Recaps

Xu Lang saved Evil Dragon from Nico Sebastian and considered helping Evil King Building, while the Haunted House carried Paradise Building’s players through Mad King Building’s Portal. With Paradise Building poised to break through Evil King Building, Heaven’s Wrath Building prepared its defenses as Nico Sebastian withdrew.

• Mad King Building suspended time for three seconds, but Xu Lang opened a Vortex Gate and rescued Evil Dragon from Nico Sebastian.
• In Magic Box World, Xu Lang told Evil Dragon he had not decided which building to support and might help him break through after Mad King Building used up its power.
• The Haunted House sent Amusement through Mad King Building’s Portal, allowing every Paradise Building member to break through.
• The Haunted House swallowed Paradise Building’s rooftop players and sped toward Evil King Building, prompting Chen Bo and the others to recognize the threat and reinforce Heaven’s Wrath Building.
• Nico Sebastian chose not to pursue the Haunted House and disappeared into the darkness.

The Haunted House and Ferris Wheel shattered Heaven's Wrath Building's barrier, but Heaven's Wrath Building spent its remaining intervention power to deploy four fused Building Guards and activate its special buildings. Heaven's Wrath Building then converted nearly all its players and Reset Prison into data, leaving the battle's next turn uncertain as Xu Lang watched from Demon King Castle.

• The Haunted House led Paradise Building's escape from the Evil King Building while the Ferris Wheel and Paradise Building players attacked Heaven's Wrath Building.
• Jester chose to keep supporting the assault until the freed players could take over the Ferris Wheel.
• The Haunted House and Ferris Wheel destroyed Heaven's Wrath Building's barrier, triggering Heaven's Wrath Building to advance its Barracks and fuse 144 Building Guards into four.
• One Building Guard activated the Central Tower's code, while another loaded Reset Prison's Data Body ability.
• Heaven's Wrath Building players discarded their keys or uploaded themselves as data, and a Building Guard absorbed Reset Prison into its palm.
• Xu Lang told Yan Xiaoli that the guards were around level fifty and observed that Heaven's Wrath Building was retrieving its players and buildings as modules.

Xu Lang dismissed Mad King Building’s chances of victory as insufficient while the battle outside the building reached a stalemate. As Heaven's Wrath Building and Paradise Building prepared to clash, Solaris called for a truce against their greater threat, Mad King Building.

• Xu Lang received a task notification and said Mad King Building’s current situation was not enough.
• The Tower Guards fought the Three Evil Gods to break through Evil King Building, while Paradise Building’s players stayed out of their way.
• Nico Sebastian used the Black Giant Wheel to wound the Tall Tower Guard and block the breakthrough, forcing the two Tower Guards to withdraw.
• The four Tower Guards returned to face Haunted House, which condensed its terrifying aura into a black sphere.
• Solaris urged Heaven's Wrath Building and Paradise Building to call a truce because Mad King Building remained the greatest threat.

Solaris and Candy Queen agreed to focus their cooperation on defeating Mad King Building, but Xu Lang ambushed Solaris and captured him. Xu Lang returned to Demon King Castle with Solaris's Sequence Crystal while the Players in the Magic Box World mistakenly believed he was fighting alone.

• Solaris and Candy Queen set aside their dispute and agreed to discuss how to deal with Mad King Building, with Solaris proposing that they target Nico Sebastian first.
• Candy Queen led the Sword-Wielding Tower Guard, Tall Tower Guard, and Haunted House toward Mad King Building as Solaris kept two Tower Guards behind.
• Guanjiangkou Boy made Demon King Castle vanish, while Xu Lang appeared on Paradise Building's rooftop and drew the Tower Guards away from Solaris.
• Xu Lang used the Footstep Ghost to ambush Solaris, dragged him into Gluttony Purgatory, and later killed him to obtain his Sequence Crystal.
• Xu Lang returned to Demon King Castle and watched a show, while Zhang Dahai and the other Players refused the food and wine because they believed Xu Lang was fighting alone.

