Recaps

Xu Lang fused memory crystals into a time crystal that could let him experience nine court guards’ lives or create a tournament for an audience with the Mad King, but his first attempt at using it wasted Nightmare Essence. The sixth Survival Competition began with thirtyfold gravity, leaving the sleepers on the upgraded Nightmare Bed unharmed while their companions rushed to check on people and things outside it.

• Xu Lang fused nine memory crystals into a Court Guard's Time Crystal, which offered scenes from nine guards’ lives or a court guard tournament for an audience with the Mad King.
• Xu Lang used the time crystal in a simulated dream, became Rasputin, and ended the simulation after noticing how quickly it consumed Nightmare Essence.
• The Dormitory Survival Game announced Stage Six, “Gravity Abyss,” and thirtyfold gravity struck the Mad King Building, crushing its furniture and carpet.
• Xu Lang and the others discovered that the Nightmare Bed protected its sleepers from the extreme gravity.
• Kui Zi, Tong Qi, Zhen Lu, and Wang Yazhi rushed out to check on people and belongings outside the bed, while Red Butterfly questioned the point of their rescue attempts.

Zhen Lu’s Sequence advancement began unexpectedly under the courtyard’s crushing gravity, but Xu Lang carried her to the Nightmare Bed, where her power stabilized and continued to advance smoothly. Realizing the bed might remove the risks of Sequence advancement, Xu Lang saw a way to safely advance his own Sequences.

• Xu Lang found Zhen Lu distraught over the destroyed Spirit Field and tried to comfort her.
• Zhen Lu’s Sequence advancement erupted amid the intense gravity, and Xu Lang used jade pendants and healing potions to protect her.
• Wang Yazhi urged Xu Lang to move Zhen Lu indoors, so he carried her to the Nightmare Bed.
• The Nightmare Bed calmed Zhen Lu’s rampaging Sequence Power, allowing her advancement to continue smoothly as her Sanity recovered.
• Xu Lang concluded that the Nightmare Bed could cancel the risks of Sequence advancement and considered using it for his own advancements.

Level-25 Gravity Beasts attacked all four buildings during the thirty-times-gravity trial, forcing players to choose between fighting and preserving their strength. As casualties mounted, the strongest players prepared to hunt the beasts, while Solaris focused on being the last building eliminated and Evil Dragon set his sights on Mad King Building.

• More than a dozen Gravity Beasts appeared in Mad King Building's corridor, while beasts also attacked Paradise Building, Heaven's Wrath Building, and Evil King Building.
• Candy Queen, Amusement, and Jester urged players with facility levels below 20 to kill themselves, and a Paradise Building player followed their advice as the building's survivors dwindled.
• Heaven's Wrath Building players began leaving their rooms to fight the beasts, while Solaris watched and resolved to make his building the last eliminated.
• Evil Dragon announced that Evil King Building would secure second place and challenge for first, then turned his attention toward Mad King Building.
• A sword-wielding man and a tattooed, bear-built man joined Evil Dragon, and the three top players prepared to take the initiative against the Gravity Beasts.

Gravity beasts from several buildings converged on the Mad King Building’s Twentieth Floor, where they attacked Demon King Castle. Its turrets unleashed overwhelming firepower, leaving the watching players stunned.

• The tattooed man scanned the gravity beasts while players prepared to defend the Evil King Building.
• The gravity beasts abruptly withdrew and surged toward the Mad King Building, drawing players’ attention from the surrounding buildings.
• The beasts bypassed the Mad King Building’s dorms and charged straight to the Twentieth Floor.
• A gravity beast lunged at Demon King Castle, and its turrets pierced it with crimson laser beams.
• Demon King Castle’s turrets opened fire together and blasted apart huge numbers of gravity beasts, shocking Evil Dragon and the other observers.

Xu Lang used the thirtyfold gravity to farm monsters while he and his companions slept, and Mary monitored the battle. Players in Heaven's Wrath Building, Paradise Building, and Evil King Building began considering Demon King Castle a target, while Mary prepared supplies and expected a fight.

