Chapter Summaries

Xu Lang gave Shirley the Heart of Darkness and welcomed Jiang Wan into Demon King Castle, while Jiang Wan formed her own suspicions about his tastes. After spending the night with the women, Xu Lang upgraded the Mystic Lord Visualization Method to level 25 and faced a choice between two Legendary paths.

• Xu Lang gave Shirley the Heart of Darkness, which suited her Pureblood Vampire Blood Pact and caused her aura to surge.
• Jiang Wan learned that Xu Xiaomeng and Yaxuan had Blood Pacts, while Xu Xiaomeng said Xu Lang rejected bizarre skills and prized beautiful outfits.
• Xu Lang held a welcome ceremony for the newcomers, and Jiang Wan concluded that he indulged himself by choosing the best things.
• Xu Lang spent his newly earned Nightmare Coins upgrading the Double Skill Card and Mystic Lord Visualization Method.
• The Mystic Lord Visualization Method reached level 25, and Xu Lang considered the Legendary paths Supreme Forgetfulness Dao and Mystic Lord True Scripture.

Xu Lang chose the Mystic Lord True Scripture and upgraded it into the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter, gaining a way to improve skills by confronting knowledge in the Sea of Knowledge. He ended the chapter assessing the dangers of its powerful manifestations and resolving to save more of his Nightmare Coins.

• Xu Lang rejected the Supreme Forgetfulness Dao and chose the Mystic Lord True Scripture, then awakened after its dangerous knowledge injured his mind.
• Xu Lang inspected the scripture and learned that it could not upgrade Blood Pact skills and required him to collect Fate Pattern elements.
• Xu Lang spent Nightmare Coins raising his Mystic Lord Visualization Method to level 30 and chose the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter as its upgrade path.
• Xu Lang discovered that he could level up skills by defeating their knowledge manifestations in the Sea of Knowledge, including manifestations of the Great Dao Chapter and Blood Pact.
• Xu Lang reflected on spending nearly all his recent earnings on upgrades and decided to save some of his future Nightmare Coins.

Xu Lang spent his Nightmare Coins upgrading the Epic Double Skill Card into a Legendary Triple Skill Card, then used it and spent the night earning more coins. The next morning, Red Butterfly and Tong Qi left for the Fierce Ghost Soul Return world while Jiang Wan questioned Xu Lang about returning to Earth.

• Xu Lang upgraded the Epic Double Skill Card to a Legendary Triple Skill Card and used it to gain two additional energy circulation systems.
• Xu Lang’s overnight earnings totaled 937,408 Nightmare Coins, leaving him with 1,233 coins and 100 more Ghost God Power.
• Red Butterfly asked Xu Lang for permission to go to the Fierce Ghost Soul Return world with Tong Qi, and he allowed them to go but warned them to return early.
• Red Butterfly joked about Xu Lang being lazy, and Tong Qi pulled her away before Xu Lang could lecture her.
• Jiang Wan stayed behind and asked Xu Lang whether the Demon King Castle could provide a way back to Earth, and Xu Lang said that he could.

Xu Lang told Jiang Wan and Yan Xiaoli that Earth had been devastated by the Blood Mist, and Jiang Wan proposed using a player-led expedition to search for survivors and reunite players with their families. Xu Lang embraced the plan as a way to unite buildings across the Dormitory Survival Game, then asked whether Titan Building’s players also had family on Earth.

• Xu Lang explained that Earth was contaminated by the Blood Mist and that its population had fallen by about 95%.
• Jiang Wan and Yan Xiaoli asked Xu Lang to send people to find their families, but he said the portal only reached Sea City Shelter and that he had not secured Sea City.
• Jiang Wan proposed opening Earth to players from the Titan Ruins, charging entry fees, and organizing mercenaries to search for families.
• Xu Lang saw Jiang Wan’s proposal as a way to draw players from other buildings into his broader plan to rule the Dormitory Survival Game.
• Jiang Wan suggested proving their trustworthiness with Earth specialties, using Mad King Building to gather intelligence, and building support over the radio.
• Xu Lang asked whether Titan Building’s players had family on Earth, and Jiang Wan and Yan Xiaoli exchanged glances.

Xu Lang planned to use a route to Earth to attract players after the current game round, while Tong Qi saw the Blood Mist Creatures encircling the Mad King Building. Jiang Wan, Li Wenwen, Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, and others traveled to Earth, where Cao Yaxuan killed a man and Su Yuan ordered his soul extracted.

