Recaps

A black-clad young man annihilated Moonlight City, while people on the Northern Continent wrongly suspected Zhao Fu. Zhao Fu continued inspecting Great Qin’s territories and accepted Liu Subai’s love in Willow Mountain Town.

• The black-clad young man killed the system city lord, took his City Lord Seal, and unleashed demons that slaughtered everyone in the city.
• People in a tavern discussed Moonlight City’s massacre and blamed Huaxia, especially the Great Qin Imperial Prince, though no one found evidence.
• Zhao Fu inspected Great Qin’s cities and villages, which were being managed well by Li Si, Shang Yang, Shangguan Wan'er, Lu Lingxuan, and other officials.
• Zhao Fu arrived at Willow Mountain Town, where Liu Subai confessed her feelings and asked him to take her as his woman.
• Zhao Fu kissed Liu Subai and asked whether she liked it.

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin after his inspection tour, where the empire continued expanding and prepared to use Fate-Changing Pills to strengthen its soldiers. In the real world, a report that blamed the Great Qin Imperial Prince for a massacre shocked Zhao Fu when he recognized Moonlight City's location.

• Zhao Fu and Liu Subai became intimate, and he apologized for having ignored her before leaving Willow Mountain Town.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin as it finished sweeping through four regions and welcomed twelve more City Lords.
• Great Qin’s eighteen Ginseng Fruit Trees produced over five thousand fruits, while its Life Fruit Trees could supply enough ingredients for 270,000 Fate-Changing Pills.
• Zhao Fu praised Zhang Baishu’s work on cultivating Life Fruit Trees and returned to the real world.
• Mu Guilin gave Zhao Fu a report that six hundred thousand people in a Northern Continent System Main City had been slaughtered and that many blamed the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Zhao Fu read that the massacre had taken place near Moonlight City and became gravely alarmed.

Zhao Fu investigated the slaughter of Moonlight City and confirmed that demons from the world beyond the Northern Continent had carried it out. He and Geluofei alerted the other inheritors to the threat of a possible demon invasion, and they hurried to the Northern Continent.

• Zhao Fu traveled to the Northern Continent and found Moonlight City still filled with the corpses of its victims.
• Zhao Fu detected pure demonic qi throughout the city and confirmed that demons had slaughtered its people.
• Geluofei attacked Zhao Fu, mistaking him for the killer, but Zhao Fu denied responsibility and warned him that demons were responsible.
• Geluofei accepted Zhao Fu's explanation and asked whether they should notify the other inheritors.
• Zhao Fu agreed to inform the other inheritors, who hurried toward the Northern Continent after learning of the threat.

Zhao Fu explained the threats surrounding the human world, including the Demon Horn Empire and the Demon Race, to the assembled leaders. They agreed to prepare for a Demon Race invasion and gather intelligence, and Zhao Fu agreed to enter the Demon Race world to scout it.

• Arthur Tina and the other leaders gathered with Zhao Fu to hear what he had learned about the dangers facing the human world.
• Zhao Fu described Greenfield World, the Demon Horn Empire, and the neighboring Demon Race and water race worlds, warning that the Demon Race would eventually invade.
• Geluofei apologized to Zhao Fu, while Hua Ye~Zhenyi and the others praised his knowledge and concern for the world.
• Si Ji, Akhenaten, Arthur Tina, and the others discussed building defenses and learning more about the Demon Race.
• Zhao Fu agreed to enter the Demon Race world to gather intelligence, and Arthur Tina urged him to be careful.

Zhao Fu entered the Demon Profound World to gather intelligence and learned that its inhabitants came from a cultivation world with powerful sects, formations, and techniques. He discovered that the human world would be severely disadvantaged in a war against it.

