Recaps

Jian Li told Yan Fushou that the [Resident Evil] instance was difficult but enjoyable, and its S-rank rewards prompted the Coordination Bureau and military to urgently seek its Architect and plan to deploy the instance. Unaware of the uproar surrounding her dungeon, Lu Xiu read a player’s grateful email and realized her rewards had given someone hope for the future.

• Jian Li described the [Resident Evil] instance as oppressive and challenging, but also fun, and showed Yan Fushou its powerful S-rank item, skill, and attribute rewards.
• Yan Fushou saw that news of the rewards had spread across the forum and rushed to convene another meeting with Coordination Bureau leaders and a front-line military representative.
• Li Bao ordered searches for the Architect and risk assessments of gray-area groups, while Yan Fushou arranged to put the rewards to use and have front-line soldiers test the instance.
• The officials agreed that finding the Architect was urgent and that the instance could help the front lines, though its creator remained unidentified.
• Lu Xiu, unaware that officials and other groups were searching for her, read an email from a player who thanked her dungeon for giving him hope and a chance to change his life.

After reviewing her attributes and skills, Lu Xiu decided to try learning close combat, then went out to buy groceries and see more of the world she now lived in. As she passed a residential complex, someone called her by a familiar name.

• Lu Xiu checked her attribute panel and saw that clearing the Resident Evil instance had raised her Strength and Agility, while her Mental Power remained her strongest attribute.
• Lu Xiu considered whether to fight at range or in close combat and decided to try close combat to make use of Atypical Courage and overcome her discomfort.
• Lu Xiu changed clothes and left her apartment to buy groceries and explore the neighborhood.
• Lu Xiu walked through a quiet street, observing its shops, holographic advertisements, and residents.
• A voice behind Lu Xiu called out, asking whether she was A-Xiu or Xiu Xiu.

Lu Xiu accompanied Grandma Wang to the State-Run Store and learned that the [Resident Evil] dungeon had drawn intense attention from the authorities and private Construction Clubs. After checking the forum and seeing people seek its Architect, Lu Xiu decided to create another dungeon so she could gain ways to protect herself.

• Lu Xiu ran into Grandma Wang, who gave her Survival Point Vouchers and invited her to the State-Run Store.
• As they walked, Grandma Wang told Lu Xiu that her son Wang Baosheng had joined an Architect Association and was investigating the [Resident Evil] dungeon.
• Lu Xiu and Grandma Wang bought supplies at the State-Run Store, and Grandma Wang urged Lu Xiu to come to her if she ever needed help.
• After returning home, Lu Xiu opened the forum and found that the Coordination Bureau and private Construction Clubs were seeking the Architect of [Resident Evil].
• Lu Xiu saw that the dungeon's rewards had caused a sensation and decided to start making another dungeon to gain stronger ways to protect herself.

Yan Fushou and Li Shengkai struggled to find Lu Xiu while coordinating a trial run of [Resident Evil] for frontline soldiers. Han Xiao cleared the dungeon and urged the Coordination Bureau to improve its guide and send more soldiers in, since its rewards could save lives.

• Li Shengkai told Yan Fushou that the Coordination Bureau could not identify or contact Lu Xiu, while Jian Li offered to search for her in Chen Capital.
• Yan Fushou ordered action against the Jianqu Construction Group and warned major guilds not to interfere with the Coordination Bureau’s work.
• Han Xiao and fourteen soldiers entered [Resident Evil] to test its difficulty and potential benefits for the front line.
• Several soldiers died and returned from the dungeon within an hour, while Han Xiao remained inside for more than five hours.
• Han Xiao cleared [Resident Evil] and told Yan Fushou that its restrictive mechanics and vague guide made it frustrating for soldiers.
• Han Xiao praised the dungeon’s life-saving rewards and asked Yan Fushou to arrange a better guide, send in more soldiers, and thank Lu Xiu on the frontline soldiers’ behalf.

Wang Baosheng learned that the Coordination Bureau was hunting the Architect behind [Resident Evil] and received an internal bounty to identify her, unaware that his mother’s former neighbor Lu Xiu was the person they sought. Meanwhile, Lu Xiu created her second instance, based on Sekiro and titled [Loser's Obsession].

• Wang Baosheng reassured Grandma Wang that his Architect club’s work was legal, while she urged him to follow the law and asked him to find Lu Xiu a job.
• Grandma Wang told Wang Baosheng she had met Lu Xiu, their former neighbor, and felt sorry that she was living alone.
• Wang Baosheng wondered if Lu Xiu might be the Architect behind [Resident Evil], but dismissed the idea as an unlikely coincidence.
• Wang Baosheng received a club message warning that the Coordination Bureau had caught members and offering fifty thousand Survival Points for confirming Lu Xiu’s identity.
• Lu Xiu submitted her second instance, [Loser's Obsession], and entered Sekiro as its game name.

