Chapter Summaries

Su Luo investigated the Great Being’s Invitation Letter and confirmed that Layton’s [Planar Stalker] class let him travel freely between worlds. He decided to connect Layton’s zone to Yun Xiaoxiao’s Dungeon, then heard a strange voice address him.

• Su Luo followed a direction indicated in his dream while searching for Purple Skills.
• Layton returned to his scrap-metal island and discovered traces of Mana near his home.
• Layton found a Survivor from Zone 76 and agreed to hear about the zone’s cross-regional cooperation plan.
• Su Luo confirmed Layton’s ability to travel between worlds and decided to send Yun Xiaoxiao’s Dungeon to Layton’s zone.
• Su Luo reflected on how the Invitation Letter had benefited unusual Survivors before a strange voice interrupted him.

Su Luo was pulled into a vast, layered dream ruled by a towering structure and found his powers heavily suppressed. After the Six-Eyed Giant Whale addressed him, the dream presented four starting choices, but Su Luo had not yet chosen when the chapter ended.

• Su Luo located a massive dream marked as a quest site, but an irresistible force pulled his consciousness inside.
• Su Luo arrived on a dark plain beneath a colossal tower and found a six-eyed giant whale at its base.
• Su Luo contacted the Mutual Aid Association and arranged for Yun Xiaoxiao to tell Xiao Luo that he was safe.
• Su Luo sensed that the dream was divided into connected layers and discovered that its rules suppressed his abilities.
• The Six-Eyed Giant Whale told Su Luo to choose, and the dream displayed four options involving cards, Relics, and a curse.

Su Luo chose to obtain a card, but the Six-Eyed Giant Whale’s interrupted speech brought a dead warrior crashing down from the Tower. The whale revived him, and Iron Guard introduced himself before leading Su Luo into the Tower, where they found a crude, dilapidated bottom floor.

• Su Luo examined the rules of his Source Essence Circulator and the active Desolation Plague effects, then chose to obtain a card.
• The Six-Eyed Giant Whale began speaking, causing the choices to vanish as a humanoid corpse fell from above the Tower.
• The whale’s mournful call stripped away the corpse’s darkness and wounds, reviving the warrior, who named himself Iron Guard.
• Iron Guard said he remembered needing to climb the corrupted Tower, and Su Luo agreed to follow him inside.
• Su Luo questioned Iron Guard about the Tower, but Iron Guard could not remember its origin or what he had to defeat.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard entered the Tower and found its bottom floor crude and dilapidated.

Su Luo and Iron Guard entered a turn-based card battle against a Cultist inside the Tower, learning the fight’s rules and the enemy’s abilities. The Cultist attacked them as the second round began, after Su Luo gained a defensive bonus and played his cards.

• Su Luo discovered that Tower combat used cards and examined his deck, while Iron Guard explained that their paired climb had increased the Cultist’s health.
• Iron Guard struck the Cultist with [Bash] and [Strike], applying Vulnerable, and explained the monster’s Intent and status effects.
• Su Luo played [Subconscious Reasoning] and [Fireball], then ended his turn and exhausted [Ascender's Bane].
• The Cultist used Ritual to gain strength at the end of its turn, and Iron Guard warned that it would attack in the next round.
• Su Luo spent two points of Source Essence for three armor at the start of each turn, then played two [Attacks] and one [Defend].
• The Cultist attacked Iron Guard and Su Luo with pale arcs of light.

Su Luo learned how combat and card rewards worked in the tower, then created a card suited to his own power before climbing toward the next room with Iron Guard. Meanwhile, Han Song hid in a ruined world beneath a blood-red moon, where humanity and the aberrant monsters had vanished and urban legends now roamed.

• Su Luo and Iron Guard defeated the Cultist, with Su Luo using Fireball to burn it to ashes and earn two Source Essence.
• Iron Guard collected his gold and chose a spectral card, while Su Luo found that his three reward cards were blank because he was an outsider to the tower.
• Su Luo infused the highest-quality blank card with Spell Mastery, which upgraded his attack and defense cards for the rest of a battle.
• Iron Guard led Su Luo up a stone staircase toward an unknown room in the tower.
• Han Song hid among the ruins on the thirtieth day of the Trial Instance and observed a world beneath a blood-red moon where humanity and aberrant monsters had disappeared.

Han Song’s attempt to save the world collapsed after the Blood Moon unleashed beings that wiped out humanity, and a mysterious music box appeared against his chest. At the Tower, Su Luo removed a card from his deck and took two potions from a blue sprite without paying.

