Recaps

The human factions prepared to face the demon race, while Great Qin’s response to their request for aid remained uncertain. Ye Cang led an assault on the Northern Continent’s defensive wall, and the battle began with the Demon Profound World’s true strength becoming apparent.

• The Northern Continent and other human factions sent urgent requests for Great Qin to join them against the demon race, but Zhao Fu only smiled at the letter.
• The Demon Profound World’s leaders discussed the threats posed by a mysterious faction and Great Qin, and decided to prepare for an attack.
• Three days later, demonic qi surged toward the Northern Continent’s defensive wall before the other human factions had arrived.
• Ye Cang led a two-billion-strong army from the Demon South Continent and sent hundreds of millions of magical beasts to attack the wall.
• Geluofei and the defenders used White Light Talisman arrows to kill three-tenths of the magical beasts, so Ye Cang attacked from another direction with twenty legions.
• The Demon Profound World’s troops fired arrows at the wall, revealing the cultivation power of their real bodies.

Night Dynasty’s demon forces overwhelmed the Northern Continent’s defenses, while Geluofei led the counterattack against Ye Cang. A holy attack killed millions of Night Dynasty soldiers, but blood demons then climbed the walls, and the Northern Continent awaited reinforcements that had not arrived.

• Night Dynasty’s powerful cultivators and colossal demon beasts shattered the city-wall defenses, forcing Geluofei and other City Lords to reinforce the battle.
• Geluofei charged Night Dynasty while Zhao Fu, controlling Ye Cang, fought him with full strength.
• White-robed worshippers summoned a giant holy phantom, whose attack killed roughly ten million Night Dynasty soldiers.
• Night Dynasty members used the fallen demon beasts’ blood to create millions of blood demons, which climbed the walls and drained the soldiers they attacked.
• News of the Northern Continent’s losses spread fear as leaders questioned why reinforcements had not arrived.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin into the Northern Continent after isolation barriers delayed other reinforcements, presenting the arrival as aid against the Demon World. After learning that the Northern Continent had sent most of its forces to the front, he signaled Great Qin’s generals to prepare, then declared that Great Qin would protect the region.

• Isolation barriers blocked the Teleportation Arrays to the Northern Continent, leaving its people panicked and delaying other factions’ reinforcements.
• Great Qin broke through the barriers first, and news of Zhao Fu’s arrival with a large army raised the Northern Continent’s hopes.
• Northern Continent officials welcomed Zhao Fu and praised Great Qin for joining the fight against the demons.
• Zhao Fu secretly signaled his generals, then asked how many Northern Continent forces had gone to the front; the reception official replied vaguely that most had left.
• Zhao Fu declared that Great Qin would protect the Northern Continent, alarming those present with the implication that he intended to claim it.

Zhao Fu used the demon invasion as an opportunity to launch Great Qin’s attack on the Northern Continent, quickly overwhelming its people and forces. As the Northern Continent struggled against the Demon Profound World, its defenders suddenly lost their powers and enhancements.

• Zhao Fu announced that the Northern Continent would submit to Great Qin, and Great Qin’s troops forced the welcoming party to surrender or killed those who fled.
• Zhao Fu released countless flying dragons and the eight Sea Beast Kings, then ordered Great Qin’s vast army to invade the Northern Continent.
• Great Qin rapidly seized regions across the Northern Continent, prompting widespread panic and flight as news of the attack spread.
• Geluofei fought Ye Cang while the Northern Continent’s defenses faltered against the demon forces and the Night Dynasty’s army.
• Geluofei watched the City Lords lose their powers and the soldiers’ enhancements disappear, leaving him bewildered.

The Northern Continent’s army collapsed as Great Qin attacked from the rear, leaving the Night Dynasty free to pursue the fleeing forces. Great Qin seized cities through brutal slaughter and began selecting women among the prisoners, including a girl of thirteen or fourteen.