• Xu Lang confirmed the gravity beasts posed little threat, began farming them for points and resources, and told everyone to keep sleeping.
• Mary monitored the turrets as Xu Lang and the others rested, while players in the other buildings struggled to sleep.
• The Hermit Council in Heaven's Wrath Building declared Demon King Castle an anomaly and raised its threat level to the highest.
• Candy Queen, Jester, and Amusement discussed testing Demon King Castle, with Candy Queen agreeing to use her charm to lure Xu Lang out.
• Evil Dragon and a purple-cloaked middle-aged man proposed capturing a Demon King Castle player and locking them in Wu Xiaowu's dungeon, as dozens of powerful players gathered to target the castle.
• Mary spotted the other buildings' movements, prepared for an attack, transferred valuables from Auspicious Gate into storage, and urged the exhausted Chi Qingman to sleep.

After collecting Nightmare Coins and reviewing a rare stone fetus, Xu Lang used his improved Blood Rampage to deepen his control over blood qi. He created a Purgatory Demon Hound from his blood, which returned to his body as Gravity Abyss neared its end.

• Xu Lang woke with 1,742,288 Nightmare Coins and learned that Blood Rampage had risen to level 20.
• Mary reported that no new monsters had appeared for three hours and sent Xu Lang information about elite monsters and supplies.
• Xu Lang examined the Strange Stone Fetus and placed it in the private collection hall of the Magic Box World, planning to upgrade it outside the safe zone.
• Xu Lang activated Blood Rampage and shaped his blood qi into a Purgatory Demon Hound while meditating.
• As Gravity Abyss neared its end, Xu Lang completed the self-created Blood Beast skill and let the Purgatory Demon Hound enter his body.

The Solar Storm began, and Xu Lang discovered that Demon King Castle could shield its gate from the first X-ray burst, though its turrets would be destroyed. As the sun attacked other buildings, Xu Lang investigated the battlefield and found that several dormitories had survived by avoiding the Gravity Beasts.

• The Dormitory Survival Game announced that the Solar Storm would begin in seven hours and listed its four destructive phases.
• Paradise Building players watched the enormous sun appear and died from its intense radiation.
• Xu Lang ordered Zhi Chun and Zhi Xia to repair Demon King Castle's gate, while explaining that the turrets could not be saved.
• The first X-ray burst struck Mad King Building, but the beam only damaged Auspicious Gate after passing through the building's corridor.
• Xu Lang reconsidered protecting Auspicious Gate and resolved to keep it, recognizing the value of its financial fortune.
• The sun attacked Evil King Building, where the Three Evil Gods blocked the beam, and Xu Lang discovered that several buildings had survived by avoiding the Gravity Beasts.

As the Solar Storm’s first phase began, Evil King Building players raided the ruined Paradise Building for fireproof supplies while Paradise players rallied to stop them. Solaris’s plans for Heaven’s Wrath Building were interrupted when an X-ray burst nearly destroyed its gate, forcing him to order an urgent search for repairs.

• Qi Hengsan and other Evil King Building players headed to the Paradise Building to plunder supplies, while the Evil Dragon urged a team to scout the Mad King Building.
• Paradise Building players realized the raiders were looting their companions’ dormitories, and their administrators and room owners decided to intercept them.
• Solaris ordered Osiris to search for fireproof supplies after the next radiation burst and told Chen Bo to work with the Hermit Council on a countermeasure to the Solar Storm’s third phase.
• An X-ray burst struck Heaven’s Wrath Building and reduced the Pure White Gate of Order’s durability by 83,000.
• Solaris ordered Chen Bo and the others to find repair materials and a spare gate, preferably one made of heavy metal.

As the Dormitory Survival Game began, Xu Lang chose to keep Auspicious Gate safe rather than raid for supplies, then weighed the dangers of fusing more Sequences while powerful figures hunted the Scarlet Shepherd. He put off the decision by sleeping, leaving Demon King Castle’s residents to handle the X-ray bursts and the coming battle between buildings.

