Recaps

Zhao Fu used the Crown of Kings to kill Wang Xiao and occupy Zheng State Town, prompting factions across the Northern Continent to realize Great Qin threatened them all. Su Yan agreed to unite the factions against Great Qin, while the dynasty inheritors remained undecided after receiving his letters.

• Zhao Fu killed Wang Xiao with iron chains empowered by the Crown of Kings, then occupied Zheng State Town and destroyed Zheng State.
• The Northern Continent’s factions learned Great Qin had destroyed Zheng State and decided to unite under Su Yan against it.
• Su Yan overcame his fear of Zhao Fu and agreed to lead the effort, while Wang Xiaozhu secretly prepared to build his own faction.
• Su Yan gathered military intelligence from the Li Family and Wang Family, then shared it with the factions so they could prepare to counter Great Qin.
• Su Yan sent letters to Huaxia’s dynasty inheritors, who withheld their positions while considering the matter.

After Great Qin destroyed Zheng State, Zhao Fu absorbed its fortune and legacy, strengthened his forces, and prepared the territory for winter. He also ordered four major roads built from Great Qin City to connect its growing network of settlements, before good news arrived on the third day.

• Su Yan concluded that the dynastic factions and the Hundred Schools of Thought would not openly join their cause, but considered recruiting other forces later.
• Zhao Fu received rewards for destroying Zheng State, assigned the battle merit to Sade, and heard Bai Qi report a victory with minor casualties and about eight thousand prisoners.
• Zhao Fu refined four Zheng State Generals' corpses into Talent Blood Crystals and raised Sima Cuo to SSS aptitude.
• Zhao Fu reestablished Zheng State Town, ordered the army to rest, and organized the autumn harvest and winter supplies, including Cold Wheat and cotton.
• Zhao Fu planned four stone-brick roads extending north, south, east, and west from Great Qin City, and Great Qin received good news on the third day.

After Zhou Kingdom's location was exposed, Zhao Fu arranged to exploit the division among its players and recruited Wu Yang, a powerful figure in its faction. Wu Yang agreed to betray Zhou Kingdom in exchange for protection for his wife and daughter, then asked for a modest position in Great Qin.

• Zhou Kingdom recalled its players to defend its settlement, but its location was leaked, prompting Zhao Fu to order Great Qin to contact its players and prepare an attack.
• Great Qin offered enormous benefits and contacted Wu Yang, who held influence in Zhou Kingdom's player faction and the Chai Family.
• Wu Yang met Zhao Fu and asked Great Qin to protect his wife and daughter, including after the real world was devoured; Zhao Fu agreed.
• Wu Yang explained that he had lost faith in Zhou Kingdom's future and had decided to defect to Great Qin.
• Wu Yang asked for a small village chief position, but after Zhao Fu chuckled, Wu Yang cautiously withdrew the request.

Zhao Fu learned that most northern Central Continent factions were organizing against Great Qin and began preparing for the threat. He also arranged to bring Wu Yang’s wife and daughter to safety while continuing plans against the Zhou Kingdom.

• Zhao Fu promised to support Wu Yang as the region’s ruler if Wu Yang helped Great Qin, and Wu Yang revealed the Chai Family was buying talismans and formations.
• Zhao Fu ordered Guo Binglin to investigate and learned that many factions were buying items to counter illusions and giant beasts.
• Mu Guilin told Zhao Fu that nearly eighty percent of northern Central Continent factions were joining forces against the Great Qin Imperial Prince, with the Vertical Alliance Branch advising them.
• Zhao Fu asked the Ying Family to secretly retrieve Wu Yang’s wife and daughter, and told Wu Qingniang he did not yet know how Great Qin would respond to the alliance.
• Zhao Fu informed his generals about the opposing alliance and began gathering soldiers to prepare.

Wu Yang prepared to hand Zhou Kingdom Town to Great Qin, gathering defectors and secretly weakening the town’s defenses. By the end, its guards were drinking his drugged wine as Zhao Fu’s forces waited outside.

• Zhao Fu brought 120,000 soldiers to the Zhou Kingdom and had Great Qin Assassins set up an isolation formation and scout for ambushers.
• Wu Yang and his trusted companions returned to Apocalypse World, then recruited players to defect to Great Qin with promises of generous rewards.
• Wu Yang killed 3,000 players who refused to join so they could not expose the plan, while others remained in the real world.
• Wu Yang began undermining the Zhou Family’s forces and had players spread sleeping smoke through the households of Zhou Kingdom Town.
• Wu Yang brought drugged wine to the city wall and persuaded the guards to drink, concluding that the Zhou Kingdom would fall that night.

