Recaps

The Li Family discussed the threat posed by Great Qin and decided to pursue its remaining share of Huaxia’s fortune while searching for the hidden inheritor. The Ying Family, desperate to find the inheritor and reconcile with him, knew only that he was somewhere in the northern Central Continent.

• The Li Family patriarch urged his descendants to prepare for Great Qin, while several relatives who had sensed Zhao Fu’s dragon roar warned against making him an enemy.
• Li Baiqing advised the family to focus on upgrading villages and claiming the fortune still available to Huaxia’s inheritors, and others proposed recruiting the Great Qin inheritor.
• After the meeting, the Li Family patriarch privately warned Li Baiqing that Great Qin was his greatest obstacle and ordered the steward to find its inheritor.
• The Ying Family continued searching for the inheritor, regretting its earlier plans to seize his legacy and hoping to submit to him instead.
• The Ying Family knew only that the inheritor was in the vast northern Central Continent, which other factions treated as forbidden because of the danger there.

Ying Xi and Wu Qingniang discussed the danger posed by the still-unidentified Ying Family inheritor and Ying Xi’s likely use as a marriage link to him. After comforting Ying Xi, Wu Qingniang worried about Great Qin’s inheritor and went to seek Zhao Fu’s opinion, but found him inside the Apocalypse World.

• Ying Xi told Wu Qingniang that the Ying Family’s branches wanted to hand their forces to its missing inheritor, threatening her own chances of inheriting the family.
• Wu Qingniang advised Ying Xi to build her own power and warned that the Ying Family might marry her to the inheritor to bridge their family divisions.
• Ying Xi lamented that she could not resist the family’s plans, and Wu Qingniang comforted her before kissing her playfully and wrestling with her.
• Wu Qingniang left and worried that she might not be able to oppose Great Qin’s inheritor, whose dragon’s roar had frightened her.
• Wu Qingniang went to Zhao Fu’s room to ask his opinion, but found no response and left after guessing he was in the Apocalypse World.

Zhao Fu opened a passage to Little Abyss Valley and established a concealed village there, while Zhang Heng recalled the great fortune shift and recognized Great Qin’s dragon roar. Zhao Fu left the village connected to the regional teleportation network and chose to travel to Fighting City.

• Zhang Heng sensed the world’s fortune shift, heard a domineering dragon roar, and cried out, “Great Qin!”
• Zhang Heng declared that Great Qin could not change what lay in his heart, then threw away an insect-eaten wild fruit and smacked his laughing donkey.
• Zhao Fu decided to open routes to Little Abyss Valley and Hundred Bamboo, disguised himself, and led soldiers and scholars through the Void-Severing Belt.
• Zhao Fu’s group activated a Teleportation Array with a Void Crystal and arrived in Little Abyss Valley, gaining ten battle merits.
• Zhao Fu sealed a cave entrance, used a City-Building Stone to create a village, and built a Teleportation Array connected to four system main cities.
• Zhao Fu chose Fighting City from the teleportation options.

Zhao Fu expanded Great Qin’s commercial plans and sent Ge Nie to temper his swordsmanship in Fighting City’s deadly arenas. After Ge Nie chose a bloodstained white-quality sword, Zhao Fu went to the City of Holy Light and learned that its City Lord had been severely injured.

• Zhao Fu explored Fighting City’s arenas, where fighters earned merit and coin through bloody duels.
• Zhao Fu bought twenty properties in Fighting City, repeated the purchases in three other system cities, and inspected Little Abyss Valley’s specialty products.
• Zhao Fu established a Commerce Department under Ba Qing to manage taverns and trade.
• Zhao Fu proposed that Ge Nie train in Fighting City’s arenas, and Ge Nie agreed despite the danger.
• Ge Nie rejected Zhao Fu’s offered sword and chose a bloodstained white-quality blade from Great Qin’s armory.
• Zhao Fu went to the City of Holy Light to find skills for Ge Nie and learned that the City Lord had suffered severe injuries.

Zhao Fu learned that the system main city lord’s grave injuries were likely connected to him, then registered Ge Nie as an arena warrior in Fighting City. Ge Nie chose the alias “Sword Practice,” and Zhao Fu asked for an opponent above the third stage.

• Zhao Fu suspected that the terrifying power that had wounded the system main city lord was connected to his own actions.
• Qin Nan warned Zhao Fu that the city lord’s injury was a taboo subject, so Zhao Fu stopped asking about it.
• Zhao Fu gave Ge Nie six basic sword techniques and continued cultivating until he reached the eighth stage.
• Zhao Fu brought Ge Nie to Fighting City and paid to register him as an arena warrior.
• Ge Nie chose “Sword Practice” as his alias, and Zhao Fu asked the burly registrar to find an opponent above the third stage, shocking him.

