【In the Dharma-Ending Era, Spiritual Qi is exhausted.】

【Artifact Cultivation rules the land, while Techniques gradually decline...】

...

This was an animation carefully crafted by Lu Ze to rationalize the search-loot-extract mode.

Accompanied by a leisurely narration, a background setting of a Dharma-Ending Era where Cultivators needed to rely on Spiritual Artifacts to fight quickly unfolded before Zhong Yi's eyes.

"The evil Havoc Chamber of Commerce? The displaced Asara Loose Cultivators? And... the Righteous Path Alliance I belong to?"

Zhong Yi quickly analyzed the information revealed in the animation, a hint of an excited smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

The short few-minute animation quickly allowed him to immerse himself in the story's characters.

The three major powers, novel Spiritual Artifacts, uniquely styled architecture...

Everything filled him with anticipation.

Entering the Illusion Realm, Zhong Yi used his fastest hand speed to snatch the nickname 【Genius Cultivator】.

Lu Ze was quite thoughtful in this regard; every Cultivator's account would retain the usage rights of their own forum ID.

Unless the Cultivator themselves gave up using it, others could not snatch it.

【About to enter the xinshou jiaocheng, enable multiplayer mode?】

As soon as he entered the Illusion Realm, a xinshou jiaocheng pop-up window appeared before him.

"Enable!"

Zhong Yi decisively chose to enable it, then pulled the Zhou Yue siblings into the squad.

"Old Zhong, little sister, why are you two dressed exactly the same? Holy crap! Why am I wearing this set of clothes too?"

The three people entering the team for the first time had the default character configuration set to Bee Medic.

Like other Illusion Realms, "Operation Xianyuan Continent" still used clothing and accessories to highlight character traits rather than character replacement.

Zhou Qiaoling waved her hand with a look of disgust: "Eww... this character looks so dumb! Change it, change it!"

"There seem to be a ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) bit few characters?"

By this time, Zhong Yi had already opened the character list and started checking the characters.

The Cultivators of the Righteous Path Alliance were divided into four types:

Vanguard, Scout, Surprise Troop, and Apothecary.

"There's only one available character under each category... Tsk, is Junior Brother Lu short on Spirit Stones again?"

Zhong Yi joked with a smile.

After quickly browsing through the introductions of the four initial characters, Zhong Yi decisively chose the Vanguard character with the Dao title 【Red Wolf】.

"Old Zhou, you chose Red Wolf too? Haha, as expected, charging into battle is a man's true romance!"

Seeing Zhou Yue beside him change into the same outfit, Zhong Yi laughed loudly.

"Old Zhong, take my advice... I think that Bee Medic suits you better."

Zhou Yue teased with a wicked smile, and Zhong Yi's old face immediately turned red.

"Nonsense... Nonsense! Studying medicine can't save the world! My current controls are very smooth..."

"Oh, stop arguing, let's just hurry up and start."

Zhou Qiaoling looked at the bickering pair with a speechless expression and couldn't help but yawn.

This baffling Illusion Realm exuded an atmosphere that felt boring to her everywhere.

Zhong Yi, as the captain, stopped the argument, and the three of them entered the xinshou jiaocheng together.

Illusion Realms were not exactly the same as games from his previous life; Lu Ze's settings for the xinshou jiaocheng were still somewhat different from the games of the previous life.

For example, the teaching could be done in a team.

For example, there was no need to repeat conventional running and jumping operations.

The xinshou jiaocheng for "Operation Xianyuan Continent" began with the use of weapons.

Zhong Yi and the other two spawned in a military camp tent.

On the wooden table in front of them lay three weirdly shaped, long iron implements.

A System prompt popped up in the air before them:

【Pick up the weapons on the table】

"This is a gun?"

Zhong Yi's eyes lit up, and he immediately picked up the pitch-black 【Mingju-15】 in the middle to observe it closely.

The cutscene had spent a considerable amount of time describing how Cultivators of the Dharma-Ending Era invented a type of Magical Artifact called a 'gun'.

Cultivators concentrated Techniques into ammunition and then used the 'gun' to fire them, achieving an attack level nearly equal to a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

"What? What gun?"

Zhou Yue picked up the slightly shorter 【Bison】 next to it with a look of confusion, looking at Zhong Yi without understanding.

He had never paid much attention to the animated plot, so naturally, he wasn't as clear as Zhong Yi.

"It's..."

Just as Zhong Yi was about to explain, after each of the three had picked up a gun, a new mission prompt appeared again.

【Enemies appearing! Please use the weapons in your hands to defeat them!】 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

An Asara Loose Cultivator wearing a grey steel helmet suddenly wandered outside the tent.

"Use... the gun?"

Zhou Yue looked at the simple-minded Asara Loose Cultivator, then at the short and compact Bison in his hand, and suddenly had an epiphany.

"Old Zhou, for a gun, you have to use the bul..."

Before Zhong Yi could finish his sentence, he was excitedly interrupted by Zhou Yue.

"I get it! Let me do it!"

With a "Bang!"

The butt of the Bison gun slammed hard against the Asara Loose Cultivator's forehead.

Unexpectedly, the opponent seemed completely unharmed, only rubbing his forehead symbolically.

"Looking for trouble, are we!"

The Asara Loose Cultivator immediately entered a state of alert, raised the 【Viper-74】 in his hands, and several Spirit Bullets glowing with a pale light gushed out.

"Come on, let's go at it!!"

"???"

Zhou Yue looked at the gun in his hand, a look of questioning his life on his face.

"Wait..."

"Which little Genius made this Magical Artifact? It's way too trash!!"