In the real world, Chai Shaohui studied under the guidance of his mother, Nangong Shuyue, while political rivals challenged his rule over the Zhou Kingdom. In Apocalypse World, Zhao Fu’s forces took control of Zhou Kingdom Town and surrounded its protected core district.

• Nangong Shuyue gave Chai Shaohui books on governance and military strategy, and he continued studying to prepare to revive the Zhou Kingdom.
• After Wu Yang reported that everything was ready, Zhao Fu sent Great Qin Assassins to seize the villages around Zhou Kingdom Town without raising the alarm.
• Wu Yang guided the Hundred Ghost Illusionists to trap the soldiers in the barracks, while Great Qin forces quietly took control of the town.
• Zhao Fu’s forces attacked the three remaining city walls, killed or captured their defenders, and captured the historical General guarding the eastern wall.
• Zhao Fu led the army through the western gate to the core district, where a protective barrier enclosed one hundred guards and a historical General as Great Qin surrounded them.

After Great Qin captured Zheng State Town, Chai Shaohui and Nangong Shuyue confronted Zhao Fu and learned that Wu Yang had joined Great Qin. The Zhou Kingdom’s young inheritor prepared to face Zhao Fu as the kingdom’s defeat became inevitable.

• Chai Shaohui received an alert that the Zhou Kingdom was under attack, and Nangong Shuyue entered Apocalypse World with him.
• Chai Shaohui saw that Great Qin had captured Zheng State Town and asked Zhao Fu why he had attacked the Zhou Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu declared that Great Qin would destroy anyone who opposed it, and Chai Shaohui recognized that his kingdom had fallen.
• Nangong Shuyue accused Wu Yang of helping Great Qin seize the town, but Wu Yang confirmed that he had joined Zhao Fu.
• Chai Shaohui sent his mother away and faced Zhao Fu, who drew the Heavenly Demon Sword and unleashed his terrifying aura.

Zhao Fu defeated Chai Shaohui and was about to kill him and Nangong Shuyue when she offered the Zhou Kingdom’s submission in exchange for Great Qin’s help against Great Song. Zhao Fu accepted, restored Chai Shaohui’s severed arm, and named him Zhou Lord.

• Zhao Fu struck Chai Shaohui through a city wall, but Chai Shaohui rose and charged again despite his injuries.
• Zhao Fu severed Chai Shaohui’s hand, and Nangong Shuyue ran to comfort and treat her son.
• As Zhao Fu prepared to kill them both, Nangong Shuyue offered the Zhou Kingdom’s submission and promised its help against Great Song, including access to the Emperor-Sealing Cloth’s power.
• Zhao Fu accepted the Zhou Kingdom’s submission, restored Chai Shaohui’s arm with the Royal Wood Sword, and bestowed on him the title of Zhou Lord.

Zhao Fu conquered Zhou Kingdom, absorbed its fortune, and arranged how its town and people would be governed. As he prepared to return to Great Qin, Nangong Shuyue dismissed the generals and began undressing in front of him.

• Chai Shaohui surrendered Zhou Kingdom, and its kingly fortune flowed into Zhao Fu’s Crown of Kings, upgrading it to blue quality.
• Zhao Fu occupied Zhou Kingdom Town, prompting news of its fall to alarm the northern factions and the remaining Anti-Qin Alliance members.
• Great Qin gained Zhou Kingdom’s inheritance and fortune, and Zhao Fu assigned the battle merit to Duo Ke and learned the Turbulent Times Stele could exchange for gold-grade items.
• After Bai Qi reported the battlefield results, Zhao Fu decided to bring 20,000 civilians and Li Yun back to Great Qin, leave Li Zhongjin to guard the town, and let Wu Yang establish an independent faction.
• Nangong Shuyue asked to speak with Zhao Fu alone, dismissed the generals, and began undoing her clothes.

Nangong Shuyue offered herself to Zhao Fu, hoping to secure influence and a future for her son and family, and Zhao Fu accepted her advances. Their intimacy was interrupted by a report of a major event in Fighting City, which Zhao Fu heard in Nangong Shuyue’s presence, leaving her pleased that he had begun to trust her.

• Nangong Shuyue approached Zhao Fu and resolved to win his affection for the sake of her son and family.
• Zhao Fu showed interest in Nangong Shuyue, and they kissed and began to become intimate.
• A soldier interrupted them to report that a major event had occurred in Fighting City.
• Zhao Fu asked the soldier for details without dismissing Nangong Shuyue, who took this as a sign that he had begun to trust her.