• Zhao Fu left Great Qin through the Otherworld Gate, using the Heavenly Demon Sword to conceal his human identity as he entered the demon world.
• Zhao Fu encountered six Demon Profound Clan hunters near Soul-Calming City and used a Language Stone to learn their language.
• Zhao Fu questioned the hunters about their lives and confirmed that they had come from an ancient cultivation world rather than being system natives.
• The hunters told Zhao Fu that the Demon Profound World had seven inheritors, powerful nations and sects, and far greater mastery of cultivation techniques and formations than the human world.
• Zhao Fu concluded that the human world would have about a ten percent chance of winning a war against the Demon Profound World.

After inheriting the Night Dynasty, Ye Cang returned to his village and discovered that his family had been slaughtered by men seeking to reopen the inheritance trial. He learned that Demon Enchantress had betrayed him and fled into Apocalypse World with his legs broken, leaving his revenge unresolved.

• Ye Cang returned to his village after obtaining the Night Dynasty's inheritance, hoping to ask his mother about his origins.
• Ye Cang found the villagers dead, his adoptive father slain, and his mother being assaulted by five burly men.
• The men killed Ye Cang's mother and revealed that they planned to kill Ye Cang so the Inheritance Stone would open the trial again.
• Ye Cang realized Demon Enchantress had betrayed him after he told her about the inheritance, then fled when the men noticed him.
• Ye Cang jumped into a gorge, broke both legs, and used his True Body Stone to enter Apocalypse World as the men pursued him.

Ye Cang escaped into Apocalypse World but was hunted by Night Dynasty and betrayed by Jiu Langli. Zhao Fu rescued him and proposed possessing his consciousness to become the dynasty’s inheritor, ending by swearing an oath to help Ye Cang.

• Ye Cang used the True Body Stone to enter Apocalypse World, healed his legs, and fled cities where people hunted him for a 100,000-gold reward.
• After five days of pursuit, Jiu Langli led a group from Ye Cang’s sect to kill him, and Zhao Fu learned from Golden Dragon that Ye Cang was a half-inheritor of a dynasty.
• Golden Dragon suggested Zhao Fu possess Ye Cang’s consciousness, but explained that Ye Cang had to consent and that the process required erasing his consciousness.
• Zhao Fu killed more than a dozen of Ye Cang’s attackers and revealed his plan to take over Ye Cang’s body.
• Ye Cang questioned whether Zhao Fu would help him avenge his parents and village, so Zhao Fu revealed he was a Defender of the Way from another world and swore by the Power of the World to help him.

Zhao Fu took over Ye Cang’s body and learned about the Night Dynasty, then returned to Great Qin to plan how to seize its political power. He left the details of his plan unresolved as he began discussing the challenge with Great Qin’s generals.

• Ye Cang agreed to give Zhao Fu his body in exchange for revenge against the Ye Family and the Demonic Dao Sect.
• Zhao Fu erased Ye Cang’s consciousness, split off part of his soul, and successfully possessed Ye Cang’s body.
• After adapting to his new body, Zhao Fu learned Ye Cang’s memories and saw the Night Dynasty as a chance to greatly strengthen Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu gathered information about the Night Dynasty and learned that its large player population and military, loyal to the Ye Family, would make taking control difficult.
• Zhao Fu returned to the human world, shared some Demon Profound race intelligence with the other inheritors, and went to Great Qin to discuss taking the Night Dynasty’s political power.

Zhao Fu lured Ye Ningshuang, the Night Dynasty’s youngest ancestor, into a trap and defeated her with the power of thirty-six City Lord Seals. He used Six Desires Demonic Qi to bring her under his control, leaving her captured as he pursued authority over the Night Dynasty.

• Zhao Fu targeted the Night Dynasty’s five powerful ancestors and arranged for Ye Cang to invite Ye Ningshuang to meet alone outside Nether City.
• Ye Ningshuang recognized the letter’s trace of inherited fortune and went to the forest, intending to kill Ye Cang.
• Ye Ningshuang attacked Ye Cang, but Zhao Fu appeared and blocked her strike before revealing his overwhelming power.
• Zhao Fu used the power of thirty-six City Lord Seals to defeat Ye Ningshuang and bind her, while Ye Cang claimed Zhao Fu obeyed only him.
• Ye Ningshuang refused to submit, but Zhao Fu used Six Desires Demonic Qi to overpower her resistance and bring her under his control.

