Recaps

With Apocalypse World facing invasions from two worlds, Zhao Fu prepared to investigate the unknown invader through the Alchemy Battlefield. He entered the battlefield with Di Moji, Molafei, and Yu Ling, leaving their destination and the danger ahead uncertain.

• Apocalypse World made battlefield participation mandatory and threatened traitors and their clans with severe punishment as it faced invasions from two worlds.
• Zhao Fu summoned Great Qin's ministers, set aside his plan to visit the Ancient Sword Sect, and decided to investigate the new invading world himself.
• Zhao Fu chose Di Moji for her strength, Molafei for his void abilities, and Yu Ling for his power to break barriers and teleport between worlds.
• Zhao Fu visited Yu Ling and Yu Clear Water, then left with Yu Ling after reassuring her that he would protect him.
• Zhao Fu activated the Gate of War and led Di Moji, Molafei, and Yu Ling into the Alchemy Battlefield.

Zhao Fu and his group explored the Alchemy World, where living creatures had fused with machinery and were powered by Philosopher's Stones. After learning that the world’s creatures were dangerous and that their mechanical parts could be valuable, Zhao Fu decided to venture deeper.

• Zhao Fu led his group through the strange, blood-red Alchemy World to search for a place to establish a settlement.
• A mechanical bear attacked, and Molafei killed it only after cutting its body apart and destroying its Philosopher's Stone.
• Zhao Fu examined the bear's Philosopher's Stone and concluded that it powered the creature while its head controlled its movements.
• Molafei killed a mechanical tiger, and Zhao Fu found that its blue Philosopher's Stone had the same functions as the bear's.
• Zhao Fu and his group killed more creatures, confirmed that they contained Philosopher's Stones, and collected their mechanical parts as potential materials for Great Qin.
• After assessing the nearby area's dangers, Zhao Fu decided to explore deeper into the Alchemy World.

Zhao Fu and his companions encountered a swarm of alchemical monsters, and he discovered that consuming Philosopher’s Stones let them transform into a powerful Giant. He captured the regenerating Giant for Great Qin to study.

• Di Moji protected Zhao Fu and the others from more than ten thousand low-intelligence monsters with an energy barrier.
• Zhao Fu provoked the monster leader and killed it with the Massacre Sword, prompting the other monsters to fight over its corpse.
• One monster swallowed the leader’s Philosopher’s Stone and absorbed the stones and flesh of nearby monsters, transforming into a ten-meter-tall Giant.
• The Giant struck Di Moji’s barrier, survived after Zhao Fu cut it in two, and fled with the other monsters.
• Zhao Fu bound the Giant with iron chains and sealed it away to be studied after they returned to Great Qin.

Zhao Fu and his companions encountered a giant mechanized turtle fortress carrying a squad from the Alchemy World. After the squad opened fire, Yu Ling teleported them onto the turtle’s head, leaving them poised to attack.

• Zhao Fu’s group explored the land and heard the pounding footsteps of a ten-thousand-meter mechanical turtle.
• The squad aboard the turtle discussed the interworld war, while their captain kept watch over the surroundings.
• The turtle detected Zhao Fu’s group, and both sides recognized each other as enemies from opposing worlds.
• The fat young man demanded that Zhao Fu surrender Di Moji, but Zhao Fu ignored him.
• The captain ordered an attack, and the turtle fired countless powerful beams at Zhao Fu’s group.
• Yu Ling raised a silver barrier and teleported the group onto the turtle’s head.

Zhao Fu and Di Moji defeated a squad operating a giant mechanical turtle and captured its members. After killing the fat young man, Zhao Fu discovered that his Philosopher’s Stone still held part of his soul and could revive him with enough flesh and blood.

• The squad activated the Turtle Spirit Array, but Zhao Fu bound the mechanical turtle with chains and dragged it down.
• Di Moji struck the squad’s defensive barrier three times with her demonic sword, shattering it.
• The squad tried to flee, but Zhao Fu bound every member with chains and stopped their escape.
• The fat young man begged to submit, but Zhao Fu killed him and cut open his body.
• Zhao Fu found a Philosopher’s Stone containing part of the fat young man’s soul and resolved to prepare carefully before entering Alchemy World.

Zhao Fu captured the Alchemy clansmen and sealed their mechanical turtle war fortress after learning that its clan marks were needed to control it. Back in Great Qin, he questioned the surrendered captain about Alchemy World and learned about its families, alchemical power, and Philosopher's Stones.

