Recaps

Zhao Fu learned Highstone Town’s defenses and military strength from the captured He Jian, then launched a nighttime operation against the town. His forces eliminated its sentries and trapped the western side in the Hundred Ghost Illusionists’ Nether Ghost Realm.

• Zhao Fu questioned He Jian and learned that Highstone Town had thirty thousand people, just over five thousand soldiers, and a Tier 2 mayor named Xiang Shaotian.
• Zhao Fu discussed the attack with Bai Qi and prepared to move at night, when rain and darkness obscured his forces.
• Zhao Fu’s assassins killed Highstone Town’s hidden sentries, and Zhao Fu’s forces eliminated the open sentries as well.
• Zhao Fu ordered Wang Jian to lead three hundred Hundred Ghost Illusionists to the town’s western side.
• Wang Jian’s Hundred Ghost Illusionists cast Nether Ghost Realm, trapping the western defenders in an illusion of darkness and attacking ghosts.

Zhao Fu’s forces captured Highstone Town’s eastern wall and launched an assault, while the Illusory Barrier trapped anyone entering the western side. Zhao Fu overpowered Xiang Shaotian in battle, but Xiang’s poisonous pill killed soldiers on both sides, leaving Zhao Fu furious.

• Ghost Summoners raised three hundred evil ghosts, which climbed Highstone Town’s eastern wall and seized it.
• Zhao Fu led twenty thousand soldiers through the eastern gate and ordered Bai Qi and Wei Liao to block reinforcements from the south and north.
• Xiang Shaotian learned that the Illusory Barrier had cut off the western side, then confronted Zhao Fu outside the town mayor’s residence.
• Zhao Fu fought Xiang Shaotian with his Heavenly Demon Sword, repeatedly driving him back and forcing him onto the defensive.
• Xiang Shaotian threw a poisonous pill at Zhao Fu, but Zhao used his King’s Domain to block the spreading mist.
• The poison killed at least thirty of Zhao Fu’s soldiers, and Zhao Fu leaped down from Little Black in fury.

Zhao Fu killed Xiang Shaotian and captured Highstone Town, then discovered the town’s Evil-Warding Grass and the formula it could be used with. After capturing two returning scouting parties, he relocated the town and led his forces back to Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu killed Xiang Shaotian with the Ghost-Slaying Sword, and Highstone Town’s remaining defenders surrendered.
• Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin had lost 256 soldiers and ordered the dead buried; he executed over a hundred prisoners who refused to surrender.
• Zhao Fu found an Evil-Warding formula in Xiang Shaotian’s storage ring and discovered that the town was growing large quantities of Evil-Warding Grass.
• The two scouting parties returned to Highstone Town and surrendered to Zhao Fu’s twenty thousand soldiers.
• Zhao Fu relocated Highstone Town, gained 110,000 experience, and led his forces back to Great Qin.

Zhao Fu expanded Great Qin, arranged for Liu Subai to gain a higher identity, and traded equipment and pills with Orc City for captives and fifty mutated giant wolves. After bringing the captives to Great Qin, he reassured them and left Li Si to arrange their new lives.

• Zhao Fu transplanted Evil-Warding Grass, refined Evil-Warding, rebuilt Highstone Town, and assigned battle merit to Liu Subai while appointing Bai Qi its mayor.
• Zhao Fu found that exchanges with other regions brought about 4,200 people per day and planned to offer pills to encourage more population trades.
• Zhao Fu traveled to Orc City and found roughly 1,200 human, elf, and Kobold captives waiting to be exchanged.
• Zhao Fu traded equipment and Hundred Origin Pills with Gunado for the captives, and Gunado added fifty mutated giant wolves as a gift.
• Zhao Fu brought the captives to Great Qin, promised them safety, and asked Li Si to arrange their lives there.

Zhao Fu discovered that Gunado’s giant wolves contained Beastification Blood and could only obey Orcs, then sent intelligence and invitations to Green Apricot’s six great families. He offered to support them against Great Shun, leaving them to consider whether to accept his help.