Zhao Fu won Ye Ningshuang’s support by promising to keep the Night Dynasty’s power within the Ye Family, then began plotting to seize its real-world political and military power. With Ye Ningshuang backing him, he tried to recruit General Li Chang, leaving the general confronted by a conspiracy he could scarcely refuse.

• Zhao Fu persuaded Ye Ningshuang to support his bid for the Night Dynasty’s power, and she demanded that Ye Cang become her man.
• After spending the night with Ye Ningshuang, Zhao Fu learned how the Night Dynasty’s power was divided and decided to recruit generals who might be persuaded to switch sides.
• Zhao Fu had Ye Cang summon General Li Chang and revealed that he had taken Li Chang’s wife as leverage.
• Li Chang refused to betray the Night Dynasty, but Ye Ningshuang appeared and assured him that Ye Cang’s plan was prepared and that he would be safe.
• Li Chang realized that Ye Ningshuang’s support and Zhao Fu’s plan to occupy Night Dynasty City could make Ye Cang’s seizure of power possible.

Zhao Fu used Ye Cang to seize Night Dynasty's inheritance and take control of its City Lord Seals, then confronted the dynasty's leaders and demanded their submission. He trapped the gathered forces in a ghostly realm and stopped three fleeing old ancestors, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Zhao Fu persuaded Li Chang and other generals to pledge loyalty to Ye Cang, giving him control of seventy percent of Night Dynasty's military power.
• With Ye Ningshuang's help, Zhao Fu entered the City Lord Hall and occupied the City Heart, triggering Night Dynasty's inheritance and summoning a demonic dragon.
• Zhao Fu used the Great Qin Seal to overwhelm the old ancestors and city lords as Ye Cang received the final inheritance and claimed their City Lord Seals.
• Ye Ningshuang explained that Ye Cang had been recognized by the Inheritance Stone, while Zhao Fu struck an old ancestor who insulted her and demanded that the gathered leaders submit.
• Zhao Fu unleashed ghostly qi that transported the leaders into a realm of evil ghosts, then seized three old ancestors who tried to flee.

Zhao Fu secured control of the Night Dynasty through Ye Cang, who was proclaimed Night King and won public support with new policies. The Demonic Dao Sect began considering how to use Demon Enchantress’s past influence over Ye Cang, while Zhao Fu gathered the Ye Family’s women.

• Ye Ningshuang asked Zhao Fu about his identity, and he promised he would never hurt her but said he could not reveal the truth yet.
• Zhao Fu’s loyal generals bound the Night Dynasty’s ministers, generals, and royal clan, then the captives returned to the real world and submitted to Ye Cang.
• Zhao Fu accepted their allegiance, proclaimed Ye Cang the Night King, and enacted policies that won the people’s support.
• Demon Enchantress regretted revealing Ye Cang’s identity after learning he had become king and that her actions had led to his village’s slaughter.
• Mo Xun advised Demon Enchantress to test Ye Cang and try to control him, and she began preparing to approach him.
• Zhao Fu gathered the Ye Family’s women together.

Zhao Fu used Ye Cang’s body to fulfill his promise by taking the Night Dynasty’s women, then left with the dynasty under his control. The next day, he received an apologetic, affectionate letter from Demon Enchantress.

• Zhao Fu gathered thirty-two women of the Night Dynasty and declared that they would become his women, promising not to harm them or their families if they served him.
• Princess Ye condemned Ye Cang and refused to submit, but Zhao Fu approached her and the women were eventually left asleep after the encounter.
• Zhao Fu realized Ye Cang’s body was too weak to satisfy Empress Qian, whose immense fortune made her unusually demanding.
• Zhao Fu decided to bring the women back to Great Qin and use the Night Dynasty’s power to expand his influence.
• Ye Ningshuang confronted Zhao Fu about the women, and he embraced her beneath the blood moon.
• The next day, Zhao Fu received a letter in which Demon Enchantress apologized for accidentally leaking information and expressed affection for him.

