Chapter Summaries

Xu Lang prepared his team to pioneer the Blood Mist World and allocated his attribute points before using the Fusion Dreamscape to create a permanent Six-Eyed Golden Corpse King transformation card. He left the dreamscape with the card tucked into his clothes, ready to use it.

• Xu Lang learned from Tong Qi that dozens of people had died in the Blood Mist World and that the Fine Arts Academy Building and Ginkgo Avenue were the main pioneering locations.
• Xu Lang summoned Wang Yazhi and assigned Ruyan, Xiaomeng, Shirley, and Zhen Lu to stay behind and provide support if needed.
• Xu Lang put his 20 free attribute points into Spirit and explained that he would delay his Constitution Limit-Break Trial until he had prepared close-combat skills.
• Xu Lang upgraded the Six-Eyed Mountain Xiao transformation card and chose its permanent Rare version.
• Xu Lang fused the Six-Eyed Mountain Xiao card with the Golden-Armored Corpse card, creating the permanent Six-Eyed Golden Corpse King transformation card.
• Xu Lang fused more transformation cards into the new card to increase its base attributes, then left the Fusion Dreamscape with it tucked into his clothes.

Xu Lang led Zheng Kai and other players into the Blood Mist World, prompting excitement and worry among those who heard the news. At another outpost, Li Wenwen continued enhancing equipment as a player’s weapon shattered during an attempt to reach +11.

• Liu Zhen and four teammates returned from the Blood Mist World with valuable loot, and Liu Zhen traded some of it for healing supplies.
• Xu Lang arrived at Ginkgo Avenue and entered the Blood Mist World with Zheng Kai and his group, while players speculated about his chances and what he might bring back.
• Wu Huihui heard that Xu Lang had entered the Blood Mist World and hurried toward Ginkgo Avenue with Nie Xiaozhu and Wang Tingting, while Kui Zi asked what loot Wu Huihui had found.
• Wu Huihui and the others heard a player cry out after his weapon shattered during an enhancement attempt beyond +10, and Li Wenwen’s assistants prepared to carry him away.

Li Shuwen brought Li Wenwen to the Blood Mist’s edge, where she enhanced equipment for players preparing to enter. In the Blood Mist World, Xu Lang led his team through Ginkgo Avenue, slaughtering monsters and leaving the Butcher Sequence delighted.

• Li Wenwen enhanced players’ equipment while ten veteran players guarded her, and an angry short-haired man demanded she enhance his backup weapon to +11.
• Xu Lang’s team entered Ginkgo Avenue, where Zheng Kai explained the Tree Ghosts and the team’s pioneering progress.
• Xu Lang spotted players besieged by Tree Ghosts and killed the monsters before continuing deeper along the avenue.
• Xu Lang rescued players at several battlefields, then led his team past the mark where Zhai Ren’s group had stopped.
• When Tree Ghosts surrounded the team, Xu Lang carved through the horde and curved back in an arc, guiding everyone to safety and killing hundreds of monsters.
• Xu Lang let the following players take the monster corpses, while the Butcher Sequence reveled in the slaughter.

Xu Lang led his team deep into the Blood Mist World, gathering wealth before turning back from poisonous miasma to pursue his main quest of capturing a Ginkgo Wolf. He returned safely to the stronghold with a wolf, where Wu Huihui and the others greeted him.

• Several players withdrew with Life Cores and loot as Xu Lang’s team advanced, leaving Xu Lang, Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, Tong Qi, Zheng Kai, and Jiang Xiaowen together.
• At the poisonous miasma five hundred meters into the Blood Mist World, Zheng Kai vowed to follow Xu Lang farther, but Xu Lang said they would turn back because they had not completed their main quest.
• Xu Lang’s team returned through the Blood Mist World, gathered supplies, and found a Ginkgo Wolf near the one-hundred-meter mark; Xu Lang subdued it with his mental attributes.
• Xu Lang and his team emerged from the Blood Mist World and returned to the brightly lit stronghold.
• Wu Huihui welcomed Xu Lang and said she had worried about him, then Nie Xiaozhu and the others arrived.

