Chapter Summaries

Wang Yazhi left Demon King Castle to follow Kui Zi’s thermometer toward the east, drawing attention from the other dormitory buildings. After she killed an Evil King Building player who attacked her, the chapter left her continuing toward her destination.

• Wang Yazhi silenced the Glutton trash can with a chilled drink and went down to the First Floor.
• After hearing Lion Cub’s information, Wang Yazhi told Cao Yaxuan and the others before setting out alone with Kui Zi’s thermometer pointing east.
• The White Floor Leader rejected Paradise Building players’ calls to ambush Wang Yazhi, warning them not to provoke Demon King Building.
• Players from the other buildings noticed Wang Yazhi and alerted their members outside to watch her.
• An Evil King Building player blocked Wang Yazhi’s path, and she defeated him in fifteen seconds.

Wang Yazhi encountered a level 40 Lava Behemoth guarding a Mythic Lava Core and used her high charisma to make it mistake her attacks for a pleasant scratch. When she asked for the treasure, the creature fled, and Wang Yazhi pursued it as Heaven's Wrath Building's hidden team prepared to seize the Core.

• Wang Yazhi sent three Night-Seeking Gods into the magma lake, drawing out a level 40 boss called the Lava Behemoth, which carried a Mythic Lava Core.
• Wang Yazhi attacked the Behemoth with moonlight, but its defenses barely registered the blows; its favorable impression of her led it to turn around and enjoy the attack as a back scratch.
• Ten Heaven's Wrath Building players watched from hiding and planned to ambush Wang Yazhi after she obtained the Lava Core, despite concerns about offending Demon King Castle.
• After Wang Yazhi knocked away its stone crust, the Behemoth thanked her and started to leave, but fled when she asked for its Lava Core.
• Wang Yazhi pursued the fleeing Behemoth with twelve Night-Seeking Gods as a Heaven's Wrath Building player urged the others to chase.

Xu Lang completed the Mental Limit-Breaking Trial, gained two offensive mental talents, and broke the Soul Realm’s Gate of Limits to obtain the unique talent Chaos State. He returned to the Magic Box World and prepared to use it to resist Mad King Building’s rules while installing high-level facilities in Demon King Castle.

• Xu Lang survived the trial’s mental crushing and received Time Scar: Calamity Recurrence and Soul Sacred Flame.
• Xu Lang used Soul Sacred Flame to burn away the Gate of Limits and gained the unique talent Chaos State.
• Xu Lang learned that Chaos State could resist Dormitory Building punishments and rule-level damage, but could not affect supernatural powers in the material world.
• Xu Lang planned to use Chaos State to install high-level facilities in Demon King Castle despite Mad King Building’s restrictions.
• Xu Lang expected Mad King Building to punish him after the building war and resolved to test whether Chaos State could withstand it.

Xu Lang returned from his trial and reunited with the women at Demon King Castle, while his Magic Box connection to Wanderer remained too weak for them to communicate. Wang Yazhi returned from an outing with a murderous aura, and Xu Lang invited her to eat before answering her question about the trial.

• Xu Lang failed to contact Wanderer through the Magic Box because the Void Battlefield weakened their connection.
• Wanderer sensed Xu Lang’s faint summons while kiting an Ogre in the Seal Building and realized that Xu Lang was alive.
• Xu Lang returned to Demon King Castle, told the women that his constitution and spirit had broken through, and offered to prepare for Zhen Lu’s fourth-stage Limit-Break Trial.
• Xu Lang learned that Wang Yazhi was away, then saw her return on the monitoring screen with a murderous aura.
• Chi Qingman welcomed Wang Yazhi, who asked Xu Lang how his trial went, and he invited her to eat first.

Wang Yazhi gave Kui Zi the lava core to power her Apocalypse Hand Cannon, and Xu Lang shared details of his limit-break trials before realizing he could exploit time differences between worlds to gain Nightmare Coins. During the Eternal Night dungeon, Xu Lang put on the Black Crown, drawing dark creatures from the other dormitory buildings toward the Mad King Building.

