Recaps

Zhao Fu refined two pills, gaining poison resistance, Heavenly-grade aptitude, and Heavenly Sense. He then returned to the Calamity Festival exchange, where he focused on pill formulas that could strengthen Great Qin, especially the rare Fate-Changing Pill formula.

• Zhao Fu accepted Xian Ru's explanation of her actions and sent her away before refining the Ten Thousand Poisons Divine Pill, which gave him the Poison Spirit Physique.
• Zhao Fu refined the Heavenly Saint Pill, raising his aptitude to the lower tier of the Heavenly grade and unlocking Heavenly Sense.
• Zhao Fu put away the Enlightenment Pill and Revival Pill, then resumed considering the Calamity Festival exchange on its third day.
• Zhao Fu prioritized formulas for a fourth-tier cultivation pill, the Strength-Boosting Pill, and the Grass Return Pill to help Great Qin produce pills for its soldiers.
• Zhao Fu considered the sixth-tier Fate-Changing Pill formula, whose aptitude-raising effects could benefit Great Qin's Heaven and Earth Refining Array, but recognized that obtaining its required Life Fruit would be difficult.

Zhao Fu used the Calamitous Dragon Sword to summon Green Dragon and hunt water disaster beasts in a flooded region, earning Merit Points without fighting himself. Green Dragon revealed her name as Long Xiaoxiao, and Zhao Fu also learned the names of Heavenly Demon and Ghost Slayer: Ailiya and Liu Ningbing.

• Zhao Fu chose a flooded region and summoned the green divine dragon with the Calamitous Dragon Sword.
• Long Xiaoxiao carried Zhao Fu underwater and killed a Level 2 water disaster beast, earning him 4,000 Merit Points.
• Long Xiaoxiao killed a Level 3 water disaster beast, earning Zhao Fu 6,000 Merit Points, then continued hunting several more.
• Long Xiaoxiao told Zhao Fu her name, and Zhao Fu asked Heavenly Demon and Ghost Slayer for theirs.
• Heavenly Demon gave her name as Ailiya, and Ghost Slayer gave hers as Liu Ningbing.

Zhao Fu and Long Xiaoxiao killed calamity beasts in flooded regions, earning enough merit points for Zhao Fu to exchange for the Vermilion Bird Blood Pill. With every pill on the rankings now claimed, Zhao Fu turned to collecting high-level crystals.

• Long Xiaoxiao’s green dragon defeated and killed a Level 6 aquatic calamity beast, and Zhao Fu took the blue crystal it left behind.
• Zhao Fu and Long Xiaoxiao spent two days hunting water calamity beasts, earning four hundred thousand merit points, which Zhao Fu spent on items.
• Zhao Fu saw that the Vermilion Bird Blood Pill was among the few pills still available and decided to earn enough merit points to exchange for it.
• Zhao Fu and Long Xiaoxiao hunted calamity beasts by a vast lake, and Zhao Fu collected one hundred and fifty thousand merit points.
• Zhao Fu exchanged his merit points for the Vermilion Bird Blood Pill, then turned his attention to obtaining high-level crystals after the remaining ranked pills were claimed.

During the Calamity Festival, Zhao Fu hunted powerful Calamity Beasts and opened three Level Seven Calamity Crystals, gaining an Orb of the Void, an Epic Ice Soul Blade, and a Calamity Flame. After strengthening the flame with five Calamity Beast Crystals, he summoned ten Skeleton Knights and considered what to empower next.

• Zhao Fu and Long Xiaoxiao hunted powerful Calamity Beasts through the festival, and Zhao Fu learned about several other types, including the dangerous Death Calamity Beast.
• Zhao Fu counted his Calamity Crystal haul, then opened three Level Seven crystals and obtained the Orb of the Void, the Ice Soul Blade, and the Calamity Flame.
• Zhao Fu fused five different Calamity Beast Crystals into the Calamity Flame, strengthening it and weighing whether to use it on a creature or weapon.
• Zhao Fu raised his hand with the King's Ring glowing, and ten holy Skeleton Knights appeared, dismounted, and knelt before him.

Zhao Fu fused the five-colored Calamity Fire into the King's Ring, transforming it and the Skeleton Cavalry into powerful Calamity Knights with the Undead Catastrophe skill. The Calamity Festival ended with Zhao Fu ranked first on the Merit Ranking, though he kept his name hidden.

