Recaps

Xu Lang defeated Raphael in the Mad King Trial, learned about the Blood Empire and its fallen ruler, then extracted a valuable crystal and selected powerful attribute talents. He left the chapter preparing to use the Grand Tournament Imagery Crystal after reviewing his new abilities.

• Xu Lang defeated Raphael, questioned him, and learned that the Mad King had destroyed the Blood Empire while attempting to ascend to godhood.
• Xu Lang defeated Raphael again, used the Scarlet Shepherd Lock to extract a crystal, and took Raphael's black blade in a later attempt.
• Xu Lang identified the crystal as a level 30 Blood Empire Grand Tournament Imagery Crystal and decided to use it after choosing his attribute talents.
• Xu Lang acquired the constitution talents Principle of Strength and Heart of Negentropy, then reviewed the remaining talents: Ultimate Liberation, King's Bearing, and Overlord.

Xu Lang chose Ultimate Liberation and passed his true-body mental limit-break trial, gaining new mental talents and choosing Transcendence. He discovered that the Nightmare Bed restored Sanity, then prepared to fuse his Blood Pelican Demon Blade before exploring new territory.

• Xu Lang chose Ultimate Liberation, then entered the simulated dreamscape to face the Ancient God Phonograph and passed two mental limit-break trials.
• Xu Lang noticed his Sanity recovering while he rested on the Nightmare Bed and used the bed to recover before the true-body trial.
• Xu Lang endured the Ancient God Phonograph’s ravings for three minutes, seized the phonograph, and gained Power and Will and Madness Mind.
• Xu Lang chose Transcendence from the remaining mental talents and learned that Cao Yaxuan and the others were selling supplies in the Safe Zone.
• Xu Lang refused Tong Qi’s request to let Cao Yaxuan visit the Forbidden Land, inspected two Blood Empire longswords, and stored the Ancient God Phonograph without dismantling it.
• Xu Lang entered Dreamland again, intending to improve his preparations and fuse the Blood Pelican Demon Blade.

Xu Lang fused and upgraded several long sabers, creating the Epic weapon Soul-Suppressing Purgatory March, whose powerful effects and growth potential stunned him. He bound the blade and discovered that its March effect greatly increased his attack speed.

• Xu Lang fused two standard-issue Blood Empire long sabers into the Epic weapon Kingslayer, then upgraded the Blood Pelican Demon Blade and chose Shadow of Slaughter.
• Xu Lang fused Shadow of Slaughter with Kingslayer, but the result remained limited to Epic-tier effects.
• Xu Lang fused the Myriad Purple Blade with other weapons and created the level-fifteen Epic saber Soul-Suppressing Purgatory March, which had nine effects and could grow by absorbing souls.
• Xu Lang bound Soul-Suppressing Purgatory March and found that it moved like an extension of his body.
• Xu Lang swung the bound saber and realized its March effect made his attacks far faster than before.

Xu Lang advanced his Martial God skill, then inspected the unusual items Cao Yaxuan and the others brought back and discovered a valuable rusted dagger. He went to Pioneer Camp to ask Li Wenwen to restore it, while she secretly admired his changed appearance.

• Xu Lang used the Transcendence Talent in a simulated dreamscape and raised his Martial God skill to level 3.
• Cao Yaxuan, Xu Xiaomeng, Xu Ruyan, Tong Qi, and the others returned with bags of unidentified items, and Xu Lang dismissed most of them as junk.
• Tong Qi showed Xu Lang a dagger that his Nightmare Eye identified as a top-quality weapon concealed beneath rust, and he decided to take it to Li Wenwen.
• Xu Lang left home to explore the Blood Mist World and reached Pioneer Camp with the Soul Shepherd Wolf.
• Xu Lang asked Li Wenwen to repair the dagger, and she accepted it while secretly admiring him.

Xu Lang visited Li Wenwen to have his Purgatory March strengthened while Zhang Dahai shared warnings and a map of the Blood Mist World. Li Wenwen managed to strengthen the weapon to +6 before collapsing from exhaustion, and Xu Lang left with the Soul Shepherd Wolf to explore.

