Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan accepted East City Villa and a 1% dividend share from Chen Ming's father as thanks for saving his younger son. After buying a luxury BMW, he arrived at the villa and began looking for a place to install the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode.

• Wang Zhifan explained his financial needs to Chen Ming's father, who showed him deeds to his villas.
• Wang Zhifan chose the 888-square-meter East City Villa and declined the offer of additional properties.
• Chen Ming's father granted Wang Zhifan a 1% dividend share in Chen Corporation and arranged the villa's paperwork.
• Wang Zhifan bought a two-million-Xia Kingdom Currency BMW and drove to East City Villa.
• Wang Zhifan explored the property and searched for a suitable place to install the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode.

Wang Zhifan installed the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode inside a wardrobe in his villa and cultivated there overnight. He woke with greatly improved attributes, advanced the Great Dream Saber Scripture to Lv2, and mastered the Dreamflower Saber Technique.

• Wang Zhifan toured his villa and chose a bedroom wardrobe as the concealed entrance to the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode.
• Wang Zhifan fixed the Abode's entrance inside the wardrobe and entered its strange, muddy-yellow void.
• Wang Zhifan cultivated through the night with the Thunder Dragon Rageblade, practicing saber techniques, meditating, and sleeping.
• Wang Zhifan woke to his alarm at nine in the morning and checked his personal panel.
• Wang Zhifan saw that all his basic attributes had risen by three points and the Great Dream Saber Scripture had reached Lv2.
• Wang Zhifan mastered the Dreamflower Saber Technique and noted that his Dream Self's combat power had more than doubled.

Wang Zhifan reflected on the advantages that had helped him cultivate overnight, then received the completed ownership documents for East City Villa. After settling into his new property, he prepared to gear up before running a dungeon, remembering that he could take an extra step beforehand that might involve danger.

• Wang Zhifan considered how the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode, his Blademaster class, and his skills had boosted his cultivation of the Great Dream Saber Scripture.
• Secretary Wu called to say that East City Villa's transfer was complete, and Wang Zhifan arranged to receive the documents that morning.
• Secretary Wu delivered the ownership papers, confirming that the villa had been transferred into Wang Zhifan's name.
• Wang Zhifan walked through the villa grounds, admired the property, and decided it was time to run a dungeon.
• Wang Zhifan recalled a potentially dangerous preparation he could make before the dungeon and equipped his gear.

Wang Zhifan returned to the Limitless Sect’s world to replenish supplies and check whether the Demon Gate had retaliated. After finding the sect unharmed but Sect Master Xiong absent, he collected silver and rode to Pingwu City, where he entered using his Guest Elder Token.

• Wang Zhifan used the Guest Elder Token to travel back to the Limitless Sect’s world, prepared to retreat if he found danger.
• Wang Zhifan arrived at the Limitless Sect plaza and saw no sign of a Demon Gate attack.
• Two Limitless Sect guards told Wang Zhifan that Sect Master Xiong had left early that morning.
• Wang Zhifan withdrew several hundred taels of silver from the sect treasury and stored it in his personal space.
• Wang Zhifan rode his Crimson Deer Horse to Pingwu City and entered by presenting his Guest Elder Token.

Wang Zhifan heard people in Pingwu City discussing his victory over the Demon Gate, bought provisions, and tested whether he could enter an instance from another instance. He arrived on a deserted modern street with three teammates and found himself facing the ominous Apartment 444.

• Wang Zhifan overheard restaurant patrons discussing how he had helped the Limitless Sect defeat the Demon Gate.
• Wang Zhifan bought and inspected food and tea, then transferred the provisions into his personal inventory.
• Wang Zhifan entered an instance from Pingwu City to test whether travel between instance worlds was possible.
• Wang Zhifan arrived on a deserted street with three teammates and saw several people watching from an apartment building.
• Wang Zhifan noticed that the building was called Apartment 444 and had a blood-red sign.

Wang Zhifan and his three teammates entered Apartment 444 to begin an instance requiring each player to complete Blood-Word Missions with original residents. After learning they needed the building manager to move in, they waited in the lobby as an ominous old man emerged from an elevator and approached them.