Lu Xiu built a Sekiro-based instance dungeon to train in sword combat and entered a test fight against the Samurai General. Her first clash showed that game knowledge could not make up for her lack of real fighting skill, leaving her nearly knocked down by one blow.

• Lu Xiu chose Sekiro as the basis for her second instance dungeon because its direct, aggressive sword combat matched her training goals.
• She constructed a snowy battlefield, the Samurai General, and Wolf, then configured the scenario’s attributes and systems.
• Lu Xiu activated roleplay mode, took Wolf’s avatar and Kusabimaru, and approached the Samurai General confidently.
• The Samurai General charged and struck her blade with a heavy blow, nearly knocking Lu Xiu down.
• Lu Xiu shouted for the fight to stop after realizing how different real combat felt from a game.

Lu Xiu repeatedly restarted her Sekiro-based dungeon to learn how to fight the Samurai General, gradually mastering blade deflections and attempting to counter his attacks. She left still struggling with the thrust counter, but her game-based approach was letting her learn techniques that could eventually work outside the dungeon.

• Lu Xiu restarted the fight after the Samurai General’s heavy slash overwhelmed her, then tried to use her memories of the game to deflect his attacks.
• Lu Xiu successfully angled her sword to redirect a downward slash, but the Samurai General followed with a jumping slash and forced another restart.
• Lu Xiu repeatedly practiced against the Samurai General, adjusting her tactics to handle his dodges, sweeps, delayed attacks, and rapid combos.
• Lu Xiu stubbornly attempted to counter the Samurai General’s thrust by stomping on his blade, though she could not get the timing right.
• Lu Xiu’s repeated practice brought her closer to consistently performing blade deflections and Mikiri Counters, techniques that her improving attributes could eventually make possible outside the dungeon.

Lu Xiu finally defeated the Samurai General after hours of practice in the Visual Mindscape, mastering deflections and Mikiri Counters. Back in the white space, she realized clearing all of Sekiro for dungeon verification would be exhausting and began considering ways to cheat.

• Lu Xiu repeatedly challenged the Samurai General, gradually improving her deflections, dodges, and Mikiri Counters.
• Lu Xiu broke the Samurai General's posture and landed a deathblow, but he revived and attacked with his second health bar.
• Lu Xiu continued retrying until she countered the General's thrust and defeated him with a throat-stabbing deathblow.
• The Visual Mindscape ended because Lu Xiu had cleared the mini-boss, and she celebrated her victory after four hours of fighting.
• Lu Xiu worried about having to clear every Sekiro encounter in succession to verify the dungeon and considered creating an author's passage to skip difficult parts.

Lu Xiu planned how to adapt Sekiro’s skills, tools, and stealth shortcuts for her dungeon while keeping direct combat central to her training. She tested the Chained Ogre encounter, died to its kick, and spent the following week fighting a series of mini-bosses to sharpen her reactions and timing.

• Lu Xiu decided to reserve Prosthetic Arts and Shinobi Executions as backup strategies while prioritizing swordplay and practical combat skills.
• Lu Xiu reviewed Sekiro’s skill schools and planned system assistance for combat arts, Spirit Emblem costs, and changes to items that relied on New Game Plus.
• Lu Xiu devised a stealth route to assassinate one of the Chained Ogre’s health bars and use the Flame Vent to exploit its weakness to fire.
• Lu Xiu built the Tiger’s Mouth Stairway and successfully performed a Shinobi Execution on the Chained Ogre, but its kick sent her falling off a cliff and killed her.
• Lu Xiu restarted the fight and practiced direct combat, then spent a week battling mini-bosses including the Blazing Bull, Seven Spears, Armored Warrior, Jinsuke Saze, and Moon-Hidden Headless.

Yan Fushou learned that a Builder Level 15 function called “Hall” might make original dungeons decisive, while Longsword Guild players struggled with [Resident Evil]. The guild decided not to seek out the dungeon’s Builder, leaving Zhao Heng to keep working on it.

• Yan Fushou heard Wei Yidong blame [Resident Evil]’s atmosphere and mechanics for his failure, then considered how slowly the Strategy Group was assembling a guide.
• Li Shengkai told Yan Fushou that the Spirit Pivot Construction Group leader had reached Builder Level 15 and unlocked a powerful function called “Hall,” which might favor original dungeons.
• Zhang Fenghua emerged from [Resident Evil] and found other Longsword Guild strategists complaining about the dungeon’s enemies, puzzles, and pressure.
• Zhang Fenghua learned that Zhao Heng had cleared the dungeon but would not return, and that the guild boss had decided against seeking out its Builder after pressure from the Coordination Bureau.
• Zhang Fenghua accepted the decision and told the others to contact Zhao Heng so he could continue working on the dungeon.

