Recaps

Zhao Fu finished the Divine Fish Festival, tallied Great Qin’s treasures, and prepared a plan to help City Lords during the Calamity Festival. When the festival began, he exchanged merit points for a Revival Pill and hunted Disaster Beasts while gathering intelligence about stronger targets.

• The Water God spun the Nine-Colored Roulette and obtained the Heaven-Sealing Sword, which Zhao Fu set aside because he already had other sealing methods.
• After the Divine Fish Festival ended, Zhao Fu gave the Water God enough Water God Stones to build a top-tier Water God Temple and reviewed Great Qin’s festival rewards.
• Zhao Fu discussed a plan with his generals to help other City Lords during the Calamity Festival and gain their gratitude.
• At midnight, disasters struck across the human world, and Zhao Fu exchanged his merit points for a Revival Pill.
• Zhao Fu killed an eighth-level firebird Disaster Beast, collected its Fire Disaster Crystal, and returned to Great Qin after hunting through nearby areas and gathering intelligence.

Zhao Fu hunted level-nine and level-ten calamity beasts, finding that the Sand Calamity Beast dropped a useful heavenly calamity creation. After defeating it, he welcomed several City Lords into Great Qin and flew on to his next target.

• Zhao Fu killed several level-nine calamity beasts, but they yielded only calamity crystals.
• Zhao Fu found a level-ten Sand Calamity Beast in a desert and dragged it from underground with his chains.
• Zhao Fu identified himself to the nearby City Lords as the Great Qin Imperial Prince and killed the Sand Calamity Beast with one sword strike.
• Zhao Fu learned from the Golden Dragon that the dropped Desertification Pearl could be made into a powerful forbidden item.
• One City Lord asked to join Great Qin, and the others soon agreed to join as well.
• Zhao Fu welcomed the City Lords, then flew toward another region while wondering whether he had acted too kindly.

After Zhao Fu learned that level-ten calamity beasts yielded powerful pearls, he hunted them before rushing to the level-twelve Death Calamity in the Underworld Region. The Death Calamity Beast emerged from the fog and overwhelmed the gathered experts, but paused when a terrifying pressure descended from the heavens.

• Zhao Fu killed an Ice Calamity Beast, obtained an Ice Calamity Pearl, and ordered Great Qin’s city lords to hunt level-ten calamity beasts for pearls.
• Zhao Fu collected seventy-two calamity pearls, then learned that a level-twelve Death Calamity had appeared in the Underworld Region and hurried there.
• Si Ji, the inheritors of several dynasties, and powerful figures from various schools entered the spreading death fog.
• The Death Calamity Beast drove the experts from the fog, then emerged and blocked their attacks with deathly energy.
• The Death Calamity Beast prepared to unleash a devastating attack but stopped when a terrifying pressure descended from the heavens.

Zhao Fu confronted the Death Calamity Beast and used the life aura of the Royal Wood Sword to wound her. She repeatedly healed by absorbing deathly energy, then split into two bodies and attacked him alongside her original form.

• Zhao Fu arrived as the Death Calamity Beast attacked him with a spear of deathly energy, which his Emperor Domain dispersed.
• Zhao Fu fought the Death Calamity Beast with his swords while nearby people and dynasties retreated from the battle.
• Zhao Fu used the Royal Wood Sword to summon life-filled vines that absorbed deathly energy, then struck the Death Calamity Beast from behind and wounded her.
• The Death Calamity Beast healed with deathly energy, summoned death beasts, and clashed with Zhao Fu, leaving them both injured.
• The Death Calamity Beast absorbed more deathly energy, split into two identical bodies, and attacked Zhao Fu with both of them.

Zhao Fu defeated and absorbed the Death Calamity Beast, obtaining a Seed of Calamity and transforming the Heaven-Sealing Sword into a Level 7 Saint Artifact. He then faced the wary dynasty inheritors but chose not to attack them yet.

