Chapter Summaries

Xu Lang’s Nightmare Coin earnings exceeded 150,000 in one night, bringing him closer to upgrading the Nightmare Bed, while his allies launched a sweeping assault on the Zombie Assault world. Cao Yaxuan’s group returned after completing most of its quests, and the Mad King Building Players proved terrifyingly effective in battle.

• Xu Lang checked the Pleasure Demon Pot’s beeswax progress and calculated that his companions’ charm and the Nightmare Bed’s bonus brought his conversion rate to 9,600%.
• Xu Lang earned 155,200 Nightmare Coins in eight hours and realized he could upgrade the Nightmare Bed in four days.
• Chi Qingman messaged Xu Lang while they were in bed, but he discouraged her from starting another scoring session.
• Cao Yaxuan and her allies entered Exploration Mode, with Tong Qi, Xu Ruyan, and Red Butterfly heading for Fierce Ghost Soul Return while the others attacked Zombie Assault together.
• The Mad King Building Players fought through Zombie Assault’s quests, defeating powerful foes and mutants as their growing madness made them stronger.
• Cao Yaxuan and the others returned the following afternoon after completing two Legendary quests and most of the world’s lower-tier quests.

Xu Lang slept through two consecutive eight-hour periods, raising his attributes and earning 2,748,472 Nightmare Coins, then prepared to install new turrets while the women left for quests. His attempt to fuse a Cannon with a Mad Chain Cannon produced a worthless Twitchy Turret, leaving him shocked by the failed fusion.

• Xu Lang slept for two consecutive eight-hour periods, gaining attributes, skills, and Nightmare Coins from the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art.
• Xu Lang checked the nearly depleted copper vein and learned that the Ultimate Mutant quest had disappeared, while the women hurried to pursue a new Legendary quest.
• Xu Lang let Cao Yaxuan, Zhen Lu, and the others leave, warning Tong Qi and Red Butterfly not to attempt the Mad King Trial alone.
• Xu Lang dismantled four old turrets and prepared to fuse the replacements using materials the women had gathered.
• Xu Lang tried to fuse a Cannon with a Mad Chain Cannon, but the system predicted a Twitchy Turret and the simulated result was a worthless mess.

Xu Lang abandoned attempts to improve Mad Facilities through Fusion after producing two disastrous turrets, then chose a set of turrets for the Demon King Castle based on cost-effectiveness and combat roles. He settled on five weapons, including an ultimate crossbow array, defense-weakening sniper crossbows, and a heavy flame cannon.

• Xu Lang inspected a Twitchy Turret, left the simulated dream, and returned after reviewing his experience.
• Xu Lang fused two intact Mad Cannon Platforms and received a Pitch-Black Turret with high durability but extremely poor damage efficiency.
• Xu Lang concluded that Mad Facility Fusion was too unpredictable and costly to pursue as a way to raise levels.
• Xu Lang compared the available Mad Facilities and selected a Frenzied Gear, a Mad King Final Crossbow Array, two Curse Grudge Sniper Crossbows, and a Super Flame Dragon Cannon.

Xu Lang finished outfitting the Demon King Castle with turrets, then helped Yan Xiaoli before Ghost Child evolved and transformed Death God's Egg into the Little Death God. The two Guardian Spirits grew stronger as the castle prepared for future threats.

• Xu Lang completed the Demon King Castle's turret lineup with twelve turrets and two reserve slots.
• Yan Xiaoli visited Xu Lang for money to continue the dungeon, and Ghost Child angrily drove her away before Xu Lang gave it Tong Qi's Golden Thread Jade Ruyi.
• After Xu Lang replaced Ghost Child's incense, Ghost Child evolved to Level 15 and gained the Malice Backlash skill.
• Ghost Child fed Death God's Egg ghostly energy, causing it to evolve into the Level 10 Little Death God with an instant-death skill.

