Chapter Summaries

After repeatedly testing the Sekiro instance until its battles felt mechanical, Lu Xiu challenged Sword Saint Ashina One Mind and defeated him, then packaged the completed instance. She entered constructor verification as Wolf with her memories stripped, ready to begin the test run in Ashina.

• Lu Xiu replayed the instance for three days to test its side quests, prosthetic tools, items, skills, collectibles, and alternate route, growing numb from the repetition.
• Seeking a fresh challenge, Lu Xiu fought Sword Saint Ashina One Mind with all her tools and defeated every phase, but found the battle too familiar to excite her.
• Lu Xiu confirmed the instance was complete, packaged it, and accepted the 21,000 Survival Points stabilization cost.
• Lu Xiu entered constructor verification in Roleplay Mode as Wolf and underwent memory stripping.
• Wolf woke in Ashina Reservoir Castle Tower, picked up Emma's letter, and charged out to attack everyone.

Lu Xiu cleared Sekiro’s dungeon by defeating its enemies, including Genichiro Ashina and Sword Saint Isshin Ashina, then completed the Dragon’s Return ending. The system awarded her an SSS evaluation and began the countdown to automatic transmission, leaving Lu Xiu wondering whether it was mocking her.

• Lu Xiu raced through the tutorial route, killing its enemies and defeating Samurai General Naomori Kawarada and Gyoubu Oniwa.
• Lu Xiu defeated Genichiro Ashina in the Heavenly Watchtower and fought her way through the later regions, killing the major bosses and enemies.
• In the Reed Marsh, Genichiro Ashina summoned Isshin Ashina from the underworld, and Lu Xiu defeated Isshin and performed Immortal Severance.
• Lu Xiu watched the Dragon’s Return ending, then received a delayed evaluation praising her combat skill while criticizing her impatience and relentless killing.
• The system gave Lu Xiu 100% dungeon completion and an SSS Dragon’s Return evaluation, and she wondered if it was being sarcastic.

After clearing Sekiro, Lu Xiu received the special skill Audience and the first-clear reward Perfect Deflect. With Perfect Deflect easing the danger of fighting stronger opponents, she felt more confident about protecting herself as she planned to create more instances.

• Lu Xiu reviewed Sekiro’s SS construction rating and received the rule-based skill Audience, which forced her and a target into a posture duel and could activate automatically to prevent fatal damage.
• Lu Xiu examined her Sekiro clear rewards, including the Mortal Blade and attribute points, then unlocked Perfect Deflect for her first SSS-rated clear.
• Lu Xiu realized Perfect Deflect could counter strength differences and work with Audience, and she became excited about facing stronger opponents.

After completing Sekiro once, Lu Xiu discovered her new blade had changed her eye color, recovered from exhaustion, and submitted the dungeon for review despite lacking the funds to publish it. The Coordination Bureau staff were stunned when her application received another SS rating.

• Lu Xiu examined the Loser's Obsession skill and planned two more Sekiro runs to seek additional rewards, but exhaustion forced her to leave the construction space and sleep.
• After waking, Lu Xiu traced her crimson eyes to the Mortal Blade: Gracious Gift of Tears and disabled its special effect.
• Lu Xiu saw that stabilizing the Sekiro instance would cost 21,000 points and decided to apply for a Builder Special Fund loan by submitting the dungeon.
• Lin Xiao and Su Miao discussed how Resident Evil had prompted many civilian builders to submit low-quality dungeons for funding.
• Su Miao received Lu Xiu's new application and discovered that Sekiro had been rated SS, prompting her and Lin Xiao to scream in shock.
• Director Li Bao heard that Lu Xiu had created another SS-rated dungeon and demanded that the news be repeated.

The Coordination Bureau recognized Lu Xiu as a rapidly improving Architect and mobilized forces to find and protect her while cracking down on gray-market groups. After clearing Sekiro again, Lu Xiu obtained Dodge Step and Dragon Flash, tested both skills, and prepared for one final dungeon run.

• Li Bao ordered the Coordination Bureau to prioritize finding and protecting Lu Xiu, sending half of ten thousand troops to Four Continents and the rest to attack gray-market groups.
• Lu Xiu cleared Sekiro a second time, defeated Sword Saint Isshin, and completed the Return to Humanity ending.
• Lu Xiu received Dodge Step, Secret Technique: Dragon Flash, and the Loaded Umbrella as settlement rewards.
• Lu Xiu tested Dodge Step and Dragon Flash, but Dragon Flash shattered her ordinary steel sword.
• Lu Xiu checked the Loaded Umbrella and prepared to enter Sekiro for a final run.

