To Harm the Righteous Path, I Had No Choice But to Make Games

【A heads-up before you start reading: *To the Moon* has a lot of setup in the beginning, and the pace is slower in the first few chapters, but it gets increasingly exciting as the mysteries are solved in the middle. We hope you'll watch patiently.】

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"Go to the Moon Realm? Lu Ze?"

Guo Yunfeng looked at the information on the illusion crystal and murmured.

This is the illusionary realm that the Illusion Alliance instructed them to create for the person who would receive the worst evaluation.

Guo Yunfeng actually had some reservations about Lu Ze.

More than half a year ago, when "This Demonic Cultivator Isn't So Cold" was released, many young disciples in the Ruthless Sect, whose minds were not yet mature, fell into its trap and wasted {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} a lot of their cultivation time.

So, even without the deal with the Illusion Alliance, she still wanted to teach Lu Ze a lesson.

"Master Lu Ze... I've heard of your 'This Demonic Cultivator Isn't So Cold,' but..."

Guo Yunfeng raised her voice slightly, and the coldness in her eyes intensified.

"I have experienced it, and I did not find it particularly outstanding."

After saying that, she placed the illusion crystal from "Going to the Moon Realm" into the illusion tower and immersed her consciousness into it.

A bright moon hangs in the deep blue night sky.

Accompanied by a soft and melodious tune, the view gradually zoomed out, and a tall, tower-like building appeared in Guo Yunfeng's field of vision.

For some reason, when Guo Yunfeng heard this melody, her usually calm heartstrings were unusually stirred.

"Is it because you've never heard of this instrument before?"

Guo Yunfeng frowned slightly, but didn't take it to heart.

As the illusion finished loading, her figure appeared on the back of a galloping giant beast.

A slightly unreliable male voice sounded in her ear.

"Junior sister, something's wrong with this earth dragon... Quickly help me suppress it!"

Amidst the turbulent motion of the road, a long-haired young man in a blue-patterned white shirt frantically jerked the reins with an extremely abstract and exaggerated facial expression.

As her gaze fell upon the scene, a profile of a person appeared before her:

【Xu Ci: Senior Brother of the "Dream Weaving Sect"】

"The Dream Weaver Sect?"

Guo Yunfeng had some doubts, and as the "Dream Maker Sect" became highlighted, she clicked on it to take a look.

【Dream Weaver Sect: One of the few remaining major sects in the Azure Realm, renowned for its illusion magic, capable of peering into others' memories through dreams】

【Azure Realm: A low-level martial arts world with scarce spiritual energy, where cultivators generally have low physical fitness and are mostly skilled in exploration techniques.】

"Aaaaaah!! Junior Sister Guo, what are you doing!? Help me... No, no!! It's going berserk!!!"

Xu Ci let out a miserable howl. Suddenly, a red buff called 【Berserk】 appeared above the head of the giant beast beneath them, and then it slammed into the squirrel in the middle of the road.

"boom--!!"

A loud crashing sound.

Guo Yunfeng and Xu Ci both fell off the earthen dragon, raising a thick cloud of dust.

“It hurts, it hurts—!”

Xu Ci rubbed his shoulders as he stood up and reached out his hand to Guo Yunfeng.

"Junior Sister Guo, are you alright?"

Guo Yunfeng carefully examined the man in front of her.

This is my senior brother in the illusionary world.

He seems carefree, unreliable, and a bit of a chatterbox.

'Is this the person Lu Ze designed for me... to be the object of his love?'

Guo Yunfeng couldn't help but sneer inwardly.

She simply couldn't understand why Lu Ze would want to use such a useless man to move her heart.

'It seems the Illusion Alliance members were overthinking things.'

After thinking it over, Guo Yunfeng got up from the ground, shook her head at Xu Ci, and indicated that she was fine.

Xu Ci pinched his chin and looked at the earth dragon, who had fainted after crashing into a big tree, from head to toe.

"Strange...why did it suddenly go berserk? Could it be that the merchant guild sold us a defective product with congenital defects?"

Xu Ci muttered to himself.

Guo Yunfeng ignored Xu Ci.

Now that she knows that Xu Ci is Lu Ze's arranged "love" object, wouldn't this illusion fall apart on its own if she just ignores him?

She wanted to see how Lu Ze, who was known as the master of illusion, would manage to move himself to emotion under these circumstances.

Guo Yunfeng looked at the enormous thing lying on the ground.

【Earth Dragon: A common spirit beast in the Azure Realm that helps humans with long-distance transportation. It is very fast but rather clumsy, and usually has a gentle temperament.】

She glanced again at the squirrel's corpse in the middle of the road, which had been trampled to death by the raging earth dragon.

