Recaps

Zhao Fu used player harassment to frighten small, remote system factions into migrating to Darkwater Continent, where Great Qin was secretly orchestrating their welcome. The plan succeeded, and Darkwater Continent’s forces grew as more factions joined.

• The player army repeatedly charged toward the system city walls, then retreated, while the city lords feared a trap and refused to fight back.
• After several days of harassment, the city lords received a letter from Darkwater Continent and decided to seek refuge there.
• Darkwater Continent sent people to protect the city lords and assured them that they would be welcomed, encouraging them to begin migrating.
• The player army staged more charges during the migration, and Darkwater Continent’s forces drove them off, reassuring the newcomers.
• The city lords arrived in Darkwater Continent and were pleased by the united system main cities, unaware that Zhao Fu had arranged the harassment and welcome to draw them into Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu continued the scheme against small, remote factions, spending over one billion gold coins as more factions agreed to join Darkwater Continent.

Zhao Fu struck first while Darkwater Continent’s city lords gathered to plan an attack, using isolation formations and overwhelming force to capture the east. When the other factions finally assembled to counterattack, Zhao Fu’s army had grown stronger and held the advantage.

• More than ten thousand city lords and eight hundred million troops gathered to plan an attack on Zhao Fu’s faction, but a report revealed that his forces had already attacked the east.
• Isolation formations blocked many city lords from returning to their cities, allowing Zhao Fu to attack the east with four thousand city lords and four hundred million troops against a weakened defense.
• Zhao Fu’s Dragon-Shooting Ballistas killed nearly a hundred enemy city lords, while Destruction Crystals demolished the defensive wall and shattered the eastern forces’ resistance.
• Zhao Fu’s army routed the eastern defenders, captured the region, and gained strength as many system city lords surrendered.
• More than eight thousand city lords and six hundred million troops arrived to counterattack, but Zhao Fu’s faction had assembled over nine thousand city lords and more than six hundred million troops, leaving the opposing factions at a disadvantage.

Zhao Fu used Liuli to lead the system faction in a standoff against the players, but both sides backed down when Fish Scale leaders warned that Great Qin would threaten Darkwater Continent after their contract expired. The factions agreed to stop fighting for now, then withdrew to prepare for the coming conflict.

• Liuli taunted the players and called on system cities to join his side, while a player leader rejected his attempt to divide them.
• A white-haired elder and a blue-robed man urged the factions to unite against Great Qin, reminding them that their three-year contract would expire next year.
• The Fish Scale leaders agreed that Great Qin was their greatest threat, while Zhao Fu awkwardly listened among the crowd.
• Liuli announced that his side would temporarily stop attacking, and the players followed suit to avoid appearing selfish.
• The factions drew a boundary and withdrew, then both began strengthening their forces for the struggle over Darkwater Continent.

Zhao Fu weighed whether to abolish Great Qin’s hierarchy system after ministers argued over its harms and its role in punishing those who resisted conquest. He decided to investigate the conditions of the lowborn himself, while the debate exposed growing divisions within the court.

• After returning to Great Qin, Zhao Fu reviewed memorials warning that the commoner rank system fostered resentment and corruption, and summoned ministers to debate its future.
• Guli and other ministers defended retaining the system, arguing that those who resisted Great Qin deserved punishment and that abolishing it could encourage future resistance.
• Huaxia ministers argued that the hierarchy would create conflict and undermine unity, and urged Zhao Fu to abolish it; Li Si declined to advise him and left the decision to the emperor.
• Li Muqing urged Zhao Fu to visit the lowborn and see their circumstances, but a minister accused her of applying democratic principles and possibly plotting against Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu rebuked the accusation, affirmed that Li Muqing was not wrong, and said he needed to see the situation for himself.

Zhao Fu visited a canal construction site and discovered how rigid Great Qin’s hierarchy had become, with lowborn people afraid of punishment and shunned by others. Disturbed by the divisions, he began looking into their situation and offered a gold coin to the children who were being excluded.

