Recaps

Zhao Fu discovered a Gray Wolf den in the Terror Forest and led 326 soldiers in a carefully planned assault, killing many wolves before confronting the remaining pack. The Gray Wolf King joined the battle, charging toward Zhao Fu’s forces as the fight continued.

• Zhao Fu’s group captured many beasts over several days and upgraded their equipment with weapons and armor repaired by Wang Dawu.
• Zhao Fu found a den containing nearly five hundred Gray Wolves and a powerful Gray Wolf King, then returned with 326 soldiers.
• Zhao Fu’s soldiers used bait and traps to lure out and kill 213 Gray Wolves without alerting the den.
• The Gray Wolf King howled, rallied the remaining wolves, and led roughly 300 of them in a charge against Zhao Fu’s army.
• Zhao Fu’s archers and Gnomes fired two volleys before the Spear-Shield Soldiers met the wolves with their spears.
• The Gray Wolf King turned into a black blur and charged toward Zhao Fu and his men.

Zhao Fu and his companions defeated a pack of Gray Wolves, subdued the Gray Wolf King, and occupied its den. They discovered thousands of Small Spirit Grass plants and returned to Great Qin Village with plans to raise wolves and cultivate the herbs.

• Old Luo, Liu Mei, Bai Qi, and Zhao Fu attacked the Gray Wolf King while their soldiers killed the other Gray Wolves.
• Zhao Fu had his companions bind the wounded Gray Wolf King and eventually won its allegiance after promising to restore its pack.
• Zhao Fu checked the Gray Wolf King's attributes and found it had S potential and skills that affected ordinary wolves.
• Zhao Fu occupied the Gray Wolf den, earning Battle Merit and moving the den to Great Qin Village.
• Zhao Fu found thousands of Small Spirit Grass plants near the den and ordered his men to collect them for pill-making and cultivation.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Village with his companions, arranged a plot for the den, and then went back to the real world.

Zhao Fu read about the rising Hundred Schools of Thought and the Ying Family’s call for its descendants, then returned to Apocalypse World to advance his cultivation and explore the Great Rift. After finding no horses, he took Liu Mei and a group of fighters into the rift to continue the expedition.

• Zhao Fu read about historical descendants, the rising schools of thought, and the dangerous School of Diplomacy, then dismissed the Ying Family’s offer to gather its bloodline descendants.
• Li Si gave Zhao Fu the successfully refined Small Spirit Pills, and Zhao Fu improved his cultivation after testing one.
• Zhao Fu ordered the pills cultivated and led his people through Terror Forest with Little Gray, finding Fierce Fire Rabbits and an Elemental Orb for Li Wen but no horses.
• Zhao Fu learned that Wang Dawu had finished the special equipment and decided to resume exploring the Great Rift.
• Liu Mei asked to join the expedition, learned Wind Blade from the Elemental Orb, and accompanied Zhao Fu, Bai Qi, Li Wen, Old Luo, and their fighters into the Great Rift.

Zhao Fu’s group used their specialized shields and heavy hammers to defeat waves of skeletons, gaining skills, weapons, and Soldier Souls as they advanced. They encountered five Skeleton Cavalry and brought them down by combining spells, archery, and a shield-wall ambush.

• Zhao Fu’s Goblin Champions formed a shield wall while the Infantry killed skeletons with iron hammers, and the group used the dropped Souls of Martial Refinement to gain new skills.
• The group defeated seventeen skeletons, then killed an archer Skeleton Captain that dropped a Soldier Soul and a silver Cloud-Flow Bow.
• Zhao Fu’s group continued through the passage and collected three more Soldier Souls while fighting additional skeletons.
• Five Skeleton Cavalry charged Zhao Fu’s group, but spells knocked two from their horses while the Goblin Champions held back the others.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Archers to shoot the fallen riders and the Goblin Champions to open gaps, letting the Infantry smash the Skeleton Horses’ legs and kill the cavalry.

Zhao Fu’s group fought through the Skeleton units in the passage and faced a powerful Skeleton General. After coordinating their attacks, they brought it down and continued deeper into the passage.

• Zhao Fu failed to tame an injured Skeleton Horse because undead could not be tamed, then killed it and led the group onward.
• Zhao Fu’s group encountered a Skeleton General, whose sword deflected arrows and whose speed let it strike the shield wall.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Archers, Liu Mei, Li Wen, and Old Luo to attack while Bai Qi blocked the Skeleton General and the Goblin Champions surrounded it.
• The Skeleton General unleashed eight sword waves that battered the shields, but Zhao Fu shot an arrow through its skull and extinguished its soul flame.

