Zhong Yi's livestream.
"First, play an 【Upper Hook】! Apply Vulnerable!"
"Then a 【Dismantle】! Double damage with Vulnerable!"
"Follow up with a 【Bully】... Here you go!!"
Zhong Yi narrated enthusiastically as he dramatically flung his cards onto the field, his posture nearly identical to the gamblers Lu Ze remembered in his past life who got carried away playing poker.
Despite losing the first two rounds, Zhong Yi wasn't discouraged at all. If anything, he was getting more hooked the more he played. This time, luck was on his side: right from the start, he drew 【Dismantle】, which he had found very handy in the previous round, followed by 【Upper Hook】 and 【Bully】. He pulled off a smooth little combo with ease, making his single-target attacks exceptionally powerful.
The first-floor boss, the great demon 【End Deer】, fell to this three-move combo like chopping vegetables—taken down effortlessly.
"Hahaha! Fellow cultivators! Vulnerable is the way! Absolutely the way to go!"
This was the first time Zhong Yi had defeated a floor boss, and he was incredibly excited, boasting about the strategy he had discovered.
"Let's see what the great demon drops... Whoa!? Golden spiritual energy!?"
From the corpse of the End Deer rose two wisps of spiritual energy—one gray and one gold.
The gray one was the standard reward of spirit stones, a full 100 pieces.
This was Zhong Yi's first time seeing golden spiritual energy. Excitedly, he blew on his hand, as if hoping it would bring him better luck.
"Here we go! Golden legendary!"
Zhong Yi shouted and reached his hand toward the golden energy.
Just as he expected, defeating a boss always dropped a golden card.
【Add Fuel (1 Energy): Discard all cards in hand, then draw the same number of cards. (Exhaust)】
【Crimson Cloak (1 Energy): At the start of your turn, lose 1 HP and gain 8 Block.】
【Infernal Maniac (2 Energy): Whenever you draw a card with "Strike" in its name, automatically play that card on a random enemy.】
Zhong Yi had never seen so many golden cards before. His eyes went wide as he read each line word by word, terrified of missing some crucial detail.
"Discard hand cards? No, no—what would I even play if I discard them?? How is this thing golden?"
"Lose 1 HP per turn for 8 block... sounds decent? But I feel like I don't lack defense? Wait—once I take it, I'm stuck losing HP every turn... That's a bit of a loss, huh?"
"Infernal Man... Ah!?"
When his eyes landed on the third card, they suddenly flew wide open.
"Draw a Strike card and it automatically plays???"
"Holy crap! There's a card this awesome!??"
From all the draws he had seen so far, he had encountered countless cards with "Strike" in their names. Back then, Zhong Yi had even joked that Lu Ze must be just as bad at naming things as he was.
Who would have thought—there was actually a strategy hidden in the names!
Leaving everything else aside, the Iron Armor Sect cultivator's starting deck already had five "Strike" cards.
Even just having those five cards played automatically was more than worth the 2 Energy cost!
Zhong Yi could already picture it: after playing 【Infernal Maniac】, every time he drew a card, it would automatically be played, letting him get five or six free attacks per turn. What a satisfying scenario!
"A god-tier card!! Hesitating even a second would be an insult to this card!!!"
With that, Zhong Yi added 【Infernal Maniac】 to his deck.
At that moment, he felt a bit of regret—earlier, he had been too focused on grabbing "Vulnerable" cards and hadn't taken any "Strike"-related ones.
"I'll need to grab more cards with 'Strike' in their names from now on... This is gonna be insane, right?"
The more he thought about it, the more excited he got. Whistling happily, he pushed open the door to the second floor.
Just like the giant whale on the first floor, the second floor was also guarded by a special Ancient Being.
This time, the creature Zhong Yi encountered was a pink being with a single huge eyeball on its head and a body resembling a young dragon: 【Living Prism】.
The giant eyeball didn't look all that eerie. It blinked as it stared at Zhong Yi, studying him, and was even a bit cute.
