Recaps

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with powerful reinforcements and treasures, then prepared to deploy the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Suppressing Formation. After Apocalypse World suffered another deterioration, he overruled his ministers’ objections and began preparations to build the formation.

• Zhao Fu returned safely to Ghost Demon City, reassured You Qin and the other women, and left one hundred Saint Realm soldiers under their command.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, conferred consort titles on the women he had brought back, and discussed the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Suppressing Formation with his ministers.
• Zhao Fu’s ministers disagreed over whether the formation’s unknown consequences outweighed its benefits.
• Apocalypse World weakened again, and notices reported diminished city attributes, regional power, and spiritual energy, along with increased Outer Realm Battlefield rewards.
• Zhao Fu decided to deploy the formation despite the objections and ordered preparations using Great Qin’s Nation-Guarding Artifacts and other artifacts.

Zhao Fu activated the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Suppressing Formation across three worlds, which condensed each world’s consciousness into an object that could let him control it. He kept the formation as a future fallback rather than breaking away from Apocalypse World, then returned to Great Qin Royal Palace with the Nether Night Ghost Flower still to address.

• Zhao Fu built 280 towers across the three worlds and placed the Book of God in the core tower in Great Qin Royal City.
• Zhao Fu activated the formation, causing the towers and Nation-Guarding Artifacts to form a massive network across the three worlds.
• The formation drew out the consciousnesses of the Human World, Fish Scale World, and Demon Profound World, condensing them into an azure crystal bead, a golden fish, and a black humanoid statue.
• Zhao Fu learned that controlling the three objects would let him control the worlds, but he decided not to make them independent of Apocalypse World because of the dangers involved.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Royal Palace and turned his attention to planting the Nether Night Ghost Flower.

Zhao Fu created a patch of nether land in the Flower Domain and planted the Nether Night Ghost Flower with ten-thousand-year yin liquid. The seed grew into a towering plant, but its flower remained a bud, leaving Zhao Fu to wait for it to bloom.

• Zhao Fu visited the Flower Domain and told the Flower Fairy he planned to plant the Nether Night Ghost Flower there; she offered a method for cultivating yin flowers.
• Zhao Fu spent time with the Flower Fairy and the flower sprites before returning to the planting work.
• Zhao Fu used the corpses of people killed in Great Qin's wars to transform a patch of the Flower Domain into nether land, driving away the ghosts that emerged.
• Zhao Fu planted the Nether Night Ghost Flower seed and poured ten-thousand-year yin liquid over it, causing it to grow into a three-thousand-meter-tall plant.
• Zhao Fu saw that the Nether Night Ghost Flower had only formed a bud and realized it would take a long time to bloom.

Zhao Fu used the Yin Vein Pearl to establish a yin spring and built a site where captives and beasts would be transformed into soul beasts. Afterward, he learned about developments involving the Wind God Empire and the Demon Horn Empire, and left the Demon Domain Ruins for a future opportunity.

• Zhao Fu implanted the Yin Vein Pearl at the yin soldier conversion site, creating a powerful yin land and a spring of refined yin energy.
• Zhao Fu built a silver field around the Soul Beast Heart and ordered ten thousand jars prepared to transform buried captives and beasts into soul beasts.
• Zhao Fu asked Ming Lengxuan about the Demon Domain Ruins Token, but she said only her father knew anything about it.
• Zhao Fu learned that the Wind God Empire had built defenses around four worlds while the Demon Cloud Empire remained passive.
• Zhao Fu learned that Yao Ming had conquered the Wufei Clan world beneath the Fishman World and taken a high-ranking Wufei woman as his consort.

Zhao Fu visited the besieged Wild Crow Kingdom with Xue Ru and agreed to provide limited assistance. As he prepared to leave, Mo Yue stopped him to discuss an undisclosed matter.