• Xu Lang told Jiang Wan that the Mad King Building would offer players a way to reunite with their families on Earth after the round ended.
• Tong Qi saw Strange Tales, Mad Vanguards, and Blood Mist Creatures fighting, with the Blood Mist Creatures surrounding the Mad King Building.
• Jiang Wan and Li Wenwen persuaded Xu Lang to let them travel to Earth with Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, Zhen Lu, and others.
• Su Yuan welcomed the group at the Sea City Shelter, where they reunited with Earth and recalled their former lives.
• Cao Yaxuan killed a balding man who stared at her, and Su Yuan ordered a player to extract his soul and place it in a soul lamp.

Cao Yaxuan and the others entered the Earth shelter’s crowded outer zone and learned about its survivors and factions. Jiang Wan, Yan Xiaoli, and Li Wenwen asked about Earth’s condition, and Su Yuan revealed that nearly everyone in Xia Kingdom had moved underground.

• Cao Yaxuan frightened Zhang Liang, then gave him the position held by the man she had killed and told him to become a Mad King Building player.
• Su Yuan led Cao Yaxuan and the others through a neglected passage into the shelter’s outer zone, where Zhen Lu, Xu Xiaomeng, and Han Jisoo rushed into the crowd.
• Su Yuan and Liu Zhen explained that the outer zone housed eighty thousand people and that survivors outside had formed factions, some led by supernaturals.
• Jiang Wan, Yan Xiaoli, and Li Wenwen asked how much of Earth remained under human control, and Su Yuan said nearly everyone in Xia Kingdom had moved underground while the capital was likely the only city still holding the surface.

Liu Zhen explained how the Blood Mist catastrophe overwhelmed humanity and described the Ancient Martial Artist system, but Jiang Wan found his current strength unimpressive beside players. As the women faced the grim state of Earth, Golden Sand invited them to travel off-world with a player squad.

• Liu Zhen recounted how secret realms, mutated beasts, and disasters had forced humanity into underground refuges, and confirmed that human mutants were also dangerous.
• Liu Zhen described the Ancient Martial Artist system and its stages of advancement, while Jiang Wan tested his strength and found his punches ineffective against her shield.
• Yan Xiaoli dismissed Liu Zhen's claims and said players would handle Earth, while Li Wenwen urged the women to prepare for the worst.
• Yan Xiaoli hoped that players from multiple buildings could join forces to conquer Earth and help locate their families.
• Golden Sand invited Jiang Wan and the others to travel off-world with a player squad, prompting the women to brighten.

Xu Lang and Chi Qingman explored the dangerous items stored in the Magic Box World while the Holy Angel watched Mad King Building’s battle and assessed its defenses. As she realized she had been spotted, a woman in black armor arrived with a message from her Building Lord.

• Xu Lang asked why Chi Qingman had stayed behind, and she said her family on Earth might already be dead.
• Xu Lang took Chi Qingman to the Magic Box World treasury, where he warned her about traps hidden among its dangerous items.
• The Holy Angel recorded the battle at Mad King Building and recognized that Strange Tales Building was likely supporting it.
• The Holy Angel counted Mad King Building’s turrets and worried that Titan Building had underestimated its strength.
• A woman in black armor approached the Holy Angel and said her Building Lord wanted to talk to her.

Xu Lang used a Strange Tale clone to question Holy Angel about pureblood angels and offered her information about the cataclysm on Earth in exchange for help. Holy Angel left with the document, while Xu Lang considered how the Titan Building might respond to the chance to return to Earth.

• Xu Lang met Holy Angel in the sports hall and asked whether she knew of any pureblood angels.
• Holy Angel said she might know a lead, and Xu Lang revealed that her real name was Ding Bing and that her parents might still be alive in Yu City.
• Xu Lang offered Holy Angel a way back to Earth and gave her information about the cataclysm there.
• Holy Angel put out her sword’s flames, took the document, and flew away without revealing what she would do.
• Xu Lang watched her leave and reasoned that the Titan Building might seek a partnership because the Star Realm Base could locate and reach Earth.

Xu Lang investigated the Dream Ephemeral Flower and Demon King Castle, then tested the Abyss Whisper Gate after discovering it erased beings unaligned with the Abyss. After reviving the Urban Legend Camera through the Strange Tales Magic Box, he approached the gate himself, despite Mary's warning.

• Xu Lang agreed with Wu Huihui that Mad King Building should target Angel Building, and Wu Huihui asked to be told before the fighting began.
• Xu Lang learned that Wu Huihui was gathering players for the front line, then considered the Void Mask, Void Night, and the possibility of the Dream Ephemeral Flower producing a Void Beast egg.
• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Eye on the Dream Ephemeral Flower, confirmed there was a chance, and raised the Spirit Field's level with Fear Power.
• Xu Lang examined the Abyss Whisper Gate with a Rakshasa avatar and learned that it erased beings not aligned with the Abyss.
• Xu Lang sent the Three-Eyed Demonic Hound through the gate with a Rakshasa avatar and Urban Legend Camera, but both vanished; he revived the camera using the Strange Tales Magic Box.
• Xu Lang walked toward the Abyss Whisper Gate himself as Mary warned him to be careful.

