Chapter Summaries

Black Emperor captured Kui Zi and tried to study her, but Xu Ruyan and Wang Yazhi launched a counterattack. After Xu Ruyan destroyed a decoy, Kui Zi identified the real Black Emperor as a heavily armored robot, and Wang Yazhi fought it while Black Emperor’s fake body headed for the battlefield.

• Black Emperor defeated Kui Zi with his gravity gun and had military robots capture her alive.
• Kui Zi messaged Xu Lang and Dormitory 200, prompting Wang Yazhi and Xu Ruyan to go after the weakened Black Emperor; Xu Lang vetoed a judgment vote targeting him.
• Black Emperor pinned Kui Zi down and prepared to examine her, while Xu Ruyan’s dagger cut through his apparent body and severed its head.
• Kui Zi warned that the fight was not over, and Black Emperor revealed that the body Xu Ruyan had struck was a substitute before attacking her with gravity and a steel spear.
• Wang Yazhi broke through the robots’ encirclement, while Kui Zi blocked Black Emperor’s spear and revealed she had detected that his real body was the heavily armored robot Wang Yazhi was fighting.

Wang Yazhi killed Black Emperor’s main body, but his duplicate self-destructed after Xu Lang confronted him, leaving the remaining military robots in disarray. Xu Lang secured Black Emperor’s spoils and recruited Kui Zi as a tenant, while sensing that the seventh round still held a greater threat.

• Wang Yazhi used Rakshasa True Form and killed Black Emperor’s main body despite the robots and active gravity field.
• Kui Zi tried to recruit Black Emperor, but he rejected surrender and declared that his mechanical race would prevail.
• Xu Lang appeared and revealed knowledge of Black Emperor’s Spirit of the Data Sea, prompting Black Emperor to self-destruct after noticing the Strange Tales Magic Box replica.
• Xu Lang collected Black Emperor’s spoils while Wang Yazhi, Xu Ruyan, and Kui Zi dealt with the remaining military robots.
• Xu Lang offered Kui Zi a place as his tenant, and she agreed after he alluded to her lingering shame over kneeling at the Gymnasium.
• Xu Lang reflected that the seventh round was not over and sensed that something big was coming.

The Heart of Dawn unleashed Dawn City's mechanical army against the buildings after the engineers escaped. Xu Lang moved the players into the Strange Tales Magic Box World as their defenses collapsed, and the chapter ended with Pandora being evacuated after Witch's Home was breached.

• Dawn City shattered around the Safe Zone as fighter jets and other machines attacked the players with guided missiles.
• Players from Mad King Building and Dusk Building begged Xu Lang for help when their defenses failed.
• The Strange Tales Magic Box swallowed the Dusk Building players, and Xu Lang then moved the Mad King Building players into the Magic Box World.
• Xu Lang watched the mechanical army destroy dormitory doors and concluded that the Dungeon was impossible to clear without him.
• The army breached Pandora's Witch's Home, and the Strange Tales Magic Box swallowed Pandora and her luggage.

As the mechanical army overwhelmed the other dormitories and concentrated its fire on Dormitory 200, Xu Lang’s defenses faced an escalating resource crisis. He upgraded a Laser Ray Device into a Berserk Laser Ray Device, leaving the dormitory’s defenses stronger but the battle still ongoing.

• After the other dormitories fell, Xu Lang kept the Golden Fortune Auspicious Door repaired while the mechanical army’s attacks rapidly drained its durability.
• The mechanical army advanced on Mad King Building, and Xu Lang’s turrets fought back as their drops fueled the dormitory’s funding chain.
• Xu Xiaomeng warned that the Void Splitter’s raw materials were nearly exhausted, while Mary estimated the buildings’ shared funds would last about two and a half hours.
• Xu Lang upgraded a Laser Ray Device to Level 20 and chose the Berserk Laser Ray Device path.
• The upgraded turret fired thick red beams that melted a robot, demonstrating its increased firepower.

Xu Lang and the women used Machine Soul's Delightful Flame to repair their defenses and survived the mechanical assault, earning an unexpected S-rank event before the game rushed into its final act. When the King of Intelligent Machines appeared outside Mad King Building, Xu Lang went out to meet it with the women at his side.

• Cao Yaxuan discovered that burning robots produced Machine Soul's Delightful Flame, and the group found that it repaired mechanical facilities effectively.
• Xu Lang and the group sustained their turret defenses through the remaining monster attacks while Mad King Building's funds climbed toward nine figures.
• The Dormitory Survival Game ended Act Seven, announced Xu Lang's S-rank unexpected event, and began the final act, "Ultimate Answer," with the King of Intelligent Machines approaching.
• Xu Lang realized he lacked Nightmare Essence for Dream Simulation as booming footsteps announced the arrival of a gigantic robot whose appearance terrified the women.
• Xu Lang disabled the turrets and headed outside to meet the King of Intelligent Machines, while Cao Yaxuan and the others followed him.

