Recaps

After North Viet’s alliances erected isolation walls, Zhao Fu used the lull to strengthen Great Qin and prepare to absorb Little Viet. He sent six forces into neighboring Huaxia regions to build Viet Guard’s reputation by targeting ordinary Little Viet players, and the killings began drawing anger online.

• The Viet Extermination Alliance and Anti-Huaxia Alliance built guarded isolation walls, bringing North Viet and the surrounding regions a temporary peace.
• Zhao Fu gained 187 City-Building Stones, raising Huaxia’s total from the attack on Little Viet and the latest campaign to 292, while his soldiers reached A-grade aptitude.
• Zhao Fu decided to let North Viet recover, then set out to strengthen Viet Guard’s standing in six Huaxia regions bordering Little Viet.
• Zhao Fu split his forty thousand soldiers into six teams, led by himself, Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, and others, and ordered them to hunt ordinary players outside cities.
• Zhao Fu’s forces killed groups of Little Viet players, who returned to the real world and posted angry accusations against Huaxia online.

Zhao Fu used gold as bait to lure Little Viet people into ambushes, then encountered and fought a powerful old man connected to Waterflow City's Lord. The old man's blood-draining vines recognized Zhao Fu's blood as King's Blood and began devouring it.

• Zhao Fu sent a hundred soldiers carrying visible gold coins along small paths to lure Little Viet people into his troops' ambushes.
• More than a dozen Little Viet people chased a Huaxia soldier carrying gold and were slaughtered by Zhao Fu's hidden squads.
• Zhao Fu confronted an injured Tier 3 old man, who identified himself as Waterflow City's Lord's adoptive father and threatened war between system main cities.
• Zhao Fu attacked the old man, overcame his staff and kick, and was caught by pale vines that erupted from the old man's stomach.
• The vines grew sharp teeth and began drinking Zhao Fu's blood, prompting the old man to exclaim, "King's Blood!"

Zhao Fu killed the old man from Waterflow City and staged the scene to frame White Leaf City for a massacre. Hu Ming arrived, mourned his adoptive father, and heard a report blaming White Leaf City for the killing.

• The old man attacked Zhao Fu with Weakening Light, but Zhao Fu used King's Domain to resist it and wounded him with the Heavenly Demon Sword.
• The old man sent his iron staff flying back at Zhao Fu and attacked with pallid vines, but Zhao Fu's Ghost-Slaying Sword cut the vines and pierced the old man's chest, killing him.
• Zhao Fu inspected the old man's SSS-grade corpse and Legendary Dark Evil Staff, then ordered his soldiers to erase signs of the battle and leave the corpse on the road outside the city.
• Zhao Fu arranged the bodies of more than six hundred slain players and sent Little Viet people to spread rumors that White Leaf City's commander had massacred them and killed the old man.
• Hu Ming arrived at the scene, grieved over his adoptive father's corpse, and heard a soldier report that White Leaf City had pursued and killed the old man before trying to silence witnesses.

Hu Ming led Waterflow City’s forces and a million Little Viet players to attack White Leaf City, demanding the killer of his foster father. After a prolonged battle, White Leaf City prevailed through its defensive advantages and larger support.

• Hu Ming ordered his troops to march on White Leaf City after his foster father was killed.
• Bai Rusheng learned that Waterflow City was approaching and prepared White Leaf City’s defenses.
• Hu Ming demanded that Bai Rusheng hand over his foster father’s killer, but Bai Rusheng refused.
• Hu Ming and Bai Rusheng fought while their soldiers and gathered players clashed around the city walls.
• White Leaf City’s generals unleashed sharp white leaves, while Waterflow City’s Shield Bearers formed a barrier to push the attack forward.
• After seven or eight hours of fighting, White Leaf City won because of its terrain and the greater number of defenders and supporters.

After the battle at White Leaf City left more than a million dead, Zhao Fu pursued the wounded Waterflow City Lord, Hu Ming, hoping to seize his city. Just as Zhao Fu was about to kill Hu Ming, a City Lord from Little Viet intervened, and another powerful City Lord appeared nearby.

