Recaps

Zhao Fu sought a way to protect Great Qin’s crops from diseases caused by the decline in heaven and earth’s origin power. He developed spirit water as a temporary treatment and ordered it distributed, while leaving crop research and a larger formation for the future.

• Zhao Fu realized that crops needed life force to resist the diseases brought on by the decline in origin power, but Great Qin lacked enough Life Spring Water to irrigate its vast farmland.
• Zhao Fu tested a Spirit-Gathering Formation on rice and saw diseased crops recover, but abandoned the idea of building formations across every field because it required too many materials.
• Zhao Fu devised spirit water by enriching water with spiritual energy, adding Life Spring Water, and having the Flower Fairies bless it.
• Zhao Fu tested the spirit water on crops and found that their diseases eased and their fruit improved.
• Zhao Fu ordered spirit water distributed and applied periodically to protect basic crop yields while Scholars continued their research.

Reports of disasters reached Zhao Fu as torrential rain threatened villages in Eastern Yue Commandery County, an earthquake devastated Fangsan Commandery County, and extreme heat suggested a drought in Yellow Rock Commandery County. The local officials reported the crises to the court, while villagers trusted that the emperor would find a solution.

• An Inspector in Eastern Yue Commandery County surveyed flooding during a prolonged downpour and ordered villagers evacuated by Teleportation Array while asking that the disaster be reported to the city lord.
• A severe earthquake struck Fangsan Commandery County, and the white-haired commandery governor dispatched soldiers to rescue people and assess the damage before drafting a memorial to the court.
• A farmer in Yellow Rock Commandery County left his fields because the sun and heat became unbearable.
• The village chief told the worried villagers that nearby regions faced the same conditions and that a drought was likely, saying the commandery governor had reported it to the court.
• The farmer told his daughter that a drought might be coming, while his wife worried that their crops would die.

Natural disasters struck several regions of Great Qin, prompting officials and villagers to report the dangers and evacuate while trusting Zhao Fu to respond. After receiving memorials about the disasters, Zhao Fu wondered why Great Qin’s resistance to natural-disaster attributes seemed useless.

• A family in a village felt reassured after hearing that the court knew about their problem, and the father told his daughter stories about Zhao Fu.
• A fierce storm spread across Nine Houses County, causing casualties, and an official sent a memorial to the Great Qin Imperial Palace.
• Young villagers in Ring Mountain County recognized signs of a volcanic eruption and rushed home, but the eruption began before they arrived.
• The village chief ordered the villagers to evacuate through the Teleportation Array, and they left in an orderly manner while trusting Zhao Fu to handle the disaster.
• Fish scale people discovered a destructive water tornado near Waterhold County, and the city lord prepared to evacuate citizens and sent a memorial to Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu read the incoming memorials and wondered why Great Qin’s resistance to natural disasters was not helping.

Zhao Fu responded to disasters caused by the weakening of the world's origin, sending powerful experts to deal with them and personally stopping the flood in Eastern Yue Commandery County. He arrived at the earthquake-stricken Fangsan Commandery County and began healing the wounded, leaving the rescue efforts underway.

• Zhao Fu summoned Heaven and Earth Realm and Extreme Heaven Realm experts, including Shang Long, Zi Lingye, Mo Wulin, and Jue Tianling, and sent them to suppress disasters across Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu reached Eastern Yue Commandery County and blasted a hole through the storm clouds, scattering them and stopping the rain.
• The citizens of Eastern Yue Commandery County celebrated Zhao Fu's intervention as the floodwaters receded and the area began returning to normal.
• Zhao Fu arrived at earthquake-stricken Fangsan Commandery County, where citizens and officials greeted him with hope.
• Zhao Fu tossed a Life Stone into the sky, and its green motes healed nearby wounded people.

Zhao Fu traveled across Great Qin to suppress an earthquake, end a drought, and halt a devastating windstorm. He then arrived at Ring Mountain County, where lava threatened the evacuated villagers’ homeland.