Zhao Fu arranged for Ge Nie, who had cultivated for only a few days, to fight Bully, a peak third-stage fighter at Lone Wolf Arena. Ge Nie killed Bully with one swift sword strike, leaving the arena stunned.

• Great Han warned Zhao Fu that Ge Nie would face a powerful opponent, but Zhao Fu asked him to arrange a match against someone above the third stage.
• The arena host introduced Bully and Ge Nie, and the crowd mocked Ge Nie while betting overwhelmingly on Bully to win.
• Zhao Fu wagered 1,000 gold coins on Ge Nie, who entered the cage without removing his black cloak.
• Bully charged at Ge Nie with his great axe, but Ge Nie froze him with an icy look and struck once with his sword.
• Bully collapsed with blood pouring from his neck, and the arena fell silent.

Ge Nie defeated a bully with one sword strike, then killed four of five fourth-stage opponents in a group match and spared the last after he surrendered. The spectators gave Ge Nie a new title: the Sword Demon.

• Ge Nie killed the bully with a single sword strike, and the crowd recognized his formidable swordsmanship.
• The host declared Ge Nie the winner, while Zhao Fu collected thirty thousand gold coins from his wager.
• Great Han asked Zhao Fu to let Ge Nie fight again, and Zhao Fu agreed to a match against five opponents above the fourth stage.
• Ge Nie killed four attackers in quick succession as they tried to strike him, while the fifth dropped his weapon and begged for mercy.
• The crowd watched Ge Nie stand in the bloodied arena and began calling him the Sword Demon.

Ge Nie won several more matches in Fighting City, earning an iron identity plaque and widespread renown as the Sword Demon. Zhao Fu inspected his new restaurant and chamber of commerce, helped Sun Qin get hired, and returned to Great Qin Village to open a second passage to the outside world.

• Ge Nie won every match, raised his identity plaque to iron, and became known across Fighting City as the Sword Demon.
• Zhao Fu checked on renovations for his new restaurant and explained that it would use his own chefs and a different name from Westfall Tower.
• Zhao Fu recognized his former classmate Sun Qin among the applicants and asked a manager to hire her.
• Zhao Fu inspected the Misty Rain Chamber of Commerce and planned to establish more chambers and player factions while remaining behind the scenes.
• Zhao Fu checked progress in the other three system main cities, then returned to Great Qin Village to open a second passage to the outside world.

Zhao Fu collected Soldier Souls and fused them into Soldier God Souls, then had Bai Qi combine them into a General's Artifact. The fusion summoned a purple General Star above Great Qin, which He Xianru and others recognized as having returned to its place.

• Zhao Fu visited Hundred Bamboo, bought bamboo rats to develop exclusive tavern dishes, and returned to Great Qin Town.
• Li Wen presented Zhao Fu with more than a dozen Soldier Souls, bringing his total to 103.
• Zhao Fu refused Heavenly Demon's request to consume the souls and fused them into ten Soldier God Souls.
• Zhao Fu summoned Bai Qi, who used the ten Soldier God Souls to begin the final fusion into a General's Artifact.
• A purple star appeared above Great Qin, and He Xianru and others recognized it as the General Star returning to its place.

Bai Qi unsealed the Seven Killings Star in Great Qin Town and transformed the Star-Slaying Sword into the Seven Killings Sword. The extraordinary figures who witnessed the omen suspected the star belonged to Great Qin, leaving its identity uncertain.

• The purple star appeared over Great Qin Town as Bai Qi drew the Star-Slaying Sword and unleashed a storm of blood-red energy.
• Bai Qi’s power stained the star red, revealing it as Seven Killings, one of the thirteen general’s stars.
• The Seven Killings Star sent down blood-red starlight, and ten spheres of light merged into Bai Qi’s sword to form the Seven Killings Sword.
• Bai Qi returned to his historical form, radiating an overwhelming killing intent, while Zhao Fu reflected on the injustice of Bai Qi’s death.
• Extraordinary figures considered divining the star’s fate, then realized it had appeared in the north and wondered whether it belonged to Great Qin.

After the Seven Killings Star appeared over Great Qin, observers considered the kingdom’s growing power, while Zhao Fu examined the newly transformed Seven Killings Sword. The sword’s sixth special effect remained unrevealed as the chapter ended.

