【Currently Available Simulation Paths】

【One: Embed a Blood Diamond into the Void Splitter, and drive players to test the turret's power, consuming 1 Nightmare Essence】

【Two: Go to Dorm 170 to investigate the Witch's true appearance, consuming 7 Nightmare Essence】

【Three: One against a thousand, attack the Yellow Sand Soldiers' Headquarters, consuming 50 Nightmare Essence】

【Total Nightmare Essence: 7 portions】

Xu Lang began simulating the first path, and he simulated it three times in one go. The results greatly satisfied him.

The Void Splitter embedded with a Blood Diamond was absolutely brutal. A single shot would blast a player into a bloody mist. Many players were killed by the chain effect before even properly touching the Void Splitter's projectile.

Watching it all in the simulated dreamscape, Xu Lang felt an immense sense of gratification just from the sight. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

It felt like he was playing a perverted version of the Dorm Survival Game.

...

After Li Wenwen finished opening slots for the six turrets, Xu Lang intended to see her home.

As they entered the tenth-floor hallway, he suddenly stopped and barked, "Who's there behind us? Show yourself!?"

His killing intent blazed like boiling magma, his resentment deep as Dou E's wrongful grievance.

Yet, the aura of that person felt very familiar to Xu Lang.

Xu Lang had already guessed who was hiding in the hallway.

Li Shuwen stepped out from the hallway, his face as stiff as a block of wood.

"Dad!" Li Wenwen exclaimed, both startled and afraid, feeling extremely guilty.

Dad had always wanted a +13 weapon... she had traded Forging Essence for a Heart-Protecting Mirror, that should count as a profit, right?

"So it's Uncle Wen," Xu Lang said with a hearty laugh.

Li Shuwen's face darkened. Far from feeling respected by Xu Lang, he felt something was seriously wrong.

After all, Xu Lang usually just called him Li Shuwen. Now suddenly calling him 'Uncle Wen'... this was...

The consequences were unimaginable!

"Wenwen, what have you been doing at Xu Lang's place?" Li Shuwen asked.

"I was helping Lang Ge open slots for his turrets and main door," Li Wenwen mumbled, adding some trivial details: "I can only open one slot per facility right now, I need to develop my Sequence further."

Li Shuwen shook his head. "The timeline doesn't match up."

"What?" Li Wenwen asked reflexively.

"Too long," Li Shuwen said, his words extremely simple.

There was no helping it;saying more would genuinely pain him.

"Wenwen was reinforcing equipment at my place earlier. You know, I have quite a few tenants," Xu Lang said, looking at Li Shuwen with a smile, hands clasped behind his back. "Uncle Wen, rest assured, I didn't do anything to Wenwen."

"I can see that," Li Shuwen nodded.

After he said this, the atmosphere froze. No one spoke further.

After a long moment, Li Shuwen sighed and stared at Li Wenwen's hands, which were clinging to Xu Lang's arm. "Wenwen, aren't you coming over?"

"Oh! Oh!" Li Wenwen quickly scurried over to Li Shuwen's side.

Li Shuwen's icy heart warmed a little. He looked deeply at Xu Lang and said, "Xu Lang, if something unexpected happens to me one day, I hope you'll take good care of Wenwen."

"That won't happen, Dad! You definitely won't die!" Li Wenwen said anxiously.

Although she saw death every day, she always felt it was something far removed from herself and Li Shuwen.

But Li Shuwen was different. He faced death head-on every day. Each time he entered the Blood Mist World was an adventure. How long he lived depended entirely on fate.

Li Shuwen shook his head, looking seriously at Li Wenwen:

"Putting aside our father-daughter bond, I am a combatant, you are a support player."

"If something really changes, I will definitely die before you!"

"Wenwen, if that day ever comes, I want you to live on, no matter what, survive at all costs!"

Tears instantly welled up in Li Wenwen's eyes, not understanding why her father was suddenly saying this.

