Recaps

Xu Lang planned his priorities, trained Wandering Free, and drained corpses throughout Black Town's Underground Dungeon to develop the Scarlet Shepherd sequence. As his Scarlet Shepherd Locks multiplied, they lost control and turned on him.

• Xu Lang reviewed his goals, deciding to prioritize upgrading God-Jester's Hat and to train Wandering Free and develop his sequences.
• The next day, Xu Lang paid Fear Points to activate the training room's highest-level mode and trained for three hours.
• Xu Lang entered Black Town's Underground Dungeon, where corpses of Mad King Building players were being preserved to revive as strange-tale creatures that would serve him.
• Xu Lang drained Titan Building and Angel Building corpses with Scarlet Shepherd Locks, using the sequence's power to gain knowledge and advance.
• Xu Lang sent his growing number of Scarlet Shepherd Locks across the dungeon to drain its corpses, but they lost control and lunged at him.

Xu Lang used the Nightmare Bed to recover from Scarlet Shepherd backlash while Probability Controller helped him strengthen his cultivation and Blade Angel. After refining the Scarlet Shepherd in Black Town, he visited the Grave Pasture to review his Shepherded Souls’ army plans.

• Xu Lang reviewed his gains, noting that Xie Jin increased Ghost God Power and that Blade Angel had risen to level 30.
• Xu Lang used Probability Controller to improve his cultivation efficiency and practiced the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter while studying the Scarlet Shepherd.
• Xu Lang drained the remaining corpses in Black Town’s Underground Dungeon, causing the Scarlet Shepherd to undergo a small qualitative change and strengthening the Scarlet Shepherd Lock.
• Xu Lang entered the Grave Pasture, where Saladin, Harlan, Song Fei, and the other Shepherded Souls greeted him.
• Song Fei reported that the Shepherded Souls were behaving, and Saladin proposed removing fixed troop limits and forming several main armies.

Xu Lang approved Saladin’s plan to organize the Shepherded Souls into seven legions and require aspiring commanders to subdue three Sacrificed Ones. Through the Soul Shepherd Wolf, Xu Lang saw that the Overlord Tower’s arrival had triggered disasters across the Titan War Zone, even flooding a city and apparently disrupting the Ghost River.

• Saladin proposed dividing the Shepherded Souls into three elite legions and four subordinate legions, each with soldiers, commanders, and a legion leader.
• Song Fei and Harlan supported creating ranks, and Xu Lang approved Saladin’s plan.
• Saladin set subduing three Sacrificed Ones as the test for becoming a commander, and Xu Lang told him to avoid needless deaths.
• Xu Lang learned that the Soul Shepherd Wolf had not returned from the Blood Mist World and used the Scarlet Shepherd’s authority to observe him.
• The Soul Shepherd Wolf found himself above a flooded city, while Xu Lang realized that disasters had overturned mountains, flooded rivers, and apparently destroyed part of the Ghost River across the Titan War Zone.

Xu Lang discovered Red Butterfly herself in the Ghost River and learned that the Calamity Building had marked her as a target. After a volcanic eruption swallowed her, he created a major event to try to make her join Demon King Castle as a tenant, but its chance of success was only 0.00041%.

• The Soul Shepherd Wolf pulled a mysterious water ghost from the Ghost River, and Xu Lang recognized her as Red Butterfly herself.
• The Soul Shepherd Wolf vomited up a Strange Tale Phone, which connected Xu Lang to Red Butterfly.
• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Eye to learn Red Butterfly’s real name and discovered that the Calamity Building had targeted her.
• Xu Lang asked Red Butterfly to become his tenant, but she realized he was a survivor and angrily rejected him.
• A volcanic eruption engulfed Red Butterfly and blasted the Soul Shepherd Wolf back to Grave Pasture.
• Xu Lang spent 1,200 Fate Interference Power to create the event “Succubus MAX,” aiming for Red Butterfly to join Demon King Castle as a tenant.

