Plot got more interesting not a usual cultivation plot. Though most cultivation stories are not isekai or already set in modern time.

Interesting or complicating, confusing and baffling like they came up with something a little ridiculous

I can see they touched up and tried to renovate the donghua by adding the matrix theme logic to it XD. Its a refreshing vibe no doubt to the typical donghua's you watch.

Nah this ain’t refreshing but confusing

The Matrix had a "real world" though; here, they've shown both worlds to be virtual and ruined all logic. If one of them was the real world, then actions in the virtual would have no physical consequence outside. The 9 cuts plan is a poor red/blue pill copycat with a quest attached.

Now y'all interested again huh lol, after y'all doubted this smh.

Eh, the plot is weak. They don't provide enough relevant information to keep us in the loop (without giving it away) and they give us a bunch of useless setup. Honestly, the suspension of disbelief went out the window the moment they showed both worlds being virtual. They should've kept one world as the "real world." The only problem with that, is their new story about 9 cuts in both worlds would fall flat; actions in a virtual world would have no physical consequence in the real world. Now there is no logic anymore, they've said "both worlds are fake, here's a quest... pick an outcome"... a poor red/blue pill copycat with quest attached.

Honestly I think your thinking to hard and to much.... Just because they showed two fake worlds doesn't mean the world MC is from is fake nor the world MC landed in is fake either....The only thing for sure is that we have seen a fake version of each world....Be careful of what you say as your words now may make you look like a complete ass in the future...

Alot of things are making sense now.
-> Summary up until now:
• So basically after our mc was traveling toward Imperial City, Ah Qing also tag along. When Queen Mei’er and Dai Xiao trap Wang Sheng in the Mirage world they have no choice but to catch Ah Qing as well because she was following him.
• Liu Xing is the head of Taoist Temple. And he has two subordinate sort of taoist masters as well. Btw these taoist temple masters don’t pursue immortality. Plus they told Wang Sheng that Dai Family protected the Lin Family while Song Family started the war against Lin Family.
• Queen Mei’er explain Wang Sheng that Dai Xiao is also a candidate who is capable enough to complete Mission Mirage but he is only his alternative or in other words, replacement.
• Mission Mirage is a mission that is based on 9 Cuts plus it’s a dream of Lin Family to make it reality from many centuries. If completed, an illusory world created in Mirage can become a real World. This mission is divided into 2 parts. 4 tasks are in real world and 5 are in imaginary realm which are created by Mirage. Except Queen Mei’er, only heads of the 5 family know about it. Btw 1 task in the 5 imaginary realm has already been resolved.
• It is said that it’s a secret only known by the Queen that if 4 tasks are completed first then Imperial City glory can be restored to it’s peak days but if 5 other tasks are completed first then there is a chance that Imaginary world will become reality and people we know in this Yuan Spirit World can disappear.
• Even though Song Yan memory is gone about Wang Sheng but she did has some information on him plus she also in contact with him via phone card so her amnesia wasn’t the part of Song Ming’s plan.
• Dai Xiao made a deal with Song Ming by asking him to help Wang Sheng with Song Yan plus he also tried to threaten him with Song Yan as well. Song Ming feelings are strong toward Song Yan but it still isn’t strong as his ambitions. It seems like he even saw it in a long run when he ruined his cultivation from the peak of Level 6 to Level 2. Plus his hair can also turn into black now but he’s still pretending that he’s recovering from that sacrifice he made for Song Yan.
-> Additional Info:
Wang Sheng Blood can also help like the Phoenix’s Blood to break through even though your Yuan Spirit don’t has enough Level to let the cultivator breakthrough. For example, Dai Wuji has Level 8 Yuan Spirit but by accidentally licking Wang Sheng’s Blood he started to feel like he is about to break through even though he was already at level 8. Same thing happened with Song Ming as well.
-> Info regarding some Equipments: (Point no 3 is very Important)
1) After selected as a candidate, Queen Mei’er gave a “Mirage Stone” to Dai Xiao.
2) Wang Sheng “Wolf Fang” got upgraded plus got some personality as well. Plus his sniper has also upgraded as well.
3) Lin Family was protecting a headphone type equipment which help Wolf Fang to upgrade as well. Plus it only activated after Wang Sheng wear it (means it was inactive from many centuries). Queen Mei’er said it is a device that even I don’t know about but our Family can sacrifice their lives to protect it. She added by saying it existed long time ago when Wang Sheng reacted by saying that it shouldn’t be existed in this World.
-> Things I don’t know or yet to be discovered in upcoming episodes or seasons:
1) If they are completing the Mission Mirage both parts at different intervals, it can cause different consequences. So is it mean by completing both parts at a same time can replace the old world with a completely different or new world?
2) Don’t know if Queen Mei’er know anything about that USB but most probably it has something to do with Lin Family. I’m just guessing but it feels like Lin Family Ancestor was a scientist who creat/ contributed to creat this world or atleast the ancestor was from another world.
3) Don’t know how much recovery Song Ming has made after he made the Blood Pill to save Song Yan’s life. But atleast it is known that Song Ming is recovering. Is he fully recovered yet? -> is still unknown until this episode.

