Chapter Summaries

Xu Lang returned to Demon King Castle after killing the players who had disobeyed orders, and his Dragonblood Rakshasa evolution stopped when no enemies remained. The next morning, he celebrated his growing strength and discovered Chi Qingman and the Sand sisters had stayed up listening to romance novels on a smartphone.

• Xu Lang explained that he had hunted the players because they had ignored his and the Human Ancestor's order not to disturb the mummified corpses, then returned to Demon King Castle rather than venture out again.
• Xu Lang checked his gains the next morning and found that his Nightmare Coins had exceeded one million and his Constitution and Spirit had surpassed a thousand.
• Xu Lang heard an audiobook beneath the blanket and learned that Chi Qingman had bought a smartphone containing ten thousand novels from Tingting's trading network.
• Golden Sand, Silver Sand, and White Sand admitted they had listened to novels with Chi Qingman all night, and Chi Qingman blushed as she said one protagonist reminded her of Xu Lang.
• Xu Lang returned the phone to Chi Qingman and promised to have Kui Zi make phones for the others, then asked Chi Qingman to help him investigate his restlessness since the Blood Pact's update.

Mad King Building asked players to donate as the Crimson End’s Blood Calamity laws peaked, and Xu Lang’s donation helped the building resist every law. As the crisis eased, Xu Lang’s group studied building wars in preparation for the tenth round while the Gray Giant continued toward Titan Dragon City through a land of newly emerged colossal creatures.

• Xu Lang had Demon King Castle donate several hundred million Copper Coins, and Mad King Building announced that it had resisted the plague, extreme cold, and darkness laws.
• Demon King Castle won the Helping Hand title, which let its members teleport back to their dormitory from the Safe Zone once per day.
• Xu Lang recalled how the Blood Calamity laws had driven creatures in the Titan Ruins into uncontrollable hunger and recognized that Mad King Building had protected its residents.
• Xu Lang gathered the women of Demon King Castle to study Shirley’s research on thirty-six building wars in preparation for the tenth round’s promotion match.
• Xu Lang sent the Gray Giant onward toward Titan Dragon City as Strange Tales Magic Box fed it, and they encountered enormous creatures emerging amid the upheaval in the Titan Ruins.

On the ninth day of Crimson End, Xu Lang enjoyed the gains from a night of cultivation while his tenants pursued their own work and training. He began strengthening Red Butterfly, hoping to prepare her for the coming effort to seize the authority.

• Xu Lang checked that Mysterious Lord Meditation Art had raised his core skills and that his Nightmare Coin total had surpassed 1.2 million.
• Xu Lang discussed Rainy Night Swordsman's continued absence from Starving Dead Building and said he planned to rest while the authority appeared in Titan Dragon City.
• Miaoying and Mary woke beside Xu Lang, and the tenants soon began their research, training, and other routines.
• Xu Lang scolded Red Butterfly for neglecting her Yin-Yang Ghost Constable Sequence and said he had prepared a better way to help her improve.
• Xu Lang used Life Number One and Peerless Wine to strengthen Red Butterfly because he might need her help seizing the authority.

Xu Lang sent Adam, Song Fei, and Saladin to Titan Dragon City, where Adam helped them pass through the dragon beasts at its outskirts. Song Fei warned the Young Lord not to approach the city without a draconic aura, and the Young Lord used a dragon scale to create one with his lantern.

• Xu Lang sent Adam, Song Fei, and Saladin across the Dark Wasteland to investigate Titan Dragon City.
• The group reached the city and, with Adam leading, gained acceptance from the dragon beasts on its outskirts.
• Xu Lang surveyed Titan Dragon City with his Eye of Heaven, then told Saladin to follow their plan and withdrew his eye.
• Song Fei went to the Young Lord's boat and warned him that the dragon beasts would attack unless he had a draconic aura or a dragon beast guide.
• The Young Lord placed a broken dragon scale in his lantern, causing its flame to produce a flying dragon's shadow and a draconic aura.

Young Lord arrived and agreed to ally with Saladin after hearing his suspicions about the Station Chief, while Saladin prepared to share intelligence about the operation. At Demon King Castle, the Dream Ephemeral Flowers bloomed, and Xu Lang used one to obtain the Eye of the Solar Crown, fulfilling its sequence promotion requirements.

• Young Lord reached the group’s camp and learned that the Witch was absent, then questioned Adam, Song Fei, and Saladin about the Station Chief.
• Saladin persuaded Young Lord to form an alliance and began sharing intelligence behind a sound-blocking wall of Sand Soldiers.
• Zhen Lu announced that all seven Dream Ephemeral Flowers had bloomed and brought Xu Lang to the back courtyard.
• Xu Lang took one Dream Ephemeral Flower, which transformed into the Eye of the Solar Crown and showed that its sequence promotion requirements were fulfilled.

