Chapter Summaries

Heaven’s Wrath Building prepared its players for a True King Showdown against Evil King Building, Mad King Building, and Paradise Building. As the battle began, Evil King Building declared that the losing building’s players would face a horrific sacrifice.

• Heaven’s Wrath Building announced its facilities, supplies, temporary level-30 access, and laws for the Building War.
• Heaven’s Wrath players gathered and discussed the four-building match, their strength, and whether to fight together or alone.
• Evil King Building’s walls produced Desecration runes that praised madness, chaos, violence, and forbidden pleasure.
• A black heart emerged from Evil King Building and proclaimed the True King Showdown, promising ten revivals to winners and the random burning of 99% of the losing building’s players.

As the Evil King Building’s terrifying guards emerged, Xu Lang prepared Demon King Castle for the building battle by giving out supplies, unaware that Mad King Building was withholding crucial information. Meanwhile, Wu Man revealed to Snake Lord that a hidden group planned to use the battle to test Xu Lang.

• The Evil King Building’s broadcast summoned three colossal Evil Gods, who stood guard outside the building.
• Xu Lang gathered Demon King Castle’s people and ordered Mary to distribute all supplies below Mythic grade, raising their morale.
• Wu Man visited Snake Lord and suggested the building battle offered a chance to act on Snake Lord’s interest in Xu Lang.
• Wu Man told Snake Lord that a hidden group planned to test Xu Lang during the battle, and said the group included them all.

Snake Lord agreed to join Wu Man’s plan against Xu Lang, then followed Green Shadow, who tried to learn about his Legendary execution skill. Her charm failed when Snake Lord’s psychological pressure raised his attributes, and he was surrounded by Green Shadow’s allies.

• Snake Lord agreed to join Wu Man’s group and discussed their plan against Xu Lang.
• After Wu Man left, Snake Lord sensed Green Shadow’s killing intent and followed her to a dilapidated house.
• Green Shadow charmed Snake Lord, who revealed that his clan’s bloodline ability summoned Yazi and ranked as Legendary.
• Snake Lord began revealing his clan’s secrets, but his rising psychological pressure broke Green Shadow’s charm.
• A burly man with a broken eyebrow kicked Snake Lord away, and six people surrounded him as he roared in anger.

Awakening of Insects’s squad killed Snake Lord before learning he had taken a mission to kill the Cheater, while Wu Man drew the squad into talks. Snake Lord’s sister learned of his death, lost her sanity, and transformed as the secret Underground Palace Spirit mission appeared before her.

• Awakening of Insects ordered his squad to kill Snake Lord, and they beheaded him before Green Shadow revealed he had taken the mission to kill the Cheater.
• Wu Man arrived and persuaded Awakening of Insects’s squad to meet with his group behind a black veil.
• Zhang Dahai watched the gathering from a cellar, noticed his Edgewalker Sequence had reached the True Spirit Stage, and warned Ye Fan’s group and Lang Ge about the strangers.
• Snake Lord’s sister woke from a nightmare, sent him a message, and learned that he had died.
• Snake Lord’s sister’s Sanity plunged, her body transformed into a white-scaled snake form, and the secret Special Mission “Underground Palace Spirit” appeared before her.

Mary organized a large supply giveaway at Demon King Castle while Xu Lang ignored the commotion and focused on spending 180,000 Nightmare Essence on a simulation. The simulation began three minutes before the building war, with Xu Lang waking to find his allies assembled and wary of Mad King Building’s plans.

• Mary let each player take one gift box and planned to scatter the remaining supplies after three hours.
• Xu Lang knew dissidents had infiltrated Mad King Building, but he paid them little attention and failed to notice Snake Lord’s Legendary bloodline.
• Xu Lang ordered everyone not to disturb him and began a simulation using 180,000 Nightmare Essence.
• The simulation opened shortly before the building war, and Xu Lang woke when Cao Yaxuan and Tong Qi called him.
• Wang Yazhi and Gu Ya warned Xu Lang that the building war might differ from a normal one, and he treated the simulation as a real experience.

The Dormitory Survival Game began a seven-round True King Showdown promotion match between Mad King Dormitory Building, Evil King Dormitory Building, Paradise Dormitory Building, and Divine Punishment Dormitory Building. After the battlefield revealed the buildings’ terrifying true forms, Xu Lang suffered a fracture in his soul but gained a new martial technique.

• Xu Lang and the women confirmed their preparations before the system announced the True King Showdown’s rules and the four buildings’ wagers.
• The system transported the buildings to the ancient battlefield called Void King's Court.
• Xu Lang glimpsed the buildings’ true auras through the Eye of Heaven and his Sanity fell as his soul fractured.
• Xu Lang’s Transcendence Talent gained insight, raising Martial God to LV25 and unlocking Soul-Slaying: Merciless Blade.

