Recaps

Zhao Fu ambushed Ancient Sword Sect members, captured several Saint Realm cultivators, and crippled the Sect Master's wife while trying to turn her into a Six Desires Puppet. He fled with her before the sect's experts arrived, and news spread that the mysterious Imperial Son had abducted the Sect Master's wife.

• Zhao Fu revealed himself after mud figurine clones lured away the Ancient Sword Sect elders, and the cold and beautiful woman and four Saint Realm companions recognized him and fled.
• Zhao Fu unleashed his Nation-Guarding Artifact, bound the four men and one woman with chains, and sent them into the Slaughter Sword Pool.
• Zhao Fu struck down the cold and beautiful woman and used the Six Desires Puppet Technique on her, but it only left her body under his simple control.
• Zhao Fu carried the cold and beautiful woman away as the Ancient Sword Sect Master and other experts arrived and ordered a search for her and Zhao Fu.
• News spread that Zhao Fu had returned and taken away the Ancient Sword Sect Master's wife.

Zhao Fu infiltrated the Ancient Sword Sect to capture its disciples after finding a way past its lockdown. He targeted Xiao Changfeng and Lin Yan’er, preparing to subdue them with the Six Paths Demon Idols.

• Zhao Fu learned that the Ancient Sword Sect and other factions were searching for him, while its disciples had been ordered to stay inside the sect.
• Zhao Fu questioned the Ancient Sword Sect Master's wife about the sect’s secrets, but she refused to betray it, so he left her bound and infused her with Six Desires Demonic Qi.
• Zhao Fu found five Ancient Sword Sect disciples transforming in the Slaughter Sword Pool and took their tokens to infiltrate the sect.
• Zhao Fu entered the Ancient Sword Sect through its gates without being challenged and decided to use Xiao Changfeng’s status to gather disciples.
• Zhao Fu learned where Xiao Changfeng lived, killed the informant, and found Xiao Changfeng with Lin Yan’er in his courtyard.
• Zhao Fu used his Emperor Domain to seal off the courtyard, then brought out the Six Paths Demon Idols to subdue Xiao Changfeng and Lin Yan’er.

Zhao Fu captured Xiao Changfeng and forced Lin Yan'er to use the Ancient Sword Sect's Sword-Light Message to summon its elite disciples. He captured the arriving sword-dao geniuses in batches for his Sword-Wielding Demonifications, with more disciples still being summoned.

• Zhao Fu bound Xiao Changfeng and Lin Yan'er, then demanded that Xiao Changfeng summon the Ancient Sword Sect's elite disciples.
• Lin Yan'er offered to summon the disciples using Sword-Light Message in exchange for Zhao Fu sparing her life, and Zhao Fu inspected her talismans before activating them.
• Zhao Fu dragged Xiao Changfeng into the Slaughter Sword Pool and captured the disciples who arrived, while Lin Yan'er watched.
• Zhao Fu had Lin Yan'er summon a second wave after more than three hundred disciples had been captured.

Zhao Fu escaped the Ancient Sword Sect after capturing 634 disciples, provoking the sect and other factions to intensify their hunt for him. Back in hiding, he revealed that he was transforming the captured disciples into killing puppets, leaving Ling Feixue enraged at what he had done to Fifth Senior Sister.

• Zhao Fu sensed elders approaching, fled with Lin Yan'er, and left the Ancient Sword Sect to discover more than six hundred disciples were missing.
• The Ancient Sword Sect declared war on Zhao Fu, and all three factions issued kill-on-sight orders with greatly increased rewards.
• Zhao Fu returned to the cave with Lin Yan'er, checked that 634 people had been placed in the Slaughter Sword Pool, and suppressed Ling Feixue's Six Desires Demonic Qi.
• Ling Feixue questioned Zhao Fu about the captured disciples, and he summoned Fifth Senior Sister, now a blood-eyed killing puppet wielding a Blood Sword.
• Ling Feixue recognized Fifth Senior Sister and angrily realized that Zhao Fu had transformed her into a killing puppet.

