Recaps

Zhao Fu endured a sudden attack of head pain, then awakened the power of his four swords and rapidly rose through the Year Beast levels by slaughtering his rivals. At Level Nine, he encountered the young girl Year Beast again and knocked her away without killing her.

• A small Year Beast slapped Zhao Fu while he was incapacitated, gaining enough power to become a Level Two Year Beast.
• Zhao Fu recovered, unleashed four streaks of sword light to slaughter the surrounding Year Beasts, and became a Level Five Year Beast with seven-colored radiance from his Emperor Bloodline.
• Zhao Fu ambushed Year Beasts gathering around a purple rice ball, killed them with sword light, swallowed the rice ball, and advanced to Level Six, gaining Beast King Domain.
• Zhao Fu continued hunting for seven or eight hours until he reached Level Nine and grew twenty meters tall, becoming so fearsome that ordinary Year Beasts fled at his approach.
• Zhao Fu caught the young girl Year Beast he had met before and swatted her away without killing her after she recognized him and threatened him.

Zhao Fu ranked first in the New Year Dreamscape and returned to find Long Xiaoxiao kissing him, then claimed the event’s rewards and used Great Qin’s pooled points to secure another top-ranked token. The chapter left Great Qin with the General Token for first place and Zhao Fu holding an Epic-grade Light Sword.

• Di Wutian and the other dynasty inheritors dominated the Year Beasts as the New Year Dreamscape announced its rankings, with Zhao Fu’s identity hidden at first place and 580,000 points.
• The Dreamscape closed, and Zhao Fu returned to his body to find Long Xiaoxiao kissing him; she fled into the Calamitous Dragon Sword and claimed she had been applying a status effect.
• The Golden Dragon warned Zhao Fu that festivals offered rare benefits that would be essential for surviving future dangers.
• Zhao Fu opened his first-place reward and obtained an Epic-grade Light Sword.
• Zhao Fu gathered Great Qin’s more than 500 million New Year Points and spent them all to secure the General Token for first place.

Zhao Fu sought a way for all of Great Qin to benefit from the New Year events and learned that an Eight Absolute Sword Formation required eight top-grade swords. After fusing the Six-Winged Angel Heart with the Light Sword, he obtained a transformed Six-Winged Angel sword, leaving him hopeful that he could complete the formation.

• Zhao Fu asked Golden Dragon how Great Qin could share the benefits of sword qi, and learned that he needed eight top-grade swords to deploy the Eight Absolute Sword Formation.
• Zhao Fu caught a Golden Chicken and a Golden Pig at the City Lord Manor, but each yielded only a gold-grade item, so he left the remaining creatures to his subordinates.
• Zhao Fu inspected the exchange stone monument and worried that Great Qin might soon lose its second-ranked General Token.
• Zhao Fu realized that fusing the Six-Winged Angel Heart with the Light Sword might raise the sword's quality enough to meet the formation's requirements.
• Zhao Fu fused the Six-Winged Angel Heart and Light Sword, and the resulting angel appeared before him before transforming into a sword.

Zhao Fu equipped the Sword Harness, completed and tested the Eight Absolute Sword Formation, then entered the New Year Dreamscape and fought his way to Level 7. When the Dreamscape rankings were announced, Arthur Tina ranked first, marking the first time a foreigner had surpassed everyone from Huaxia.

• Zhao Fu used the Sword Harness to store his swords and completed the Eight Absolute Sword Formation with swords borrowed from Bai Qi and the others.
• After discussing the approaching invasion and preparing for it, Zhao Fu activated the formation and entered the New Year Dreamscape as a small Year Beast.
• Zhao Fu used white sword qi to attack Year Beasts, met and briefly cooperated with Liu Xinze, and later defeated a group of Level 5 Year Beasts to reach Level 6.
• Zhao Fu reached Level 7 before the Dreamscape closed, but did not match his previous run to Level 9.
• The Dreamscape rankings placed Arthur Tina first with 190,000 New Year Points, ahead of Si Ji and Ji Shenming.

After Great Qin fell to fifty-eighth place in the New Year Points ranking, Zhao Fu discovered that it had earned 2 billion points and hurried to exchange them for General Tokens. He secured four more tokens and summoned five generals, whose loyalty was only 50.

• The factions celebrated Great Qin's absence from the top ten, while Zhao Fu accepted the result and resolved not to help those who opposed Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu returned from the New Year Dreamscape and learned that Great Qin had earned 2 billion New Year Points.
• Zhao Fu hurried to the exchange stele and obtained the tokens for Bai Xihan, Wei Qing, Li Mu, and Xu Liuyi before the remaining tokens disappeared.
• Zhao Fu summoned five generals, including Sun Hanxiang, and discovered that their loyalty was only 50.

