Chapter Summaries

Xu Lang returned to the Dormitory Building as Azeman and thirty-three Azure Lion Guards approached, then discovered Cao Yaxuan had acquired powerful streetwear with a huge Spirit bonus. After taking the outfit to Fuse with the Survivor Set, Xu Lang examined the enemy forces and recognized that Azeman had built a neutral tomb.

• Wang Tingting warned Xu Lang that monsters were attacking the building, and he hurried back as the players watched Azeman lead thirty-three armored monsters toward them.
• Xu Lang pushed Cao Yaxuan inside and removed her ugly streetwear, discovering that its three pieces granted substantial attribute bonuses.
• Cao Yaxuan said she had bought the outfit from Xiaoyu and the others, and Xu Lang decided to Fuse it with the Survivor Set.
• Wang Yazhi pointed out that the monsters had arrived downstairs, and Xu Lang checked the information on Azeman and the Azure Lion Guards.
• Xu Lang recognized that Azeman had built a neutral tomb in the wilderness and judged him an exceptionally powerful opponent.

Azeman and his Azure Lion Guards stormed the Dormitory Building, smashing through doors and killing players until Kui Zi drew his attention and led him upstairs. On the Ninth Floor, Dormitory 170’s door hypnotized the attackers, but Azeman broke free and prepared a full-force assault against its barrier.

• Azeman sent his Azure Lion Guards through the dormitories, where they smashed doors and slaughtered players.
• Su Yuan, Kui Zi, and the other players attacked Azeman with guns and mines, but he survived and scattered their formation.
• Kui Zi lured Azeman away, climbed the building’s wall, and escaped to the upper floors despite injuring her arm.
• Kui Zi sought refuge at Dormitory 200, where another group eventually let her inside.
• Azeman rampaged through the floors until he and his soldiers reached Dormitory 170, whose door hypnotized them.
• A sneeze woke Azeman, and he struck Dormitory 170’s barrier as the Azure Lion Guards gathered to attack together.

Xu Lang answered Pandora’s call for help and fought Azeman and the Azure Lion Guards on the Ninth Floor, using hit-and-run attacks to wear them down. The guards eventually fell, while the women on the Tenth Floor watched his battle from the corridor.

• Pandora’s Witch’s Home defenses battered Azeman and the Azure Lion Guards, but the monsters began breaking down her gate, so she asked Xu Lang for help and offered him the Shattered Dawn Pendant.
• Xu Lang accepted Pandora’s offer, warned Cao Yaxuan and the others not to follow him, and went to the Ninth Floor to intercept the monsters.
• After Xu Lang left, Cao Yaxuan’s group joined Jiang Xiaowen, Yan Xiaoli, and Kui Zi in the corridor, where Jiang Xiaowen’s raven watched the battle.
• Xu Lang used Raphael’s Cloak to teleport around the Azure Lion Guards, striking them with the Blood Pelican Demon Blade while avoiding their attacks.
• Pandora recognized that the guards were dying from the blade’s bleeding effect, and Jiang Xiaowen confirmed that all of them had fallen.

Xu Lang fought Azeman on the Ninth Floor while other players watched for a chance to profit. After Xu Lang killed him and extracted an item, Azeman resurrected, leaving the fight poised to begin again.

• Players hid around the Ninth Floor to watch Xu Lang battle Azeman and scavenge the aftermath.
• Azeman attacked Dormitory 170, then charged Xu Lang and killed players caught in his path.
• A hidden player revealed Xu Lang’s location, and Azeman turned back to pursue him as Blood Hatred reached its limit.
• Xu Lang used teleportation and his Demon Blade to wound Azeman, but Azeman caught him with Tyrant’s Grip.
• A Gargoyle Turret petrified Azeman’s arm, allowing Xu Lang to escape and kill him with Ghost Slash before extracting an item with the Scarlet Shepherd Lock.
• Wang Yazhi warned Xu Lang as Azeman revived, and the watching players fled.

