Chapter Summaries

Lu Xiu agreed to set Sekiro’s ticket price at 1 Survival Point after hearing Yan Fushou’s case for making the instance accessible and Han Xiao’s reasons for defending civilians. As Yan Fushou prepared to discuss the buyout fee, Wei Yidong burst into the training ground and confronted Lu Xiu.

• Yan Fushou explained the Coordination Bureau’s limited funds and asked Lu Xiu to sell Sekiro’s pricing rights, arguing that cheap access could help citizens become stronger.
• Lu Xiu asked why Han Xiao risked his life on the frontlines, and he explained that soldiers protected elderly people, pregnant women, and children who could not defend themselves.
• Lu Xiu set Sekiro’s ticket price at 1 Survival Point, calling the decision her contribution, and Han Xiao saluted her.
• Wei Yidong barged into the training ground, stared at Lu Xiu in disbelief, and confirmed that she had created Resident Evil and Sekiro.

Wei Yidong challenged Lu Xiu to a fight after confronting her over the brutal dungeons she designed, and Lu Xiu overwhelmed him with flawless deflections and counterattacks. When Wei Yidong lost control and activated his Domain, Jian Li stopped him, and he apologized before pleading with Lu Xiu to explain how he could improve.

• Wei Yidong angrily accused Lu Xiu of making the [Resident Evil] and [Sekiro] dungeons brutally difficult, then challenged her to fight.
• Lu Xiu accepted after learning Wei Yidong was a member of the Strategy Group with the Chosen Talent Flame God, and Yan Fushou ordered him not to use his Domain.
• Wei Yidong attacked with his flaming lance, but Lu Xiu pinned it with her foot, dodged his flames, and deflected his follow-up strikes.
• Lu Xiu kept Wei Yidong under relentless pressure for ten minutes, while he failed to land a single hit.
• Wei Yidong activated his Domain, Burning Hell, but Jian Li struck him on the head and stopped him.
• Wei Yidong apologized to Lu Xiu and asked her to explain why he could not hit her and how he could defeat opponents like her.

Lu Xiu explained how repeated deaths in the Sekiro instance had taught her to fight, then the Goddess intervened over her low ticket price and strategy leaks. The Goddess stripped Builders of pricing authority, imposed new Sekiro restrictions, and named Lu Xiu its blade before appearing to her briefly.

• Lu Xiu defeated Wei Yidong through precise technique and criticized his reliance on raw strength and straightforward attacks.
• Lu Xiu told Yan Fushou, Han Xiao, and Wei Yidong that she had learned to fight by dying hundreds of times in the Sekiro instance, and explained how its combat could train players.
• The Goddess opened dark red system panels nationwide and judged Lu Xiu in violation for pricing Sekiro at one survival point and revealing its strategies.
• The Goddess removed all Builders' pricing authority, capped daily deaths in Sekiro, restricted rewards after one hundred deaths, and added Wolf Played by Lu Xiu as a special enemy.
• The Goddess gave Lu Xiu the title Goddess's Blade, forbade her from sharing instance strategies, and briefly appeared before her in the training ground.

After the Goddess intervened in Lu Xiu’s Sekiro dungeon, the system added a daily death limit and barred Lu Xiu from revealing dungeon details while granting her the Goddess’s Blade title and greater construction authority. The Coordination Bureau publicly announced the dungeon’s one-point ticket price, and players flooded the forum with reactions as an unknown girl in the Old Sea read the news.

• Lu Xiu learned from Yan Fushou that the Goddess had intervened, adding a death limit and restricting her from sharing dungeon information.
• Yan Fushou and Han Xiao discussed Lu Xiu’s combat skill and the Goddess’s reasons for granting her special authority while limiting her guidance of others.
• Yan Fushou arranged for the Coordination Bureau to promote Sekiro’s permanent ticket-price reduction from 700 Survival Points to 1 point.
• Players reacted to the official announcement by praising Lu Xiu, debating the death limit, and expressing excitement about fighting the extra enemy, [Wolf Played by the Constructor].
• A frail girl in the Old Sea read the forum announcement, and a faint glimmer appeared in her lifeless eyes.

