Recaps

Zhao Fu threatened the gathered Demon Profound factions to make Great Qin seem strong, though he was prepared to retreat if battle began. The standoff grew more confusing when Ye Cang challenged Zhao Fu over his demand to enslave the Demon Profound Clan, leaving both sides unsure whether to fight.

• Zhao Fu confronted the gathered factions and claimed Great Qin would destroy the Demon Profound World and enslave its people.
• A representative argued that the other continents had not taken part in the attacks, but Zhao Fu rejected the defense and continued his threats.
• Zhao Fu privately weighed the danger of battle and prepared to retreat with Great Qin's forces rather than risk losing its top fighters.
• Ye Cang appeared and objected to Zhao Fu's threat to enslave the Night Dynasty and the rest of the Demon Profound Clan.
• Zhao Fu and Ye Cang pretended to turn against each other, bewildering the Night Dynasty and leaving the gathered factions uncertain whether to fight.

Zhao Fu and Ye Cang staged a confrontation that ended the invasion of the Demon Profound World, leaving the three continents safe but wary of the mysterious faction. Both sides began building defenses as Ye Cang was hailed as a hero and Zhao Fu secured the Demon South Continent.

• Ye Cang revealed that his highest-grade blood contract prevented Zhao Fu from killing him, and Ye Ningshuang gave Zhao Fu an excuse to withdraw.
• Zhao Fu and the mysterious faction’s forces retreated, followed by the Sea Beast Kings and the invading army.
• Ye Cang warned the City Lords that the mysterious faction controlled the Demon South Continent and urged them to strengthen their defenses.
• The City Lords abandoned plans to pursue the retreating forces and began fortifying their continents.
• Ye Cang became known as a hero, while Zhao Fu refused Ye Ningshuang’s offer of service and ordered defenses built across the Demon South Continent.
• Bai Qi reported the gains from the campaign against the Demon South Continent, greatly pleasing Zhao Fu.

After conquering the Demon South Continent, Zhao Fu stabilized Great Qin’s hold there and returned to the human world. He decided to distribute Sect-Guarding Artifacts among Great Qin’s generals and develop affiliated sects whose destiny was linked to the nation.

• Great Qin gained 21,000 cities, ten billion people, and control of the Demon South Continent, while Zhao Fu kept its forces in place to secure the territory.
• Zhao Fu had Ye Cang reassure the Night Dynasty’s people, and over the next half month the continent stabilized under the dynasty’s control and defensive formations.
• Zhao Fu returned to the human world after Great Qin secured Demon South, leaving the Night Dynasty to absorb its gains and prepare to found a nation.
• Zhao Fu concluded that relying on his personal strength left Great Qin vulnerable to attacks on multiple fronts, so he chose to use Nation-Guarding Artifacts himself and give Sect-Guarding Artifacts to others.
• Zhao Fu planned to make the sects Great Qin’s affiliates, linking their destiny to the nation’s through an imperial edict and an exchange of destiny.

Zhao Fu began the second imperial examination to recruit officials and military talent for Great Qin, then watched the palace examination alongside the heads of the Hundred Schools of Thought. The top scholar, Li Xiaoling, declined a reward and left Zhao Fu asking what she wanted instead.

• Zhao Fu refined the four Nation-Guarding Artifacts and placed them in the City Hall to be nourished by Great Qin's fate.
• As Great Qin's territory and population expanded, Zhao Fu began the second imperial examination to find officials and military talent.
• Seven days later, Zhao Fu attended the palace examination with the heads of the Hundred Schools of Thought and oversaw the candidates' results.
• Li Xiaoling, a woman in Confucian robes, placed first, followed by a student from Qin Times Academy and a young man from the Taoist School.
• When Zhao Fu offered rewards to the top three, Li Xiaoling declined, and Zhao Fu asked what she wanted.

Li Xiaoling and several sect leaders pleaded with Zhao Fu to end Great Qin’s persecution of the Confucian, Buddhist, and Mohist Schools, and he revoked their punishments. Three months later, the Night Dynasty founded a first-rank marquisate, while news from outside the Land of Inheritance brought Zhao Fu relief.

• Li Xiaoling revealed that she belonged to the Confucian School and begged Zhao Fu to spare its ordinary disciples.
• Li Muqing, a sect leader, the Yin-Yang School leader, and other leaders joined Li Xiaoling in asking Zhao Fu to rescind the order against the three schools.
• Zhao Fu revoked the punishments against the Confucian, Buddhist, and Mohist Schools, then rewarded the examination’s top ten and ordered them trained as officials.
• After three months, the Night Dynasty founded a first-rank marquisate after clearing more than a thousand regions and building the Great Wall.
• News from outside the Land of Inheritance gave Zhao Fu cause for relief.