• Zhao Fu left the imperial palace with Li Muqing and watched lowborn workers build a canal for Great Qin.
• When a worker accidentally splashed mud on Zhao Fu, the foreman and worker feared severe punishment, and Li Muqing explained that lowborn people faced harsher penalties and could lose their chance to rise in rank.
• After hearing that nobles considered lowborn places unlucky, Zhao Fu questioned how Great Qin’s hierarchy had become so rigid and asked the foreman to show him around.
• Zhao Fu saw a woman pull her child away from lowborn children, warning that associating with them could make the boy someone their Majesty disliked.
• Zhao Fu approached the lowborn children and gave them a gold coin to buy something tasty.

Zhao Fu discovered that poor families were buying points and that elderly people were laboring to raise their children’s status, so he challenged them to say whether they hated Great Qin. When officials and cavalry arrived to arrest the supposed rebel, the official recognized Zhao Fu as the Great Qin Emperor and knelt before him.

• A girl hesitated to accept Zhao Fu’s gold coin after her older sibling warned her not to take gifts from important people, so the foreman gave the children copper coins instead.
• The foreman explained that poor families bought points by claiming to be relatives, and Zhao Fu grew angry that people were evading his rules.
• Zhao Fu told the elderly laborers they no longer needed to work and that their children could become ordinary children, but they doubted his authority.
• Zhao Fu asked the workers whether Great Qin’s treatment made them hate the empire or want to rebel, and an elderly man said they endured hardship in exchange for stability and safety.
• Officials and several hundred cavalry arrived after hearing Zhao Fu’s words, but the official recognized him, flew down, and knelt to greet Your Majesty.

After seeing the fear his visit caused among commoners, Zhao Fu returned to the palace and ordered reforms to Great Qin’s laws. He preserved the commoner rank system but eased its requirements and protections, leaving citizens with greater hope while keeping stricter scrutiny for suspected rebels.

• Zhao Fu’s identity as Great Qin’s Emperor was revealed to the people he had visited, who knelt in terror as he departed.
• Li Si learned that Zhao Fu had returned in a poor mood, then brought Shang Yang and the ministers to the palace to discuss legal reforms.
• Zhao Fu proposed banning social discrimination, improving household registration, and severely punishing people who traded points in defiance of Great Qin’s rules.
• Zhao Fu rejected abolishing the commoner rank system, instead lowering the points needed for promotion and requiring fewer points from elderly people and children.
• Zhao Fu ended extra punishment for commoners and established reviews that could reduce or increase citizens’ promotion requirements according to their service and loyalty.
• Great Qin announced the reforms, bringing relief to commoners and making it easier for elderly people to raise their status and children to attend school.

Zhao Fu returned to the Assassin Relic and shattered its final trial by using overwhelming force to conquer the illusory world. He reached the relic’s reward chamber, where twelve hooded figures appeared and locked their killing intent onto him.

• After several days of reviewing memorials, Zhao Fu returned to the Assassin Relic and entered its final trial.
• Zhao Fu ignored the trial’s original mission, summoned the Imperial Killing Sword, and unleashed sword souls to slaughter the people in the illusory marketplace.
• Zhao Fu killed the city lord and seized the young man meant to lead a revolution, then forced cities to submit to him or destroyed them.
• After conquering more than three hundred cities in a few days, Zhao Fu broke through the trial and continued into the relic.
• Zhao Fu found thirteen stone tablets bearing black jade stones and a black sword, but twelve hooded figures appeared and targeted him.

Zhao Fu conquered the assassin ruins, seized its inheritance and treasures, and returned to Great Qin to strengthen his assassins. One Dark soul jade remained unused because Tuoba Qing had left and her whereabouts were unknown.

• Zhao Fu defeated the twelve guardians and collected twelve Assassin Dark Soul Jades.
• Zhao Fu subdued the woman guarding the inheritance and claimed the Assassination King's Way Sword.
• Zhao Fu took control of the ruins' core and received the assassin inheritance, discovering that the Ghost Demons could not be cultivated in large numbers.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and gave the Dark soul jades to Zhao Sha, Liu Mei, Wu Qian, and the other assassins.
• Zhao Fu set aside one Dark soul jade because Tuoba Qing, one of the twelve original inheritors, had left Great Qin.