• Extraordinary individuals considered joining Great Qin, while those with masters reported the Seven Killings Star’s appearance to them.
• He Xianru praised Zhao Fu’s achievement, then logged out and left Huo Qing in charge of the kitchen.
• Zhang Heng predicted that Qin would become a top-tier great power, while Uncle Lin and a young Mohist discussed the star’s heavy killing intent.
• Bai Qi apologized to Zhao Fu for the destruction, and Zhao Fu asked how he felt after his general star was unsealed.
• Zhao Fu inspected the Seven Killings Sword and learned about its first five effects, including bonuses for soldiers, improved morale and recovery, and the ability to combine soldier auras.

After reviewing the Seven Killings Sword and leaving Great Qin’s affairs to his capable subordinates, Zhao Fu cultivated until he reached the ninth stage. Back in the real world, he discovered that Great Qin had become a global sensation and that people around the world were seeking its mysterious inheritor.

• Zhao Fu examined the Seven Killings Sword’s Slaughterer effect, noted that its power came at the cost of its soldiers losing all reason, and returned the sword to Bai Qi.
• Zhao Fu left Great Qin’s exploration teams, rear defenses, internal affairs, and commerce to Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Li Si, and Ba Qing, then visited Qin Times Academy and saw Asani teaching diligent students.
• Zhao Fu cultivated overnight until he reached the ninth stage, one stage short of Tier 1, then returned to the real world and ate after bodyguards brought him a meal.
• Zhao Fu learned that Wu Qingniang had visited but left, then opened the Apocalypse Forum and found Great Qin’s inheritor was the top global news story.
• Zhao Fu read that world leaders and dynastic inheritors were seeking or challenging Great Qin’s inheritor, while celebrities and foreign media drew attention to Great Qin; he recoiled from a Thai internet celebrity’s livestreamed marriage proposal.

Zhao Fu learned that Ying Family leaders offered him their forces, while northern factions formed an Anti-Qin Alliance and rumors tied the General Star to Great Qin. After attending his grandfather’s birthday, he returned to Apocalypse World, opened a route to Red Plum Plain, and earned military merits.

• Zhao Fu rejected the Ying Family leaders’ offer to hand over their forces because he was still too weak to reveal his identity safely.
• Zhao Fu learned that four northern inheritors had called for an Anti-Qin Alliance, suspected the School of Diplomacy was plotting against Great Qin, and vowed not to show mercy to its instigator.
• Zhao Fu read speculation that the General Star belonged to Great Qin and ignored messages from people seeking to serve it.
• Zhao Fu visited his grandfather for a birthday reunion dinner and felt a greater sense of belonging to his family.
• Zhao Fu used a Void Crystal and a City-Building Stone to open a route to Red Plum Plain, earning 10 military merits and confirming that his native companions received them too.

Zhao Fu visited Great Ancient City in Red Plum Plain, where he traded Ironback Demon Bear claws for a Horse Jade Soul to improve his Black Forest Horse nest. After a little beggar bumped into him and ran off with a jade pendant, a ghostlike figure seized the boy in a dark alley.

• Zhao Fu surveyed Red Plum Plain’s horses and bought twenty properties in Great Ancient City to prepare to open restaurants.
• Zhao Fu inspected the Horse Jade Soul at Leng Wu’s stall and traded him a pair of Ironback Demon Bear claws for it.
• Leng Wu thanked Zhao Fu, whose assumed name was Zhao Xin, and said he owed him a favor.
• A little beggar bumped into Zhao Fu, apologized, and ran away with a jade pendant.
• A ghostlike figure appeared in a dim alley and grabbed the little beggar by the throat.

Zhao Fu confronted four young siblings after the little beggar stole He Xianru’s jade pendant, then recognized the sickly eldest sister, Qing, as a powerful talent and asked her to pledge allegiance to Great Qin. Qing agreed on the condition that her younger siblings would be safe, and Zhao Fu offered to take them in as well.

• Zhao Fu threw the little beggar aside, defeated the twin siblings, and retrieved He Xianru’s jade pendant.
• Qing attacked Zhao Fu to protect her three younger siblings, but he forced her back and recognized her unusual strength.
• Zhao Fu told Qing he wanted her to join him and promised he would not harm her siblings.
• Qing agreed to pledge allegiance if Zhao Fu gave her siblings money and a safe place to live.
• Qing’s younger siblings protested being separated from her, and Zhao Fu offered to take all four of them in.

Zhao Fu recruited Tuoba Qing, Wu Ling, Wu Qing, and Le Zhongchang, discovering that Tuoba Qing had rare SSS-grade aptitude and an unknown power. He brought the four to Great Qin Town and took the gravely ill Tuoba Qing to Zhang Baishu for an examination.