After learning that the mighty experts had left and a small, embattled nation was seeking a prince consort, Zhao Fu decided to use the marriage to gain a foothold in Greenfield World. He arrived at Lelai Kingdom’s palace and announced that he had come to marry the princess.

• Zhao Fu left the Land of Inheritance and learned that the mighty experts’ departure had ended the region’s uneasy truce, while one expert had taken a disciple from a great sect.
• Zhao Fu learned that someone was searching for him and suspected the Third Prince, then heard that Lelai Kingdom was offering its princess and territory to anyone who could provide three hundred cities.
• Zhao Fu chose Lelai Kingdom as a foothold in Greenfield World despite its invasion, internal power struggle, and the high price demanded for the marriage.
• Zhao Fu restored his cities to their unused state, traveled to Lelai Kingdom, and told the palace guards he had come to marry the princess.

After Lelai Kingdom waited in vain for a suitor able to provide three hundred cities, Zhao Fu arrived and offered the required dowry, giving the weakened imperial line hope of securing his aid. His unveiling stirred Le Zhiwen and Le Yuyu, while his unknown origins left the Empress Dowager unsure what his marriage would mean for the kingdom.

• After more than a month without a suitor, the guard warned Zhao Fu that he would be executed if he falsely claimed to offer three hundred cities, and Zhao Fu told him to report his arrival.
• Le Yuyu and Le Zhiwen ordered the guard to bring Zhao Fu into the palace, while members of rival imperial branches hurried there to watch and prepared to kill him if he threatened their plans.
• Le Yuyu offered Le Zhiwen's hand in marriage if Zhao Fu supplied three hundred cities, and Zhao Fu assured her that he had prepared them.
• At Le Yuyu's request, Zhao Fu removed his cloak, and his appearance stirred Le Zhiwen and awakened a powerful desire in Le Yuyu.
• Zhao Fu said he had come from a distant place to marry the princess, while Le Yuyu worried about his identity and the consequences of making him Lelai Kingdom's imperial son-in-law.

Zhao Fu defended his agreement to marry Princess Zhiwen when royal family members tried to block the marriage and threaten Empress Dowager Le Yuyu. He revealed overwhelming strength, killed their followers, and captured the royal family members, leaving everyone shocked and afraid of him.

• Le Yuyu agreed to betroth Princess Zhiwen to Zhao Fu in exchange for three hundred cities, but a group of royal family members entered and opposed the marriage.
• Le Yuyu explained that she needed the cities to repel foreign invaders and consolidate her power, while the royal family members threatened a coup.
• Zhao Fu insisted that he had already given the cities and that the royal family members had no right to interfere with his claim to Zhiwen.
• The royal family leader unleashed the capital city's seal and his ninth-tier power against Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu remained unaffected and released an even stronger aura.
• Zhao Fu killed the royal family members' followers with an invisible blade, then bound the royal family members with chains as they tried to escape.

Zhao Fu seized control of several Lelai Kingdom imperial clan members and persuaded Empress Dowager Le Yuyu to follow his instructions. He ordered the kingdom’s forces to resist the foreign invasion while he kept the young emperor and his mother under his influence.

• Zhao Fu blocked the guards with a Black Dragon-Pattern Shield and forced City Lord Seals from the bound imperial clan members before crippling them.
• Zhao Fu implanted blood-fed Brain Worms in the injured imperial clan members, successfully taking control of them.
• Le Zhiwen offered to marry Zhao Fu to protect Le Yuyu, but Zhao Fu chose to influence Le Yuyu with his charm and Six Desires Demonic Qi instead.
• Le Yuyu agreed to follow Zhao Fu’s instructions, and she and the middle-aged man ordered the guards to stand down.
• Zhao Fu returned the imperial clan members’ City Lord Seals and ordered them to unite against the invasion and send their forces to support the front lines.

Zhao Fu secured control over Lelai Kingdom after eliminating its internal power struggle and began preparing to stop the Half-Orc invasion. He left for the battlefield with three hundred city lords and five hundred flying dragons, hoping to use the border conflict to explore Half-Orc World.

