Recaps

Zhao Fu made Bai Ruoxue his consort, absorbed her phoenix aura, and brought Holy Light City's people and soldiers into Great Qin. After learning that rival factions had encircled the Terror Forest with walls and isolation formations, he found himself trapped inside and turned his attention to clearing the region of other factions.

• Bai Ruoxue agreed to become Zhao Fu's consort and obey him, provided she did not have to take part in exceedingly cruel or bloody acts.
• Zhao Fu bestowed the consort title on Bai Ruoxue, and the Imperial Phoenix Statue absorbed her phoenix aura.
• Great Qin incorporated Holy Light City's population of 500,000 and its 130,000 Tier 1 soldiers, then raised its army to 600,000.
• Zhao Fu let the army rest for a day and chose not to punish familiar officials from Holy Light City, including Qin Nan.
• Zhao Fu learned that rival dynasties and factions had surrounded the Terror Forest with player-built walls and isolation formations, trapping Great Qin inside.
• Zhao Fu discovered that relocating the system main cities had destroyed the Teleportation Arrays that could break the formations, ordered scholars to investigate repairs, and planned to eliminate all other factions in the Terror Forest.

The Six-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon visited Great Qin after Zhao Fu became regional Lord, then left to explore other regions, leaving Terror Forest without a force able to resist Great Qin. Zhao Fu launched a broad campaign to clear the region and discovered an Angel's Heart in a regional treasure chest before preparing to return to the real world.

• The Six-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon arrived at Great Qin, and Zhao Fu welcomed her after ordering his City Lords to stand down.
• Zhao Fu asked the Six-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon to suppress her pressure, and she ate the food Great Qin prepared before leaving to explore other regions.
• Zhao Fu divided six hundred thousand soldiers into six hundred scouting teams and sent them to search Terror Forest while twelve City Lords oversaw the operation.
• Zhao Fu planned to return to the real world to meet several family heads and consider how to counter the pressure from other dynasties and factions.
• Zhao Fu opened a regional treasure chest and obtained an Angel's Heart, the origin of a six-winged angel with powerful holy light attributes.

Zhao Fu considered the heart of a six-winged angel, then spoke with Feng Shiyu and the Ying Family heads about the Great Qin Imperial Prince, potential allies, and the Ying Family’s strength. He left the meeting realizing that Great Qin lacked the real-world influence and resources to suppress its many rival dynasties and factions.

• Zhao Fu stored the powerful six-winged angel’s heart and summoned a bodyguard to notify the Ying Family heads that he was ready to meet.
• Feng Shiyu rushed in, asked whether the Great Qin Imperial Prince was safe, and urged Zhao Fu to help her win the Prince’s favor.
• Zhao Fu told Feng Shiyu he would make the Imperial Prince acknowledge her status, and she left as the Ying Family heads arrived.
• Zhao Fu agreed to let the forces waiting outside the Ying Family join Great Qin in name, while requiring them to pass a test before they could be used.
• Zhao Fu asked the Ying Family heads to disclose their full strength and concluded that the family could not match Great Qin’s enemies or help Great Qin exert influence in the real world.

Zhao Fu accepted his grandfather’s invitation to celebrate his cousin’s engagement, then agreed to help his cousins establish their own factions. His relatives’ escalating demands for better City-Building Stones and resources left him dissatisfied.

• Zhao Fu answered his grandfather’s call and agreed to join the family for a meal celebrating his cousin’s engagement.
• Zhao Fu arrived at his grandfather’s home and met Zheng Qiu, who was engaged to his older cousin, and his younger cousin’s girlfriend.
• Zhao Fu’s aunt asked him to find positions for his cousin brothers, but Zhao Jun and his older cousin instead requested Village- and City-Building Stones so they could build their own powers.
• Zhao Fu agreed to provide two City-Building Stones after seeing that his grandparents supported the request.
• Zhao Jun asked Zhao Fu for high-quality City-Building Stones and additional resources, making Zhao Fu feel that his relatives were taking his help for granted.

At a family meal, Zhao Fu agreed to help his relatives but became the target of Zhao Jun’s girlfriend, Mei Xiaoyan. She revealed that she belonged to the White Lotus Sect and wanted to cooperate with Great Qin, and the chapter ended with Mei Xiaoyan pressuring Zheng Qiu to join her in trying to seduce Zhao Fu.

