Recaps

As Apocalypse World appeared, the collapsing real world and all its creatures were drawn into it, where Zhao Fu’s real-world body merged with his Apocalypse World body. Later, the Ying Family came before the Great Qin Imperial Prince and discovered that he was Zhao Fu.

• Zheng Yuqin prepared a lavish meal for Zhao Fu, but the world began to shake before they could act on their growing attraction.
• Zhao Fu watched as Apocalypse World appeared in the sky and an immense force pulled all people and creatures from the collapsing Earth into it.
• Zhao Fu arrived in Apocalypse World and received a notification that his real-world body was merging with his Apocalypse World body.
• Li Si told Zhao Fu that the Ying Family members had entered Great Qin and were waiting to meet him.
• The Ying Family members entered the hall, paid their respects, and recognized Zhao Fu as the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• The Ying Family heads knelt and asked Zhao Fu to punish them for their past offenses.

After the world’s destruction, Zhao Fu revealed his identity as the Great Qin Imperial Prince and decided to recognize the Ying Family as Great Qin’s royal clan. His relatives learned who he was and sought forgiveness, but Zhao Fu left his uncle’s family under strict warning in a modest courtyard.

• The Ying Family feared Zhao Fu would punish them for their past treatment of him, while Ying Xi regretted insulting him and failing to recognize his identity.
• Zhao Fu acknowledged the Ying Family’s status as Great Qin’s royal clan, rewarded them, and ended the meeting.
• Ying Xi reunited with Wu Qingniang, admitted she had been frightened by Zhao Fu’s identity, and embraced her.
• Zhao Fu’s uncle’s family learned that he was the Great Qin Imperial Prince and regretted their past offenses, especially his younger cousin’s insults.
• Zhao Fu’s uncle and aunt begged his maternal grandparents to help them apologize, but they could not enter the Imperial Palace and received only a modest courtyard.
• A steward warned Zhao Fu’s uncle’s family that they would be expelled from Great Qin if they sought Zhao Fu again.

After Zhao Fu’s identity as the Great Qin Imperial Prince was revealed, the Li Family realized that the son they had rejected and repeatedly tried to kill would seek revenge. The family gathered to consider how to face the destruction Zhao Fu threatened, while Li Baiqing struggled with his inferiority and Yang Yuyan comforted him.

• The world’s rulers and factions were shocked to learn that Zhao Fu, once dismissed as an ordinary nobody, was the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• The Li Family’s old master collapsed after hearing the news, while Li Zhe and Li Baiqing were stunned by Zhao Fu’s identity.
• The Li Family feared Zhao Fu would avenge his mother and the assassination attempts by destroying the family and Great Tang.
• The old master summoned the family to discuss how to respond, and an elderly woman blamed him for rejecting Zhao Fu and his mother.
• Li Baiqing felt he could never match Zhao Fu, and Yang Yuyan held his hand and reassured him that she loved him.

The Li Family argued over how to respond to Zhao Fu, while Li Zhe refused to admit fault or accept him. After Great Tang sent apologies and gifts, Zhao Fu rejected them and declared that the Li Family would be destroyed.

• Li Zhe comforted Zhang Shuyun, then vowed to confront Zhao Fu and force him to kneel and beg forgiveness.
• The Li Family elder stopped Li Zhe and proposed acknowledging Zhao Fu and his mother while offering apologies to mend relations.
• News of Zhao Fu's connection to the Li Family spread, and other factions began distancing themselves from Great Tang.
• A Great Tang envoy presented Zhao Fu with gifts, letters of apology, and beautiful women on the Li Family's behalf.
• Zhao Fu rejected the gifts and apologies, denied any relationship with the Li Family, and declared that it would be destroyed.

Zhao Fu rejected the Li Family’s attempt at reconciliation, killed the Great Tang envoy, and left for the Southern Continent to investigate a possible crisis involving the Fish Scale World. The Li Family’s old master tried to find another way to protect Great Tang, just as Su Yan arrived with a vicious scheme.

• Zhao Fu rejected the Li Family’s gifts and pleas, then killed the Great Tang envoy when he invoked Zhao Fu’s family ties.
• Li Si asked Wu Qingniang and Nü Lü to calm Zhao Fu, but they discovered he had already left for the Southern Continent to investigate possible turmoil in the Fish Scale World.
• Great Qin returned the Li Family’s gifts, and the family realized Zhao Fu would not reconcile with them.
• The Li Family’s old master confined Li Zhe and ordered him to prepare to beg Zhao Fu for forgiveness, despite Li Baiqing’s objections.
• Su Yan arrived at the Li Family and presented a vicious scheme.

