Recaps

Huaxia organized a counterattack against the invading forces, using defensive works and traps to blunt the Russian and Mongol advances while Liu Canfei’s forces repelled the Kazakh army. The southern front settled into a growing stalemate, and Huaxia also prepared to respond to Han Kingdom and Japan in the east.

• Zhan Houlong led Huaxia people in the south to build a defensive wall and traps that halted Oleg’s Russian advance.
• Hong Chang used horse-tripping ropes and iron spikes to stop the Mongol State’s Cavalry charge and buy time for Huaxia to build defenses.
• Liu Canfei divided Huaxia’s forces into three groups and ambushed the Kazakh army, forcing it to retreat after heavy losses.
• Huaxia and the invading armies built defenses as reinforcements continued arriving, leaving the southern front deadlocked.
• Huaxia prepared a direct response to Han Kingdom and Japan on the eastern continent.

Huaxia fought on several fronts as it repelled Japan and the Philippines and held defensive lines against other nations, while suffering a severe retreat against India. India crossed the borderlands and invaded Huaxia’s territory, leaving the western battlefield in an increasingly brutal state.

• Huaxia’s army defeated the Han Kingdom in a direct clash, forcing it to retreat after three million Han soldiers and 3.6 million Huaxia soldiers died.
• Huaxia repelled Japan after a costly battle, while both armies waited for reinforcements.
• Huaxia’s defenses turned back the Philippines, and Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Joseon Kingdom stopped attacking.
• Huaxia and the five northern nations held their positions, with the five nations wary of Great Qin.
• Shaluo led forty million Indian forces into Huaxia, driving its troops back and invading five regions beyond the borderlands.
• Huaxia poured reinforcements into the west as hundreds of thousands died each hour in the brutal fighting.

After the invasions stalled, Zhao Fu assessed Huaxia’s predicament and Great Qin’s growing strength in Apocalypse’s second year. He acquired a way for Great Qin to kill ordinary players in reality, leaving the kingdom with a weapon that could threaten the invading nations.

• The inheritors of Great Han, Great Qing Dynasty, and Great Tang joined forces to stop India’s invasion, while the fronts around Huaxia settled into a tense standoff.
• Zhao Fu reviewed how Chaotic Era Points were earned and exchanged, and concluded that the conflict between Huaxia and the foreign nations would be prolonged.
• Great Qin’s population reached five million, and its army numbered about 720,000 soldiers after Fighting City joined under Ge Nie; Zhao Fu agreed to preserve the city’s arena.
• Zhao Fu ordered branch academies built to expand Great Qin’s education and continued planning to unify the five regions, with only one small city needed for its next upgrade.
• After Golden Dragon explained that Void Ink and Void Paper could produce talismans that inflicted real-world damage, Zhao Fu spent three billion New Year Points to obtain supplies for 30 million pieces.
• Zhao Fu learned that talisman-armament equipment could multiply the talismans’ effect, allowing Great Qin to kill up to 360 million ordinary players and potentially force the invaders to retreat.

Zhao Fu used Village-Seeking Compasses to speed Great Qin’s expansion while staying out of Huaxia’s border war. After a player revealed the location of Northern Qi, Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s army to surround the Nation’s Legacy, hoping to seize its fate and help Great Qin advance.

• Zhao Fu decided not to intervene in Huaxia’s war and spent 500 million New Year Points on fifty Village-Seeking Compasses.
• A week later, Great Qin had cleared two-thirds of the Terror Forest, and Zhao Fu learned that Northern Qi was the final Nation’s Legacy within Great Qin’s planned territory.
• A player sold Great Qin Northern Qi’s location after spotting the small city during its upgrade.
• Zhao Fu gathered Great Qin’s troops and personally marched toward Northern Qi, with Xian Ru supporting him and Ge Nie guarding him.
• Great Qin surrounded Northern Qi with its army, ready to conquer the Nation’s Legacy.

Great Qin surrounded Northern Qi City and demanded its surrender, but Northern Qi's inheritor chose to resist. Zhao Fu's forces quickly suppressed her dragon of fortune, captured her alive, and took the city.