• Great Qin’s surprise attack from the rear threw the Northern Continent into chaos, and its faction leaders fled as the Night Dynasty pursued them.
• Great Qin Cavalry broke through a city and killed those who resisted or tried to flee, while its infantry and archers subdued the remaining defenders.
• The surviving inhabitants surrendered and gathered in the city center as Great Qin Soldiers continued killing those who resisted.
• A mage-robed young man selected several women from among the prisoners to be taken away for His Majesty, and the foreigners watched in fear.
• The young man pointed at a blonde girl of thirteen or fourteen, and soldiers stepped forward as she began to cry.

Great Qin continued its conquest of the Northern Continent, and Zhao Fu demanded Geluofei’s surrender at the Holy See. Geluofei agreed to submit to Great Qin after Zhao Fu promised he could handle the demon invasion, leaving Zhao Fu to prepare for the arrival of forces from the other two continents.

• Great Qin seized more Northern territory as Ye Cang occupied border regions and Zhao Fu waited at the Holy See for Geluofei.
• Geluofei returned to find Zhao Fu in control and condemned Great Qin for weakening the Northern front while demons invaded.
• Twenty-four holy women urged Geluofei to resist, but Zhao Fu bound them with chains and threatened to destroy the Holy See if Geluofei refused.
• Geluofei asked whether Great Qin could withstand the demons, and Zhao Fu assured him that it could.
• Geluofei submitted to Great Qin while asking Zhao Fu to respect the Holy See’s position, and Zhao Fu released the women from their chains.

Zhao Fu refused Geluofei’s offer of the Holy See saintesses and went to the coast, where he stopped other continents’ forces from attacking Great Qin. He then showed Geluofei the demons retreating into their world, leaving him baffled by their invasion and withdrawal.

• Geluofei offered the Holy See saintesses to Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu refused and hurried with him toward the coast to face forces from other continents.
• Leaders from other continents learned that Great Qin had occupied the Northern Continent during the demon invasion and decided to attack Great Qin from behind.
• Arthur Tina withdrew to the Western Continent and ordered its defenses strengthened while accepting refugees from the north.
• The leaders’ forces reached the coast, saw Great Qin waiting for them, and scattered; Zhao Fu did not pursue them.
• Zhao Fu led Geluofei to the Northern Continent’s border, where Geluofei saw the demons retreating into the demon world and questioned their motives.

Great Qin secured the Northern Continent after Zhao Fu ended the demon invasion with a fabricated peace pact, while keeping Great Qin’s ties to the Night Dynasty secret. With its new territory and spoils, Great Qin prepared to strengthen itself before pursuing the unification of the human world.

• Geluofei realized Great Qin had deceived everyone with the demon invasion and decided to develop the Holy See under Great Qin’s rule.
• Great Qin brought the Northern Continent under control, and Zhao Fu announced a ten-year non-aggression pact with the demons.
• The other human continents launched probing attacks, but Zhao Fu used the Northern Continent’s defenses to repel them.
• The Demon Profound World wondered why the demons and mysterious faction had made peace, while Zhao Fu kept the Night Dynasty’s connection to Great Qin hidden.
• Great Qin gave the Night Dynasty money and resources to ease its losses, then gained twenty thousand cities and eight billion people from the Northern Continent.

After Great Qin settled the Northern Continent, Li Si presented Zhao Fu with imperial edicts to enfeoff more than eighteen thousand women with Phoenix Aura, but Zhao Fu ordered that women with only a small amount of it no longer be brought to the palace. Once Zhao Fu sealed the edicts, the Imperial Phoenix Statue reacted, refining Great Qin’s fortune and strengthening its people as it advanced toward becoming a Fate Clan Artifact.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, where Li Si discussed enfeoffing more than eighteen thousand women with Phoenix Aura from the Northern Continent.
• Zhao Fu sealed the imperial edicts and told Li Si to stop bringing women with only a small amount of Phoenix Aura to Great Qin.
• A golden pillar of energy erupted before the main hall, and the Imperial Phoenix Statue transformed into a phoenix and entered its peak.
• Golden light spread across Great Qin, refining its fortune, calming the newly conquered Northern Continent, healing and strengthening its people, and transforming the enfeoffed women.
• The Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu that the Imperial Phoenix Statue had become half a Fate Clan Artifact, and Zhao Fu understood that the enfeoffments had triggered its advancement.