The leaders of the Construction Clubs met to discuss Lu Xiu, the Architect behind Resident Evil, and agreed that they could not let the Coordination Bureau or a guild recruit her. They planned to search their old instance records for traces of her player ID.

• Players and guilds struggled to clear Resident Evil and flooded the forum with requests for guides and speculation about Lu Xiu.
• Six Construction Club leaders met in a private Bell Tower space and argued over whether Lu Xiu might belong to one of their clubs.
• The leader explained that Lu Xiu’s original S-rank instance threatened the clubs’ former monopoly and could bring its Architect major rewards.
• The club leaders agreed they needed to find Lu Xiu before the Coordination Bureau or a guild did.
• The leader proposed searching backend records from their civilian-made instances, where Lu Xiu might have left her numerical ID.

After days of training against mini-bosses, Lu Xiu challenged Gentle Blade Emma and defeated her by reading her attacks and landing a precise Mikiri Counter. Emma reappeared, and Lu Xiu wondered whether she could learn the Boss’s distinctive sword techniques.

• Lu Xiu adapted to successive mini-bosses and decided she was ready to challenge a rare elite.
• Lu Xiu chose Gentle Blade Emma and opened their duel by throwing a Loaded Shuriken.
• Lu Xiu deflected Emma’s Cross Iai Slash and traded attacks with her through a flurry of swift sword strikes and throws.
• Lu Xiu recognized Emma’s thrust and pinned her blade with a Mikiri Counter, breaking her posture and delivering a Deathblow.
• After Emma reappeared, Lu Xiu considered learning her moves because she knew Emma’s attack patterns from studying Sekiro.

Lu Xiu struggled to learn Emma’s moves, then tested what she had learned with a sword in her living room and discovered that reality lacked the attributes and skills to support her dungeon techniques. Meanwhile, Wang Baosheng received an urgent order requiring builders to submit raw access lists for all their personal dungeons, leaving him wondering what had prompted the demand.

• Lu Xiu repeatedly fought Emma in Acting Mode to learn her techniques but managed to learn less than twenty percent before leaving the construction space.
• Lu Xiu bought an ordinary sword and successfully performed a move she had learned in the dungeon, though she found her real-world speed and strength lacking.
• Lu Xiu tried to imitate Emma’s attacks and a shuffle step, lost her balance, hit her head on a wall, and decided to wait for rewards from clearing the [Sekiro] dungeon.
• Wang Baosheng saw an urgent notice ordering all builders to suspend their projects and submit unfiltered access lists for every personal dungeon within one week.
• Wang Baosheng questioned the administrator about the request, but the administrator provided only data extraction instructions and no explanation.

After killing Emma 72 times, Lu Xiu learned the fundamentals of combat and defeated Genichiro Ashina twice without taking damage. Genichiro entered his lightning-wielding third phase and killed her, leaving Lu Xiu annoyed but confident she would soon overcome him.

• Lu Xiu repeatedly fought Emma, learned to control distance and timing, and defeated her with a flowing series of sword strikes.
• Lu Xiu challenged Genichiro Ashina and deflected his Floating Passage attack before landing a Deathblow that ended his first life.
• Lu Xiu countered Genichiro’s second-phase attacks and defeated him again, realizing her repeated practice had taught her the essence of combat.
• Genichiro entered his Way of Tomoe phase and attacked Lu Xiu with lightning, killing her.
• Lu Xiu complained that Genichiro had broken the rules of their sword duel, then decided to fight him again and learn Floating Passage.

Lu Xiu defeated nearly every rare powerhouse in Sekiro, but the Demon of Hatred exhausted her so badly that she postponed challenging Sword Saint Isshin Ashina. She restarted from the beginning to inspect the game’s systems and dungeon route, then confronted the Samurai General who had once taken her four hours to beat.

• Lu Xiu defeated the rare powerhouses across Ashina, including the aged Isshin Ashina, the Guardian Ape, Great Shinobi Owl, and Demon of Hatred, but the final fight left her drained.
• Lu Xiu decided to take a break from the hardest bosses and inspect the instance’s systems and progression before challenging Sword Saint Isshin Ashina.
• Lu Xiu entered the construction space at the beginning of Sekiro’s story, woke in the Dilapidated Temple, and spoke with the Sculptor.
• Lu Xiu checked the tutorial and route, then silently cleared soldiers using stealth and Deathblows.
• Lu Xiu reached the Samurai General, who had once taken her four hours to defeat, and asked whether she looked like she used to.

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.