Recaps

Zhao Fu grasped the Zhanlu Sword and absorbed its immense killing intent, becoming the lord of the sword souls as the Killing Sword World collapsed. The resulting power shook the worlds, while the Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group recognized the intent in Zhao Fu’s blood as the ancient Intent of the Killing Sword.

• The Zhanlu Sword absorbed the Killing Sword World’s blood aura, sword souls, crystals, and source power as the world collapsed around Zhao Fu.
• One hundred thousand sword souls knelt before the Zhanlu Sword, and Zhao Fu grasped its hilt to become the Sword Lord.
• The sword’s killing intent transformed Zhao Fu, and he raised the Zhanlu Sword to unleash a blood-light beam that shook Apocalypse World, the Divine World, and the Underworld.
• A Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group observer reported that killing intent from Zhao Fu’s blood had invaded and injured him.
• The group’s important figures examined the blood and identified its power as the ancient Intent of the Killing Sword, now bearing a trace of Emperor Realm aura.

Zhao Fu reforged the Killing Sword World into the Imperial Killing Sword World, gaining control over its powerful killing intent through the Zhanlu Sword. Meanwhile, the Heaven's Secret Pavilion discovered that he had the qualifications to become a Child of Heavenly Fortune and warned against investigating his fate further.

• The Heaven's Secret Pavilion observed blood-red light and killing intent shroud Zhao Fu's three Imperial Stars, and the Fate Venerable was injured while trying to investigate them.
• The Fate Venerable warned the pavilion not to deduce Zhao Fu's fate because it was shrouded in danger and might involve an immortal, but allowed them to keep observing him.
• Zhao Fu used the Zhanlu Sword to restore the collapsed Killing Sword World as a lush, hundred-li-wide realm and named it the Imperial Killing Sword World.
• Zhao Fu learned that slaughter could expand the Imperial Killing Sword World, but transformed swordsmen would become maddened killing machines that only he could control.
• Zhao Fu carved a new passage out of the world and returned to Apocalypse World, where he learned about the disturbance he had caused.

Zhao Fu emerged from the Imperial Killing Sword World with the Zhanlu Sword as its core and discovered that the killing intent had transformed tens of millions of elves into bloodthirsty Killing Sword Elves. As kingdoms began hunting them, Zhao Fu’s plans to reach the Full Moon Kingdom were overtaken by the growing crisis, and Mi Ye prepared his followers for a final slaughter.

• Powerful figures searched the border worlds for the cause of the strange phenomena, then offered rewards for information.
• Zhao Fu left the Imperial Killing Sword World with the Zhanlu Sword, now displaying the grade “Origin,” and learned he could enter the world through it.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the killing intent had created Killing Sword Elves, who worshipped him as the Lord of the Killing Sword, though he could influence rather than control them.
• Zhao Fu’s bloodline advanced to lower-stage Level 18 Emperor Blood, and he considered continuing his search for a chess piece in the Full Moon Kingdom.
• Killing Sword Elves committed murders across the Elf World, prompting kingdoms to order their extermination.
• An elf General’s army cornered several thousand Killing Sword Elves, and Mi Ye ordered them to stop fleeing and begin a final slaughter.

Mi Ye and the remaining Killing Sword Elves fought the encircling army in a brutal, near-suicidal battle. Just as the elf general was about to kill the badly wounded Mi Ye, the cloaked owner of the Killing Sword True Body appeared and slaughtered the entire army with sword souls.

• The elf general ordered his hundred-thousand-strong army to surround and destroy the seven thousand Killing Sword Elves, who charged into battle without fear.
• The Killing Sword Elves killed many soldiers before the general ordered archers and cavalry to attack; Mi Ye swallowed a crystal and fought the general while the battle claimed lives on both sides.
• The elf general defeated Mi Ye and prepared to kill him as the surviving Killing Sword Elves dwindled to just over a thousand.
• A cloaked figure appeared in the blood-red sky, and the Killing Sword Elves recognized the Killing Sword True Body and knelt before him.
• The cloaked figure summoned countless sword souls and slew every soldier in the army.

Zhao Fu revealed himself as the Lord of the Killing Sword, winning the devotion of the Killing Sword Elves and frightening the factions of the Guti Domain. After his plan helped protect the elves and gather them into a force, he headed to Full Moon Kingdom to pursue a new candidate for power.

