Recaps

Zhao Fu rescued Zhao Hong, Zhao Jun, and Zheng Qiu, then turned to planning a player-based faction in Terror Forest to help Great Qin clear rival factions. Wang Ergou reported on the region’s leading groups, leaving Zhao Fu with several powerful factions to consider.

• Ying Ying offered Zhao Fu money and an apology, but Zhao Fu refused and took Zhao Hong and Zhao Jun away with Zheng Qiu.
• Zhao Fu warned Zhao Hong and Zhao Jun not to attempt rescues beyond their abilities, while Zhao Hong said he would still help someone in danger.
• Zhao Fu left after bringing the three to his grandparents, who welcomed Zhao Hong and Zhao Jun home.
• Zhao Fu entered Apocalypse World and planned to establish a player-based faction in Terror Forest that could eventually merge with Great Qin.
• Wang Ergou briefed Zhao Fu on leading factions, including the Zhou Family, Jiang Family, Alliance of Soldiers, Soul of Assassination, Brotherhood, and Flying Swallow Sect.

Zhao Fu established Heaven's Choice in Demon Tree City and drew a crowd with a challenge to endure his aura for five seconds to become core members. Just as onlookers expected the test to be easy, the situation suddenly changed.

• After learning that Demon Tree City lacked powerful factions, Zhao Fu decided to establish Heaven's Choice there and recruit members.
• Zhao Fu set generous salaries for ordinary, elite, and core members, then chose to raise the faction's renown by challenging factions at their doorsteps.
• To avoid linking Heaven's Choice to Zhao Xin, Zhao Fu removed his black cloak and revealed his appearance to Wang Ergou.
• Zhao Fu replaced his conspicuous Epic-grade swords with an ordinary Gold-quality sword and went outside, unleashing a terrifying aura on the crowd.
• Zhao Fu promised core membership to anyone who could remain standing beneath his aura for five seconds, and the crowd expected to pass until the situation suddenly changed.

Zhao Fu tested recruits with his overwhelming aura, then led Heaven’s Choice toward its first challenge against the Green Snake Gang. After more than forty recruits withdrew, he equipped the 108 who stayed and left them facing the gang’s gates after killing a guard.

• Zhao Fu’s aura forced the crowd to the ground, and he offered membership to those who fell in the second and third batches; 145 people joined Heaven’s Choice.
• Wang Ergou reported that he had settled matters with the authorities, who had approved the challenge under conditions against harming residents or causing major damage.
• Zhao Fu warned recruits that Heaven’s Choice would face bloody battles, and more than forty withdrew, leaving 108 members, including all five core members.
• Zhao Fu distributed blue and silver-quality equipment to the remaining members and led them through Demon Tree City.
• Wang Ergou identified the Green Snake Gang as their target, and Zhao Fu killed a gang guard before throwing the others a duel challenge slip and demanding their leader appear.

Zhao Fu led Heaven's Choice against the Green Snake Gang and the Hundred Thieves Society, killing the first gang's leader and overwhelming both factions with his power. After Heaven's Choice took over the Green Snake Gang's territory, Zhao Fu killed the Hundred Thieves Society leader, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhao Fu killed the Green Snake Gang leader after catching and snapping his sword, then used the broken blade to cut his throat.
• Zhao Fu infused the blade fragment with Power of a King, killed more than a dozen charging Green Snake Gang members, and forced the rest to flee.
• Zhao Fu left over fifty Heaven's Choice members to manage the Green Snake Gang's compound and asked Wang Ergou to lead him to another nearby faction.
• Zhao Fu handed a challenge letter to the Hundred Thieves Society, whose leader ordered his members to attack Heaven's Choice.
• Zhao Fu knocked down two attackers with punches and seized the Hundred Thieves Society leader by the throat, then snapped his neck.

Zhao Fu destroyed the Hundred Thieves Society and several nearby factions, rapidly expanding Heaven's Choice and drawing attention across the region. Other factions learned he had Ying Family backing and feared he was preparing the way for Great Qin's Imperial Prince, unaware that Zhao Fu was the prince himself.