• Wang Zhifan and his teammates read the instance objective and entered Apartment 444's lobby.
• Wang Zhifan asked a tall girl about moving in, and she told him the building manager would come to meet them.
• The student player suggested that the teammates split up to question the residents, while the middle-aged man and the petite girl hesitated.
• Wang Zhifan sensed a strange presence in the elevator and watched a hunched old man emerge and approach the players.

The building manager explained Apartment 444’s rules, Blood-Word Missions, and the danger of ghosts to Wang Zhifan and the other residents. After Wang Zhifan asked about Ghost Artifacts, the young man in the school uniform demonstrated his supernatural fire, but the manager warned it would not be enough to fight ghosts.

• The building manager summoned the young man in the school uniform and explained that residents were safe inside Apartment 444 as long as they obeyed its rules.
• The building manager described the required Blood-Word Missions, travel by Bus 444, the threat of ghosts, and the option to leave after completing thirty missions and passing a final trial.
• Wang Zhifan asked whether they had moved in, what missions involved, and what Ghost Artifacts were; the manager answered and warned that using Ghost Artifacts came at a price.
• The young man in the school uniform displayed blue-white flames and asked whether his power could fight ghosts.
• The building manager told the young man that his fire would not be much use against ghosts and warned him not to confront them head-on.

Wang Zhifan and the other newcomers moved into rooms on the fourth floor of Apartment 444, where the building manager explained his own return after completing thirty Blood-Word Missions. In room 403, the four players shared their levels and classes before discussing whether to complete missions together or separately.

• The building manager said he had completed thirty Blood-Word Missions, passed the test, returned to reality, and later chose to come back.
• The building manager assigned the newcomers consecutive rooms 403 through 406 on the fourth floor of Apartment 444.
• The young man in the school uniform invited Wang Zhifan, the petite girl, and the middle-aged man into room 403 to discuss the dungeon.
• The young man revealed he was a Lv27 Mage, the girl a Lv24 Assassin, and the middle-aged man a Lv25 Gunner; Wang Zhifan claimed to be a Lv28 Warrior but hid his marker because he was actually Lv6.
• The young man raised whether the four should complete Blood-Word Missions as a team, requiring twelve missions together, or separately, requiring three each but carrying greater risks.

Wang Zhifan and the other three newcomers agreed to team up for their first Blood-Word Mission, then split up to investigate the apartment residents. After gathering little useful information upstairs, Wang Zhifan noticed a black bus numbered 444 approaching the building.

• The school-uniformed young man suggested that the four newcomers complete their first Blood-Word Mission together, and Wang Zhifan, the girl, and the middle-aged man agreed.
• The group decided to gather information separately, with the school-uniformed young man questioning residents downstairs and Wang Zhifan questioning residents upstairs.
• Wang Zhifan questioned residents on the fourth through sixth floors, but most refused to talk or had no experience with the missions.
• Wang Zhifan estimated that the building held more than a hundred residents, perhaps as many as two hundred, with at least a quarter being newcomers.
• Wang Zhifan saw a black bus with route number 444 approaching the apartment building.

Wang Zhifan watched residents return from a mission on the Route 444 Bus, but the building manager admitted only three inside and exposed another as a ghost. The ghost remained outside the sealed entrance as the manager praised He Ping and Liu Fang for surviving their seventh mission.

• Wang Zhifan hurried downstairs after spotting the Route 444 Bus return to the apartment building.
• The building manager threw a short middle-aged man back outside, then urged the other returning residents to enter.
• A tall middle-aged man, a young woman in red cloth shoes, and a bespectacled man in a bloodstained trench coat entered before the manager shut the doors.
• A leather-jacketed young man left outside transformed into a female ghost, while the short man who had been thrown out disappeared.
• The building manager said three residents had returned safely and praised He Ping and Liu Fang for completing their seventh missions.

