Illusion Realm World, Juku Island.

On the plains southeast of Senluo Valley, the air was filled with a purplish-black extreme Yin power.

Behind Zhong Yi, a spiritual umbrella floated, slowly advancing through the poison zone.

After the ranked mode was enabled, Cultivators began to develop various strategies to gain points.

Among them, the poison-soaking strategy developed by Zhong Yi was the most wheelchair-like.

Pick Hu Tao, jump to the edge of the map, and then soak in the poison zone.

Losing health?

Hu Tao can restore health.

Soaking in the poison zone, no one would go to great lengths to catch him.

Even if he did encounter someone, he would just unleash his ultimate skill, charge up some health, and then desperately run in the opposite direction.

Anyone who dared to chase would die together in the poison zone; no one would do that.

By the time he ran out of the third poison zone, usually not many people would be left alive outside.

In this type of battle royale game, the ranking bonus weight was very high.

Therefore, he could get a decent score without much effort.

Someone as clumsy as Zhong Yi, relying on this strategy, managed to climb all the way to the Meteorite rank.

One must know that at this time, in solo queue mode, the highest rank was only Eclipse Moon.

The sharing-loving Zhong Yi posted this strategy on the forum, and it immediately attracted a large number of Cultivators to follow suit.

For a time, the poison zone was full of Hu Tao...

For example, at this moment, to Zhong Yi's left, there was a Hu Tao watching him from afar.

"This Fellow Daoist, I wonder if his killing intent is strong or not..."

Zhong Yi muttered to himself, then sent an emoji.

Behind him, a phantom of Hu Tao appeared, making a fawning expression.

Soon, the opponent reciprocated by sending the same emoji.

This was an unwritten signal between Hu Tao, meaning peaceful coexistence and bathing together.

"Good, good, it's one of us, a good peach..."

Zhong Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

As his strategy became more widespread, more and more Hu Tao appeared in the poison zone, and then some started to have ill intentions.

Generally speaking, Hu Tao who chose this bathing strategy were always a bit lacking in close combat.

Some Cultivators who were neither good nor bad started to pick Hu Tao specifically to go into the poison zone and apprehend Hu Tao like Zhong Yi, in order to gain kill points.

Over time, it caused panic among Hu Tao.

Outside the poison zone, a battle royale was unfolding, while inside the poison zone, a game of Werewolf was being played.

Zhong Yi couldn't help but lament that the moral standards of Cultivators in the Illusion Realm were becoming increasingly erratic...

However, before he could finish his lament, with a "whoosh," an arrow shot into his chest.

The opposing Hu Tao held a purple bow and arrow, and Zhong Yi's health bar instantly dropped by a large chunk.

"Damn it!! It's another cannibal peach!!"

Zhong Yi cursed inwardly, fumbling to activate his ultimate skill.

The opposing Hu Tao sent Zhong Yi an emoji while launching a grappling hook, stunning Zhong Yi!

Both sides were Hu Tao.

With Zhong Yi being preempted and without his ultimate skill, his disadvantage was severe.

"It's over, it's over!"

Zhong Yi, whose dual blades were parried, was filled with despair.

The opposing Hu Tao leaped high, and just as the long spear was about to strike—

A golden hand suddenly grabbed Hu Tao's waist.

"Holy crap... Is there a Great Buddha here? Which Fellow Daoist dares to right a wrong and draw a blade to help, truly worthy of being a Cultivator of our Righteous Path... huh?"

Zhong Yi was stunned.

He was deep in the poison zone, so logically, there should be very few characters other than Hu Tao.

Before he could react, another golden hand struck him with imperceptible speed.

Feeling the stinging sensation of the strong wind constantly brushing his cheeks, Zhong Yi, bewildered, was pulled out of the poison zone by the Great Buddha's golden rune palm, into the area outside the poison zone.

This black-faced Great Buddha, named 【All of You Are Ants】, stood in the center of the map, Tianren City.

Beneath his feet lay countless densely packed soul mounds.

Only then did Zhong Yi remember that the nickname in front of him looked familiar.

It was precisely the "Juku Island Legend" that had been widely circulated on the forums these past few days!