• Zhao Fu vanished after revealing himself, and the Killing Sword Elves celebrated his appearance while Mi Ye received medicine for his injuries.
• News of the Lord of the Killing Sword spread through Elf World and the Guti Domain, drawing experts who investigated the terrifying phenomenon and feared Zhao Fu's power.
• The gathered experts left Elf World after failing to identify Zhao Fu, while leaving watchers behind.
• The factions of Elf World stopped pursuing the extermination of the Killing Sword Elves, who became more devoted to Zhao Fu and formed a potential force for him.
• Zhao Fu went to Full Moon Kingdom, where he shifted his attention from the youngest prince to another prince who had become a Killing Sword Elf.

Zhao Fu turned the elf prince into a half-demonized servant and planned to make him king of the Full Moon Kingdom. When the king left the royal city, Zhao Fu ambushed and killed him, taking the King's Seal.

• The elf prince agreed to Zhao Fu’s offer, but Zhao Fu seized him and used the Imperial Killing Sword to make him a half-demonized servant who obeyed him.
• Zhao Fu sent the elf prince back and decided to remove obstacles to his succession, beginning with the aged king.
• Half a month later, Zhao Fu attacked the king’s forces in the sixth region after setting up an isolation formation.
• Zhao Fu restrained and killed the king, seized the King's Seal, and escaped.
• News of the king’s assassination spread throughout the Full Moon Kingdom and shocked its people.

After seizing Full Moon Kingdom with the King Seal, the eighth prince renamed it Killing Sword Kingdom and welcomed Killing Sword Elves, while Zhao Fu stabilized the kingdom and returned to Great Qin. He then began searching nearby worlds for exceptional sword cultivators to develop the Imperial Killing Sword World.

• The eighth prince took the throne with the King Seal after the old king and several princes were assassinated, then suppressed rebellions and introduced policies that won popular support.
• The new king renamed Full Moon Kingdom Killing Sword Kingdom and invited Killing Sword Elves across Elf World to settle there with equal rights and protection.
• Twenty million Killing Sword Elves arrived, and Zhao Fu managed their settlement as the kingdom's situation stabilized.
• After spending another month in Elf World, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, intending to cultivate the Imperial Killing Sword World.
• Zhao Fu ruled out using Great Qin's people because entering demonic madness permanently trapped them in slaughter, and he began searching nearby worlds for talented sword cultivators.

Zhao Fu ordered Ge Nie and teams of City Lords to capture a hundred gifted sword cultivators, then used them to create the Slaughter Pool in the Imperial Killing Sword World. He sent the captives into its deadly waters, leaving their fate sealed by the Lord of the Killing Sword.

• Zhao Fu assigned Ge Nie and teams of thirty City Lords to capture sword cultivators using equipment designed to restrain them.
• Zhang Xiaohua was bound by a magic formation and captured, while Ke Jieni was overwhelmed by chains and taken away from the elven children he had been teaching.
• Ge Nie defeated and captured the heavily wounded Lun Ming San after Lun Ming San slaughtered people over a treasure.
• The disappearances unsettled the sword cultivation world, but the mystery gradually faded from public attention.
• Zhao Fu created the Slaughter Pool by plunging the Imperial Killing Sword into the ground and gathering killing intent into a lake.
• Zhao Fu revealed his identity to the captured sword cultivators and sent all one hundred into the Slaughter Pool.

Zhao Fu transformed a hundred sword-wielders who had fallen into demonic possession into obedient Blood Sword fighters and sent them to the front lines after testing their power on an Orc City. He then sought information about the Guti Domain from Medicinal Stone, who warned him that the inner region’s nations had far stronger foundations than novice worlds.

• After nine days in the lake, the hundred sword-wielders emerged transformed, wielding Blood Swords and obeying Zhao Fu without question.
• Zhao Fu led them to a small Orc City, where they killed more than a hundred thousand Orcs and absorbed the corpses’ blood to grow stronger.
• Disappointed that the fighters had faced no challenge, Zhao Fu relocated the Orc City and sent them to the front lines to gain strength through slaughter.
• Zhao Fu continued gathering information about the Guti Domain and summoned Medicinal Stone, who reacted with shock at the attention Zhao Fu had drawn.
• Medicinal Stone warned Zhao Fu to be extremely cautious because the inner region’s strength and the foundations of its nations far exceeded those of novice worlds.

Zhao Fu learned how formidable the Guti Domain’s inner region was and traveled there to seek high-tier corpses for Great Qin. At an inn near the inner region, he and Ge Nie attracted the attention of a white-robed young master and his guards.

