Recaps

Zhao Fu’s forces broke through the players’ defenses and slaughtered the fleeing army, while the City Lords hunted down the four who had escaped. The last City Lord was about to self-destruct, but Zhao Fu killed him with chains, leaving the players’ defeat complete.

• A middle-aged City Lord agreed to help Zhao Fu kill the fleeing City Lords once, and Zhao Fu accepted his terms.
• The Skeleton Knights charged into the defensive wall, opened huge breaches, and let the skeleton army attack the players from both sides.
• The military faction, Military School faction, and Clans faction resisted, but the skeletons overwhelmed them while other players fled.
• Zhao Fu watched as the skeletons hunted down the fleeing players and ignored their pleas for mercy.
• Twenty-seven City Lords killed three of the fleeing City Lords and cornered the last one, who prepared to self-destruct.
• Zhao Fu sent chains through the last City Lord and killed him before he could self-destruct.

Zhao Fu killed the weakened city lord, claimed four City Lord Seals, and considered how to take the remaining main cities. After the Undead Catastrophe wiped out fifteen million players, the woman in white offered to persuade the cities' residents to surrender while Great Qin's victory terrified the world.

• Zhao Fu used the God-Locking Beast's chains to kill the city lord and took the Sky Echo City Seal, giving him authority over the city.
• The other city lords handed Zhao Fu the three seals belonging to the city lords they had killed.
• The undead army slaughtered all fifteen million fleeing players, leaving the city lords horrified by the scale of the carnage.
• Zhao Fu planned to slaughter the remaining main cities, but the woman in white offered to persuade their residents to submit, and he gave her limited time to try.
• Zhao Fu paused the Undead Catastrophe's advance as news of the massacre spread through the real world, terrifying factions and enraging Su Yan.

After the failed effort to stop the Undead Catastrophe, Huaxia’s factions struggled to decide whether to reconcile with Great Qin, while the Ying Family gained relief from the Imperial Prince’s victory. In Apocalypse World, a woman in white evacuated nearly one hundred thousand people from a doomed city before the undead army destroyed it.

• Su Yan and the leaders of the Clans and Flower Moon confronted the disastrous defeat and debated what to do next, with Su Yuyan urging Flower Moon to make peace with Great Qin.
• The Ying Family celebrated as Great Qin’s victory made other factions less likely to threaten them.
• The woman in white warned a city’s residents that its City Lord was dead and the undead were approaching, then offered to lead anyone willing to submit to safety.
• Soldiers persuaded residents to flee, but only nearly one hundred thousand people left with the woman in white while more than three hundred thousand stayed behind.
• The undead army swept into the city, quickly killed most of its defenders, and left the city in ruins.

Zhao Fu turned the fallen players’ equipment into a vast fortune, rewarding the City Lords and women who had helped secure the four main cities. To replenish his undead forces, he began a forbidden ritual with Black and White Impermanence to summon the Asura Demon Idol, and the chapter ended as he activated the blood-red formation.

• The undead grew stronger from the life force of fifteen million fallen players, and a few hundred Skeleton Berserkers appeared among their ranks.
• Zhao Fu ordered more than four hundred thousand residents to strip the corpses of their equipment, then gave equipment to the City Lords and three of the four women who had helped him.
• Zhao Fu kept the remaining equipment and resources for Great Qin, while the City Lords who accepted his gifts warmed to him.
• Zhao Fu decided to use the corpses in a forbidden Asura Demon Idol ritual to replenish his skeletons, and Black and White Impermanence prepared a blood-red formation.
• Zhao Fu cut his arm, poured his power into the activated formation, and shouted the words of the Asura Path of Slaughter.

Zhao Fu used fifteen million corpses to open the Gate of Asura and summon the immense Asura Demon Idol, which immediately attacked him and turned toward the City Lords. Zhao Fu activated the Fate Clan Artifact and bound the Idol with chains, dragging it toward the ground.

• Zhao Fu activated the blood formation, melting more than fifteen million corpses into a vast sea of blood.
• Zhao Fu opened the Gate of Asura, and a thousand-meter-tall Asura Demon Idol emerged.
• The Asura Demon Idol struck Zhao Fu and then prepared to attack the City Lords, who raised their City Lord Seals to defend themselves.
• Zhao Fu used the Fate Clan Artifact to send tens of thousands of chains around the Asura Demon Idol and pulled it toward the ground.

