Recaps

Zhao Fu used Great Qin Assassins to coerce southern City Lords into violating their contract, giving Great Qin a chance to invade while their forces suffered a 40% attribute reduction. Zhao Fu and Bai Qi led Great Qin’s prepared army into two regions as the southern City Lords struggled to understand the betrayal.

• Great Qin’s population and military strength grew, while Zhao Fu prepared an invasion of the south and named Little Slaughter Zhao Sha.
• Wang Ergou’s group captured Zhang Nan’s pregnant wife and mother, then forced him to lead his soldiers in an attack on Great Qin.
• The southern factions’ attack triggered a notification that they had broken the contract and suffered a 40% attribute reduction.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s army to attack, and he and Bai Qi led separate forces into two regions.
• The southern City Lords realized their contract had been broken and wondered whether they could sign a new one with Great Qin.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin to conquer the Southern Region in just over a day, then prepared to face the north and west as they scrambled to unite against him. The chapter left the opposing city lords searching for a way to make Great Qin break the contract, including a plan to control one of its generals.

• Fang Yun surrendered Bright Eminence City to Zhao Fu after Great Qin surrounded it, and Zhao Fu accepted the city before continuing his advance.
• Great Qin captured fourteen of the south’s eighteen system main cities, while four escaped and the resistance was crushed.
• Zhao Fu’s forces conquered the Martial Peace and Willow River Regions, including Wei Liao slaying the City Lord of a Goblin small city.
• Zhao Fu announced that southern factions had attacked Great Qin and caused civilian casualties, claiming that this had forced his counterattack.
• The north and west gathered their city lords and discussed forming alliances and abolishing the contract, which weakened their attributes by 40%.
• One city lord suggested controlling a Great Qin general and making him lead an attack against them so Great Qin would violate the contract.

Five City Lords infiltrated Great Qin territory to capture a general and use him to break their contract, while Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin to attack two regions at once. The infiltrators found a Tier 3 target, but Zhao Fu's use of golden liquid triggered a notification to all City Lords just as they were about to act.

• A young woman offered to control a Tier 3 general's mind, and a stubbled young man proposed becoming a commoner so he could enter Great Qin territory.
• The City Lords split up, sending most to recruit allies and five to capture a Great Qin general.
• Zhao Fu returned with twenty-one cities and seven million people, raised Great Qin's population to fifty-two million, and appointed Rogge as a City Lord.
• Zhao Fu ordered Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Wei Liao to expand the army to ten million and plan an attack on two regions at once.
• The five City Lords crossed the Void-Severing Belt, entered a Great Qin region, and selected a thin Tier 3 general near its core city as their target.
• Zhao Fu drank golden liquid before the army, suffered violent pain as characters emerged from his body, and triggered a notification for all City Lords.

After dissolving its contract with the northern and southern regions, Great Qin launched a direct assault on both, with Zhao Fu leading the northern campaign. Zhao Fu charged through the enemy cavalry as the battle began, then turned aside while Great Qin’s rune archers attacked the system army.

• Great Qin dissolved its contract, suffering a 10 reduction to its attributes, and Zhao Fu and Bai Qi split their forces to invade the two regions.
• Zhao Fu led five million troops into the northern region and gave Wang Jian command of the battle while he personally joined the charge.
• Zhao Fu offered the northern City Lords a final chance to submit, but they refused and secretly prepared to attack him.
• Zhao Fu charged under a barrage of arrows behind his shield, and Great Qin’s City Lords met the enemy City Lords as they rushed to kill him.
• Zhao Fu and Great Qin’s cavalry broke through the system army’s cavalry, then Zhao Fu turned aside as one hundred thousand rune arrows struck the enemy army.

Zhao Fu and Bai Qi defeated the system armies, then Zhao Fu marched on the Li River and forced two city lords to surrender. After evacuating the region’s population, he struck the river with the Great Qin Seal to begin his revenge against the Ugly-Bone Fish King.

• Zhao Fu and Wang Jian broke the system army’s defenses while Bai Qi, Sima Cuo, Wei Liao, Meng Kuo, and Li Mu unleashed their General’s Artifacts and led the assault on the other battlefield.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi defeated the system armies; Great Qin killed eleven city lords, captured ten, and suffered 270,000 deaths.
• Zhao Fu gathered Great Qin’s city lords and advanced on the Li River, while Bai Qi attacked the Open Pot region.
• Zhao Fu forced two Li River city lords to surrender, and Great Qin evacuated the region’s cities and population before confronting the river’s region lord.
• Zhao Fu struck the Li River with the Great Qin Seal, killing Ugly-Bone Fish and beginning his attack on the Ugly-Bone Fish King.

