Recaps

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.

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.