Zhao Fu secured the Night Dynasty’s remaining ancestors and began strengthening the faction while maintaining peace with neighboring nations. He then lured Demon Enchantress into a trap and used Six Desires Demonic Qi to make her his slave.

• Zhao Fu sent Demon Enchantress a love letter written as Ye Cang, then persuaded the four imprisoned ancestors to serve the Night Dynasty and gave them Ginseng Fruits.
• Zhao Fu consolidated control of the Night Dynasty, which ruled twelve regions, and planned to build it into a power that could secretly control the Demon Profound World.
• Zhao Fu fostered friendly relations with neighboring nations while exchanging affectionate letters with Demon Enchantress.
• Demon Enchantress came to meet Ye Cang, realized he seemed changed, and was bound by chains when she tried to leave.
• Zhao Fu kissed Demon Enchantress and sent Six Desires Demonic Qi into her, then forced her to call him Master and trained her into a female slave.

Zhao Fu fulfilled Ye Cang’s last wish by securing the Night Dynasty’s alliance with the Demonic Dao Sect and taking control of key figures in the sect. With the Demon South Continent’s position strengthened and no immediate threat from the other continents, his journey in the Demon Profound World came to an end.

• Zhao Fu placed a Six Desires Demon Seed in Demon Enchantress and learned that Ye Cang’s body had reacted to her, apparently from memories of his love for her.
• Zhao Fu sent Demon Enchantress to tell Mo Xun that her plan had succeeded and to arrange an alliance between the Night Dynasty and the Demonic Dao Sect.
• Demon Enchantress lured the ancestors Pu He and Shui Ruoliang into Zhao Fu’s ambush, and Zhao Fu subdued them.
• Zhao Fu ordered Pu He and Shui Ruoliang to cooperate with Demon Enchantress, bringing the Demonic Dao Sect under his influence.
• The Night Dynasty and the Demonic Dao Sect formed a powerful alliance, and Zhao Fu ended his journey in the Demon Profound World.

Over five months, Great Qin expanded its territory and military power while Zhao Fu waited for nearby cities and the Yue Kingdom to weaken. A notice then announced that the human world and Fish Scale World had connected, beginning the Race Invasion stage.

• Great Qin became a Level Three capital city and grew to control 108 regions, with a population exceeding 420 million and an army of 50 million.
• Fifty-two system main cities voluntarily joined Great Qin, while Zhao Fu sent five teams to clear fifteen newly exposed regions.
• Zhao Fu maintained Great Qin's defenses against the Yue Kingdom and waited for the Viet Guard and worsening conditions to create an opportunity.
• Shaluo's mother urged Zhao Fu to consider Shaluo's younger sister, a skilled archer with Peacock Royal Blood, as a successor for Peacock City.
• A notice announced that the barrier between the human world and Fish Scale World had been damaged, triggering Race Invasion and updating the Turbulent Times Stele's exchange items.

Zhao Fu and the human inheritors investigated a massive rift linking the Southern Continent to the Fish Scale World and prepared for a possible invasion by the Fish Scale Clan. The Fish Scale Clan’s inheritors appeared across the sea, and both worlds began discussing how to act.

• Zhao Fu rushed to the Southern Continent after receiving a notification of a racial invasion and found a vast rift connecting it to a world of seas and blue skies.
• Akhenaten, Arthur Tina, Geluofei, and the other human inheritors gathered at the rift and saw Fish Scale Clan figures with powerful auras appear across the water.
• Arthur Tina urged the Southern Continent to build defenses and prepare for war, while the other inheritors promised varying levels of support.
• Zhao Fu pledged Great Qin’s help, urged the human world to unite, and proposed attacking the Fish Scale World to gain providence.
• An ugly, burly man in the Fish Scale World argued that an immediate invasion would bring great gains because the human clans were unprepared.