Shen Nian learned that Sekiro tickets had dropped to one Survival Point and began repeatedly challenging the dungeon, determined to grow stronger through practice. After making progress against its enemies, she left Hirata Estate exhausted and close to breaking down.

• Shen Nian remembered how poverty, her mother's death, and years of low-level dungeon runs had left her struggling to survive, while Resident Evil had only partly eased her circumstances.
• After seeing that Lu Xiu had reduced Sekiro tickets to one point, Shen Nian entered the dungeon again and again, improving against the Samurai General and Chained Ogre.
• Shen Nian repeatedly fought Enshin of Misen until she overcame her instinct to dodge and successfully performed a Mikiri Counter, eventually defeating him.
• Shen Nian struggled against a Lone Shadow's relentless kicks and Juzou the Drunkard's heavy attacks, poison, and sumo techniques.
• After dying again in Hirata Estate, Shen Nian emerged exhausted and on the verge of a breakdown.

After enduring countless deaths in the [Sekiro] dungeon, Shen Nian discovered that its battles had sharpened her instincts enough to make a familiar C-rank dungeon feel easy, giving her confidence that she could grow without innate talents or skills. Meanwhile, Lu Xiu began testing technology-focused dungeon ideas, and Jian Li cleared [Sekiro] as the dungeon’s difficulty humbled its challengers.

• Shen Nian stopped retrying Juzou the Drunkard and tested herself in a C-rank dungeon, where she effortlessly defeated its enemies.
• Shen Nian realized that repeated deaths in [Sekiro] had ingrained battle instincts in her, and she vowed to keep fighting toward clearing it and thank Lu Xiu.
• Jian Li asked Lu Xiu if she wanted to fight, then thanked her for what had happened at the training ground before leaving the elevator.
• Lu Xiu checked her Goddess's Blade title and began testing whether she could build a technology-focused third dungeon, including scenes involving mech control.
• Jian Li cleared the [Sekiro] dungeon, leaving Yan Fushou silent after hearing her evaluation, while forum challengers reported dying more than 100 times after reaching the fights beyond Gyoubu Oniwa.

Jiang Qiu reached Sword Saint Isshin Ashina after conquering the Sekiro dungeon’s earlier bosses, but his lance and repeating firearm shattered her confidence. After 113 deaths, she announced that she had finally broken through his second phase and vowed to challenge Lu Xiu.

• Jiang Qiu recalled overcoming Genichiro Ashina, the Guardian Ape, Great Shinobi Owl, and the later bosses by studying the dungeon’s mechanics and honing her combat instincts.
• Jiang Qiu defeated Sword Saint Isshin Ashina’s first phase and began fighting his second phase, learning to counter his lance with a Mikiri Counter.
• Isshin Ashina pulled out a repeating firearm and shot Jiang Qiu, prompting her to rage at Lu Xiu after she revived at the final Sculptor's Idol.
• Players across the forum complained about the dungeon’s later bosses, while a small number reached the white reed marsh and were beaten by Isshin.
• Jiang Qiu posted that she had broken through Isshin’s second phase after 113 deaths and vowed to defeat Lu Xiu’s avatar and challenge her.

Jiang Qiu defeated Isshin Ashina in the Sekiro dungeon but was killed by the additional enemy, Wolf Played by the Constructor, and returned with only partial rewards. The Coordination Bureau discussed studying the enemy to improve their strategy, while Li Bao wondered what Lu Xiu had obtained from the dungeon.

• After Jiang Qiu cleared Isshin Ashina, the system summoned Wolf Played by the Constructor as an additional enemy because her death count exceeded the limit.
• Wolf Played by the Constructor effortlessly deflected Jiang Qiu's attacks, countered her prosthetic tools, and killed her with a Deathblow.
• Jiang Qiu returned to Longsword Guild with the skill Loser's Obsession and rushed off intending to confront Lu Xiu at the Coordination Bureau, but her secretary stopped her.
• Major guild leaders and top players anonymously complained on the forum that Wolf Played by the Constructor was nearly impossible to beat.
• Yan Fushou told Li Bao that Cheng Xiu would use Master Mimic to recreate the enemy for the Strategy Group, while Jian Li continued exploring the dungeon.
• Li Bao learned that Han Xiao had taken the Loaded Umbrella to the front line for testing and wondered what Lu Xiu had gained from the dungeon.