Xu Lang reviewed his improved Blood Pelican Demon Blade and prepared to choose combat skills before his Attribute Trial. When he contacted the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society for advice, he learned that Heavy Armored Fanatic was presumed dead and that Brahmin had experience with limit breaks.

• Xu Lang checked the Blood Pelican Demon Blade’s increased damage, durability, and sharpness after his expedition.
• Xu Lang slept with the Ginkgo Wolf to advance his Beast Tamer Sequence, then returned to farming points with Cao Yaxuan and the others.
• Xu Lang and his companions studied combat styles in the Book of Wisdom while he considered which skills would suit him.
• Xu Lang contacted the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society and learned that Heavy Armored Fanatic had not come online for several game cycles and was presumed dead.
• Xu Lang asked Rainy Night Swordsman for combat-skill advice before his Attribute Trial, and Rainy Night Swordsman pointed him to Brahmin’s experience with a constitution above 250 points.

Xu Lang told Rainy Night Swordsman and Brahmin about changes in the real world, then learned about rumors of powerful Blood Mist World anomalies. After consulting Bai Wuya about combat and crafting, Xu Lang entered the fusion dreamscape determined to combine several Mythic martial arts skills.

• Xu Lang shared news about the real world with Rainy Night Swordsman and Brahmin, who confirmed that time flowed irregularly beyond the dormitory buildings.
• Zhen Lu told Rainy Night Swordsman that the Blood Mist secret realm had descended on Yupu District, where someone important to him lived.
• Brahmin described rumors of ways to revive the dead and other powerful phenomena, including blood calamities that dormitory buildings could not withstand.
• Xu Lang consulted Bai Wuya, who explained that stronghold blueprints and skilled blacksmiths could make materials useful for crafting equipment.
• Xu Lang recalled that Bai Wuya had once earned Top Player before his former building collapsed, then entered the fusion dreamscape to combine Mythic martial arts skills.

Xu Lang acquired the Beast Tamer Sequence and chose Supreme Fusion to merge it with his Butcher Sequence. The fusion would take twelve days, and the Ginkgo Wolf was drawn into Xu Lang before he could understand what had happened.

• Xu Lang decided to build a skill series around body parts and fused his leg skills into Hydraulic Knee Drop.
• After meeting the prerequisites, Xu Lang accepted the Beast Tamer Sequence and summoned the Ginkgo Wolf as his partner.
• Xu Lang told Zheng Kai and the other players to take back their pets, while the Ghost Child and Ginkgo Wolf played together.
• Xu Lang began fusing the Butcher and Beast Tamer Sequences and selected Supreme Fusion, which was expected to produce the Shepherd Sequence in twelve days.
• The Ginkgo Wolf dissolved into bloody light and rushed into Xu Lang, while the Ghost Child and Guanjiangkou Boy watched anxiously.
• Xu Lang comforted the Ghost Child with Soul Shards and lit incense for Guanjiangkou Boy.

Xu Lang explored Ginkgo Avenue and was ambushed by more than forty players from Hunter Building, who tried to kill him and uncover his secrets. Outnumbered and hindered by control skills, he unleashed Mad King Building’s weapons and monsters, turning the fight in his favor.

• Xu Lang left his room, killed a hostile player who had been watching the Glutton, and disposed of the body in it.
• At Ginkgo Avenue, Xu Lang killed two monsters and noticed the Blood Mist around him was being absorbed.
• More than forty players from Hunter Building surrounded Xu Lang, and the long-haired man tried to use a skill to make him reveal how he had advanced so quickly.
• Xu Lang resisted the skill and fought back with a purple fire dragon, Polar Night, and his Blood Pelican Demon Blade, killing several attackers despite their coordinated ambush.
• Red Brow charged Xu Lang in giant form, but Xu Lang’s strike left him screaming with shattered knuckles as the attackers kept up their assault.
• Xu Lang summoned the Tyrant with the Thunder God Gatling and a Six-Eyed Golden Corpse, which decapitated the long-haired leader while Xu Lang’s attributes exceeded 150 points.

Xu Lang transformed into a Six-Eyed Golden Corpse King and slaughtered more than forty players in the Blood Mist World. After the transformation ended, the blood qi around him triggered an advancement and mutation in his Butcher and Shepherd Sequences, and he left Zheng Kai and Zhai Ren to call tenants to help collect the battlefield loot.

