【Current Kill Progress: 100,000/100,000】

【Mission Accomplished!】

【Reward Obtained: Demonic Path Points provided by Righteous Cultivators when dying within a Demonic Path Secret Realm permanently increased by +10!】

Listening to the pleasant notification in his mind, Lu Ze nodded with satisfaction.

He had previously speculated that the extremely low Demonic Path Points dropped by Cultivators dying in the Illusion Realm were actually values reduced from their true deaths.

Therefore, this fixed 10 Demonic Path Points was a massive boost for him at this stage.

Lu Ze's current cultivation Realm was at the Late Stage of the Nascent Soul; reaching the next level required nearly ten million Demonic Path Points.

Without this extra 10 Demonic Path Points reward, he would either have to rely on slow cultivation or personally slay those on the Righteous Path in the real world.

Fortunately, he no longer had such worries now.

"I can go back to slacking off in peace."

Lu Ze lay on his bed happily.

From now on, he just needed to slack off in the Sect and wait for operation xianyuan zhou to provide him with a steady stream of Demonic Path Points.

Unfortunately, this reward had regional restrictions.

It only took effect within Demonic Path Secret Realms that attracted Righteous Cultivators to scramble for loot—specifically, the Looting maps of operation xianyuan zhou.

However, given the current enthusiasm of the players, operation xianyuan zhou was enough for him to Breakthrough to the Void Refining Stage without any pressure.

"Speaking of which, I really have to thank Senior Brother Zhong."

Lu Ze muttered to himself.

That day, the Green Mountain Sect had tried to blockade the Lingxiao Sect, only to be directly punished by Zhong Yi's Bridge-blocking tactic.

This incident had gained some traction on the forum at the time, so Lu Ze took the opportunity to push the livestreams of both sides to the top recommendation slots. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

At that time, any Cultivator in the Illusion Realm who hadn't started a game would receive a livestream notification for 【Green Mountain Sect VS Lingxiao Sect】.

On one hand, the topic of Sect confrontation was very popular; on the other hand, the tactic developed by Zhong Yi was quite eye-catching.

As a result, many Cultivators who had initially viewed operation xianyuan zhou as an ordinary Secret Realm began to dive into the game one after another.

Not only did it draw in a wave of new players, but it also sparked a Bridge-blocking craze at the Ascension Base...

The confidential Ascension Base, which used to be filled with people doing Knife Runs for missions, was now gradually seeing Bridge-blocking squads appear.

At this point, Zhong Yi hadn't realized the harmful nature of this tactic and instead publicly wrote an article on the forum titled 【On Bridge-Blocking Warfare】.

He just couldn't keep things to himself and poured out all his secret Bridge-blocking techniques in one go.

As a result, Uluru's pick rate skyrocketed, and the Immortal Bridge became a contested zone within the Ascension Base...

"Junior Brother Lu, there is something I don't understand."

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

Zhong Yi suddenly visited Lingyu Pavilion, and Lu Ze quickly stood up to receive him.

"Why is it that in both squad-based combat games, you can hear enemies talk in Naraka: Bladepoint, but not in operation xianyuan zhou?"

"That... it's quite simple."

Lu Ze thought for a moment; he had no intention of hiding it from Zhong Yi.

"There is only one winner in Naraka: Bladepoint... but operation xianyuan zhou is different."

"I see... Junior Brother Lu, you are brilliant!"

With just that one sentence, Zhong Yi immediately understood.

In Naraka: Bladepoint, there is only one winner, everyone is an enemy, and true cooperation is difficult.

Even if people temporarily unite against a strong foe, it's still within the rules of gameplay.

It's different for the'search, fight, and extract' style of operation xianyuan zhou.

operation xianyuan zhou has three extraction points, and more than one squad can extract from each point...

In other words, players can technically achieve a win-win situation.

This could easily lead to unfair situations.

Cheating behaviors like those of the Green Mountain Sect could potentially happen in every match.

That is something the rules do not allow.

Thus, when Lu Ze created operation xianyuan zhou, he learned from the practices of delta force from his previous life and disabled text and voice functions between different squads.

"Then... if I promote a set of secret signals, would that count as violating the Illusion Realm's rules?"

Zhong Yi thought for a moment and asked tentatively.

Lu Ze raised an eyebrow. "Senior Brother Zhong, you want to...?"

"I want..."

"To let the Rats of Xianyuan Zhou have food to eat, a way to extract, and someone to rely on!"

