Three days later.
Just after midnight.
All cultivators who were not in combat had a live broadcast illusion pop up in front of them.
At the same time, all the cultivators who created illusions were teleported into the Heavenly Dao Illusion.
"What's going on? Why was I suddenly teleported here..."
"What great expert is this? To be able to pull me from reality into an illusion!?"
"Hmm? What's floating in the sky? Subtitles??"
"This place... seems to be the Heavenly Dao Illusion!!"
"I remember now, tomorrow is the day the Heavenly Dao drops rewards!"
"Could it be... I won!? I won! I won!! Hahaha!!!"
"Fellow Daoist, don't get excited... Looking at the number of people, I'm afraid all Illusion Masters are here."
"In another half hour, it will be tomorrow..."
...
Lu Ze was also among them.
And he had already changed his outfit.
As early as when he sensed the aura of the Heavenly Dao Illusion, he realized what the Heavenly Dao Remnant Spirit wanted to do.
On the way to being teleported here, he changed his appearance in advance.
"I don't know who he learned it from, making a reward ceremony so flashy..."
Lu Ze complained, observing his surroundings calmly.
Most cultivators didn't have much of a guard up, mostly entering with their true bodies.
A few cultivators wearing bizarre masks stood out conspicuously in the crowd.
Rumor in the market had it that the Illusion Masters of the Illusion Alliance never showed their true faces, always wearing masks and addressing each other by codenames.
Obviously, this group of people were cultivators of the Illusion Alliance.
The two standing in the very center, one with a blood-red crow mask and the other with a cyan ghost mask, were clearly the core figures.
"They are probably the producers of 'The Eight-Way Venerable'."
Lu Ze thought to himself.
He didn't feel threatened or fearful of the Illusion Alliance.
However, the map design level of 'The Eight-Way Venerable' had advanced by leaps and bounds, and Lu Ze was a bit curious about the reason.
Around where the Illusion Alliance gathered, there was a soundproof barrier.
In the Heavenly Dao Illusion, the cultivators' cultivation bases were not isolated.
But it wasn't physical cultivation, rather spiritual sense cultivation.
For most cultivators, the difference between the two wasn't big.
Naturally, the stronger the realm, the stronger the spiritual sense.
But for Lu Ze, it wasn't the case.
With the strength of his spiritual sense, coupled with his illusion attainments, he was far beyond his peers.
He could easily break that soundproof barrier.
But it was unlikely to do so without the people inside noticing.
Lu Ze looked around and soon found a few Illusion Alliance members looking for their group, and immediately had an idea.
...
"[Lu Guan]? What's the illusion?"
"'Four Thousand Winds'."
Lu Ze, wearing a deer-shaped mask, answered without blushing or skipping a beat.
The real [Lu Guan], who he had just met briefly, had already been stripped bare and locked underground in the dark.
[Grey Dumpling], who was in charge of guarding the gate, looked at the mask mark on Lu Ze's face and nodded to let him pass.
As soon as Lu Ze entered the barrier, he heard everyone flattering the two in the middle.
"As expected of Elder Blood Crow and Elder Rakshasa... 'The Eight-Way Venerable' broke the 400,000 mark in numbers, suppressing 'Operation Immortal Abyss Continent'!!"
"Once the two elders take the top reward, your realms will probably go up another level!"
"When that time comes, the Dao of Illusions will undergo a massive change!"
"If you ask me, that kid surnamed Lu just has more ideas... In terms of true illusion attainments, how could he be a match for our Illusion Alliance's elders?"
...
Lu Ze hurriedly chimed in: "The map creation of 'The Eight-Way Venerable' is indeed brilliant, much higher than 'Operation Immortal Abyss Continent'..."
A person beside him added: "Nonsense! That was deduced by the Alliance Leader using secret techniques, otherwise..."
Before this person could finish speaking, Blood Crow and Rakshasa in the middle suddenly cast their gazes over, and the person immediately shut up.
"Although the Alliance Leader gave us a lot of help, 'The Eight-Way Venerable' achieving this result is still due to the hard work of the two of us."
The cyan ghost mask on Rakshasa's face exuded a gloomy evil aura.
"Elder Blood Crow invested his entire fortune to retain the cultivators..."
"And I, saw through the essence of such illusions... Increasing the item drop rate, I figured out this key information!"
"Pfft!"
Lu Ze couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing.
He finally understood.
That Alliance Leader relying on some secret technique deduction was the expert behind the scenes.
Blood Crow squandering his fortune to give cultivators spirit stones was the illusion's financial backer.
And this Rakshasa, was the top-tier cancer who came up with increasing the drop rate of big red potions...
"What are you laughing at!?"
Rakshasa suddenly felt an inexplicable anger, and a cyan-green ghost shadow attacked Lu Ze.
Unexpectedly, before it even got close, it was torn to shreds by an invisible force.
"Did I laugh? I didn't! I'm professionally trained... Hahahaha!!"
Lu Ze had just held back his laughter, but recalling Rakshasa's serious expression when stating that increasing the drop rate was crucial, he laughed out loud again.
If the Illusion Alliance Leader knew, this guy's legs would probably be broken.
"You...!"
Anger rolled in Rakshasa's heart. Just as he was about to flare up, he heard Blood Crow beside him say:
"It's starting!!"
Lu Ze looked up.
In the deep starry sky, lists began to fall one by one...
...
First were the white ordinary lists.
Then blue, purple...
The higher up, the fewer the people, and the more exaggerated the rewards.
The viewers watching the barrage were even more excited than the Illusion Masters present.
[Whoa, the purple lists already have this kind of heaven and earth difference in level?]
[And this is only outside the top ten... I don't even dare to imagine the ones at the front!!]
[The Gold List is coming... The Gold List!!]
[This is truly having one's name on the Gold List!]
...
Those ranked in the top ten could enter the Gold List.
The previous lists showed 10 people at the same time on one page.
When it came to the Gold List, it was one person per list, appearing one after another.
The appearance of each illusion kept people in suspense.
Starting from the tenth place, the volume of cultivators slowly began to cross into units of "ten thousand".
The rewards were also rising layer by layer...
...
As the list for the third place was revealed, the barrage atmosphere in the live broadcast room reached its peak.
[The top two are about to be revealed...!]
[As expected, it's a strong showdown between 'Operation Immortal Abyss Continent' and 'The Eight-Way Venerable'!!]
[It should be 'Operation Immortal Abyss Continent' taking the crown, right? That's Early Saint Lu's work!]
['The Eight-Way Venerable' gave out too many spirit stones, 'Operation Immortal Abyss Continent' might not really be able to suppress its momentum these past few days.]
[It's definitely 'The Eight-Way Venerable'! Did the Illusion Alliance spend so many spirit stones for nothing?]
[It's just spending money to buy people's hearts... Old Demon Lu disdains such methods!]
[Anyway, I got the spirit stones, I don't dare to comment recklessly.]
[So in the future, it won't be about who makes the best illusion, just who has more money?]
...
On the Illusion Alliance's side.
Rakshasa, who was about to attack, was fully focused on the golden list overhead, even completely forgetting the humiliation from Lu Ze just now.
"Quick, quick..."
Under the eager gazes of Rakshasa and Blood Crow, the golden list finally turned to a new page.
[Illusion Masters: Blood Crow, Rakshasa]
[Illusion: 'The Eight-Way Venerable']
[Rank: Two]
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.
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ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
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."
