Recaps

Xu Lang learned that the Mad King Building prohibited imported facilities but allowed his own, then considered using collected cultivation scrolls to develop a mental-power attribute for Shirley. After reviewing what he knew about primal and later sequences, he wondered whether to spend his hoarded Nightmare Coins to improve his own strength.

• Mary and Tong Qi told Xu Lang that the dormitory building rejected the imported facilities as contraband.
• Xu Lang explained that the Mad King Building strictly screened new residents' belongings, while his facilities were accepted because he was already part of the building.
• Tong Qi asked whether Xu Lang was preparing special attributes for Zhen Lu and the others, and he said Shirley wanted one related to mental power.
• Xu Lang explained his and Shirley's deductions about primal sequences, later sequences, and the danger of meeting fellow players on the same later-sequence path.
• Xu Lang considered fusing seven mental-power cultivation scrolls for Shirley and wondered whether to spend his hoarded Nightmare Coins to strengthen himself.

Xu Lang upgraded the Pure Yang Immortal-Seeking Art into the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art, gaining a skill that improved his physique and spirit while randomly upgrading skills. After adapting to its dangerous flood of wisdom, he turned to refining facilities and resumed Dream Simulation to prepare for the Blood Calamity.

• Xu Lang used Tong Qi’s luck while spending Nightmare Coins to upgrade the Pure Yang Immortal-Seeking Art to Level 15.
• Xu Lang chose the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art over the Pure Yang Limitless Heart Sutra and Mystic Realm Visualization Method.
• Xu Lang’s Pure Yang True Qi transformed into Mysterious Female True Qi, and he discovered that the new art could randomly upgrade all skills, including Blood Pact skills.
• Xu Lang cultivated the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art and endured wisdom that seemed to hunt and overwhelm him before learning to filter it.
• Xu Lang began refining facilities, gathered enough Nightmare Essence, and started Dream Simulation again to prepare for the Blood Calamity.

Xu Lang used simulations to discover that frog eggs in the blood rain would hatch into monsters attacking Mad King Building, then warned its residents to prepare. The chapter left a player struggling through a terrifying nightmare as fear of Demon King Castle’s envoys spread.

• Xu Lang simulated an earlier point in the Crimson End and found frog eggs in the bloodwater that would hatch into monsters.
• Xu Lang killed a clan of pig-headed men with precisely controlled Blood Blades and Chain Judgment.
• After several simulations drained his Nightmare Essence, Xu Lang fused mental power cultivation scrolls into a Mythic-grade technique.
• Xu Lang told Zhi Dong to alert Xiao Ji to clear the frog eggs and warn Zhou Ye and the others about the coming attack.
• Zhi Dong informed the Mad King Building players, while a long-haired man tried to wake a bald player suffering from a nightmare about a human-headed white horse.

Dream White Horse’s nightmare left him near-insane, but he gained another top-tier skill before his subordinate calmed him with a lollipop and warned him about the coming monster attack. At six in the morning, Frog Monsters assaulted Mad King Building, whose residents used its turrets to fight them off as Li Shuwen went out to confront an Elite Frog Monster.

• Dream White Horse woke from a nightmare with only 13 Sanity, celebrated gaining a top-tier skill, and ate a lollipop when his long-haired subordinate intervened.
• The long-haired man told Dream White Horse that the Residents' Committee had announced a monster attack that night.
• Mad King Building broadcast information about Frog Monsters as the surviving eggs hatched and the creatures attacked the building.
• Sword Saint and Tulu directed the turret defense, killing Frog Monsters that entered the corridors.
• Zhu Yan spotted an Elite Frog Monster in Dormitory 249, and Li Shuwen reassured Li Wenwen before opening the door and stepping outside.

Li Shuwen used his Nightmare Apostle powers to defeat a Frog Monster while Xu Lang chose to leave the night’s monsters to other players and sleep. The next morning, Xu Lang discovered his meditation art had greatly increased his attributes and skills, while Shirley and Gu Ya went to check the Golden Time-Reversal Clock.