After clearing the Sekiro dungeon on the Immortal Severance route, Lu Xiu received new rewards, including an A-rank Peril skill, a powerful Nameless Blade, and Emma’s White Sheath. She discovered that her Architect level-five Immersion function let her embody dungeon characters and fight players, leaving her surprised by the feature.

• Lu Xiu cleared the Sekiro dungeon with 100% completion and an SSS rating on the Immortal Severance route.
• The settlement awarded Lu Xiu the Peril skill, the Nameless Blade, Emma’s White Sheath, and a point of Strength.
• Lu Xiu inspected Peril and found that it warned her of charging attacks within ten meters.
• Lu Xiu examined and tested the Nameless Blade, which could channel lightning and summon a thundercloud during combat.
• Lu Xiu read Emma’s White Sheath’s placement function and wondered whether dungeon characters were conscious.
• Lu Xiu checked her newly unlocked Immersion function and learned she could embody dungeon characters to fight players.

Lu Xiu tested a new role-assumption function, improved her combat abilities and equipment, and decided to launch the Sekiro dungeon again. Elsewhere, the Guard Corps scrambled to hide and relocate after the Coordination Bureau recalled its forces from the front lines.

• Lu Xiu briefly assumed Sword Saint Isshin Ashina's presence, but the function ended because she lacked enough compatibility and emotional resonance with him.
• Lu Xiu decided to put the Sekiro dungeon online soon so she could gain character understanding and test players' skills.
• Lu Xiu reviewed her upgraded attributes, skills, and inventory, and felt she had gained enough strength to protect herself.
• Lu Xiu rested at home, satisfied with her progress and planning to challenge players in the Sekiro dungeon.
• A Guard Corps member ordered personnel heading to the Four Continents to hide and told mid- and high-ranking members to relocate after the Coordination Bureau recalled soldiers from the front lines.

Yan Fushou and Li Shengkai searched Four Continents for Lu Xiu while the Spirit Pivot Construction Group raced to reach her first. Their search led Guard Corps members to Wang Baosheng’s home, where his mother’s casual question suggested she knew Lu Xiu.

• Yan Fushou explained that the Administration Bureau was checking more than seventy Lu Xius in Four Continents, while the silver-haired girl put away her blade.
• Yan Fushou learned that Lu Xiu had released a new SS-rank instance and that the city was being sealed off as frontline soldiers arrived.
• Wang Baosheng spent the day at home with his mother, unaware that the Construction Group was seeking the creator of [Resident Evil].
• Chen Xiujie and six Guard Corps members visited Wang Baosheng and asked him to help hide Lu Xiu from the Coordination Bureau.
• Old Madam Wang asked Chen Xiujie whether he knew Lu Xiu, leaving Wang Baosheng startled by the implication.

Wang Baosheng agreed to lead Chen Xiujie to Lu Xiu after Chen Xiujie threatened his mother, and Chen’s group confronted Lu at her apartment. Chen tried to recruit her into Spirit Pivot with compulsory contracts, leaving Lu facing six hostile players in her home.

• Chen Xiujie’s men restrained Wang Baosheng and threatened Old Madam Wang to force him to reveal where Lu Xiu was.
• Wang Baosheng agreed to take Chen Xiujie to Lu Xiu after the dagger wounded his mother’s neck.
• Lu Xiu saw Chen Xiujie’s men outside her apartment and found Chen waiting inside her living room.
• Chen Xiujie identified himself as a member of Spirit Pivot and tried to persuade Lu Xiu to join the group because she had created [Resident Evil].
• Lu Xiu refused, and Chen threatened her with his stronger players and compulsory contracts.
• Lu Xiu asked Chen Xiujie whether he was threatening her.

Lu Xiu killed Chen Xiujie and the Spirit Pivot Construction Group members who had come to threaten her, then turned on the guards and Wang Baosheng outside her home. She shot Wang Baosheng in the thigh but left him alive, while his mother remained in the group’s hands.

• Lu Xiu attacked Chen Xiujie, killed three of his companions, and pinned the last woman to the wall with her blade.
• Chen Xiujie tried to escape by jumping from the balcony, but Lu Xiu used Audience to pull him back and killed him in their ensuing fight.
• Wang Baosheng and two guards heard the fight end; Lu Xiu stabbed one guard through the door and shot the other through the wall.
• Lu Xiu used Secret Technique: Dragon Flash to blast open the doorway, then shot the wounded guard in the head and heart.
• Wang Baosheng begged Lu Xiu to spare him until he could rescue his mother, explaining that he had been forced to help the group; Lu Xiu shot him in the thigh and went back inside.

After Lu Xiu killed six intruders who had broken into her home, the Coordination Bureau arrived and reassured her that they intended to protect rather than control her. She agreed to move to Chen Capital, and when her funding came through, she launched her second instance.