• Zhao Fu killed two Hundred Thieves Society members who charged at him, then left fifty men behind and took five core members onward.
• Zhao Fu encountered his former coworker Niu Gu at Star Cliff and brought Niu Gu and the faction's members into Heaven's Choice as ordinary members.
• Zhao Fu's group destroyed eight minor factions, causing Heaven's Choice's reputation to spread throughout Demon Tree City.
• Five thousand talented people joined Heaven's Choice in one day, making it a mid-sized faction.
• Regional factions discovered Zhao Fu's connection to the Ying Family and speculated that he was paving the way for Great Qin's Imperial Prince, whom they feared and hoped to appease through Zhao Fu.

Wu Qingniang, the Li family, and Ying Xi reacted to Heaven’s Choice’s sudden rise as Zhao Fu focused on stabilizing the faction. He warned its core members that Apocalypse World would consume the real world and offered them protection in Ying Family territory, which they accepted.

• Wu Qingniang celebrated Zhao Fu’s growing strength and spoke with Di Renjie about a matter requiring her attention.
• The Li family’s old master ordered his steward to gather intelligence on Zhao Fu and wait for a chance to kill him, while Li Ziqing also expressed hostility toward him.
• Ying Xi learned how capable Zhao Fu had become and regretted that she had already given him to Wu Qingniang.
• Zhao Fu met with seven members of Heaven’s Choice and warned them that Apocalypse World would eventually devour the real world, despite the government’s public denials.
• Zhao Fu revealed that he belonged to the Ying Family and offered the members protection in its territory; they unanimously agreed to move there.

Zhao Fu traded for slaves in Orc City and tried to prevent Zhou Ming from forming a rival alliance with the orcs. Gunado secretly agreed to cooperate with Zhou Ming anyway, and Zhao Fu watched their deal from afar.

• Zhao Fu returned to Orc City to trade equipment and pills for more people.
• Zhao Fu recognized Zhou Ming, who had come to explore cooperation with the orcs, and the two men exchanged hostile greetings.
• Zhao Fu asked Gunado to keep Zhou Ming from seeing the slave transaction and offered twice the usual price for the slaves.
• Gunado brought Zhao Fu to the training grounds, where Zhao Fu bought roughly seventeen hundred slaves and had them sent to Great Qin.
• After Zhao Fu left, Gunado secretly agreed to cooperate with Zhou Ming and advised him to keep their future transactions hidden.
• Zhao Fu saw Gunado and Zhou Ming finalize their deal and sneered from afar.

Zhao Fu advanced his plan to poison and weaken the orcs while preparing Great Qin for an upgrade. After Duo Ke brought him two catfolk twins, Zhao Fu tested their combat ability and gave them two equipment sets.

• Zhao Fu planned to sell the orcs equipment containing Steel-Shattering Iron and medicine containing Evil-Warding, intending to weaken them before taking Orc City.
• Zhao Fu learned that Liu Subai had become a third-rank baron and awarded battle merits to Zhang Dahu to help meet the requirements for upgrading Great Qin to a small city.
• Duo Ke reported that he had conquered a village and discovered a new foreign race, then brought two catfolk twin girls to Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu forced the twins to attack him, caught them both, and told them they had passed his test.
• Zhao Fu gave the twins the War Set and the Fighting Set.

Zhao Fu failed to clear the fourth stage of the Assassin Ruins, then spent twenty days expanding Great Qin and preparing to restore it. As Great Qin approached its planned thirty-one regions, Zhao Fu turned his attention to Great Shun.

