Recaps

Zhao Fu discovered a Demon Monarch’s corpse in the ruins and awakened its newborn soul, binding it with a painful restriction so he could control the powerful being. After fully exploring the ruins, Zhao Fu left with the Demon Monarch, Elise, and three other women, planning his next moves in the Demon Profound World.

• Zhao Fu opened a hidden gate and found a Demon Monarch’s corpse inside a vast hall.
• Zhao Fu used his essence blood to place a restriction in the corpse, then used the Great Qin King Seal to awaken its newborn soul.
• The Demon Monarch tried to kill Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu activated the restriction and tortured him until he submitted.
• The Demon Monarch took the form of a frightened purple-haired boy, while Elise and three other women appeared in human form.
• Zhao Fu left the ruins with his companions and planned to return to Great Qin before using an Alliance to strengthen the Night Dynasty and expand across the Demon Profound World.

Zhao Fu established the Demon Emperor Sect, arranged for Elise and the spiders, and refused to turn Zhao Sha into a clone. When he entered the Heavenly Spirit Stele, he discovered his account had reached Supreme and found a Twelve-Colored Badge in his account space.

• Zhao Fu learned he needed to establish a sect to use the Nation-Guarding Artifact, then chose 105 Great Qin cultivators to learn the Demon God Sect's inherited method and renamed the sect the Demon Emperor Sect.
• After more than ten days, Zhao Fu reestablished the sect in a place rich in demonic energy, and its spider-shaped sect-guarding artifact gathered demonic energy and fortune as the sect recruited millions of disciples.
• Zhao Fu set up a Spider Nest for Elise to manage, appointed her and her three maids as consorts, and named the memoryless Demon Monarch Zhao Mo.
• Golden Dragon suggested erasing Zhao Sha's consciousness to make him a clone, but Zhao Fu refused and instead considered how to develop other worlds and find powerful items for Zhao Sha.
• Zhao Fu entered the Heavenly Spirit Stele and discovered that his account had reached Supreme despite his not completing any tasks.
• Zhao Fu found a Twelve-Colored Badge in his Heavenly Spirit Stele account space.

Zhao Fu discovered that his Heavenly Spirit Stele account had been upgraded to Supreme rank and that he had received a prestigious Heavenly Spirit Badge, though he could not figure out why. He used his new access to trade five Ghost Spirit Evil Jades for Demon Art, while other users mistook him for a mighty expert.

• Zhao Fu examined the Heavenly Spirit Badge and confirmed that his account had gained Supreme-rank privileges.
• Zhao Fu entered the Communication Zone and saw a seller offering the Human-tier, mid-grade cultivation technique Demon Art for five Ghost Spirit Evil Jades.
• Zhao Fu posted in the chat lobby, and his message's imperial effects caused users to fawn over him as a mighty expert.
• Zhao Fu initiated a trade with the seller and exchanged five Ghost Spirit Evil Jades for Demon Art.
• The seller completed the trade, then regretted missing the chance to befriend the supposed mighty expert.

Zhao Fu acquired 150 Brain Worms to secretly control City Lords and build his power in the Fish Scale World. While reviewing the Heavenly Spirit Stele’s top-tier missions, he discovered powerful beings were offering immense rewards for his death and feared the danger they posed to Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu exchanged a legendary-grade piece of equipment and an epic-grade material for Brain Worms, then completed dozens of missions to obtain 150.
• Zhao Fu inspected the Heavenly Spirit Stele’s top-tier missions and saw major rewards for finding members of the Origin Human Race, including Tuoba Qing.
• Zhao Fu found a Taihao Empire mission offering a marquisate for information about the owner of the Heavenly Emperor Star and his location.
• Zhao Fu discovered several missions offering rare treasures for his death, including a divine spark, the Blood of the Demon Ancestor, and a five-colored Divine Dragon egg.
• Zhao Fu worried that the powerful being who had tracked the Origin Mark could locate him and threaten Great Qin, then continued reviewing missions to kill or protect him.

