Five days into the second stage of the competition.

With Zhou Yue and Li Moran taking action, Lingxiao Sect sat firmly in first place, qualifying early.

"Junior Brother Lu, I didn't expect you to be so powerful?"

Facing Lu Ze's various pointers, Zhou Yue was filled with emotion.

During the battles these past few days, Lu Ze had never made a move.

The fighting was all handled by Zhou Yue and Li Moran; he was only responsible for eating.

Occasionally, he would blow himself up at the start, then watch from their perspectives to provide teaching. Every time, it made Zhou Yue benefit immensely.

He had guessed Lu Ze was powerful before, but he didn't expect him to be this powerful.

It was mainly because the "First Saint" playstyle from those five days had left such a deep and stereotyped impression.

"You say you're so strong, why were you unwilling to be serious during those few days?" Zhou Yue asked, greatly puzzled.

"I was very seriously 'Fix Your Jade Feet'!" Lu Ze explained earnestly.

He wasn't intentionally acting like a jerk. It couldn't be helped; it was all forced by the System! 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"... You win!" Zhou Yue gave a thumbs up, speechless, then asked in confusion, "Hey, it's really strange... When you submitted our team name back then, Elder Chao didn't stop you from adding the name of our Lingxiao Sect?"

Upon hearing this, Li Moran, who was drinking tea nearby, almost spat it out.

Other team names were related to their Sect forces. Only their trio's 【Fix Your Jade Feet】 had absolutely nothing to do with Lingxiao Sect.

That day, when Chao Wendao heard their team name, he felt a sense of relief.

The Elders were clearly worried that Lu Ze, carrying the name of Lingxiao Sect, would suddenly have a lapse in judgment and act like a jerk while bringing Li Moran and Zhou Yue along.

After all, the scene of mixing into 12 people and shooting them in the back that day was simply too "Demonic Path"...

"You, have you never intended to make a move?" Li Moran looked at Lu Ze.

"Downing two Dao Protectors counts as a bomb kill... You don't understand this rule?" Lu Ze replied with a smile.

"That's true... Among this group of people, no one can surpass me and Junior Sister Li." Zhou Yue nodded, feeling a little regretful.

He suddenly understood why Li Moran didn't want to be on the same team as Lu Ze at the beginning, but instead wanted to compete with him.

Li Moran was silent for a while, then slowly said: "During the last three days, that team... 【Last Twilight】... was a bit strange."

"Strange how?" Lu Ze asked curiously.

Most of the time, he was just standing there idling, playing "Legends of the Three Kingdoms", waiting for the final meal; he didn't know the specific situation of his opponents.

"Their strength... was erratic?" Li Moran's willow-leaf brows furrowed slightly.

"There were a few moments where they were even above me... My moves were all predicted."

"It does feel a bit like that... Maybe it's a lucky shot?" Zhou Yue nodded, gradually having some impression, but he didn't take it to heart.

"Perhaps." Li Moran closed her eyes and stopped dwelling on it.

Although it was a pity that she couldn't compete with Lu Ze in the match, with him around, she would always feel at ease.

Second stage, seventh day.

【Last Twilight】 qualified in second place.

Luofeng Continent, Illusion Alliance Base.

"Alliance Master, I succeeded... I succeeded!" Huang Yuwen opened his eyes from the Ten Directions Spirit-Descending Array and roared excitedly, ignoring the bloodshot eyes.

The figure of the Heart Demon instantly appeared before him.

The Heart Demon's gaze quickly swept across the array.

Of the 10 spirit lamps around the array, 8 were lit.

The ninth spirit lamp flickered for a while, but ultimately extinguished.

"Oh? You invoked the eighth spirit and have already touched the threshold of the ninth?" The Heart Demon revealed a rare tone of surprise, then quickly calmed down and placed a hand on Huang Yuwen's shoulder.

"You are quite a talent."

After saying this, a surge of Spiritual Qi was injected into Huang Yuwen's body.

Huang Yuwen's aura instantly surged by a large margin.

"I... I broke through? I broke through!" Huang Yuwen was overwhelmed with excitement, instantly feeling an urge to shed blood and sacrifice himself for the Illusion Alliance.

