Recaps

Zhao Fu awakened the Heavenly Emperor Star and gained a purple divine dragon, but a powerful black-clothed man used an Origin Mark to locate him and attack Great Qin. Zhao Fu’s sword strike wounded the man and began shrinking the blood vortex, but another mutation occurred before it disappeared.

• Zhao Fu absorbed the purple qi, awakened the Heavenly Emperor Star, and birthed a purple divine dragon within his body.
• A black-clothed man used an Origin Mark in a blood pool to summon a blood-colored vortex above Great Qin and try to seize Zhao Fu’s Origin Mark.
• Golden Dragon warned Zhao Fu about the attack, and Zhao Fu ordered everyone to evacuate while he resisted the vortex’s suction.
• Zhao Fu’s Death Sword strike failed to stop the vortex, which expanded and sent a giant hand toward him.
• Zhao Fu drew on the power of nearly three thousand cities to sever the giant hand and wound the black-clothed man, causing the vortex to shrink.
• Another mutation occurred as the blood-colored vortex was about to vanish.

Zhao Fu fought a powerful phantom summoned from a blood vortex, then unleashed the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and defeated it. As that power began tearing his body apart, the will of the Nine Nethers invaded him, awakening the corpses inside twenty-five million black coffins.

• The phantom emerged from the blood and demanded Zhao Fu surrender the Origin Mark, while the blood flooded the surrounding land and killed all living things.
• Zhao Fu gathered power from Great Qin through the Great Qin Seal, but the phantom shattered his Emperor Domain and repeatedly wounded him.
• The phantom approached the seemingly helpless Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu erupted with the ghostly power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Zhao Fu broke free of the phantom's attack, struck him into a mountain wall, and pierced his chest with a claw, causing the phantom to vanish.
• Zhao Fu's body began to break down, and the will of the Nine Nethers invaded him as the corpses in twenty-five million black coffins opened their eyes.

The will of the Nine Netherworlds transformed Zhao Fu as yin energy spread across the Human World and turned it into a realm of ghosts. A Nether Emperor Star descended over the same region, leaving the Heavenly Dao Sect alarmed by its appearance after the Heavenly Emperor Star.

• A massive pillar of yin energy erupted from the Nine Netherworlds, covering the Human World in ghostly clouds and frightening Fish Scale, Demon Profound, and Green Shade.
• The Nine Netherworlds will carried Zhao Fu into the pillar and painfully eroded his body and soul as yin energy and black blood from the Six Paths Demon Idols flooded into him.
• Twenty-five million yin soldiers, ghosts, monsters, and nether guardians bowed to Zhao Fu, and a gray ghost dragon plunged into his body.
• The pillar expanded as a gray star descended, sending waves of nether energy across more than a thousand worlds.
• An old man of the Heavenly Dao Sect recognized the star as the Nether Emperor Star, and his disciple noted that it had descended from the same direction as the Heavenly Emperor Star.

A master and his disciple learned that the Nether Emperor Star had awakened in the frontier region and might belong to the same person as the Heavenly Emperor Star. The Fate Venerable investigated the two stars and began examining Zhao Fu’s fate, but their power pushed back against her.

• The old man told his disciple that the Nether Emperor Star had awakened in the frontier region, not in the Ghost God Empire.
• The old man said the Nether Emperor Star’s aura resembled the Heavenly Emperor Star’s and that both likely belonged to the same person.
• The old man ordered his disciple to gather all the elders for a meeting.
• The Fate Venerable heard the reports about the two stars and used the heavenly calculation instrument to investigate them.
• The Fate Venerable recognized Zhao Fu’s blood-colored star as the Yinghuo Emperor Star and tried to examine his fate.
• The two stars unleashed a powerful hurricane against the Fate Venerable, who struggled to withstand it behind a white barrier.

The descent of a Nether Emperor Star carrying the Six Paths’ aura shocked the Mandate of Heaven, the Heavenly Book Pavilion, the Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group, and the Underworld’s powerful factions. The chapter ended with the Underworld discovering the star in Apocalypse World after the Six Paths Demon Idols roared in fury.

• The Fate Venerable was injured while trying to discern the destiny of the newly descended Nether Emperor Star, then ordered the Mandate of Heaven elders to keep the matter secret.
• The Heavenly Book Pavilion’s Pavilion Master confirmed that the Nether Emperor Star had descended and forbade detailed discussion of it.
• The Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group found that the blood mass was emitting ghostly light and a cold aura, then ordered everyone to keep it secret on pain of death.
• Death Clan experts sensed that the Nether Emperor Star carried a hostile Underworld aura resembling that of the Six Paths Demon Idols.
• The Six Paths Demon Idols roared, throwing the Yin soul world into chaos, and Underworld factions discovered the Six Paths aura on the Nether Emperor Star in Apocalypse World.