• Bai Qi surrounded Northern Qi City with Great Qin's army and demanded that its people surrender.
• Northern Qi's inheritor argued against Great Qin's invasion, while Xian Ru revealed to Zhao Fu that she was a woman with dragon and phoenix aura.
• Northern Qi's inheritor summoned a gray dragon of fortune, but Great Qin's City Lords imprisoned it with their City Lord Seals.
• Zhao Fu ordered his City Lords to capture Northern Qi's inheritor alive, and she was fed a Fruit of Truth that fused her real-world body with her body in Apocalypse World.
• Northern Qi's forces surrendered, ending the battle for the city.

Zhao Fu took control of Northern Qi and accepted Gao Li’s submission, preserving the nation by making her a consort. Northern Qi’s historical beauties also became consorts, and their phoenix aura helped Zhao Fu recover enough to prepare to occupy the city.

• Zhao Fu agreed to preserve Northern Qi if Gao Li submitted, then invested her as a consort, transforming her dragon aura into phoenix aura.
• A soldier reported that Northern Qi had no historical generals, and Gao Li explained that its inheritance preserved historical beauties instead.
• Six historical beauties—Lu Lingxuan, Rouran, Cao Zhaoyi, Lou Zhaojun, Li Zu'e, and Feng Xiaolian—were brought before Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu invested all six women as consorts, and their phoenix aura entered the Imperial Phoenix Statue and rapidly healed his injuries.
• Zhao Fu ordered Gao Li and the six beauties away and prepared to occupy Northern Qi City.

After Zhao Fu occupied Northern Qi City, Great Qin absorbed its legacy and destiny, allowing Great Qin City to begin upgrading into a Level 1 Major City. Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with Gao Li and six historical figures, while Northern Qi remained under Great Qin’s protection; Great Qin still needed more experience and small cities to advance toward a Capital City.

• Zhao Fu occupied Northern Qi City, prompting continent-wide drumbeats and causing Huaxia and other nations to blame or fear Great Qin and halt their attacks.
• Great Qin absorbed Northern Qi’s destiny and legacy, its City Heart and artifacts evolved, and Great Qin City began upgrading into a Level 1 Major City.
• Zhao Fu left Northern Qi’s population and resources in place, arranged for Gao Li’s trusted people to manage the city, and took Gao Li and six historical figures with him.
• Zhao Fu gave Gao Li the Silver Lake Narcissus Sword after realizing she was suited to it, and she agreed to follow him as a guard in training.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and checked its new Major City attributes, noting that Great Qin still needed experience and small cities to qualify for a Capital City.

Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to prepare for true damage talismans and rune equipment, then secured the loyalty of four great generals. Great Qin continued clearing the Terror Forest while its wyvern forces remained a small reserve, and the nations fighting it grew more confident during the lull.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to buy rune stones and Class Transfer Steles so it could train talisman masters and eventually craft talismanic equipment.
• Zhao Fu met Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, Xu Liuyi, and Bai Xihan; Sun Hanxiang, Xu Liuyi, and Wei Qing pledged loyalty, bringing all four women into Great Qin's service as generals.
• Zhao Fu explained the four women's status to Gao Li, who was impressed by Great Qin's strength and considered growing closer to him.
• Zhao Fu inspected the dragon nest and found that Great Qin had thirty-two wyverns, twenty-seven of which were ready for battle.
• Great Qin continued clearing the Terror Forest and producing supplies while the other nations relaxed in the absence of new attacks and the war elsewhere intensified.

After conquering Terror Forest, Zhao Fu made Great Qin the region’s orthodox faction and established Xianyang as its new regional name. Great Qin secured the region with an advanced Void-Severing Belt, while its growing army and population strengthened its position.