The Dormitory Survival Game began the Crown Contest, a battle where buildings fought to seize and defend a rotating Crown for points. The Crown landed on the Mad King Building, and its players prepared to defend against the approaching forces of the other three buildings.

• The game announced the Crown Contest rules, including building assaults, point scoring, and revival after death in the Projection World.
• Xu Lang and Xu Xiaomeng surveyed the four buildings as players gathered to scout and prepare for battle.
• Xu Lang assessed the buildings’ players, defenses, and guards, noting the Mad King Building’s strong facilities but weaker building guards.
• The Crown descended and settled on the Mad King Building, prompting players from Heaven's Wrath Building, Paradise Building, and Evil King Building to charge toward it.
• The Mad King Building’s Floor Leaders organized defenses and positioned long-range turrets while players on the lower floors fought with less coordination.

As the building war began, Xu Lang investigated the rival buildings and revealed that Paradise Building’s players could recover from injuries while their Joy Value remained. Mad Vanguards drove the first attackers back, but the main forces of Paradise Building, Heaven’s Wrath Building, and Evil King Building were approaching Mad King Building.

• Xu Lang sent Cao Yaxuan, Tong Qi, and Red Butterfly to steady the Tenth Floor, ordered Wang Yazhi to defend the First Floor, and put Xiaomeng in charge of the turrets and Dragon Star Summoning Device.
• Xu Lang disguised himself and investigated the crown and rival buildings, but his detection skills revealed nothing about their true nature.
• Paradise Building players attacked Mad King Building on toy vehicles, and Xu Lang told the defenders that their Joy Value let them recover until it ran out.
• More than seven hundred Mad Vanguards surged out, killed Paradise Building players, and chased the retreating vanguard into the approaching main force.
• On Floor 13, Li Shuwen, Li Wenwen, and Zhu Yan assessed the advancing armies, while Zhu Yan wondered what hidden abilities Xu Lang had prepared.

Xu Lang investigated the Heaven's Wrath Building and Evil King Building players, learned their strengths and the dormitory characteristics of all three enemy factions, and shared his intelligence. As the battle reached the Mad King Building, Paradise Building players broke through the Crimson Vanguards but were wiped out by traps in the stairwell.

• Xu Lang published intelligence about the Heaven's Wrath Building's Heaven's Wrath Codex, its nine taboo arts, and the danger of facing multiple players together.
• Xu Lang investigated the Evil King Building players and learned about their cruel nature, powerful evolving evil artifacts, and strong solo combat abilities.
• Wang Pin shot at Xu Lang from several kilometers away, but Xu Lang killed him with Soul-Slaying: Heartless Blade.
• Xu Lang investigated the dormitory characteristics of the three buildings, then stayed on the rooftop to watch the battle and prepare to support his side.
• Paradise Building players charged through the Crimson Vanguards and entered the Mad King Building, where traps in the stairwell quickly wiped out their group.

Heaven's Wrath Building and Evil King Building joined the battle against Mad King Building, while Heaven's Wrath players advanced through the building under heavy fire. Mad King Building's defenders launched a reckless, heavily armed counterattack in the stairwells as bombardment outside intensified.

• Heaven's Wrath Building players arrived and used coordinated fire and dust tornadoes to overwhelm the Mad Vanguard and shield their advance.
• A Heaven's Wrath squad unleashed wind blades at the Mad King Building corridors, damaging players and turrets before withdrawing toward the lobby.
• Heaven's Wrath players entered Mad King Building, dismantled the stairwell traps, and sent two squads upstairs.
• Mad King Building players charged the Heaven's Wrath squads, shrugging off severe injuries with their Undying Bodies and pressing the attack.
• Mad King Building defenders threw grenades and fired high-grade guns at the Heaven's Wrath barrier while Residents' Committee members, Sword Saint, and Tulu organized the defense.
• Players from the other buildings moved closer, bringing more turrets into range and intensifying the bombardment of Mad King Building.

Mad King Building’s 2,000 turrets devastated the attacking Heaven’s Wrath Building players, while the other buildings’ managers joined the battle and Heaven’s Wrath’s Hermit Council assessed the odds. The arrival of a seven-person Evil King Building squad raised Heaven’s Wrath’s predicted chance of victory, and the chapter ended as the squad clashed with Mad King Building’s First Floor patrol.