• Zhao Fu sealed the earthquake with a formation and flew away.
• Zhao Fu sealed the drought in Yellow Rock Commandery County, summoned clouds, and brought relief-giving rain.
• Zhao Fu split the windstorm in Nine Houses County with the Imperial Killing Sword, and the middle-aged man and citizens praised him.
• Villagers watched from a distance as lava flowed toward their homes in Ring Mountain County, grieving as their homeland faced destruction.

Zhao Fu and Great Qin’s experts resolved a series of disasters across the empire, saving threatened villages and cities. After every calamity was stopped in less than a day, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin exhausted and ready to rest.

• Zhao Fu sealed an erupting volcano with a fire-attributed spear, stopping the lava and saving a nearby village.
• Zhao Fu destroyed a massive waterspout near Waterhold County with the Calamitous Dragon Sword and told the young fishman City Lord that Great Qin accepted subjects of other races.
• Great Qin’s experts stopped the remaining tsunamis, sand disasters, and insect plagues using their power.
• Zhao Fu returned to the Great Qin Empire exhausted after all the disasters had been resolved.

Zhao Fu investigated whether Great Qin could turn natural disasters into Calamity Pearls, but the proposed method would require disasters to run rampant and cause heavy losses. He then learned that the City of Calamity had grown stronger amid the disasters and went to inspect it.

• Zhao Fu ordered Talisman Masters and Scholars to study a sealed disaster source and find a way to condense its power into Calamity Pearls.
• A young scholar reported that formations could gather disaster power into a Calamity Pearl, but only after the disaster had caused extensive damage and with formations built across every commandery county.
• Zhao Fu rejected the costly method and ordered the scholars to continue researching alternatives.
• Zhao Fu reviewed reports of disaster damage across Great Qin and neighboring powers, noting that the alliance had suffered the worst losses.
• The City Lord of the City of Calamity told Zhao Fu that the city's calamity power had greatly increased, so Zhao Fu went to inspect the glowing cube at its center.

Zhao Fu discovered that the City of Calamity absorbed calamity power and tested whether its core could condense Calamity Pearls. He succeeded with a sealed earthquake disaster, then tested the method on a tornado, where absorption proved slow.

• Zhao Fu learned that the City of Calamity had absorbed calamity power and prevented disasters across dozens of commandery counties.
• Zhao Fu decided against making the City of Calamity Great Qin’s capital and considered splitting off its calamity power to create Calamity Pearls.
• Zhao Fu extracted a black sphere from the cube and used it to absorb earthquake calamity power released from a sealing formation in Fangsan Commandery County, forming a Calamity Pearl.
• Zhao Fu took another black sphere to a tornado in the border wilderness and found that it absorbed the wind disaster’s power too slowly.

Zhao Fu developed the Calamity Spear to harvest calamity power without draining the City of Calamity's source, then formed a squad of Calamity Sealers to wield the weapons. He sent them to resolve disasters beyond Great Qin, leaving the city's peaceful surroundings undisturbed.

• Zhao Fu found that forcing source calamity power from the City of Calamity's cube weakened it and risked damaging the city heart.
• Zhao Fu planned a calamity weapon that combined calamity materials, an absorbing formation, and the light sphere, and summoned the Gongsun Zhu sisters to forge it.
• Gongsun Zhu and the talisman masters completed the black Calamity Spear, and Zhao Fu tested it by absorbing water calamity power from a flood until the rain stopped.
• Zhao Fu ordered 120 Calamity Spears and selected 120 of the City of Calamity's strongest people to become Calamity Sealers.
• Zhao Fu rejected using the Calamity Sealers to manipulate the alliance and chose to send them beyond Great Qin to resolve natural disasters and condense Calamity Pearls.

Zhao Fu sent Disaster Sealers across distant lands to gather Calamity Pearls, hoping to keep Great Qin's other fronts peaceful while it focused on the Alchemy World. The Sealers' efforts became public, and people began hunting and torturing them to steal their Calamity Spears; the chapter ended with another Sealer killed by a pursuing crowd.