Zhao Fu weighed whether Great Qin should join the Southern Continent in resisting the Fish Scale Clan’s invasion, but chose to wait for accurate information and let the other factions seek him out. He turned to the Darkwater Continent, where his rapidly growing faction faced hostility, then returned to Great Qin to discuss preparations against the Fish Scale World and the still-missing Yu Xuan.

• Zhao Fu learned that the Fish Scale Clan was mobilizing for a large invasion and considered, but rejected for now, seeking an alliance with factions that had recently fought Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu’s intelligence network estimated that the Fish Scale World had over eighteen billion players and could field more than ten billion combatants, while Great Qin could not commit all its forces.
• Zhao Fu decided to wait rather than approach the Southern Continent’s factions, reasoning that they might ask Great Qin for help after the invasion began.
• Zhao Fu visited his faction on the Darkwater Continent, which had grown to 2,800 cities, two billion people, and three hundred million soldiers, and slowed its expansion to ease others’ hostility.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, remained concerned about the absent Yu Xuan, and planned to prepare both offensive strikes and strong defenses against the Fish Scale Clan.

Akhenaten warned the inheritors that the Fish Scale World was preparing another invasion and urged them to unite against it. Most factions mobilized despite their fear, while the Central Continent’s leaders waited on Zhao Fu, who burned Akhenaten’s letter without responding.

• Akhenaten spread word of the coming invasion and sent letters asking the inheritors, including Zhao Fu, to join the defense.
• Arthur Tina ordered her army assembled, and Geluofei also mobilized his forces and urged other factions to help.
• Ramis decided to go and gathered soldiers, while factions across the eastern, western, and northern regions prepared to resist the Fish Scale Clan.
• Babilon, Si Ji, and Aoglie received Akhenaten’s letters and looked toward Great Qin as the Central Continent’s factions feared leaving their positions against Qin.
• Zhao Fu received Akhenaten’s letter after leaving the Heavenly Spirit Stele and casually burned it without replying.

Zhao Fu refused to join the Southern Continent alliance against the Fish Scale Clan, leaving its leaders and gathered forces in panic. Si Ji used Great Qin’s absence to blame Zhao Fu and turn public opinion against him, while Great Qin quietly prepared for what came next.

• Zhao Fu decided not to aid the Southern Continent and ordered Great Qin’s generals to make preparations without announcing anything.
• The Southern Continent’s gathering learned that no one from the Central Continent, including Zhao Fu, had come, and the attendees’ morale collapsed.
• Akhenaten understood that Zhao Fu’s refusal stemmed from the factions’ repeated attempts to kill him.
• The Central Continent factions sent a letter blaming Zhao Fu for their absence and accusing him of selfishness, while its messenger denounced him before the gathered heroes.
• Si Ji’s scheme swayed most of the crowd against Zhao Fu and sought to undermine his support among the human world.

Akhenaten organized the human world's defense on Poison Island against the Fish Scale World's larger army, but their opening poison attack failed against the clan's preparations. The humans then launched a surprise attack with Ice Crystal Powder, freezing the water and catching nearby Fish Scale forces off guard.

• Akhenaten gathered the human forces on Poison Island and arranged preparations to defend against the Fish Scale World.
• A week later, Akhenaten led four billion human troops as they faced the Fish Scale World's eight billion troops.
• Akhenaten offered the Fish Scale Clan peace, but an inheritor mocked the humans and threatened to enslave them.
• Akhenaten ordered an attack with toxic liquid, but the Fish Scale Clan's pearls and antidotes protected its troops.
• The Fish Scale Clan charged toward Poison Island, and the humans followed with barrels of Ice Crystal Powder that froze the water and trapped nearby attackers in ice.

The Fish Scale Clan used water-powered spears and a massive tsunami to break down humanity’s icy defenses, while the humans countered with fire oil and five Grand Legions. The Fish Scale forces reached the defensive wall and pressed their attack as human archers tried to hold them back.

• The Fish Scale Clan threw water-gem spears that melted most of the ice before the humans could reinforce the defensive wall.
• The Fish Scale Clan charged across the water, but the humans ignited fire oil and burned hundreds of millions of attackers.
• Fish Scale mages summoned a towering wave that extinguished the flames and battered the defensive wall, sweeping defenders away and cracking its lower sections.
• The Fish Scale mages prepared a second tsunami, but five human Grand Legions gathered cultivation power and blasted the wave apart with spheres of silvery-white light.
• The Fish Scale forces charged to the defensive wall, where human archers killed many attackers, though the front ranks continued without fear.

