【Your cumulative spending has reached 12 Spirit Stones, granting you Level 2 Membership】
【Current Weekly Membership Benefits: 3 Skin Trial Cards, 3 Double EXP Cards (1-hour duration), 3 Double Gold Cards (1-hour duration), 5 Rune Gift Packs】
【Remaining Spirit Stones to Level 3 Membership: 38】
"Level 2 gives this much? How insane must Level 3 be…"
Zhong Yi had just finished purchasing the 6-Spirit-Stone skins for Yasuo and Master Yi and was about to exit when the membership prompt popped up, making his eyes widen in shock.
38 Spirit Stones? For a core disciple like him, that was practically pocket change!
He glanced again at the remaining selection of high-quality 6-Spirit-Stone skins and felt his fingers itch.
"Senior Brother Zhong, if you want to play support for me, just say so. No need to beat around the bush," Zhou Qiaoling teased from the side.
"???"
Zhou Yue panicked and waved his hands frantically.
"Old Zhong, don’t mess with my mental state. If you want any skins, I’ll gift them to you…"
"See? It’s not that I don’t want to play support—it’s that Old Zhou won’t let me…"
Zhong Yi consoled himself, then eagerly browsed the shop again.
"Whoa! The Infernal Hound skin for Nasus? Sold!"
"Hmm, the Dawnbringer Riven looks pretty sick too…"
……
After buying seven more 6-Spirit-Stone skins, Zhong Yi finally reached Level 3 Membership.
Seeing that Level 4 required another 146 Spirit Stones, he steeled his resolve and prepared to leave the shop.
"Alright, that’s Level 3 secured. From now on, I absolutely won’t—"
【You have received a Premium Skin Discount Coupon (20 Spirit Stones off for purchases over 99 Spirit Stones). Valid for 3 days.】
Zhong Yi: "???"
Lu Ze’s intentions were written all over this!!
Yet, he couldn’t resist clicking back into the shop.
Aside from the 6-Spirit-Stone skins, only three premium skins were available in the first batch.
The Three Kingdoms series—featuring Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, and Guan Yu, all iconic figures from the classic tale.
Each was priced at a steep 199 Spirit Stones.
In his past life, these skins would’ve been classified as "pseudo-Legendary"—high-quality models and voice lines but lacking special effects.
To capitalize on the cultivators’ nostalgia for the Three Kingdoms, Lu Ze had gone all out, adding dazzling effects to each.
After all, the money-making potential of this IP had long been proven by games like Three Kingdoms Tactics.
"If I buy the Zhao Yun skin now, I save 20 Spirit Stones and also get to Level 4 Membership…"
"The Level 4 rewards are worth about 50 Spirit Stones, so effectively, I’m paying 100 for the Zhao Yun skin…"
"Fine. After this, no more spending. No matter how cool Lu Bu and Guan Yu look, I won’t fall for Lu Ze’s tricks again…"
【You have purchased the skin: Zhao Yun, the Dragon of Changshan】
【Your Membership Level has increased to 4! You’ve received 5 free Treasure Draw Tickets!】
"Five Treasure Draw Tickets?"
Curious, Zhong Yi followed the prompt to the Treasure Draw interface.
In short—another gacha system.
The grand prize was an insanely prestigious skin:
The Three Kingdoms series skin for the Talisman Master—Zhuge Liang, the Sleeping Dragon.
"These five tickets are free anyway. Might as well try my luck."
Zhong Yi swallowed hard as he stared at the skin’s preview.
"No matter what, I’m not spending another Spirit Stone…"
……
……
Whether it was the 6-Spirit-Stone skins, the membership tiers, daily login rewards, or the gacha mechanics—
These were all tactics Lu Ze had seen exploited to death by mobile games in his past life.
But there was no denying it:
This monetization scheme worked like a charm.
Strategically converting free players into low spenders, then grooming them into mid or even heavy spenders…
Even Li Moran, who had never cared for skins, broke her usual habits and bought Irelia’s Frostblade.
As for Zhong Yi? Well, he was beyond redemption.
Whether it was his lack of self-control or his inability to resist temptation…
Zhuge Liang, the most revered strategist of the Three Kingdoms, didn’t exist in League of Legends in Lu Ze’s past life—but here, he had to create him.
With his current abilities, designing an original skin was no challenge.
He simply modeled it after the Talisman Master (Twisted Fate in League), a hero from Immortal Demons’ Clash.
For the effects, Lu Ze went all out—summoning storm clouds, coiling azure dragons, and earth-shaking ultimates that made the battlefield tremble.
……
By the next morning,
Lu Ze’s 6-Spirit-Stone skin strategy had already netted him a staggering million Spirit Stones in revenue.
Moreover, thanks to the Zhuge Liang skin’s prestige, even sect elders were starting to join the game…
……
……
The growth of Immortal Demons’ Clash surpassed Lu Ze’s expectations.
Cultivators took to MOBA gameplay even more enthusiastically than players from his past life.
The most obvious example was role specialization.
Within just half a month, the "jungler" position had been fully established.
In high-level matches, it was now standard for each team to have one.
This was largely thanks to Zhong Yi’s theoretical research—though he himself often died to jungle camps…
Player skill progressed rapidly.
The once-unbeatable "super-AI" bots now seemed far less intimidating.
Zhong Yi even devised a foolproof strategy to cheese the AI, allowing players to win through macro play even if their mechanics were lacking.
……
Meanwhile,
Lu Ze’s workload never let up.
Running an online game was a long-term commitment.
Future updates, new heroes, new skins, and special modes like ARAM or Ultra Rapid Fire—
All required meticulous planning.
But it was worth it.
As expected, Immortal Demons’ Clash generated an enormous influx of Demonic Path Points.
Its player base was simply too vast.
In just half a month, the game’s contributions propelled Lu Ze past the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, straight into late-stage.
"One more step, and I’ll reach the Nascent Soul stage…"
Lu Ze murmured, eyeing the endless zeros on his cultivation progress bar.
At Nascent Soul, the scale of his illusions could expand even further.
The potential player count? Limitless.
Just then, the system’s voice echoed in his mind:
【An alternate dimension has emerged. Countless Righteous Path Cultivators are mobilizing for war, disrupting the balance between righteousness and demonic forces… As the Demonic Path’s Holy Son, you must aid the demonic cultivators of this world and ensure the Righteous Path’s crushing defeat!】
【Mission: Empower demonic cultivators. Slay 100,000 Righteous Path Cultivators within one week (Current: 0/100,000)】
【Reward: 5x Demonic Path Points (Duration: 10 days)】
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."
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.
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?"
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.
