Recaps

Zhao Fu discovered that Tuoba Qing’s bloodline was linked to the Wild Blood Mask and learned how Great Qin could restore it. Tuoba Qing agreed to become his consort and asked him to accept Wu Qian as one too, while Great Qin continued securing Hundred Bamboo and trading beyond the Land of Inheritance.

• The Wild Blood Mask fragment reacted to Tuoba Qing’s blood, revealing her connection to the Wild Blood Clan and possibly its royal lineage.
• The Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu to marry Tuoba Qing, use City-Building Stones to grow a related race to one hundred thousand people, and draw on its fate to restore the mask.
• Zhao Fu explained the plan to Tuoba Qing, who agreed to become his consort and revealed that Wu Qian also liked him; Zhao Fu agreed to accept them both.
• Tuoba Qing left to tell Wu Qian, while Zhao Fu noted that one Wild Blood Mask fragment was still missing and turned his attention back to Great Qin’s preparations.
• Zhao Fu deployed half his soldiers to guard the east and sent the rest to finish clearing Hundred Bamboo.
• During a later trade outside the Land of Inheritance, Zhao Fu obtained fewer soldier corpses than before, bought more high-grade rune stones, and received two significant pieces of news.

Zhao Fu learned that a demon world and a water world had appeared near the Human World, while a powerful Horn Demon Clan had forced the Blue-Eyed People and Greenfield People to halt their war. After Great Qin unified Hundred Bamboo and grew stronger, Zhao Fu sent its armies east to begin external conquest.

• Zhao Fu learned about the neighboring demon and water worlds and worried that the Horn Demon Clan might destroy the Blue-Eyed People and Greenfield People.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to accelerate its campaign in Hundred Bamboo.
• Great Qin unified Hundred Bamboo, renamed it Bamboo Prefecture, and gained the highest authority over the region.
• Great Qin City became a Level 2 major city as Great Qin's population reached 20.5 million and its army grew to 3.8 million soldiers.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin's soldiers to advance eastward against the eastern factions.

Zhao Fu drew the eastern alliance’s 3.1 million troops out by meeting them with a smaller Great Qin force, then ordered a retreat instead of attacking their defensive formation. The eastern city lords pursued Great Qin, leaving their careful formation behind.

• The eastern city lords learned that Great Qin was advancing with roughly two million troops and debated whether to attack or defend.
• The eastern alliance formed a defensive military formation and advanced toward Great Qin’s army.
• Zhao Fu met the eastern forces but ordered Great Qin to withdraw rather than risk attacking their larger formation.
• After debating what to do, the eastern city lords ordered their army to pursue Great Qin.

Zhao Fu used six million skeletons to pin down the Eastern army while Great Qin attacked with arrows, cavalry, and ballistae. Great Qin overwhelmed the System Cavalry and inflicted heavy losses, but the Eastern Shield Bearers still held their formation as Zhao Fu ordered the Tier 1 Ballistae to break through it.

• Zhao Fu activated the Calamity King's Ring and summoned six million skeletons to attack the Eastern army from both flanks.
• The Eastern soldiers formed a defensive military formation and held off the skeletons, while Great Qin's 3.8 million troops and 28 City Lords joined the battle.
• Great Qin's City Lords engaged the Eastern City Lords as Great Qin's Archers fired arrow volleys into the System soldiers.
• Three hundred thousand System Cavalry charged Great Qin, but seventy thousand Tier 2 Great Qin cavalry pierced through them and routed the cavalry force.
• Great Qin's repeated arrow volleys killed six or seven hundred thousand System soldiers, while the skeletons lost more than two million of their number.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Tier 1 Ballistae to target the outer Shield Bearers and break the Eastern army's shield wall.

Zhao Fu’s forces broke the eastern faction’s shield wall with rune arrows and defeated its army, then counted the dead, captives, and survivors. Great Qin began relocating captured system cities and invading a nearby region to seize its population.