Zhao Fu forced Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, Xu Liuyi, and Bai Xihan to become his consorts, despite the first three wanting to leave Great Qin. Their phoenix aura transformed the Imperial Phoenix Statue, whose growth astonished the Golden Dragon within Zhao Fu.

• Xian Ru urged Zhao Fu to bring the four great generals into the palace as consorts, citing their military ability and phoenix aura.
• Zhao Fu told Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, Xu Liuyi, and Bai Xihan that he wanted them as consorts; Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, and Xu Liuyi's loyalty fell to zero, while Bai Xihan's rose to 60.
• Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, and Xu Liuyi asked to leave, but Zhao Fu refused and declared that they would become his consorts.
• Bai Xihan unexpectedly agreed to become Zhao Fu's consort, and Zhao Fu used the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to invest all four women.
• Golden phoenixes emerged from the four women's bodies and flew toward the Heaven-Prayer Platform, triggering a dramatic transformation of the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• The Golden Dragon inside Zhao Fu remarked that the statue would become immensely terrifying once it grew.

Zhao Fu summoned the Imperial Phoenix Statue, then tried to bring Sun Hanxiang and the other women into accepting their place in Great Qin without forcing himself on them. He entered the New Year Dreamscape afterward, where Arthur Tina ranked first and Zhao Fu finished thirty-first.

• The Imperial Phoenix Statue transformed into a Golden Phoenix, refining Great Qin's destiny before returning to its crystal form.
• Zhao Fu brought Sun Hanxiang and two other women to his room, but lay down without forcing himself on them; Bai Xihan explained that she had offered herself for Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu entered the New Year Dreamscape and continued killing Year Beasts to gain levels and New Year Points.
• The New Year Dreamscape rankings placed Arthur Tina first, Caesar Augustus second, and Japan's Yuan Ren third, while Zhao Fu ranked thirty-first.

After the New Year Dreamscape rankings pushed Huaxia out of the top five, Zhao Fu worried that Huaxia’s fortune was weakening and that other nations might invade. An urgent report reached him just after he returned to his body, leaving the nature of the crisis unknown.

• Zhao Fu exchanged for a commander-grade Martial General Fortune and gave it to Xiao Jian.
• Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, and Xu Liuyi grew more loyal to Zhao Fu after seeing Great Qin, while Bai Xihan’s loyalty rose further.
• The New Year Dreamscape rankings placed Akhenaten third and Ji Shenming sixth, as Huaxia fell outside the top five.
• Zhao Fu feared Huaxia’s declining fortune could leave it vulnerable to invasion and considered restoring his nation sooner.
• A soldier urgently summoned Zhao Fu with a report about a major incident.

Four armies of players began a surprise attack on Great Qin during the Spring Festival event, forcing Zhao Fu to mobilize his defenses. As the enemy advanced through the snow, Zhao Fu sent fifty thousand Great Qin Assassins on a secret mission that unsettled Sun Hanxiang and the other women.

• A soldier informed Zhao Fu that four player armies had entered Terror Forest, and Bai Qi explained that isolation formations had blocked their teleportation.
• Zhao Fu investigated in the real world and learned the factions feared Great Qin and believed its absence from the top ten signaled weakness.
• Zhao Fu gathered reports showing that twelve million players were approaching from four directions, vastly outnumbering Great Qin's forces.
• Zhao Fu ordered fifty thousand Great Qin Assassins to carry out a secret command, and Sun Hanxiang and the other three women were chilled by its severity.
• The four armies used ice crystal stones to pave paths across the snow as they slowly marched toward Great Qin.

Great Qin Assassins infiltrated the player camps, killed night watchmen, and abducted more than fifty thousand people for Zhao Fu’s orders. The army discovered the disappearances the next morning, then found a horrific display of tortured captives that filled its soldiers with terror.

• While several watchmen entered the New Year Dreamscape, Great Qin Assassins killed two youths and knocked a middle-aged uncle unconscious.
• Fifty thousand Great Qin Assassins divided into four groups abducted more than fifty thousand people from the four player armies over the night.
• The Great Qin Assassins bound the captives, woke them with cold water, and began carrying out Zhao Fu’s orders.
• The player army found slain watchmen and discovered about fifty thousand people were missing, but its commander ordered the force to continue toward the other armies.
• The soldiers ahead broke down in terror when they saw captives tortured and displayed among the trees, and the commander-in-chief recoiled at the sight.