King of Intelligent Machines confronted Xu Lang and the others with ten questions challenging humanity’s value and announced that their answers would determine its response. Xu Lang learned that the machine could react dynamically to their answers, but Lion Cub’s Truth Listening revealed that it intensely hated arrogant humans.

• King of Intelligent Machines approached Mad King Building and asked ten questions about humanity, including the unsolved Goldbach’s Conjecture.
• Wang Yazhi noticed that the ten questions might be connected to the ten scientists the group was protecting, while Xu Ruyan and Shirley warned Xu Lang not to hand them over or assume the machine would attack.
• Xu Lang used his detection methods and discovered that King of Intelligent Machines had prepared answers but would respond dynamically to the players’ replies, potentially destroying them or granting rewards.
• Lion Cub activated Truth Listening and told Xu Lang that King of Intelligent Machines intensely hated arrogant humans.

Xu Lang realized the King of Intelligent Machines was judging humanity through his answers, then used his performance and an answer to Goldbach's Conjecture to persuade it that humans deserved to survive. The King invited him to join the mechanical faction, but Xu Lang refused and stayed with Mad King Building.

• Xu Lang questioned his earlier approach and sent Cao Yaxuan and the other girls back to the dormitory before facing the King of Intelligent Machines alone.
• Xu Lang answered the King of Intelligent Machines' questions with answers that grew increasingly impressive, while the King found it could not predict his future.
• Xu Lang gave a nearly perfect answer to the tenth question, which the King recognized as a masterpiece and used to judge that humanity deserved to exist.
• The King of Intelligent Machines invited Xu Lang to join its mechanical faction as an Intelligent Machine Judge and leave Mad King Building with it.
• Xu Lang refused the invitation because he wanted to keep his secrets and remain with Mad King Building.

Xu Lang received a Dawn City pass and a Legendary weapon core from the King of Intelligent Machines before the seventh game ended. As Dusk Building began transforming after its players vanished, Mad King Building attacked it with a giant blood-red hand.

• The King of Intelligent Machines gave Xu Lang an advanced Dawn City pass and a level-fifty Overlord-Class Super Weapon Spirit Core, then left after discussing whether humans and mechanical lifeforms could coexist.
• The world plunged into darkness, and the Blood Mist returned as the survivors celebrated the end of the seventh round.
• Mad King Building announced that Dormitory 200 was its only remaining household and awarded Xu Lang and the residents Mythic titles.
• A terrifying howl came from Dusk Building, and Xu Lang realized its players' identities had disappeared even though Wu Huihui and the others remained safe in the Magic Box World.
• Dusk Building twisted and began transforming into a grotesque structure, prompting Mad King Building to unleash a twelve-fingered blood-red hand that seized it.

Xu Lang watched Mad King Building devour Dusk Building and grow dramatically stronger, then received a confidentiality mission about the building’s revealed hidden trait. The chapter ended with Mad King Building advancing to level 9 and announcing sweeping upgrades and new facilities.

• Xu Lang sent Mary and Miaoying to take the women back to their beds after the sight of Dusk Building’s bloody hand lowered their Sanity.
• Mad King Building drained and devoured Dusk Building, then grew from over a hundred meters tall to over two hundred meters.
• Mad King Building revealed its hidden trait, Deprivation, and Pioneer Hall issued Dormitory 200 a confidentiality mission.
• Red Butterfly protested the mission’s reward, and the reward increased to include two Dormitory Upgrade Attempts before everyone signed the agreement.
• Mary, Miaoying, and Firepower Princess said they had only witnessed the game ending after the King of Intelligent Machines left.
• Mad King Building announced that it had reached level 9, added ten floors and 200 dormitories, and upgraded several facilities and player privileges.

After the Mad King Building skipped ahead to Level Nine, Xu Lang and his tenants chose Chaotic Knowledge as its new trait and discovered they could not remove the Old God's Sequence Residue from their backpacks. Players stranded in Magic Box World then suffered irreversible Sanity loss until Xu Lang released them, and Cao Yaxuan hinted at a way to create Mad Vanguards.

• The Mad King Building reached Level Nine, and Xu Lang received rewards and a vote on its new dormitory trait.
• Cao Yaxuan proposed Chaotic Knowledge, and the tenants chose it; they also found the Old God's Sequence Residue stuck in their backpacks.
• Players trapped in Magic Box World discovered that their Sanity was falling irreversibly after their player identities vanished, and some began to go mad.
• After nearly thirty minutes of pleas, Xu Lang learned what was happening from Su Yuan, Zhou Ye, and the committee members, then released the players.
• The released players saw the transformed Mad King Building, and Cao Yaxuan said she had found a way to create Mad Vanguards.

