Recaps

Zhao Fu found a strange crystal after seven-colored meteors fell across the sky. When he examined it at home, it bound itself to his soul and began transferring him to Apocalypse World, leaving him unconscious.

• Zhao Fu spotted a black cat on his walk home, but it ran away before he could catch it.
• A blazing sky filled with seven-colored meteors, and one crystal fell in front of Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu picked up the crystal as people rushed outside to collect the others that had appeared.
• At home, the crystal announced that it had detected Zhao Fu as a primary intelligent life-form and started binding to his soul.
• The binding succeeded and the crystal began transferring Zhao Fu to Apocalypse World, causing him to collapse unconscious.

Zhao Fu chose the Great Qin Imperial Bloodline and completed its Inheritance Trial, receiving an Inheritance Stone and entering the Apocalypse World. He used the stone to establish the beginnings of a village in a remote forest.

• Zhao Fu rejected the Tang Imperial Bloodline and chose the Great Qin Imperial Bloodline for the Inheritance Trial.
• Zhao Fu climbed the altar, witnessed the history of the Great Qin Empire, and saw Qin Emperor Zheng entrust Great Qin to him.
• Zhao Fu took the purple cube and appeared in a remote forest in the Apocalypse World, where he checked his status and learned the world's rules.
• Zhao Fu used the Inheritance Stone to clear the land and summon the Village Chief Hall, Blacksmith Shop, Tailor Shop, apothecary, Land of Origin, and Class Transfer buildings.

Zhao Fu inspected Great Qin Village’s legendary attributes and met its newly materialized leaders and craftsmen, including Bai Qi and Li Si. He then refreshed the village population, bringing in thirteen new residents and lowering public support to 70.

• Bai Qi and Li Si appeared alongside Wang Dawu, Zhang Baishu, and He Yun, and all five pledged loyalty to Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu examined Bai Qi’s and Li Si’s attributes and learned the three craftsmen had S-rank aptitude and skills for forging, healing, and tailoring.
• Zhao Fu inspected Great Qin Village’s legendary status, powerful special attributes, population limits, and subordinate village capacity.
• Zhao Fu considered the many historical rivals and foreign forces that could make the world’s future wars especially dangerous.
• Zhao Fu refreshed thirteen residents at the Land of Origin, and their loyalty of 60 lowered public support from 100 to 70.

Zhao Fu organized Great Qin Village’s first residents into combat classes, helped establish basic shelter, and sought Li Si and Bai Qi’s counsel on the village’s future. The chapter left them beginning to plan their next steps in a chaotic world.

• Zhao Fu learned the aptitude grades of Great Qin Village’s thirteen new residents and brought Bai Qi and six young men to the Class Transfer Steles.
• Zhao Fu transferred the six men and himself into Infantry, while Bai Qi chose Cavalry and Infantry.
• Zhao Fu assigned the residents to gather food and cut wood, then joined them in building houses and fences despite Li Si’s concern.
• The newcomers’ loyalty rose by ten points and public support reached 80 after the village’s first buildings were finished.
• Bai Qi hunted deer and rabbits for the evening meal, and Li Si stayed with Zhao Fu as they ate.
• Zhao Fu asked Li Si and Bai Qi for their thoughts on Great Qin’s future and listened as the group faced the need to plan carefully.

Zhao Fu and his advisers settled on avoiding Huaxia’s coming conflicts while developing Great Qin Village. After withdrawing from university, Zhao Fu researched Apocalypse World’s regions, cities, and economy before preparing to return to the game.

• Bai Qi and Li Si advised Zhao Fu to keep Great Qin out of Huaxia’s main battlefield, and they agreed on a future strategy focused on developing Great Qin Village.
• Zhao Fu logged out, withdrew from Nanshi University despite Li Hong’s attempts to dissuade him, and received a tuition refund.
• Zhao Fu bought instant noodles and used his computer to explore the rapidly growing Apocalypse World Forum, where wealthy families were investing heavily in the game.
• Zhao Fu learned that Apocalypse World was divided into vast, disconnected regions and that he was in Terror Forest, which contained three system main cities.
• Zhao Fu read about the cities’ entry rules, weapons, merit points, and rewards, then prepared to enter Apocalypse World again.

Zhao Fu and Bai Qi hunted a magical beast, found a source of weapon-making wood, and expanded Great Qin Village’s forces. After villagers discovered a Goblin settlement nearby, Zhao Fu scouted it and assessed the threat.

