Recaps

Great Qin sent forty billion soldiers to harass the four kingdoms and buy time to prepare to destroy the Dragon King Kingdom. After Bai Qi’s attacks provoked the Tomorrow Kingdom into mobilizing its forces, Mingri Ying decided to leave half his army defending the border and send the rest against Great Qin’s garrison.

• Great Qin assigned forty billion soldiers to Bai Qi, Arthur Tina, Meng Tian, and Yu Xuan to tie down the four kingdoms.
• Bai Qi split his forces into ten groups and launched attacks across the Tomorrow Kingdom’s borders.
• Mingri Ying learned Great Qin was attacking and ordered his army to eliminate the invaders before joining the other kingdoms against Great Qin.
• Bai Qi scattered his soldiers to evade the Tomorrow Kingdom’s response, then ordered them to renew their attacks when the enemy prepared to strike Great Qin’s garrison.
• Mingri Ying chose to leave half his soldiers defending the Tomorrow Kingdom while sending the other half to attack Great Qin’s garrison.

Bai Qi’s army breached Tomorrow Kingdom’s border and began slaughtering civilians, forcing Tomorrow King to divert troops to deal with the invasion. Meanwhile, Great Qin’s commanders stalled Raindrop Kingdom and Woodland Kingdom, while Yu Xuan negotiated with Southeast Kingdom to buy time.

• Bai Qi’s wizards killed the guards at Tomorrow Kingdom’s border, allowing Great Qin’s army to enter and attack villages and towns.
• Tomorrow King ordered his ministers to send troops against Great Qin after learning that the kingdom had been breached and its people were being massacred.
• Arthur Tina kept Raindrop Kingdom occupied with a show of force and harassment attacks, while Meng Tian set fires around Woodland Kingdom’s forest to draw out its forces.
• Yu Xuan invited Southeast Kingdom to negotiate and offered friendship if it withdrew, while Southeast Kingdom proposed that Great Qin stay at its camp or leave Card World in exchange for a reward.
• Yu Xuan said he would report Southeast Kingdom’s proposal to Great Qin’s ruler.

Great Qin attacked the Dragon King Kingdom, forcing nearby small factions into a makeshift army while Zhao Fu used Dragon Bone Pillars and powerful beasts to break the kingdom’s defenses. As the Dragon Kingdom’s full Dragon Cavalry charged, Zhao Fu summoned a Dragon Star to meet them.

• After some small factions refused to obey, Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to slaughter them, and the survivors formed a chaotic two-billion-strong army that advanced toward the Dragon King Kingdom’s flank.
• Zhao Fu confronted Longshen Yan before the kingdom’s walls and raised Dragon Bone Pillars as Dragon King soldiers used cards to gain temporary fire attributes.
• Great Qin’s beasts and Alchemical Holy Beasts attacked the Dragon King Kingdom’s fiery barrier, but the first barrage failed to break through.
• Zhao Fu deployed enormous Alchemical Nest Dragons, whose dark-red energy spheres cracked the barrier before another attack shattered it.
• The Dragon King Kingdom sent all its wind-transformed Dragon Cavalry charging at Great Qin, and Zhao Fu formed a magic array that summoned a descending Dragon Star.

Great Qin overwhelmed the Dragon King Kingdom’s defenses, forcing Longshen Yan and Davis to flee as the kingdom collapsed. News of the defeat prompted the surrounding factions to invade and plunder, leaving the Dragon King Kingdom’s people fleeing in terror.

• Zhao Fu used Dragon Star’s Supreme Dragon Clan bloodline to suppress the charging Dragon Cavalry, causing riders and horses to fall.
• Longshen Yan ordered fire-colored Ballistas to attack Great Qin, but Great Qin’s forces countered the barrage and devastated the Dragon King city walls.
• Zhao Fu ordered a full assault, and Great Qin soldiers climbed the walls and overwhelmed the Dragon King Army in a bloody battle.
• Yado led Longshen Yan away from the battlefield, while Davis fled with his subordinates, causing the Dragon King Army to collapse.
• The four kingdoms learned of the Dragon King Kingdom’s defeat, and Great Qin’s soldiers withdrew from their positions holding the four kingdoms back.
• The miscellaneous troops and surrounding factions invaded the Dragon King Kingdom to plunder as its people fled in terror.

