Chapter Summaries

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao visited Zhu Di in the Imperial Clan Court, where Zhu Di admitted his remorse and learned how much the Ming Dynasty had changed under Xiongying. Zhu Yuanzhang also told him that in another world Zhu Di had become emperor, but his descendants lost the Ming Dynasty.

• Zhu Biao asked Zhu Yuanzhang to let him visit Zhu Di, and Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to accompany him.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao entered the heavily guarded Imperial Clan Court and found Zhu Di living in poor spirits.
• Zhu Di wept upon seeing Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, then said he regretted his past actions and still worried about their health.
• Zhu Di noticed that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao looked much younger, and Zhu Biao credited Xiongying for the change.
• Zhu Yuanzhang told Zhu Di that Xiongying had led the Ming Dynasty to conquer lands across the world and bring prosperity to its people.
• Zhu Yuanzhang recounted that Zhu Di had become emperor in a late-Ming alternate world, but his descendants lost the dynasty after a little over two hundred years.

Zhu Di regretted his rebellion but was sentenced by Zhu Yuanzhang to spend the rest of his life in the Imperial Clan Court. Meanwhile, Zhu Ying received a huge haul of treasure chests for the Ming Dynasty’s world unification, including three new Spatial Portal coordinates and his first Tier 4 treasure chest.

• Zhu Yuanzhang rejected Zhu Di’s plea for death and told him he would remain imprisoned for life, without further visits from family or officials.
• Zhu Di expressed regret and wished for the Ming Dynasty to endure, then watched Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao leave him behind in the Imperial Clan Court.
• Zhu Ying received sixty-eight Tier 2 and thirty-six Tier 3 treasure chests for the Ming Dynasty’s conquests and opened them all.
• Zhu Ying obtained many cultivation methods and martial skills, along with Spatial Portal coordinates for three new worlds, and planned to share some techniques with loyal generals.
• The system awarded Zhu Ying his first Tier 4 treasure chest for unifying a world, and he considered conquering the Late Jin and Five Hu and Late Ming World next.

Zhu Ying obtained a Supreme-grade Spirit Vein and bound the unified Grand Ming World to the Civilization Command, learning that rival cosmic civilizations would discover it after a fifty-year protection period. He told Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao about the opportunities and danger, and Zhu Yuanzhang eagerly asked when they could begin conquering other civilizations.

• Zhu Ying opened the Tier 4 treasure chest and obtained a Supreme-grade Spirit Vein, which he planned to use to cultivate martial artists in the Central Plains.
• Zhu Ying activated the Civilization Command, binding the Grand Ming World and learning it had fifty years before cosmic civilizations could discover it.
• Zhu Ying went to Wenyuan Pavilion to tell Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao about the Spirit Vein and the Civilization Command.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao felt their True Qi strengthen near the Spirit Vein, and Zhu Ying explained that it could help create many powerful cultivators.
• Zhu Yuanzhang celebrated the news and asked Zhu Ying when they could begin conquering other cosmic civilizations.

Zhu Ying warned Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao that the Grand Ming Empire would eventually face other interstellar civilizations, but reassured them that it had fifty years of protection to prepare. At a court assembly, he laid out plans to develop and govern the unified world, beginning with continental administration, food security, and a global railway network.

• Zhu Ying told Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao that Ming Dynasty civilization could face attacks from stronger civilizations, but would remain hidden for fifty years.
• Zhu Ying announced a court assembly to establish the Grand Ming Empire's development goals for the protection period.
• Chongzhen Zhu Youjian and officials from across the empire gathered at Fengtian Hall, where Zhu Ying announced that the unified realm would be divided into five major continents.
• Zhu Ying instructed Yu Xin to prepare a list of capable, loyal governors and ordered officials to expand agricultural techniques and grow suitable crops across the empire.
• Zhu Ying tasked Qin Da and the Ministry of Works with building railways worldwide, starting in the regions around the Central Plains.