• The Demon Horn Empire’s conquest of the Wufei clan strengthened its air force, while the surrounding worlds settled into a tense balance among Demon Horn, Wind God, and Great Qin.
• Xue Ru asked Zhao Fu to visit the Wild Crow World, and he agreed to take her with him.
• At a banquet, Mo Ke asked Zhao Fu for help defending the Wild Crow Kingdom, and Zhao Fu promised Great Qin would assist to preserve the existing situation.
• Mo Yue stopped Zhao Fu and He Ni as they were leaving, saying he had a matter to discuss.

Mo Yue tried to offer He Ni to Zhao Fu in exchange for help for Wild Crow Kingdom, but Zhao Fu refused. After the Wind God Empire demanded Fish Scale World and sent Feng Wulin to intimidate Great Qin, Zhao Fu ordered total war and refused to surrender it.

• Mo Yue offered He Ni to Zhao Fu, claiming he hoped to secure help for Wild Crow Kingdom, but Zhao Fu refused and left with Xue Ru.
• He Ni told Zhao Fu she was willing to serve him if he helped Wild Crow Kingdom, then embraced Mo Yue after Zhao Fu departed.
• Zhao Fu learned that the Wind God Empire had demanded Fish Scale World in exchange for compensation, and he gathered Great Qin's officials to discuss the threat.
• Feng Wulin, one of the Wind God Empire's five Emperor Heaven Realm experts, arrived at the Human World border and unleashed his pressure to intimidate Great Qin.
• Yao Ming welcomed the Wind God Empire's intervention, while Si Ji and other factions felt both hope and anxiety about Great Qin's fate.
• Zhao Fu declared total war, ordered Great Qin to refuse to cede Fish Scale World, and sent the empire to prepare for battle.

The Wind God Empire gathered its forces to seize Fish Scale World, while Zhao Fu refused to surrender and launched a preemptive attack. The armies clashed, but Great Qin’s opening arrows failed to break the Wind God army’s cyan barrier.

• The Wind God Empire assembled four billion Tier 3 soldiers to attack Great Qin, and Feng Wulin confronted Zhao Fu with an ultimatum to surrender Fish Scale World.
• Zhao Fu refused, and Ghost Princess appeared to block Feng Wulin’s strike, revealing that Great Qin had an Emperor Heaven Realm ally.
• Feng Wulin hesitated and began withdrawing his army, fearing that a powerful inner-domain force might be backing Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to attack, and Ghost Princess charged Feng Wulin as both armies surged into battle.
• Great Qin’s arrows struck the Wind God army’s cyan barrier but only opened a few cracks.

Great Qin broke the Wind God Empire’s defensive barrier and fought back as Zhao Fu wounded Feng Wulin with the Nation-Guarding Artifact’s power. Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with Feng Wulin’s blood, which Xian Ru needed to complete a prepared plan.

• Great Qin’s Dragon-Shooting Ballistas and giant Saints shattered the Wind God Empire’s barrier, allowing Great Qin’s arrows to inflict casualties.
• Feng Wulin fought Ghost Princess and wounded her with his Wind Kill attack.
• Zhao Fu struck Feng Wulin with Sword Master and the Nation-Guarding Artifact’s power, cutting his arm before fleeing as Ghost Princess held him off.
• The Wind God army slaughtered Great Qin Soldiers while both sides suffered heavy losses.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, where Xian Ru said the plan was ready and required the blood of an Emperor Heaven Realm expert.
• Zhao Fu gave Xian Ru the blood he had taken from Feng Wulin.

Xian Ru and Zhao Fu used the Ten Thousand Curse to help Ghost Princess capture Feng Wulin, while forced Teleportation Arrays sent 1.5 billion Wind God soldiers into the Monster Realm. Zhao Fu found the soldiers transforming into monsters under the Demonic Energy Grand Array, giving Great Qin 1.5 billion Tier 3 monsters.