At Sea City’s Northern Seventh Defense Line, Han Xiao and his team used a maze of barricades to fight off crawlers emerging from the assimilated southern district. As the monsters kept strengthening and their numbers continued to surge, Han Xiao held the line and prepared to test the Loaded Umbrella.

• The chapter described how the rift and Environmental Assimilation Mechanism had turned southern Sea City into a monster nest, forcing the Northern Seventh Defense Line to retreat three kilometers north.
• Han Xiao showed his team the Loaded Umbrella, a reward from Lu Xiu’s Sekiro instance that might block breath attacks.
• A mass of crawlers erupted from the membrane on a mall and charged toward the northern district, so Han Xiao ordered his team to prepare and notify Big Head.
• Han Xiao and his teammates drew the crawlers into narrow passages and used coordinated attacks on the seams between their scales to kill them.
• The crawlers continued advancing as their periodic system enhancements made them harder to kill, leaving the entire defense line fighting an endless tide.

Han Xiao’s defense sector repelled a massive monster tide, with soldiers using abilities and items from Lu Xiu’s Resident Evil instance to survive and hold the line. Just as the battle ended, flying monsters appeared overhead, prompting an alarm and sending Jiang Qiu to the Coordination Bureau.

• Han Xiao warned that the crawlers were preparing to breathe, but their attacks burned through the transverse wall and opened the defense to a flood of monsters.
• Soldiers across the Seventh Defense Line used Ordinary Person's Courage and Hand Sanitizer to fight on after losing limbs, while a patroller rushed between breaches to clear monsters.
• Rifttooth and rippers joined the assault, but after about three hours the monster tide dwindled; Han Xiao then used the Loaded Umbrella to block a crawler's breath attacks and kill it and two others.
• The exhausted soldiers praised Lu Xiu's Resident Evil instance for providing Hand Sanitizer and Ordinary Person's Courage, while Han Xiao wondered what a high-attribute breath attack would do.
• Flying monsters swept over the pedestrian street, and Han Xiao's soldiers raised the alarm as Li Bao learned of the sighting.
• Jiang Qiu received news of the flying monsters, left the Longsword Guild, and headed for the Coordination Bureau.

Lu Xiu accepted Shen Nian’s Builder Roleplay challenge in the Sekiro dungeon and defeated her after a brief fight. Shen Nian returned to Old Sea grateful for Lu Xiu’s creations and entered the dungeon again, while Lu Xiu went back to building a new scenario.

• Lu Xiu accepted a challenge in the Sekiro dungeon and found Shen Nian waiting as Wolf at Sword Saint Isshin Ashina’s arena.
• Shen Nian thanked Lu Xiu for creating affordable dungeons that had helped her survive and improve, then discussed how she defeated Isshin.
• Lu Xiu persuaded Shen Nian to fight, and Shen Nian attacked with sharp, practiced moves.
• Lu Xiu used Isshin’s techniques to overwhelm Shen Nian, defeat her, and earn 0.3 Agility and 5% Sword Saint · Isshin Ashina Accumulation.
• Lu Xiu returned to the Construction Space and resumed building a dungeon, while Shen Nian reentered Sekiro in Old Sea.

Lu Xiu chose Titanfall 2 as the basis for her next instance and tested its Pilot movement mechanics while working out how to teach players to use them and pilot Titans. Meanwhile, flying monsters threatened the front lines, and the Coordination Bureau hoped Lu Xiu might create a way for people to fight in the air, though Yan Fushou doubted she would take on such a different project.