• Wang Yazhi recounted how she defeated the Lava Behemoth and obtained its core, then gave the core to Kui Zi for the Apocalypse Hand Cannon.
• Xu Lang described his two limit-break trials to the women at Demon King Castle.
• Xu Lang noticed that his Nightmare Coins had increased despite the Blood Mist World’s time remaining unchanged, and he asked Shirley to help find a world with slower time.
• When the Eternal Night dungeon began, Xu Lang encountered ogres, Swanmen, and Skeleton Soldiers among the monsters attacking the Mad King Building.
• After a facility item dropped, Xu Lang put on the Black Crown, causing dark creatures from the other three dormitory buildings to rush toward the Mad King Building.

As Demon King Castle repelled waves of dark creatures, its supplies and rare equipment poured in, and Xu Lang discovered that dark essences might help unlock a Vampire Blood Pact. Han Jisoo proposed upgrading Teacher Shirley’s Blood Pact to gain an infection ability, and Xu Lang agreed to consider it after the building battle.

• Cao Yaxuan and Chi Qingman inspected the Auspicious Gate’s internal space and found a flood of supplies, including rare equipment and an exceptional Ogre Chieftain’s Bone Club.
• Han Jisoo showed Xu Lang the rare Dark Essence collected by the fireplace, which could improve dark-type facilities and Blood Pacts.
• Han Jisoo suggested that Xu Lang upgrade the Dark Essence and Teacher Shirley’s Blood Pact so Shirley might unlock an ability to infect others.
• Xu Lang praised Han Jisoo’s idea and said they would first get through the building battle and see what other dark creatures appeared.

After the third round ended without casualties, Xu Lang and Mad King Building prepared for the fourth round, Liquid Nitrogen Rainforest, by moving their players into Hundred Ghost Layer. Explosive liquid nitrogen droplets then covered the entire Void Battlefield, killing players who had ventured away from the dormitory buildings.

• Xu Lang distributed the Pighead Ancestor's Telekinesis Skill Book to Xu Xiaomeng and the Bullhead Ancestor's mental-attribute accessories to Tong Qi, while storing the Doghead Ancestor's weapon.
• The third round ended with no deaths in Mad King Building, prompting players from other buildings to speculate about Xu Lang's strategy.
• As the fourth round's liquid nitrogen droplets began to condense, Su Yuan announced that Xu Lang had made arrangements and led Mad King Building's players through a Vortex Gate into Hundred Ghost Layer.
• The Mad King Building players became soul-forms in Hundred Ghost Layer, where Su Yuan and Wang Lie told them to stay calm, quiet, and together.
• Liquid nitrogen droplets outside Demon King Castle began exploding in chain reactions that spread throughout every dormitory building and across the Void Battlefield.
• Players who left the dormitory buildings to escape the droplets were killed.

Xu Lang and his companions watched the Void Battlefield’s explosive barrage barely damage Demon King Castle, while Xu Ruyan impersonated Tong Qi and accidentally upset Red Butterfly. Tong Qi discovered the deception but agreed to keep it secret, then went to Mary to discuss her confusing feelings.

• Players outside the Dormitory Building were overwhelmed by explosive droplets, and one regretted not sheltering inside his dormitory.
• Xu Lang checked Demon King Castle’s facility damage and found the barrage had barely worn down its defenses.
• Red Butterfly argued that survival meant being stronger than the other players, then cried while embracing the Tong Qi who was actually Xu Ruyan.
• The real Tong Qi arrived, realized Xu Ruyan had impersonated her, and privately confronted her about making Red Butterfly cry.
• Tong Qi agreed not to reveal Xu Ruyan’s disguise, left the group, and decided to seek Mary’s help with her psychological issues.