• Zhao Fu ordered rune arrows fired at the Shield Bearers, tearing a huge gap in their shield wall and allowing the undead to overwhelm the formation.
• The eastern faction’s retreat failed as Great Qin’s forces killed two City Lords and the undead and arrows trapped the soldiers.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s cavalry and infantry to attack, routing the weakened system army and forcing the remaining City Lords to flee.
• After the battle, Zhao Fu counted five escaped, three captured, five surrendered, and eight dead eastern City Lords; about 2.6 million system soldiers had died, and eighty thousand Great Qin soldiers had fallen.
• Zhao Fu ordered the captured system main cities relocated and destroyed, then invaded a nearby region to plunder its population.

Zhao Fu’s army conquered several system main cities and brought 5.4 million people and sixteen cities under Great Qin’s control. After reviewing the campaign’s gains and opening regional treasure chests, Zhao Fu discovered a talisman that could turn corpses into swords.

• Zhao Fu offered the people of a surrounded city the chance to surrender, then ordered it burned when more than a hundred thousand refused.
• Great Qin captured people from successive system main cities, using Teleportation Arrays to transport them back.
• Wang Jian reported that the campaign had gained Great Qin 5.4 million people, sixteen system main cities, and six regional treasure chests.
• Zhao Fu named the captured city lords Fu Ningqin, Gongliang Qinruo, Pang Ziling, and Li Chun consorts, strengthening the Emperor Phoenix’s power.
• Zhao Fu opened the regional treasure chests and obtained a Corpse-to-Sword talisman, a Dragon-Shooting Ballista, and the S-rank Azure Stone Divine Art.

Zhao Fu learned of the Six Desires Immortal Scripture and struggled to choose between its abstinent and indulgent cultivation methods. He gave Tuoba Qing a small city, then opened another regional treasure chest before an explosion interrupted him.

• Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu about the Six Desires Immortal Scripture and its two cultivation methods, abstinence and indulgence.
• Zhao Fu postponed choosing a method because both options troubled him.
• Zhao Fu opened a regional treasure chest and obtained an unused small city-building stone.
• Zhao Fu gave the city-building stone to Tuoba Qing so she could establish a small city and condense a City Lord Seal.
• Zhao Fu opened another chest and obtained an epic-grade Flame Spirit Stone, then rushed out when an explosion sounded.

While Tuoba Qing condensed a City Lord Seal, her bloodline awakened and the Wild Blood Mask fragments joined to her face, unleashing a devastating shockwave. The chapter ended with Tuoba Qing standing in a vast crater, apparently newly awakened and stunned.

• A crimson pillar and primordial pressure erupted around Tuoba Qing as she condensed a City Lord Seal, and Zhao Fu carried the frightened Wu Qian away from the storm.
• Zhao Fu identified Tuoba Qing's bloodline as the source of the disturbance, and three Wild Blood Mask fragments flew to her and formed a damaged mask.
• Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu that Tuoba Qing belonged to the Primordial Human Race, an ancient and formidable clan whose members possessed origin bloodlines.
• Tuoba Qing cried out, and a tremendous shockwave destroyed the surrounding landscape and sent Great Qin's City Lords flying.
• Zhao Fu shielded himself and Wu Qian with his King's Domain and Black Dragon-Pattern Shield, but the shockwave hurled him into a mountain wall.
• After the disturbance stopped, Tuoba Qing stood at the center of a gigantic crater, staring around in shock.

Tuoba Qing’s awakening revealed her royal bloodline and Primordial Clan heritage, and Zhao Fu reassured her that he would protect her. After they became intimate, Zhao Fu cultivated the Six Desires Immortal Scripture, while Nü Lü brought Tuoba Qing food and comforted her.