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin after accepting Nangong Shuyue as his woman, leaving her to manage Zhou Kingdom Town. When the Chai Family confronted her over Zhou Kingdom's destruction, Nangong Xiong arrived and told her to return to the Nangong Family.

• A soldier told Zhao Fu that Fighting City's City Lord was gravely injured and rival factions were fighting for power.
• Zhao Fu declined Nangong Shuyue's invitation to continue their intimacy, then left with his generals for Great Qin.
• Nangong Shuyue buried the dead soldiers and expanded Zhou Kingdom Town's forces after Great Qin departed.
• The Chai Family accused Nangong Shuyue and Chai Shaohui's branch of causing Zhou Kingdom's destruction, but she warned them that Chai Shaohui had Great Qin's protection.
• Nangong Xiong arrived with members of the Nangong Family and told Nangong Shuyue that their father wanted her to return home.

Nangong Xiong tried to take Nangong Shuyue back to the Nangong Family, while Chai Family members sought to repudiate her and seize control of her faction. Nangong Shuyue revealed that she was the Great Qin Imperial Prince’s woman, changing the Chai Family’s stance, and the chapter ended with Chai Shaohui learning the news.

• Nangong Xiong confronted the Chai Family and insisted on taking Nangong Shuyue away, but a branch head declared she would be repudiated and barred from returning.
• Nangong Shuyue refused to leave, saying she was now the Great Qin Imperial Prince’s woman.
• A Chai Family member mocked Nangong Shuyue, and his own branch head slapped him before affirming that she remained part of the Chai Family.
• The Chai Family members changed their attitude toward Nangong Shuyue, while Nangong Xiong called the Nangong Family and was told to return without interfering.
• Nangong Xiong and the Chai Family branch heads left, and Chai Shaohui later heard the news and understood his mother had acted for his sake.

Zhao Fu found Fighting City in chaos and left Ge Nie to compete for the City Lord position without Great Qin’s aid. Back in Great Qin, he searched for the missing Qi State and focused on developing roads and producing Yin Bone Porcelain.

• Zhao Fu visited Fighting City and learned from Wang Ergou that its factions were fighting in a City Lord trial led by contenders including Xiong Qi, Hong Tianshan, and Ge Nie.
• Zhao Fu decided Great Qin would not interfere in Fighting City, trusting Ge Nie to manage Sword Gate’s growth and await the right time to act.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and refined the corpses of two historical Generals as the kingdom resumed steady development after conquering the Zhou Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu searched for the Qi State but could not locate it because it had apparently withdrawn to a remote wilderness and disbanded its system bases.
• Zhao Fu ordered more stone-brick workshops for construction and began selling Great Qin’s mass-produced Yin Bone Porcelain at a high price.

Zhao Fu held Qin Times Academy’s first examination to select promising students for Great Qin’s civil and military service. Thirteen youths earned the right to meet him and became key cultivation candidates, just as news arrived that another festival had begun.

• Zhao Fu announced written and martial examinations for Qin Times Academy, and the students and teachers prepared eagerly.
• Zhao Fu assigned Bai Qi to train 40,000 additional soldiers, raising Great Qin’s planned army to 160,000.
• Wang Jian and Li Si presided over the first written examination, and successive tests narrowed more than 8,000 students down to thirteen candidates.
• Zhao Fu questioned the thirteen youths about winning battles and governing the world, praised their answers, and designated them key cultivation candidates.
• The system main city announced the arrival of another festival.

Zhao Fu learned that the seven-day Calamity Festival would bring disasters and reward individuals who helped resist them, with national factions gaining extra merit from disaster resistance. He examined the festival’s pill rewards and found several extraordinary pills, including ones that could grant Heaven-grade aptitude or revive the dead.

• Zhao Fu visited the system main city and saw people buying supplies amid rising prices before the Calamity Festival.
• Zhao Fu learned that disasters would strike for seven days and that merit points would go to whoever personally helped stop or withstand them.
• Zhao Fu realized Great Qin’s four national inheritances and other sources of disaster resistance could give it a major advantage and multiply its merit points.
• Zhao Fu inspected the Calamity Festival exchange rankings, which featured powerful medicinal pills.
• Zhao Fu read about the top-ranked pills, including the Enlightenment Pill, Heavenly Saint Pill, and Revival Pill.