After sealing the uncontrollable Asura Demon Idol, Zhao Fu occupied and relocated the four system main cities in the Guanyang Region. A regional treasure chest gave him the Tree of Truth, whose fruits could let his real-world body enter Apocalypse World, and he left the chapter with Great Qin collecting corpses and spoils.

• Zhao Fu sealed the Asura Demon Idol, forgave Black and White Impermanence, and warned the City Lords to return to their regions.
• The woman in white cautioned Zhao Fu against using the Asura Demon Idol again, and Zhao Fu sent soldiers to retrieve survivors and clean up the main cities.
• Zhao Fu occupied and relocated all four system main cities in the Guanyang Region, triggering a regional notification heard throughout Huaxia.
• Zhao Fu opened the regional treasure chest and obtained the Tree of Truth, which produced fruits that let Otherworlders enter Apocalypse World with their real-world bodies.
• Great Qin Soldiers collected corpses and spoils from the ruins, including Tier 1 soldiers, S-rank corpses, and about ten thousand A-grade corpses.

After recovering from his injuries, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, organized the spoils from the four conquered cities, and discussed how to use the Undead Catastrophe to bring more factions under Great Qin's influence. The chapter ended with Great Qin issuing the Great Qin Decree and the Holy Maiden Decree.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with corpses and equipment, planted the Tree of Truth, and assigned Bai Qi, Wei Liao, Wang Jian, and Meng Kuo to protect the Calamity Knights in Guanyang.
• Zhao Fu rested until his injuries and exhaustion had passed, then met Xian Ru, who asked what he would do with the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• Zhao Fu summoned generals to discuss how to respond to the fifteen million players who had resisted Great Qin and threatened its future.
• Zhao Fu and his advisers decided that factions holding a Great Qin Decree would be recognized as affiliated with Great Qin and spared its attacks and the Undead Catastrophe.
• At Xian Ru's suggestion, Great Qin also issued the Holy Maiden Decree.

Great Qin issued decrees demanding regional volunteers for its Holy Maidens and requiring great clans to offer direct-line women, provoking widespread outrage and fear. As factions considered submission and officials debated how to respond, one man proposed reconciling with Great Qin until the regional passages opened.

• Zhao Fu approved Xian Ru’s decrees requiring each region to provide at least ten voluntary Holy Maidens and each great clan to offer a direct-line woman.
• People condemned Great Qin as tyrannical and immoral, but many submitted or sought Great Qin’s protection out of fear.
• Northern factions and ordinary people began considering joining Great Qin, while great clans faced a compulsory demand for one of their women.
• An official denounced Zhao Fu’s decrees, and a round-faced man warned that Great Qin’s actions threatened their control of the regions.
• A thin man proposed reconciling with Great Qin and waiting until the regional passages opened before joining forces against it.

Zhao Fu prepared to enforce Great Qin’s decrees by sending Eternal Night assassins to devastate the four regions that had joined the war against Great Qin. With the system City Lords’ approval secured, the assassins began slaughtering factions across the regions.

• The dynasties, national forces, Clans, and Flower Moon reacted to Great Qin’s decrees, with Flower Moon growing especially angry over the Holy Maiden Decree.
• Zhao Fu decided to weaken the four regions near the Eighth Region before unleashing the Undead Catastrophe, and ordered every faction there wiped out.
• Little Slaughter and other assassins had trained thirty thousand Eternal Night members, though the brutal training caused several hundred casualties.
• Zhao Fu secured the system City Lords’ cooperation by having them sign contracts, allowing Great Qin to kill players in system main cities without interference.
• Eternal Night infiltrated the four regions at night and began slaughtering their weakened factions.

Great Qin attacked and wiped out factions across four regions, capturing several high-status figures and revealing that it could bring people’s real-world bodies into Apocalypse World. Terrified by the threat of real death, factions began accepting Great Qin’s decrees, and people from Huaxia and abroad flocked to the Ying Family for recognition.

• Zhao Fu sent Great Qin Assassins to attack hostile factions, who defeated their defenders and captured several people of noble status.
• Great Qin’s attacks left countless factions across four regions destroyed, with many dead and no survivors among their members.
• Great Qin announced that it could bring people from the real world into Apocalypse World and had taken the real-world bodies of six captives.
• Factions across Huaxia, frightened by the loss of players’ immortality, stopped opposing Great Qin and began following its decrees.
• People and foreign factions crowded the Ying Family to seek Great Qin Decrees and recognition.