• Tuoba Qing’s transformation unleashed a surge of phoenix aura that enlarged the Imperial Phoenix Statue and injured Zhao Fu, his generals, and people in nearby villages.
• Zhao Fu told Tuoba Qing that she possessed a royal bloodline and belonged to the Primordial Clan, then promised not to abandon her.
• Tuoba Qing kissed Zhao Fu, and the two became intimate; afterward, Zhao Fu promised to take care of her.
• Zhao Fu discovered six black clusters of qi in his dantian and realized he had learned the Six Desires Immortal Scripture.
• Nü Lü brought chicken soup to Tuoba Qing, and the two women chatted as Zhao Fu ate.
• After finishing his meal, Zhao Fu took out the unopened regional treasure chest.

Zhao Fu swallowed the Hundred Dragon Yang Pill, then discussed Great Qin’s plans to digest the six conquered regions. After Li Mu received a General’s Artifact and awakened Lianzhen Star, Great Qin gained another Great General Star.

• Zhao Fu swallowed the Hundred Dragon Yang Pill and spent the night with Nü Lü.
• Zhao Fu told Great Qin’s generals to focus on clearing and absorbing the six conquered regions, with its population at twenty-six million and its military at four and a half million.
• Li Wen brought Zhao Fu one hundred Soldier Souls, and Golden Dragon accepted that they came from soldiers of the Heaven-Slaying Empire.
• Zhao Fu converted the Soldier Souls into ten Soldier God Souls and entrusted them to Li Mu.
• Li Mu used the Soldier God Souls to summon and awaken Lianzhen Star, a purple-blood star with a sinister aura.

Zhao Fu received the Lianzhen Sword after Li Mu completed his General’s Artifact and learned that Great Qin’s assassins had captured Indian women for refining the Glass Peacock. After surveying Great Qin and reviewing news from the Apocalypse Forum, he logged into QQ to check on people from his former life.

• The Lianzhen Star empowered Li Mu and engraved its name on his sword, completing the Lianzhen Sword as a General’s Artifact.
• Zhao Fu examined the sword’s attributes and its Killing-and-Capturing Soldiers property, then returned it to Li Mu.
• Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin’s assassins had captured Indian women and that the Peacock Dynasty’s Nation-Guarding Artifact had become Great Qin’s Nation-Stabilizing Pillar.
• Zhao Fu continued seeking Indian women on the beauty ranking because he needed their phoenix aura to refine the Glass Peacock, while Indians speculated about the disappearances.
• Zhao Fu inspected Great Qin, read the Apocalypse Forum’s news about the Human World’s turmoil, and worried about the next stage of the age of chaos.
• Zhao Fu logged into QQ after a long absence to see how people from his former life were doing.

After logging into QQ, Zhao Fu caught up with old acquaintances and repaid Lin Qingyu for a small loan by sending her five hundred thousand. He offered help to Dong Meimei and Zheng Yuqin, leaving the conversation prepared to protect those who needed him.

• Zhao Fu read messages from Niu Gu, Lin Qingyu, and Dong Meimei, then asked Lin Qingyu for her card number so he could repay the five yuan she had lent him.
• Zhao Fu transferred Lin Qingyu five hundred thousand, and she joked that he must want her as a mistress before logging off to enter Apocalypse World.
• Zhao Fu left Dong Meimei a message offering to protect her if she faced danger.
• Zhao Fu answered Zheng Dong and Dong Suzhen, then responded to Zhang Yue with an eye-roll emoji.
• Zhao Fu gave Zheng Yuqin his new number and told her she could move to Ying City District if the outside became unsafe, promising to take care of her.

Zhao Fu reconnected with his high school classmates and lent Wang Xiao 400,000 to help with his father’s serious illness, telling him not to repay it. Afterward, Liu Xi privately messaged Zhao Fu, saying she had wanted to talk to him for a long time.

