Chapter Summaries

Xu Lang and the others examined their pioneering expedition’s treasure, which included two Mythic Angel Turret blueprints and Angel’s Blood. Xu Lang warned that the final item was his alone, and Wang Yazhi suspected it was related to reality.

• Xu Lang revealed the Left Angel Turret and Right Angel Turret blueprints, and the group reacted with excitement to their Mythic rarity and adaptive abilities.
• Xu Lang spent twenty million Copper Coins to build the Angel Turrets and installed them on either side of the dormitory entrance, keeping them secret.
• Xu Lang opened Angel’s Blood, a level-thirty Mythic item that purified the user’s negative statuses, and he and Xu Ruyan discussed its possible connection to the Savior’s advancement.
• Shirley said the Book of Wisdom mentioned rituals for summoning angels with angel-related items, but it did not provide the ritual’s details.
• Xu Lang declared that the last treasure belonged to him alone, and Wang Yazhi guessed it was related to reality, prompting Xu Lang to wonder if she had the Nightmare Eye.

Xu Lang revealed that the King of Clubs could return someone to the original world for seven days, stirring the women’s longing and nearly causing a clash with Red Butterfly. After Red Butterfly broke down in tears and the group comforted her, Xu Lang postponed exploring the Mad King Building basement to examine the changes to his advanced Golden Elixir Art.

• Wang Yazhi guessed that Xu Lang had kept the treasure’s real-world effect secret to prevent the women from fighting over it.
• Xu Lang showed the group the King of Clubs, which could send all Dormitory Building players home for seven days during rest time.
• Han Jisoo begged Xu Lang for the card, while Gu Ya prayed and Cao Yaxuan struggled with her desire to return home; Wang Yazhi urged Xu Lang to hide it and keep it secret.
• Red Butterfly mocked the women’s hopes of returning to their worlds, and Zhen Lu rebuked her; Red Butterfly then accused the group of treating her like a ghost and burst into tears.
• Xu Lang and the others comforted Red Butterfly, then Wang Yazhi suggested exploring the Mad King Building basement, but Xu Lang said his Golden Elixir Art had advanced and he needed to investigate the changes.

Xu Lang evolved the Golden Elixir Art into the Pure Yang Immortal-Seeking Art, gaining an ageless Human Immortal Body and Pure Yang True Qi that could strengthen others. He helped Wang Yazhi advance her Clear Spirit Qi into True Essence and began testing his power on the rest of the dormitory.

• Xu Lang's Golden Elixir Art evolved after he exhausted his Primordial True Qi, granting him limitless lifespan and the Pure Yang Immortal-Seeking Art.
• Xu Lang demonstrated that Seven Kill Blood Qi and Pure Yang True Qi could combine into a powerful crimson-gold aura, and explained how Pure Yang True Qi could enhance his abilities.
• Xu Lang infused Wang Yazhi with Pure Yang True Qi, strengthening her Clear Spirit Qi until it evolved into True Essence.
• Xu Lang found that he could strengthen others' physical condition and spellcasting power, but his attempt to improve Cao Yaxuan's Ultimate Magic Power failed.
• Xu Lang strengthened Han Jisoo's blood qi, then began transmitting power into Xu Xiaomeng.

Xu Lang recovered after trying and failing to evolve a psychic attribute, then told Rainy Night Swordsman about Mad King Building occupying a stronghold. When Ye Qiu realized Xu Lang was the infamous Purgatory, Xu Lang reflected on how Mad King Building had outgrown its former position and faced a more complicated future.

• Xu Lang said the psychic attribute was too obscure to evolve, and the group delayed exploring the basement while Cao Yaxuan searched the radio for new channels.
• Xu Lang logged into the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society and told Rainy Night Swordsman about the stronghold and treasure chest.
• Ye Qiu and his tenant reacted in disbelief that Zero had occupied a stronghold, then asked Xu Lang about his building.
• Xu Lang learned that Ye Qiu lived in Doomsday Building and revealed that his own building was Mad King Building.
• Ye Qiu recognized Mad King Building and asked whether Xu Lang was Purgatory, the player whose exploits had spread through other buildings.
• Xu Ruyan pointed out that Mad King Building now interacted more with other buildings, and Xu Lang vowed to carry the building forward.

Rainy Night Swordsman warned Xu Lang that powerful players might attack newly discovered Dormitory Buildings for their rewards, then began organizing a push to claim a stronghold. Xu Lang and his companions investigated the Mad King Building’s basement and discovered a Star Realm Base that could enable cross-world teleportation.