Zhao Fu spoke with Jiang Rou, who worried that Great Qin might target her, then inspected Great Qin’s disaster resistance ahead of the Calamity Festival. He found its defenses strong enough to offer a major advantage, though earning Merit Points would require actively stopping disasters.

• Zhao Fu considered the Ten Thousand Poisons Divine Pill and other pills before Jiang Rou greeted him.
• Jiang Rou told Zhao Fu she had worried Great Qin might target her, and Zhao Fu reassured her that it probably would not.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and reviewed its Heaven-Prayer Platforms and other buildings, totaling 225% disaster resistance.
• Zhao Fu concluded that Great Qin could withstand calamities, but Merit Points would only come from stopping disasters rather than merely enduring them.

The Calamity Festival began with a devastating wind disaster that ravaged the Terror Forest, while Great Qin remained protected by its natural disaster resistance. Zhao Fu confronted a Wind Calamity Beast and unleashed God · Demon Strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• At midnight, a violent gale swept through the Terror Forest, damaging villages and system cities with powerful winds, rocks, and trees.
• Great Qin’s natural disaster resistance softened the gale, leaving its territory unharmed and its citizens grateful to Zhao Fu.
• After the gale, more than twenty Wind Calamity Beasts formed from the wind, and Zhao Fu flew out to hunt one.
• Zhao Fu found a Wind Calamity Beast creating a gale and attacked it with his Heavenly Demon Sword and the City Lord Seal’s power.
• The Wind Calamity Beast charged Zhao Fu with its beak surrounded by sharp azure wind, and Zhao Fu used God · Demon Strike.

Zhao Fu hunted Wind Calamity Beasts for merit points and Heaven's Favor during the Calamity Festival, while other regions faced powerful storms and a catastrophic flood. After learning that millions may have drowned, he questioned whether the disaster was too severe for an event.

• Zhao Fu killed a Level 2 Wind Calamity Beast with the Heavenly Demon Sword, earned 4,000 merit points, and received a Gold-grade helmet from its Wind Calamity Crystal.
• Zhao Fu killed a fleeing Level 1 Wind Calamity Beast with an Evil-Breaking Spear and obtained another Gold-grade item from its crystal.
• The City Lords of three system main cities struggled against Level 4 Wind Calamity Beasts and used their City Lord Seals to confront the hurricanes.
• Zhao Fu hunted through the night, reached 28,000 merit points, and gained Level 1 Heaven's Favor after killing ten Level 1 Wind Calamity Beasts.
• Zhao Fu received news that an immense flood had submerged a region and affected nearby areas, forcing several City Lords to relocate their system main cities as wilderness villages were inundated.
• Zhao Fu wondered why the Calamity Festival had caused a flood so devastating that he estimated more than seven million people had drowned.

Zhao Fu investigated a level ten flood disaster and found that the Dragon-Locking Well was its likely source. After killing the ten flood fish guarding the well, he descended into its vast depths and encountered a level-four flood fish.

• Zhao Fu learned that the flood had engulfed the region containing the Dragon-Locking Well and went there to investigate.
• Zhao Fu found the well beneath unusually calm, clear water and sensed a powerful disaster aura coming from it.
• Zhao Fu summoned over a thousand demons to distract the ten level-one flood fish, then killed them and gained merit points and disaster crystals.
• Zhao Fu followed the well’s thirty-six iron chains deep into its darkness, using an illumination pearl to see.
• A level-four flood fish over a hundred meters long attacked Zhao Fu, and he dodged its bite.

Zhao Fu fought his way through increasingly dangerous Calamity Beasts as he followed the chains into an enormous underwater hall. There, he found a bound woman who might be behind the flood, but he suspected her seductive invitation was a trap.

• Zhao Fu used stealth and the Ghost-Slaying Sword to kill a Level Four Water Calamity Beast, earning merit points and a Legendary-grade material.
• Zhao Fu continued down the chains, gathering Calamity Beast crystals and accumulating more than 170,000 merit points.
• Zhao Fu reached a glowing underwater cave and followed the chains to their end in a vast hall.
• Zhao Fu discovered a woman bound to a stone bed and wondered whether she was responsible for the flood.
• The woman woke and beckoned Zhao Fu closer, but he refused to approach because he suspected she would attack him.

Zhao Fu used the Eight Trigrams Unsealing disk to free the woman in green, then revealed that he had secretly fused the Crown of Kings’ chains with her bindings and captured her again. With her sealed once more, he could make her return to her true body and stop the flood disaster.