Xu Lang infiltrated the Abyss Whisper Gate with the Urban Legend Camera and realized that Lilian Phyllis and Bartholomew might be tracing clues about him through the Dormitory Building. As the Blood Mist Creatures’ siege continued, the Sky Titan told the Holy Angel to stay away from the Mad King Building for now and promised to settle matters with it after the building war.

• Xu Lang used Unique: Chaos State to disrupt the Abyss Whisper Gate briefly, then sent the Three-Eyed Demonic Hound inside with the Urban Legend Camera and planted a Strange Tale stake that could eventually open a Portal.
• Xu Lang learned from the Progenitor's Manuscript that Lilian Phyllis was interested in the Dormitory Building and deduced that she may have traced Sequences connected to it back to the building.
• Xu Lang read Bartholomew's warnings in the Black Merchant Sequence Codex and feared that other godlike figures might also be searching for the Scarlet Shepherd.
• The Blood Mist Creatures maintained their nonstop siege of the Mad King Community while the Titans handled the fighting and other duties.
• The Sky Titan told the Holy Angel to avoid the Mad King Building for the time being, then promised to return to her homeland and settle matters with the Mad King Building after the war.

After welcoming the women’s compassionate work, Xu Lang trained three skills in the Sea of Knowledge and gained powerful nightly rewards. He ended the chapter resisting the urge to spend his newly earned Nightmare Coins.

• Cao Yaxuan and the others recounted their adventures, including rescuing twenty-three people, while Gu Ya praised the civilization they had encountered.
• Xu Lang praised the women of the Rakshasa Kingdom and made sure Gu Ya and the others felt included.
• Xu Lang entered the Sea of Knowledge to train the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter, but a thousand-armed warrior projection destroyed him before he could strike; the Nightmare Bed quickly healed his mental backlash.
• Xu Lang trained Breath of God and Wandering Free alongside the Mysterious Lord Great Dao Chapter, gaining attributes, elemental affinities, and one second of Wandering Time.
• After earning 938,641 Nightmare Coins overnight, Xu Lang wanted to spend them but ultimately held back.

Xu Lang and the women prepared for the Titan Building’s deadline while discussing plans to recruit workers from Earth and expand the Mad King Building. Kui Zi revealed that she could locate shelters through their Radio Stations, and Xu Lang privately encouraged Jiang Wan to befriend Red Butterfly because her hidden potential might help recover lost family members.

• Wang Yazhi reminded everyone that the Titan Building had to secure an outpost by the seventh day, and the women worried about what would happen if it failed.
• At lunch, Jiang Wan asked Xu Lang for advice because she felt far weaker than Cao Yaxuan and the others.
• Xu Lang assigned the women to recruit people from Earth to work at the Mad King Building and explained that the Titan Building might compensate them with an outpost.
• Kui Zi revealed that she had rebuilt the signal network and could connect to other shelters’ Radio Stations, potentially helping the women find their families.
• Xu Lang told Jiang Wan privately to get close to Red Butterfly, whose soul-summoning ability might awaken enough to bring back family members who had died.

Xu Lang built a workers' dormitory and reassured Pandora that the Mad King Building could afford to recruit more workers and feed them. After resolving her concerns, he invited Pandora to lie down with him, and she accepted.

• Xu Lang built a dormitory for three thousand workers, and the Titan Building laborers celebrated the chance to gain official status while existing workers felt secure.
• Pandora visited Xu Lang and asked whether he planned to recruit more workers through the new dormitory.
• Xu Lang confirmed that he intended to fill every place, and Pandora warned that food supplies were running low because the Titan Building workers ate so much.
• Xu Lang offered to use his private food stores and said Su Yuan was already searching for supplies.
• Pandora thanked Xu Lang and prepared to leave, but he invited her to lie down with him, and she accepted.

After reaching Martial God Lv. 42, Xu Lang went to the Blood Mist World to hunt monsters and strengthen his equipment. The King of Purgatory led him to a wild Dormitory Building, and Xu Lang decided to try to capture it.

• Xu Lang gained the passive Myriad Blades technique when his Martial God skill broke through to Lv. 42.
• Xu Lang entered the Blood Mist World, killed a snapping turtle, and hunted monsters while concealing his aura.
• Xu Lang gathered seventy-two Shepherded Souls and used Sin-Washing Splendor to strengthen the Purgatory Set.
• The King of Purgatory guided Xu Lang and the Soul Shepherd Wolf to a shadowy Dormitory Building, which Xu Lang decided to try to capture.

