Recaps

Xu Lang used his dream-control skill to have the women help choose new tenants for Demon King Castle, which still had five vacant slots. He agreed to recruit Li Wenwen and heard about a famous singer in another shelter, but refused to leave Earth for her and told the women to choose three candidates first.

• After waking, Xu Lang reviewed his Nightmare Coin gains and sent Li Shuwen and the others instructions for opportunities in the Safe Zone.
• Xu Lang brought Cao Yaxuan and the other women into a dream and proposed recruiting newcomers to fill Demon King Castle’s vacant tenant slots.
• Xu Lang summoned attractive Mad King Building players as candidates, and Xu Xiaomeng persuaded him to recruit Li Wenwen.
• Kui Zi told the group about a famous singer surnamed Yang in another shelter, but Xu Lang refused to go to Earth for her and ordered the women to choose three candidates.
• Red Butterfly suggested the singer might have been passed around, prompting Zhen Lu to defend her and reconsider how stars presented their backgrounds.

Xu Lang and the women chose five candidates to join Demon King Castle, then Wang Yazhi invited them to become tenants. Yan Xiaoli received the offer and reacted with disbelief at the Mad King Building’s front line, while Medicine Pearl accepted and prepared to go.

• Red Butterfly and the others selected Bai Ling, Li Wenwen, Jiang Wan, Medicine Pearl, and Yan Xiaoli as their final candidates.
• Chi Qingman said she wanted a sister who could cook exceptionally well, and Tong Qi lectured Red Butterfly after she mocked Zhi Xia’s cooking.
• The dream shattered, and Yan Xiaoli told Jiang Xiaowen and Bai Ling that Wang Yazhi had asked her to become a tenant.
• Jiang Xiaowen and Bai Ling mistook Yan Xiaoli’s excitement for a Sanity crisis and tried to give her a Super Lollipop.
• Medicine Pearl paused her treatment work to read Wang Yazhi’s message, then accepted the invitation to become a tenant and said she would arrive soon.

Li Wenwen said goodbye to her father, Li Shuwen, before heading to the Thirtieth Floor to become a tenant of Demon King Castle. She met Jiang Wan in the elevator, and the two entered through the Auspicious Gate, where Mary welcomed them.

• Li Shuwen arrived at Clear Spring Pavilion after learning Li Wenwen was moving to Demon King Castle, and he cried when she hugged him goodbye.
• Li Wenwen met Jiang Wan in the elevator, learned they were both headed to the Thirtieth Floor, and exchanged friend requests with her.
• Li Wenwen fed a ruined iron sword to Glutton Trash Can and collected the copper coins it returned.
• Mary opened the Auspicious Gate and welcomed Li Wenwen and Jiang Wan inside, where Jiang Wan said she was no longer a player.

Xu Lang welcomed Li Wenwen and Jiang Wan to Demon King Castle, where Jiang Wan became a tenant and met the crowded household. After dinner, he arranged Fusion outfits to suit the five women's distinct fashion styles.

• Luo Lin and Tao Tao noticed that guests had entered Xu Lang's Demon King Castle, and Tao Tao suggested they visit.
• Li Wenwen arrived with Jiang Wan and reunited with Xu Lang at Demon King Castle, where she learned all twenty-one tenant spots were filled.
• Wang Yazhi offered Jiang Wan a tenant invitation, and Jiang Wan accepted it immediately.
• Xu Lang introduced Li Wenwen and Jiang Wan to the residents and androids, then hosted them for a meal.
• Xu Lang sought designers from the Residents' Committee to create Fusion outfits matching Yan Xiaoli, Li Wenwen, Jiang Wan, Bai Ling, and Medicine Pearl's styles.

Xu Lang used the Nightmare Bed to earn a huge haul of Nightmare Coins, then spent 394,000 of them upgrading Golden Beeswax into Diamond Beeswax. Red Butterfly swallowed it and gained 1,200 charm, leaving Xu Lang calculating how long the investment would take to repay.