"How I wish I could build thousands of mansions to shelter all the Rats of the world and make them happy!"

Zhong Yi spoke word by word, filled with lofty sentiments.

As he spoke, a white light suddenly flickered on the tip of his tongue, and a golden lotus manifested out of nowhere behind him.

A strand of golden Power Of Will slowly flew toward the Illusion Realm Crystal in Lu Ze's hand.

Lu Ze's eyes widened slightly. "Senior Brother Zhong's Great Dao Truth Incantation is getting better and better..."

Strangely enough, Zhong Yi was a jinx in the Illusion Realm, but in reality, his words carried the weight of law;

The same went for Zhou Yue.

In reality, his Luck was ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) soaring, but in the Illusion Realm, he was a total unlucky fellow...

Lu Ze speculated that this was because the Illusion Realm he created isolated one's cultivation and bone structure.

In the Illusion Realm, everyone was a primitive person who had lost their cultivation and bone structure; their gaming talent depended entirely on their most basic physical instincts.

Just as Zhou Yue was a complete loser before he used his Dao cultivation to break his fate, after losing his Realm and cultivation in the Illusion Realm, his Innate unlucky fate took effect once again...

Following this theory, Lu Ze couldn't help but speculate: was Zhong Yi actually a natural-born jinx who was saved by his Holy Speech Spiritual Root?

With the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao and his own anti-cracking secret techniques present, the Power Of Will wouldn't cause too much of an impact.

Lu Ze immersed his Divine Sense to investigate.

There was only a tiny modification to the rules.

That is, once a rat player strayed from their original intention and used the secret signals for malicious purposes, the weight coefficient for being matched into a black room would double.

There was an impact, but it wasn't significant.

Players who backstabbed all day would enter high-pressure black room matches and be matched with similar backstabbing players...

"Huh??"

Zhong Yi watched as the golden Power Of Will merged into the Illusion Realm Crystal and was startled by his own unconscious action.

"Junior Brother Lu, I didn't mean to break your Illusion Realm rules..."

"It's fine. If anything, it's a rather good adjustment."

Lu Ze shook his head, not taking it to heart.

If it were truly a major change, with his level of control over the Illusion Realm, he could have easily eliminated that strand of Power Of Will.

"By the way, Senior Brother Zhong, have you thought of a secret signal?"

"Not yet."

"Then..."

Lu Ze made a gun shape with his hand and gestured in the air.

"Knock knock, knock knock knock... two slow and three fast, how about that?"

"Great idea!!!"

Zhong Yi's eyes lit up, and he immediately burst into laughter.

"I'll go post a thread and call for everyone to join!!"

After the past half-month of knife-running and Weapon Modding tutorials, combined with Lu Ze's livestream a few days ago that pushed his popularity to its peak, his influence within operation xianyuan zhou was currently very strong.

While entering the Illusion Realm Forum, Zhong Yi rambled to Lu Ze in the real world:

"Junior Brother Lu, you really don't care about fame and fortune at all..."

"What do you mean?"

"In the Bridge-blocking tutorial I posted the day before yesterday, you actually deleted such a crucial piece of information yourself?"

Hearing this, Lu Ze's eyes tightened.

In that famous article 【On Bridge-Blocking Warfare】, Zhong Yi had written this sentence:

"【Under permitted conditions, pulling the last extraction lever when the timer is between eight and ten yields the maximum Bridge-blocking profit. (Note: This viewpoint was provided by the Lingxiao Sect's True Disciple, Lu Ze)】"

He had kindly given a tip, and this fellow actually included his full name?

Without a word, Lu Ze used his permissions from his perspective to delete the note to avoid being scolded, though he was scolded quite often anyway.

"Fame and fortune are like passing clouds to me; I have no intention of seeking them."

Lu Ze said immediately without even blinking.

"Fine, fine, then I'll change it to 'Anonymous'..."

"Don't use 'Anonymous'!! Just act as if you discovered it yourself!!!"

"Alright, alright..."

Zhong Yi smiled helplessly and gave up on editing it.

"Senior Brother Zhong, are your parents still alive and well?"

"Hahaha, my father and mother are in very good health; they can live for at least another three to five hundred years..."

Lu Ze looked at Zhong Yi with a strange expression.

He really found it hard to imagine that in this cultivation world,

the rat signals and Bridge-blocking tactics actually came from the same person...