With the magma rising, the remaining buildings formed an uneasy alliance, but Heaven's Wrath Building broke the agreed battle order and gained the advantage over Paradise Building. Nico Sebastian emerged to defend Paradise Building, leaving Amusement convinced Mad King Building could suppress even the strongest opponents.

• The Jester negotiated with the tall tower guard, and Heaven's Wrath Building agreed to cooperate in breaking through Evil King Building.
• The tall tower guard and silver hook tower guard joined the Haunted House to attack Evil King Building, where Nico Sebastian waited alongside the three evil gods.
• After nearly half an hour of fighting, the silver hook tower guard helped the tall tower guard break through ahead of schedule, prompting the gun-wielding tower guard to join them in the sky.
• The silver hook tower guard and gun-wielding tower guard intercepted the Haunted House as it rushed back toward Paradise Building.
• Nico Sebastian emerged from Amusement's shadow and used Great Darkness Sacrifice: Elemental Destruction to hold off the two Heaven's Wrath tower guards attacking Paradise Building.

As Heaven’s Wrath Building and Paradise Building struggled to break through each other while the lava lake rose, their forces joined to surround Nico Sebastian. Mad King Building finally intervened by unsealing Rust Lake, releasing an ancient commander who began heading toward the building.

• Paradise Building’s players repeatedly tried to break through Heaven’s Wrath Building while the Haunted House distracted its guards and Nico Sebastian rushed between the battles.
• The Haunted House and the Gun-Wielding Tower Guard agreed to withdraw Paradise Building’s players and join forces against Nico Sebastian.
• Heaven’s Wrath Building’s guards and the Haunted House wounded Nico Sebastian and forced him toward the lava lake.
• Mad King Building intervened, unsealing Rust Lake and summoning a rust-armored commander bearing a glowing scarlet command token.

The Everdark Knight King led the revived Mad Vanguards into battle, but Xu Lang confronted him and demanded Mad King Building’s surrender. As the Knight King prepared to attack, the game announced Xie Wuji’s death, leaving Evil King Building with one survivor.

• The Everdark Knight King revived the Mad Vanguards, sent them to attack Paradise Building, and headed for Demon King Castle.
• Xu Lang met the Everdark Knight King in the reception hall and warned that slaughtering the other buildings would make Mad King Building lose.
• Xu Lang demanded that Mad King Building surrender and threatened to send the Evil Dragon into the escape point if the Knight King attacked.
• The Everdark Knight King advanced toward Xu Lang, but the Dormitory Survival Game announced that Xie Wuji had died, leaving one Evil King Building survivor.

As the True King Showdown neared its end, Xu Lang negotiated with the Everdark Knight King while Paradise Building launched its final attack against Heaven's Wrath Building. The chapter left the super rocket full of Paradise Building Players diving toward Heaven's Wrath Building.

• After Xie Wuji died, the Everdark Knight King asked Xu Lang what he wanted, and Xu Lang demanded an offer worth his support.
• The Everdark Knight King handed Xu Lang a crimson token, but Xu Lang rejected it and the Dormitory Survival Game offered him missions with increasingly valuable rewards.
• Heaven's Wrath Building and Paradise Building attacked Nico Sebastian as Paradise Building Players began a desperate breakout.
• As magma submerged most of Paradise Building, Paradise Building intervened and boosted its Players' speed tenfold for three minutes.
• Paradise Building launched its one airdrop, a super rocket packed with Players, toward Heaven's Wrath Building.

Heaven's Wrath Building overwhelmed Paradise Building's Players as Nico Sebastian moved to stop its guards, while Xu Lang pressured Mad King Building into communicating. Mad King Building responded to Xu Lang's mention of Tang Heng by producing a crimson contract.

• Jester led Paradise Building's Players in a super rocket, but the sword-wielding Heaven's Wrath Building guard destroyed it with rented turrets and killed most of them.
• Haunted House charged Heaven's Wrath Building while its three guards flew toward the empty Paradise Building, and Nico Sebastian transformed into a black meteor to intercept them.
• At Demon King Castle, Xu Lang told Everdark Knight King that he would not break through and that Mad King Building would lose if it failed to rescue its Players.
• Mad King Building's greater consciousness sent Xu Lang the words, "What do you want..."
• Xu Lang mentioned Tang Heng's special power, causing Mad King Building to tremble and form a crimson contract before him.