Great Qin destroyed the Dragon King Kingdom and captured Longshen Yan after her forces were defeated. Brought before Zhao Fu, she refused to submit even as former allies urged her to accept Great Qin’s rule.

• Zhao Fu asked whether Longshen Yan had been captured, and Bai Qi reported that Great Qin’s troops were pursuing her.
• Great Qin’s Soldiers surrounded Longshen Yan, Yado, and her female guards; an Alchemical Nest Dragon knocked them unconscious, and they awoke shackled in a prison cart.
• Longshen Yan watched Great Qin execute people who had resisted and was unable to stop the soldiers from killing an old man.
• Great Qin’s Soldiers brought Longshen Yan before Zhao Fu, who demanded her submission and argued that Great Qin’s power surpassed hers.
• Long Huoyan and a middle-aged man urged Longshen Yan to submit, but she angrily rejected their advice.

Zhao Fu forced Longshen Yan to submit to Great Qin and began reorganizing the conquered Dragon King Kingdom, leaving her to help govern it. After returning to Great Qin and handling its affairs, he went to the Alchemy World to address its stalled development with Wang Jian.

• Yado urged Longshen Yan to surrender, and Zhao Fu threatened to kill the ministers and commoners until she knelt and submitted to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu and his ministers planned the occupation of the Dragon King Kingdom, securing its citizens, soldiers, Dragon Cavalry, wealth, and defenses.
• Zhao Fu met Longshen Yan and Yado, then entrusted Longshen Yan with helping manage the Dragon King Kingdom and revealed that he possessed the Supreme Dragon Blood of two worlds.
• Zhao Fu left the Card World under the management of Elena, Hillary, Arthur Tina, and Longshen Yan, and the Dragon King Kingdom gradually stabilized under Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, continued handling its affairs, and then went to the Alchemy World to develop it with Wang Jian.

Zhao Fu learned about Great Qin’s relations with the Jin, Rock, and Thunder Families and inspected the nearly completed second Wrath of the War God. He also discovered that the Ancient Martial God had nurtured more than ten thousand followers, leaving Great Qin with a new force to deploy despite their comparatively small size.

• Wang Jian told Zhao Fu that the Jin Family and Rock Family maintained mostly peaceful relations with Great Qin, while the Thunder Family repeatedly provoked Great Qin’s borders.
• Wang Jian took Zhao Fu to inspect Wrath of the War God Number Two, a smaller, simplified version that still needed restrictive formations and a stronger life core.
• Zhao Fu approved the war machine, and Wang Jian said he would begin gathering materials for a third one after completing it.
• Zhao Fu visited the Ancient Martial God, who summoned more than ten thousand Ancient Martial Gods for him to inspect.
• Zhao Fu judged that the Ancient Martial Gods could be deployed in battle but were small compared with Great Qin’s Alchemical Holy Beasts.

Zhao Fu tested the Ancient Martial Gods’ newly awakened abilities and was pleased when their leader demonstrated that he could control Alchemical Holy Beasts. After rewarding him with blood, Zhao Fu left him in charge of cultivating the Ancient Martial Gods and went to visit the Fire Family.

• The Ancient Martial God demonstrated flight and powerful cannons, including a fused attack that surpassed an Alchemical Nest Dragon’s power.
• The Ancient Martial God entered an Alchemical Holy Beast and controlled it, proving that he could command beasts stronger than himself and transfer to another if one was destroyed.
• Zhao Fu had the other Ancient Martial Gods test their control abilities and found they could manage smaller Alchemical Holy Beasts but struggled with thousand-meter ones.
• Zhao Fu gave the Ancient Martial God a drop of blood and promised ten more if he continued cultivating the Ancient Martial Gods well.
• Zhao Fu asked what else the Ancient Martial God could control, learned he could control anything dead or alive, and then went to visit the Fire Family.

Zhao Fu agreed to help Huo Bai Niao challenge Li Baiqing for control of the Fire Flame Kingdom, in exchange for making it Great Qin’s inside agent among the allied armies. After surveying the kingdom, he began teaching Huo Bai Niao how to gain support, leaving her to put his advice into practice.

