Recaps

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin as surrounding forces launched a coordinated invasion, and the attackers backed down into a tense standoff. He ordered defenses and diplomatic efforts while turning his attention to absorbing the Yue Kingdom and the spoils Great Qin had gained.

• Zhao Fu and Great Qin’s City Lords rushed back, forcing the forces attacking from all directions to halt before breaking through the defenses.
• Great Qin and the 240 million attackers faced off, while Great Qin continued selecting soldiers for its thirteen legions, which numbered 41 million in total.
• Zhao Fu condemned the western factions as dishonorable aggressors, then argued that Great Qin had not attacked them during the past year.
• Zhao Fu ordered the army to hold its position and told Li Si to send envoys and gifts to distant factions to win support and isolate Great Qin’s neighbors.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin’s spoils, including 300 surrendered cities, 100 million people, and 30 million Tier 1 soldiers, and prioritized absorbing the Yue Kingdom.

After Great Qin conquered Yue Kingdom, Zhao Fu used an undead catastrophe to drive the remaining Yue Kingdom people out of its territory. The Yue Kingdom Alliance led a mass migration into regions near the center of Laos, where their arrival sparked conflict with the local population.

• Yue Kingdom's remaining factions and elites pledged loyalty to Great Qin, but Zhao Fu delayed accepting them and planned to use them to lead players into neighboring nations.
• Zhao Fu unleashed undead across Yue Kingdom, causing widespread panic and convincing many people that they faced true death.
• The Yue Kingdom Alliance urged people to flee Great Qin's territory, and most former top factions and ordinary people followed it.
• The migrants used Teleportation Arrays to reach several regions near the center of Laos, which were marked as occupied by Yue Kingdom.
• Laos residents demanded that the Yue Kingdom people leave, and Laos players attacked them but failed because Yue Kingdom had more people and strength.

Great Qin’s schemes secured Yue Kingdom’s foothold in Laos while Huaxia’s factions turned their attention toward opposing Great Qin. Zhao Fu then granted titles to hundreds of Yue Kingdom women, and their phoenix aura awakened the Imperial Phoenix Statue as a Nation-Guarding Artifact.

• Great Qin’s attack on Laos stopped its factions from expelling Yue Kingdom, allowing Yue Kingdom players and city lords to settle there under Great Qin’s secret plan.
• Huaxia’s dynasties and factions united against Great Qin, while the Hundred Schools of Thought chose neutrality and resolved to support the eventual victor.
• Zhao Fu gathered more than six hundred Yue Kingdom women in the great hall and used the Great Qin Seal to approve an imperial decree granting them titles.
• The decree released an immense phoenix aura, and Golden Dragon announced that the Imperial Phoenix Statue had reached the level of a Nation-Guarding Artifact.
• Zhao Fu watched as the golden phoenix filled the sky above Great Qin and its radiance mingled with the empire’s rising black fate aura.

Zhao Fu used the phoenix aura gathered from women across Yue to strengthen Great Qin and its Imperial Phoenix Statue, then refined the Red Ghost Statue into the Qin Ghost Statue. He ended the chapter planning to secure Great Qin’s occupied Yue territories by building the Great Wall while postponing the full clearing of those regions.

• The Imperial Phoenix Statue stabilized Great Qin’s fate aura, gained Nation-Guarding Artifact-level power, and formed a golden crystal of phoenix power and fate within Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu rewarded the women who had helped gather phoenix aura and kept the women of the Hong Pang Dynasty behind, promising to spare their relatives if they followed him.
• Zhao Fu summoned ten generals and refined the Red Ghost Statue with Great Qin’s fate aura as Yue Kingdom’s natives pledged loyalty to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu named the transformed statue the Qin Ghost Statue and placed it beside the City Heart to absorb Great Qin’s fate aura.
• Zhao Fu and the city lords decided to build the Great Wall around Yue’s 230 occupied regions, then clear those regions gradually.

Si Ji united Huaxia dynasties and foreign nations to assemble a massive alliance against Great Qin. Su Zhe urged Bai Le to hand over Flower Moon’s intelligence on Great Qin, and she hesitated over the consequences.