Xu Lang discovered that Red Butterfly’s influence could still bewitch him despite his many defenses, prompting him to resolve to use Basic Interference Power more consistently. He pressed the Mad Demon Ghost to speed up a plan to obtain an Alchemy Workshop Blueprint, which he needed to unlock the Tree of Omniscience early.

• Xu Lang found that an unknown bewitchment had affected him, though his resistance reduced its effect, and he realized the real Red Butterfly could be involved.
• Xu Lang extinguished the flames on the bewitched Soul Shepherd Wolf and decided to practice using Basic Interference Power in his daily routine.
• Xu Lang used Fate Interference Power to make Red Butterfly call him Daddy, then contacted the Mad Demon Ghost by Radio.
• The Mad Demon Ghost told Xu Lang that a Magic Box-infected person would take around ten days to deliver, so he proposed infecting ghost slaves to intensify the curse.
• Xu Lang confirmed that the Alchemy Workshop Blueprint was essential to unlocking the Tree of Omniscience and said he could not wait until the Demon King Castle reached level thirteen.

Xu Lang and the others discussed Ghost Domain Building’s cooperation and Kui Zi warned that it might be seeking the Strange Tales Magic Box’s long-term profits. The group resolved to stay vigilant and grow stronger, while Xu Lang set aside his plan to investigate Ghost Domain Building for now.

• Xu Lang explained that Ghost Domain Building’s Alchemy Workshop could process Mad King Building’s supplies and improve equipment quality.
• Kui Zi returned from Earth and warned that Ghost Domain Building might be cooperating to gain access to the Strange Tales Magic Box and its future profits.
• Xu Lang and the women considered how Ghost Domain Building might pursue the Magic Box while disguising its intentions, and Kui Zi urged them to watch for increased contact between Ghost Domain Building and Strange Tales Building.
• Kui Zi argued that Ghost Domain Building would weigh the risks of opposing them, especially with Titan Building nearby, and urged everyone to become strong enough to deter a clash.
• Xu Lang abandoned his plan to create an event to investigate Ghost Domain Building and said they could fight if necessary.

Medicine Pearl celebrated finding her younger brother, while Xu Lang gave her a way to help him grow stronger. The next morning, Xu Lang planned to focus all his efforts on leveling Blade Angel as Kui Zi and the others set out to investigate mysterious areas.

• Medicine Pearl told Xu Lang and the others that she had found her younger brother and arranged for him to stay with Zhou Ding.
• Xu Lang gave Medicine Pearl a Black Panther Spirit Stone to help her brother become stronger without becoming a Player.
• Kui Zi explained that she had used nanorobots to make biological adjustments to herself, and Xu Lang noticed her improved appearance.
• Xu Lang checked his harvest log and saw that he had nearly seven million Nightmare Coins and Blade Angel had reached level forty-nine.
• Kui Zi left with the others, and Xu Lang decided to focus on leveling Blade Angel to level fifty.

Xu Lang defeated Blade Angel in the Sea of Knowledge, absorbed its knowledge, and learned that maxed Legendary skills became Esoteric Skills. After discovering the limits of his Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter, he decided to learn Nightmare Magic Saber and develop his saber skills further.

• Xu Lang killed Blade Angel and absorbed all the knowledge it released.
• The system raised Blade Angel to level 50, awarded Xu Lang a Golden Skill Point, and revealed skill level caps and Esoteric Skills.
• Xu Lang gained Blade Angel (Esoteric Art · First Stage), which increased saber sharpness and gave attacks chances to strike multiple times.
• Xu Lang learned that the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter could not extract knowledge about Esoteric Skills and chose to save his Nightmare Coins.
• Xu Lang reviewed his saber skills and learned Nightmare Magic Saber, which frightened targets whose willpower was below 350.

Xu Lang’s cooperation with the NPCs strengthened the Mad King Building, while the Titan Building’s leaders debated their rivalry and the risks of opposing it. A disturbance at the Vortex Gate created an opening for an infiltrator, who discovered that another suspicious figure had already arrived.

