Arc 63Chapters 1552–1576

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Ch. 1552Yellow Springs Seal

Zhao Fu helped Yellow Springs Spirit establish the Yellow Springs Kingdom by restoring its Inheritance Stone and gathering its fortune, then celebrated with the twelve women. The chapter ended with the Fourth Prince arriving at the palace and discovering his mother Mei Zhangshu with Zhao Fu.

  • Zhao Fu transferred the region's cities to Yellow Springs Spirit, who declared the founding of the Yellow Springs Kingdom and restored its Inheritance Stone with the region's fortune and a captured Yellow Springs Dragon.
  • Yellow Springs Spirit placed the restored Inheritance Stone beneath a city, officially establishing the kingdom as its fortune formed a Yellow Springs Dragon in the sky.
  • At Zhao Fu's direction, the other eleven Yellow Springs women gave their blood, and the Yellow Springs Dragon divided into twelve dragon seals for the women to jointly manage the kingdom.
  • Zhao Fu inspected the kingdom's powerful attributes, including its ability to create Yellow Springs soldiers and draw on the Yellow Springs River's blessing, before celebrating with the twelve women.
  • After Mei Zhangshu reminded Zhao Fu that her son remained imprisoned, Zhao Fu agreed to release the Fourth Prince, who was brought into the hall and saw his mother intimately embracing Zhao Fu.

Ch. 1553Ten Academies of the Otherworld

Zhao Fu established the Yellow Springs Kingdom and returned to Great Qin, then learned that the Otherworld Ten Academies offered the Origin Divine Iron needed for Ling Ji’s World Artifact. After confirming his identity would remain concealed if he kept the five Imperial Stars hidden, he prepared to take the academy’s entrance examination.

  • Mei Zhangshu persuaded the Fourth Prince to call Zhao Fu father, and Zhao Fu spared him while warning him to obey Great Qin’s laws.
  • Zhao Fu assigned the Yellow Springs Kingdom’s military and government responsibilities, then returned to Great Qin with his soldiers and generals.
  • Zhao Fu considered entering the God Realm, but postponed the plan because Great Qin lacked the twenty-four deities needed to open a gate there.
  • Zhao Fu learned that the Otherworld Ten Academies awarded Origin Divine Iron to the first-place candidate, and decided to seek it for Ling Ji’s World Artifact.
  • A mighty expert assured Zhao Fu that divination could not reveal his identity while he kept the five Imperial Stars hidden, so Zhao Fu began preparing for the examination.

Ch. 1554Celestial Fox Stone

Zhao Fu joined Hu Shan’s fox clan caravan and learned that a rare Celestial Fox Stone would be displayed at a convention in the Fox Clan World, so he decided to travel there. The caravan was then ambushed by a force of more than three thousand gnoll men.

  • Zhao Fu accepted a fox clan guard’s invitation to travel with the caravan and met its owner, Hu Shan, and her maidservants Xiao Li and Xiao Qin.
  • Hu Shan recognized the auras of Celestial Foxes around Zhao Fu and told him about the upcoming fox clan convention and its Celestial Fox Stone.
  • Zhao Fu became interested in the stone as a way to gain nine-tailed fox bloodline and prepare to awaken a foreign-race Imperial Star.
  • Zhao Fu agreed to accompany Hu Shan to the Fox Clan World, and they remained in her carriage during the next two days of travel.
  • Gnoll attackers surrounded the caravan and fired arrows at its guards.

Ch. 1555Gnoll Men (Revised)

Zhao Fu killed a band of gnoll men threatening the merchant caravan, then learned their leader was gathering corpses for an ancestor sacrifice to obtain a powerful jackal bloodline. He went with Chai Mi to the gnoll tribe and planned to wait until the leader obtained the ancestor’s blood so he could seize it.