• Rainy Night Swordsman promised not to reveal Xu Lang’s identity and warned him that high-level players could cross the Blood Mist to conquer other Dormitory Buildings.
• Rainy Night Swordsman ordered Empty to accelerate the clearing of Blood Mist Creatures near Silent Hill and told his people to avoid building-war targets with “Mad” or “King” in their names.
• Xu Lang learned that the Strange Tales Building continued to target him and found Song Fei’s Blood Casket: Waterfowl Game listed in the Arena Shop for 100 Duel Points.
• Xu Lang went with Cao Yaxuan and the others to explore the Mad King Building’s basement, where they found a vast stone platform.
• Xu Lang identified the platform as the Star Realm Base, a teleportation facility that could search for anchor points and allow travel between worlds.

Xu Lang and the others discovered that the Star Realm Base could search for anchors and enable teleportation, while Pioneer Hall offered a god-tier reward for conquering a Dormitory Building. They decided to recruit lower-tier players to test the base, and Li Shuwen volunteered, leaving the group poised to try it.

• Xu Lang read the Star Realm Base notice and realized it might be a tool for conquering other Dormitory Buildings.
• Su Yuan told Xu Lang that Pioneer Hall had issued a mission to conquer any Dormitory Building for a god-tier reward.
• Cao Yaxuan and the others grew excited at the possibility of returning home, but Xu Lang warned that teleportation could consume their sanity, logic, and common sense.
• Wang Yazhi proposed letting other players test the Star Realm Base, and Xu Lang agreed to recruit willing lower-tier players through Li Shuwen.
• Li Shuwen read the notice and volunteered to test the Star Realm Base.

Xu Lang and Li Shuwen prepared two struggling players to use the teleportation artifact and search for a way back to the real world. The chapter ended with the balding man recognizing his home among the anchor images revealed by his family photograph.

• Li Shuwen volunteered to test the teleportation, but Xu Lang refused to risk losing a key player and persuaded him to send someone else.
• Xu Lang and Li Shuwen gathered old items and recruited two bottom-tier players, who received equipment and supplies for their trip.
• Xu Lang set the teleportation period to three days and gave the anxious players bubble gum to help them stay calm.
• Xu Lang searched the balding man's family photograph for anchor information, revealing images of a home, a park, and a photo shop.
• The balding man recognized the three-bedroom home as his own and wept with joy.

After Xiao Yi and the dark-skinned man returned to the real world, Xu Lang strengthened himself and prepared for Dusk Building to join Mad King Building. In the hospital, doctors examined Xiao Yi and discovered what looked like a box inside his eyes.

• The dark-skinned man and Xiao Yi teleported out of the Blood Mist World, leaving Xu Lang and the others to wait for their return in three days.
• Xu Lang converted the Dormitory Building's facilities into Nightmare Essence, learned several skills, and gained the Ancient Mind's Eye.
• Xiao Yi returned home, but his family found him laughing and unable to move, and he was taken to a sealed hospital ward.
• Professor Shen learned that Xiao Yi and Wu Quan had gone missing before the Blood Mist outbreak and ordered the doctors to examine Xiao Yi.
• A young doctor noticed something resembling a box inside Xiao Yi's eyes.

Xu Lang learned that Mad King Building’s community with Dusk Building came with a task to kill one hundred Dusk residents and a Sanity system that could turn residents into immortal Mad Vanguards. As the buildings prepared for their meeting, Dusk Building’s enslaved workers received a brief rest, leaving the coming clash unresolved.

• Xu Lang checked his attributes, saw that Pure Yang Immortal-Seeking Art had raised them, and held off on spending Nightmare Coins before the community was established.
• The Dormitory Broadcast announced the merger with Dusk Building, introduced Sanity and Mad Vanguards, and issued the task to kill one hundred Dusk players during the rest period.
• Mad King Building residents reacted with alarm, while players gathered outside Dormitory 200 and rushed to buy one-use items.
• At Dusk Building’s factory, A Gan continued working until his squad leader ordered the workers to stop production and rest for four hours.
• A Gan and many other workers immediately fell asleep, and the squad leader cursed them before hurrying to another workshop.

Dusk Building’s factory directors discussed how to attack Mad King Building, while White Crow concealed his true information and fed them fabricated intelligence. As Dusk Building appeared on the horizon, Mad King Building’s residents prepared for a possible fight, and Fusheng Xi revealed three powerful Mad Vanguards he had created.

• Dusk Building’s factory directors debated how to weaken Mad King Building, and White Crow announced that it was a sixth-generation dormitory building.
• White Crow’s assistant said Mad King Building’s average resource level had reached thirteen to fifteen, and White Crow began sharing fabricated information to benefit himself.
• Dusk Building appeared on Mad King Building’s horizon, and Xu Ruyan and Cao Yaxuan watched it from the Tenth Floor corridor.
• Mad King Building’s leaders settled on killing a hundred opponents if they could win and hiding if they could not, while Wu Huihui opposed the plan and Pandora and Fusheng Xi supported it.
• Fusheng Xi showed three Mad Vanguards he had created from evil-seed players, and Xu Lang found that Scarlet Shepherd Lock could not plunder them.

