When Lu Ze had some free time, he enjoyed watching Zhong Yi's livestreams.

With a pro-level brain paired with bronze-tier mechanics, the entertainment value was explosive. Whenever Lu Ze wanted to eat something, he would visit Zhong Yi's stream because the gameplay was 'appetizing' enough to serve as a side dish.

At this moment, he watched the screen filled with scrolling comments, his heart unperturbed.

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It was impossible for Lu Ze to personally intervene.

As a dignified game designer, getting involved because of petty squabbles between players would be beneath him.

Lu Ze entered the backend of the Illusion Realm to check and discovered that, just as the comments speculated, that group of petty people from the Green Mountain Sect were indeed teaming up to snipe the Zhong Yi trio.

The player base in the Celestial Cultivation World was not as large as in his previous life, so the player pool wasn't that deep.

Lu Ze had implemented some anti-matchmaking-collision mechanisms, but they weren't thorough; otherwise, matchmaking times might become excessively long.

It was precisely because of this that the Green Mountain Sect found a loophole.

"It seems it's necessary to re-optimize the matchmaking mechanism..."

Taking advantage of the gap in his speech, Lu Ze quickly adjusted the underlying logic of the Illusion Realm, adding several rules to prevent malicious sniping.

As long as he activated this new rule now, those people from the Green Mountain Sect wouldn't be able to snipe Zhong Yi again for a short while.

By the same token, Zhong Yi's group of three would also be unable to wash away their recent humiliation.

Lu Ze didn't think Zhou Yue could handle two or even three malicious teams alone. Just as he was about to activate the new rule, he saw in the stream that Zhong Yi's character had been swapped to 【Ululu】.

The weapon in his hand had also changed to a designated marksman rifle.

Others might not understand, but as a veteran gamer from his previous life, Lu Ze guessed what Zhong Yi wanted to do in a second.

"Thinking of bridge camping only half a month after the server opened?"

Lu Ze was stunned.

To some extent, Zhong Yi was a Genius player on the same level as Li Moran.

"I wonder how many steps ahead Senior Brother Zhong has planned..."

Lu Ze stopped his movement to activate the new matchmaking rules and continued watching the stream with great interest.

At this time, Zhou Yue was asking with a face full of curiosity, "Old Zhong, stop being so mysterious. What exactly are you going to do?"

Zhong Yi wore an expression of profound mystery. "Shh... be careful, the walls have ears. Old Zhou, just bring the 【Zhentian-25】 like I said, and you'll understand once we're inside."

"Is Senior Brother Zhong that confident? Is the success rate high?"

Zhou Qiaoling was equally interested in this.

If Zhong Yi said he was going to beat the opponents with skill, she definitely wouldn't believe him;

But if Zhong Yi said he was going to crush them with tactics, she had no reason not to believe him.

"The success rate is very high."

Zhong Yi patted his chest with great confidence, then thought for a moment and added:

"Uh... as long as the Old Lady doesn't spawn at the Ascension Platform."

Hearing this, the previously confident Zhou Yue and Zhou Qiaoling sucked in a breath of cold air. "Old Zhong, how about we just forget about it for now..."

Just as they were about to back out, the match was successfully found, and the three instantly entered a state of combat readiness.

The stream's comments immediately became restless.

【Well, I already know the result】

【The jinx is powering up!】

【I bet five spirit stones that the Old Lady will definitely spawn at the Ascension Platform!】

【Who would bet with you on something that's basically an open answer?】

【Old Zhong, your cursed mouth...】

【It's over, looks like we won't be learning any techniques today】

【Old Zhong, show some backbone!】

...

Lurking in the livestream, Lu Ze was also breaking out in a cold sweat.

Zhong Yi's reputation as a jinx in the Illusion Realm was well-known far and wide.

He immediately used his administrator privileges to pull up the world seed for this match.

Unsurprisingly,

The spawn location for the BOSS, the Mulan Witch, appeared right at the Ascension Platform!