Xu Lang drove the Blood Mist Creatures into an overwhelming attack on the Shadow Prison Building, forcing its administrators to rely on the Shadow World while their resources dwindled. Ink Qilin used a Mythic-tier prophecy ability to investigate the cause, but the spirit of knowledge exploded before it could answer.

• Xu Lang watched the Shadow Prison Building activate its Shadow World defense, then lured more Blood Mist Creatures toward it.
• The Shadow Prison Building's players panicked as the monsters surrounded their defenses and the building's resources ran low.
• Boss Shadow and the other Floor Leaders argued over how to learn why the Blood Mist Creatures had gone berserk.
• Ink Qilin gathered enhancement items from the administrators and summoned a spirit of knowledge from the Alchemy World.
• The spirit began its prophecy, then exploded before revealing the cause of the attack.

Chen Bing used his tenant Pan Yu’s lord-level Shadow Chi to gain control of the Shadow Prison Building during the Blood Mist Creatures’ rampage. After becoming acting Building Lord for one game cycle, he sent Pan Yu into the Shadow World to investigate the cause of the crisis.

• Ink Qilin revealed that his prophetic skill had been badly injured by backlash and would be unavailable for a month.
• Chen Bing announced that his tenant had contracted with a lord-level creature and offered to resolve the crisis in exchange for becoming acting Building Lord.
• Chen Qian supported Chen Bing’s proposal, and the Floor Leaders voted to let him direct the building for one game cycle.
• Chen Bing summoned his tenants and had Pan Yu reveal her Shadow Chi, which the Shadow Boss recognized as a shadow dragon.
• Chen Bing sent Pan Yu into the Shadow World with the Shadow Chi to use deep spirit sight and search for the anomaly behind the Blood Mist Creatures’ rampage.

Pan Yu used Shadow Chi to spy from the physical layer of the Shadow Realm and glimpsed a terrifying god, leaving her unconscious. Xu Lang then disguised himself as the Yin-Yang Corpse Immortal and prepared to attack Shadow Prison Building under Mad King Building’s war mission.

• Pan Yu and Shadow Chi reached the physical layer of the Shadow Realm, where Pan Yu saw the scale of the Blood Mist Creatures attacking Shadow Prison Building.
• Pan Yu looked beyond a blood cloud and saw a colossal god, splitting her soul and rendering her unconscious when she returned to the roof.
• Chen Bing tried to heal Pan Yu while the Floor Leaders searched for Shadow Chi, but neither showed any sign of waking or returning.
• Xu Lang watched Shadow Prison Building from the blood cloud and decided to attack it himself after finding no monsters capable of bringing it down quickly.
• Xu Lang accepted Mad King Building’s war mission, used an Identity Fabrication Card, and transformed into the Yin-Yang Corpse Immortal.

Xu Lang transformed into the level 45 Yin-Yang Corpse Immortal and unleashed a sustained sword assault on the Shadow Prison Building, while Chen Bing tried to rally its Floor Leaders. Xu Lang’s attack battered the protective barrier as he discovered that his Nightmare Lord could reveal information about the building.

• The Shadow Prison Building warned its players that the level 45 Lord-class Yin-Yang Corpse Immortal had arrived, prompting panic among the tenants and Floor Leaders.
• The Yin-Yang Corpse Immortal summoned a vast formation of yin-yang swords and bombarded the building’s protective barrier.
• Chen Bing found that the Shadow Prison Building had locked his relocation invitation, then used aura skills and a forceful speech to steady the Floor Leaders and urge them to find a way to wake Pan Yu.
• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Eye on the Shadow Prison Building and was astonished that his upgraded Nightmare Bed could reveal some information about it.
• Xu Lang, exhilarated by the Nightmare Lord’s growing potential, poured more power into the sword attack as the barrier continued to shake.

Xu Lang ended his assault on the Shadow Prison Building after cracking its barrier, while Chen Bing claimed he had driven the Yin-Yang Corpse Immortal away. At the Mad King Building, Xu Lang promised to bring Earth into its territory and save it, uniting players, staff, and captives around the hope of returning home.

• Chen Bing rallied the Shadow Prison Building's Floor Leaders by claiming its airdrops could provide a miracle, then stayed behind as the others retreated.
• Xu Lang withdrew the sword waterfall, struck the protective barrier with a massive black-and-white saber, and left the Shadow Prison Building.
• Chen Bing found the Yin-Yang Corpse Immortal gone and told an arriving player that he had sent it packing.
• Xu Lang returned early from the Titan Building as the Mad King Building awaited the Titan Building's overdue territory and apology gifts.
• The Residents' Committee announced that Xu Lang could travel to Earth, and Xu Lang promised that the Mad King Building would bring Earth into its territory and protect it.
• Mad King Building players, staff, and captives joined together in cries to return to Earth and drive out the creatures of the catastrophe.