• The four orphans agreed to follow Zhao Fu, and he learned their names and discovered Tuoba Qing had SSS-grade aptitude while the other three had A-grade aptitude.
• Tuoba Qing confirmed she had been born through ordinary childbirth rather than refreshed from the Land of Origin, easing Zhao Fu's suspicions about her aptitude.
• Zhao Fu gave Tuoba Qing Special Healing Pills and took the four to buy new clothes and eat at a restaurant.
• The four learned Zhao Fu's identity after arriving at Great Qin Town, where he arranged lodging for Wu Ling, Wu Qing, and Le Zhongchang.
• Zhao Fu brought Tuoba Qing to Zhang Baishu to investigate the recurring illness that left her weak and sometimes made her feel as though she were burning.

Zhao Fu learned that Tuoba Qing needed blood-refining spirit medicine to endure her annual transformation, and he treated her before improving the Black Forest Horse nest with a Horse Jade Soul. Meanwhile, Bai Qi led an army to attack an advanced Xianbei village.

• Zhang Baishu explained that Tuoba Qing underwent an annual transformation and needed large amounts of blood-refining spirit medicine to recover.
• Zhao Fu reassured Tuoba Qing that he would take responsibility for her, then bought medicine and fed her the brewed blood-red soup, which eased her pain.
• Zhao Fu used the Horse Jade Soul on the Black Forest Horse nest, raising the horses' base strength from 3–5 to 5–7.
• Zhao Fu planned to continue to Red Plum Plain to settle properties in two system main cities.
• Bai Qi led five thousand soldiers and three thousand skeletons to an advanced village, which he discovered belonged to the Xianbei people.

Bai Qi attacked Lou Ruo’s Xianbei village at night, using the livestock and undead to create chaos before launching coordinated assaults from multiple sides. As the Xianbei forces struggled to respond, the Iron Eagle Elite struck Lou Ruo’s rear.

• Bai Qi identified weaknesses in the Xianbei village and planned to exploit its livestock to reduce his army’s losses.
• At midnight, three thousand undead attacked the northern livestock enclosure, alarming the Xianbei and drawing defenders into battle.
• The King's Death Knights broke through the northern wall, and their deathly roar sent the livestock stampeding through the village.
• Lou Ruo ordered his people to control the livestock, then rushed to meet Duo Ke’s assault from the east.
• Eight hundred cavalry charged from the west and struck Lou Ruo’s rear, led by the hundred sword-wielding Iron Eagle Elite.

Bai Qi defeated the Xianbei, killed Lou Ruo, and compelled the survivors to surrender before occupying and relocating their village. The conquest merged Xianbei fortune with Great Qin’s and rewarded Zhao Fu with Battle Merit and experience.

• Bai Qi killed Lou Ruo with a single strike, and the Xianbei lost their will to fight.
• Bai Qi manifested a scarlet giant eagle from his soldiers’ Army Qi, and the Xianbei surrendered under its pressure.
• Duo Ke reported 7,356 captured Xianbei, 360,000 silver coins, minor Great Qin casualties, and roughly five hundred lost skeletons.
• Bai Qi inspected three E-grade Xianbei class-transfer steles and chose to occupy and relocate the village.
• Bai Qi received a Xianbei Tear, while Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin fortune had merged with Xianbei fortune and gained 400 Battle Merit and over 41,000 experience.

Bai Qi assessed the Xianbei Tear after Great Qin conquered a Xianbei village and returned with more than seven thousand captives. Zhao Fu tested Tuoba Qing, Wu Ling, Wu Qing, and Le Zhongchang for assassin potential and gave them each a set of growth equipment.

• Bai Qi caught a Xianbei Tear, learned it could synthesize items or summon Xianbei people, and stored it for Zhao Fu.
• Bai Qi rested overnight, then began returning to Great Qin with more than seven thousand captives.
• Zhao Fu found that Tuoba Qing had recovered after taking spirit medicine and brought her, Wu Ling, Wu Qing, and Le Zhongchang to an Assassin Class Transfer Stele.
• All four gained the stele’s recognition, and Zhao Fu decided to delay their trial to kill Ghost Demons until they had cultivation power.
• Zhao Fu explained the assassin equipment and let the four choose sets; they selected the Nothingness Set, Radiance Set, Blood Set, and Terror Set.

Zhao Fu assigned four assassins their chosen sets, welcomed the surrendered Xianbei into Great Qin, and learned that the new businesses in Fighting City were thriving. The merchant association’s sales of goods from other regions drew attention and earned Great Qin substantial profits.

