Recaps

Zhang Yang lured the Ghost Queen into striking by making her believe his Great Fireball was his trump card, then used the Goddess of Love’s divine seat to weaken her and burned her to ashes. With the battle over, he told his battered allies to revive the fallen soldiers and prepare for spring.

• Zhang Yang waited by the enormous pyre while his soldiers fought the Ghost Queen’s forces, using the four tornadoes and fireballs to lure her out.
• After fifteen minutes, the tornadoes faded and the pyre nearly burned out, and the Ghost Queen appeared and wrapped Zhang Yang in red silk.
• Zhang Yang offered to cooperate and invoked his name as Zhang Sheng, but the Ghost Queen began to tear him apart.
• Zhang Yang infused twenty units of divinity into the Goddess of Love’s divine seat, causing the Ghost Queen to shrink in terror.
• Zhang Yang killed the Ghost Queen with a Great Fireball, then told Wu Yuan, Wang Mumu, and the others to clean up and revive the fallen soldiers.

Zhang Yang looked back on the twenty years in which his village grew into a city-state and prepared to leave its leadership to Zhang Wenyuan. After his life came to an end, the quest entered its transition animation phase, and he chose text mode.

• Zhang Yang reminisced about using Phantom Crystals to build a level-38 Wood Demon Tower and tame Earth-Walking Wood Demons.
• Zhang Yang recalled surviving a catastrophic flood, then leading his people through years of migration before settling and building a city.
• Zhang Yang reflected on handing the city lord position to Zhang Wenyuan and on the city-state’s population, military strength, economy, and young generations.
• Zhang Yang laughed as his breath faded, and a message announced that the Fantasy Village Building Quest control phase was complete.
• Zhang Yang chose text mode for the transition animation.

Zhang Yang completed the Fantasy Village Building Quest after watching the civilization he founded rise and fall over more than two thousand years, and received a large set of rewards. He returned to the present, where a liaison from the Qingquan City Village Chief Guild invited him to discuss the upcoming mission.

• The quest chronicle traced the rise of Zhang Wenyuan, the Wu and Great Zhang dynasties, and later kingdoms that inherited Zhang Yang’s civilization before the Great Wei Dynasty fell and the village legacy ended.
• The Village Building Order awarded Zhang Yang supplies, troops, mounts, five Earth-Walking Wood Demons, a recruitment quota, ten historical figures, King's Aura, and a Hurricane Swordsmen token.
• Zhang Yang returned to his balcony, ate the chilled watermelon, and exchanged complaints with his mother while she watched television.
• A woman named Xiao Qi introduced herself as a liaison from the Qingquan City Village Chief Guild and recommended that Zhang Yang accept a discussion about the coming mission.
• Zhang Yang agreed to speak with Xiao Qi because he had questions about entering the Fantasy Village Building world again.

Zhang Yang and dozens of other returning village chiefs were gathered by the government and told that Earth’s civilization was under threat as its code was being deciphered. At the provincial Village Chief Guild, they learned about the government’s National Teams and mandatory evaluations before being sent to be assessed.

• Zhang Yang rode with other returning village chiefs and watched as soldiers forcibly brought a chained blond man onto their coach.
• The liaison officer explained that Fantasy Village Building Orders appeared across Earth and that Earth’s civilization code was being deciphered, prompting the government’s hard-line response.
• Zhang Yang and the others reached the provincial capital and joined more than a thousand village chiefs at the No. 1 Middle School auditorium.
• Liu Weixi explained that the government would evaluate the village chiefs and might force those unlikely to survive another quest to give it up and lose their memories in exchange for compensation.
• Professor Huang outlined the known Village Building Order types and warned that governments worldwide had formed 280 National Teams under satellite surveillance.
• Guo Dawei briefly described his two successful quests, and Liu Weixi directed everyone to undergo mandatory evaluations.

Zhang Yang met with government evaluator Gu Yun, who explained how the country tracked and trained Village Building Order holders before assessing his accomplishments. He passed along deliberately understated details of his Fantasy World quest while learning that his village had faced city-level difficulty.