Zhao Fu captured the Ugly-Bone Fish King by surrounding it with City Lords and threatening to carve off its flesh, then subdued it with a blood pact. With Bai Qi capturing Open Pot, Great Qin unified thirty-one regions and prepared for a long period of clearing and fortification.

• Zhao Fu killed many Ugly-Bone Fish, drew out the Ugly-Bone Fish King, and trapped it with iron chains as more than forty City Lords gathered to attack.
• The Ugly-Bone Fish King begged to negotiate, then surrendered when Zhao Fu and Wang Jian prepared to cut off and eat its flesh.
• Zhao Fu signed a blood pact with the Ugly-Bone Fish King and took control of the fish in the Li River.
• Bai Qi captured the Open Pot region, though most of its system main cities had fled.
• Great Qin unified thirty-one regions, reaching a population of sixty million across eighty-six major cities and six small cities.
• Zhao Fu planned to clear the remaining eighteen regions and build an inner Great Wall while Great Qin entered a period of stable development.

Zhao Fu rested Great Qin’s forces while preparing to clear more regions, build the Great Wall, and revive its martial Qin Wind. Great Qin resumed expansion, alarming neighboring and rival factions as it drew both opposition and would-be supporters.

• Zhao Fu organized Great Qin’s next steps, including building the Great Wall and governing under revised laws, while Li Muqing promoted the martial Qin Wind through poetry.
• Zhao Fu assessed Great Qin’s Wyverns and spirit-tree saplings and considered improving city attributes or finding growth-accelerating items to avoid waiting decades.
• Three days later, Great Qin resumed clearing regions and began constructing the Great Wall, concentrating most of its population on the two projects.
• The Viet Guard infiltrated the neighboring Yue Kingdom as Great Qin’s rapid growth frightened the Yue Kingdom and stirred concern across the Central Continent.
• Great Shang, Great Xia, Great Zhou, and other factions accelerated their development and discussed restraining Great Qin, while some people sought its protection by sending women to the Ying Family.

Zhao Fu returned to the real world and reunited with Zheng Yuqin, but an unexplained surge of darkness drove him to kiss her and awakened the Six Desires Immortal Scripture in the real world. He left to ask the Golden Dragon what had happened, while Zheng Yuqin withdrew to her room in embarrassment.

• Zhao Fu reflected on the ancient beauties claimed by various dynasties and felt uneasy about Wu Qingniang's unresolved situation.
• Zhao Fu returned to the real world and, after seeing Zheng Yuqin's message on QQ, arranged for someone to bring her to him.
• Zheng Yuqin scolded Zhao Fu for disappearing, accepted his apology, and gave him several winter clothes to try on.
• Zhao Fu suddenly embraced and kissed Zheng Yuqin, and black qi made her respond despite her initial resistance.
• Zhao Fu came to his senses, discovered the Six Desires Immortal Scripture within himself, and apologized as Zheng Yuqin fled into a room.
• Zhao Fu entered Apocalypse World to ask the Golden Dragon about the cultivation technique's appearance, while Zheng Yuqin lay in the room wondering how she could face him.

Zhao Fu resisted Golden Dragon’s urging to embrace the darkness stirred by the Six Desires Immortal Scripture, then prepared Great Qin for the Trial Festival. He learned that the final festivals would determine humanity’s inheritors and that the Trial Festival’s exchange rewards were powerful mounts.

• Zheng Yuqin’s fantasies about Zhao Fu overwhelmed her again when she opened his wardrobe, and she left the room in a daze.
• Golden Dragon urged Zhao Fu to embrace the darkness in his heart, but Zhao Fu refused because he would not harm those closest to him.
• The Trial Festival began, offering Trial Points and powerful rewards, with the top eight participants earning Earth Realm Marks and becoming humanity’s inheritors.
• Zhao Fu halted Great Qin’s regional cleanup, shared his intelligence about the festival, and arranged preparations for the event.
• Zhao Fu inspected the exchange stele and found that its top rewards were eggs carrying the bloodlines of guardian beasts and other legendary creatures.

Zhao Fu entered the Trial Festival’s trial space with his powers sealed and found himself surrounded by powerful corpse soldiers. He learned how to exploit their behavior, then acquired his first weapon and armor from a defeated soldier.

• Zhao Fu failed to exchange for one of the eight monster eggs, then entered the Trial Festival when it began at midnight.
• Zhao Fu appeared in a blood-red world with his abilities sealed and hid from a first-tier corpse soldier.
• Zhao Fu discovered corpse soldiers fought one another and observed a second-tier Cavalry leading a corpse horse.
• Zhao Fu lured a corpse soldier through vine traps and into another soldier, then learned they could only be killed by blows to the heart or head.
• Zhao Fu took the dead soldier’s iron sword and armor, discovering both were level-one Corpse Soul Equipment that could evolve by killing corpse soldiers.