After the Fish Scale Clan decided to prepare for a large-scale war against humanity, Zhao Fu and Great Qin began mobilizing for the coming conflict. The human world split over whether to fight, and Zhao Fu found enticing rewards on Great Qin’s Level 8 Turbulent Times Stele before heading alone to the Southern Continent.

• The Fish Scale Clan members withdrew to prepare an underwater ambush against humans, while Zhao Fu and the other inheritors left; a little boy with a golden dragon tail fled with the seven-colored fragment.
• News of the conflict spread through both worlds, and people in the human world divided between those calling for peace and those gathering to defend against invasion.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and, after discussing the threat with his generals, ordered the empire to mobilize resources and prepare for war.
• Zhao Fu examined the updated Level 8 Turbulent Times Stele and found valuable items, including a Heavy City Upgrade Stone, a Dragon-Shooting Ballista blueprint, and a Ten Thousand Blood Divine Stone.
• After Great Qin finished preparing to depart, Zhao Fu set out alone for the Southern Continent.

Zhao Fu investigated the Fish Scale World and helped prepare a human force for a possible invasion, but the Fish Scale Clan did not attack and the alliance gradually dispersed. He returned to Great Qin with his troops, still unsure why the Fish Scale Clan had remained inactive.

• Zhao Fu entered the Fish Scale World alone and discovered that its people used reefs and underwater mountains for cover, making an attack difficult without underwater breathing and combat preparations.
• Zhao Fu had Bai Shan's people manufacture Water Spirit Pearls and prepared ships as the human forces gathered at the Southern Continent's border.
• Three hundred million people assembled, and the Southern Continent leaders chose Akhenaten as alliance commander while Zhao Fu and the other outsiders were pushed aside.
• After the Fish Scale Clan showed no sign of attacking for more than a month, many people criticized Zhao Fu and the other inheritors, and most of the assembled forces left.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with his troops, wondering why the Fish Scale Clan had not invaded despite the malice he had sensed from their world.

After public criticism and the fading fear of an invasion, Zhao Fu continued preparing Great Qin for a possible war with the Fish Scale Clan. He developed large-scale countermeasures and refined gathered poisons in the Myriad Poisons Divine Cauldron.

• Pacifists demanded that the inheritors apologize for mobilizing against the Fish Scale Clan, prompting Aoglie to withdraw from the matter while Geluofei kept explaining and Arthur Tina prepared for war.
• Zhao Fu stopped engaging with the public debate, researched weapons against the Fish Scale Clan, and trained Great Qin's soldiers for underwater combat.
• More than two months passed without an invasion, while Great Qin expanded to 123 regions and twenty-one system main cities joined it amid worsening famine and unrest.
• Zhao Fu decided Great Qin would attack the Fish Scale Clan even if they did not invade, and he planned to use reinforced nets, poison, and underwater mines against them.
• Zhao Fu poured vast quantities of poison into the Myriad Poisons Divine Cauldron, refining them into several exceptionally toxic drops.

Zhao Fu prepared Destruction Crystals for Great Qin while postponing an attack until after the New Year. At the Southern Continent’s border, a vast sea-beast force invaded, destroyed the defensive wall, and killed all three million soldiers guarding it.

• Zhao Fu had Binuoxiu and Kelahe seal their combined forbidden spell into high-purity crystals, producing seventy-five Destruction Crystals over a month.
• Zhao Fu delayed launching an attack so Great Qin’s soldiers could celebrate the New Year and rest before the coming battles.
• A massive sea-beast army appeared from the Fish Scale World and terrified the three million soldiers stationed at the Southern Continent’s border.
• The sea beasts swept across the defensive wall, collapsing it and killing all three million soldiers as the invasion began.