• Sade explained that Orcs cultivated the giant wolves with Beastification Blood, and Zhao Fu ordered his people to subdue them or kill them.
• Wang Ergou reported that Great Shun had grown into a town with nearly thirty thousand residents and about thirty thousand player followers, and Zhao Fu sent invitations to Green Apricot’s six great families.
• Zhao Fu’s merchant associations, restaurants, and population trading centers appeared across Green Apricot, drawing attention from its factions.
• The six great families met Zhao Fu at a banquet, where he offered supplies to help them resist Great Shun.
• A burly man accused Zhao Fu of using the families to strike at Great Shun, and Zhao Fu admitted his grudge while presenting their choices.

Zhao Fu united six aristocratic families against Great Shun, but Li Mu sought Su Yan’s advice and won over the Xia Family and Yue Family with promises and territory. The alliance collapsed, leaving Zhao Fu and the remaining four families at a disadvantage against Li Mu.

• Zhao Fu persuaded the six aristocratic families to cooperate, and they began confronting and obstructing Great Shun.
• Li Mu learned of the mysterious force and the families’ rebellion, then called Su Yan for advice.
• Su Yan told Li Mu how to resolve the crisis, and Li Mu quickly carried out his instructions.
• Li Mu offered the Xia Family and Yue Family benefits and peaceful coexistence, prompting them to abandon Zhao Fu and join Great Shun.
• Zhao Fu and the remaining four families became furious as Li Mu’s strength grew and their prospects narrowed to defeat or submission.

Zhao Fu suppressed Great Shun in Green Apricot by forming a faction with four families, then learned that Ge Nie had become a Gold-Ranked Fighter and planned to help him compete for Fighting City's lordship. In Fighting City, Zhang Heng recognized Zhao Fu, invited him and Ge Nie to a tavern, and the chapter ended with the tavern staff recognizing Zhao Fu as its owner.

• Zhao Fu established a troublemaking faction with the four families, restricting Great Shun's development while deciding to focus Great Qin's efforts on growth.
• Ge Nie returned to Great Qin after reaching Tier 1 and reported that he had become a Gold-Ranked Fighter in Fighting City.
• Zhao Fu learned that Fighting City's aging City Lord would choose a successor from among the Gold-Ranked Fighters, and he proposed helping Ge Nie establish a faction there.
• Zhao Fu and Ge Nie traveled to Fighting City, where Zhang Heng recognized Zhao Fu as Zhao Xin and invited them to drink.
• Zhang Heng said he might be able to resolve Sword Demon brother's problem, then brought them to a tavern where the attendants recognized Zhao Fu as its owner.

Zhao Fu learned that Zhang Heng belonged to the School of Diplomacy and had come to help Great Qin. Zhang Heng offered strategies to break his senior brother’s encirclement and help Ge Nie become Fighting City’s next City Lord, then departed without agreeing to serve Zhao Fu.

• Zhang Heng revealed that he had come to judge Zhao Fu and that he was Zhang Heng of the Horizontal Alliance Branch of the School of Diplomacy.
• Zhang Heng warned Zhao Fu that his senior brother was encircling Great Qin and advised him to build from Li River, Martial Peace, Leaf South, and Open Pot to divide the northern Central Continent.
• Zhang Heng proposed steps for Ge Nie to win support in Fighting City and become its next City Lord, while warning that assassinating the current City Lord would carry enormous risk.
• Zhao Fu thanked Zhang Heng and offered more food and wine, but Zhang Heng declined and rode away on his donkey.
• Zhao Fu watched Zhang Heng leave and thought of Gongsun Lin, wondering why he could not retain either exceptional talent.

Ge Nie revealed his face after defeating a challenger and established Sword Gate in Fighting City, while Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin to set up a ranch and check on Qin Times Academy. The chapter left an old man in Fighting City's City Lord's Manor smiling at news of Sword Gate.

