Blind Pick.
Simply put, it was a free-for-all matchup.
No heroes were banned, and there was no pick order.
Players could choose any hero they wanted.
And they couldn’t see the enemy’s selections either.
Lu Ze’s proposal was undoubtedly an enticing option.
“What about his Yasuo?”
“Who cares? That last match, we just lacked a reliable assassin for damage!”
“Good point… If we swap Syndra for Zed, there’s no way he can dodge both the ultimate and auto-attacks!”
“I’ll pick Pantheon too! Let’s see him dodge my stun!!”
……
The five of them debated heatedly.
Among the rogue cultivators they had recruited, only three were ranked within the top thirty of the celestial ladder.
One played Zed, one played Aatrox, and one played Kog’Maw.
These three heroes were permanently stuck on the ban list, never seeing the light of day.
Rather than picking weaker-tier heroes and being toyed with until they had no chance to fight back…
They might as well go all out!
By selecting their strongest heroes, they might still have a sliver of hope!
That one-trick Zed specialist was a top-tier expert, ranked fourth on the celestial ladder!
If they secured Zed, they might not have to fear Bai Mu after all.
In the end, they decided to accept the opponent’s proposal.
……
On the Lingxiao Sect’s side…
“Brother Bai, let me explain the heroes the enemy might pick…”
Zhong Yi spoke gravely as he analyzed the opponent’s hero pool for Bai Mu.
The other four made their selections quickly.
Mu Yawen’s Sett, Zhou Yue’s Lee Sin, Li Moran’s Vayne, Zhou Qiaoling’s Lulu…
All were their most proficient heroes.
Only Lu Ze remained undecided.
“Their Zed is extremely skilled! His playstyle is almost identical to that of True Lord Yuelun, ranked fourth on the celestial ladder!”
Despite Zhong Yi’s warning, Lu Ze remained completely unfazed.
“Zed, huh? Interesting…”
Lu Ze murmured with a faint smile.
“I still think Yasuo is the way to go. Brother Bai’s Yasuo is practically divine…”
“What about Talon? An assassin duel!”
“A bruiser might work too—how about Riven?”
……
Amid the flurry of suggestions, Lu Ze’s hero selection finally lit up.
Amid roaring flames, a shadow-cloaked figure emerged, his voice hoarse and dripping with killing intent.
“The unseen blade…”
“Is the deadliest.”
The other five widened their eyes in unison.
Picking the enemy’s one-trick against them?
This was outright disrespect!!
As the heroes were locked in, both sides revealed their picks.
When Guo Tianyin saw the fifth-pick Zed, his lungs nearly exploded in fury.
“Damn it… How dare this lowlife look down on me like this!?”
“Just you wait… Once I obtain the ancient relic, I’ll hunt down your true body!”
“I’ll strip your flesh and seize your soul!!”
……
When it came to laning, Lu Ze was simply on another level compared to players of this era.
His understanding of wave management and spacing was that of a top-tier professional.
As a certain high-level player once said:
“The moment the enemy steps up to auto-attack a minion, the lane is already over.”
That was the kind of game sense that transcended the understanding of the masses.
And this was exactly the situation Guo Tianyin—or rather, the rogue cultivator he was controlling, the player known as True Lord Yuelun—found himself in.
Pressure.
Crushing, suffocating pressure surged toward him from all directions.
Every tiny movement Bai Mu made sent his nerves into overdrive.
At level one, he missed two shurikens and ate every one of Bai Mu’s in return. From that moment, he had already lost the right to lane.
At level three, the classic shadow-swap play led to a tower dive and first blood. After that, the mid-lane deficit became irreversible.
He couldn’t even breathe without Bai Mu’s permission.
Was it despair?
Well, aside from the kills at levels three and six, Bai Mu never went for the kill again.
A 0-2 scoreline didn’t seem too terrible.
But was it not despair?
Bai Mu’s aggression was relentless.