• Zhao Fu agreed to give Zhao Hong and the other relatives City-Building Stones and additional help.
• Mei Xiaoyan teased Zhao Fu beneath the table while pretending to be Zhao Jun’s polite girlfriend.
• Mei Xiaoyan followed Zhao Fu into the restroom, propositioned him, and revealed she was a member of the White Lotus Sect seeking cooperation with Great Qin.
• Zheng Qiu entered the restroom, and Mei Xiaoyan ordered her to serve Zhao Fu; Zhao Fu stopped Zheng Qiu when she reached for his pants.
• Mei Xiaoyan continued pressuring Zhao Fu, and both women began undressing in front of him.

Zhao Fu agreed to cooperate with the White Lotus Sect after learning about its history and discussing terms with its Saintess. He left the sect's role in Great Qin's plans unsettled, then received a provocative call from Mei Xiaoyan.

• Mei Xiaoyan and Zheng Qiu pressed Zhao Fu to agree to cooperate with the White Lotus Sect before his grandfather interrupted them.
• Zhao Fu ordered an investigation, and Mu Guilin brought him information about the White Lotus Sect's history, influence, and rebellions.
• Zhao Fu decided the sect could help Great Qin but should not be allowed to grow too deeply within it.
• Zhao Fu spoke with Mei Xiaoyan and then the White Lotus Sect's Saintess, and they agreed on a mutually satisfactory cooperation.
• Mei Xiaoyan called Zhao Fu again and offered to come serve him.

Zhao Fu dealt with calls from Mei Xiaoyan and Zheng Qiu before returning to Apocalypse World, where he reviewed Great Qin’s rapid expansion through Terror Forest and the player forces that remained there. Great Qin continued clearing the region as Zhao Fu’s assassins investigated the survivors and discovered members of the weakened Alliance of Soldiers had stayed behind.

• Mei Xiaoyan asked Zhao Fu to call her when he had time, but he urged her to be with Zhao Jun and ended the call.
• Zheng Qiu asked Zhao Fu to protect her family in exchange for becoming his woman, and Zhao Fu agreed to protect them while telling her she could remain with his cousin.
• Zhao Fu’s cousin interrupted Zheng Qiu’s call, which ended before Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World.
• Zhao Fu reviewed reports showing Great Qin had gathered 30,000 people in one day and expected to clear Terror Forest in a little over a month.
• Zhao Fu learned that most players had fled through the Void-Severing Belt, while his assassins found that some members of the Alliance of Soldiers and other forces had remained.

Zhao Fu ordered the execution of the Alliance of Soldiers’ core members and the other factions that had helped found it. As winter slowed Great Qin’s campaign to conquer Terror Forest, Sima Cuo used the gathered Soldier Souls to awaken a General’s Artifact and summon a blue general star.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s Assassins to kill the Alliance of Soldiers and execute the core and important members of the factions that had helped found it.
• As winter approached, Great Qin’s advance slowed, but Zhao Fu insisted on pressing ahead to seize Terror Forest quickly.
• Li Wen delivered enough Soldier Souls for another General’s Artifact, and Zhao Fu summoned Sima Cuo to an open clearing.
• Sima Cuo accepted ten Soldier God Souls and used them in a ceremony that caused a purple general star to descend from the sky.
• Sima Cuo’s silver energy transformed the purple star, while three additional stars descended and merged with it into a blue star.

Zhao Fu watched Sima Cuo awaken the Giant Gate Star’s power and gain the Giant Gate Blade, whose Formation-Breaking Soldier attribute created troops built for offense. Great Qin continued conquering villages in the Terror Forest, and Sun Wu gathered an army to attack a high-grade Xiongnu village.

• The Giant Gate Star empowered Sima Cuo, transforming his broadsword into the Giant Gate Blade.
• Zhao Fu inspected the blade’s Formation-Breaking Soldier attribute and returned it to Sima Cuo as the other generals congratulated him.
• Great Qin continued conquering native villages and driving player villagers to relocate while sweeping the Terror Forest.
• A Great Qin captain’s soldiers killed the defenders of a small village, forced its remaining villagers to surrender, and relocated them to Great Qin City.
• A soldier reported a high-grade Xiongnu village to Sun Wu, who assembled more than twenty thousand Great Qin Soldiers to attack it.

Sun Wu used an ambush and overwhelming force to conquer a Xiongnu village, capturing 2,723 people and a strikingly beautiful warrior whom he hoped to present to His Highness. Meanwhile, Wang Jian surrounded Liu'an Town with 150,000 soldiers, and its mayor, Zhan Quanfu, faced pressure to surrender.