• Zhao Fu learned that the catgirls were Laxi and Ram, arranged training and S-grade aptitude spheres for them, and entered the fourth stage of the Assassin Ruins.
• Zhao Fu spent a day in an illusion where he had to survive factional pursuits, save people, and help a new era rise, but he failed the stage and returned to Great Qin.
• Over twenty days, Great Qin expanded into thirty planned regions and found five national inheritances that Zhao Fu viewed as obstacles: Wei, Qi, Zhou, Great Shun, and Zheng.
• Great Qin grew to over 230,000 people and 40,000 soldiers, while its merchant association, town, and academy expanded across its territories.
• Zhao Fu considered Great Qin’s military, economy, and cultural development as the chapter turned its focus toward Great Shun.

Li Mu led Great Shun to destroy Evil Fang after years of sabotage, driving Green Apricot’s factions to fear Great Shun and sever ties with Zhao Fu. The remaining great families decided to stop confronting Great Shun, and the news enraged Great Qin.

• Evil Fang repeatedly sabotaged Great Shun’s tavern, pastry shop, and equipment shop, while Zhao Fu kept his own businesses hidden.
• Li Mu bribed Evil Fang members to find their gathering place, then led one thousand Great Shun elites to kill its five or six hundred members.
• Li Mu ordered more than five hundred Evil Fang corpses hung outside the city, shocking Green Apricot and causing Evil Fang to disband.
• Li Mu threatened anyone connected to the mysterious faction, prompting its small allies to cut ties and the great families to reconsider their cooperation with Zhao Fu.
• The great family heads agreed to stop opposing Great Shun directly and leave Apricot City to handle its own problems.
• When the news reached Great Qin, all of Great Qin was enraged.

Zhao Fu decided to attack Great Shun and used Li Gaole to discover its hidden location. He launched a public bounty on Great Shun’s members, leaving the aristocratic families who had betrayed him regretting their choice and considering seeking his favor again.

• Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, and most of the generals advised Zhao Fu to attack Great Shun, and Zhao Fu ordered Guo Binglin to provide all available intelligence.
• Zhao Fu paid Li Gaole 5,000 gold coins to lead him to Great Shun Town, which lay hidden behind a mountain and was defended by surrounding villages.
• After inspecting Great Shun’s defenses, Zhao Fu offered Li Gaole the chance to earn more money and told him to wait for a message.
• A quest appeared in four main cities offering one gold coin for killing a Great Shun member, with a reward pool of 80,000 gold coins.
• The aristocratic families regretted betraying Zhao Fu, and the Dong Family’s head suggested seeking his protection again.

Zhao Fu accepted the four family heads’ renewed cooperation while planning to deal with them after Great Qin destroyed Great Shun. Li Mu rejected Su Yan’s advice to relocate, recruited players with a kill reward, and watched them abandon Great Shun when the quest rules changed; Zhao Fu then offered Great Shun’s remaining people double to join him.

• Zhao Fu accepted the four family heads’ offer to fight Great Shun while secretly intending to eliminate them later.
• Li Mu withdrew Great Shun’s people after attacks began, and Su Yan revealed that the mysterious faction was Great Qin and urged Li Mu to relocate.
• Li Mu rejected relocation and recruited players by offering one gold coin for every Great Shun member killed, swelling the town’s population.
• The quest excluded recent recruits, causing the players who had joined for rewards to leave, followed by Great Shun’s original players.
• Zhao Fu offered the people in a secret room double what Great Shun could give them if they joined him.

Zhao Fu moved his forces against Great Shun while Li Gaole attempted to poison Li Mu, but the plot was exposed and the town erupted into chaos. Zhao Fu launched his attack as the traitorous players charged a city gate.

• Zhao Fu bought off five thousand Great Shun players and secretly sent Great Qin soldiers into Green Apricot.
• Zhao Fu persuaded Li Gaole to poison Li Mu with the promise of ten thousand gold coins, then led forty thousand soldiers toward Great Shun Town and sent three thousand assassins to infiltrate nearby villages.
• Li Gaole brought poisoned food to Li Mu, but the pastry shop owner repeatedly stopped Li Mu from drinking the wine, arousing Li Mu's suspicion.
• Li Mu ordered Li Gaole and his accomplices seized; they were killed, while Li Gaole fled abroad after returning to the real world.
• Li Mu assembled his soldiers, and the five thousand bribed players charged a city gate as Great Shun Town fell into chaos.
• Zhao Fu saw the turmoil and ordered his forces to attack.