Zhong Yi was starting to figure out the setup of the Kill Immortal Tower.
Each floor's starting point was a room with an Ancient Being.
Upon entering an Ancient Being's room, health was restored to full, and then the being offered three high-tier artifacts to choose from.
【Sandcastle: When picked up, randomly upgrade 6 cards.】
【Driftwood: All card rewards can be rerolled once.】
【Prism Touch: Upgrade the Golden Crow Bloodline to Rebirth Bloodline (Restore 12 HP upon battle's end).】
"What the?! Double healing? That's way too strong!"
Zhong Yi, who was obsessed with sustain, had initially been struggling between options one and two. But the moment he saw the third, he immediately chose the upgrade.
"Hahaha~ I'm about to become invincible~~~"
Watching his Golden Crow Bloodline upgrade to Rebirth Bloodline, Zhong Yi's confidence soared. Happily, he waved at the Living Prism.
"Thanks, big eyeball guy! Hahahaha!!"
Zhong Yi pushed open the door past the Ancient Being and pulled out the map for the second floor, starting to plan his route.
With a dozen or so rounds of battles under his belt, Zhong Yi now considered himself a seasoned tower climber.
By now, he fully understood the purpose of each room type.
First, Campfires.
Campfires had two functions: first, resting, which restored HP; second, upgrading cards.
Both functions were crucial, but unfortunately, you had to choose only one.
When Zhong Yi first stepped into a Campfire room, he wanted to go back half an hour to slap himself for walking past one earlier.
Second, Shops.
Shops sold cards, artifacts, and potions of varying rarities.
Potions aside, golden cards and rare artifacts were treasures that provided a massive boost!
The only downside was their steep prices—you had to pick carefully.
Combining everything he had learned, Zhong Yi revised his climbing route once again.
"First, the more Campfire rooms, the better... If there aren't enough Campfires, that route is a no-go!"
As he spoke, Zhong Yi struck out the path on the far right with a cross mark.
"Second, Elite rooms should be taken based on strength... On the first floor, you'd want to skip them. But since I'm well-developed now, I should be able to handle two."
With that, he made a few notations near some Elite rooms.
"Next... if everything else is equal, Mystery rooms are a priority! We're not Old Zhou, after all..."
Zhong Yi's pen strokes flew across the map as he dismissed another small path.
"Finally, I only need to enter the Shop once for a big shopping spree—money's tight, after all!"
Following this logic, Zhong Yi quickly settled on his route for the second floor.
This set of reasoning left the viewers stunned.
[Man, Lao Zhong sure thinks things through! Full of logic!]
[Blah blah blah, a whole bunch of rambling—in the end, he just picks the middle route, right?]
[Got it! From now on, only walk the middle road!]
[Lao Zhong, go play a new character already! The heir to the throne needs you!]
...
Many people who had just tuned in didn't fully understand, but they still found it entertaining.
Lu Ze had done a great job crafting the illusion scenes for the livestream—beautiful special effects and solid impact with every hit.
Moreover, 《Kill Immortal Tower》 was that type of roguelike card game that seemed hard at first glance, but was actually like 《Three Kingdoms Kill》—you'd get the hang of it after watching a round or two, even if you weren't familiar with monster mechanics or card attributes.
Zhong Yi was the type of live-streamer who performed best on pure talent, chatting and commentating as he played, much to the delight of his viewers.
As they watched longer, they even started offering unsolicited advice.
【Use Shockwave Slash to finish one off! Why are you taunting? Do you really need that bit of defense?】
【You’re not using the gold card? Not using the gold card? Not using the gold card?】
【Are you deaf? I told you to use Whirlwind Slash!】
【Why are you throwing an uppercut there? You’re losing too much HP—why not block instead?】
【You pig of a streamer, you can’t even aim your card correctly!!】
...
Hidden quietly in the shadows, Lu Ze, who was secretly watching this whole scene, couldn’t help but chuckle.
This scene reminded him vividly of the old men in his past life who used to hang around the park, watching others play chess.
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?"
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
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."
