Recaps

Zhang Chaosheng’s successful claim against the Titan Eye sparked a flood of compensation claims from Mad King Building Players, draining the Titan Building’s resources. The Forest Titan and a giantess traced the penalties to the Titan Building actively projecting the Eye’s power and went to consult the All-Knowing Spring for a solution.

• Zhang Chaosheng’s claim triggered Dormitory Survival Game penalties, and Mad King Building Players copied him to claim compensation from the Titan Building.
• A young Titan Building Player severed his own arm and swore vengeance, but the system did not accept his attempt to claim harm from the Mad King Building.
• A giantess explained to the Forest Titan that the Titan Eye had actively harmed the Mad King Building Players, while their claims against the Titans had not involved the same active step.
• The giantess volunteered to bear the cost of consulting the All-Knowing Spring, and the Forest Titan led her to the spring beneath the Giant Tree.

The All-Knowing Spring foretold that Titan Building’s crisis would soon pass, but its arrival had already cost it the Titan Eye and nearly three hundred million Copper Coins. Xu Lang explained that he wanted to avoid an all-out war while waiting for the Nightmare Lord Sequence to advance, then ordered his allies to gather more Nightmare Essence.

• The giantess questioned the All-Knowing Spring, sacrificing sight in one eye and twenty percent of her attributes to learn that Titan Building’s turmoil would end within ten minutes.
• Mad King Building’s players received nearly three hundred million Copper Coins in compensation, and Titan Building suspended the Titan Eye for three years.
• Wang Yazhi deduced that Xu Lang had not intended to start a full-scale war, and Xu Lang warned the women not to leave Demon King Castle because Titan Building might uncover information about them.
• Xu Lang said they would retaliate if attacked but disclosed that he was waiting for the Nightmare Lord Sequence to advance.
• Xu Lang summoned Li Shuwen and the others in a dream and told them to intensify their scare tactics to produce more Nightmare Essence.

Xu Lang sent Xu Ruyan and Kui Zi to Earth with Fusheng Xi to test whether people outside the game could generate Fear Power and help the Demon King Apostles grow stronger. The Mad King Building’s ventures were expanding across the zombie world, the copper mine, and Earth, though its returns still trailed the Titan Building’s.

• Xu Lang let Xu Ruyan travel to Earth with Kui Zi while the others stayed behind to work in the blank area.
• Xu Lang assigned Fusheng Xi to accompany them, and Xu Ruyan and Kui Zi worried about his dangerous nightmare powers.
• Xu Lang explained that he wanted to test whether people outside the game could generate Fear Power and provide more targets for the Demon King Apostles.
• The women accepted that ordinary people on Earth might have to endure the apostles’ nightmares so the Demon King Castle could grow stronger.
• Xu Lang reviewed the Mad King Building’s ventures in the zombie world, at the copper mine, and on Earth, and judged that they were steadily expanding its income and resources.

Red Butterfly awoke after a transformation that raised her charm to 1,470, making her the castle’s top-ranked charmer, while Xu Lang checked the gains from the previous night. When Red Butterfly teased him and tried to retaliate, Xu Lang grabbed her before she could escape into spirit form.

• Xu Lang returned to the Nightmare Bed after seeing Kui Zi, Xu Ruyan, and Fusheng Xi off, while Red Butterfly, Tong Qi, and Chi Qingman remained asleep.
• Red Butterfly’s transformation gave her the Epic Spirit Metamorphosis skill, and using Golden Beeswax brought her charm to 1,470.
• Red Butterfly woke and questioned Xu Lang about where everyone had gone, while Chi Qingman hid beneath the blanket.
• Xu Lang reviewed his Nightmare Coin and attribute gains and discovered that Martial Saint had reached level 20 and gained a new exclusive technique.
• Red Butterfly confronted Xu Lang, then tried to shove her foot toward his face; when Xu Lang threatened to let Tong Qi use the Ghost-Controlling Bell, Red Butterfly tried to flee in spirit form.
• Xu Lang seized Red Butterfly by the ankle, and Chi Qingman watched before hurrying away.