Zhao Fu launched Great Qin’s attack on Great Shun Town while Li Mu tried to turn the rebel players to Great Shun’s side. As Li Mu summoned Great Shun’s Dragon of Fortune to repel the assault, a terrifying black dragon appeared in the sky.

• Li Mu stopped the fighting and persuaded the rebel players to join Great Shun by promising them its spoils and swearing an oath.
• Zhao Fu ordered the assault on Great Shun Town, sending Hundred Ghost Illusionists and Ghost Summoners against its walls while Bai Qi, Wei Liao, and Wang Jian led attacks from three directions.
• Bai Qi, Wei Liao, and Wang Jian manifested the Seven Killings, Greedy Wolf, and Army Breaker beasts, which charged Great Shun Town and cracked its walls.
• Li Mu recognized Great Qin’s forces and declared himself Emperor of Great Shun, summoning its earthen-yellow Dragon of Fortune to halt the attacking beasts and dispel the ghost qi.
• A vast black pillar of light rose into the sky, and a savage black dragon appeared.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s assault on Great Shun, and his black dragon helped break the town’s defenses. Li Mu’s attempt to surrender failed, leaving him to sacrifice his fate and face Zhao Fu in a final battle.

• Zhao Fu empowered his black dragon, suppressing Li Mu’s earth-yellow dragon as Great Qin’s beasts smashed through Great Shun Town’s walls.
• Great Qin soldiers stormed the town, while fleeing players entered the Nether Ghost Realm and became trapped.
• Li Mu’s earth-yellow dragon fought the three giant beasts, slowing Great Shun’s collapse until Zhao Fu’s black dragon joined the battle and overwhelmed it.
• Li Mu offered to surrender Great Shun’s population and supplies, but Zhao Fu refused, and Li Mu charged at him.
• Zhao Fu blasted Li Mu into a wall, and Li Mu then sacrificed his fate as Zhao Fu withdrew his black dragon into his body.
• Li Mu and Zhao Fu unleashed their powers and began a final battle amid gathering dark clouds and thunder.

Zhao Fu defeated Li Mu in a clash of national fortunes, killed him and Red Lady, and crushed Great Shun’s resistance. He entered Great Shun’s City Hall after ordering Bai Qi to clear the battlefield, where a golden cube awaited him.

• Li Mu ignited his fortune and launched a devastating dragon-shaped sword strike, but Zhao Fu summoned a purple star’s power and split the attack with one swing.
• Zhao Fu mortally wounded Li Mu and killed him after rejecting his plea to spare Great Shun.
• Red Lady charged Zhao Fu to avenge Li Mu, and Zhao Fu killed her with a single sword strike.
• Great Qin defeated Great Shun, but Zhao Fu’s forces suffered heavy casualties and slaughtered most of Great Shun’s civilians before the resistance ended.
• Zhao Fu ordered Bai Qi to clean up the battlefield and entered Great Shun’s City Hall, where he saw a golden cube floating in the air.

Zhao Fu occupied Great Shun Town, destroying its national legacy and adding its Fate, artifacts, troops, and other benefits to Great Qin. He then ordered the execution of more than five thousand captured players who had betrayed Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu occupied Great Shun Town, and its divine dragon vanished as notifications confirmed Great Shun's destruction and Great Qin's gains.
• Great Qin's City Heart, Twelve Golden Men, and Heirloom Seal of the Realm advanced, while Great Qin also gained Great Shun's legacy and town attributes.
• Bai Qi recommended beheading the captured players, but Zhao Fu led them to the woods and ordered soldiers to hang them.
• The captured players pleaded and cursed as the soldiers tightened the ropes, and their voices fell silent.