• Li Shuwen wielded lightning in the corridor to weaken a Frog Monster, and the turrets finished it off.
• Xu Lang decided not to wear the Black Crown and left the Frog Monsters to other players so he could sleep peacefully.
• The next morning, Xu Lang checked the Golden Time-Reversal Clock and found it showed June 24th and the Blood Mist World’s history, as Shirley had guessed.
• Xu Lang reviewed his overnight gains: the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art upgraded several skills, increased his Physique and Spirit to 820, and raised his Ghost God Power to 450.
• Shirley and Gu Ya woke and went to inspect the Golden Time-Reversal Clock to verify Shirley’s theory.

As blood rain continued to flood the Titan Ruins, Xu Lang reassured the girls that Mad King Building remained safe as long as it did not cooperate with the Blood Calamity. He then called for several Mad King Building creators to help process the Frog Monster corpses.

• Wang Yazhi saw that the blood rain was intensifying, and the girls worried that flooding might reach Mad King Building.
• The girls asked Xu Lang about the danger, and he confirmed that parts of the Titan Ruins were already flooded but said the dormitory was currently safe.
• Xu Lang told the girls that the Blood Calamity posed little risk unless Mad King Building joined forces with it.
• Gu Ya volunteered to tell Zhou Ye and the other ordinary players to prepare, while Red Butterfly teased the group about running out of food.
• Xu Lang asked Tong Qi to summon Zhang Shu, Luo Lin, Li Wenwen, and Sheng Qi so they could work out how to process the Frog Monster corpses.

Xu Lang gathered Zhang Shu, Luo Lin, Li Wenwen, and Sheng Qi to turn the Frog Monster corpses into useful resources, assigning each a crafting task and naming Sheng Qi Floor Leader of Floor 16. After the others left, Xu Lang took Luo Lin’s latest Demigod Potion, gained a warning skill, and considered how much work still depended on him.

• Xu Lang met with Zhang Shu, Luo Lin, Li Wenwen, and Sheng Qi at Demon King Castle to organize the processing of Frog Monster corpses.
• Zhang Shu offered to study the monsters, Luo Lin described three items she could make, and Li Wenwen agreed to design weapons from frog tongues.
• Xu Lang arranged for Li Wenwen to receive the frog tongues for weapon production and directed Sheng Qi to collect the hides from Zhou Ye and the others.
• Xu Lang named Sheng Qi Floor Leader of Floor 16, and Sheng Qi gratefully accepted.
• After dismissing everyone else, Xu Lang asked Luo Lin for her latest Demigod Potion and gained 20 spirit, 20 physique, and the Danger Premonition skill.
• Xu Lang considered rewarding Luo Lin as he reflected on the many responsibilities keeping him from lying flat.

The Residents' Committee turned frog monster remains into a profitable industry, while Chen Weilong secretly received an Epic mission from the Mad King Building to kill Xu Lang. He recruited Zhao Changgeng into the plot after using the Eye of Mora to put Zhao's Magic Box Curse to sleep.

• Sheng Qi discovered frog monster skin could make rainproof gear, and Wu Huihui found that treated frog meat was edible.
• Players flocked to gather and process frog monsters, enriching Sheng Qi and the Residents' Committee, which bought corpses and recruited manufacturers.
• Chen Weilong complained that Haozi had been forcibly conscripted and said Xu Lang's power kept them under his shadow.
• Chen Weilong used the Eye of Mora to hypnotize Zhao Changgeng's Magic Box Curse, making it report only politically correct information to Xu Lang.
• Chen Weilong revealed that the Mad King Building had assigned him the Epic mission 'Kill the Cheater' and given him the Eye of Mora in advance.
• Zhao Changgeng embraced Chen Weilong's plan to bring down Xu Lang and agreed to lie low while they prepared.

Green Shadow accepted an Epic quest to kill Xu Lang after Mad King Building offered powerful rewards, though she worried she could not complete it alone. On the Sixth Floor, Snake Lord joined a group to help secure supplies, but they betrayed him and triggered the deadly power in his eye.