• Lu Xiu tested the Pilot Gauntlet, using a Jump Kit to double-jump, wall-run, slide, and shoot robotic infantry, and decided to base her third instance on Titanfall 2.
• Lu Xiu explained how she had adapted Titan controls into a motion-based cockpit system and struggled to make Jump Kit controls intuitive before devising holographic movement demonstrations and assistance for players.
• Guild leaders and the Coordination Bureau met in Chen Capital after flying monsters appeared on the front line, then agreed to rotate more high-sequence players and station one-third of the Strategy Group there.
• Li Bao told Yan Fushou that the Loaded Umbrella could block breath attacks and asked the Strategy Group to find a way to clear Sekiro quickly and contact Lu Xiu more often.
• Yan Fushou considered whether Lu Xiu could build an instance or reward to counter flying monsters, but doubted she would move so quickly from her previous hardcore themes to aerial science-fiction warfare.

Lu Xiu completed and packaged her Titanfall instance, then entered live-machine verification as Jack Cooper. At the Coordination Bureau, Jiang Qiu asked to meet Lu Xiu but was refused, just as the system announced Lu Xiu’s new dungeon.

• Lu Xiu finished practicing her shooting, submitted Titanfall’s details, and packaged the instance at a rule stabilization cost of 150,000 Survival Points.
• Lu Xiu entered live-machine verification as Jack Cooper, and a hidden system directive triggered full-domain promotion for her dungeon.
• Jiang Qiu left a meeting where guild leaders argued over frontline rotation quotas and encountered Yan Fushou and Jian Li in the corridor.
• Jiang Qiu asked Yan Fushou to arrange a meeting with Lu Xiu, but he said he could not disclose information or arrange one.
• A system projection announced Lu Xiu’s new private dungeon, Titanfall, leaving Yan Fushou and Jian Li staring at the preview.

Yan Fushou, Jiang Qiu, and Jian Li watched the system promote Lu Xiu’s new public dungeon, Titanfall, with a spectacular trailer shown across the region. Yan Fushou was stunned by its advanced weapons and mechs, then hurried off after imagining what its clearance rewards might be.

• Yan Fushou and Jiang Qiu discovered that the system was promoting Lu Xiu’s third dungeon, despite neither of them knowing she had built it.
• The system projected a trailer for Titanfall across the region, drawing players and soldiers to watch.
• The trailer showed Pilots using jump kits, guns, and cloaking to fight through a battlefield alongside towering Titan mechs.
• The trailer ended by announcing the public dungeon Titanfall, leaving viewers across the region stunned.
• Yan Fushou imagined the Pilot equipment as a possible dungeon reward and rushed away, leaving Jiang Qiu behind.

The system showed footage of Lu Xiu verifying her clear of the new war dungeon Titanfall, revealing an alien battlefield and her astonishing combat skills before cutting away as an enemy Titan approached. The Coordination Bureau realized the dungeon might provide equipment needed at the front line, and Yan Fushou said Lu Xiu could not be contacted while she was still inside.

• After the Titanfall trailer, people flocked to the forum and gathered around system projections to watch Lu Xiu's clear verification footage.
• The footage showed Militia forces ambushed over Typhon, and Lu Xiu emerging from a crashed escape pod onto the battlefield.
• Lu Xiu charged through IMC infantry with precise shots, grenades, and close-combat tactics, astonishing viewers with her calm and skill.
• An enemy Titan crashed down, blasted Lu Xiu away, and approached her before the footage abruptly ended with a system announcement that Titanfall would soon go online.
• At an urgent Coordination Bureau meeting, a front-line representative urged Yan Fushou to launch the dungeon quickly so they could test whether its weapons and Jump Kit could be brought out.
• Yan Fushou told the representative that Lu Xiu was still inside the dungeon and could not be contacted.

Lu Xiu’s Titanfall clear footage revealed her transformation into a highly skilled Pilot and then showed her controlling BT, prompting Yan Fushou to take the military representative to her home. Lu Xiu completed the dungeon, received an SSS evaluation for her playful parkour combat and serious final rampage after BT’s destruction, and awaited teleportation.