Xu Lang killed Azeman again and collected his drops, then Pandora offered to make him her tenant, boasting about her powerful dormitory and rare turrets. Xu Lang rejected her offer, leaving their rivalry unresolved as Pandora warned that the endurance round would overwhelm his limited turret slots.

• Xu Lang restrained the weakened Azeman with the Scarlet Shepherd Lock and killed him again, gaining a giant wolf-tooth club, battle armor, and a drop of blood.
• Xu Lang told Cao Yaxuan and the other women to keep watching for whoever had spoken up earlier, but they found no reliable information.
• Luo Lin asked Xu Lang for Azeman's corpse, and Xu Lang agreed while noticing the Tenth Floor players guarding the area.
• Pandora came out of Dormitory 170, paid Xu Lang with a pendant, and asked him to become her tenant.
• Pandora revealed that she had been Top Player twice, had a level-ten Magic Mirror turret, and had lived in a Premium Building.
• Pandora warned Xu Lang that his seven turret slots would not be enough for the endurance round, but Xu Lang gave no sign of accepting her offer.

Xu Lang rejected Pandora’s offer to make him her subordinate dormitory, while Su Yuan reflected on how far Xu Lang had surpassed everyone’s expectations. Back at Dormitory 200, Xu Lang agreed to issue a bounty for the player traitor and revealed two newly acquired items.

• Xu Lang refused Pandora’s proposal to guide his development as a subordinate dormitory, and Pandora threatened that he would regret it.
• News of Pandora’s recruitment attempt spread, prompting Su Yuan to marvel at Xu Lang’s rapid, mysterious growth.
• Xu Lang thanked Wu Huihui and the others for guarding the perimeter by giving them supplies.
• Cao Yaxuan asked whether they should issue a bounty for the player traitor, and Xu Lang agreed.
• Xu Lang identified the Fire Rakshasa Blood Essence and Poisonous Grudge of the Dead.

Xu Lang examined Azeman’s drops, saved the Fire Rakshasa Blood Essence for a possible future Fusion, and replaced his badly worn Ghost Soul Mystic Armor with the powerful Lion Barbarian Overlord Armor. Meanwhile, Wu Huihui asked to buy Azeman’s spiked club, and Wang Tingting showed off her new look to Nie Xiaozhu and Wu Huihui.

• Tong Qi asked whether the Fire Rakshasa Blood Essence could increase Xu Lang’s Spirit, and Shirley explained that the game’s Blood Pact was likely a purified version of a bloodline.
• Xu Lang considered using the essence but kept it after the game warned that it conflicted with his Pureblood Vampire Blood Pact and could cause negative effects.
• Xu Lang suggested saving the essence in case they found other Rakshasa blood essences that might mutate together.
• Xu Lang replaced his damaged Ghost Soul Mystic Armor with the Lion Barbarian Overlord Armor and equipped several more pieces, gaining over one hundred total attribute points.
• Wu Huihui asked Xu Lang whether he urgently needed Azeman’s spiked club, but Xu Lang said she probably could not afford it.
• Wang Tingting showed her clown-like makeup and outfit to Nie Xiaozhu and Wu Huihui, then said she was pleased with the look.

Xu Lang strengthened his dormitory’s prospects, exposed Azeman’s feigned submission, and weighed facility development against immediate combat power. After producing 98,967 Nightmare Coins overnight, he felt a powerful premonition that upgrading the Nightmare Bed would bring a qualitative transformation.

• Xu Lang accepted Wu Huihui’s offer to cover Dormitory 200’s food expenses in exchange for a combat-strength boost, then rejected Pandora’s offer to guide him and urged her to help her own players develop.
• Xu Lang learned from Zhou Ye that Pandora could control other people’s bodies and had promised Ninth Floor players shared facility attributes if they stayed indoors for half a month.
• Xu Lang equipped Pandora’s Shattered Dawn Pendant and sparred with Wang Yazhi after his new gear increased his combat strength.
• At the third tombstone, Xu Lang explained that Azeman was only pretending to submit while waiting for a chance to rebel, leaving Saladin thoughtful and Azeman shaken.
• Xu Lang chose to prioritize development over combat strength and considered fusing a spare Jade Armor set despite having limited Fusion attempts.
• On the ninth day of the Rakshasa Ancient Kingdom, Xu Lang counted 98,967 Nightmare Coins and sensed that upgrading the Nightmare Bed would transform it.