• Xu Lang refused Cao Yaxuan’s suggestion to raid for supplies and told everyone to adapt as needed while he rested.
• Xu Ruyan went to deal with two intruders spotted by a demonic eye, while Shirley headed to the library and the others went about their tasks.
• Xu Lang checked the Black Merchant’s Sequence Compendium and learned that the Scarlet Shepherd was being hunted by Bartholomew, Phyllis, and others.
• Xu Lang considered fusing the Time Historian and Vajra Strongman Sequences but worried that it would intensify the hunt and expose him to Bartholomew’s investigation.
• Xu Lang remembered that he was the Nightmare Lord, pulled a blanket over himself, and fell asleep as X-ray bursts struck the buildings.

Xu Lang used simulations to test the risks of adding the Vajra Strongman and Time Historian Sequences, then fused both into himself alongside the Scarlet Shepherd. The three Sequences clashed and overwhelmed the Nightmare Bed’s protection, so he entered the Fusion Dreamscape to endure the effects.

• Xu Lang used the Black Merchant walkie-talkie in a simulation to learn that McLaren could not investigate players directly but could lure them out of their dormitory safe zone.
• After more than a dozen short simulations, Xu Lang decided the risks were acceptable and refined the Sequence Crystal for the Vajra Strongman Sequence.
• The Vajra Strongman Sequence clashed with the Scarlet Shepherd Sequence as Xu Lang endured a flood of chaotic, high-dimensional knowledge.
• Xu Lang took up the Time History Book, causing time to warp and showing him a future version of himself.
• As the three Sequences overwhelmed the Nightmare Bed’s protection, Xu Lang leaned back and entered the Fusion Dreamscape.

Xu Lang began a Supreme Fusion of the Time Historian and Vajra Strongman Sequences, which was expected to take 33 days and produce the World-Quelling Historian. After hiding the Demon King Bed’s true capabilities behind its connection to Demon King Castle, he went back to sleep to study the fusion in his dream.

• Xu Lang began a Supreme Fusion of the Time Historian and Vajra Strongman Sequences, sealing their abilities for 33 days.
• Xu Lang considered collecting more Sequences for fusion and noted that using his new Sequence alongside the Scarlet Shepherd could be dangerous.
• Cao Yaxuan, Zhen Lu, and the others asked Xu Lang about the aura; he claimed the bed had only given him a small upgrade and warned them to keep its abilities secret.
• Xu Lang told Cao Yaxuan and Zhen Lu that the bed was called the Demon King Bed and had mutated through its connection to Demon King Castle.
• Xu Lang asked Cao Yaxuan to wake him when Solar Storm entered its second phase, then went to sleep to examine the fusion in his dream.

Xu Lang rested after learning that the Primordial Sequence Sea had lost a sequence, while the Lord of Golden City investigated the anomaly and traced it to the Dormitory Survival Game. The chapter ended with the Lord of Golden City triggering an A-rank Blood Calamity called Holy Calamity: Seven Sins, and the game dispatching Overlord-class dormitory buildings to respond.

• Xu Lang realized that Fusion had made E-400 disappear and that the change might attract powerful forces beyond the Dormitory Survival Game.
• The Lord of Golden City sensed further sequence losses and concluded that the anomaly was linked to the buildings appearing at the end of an era.
• The Lord of Golden City reached toward the southwest, and black-purple clouds formed over a region of dormitory buildings far from the Titan Ruins.
• Powerful creatures emerged from the clouds as the Dormitory Survival Game declared an A-rank Blood Calamity and identified the Lord of Golden City as a hostile unit.
• The Dormitory Survival Game approved the Ark War Zone support request and announced that Overlord-class dormitory buildings would arrive in ten minutes.

A beautiful flesh-forest woman returned to seek revenge on the Dormitory Building, while Phyllis learned that two Sequences had vanished and linked the disturbance to the Dormitory Survival Game. Phyllis sent Sophia out of the Dark World to investigate the game and find Scarlet Shepherd.