• Si Ji proposed combining the dynasties’ and national inheritances’ troops and City Lords, then shared letters confirming support from foreign nations including Russia, Japan, and India.
• One inheritor objected to involving foreign powers in Huaxia’s affairs, but another argued that they needed every ally to defeat Great Qin.
• People across the continent sensed an approaching storm as the alliance against Great Qin took shape.
• Su Zhe met Bai Le, his secret lover and a member of Flower Moon, and asked her for Flower Moon’s intelligence on Great Qin.
• Bai Le refused at first, but Su Zhe warned that Great Qin was about to fall and argued that Flower Moon would be targeted afterward; Bai Le hesitated because betraying Great Qin could endanger Flower Moon.

Su Zhe persuaded Bai Le to leak intelligence on Great Qin as a massive coalition gathered to destroy it. Factions across the world reacted with fear, hostility, or concern, while Hanano Mai was prevented from going to help and watched from Monster City.

• Su Zhe told Bai Le that Great Qin was certain to fall and promised her protection, and Bai Le agreed to provide intelligence.
• Huaxia's major dynasties gathered thirty thousand City Lords and more than seven hundred million troops against Great Qin, issued an extermination order against its allies, and provoked widespread denunciations of Great Qin.
• Flower Moon debated cutting ties with Great Qin, while Xiao Yueyin made no decision and Su Yuyan pondered the situation.
• The Clans worried that Great Qin and the Great Qin Imperial Prince might not survive, while Arthur Tina and Geluofei received reports about the impending attack.
• Akhenaten ordered covert support for Si Ji's campaign to destroy Great Qin.
• Hanano Mai wanted to investigate and help the Great Qin Imperial Prince, but Shuten Doji and the other monsters stopped her, leaving her to watch from Monster City.

Zhao Fu weighed Great Qin’s peril as a coalition of dynasties prepared to attack, and discussed ways to defend the empire. He then encountered Gongsun Zhu, who revealed that her sister was Gongsun Lin and explained her family’s knowledge of the Zhanlu Sword.

• Zhao Fu recognized that Great Qin’s power had driven the dynasties to unite and discussed the approaching attack with his ministers.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin’s plans to expand its territory and considered using the eight sealed Sea Beast Kings to help defend against the coalition.
• Gongsun Zhu called out to Zhao Fu as he passed through a courtyard, and she and the women beside her saluted him.
• Gongsun Zhu asked whether the Zhanlu Sword caused Zhao Fu heartache when he committed slaughter, explaining that her family had kept the sword for many years.
• Zhao Fu recognized Gongsun Zhu’s resemblance to Gongsun Lin and learned that Gongsun Lin was her younger sister.

Zhao Fu learned how to forge Zhanlu Sword into an invisible Killing Heart Sword, then secured the submission of five of the eight Sea Beast Kings. He left the Three Divine Serpent, Reef Lizard, and Sinful Flood Dragon screaming as he continued stripping away their souls.

• Gongsun Zhu taught Zhao Fu a forbidden art that let him forge the Mind's Eye into an invisible sword that could kill souls and grow stronger through slaughter.
• Zhao Fu raised Gongsun Zhu's status, refused to let her leave Great Qin, agreed to inform the Gongsun Family she was safe, and allowed her to visit the weapon workshops.
• Zhao Fu secretly traveled to the Southern Continent and freed the Earthwater Dragon Turtle after it surrendered its soul origin.
• The Myriad Iron Ray, Ghostscale Flame Bird, and two other Sea Beast Kings surrendered after Zhao Fu threatened to refine them into puppets.
• The Three Divine Serpent, Reef Lizard, and Sinful Flood Dragon refused to submit, so Zhao Fu began painfully stripping away their souls.

Zhao Fu subdued the final Sea Beast Kings and prepared Great Qin as an enormous allied force gathered to destroy it. When the battle began, Great Qin’s Destruction Crystals devastated the invading army, and its Dragon-Shooting Ballistas struck down hundreds of charging City Lords.