Zhao Fu distributed the Skeleton General’s valuable drops and gave Li Wen the chance to become a Skeleton General, leaving him half-undead. He then obtained an Undead Soldier Talisman and continued exploring with the group, where fourteen skeletons awaited.

• Zhao Fu gave the Star-Slaying Sword and White Soldier Armor to Bai Qi, and kept the General Soul and Skeleton General Class Transfer Stone for the group to consider.
• Liu Mei declined to use the Class Transfer Stone, and Li Wen volunteered despite the risk of becoming a skeleton.
• Li Wen used the stone successfully and became a Skeleton General with half-undead traits and Weak Undead Power.
• Zhao Fu found a Soldier Talisman: Undead that could summon and store ten ordinary skeleton soldiers.
• Zhao Fu continued through the passage with his group, where they encountered fourteen skeletons, including four Skeleton Cavalry.

Zhao Fu discovered the Heaven and Earth Refining Array beneath the Terror Forest and ordered his group to keep it secret. Back at Great Qin Village, he accepted Solon and the surviving Gray Dwarves, then learned that an Orc Tribe had destroyed their village and began planning with Bai Qi.

• Zhao Fu used the Bronze Military Talisman to turn Skeleton Cavalry against the other skeletons and recruited ten more cavalry.
• Zhao Fu and his group entered a vast chamber filled with bones and found an altar bearing the Heaven and Earth Refining Array.
• Zhao Fu told his group to return to the surface and keep their discovery secret.
• Li Si told Zhao Fu that foreign villagers had arrived to pledge allegiance, and Zhao Fu accepted Solon and the Gray Dwarves.
• Solon told Zhao Fu that an Orc Tribe of more than five thousand had attacked Kaji Village, leaving his group as the only survivors.
• Zhao Fu summoned Bai Qi and the others to discuss the Orc threat while Li Si arranged for the Gray Dwarves.

Zhao Fu captured a Goblin village and discovered that the Skeleton Cavalry grew stronger by absorbing the dead. At Bone Space, he used the Heaven and Earth Refining Array to create an Aptitude Orb, then ordered the passages sealed to protect Great Qin’s new treasure.

• Zhao Fu avoided the northern Orc Tribe, prepared to forge equipment for the Skeleton Cavalry, and led three hundred soldiers west after scouts found a Goblin village.
• Zhao Fu’s troops ambushed the Goblins’ hunting parties, attacked the village with flaming arrows, and routed the survivors with a Skeleton Cavalry charge.
• Zhao Fu occupied the surrendered Goblin village and noticed the Skeleton Cavalry absorb gray aura from the corpses, apparently growing stronger through slaughter.
• Zhao Fu refined a Goblin corpse with the Heaven and Earth Refining Array and obtained an F-rank Aptitude Orb that could raise someone’s aptitude.
• Zhao Fu showed the orb to Bai Qi and ordered him to seal the passageways leading to Bone Space.
• Zhao Fu briefly logged out and saw that nations, faiths, and races across the world were beginning to clash.

Zhao Fu and Bai Qi traveled to the City of Holy Light after Great Qin Village completed its Teleportation Array. There, Zhao Fu explored the city and examined its Hell-ranked quests, including one involving the Orcs that threatened his territory.

• Huaxia's borders descended into conflict as Zhao Yang led players to slaughter ten villages in a row.
• Zhao Fu ordered most passages into Bone Space sealed and had his people search for nearby villages to annex.
• Bai Shan told Zhao Fu that the Teleportation Array had been researched successfully, and Zhao Fu had one built beside the village hall.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi used the array to travel to the City of Holy Light, choosing it because of the undead near Bone Space.
• Zhao Fu explored the city and inspected the Hell-ranked quests, including a bounty to kill Orc Kaji, lord of a city with more than 40,000 Orcs.

Zhao Fu and Bai Qi clashed with a Zhou Family young master in the City of Holy Light, drawing attention to Zhao Fu's status as an heir to a nation's legacy. Zhao Fu bought Holy Light skills and returned toward Great Qin Village as news of his arrival spread through Terror Forest.

• Bai Qi beat the Zhou Family's second young master and his thugs after they insulted Zhao Fu and tried to shove him.
• Zhao Fu stopped Bai Qi, then declined Jiang Rou's invitation to become acquainted and gave her only his surname, Zhao.
• News that an heir to a nation's legacy had appeared in the City of Holy Light spread to the great families in Demon Tree City and Forest of Soldiers.
• Zhao Fu bought twenty Holy Light Arts and five Holy Light Bullets from a shopkeeper for 750 silver coins.
• Zhao Fu used the teleportation array in the City of Holy Light, where Great Qin Village was the only listed destination.

