Senior Sister Red Butterfly charged in front of the two Celestial Demon Building players. Her giant scythe slashed towards Ma Liang while also encompassing Xu Dong within its arc!

This was Senior Sister Red Butterfly, even her attacks were insatiably greedy!

Seeing Senior Sister Red Butterfly take action, Ma Liang wasn't idle either. He slapped a yellow talisman onto his body, which expanded into a dome-shaped light shield.

Then, without dodging or evading, he pulled out a grappling hook, seemingly intending to wait for an opening to attack after Senior Sister Red Butterfly's strike.

*CRACK~*

The giant scythe shattered the light shield and tore open Ma Liang's chest.

Xu Dong had dodged in time and wasn't injured.

Despite being grievously wounded by a single blow, Ma Liang reacted with astonishing speed, using the force of the impact to skid and stumble backward towards the Thousand Illusions Dormitory.

After steadying himself, he stared at his chest in disbelief.

Two-thirds of his chest armor's durability was gone!

Keep in mind, what he was wearing was a level ten Rare chest armor!

Most people who entered the Netherworld were Six-Cycle Players. A chest armor like this was practically a crushing advantage here, and he had even activated a defensive item!

Yet the result was this utterly pathetic!

"What's your total attribute score?!" Ma Liang, with his rich combat experience, asked urgently while rapidly healing himself.

However, no one answered him.

Ma Liang's retreat left Xu Dong in a world of hurt.

He was now bearing the brunt of Senior Sister Red Butterfly's wide, sweeping attacks. Moreover, fearing he might escape, she had blocked his escape routes.

After Senior Sister Red Butterfly flew over in her Ethereal Form, she had converted most of her spirit attribute into constitution. Her close-quarters combat ability was terrifyingly strong!

Her close-combat fighting style was distinct from Wudou's or standard martial arts, forming its own unique school. She quickly forced Xu Dong into a corner.

"Dorm Owner, save me!!!" Xu Dong screamed in soul-shaking terror as the giant scythe whistled towards him.

A crossbow bolt wreathed in black energy shot over!

Its source was a turret mounted on the Thousand Illusions Dormitory!

As everyone knew, no player would try to tank a turret attack with their bare body; that was no different from seeking death.

Yet, Senior Sister Red Butterfly stubbornly maintained her attack pattern and swung her scythe down anyway!

Xu Dong's right hip was almost completely severed. He collapsed to the ground, unable to get up again!

The crossbow bolt pierced through Senior Sister Red Butterfly's shoulder, but the wound healed at an incredible speed.

Senior Sister Red Butterfly's constitution was strong, strong in regeneration, not in sheer toughness.

*CLANG~*

Senior Sister Red Butterfly flicked her wrist. The tip of the giant scythe, like a bird's beak, hooked into Xu Dong's shoulder and then dragged him back, much like a butcher hauling a piglet.

The fight between the two ended in about thirty seconds.

Ma Liang, now leaning against the dormitory door for support while healing, was dumbstruck, unable to believe his eyes.

The next moment, the dormitory door swung open. Xia Xingyuan gave him a cold, hard look before quickly stepping forward and addressing Senior Sister Red Butterfly, "Friend, please stop! This is all a misunderstanding!"

Other Celestial Demon Building players also emerged from the dormitory.

"Let's talk this out, please don't harm anyone!" Xia Xingyuan stood about thirty meters away from Senior Sister Red Butterfly, pressing his hands down in a placating gesture, trying to soothe her frenzied emotions.

He could see it now; this Senior Sister Red Butterfly wasn't human at all, and her emotions carried an inhuman, pathological quality.

"There's nothing to talk about..." Senior Sister Red Butterfly erupted with ghost qi, making the gravel tremble. She glared at Ma Liang and said, "That rat bastard, the way he looked at Little Tong and me, it made me feel extremely disgusted!"

The women of the Platinum Luxury Apartment were used to being domineering within the Mad King Building, holding a status akin to a queen. Even if others were attracted by their charm, they wouldn't dare to stare so blatantly.

And Ma Liang had even verbally harassed them, calling them "little beauties" and such.

Who could tolerate that?