• Zhao Fu gave the eight Sea Beast Kings medicine to recover, learned they had digested the swallowed City-Building Stones, and hid them in spirit pet rings.
• On September 13th, an allied army of more than 800 million soldiers gathered before Great Qin, and Si Ji declared that Great Qin would fall.
• After Zhao Fu dismissed the allied leaders’ threats, their armies attacked Great Qin.
• Great Qin detonated all 324 Destruction Crystals, killing nearly 200 million invaders and halting their advance.
• Great Qin fired one hundred Dragon-Shooting Ballistas at the charging City Lords, killing two to three hundred of them in a single volley.

Great Qin unleashed dragons, Corpse Soul Commanders, sea beast kings, ghost forces, Calamity Pearls, and undead against the invading City Lords and armies. As both sides began a massive battle, Great Qin’s legions formed a five-hundred-meter Black Dragon with their Military Aura.

• Great Qin’s 2,500 flying dragons and 1,000 Corpse Soul Commanders killed 1,400 City Lords in their first appearance.
• Zhao Fu’s Eight Great Sea Beast Kings scattered charging City Lords, while Si Ji sent over 8,000 City Lords to fight them.
• Great Qin’s Nether Ghost Realm trapped several thousand City Lords, where ghost creatures attacked them as Dragon-Shooting Ballistas picked off others.
• The dynasty inheritors and remaining City Lords charged Great Qin, while Zhao Fu fought twenty-two inheritors and Great Qin’s City Lords met the enemy head-on.
• Great Qin’s Calamity Pearls devastated enemy soldiers, and ten Calamity Knights summoned millions of sea beast undead to attack the armies.
• Great Qin’s legions gathered and formed a five-hundred-meter Black Dragon with their Military Aura.

Great Qin’s thirteen military formations slaughtered the invading armies while Zhao Fu held off the coalition until eleven Nation-Guarding Artifacts unleashed their full power against him. Zhao Fu emerged unharmed with several artifacts beside him, just as a black-clad young man and a golden-scaled young man appeared with terrifying auras.

• Great Qin’s thirteen formations and its archers devastated the attacking armies, leaving the coalition unable to gain an advantage.
• Zhao Fu repelled more than twenty attackers, prompting Si Ji to call on the Nation-Guarding Artifacts.
• The inheritors of Huaxia’s eleven dynasties fully unleashed their artifacts, while leaders from other nations contributed less power and some considered retreating.
• Si Ji, Di Wutian, Liu Ye, and the other attackers struck Zhao Fu with the combined power of their Nation-Guarding Artifacts.
• Zhao Fu emerged from the destruction unharmed, with several Nation-Guarding Artifacts floating beside him.
• A black-clad young man appeared amid demonic light, and a golden-scaled young man appeared amid golden rays and rippling light.

Demon Seven and Yu Xuan joined the Huaxia dynasties in an assault on Zhao Fu, while dynasties from other nations fled rather than risk joining the fight. After four days of catastrophic battle, the two world guardians retreated grievously wounded, five Huaxia dynasties were destroyed, and Zhao Fu’s fate remained uncertain.

• Demon Seven and Yu Xuan revealed themselves as world guardians and declared that Zhao Fu had to die, then unleashed their full power and artifacts against him.
• Si Ji urged the Huaxia dynasties to join the attack, but the dynasties of other nations fled because they feared the guardians of the Demon Profound World and the Fish Scale World.
• The battle lasted four days and devastated more than a dozen regions; Demon Seven and Yu Xuan fled to their worlds on the brink of death.
• The inheritors of the Shang Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, Song Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty died, and Bai Qi led Great Qin’s forces in conquering and destroying all five dynasties.
• The battle killed four hundred million attackers and seven thousand City Lords, while Great Qin lost six million soldiers and its Great Qin Imperial Prince might have perished.

After Great Qin won the decisive battle, factions across Huaxia sought its favor while Great Qin’s allies celebrated and its enemies feared what came next. At Flower Moon, Xiao Yueyin’s decision to trust Great Qin proved fortunate, but she noticed several women hiding a troubling secret.