• A flesh forest condensed into a beautiful woman, who watched players kill one another before fleeing toward the Dormitory Building to continue her revenge.
• Phyllis discovered that two more Sequences had disappeared and questioned a chained B-grade Sequence Player about who had fused Beast Tamer and Butcher.
• Sophia arrived with information about Time Historians and Vajra Strongmen and said the Sequence Sea disturbance was connected to the Dormitory Survival Game.
• Sophia kicked the prisoner when he tried to speak, and Phyllis exposed his lie by listening to his heartbeat and smelling his blood.
• Phyllis ordered Sophia to leave the Dark World, investigate the Dormitory Survival Game, and ideally find and bring back Scarlet Shepherd.

Sophia traveled alone toward Titanfall Land as the Solar Storm’s second stage battered the Void Battlefield. Xu Lang surveyed the surviving Dormitory Buildings and prepared his group to raid weakened rivals, but a new formation began peeling away from the sun.

• Sophia left after accepting an order, while Phyllis demanded that a chained man identify whoever stole her Sequence.
• Sophia teleported toward Titanfall Land, and vampire guards speculated that she was pursuing giants or a Strange Tale territory.
• Xu Lang used the Eye of Heaven to survey the battlefield and found that Mad King Building had one room left, Heaven’s Wrath Building had three, Paradise Building had twenty-three, and Evil King Building had eighty-one.
• Xu Lang agreed that his group could raid weakened rivals but refused to attack while their external defenses still protected them.
• As ultraviolet light reduced the battlefield to twenty rooms, the Three Evil Gods outside Evil King Building melted away, and a vast cloud of gold and crimson began peeling from the sun.

Coronal mass ejections devastated the dormitory buildings, eliminating Paradise Building and Heaven's Wrath Building before Evil King Building's players marched on Demon King Castle. Xu Lang sent a smaller force to meet them, and the close-quarters battle began with Tong Qi and Wang Yazhi killing two attackers before their side was outnumbered.

• The first coronal mass ejection heavily damaged the Golden Fortune Auspicious Door and killed every player in Paradise Building, eliminating it.
• The Three Evil Gods' phantom forms roared and dispersed, while players in Heaven's Wrath Building debated whether to use Heaven's Wrath Stroke.
• Later coronal mass ejections destroyed dorm rooms across the buildings and killed Heaven's Wrath Building's players, leaving Evil King Building with ten dorm rooms.
• After the sixth coronal mass ejection wiped out Heaven's Wrath Building, a purple-cloaked Dragonman led twenty-nine Evil King Building players toward Demon King Castle.
• Chi Qingman spotted the approaching attackers, and Xu Lang organized a force to meet them while keeping several players in reserve.
• The battle began at Mad King Building, where Tong Qi and Wang Yazhi each killed an Evil King Building player before Demon King Castle's side fell on the defensive.

Xu Lang sent four Nightmare Apostles into the Void Battlefield, helping the Demon King Building players defeat the Evil King Building forces and loot three dormitories. As Cao Yaxuan and Zhen Lu approached the mysterious Utter Darkness · Abyss of Evil Spirits, its gate opened by itself.

• Tong Qi, Zhen Lu, and Xu Ruyan ambushed the middle-aged Dragonman, killed him, and helped turn the fight briefly in their side's favor.
• Xu Lang summoned Wu Huihui, Fusheng Xi, Sword Saint, and Li Shuwen, who joined the battle and helped rout the Evil King Building players.
• Three Evil King Building players broke through the defenders but died to the Demon King Castle turrets.
• Cao Yaxuan and the others broke into and looted three Evil King Building dormitories before time ran short.
• Cao Yaxuan hesitated before the intact Utter Darkness · Abyss of Evil Spirits dormitory, and its gate swung open as Zhen Lu prepared to leave.

Xu Lang’s group escaped the Abyss of Evil Spirits as the solar eruption struck, but the Dormitory Survival Game did not declare victory, forcing them to prepare for the final stage. When Xu Lang went to buy supplies, Mad King Building barred the Supermarket doors, convincing him it was deliberately obstructing him and deepening his hostility toward it.