• Zhao Fu burned the fat young man's soul in the Philosopher's Stone, then inspected the mechanical turtle and decided it might be useful to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu killed a young man who refused to submit, while three women and two young men, including the captain, agreed to surrender; he kept the other captives alive for research.
• The captain explained that the turtle was a Level Four sacred beast and that the family owned several dozen, but surrender had erased the captives' Alchemy Family marks and left them unable to control it.
• When the captain sensed Alchemy Family members approaching, Zhao Fu sealed the mechanical turtle in his sealing space, and he and his companions returned to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu questioned the captain and learned that Alchemy World was ruled by families and organizations, and that Philosopher's Stones supported its alchemical power and perhaps the world itself.

Zhao Fu learned how alchemy power, Philosopher’s Stones, and family Sacred Beasts worked, then prepared Great Qin to establish a foothold in the Alchemy World. He began testing whether chaotic energy could counter alchemy power using Mu Minxian and a captured insect beast.

• Zhao Fu learned that alchemy power required an Alchemy World bloodline and that Sacred Beasts were tied to families’ alchemy marks and nests.
• Zhao Fu gave the Philosopher’s Stones to Bai Shan for research and asked Gongsun Zhu and Gongsun Lin to study materials from the Alchemy World for weapons.
• Zhao Fu and his officials decided to send five hundred million troops to the Alchemy World to establish and defend a base before expanding further.
• Zhao Fu brought Mu Minxian to a testing ground to investigate whether chaotic energy could restrain alchemy power, where soldiers held a ferocious captured insect beast in chains.

Zhao Fu tested how Chaos World materials affected Alchemy creatures and began building a fortified stronghold in the Alchemy World. After discovering the expanded exchange rewards and their power to grant titles, territory, and people, he assigned Wang Jian to lead the stronghold and planned to use Mu Minxian’s cooperation to prepare for future conquests.

• Zhao Fu ordered the soldiers to release the insect beast, and Mu Minxian blocked its charge with a metal wall before a soldier killed it with a spear.
• Zhao Fu found that Chaos World materials disrupted Alchemy Power and decided Great Qin needed fused materials for its defenses and weapons.
• Zhao Fu sent powerful experts into the Alchemy World to build a stronghold using walls made from fused materials, formations, and mechanisms.
• Zhao Fu inspected the updated exchange stone steles and found Dao-Seeking Stone, world-grade titles, and options to exchange for eligible territories and their people.
• Zhao Fu put Wang Jian in charge of the stronghold and planned to strengthen its defenses before attacking elsewhere, while Mu Minxian shared information about the surrounding area to advance her own claim to lead the Wood Turtle Family.

Great Qin defended its newly built base when three hundred million alchemy soldiers and more than a thousand war sacred beasts attacked. Zhao Fu's forces broke the enemy's assault on the walls and destroyed some sacred beasts, but the attackers kept rebuilding their metal stairways.

• Three hundred million alchemy soldiers and more than a thousand war sacred beasts attacked Great Qin's base with volleys of metal spears.
• Zhao Fu activated Great Qin's gray defensive barrier, which withstood the spear attack but cracked under the assault.
• The war sacred beasts shattered the barrier with their cannon fire, and Zhao Fu sent fifty thousand holy light envoys to bombard them, destroying several dozen.
• The alchemy soldiers charged while their allies used an alchemy spell formation to extend metal stairways toward Great Qin's walls.
• Zhao Fu ordered the holy light envoys to destroy the stairways, but the alchemy soldiers' allies quickly extended them again.

Zhao Fu’s Great Qin forces fought off the Alchemy army’s assault on the city walls with specialized ballista arrows, Holy Light defenses, and a Void Beast ambush. The battle continued as both sides exchanged devastating attacks, leaving the fate of the siege unresolved.

• Zhao Fu ordered Tier 2 ballistas to fire insect-beast and Apocalypse World metal arrows, which pierced the Alchemy soldiers’ armor and weakened their alchemy power.
• Zhao Fu sent archers against the soldiers climbing the metal stairways, while Holy Light Envoys raised barriers to block the Sacred Beasts’ cannon beams.
• Alchemy soldiers reached the walls and clashed with Great Qin Soldiers in close combat as casualties mounted on both sides.
• Void Beasts emerged behind the Alchemy army and attacked the stairway builders, then retreated into the void under heavy fire.
• Zhao Fu ordered the metal stairways destroyed, and Great Qin soldiers smashed the unpowered structures, sending alchemy soldiers falling.
• The Alchemy army fired metal spears and Sacred Beast beams at the walls, while Great Qin ballistas and Holy Light Envoys returned fire, triggering massive explosions.