Xu Lang obtained the job-change items for becoming a Time Historian but chose to sleep rather than decide whether to raid Hunter Building for inhibitors. In Titan Dragon City, Li Mingqing gathered the Golden Dawn management for their first operation, while the Protagonist secretly withdrew after realizing she had been detected.

• Xu Lang considered raiding Hunter Building for sequence inhibitors, then put away the Time Historian items and lay down on the Nightmare Bed.
• Young Master and the others decided to leave as bloody water spread around their shelter, and Young Master asked why they were unaffected by it.
• Li Mingqing and Peerless Under Heaven arrived, and Li Mingqing confirmed that the Protagonist had come but refused to join the group.
• Li Mingqing raised a purple barrier after revealing that the Protagonist was eavesdropping, and Adam began discussing the operation and its benefits.
• The Protagonist complained that she could not learn the plan, then mounted her raptor and left to explore Titan Dragon City alone.

Li Mingqing revealed a plan to trigger a catastrophic earthquake in Titan Dragon City during the Blood Calamity and draw out the God of Calamity’s Earthquake Authority. He recruited the others with valuable offers, and the group began planning to destroy the city’s five major nodes.

• Li Mingqing explained that an unprecedented earthquake during the Blood Calamity could bring forth the Earthquake Authority, and said Titan Dragon City’s five major nodes could trigger it.
• The Young Lord and Peerless Under Heaven revealed that their Dormitory Buildings had ordered them to seize the authority, and Li Mingqing urged them not to surrender it if they wanted to break free of their buildings’ restrictions.
• Adam asked how they would survive Titan Dragon City’s destruction, and Li Mingqing offered an escape route in exchange for reduced payment.
• Li Mingqing offered the Witch an Attribute Token worth five hundred free attribute points and promised the Young Lord information about advancing his ghost eye, winning their agreement to join the plan.
• Song Fei’s group accepted Li Mingqing’s proposal after Saladin secured a promise of information of equal value for the Witch, and Li Mingqing explained that destroying all five nodes would trigger the earthquake.
• Li Mingqing revealed that someone had already obtained the God of Calamity’s Tsunami Authority during the Blood Calamity.

Li Mingqing bound the group to a Demon Contract and assigned them to detonate five self-destruct nodes across Titan Dragon City at midnight. As the group split up, the Young Lord was killed by a dragonhawk while hiding among dragon beasts.

• Li Mingqing presented a Demon Contract, and the Young Lord, Song Fei, Adam, Saladin, and Peerless Under Heaven signed it.
• Li Mingqing gave the group pocket watches and maps, then assigned each person a node in a different ring or the core area.
• Song Fei found the fourth-ring node and waited underground while Adam and Saladin left to hide at their assigned node.
• The Young Lord hid among dragon beasts in the second ring as giant dragons fought overhead.
• A dragonhawk spotted the Young Lord, dived down, and tore him to pieces.

Li Mingqing coordinated the destruction of Titan Dragon City while avoiding its strongest dragons, and confronted the Protagonist before the city’s self-destruct plan began. At midnight, the city collapsed and the Earthquake Authority appeared.

• The Young Lord resumed scouting Titan Dragon City with Lamp Shadow Clones after deciding the deeper rings were too dangerous.
• Li Mingqing and Peerless Under Heaven reached a self-destruct node, and Li Mingqing revealed that the operatives were in position and their pocket watches tracked them.
• Li Mingqing avoided the core, then fought the Protagonist, vaporized her clone, and destroyed a velociraptor that attacked him.
• At midnight, Titan Dragon City began collapsing as its self-destruct nodes detonated.
• A rift opened in the sky, the Earthquake Authority appeared, and the world’s tremors gained a commander.

Twelve powerful dragons fought over the Earthquake Authority after Titan Dragon City was destroyed, while Xu Lang and Li Mingqing waited for a chance to act. The Shepherd Lord’s allies escaped the city, and Xu Lang let Song Fei remain outside the core district as the struggle continued.

• Twelve named, level-sixty lord-class dragons flew toward the Earthquake Authority and began attacking one another amid Titan Dragon City’s destruction.
• The Young Lord and his companions escaped, realizing the dragons suspected that someone had caused the collapse and might hunt them down.
• Saladin warned Adam that the dragons would guard the Authority more closely, while Adam noted that Li Mingqing had not appeared and insisted the Shepherd Lord would prevail.
• Adam’s ability revealed to Xu Lang that the Dragonman Civilization had migrated toward the sky, where one Floating City remained.
• Xu Lang told Song Fei that the Gray Giant was safe and permitted him to travel freely outside the core district; Song Fei then used the Footstep Ghost to move through the strange domain.

