Recaps

As Huaxia faced invasion from twenty-one nations, Nü Lü offered to marry Great Qin’s Imperial Prince and use her immense phoenix energy to end the transfer of fortune. Zhao Fu accepted a three-year truce but kept Nü Lü under Great Qin’s control, and she discovered that he was the Imperial Prince himself.

• Nü Lü asked her Clan elder to let her marry the Great Qin Imperial Prince, believing she could save lives and help guide him.
• Nü Lü offered Zhao Fu her phoenix energy in exchange for ending the transfer of fortune, but he initially refused.
• Nü Lü promised that the nations and dynasties would leave Great Qin and the continent’s north alone for three years, and Zhao Fu agreed.
• Zhao Fu gave Nü Lü a Fruit of Truth so her real-world body could enter Apocalypse World under his control.
• Nü Lü followed Zhao Fu into Great Qin’s discussion hall and realized he was the Imperial Prince when everyone bowed to him.

Zhao Fu’s appointment of Nü Lü as his consort restored Great Qin’s fate and healed his injuries, ending the Great Fate Transfer and removing the invaders’ advantages. Huaxia launched a counterattack and drove back most invading nations, though Shaluo held on to thirteen regions near India.

• Zhao Fu used the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to confer Nü Lü as his consort, and her phoenix aura restored Great Qin’s fate and healed his injuries.
• The Great Fate Transfer ended, removing the invaders’ bonuses and rewarding Huaxia’s defenders while granting rewards for killing invaders.
• Huaxia forces defeated Great Russia, repelled the Mongol State and Kazakh State, and won decisive battles against the Han Kingdom and Japan.
• Huaxia captured many Japanese and Han Kingdom fighters, while the northern nations withdrew from occupied regions without major battles.
• Shaluo retreated from deeper territory but continued occupying thirteen regions near India.

After Huaxia’s invasion crisis ended and Great Qin entered a period of peace, Xuanyuan Xiu learned that Nü Lü had married Zhao Fu and grieved over her farewell letter. Nü Lü remained in Great Qin’s discussion hall as Zhao Fu focused on development and studying the Greenfield People, and she began settling into her role as his wife.

• Great Qin and the various dynasties reconciled, bringing Huaxia’s civil conflict to a temporary end while invasions continued only in the west.
• Xuanyuan Xiu learned that Nü Lü had married the Great Qin Imperial Prince, read her letter asking him to forget her, and broke down in grief.
• Nü Lü remained at Great Qin’s center of power, hoping to influence Zhao Fu and prevent large-scale slaughter.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s development efforts, including clearing three regions, relocating Willow Mountain Town, mining Steel-Shattering Iron, and producing rune equipment.
• Zhao Fu spent the day reading about the Greenfield People, whom he considered humanity’s greatest future enemy.
• Nü Lü massaged Zhao Fu’s temples and called him husband, while deciding to devote herself to being his wife.

Zhao Fu learned that high-grade rune equipment could rival Epic and Legendary weapons, though it required rare materials and high cultivation to use. He left Great Qin with a powerful new weapon but still needed Silver-grade and Gold-grade mineral deposits to make such equipment in large quantities.

• Nü Lü shared a meal with Zhao Fu, learned about the future threat to humanity, and stayed beside him while he read.
• Zhao Fu received news that Shi Qianhuo had successfully forged high-grade rune equipment.
• Zhao Fu tested the golden rune sword and found that it rivaled a low-grade Epic weapon but required Tier 3 cultivation.
• Zhao Fu tested silver rune equipment and found that it rivaled a low-grade Legendary item but required Tier 2 cultivation.
• Zhao Fu realized that Great Qin needed Silver-grade and Gold-grade mineral deposits to mass-produce high-grade rune equipment.
• Zhao Fu went to check how many of the planted Trees of Life had survived.

Zhao Fu bought a large stock of rune stones from the Wild Goose Consortium and asked it to procure corpses for Great Qin. The consortium agreed to supply Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 corpses, leaving Zhao Fu excited about strengthening Great Qin’s armies.