  • Zhao Fu sensed danger and killed more than three thousand charging gnoll men with a single sword strike.
  • Hu Shan emerged from the carriage, and Zhao Fu sensed another force of over ten thousand gnoll men approaching.
  • Chai Mi halted the gnoll force and told Zhao Fu their leader had ordered them to collect 990,000 corpses for an ancestor sacrifice.
  • Zhao Fu summoned several thousand sixth-tier soldiers, left them with Hu Shan, and flew with Chai Mi toward the gnoll tribe.
  • Chai Mi showed Zhao Fu the tribe’s corpse pool, and Zhao Fu learned that its leader needed an Ancestor Stone to perform the sacrifice.
  • Zhao Fu decided to hide nearby and wait for the leader to obtain the ancestor’s blood before seizing it.

Ch. 1556Ancestor’s Stone

Zhao Fu watched a gnoll tribe prepare an ancestral sacrifice and seized the purple blood summoned by the Gnoll Ancestor. He killed the tribe’s leader, leaving the frightened gnolls fleeing.

  • Zhao Fu used the Evil Demon Abyss Flower to control a gnoll and make him kill himself, then Chai Mi served Zhao Fu while they waited for the sacrifice.
  • A group of gnolls returned with carts of corpses, and the tribe prepared the altar for its ancestral sacrifice.
  • The gnoll leader used the Ancestor Stone to summon the Gnoll Ancestor, whose phantom transformed into purple blood.
  • Zhao Fu appeared and seized the descending ancestral blood, enraging the gnoll leader.
  • Zhao Fu killed the charging gnoll leader with the Massacre Sword, and the other gnolls fled in fear.

Ch. 1557Minotaur

Zhao Fu defeated the gnollmen, absorbed their ancestral blood, and traveled with Hu Shan’s caravan to Minotaur City. There, Hu Shan introduced him to the city lord’s youngest daughter, and Zhao Fu showed interest in her.

  • Zhao Fu drove off the fleeing gnollmen, freed the captive women, and returned to the caravan with Chai Mi.
  • Zhao Fu released the Dark Token’s prisoners and refined the gnollmen’s ancestral blood using his Saint Blood.
  • The caravan left the desert and reached Minotaur Forest, where Hu Shan explained that the minotaurs were peaceful traders.
  • Hu Shan’s caravan entered Minotaur City, and its middle-aged minotaur contact welcomed her and arranged to inventory the goods.
  • The city lord’s youngest daughter greeted Hu Shan, who offered to help Zhao Fu pursue the minotaur girl, and Zhao Fu agreed.

Ch. 1558Forest

Zhao Fu traveled through a minotaur city, where he first met Niu Dongni and later interrupted an attempted assault in a secluded forest. After he assaulted the woman he had rescued, her furious daughter charged at him.

  • Hu Shan lured Niu Dongni into the carriage, where Zhao Fu slept with her and promised to take responsibility for her.
  • Niu Dongni left the caravan, and Zhao Fu explored the city before finding a minotaur trying to assault his sister-in-law in the forest.
  • Zhao Fu knocked the minotaur unconscious and stopped him, but then assaulted the woman himself.
  • The woman’s daughter arrived, saw her mother and uncle unconscious, and attacked Zhao Fu in a rage.

Ch. 1559Dark Token

Zhao Fu subdued Niu Doudou and took her and Niu Liuyun with him, while Hu Shan faced the Minotaur City Lord’s soldiers using the Dark Token’s thousand Tier 6 troops. The standoff ended with Zhao Fu arriving beside Hu Shan, revealing that the women were the City Lord’s wife and eldest daughter.

  • Zhao Fu overpowered Niu Doudou, and after she and Niu Liuyun accepted what had happened, he told them they would leave with him.
  • Zhao Fu spared the injured Minotaur at Niu Liuyun’s request, then sensed danger and hurried toward the city with the two women.
  • Niu Dongni told the Minotaur City Lord that she had found a husband, prompting him to lead soldiers to surround Hu Shan’s caravan.
  • Hu Shan summoned one thousand Tier 6 soldiers with Zhao Fu’s Dark Token, halting the Minotaur army’s advance.
  • Zhao Fu arrived beside Hu Shan with Niu Liuyun and Niu Doudou, and the Minotaur City Lord and a Minotaur man recognized the women.