The dragon lords fought over the fading Earthquake Authority until Xu Lang seized it with help from Li Mingqing and escaped on a wyvern. Li Mingqing pursued him, revealed he was a dual Sequence Player, and asked Xu Lang to marry him, prompting Xu Lang to protest that he was a man.

• Surt urged Fafnir to absorb the Earthquake Authority, but Jagged Ash attacked Fafnir and charged for the source power.
• Li Mingqing switched places with Jagged Ash using a pentagram, then reached for the Earthquake Authority as the dragons attacked him.
• Xu Lang rode a silver wyvern past Li Mingqing and took the Earthquake Authority, storing it in the Strange Tales Magic Box.
• Li Mingqing recognized Xu Lang as Zero and pursued him, asking to visit him and saying he would join an expedition for his sake.
• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Eye to discover that Li Mingqing had two Sequences, and Li Mingqing asked Xu Lang to be his wife.
• Xu Lang shouted that he was a man.

Xu Lang died fighting the twelve dragons, while the Young Lord and Peerless Under Heaven escaped Titan Dragon City and Song Fei withdrew into the shadows. The Shepherd Lord then rose again from his shattered tombstone.

• Xu Lang kicked Li Mingqing clear of the dragons’ attacks and was torn apart, while Li Mingqing escaped as data.
• The Young Lord returned to his basement through his lantern, gathered the spoils he had collected, and ordered his tenants to connect to Golden Dawn.
• Peerless Under Heaven tried to use a Storm Building Homeward Scroll, but Song Fei attacked him before the scroll sent him home.
• Song Fei slipped away into the shadows and considered whether Xu Lang could use Strange Tales Magic Box against the dragons.
• The Shepherded Souls sensed the Shepherd Lord’s death and watched as his tombstone shattered and he rose again.

Xu Lang returned from Grave Pasture with Red Butterfly and struggled to control the Earthquake Authority, which he had obtained in Titan Dragon City. Back at Mad King Building, a quest appeared requiring him to turn in the Authority in exchange for Vibration Gauntlets.

• Xu Lang brought Red Butterfly from Grave Pasture into Magic Box World, where she saw him try to handle Earthquake Authority.
• Xu Lang tried using Scarlet Shepherd Locks and Mysterious Female True Qi to contain and absorb the Authority, but neither offered a practical way to control it.
• Xu Lang dragged Earthquake Authority through Hundred Ghost Purgatory and moved it to Gluttony Purgatory after its vibrations unsettled the souls.
• Xu Lang returned to Mad King Building through a portal and reunited with Tong Qi, who told him she was practicing Split Mind.
• Mad King Building issued Xu Lang the rare quest "Seizure," instructing him to turn in Earthquake Authority for Vibration Gauntlets.

Xu Lang rejected Mad King Building’s offer for the Earthquake Authority and reviewed the gains and resources from the Blood Calamity. Worried about the mysterious creature due to arrive in three days, he messaged Zhang Sanfeng, who eagerly awaited a mission from him.

• Xu Lang turned down Mad King Building’s offer, then arranged a massage with Tong Qi and the others before the blood rain weakened and stopped.
• Xu Lang learned that several Dormitory Buildings had fallen during the Blood Calamity and checked the gains from his overnight training.
• Xu Lang reviewed Wang Yazhi’s improved cultivation and the castle’s resources, then remembered that a mysterious creature would arrive in three days.
• Xu Lang asked Zhang Sanfeng where the Underground Palace entrance was, and Zhang Sanfeng excitedly answered his message, hoping to earn a place at Demon King Castle.

Xu Lang used his Rakshasa form to enter an underground hidden realm and encounter the mysterious creature that could not be looked at. After the creature killed the Rakshasa form, Xu Lang learned how its power worked and prepared to face it again.

• Zhang Sanfeng forgot the route to the Underground Palace and the creature’s appearance as he and the Blood Immortal clone approached the missing tunnel.
• Xu Lang received a message that a hidden realm could be entered by one who walked between yin and yang, then summoned Red Butterfly to guide his Rakshasa form inside.
• Red Butterfly sensed the realm’s vastness and danger, guided Xu Lang to the entrance, and left rather than enter with him.
• Xu Lang found Zhang Sifeng’s Luoyang shovel, sent a drone through the exit, and entered the Underground Palace after the drone’s monitor went black.
• The mysterious creature’s appearance caused Xu Lang’s Rakshasa form to bleed and die, while Xu Lang’s Sanity recovered on the Nightmare Bed and he realized that looking at the creature was what killed people.
• The mysterious creature picked up the drone and wondered whether the game above had started again.