• Zhao Fu ordered the Disaster Sealers to secretly resolve natural disasters and collect Calamity Pearls, then returned to state affairs after resting.
• Word spread that mysterious figures could dispel natural disasters, and people began targeting the Disaster Sealers for their Calamity Spears.
• A tribe surrounded a Disaster Sealer, killed him, and took his spear and body.
• A gloomy young man had a captured Disaster Sealer tortured for information, then displayed his corpse at the city gates.
• An evil-aura woman mutilated and questioned another Disaster Sealer before he died from his wounds.
• A large crowd pursued a Disaster Sealer with help from three experts, killed him, and carried away his corpse.

After learning that thirty-five Calamity Sealers had been killed, Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to retaliate against the forces responsible. Sword Gate and Eternal Night prepared to carry out his command as the Tooth Tribe celebrated its chief’s acquisition of a Calamity Spear.

• Zhao Fu heard the ministers’ arguments over how to respond and ordered them to withdraw without revealing his decision.
• Zhao Fu summoned Ge Nie, Sword Gate, and Eternal Night, then commanded them to exterminate the forces that had killed Calamity Sealers.
• Li Si gave the groups information about their targets, and they left to carry out the order.
• Zhao Fu learned that only eighty-five of the one hundred and twenty Calamity Sealers had returned, collected their Calamity Pearls, and sent them for modification.
• The Tooth Tribe celebrated its chief’s Calamity Spear, and the chief feasted on the roasted head of a Calamity Sealer before returning to his tent to sleep.

Black-robed attackers wiped out the Tooth Tribe and tortured its leader, while a sword-wielding force launched a massacre in Yingzhou City. The old city lord and his son were left facing an attack they had not expected.

• Black-robed assassins killed guards and slaughtered most of the Tooth Tribe as it slept.
• The assassins surrounded the tribe’s ugly man, captured him, and tortured him to death for his people’s attack on the Calamity Sealers.
• A passerby discovered the tribe’s corpses the next morning.
• The young city lord of Yingzhou City studied the Calamity Spear and discussed how its secrets could help his faction grow.
• A guard warned the old city lord and his son that swordsmen had appeared and were massacring the city’s people.
• The old city lord and his son went outside and saw swordsmen killing residents who fled, resisted, or begged for mercy.

Ge Nie and his swordsmen slaughtered everyone in Yingzhou City under His Majesty’s orders, while the evil-aura woman gave her father the Calamity Spear and later attacked by Wu Qian’s forces. The evil-aura woman was defeated by Wu Qian as her family estate fell under attack.

• Ge Nie told the old man that His Majesty had ordered Yingzhou City’s destruction, then killed the old man and his fleeing son.
• Ge Nie’s forces killed every person in Yingzhou City, leaving more than two hundred thousand dead.
• The evil-aura woman gave her father the Calamity Spear and explained that it absorbed disasters and produced Calamity Pearls.
• The evil-aura woman returned to her room and drained a captive man’s life force before continuing to cultivate.
• Hooded attackers launched an assault on the evil-aura woman’s family estate, and Wu Qian introduced herself as Blood Shadow after killing the woman’s father.
• The evil-aura woman fought Wu Qian but was defeated and thrown into a pillar, severely wounded.

A hooded force acting on His Majesty’s orders massacred a mountain stronghold after its bandits obtained the Calamity Sealer. Days later, outsiders discovered the stronghold’s rotting corpses and found no survivors.

• A beautiful young girl tortured a sinister woman to death, took her head, and exterminated the woman’s entire family.
• The three leaders of a mountain stronghold celebrated after their subordinates found the Calamity Sealer.
• Hooded attackers ambushed the stronghold with volleys of arrows and killed bandits and their relatives alike.
• The attackers captured the three leaders, killed them, and hung their bodies and the stronghold’s other corpses outside.
• Several days later, people discovered the slaughter and wondered who had wiped out the stronghold.

After Great Qin’s bloody retaliation made other factions fear it and covet its disaster-resolving method, their alliance sent an envoy to negotiate. Zhao Fu agreed to help only if they supplied a large amount of food, leaving the envoy to decide whether to accept.