• Zhao Fu joined his high school and university class groups and read his high school classmates’ conversation about Gao Changfeng’s success and Liu Xi’s impending marriage.
• Wang Xiao asked the high school group to lend him 400,000 for his seriously ill father, and Zhao Fu asked what he needed the money for.
• After Wang Xiao explained his family’s situation, Zhao Fu transferred him 400,000 and told him he did not need to repay it.
• The classmates reacted with surprise at Zhao Fu’s generosity, and Zhao Fu left the group conversation without explaining his finances.
• Liu Xi privately messaged Zhao Fu, said he had made a name for himself, and told him she had wanted to talk to him for a long time.

Zhao Fu chatted with Liu Xi about their school days before reading his university group discuss Apocalypse World and Zheng Dong’s plan to form a faction. The chapter ended with Liu Xi telling Zhao Fu she might postpone her wedding if he said no.

• Liu Xi recalled Zhao Fu’s embarrassing high-school moments and admitted she had paid attention to him from the beginning, but said she was about to marry and wished him happiness.
• Zhao Fu read the university group’s discussion of rising prices, Apocalypse World factions, and Wu Qingniang’s recruitment.
• Yang Ze announced that Bai Yan had broken up with him and dropped out, prompting several classmates to flirt with him.
• Xiao Xiyun offered to support Zheng Dong’s plan to establish a faction, and Zhao Fu also offered help.
• Zhao Fu left the group chat, and Liu Xi messaged that she could consider postponing her marriage if he said no.

After an emotional exchange with Liu Xi left him regretful and unable to reach her, Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World and went to explore the interior of Gloomwood. He encountered powerful ice and fire spirits and defended himself against their attacks.

• Zhao Fu wished Liu Xi happiness, then sent a message saying he did not want her to marry so soon, but she had logged off and did not answer his calls.
• Zhao Fu calmed himself and re-entered Apocalypse World, where he decided to explore the depths of Gloomwood.
• Nü Lü brought Zhao Fu food and asked him to stay, but he left for Gloomwood, disappointing her and later meeting Tuoba Qing.
• Zhao Fu flew into Gloomwood's interior and discovered a strange landscape of ice and fire inhabited by powerful ice spirits and fire spirits.
• The spirits bombarded Zhao Fu with fireballs and ice spikes, but his King's Domain and Black Dragon-Pattern Shield withstood their attacks.

Zhao Fu used Long Xiaoxiao’s power to slay thousands of ice and fire spirits, collected their crystals, and reached a crystal hall in Gloomwood. Two powerful women, Binuoxiu and Kelahe, revived from crystal coffins, and Binuoxiu attacked him with a firebird.

• Zhao Fu coaxed Long Xiaoxiao out of the sword seal with a kiss, then used her sword to kill roughly three thousand ice spirits and fire spirits in one attack.
• Zhao Fu tested the dropped Ice Crystals and Crackfire Crystals, finding that they could be used to launch powerful attacks.
• Zhao Fu continued through Gloomwood on foot, killing more spirits and two spirit lords and obtaining crystals that granted reusable skills.
• Zhao Fu reached a crystal hall and found two crystal coffins whose occupants unleashed immense cold and fire auras as they revived.
• Binuoxiu and Kelahe emerged from the coffins, and Binuoxiu summoned a firebird to attack Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu defeated Binuoxiu and Kelahe in the crystal hall and obtained the Fire Source Spirit Crystal and Ice Source Spirit Crystal. He planned to return to Great Qin and use the crystals to create two powerful bloodline races.

• Zhao Fu used the Divine Gate of Hell to distract Binuoxiu and Kelahe, then struck them from behind and sent them crashing into the ground and an ice seal.
• Binuoxiu began casting a forbidden spell, but Zhao Fu bound her with the Crown of Kings and interrupted her casting; the uncontrolled meteor shower also disrupted Kelahe's spell.
• Zhao Fu bound both women and entered the crystal hall, where he found the Fire Source Spirit Crystal and Ice Source Spirit Crystal on a pedestal.
• Zhao Fu decided to bring the crystals back to Great Qin and fuse them with Legendary-grade City-Building Hearts to create ice- and fire-bloodline races.
• As Zhao Fu prepared to leave, he noticed Binuoxiu and Kelahe glaring at him and wondered what to do with them.