After the Imperial Phoenix Statue’s transformation improved Zhao Fu and the consorts, Zhao Fu left the palace incognito with Ge Nie and Li Muqing to see Great Qin firsthand. In Divine Artifact City, a commoner praised the peace and prosperity Zhao Fu had brought to the empire without realizing he was speaking to the emperor.

• Zhao Fu completed his transformation, gaining strength and lifespan as the phoenix crystal within him developed a consciousness, while the consorts also benefited from the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• After reviewing memorials for over half a month, Zhao Fu accepted Li Muqing’s suggestion to travel incognito and brought Ge Nie and her along.
• Li Muqing took Zhao Fu to Divine Artifact City in the Central Continent, where he observed the bustling streets and sampled grilled meat.
• A child mocked Zhao Fu for being fed, but the child’s father apologized and praised Great Qin’s laws, academies, and Emperor.

Zhao Fu visited Divine Artifact City with Li Muqing and saw how Great Qin’s changing customs had shaped ordinary life. After Xiao Yuanchu explained the culture behind a man’s martial contest for marriage, Zhao Fu was left awkwardly defending himself against accusations that his ideas were old-fashioned.

• Zhao Fu overheard a father and son discussing the boy’s dream of becoming a Great Qin general, then tasted the local Tiger Ox meat at Li Muqing’s urging.
• Li Muqing hoped that seeing ordinary people would keep Zhao Fu connected to them and discourage him from using cruel methods to create monsters.
• Zhao Fu and Li Muqing came upon a martial contest for marriage in which a young man sought a spouse, and Zhao Fu asked whether men could hold such contests.
• Xiao Yuanchu introduced himself as a South Lake Academy student and explained that Great Qin’s laws protected diverse customs and that women and men could both pursue partners.
• A woman in red won the contest and declared the young man hers, prompting Xiao Yuanchu to call Zhao Fu’s ideas old-fashioned and offer to report his rural county’s shortcomings.

Zhao Fu listened to Xiao Yuanchu defend Great Qin’s social customs and explain the work of its enforcers, the Blackbird Guards. After the martial matchmaking contest ended, Xiao Yuanchu invited Zhao Fu to drink and discuss state affairs, unaware of who Zhao Fu and Li Muqing really were.

• Xiao Yuanchu praised Great Qin’s equality between men and women and said he supported people choosing their own lives.
• Xiao Yuanchu admired Li Muqing and spoke of his hopes to attend the imperial examinations in August and see her and the emperor.
• A burly young man challenged the woman in red at the matchmaking contest, but she defeated him and an enforcer stopped her from attacking further.
• Zhao Fu explained that enforcers, also called Blackbird Guards, handled disputes and enforced the law among the people.
• The woman in red left with the delicate-looking young man after no one else challenged her, and Xiao Yuanchu invited Zhao Fu to drinks and a discussion of state affairs.

After a visit among Great Qin’s people, Zhao Fu became more interested in governing and then moved to exploit Wolf Cang Kingdom’s weakness by organizing an invasion with Lelai Kingdom and three neighboring kingdoms. Their forces faced Wolf Cang Kingdom’s army as its ruler, Cang Snow Woman, accused the rival rulers of betraying her late father’s trust.

• Zhao Fu returned from his outing with Li Muqing and seemed more interested in handling memorials.
• After learning that Wolf Cang Kingdom had been devastated by its war with Lelai Kingdom, Zhao Fu arranged for Lelai Kingdom and three neighboring kingdoms to invade together.
• Le Yuyu welcomed the allied kingdoms’ replies, and Zhao Fu left the royal palace to join the campaign before the half-wolfman kingdoms could claim all the territory.
• Four Greenfield People kingdoms and three half-wolfman kingdoms brought overwhelming forces against Wolf Cang Kingdom, whose remaining army was badly outnumbered.
• Cang Snow Woman confronted the three rival rulers and accused them of betraying the friendship they had shared with her late father.