• Le Yuyu and Le Zhiwen became Zhao Fu's women, and he promised to raise Le Yuyu to a position of honor as long as they remained loyal.
• Zhao Fu left the imperial palace and reestablished the three hundred cities he had brought to strengthen Lelai Kingdom.
• Lelai Kingdom appointed Zhao Fu Protector of the Nation, while Le Yuyu authorized him to appoint three hundred city lords.
• Zhao Fu headed for the battlefield with the city lords and five hundred flying dragons to face the invading Half-Orc nation.
• Zhao Fu learned that the war followed the deaths of both kingdoms' rulers after Lelai Kingdom's king ambushed and killed the opposing king, then died of his own wounds.

Zhao Fu took command of Lelai Kingdom’s war against the half-wolfmen and ordered the central defensive line to withdraw despite fierce opposition from the generals. The half-wolfmen poured through the gap, but Lelai Kingdom began a counterattack from both flanks the next day.

• Zhao Fu arrived at the military camp, where the original general challenged his authority before yielding command.
• Zhao Fu reviewed reports showing the half-wolfmen had breached Lelai Kingdom’s defenses and were preparing to attack with their full strength.
• When the central line came under attack, Zhao Fu ordered its troops to retreat and told the other two lines to hold.
• The original general and other commanders protested, but Zhao Fu’s overwhelming pressure silenced them.
• The half-wolfmen broke through the central line and poured into Lelai Kingdom, believing its forces could not stop their advance.
• The next day, Lelai Kingdom’s armies on the other two lines attacked from both sides and cut off the half-wolfmen’s retreat.

Wolf Cang Kingdom attacked Lelai Kingdom with a larger army and more Grand Legions, forcing Lelai Kingdom to fight at a severe disadvantage. Zhao Fu entered the battle, killing City Lords and unleashing nearly five hundred flying dragons, but Wolf Cang Kingdom’s fourth-tier soldiers began shooting them down.

• Wolf Cang Kingdom’s commander urged Ye Xiong to surrender, but Zhao Fu told Ye Xiong to wait for the attack.
• Wolf Cang Kingdom sent five Grand Legion manifestations against Lelai Kingdom’s three, and Zhao Fu dispatched more than one hundred and fifty City Lords to hold back two of them.
• The two armies clashed, with Lelai Kingdom struggling against Wolf Cang Kingdom’s superior numbers.
• Zhao Fu released a powerful aura and killed more than twenty City Lords in a single attack.
• Zhao Fu summoned nearly five hundred flying dragons, which attacked Wolf Cang Kingdom’s soldiers with fire and ice.
• Wolf Cang Kingdom’s fourth-tier soldiers fired arrows at the dragons, wounding one and threatening the flying force.

Zhao Fu led the Lelai Kingdom to crush the invading Wolf Cang Kingdom army, then ordered the Lelai Kingdom to reclaim its lost regions and strengthen its defenses rather than invade another world. As the Wolf Cang Kingdom sought help and the Lelai Kingdom celebrated, a purple-clad young man arrived above the royal city with seven women.

• Zhao Fu and the Lelai Kingdom army routed the Wolf Cang Kingdom, killing its commanding general and leaving only a little over a hundred City Lords to escape.
• Zhao Fu ordered Ye Xiong to reclaim the occupied regions and reinforce the defensive line without attacking the Wolf Cang Kingdom.
• News of the Lelai Kingdom's victory spread, while the defeated Wolf Cang Kingdom entered a defensive state and sent envoys to seek aid.
• A handsome young man dressed in purple descended above the Lelai Kingdom's royal city with seven beautiful women, his aura sweeping over the city.

The Eight Dragon Origin Sect’s young sect master came to Lelai Kingdom seeking Le Zhiwen as one of eight princesses for the Eight Dragon Sacred Art, but left after discovering she was no longer a virgin. Zhao Fu returned to the royal city and heard from Le Yuyu what had happened.

• The young sect master of the Eight Dragon Origin Sect offered three hundred cities for Le Zhiwen, while Autumn Charm, Han Nan, Frost, and Fire Speech Princess urged Lelai Kingdom to surrender her.
• Le Yuyu tried to refuse politely, and Le Zhiwen stepped forward to explain that she already had a husband.
• The young sect master examined Le Zhiwen and discovered she was not a virgin, then departed with the seven women accompanying him.
• Zhao Fu returned to the royal city, and Le Yuyu embraced him before recounting the encounter.
• Zhao Fu learned what had happened and grew angry.

After securing Lelai Kingdom, Zhao Fu abandoned plans to invade Wolf Cang Kingdom when its neighbors pledged support for it, then returned to the human world and gathered more resources through the Heavenly Spirit Stele. As he was about to leave the chat, a colored account asked him what the Sacred Realm was.