• White Leaf City and Waterflow City suffered enormous losses, and observers speculated that an unknown force had provoked the war.
• Zhao Fu used the Nation-Guarding Artifact to ambush the retreating Hu Ming and his remaining troops.
• Hu Ming's general attacked Zhao Fu but was gravely wounded, and Hu Ming then shielded his soldiers and urged them to flee.
• Zhao Fu's Heavenly Demon Slash killed over a thousand charging soldiers, and he moved to finish off Hu Ming.
• A woman in green, a City Lord from Little Viet, blocked Zhao Fu's attack and insisted on protecting Hu Ming.
• An elegant young man in white, also a City Lord, appeared on a tree branch as Zhao Fu and the woman prepared to clash.

After abandoning his attack on Waterflow City, Zhao Fu collected Little Viet’s fallen soldiers and devised a covert plan to steal White Leaf City’s buried corpses. His soldiers successfully removed more than thirty thousand corpses without alerting the cemetery guards.

• Zhao Fu withdrew when another city lord arrived, leaving the Little Viet soldiers’ corpses behind and warning the green-clad young matron that she would pay for her actions.
• Hu Ming thanked the green-clad young matron and began suspecting that his foster father’s death had not been simple.
• Zhao Fu returned to White Leaf City, where Great Qin’s soldiers collected more than fifty thousand Little Viet corpses while leaving White Leaf City’s dead untouched.
• After the battlefield corpses were burned, Zhao Fu planned to obtain White Leaf City’s buried soldiers and residents with high aptitude.
• Zhao Fu bought a house beside the cemetery, used confusion incense to dull the guards’ senses, and had Great Qin’s soldiers tunnel beneath the graves.
• Great Qin’s soldiers secretly stole more than thirty thousand buried corpses without being discovered.

Zhao Fu refined a huge supply of corpses into Blood God Pills, strengthening Great Qin’s army while the Viet Guard gained fame in Lesser Viet through a staged resistance campaign. With Great Qin’s forces expanded, Zhao Fu asked Guo Binglin for news about the four remaining nation inheritances.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Town and refined more than ninety thousand soldier corpses into Blood God Pills.
• Bai Qi and Great Qin’s generals used ambushes and planted informants to frustrate Lesser Viet players, while the Viet Guard claimed to have sacrificed itself defeating the Huaxia force.
• The Viet Guard’s popularity spread across Lesser Viet, and Zhao Fu let players form branches to build support for its future expansion.
• Zhao Fu gave Blood God Pills to soldiers below Stage 9 and cultivation pills and rest to veteran soldiers nearing first rank.
• Great Qin’s first-rank soldiers surpassed twenty-three thousand, and Zhao Fu asked Guo Binglin about the other four nation inheritances.

Zhao Fu attended a super auction in Green Willow City, where the first items sold for high prices. The third item was revealed to be the final item of the Godslaying Plan he had been searching for.

• Zhao Fu strengthened Great Qin’s village security and loyalty, then used 292 City-Building Stones to establish villages within a safe area around the empire.
• Zhao Fu learned that several regions would hold a super auction in Hollow Willow and prepared funds to attend.
• Zhao Fu traveled to Green Willow City with Tuoba Qing and Wang Ergou and entered the auction house using a private-room invitation.
• The auction began with Violet Fire Jade selling for fifteen thousand silver coins and ten Unity Pills selling for twenty-four thousand.
• When the third item was introduced, Zhao Fu recognized it as the final item of the Godslaying Plan and stood up in shock.

Zhao Fu bought a rare liquid needed for his godslaying plan at the auction, then watched as increasingly valuable items drew fierce bidding. The chapter ended with a third-tier lord-class Blood Night Leopard cub being offered for sale.