Great Qin repelled the Alchemy World’s assault, but Zhao Fu learned that the wider Apocalypse World was losing badly and began worrying that it might be destroyed. He resolved to keep preparing for the possibility of escaping into the endless void, uncertain whether Great Qin could survive there.

• Great Qin shattered the alchemy army’s metal stairway, burned climbing soldiers with fire oil, and forced the Alchemy World to withdraw.
• Zhao Fu ordered the battlefield cleared, the dead Great Qin soldiers preserved, and defenses urgently strengthened for another attack.
• Zhao Fu learned from the Heavenly Spirit Forum that nearly seventy percent of factions fighting the Alchemy World for the first time had lost.
• Zhao Fu saw that the Alchemy World’s central and core regions held even more powerful Holy Beasts and alchemy arts, while the Apocalypse World had shifted to defense.
• Zhao Fu worried the Apocalypse World might be destroyed and considered taking Great Qin into the endless void, though he did not know what fate awaited them there.

Zhao Fu learned how Philosopher's Stones were formed and decided to find powerful metal power to create one himself. He traveled to Metal Land to seek the Metal-Eating Beast King, then used the Imperial Killing Sword to drive the beasts into a panic.

• Bai Shan explained that Philosopher's Stones were built from alchemy power and twenty-four runes, while Zhao Fu ordered the Scholars to focus on researching their weaknesses.
• Zhao Fu concluded that he needed powerful metal power and learned that the Metal-Eating Beast King in Metal Land possessed king-grade metal-devouring power.
• Zhao Fu traveled alone to Metal Land and entered its deepest area, where he drew the Imperial Killing Sword and unleashed a storm of sword qi that panicked the Metal-Eating Beasts.

Zhao Fu defeated the Metal-Eating Beast King and absorbed its metal energy, strengthening his bones and gaining the ability to metallize his body. He wondered whether fusing the Five Elements might help awaken his Spirit Race Supreme Imperial Star, then returned to Great Qin to fuse the twenty-four alchemy runes.

• Zhao Fu used the Nation-Guarding Artifact to withstand the Metal-Eating Beasts’ attacks and killed many of them with black swords of light.
• Zhao Fu bound the Metal-Eating Beast King with chains and roots created by the Evil Demon Abyss Flower, then devoured its power.
• Zhao Fu absorbed the metal energy, which strengthened his defense, gave his bones metal spirit, and let him metallize his body.
• Zhao Fu considered fusing the Five Elements as a possible opportunity to awaken his Spirit Race Imperial Star.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin to begin fusing the twenty-four alchemy runes, despite the possible conflict between the Alchemy World and the Apocalypse World.

Zhao Fu planned to study the twenty-four Alchemy Runes by acquiring the bloodlines of the people most closely connected to them, so Great Qin could create its own runes using Apocalypse World’s powers. He sent Eternal Night to capture those twenty-four people, who were bound to an altar in the Alchemy World.

• Zhao Fu discussed the risks and requirements of fusing with an Alchemy Clan bloodline with Mu Minxian, then decided to target the twenty-four people strongest in each rune attribute.
• Zhao Fu ordered Liu Mei, Wang Ergou, Wu Qian, Zhao Sha, and the other Eternal Night members to capture the targets, with Mu Minxian guiding them.
• Eternal Night operatives used ambushes, deception, and force to seize the rune bearers, killing some of their companions in the process.
• After more than three days, Eternal Night captured all twenty-four targets and bound them to pillars atop an altar in the Alchemy World.

Zhao Fu sacrificed twenty-four captives to fuse their bloodlines and gathered alchemy power to condense twenty-four Alchemy Runes. After fusing the runes into his body, he faced a far more powerful storm of heavenly punishment lightning.

• Zhao Fu activated the Eight Forbidden Blood Art and turned the twenty-four captives into blood-red flames by draining their lives.
• Zhao Fu absorbed the flames and alchemy power, then endured taboo lightning to condense Yang and Yin runes of lightning, fire, metal, and wood.
• Zhao Fu completed all twenty-four Alchemy Runes and fused them into his body, unleashing immense alchemy power.
• A vastly stronger lightning storm descended, and Zhao Fu raised an energy barrier because he could no longer safely absorb its strikes.

Zhao Fu mastered alchemical power, then created an Apocalypse World Philosopher's Stone using an alchemical formation. He tested whether a Great Qin soldier could absorb it, and the soldier successfully refined and fused it into his body after more than half a day.