Xu Lang used his simulated foresight to prepare the Mad King Building for the Titan Building’s breakthrough attempt. The Titan Building’s employees were captured instead of drawing the expected response, while its elite players hesitated at the border under the gaze of their giant overseer.

• Xu Lang ordered Cao Yaxuan, Li Shuwen, and the others to prepare for the Titan Building’s attempt to break through.
• Han Jisoo told Xu Xiaomeng and the other women to stay away from the front line until the elite Titan Building Players arrived.
• The Dormitory Survival Game announced that Wang Dali had been fined for injuring Tao Shu.
• Thousands of Titan Building employees charged into the Mad King Building’s Safe Zone, where anesthetic grenades knocked them down.
• Wu Huihui ordered the players to capture the employees and take them to work in the mines.
• The Titan Building’s elite players hesitated at the border as they saw the giant officer overseeing their operation.

Beast Titan gathered his eighty-eight brothers and mobilized ten thousand employees to lead an assault on Mad King Building after learning the battle plan was in trouble. Meanwhile, the Sea God Titan and the Gauze-Skirt Goddess argued over the war and their marriage, leaving their distrust unresolved.

• The Snake-Scaled Titan told Beast Titan that Cui Yongning had requested instructions, and Beast Titan decided to oversee the battle himself.
• The Crane-wing Giant rallied the brothers, and Beast Titan led them and ten thousand employees toward the front lines.
• The Sea God Titan watched the front through a water mirror and criticized Beast Titan's plan, arguing that Titan Building should focus on conquering other dormitories and clearing blood-mist creatures.
• The Gauze-Skirt Goddess rejected the Crown Giant's request to involve her with Hundred Beasts and walked away.
• After she left, the Crown Giant cursed her, and the Gauze-Skirt Goddess heard him but did not return to confront him.

Beast Titan was trapped by the Mad King Building Players’ complaints and forced to withdraw, leaving the Titan Building workers and players to attack without him. As the battle turned against the Titan Building, the Crane-wing Giant spotted a black-clad man with a crimson blade looming over him.

• Beast Titan approached the Mad King Building and was fined tens of millions of Copper Coins after his passive skills harmed several players.
• Beast Titan retreated and ordered ten thousand workers to charge, while the eighty-eight half-beast giants followed him.
• Titan Building workers broke through the Mad King Building’s defenses, allowing its players to hunt down Titan Building Players who could not attack back without risking penalties.
• Cao Yaxuan and her allies intercepted Titan Building Players, with Cao Yaxuan freezing a heavily armored giant and Wang Yazhi smashing through armor.
• The Crane-wing Giant watched the battle from the storm clouds, then sensed someone above him and saw a black-clad man holding a crimson blade.

Xu Lang ambushed and killed the Crane-wing Giant, a Titan Building player, then drained his body and head in the Magic Box World. He obtained an Undying Essence Soul and a Fighting Partridge: Giant Form scroll, but failed to learn the Titan Building’s core mechanic.

• Xu Lang landed on the Crane-wing Giant and beheaded him with a powerful slash.
• The Crane-wing Giant healed, fled, and tried to escape, but Xu Lang used Time Scar: Calamity Recurrence to behead him again and bound him with Scarlet Shepherd Locks.
• Xu Lang took the Crane-wing Giant into the Magic Box World and drained his body and head separately.
• Xu Lang obtained an Undying Essence Soul and a Fighting Partridge: Giant Form skill scroll.
• Xu Lang regretted not extracting the Titan Building’s core mechanic but recognized the Undying Essence Soul as valuable.

Mad King Building overwhelmed Titan Building's assault, while the Beast Titan learned Douhe had died and ordered a retreat after twenty minutes of heavy losses. The retreat was interrupted when Mad King Building's players made a move that ignited the battlefield.