After Great Qin’s torture of captured players spread and failed to drive the attacking army away, Zhao Fu targeted the strongest player force with the Undead Catastrophe. The undead army charged Liu Hongjiang’s eastern army, which prepared to defend as arrows flew in from both sides.

• The player army recoiled at the tortured corpses, but its commander reported the scene and later persuaded the soldiers to stay with doubled rewards and Suicide Pills.
• News of Great Qin’s brutality spread through the real world, drawing condemnation while dynasty factions resolved to keep attacking.
• Zhao Fu chose to strike Liu Hongjiang’s eastern army with the Undead Catastrophe, hoping to break the strongest force and damage its morale.
• Liu Hongjiang ordered his troops into formation when a black magic formation summoned more than two million skeletons toward them.
• Arrows shot from both sides before the undead army reached Liu Hongjiang’s shield wall.

Great Qin defeated Liu Hongjiang’s player army with the undead, archers, and City Lords, but Zhao Fu discovered that the victory had led them into a trap. Armies were closing in from all four directions, leaving Great Qin surrounded.

• Bai Qi and the other generals attacked the player army’s shield wall while Great Qin’s hidden archers fired from the flanks, and the undead broke through the defenses.
• Liu Hongjiang urged the players to hold their ground by promising ten times the reward, but Zhao Fu appeared and killed him with an arrow.
• With Liu Hongjiang dead, the player army routed as the undead pursued them; Great Qin won but lost nearly half its skeletons.
• Zhao Fu ordered the battlefield cleared, then sensed danger and discovered armies approaching from three directions, along with 1.2 million Tier 1 soldiers and twelve City Lords to the east.

Zhao Fu used all of Great Qin’s national fortune to unleash Demon Realm Gate against the nine million players and 1.2 million system soldiers surrounding Great Qin. The gate opened above the battlefield, releasing a vast tide of flesh-and-blood demons as the players faced the oncoming horde in fear.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s 800,000 soldiers to confront the system army while he blocked the three player armies alone.
• Zhao Fu decided to spend Great Qin’s accumulated national fortune because the Wild Azure Dragon and Golden Dragon could not help.
• Zhao Fu gathered the national fortune into himself, causing a terrifying pressure to shake the Terror Forest and frighten the charging players.
• Twelve Great Qin City Lords blocked the system City Lords as they tried to stop Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu opened Demon Realm Gate, and countless demons poured through to attack the player armies.

Great Qin’s demons, undead, and soldiers attacked the system forces, while Ge Nie revealed his allegiance by striking down a system city lord. The betrayal sparked a battle between the city lords as fighting engulfed both armies.

• The demonic tide and Great Qin’s skeletons struck the players from two sides, breaking their defenses and driving them into a massacre.
• Bai Qi, Wei Liao, Wang Jian, Meng Tian, and Sima Cuo activated their General’s Artifacts, empowering Great Qin’s soldiers to break through the system army’s line.
• The two armies fought fiercely as the system and Great Qin city lords unleashed the power of their City Lord Seals.
• Ge Nie killed a system city lord, took his City Lord Seal, and revealed himself as Fighting City’s young city lord acting for Great Qin.
• Ge Nie attacked another system city lord, prompting the Great Qin city lords to engage their opponents, while Fighting City soldiers attacked the system troops around them.

Zhao Fu kept the Demon Realm Gate open until he collapsed, and Great Qin won the battle at a heavy cost. After waking, he learned of the casualties and received notifications that the Great Chaotic World had entered its second stage and Huaxia faced the threat of losing its foremost inheritance status.

• Zhao Fu commanded the demons and undead to keep attacking as the player army faltered, while commanders held the players in place by promising double rewards for those who died fighting.
• Great Qin's soldiers, the Fighting City troops, and the generals fought the system army and City Lords, with Great Qin gaining the upper hand.
• Zhao Fu endured severe pain and bleeding to maintain the Demon Realm Gate until he lost consciousness and fell from the sky.
• Xian Ru told Zhao Fu that Great Qin had won, losing 240,000 people and five generals while killing 700,000 enemies, capturing 100,000 soldiers and one City Lord, and killing six City Lords.
• Zhao Fu viewed notifications announcing the early closure of the Heavenly Domain Barrier's second layer, the Great Chaotic World's second stage, Huaxia's altered rewards and danger of erasure, and the backlash he had suffered.