Akhenaten called for aid as a sea beast tide devastated the Southern Continent, while Zhao Fu ignored calls to stay out of the crisis and helped devise a way to divide the beasts. The Southern Continent began building V-shaped barriers, but the tide continued ravaging regions as the story left the defenses still under construction.

• Akhenaten appealed for help against tens of millions of sea beasts, and system city lords and players began cooperating.
• Pacifists blamed the inheritors and Defenders for provoking the invasion, prompting Aoglie to refuse help and others to condemn the pacifists until they fell silent.
• Zhao Fu rushed to aid the Southern Continent because the disaster threatened Great Qin, then told Akhenaten and the other inheritors that they needed to split the beast tide before attacking it.
• Zhao Fu proposed using V-shaped barriers of mountains, stones, and logs to divide the sea beasts, and Akhenaten mobilized the Southern Continent's people and resources.
• As three thousand regions worked to build the barriers, the sea beasts swept through more than a hundred additional regions and caused over six hundred million people to suffer before finally slowing down.

Zhao Fu fought a herd of more than ten thousand sea beasts, cutting down hundreds and then over a thousand before a powerful three-headed snake attacked him. As Zhao Fu faced the Sea Beast King, the Fish Scale Clan launched its true invasion and extermination plan.

• More than seven thousand City Lords helped split up and slaughter the sea beast hordes, while the Southern forces sought aid from player factions across other continents.
• Zhao Fu used the Great Qin Seal and the power of four hundred City Lord Seals to unleash his full strength against a herd of over ten thousand sea beasts.
• Zhao Fu killed sea beasts with the Calamitous Dragon Sword, iron chains, and three water dragons, cutting a path through the herd.
• A ten-thousand-meter three-headed snake struck Zhao Fu and fired three destructive beams at him, while the other sea beasts fled.
• The Fish Scale Clan launched its true invasion and extermination plan as humans and sea beasts battled.

Zhao Fu battled the Three Divine Serpent, trading devastating attacks with the sea beast king until both were severely wounded. As he moved to finish it, the Earthwater Dragon Turtle arrived and attacked him, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhao Fu dodged the Three Divine Serpent’s black beams and wounded it with powerful sword strikes, while the serpent sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Zhao Fu used the Calamitous Dragon Sword to blast the Three Divine Serpent into a mountain, but the serpent retaliated with a barrage of black shells that devastated the battlefield.
• Zhao Fu unleashed the Heavenly Demon Sword’s Demon Sun as the Three Divine Serpent formed and fired a massive black sphere; their attacks collided in an explosion that severely injured them both.
• Zhao Fu broke the serpent’s beams and struck it with a water sword, sending it crashing to the ground as it raised its defenses.
• The Earthwater Dragon Turtle arrived, struck Zhao Fu with water columns, and emerged as a second sea beast king drawn by the battle’s fluctuations.

Zhao Fu fought the Earthwater Dragon Turtle and the Three Divine Serpent, struggling under their combined attacks until he used the Calamitous Dragon Sword to unleash a devastating water pillar. The Earthwater Dragon Turtle suffered grievous injuries, and Zhao Fu charged in to finish it off.

• The Earthwater Dragon Turtle attacked Zhao Fu with water pillars and spheres while the Three Divine Serpent joined the fight.
• Zhao Fu charged the Earthwater Dragon Turtle, but its shell deflected his sword strike and the two beasts knocked him down and wounded him.
• Zhao Fu drove the Three Divine Serpent away and summoned demons with Hell Gate, but the Earthwater Dragon Turtle crushed them with water spheres.
• Zhao Fu used the Calamitous Dragon Sword and his King's Profound Meaning to launch the Earthwater Dragon Turtle high into the air and slam it into the ground.
• The Earthwater Dragon Turtle was severely injured, and Zhao Fu charged toward it to kill it before dealing with the Three Divine Serpent.