Chapter Summaries

Xu Lang traded Combat Drones to the Rainy Night Swordsman and Wanderer for rare items that could help suppress Sequence corruption. The Rainy Night Swordsman offered a crystal containing Time Power, while Wanderer revealed a Mystic Lord Jade Slip that might be restored through upgrading.

• The Rainy Night Swordsman and Wanderer arrived through the Strange Tales Magic Box and met Xu Lang, Mary, and Kui Zi.
• Kui Zi offered Level Twenty rare Combat Drones, and Xu Lang asked for specialty items instead of Copper Coins.
• The Rainy Night Swordsman traded a crystal containing Time Power for ten Combat Drones.
• Wanderer traded for seven Combat Drones after haggling, then asked to buy ten more.
• Wanderer showed Xu Lang a Mystic Lord Jade Slip that could suppress external evils, and Xu Lang wondered whether upgrading it could restore its lost true words.

Xu Lang recruited Rainy Night Swordsman and Wanderer into a secret alliance to share resources, information, and emergency support among their buildings. After they left, Xu Lang brought Kui Zi to study the wrecked Apocalypse Fighter and try to restore it.

• Xu Lang traded with Rainy Night Swordsman and offered him and Wanderer food and three additional drones each in exchange for their help fighting other dormitory buildings.
• Xu Lang proposed an alliance and a marketplace centered on the Strange Tales Magic Box, and Rainy Night Swordsman and Wanderer agreed to join while keeping it confidential.
• Rainy Night Swordsman and Wanderer discussed Zero's ambitions over the radio, and Wanderer offered to back Rainy Night Swordsman if Troop-Spawning Little Prince came after him.
• Xu Lang asked Kui Zi whether she could decipher a hundred-story robot, then revealed the wrecked Apocalypse Fighter and took her to examine it.
• Shirley and the others learned that Kui Zi and ten researchers had been assigned a secluded research area in the Magic Box World.

Calamity Frogs launched a massive assault on Mad King Building, assimilating the surroundings as the Mad Vanguards and combat drones tried to stop them. The Vanguards adapted into ranged fighters, but the frogs multiplied whenever a Vanguard died and eventually assimilated the Safe Zone, leaving the building in peril.

• The Residents' Committee warned players that Calamity Frogs were approaching and ordered them to leave the fighting to the Mad Vanguards.
• Wu Huihui, Nie Xiaozhu, and Wang Tingting watched the frogs multiply and assimilate the cafeteria, field, and nearby buildings.
• Li Shuwen and Zhu Yan observed the Mad Vanguards fighting the frogs and hoped the battle would produce a Tier 4 Vanguard.
• Xu Lang anticipated the attack and used the Mad Vanguards to probe the building's defenses, while five Combat Drones joined the fight.
• The Mad Vanguards killed many frogs, but more frogs appeared whenever a Vanguard died, and one Vanguard adapted into a ranged fighter.
• The frogs overwhelmed the defenders, assimilated the Safe Zone, and placed Mad King Building in peril.

Xu Lang’s decision to use the Calamity Frogs to strengthen the Mad Vanguards let the frogs spread across nearly every building, leaving the Mad King Building surrounded. As the building faced its greatest crisis, Xu Lang prepared to withdraw if it could no longer hold out.

• Zhou Ye reassured the residents that they were following Xu Lang’s orders, then pledged to fight for the Mad King Building after Xu Lang said he would stay until the end.
• Xu Lang told the others he would protect the Mad King Building but admitted he would withdraw if the situation became impossible, and explained that Kui Zi was researching weapons instead of making more drones.
• The Calamity Frogs’ attacks evolved nearly all the Mad Vanguards into their third stage and produced several fourth-stage Mad Vanguards.
• The Calamity Frogs overwhelmed the Mad Vanguards and Assimilated nearly every building outside a few special locations.
• The Calamity Frogs surged toward the Mad King Building, which remained steady as Xu Lang recognized it was facing the greatest crisis in its history.