• Xu Lang woke Medicine Pearl, Bai Ling, Jiang Wan, Yan Xiaoli, and Li Wenwen in turn, earning 548,672 Nightmare Coins over eight hours and raising his attributes.
• Xu Lang calculated that the women and Nightmare Bed gave him a maximum conversion rate of 24,589%, then decided to spend his remaining coins on Golden Beeswax.
• Xu Lang woke Jiang Wan and produced a third drop of Golden Beeswax, which he upgraded to level 40 and chose to become Diamond Beeswax.
• Xu Lang gave the Diamond Beeswax to Red Butterfly, whose charm increased by 1,200 points and whose dazzling transformation woke the other women.
• Xu Lang estimated that Red Butterfly's added charm would earn 38,400 Nightmare Coins each night and take about ten days to repay the upgrade cost, while Red Butterfly explained that she had swallowed a shiny liquid.

Xu Lang resisted the women’s efforts to make him get up and help prepare the Mad King Building for the approaching Blood Mist Creatures, while Chi Qingman revealed that Kui Zi had traveled to Earth. Outside, the battle intensified, and Wang Tingting watched as Jiang Wan and other new tenants emerged from Demon King Castle.

• Xu Lang promised the women beeswax but said Red Butterfly had grown resistant to it, then refused to get up when Cao Yaxuan and the others urged him to help prepare for the attack.
• Yan Xiaoli learned from Chi Qingman that Kui Zi had gone to Earth, and realized the revelation surprised her because Demon King Castle’s players knew things ordinary players did not.
• Wang Yazhi and Wu Huihui watched the Blood Mist Creatures approach the Mad King Building as Cao Yaxuan flew out to join the battle.
• Wang Yazhi left to complete a Main God mission, while Kui Zi flew off to collect battlefield data.
• Wang Tingting saw Jiang Wan, Li Wenwen, Aygul, Golden Sand, Silver Sand, White Sand, and Gu Ya leave Demon King Castle and hesitated to approach Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan and Wang Tingting exchanged information while Cao Yaxuan and the Mad King Building players fought off increasingly powerful blood-mist creatures. Titan Building faced a new barrage of flaming bone arrows as the monster assault escalated.

• Jiang Wan approached Wang Tingting, explained how she had learned about her, and privately messaged with her to exchange information and build connections.
• Cao Yaxuan joined the battle, freezing and killing dozens of blood-mist creatures while Mad King Building players gathered the loot and fed unwanted equipment into the Crazy Soldier Demon Furnace.
• Zhang Dahai spotted level thirty tree monsters, and a Mad Guard led Mad Vanguards forward to test their strength as the battle line held.
• Titan Building players complained that powerful monsters were targeting them, then used long-range cannons to scatter a squad of armor-piercing skeleton archers.
• A huge wave of flaming bone arrows appeared on the horizon as Titan Building prepared to move its limited-durability cannons back.

Xu Lang fused supplies and experimented with a way to strengthen Shirley’s Vampire Blood Pact, while sending Wang Lie and an elite squad into Day-Night Ghost March to find a vampire. The chapter left Wang Lie’s urgent search underway.

• Xu Lang focused his Fusion efforts on charm skills, then produced standardized high-level equipment and asked Kui Zi to distribute it to the frontline.
• Xu Lang crafted a level 35 Heart of Darkness and tested it in a simulated dream, where Shirley’s Blood Pact evolved into Noble Vampire but still could not Assimilate others.
• Xu Lang summoned Wang Lie from the Residents’ Committee base and ordered him to find a vampire in Day-Night Ghost March.
• Wang Lie led an elite squad toward Day-Night Ghost March with one of the Nine Shadows Beneath the King concealed in his shadow.

Sophia, the Blood-Clad Man, and Zhen Qihong searched the Ghostwood Forest for the source of the phenomenon and forced a Shadow Prison Building player to reveal the Mad King Building's direction. They continued toward the Mad King Building, while the frightened player hurried back to report that people from a city had arrived.