• Gu Yun told Zhang Yang that the government monitored Village Building Orders and successors, and explained what would happen if he died.
• Zhang Yang asked whether his own successor would be forced to begin the quest if he died, and Gu Yun explained that the successor would instead become an Original Village Chief the following year.
• Gu Yun began assessing Zhang Yang and asked for his age, gender, attributes, village level, and civilization's lifespan; Zhang Yang reported four-dimensional attributes of Strength A+, Agility B-, Defense B, and Soul B.
• Zhang Yang initially claimed he had reached town level, then acknowledged that his village met the city-level standards Gu Yun described.
• Zhang Yang told Gu Yun that his civilization had lasted five hundred years, concealing the full extent of his achievements.

After qualifying for the National Team and enjoying a twenty-day vacation, Zhang Yang reunited with the other Hidden Dragons and learned how exceptional his village-building results were. When he heard the National Team had become involved with the Great Wei Emperor’s sister in Zhongdu Commandery, he realized they were in danger but could not convince his companions to take his warning seriously.

• Gu Yun told Zhang Yang that he had been designated a National Team reserve and would receive generous benefits, so he went home for a twenty-day vacation.
• Zhang Yang left home for university and was taken to an underground base, where he reunited with Liu Kai, Liao Zhongyuan, Yuan Gang, Cao Heng, Duncan, and Liu Yu.
• Zhang Yang shared his village-building results, and the others explained that his city-level difficulty and 582-year duration could place him among China’s top performers.
• The Hidden Dragons urged Zhang Yang to report his results and explained that the National Team’s main force was based in Zhongdu Commandery and had allied itself with the Great Wei Princess.
• Zhang Yang realized the Great Wei Emperor was about to rebel and warned that Zhongdu Commandery was a dead end, but the others laughed off his claim.

Zhang Yang tried to prevent Earth Civilization’s codes from being deciphered by forcing National Team captain Wang Xinzhi to abandon the village-building mission. When Wang refused without evidence, Zhang killed him and appointed a replacement captain.

• Zhang Yang rejected reporting his knowledge through official channels and decided to stop the National Team members from entering the mission.
• After viewing the map, Zhang Yang chose Wang Xinzhi, whose sphere of influence lay near the Great Wei Royal Capital, as the first person to confront.
• Zhang Yang subdued Liu Kai and the others, then forced Liu Kai to lead him to Wang Xinzhi.
• Zhang Yang warned Wang that the Great Wei Dynasty would fall and demanded that he give up the mission, but Wang asked for evidence and refused.
• When Wang continued to resist, Zhang Yang killed him, and a white-haired official appointed someone else captain while threatening to exterminate his clan if the team lost.

Zhang Yang argued that the other binders should withdraw from Hidden Dragon Hegemony, but the officials insisted that Earth needed to explore the battlefield and ordered him to guarantee victory. After the Village Building Order activated, Zhang Yang vanished from the monitoring systems, leaving officials unsure where he had appeared.

• Zhang Yang spent eight days in his room after killing Wang Xinzhi, then attended a briefing with fifty-seven other Village Building Order binders and government officials.
• Zhang Yang urged the other binders to withdraw, warning that the alien hidden dragons were too dangerous and explaining his suspicions about the Great Wei royal family.
• The chubby old man rejected Zhang Yang's proposal, ordered the binders to cooperate with him, and told them to name heirs; Zhang Yang chose Mu Shaojun.
• The fifty-eight binders received heavy equipment and activated their Game Village Building Orders, after which Zhang Yang disappeared from his starting location.
• Officials discovered that Zhang Yang's signal and tracking equipment had failed, while the other binders appeared normally in the game world.
• The officials speculated that Zhang Yang's King's Aura +7 had placed him somewhere unusual, then suggested that the King's Sword had to be reforged for the Return of the King.

After discovering that he had returned to the world as Zhang Yang and lost one Village Building Order, Zhang Yang accepted the Return of the King quest. He learned that he was stranded deep in Mirage Tribe Demon territory, thousands of kilometers from safety, and prepared to make weapons.

