Recaps

Zhao Fu assessed Great Qin’s ferocious beast army and replaced City Lord Seals with official seals before using the remaining seals to strengthen its beasts. The chapter ended with Great Qin’s giant creatures and Illusion Flower Demons transformed into a formidable army.

• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin’s beast forces and calculated that 110,000 war beasts could become a major military trump card.
• Zhao Fu decreed the abolition of City Lord Seals and their replacement with Great Qin official seals, transforming cities across the human world.
• Zhao Fu allocated the remaining City Lord Seals among Wyverns, Corpse soul commanders, giant wolves, Corpse soul guards, and Illusion Flower Demons.
• Zhao Fu strengthened the Wyverns and Corpse soul forces, equipping the Wyverns with powerful rune dragon armor.
• Zhao Fu fused 30,000 City Lord Seals into the Illusion Flower Demons, enlarging them into towering creatures that stood in ranks before him.

Zhao Fu equipped Great Qin’s Illusion Flower Demons, Demon God Spiders, and giant wolves for battle as the army continued to grow. A seven-colored Heavenly Domain Barrier then appeared ahead of schedule, prompting Greenfield World, Half-Werewolf World, and Elf World to gather forces and prepare to invade the supposedly weak world within.

• Zhao Fu gave the Illusion Flower Demons rune armor with defensive shields to protect them on the battlefield.
• At Spider Domain, Elise summoned Demon God Spiders, which Zhao Fu empowered with the City Lord Seal and fitted with special armor.
• Zhao Fu empowered the giant wolves with the City Lord Seal and equipped them with wolf armor, leaving him confident in Great Qin’s growing forces.
• One month later, Apocalypse World fate surged into the human world and the Heavenly Domain Barrier appeared in its seven-colored true form.
• Greenfield World’s nations gathered about 2.6 billion soldiers to invade, believing the world within was weak and its City Lord Seals unusable.
• Half-Werewolf World and Elf World found connections to the world within and began gathering troops to seize territory alongside Greenfield World.

The surrounding powers dismissed the invasion of the newly arrived world as a certain defeat while focusing on the Lord of the Killing Sword and the mysterious Imperial Prince. They did not know both were Zhao Fu, the Great Qin Imperial Prince, who was about to reveal Great Qin to the world.

• Three worlds gathered six billion troops to attack the newly arrived world, and many observers expected it to be destroyed within months.
• The Dao Cultivation Sect Master ordered an investigation but doubted the besieged world had any connection to the Lord of the Killing Sword.
• The ruler of Bear Mountain Kingdom dismissed the invasion and said his kingdom could destroy the world in three days.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group and the Eight Dragon Origin Sect focused on the mysterious Imperial Prince, while the Eight Dragon Origin Sect prepared its Young Sect Master to apologize to him.
• Icefield Kingdom instructed Bing Qixue to befriend Zhao Fu and offer him whatever he wanted, and Bing Qixue reluctantly agreed to seek contact through the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group.
• The factions remained unaware that Zhao Fu was both the Lord of the Killing Sword and the mysterious Imperial Prince, and that he would soon announce the name of Great Qin.

Great Qin absorbed the human world's fortune and advanced into a first-rank duchy, greatly increasing Zhao Fu's power and the empire's military strength. With the invasion by three worlds approaching, Zhao Fu assessed Great Qin's forces and assigned leaders to confront the enemy kings.

• Great Qin merged its fortune with that of the human world and advanced into a first-rank duchy, while Zhao Fu gained strength but did not evolve further.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin's population, troops, territory, settlements, governors, legions, and strengthened Great Qin King Seal.
• Zhao Fu prepared for the invasion by outfitting his generals with rune equipment, planning new special legions, and considering Great Qin's monster army and other forces.
• Zhao Fu resolved to face Greenfield World's thirty kings with Arthur Tina and Ye Cang assisting him.
• Zhao Fu assigned Ge Nie, Zhao Sha, Zhao Mo, Elise, Demon Enchantress, and one hundred Sword-Wielding Demonification warriors to confront Elf World.

Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin to face the three invading worlds, then met their armies in a head-on battle after their first assault was devastated by Great Qin's rune arrows. The invaders realized they were attacking a unified Duchy as Zhao Fu appeared before them as its King.

• Zhao Fu planned how his forces and the eight Sea Beast Kings would hold off the enemy Kings, and spent fifteen days strengthening his fighters and beasts.
• The three worlds attacked the human world from three directions as the seven-colored barrier shattered.
• Great Qin's rune arrows tore through the advancing soldiers, killing countless fighters and stopping the invasion's initial charge.
• Great Qin's soldiers unleashed another volley, which the invaders barely managed to block with a massive energy shield.
• The enemy Kings realized that Great Qin was a unified Duchy and that their forces had underestimated its strength.
• Zhao Fu appeared before the invaders in his Black Gold Dragon-Patterned Robe, ready to lead Great Qin in a head-on battle.

Great Qin turned back the Greenfield World’s invasion and routed its armies across all three fronts. After the Greenfield forces ordered a retreat, Zhao Fu launched attacks on all three worlds, alarming their neighbors.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to charge as Greenfield’s leaders hesitated after losing over a hundred million soldiers.
• Zhao Fu, Ye Cang, Arthur Tina, and Great Qin’s Generals engaged the enemy Kings and City Lords while armies clashed below.
• Great Qin’s dragons, giants, wolves, spiders, cavalry, and infantry overwhelmed the Greenfield army despite being outnumbered.
• Zhao Fu wielded the Nation-Stabilizing Pillar to destroy a King and blocked the other Kings’ attacks with Nation-Guarding Artifacts.
• The Greenfield forces retreated across all three fronts, and Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to attack all three worlds.

After Great Qin defeated the invading armies of three worlds, nearby powers learned of its strength and watched it with alarm. Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s counterattack into Greenfield World, where its army clashed with defenders at Evergreen Continent’s walls.

• News of the three worlds’ defeat spread, drawing serious attention from the Demon Horn Empire, the Dao Cultivation Sect, the Bear Mountain Kingdom, the Eight Dragon Origin Sect, and the Icefield Kingdom.
• When word arrived that Great Qin had begun a counterattack, Zhao Fu led its generals and army into Greenfield World.
• The factions of Evergreen Continent gathered at their defensive walls to stop Great Qin before it could advance farther into the world.
• Zhao Fu charged into Greenfield World’s high-cultivation experts, and the fighting between him, the kings, and both sides’ generals erupted.
• Greenfield World’s defenders fired green spears from the wall, killing and wounding Great Qin’s ferocious beasts, which then attacked the wall with flames, freezing currents, shields, and claws.

Great Qin’s armies invaded the Half-Werewolf and Elf Worlds, overwhelming their defenders in fierce battles. Surrounded by thousands of enemies, Zhao Fu revealed the power of Great Qin’s Nation-Guarding Artifacts and left the survivors fleeing in terror.

• Great Qin’s forces clashed with the Half-Werewolf army, and their beasts and cavalry broke through its ranks.
• Ge Nie, Zhao Mo, and the Sword-Wielding Demonifications fought the remaining Elf Kings while Great Qin’s forces breached the Elves’ tree wall.
• Zhao Fu withstood the siege of more than ten thousand enemies and several Kings behind a barrier formed by dozens of Nation-Guarding Artifacts.
• Zhao Fu sent the Nation-Guarding Artifacts crashing down like meteors, killing several thousand people and driving the survivors to flee.

After defeating Greenfield, Zhao Fu led Great Qin into the Greenfield World, while Great Qin’s forces invaded the Half-Werewolf World and the Elf World as well. The neighboring worlds learned the name of the Great Qin Empire as its invasions spread panic.