The Guanjiangkou Boy evolved into a level 15 Legendary Guardian Spirit, gaining a skill that increased the attack speed of bound dormitory turrets. Xu Lang then drained Azazel’s projection in the dungeon and stored the dangerous Bloodstained Coin it left behind after learning it could reveal Demon King Castle’s coordinates.

• Little Death God recalled that he might once have been a soldier of an empire, and Xu Lang promised to have Mary change Lion Cub’s incense more often.
• The Guanjiangkou Boy evolved, reaching level 15 and gaining the exclusive Xun Wind skill, which increased bound dormitory turrets’ attack speed by 12%.
• Xu Lang took Yan Xiaoli to the dungeon and repeatedly extracted power from Azazel’s projection, using the Nightmare Bed to recover when he reached his limit.
• Azazel vanished after being drained, and the Scarlet Shepherd Lock returned an Epic Bloodstained Coin that contained his essence and recorded Demon King Castle’s coordinates.
• Xu Lang stored the coin and warned the Demon King Castle group not to take it outside.

Xu Lang drained the Evil King for information about the Evil King Building’s Building Lord tokens, then advanced the Scarlet Shepherd Sequence to True Spirit. His advancement triggered a hidden quest and revealed a path called the Tree of Omniscience, which required him to build an Alchemy Workshop.

• Xu Lang used the Scarlet Shepherd Lock to drain the Evil King and learned that the Evil King Building had seven Building Lord tokens, including the missing Brutality Magatama.
• Xu Lang obtained an Evil King Invitation Token but found his Sanity dangerously low after draining the Evil King.
• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Bed to endure the Scarlet Shepherd’s dangerous advancement without losing control to the Sequence.
• The Scarlet Shepherd advanced to True Spirit, and Xu Lang triggered the hidden quest “Lift the Curtain,” whose first objective was to become an Awakening-tier Sequence Player.
• Xu Lang met the conditions to activate Acting Building Lord authority and revealed the hidden path “Tree of Omniscience,” which required him to build an Alchemy Workshop.

Xu Lang became a B-3 True Spirit by understanding the Scarlet Shepherd’s origin and gaining the power to summon the Original Sin Plateau. As the Titan Building’s arrival approached, he prepared his allies and planned to bring Earth’s resources into the Blood Mist World.

• Xu Lang comprehended the Scarlet Shepherd’s origin on the Original Sin Plateau and reached B-3 True Spirit, gaining abilities including damage transfer, the Shepherd Soul Wolf, and the power to summon the plateau.
• The Scarlet Shepherd’s power briefly changed the weather outside the Mad King Building, bringing blood wind, clouds, rain, and lightning before the sky returned to normal.
• Xu Lang emerged from the dungeon and told Yan Xiaoli, Bai Ling, and Jiang Xiaowen to use the money he had given them to strengthen the group before the Titan Building arrived.
• Xu Lang decided to find Su Yuan and Zhang Liang and investigate bringing Earth’s industrial products, weapons, and nuclear stockpiles into the Blood Mist World.

Xu Lang ordered Su Yuan to bring Sea City's shelters under the Mad King Building's protection, while Kui Zi and the players defeated the Undying Giant Lizard in the Zombie Assault world. The team collected eight loot drops, including Epic and Mythic rewards and an unidentified item.

• Xu Lang visited Su Yuan and confirmed that the passage to Earth had stabilized inside Zhang Liang's shelter.
• Su Yuan proposed securing Sea City's three shelters, and Xu Lang ordered Shelter Three protected within one day with Kui Zi's help.
• Kui Zi led the Demon King Castle women and the Floor Leaders' squad against the Undying Giant Lizard as it released insectoid mutants.
• Wu Huihui, Fusheng Xi, the Sword Saint, Wang Yazhi, and the others combined their attacks to kill the Undying Giant Lizard.
• Cao Yaxuan collected the eight loot drops, including three Epic items, three Mythic items, and an unidentified item.