After the Mad King Building gained ten floors and its dormitories reset to level 5, players fought over rooms and floors until the Inspection Department restored order. Xu Lang toured the upgraded facilities, delegated financial duties to Mary, and began discussing the group’s plans and attributes, while the chapter ended with Cao Yaxuan begging him to share his nearly five hundred points.

• Xu Lang announced the dormitory expansion, and players reclaimed their identities before fighting over newly available rooms and floors.
• Wang Yazhi led the Inspection Department in restoring order, while Cao Yaxuan helped by killing many players and gained around fifty free attribute points.
• Xu Lang and the others toured the upgraded Supermarket, Angel Church, and four factories, then gave Mary financial authority and postponed decisions about factory staffing.
• Cao Yaxuan and Wang Yazhi returned after the crackdown, and the group discussed player Sanity, clashed over the hardships of weaker players, and moved on to adding attribute points.
• Xu Lang revealed that his personal attributes were nearly five hundred and that he planned to hold off on spending points, prompting Cao Yaxuan to turn into ice and snow and plead for some.

Xu Lang met with the Mad King Community Committee to allocate vacant dormitories and settle requests for control of floors and resources. The discussion ended with Pandora appointed director of the Soul Factory, while the committee’s broader arrangements were finalized.

• Xu Lang agreed to discuss floor allocations after Zheng Kai, Wu Huihui, Li Shuwen, Su Yuan, Zhou Ye, and their subordinates arrived.
• Li Shuwen proposed taking over the Ninth Floor and switching it with the Twelfth Floor to coordinate with Floor 13.
• Wu Huihui asked to keep the Twentieth Floor unchanged while she managed the cafeteria.
• Pandora requested control of the Soul Factory, and Xu Lang gave her the factory key after Tong Qi declined the position.
• Xu Lang and the committee continued negotiating through the night and finally settled the allocation arrangements.

Xu Lang reorganized Mad King Building’s dormitory leadership, departments, and workforce, then assigned Mary to handle administrative matters with Miaoying assisting her. He brought Pandora back to the dormitory to discuss how workers would be paid, leaving her convinced she was being coerced.

• Xu Lang assigned the Tenth Floor to Su Yuan, Zhou Ye, and Wang Lie, awarded the Ninth Floor leadership to Li Xianzhou, and reserved the First through Sixth Floors for newcomers.
• Xu Lang announced that a Floor Leader could be replaced by another Mad King Community Committee member if they stepped down or died, and he reshuffled department and factory leaders while increasing bonuses for three departments.
• Xu Lang secretly assigned the southern Blood Mist World to Song Fei and left other exploration sites and material spawn points for players to contest.
• Xu Lang asked Aygul and Pandora to stay behind and questioned Pandora about how she would pay her workers.
• Xu Lang brought Pandora back to the dormitory, then told Mary to take charge of administrative matters and appointed Miaoying as her assistant.

Xu Lang upgraded his Data Obelisk in the Blood Mist World, where a blood-dressed woman attacked him and left him separated from Evil Fuzzball. After the woman vanished, Xu Lang found his dog unharmed in a tree hollow and picked it up.

• Xu Lang upgraded the Dormitory Building, then entered the Blood Mist World with Evil Fuzzball to enhance his Data Obelisk.
• A blood-dressed woman appeared behind Xu Lang and grazed his shoulder with her black finger as he escaped through the Black Vortex Gate.
• Xu Lang healed his wound in the Magic Box World and realized Evil Fuzzball was missing.
• The blood-dressed woman picked up Evil Fuzzball and left the dog inside a tree hollow before vanishing.
• Xu Lang found Evil Fuzzball in the hollow and picked the dog up.

Xu Lang discovered that activating the Data Obelisk brought him to five top-tier dormitories and let him inspect their features. After comparing them, he chose Demon King Castle for its large tenant capacity and many cannon emplacements.

• Xu Lang returned to Mad King Building with Evil Fuzzball and activated the Data Obelisk, which transformed the dormitory and transported him to a strange realm.
• The Dormitory Survival Game gave Xu Lang 30 minutes to test-stay in five dormitories before choosing one.
• Xu Lang used Nightmare Eye to examine Asura House, Demon King Castle, Old God Sanctum, the evolution dormitory, and Golden House, including their hidden functions.
• Xu Lang weighed each dormitory’s strengths and weaknesses and decided Demon King Castle best suited his plans.
• Xu Lang emerged from Demon King Castle satisfied with his choice.