• Zhao Fu fused the Calamity Fire into the King's Ring, turning it and the ten Skeleton Cavalry into the Calamity King's Ring and Calamity Knights.
• Zhao Fu discovered that each Calamity Knight could command 3,000 enhanced skeleton soldiers and that the group possessed the powerful Undead Catastrophe combination skill.
• The Calamity Festival ended, and a golden stone stele appeared in the sky with the Merit Ranking.
• Zhao Fu declined to reveal his name after ranking first with 1.69 million merit, ahead of Arthur Tina in second place.
• The participants received rewards based on their rankings, and the top ten were promised a small Earth Realm Mark, aptitude pills, treasure chests, and an SSS General Summoning Talisman.

After the Calamity Festival, Zhao Fu collected Great Qin’s rewards and strengthened its generals, but the celebrations ended as hostile forces launched coordinated attacks against the Ying Family and Great Qin. Great Qin faced rebellion, invasions, and destruction across its northern businesses as the Anti-Qin forces grew bolder.

• Zhao Fu received the festival’s rewards, including SSS Aptitude Pills, General Summoning Talismans, treasure chests, and the title of One Favored by Heaven.
• Zhao Fu raised several generals’ aptitudes, summoned Du Kong, Liu Yeqing, and Niu Shili, and increased Great Qin’s natural-disaster resistance to 80%.
• Zhao Fu met with family heads in the real world, who said unidentified forces were attacking the Ying Family and pledged to support the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World and received reports that attacks had destroyed Great Qin businesses across multiple regions, causing more than ten thousand casualties.
• Rebels and invading forces struck Great Qin-controlled territories near the North Viet border as Huaxia dynasties and foreign forces supported the Anti-Qin Alliance.
• The anti-Qin forces in the northern continent openly attacked Great Qin, inflicting its first severe blow.

After the Anti-Qin Alliance attacked Great Qin’s businesses, Zhao Fu rejected submission and began preparing to restore the nation while avoiding a premature confrontation. He placed the Imperial Phoenix Statue on the Heaven-Prayer Platform and postponed action against the alliance as he assessed Heavenly Stone City’s strength.

• A soldier delivered Su Yan’s offer to spare Great Qin if it stayed within one region, and Zhao Fu’s generals urged him to resist and begin restoring the nation.
• Zhao Fu suspended Great Qin’s businesses, ordered Bai Qi to train forty thousand more soldiers, and assigned intelligence, recruitment, casualty, and information-gathering tasks to his subordinates.
• Zhao Fu placed the Imperial Phoenix Statue on the Heaven-Prayer Platform and asked Xian Ru to remain by his side.
• Guo Binglin gave Zhao Fu information showing that Shi Wen had strengthened Heavenly Stone City and sought support from the other three system main cities.
• Zhao Fu decided to delay action against both Heavenly Stone City and the Anti-Qin Alliance until Great Qin was better prepared, while factions across Huaxia watched the growing civil war.

As Huaxia’s powers debated how to respond to the looming civil war, Great Qin remained silent while the northern forces celebrated. Zhao Fu’s Wyvern egg hatched, and the newborn dragon flew to him.

• The Clans’ elders debated intervening to prevent a civil war, while the Hundred Schools of Thought split between supporting war and peace.
• Flower Moon’s leaders chose to remain neutral, and the mature woman warned Su Yuyan to be careful about her matter.
• On the seventh day, Great Qin had still not responded, leaving its allies uneasy and the northern forces convinced they had forced it to yield.
• Zhao Fu took his companions to the incubation room, where the Wyvern egg cracked and hatched.
• The newborn Wyvern flew to Zhao Fu, who caught it, fed it a Rearing Stone, and carried it toward the All-Beings Nest.

Zhao Fu unleashed an undead catastrophe, sending a vast skeleton army from the flooded ghost domain to slaughter living creatures. As the undead spread beyond the Calamity Knights’ control, the northern continent faced the threat of becoming hell, while the enormous blood-colored star began to change.

• Zhao Fu gave the All-Beings Nest to the little dragon and learned that it could spawn dragons of different ages, with adult dragons reaching Tier 5 strength.
• Great Qin’s military reached 200,000 soldiers, but Zhao Fu abandoned his planned attack on Heavenly Stone City and chose to unleash Undead Catastrophe against the northern factions.
• Over seven days, the Calamity Knights revived corpses in the flooded ghost domain, creating an uncontrolled army of more than ten million skeletons.
• Zhao Fu ordered ten Calamity Knights to lead the skeletons into another region, where the undead began chasing and slaughtering every living creature they encountered.
• As the slaughter spread and the skeleton army began to grow, the enormous blood-colored star started undergoing a change.