• Zhang Yang found his weapons, backpack, and bulletproof vest missing, then discovered that one of his four Village Building Orders was gone.
• The system offered Zhang Yang a choice between continuing Hidden Dragon Hegemony and accepting Return of the King, warning that the new quest would make powerful enemies hunt him.
• Zhang Yang chose Return of the King, merging his Fantasy Village Building Order and Game Village Building Order and gaining King's Aura and a quest to complete within 30 years.
• Zhang Yang received his ancestors' and village's legacy, including fragments of hope and the books Complete Records of Great Chu and Territory Map of Great Chu.
• Zhang Yang used the faction map to locate himself at Mount Taiyan, more than six thousand kilometers from Bald Head Ridge Fortress and surrounded by Mirage Tribe Demon territory.
• Zhang Yang decided to make wooden spears before setting out.

Zhang Yang tracked a disguised Red-Skinned Monster to a Fish-Mouth Fortress and watched the Shrimp-Shell Demons assault it. He learned how the attackers disabled the fortress, while the Great Wei Dynasty’s former territory remained under foreign control.

• Zhang Yang reasoned that the Mysterious Demonic Woman and the Otherworldly Demon were greater threats than the hidden dragons, so he avoided recruiting an army before learning more about them.
• Zhang Yang watched two groups of Mirage Tribe Demons fight and saw a Red-Skinned Monster emerge from one Demon, kill both forces, destroy their grain carts, and disguise itself in Demon skin.
• Zhang Yang identified the Red-Skinned Monster’s destination as a Fish-Mouth Fortress and waited there instead of following it, avoiding a likely ambush.
• After observing the Fish-Lip Demons for two days, Zhang Yang watched the Shrimp-Shell Demons attack the fortress and learned that their pungent liquid caused its gate to open.
• Zhang Yang noted that Zhongdu Commandery had fallen to foreign races and that another National Team member near the royal capital had already disappeared from the Hidden Dragon Hegemony rankings.

Zhang Yang watched the Red-Skinned Monster reveal itself and slaughter the two demon armies while waiting to discover what it had been guarding. When a wounded Gold-Skinned Monster crossed through a breach in the sky, Zhang Yang killed it and fled with the plunder.

• Zhang Yang inferred that the Red-Skinned Monster was an otherworldly creature waiting for an unknown target near Fish-Mouth Fortress.
• The Red-Skinned Monster intervened in the battle, revealed itself, and joined the demon armies in a deadly struggle against their attackers.
• The Red-Skinned Monster killed both commanders and slaughtered the remaining demon soldiers, then devoured their corpses.
• A crack opened in the sky, and a Gold-Skinned Monster emerged badly wounded after crossing the world barrier; the Red-Skinned Monster caught it as it fell.
• Zhang Yang ambushed the Gold-Skinned Monster with twelve Jade-Transformed Wood Spears, killed it, seized its plunder, and escaped while the Red-Skinned Monster raged.

After escaping the Red-Skinned Monster, Zhang Yang hid near a Mirage Tribe Demons settlement and investigated the Golden Scales. He triggered a forced Foundation Establishment quest and learned that four major races each had a different path beyond the Transcendent level.

• Zhang Yang hid in human city ruins near the Mirage Tribe Demons settlement to evade the Red-Skinned Monster and study the demons' language.
• Zhang Yang discovered that the Golden Scales would exchange a level-15 Immortal Soul for ten thousand First-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills, and he swallowed them to pursue a breakthrough.
• After eating 999 pills, Zhang Yang triggered a forced class-change quest that warned Foundation Establishment failure would burn away his meridians and kill him.
• Zhang Yang switched among the quest descriptions and learned that the Abyssal Ghost Tribe, Abyssal Demon Tribe, Sky Dome Monster Tribe, and Sky Dome Human Race each had a distinct advancement path.

Zhang Yang learned the rules of the Second Sequence Civilization Contest and realized Earth Civilization would need teamwork to survive. He saw that the Abyssal Demon Tribe had locked down the battlefield, leaving the Human Race in a desperate position.