• The Ying Family punished members who had considered betraying Great Qin, while factions gathered at its estate to offer loyalty and congratulations.
• Several groups reacted to Great Qin’s victory: the Clans planned to strengthen ties, Arthur Tina worried about the Great Qin Imperial Prince, Zhen Yi feared for Japan, and Geluofei wondered whether the prince was dead.
• At Flower Moon, women urged Xiao Yueyin to abandon cooperation with Great Qin, but she remained undecided until news arrived that Great Qin had prevailed.
• Xiao Yueyin and Su Yuyan felt relieved that Flower Moon had kept its ties with Great Qin, while Xiao Yueyin resolved to meet the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Xiao Yueyin noticed Bai Le and two or three other women looking pale and hesitant, just as she was about to ask what was wrong.

Great Qin captured Flower Moon after Chancellor Li ordered the arrest of those accused of betraying Great Qin, while news spread that the Great Qin Imperial Prince had defeated two World Protectors but been gravely wounded. The chapter ended with Zhang Baishu reporting that Zhao Fu’s condition had stabilized, though he remained weak and needed careful care.

• Xiao Yueyin recognized that Great Qin’s attack was connected to Flower Moon’s betrayal and urged the women to leave Apocalypse World, but combat status trapped them there.
• A Great Qin force arrived at Flower Moon’s headquarters and arrested its key members, then pursued the people and forces connected to it.
• The neighboring worlds learned that the Great Qin Imperial Prince had defeated two World Protectors, while rumors spread that he had suffered fatal injuries.
• Li Si managed Great Qin’s internal affairs and gathered medicines while Bai Qi controlled the military as Zhao Fu lay gravely wounded.
• Zhang Baishu told the anxious ministers that Zhao Fu’s condition had stabilized, though he remained weak and in need of careful care.

After Zhao Fu fell unconscious, Great Qin conquered the surrounding system factions and absorbed their territories and population while preparing to advance into a first-rank Marquisate. When Zhao Fu’s injuries worsened and no one could open his Calamity King’s Ring to reach the Revival Pill, the Flower Fairy stepped forward and tried to save him.

• Li Si directed Great Qin’s ministers and commanders to settle affairs and conquer the remaining factions while Zhao Fu remained unconscious.
• Bai Qi conquered the five dynasties, while Wang Jian, Wei Liao, and Bai Xihan attacked the system factions in Great Qin’s other directions.
• Great Qin took 720 regions and combined them with the Yue Kingdom’s 230 regions and its existing territory, bringing its total to 1,470 regions.
• Great Qin gained a Level 1 capital city from Great Shang and nearly 800 million people, then began a period of construction to meet the requirements for a first-rank Marquisate.
• On October 1st, Zhao Fu’s condition became critical, and Li Si and the others could not remove the Emperor’s mark on the Calamity King’s Ring to retrieve the Revival Pill.
• The Flower Fairy offered to save Zhao Fu, then placed her glowing hand on his chest and sent multicolored light into his body.

After Zhao Fu suffered grave injuries in a battle, Flower Fairy and phoenix aura stabilized him, and he eventually awoke after more than a month. Great Qin had conquered the Five Great Dynasties, while Zhao Fu began recovering and considered the five Nation-Guarding Artifacts he had gained.

• Flower Fairy used her power alongside the phoenix aura to stabilize Zhao Fu’s injuries, and his condition improved over the following days.
• Zheng Yuqin and the Ying Family discovered Zhao Fu unconscious and badly injured, prompting the family to arrange treatment and Wu Qingniang to visit him.
• Zhao Fu’s grandparents and other relatives visited him while he remained unconscious, and his injuries gradually improved in reality as well.
• After more than a month, Zhao Fu awoke and learned from Li Si that Great Qin had conquered the Five Great Dynasties and begun constructing the third Great Wall.
• Zhao Fu thanked Flower Fairy, rewarded her, and placed a Revival Pill in the Imperial Physicians’ Hall while recovering his strength.
• Zhao Fu recalled killing the inheritors of the Sui, Song, Qing, and Jin Dynasties before the Dao Guardians’ attacks injured him, and he considered the five Nation-Guarding Artifacts.