• Xu Lang met Zhang Dahai in Li Wenwen's tent and heard his warnings about three dangerous areas.
• Li Wenwen repaired a dagger for Xu Lang, who traded it to Xu Ruyan before asking her to strengthen the Purgatory March.
• After strengthening the weapon for half an hour, Li Wenwen collapsed, having raised the Purgatory March to +6.
• Xu Lang revealed that the Purgatory March dealt ten thousand damage, then used a healing item to help Li Wenwen recover.
• Zhang Dahai gave Xu Lang his detailed map, and Xu Lang left the tent with the Soul Shepherd Wolf to enter the Blood Mist World.

Xu Lang slaughtered his way through the Blood Mist World, cutting down its monsters before confronting and killing the Cloaked Man. Afterward, the Cloaked Man’s soul was claimed by the Grave Pasture instead of Purgatory March.

• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Eye to learn that the Blood Mist was a chaotic natural disaster, then killed a humanoid monster and watched its soul enter Purgatory March.
• Xu Lang entered the Art Building and destroyed its powerful Blood Mist Creatures while the Soul Shepherd Wolf followed him.
• Xu Lang carved a bloody path through the Blood Mist World, then spotted a great serpent coiled around a church and decided to leave it for another time.
• The Cloaked Man appeared and charged at Xu Lang, who severed both his arms with Ghost Slash.
• Xu Lang struck off the Cloaked Man’s head, and the Scarlet Shepherd Sequence intercepted his soul and sent it to the Grave Pasture.

Xu Lang returned from the Blood Mist after massacring countless creatures, then gained a new Martial God milestone and entered the Divine Trial. The trial immersed him in combat knowledge from countless worlds, ending with his body dying as his final slash shattered the starry sky.

• Xu Lang ordered the Soul Shepherd Wolf to swallow the Cloaked Man’s corpse and spoke with Ninth Floor players who had reached Ginkgo Avenue.
• The players discovered a vast wall of monster corpses left by Xu Lang, but Wu Huihui ordered everyone to retreat after huge Centipedes appeared and killed looters.
• Xu Lang meditated atop the National Pillar and raised Martial God to level 5, unlocking the Divine Trial at the Gymnasium.
• The Dormitory Building explained that Divine Trials granted techniques at skill milestones and that Nightmare Eye’s level-50 trial involved a battle for control of the laws in the Forsaken Land.
• Xu Lang began the Divine Trial and absorbed combat knowledge from masters across civilizations, swinging Purgatory March until his body died and his final strike shattered the starry sky.

Xu Lang’s Ultimate Way: Void-Sundering Slash transformed the Gymnasium into the god-tier Ironblood Arena, where players could fight forced deathmatches. As players gathered to investigate, Hu Jianguo challenged Zhou Chang, and Xu Lang led his group inside to watch.

• Xu Lang unleashed Ultimate Way: Void-Sundering Slash, destroying the Gymnasium stands and shaking its dome.
• The Dormitory Broadcast announced that the Gymnasium had become the Ironblood Arena, with deathmatch Duels and ticketed performances.
• Hu Jianguo challenged Zhou Chang to a deathmatch over the deaths of Hu Jianguo’s wife and daughter, and their performance was scheduled for ten minutes later.
• Xu Lang arranged for Xu Xiaomeng to join the group, warned Li Shuwen to protect Li Wenwen, and said the Arena was a good addition to the building.
• Xu Lang bought a ticket and entered the Arena with his group, while Fusheng Xi and his tenants approached the gates afterward.

At the newly opened Arena, Xu Lang’s group encountered Bei Moting, a player from Sky Dome Building who provoked Xu Lang into a Duel. Xu Lang learned that players from different Dormitory Buildings could challenge one another, and the chapter left the invitation option available.