• Han Song recalled how he had killed Dongli Cang, briefly ending the global Mutation and believing he had saved civilization.
• The Blood Moon rose three days later, bringing urban legends that replaced the mutants and killed the surviving humans within days.
• A music box appeared between Han Song’s chest and the ground, and a distorted melody began playing in his mind.
• Su Luo followed Iron Guard through the Tower and learned that the blue sprite sold items and could remove cards from decks.
• Su Luo paid 75 gold to remove an ordinary [Defend] card, then took two potions from the blue sprite without paying.

Su Luo explored a chamber with a blue Winged Spirit statue, then fought a Great Jaw Worm in the corridor beyond and created a new area-damage card after defeating it. The chapter ended with Iron Guard badly wounded at 2/75 HP as Su Luo asked whether he was about to die.

• Iron Guard prayed before the blue Winged Spirit statue and fell into a deep sleep, while Su Luo collected its scattered coins and examined its power.
• Iron Guard woke, and Su Luo led him onward into a corridor where a Great Jaw Worm attacked them.
• Su Luo used [Spell Mastery] and defensive cards while Iron Guard helped him withstand the worm's attacks.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard defeated the Great Jaw Worm, and Su Luo chose to create [Elemental Collapse] as a card.
• Su Luo noticed Iron Guard's armor was cracked and his HP had dropped to 2/75, then asked if he was about to die.

Su Luo and Iron Guard discovered how relics and sacrifices could restore and strengthen Iron Guard while uncovering his purpose and the identity of the Eternal Night Court. After they upgraded their cards at a bonfire, they continued climbing and encountered two lice.

• Iron Guard sacrificed memories to restore his armor and health and permanently gained one point each in strength and agility.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard opened a chest containing the [Two Principles] relic and a red skull, which Iron Guard fused with his mask.
• Iron Guard remembered that he sought revenge against a demon and wanted to destroy the tower, and he told Su Luo that their surroundings were the Eternal Night Court.
• At a bonfire, Iron Guard forged a card while Su Luo upgraded [Spell Mastery], giving it the [Innate] attribute.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard continued climbing and found a red louse and a green louse in the next room.

Su Luo and Iron Guard opened the tower’s first-floor boss room and found a monstrous doppelganger of Iron Guard, while Su Luo’s separate consciousness continued experiments in the laboratory. The chapter left the boss fight poised to begin and Nanmen Shi trapped in a painful strengthening chamber.

• Su Luo collected the Strawberry relic and printed new cards, while Iron Guard recalled that he had climbed the tower many times and knew Lan Weide as a biologist.
• Iron Guard warned Su Luo that the tower punished infinite card loops, so Su Luo kept his infinite-build idea as a trump card.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard opened the boss room and found the Demon Doppelganger, a red, empowered version of Iron Guard with 3,200 HP.
• Iron Guard recognized the boss as his former self and predicted it would deal sixty damage while inflicting vulnerable and weak.
• Xiao Luo noticed Nanmen Shi in the laboratory, judged him more useful for inheritance experiments than breeding, and threw him into a cultivation chamber to strengthen him.

Xiao Luo remodeled the laboratory while traveling through the Land of Darkness to secure another Purple Skill, but turned back after Yun Xiaoxiao reported an abnormal Blood Moon in Zone 76. As the Blood Moon rose, Han Song returned with a Forbidden Class and was vaporized when a shadow arm emerged from him and triggered the Mutual Aid Association's buried bomb.

• Nanmen Shi crawled out of the cultivation chamber and saw Mo Xiaoyu and Yuan Dong deliver sealed canisters before leaving in silence.
• Xiao Luo rebuilt the laboratory with technology from Yuncang No. 0 and hurried through the Land of Darkness in pursuit of another Purple Skill.
• Yun Xiaoxiao warned Xiao Luo that an abnormal Blood Moon had appeared in Zone 76, so Xiao Luo turned the laboratory around and headed back.
• Han Song returned to the Land of Darkness with a Forbidden Class, but a pale arm emerged from his shadow and wrapped around his neck.
• A supervisor from the Mutual Aid Association's Supervision Department detonated a buried bomb, vaporizing Han Song and the shadow arm.

Han Song’s soul was captured for possible resurrection after the nuclear blast, while the destroyed shadow entity manifested as a Blood Moon above Zone 76. The Blood Moon became trapped by the zone’s barrier and began seeking energy by spreading mental contamination among the survivors.