After clearing most of the Zombie Assault world, Xu Lang sent Kui Zi and a small team to Earth while staying behind to prepare for the Titan Building’s arrival. In the Blood Mist World, he watched the Mad King Building’s Safe Zone come under pressure from powerful creatures, including a Blood Sea Giant that he suspected was an Overlord.

• Players across the zombie city fought mutants for loot, while Cao Yaxuan and Wang Yazhi concluded that the Zombie Assault world had been mostly cleared and could serve as a source of supplies.
• Kui Zi received an assignment from Xu Lang and prepared to travel to Earth with Su Yuan, Zhang Liang, and nine others.
• Xu Lang declined to accompany Kui Zi, explaining that he feared the Mad King Building might prevent him from returning, and she left through the blue Vortex Gate.
• Xu Lang considered strengthening himself because the Mad King Building might be unable to rely on its Black Crown against the neutral or friendly Titan Building Players.
• In the Blood Mist World, Xu Lang hid near the battered Mad King Building Safe Zone and saw level sixty and seventy monsters gathered at the Ghost Mausoleum.
• Xu Lang spotted the Blood Sea Giant standing among the mountains and suspected that it was an Overlord-class creature.

Xu Lang raised both attributes to 2,400, but the Dormitory Survival Game sealed his attribute talent inside the Tree of Omniscience instead of triggering another Mad King Trial. He chose to sleep through the next two days, while a Simulation dream showed the Titan Building joining the Mad King Building’s community and challenging him to an arena match.

• Elder Cloud opened its eyes and vaporized the Blood Mist Creatures and Strange Tales, but its gaze stopped at the area in front of the Mad King Building’s Safe Zone.
• Xu Lang used an Attribute Crystal and Undying Giant Lizard cell factors, raising his Constitution and Spirit to 2,400.
• The Dormitory Survival Game told Xu Lang that his attribute talent had been sealed within the Tree of Omniscience, leaving him frustrated and eager to grow stronger.
• Xu Lang decided to sleep and avoid events for two days while waiting for the Nightmare Lord to finish advancing.
• In a Simulation dream, the Titan Building arrived and joined the Mad King Building’s community; Titan Building Players captured a Mad King Building Player and challenged Xu Lang to an arena match.
• Xu Lang left the Simulation dream and started a new timeline.

Xu Lang learned how to resist the Titan Building in simulations and sent Kui Zi to assess Sea City Shelter No. 3. Kui Zi demanded the shelter’s resources and information, leaving Professor Shen to reveal everything he knew about Earth’s changes and the shelter’s research.

• Xu Lang endured repeated simulations against the Titan Building, held out for two days, and learned about its military-focused structure and approaching fifth-tier advancement.
• Xu Lang trained in Martial Dao while monitoring Kui Zi, whose progress accelerated under his guidance.
• Kui Zi inspected Sea City Shelter No. 3’s scarce food and weak weapons, then directed Liu Zhen to take her to the laboratory.
• Professor Shen recognized Kui Zi as Golden Prosperity Group’s former CEO and tried to connect with her, but she ordered him to explain Earth’s changes and the shelter’s research.
• Professor Shen told Kui Zi everything he knew as she toured the laboratory, which held monster corpses and meteorite fragments.

Kui Zi identified the meteorite fragments as dangerous living creatures and sent four of them through a Vortex Gate to Xu Lang, who recognized them as Space Insect Larvae capable of consuming planets. Xu Lang brought the larvae to Insect Tamer Chen Shisan’s Insect Garden, where Chen greeted him nervously.

• Professor Shen explained the Cataclysm and showed Kui Zi the black meteorite sphere, which she identified as a dangerous living organism.
• Kui Zi broke the reinforced glass, seized the creature, and threw it into a Vortex Gate before obtaining three more from the shelter officials.
• Xu Lang examined the four creatures and learned they were level 10 Space Insect Larvae whose species could drain a planet’s resources.
• Xu Lang speculated that the meteorite had been an egg cluster and that something had interrupted the insect queen’s development.
• Xu Lang took the four larvae to Insect Garden, where Insect Tamer Chen Shisan and six elite players greeted him.