• Sun Wu disguised 600 Great Qin Soldiers as bandits, used fires to lure more than 1,000 Xiongnu soldiers into an ambush, and killed them with volleys of arrows.
• Sun Wu led the Great Qin army in an assault on the village, where its superior soldiers quickly overwhelmed the Xiongnu and subdued the settlement.
• Sun Wu ordered the prisoners evacuated from the burning village, counted 2,723 captives, and had a fierce, beautiful Xiongnu woman brought before him as a possible gift for His Highness.
• Wang Jian gathered 150,000 Great Qin Soldiers and five City Lords, then surrounded Liu'an Town without attacking.
• Zhan Quanfu listened as the people around him urged him to surrender, though he remained reluctant to yield.

Wang Jian took Liu'an Town for Great Qin without a fight, and Zhao Fu’s expanding forces gained population, soldiers, Wyverns, and two Silver Lake Narcissus inheritors. Li Wen then reported a newly discovered bronze gate beneath Great Qin, which Zhao Fu could barely crack open with the Great Qin Seal.

• Wang Jian persuaded Zhan Quanfu to surrender Liu'an Town, and Great Qin took control of its people and supplies.
• Great Qin expanded through Terror Forest, reaching 4.4 million people, 800,000 soldiers, and nearly ten thousand Tier 2 soldiers.
• Zhao Fu halted exploration of Gloomwood’s dangerous interior after Great Qin exhausted its outer perimeter of Goblins and minotaurs.
• Zhao Fu gave Moni the Silver Lake Narcissus Blade and Joyce the Silver Lake Narcissus Bow, making them inheritors.
• Li Wen told Zhao Fu that a new underground passage had revealed a bronze gate, and Zhao Fu used the Great Qin Seal to open it a tiny crack.

Zhao Fu entered a sealed chamber beneath the bronze door and encountered the Heaven-Slaying Empire’s Fate Dragon. The Golden Dragon overwhelmed his defenses with its pressure, leaving Zhao Fu on the brink of defeat.

• Zhao Fu used the Great Qin Seal’s power to force open the bronze door and sent Li Wen and the others away from the dangerous underground space.
• Zhao Fu entered the passage alone and found a golden dragon lying in a vast, gilded hall.
• The Golden Dragon awakened and struck Zhao Fu with an invisible force, injuring him despite his use of several artifacts.
• The Golden Dragon dismissed Zhao Fu’s Nation-Guarding Artifacts and increased its pressure until cracks spread across his King’s Domain.
• Zhao Fu struggled to withstand the Golden Dragon’s growing pressure and feared that his defenses would shatter.

Zhao Fu refused the Golden Dragon’s offer until it warned that forces with other heaven-defying arrays might destroy Great Qin and the entire realm. He then agreed to cooperate, and the Golden Dragon asked him to find the Heaven-Slaying Empire’s imperial clan and help restore the empire if possible.

• The Earth Realm Mark shielded Zhao Fu from the Golden Dragon’s pressure, and the Golden Dragon recognized him as favored by fate.
• Zhao Fu rejected the Golden Dragon’s offer, insisting Great Qin could become powerful without the Heaven-Slaying Empire’s treasures.
• The Golden Dragon threatened to destroy Great Qin, but backed down when Zhao Fu challenged it, suspecting he was trying to provoke an attack.
• The Golden Dragon warned that forces wielding other heaven-defying arrays could slaughter Great Qin and the entire realm.
• Zhao Fu agreed to cooperate after considering the threat and the benefits to Great Qin.
• The Golden Dragon asked Zhao Fu to find the Heaven-Slaying Empire’s imperial clan and, if possible, help restore the empire.

Zhao Fu agreed to accept the Heaven-Slaying Empire's royal bloodline and find its imperial clan, despite the danger this posed to Great Qin. The Golden Dragon passed the bloodline into him, triggering a worldwide upheaval that left other inheritors alarmed.

• Zhao Fu refused to restore the Heaven-Slaying Empire but agreed to find its imperial clan and recognize it as a legitimate royal line in exchange for its bloodline and inheritance.
• The Golden Dragon entered Zhao Fu's body and transferred the Heaven-Slaying Empire's royal bloodline to him.
• A golden pillar erupted into the sky, shaking the world and causing dragons of fate across every nation to roar.
• Si Ji, Di Wutian, Ji Shenming, and other inheritors recognized the golden pillar's direction and grew alarmed.
• The shockwave hurled Great Qin's approaching City Lords away and flattened the land within a hundred-mile radius.
• Golden light and feathers spread across the sky as a terrible pressure cracked the heavens and shook the earth.

A Golden Dragon appeared over Great Qin and began forcibly draining fortune from across the world as Zhao Fu transformed within its pillar of light. The world’s factions and nation inheritors suppressed the dragon with chains and Nation-Guarding Artifacts, but its voice broke their momentary relief.