After Great Qin revealed its method for bringing real-world bodies into Apocalypse World, rival factions lost confidence in resisting and began seeking peace. Zhao Fu kept six captured faction leaders in Great Qin City as hostages, and they pleaded to return to their factions while one Xingtian Clan captive scorned them.

• The Ying Family heads issued the Great Qin Decree and rejoiced that Zhao Fu could fulfill their thousand-year mission to restore Great Qin.
• Leaders from the Zhou Family and Xingtian Clan discussed seeking peace after Great Qin’s new method and its past reprisals made resistance seem futile.
• Flower Moon’s leaders agreed to reconcile with Great Qin, and Su Yuyan volunteered to handle the negotiations.
• Forces across the region began seeking peace, bringing the northern Anti-Qin Alliance close to collapse.
• Zhao Fu explained that he had used six Fruits of Truth to bring six captured faction figures into Apocalypse World and warned their safety depended on their factions’ conduct.
• Five captives asked Zhao Fu to let them return and promised cooperation, while the Xingtian Clan captive called them weak.

Zhao Fu rejected the defeated clans’ demands, then made Miao Qianmeng and Bai Yiqin consorts of Great Qin so their phoenix aura could empower the Imperial Phoenix Statue. After its transformation, he returned to the real world to handle peace negotiations as a crisis loomed over Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu dismissed the Xingtian Clan member’s complaints about the battle and blasted him unconscious when he continued to defy him.
• Xian Ru noticed that Miao Qianmeng and Bai Yiqin possessed abundant phoenix aura, so Zhao Fu kept them and sent the other captives away.
• Zhao Fu used the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to confer consort titles on Miao Qianmeng and Bai Yiqin.
• The women’s phoenix aura flowed into the Imperial Phoenix Statue, which came alive and flew with growing agility.
• Zhao Fu ordered the women treated well, then returned to the real world to handle peace negotiations as a crisis approached Great Qin.

Zhao Fu negotiated peace between Great Qin and the gathered factions, demanding compensation while refusing to release the six captives. After the others left, Su Yuyan asked him to free her younger sister, revealing that she belonged to Flower Moon.

• Zhao Fu agreed to reconciliation to reduce resistance and help the Undead Catastrophe grow faster.
• Zhao Fu told the faction representatives that Great Qin would make peace if they paid compensation in Apocalypse World.
• Zhao Fu refused the six factions' requests to release their imprisoned people, including the Xingtian Clan member.
• Su Yuyan stayed behind and asked Zhao Fu to release her fourteenth younger sister.
• Zhao Fu was surprised when Su Yuyan said she came from Flower Moon.

Zhao Fu refused Su Yuyan’s offers to exchange Miao Qianmeng for Li Wu, then divided the undead bone sea across four regions. A sudden regional event opened every passage in the north, leaving Great Qin vulnerable to a united attack as Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin City.

• Zhao Fu rejected Su Yuyan’s offer of Flower Moon’s support and refused to exchange Miao Qianmeng for Li Wu.
• Su Yuyan left Li Wu in his villa, where he resolved to build his own power and marry her.
• Zhao Fu divided the bone sea into four streams and sent them toward different regions.
• A regional event opened all passages between northern regions and promised rewards for killing undead.
• Zhao Fu realized the northern factions could now unite against Great Qin and immediately returned to Great Qin City.

After a system notification opened the northern region to countless players, Su Yan rallied a vast anti-Qin force while Zhao Fu’s court struggled to find a way to resist. As factions and other powers backed Great Qin’s destruction, Zhao Fu was left considering negotiations, and the Clans and Flower Moon chose not to intervene.

• Su Yan raised the banner of “Heaven Destroys Great Qin,” and factions that had made peace with Great Qin joined the rebellion as players gathered across two thousand regions.
• Zhao Fu’s ministers judged that Great Qin could not withstand the northern forces; Wei Liao and Wang Jian urged relocation, while Li Si and Shang Yang offered to negotiate peace.
• Zhao Fu dismissed the ministers and remained alone in the hall, silently considering the crisis.
• Officials and the Xingtian Clan decided not to intervene, while Flower Moon also stayed out of the conflict to protect Fourteenth Sister.
• Other dynasties and nations supplied money and resources to strengthen the anti-Qin forces.

Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin for a catastrophic war while ordering the Undead Catastrophe to continue invading four northern regions. As the northern factions gathered extensive support from righteous schools and sects, Zhao Fu began a secret ritual in the eighth region.

• Zhao Fu decided that if Great Qin fell, he would bring the entire Apocalypse World down with it, then ordered Li Si and Shang Yang to stockpile five years of food, buy ghost-warding talismans, and build an underground city.
• Zhao Fu took Black and White Impermanence to the eighth region and began a plan while four undead forces continued their invasions.
• The Will of Death strengthened the undead and caused recent corpses to rise, while the skeletal seas slaughtered living creatures across the four regions.
• The Calamity Knights left thirty thousand Skeleton Mages in the eighth region under Zhao Fu's direct control, and Zhao Fu began a blood ritual as Black and White Impermanence cast spells.
• The Taoist School, Buddhist School, Church, Military School, Confucian School, and Mount Mao Sect supplied the northern factions with equipment, blessings, commanders, and methods for fighting undead.

The northern factions launched a massive offensive against Great Qin in the Eighth Region, where their 170 million players met Zhao Fu’s undead army. As the undead attacked, Su Yan called on the Confucian School and Buddhist monks to bring their powers to bear.

• The northern factions strengthened their unity and resolve, but ignored a proposal to attack neighboring countries because they focused on destroying Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu weakened himself by spilling his blood onto the earth while Great Qin dug an underground city and sent the undead to ravage another region.
• Three days later, 170 million players led by Su Yan and other faction leaders advanced into the Eighth Region to confront the undead.
• The human army and the sea of bones met in the desolate region, and the undead launched the first attack by transforming into a black sea of bones.
• Su Yan called on his allies to act, and the Confucian School summoned a vast azure book whose righteous aura strengthened the players’ courage.
• An old monk and his followers chanted together, spreading Buddhist light through the army.

The northern factions and their allies used holy powers and costly Holy Light Crystal arrows to defeat Great Qin’s undead army. As they celebrated and threatened Zhao Fu, he raised a hand and declared that everyone in Apocalypse World would die.

• A Buddha, a holy woman, an angel, and player talismans strengthened the human army as it clashed with the skeletons.
• The humans rallied under cries of “Heaven Destroys Great Qin!” and gradually pushed the undead back.
• Zhao Fu ordered hundreds of thousands of Skeleton Knights to charge, but the archers destroyed them with arrows carrying Holy Light Crystals.
• The humans fired more Holy Light Crystal arrows until the skeleton army collapsed, leaving fewer than several million survivors.
• Su Yan and the northern faction leaders mocked Zhao Fu and vowed to destroy Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu declared that everyone in Apocalypse World would die.

Zhao Fu summoned the Six Paths Demon Idols beneath the descending Yinghuo Emperor Star, unleashing a world-destroying calamity across Apocalypse World. The world sealed everyone inside as the catastrophe began, leaving the campaign against Great Qin on the brink of disaster.

• A blood-red star descended over Apocalypse World, and the system announced that nobody could leave during the world-changing anomaly.
• Zhao Fu sent six chains into the ground, causing the Six Paths Demon Idols to emerge and spread terrifying auras across the world.
• Zhao Fu had spent over ten million lives summoning each idol and nearly exhausted his blood to control the otherwise uncontrollable demons.
• The fused Yinghuo Emperor Star and Six Paths Demon Idols threatened to destroy the world, while distant inheritors and sect leaders realized the campaign against Great Qin could end in catastrophe.

Zhao Fu and the Six Paths Demon Idols slaughtered the enormous player army that charged them in the Eighth Region. Su Yan’s forces failed to reach or harm the idols, and the survivors were left facing a battle they could not win.

• Su Yan and the faction leaders rallied nearly a hundred million players to charge Zhao Fu and the Six Paths Demon Idols.
• The Asura Demon Idol’s spear strike tore through the advancing army, killing and scattering countless people.
• The Human Path, Animal Path, Hell Path, Hungry Ghost Path, and Heaven Path Demon Idols attacked in turn, killing several million players within minutes.
• Su Yan’s forces switched to arrows, but the Six Paths Demon Idols blocked the ordinary arrows before they could reach them.
• Su Yan ordered more than two hundred thousand archers to fire their remaining Holy Light Crystal arrows, but the Asura Demon Idol shattered the volley and killed about eighty percent of the archers with a counterattack.