• The Beast Titan learned Douhe had died and led the Beast Giants toward the city wall to watch the battle.
• Mad King Building players slaughtered Titan Building staff, while Zhu Yan stopped one player from attacking a boy who had not surrendered.
• The boy helped the wounded Mad King Building player heal and became inspired by the fighters of Mad King Building.
• Cao Yaxuan and other Mad King Building players routed Titan Building's full-fledged players as the attackers lost ground and resources.
• After twenty minutes of failed reinforcements and mounting casualties, the Beast Titan ordered the Beast Dormitory to retreat.
• Just as the Beast Giants prepared to leave, Mad King Building's players did something that set the battlefield ablaze.

Zhu Rong Titan learned that Beast Titan had withdrawn and Steel Titan might act, but the Mad King Building Players provoked Beast Titan’s retreating forces. After Tiger Mountain Lord violated the Alliance Regulations and was crippled by the game’s punishments, a black-robed figure killed him.

• Zhu Rong Titan told a fire elemental spirit that he had plans of his own and might need troops sacrificed, then realized someone was provoking Beast Titan.
• Mad King Building Players mocked Beast Titan’s departing forces and taunted the Titan Building Players from the Safe Zone.
• Several half-beast giants charged into the Mad King Building’s Safe Zone, where its players attacked them under the Alliance Regulations.
• Tiger Mountain Lord killed two Mad King Building Players, and the Dormitory Survival Game stripped his player privileges and inflicted powerful negative buffs.
• A horse-headed giant tried to pull Tiger Mountain Lord back to safety, but a black-robed figure struck with a spear and exploded his head.

Li Shuwen and Fusheng Xi killed the Tiger Mountain Lord and the horse-headed giant, prompting the Beast Titan to retreat with his forces. The Mad King Building players celebrated their profits and upgrades while Wang Yazhi reassigned staff to help Pandora, leaving the border tense but temporarily quiet.

• Li Shuwen killed the Tiger Mountain Lord, and Fusheng Xi strangled the horse-headed giant with steel wires.
• The Beast Titan read the fighting-bird giant’s final warning, ordered his brothers to retreat, and left the two Titans’ bodies behind.
• The Steel Titan’s black-iron giants turned back toward the Titan Building after hearing about the battle and the cost of artifacts that could break Alliance Regulations.
• The Mad King Building players set off fireworks and celebrated the Copper Coins they had earned from the Titan Building players.
• Players tried to upgrade their weapons with the Crazy Soldier Demon Furnace, with some celebrating successful upgrades and others losing weapons.
• Wang Yazhi told Zhou Ye to send a group to help Pandora and agreed that staff could return from the borderlands.

Xu Lang ordered the captured Titan Building staff put to work in newly created mineral veins, while Mad King Building's workers worried the captives might replace them. Back at Demon King Castle, Xu Lang focused on resisting the Desire Demon Pot's influence and preparing to upgrade the Nightmare Bed the next morning.

• Zhou Ye told Pandora that the Residents' Committee would supply medical care and ordered the captured Titan Building staff to begin mining.
• Xu Lang created six low-grade brass veins, and he and the women discussed how the captives could mine for sixteen hours a day and quickly exhaust them.
• Pandora announced the captives' working conditions, prompting them to praise Mad King Building while its own workers worried about being replaced.
• Xu Lang continued indulging the Desire Demon Pot with Xu Xiaomeng and Miaoying, despite Cao Yaxuan urging him to examine their loot.
• Xu Lang said he would inspect the loot later and looked forward to upgrading the Nightmare Bed at eight the next morning.

Tong Qi and Red Butterfly returned from the Fierce Ghost Soul Return world and began ascending their Ghost Tamer Sequences. Red Butterfly’s effortless ascension left her testing her new Ghost Constable Domain on the Demon King Bed, where it failed to frighten anyone.