• The Blood-Clad Man, Zhen Qihong, and Sophia cornered a Shadow Prison Building player in the Ghostwood Forest and demanded directions to the phenomenon's source.
• The Shadow Prison Building player summoned a level-forty-five monster and escaped, but Sophia killed the monster and captured him.
• The Blood-Clad Man stole items from the Shadow Prison Building player, and Sophia threatened him until he revealed the Mad King Building's direction.
• After the trio left, the Shadow Prison Building player healed himself and rushed home to report the arrival of people from a city.
• The Blood-Clad Man used the player's Compass to guide the trio toward the Mad King Building, and Sophia rejected Zhen Qihong's suggestion that she use hypnosis or charm.

Xu Lang summoned the Ghost of Gluttony to hold back the Blood Mist Creatures while Demon King Castle’s women withdrew to eat and rest. After debating whether Tong Qi should enter the Fierce Ghost Soul Return world, Xu Lang postponed the decision until he could simulate the risks.

• Kui Zi and Wang Yazhi discussed pulling back from the front line, and Xu Lang messaged the women to return home and sleep while the Strange Tales took over.
• A scarlet gate opened above the battlefield, and the Ghost of Gluttony emerged with demons to hold back the Blood Mist Creatures.
• The Antler Giant, Steel Titan, and Beast Titan watched the Ghost of Gluttony appear and judged that the Mad King Building might help relieve pressure from the Dungeon threat.
• Cao Yaxuan praised Xu Lang’s powerful summon, and he explained that using many Strange Tales limited his control of the Strange Tales Magic Box.
• Red Butterfly demanded to return to the Fierce Ghost Soul Return world, but Xu Lang postponed deciding whether Tong Qi could go until he had run a separate Simulation.

Xu Lang gave Shirley the Heart of Darkness and welcomed Jiang Wan into Demon King Castle, while Jiang Wan formed her own suspicions about his tastes. After spending the night with the women, Xu Lang upgraded the Mystic Lord Visualization Method to level 25 and faced a choice between two Legendary paths.

• Xu Lang gave Shirley the Heart of Darkness, which suited her Pureblood Vampire Blood Pact and caused her aura to surge.
• Jiang Wan learned that Xu Xiaomeng and Yaxuan had Blood Pacts, while Xu Xiaomeng said Xu Lang rejected bizarre skills and prized beautiful outfits.
• Xu Lang held a welcome ceremony for the newcomers, and Jiang Wan concluded that he indulged himself by choosing the best things.
• Xu Lang spent his newly earned Nightmare Coins upgrading the Double Skill Card and Mystic Lord Visualization Method.
• The Mystic Lord Visualization Method reached level 25, and Xu Lang considered the Legendary paths Supreme Forgetfulness Dao and Mystic Lord True Scripture.

Xu Lang chose the Mystic Lord True Scripture and upgraded it into the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter, gaining a way to improve skills by confronting knowledge in the Sea of Knowledge. He ended the chapter assessing the dangers of its powerful manifestations and resolving to save more of his Nightmare Coins.

• Xu Lang rejected the Supreme Forgetfulness Dao and chose the Mystic Lord True Scripture, then awakened after its dangerous knowledge injured his mind.
• Xu Lang inspected the scripture and learned that it could not upgrade Blood Pact skills and required him to collect Fate Pattern elements.
• Xu Lang spent Nightmare Coins raising his Mystic Lord Visualization Method to level 30 and chose the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter as its upgrade path.
• Xu Lang discovered that he could level up skills by defeating their knowledge manifestations in the Sea of Knowledge, including manifestations of the Great Dao Chapter and Blood Pact.
• Xu Lang reflected on spending nearly all his recent earnings on upgrades and decided to save some of his future Nightmare Coins.

Xu Lang spent his Nightmare Coins upgrading the Epic Double Skill Card into a Legendary Triple Skill Card, then used it and spent the night earning more coins. The next morning, Red Butterfly and Tong Qi left for the Fierce Ghost Soul Return world while Jiang Wan questioned Xu Lang about returning to Earth.