• Zhao Fu inspected the planted Tree of Life branches and found that about thirty had survived and could grow into trees.
• Zhao Fu traveled to the Koshi Kingdom and bought 1.5 million white, 200,000 blue, 20,000 silver, and 500 gold rune stones from Ruoxi.
• Ruoxi awarded Zhao Fu the Wild Goose Consortium’s Supreme Card after his purchases brought his spending there to ten million gold coins.
• Zhao Fu asked Ruoxi to obtain a large number of Tier 1 and higher corpses, and she sought approval from the consortium.
• Ruoxi returned with the consortium’s agreement to collect corpses at prices of twenty gold coins for Tier 1, one hundred for Tier 2, and five hundred for Tier 3, delighting Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu secured a steady supply of corpses and rune stones for Great Qin, strengthening its army and equipment. He then discussed India’s occupation of thirteen regions with Nü Lü and warned that Shaluo’s Peacock Dynasty could soon surpass Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu agreed to buy all the corpses the Wild Goose Consortium could obtain and offered to purchase high-grade rune stones as well.
• Ruoxi arranged 400,000 Tier 1 corpses, 20,000 Tier 2 corpses, and over 1,000 Tier 3 corpses, while the Wild Goose Consortium secretly expanded its corpse trade amid a grave-robbing investigation.
• Zhao Fu traded equipment taken from players for the corpses and returned to Great Qin, where he refined them into Blood God Pills that raised Great Qin’s Tier 2 troops to 40,000 and strengthened its captains.
• Great Qin developed rune armor alongside rune weapons, and Zhao Fu spent his spare time reading about the Greenfield People and the Blue-Eyed People.
• Nü Lü asked Zhao Fu about western India, and he explained that Shaluo was consolidating thirteen occupied regions and might make the Peacock Dynasty stronger than Great Qin.

Zhao Fu learned from Golden Dragon how to seize and use India’s Nation-Guarding Artifact and Fate Clan Artifact, but he still could not defeat Shaluo in the present invasion. He left with a new reason to target India and a method that required capturing people, weakening the artifacts, and refining them.

• Nü Lü worried that India would become Huaxia’s greatest rival, and Zhao Fu agreed that its population and advantages made it a major threat.
• As Zhao Fu and Nü Lü became intimate, Golden Dragon spoke to him, and Zhao Fu stopped and explained her presence to Nü Lü.
• Golden Dragon asked whether Zhao Fu wanted to control India’s Nation-Guarding Artifact and Fate Clan Artifact, then described how to weaken and refine them and transfer the fate of captured people.
• Golden Dragon explained that the Heaven and Earth Grand Refining required ten powerful people with great fate to draw on the fate of heaven and earth.
• Zhao Fu realized he could not defeat Shaluo yet because Shaluo wielded both artifacts and had immense fate, so he considered other methods.

Zhao Fu decided to move against Great India Kingdom and sought Flower Moon’s intelligence support to investigate the Shaluo family. His declaration that Great Qin would act gave Huaxia renewed hope against its powerful enemy.

• Zhao Fu agreed to send Nü Lü’s family a message and returned to the real world to gather information on Great India Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu offered Su Yuyan a cooperation pact with Flower Moon in exchange for intelligence on every member of the Shaluo family.
• Su Yuyan agreed to cooperate, learned that three captured Flower Moon sisters had become consorts, and kissed Zhao Fu before leaving.
• Zhao Fu spread word throughout Huaxia that Great Qin would move against Great India Kingdom.
• Huaxia’s people, long angered by Great India Kingdom’s occupation and taunts, rejoiced at Great Qin’s decision to fight.

Zhao Fu prepared to intervene in the war between Huaxia and India, bringing fifty thousand Great Qin Assassins to western Huaxia. As both sides massed enormous forces and the world watched, Zhao Fu secretly assigned Liu Mei and others their tasks before approaching Huaxia's gathered army.