Zhao Fu learned that powerful forces were targeting him over his Emperor Star, then planned a secret campaign in the Fish Scale World. He infiltrated the Darkwater Continent and began taking control of its system city lords with Brain Worms.

• Zhao Fu rejected the Azure Empire's offer of protection because it required him to marry into the empire and surrender his identity.
• Zhao Fu chose a neutral system faction on the Darkwater Continent as his target and prepared for a secret operation.
• Two days later, Zhao Fu entered the Fish Scale World and infiltrated a system main city while the Fish Scale Clan slept.
• Zhao Fu used a Brain Worm to take over the portly city lord without alerting the woman beside him.
• Zhao Fu controlled more than eighty city lords, then subdued an alert young city lord by sealing the room with his Emperor Domain and restraining him with the Great Qin Seal.

Zhao Fu seized control of thirty more cities and ordered his forces to expand, then returned to the real world and rejected Zheng Dong’s offer to join his faction. He learned that the Apocalypse Forum was inaccessible after Flower Moon was captured, while Mu Guilin brought him reports that raised concerns about threats to the Ying Family.

• Zhao Fu used Brain Worms to control one hundred and fifty City Lords, then killed the thirty uncontrolled City Lords who had gathered for the supposed emergency meeting.
• Zhao Fu ordered the controlled City Lords to take over the thirty cities and sweep through nearby regions, while he kept the cities as a base for his own power.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, then went back to his villa in the real world and read Zheng Dong’s invitation to join his faction as a minor official.
• Zhao Fu refused Zheng Dong’s offer, endured classmates praising Zheng and criticizing his decision, and closed the group chat.
• Zhao Fu found that the Apocalypse Forum could not be accessed because Flower Moon had been captured, then received Mu Guilin’s reports on the remaining dynasties and possible attacks against the Ying Family.

Zhao Fu helped the Ying Family prepare a formation that would let them enter Apocalypse World if their real-world stronghold fell, then Great Qin advanced to a First-Rank Marquisate. The chapter ended with Great Qin’s expanded territory, population, cities, and military strength established, while unifying a world remained a distant requirement for becoming a Duchy.

• Zhao Fu consulted Golden Dragon and learned that the Ying Family could use a formation powered by Spatial Stones to assume their true bodies in Apocalypse World.
• Zhao Fu told the heads of the Ying Family branches about the formation, and they thanked him and their Imperial Son.
• After six months of clearing regions and building the Great Wall, Great Qin reached the requirements to become a First-Rank Marquisate.
• Zhao Fu chose City of Immortals, Sword Mountain City, City of Calamity, and the Ice and Fire Cities for Great Qin’s cities, and he remained puzzled that the Supreme Account had not been reclaimed.
• Great Qin’s territory reached 1,470 regions, its population reached 4.7 billion, and its military strength reached 470 million as Zhao Fu reviewed its enlarged government and army.

Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin’s growing military forces and established the Water God Legion, then began creating a second special legion using the Divine Spider Nest. The chapter ended as the nest’s Legion Heart awakened its power.

• Zhao Fu assessed Great Qin’s troops, Corpse soul guards, Wyverns, flower demons, spiders, and expanded legions.
• Zhao Fu failed to use Tuoba Qing’s Gold-grade city as a vessel for a special legion and considered Great Qin’s conquered dynasty cities as alternatives.
• Zhao Fu chose the Level 12 Water God Temple as a vessel and fused a Legion Heart into the Water God Statue, creating the Water God Legion.
• Zhao Fu went to the Divine Spider Nest and fused a Legion Heart into it, causing demonic flames and a savage aura to erupt.

Zhao Fu created three ghost Legions and five Huaxia dynasty Legions, greatly expanding Great Qin’s forces. He planned to gather ghost creatures for the new Legions before beginning a campaign to unify the northern Central Continent.

