Chapter Summaries

Wu Xueyi returned to the Mad King Building with Heavenly Sound Sect leader Yu Changhen and several core members, seeking to bring them before Xu Lang. As the Titan Building endured another Demon Army assault, the group headed toward the Demon King Castle to find out whether Xu Lang was available.

• On August 4, the Demon King Castle residents stayed out of sight while Wu Huihui watched the Demon Army's fourth major assault on the Titan Building.
• Wu Huihui met Wu Xueyi, Yu Changhen, and four Heavenly Sound Sect holy envoys on the Thirtieth Floor.
• Yu Changhen's charm entranced Pei Wan'er until Wu Huihui's voice broke the spell, and Wu Huihui recognized Yu Changhen as a level-forty-nine leader of one of the Thirty-Six Demonic Sects.
• Wu Xueyi told Wu Huihui she intended to take Yu Changhen and the sect's core members to meet Xu Lang, but Wu Huihui did not know what he was doing.
• Wu Xueyi led Yu Changhen and the Residents' Committee members toward the Demon King Castle while Wu Huihui returned to watching the battle.

Xu Lang invited Heavenly Sound Sect leader Yu Changhen and three holy envoys to become tenants of the Mad King Building, hoping to gain their powerful charm techniques. Yu Changhen refused to accept immediately, and Xu Lang offered to pay more, leaving their negotiation unresolved.

• Wu Xueyi brought Yu Changhen and the Heavenly Sound Sect delegation into the Demon King Castle after Ghost Child directed them to the meeting hall.
• Xu Lang welcomed the delegation and dismissed everyone except Yu Changhen and the four holy envoys.
• Wu Xueyi stood behind Xu Lang while Yu Changhen questioned why he had summoned them.
• Xu Lang asked Yu Changhen to become his tenant, but she requested time to consider the offer.
• Xu Lang offered to pay more, and Yu Changhen asked whether he was insulting her.

Xu Lang pressed Yu Changhen to become his tenant, offering to help her complete the Heavenly Sound Sect’s cultivation method, while Su Qingqiu and Cao Yaxuan challenged and taunted each other. Yu Changhen refused and wanted to leave, but Xu Lang invoked Cao Yaxuan’s own arrival at the Mad King Building, suggesting he would deal with the sect leader as he had dealt with his first tenant.

• Su Qingqiu angrily confronted Xu Lang, while Wu Xueyi tried to calm her and reminded her that Xu Lang was speaking with Yu Changhen.
• Xu Lang offered to help Yu Changhen reach the final stage of the Nine Lives and Nine Reincarnations Wondrous Sound Heavenly Maiden Visualization Method and become a Wondrous Sound Heavenly Maiden.
• Yu Changhen questioned Wu Xueyi about how she had learned the sect’s secret, but Xu Lang claimed his knowledge came from an existence beyond past, present, and future.
• Cao Yaxuan arrived and urged Xu Lang to drain Yu Changhen and the others with the Shepherd's Lock, then clashed verbally with a woman in green before Xu Lang told her to sit down.
• Yu Changhen refused Xu Lang’s offer, and Xu Lang stood up, declared that he liked her reserve, and asked Cao Yaxuan if she remembered how she had first become his tenant.

Xu Lang defeated Yu Changhen and the other women, then agreed to spare them if they slept beside him without going further. On Earth, Xie Jin fought a powerful distorted creature and suddenly revealed a startling increase in strength, prompting Xu Lang to investigate him through the Nightmare Eye.

• Xu Lang overwhelmed Yu Changhen, Su Qingqiu, Hu Que, and Dongfang Yun, then offered to spare them if they slept beside him without going all the way.
• Su Qingqiu agreed after Xu Lang promised that touching them would cost him his acting Building Lord position and prevent him from becoming a player again.
• Xu Lang sensed through Ghost God Power as Xie Jin fought a distorted monster in Sea City and warned soldiers away from its remains.
• A green root creature attacked, killed several soldiers, and infected Xie Jin with a zombie virus.
• Xie Jin's wife and daughter appeared as spirits, and their presence awakened his Ghost God Power, letting him burn free and draw his blade with his will.
• Xu Lang watched Xie Jin's sudden power-up from within his consciousness and used the Nightmare Eye to inspect him.