• Zhang Yang read about the four factions, War Medals, and the Village Building Orders available to him, then decided to cooperate with the National Team.
• Zhang Yang saw reports of Hidden Dragons being eliminated or surrendering in Zhongdu Commandery and suspected the Great Wei Emperor and Princess belonged to the Sky Dome Monster Tribe.
• Zhang Yang connected the Gold-Skinned and Red-Skinned Monsters to the Sky Dome Monster Tribe and wondered whether his actions had alerted the Abyssal Demon Tribe.
• Abyssal Demon Tribe Hidden Dragon 720 used two Purple Fragments of Hope to lock down the battlefield and threaten illegal entrants with execution.
• Zhang Yang concluded that the Abyssal Demon Tribe held the advantage and that the Sky Dome Human Race was in dire straits.

Zhang Yang uncovered how Devil-language syllables created and empowered Mirage Tribe Demons, then used them to build a three-thousand-strong Zhang's Demon Legion. The legion was spotted by a ten-thousand-strong Mirage Demon army, and Zhang Yang prepared to fight.

• Zhang Yang studied the Demons’ speech and concluded that Devil-language syllables acted as an innate power that created or transformed living creatures.
• Zhang Yang experimented with Devil-language syllables and developed eight sets, including three attack abilities and five types of combat Demons.
• Zhang Yang captured Mirage Tribe Demon warriors, modified them into Zhang's Demons, and created fifty intelligent captain-level troops.
• Zhang Yang led his growing legion southeast, adding new Demon types until it numbered three thousand.
• A ten-thousand-strong Mirage Demon army spotted Zhang Yang’s legion and formed up to attack, encircle, and destroy it.
• Zhang Yang disguised himself among his troops and chose to fight, confident he could afford to use his unopened level-15 Storage Orb.

Zhang Yang sacrificed his three thousand Zhang's Demons to observe an elite Abyssal Demon army and learn its advanced demonic language. After experimenting with captured demons, he mastered the Abyssal Demon Tribe's Level 1 Heavy Armor secret art, though it could only reach eighty percent of its full effect.

• Zhang Yang deployed his three thousand Zhang's Demons against a thousand Heavy Armored Demons, whose superior defenses quickly overwhelmed and annihilated his army.
• Zhang Yang feigned death among the corpses while an Old Devil inspected the battlefield and spoke orthodox demonic language.
• After the enemy army departed, Zhang Yang realized it contained at least five thousand Transcendent Abyssal Demons and slipped away to study their language.
• Zhang Yang experimented on captured demons, refining his pronunciation and magical technique until one survived the Heavy Armor transformation.
• The Village Building Order recognized Zhang Yang's mastery of the Abyssal Demon Tribe's Level 1 Heavy Armor secret art and noted its limited effectiveness for someone outside the demon race.

Zhang Yang analyzed the shifting military situation and decided to establish himself in the Devil Race’s southeastern territory. After opening a Storage Orb and unleashing an enormous stockpile of supplies, he began building a Level 3 Commandery City and selected its special buildings.

• Zhang Yang studied the Village Building Order’s records and the map, concluding that the Devil Race would concentrate its forces on the northern, central, and Linnan battlefronts, leaving the southeastern commanderies vulnerable.
• Zhang Yang decided to seize the opportunity and open treasure chests before choosing a place to establish his city.
• Zhang Yang used five Golden Fragments of Hope to decipher a Level 15 Storage Orb, which burst and dumped a valley-filling mountain of supplies that crushed his twenty Heavy Armored Demon Soldiers.
• Zhang Yang began the Return of the King Village-Building Quest at the site, spending ten units of mana to build a Level 3 Commandery City.
• Zhang Yang chose the Level 15 City God Temple and the Level 22 Azure Cloud Sword Sect as the city’s special buildings.

Zhang Yang summoned the legendary craftsman Zhao Zhou, who identified the mountain valley as an unformed dragon vein and persuaded him to build a Level 6 royal capital there. Zhang Yang also summoned Wu Lei to recruit civilians and soldiers, leaving the capital’s construction and defenses underway.

• Zhang Yang summoned Zhao Zhou and ordered him to build a Level 3 Commandery City and a granary in the mountain valley.
• Zhao Zhou recognized an unformed dragon vein and persuaded Zhang Yang to accept a quest to build a dragon-vein-protected royal capital.
• Zhao Zhou convinced Zhang Yang to build a Level 6 royal capital and received 1,000 high-level craftsmen and 2,000 Captain-Level Soldiers for the project.
• Zhang Yang summoned Wu Lei and assigned him to patrol the mountains with 500 soldiers.
• Wu Lei requested permission to recruit civilians and troops, so Zhang Yang tasked him with bringing back 10,000 displaced civilians and 3,000 new recruits.
• Wu Lei departed after 100,000 tons of food and 100,000 points of energy were deducted from Zhang Yang’s Village Building Order.

