“Lao Zhou, Junior Brother Mu, what are you doing?”
Zhong Yi squinted, utterly shocked at the sight of three people ganging up and beating a poor little cat.
“Can’t you tell? We’re catching spirit beasts!”
Zhou Yue replied matter-of-factly, while Zhou Qiaoling and Mu Yawen’s shouts rang out beside him.
“Big Bro, there’s another one here… a Pipi Chicken! Don’t run!”
“Senior Brother Zhou, come help! I’ve got its leg!”
...
The three of them worked together, kicking and beating the creature, and the whole scene left Zhong Yi feeling quite breathless.
Here were the true disciples of the prestigious Lingxiao Sect, ganging up on such an adorable thing...
This time, having learned from their earlier mistake, they refrained from going all out. Instead, they paid close attention to the Pipi Chicken’s health.
They whittled its health down to the brink, then surrounded the Pipi Chicken and began brainstorming ways to catch it.
Mu Yawen rolled up his sleeves, revealing his sturdy arms: “Follow me—I’ll take you to greatness!”
The Pipi Chicken didn’t budge, looking even a bit panicked.
“You’re no good. Let me try!”
Zhou Yue shoved Mu Yawen aside, punched the Pipi Chicken once to knock its health down to its very last sliver, and then jabbed a finger at it, yelling fiercely:
“Are you ready to surrender!?”
In response, the Pipi Chicken mustered all its strength and headbutted him.
“Big Bro, step aside. That’s no way to tame a spirit beast! Watch how it’s done!”
Zhou Qiaoling fished out some wild berries from her backpack—where had she gotten them?—and placed them on the ground, coaxing the Pipi Chicken:
“Come here, little cutie. Let your big sister feed you something tasty... Damn!! It took the food and ran!!!”
The three grew frustrated, failing to figure out how to deal with the Pipi Chicken.
Just then, Zhong Yi, who had been watching from the steps, suddenly laughed.
“Heh... hehehe!”
He swept his long hair back from his forehead and struck an utterly pompous pose.
“The mystery of this illusion... I have unraveled it!”
“Old Zhong, if you have something to say, just say it. Keep posing like that idiot, and I’ll log out right now and come beat you up.”
Zhou Yue shot him a glare.
“...Aren’t you all curious about how to catch this Pipi Chicken?”
Zhong Yi sighed, then pulled a blue “Pal Sphere” from his backpack—one he had just gotten from a treasure chest. When he saw them struggling endlessly over how to capture the Pipi Chicken, it suddenly clicked for him, thinking of the spherical item.
After reading its detailed description, he became even more certain:
[Pal Sphere (Capture Power: 7): An item that can be thrown to catch Pals. This is a mass-produced model, effective only against low-level Pals.]
“Here, they aren’t called spirit beasts... they’re called Pals.”
Zhong Yi pointed at the Pipi Chicken pinned beneath them, speaking with an air of profundity.
“As for how to catch them...”
He raised the Pal Sphere high, striking a perfect throwing pose.
“It’s like this!”
With that, Zhong Yi hurled the blue Pal Sphere with all his might.
The Pal Sphere cut through the air like a blue bolt of lightning, then softly rolled to a stop on the empty ground, a full two meters away from the Pipi Chicken.
Zhong Yi flushed red with embarrassment: “Ahem, I missed.”
Zhou Yue couldn’t help but facepalm: “What the hell was I even expecting...”
“No, no—where’d my Pal Sphere go? It hit the ground and vanished?! Quick, help me find it!”
...
A few minutes later.
The four confirmed two things.
First, when a Pal Sphere misses, it simply disappears.
Second, Pal Spheres really can capture Pals.
Because Zhou Qiaoling had found another blue Pal Sphere in a corner, and when she threw it at the Pipi Chicken, it actually triggered a reaction.
A flash of white light sucked the Pipi Chicken into the Pal Sphere. The blue sphere hovered in the air, shaking violently, as if the Pipi Chicken inside was putting up a final struggle.
The four stared, wide-eyed, as the progress bar beside the Pal Sphere ticked upward bit by bit.