• Green Shadow accepted the quest to kill Xu Lang in exchange for You're Fired, a Heaven Building Invitation, an Eye of Mora, and further rewards under review.
• Green Shadow considered recruiting a brother and sister with an instant-death skill, Nether Shadow and others, and Hunter Building players to help her kill Xu Lang.
• Auntie Zhou persuaded Snake Lord to help the Sixth Floor group attack a Blood Mist Creature supply point by promising his sister Snake Flower half a month of Lesser Holy Spring Water.
• Snake Lord fought through the pig-headed defenders and helped the group take over the Art Building.
• Auntie Zhou and the others betrayed Snake Lord, planning to kill him and exploit Snake Flower, but a golden claw emerged from his left eye and killed everyone nearby.
• Snake Lord recovered an Eye of Mora from his palm and declared that everyone there deserved to die.

Xu Lang watched the Blood Mist Creatures gather in the flooded Titan Ruins while enjoying a massage at Demon King Castle. Through the Strange Tales Magic Box, he warned the giant away from a dangerous tower and named him Gray Giant, his first lookout in the ruins.

• More Blood Mist Creatures sought higher ground in the Safe Zone, and Frog Monsters appeared in the Titan Ruins.
• Chi Qingman, Zhi Chun, and Zhi Xia massaged Xu Lang while he watched the live feed from the ruins.
• Gray Giant ran from the growing Frog Monster horde and nearly entered a thousand-meter tower that alarmed Xu Lang's Sixth Sense.
• The Strange Tales Magic Box warned Gray Giant away from the tower, and Xu Lang named him Gray Giant and his first lookout in the Titan Ruins.
• Gray Giant followed the Magic Box's warnings until he found a safe place to hide, while Xu Lang used Strange Tales to patrol the Safe Zone's perimeter.

On the fifth day of Crimson End, Xu Lang saved his Nightmare Essence instead of running a Simulation, then cultivated until Martial God reached level 20 and unlocked a devastating blade technique. Meanwhile, high-level Frog Monsters began attacking Mad King Building, and Fusheng Xi appeared to help fight them.

• Xu Lang reviewed his gains, kept his Nightmare Coins instead of upgrading Mind-Shattering Demon Eye, and decided that future skill fusions would shape his core skill pool.
• After Chi Qingman coaxed him out of bed, Xu Lang trained in the Magic Box world and advanced Martial God to level 20, unlocking Blood Qi: Mountain-Crushing Earth-Sundering Slash.
• Xu Lang learned from the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society that high-level Frog Monsters were appearing in other dormitory buildings.
• Frog Monsters flooded Mad King Building's safe zone, while the Mad Vanguard and players on the higher floors fought them back as rising water reached waist height.
• Fusheng Xi, surrounded by strangely dressed players from the seventeenth floor, harpooned a Frog Monster from the seventh-floor railing.

Green Shadow asked Fusheng Xi how to become a Floor Leader, then disappeared, while Fusheng Xi decided not to tell Xu Lang about her apparent challenge. Later, Xu Lang visited Tao Tao and agreed that Yan Xiaoli and Jiang Xiaowen could move into Luo Lin’s dormitory before carrying the sleeping child to bed.

• Green Shadow watched Fusheng Xi harvest Frog Monsters and asked how to become a Floor Leader, and he told her to defeat the Seventh Floor players and contribute to Demon King Castle.
• Green Shadow vanished after a Seventeenth Floor player challenged her disrespectful manner, and Fusheng Xi chose not to report her intentions to Xu Lang.
• Wang Yazhi returned to the Twentieth Floor and promised Tao Tao she would try to bring Xu Lang to visit.
• Xu Lang came to Dormitory 399, where Tao Tao greeted him and Luo Lin asked to have Yan Xiaoli and Jiang Xiaowen move in as roommates.
• Xu Lang approved the move, then carried the sleeping Tao Tao into the bedroom and said goodbye to Luo Lin.

Xu Lang entered the Fusion Dreamscape to reorganize his extensive skill library and plan how to spend one hundred Fusion opportunities. After considering the roles of his tenants and mapping out new skill paths, he reduced his library to twenty-five skills, leaving his revised build ready for future growth.