• Zhao Fu celebrated Greenfield’s defeat, rallied his soldiers, and ordered them to invade the Greenfield World.
• The eight Sea Beast Kings and Great Qin’s monsters slaughtered the Half-Werewolf experts, breaking the army and advancing into the Half-Werewolf World.
• The remaining Half-Werewolf continents dispatched troops to stop Great Qin as survivors fled from the defeated continent.
• Zhao Mo, Elise, Ge Nie, and the Sword-Wielding Demonifications battled the Elf Kings until the elves retreated.
• Great Qin pursued the retreating elves and began invading the Elf World.
• News of the three defeats spread, and surrounding nations learned that the invading faction was the Great Qin Empire.

The Great Qin Empire’s invasion of three worlds drew the attention of Guti Domain’s major factions, while Zhao Fu’s armies swept across their continents. As the surrounding nations prepared to intervene, Zhao Fu faced the strongest king of Greenfield World and struck him with the Twelve Golden Men.

• The major factions of the Guti Domain took interest in Great Qin and sent people to investigate its rise.
• Zhao Fu’s armies advanced through Greenfield, Half-Werewolf, and Elf Worlds, capturing territory across all three.
• Nearby nations debated stopping Great Qin and ultimately gathered troops to intervene.
• The remaining forces of the three worlds assembled a final resistance, outnumbering Great Qin’s troops by three to one.
• Zhao Fu attacked the strongest king of Greenfield World with the Twelve Golden Men, cracking his defensive barrier and forcing him back.

Zhao Fu faced the leaders of Greenfield World, Half-Werewolf World, and Elf World as outside powers intervened and mediation began. He rejected their demands for Great Qin to withdraw, demanded territories and tribute instead, and left the negotiations tense after threatening the half-werewolf representative.

• Zhao Fu and the leaders of Greenfield World remained deadlocked while Great Qin's campaigns in Elf World and Half-Werewolf World also stalled.
• Representatives from several surrounding worlds arrived and offered to mediate, and Zhao Fu agreed that negotiation was the best course.
• At a great hall meeting, the elf woman, the half-werewolf man, and the Greenfield representative demanded that Great Qin withdraw and compensate their worlds.
• Zhao Fu rejected their demands, insisting the three worlds had started the war and must cede three more continents and pay Great Qin tribute.
• After the half-werewolf man angrily struck the table, Zhao Fu threatened to kill him and warned that Great Qin had not used its full strength.

Zhao Fu ended the war by securing three continents and compensation from the three worlds, then returned to Great Qin to assess the campaign’s gains and losses. The conflict remained unresolved, with both sides preparing for another war.

• The elven woman offered to cede the three occupied continents, and Zhao Fu demanded and received additional compensation for Great Qin’s losses.
• The three worlds accepted the terms, and the war ended with Great Qin officially recognized as a powerful nation while surrounding factions began gathering intelligence on it.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and left soldiers stationed on the conquered continents, while both sides quietly prepared for a possible future attack.
• Zhao Fu counted Great Qin’s casualties and noted that the eight Sea Beast Kings had fallen asleep after devouring many powerful figures and City Lord Hearts.
• Zhao Fu found that the monsters had gained great strength from the battle but worried that they might become difficult to control.
• Great Qin gained three continents, forty thousand cities, eighteen King Seals, expanded fate energy, and a population of nine billion.

After Great Qin’s victory, Zhao Fu addressed its military weaknesses by appointing six talented descendants of former rulers to wield Nation-Guarding Artifacts and celebrating the war’s end. He then continued securing the conquered continents and visited the newly formed God of Light, insisting that royal authority remain above divine authority.