Xu Lang visited Chen Shisan's Insect Garden, entrusted him with four Space Insect Larvae, and reassured him that he trusted his Floor Leaders. Back at Demon King Castle, Xu Lang received Murong Wan, who had come with intelligence to report, while Zhang Sanfeng praised him extravagantly.

• Xu Lang entered Chen Shisan's Insect Garden and examined its powerful mutants and insect facilities.
• Xu Lang gave Chen Shisan four Space Insect Larvae to raise and promised he could receive one if he did well.
• Chen Shisan threatened Wang Hao for speaking out of turn, but Xu Lang told him he did not need to prove his loyalty.
• After Xu Lang left, Chen Shisan reflected on Xu Lang's generosity and felt reassured that following him was the right choice.
• Murong Wan arrived at Demon King Castle to report intelligence, and Xu Lang met with her alongside Zhang Sanfeng.
• Zhang Sanfeng praised Xu Lang as an emperor chosen by heaven, while Murong Wan wondered whether she should be more outgoing.

Xu Lang received warnings that the Titan Building was approaching, but ordered the Mad King Building to fight back if its players attacked. As the Titan Building’s descent neared, Xu Lang unveiled the Flame Demon Tower and Madness Spire, then created a dozen more buildings, leaving Murong Wan, Zhang Sanfeng, and Wang Kun astonished.

• Murong Wan warned Xu Lang that the Titan Building intended to swallow the Mad King Building, and Zhang Sanfeng suggested that it might have hijacked the neighbor recruitment.
• Xu Lang revealed that the Titan Building would descend at eight that night and ordered Mary to have the Mad King Building attack if Titan Building Players made a move.
• The Residents' Committee announced Xu Lang's orders, rousing the Mad King Building Players and prompting some Mad Guards to bring out Mad Vanguards.
• The Madness Spire and Flame Demon Tower rose beside the plaza, and Xu Lang's Flame Demon Tower displayed map-wide attacks dealing 100,000 damage.
• Murong Wan, Zhang Sanfeng, and Wang Kun watched as more buildings appeared, and they realized Xu Lang had created twelve in one go.

Xu Lang finished building up Mad King Building as it reached full capacity, just as new arrival Wei Feng and his tenants discovered they had been drawn into a coming war with Titan Building. After learning they could not leave, Wei Feng and the others resigned themselves to their situation and joked about giving up.

• Xu Lang built ten low-level Madness Barracks around the mid-level barracks, and Mad King Building reached full capacity when Wei Feng transferred into its last empty room.
• Wei Feng and his five tenants learned that Mad King Building was preparing to fight Titan Building, and Wei Feng panicked over their inexperience.
• Wei Feng tried to use a Starving Dead invitation to escape, but discovered Mad King Building would not let its players leave.
• Huang Tao from the Residents' Committee visited and had Wei Feng's group register their information.
• Old Wu explained that players could surrender but still could not escape Mad King Building, prompting the group to joke about giving up and seeking romantic company.

Xu Lang brought high-level dragons into the Mad King Building to give the Mad Vanguards live combat training, and the building's players and facilities overwhelmed the monsters with powerful fire. Lin Shi watched a level-twenty-five cannon hold off a level-fifty wyvern and wondered what the Mad King Building was.

• Wei Feng and the others left their dorm room, then saw Xu Lang drag a level-fifty Dark Crystal Wyvern through a Vortex Gate into the plaza.
• Wei Feng retreated to his dorm room while other players rushed to ready their cannons, and the building broadcast a warning that its cannons dealt extra damage to illegal monsters.
• The Mad Vanguards poured out of the barracks as the building's cannons heavily wounded the Dark Crystal Wyvern.
• Xu Lang rode his Silver-Winged Fierce Dragon, summoned more level-fifty dragons from Titan Dragon City, and directed them through the building's attacks.
• Lin Shi watched the Excellent-grade Frenzied Gear hold off a commander-class wyvern and marveled at the Mad Facilities' power.