Zhang Yang committed most of his resources to constructing a Level 6 Royal City, deciding that concealment and its strategic advantage outweighed the cost. He summoned Wu Ya ahead of schedule to guard the site and organize its defenses, but the lack of King's Aura left him unable to train Wu Ya's special troops.

• Zhang Yang weighed the risks of building a Level 6 Royal City and concluded that his hidden location, the world’s shifting balance, and the War State made it worthwhile.
• Zhang Yang approved Zhao Zhou’s enormous construction budget, leaving himself with limited supplies and no immediate plan beyond keeping the Royal City secret.
• Zhang Yang decided to leave the area and summoned Wu Ya using his remaining three points of King's Aura.
• Wu Ya arrived with five Palace Guards and reported that the army’s side-mission was complete and that training required a Barracks or Training Ground.
• Wu Ya explained that King's Aura could provide training slots for Palace Guards or Iron Lions, but Zhang Yang had none left and assigned him one thousand Captain-Level Soldiers to deploy.

Zhang Yang spent ten months cultivating Natal Spiritual Qi and reconsidered cultivation as a rise in life level rather than combat strength. On his way back to his lair, he detected an enemy army in War State and concluded that a Red-Skinned Monster was searching for him, but both sides eventually withdrew without fighting.

• Zhang Yang secluded himself in a mountain forest and cultivated for ten months, gaining ten mouthfuls of Natal Spiritual Qi.
• Zhang Yang concluded that Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment advanced a person's life level, and he calculated that he needed ninety-nine mouthfuls of Natal Spiritual Qi to establish his foundation.
• Zhang Yang ended his cultivation and headed back toward his lair, but his Village Building Order warned him that an enemy army in War State was nearby.
• Zhang Yang tracked the enemy's red map marker and reasoned that the enemy was likely a Red-Skinned Monster searching alone rather than a member of the Devil Race.
• Zhang Yang and the enemy held position during a brief confrontation, after which the marker vanished and the enemy did not appear by dawn.

Zhang Yang returned to the nearly completed Level 6 Royal City, approved new troops and a suanni-buying mission, and surveyed the city’s vast defenses and design. Two months later, he sensed a Level 4 Royal City rising in the north and dismissed its threat.

• Zhang Yang met Wu Lei and Wu Ya at the city gate, approved training 300 Bedrock Heavy Infantry, and sent Wu Ya to buy as many suanni mounts as he could.
• Zhang Yang explored the Level 6 Royal City and saw how its walls and districts followed the surrounding mountains and valleys.
• Zhang Yang spent the next two months patrolling with the soldiers while construction on the royal city continued.
• Zhang Yang sensed dragon aura rising three thousand li to the north and identified it as belonging to a Level 4 Royal City.

Zhang Yang’s level 6 King City took shape, granting him spiritual energy and powerful city traits while the Village Building Order recognized the city’s progress. The city still lacked its imperial buildings, surrounding settlements, and the requirements to become a capital or establish a kingdom.

• Zhang Yang reflected that building a level 6 King City was the best defense against the Demon Race and its Demoness.
• Fifteen days later, the King City’s basic structure was completed, and its emerging energy field resonated with the land, giving Zhang Yang three additional streams of Natal Spiritual Qi.
• Zhao Zhou confronted Zhang Yang over the city’s unexpectedly quiet formation, and Zhang Yang swore not to absorb the King City’s Spiritual Qi again.
• Zhang Yang inspected the Village Building Order’s report, which confirmed the level 6 King City, advanced his Return of the King quest to 105/1000, and granted him 10 King's Aura.
• The report listed the King City’s traits and incomplete facilities, and stated that it could not yet serve as a capital or support the founding of a kingdom.