• Xu Lang and the other Mad King Building players appeared in the Arena stands but could not move freely until they had participated in a performance.
• Bei Moting arrived from Sky Dome Building and decided the Mad King Building players were inexperienced targets.
• Xu Lang used Nightmare Eye to inspect Bei Moting and inferred that Dormitory Buildings were shielding their players from cross-building information.
• Bei Moting gestured provocatively at several players, identified Xu Lang as the apparent boss, and challenged him to fight.
• Tong Qi discovered she could send Bei Moting a Duel invitation, while Cao Yaxuan angrily reacted to his insults.

Xu Lang registered as Purgatory and challenged Bei Moting to a duel in the newly opened Arena. After the Mad King Building entered the Arena and spectators gathered, the two appeared for their Pure Duel, leaving the outcome uncertain as Bei Moting threatened Xu Lang.

• Xu Lang chose the codename Purgatory and sent Bei Moting a duel invitation.
• Hu Jianguo defeated Zhou Chang in the Arena, officially bringing the Mad King Building into the Arena and unlocking the Duel Shop.
• Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi noticed that the Arena's equipment sets shared names with Dormitory Buildings, while Bei Moting approached to face Xu Lang.
• Bei Moting accepted Xu Lang's invitation, drawing spectators from the Strange Tales, Sacrifice, and Sky Dome Buildings.
• The Arena announced that Xu Lang and Bei Moting would fight a one-hour Pure Duel with one weapon and one item each.
• Xu Lang tested the Arena's conditions as Bei Moting threatened to cripple and kill him, while Mad King Building players watched anxiously.

Xu Lang defeated Bei Moting by using Purgatory March to kill his supposedly immortal rats, drawing the attention of Strange Tales Building players who believed the sword could destroy Strange Tales. Back in the lounge, Xu Lang opened Bei Moting's Loser's Gift Box and obtained the Magic Flute, while Hu Jianguo worried about retaliation after the contestants left.

• Red Butterfly worried that Xu Lang might die without leaving a body to revive.
• Bei Moting summoned a rat tide with his Magic Flute, but Xu Lang cut the rats down instead of letting them revive.
• Xu Lang killed Bei Moting after he transformed into a rat, and observers from Sky Dome Building and players from Strange Tales Building were shocked by the sword's power.
• Strange Tales Building players concluded that Purgatory March could kill Strange Tales and left to notify their elders.
• Xu Lang returned to the lounge, opened Bei Moting's Loser's Gift Box, and obtained the Magic Flute, which he refused to subdue.
• Hu Jianguo worried that Zhou Chang's teammates would retaliate against him after the contestants left.

Xu Lang faced Zhao Quan in a Duel after Zhao Quan challenged him, confident he could avenge Bei Moting and take Xu Lang’s blade. The match began with Zhao Quan summoning the Red-Haired Grandmother, while Xu Lang remained calm and Wang Jing suspected Zhao Quan was the one in danger.

• Zhao Quan challenged Xu Lang to a Duel, and the Strange Tales Building players gathered to watch.
• Xu Lang and Zhao Quan entered the Arena early as players from several buildings anticipated a fierce match.
• Cao Yaxuan worried about Xu Lang, while Wang Yazhi, Tong Qi, and Xu Xiaomeng reassured her.
• Zhao Quan summoned the Red-Haired Grandmother, whose nightmare curse made a little boy beg as she chewed his finger.
• Wang Jing observed that Xu Lang looked calm and almost bored, leaving her unable to explain his confidence.

Xu Lang defeated Zhao Quan and his three Strange Tales with Purgatory March, then brutally killed Zhao Quan in the Arena. After claiming his second consecutive victory, he taunted the Strange Tales Building players and provoked one into challenging him to a duel.

• Zhao Quan baited Xu Lang into attacking, counting on his Strange Tales to protect him and punish any threat.
• Xu Lang killed Red-Haired Grandmother, the younger brother, and the older sister with one slash of Purgatory March.
• Xu Lang crushed Zhao Quan's cabinet, survived his sacrifice attack, and killed him with a punch before hurling his body into the stands.
• Xu Lang left the Arena after winning his second consecutive duel and approached the Strange Tales Building players.
• Xu Lang taunted one of the Strange Tales Building players with a gesture, provoking him to issue a Duel invitation.