• Zhao Fu bid 10,000 silver coins for the colorless liquid and had Wang Ergou collect it immediately.
• A buyer in a second-floor private room purchased three Ten-Li Teleportation Talismans for 40,000 silver coins.
• A cloaked, powerfully built figure bought the Green Demon Hammer for 600,000 silver coins.
• Zhao Fu bid on the Flamefire Arrow, but someone in a third-floor VIP room bought it for 1,000,000 silver coins.
• The head of the Deng Family of Three Rivers City secured the Life Fruit for 1,800,000 silver coins after asking others to yield it.
• The auction presented a cub of a third-tier lord-class Blood Night Leopard with a starting price of 1,000,000 silver coins.

Zhao Fu joined the bidding at the auction, first competing for the Ice Essence Beast Fang before withdrawing when its price climbed too high. He then challenged several City Lords for the Wonder Treasure Chest, leaving the hall wondering who he was and how much wealth he possessed.

• City Lord Xu bought the Blood Night Leopard cub for 4 million silver coins.
• The Ice Essence Beast Fang drew fierce bidding, and Zhao Fu raised its price to 23 million silver coins before withdrawing; the genderless bidder won it for 25 million.
• The auctioneer introduced the Wonder Treasure Chest, which guaranteed one random piece of Legendary equipment.
• Zhao Fu bid 32 million silver coins for the chest, then raised his offer to 35 million after another bidder offered 33 million.
• The crowd and the occupants of the Supreme Rooms turned their attention to Zhao Fu's private room, questioning his wealth and identity.

Zhao Fu won the Wonder Treasure Chest and Dream-Incense, then entered a fierce bidding contest for a Wyvern egg against three City Lords. The auction continued with Zhao Fu bidding 48 million silver coins, leaving the Wyvern egg’s final owner undecided.

• Zhao Fu acquired the Wonder Treasure Chest for 35 million silver coins.
• Zhao Fu won the Dream-Incense for 15 million silver coins after other bidders dropped out.
• The auctioneer presented a Wyvern egg and explained that it could hatch in about a year with a secret technique.
• Several City Lords drove the Wyvern egg’s price up to 45 million silver coins before most bidders withdrew.
• Zhao Fu bid 46 million silver coins, then raised his offer to 48 million against the Coldwind City Lord and two other bidders.

Zhao Fu stood up to a city lord who tried to force him to surrender the wyvern egg, revealing overwhelming power and winning the auction. Afterward, the auction moved on to a Bluebird Blood Crystal.

• A city lord used his aura to pressure Zhao Fu’s room and demanded that Zhao Fu come out and kowtow, but Zhao Fu kept bidding for the wyvern egg.
• Zhao Fu unleashed a powerful aura that surpassed the city lord’s, then withdrew it after the city lord of Green Willow City intervened to restore peace.
• No one else dared to bid, so Zhao Fu won the wyvern egg.
• The auctioneer introduced a Bluebird Blood Crystal that could grant a trace of Bluebird bloodline, with a starting bid of 14 million silver coins.

City Lords drove the price of the Bluebird Blood Crystal to 72 million silver coins, while Zhao Fu chose to preserve his pure King's bloodline. The auction then began bidding on a fragment of a Nation-Guarding Artifact that Zhao Fu recognized, and the price climbed to 80 million silver coins with two bidders remaining.

• The City Lords bid fiercely for the Bluebird Blood Crystal until a previously silent City Lord won it for 72 million silver coins.
• Zhao Fu considered mixing the bluebird bloodline into his own but decided to preserve his purebred King's bloodline.
• A maid brought out the final auction lot, a fragment of a Nation-Guarding Artifact, and Zhao Fu recognized its familiar aura.
• The auctioneer explained the fragment's rarity and opened bidding at 20 million silver coins.
• The City Lords raised their bids, and only two bidders remained when the price reached 80 million silver coins.

Zhao Fu won the Wild Blood Mask fragment at the auction and returned to Great Qin, where he tried to attune it to the City Heart without success. He opened a Wonder Treasure Chest and received a high-grade purple fishing rod, leaving him baffled by the result.