After Great Qin’s Fate was exhausted, Huaxia’s enemies invaded to seize its territory and claim the rewards, while its dynasties and factions feared the resulting calamity. Zhao Fu learned that Fate backlash had left him gravely weakened, but Xian Ru said Great Qin’s recovering Fate and the Imperial Phoenix Statue could heal him.

• The world notification announced that Great Qin’s defeat had closed the second layer of the Heavenly Domain Barrier, ended the Spring Festival event early, and begun the second stage of the chaotic age.
• Twenty-one of the twenty-two countries surrounding Huaxia invaded, while Huaxia’s clans, Hundred Schools of Thought, dynasties, and factions feared that Great Qin’s collapse would bring disaster to all Huaxia.
• Huaxia people cursed Great Qin for ending the Spring Festival event, blaming it for their lost rewards.
• Zhao Fu asked Xian Ru about his severe Fate backlash, and she said Great Qin’s recovering Fate and the Imperial Phoenix Statue could help heal him.

After Great Qin defeated the system army, Zhao Fu surveyed its heavy losses and organized its gains and new City Lords while recovering from his injuries. The chapter ended with Great Qin bringing six women with phoenix aura to Zhao Fu to help heal him.

• Zhao Fu rose with Xian Ru's help, thanked Ge Nie for aiding Great Qin in battle, and returned to Great Qin with his forces.
• Zhao Fu mourned the 240,000 soldiers and five generals lost, then reviewed the seven captured system main cities, prisoners, corpses, and equipment.
• Zhao Fu appointed Sun Wu, Chen Man, Li Mu, Du Kong, Liu Yeqing, Niu Shili, and Li Yun as City Lords.
• With Great Qin still short of one small city for its upgrade, Zhao Fu continued searching for a Goblin or Elf city so Rogge or Daisy could become a City Lord.
• Xian Ru sent Great Qin Assassins to capture women with phoenix aura, and they brought six women before Zhao Fu to help heal his injuries.

Zhao Fu discovered that Sun Sisi was among six women captured for their phoenix qi, and he made them Imperial Consorts to heal his injuries. As the women were taken to their courtyard, Huaxia faced a massive invasion by twenty-one nations, bringing the coming Humiliation of Huaxia into view.

• Zhao Fu recognized Sun Sisi and learned that Great Qin had captured her and five other women for their phoenix qi.
• Sun Sisi recognized Zhao Fu as her former classmate and discovered he was the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Zhao Fu kept Sun Sisi and the other women in Great Qin to protect his identity and avoid trouble with Flower Moon.
• Zhao Fu used the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to name Sun Sisi, Zhao Yining, Liu Rubai, An Yanling, Bao Ningzhu, and Li Wanbai Imperial Consorts, and their phoenix qi helped heal his injuries.
• Liu Rubai reunited with her Fourteenth Sister, who had also been captured from Flower Moon.
• Twenty-one nations attacked Huaxia while it remained unprepared, pushing it toward the historic Humiliation of Huaxia.

Oleg led Great Russia’s massive army against Huaxia, whose players chose surrender and peace over resistance. Huaxia activated Absolute Neutrality Mode, forcing its people outside the city, where Oleg ordered his forces to kill them all, including those who surrendered.

• Oleg led more than ten million Great Russian players to surround Huaxia’s two system main cities and rejected a representative’s plea for peace.
• Huaxia’s players argued over whether to fight or surrender, and most supported peace while condemning those who wanted to resist.
• Huaxia’s city lords activated Absolute Neutrality Mode, and the system barrier expelled the city’s players outside.
• Oleg’s archers fired on the unprepared Huaxia players, killing one-third in the first volley and many more in the next.
• Oleg rejected the surrendering Huaxia players and ordered the Great Russians to kill them all.

Oleg’s Great Russia army massacred the Huaxia people in Houfeng Region, claimed the region, and moved on to another target. Tut’s Mongol State cavalry then slaughtered the Huaxia population in a neighboring border region and rode onward with their heads displayed as trophies.

• Oleg ordered his troops to kill the remaining Huaxia people outside the neutral system main city, while the city lord refused to let them inside.
• Great Russia looted the battlefield, received notice that Houfeng Region had been occupied, and raised its flag over a mountain of Huaxia corpses.
• Tut led the Mongol State cavalry into a border region after its system main city entered absolute neutrality and expelled the Huaxia people.
• The Mongol State cavalry cut down Huaxia people who resisted or surrendered, killing nearly all of the region’s fewer than 1.5 million residents.
• Tut ordered his soldiers to cut off Huaxia heads and hang them from their horses before leading the army toward the next region.