• A messenger told Zhao Fu that Huo Bai Niao, the Fire Flame Kingdom’s second princess, wanted to meet him, and he heard her offer to make the kingdom leave Great Qin alone if he helped her.
• Huo Bai Niao asked Zhao Fu to help her become ruler before Li Baiqing took control, and he agreed on the condition that the Fire Flame Kingdom spy on the allied armies for Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu traveled to the Fire Flame Kingdom disguised as a guard and found that Li Baiqing had gained the support of its people, army, ministers, and ruler, while Huo Bai Niao was widely disliked.
• Zhao Fu told Huo Bai Niao that she needed to change her behavior to become ruler, then began teaching her how to act differently.
• Huo Bai Niao treated a maid gently after the maid accidentally broke something, showing that she had started following Zhao Fu’s advice.

White Bird won a territory to govern by pretending to become more compassionate and responsible, then began building her own power with Zhao Fu’s guidance. Li Baiqing and Su Yan grew suspicious of her sudden change while planning how to counter Great Qin.

• White Bird staged relief efforts after an earthquake, earning praise from Huo Baiwu and Huo Dongmei for her newfound concern for the people.
• White Bird asked Huo Baiwu to grant her a region to govern, and he agreed.
• White Bird thanked Zhao Fu and discussed building her power and winning over ministers in her new territory.
• Li Baiqing and Su Yan worried that White Bird might become a threat, while Su Yan urged caution toward Great Qin.
• Huo Meimu learned that White Bird had left Huo Yingjie behind and went to confront her about how she treated him.

Huo Meimu confronted Huo Bai Niao and Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu subdued her and forced her to support Huo Bai Niao’s bid to rule the Flame Kingdom. After returning to the palace, Huo Meimu faced her husband Huo Minghe while hiding what had happened.

• Huo Meimu found Huo Bai Niao with Zhao Fu and demanded that her sister return with her.
• Zhao Fu revealed himself as a Void Realm expert, sealed Huo Meimu’s power, and took her captive.
• Huo Bai Niao asked Huo Meimu to support her becoming ruler, and Zhao Fu threatened her until she agreed.
• Zhao Fu instructed Huo Bai Niao to recruit talents and win over the remaining ministers as part of their plan.
• Huo Meimu returned to the palace, saw Huo Yingjie, and then nervously answered Huo Minghe when he asked what she was doing there.

Su Yan and Li Baiqing plotted to undermine Huo Bai Niao, while Zhao Fu countered their schemes and used Great Qin’s threat to weaken support for Li Baiqing. With the succession contest shifting in her favor, Huo Bai Niao prepared to win over the remaining ministers.

• Su Yan and Li Baiqing discussed killing Huo Bai Niao and planned to damage her reputation so she could not challenge Li Baiqing for the throne.
• Zhao Fu persuaded Huo Bai Niao to keep the handsome men Su Yan had sent to compromise her reputation, explaining that he intended to control them and turn the plot against Li Baiqing.
• Great Qin warned that it would destroy Fire Flame Kingdom if Li Baiqing became king, prompting some of his supporters to oppose him, though Huo Baiwu reaffirmed his intention to make Li Baiqing king.
• Li Baiqing blamed Zhao Fu for the backlash, while Su Yan urged caution and suggested that Huo Qing'er find out Huo Baiwu’s intentions.
• Zhao Fu asked Huo Bai Niao for a list of people who did not support her, and she began courting them as the political situation turned in her favor.

Zhao Fu tried to secure the generals’ support for Huo Bai Niao, using his power to control those who refused. After dealing with Huo Yingwu and Huo Zhongqiu, he approached Huo Zhongqiu’s wife.

• Huo Yingwu refused to support Huo Bai Niao, so Zhao Fu subdued her and forced her to agree to rally army officers behind the Second Princess.
• Huo Yingwu questioned Zhao Fu’s motives, and he said he only wanted Huo Bai Niao to become king and would not harm Fire Flame Kingdom.
• Huo Zhongqiu demanded that Huo Bai Niao marry him in exchange for his support, but Zhao Fu rejected his demand and took control of him.
• Huo Zhongqiu’s wife arrived, and Zhao Fu walked toward her while she watched him in confusion.