【Squirrel: A common animal. (Dead, its body emitting a foul stench)】

"Junior Sister Guo, do you know how to distinguish the quality of earth dragons?"

"Let me tell you, if there are three holes below the single horn on the forehead of an earth dragon, it means that it is a congenitally disabled body that may fall into a berserk state."

"It must be that the people in charge of the accounts didn't check carefully enough... Hey? Junior Sister Guo? Junior Sister Guo, wait for me!"

...

While Xu Ci was analyzing the situation on his own, Guo Yunfeng was already heading towards the mission objective indicated by the main storyline.

She and Xu Ci's trip was because they had accepted a mission from the Dream Makers Sect.

The Dream Weaver Sect's illusion magic is extremely powerful, capable of exploring memories and constructing dreams.

When used to its fullest extent, magic can even alter the memories of others.

Therefore, it is common for dying people to spend a large sum of money to commission dream-making masters to modify their memories and fulfill their unfulfilled wishes in their dreams.

At this moment, in this remote mountain forest, there was such a client.

【Main Quest:】

【Proceed to the target location to complete the dream-making commission and fulfill Gu Yun's long-cherished wish.】

Xu Ci behind her was talking to himself, but Guo Yunfeng ignored him completely and followed the mission instructions firmly, all the way to the old house on the mountaintop.

After a while, a kind-looking middle-aged woman opened the door, followed by two children with innocent faces.

"Esteemed Immortal Masters, please come in!"

The moment Guo Yunfeng stepped into the room, a line of text slowly unfolded before her eyes:

【Act 1: "I never told anyone, but... I always thought they were lighthouses."】

What does this sentence mean?

Guo Yunfeng was puzzled, but didn't think about it too much.

The person who opened the door was Chen Lili, a servant of this old house, and the two innocent children behind her were her children.

The owner of this ancient house is Gu Yun, the employer who commissioned the Dream Maker Sect.

“The master is kind-hearted and allowed me and the children to stay here, and even arranged rooms for us.”

"The master is receiving treatment upstairs, but we don't know how much longer he can hold on..."

"Esteemed immortals, please follow me."

Guo Yunfeng and Xu Ci followed Chen Lili up to the second floor.

"This Gu Yun seems like a pretty nice person?"

As Xu Ci walked, he kept yawning.

"Fine, fine, for the sake of good people, I'll stay up all night..."

As soon as they reached the second floor, they heard the laughter of two children downstairs, followed by the incredibly melodious sound of a zither.

Guo Yunfeng stopped in her tracks.

The melody sounds familiar; it's the same unknown song I heard when I first entered the illusion.

"Is this... your child playing the piano?"

For the first time ever, Guo Yunfeng asked a question.

For some reason, the melody seemed to possess some kind of magic, arousing a rare curiosity in her.

"Yes, the master taught them... but they're still not up to par, please forgive their poor performance, Immortal Master."

Chen Lili answered with a smile.

"No...you played very well."

Guo Yunfeng shook her head. For some reason, the melodious tune made her nose feel a little sore.

wrong!

She quickly realized that the song seemed to contain some kind of magic, which had aroused strange emotions in her.

'We can't fall for that kid's tricks...'

Guo Yunfeng took a deep breath and regained her composure.

She pushed open the door to the master bedroom on the second floor and went inside.

"Immortal Physician, how is the master?"

"This is not good... If it weren't for the Heart-Strengthening Gu prolonging his life, he probably would already be..."

A gray-haired woman with a special symbol under her eye stood in front of the bed and shook her head.

Guo Yunfeng looked at her.

【Wen Yaoxin: A Gu Doctor with a Rare Bloodline in the Azure Realm】

"Hey, it's a Gu doctor... I heard that hiring a Gu doctor is much more expensive than hiring one from our Dream Weaving Sect..."

Xu Ci quickly whispered something in Guo Yunfeng's ear.

"That's strange. This old man's family doesn't seem like a wealthy household."

Guo Yunfeng ignored Xu Ci; at this moment, the main quest in front of her had been updated.

【Main Quest:】

【Setting up a dream-making array for the employer】

She walked to the bedside and, following the system's instructions, observed the location of the array formation.

"Let's begin setting up the formation."

...

With Xu Ci's help, setting up the formation took only a few breaths.

【Main quest updated:】

【Inquire about the employer's long-cherished wish】

After glancing at the mission prompt, Guo Yunfeng walked up to Chen Lili and asked, "What is your husband's wish?"

Xu Ci added, "We must know his wishes in order to construct his dream and modify his memories."

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Lili blurted out:

"Moon Realm".

"The master's wish is..."

"Go to the Moon Realm."