• The projection resumed Lu Xiu’s clear footage and showed her using Pilot gear, wall-running, double-jumping, and killing IMC soldiers with expert aim.
• The footage showed Lu Xiu linking with BT-7274 and using the Titan’s energy shield against incoming enemy fire, so Yan Fushou hurried to take the military representative to wait outside Lu Xiu’s home.
• Lu Xiu enjoyed the dungeon’s Pilot combat, rescued BT, used the Time Gauntlet through shifting timelines, and fought through the later missions.
• After the IMC destroyed BT, Lu Xiu took BT’s Smart Pistol and Data Knife and coldly fought her way through the final enemies.
• The system praised Lu Xiu’s clear with an SSS evaluation, marked completion at 100 percent, and announced automatic teleportation in 60 seconds.

After clearing Titanfall, Lu Xiu received a Jump Kit, a Pilot's Certificate, and a strange Protocol Treaty, then tested the kit at home. Yan Fushou arrived with more than twenty people, who stared eagerly at the Jump Kit.

• Lu Xiu earned an SS construction rating and an SSS clear for Titanfall, reaching Constructor level 7 and receiving the Protocol Treaty.
• Lu Xiu examined the Jump Kit and Pilot's Certificate, equipped the kit, and practiced its movement controls in the construction space.
• Lu Xiu tested the Jump Kit's startup in her apartment and messaged Yan Fushou to ask for a place to test it safely.
• Yan Fushou replied that he was outside Lu Xiu's apartment and asked her to open the door.
• Lu Xiu opened the door and found Yan Fushou, Li Shengkai, Jian Li, a uniformed middle-aged man, and more than twenty people staring at her Jump Kit.

After the system broadcast footage of Lu Xiu clearing Titanfall, military officials gathered to question her about the instance and test her Jump Kit in reality. Lu Xiu opened the instance, and the eager officials entered at once; inside, Li Shengkai tried to copy her movements and promptly crashed.

• Yan Fushou told Lu Xiu that the system had broadcast Titanfall promotional clips and footage of her clear verification, drawing a crowd to her home.
• The frontline military representative questioned Lu Xiu about instance rewards, and she explained that the Jump Kit worked similarly in reality but required careful energy management.
• The military representative requisitioned an abandoned residential area, where Lu Xiu demonstrated the Jump Kit's jumps, wall-running, and aerial maneuvers to the gathered officials.
• After Lu Xiu made Titanfall available, Jian Li, Yan Fushou, Li Shengkai, and the other officials immediately entered the instance, leaving Lu Xiu with four guards.
• Inside the training stage, Li Shengkai tried to imitate Lu Xiu's wall-running, lost his balance, and crashed face-first onto the ground.

After Titanfall officially went online, eager players entered expecting to move like Lu Xiu, but Zhao Heng discovered that mastering the jump kit was much harder than the promotional footage suggested. System assistance helped him learn basic wall-running, though he disabled it to practice freely and continued to struggle.

• System projections announced that the Titanfall instance was officially online, and players rushed to enter despite its 1,200-point ticket price and SS rating.
• Zhao Heng entered the instance after convincing himself that Lu Xiu's third instance would not be another trap.
• Zhao Heng struggled to control the jump kit during training and repeatedly fell while trying to imitate Lu Xiu's movements.
• Zhao Heng accepted system assistance, which helped him complete a wall-run along a specific route.
• Zhao Heng turned off assistance to practice on his own, learned a stiff version of wall-running, and still fell partway through.

Zhao Heng and other players tried the Titanfall instance after watching Lu Xiu’s impressive run, but they were overwhelmed by its difficult controls and deadly enemies. Their failures left Yan Fushou and Li Shengkai wondering whether anyone besides Lu Xiu could actually use the Jump Kit effectively.

• Zhao Heng finished the training level, entered the battlefield, and was killed by accurate IMC gunfire and a grenade after charging toward the enemy.
• Zhao Heng returned to his apartment and questioned how Lu Xiu had fought so effortlessly against the same enemies.
• Players who died in the instance complained on the forum that they could not reproduce Lu Xiu’s movements and advised others to avoid imitating her.
• Yan Fushou told Li Shengkai that the Jump Kit and battlefield were far harder than expected, and the others agreed they had struggled too.
• Yan Fushou realized Lu Xiu had likely tested the Jump Kit without assistance and questioned whether frontline soldiers who cleared the instance would know how to use it.