Zhao Fu strengthened Huo Bai Niao’s bid for power by controlling generals and securing their support, making her the Fire Flame Kingdom’s second-largest force. As Li Baiqing considered an assassination and the royal couple worried about a coming clash, Huo Bai Niao thanked Zhao Fu, who warned that more trouble lay ahead.

• Zhao Fu controlled Huo Zhongqiu, reassured Huo Qingmei, and left her residence to approach Huo Baidong about supporting Huo Bai Niao.
• Huo Baidong agreed to support Huo Bai Niao if she proved herself and warned Zhao Fu that Li Baiqing might act against her.
• Zhao Fu controlled several influential generals, and their support made Huo Bai Niao the Fire Flame Kingdom’s second-largest force.
• Li Baiqing and Su Yan suspected the queen was helping Huo Bai Niao and discussed killing her, while Huo Baiwu and Huo Dongmei worried that the princesses would turn against each other.
• Huo Meimu realized Zhao Fu had enabled Huo Bai Niao’s rise and tried to warn Huo Baiwu, but Zhao Fu’s influence stopped her; Huo Yingwu could only watch with concern.
• Huo Baidong joined Huo Bai Niao’s side, and she thanked Zhao Fu, who told her they would need to be careful about what came next.

Huo Dongmei failed to persuade Huo Bai Niao to give up her bid for the throne, while Huo Meimu unexpectedly supported her sister. As Li Baiqing and Su Yan moved to stop Huo Bai Niao’s growing influence, Huo Dongmei was poisoned, and Huo Meimu confronted Zhao Fu about it.

• Huo Dongmei asked Huo Bai Niao to give up her claim to the throne, but Huo Bai Niao angrily refused and left.
• Huo Dongmei asked Huo Meimu to persuade Huo Bai Niao, but Huo Meimu instead supported her sister before leaving abruptly.
• Su Yan warned Li Baiqing that the Queen might be backing Huo Bai Niao, and Li Baiqing ordered him to act discreetly.
• Huo Dongmei drank wine and ate food in a pavilion, then collapsed from an unknown poison that the physician said would kill her within three days without a cure.
• Huo Baiwu ordered his people to find an antidote as Huo Meimu accused Zhao Fu of poisoning their mother, but Zhao Fu and Huo Bai Niao appeared unaware of the attack.

Huo Bai Niao and Huo Meimu searched for a cure after Huo Dongmei was poisoned, while Li Baiqing and Su Yan secretly discussed their plot to seize power. With only two days left, Zhao Fu secretly entered the palace to examine the queen.

• Huo Meimu told Huo Bai Niao and Zhao Fu that Huo Dongmei had been poisoned and would die within three days without a cure.
• Li Baiqing and Su Yan revealed that Su Yan had poisoned Huo Dongmei with Void Bitter Poison and discussed possibly poisoning Huo Baiwu to hasten Li Baiqing's rise to the throne.
• Huo Bai Niao, Huo Meimu, and Zhao Fu searched for a cure, but Zhao Fu's antidote potions had no effect and palace guards prevented him from entering.
• Huo Meimu offered to smuggle Zhao Fu into the palace, and Huo Bai Niao agreed despite the danger.
• Huo Meimu secretly brought Zhao Fu into the palace, where he began examining Huo Dongmei as the two women watched anxiously.

Zhao Fu used a power crystal to drive the strange poison from Huo Dongmei and then became intimate with her and her daughters. Huo Dongmei agreed to meet Zhao Fu secretly, while the poison's source remained unknown.

• Zhao Fu found that his power could suppress Huo Dongmei's poison but could not permanently remove it, so he placed a crystal containing his origin power inside her.
• Zhao Fu claimed that one final step was needed to activate the crystal, and several hours later Huo Dongmei and her daughters had all become intimate with him.
• Huo Dongmei asked who Zhao Fu was and why he had helped Huo Bai Niao, and Zhao Fu said he would reveal his identity later and would not harm the Fire Flame Kingdom for now.
• Huo Dongmei agreed to keep their relationship secret and said she would visit Zhao Fu herself, while warning him not to come looking for her.
• Huo Dongmei could not explain how she had been poisoned, and Zhao Fu suspected that someone had targeted her because she had interfered with their interests.

