For newcomers, the Chained Ogre is a nightmare. Before this, all the enemies the players had fought used weapons.
But when they reached the Chained Ogre, the battle became a test of bare-handed combat.
Cultivators who were used to blocking sword and saber attacks found it difficult to read the Chained Ogre’s movements, and their blocks failed one after another.
On top of that, the Chained Ogre had a wide attack range, a varied moveset, and devastating damage.
Getting grabbed and thrown even once basically meant game over.
And it wasn’t just Chen Yuan—every other cultivator suffered terribly at this stage as well.
……
Zhou Yue’s illusionary world.
The force of a punch descended like iron and stone, pressing toward Zhou Yue’s face.
Zhou Yue took a deep breath and raised his Uchigatana at just the right moment.
This time, the blade blocked the Chained Ogre’s attack, but the Chained Ogre’s foot was already flying toward him.
‘No good, I can’t block this!’
Zhou Yue furrowed his brows, immediately abandoning the idea of blocking and hastily dodging to the side.
The Chained Ogre kicked twice in succession, but Zhou Yue avoided both attacks.
‘Perfect! I’ve got the rhythm down!’
Zhou Yue’s eyes lit up. Seizing the opportunity, he closed in and launched a counterattack.
“One slash, two slashes, three slashes… Damn it! I got thrown again!!!”
As a flashing [Danger] symbol appeared, Zhou Yue failed to withdraw his sword and dodge in time. The Chained Ogre grabbed him and slammed him to the ground.
[Dead]!
With a helpless expression, Zhou Yue respawned at the Sculptor’s Idol and couldn’t help throwing his head back and howling:
“How the hell are you supposed to fight this thing?!”
Just as he was racking his brains, a system announcement suddenly drifted down from the sky:
[Spiritcloud Sect · Mu Yawen has achieved the first kill of the Chained Ogre (Normal)!]
“What the hell!? Junior Brother Mu actually beat it?!”
Zhou Yue was instantly stunned and hurriedly exited the illusion.
The four of them had been playing together in the illusion-combat room Zhong Yi had specially built. Mu Yawen and Zhong Yi were right behind Zhou Yue.
Zhou Yue patted Mu Yawen on the shoulder. “Junior Brother Mu, how do you fight the Chained Ogre? Isn’t this thing ridiculously overpowered?”
Sensing Zhou Yue calling out to him, Mu Yawen found a Sculptor’s Idol and sat down to meditate before exiting the illusion.
“Is it really that hard? I beat it on my first try… It felt pretty easy, actually. Easier than the Samurai General.”
Mu Yawen rubbed the back of his head with a naive grin.
“What!? Easy!? Once you get close, you can’t react to all those grab attacks at all! It’s not just a little harder than the Samurai General—it’s on a completely different level!”
Zhou Yue was utterly shocked.
Wolf’s physical abilities—in other words, the character’s attributes—were fixed.
Even if Li Moran came in, she still couldn’t break through the limits of that body. She could only dodge and attack within the range of Wolf’s attributes.
Meanwhile, every enemy they faced had absurdly higher attack power, health, and defenses than they did.
Simply put, their attributes were completely suppressed. The only way to win was through skill.
No wonder Lu Ze was so confident that this was an illusionary world capable of tempering one’s swordsmanship.
To overcome such obstacles while being cut off from one’s cultivation and swordsmanship insights was undoubtedly a form of training for the sword.
“Is it really that hard? His punches and kicks seemed… pretty easy to read.”
Mu Yawen blinked, carefully recalling the fight before speaking.
“That makes sense. If you think about it, the Chained Ogre is basically a body cultivator…”
Zhou Yue sighed, instantly understanding why Mu Yawen found the Chained Ogre easier to fight than the Samurai General.
In Mu Yawen’s eyes, the Chained Ogre’s close-quarters combat techniques really were little more than child’s play.
“If I had to put it into words, maybe you could try blocking when his foot leaves the ground? Hmm… That should be the best timing.”
After giving it some serious thought, Mu Yawen offered his advice.
“Oh? So that’s the secret… Junior Brother Mu, you’ve already figured out the trick to deflecting the Chained Ogre’s attacks? No wonder you got the first kill so easily!”
Zhou Yue’s eyes lit up, greatly inspired.
“Hehe… It’s mainly because Senior Brother Zhong taught me so well! He was the one who told me that deflecting is the core technique of this illusion!”
Mu Yawen gave an embarrassed, goofy chuckle.
“Old Zhong? He taught you? And he knows about deflecting too?”
Zhou Yue stared in shock at Zhong Yi beside Mu Yawen.
After all, deflecting was a technique Zhou Yue had grasped through life-and-death sparring with the Samurai General.
If Zhong Yi could say that deflecting was the core of Wolf, then his progress definitely couldn’t be much slower than Zhou Yue’s!
Zhou Yue looked at Zhong Yi in disbelief. Zhong Yi’s face was flushed red, and his lips twitched slightly. Clearly, he was in the middle of a fierce battle.
“Not bad, Old Zhong… I thought there was no way you’d beat the Samurai General. I didn’t expect you to figure out deflecting too.”
Zhou Yue chuckled in admiration and patted Zhong Yi on the shoulder.
“Hey, Old Zhong, which enemy are you fighting? Why are you so red?”
Zhong Yi furrowed his brows and gritted his teeth.
“Don’t distract me. I’m almost there!”
Hearing this, Zhou Yue and Mu Yawen immediately fell silent. They didn’t even dare breathe too loudly, afraid that they might disturb Zhong Yi.
They understood this kind of moment all too well.
If Zhong Yi had interrupted Zhou Yue while he was one hit away from defeating the Chained Ogre and caused him to fail, Zhou Yue would definitely have come out and beaten him senseless.
Fortunately, the tense atmosphere didn’t last long.
A moment later—
“Hahaha! I finally beat it!!!”
Zhong Yi exited the illusion and cheered excitedly.
Zhou Yue immediately looked at him with newfound respect and gave him a thumbs-up.
“Not bad, Old Zhong! This illusion is so difficult, yet you managed not to get stuck… Were you fighting the Samurai General or the Chained Ogre?”
“Yamauchi Shigenori.”
“……”
The corners of Zhou Yue’s mouth began to twitch uncontrollably.
What the hell, Yamauchi Shigenori?
That was just an elite enemy from the tutorial!!!
Wolf had been released five hours ago. How many times had Yamauchi Shigenori killed Zhong Yi for him to still be stuck there?
“So… you fought Yamauchi Shigenori and still managed to figure out that deflecting is the core technique?”
Zhou Yue stared suspiciously at Zhong Yi, then shook his head speechlessly.
“Sometimes I really can’t tell whether you’re a genius or a complete scrub, Old Zhong…”
] [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!"
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."
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 + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