The humans retreated to the rift as the Fish Scale Clan overwhelmed their defenses, but Arthur Tina revealed her power as a true king and Ice Island’s formation unleashed a devastating wave of cold. After billions died, the Fish Scale Clan’s leading inheritor declared that the humans had lost, just as a distant explosion shocked them all.

• Akhenaten ordered the humans to retreat toward the rift, and six hundred million people died as the Fish Scale Clan pursued them.
• Arthur Tina unleashed True · Sword of the King, sending a fanged Fish Scale inheritor flying and revealing that she had become a true king.
• Akhenaten announced that the Fish Scale Clan had brought the coming retaliation upon itself as Ice Island’s formation released a vast wave of frigid energy.
• The cold swept through the Fish Scale army, killing more than two billion Fish Scale people while the humans lost six hundred million.
• Akhenaten called for peace, but the leading Fish Scale inheritor claimed the humans had lost, and a distant explosion stunned everyone.

Yu Xuan and his younger brother opened a second rift in the Heavenly Domain Barrier, allowing a four-billion-strong Fish Scale army to invade the Southern Continent. The humans were trapped between the new invasion and the forces holding them in place, while Fish Scale troops massacred civilians in the cities.

• Yu Xuan’s younger brother used his ability to tear open a second rift in the barrier, and Yu Xuan’s army prepared to enter the human world.
• Yu Xuan ordered the Fish Scale army to charge through the rift as Akhenaten called for the humans to retreat and stop them.
• A Fish Scale heir rallied the troops to hold the humans in place, and the humans were forced to defend themselves against attacks on the city walls.
• The Fish Scale army overwhelmed the human defenders, whose fear and falling morale left them unable to resist effectively.
• Fish Scale troops entered the cities, killed civilians, and turned one city into a silent wasteland.

The Fish Scale invasion crushed the human forces in the Southern Continent, killing billions and forcing the survivors to retreat. As Fish Scale forces overran nearly the entire continent, its factions fled to other continents, and Akhenaten chose the Western Continent as the Land of Pharaohs’ new foundation.

• Fish Scale forces broke through the human defenses, seized cities, and slaughtered civilians as the human army collapsed and fled.
• Akhenaten and the surviving forces withdrew with only 1.2 billion troops, while the Fish Scale side lost just 300 million.
• News of the defeat spread panic across the human world, and Southern Continent factions began migrating to other continents.
• Yu Xuan welcomed more Fish Scale forces into the invasion as they flocked to claim the Southern Continent’s spoils.
• Within a week, Fish Scale forces occupied nearly ninety percent of the Southern Continent, and Akhenaten settled in the Western Continent.

Fish Scale World occupied the Southern Continent, enslaving and brutalizing its people, while humanity gathered to confront the threat. The council descended into anger over the absent Great Qin Imperial Prince, ending with an old man telling the leaders to stop blaming him and face the Fish Scale Clan themselves.

• Thousands of Central Continent city lords joined Si Ji's alliance, while Great Qin received no support and faced growing blame for the alliance's defeat.
• Fish Scale forces raided Southern Continent villages, enslaved survivors, and established slave markets beside the rift.
• Human leaders, including Si Ji, Oleg, Babilon, and Liu Ye, gathered to discuss the Fish Scale threat, but the Great Qin Imperial Prince did not attend.
• The assembled leaders cursed the Great Qin Imperial Prince for refusing to help, until an old man reminded them that he could choose whether to come and challenged them to confront the Fish Scale Clan themselves.

The human factions argued over responsibility for the Fish Scale World's invasion and whether to seek Great Qin's help. After the Fish Scale World offered to spare humanity if it helped destroy Great Qin, the human world split between supporters and opponents of cooperation.

• An old man blamed Huaxia and other factions for their past attempts to destroy Qin and for inviting the Defenders who now threatened humanity.
• Mediators urged the factions to unite against the Fish Scale World and suggested apologizing to the Great Qin Imperial Prince to bring Great Qin into the fight.
• A messenger announced that the Fish Scale World's Defender had offered to spare the human factions if they stayed neutral or helped kill the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Some factions welcomed the offer, while others warned that the Fish Scale World would attack humanity once Great Qin was gone.
• Arthur Tina declared that she would stand with Great Qin and humanity and would never cooperate with the Fish Scale people.
• The human world split, with thirty percent supporting cooperation against Great Qin and seventy percent opposing it.