• Xu Lang upgraded the Epic Double Skill Card to a Legendary Triple Skill Card and used it to gain two additional energy circulation systems.
• Xu Lang’s overnight earnings totaled 937,408 Nightmare Coins, leaving him with 1,233 coins and 100 more Ghost God Power.
• Red Butterfly asked Xu Lang for permission to go to the Fierce Ghost Soul Return world with Tong Qi, and he allowed them to go but warned them to return early.
• Red Butterfly joked about Xu Lang being lazy, and Tong Qi pulled her away before Xu Lang could lecture her.
• Jiang Wan stayed behind and asked Xu Lang whether the Demon King Castle could provide a way back to Earth, and Xu Lang said that he could.

Xu Lang told Jiang Wan and Yan Xiaoli that Earth had been devastated by the Blood Mist, and Jiang Wan proposed using a player-led expedition to search for survivors and reunite players with their families. Xu Lang embraced the plan as a way to unite buildings across the Dormitory Survival Game, then asked whether Titan Building’s players also had family on Earth.

• Xu Lang explained that Earth was contaminated by the Blood Mist and that its population had fallen by about 95%.
• Jiang Wan and Yan Xiaoli asked Xu Lang to send people to find their families, but he said the portal only reached Sea City Shelter and that he had not secured Sea City.
• Jiang Wan proposed opening Earth to players from the Titan Ruins, charging entry fees, and organizing mercenaries to search for families.
• Xu Lang saw Jiang Wan’s proposal as a way to draw players from other buildings into his broader plan to rule the Dormitory Survival Game.
• Jiang Wan suggested proving their trustworthiness with Earth specialties, using Mad King Building to gather intelligence, and building support over the radio.
• Xu Lang asked whether Titan Building’s players had family on Earth, and Jiang Wan and Yan Xiaoli exchanged glances.

Xu Lang planned to use a route to Earth to attract players after the current game round, while Tong Qi saw the Blood Mist Creatures encircling the Mad King Building. Jiang Wan, Li Wenwen, Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, and others traveled to Earth, where Cao Yaxuan killed a man and Su Yuan ordered his soul extracted.

• Xu Lang told Jiang Wan that the Mad King Building would offer players a way to reunite with their families on Earth after the round ended.
• Tong Qi saw Strange Tales, Mad Vanguards, and Blood Mist Creatures fighting, with the Blood Mist Creatures surrounding the Mad King Building.
• Jiang Wan and Li Wenwen persuaded Xu Lang to let them travel to Earth with Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, Zhen Lu, and others.
• Su Yuan welcomed the group at the Sea City Shelter, where they reunited with Earth and recalled their former lives.
• Cao Yaxuan killed a balding man who stared at her, and Su Yuan ordered a player to extract his soul and place it in a soul lamp.

Cao Yaxuan and the others entered the Earth shelter’s crowded outer zone and learned about its survivors and factions. Jiang Wan, Yan Xiaoli, and Li Wenwen asked about Earth’s condition, and Su Yuan revealed that nearly everyone in Xia Kingdom had moved underground.

• Cao Yaxuan frightened Zhang Liang, then gave him the position held by the man she had killed and told him to become a Mad King Building player.
• Su Yuan led Cao Yaxuan and the others through a neglected passage into the shelter’s outer zone, where Zhen Lu, Xu Xiaomeng, and Han Jisoo rushed into the crowd.
• Su Yuan and Liu Zhen explained that the outer zone housed eighty thousand people and that survivors outside had formed factions, some led by supernaturals.
• Jiang Wan, Yan Xiaoli, and Li Wenwen asked how much of Earth remained under human control, and Su Yuan said nearly everyone in Xia Kingdom had moved underground while the capital was likely the only city still holding the surface.

Liu Zhen explained how the Blood Mist catastrophe overwhelmed humanity and described the Ancient Martial Artist system, but Jiang Wan found his current strength unimpressive beside players. As the women faced the grim state of Earth, Golden Sand invited them to travel off-world with a player squad.