Zhao Fu unleashed the Six Paths of Reincarnation after the Qin Extermination Alliance fled, annihilating Su Yan and his forces and devastating the Eighth Region. Six enormous vortexes opened over Apocalypse World, marking the start of a cataclysm as ghostly qi poured into the world.

• Su Yan ordered a retreat as the Six Paths Demon Idols slaughtered the fleeing forces.
• Zhao Fu stopped the Six Paths Demon Idols and commanded them to open the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• A massive shockwave leveled the Eighth Region and annihilated Su Yan and the entire Qin Extermination Alliance.
• Black blood formed six vast vortexes that spread an icy Netherworld presence across Apocalypse World.
• Leaders and factions lamented their failure to stop Great Qin as the vortexes widened and ghostly qi began pouring through.

Zhao Fu opened the Six Paths Reincarnation to unleash ghosts upon Apocalypse World, but a powerful azure divine dragon intervened and stopped the invasion. After Zhao Fu explained that his enemies threatened Great Qin, the dragon promised to protect Great Qin from destruction for a hundred years.

• Zhao Fu shattered the six rifts, allowing countless ghosts and monsters to flood into Apocalypse World.
• An azure divine dragon appeared, destroyed the Six Paths Demon Idols, and closed the portals, turning the invading creatures to blue smoke.
• The divine dragon confronted Zhao Fu for endangering Apocalypse World, and Zhao Fu admitted he could not oppose its overwhelming power.
• Zhao Fu argued that his enemies would keep trying to destroy Great Qin, and the divine dragon promised to protect Great Qin for a hundred years.

Zhao Fu secured the Azure Divine Dragon’s protection, and the dragon’s roar ended the Six Paths of Reincarnation catastrophe. In its aftermath, Great Qin rejected the factions seeking renewed surrender, while Zhao Fu recuperated in Apocalypse World.

• Zhao Fu accepted the Azure Divine Dragon’s protection, and the dragon vanished after the Six Paths of Reincarnation closed.
• The catastrophe ended, but it left more than a hundred million beings and over two hundred million players dead, weakening northern Huaxia and forcing many faction leaders from power.
• Factions that had stalled their Great Qin Decrees and Holy Maiden Decrees tried to return to Great Qin, but Great Qin terminated the decrees and the Ying Family refused to receive their representatives.
• Major factions, Huaxia’s officials, the Clans, and Flower Moon sent representatives to investigate or seek cooperation, but the Ying Family turned them all away.
• Zhao Fu continued recovering from the loss of blood essence while fishing beside a stream, and Mei Mei offered him a sweet fruit.

Zhao Fu resolved the Flower Fairies’ winter-bloom problem and reorganized Great Qin after its recent victories, expanding its army, territory, and city infrastructure. He learned more about the Wild Azure Dragon and prepared to conquer without mercy as Great Qin’s restoration accelerated.

• Zhao Fu planted winter-blooming flowers throughout Great Qin City, pleasing the three Flower Fairies, who stayed to accompany him while he fished.
• Zhao Fu expanded Great Qin’s military to 400,000 soldiers and used the spoils and City Lords gained from the Eighth Region to strengthen the state.
• Zhao Fu ordered four armies to search outward and eliminate villages within a ten-thousand-li radius, while planning to attack Heavenly Stone City after recovering from his injuries.
• Zhao Fu revoked the Great Qin Decree and the Holy Maiden Decree, deciding that all factions would be treated as enemies and conquered directly.
• Zhao Fu learned that the Wild Azure Dragon was one of four guardian beasts protecting the world and knew extensive information about him.
• Great Qin began building major roads, expanding Great Qin City, developing commercial streets, and cultivating winter crops.

After recovering from his injuries, Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin to attack Heavenly Stone City and went ahead to investigate Eastern Azure. There, he discovered that the region’s lord was a sleeping Stone Giant.

• Asani treated Zhao Fu, whose body steadily recovered over the next six days.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Guo Binglin’s intelligence and planned to isolate the other system main cities if they tried to aid Heavenly Stone City.
• Zhao Fu gathered Great Qin’s generals, finalized their tactics, and began the campaign against Heavenly Stone City.
• Zhao Fu traveled alone into Eastern Azure to search for its regional lord.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the apparent mountain was a thousand-meter Stone Giant sleeping on the ground.