• Han Song’s amulet protected a remnant of his soul, and a Supervision Department specialist sealed it in a bottle for assessment and possible resurrection.
• The shadow entity’s remaining dark-red light expanded into a Blood Moon above Zone 76, prompting Number Two to order reconnaissance, evacuations, and maximum defenses.
• Number Two rejected another nuclear strike, warning that the explosion had fed the entity, and prioritized learning from Han Song’s memories while awaiting the president and Consultant Su.
• The Blood Moon struck the barrier separating Zone 76 from the Land of Darkness and became trapped about forty kilometers above the zone.
• The Blood Moon absorbed Mana and energy from monsters, then used Blood Moon Whisper to spread fear and mental contamination among the survivors, though the zone’s defenses weakened its effect.

Su Luo fought the Tower’s floor guardian, the [Demon Doppelganger], while Iron Guard burned away his cards and memories to survive. After Iron Guard died and reappeared unharmed, Su Luo defeated the boss and cleared the first floor.

• Su Luo used [Zero Protocol] to strip the [Demon Doppelganger] of its defenses and buffs, then dealt heavy damage with his cards.
• Iron Guard ran out of cards after burning them to heal and strengthen himself, then died beneath the boss’s greatsword.
• Su Luo managed his resources alone and killed the [Demon Doppelganger] with [Elemental Collapse] and [Fireball].
• The first floor cleared, revealing a staircase and a purple-hazed treasure chest, and Su Luo saw Iron Guard standing unharmed behind him.

After Iron Guard absorbed the Demon Doppelganger’s power and cards, Su Luo rejected the Relic’s offered upgrades and used its connection to his real power instead. The two entered the Tower’s second stage, a vast and bizarre dream city where new rules and monsters awaited.

• Iron Guard reformed with the Demon Doppelganger’s energy and cards, recovered memories, and concluded that defeating mirror images was how to climb the Tower and seek revenge.
• Su Luo questioned whether Iron Guard had once possessed demonic power, then found the treasure chest empty and saw that his [Source Essence Circulator] could be upgraded.
• Su Luo bypassed the Relic’s three preset upgrade paths and strengthened its connection to his own power, while Iron Guard waited and examined his new deck.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard went to the second floor, where Su Luo’s Relic gained the [Source Essence Return] effect.
• Iron Guard identified their new location as the Tower’s second stage, a bizarre city with stranger rules and more varied monsters, while Su Luo studied the dream.

Su Luo exploited a prolonged fight on the Tower’s second floor to farm Source Essence despite the escalating Desolation Plagues. He used the Source Essence Return card to transfer 500 units toward the suppressed power core of his real body, through a destination hidden in the gaps between the Tower’s rules.

• Su Luo learned that the Desolation Plague punished taboo strategies, then printed Elemental Control to pair with Elemental Collapse.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard fought an Orb Guardian while Su Luo converted energy and HP into Source Essence and relied on armor to survive.
• The Desolation Plagues escalated during the drawn-out battle, strengthening enemies and limiting Su Luo to fifteen cards per turn.
• Su Luo accumulated 543 Source Essence as Iron Guard grew alarmed and began taking damage from the Orb Guardian.
• Source Essence Return consumed 500 Source Essence and directed it toward the power core of Su Luo’s real body.

Su Luo broke through the Tower’s restrictions and defeated the Orb Guardian without using a card, while Han Song returned from his trial to warn Number One about the Blood Moon. As its influence intensified and monsters moved toward the Safe Zones, Number One ordered the defenses strengthened and Number Two’s team to act.

• Su Luo used a fraction of his own power to kill the Orb Guardian, then began absorbing energy from the Tower and its monsters.
• Jing Yunxin restored Han Song after confirming his special item and soul were stable, and Han Song told Number One how the Weird Tale Era and Blood Moon began.
• Number One and Han Song concluded that the Blood Moon was likely a powerful individual weird tale rather than the source of all weird tales.
• The Analysis Group reported that the Blood Moon’s mental contamination was increasing and its strengthened monsters were organizing to approach Safe Zones.
• Number One ordered the Safe Zones to reinforce their defenses, continue the standoff, and notify Number Two’s side to act.
• The Blood Moon’s red light warped the surroundings as something began hatching among the shadows and monsters.

Ding Lexin’s squad investigated Blood Moon monsters and discovered that the phenomenon was spreading beyond the [Dangerous Terrain]. The squad encountered a strange tale that replaced their teammate’s eyes, and then Ding Lexin heard a disturbing jumble of notes.