• Zhao Fu used the Royal Wood Sword and his defensive barrier to overpower the Death Calamity Beast and her clones.
• The wounded Death Calamity Beast gathered death energy from several regions, but iron chains restrained her as a crystal sword pierced and absorbed her.
• Zhao Fu collected the Death Calamity Beast's calamity crystal, Death Calamity Pearl, and Seed of Calamity, which could advance a golden-grade city to legendary grade.
• The Heaven-Sealing Sword became the Level 7 Saint Artifact called the Sealed Death Calamity Sword, and Zhao Fu subdued its resisting spirit with Emperor's Power.
• Zhao Fu looked toward the dynasty inheritors but decided to spare them until he had enough strength to avoid provoking all of Huaxia.

Zhao Fu spent Great Qin’s Calamity Festival points on fourth-grade spirit herb seeds, then prepared for the New Year Festival as heavy snow began to fall. After the Six Days Festival ended, he improved Li Si’s aptitude and welcomed the hatched Nine-Tailed Demon Fox Xiao Jiu and Cerberus, whom he named Hell Hound, while realizing Xiao Jiu’s innate charm could affect him.

• Zhao Fu exchanged Great Qin’s Merit Points for more than twenty thousand fourth-grade spirit herb seeds and ordered the Medicine Department to propagate them.
• Zhao Fu learned that Medicinal Stone had improved several pills and supplied Great Qin with useful formulas.
• Heavy snow began at midnight as the New Year Festival started, and Zhao Fu prepared for its activities.
• After the Six Days Festival ended, Zhao Fu gave the generals their general fortune and raised Li Si’s aptitude to SSS grade with a Historical Aptitude Pill.
• Zhao Fu used spirit liquid to hatch the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and Cerberus, naming them Xiao Jiu and Hell Hound.
• Xiao Jiu clung to Zhao Fu and used her tearful charm to keep his attention, prompting him to remember the Golden Dragon’s warning about Nine-Tailed Demon Foxes.

Zhao Fu established a flower-growing domain and prepared a yin formation to convert corpses into yin soldiers. After setting those plans in motion, he turned to the Divine Fish Festival and began addressing its needs.

• Zhao Fu placed the Flower Domain on a plain, planted a lord-grade flower demon seed and many ordinary seeds, and buried a World Flower Seed there.
• Zhao Fu found a valley in Secluded Prefecture, set up the Yin Qi Grand Array, and placed tombstones and a Yin Soul War Banner to gather yin qi and repel ghosts.
• Zhao Fu arranged Ghost Seals in an array and prepared yinwood coffins holding the corpses of recently fallen Great Qin Soldiers for conversion into yin soldiers.
• Zhao Fu decided to obtain additional corpses from wars Great Qin had not fought, since those dead would be less likely to resent Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu ordered preparations for up to 25 million yin soldiers from Great Qin’s reserves of 700 million corpses, then turned to the Divine Fish Festival.
• Zhao Fu planned to breed Deep-Sea Tree Fish in saltwater lakes, added more than a dozen merfolk villages, and sought to cultivate stronger merfolk bloodlines.

After finishing the Six Days Festival’s remaining preparations, Zhao Fu learned that more than six hundred system main cities had joined Great Qin amid a sweeping relocation of cities and the breakdown of the old order. Great Qin’s power surged, while the loss of Absolute Neutrality Mode signaled that Apocalypse World’s arrival in the real world was drawing closer.

• Zhao Fu assigned thirty-six water-class experts to the Fish God Staffs, raised ten Calamity Knights into high-level Lords, and turned a heavy city into a City of Calamity.
• More than six hundred City Lords chose to join Great Qin after system main cities began gathering into enormous city clusters and dividing into factions with different policies toward players.
• Zhao Fu welcomed the new City Lords as Great Qin’s population rose to one billion and its military grew to 160 million soldiers.
• Zhao Fu identified 260 surrounding cityless regions as Great Qin’s next targets and planned to bring them under its control.
• Zhao Fu learned that system main cities could still use Absolute Neutrality Mode, but its impending failure threatened to bring Apocalypse World into the real world.
• Zhao Fu learned that other powerful factions and dynasties had also attracted some City Lords and expanded their strength.