Every time he stepped up, a full combo chunked him so low that even soaking experience became a struggle.
……
【Bai Mu (Zed) has slain Guo Tianyin (Zed)!】
【Bai Mu is on a killing spree!】
“Tch, slipped up.”
Lu Ze frowned.
In a moment of carelessness, he had killed Guo Tianyin again.
For Lu Ze, keeping the enemy alive while preventing them from farming properly was far harder than going 10/0 before ten minutes.
But the opponent was just too fragile.
Last game, a three-item Teemo had already made them surrender. He had to be more careful this time.
After all, the goal was to stall for time so Nangong Yuan and the others could reach their destination.
“Estimating the time… they should be close now.”
Lu Ze muttered to himself.
“Well then…”
“Killing a few more shouldn’t hurt, right?”
……
“What’s happening? Bai Mu has started slaughtering again!”
“With Bai Mu here, how dare you four even think about contesting the dragon!?”
“Bai Mu is entering the fray!”
“Death Mark engages, instantly locking onto the enemy’s most fed Kog’Maw!”
“Bai Mu shadow-swaps—Pantheon’s stun doesn’t even come close!”
“Beautiful! Triple shuriken convergence!!”
“Kog’Maw is instantly deleted!!!”
“The angle on that triple shuriken was absolutely perfect… the others are low too!”
“Woah… Zed’s shadow merges with Brother Bai!”
“Another instance of soul-hero unity! This is the third time in just three matches!!!”
“The remaining three from the Immortal Slayer team are being toyed with by the shadows…”
“Shadow swap after shadow swap!! Zed’s damage is insane—those shurikens might as well be targeted abilities!!”
“Quadra kill! QUADRA KILL!!!”
“It seems the title of the Shadow Reaper has found a new owner!!”
Amid Zhong Yi’s electrifying commentary, the audience was roaring with excitement.
The live chat exploded with messages.
【I thought Brother Bai had turned Buddhist and sworn off killing… Clearly, I underestimated him.】
【Feels like he was holding back, but not by much.】
【LMAO, maybe the Immortal Slayers didn’t pay him enough.】
【Rumor has it there’s a sect in Changdao Province that specializes in shadow techniques. Wonder what they’d think of Brother Bai’s plays.】
……
Another four kills in the bag, Lu Ze recalled to spend his gold.
At this point, with seven kills and CS far ahead of the curve, he had completed Zed’s core build in just 15 minutes:
Blade of the Ruined King, Last Whisper, and Brutalizer.
Glancing at the remaining 2000 spirit stones in his inventory, Lu Ze remembered something amusing and opted not to upgrade Brutalizer into a full item.
Instead, he bought a Quicksilver Sash.
In this patch, Quicksilver’s active could cleanse certain hero abilities.
For example, Zed’s.
In his previous life, the Great Demon King had relied on this very artifact to defy fate during his legendary battle against RYU, creating one of the most iconic moments in history.
Lu Ze didn’t believe Guo Tianyin possessed the skill to push him into such a desperate situation.
Buying the Mercury Sash was simply to pay tribute to that Great Demon King.
Just then, Lu Ze suddenly sensed the spiritual imprint he had left within Liu Mo’s soul shatter.
“Not good.”
Lu Ze’s brow furrowed.
The breaking of the imprint could only mean one thing—
Liu Mo was dead.
And rightly so.
Making deals with tigers deserved such an end.
Besides, the methods of these demonic cultivators were far more ruthless than any beast.
With Liu Mo now dead, if these demonic cultivators left their current location, tracking them down again would require considerable effort.
“I can’t let them end things prematurely…”
Lu Ze muttered to himself, regretting the severity of his earlier actions.
With that thought, he opened the public chat channel.
A striking line of text hovered over the Immortal-Demon Gorge:
[Bai Mu: From this moment on, I will not return to the city until death takes me.]
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!
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
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?"
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?!