Xu Lang used his influence over the battlefield to arrange a deal that slowed the Demon Army’s assault on the Titan Building in exchange for its Fate Pattern NPCs. As the Titans blamed Xu Lang for the battle’s course, Xie Jin was forced by Erebos to endure painful training, and the Titans began calling for Xu Lang to be eliminated.

• Xu Lang realized that Xie Jin’s growing status as the child of the world could strengthen his Fate Interference Power, and decided to manipulate events further.
• Erebos summoned the weakened Xie Jin, promised to teach him saber techniques, and engulfed him in purple ghost fire to force the knowledge into his body.
• Xu Lang removed his external puppet’s Black Crown after the Titan Building sent Fate Pattern NPCs to the Mad King Building in exchange for help slowing the assault.
• With the demons’ guiding force gone, the Black Lotus Venerable abandoned the attack and left to seek instructions from the Demon Emperor, while the Thousand-Eyes Venerable stayed behind.
• The Beast Titan and Forest Titan blamed Xu Lang for the battle’s outcome and agreed that he was becoming too dangerous to leave alone.

Xu Lang tried to persuade forty astral warriors trapped in the Magic Box World to join the Mad King Building, then considered becoming the Ziwei Star himself. Back at Demon King Castle, he struggled to sleep and found the Heavenly Sound Sect leader and her four holy envoys sharing his bed; someone else arrived just before the chapter ended.

• Xu Lang told the astral warriors that their shared attitudes and bond might be linked to the Ziwei Star, but the Black Tortoise Kingdom's Cavalry General accused him of manipulating them.
• Mary suggested Xu Lang could use the Scarlet Shepherd's power to extract the Ziwei Star's Fate Pattern, and Xu Lang ordered the Residents' Committee to watch the Titan Building for new NPCs.
• The astral warriors refused to pledge loyalty to Xu Lang, and the two sides parted on bad terms while the group remained trapped in the Magic Box World.
• Xu Lang issued orders at Demon King Castle and lay awake thinking about becoming the Ziwei Star and investigating the Heavenly Realm, Ghost Realm, and Earthly Realm.
• Xu Lang discovered Su Qingqiu and her four holy envoys in his bed, spoke with them, and watched as someone entered behind the bed curtains.

Zhen Lu, Shirley, Red Butterfly, and the Heavenly Sound Sect women joined Xu Lang on the Nightmare Bed, where the night’s revelry led him to give Yu Changhen Golden Beeswax. Yu Changhen transformed into an incomplete Wondrous Sound Heavenly Maiden and unlocked an exclusive quest whose remaining conditions were still unmet.

• Zhen Lu recognized Yu Changhen as the Heavenly Sound Sect leader and got into bed with the women.
• Red Butterfly announced that she and Tong Qi had completed the Mad King Trial, then climbed onto Xu Lang’s Nightmare Bed.
• Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, and the other women joined them, and the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Great Compassion Rhapsody took effect.
• Xu Lang gave Yu Changhen the fifth drop of Golden Beeswax, causing her allure and strength to surge as her constitution transformed.
• Yu Changhen unlocked the exclusive Wondrous Sound Heavenly Maiden quest, with the Unrivaled Grace and Toppling Kingdoms and Cities conditions still unfulfilled.

Xu Lang helped Yu Changhen become a Wondrous Sound Heavenly Maiden, then earned more than a million Nightmare Coins from one night’s sleep. The chapter ended with the Demon King Castle’s residents waking and discussing the Demon Army’s sudden halt at the Titan Building.

• Xu Lang used an Epic Grade outfit to help Yu Changhen fulfill the conditions to become a Wondrous Sound Heavenly Maiden, but she still could not defeat him in the Magic Box World.
• Xu Lang’s harvest log showed 1,127,520 Nightmare Coins earned overnight, along with gains in attributes, skills, interference power, and achievement points.
• Kui Zi and Shirley told Xu Lang that the Demon Army had stopped attacking the Titan Building after two probing attacks, and Zhen Lu suggested sending the Mad Vanguard to scout.
• Chi Qingman stayed in bed, while Wu Xueyi, Su Qingqiu, Hu Que, and Dongfang Yun eventually pretended to wake up.
• Hu Que worried about Dongfang Yun, but Dongfang Yun said she would make the best of her situation and enjoy the warm bed.