• Zhao Fu considered Great Qin’s shortage of powerful experts and Nation-Guarding Artifacts, then asked Li Si to identify suitable inheritors who had submitted to Great Qin.
• Li Si reminded Zhao Fu to distribute rewards for the war, and Zhao Fu held a ceremony and feast to celebrate Great Qin’s victory.
• Zhao Fu appointed E Ling, Zhao Xiaolong, Rodas, Oniya, Yashi, and Wolf Cangya as inheritors and gave each a Nation-Guarding Artifact.
• Zhao Fu dispatched troops to sweep the three conquered continents and ordered the Great Wall built to designate them as Great Qin’s territory.
• Zhao Fu visited the God of Light and accepted that the Bible could not be altered, while declaring that divine authority would never outrank royal authority in Great Qin.

Zhao Fu created a new Goddess of Life for Great Qin and began refining eighteen King Seals into Nine Nether King Seals. He learned about the seals’ powers and their potential to grant access to the Netherworld, territories, fortune, and ghostly transformations.

• Zhao Fu ordered a Temple of Life built and used divine wood and the blood of ten thousand female elf virgins to summon a new Goddess of Life, who pledged loyalty to Great Qin in exchange for her worshippers’ protection.
• Zhao Fu examined the Goddess of Life’s healing and recovery blessings and planned to nurture more gods for Great Qin’s future wars.
• Zhao Fu began converting eighteen King Seals into Nine Nether King Seals while Beiming Danqiu, Black and White Impermanence, and six nether generals stood with him.
• Black and White Impermanence and Beiming Danqiu explained that one hundred Nine Nether King Seals could open the gates to the Netherworld and that a seal could help its bearer claim territory and Netherworld fortune.
• Zhao Fu learned that a Nine Nether King Seal could grant Ghost King power or transform its bearer into a member of the Death Clan, but he dismissed the bloodline benefit because he already possessed the Six Paths of Reincarnation bloodline.

Zhao Fu strengthened his control over the Monster Realm by merging the Four Souls Jade into it, transforming it into the Four Soul Demon Realm. He left the realm with its monsters empowered and its barriers greatly reinforced.

• Zhao Fu refined more than a dozen King Seals into Nine Nether King Seals and appointed the strongest Yin generals, raising Great Qin’s Yin soldier limit to 270 million.
• Black Impermanence urged Zhao Fu to visit the Underworld, and he considered going someday to meet her and White Impermanence’s families.
• Zhao Fu entered the Monster Realm and blood-refined the Four Souls Jade to strengthen the realm and secure his control over its monsters.
• Zhao Fu sent the four jade pieces to the realm’s cardinal directions, where they summoned the figures of the four guardian beasts.
• Zhao Fu combined the four beams with the blood-red sun and moon, creating a five-colored sun that transformed the Monster Realm and strengthened its creatures and barriers.
• The four guardian beasts merged into the realm’s barriers, and Zhao Fu named the transformed realm the Four Soul Demon Realm.

Zhao Fu secured Great Qin’s demon army and managed its affairs before traveling to the Guti Domain to replenish supplies and meet Bing Qixue. At a tavern, they overheard patrons discussing Great Qin’s victories and the imperial prince’s rising reputation, while Bing Qixue realized Zhao Fu was the prince they were praising.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, postponed fusing ferocious beasts into corpse soul guards, and agreed to receive envoys from various nations.
• Zhao Fu delegated the envoys’ arrangements to Li Si and traveled to the inner region of the Guti Domain to seek rune stones and high-grade corpses.
• Zhao Fu encountered Bing Qixue, who invited him to a tavern in an effort to befriend him and learn his intentions.
• At the tavern, patrons discussed Great Qin’s unification and its invasion of three neighboring worlds, along with the Great Qin Imperial Prince’s battle prowess.
• The patrons debated the prince’s possible Guti Ranking, then discussed the imperial prince who had ascended the Ten Thousand Dragons Platform.
• Bing Qixue looked at Zhao Fu and realized the celebrated imperial prince was sitting beside him.

Zhao Fu learned that the inner region was monitoring Great Qin and the Lord of the Killing Sword, while rumors about his supposed lust for women and dragons spread around him. He left Bing Qixue and went to the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group, whose vast rune-stone collection offered Great Qin a powerful new source of supplies.