Ch. 1560Totem Pillar

Zhao Fu settled matters with the Minotaurs and accepted the City Lord’s offer to obtain their Ancestral Power from the Totem Pillar. After gaining the power and a Minotaur totem on his back, he left Minotaur City with the caravan the next day.

  • Niu Doudou declared that her engagement to Wu Ni was canceled and defended Zhao Fu when Wu Ni challenged him to a duel.
  • Zhao Fu’s aura overwhelmed Wu Ni, and the Minotaur City Lord invited Zhao Fu’s group to a farewell banquet and released Niu Dongni.
  • At the banquet, Zhao Fu gave valuable gifts to the City Lord and Wu Ni, and the City Lord told him about Minotaur City’s ancestral altar.
  • The Minotaur shaman used Minotaur blood to awaken the Totem Pillar, and the ancestral phantoms poured their power into Zhao Fu, forming a Minotaur totem on his back.
  • Zhao Fu stayed in Minotaur City overnight, then departed with the caravan as the City Lord and Wu Ni urged him to care for the women.

Ch. 1561Werewolves

Zhao Fu’s caravan entered werewolf territory and encountered two fleeing Half Wolf women pursued by Green Wolf City. He sheltered them and instantly killed the pursuing werewolves, leaving the survivors stunned.

  • Hu Shan warned Zhao Fu that the caravan had entered werewolf territory and explained the dangers and profits of trading there.
  • A group of Half Wolves, including two women and a young boy, fled toward the caravan while more than five hundred werewolves pursued them.
  • One of the women begged Zhao Fu for help and revealed that she and her companion were the wives of White Wolf City’s lord, whose city had fallen.
  • Zhao Fu allowed the two women into the caravan’s defensive formation despite the threat from Green Wolf City.
  • The pursuing werewolves charged the caravan, and Zhao Fu killed them all with a single sword strike.

Ch. 1562Wolf City Jade

Zhao Fu obtained one Wolf City Jade from Wolf Xiaorou and Wolf Honey, then destroyed Green Wolf City and took its token. He headed for the final werewolf city as its inhabitants prepared nervously to resist him.

  • Zhao Fu killed the remaining Green Werewolves and took Wolf Xiaorou and Wolf Honey into his carriage, where they gave him the Wolf City Jade and explained how the three tokens could open the Lost Werewolf Temple.
  • Zhao Fu learned the locations of the other two cities, gave Dark Tokens to Hu Shan and Niu Liuyun, and set off alone to claim the remaining Wolf City Jades.
  • Zhao Fu attacked Green Wolf City and slaughtered seventy to eighty thousand werewolf soldiers before killing the fleeing burly werewolf commander.
  • Zhao Fu found a second Wolf City Jade on the commander and left for the final werewolf city after learning its city lord had no interest in women.
  • The werewolves of the final city heard that Green Wolf City had fallen and gathered with weapons, hoping they could withstand the approaching Zhao Fu.

Ch. 1563Altar

Zhao Fu forced Lang Qili’s city to submit, then took her with him to explore the Lost Werewolf Temple. After defeating its werewolves and collecting a divine fruit tree, Zhao Fu found an altar containing a Feral Werewolf Bloodline Crystal.

  • Zhao Fu threatened Lang Qili’s city, and she and her werewolves surrendered to him.
  • Lang Qili gave Zhao Fu the third jade pendant, allowing him to open the Lost Werewolf Temple, and joined him inside.
  • Zhao Fu defeated the berserk werewolves in the temple and uprooted a tree bearing Werewolf Divine Fruits.
  • Zhao Fu and Lang Qili fought through another pack of werewolves and found an altar that could grant a Feral Werewolf bloodline.
  • Zhao Fu split the altar open and found a Feral Werewolf Bloodline Crystal inside.