Zhao Fu led the undead sea of bones across thousands of miles, using Undead Catastrophe to swell its ranks as it consumed everything in its path. Players spread word of the disaster, while the nearest system main city prepared to defend itself.

• The sea of bones swept through villages and wilderness, killing people and animals as a terrified beast tide fled ahead of it.
• Zhao Fu ordered the ten Calamity Knights to cast Undead Catastrophe, raising the dead into new skeletons and weakening the knights.
• The beast tide passed players’ villages without attacking, but the pursuing skeletons soon overwhelmed the players and killed them.
• A young man at the nearest system main city ordered the gates shut and placed the city on its highest defensive alert.
• Players who died returned to the real world and posted warnings about Undead Catastrophe on the Apocalypse Forum, prompting factions to discuss its cause and scale.

The Undead Catastrophe swept across a vast area as Zhao Fu confronted four system main city lords, who could not overpower him. He claimed the undead army was beyond his control and bargained for their cities’ protection, leaving the four City Lords bound to his demands.

• The undead sea expanded across tens of thousands of li, and some skeletons evolved into Skeleton Soldiers.
• The City Lord confronted Zhao Fu after realizing he had created the Undead Catastrophe, and Zhao Fu admitted he wanted countless living beings to die.
• Three more City Lords arrived, surrounding Zhao Fu and demanding that he stop the catastrophe.
• Zhao Fu revealed his overwhelming power, and the four City Lords backed down and asked how they could spare their cities.
• Zhao Fu demanded that they expel and criminalize the factions on his list, then asked them to assist him with a later task; they agreed to both requests.

Zhao Fu forced four City Lords to expel anti-Qin forces and conceal their cities, allowing the Undead Catastrophe to pass them by. The disaster devastated the region, while rumors of Great Qin’s involvement spread and Su Yan ordered an investigation.

• Zhao Fu gave the four City Lords two demands and told them to seal their gates and hide their cities’ living auras so he could guide the undead away.
• The young City Lord expelled the anti-Qin forces on Zhao Fu’s list, and the other City Lords acted as well; the expelled players could not log out and were killed by the undead.
• The Calamity Knights led the skeletons away from the concealed cities, while the Undead Catastrophe swept through the region and killed most living things.
• Players posted accounts of the disaster, and people across Huaxia noticed that the four system cities had expelled anti-Qin forces and suspected Great Qin was responsible.
• Su Yan ordered his people to investigate Great Qin, while northern forces, dynasties, the Hundred Schools of Thought, and various sects began watching the situation.

After the Undead Catastrophe devastated one region, Zhao Fu led the growing sea of bones into a new region, where it began slaughtering villages and beasts. As the Calamity Knights expanded the undead horde, Zhao Fu remained at its core, and the chapter ended with a mysterious sword light rescuing a woman and her infant.

• The four City Lords watched the skeletons leave and prepared to fulfill the task they had promised Zhao Fu under a higher contract.
• Zhao Fu led the doubled sea of bones through the Void-Severing Belt and into a fertile region, where it began consuming villages and killing its inhabitants.
• News of the catastrophe spread through a system main city, while the Regional Lord and fleeing beasts struggled to escape the undead horde.
• Zhao Fu stayed beside the Calamity Knights as they cast the Undead Catastrophe again, swelling the horde and enabling some skeletons to evolve.
• A burly man died defending his wife and infant from the skeletons, and a flash of white sword light struck the attackers threatening them.

Zhao Fu used Undead Catastrophe to threaten four City Lords into expelling people on his list and agreeing to his conditions, while refusing to spare the region’s other inhabitants. The undead ravaged the region for seven days before the doubled bone sea advanced into the next region.

• A dying woman entrusted her infant to a white-robed City Lord, who flew toward the bone sea and attacked Zhao Fu when she realized he was behind the catastrophe.
• Zhao Fu overpowered the woman in white, then used the Fate Clan Artifact and Nation-Guarding Artifact to intimidate her and three other City Lords into accepting his terms.
• The woman in white resisted when Zhao Fu said everyone outside the system main cities would die, but she and the other City Lords signed his contracts under threat.
• The four City Lords returned to their main cities and ordered the people on Zhao Fu’s list expelled, while the Calamity Knights continued using Undead Catastrophe.
• The undead swept across the region for seven days, killing countless living beings before the growing bone sea advanced toward the next region.

The Undead Catastrophe swept into a third region, growing stronger as factions across Huaxia realized Great Qin was behind it and feared the disaster could engulf the world. With no strength to stop it, the factions sought to persuade Zhao Fu to end the catastrophe, while Su Yan sent envoys to negotiate peace and the Ying Family was flooded with visitors.