• Wu Ling chose the Nothingness Set, Wu Qing chose the Radiance Set, Le Zhongchang chose the Terror Set, and Tuoba Qing chose the Blood Set.
• Zhao Fu brought the four assassins to Great Qin Town, where they could adapt to their powers and improve their cultivation.
• Bai Qi reported the Xianbei victory and handed Zhao Fu the Xianbei Tear, while Great Qin’s population rose to a little over 46,000.
• An elderly Xianbei man offered beautiful girls to Zhao Fu, who accepted them after Li Si advised him that it would soothe the people.
• Zhao Fu planned to visit Fighting City after its tavern and merchant association opened, while Bai Qi continued leading soldiers on explorations.
• The merchant association sold Black Forest Fruit in Little Abyss Valley at a low price, attracting curious buyers and earning a strong markup.

Zhao Fu’s Misty Rain Chamber of Commerce expanded across four regions and earned enormous daily profits, while he visited Fighting City to see Ge Nie’s growing fame as the Sword Demon. After Ge Nie swiftly killed a Xiongnu opponent, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Village and prepared to open a route to Eastern Azure.

• The Misty Rain Chamber of Commerce expanded into four regions, earned 28,000 gold coins in daily profit, and publicly placed its headquarters in Little Abyss Valley while secretly operating from Great Qin Town.
• Zhao Fu spent 10,000 gold coins to buy 1,000 crystal stones, but he could not begin the Spirit Refinement Plan because key preparations and a needed item were still missing.
• Zhao Fu visited Fighting City, where Zheng Li welcomed him and Ge Nie appeared as the celebrated, mysterious Sword Demon.
• Ge Nie fought a Xiongnu warrior in the arena and quickly killed him, prompting Zhao Fu to let Ge Nie continue competing there.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Village the next day, when another Void-Severing Beast had respawned, and prepared to open the fourth road to Eastern Azure.

Zhao Fu expanded Eternal Night across Eastern Azure while planning Great Qin’s future expansion. Jiang Rou reluctantly sought Zhao Xin’s help buying equipment for her family, and Zhao Fu offered her a generous discount, easing her shame and worry.

• Zhao Fu established independent Eternal Night branches in Eastern Azure’s four main system cities and allowed Liu Mei to travel freely as long as she completed her duties.
• Zhao Fu studied the map and began planning routes and tactics for expansion beyond the Terror Forest.
• Jiang Feng told Jiang Rou that the Jiang Family needed five hundred sets of blue-grade equipment to face the Zhou Family and urged her to ask Zhao Xin for help.
• Jiang Rou reluctantly agreed to approach Zhao Xin, despite feeling that her family was using her to gain his support.
• Zhao Fu offered Jiang Rou a forty percent discount on the equipment, reassured her that they were friends, and left her hoping she could help him someday.

After Great Qin defeated another Skeleton General, Zhao Fu claimed its strange Mourning Flute and discovered it summoned wandering souls. He then learned that a drunken young lord had massacred everyone at Great Qin’s restaurant in Heavenly Stone City, prompting Zhao Fu to withdraw his people before the city seized his properties and declared him a wanted criminal.

• Li Wen’s exploration teams killed a Skeleton General, and Zhao Fu distributed its armor, sword, General Soul, and class-transfer stone among his subordinates.
• Zhao Fu played the Mourning Flute, which drew weak wandering souls that he easily dispersed before storing the flute in the King's Ring.
• Guo Binglin reported that Heavenly Stone City’s young lord had ordered the slaughter of the restaurant’s staff and the destruction of the premises after they resisted his harassment.
• Zhao Fu ordered all Great Qin personnel to leave Heavenly Stone City, and they returned to Great Qin Town before city forces seized his properties.
• Heavenly Stone City listed Zhao Fu as a wanted criminal and warned that his location had been exposed.

Zhao Fu slaughtered a patrol squad in Heavenly Stone City after its soldiers tried to arrest him, and Yue Linping declared him an S-class fugitive. Zhao Fu reached the southern gate, but the guards closed it before he could escape.

• A ten-man patrol confronted Zhao Fu in an alley, and he killed the soldiers when they tried to arrest him as Li Wu.
• Zhao Fu slaughtered the patrol squad, then left the bloody alley and headed for the city gate.
• Yue Linping arrived at the alley, ordered Zhao Fu listed as an S-class fugitive, and commanded the city gates shut.
• Zhao Fu reached Heavenly Stone City's southern gate, where the guards announced that nobody could enter or leave.