• A strange tale formed among the Blood Moon monsters, opened dozens of red eyes, and vanished from sight.
• Ding Lexin’s squad recorded that the monsters were growing stronger, leaving the [Dangerous Terrain], and sharing awareness through the Blood Moon.
• Ding Lexin checked the squad’s sanity and prepared to withdraw, but the burly man’s left eyeball detached without him noticing.
• The squad fled and tried mental defenses, but the burly man’s right eyeball also fell out, revealing a strange tale in his empty sockets.
• Ding Lexin saw that the strange tale had taken the man’s eyes, then turned toward a teammate and heard a jumble of loud and soft notes.

Su Luo and Iron Guard entered another Dream Tower room, where Su Luo’s cheat triggered the Desolation Plague and drew Jingjing into their group. Su Luo planned to rush through the Tower’s second stage and defeat its boss before the Tower’s rules could overwhelm him.

• Su Luo finished communicating with Qin Lang about new urban legends in Zone 76 and entered the next Dream Tower room with Iron Guard.
• Su Luo and Iron Guard found Jingjing fighting three red-masked monsters, whose health surged to 900 under the Desolation Plague.
• Jingjing told Su Luo and Iron Guard that she climbed the Tower for her clan’s mission and faith, then fell into a Psychic Shock when Su Luo asked what had happened to her clan outside the Tower.
• Su Luo killed the three monsters with Black Flame, and Iron Guard explained to Jingjing that Su Luo was using a One-Shot Cheat.
• Jingjing accepted Su Luo and Iron Guard’s offer to team up after the Desolation Plague attached itself to her.
• Su Luo proposed rushing through the second stage to defeat its boss and strengthen his Relic before the Tower’s rules could stop him.

Su Luo, Iron Guard, and Jingjing chose to fight a first-stage boss, but the Tower’s transfer took them somewhere unexpected: a burned village marked as belonging to the Ironclad Legion. Unable to draw cards outside a battle, they faced a scene of destruction and wondered whether they were still inside the Tower.

• Su Luo defeated a monster with his restored power, collected its card container and gold, and accumulated more Desolation Plagues.
• Su Luo asked whether Iron Guard and Jingjing could use their abilities without cards, and Jingjing said the Tower’s cards only packaged her instincts.
• The group encountered a third-stage event offering three choices, and Su Luo chose to fight the first-stage boss for a rare Relic.
• As the Tower transferred them, Su Luo converted its leaking energy into Source Essence and reclaimed about one percent of his original power.
• Su Luo, Iron Guard, and Jingjing arrived at a burning village marked Ironclad Legion, where corpses in armor lay scattered among the ruins.
• Su Luo and the others found they could not draw cards and questioned whether they were still inside the Tower.

Su Luo, Jingjing, and Iron Guard were exiled into a past Era Fragment, where Iron Guard relived how a demon had granted his wish for strength by slaughtering his people. Iron Guard attacked the demon, but it overwhelmed him as Jingjing explained that the Desolation Plague had devastated the Eternal Night Court.

• Su Luo, Jingjing, and Iron Guard found themselves in a burning village from the past, which Jingjing identified as the Eternal Night Court after the Desolation Plague.
• Iron Guard remembered that he had prayed for power, and the demon had answered by killing his people while leaving him alive as the strongest of them.
• The demon taunted Iron Guard, who erupted in purple flames and charged it while Su Luo and Jingjing watched from behind a low wall.
• Jingjing explained that the Desolation Plague, not the demon, had been the greatest danger to the Eternal Night Court, and that she had entered the Tower seeking its cause.
• The demon overpowered Iron Guard despite his burning cards to heal and strengthen himself, leaving him gradually silent.

Jingjing explained why tower climbers believed the Tower’s summit could grant wishes, while Su Luo faced the demon attacking Iron Guard. Su Luo’s Outer Cycle · Myriad Spell Domain overwhelmed the demon, and he asked the wounded Iron Guard what the gods of his world were like.

• Su Luo questioned why Iron Guard sought revenge by climbing the Tower, and Jingjing explained that climbers hoped to find answers and end the Desolation Plague at its summit.
• The demon tossed the nearly dead Iron Guard toward Su Luo and Jingjing, then charged Su Luo after sensing his strange flame.
• Su Luo ignited [Heartfire] in the demon’s mind, but the demon relied on its powerful body and struck at him.
• Su Luo’s Outer Cycle · Myriad Spell Domain activated, severed the demon’s hand, and blasted away nearly half its body.
• The domain expanded and trapped the half-dead demon, while Su Luo picked up Iron Guard and asked him about the gods of his world.