Recaps

Cai Tianming led Titan Building players in ambushing Gong Kuo and his Mad King Building group over a rumored Nine-Bend Ginseng, using a spirit orb to cut them off from Black Town and their powers. After nearly an hour of fighting, the group was defeated, and Cai Tianming’s players prepared to torment them.

• Cai Tianming confronted Gong Kuo and asked whether he had seen a Nine-Bend Ginseng, while Shen Xuan explained the treasure’s value.
• Cai Tianming attacked after concluding Gong Kuo had not found the ginseng, and his spirit orb blocked the Mad King Building players from contacting Black Town.
• Cai Tianming’s larger force drove Gong Kuo, Shen Xuan, and the others into an open clearing and continued attacking them.
• Shen Xuan faced Cai Tianming and knocked him back, but the battle continued as Shen Xuan rushed between crises.
• After nearly an hour, the Mad King Building group lost the ability to fight, and Cai Tianming ordered his players to haul them up for further torment.

Xu Lang used Fate Interference Power to orchestrate Cai Tianming’s attack on Shen Xuan and secure the Interference Orb, while the Great Yin Dynasty’s party and Mad King Building players moved toward a meeting. The chapter ended with Zhou Fuli inviting Su Yuan to talk after Su Yuan dismissed his urban legends.

• Cai Tianming broke Shen Xuan’s arms, but Zhao Shengqi arrived, struck Cai Tianming down, and carried Shen Xuan away to be treated.
• The Great Yin Dynasty’s forces treated Gong Kuo and the others, pursued the fleeing Titan Building players, and brought back the survivors and some of the dead.
• Xu Lang revealed that he had used Fate Interference Power and his own arrangements to steer events, then retrieved the Interference Orb from Cai Tianming’s corpse.
• Su Yuan arrived with Mad King Building urban legends to collect Gong Kuo and the other players from the Great Yin Empress’s team.
• Su Yuan dismissed his urban legends into the Magic Box World at Zhou Fuli’s request, and Zhou Fuli invited him to talk.

Su Yuan’s diplomatic mission to the Great Yin Dynasty began smoothly, but his interactions with the empress’s attendants affected the mission’s success probability. While watching, Xu Lang considered the Twelve Supreme Sequences and concluded that the Nightmare Lord Sequence was not one of them.

• The Great Yin Empress halted her party’s march and summoned Su Yuan to meet her.
• Grandpa Su welcomed Su Yuan and advised him to observe proper etiquette with the empress, causing the mission’s success probability to fall.
• The Black-robed Evil Monk explained that Grandpa Su’s guidance established his prestige and put Su Yuan in a subordinate position.
• Xu Lang reflected on the Sequence Sea’s four vacancies and the Twelve Supreme Sequences, whose holders could devour other Sequences to advance.
• Xu Lang determined that the Nightmare Lord Sequence was not among the Twelve Supreme Sequences because fusion was not its core ability and its fusions were eternal.

Su Yuan met the Great Yin Empress to discuss an alliance between Mad King Building and the Great Yin Dynasty, while Xu Lang secretly used Fate Interference Power to influence their exchange. The Empress ordered Shen Xuan and his group to follow Su Yuan’s planned route, leaving Su Yuan bewildered by the unexpectedly successful meeting.

• Su Yuan resisted the pressure of the Great Yin Empress and told her that Mad King Building wanted to assist Gong Kuo and form an alliance.
• The Great Yin Empress questioned Su Yuan about Mad King Building’s strength and whether it had arranged the attack on Shen Xuan, while Xu Lang watched the event’s success rate fluctuate.
• Xu Lang invested twenty thousand points of Fate Interference Power as the Empress used her spiritual will to force Su Yuan to answer.
• Su Yuan blurted out that Mad King Building might have arranged the attack and challenged the Empress to choose between an alliance and serving Titan Building.
• The Great Yin Empress apologized, gave orders for Shen Xuan’s group to follow Su Yuan’s route, and had Eunuch Su escort Su Yuan away with a Primordial Spirit Pill.

After completing the Mad King Envoy event, Xu Lang absorbed dangerous Probability Controller knowledge, died, and revived through a Shepherded Soul. As Titan Building Players moved against the Great Yin Empress’s party, the empress agreed to travel through Black Town to the Mad King Community.