Xu Lang kept accepting Duels and defeated Li Gui and Chaoyang, alarming the Strange Tales Building players who wanted to seize his divine blade. The Floor Leaders equipped Song Fei with the Blood-Clad Man’s Blood Casket, and Song Fei’s Duel invitation was accepted, sending him and Xu Lang into the Arena.

• Xu Lang accepted Li Gui’s Duel before Brother Fei could finish equipping him, and Xu Lang won the match.
• Brother Fei challenged Chaoyang to a Duel to obtain a Proof of Survival, then crushed him when he hesitated to use it.
• Brother Fei returned to the stands and joined ten Floor Leaders as they discussed how to defeat Xu Lang and claim his blade.
• The bandaged Floor Leader gave Song Fei the Blood-Clad Man’s Blood Casket to improve his chances against Xu Lang.
• Song Fei challenged Xu Lang, who accepted, and the two vanished from the spectator stands.

Xu Lang entered a dangerous duel against Song Fei, whose Ghost of Gluttony had devoured seven opponents in a row. The chapter ended as Xu Lang unleashed his Blood Rakshasa form and Ultimate Liberation in the Arena.

• Han Jisoo, Wang Yazhi, Gu Ya, Tong Qi, and Aygul worried about Xu Lang's duel, while Mad King Building players believed he would win.
• Xu Lang entered a Simulation dreamscape to prepare for facing Song Fei, hoping to obtain Song Fei's item and abilities.
• Xu Lang and Song Fei took the Arena field before hundreds of spectators, and Song Fei revealed Ghost of Gluttony.
• Xu Lang transformed into Blood Rakshasa, empowered Purgatory March with Seven Kill Blood Qi, and activated Ultimate Liberation.

Xu Lang seemingly defeated Song Fei with a devastating slash, but Song Fei survived by letting the Ghost of Gluttony consume half of him and merge with his body. The transformed Song Fei revealed Gluttony's true power and launched a massive attack, leaving the Arena battle unresolved.

• Xu Lang dodged the Ghost of Gluttony's attacks, cut through its arms, and burned its wounds with purple flames.
• Xu Lang evaded Song Fei's spatial slash and used Ultimate Way: Void-Sundering Slash to tear open the Ghost of Gluttony's shell and shatter Song Fei's body.
• Mad King Building Players celebrated, while Strange Tales Building Floor Leaders discussed Xu Lang's strength and possible weaknesses.
• Song Fei allowed the Ghost of Gluttony to devour half of his body and soul, then merged with it and overturned the ground with a single swing.
• The Blood-Clad Man explained that Song Fei had avoided a cursed item because using it would permanently turn him into a beast.

Xu Lang overwhelmed Song Fei in their brutal fight, but Song Fei opened the Blood Casket and trapped the Arena in the Blood Immortal’s Waterfowl Game. The chapter ended with two crane copies of Xu Lang appearing, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Xu Lang and Song Fei traded devastating punches as onlookers judged that both were nearing their limits.
• Xu Lang manifested a Four-Armed Blood Rakshasa, broke Song Fei’s extra arms, caught his final punches, and struck him with Ghost Slash.
• Song Fei revealed the Blood Casket and activated Waterfowl Game, turning the sky blood-red and sealing the Arena behind a barrier.
• Three immortal cranes emerged; one vanished, while the other two transformed into copies of Xu Lang.
• The Strange Tales Building players recognized the Blood Casket as a reward tied to the Blood Immortal and wondered whether Xu Lang could still win.

Xu Lang resurrected in Grave Pasture and strengthened his Aberrant Corpse-Release Immortal Transformation Card while Song Fei faced the Blood Casket’s possession. Song Fei forged a pact with the Ghost of Gluttony and delivered a final message to the players as the immortal crane took over his body.