Su Qingqiu and the others were ordered back to their registered dormitory, while Yu Changhen led three holy envoys to find shelter. Luo Lin admitted them to the Biochemical Dormitory, where Tao Tao eagerly welcomed her new tenants.

• Su Qingqiu, Dongfang Yun, Wu Xueyi, and Hu Que received notices that their temporary stay at the Demon King Castle had ended, and Chi Qingman explained they had to return to their dormitory.
• Yu Changhen chose to leave with Su Qingqiu, Dongfang Yun, and Hu Que, while Wu Xueyi stayed behind; Yu Changhen gave Xu Lang a cold glance before going.
• Chi Qingman worried that Yu Changhen might threaten Luo Lin, and Xu Lang promised to protect Luo Lin if needed.
• After two biochemical beings blocked them from entering, Su Qingqiu and the others considered seizing a dormitory, but Tao Tao opened the door and told them they could only join the Biochemical Dormitory with her mother's approval.
• Luo Lin invited the four women inside and temporarily took Yu Changhen in, while Tao Tao welcomed them with fruit and snacks.

On day fifteen, the Dormitory Survival Game announced that the Demon Army had the lowest losses and the highest score, prompting players to question whether the game favored the monsters. The Frostfield Titan met with three other Titans and a Demon Titan stand-in to plot against the Mad King Building, leaving Steel Titan worried that his secret deal might be exposed.

• The Dormitory Survival Game announced that the Mad King Community remained safe, while the Demon Army had suffered only 0.1 percent losses and earned 92 points.
• Players protested the announcement and questioned why the monsters had received missions and rewards.
• The Forest Titan, Beast Titan, and Steel Titan came to the Frostfield Titan to discuss the Mad King Building, and he invited them into his snow world.
• The Demon Titan joined the meeting through a horned bat demon stand-in and said he wanted to take the Mad King Building too.
• The Steel Titan privately worried that the Demon Titan might know about his deal with the Mad King Building.

The Star Titan learned that the Demon Army’s reward was still unknown, while Xu Lang sent scouts into Heaven’s Gate to investigate. Lü Qing chose to slow the ancestral blood’s erosion, leaving the Demon Race clearer-minded and less mutated as the approaching battle loomed.

• The Star Titan questioned Chen Mu about the NPC reward and learned that their comprehension had doubled.
• Cao Yaxuan, Chi Qingman, and Xu Lang discussed the Demon Army’s unusual resilience and decided to send scouts into Heaven’s Gate.
• Kui Zi sent drones, cyborgs, Mad Vanguards, and Strange Tales into Heaven’s Gate, while Xu Lang’s puppet wore the Black Crown and drew the Demon Army toward the Titan Building.
• Lü Qing considered the game’s two choices and rejected increasing the Demon Race’s attack power at the cost of sanity.
• Lü Qing chose to slow the ancestral blood’s erosion, granting the Demon Race greater sanity and making their mutated bodies more normal.

Xu Lang and his allies discussed the factions’ exclusive quests and the danger posed by NPCs whose combat power and martial arts comprehension could rise. When Xu Lang consulted powerful NPCs, they proposed delaying a direct fight with the Demon Army and eventually storming Heaven’s Gate to capture the Demon Emperor, while their reluctance to help revealed how their priorities had shifted.

• Xu Lang worried that the NPCs’ Survival quest could empower the Great Yin Empress enough to release Yinglong and threaten the battlefield.
• Kui Zi reported that the Demon Army’s atavism sickness had eased, and the group discussed the risks of powerful NPCs mutating as their comprehension grew.
• Xu Lang agreed to meet with the NPCs and sound them out, hoping to observe them with his Nightmare Eye.
• At the reception hall, Xu Lang explained the Demon Army’s reward and asked the assembled NPCs how they should respond.
• A burly NPC proposed that Xu Lang and the Titan Building hold out while gathering information, then lead top experts into Heaven’s Gate to capture the Demon Emperor.
• The NPCs endorsed the proposal without offering immediate help, and Mary recognized that their growing power and self-interest could make them difficult to control.