Bai Ling struggled with the choice between reviving her brother and protecting Xu Lang, while Xu Lang considered how her secret might fit into his plans against Mad King Building. As the Liquid Nitrogen Rainforest ended, Mad King Building remained far ahead in the survivor rankings, and the Players prepared for the High-Pressure World.

• Bai Ling worried that reviving her brother might harm Xu Lang, but believed she could not give up on him.
• Yan Xiaoli questioned Bai Ling about her troubled expression, and Bai Ling awkwardly described a hypothetical plan that could harm the Building Lord.
• Jiang Xiaowen relayed Bai Ling’s words to Xu Lang, who reasoned that Mad King Building might use her as a weapon and planned to refine Nightmare Essence before running another Simulation.
• Silver Sand and White Sand discussed the seven-hour bombardment as the Liquid Nitrogen Rainforest stage neared its end.
• Xu Lang checked the survivor count and found Mad King Building first, Evil King Building second, Heaven’s Wrath Building third, and Paradise Building fourth, as the group awaited the High-Pressure World stage.

Kui Zi discovered the Blank Book of Ordinances and grew eager to use it to alter intelligent machinery, while Xu Lang considered its value and investigated Tang Heng’s power in a dream. The chapter ended with Xu Lang beginning to refine Rasputin’s and Ousikas’s memory crystals.

• After the Liquid Nitrogen Rainforest proved harmless to Demon King Castle, Xu Lang considered raiding other buildings for resources but decided to sleep before the new day’s farming.
• Kui Zi examined the new collectibles in storage and found the Blank Book of Ordinances, whose rules could be forcibly enforced.
• Kui Zi realized a carefully worded ordinance might alter the original code of intelligent machinery, but she calmed herself and decided to ask Xu Lang for permission the next day.
• Xu Lang sensed Kui Zi’s unusual initiative in bed, then sent Li Shuwen, Wu Huihui, Fusheng Xi, Sword Saint, and Rainy Night Swordsman to extract nightmare power.
• Xu Lang wondered how Tang Heng could enter a powerful frenzy without losing himself and suspected the Mad King Building was restricting its players.
• Xu Lang transformed his dream and began refining Rasputin’s and Ousikas’s memory crystals in the alchemy furnace.

Xu Lang fused memory crystals into a time crystal that could let him experience nine court guards’ lives or create a tournament for an audience with the Mad King, but his first attempt at using it wasted Nightmare Essence. The sixth Survival Competition began with thirtyfold gravity, leaving the sleepers on the upgraded Nightmare Bed unharmed while their companions rushed to check on people and things outside it.

• Xu Lang fused nine memory crystals into a Court Guard's Time Crystal, which offered scenes from nine guards’ lives or a court guard tournament for an audience with the Mad King.
• Xu Lang used the time crystal in a simulated dream, became Rasputin, and ended the simulation after noticing how quickly it consumed Nightmare Essence.
• The Dormitory Survival Game announced Stage Six, “Gravity Abyss,” and thirtyfold gravity struck the Mad King Building, crushing its furniture and carpet.
• Xu Lang and the others discovered that the Nightmare Bed protected its sleepers from the extreme gravity.
• Kui Zi, Tong Qi, Zhen Lu, and Wang Yazhi rushed out to check on people and belongings outside the bed, while Red Butterfly questioned the point of their rescue attempts.

Zhen Lu’s Sequence advancement began unexpectedly under the courtyard’s crushing gravity, but Xu Lang carried her to the Nightmare Bed, where her power stabilized and continued to advance smoothly. Realizing the bed might remove the risks of Sequence advancement, Xu Lang saw a way to safely advance his own Sequences.

• Xu Lang found Zhen Lu distraught over the destroyed Spirit Field and tried to comfort her.
• Zhen Lu’s Sequence advancement erupted amid the intense gravity, and Xu Lang used jade pendants and healing potions to protect her.
• Wang Yazhi urged Xu Lang to move Zhen Lu indoors, so he carried her to the Nightmare Bed.
• The Nightmare Bed calmed Zhen Lu’s rampaging Sequence Power, allowing her advancement to continue smoothly as her Sanity recovered.
• Xu Lang concluded that the Nightmare Bed could cancel the risks of Sequence advancement and considered using it for his own advancements.