Cang Snow Woman fought three rival kings as their armies overwhelmed Wolf Cang Kingdom, while Zhao Fu and the Greenfield kingdoms invaded and looted its undefended territory. Seeing her kingdom close to destruction, Cang Snow Woman considered turning the half-werewolves against the Greenfield People.

• Three half-werewolf kings demanded Wolf Cang Kingdom’s submission, and Cang Snow Woman attacked them, starting a fierce battle.
• Cang Snow Woman used Wolf Cang Kingdom’s Nation-Guarding Artifact but was injured and suppressed by the three kings as her forces lost ground.
• Zhao Fu and the other Greenfield kingdoms invaded through the largely undefended Great Wall and divided their armies to seize cities and loot.
• Zhao Fu offered the subdued half-werewolves safety and equal treatment in Lelai Kingdom, and they helped his army advance by persuading others to surrender.
• Cang Snow Woman learned that the Greenfield kingdoms were taking Wolf Cang Kingdom’s territory and considered making the half-werewolves fight them.

Zhao Fu and the Greenfield People conquered most of Wolf Cang Kingdom and broke through the royal city's defenses. After Zhao Fu shattered the city hall's barrier, Cang Snow Woman arrived too late to stop him from reaching the City Heart.

• Cang Snow Woman persuaded the other three kings to join her in stopping the Greenfield People from seizing Wolf Cang Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu led twenty million troops to the royal city and attacked its weakened kingdom-protecting barrier with five Legion Forms and the Heavenly Demon Sword's Demon Sun technique.
• Zhao Fu shattered the kingdom-protecting barrier with repeated sword strikes, and his troops stormed the royal city.
• Zhao Fu used Destruction Crystals to crack the city hall's defensive barrier, then broke it with a sword strike.
• Cang Snow Woman returned and attacked Zhao Fu with a halberd, but he knocked it aside as she realized Wolf Cang Kingdom was about to fall.

Zhao Fu defeated Snow Woman and forced her to submit, preserving Wolf Cang Kingdom under her rule while secretly bringing its forces under his influence. After ordering the City Lord's Heart moved and the city looted, he withdrew to avoid drawing attention and provoking the other Green Shade Kingdoms.

• Snow Woman attacked Zhao Fu, but he repelled her with a single sword strike and reached the City Heart.
• Zhao Fu offered to let Snow Woman keep Wolf Cang Kingdom if she submitted, but she stalled while hoping the other kings would arrive.
• Zhao Fu sensed three powerful auras approaching, seized Snow Woman despite her defensive barrier, and overpowered her Nation-Guarding Artifact.
• Snow Woman agreed to submit, and Zhao Fu placed six masses of demonic qi inside her as restrictions.
• Zhao Fu ordered Snow Woman to move the City Lord's Heart, then had his soldiers loot the city and withdraw with her forces discreetly.

Zhao Fu kept Lelai Kingdom’s role in Wolf Cang Kingdom’s destruction understated while the seven invading nations divided the fallen kingdom’s territory. After returning to Lelai Kingdom, he began rebuilding Wolf Cang Kingdom in secret, but Le Yuyu opposed creating an independent nation within Lelai’s borders.

• Zhao Fu ordered Lelai Kingdom to evacuate and spread word that it had gained nothing, while Cang Snow Woman’s pursuers found the royal city abandoned.
• The seven nations divided Wolf Cang Kingdom’s territory, with the Greenfield People claiming 230 regions and the Half-Wolfmen taking 110.
• The Greenfield People and the Half-Wolfmen argued over the occupied land but avoided war, then began building Great Walls around their gains.
• Zhao Fu declined a victory banquet and returned to Lelai Kingdom, where he counted the expedition’s hidden gains and kept them there to strengthen the kingdom.
• Zhao Fu secretly began rebuilding Wolf Cang Kingdom inside Lelai Kingdom, but Le Yuyu objected to an unsubmissive nation existing within its borders.