Xu Lang faced the Calamity Frogs as the Mad King Building collapsed, but the building’s upgrade granted him a Golden Time-Reversal Clock. He used its power to turn back time and fight the frogs, leaving him inside the Demon King Castle as its lone defender.

• Xu Lang sent Tong Qi, Cao Yaxuan, the Evil Fuzzball, and the four little ones into the Strange Tales Magic Box while the Calamity Frogs wore down the Golden Fortune Auspicious Door.
• The Mad King Building collapsed, and Xu Lang prepared to leave after apologizing to the building and leaving it a pack of cigarettes.
• The Golden Time-Reversal Clock appeared as compensation for the building’s rank-transcending upgrade and reversed time, sending the Calamity Frogs out of the dormitory.
• Xu Lang hung the clock in the hall, realizing its binding to the dormitory gave him a reason to stay.
• Xu Lang opened the door and used the clock’s three minutes of invincibility to slash through the Calamity Frogs before closing the door and facing the remaining swarm alone.

Xu Lang annihilated the Calamity Frogs attacking Mad King Building, then released the building’s players and sent a Calamity Frog Faceless One into the Blood Mist World to investigate. The players regrouped in Demon King Castle as the bloody rain continued outside.

• Xu Lang chased down and killed every Calamity Frog in the safe zone, then complained that Mad King Building had not given him its resources sooner.
• Xu Lang repaired the Golden Fortune Auspicious Door and used the Strange Tales Magic Box to release all the players in Mad King Building.
• The players discovered the battle had destroyed most dormitory doors and turrets, causing nearly a hundred million copper coins in damage.
• Xu Lang sent a Calamity Frog Faceless One through a black vortex into the Blood Mist World to investigate the Calamity Frog horde.
• Tong Qi returned the four guardian spirits to their shrine, and Xu Lang gave them Faith Incense before everyone returned to Demon King Castle.

After returning to Demon King Castle, Xu Lang discussed the loss of Mad King Building Player status, ordered Firepower Princess to guard the second floor, and approved selling facilities to other Players. The residents examined the Golden Time-Reversal Clock and ended the day with the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society gathered in the main hall.

• Xu Lang confirmed that the former Mad King Building Players had lost their status and might suffer endlessly declining Sanity, while Firepower Princess reminded everyone that her group had no Sanity.
• Xu Lang ordered Firepower Princess and her group to guard the second floor and use drones to watch for Calamity Frogs, then approved selling facilities through the Trading Network.
• Shirley reasoned that the Golden Time-Reversal Clock showed the Blood Mist calendar date, which Cao Yaxuan identified as Blood Mist Calendar Year 93,333, June 23.
• Chi Qingman pointed out a mysterious symbol on the clock, and Shirley recorded its runes; no special event occurred at six o’clock, and the Safe Zone’s buildings were restored after the Calamity Frogs died.
• The Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society gathered in the main hall and discussed Xu Lang’s sponsorship of Wanderer and Rainy Night Swordsman and the extraordinary ability to meet across buildings.

Xu Lang arranged another round of trades with Rainy Night Swordsman and Wanderer, exchanging Transformation Cards for turrets. The chapter ended with Rainy Night Swordsman inspecting the single-use cards while Xu Lang held firm on their value.

• The Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society praised Xu Lang for his Calamity Frog intel, while Midnight Fiend Zero asked about trading supplies and was told the slots were full.
• Xu Lang warned the group to stay connected to the radio and arrange a lookout, then proposed trading facilities and asked Wanderer to bring turrets.
• After Xu Lang logged off, Rainy Night Swordsman and Wanderer kept the details of their trades secret from the others.
• Wanderer brought two level-twenty-five rare turrets and a level-thirty ordinary turret to the Magic Box world, while Rainy Night Swordsman brought a level-twenty-five uncommon turret.
• Mary presented ten Transformation Cards, and Xu Lang offered them in exchange for the four turrets.