• Bing Qixue told Zhao Fu that Great Qin's rapid rise and the Lord of the Killing Sword's influence had drawn the attention of kingdoms and powerful figures across the Guti Domain.
• People at a neighboring table repeated lurid rumors about the Great Qin Imperial Prince, and Zhao Fu repeatedly choked as Bing Qixue added that he had heard the prince could even approach female dragons.
• Zhao Fu changed the subject, then excused himself from Bing Qixue without revealing his identity.
• Zhao Fu went to the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group, having abandoned his earlier purchases through smaller merchant groups to avoid exposing himself.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group had gathered vast quantities of rune stones for Great Qin, including more than a dozen orange rune stones.

Zhao Fu bought corpses and rune stones from the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group at a steep discount, then killed four wanted Tier 9 robbers who ambushed him. After delivering the supplies to Great Qin, he turned his attention to finally resolving the situation in the Fish Scale World and unifying the Darkwater Continent.

• Zhao Fu appreciated the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group's discounted corpses and planned to repay the group if it ever faced trouble.
• Four wanted Tier 9 criminals intercepted Zhao Fu and demanded his storage ring, but he fought back when they attacked.
• Zhao Fu killed the burly robber, the black-clad man, the young man, and the woman who tried to deceive him.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and handed the purchased corpses and rune stones to his subordinates.
• Zhao Fu decided to settle the matter of the Darkwater Continent in the Fish Scale World.

Zhao Fu exploited the Fish Scale World’s fear of Great Qin and the division among its player forces, launching a two-sided system army attack on Darkwater Continent. As player factions fled and abandoned their allies, the remaining forces faced defeat with only about 3,000 of their original 4,000-plus cities left.

• Zhao Fu judged that the player forces’ low morale made it the ideal time to conquer them, and he devised a plan while Great Qin remained bound by the peace pact.
• Player leaders argued over whether to defend Darkwater Continent or withdraw, then learned that 400 million system troops were attacking from the east.
• The player factions mobilized to resist, but another 400 million system troops advanced from the opposite side, while the players split between fighting and secretly escaping.
• Zhao Fu ordered his people to monitor the players and held back from a direct assault so their divisions could worsen.
• A player leader discovered that fleeing factions had withdrawn their cities and killed the messengers sent after them.
• The remaining player forces dwindled to around 3,000 cities, and their leaders saw no chance of victory.

Zhao Fu conquered and unified Darkwater Continent, adding its cities and people to Great Qin while planning how to strengthen his forces before invading Fish Scale World. He returned to Great Qin after ordering the new territory stabilized.

• Zhao Fu sent two armies to encircle the retreating forces on Darkwater Continent and persuaded many player leaders to submit by promising protection and a way to resist Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu pursued the fleeing Fish Scale people, captured or killed those who resisted, and surrounded Darkwater Continent within half a day.
• Zhao Fu considered using Heaven Domain Spirit Crystals to create Teleportation Array traps that would send people into the Four Soul Demon Realm.
• Zhao Fu cleared the remaining resistance after more than two days, unifying Darkwater Continent and gaining 2,800 cities and 2.4 billion people.
• Zhao Fu assessed the threats posed by uncontrolled city lords and planned to strengthen Great Qin before invading Fish Scale World and advancing toward a kingdom.
• Zhao Fu ordered the region stabilized and returned to Great Qin.

After unifying Darkwater Continent, Zhao Fu learned that a great expert had publicly exposed his Origin Mark, drawing the attention of powerful beings across Apocalypse World. The chapter left Zhao Fu facing a growing threat as the post attracted more great experts and calls to find him.