Zhao Fu displayed Great Qin’s victory over Great Shun by hanging thousands of players and displaying tens of thousands of corpses, spreading fear and outrage. He then led a huge army toward the Xia and Yue Families, whose fate remained undecided as the chapter ended.

• Zhao Fu ordered Bai Qi to hang the corpses of Great Shun’s dead across the mountain, placing Li Mu’s body at the front.
• Players and factions learned that Great Qin had destroyed Great Shun, causing the Anti-Qin Alliance to collapse and the remaining families to seek peace with the Ying Family.
• People in the real world condemned Great Qin’s brutality, while Li Mu vowed to destroy Great Qin and kill its people.
• Zhao Fu demanded five thousand soldiers from each of four families, then marched with more than fifty thousand troops toward the Xia and Yue Families.
• Zhao Fu arrived at the Xia and Yue Families’ destination and was surprised by what he found.

Zhao Fu collected the people and supplies left behind by the Xia and Yue Families and pressured four other aristocratic families into compensating Great Qin for their past betrayal. After relocating Great Shun Town, Great Qin advanced to an Advanced Town, awakening a historical figure in its inheritance.

• Zhao Fu found the Xia Family village abandoned, then accepted the remaining population and supplies from a Xia Family disciple in exchange for sparing them for the time being.
• Zhao Fu took another five thousand people from the Yue Family and distributed the recovered supplies among the four aristocratic families, prompting each family to offer one thousand people as an apology.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Shun Town with seventeen thousand people and relocated its Inheritance Stone because Green Apricot no longer posed a serious threat to Great Qin.
• Relocating Great Shun Town granted Zhao Fu 160,000 EXP and raised Great Qin Town to an Advanced Town, while a historical figure awakened within Great Qin’s inheritance.

Zhao Fu inspected Great Qin’s upgraded buildings and population, then welcomed the historical general Meng Tian. He fused the General Stars and aptitudes of four Great Shun generals into a Talent Blood Crystal and examined its effects.

• Zhao Fu reviewed the upgraded Heaven-Prayer Platforms, Land Temple, and City God Temple, and valued the platforms’ increased resistance to natural disasters.
• Zhao Fu noted that Great Qin had 210 villages and a population growth exceeding 6,000 people per day from refreshes and regional purchases, with conquest adding more.
• Meng Tian awakened in the Land of Origin, pledged loyalty to Zhao Fu, and was ordered to rise.
• Zhao Fu took four of Great Shun’s historical generals’ corpses to the underground refining array and chose to fuse their aptitudes and sealed General Stars.
• The array produced a Talent Blood Crystal that could greatly increase aptitude, grant a General Star, and be fused further.

Zhao Fu gave Meng Tian a Talent Blood Crystal that raised his aptitude to SSS grade, then learned that conflict between Huaxia and Little Viet players had escalated into a deadly war involving system cities. The chaos gave Zhao Fu an opportunity to gather Tier 1 soldier corpses and elevate Viet Guard among the Little Viet people.

• Zhao Fu learned how General Stars could be fused into increasingly powerful stars and decided to give the Talent Blood Crystal to Meng Tian.
• Meng Tian used the crystal, and Zhao Fu discovered that Meng Tian's aptitude had risen to SSS grade, though his sealed General Star remained unknown.
• A soldier reported that Little Viet players had raided Huaxia villages, provoking fierce retaliation and widespread fighting in North Viet.
• More than a thousand Huaxia players attacked Little Viet system guards after being blocked outside a city; three hundred and twenty survived, while the guards and one hundred Little Viet players died.
• System cities on both sides issued rewards for killing the opposing people, intensifying the conflict between players and city factions.
• Zhao Fu devised a plan to obtain many Tier 1 soldier corpses and make Viet Guard revered among the Little Viet people, declaring that Great Qin's opportunity had arrived.

Zhao Fu set a trap near Ox Tooth City, using a false report to lure Little Viet system soldiers into an ambush. He killed three hundred soldiers and left evidence to make the attack look like Huaxia’s work, hoping to intensify the conflict between the two sides.