• Zhao Fu rejected the woman in green’s advances and agreed to break her seal in exchange for her obedience.
• Zhao Fu’s Unsealing Talismans failed to affect the chains, so he activated the Eight Trigrams Unsealing disk.
• Zhao Fu and the woman in green’s combined power broke all thirty-six chains, and her release intensified the storm and flood.
• The woman in green threatened to overpower Zhao Fu and absorb his first-generation King’s power, but Zhao Fu bound her with chains from the Crown of Kings.
• Zhao Fu revealed that he had secretly fused the Crown of Kings’ chains with the woman in green’s bindings, while the Heavenly Demon mocked her for falling into the trap.

Zhao Fu subdued the Calamitous Dragon Sword, stopped the flood, and rescued more than 230,000 survivors for Great Qin. He gained a powerful Sage Artifact and a mysterious Imperial Phoenix Statue, but as he prepared to put away the sword, the woman in green suddenly reappeared.

• Zhao Fu postponed dealing with the bound woman in green and sent over a thousand ships to rescue survivors stranded on the mountains.
• Great Qin brought back more than 230,000 people, raising its population to 1.1 million and its Stones of the Heavenly Domain to 624.
• Zhao Fu transformed the woman in green into the Calamitous Dragon Sword and received 600,000 merit points for stopping the flood.
• Zhao Fu opened a seven-colored crystal and obtained a crystal Imperial Phoenix Statue, then learned the sword was a second-grade Sage Artifact.
• As Zhao Fu moved to store the Calamitous Dragon Sword, a figure darted out and wrapped herself around his arm.

Zhao Fu exchanged merit points for three powerful pills and sought more points to buy the Enlightenment Pill. Su Yan blamed Great Qin for a devastating flood and spread the claim that Zhao Fu had bought the pills, escalating fears of Great Qin’s growing power.

• Zhao Fu sent the green sword spirit back into the Calamitous Dragon Sword and went to check the Calamity Festival exchange stele.
• Zhao Fu spent 520,000 merit points on the Heavenly Saint Pill, Revival Pill, and Ten Thousand Poisons Divine Pill, leaving him short of the Enlightenment Pill’s cost.
• Zhao Fu ordered Wang Ergou to find another disaster-stricken region so he could earn more merit points.
• People noticed that three high-ranked pills had disappeared, and many suspected Great Qin had exchanged for them.
• Su Yan concluded that Zhao Fu had obtained the three pills and spread altered reports blaming Great Qin for the flood and claiming Zhao Fu had gained over 500,000 people.

Zhao Fu entered a drought-stricken region and fought fire disaster beasts while gathering merit points. After Mu Yuan asked for help against a Level Six fire disaster beast threatening his city, Zhao Fu joined the battle and struck it with the Calamitous Dragon Sword.

• Zhao Fu used King's Domain to withstand the blazing heat and killed several fire disaster beasts, bringing him within thirty thousand merit points of an Enlightenment Pill.
• Zhao Fu spotted Mu Yuan, City Lord of Wild Plains City, battling a Level Six fire disaster beast and initially waited to see how the fight developed.
• Mu Yuan asked Zhao Fu to help kill the beast and offered him all its drops, explaining that its drought had devastated the city and threatened its water and crops.
• Zhao Fu agreed to help and used the Calamitous Dragon Sword to draw water from the earth and blast the fire disaster beast, heavily injuring it.
• The fire disaster beast turned its attack on Zhao Fu as Mu Yuan and Zhao Fu continued fighting it together.

Zhao Fu defeated a Level 6 Disaster Beast, obtained the Enlightenment Pill, and upgraded the Great Spirit Roc Bow into the Calamity Fire Bow. Xian Ru explained that the Imperial Phoenix Statue could strengthen Great Qin with phoenix aura, leaving Zhao Fu to decide how to acquire it.

• Zhao Fu and Mu Yuan defeated the Fire Disaster Beast, and Zhao Fu collected its crystal after gaining enough merit points to exchange for the Enlightenment Pill.
• Zhao Fu returned to the system main city and exchanged merit points for the Enlightenment Pill.
• Zhao Fu fused the Fire Disaster Beast Crystal into the Great Spirit Roc Bow, transforming it into the top-grade Legendary Calamity Fire Bow.
• Zhao Fu summoned Xian Ru and asked her about the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• Xian Ru explained that phoenix aura could empower the statue and strengthen Great Qin, and urged Zhao Fu to capture women who possessed it.
• Zhao Fu cut off Xian Ru’s proposal and said he would handle the matter properly.