• Zhao Fu learned about the inner region’s powerful troops and factions, including the Bear Mountain Kingdom, and decided to use the Imperial Killing Sword less often.
• Zhao Fu decided to travel to the inner region to obtain high-tier corpses and refine them into Blood God Pills to strengthen Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu and Ge Nie spent more than a month traveling and secretly built Teleportation Arrays along the way.
• Zhao Fu arrived in the inner region and planned to cooperate with the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group to secure a steady supply of corpses.
• At an inn, Zhao Fu invited Ge Nie to eat with him, while a white-robed young master arrived with two guards.
• The cold-faced guard noticed Ge Nie, and the white-robed young master met Zhao Fu’s gaze and stiffened at the terrifying look in Zhao Fu’s eyes.

Zhao Fu encountered Bing Qixue, a renowned prodigy ranked ninth on the Guti Ranking, at an inn in the Inner Domain. When Long Yang tried to drive out the inn’s guests, Bing Qixue’s identity forced him to withdraw, while Zhao Fu kept his distance from the gathering.

• Bing Qixue approached Zhao Fu to make his acquaintance, but Zhao Fu initially refused before replying politely in a Guti Domain language.
• Long Yang entered the inn with seven women and demanded that everyone leave because he had reserved the place.
• Long Yang revealed that he was the Young Sect Master of the Eight Dragon Origin Sect and ranked nineteenth on the Guti Ranking, prompting the guests to prepare to leave.
• The woman in black announced that Bing Qixue was the Icefield Kingdom’s eldest prince and ranked ninth, stunning the guests and reminding Zhao Fu of Long Yang’s earlier attack on Lelai Kingdom.
• Long Yang challenged Bing Qixue to a future contest after cultivating the Eight Dragon Sacred Art, then left with his people.
• Bing Qixue remained at the inn, while Zhao Fu returned his attention to his important business and avoided further involvement.

Zhao Fu learned about the Great Void Ruins from Bing Qixue, who recognized that Zhao Fu was dangerous and far from ordinary. The next day, Zhao Fu bought a large supply of corpses from the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group and arranged for future purchases.

• Bing Qixue explained that the Great Void Ruins would open in two years and that the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group was selling Great Void Tokens.
• Bing Qixue warned the woman in black that Zhao Fu was extremely dangerous and that even he might not defeat him without using the World Seal.
• Zhao Fu visited the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group and asked to buy a large quantity of corpses above the second stage.
• Zhao Fu purchased one million second-stage corpses, one hundred thousand third-stage corpses, and ten thousand fourth-stage corpses for thirty million gold coins.
• Zhao Fu asked the gray-robed middle-aged man to keep supplying corpses, and the man agreed.

Zhao Fu missed the auction for the Great Void Tokens and refused offers from Bing Qixue and Long Yang. He chose to try climbing the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform to obtain the merchant group’s remaining token.

• Zhao Fu arrived after the auction ended and learned that all the Great Void Tokens had been sold.
• Bing Qixue offered Zhao Fu a token, but Zhao Fu hesitated to accept the favor.
• Long Yang mocked Zhao Fu and tossed a Great Void Token at him as a humiliating reward, prompting Bing Qixue to object.
• Zhao Fu asked the attendant whether another token was available and learned that one remained atop the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform.
• Despite warnings and mockery from Bing Qixue, Long Yang, and the onlookers, Zhao Fu had the attendant lead him to the platform.

Zhao Fu went to the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform to attempt its impossible ascent, drawing a crowd because of his connections to Bing Qixue and Long Yang. The manager dismissed his chances, while Zhao Fu stood before the platform as the crowd watched.

• Long Yang and his companions mocked Zhao Fu’s plan to climb the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform, while Bing Qixue doubted he could succeed.
• Zhao Fu followed the attendant toward the platform, and news of his attempt spread through the city because he was connected to Bing Qixue and Long Yang.
• The crowd gathered before the thousand-meter-tall platform, whose steps and dragon-carved pillars lay beneath dangerous restrictions surrounding a hoard of treasures.
• The attendant reported the situation to the manager, who said no one had ever climbed the platform and instructed him to keep serving Zhao Fu and help find a Taixu Token.
• Millions of people surrounded the platform and focused their attention on the cloaked Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu climbed the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform and defeated its first three trials with overwhelming strength. He reached the fourth trial at the one hundred and nineteenth step as a massive golden dragon pearl formed above him.

• Zhao Fu resisted the platform’s oppressive aura and rapidly climbed to the thirtieth step, where he blasted away the first trial’s silver dragon pillar.
• Zhao Fu reached the fifty-ninth step and shattered the second trial’s golden dragon claw with a punch, earning the crowd’s astonishment and Long Yang’s attention.
• Zhao Fu faced the third trial’s golden divine dragon and defeated it with the Black Dragon that burst from his body.
• Zhao Fu climbed to the one hundred and nineteenth step, where a colossal golden dragon pearl formed for the fourth trial.