• Xu Lang reviewed his attributes, talents, and more than forty skills, deciding not to pursue healing, crafting, or exploration because his tenants could handle those roles.
• Xu Lang sorted nearly a thousand skill scrolls and planned skill trees for intimidation, eye techniques, burst damage, perception, electromagnetic control, blade combat, healing, spells, sealing, boxing, and kicking.
• Xu Lang paused to practice the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art before continuing his planning later in the night.
• Xu Lang finalized his skill paths, keeping seven skills unchanged and altering the rest.
• Xu Lang reduced his skill library to twenty-five skills across training, combat, general, support, and knowledge categories.

Xu Lang reviewed the powerful skills and attributes he had gained through fusion, then woke to find his Nightmare Coin fortune had grown to more than 829,000. Meanwhile, Louse Bugs spread through the bloodwater and threatened the dormitories, forcing the residents of Dormitory 17 to consider drastic defenses.

• Xu Lang examined his new Legendary and Epic skills, including Martial Saint's Flash Kick and Electromagnetic Force Control, and went to sleep feeling well-equipped.
• Xu Lang woke on the sixth day of the Blood Calamity with 829,624 Nightmare Coins and improved attributes from his overnight skill harvest.
• Wang Yazhi and the others left to support other floors as bloodwater submerged the building's bottom five floors and Louse Bugs began draining structures' durability.
• A female tenant in Dormitory 17 asked the thick-browed landlord what to do about the growing number of Louse Bugs outside their door.
• The thick-browed landlord ordered Xiao Li to use the Ice Cannon if the bugs grew denser, then told the residents to borrow resources from other floors.

Hu Laosi’s dorm faced repeated attacks from a regenerating Frog Monster until Sword Saint arrived and drove the creatures back. As players across the lower floors organized hunts for Frog Monsters and cleared Louse Bugs, Bai Wuya prepared the Twelfth Floor team to enter the blood river with Medicine Pearl’s healing support.

• Hu Laosi struggled to defend his dorm from a red-skinned Frog Monster that healed after each turret barrage, and he called for help.
• Sword Saint arrived, killed the regenerating Frog Monster in a short fight, then drove off other Frog Monsters while players cleared Louse Bugs.
• Players from below the Sixth Floor and hired mercenaries organized teams to clear Louse Bugs and hunt Frog Monsters in the rising bloodwater.
• Bai Wuya prepared the Twelfth Floor players to enter the water with frogskin raincoats and spears, while Medicine Pearl warned that she might raise her prices.
• Medicine Pearl’s Mythic-grade purification spell and healing abilities helped the Twelfth Floor, though skilled newcomers remained unnoticed beneath Demon King Castle’s shadow.

Li Shuwen and the other Floor Leaders led players underwater to kill Louse Bugs and Frog Monsters as the bloody flood threatened Mad King Building. After seven players died and the creatures were driven back, rising water prompted Wu Man to recruit Snake Lord for a plan to seize rooms on higher floors.

• Cao Yaxuan questioned the players about underwater dangers, then allowed Li Shuwen and more than a hundred players to enter the water in teams.
• The players killed many Louse Bugs and Frog Monsters, but seven of them died before the survivors returned.
• Players worried that the bloody water would soon submerge Mad King Building and began arguing over shelter on higher floors.
• Wu Man visited Snake Lord in Room 118 and proposed forming a group to take rooms by force, targeting the Nineteenth and Fifteenth Floors.
• Snake Lord hesitated because Pandora directed the Puppet Factory and might be close to Xu Lang, but Wu Man mocked his belief that anyone in Mad King Building was good.

As the blood rain flooded Mad King Building and new Louse Bugs threatened players, Xu Lang spent the day studying immortals with Shirley and reassured Demon King Castle that the disaster would end soon. After dinner, he strengthened the Strange Tales Magic Box’s connection to Earth, leaving Zhang Liang terrified after a nightmare of Purgatory.