Xu Lang signed the Madness Contract and became Mad King Building’s Acting Building Lord, restoring access to hidden building features and upgrading player information. In Magic Box World, the players reacted to the new, seemingly limitless Sanity ability, while the Residents’ Committee imposed order until Xu Lang’s situation became clear.

• Xu Lang inspected the Madness Contract, accepted the quest, and signed to become Mad King Building’s Acting Building Lord.
• Mad King Building unlocked new shops, areas, and player features, including full information access and the ability to enter the Supernegative Domain.
• Mad King Building players reacted to the broadcasts, and Kui Zi urged Wang Yazhi to examine her newly detailed Sanity attribute.
• Wang Yazhi and Kui Zi suspected the power had side effects, while Han Jisoo warned that players might be unprepared to control their Sanity.
• A player tried to lower his Sanity, but Cao Yaxuan froze him and ordered everyone not to do so without the Residents’ Committee’s permission.
• Zhang Dahai wondered what Xu Lang was doing as the crowd settled under Cao Yaxuan’s authority.

As the seventh round reached its climax, Xu Lang joined the battlefield wearing the Everdark Knight King's armor and the Black Crown. The crown turned every outsider into an enemy and drew the other factions into a desperate assault, as Xu Lang prepared to fight them all.

• Nico Sebastian held off three Heaven's Wrath Building Guards while the sword-wielding guard broke away and charged toward Paradise Building, prompting Haunted House to rush back and defend.
• After signing a contract, Xu Lang entered the Everdark Knight King's armor and asked Louzi to enhance his Black Crown.
• Haunted House and Nico Sebastian struggled against four Heaven's Wrath Building Guards, whose Heaven's Wrath Stroke immobilized Players on their rooftop.
• Xu Lang emerged through a Vortex Gate above Evil King Building as Mad King Building Players entered the breakout point.
• Xu Lang put on the Black Crown, and the broadcast announced that Mad King Building had interfered, designated all outsiders as enemies, and cleared its interference power.
• Paradise Building Players and the other challengers charged Xu Lang, who opened a dimensional rift for evil ghosts and drew the King of Purgatory.

Xu Lang fought through the battlefield as the Evil King Building used Dark Sacrifice to rise to First Tier and revive its boss alongside Azazel. With ten minutes before the building lost its level and faced punishment, Xu Lang battled both threats while the lava lake flooded the Mad King Building, leaving his allies worried about his delay.

• Xu Lang slaughtered Paradise Building Players and Heaven's Wrath Building guards while the Mad King Building Players broke through the Evil King Building and Paradise Building.
• The Mad King Building warned Xu Lang not to destroy Heaven's Wrath, and he vowed to keep the building from losing as it fought alongside him.
• The Evil King Building activated Dark Sacrifice, rose to First Tier, and revived Azazel with a stronger aura, though the treaty warned its level would fall after ten minutes.
• The revived Evil King and Azazel charged Xu Lang, who used a true-damage light blade to fight them while the other Mad King Building Players advanced through three breakthrough points.
• As lava flooded toward the Mad King Building's Twentieth Floor, Tong Qi, Red Butterfly, Zhen Lu, and others worried that Xu Lang was delaying the battle, while Wang Yazhi wondered whether she could ever match his strength.

Xu Lang led Mad King Building to victory in the True King Showdown, then used a prison dungeon to keep Azazel and the Evil King from being taken away by the game's rules. He sent the Evil Dragon back to the weakened Evil King Building after secretly giving him a hundred urban legends, and warned him not to abandon it.