Zhao Fu’s forces easily cleared more Skeletons, then tracked a nearby village to plan its annexation. When a hunting party from Da Hu Village left the settlement, Zhao Fu ambushed them with his troops.

• Zhao Fu taught Holy Light Art to Goblin Champions and Infantry, then tested the tactic against Skeletons, whose ranks his soldiers quickly defeated.
• Zhao Fu left Li Wen in charge of exploring the underground passage and returned to the surface with Bai Qi.
• Zhao Fu distributed the recovered Soul of Martial Refinement to his soldiers and led three hundred troops with Little Gray to search for villages.
• Little Gray found an intermediate village with more than six hundred residents, and Zhao Fu camped nearby after finding no clear weakness.
• Bai Qi suggested a predawn raid, but Zhao Fu instead waited and prepared an ambush when Da Hu and his hunting party left the village.
• Da Hu sensed danger, but Zhao Fu’s Gnomes, Archers, and other soldiers emerged from hiding and surrounded the hunting party.

Zhao Fu brought Da Hu Village under his control after Bai Qi defeated its chief, Zhang Dahu, in a duel. He relocated the villagers to Great Qin Village, strengthened its forces against the Orc threat, and rewarded Zhang Dahu.

• Zhang Dahu revealed he was Da Hu Village's chief, and Zhao Fu explained he wanted the village to help defend against five thousand Orcs.
• Zhang Dahu challenged Bai Qi to a duel, and Bai Qi beat him until he conceded.
• Zhang Dahu accepted defeat and pledged himself to Zhao Fu, who accepted Da Hu Village's surrender and gained 100 Battle Merit.
• Zhao Fu relocated Da Hu Village's residents to Great Qin Village, raising its population to 1,340.
• Zhao Fu ordered another 300 residents to undergo Class Transfer and equipped Zhang Dahu with a Soul of Martial Refinement, a silver-quality great saber, and blue-quality armor.

Zhao Fu discovered a herd of Black Forest Horses and brought his soldiers to their lair, hoping to capture them without harming the herd. He decided to use Little Gray to lure out the Black Forest Horse King.

• Zhao Fu found hoofprints and captured eight Black Forest Horses with lassos, while seven escaped.
• Zhao Fu followed the horses’ trail with Little Gray and discovered a lair containing around three hundred Black Forest Horses and their king.
• Bai Qi, Zhang Dahu, and Liu Mei celebrated the prospect of Great Qin forming a cavalry.
• Zhao Fu fed Little Gray two Small Spirit Pills and persuaded him to challenge the Black Forest Horse King and lure it away from the herd.
• Little Gray howled and strode toward the herd to provoke the Black Forest Horse King.

Zhao Fu used Little Gray and six Gray Wolves to lure Black Forest Horses into lariat traps, capturing most of the herd and exhausting the Black Forest Horse King. After Little Gray took revenge on the bound king, Zhao Fu tried to tame it again, leaving its response uncertain.

• Little Gray's challenge failed when the Black Forest Horse King sent the herd charging at him.
• Zhao Fu had Little Gray command six Gray Wolves to lure groups of Black Forest Horses into traps, and the soldiers captured more than a hundred horses.
• The wary Black Forest Horse King led the remaining herd after Little Gray and was caught by a mass of lariats.
• After Zhao Fu's soldiers restrained the exhausted horses, Zhao Fu used Taming on the Black Forest Horse King, but it refused to submit.
• Little Gray scratched and bit the bound king before Zhao Fu gave it one last chance and used Taming again.

After taming the Black Forest Horse King and organizing Great Qin’s new cavalry, Zhao Fu was taken by the Ying Group to rejoin the Ying Family. As he traveled to their headquarters, Li Feng ordered an assassin to kill him before he could threaten the Li Family.

• Zhao Fu tamed the Black Forest Horse King, occupied the Black Forest Horse nest, and assigned 200 soldiers to Great Qin’s cavalry.
• Ji Qin and four men from the Ying Group found Zhao Fu and told him that his Ying Family blood meant he had to return to the family.
• Zhao Fu agreed to go with Ji Qin and packed some clothes and his Apocalypse Stone.
• The Li Family steward told Li Feng that the Ying Family had taken Zhao Fu, and Li Feng ordered an assassin to kill him while keeping the Li Family’s involvement secret.
• Zhao Fu flew with Ji Qin and other Ying Family descendants to the family headquarters in Nankou City.

After arriving in Nankou City, Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World and assessed Great Qin’s forces before discovering a large Kobold village. He prepared a plan to exploit the Kobolds’ keen sense of smell and set out to attack them.