Zhao Fu awakened after the Nether Emperor Star’s descent, returning to a more human appearance while gaining a gray pupil and a powerful ghost dragon. The celestial upheaval ended, but its display of Great Qin’s strength reshaped the plans and attitudes of factions across several worlds.

• Zhao Fu awakened with a gray pupil, a ghost dragon, and a strange, powerful human-ghost aura as the Nether Emperor Star faded.
• The yin energy and dark clouds receded, sunlight returned, and observers concluded that Great Qin’s Imperial Prince possessed three king stars.
• The great families abandoned hopes of dominating Great Qin and sought shelter with the Ying Family, while the Yue Kingdom considered submitting to Great Qin.
• The major dynasties resented being forced to kneel, and Arthur Tina was the only human-world inheritor who resisted the heavenly will, though she was gravely injured.
• The Greenfield World changed its invasion plans, the Demon Profound World reassessed humanity, and Demon Seven returned to the human world more cautiously.
• The Fish Scale World regretted invading, and its golden-scaled protector of the Way entered the human world to observe humanity.

After awakening the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and gaining a half-ghost, half-human bloodline, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and focused on defense and recovery. A group of women from the conquered Yue Kingdom then requested an audience with him.

• Zhao Fu learned from the Golden Dragon that his two Emperor Stars had awakened through accumulated fortune and the Origin Mark, and he resolved to hide the mark and restore the Six Paths Demon Idols.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the Ghost King Seal had fused into a ghost dragon, giving him control over ten million Yin soldiers.
• Bai Qi and the generals checked on Zhao Fu, who led them back to Great Qin City and ordered stronger defenses, faster Great Wall construction, and low-profile development.
• Zhao Fu asked Li Si to prepare a top-grade Yinwood coffin so he could absorb Yin Qi at night and help the Six Paths Demon Idols recover.
• A large group of women, mostly players from the Yue Kingdom who had been captured during Great Qin’s conquest, requested to see Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu agreed to spare the Yue Kingdom women’s families if they submitted, then spent time flying kites with Xiao Jiu and Xiao Qiang. In the real world, he met factions seeking to join Great Qin, kept his identity as the Great Qin Imperial Prince secret, and accepted their gifts while warning women sent to him that they might be ignored.

• More than one hundred and twenty women from Yue Kingdom asked Zhao Fu to spare their families in exchange for serving him, and he promised not to harm relatives who submitted.
• Xiao Jiu and Xiao Qiang interrupted the women, and Zhao Fu took them outside to fly kites with Black Forest, the Moon Wolf, Fat Cat, and the flying dragon.
• Family heads and faction representatives met Zhao Fu in the real world, believing he was only the Great Qin Imperial Prince’s spokesperson.
• Zhao Fu ended the banquet and said factions seeking to join Great Qin had to offer proof of their sincerity, prompting them to send women, treasures, and resources.
• Zhao Fu advised the actresses, models, and singers sent as gifts that the Great Qin Imperial Prince might not pay them any attention.

Zhao Fu agreed to take a group of women to Great Qin after they insisted they needed its protection. Before he could bring them, a mysterious faction sent him the Zhanlu Sword, whose benevolent nature conflicted with his hegemonic path and which seemed to possess consciousness.

• A singer warned Zhao Fu that the women believed the Great Qin Imperial Prince would eventually claim them, and they preferred to seek his protection willingly.
• Several women pressured Zhao Fu to take them to Great Qin, and he agreed after hearing that they had chosen this to survive the chaos.
• Zhao Fu delayed bringing the women after receiving an ancient black sword from an unidentified faction.
• Zhao Fu recognized the sword as Zhanlu, a legendary blade associated with benevolence and virtue.
• Zhao Fu sensed that Zhanlu had its own consciousness when an eye opened in the darkness as he held it.

Zhao Fu struggled to understand why Zhanlu Sword had chosen to watch him, then brought a group of celebrities to Great Qin. In the imperial palace, the women mistook Zhao Fu for a minor servant and feared the Great Qin Imperial Prince would punish him for his flirtatious advances.