Zhao Fu agreed to arrange for the Ying Family to integrate into Great Qin and considered their offer to send Ying Xi as his consort. Back in Apocalypse World, he planned Great Qin’s expansion and defenses while sending envoys to neighboring factions to secure time for its development.

• The Ying Family heads asked Zhao Fu when their family could join Great Qin, and he promised to arrange their integration.
• The family heads offered Ying Xi and Ying Qiu as consorts; Zhao Fu said he would consider the offer.
• After the family heads left, Zhao Fu received Zhang Hongmei, who arrived embarrassed and flushed.
• In Apocalypse World, Zhao Fu assigned 150 million soldiers to clear regions and ten million to guard the Great Wall, while planning a second wall to protect Great Qin’s expanding territory.
• Zhao Fu planned to seize 120 regions from the Yue Kingdom after Absolute Neutral Mode ended and began preparations to build the new Great Wall.
• Great Qin sent envoys bearing gifts to surrounding factions to seek friendly relations while it expanded and fortified its territory.

Zhao Fu let the Ghost King Seal absorb his blood as it transformed within the Yin Qi Grand Array, then continued expanding Great Qin. A month later, Great Qin City became a sixth-level capital city, leaving only the experience needed to reach royal city status before Zhao Fu could found a nation.

• Great Qin continued building the Great Wall and clearing regions while maintaining friendly relations with surrounding factions.
• The Ghost King Seal began melting as the Yin Qi Grand Array gathered yin qi, killing aura, and kingly aura to nurture something within the ghost seals.
• Golden Dragon urged Zhao Fu not to interfere and told him to fuse his essence blood into the Ghost King Seal, so Zhao Fu bled until the seal was saturated.
• A month later, Zhao Fu received notice that Great Qin City had upgraded to a sixth-level capital city.
• Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin needed 1.2 billion more experience to become a royal city and planned to gain it by clearing regions and attacking the Yue Kingdom.

Zhao Fu used Viet Guard, led by Li Qinqian, to clear Yue Kingdom players from regions near Great Qin under the pretense of restoring order and preparing defenses. Viet Guard emptied fifteen regions without Great Qin sending troops, then moved its operation farther inland.

• Zhao Fu instructed Li Qinqian to use Great Qin's funding to mobilize Yue Kingdom players and clear them from the regions Great Qin planned to seize.
• Viet Guard announced that it would restore order in Yue Kingdom, drawing broad public support as the kingdom's largest faction.
• Viet Guard offered players in fifteen regions near Great Qin Teleportation Arrays and travel money to leave, claiming the area would become a defensive zone.
• Viet Guard staged frightening ghost and demon formations to convince players and its own members that its actions were necessary.
• Most players left the fifteen regions, allowing Great Qin to take them without sending soldiers and reducing Yue Kingdom's remaining regions from 120 to 105.
• After inspecting the cleared regions for several days, Viet Guard moved its operation farther inland.

Viet Guard used Great Qin’s plans and the threat of system forces to justify taking control of Yue Kingdom’s remaining regions and building two Great Walls. The walls were secretly intended to secure those regions for Great Qin while avoiding a direct conquest of the entire kingdom.

• Viet Guard assessed the five national legacies and their combined strength, while Great Qin planned to destroy them itself.
• Viet Guard warned players that system forces threatened them and announced plans to build a Great Wall for defense.
• Zhao Fu ordered a second Great Wall beyond the remaining thirty-five regions, bringing all 120 planned regions under Viet Guard’s control.
• Viet Guard hired players and invited factions to build the walls, concealing that they would protect Great Qin from Yue Kingdom’s people.
• The construction and warnings boosted Viet Guard’s prestige as Yue Kingdom’s people celebrated its actions.