[Forty-five percent... sixty-eight percent... ninety-one percent... ninety-nine percent...]
“Catch! Catch! Catch!”
In unison, they all blurted out. The next second, the Pal Sphere gave one last shake.
With a pleasant chime, the Pipi Chicken was finally captured by Zhou Qiaoling.
“Yay!! I caught it!!!”
Zhou Qiaoling, thrilled beyond belief, released the Pipi Chicken from the Pal Sphere.
Once tamed, the Pipi Chicken had a clear, innocent expression. It circled her feet, looking absolutely adorable.
“Using Pal Spheres to tame Pals? Pals can live inside the spheres? The design concept... it’s incredible!”
Zhong Yi gasped in awe.
From the perspective of a master of illusions, looking at Lu Ze’s illusion design, the more he examined it, the more terrifyingly brilliant he found it.
Even a single design element could overwhelm anything someone else might achieve in a lifetime.
In truth, it wasn’t just these cultivators, untouched by anime or video games, who found the design mind-blowing.
Even those from his past life, well-versed in games and anime, had been astonished by the “Poké Ball” concept when Pokémon introduced it.
It worked brilliantly in both animation and gameplay.
“Damn it! I want my own Pal too... Are there any more of these spheres? I need to hunt for some!”
Zhou Yue looked at the cute creature wobbling around Zhou Qiaoling’s feet and felt a pang of jealousy.
This novel spirit-beast companion setting was genuinely fresh.
“With Junior Brother Lu’s talent, they can’t just be found lying around...”
Zhong Yi muttered as he followed the mission prompt and headed toward the giant vulture statue.
That should have been the first thing they did upon entering the illusion.
But as soon as they emerged from the ruins, they saw a bunch of adorable Pals, got distracted, and completely forgot about it.
[Level Up!]
[Skill Points Gained: 1]
The moment he unlocked the giant vulture statue and completed the mission, Zhong Yi leveled up to Level 2.
“Skill Points? What’s that?”
Zhong Yi’s attention was drawn once more to a new concept.
Bringing up the [Skills] panel, he quickly saw rows upon rows of skill trees—what players from his past life would call technology trees.
With each level up, a host of new skills became available to learn.
“Workshop? Stone Axe? Stone Pick? Torch?? Aren’t these from Minecraft?”
As soon as Zhong Yi saw the Level 1 skills, it all felt very familiar.
His gaze continued down. At Level 2, one skill could unlock [Pal Sphere Crafting].
“I get it now! We’re supposed to gather materials, craft Pal Spheres, then catch Pals? Ha! It feels like playing the Pokémon version of Minecraft!”
Zhong Yi’s interest was now fully piqued.
Minecraft’s foundation was formidable on its own.
Now paired with an adorable art style and the fresh gameplay of beast taming, it was immensely fun.
And judging by the look of these Pals, combat would likely play a significant role—making it even more appealing to cultivators out in the field.
“Now, we’ll do missions while collecting materials...”
Zhong Yi spoke, turning to follow the mission quest guide.
The second mission was to talk to an islander in the Pal World.
The islander sat by a campfire not far from their starting point, with a rifle slung over his back that somewhat resembled the [Heavenly Soldier·Mark IV].
What made his head spin was that Zhou Qiaoling, along with her Pipi Chicken, was staring at that rifle with an eager, predatory glint.
“Junior Sister Qiaoling, wait a sec—”
“Go, Pipi Chicken! Snatch that rifle from her!”
“Cluck cluck??”
Zhong Yi tried to speak, but it was already too late.
Zhou Qiaoling’s act of stealing the rifle had triggered the NPC’s alert mechanism.
The NPC didn’t hesitate—it raised the rifle and started firing wildly.
And it wasn’t just targeting Zhou Qiaoling and the Pipi Chicken; the other three couldn’t escape it either.
“Ah!! My Pipi Chicken!!”
“Little sis, you’re insane!! You dare to loot a live person’s bag!!!”
“Senior Brother Zhong, my fists can’t beat bullets...”
“What a disaster!!!”
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?!
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!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