Zhu Ying directed the Grand Ming Empire to prioritize Central Plains development while strengthening its military, and the empire prospered over the following two years. By the end, the main-world Ming had reached the limit of its fortune, while the Late Ming world had expanded beyond the Great Wall and annexed southeastern nations.

• Zhu Ying ordered officials to focus resources on the Central Plains and continue established policies in the Late Ming world, while Zhu Youjian reported that its people were provided for.
• Zhu Ying ordered Guo Zhen to expand the Dinosaur Legion and instructed Mu Ying, Lan Yu, and other generals to improve military training and prepare for future wars.
• Zhu Ying and Zhu Yuanzhang urged officials to develop military strength, technology, and livelihoods, promising rewards for loyalty and achievement.
• Over the next year, railways, steam-powered factories, and merchant ships spread through the Central Plains and other regions, improving commerce and living standards.
• During the second year, railways and workshops expanded across the continents, Han culture and Chinese spread, foreign peoples entered government service, and no rebellions broke out.
• The main-world Ming's fortune reached its limit, while the Late Ming world conquered territories beyond the Great Wall and annexed southeastern nations.

After three years of rapid development across the Grand Ming Empire and its continents, Zhu Ying prepared to use the empire’s peak national fortune to help Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao advance their cultivation. The chapter ended as the two eagerly asked him to protect them during their breakthrough to the Grandmaster Realm.

• The Central Plains, Western Continent, and Southern Continent prospered as steam engines, railways, workshops, and water pumps improved people’s lives.
• Zhu Ying inspected the flourishing Lifespan Fruit Tree and learned from Guo Zhen that hundreds of dinosaurs were being captured daily for the Dinosaur Legion.
• Zhu Ying ordered Guo Zhen to expand the Pterosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Velociraptor armies in preparation for stronger future enemies.
• Zhu Ying told Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao that the Ming Dynasty’s national fortune had peaked and could support their breakthrough into the Grandmaster Realm.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao eagerly asked Zhu Ying to protect them as they began their cultivation breakthrough.

Zhu Ying guided Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao through breakthroughs into the Grandmaster realm by strengthening their True Qi and channeling the Ming Dynasty’s national fortune. Both succeeded and discovered they could summon dragons and fly, leaving Zhu Biao beginning to explore his new powers.

• Zhu Ying secured Wenyuan Pavilion and instructed Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao to circulate their True Qi while he protected them and infused them with his own.
• Zhu Ying channeled the Ming Dynasty’s national fortune into Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, who absorbed it and began their breakthroughs.
• Zhu Yuanzhang endured the transformation, entered the Grandmaster realm, and learned to summon his Black Dragon and fly through the air.
• Zhu Biao absorbed the empire’s civil fortune, endured the breakthrough, and entered the Grandmaster realm.
• Zhu Biao summoned a Golden Dragon, and Zhu Ying told him he could also fly through the air.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao tested their new Grandmaster powers, and Zhu Ying broke through to the same realm with far greater strength. After learning that the Northern Peace Spirit Land had been completed, they set out with Zhu Ying to inspect it.

• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao flew into the air and summoned Black and Golden Dragons, impressing the people of the capital.
• Zhu Ying used the power of the nation's destiny to break through to the Grandmaster Realm, forming sixteen Golden Dragons and revealing that his True Qi surpassed Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao's.
• Liu Lei and Guo Zhen reported that the Northern Peace Spirit Land, built around a Supreme-grade Spirit Vein, was complete.
• Zhu Ying explained that the Spirit Land would help selected Martial Dao geniuses and the royal family cultivate faster.
• Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Ying rode the Wind God Pterosaur toward the Northern Peace Spirit Land after Zhu Ying warned that flying would consume too much True Qi.

Zhu Ying showed Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao the Ming Empire’s rapid development before bringing them to inspect the newly built [Northern Peace Spiritual Land]. Zhu Yuanzhang eagerly asked how to cultivate there, but Zhu Ying said he had not yet deployed its spiritual vein.