The Mad King Building and Dusk Building merged into Community 7, bringing their safe zones and facilities together. Their leaders exchanged information about their players and recruitment systems, but both sides guarded their secrets as they began discussing cooperation.

• The two Dormitory Buildings fused, and their broadcasts announced the establishment of Community 7.
• Mad King Building Players crossed toward the boundary and met an unusually welcoming group of Dusk Building Players.
• Wu Peng silenced the Dusk Building workers and asked to speak with Mad King Building's leaders, Li Shuwen, Zhai Ren, and Zhang Sanfeng.
• Wu Peng revealed Dusk Building's player count, dormitory capacity, average seniority, and recruitment limits, then asked about Mad King Building's system and player attributes.
• Li Shuwen and Zhang Sanfeng gave guarded answers, and Li Shuwen privately grew wary of how carefully normal Dusk Building's friendliness seemed.

Xu Ruyan explored Dusk Building and was led into a trap at its puppet factory by a player seeking a reward from Lady Eight Feet. Zhang Dahai helped Xu Ruyan escape, but they ran into a strange woman whose mirror-like body trapped them both.

• Xu Ruyan explored Dusk Building's Supermarket, captured a player, and questioned him about its turrets and factories.
• The player led Xu Ruyan to the puppet factory, where he betrayed her to Lady Eight Feet in exchange for reduced working hours.
• Lady Eight Feet revealed that she had surrounded Xu Ruyan and demanded the black box the player had received from her.
• Zhang Dahai opened the workshop doors to help Xu Ruyan escape, and they fled through the factory while Xu Ruyan killed two pursuers.
• Xu Ruyan and Zhang Dahai entered an alley and were swallowed by a woman with misplaced facial features and a mirror-like body.

Xu Lang used the Baleful Demon Box to reach Xu Ruyan and Zhang Dahai in the Mirror World, where they were being hunted by Mirror Ghost. The box released Strange Tales to fend off the attackers, and Xu Ruyan and Zhang Dahai began to vanish from the Mirror World as White Crow watched.

• Xu Ruyan told the Dormitory 200 group chat that she and Zhang Dahai were trapped in the Mirror World and hunted by a mirror woman who kept reviving.
• Lady Eight Feet tried to destroy the Baleful Demon Box, but the Ghost of Gluttony cut her in half before the box vanished and returned to Xu Lang.
• Xu Lang sent the Baleful Demon Box to Xu Ruyan, where it emerged from her mouth, and told her and Zhang Dahai to let it lock onto them.
• White Crow gave Mirror Ghost stacked buffs and ordered her to kill Xu Ruyan and Zhang Dahai as Mirror Ghost projections closed in on them.
• The Baleful Demon Box released black rats, Red-Haired Grandmother and the Ghost of Gluttony; White Crow stopped Mirror Ghost as the box and the two trapped players began to fade away.

Xu Lang used the Magic Box to rescue Zhang Dahai and revealed that he had cursed most of Mad King Building’s residents so he could draw them into its world. As deaths mounted between Mad King Building and Dusk Building, a captured player warned Dusk Building’s managers that Mad King Building’s games were brutally difficult.

• Xu Lang explained that the Magic Box could pull cursed people into its world, admitted he had deliberately cursed most of Mad King Building, and made Zhang Dahai promise to keep it secret.
• Xu Lang, Xu Ruyan, and Zhang Dahai emerged from the Baleful Demon Box on the Tenth Floor, where Xu Xiaomeng reported another player’s death and the total fell to 1,001.
• Players from Mad King Building and Dusk Building killed each other across their boundary while Li Shuwen and Wu Peng allowed the violence to continue.
• Dusk Building’s factory managers questioned a captured Mad King Building player about the Share Honor and Disgrace trait and learned that nearly a hundred thousand monsters had attacked Mad King Building in the previous game.
• The captured player rejected Nurarihyon’s guess that the attackers were level 0 Skeleton Soldiers and said the foot soldiers had been at least level ten.

The Dusk Building directors questioned a captured Mad King Building player and learned that Xu Lang and Dormitory 200 might be the keys to conquering the Mad King Building. Meanwhile, Mad King Building residents slaughtered Dusk Building players to advance their community mission, bringing its progress to 80 kills.

• The directors verified that the Mad King Building had abundant level-ten equipment and heard that Xu Lang's powerful turrets might contain Mythic gems.
• Zhao Changsheng warned the other captured Mad King Building players not to provoke Nurarihyon or the Four-Eyed Director, and said the human director offered their best chance to survive.
• Nurarihyon and the Four-Eyed Director planned to verify the captured players' information before sending all ten directors to ambush Xu Lang, whom they saw as the real key to the Mad King Building.
• Mad King Building players killed three Dusk Building players with level-ten spears and found only weak work uniforms on their bodies.
• Mad King Building residents continued killing Dusk Building players to complete the community mission, raising its progress to 80 out of 100.