• The Clans and the Hundred Schools of Thought supported Nü Lü's actions and welcomed Great Qin's decision to fight India, while Xuanyuan Xiu remained unaware.
• Zhao Fu obtained information on the Shaluo Family, modified the Otherworld Gate, equipped fifty thousand assassins with rune gear, and left Bai Qi in charge of Great Qin.
• Shaluo and India's major factions mobilized their forces, hoping to defeat Great Qin and establish India as the world's foremost power.
• Huaxia's factions and ordinary people flocked to western Huaxia, while countries around the world watched the escalating conflict.
• After transporting the fifty thousand assassins over two days, Zhao Fu gave Liu Mei and others secret tasks and led his force toward the Huaxia army, where more than forty million people had gathered.

Zhao Fu led Huaxia’s forty million troops against India’s defenses, using Great Qin’s Hundred Ghost Illusionists to help breach the wall. Shaluo dispelled the illusion with the City Lord Seal, and Zhao Fu confronted him as they prepared to test their strength.

• Zhao Fu met Liu Ye and took command of the main war zone’s forty million troops.
• Zhao Fu rallied the Huaxia forces, promised them rewards, and ordered them to charge India’s defensive wall.
• The Huaxia army attacked the wall under heavy fire and suffered many casualties until Great Qin’s Hundred Ghost Illusionists covered it with gray mist.
• Shaluo used the City Lord Seal to dispel the ghostly illusion, while Zhao Fu attacked him with the power of the Great Qin Seal.
• Shaluo blocked Zhao Fu’s sword qi and prepared to fight, trusting in the Nation-Guarding Artifact and the Fate Clan Artifact.

Zhao Fu and Shaluo fought fiercely, with Zhao Fu gaining the upper hand using his City Lord Seal power. Shaluo claimed Zhao Fu could not use Great Qin’s Nation-Guarding Artifact or Fate Clan Artifact, and a carved stone pillar then descended amid a tremendous eruption of power.

• Shaluo attacked Zhao Fu with his azure blade aura, but Zhao Fu countered and wounded him in their exchanges.
• Zhao Fu formed a giant water sword and battled Shaluo’s summoned vicious bird, then cut Shaluo across the chest.
• Zhao Fu summoned a water dragon that smashed Shaluo into a crater, alarming the Indian army and boosting Huaxia’s morale.
• Shaluo rose from the crater, admitted Zhao Fu was stronger in City Lord Seal power, and declared that he would trample Great Qin’s name.
• Zhao Fu charged Shaluo, and a silver pillar of light erupted as a massive carved stone pillar descended from the sky.

Shaluo used the Pillar of Ashoka to overpower Zhao Fu, who then drew on Great Qin’s City Lord Seals to fight back. Zhao Fu brought the multicolored halo down on Shaluo, and five-colored divine light rose from the crater as a terrifying presence descended across the western continent.

• Shaluo unleashed the Pillar of Ashoka’s power, struck Zhao Fu into a mountain, and demanded that he submit.
• Zhao Fu gathered power from twenty-three City Lord Seals around the Great Qin Seal, forming a multicolored halo.
• Shaluo fired ten thousand silver spears at Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu’s sword whirlwind shredded them.
• Shaluo shrank the Pillar of Ashoka into a staff and drove Zhao Fu back in a fierce exchange of blows.
• Zhao Fu and Shaluo clashed with Divine Strike, and Zhao Fu was hurled through a mountainside.
• Zhao Fu brought the multicolored halo down on Shaluo, and five-colored light shot from the crater as a terrifying force descended across the western continent.

Zhao Fu and Shaluo drew on their nations’ fortune and fought with their Fate Clan Artifacts as the battle for Huaxia’s survival intensified. After the Golden Dragon took control of Zhao Fu’s body, it used the Heaven and Earth Sword to split Shaluo in two.