Zhao Fu went to Elf World to find a nation that could serve as Great Qin’s hidden chess piece, but Zhanlu Sword’s unusual reaction drew him to an ancient tomb. There, he intervened after the Musi Family’s Third Young Master massacred onlookers, leaving the young noble and the city lords defeated.

• Zhao Fu told Le Yuyu that he had controlled the Cang Snow Woman, then urged Le Yuyu to strengthen Lelai Kingdom and help Wolf Cang Kingdom recover for Great Qin’s future invasion plans.
• Zhao Fu decided to plant a chess piece in Elf World and spent several days gathering information before choosing a target.
• When Zhanlu Sword trembled as Zhao Fu passed a city, he learned of an ancient tomb nearby and followed the sword’s apparent call to its location.
• At the tomb, the Musi Family’s Third Young Master ordered the crowd to leave and killed over a thousand people when they hesitated.
• After the Third Young Master struck down a city lord who mentioned Lord Corey, a black-cloaked figure arrived and blasted the young noble and the city lords to the ground.

Zhao Fu entered the blood-filled tomb and was pulled through a fissure into a collapsing, blood-colored world, where a terrifying killing intent nearly overwhelmed him. After the Zhanlu Sword absorbed the killing intent, Lord Corey attacked Zhao Fu in a corrupted state, leaving them facing off.

• Zhao Fu crushed the golden-robed young man to death and spared the kneeling City Lords before flying into the tomb.
• Zhao Fu found shattered corpses and a blood-qi-spewing fissure in the tomb hall, then was dragged through it into another world.
• Zhao Fu blocked the blood qi with his Emperor Domain but was nearly consumed by an immense killing intent, which his Emperor Blood and other powers helped him suppress.
• The Zhanlu Sword eagerly absorbed the killing intent while the other sword spirits resisted its corrupting influence.
• Lord Corey appeared with a blood sword fused to his arm and struck Zhao Fu, whose strengthened Emperor Domain withstood the attack.

Zhao Fu killed an elf in the First Turn Sword-Wielding Demonic State, and Golden Dragon explained the history and deadly nature of the Killing Sword World. The chapter left Zhao Fu contemplating the world’s Ninth Turn Sword Master and the power of an immortal.

• Golden Dragon recognized the place as the Killing Sword World as the elf attacked Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu struck the elf through the heart, but Golden Dragon explained that a First Turn Sword-Wielding Demonic State fighter could only be killed by destroying his body.
• Zhao Fu unleashed his full power and cut the elf into mangled pieces.
• Golden Dragon explained that the Sword World became the Killing Sword World after the one hundred and thirty-seventh Sword Master fell into the demonic path and spread slaughter sword intent throughout it.
• Golden Dragon described the Sword-Wielding Demonic State’s nine levels, and Zhao Fu learned that the Ninth Turn Sword Master had power comparable to an immortal.

Zhao Fu cautiously explored the surviving fragment of Killing Sword World, weighing its danger against the potential benefits for Great Qin. After securing the rift and concealing the site, he returned to investigate deeper, where the blood energy and killing intent grew far stronger.

• Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu that demonic madness had once unleashed a catastrophe across tens of thousands of worlds, and immortals had destroyed Killing Sword World to stop it.
• Zhao Fu decided to cautiously investigate the fragment, drew the excited Zhanlu Sword, and surveyed its lifeless outskirts under the protection of Emperor Domain and nine Black Dragons.
• Zhao Fu returned to the tomb and concealed the site as the mountain collapsed; more than a hundred City Lords arrived, learned that the golden-robed young man had been killed, and withdrew while remembering the grudge.
• Zhao Fu stabilized the rift with tools and a formation, then spent a day exploring the fragment and collected over ten thousand gold-grade items and several dozen legendary items.
• Zhao Fu put up the Six Paths Defensive Barrier and headed toward the deepest part of Killing Sword World, where the blood energy and killing intent were several times stronger.