"If that day comes, I will," Xu Lang promised.

If he didn't have a tenant slot available, he would let Li Wenwen stay temporarily next door, and bring her over once he had a slot.

The difference between the two was immense.

The most direct difference was that his tenants shared the Epitaph with him!

...

With Li Shuwen personally coming to pick her up, there was naturally no need for Xu Lang to escort Li Wenwen anymore.

On the way back, Li Shuwen felt very uncomfortable.

Even though he had Xu Lang's guarantee, speaking those words out loud would make any man, any father, feel uneasy... it was practically admitting his own incompetence.

But he also deeply understood that Xu Lang's promise was incredibly precious, worth more than a thousand pieces of gold.

In this Dorm Survival Game, people didn't have lofty pursuits;staying alive was the entirety of life.

This was a tragedy, but also the best way for life to directly confront its own existence.

...

Watching the father and daughter leave, Xu Lang also prepared to return to his dorm.

Just as he was about to open his dorm door, the small door of the Ghost Child's shrine was suddenly pulled open.

"Eee-ya-ya!" The Ghost Child gestured animatedly.

"That big doggy is still resting, he won't be coming over for now," Xu Lang said, looking at the Ghost Child.

The Ginkgo Wolf was currently undergoing fusion with the two major Sequences. Whether it would live or die, he didn't know.

"Ai~" The Ghost Child sighed.

"Where do you want to go play? I'll take you," Xu Lang chuckled, holding his hand out to the Ghost Child.

The Ghost Child turned to look at its shrine, then back at Xu Lang, sticking its caterpillar-like index finger into its mouth, looking very hesitant.

"Come on, no one will damage your little home," Xu Lang smiled.

The Ghost Child patted its chest, pouted in relief, and jumped onto Xu Lang's hand.

Xu Lang took the Ghost Child for a stroll around the tenth floor, not venturing too far.

Because if they went too far, the Ghost Child kept looking back, as if its roots were planted in Dorm 200.

During this time, the Ghost Child made a new friend: Tao Tao.

The Ghost Child and Tao Tao had often met before, but the former had always been somewhat afraid. This time, with Xu Lang bringing the Ghost Child over, it was clearly much better.

By the time Xu Lang brought the Ghost Child back, the River Mouth Child had also opened its pair of spotlessly pure, clear eyes and nodded at Xu Lang.

Xu Lang felt that although this Guardian Spirit wasn't very lively, it had quite high spiritual intelligence.

After routinely feeding both of them "Guardian Spirit Feed," Xu Lang's face suddenly lit up with joy, and he opened his information panel.

【Innate Divine Treasures: Refining the body with Innate True Qi will open the body's Divine Treasures. Bone and Sinew Divine Treasures are open (Constitution +40). Five Viscera Divine Treasures are open (Innate True Qi can be converted into Metal God, Wood God, Water God, Fire God, Earth God powers). Six Bowels Divine Treasures are open (Innate True Qi can be converted into Supreme Yang Thunder). Brain Domain Divine Treasures are not open. The attributes increased by this skill are permanent attributes】

"Just one more Brain Domain Divine Treasure, and the Golden Core Technique can transform, allowing me to become a Sacred Embryo Dao Body, which is an Immortal's body!"

Xu Lang was overjoyed and began to sense the changes within his body.

The skill breakthrough had filled his mind with a lot of indescribable, inexplicable knowledge, allowing him to sort out his own transformations.

"The Five Viscera are Yang, the Six Bowels are Yin. Supreme Yin transforms into Supreme Yang, Supreme Yang transforms into Yin. One Yin and one Yang nourish all things, evolving the light of golden splendor..."

Xu Lang suddenly felt like a grandmaster of immortal studies himself, and his perspective on all things seemed to have become somewhat different.

Beside him, the River Mouth Child's eyes widened, staring mesmerized at Xu Lang, as if remembering something again.