Zhao Fu gained the Corpse Soldier class and grew stronger by killing corpse soldiers, using a cliff to defeat enemies beyond his strength. At level five, he discovered a fourth-rank general riding a corpse horse and planned to lure it over the cliff.

• Zhao Fu equipped the Corpse Soul Sword and Corpse Soul Armor, then killed a wounded corpse soldier and became a level-one Corpse Soldier.
• Zhao Fu hunted crippled corpse soldiers until he reached level two and gained fifth-stage cultivation strength.
• Zhao Fu lured corpse soldiers into a thicket beside a cliff and used their falls to gain experience, reaching level three.
• A squad leader overwhelmed Zhao Fu in battle, but Zhao Fu lured it over the cliff and discovered it gave four times the experience of an ordinary corpse soldier.
• Zhao Fu reached level five, became strong enough to kill squad leaders easily, and found a fourth-rank general riding a corpse horse.
• Zhao Fu decided to use the cliff to try to kill the general and learn more about the trial space.

Zhao Fu killed the intelligent Tier 4 Corpse General after luring it over a cliff, then used its drops and memories to learn how to complete the trial. He planned to build his forces and upgrade a corpse soul town into a small city, and then discovered a Corpse Village inhabited by corpse soldiers and corpse ghosts.

• Zhao Fu's traps failed to stop the Corpse General, so he fled while dodging its blade attacks and suffering several wounds.
• Zhao Fu lured the Corpse General onto a cliff, struck it as it tried to escape the fall, and killed it after it landed badly injured.
• Zhao Fu obtained Level 8 Corpse Soul Armor, a Corpse Soldier Token that could command 300 corpse soldiers, and a Memory Light Sphere containing the Corpse General's skills and memories.
• Zhao Fu learned that he had to obtain a Corpse Soul City to complete the trial, but decided to capture a corpse soul town and upgrade it into a small city instead.
• Zhao Fu set out to gather 300 corpse soldiers and discovered a Corpse Village containing both corpse soldiers and corpse ghosts.

Zhao Fu captured several Corpse soul Villages, building an army before defeating the leader of an advanced village and occupying it. He left with four thousand troops and used the advanced village as a base for further conquests.

• Zhao Fu led 300 corpse soldiers to capture a Corpse soul Village, killed its leader, and gained the submission of its corpse ghouls and soldiers.
• Zhao Fu tamed a corpse horse, captured another weakened Corpse soul Village, and brought its troops back to his forces.
• Over three days, Zhao Fu captured four small villages and one intermediate village, growing his army to more than two thousand.
• Zhao Fu used ambushes to weaken an advanced village, then led his army into battle and killed its Corpse soul Lord.
• Zhao Fu occupied the advanced village, increased his forces to four thousand, and continued conquering from it as his base.

Zhao Fu weakened a small town’s corpse forces, killed its Corpse General, and then fought the powerful Corpse Spirit Leader. The battle left Zhao Fu wounded and the Corpse Spirit Leader still attacking.

• Zhao Fu led ten thousand troops to a small town guarded by thirty thousand troops, a Corpse General, and a Corpse Leader.
• Zhao Fu lured the Corpse General into an ambush, fought it on horseback, and beheaded it after a fierce duel.
• Zhao Fu and his corpse ghosts killed several waves of corpse ghosts before he attacked the town and confronted the Corpse Spirit Leader.
• Zhao Fu wounded the Corpse Spirit Leader several times, but it struck him with a punch that sent him crashing into a wall.
• Zhao Fu coughed up blood, stood as the Corpse Spirit Leader charged, and slashed at it with a blood-red sword gleam.

Zhao Fu killed the corpse soul leader, captured its town, and tried to relocate it to escape the Corpse Spirit Lord’s hostility. The Corpse Spirit Lord arrived with a vast army and struck Zhao Fu down as he fled with the City-Building Stone.

• Zhao Fu fought the corpse soul leader, pierced its heart with a spear, and collected a Corpse Soul Blood Crystal and a Corpse Spirit Artifact.
• Zhao Fu occupied the town, turning its corpse ghosts and corpse soldiers into his subordinates, but learned that the Corpse Spirit Lord had become hostile.
• Zhao Fu chose to relocate the town and leave the region rather than face the City Lord and her Seal.
• The Corpse Spirit Lord arrived with more than a hundred thousand corpse ghosts, and Zhao Fu fled with the town’s City-Building Stone.
• The Corpse Spirit Lord struck Zhao Fu with a streak of blood energy, sending him into a rock and making him cough up blood.