• Xu Lang opened Vortex Gates to get Cao Yaxuan, Xu Ruyan, and the others out of danger while the Abyss of Evil Spirits’ door opened and the blood-covered woman attacked the Eye of Heaven.
• A huge red-haired hand dragged the woman back inside, and the Abyss of Evil Spirits shut its door against the coronal ejection.
• Xu Lang told the women that the Abyss of Evil Spirits’ players were unusual and possibly nonhuman, while they speculated about the dormitory and joked that Tong Qi should handle it.
• The Abyss of Evil Spirits exploded under the corona, but the Dormitory Survival Game did not announce a winner, so Xu Lang planned to buy raw materials for the final stage.
• Xu Lang found the Supermarket locked and concluded that Mad King Building was preventing him from getting supplies, vowing to destroy it.

Xu Lang secured raw materials after forcing the Mad King Building to reopen its supermarket, then endured the sun’s final attack with the building’s residents. The Mad King Building won the third round of the True King Showdown and gained a temporary buff, while a hidden title offered its strongest performer recruitment by the Corona Throne upon death.

• Xu Lang found the supermarket sealed and, after threatening to give up, used Rakshasa clones and a Vortex Gate to buy raw materials without entering.
• Xu Lang recalled the Mad King Building’s past failures and resolved to punish it at the end of the building war.
• Cao Yaxuan worried that the building had only 100 million Copper Coins left, while Silver Sand expected monsters to bring more money and Chi Qingman marveled at their wealth.
• Demon King Castle withstood the sun’s final assault without damage, and Xu Lang and the residents waited out the hour-long phase.
• The Mad King Building won the Survival Competition round, earned five points, and received the Child of the Corona buff and a hidden mission tied to a title that would recruit its holder to the Corona Throne upon death.
• The standings placed the Mad King Building at 12 points, ahead of the Evil King Building at 11 and Heaven’s Wrath Building at 8.

After the survival competition left Mad King Building with all the points and the other buildings with none, Xu Lang’s group faced the hostility of their rivals and quickly restored their defenses with stored equipment. The fourth-round announcement ended the players’ protection from death, and Paradise Building’s players began to lose their nerve as the countdown started.

• After reviving, the players discovered that only Mad King Building had gained points, leaving it with twelve and turning the other three buildings against it.
• Xu Lang opened Vortex Gates to bring Mad King Building’s players out, and they restored the building’s defenses with better backup equipment while the other players reconsidered attacking.
• The Dormitory Survival Game announced that the Land of Silence would close, active Safe Zone facilities would manifest, and buildings could be eliminated if their scores fell below zero.
• As the fourth-round countdown began, Paradise Building’s players feared they could now die and some proposed surrendering, troubling Candy Queen, Jester, and Amusement.

Xu Lang sent Mad King Building Players to scout, but they attacked Paradise Building, whose weakened defenses left it exposed to a coordinated assault from all three rival buildings. Amusement urged Paradise Building to seek an alliance with Heaven's Wrath Building against Qin rather than surrender.

• Xu Lang ordered Wu Huihui to send out scouts while leaving the other Mad King Building Players to choose their own actions.
• Mad King Building Players attacked Paradise Building, whose fighters struggled against their weapons and hourly Light Shields before fleeing from the Mad Vanguards.
• Jester returned to Paradise Building and ordered its Players to fire their turrets, then spotted forces from Evil King Building and Heaven's Wrath Building approaching.
• Jester asked Candy Queen to charm the attackers, but Amusement warned that surrendering to one side would prompt the other two to unite against Paradise Building.
• Amusement proposed exaggerating Mad King Building's strength and allying with Heaven's Wrath Building to resist Qin.

Paradise Building used its interference to restore its facilities and supplies, allowing its players to counterattack as the other buildings reconsidered the battlefield. At Heaven's Wrath Building, Solaris rejected Candy Queen's offer of an alliance, insisting that Mad King Building had to remain the main target.

• Paradise Building restored itself to its state before round three, and its players launched a cannon counterattack that raised their Joy Value.
• Xu Lang and his companions withdrew into Demon King Castle and discussed the casualties, the risk of Paradise Building retaliating, and the other buildings' growing consensus about interference and Mad King Building.
• Luo Lin came out of Dormitory 399 holding Tao Tao's hand, and Xu Lang ushered the group inside to avoid ranged attacks and keep their information hidden.
• Candy Queen arrived at Heaven's Wrath Building seeking an alliance, but Solaris refused to meet her.
• Solaris told Heaven's Wrath Building's leaders to focus on Mad King Building and warned that an alliance with Paradise Building could divide their enemies or push Evil King Building into joining Mad King Building.