The Heart Demon looked at the Ten Directions Spirit-Descending Array, lost in thought.

Cheating in the Illusion Realm was not an easy task.

When "clash of immortals and demons" was popular, the Demonic Path, in order to win rewards, kidnapped many well-known Loose Cultivator players and extracted their Divine Souls for their own use.

The result was naturally that the Righteous Cultivators joined forces to destroy their base.

During the popularity of "Naraka: Bladepoint", which was when the Illusion Alliance was just starting to make its fortune.

At that time, the Limitless Sword Sect Elder Jiang Lingfeng used his Technique to block the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, cut off the control of the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao, and then substituted his cultivation to crush a crowd of players.

Of course, the consequences of this action were even more miserable.

Breaking the rules of the Illusion Realm was blatantly going against the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao.

The Elder of a generation, Jiang Lingfeng, was directly beaten back by two major Realms by the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao, and his Foundation was injured, unable to make progress for the rest of his life.

After studying the two cheating incidents, the Heart Demon summarized the experience.

To cheat in the Illusion Realm, one must first not break the rules of the Illusion Realm.

Like Jiang Lingfeng, who was accelerating, invincible, and had no cooldowns in "Naraka: Bladepoint"...

Even a fool would know they were cheating!

Daring to cause trouble on the turf of the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao, even if one didn't die, they would lose half their life.

Therefore, the rules of the Illusion Realm could not be interfered with.

Even if one had to interfere, it couldn't be done openly; at least it shouldn't be noticeable on the surface.

The Demonic Path's method was indeed useful.

However, the means were not tolerated by the Righteous Path, and they were too easily discovered.

Being enemies with the entire Righteous Path was not worth it.

Moreover, the methods were too crude.

It was just calling upon other people's Divine Souls, which was equivalent to others fighting the match for oneself.

It had no meaning.

After all, in this world, there was simply no one who could defeat Lingxiao Sect's Li Moran and Zhou Yue at the same time.

The conclusion the Heart Demon reached was—

Start from the outside to strengthen the Cultivator;

At the same time, use the most covert methods to slightly interfere with the rules of the Illusion Realm, so that no one could see it on the surface.

With the two combined, he had his improved Ten Directions Spirit-Descending Array.

The first five spirit lamps strengthened the Cultivator's five senses while in the state of isolated cultivation.

Even if these five spirit lamps were all lit, it would at most be a draw with Zhou Yue, and it would still be hard to pass Li Moran's test.

But the last five spirit lamps could slightly interfere with the rules of the Illusion Realm, allowing the Cultivator to obtain covert strengthening.

The sixth spirit lamp lights up, allowing one to feel the gaze coming from behind.

In other words, Lu Ze's method of shooting in the back would no longer be a concern.

The seventh spirit lamp lights up, allowing the Cultivator to see through the positions of all enemies on the map, and even see the opponent's name.

"What are the effects of the eighth and ninth?" The Heart Demon asked calmly.

"After the eighth spirit lamp is activated, I feel my marksmanship has become invincible! Even if I shoot at the air, the muzzle will automatically pull to the opponent..."

"As for the ninth..."

"I vaguely feel that I can see the opponent's future movement trajectory?" Huang Yuwen answered truthfully, then proudly patted his chest.

"But Alliance Master, rest assured, I feel that once the seventh and eighth spirit lamps are lit, that Li Moran will not be my match!"

"I hope so." The Heart Demon nodded.

Huang Yuwen then said: "By the way, Alliance Master... If the tenth spirit lamp is lit, what kind of scene will it be?"

The Heart Demon narrowed his eyes, looking through the mask at the Spiritual Veins in ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) his body that were gradually collapsing.

"I don't know... But, you shouldn't need to use it."

The transmission of power just now was not to reward Huang Yuwen.

It was because he didn't want Huang Yuwen to notice the abnormality in his body; on one hand, he left a mark in his body, and on the other, he was strengthening his Physical Body to withstand the erosion of the Ten Directions Spirit-Descending Array.

There were 201 people in the second stage, which should have formed 67 teams.

In the end, fewer than 60 teams participated.

No one knew,

The Illusion Alliance privately recruited 30 top Dao Protectors.

In the end, only three people survived the fifth spirit lamp.