• Zhao Fu outbid the Green Willow City Lord with 91 million silver coins and claimed the Wild Blood Mask fragment.
• Zhao Fu collected his auction winnings and received a purple-gold badge from the auction host before returning to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu placed the Wyvern egg in a prepared house, fed it his blood, and stored the Dream-Incense in a wooden box inside the King's Ring.
• Zhao Fu examined the Wild Blood Mask fragment, ordered people to search for information about the Ancient Kingdom of Wild Blood, and left the fragment beside the City Heart after Great Qin's fortune failed to enter it.
• Zhao Fu opened the Wonder Treasure Chest and received a top-grade purple fishing rod that he considered useless.

Zhao Fu merged Celia into the One-Life Rod, then prepared Great Qin’s underground space and forces for the planned refinement of a Demon God’s avatar. The sacrifices and isolation arrays were set in place as the ritual neared its start.

• Celia asked Zhao Fu to merge her into the One-Life Rod because its ancient World Tree branch would benefit her, and he agreed.
• Celia’s merge raised the rod to half-epic grade, enhanced its effects, and unlocked a Green Leaf Raincoat; Zhao Fu stored the rod in the King's Ring.
• Zhao Fu prepared to refine a descended god avatar, expanded Great Qin’s military force to 50,000, and reinforced the underground space and altar.
• Zhao Fu brought more than a thousand beasts and over a hundred rebellious people to serve as sacrifices for the Demon God.
• Zhao Fu’s forces placed the Six Wood Absolute Seal and thirty-six ordinary isolation arrays around the Blood Altar to form a super isolation array.

Zhao Fu prepared his forces and summoned God Kerr, then trapped the demon god’s avatar in several formations after cleansing away the Demon Priest professions that would have let Kerr kill him and old Rogge. God Kerr attacked, but Zhao Fu’s army launched a barrage of demon-breaking arrows as the chapter ended.

• Zhao Fu arranged the Yin General Ghost-Suppressing Array, the Four Symbols Spirit-Suppressing Steles, and the Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Grand Formation, then gave his soldiers anti-demon potions.
• Bai Qi, Wei Liao, and Wang Jian organized the fifty thousand soldiers into three units while Zhao Fu guarded the north with Daisy, scouts, and ballistas.
• Old Rogge sacrificed the bound people and beasts on the Blood Altar and summoned God Kerr through a rift.
• Zhao Fu had old Rogge use profession-cleansing water, then activated the formations to bind God Kerr’s avatar.
• God Kerr tried to detonate the power within Zhao Fu and old Rogge, but the attempt failed because they had cleansed away their Demon Priest professions.
• God Kerr formed blood-colored fireballs, but Bai Qi and the others ordered the soldiers to fire demon-breaking arrows, which struck Kerr’s barrier.

Zhao Fu and his commanders attacked God Kerr, breaking through his divine domain and disrupting his spells while his avatar fought back with devastating powers. God Kerr drove off their manifested army beasts with a divine weapon projection, and Zhao Fu activated the Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Grand Formation.

• God Kerr unleashed fireballs against the Shield Bearers, but Bai Qi's forces and Zhao Fu's ballistas cracked his divine domain with a barrage of arrows and Demon-Breaking Talismans.
• Zhao Fu threw the Evil-Breaking Spear through the crack, interrupting God Kerr's Hellfire Ball before it could strike the army.
• God Kerr tried to summon demons through the Divine Gate of Hell, but Zhao Fu's super isolation formation suppressed the portal.
• Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Wei Liao summoned their army manifestations, which shattered God Kerr's divine domain and charged him.
• God Kerr projected a dark-purple trident and struck back the three giant beasts, while Zhao Fu activated the Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Grand Formation and a golden crow rose from the ground.

Zhao Fu’s four beasts weakened God Kerr, and the Four Symbols Spirit-Suppressing Grand Formation sealed him in place. As Zhao Fu prepared to have his archers wound the trapped avatar before refining him, God Kerr revealed a sinister grin and began casting “God—The True God Descends!”