Kazakh State invaded Huaxia’s Sandbar Region, massacred its defenders, and forced captives into a cruel hunting contest led by Ke Jie. As invasions spread across the southern continent, Zhao Fu consulted his generals and arranged defenses while remaining too weak to travel.

• Kazakh State surrounded Huaxia people in the Sandbar Region, killed most of them, and captured around twenty thousand.
• Ke Jie ordered the captives to be used as prey in a hunting contest, and Kazakh archers shot nearly all of them as the others watched.
• Kazakh State occupied the Sandbar Region, while Huaxia remained unaware that invasions were spreading from multiple directions.
• Zhao Fu discussed the crisis with his generals and arranged deployments and defenses, receiving reports because his weakened body kept him from traveling.

Korea invaded Huaxia’s eastern region with six million players, and commander Piao Xuehui punished captured Huaxia people for refusing to submit. After forcing some survivors to profess loyalty, she ordered her forces to capture Huaxia natives and impose a slave system.

• Piao Xuehui led six million Koreans into the region, but most Huaxia players fled before they arrived.
• Korean forces caught over three thousand Huaxia stragglers, and Piao Xuehui ordered the captured people brought before her.
• Piao Xuehui demanded that the prisoners call Huaxia people Korea’s servants and claim Huaxia had stolen Korean culture, then ordered the deaths of those who refused.
• About four hundred prisoners escaped after making the demanded declarations, while the others were killed.
• Piao Xuehui sent the Koreans to search for Huaxia native villages and announced that they would enslave the captured natives, prompting furious protests online.

Oda Kamiya led Japan’s invasion of Huaxia territory and ordered attacks on native villages, while Japan announced its plan to enslave Huaxia women. Flower Moon prepared to resist Japan and also demanded that Great Qin return its Fourteenth Sister and Twenty-Sixth Sister.

• After Japan’s forces found Huaxia native villages, Oda Kamiya ordered his men to slaughter the men, elderly people, and children and assault the women.
• Oda Kamiya killed a middle-aged man who begged for his family’s safety, then attacked the man’s wife.
• Oda Kamiya ordered the surviving women taken to Japan as slaves, and Japan publicly announced its female slave system.
• The Japanese invasion enraged Huaxia people, especially Huaxia women.
• Flower Moon prepared to resist Japan and demand the return of its Fourteenth Sister and Twenty-Sixth Sister from Great Qin.

Foreign nations occupied several Huaxia regions, with the Philippines slaughtering Huaxia defenders and the Joseon Kingdom, Malaysia, and Indonesia taking more territory. Zhao Fu returned to the real world, learned how severe Huaxia’s crisis had become, and saw that the worst fighting was in western Huaxia.

• Japan occupied the Withered Wood Region, while the Philippines invaded another region with over ten million troops and killed the Huaxia defenders who resisted.
• Edra had captured Huaxia survivors tortured and killed, then led the Philippine army onward.
• The Joseon Kingdom, Malaysia, and Indonesia occupied the Spring Harmony, Crimson, and Many Implements Regions, respectively, through a coordinated three-pronged invasion.
• Zhao Fu returned to the real world weakened by the backlash from fortune and declined to meet the family heads, Flower Moon, Feng Shiyu, and the White Lotus Sect representatives.
• Zhao Fu read Mu Guilin’s intelligence, learned how grave Huaxia’s situation was, and concluded that western Huaxia faced the most brutal conflict.

Huaxia suffered a massive invasion as India and other nations occupied its border regions, prompting the authorities, factions, and dynasties to organize resistance. Zhao Fu refused Huaxia’s appeal for Great Qin’s help, judging that he could not stop the invasion and that it would weaken Great Qin’s enemies.

• India’s forces, led by Shaluo with the Pillar of Ashoka and the Peacock Dynasty’s Fate Clan Artifact, invaded Huaxia while seven other nations attacked from the south.
• Notifications reported that India and Uzbekistan had occupied several Huaxia regions, weakening Huaxia’s national destiny and strengthening their own.
• Huaxia’s authorities urged the people, Hundred Schools of Thought, sects, dynasties, and factions to unite against the invaders.
• The authorities invited Zhao Fu and Great Qin to join the defense, but Zhao Fu rejected the request and returned the invitation.
• Zhao Fu considered possible ways to intervene, but decided he lacked the means and that the invasion would benefit Great Qin by weakening its enemies.