• Nico Sebastian shrank into human form as the black Vortex Gate took the man in black robes away, and Xu Lang emerged at Mad King Building's breakout point.
• The Dormitory Survival Game announced Mad King Building's victory and promotion to a first-tier dormitory building as the other buildings vanished.
• Xu Lang asked Tong Ru to open Dormitory 395's dungeon, then used demonic-sealing blade qi to imprison Azazel and the Evil King.
• Xu Lang secretly infused the Evil Dragon with a hundred urban legends before sending him back to the Evil King Building to help it recover.
• Xu Lang warned the Evil Dragon not to run away because he was fond of the Evil King Building, then took out the Order of Madness.

The Mad King Building returned to the Blood Mist World and triggered a vast phenomenon as it advanced, drawing the Blood Mist toward itself. The disturbance drew Blood Mist Creatures and alarmed nearby Dormitory Buildings, leaving the Shadow Prison Building’s scouting teams in danger and the Strange Tales Building unable to investigate.

• The Mad King Building Players returned to the Blood Mist World, where the building began bleeding and pulled the Blood Mist into a vast funnel-shaped cloud.
• Xu Lang watched the phenomenon from the Mad King Building and used another perspective to observe the Gray Giant, whose Magic Box warned him to return to his building.
• The Silver Flying Dragon, the Giant Tree, and other Blood Mist Creatures headed toward the anomaly, fighting along the way as the disturbance affected nearly half the Titan Ruins.
• The Shadow Prison Building’s administrators spotted the phenomenon near the Ghost Mausoleum, and Da Wu warned them that Blood Mist Creatures were converging there and threatened their scouting teams.
• The Strange Tales Building’s Floor Leaders discussed the thinning Blood Mist and considered investigating, but the Blood-Clad Man said a powerful female vampire outside was targeting their Players.

Players in Titan Ruins learned that a dormitory building across Ghost River had advanced, prompting Titan Building to accelerate its plans to cross the river. At the outpost, an alluring woman appeared and turned the giants against their officer.

• At Strange Tales Building, the bandaged man rejected the idea that the woman could threaten them, while the qipao-clad Zhen Qihong and the blood-clad man agreed to approach her and learn her motives.
• Players in Titan Ruins confirmed that a dormitory building across Ghost River had advanced, and Titan Building's leaders discussed the danger and their plans to plunder buildings across the river.
• At the riverbank outpost, officers ordered the giants to lure out a ghost shark and offered a Hercules Pill to the volunteer who went first.
• An exceptionally beautiful woman in a black dress appeared at the outpost and asked what the players were doing.
• The giants became captivated by the woman and berated their officer, demanding that he apologize to her.

Red Butterfly wiped out the Titan Building Players before the Ghost River dragged her under, while Xu Lang dealt with the arrival of Nico Sebastian at Mad King Building. Nico explained that the building’s advancement had loosened his seal temporarily, and Xu Lang asked whether he knew about demons.

• Red Butterfly charmed the Titan Building Players into revealing what they knew, then drove them to slaughter one another and absorbed their remains.
• Red Butterfly tried to fly across the Ghost River toward a newly formed Dormitory Building, but a massive bighead carp pulled her underwater.
• Xu Lang worried that Mad King Building’s commotion would attract powerful calamities and considered his need to remain a Player.
• Nico Sebastian visited Mad King Building, and Xu Lang confirmed that he showed no hostility.
• Nico Sebastian said the building’s advancement had loosened the seal on the Dusk Veil temporarily, and Xu Lang asked whether he knew about demons.

Xu Lang witnessed the Mad King Building and Safe Zone undergo a major transformation as the building advanced to Tier 1. The upgrade introduced new facilities, hazards, and Forbidden Land Gatekeepers, leaving the players to explore the expanded changes.

• Nico Sebastian was about to answer Xu Lang when a violent tremor shook the Dormitory Building and spread through the Safe Zone, damaging Xu Lang while the players inside remained unharmed.
• Xu Lang used the Eye of Heaven to watch buildings across the Safe Zone transform, including the Mad King Building, the factories, the Angel Church, the Garden Corridor, and the Ironblood Arena.
• After more than ten minutes, the Mad King Building finished transforming into a towering bloodred structure covered in shifting praise, and a loudspeaker announced its advancement to a Tier 1 Dormitory Building.
• The broadcast announced upgraded supplies, player abilities, turrets, tasks, and Exploration Mode, along with a new Madness Whispers hazard and Gatekeepers for the Dusk Veil and Rust Lake.
• The broadcast listed new buildings and facilities, including the Residents' Committee Center, Community Center, Construction Center, Madness Barracks, Crazy Soldier Demon Furnace, and House of Order.