Solaris rejected Paradise Building’s offer and rallied Heaven’s Wrath Building to remain united, while Candy Queen and Jester retaliated with a contagious laughter effect. As the fourth True King Showdown began and the Safe Zones manifested, Paradise Building celebrated its Ferris Wheel and Evil Dragon used Evil King Building’s Flesh Hall to restore equipment and demand materials from Zhao Tian.

• Solaris persuaded Heaven’s Wrath Building to reject cooperation with Paradise Building and focus on unity.
• Candy Queen received Heaven’s Wrath Building’s refusal, then left after charming the messenger; Jester’s retaliation caused contagious laughter among Heaven’s Wrath Building players that their cleansing spells could not stop.
• Amusement dismissed the idea of approaching Evil King Building or Mad King Building, and the fourth True King Showdown began as the Safe Zones manifested.
• Paradise Building’s players celebrated the arrival of their Ferris Wheel.
• Evil Dragon used the Flesh Hall’s blood pool to restore equipment and facilities, then demanded materials from Zhao Tian.

Xu Lang watched the Three Evil Gods return from the dead and learned that Paradise Building had used its Ferris Wheel to boost a turret’s range fiftyfold. The chapter ended with Xu Lang killing a distant Paradise Building Player who had fired at his group, using his newly acquired Soul-Slaying: Merciless Blade.

• Xu Lang told Cao Yaxuan that the Three Evil Gods were coming back to life, and they emerged from a black-mist vortex before the Evil King Building.
• Xu Lang explained that the Three Evil Gods’ resurrection was an innate skill and estimated that they were around Level 50 boss monsters.
• Aygul, Golden Sand, Silver Sand, and White Sand praised the Mad King Building and Xu Lang while the group watched the neighboring buildings.
• A Paradise Building Player fired a turret at Xu Lang’s group from a Ferris Wheel that increased the turret’s range fiftyfold.
• Xu Lang killed the Paradise Building Player from a distance with Soul-Slaying: Merciless Blade.

The fourth round of the True King Showdown began with an evolving Ultimate Organism that grew stronger as it broke doors or killed players. Xu Lang chose to stay outside with Wu Huihui to stop it from growing, while Wang Yazhi and Cao Yaxuan refused to return to their dormitories.

• Xu Lang explained that the Paradise Building's Ferris Wheel extended its turrets' range fiftyfold, but the group waited to see whether its players would attack.
• Kui Zi emerged from seclusion, revealed she had decoded eighteen percent of the Apocalypse Fighter, and said she could upgrade the Mad King Building's modern weapons with materials.
• The game announced the three-hour Hunting Time round, in which an evolving Ultimate Organism would appear and Hate Potions could direct its aggro toward buildings.
• Xu Lang ordered Wu Huihui to remain outside with him and told the others to return to their dormitories before the round began.
• Wang Yazhi and Cao Yaxuan refused to leave, arguing that they could help Xu Lang fight and survive outside.

Xu Lang left the dormitory and attacked the Ultimate Organism before it could grow into a threat. He drained it with the Scarlet Shepherd Lock, but it revived stronger, leaving the Paradise Building players stunned.

• Xu Lang ignored the warnings and leaped from the corridor toward the battlefield as Kui Zi sent an invisible drone to follow him.
• Jester ordered the Paradise Building players on the Ferris Wheel not to attack Xu Lang while he considered the risks.
• Xu Lang kicked the Ultimate Organism, severed its hand, bound it with the Scarlet Shepherd Lock, and began draining it.
• The Ultimate Organism disintegrated into black ash just as Xu Lang was about to drain it completely.
• The Paradise Building players mocked the game and discussed how to deal with Xu Lang, until one player spotted the Ultimate Organism reviving and growing stronger.