• Zhao Fu reassured Le Yuyu that the battlefield had ended in victory and explained that he planned to use the surrendered half-werewolves.
• Several neighboring nations declared support for Wolf Cang Kingdom, forcing Zhao Fu to abandon the planned attack while Lelai Kingdom strengthened its defenses and stabilized.
• Zhao Fu returned to the human world as tensions over Great Qin’s expansion and development across the worlds continued.
• Zhao Fu posted lines from the Tao Te Ching in the Heavenly Spirit Stele’s public chat and received various valuable items in return.
• Zhao Fu obtained Thousand Flower Liquid, which he hoped would help the World Flower grow, then received a message asking, “What is the Sacred Realm?”

Zhao Fu befriended a mighty expert by sharing scriptures from his world and refused the expert’s generous rewards. He then used Thousand Flower Liquid on the World Flower, which grew much taller but still did not bloom.

• Zhao Fu learned that the person contacting him was a mighty expert who had seen through his act and recognized the scriptures as coming from a newly advanced world.
• Zhao Fu offered to send the expert the complete sacred scripture and other works, hoping to build a useful connection against future threats.
• Zhao Fu gathered scriptures from his world and sent them through the Heavenly Spirit Stele; the expert especially praised the Tao Te Ching and offered him increasingly valuable rewards.
• Zhao Fu refused the rewards and became friends with the mighty expert.
• Zhao Fu poured Thousand Flower Liquid onto the World Flower, which grew to two hundred and sixty meters tall, but its bud still did not bloom.

Zhao Fu gave General's Artifacts to Rogge, Duo Ke, Daisy, and Sade, allowing them to awaken their General Stars. The chapter ended with the four stars transformed into the Army Breaker Star, Lunar Star, Minister Star, and Solar Star.

• Zhao Fu summoned Rogge, Duo Ke, Daisy, and Sade and gave each Soldier Souls to fuse into a General's Artifact.
• Rogge, Duo Ke, Daisy, and Sade fused with the Soldier Souls, summoning four enormous purple stars that people across the continents sensed.
• The four nonhuman generals raised their weapons and unleashed their power, sending pillars of light into the purple stars.
• Sade's star became the black Army Breaker Star, and Daisy's became the silvery Lunar Star.
• Rogge's star became the yellow Minister Star, while Duo Ke's became the fiery Solar Star.

Rogge, Daisy, Duo Ke, and Sade awakened general stars and received upgraded General’s Artifacts, while Zhao Fu reorganized Great Qin’s sects and appointed new Sect Masters. Concerned that Great Qin lacked enough genius-level cultivators, Zhao Fu and his ministers decided to implement the Sect Decree.

• Rogge, Daisy, Duo Ke, and Sade received the Heavenly Minister Scepter, Lunar Staff, Sun Spear, and Army Breaker Saber after their general-star baptisms.
• Zhao Fu inspected the four Level 2 Saint Artifacts, celebrated with their new wielders, and checked the Progenitor Divine Statue’s slow refinement progress.
• Three demonic beams marked the reestablishment of the sects, and Zhao Fu appointed Elise, Zhao Mo, Zhao Sha, and Ge Nie as Sect Masters.
• Zhao Fu gathered his ministers to address Great Qin’s shortage of genius-level cultivators, and they decided to implement the Sect Decree.

Zhao Fu rejected the Li Family’s attempt to lure him into an ambush and turned his attention to Great Qin’s expansion. After Great Qin unified the Central Continent, it rose to a Level 11 Marquisate, though the Southern Continent and Netherwater Continent remained unsettled.

• Zhao Fu supported developing sects alongside academies and helped the Hundred Schools of Thought grow.
• Zhao Fu read Li Zhe’s letter of curses and invitation to meet alone in the Western Continent, recognized the proposed meeting as a trap, and ordered future letters from the Li Family destroyed unread.
• Zhao Fu directed Great Qin to gather information on the remaining continents and prepare invasion plans.
• Great Qin completed its unification of the Central Continent and construction of the Great Wall, becoming a Level 11 Marquisate.
• Great Qin’s population reached 26 billion, its military force reached 2 billion, and its legions advanced to Level 21.

Zhao Fu searched for vessels to establish Great Qin’s thirty-three new legions, recruiting suitable sects, mounts, conquered dynasties, and Monster City. After filling all but two slots, he began creating the legions, starting with the Black Divine Horse Nest.

