Chapter Summaries

On the fifth day of Crimson End, Xu Lang saved his Nightmare Essence instead of running a Simulation, then cultivated until Martial God reached level 20 and unlocked a devastating blade technique. Meanwhile, high-level Frog Monsters began attacking Mad King Building, and Fusheng Xi appeared to help fight them.

• Xu Lang reviewed his gains, kept his Nightmare Coins instead of upgrading Mind-Shattering Demon Eye, and decided that future skill fusions would shape his core skill pool.
• After Chi Qingman coaxed him out of bed, Xu Lang trained in the Magic Box world and advanced Martial God to level 20, unlocking Blood Qi: Mountain-Crushing Earth-Sundering Slash.
• Xu Lang learned from the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society that high-level Frog Monsters were appearing in other dormitory buildings.
• Frog Monsters flooded Mad King Building's safe zone, while the Mad Vanguard and players on the higher floors fought them back as rising water reached waist height.
• Fusheng Xi, surrounded by strangely dressed players from the seventeenth floor, harpooned a Frog Monster from the seventh-floor railing.

Green Shadow asked Fusheng Xi how to become a Floor Leader, then disappeared, while Fusheng Xi decided not to tell Xu Lang about her apparent challenge. Later, Xu Lang visited Tao Tao and agreed that Yan Xiaoli and Jiang Xiaowen could move into Luo Lin’s dormitory before carrying the sleeping child to bed.

• Green Shadow watched Fusheng Xi harvest Frog Monsters and asked how to become a Floor Leader, and he told her to defeat the Seventh Floor players and contribute to Demon King Castle.
• Green Shadow vanished after a Seventeenth Floor player challenged her disrespectful manner, and Fusheng Xi chose not to report her intentions to Xu Lang.
• Wang Yazhi returned to the Twentieth Floor and promised Tao Tao she would try to bring Xu Lang to visit.
• Xu Lang came to Dormitory 399, where Tao Tao greeted him and Luo Lin asked to have Yan Xiaoli and Jiang Xiaowen move in as roommates.
• Xu Lang approved the move, then carried the sleeping Tao Tao into the bedroom and said goodbye to Luo Lin.

Xu Lang entered the Fusion Dreamscape to reorganize his extensive skill library and plan how to spend one hundred Fusion opportunities. After considering the roles of his tenants and mapping out new skill paths, he reduced his library to twenty-five skills, leaving his revised build ready for future growth.

• Xu Lang reviewed his attributes, talents, and more than forty skills, deciding not to pursue healing, crafting, or exploration because his tenants could handle those roles.
• Xu Lang sorted nearly a thousand skill scrolls and planned skill trees for intimidation, eye techniques, burst damage, perception, electromagnetic control, blade combat, healing, spells, sealing, boxing, and kicking.
• Xu Lang paused to practice the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art before continuing his planning later in the night.
• Xu Lang finalized his skill paths, keeping seven skills unchanged and altering the rest.
• Xu Lang reduced his skill library to twenty-five skills across training, combat, general, support, and knowledge categories.

Xu Lang reviewed the powerful skills and attributes he had gained through fusion, then woke to find his Nightmare Coin fortune had grown to more than 829,000. Meanwhile, Louse Bugs spread through the bloodwater and threatened the dormitories, forcing the residents of Dormitory 17 to consider drastic defenses.

• Xu Lang examined his new Legendary and Epic skills, including Martial Saint's Flash Kick and Electromagnetic Force Control, and went to sleep feeling well-equipped.
• Xu Lang woke on the sixth day of the Blood Calamity with 829,624 Nightmare Coins and improved attributes from his overnight skill harvest.
• Wang Yazhi and the others left to support other floors as bloodwater submerged the building's bottom five floors and Louse Bugs began draining structures' durability.
• A female tenant in Dormitory 17 asked the thick-browed landlord what to do about the growing number of Louse Bugs outside their door.
• The thick-browed landlord ordered Xiao Li to use the Ice Cannon if the bugs grew denser, then told the residents to borrow resources from other floors.

Hu Laosi’s dorm faced repeated attacks from a regenerating Frog Monster until Sword Saint arrived and drove the creatures back. As players across the lower floors organized hunts for Frog Monsters and cleared Louse Bugs, Bai Wuya prepared the Twelfth Floor team to enter the blood river with Medicine Pearl’s healing support.

• Hu Laosi struggled to defend his dorm from a red-skinned Frog Monster that healed after each turret barrage, and he called for help.
• Sword Saint arrived, killed the regenerating Frog Monster in a short fight, then drove off other Frog Monsters while players cleared Louse Bugs.
• Players from below the Sixth Floor and hired mercenaries organized teams to clear Louse Bugs and hunt Frog Monsters in the rising bloodwater.
• Bai Wuya prepared the Twelfth Floor players to enter the water with frogskin raincoats and spears, while Medicine Pearl warned that she might raise her prices.
• Medicine Pearl’s Mythic-grade purification spell and healing abilities helped the Twelfth Floor, though skilled newcomers remained unnoticed beneath Demon King Castle’s shadow.