Ch. 1564Lost Temple

Zhao Fu subdued the temple’s Demon Wolf and the wolf goddess, then took them with him to Black Wolf City. He began fusing with the Berserk Werewolf Crystal, seeking the power to awaken the foreign-race Imperial Star.

  • Zhao Fu bound the three-headed Demon Wolf guarding the main hall and decided to keep it as a carriage beast.
  • The wolf goddess emerged from her statue and attacked Zhao Fu, but he defeated and bound her after she recognized him as a Holy Son.
  • Zhao Fu took the wolf goddess’s statue and promised to help her recover her strength as a deity in his nation.
  • Zhao Fu and his caravan traveled to Black Wolf City, where he ordered an enormous, luxurious carriage to be built.
  • Zhao Fu went alone to a room and began fusing with the Berserk Werewolf Crystal.

Ch. 1565Lizardmen

Zhao Fu refined the Frenzied Werewolf Blood Crystal and continued traveling with the women in a newly rebuilt luxury carriage. When more than ten thousand lizardmen attacked the caravan to capture sacrifices, Zhao Fu's Tier 6 soldiers emerged and sent them fleeing.

  • Zhao Fu absorbed the blood werewolf from the Frenzied Werewolf Blood Crystal and gained a werewolf totem on his back.
  • Zhao Fu set out in the rebuilt carriage with Lang Qili, Wolf Xiaorou, and the other women.
  • The caravan crossed wetlands and was surrounded by more than ten thousand lizardmen seeking captives for their ancestor's sacrifices.
  • The lizardmen charged the caravan, but Zhao Fu's Tier 6 soldiers emerged from the carriage and caused the attackers to flee.

Ch. 1566Tribe

Zhao Fu slaughtered Lizard Fang’s raiding force, then followed him to his tribe after learning about its upcoming ancestor-worship festival. Zhao Fu’s soldiers attacked the tribe, leaving its survivors kneeling as the fighting ended.

  • Zhao Fu questioned the captured Lizard Fang and learned about the nearby lizardman tribes and their preparations for an ancestor-worship festival.
  • Zhao Fu ordered Lizard Fang to lead his caravan to the tribe, where Lizard Fang’s wife confronted him at the entrance.
  • Lizard Fang lured his wife into Zhao Fu’s carriage, where Zhao Fu seized her.
  • The tribe’s lizardmen rushed to rescue Lizard Fang’s wife, but Zhao Fu’s dark soldiers attacked and slaughtered them.
  • Zhao Fu’s soldiers suppressed the tribe’s resistance, leaving countless corpses and the surviving lizardmen kneeling.

Ch. 1567Sacrifice

Zhao Fu learned how lizardfolk ancestral sacrifices worked and forced tribes to provide an officiant and ten thousand people for a ritual. After threatening and attacking two tribes, he took a lizardwoman with him and left the survivors to prepare the sacrifice.

  • After sparing Xi Lang, Xi Ge, and the middle-aged lizardman, Zhao Fu asked Xi Lang and Xi Ge about their tribes’ annual living sacrifice and learned that a special officiant was needed.
  • Zhao Fu went to the nearest tribe and demanded an officiant and ten thousand lizardfolk, leaving Dark Soldiers to enforce his order.
  • At the second tribe, Zhao Fu ordered his Dark Soldiers to slaughter the lizardfolk until only ten thousand and the officiant remained alive.
  • A handsome young lizardman asked Zhao Fu to stop the attack and offered to submit, while his wife urged him to spare the tribe.
  • The young lizardman’s wife offered herself to Zhao Fu, who carried her away as the tribe prepared the sacrifice.

Ch. 1568Ancestor Lizard

Zhao Fu subdued the largest lizardman tribe and took its priestess, Xi Huo, along with ten thousand people. With four priests assembled, he began a ritual to summon the lizardmen's ancestor, intending to seize its power and bloodline.