• Great Qin finished conquering Terror Forest, bringing its population above 6.5 million and expanding its army to 1.2 million soldiers, including 10,000 second-order troops.
• Zhao Fu gained the highest authority over Terror Forest, and the Heart of the Region merged with Great Qin City's City Heart, making Great Qin the region’s orthodox faction.
• Zhao Fu renamed Terror Forest the Xianyang Region through the regional interface.
• Zhao Fu established an advanced Void-Severing Belt around Xianyang, preventing Void Crystals from enabling teleportation across its borders.
• Zhao Fu confirmed that Great Qin’s regional teleportation remained available, while its method for breaking isolation arrays could not overcome advanced sealing power.

After consolidating Xianyang and gaining its regional powers, Zhao Fu occupied four neighboring regions, restoring Great Qin’s strength and shocking the Central Continent. The chapter left the other nations’ inheritors scrambling to learn whether Great Qin had recovered and was preparing to challenge them.

• Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin could use Xianyang’s regional authority to gain attribute and production bonuses, appoint official positions, issue announcements and quests, and recruit Regional Guards.
• Zhao Fu chose Red Plum Plain as Great Qin’s next target because its terrain suited sweeping operations and raising warhorses.
• Zhao Fu divided Great Qin’s 1.2 million soldiers among Red Plum Plain, Eastern Azure, Little Abyss Valley, and Hundred Bamboo, where the system factions had withdrawn.
• Great Qin received notifications confirming its occupation of all four regions, along with regional treasure chests and an influx of destiny that healed Zhao Fu’s injuries.
• The Central Continent’s inheritors were stunned by the four occupations and began seeking information about Great Qin.

Zhao Fu opened four regional treasure chests and used the Domain Pill to strengthen his King's Domain, unlocking Perception among the Heavenly Human Five Senses. As Great Qin’s soldiers returned and other nations’ spies reported that the regions were calm, Zhao Fu leisurely toured his territory and renamed his mounts.

• Zhao Fu opened the regional treasure chests and obtained an Enhanced Space Stone, a Dragon-Slaying Ballista, Innate Exotic Metal, and a Domain Pill.
• Zhao Fu swallowed the Domain Pill, expanding his King's Domain and increasing its dragon patterns from nine to thirty-six.
• Zhao Fu received a notification that he had unlocked Perception, the third of the Heavenly Human Five Senses, and reassured Xian Ru and the others that he was safe.
• Great Qin’s soldiers returned from their missions as spies reported that nothing unusual had happened in the four regions, and the other nations resumed fighting.
• Zhao Fu toured Great Qin’s territory on Little Black and renamed Little Black Black Forest, Little Gray Moon Wolf, and Little White Fat Cat.

Zhao Fu oversaw Great Qin’s preparations as its Talisman Masters began producing true damage talismans and Shi Qianhuo completed the first rune weapon. The weapon proved powerful, but scarce rune stones limited how many Great Qin could make.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and heard from Xian Ru that true damage talismans were in production and rune equipment was being prepared.
• Shi Qianhuo and more than a hundred recruited intermediate Talisman Masters trained new recruits, who became beginner Talisman Masters and started making true damage talisman papers.
• As fighting intensified between Huaxia and its enemies, Great Qin stayed quiet and its soldiers cleared Red Plum Plain.
• Shi Qianhuo presented Zhao Fu with a rune sword, which Zhao Fu tested and found could cut through a thick tree with ease.
• Zhao Fu attached a Small Fireball Talisman to the sword and confirmed that its power merged with the weapon to produce fiery sword qi.
• Zhao Fu decided rune equipment could not yet be issued to everyone because Great Qin had too few rune stones, and planned to forge around one hundred and fifty thousand pieces.

Zhao Fu confronted an elf city whose strong defenses and forces included cavalry, archers, mages, and the Tree of Life, and demanded its surrender. The elves attacked instead, and Great Qin began destroying their forces, leaving Serya grieving over her kin as the battle continued.