Li Shuwen and the other Floor Leaders led players underwater to kill Louse Bugs and Frog Monsters as the bloody flood threatened Mad King Building. After seven players died and the creatures were driven back, rising water prompted Wu Man to recruit Snake Lord for a plan to seize rooms on higher floors.

• Cao Yaxuan questioned the players about underwater dangers, then allowed Li Shuwen and more than a hundred players to enter the water in teams.
• The players killed many Louse Bugs and Frog Monsters, but seven of them died before the survivors returned.
• Players worried that the bloody water would soon submerge Mad King Building and began arguing over shelter on higher floors.
• Wu Man visited Snake Lord in Room 118 and proposed forming a group to take rooms by force, targeting the Nineteenth and Fifteenth Floors.
• Snake Lord hesitated because Pandora directed the Puppet Factory and might be close to Xu Lang, but Wu Man mocked his belief that anyone in Mad King Building was good.

As the blood rain flooded Mad King Building and new Louse Bugs threatened players, Xu Lang spent the day studying immortals with Shirley and reassured Demon King Castle that the disaster would end soon. After dinner, he strengthened the Strange Tales Magic Box’s connection to Earth, leaving Zhang Liang terrified after a nightmare of Purgatory.

• The water rose to the seventh floor, deadly Louse Bugs emerged from the blood river, and Xu Lang used a Strange Tale to remove parasites from players.
• Shirley showed Xu Lang a book about different kinds of immortals, and Xu Lang questioned whether they were the higher-dimensional beings described by the game.
• Cao Yaxuan warned that Mad King Building would be submerged by morning, while Xu Lang said the blood rain would not last more than ten days.
• Xu Lang entered the depths of the Magic Box World and used Urban Legend Power to strengthen the curse connecting a Vortex Gate to Earth.
• Zhang Liang woke from a nightmare of being swallowed by the black box and went outside his dormitory to escape his fear.

A shared dream of a black box revealed that the Magic Box Curse was spreading through the shelter, with Zhang Liang becoming its most deeply affected victim. Meanwhile, Xu Lang returned to the Mad King Building during a blood-rain catastrophe and warned its players not to disturb the dried human corpses drifting past, which belonged to the Human Ancestor’s guards.

• The female doctor and researchers discovered that they had all dreamed about a black box, and soldiers arrived as they suspected a contagious Transcendent incident.
• Zhang Liang realized he was smiling against his will, heard himself speak in a strange voice, and felt the Magic Box Curse intensify.
• Xu Lang gained a clearer connection to Zhang Liang, then received the Mad King Building’s warning about deadly corpses drifting down the blood river.
• Xu Lang returned to the Mad King Building, where Wang Yazhi and the others watched dried corpses float past the flooded Safe Zone.
• Xu Lang identified the corpses as guards of the Human Ancestor and ordered the players to stop attacking them.

Xu Lang warned everyone not to attack the floating corpses, then comforted Pandora after her puppet factory flooded and agreed to attend Golden Dawn’s meeting. Pandora returned to Nineteenth Floor, while Xu Lang explained he had not made her a tenant because she was not charming enough for him.

• Xu Lang warned the players that attacking the floating corpses would attract a greater threat, and they stopped fighting them.
• Pandora told Xu Lang that blood rain had flooded her factory, and he reassured her that it could reopen after the calamity passed.
• Pandora invited Xu Lang to Golden Dawn’s meeting at ten, and he agreed to come to her place.
• Xu Lang tossed Killer Bear outside, then used his magnetic power to bring him back unharmed and teased Pandora about the bear’s fake fear of blood.
• Cao Yaxuan asked why Xu Lang had not made Pandora a tenant, and he said she simply was not charming enough to tempt him.

On June 27, the blood flood submerged the Mad King Building while Xu Lang spent the morning with Xu Ruyan and Han Jisoo. At the Starving Dead Building, Barren Mountain overwhelmed the Rainy Night Swordsman and began draining his life force.

• The blood rain submerged the Mad King Building, though its rules kept the water off the balconies, and Xu Lang watched the flood from safety.
• Han Jisoo flirted with Xu Lang before Zhen Lu interrupted; Xu Lang recognized that she was actually Xu Ruyan using her Thousand Faces ability and took both women away.
• At the Starving Dead Building, the Rainy Night Swordsman used the flood to provoke a battle over the top floors, but Barren Mountain controlled the Twentieth Floor.
• Barren Mountain, whose Sequence was C-40 "Vajra Strongman," struck the Rainy Night Swordsman hard enough to scatter his flesh and bones, but the swordsman regenerated unharmed.
• Barren Mountain charged again, grabbed the Rainy Night Swordsman, and rapidly drained his body until it began to wither.