  • Zhao Fu's embrace stirred Xi Ye's desire, and she gave herself to him despite her former loyalty to her husband.
  • Zhao Fu arrived at the largest lizardman tribe, whose chief submitted and provided a priestess and ten thousand people.
  • Zhao Fu took Xi Ye and the priestess Xi Huo into a room, and Xi Huo later asked to travel with him; Zhao Fu agreed.
  • Zhao Fu returned with Xi Huo and the others to the previous tribe, where four priests began a ritual using an amber relic to summon the lizardmen ancestor.
  • Zhao Fu bound the thousand-meter ancestor's phantom with iron chains and began dragging it toward himself to take its power.

Ch. 1569The Kingly Way

Zhao Fu absorbed the ancestral lizard and continued with the caravan into Kobold country, where he encountered two injured women in the wilderness. The black-haired woman asked the caravan for medicine to save her unconscious companion, and Zhao Fu ordered that they be brought in.

  • Zhao Fu absorbed the ancestral lizard, gaining a lizardman totem and the strongest powers of four races.
  • Zhao Fu left the lizardman tribes with the women who had chosen to follow him, while the forty thousand lizardmen on the altar died when the ancestral lizard appeared.
  • Zhao Fu's caravan crossed into Kobold country and continued through a city into the dangerous wilderness.
  • The caravan encountered an injured black-eared woman carrying an unconscious golden-eared girl.
  • The girl vomited blood, and the black-eared woman asked the caravan for precious healing medicine.
  • Zhao Fu recognized the two women and told the caravan to bring them in.

Ch. 1570King

Zhao Fu healed the injured Gou Lingling and learned that she and her guard, Gou Lan, had fled after the Queen orchestrated the destruction of the Gou Clan. After agreeing to help them take revenge, Zhao Fu infiltrated the palace and confronted the powerless Kobold king.

  • Zhao Fu treated Gou Lingling with a precious medicinal pill while Gou Lan agreed to serve him in exchange for her mistress's life.
  • Gou Lingling revealed that she was an unacknowledged princess, and Gou Lan asked Zhao Fu to avenge the Gou Clan, whose members had been killed on the Queen's orders.
  • Zhao Fu learned that the kingdom possessed a Kobold King Blood Crystal and agreed to help Gou Lan take revenge on the Queen and the clan's killers.
  • Zhao Fu sent the caravan away and later infiltrated the palace, where he discovered that the Queen and Queen Mother controlled the court while the king remained powerless.
  • As the Kobold king angrily smashed things, Zhao Fu called him useless for failing to rule his kingdom.

Ch. 1571Royal Power

Zhao Fu empowered the Kobold King and helped him take control from the Queen Mother, who had previously ruled the Kobold Kingdom. The Queen Mother raised an army in rebellion, leaving the struggle for the throne unresolved.

  • Zhao Fu gave the Kobold King his blood essence and urged him to claim the authority he had been denied.
  • The Kobold King confronted the Queen Mother and demanded that she surrender power, while Zhao Fu killed her strongest protector.
  • The Queen Mother submitted to Zhao Fu, and the Kobold King listened outside the hall before Zhao Fu emerged with her.
  • Zhao Fu instructed the Kobold King to take his mother's authority and place trusted followers in control of her forces.
  • The Kobold King began consolidating power, but the Queen Mother detected the upheaval and raised an army in rebellion.

Ch. 1572King’s Stone

Zhao Fu helped the Kobold King crush Gou Xiaoxiao and Gou Yan’s rebellion, then received the Kobold King’s Stone and left the kingdom with several women. The Kobold King later discovered the value of Zhao Fu’s blood essence and ordered a shrine built in his honor.

  • The Kobold King confronted Gou Xiaoxiao and Gou Yan as their armies prepared to fight, then unleashed his King's Artifact and led his forces into battle.
  • Zhao Fu attacked from the sky with sword qi, killing many rebel soldiers and helping the Kobold King’s army secure victory.
  • The surviving rebels fled or surrendered, and the Kobold King presented Gou Xiaoxiao, Gou Yan, Gou Baihe, and Gou Baixue to Zhao Fu along with the Kobold King's Stone.
  • Zhao Fu declined the Kobold King’s offer of more treasures and left with the women, telling the king to strengthen his kingdom.
  • After Zhao Fu departed, the Kobold King recognized the value of Zhao Fu’s blood essence and ordered a shrine built to worship him.