• Zhao Fu tested Great Qin’s ghost-class steles and found that Human Ghost, Ghost God Armorer, and Eye of All Ghosts could become Legion vessels, while Hundred Ghost Illusionist and Ghost Summoner could not.
• Zhao Fu fused treasures and Legion Hearts into the three compatible steles, creating the Human Ghost Legion, Ghost God Soldier Legion, and Eye of All Ghosts Legion.
• Zhao Fu used five more Legion Hearts to create the Shang, Jin, Sui, Song, and Qing Dynasty Legions, whose forms were flood dragons.
• Zhao Fu planned to build a Ghost Gate to obtain ghost creatures for the three ghost Legions, then set Great Qin’s sights on unifying the northern Central Continent.

Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin to conquer Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and the Stockade Kingdom, planning a simultaneous four-army invasion. The advance stalled when hidden isolation formations blocked the Teleportation Arrays, leaving Great Qin to choose between breaking through the formations or proceeding without teleportation.

• Zhao Fu reviewed the histories and strength of the four nations, which had formed an alliance against Great Qin.
• After consulting his ministers, Zhao Fu ordered letters demanding the surrender of northern Huaxia's remaining system forces and planned to attack all four nations at once.
• Great Qin divided 400 million troops into four armies and assigned Zhao Fu, Zhao Mo, Elise, and Bai Qi's group to handle the four Nation-Guarding Artifacts.
• Great Qin's armies set out but found two isolation belts blocking access to the four nations through the Teleportation Arrays.
• Great Qin discovered that its restriction-breaking stones could not disable the hidden formations, leaving it to choose whether to attack without teleportation or destroy the isolation formations first.

Zhao Fu advanced toward the four states while defending Great Qin against coastal disturbances and repeated player ambushes. After ordering the army to use True Damage Talismans and kill the attackers, he still could not explain why the assaults involved only players and no native soldiers.

• Zhao Fu chose to march through two regions rather than spend months dismantling the four states’ isolation formations.
• After man-made coastal disasters and harassment from forces on three fronts began, Zhao Fu assigned the eight Sea Beast Kings to guard the coast and ordered the Great Wall defenders to hold their positions.
• Sun Wu reported that the ambushers were all players, prompting Zhao Fu to order the army to use True Damage Talismans and show no mercy.
• Great Qin’s soldiers repelled and annihilated successive player attacks as the army continued toward the four states.
• That night, Zhao Fu wondered why players kept attacking despite the talismans and why not a single native soldier had joined them.

Zhao Fu’s campaign against four nations stalled amid coordinated resistance, beast tides, and a grand isolation formation that prevented Great Qin from using Teleportation Arrays. After learning the formation could be endlessly rebuilt and gave the enemy a speed advantage, he ordered all four armies to retreat.

• Zhao Fu received reports that the other armies faced the same delays and attacks as his own, including a beast tide that the second army had defeated with casualties.
• Zhao Fu destroyed a massive beast tide with the Death Sword and joined Great Qin’s City Lords in killing or scattering the remaining beasts.
• Zhao Fu and the generals chose to halt their advance and send Great Qin’s scholars to break the grand isolation formation.
• The scholars discovered that the enemy could rebuild the formation and use Teleportation Arrays through a route within it, leaving Great Qin at a strategic disadvantage.
• Zhao Fu ordered all four armies to return and abandon the attack on the four nations.

Zhao Fu restored Flower Moon as part of Great Qin to strengthen its intelligence network. Flower Moon exposed a broad alliance and the Scheme Against Qin faction behind the traps targeting Great Qin, as well as the Two-Body Talisman that protected players from true damage; Zhao Fu resolved that Su Yan had to die.