• Zhao Fu took Bai Qi to patrol, and Bai Qi killed a Fierce Fire Rabbit that dropped Battle Merits, silver coins, and a Talent Element Orb; Zhao Fu used the orb to learn Fireball.
• Zhao Fu found a Ten-Year Iron Tree and had villagers turn it into wooden weapons, allowing Great Qin Village to train Shield Bearers and Archers.
• On the third day, Zhao Fu recruited four Shield Bearers and four Archers, bringing Great Qin Village’s soldiers to twenty-one.
• Women gathering fruit reported seeing another race kill a wild boar, so Zhao Fu led his people south and found a Goblin village three li from Great Qin Village.
• Zhao Fu observed that the Goblin village held more than three hundred Goblins, including Goblin Warriors and a large, vicious Goblin Champion.

Zhao Fu watched the nearby Goblin village and prepared Great Qin Village for an attack, then seized the chance to ambush a hunting party after the Goblins split up. Bai Qi’s trained soldiers defeated the party with few injuries, and Zhao Fu continued pursuing another group.

• Zhao Fu ordered Bai Qi to watch the Goblins while he returned to Great Qin Village and put the settlement on alert.
• Li Si reinforced the village defenses and prepared weapons while Bai Qi trained the Soldiers, and the villagers’ support rose to 90.
• After observing the Goblins, Zhao Fu learned they hunted in separate groups and ordered the Soldiers to pursue one party of roughly fifty Goblins.
• Bai Qi arranged the Soldiers in formation, and Zhao Fu’s archers and Fireballs weakened the Goblins before the Shield Bearers stopped their charge.
• Bai Qi fought the Goblin Champion while Zhao Fu’s forces wiped out the party, suffering only minor injuries.
• Zhao Fu rested briefly, then led everyone onward to pursue another Goblin party.

Zhao Fu’s people defeated another Goblin party, then avoided the fortified Goblin Village and prepared traps while waiting for the Goblins to hunt again. Back in Great Qin Village, Zhao Fu felt closer to its villagers and learned that the battles had yielded weapons and coins.

• Zhao Fu killed a Goblin after luring it onto uneven ground, and Bai Qi checked that no one else had suffered serious injuries.
• Zhao Fu ambushed the returning third Goblin party with Bai Qi’s forces, then found that the fourth party had already returned to the Goblin Village.
• Zhao Fu observed that the Goblin Village had around sixty fighters but chose to set traps nearby instead of attacking, and his people brought home the hunted animals.
• Children welcomed Zhao Fu in Great Qin Village, and he credited their parents for the victories.
• Li Si reported that the Goblins had yielded 152 short swords, 685 copper coins, and seven silver coins from three Goblin Champions.

Zhao Fu’s forces defeated the Goblins who had left Goblin Village, then surrounded the village rather than attacking because he suspected a trap. The remaining Goblins surrendered, and Zhao Fu received a system prompt asking whether to accept Rogge Village.

• Zhao Fu expanded his forces and set traps while waiting for Goblin Village’s food supply to run out.
• Around a hundred Goblins emerged, and Zhao Fu used traps, arrows, and a Fireball ambush to weaken them.
• Zhao Fu’s soldiers defeated the Goblins and killed all four Goblin Champions.
• Zhao Fu ordered his forces to surround Goblin Village, which he believed was hiding something.
• An old Goblin led the remaining villagers to kneel, and Zhao Fu received a prompt to accept Rogge Village’s surrender.

After Rogge Village surrendered, Zhao Fu claimed its Demon Altar and became a Demon Priest, then returned to Great Qin Village and resumed its development. The Goblins regained some morale with food, while Zhao Fu tested his new magic and continued cultivating.

• Rogge explained that he surrendered because his starving village faced certain defeat, and Zhao Fu accepted the Goblins' surrender.
• Zhao Fu sacrificed a wild boar at the Blood Altar and class-transferred into a Demon Priest, gaining Demonic Power, Hellfire Ball, and Blood Healing.
• Zhao Fu inspected Rogge Village's class-transfer steles and warehouse, then sent food that raised the Goblins' morale.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Village, restarted construction and farming, and ordered soldiers to scout nearby areas.
• Zhao Fu tested Hellfire Ball, saw its powerful explosion, and then spent his remaining time cultivating.

Zhao Fu oversaw Great Qin Village’s growth while the Li Family celebrated Li Baiqing’s acquisition of the Great Tang Empire Inheritance and the Ying Family learned that someone else had obtained the Great Qin Empire Inheritance. The chapter ended with Zhao Fu preparing to attack another Goblin village.