Level-25 Gravity Beasts attacked all four buildings during the thirty-times-gravity trial, forcing players to choose between fighting and preserving their strength. As casualties mounted, the strongest players prepared to hunt the beasts, while Solaris focused on being the last building eliminated and Evil Dragon set his sights on Mad King Building.

• More than a dozen Gravity Beasts appeared in Mad King Building's corridor, while beasts also attacked Paradise Building, Heaven's Wrath Building, and Evil King Building.
• Candy Queen, Amusement, and Jester urged players with facility levels below 20 to kill themselves, and a Paradise Building player followed their advice as the building's survivors dwindled.
• Heaven's Wrath Building players began leaving their rooms to fight the beasts, while Solaris watched and resolved to make his building the last eliminated.
• Evil Dragon announced that Evil King Building would secure second place and challenge for first, then turned his attention toward Mad King Building.
• A sword-wielding man and a tattooed, bear-built man joined Evil Dragon, and the three top players prepared to take the initiative against the Gravity Beasts.

Gravity beasts from several buildings converged on the Mad King Building’s Twentieth Floor, where they attacked Demon King Castle. Its turrets unleashed overwhelming firepower, leaving the watching players stunned.

• The tattooed man scanned the gravity beasts while players prepared to defend the Evil King Building.
• The gravity beasts abruptly withdrew and surged toward the Mad King Building, drawing players’ attention from the surrounding buildings.
• The beasts bypassed the Mad King Building’s dorms and charged straight to the Twentieth Floor.
• A gravity beast lunged at Demon King Castle, and its turrets pierced it with crimson laser beams.
• Demon King Castle’s turrets opened fire together and blasted apart huge numbers of gravity beasts, shocking Evil Dragon and the other observers.

Xu Lang used the thirtyfold gravity to farm monsters while he and his companions slept, and Mary monitored the battle. Players in Heaven's Wrath Building, Paradise Building, and Evil King Building began considering Demon King Castle a target, while Mary prepared supplies and expected a fight.

• Xu Lang confirmed the gravity beasts posed little threat, began farming them for points and resources, and told everyone to keep sleeping.
• Mary monitored the turrets as Xu Lang and the others rested, while players in the other buildings struggled to sleep.
• The Hermit Council in Heaven's Wrath Building declared Demon King Castle an anomaly and raised its threat level to the highest.
• Candy Queen, Jester, and Amusement discussed testing Demon King Castle, with Candy Queen agreeing to use her charm to lure Xu Lang out.
• Evil Dragon and a purple-cloaked middle-aged man proposed capturing a Demon King Castle player and locking them in Wu Xiaowu's dungeon, as dozens of powerful players gathered to target the castle.
• Mary spotted the other buildings' movements, prepared for an attack, transferred valuables from Auspicious Gate into storage, and urged the exhausted Chi Qingman to sleep.

After collecting Nightmare Coins and reviewing a rare stone fetus, Xu Lang used his improved Blood Rampage to deepen his control over blood qi. He created a Purgatory Demon Hound from his blood, which returned to his body as Gravity Abyss neared its end.

• Xu Lang woke with 1,742,288 Nightmare Coins and learned that Blood Rampage had risen to level 20.
• Mary reported that no new monsters had appeared for three hours and sent Xu Lang information about elite monsters and supplies.
• Xu Lang examined the Strange Stone Fetus and placed it in the private collection hall of the Magic Box World, planning to upgrade it outside the safe zone.
• Xu Lang activated Blood Rampage and shaped his blood qi into a Purgatory Demon Hound while meditating.
• As Gravity Abyss neared its end, Xu Lang completed the self-created Blood Beast skill and let the Purgatory Demon Hound enter his body.