• Zhao Fu ordered Netherwater Continent and Darkwater Continent to be strengthened for the coming attack on Fish Scale World.
• Zhao Fu recognized the oversized Purifying World Rainbow Butterfly, comforted it, and placed it on his shoulder.
• Zhao Fu discovered that a great expert had publicly revealed his identity and possession of an Origin Mark on the Heavenly Spirit Stele.
• One hundred and sixty-three great experts discussed the Origin Mark, with some offering rewards or protection and others threatening the Human Race.
• Zhao Fu read the blurry image and vague description in the post as more great experts joined the discussion.

Zhao Fu feared that mighty experts would find him and seize his Origin Mark, but a powerful acquaintance suggested Imperial Path Academy as a place that could protect him. Zhao Fu agreed to accept a special item that would let him attend without abandoning Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu learned from the Golden Dragon that his three Emperor Stars and heavenly secrets prevented a mighty expert from calculating his precise location.
• Zhao Fu asked the book-loving mighty expert about the Origin Mark and admitted that he possessed it.
• The mighty expert warned that he could not protect Zhao Fu and suggested that Tuoba Qing and the Origin Clan might have been able to help.
• The mighty expert proposed Imperial Path Academy, whose nine mighty experts and Half-Step Immortal could protect Zhao Fu if he became a student.
• Zhao Fu refused at first because he could not leave Great Qin, but the mighty expert offered an item that would project him into the academy as a specially recruited student.

Zhao Fu received projection tools and traveled to the Heaven Domain to inspect the area near Imperial Path Academy, which Golden Dragon supported him joining for protection. After a low-level projection was killed by a small bird, Zhao Fu returned in a true-body projection and headed toward a nearby city.

• Zhao Fu received a Projection Device and Projection Jewel from the Great Power and was warned to conceal his Origin Mark and prepare for Imperial Path Academy's trials.
• Golden Dragon agreed that attending Imperial Path Academy would help protect Zhao Fu and introduce him to the Apocalypse World sooner.
• Zhao Fu activated the projection tools and entered the Heaven Domain in a low-level projection with only a fraction of his strength and none of his equipment.
• A small cyan bird attacked and destroyed Zhao Fu's projection, prompting him to switch to a true-body projection.
• Zhao Fu projected again with his full strength and equipment, then flew toward the nearby city and saw its towering walls and buildings.

Zhao Fu explored Heaven Domain, saw the strength of Imperial Path Academy, and learned he would have to wait three years to enroll. Back in Great Qin, he checked on the Progenitor Divine Statue’s refinement and continued planning for the conquest of three worlds.

• Zhao Fu entered a city in Heaven Domain and marveled at its many races and powerful guards before traveling to Imperial Path Academy.
• Zhao Fu found that Imperial Path Academy’s enrollment had passed, so he returned to Great Qin and resolved to prepare for its next intake in three years.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin’s affairs and visited the vast sea of blood where the Progenitor Divine Statue and Japan's Three Sacred Treasures were being refined.
• Zhao Fu continued clearing the three conquered continents and planned to nurture agents planted in the three worlds for future battles.

A council in Greenfield World uncovered Great Qin's influence over Lelai Kingdom and Wolf Cang Kingdom, then decided to destroy both before they grew stronger. After Zhao Fu ordered the kingdoms to evacuate to Great Qin's territory, Le Yuyu and Cang Snow Woman learned his true identity and began moving their people.

• A bearded man paid a shadowy informant for intelligence revealing Great Qin's involvement in Lelai Kingdom and Wolf Cang Kingdom, and suspected it had also planted a foothold in Elf World.
• The bearded man shared the intelligence with a council, whose members debated whether to exploit Great Qin's plan or attack its allied kingdoms.
• The bearded man warned that allowing the two kingdoms to grow could cost them two continents, and the council agreed to attack Green Shade Kingdom and Wolf Cang Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin's plan had been exposed and ordered Lelai Kingdom and Wolf Cang Kingdom to evacuate their populations to Great Qin's two continents while assembling the troops.
• Zhao Fu revealed his identity as the Great Qin Imperial Prince and ruler to Le Yuyu and Cang Snow Woman, who ordered their people to abandon their possessions and evacuate.