• Liu Zhen recounted how secret realms, mutated beasts, and disasters had forced humanity into underground refuges, and confirmed that human mutants were also dangerous.
• Liu Zhen described the Ancient Martial Artist system and its stages of advancement, while Jiang Wan tested his strength and found his punches ineffective against her shield.
• Yan Xiaoli dismissed Liu Zhen's claims and said players would handle Earth, while Li Wenwen urged the women to prepare for the worst.
• Yan Xiaoli hoped that players from multiple buildings could join forces to conquer Earth and help locate their families.
• Golden Sand invited Jiang Wan and the others to travel off-world with a player squad, prompting the women to brighten.

Xu Lang and Chi Qingman explored the dangerous items stored in the Magic Box World while the Holy Angel watched Mad King Building’s battle and assessed its defenses. As she realized she had been spotted, a woman in black armor arrived with a message from her Building Lord.

• Xu Lang asked why Chi Qingman had stayed behind, and she said her family on Earth might already be dead.
• Xu Lang took Chi Qingman to the Magic Box World treasury, where he warned her about traps hidden among its dangerous items.
• The Holy Angel recorded the battle at Mad King Building and recognized that Strange Tales Building was likely supporting it.
• The Holy Angel counted Mad King Building’s turrets and worried that Titan Building had underestimated its strength.
• A woman in black armor approached the Holy Angel and said her Building Lord wanted to talk to her.

Xu Lang used a Strange Tale clone to question Holy Angel about pureblood angels and offered her information about the cataclysm on Earth in exchange for help. Holy Angel left with the document, while Xu Lang considered how the Titan Building might respond to the chance to return to Earth.

• Xu Lang met Holy Angel in the sports hall and asked whether she knew of any pureblood angels.
• Holy Angel said she might know a lead, and Xu Lang revealed that her real name was Ding Bing and that her parents might still be alive in Yu City.
• Xu Lang offered Holy Angel a way back to Earth and gave her information about the cataclysm there.
• Holy Angel put out her sword’s flames, took the document, and flew away without revealing what she would do.
• Xu Lang watched her leave and reasoned that the Titan Building might seek a partnership because the Star Realm Base could locate and reach Earth.

Xu Lang investigated the Dream Ephemeral Flower and Demon King Castle, then tested the Abyss Whisper Gate after discovering it erased beings unaligned with the Abyss. After reviving the Urban Legend Camera through the Strange Tales Magic Box, he approached the gate himself, despite Mary's warning.

• Xu Lang agreed with Wu Huihui that Mad King Building should target Angel Building, and Wu Huihui asked to be told before the fighting began.
• Xu Lang learned that Wu Huihui was gathering players for the front line, then considered the Void Mask, Void Night, and the possibility of the Dream Ephemeral Flower producing a Void Beast egg.
• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Eye on the Dream Ephemeral Flower, confirmed there was a chance, and raised the Spirit Field's level with Fear Power.
• Xu Lang examined the Abyss Whisper Gate with a Rakshasa avatar and learned that it erased beings not aligned with the Abyss.
• Xu Lang sent the Three-Eyed Demonic Hound through the gate with a Rakshasa avatar and Urban Legend Camera, but both vanished; he revived the camera using the Strange Tales Magic Box.
• Xu Lang walked toward the Abyss Whisper Gate himself as Mary warned him to be careful.

Xu Lang infiltrated the Abyss Whisper Gate with the Urban Legend Camera and realized that Lilian Phyllis and Bartholomew might be tracing clues about him through the Dormitory Building. As the Blood Mist Creatures’ siege continued, the Sky Titan told the Holy Angel to stay away from the Mad King Building for now and promised to settle matters with it after the building war.