• The water rose to the seventh floor, deadly Louse Bugs emerged from the blood river, and Xu Lang used a Strange Tale to remove parasites from players.
• Shirley showed Xu Lang a book about different kinds of immortals, and Xu Lang questioned whether they were the higher-dimensional beings described by the game.
• Cao Yaxuan warned that Mad King Building would be submerged by morning, while Xu Lang said the blood rain would not last more than ten days.
• Xu Lang entered the depths of the Magic Box World and used Urban Legend Power to strengthen the curse connecting a Vortex Gate to Earth.
• Zhang Liang woke from a nightmare of being swallowed by the black box and went outside his dormitory to escape his fear.

A shared dream of a black box revealed that the Magic Box Curse was spreading through the shelter, with Zhang Liang becoming its most deeply affected victim. Meanwhile, Xu Lang returned to the Mad King Building during a blood-rain catastrophe and warned its players not to disturb the dried human corpses drifting past, which belonged to the Human Ancestor’s guards.

• The female doctor and researchers discovered that they had all dreamed about a black box, and soldiers arrived as they suspected a contagious Transcendent incident.
• Zhang Liang realized he was smiling against his will, heard himself speak in a strange voice, and felt the Magic Box Curse intensify.
• Xu Lang gained a clearer connection to Zhang Liang, then received the Mad King Building’s warning about deadly corpses drifting down the blood river.
• Xu Lang returned to the Mad King Building, where Wang Yazhi and the others watched dried corpses float past the flooded Safe Zone.
• Xu Lang identified the corpses as guards of the Human Ancestor and ordered the players to stop attacking them.

Xu Lang warned everyone not to attack the floating corpses, then comforted Pandora after her puppet factory flooded and agreed to attend Golden Dawn’s meeting. Pandora returned to Nineteenth Floor, while Xu Lang explained he had not made her a tenant because she was not charming enough for him.

• Xu Lang warned the players that attacking the floating corpses would attract a greater threat, and they stopped fighting them.
• Pandora told Xu Lang that blood rain had flooded her factory, and he reassured her that it could reopen after the calamity passed.
• Pandora invited Xu Lang to Golden Dawn’s meeting at ten, and he agreed to come to her place.
• Xu Lang tossed Killer Bear outside, then used his magnetic power to bring him back unharmed and teased Pandora about the bear’s fake fear of blood.
• Cao Yaxuan asked why Xu Lang had not made Pandora a tenant, and he said she simply was not charming enough to tempt him.

On June 27, the blood flood submerged the Mad King Building while Xu Lang spent the morning with Xu Ruyan and Han Jisoo. At the Starving Dead Building, Barren Mountain overwhelmed the Rainy Night Swordsman and began draining his life force.

• The blood rain submerged the Mad King Building, though its rules kept the water off the balconies, and Xu Lang watched the flood from safety.
• Han Jisoo flirted with Xu Lang before Zhen Lu interrupted; Xu Lang recognized that she was actually Xu Ruyan using her Thousand Faces ability and took both women away.
• At the Starving Dead Building, the Rainy Night Swordsman used the flood to provoke a battle over the top floors, but Barren Mountain controlled the Twentieth Floor.
• Barren Mountain, whose Sequence was C-40 "Vajra Strongman," struck the Rainy Night Swordsman hard enough to scatter his flesh and bones, but the swordsman regenerated unharmed.
• Barren Mountain charged again, grabbed the Rainy Night Swordsman, and rapidly drained his body until it began to wither.

The red Ghost of Gluttony emerged from Rainy Night Swordsman and fought Barren Mountain, who was protected by the Black Ghost of Gluttony. With Xu Lang granting him authority, the red Ghost of Gluttony devoured Barren Mountain and regained his full power, then prepared to explore what lay beneath Starving Dead Building.