• Shaluo summoned India’s Peacock Idol and unleashed a five-colored sea that swallowed Zhao Fu and devastated the battlefield.
• Zhao Fu called on Huaxia’s fortune, while Shaluo gathered India’s fortune, and both nations’ power strengthened their champions.
• Zhao Fu attacked with five swords and nine Golden Dragons, but Shaluo transformed through Imperial God Body and wielded the Pillar of Ashoka.
• As Shaluo gained the advantage with the Eye of Taboo, the Golden Dragon asked Zhao Fu to surrender control of his body, and Zhao Fu agreed.
• Shaluo unleashed All Things Return to Void, and the Golden Dragon answered with Heaven and Earth Sword, splitting Shaluo’s body in two.

After killing Shaluo, Zhao Fu seized the Peacock Dynasty’s City Lord Seal and other artifacts, while Huaxia routed India and learned that Great Qin had caused millions of real-world deaths. Zhao Fu flew toward the Peacock Dynasty to plunder it before Shaluo could return and move the city.

• Golden Dragon used Zhao Fu’s body and Huaxia’s fortune to kill Shaluo and seize three artifacts from his corpse.
• With Shaluo dead, India’s forces lost heart and retreated as Huaxia pursued them across the battlefields.
• Huaxia celebrated its victory, while the world reeled at news that more than three million Indians had died in the real world.
• The world learned that Great Qin had used True Damage Talismans to kill players permanently, silencing opposition to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu used the Peacock Dynasty’s City Lord Seal to locate its territory and flew there, fearing Shaluo might return early and relocate the city.

Zhao Fu infiltrated Peacock City and destroyed the Peacock Dynasty by occupying its City Heart, greatly increasing Great Qin’s fortune and strengthening its artifacts. India demanded answers from Huaxia as Zhao Fu returned to the border, where other leaders grew wary of him.

• Zhao Fu infiltrated Peacock City and reached the City Lord Hall, where the dynasty’s protective barrier did not hinder him because he held the City Lord Seal.
• Shaluo returned to Apocalypse World just as Zhao Fu occupied the City Heart and relocated the city.
• The Peacock Dynasty was destroyed, and Great Qin gained its legacy, fortune, city attributes, battle merit, and experience while its artifacts and City Heart advanced.
• Shaluo collapsed in grief as Zhao Fu flew away with the City-Building Stone.
• News of the dynasty’s fall reached the real world, and India demanded an explanation from Huaxia, which did not respond.
• Zhao Fu returned to the Huaxia border, prompting the other dynasty inheritors and faction leaders to withdraw or send representatives.

Zhao Fu gathered Indian natives and the women of Shaluo’s family to prepare to refine the Peacock Dynasty’s Nation-Guarding Artifact. After making Shaluo’s mother his consort, he began merging their dragon and phoenix auras into the artifact, weakening its resistance.

• Zhao Fu offered one gold coin for each Indian native and returned to Great Qin with one hundred thousand people after purchasing them over several days.
• Zhao Fu rebuilt Peacock City, temporarily appointed Bai Xihan as its City Lord, and planned to give it to a suitable Indian later.
• Liu Mei and the others brought nine women from Shaluo’s family to Zhao Fu, and he invested them as consorts to strengthen the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• Zhao Fu prepared a chamber with a formation to refine the Nation-Guarding Artifact and the suppressed Fate Clan Artifact, then told the women their families could receive Great Qin’s protection if they stayed peacefully.
• Zhao Fu embraced Shaluo’s mother, and their black dragon and golden phoenix auras fused and entered the Nation-Guarding Artifact, reducing its resistance.

Zhao Fu subdued the Pillar of Ashoka and prepared to transfer its fate through the Heaven and Earth Grand Refining. After assembling nine powerful generals and one hundred thousand Indian natives, he began the refinement ritual.