• Great Qin discovered an elf city with 210,000 inhabitants, a Tree of Life, and powerful cavalry, archers, mages, and armored infantry.
• Zhao Fu brought twenty-one City Lords to the city and demanded that its inhabitants surrender or face destruction.
• The elf City Lord hesitated as the elves argued over whether to fight or surrender, while Serya asked Zhao Fu to let her try persuading them.
• The elves fired a massive volley of arrows at Great Qin's City Lords, whose combined barrier deflected the attack.
• Zhao Fu ordered the City Lords to attack, and Serya watched in sorrow as they gravely wounded the elf City Lord and killed nearly all 60,000 elf soldiers.

Zhao Fu conquered Elf City and brought its surviving elves and Tree of Life back to Great Qin, where he appointed Daisy as the new city lord. After learning that life spring water could accelerate the tree’s growth, he heard the Golden Dragon describe a method for producing it.

• Zhao Fu captured Elf City, killed its City Lord, and suppressed the remaining defenders before inspecting the city’s Giant Deer Cavalry, Divine Tree Warriors, Tree of Life, and Giant Deer Nest.
• Zhao Fu relocated Elf City to Great Qin, rebuilt it, and gave its City Seal to Daisy.
• Serya explained that the Tree of Life produced five Life Fruits every ten years and that life spring water could speed its growth and help its branches take root.
• The Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu that a Well of Life could be built from five felled Trees of Life and that a World Tree seed—or a Tree of Life seed—could gather the Power of Life to produce life spring water.

Zhao Fu considered how Great Qin could produce more Life Spring Water and reviewed the empire’s affairs while recovering from his injuries. He sent assassins to find women with phoenix aura and continued supporting Viet Guard’s expansion into the Yue Kingdom, while keeping Great Qin out of the border war; the chapter ended with news spreading that his assassins had abducted eleven women.

• Golden Dragon explained that producing large amounts of Life Spring Water required five Life Trees, rare World Tree seeds or ordinary seeds, and many corpses.
• Zhao Fu found Great Qin’s construction and production running smoothly, then ordered Great Qin Assassins to search system main cities for women with phoenix aura so he could heal.
• Zhao Fu watched Gao Li, Moni, and Joyce demonstrate their growing combat abilities as inheritors of Silver Lake Narcissus.
• Zhao Fu chose not to join the border war and sent abundant supplies to Li Qinqian so Viet Guard could strengthen its influence in the Yue Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu considered Great Qin’s Border Tokens unsuitable for his plans and decided they could be sold.
• Great Qin Assassins captured eleven women, and news of Great Qin abducting beautiful women spread.

Zhao Fu discovered that rumors about Great Qin capturing thousands of women had grown from the capture of eleven, including several famous figures. After granting the women titles, their phoenix aura helped heal his injuries and restore Great Qin’s fortune, slowing Huaxia’s fortune transfer and threatening the invading nations’ plans; Zhao Fu then prepared to leave the Land of Inheritance.

• Zhao Fu traced the rumors to Great Qin’s capture of eleven women, including Lü Nanlei, six members of the Twilight Girl Group, Zheng Lindie, Ye Qiuxia, Zhang Yingying, and Qi Wenli.
• Zhao Fu promised Qi Wenli’s family compensation, and Qi Wenli agreed to become his woman.
• Zhao Fu conferred titles on all eleven women, and their phoenix aura flowed into the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• The Imperial Phoenix’s aura helped Zhao Fu recover half his injuries and wield half his former strength, while Great Qin’s fortune began recovering.
• The system announced that Huaxia’s fortune transfer had slowed and would stop once Huaxia’s fortune fully recovered, alarming the factions and foreign nations attacking Huaxia.
• Zhao Fu’s army swept through Red Plum Plain as the Turbulent Times Stele neared an upgrade, and Zhao Fu prepared to leave the Land of Inheritance.

Zhao Fu learned that the Land of Inheritance was a protected frontier region of Apocalypse World, where Earth’s people were being prepared for future invasions. He planned to use a cross-world Teleportation Array to scout the outside world and strengthen Great Qin before the Heavenly Domain Barrier fell.

