, Lao Zhong! You’re only fast when picking champs! Why can’t you move like that in-game?!"
Zhou Yue gritted his teeth in frustration.
He’d been dying to try Yasuo.
The guy looked like a total noob magnet, but also ridiculously cool.
Especially when zipping through minions—it just looked so fun.
"Quiet, quiet! Just watch me pop off later… Junior Brother Mu, what do you think of this Molten Colossus?"
Zhong Yi patted Mu Yawen on the shoulder, recommending the champion.
"Whoa! This guy’s huge! A real demon beast!"
Mu Yawen’s eyes sparkled as he locked in without hesitation.
"Solid as a mountain!"
A gruff, simple-minded voice boomed as molten rock encased Mu Yawen’s arms.
"Heh, this one’s gotta be strong!"
Mu Yawen was thoroughly pleased with his pick.
"Good, good."
Zhong Yi nodded in satisfaction.
Yasuo’s ultimate required enemies to be airborne—but his tornadoes never hit anything. He needed someone else to set it up.
"Stick with me in the top lane. We’ll play safe, hit level 6… then no one can stop us!"
"Got it!"
After their painful first-game experience getting wrecked by jungle camps, the group decided to stick with the 2-1-2 lane setup from the AI matches.
Mid lane, being the solo lane with the fastest leveling, went to their strongest player, Li Moran.
That left Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen as the top lane duo.
"Hey, unlucky bro, hurry up and pick!"
Zhou Qiaoling urged.
"I don’t wanna play ADC again…"
Zhou Yue grumbled, his face dark.
He’d played marksmen three games in a row.
The recommended build was crit-based.
Yet somehow, with an 80% crit chance, he’d managed to miss four crits in a row…
But Zhong Yi had analyzed it—marksmen were crucial for late-game teamfights. Someone had to do it.
In the end, he locked in the free champion Frost Archer.
Zhou Qiaoling chose Yeti Rider.
"Junior Sister Li, what are you picking? Maybe a mage? Otherwise, short-range champs might struggle against poke…"
Zhong Yi suggested.
"No need."
Li Moran shook her head and selected a champion called Exiled Blade.
In all three AI matches, her picks had been different, but they all shared one trait—they wielded blades.
"Lao Zhong, you’re worried about her? Worry about yourself first!"
Zhou Yue laughed, poking fun.
Zhong Yi huffed. "Hmph! This game, I’m stomping my lane!"
With champions locked in, the five loaded into the game—and immediately recognized some familiar names.
"Whoa! Shen Yan? From the Sky Profound Sect!"
Zhong Yi’s fighting spirit instantly ignited.
Mu Yawen agreed. "We can’t let the Lingxiao Sect lose to them!"
"Speaking of which… I wonder what happened. Brother Shen suddenly became a hammer wielder—even his champion uses one."
Zhou Yue eyed Shen Yan’s pick, Hammer of the Divine, with curiosity.
"Brother Shen, top lane duel!"
The moment the game started, Zhong Yi messaged him.
Shen Yan responded just as eagerly.
"Bring it! A real man’s 1v1 in top lane!"
"Heh, hooked him good~"
Zhong Yi smirked slyly and waved the others over.
"Let’s all head top and teach Brother Shen the importance of first blood…"
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
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!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