• Xu Lang allowed Immortal Crane · Strong to destroy his weaker immortal crane form, prompting the two cranes to fight over it.
• Immortal Crane · Neither Strong nor Weak restored himself with Heart! Burst!, but Song Fei realized Purgatory’s death had not sent him back to the rest area.
• Xu Lang emerged from a tombstone in Grave Pasture, where the Shepherded Souls greeted him as their Shepherd Lord.
• Xu Lang upgraded his Aberrant Corpse-Release Immortal Transformation Card to Level 15 using Nightmare Coins.
• Immortal Crane · Strong entered the Blood Casket and began transforming Song Fei, who formed a pact with the Ghost of Gluttony to seal his body.
• Song Fei proclaimed that Strange Tales could save the world and welcomed the players to Strange Tales Building.

Xu Lang reappeared in the Arena transformed into the Yin-Yang Corpse Immortal and killed Song Fei with a devastating sword formation. He extracted Song Fei's corpse with the Scarlet Shepherd Lock, then received the spiritual souls of two immortal cranes.

• The bandaged man asked Old Xue to turn Song Fei into a corpse, but Old Xue refused, preferring to strengthen Strange Tales Building.
• Mad King Building's players feared Xu Lang had died and that Dormitory 200 would collapse without him.
• Xu Lang descended from a black vortex and revealed that he was alive, shocking the spectators.
• Xu Lang used Yin-Yang Power: Swordfall to reduce Song Fei's defense and kill him.
• Xu Lang used the Scarlet Shepherd Lock to drain Song Fei's corpse, and two immortal crane souls flew into his chest.

Xu Lang won the Arena match against Song Fei, gained the Blood Immortal: Rakshasa Dharma Body, and returned home after deciding not to risk another fight. Strange Tales Building players left the Arena vowing to learn more about Mad King Building and Purgatory.

• Xu Lang received the Blood Immortal: Rakshasa Dharma Body as Song Fei's defeat ended the match and gave Mad King Building the victory.
• Xu Lang counted his rewards, kept Song Fei's Loser Gift Bag unopened, and read messages from tenants urging him to stop Dueling and come home.
• Xu Lang returned to the stands, where Mad King Building players watched him with admiration, and he left the Arena with Xu Xiaomeng and the others.
• A hostile group wearing purple Veils of Isolation approached the Mad King Building players who remained at the Arena.
• Strange Tales Building players returned to their residential complex, where its Floor Leaders discussed Mad King Building and Purgatory's strength.

After the Arena, Xu Lang returned to the dormitory with the women and learned that Luo Lin was close to finishing a Demigod serum but was keeping it secret. The group examined Song Fei’s Gluttony Table Knife, whose curse and hidden danger left Xu Lang planning to study how it could be fused.

• Xu Lang and the others left the Arena, met Luo Lin and Tao Tao, and he used Nightmare Eye to discover Luo Lin was nearly finished developing a Demigod serum.
• Back at the dormitory, Cao Yaxuan urged Xu Lang to avoid the Arena, while Wang Yazhi and others suspected he could spy on players in other Dormitory Buildings.
• Xu Lang invited Ghost Child and the other Guardian Spirits to a late-night meal with the women.
• After the meal, Xu Lang gave Song Fei’s Loser Gift Bag to Tong Qi and Red Butterfly, who opened it to reveal the Gluttony Table Knife.
• Tong Qi felt an overwhelming urge to eat from the knife, and Xu Lang took it away after Nightmare Eye revealed that gathering all seven pieces would let Ghost of Gluttony kill its master and escape.

Song Fei explained the Shepherd’s growing Sequence Power and answered Xu Lang’s questions about Strange Tales, the Blood Mist World, and the God-Chosen. He ended the chapter kneeling before Xu Lang and revealing everything he knew.