• The woman in white vowed to make the devil pay for the catastrophe that had killed tens of millions, as reports of its devastation spread through the real world.
• The Undead Catastrophe invaded a third region, expanding its sea of bones and killing those in its path while anti-Qin factions were expelled.
• The Mohist School, Confucian School, Taoist School, the Clans, and Flower Moon discussed stopping the catastrophe but admitted they lacked the power to do so.
• Su Yan concluded that the northern factions had to seek peace and offer Great Qin the returned regions and enormous compensation, then sent envoys to negotiate.
• Factions from across Huaxia gathered at the Ying Family’s doorstep to ask Great Qin to stop the catastrophe, and the Ying Family heads welcomed their newfound importance.

As Huaxia’s factions and officials pleaded with Great Qin to end the Undead Catastrophe, Zhao Fu rejected their appeals and declared that Great Qin would not back down. The Ying Family delivered the refusal to the assembled factions, leaving the venue in stunned silence.

• Huaxia’s factions, officials, and military called for peace and asked the Ying Family to convey their appeal to the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• The Ying Family heads went to Zhao Fu’s villa, but his bodyguard said he was in Apocalypse World and could not be disturbed.
• In Apocalypse World, Zhao Fu ordered the Calamity Knights to use the skeletons as a defensive barrier before returning to the real world.
• Zhao Fu refused to pass along the peace appeal, then warned the Ying Family heads that Great Qin would show no mercy if challenged.
• The Ying Family heads announced to the assembled factions that the Great Qin Imperial Prince had no intention of reconciling, and the venue fell silent.

Zhao Fu met Huaxia’s leading powers and confirmed that the Great Qin Imperial Prince would unleash the Undead Catastrophe, refusing to change the decision. He offered to stop it only if the factions submitted to Great Qin, leaving them unable to answer.

• Huaxia’s leading powers pressed the Ying Family heads to arrange a meeting with Zhao Fu and persuade the Great Qin Imperial Prince to reconsider.
• Zhao Fu agreed to meet the factions and was brought to their venue.
• Zhao Fu declared that the Undead Catastrophe would be unleashed and that no anti-Qin faction in the north would be spared.
• The factions urged Zhao Fu to consider Huaxia and its people, but he said Great Qin would also destroy foreign powers and would not spare the common people.
• Zhao Fu challenged the factions to submit to Great Qin if they wanted the catastrophe stopped, and the gathered powers fell silent.

After negotiations at the Ying Family failed, Zhao Fu faced growing hostility from Huaxia and panic overseas as Great Qin continued to pursue the Undead Catastrophe. He returned to Apocalypse World and led the undead army to attack the fourth region.

• Zhao Fu rejected the factions' demands at the Ying Family and warned that Great Qin would destroy anyone who invaded it before leaving.
• News of the failed reconciliation spread across Huaxia, turning public opinion against Great Qin and prompting factions to hold urgent meetings.
• The Nuwa Clan, Youchao Clan, and Li Lian Clan had elders willing to submit to Great Qin, but they could not decide for their clans.
• Foreign nations learned that the Great Qin Imperial Prince's target was the world, while Su Yan searched Apocalypse World information for a way to stop the catastrophe.
• Xianling urged Xian Ru to persuade the Imperial Prince to stop the deaths, but Xian Ru supported him and planned to strengthen Great Qin's fortune.
• Zhao Fu saw that the undead had ravaged the third region in six days and led them to attack the fourth region.

Zhao Fu’s undead army swept through the fourth and fifth regions, leaving destruction and panic as the authorities feared provoking the Ying Family. After five days, he sent the Calamity Knights onward, and the skeletons began advancing into the seventh region.

• The four City Lords signed a contract with Zhao Fu and expelled the players on his list as the Undead Catastrophe engulfed the fourth region.
• Players and villagers sought refuge in system main cities, while deathly aura ruined the land and factions feared the growing calamity.
• Skeletons grew stronger by killing living creatures, and one transformed into a Skeleton Knight with a skeletal horse.
• After five days, Zhao Fu ordered the Calamity Knights to lead the undead army out of the fourth region and into the fifth.
• The undead army swept through the fifth region and began spreading into the seventh region, leaving the land lifeless.

As the Undead Catastrophe rapidly spread, factions and dynasties across Huaxia united against Great Qin, whose actions had turned public opinion against it. The Clans and Flower Moon each debated joining the opposition, and both decided to take action.