• Xu Lang completed the Mad King Envoy event and received a flood of Probability Controller knowledge that caused his body to dissipate.
• The Black-robed Evil Monk discovered Xu Lang was falling apart, but Xu Lang died before he could be awakened and revived after a Shepherded Soul sacrificed itself.
• The Black-robed Evil Monk reported that the Great Yin Empress had considered annexing the Mad King Building, and Xu Lang left him in charge of the Grave Pasture.
• Xu Lang returned to Demon King Castle, recalled Kui Zi, and learned that Titan Building Players were gathering near the Great Yin Empress’s team.
• Mad King Building Players reported Titan Building’s movements before Xu Lang’s warning perimeter detected them, and the Great Yin Empress agreed to use Black Town as a transit point to the Mad King Community.

Kui Zi and Wang Kun watched the Great Yin Empress arrive at the Mad King Building and weighed the risks of her joining them. As the Empress’s powerful entourage impressed players and native figures, the Titan Building’s cloaked loli hurried off to recruit more powerful NPCs for Earth Dormitory.

• Kui Zi explained that the Great Yin Empress’s decision to come in person avoided an unnecessary test of strength and protected her credibility, while Wang Kun considered whether she might be an over-limit NPC.
• The Great Yin Empress emerged through a Black Vortex Gate with a procession of high-level generals and officials, astonishing Mad King Building players and Grand Wuxia natives.
• Purple Star True Person, Wen Heng, and Bai Jingtao reacted to the Empress’s arrival and recognized that the Heaven’s Gate might offer a chance to transcend the Mortal Realm.
• On the Titan Building wall, the cloaked loli complained about Xu Lang’s teleportation advantage and worried that Demon Dormitory had secured the Xuanwu Dynasty first.
• The cloaked loli put on a brown mask, shrank to the size of a grape, and left for the Mist Zone to recruit more powerful NPCs.

The Evil King stirred up conflict between the Great Yin officials and Mad King Building after the Great Yin Empress vanished during the transfer. He attacked the plaza and tried to flee as powerful experts moved to stop him.

• The Evil King left the city wall to visit Mad King Community, while the Cyclops Giant reported his departure to the Building Lord.
• The Great Yin officials discovered that the Great Yin Empress was missing and demanded an explanation from Kui Zi, who promised to contact the Building Lord and find her.
• The Evil King arrived and urged the officials to join him in attacking Mad King Building, but Pei Yizhi opposed him and argued that they needed the players’ help to search for the Empress.
• As the officials divided over whether Mad King Building was responsible, the Evil King struck the plaza with his Heaven-Shaking Palm and launched two spheres of True Essence into the chaos.
• An old Daoist redirected the spheres, and Pei Yizhi blocked the Evil King’s retreat; wounded, the Evil King tried to escape as more experts rushed toward him.

Xu Lang detained the Great Yin Empress and used the Nightmare Eye to reveal her hidden connection to Yinglong, stopping her attack by naming the dragon spirit within her. Outside Mad King Building, Kui Zi and Cao Yaxuan fought the Evil King while Xu Lang remained unreachable.

• The Evil King mocked Pei Yizhi, broke through Cao Yaxuan’s ice barrier, and charged at her.
• Kui Zi fired her gravity cannon, trapping the Evil King in a shell and sending him crashing toward the ground.
• Kui Zi worried that Xu Lang had not answered her message and suspected he was dealing with the Great Yin Empress.
• Xu Lang confronted the imprisoned Great Yin Empress in the Nightmare Eye space, challenged her claims of authority, and tried to stall as she prepared to attack.
• Xu Lang called out Lord Yinglong within the Great Yin Empress, causing her Fire Phoenix to collapse and revealing that he knew her deepest secret.

Xu Lang used Fate Interference Power to persuade the Great Yin Empress to believe he was Bai Ze, an immortal from the Heavenly Court, and to seek her cooperation in expanding the Mad King Building. She remained wary but intrigued as he promised her Heaven's Gate's Primordial Origin Energy, and Xu Lang prepared to continue his deception.