The red Ghost of Gluttony emerged from Rainy Night Swordsman and fought Barren Mountain, who was protected by the Black Ghost of Gluttony. With Xu Lang granting him authority, the red Ghost of Gluttony devoured Barren Mountain and regained his full power, then prepared to explore what lay beneath Starving Dead Building.

• Rainy Night Swordsman drew out the red Ghost of Gluttony, who attacked Barren Mountain and discovered the Black Ghost of Gluttony inside him.
• Barren Mountain and the Black Ghost of Gluttony resisted the red Ghost of Gluttony, but the red Ghost grew stronger as they fought.
• The red Ghost of Gluttony called on Xu Lang for authority, and Xu Lang opened Gluttony Purgatory and sent its power and Strange Tales to aid him.
• The red Ghost of Gluttony smashed into Barren Mountain's dormitory, dragged him out, and swallowed him before the Black Ghost could escape.
• The red Ghost of Gluttony became whole again, and Xu Lang agreed to let him explore the building after withdrawing the power of Gluttony Purgatory.

The Dormitory Building’s anti-invasion protocol destroyed the Ghost of Gluttony and purged the curse from the Rainy Night Swordsman, who faced death amid a revolt by the Starving Dead Building players. In Gluttony Purgatory, Xu Lang revived the Ghost of Gluttony and considered whether the Rainy Night Swordsman would return as a player after he came back to life.

• The Dormitory Building’s golden chest released a radiance that erased the Ghost of Gluttony and freed the Rainy Night Swordsman from the Magic Box Curse.
• The chest’s opener gained three hundred attribute points, and he urged the players to kill the Rainy Night Swordsman for a reward; tenants argued over whether to protect Ye Qiu.
• The Rainy Night Swordsman asked Empty to kill him and whispered that he would come back to life.
• In Gluttony Purgatory, Xu Lang used the Ghost of Gluttony’s hidden arm to revive him while the Scarlet Shepherd Lock drained Barren Mountain.
• The Ghost of Gluttony asked Xu Lang what a Dormitory Building was, and Xu Lang wondered whether the revived Rainy Night Swordsman would still be a player.

Xu Lang recovered a complete Vajra Strongman sequence crystal from Starving Dead Building and considered how to use it without losing control. He left Gluttony Purgatory with the crystal sealed away, intent on finding a way to safely become a dual-sequence bearer.

• Xu Lang told the Ghost of Gluttony that sending him to Starving Dead Building had also been a test, and the Ghost thanked him for saving him.
• Xu Lang used the Scarlet Shepherd Lock to extract a Vajra Strongman sequence crystal while leaving the black human skin intact for the Ghost of Gluttony to eat.
• After eating, the Ghost of Gluttony said he needed to sleep for a day, while Xu Lang examined the crystal and realized it contained the full sequence.
• Xu Lang planned to hunt sequence bearers and use their crystals promptly, but decided he needed a sequence suppressant before risking the Vajra Strongman sequence.
• Xu Lang sealed the sequence crystal in a box and left Gluttony Purgatory.

Golden Dawn discussed the Witch’s Magic Box and Li Mingqing’s authority over information before he explained that authorities were godlike powers that could transcend the game’s rules. The meeting ended with Li Mingqing warning that players who relied on dormitory shelters would eventually be consumed.

• Xu Lang learned that the Protagonist was a new Golden Dawn administrator, and the group discussed their encounters during the Blood Calamity.
• Pandora offered the Young Lord information about his Lamplighter sequence, which she had obtained through a Magic Box in her dormitory.
• Li Mingqing joined the meeting, and Xu Lang helped Pandora stay calm when Li Mingqing guessed her dormitory was called Witch’s Home.
• Li Mingqing explained that authorities embodied rules, formed part of divinity, and were one of two known powers that transcended the game’s rules.
• Li Mingqing warned that players who relied on dormitory buildings would eventually be swallowed by the Blood Mist World.

Li Mingqing told the administrators that a tornado carrying an authority would appear in Titan Dragon City in three days and asked two people to help seize it. Though the others claimed they would stay behind, Xu Lang suspected someone would go and privately hinted to Pandora that he might reveal his own decision.

• Li Mingqing announced the tornado and authority in Titan Dragon City, then logged off without explaining how the authority would be divided.
• Young Master, Peerless Under Heaven, and Pandora said they would not go, citing danger, distance, and their responsibilities to their buildings.
• At Witch's Home, Xu Lang told Pandora that Li Mingqing was unlikely to make an empty threat and that at least one person would go.
• Xu Lang asked Pandora to lock Killer Bear in the cabinet before he told her whether he would go.