• Zhao Fu promoted the new A-grade resident to Scholar, and his own cultivation advanced by one stage.
• Bai Shan told Zhao Fu that research into Taming was progressing, while Li Si explained that female Goblins were helping with the farmland in exchange for food.
• Li Baiqing’s family celebrated his success in obtaining the Great Tang Empire Inheritance, and the family elders decided to invite Li Baiqing’s half-brother to join them.
• The Ying Family elders concluded that someone outside their known descendants had obtained the Great Qin Empire Inheritance.
• Zhao Fu assembled his forces after discovering a Goblin village with around 160 inhabitants.

Zhao Fu conquered Jean Village after its Goblins refused to surrender, then returned to the real world and rejected the Li Family’s offer to bring him back. While browsing the Apocalypse Forum, he learned that the leading factions had formed a Heavenly Pride Ranking, with the Ying Family searching for the Great Qin Legacy’s inheritor.

• Zhao Fu’s forces surrounded Jean Village, and its Goblins refused Old Rogge’s appeal to surrender.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi’s troops set the village’s wooden homes ablaze and defeated the Goblins’ desperate charge, with Old Rogge’s powerful Blood-colored Fireballs devastating their ranks.
• Old Rogge urged the frightened Goblins to surrender, and they laid down their weapons; Zhao Fu accepted their surrender and earned 50 battle merits.
• Zhao Fu left Bai Qi to extinguish the fire and logged out, where the Li Family’s butler urged him to return and warned him not to harm the family; Zhao Fu refused.
• Zhao Fu read the Apocalypse Forum and saw that Si Ji, Di Wutian, Ji Shenming, and Liu Ye led the Heavenly Pride Ranking, while the Ying Family searched for the Great Qin Legacy’s inheritor.

Zhao Fu dealt with the Gnomes of Duolun Village after they attacked a villager, then ordered the Goblin Champions to collapse their underground passages. Their hammering unexpectedly opened a deep fissure, and Duolun Village surrendered to him.

• Bai Qi reported that Gnomes had wounded a villager with crossbow bolts, and Zhao Fu followed him to investigate.
• Zhao Fu learned from the captured Gnome Duo Ji that Duolun Village had ninety-six villagers, then offered to spare them if they submitted.
• When no Gnomes emerged, Zhao Fu ordered the cave entrance sealed and sent Goblin Champions to collapse the hidden passages.
• A Goblin Champion's hammer strike opened a deep fissure, and Zhao Fu received notice that Duolun Village had surrendered.
• Zhao Fu accepted the surrender and ordered people to start digging.

Zhao Fu relocated Goblin Village and gave its City Heart to the Gnomes, then investigated the Great Rift with Bai Qi. Deep in the brick passage below, they encountered a charging Skeleton Swordsman.

• Zhao Fu discovered that the Gnomes had a Goblin Mechanist class and ordered them to move out of their collapsing cavern.
• Zhao Fu relocated Goblin Village, gained experience for Great Qin Village, and gave the Gnomes their City Heart so they could rebuild nearby.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi examined the Great Rift and climbed down to investigate the stone-brick passage beneath it.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi walked deeper into the dark passage until a Skeleton Swordsman rose and charged at them.

Zhao Fu and Bai Qi explored an underground passage, defeating skeletons and collecting valuable skills and weathered weapons that had once been Gold-grade. They retreated when the skeletons grew too numerous, then Zhao Fu arranged to develop the entrance and searched for iron to repair their finds.

• Bai Qi defeated a Skeleton Swordsman with Zhao Fu’s help, and Zhao Fu gave Bai Qi the Soul of Martial Refinement it dropped.
• Bai Qi used the soul and gained the B-grade skill One-Breath Slash; Zhao Fu discovered the swordsman’s Taiqing Sword had once been Gold-grade.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi continued through the passage, defeated more skeletons, and collected weapons and Souls of Martial Refinement; Zhao Fu gained the C-minus grade skill Stone-Shattering Arrow.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi retreated when they encountered groups of up to twenty or thirty skeletons.
• Zhao Fu ordered people to conceal the passage and build stairs, then asked Wang Dawu to repair six rusty weapons.
• Wang Dawu said repairs required materials, so Zhao Fu sent people to look for nearby iron mines.

Zhao Fu established Taming research and sent scholars to research a Teleportation Array before discovering Li Family Village, whose chief was being forced to pay grain to Dire Wolf Village. The chapter ended with Zhao Fu learning about the bandits’ monthly extortion and their temporary truce with Li Family Village.