• Xu Lang used his Six-Eyed Golden Corpse King form to immobilize and kill players, while Zheng Kai and Zhai Ren fled back to the safe zone.
• Zheng Kai and Zhai Ren returned to the Blood Mist World, but Xu Lang had already swallowed more than forty players and reverted to normal.
• The blood qi from the battlefield surged into Xu Lang, advancing his Butcher Sequence and causing his Shepherd Sequence to mutate in the Fusion Dreamscape.
• Xu Lang began collecting the fallen players' items and waited for Zheng Kai and Zhai Ren to arrive.
• Xu Lang asked Zheng Kai and Zhai Ren to summon tenants to help move the items, and he explained that the dead players were newcomers from a Hunter Building.

Xu Lang used Wu Qi’s corpse and Red Butterfly’s control to take over the Forty-Two Thieves Hunter Guild, gaining access to its warehouse and its rule-making Book of Laws. The guild’s laws could punish members for disrespecting its leaders, losing control, or leaving, while Xu Lang remained interested in Hunter Building but had not yet decided to travel there.

• Wang Lie explained that Hunter Building players could relocate to other dormitories on rest days to plunder supplies, and identified Xu Lang’s badge as the Hunter’s Certificate that allowed travel between buildings.
• Xu Lang and Cao Yaxuan directed players to dismantle Hunter Building’s dormitories and recovered turret and gate blueprints as news spread that Xu Lang had killed more than forty hunters.
• Xu Lang sold the recovered loot in the safe zone and showed the Hunter’s Certificate to the women in Dormitory 200, saying Hunter Building’s ability to leave the Mad King Building made it unusual.
• Xu Lang revived Wu Qi and, with Red Butterfly controlling him, forced him to transfer leadership of the Forty-Two Thieves Hunter Guild.
• Xu Lang accepted the transfer and discovered the guild warehouse’s items, including the Hunter’s Code and the Book of Laws, which let the guild president establish rules and punish members.

Xu Lang traded for the Master-Level Hidden Weapon Mastery skill scroll from Han Jisoo, a powerful player fleeing the unusual Grandmaster Building. Unable to make room for her in Dormitory 200, he offered her a safe place next door, protection in the next game, a top-ten ranking, and one million Copper Coins.

• Xu Lang inspected the guild’s Book of Laws, decided its rules did not suit the Mad King Building, and kept its members from moving to the Hunter Building.
• Xu Lang chose Rosen’s Invisible Eyes from the Hunter Building players’ loot, while Xu Ruyan discovered that a player would trade Master-Level Hidden Weapon Mastery only if she could move into Dormitory 200.
• Xu Lang invited the trader to Dormitory 200, and Han Jisoo arrived from the Ninth Floor with the skill scroll.
• Han Jisoo shared her player information, revealing her strong attributes and skills, and explained that she had fled the Grandmaster Building because veteran players up to the twentieth cycle would join after its tenth game.
• Xu Lang said Dormitory 200 was full but offered Han Jisoo a place next door, protection in the next game, and help securing a top-ten ranking; he also traded her one million Copper Coins, and she accepted.

Xu Lang upgraded the Nightmare Bed to Level 5, gaining powerful new traits that included dream simulation, fusion, and group resurrection. He began testing Simulation and saw several possible futures, including the Attribute Trial, but had enough Nightmare Essence for only limited experiments.

• Han Jisoo warned Xu Lang that the next game round would be unusual and questioned his defenses, and Xu Lang assured her he was completely confident.
• Xu Lang upgraded the Luxurious Nightmare Bed to Level 5 and chose the Simulation trait.
• The Noble Nightmare Bed gained stronger sleep benefits, daily fusion attempts, future-scene simulation, and the ability to revive Xu Lang and all his tenants once.
• Cao Yaxuan found Xu Lang trembling with excitement, and he explained that the bed had upgraded before sending her away to study its new abilities.
• Xu Lang entered a simulated dream and saw four available paths, including entering Ginkgo Avenue's poisonous miasma area and taking the Attribute Trial.
• Xu Lang counted his Nightmare Essence and decided to use it for one exploration simulation and one Attribute Trial simulation.