Zhao Fu decided to leave the Inner Guti Domain after threatening the Ancient Sword Sect and taking Ling Feixue and Lin Yan'er with him. A meeting with the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group’s vice president left him with supplies and a new directive to go to the Demon Domain in the Heaven Domain.

• Zhao Fu told Ling Feixue that he would turn the Ancient Sword Sect into Sword-Wielding Demons and destroy Guti Domain, then dismissed her offer to reconcile.
• Zhao Fu fed Ling Feixue and freed her from her chains, while keeping restrictions on her and Lin Yan'er that prevented them from escaping or using their former strength.
• Zhao Fu decided to leave the Inner Guti Domain and return to Great Qin because people were searching for him and the Ancient Sword Sect was on alert.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group’s vice president contacted Zhao Fu, who met him cautiously and apologized for the trouble the group had suffered because of him.
• The vice president gave Zhao Fu storage rings filled with talisman stones and high-level corpses, then urged him to go to the Demon Domain in the Heaven Domain and did not explain the Ten Thousand Dragons Seal.

Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin to conquer the Fish Scale World by gathering sword-dao geniuses, manufacturing rune arrows, and directing the eight Sea Beast Kings to assemble the sea beasts. As Great Qin’s final assault loomed, the Fish Scale World and nearby realms mobilized against it, leaving Zhao Fu facing the prospect of a wider war.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to produce rune arrows and Blood God Pills, told the eight Sea Beast Kings to gather the sea beasts, and assigned Ge Nie to capture sword-dao geniuses for Sword-Wielding Demonification.
• Great Qin captured a thousand sword-dao geniuses, while its clandestine raids spread fear among sects across more than a dozen worlds.
• The eight Sea Beast Kings began gathering sea beasts at the Fish Scale World’s borders as the remaining Fish Scale leaders met and decided to prepare for a desperate defense.
• The Fish Scale factions recruited troops and militia, bringing their remaining forces to three billion troops and 1.2 billion militia.
• Several outside worlds, including the Demon Horn Empire and Demon Profound World, mobilized to stop Great Qin from conquering the Fish Scale World.
• Zhao Fu learned of the enemy mobilization and felt the pressure, but Great Qin remained determined to attack the Fish Scale World.

Zhao Fu received Yu Xuan’s mother and younger brother as captives after Fish Scale World defectors seized them as a gift. He tried to use Yu Clear Water to persuade Yu Xuan to surrender, but she refused, so Zhao Fu used the Six Desires Demonic Qi to punish her.

• Fish Scale World experts decided to surrender to Great Qin and capture Yu Xuan’s family as a gift.
• The experts took Yu Clear Water and Yu Ling from their hidden courtyard after killing their guard.
• Zhao Fu rewarded the defectors and learned that Yu Ling possessed the rare Thousand Worlds Physique.
• Zhao Fu asked Yu Clear Water to persuade Yu Xuan to join Great Qin and promised to nurture Yu Ling, but she refused.
• Zhao Fu bound Yu Clear Water and sent Six Desires Demonic Qi into her, then returned to reviewing memorials.

Zhao Fu forced Yu Clear Water to agree to persuade Yu Xuan to surrender, then Great Qin prepared to conquer the Fish Scale World. When allied worlds launched an attack first, Zhao Fu’s rune arrows inflicted heavy losses and halted their advance, while Arthur Tina and Wang Jian led the Fish Scale World campaign.

• Zhao Fu threatened Yu Clear Water until she agreed to persuade Yu Xuan to surrender, then let her dress and reunite with Yu Ling.
• Zhao Fu told his ministers of Yu Clear Water’s agreement, and Great Qin prepared to attack the Fish Scale World.
• Three days later, allied worlds attacked Great Qin, and Zhao Fu went to the Eastern Continent because Yao Ming was there, leaving Arthur Tina and Wang Jian to lead the Fish Scale World assault.
• Great Qin’s improved Dragon-Shooting Ballistas and rune arrows devastated the allied troops and demonic beasts, forcing the attackers to halt.
• Arthur Tina and Wang Jian began the campaign against the Fish Scale World with two forces of one billion soldiers each, supported by eight Sea Beast Kings and four million sea beasts.