Zhang Yang summoned Zhang Liang and Lei Ming to strengthen his new royal city, then accepted an ambitious plan to build roads and settlements and bring in refugees. The chapter left the royal city’s expansion paused while Zhao Zhou and 1,000 senior craftsmen were assigned to the new projects.

• Zhang Yang decided not to summon Duan Jiusi after learning the founding emperor would cost 23 points of King's Aura, and instead summoned Zhang Liang and Lei Ming for nine points.
• A warning informed Zhang Yang that further historical summons required higher reserves of King's Aura, and he examined the talents and troops of the two newcomers.
• Zhang Yang ordered Lei Ming to spend a year training 500 Soaring Cloud Arrow Guards, and Lei Ming departed to begin.
• Zhang Liang advised Zhang Yang to build roads, reclaim farmland, and establish cities before attracting refugees, triggering two people's livelihood side quests.
• Zhang Yang accepted the quests to build roads, cities, villages, towns, and passes and attract 50,000 refugees, temporarily halting royal city construction and dispatching Zhao Zhou with 1,000 senior craftsmen.

Zhang Yang explored the Azure Cloud Sword Sect and discovered that its class-change professions were weak because they lacked soul strength. After studying the Azure Cloud Sword Control Art, he planned to use demonic language to enchant its sword realms into the Sword Hall and mass-produce stronger sword experts; he left to forge a sword and begin practicing.

• Zhang Yang assigned elite guards to protect Zhang Liang and Zhao Zhou while they built the long official road, then worried about the powerful Red-Skinned Monster to the north.
• Zhang Yang entered the Azure Cloud Sword Sect and changed his class to Azure Cloud Swordsman, gaining sword talents and techniques.
• Zhang Yang used a Soul Tremor to strip away the Azure Cloud Swordsman's abilities and concluded that the profession was unreliable because its soul was too weak.
• Zhang Yang spent nine days studying the Azure Cloud Sword Control Art and identified its first three sword realms as the basis for strengthening the sect's class changes.
• Zhang Yang decided to encode the three sword realms in demonic language and carve them into the Sword Hall, then left to forge a sword and practice.

Zhang Yang investigated the threat from the Red-Skinned Monster and encountered a prepared Demon army near the road-building camp. The Heavy Armored Mo Dao Captains halted and devastated the enemy’s charge, while the battle continued.

• Zhang Yang arrived at Zhang Liang’s fortified camp with Azure Cloud Swordsmen, Heavy Armored Mo Dao Captains, and artisans to prepare for the threat from the north.
• Zhang Liang proposed ambushing the enemy, but a horn sounded as a Demon army advanced on the camp.
• Zhang Yang learned the army included more than ten thousand Demons, over two thousand Transcendence Demonkin, and a Demon Race Hidden Dragon, so he ordered Zhao Zhou and the artisans to retreat toward the Royal City.
• Zhang Liang’s concealed giant Siege Crossbows killed ten Two-Headed Demons and many others, but the remaining Demons charged through the archers’ ineffective arrows.
• The ten Heavy Armored Mo Dao Captains unleashed their Killing Aura Field and cut down the Heavy Armored Demons, stopping the charge and convincing Zhang Yang of their strength.

Zhang Yang and his Azure Cloud Swordsmen routed a demon army, then tricked and killed a Demon Race Hidden Dragon to seize its Village Building Order. He discovered the Red-Skinned Monster was approaching and told Zhang Liang to prepare the ambush plan.

• Zhang Yang clashed Soul Force Fields with the Demon Race Hidden Dragon, stunning nearby demons and creating an opening for the Azure Cloud Swordsmen to annihilate nearly five hundred Heavy Armored Demons with their Sword Qi Field.
• The ten Heavy Armored Mo Dao Captains charged into the demon army while Zhang Yang pursued the fleeing Demon Race Hidden Dragon.
• Zhang Yang used demon language and a Heavy Armor spell on a bird to convince the Demon Race Hidden Dragon that he was a demon in disguise.
• The Demon Race Hidden Dragon handed Zhang Yang its Village Building Order, and Zhang Yang killed it with Jade-Transformed Wood Spears.
• Zhang Yang checked the kill notifications, noticed the Red-Skinned Monster rushing toward him, and told Zhang Liang to put the ambush plan into action.