Xu Lang followed the simulated dreamscape’s route through the poisonous miasma on Ginkgo Avenue and discovered a stronghold occupied by a Blood Mist Giant Snake. He fought the creature but died after its subtle mental influence concealed the effects of its poison, then woke in Dormitory 200 with the stronghold’s location confirmed.

• Xu Lang had Li Wenwen repair his Ghost Soul Mystic Armor and looked over the maps she offered before entering the Blood Mist World.
• Xu Lang crossed the poisonous miasma on Ginkgo Avenue, ignored the monsters trailing him, and reached a faintly glowing church.
• Xu Lang found a huge Blood Mist Giant Snake coiled around the church and rushed inside as it attacked.
• Xu Lang wounded the snake with the Blood Pelican Demon Blade and battered it with Flowing Light Ghost Slash, but the creature began regenerating.
• Xu Lang realized the snake’s sweet, fishy stench had poisoned him, and his body had rotted beyond recovery.
• Xu Lang woke in Dormitory 200 and recognized that the church was a real stronghold at the end of Ginkgo Avenue.

Xu Lang fused his leg skills into the Epic Ultimate Kick Technique, then began the 150-point physique Attribute Trial and fought through all twelve stages. After defeating the final monster, he triggered the Mad King Trial and entered its Vortex Gate, risking true death for a chance at an ultimate physique transformation and Mad King Attribute Talent.

• Xu Lang fused his leg techniques into the Epic Ultimate Kick Technique, developed his Fusion Trait to gain five daily fusion attempts, and raised the skill to level three.
• Xu Lang began the physique Attribute Trial after gathering enough Nightmare Essence and defeated the monsters in its first eleven stages with his powerful kicks.
• Xu Lang rested before confronting the twelfth stage’s Hannya Demon, then killed it after circling and avoiding its refined swordsmanship for more than half an hour.
• A scarlet Vortex Gate appeared and the game announced Xu Lang had triggered the Mad King Trial, which promised a physique transformation and Mad King Attribute Talent but threatened true death on failure.
• Xu Lang chose not to wait for the trial’s automatic start and entered the Vortex Gate immediately.

Xu Lang faced the thinking purple-cloaked skeleton in the Mad King Building’s final trial and learned that its teleporting blade attacks made it nearly impossible to defeat. After dying in the trial, he woke from the Nightmare Bed, frustrated by the skeleton’s Overclocked Flash, and began another score-grinding session with Cao Yaxuan.

• Xu Lang questioned the purple-cloaked skeleton about the Mad King Building’s past, but the skeleton explained the trial rules instead.
• The purple-cloaked skeleton attacked with rapid teleporting blade strikes, and Xu Lang adapted to the pattern while dodging them.
• Xu Lang avoided a vibration-infused blade by leaping from a collapsing pillar, then waited for an opening to counterattack.
• The purple-cloaked skeleton’s ultimate strike severed Xu Lang’s arm, but Xu Lang kicked the skeleton before its follow-up attacks wore him down and sent him into the lava.
• Xu Lang woke from the Nightmare Bed and complained about the skeleton’s Overclocked Flash, then grabbed Cao Yaxuan and started a score-grinding session.

Xu Lang gained the Epic universal skill Profound Boxing and entered the Mad King Attribute Trial, where he defeated the purple-cloaked skeleton and received his sword. He chose the Life Contract attribute talent, binding his Constitution and Spirit attributes together.

• Xu Lang spent several days simulating and fusing skills, losing ten Constitution points before obtaining the Epic skill Profound Boxing.
• Xu Lang began the Mad King Attribute Trial while Xu Ruyan and the others pursued their own activities outside Dormitory 200.
• In the Mad King World, Xu Lang used Blood Return to interrupt the purple-cloaked skeleton's transformation and defeat him.
• The dying purple-cloaked skeleton gave Xu Lang his pale purple longsword before his soul fire went out.
• Xu Lang encountered the Principle of Strength, Heart of Negentropy, and Life Contract attribute talents, then chose Life Contract.