• The Golden Crow, Greedy Wolf, black tiger, and blood-colored giant eagle attacked God Kerr, whose avatar weakened as the battle continued.
• The four beasts coordinated their attacks and gained the upper hand, despite God Kerr’s spells and counterattacks.
• As God Kerr’s blood-colored aura surged, Zhao Fu activated the Four Symbols Spirit-Suppressing Steles and sealed him inside the grand formation.
• Zhao Fu ordered archers to prepare to fire on the imprisoned God Kerr so he could be wounded and refined.
• God Kerr raised his head, grinned at Zhao Fu, and began casting “God—The True God Descends!”

God Kerr unleashed his divine power and overwhelmed Zhao Fu and his allies, but Zhao Fu revealed a Fate Clan Artifact and wounded him with a powerful sword strike. As Zhao Fu pressed his attack, God Kerr began using Godly True God Descends Again.

• God Kerr transformed and nullified the soldiers' arrows before sending Zhao Fu flying and knocking back Bai Qi's three giant beasts with his trident.
• Zhao Fu attacked God Kerr with the Ghost-Slaying Sword, but God Kerr's Godly Demon-Devouring Bite and trident strike badly injured him.
• Bai Qi and the others attacked with four beasts, but God Kerr raised Godly Divine Domain and trapped them outside its barrier.
• God Kerr offered to spare Zhao Fu in exchange for the Nation-Guarding Artifact, but Zhao Fu refused and revealed a Fate Clan Artifact.
• Zhao Fu wounded God Kerr with a golden sword strike and charged again as God Kerr invoked Godly True God Descends Again.

God Kerr unleashed his full demonic power and fought Zhao Fu through the underground space, overcoming Zhao Fu’s weapons and restraints. After tearing apart the Four Symbols formation, God Kerr appeared beside Zhao Fu and ripped off his arm.

• God Kerr transformed into a more powerful form and knocked the Ghost-Slaying Sword from Zhao Fu’s hand during their clash.
• Zhao Fu struck God Kerr with the Evil-Breaking Spear, then used the Heavenly Demon Sword to raise spikes from the ground and wound him further.
• God Kerr attacked with three Hellfire Balls, but Zhao Fu avoided them using a Flying Stone and countered with the Evil-Breaking Spear.
• Zhao Fu escaped the divine domain as God Kerr pursued him, and the Four Symbols Spirit-Suppressing Steles briefly bound God Kerr before he tore the formation apart.
• Zhao Fu sent a Golden Crow to explode beside God Kerr, but God Kerr appeared next to him and tore off his arm.

Zhao Fu fought God Kerr after God Kerr devoured Zhao Fu’s severed arm and revealed his Primordial King Blood. Zhao Fu’s Crystal Realm Annihilation Eye and weapons left God Kerr gravely wounded, but God Kerr pierced Zhao Fu’s chest with his final counterattack.

• God Kerr ate Zhao Fu’s severed arm and recognized his bloodline as Primordial King Blood, while Zhao Fu ordered his soldiers and generals to retreat.
• God Kerr pursued Zhao Fu and wounded him with blood-colored beams, then destroyed the Four Symbols Spirit-Suppressing Steles and the Twelve Yin General Ghost-Suppressing Array.
• Zhao Fu summoned the Heavenly Demon and Ghost Slayer, who attacked God Kerr while Zhao Fu stabbed him with a spear.
• Zhao Fu used the Crystal Realm Annihilation Eye to turn God Kerr and the surrounding area into crystal, then attacked him with the Dagger of Death and an Evil-Breaking Spear.
• God Kerr was pierced through the chest by Zhao Fu’s Evil-Breaking Spear, but he counterattacked by thrusting his trident through Zhao Fu’s chest.