• Zhao Fu found that Zhanlu Sword's watchful eye remained with him even after he put the sword away, while others felt nothing when they held it.
• Zhao Fu speculated that the mysterious faction had sent him Zhanlu Sword to unsettle him, then gave the celebrities one last chance to reconsider before taking them to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu had the women consume the Fruit of Truth and brought them through the Teleportation Array to Great Qin City and the imperial palace.
• Zhao Fu lifted Miss Zhang's chin, and she slapped his hand away while the singer warned them to keep the incident from the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Zhao Fu stroked the singer's cheek as well, leaving the women convinced that the supposed minor servant was risking his life by flirting with them.

After revealing his identity to the women he had summoned, Zhao Fu learned more about the Mind's Eye and turned to preparing Great Qin for its founding. He opened a broad imperial examination to recruit civil and military officials, and about thirty thousand candidates reached the final palace examination.

• Zhao Fu revealed himself as the Great Qin Imperial Prince, reassured the frightened women, and formally conferred titles upon them.
• Zhao Fu asked Golden Dragon about the eye implanted in his heart, and Golden Dragon identified it as the Mind's Eye and explained its abilities and how it might disappear.
• Zhao Fu oversaw preparations to divide Great Qin into provinces, counties, towns, and villages as the Great Wall neared completion and the nation’s founding approached.
• Zhao Fu announced civil and military imperial examinations open to people of any age, race, or background, including those outside the academies and army.
• Great Qin held several rounds of selection, and roughly thirty thousand candidates advanced to the final palace examination after six days.

Zhao Fu oversaw Great Qin’s civil and martial examinations, while his ministers debated which candidates deserved recognition. After the results were decided and the top performers honored, the question of a suitable empress remained, with Nü Lü emerging as the strongest candidate.

• Zhao Fu attended the palace examination with his ministers, and they recommended civil-service candidates, including Yu Siyan, Changsun Zhu, and Bei Rou.
• Wu Zetian urged the ministers to let the examination results determine which candidates were most capable.
• The ministers reviewed the civil examination papers, while Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, Bai Xihan, Sun Hanxiang, and other generals oversaw the martial contests.
• On the third day, Yu Siyan placed first in the civil examination, and Liu Xiao of Ice Fire City won first place in the martial examination.
• Zhao Fu summoned and honored exceptional candidates at a banquet, then considered Nü Lü as the most suitable empress because Tuoba Qing had left.

Zhao Fu postponed choosing an empress while Great Qin prepared to found its nation. At the enthronement, Great Qin’s fortune transformed dramatically, and nine black dragons fused into a great seal.

• Ministers proposed several candidates for empress, but Zhao Fu refused to decide and ordered them not to discuss the matter again.
• More than two months later, Great Qin founded its nation, drawing the attention of the entire human world.
• Zhao Fu ascended the throne on the Heaven-Prayer Platform as Great Qin’s citizens knelt and its fortune gathered into a vast black cloud.
• Zhao Fu entered the pillar of fortune, and his bloodline, temperament, and soul underwent another transformation.
• The Great Qin Seal entered the sky’s black vortex and exploded into countless specks of light, expanding the clouds and revealing nine black dragons.
• The nine black dragons gathered at the vortex’s center and fused into a great seal.

Zhao Fu established the Great Qin Empire, gaining the status of king and a surge in power as Great Qin received blessings and nation-founding rewards. He examined the new kingdom’s attributes and prepared to use its newly unlocked official positions and legions.

• The Great Qin Seal formed, sending black light across Great Qin that healed and strengthened its citizens as the City Heart and Nation-Guarding Artifacts gained power.
• Notifications announced that Great Qin City had become a Baron Royal City and Great Qin had been established as the human world's first empire, earning a blessing and rewards.
• Zhao Fu became a true king, absorbed the Great Qin King Seal, and raised his bloodline to Level 18 Emperor Bloodline.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin Royal City's attributes and learned that future national and city upgrades depended on conquered regions rather than experience.
• Zhao Fu noted that Great Qin had received hundreds of cities, towns, and villages, and that founding the empire had unlocked official positions and legions.

The chapter explained how Great Qin’s civil and military official seals derived power from its territory and army, and described the strength of its population, forces, and cities. It then outlined the capacities and seven special effects of Great Qin’s legions.

• The chapter explained that civil official seals could strengthen Great Qin’s defense and administration but could only be used within its territory.
• Great Qin’s military officials could wield seals based on troop numbers, and its army and population determined how many seals it could support.
• The chapter listed Great Qin’s current territory, population, soldiers, cities, corpse soul forces, and wyverns.
• Great Qin’s level-five Baron Nation could establish thirteen legions, each accommodating two million soldiers.
• The chapter detailed the legions’ seven effects: enhanced attributes, morale and resistance, recovery, intimidation, defense, combined military forms, and the ability to merge legions into a greater force.

