Zhou Yue's illusionary world.
"Su, Su..."
[Behavior Score -10 (Li Ang does not know the other party's name at this time, please follow the character behavior rules)]
[Your Behavior Score has dropped below the system threshold. You are temporarily unable to control your character's actions. Please follow the role-playing rules!]
Zhou Yue's breathing quickened. He instinctively wanted to reach out and greet her, but was intercepted by the role-playing system.
Looking at the familiar scene, tears welled up in Zhou Yue's eyes.
After Li Ang's main body completed the fixed dialogue segment, just as Zhou Yue turned around to leave, his foot suddenly slipped.
"Holy shit... Which bastard threw a banana peel here..."
Just as Zhou Yue cursed inwardly, a crisp, girlish voice came from behind him:
"Are you... alright?"
Su Di'er grinned brightly, then suddenly blinked in confusion.
"Strange..."
"Why do I feel like I've known an unlucky guy like you before?"
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As the players entered their second playthrough, more of the hidden traps Lu Ze had laid began to reveal themselves.
Every Su Di'er the players encountered would harbor a sense of familiar deja vu.
The plot of the illusionary world continued to progress along the original storyline, but there were subtle changes in some minor details.
For example, in Zhou Qiaoling's second playthrough, the little beggars obeyed Su Di'er's every command and shared a very good relationship with her;
Or, for instance, Li Moran's Su Di'er inherited the Ice Lotus Mark from the first playthrough. Her talent in the way of the sword was absurdly high, giving her a unique and unparalleled advantage in cultivation...
...
The special memories between the players and Su Di'er were preserved in these minute aspects, constantly tugging at their heartstrings.
All of this, naturally, was Lu Ze's handiwork.
He had prepared this plan as early as when the illusionary world was first released.
During a multi-playthrough game, Easter eggs regarding special memories would trigger upon their first meeting.
However, as the game's plot unfolded, these special Easter eggs would gradually decrease.
Otherwise, if the memories of two playthroughs were fully connected, the computing power of the illusionary world would struggle to maintain real-time changes in the plot.
But after Lu Ze acquired the skill "Myriad Spirit Bestowal," he seemed to have found a new way forward.
Lu Ze had already pretty much figured out the mechanics of this skill. Simply put, it was the ability to bestow sentience.
The method of bestowing sentience upon NPCs wasn't exactly rare.
For instance, Lu Ze could repeatedly harvest Lin Huan's cyber soul using the Cyber Myriad Soul Banner, and then modify it with spells to simulate the character of Su Di'er.
Putting aside the time required to do so, what if it were a different game or a different character, and he couldn't find a soul with a similar personality?
Create one from scratch?
The difficulty of that would be no less than the goddess Nuwa forging humanity out of clay.
"Myriad Spirit Bestowal" perfectly solved this problem.
Moreover, as long as one's strength was sufficient, they could even bestow the exact same level of sentience upon all NPCs!
At this moment, what Lu Ze was researching was how to use "Myriad Spirit Bestowal" to further upgrade the characters in the illusionary world, thereby causing the multi-playthrough world to undergo a sublimation.
"Done! This way, Su Di'er's soul can continue to upgrade..."
Lu Ze smiled as he looked at the increasingly exquisite wisp of cyber soul in front of him.
This was a new generation soul he had forged after a breakthrough using "Myriad Spirit Bestowal." Its ability to link with the previous playthrough had been vastly strengthened.
"Now, which lucky guy should I test this on?"
Lu Ze muttered to himself, rubbing his chin as his divine sense constantly drifted through countless illusionary worlds.
Eventually, he locked onto Li Moran's illusionary world.
Ever since the system upgrade, emotional fluctuations would yield extremely high Demonic Value returns.
The greater the fluctuation, the higher the return.
For someone like Li Moran, who had always maintained a stoic, emotionless persona, the returns from harvesting his emotions would undoubtedly be the greatest.
"I choose you..."
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.”
g Yu was preparing for retirement when her organization decided to eliminate her. She transmigrated to a zombie apocalypse world. However, a tiny unexpected situation occurred: She somehow transformed into an adorable little girl?!
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?!
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!