• Fusheng Xi remained on Earth and led Mad King Building Players in a search for Transcendent resources while Xu Lang reflected on the dangers of Nightmare Power.
• Tong Qi and Red Butterfly returned from the Fierce Ghost Soul Return world, and Red Butterfly announced that Tong Qi was about to ascend.
• Tong Qi climbed onto the bed to settle her volatile ghostly energy, and everyone gathered to watch both women ascend.
• Red Butterfly completed her Yin-Yang Ghost Constable ascension with no apparent difficulty, astonishing the others with her natural compatibility.
• Red Butterfly activated her Ghost Constable Domain, but the Demon King Bed’s protection kept it from frightening anyone, and Xu Lang told her to show her skills.

Red Butterfly and Tong Qi advanced their Sequences, revealing powerful new abilities and prompting envy and talk of sparring at Demon King Castle. Xu Lang stopped the fighting so everyone could rest before Titan Building’s deadline, and the group went to sleep awaiting the upgrade.

• Red Butterfly displayed her advanced Yin-Yang Ghost Constable abilities and challenged Xu Lang to a duel.
• Tong Qi advanced to Ghost Tamer, gaining the True Spirit: Ghost King ability and a tenfold increase in Ghost Pet capacity.
• Zhen Lu considered testing herself against Tong Qi, but Red Butterfly stepped in to protect her.
• Xu Lang reminded everyone that Titan Building’s deadline was tomorrow and ended the talk of fighting.
• The Nightmare Bed made the group drowsy, and everyone went to sleep while Xu Lang awaited his approaching advancement.

Xu Lang spent 3 million Nightmare Coins to upgrade the Royal Nightmare Bed to level 8 and chose the Dream Doll trait. He met the mysterious plush Dream Bear, and the upgraded bed gained room for 30 sleepers and new capabilities.

• Xu Lang upgraded the Royal Nightmare Bed to level 8 and chose Dream Doll as its new trait.
• A plush creature with rabbit ears, a bear's face, and a mouse's tail appeared in a display case and introduced herself as the Dream Doll.
• Xu Lang used Nightmare Eye to learn that the Dream Doll had faint consciousness and no risk of rebellion, then freed her from the case.
• The Dream Doll entered standby mode, and Xu Lang briefly became so taken with her cuteness that he kissed her before catching himself.
• The upgraded bed's status showed space for 30 sleepers, a 1,200% Nightmare Coin conversion bonus, and the Dream Doll named Dream Bear.

Xu Lang upgraded the Nightmare Bed, filled its new sleeping spaces with twelve high-Charm maid androids, and went to sleep to earn Nightmare Coins. Dream Bear woke, tried to evict the other sleepers, and was put back to sleep by Xu Lang, while her mysterious status remained largely unreadable.

• Xu Lang celebrated the Nightmare Bed's upgrades, which doubled its base Nightmare Coins and comfort, raised its capacity to thirty, and removed the fusion limit.
• Xu Lang created twelve maid-outfitted bionic humans, paid the population tax to make them subordinate units, and spent his remaining Nightmare Coins raising their Charm to around 250.
• Xu Lang went to sleep for another eight hours, hoping to farm Nightmare Coins.
• Dream Bear awoke and tried to throw Chi Qingman off the bed, but her plush body was too weak to move her.
• Dream Bear woke Xu Lang to complain about outsiders, but he pulled her into his arms and made her fall asleep again.
• Xu Lang examined Dream Bear and found that her level, attributes, skills, and origins remained almost entirely unknown.

Xu Lang used the Nightmare Coins earned from sleeping with the Dream Doll to upgrade the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art and chose the Mystic Lord Visualization Method. He then decided to upgrade a Mythic Double Skill Card so he could pursue a second cultivation skill, accepting the risk that one skill would be disabled at random.