• Wei Liao urged Zhao Fu to restore Flower Moon because Great Qin's young intelligence network had failed to uncover the conspiracy.
• Zhao Fu summoned Xiao Yueyin, restored Flower Moon under her leadership, and made her a second-rank official while integrating Great Qin personnel into the organization.
• Flower Moon discovered that powers across the continents had joined forces to resist Great Qin and had prepared ambushes and armies to attack it.
• Flower Moon revealed that Scheme Against Qin, led by strategists including Su Yan and Zhang Heng, had devised the plans against Great Qin.
• Flower Moon uncovered that Su Yan supplied players with Two-Body Talismans, which shielded their real bodies from damage in Apocalypse World, and Zhao Fu decided Su Yan had to die.

Zhao Fu and Great Qin weighed ways to break the isolation surrounding them, then chose to attack the four nations by sea while drawing their forces toward a frontal assault. Zhao Fu prepared to lead a hidden force around the rear, intending to use the True Body Transformation Array against the players who resisted.

• Zhao Fu and his generals considered taking the northern regions or the Central Plains, but recognized the resistance waiting in the central region.
• The anti-Qin factions celebrated forcing Great Qin to withdraw, while Su Yan warned them to remain cautious.
• Zhao Fu decided Great Qin would attack the four nations first rather than risk facing them while invading the Central Plains.
• Great Qin planned to send four armies forward to draw enemy troops while Zhao Fu led one hundred million soldiers by sea toward the four nations' rear.
• Zhao Fu planned to use the eight Sea Beast Kings and City Lords to cross the Void-Severing Belt and attack from behind.
• Zhao Fu considered using the True Body Transformation Array on the resisting players and killing any who continued to oppose Great Qin.

Zhao Fu launched Great Qin’s invasion of the four nations while its armies slowly advanced under attacks, then led a huge fleet toward their shores. A trap sprung at sea, forcing Great Qin to retreat after a devastating defeat that killed more than ten million soldiers.

• Zhao Fu chose to attack Myanmar and Thailand first, then planned to turn against Laos and Stockade Kingdom, where former Yue Kingdom factions had secretly joined Great Qin.
• Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, and Bai Xihan led four armies against the nations, using Scholars to establish Isolation Arrays that hindered surprise attacks.
• Zhao Fu sailed with a hundred million troops, eight Sea Beast Kings, and two thousand City Lords toward the four nations.
• Su Yan and nearly twenty thousand City Lords appeared at sea, and Zhao Fu recognized their ambush and ordered the fleet to retreat.
• Zhao Fu and the Sea Beast Kings tried to stop a colossal wave, but it destroyed ships and killed more than ten million soldiers before Great Qin fled.

After celebrating their victory over Great Qin, the allied factions publicized a flattering account of the battle and sought to recruit more supporters. Zhao Fu, angered by Great Qin’s losses, summoned his generals to analyze their enemies’ plans and decide how to respond.

• Si Ji and the faction leaders celebrated their victory and praised their cooperation against Great Qin.
• The leaders blamed Great Qin and Zhao Fu for their losses and vowed to continue their campaign against him.
• The major factions spread a distorted account of the victory to boost their reputations and attract more allies.
• Central-region and neutral factions feared Great Qin’s retaliation, while many Confucianists, Mohists, and ordinary people welcomed its setback.
• Zhao Fu gathered his generals to examine the enemy alliance’s strategy and plan Great Qin’s next move.

Great Qin tried to divide its opponents by offering them neutrality or allegiance, while Zhao Fu retaliated against stubborn resistance forces by destroying 120 cities with Destruction Crystals. As Great Qin’s army advanced into the central region, Si Ji sought reinforcements to help kill Zhao Fu, and the opposing factions scrambled to respond.

• Great Qin announced that rival factions could resist and die, remain neutral and be left unharmed, or join Great Qin and receive official posts.
• The factions opposing Great Qin countered with their own statement, calling Great Qin a paper tiger and urging others not to believe its threats.
• Zhao Fu crossed five regions alone, brought eight Sea Beast Kings as a hidden trump card, and sent others to carry out his retaliation rather than reveal himself.
• Zhao Fu used 120 Destruction Crystals to destroy 120 cities belonging to stubborn resistance forces, causing panic among the opposing factions.
• Si Ji ordered his people to contact the Fish Scale World and Demon Profound World and invite two Guardians of the Way to help kill Zhao Fu.
• Great Qin’s army regrouped and launched a united offensive into the central region, forcing the opposing factions to gather and seek countermeasures.