• Zhao Fu met his maternal grandparents in Nankou City, settled into a house provided by the Ying Family, and checked reports of other players’ advances.
• Zhao Fu counted Great Qin’s population and forces, then took 900 soldiers to explore the surrounding area.
• Little Gray led Zhao Fu to a Kobold village of around a thousand residents, including about 700 warriors.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Village and ordered everyone to gather and grind chili peppers into powder.
• After two days of preparation, Zhao Fu set out again for the Kobold village with several hundred pounds of chili powder.

Zhao Fu conquered Duo Ke Village by using chili powder to incapacitate its Kobolds, then added 1,000 residents to Great Qin. With his forces increased to 1,400, he planned to approach future battles more cautiously.

• Zhao Fu confronted the Kobolds and offered them a chance to surrender, but their chief refused.
• Zhao Fu's archers blanketed the Kobolds with chili powder, leaving them helpless, and his soldiers captured the village.
• Bai Qi and Zhang Dahu brought the chief to Zhao Fu, while Liu Mei was permitted to punish him.
• Zhao Fu inspected the Kobold barracks, where he found Warrior and Spearman class transfer steles.
• The chief surrendered, and Zhao Fu occupied Duo Ke Village, gaining Battle Merit, experience, and 1,000 residents.
• Zhao Fu selected 300 Kobold Warriors and 200 Kobold Spearmen for Great Qin, bringing its total force to 1,400.

Zhao Fu's forces encountered and killed the Ice Cold Tiger, a powerful leader creature, then claimed its rewards. He gave Zhang Dahu an ice skill and restored some of the Star-Slaying Sword's power by enhancing it with an ice stone.

• Zhao Fu continued exploring with Little Gray, which led the group to the Ice Cold Tiger.
• The Ice Cold Tiger resisted the archers and Kobold Spearmen, but Bai Qi, Zhang Dahu, Duo Ke, Old Luo, and Liu Mei attacked it together.
• Bai Qi killed the Ice Cold Tiger, and Zhao Fu received Battle Merit along with silver coins, a City-Building Stone, a Talent Element Orb, and an Ice Enhancement Stone.
• Zhao Fu gave Zhang Dahu the Talent Element Orb, which granted him the Ice Explosion Bomb skill.
• Zhao Fu used the Ice Enhancement Stone on Bai Qi's Star-Slaying Sword, restoring some of its half-legendary power and adding ice damage.

Zhao Fu reinforced the Star-Slaying Sword, then captured and occupied a Gnome village before seizing a Bandit Village. He recruited hundreds of new people and considered the danger of letting bandits outnumber his own forces.

• Zhao Fu gave Bai Qi the reinforced Star-Slaying Sword and fed his troops Ice Cold Tiger meat, which increased his ice resistance.
• Little Gray led Zhao Fu to a Gnome village, where Zhao Fu surrounded the settlement and built a fence to pressure its inhabitants into surrendering.
• Zhao Fu ordered his Archers to shoot the Gnomes who refused to surrender, and the remaining villagers fled out and surrendered.
• Zhao Fu accepted 301 Gnomes, occupied their ordinary-quality village, and migrated its people.
• Zhao Fu seized an ordinary Bandit Village, ambushed and killed its returning leader, and took in 340 bandits, enlisting 300 as soldiers.
• Zhao Fu recalled that bandits could rebel if they made up half his forces or their collective loyalty fell below 60.

Zhao Fu received a divine oracle from God Kerr demanding more believers and a sacrifice, but he began considering how the Heaven and Earth Refining Array might be used against a god. He led his forces to assess the Orc Tribe and, after learning about three nearby settlements, considered ways to exploit the factions against one another.

• Zhao Fu founded Ximu Village, then refined the Bandit Village leader’s corpse and gave the resulting S-rank aptitude orb to Li Wen, raising Li Wen’s aptitude to S-rank.
• Zhao Fu counted eleven villages and 1,800 soldiers under his command, but postponed an expedition after a Goblin Mechanist brought him news and left the troops with Bai Qi to train.
• Zhao Fu received God Kerr’s oracle calling for more believers and another sacrifice, rejected the demand, and privately considered whether the Heaven and Earth Refining Array could refine a god.
• Zhao Fu and his forces traveled a hundred miles to investigate the Orc Tribe, learning it had a population of about 5,000, including 4,000 warriors.
• After Bai Qi advised gathering information first, Zhao Fu learned of a 5,000-member Goblin settlement, a 4,000-member Kobold settlement, and an Elf Tribe of more than 3,000 nearby.
• Zhao Fu considered either allying with the three settlements against the Orcs or provoking the factions to fight so he could profit from the conflict.