• Xu Lang woke in the dream and celebrated the Nightmare Coins produced by the Dream Doll’s improved earnings.
• Xu Lang spent Nightmare Coins to raise the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art to level 20 and reviewed its seven Epic upgrade paths.
• Xu Lang rejected the Primeval Return-to-Hiding Art, the Evil King Secret Record, and the other paths before choosing the Mystic Lord Visualization Method.
• Xu Lang considered cultivating both righteous and demonic arts and took out the Double Skill Card from the All-Powerful Building.
• Xu Lang decided to upgrade the card despite its seven-day limit and random skill-disable effect.

Xu Lang upgraded the Double Skill Card into an Epic card that let him learn two cultivation skills, then began fusing four sequences and prepared for the day's events. As a proxy war erupted against the Mad King Building, the Angel Building's hired players discovered the defenders were ready for their attack.

• Xu Lang upgraded the Double Skill Card into an Epic Double Skill Card and stored it for further upgrades, then considered which cultivation skill to learn next.
• Xu Lang fused B-24 Time Historian, B-88 Adjudicator, C-40 Vajra Strongman, and E-10 Lucky One, with the process expected to take twenty days.
• Xu Lang simulated the day's events and arranged for Li Shuwen and the others to handle the trouble while gaining combat practice.
• Players hired by Steel Titan, Beast Titan, and Sea God Titan attacked the Mad King Building's Safe Zone, but its guards and anti-air defenses resisted them.
• Chen Luo questioned Beast Titan about the defenders' preparedness, and Steel Titan promised more supplies and help if the attack went badly.

After the Angel Building fell and the Titan Building paid Xu Lang the promised supplies, the Mad King Building expanded and strengthened its forces. Xu Lang’s Ghost God Power reached 1,000, allowing him to form and name his new ghost god identity, Yog-Erebus.

• The Angel Building collapsed, and the Titan Building delivered one billion Copper Coins, equipment, blueprints, and raw materials to Xu Lang.
• The Beast Titan protested the Alliance Regulations and challenged Xu Lang, who stayed asleep while Cao Yaxuan and the others slept under his influence.
• Li Shuwen and the others used the new supplies to build Madness structures and raise the Mad Vanguards’ levels.
• Xu Lang reviewed his Nightmare Coin gains and continued sleeping until changes in his body drew him into a deep dream.
• Xu Lang’s Ghost God Power reached 1,000, and he transformed into a ghost god with a noble face on one side and a savage face on the other.
• Xu Lang named his new identity Yog-Erebus, ghost god of sleep and brutality, and shaped its form into a regal, combat-ready body.

Xu Lang tested his Ghost God form and discovered how its attribute boost combined with Madness Domain, then began using Fusion to upgrade equipment for the women of Demon King Castle. He finished with Epic gear for each woman and considered how it could strengthen Mad King Building’s players.

• Xu Lang tested his Ghost God form in a deep dream and found that its 30% attribute boost could stack after Madness Domain’s tenfold increase.
• Xu Lang returned to human form, rested with the Dream Bear, and resolved to keep using Fusion rather than let himself go down.
• Xu Lang turned his inventory into a phone-like display and began fusing skills and equipment for Cao Yaxuan and the other women.
• Xu Lang planned equipment around each woman’s needs and finished fusing gear for the sixteen women of Demon King Castle, giving each at least three pieces of Epic equipment.
• Xu Lang also made a set for Chi Qingman and considered distributing fused items to raise the standard of Mad King Building’s players.

Xu Lang fused and upgraded a level-thirty Epic outfit and charm skill for Wang Yazhi. She received the Azure Feather Celestial Raiment and Banished Immortal Aura, then celebrated with Xu Lang.