Zhao Fu decided to weaken the Greenfield People nations by stirring up conflict with the Half-Werewolves, then used the Assassin’s inheritance to infiltrate a royal city and kill its king. The king’s death threw the nation into chaos as its nobles and factions competed over who would rule next.

• Zhao Fu chose to secretly undermine the Greenfield People nations rather than join them in invading the Half-Werewolf nations, avoiding the risk of drawing Half-Werewolf World's full attention.
• Zhao Fu captured a prince and used the Assassination Sword to absorb his blood, disguising his aura and fortune as the prince’s.
• Zhao Fu used an Assassination Sword skill to silently kill the eight guards outside the king’s bedchamber.
• Zhao Fu entered the bedchamber and assassinated the king, triggering a notification that spread throughout the nation.
• The king’s death sent officials, nobles, and imperial relatives into confusion as rival factions maneuvered to claim the throne.

Zhao Fu assassinated a second neighboring ruler, then returned to Lelai Kingdom and prepared to let the Half-Wolf countries attack the two destabilized kingdoms. The Half-Wolf armies entered through the gap he opened and launched a surprise flank attack.

• Zhao Fu assassinated the ruler of a second Green Shade Kingdom, throwing the country into chaos and frightening nearby rulers into tightening their defenses.
• Le Yuyu feared Lelai Kingdom would be targeted next and recalled City Lords and legions to defend the capital.
• Zhao Fu abandoned his plan to assassinate a third ruler and returned to Lelai Kingdom, where he revealed his identity and plan to Le Yuyu.
• Le Yuyu agreed to cooperate, hoping Zhao Fu's scheme could raise Lelai Kingdom to a Marquisate.
• Zhao Fu withdrew Lelai Kingdom's troops to a second defensive line and leaked the withdrawal to Half-Wolf scouts.
• The three Half-Wolf armies passed through the opening and attacked the two kingdoms whose rulers had recently been assassinated.

The three half-werewolf kingdoms destroyed the two Green Shade kingdoms after breaking through their defenses, while neighboring kingdoms seized the fallen territories. Zhao Fu then ordered his concealed forces to attack and cut off the half-werewolf armies’ retreat.

• The three half-werewolf kingdoms invaded the two Green Shade kingdoms, overwhelmed their defenses, and defeated their kings and armies.
• The half-werewolf forces destroyed both kingdoms, while nearby kingdoms seized their land and accepted fleeing citizens.
• Zhao Fu reviewed intelligence on the invasion and ordered his troops to attack the half-werewolf armies and block their retreat.
• Zhao Fu mobilized sixty million troops and over ten thousand City Lords, including Great Qin and Wolf Cang Kingdom forces, while leaving soldiers to guard a neighboring Green Shade Kingdom.

Zhao Fu led Lelai Kingdom’s forces against the three Half-Wolf Kings, who tried to trap his army between their forces and reinforcements. He unleashed the Undead Catastrophe and struck down the Kings, forcing them to use their Nation-Guarding Artifacts as the battle intensified.

• Zhao Fu cut off the Half-Wolves’ retreat, prompting the three Half-Wolf Kings to turn back and confront Lelai Kingdom’s army.
• The Half-Wolf Kings taunted Cang Snow Woman and demanded that Zhao Fu surrender while secretly waiting for reinforcements to attack from behind.
• Zhao Fu ordered his forces to attack and sent his hidden City Lords to intercept the approaching Half-Wolf reinforcements.
• Zhao Fu summoned tens of millions of skeletons with the Undead Catastrophe as both armies and their legion manifestations clashed.
• Zhao Fu sent Cang Snow Woman to assist the struggling legion manifestations, then struck the three Half-Wolf Kings and made them use their Nation-Guarding Artifacts.