• Zhao Fu brought soldiers, assassins, and Hundred Ghost Illusionists near Ox Tooth City and sent Zhu Mao to report that Huaxia people were killing Little Viet natives.
• A Little Viet guard captain led three hundred soldiers toward the alleged attackers, but became suspicious when they reached an ambush site.
• Zhu Mao blocked the captain’s sudden attack, and the Hundred Ghost Illusionists trapped the soldiers in the Nether Ghost Realm.
• Zhao Fu’s forces fired arrows into the illusion, killing the trapped soldiers, while a Hundred Ghost Illusionist confirmed their deaths.
• Zhao Fu withdrew the illusion and left Huaxia-like items among the bodies to direct Little Viet’s anger toward Huaxia.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin soldiers in ambushes that killed fifteen hundred system soldiers across North Viet, escalating the conflict between Huaxia and Little Viet. As powerful factions rallied both sides into rival alliances, the region stood on the brink of wider slaughter.

• After killing three hundred soldiers in Ox Tooth City, Zhao Fu killed four hundred more in Ancient House City and returned to Huaxia's side.
• A native reported that Little Viet soldiers were killing and insulting Huaxia people, so a defending general led five hundred soldiers to investigate; Zhao Fu's forces trapped them, and Zhao Fu killed the general before his soldiers finished off the rest.
• Zhao Fu's forces killed over three hundred soldiers in Broadsword City, bringing the day's total to fifteen hundred, and used the corpses to create fifteen hundred first-order soldiers.
• North Wind rose to prominence on Huaxia's side, recruited forty thousand people, and called for unity against Little Viet while promising not to attack Huaxia people.
• The Viet Guard expanded to thirty thousand members and urged Little Viet factions to unite against Huaxia.
• North Wind and more than a dozen Huaxia factions formed the Viet Extermination Alliance, while the Viet Guard and other Little Viet factions formed the Anti-Huaxia Alliance.

After the system main cities tightened security, Zhao Fu convened the Viet Extermination Alliance’s leaders and led a massive nighttime raid on Little Viet factions that had refused to join the anti-Huaxia forces. The operation devastated 168 villages, and Zhao Fu focused on acquiring City-Building Stones amid the spoils.

• Zhao Fu found the system main cities on high alert and decided to mobilize the Viet Extermination Alliance’s forces instead of continuing his ambushes.
• Zhao Fu convened 389 faction leaders, who agreed that the alliance should attack Little Viet to avenge their grievances.
• Zhao Fu and the faction leaders led 300,000 people on a nighttime raid against factions unwilling to join the alliance.
• The raiders destroyed 168 villages, killed more than 50,000 people, captured over 20,000, and seized supplies and 2.5 million copper coins.
• Zhao Fu sought City-Building Stones because he could not compete with the other factions for the captured population.

After Great Qin took most of the City-Building Stones, Zhao Fu rewarded the participating factions and strengthened North Wind’s leadership of the Viet Extermination Alliance. Little Viet formed a massive Anti-Huaxia Alliance, but Zhao Fu’s strategy helped the Viet Extermination Alliance grow to a comparable size, ushering in an age of alliances.

• Great Qin seized 105 of the 168 City-Building Stones, and Zhao Fu’s war merits and status rose as a result.
• Zhao Fu gave each participating faction 100,000 copper coins, winning support and establishing North Wind as the alliance’s leader.
• Li Qinqian urged the Anti-Huaxia Alliance to unite, and the group spread threats that drove its membership to 1.5 million.
• Zhao Fu arranged defenses against Little Viet, leaving Broadsword City exposed while the alliance fortified other approaches.
• More than 800,000 Little Viet players attacked around Broadsword City, destroying villages and killing over 100,000 people.
• Zhao Fu and other alliance leaders offered protection to joiners, swelling the Viet Extermination Alliance to over 1.5 million as alliances spread across border regions.