• Lu Xiu considered what to do after killing six members of the Spirit Pivot Construction Group, then armed Coordination Bureau forces entered her home.
• Yan Fushou identified himself as a Coordination Bureau director, and Lu Xiu confirmed she was the builder of the [Resident Evil] instance.
• Jian Li arrived, saw Lu Xiu, and withdrew behind Yan Fushou as painful memories surfaced.
• Lu Xiu clarified that she would help the Bureau within her ability but did not plan to join it, and Yan Fushou offered to arrange her move to Chen Capital for protection.
• After the Builder Special Fund transferred twenty-one thousand points, Lu Xiu put her second instance online and told Yan Fushou they could experience it themselves.

After the Coordination Bureau rescued Wang Baosheng’s mother, Yan Fushou and the others learned that Lu Xiu had killed a group of Sequence 3 players in minutes. They discussed how to approach the young Constructor and decided to send Wei Yidong to investigate her new Sekiro dungeon.

• Li Shengkai told Yan Fushou that Wang Baosheng’s mother had been rescued and explained how the Guard Corps members had been exposed.
• Han Xiao reported that Lu Xiu was unharmed and had killed the Sequence 3 players in only two or three minutes.
• Yan Fushou and Han Xiao discussed Lu Xiu’s combat ability, age, and the need to approach her carefully rather than recruit her immediately.
• Han Xiao asked Yan Fushou to apologize to Lu Xiu for the soldiers pointing their guns at her and to ask about modern warfare dungeons.
• Yan Fushou considered who should explore the Sekiro dungeon and decided to send Wei Yidong.

Lu Xiu rode to Chen Capital with Jian Li after agreeing to meet the Coordination Bureau, while the bureau’s crackdown on Construction Clubs stirred alarm across the forums. At the chapter’s end, a new instance appeared online under Lu Xiu’s name, drawing stunned reactions when players saw its SS rank and title, Sekiro.

• Lu Xiu reviewed her fight against the players and decided to meet the Coordination Bureau in Chen Capital, while keeping open the possibility of escaping if it tried to control her.
• Lu Xiu noticed the silver-haired Jian Li watching her, admired her appearance, and wondered whether wearing a skirt might be nice; Jian Li quietly studied Lu Xiu in return.
• Forum users reported that the Coordination Bureau had sent thousands of soldiers back from the frontlines and was cracking down on Construction Clubs.
• The forum discussed how the soldiers’ numbers and experience still made them a formidable force, frightening restless players into keeping a low profile.
• A new instance appeared on the forum, and players discovered it was the SS-rank Sekiro, authored by Lu Xiu.

Players rushed to try Lu Xiu’s new SS-rank combat dungeon, Sekiro, expecting it to be easier than Resident Evil. Wei Yidong entered confidently, but after learning the combat system, he was shocked when an Ashina soldier deflected his first attack and sharply raised his posture gauge.

• Lu Xiu’s SS-rank Sekiro dungeon went viral, and players and major guilds hurried to enter it after seeing its combat tag.
• Yan Fushou ordered Wei Yidong to probe Sekiro, and Wei eagerly entered, convinced his combat skills would make up for his repeated failures in Resident Evil.
• Wei learned that he played Wolf, the guardian of the Divine Heir, and followed the tutorial to find his master and receive Kusabimaru.
• Wei ignored the dungeon’s combat tutorial and charged at an Ashina Castle soldier, expecting to kill him with one slash.
• The soldier perfectly deflected Wei’s attack, and Wei watched his posture gauge surge as he stared in shock.

Wei Yidong entered the Sekiro instance convinced his combat skills could overcome its mechanics, but Genichiro Ashina and Samurai General Naomori Kawarada exposed how badly he underestimated its enemies. After dying and awakening in the ruined temple with a Shinobi Prosthetic, Wei Yidong was killed again, leaving him staring in shock at the general.

• Wei Yidong adapted to the Posture mechanic, defeated ordinary Ashina soldiers, and killed Group Leader Yamauchi Shigenori.
• Wei Yidong challenged Genichiro Ashina in Reed Marsh, but Genichiro overwhelmed him, killed him, and severed his arm.
• Wei Yidong awakened in a ruined temple with a Shinobi Prosthetic, learned about it from the Sculptor and Emma, and began progressing through the story.
• Wei Yidong regained confidence against ordinary soldiers and charged Samurai General Naomori Kawarada, but the general relentlessly pressured him and ignored his attacks.
• Naomori Kawarada killed Wei Yidong, and Wei Yidong stared in disbelief at the general while the Resurrection explanation appeared.