• Zhu Yuanzhang rode with Zhu Ying and Zhu Biao above the prosperous imperial capital and saw its workshops, trains, and expanding rail network.
• Zhu Ying explained that pterosaurs had become popular transportation across the empire, while the strongest were reserved for the Pterosaur Army.
• Zhu Biao described the workshop district, and Zhu Yuanzhang praised the empire’s development and credited Zhu Ying, who joked that he might otherwise have raised an army against the Ming Empire.
• The Wind God Pterosaur carried Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Ying to the guarded [Northern Peace Spiritual Land], where Zhu Ying inspected its excavated grounds and palaces.
• Zhu Yuanzhang asked how to cultivate in the [Northern Peace Spiritual Land], and Zhu Ying explained that he still needed to deploy the spiritual vein.

Zhu Ying established the Ming Dynasty Martial Dao Sacred Ground with a Supreme-grade Spirit Vein and laid out plans to find cultivators through schools and the army. He then announced free schooling for Han Chinese children under fifteen and required Central Plains schools to teach both literature and martial arts, while excluding colonial regions and foreign peoples from cultivation.

• Zhu Ying deployed the Supreme-grade Spirit Vein and five Spirit-Locking Formation Flags, creating a cultivation ground where Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao sensed the Spiritual Energy.
• Zhu Ying named the site the Ming Dynasty Martial Dao Sacred Ground, and he proposed selecting promising students and soldiers to cultivate there, including meritorious generals.
• Zhu Biao worried that Grandmaster experts might threaten Ming rule, but Zhu Ying reassured him and Zhu Yuanzhang that their own realms would surpass any such threat.
• Zhu Yuanzhang convened the officials at Wenyuan Pavilion and directed Zhu Ying to explain new national policies.
• Zhu Ying announced free schooling for Han Chinese children under fifteen and ordered Central Plains schools to teach both literary and martial subjects.
• Zhu Ying instructed officials not to establish academies in colonial regions or allow foreign races to cultivate.

Zhu Ying ordered the empire to promote Chinese and Han learning, and Zhu Yuanzhang urged officials to prepare for future trials. Ten years later, the Grand Ming Empire had grown rapidly, and Zhu Wenxi attended the eighth academy martial arts tournament, which he declared open.

• Zhu Ying ordered Chinese to be promoted throughout the empire, and the officials agreed.
• Zhu Yuanzhang called on officials to keep developing the empire in anticipation of harsher trials.
• Over the next ten years, the empire expanded, and the Imperial Capital and its train station grew into a vast hub whose visitors all spoke Chinese.
• Liu Lei welcomed new students to Great Ming Imperial Capital Academy and announced the eighth academy grand competition, whose winners could earn a chance to train at the Martial Dao Sacred Ground.
• Zhu Wenxi arrived by Pterosaur, addressed the students on behalf of Zhu Ying, and urged them to cultivate diligently.
• Zhu Wenxi announced the start of the eighth Great Ming Imperial Capital Academy Martial Arts Tournament.

The Grand Ming Imperial Capital Academy tournament began, with Zhu Wenxi and headmaster Liu Lei setting aside five hundred Martial Dao Sacred Ground cultivation spots each for new and old students. The new-student contest ended with Zhang He among the winners, and the old students' battles began with their later matches proving more closely contested.

• Zhu Wenxi chose to hold the new students' tournament first and agreed with Liu Lei to award five hundred cultivation spots to new students and five hundred to old students.
• The academy explained the contest rules and began the new students' tournament, eliminating half of the two thousand contestants in the first round.
• Zhu Wenxi noticed twelve-year-old Zhang He, and Zhang He defeated his opponent to secure a place among the five hundred winners.
• Zhu Wenxi praised Zhang He and encouraged the eliminated new students to keep cultivating at the academy.
• The old students began their three-round tournament, and their second-round matches became longer and more evenly contested.