After the Mad King Building transformed, Xu Lang explored the new Crazy Soldier Demon Furnace, which could consume equipment to upgrade itself or attempt to enhance weapons. The furnace destroyed every weapon he fed it, and Xu Lang kept gambling on another try.

• Xu Lang noticed the Mad King Building had grown to thirty floors, while Nico Sebastian hurriedly vanished after saying he had matters to attend to.
• Xu Lang found the Crazy Soldier Demon Furnace and learned that it could enhance equipment or consume it to raise the furnace's level and improve Safe Zone materials.
• Xu Lang cast an Excellent-grade Quenched Longblade into the furnace, but it only raised the furnace's upgrade progress from 1% to 1.1%.
• Xu Lang tried enhancing the Palace Longsword, which succeeded once before it was destroyed on a later attempt.
• Xu Lang fed the furnace a series of increasingly poor weapons, but it destroyed hundreds of items without getting one to +10.
• Xu Lang calculated the odds, insisted his luck could not be bad, and took out yet another weapon to try again.

Xu Lang enhanced the Swordmaster's Bamboo Pole to +11, gaining a chance to sever limbs, then left the Weapon Demon Furnace before risking another upgrade. Meanwhile, Mad King Players discovered that lowering Sanity could cause lasting mental contamination, and Demon King Castle's residents discussed how difficult it was to treat.

• Xu Lang enhanced the Swordmaster's Bamboo Pole to +11 and gained a 30% increased chance to sever a limb.
• Xu Lang resisted the Crazy Soldier Demon Furnace's prompt to try another enhancement and headed for the Intermediate Madness Barracks.
• Mad King Players discussed the growing number of Mad Vanguards and experimented with lowering their Sanity.
• Players reported that those whose Sanity reached single digits could not keep it from falling, even when using items that increased happiness.
• Wang Yazhi asked Shirley whether her Healing Art could remove mental contamination, and Shirley admitted she did not know.
• Kui Zi explained that mental contamination worsened over time and was difficult to remove, while the others suspected Xu Lang had a way to withstand it.

Xu Lang inspected his new Mad Vanguard army, discovered that the Mad King Building had nine Building Lord tokens, and explored the upgraded Merit Building to see how players’ contributions were recorded. He left with a Merit Orb containing rewards for his own dormitory, while continuing to assess the other players’ merits.

• Cao Yaxuan told Xu Lang that a player's Sanity had fallen too low for them to return, and Xu Lang told her to investigate.
• Xu Lang examined his three Building Lord tokens and panels, learning that he could monitor players’ average Sanity and that Mad Filth was forming.
• Xu Lang found that the Mad Vanguards obeyed him perfectly through the Order of Madness and led a column of them to the Merit Building.
• Xu Lang discovered that the upgraded Merit Building ranked players by contribution and that his own Merit Orb contained a dormitory upgrade, a standard Core Facility choice, and an exclusive item.
• Xu Lang toured the Merit Building’s floors, saw that Kui Zi had contributed the most and Zhang Dahai was honored as a leading scout, and found no suspicious details with his Nightmare Eye.

Xu Lang explored the Mad King Community Center and Residents' Committee Center, where he found a recruitment mission and tokens for official building positions. He took all the tokens, considering how the Mad Guards might protect the building from future threats and how the Floor Leaders could affect players' Sanity.

• Xu Lang found a highest-tier mission to recruit another Dormitory Building but left it unaccepted.
• Xu Lang examined Cleaner tokens and suspected their connection to Heaven's Wrath Building and the removal of Mad Filth.
• Xu Lang inspected the Mad Guard tokens, whose holders would detect and fight outsiders entering the Safe Zone, and considered what threats the building anticipated.
• Xu Lang took all 120 Cleaner tokens, 120 Mad Guard tokens, and 30 Floor Leader tokens from the Residents' Committee Center.