• A Golden Dragon roared, wounded fortune-blessed people, and began drawing fortune from all corners of the world toward Great Qin.
• Sect leaders realized the dragon carried an unknown aura from beyond Earth and rushed to stop it, while Xian Ru feared for Zhao Fu.
• As the Golden Dragon’s fortune entered Zhao Fu, factions launched sealing chains and nation inheritors activated their Nation-Guarding Artifacts against it.
• The combined forces bound the Golden Dragon and weakened its aura, prompting people across the world to believe the crisis was contained.
• The Golden Dragon called its attackers a bunch of ants as the leaders and inheritors prepared to seal it.

The Golden Dragon broke free from the nations’ restraints, killed sect leaders, and used their hearts to advance Zhao Fu’s Heaven-Slaying Bloodline. After the guardian beasts attacked, Zhao Fu saved the Golden Dragon and completed its transformation into a being of the human world, though another stage of fusion remained.

• The Golden Dragon shattered the chains and Nation-Guarding Artifacts, then gathered more fate as its power grew.
• The Golden Dragon killed numerous sect leaders and used their hearts to form a blood-colored magic formation that transformed Zhao Fu’s soul.
• The Golden Dragon attacked the inheritors of national legacies, but the four guardian beasts intervened and struck at it.
• Zhao Fu opened his blood-colored double pupils and used the Earth Realm Mark to repel the guardian beasts’ beams and save the Golden Dragon.
• The guardian beasts withdrew after the Golden Dragon became part of the human world, and a blood-red slaughter rune appeared in Zhao Fu’s soul.
• Zhao Fu released another black dragon to continue the remaining fusion.

Zhao Fu merged the Golden Dragon into Great Qin, greatly strengthening the empire’s fortune and raising his bloodline to Level 16, the Emperor Bloodline. The dragons returned to his body, leaving Great Qin’s position at the top even more secure.

• Zhao Fu summoned Great Qin’s fortune and poured it into the Golden Dragon, transforming it into Great Qin’s dragon of fortune.
• Zhao Fu used the power within his soul’s rune to strengthen the Black Dragon as pillars of light and storms spread across the Apocalypse World.
• The Golden Dragon and Black Dragon completed their transformation, and both dragons entered Zhao Fu’s body.
• The Golden Dragon’s fortune strengthened Great Qin’s foundation, while its power raised Zhao Fu’s Heaven-Slaying Bloodline to Level 16, the Emperor Bloodline.
• Zhao Fu retained his loyalty to Great Qin despite possessing both the Great Qin Bloodline and the Heaven-Slaying Bloodline.

After Zhao Fu gained an emperor-grade bloodline and Great Qin’s Golden Dragon became known, Great Qin continued clearing the Terror Forest while its enemies formed a worldwide coalition to stop its expansion. The chapter left the coalition preparing to attack Great Qin, despite objections to joining forces with foreign powers.

• Zhao Fu returned to Xian Ru and the generals after gaining an emperor-grade bloodline, and Great Qin continued clearing the Terror Forest.
• The news of Great Qin’s Golden Dragon reached the real world, prompting former opponents to seek peace with the Ying Family, which rejected them.
• The White Lotus Sect’s saintess told Mei Xiaoyan to use Great Qin’s support for revenge and try to win Zhao Fu over.
• The Huaxia dynasties decided to investigate the Golden Dragon before launching a four-direction offensive against Great Qin.
• Foreign factions joined the Huaxia dynasties in providing full support for a coalition to suppress Great Qin, dismissing objections to cooperating with outsiders.

The major dynasties and foreign factions prepared a massive assault on Great Qin, while Zhao Fu and his generals considered how to withstand their forces. A sudden three-day snowfall blanketed the Apocalypse World and halted both sides’ plans.

• The major dynasties rejected the Clans’ plea to leave Great Qin alone and demanded that it surrender the Fate Clan Artifact and restrict its power.
• The dynasties and foreign factions decided to invade the Terror Forest, preparing against Great Qin’s traps and drawing in nearly ten million players from four regions.
• Zhao Fu learned of the impending attack and discussed the danger with his generals, knowing Great Qin’s soldiers could not revive like the players.
• The Hundred Schools of Thought and various sects reconsidered their hostility toward Great Qin, while Flower Moon remained neutral as it sought cooperation.
• Temperatures plunged across the Apocalypse World, and three days of heavy snow buried the land and forced both the attacking factions and Great Qin to halt their plans.

Zhao Fu learned that the Spring Festival would halt wars across the Apocalypse World and reward participants through general summons and general fortune. He examined the festival’s offerings at the exchange stele, which could strengthen commanders and help factions obtain powerful generals.

