How can I get a vast mansion of a thousand rooms, to shelter all the little rats of the world with joyous smiles

[Current Kill Progress: 100000/100000]

[Mission Accomplished!]

[Reward Obtained: Demonic Path points provided by Righteous Path cultivators dying in the Demonic Path Secret Realm permanently +10!]

Listening to the melodious prompt in his mind, Lu Ze nodded in satisfaction.

He had previously speculated that the extremely low demonic path points dropped by cultivators who died in the illusion realm were actually reduced values from true deaths.

So this fixed 10 demonic path points was a massive improvement for him right now.

Lu Ze's current cultivation realm was at the late Nascent Soul stage, and advancing a minor realm required nearly ten million demonic path points.

If it weren't for this extra 10-point reward, he would either have to rely on slowly cultivating by himself, or he would have to slaughter righteous path cultivators in reality.

Fortunately, he no longer had this worry.

"I can peacefully lie flat again."

Lu Ze lay on his bed, feeling wonderful.

Next, he just needed to slack off in the sect and wait for Xianyuan Continent Operation to continuously provide him with demonic path points.

It was just a pity that this reward had regional restrictions.

It only took effect in the demonic path secret realm that the righteous path cultivators were scrambling for, which was the loot map of Xianyuan Continent Operation.

However, judging from the current enthusiasm of the players, Xianyuan Continent Operation was enough for him to break through to the Void Refinement stage without any pressure.

"Speaking of which, I have to thank Senior Brother Zhong."

Lu Ze muttered to himself.

That day, the Green Mountain Sect surrounded the Lingxiao Sect, but they were directly suppressed by Zhong Yi's bridge-camping tactic.

This incident had gained some traction on the forums at the time, and Lu Ze went with the flow, pushing both live streams to the top recommendation spots.

At that time, any cultivator in the illusion realm who hadn't started a game would receive a live stream notification for Green Mountain Sect VS Lingxiao Sect.

On one hand, the sect rivalry was a huge topic of discussion; on the other hand, the tactic developed by Zhong Yi was very eye-catching.

As a result, many cultivators who originally treated Xianyuan Continent Operation as an ordinary secret realm started getting hooked on the game.

Not only did it bring in a wave of new players, but it also started a trend of bridge camping in the Ascension Base...

The confidential Ascension Base, which used to be full of players doing naked runs for quests, was now slowly seeing the emergence of bridge-camping squads.

Zhong Yi still hadn't realized the harmfulness of this tactic, and instead publicly wrote a post titled On Bridge Camping on the forum.

He just couldn't keep things to himself, pouring out all his secret techniques for bridge camping.

So now, the pick rate of Uluru had skyrocketed, and the Immortal Bridge had become a highly contested area in the Ascension Base...

"Junior Brother Lu, there is something I don't understand."

Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao arrives.

Zhong Yi suddenly visited the Lingyu Pavilion, and Lu Ze quickly got up to receive him.

"Why is it that in both squad-based combat games, you can hear enemies talking in Naraka: Bladepoint, but not in Xianyuan Continent Operation?"

"Oh, this... it's very simple."

Lu Ze thought for a moment, having no intention of hiding it from Zhong Yi.

"In Naraka: Bladepoint, there is only one winner... but Xianyuan Continent Operation is different."

"I see... Junior Brother Lu is brilliant!"

With just this one sentence, Zhong Yi immediately understood.

Naraka: Bladepoint only had one victor; everyone else was an enemy, making true cooperation very difficult.

Even if they temporarily joined forces to fend off a strong foe, it was still gameplay within the rules.

But for the loot, shoot, and extract gameplay of Xianyuan Continent Operation, it was different.

Xianyuan Continent Operation had three extraction points, and each extraction point could extract more than one squad...

In other words, in principle, players could achieve a win-win situation.

This made it very easy for unfair phenomena to occur.

Cheating behaviors like what the Green Mountain Sect did could very likely appear in every match.

This was something the rules did not allow.

So when Lu Ze created Xianyuan Continent Operation, he adopted the approach of his previous life's Delta Force, removing the text and voice chat functions between different teams.

"Then... if I promote a set of secret signals, would that be considered violating the rules of the illusion realm?"

Zhong Yi thought for a moment and asked tentatively.

Lu Ze raised an eyebrow. "Senior Brother Zhong, what are you planning...?"

"I want..."

"To let the rats of Xianyuan Continent have food to eat, a path to extract, and someone to rely on!"

