Zhong Yi's current gaming experience was:
Crawling.
Frantic crawling.
Under the influence of the treasure map event, the layout of the second floor of the Immortal Tower had become extremely treacherous.
The originally diverse paths were forcibly separated in the middle by the treasure map room.
This meant everyone had to face the terror of the elite monsters head-on, with no option to take a detour.
Even though it was a low-difficulty Immortal Tower, Zhong Yi felt the pressure maxed out.
Because the monsters' health had multiplied several times, and he still had three deadweights with him.
Most importantly, when climbing the tower in a team, the soul rewind function was no longer easy to use!
With even the slightest change in card order, the subsequent situation would shift accordingly.
When playing solo, Zhong Yi could easily replicate his previous actions and adjust key cards in crucial moments.
But in a multiplayer situation, all four people had to play in the exact same order as the previous round for it to possibly work, which greatly increased the complexity, so it was basically out of the question.
Without save-loading and with three burdens to drag along, Zhong Yi had no choice but to frantically crawl through the Immortal Tower.
Every time he played a card, he had to repeatedly calculate several outcomes in his mind, confirming he was pushing to the limit before making a move.
The flashy combos he originally wanted to play had to be shelved for now, and high-quality transitional cards outside his deck core had to be crammed in—otherwise, even reaching his final build would be impossible.
"Hahaha! Really worthy of Senior Brother Zhong, you can still win even like this!!"
Zhou Qiaoling pushed open the treasure map room, and when she opened the chest, she almost drooled.
"Wow!! So much money!!!"
In this Immortal Tower, where small monsters dropped a dozen or so Spirit Stones and elite monsters gave thirty to forty, a treasure map yielding 600 Spirit Stones was undoubtedly a gigantic fortune.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so difficult—after all, high risk meant high reward.
"You should definitely buy more combat cards, convert your economy into damage output. I might be a bit weaker later on."
Zhong Yi sighed and reminded her.
Having passed this ultimate tough challenge, from now on he would stop taking cards outside his core build and transition to streamlining his deck.
The playstyle he wanted to run required fewer cards to be better.
"Got it! I understand now~"
Zhou Qiaoling replied cheerfully with a smile.
...
Not long after.
The first battle after leaving the shop room.
"What the hell is [Kingdom Assets]!!??"
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...
After crawling for a long time,
the three finally reached the top of the third floor.
"This journey really hasn't been easy...!"
Zhou Yue looked at the final boss getting closer and closer, feeling a sense of emotion.
"No kidding—I haven't seen you activate even once~"
Zhou Qiaoling teased with a grin.
"You, what do you know... It's not my fault you two start up so fast, there's no room for me to shine."
Zhou Yue blushed a little. He had indeed been the most lackluster one throughout this trip.
He had focused too much on picking cards for his core build on the first floor, leaving his strength too weak, and it didn't start improving until the second floor.
But the other three were no slouches in combat either—often, before he could get going, the fight was already over.
Now that his deck was about eighty percent complete, Zhou Yue looked up to see the boss's name and immediately raised an eyebrow:
"Heh, this time the boss is actually an Experiment Subject?"
The Experiment Subject was one of the third-floor bosses.
It had three phases.
Each time a phase was killed, it would enter an invincible state once, waiting to transform into the next stage.
When it used its intangible state, it had a super defensive turn where it could only take 1 point of damage per hit, making it nearly invincible.
This thing was definitely a master at dragging out rounds—it would surely give him time to get his engine running!
Imagining the scene of himself surrounded by various glowing orbs, bursting down the Experiment Subject in one rotation, Zhou Yue couldn't help but curl his lips and smile confidently:
"Heh, just wait and watch my performance!"
Zhong Yi raised an eyebrow. He naturally knew what Zhou Yue wanted to do.
Wasn't it just maxing out on orbs and scattering light everywhere?
But he wasn't about to let Zhou Yue have his way.
Otherwise, how would he get to show off himself?
"Lao Zhou, you'll probably have to wait until next time to see your engine kick in~"
Zhong Yi laughed heartily and patted Zhou Yue on the shoulder.
"Heh, we'll see about that!"
Zhou Yue retorted defiantly.
Zhong Yi looked at the last stretch of the map.
A shop, a campfire, and then the final battle.
"Let's spend big at the shop—leave no Spirit Stones on us... then get some sleep! Prepare for the final fight!"
Zhong Yi said to the group, then turned and entered the shop, decisively starting to remove cards.
If he were playing alone, his deck would definitely be around fifteen cards right now.
Unfortunately, this time the pressure was high, and he had taken too many transitional cards, currently sitting at nineteen.
"Good thing [Add Fuel] and [Brand] are both here. It'll definitely work out this time..."
Zhong Yi shook his head and muttered to himself.
The others also began their own shopping sprees.
Among the four, Zhou Qiaoling was the richest.
Not only did she net 600 Spirit Stones from the treasure map on the second floor, but she had also been racking up extra Spirit Stones through [Greedy Hand] and [Kingdom Assets], making her wealth more than double that of the others.
After Zhong Yi stopped expanding his deck, Zhou Qiaoling really stepped up to carry the team.
It wasn't so much because her deck was impressive, but mainly that she spent a lot on artifacts, and she always managed to randomly roll top-tier ones—these were all solid boosts to combat power.
"Wow, so many gold cards??"
Zhou Qiaoling was almost drooling at the golden glow filling her sight.
"Ew, the artifacts this time are pretty lousy... I'll just buy cards instead!"
Zhou Qiaoling made up her mind and started picking cards.
"[Hammer Time]? A gold card I've never seen before! Take it, take it! ...Wait, what do you mean, when I forge, I also give a sword to my teammates? Hmph, lucky rotten older brother!"
"[Unmined Gem]? This gold card is strong! Take it, take it!"
"Out of money... Dang it! Did I spend too much before?"
"Can't waste any... Huh? Just enough to buy this discounted blue card? Buy, buy, buy!"
"Ptooey, ptooey! It actually gives cards to teammates?"
"Ah, forget it. Costs no spirit energy anyway—I'll just count it as accumulating good karma!"
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The three finished their preparations and entered the campfire.
"I'll say this only once: sleep! This is the final checkpoint, we can't afford to mess it up!"
Zhong Yi looked at them seriously.
"For sure, for sure!"
"No kidding, what else would we do besides sleep?"
"Whatever Senior Brother says!"
The three nodded in unison.
In an instant, the options above everyone's heads all displayed [Rest].
"Alright, I'll count down from three, and we'll all sleep together..."
Zhong Yi said with a satisfied smile, then raised three fingers.
"Three..."
"Two..."
"One!"
"Sleep!"
As soon as Zhong Yi said this, Mu Yawen's character immediately lay down to rest.
The other three looked at each other awkwardly.
The sly, scheming competition over knocking cards had always been like this.
"Senior Brother, I'm done resting... Why haven't you three come out yet?"
"Junior Brother Mu, you have a lot of health. Make sure to give us some extra defense at the start..."
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.
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
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."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