Ch. 1573Orc

Zhao Fu brought the Gou women into his service, absorbed the Kobold King's Stone, and gained another totem as he continued toward awakening the Other Race Imperial Star. When an Orc army ambushed the merchant caravan, Zhao Fu summoned fifty thousand Tier 6 soldiers and ordered them to kill every Orc.

  • Zhao Fu reunited Gou Lan and Gou Lingling with their enemies, and Gou Qingshui urged the captive women to serve him to survive.
  • Zhao Fu trained the women, and Gou Lan and Gou Lingling joined them in serving him.
  • Zhao Fu absorbed the Kobold King's Stone, gained a golden kobold totem, and moved closer to awakening the Other Race Imperial Star.
  • The caravan captain warned Zhao Fu that an Orc nation had invaded, but the caravan ran into the three-hundred-thousand-strong Orc army as it fled.
  • Zhao Fu summoned fifty thousand Tier 6 soldiers and ordered them to kill all the Orcs.

Ch. 1574Pig Skull

Zhao Fu’s caravan reached the Pigman Kingdom after slaughtering three hundred thousand Orcs, and Pig Reward offered him a pig skull in gratitude. When the Pighead King revealed that the Orc Kingdom held a powerful female god and an ancestral relic, Zhao Fu showed interest and was presented with a captured female Orc general.

  • Zhao Fu’s Dark Soldiers slaughtered the three hundred thousand Orcs, leaving no survivors.
  • The caravan entered the Pigman Kingdom, where Pig Reward approached Zhao Fu with treasure and offered his queen, but Zhao Fu asked for ancestral relics or gods instead.
  • Pig Reward gave Zhao Fu his ancestor’s pig skull and told him about a female Orc god and a powerful ancestral body in the Orc Kingdom.
  • Pighead soldiers brought the captured female Orc general to Pig Reward, who ordered that she be abused, skinned, and displayed on a stake.

Ch. 1575Forest

Zhao Fu brought his caravan to the Orc Kingdom after taking Shou Duo captive, while its leaders debated whether to resist him or meet his demands. At the Great Wall, Shou Duo’s family approached Zhao Fu, and Shou Nan secretly proposed an urgent plan after spending two hours with him in the forest.

  • Zhao Fu took Shou Duo from the Pigman King and told her he would spare her family but would respond to resistance with force.
  • The Orc Kingdom learned that Zhao Fu’s forces had destroyed three hundred thousand soldiers, and its ministers argued over whether to fight or negotiate.
  • At the Great Wall, Shou Duo asked her brother Shou Wu to open the gates, but he refused because he feared for the kingdom.
  • Shou Nan arrived, asked to speak privately with Zhao Fu, and went with him into a nearby forest.
  • After two hours, Shou Nan urged Zhao Fu to act before the royal family could react and offered for herself and Shou Duo to serve him together.

Ch. 1576Orc King

Shou Nan rebelled against the Orc Kingdom with Zhao Fu’s help, captured the royal capital, and placed her son Shou Wu on the throne. Zhao Fu captured the Orc goddess and acquired the kingdom’s ancestral body before preparing to leave with Shou Nan and Shou Duo.

  • Shou Nan ordered her forces and allied families to attack the Orc royal capital, declaring that Shou Wu would become the new king.
  • Zhao Fu summoned fifty thousand Tier 6 soldiers and destroyed the Orc army sent to resist the rebellion.
  • Shou Nan led the siege of the capital, while Zhao Fu captured the Orc goddess after chains bound her in the sky.
  • Shou Nan’s forces defeated the royal defenders, and she killed the Orc king as the city fell.
  • Zhao Fu obtained the Orc goddess and the kingdom’s ancestral body, then watched Shou Wu ascend the throne before preparing to leave with Shou Nan and Shou Duo.
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