"To build tens of thousands of mansions, sheltering all the rats in the world so they can smile!"

Zhong Yi spoke word by word, filled with lofty sentiments.

As he spoke, the tip of his tongue suddenly glowed with white light, and a golden lotus inexplicably bloomed behind him.

A surge of golden willpower slowly flew toward the illusion realm crystal in Lu Ze's hand.

Lu Ze's eyes widened slightly. "Senior Brother Zhong's Great Dao True Word Incantation is getting better and better..."

Strangely enough, Zhong Yi was a jinx in the illusion realm, but in reality, he was someone whose words became law.

Zhou Yue was the same.

In reality, his luck was soaring like a rainbow, but in the illusion realm, he was an absolute jinx...

Lu Ze speculated that this was related to the fact that the illusion realm he created isolated cultivation bases and bone structures.

In the illusion realm, everyone was a primitive person who had lost their cultivation base and bone structure; their gaming talent depended purely on their most primal physical instincts.

Just like how Zhou Yue, before breaking his fate with his Dao attainment, was an absolute jinx. So after losing his realm and cultivation in the illusion realm, his innate unlucky fate kicked in again...

Following this theory, Lu Ze couldn't help but speculate: was Zhong Yi actually a natural jinx, but was saved by his Holy Word Spiritual Root?

With the remnant spirit of the Heavenly Dao and his own anti-cracking secret arts, the willpower wouldn't cause too much of an impact.

Lu Ze sent his divine sense in to check.

The rules only had a tiny, minor alteration.

That was, once rat players deviated from their original intentions and used the secret signals for malicious purposes, their matchmaking weight coefficient for the shadowban lobby would double.

It had an impact, but not a big one.

Players who constantly backstabbed would enter high-pressure shadowban lobbies and would be matched with similar backstabbing players...

"Ah??"

Watching that surge of golden willpower sink into the illusion realm crystal, Zhong Yi was immediately startled by his own unconscious action.

"Junior Brother Lu, I didn't mean to break the rules of your illusion realm..."

"It's fine. If anything, it's a rather good adjustment."

Lu Ze shook his head, not taking it to heart.

If it really was some terrible alteration, with his level of control over the illusion realm, he could casually erase this willpower.

"By the way, Senior Brother Zhong, have you thought of the secret signal?"

"Not yet."

"Then how about..."

Lu Ze made his hand into the shape of a gun and gestured at the air.

"Knock-knock, knock-knock-knock... Two slow, three fast. How about that?"

"Great idea!!!"

Zhong Yi's eyes lit up, and he immediately laughed out loud.

"I'll go make a post to call on everyone right now!!"

After experiencing half a month of naked-running and gun-modding tutorials, coupled with Lu Ze's live stream a few days ago pushing his popularity to its peak, his current influence in Xianyuan Continent Operation was extremely strong.

While logging into the illusion realm forum, Zhong Yi nagged at Lu Ze in the outside world:

"Junior Brother Lu, you really care too little about fame and fortune..."

"What do you mean?"

"In the bridge camping tutorial I posted the day before yesterday, why did you delete such a crucial piece of information yourself?"

Hearing this, Lu Ze's gaze couldn't help but tighten.

Zhong Yi had written this sentence in that famous post On Bridge Camping:

[Under permissible conditions, pulling down the last evacuation gate when the scale is between eight and ten yields the maximum bridge-blocking profit. (Note: This viewpoint is provided by Lu Ze, a True Disciple of the Lingxiao Sect)]

He had kindly offered a pointer, and this guy actually added his full name to it?

Without a second thought, Lu Ze immediately used his privileges from a first-person perspective to delete the note, saving himself from being cursed at—even though he usually got cursed at quite a lot anyway.

"Fame and fortune are like floating clouds to me; I have no intention of competing for them."

Lu Ze said it instantly, without even blinking an eye.

"Alright, alright, then I'll change it to anonymous..."

"No anonymous!! Just pretend you discovered it yourself!!!"

"Fine, fine, fine..."

Zhong Yi smiled helplessly, giving up on his editing attempt.

"Senior Brother Zhong, are your esteemed parents still alive and well?"

"Hahaha, my father and mother are in excellent health, they can live for at least another three to five hundred years..."

Lu Ze looked at Zhong Yi with a bizarre expression.

He really found it hard to imagine that in this cultivation world, the rat-rat secret code and the bridge-blocking tactic actually came from the hands of the same person...