Zhao Fu surrendered to the Corpse soul Lord to survive, then learned that the trial space could only be conquered by taking one of the four City Lord Seals. When two rival Corpse soul Lords attacked, Zhao Fu watched the battle and waited for a chance to act.

• Zhao Fu narrowly dodged the Corpse soul Lord’s attacks, then surrendered by offering her his City-Building Stone.
• The Corpse soul Lord accepted Zhao Fu’s surrender, converted him into a Corpse soul General, and kept him chained in Corpse Soul City.
• A week later, Zhao Fu learned that towns could not be upgraded into cities and that the four Corpse soul Lords fought over a chance to leave the trial space.
• Two Corpse soul Lords attacked, and Zhao Fu slipped away to watch their armies clash while searching for an opportunity.
• The female Corpse soul Lord wounded the old invader, but the young City Lord struck her from behind with a staff and sent her flying.

After the wounded corpse soul lord caught Zhao Fu trying to kill her, he used a Corpse-to-Sword talisman to turn her into the Corpse Soul Sword and seized control of Corpse Soul City. He chose to continue the trial and planned to attack the other injured City Lords, while the sword spirit agreed to cooperate in exchange for the chance to leave the trial space.

• The female corpse soul lord drove off the young and old corpse soul lords, but suffered severe injuries and retreated to recover.
• Zhao Fu approached the weakened corpse soul lord and tried to strike her, but she awoke and seized him by the throat.
• Zhao Fu used the Corpse-to-Sword talisman to transform the injured corpse soul lord into a first-grade Saint Armament, the Corpse Soul Sword.
• Zhao Fu took the City Lord Seal, occupied Corpse Soul City, and chose to stay in the trial space to pursue a higher evaluation.
• Zhao Fu told the Corpse Soul Sword's spirit that she could leave the trial space if she followed his orders, and she agreed to his plan.

Zhao Fu infiltrated and killed two injured corpse soul lords, then unified the Corpse Soul Space and completed the trial. He gained a corpse soul equipment blueprint and blood pool, and prepared to collect equipment before leaving.

• Zhao Fu sneaked into a Corpse Soul City and killed its healing lord, then claimed the city and gave the lord’s City Lord Seal to the female corpse soul lord who had become his sword spirit.
• Zhao Fu and the female corpse soul lord watched another battle, then attacked the victorious youth after he killed the opposing lord.
• Zhao Fu killed the youth and obtained the fourth City Lord Seal, triggering the trial’s completion and earning 5,000,000 Trial Points, the Corpse Soul Equipment crafting blueprint, and the Corpse Soul Blood Pool.
• Zhao Fu examined the rewards, noted that his storage ring and sword seal worked again, and began collecting Corpse Soul Equipment from the corpse soldiers.

Zhao Fu entered a trial in the Great Tang imperial palace with his powers sealed and died repeatedly after refusing to kneel before the emperor. He finally accepted his identity as the eunuch Xiao Fuzi, survived the emperor’s arrival, and began palace work while searching for a way to pass the trial.

• Zhao Fu appeared in Spring Sun Palace and learned that he was inside the Great Tang imperial palace with his powers sealed.
• When the emperor arrived, Zhao Fu only half-kneeled and was beaten to death for refusing to show proper respect.
• Zhao Fu returned to the start after dying, repeated the cycle several times, and eventually knelt on both knees to survive.
• Zhao Fu met the eunuch Xiao Gaozi, accepted the name Xiao Fuzi, and began wiping the palace floors while seeking a way to complete the trial.

Zhao Fu endured repeated deaths and humiliations in a trial where his status as a low-ranking eunuch left him powerless. After the other eunuchs beat him and cast him outside, he washed himself in a lake with a cold gaze and a strange smile.

• After Zhao Fu accidentally splashed filthy water on a noble young man, he struck back, was killed by guards, and returned to the path in a flash of white light.
• Zhao Fu avoided the young man on his next attempt, but the man beat him without cause and had guards kill him again.
• Zhao Fu knelt and showed deference when the young man appeared once more, then learned about the palace while working through the day.
• Back in his shared room, Zhao Fu refused to wash another eunuch's socks, punched the leading eunuch, and was beaten by the group despite Xiao Gaozi's attempt to intervene.
• The eunuchs threw Zhao Fu outside, and he later recovered enough strength to wash in a lake, his expression turning cold and strange.