Zhao Fu brought Binuoxiu and Kelahe back to Great Qin and made them consorts, then dealt with two Ice-Fire Crystals that could not be fused into Great Qin’s inheritance cities. After Great Qin began clearing another region, a hidden regional lord unleashed a massive beast tide, and Zhao Fu led six generals into the mountains to find it.

• Zhao Fu used the Six Desires Immortal Scripture on Binuoxiu and Kelahe, and both women followed him afterward.
• Zhao Fu made Binuoxiu and Kelahe consorts and fused the Ice-Fire Crystals into two Gold-grade towns named Flame Town and Ice Town.
• Great Qin finished clearing a region, established Wing Province, and began clearing the next region.
• A regional lord hiding underground unleashed a beast tide of more than ten million beasts against Great Qin’s soldiers.
• Zhao Fu ordered the city lords to help defend and led Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, Sima Cuo, Meng Kuo, and Li Mu into the mountains to locate the purple python.

Zhao Fu and his group fought their way through the giant python’s cave and discovered a tree bearing legendary Ginseng Fruits, guarded by a powerful purple python. Zhao Fu ordered his companions to retreat and was left battling the python alone.

• Zhao Fu blasted through the cave’s rock barriers and led the group past venomous snakes and four giant snakes.
• Zhao Fu’s group entered a vast chamber and found a Ginseng Fruit tree beside a thousand-meter purple python.
• The purple python flooded the chamber with corrosive poison, and its green glow kept the mist away from the fruit tree.
• Zhao Fu fought the purple python while Bai Qi and the others struggled to resist the poison.
• Zhao Fu ordered his companions to withdraw, then dodged the python’s attack as it smashed a crater into the ground.

Zhao Fu killed the Purple-Scaled Great Serpent with the Great Qin Seal, despite being wounded by its corrosive attack. He claimed the serpent’s rewards, including a gallstone that could unlock his sense of sight and an ominous purple cauldron.

• Zhao Fu dodged the Purple-Scaled Great Serpent’s venom and attacks, then wounded it with a massive water blade.
• After its purple light-snakes shattered Zhao Fu’s King's Domain, Zhao Fu called on Bai Qi and the other five to channel their strength into the Great Qin Seal.
• Zhao Fu and the serpent struck at the same time; its purple beam pierced his shoulder, but his poisonous spirit physique absorbed the toxins.
• Zhao Fu repeatedly smashed the serpent’s head with the Great Qin Seal and killed the regional lord, earning battle merit, regional Fate, city EXP, and a Legendary Point.
• Zhao Fu learned that Legendary Points could be exchanged for legendary equipment or a City Creation Stone, then collected the serpent’s materials and found a Millennium Snake Gallstone and a small purple cauldron.

Zhao Fu claimed the Myriad Poisons Divine Cauldron and a ginseng fruit tree after defeating the Purple-Scaled Great Python, then returned to Great Qin and activated his visual sense. His double pupils evolved into triple pupils, and the chapter ended with him spending the night with Nü Lü and the other women.

• Zhao Fu inspected the Myriad Poisons Divine Cauldron and the ginseng fruit tree, then decided to bring the tree back to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi's group dug up the ginseng fruit tree as the regional lord's death caused the beast tide to collapse.
• Zhao Fu collected the Purple-Scaled Great Python's venom and poisonous blood in the Myriad Poisons Divine Cauldron before returning to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu planted the ginseng fruit tree and swallowed the Thousand-Year Gallstone, activating his visual sense.
• Zhao Fu discovered that his double pupils had evolved into triple pupils, with two red pupils and one white pupil.
• Nü Lü approached Zhao Fu, and he spent the night with her and the other women.