• Xu Lang spent Fate Interference Power to create the event "Mask," making the Great Yin Empress inclined to assume Yinglong's identity and speak with him.
• Xu Lang claimed the Great Yin Empress was Bai Ze and said her soul had been damaged during her descent to the lower realm.
• Xu Lang told the Great Yin Empress that Heaven's Gate contained Primordial Origin Energy, which could help someone attain a Fruit Rank and become a Heavenly Immortal.
• Xu Lang claimed the Heavenly Realm had suffered a calamity that forced its immortals and gods to reincarnate, and said he had returned in a young man's body with the potential to rebuild the Heavenly Court.
• Xu Lang asked the Great Yin Empress to help him expand the Mad King Building, promising her the Primordial Origin Energy; she remained suspicious but asked to hear his plans.
• Xu Lang told the Great Yin Empress they should leave first, while privately deciding to keep gaining her trust through his tailored scam.

The Great Yin Empress returned to Mad King Plaza and struck the Evil King with her Golden Phoenix Hairpin, leaving him badly weakened but alive. As he prepared to escape with a talisman, a mysterious man in a wide-brimmed hat appeared beside him and attacked.

• The Evil King counterattacked the Great Yin Dynasty’s forces and sent phantoms toward the princes and noble heirs despite Zhao Wuchang’s efforts to stop him.
• The Great Yin Empress emerged from a black vortex and used her Golden Phoenix Hairpin to destroy the Evil King’s phantoms and strike him.
• The Evil King blocked the hairpin with the Sun-Shrouding Demon Saber, but the strike still cut his combat power by more than half.
• The Evil King took out an earth-yellow escape talisman, but a man in a wide-brimmed hat suddenly appeared and attacked him with a dark blade.

Xu Lang defeated the Evil King, but Earth Walker Wu Lei rescued him before Xu Lang could finish him. Xu Lang then arranged for the Great Yin Dynasty to move into Dormitory 30-10 and asked veteran NPCs to help them adapt.

• Xu Lang severed the Evil King's arm, but the Ghost of Gluttony destroyed the Flashstep Talisman and Wu Lei pulled the Evil King underground to save him.
• Pei Yizhi and the tiger-hat girl argued over his inherited wooden sword while Xu Lang recovered the Evil King's arm and strange-shaped longblade.
• Kui Zi identified the rescuer as Earth Dormitory's third-ranking figure, Earth Walker Wu Lei, and Xu Lang ordered that Wu Lei be placed on the priority watch list.
• Xu Lang said the Great Yin Dynasty would live in Dormitory 30-10 and assigned Kui Zi, Wang Yazhi, and Zhen Lu to receive them and handle the aftermath.
• Xu Lang asked Bai Jingtao and Purple Star True Person to help the Great Yin Dynasty NPCs adapt to the Dormitory Survival Game.

The Mad King Building’s tenants discussed the Great Yin Dynasty’s arrival, Medicine Pearl’s theory that the Mad King Building intended to seize resources from the Titan Building, and a possible mole who had let Wu Lei into the Safe Zone. At a banquet, Li Shuwen and Pei Yizhi confronted NPC elders who had pledged themselves to the Titan Building, and one elder dismissed Li Shuwen’s authority.

• Zhen Lu celebrated the Great Yin Dynasty’s arrival, but Han Jisoo warned that even its powerful NPCs could not threaten the Titan Building without Overlord-level creatures.
• Medicine Pearl argued that the Mad King Building planned to take resources from the Titan Building, while Jiang Wan and Tong Qi questioned the theory and Kui Zi reported that an investigation had found no mole.
• Shirley and Kui Zi left the suite to attend to the Great Yin Dynasty’s banquet as Xu Lang kept suspected player collaborators under observation.
• Li Shuwen and Pei Yizhi summoned Wang Quan and other NPC elders, confronted them with evidence that they had pledged themselves to the Titan Building, and offered them a chance to explain.
• An old man in purple robes admitted they had accepted benefits but claimed they had done nothing excessive, prompting Li Shuwen to darken his expression.

Li Shuwen killed Han Hui by using Nightmare Power to intensify his fears, then explained to Pei Yizhi why his presence had been necessary to convince the NPCs they had no escape. Before Pei Yizhi left, Li Shuwen revealed that Hu Nian was his daughter.