Rainy Night Swordsman traded the Blade of Greed to Xu Lang for food after describing the cannibalistic horrors of the Starving Dead Building. Xu Lang offered to help kill one of Rainy Night Swordsman’s enemies, then revealed that killing people made him stronger, leaving Wanderer uneasy.

• Rainy Night Swordsman accepted three Transformation Cards and arranged to trade for food with Xu Lang and Wanderer.
• Mary and Wanderer listed the food they had gathered, and Rainy Night Swordsman explained that players in the Starving Dead Building grew stronger by eating people and even consuming facilities and items.
• Rainy Night Swordsman offered his Level 15 Epic saber, the Blade of Greed, in exchange for supplies, and Xu Lang accepted it.
• Xu Lang asked whether Rainy Night Swordsman had any Sequence Player enemies and offered to help kill one by lending him Ghost of Gluttony.
• Wanderer praised Xu Lang as a good person, but Xu Lang said that killing people made him stronger, prompting Wanderer to fall silent.

Xu Lang sent the Ghost of Gluttony into the Rainy Night Swordsman to help him fight an enemy tied to Starving Dead Building. Meanwhile, Li Mingqing faced a mass assault from Calamity Frogs and players during the Blood Calamity, leaving a battle for survival underway.

• Xu Lang explained that the Ghost of Gluttony had been cut into seven pieces and sealed in vessels, and the Rainy Night Swordsman asked whether Starving Dead Building would target him for opposing it.
• The Ghost of Gluttony entered the Rainy Night Swordsman's body, boosting his basic stats, and the Swordsman declared his trust in Xu Lang.
• Li Mingqing fought through Extermination Building, killed an attacking player with his Extinction Death Ray, and destroyed part of the Calamity Frog swarm.
• Players joined the Calamity Frogs in a pincer attack against Li Mingqing, charging into the blood rain as the battle began.

Xu Lang learned that the Mad King Building prohibited imported facilities but allowed his own, then considered using collected cultivation scrolls to develop a mental-power attribute for Shirley. After reviewing what he knew about primal and later sequences, he wondered whether to spend his hoarded Nightmare Coins to improve his own strength.

• Mary and Tong Qi told Xu Lang that the dormitory building rejected the imported facilities as contraband.
• Xu Lang explained that the Mad King Building strictly screened new residents' belongings, while his facilities were accepted because he was already part of the building.
• Tong Qi asked whether Xu Lang was preparing special attributes for Zhen Lu and the others, and he said Shirley wanted one related to mental power.
• Xu Lang explained his and Shirley's deductions about primal sequences, later sequences, and the danger of meeting fellow players on the same later-sequence path.
• Xu Lang considered fusing seven mental-power cultivation scrolls for Shirley and wondered whether to spend his hoarded Nightmare Coins to strengthen himself.

Xu Lang upgraded the Pure Yang Immortal-Seeking Art into the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art, gaining a skill that improved his physique and spirit while randomly upgrading skills. After adapting to its dangerous flood of wisdom, he turned to refining facilities and resumed Dream Simulation to prepare for the Blood Calamity.

• Xu Lang used Tong Qi’s luck while spending Nightmare Coins to upgrade the Pure Yang Immortal-Seeking Art to Level 15.
• Xu Lang chose the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art over the Pure Yang Limitless Heart Sutra and Mystic Realm Visualization Method.
• Xu Lang’s Pure Yang True Qi transformed into Mysterious Female True Qi, and he discovered that the new art could randomly upgrade all skills, including Blood Pact skills.
• Xu Lang cultivated the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art and endured wisdom that seemed to hunt and overwhelm him before learning to filter it.
• Xu Lang began refining facilities, gathered enough Nightmare Essence, and started Dream Simulation again to prepare for the Blood Calamity.

