The news that Zhong Yi had unlocked the hidden true ending in his second playthrough spread like wildfire across the forums.
"Fellow cultivators, don’t be sad! That genius prodigy has triggered a new ending on his second run!!"
"Damn... Old Demon Lu actually put himself into the illusion!! I really wanna punch him!!!"
"Shit, and he made me call him 'Sect Master'... isn’t that just taking advantage of an old man?"
"Old Demon Lu is the Master of the Dreamweaving Sect? Pretty fitting, actually."
"Enough talk—I’m starting my second playthrough now!"
"The hidden ending in the second run isn’t that great either... I poured in ten percent of my spiritual energy, and Lin Xi still passed away."
"Fellow cultivator, is your cultivation level too low?"
"It’s got nothing to do with cultivation level, right? I’m at mid-stage Foundation Establishment, and after injecting all my spiritual energy, the ending I got was pretty similar to the genius prodigy’s."
"I injected fifty percent of my spiritual energy! The ending was decent, but not as good as that genius prodigy’s."
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In an instant, across all corners of the cultivation world, massive surges of spiritual energy poured into the illusions, converging toward the remnants of the Heavenly Dao.
"You... actually did it again."
The remnant of the Heavenly Dao felt the spiritual energy filling its surroundings and stared at Lu Ze in disbelief.
The broken talisman seals around it had been repaired by a small measure.
Not long ago, it had expended itself to strike down the Mind Devil, leaving it depleted—but now it had been restored to its original state.
If, last time, Lu Ze had moved countless cultivators by using the supreme technique of turning himself into the Dao…
Then this time, without resorting to the Dao-Integration Art, Lu Ze still managed to bring countless practitioners to tears—that was pure skill.
The Heavenly Dao remnant didn’t understand the narrative core or the excellence of The Moon Realm’s story structure, but seeing so many cultivators drenched in tears within the illusion, willingly offering up their spiritual energy, was enough proof of Lu Ze’s mastery over illusions.
"You are... truly remarkable," it finally said after a long pause, offering a word that barely passed for praise.
"So stingy—can’t you say a few more words?" Lu Ze grumbled casually, bypassing any formalities.
The story of The Moon Realm was the crystallization of wisdom and emotion from predecessors in a past life.
It had been a classic game that moved countless tough men to tears in its time.
The players in that past life had harbored many regrets over To the Moon.
After all, the revised ending was nothing more than a dream woven by players using well-meaning lies for an old man.
Thus, To the Moon was a tragedy through and through.
Because the dead could not be brought back to life—no matter how advanced the technology got.
But the immortal cultivation world was different.
Turning the intangible into reality and reversing outcomes—this was something that could actually be done!
So Lu Ze added the hidden second-playthrough ending, in some ways making up for the regrets he himself had carried from that past life.
In a sense, games created in the immortal realm seemed to have a higher ceiling.
As for Demon Cultivation Points?
The players’ emotional breakdowns had pretty much been fully cashed in during the first playthrough.
This kind of linear story wasn’t like This Demon Cultivator Isn’t Too Cold, which stayed fresh with every replay.
It was basically a one-time harvest of emotional value, with only the first experience hitting the hardest.
He had already reaped what could be reaped.
Though Lu Ze often acted without mercy, there was no need to hold the players hostage over this.
After all, occasionally handing out some sweetness and slightly boosting the players’ goodwill would make it easier to lure them in for the kill later.
For the second playthrough’s hidden ending, Lu Ze had prepared more than one option.
The ending a player triggered had nothing to do with their cultivation level—only what percentage of spiritual energy they injected.
When a player injected only ten percent of their spiritual energy, Gu Yun would recall the promise under the stars just as Lin Xi was on the verge of death, allowing her to pass with a smile.
Beyond that, the higher the proportion of injected energy, the earlier the point in time when Gu Yun regained his memories.
It wasn’t until the player injected over eighty percent of their spiritual energy that they would unlock the same true ending as Zhong Yi.
Gu Feng never died. Gu Yun never lost his memory. The promise with Lin Xi was never broken.
Lu Ze glanced at Guo Yunfeng’s illusion.
As he had expected, Guo Yunfeng, too, spared nothing and chose to inject all her spiritual energy.
Lu Ze smiled faintly.
"Alright, time for me to go collect my reward."
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By Xianyun Lake, as Guo Yunfeng’s full spiritual energy was poured in, the dream world began to shift.
That day, the Earth Dragon never ran amok, and Gu Feng was spared.
That year, Gu Yun arrived as promised on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival and met Lin Xi once more.
In the years that followed, on the hilltop beneath the stars, a boy and a girl counted the stars together.
The boy and the girl grew up together, grew old together.
The starry sky above them remained timeless and unchanging.
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Watching the elderly Gu Yun and Lin Xi, still standing on the lighthouse together, counting the stars in the night sky, another fierce emotion surged within Guo Yunfeng’s hollow chest.
Having just passed through the depths of extreme sorrow, she was now filled with an overwhelming sense of completeness.
Tears spilled from Guo Yunfeng’s eyes, and her divine sense uncontrollably withdrew from the illusion.
Two rare, opposing emotions—ultimate grief and ultimate fulfillment—clashed and surged within her chest.
Without a second thought, she sat down cross-legged on the spot, furiously cycling the Heart Art of the Emotionless Sect.
Zhao Wendao, who had been watching from the sidelines, looked up in shock at the sky.
"Is Elder Guo about to break through?!"
Red lightning crackled in the heavens, and the commotion was extraordinary!
Exchanging a glance with Nangong Yuan, Zhao Wendao instantly flew to Guo Yunfeng’s side, channeling his spiritual energy toward her.
Zhao Wendao’s reasoning was simple:
Cultivation through the Dao of Emotionlessness was already difficult, so its practitioners naturally ranked high within the same realm.
If Guo Yunfeng now broke through to the mid-stage of Void Refinement, the prestige of the Emotionless Sect would rise by an entire tier.
As the Grand Elder of the Spirit Firmament Sect, it was only proper to extend this favor.
Nangong Yuan, on the other hand, was thinking:
"That old monster was about to split my rebellious disciple open with her bare hands back in the illusion... I have to help her now, so she’ll be too embarrassed to actually do it in reality!!!"
Black-red thunderclouds churned, and countless flashes of crimson lightning struck down.
Fortunately, with Zhao Wendao and Nangong Yuan guarding from either side, the display, though spectacular, caused no harm.
The red thunder faded.
A powerful aura emanated from Guo Yunfeng’s body.
Opening her eyes, Guo Yunfeng gave a slight nod of thanks to Nangong Yuan and Zhao Wendao. Spotting Lu Ze finally arriving on the scene, she even inclined her head in his direction.
"The Spirit Firmament Sect’s kindness to the Emotionless Sect will never be forgotten!"
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