• Xian Ru used the Ten Thousand Curse with insect eggs, and Zhao Fu activated the curse against Feng Wulin.
• The curse overwhelmed Feng Wulin with insects, allowing Ghost Princess to knock him unconscious and seal his power.
• Great Qin's forced Teleportation Arrays removed about 1.5 billion Wind God soldiers from the battlefield, forcing the Wind God generals to retreat.
• Maple Leaf Hunt ordered the Demonic Energy Grand Array activated, and the Monster Realm's energy broke through the soldiers' barriers and began transforming them.
• Zhao Fu arrived in the Monster Realm and found that 1.5 billion Wind God soldiers were turning into monsters under Great Qin's control.

After the Wind God Empire mobilized for revenge, Zhao Fu sought a way to turn its captured Emperor Heaven Realm expert, Feng Wulin, into an ally. Hong Mei proposed using insect curses and nest stones to control him, and Zhao Fu began the ritual as Great Qin prepared for another attack.

• The Wind God Empire and the Inner Guti Domain kingdoms reacted with alarm to Great Qin's victory, while Yao Ming put the Demon Horn Empire on guard.
• The Wind God Empire sent three Emperor Heaven Realm experts to command an army against Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu asked Di Xi, Ghost Princess, and Flower Fairy how Feng Wulin could be controlled, but none of them had a method.
• Hong Mei proposed combining more insect curses with nest stones to control Feng Wulin, and Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to gather the materials.
• Zhao Fu planted the Six Desires Demon Seed in Hong Mei and chose her to control Feng Wulin.
• Xian Ru began casting another curse on Feng Wulin using fifteen million insect eggs and five insect nest stones.

Hong Mei transformed Feng Wulin into a controlled Emperor Heaven powerhouse for Great Qin while Great Xia destroyed the Wild Crow Kingdom and killed its king, Mo Ke, and his son, Mo Yue. Zhao Fu took in the surviving women, then learned that the Wind God Empire was advancing on Great Qin with twenty-five billion troops.

• Hong Mei used Insect Devour and five insect-nest stones to transform Feng Wulin, and Zhao Fu tested his enhanced strength.
• Si Ji detonated Great Xia's Nation-Guarding Artifact and led a full-scale attack that killed Mo Ke and Mo Yue and overwhelmed the Wild Crow Kingdom.
• Half of the Wild Crow Kingdom's people evacuated to Great Qin as He Ni, Xue Li, and Mo Ke's consorts sought Zhao Fu's protection.
• Zhao Fu accepted the women into Great Qin and told them to comfort Xue Ru and the others.
• Zhao Fu received word that the Wind God Empire was charging toward Great Qin with twenty-five billion troops.

Zhao Fu prepared to delay the Wind God Empire’s massive army as it advanced on Great Qin, but the army was ambushed by the Demon Cloud, Blood Spirit, and Haowu Empires. The Wind God Empire suffered a crushing defeat, losing fifteen billion soldiers and one Emperor Heaven Realm expert.

• After learning that twenty-five billion more Wind God soldiers were advancing, Zhao Fu gathered savage beasts, soldiers, and people with special abilities to prepare a delaying operation.
• The Wind God army was struck by volleys of arrows, explosive blood-colored orbs, and demonic claws before it could react.
• Three armies of twenty billion soldiers each charged the Wind God forces from different directions.
• The Wind God commanders realized the Demon Cloud, Blood Spirit, and Haowu Empires had joined forces to ambush them and ordered a retreat.
• Nine enemy Emperor Heaven Realm experts pursued the Wind God leaders, killing one and leaving two severely injured.
• The Wind God Empire retreated in defeat, with fifteen billion of its twenty-five billion soldiers dead and ten billion escaping.

Zhao Fu learned that the Demon Cloud Empire’s attack had devastated the Wind God Empire and ended Great Qin’s immediate crisis, leaving Great Qin to collect a vast number of corpses for Blood God Pills. He then inspected the newly bred Ghost Soul Beasts and tested how one could fuse with a Yin soldier.