The Solar Storm began, and Xu Lang discovered that Demon King Castle could shield its gate from the first X-ray burst, though its turrets would be destroyed. As the sun attacked other buildings, Xu Lang investigated the battlefield and found that several dormitories had survived by avoiding the Gravity Beasts.

• The Dormitory Survival Game announced that the Solar Storm would begin in seven hours and listed its four destructive phases.
• Paradise Building players watched the enormous sun appear and died from its intense radiation.
• Xu Lang ordered Zhi Chun and Zhi Xia to repair Demon King Castle's gate, while explaining that the turrets could not be saved.
• The first X-ray burst struck Mad King Building, but the beam only damaged Auspicious Gate after passing through the building's corridor.
• Xu Lang reconsidered protecting Auspicious Gate and resolved to keep it, recognizing the value of its financial fortune.
• The sun attacked Evil King Building, where the Three Evil Gods blocked the beam, and Xu Lang discovered that several buildings had survived by avoiding the Gravity Beasts.

As the Solar Storm’s first phase began, Evil King Building players raided the ruined Paradise Building for fireproof supplies while Paradise players rallied to stop them. Solaris’s plans for Heaven’s Wrath Building were interrupted when an X-ray burst nearly destroyed its gate, forcing him to order an urgent search for repairs.

• Qi Hengsan and other Evil King Building players headed to the Paradise Building to plunder supplies, while the Evil Dragon urged a team to scout the Mad King Building.
• Paradise Building players realized the raiders were looting their companions’ dormitories, and their administrators and room owners decided to intercept them.
• Solaris ordered Osiris to search for fireproof supplies after the next radiation burst and told Chen Bo to work with the Hermit Council on a countermeasure to the Solar Storm’s third phase.
• An X-ray burst struck Heaven’s Wrath Building and reduced the Pure White Gate of Order’s durability by 83,000.
• Solaris ordered Chen Bo and the others to find repair materials and a spare gate, preferably one made of heavy metal.

As the Dormitory Survival Game began, Xu Lang chose to keep Auspicious Gate safe rather than raid for supplies, then weighed the dangers of fusing more Sequences while powerful figures hunted the Scarlet Shepherd. He put off the decision by sleeping, leaving Demon King Castle’s residents to handle the X-ray bursts and the coming battle between buildings.

• Xu Lang refused Cao Yaxuan’s suggestion to raid for supplies and told everyone to adapt as needed while he rested.
• Xu Ruyan went to deal with two intruders spotted by a demonic eye, while Shirley headed to the library and the others went about their tasks.
• Xu Lang checked the Black Merchant’s Sequence Compendium and learned that the Scarlet Shepherd was being hunted by Bartholomew, Phyllis, and others.
• Xu Lang considered fusing the Time Historian and Vajra Strongman Sequences but worried that it would intensify the hunt and expose him to Bartholomew’s investigation.
• Xu Lang remembered that he was the Nightmare Lord, pulled a blanket over himself, and fell asleep as X-ray bursts struck the buildings.

Xu Lang used simulations to test the risks of adding the Vajra Strongman and Time Historian Sequences, then fused both into himself alongside the Scarlet Shepherd. The three Sequences clashed and overwhelmed the Nightmare Bed’s protection, so he entered the Fusion Dreamscape to endure the effects.

• Xu Lang used the Black Merchant walkie-talkie in a simulation to learn that McLaren could not investigate players directly but could lure them out of their dormitory safe zone.
• After more than a dozen short simulations, Xu Lang decided the risks were acceptable and refined the Sequence Crystal for the Vajra Strongman Sequence.
• The Vajra Strongman Sequence clashed with the Scarlet Shepherd Sequence as Xu Lang endured a flood of chaotic, high-dimensional knowledge.
• Xu Lang took up the Time History Book, causing time to warp and showing him a future version of himself.
• As the three Sequences overwhelmed the Nightmare Bed’s protection, Xu Lang leaned back and entered the Fusion Dreamscape.