Xu Lang agreed to accompany Wang Yazhi on a nighttime monster hunt but forbade her from entering the Blood Mist World. Cao Yaxuan and Tong Qi visited Luo Lin's laboratory, where Luo Lin demonstrated her biochemical soldiers, leaving Tong Qi worried that Luo Lin might betray them.

• Wang Yazhi asked Xu Lang to let her hunt monsters at night, and he agreed to go with her while warning her to stay out of the Blood Mist World.
• Cao Yaxuan and Tong Qi visited Dormitory 199 and gave Luo Lin and her daughter an Azure Lion Set.
• Luo Lin showed Cao Yaxuan and Tong Qi a recognized Type I Biochemical Warrior and explained that her facility could produce up to three per hour.
• Cao Yaxuan saw Azeman and Glutton among Luo Lin's rare biochemical specimens and learned that the soldiers could be deployed by the next monster assault.
• Tong Qi told Cao Yaxuan she feared Luo Lin might defect, and Cao Yaxuan suggested that Xu Lang sleep with her before Tong Qi decided to raise the concern with Xu Lang.

Wang Yazhi revealed the power of her Rakshasa Sequence by defeating a commander monster, but the Rakshasa Ghost Mask then tried to beguile the group as they fled. After they returned to the Dormitory Building, Xu Ruyan warned that high-level Sequences could grow on their own and lead their users to lose control.

• Wang Yazhi transformed under the moonlight and killed a patrol of Yellow Sand Soldiers before venturing deeper into the monster territory.
• Wang Yazhi summoned eighteen Night-Seeking God clones, which killed the commander monster and scattered its guards, leaving her exhausted in Xu Lang's arms.
• Wang Yazhi recovered and explained that the strength of her Night-Seeking Gods depended on her own condition, while Cao Yaxuan asked Xu Lang to find her a Sequence.
• The Rakshasa Ghost Mask released sound waves that beguiled Xu Lang and the others, but Wang Yazhi put it into her inventory after Xu Lang warned them.
• After the group returned to the Dormitory Building, Xu Ruyan explained that high-level Sequences could guide their users to grow and might cause them to lose control.

Xu Lang upgraded the Nightmare Bed and entered a three-day slumber as the Nightmare Lord sequence began its Initial Awakening. He awoke in a transformed bed within a strange dream realm.

• Xu Lang warned Wang Yazhi that using the Rakshasa Ghost Mask risked making her lose control, and Cao Yaxuan and Tong Qi advised her to seek ways to steady her mind.
• Xu Lang reached 100,964 Nightmare Coins by sleeping in segments and used them to upgrade the Nightmare Bed.
• Xu Lang received a prompt to sleep for three days so the Nightmare Lord sequence could advance, then woke the women and told them not to disturb him unless the door was threatened.
• Xu Lang lowered his Blood Hatred, disabled the women's door-opening permissions, and went to sleep for the sequence's Initial Awakening.
• Xu Lang fell through a terrifying abyss into a strange dream realm, slept on a Noble Nightmare Bed, and awoke to find it transformed and shining with golden starlight.

Xu Lang awoke from three days of sleep after advancing to the Newly Awakened Nightmare Lord stage and chose the Nightmare Eye trait. Back in Dormitory 200, he learned that more than a hundred players had died during monster attacks and that the monsters might have a new leader.