Great Qin conquered two Fish Scale continents and forced Yu Xuan to surrender the last one, bringing Fish Scale World under the Great Qin Empire. Zhao Fu left over a hundred regions unoccupied to preserve the Heavenly Domain Barrier and keep the world hidden.

• Great Qin’s sea beasts broke through the Fish Scale defenses, and its soldiers overwhelmed the defenders across two continents.
• Wang Jian surrounded the last resisting force in a valley, where more than seven hundred thousand Fish Scale people were killed and over two hundred thousand surrendered.
• Clear Water urged Yu Xuan to surrender, and he agreed after she promised that Great Qin would protect his family and nurture him and Yu Ling.
• The remaining Fish Scale leaders and people surrendered, allowing Great Qin to take the final continent without losing a soldier.
• Zhao Fu left over a hundred regions unoccupied so the Heavenly Domain Barrier would remain and conceal Fish Scale World.

After Great Qin conquered the Fish Scale World, Zhao Fu secured the Fish Scale Clan’s submission, accepted its Fate Clan Artifact, and reviewed the spoils of war. Refining the Fish Eye strengthened Great Qin and weakened Zhao Fu’s Imperial Ruin Curse, though his Imperial Stars still needed a long time to recover.

• The surrounding worlds withdrew their armies after Great Qin conquered the Fish Scale World, and Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with his forces.
• Zhao Fu welcomed Yu Xuan and the Fish Scale Clan, then had Li Si distribute rewards and official positions to win their loyalty.
• Yu Xuan presented the Fish Eye to Zhao Fu as the Fish Scale Clan’s Fate Clan Artifact, and Zhao Fu rewarded those who had served in the campaign.
• Li Si reported that Great Qin had gained fifty thousand cities, 35 billion people, six nations, and other spoils, raising its population to 150 billion and its cities to 240,000.
• Zhao Fu refined the Fish Eye, transforming its power with Great Qin’s fortune and improving the bloodlines of people across both worlds.
• The Imperial Phoenix Statue gained more phoenix qi, further weakening Zhao Fu’s Imperial Ruin Curse as his Imperial Stars began to recover.

Zhao Fu took Yu Ling from Clear Water to train his Thousand Worlds Physique, while suppressing the Six Desires Demonic Qi affecting her. Several days later, he saw Yu Ling use his spatial power to repel a volley of arrows, revealing his immense potential.

• Zhao Fu explained the Thousand Worlds Physique to Clear Water and persuaded her to let Yu Ling train with Great Qin, promising that Yu Ling could visit her each day.
• Clear Water thanked Zhao Fu for supporting Yu Ling and Xuan'er, then asked about the black qi that caused her intrusive desires.
• Zhao Fu suppressed the Six Desires Demonic Qi in Clear Water, and she regained control of herself before he took Yu Ling away.
• Zhao Fu gave Yu Ling to specialists and prepared spatial cultivation tools for his training.
• Several days later, Zhao Fu watched Yu Ling make an invisible barrier that caused more than a hundred arrows to vanish and reappear as if space had twisted them back.

Zhao Fu subdued the Wild God with Godslayer power after she emerged in the Wild God Hall and demanded worship. He learned that she could create Blood God Fiends, leaving him pleased with the value of his new captive.

• Yu Ling grew comfortable with Zhao Fu, who tested his abilities and gave him rare candy.
• A soldier reported trouble at the Wild God Hall, where Zhao Fu found the Wild God surrounded by fierce blood-fiend aura.
• The Wild God attacked Zhao Fu, but he blocked her punch and bound her with chains from his golden eye.
• Zhao Fu tortured the Wild God with Godslayer power until she called him Master and offered to submit.
• The Wild God promised access to the Wild God Realm and divine guards who could control Blood God Fiends.
• Golden Dragon explained that Blood God Fiends were deadly monsters made from divine blood, and Zhao Fu decided the Wild God was a valuable prize.