Viet Guard began its campaign to cleanse Yue Kingdom’s thirty-five regions, drawing on its righteous public image while remaining under Zhao Fu’s control. Led by Li Qinqian, Viet Guard attacked a settlement of three hundred thousand people and left its ruling factions retreating under assault.

• As two Great Walls advanced, Zhao Fu assigned Viet Guard responsibility for the thirty-five regions behind the first wall and had it urge ordinary players to leave before the coming campaign.
• In May, Viet Guard announced that its cleansing campaign would begin and split its ten million members into three armies to attack forces in three regions.
• Li Qinqian and Zhao Fu led an army of three million soldiers against a settlement of three hundred thousand people dominated by factions that exploited ordinary players.
• After Li Qinqian called on the settlement’s residents to resist their oppressors, a young man rallied them, and ordinary players attacked the factions from within.
• Viet Guard stormed the walls, forcing the factions and their City Lords to retreat as Viet Guard’s City Lords pursued them.

Li Qinqian led Viet Guard in defeating and looting hostile factions while presenting its expansion as a righteous campaign. After cleansing fifteen of Yue Kingdom’s thirty-five regions, Viet Guard grew powerful, leaving the twenty remaining regions trapped and divided.

• Zhao Fu watched from nearby as Viet Guard and the civilians slaughtered the factions’ forces, while Viet Guard City Lords killed their opponents.
• Li Qinqian welcomed new recruits and promised that Viet Guard would distribute the defeated factions’ goods among the people.
• Li Qinqian absorbed the defeated factions’ populations, sent their experience to Great Qin, and led Viet Guard onward as its forces and public support grew.
• Viet Guard captured another gathering place and gained eighty-nine City Lord Seals, bringing the number of cleansed regions to fifteen.
• The twenty remaining regions feared Viet Guard, which isolated hostile factions by sparing some good factions and branding its targets evil.

Viet Guard continued its purge by attacking factions it had newly branded as evil, despite doubts among its soldiers and the anger of the people it attacked. The remaining Lords recognized that Viet Guard intended to seize control of all thirty-five regions, and the chapter ended with them resisting the force they had once trusted.

• Zhao Fu sent Viet Guard’s three teams to sweep the regions, and Viet Guard proclaimed the remaining factions evil.
• Viet Guard attacked a small city, killed its Lord, and took control while some soldiers felt guilty as its people cowered in fear.
• Viet Guard assaulted another faction, and its soldiers continued after a senior officer reminded them that their first rule was to obey orders.
• The remaining factions formed three forces to oppose Viet Guard, though they were much weaker than its armies.
• The resisting Lords accused Viet Guard of hypocrisy and realized its campaign was meant to control the thirty-five regions.

Viet Guard defeated its enemies and captured 260 cities, but the victory left its members questioning the faction’s motives. Li Qinqian promised to explain, then secretly used truth-mixed tea to strip the player City Lords of their identities and take their City Lord Seals, leaving them to hear her reason.

• Viet Guard charged the enemy city, overcame its defenses, and won the battle at the cost of two million people while the enemy lost four million.
• Li Qinqian fought a minor City Lord in the sky as Viet Guard killed or captured the remaining defenders.
• Viet Guard and its allies gathered 25 million surviving troops and claimed 260 cities after sweeping through thirty-five regions.
• Disturbed by accusations that Viet Guard was disguising its ambitions, its members demanded answers, and Li Qinqian promised to explain the next day.
• Li Qinqian summoned Viet Guard’s upper ranks and served them medicinal tea mixed with the Fruit of Truth, stripping the player City Lords of their City Lord identities.
• Li Qinqian collected the player City Lords’ seals and said she would explain the reason behind the sweep.

Li Qinqian revealed that Viet Guard was a Great Qin plot to destroy the Yue Kingdom and persuaded its remaining player City Lords to submit. As the system armies attacked and slaughtered Viet Guard, Great Qin began its operation.