• Mad King Building’s turrets overwhelmed Heaven’s Wrath Building’s defenses, while the other building managers led core players toward the battle and left guards behind.
• Solaris visited Heaven’s Wrath Building’s Hermit Council as its thin young manager estimated their chance of winning at 78%.
• The thin young man raised the predicted odds to 93% after spotting seven fast-moving Evil King Building players leaping into Mad King Building’s First Floor corridor.
• The thin young man watched as Mad King Building’s First Floor patrol clashed with the seven Evil King Building players.

Sword Saint and the First Floor players fought Evil King Building’s seven vanguard swordsmen, whose divine weapons and transformations made them dangerous opponents. On the rooftop, Xu Lang suspected Mad King Building had wagered its Source Essence to bring Agatha onto the battlefield, whose strength he still could not measure.

• Tulu charged the five swordsmen alone, and their blades severed his iron club and pierced his armor with a poisoned strike.
• Sword Saint killed one swordsman with Swift Shadow: Triple Slash, but the fallen man fused with his evil weapon and attacked again.
• Sword Saint defeated the transformed swordsman with Nightmare Power, but the man and his weapon vanished after bursting apart.
• Tulu drank Lesser Holy Spring Water, healed his injuries, and rejoined Sword Saint against the remaining swordsmen.
• Xu Lang observed Mad King Building holding firm against attacks from three sides and reconsidered whether it had withheld support from him deliberately.
• Xu Lang suspected Mad King Building was using its wagered Source Essence and maximum interference to bring Agatha onto the battlefield, and noted that he still could not assess her power.

Xu Lang escaped Agatha’s attack by fleeing from the Grave Pasture into the Strange Tales Magic Box World, where he discovered that a mysterious eyeball was tearing apart the extradimensional space. The chapter ended with the Magic Box World rejecting Xu Lang despite his being its master.

• Xu Lang accelerated the building-war dream until the seventh and final round, when Agatha appeared to help the Mad King Building win.
• Agatha shrank Xu Lang in her hand and began killing him, but he activated Ultimate Liberation and used the Scarlet Shepherd Lock to destroy himself and return to the Grave Pasture.
• Agatha found the Grave Pasture and threatened to collapse it, while Xu Lang questioned her about the Mad King and escaped into the Strange Tales Magic Box World.
• Agatha failed to trace Xu Lang into the Magic Box World, but an eyeball called the Eye of Mora burst out of the earth and began destroying and sealing the space.
• Xu Lang discovered that the Magic Box World was rejecting him even though he was its master.

Xu Lang realized Mad King Building’s plan to release Agatha could be stopped by working with the building and identifying the people involved in her escape. He investigated Snake Lord’s recent death while the Residents’ Committee confronted Wu Man and his accomplices on the fifteenth floor.

• Xu Lang emerged from the simulated dream and realized Mad King Building had left him only fifty thousand portions of Nightmare Essence, but he saw a chance to force it to cooperate against the other dormitory buildings.
• Xu Lang concluded that Snake Lord and Bai Ling were connected to Agatha’s escape, then discovered Snake Lord had recently died and asked Su Yuan for information.
• Su Yuan told Xu Lang that Snake Lord was suspected to have been killed by Wu Man and his accomplices, who had come through the Gate of Ten Thousand Lies.
• Cao Yaxuan, Zhou Ye, and other Residents’ Committee members confronted Wu Man on the fifteenth floor and ordered him to gather his tenants.
• Wu Man led the committee to another room containing his accomplices, who came out without resisting and were taken away.

Cao Yaxuan gathered twenty-five players suspected of plotting against Demon King Castle and brought them to the room where Snake Lord had died. There, Xu Lang revealed the slaughtered Awakening of Insects Squad, while one member had escaped and Xu Lang recovered Banshee Blood from Green Shadow.

• Wu Man realized the Residents' Committee was collecting members of the rebellion faction and warned Zhao Kun that their plot might be exposed.
• Cao Yaxuan gathered twenty-five players, accused them of murdering Snake Lord, and escorted them to the crime scene.
• Wu Man and the others found the Awakening of Insects Squad members dead in a blood-soaked room, with Green Shadow kneeling before Xu Lang.
• Xu Lang told Cao Yaxuan that Awakening of Insects had escaped and pulled Banshee Blood from Green Shadow using the Scarlet Shepherd Lock.
• Xu Lang examined the Banshee Blood's potion recipe and regretted that it was not Succubus Blood.

Xu Lang killed Wu Man and the other players who had joined the Hunter Building’s scheme, then went to Snake Lord’s dormitory to check on his sister, Bai Ling. He entered her dark room alone, leaving Zhou Ye and Su Yuan waiting outside.