Zhao Fu strengthened the Zhanlu Sword by absorbing sword soul essences in the Killing Sword World, but its growing killing intent threatened to overwhelm him. With Golden Dragon’s guidance, he began refining the sword with his blood and a severed hand, leaving the blade more powerful and the second refinement complete.

• Zhao Fu slew a group of sword souls and absorbed their essences into the Zhanlu Sword, increasing its power and killing intent.
• Golden Dragon warned Zhao Fu that the sword was becoming difficult to control and said that strengthening their bond would require a price.
• Zhao Fu refined the Zhanlu Sword with his blood, which brought forth a Black Dragon pattern along its spine.
• After several days of fighting more sword souls and absorbing over a thousand essences, Zhao Fu began the second refinement by sacrificing one of his hands.
• The Zhanlu Sword fused Zhao Fu’s severed hand into its body and released an even more intense aura of slaughter.

After refining the Zhanlu Sword with his soul, Zhao Fu gained its killing sword intent and advanced into the deepest part of the space. He discovered a weakened fragment of the Killing Sword World and four blood-crystal coffins beneath it.

• Zhao Fu absorbed over a thousand sword souls into the Zhanlu Sword, bringing its total beyond ten thousand and making it difficult to control.
• Golden Dragon urged Zhao Fu to complete the third refinement, so Zhao Fu used part of his soul to refine the Zhanlu Sword and accepted its Sword Heart.
• Zhao Fu and the Zhanlu Sword erupted with powerful sword intent and imperial aura, and the sword became closely fused with him.
• Zhao Fu swept through the stronger sword souls deeper inside and absorbed their illusory swords into the Zhanlu Sword.
• Zhao Fu reached the space's core and saw a fragment of the Killing Sword World atop a vast blood-crystal mountain, with four men lying in coffins below it.

Golden Dragon took control of Zhao Fu and sealed the four blood-coffin demons in a Ten Thousand Swords Formation. Zhao Fu then fused the Killing Sword World fragment into the Zhanlu Sword, triggering a phenomenon that shook the Guti Domain.

• Golden Dragon possessed Zhao Fu and used golden chains and ghostly figures to drag the four blood crystal coffins into the sealing space.
• Golden Dragon formed the Ten Thousand Swords Formation, stabilizing the collapsing space and sealing the four people while absorbing their sword intent.
• Golden Dragon returned Zhao Fu’s body and explained that he could fuse the Zhanlu Sword with the Killing Sword World fragment to become its one hundred and thirty-eighth generation Sword Master.
• Zhao Fu activated the Zhanlu Sword’s Sword Soul Domain, used his blood to improve its compatibility with the fragment, and began fusing them.
• The final fragment and the Sword Souls entered the Zhanlu Sword, unleashing bloody light and killing intent that spread across several hundred worlds and shook the Guti Domain.

A vast killing intent from the west spread across hundreds of worlds, terrifying the people and prompting Guti Domain’s factions to prepare for disaster. The Dao Cultivation Sect’s master judged that a peerless evil entity might be entering the world and set out to investigate personally.

• The killing intent from the Killing Sword World fragment affected the Elf World most severely, while elves and people in surrounding worlds collapsed or struggled to resist it.
• Kings across the affected worlds tried to withstand and control the killing intent, while factions debated whether the phenomenon was a natural upheaval or caused by someone.
• Wang Xiong Batian ordered experts from the Bear Mountain Kingdom to investigate and readied its army for battle.
• Factions across western, eastern, and northern Guti Domain dispatched investigators and prepared for a possible catastrophe.
• The Dao Cultivation Sect’s master said the heavenly secrets in the west were chaotic and Guti Domain’s fortune was gathering there, then left to investigate himself.