Zhao Fu shattered the fourth trial’s Dragon Domain and passed the fifth trial, revealing power that alarmed the spectators and rival heavenly prides. He reached the sixth trial, where a pair of silver dragon eyes appeared in the sky as the challenge began.

• The golden Dragon Domain pressed against Zhao Fu’s Emperor Domain, but two dragon roars and black and purple flames strengthened him until he shattered it.
• Zhao Fu climbed to the one hundred and fiftieth step and used his Kingly Profound Meaning to destroy the half-human, half-dragon monsters, passing the fifth trial.
• Bing Qixue recognized Zhao Fu’s strength and became concerned about his Emperor’s aura, while Long Yang and the seven beauties beside him reacted with dismay.
• The attendant told the manager that Zhao Fu had passed the fifth trial, and they hurried to the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform to witness his progress.
• Zhao Fu climbed to the one hundred and seventy-ninth step and triggered the sixth trial, summoning a pair of silver dragon eyes that made the onlookers feel fear.

Zhao Fu defeated the sixth trial of the Ten Thousand Dragons Seal by summoning his terrifying eyes, which overwhelmed the Annihilation Dragon Eyes. He reached the seventh trial, where the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform summoned a Dragon God, and the crowd waited to see whether he could overcome it.

• The Annihilation Dragon Eyes attacked Zhao Fu, cracking his Emperor Domain and tearing at his body.
• Zhao Fu unleashed three kinds of flames and revealed a terrifying pair of eyes that made the Annihilation Dragon Eyes collapse in fear.
• Zhao Fu overcame the sixth trial and climbed from the one hundred eightieth step toward the seventh trial.
• Zhao Fu reached the two hundred ninth step and triggered the seventh trial, darkening the sky and gathering a vast vortex of spiritual energy.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Platform manifested a powerful Dragon God holding a dragon halberd, leaving everyone to wonder whether Zhao Fu could defeat it.

Zhao Fu faced the Dragon God in the seventh trial, enduring its devastating attacks and revealing that he still had immense power in reserve. He unleashed the full power of the four dragons of fortune and summoned countless chains that sealed the sky, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The Dragon God warned Zhao Fu to withdraw, but Zhao Fu declared that he had slain gods and refused to retreat.
• The Dragon God attacked with a hurricane and a destructive beam, cracking Zhao Fu's Emperor Domain and forcing him back.
• Zhao Fu summoned a four-colored spear and hurled it at the Dragon God, but the Dragon God cut it apart with its halberd.
• Zhao Fu unleashed the full power of the four dragons of fortune, surprising the Dragon God and terrifying the onlookers.
• Zhao Fu clenched his hand, and countless powerful chains shot forth to seal the sky.

Zhao Fu defeated the Dragon God and cleared the Seventh Trial on the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform, astonishing the crowd and the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group. He advanced toward the Eighth Trial as the group’s highest ranks learned of his feat.

• The Dragon God broke Zhao Fu’s chains with its full power, but Zhao Fu summoned a four-colored dragon sword and killed it with one slash.
• The Seventh Trial was declared cleared, and the crowd celebrated Zhao Fu as the greatest heaven-chosen on the Guti Ranking.
• Bing Qixue recognized the vast gap between himself and Zhao Fu, while Long Yang decided to stay and see whether Zhao Fu could clear the final trial.
• The manager ordered an attendant to report Zhao Fu’s achievement to the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group’s highest ranks.
• A messenger interrupted the group’s meeting and reported that Zhao Fu had cleared the Seventh Trial and was advancing toward the Eighth.

Zhao Fu reached the eighth and final trial of the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform, where ten thousand dragons nearly crushed him. His suppressed imperial aura then erupted, forcing the crowd to kneel and revealing the overwhelming nobility of his identity.

• The upper ranks of the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group rushed to the platform after learning that Zhao Fu had passed the seventh trial, and news drew millions of onlookers.
• Zhao Fu stepped onto the final stair, awakening ten thousand dragons whose combined might pressured everyone nearby to retreat.
• The dragons’ roar shattered Zhao Fu’s Emperor Domain and sent him crashing onto the steps, leading the crowd to believe he had failed.
• Zhao Fu released his full imperial aura, which overwhelmed the crowd and made nearly everyone kneel.
• Bing Qixue recognized Zhao Fu as an imperial heir, while Long Yang regretted provoking him and the merchant group was stunned by his status.