Zhao Fu used the Six Paths Demon Idols and King Seal to kill three Half-Werewolf Kings, then led Great Qin’s forces in a massacre that secured victory over five nations. He ordered his forces to take control of the conquered lands as news of Lelai Kingdom’s shocking victory spread.

• Zhao Fu unleashed the Six Paths Demon Idols’ power and combined it with the King Seal to overwhelm the three Half-Werewolf Kings.
• Zhao Fu killed all three Kings, causing the Half-Werewolf army to lose morale as soldiers and City Lords fled or fought on.
• Great Qin City Lords and flying dragons ambushed the reinforcements in a valley, while a death barrier trapped the Half-Werewolves and prevented their escape.
• Zhao Fu ordered his forces to clean up and fully conquer the five nations, while Cang Snow Woman realized how overwhelming his power was.
• News spread that the tiny Lelai Kingdom had used despicable methods to destroy five nations.

After securing the newly restored Wolf Cang Kingdom and expanded Lelai Kingdom, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and assessed its forces as rival continents united and armed themselves against it. The chapter ended with Great Qin facing a growing coalition while its vast territory remained only partly cleared.

• Zhao Fu helped Wolf Cang Kingdom and Lelai Kingdom stabilize as Level 1 Marquis Kingdoms, then returned to Great Qin with four Nation-Guarding Artifacts and three Duke King Cities.
• Zhao Fu refined the Nation-Guarding Artifacts, granted titles to the consorts and noble ladies he had brought back, and inspected the hundred Sword-Wielding Demonification cultivators, who had reached their Second Turn.
• Zhao Fu learned that the Western Continent had rallied behind Arthur Tina, whose nation had grown to a Level 4 Marquis Kingdom, while Ramis had founded a Level 5 Duke Kingdom on the Eastern Continent.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin's population, armies, cities, and territories as the Western and Eastern Continents amassed City Lords and troops to resist Great Qin.

Zhao Fu committed Great Qin to the war of unification after a month of preparations, and Great Qin launched its attack on March 7th. While its forces advanced against the Western Continent, the Eastern Continent attacked from the other direction and met the Fish Scale Clan defending the sea.

• Zhao Fu weighed Great Qin's military strength and the British Empire's forces before deciding to begin the war of unification.
• Zhao Fu and Great Qin's ministers spent a week planning the war, while Great Qin, the Western Continent, and the Eastern Continent spent a month preparing.
• The Li Family tried to lure Zhao Fu out alone, but he ignored them and kept his focus on the war.
• On March 7th, Great Qin sent its army toward the Western Continent, using the Eight Sea Beast Kings to scout and formation masters to dismantle the isolation zones.
• The Eastern Continent sent 1.8 billion troops and more than 20,000 City Lords toward the Central Continent, but the Fish Scale Clan attacked them from underwater.
• Great Qin's City Lords appeared to deter the Eastern City Lords, while the Fish Scale Clan submerged to delay the Eastern army.

The Eastern forces used enormous Ice Islands and freezing formations to break through Great Qin’s defenses, while Great Qin’s Fish Scale people damaged the islands with Ice-Breaking Spears. In the west, Zhao Fu destroyed the moving whirlpools and used Dragon-Shooting Ballistas to shatter three isolation belts, prompting Western observers to report the threat to Arthur Tina.

• The Eastern forces activated formations on more than a thousand Ice Islands and used their freezing power to break through two of Great Qin’s defensive belts.
• Great Qin’s Fish Scale people attacked the Ice Islands with Ice-Breaking Spears, while the Eastern forces repaired them with ice crystal powder; the Eastern forces eventually breached a third belt.
• Zhao Fu ordered the eight Sea Beast Kings to smash the massive moving whirlpools threatening Great Qin’s advance in the west.
• Zhao Fu deployed 120 Dragon-Shooting Ballistas, whose barrier-breaking arrows destroyed three isolation belts in one strike.
• Western observers watched Great Qin’s advance and hurried to report the danger to Arthur Tina, who sat before assembled inheritors in her hall.