• Bai Shan told Zhao Fu that research on Taming had succeeded, and Zhao Fu transferred two people into Tamers and ordered them to capture poultry.
• Zhao Fu assigned five mechanical scholars in Goblin Village to research Ballistas and told Bai Shan to begin researching a Teleportation Array.
• Zhao Fu led a group to investigate a nearby human village and, after seeing its strong defenses and larger population, chose to negotiate instead of attacking.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi met Li Youcai and his son Li Wen at Li Family Village, but Dire Wolf Village arrived to demand grain.
• Li Youcai handed over sacks of grain, and Zhao Fu learned that Dire Wolf Village extorted grain from Li Family Village every month in exchange for not attacking.

Zhao Fu negotiated Li Family Village’s submission to Great Qin Village in exchange for destroying Dire Wolf Village, then prepared to attack by coercing Wang Ergou into poisoning the bandits’ dinner. As Dire Wolf Village gathered to feast and plan an assault on Li Family Village, Zhao Fu and Bai Qi waited outside to see whether the poison would work.

• Zhao Fu offered to destroy Dire Wolf Village and secured Li Family Village’s agreement to join Great Qin Village in return.
• After Zhao Fu and Bai Qi found Dire Wolf Village’s weak defenses, Zhao Fu captured Wang Ergou and forced him to accept poison and a lethal pill.
• Zhao Fu sent Wang Ergou back to Dire Wolf Village with poison and gathered his troops, including the Gnomes and Goblins.
• Dire Wolf Village’s leader urged the bandits to feast before attacking Li Family Village the next day, while Zhao Fu and Bai Qi watched from outside.

Zhao Fu and Bai Qi attacked Dire Wolf Village after Wang Ergou poisoned the bandits and helped set the village ablaze. Zhao Fu occupied the village, advanced to Citizen, and discovered a pill recipe and the Mountain Blade among the bandit chief’s possessions as the captured prisoners awaited their fate.

• Bai Qi warned Zhao Fu that Wang Ergou’s poisoning plan could fail, so they prepared a detailed attack strategy.
• Wang Ergou’s poison killed bandits during a meal, and he set fires to signal that the plan had succeeded.
• Zhao Fu’s archers and Goblin Crossbowmen attacked Dire Wolf Village before Goblin Champions and the rest of the troops charged in.
• Bai Qi killed the Great Han, and the bandits surrendered; the third-in-command also dropped her whip and surrendered when Zhao Fu aimed at her.
• Zhao Fu occupied and relocated Dire Wolf Village’s City Heart, gaining enough battle merit to advance to Citizen before the village burned down.
• Bai Qi gave Zhao Fu the Great Han’s belongings, including a Small Spirit Pill recipe and the blue-grade Mountain Blade, and Zhao Fu turned his attention to the prisoners.

Zhao Fu spared Dire Wolf Village’s surrendered bandits, accepted Liu Mei’s Life and Death Contract, and established Dire Wolf Village as a subordinate settlement. He returned to Great Qin Village and found a naked woman waiting in his room.

• Wang Ergou begged Zhao Fu to spare the Dire Wolf Village bandits, and they swore loyalty to him.
• Liu Mei offered to submit under a Life and Death Contract, which Zhao Fu accepted after initially ordering her execution.
• Zhao Fu discovered Liu Mei had S-grade aptitude and led the surrendered bandits back to Great Qin Village.
• Zhao Fu established Dire Wolf Village, appointed a new village chief, and left soldiers to guard it.
• Li Si urged Zhao Fu to rest, and Zhao Fu found a naked woman on his bed and called for Li Si.

Zhao Fu secured Li Family Village’s submission and strengthened Great Qin Village with new recruits. After discovering a nearby iron mine, he also pushed ahead with plans to explore the Great Rift.

• Zhao Fu learned that Bai Qi and Li Si had mistaken his concern about Liu Mei for romantic interest, and he let them go without blame.
• Zhao Fu assigned fourteen newcomers to workshop and medicine-shop duties, then prepared to visit Li Family Village with troops as a precaution.
• Li Youcai submitted Li Family Village to Zhao Fu, who accepted and designated the newly established Dire Wolf Village as a subordinate village instead.
• Zhao Fu took two-thirds of Li Family Village’s people to Great Qin Village, leaving Li Youcai as chief and bringing Li Wen along.
• Great Qin Village’s soldiers surpassed two hundred, and Zhao Fu sent workers to mine a newly discovered iron deposit while accelerating construction of stairs into the Great Rift.

Zhao Fu led a small force into the Great Rift, where they fought successive groups of skeletons and gathered weapons and Souls of Martial Refinement. They faced a Skeleton Captain and eleven Skeleton Warriors, and the chapter ended as Zhao Fu fired an empowered arrow at the captain while it prepared to cut apart Old Rogge’s fireballs.