• Zhao Fu learned from the Demon God’s information that the Land of Inheritance was a novice protection zone on Apocalypse World’s frontier, and that the Heavenly Domain Barrier would eventually disappear.
• Zhao Fu learned that invaders from worlds annexed in the previous century could conquer Earth’s people, enslave them, or exterminate entire races once the barrier fell.
• Zhao Fu understood that the great chaotic age and its endless revivals were intended to develop powerful defenders while keeping the coming invasion secret from the population.
• Zhao Fu recognized that the Stone of the Heavenly Domain, Realm Iron, Enhanced Space Stone, and a cross-world Teleportation Array could help him prepare for the outside world.
• Zhao Fu resolved to establish a nation and save his Turbulent Times Points for the cross-world Teleportation Array so he could assess future enemies and prepare Great Qin.

Zhao Fu reviewed Apocalypse World's races, national ranks, currency, equipment, and cultivation realms before returning to the real world to eat. Wu Qingniang visited him and asked what he planned to do about the critical transfer of fate for Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu learned the classifications of Apocalypse World's eight great races and the ranks of its nations, currency, equipment, and cultivation realms.
• Zhao Fu noted that he was still short of Rank 4 and that Great Qin would be equivalent to a Level 1 Barony if it became a nation.
• Zhao Fu returned to the real world, asked his bodyguards to bring him food, and declined to meet the many people waiting for him.
• Zhao Fu let Wu Qingniang in when she asked to see him, and she embraced him and said she had missed him.
• Wu Qingniang asked Zhao Fu whether he had confidence as the Ying Family head and Great Qin Imperial Prince's spokesperson, then asked what he planned to do about Great Qin's transfer of fate.

Zhao Fu explained that Great Qin would recover quickly despite the risks, while refusing outside aid and keeping Flower Moon’s captured people. Su Yuyan accepted that she could not rescue them, then ordered Li Wu killed to clear the way for Flower Moon’s relationship with Great Qin.

• Wu Qingniang visited Zhao Fu, kissed him, and left after he promised she could come without asking permission.
• Zhao Fu reassured the Ying Family and visiting factions that Great Qin would recover, but declined to meet them or accept their help.
• Su Yuyan asked Zhao Fu to release Flower Moon’s captured people, but he refused and offered to pass messages to them.
• Su Yuyan agreed to deal with Li Wu and asked Zhao Fu to look after the captured women; Zhao Fu agreed, and she kissed his cheek before leaving.
• Su Yuyan ordered Li Wu’s painless death, and he was poisoned while attacking a village; she arranged a proper burial for him.

Zhao Fu rejected Mei Xiaoyan’s proposal to delay Great Qin’s recovery and became entangled with Zheng Qiu after she kissed him. Back in Apocalypse World, he inspected the completed Otherworld Gate and learned that Great Qin had found an altar that could summon the weak beast god Dorkel, but he postponed dealing with it while preparing to enter the true Apocalypse World.

• Mei Xiaoyan urged Zhao Fu to slow Great Qin’s recovery so the major dynasties would suffer, but Zhao Fu refused.
• Zheng Qiu thanked Zhao Fu for saving her family, declared that she wanted to be his woman, and kissed him despite his attempt to push her away.
• Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World and inspected the Otherworld Gate, which lacked only the cross-realm Teleportation Array before it could transport people.
• Great Qin’s army had cleared two-thirds of the region, and the Turbulent Times Stele was only a few hundred points short of Level 6.
• A clearing team brought Zhao Fu an altar that could summon the beast god Dorkel, but Zhao Fu postponed dealing with it so Great Qin could focus on entering the true Apocalypse World.

Zhao Fu crossed out of the Land of Inheritance for the first time and traveled with a merchant caravan toward the Koshi Kingdom. He arrived at its Great Wall and gained an initial sense of the kingdom’s military strength.

• Zhao Fu exchanged for a cross-realm Teleportation Array, prepared for the journey, and entrusted Great Qin’s affairs to Bai Qi.
• Zhao Fu crossed the Gate to the Otherworld alone, set up a return Teleportation Array, and flew onward in search of a national border.
• Zhao Fu rescued a merchant caravan from gnollmen and used a Language Stone to learn the Verdant Tongue.
• Zhao Fu joined the caravan on its way to the Koshi Kingdom and traveled with them for three or four days.
• Zhao Fu reached the Koshi Kingdom’s Great Wall and observed the soldiers’ ranks and the busy traffic at the gate.

