Zhong Yi's favorite thing to do in the illusion realm was to create strategy guides.
Starting from Spiritual Plants vs. Zombies, the title [Genius Cultivator] became a household name and a massive star on the forums.
Zhong Yi first felt the immense popularity of Operation Xianyuan Continent after he posted a thread titled [Classified Dam Knife-Running Guide].
Within a single day, it garnered tens of thousands of replies!
It was twice as lively as during the Naraka: Bladepoint era!
Besides knife-running guides, Zhong Yi also posted gun modification tutorials.
They covered all price ranges.
Among them, the most popular was the recently introduced Poop Gun series.
The inspiration for this series came from Zhou Qiaoling.
Zhou Qiaoling was addicted to knife-running and looting. She was extremely enthusiastic about how to make enemies feel like they ate poop after killing her, so she often came to Zhong Yi for help modifying her guns.
After modifying a few guns, Zhong Yi casually posted them to the forum, never expecting such an enthusiastic response.
Only then did he realize just how absurdly high the percentage of loot-loving knife-running players was in Operation Xianyuan Continent...
Consequently, Zhong Yi made the Poop Gun his signature specialty.
Not only was it disgusting for opponents when they looted his crate, but he could also actually kill people when using it himself...
...
Zhong Yi jokingly called his daily knife-running self a Rat.
On one hand, it was because Old Sai often mocked him as a little mouse in the Administration Palace; on the other hand, it was because he was always chased around by aggressive players like a rat crossing the street.
This nickname gained the approval of countless knife-running players and gradually became popular on the forums.
Zhong Yi naturally became the spiritual leader of the Rat players.
Every time he started a live stream, countless players would flood in.
[The Grandmaster is streaming? Time to eat!]
[Why are the Asara rogue cultivators in the Grandmaster's matches so weak? The ones I meet are more ruthless than the last...]
[Fellow Daoist, you must have killed a lot of people normally, right? Zhong already said that Old Demon Lu is very cunning. If you perform too well in matches, he will ramp up the difficulty for you!]
[So that means... the Grandmaster looks like a noob, but he's actually just pretending?]
[Of course! Just think about what the title for killing 12 cultivators in a single match of Operation Xianyuan Continent is...]
[Let me educate the new Fellow Daoists. The achievement for getting 12 kills in a single match is called [Genius Cultivator], and it's named after our Grandmaster!]
[Wow!! That's amazing!!!]
[Can the Grandmaster show us a thing or two?]
[Show us! Show us!!]
[I'll send gifts to the Grandmaster!!]
...
Looking at the sky filled with gift special effects, Zhong Yi, who was currently scavenging for trash at the Dam, smiled helplessly.
Those who called him Grandmaster were basically all new viewers who came to watch his stream for the first time out of admiration after learning knife-running techniques on the forum;
While those who called him Zhong and tricked the new viewers into making a fuss were the veteran viewers of the stream.
In Lu Ze's words, they were called little anti-fans.
Previously, he had been tricked by this group of little anti-fans into hosting a technical tutorial stream, and to this day, he still couldn't forget the screen full of Hahahaha.
Coincidentally, Lu Ze was actually watching at the time and specifically sent him a Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin gift, even saying that he looked like some Ancestor Jinfan...
In short, no matter how this bunch of little anti-fans jeered, he would never fall for it again.
However, since the new viewers had already sent gifts, Zhong Yi felt that occasionally changing his style wouldn't be a bad idea.
I'll pass on showing off, but if everyone is tired of watching knife-running and wants a change of pace... then I'll call someone over to play aggressively for a bit.
Zhong Yi said as he opened his friends list.
The stream's chat became lively once again.
[Call Zhou Qiaoling over... I want to see Zhong become incompetently furious because he can't snatch the food, hahaha]
[It has to be Legacy Disciple Zhou! Fighting from start to finish is so thrilling!]
[Legacy Disciple Zhou is with his sister... The team is full, pick someone else.]
[Then how about calling Elder Zhao Wendao? I really love watching these old seniors charge the Administration Palace with an [Uzi], shouting things like Life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor by heaven as they charge. It's awesome!]
[I think it's more fun to play with Legacy Disciple Mu... That shield and heal strategy from yesterday was super interesting! Us Rat players can learn it too~]
[Legacy Disciple Mu plays the shield dog way too well.]
[What shield dog? Call him Shield Bro!]
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The popularity of Operation Xianyuan Continent was extremely exaggerated.
From the elders at the top down to the handyman disciples at the bottom, everyone was playing it.
All the friends on Zhong Yi's list were currently in a match.
Just as Zhong Yi was hesitating about who to invite, he suddenly received an invitation.
[No Destruction No Construction invites you to join the team. Accept? Immortal Ascension Base (Top Secret) (2/3)]
Zhong Yi decisively chose to accept.
Old Zhou, aren't you guys full?
As soon as he entered the team, Zhong Yi asked curiously.
We failed to extract thirteen times in a row. Junior Brother Xiao went bankrupt and went knife-running...
Zhou Yue replied in a deep voice with a dark expression.
Then should we switch to Classified difficulty?
Zhong Yi asked.
For Top Secret difficulty maps, although the combat readiness requirement was only 450,000, aggressive cultivators would often bring in gear that far exceeded the threshold.
Because the extraction difficulty in Top Secret was very high, cultivators would fight tooth and nail to fight for the limited extraction spots.
Zhong Yi knew his own skills were limited, so he took the initiative to request a difficulty change.
No!
Zhou Yue gritted his teeth and shook his head in refusal, his words somewhat fierce.
What child cries every day, and what gambler loses every day? I refuse to believe that I won't be able to extract from this Top Secret Immortal Ascension even once today!?
Zhou Yue, who had just been completely unequipped, suddenly had a full set of thick Level 6 helmet and armor appear on his body.
In his hands was a [Heavenly Soldier-14], and on his back was a [Netherflame-700].
Counting the various pills and injections in his chest rig, his combat readiness was already approaching 2 million.
If it weren't for the fact that bullets couldn't be bought, Zhou Yue would probably even carry the [Grim Reaper] on his back.
Zhong Yi paused slightly, feeling more and more like Zhou Yue was a red-eyed gambler who had lost too much.
Alright, alright, I'll gear up.
Zhong Yi quickly pulled out a Level 4 helmet and Level 5 armor, along with a fully modified [Heavenly Soldier-Type 4].
The whole set cost a little over 700,000, and counting the medicine, it was nearly a million. The loadout wasn't considered low.
Zhou Qiaoling, hurry up! I'm going to wipe them all out!!
Zhou Yue rubbed his hands together, urging her impatiently.
Wait a minute...
Beside him, Zhou Qiaoling, wearing an earflap hat, stared intently at the gun in her hands.
Looking closely, the small attachments on the gun were constantly being swapped out.
My combat readiness is over by 36 spirit stones, I can still optimize it.
Zhong Yi: ...
Zhou Yue: %￥&…………%*&#@
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.
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."
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