Xu Lang encountered a mysterious creature with an overwhelming negative charm score and considered using Fusheng Xi’s dream ability to fight it. After returning to the creature, Xu Lang asked whether it served the Mad King, and the creature reacted with surprise.

• Xu Lang returned to the blood river, where the Rakshasa Dharma Body killed a Crimson Frog Monster and rescued Zhang Sanfeng.
• Xu Lang rewarded Zhang Sanfeng with a level twenty-five Exceptional-grade sword and ordered Bai Wuya and his team to help guard the teleportation beacon.
• The Rakshasa Dharma Body found the mysterious creature, and Xu Lang discovered its charm score was -50,000 even without looking directly at it.
• Xu Lang considered using Fusheng Xi’s Life Is But a Dream ability to trap the mysterious creature in a dream.
• Xu Lang returned in the Rakshasa Dharma Body and asked the mysterious creature whether it served the Mad King; the creature asked if Xu Lang knew His Majesty the Mad King.

Xu Lang repeatedly sacrificed Rakshasa avatars to gather intelligence on Agatha, a vastly stronger guardian ordered to kill players who disrupted Mad King Building’s game. He found no clear way to survive her attack and turned to Simulations while testing whether urban legends could help.

• Xu Lang sent successive Rakshasa avatars through the black vortex, but Agatha killed them and nullified their attacks.
• Xu Lang used the avatars’ deaths to learn that Agatha’s fate favored her and drove her to kill him.
• Xu Lang gathered intelligence revealing Agatha’s immense attributes, her role as the Mad King’s subject and bedchamber guard, and her duty to annihilate players.
• Xu Lang considered sacrificing Fusheng Xi, using Simulations, moving Zhen Lu and the others, and activating Epitaph, but found no reliable way to escape Agatha.
• Xu Lang continued scouting with Rakshasa avatars and fed urban legends to Agatha, who kneaded and ate them despite their immortality.

Xu Lang managed five simultaneous dreams while maintaining control over the Strange Tales Magic Box and its curse. The next morning, the bloodwater receded to the Tenth Floor, and Demon King Building’s residents eagerly went outside to enjoy the return of dry ground.

• Xu Lang used five dreams to gather reports, develop the Scarlet Shepherd Sequence, meditate, strengthen the Magic Box World’s connection to Earth, and investigate Agatha.
• Xu Lang kept the Magic Box Curse in Titan Dragon City from spreading beyond the twelve affected dragons as the night passed.
• The water outside Mad King Building fell to the Tenth Floor, and Shirley confirmed that July first had begun on the Golden Time-Reversal Clock.
• Zhi Xia took Evil Fuzzball out for a walk, while Tong Qi brought the four Guardian Spirits outside after learning the bloodwater had receded.
• Cao Yaxuan and other residents left Demon King Castle without breakfast, joining players from above and below the Tenth Floor in the bustling streets.

Xu Lang worried that he could not uncover Agatha’s secrets or stop her, and decided he might flee if his Simulation failed to find a solution. As the Mad King Building announced a war against three rival buildings, Xu Lang and the others faced a countdown to battle.

• Xu Lang woke after a night of cultivation and worried that he lacked the information and strength to deal with Agatha.
• Cao Yaxuan interrupted Xu Lang, and he spent the day resting with her on the Nightmare Bed.
• Xu Lang considered running from Demon King Castle if his next Simulation offered no way to handle Agatha.
• Shirley told Xu Lang that the blood in the Safe Zone was gone, and he offered to let everyone leave if they wished.
• The Mad King Building announced its planned promotion to Tier One and declared a Building War against the Paradise Building, Heaven’s Wrath Building, and Evil King Building, with the battle set to begin at midnight.

Mad King Building prepared for a building war as Xu Lang and the women tried to identify their unfamiliar opponents. The broadcast revealed that Paradise Building had matched against Mad King, Evil King, and Heaven's Wrath in a True King Showdown, and Paradise's carefree players began readying themselves for the fight.

• Mad King Building's players reacted to the coming war with excitement, anger, and renewed ambition to challenge Xu Lang.
• Xu Lang asked Gu Ya, Xu Ruyan, Xu Xiaomeng, and Cao Yaxuan about the unfamiliar buildings, and they speculated that no nearby tier-zero buildings were ready to advance.
• Paradise Building's broadcast identified Mad King, Evil King, and Heaven's Wrath as threats and urged its players to defend their home.
• Paradise Building announced unrestricted attractions, special combat bonuses, Mouse-Catching Dogs, and rewards for victory in the True King Showdown.
• Paradise Building's players chatted casually, with some heading to the archives and others going to claim pets.