Zhao Fu chose to provoke the Orc Tribe into attacking its neighboring villages and captured an Orc to learn about the tribe. After discovering that the leaders were brothers, he ambushed and killed the second-in-command, Ao Ka.

• Zhao Fu rejected an alliance with the three villages and planned to make the Orcs attack them instead.
• Bai Qi captured a mistreated Orc named An Lun, who revealed details about the Otis Tribe and its leaders, Otis and Ao Ka.
• Zhao Fu learned that Ao Ka was Otis’s favored younger brother and that both leaders were Strong Orcs.
• Zhao Fu’s forces ambushed Ao Ka and his more than one hundred Orcs while they were hunting.
• Ao Ka tried to rush Zhao Fu, but Duo Ke threw a spear through his chest and killed him.

Zhao Fu’s forces framed the Kobolds for killing Orcs, provoking Otis into attacking the Kobold village. With the Orcs assaulting from the front and Zhao Fu’s soldiers attacking from behind, the Kobold chief evacuated the City Heart and some survivors while staying to fight.

• Zhao Fu ordered his forces to remove arrows from the Orc corpses and make their wounds look like Kobold attacks.
• Duo Ke led Kobolds in dragging the corpses west, then hung Ao Ka’s body near the Kobold village and incited its guards to shout that Kobolds reigned supreme.
• Otis recognized his younger brother Ao Ka’s corpse and ordered more than four thousand Orc Warriors to attack the Kobold village.
• The Orcs charged the Kobolds, and Zhao Fu ordered his soldiers to fire Fire Arrows from behind, trapping the Kobolds between both forces.
• The Kobold chief sent a trusted subordinate away with the City Heart, a hundred Warriors, and two hundred other Kobolds, then stayed behind to fight.

Zhao Fu captured the Kobolds who fled the Orc attack and sent Bai Qi to frame the Goblins for slaughtering the Orc tribe’s elderly and children. After the enraged Orcs marched south, Zhao Fu and Bai Qi headed east to the Elf Village, where Zhao Fu arrived with five hundred soldiers to lure the Elves out.

• Zhao Fu ordered his men to pursue the fleeing Kobolds while the Kobold chief fought Otis and died with the rest of his tribe.
• Zhao Fu surrounded the three hundred fleeing Kobolds and forced their leader to surrender by threatening to kill them.
• Bai Qi led a raid on the Orc Tribe, killed its elderly and children, and left Goblin tracks to frame the Goblin village to the south.
• Otis abandoned the pursuit of the fleeing Kobolds, then led his enraged Orcs south after discovering their dead loved ones and blaming the Goblins.
• Zhao Fu met Bai Qi and marched east to the Elf Village with five hundred soldiers, where he saw its beautiful female leader.

Zhao Fu lured the Elves into a battle between the Orcs and Goblins, then surrounded the exhausted survivors and used newly completed Ballistas to defeat them. The Goblins and most Orcs surrendered, and the Elf chief Daisy knelt and surrendered to Zhao Fu.

• Zhao Fu repeatedly provoked the Elf Village and drew its chief and warriors into the fighting Orcs and Goblins.
• The Elves, Orcs, and Goblins fought until only about fourteen hundred wounded survivors remained, and Zhao Fu's forces surrounded them.
• The Orcs charged Zhao Fu, but Bai Qi ordered twenty Ballistas to fire, killing many Orcs and mortally wounding their chief, Otis.
• Zhao Fu killed Otis and demanded that the survivors surrender; the Goblins and most Orcs accepted, while a few defiant Orcs were shot down.
• Daisy surrendered the Elves to protect her people, and Zhao Fu accepted her surrender.

Zhao Fu occupied and migrated the Goblin, Elf, and Orc settlements, greatly increasing Great Qin Village’s population, Battle Merit, and experience. After returning, he refined three leaders’ corpses into Talent Orbs and called Bai Shan to the main hall, where he gave him one of the orbs.

• Zhao Fu handed control of the surrendered Goblins to Bai Qi, then occupied and migrated their Advanced Village.
• Zhao Fu inspected the Elf Barracks, learned from Daisy that Elves could become Priests through the Class Transfer Stele, and migrated the Elf Village.
• The remaining Orcs surrendered, and Zhao Fu occupied and migrated their silver-quality village, bringing the expedition’s gains to more than 2,800 people and four City Hearts.
• After returning to Great Qin Village, Zhao Fu refined the Kobold chief and the Orc brothers’ corpses into one SS-Grade and two S-Grade Talent Orbs.
• Bai Shan knelt and apologized for failing to develop a corpse-talent investigation skill, but Zhao Fu reassured him and handed him a blood-red orb of light.