Great Qin led five hundred million cavalry into the Southern Continent, where over ten billion Fish Scale people surrounded them. Zhao Fu’s forces launched an unexpected attack with white spears that created magic formations in the sky and caused the Fish Scale people to suffocate.

• A messenger announced that Great Qin had taken five hundred million soldiers to attack the Southern Continent, shocking the human leaders debating whether to submit to the Fish Scale World.
• Great Qin occupied the last unoccupied northern area of the Southern Continent, and Fish Scale people gathered to surround its army.
• Fish Scale leaders mocked Zhao Fu and threatened to destroy Great Qin, while Yu Xuan watched from the shadows.
• Zhao Fu remained silent as Great Qin’s cavalry charged and hurled white spears into the sky, where they formed glowing magic formations.
• Fish Scale people began collapsing from lack of oxygen, and the terrified forces fled as Great Qin’s cavalry continued forward.

Great Qin used formations to force the Fish Scale people into their true bodies and drain the City Lords of oxygen, then Zhao Fu fought Yu Xuan. Yu Xuan fled with his younger brother, leaving the Fish Scale forces to scatter.

• Great Qin cavalrymen hurled crystal spears that activated blood-red formations, forcing the Fish Scale people into their true bodies and making them fear real death.
• Yu Xuan emerged and struggled against the white formations, but Zhao Fu attacked him with the Heavenly Demon Sword and wounded him.
• Zhao Fu sent chains after Yu Xuan’s younger brother, and Yu Xuan fought them off with his golden trident.
• Yu Xuan grabbed his younger brother and fled, while the Fish Scale people and City Lords scattered from Great Qin.

Great Qin’s cavalry routed the Fish Scale people across the Southern Continent, killing billions and driving the survivors back into the Fish Scale World. Great Qin stopped at the rift, leaving the terrified Fish Scale factions to seek a way to defend their world as humanity celebrated its victory.

• Great Qin’s cavalry sealed the area’s Teleportation Arrays with redwood spears and slaughtered the fleeing Fish Scale people while Zhao Fu stayed behind to command the battle.
• Fish Scale people learned that billions had died and that Great Qin had defeated their City Lords and Guardians of the Way, prompting more survivors to flee.
• News of the massacre spread, and the Fish Scale Clan retreated to the Fish Scale World in panic.
• Great Qin swept across the Southern Continent and stopped near the rift without entering the Fish Scale World.
• The Fish Scale factions gathered in fear to discuss how to stop Great Qin from invading their world.
• Humanity celebrated after hearing that Great Qin had driven the Fish Scale people out of the Southern Continent and ended the crisis.

After Great Qin drove the Fish Scale people from the Southern Continent, Zhao Fu revealed that he had captured four billion of them using a formation that induced suspended death. He decided to take them into Great Qin, but planned to control and rank them as lowborn, leaving the defeated Fish Scale people under strict restrictions.

• News that Great Qin had slaughtered billions of Fish Scale people and driven them from the human world stunned the human leaders, and former supporters of cooperation with the Fish Scale Clan praised Great Qin.
• Arthur Tina and Geluofei marveled at Great Qin’s victory, while Arthur Tina reflected that Zhao Fu was the one person she sincerely admired as her superior.
• Zhao Fu explained that the white magic formation had extracted oxygen from aquatic races on land, allowing him to capture four billion Fish Scale people, though the formation failed in water and could be countered with Water Oxygen Pills.
• Zhao Fu chose to accept the Fish Scale people into Great Qin because they could strengthen its population and military, but ordered them controlled with Evil-Warding Pills to prevent rebellion.
• Zhao Fu classified the Fish Scale people as second-rank lowborn because they had enslaved humans, while reserving first-rank lowborn status for citizens of countries that had fiercely resisted Great Qin.

After absorbing Fish Scale people into Great Qin, Zhao Fu received a peace envoy from the Fish Scale World and demanded territory and the return of captured humans in exchange for a three-year noninvasion promise. The envoy left to consult their leaders, while Zhao Fu kept the gifts and sent the women back without receiving them.

• Li Si selected over fifteen hundred Fish Scale beauties for Zhao Fu as Great Qin incorporated the captured people as second-class commoners.
• A soldier told Zhao Fu that the Fish Scale World had sent an envoy to negotiate peace and prevent an invasion.
• The envoy praised Zhao Fu and offered fifty billion gold coins, treasures, and three thousand five hundred beauties in return for peace.
• Zhao Fu accepted the gifts and demanded Netherwater Continent, the return of captured humans, and a three-year noninvasion agreement backed by a blood contract.
• The envoy left to consult the Fish Scale World leaders, and Zhao Fu placed the money and treasures in Great Qin's treasury.
• The Fish Scale women undressed before Zhao Fu, but he told them to dress and return to Great Qin because the situation remained tense.