The Mad King Building players’ Sanity boost took effect, sending many into violent madness as the conflict with the Dusk Building escalated. Fusheng Xi attacked Wu Peng’s group, and Xu Lang watched as the fighting continued into dusk.

• Wu Peng and the factory managers sought information about Xu Lang, while Li Shuwen directed them to Dormitory 200.
• The system announced that the Mad King Building’s “Mad Reversal” community mission was complete and its Sanity boost had taken effect.
• Mad King Building players began laughing, crying, and harming themselves as they tried to lower their Sanity and gain power.
• Li Shuwen, Zheng Kai, and Zhai Ren withdrew with their groups, and Wu Peng prepared to leave with the Dusk Building players.
• Fusheng Xi attacked Wu Peng’s group with steel wire and demanded compensation and the return of the Seventh Floor players.
• Xu Lang watched from the Tenth Floor corridor as the fighting continued toward dusk.

Dusk Building surrounded Mad King Building with its monsters, soldiers, and players, demanding control of the community’s resources. Xu Lang realized the five factory chiefs were aiming to seize Mad King Building and turn it into a colony, with him as their main obstacle.

• Mad King Building’s players drove their Sanity down through torture and imagined suffering, and the number of Mad Vanguards rose to thirteen.
• Dusk Building sent a vast force of Soul-Devouring Monsters, Skeleton Soldiers, and players toward Mad King Building.
• Lady Eight Feet halted the army outside the building and announced that Dusk Building would take control of its community resources after six in the evening.
• Nurarihyon led players toward the Supermarket while Rama Ghost Bird blocked Mad King Building’s turret attacks.
• Xu Lang told Cao Yaxuan and the others that Dusk Building’s leaders planned to take over Mad King Building and make it a colony.

Xu Lang gathered the floor leaders and allies to discuss how to respond to the hostile Dusk Building, but thirteen Mad Vanguards charged into battle before the meeting began. As the guards mutated and revealed their potential for permanent growth, Nurarihyon demanded to learn everything about them.

• Xu Lang asked Wang Yazhi, Han Jisoo, and the others for their opinions, while Kui Zi advised waiting and Wu Huihui asked to speak with him.
• Aygul, Pandora, Zheng Kai, and other floor leaders arrived to discuss countermeasures, and Xu Lang proposed meeting in Yan Xiaoli's dorm room.
• Thirteen Mad Vanguards rushed toward the Dusk Building camp, prompting its players to celebrate and Lady Eight Feet to send Wu Peng to fight them.
• Three Mad Vanguards evolved during their battle with Wu Peng, and the captives identified one as Mad Vanguard One after seeing its new Rare skill.
• Nurarihyon questioned a Mad King Building captive about the guards, while Xu Lang reflected on their hidden ability to retain mutations after resurrection.

Xu Lang rejected Kui Zi’s plan to lead a group outside and declared that he would handle Dusk Building’s crisis from within the Dormitory Building. He promised to liberate Dusk Building’s players and asked the Mad King Building players to recognize him as their Building Lord.

• Thirteen Mad Vanguards were killed by Dusk Building players, and each evolved, but they failed to revive after three minutes.
• Kui Zi proposed blocking Dusk Building’s route home or attacking its Dormitory Building, while Gu Ya warned that the plan could lure the Mad King Building players outside and leave them vulnerable.
• Kui Zi argued that Xu Lang could secure their retreat and gain the most from reclaiming Dusk Building, then urged him to take a risk.
• Xu Lang declared that he would stay inside the Dormitory Building, resolve Dusk Building’s crisis, and liberate its players, asking everyone to call him Building Lord.
• Zheng Kai and the other Mad King Building players enthusiastically pledged their support for Xu Lang.

Xu Lang escaped Dusk Building’s surveillance and took the Baleful Demon Box into the Blood Mist World to upgrade it beyond the Dormitory Building’s rules. As the box began to absorb Nightmare Coins, the surrounding space shook, leaving the upgrade’s consequences unknown.

• News of Xu Lang’s plan to resolve Mad King Building’s predicament spread, and the factory directors ordered closer surveillance of Dormitory 200.
• White Crow discovered the Strange Tale curse’s black box in his own eyes and decided Xu Lang had to die to eliminate the curse at its source.
• Lady Eight Feet watched Xu Lang retrieve the Baleful Demon Box from the Tenth Floor and return, unaware that Raphael’s Cloak let him evade Dusk Building’s Players.
• Xu Lang entered the Blood Mist World and summoned Shepherded Souls to guard him while he prepared to upgrade the Baleful Demon Box.
• Xu Lang poured roughly ten thousand Nightmare Coins into the Baleful Demon Box, making it pulse and shake the surrounding space.