The Protagonist Halo Exists to Deceive People

With a famous master's guidance, Xiao Yi’s cultivation base was as if he had activated a cheat code, steadily and rapidly advancing. Although during that time some people who didn't know the height of the heavens sought trouble with him, they were all crushed by his strength. In the process of crushing them, he unintentionally harvested many hearts of Junior Sisters. In the later stages, he passed five gates and decapitated six generals, fought against evil cultivators, killed demons, and traversed Secret Realms. Many times it felt as though he was in a life-or-death situation, yet he turned every danger into safety. It was as if he suddenly triggered a special ability, then let out a great shout, transforming like Sailor Moon to eliminate the villain. From such tempering, he gained even more fortuitous encounters.

In the end, he gathered enough of the Five Elements (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth) from the outside.
The five attributes awakened the spirit, and then he summoned the Divine Dragon!
Ah! No, that's not right; he successfully Ascended!
He could even defeat all the geniuses with mutated Spiritual Roots, including the Lightning Spiritual Root. He became the first person in the Cultivation World to Ascend within 1,000 years. From then on, other cultivators could only watch his backside as he ascended.

Zhu Yao watched until the later stages and couldn't help but spit at this delusion of his. In her dream, she saw that Xiao Yi had previously worked hard to cultivate and reach the peak. However, in the later stages, his personality completely changed. From working hard at cultivation, he changed to working hard at picking up girls. As long as a girl had a relationship with him, they all knelt before him.

Xiao Yi began to open a cross-continental girl-chasing mode. From the princess of the Demon Realm and the queen of humans to sect Junior Sisters and wild flowers by the roadside. These ladies, upon seeing him, acted as if they suffered from a "not seen a man for tens of thousands of years" disease. They all followed him to the death. Furthermore, they could live together harmoniously and peacefully without infighting. All of them acted as if not being able to love him would make them feel miserable. And for him, love meant "if you love me, give your body to me." I'm fainting. This truly was a miracle. And among this crowd was even that Deity Transformation Stage Venerable master of his.

Seeing this, Zhu Yao only wanted to feed them a piece of "brain-dead" medicine.

In the end, of course, Xiao Yi established a massive imperial harem. And Xiao Yi, at the late stage of Deity Transformation, intentionally stayed in the Cultivation World for 1,000 years. The reason was to wait for the 10 most favored girls in his harem to Ascend together.

As for the plot after his Ascension, Zhu Yao couldn't see it. She thought the dream would end there. However, the scene before her changed. The brilliant Ascension scene she was watching returned to the landscape of the Cultivation World.

After the legend Xiao Yi Ascended, the Cultivation World did not welcome peace. The reason was that after he Ascended, those five miraculous and fraudulent Five Spirits also Ascended with him to the Upper Realm. The Cultivation World lacked the guidance of the five types of Five Spirits, and the spiritual energy in the world constantly vanished, unable to condense.

The most obvious sign was the trees in the Cultivation World. Due to the lack of Wood Spirit guidance, the trees could not absorb Wood Spiritual Qi and began to wither. In less than 100 years, even the most common ingredients for refining Heart Nourishing Pills could not be found in the Cultivation World. And cultivators, having no way to lead spiritual energy into their bodies, had their cultivation stall, making Ascension impossible.

The most pitiful were the mortals. Due to the loss of the Five Spirits, there was no water for living. Even ordinary crops withered from lack of water. Fire could no longer dispel evil spirits. Mortals died in large numbers from strange diseases. The earth no longer had vitality, so the land could not be farmed. Plants might be insufficient for cultivators, but for mortals, this was a fatal blow. Thus, famine broke out everywhere, and corpses littered the fields.

After several thousand years, not a single living soul remained in the entire Lower Realm. The world welcomed its day of destruction.

Zhu Yao watched each figure fall one by one. Then she looked at the desolate scenery of the heavens and earth where nothing remained. She felt a deep sense of sorrow, pressing down so hard she couldn't breathe. Even though this wasn't her own emotion, it weighed heavily, suffocating her. It was as if a scream rang out before the world shattered.

As she felt increasingly uncomfortable, the image before her suddenly flashed. That suffocating feeling vanished in an instant. She found herself sitting in her own home.

This wasn't the thatched hut on the peak of Yulin Peak. It was the small room she had worked for decades to buy.

She had returned to modern times!

Zhu Yao looked dazed at the familiar images before her. This was her home, her room. Before her was her computer, and even the cup beside the mouse was exactly the same. For a moment, she couldn't react.

On the computer screen, the QQ program suddenly blinked. A message from her colleague, Xiao Fang, had arrived.

Zhu Yao was stunned. She suddenly remembered, wasn't this what her colleague said before she transmigrated? At that very moment, she was discussing a loophole in the company's newly released online game with Xiao Fang. It was a relatively fatal technical loophole. It was very likely that due to an unbalanced design, the entire game system would lose its balance. If the game were truly released, it would bring a massive loss to the company. And the game, of course, would be recalled and packed away.

But she wasn't the one who discovered this problem. It was discovered by a friend of hers, a top NPC in the game.

She moved the mouse to find the game NPC. QQ – Jie Ling.

Zhu Yao was dazed to find that her hand was no longer out of control. She began to type a message to the other party. And these words were exactly the same as the words before she transmigrated.

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Thank you. The loophole you mentioned last time has been patched by us. You've helped me once again.

Jie Ling: No need to be polite. I only pointed out the existing problem. The one who truly thought of the solution and handled it was you.

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Haha, anyway, I want to thank you. This game has taken a lot of my heart and soul. This game world was created by my own hands. If it were to break because of this, I would be very heartbroken.

Jie Ling: You care about this world very much?

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Of course! It's my life's work!

Jie Ling: I also have a world. It has encountered a bit of a problem.

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Oh, what kind of game is it? Can I help you?

Jie Ling: You are willing to help me?

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Of course! One good turn deserves another. For better or worse, I'm a technical staff member; patching one or two bugs is absolutely no problem!

Jie Ling: Good!

Technical Department Zhu Yao: Alright. What kind of game is it exactly? What problem occurred?

Jie Ling: My problem is...

Before Zhu Yao could see clearly what his problem was, a powerful white light suddenly stabbed toward her, and Zhu Yao woke up with a start.

She looked around somewhat blankly.

This place was Yulin Peak. She was still in the Cultivation World.

Jie Ling was someone she had known five years ago when she first started working as a game technician. At the beginning, she could only make simple web games. And Jie Ling was her very first NPC. He frequently offered key opinions regarding the games. Furthermore, these opinions were usually very accurate. She would follow his suggestions to begin repairs.