• The Wind God Empire suffered heavy losses from the Demon Cloud Empires and turned to diplomacy while its remaining army guarded the four worlds.
• Zhao Fu arrived at the battlefield, ordered his people to collect the Wind God soldiers’ corpses, and later learned that the Demon Cloud Empire’s attack had indirectly saved Great Qin.
• News of Great Qin’s survival spread through neighboring domains, earning Zhao Fu and Great Qin widespread attention and admiration.
• Zhao Fu handed the corpses to his subordinates to refine into Blood God Pills and learned that the Ghost Soul Beasts had been bred.
• Zhao Fu had a Yin soldier contract with a boy who had become a Ghost Soul Beast; the boy merged with him, raising the soldier’s strength to the second tier.

Zhao Fu learned that a vast swarm of vampire mosquitoes was approaching Qin Land and prepared defenses after discovering that dark elements could restrain the insects. When the swarm arrived sooner than expected, Great Qin’s Flying Insect Nest Dragons and summoned Saints attacked it, but countless mosquitoes remained.

• Alasna warned Zhao Fu that more than three billion vampire mosquitoes were heading toward Qin Land, and scholars reported that the insects resisted fire but were vulnerable to dark elements.
• Zhao Fu summoned Syndra to help research the insects and ordered Great Qin to prepare arrows, defensive barriers, and scouts.
• Three days later, the vampire mosquito swarm reached Qin Land, led by a gigantic Vampire Mosquito King.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Flying Insect Nest Dragons and summoned Saints to attack, killing many mosquitoes and scattering the swarm.

Zhao Fu and Great Qin fought off a vast swarm of vampire mosquitoes led by the Vampire Mosquito King. After Zhao Fu and Alasna wounded and restrained the King, it stopped resisting and appeared willing to submit.

• The Vampire Mosquito King led the vampire mosquitoes in an assault on Great Qin and tried to suck Zhao Fu's blood, taking a few drops of his Saint blood.
• Zhao Fu ordered arrows and dark-flame fire oil against the swarm, killing most of the ordinary mosquitoes while the giant ones battered Great Qin's defensive barrier.
• The Vampire Mosquito King pierced the barrier with a blood-colored beam, but Zhao Fu dodged the attack and Alasna struck the King down with a gigantic divine arm.
• Zhao Fu bound the Vampire Mosquito King with iron chains and slashed it repeatedly until its strength and resistance faded.
• As Zhao Fu prepared to deliver a final blow, the Vampire Mosquito King lay prone and appeared to submit.

Zhao Fu accepted the Vampire Mosquito King’s submission, and his blood triggered its transformation into Blood Princess. After learning that ordinary insect beasts could not be made to serve him without changing a nest stone’s attributes, Zhao Fu collected the nest stones and eggs for future use.

• Zhao Fu gave the Vampire Mosquito King his blood, which transformed it into a powerful woman who called herself Blood Princess.
• Blood Princess explained that she had undergone blood refinement and that Zhao Fu’s blood had been the precious treasure she sought.
• Zhao Fu and his companions followed Blood Princess to her enormous nest, where they found over twenty million eggs and a thirty-meter-tall nest stone.
• Blood Princess told Zhao Fu that insect beasts would still attack people from Apocalypse World unless a treasure changed a nest stone’s attributes.
• Zhao Fu ordered the insect eggs gathered and the nest stones taken away for safekeeping.

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and launched an invasion of the Wild Crow World to settle his feud with Si Ji. Great Qin began attacking the city’s defensive barrier as Si Ji waited for reinforcements from the Demon Horn Empire.

• Zhao Fu stayed with Alasna, Syndra, Blood Princess, and the other women before returning to Great Qin.
• Yao Ming agreed to accept Si Ji as a vassal, and the Demon Horn Empire began supporting Great Xia against Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu mobilized Great Qin’s army and invaded the Wild Crow World, while Si Ji gathered his forces behind the activated defensive barrier and awaited reinforcements.
• Zhao Fu confronted Si Ji at the city walls, rejected his taunt about Zhao Fu’s younger brother, and ordered the attack.
• Great Qin’s Flying Insect Nest Dragons fired powerful beams at the defensive barrier, making it tremble.