Zhao Fu reviewed the powers Great Qin gained by founding a nation, especially the strength of legions and the barriers created by national borders. Great Qin could establish thirteen legions, and Zhao Fu felt confident about the nation’s future.

• Zhao Fu learned that legions could unite soldiers’ army qi through Legion Form, enabling them to challenge City Lords and powerful monsters.
• He learned that special legions required a compatible vessel to fuse with a Legion Heart, while ordinary legions had no special abilities.
• Great Qin could establish thirteen legions with twenty-six million soldiers, enough to counter as many as two hundred and sixty City Lords.
• Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin’s national borders and Great Wall could prevent even powerful Teleportation Arrays from crossing them.
• Standing on the Heaven-Prayer Platform, Zhao Fu read the notifications and felt confident that Great Qin had become a true nation.

After restoring Great Qin, Zhao Fu appointed its ministers and began establishing its royal legions. He fused a Legion Heart with Great Qin’s City Lord Heart, summoning a powerful Black Dragon.

• Zhao Fu accepted his identity and mission as a member of the Ying Family and declared Great Qin restored.
• Zhao Fu returned to the palace and had Li Si read out appointments, titles, rewards, and official ranks for Great Qin’s ministers.
• Great Qin celebrated the appointments and founding of the empire with feasts and a palace banquet that lasted until midnight.
• Zhao Fu left the banquet and went to the City Lord Hall to establish Great Qin’s King’s Legions.
• Zhao Fu placed a Legion Heart into Great Qin’s City Lord Heart, and a Black Dragon appeared before transforming into a carved black stone stele.

Zhao Fu established four special legions by turning powerful cities and Great Qin’s Inheritance Stone into legion vessels, each with a unique form and enhanced abilities. With nine Legion Hearts remaining and the strongest capital cities already used, he considered how to find more suitable vessels.

• Zhao Fu inspected the Great Qin Imperial Army’s attributes and found that its members gained the power of a King’s Attendant, its Black Dragon form was enhanced, and its troop limit increased to five million.
• Zhao Fu fused a Legion Heart into Demon King City’s City Heart and created the Demon King Legion, whose members gained the power of a Demon King and whose limit increased by one million.
• Zhao Fu fused a Legion Heart into Peacock City’s City Heart and created the Peacock Legion, granting its members peacock power and a one-million-soldier increase.
• Zhao Fu fused a Legion Heart into Seven Killings City’s City Heart and created the Seven Killings Legion, whose members gained Seven Killings power and whose form was a blood eagle.
• Zhao Fu counted four established legions and nine remaining Legion Hearts, then considered other powerful cities as possible vessels because each Heart could be used only once.

Zhao Fu failed to use national inheritance cities as legion vessels, but established the Fireflame Legion and Icecold Legion by merging Legion Hearts with the ice and fire cities and their City Lords’ blood. With six legions now formed and no suitable special cities left, he turned to consider other possible vessels.

• Zhao Fu tested Legion Hearts in Great Shun and other national inheritance cities, but the fusions failed.
• Zhao Fu tried to merge a Legion Heart with Fireflame City, but it was rejected just before the fusion could finish.
• Binuoxiu merged her fiery blood into Fireflame City’s City Heart, allowing Zhao Fu to establish the Fireflame Legion.
• Kelahe merged her icy blood into Icecold City’s City Heart, allowing Zhao Fu to establish the Icecold Legion.
• Zhao Fu counted six established legions and considered two other kinds of objects as possible vessels, while Kelahe said she would wait for him in the imperial palace.

Zhao Fu successfully established the Tree Legion and Flower Legion by merging Legion Hearts into the World Tree and World Flower, then tried to make the Flying Dragon Nest into a legion vessel. The nest’s transformation grew increasingly powerful and opened a crack in the sky, from which a ten-colored sphere descended amid visions of countless beings.

• Zhao Fu merged a Legion Heart into the World Tree and established the Tree Legion, which granted life power and increased its soldier limit by one million.
• Zhao Fu merged another Legion Heart into the still-unbloomed World Flower and established the Flower Legion, also increasing its soldier limit by one million.
• Zhao Fu counted Great Qin’s eight legions and considered making the Corpse Soul Blood Pool or Flying Dragon Nest into another legion vessel.
• Zhao Fu merged a Legion Heart into the Flying Dragon Nest, whose power surged and forced him to use his Emperor Domain to withstand it.
• A crack opened in the sky, and a ten-colored sphere descended as visions of humans, demons, elves, dragons, and other beings appeared.