• Xu Lang monitored Bai Jingtao’s successful exchange of information and martial arts between players and NPCs.
• Steel Titan, Beast Titan, and Forest Titan discussed the Mad King Building’s growth and warned against acting against it without the other Titans’ support.
• Xuan Zhi argued with the Residents’ Committee during a routine inspection at the Vortex Gate, drawing a crowd of players and NPCs.
• An infiltrator slipped through the gate amid the commotion and disguised himself as a Residents’ Committee member.
• The infiltrator overheard another committee member call for reinforcements and spotted a second disguised figure entering through the Portal.

Thief Owl Li Xin entered Black Town with Shadow Sect disciple Ying Wuxie and reunited with Ying Tianming, who revealed that the city was alive and had already detected them. Li Xin rushed out to investigate as Mad Guards and player squads converged, while Ying Wuxie followed after secretly stealing Ying Tianming’s belongings.

• Li Xin and Ying Wuxie entered a building in Black Town, where Ying Wuxie reunited with Ying Tianming, a Shadow Sect member posing as a guest elder.
• Ying Tianming explained how he and Ying Wuxie had entered Black Town, then Li Xin accused him of lying and asked whether he had defected to Mad King Building.
• Ying Tianming revealed that Black Town was alive, watched them everywhere, and had sent him to bring them in after detecting them.
• Li Xin leapt out of the window to investigate, spotting Mad Guards, Mad Vanguards, and player squads gathering below.
• Ying Tianming tried to stop Ying Wuxie from following Li Xin, but discovered his Red Snake Dagger and other possessions were missing; Ying Wuxie slipped away after him.

Xu Ruyan fought the Shadow Sect assassin Li Xin, forcing him to rely on his tricks and a bronze mirror to track her. Before either could finish the fight, grotesque residents of the eerie town appeared and attacked Old Mrs. Wu over the mirror.

• Xu Ruyan and Li Xin fought in midair, and Xu Ruyan pursued him after his dagger passed through hers.
• Li Xin created seven illusory figures to escape, but Xu Ruyan struck at the real Li Xin with Fatal Throwing Knives and resumed the fight.
• Xu Ruyan vanished into the darkness, and Li Xin used his Treasure Mirror to reveal her hiding in a nearby house.
• An old woman named Old Mrs. Wu appeared and snatched the bronze mirror from Li Xin.
• A pus-covered man and a lame old man fought Old Mrs. Wu for the mirror, and their attack left her head caved in as she wailed.

Li Xin was trapped in Happiness Street, where the Strange Tales and the black-clad bodyguards kept returning despite his overwhelming strength. After his Tathagata Divine Palm wiped out a wave of attackers, twice as many appeared again, leaving him facing an apparently endless pursuit.

• Old Mrs. Wu's son arrived with two bodyguards, but Li Xin blasted him apart when the suited man tried to hand back Li Xin's bronze mirror.
• Li Xin fled and discovered he had returned to Happiness Street, where Xu Ruyan warned that he had triggered many Strange Tale curses.
• Black-clad men repeatedly cornered Li Xin, and the number of pursuers doubled each time he killed them or tried to escape.
• Li Xin unleashed the Tathagata Divine Palm, erasing the bodyguards then present, but twice as many emerged carrying an assortment of weapons.

Li Xin endured an overwhelming attack by Blackstone Security until Xu Ruyan intervened and recruited him. He became the first member of Xu Ruyan’s planned Shadow Assassin Group and began training as a player.

• Li Xin repeatedly crippled Blackstone Security’s bodyguards without killing them, but the men died anyway and kept returning in greater numbers.
• A bodyguard revealed that Blackstone Security’s mission was “a life for a life” before dying, and a sniper wounded Li Xin as the attackers’ equipment improved.
• A man in a white suit watched the siege on television and celebrated hiring Blackstone Security while Old Mrs. Wu criticized his spending.
• Li Xin saw in his bronze mirror that his head had been severed, exhausted his true qi, and waited for death as the bodyguards surrounded him.
• Xu Ruyan arrived, made the bodyguards disperse, and offered Li Xin a place as her subordinate after explaining that he had entered Black Town on his own.
• Xu Ruyan made Li Xin the first member of the Shadow Assassin Group and assigned him to train as a player.