Great Qin broke through the Wild Crow defenses and routed Si Ji’s forces while Yao Ming withdrew the Demon Horn reinforcements. Si Ji fled toward Great Xia’s imperial palace to escape with his remaining people, and Zhao Fu pursued him.

• Zhao Fu and the eight Sea Beast Kings shattered Si Ji’s defensive barrier, allowing Great Qin to launch its assault.
• Great Qin’s beasts and soldiers overwhelmed the Wild Crow forces, while the Demon Horn Empire’s cursed land stopped Yao Ming’s reinforcements.
• Yao Ming withdrew, and Si Ji fled as Zhao Fu pursued him through the fighting.
• Si Ji returned to the imperial palace, ordered valuable belongings packed, and prepared to leave through the Teleportation Array with roughly a hundred thousand survivors.

Zhao Fu caught up with Si Ji after destroying his elite forces and rejected Si Ji’s offers to surrender. Si Ji was left helpless as his family and companions submitted to Zhao Fu or pleaded for their lives.

• Si Ji found that the Teleportation Array no longer worked and ordered his elite soldiers to hold Zhao Fu back while he fled.
• Zhao Fu killed Si Ji’s hundred thousand-plus soldiers with a single sword strike and caught up with Si Ji’s remaining companions.
• Si Ji’s personal guards attacked Zhao Fu and were killed, while Zhao Fu refused Si Ji’s offers to surrender or make peace.
• Si Ji tried to kill the women beside him, but Zhao Fu stopped him and restrained Wang Xihan when she attempted to take her own life.
• The Wild Crow Clan women and Zhang Feiyan offered to serve Zhao Fu, and Si Ji’s mother, Li Lengyue, and sister, Si Rou, pleaded for their lives.

Zhao Fu conquered the Wild Crow World, spared Si Ji and his companions at Li Lengyue’s request, and began securing the territory for Great Qin. Later, a sudden reaction from his four Imperial Stars left him craving demonic qi, so he decided to travel to the Demon Domain to answer a Demon Star’s call.

• Great Qin defeated the Wild Crow Clan, losing five hundred million soldiers while killing three and a half billion enemies and subduing nearly four billion more.
• Li Lengyue and Si Rou pleaded with Zhao Fu to spare Si Ji and the others, and he agreed before taunting them and having them taken away.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, leaving soldiers to integrate the Wild Crow World, while Yao Ming summoned his ministers to plan the Demon Horn Empire’s next moves.
• After Great Qin stabilized, Zhao Fu began clearing dangerous lands around Qin Land and spent his days destroying insect nests.
• Zhao Fu suddenly spat blood as demonic qi erupted from him and his four Imperial Stars trembled, leaving him in pain and hungry for demonic qi.
• After eating demonic herbs, beast flesh, and pills, Zhao Fu told Alasna and the other women he would go to the Demon Domain to gather demonic resources and visit its ruins.

Zhao Fu traveled to the Inner Domain seeking demonic-qi treasures and entered a martial contest for a map to a Demon King's treasure. After winning effortlessly, he accepted the rewards and let the contest organizer draw him into her scheme, ending up in bed with her.

• Zhao Fu left Great Qin in Li Si and Bai Qi's hands and traveled to the Demon Domain alone.
• In an Inner Domain city, Zhao Fu learned that the martial contest's prize included a map to a Demon King's treasure.
• The contest organizer declared Zhao Fu the winner for his looks, then he defeated the burly young man with a casual wave when the crowd demanded a fight.
• Zhao Fu collected the rewards but refused the organizer's offer of a heaven-shaking fortune and supreme authority.
• The organizer seduced Zhao Fu and, afterward, declared that she had given him her first time and would be his from then on.