Zhao Fu summoned more than five hundred captured women, made them his consorts, and gained a large amount of phoenix aura for Great Qin. He then refined five captured Nation-Guarding Artifacts in the Heaven and Earth Refining Formation, caught the transformed artifacts, and inspected their attributes.

• Bai Qi had captured women from the Five Great Dynasties, including Di Wutian's women and several women from the Ancient Beauty Ranking.
• Zhao Fu summoned the women, including Su Dafei, whose Green Hills clan had offered itself to Great Qin, and made them his consorts.
• The women provided Great Qin with phoenix aura, causing the crystal bead within Zhao Fu to grow slightly.
• Zhao Fu gathered twenty-five people and placed five Nation-Guarding Artifacts in the Heaven and Earth Refining Formation.
• The formation drew Huaxia's fortune toward Great Qin as it burned away the artifacts' ties to the Five Great Dynasties and infused them with Great Qin's fortune.
• Zhao Fu caught the five transformed Nation-Guarding Artifacts and inspected their attributes.

Zhao Fu examined five conquered dynasties’ Nation-Guarding Artifacts and renamed them for Great Qin. Great Qin City advanced to Human King grade, gaining powerful new abilities and stronger troops, while Zhao Fu continued planning its expansion and defenses.

• Zhao Fu renamed the five Nation-Guarding Artifacts the Qin Star Tower, Eight Qin Dragons, Qin Boat, Qin Emperor Cloth, and Great Qin Dragon Vein, then placed them beside Great Qin’s City Heart.
• Zhao Fu decided not to refine the Heirloom Seal of the Realm, and Great Qin City advanced from Epic grade to Human King grade after accumulating thirty evolution points.
• Great Qin City gained five Human King abilities, including a territorial deterrent, a destiny-gathering aura, a protective barrier, and the B-grade Human King Guard class.
• Great Qin’s basic troops advanced from D+ grade to C- grade as a result of the city’s evolution.
• Zhao Fu recognized that becoming a Human Emperor City would require unifying an entire world, which Great Qin could not yet achieve.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin’s main affairs, focusing on clearing regions and building the third Great Wall.

Zhao Fu accelerated Great Qin’s expansion plans after considering the growing threats from other worlds, while Greenfield’s nations grew wary of the human world and its Emperor Stars. He then confronted Flower Moon over its betrayal, spared its members, and took the women into his bedchamber.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s army expanded by fifty million and established a one-hundred-million militia, planning to use three hundred million troops to clear regions.
• Zhao Fu learned that Greenfield’s people and rulers feared the Heavenly Emperor Star and Nether Emperor Star, prompting Greenfield’s nations to suspend invasions and adopt defensive plans.
• Zhao Fu returned to the human world and planned to clear regions before expanding outward and destroying Myanmar and Laos.
• Li Si reminded Zhao Fu to deal with Flower Moon, and Zhao Fu ordered its members brought before him over leaked intelligence.
• Zhao Fu confronted Su Yuyan, reassured her that he would not kill the members, and later spent the night with the Flower Moon women.

Zhao Fu revised Great Qin’s plans to expand into the Demon Profound World and prepare to unify the worlds. He strengthened the Night Dynasty for a campaign against three dynasties and the Demon God Sect, then reviewed the four enemies’ forces and defenses.

• Xiao Yueyin and Su Yuyan pleaded with Zhao Fu to punish Flower Moon’s members lightly, and he said he would consider it.
• Zhao Fu went to the Demon Profound World and decided the Night Dynasty should conquer the Demon South Continent with Great Qin’s support.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Night Dynasty’s real-world army expanded to 20 million troops and planned to bring 800 City Lords to support its forces.
• Zhao Fu reviewed intelligence on the Liunan Dynasty, Void Demon Dynasty, Xuan Dynasty, and Demon God Sect, whose combined forces included 11 million troops and 240 City Lords.
• Zhao Fu learned that the Demon God Sect was the only one of the four enemies with a guarding artifact, sustained by its long history and powerful fortune.