Jiang Ziya and the Western factions used a vast spell formation to unleash destructive weather against Zhao Fu’s advancing army. Great Qin’s schools and sects initially calmed the storm, but Jiang Ziya intensified the attack, leaving both sides locked in a contest over the forces of heaven and earth.

• Arthur Tina and the Western factions discussed how to attack Great Qin from the flank, and Jiang Ziya proposed a plan to weaken its army.
• Jiang Ziya gathered Merlin and other talents to activate a huge spell formation that stirred the weather and gathered the energy of heaven and earth.
• As Zhao Fu broke through the second defensive line, he summoned Great Qin’s schools and sects to counter the unnatural storm.
• Great Qin’s experts erected spell formations on Ice Island, using pillars of light and rainbow clouds to dispel the dark clouds and calm the weather.
• Jiang Ziya sensed Great Qin’s interference and strengthened his formation, making the storm more dangerous as the Hundred Schools of Thought intensified their countermeasures.

Zhao Fu used Great Qin’s fortune and the Mandate of Heaven to defeat the Hundred Schools of Thought’s assault, allowing Great Qin to continue its advance into the Western Continent. Meanwhile, the Eastern forces broke through Great Qin’s fifth temporary isolation zone and halted at a sea of fire.

• Jiang Ziya and the Hundred Schools of Thought strengthened their formation, but their colored clouds began losing ground to Zhao Fu’s black clouds.
• Xian Ru advised Zhao Fu to invoke Heaven and Earth’s recognition of Great Qin’s unification war and use the empire’s fortune against its opponents.
• Zhao Fu declared his war ordained by the Mandate of Heaven, and Great Qin’s fortune empowered the sect masters, dispersing the black clouds and gravely injuring Jiang Ziya and the Western forces.
• Great Qin continued advancing into the Western Continent as the Eastern forces broke through its fourth isolation zone and approached the Central Plains Continent.
• Great Qin’s fish-scale people froze the sea to stop the Eastern forces’ ice islands, but fiery beads melted and cracked the barrier, allowing the islands to shatter it.
• Great Qin’s fish-scale people set the sea alight, forcing the ice islands to wait until the flames weakened before charging through.

The Eastern forces landed on the Central Continent and attacked Great Qin’s defenses while Wei Liao commanded the defense and the Fish Scale people fought the troops guarding the rear. As five Eastern inheritors unleashed their Nation-Guarding Artifacts, five powerful figures emerged to confront them.

• The Eastern forces crossed the sea of flames, reached the Central Continent, and prepared to attack Great Qin’s coastal defenses.
• Wei Liao ordered Great Qin’s troops to counterattack as the Eastern soldiers charged, while City Lords fought in the sky and the Fish Scale people clashed with the Eastern rear guard.
• Great Qin activated the Undead Catastrophe, but the Eastern soldiers used holy-light equipment and weapons to repel the skeletons.
• The Eastern forces gained an advantage against Great Qin’s militiamen, then five inheritors with Nation-Guarding Artifacts gathered to break through the defenses.
• A white-robed swordsman, a teenage youth, a beautiful and cruel woman, a demon, and a seductive woman appeared with power equal to the five artifacts.

Ge Nie and four allies fought the Eastern heirs while Great Qin’s outnumbered forces struggled to hold the Great Wall. Ye Cang’s demon army invaded the Eastern Continent, and although the Eastern forces eventually breached the wall, Great Qin won the battle; attention then shifted to the main war in the west.

• Ge Nie, Zhao Sha, Zhao Mo, Elise, and Demon Enchantress attacked the five Eastern heirs with Sect-Guarding Artifacts and gained the upper hand.
• The Eastern armies pressed Great Qin’s undermanned defenders, while eleven legion behemoths attacked the Great Wall and the undead army neared defeat.
• Ye Cang led twenty thousand City Lords and one billion soldiers through the isolation belt and began conquering the Eastern Continent.
• The Eastern leaders learned that their homeland was under attack but continued their assault on Great Qin because retreat was impossible.
• The Eastern forces breached Great Qin’s walls after hours of fighting, but lost most of their City Lords and three of their five heirs, leaving Great Qin victorious.
• Wei Liao looked west toward the main battlefield, where Great Qin and the Western Continent’s forces were gathering for the war of unification.