That's great and all, but what's the point of the queen wanting to do the mission? Changing the world? And everything started with the phoenix girl. Why does the author have to overcomplicate the plot?

Inshort, the answer of your question is, it is because of the herearchy and descrimnation of this world.
This world cultivation system is not much based on someone talent or ability. It rather depends what kind of soul you have abasorb when u started your cultivation. People without cultivation are not even considered as humans but ants.
No matter how much talented u r but u still can't breakthrough to the next level just because the level of the soul u absorbed was low. And many other things but I don't remember all of it now.

I think I grasped the situation basically it’s the continuation of season season the Mc had a big fight which broke the place in season 2 the fight where the girl got poisoned then after that he had a final fight then he was rushed by the enemy and the girl with the mask was told to kill him but she can’t since he saw her face and she had to marry him so she followed him and she got caught by new villain group I think this new guys have some manipulative technology like Mc I think they may be the focus this season they also got Mc and got into his memories but this look like a chess game between two player the woman took Mc side and the guy took the antagonist side and the main heroine had amnesia in last season which broke my heart literally 🥺now it seems she is getting it back 🥹 and Mc got some mirage upgrades to his watch which lets him create a mirage world I think so this is basically I interpreted

Oh I think I get it. Still gives the matrix vibes though.

I can't fucking tell which is real and which is the illusion. This season if utterly fucked

Alot of things are making sense now.
-> Summary up until now:
• So basically after our mc was traveling toward Imperial City, Ah Qing also tag along. When Queen Mei’er and Dai Xiao trap Wang Sheng in the Mirage world they have no choice but to catch Ah Qing as well because she was following him.
• Liu Xing is the head of Taoist Temple. And he has two subordinate sort of taoist masters as well. Btw these taoist temple masters don’t pursue immortality. Plus they told Wang Sheng that Dai Family protected the Lin Family while Song Family started the war against Lin Family.
• Queen Mei’er explain Wang Sheng that Dai Xiao is also a candidate who is capable enough to complete Mission Mirage but he is only his alternative or in other words, replacement.
• Mission Mirage is a mission that is based on 9 Cuts plus it’s a dream of Lin Family to make it reality from many centuries. If completed, an illusory world created in Mirage can become a real World. This mission is divided into 2 parts. 4 tasks are in real world and 5 are in imaginary realm which are created by Mirage. Except Queen Mei’er, only heads of the 5 family know about it. Btw 1 task in the 5 imaginary realm has already been resolved.
• It is said that it’s a secret only known by the Queen that if 4 tasks are completed first then Imperial City glory can be restored to it’s peak days but if 5 other tasks are completed first then there is a chance that Imaginary world will become reality and people we know in this Yuan Spirit World can disappear.
• Even though Song Yan memory is gone about Wang Sheng but she did has some information on him plus she also in contact with him via phone card so her amnesia wasn’t the part of Song Ming’s plan.
• Dai Xiao made a deal with Song Ming by asking him to help Wang Sheng with Song Yan plus he also tried to threaten him with Song Yan as well. Song Ming feelings are strong toward Song Yan but it still isn’t strong as his ambitions. It seems like he even saw it in a long run when he ruined his cultivation from the peak of Level 6 to Level 2. Plus his hair can also turn into black now but he’s still pretending that he’s recovering from that sacrifice he made for Song Yan.
-> Info regarding some Equipments: (Point no 3 is very Important)
1) After selected as a candidate, Queen Mei’er gave a “Mirage Stone” to Dai Xiao.
2) Wang Sheng “Wolf Fang” got upgraded plus got some personality as well. Plus his sniper has also upgraded as well.
3) Lin Family was protecting a headphone type equipment which help Wolf Fang to upgrade as well. Plus it only activated after Wang Sheng wear it (means it was inactive from many centuries). Queen Mei’er said it is a device that even I don’t know about but our Family can sacrifice their lives to protect it. She added by saying it existed long time ago when Wang Sheng reacted by saying that it shouldn’t be existed in this World.
-> Things I don’t know or yet to be discovered in upcoming episodes or seasons:
1) If they are completing the Mission Mirage both parts at different intervals, it can cause different consequences. So is it mean by completing both parts at a same time can replace the old world with a completely different or new world?
2) Don’t know if Queen Mei’er know anything about that USB but most probably it has something to do with Lin Family. I’m just guessing but it feels like Lin Family Ancestor was a scientist who creat/ contributed to creat this world or atleast the ancestor was from another world.
3) Don’t know how much recovery Song Ming has made after he made the Blood Pill to save Song Yan’s life. But atleast it is known that Song Ming is recovering. Is he fully recovered yet? -> is still unknown until this episode.