• Zhao Fu led Bai Qi, Old Rogge, and thirty soldiers down to the Great Rift with improved weapons and armor.
• Bai Qi’s Shield Bearers and Infantrymen defeated five Skeleton Infantry, while the Archers supported them, and the group collected three Souls of Martial Refinement and five weapons.
• Zhao Fu directed the group against six Skeleton Infantry and two Skeleton Archers, and Bai Qi killed the archers while the soldiers defeated the infantry; they collected five Souls of Martial Refinement and ten weapons.
• The group encountered a Skeleton Captain and eleven Skeleton Warriors, and Zhao Fu ordered the soldiers to form up and fire as the captain led the charge.
• Old Rogge launched two enlarged Blood-colored Fireballs at the Skeleton Captain, and Zhao Fu shot an arrow at it just as it prepared to cleave the fireballs.

Zhao Fu’s group defeated a Skeleton Captain and eleven Skeleton Warriors, collecting their equipment and a Soldier Soul before continuing through the ruins. They then encountered a mixed force of Skeleton Shield-Bearers, Infantry, and Archers, and the chapter ended with the battle stalled and Zhao Fu sending Bai Qi into action.

• Zhao Fu and Old Luo repeatedly blasted the Skeleton Captain and Warriors with Fireballs while the archers suppressed them, allowing Bai Qi to defeat the weakened captain.
• Zhao Fu’s group killed the remaining eleven Skeleton Warriors and collected weapons, Souls of Martial Refinement, the Hundred-Edge Blade, Cyan-Gold Armor, and a Soldier Soul.
• After resting, Zhao Fu’s group defeated twelve Skeleton Infantry and five Skeleton Archers, gaining thirteen Souls of Martial Refinement.
• Zhao Fu’s group encountered five Skeleton Infantry, three Skeleton Archers, and five Skeleton Shield-Bearers, whose shields blocked most of the arrows.
• As both groups’ shield-bearers stalemated, Zhao Fu sent Bai Qi into the fight.

Zhao Fu’s forces defeated a group of skeletons, then prepared to attack a newly discovered Bandit Village. After reaching the village, Zhao Fu studied its defenses and began looking for a way to win without taking heavy casualties.

• Bai Qi broke through the Skeleton Shield-Bearers’ defense, and Zhao Fu’s troops defeated the skeletons despite suffering several injuries.
• Zhao Fu healed a wounded soldier with Blood Healing, then returned to Great Qin Village with the spoils and reviewed the battle with Bai Qi.
• A report arrived about a Bandit Village ten miles south, and Liu Mei persuaded Zhao Fu to let her join the attack after he warned her to obey orders.
• Zhao Fu’s force reached the village beside a stream and found about 150 residents, including more than thirty wearing iron armor.
• Zhao Fu saw that the village had no fields and suspected it relied on hunting, so he began searching for a way to exploit its weaknesses.

Zhao Fu used Liu Mei to provoke Tiger Village’s bandits into an ambush, then captured their village and recruited its blacksmith. Great Qin Village gained experience from relocating the village and upgraded to a Mid-Level Village.

• Zhao Fu sent Liu Mei and Bai Qi to capture bandits from a Tiger Village hunting party, and Liu Mei forced the survivors to insult their chief, Wang Meng.
• Wang Meng led more than fifty men to confront Liu Mei, and Zhao Fu’s archers and crossbowmen killed them in an ambush while his other groups eliminated the remaining hunting parties.
• Zhao Fu’s forces surrounded Tiger Village, and its surviving residents surrendered after Bai Qi promised they would be spared.
• Zhao Fu found the blacksmith Deng Li, occupied Tiger Village, and relocated it to Great Qin Village.
• Great Qin Village gained 280 experience and upgraded to a Mid-Level Village.

After leveling up Great Qin Village and reorganizing its affiliated settlements, Zhao Fu formed a team to seek magical beasts and animals for the village. He left with Bai Qi, Liu Mei, Old Luo, and soldiers, then captured and tamed sixteen Green Oxen.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Village, gave Deng Li and the bandits’ iron armor to Wang Dawu for repairs, and rebuilt Tiger Village as an affiliated village.
• Zhao Fu checked Great Qin Village’s new intermediate-level attributes and noted that its population remained far below its limits.
• Zhao Fu decided to form a mage corps and obtain animals for farming, transport, and cavalry, then bought the Taming skill.
• Zhao Fu led Bai Qi, Liu Mei, Old Luo, and thirty soldiers west into the Terror Forest to search for magical beasts and animals.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi’s group drove a herd of Green Oxen into a rope trap, then used Taming to tame all sixteen.