Zhu Wenxi oversaw the selection of students for cultivation at the Martial Dao Sacred Ground, where Zhang He and Wang Hui achieved major breakthroughs. Days later, as Zhu Ying prepared to preside over the vassal rulers’ ten-year tribute, Liu Lei told him about Wang Hui’s advancement, and Zhu Ying ordered the academy to support the prodigy.

• Zhu Wenxi watched Wang Hui defeat a fifth-level Body Refining Realm opponent and praised the seventeen-year-old student.
• Zhu Wenxi announced that the top five hundred new students and top five hundred veteran students had earned places at the Martial Dao Sacred Ground, and Liu Lei arranged their transport by Pterosaurs.
• At the Martial Dao Sacred Ground, Zhang He advanced from the fifth level of the Houtian Realm to the second level of the Body Refining Realm, while Wang Hui broke through from the peak of the Body Refining Realm to the Innate Realm.
• Liu Lei summoned Zhu Ying to court because the rulers of the vassal states had arrived to pay tribute, and Zhu Ying set out for Fengtian Hall.
• On the way, Liu Lei told Zhu Ying about the academy’s competition and Wang Hui’s breakthrough; Zhu Ying ordered Liu Lei to monitor Wang Hui and let him cultivate at the Martial Dao Sacred Ground longer.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Ying, and Zhu Wenxi received rulers from the world’s vassal states, heard reports on their development, and urged them to cooperate and follow Ming policies. The rulers toured the imperial capital the next day, where many bought Pterosaurs under Ming Dynasty control.

• The foreign rulers knelt before Zhu Yuanzhang and reported on their lands, beginning with England, whose ruler described rising grain production and offered chests of gold.
• Rulers from Western and Eastern Europe presented valuable gifts, while Aksum’s ruler offered ivory and animal hides and pledged to improve his people’s lives.
• Zhu Yuanzhang urged former enemies to live peacefully, and Zhu Ying called for regional cooperation and development under the governors’ policies.
• Zhu Biao invited the rulers to study the imperial capital, and Zhu Wenxi urged them to model their territories on it and promised rewards for rapid development.
• Zhu Yuanzhang hosted a banquet, then credited Zhu Ying with the world’s homage as they walked through the palace.
• The rulers toured and shopped in the imperial capital the next day, and many purchased Pterosaurs that remained under Ming Dynasty authority.

Zhu Ying weighed whether the Grand Ming Empire was ready to fuse the [Civilization Command] but chose to keep developing its strength through world conquests. He merged three portal coordinates into a Tier One High-Grade portal, which opened onto the [Biohazard World], and resolved to treat it as both a challenge and an opportunity.

• Zhu Ying decided not to fuse the [Civilization Command] yet and planned to raise the Grand Ming Empire's national fortune by conquering other worlds.
• The system offered to merge Zhu Ying's three portal coordinates, and he agreed to combine them into a [Tier One High-Grade Spatial Portal].
• Zhu Ying opened the new portal and discovered that it led to the [Biohazard World].
• Zhu Ying feared the world's advanced technology and possible viruses, then saw its resources and technology as a chance to strengthen the Grand Ming Empire.

Zhu Ying revealed that he had opened a portal to the dangerous, technologically advanced Biohazard World, where a virus had turned people into zombies. Despite Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao’s concerns, Zhu Ying insisted that the Grand Ming Empire would prepare to conquer it, and Zhu Wenxi hoped to join him.

• Zhu Ying arrived at Wenyuan Pavilion and made Zhu Yuanzhang wait until Zhu Biao arrived, defeating Zhu Yuanzhang in a chess match in the meantime.
• Zhu Ying told Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Wenxi that he had opened the Biohazard World Portal and explained that the world was plagued by zombies created through advanced viral technology.
• Zhu Yuanzhang wondered whether the living dead could restore Empress Ma, but Zhu Ying explained that zombies had no consciousness and were not the same as resurrected people.
• Zhu Wenxi volunteered to enter the Biohazard World, and Zhu Biao objected until Zhu Ying offered to accompany him.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao questioned whether the Grand Ming Empire could defeat the zombies, but Zhu Ying insisted that they would prepare carefully and conquer the world for its technology.

