Recaps

After mastering Mental Strength interruption by repeatedly fighting Maria, the players cleared Bloodborne’s main storyline and gathered in the burning Hunter’s Dream for the final trial. The system required them to earn Lu Xiu’s approval as Berserkers, but defeating her would grant the title Uncrowned King and the Berserker profession.

• Lu Xiu denied that the Daughter of the Cosmos had a model, then suspected a player had linked the boss to the goddess.
• Cheng Xiu persuaded the players to keep challenging Maria, and repeated deaths taught them to disrupt her blood-and-qi attacks with Mental Strength.
• Cheng Xiu and Wei Yidong defeated Maria, while Rosalind and other teams also learned to interrupt blood-energy skills and improve their control.
• The players used their new skills to advance through the main storyline and defeated Mergo’s Wet Nurse, completing the dungeon’s main quest.
• Cheng Xiu, Wei Yidong, Rosalind, Shen Nian, and the other surviving players gathered in the burning Hunter’s Dream and debated whether the final trial would make them fight each other or Lu Xiu.
• The system began the final trial, requiring the players to speak with Gehrman and earn Lu Xiu’s approval; it restricted her to Berserker skills and promised the Uncrowned King title to anyone who defeated her.

Cheng Xiu organized the players to fight the Berserker Progenitor, Lu Xiu, after they defeated Gehrman and refused his offer of mercy. Lu Xiu effortlessly overwhelmed them, revealing how little they understood blood-energy control, then formed a blade from their stolen blood energy and prepared to continue the fight.

• Cheng Xiu persuaded the players to face Lu Xiu together, dividing them into five groups to interrupt her skills and attack in turns.
• The players refused Gehrman's offer to die peacefully, and Gehrman transformed into the First Hunter and fought them.
• Cheng Xiu's groups repeatedly interrupted Gehrman's attacks and defeated him without taking damage.
• Lu Xiu descended beneath the Blood Moon, then instantly caught the players in blood-energy threads when they tried to interrupt her.
• The players attacked Lu Xiu with Berserker skills, but she seized their blood energy and left their attacks powerless.
• Lu Xiu formed a blood-red blade from the stolen energy, and Ulysses warned that they could not interrupt it.

Lu Xiu demonstrated how to control and shape blood energy as she fought the players in the garden, overwhelming most of them with Berserker skills. The surviving players began learning to manipulate blood energy with Mental Strength, and Lu Xiu ended the battle by cutting down the ancient tree and counting thirteen who had learned the technique.

• Lu Xiu formed a blood blade that the players could not interrupt, then used Cross Slash and Rage Burst to knock most of them into the air.
• Shen Nian, Jian Li, Rosalind, Cheng Xiu, and Lu Jing used Mental Strength to control or deflect blood energy, while Lu Xiu praised their progress.
• Lu Xiu split her blade in two and attacked Lu Jing, but Rosalind intercepted her; Shen Nian, Jian Li, and Cheng Xiu then coordinated against Lu Xiu, who broke free and evaded their attacks.
• Lu Xiu fired a concentrated blood beam that killed Gong Yu and two players and blasted a hole through the ancient tree and the fog boundary.
• Lu Xiu charged through the players' formation and unleashed a storm of blood blades, killing more than half; Wei Yidong, Ulysses, and others used Mental Strength to survive.
• Lu Xiu released a sweeping blood-energy crescent that cut through the ancient tree, then counted thirteen surviving players who had learned to control blood energy with Mental Strength.

Lu Xiu overwhelmed the trial’s players, then explained that Berserker power depended on precise Mental Strength control of blood energy. As her instructor timer expired, she fought Jian Li and demonstrated elemental blood blades, leaving the players awaiting their results.

• Xia and the other survivors struggled to comprehend how Lu Xiu had defeated their group so quickly, and Lu Xiu explained how precise blood energy control and imagination shaped Berserker skills.
• Lu Xiu suspended the thirteen survivors with enhanced blood threads as a final exercise, and Jian Li broke free before asking to fight Lu Xiu again.
• Jian Li and Lu Xiu exchanged blood-energy attacks and blade strikes, while Xia reasoned that Lu Xiu had used overwhelming attacks to test the players quickly.
• As Jian Li reached her limit, Lu Xiu demonstrated blood blades infused with frost and fire, stunning Jian Li and the players watching from above.
• When the instructor timer ended, Lu Xiu vanished, and the system announced that the final trial was complete and began calculating the results.

Rosalind returned from Lu Xiu’s Class Contest Instance with a Berserker Profession Certificate and newfound control over her qi and blood, then learned that defeating a nation’s Monarch would unlock the option for nations to unite and remove their Border Barriers. Back in the instance, Lu Xiu faced another batch of players and prepared to put them through her training.

• Rosalind returned to Franca’s Royal Palace, reviewed her settlement, and found she had earned a Berserker Profession Certificate and gained the ability to sense and control her qi and blood.
• Rosalind told the King of Franca about the instance and its benefits, and he revealed that the late King Valerius had endured the Blood Frenzy Art rather than mastering its control.
• Rosalind urged her father to take the Monarch on the front lines seriously and said she believed Lu Xiu would eventually defeat the Monarch in Nine Provinces.
• The King of Franca told Rosalind that a new version was coming and that leaders could unlock the National Union authority by defeating their Monarchs, allowing nations to unite and remove their Border Barriers.
• Lu Xiu saw that eleven trial rounds remained, then welcomed a second batch of players and prepared to hang them up for their training.

Lu Xiu finished the Berserker Class Contest Instance, earned the SSS skill Life Is But a Dream and the mysterious Dream Lord’s Vessel, then tested her new illusion ability on Shen Nian and Jian Li. Her prank turned awkward when she accidentally lifted them while they were not wearing underwear, and a message from Yan Fushou interrupted the moment.

• Lu Xiu completed the final rounds of the Berserker Class Contest Instance, received a perfect evaluation, and advanced to level 12 as an Architect.
• Lu Xiu gained Life Is But a Dream, tested it by creating an illusion of the Witch Forest, and earned the mysterious Dream Lord’s Vessel as a perfect-evaluation reward.
• Players flooded the forum with reactions to the Bloodborne Dungeon, while Shen Nian watched Jian Li practice blood control and considered which Profession Certificate to choose.
• Lu Xiu returned to the Wooden Cabin and used her illusion skill to create a duplicate of herself, but Shen Nian and Jian Li identified the real Lu Xiu by her expressiveness.
• Shen Nian and Jian Li used blood threads to suspend the fake Lu Xiu, so Lu Xiu dispelled the illusion and lifted both women in response.
• Shen Nian revealed that she and Jian Li were not wearing underwear, and Lu Xiu hurriedly lowered them before a message from Yan Fushou broke the awkward silence.