• Ge Nie defeated a first-tier, ninth-stage challenger in the arena with a fatal sword thrust.
• Ge Nie revealed his face to the crowd, then left as news of his appearance spread through Fighting City.
• Ge Nie established Sword Gate, recruited elite sword users, and received a Blood God Pill and money from Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and established a ranch, entrusting its management to the Xianbei and Xiongnu.
• Zhao Fu visited Qin Times Academy and saw that its campus, classrooms, and teaching staff had expanded.

Zhao Fu inspected Qin Times Academy and praised Li Si for developing Great Qin Town, then gathered his generals to plan against the School of Diplomacy’s effort to unite surrounding nations against Great Qin. He proposed dividing the northern region using four strategic points, and Wei Liao began working out the details.

• Zhao Fu visited the Civil Academy and Martial Academy, approved their teaching and training, and noted several promising martial students.
• Zhao Fu ordered Li Si to arrange practical experience for outstanding Qin Times Academy students, then praised Li Si’s work on Great Qin Town.
• Zhao Fu told his generals that the School of Diplomacy’s Vertical Alliance Branch was trying to unite nations and surround Great Qin.
• Bai Qi advocated crushing any families that joined the alliance, while Wang Jian urged diplomacy with distant states and military deterrence.
• Zhao Fu proposed using Li River, Martial Peace, Leaf South, and Open Pot as strategic points to divide the north, and explained that the plan came from his meeting with Zhang Heng.
• Wei Liao said Zhang Heng’s proposal needed detailed planning and began considering how to develop it.

Zhao Fu approved Wei Liao’s plan to restore Great Qin and weighed how much effort to devote to Little Viet. After settling on an eighty-twenty split favoring Great Qin, he received news of a large crystal mine.

• Wei Liao proposed securing four strategic regions as the foundation for Great Qin’s restoration, and Zhao Fu made the plan Great Qin’s primary strategy.
• Bai Qi urged continued infiltration of Little Viet to suppress it, while Wei Liao argued that most resources should return to Great Qin.
• After hearing the court divide between the two strategies, Zhao Fu assigned eighty percent of their focus to Great Qin and twenty percent to Little Viet.
• Zhao Fu began receiving a massage after the generals departed, but Li Wen arrived and reported the location of a large crystal mine.

Zhao Fu discovered a vast crystal mine guarded by more than fifty thousand skeletons and prepared a careful assault. After four days of excavation and fortification, Great Qin began its attack, but the skeletons climbed the cliff toward the soldiers.

• Li Wen reported that he had found a large crystal vein guarded by at least fifty thousand skeletons, and Zhao Fu went to inspect it.
• Zhao Fu saw the enormous crystal cavern and its skeleton horde, then withdrew without alerting them.
• Zhao Fu and his generals planned the assault, widening the high-ground passage into ten defended entrances and preparing talismans and death-fighting forces.
• Four days later, Zhao Fu ordered the attack, and archers used talisman-covered arrows and crossbow bolts to destroy many skeletons.
• The skeletons charged toward the cliff, and some climbed the rock wall with their hands and weapons to attack Zhao Fu's group.

Zhao Fu and Great Qin fought off a skeleton assault on the cliff passages, using yang blood, talismans, archers, and Bai Qi’s blood-colored eagle to hold back the horde. After powerful Skeleton Generals broke through the defenses, one charged into the far-right passage, and Zhao Fu moved to confront it.

• Zhao Fu’s soldiers poured yang blood over the climbing skeletons, then used shields to withstand the skeleton archers’ barrage.
• Great Qin archers counterattacked when the skeleton archers’ supply of arrows dwindled, relying on Evil-Warding Talismans to keep the skeletons away from the passage entrances.
• A powerful Skeleton General fired a gray arrow that collapsed the leftmost passage wall and destroyed its evil-warding power, allowing skeletons to flood toward the breach.
• Bai Qi summoned a blood-colored eagle to drive back the skeletons, while Zhao Fu ordered the archers and ballistae to suppress the skeleton archers.
• Zhao Fu used the Great Spirit Roc Bow to intercept the Skeleton General’s second attack, while Zhang Dahu and Rogge were assigned to suppress it.
• A second Skeleton General on a skeletal horse bypassed the right-side defenses and leaped into the passage, so Zhao Fu rushed to face it.