Xu Lang spent the day training the Nightmare Magic Saber while Zhen Lu warned that Fear Power was running low. Meanwhile, Han Jisoo built friendships outside Demon King Castle and returned after dinner had nearly ended.

• The Residents' Committee Chief and Su Yuan stopped Xuan Zhi's disturbance, and the Mad King Building arrested him and sent him back to Black Town.
• Xu Lang trained with the Nightmare Magic Saber all day and expected to raise it to level fifty and sublimate it into an Esoteric Skill.
• Zhen Lu complained that Fear Power was being depleted faster than it was replenished, and Xu Lang promised to find a way to upgrade the dormitory.
• Zhen Lu told Xu Lang that the Dragonblood Grass he had brought from Titan Dragon City had matured into an Epic-tier Transcendent plant.
• Han Jisoo spent time with her new friends Yang Tao and Murong Wan, then returned as dinner was ending.

Xu Lang hosted a dinner where the women discussed their plans and he distributed Epic gifts tailored to their abilities. Afterward, his overnight gains brought his Nightmare Coins to 7,836,025 and advanced Nightmare Magic Saber to its first stage.

• Xu Ruyan introduced the Shadow Assassin Group and Li Xin, and Cao Yaxuan suggested that Han Jisoo form a Dragonman group.
• Gu Ya asked Xu Lang for permission to spread her faith, and he supported her efforts to revive Rakshasa Kingdom civilization.
• Xu Lang distributed Epic items to the women, including a Ghost Path divine artifact for Tong Qi, a control-enhancing skill for Xu Xiaomeng, and superweapon blueprints for Kui Zi.
• Xu Lang gained 7,836,025 Nightmare Coins overnight, increased his attributes and Interference Power, and raised Nightmare Magic Saber to level 50, unlocking its first stage.

Xu Lang spent 7.2 million Nightmare Coins upgrading God-Jester's Hat to level sixty and discovered two Mythic upgrade paths: Odin's Wanderer's Hat and Loki's Thousand-Faced Trickster Crown. He weighed their abilities but could not use probability to test the choice, leaving the upgrade path undecided.

• Xu Lang upgraded God-Jester's Hat from level fifty-five to level sixty, unlocking two Mythic hat options.
• Xu Lang examined Odin's Wanderer's Hat, which increased his rank, strengthened his attributes, and prevented investigation by any means.
• Xu Lang examined Loki's Thousand-Faced Trickster Crown, which offered a death-prevention effect, powerful concealment, and repeat activations of its outfit effects.
• Xu Lang compared the hats and judged their concealment abilities roughly equal, while noting that Odin's hat offered a rank increase and Loki's offered a resurrection effect he did not need.
• Xu Lang considered using the Probability Controller Sequence to test the options but found the Nightmare Lord Sequence too mysterious to investigate.

Xu Lang used an Immortality-Forging Blackstone to raise his Willpower, but the cost killed him and sacrificed one of his Shepherded Souls. After reviving, he left Grave Pasture while Saladin and Song Fei rallied the Shepherded Souls to tame Sacrificed Ones and compete for legion roles.

• Xu Lang upgraded a black stone into an Immortality-Forging Blackstone and used it to gain 200 Willpower, but its side effects killed him.
• A Shepherded Soul was sacrificed at Grave Pasture, and Xu Lang revived and left without explanation.
• Saladin calmed the Shepherded Souls and urged them to approach the River of Blood in an orderly and cautious manner.
• Song Fei offered commanders' positions in his legion to Shepherded Souls who tamed Sacrificed Ones, drawing an eager crowd.
• The Crane-wing Giant swallowed a Sacrificed One whole, astonishing the onlookers with his unusual taming method.