• Li Shuwen exposed Han Hui's crimes and used Nightmare Power to make him panic before killing him with a spear.
• Li Shuwen warned the gathered NPCs that the Mad King Building had endured as much as the Titan Building, and they agreed to await further instructions.
• Pei Yizhi asked why Xu Lang had requested his help, and Li Shuwen explained that the NPCs needed to see their escape was impossible.
• Li Shuwen told Pei Yizhi that Hu Nian was his daughter, leaving Pei Yizhi stunned.

Xu Lang used the Black Town archives to keep the Great Yin Empress engaged, showing her a record of Mad King Building and the wider world. After learning she was a creation of the Dormitory Survival Game, she stayed composed, paid Xu Lang with two powerful martial arts manuals, and left to process what she had learned.

• Xu Lang showed the Great Yin Empress the Residents' Committee's Black Leather Book, and she spent six hours reading while he watched her.
• The Great Yin Empress called Xu Lang out for staring, then paid him with the Nightmare Eye World-Suppressing Hymn.
• Xu Lang and Shirley explained that the Grand Wuxia World was only one corner of a larger reality and that the Great Yin Empress was a creation of the Dormitory Survival Game.
• The Great Yin Empress accepted her new circumstances, gave Xu Lang the Nightmare Eye Heaven-Claiming Fist, and said she would return to rest.
• Xu Lang offered to send her an Overview of the Titan Ruins and followed her toward her room, irritating her with his obvious interest.

Xu Lang and the women of Demon King Castle spent sixteen hours grinding on the Nightmare Bed, boosting his resources and skills as he planned to focus on saber techniques. Meanwhile, Heaven’s Gate began radiating light and making sounds from within, prompting Zhang Dahai and many players to retreat as the Mad Vanguards prepared for battle.

• Xu Lang gained Nightmare Coins, attributes, and other rewards from sixteen hours on the Nightmare Bed, and decided to seek Mythic saber techniques to raise his Martial God skill.
• Zhang Dahai predicted that something would happen at Heaven’s Gate and watched it with the other scouts.
• Kui Zi and her researchers detected rising readings, distorted spacetime, an approaching anomalous lifeform, and knocking from inside Heaven’s Gate.
• Heaven’s Gate rippled, expanded, and produced sounds like cracking glass, frightening players and NPCs into retreating.
• Zhang Dahai sent his floor’s players back to their dorms, while Mad Vanguards moved forward to guard the area before Heaven’s Gate.

Xu Lang identified the mutation at Heaven's Gate as the opening of an entrance to the Demon Realm and warned Mad King Building to prepare for an attack. Heaven's Gate shattered, releasing a black-purple pillar of light as the Dormitory Survival Game began issuing its promised information prompt.

• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Eye to determine that Heaven's Gate had connected to the Demon Realm, whose powerful Demon Race had once threatened the Mortal Realm.
• The Great Yin Empress and her entourage arrived, and Xu Lang told them the Demon Realm's entrance was about to open and they should prepare for battle.
• Zhao Wuchang challenged Xu Lang's warning, but the Great Yin Empress silenced him and asked Xu Lang what to do.
• Xu Lang ordered players to return to Mad King Building and explained that they would have to fight, while Kui Zi reassured the allied NPCs that Mad King Building would not harm them.
• Heaven's Gate crystallized, cracked, and shattered, sending a black-purple pillar of light into the sky as the Dormitory Survival Game's information prompt arrived.

Dormitory Survival Game announced that a million-strong Demon Race army had gathered at Heaven's Gate to invade the Mortal Realm, and Mad King Building and Titan Building activated community-wide defenses. Black Lotus Venerable emerged in Magic Forest Dormitory and killed over a hundred frontline players, leaving the defenders facing the first assault.

• Dormitory Survival Game revealed the Demon Race's history, the million-soldier invasion, and the rule that the round would continue until the army was defeated.
• Mad King Building activated its Blood Curse, weakening hostile units throughout Mad King Community, while Titan Building deployed the Ancient God War Spear's barrier and attacks.
• Beast Titan ordered his frontline troops to retreat, but Black Lotus Venerable appeared and pierced 107 Titan Building players with black-energy spears.
• Zhao Wuchang prepared to challenge Black Lotus Venerable, and Yan Xiaoli rebuked him for risking a fight.