Zhao Fu confronted the allied forces of the Western Continent and demanded their surrender, but they refused and the final battle began. Great Qin’s assault broke through the defenders’ barrier, while the Western forces retaliated with Calamity Pearls.

• Zhao Fu offered to let the former leaders of Huaxia and the Western Continent surrender, but they refused, with Arthur Tina declaring that the British Empire would fight.
• Zhao Fu unleashed the full power of the Imperial Killing Sword, the Great Qin King Seal, and the Six Paths Demon Idols, then charged at Arthur Tina.
• The City Lords clashed in the sky as the armies on the ground began fighting.
• Great Qin’s rune arrows cracked the Western Continent’s barrier, and a second barrage pierced it and killed many defenders.
• The Western Continent’s soldiers retaliated with Calamity Pearls that burned, froze, and electrocuted Great Qin’s troops.

Great Qin fought the Western Continent’s armies as both sides unleashed legion manifestations, foreign races, wyverns, and powerful weapons. Zhao Fu battled hundreds of inheritors, and Arthur Tina’s strike cracked his Emperor Domain.

• Bai Qi sent Great Qin’s fifty-six legions against the British Empire’s thirty-three legions, and Great Qin gained the advantage in their clash.
• The Western Continent’s commander opened a thousand gates and sent tens of millions of foreign races against Great Qin, but Bai Qi ordered Destruction Crystals used, killing nearly seventy percent of them.
• Great Qin deployed wyverns, corpse-soul leaders, and Dragon-Shooting Ballistas as battles erupted across the walls and in the sky.
• Zhao Fu fought several hundred inheritors while City Lords died around him.
• Arthur Tina struck Zhao Fu’s Emperor Domain with her True King's Way Sword, cracking it and forcing him back.
• An inheritor urged everyone to burn their dragons of fortune while they had the chance.

Nearly a thousand inheritors combined their fortune dragons to restrain Zhao Fu and unleash a deadly barrage, but his Six Paths Demon Idols shielded him and he began breaking free. The dynasty inheritors then burned their lives and Nation-Guarding Artifacts to attack again, as a golden Staff of Heavenly Authority appeared.

• Nearly a thousand inheritors formed a dragon-shaped magic formation that imprisoned Zhao Fu and weakened their own fortune dragons to power it.
• The inheritors attacked Zhao Fu together with their abilities and Nation-Guarding Artifacts for ten minutes.
• When the attacks faded, Zhao Fu stood protected by the Six Paths Demon Idols and their defensive barrier.
• Zhao Fu unleashed the power of his four fortune dragons, causing the dragon phantoms restraining him to collapse.
• The dynasty inheritors burned their lives and unleashed their Nation-Guarding Artifacts, and a golden staff appeared with power to command the world.

Zhao Fu was bound by fate chains and attacked by the great factions’ Nation-Guarding Artifacts, but Great Qin’s artifacts erupted from him and met their assault in a devastating clash. The destruction summoned the four guardian beasts of the human world, who stabilized the world while leaving the unification battle to continue.

• Babilon revealed the Book of God as the great factions’ inheritors offered their blood to bind Zhao Fu with fate chains.
• The inheritors attacked Zhao Fu with their Nation-Guarding Artifacts, wounding him as he struggled against the chains.
• Zhao Fu unleashed Great Qin’s Nation-Guarding Artifacts, and they collided with the attackers’ artifacts in an explosion that devastated more than ten regions.
• The Wild Azure Dragon, Divine Sun Firebird, Imperial Sovereign White Whale, and Nine Immortal Bewildering Deer appeared as the human world began to break apart.
• The guardian beasts agreed not to interfere in the unification war but used their power to stabilize the human world.