• Xu Lang reviewed his increased Nightmare Coins and Nightmare Essence, then selected Nightmare Eye as his fourth nightmare trait.
• Xu Lang gained the ability to see people's true thoughts and the hidden information behind objects, and calculated that his improved bed could earn him 34,521 Nightmare Coins after a full night's sleep.
• Xu Lang woke in Dormitory 200 and learned that seventeen days remained in the Rakshasa Ancient Kingdom game.
• Xu Xiaomeng and the other women gathered when Xu Lang awoke, and he discovered that the Mad King Building chatroom had fallen to 740 players.
• Cao Yaxuan said monsters had attacked with catapults before charging the building, while Shirley said their group had not been targeted and Wang Yazhi suspected the monsters had a new leader.

Xu Lang returned to find the monsters targeting the First Floor and helped Tong Qi and Red Butterfly grow stronger while preparing for Tong Qi’s limit-break trial. In a simulation, Tong Qi reached the Mad King Trial, and Xu Lang discovered that she had been recognized by the Mad King Building.

• Shirley told Xu Lang that the monsters had driven First Floor players into other dorms, and Cao Yaxuan confirmed that some players had died.
• Xu Lang rejected the idea that he owed other players help, then learned that the Rakshasa Ancient Kingdom’s soldiers were being revived from a tomb.
• Xu Lang decided to rest before fighting and gave Tong Qi and Red Butterfly skill scrolls on the Royal Nightmare Bed.
• Xu Lang simulated Tong Qi’s mental attribute limit-break trial and saw her reach the Mad King Trial without dying in three attempts.

Xu Lang used Fusion to create a Mythic transformation card and a powerful Mythic battle armor, then pushed his universal weapon-proficiency skill to Epic Grade. He continued fusing the skill, hoping to create his first Legendary skill.

• Xu Lang entered the Fusion Dreamscape while Tong Qi slept and reserved some Fusion attempts for equipment for her and the others.
• Xu Lang fused transformation cards into a Mythic Aberrant Corpse-Release Immortal Transformation Card.
• Xu Lang combined Zheng Kai's Blood Armor with the Lion Barbarian Overlord Armor and other heavy armor to create the Mythic Blood Demon Battle Armor.
• Xu Lang began fusing universal weapon-proficiency skills, eventually adding Master Swordsmanship and raising the result to Epic Grade.
• Xu Lang continued the fusion as the skill's improvement accelerated, wondering if he would create his first Legendary skill.

Xu Lang returned to the chat and gathered Weapon Combat Mastery skills while players across the building celebrated his reappearance. He sent Tong Qi detailed guidance for the Mad King Trial, but as she began her Spirit Limit-Break Trial, a trebuchet stone struck Dormitory 200's door.

• Xu Lang bought Weapon Combat Mastery scrolls, announced his return, and received a flood of excited messages from players.
• Fusheng Xi watched a frozen play and told his companion that they would wait for a chance to hunt Xu Lang.
• Players in several dormitories reacted to Xu Lang's return, and many sent Mastery skills to him through Cao Yaxuan and the others.
• Xu Lang gave Tong Qi detailed advice about the Attribute Limit-Break Trial and urged her to rest before reaching its tenth stage.
• With everyone's encouragement, Tong Qi began her Spirit Limit-Break Trial, and a trebuchet stone hit Dormitory 200's door.
• Lord Fanma dismissed the misfired attack and told the Yellow Sand Army soldiers to keep firing.

Xu Lang upgraded the Sun-Shooting Meteorite Crossbow to level 15 and chose the Excellent Great Wilderness Dragon Eye, a powerful long-range turret. It immediately destroyed the Rakshasa Faction’s catapult and killed Lord Fanma and several soldiers.

• Xu Lang spent 22,000 Nightmare Coins upgrading the Sun-Shooting Meteorite Crossbow to level 15 and chose the Great Wilderness Dragon Eye.
• Cao Yaxuan, Zhen Lu, and Xu Ruyan reacted with amazement when they saw the turret’s 32,999 lethality and other attributes.
• Lord Fanma ordered his forces to aim at Dormitory 200 again.
• The Great Wilderness Dragon Eye fired a dragon-eye arrow that destroyed the catapult and killed Lord Fanma and several soldiers.