Zhao Fu agreed to pose as Shan Luoshui’s husband in exchange for the Mountain River Kingdom’s military protection for Great Qin. Shan Luoshui introduced him to her father and the court as her chosen husband, and the chapter ended as Shan Youtian was about to approve the marriage.

• Hua Niang explained that Shan Luoshui needed a sham husband to prevent rival factions from controlling her through marriage.
• Hua Niang led Zhao Fu to meet Shan Luoshui, who sensed his powerful bloodline and agreed to cooperate.
• Zhao Fu asked Shan Luoshui to send troops to protect a kingdom, and she agreed on the condition that he obey her in all matters.
• Shan Luoshui asked Zhao Fu to treat Hua Niang well, while Hua Niang chose to remain by the princess’s side.
• Shan Luoshui presented Zhao Fu to Shan Youtian and the court as her chosen husband, claiming they had been in love for months and would marry that day.

Zhao Fu defeated six challengers and married Shan Luoshui, whose kingdom’s fortune surged after his top-tier Dragon-Phoenix appeared. After two days at the palace, Zhao Fu left for the Demon King treasure map near the Mountain River Kingdom.

• Shan Luoshui proposed a match to settle the ministers’ objections, and Zhao Fu defeated six young men with one strike of the Massacre Sword.
• The Mountain River Kingdom celebrated Zhao Fu and Shan Luoshui’s wedding, and Shan Youtian conferred the title of prince consort on Zhao Fu.
• A top-tier Dragon-Phoenix emerged from Zhao Fu, boosting the kingdom’s fortune and transforming Shan Luoshui’s physique.
• Shan Luoshui agreed that Zhao Fu could remain her husband without restrictions on his freedom, and Zhao Fu agreed to stay for at most two days.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the Mountain River Empire had seven Emperor Heaven Realm experts, including one at the peak of that realm.
• Hua Niang stayed behind with Shan Luoshui, and Zhao Fu left the imperial palace for the Demon King treasure map.

Zhao Fu entered a mountain range to search for a treasure rumored to be guarded by a sealed Demon King, fighting his way through monsters in a hidden cave. After meeting a group of seven treasure seekers, he continued ahead while they followed, hoping to use him to find the treasure and seize it.

• Hua Niang warned Zhao Fu that the treasure map had many copies and that the mountain range might hold danger, so Zhao Fu cautiously entered the mountains near Demon King Town.
• Zhao Fu found the hidden cave and killed the demonic beasts and octopus-like monsters blocking his path.
• Zhao Fu found bloodstains left by an earlier party and reached a chamber littered with monster corpses, where a group of seven people caught up with him.
• The spoiled girl demanded Zhao Fu hand over any treasure, but the heroic young man and the older-sister-like woman warned the group against provoking him.
• The group decided to follow Zhao Fu, using him to clear the way and planning to seize anything valuable they found; Zhao Fu noticed them and continued onward with a cold smile.

Zhao Fu destroyed a trap that had trapped seven people, then forced three women to honor their promises to become his women. Dong Mei left the wounded valiant young man despite his confession of love, while he was left grieving and regretting his silence.

• Zhao Fu cut down the demonic skeleton soldiers, but a trap set by the group ahead resurrected them and trapped the seven people behind him.
• The valiant young man accused Zhao Fu of setting the trap, and Zhao Fu denied it while the seven fought the overwhelming skeleton horde and suffered injuries.
• Wu He, Zi Yue, and Dong Mei each promised to serve Zhao Fu if he saved them, and Zhao Fu obliterated the skeletons with a single sword strike.
• Wu He introduced herself and went to Zhao Fu, while Dong Mei agreed to go after the valiant young man pleaded with her to stay.
• The valiant young man confessed his love, but Zhao Fu knocked him away and threatened the group, prompting Zi Yue and Dong Mei to join him as the young man wept.