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin after killing millions, and Great Qin advanced toward the central region with nearly its entire army. The factions’ poisonous fog failed to stop the advance, but a second plan triggered violent earthquakes and blocked Great Qin’s path as Si Ji waited for a chance to kill Zhao Fu.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin after killing at least twenty million people.
• Great Qin advanced with its forces while flying dragons and City Lords wiped out players attempting to ambush the army.
• Bai Qi and twelve other generals used their General’s Artifacts to gather Great Qin’s army qi and destroy the poisonous fog.
• Si Ji anxiously waited for reinforcements from the Fish Scale World and Demon Profound World, hoping to trap and kill the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• The factions’ next plan unleashed violent earthquakes and landslides that halted Great Qin’s advance.

Bai Qi led Great Qin through earthquakes and a magical storm as the factions tried to stop its advance toward the central region. After six days of attacks and hardship, Great Qin retreated, and the factions celebrated their second victory and gained new supporters.

• Bai Qi ordered the twenty legions to suppress the shaking around Great Qin, then waited fifteen days for the earthquake devices to fail before ordering the army to pave a way forward.
• Si Ji learned the Guardians of the Way were still too injured to kill the Great Qin Imperial Prince, so the factions planned to lure him into the Demon-Slaying Grand Array and had Jiang Ziya complete a Heaven-and-Earth Transformation Grand Array.
• Jiang Ziya activated the array, unleashing violent winds, rain, lightning, and tremors as Bai Qi ordered Great Qin to press onward under the Shields of the Legion.
• The factions launched deadly attacks against Great Qin, and six days later Bai Qi's army retreated from the isolation zone.
• The factions celebrated their second victory, proclaimed their strength to the world, and attracted more supporters, while Great Qin faced fiercer mockery in the real world.

Zhao Fu used sixty thousand burrowing spiders to bypass the defensive belt and conquer Myanmar while Great Qin’s attack on the central region distracted its enemies. He then advanced toward Thailand, while Zhao Mo, Elise, and Great Qin’s forces launched a slaughter in Laos.

• After celebrating their second victory over Great Qin, the inheritors learned that Myanmar had fallen and realized Great Qin had targeted the four nations with a feint.
• Zhao Fu used sixty thousand spiders to dig tunnels across the Void-Severing Belt, then attacked Myanmar with sea beasts, flying dragons, corpse soul commanders, and City Lords.
• Zhao Fu’s sealed True-Form Transformation Formations captured Myanmar’s player cities, and he defeated the Pagan Dynasty’s inheritor in fewer than three moves.
• After securing Myanmar, Zhao Fu led his forces toward Thailand.
• Yue Kingdom forces attacked Laos, prompting its army to respond, while Zhao Mo and Elise arrived with returning City Lords and flying dragons and began attacking Laos.

Great Qin destroyed Laos and Thailand as Zhao Mo, Elise, and Zhao Fu led attacks against the four nations. Zhao Fu killed Sukhothai Kingdom’s heir and seized the Nation’s Treasure Jade, while Bai Qi blocked the factions rushing to save the remaining nations.

• Zhao Mo and Elise destroyed Laos, and Zhao Mo devoured Lan Xang Kingdom’s golden elephant Nation-Guarding Artifact before their forces advanced on Stockade Kingdom.
• Bai Qi and Great Qin’s remaining forces intercepted the factions hurrying to rescue the four nations, starting another battle.
• Zhao Fu attacked Thailand with eight sea beasts, and the Six-Eyed Demon Whale spared cities whose people surrendered.
• Zhao Fu confronted Sukhothai Kingdom’s heir and demanded submission, then attacked when the heir remained silent.
• Sukhothai Kingdom’s heir ordered their people to stand down and brought out Thailand’s Nation’s Treasure Jade, but Zhao Fu killed them and destroyed the kingdom.