Zhao Fu overcame the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform’s eighth trial, revealing a status that left the crowd and the Guti Domain’s powerful figures in awe. After collecting the platform’s treasures, he approached its silver dragon pearl, which awakened and shook the platform when he touched it.

• Zhao Fu crushed all ten thousand attacking dragons beneath the pressure of his emperor’s bearing and completed the eighth trial.
• The crowd watched in shock as Zhao Fu stood atop the platform, while Bing Qixue accepted their difference in status and the woman in black regretted her earlier treatment of him.
• Long Yang and the seven women fled, and the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group’s higher-ups silently allowed Zhao Fu to claim the platform’s treasures.
• Zhao Fu spent half an hour collecting the treasures, then approached the silver dragon pearl at the platform’s center.
• Zhao Fu touched the silver dragon pearl, causing it to shine, roar, and shake the entire platform.

Zhao Fu absorbed the Ten Thousand Dragons Demon Pearl and the dragons’ power, then became an elder of the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group and arranged to obtain corpses for Great Qin. News that he had conquered the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform spread through the Guti Domain, where people mistook him for an imperial son.

• The Ten Thousand Dragons Demon Pearl and the dragon phantoms entered Zhao Fu, leaving a silver mark on his chest and draining the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform of its power.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group’s president offered Zhao Fu an elder position, and Zhao Fu accepted and received a Silver Dragon Token.
• Zhao Fu refused the president’s invitation to host him, then befriended Bing Qixue and returned with treasures and corpses after arranging cheap supplies for Great Qin.
• News of Zhao Fu’s success spread throughout the Guti Domain, and people investigated the story and believed he was an imperial son of an empire.

After returning to Great Qin, Zhao Fu counted the treasures he had gained from the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform and put several of the most valuable to use. He began cultivating a holy-light godhead fragment as Great Qin’s exclusive deity, while the kingdom prepared to enter its sixth year.

• The Icefield Kingdom praised Bing Qixue for befriending Zhao Fu, while the Eight Dragon Origin Sect recalled Long Yang, reprimanded him, and confined him for a year.
• Zhao Fu and his people counted the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform’s treasures, valued at eight billion gold coins, and set aside the Great Void Tokens for a future visit to the Great Void Ruins.
• Zhao Fu gave Bai Shan the Dragon-Shooting Ballista blueprint to study and ordered Great Qin to begin making the weapons.
• Zhao Fu used the Flower Spirit Pearl to help the World Flower grow and integrated the Dragon Soul Jade into the Flying Dragon Nest, increasing its strength and daily output.
• After Golden Dragon explained that the godhead fragment could be restored into an exclusive deity, Zhao Fu fused it into a Light Crystal in a new temple and left it to gather faith and incense offerings.
• Zhao Fu watched the snow outside the main hall and reflected that Great Qin’s sixth year would begin in a few days.

Zhao Fu celebrated the New Year in Great Qin, then strengthened his control over the Darkwater Continent by using brain worms on its remaining system City Lords. He decided to postpone unification and focus on recruiting system City Lords from other continents to protect Great Qin’s growing faction.

• Zhao Fu spent the New Year in Great Qin, invited his grandparents to the palace, and celebrated with his ministers and generals.
• Zhao Fu traveled to the Fish Scale World to assess Great Qin’s influence on the Darkwater Continent as the three-year pact neared its end.
• Zhao Fu acquired 1,000 brain worms and used them to control the remaining system City Lords, bringing his faction to 4,200 City Lords and 400 million troops.
• Zhao Fu chose to delay unifying the Darkwater Continent, worried that other continents might interfere or attack afterward.
• Zhao Fu decided to recruit system City Lords from other continents to strengthen and secure his faction.

Zhao Fu hired players to stage repeated attacks on a system faction’s cities, hoping to frighten them into joining his faction. The defenders remained confused and unsettled as the attackers repeatedly charged and withdrew without fighting.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin to consult his generals, then sent letters across the Fish Scale World seeking system factions willing to join him.
• Zhao Fu learned that only a little over twenty cities had agreed to join, and he planned to drive others toward his faction by staging player attacks.
• Zhao Fu brought more than a billion gold coins to hire players, while Great Qin continued clearing the Netherwater Continent and drawing away the Fish Scale World's destiny.
• Millions of hired Fish Scale players charged a small faction's cities, causing the defenders to prepare for battle, but the army repeatedly retreated before reaching them.
• The city lords finally ventured beyond the walls, fled when more than twenty powerful auras appeared, and watched the hired players charge and withdraw again without fighting.