After Odin's Wanderer's Hat overloaded Xu Lang's equipment weight, he reorganized his gear and used the God-Jester's Hat to raise the Deep Diver event's success probability. He created a low-probability Charisma Collection event, whose converging conditions drew Wu Xueyi toward a peerless expert in the Mist Zone.

• Xu Lang put on Odin's Wanderer's Hat, suffered severe pressure from exceeding his weight limit, and learned his attributes and equipment weight rules as Mad King Building Acting Building Lord.
• Xu Lang considered using the Overlord Contract Scroll but instead removed his accessories and switched to the God-Jester's Hat.
• Xu Lang raised the Deep Diver event's success probability to 70.49% and decided to save his interference power.
• Xu Lang created the Charisma Collection event, then wagered 10000 points of interference power to raise its success probability to 8.14%.
• Wu Xueyi arrived in the Mist Zone with Mad King Building junior sisters, and a peerless expert recognized her as their dharma-protecting envoy.

Xu Lang used Simulations to find a way to approach the Great Yin Empress and persuade her to settle in Mad King Building. His second attempt reached the empress’s party through Shen Xuan, but ended with Mundo confronting Lord Wang.

• Xu Lang examined his special attributes, learned that Seven Kill Blood Qi needed an unopened ascension site to advance, and went to sleep before the Great Yin Empress’s arrival.
• In his first Simulation, Xu Lang intercepted the empress’s party but failed to negotiate and ended the dream after the two sides fought.
• In his second Simulation, Xu Lang brought Bai Jingtao and elite Players, but the empress’s party dismissed their status.
• Xu Lang summoned Shen Xuan and his guards, who explained that Xu Lang had helped search for the empress.
• Lord Wang told Xu Lang to follow the party and wait until the empress settled down, and Mundo grabbed Lord Wang by the collar.

Xu Lang’s group confronted the Great Yin Dynasty procession, but Wang’s guards forced them to retreat before black vortices swallowed the players. More than a thousand Strange Tale Portals then opened across the wilderness, and the Great Yin Empress awoke as Xu Lang prepared to fight and claim the procession’s souls.

• Two golden-armored generals stepped forward, and Wang crushed Mundo’s wrist when Mundo tried to use him as a hostage.
• Xu Lang used One-Eyed Twilight to see the Great Yin Empress resting inside her palanquin, then told Wang that she was asleep.
• Wang ordered his guards to stop Xu Lang’s group, but black vortices swallowed all the players.
• Chief Astronomer Li suspected the vortices came from the Demon Realm, and Wang feared the demons would disrupt the trip to Heaven’s Gate.
• More than a thousand Strange Tale Portals appeared across the mountains and wilderness, and Strange Tales poured out.
• The Great Yin Empress awoke, while a man beside her palanquin warned that she had provoked someone she should not have; Xu Lang resolved to fight and harvest the procession’s souls.

Xu Lang used the Strange Tales Magic Box to trap the Great Yin Empress's party in Gluttony Purgatory, then faced their powerful martial artists alongside the Ghost of Gluttony. As Sword Saint Pei Yizhi charged at him, Xu Lang inspected Pei Yizhi's extraordinary character information.

• Xu Lang collected the Strange Tales Magic Box after it engulfed the Great Yin Empress's party, and heard someone attacking it from within.
• The Great Yin Empress questioned her maid about their predicament as charred corpses began crawling from the ground and the Ghost of Gluttony appeared.
• Xu Lang arrived atop the Ghost of Gluttony and watched the Great Yin Dynasty's martial artists form a formation to defeat the Charred Corpse Strange Tales.
• Xu Lang urged the Ghost of Gluttony to fight, then drew the Purgatory Overlord as middle-aged swordsman Pei Yizhi charged toward him.
• Xu Lang inspected Pei Yizhi's character panel and discovered his immense attributes, sword skills, and unusual Holy Sword race.