• Xu Lang used Unique: Chaos State to disrupt the Abyss Whisper Gate briefly, then sent the Three-Eyed Demonic Hound inside with the Urban Legend Camera and planted a Strange Tale stake that could eventually open a Portal.
• Xu Lang learned from the Progenitor's Manuscript that Lilian Phyllis was interested in the Dormitory Building and deduced that she may have traced Sequences connected to it back to the building.
• Xu Lang read Bartholomew's warnings in the Black Merchant Sequence Codex and feared that other godlike figures might also be searching for the Scarlet Shepherd.
• The Blood Mist Creatures maintained their nonstop siege of the Mad King Community while the Titans handled the fighting and other duties.
• The Sky Titan told the Holy Angel to avoid the Mad King Building for the time being, then promised to return to her homeland and settle matters with the Mad King Building after the war.

After welcoming the women’s compassionate work, Xu Lang trained three skills in the Sea of Knowledge and gained powerful nightly rewards. He ended the chapter resisting the urge to spend his newly earned Nightmare Coins.

• Cao Yaxuan and the others recounted their adventures, including rescuing twenty-three people, while Gu Ya praised the civilization they had encountered.
• Xu Lang praised the women of the Rakshasa Kingdom and made sure Gu Ya and the others felt included.
• Xu Lang entered the Sea of Knowledge to train the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter, but a thousand-armed warrior projection destroyed him before he could strike; the Nightmare Bed quickly healed his mental backlash.
• Xu Lang trained Breath of God and Wandering Free alongside the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter, gaining attributes, elemental affinities, and one second of Wandering Time.
• After earning 938,641 Nightmare Coins overnight, Xu Lang wanted to spend them but ultimately held back.

Xu Lang and the women prepared for the Titan Building’s deadline while discussing plans to recruit workers from Earth and expand the Mad King Building. Kui Zi revealed that she could locate shelters through their Radio Stations, and Xu Lang privately encouraged Jiang Wan to befriend Red Butterfly because her hidden potential might help recover lost family members.

• Wang Yazhi reminded everyone that the Titan Building had to secure an outpost by the seventh day, and the women worried about what would happen if it failed.
• At lunch, Jiang Wan asked Xu Lang for advice because she felt far weaker than Cao Yaxuan and the others.
• Xu Lang assigned the women to recruit people from Earth to work at the Mad King Building and explained that the Titan Building might compensate them with an outpost.
• Kui Zi revealed that she had rebuilt the signal network and could connect to other shelters’ Radio Stations, potentially helping the women find their families.
• Xu Lang told Jiang Wan privately to get close to Red Butterfly, whose soul-summoning ability might awaken enough to bring back family members who had died.

Xu Lang built a workers' dormitory and reassured Pandora that the Mad King Building could afford to recruit more workers and feed them. After resolving her concerns, he invited Pandora to lie down with him, and she accepted.

• Xu Lang built a dormitory for three thousand workers, and the Titan Building laborers celebrated the chance to gain official status while existing workers felt secure.
• Pandora visited Xu Lang and asked whether he planned to recruit more workers through the new dormitory.
• Xu Lang confirmed that he intended to fill every place, and Pandora warned that food supplies were running low because the Titan Building workers ate so much.
• Xu Lang offered to use his private food stores and said Su Yuan was already searching for supplies.
• Pandora thanked Xu Lang and prepared to leave, but he invited her to lie down with him, and she accepted.

After reaching Martial God Lv. 42, Xu Lang went to the Blood Mist World to hunt monsters and strengthen his equipment. The King of Purgatory led him to a wild Dormitory Building, and Xu Lang decided to try to capture it.

• Xu Lang gained the passive Myriad Blades technique when his Martial God skill broke through to Lv. 42.
• Xu Lang entered the Blood Mist World, killed a snapping turtle, and hunted monsters while concealing his aura.
• Xu Lang gathered seventy-two Shepherded Souls and used Sin-Washing Splendor to strengthen the Purgatory Set.
• The King of Purgatory guided Xu Lang and the Soul Shepherd Wolf to a shadowy Dormitory Building, which Xu Lang decided to try to capture.