Zhao Fu and Great Qin’s forces fought the skeleton army on several fronts, using weapons and Yin Soldiers that countered undead to suppress the Skeleton Generals. The battle seemed to favor Great Qin, but a terrifying aura suddenly swept through the area.

• Zhao Fu used the Ghost-Slaying Sword to halt and weaken the mounted Skeleton General, then sent ten King's Death Knights to tie it down.
• A stronger saber-and-shield Skeleton General emerged and began smashing the rock wall, so Zhao Fu led Yin Soldiers and several allies below to confront it.
• The Yin Soldiers’ Ghost-Bane power rapidly destroyed the remaining skeletons, while Daisy, Sade, Duo Ke, and the Goblin Champion pressed the saber-and-shield general.
• Zhang Dahu attacked the Skeleton General archer with help from Xiao Xi and Xiao Jie, whose wooden rods weakened it.
• Great Qin’s forces suppressed the skeletons across the battlefield until a terrifying aura suddenly swept outward.

Zhao Fu fought a powerful crystal-sword skeleton inside the Killing Field Domain and defeated it after using his sealed power, the Heavenly Demon Sword, and an Evil-Breaking Spear. The skeleton’s soul flame went out, and four items fell from its remains.

• A jade-white skeleton with a golden soul flame rose beneath the crystal ore vein and charged toward the Skeleton General archer.
• Zhao Fu pulled the skeleton into the Killing Field Domain, used an Unsealing Stone, and clashed with it in a fierce sword fight.
• Zhao Fu used the Heavenly Demon Sword and the King's Mark to raise black spikes and bind the skeleton, then pierced its chest with an Evil-Breaking Spear.
• The skeleton broke free and struck Zhao Fu, crystallizing part of his clothing and cutting his right shoulder.
• Zhao Fu drove the skeleton back, summoned a demon phantom, and pierced its chest with another silver streak, extinguishing its soul flame.
• The skeleton’s bones fell apart, and four items dropped from its remains.

After Great Qin defeated the Skeleton Generals and cleared the battlefield, Zhao Fu assessed the casualties and spoils, including a vast crystal ore vein. He examined the generals’ drops and discovered that the crystal-sword general had left behind a legendary Earth Crystal Divine Sword.

• Black and White Impermanence killed the archer Skeleton General with a combined staff strike after Zhang Dahu and old Rogge weakened it.
• Sade, Duo Ke, Goblin Champion Rakje, and Daisy worked together to destroy the sword-and-shield Skeleton General.
• Ten King's Death Knights pierced the Cavalry General with their spears, and its bone horse destroyed itself alongside its master.
• Great Qin defeated the remaining skeletons and counted 136 dead, over 1,300 injured, and 178 Soldier Souls among the spoils.
• Zhao Fu inspected the crystal ore vein and judged its value several times greater than that of bronze essence ore.
• Zhao Fu examined the Skeleton Generals’ drops and identified the crystal-sword general’s weapon as the legendary Earth Crystal Divine Sword.

Zhao Fu examined four powerful items from the underground space, including a King's Remnant Soul and a life-draining Dagger of Death, and suspected they came from a fallen ancient empire. He then began upgrading Wang Jian's sword and preparing to fuse it with Soldier Souls.

• Zhao Fu identified a powerful sword as a potential vessel for Wei Liao's General's Artifact and considered using Ghost Reinforcement Stones on Wang Jian's sword.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the golden orb was a King's Remnant Soul, a core item for synthesizing a King's Artifact, and stopped Heavenly Demon from taking it.
• Zhao Fu stored the dangerous Crystal Realm Annihilation Eye and Dagger of Death, noting that the dagger had four uses remaining and consumed lifespan.
• Zhao Fu summoned Wang Jian and Wei Liao to an open area in Great Qin Town and reinforced Wang Jian's sword until it reached ordinary legendary quality.
• Zhao Fu brought out two hundred Soldier Souls and prepared to fuse them with Wang Jian's upgraded sword.