Xu Lang pressed the NPC factions sheltering in Mad King Building to share more of their martial arts so the players could complete their missions before Titan Building gained the initiative. Jialan agreed to help, and the collection effort began.

• Li Xin mocked Meng Huazhen, tricking him into turning around and provoking his anger.
• Free and Unfettered Monk and Jialan affirmed that the factions had agreed to a partnership with Xu Lang.
• Xu Lang warned that he might abandon the NPCs, prompting them to protest and insist they needed Mad King Building’s protection.
• Xu Lang asked the NPCs to reveal the martial arts they had withheld, while Mary warned that Titan Building could seize the initiative.
• Jialan agreed to help Xu Lang, and the Residents' Committee began gathering martial arts from NPCs across their factions.

Xu Lang tasked Zhang Dahai with infiltrating Heaven's Gate and retrieving the Heaven's Gate Blade and Sword Record before the Demon Army broke through its domain. After borrowing Xu Lang's powerful outfit effects, Zhang Dahai set out alone for Heaven's Gate.

• Players found that martial arts collection progress was far behind the Titan Buildings, and Zhang Dahai considered ways to help Xu Lang's task.
• Xu Lang summoned Zhang Dahai to the Demon King Castle and ordered him to retrieve the Heaven's Gate Blade and Sword Record from Heaven's Gate.
• Xu Lang warned Zhang Dahai that the Demon Realm would bring terrible luck and that the Demon Emperor might intercept him, then lent him an Outfit Link Heart bound to his outfit.
• At ten that night, Zhang Dahai activated the Outfit Link Heart and discovered it granted numerous powerful effects from Xu Lang's outfit.
• Zhang Dahai left the Mad King Building alone and headed for Heaven's Gate.

The Demon Race sent elite envoys to the Mad King Building, where Thousand-Eyes Venerable and Red Dragon Venerable requested an audience with Xu Lang. Xu Lang revealed himself after observing them with the Nightmare Eye, and their negotiations began with Red Dragon Venerable struggling to control his temper.

• The Demon Army sent Black Lotus Venerable and another Venerable toward the Titan Building, while Thousand-Eyes Venerable and Red Dragon Venerable approached the Mad King Building.
• The Mad King Building's defenses stopped attacking the envoys, and Wu Huihui allowed them to enter the Demon King Castle Reception Hall.
• Thousand-Eyes Venerable requested an audience with the Building Lord, prompting players to suspect the demons wanted the NPC handed over.
• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Eye while invisible to inspect the envoys, their intentions, and their strength as they waited.
• Red Dragon Venerable lost patience and demanded to know where Xu Lang was, so Xu Lang emerged and challenged his impatience.
• Thousand-Eyes Venerable restrained Red Dragon Venerable and praised Xu Lang, while Xu Lang noted their visit was supposedly not meant to start a fight.

Thousand-Eyes Venerable and Red Dragon Venerable asked Xu Lang to expel the Mortal Realm martial artists, but he refused to betray his agreement with them. The Great Yin Empress and the NPCs began considering how to protect themselves, while the Demon Race ended its visit by inviting Xu Lang to become its Great Sage.

• Thousand-Eyes Venerable told Xu Lang that the Demon Race would offer compensation and friendly relations if the Mad King Building drove out the Mortal Realm martial artists.
• After news of the Demon Race emissaries spread, Zhao Wuchang and other NPCs gathered at the Great Yin Empress’s retreat and discussed seizing the building and taking players’ rooms.
• The Great Yin Empress turned away visiting leaders and ordered Hidden Official Li to suppress the curse affecting those present.
• Xu Lang sensed the curse’s suppression, refused the Demon Race’s offer, and told the Venerables to leave.
• Thousand-Eyes Venerable said the Demon Emperor wanted Xu Lang to become the Demon Race’s Great Sage.

Xu Lang negotiated with the Demon Race for the position of Great Sage while Zhang Dahai returned from Heaven’s Gate with a valuable book. After securing a possible alliance and asking for a path to the Earthly Realm or Ghost Realm, Xu Lang remained uncertain about the Demon Race’s role in the game’s growing conflict.