Zhao Fu learned that the Koshi Kingdom and other nations posed a massive military threat to the Land of Inheritance, then traveled to a regional capital to inspect its markets. He saw the wealth and slavery of Apocalypse World and recognized what could happen to humanity if it failed to resist.

• Zhao Fu bought and read books in a small city, learning about the Greenfield People, the Koshi Kingdom, and the nations that had survived the previous invasion.
• Zhao Fu studied a map and estimated that the Land of Inheritance could face invasions from hundreds of millions or even billions of mostly Tier 1 soldiers.
• Zhao Fu left the border, confirmed that he could use his storage ring, and traveled to a Koshi Kingdom regional capital to shop.
• Zhao Fu inspected high-grade equipment, rare-bloodline pets, and slaves from other races, reflecting that humanity could suffer the same fate if it could not resist.

Zhao Fu bought rune stones, Trees of Life, and a Fruit of Life from the Wild Goose Consortium before returning to Great Qin. There, he learned that Great Qin had unified Red Plum Plain, designated Xianyang as the primary region, and renamed the newly unified region Plain Prefecture.

• Zhao Fu purchased all the rune stones at the Wild Goose Consortium, along with five dead Trees of Life and one Fruit of Life, and received a VIP card from Ruoxi.
• Zhao Fu bought more rune stones elsewhere in the Koshi Kingdom, then left and returned to Apocalypse World after several days of flight.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and received notices that Great Qin had unified Red Plum Plain and needed to designate its primary and secondary regions.
• Zhao Fu relocated a system main city to Red Plum Plain so it could merge with the City Heart, then designated Xianyang as the primary region.
• Zhao Fu renamed Red Plum Plain Plain Prefecture and decided Great Qin would use a provincial and commandery system.

After merging regions and preparing Great Qin for the dangers beyond the Land of Inheritance, Zhao Fu built a Spring of Life that produced powerful healing water. He planned to use it to raise Trees of Life and later decided to apply the divinity from another god’s avatar to Great Qin’s Black Forest Horse nest.

• Zhao Fu removed the Void-Severing Belt between Plain Prefecture and Xianyang, then directed Great Qin’s army to clear Eastern Azure as Great Qin’s population and military grew.
• Zhao Fu warned Great Qin’s generals about the threats beyond the Land of Inheritance, and they began preparing to grow stronger.
• Zhao Fu built a low-grade Spring of Life using elf blood, Tree of Life wood, a Fruit of Life, and corpses, then tested its healing water.
• Zhao Fu planted one hundred Tree of Life branches and watered them with Spring of Life water, hoping to cultivate Divine Tree Warriors.
• Zhao Fu planned to slay the beast god Dorkel’s avatar and use its divinity to strengthen the Black Forest Horse nest.

Zhao Fu and the twenty-three City Lords lured the Beast God Dorkel into a trap and refined him for his divinity. Zhao Fu fused the divinity with the Black Forest Horse Nest, creating stronger Black Divine Horses as Great Qin celebrated while other nations hurried to seize their remaining chance to gain benefits.

• Zhao Fu prepared sacrifices and summoned the Beast God Dorkel, while the priest who called him fled after completing the ritual.
• Dorkel demanded that the people below kneel and worship him, but Zhao Fu ordered the twenty-three City Lords to reveal themselves and attack.
• The City Lords subdued Dorkel with chains and dragged him onto the Heaven and Earth Refining Array, where Zhao Fu used additional crystals to refine him.
• Dorkel's divinity appeared after his body collapsed, and Zhao Fu fused it with the Black Forest Horse Nest to create Tier 1 Grade 5 Black Divine Horses.
• Great Qin celebrated the successful construction of the Spring of Life and the godslaying, while other nations sought to gain more benefits before the great transfer of fate ended.