The Fish Scale World debated Zhao Fu’s demand for a continent, then agreed to cede Netherwater Continent and signed a Blood Pact with Great Qin. The pact secured three years of peace, and Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin to assess its enormous gains.

• Fish Scale leaders argued over Zhao Fu’s demands until an elderly man urged them to cede Netherwater Continent and use the Blood Pact to buy time for a future counterattack.
• Zhao Fu realized the Fish Scale World had agreed and planned for Great Qin to gain control of a second continent while humanity unified.
• Four days later, Zhao Fu and the Fish Scale representatives met near the fissure, agreed on the Blood Pact’s clauses, and sealed the contract with their blood.
• The Fish Scale invasion ended with territory, compensation, beauties, and treasures granted to Great Qin, bringing the two worlds into a period of peace.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and began taking stock of the war’s enormous gains.

After Great Qin secured the Southern and Netherwater Continents, Zhao Fu arranged their defenses and planned to assimilate the Fish Scale people. He refused demands from human factions to return the Southern Continent, while recognizing that their combined forces could threaten Great Qin before it had absorbed its new gains.

• Zhao Fu distributed people and cities between the two continents, kept the Fish Scale people under control, and planned to assimilate them into Great Qin over three years.
• Zhao Fu ordered Wang Jian to garrison the Netherwater Continent and planned defenses there, while the Southern Continent would be cleared and designated Great Qin territory.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and passed the congratulatory letters from human factions to Li Si without reading them.
• Li Si presented twenty letters asking Great Qin to return the Southern Continent in exchange for compensation.
• Zhao Fu rejected the demands and declared that the factions could take the territory themselves or submit to Great Qin.
• Li Si warned that more than twenty thousand cities displaced from the Southern Continent could join anti-Qin forces, and Zhao Fu concluded that Great Qin needed to absorb its new population quickly.

After Great Qin defeated the Fish Scale invasion, Huaxia and the southern factions turned against it, accusing it of abandoning humanity and occupying the Southern Continent. When those factions launched an operation to retake the continent, Zhao Fu ordered the Clan-Refining Artifact to destroy Huaxia.

• Great Qin swept through the region and kept the human world at peace for a month after driving out the Fish Scale people.
• Huaxia factions tested Great Qin with probing attacks, confirmed it would not retaliate, and began condemning its treatment of the Fish Scale people.
• Southern factions accused Great Qin of causing the invasion’s casualties and demanded that it return their territories in the Southern Continent.
• Huaxia and the southern factions formally joined forces and launched an operation to retake the Southern Continent on September 3rd.
• Zhao Fu read a memorial, left his quarters, and ordered Li Si to use the Clan-Refining Artifact to destroy Huaxia.

Zhao Fu began refining Huaxia’s Fate Clan Artifact, intending to strengthen Great Qin and unify Huaxia, while the other factions rallied the people against him. The chapter ended with Huaxia’s factions, joined by several sects, preparing to resist Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu decided to refine the Heirloom Seal of the Realm after Great Qin’s growing strength made him confident it could eventually unify Huaxia.
• Zhao Fu and more than a dozen great generals activated the Heaven and Earth Grand Refining, drawing Huaxia’s fate toward the array.
• Huaxia people felt dread from their bloodlines and realized Great Qin was refining their Fate Clan Artifact.
• Huaxia’s factions condemned Great Qin and called on the people to resist, warning that the refining would weaken their fate and bloodlines.
• The Confucian School, Mohist School, Buddhist School, and other sects joined Huaxia’s factions against Great Qin.

Great Qin’s attempt to refine the Heirloom Seal of the Realm met fierce resistance from Huaxia’s factions and citizens. The crystalline sphere shattered, the refinement failed, and Huaxia celebrated its victory over Zhao Fu.

• The Heirloom Seal of the Realm absorbed fate fortune and formed a crystalline sphere as Great Qin began refining it.
• Huaxia’s dynasties and factions rallied citizens against Great Qin, and their united will caused the sphere to crack.
• Zhao Fu poured his personal fate fortune and Great Qin’s fortune into the seal, briefly weakening its resistance.
• Huaxia’s factions, schools, and citizens renewed their resistance, overwhelming the seal with their united will.
• The crystalline sphere shattered, ending Great Qin’s refinement, and Huaxia’s people cheered their victory.