• Zhao Fu ordered preparations for the Spring Festival, which began at midnight and forbade war under threat of the negative Destroyer trait.
• Zhao Fu visited the exchange stele and learned that the festival focused on generals, with General Tokens for summoning and general fortune for awakening general stars.
• The exchange stele listed ten parallel-world historical generals, including Sun Hanxiang, Bai Xihan, and Huo Linxue.
• Zhao Fu learned that general fortune could give commanders Great General, Heavenly Dipper, or Earthly Fiend General Stars.
• Zhao Fu concluded that General Tokens favored great national factions, while general fortune could help rising and aristocratic factions close the gap.

Zhao Fu watched Great Qin celebrate the Spring Festival, received a fortune bag, and went to sleep to enter the shared New Year Dreamscape. The dream event began with Zhao Fu joining the realm alongside everyone else.

• Zhao Fu watched the lively Spring Festival celebrations in Great Qin and spent the evening eating with Xian Ru.
• At midnight, colorful lights filled the sky and everyone received a New Year fortune bag; Zhao Fu found several copper coins inside his.
• Zhao Fu learned that sleeping would let him enter the shared New Year Dreamscape, where participants could use only their own strength.
• Zhao Fu let the Xianbei maidservants remain in his warmed bed, then lay down and entered the New Year Dreamscape.

Zhao Fu entered the New Year Dreamscape as a Year Beast and learned how tangyuan, New Year Points, attacks, and protection worked. As his protection ended, he stole 50 points from a fleeing Year Beast and escaped while the others resumed their pursuit.

• Zhao Fu discovered that he had become a small Year Beast protected by a temporary white light, and learned the rules for earning and stealing New Year Points.
• Zhao Fu hid while his protection faded and watched several Year Beasts chase a larger Year Beast they called uncle.
• Zhao Fu attacked the uncle Year Beast just after his protection vanished, stealing 50 New Year Points before retreating.
• Zhao Fu drew the pursuing Year Beasts toward the uncle Year Beast, then slipped away as they continued after their larger target.

Zhao Fu collected New Year Points in the New Year Dreamscape, defeating a larger Nian Beast with help from another player and advancing to Level 2. He and his new partner then agreed to hunt other Level 2 Nian Beasts.

• Zhao Fu ate several rice balls and gained New Year Points before a newly spawned girl Nian Beast tried to ambush him.
• Zhao Fu struck the girl Nian Beast three times, gaining points and causing her to respawn.
• Zhao Fu agreed to cooperate with a young male Nian Beast to attack a much larger Level 2 Nian Beast.
• Zhao Fu and his partner coordinated their attacks, defeating the larger Nian Beast and taking most of its New Year Points.
• Zhao Fu gained a speed-boosting attribute and reached Level 2, then continued hunting with his partner until the partner also advanced to Level 2.
• Zhao Fu and his partner discussed ambushing other Level 2 Nian Beasts.

Zhao Fu and Liu Xinze hunted Year Beasts together, advanced to Level 3, and then split up to claim separate regions. Hunting alone, Zhao Fu spared a familiar-sounding female Year Beast before a golden tangyuan appeared and drew a swarm of Year Beasts.

• Zhao Fu and Liu Xinze cornered and killed a Level 2 Year Beast, while Zhao Fu caught and humiliated the female Year Beast who had tried to ambush them.
• Zhao Fu and Liu Xinze shared tangyuan, exchanged names, and advanced to Level 3 Year Beasts.
• Zhao Fu and Liu Xinze parted ways so each could hunt in a separate region, and Zhao Fu gained Strength Enhancement and Protective Shield.
• Zhao Fu spared a fleeing Level 2 Year Beast after her voice seemed familiar, then punished a roguish Year Beast who cursed at him.
• A golden tangyuan worth 500 New Year Points appeared, and countless Year Beasts rushed toward it.

Zhao Fu became a Level Four Year Beast, hunted other beasts for New Year Points, and dealt with the girl Year Beast again. As he wondered how to earn points faster, Golden Dragon began explaining to the four swords how they could help him.

• A Level Two Year Beast swallowed the golden tangyuan and became Level Three, drawing a crowd of beasts that Zhao Fu attacked from behind.
• Surrounded by Year Beasts, Zhao Fu advanced to Level Four, drove them off, and killed two Level Three Year Beasts for 1,200 New Year Points.
• Zhao Fu caught the girl Year Beast, released her, then tricked and defeated her when she tried to slap him.
• Zhao Fu continued hunting Level Two Year Beasts and gained Enhanced Perception upon reaching Level Four.
• Outside the New Year Dreamscape, Golden Dragon asked the four swords whether they wanted to help Zhao Fu, and began explaining a method.