Wang Jian fused the ten Soldier God Souls with his Legendary sword, drawing down the Army Breaker Star and forging the Army Breaker Sword. As factions speculated about Great Qin’s connection to the star, another enormous purple star appeared and transformed into a dazzling green star.

• Zhao Fu handed Wang Jian the final step of fusing the General's Artifact, and Wang Jian used the ten Soldier God Souls to summon a massive purple star.
• Wang Jian’s black qi transformed the purple star into the Army Breaker Star, which descended upon him and infused him with its conquering aura.
• The ten spheres of light merged into Wang Jian’s sword, transforming it into the black Army Breaker Sword.
• He Xianru, Zhang Heng, Su Yan, Si Ji, Di Wutian, Ji Shenming, and Liu Ye reacted to the Army Breaker Star and considered its connection to Great Qin.
• Another enormous purple star appeared in the northern sky and transformed into a dazzling green star, shocking those who witnessed it.

Wei Liao awakened Greedy Wolf Star, joining Seven Killings and Army Breaker in the Kill-Break-Wolf configuration and throwing the Apocalypse World into turmoil. The three generals summoned an enormous purple star, while national inheritors across the world were struck down by its appearance.

• Wei Liao received Greedy Wolf Star’s power, and the Earth Crystal Divine Sword transformed into the Greedy Wolf Sword.
• The Seven Killings Sword and Army Breaker Sword reacted to the descending Greedy Wolf Star, and the Seven Killings and Army Breaker stars appeared in the sky.
• The three stars formed the Kill-Break-Wolf configuration, darkening the world and unleashing violent winds, lightning, and a deathly pressure.
• Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Wei Liao released the power of their general stars, and Zhao Fu raised his King's Domain against the force they unleashed.
• The three generals’ power summoned an enormous purple star, causing national inheritors around the world to spit blood while Zhao Fu remained unharmed.

Zhao Fu awakened the Purple Emperor Star, which strengthened his fortune, restored him to peak condition, and marked his hand with a mysterious symbol. The celestial phenomenon faded, and everyone in Apocalypse World received two messages.

• The Purple Emperor Star appeared in the sky and sent a pillar of violet light down upon Zhao Fu.
• A Daoist in the Ying Family recognized Zhao Fu as the Great Qin Imperial Son and feared the consequences of interfering with him.
• Zhao Fu's fortune dragon became a solid black dragon, while inheritors including Wu Qingniang, Li Baiqing, He Xianru, Zhang Heng, and Su Yan reacted to the star's power.
• The violet light cleansed Zhao Fu's body and removed the cyan seal, restoring him to his peak condition.
• A mysterious circular mark with eight runes appeared on the back of Zhao Fu's right hand as the celestial phenomenon ended.
• Everyone in Apocalypse World received two messages.

After the Purple Emperor Star descended, the first phase of the Age of Great Chaos began, and Zhao Fu learned that his bloodline had advanced and examined the Army Breaker and Greedy Wolf swords. The chapter left off as he was about to inspect the swords’ distinct sixth attributes.

• The system announced that the first layer of the Heavenly Domain Barrier had been lifted and that the Age of Great Chaos had begun, with War Points rewarding village and town captures.
• Zhao Fu examined the Earth Realm Mark on his hand and found that it granted entry to the Earth Realm’s core for a final trial.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the Purple Emperor Star had raised his bloodline to Level 10 lower-grade King's bloodline and restored his strength, prompting Bai Qi, Wei Liao, and Wang Jian to congratulate him.
• Zhao Fu inspected the Army Breaker Sword and Greedy Wolf Sword, learned how their shared attributes worked, and prepared to examine their different sixth attributes.