Xu Lang used the Great Wilderness Dragon Eye to destroy the Yellow Sand Army’s catapults and force its troops to retreat, then discovered that many collected items were dangerous traps. After his companions returned with repair materials, Xu Ruyan told him that Golden Dawn’s online gathering had begun.

• Cao Yaxuan fired the Great Wilderness Dragon Eye at the Yellow Sand Army, destroying its catapults and driving its forces back.
• Xu Ruyan led Cao Yaxuan and Zhen Lu to the Supermarket to buy repair materials while Xu Lang inspected their stored items.
• Xu Lang used his Nightmare Eye to uncover traps in several items and warned the women not to use them.
• Xu Ruyan returned with ten sets of repair materials and told Xu Lang that Huihui had invited them to a meal after the game round.
• Xu Ruyan told Xu Lang that the Golden Dawn online gathering had begun, after Dormitory 200 discovered its Radio Station during his three-day sleep.

Xu Lang joined Golden Dawn’s gathering and shared high-value information about the real world’s mutation, stirring an uproar among its veteran players. The chapter ended with members demanding answers while Xu Lang quietly listened.

• Li Mingqing opened Golden Dawn’s fifteenth gathering, attended by twenty-two members, including Xu Lang and Blood Mist Expert.
• Blood Mist Expert revealed that deeper Sequence development increased the risk of losing control and claimed that players could enter a Sequence in the Blood Mist without meeting its employment conditions.
• Blood Mist Expert warned that taking a Sequence Item into the Blood Mist would cause a terrifying mutation, and Li Mingqing approved the information as high-value.
• Golden Dawn members discussed the dangers of Sequence Items, and Young Lord invited Zero to share information.
• Xu Lang concealed his identity and account of the real-world mutation, then shared his information as Zero.
• Li Mingqing approved Zero’s information, prompting Golden Dawn members to erupt with questions as Xu Lang listened quietly.

At the Golden Dawn gathering, members shared intelligence about a B-rank Sequence holder and the dangerous Ironblood Invitation before voting to ask how to plunder a Sequence. Li Mingqing revealed a demon-communing ritual that could increase the chance of a Sequence dropping, raising Xu Lang’s suspicions about his danger.

• Witch revealed that the owner of the B-33 Rakshasa Sequence lived in Mad King Building, and Li Mingqing classified the information as high-value.
• Xu Lang and the others discussed how Pandora might have identified Wang Yazhi’s Sequence, concluding she likely had access to a more complete Sequence catalog.
• Young Master described the Ironblood Invitation’s twelve-person deathmatch and warned Peerless Under Heaven not to provoke its administrator.
• Peerless Under Heaven shared advice about self-created skills and combat skills.
• The members voted to ask how to plunder a Sequence, and Li Mingqing taught them a ritual using a dying Sequence holder to increase the chance of a Sequence dropping.
• Shirley recorded Li Mingqing’s ritual and its taboos before the fifteenth Golden Dawn gathering ended and ordinary members were expelled.

Xu Lang’s group investigated Li Mingqing and sought information about the Extermination Building, while a helmeted killer slaughtered players there. The chapter ended with Kui Zi obsessively building armor and Luo Lin nearing the end of an experiment that repeatedly used Tao Tao’s blood.

• Xu Lang’s think tank discussed Li Mingqing’s mysterious motives and the risks of the ritual formation, which Xu Lang decided he did not need.
• The helmeted man tracked the Witch and Zero on a Parchment Map, then killed every player in a dormitory at the Extermination Building.
• Cao Yaxuan used the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society Radio Station to ask Rainy Night Swordsman’s tenant about the Extermination Building, but she found no information.
• Zhang Dahai inspected expensive materials in the Supermarket, while Chen Kui told him to clear the building and protect Dormitory 200.
• Kui Zi worked relentlessly on a Mechanical Armor, blaming her weakness for Wu Feng and the others’ deaths.
• Luo Lin drew Tao Tao’s blood for an experiment and promised her it would soon succeed, while Tao Tao asked to visit Xu Lang.