• Zhao Fu tested Great Qin’s allied sects and found the Clans, Taoist School, Military School, Wu Family, School of Artificers, and Yin-Yang School suitable as legion vessels.
• Zhao Fu confirmed the Black Divine Horse Nest could serve as a vessel and decided to cultivate cavalry regiments using Orc giant wolves and elf giant deer.
• Zhao Fu had Orcs and elves provide small amounts of blood, which their secret arts processed into crystals that strengthened the Giant Wolf Nest and Giant Deer Nest into suitable vessels.
• Zhao Fu identified fourteen conquered dynasties and Monster City as additional vessels, leaving two legion slots unfilled.
• Zhao Fu began establishing legions and fused a Legion Heart into the Black Divine Horse Nest, where a black horse appeared above it and transformed into a stone stele.

Zhao Fu created cavalry legions from the Giant Wolf and Giant Deer Nests, then went to Monster City to form his final legion. There, he encountered six beautiful female monsters, including Tamamo-no-Mae and Blue Lantern.

• Zhao Fu inspected the Black Divine Cavalry Legion and learned that its soldiers could communicate and merge powers with Black Divine Horses.
• Zhao Fu merged a Legion Heart into the Giant Wolf Nest and created the Giant Wolf Cavalry Legion.
• Zhao Fu created the Giant Deer Cavalry Legion and then formed twenty-seven other legions with elite soldiers.
• Zhao Fu traveled to Monster City to create the final legion and encountered Tamamo-no-Mae, the Hour of the Ox Woman, the Hundred-Eyed Demon, the Book Cart Demon Consort, the Bone Woman, and Blue Lantern.

Zhao Fu entered Monster City and encountered numerous female yokai, including the Snow Woman, Bridge Princess, and Forked Cat. Suspecting they had gathered for a purpose, he turned away to avoid trouble.

• Zhao Fu saw many female yokai gathered along the road in Monster City.
• He recognized that Tamamo-no-Mae was trying to seduce him and thought of Zhen Yi as a friend.
• Zhao Fu concluded the yokai must have a purpose and turned around to take another road.

Zhao Fu met Maple Leaf Hunt and the female monsters, who asked him to address Zhen Yi, make use of their abilities, and create a Monster Realm. He weighed the proposal’s promise of a powerful monster army against the brutal cost before Zhen Yi arrived.

• Maple Leaf Hunt urged Zhao Fu to accept monsters into his harem, but he interrupted her and asked what the monsters wanted.
• Maple Leaf Hunt requested that Zhao Fu stop neglecting Zhen Yi, give the monsters a role in Great Qin, and prepare ten regions for a Monster Realm.
• Maple Leaf Hunt explained that a Ten Thousand Demon Barrier would turn the regions into chaotic lands where creatures became monsters, creating a vicious army through slaughter and devouring.
• Zhao Fu considered the suffering involved and doubted he could sacrifice his own subjects to make the Monster Realm.
• Zhen Yi arrived and asked why Zhao Fu and the female monsters were together, and Maple Leaf Hunt teased that they had come to secure her happiness.

Zhao Fu appointed Mai commander of a monster legion and prepared Great Qin for war, while weighing an attack on the Western Continent. Before the plans could proceed, the barrier between the human world and the Demon Profound World began to vanish, and the passage between them opened.

• Zhao Fu merged the Legion Heart into Mai's City Hall, discovered that it had fused with an All-Beings Nest, and urged Mai to visit Great Qin often.
• Zhao Fu ordered the expansion and training of Great Qin's thirty-one new legions and postponed a decision on turning people into monsters for an army.
• Zhao Fu and his generals identified the Western Continent as Great Qin's likely target and discussed its defenses, forces, and ocean crossings.
• Notifications warned that the Heavenly Domain Barrier between the human world and the Demon Profound World was merging and that the passage between the worlds was about to open.
• A massive shock struck both worlds as enormous cracks split the border, demonic qi poured into the human world, and seven-colored fragments fell from the sky.

The Heavenly Domain Barrier merged after Great Qin’s control of the Demon South Continent sent fate surging between the worlds, allowing Zhao Fu to mobilize its population, City Lords, and army. As the Northern Continent prepared for a demon invasion, Geluofei called for aid and unity against the outside enemy.

• Zhao Fu learned that the Night Dynasty’s control of one-third of the Demon South Continent had caused the Heavenly Domain Barrier to merge and the passage between the worlds to open.
• Zhao Fu and Wei Liao led Great Qin’s officials to discard their previous plans and discuss how to use the Demon South Continent’s newly accessible population, City Lords, and military forces.
• The Northern Continent feared an invasion by the demon race, but its factions had a sturdy defensive wall and demon-breaking items prepared.
• Geluofei led the Northern Continent’s factions to guard the defensive wall and urged them to seek aid from the other continents, especially Great Qin, and end their civil war.