The "Old Lady" the players referred to was a nickname for the Mulan Witch.

This was because the Mulan Witch had the image of a senile but violent old woman.

The Old Lady had two spawn points in the Ascension Base: one was the Core Area Garden in the center of the map, and the other was the Ascension Platform on the southwest side of the map.

When the Old Lady was on the Ascension Platform, her attack range covered the entire bridge, making it a massive obstacle for bridge camping.

Although players in his previous life had already researched various positions to deal with the Old Lady without taking damage, Zhong Yi clearly hadn't started figuring that out yet.

Lu Ze thought about it and decided to erase the BOSS of this game before the match started.

Firstly, he wanted to see how high Zhong Yi's execution of "bridge camping" was.

Secondly, the Green Mountain Sect's behavior was indeed cheating and deserved to be punished.

???

Just as Lu Ze erased the Old Lady's existence, the Heavenly Dao Remnant appeared behind him.

"Why has a strand of this Heavenly Dao's Divine Thought returned?"

Lu Ze was stunned for a moment, then instantly understood. It turned out the "Old Lady" he had just erased happened to be controlled by a Clone of the Heavenly Dao Remnant. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Sometimes one couldn't help but marvel at the fate between Zhou Yue and the Heavenly Dao Remnant.

...

...

Green Mountain Sect, Dao Defense Peak.

Around a dozen people were sitting in a circle at the martial arts arena where inner Disciples usually sparred.

"Did you bump into them?"

Han Xian, sitting in the center, asked in a deep voice.

He was the personal Disciple of the Dao Defense Peak's Lord, and those sitting around him were also Disciples of the Dao Defense Peak, each of them an expert in the Illusion Realm.

"We did! The mission location is exactly the same!"

One of the Disciples, whose specialized task was to roam various livestreams, hurriedly reported the news.

"Very good..."

The corner of Han Xian's mouth curled up; he was in an excellent mood.

After all, opportunities to blatantly target the Spirit Soaring Sect with the support of an Elder were rare.

Especially when the target was Zhong Yi, that soft target of the Illusion Realm.

Among the players, he had the loudest reputation but the weakest skills; Han Xian had been annoyed by him for a long time.

"Who else bumped into the same match as me?"

"Yes, Senior Brother Guo is also in it."

"Same as usual, report the positions."

"Understood! The Spirit Soaring Sect people spawned at the West Gate, and Senior Brother Guo is at Prison Two."

Han Xian glanced at his own spawn point; it was at Prison Three, quite far from Zhong Yi and the others.

"It seems we won't be able to ambush them in the first wave... Junior Brother Guo, don't enter the Core Area yet. Come over and help me clear the Prison Area first."

Han Xian made a prompt decision and gave instructions before the match began.

"The heads of the Spirit Soaring Sect must be taken by my own hands!"

...

...

After a brief skirmish, the unlucky souls who respawned at Prison Two were quickly taken down by the pincer movement of the two Green Mountain Sect teams.

To avoid leaving evidence of collusion, the two squads even put on a show by firing a few shots at each other after finishing off the Prison Two team, pretending to stop after a light exchange before leaving.

"Very good, it's safe now."

Han Xian looted the corpses of the Prison Two team, his consciousness drifting back to reality.

"Where are the Spirit Soaring Sect people now? Are they at the Centrifuge or the Deacon Hall?"

"They're... they're on the bridge!"

"On the bridge? What are they doing on the bridge?"

"That's right. After they finished looting at the start, they passed through the Centrifuge and ran straight for the bridge... and then they've just been jumping around on the crates."

"They aren't trying to run to the extraction point, are they?"

"No! True Disciple Zhong just shouted in the stream, saying he won't let a single Cultivator escape this round..."

"What arrogance!"

Han Xian laughed out of extreme anger, and the loot he was halfway through eating suddenly lost its flavor.

"I want to see how a stinking rat who only knows how to run with a knife is going to keep the lives of all six of us here at the Ascension Base!"