Xu Lang used simulations to discover that frog eggs in the blood rain would hatch into monsters attacking Mad King Building, then warned its residents to prepare. The chapter left a player struggling through a terrifying nightmare as fear of Demon King Castle’s envoys spread.

• Xu Lang simulated an earlier point in the Crimson End and found frog eggs in the bloodwater that would hatch into monsters.
• Xu Lang killed a clan of pig-headed men with precisely controlled Blood Blades and Chain Judgment.
• After several simulations drained his Nightmare Essence, Xu Lang fused mental power cultivation scrolls into a Mythic-grade technique.
• Xu Lang told Zhi Dong to alert Xiao Ji to clear the frog eggs and warn Zhou Ye and the others about the coming attack.
• Zhi Dong informed the Mad King Building players, while a long-haired man tried to wake a bald player suffering from a nightmare about a human-headed white horse.

Dream White Horse’s nightmare left him near-insane, but he gained another top-tier skill before his subordinate calmed him with a lollipop and warned him about the coming monster attack. At six in the morning, Frog Monsters assaulted Mad King Building, whose residents used its turrets to fight them off as Li Shuwen went out to confront an Elite Frog Monster.

• Dream White Horse woke from a nightmare with only 13 Sanity, celebrated gaining a top-tier skill, and ate a lollipop when his long-haired subordinate intervened.
• The long-haired man told Dream White Horse that the Residents' Committee had announced a monster attack that night.
• Mad King Building broadcast information about Frog Monsters as the surviving eggs hatched and the creatures attacked the building.
• Sword Saint and Tulu directed the turret defense, killing Frog Monsters that entered the corridors.
• Zhu Yan spotted an Elite Frog Monster in Dormitory 249, and Li Shuwen reassured Li Wenwen before opening the door and stepping outside.

Li Shuwen used his Nightmare Apostle powers to defeat a Frog Monster while Xu Lang chose to leave the night’s monsters to other players and sleep. The next morning, Xu Lang discovered his meditation art had greatly increased his attributes and skills, while Shirley and Gu Ya went to check the Golden Time-Reversal Clock.

• Li Shuwen wielded lightning in the corridor to weaken a Frog Monster, and the turrets finished it off.
• Xu Lang decided not to wear the Black Crown and left the Frog Monsters to other players so he could sleep peacefully.
• The next morning, Xu Lang checked the Golden Time-Reversal Clock and found it showed June 24th and the Blood Mist World’s history, as Shirley had guessed.
• Xu Lang reviewed his overnight gains: the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art upgraded several skills, increased his Physique and Spirit to 820, and raised his Ghost God Power to 450.
• Shirley and Gu Ya woke and went to inspect the Golden Time-Reversal Clock to verify Shirley’s theory.

As blood rain continued to flood the Titan Ruins, Xu Lang reassured the girls that Mad King Building remained safe as long as it did not cooperate with the Blood Calamity. He then called for several Mad King Building creators to help process the Frog Monster corpses.

• Wang Yazhi saw that the blood rain was intensifying, and the girls worried that flooding might reach Mad King Building.
• The girls asked Xu Lang about the danger, and he confirmed that parts of the Titan Ruins were already flooded but said the dormitory was currently safe.
• Xu Lang told the girls that the Blood Calamity posed little risk unless Mad King Building joined forces with it.
• Gu Ya volunteered to tell Zhou Ye and the other ordinary players to prepare, while Red Butterfly teased the group about running out of food.
• Xu Lang asked Tong Qi to summon Zhang Shu, Luo Lin, Li Wenwen, and Sheng Qi so they could work out how to process the Frog Monster corpses.

Xu Lang gathered Zhang Shu, Luo Lin, Li Wenwen, and Sheng Qi to turn the Frog Monster corpses into useful resources, assigning each a crafting task and naming Sheng Qi Floor Leader of Floor 16. After the others left, Xu Lang took Luo Lin’s latest Demigod Potion, gained a warning skill, and considered how much work still depended on him.