Xu Lang revived Rainy Night Swordsman as a Nightmare Apostle, but learned that the Starving Dead Building still recognized him as a player and room owner. He then watched the Faceless Ones' Calamity Frog receive a reward from the Emperor-Class Calamity Frog Emperor before cutting off his vision to avoid the danger.

• Xu Lang revived Rainy Night Swordsman in the Dream Court and introduced him to Li Shuwen, Wu Huihui, and Fusheng Xi.
• Fusheng Xi brought Rainy Night Swordsman from the bloody water into Dormitory 333 and offered to make him a tenant.
• Rainy Night Swordsman told Fusheng Xi that the Starving Dead Building had reactivated his player number and compensated him, prompting Fusheng Xi to report the discovery to Xu Lang.
• Xu Lang reviewed his latest gains and considered investigating the floating corpses outside Mad King Building, but decided against it.
• Xu Lang saw the Calamity Frog Emperor reward the Faceless Ones' Calamity Frog and identified the giant frog as an Emperor-Class lifeform connected to the Crimson End.
• Xu Lang cut off his shared vision with the Faceless Ones' Calamity Frog after recognizing the danger of approaching the Calamity Frog Emperor.

Xu Lang directed the Gray Giant toward Titan Dragon City while experimenting with Fusion in Demon King Castle. He created Fallen Dragon Blood and several powerful items, then kept some for himself and planned to share others with Wang Yazhi and the other women.

• Xu Lang saw the scarlet flood rising to the Gray Giant's knees and directed him toward Titan Dragon City using Li Mingqing's information.
• Xu Lang fused the False Evil God Heart with Zombie King's Blood Essence to create Darkest Evil Blood, then combined it with Altered Dragon Blood to make Fallen Dragon Blood.
• Xu Lang learned that consuming Fallen Dragon Blood near death and emptying his mind could help him digest its negative energy, but he postponed using it.
• Xu Lang fused Dragon-Snake Wine with a Rebirth Pill, Evolution Serum with Golden Revolution, and a Substitute Doll with a Cursed Puppet.
• Xu Lang kept the Peerless Wine, Life Number One, and Undead Scarecrow for himself and planned to give other Fusion products to Wang Yazhi and the other women.

During the Blood Calamity, Xu Lang learned that Guo Wanqiu had found a mysterious coffin and used his powers to take control of her body when its occupant awakened. He met the Human Ancestor, who offered him three gifts in exchange for shelter, and Xu Lang negotiated to trade supplies for all three.

• Cao Yaxuan told Xu Lang that Guo Wanqiu had found a rare item and wanted a high-level puppet to investigate a mysterious coffin.
• Guo Wanqiu approached the coffin, and the Human Ancestor awakened and examined her; Xu Lang then took control of her body through his abilities.
• Xu Lang questioned the Human Ancestor, who said his world had perished in a cataclysm and that he sought a way for humanity to endure.
• The Human Ancestor offered Xu Lang three gifts in return for letting him and his companions stay in Mad King Building.
• Xu Lang asked for all three gifts and proposed trading supplies for them, and the Human Ancestor agreed.

Xu Lang received three powerful Human Ancestor rings, then entered his Rakshasa True Form before adding the Fallen Dragonkin Blood Pact. The two Blood Pacts began clashing inside him, but he calmed their powers and remained in control.

• The Human Ancestor gave Xu Lang three percentage-boosting rings and returned to sleep, while Guo Wanqiu kept the encounter secret from her roommates.
• Xu Lang placed the Human Ancestor rings in storage, then used Peerless Wine and Life Number One in the cultivation room to strengthen himself.
• Xu Lang transformed into the monstrous Rakshasa True Form granted by his Blood Rakshasa Blood Pact and admired his new body.
• Xu Lang pressed Fallen Dragon Blood into his chest, forming a second Blood Pact as its negative energy and the clashing powers injured him.
• Xu Lang sat down, steadied the Blood Rakshasa and Fallen Dragonkin powers, and brought them under control.

Xu Lang fused his Blood Pacts into the Dragonblood Rakshasa and unleashed its power. He hunted down the players who had disobeyed his order to stay inside Mad King Building, including Chen Weilong.

• Xu Lang fused the Mythic Blood Rakshasa and another Blood Pact into the EX-level Dragonblood Rakshasa Blood Pact.
• Xu Lang transformed and discovered that the Blood Pact’s Killing Engine could reshape his body for battle.
• Chen Weilong and other players who had left Mad King Building encountered a monster in a cafeteria and were overwhelmed by Xu Lang’s approaching aura.
• Xu Lang arrived in his armored Dragonblood Rakshasa form and tore apart Chen Weilong, the other players, and the monster.
• Xu Lang continued hunting players outside Mad King Building, absorbing their souls into the Purgatory Set.