Third Floor Vertex, the Great Beast Chamber.
Zhong Yi glanced at the three of them.
Along the way, everyone had developed smoothly.
Zhou Qiaoling went without saying—as the wealthiest member of the team, she had an endless stream of overpowered artifacts, capable of dealing damage even with random plays.
With Zhong Yi’s help, Mu Yawen had built her deck around the classic fully automatic combo of 【Hell Raider】 and 【Panic Escape】; her health was solid, and she often helped the others set up defenses.
As for Zhou Yue...
"What are you staring at... I’m booting up! I’ll be up and running any second now!!"
Zhou Yue glared back with a dark expression.
"Haha, okay, okay, okay!"
Zhong Yi couldn’t stop laughing. After another round of the experiment subject’s frenzied attacks, it was their turn again.
When he saw the new hand of cards, Zhong Yi’s pupils contracted and his breath quickened.
The key card 【Add Fuel】 was there, while the rest were just transitional cards!
Without a second thought, Zhong Yi played 【Add Fuel】.
The upgraded 【Add Fuel】 didn’t consume spiritual energy, but instead "consumed" all the cards in his hand and drew an equal number of new ones.
This move instantly stunned the others.
"Damn... Old Zhong, are you out of your mind? Those are all great cards!!"
Zhou Yue was utterly baffled.
Consumed cards wouldn’t return to the deck, meaning they were gone for the entire game.
And the cards Zhong Yi had just burned were the very power cards that had carried the team through the first two floors!
Burning one or two was one thing—Zhong Yi had been burning cards with 【Brand】 all along—but torching four at once was truly shocking.
"Heh heh, you’ll understand soon enough..."
Zhong Yi chuckled, his grin widening as he saw the newly drawn 【Brand】 in his hand.
"Heaven is helping me!"
With that, he tossed out 【Brand】, burning another card.
Now his deck had only eight cards left.
Burning two more would perfect his "Infinite Loop" strategy.
Imagining the scene of unlimited card plays and the shocked expressions of his teammates, Zhong Yi couldn’t help but feel like striking a proud pose.
"You’re about to witness the—uh?"
Mid-sentence, Zhong Yi froze as a card suddenly appeared in his hand: 【Sovereign’s Sword】. His mind stalled for a moment.
He glanced sideways and saw Zhou Qiaoling just play an ability card, 【Hammer Time】.
Its effect was to hand out swords to teammates.
Zhong Yi’s mouth twitched violently.
Alright, looks like he’d need to burn three more cards instead of two...
"Junior Sister Qiaoling, please don’t—"
Before he could finish, another brand-new card was played.
【Generous Donation】.
As a special card in team mode, Zhong Yi had a vague memory of it.
It seemed to give cards to teammates...
Oh no!
Zhong Yi’s face fell in panic. He tried to shout, "Don’t give it to me—"
But it was too late.
The target of that 【Generous Donation】 was none other than Zhong Yi himself.
Zhong Yi could only weep in frustration.
He’d thought burning two cards would do it, but first it became three, and now it was four...
That was what he assumed.
But when a full six colorless cards came flying toward him, Zhong Yi felt as if the sky were falling.
"Why SIX?!!!!!"
Zhong Yi nearly spat blood.
He looked closely and saw a buff beneath that 【Generous Donation】:
【Replay x6】
"Huh?"
Zhou Qiaoling blinked, looking utterly innocent.
"I don’t know... The replay from those two 【Unmined Gems】 might have landed on it?"
Zhong Yi tore at his hair in despair:
"Ah!!!"
"Just kill me now!!!!"
...
...
Zhong Yi went silent.
Zhou Yue was thoroughly amused.
Though he had no idea what strategy Zhong Yi was cooking up, it was clearly taking too long to pull off.
Watching the growing number of orbs hovering above his head, Zhou Yue felt a surge of smugness.
He’d already unlocked eight orb slots, and once he filled them all, he’d be a one-man army capable of soloing the boss!
Just then, it was the experiment subject’s third-phase defensive turn.
With the intangible buff in effect, every attack it took dealt only 1 point of damage!
Invincibility, in a way.
"Hahaha, Old Zhong... I’ll be booting up next turn, you know? Let me show you the power of my Faulty Spirit Puppet!"
Zhou Yue was brimming with pride.
The experiment subject currently had a full 900 health—more than enough to showcase his damage output!
"Oh? You say you’re about to boot up?"
Zhong Yi suddenly smiled.
After relentless card removal, his own strategy was now perfected.
"Then wait until we fight the Architect to boot up... haha!"
With that, his mentor and commentator persona instantly took over.
"I’ve been telling you all along, card removal trumps everything, card removal trumps everything..."
"But have you ever wondered..."
"What kind of marvel can you achieve if your deck is trimmed to the extreme?"
At these words, the other three suddenly noticed that Zhong Yi was holding five cards in his hand.
The discard pile was empty, and the draw pile had only one card left.
In other words...
He only had six cards in total!
"You’re cycling back and forth with those few cards?"
Zhou Yue blurted out.
"That’s right."
Zhong Yi smiled as he played a hand card, 【Resentment】.
Its effect was to deal 9 damage; if he had lost any health during the turn, it also granted a card draw.
And Zhong Yi wore a 【Scarlet Cloak】 above his head, which automatically drained 1 health each turn to gain block.
This meant the card draw effect of 【Resentment】 triggered 100% of the time!
"Normally, this kind of play needs 2 draw cards and 1 energy recovery card..."
"But this time, I don’t even need energy recovery to make it work."
Zhong Yi narrated with a grin, simultaneously drawing the last card from his deck—
Another 【Resentment】.
The first 【Resentment】 entered the discard pile, while the second entered his hand.
Zhou Yue suddenly grasped Zhong Yi’s intention.
"When your deck is streamlined to the limit, you can achieve this—"
"Draw, regain energy, draw again, regain energy..."
"Repeat the cycle, endless and infinite."
Zhong Yi straightened his back, unconsciously placing his hands on his hips and puffing out his chest.
His arrogance was unmistakable.
"I call this—"
"The Infinite Loop!!"
With that, he played another 【Resentment】, and another 【Resentment】 entered his hand.
He played yet another 【Resentment】, and yet another found its way back to his hand...
...
On the experiment subject’s forehead, a steady stream of 【-1】 appeared.
At first, the other three watched in awe, but as time dragged on, their expressions gradually shifted.
"Damn!! Stop for a second—let me take a turn first, will you?!"
【-1】
【-1】...
"This thing has 900 health—by the time you’re done, it’ll be dark!!"
【-1】
【-1】...
"Stop, just stop!"
【-1】
【-1】...
"Senior brother, I’m getting sleepy..."
【-1】
【-1】...
"SON OF A BITCH!! IF YOU KEEP PLAYING THOSE LITTLE COMBOS, I’LL COME OVER AND BEAT YOU RIGHT NOW!!!!"
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.
and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!
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."
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