Wang Zhifan observed the returning residents and concluded that the apartment’s missions might be manageable, though he planned to investigate with his teammates before deciding. At dinner, the players discussed the ghosts and Ghost Artifacts they might face in the next mission, and the middle-aged man revealed he had Spirit Bullets to fight them.

• Wang Zhifan watched the Route 444 Black Bus leave, saw a ghost abandon a leather-jacketed young man who then died, and noticed the Ghost Artifacts carried by He Ping and Liu Fang.
• Wang Zhifan judged that the missions might not be especially difficult because ordinary residents had survived them, but decided to investigate with his teammates first.
• The school-uniformed young man told the players that He Ping had survived a night-in-the-woods mission by relying on a Ghost Artifact while the other five residents were killed by ghosts.
• The Assassin suggested taking Ghost Artifacts, but the school-uniformed young man warned that stealing them could break the balance between their users and the ghosts.
• The middle-aged man said his Spirit Bullets could restrain ghosts and offered to use them in the next mission.
• Wang Zhifan said he had nothing more to add and that the players would see how they fared in the next mission.

Wang Zhifan and the other residents gathered to choose among four dangerous Blood-Word Missions, and the building manager analyzed the risks of each. The chapter ended with the manager insisting that the residents could choose only from the four missions issued by the apartment.

• The building manager called twelve residents, including Wang Zhifan and three other players, to choose missions while the rest returned to their rooms.
• The manager announced missions at Rotten Bone Lake, Ghost Village, the Land of Great Crying and Dead People's Temple, and Deathwind Mountain.
• A young man in a school uniform asked the manager to analyze the missions, and the manager warned that all four were dangerous.
• The young man asked for different missions after hearing the warnings, but the manager said the apartment issued the missions and offered no alternatives.

Wang Zhifan and his teammates chose the Deathwind Mountain mission and joined the other Apartment 444 residents on the Route 444 Black Bus. On the way to the mission, Wang Zhifan spotted a bloodstained lab-coated passenger whom he suspected belonged to Thirteenth Hospital.

• A beer-bellied man begged the building manager to postpone his Blood-Word Mission, but the manager refused and warned that residents who skipped their missions would face the consequences.
• Wang Zhifan and his three teammates agreed to choose the mountain-climbing mission, and the other residents also favored it.
• All twelve residents committed to climbing Deathwind Mountain, and the building manager recorded their choices before they waited for the bus.
• A black bus arrived about fifteen minutes later, and the twelve residents boarded without incident while Wang Zhifan watched for danger.
• Wang Zhifan noticed a pale young man in a bloodstained lab coat reading at the back of the bus and suspected he came from Thirteenth Hospital.

Wang Zhifan rode the Route 444 Bus toward Beheading Junction, observing hostile entities outside and learning about Thirteenth Hospital. When the bus stopped, he prevented a passenger from stepping off after the man claimed he saw his wife and child.

• Wang Zhifan spotted the lanky female ghost from the previous day watching him through a ruined building's window, but he refrained from attacking her.
• Other apartment residents panicked after seeing frightening entities outside the bus while Wang Zhifan continued observing the streets.
• The mage teammate reported that the man in the white lab coat belonged to Thirteenth Hospital, whose doctors had methods for fighting evil entities.
• At Beheading Junction, Wang Zhifan and the Assassin girl guarded the open doors, and Wang Zhifan stopped a potbellied passenger from leaving the bus.
• The passenger regained his senses and told Wang Zhifan that he had seen his wife and child beckoning him to get off.

Wang Zhifan and the other passengers watched a resident ignore his warning and rush off Bus 444 toward the family he imagined, where an unseen force beheaded him. The survivors debated whether to protect the remaining residents or reduce their numbers as the bus continued toward Hell Academy.

• Wang Zhifan warned the potbellied man that his family could not be there, but voices calling from outside made the man rush toward the closing bus doors.
• Wang Zhifan stopped the Assassin girl from intervening as the man escaped onto the intersection and embraced empty air.
• An invisible attack severed the man's head, and Wang Zhifan examined the scene before warning the seven remaining residents to stay cautious and resist temptation.
• The school-uniformed young man praised Wang Zhifan's coldness, while the middle-aged gunman suggested reducing the residents' numbers to ease their burden.
• The Assassin girl urged them not to eliminate residents too quickly, and Wang Zhifan warned that the unseen beheading attack made cooperation important.