• Zhao Fu punched through the thunderclouds with a mechanical arm, ending the heavenly punishment and successfully grasping alchemical power.
• Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World and gathered crystals of twelve attributes, including rare time-attribute crystals.
• Zhao Fu used an Apocalypse Array modeled on an alchemical formation to combine yin and yang powers with the attribute crystals and create a cube-shaped Philosopher's Stone.
• Zhao Fu examined the stone and found that it differed from Alchemy World's Philosopher's Stones, with spiritual energy alongside its other powers.
• Zhao Fu gave the Philosopher's Stone to a Great Qin soldier, who refined it over more than half a day and fused it into his body.

Zhao Fu successfully developed Philosopher's Stones that soldiers could safely condense, discovering that they sharply increased the strength of lower-level soldiers. He realized Great Qin could rapidly expand its army's power, but scarce time-attribute materials remained the obstacle to producing stones for everyone.

• Zhao Fu had a soldier condense a Philosopher's Stone, confirmed its power and safety, and found that it mechanized part of the soldier's body.
• Zhao Fu tested Philosopher's Stones on soldiers of different cultivation levels and found that their benefits diminished with higher cultivation, offering no increase at Seventh Order.
• Zhao Fu gave a Blood God Pill to a soldier who had risen from Stage 1 to Stage 6, and the soldier advanced to First Order cultivation.
• Zhao Fu concluded that Great Qin could use Philosopher's Stones and Blood God Pills to rapidly build up its soldiers and citizens.
• Zhao Fu recognized that the shortage of time-attribute materials prevented Great Qin from producing Philosopher's Stones on a large scale.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s preparations against a renewed Alchemy World assault, then faced Fire Ghost’s vastly stronger forces at the Gate of War. The battle began with Great Qin’s barrier being destroyed, and the chapter ended as the attackers advanced their siege.

• A soldier reported that over six hundred million Alchemy World troops and three thousand War Sacred Beasts had launched an attack on Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu ordered nine hundred million Tier 2 soldiers mobilized, sending four hundred million to reinforce the Alchemy World garrison and keeping five hundred million on standby.
• Fire Ghost demanded that Zhao Fu return the captured family disciples, then ordered his troops to attack Great Qin.
• The War Sacred Beasts’ beams shattered Great Qin’s enhanced defensive barrier, while the Sacred Light Envoys’ counterattack was blocked by the beasts’ energy barrier.
• Alchemy soldiers charged the city walls and fired metal spears from their formations, which Great Qin’s shield wall deflected or shattered.
• Ladder-builders gathered and pressed their hands to the ground as alchemy formations began to appear.

Great Qin fought off the Alchemy Clan’s assault on its city walls, but the alchemical soldiers breached the defenses and engaged its troops in close combat. Zhao Fu unleashed the Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Formation, turning the battle in Great Qin’s favor as the weakened invaders were driven back.

• Great Qin used ballistas, Holy Light Envoys, and Shield Bearers to repel the alchemical soldiers’ first assault, though the War Sacred Beasts’ cannon fire shattered the city’s defenses and killed many defenders.
• The Alchemy Clan sent more soldiers up the metal stairs and walls, while its red stones absorbed Great Qin’s flames and allowed the attackers to keep climbing.
• Alchemical soldiers breached the walls and fought Great Qin Soldiers in a desperate melee.
• Zhao Fu released ninety-nine golden crystals to activate the Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Formation, summoning golden crows whose Chaos-infused sunlight weakened and scorched the alchemical soldiers.
• Protected by their Sunlight Pearls, Great Qin Soldiers counterattacked and slaughtered the weakened invaders, forcing them into retreat.

Great Qin fought off the Alchemy Clan’s assault until Fire Ghost’s explosive weapon blasted a huge gap through the city wall. Great Qin held the breach and forced the attackers to retreat after Di Moji nearly killed Ghostfire, who was saved by a Holy Beast.

• The Alchemy Clan’s beams destroyed the ninety-nine Golden Crows, allowing the Alchemy Soldiers to resume their attack as Zhao Fu ordered Holy Light Envoys and Ballistas to strike their ladders and troops.
• Fire Ghost threw a metal sphere that exploded into a vast crater and shattered a broad section of Great Qin’s city wall, killing many Great Qin Soldiers.
• Ghostfire ordered the Alchemy Soldiers to charge through the breach, and Zhao Fu sent his reserve troops to form defensive lines there.
• Great Qin Soldiers and flying dragons slaughtered the attackers and held the gap while Zhao Fu sent Di Moji to kill Ghostfire.
• Di Moji struck Ghostfire down, but a Holy Beast blasted her away, and the leaders ordered their forces to retreat.