• Song Fei questioned whether the Shepherded Souls had accepted their identities, and Saladin said they could betray Xu Lang only if they could bear the cost.
• Song Fei deduced that dying and reviving had helped Xu Lang develop his powerful Sequence, and Xu Lang praised his insight before Song Fei realized Saladin had baited him.
• Xu Lang ordered Song Fei to kneel and asked whether the Gluttony Table Knife would let him subdue the Ghost of Gluttony; Song Fei explained that doing so required specific items and system prompts.
• Xu Lang asked Song Fei about the Strange Tales Building’s Floor Leaders, his recent games, the Ghost of Gluttony, and the God-Chosen.
• Song Fei explained what he knew about Purgatory, the Blood Mist World, invading Dormitory Buildings, and the God-Chosen, while the Shepherded Souls listened.

Xu Lang learned that Adam’s Dragonman Civilization had been destroyed by the Blood Mist and discovered that Adam’s altered blood could yield powerful dragon bloodlines. After leaving Grave Pasture, Xu Lang fused two Strange Tale items into a dangerous new Magic Box that affected him even in reality.

• Xu Lang questioned Adam about Dragonman Civilization, and Adam said its ruins lay near the Dormitory Building and that he had glimpsed his other Dragonman companions.
• Xu Lang used the Scarlet Shepherd Lock on Adam’s corpse and obtained Altered Dragon Blood, which could produce several powerful dragon bloodlines after purification.
• Xu Lang left Grave Pasture, where Song Fei accused Saladin of setting him up, and Saladin reflected on how the Scarlet Shepherd Sequence preserved its followers’ drive to grow stronger.
• In Fusion Dreamscape, Xu Lang fused the Magic Flute with the cabinet containing the Red-Haired Grandmother Strange Tale and created the Baleful Demon Box.
• Xu Lang touched the Magic Box, felt its Curse Kill power affect him in reality, and quickly let go.

Xu Lang fused two Strange Tales into the cursed Baleful Demon Box, then helped his companions prepare for attribute breakthroughs and distributed Legendary Grade skills. The box’s curse worsened, and he discovered its shape appearing in his eyes as its opening began to crack.

• Xu Lang failed to remove the Magic Box’s baleful effect through fusion, creating the more powerful Baleful Demon Box, and put it in his backpack after clearing it from his dream.
• Xu Lang simulated attribute breakthroughs for Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, Xu Ruyan, and Shirley, and found that Wang Yazhi received a Mad King Trial only for her physique.
• Xu Lang checked his earnings and the Chat Room, where players discussed Dusk Building joining Mad King Building’s community the next day and asked when pioneering would begin.
• Xu Lang told the women that Song Fei had played more than thirty rounds, then watched them work on their daily tasks and prepare breakfast.
• Xu Lang gave Legendary Grade skills to Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, Shirley, and Xu Ruyan during the meal.
• Shirley noticed something wrong with Xu Lang’s eyes, and he saw the Magic Box’s shape opening in them before crushing his mirror and shutting his eyes.

Xu Lang’s Strange Tales Magic Box curse spread to Shirley and the other women, and Song Fei warned that it could consume the Dormitory Building unless Xu Lang confronted the Strange Tale. Xu Lang ignored Song Fei’s plan to make him a Strange Tales Building Player and chose to keep sleeping until he could subdue the Magic Box in a simulated dream.

• Xu Lang discovered that healing could not remove the Magic Box curse, and the shadow in his eyes infected Shirley, Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, and Xu Ruyan through its image.
• Song Fei explained that the curse was likely from a King-Class Strange Tale and described three ways to suppress an outbreak: use another Strange Tale, limit infection progress, or enter its world and subdue it.
• Xu Lang checked the curse and saw that its infection progress had fallen from 5% to 1% after he lay on the Nightmare Bed, though it continued to rise over time.
• Song Fei proposed a route for Xu Lang to become a Strange Tales Building Player and enter the Urban Legend Dormitory Building, but Xu Lang disappeared before answering.
• Xu Lang decided to lie on the bed and use repeated simulated dreams to subdue the Magic Box, while Wang Yazhi and the other women lay down as well.