• Xu Lang began fusing outfits after completing equipment and skill fusions, but found that the fairy dress barely improved before he ran out of materials.
• Xu Lang upgraded Wang Yazhi's outfit into the level-thirty Epic Azure Feather Celestial Raiment, whose effects greatly increased charm.
• Xu Lang gave Wang Yazhi the Epic skill scroll Banished Immortal Aura, which boosted charm and helped reveal hidden enemies and traps.
• Wang Yazhi put on the raiment, learned the skill, and appeared far more beautiful to Xu Lang.

Xu Lang earned nearly 600,000 Nightmare Coins overnight by improving the women’s charm, while his absence left the Mad King Building anxious during its extended rest. In the blank zone, Li Shuwen rejected the Holy Angel’s proposal for cooperation between the Mad King Building and the Titan Building.

• Xu Lang gave the women Epic outfits and charm skills overnight, stopping Red Butterfly from learning more when her charm attributes became unbalanced.
• Xu Lang earned 597,024 Nightmare Coins overnight and increased his Martial Saint skill, but chose to rest instead of testing his new technique.
• Players and Residents' Committee staff worried when Xu Lang and the Mad King Building residents stayed inside, while the building filled all six hundred dorms and its rest period continued.
• The Holy Angel offered Li Shuwen a ceasefire and proposed splitting resources from their next conquest fifty-fifty, but Li Shuwen remained hostile and asked if she was finished.

Li Shuwen negotiated with Titan Building and secured Mad King Building Players access to its Supermarket, leaving Mad King Building's residents wondering why Titan Building had agreed. Jiang Wan and the others suspected an unknown development had forced Titan Building to compromise.

• Li Shuwen told the Holy Angel that peace required Titan Building to let Mad King Building Players enter and leave its Supermarket freely.
• The Holy Angel said Titan Building would consult the other Titans, and Li Shuwen left the decision to them.
• About three hours later, Titan Building agreed to Mad King Building's demand, surprising players in Mad King Building.
• Wei Feng and White Rabbit questioned whether Titan Building's concession was genuine and suspected that something had changed its plans.
• Jiang Wan and the others soon received the answer to why Titan Building had compromised.

Four Overlord-level beings and their armies besieged the Mad King Community as Titan Building faced an approaching Dungeon and waves of Blood Mist Creatures inside its Safe Zone. Xu Lang guessed that Mad King Building would be forced to enter the game alongside Titan Building, leaving the story with Titan Building bracing for its forty-ninth round.

• Four Overlord-level beings and their armies attacked the Mad King Community's protective barrier while Elder Cloud remained nearby.
• Steel Titan, Beast Titan, and Antler Giant watched the siege through a special pool and saw Blood Mist Creatures entering Titan Building's Safe Zone.
• Beast Titan crushed and ate invading creatures, while Antler Giant scattered seeds and urged the others to hold the line until the game began.
• Antler Giant warned that Titan Building's forty-ninth round was approaching and that the game had already started, though its Dungeon had not formed.
• Xu Lang saw Blood Mist Creatures inside Mad King Building and guessed it would be dragged into Titan Building's game.

Xu Lang continued simulating dreams and sleeping while Demon King Castle stayed quiet, causing new players to worry and veterans to remain calm. At the Mad King Building, Titan Building workers outperformed the local workforce until seven ore veins regenerated and reassured everyone that Xu Lang was still present.

• On July 13, Xu Lang spent his Nightmare Coins on simulations and gained attributes, while planning to stockpile Nightmare Essence after two more days.
• On July 14, Xu Lang remained asleep, and new players grew anxious about Demon King Castle’s silence while veterans trusted that his rest meant things were calm.
• A Crimson Vanguard raced toward the front line after a female player spotted it, and a Mad Guard followed to fight the Blood Mist Creature.
• Titan Building workers mined six ore veins faster than the Mad King Building workers, and Pandora rewarded both groups equally, prompting resentment among the local workers.
• Seven ore veins regenerated, and the Mad King Building workers took it as proof that Xu Lang was still alive and forbade themselves from targeting his Titan Building workers.