• Zhao Fu used the women of the Shaluo Family to tame the Pillar of Ashoka, then took the subdued artifact and ordered maidservants to care for them.
• Lu Lingxuan approached Zhao Fu seeking a position in Great Qin, and he agreed to give her one before she left.
• Zhao Fu gathered Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, Meng Kuo, Sima Cuo, Bai Xihan, Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, and Xu Liuyi to join him in the Heaven and Earth Grand Refining.
• Zhao Fu assembled one hundred thousand Indian natives to help transfer the Pillar of Ashoka's fate, then activated the Heaven and Earth Refining Array with the ten participants in place.

Zhao Fu turned the Pillar of Ashoka into Great Qin’s Nation-Guarding Artifact, renaming it the Nation-Stabilizing Pillar, and continued expanding Great Qin. As Huaxia recovered from the previous invasion, ordinary players began organizing a revenge attack on Japan and the Han Kingdom, including plans to capture people as slaves.

• Zhao Fu and the others combined their City Lord Seals and fortune to transform the Pillar of Ashoka into Great Qin’s Nation-Guarding Artifact, which Zhao Fu renamed the Nation-Stabilizing Pillar.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Great Qin Assassins to pursue India’s remaining Fate Clan Artifact and capture women whose fortune could weaken its resistance.
• Zhao Fu unified Eastern Azure as Great Qin’s second province, bringing Great Qin to 12.6 million people, 2.2 million soldiers, and 19 heavily fortified cities.
• Great Qin prepared to clear another region while Huaxia and the other factions recovered during a rare period of peace.
• Huaxia players proposed invading Japan and the Han Kingdom to take revenge, and mostly ordinary men and small factions organized the attacks and debated capturing people as slaves.

Zhao Fu learned that the Li Family had planted Leng Fei, a Night King assassin, in the Ying Family to kill him. He ordered Leng Fei killed and his remains sent to the Li Family and Night King.

• Millions of Huaxia people invaded two countries, but the countries drove them out and fortified their defenses.
• Zhao Fu's cultivation rose to Tier 4, Stage 8 as Great Qin established Abyss Prefecture and began clearing Hundred Bamboo.
• The Wyvern Nest became an Intermediate Town, increasing Great Qin's wyvern numbers and providing seven eggs.
• After returning to the real world, Zhao Fu learned that the captured assassin Leng Fei had been hired by the Li Family and was connected to Night King's Sixth Leader.
• Leng Fei boasted that Zhao Fu would not dare kill him, while Ying Family patriarchs urged Zhao Fu to spare him and send him back.
• Zhao Fu ordered Leng Fei killed, with his head sent to the Li Family and the rest of his corpse sent to Night King.

Zhao Fu ordered Leng Fei executed and warned the Night King against challenging Great Qin, then prepared to return to Apocalypse World with four women who had received top-tier Border Tokens. After feeding them Fruit of Truth, he led them through Teleportation Arrays and arrived back in Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu asserted his authority over the Ying Family, and Leng Fei was executed despite invoking his brother’s place among the Night King’s Six Leaders.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Ying Family to prepare to purge the Night King, while Leng Feng vowed to avenge his younger brother despite the Night King elders’ warning.
• Zheng Qiu told Zhao Fu she had broken up with his cousin and asked for time to give him her heart, and Zhao Fu accepted her decision without protest.
• Feng Shiyu, Li Muqing, and two other women arrived with top-tier Border Tokens, and Li Muqing said she would join Great Qin but could leave if she wished.
• Zhao Fu gave the four women Fruit of Truth, then led them through more than a dozen Teleportation Arrays and returned to Great Qin.

Zhao Fu welcomed Li Muqing and two other women into Great Qin, then considered Nü Lü’s plea to treat the women he had captured more kindly. As Great Qin continued clearing nearby regions, twenty neighboring regions formed a 10.4-million-soldier alliance against it, leaving Zhao Fu unable to expand for the moment.