After defeating God Kerr, Zhao Fu had Ghost Slayer refine the god’s body and obtained a powerful divinity. Gravely wounded, he chose to fuse with it to heal himself, leaving Ghost Slayer and Heavenly Demon to guard the entrance as he endured terrible pain.

• Zhao Fu ordered Ghost Slayer to refine God Kerr’s body while Heavenly Demon carried him to the altar.
• Ghost Slayer activated the Heaven and Earth Refining Array, which destroyed God Kerr’s body and produced a small blood-colored flame.
• God Kerr’s true body in the Demon Realm suffered as the refinement severed part of his soul, and he vowed to kill Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu identified the flame as a deity’s origin and, with his life force failing, decided to fuse with it.
• Zhao Fu pressed the divinity against his chest and screamed in agony as it began merging with his body and soul.
• Ghost Slayer wanted to return to Zhao Fu, but Heavenly Demon reminded her to obey his order and guard the entrance.

As Zhao Fu endured a brutal transformation underground, his power triggered a worldwide calamity and changed the Purple Emperor Star into a blood-red star. The chapter ended with observers declaring that the Emperor had fallen into the demonic path and Yinghuo would destroy the world.

• Bai Qi and the other generals tried to enter the underground space after hearing Zhao Fu scream, but Ghost Slayer and the Heavenly Demon stopped them.
• Zhao Fu writhed on the altar as flames consumed his flesh and shattered his bones, while black and blood-red auras spread through Great Qin.
• He Xianru and people across Apocalypse World and the real world sensed a descending purple star and the oppressive aura of annihilation.
• The skies turned pitch-black, and Zhao Fu released a pillar of blood-colored light that connected him to the purple star, unleashing storms, earthquakes, and blood-red lightning.
• The purple star became a blood-red star, causing inheritors of nations and observers of fate to suffer backlash.
• Observers cried out that the Emperor had fallen into the demonic path and Yinghuo would destroy the world.

The fusion of Great Qin’s Purple Emperor Star and the Yinghuo Demon Star created the Yinghuo Emperor Star, unleashing disasters across both Apocalypse World and the real world. As Zhao Fu reconstructed his body beneath the blood-red light, the Clans’ elders summoned a great formation and managed to bind the descending star with four chains.

• The Purple Emperor Star and Yinghuo Demon Star fused, and the resulting Yinghuo Emperor Star spread chaos, disasters, and blood-red aura throughout both worlds.
• Zhao Fu floated above his bed as blood-red aura poured from him, while Qiu Fengzi, He Xianru, Zhang Heng, Su Yan, and other observers reacted with alarm to the transformation.
• Zhao Fu screamed in agony inside the underground pillar of light as his bones, flesh, and blood began to reconstruct.
• The Yinghuo Emperor Star descended more fully, intensifying the disasters and overwhelming people with its pressure.
• The Xuanyuan, Nuwa, Shennong, and Fuxi Clan elders assembled a formation with four sacred items and invoked their ancestors’ power to seal the Demon Star.
• Four enormous chains burst from the ground and bound the blood-red star.

Yinghuo Emperor Star broke free of its first restraints, forcing the Hundred Schools of Thought and other sects to bind it with countless chains. Zhao Fu’s three general stars then empowered the demonic star, and it began breaking loose again.

• Four Clans elders bound Yinghuo Emperor Star with enormous chains, briefly easing its disasters and restoring people’s reason.
• Yinghuo Emperor Star resumed rotating, shattered all four chains, and unleashed worse disasters across the world.
• Leaders of the Taoist, Yin-Yang, Confucian, Mohist, Military, and other schools ordered their disciples to activate grand formations.
• The Hundred Schools of Thought and other sects sent over a hundred chains from across Huaxia to restrain Yinghuo Emperor Star.
• Zhao Fu’s agony returned, and Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Wei Liao summoned the Seven Killings, Greedy Wolf, and Army Breaker stars to aid Yinghuo Emperor Star.
• The three general stars empowered Yinghuo Emperor Star, which began rotating again and shattered its first chain.