Xu Lang returned from the Mad King Trial with Raphael's Cloak and the Myriad Purple Blade, then discussed his Life Contract talent and Tong Qi's possible trial with the others. Three days later, he prepared Dormitory 200 for the sixth round as players speculated about what awaited them.

• Xu Lang returned to Dormitory 200 with Raphael's Cloak and the Myriad Purple Blade, realizing he had truly risked his life in the Mad King Trial.
• Xu Lang shared his Life Contract talent, and Cao Yaxuan and the others marveled at its ability to double his attribute gains.
• Xu Lang warned Tong Qi not to enter the Mad King Trial, but Red Butterfly said she could accompany her; Xu Lang agreed to prepare supplies if Tong Qi chose to go.
• Xu Lang raised Dormitory 200's seven major facilities to Level 10 and fused them again, saving his remaining opportunities rather than making a risky turret.
• Players discussed the coming sixth round in the Chat Room, while Zhang Sanfeng offered protection at Dormitory 90.

The sixth game, “Rakshasa Ghost Kingdom,” began as a month-long survival battle, while Xu Lang learned that Troop-Spawning Little Prince came from Ghost Eye Building and had a dangerous history with Wang Lie. The chapter left Xu Lang with Wang Lie’s furious warning about the newcomer’s treachery and cruelty.

• The Dormitory Broadcast announced that “Rakshasa Ghost Kingdom” would last a month and that surviving Level 1 dormitories would rise to Level 2 afterward.
• Xu Lang, Han Jisoo, and Wang Yazhi watched a sandstorm approach, and Xu Lang sensed a malicious presence within it before returning to his dormitory.
• At the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society gathering, Troop-Spawning Little Prince joined after Hundred-Ton King introduced him as a veteran of a building war.
• Xu Lang recognized Ghost Eye Building in Troop-Spawning Little Prince’s profile and asked Wang Lie about the building and the newcomer.
• Wang Lie identified Troop-Spawning Little Prince as the person who had forced him to leave Ghost Eye Building and warned Xu Lang that he was petty, unpredictable, and had cooperated with monsters to attack players’ doors.

Xu Lang recruited informants, asked Tong Qi to watch for news about Ghost Eye Building, and went to sleep while preparing a Spirit Attribute Trial Simulation. Meanwhile, floor leaders sent squads to investigate the western desert, and Kui Zi's robot drew Yellow Sand Soldiers toward an ambush.

• Xu Lang recruited Wang Lie as an informant and identified several other players who could provide information from their floors.
• Xu Lang fed Evil Fuzzball, asked Tong Qi and Xu Xiaomeng to watch for Ghost Eye Building news, and lay down to conduct a Spirit Attribute Trial Simulation.
• Jiang Xiaowen's crow scouted the western campus and revealed that Level 10 Yellow Sand Soldiers were gathering in the desert with siege equipment.
• Zhai Ren, Kui Zi, and Bai Wuya led squads into the wilderness as other players prepared to attack or search for equipment.
• Su Yuan recognized Zhen Lu following Bai Wuya's group, while Kui Zi dismissed Xu Lang and Bai Wuya warned that he was not to be underestimated.
• Kui Zi sent a two-wheeled robot into the yellow sands, and it drew a squad of Yellow Sand Soldiers toward the players.

Su Yuan and the other players fought through Yellow Sand Soldiers and a level-ten elite, whose drops included an Enchanting Gem that shocked Bai Wuya. After Bai Wuya warned that a grand commander might send its army after them, a massive force of Yellow Sand Soldiers charged, and the group retreated to Mad King Building to prepare for defense.

• The players killed a dozen Yellow Sand Soldiers, then agreed that each squad would receive one weapon while killers kept the materials they collected.
• The group defeated a Yellow Sand Bladesman after it damaged Su Yuan's spear, and the monster dropped an Enchanting Gem.
• Bai Wuya recognized the gem as material normally found in round-ten Dormitory Buildings and urged everyone to return to Mad King Building.
• Zhen Lu spotted an enemy army approaching, and the players fled as mounted Yellow Sand Soldiers pursued them.
• Bai Wuya covered the retreat with his bow while Kui Zi sent out self-destruct robots to slow the Yellow Sand Knights, and everyone reached the Dormitory Building safely.