Zhao Fu divided Great Qin’s forces to invade Quyang and the swamp-bound Leaf South, seeking to complete its eastern territory and secure the Void-Severing Belt. After taking Leaf South’s first city and defeating its fleeing City Lords, he returned with three City Lord Seals and two more cities under Great Qin’s control.

• Zhao Fu assigned Bai Qi to invade Quyang with 1.5 million troops while he led 3 million troops to attack Leaf South, leaving Wang Jian and five City Lords to defend Great Qin.
• Bai Qi arrived in Quyang through a Teleportation Array and began besieging its city.
• Zhao Fu’s army crossed Leaf South’s swamp on prepared ice paths, surrounded a system main city, and attacked while nineteen City Lords targeted its City Lord.
• The Leaf South City Lord surrendered, and Zhao Fu confiscated the soldiers’ weapons, took the City Lord Seal, and allowed the frightened players to leave.
• The City Lords of the other three main cities fled; Zhao Fu pursued them, killed one, and returned holding three City Lord Seals as two cities followed him.

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin after conquering system main cities, raising its population and military strength and upgrading Great Qin City to a Tier 3 heavy city. He learned that the Demon Horn Empire was threatening the Blue-Eyed and Greenfield worlds, while the costly purchases of corpses and rune stones left Great Qin facing a growing need for money.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with people and soldiers from relocated system main cities, leaving one strategically important city behind.
• Bai Qi conquered and relocated three more system main cities, bringing Great Qin's population to 30.2 million and its army to 5.5 million soldiers.
• Great Qin City leveled up to a Tier 3 heavy city, leaving two upgrades before it could become a capital city.
• Zhao Fu resumed clearing regions and expanded Great Qin's trade purchases to include soldier corpses and rune stones.
• Ruoxi told Zhao Fu that the Demon Horn Empire was attacking the allied Blue-Eyed People and Greenfield People, whose forces were losing ground.
• Zhao Fu spent more than 30 million gold coins on corpses and rune stones, declined Ruoxi's gift of three maidservants, and left the consortium.

Zhao Fu bought Wild Extreme and his son Wild Martial from a slave market, gave Wild Extreme the Silver Lake Shield, and brought them to Great Qin. As pressure mounted over clearing the remaining regions, Zhao Fu opened two regional treasure chests and found that the second contained a valuable item.

• Zhao Fu bought Wild Extreme and Wild Martial, then used a Language Stone to learn their names and gave Wild Extreme the Silver Lake Shield.
• Wild Extreme and Wild Martial pledged loyalty to Zhao Fu, who took them back to Great Qin after finding the final owners of the Silver Lake Seven-piece Set.
• Zhao Fu told Great Qin's generals about the tense outside situation and changed the plan to unify the national territory before building an inner Great Wall.
• Zhao Fu considered using the Undead Catastrophe to clear regions quickly but worried that Great Qin would lose their populations and suffer a backlash.
• Zhao Fu opened two regional treasure chests, discarded the Soul-Nurturing Wood, and smiled after inspecting the large piece of animal hide from the second chest.

Zhao Fu used the Earth Beast Hide to speed Great Qin’s mapping and conquest, while preparing laws and defenses for the restored nation. After two months of rapid development, Great Qin had cleared all seven regions and unified the east, leaving its next military moves unknown to other factions.

• Zhao Fu used the Earth Beast Hide to reveal terrain and villages within five thousand li, then ordered his generals to clear a region within ten days.
• Great Qin commanders assigned troops to attack villages using the newly mapped locations, and the soldiers set out in disciplined units.
• Zhao Fu chose the south as Great Qin’s next target and planned to exploit loopholes in the alliance contract to attack it.
• Zhao Fu began drafting laws for Great Qin and ordered large-scale brick production for roads, buildings, and future Great Walls.
• Two months later, Great Qin had cleared all seven regions and unified the eastern territory while making no moves against outside factions.