Xu Lang and Pei Yizhi fought after Pei Yizhi confronted him on the battlefield, while Ghost of Gluttony withdrew to attack the Empress's forces. As Pei Yizhi powered up and Xu Lang revealed his transformed form, their battle was poised to escalate.

• Pei Yizhi struck Ghost of Gluttony, but the latter's enhanced defenses let him endure the sword qi and counterattack with a mass of arms.
• Pei Yizhi wounded Ghost of Gluttony, then ignored him to challenge Xu Lang, prompting Xu Lang to order Ghost of Gluttony to capture the Empress instead.
• Ghost of Gluttony healed and led elite Strange Tales toward the Empress's main force as Xu Lang and Pei Yizhi clashed.
• Xu Lang struggled against Pei Yizhi's refined swordsmanship, but his combat ability rapidly improved as the fight continued.
• Pei Yizhi activated a female Martial Dao avatar, while Xu Lang revealed the King of Purgatory behind him and transformed into a humanoid dragon wielding a crimson sword.

Xu Lang fought Pei Yizhi in Avici Purgatory, unleashing his Dragonblood Rakshasa abilities but struggling to defeat the Sword Saint before finally knocking him from the sky. As the Great Yin Empress arrived, Xu Lang saw the Deep Diver event’s success probability fall and announced that he would find somewhere else to play with them.

• Xu Lang used his Dragon Eyes to evade Pei Yizhi’s sword qi, then fought him with his evolving Dragonblood Rakshasa body and powerful attacks.
• Xu Lang activated his abilities and the Scarlet Shepherd’s power, but the fight left both him and Pei Yizhi badly wounded.
• Xu Lang finally cut Pei Yizhi down from the sky, and a Fire Phoenix caught him as the Great Yin Empress’s group reached the battlefield.
• Xu Lang summoned a vision of the Scarlet Plateau and sent tombstones crashing toward the Great Yin Empress’s group.
• Xu Lang saw the Deep Diver event’s success probability drop, told the Ghost of Gluttony to stop risking its life, and said he would find somewhere else to play with them.
• The Ghost of Gluttony protested that its Purgatory was the strongest.

Xu Lang fought the Great Yin Dynasty’s forces in Dragon Purgatory, but the Great Yin Empress’s transformation overwhelmed him and destroyed the Strange Tales Magic Box. After the simulation ended, Xu Lang realized he had survived as a Strange Tale and felt drawn toward the Strange Tales Building.

• Xu Lang transformed the battlefield into Dragon Purgatory, where Zhao Shengqi rallied the scattered Great Yin Dynasty martial artists against the dragons.
• Director Jiang Tianya advised the Great Yin Empress and her companions to seek a way out beneath the lava lake, where the Shepherded Souls’ tombstones had sunk.
• Xu Lang attacked the martial artists alongside the Shepherded Souls and Thousand-Faced Dragon Emperor, hoping to collect their corpses.
• The Great Yin Empress entered a second phase, and the battle ended with the Strange Tales Magic Box collapsing and the simulation shattering.
• Xu Lang recalled becoming a Strange Tale after the battle and concluded that his connection to the Strange Tales Building had been drawing him toward it.

Xu Lang used his Probability Controller and a council of Shepherded Souls to plan how to win over the Great Yin Dynasty delegation while keeping it from aligning with Titan Building. Meanwhile, Shen Xuan’s search for the Great Yin Empress remained fruitless, and a Titan Building group approached his party with unclear intentions.

• Xu Lang concluded that Great Yin officials would not ally with him easily and created an event to test whether the Great Yin Empress was protected by Dormitory Survival Game.
• Xu Lang summoned Saladin and the Black-robed Evil Monk, who proposed ways to deceive the Great Yin Dynasty and turn it against Titan Building.
• Xu Lang summoned Ruan Tianming to consult him about Titan Building’s players and the plan.
• Shen Xuan continued searching the Mist Zone for the Great Yin Empress, but his party found no clues.
• A group of Titan Building players appeared ahead of Shen Xuan’s party, and the black-suited man suspected they meant trouble.