• Li Qinqian told Viet Guard's members that Great Qin had planted the faction to destroy the Yue Kingdom and offered the player City Lords protection if they submitted.
• A City Lord attacked a Viet Guard member who tried to expose the conspiracy, and Li Qinqian stopped the City Lords from killing the players.
• The player City Lords accepted Li Qinqian's offer to submit to Great Qin as an army approached.
• Li Qinqian left with the player City Lords and said Viet Guard's other members would die because they were obstacles to Great Qin.
• The system armies surrounded Viet Guard and stormed its city, killing its members after Great Qin lured the two system factions there with false intelligence.
• Great Qin officially began its operation.

The system army destroyed Viet Guard, only to discover that Great Qin had used the battle as bait to trap them. Zhao Fu offered the surrounded forces submission or death, and Great Qin’s buried Destruction Crystals devastated their attempted escape.

• The system army killed nearly all of Viet Guard’s forces, while fewer than one million escaped and the system army lost four million soldiers.
• News of Viet Guard’s destruction shocked the Yue Kingdom, where factions and ordinary people reacted to the sudden collapse.
• A force of at least one hundred million Great Qin soldiers and fifteen hundred City Lords surrounded the victorious system army as it prepared to leave.
• Zhao Fu emerged and demanded that the system forces submit to Great Qin or die.
• A system City Lord ordered a breakout to the east, but thirty Destruction Crystals exploded across the city and killed at least five or six million soldiers.
• Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s City Lords in a fierce attack on the devastated system forces.

Great Qin annihilated the Yue Kingdom’s national legacies and seized all 120 regions in a surprise assault. Zhao Fu then led his army toward the Yue Kingdom’s second Great Wall as reports began revealing the three-year conspiracy behind the upheaval.

• Zhao Fu and the Great Qin forces slaughtered the system City Lords and soldiers, forcing the survivors to surrender with fifteen million troops.
• Bai Qi used the Seven Killings Star to suppress and kill a national legacy inheritor before Great Qin captured his city.
• Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, Li Mu, and Bai Xihan led five forces that destroyed the other national legacies and killed their inheritors.
• Great Qin conquered all 120 regions of the Yue Kingdom and assigned its armies to absorb the cities, populations, and resources.
• Zhao Fu marched toward the Yue Kingdom’s second Great Wall while reports of the attacks began exposing a conspiracy plotted over three years.

Great Qin’s destruction of much of the Yue Kingdom left the weakened nation furious, while the world recognized Great Qin as the restored Qin State. When Yue Kingdom leaders confronted Zhao Fu at the second Great Wall, their people charged after he ordered weapons aimed at them, and Great Qin opened fire.

• Great Qin’s exposure of Viet Guard’s betrayal and its conquest of 120 Yue Kingdom regions shocked nations and factions, which regarded Great Qin as Qin State.
• Yue Kingdom survivors gathered at the second Great Wall, where Zhao Fu faced their leaders as they demanded an explanation and his withdrawal.
• Zhao Fu refused to negotiate and ordered Great Qin’s ballistas and weapons to aim at the Yue Kingdom crowd.
• A Yue Kingdom player urged the crowd to resist, and thousands charged toward the wall.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to fire, killing five or six million of the players at the front.

After Great Qin’s attack killed millions of Yue Kingdom players in reality, Zhao Fu abandoned his plan to wipe out Yue Kingdom when two neighboring countries intervened, and the conflict settled into a tense stalemate. Great Qin expanded and prepared to establish a nation, while Zhao Fu later gave Xu Liuyi a newly forged General’s Artifact, hoping to awaken the Army Breaker Star.

• The factions learned that five or six million Yue Kingdom players had died in reality, and the survivors fled as Zhao Fu prepared to attack them.
• When players from two neighboring countries came to Yue Kingdom’s aid, Zhao Fu sent fifty million troops to intercept them instead of exterminating Yue Kingdom.
• Several days later, Great Qin defended its occupied territory against Yue Kingdom and its allies, while the invasion’s gains brought its population to 1.2 billion and its military strength to 180 million.
• As wars spread and hidden forces such as the Shu Kingdom, Wu Kingdom, and Wei Kingdom appeared, Zhao Fu focused on clearing regions and preparing Great Qin to establish a nation.
• A month later, Zhao Fu named the newly sprouted Lord-grade flower demon Xiao Qiang and arranged for her and Xiao Jiu to be cared for together.
• After Li Wen delivered another hundred Soldier Souls, Zhao Fu gave the fused Soldier God Soul to Xu Liuyi so she could fuse with the General’s Artifact.