• Zhao Fu revealed himself as the Great Qin Imperial Prince, reassured Feng Shiyu, and made her and the other two women his consorts.
• Zhao Fu showed Li Muqing Qin Times Academy, and she agreed to remain in Great Qin.
• Nü Lü urged Zhao Fu to treat his captive women with care, and Zhao Fu promised to consider it.
• Great Qin cleared another third of Hundred Bamboo, while Zhao Fu found Silver Lake inheritors Kuka and Dalem; only the shield remained undiscovered.
• Twenty neighboring regions formed four defensive alliances totaling seventy-one system main cities and 10.4 million troops, forcing Great Qin to halt its outward expansion.

Facing a combined threat of over ten million combat strength, Zhao Fu tried to prevent Great Qin from being attacked on all sides by offering gifts and proposing non-aggression contracts to the three weaker factions. The northern and southern factions agreed to sign, while the western faction remained divided over whether to reconcile with Great Qin or join the east against it.

• Wei Liao advised Zhao Fu to placate the four neighboring factions before they attacked Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu sent envoys with valuable gifts to the west, south, and north, offering peace and high-grade contracts while making no overture to the stronger eastern faction.
• The northern faction’s city lords agreed that signing a contract with Great Qin was the safest choice.
• The southern faction’s leaders also agreed to sign a contract after discussing the gifts and Great Qin’s peaceful offer.
• Western faction leaders debated whether to accept Great Qin’s offer or join the eastern faction in eliminating Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu secured peace contracts with the northern and southern factions while the eastern faction held back from attacking Great Qin. On his way west, Jing Qianxue and three allied City Lords ambushed him, but Zhao Fu easily repelled their opening strikes.

• The factions around Great Qin agreed to sign peace contracts, while the eastern faction chose to defend itself and wait for better intelligence.
• Zhao Fu signed a contract with the northern faction, accepting harsher penalties for Great Qin, then traveled south and signed another contract.
• Jing Qianxue learned Zhao Fu could not use the Nation-Guarding Artifact and persuaded Diao Nanlu, Zhuang Yuqin, and Fu Yingyan to help ambush him.
• Jing Qianxue and the three women attacked Zhao Fu with coordinated sword strikes, but he shattered their opening attacks with the Calamitous Dragon Sword.

Jing Qianxue and three companions ambushed Zhao Fu with a sword formation, but he broke free and defeated them with the power of the Great Qin Seal. Xian Ru stopped him from killing the women, and the western City Lords proceeded with the contract signing, handing the four women over to Great Qin.

• Jing Qianxue and three women formed a sword qi vortex to suppress and kill Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu drew on the Great Qin Seal and the other City Lords’ power to break the formation, then struck down Jing Qianxue and Diao Nanlu.
• Zhao Fu disarmed and grievously wounded Zhuang Yuqin and Fu Yingyan as they attacked him.
• Jing Qianxue begged Zhao Fu to spare the others, but he raised his sword to kill Fu Yingyan.
• Xian Ru reminded Zhao Fu that the women could provide phoenix aura, so he stopped and let the western City Lords continue signing the contract.
• The western City Lords handed Jing Qianxue and her companions over to Great Qin.

After conquering and relocating four cities in the Flower Region, Zhao Fu forced their city lords to become consorts and strengthened Great Qin with their people and soldiers. He obtained a third Wild Blood Mask fragment, but learned that restoring the artifact required help from the extinct kingdom’s royal family.

• Serya and Minae healed Jing Qianxue and her three sisters after Zhao Fu defeated them and took their City Lord Seals.
• Zhao Fu threatened to kill the injured women and destroy their cities unless Jing Qianxue persuaded the civilians and soldiers to relocate.
• Jing Qianxue’s people and soldiers cooperated, allowing Zhao Fu to take four system main cities, 1.9 million people, and 400,000 first-tier soldiers to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu forcibly conferred consort titles on the four women, and their phoenix aura strengthened the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• Zhao Fu opened the Regional Treasure Chest and found a third Wild Blood Mask fragment.
• The Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu that restoring the Wild Blood Mask required help from the royal family of its long-extinct kingdom.