Lin Shi’s turrets briefly tore through the dragons, but their ammunition costs emptied the Residence of Time’s funds, leaving the Mad Vanguards to fight and evolve. Xu Lang then led all two thousand Mad Vanguards through a Vortex Gate into Gluttony Purgatory, where he attacked Fafnir, the Earth Dragon King, intending to keep the battle going until his troops reached higher tiers.

• Lin Shi’s Frenzied Gear destroyed a dragon in seconds, but the turrets drained his and the tenants’ Copper Coins and shut down.
• The Mad Vanguards took over the fighting and evolved from first-tier to at least second-tier, with most reaching third-tier.
• Xu Lang had the Lost-and-Found Granny collect the dragon corpses and sent the Mad Vanguards through a Vortex Gate into Gluttony Purgatory.
• Xu Lang found the Ghost of Gluttony battling Fafnir, the Earth Dragon King, and activated Hellblood Demon God and his Dragonblood Rakshasa combat form.
• Xu Lang charged Fafnir with five Scarlet Shepherd Locks, aiming to trap him and keep the Mad Vanguards under pressure so they could evolve further.

Wei Feng’s team learned how Mad King Building operated and decided that sticking with its strongest players was the best strategy. Jiang Wan chose to seek Xu Lang’s favor despite the danger posed by the coming clash with Titan Building.

• Wei Feng and the others waited for the missing Xu Lang and learned that Titan Building would descend at eight.
• Cao Yaxuan and her group returned after conquering the zombie world, while fifth-floor players discussed their next campaign.
• A bald player harassed Jiang Wan, but she warned him that Cao Yaxuan enforced the rules, and he quickly backed down.
• Wei Feng’s team concluded that top players adapted by following Demon King Castle and the Residents’ Committee.
• Jiang Wan asked Wei Feng for three million Copper Coins to buy makeup and pursue Xu Lang, then resolved to take the risk despite Old Wu’s warning about Titan Building.

Xu Lang used the Divine Judgment Codex and the Mad Vanguards to defeat the Earth Dragon King, then devoured it and strengthened his Dragonblood Rakshasa Blood Pact. He left the dragon’s bones for the Ghost of Gluttony as a possible new Strange Tale, while eyeing the eleven Mythic dragons that remained.

• Xu Lang summoned a mountain of blades and sea of fire with the Divine Judgment Codex as more than a thousand Mad Vanguards shielded themselves from the Earth Dragon King’s roar.
• The attack crushed the Earth Dragon King and left it near death, but Xu Lang found it still alive and began devouring it.
• The Earth Dragon King cursed Xu Lang with a level 50 Dragon’s Resentment debuff before Xu Lang finished eating it.
• Xu Lang’s Dragonblood Rakshasa Blood Pact evolved, gaining the Lord of the Earth Element ability, and he considered hunting the eleven remaining Mythic dragons.
• Xu Lang left the Earth Dragon King’s bones for the Ghost of Gluttony, who claimed he was invincible in Gluttony Purgatory.

Xu Lang tested his new strength in Gluttony Purgatory while the Titan Building descended beside the Mad King Building. Outside the Safe Zone, Elder Cloud, the golden monkey, and the Blood Sea Giant watched as the Blood Mist Bodhisattva arrived and spread her domain.

• Xu Lang lifted and carried a vast slab of earth, then raced the Ghost of Gluttony across Gluttony Purgatory.
• At eight in the evening on July ninth, the Titan Building descended in a golden pillar that swept away the Blood Mist around the Mad King Building.
• Li Shuwen, Zhu Yan, Li Wenwen, and the other players watched the Titan Building arrive and wondered whether the Mad King Building could face it in an arena match.
• Elder Cloud spoke with a golden-furred monkey while the Blood Sea Giant remained nearby, and all three watched the approaching procession.
• The Blood Mist Bodhisattva arrived in a skeletal procession, declared that she would suffer in place of all beings, and spread her domain over the real world.