• Factions across Huaxia agreed to stop Great Qin as the Undead Catastrophe began overrunning regions faster.
• The dynasties called on others to join them, winning support from people who condemned Great Qin and its slaughter of surrendered players.
• The Clans discussed the danger of opposing Great Qin but agreed they had to help stop the catastrophe.
• Women at Flower Moon weighed the threat to their businesses against the danger of provoking Great Qin, and their leader agreed to join the opposition.

Su Yan rallied Huaxia’s factions and players into an anti-Qin force, planning to use their numbers to wear down Great Qin’s Undead Catastrophe. With more than three million combat strength gathered, he began preparing to concentrate forces in the region the undead would attack next.

• Su Yan planned to use players, who could not become skeletons after dying, to reduce the undead army faster than it could be replenished.
• Su Yan urged factions to recruit ordinary players by spreading anti-Qin notices and offering generous rewards.
• Millions of players joined the anti-Qin forces, while some people refused to participate and were insulted for their choice.
• Su Yan assessed the terrain beyond the seventh region and decided to gather players there and in nearby regions to confront the Undead Catastrophe.

Su Yan gathered fifteen million players and four City Lords to confront Great Qin’s Undead Catastrophe, then publicly challenged Great Qin to draw it into the designated area. Zhao Fu learned of the plan and the flood of hostility against Great Qin, and sat in the hall realizing he had made a mistake.

• Players from four nearby areas crossed the Void-Severing Belt, bringing the forces gathered in the designated area to fifteen million.
• Su Yan persuaded the designated area's four City Lords to join the effort and ordered defensive measures built against the undead.
• Zhang Heng worried that Su Yan's opposition to Great Qin would end badly, but chose not to get involved.
• Su Yan publicly challenged Great Qin to fight in the designated area, and players joined in by posting insults and challenges online.
• Flower Moon promoted the hostile forum posts, while Zhao Fu learned of the mobilization and sat in the hall acknowledging his mistake.

Zhao Fu decided to send the undead army into the eighth region to fight the fifteen million players gathered there, while keeping Great Qin’s few Wyverns in reserve. As the skeleton horde advanced on the players’ fortified wall, a massive battle was about to begin.

• Zhao Fu concluded that ordinary people had become Great Qin’s greatest obstacle and ordered the undead army to enter their region and kill them.
• Skeleton Mages evolved in the seventh region, adding bone-spears, undead resurrection, and evil-spirit attacks to the undead army.
• The All-Beings Nest refreshed two adult male Wyverns and one young wyvern, but Zhao Fu chose to hide them as a trump card rather than use them in the catastrophe.
• Zhao Fu consulted Xian Ru and Black and White Impermanence before returning to the seventh region to prepare the undead army.
• The Calamity Knights directed the skeletons toward the eighth region, where fifteen million players had built a five-meter-high wall and readied themselves for battle.

Fifteen million players held the eighth region’s defenses against the undead with holy-water traps and Holy Light Talismans, initially believing they could stop the attack. Zhao Fu then appeared and used the Calamity King's Ring to summon a vastly more powerful black bone sea, leaving the battle’s true danger clear.

• The player army’s commanders directed preparations along the defensive wall as the undead bone sea charged toward it.
• Skeletons fell into holy-water pits, and players fired Holy Light Talismans that destroyed many undead and halted their advance.
• Players celebrated their apparent success, but commanders doubted the Undead Catastrophe could be defeated so easily.
• Gray clouds gathered, and ten black pillars of light appeared beneath a massive magic formation as Zhao Fu revealed himself.
• Zhao Fu sent the Calamity King's Ring into the formation and directed a huge black bone sea toward the players.

Zhao Fu’s empowered Undead Catastrophe overwhelmed the player army, and he confronted four City Lords who tried to stop it. He summoned twenty-eight City Lords bound by contract to protect his Calamity Knights, then threatened them when they hesitated to pursue the fleeing enemies.

• Zhao Fu’s black magic formation strengthened the undead army, whose calamity aura resisted the players’ arrows, fire, and holy water as skeletons battered and climbed the defensive wall.
• Four City Lords intervened against the undead, but the vast army broke free of their suppression, so they flew to confront Zhao Fu and demanded he stop the Undead Catastrophe.
• Zhao Fu told the four City Lords he would kill everyone involved, and they prepared to attack him and destroy the formation.
• Twenty-eight City Lords from the seven regions Zhao Fu had conquered appeared under contract to protect the Calamity Knights, causing the four City Lords to flee.
• Zhao Fu ordered the twenty-eight City Lords to pursue the fleeing enemies, but the woman in white objected that killing City Lords could ruin the region, so Zhao Fu threatened to turn the undead against their main cities.