Black Lotus Venerable survived Titan Building’s devastating turret barrage and withdrew, while Xu Lang manipulated events to redirect the Demon Race’s hatred toward Titan Building and hide Mad King Building’s NPCs. As the demons poured out of Heaven’s Gate, Xu Lang sheltered the NPCs and boosted the event’s success probability to 98%.

• Black Lotus Venerable survived the Ancient God War Spear and a barrage from Titan Building’s turrets, then returned to Heaven’s Gate.
• Xu Lang created a Fate Interference event to make Titan Building more likely to attract the Demon Race’s hatred, while Pei Yizhi left with his daughter.
• When demons emerged from Heaven’s Gate, Xu Lang realized Black Lotus Venerable had been watching the NPCs and ordered them to take shelter.
• Xu Lang led the Great Yin Empress and other NPCs into the Demon King Castle Reception Hall, while Zhao Huanyan and others brought the remaining NPCs to safety.
• Xu Lang spent his remaining Fate Interference Power on an event that would make Black Lotus Venerable overlook Mad King Building’s NPCs, raising the Hatred event’s success probability to 98%.

Xu Lang ordered Mad King Building’s players and defenses to stay inside while the Demon Race attacked Titan Building, preserving their safety and gathering intelligence. Forest Titan and Steel Titan speculated that NPCs explained why the Demon Race was ignoring Mad King Building, while Beast Titan continued to resent Xu Lang.

• Xu Lang recalled Mad King Building’s turrets and ordered its players not to attack unless the Demon Race launched a large-scale assault.
• The Demon Race pushed against Titan Building’s defenses, while Xu Lang shut down Mad King Building’s Flame Demon Towers and sent its Mad Vanguards back to their barracks.
• Zhen Lu, Kui Zi, Cao Yaxuan, and Tong Qi questioned whether Mad King Building could withstand an attack, but Xu Lang told everyone to stay inside and let the Demon Race attack Titan Building first.
• Forest Titan called Xu Lang’s plan to coast to victory absurd and asked Steel Titan why the Demon Race was ignoring Mad King Building.
• Steel Titan and Forest Titan suspected NPCs were keeping the Demon Race away, and Forest Titan ordered the speculation shared in the Chat Room.
• Beast Titan stayed silent and privately vowed to become an Overlord Tower player before Xu Lang could rise to prominence.

Xu Lang agreed to help the besieged Titan Building after the Demon Race’s flying commanders shifted the battle, but he reminded the gathered NPCs that assistance would damage Mad King Building’s interests. He sent Kui Zi and Zhao Huanyan to prepare equipment and items, while the NPCs praised him and Cao Yaxuan wondered how they were still stringing him along with empty promises.

• The Demon Race army pressed Titan Building’s defenses, and its bat-winged commander units forced the defenders to divert much of their firepower.
• At Demon King Castle, Cao Yaxuan and the NPCs watched the battle as Elder Yuqing and Old Official Yuan discussed the Demon Race’s strength.
• Wu Yi and Jialan urged Xu Lang to help Titan Building, and the gathered NPCs looked to him for a decision.
• Xu Lang hesitated over the cost to Mad King Building, then agreed after Bai Jingtao promised a reward and said the allies shared hardship and fortune.
• Xu Lang ordered Kui Zi and Zhao Huanyan to prepare the necessary items and equipment, drawing praise from the NPCs.
• Cao Yaxuan questioned why the NPCs were still trying to win Xu Lang over with empty promises as he raised a hand to speak.

Xu Lang persuaded the martial artists gathered in the hall to copy their martial arts onto Skill Scroll Rubbing Papers so their knowledge could help repel the Demon Race. After they left through the Vortex Gate, Xu Lang honored the Great Yin Empress with a promise, then brought back several NPCs equipped with primitive gear; Prince Zhao was conspicuously absent.