Wei Yidong repeatedly challenged Lu Xiu’s [Sekiro] dungeon, struggling to adapt to its combat mechanics and dying against its enemies and bosses. The next day, Yan Fushou found him exhausted and tearful, still insisting the dungeon was not difficult.

• Wei Yidong died to Naomori Kawarada, studied the tutorials, and eventually defeated the samurai general after entering the dungeon seven times.
• Wei Yidong struggled against the Taro Troop and its surrounding soldiers, then was killed by the Chained Ogre before eventually fighting his way past it.
• Wei Yidong repeatedly challenged Gyoubu Oniwa Masataka at Ashina Castle Gate, dying countless times as he tried to clear the dungeon.
• Yan Fushou returned to Chen Capital, found Wei Yidong in the lounge, and learned that he had been playing [Sekiro] without clearing it.

Yan Fushou learned from Wei Yidong how punishing the [Sekiro] dungeon was and sent Wei’s experience to the Strategy Group. He sent Jian Li into the dungeon to assess it, but six hours later she had not returned and the clear count remained zero.

• Wei Yidong described [Sekiro]’s unfamiliar combat mechanics, lethal enemies, and resurrection system to Yan Fushou.
• Yan Fushou asked Wei Yidong to summarize his experience for the Strategy Group, then told him not to reenter the dungeon until Jian Li and the others had tried it.
• Yan Fushou checked the dungeon library and saw that [Sekiro], an SS-rank combat dungeon by Lu Xiu, had no clears after more than twenty-four hours.
• Jian Li entered [Sekiro] at Yan Fushou’s request, saying she had nothing to discuss with Lu Xiu despite having wanted to find the Architect.
• Wei Yidong fell asleep in the lounge, and Yan Fushou covered him before leaving to handle other work.
• Six hours later, Yan Fushou found that Jian Li had not returned and confirmed that [Sekiro] still had zero clears.

Players and guild leaders suffered repeated defeats in Lu Xiu’s Sekiro dungeon, while Jian Li returned without clearing it and warned Yan Fushou that it was too difficult to promote. Yan Fushou decided to contact Lu Xiu to learn about the dungeon and negotiate its ticket price.

• Zhao Heng repeatedly died to the Blazing Bull after struggling through Sekiro’s earlier enemies, then broke down in his apartment over his inability to beat it.
• Lin Xiaoman begged Naomori Kawarada to kill himself because she could not defeat him, and he killed her again.
• Jiang Qiu fought Genichiro Ashina on Ashina Castle’s rooftop but died to his rapid Floating Passage attack and angrily denounced Lu Xiu.
• Jian Li returned after spending more than eight hours in the dungeon and told Yan Fushou she had fallen to the Demon of Hatred, which was only a powerful enemy rather than the final boss.
• Yan Fushou saw that Sekiro still had zero clears and that players had flooded the forum with complaints, then decided to ask Lu Xiu about the dungeon’s process, rewards, and ticket price.

Lu Xiu read players’ reactions to her Sekiro dungeon and considered why none had cleared it, then received more than a million Survival Points in Resident Evil dividends. She began thinking about building a larger dungeon with long-range or area attacks, but someone knocked at her door.

• Lu Xiu read a Coordination Bureau announcement warning players against attempting the SS-rank Sekiro dungeon and saw forum users discuss its difficulty and training effects.
• Lu Xiu concluded that players’ fear of losing lifespan and their unfamiliarity with the dungeon’s combat system made Sekiro hard to clear, and decided to wait before changing it.
• Lu Xiu received 1,034,825 Survival Points in Resident Evil dividends but found no information about the revenue split or entrant count.
• Lu Xiu considered spending her newfound wealth on larger dungeons that could give her long-range or area attacks, then heard a knock at the door.

Yan Fushou, Han Xiao, and Jian Li learned how difficult Lu Xiu’s [Sekiro] instance was and considered abandoning large-scale promotion because of its cost and long clear time. After Lu Xiu showed them its powerful rewards, Yan Fushou asked whether the Coordination Bureau could buy the instance’s pricing rights.

• Lu Xiu met Yan Fushou, Han Xiao, and Jian Li at the Coordination Bureau’s underground training ground.
• Lu Xiu explained that [Sekiro] contained dozens of elite enemies, fifteen rare powerhouses, and multiple ending routes, and that ordinary players could clear it only with extensive practice and many deaths.
• Yan Fushou and Han Xiao decided the instance’s 700-point ticket and lengthy clear process made large-scale promotion impractical for front-line soldiers.
• Lu Xiu showed them the S-rated Loser's Obsession skill and her B-rated Loaded Umbrella, which impressed Han Xiao and Yan Fushou with their potential battlefield value.
• Yan Fushou asked Lu Xiu whether the Coordination Bureau could buy out [Sekiro] or its pricing rights.