Zhao Fu resolved to pursue the throne at any cost and used the Six Desires Demonic Qi to gain access to Shangguan Wan'er. With Shangguan Wan'er agreeing to help him, he headed to meet Empress Wu.

• Zhao Fu learned that Li Zhi was near death and decided to seize the throne, awakening the Earth Realm Mark and the Six Desires Immortal Scripture.
• Zhao Fu seduced He Hui and persuaded her to arrange a meeting with Shangguan Wan'er.
• Zhao Fu told Shangguan Wan'er that he knew about Empress Wu's rebellion, then used the Six Desires Demonic Qi to overpower her.
• Zhao Fu asked Shangguan Wan'er to introduce him to Empress Wu, and she agreed.
• Shangguan Wan'er dressed Zhao Fu and led him toward the great hall to meet Empress Wu.

Zhao Fu confronted Wu Zetian about her plan to rebel, but discovered she was real and recognized him as the Great Qin Imperial Prince. After their encounter, Wu Zetian agreed to help him seize the Great Tang throne on the condition that he treat her Wu Zhou well.

• Zhao Fu revealed that he knew of Wu Zetian's rebellion plot and declared that he had come to become emperor.
• Zhao Fu claimed Wu Zetian and the others were creations of the trial, but Wu Zetian regained her clarity and identified him as the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Wu Zetian asked Zhao Fu about her inheritor, Wu Qingniang, and he said she had become a formidable national inheritor.
• Zhao Fu's state of mind settled and his path as emperor became clearer after his encounter with Wu Zetian.
• Wu Zetian offered to help Zhao Fu complete the trial if he treated her Wu Zhou well, and Zhao Fu agreed.

Zhao Fu rose to control most of Great Tang’s military as Wu Zetian prepared to take power, but Li Zhi’s death forced them to delay any move for the throne. Wu Zetian then sent Zhao Fu several women, including Wei Xianger, the Tang princesses, and Yang Yuhuan.

• Wu Zetian appointed Zhao Fu to a seventh-rank post and presented her daughter, Li Lingyue, as his woman.
• Half a month later, Wu Zetian began her plan as Li Zhi fell critically ill, and Zhao Fu became General Who Stabilizes the Nation with control of seventy percent of Great Tang’s forces.
• Wu Zetian and Zhao Fu had loyal ministers executed or exiled, while Zhao Fu accepted gifts from officials seeking his favor.
• Li Zhi died, and Wu Zetian and Zhao Fu delayed their bid for the throne while Zhao Fu reviewed military reports and ordered the execution of the eunuchs and soldiers who had beaten him.
• Wu Zetian sent Zhao Fu Wei Xianger, Princess Yongtai Li Xianhui, Princess Changning Li Rushi, Princess Anle Li Guo'er, Princess Yongshou Li Tian'er, and Yang Yuhuan.

After Zhao Fu ascended the throne as emperor of Great Qin and completed the trial, he returned to Apocalypse World with Wu Zetian and the other women from the trial. He learned that the Trial Festival was nearly over and discovered he was no longer one of the eight inheritors.

• Wu Zetian gave Wei Xianger and her daughters, including Yang Yuhuan and Li Guo'er, to Zhao Fu, who accepted them and became intimate with them.
• Wu Zetian helped prepare for Zhao Fu's ascension, and an imperial edict declared him emperor of Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu ascended the throne, completed the trial, and was transported back to Great Qin City.
• Wu Zetian and the other women appeared in Apocalypse World alongside Zhao Fu, and he led them around Great Qin City.
• The people of Great Qin told Zhao Fu that the Trial Festival was on its sixth day, and he learned he was no longer among the eight inheritors.

Zhao Fu learned that he had not become one of the eight inheritors and studied the names of those chosen, wondering why he had failed. As the final day of the Trial Festival remained, the outside world was already discussing Great Qin’s prince missing the selection.

• Zhao Fu checked the exchange stele, saw that all eight inheritor positions and eggs had been claimed, and tried to understand why he had failed the trials.
• Zhao Fu considered whether his actions in the Corpse Soul Space or Great Tang space had cost him a place, then dismissed Wu Zetian as the likely cause.
• Zhao Fu read the eight inheritors’ names and exchanges: Arthur Tina, Akhenaten, Si Ji, Geluofei, Babilon, Oleg, Hanano Mai, and Ramis.
• Zhao Fu reflected that Shaluo might have become an inheritor if Great Qin had not defeated him and taken his artifacts, and he regretted losing the chance to claim the Wild Azure Dragon.
• Zhao Fu looked at the Earth Realm Mark and waited for the final day of the Trial Festival as people outside discussed his failure to become an inheritor.