Alot of things are making sense now.
-> Summary up until now:
• So basically after our mc was traveling toward Imperial City, Ah Qing also tag along. When Queen Mei’er and Dai Xiao trap Wang Sheng in the Mirage world they have no choice but to catch Ah Qing as well because she was following him.
• Liu Xing is the head of Taoist Temple. And he has two subordinate sort of taoist masters as well. Btw these taoist temple masters don’t pursue immortality. Plus they told Wang Sheng that Dai Family protected the Lin Family while Song Family started the war against Lin Family.
• Queen Mei’er explain Wang Sheng that Dai Xiao is also a candidate who is capable enough to complete Mission Mirage but he is only his alternative or in other words, replacement.
• Mission Mirage is a mission that is based on 9 Cuts plus it’s a dream of Lin Family to make it reality from many centuries. If completed, an illusory world created in Mirage can become a real World. This mission is divided into 2 parts. 4 tasks are in real world and 5 are in imaginary realm which are created by Mirage. Except Queen Mei’er, only heads of the 5 family know about it. Btw 1 task in the 5 imaginary realm has already been resolved.
• It is said that it’s a secret only known by the Queen that if first 4 tasks are completed first then Imperial City glory can be restored to it’s peak days but if 5 other tasks are completed first there is a chance that Imaginary world will become reality and people we know in this Yuan Spirit World can disappear.
• Even though Song Ming memory is gone about Wang Sheng but she did has some information on him plus she also in contact with him via phone card so her amnesia wasn’t the part of Song Ming’s plan.
• Dai Xiao did a deal with Song Ming by asking him to help Wang Sheng with Song Yan plus he also tried to threaten him with Song Yan as well. Song Ming feelings are strong toward Song Yan but it still isn’t strong as his ambitions. It seems like he even saw it in a long run when he ruined his cultivation from the peak of Level 6 to Level 2. Plus his hair can also turn into black now but he’s still pretending that he’s recovering from that sacrifice he made for Song Yan.
-> Info regarding some Equipments: (Point no 3 is very Important)
1) After selected as a candidate, Queen Mei’er gave a “Mirage Stone” to Dai Xiao.
2) Wang Sheng “Wolf Fang” got upgraded plus got some personality as well. Plus his sniper has also upgraded as well.
3) Lin Family was protecting a headphone type equipment which help Wolf Fang to upgrade as well. Plus it only activated after Wang Sheng wear it (means it was inactive from many centuries). Queen Mei’er said it is a device that even I don’t know about but our Family can sacrifice their lives to protect it. She added by saying it existed long time ago when Wang Sheng reacted by saying that it shouldn’t be existed in this World.
-> Things I don’t know or yet to be discovered in upcoming episodes or seasons:
1) If they are completing the Mission Mirage both parts at different intervals, it can cause different consequences. So is it mean by completing both parts at a same time can replace the old world with a completely different or new world?
2) Don’t know if Queen Mei’er know anything about that USB but most probably it has something to do with Lin Family. I’m just guessing but it feels like Lin Family Ancestor was a scientist who creat/ contributed to creat this world or atleast the ancestor was from another world.
3) Don’t know how much recovery Song Ming has made after he made the Blood Pill to save Song Yan’s life. But atleast it is known that Song Ming is recovering. Is he fully recovered yet? -> is still unknown until this episode.

This sentence has five cuts.
Word the apple in half.
Does this make any sense to anyone?

Late by 5days late uploading these days😑