Zhao Fu forced the Desolate God to explain how Blood God Fiends were created, then bound her with restrictions and arranged for Great Qin to supply her with faith power. After checking on the newly conquered Fish Scale World, he set Great Qin’s sights on the Demon Profound World.

• Zhao Fu threatened and tortured the Desolate God until she explained that Blood God Fiends required Desolate God Royal Blood, other blood, divine aberration power, and specialized divine guards.
• The Desolate God boasted about her royal bloodline, but Zhao Fu’s imperial aura suppressed her and forced her to address him as Master.
• The Desolate God said she needed faith power to recover before she could create Blood God Fiends, and Zhao Fu offered the faith of Great Qin’s fifteen billion people in exchange for her loyalty.
• Zhao Fu bound the Desolate God with chains and placed godslaying restrictions inside her to prevent her from acting against him.
• Zhao Fu asked about the Fish Scale World’s condition, then ordered information gathered about the Demon Profound World as Great Qin’s next target.

The Great Void Ruins opened a year early, prompting Zhao Fu to gather intelligence as factions prepared to enter. Bai Shengjun returned to the Guti Domain to seek something in the ruins, while Bai Haoran learned Zhao Fu had become his new rival; the Ancient Sword Sect and Heavenly Music Sect also prepared for the dangerous expedition.

• The Great Void Token glowed, and Zhao Fu discovered that the Great Void Ruins were opening early, so he ordered his people to gather information about them.
• Bai Shengjun returned to the Dao Cultivation Sect on the day the ruins opened, explaining that something inside was important to him.
• Bai Shengjun offered to recommend Bai Haoran to his master, then asked why Bai Haoran had lost his place at the top of the Guti Ranking.
• Bai Haoran told Bai Shengjun about Zhao Fu's victories at the Guti Grand Assembly and the three Imperial Stars that had appeared before Zhao Fu escaped.
• The Ancient Sword Sect lamented its weakened roster and blamed Zhao Fu for killing its leading disciples.
• The Heavenly Music Sect's sect master warned Yin'er to avoid Bai Shengjun and the Imperial Son and to watch over her junior brother.

Several powerful figures prepared to enter the Taixu Ruins, including rivals determined to surpass Zhao Fu and a dying ancient ancestor seeking to extend his life. The chapter ended with the ancestor facing his last chance to escape death from old age.

• Yin Ruoshi promised her master that she would protect her companions, while the Bear Mountain king gave Xiong Xiao a demon bear heart to use in the Taixu Ruins.
• Zang Yueming dismissed the Taixu Ruins information offered by a duchy lord and turned his attention to the women around him.
• Shi Shuge trained with the Poetry Dynasty's support, determined to defeat Zhao Fu after losing to him and losing the Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl.
• Youquan prepared to enter the ruins with the women of the Desire Buddha Sect, while Ming Jian trained relentlessly to surpass Zhao Fu.
• A dying Heaven and Earth Realm ancient ancestor prepared to make one final attempt in the Taixu Ruins to obtain an item that could greatly extend his lifespan.

An old man sacrificed ten royal descendants to regain his youth and conceal his age so he could enter the Great Void Ruins. As the ruins opened early, a mysterious young man learned what the Great Void Token was for, while Long Yang prepared to search the ruins for a woman needed to cultivate the Eight Dragon Sacred Art.

• The old man’s followers killed ten of his descendants in a ritual that restored his youth and concealed his age, and he began preparing to enter the Great Void Ruins.
• A plain-looking young man displayed a Great Void Token, killed several Saint Realm experts with a breeze, and learned that the token allowed entry to the ruins.
• Long Yang told the seven princesses with him that he would find a suitable woman in the ruins and use her to cultivate the Eight Dragon Sacred Art.
• Long Yang vowed to seize a suitable woman even if she was unwilling, hoping to gain power and eventually take over the Eight Dragon Origin Sect.