Zhao Fu led the Night Dynasty’s attack on the Demon God Sect, intending to seize its sect-guarding artifact for Great Qin. The battle began with Great Qin City Lords and flying dragons overwhelming the sect’s defenses.

• Zhao Fu decided to openly attack the four factions with the Night Dynasty, while Great Qin’s forces secretly joined the armies.
• Zhao Fu led five million troops to the Demon God Sect’s Great Wall and rejected the long-bearded elder’s plea for mercy.
• The elder summoned the Demon God Spider, the sect-guarding artifact, to threaten the Night Dynasty.
• Zhao Fu summoned the Great Qin King Seal and ordered the attack, revealing two hundred hidden Great Qin City Lords and fifty flying dragons.
• The City Lords attacked the Demon God Sect’s defenders as the flying dragons unleashed flames and freezing currents on the wall.

Zhao Fu and the Night Dynasty launched assaults against several dynasties and the Demon God Sect, using flying dragons and City Lords to overwhelm their defenses. Zhao Fu killed the Demon God Sect Master, while the other battles left the Night Dynasty poised to seize more strongholds.

• The flying dragons and Night Dynasty forces attacked the Great Wall, while Zhao Fu fought the Demon God Sect Master and suppressed him with the Death Sword.
• Ye Cang used fifty flying dragons to frighten off the Liunan Dynasty’s Demonic Wolves, then led his forces in an assault and attacked its inheritor.
• Ye Ningshuang concealed her flying dragons and City Lords, then launched a surprise attack that devastated the Void Demon Dynasty’s defenses.
• The old ancestors’ team seized the Xuan Dynasty’s defensive walls and besieged its inheritor.
• Zhao Fu severed the Demon God Sect Master’s arm, blocked the spider artifact, and killed him with a sword strike.

Zhao Fu led the Night Dynasty to destroy four rival factions and absorb their territories, then learned of a dangerous ruin hidden beneath the Demon God Sect. He ordered precautions and prepared to investigate the underground entrance.

• Zhao Fu defeated the Demon God Sect and used its Sect Crystal to cancel the headquarters’ defensive formation.
• Zhao Fu occupied the Demon God Sect, while the other teams captured three dynasties, bringing all four factions under the Night Dynasty.
• Zhao Fu gave the conquered cities and resources to the Night Dynasty and prepared to return to research the sect-protecting artifact.
• A Night Dynasty manager told Zhao Fu that soldiers had vanished while investigating a dangerous ruin beneath the Demon God Sect.
• Zhao Fu went to the ruin’s dark, spiderweb-lined entrance, raised the Emperor Domain, and ordered soldiers to guard it.

Zhao Fu fought his way through countless spiders in a cave and defeated three Regional Lord-level giant spiders guarding a gate. As he restrained the two survivors, the gate began to open.

• Zhao Fu entered the cave and killed wave after wave of spiders with the Death Sword.
• After resting, Zhao Fu reached a vast hall where three giant spiders charged him and spat corrosive liquid.
• Zhao Fu wounded all three spiders with death-energy spears, then struck one down with a sword attack.
• The remaining two spiders fled toward the gate, but Zhao Fu bound them with chains and asked whether they would submit.
• The two spiders looked toward the gate instead of answering, and it began to open.

Zhao Fu defeated the Spider Empress Elise and claimed her soul origin, then discovered a vast treasure trove containing an Empress Throne and a Divine Spider Nest. He left the throne for Elise and took the other treasures for Great Qin.

• Elise attacked Zhao Fu, but he repelled her with the Great Qin King Seal and the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Zhao Fu trapped Elise in the Nether Ghost Realm and bound her with chains, forcing her to surrender her soul origin.
• Elise submitted to Zhao Fu and healed the three wounded spiders after he released her.
• Zhao Fu entered the room beyond the door and found gold, gemstones, equipment, an Empress Throne, and a Divine Spider Nest.
• Zhao Fu collected the treasure and left the Empress Throne for Elise.