• Xu Lang presented Skill Scroll Rubbing Papers and argued that the gathered martial artists needed to share their techniques to fight the Demon Race.
• Jia Lan wrote down seven martial arts, including Legendary-quality techniques, and entered the black Vortex Gate.
• Wu Yi and the other martial artists followed, recording their knowledge after the Great Yin Empress backed Xu Lang's request.
• Xu Lang thanked the Great Yin Empress as Bai Ze for the favor, while privately thinking she was naïve to trust his verbal promise.
• Xu Lang opened another Vortex Gate, and the red-robed palace maid, Jia Lan, and Wu Yi emerged wearing primitive equipment he had created.
• Wu Yi noticed Prince Zhao was missing, and Jia Lan remarked that Prince Zhao really was pure of heart.

Xu Lang persuaded the Great Yin Empress and her allies to wait while Titan Building faced the Demon Race, then avoided meeting the empress by claiming he had gone to sleep. The Great Yin Empress grew furious and followed Miaoying to find him, where Miaoying sensed that the empress intended to kill.

• Xu Lang told Jia Lan, Wu Yi, and the Great Yin Empress to wait for a real crisis before acting, then left them to explain his decision to the others.
• The Great Yin Empress agreed to let Titan Building handle the battle for now, while Jia Lan and Wu Yi entered the Black Vortex Gate.
• The Great Yin Empress sent Wu Xia away and demanded to see Xu Lang, but his maid said he had gone to sleep.
• After the Great Yin Empress threatened the maid, Miaoying said Xu Lang wished to see her and led her to a hall containing a golden bed.
• The Great Yin Empress followed Miaoying into the hall, and Miaoying sensed the empress was about to kill her.

The Great Yin Empress confronted Xu Lang about how he would help her obtain the Primordial Origin Energy, but he turned the argument into a test of her priorities and concern for the world. His accusations left her wondering whether Bai Ze had been disguising himself as a demon lord while secretly acting as a righteous hero.

• The Great Yin Empress threw Miaoying into the bed curtains and found Xu Lang inside, unharmed and playing with his phone.
• Xu Lang ignored the Great Yin Empress until she demanded that he explain how he would help her obtain the Primordial Origin Energy.
• Xu Lang invoked Yinglong and said he would not break his promise, but argued that his incomplete memories made it reasonable for him to test her.
• Xu Lang accused the Great Yin Empress of valuing the Primordial Origin Energy above the world-ending crisis and the lives of others.
• The Great Yin Empress reconsidered her judgment of Bai Ze and suspected that he might be a righteous hero concealing his true nature.

Xu Lang maneuvered the Great Yin Empress into sitting beside him while pursuing his own romantic objective. Meanwhile, Titan Building's six Titans halted the Demon Race assault, and Kui Zi and Firepower Princess watched as the war intensified.

• Xu Lang challenged the Great Yin Empress for disrespecting him, then patted the bed and persuaded her to sit down.
• Xu Lang sent Miaoying to upgrade the Rear Garden Spirit Field, and she left after reminding him not to fight with their ally.
• Titan Building neared a breach less than three hours into the war, so six of the Twelve Titans joined the front lines and stabilized the defenses.
• Kui Zi analyzed the Titans' enhanced powers from Mad King Building and doubted that Xu Lang could defeat Titan Building without Rule-Level Power.
• Firepower Princess watched the battle with Kui Zi and suspected Xu Lang would soon force Mad King Building to act.

As the battle raged outside Greenfield City, Xu Lang’s women returned to Demon King Castle and found its gates locked, leaving them furious and afraid they had been cast out. Mary insisted the order had not come from Xu Lang, but the confrontation grew tense as the women demanded an explanation.

• Steel Overlord joined the defense of Greenfield City, where a purple-skinned swordsman broke through the forest defenses and attacked the self-repairing wall.
• As night fell, the Demon Race army avoided attacking Mad King Building, and Cao Yaxuan called the women back to the dormitory.
• Mary told the women not to return to Demon King Castle yet, prompting Kui Zi to fly to the gates and the others to gather there.
• Xu Xiaomeng and Wang Yazhi confronted Mary about the locked gates while Li Wenwen and Jiang Wan realized how frightening it was to face being shut out.
• Mary said Xu Lang had not given the order, but Red Butterfly attacked her with a scythe before Wang Yazhi blocked the blow and demanded that Mary finish explaining.