Huo Dongmei recovered from the poison and declared her support for Huo Bai Niao, strengthening her bid against Li Baiqing. As their forces grew, Huo Baiwu decided the winner would become the next ruler of Fire Flame Kingdom and set terms for the loser.

• Huo Meimu and Huo Dongmei rejected Zhao Fu’s suggestions that Great Qin or Li Baiqing had poisoned the Queen, while Huo Dongmei apologized to Huo Bai Niao and promised to support her bid for the throne.
• Huo Baiwu visited the recovered Huo Dongmei, while Li Baiqing and Su Yan resolved to prepare a more deadly poison and began consolidating their forces.
• Huo Bai Niao gained support with the Queen’s backing, and Zhao Fu handed his affairs to Huo Meimu’s people as Huo Dongmei secretly visited him.
• Huo Yingwu discovered Huo Dongmei with Zhao Fu and then reported that Huo Bai Niao’s supporters were growing; she told Zhao Fu that the princess needed to placate the generals and study her rivals.
• Huo Baiwu told Huo Dongmei that the contest’s winner would become ruler, while the loser would lose their power; if Li Baiqing lost, he would become prince consort and Great Qin plans would change.

Su Yan fused Huo Baiwu's hair with Void Bitter Poison and Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cold Poison, then used the resulting poison to strike the king. Huo Baiwu collapsed, and Huo Dongmei and her companions hurried back to the palace as the kingdom prepared for upheaval.

• Huo Baiwu tried to mend his strained relationship with Huo Dongmei, but she left, while Su Yan obtained a strand of the king's hair from a maid and killed her.
• Su Yan combined Huo Baiwu's hair with Void Bitter Poison and Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cold Poison, then sealed the lethal mixture in a bottle.
• Huo Baiwu rejected a maid's advances at first, then invited her to serve him before suddenly turning purple-blue, vomiting blood, and collapsing unconscious.
• News spread that Huo Baiwu had been poisoned, and factions across the Fire Flame Kingdom began preparing for a possible struggle over power.
• Huo Yingwu told Zhao Fu, Huo Dongmei, and the others that Huo Baiwu's life was hanging by a thread; Huo Dongmei rushed to the palace, and Huo Meimu urged Zhao Fu to come and save him.

Zhao Fu agreed to save the poisoned Huo Baiwu, but avoided the royal chamber because Li Baiqing might recognize him. Huo Bai Niao arranged for Li Baiqing to leave, allowing Zhao Fu to begin treating the king as Li Baiqing and Su Yan plotted to seize power.

• Huo Bai Niao and Huo Dongmei pleaded with Zhao Fu to save Huo Baiwu, and he agreed.
• Li Baiqing and Su Yan expected Huo Baiwu to die soon and discussed securing the throne and killing Huo Bai Niao.
• The physicians failed to treat Huo Baiwu, while Li Baiqing pretended to comfort Huo Qing'er and ordered a search for the poisoner.
• Huo Dongmei realized Zhao Fu had vanished, and Li Baiqing and Su Yan tried to delay him after learning he might save the king.
• Huo Bai Niao persuaded Li Baiqing to leave the room, and Zhao Fu entered and began examining Huo Baiwu with his power.

Zhao Fu used his bloodline to battle the fused Void Bitter Poison and Ice Cold Poison inside Huo Baiwu, eventually purging the toxins and restoring Huo Baiwu. Two dangerous remnants of the poison remained in the void, and Zhao Fu sent Huo Dongmei, Huo Meimu, and Huo Qing'er away from them.

• Zhao Fu discovered that the Void Bitter Poison had fused with an Ice Cold Poison and warned that using his bloodline to save Huo Baiwu could put him at risk.
• Huo Dongmei and Huo Meimu urged Zhao Fu to save Huo Baiwu, while Huo Qing'er watched in confusion as they addressed him with affection.
• Zhao Fu sent his bloodline into Huo Baiwu, where its runes formed a Blood Dragon that fought the Void Insect and Ice Insect created by the fused poison.
• The Blood Dragon destroyed the Void Insect and defeated the Ice Insect, though the Ice Insect self-destructed and injured the Blood Dragon.
• Zhao Fu continued purging the toxins from Huo Baiwu until his complexion recovered, but two poisonous remnants remained in the void.
• Zhao Fu told Huo Dongmei, Huo Meimu, and Huo Qing'er to retreat from the lingering poison.