Zhu Ying secured Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao’s agreement to attack the Biohazard World after proposing safeguards against infection and plans to equip elite troops with iron armor. He then ordered preparations for a fifty-thousand-soldier expedition, while Zhu Wenxi asked to join and was refused.

• Zhu Ying told Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao that the Grand Ming Empire had a seventy-percent chance of defeating the Biohazard World, and they agreed to launch the campaign.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao worried that returning soldiers might spread viruses, so Zhu Ying promised to seal an isolated quarantine site with a formation and forge iron armor to protect against zombies.
• Zhu Wenxi asked Zhu Ying to let him join the expedition, but Zhu Ying refused and advised him to seek guidance from Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao.
• Zhu Ying summoned Lan Yu, Xu Huizu, Chang Mao, Mu Ying, and Qin Da to the Grandson’s Mansion to discuss the campaign.
• Zhu Ying ordered the generals to select fifty thousand soldiers with Body Cultivation above the fifth level of the Body Tempering Realm within ten days and train them for the expedition.

Zhu Ying assembled fifty thousand elite Grand Ming soldiers in a remote northern camp, equipped them with heavy armor, and warned them about the dangers of the Biohazard World. He opened a Spatial Portal to that world and set out with the army, while a formation sealed the camp from the outside.

• Zhu Ying ordered Qin Da to forge fifty thousand suits of seamless heavy armor and later gathered the empire’s elite troops at a remote northern camp.
• Lan Yu and the other generals speculated about their unknown target until Zhu Ying arrived at the camp.
• Zhu Ying ordered Liu Lei to distribute the armor and warned the soldiers that the Biohazard World contained zombies and advanced technology.
• Zhu Ying ordered the soldiers to remain in the sealed camp for two months after returning and established a formation around the area.
• Zhu Ying opened the Spatial Portal to the Biohazard World and flew toward it on the Wind God Pterosaur.

Zhu Ying led the armored Wang Wei Pterosaur Army into the devastated Biohazard World, where they encountered a convoy besieged by zombies. As the convoy ran out of ammunition and Lojer was cornered, Alice appeared and attacked the zombies.

• Zhu Ying sent Liu Lei and the three thousand Wang Wei Pterosaur Army soldiers through the portal first, ordering them to wear protective armor while he relied on his True Qi for protection.
• Zhu Ying and the soldiers entered ruined Raccoon City and saw the city overrun with zombies and towering buildings.
• Claire's convoy crashed after its lead car ran out of fuel, and the noise drew a horde of zombies.
• Kai Mate and the other convoy members fired at the zombies while Claire urged them to conserve ammunition and escape.
• Lojer tried to start a truck, but its engine failed; as the convoy ran low on bullets, he twisted his ankle while jumping down and was surrounded.
• Alice appeared and fought the zombies attacking Lojer.

Alice and the convoy were overwhelmed by successive zombie waves until Zhu Ying opened a Spatial Portal and sent the Wang Wei Army into the Biohazard World. The chapter ended with Liu Lei’s three thousand Royal Guard Soldiers slaughtering tens of thousands of zombies while more hordes approached.

• Alice killed the first zombies, but hundreds more charged the convoy, leaving Claire, Carlos, and the others trapped and short on ammunition.
• Thousands of zombies overwhelmed the group, several convoy members were bitten, and Alice’s shockwave killed the zombies around her but could not save everyone.
• Zhu Ying’s golden Spatial Portal appeared above the city, and armored Wang Wei Soldiers poured through as zombies converged on the gate.
• Zhu Ying landed before the portal on his Wind God Pterosaur, and Liu Lei led the three thousand Royal Guard Soldiers into battle against the zombies.
• Protected by armor and armed with War Sabers, the Wang Wei Soldiers killed tens of thousands of zombies in less than half an hour, while more hordes continued to approach.