• Xu Lang accused Wu Man and his allies of harming their companions and conspiring with the Hunter Building, then killed them in a burst of blade light; several players’ Sanity fell to zero, turning them into Mad Vanguards.
• Xu Lang told the Residents' Committee to clean up and asked Cao Yaxuan to freeze a head for later, while he collected the loot and Snake Lord’s corpse to return to Snake Lord’s younger sister.
• News of the deaths spread through the chat room, frightening would-be troublemakers and drawing praise for Xu Lang.
• Xu Lang, Zhou Ye, and Su Yuan went to Bai Ling’s dormitory, but she did not answer the doorbell.
• Xu Lang told Zhou Ye and Su Yuan to wait outside, cut through the door with Purgatory Overlord, and entered Bai Ling’s dark room alone.

Xu Lang found the weakened Bai Ling in her dormitory, helped her recover, and learned through his Nightmare Eye that she carried an ancient Spirit Clan bloodline and a secret task that could resurrect Snake Lord. The discovery made Xu Lang suspect that the Mad King Building had been plotting to use Bai Ling for a far-reaching scheme.

• Xu Lang broke into Bai Ling's dormitory, found her collapsed, and gave her Lesser Holy Spring Water to restore her strength.
• Xu Lang told Bai Ling that Snake Lord was dead and that he had killed the rebels and Hunter Building players responsible.
• Xu Lang comforted Bai Ling while probing her with the Nightmare Eye, uncovering her Golden Python ancestry and evolved Spirit Clan bloodline.
• Xu Lang learned that Bai Ling's secret Underground Palace Spirit Task could resurrect Snake Lord and suspected the Mad King Building had been pursuing a larger plan.

Xu Lang welcomed Bai Ling into Demon King Castle and supplied her with protection, then used Dream Simulation to test how the Mad King Building might act during the floor war. The simulation showed that a golden claw protected Bai Ling and that a scarlet door to the underground palace appeared before her, but Xu Lang could not stop her from leaving.

• Xu Lang apologized to Bai Ling for neglecting her, invited her to become a tenant of Demon King Castle, and gave her supplies and protection.
• Bai Ling reflected on Xu Lang's kindness, discovered she could change her legs, and was shown to have 450 Charm.
• Xu Lang returned to Demon King Castle and began preparing a plan against the Mad King Building through Dream Simulation.
• In the simulation, Wu Huihui and two other women tried to keep Bai Ling in her dormitory, but a golden claw killed them and protected Bai Ling from Xu Lang.
• Xu Lang fought the golden claw, ignored a Mad King Building order to reinforce the front lines, and dragged Bai Ling into the Magic Box World.
• A scarlet door appeared before Bai Ling, revealing the underground palace, and Xu Lang ended the simulation after failing to keep her from leaving.

Xu Lang used simulations to devise a plan to revive Snake Lord before Bai Ling could reach the Underground Palace, then watched Mad King Building’s promotion match begin and confirmed events were unfolding as predicted. The chapter ended as the Evil King Building Lord’s black vortex seized a swordsman during the battle.

• Xu Lang reviewed his failed simulations, realized Bai Ling kept choosing to revive Snake Lord, and planned to revive Snake Lord first.
• Xu Lang fused items into a Reincarnation Talisman: Snake, upgraded it into a Resurrection Charm, and used Snake Lord’s help to intercept Bai Ling in his fourth simulation.
• Xu Lang concluded that Mad King Building could not release Agatha without Bai Ling and that its options would be limited if Agatha remained unreleased.
• The Dormitory Survival Game announced the seven-round True King Showdown promotion match among Mad King Dormitory Building, Evil King Dormitory Building, Paradise Dormitory Building, and Divine Punishment Dormitory Building.
• Xu Lang observed the other buildings’ Players from the rooftop and shared the information he had gathered in his first simulation.
• Evil King Building’s swordsman fought Sword Saint until a black vortex appeared, and the Scarlet Shepherd Lock dragged the swordsman into it.

Xu Lang followed the Mad King Building’s scripted path as it won another defense and secured five points, then the second round began with a time-space challenge. The chapter ended as players prepared to enter a world where one second outside equaled a million years inside.

• Xu Lang used the Scarlet Shepherd Lock to kill an Evil King Building swordsman in the Magic Box World, then recalled that the Mad King Building had won its first match without receiving a reward.
• Xu Lang continued following the original script, and the Mad King Building successfully defended its crown for the second time, bringing its score to five points.
• Residents’ Committee members worried that the Mad King Building was drawing too much attention, and Xu Lang assured them he would act when necessary.
• The second round began, revealing a time-space door challenge in which players could earn points by staying inside for a million years.
• Paradise Building players eagerly rushed to enter the time-space doors, treating the challenge as an opportunity for extended bliss or training.