Xu Liuyi fused her General's Artifact as three general stars gathered over Great Qin, followed by ten more stars surrounding Zhao Fu. Zhao Fu underwent a painful transformation that shook all four worlds, leaving rulers and countless beings kneeling beneath an overwhelming heavenly presence.

• Xu Liuyi summoned the Army Breaker Star and fused the ten Soldier God Souls into her General's Artifact.
• Bai Xihan and Sun Hanxiang awakened their general stars, forming a second three-star gathering above Great Qin.
• As the pressure of the stars struck Zhao Fu, an ancient blood-red rune appeared on his brow and ten generals were compelled to circle him and raise their General's Artifacts.
• Ten additional general stars descended as the sky darkened, and the rulers of the Fish Scale World, Demon Profound World, Greenfield World, and human world sensed their royal bloodlines tremble.
• Zhao Fu roared as black aura surged from his body, splitting the skies of all four worlds and forcing countless beings, including some rulers, to kneel.

A Heavenly Emperor Star descended over a frontier region, prompting a powerful Heavenly Dao Sect elder to recognize the omen. His disciple was shocked that such a star could appear outside Apocalypse World's central region.

• A supreme heavenly will spread across the worlds, forcing most living beings to kneel while Arthur Tina, Fish Scale, Demon Xuan, and Green Shade resisted and were gravely injured.
• A vast golden star descended above the human world, and an elder on a mountain in Apocalypse World sensed its arrival.
• The elder identified the star as a Heavenly Emperor Star, while his disciple proposed investigating the central-region empire where its imperial son had been born.
• The elder revealed that the Heavenly Emperor Star was in a frontier region and that disturbed heavenly secrets concealed its precise location.
• The disciple was shocked that a Heavenly Emperor Star had appeared in a frontier region.

Mandate of Heaven elders discovered that Zhao Fu's Heavenly Emperor Star was accompanied by a sinister blood-red destiny star, but the stars repelled their attempt to investigate. The Heavenly Book Pavilion announced the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star's arrival and warned that its wielder's information could not be obtained.

• A disciple asked his master about the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star in the border wilderness, and the old man said it carried traces of killing intent, calamity, and darkness.
• Mandate of Heaven elders used the Heavenly Mechanism to trace Zhao Fu's Heavenly Emperor Star and found a blood-red star beside it.
• The two stars blasted the elders' consciousness back, injuring them as they tried to investigate.
• The elders described the two destiny stars to Mandate of Heaven, prompting others to search ancient records and report to the Venerable of Destiny.
• The Heavenly Book Pavilion's Pavilion Master announced that the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star had descended and said its wielder's information could not be obtained.

The appearance of the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star revealed that it belonged to Zhao Fu, though the Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group kept his identity secret and other factions searched for him. As purple qi poured into Zhao Fu beneath the star above Great Qin, it gathered into a dragon egg inside his chest.

• A refined middle-aged man explained that the Heavenly Emperor Star was hidden in the border wastelands by heavenly secrets, and ordered others to investigate the region.
• The Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group discovered that the mysterious First-generation Emperor Blood belonged to the owner of the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star and classified the information as top secret.
• A Death Clan young man reflected on the human race's new Heavenly Emperor Star, while awakened leaders of the god, devil, and demon races ordered their people to find its owner.
• A black-clad great power watched Tuoba Qing's aura and smiled faintly.
• Above Great Qin, Zhao Fu was lifted beneath the golden star as purple qi flooded into him and condensed around the Golden Dragon into a fearsome dragon egg.