Wang Zhifan and the other players escorted the Apartment 444 residents by bus to Deathwind Mountain, where their mission required them to reach the summit and watch the sunset. As they began climbing, they spotted Anomalies farther up the path.

• Three hooded Hell Academy members boarded the bus, and an Apartment 444 resident screamed that they were ghosts.
• Wang Zhifan restrained the frightened resident and apologized to the Hell Academy members, preventing a confrontation.
• The bus carried the group past the Thirteenth Hospital passenger and the Hell Academy members before reaching Deathwind Mountain.
• Wang Zhifan and the other players arranged the eleven-person group and led them up the mountain path.
• The group spotted several Anomalies farther up the trail.

Wang Zhifan and the apartment residents climbed the mountain path while the players fought off several ghost attacks. The group continued upward, but a resident was swallowed by the path and vanished.

• Three ghosts appeared ahead, and the middle-aged gunslinger drove them off with Spirit Bullets.
• A bloody hand burst from the ground to attack the gunslinger, but he and the school-uniformed mage destroyed it.
• Wang Zhifan urged the residents to keep moving after they stared at the mage's flames.
• The Assassin girl returned from scouting, but a female ghost disguised as her attacked Wang Zhifan, who slashed the ghost and drove her away.
• An apartment resident sank into the mountain path until he disappeared completely.

After a resident vanished into the mountain path, the middle-aged gunman shot another resident and forced the survivors to keep climbing. At a fork, Wang Zhifan found two likely Ghost Artifacts, and the young mage ordered a resident to test one.

• A resident disappeared into the mountain path, and the middle-aged gunman shot a frail resident who challenged his orders.
• The gunman threatened the remaining residents into continuing uphill while Wang Zhifan and the young mage stayed silent.
• The young mage told the gunman he sensed something watching them, while Wang Zhifan worried that the missing Assassin player had been killed.
• After more than ten minutes, the group reached a fork where Wang Zhifan spotted a bloodstained coat and hiking shoes with powerful Anomaly auras.
• The gunman refused to touch the suspected Ghost Artifacts, and the young mage ordered a middle-aged resident to approach the coat.

A young man in a school uniform pressured residents to test two bloodstained items that appeared to be Ghost Artifacts. Two residents put them on without difficulty, leaving Wang Zhifan puzzled by how easily they had obtained them.

• The young man in the school uniform forced a middle-aged resident to approach the Blood Garment, then ordered him to put it on.
• A tall, skinny young man volunteered, put on the Blood Garment, and reported that it felt like ordinary clothing.
• Wang Zhifan advised the tall, skinny young man to keep the garment on, while the young man in the school uniform invited someone to try the Blood Shoes.
• The middle-aged resident who had backed out earlier returned and put on the Blood Shoes without incident.
• Wang Zhifan questioned why the two apparent Ghost Artifacts had been so easy to claim.

Wang Zhifan’s group climbed the mountain as the two residents leading them were overtaken by the Anomaly and transformed into ghosts. A far more powerful Anomaly confronted Wang Zhifan and offered him a deal.

• Wang Zhifan sent the two residents wearing the Blood Garment and Blood Shoes to the front while he guarded the group from behind, and learned that the Assassin girl was still missing.
• The eight climbers followed the left-hand path for about an hour before Wang Zhifan noticed the two residents walking strangely and called them out.
• The young man in the Blood Garment began laughing in a woman’s voice and tried to strangle himself, while the middle-aged man in the Blood Shoes revealed a corpse-like face.
• The two residents transformed into the female ghost and blood ghost the climbers had encountered earlier.
• The short middle-aged Anomaly appeared on the path behind them, declared that Wang Zhifan was in its world, and offered him a deal; Wang Zhifan sensed that it was vastly stronger than the other ghosts.