After Great Qin conquered Stockade Kingdom, all five nations had fallen, and the disappearance of their people terrified the world. Zhao Fu spared the captured players but made them lowly commoners who had to earn their way into Qin citizenship, leaving them under threat of collective punishment.

• Great Qin occupied Stockade Kingdom, completing its conquest of the four northern nations as Yue Kingdom had already vanished.
• News that the people of all five nations had disappeared from the real world spread panic, and system factions either submitted to Qin State or fled.
• Zhao Fu gathered the players from the five nations and considered slaughtering them, but his ministers, including Bai Qi, urged him to spare them.
• Great Qin soldiers executed players who refused to kneel or disturbed the gathering, killing hundreds of thousands until the crowd fell silent.
• Zhao Fu declared that the surviving players would be lowly commoners who had to earn merit to become Qin citizens, and threatened to execute their families if they became disloyal.

After conquering northern Huaxia, Great Qin absorbed vast new territories and population, then refined four Nation-Guarding Artifacts to strengthen its power. Zhao Fu intimidated rival factions into neutrality or submission, while the Fish Scale World continued to develop.

• Great Qin tallied the gains from its conquests, bringing its population to 7 billion and its controlled regions to 3,720.
• Zhao Fu rewarded his officials, kept the women they refused to accept in the imperial palace, and ordered the construction of Spirit Spider Palace for Elise.
• Zhao Fu planned to consolidate the north, build the Great Wall, and upgrade Great Qin before pursuing further conquest.
• Zhao Fu refined the four Nation-Guarding Artifacts with Great Qin's fortune, transforming them and placing them beside the City Heart.
• Great Qin threatened rival factions into neutrality or submission, weakening their alliance as nations across the Central Continent grew wary.
• Zhao Fu inspected the neighboring worlds and found that the Fish Scale World had 1,400 city lords.

Zhao Fu discovered that Brain Worms had helped his Fish Scale World faction grow into Darkwater Continent’s largest system faction, but most of its city lords remained beyond his control. He traded rare lifespan and healing items for Brain Worms in the Communication Zone, then faced a request to share his insights into the Dao.

• Zhao Fu learned that his faction had grown to 1,400 cities, with 700 million people and 140 million soldiers, though Brain Worms controlled only 300 of its city lords.
• Zhao Fu checked the Heavenly Spirit Stele’s Brain Worm missions and decided to offer Ginseng Fruit and intermediate Life Spring Water in the Communication Zone.
• Zhao Fu traded a Ginseng Fruit for 100 Brain Worms and intermediate Life Spring Water for ten more.
• A participant offered Zhao Fu one Brain Worm in exchange for his insights into comprehending the Dao.
• Zhao Fu realized he had no cultivation insights to share and recalled the Tao Te Ching.

Zhao Fu recited the Tao Te Ching through the Heavenly Spirit Stele, hoping to trade its verses for Brain Worms, but the cultivators who saw them instead treated them as profound Dao teachings. Their reactions led powerful factions to suspect he was a reincarnated Half-Immortal, while the Heavenly Dao Sect mistakenly gained credit for his words.

• Zhao Fu recited the opening of the Tao Te Ching through the Heavenly Spirit Stele and waited, baffled when nobody replied.
• High-level cultivators entered the stele, saw the verses glowing with seven-colored light, and sank into Dao comprehension.
• The Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group reported Zhao Fu’s words to its leaders, who suspected he might be a reincarnated Half-Immortal and a danger to Apocalypse World.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect Master consulted the sect’s ancestors, then ordered the verses carved onto a mountain for disciples to study.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples and the wider world mistakenly credited the verses to a great power from the sect, raising its reputation.