• Rainy Night Swordsman drew out the red Ghost of Gluttony, who attacked Barren Mountain and discovered the Black Ghost of Gluttony inside him.
• Barren Mountain and the Black Ghost of Gluttony resisted the red Ghost of Gluttony, but the red Ghost grew stronger as they fought.
• The red Ghost of Gluttony called on Xu Lang for authority, and Xu Lang opened Gluttony Purgatory and sent its power and Strange Tales to aid him.
• The red Ghost of Gluttony smashed into Barren Mountain's dormitory, dragged him out, and swallowed him before the Black Ghost could escape.
• The red Ghost of Gluttony became whole again, and Xu Lang agreed to let him explore the building after withdrawing the power of Gluttony Purgatory.

The Dormitory Building’s anti-invasion protocol destroyed the Ghost of Gluttony and purged the curse from the Rainy Night Swordsman, who faced death amid a revolt by the Starving Dead Building players. In Gluttony Purgatory, Xu Lang revived the Ghost of Gluttony and considered whether the Rainy Night Swordsman would return as a player after he came back to life.

• The Dormitory Building’s golden chest released a radiance that erased the Ghost of Gluttony and freed the Rainy Night Swordsman from the Magic Box Curse.
• The chest’s opener gained three hundred attribute points, and he urged the players to kill the Rainy Night Swordsman for a reward; tenants argued over whether to protect Ye Qiu.
• The Rainy Night Swordsman asked Empty to kill him and whispered that he would come back to life.
• In Gluttony Purgatory, Xu Lang used the Ghost of Gluttony’s hidden arm to revive him while the Scarlet Shepherd Lock drained Barren Mountain.
• The Ghost of Gluttony asked Xu Lang what a Dormitory Building was, and Xu Lang wondered whether the revived Rainy Night Swordsman would still be a player.

Xu Lang recovered a complete Vajra Strongman sequence crystal from Starving Dead Building and considered how to use it without losing control. He left Gluttony Purgatory with the crystal sealed away, intent on finding a way to safely become a dual-sequence bearer.

• Xu Lang told the Ghost of Gluttony that sending him to Starving Dead Building had also been a test, and the Ghost thanked him for saving him.
• Xu Lang used the Scarlet Shepherd Lock to extract a Vajra Strongman sequence crystal while leaving the black human skin intact for the Ghost of Gluttony to eat.
• After eating, the Ghost of Gluttony said he needed to sleep for a day, while Xu Lang examined the crystal and realized it contained the full sequence.
• Xu Lang planned to hunt sequence bearers and use their crystals promptly, but decided he needed a sequence suppressant before risking the Vajra Strongman sequence.
• Xu Lang sealed the sequence crystal in a box and left Gluttony Purgatory.

Golden Dawn discussed the Witch’s Magic Box and Li Mingqing’s authority over information before he explained that authorities were godlike powers that could transcend the game’s rules. The meeting ended with Li Mingqing warning that players who relied on dormitory shelters would eventually be consumed.

• Xu Lang learned that the Protagonist was a new Golden Dawn administrator, and the group discussed their encounters during the Blood Calamity.
• Pandora offered the Young Lord information about his Lamplighter sequence, which she had obtained through a Magic Box in her dormitory.
• Li Mingqing joined the meeting, and Xu Lang helped Pandora stay calm when Li Mingqing guessed her dormitory was called Witch’s Home.
• Li Mingqing explained that authorities embodied rules, formed part of divinity, and were one of two known powers that transcended the game’s rules.
• Li Mingqing warned that players who relied on dormitory buildings would eventually be swallowed by the Blood Mist World.

Li Mingqing told the administrators that a tornado carrying an authority would appear in Titan Dragon City in three days and asked two people to help seize it. Though the others claimed they would stay behind, Xu Lang suspected someone would go and privately hinted to Pandora that he might reveal his own decision.

• Li Mingqing announced the tornado and authority in Titan Dragon City, then logged off without explaining how the authority would be divided.
• Young Master, Peerless Under Heaven, and Pandora said they would not go, citing danger, distance, and their responsibilities to their buildings.
• At Witch's Home, Xu Lang told Pandora that Li Mingqing was unlikely to make an empty threat and that at least one person would go.
• Xu Lang asked Pandora to lock Killer Bear in the cabinet before he told her whether he would go.