• Xu Lang met with Zhang Shu, Luo Lin, Li Wenwen, and Sheng Qi at Demon King Castle to organize the processing of Frog Monster corpses.
• Zhang Shu offered to study the monsters, Luo Lin described three items she could make, and Li Wenwen agreed to design weapons from frog tongues.
• Xu Lang arranged for Li Wenwen to receive the frog tongues for weapon production and directed Sheng Qi to collect the hides from Zhou Ye and the others.
• Xu Lang named Sheng Qi Floor Leader of Floor 16, and Sheng Qi gratefully accepted.
• After dismissing everyone else, Xu Lang asked Luo Lin for her latest Demigod Potion and gained 20 spirit, 20 physique, and the Danger Premonition skill.
• Xu Lang considered rewarding Luo Lin as he reflected on the many responsibilities keeping him from lying flat.

The Residents' Committee turned frog monster remains into a profitable industry, while Chen Weilong secretly received an Epic mission from the Mad King Building to kill Xu Lang. He recruited Zhao Changgeng into the plot after using the Eye of Mora to put Zhao's Magic Box Curse to sleep.

• Sheng Qi discovered frog monster skin could make rainproof gear, and Wu Huihui found that treated frog meat was edible.
• Players flocked to gather and process frog monsters, enriching Sheng Qi and the Residents' Committee, which bought corpses and recruited manufacturers.
• Chen Weilong complained that Haozi had been forcibly conscripted and said Xu Lang's power kept them under his shadow.
• Chen Weilong used the Eye of Mora to hypnotize Zhao Changgeng's Magic Box Curse, making it report only politically correct information to Xu Lang.
• Chen Weilong revealed that the Mad King Building had assigned him the Epic mission 'Kill the Cheater' and given him the Eye of Mora in advance.
• Zhao Changgeng embraced Chen Weilong's plan to bring down Xu Lang and agreed to lie low while they prepared.

Green Shadow accepted an Epic quest to kill Xu Lang after Mad King Building offered powerful rewards, though she worried she could not complete it alone. On the Sixth Floor, Snake Lord joined a group to help secure supplies, but they betrayed him and triggered the deadly power in his eye.

• Green Shadow accepted the quest to kill Xu Lang in exchange for You're Fired, a Heaven Building Invitation, an Eye of Mora, and further rewards under review.
• Green Shadow considered recruiting a brother and sister with an instant-death skill, Nether Shadow and others, and Hunter Building players to help her kill Xu Lang.
• Auntie Zhou persuaded Snake Lord to help the Sixth Floor group attack a Blood Mist Creature supply point by promising his sister Snake Flower half a month of Lesser Holy Spring Water.
• Snake Lord fought through the pig-headed defenders and helped the group take over the Art Building.
• Auntie Zhou and the others betrayed Snake Lord, planning to kill him and exploit Snake Flower, but a golden claw emerged from his left eye and killed everyone nearby.
• Snake Lord recovered an Eye of Mora from his palm and declared that everyone there deserved to die.

Xu Lang watched the Blood Mist Creatures gather in the flooded Titan Ruins while enjoying a massage at Demon King Castle. Through the Strange Tales Magic Box, he warned the giant away from a dangerous tower and named him Gray Giant, his first lookout in the ruins.

• More Blood Mist Creatures sought higher ground in the Safe Zone, and Frog Monsters appeared in the Titan Ruins.
• Chi Qingman, Zhi Chun, and Zhi Xia massaged Xu Lang while he watched the live feed from the ruins.
• Gray Giant ran from the growing Frog Monster horde and nearly entered a thousand-meter tower that alarmed Xu Lang's Sixth Sense.
• The Strange Tales Magic Box warned Gray Giant away from the tower, and Xu Lang named him Gray Giant and his first lookout in the Titan Ruins.
• Gray Giant followed the Magic Box's warnings until he found a safe place to hide, while Xu Lang used Strange Tales to patrol the Safe Zone's perimeter.