Zhao Fu cured Huo Baiwu’s poisoning, then left Huo Qing'er troubled by what she had been made to do for the final step. Li Baiqing learned that Huo Baiwu had survived and began investigating the unknown person aiding Huo Bai Niao.

• Zhao Fu gathered the toxins from Huo Baiwu’s body into a sphere using Huo Baiwu’s blood, then completed a final step with Huo Dongmei, Huo Meimu, and Huo Qing'er.
• Huo Bai Niao and Li Baiqing fought while Zhao Fu treated Huo Baiwu, and Huo Dongmei stopped them after Zhao Fu emerged and confirmed Huo Baiwu was well.
• Huo Qing'er said she would never accept Zhao Fu and only loved her husband, while Huo Meimu urged her to consider leaving her former husband.
• Li Baiqing was shocked to find Huo Baiwu cured and later ordered Su Yan to discover who had helped Huo Bai Niao.
• Huo Qing'er asked Li Baiqing what he would do if she were with someone else, then dismissed the question as casual when he grew uneasy.

After Zhao Fu learned how Huo Baiwu had been poisoned, he used Huo Qianhua’s testimony to frame Li Baiqing and persuaded Huo Bai Niao to press for his arrest. Huo Baiwu recovered and ordered Li Baiqing detained, leaving Li Baiqing and Su Yan fearing their poisoning plot would be exposed.

• Zhao Fu questioned Huo Qianhua, learned she had felt cold before Huo Baiwu was poisoned, and recruited her to help implicate Li Baiqing.
• Huo Bai Niao told Zhao Fu she wanted the throne but did not want Li Baiqing killed, and Zhao Fu reassured her that he would protect his younger brother.
• Zhao Fu purged the poison from Huo Baiwu, who recovered with enhanced strength and asked Huo Dongmei to stay with him.
• Huo Bai Niao presented Huo Qianhua’s testimony against Li Baiqing, and Huo Baiwu ordered Li Baiqing arrested despite Huo Dongmei’s objections.
• Su Yan warned Li Baiqing that their poisoning plot might be discovered, while Li Baiqing feared losing everything before taking revenge on Great Qin.

Li Baiqing chose to remain and face the accusation that he poisoned Huo Baiwu, while Zhao Fu maneuvered around Huo Qing'er and Huo Dongmei before confronting Su Yan. The chapter ended with Su Yan realizing Zhao Fu had been behind the events and that their plans had collapsed.

• Su Yan offered Li Baiqing the choice of defecting to the Kingdom Alliance or gambling that no one would discover their involvement, and Li Baiqing chose to stay.
• Huo Qing'er warned Li Baiqing that Huo Bai Niao was coming to arrest him, but he insisted he was innocent and was escorted to the dungeon.
• Huo Baiwu ordered Li Baiqing held while the investigation continued, and Huo Dongmei later joined Zhao Fu as Huo Qing'er pleaded for her husband's release.
• Huo Qing'er said she would separate from Li Baiqing if he truly poisoned Huo Baiwu, and Zhao Fu left to find evidence.
• Su Yan tried to erase evidence, but Zhao Fu appeared, imprisoned him, and revealed that he had been working behind the scenes.

Zhao Fu extracted the truth from Su Yan and presented evidence that Li Baiqing had arranged the poisoning of Huo Baiwu and Huo Dongmei. Li Baiqing was arrested and taken away after Huo Qing'er pleaded for his life, leaving his fate undecided.

• Zhao Fu controlled Su Yan, learned about the poisoning plot, found the evidence, and reported it to Huo Baiwu.
• A youth, a ledger, Huo Mu, and two poison auras linked Su Yan and Li Baiqing to the poisoning.
• Huo Qing'er defended Li Baiqing, but Li Baiqing arrived in shackles and apologized to her.
• Huo Qing'er knelt and begged her parents to spare Li Baiqing, while the ministers demanded his execution.
• Huo Baiwu ordered the guards to take everyone away without announcing Li Baiqing's sentence, then dismissed court.
• Zhao Fu told Huo Bai Niao and Huo Meimu that his suspicion of Li Baiqing had been proven, and they apologized for doubting him.