Everyone here was a player in the Dorm Survival Game, a world of survival of the fittest.

If you were a powerhouse, then fine, no one would complain. But when you're this pathetically weak yourself and still come out to hit on girls, you're practically begging for death!

"I heard your earlier conversation. You want the Soul Jar, right?" Xia Xingyuan took a deep breath. "We can give you the item, as an apology. Let's consider this matter settled. I apologize for my tenant's behavior!"

"No need. We'll take it ourselves!" Tong Qi suddenly spoke up calmly.

Senior Sister Red Butterfly was a bit surprised.

Hadn't she spared Xu Dong on the spot precisely to use him as a bargaining chip?

She might not be a doting mother like Tong Qi, but she was practically the Ghost Child's aunt. If the Ghost Child wanted a little toy, she could certainly get it back.

Right at that moment, a Celestial Demon Building player monitoring the rear area shouted in alarm, "Ma Liang, watch out!"

Xia Xingyuan glanced back just in time to see Xu Ruyan slash open Ma Liang's throat with a knife and snatch the Soul Jar from his hand.

"Damn it!" Xia Xingyuan was furious, glaring at Senior Sister Red Butterfly and Tong Qi. "Our Thousand Illusions Dormitory doesn't go looking for trouble, but we're not afraid of it either!"

Senior Sister Red Butterfly also witnessed Ma Liang being killed. She was stunned for a second, then burst into wild laughter. "Hahaha! What an excellent Master I have!"

She absolutely loved this side of Tong Qi's personality!

"Die already, you worthless trash!" Senior Sister Red Butterfly raised her scythe. The shaft smashed down, bursting Xu Dong's head open like a golfer swinging a club.

Tong Qi felt her vision blur for an instant. Then she saw Senior Sister Red Butterfly smashing the ground. The real Xu Dong had already been rescued.

Senior Sister Red Butterfly was still laughing maniacally, seemingly unaware anything was amiss.

Her constitution attribute was currently high while her spirit attribute was low, meaning her mental resistance had dropped significantly. Getting hit by an illusion was normal under these circumstances.

"Red Butterfly, stop laughing. Let's go. This dormitory is abnormal." Tong Qi glanced at the dormitory ahead. An intuition told her the illusion she just saw was caused by this very dormitory.

...

Back inside their dormitory, the seven members of the Thousand Illusions Dormitory group were somewhat silent.

Of course, the most silent was Ma Liang.

His head was gone, blood gushing from his neck as he lay collapsed in the entrance hall. Speaking was impossible.

"Dammit! How did you handle things?!" a female player yelled at Xu Dong.

Xu Dong immediately started defending himself.

After a few rounds of back-and-forth, Xia Xingyuan waved his hand. "No need to get angry over the death of an idiot. Sending him to collect souls was a mistake in my judgment."

"It's not your fault, boss. Ma Liang, that bastard, just couldn't keep his eyes off women!" A male player kicked Ma Liang's corpse, extremely angry.

After that, silence fell over the dormitory again.

Xia Xingyuan had never imagined there could be people even more vicious and ruthless than himself.

Those people from that other dormitory attacked at the slightest provocation, killing without hesitation!

Players killing other players, and not showing the slightest bit of restraint!

The Celestial Demon Building was a proper breeding dorm. Its sole ruler had planted a demon seed in everyone. The fact that he could survive and thrive there meant he was no saint either.

Furthermore, he even had some confidence that he could overthrow the Celestial Demon Building's ruler, which gave him a lot of pride.

He never expected to suffer such a massive setback right at the start of his Netherworld journey.

"Which building are those players from?" he asked coldly.

"They seem to be from the Mad King Building. Never heard of it," the female player shook her head.

The Mad King Building had indeed risen to fame recently, but it was impossible for every player to know its name, just like how Mad King Building players might not know about figures like Rainy Night Blade or Lord of Dawn.

"Those bastards better pray they don't run into us in a Building War!" Xia Xingyuan said icily.

He had figured it out now. The Thousand Illusions Dormitory might not be a match for the Platinum Luxury Apartment.

But the Mad King Building would absolutely be no match for the Celestial Demon Building!