After visiting the House of Order, Xu Lang discovered that the Supermarket had expanded dramatically and now sold powerful Mad King facilities and equipment. He bought ten Madness-prefix facility blueprints and left wondering what dangers the Mad King Building was preparing for.

• Xu Lang tried the House of Order’s Sanity restoration and contamination cleansing, but found the treatment prohibitively expensive.
• Xu Lang entered the expanded Supermarket and was stunned by the Mad King White Reaper blueprint, whose turret could gain attack speed without limit.
• Xu Lang discovered that nearly half the facility blueprints carried the Mad King prefix and wondered who led the building and where its resources had gone.
• Xu Lang bought ten Madness-prefix facility blueprints and inspected the equipment section, where he found powerful gear that increased Madness Capacity and attributes.
• Xu Lang considered how dangerous future games might be after seeing equipment tied to Madness Domains, Mad Vanguards, and the Mad King’s palace guards.

Xu Lang explored the Mad King Building’s newly expanded shops, discovering powerful Sanity-draining skills and new information about Exploration Mode. After reading the world intelligence scrolls, he realized the exploration worlds held materials needed to build Mad Facilities, and he intended to pursue them.

• Xu Lang bought nearly a fifth of the mad equipment stock, then headed to the Skill Area.
• Xu Lang inspected the Madness-prefixed skill scrolls, found that casting them lowered Sanity while granting powerful effects, and bought roughly a fifth of the available skills.
• Xu Lang visited the Exploration Mode section of the Madness Supermarket and bought the basic historical background scroll for Zombie Assault World.
• Xu Lang read intelligence scrolls for all seven exploration worlds and noted how Zombie Assault resembled Luo Lin’s experience.
• Xu Lang discovered that Day-Night Ghost March contained all the raw materials needed to make the White Death and that the worlds’ resources could build Mad Facilities.
• Xu Lang decided to seek Mad Facilities for himself.

Xu Lang returned from the Task Hall with new insight into the Mad King Building’s changing strategy and discussed mental contamination with his companions. The chapter ended with him realizing that the strange images in his mind were mental contamination, though he had dismissed them as a cartoon.

• Xu Lang reviewed the Task Hall’s Exploration Mode missions and concluded that the Mad King Building was encouraging Players to seek resources.
• The Mad King Building assigned Xu Lang the highest-grade Neighbor Recruitment mission, requiring him to win over half the Mad King Players and recruit a neighboring Dormitory Building.
• Shirley told Xu Lang that her healing and purification spells could not treat mental contamination, so she wanted to organize tests with Players who had healing abilities.
• Xu Lang told his companions about the outside developments, warned that the Mad King Building’s new benefits came with increased difficulty, and advised them to let others explore the Frost Ghost King’s world first.
• Xu Lang’s companions discussed using Madness skills to manage Sanity, and Zhen Lu explained that entering the Madness Domain inevitably exposed Players to mental contamination.
• Xu Lang said he had not noticed any serious effects and realized that the strange images he had experienced were mental contamination, which he had mistaken for a cartoon.

Xu Lang explained how the Mad King Building’s facilities and items could help players manage mental corruption, then introduced mad jobs and their restrictions. Xu Ruyan took the Mad Guard position and gained powerful skills, including an alert that detected outsiders entering the building outside game hours.

• Shirley and the others discussed mental corruption, and Xu Lang explained that the House of Order could remove abnormal statuses at an astronomical price.
• Xu Lang showed the group mad medicine, which restored Sanity without removing mental corruption, and they discussed how the building’s specialized items restricted who could use them.
• Xu Lang revealed mad job tokens, and the group learned that players could take only one job and that most jobs offered little direct combat strength.
• Xu Ruyan chose to become a Mad Guard, while Mary and Shirley agreed to prepare a list of candidates for the other jobs.
• Xu Ruyan gained Mad Guard skills, including Alert Signal, which warned her whenever an outsider entered the building’s territory outside game hours.