Zhao Fu examined the General's Artifacts’ new Siegebreaker and Trickster attributes, then lamented the destruction they had caused. In the real world, the Purple Star of the Emperor’s appearance brought hidden powers into the open as factions searched for the Son of Heaven, and Great Qin’s Imperial Son became famous across the world.

• Zhao Fu read the Siegebreaker and Trickster attributes, then returned the swords to Wang Jian and the other man.
• After seeing the devastation around them, Zhao Fu said they would need to go somewhere farther away in the future.
• The Purple Star of the Emperor vanished from both the real world and Apocalypse World, and elders and recluses warned that a great calamity was coming.
• Hidden martial families, sects, and recluses emerged, while the Seven Sects and Twelve Families entered the world to face the changing era.
• The ancient Clans and the powerful Flower Moon organization came into view as factions searched for the fated Son of Heaven.
• Inheritors of national legacies returned from Apocalypse World to seek information about Great Qin, and Great Qin’s Imperial Son became known throughout the world.

Qiu Fengzi decided to secretly seek out the Great Qin Imperial Heir, while the Ying Family celebrated and Ying Wu feared losing his counterfeit identity. As new representatives of the Xuanyuan, Nuwa, and Shennong Clans entered the world and Flower Moon debated its future, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Town and examined the newly appeared Turbulent Times Stele.

• Qiu Fengzi sensed that the Great Qin Imperial Heir was within the Ying Family and decided to find him privately rather than reveal his location.
• Ying Family members congratulated Ying Wu, who resented the true heir’s growing fame and dreaded losing the privileges of his false identity; Ying Xi gave up her hopes for a position in the family.
• Representatives of the Xuanyuan, Nuwa, and Shennong Clans were instructed to establish their domains and act cautiously around the person of destiny before entering the world.
• Flower Moon’s leaders debated whether to remain neutral or establish an empire, and Su Yuyan warned that offending the Great Qin Imperial Heir could destroy them.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Town, found the level-zero Turbulent Times Stele, and placed his hand on it to inspect its exchange items.

After stabilizing Great Qin and returning to the real world, Zhao Fu learned that ancient clans and powerful forces had emerged, including wielders of the Xuanyuan Sword and Chiyou Blade. He also discovered that Flower Moon had built the Apocalypse Forum and had influence across the world, making it a formidable opponent.

• Zhao Fu reviewed the Turbulent Times Stele’s War Value rewards and learned that twenty points would allow it to be upgraded to Level 1 without spending them.
• Great Qin entered a stable period, excavated its crystal mine, and used high-aptitude corpses to raise its soldiers’ aptitude.
• Zhao Fu returned to reality and found that the world was seeking his location, while public figures and streamers tried to attract his attention.
• Zhao Fu learned that ancient clans still existed and that a wielder of the Chiyou Blade had appeared alongside the wielder of the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Zhao Fu investigated Flower Moon and realized that the force had worldwide influence and posed a serious threat.

Zhao Fu asked Wu Qingniang to help rescue his cousins after they injured a Ying Family direct-line member, and she agreed. Wu Qingniang urged him to establish a faction soon as Great Qin and its Imperial Son grew more powerful, and Zhao Fu left to bring his cousins home.

• Zhao Fu's maternal grandparents told him that his cousins had been captured after they injured a Ying Family direct-line member who had tried to abduct a woman.
• Zhao Fu promised his grandparents he would settle the matter, then went to ask Wu Qingniang for help.
• Wu Qingniang agreed to speak to Ying Xi and resolve the cousins' predicament, then questioned Zhao Fu about his absence from Terror Forest and his unestablished faction.
• Wu Qingniang warned Zhao Fu that Great Qin's Imperial Son and the newly descended Purple Emperor Star threatened to leave others behind.
• Zhao Fu comforted Wu Qingniang by saying he believed she could awaken the Purple Emperor Star, lifting her spirits.
• Wu Qingniang confirmed that Zhao Fu's cousins were safe and told him to bring them back and establish his faction soon.