After Great Qin repelled the Alchemy army, Zhao Fu sought ways to counter the next attack and investigated the Alchemy Clan's weaknesses. Research revealed that insect beasts from the Chaotic Realm could resist alchemy power, and Zhao Fu considered luring them into the Alchemy World despite the danger.

• Zhao Fu ordered battlefield cleanup and sent scouts to find time-related resources for the Philosopher's Stone, but they found too little to use widely.
• Zhao Fu visited Bai Shan's researchers, who reported that destruction, death, and flame could restrain alchemy power, with destruction having the strongest effect.
• Bai Shan showed Zhao Fu an insect beast fighting an Alchemy Clan member; the beast's chaos power weakened the alchemical attacks, while its own charge shattered the member's metal defense.
• Zhao Fu considered using fissures to lure insect beasts into the Alchemy World, where they would attack the Alchemy Clan, but recognized that the beasts could become uncontrollable.
• The insect beast bit the Alchemy Clan member in half and ate the corpse.

Zhao Fu tested whether insect beasts could absorb the Philosopher's Stone and discovered that sufficiently powerful Chaos World creatures could transform its alchemy power into Chaos power. He left the story considering whether Great Qin could use this process with Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes.

• Zhao Fu watched an insect beast consume a Philosopher's Stone, briefly develop a mechanized carapace, and then explode.
• Zhao Fu tested more insect beasts and found that lower-ranked ones exploded or died, while a fifth-order insect beast survived after digesting the stone.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the surviving insect beast had converted the alchemy power into Chaos power, increasing its strength and defense.
• Mu Minxian urged Zhao Fu to continue researching the insect beasts' ability to digest Philosopher's Stones.
• Zhao Fu considered integrating Philosopher's Stones into Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes.

Zhao Fu devised a way to extract power from Philosopher's Stones and safely imbue it into the third-tier Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes. The successful experiment left one mosquito 60 percent mechanical and able to wield chaos-attributed alchemy power.

• Zhao Fu tried cutting a Philosopher's Stone with sword light, but it exploded, so he inscribed a chaos magic formation to cut it into fragments.
• Zhao Fu fed the fragments to Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes and swallowed one himself, discovering that the cutting process had stripped the stones of their power.
• After several days of experiments, Zhao Fu created a formation that extracted Philosopher's Stone power and injected it into a Blood Demon Snake Mosquito.
• The mosquito cried out in pain as it absorbed the power, while its body gradually became mechanical and its aura grew stronger.
• After the mosquito finished absorbing the power, Zhao Fu found that 60 percent of its body was mechanical and that it had gained stronger defenses and chaos-attributed alchemy power.

Zhao Fu ordered research into fusing Chaos World and Apocalypse World nests to create stronger alchemy creatures, then learned that the Apocalypse World's declining origin was damaging Great Qin’s agriculture. Li Si had organized a response to crop diseases, but the worsening harvests left Great Qin facing a serious threat to its food supply.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to gather powerful Apocalypse World nests and build alchemy formations so it could transform its millions of Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes.
• A soldier summoned Zhao Fu to meet Li Si, who was waiting beside a rice field with agricultural ministers and the Agricultural Goddess.
• Li Si and the Agricultural Goddess told Zhao Fu that the world's declining origin had weakened her powers and caused crop yields to fall across Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu inspected shriveled rice and a dead field as Li Si explained that common diseases were spreading among rice, wheat, and other crops.
• Li Si reported that he had warned Great Qin's commanderies and counties to watch for crop diseases and deal with them promptly.

Zhao Fu inspected how the waning power of heaven and earth had damaged Great Qin’s crops, then found that the medicinal herb fields remained mostly healthy thanks to the Flower Fairies’ blessings. After reviewing reports of worsening conditions farther from Xianyang, he ordered relief for affected farmers and research into solutions.

• Zhao Fu visited the vegetable fields, where farmers had to burn diseased crops, and learned the damage was widespread across Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu inspected the orchard and found that some trees had withered while the remaining fruit was smaller and bitter.
• Zhao Fu found the medicinal herbs in acceptable condition and credited the Flower Fairies’ daily blessings.
• Zhao Fu reviewed reports showing that crop damage grew worse farther from Xianyang and that Great Qin’s buildings and temples offered only limited protection.
• Zhao Fu ordered compensation for severely affected farmers and summoned scholars to find a way to prevent further damage.