Xu Lang’s level-ten dormitory mutated into the True Demon King Castle after absorbing the evolved Asura House dormitory and its remaining Source Essence. The transformation left him and his companions inside a two-floor fortress with eleven functional abilities, and Xu Lang still wondered what its newly unlocked facilities would do.

• Xu Lang’s evolved dormitory fused with the Demon King Castle, turning it into the True Demon King Castle and unlocking the Alchemy Workshop and True Attribute Dimension Elevation Device at later levels.
• Xu Lang returned to reality and reassured the women that he was safe after upgrading the dormitory to level ten.
• Xu Ruyan explained that the Data Obelisk had enabled the upgrade, and the group waited as the dormitory transformed for more than ten minutes.
• The former luxury apartment became a two-floor castle with eleven functional facilities, including a library, cultivation rooms, defensive features, and an Abyss Whisper Gate.
• After learning the castle’s abilities and upgrade attributes, Cao Yaxuan called it a super War Fortress.

Xu Lang considered Demon King Castle’s strength, welcomed new allies to Dormitory 400, and amassed nearly 630,000 Nightmare Coins. After discovering more victims of the Magic Box Curse, he strengthened its connection to Earth as a possible escape route from Dormitory Survival Game.

• Xu Lang argued that Demon King Castle would grow more powerful with upgrades, while Zhen Lu and the others noted its already exceptional strength and high level.
• Kui Zi, Aygul, White Sand, Golden Sand, Silver Sand, and other players arrived at Dormitory 400, and Rakshasa players prepared Bone Rock to lead the eleventh floor.
• Xu Lang’s dormitory generated 74,675 Nightmare Coins overnight, bringing his total to 629,930.
• Xu Lang found dozens of newly cursed doors in the Magic Box World, including one connected to Drought Demon Granny, and decided not to accelerate the curse’s spread yet.
• Wary of Mad King Building’s power and the dangers beyond it, Xu Lang summoned the cursed door connected to Earth and deepened its connection.

Xu Lang used the Overlord-Class Super Weapon Spirit Core to build an armory for his equipment while Kui Zi considered analyzing Black Emperor’s drops. He then revealed a lower-grade armory seed, catching Kui Zi’s attention again.

• A curse spread among people in the shelter, allowing Xu Lang to descend upon places where cursed people gathered.
• Xu Lang gave Kui Zi Black Emperor’s drops, including an intelligent chip and an anti-tank cannon blueprint, and she agreed to analyze them.
• Xu Lang activated the Overlord-Class Super Weapon Spirit Core and stored his main equipment in it to construct an armory.
• The armory began construction with an estimated completion time of seven days.
• Xu Lang took out a lower-grade armory seed, and Kui Zi stopped to look at it.

Xu Lang used a rare item to build an internal weapon arsenal and selected a coffee machine for Mad King Building. Meanwhile, Tulu and a Beast-Headed Swordsman arrived through the Gate of Ten Thousand Lies, each believing they had entered a different kind of door, and the chapter left them facing off as players realized Mad King Building had tricked them.

• Xu Lang refused to give Kui Zi an Elite-grade Super Martial Spirit Core until she showed him a more obedient attitude, then began building his arsenal with the item.
• Xu Lang chose a coffee machine as the Core Facility and watched the map as players gathered near Clear Sky University's main gate.
• Tulu arrived through a black-and-gold vortex gate, explained that a door had promised him power against the Ghost Warriors, and attacked Zheng Kai when the Inspection Department confronted him.
• The Gate of Ten Thousand Lies appeared, and a Beast-Headed Swordsman emerged with a dormitory key, saying he had entered the Door of Hope.
• Tulu realized he had been deceived and charged toward the gate, but the Beast-Headed Swordsman stopped him and urged him not to start a war.

Xu Lang allowed two monster players to settle in Mad King Building and learned about the Shadow Prison Radio Station. Fan Wujiu warned that a C-grade Blood Calamity would strike Titan Ruins in seven days and could grow stronger by consuming what it destroyed.

• Zheng Kai let Tulu and the Beast-Headed Swordsman move into Dormitories 20 and 18 under Xu Lang's orders.
• Xu Lang told Zheng Kai not to provoke the newcomers and told Su Yuan to send them the community rules.
• Xu Xiaomeng connected the group to the Shadow Prison Radio Station, where Fan Wujiu spoke with Xu Lang and the others.
• Fan Wujiu warned that a likely C-grade Blood Calamity would arrive in seven days and could grow as it destroyed buildings.
• Fan Wujiu explained that the calamity would threaten every Dormitory Building in Titan Ruins and grow stronger by consuming fallen buildings.