The evil Cultivator Great Buddha who could grab people from eight hundred li away and pull them right in front of him!

"You..."

Zhong Yi was about to speak when he was struck by the Great Buddha's left and right hands, dying on the spot.

After finishing this round, Zhong Yi remained unsettled for a long time.

Originally, he thought that the legends about the evil Cultivator Great Buddha on the forum were just stories made up by Cultivators for fun.

After all, a Great Buddha standing in Tianren City, grabbing people from Senluo Valley and Hundred Refinements Cave at the same time, sounded too absurd.

Until Zhong Yi experienced it himself.

That was a distance of several thousand meters!

Anyone who didn't know would think that some powerful being had brought their cultivation into the Illusion Realm!

Zhong Yi browsed the forum again and found that the number of Cultivators persecuted by this evil Cultivator Great Buddha, 【All of You Are Ants】, was rising linearly.

According to everyone's descriptions, the Heaven-Defying aspect of the evil Cultivator Great Buddha was not only his ability to accurately grab people regardless of distance.

In his normal human form, this person's movement speed and attack speed were simply abnormal!

Moreover, his parry success rate was 100%; as long as someone dared to charge an attack, they would definitely be parried.

He was simply an invincible existence.

"Old Zhong, what's wrong? A ranked match got you so down in the dumps?"

Zhou Yue, who had entered the team, asked in confusion when he saw Zhong Yi's expression. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"Ah, Old Zhou, you don't know..."

Zhong Yi sighed and recounted his recent experience to Zhou Yue.

"What!? Those forum posts, they're actually true??"

Zhou Yue's eyes widened, and after thinking for a while, he always felt that this kind of incredible thing seemed somewhat familiar.

In Lu Ze's Illusion Realm, some very exaggerated characters often appeared.

For example, the black curtain in my world, the Devil King Teemo in "Clash of Immortals and Demons", and recently the Ghost Buddha in ghost town.

"Hey, you think, could it be a special creature created by Junior Brother Lu, similar to 【black curtain】?"

"No, absolutely impossible."

Zhong Yi shook his head, firmly denying this claim.

"Monsters in the Illusion Realm exist as Illusion Realm creatures... not as Cultivator characters who enter the Illusion Realm. This definitely wasn't made by Junior Brother Lu!"

...

...

The main world of the Illusion Realm server.

"How is it, have you located them?"

Lu Ze asked.

"Heh, ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) you really guessed right... As expected, there are ants setting up an illusion, trying to deceive this Fragment of the Heavenly Dao."

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao sneered, a hint of killing intent in its words.

With that, the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao waved its hand, and several pieces of information appeared in mid-air.

"The locations of the illusionary Formations, thirteen in total... I will destroy them all now."

"No rush."

Lu Ze, however, slowly shook his head.

He looked at the location information of the thirteen great Formations, and he already had an understanding in his heart.

As he expected, it was the work of the Illusion Alliance.

The other party resorted to this tactic, nothing more than wanting to cause player loss by disrupting game balance.

Just simply destroying the great Formations?

That's like banning accounts, treating the symptom but not the root cause.

Lu Ze was not in a hurry to ban these people's accounts or destroy their Formations.

Firstly, his purpose in creating the Illusion Realm was to harvest players' lives.

With the addition of the cheaters, this process was undoubtedly accelerated.

Secondly...

The other party's purpose in doing this was nothing more than to use it to destroy players' trust in game balance, making players yearn for an Illusion Realm like the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm, where they could freely bring in their cultivation.

But Lu Ze felt that, with proper operation, he could completely make players more devoted to his kind of fair competition Illusion Realm.

He couldn't help but recall the passionate scenes from his previous life, where countless players united as one, jointly slaying immortals and gods.

"They've entered the Illusion Realm again."

Just then, the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao suddenly spoke with excitement.

Its excitement was due to finally being able to go all out and beat up this group of ungrateful ants.

Lu Ze nodded: "Locate the target positions."

Soon, the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao sent over the match information.

Lu Ze immediately saw two familiar figures.

【Genius Cultivator】 and 【Unbreakable】.