• Thousand-Eyes Venerable offered Xu Lang the Great Sage position in exchange for helping the Demon Race attack the Titan Building without sending troops.
• Zhang Dahai returned through a Vortex Gate carrying a radiant jade-like book, which Xu Lang identified as something taken from Heaven’s Gate.
• Xu Lang agreed to become the Demon Race’s Great Sage if they found a way to the Earthly Realm or Ghost Realm, and he demanded a third of the Titan Building’s benefits.
• Xu Lang collected blood samples from Thousand-Eyes Venerable and Red Dragon Venerable for Sun Xue’s Divine Blood Laboratory.
• Thousand-Eyes Venerable told Red Dragon Venerable that Xu Lang’s book might be the core of Heaven’s Gate, formed from Primordial Origin Energy.
• Zhen Lu and Wang Yazhi joined Xu Lang afterward, and he said he suspected the Demon Race might not be their true enemy.

Xu Lang examined and gamified the Martial Dao Heavenly Book, discovering it was a level 30 Mythic wonder with powerful effects and strict binding requirements. He left its hidden function locked and rejected the chance to contribute it to the Dormitory Spirit, while his companions considered how he could meet the book’s requirements.

• Xu Lang sent Zhang Dahai away with two Legendary skill manuals and told Cao Yaxuan she could not read the jade book yet.
• Cao Yaxuan reported that Black Lotus Venerable and the others had returned to Heaven's Gate after receiving a poor welcome at the Titan Building, while Wang Yazhi said the NPCs were secretly plotting.
• Xu Lang examined the jade book with the Nightmare Eye and gamified it before midnight, revealing it as the level 30 Mythic Martial Dao Heavenly Book.
• The game offered Xu Lang the option to contribute the book to activate the Dormitory Spirit early, but he refused because it could benefit the Mad King Building.
• Wang Yazhi and Cao Yaxuan discussed the book’s reputation and Martial Dao realm binding requirements, and Wang Yazhi noted that Xu Lang’s ties to the Demon Race could make raising Human Race reputation difficult.

Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi worked to prevent trouble among the NPCs while preparing for the Demon Race’s next attack. Xu Lang also spied on Heaven’s Gate and saw the Demon Race gathering a stronger army, as Demon Emperor Lü Qing resolved to end the battle ahead of schedule.

• Xu Lang told Cao Yaxuan and Wang Yazhi that he had asked the Demon Race to search for passages to the Ghost Realm and Earthly Realm to scare them, and Wang Yazhi urged him to sleep.
• Xu Lang stayed up to address possible trouble among the NPCs, sending Wang Yazhi to gather the mid- and lower-tier NPCs while he met with the Great Yin Empress and other top-tier NPCs.
• Xu Lang returned to Demon King Castle around two in the morning after making progress in winning over the Great Yin Empress and attempting to infiltrate Heaven’s Gate with Strange Tales.
• Xu Lang combined One-Eyed Twilight, Nightmare Eye, and Eye of Heaven to observe Venerables arriving behind Heaven’s Gate and organizing the Demon Race’s forces.
• Demon Emperor Lü Qing decided to bring the battle to an end ahead of schedule, while his growing authority among the Demon Race weighed heavily on him.

Xu Lang used Nightmare Coins and cross-category Fusion to create a perfect martial arts item containing knowledge of Martial Shattering of the Void. Meanwhile, the Titan Building struggled under the Blood Hatred Build’s battlefield system, then faced a massive Demon Race army attacking at night.

• Xu Lang consulted top-tier NPCs about Martial Shattering of the Void and used their knowledge to guide his Fusion experiments.
• Xu Lang fused a Legendary Grade book with low-tier cultivation methods, built a perfect mold, and successfully combined it with a Legendary Grade martial arts manual.
• Titan Building players blamed the Mad King Building for the Demon Army’s frenzy and resented being forced to buy armor and fight on the battlefield.
• A Titan Building player heard the approaching army, warned everyone to run, and the building sounded its alarm as the Demon Race army appeared on the horizon.