Zhao Fu created the All-Beings Legion and the Corpse Soul Legion by using Legion Hearts with Great Qin’s All-Beings Nest and Corpse Soul Blood Pool. He then used a third Legion Heart on the City of Calamity, where a new legion stele began to form.

• Zhao Fu inspected the All-Beings Legion and learned that its All-Beings Domain could dissolve and assimilate other legions’ power.
• Zhao Fu used a Legion Heart on the Corpse Soul Blood Pool, creating the Corpse Soul Legion, whose power he planned to give to the Orcs.
• Zhao Fu realized the City of Immortals, Sword Mountain, and City of Calamity could serve as vessels for the three Legion Hearts he had left.
• Zhao Fu merged a Legion Heart into the City of Calamity’s City Lord Heart, and calamity forces gathered into a stone stele.

Zhao Fu established the Calamity, Immortal, and Sword Mountain Legions, completing Great Qin’s thirteen legions. At court, Great Qin’s ministers agreed to conquer the Yue Kingdom, and Wei Liao proposed next taking the system factions surrounding Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu formed the Calamity Legion, the Immortal Legion, and the Sword Mountain Legion by fusing Legion Hearts into their cities’ City Hearts.
• After completing the thirteen legions, Zhao Fu returned to the palace and planned to discuss elevating Great Qin into a higher-level nation at morning court.
• At morning court, Great Qin’s ministers unanimously supported conquering the remaining 230 regions of the Yue Kingdom to secure Great Qin’s northern border.
• Wei Liao proposed that after conquering the Yue Kingdom, Great Qin should attack the system factions to its west, east, and south, whose alliances controlled 2,200 cities in total.

Zhao Fu approved a plan to settle Yue Kingdom’s eighty million players in territories taken from Myanmar and Laos, then waited for the other factions’ vigilance to ease. Great Qin launched a coordinated nighttime operation to capture cities, and its forces confronted a Yue Kingdom City Lord at the edge of a major city gathering.

• Zhao Fu agreed to use intimidation and provoke conflict between the Yue Kingdom’s players and the people of Myanmar and Laos rather than massacre them.
• After half a month, Zhao Fu assessed Great Qin’s growing strength and identified the Hong Pang Clan’s Nation-Guarding Artifact as the main obstacle in the Yue Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu ordered more than five thousand people to capture and relocate cities without getting caught up in fighting soldiers or residents.
• Great Qin’s forces attacked the outer cities of a Yue Kingdom faction’s gathering place, while the other City Lords failed to arrive and provide aid.
• Five City Lords asked a fat middle-aged City Lord to submit to Great Qin, then attacked him together and drove him to flee.

Great Qin launched simultaneous attacks on the Yue Kingdom and the Hong Pang Clan, killing city lords and destroying settlements as Zhao Fu led an assault on Hong Pang City. Zhao Fu’s killing of civilians triggered pain from the Zhanlu Sword’s Mind’s Eye, and the chapter ended with him knocking Xiong Jiang into a crater.

• Five Great Qin city lords killed a fat middle-aged city lord, relocated his system main city, and left its civilians and soldiers enraged.
• Ge Nie killed a sinister city lord, took his City Lord Seal, and relocated another system main city for Great Qin.
• Great Qin city lords attacked settlements across the Yue Kingdom, spreading panic as news of the invasion reached other factions.
• Zhao Fu led more than five hundred city lords to break Hong Pang City’s aerial-forbidden formation and devastate the city.
• Zhao Fu’s attack on the city lord hall killed forty or fifty thousand people, causing the Zhanlu Sword’s Mind’s Eye to inflict growing spiritual pain on him.
• Xiong Jiang charged Zhao Fu with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, but Zhao Fu struck him into a wide pit.

Zhao Fu fought Xiong Jiang, overcame the power of the Red Ghost Statue, and killed him, allowing Great Qin to capture Hong Pang City. As Great Qin’s assault ended, urgent alarms reported that enemies had launched coordinated attacks from several directions.

• Xiong Jiang summoned his crimson dragon fate, but Zhao Fu used the Great Qin Seal to wound him severely.
• Xiong Jiang merged with the Red Ghost Statue and clashed with Zhao Fu, and both were injured by their attacks.
• Zhao Fu killed a general who tried to help Xiong Jiang, then killed Xiong Jiang with a single sword strike.
• Zhao Fu captured the Red Ghost Statue as Great Qin’s City Lords subdued Hong Pang City, ending the northern assault.
• Great Qin received an urgent alarm that system factions and players were attacking from the east, south, and west, while Myanmar and Laos sent two large forces against it.