Zhao Fu learned about the Great Void Ruins from Lin Yan'er and Ling Feixue as the opening drew near. He was left preparing to enter a perilous realm where his town artifacts would be unusable, while Ling Feixue still hoped to save the Ancient Sword Sect.

• Zhao Fu asked Lin Yan'er to share her intelligence on the Great Void Ruins and agreed to let her enter with her Great Void Token after refusing her request to become his woman.
• Lin Yan'er explained that the ruins had ten levels, checkpoints requiring clearance tokens, a points ranking visible outside, and a special trial for high scorers who reached the deepest level.
• Ling Feixue asked Zhao Fu to spare or show mercy to the Ancient Sword Sect in return for her intelligence, but he rejected her attempt to bargain.
• Ling Feixue warned that the ruins contained deadly regions, including an abyss on the tenth level and a first level where even Emperor Heaven Realm experts might die.
• The Great Void Token's purple light grew stronger, and all sides intensified their preparations for the ruins to open.

Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er entered the Silver Forest on the tenth level of the Great Void Ruins, where they fought Void Beasts and searched for ruins. They found two already-looted sites, and the chapter left them atop an iron tower as Lin Yan'er continued flirting with Zhao Fu.

• Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er teleported into the Silver Forest and began exploring the tenth level of the Great Void Ruins.
• Lin Yan'er killed several low-level Void Beasts and checked the ranking list, while Zhao Fu killed a Void Leopard that attacked her.
• Zhao Fu focused on finding ruins, but the first abandoned courtyard he found had already been looted.
• Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er climbed a towering iron ruin and discovered that its valuables had also been taken.
• Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er admired the view from the tower, and Lin Yan'er flirted with him as he asked her to stop serving him that way.

Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er saw the shocking Great Void Ruins leaderboard, then bypassed the tenth level and entered a dangerous abyss in search of gains. After falling for hours, they reached its bottom with the help of Zhao Fu’s chains, though a powerful suction force still pulled at them.

• Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er discovered that two unnamed entrants led the leaderboard with 140,000 and 100,000 points, while Zang Mingyue ranked third and Bai Shengjun fourth.
• Bai Shengjun, Zang Mingyue, the white-haired youth, and people across the Great Void Ruins reacted to the extraordinary scores.
• Zhao Fu decided to skip the tenth level and take Lin Yan'er to obtain a passage token for the ninth level.
• Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er reached the vast abyss Ling Feixue had warned them about, and Zhao Fu chose to descend despite its danger.
• After falling for hours, Zhao Fu used chains from the void to halt their descent and slowly lower himself and Lin Yan'er to the abyss’s bottom.

Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er crossed a deadly abyss and fought their way through a cave filled with monsters and giant snakes. After discovering the snakes drained his strength whenever he attacked, Zhao Fu used repeated fires to break through and chose to descend into a vast, dark pit with Lin Yan'er.

• Zhao Fu used his Emperor Domain to shield himself and Lin Yan'er from the abyss's suction and the strength-draining ground.
• A swarm of half-human, half-beast creatures attacked them, and Zhao Fu drove the monsters back with the Angel Sword's holy light.
• Giant snakes surged from deeper in the cave, and Zhao Fu realized that attacking them caused his strength to mysteriously vanish.
• Zhao Fu carried Lin Yan'er through the snakes by repeatedly burning them with lamp oil and charging forward while the flames held them back.
• Zhao Fu found a vast, light-swallowing hole and decided to descend, and Lin Yan'er chose to accompany him.

Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er fell into a place where their powers vanished, but Zhao Fu used the Six Paths Demon Idols to defeat a goat-headed monster and force it to submit. He accepted Mosak as his servant and gained enough points for an unnamed person to rise to fifth place in the rankings.

• Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er lost their power upon landing in the darkness and were approached by a goat-headed monster.
• The monster attacked Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu used the Six Paths Demon Idols' power to strike it while the power was briefly active in his body.
• Zhao Fu wounded the monster with repeated sword attacks and prepared to kill it.
• The monster begged for its life, and Zhao Fu accepted its submission after learning it had no treasure to offer.
• Zhao Fu subdued Mosak, Hand of Nothingness, and gained 75,000 points, placing an unnamed person fifth in the rankings.

After mining a vast supply of Spirit-Absorbing Jade on the tenth layer, Zhao Fu brought Lin Yan'er and Mosak to the ninth layer, Blue Thorn Plain. He reached a dangerous land centered on a huge vortex and asked Mosak what lay inside.

• Zhao Fu discovered that Mosak could create a Void Domain that weakened nearby creatures and used it to restore Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er’s strength.
• Zhao Fu found a mountain of Spirit-Absorbing Jade and spent several days mining enough to make about five billion ordinary blocks for Great Qin.
• While Zhao Fu’s group mined, his points fell behind the leaders, and the rankings showed unknown first and second place, Bai Shengjun in third, and Zang Mingyue in fourth.
• After killing a leader-class Void Beast, Zhao Fu, Lin Yan'er, and Mosak traveled to the ninth layer, where they encountered stronger Void Beasts that moved in packs.
• Mosak used his Void Domain to weaken a flock of monster birds, and Zhao Fu received the points for their deaths.
• Zhao Fu reached a dangerous land marked by a vast, chaotic vortex and asked Mosak what was inside.

Zhao Fu, Lin Yan'er, and Mosak entered the ninth level of the Abyss and fought their way through a valley filled with dangerous Void Beasts. Zhao Fu reached their nest and encountered a cloaked figure that attacked him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Mosak used his Null Domain to shield Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er as they crossed the vortex into the ninth level.
• Lin Yan'er and Mosak helped Zhao Fu defeat smaller Void Beasts, and Zhao Fu slew two enormous ones and had their valuable materials collected.
• Zhao Fu left Lin Yan'er and Mosak behind and flew deeper into the valley, where he found a silver cube above a platform and a cloaked figure.
• The cloaked figure attacked Zhao Fu with a dagger, then vanished into the void to evade his counterattack.

Zhao Fu defeated the Void-Walking Beast Molafei, forced him to submit, and gained enough points to rise to fourth place in the rankings. He collected a Void Beast nest and a Void Cloak blueprint, intending to strengthen Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu used chains to trap Molafei after his void-hiding attacks wounded him, then struck him with electricity until Mosak persuaded him to surrender.
• Zhao Fu accepted Molafei’s submission and gained 140,000 points, raising his total to 215,000 and moving him to fourth place.
• Bai Haoran felt greater pressure, Zang Mingyue reacted angrily to falling to fifth, and the leaders in first and second place remained focused on their own pursuits.
• Zhao Fu inspected and took the Epic Void Beast Nest, planning to add its beasts to Great Qin’s City Lord Seal.
• Molafei gave Zhao Fu a Void Cloak blueprint describing cloaks that could teleport one hundred, one thousand, or ten thousand meters.

Zhao Fu cornered Long Yang’s seven women after they fled a Void Beast attack and forced them to reveal an undiscovered ruin. He left them alive for now, demanding they save Long Yang and warning them that he would punish them if the ruin disappointed him.

• Long Yang fought off swarms of Void Beasts and sent his seven women away to protect them.
• Zhao Fu spotted the fleeing women, blocked their path, and asked where Long Yang was.
• Frost offered Zhao Fu the location of an undiscovered ruin in exchange for their safety and his help rescuing Long Yang.
• Zhao Fu bound the women and used Six Desires Demonic Qi to pressure them for the ruin’s location.
• After the women remained defiant, Zhao Fu suppressed the demonic qi and threatened to turn their hides into Sky Lanterns if the ruin held nothing valuable.