• News spread that Great Qin had massacred the factions responsible for killing its Calamity Sealers and could resolve natural disasters.
• Leaders from other factions debated whether to attack Great Qin or seek its help, then sent an envoy to negotiate.
• Zhao Fu decided to meet the alliance’s envoy and hear her proposal.
• The envoy offered resources and more than a thousand beauties in exchange for Great Qin’s help.
• Zhao Fu rejected the offers and demanded a large amount of food, telling the envoy to return if the alliance would not provide it.

Zhao Fu sent Great Qin’s Calamity Sealers to resolve the alliance’s natural disasters in exchange for grain, winning the gratitude of the affected people. He secretly left calamity power behind to make disasters recur, then planned to offer the same service to the Outer Domains.

• The alliance agreed to compensate Great Qin with grain, and Zhao Fu dispatched one hundred and twenty Calamity Sealers to resolve its disasters.
• The alliance sent grain and women to Great Qin, while the Calamity Sealers absorbed calamity power from storms, volcanic eruptions, lightning, and earthquakes.
• The Calamity Sealers restored peace across disaster-stricken regions, earning Great Qin the respect and affection of local citizens.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Calamity Sealers to leave some refined calamity power behind so disasters would eventually recur and weaken the alliance.
• The Calamity Sealers returned with more than four hundred Calamity Pearls, and Zhao Fu planned to offer disaster relief to the Outer Domains in return for grain.

Zhao Fu sent Great Qin’s 120 Calamity Sealers to resolve disasters, earning the empire prestige and goodwill from the alliance. As rival empires courted alliance factions and cooperation spread, the region’s tense peace eased, though war remained a looming possibility.

• Zhao Fu put Great Qin’s plan to help factions with natural disasters into action, but the weakened City of Calamity could not provide source calamity power for more than 120 Calamity Sealers.
• The Calamity Sealers resolved disasters across many lands and became revered by countless commoners.
• Great Qin’s improved relationship with the alliance alarmed the Demon Horn Empire and the Second Wind God Empire, which began courting alliance members with benefits and promises not to invade.
• Alliance factions accepted the empires’ invitations and openly cooperated with them, despite warnings from alliance leaders not to abandon the alliance.
• Relations among the three empires and the alliance grew friendlier, while observers worried the calm would end when the factions next sought to expand.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s forces to defend Qin Land against a swarm of five billion cockroach insect beasts. Great Qin’s traps and Flying Insect Nest Dragons inflicted heavy losses, but giant flying insect beasts attacked the city and clashed with the dragons in the air.

• Zhao Fu brought Great Qin’s forces in the Chaos World to 3.5 billion after a massive insect swarm approached from the west.
• Great Qin fired arrows and used ravines lined with steel spikes to halt and kill many charging insect beasts.
• The insect beasts sprayed corrosive fluid into the ravines, dissolving their walls and climbing over the obstacles.
• Zhao Fu sent more than three thousand Flying Insect Nest Dragons to blast the advancing swarm, killing millions of insect beasts.
• Six or seven thousand giant cockroach insect beasts took flight and sprayed corrosive fluid at Great Qin’s soldiers and city walls.
• The Flying Insect Nest Dragons fought the giant cockroach insect beasts in the air, killing some with bites, tail strikes, and beams of light.

Great Qin fought off the advancing cockroach insect beasts with vines, Fire Arrows, and the Blood God Fiends summoned by Wild God. As the giant green and dark-red insect beasts clashed, the ordinary insect tide renewed its assault on Great Qin’s walls.

• Flying Insect Nest Dragons battled the enormous insect beasts in the sky while vines and Fire Arrows attacked the advancing swarm on the ground.
• Larger cockroach insect beasts sprayed corrosive green liquid at Great Qin’s walls, and Zhao Fu ordered Wild God to lead her people into action.
• Wild God and the twelve divine envoys drew blood from the dead insect beasts and transformed it into twelve enormous green cockroach insect beasts.
• The insect tide formed eight giant dark-red cockroach insect beasts, which clashed with the green giants and sent shockwaves through the battlefield.
• Four green insect beasts charged into the swarm while the other eight held back the dark-red giants, and the vines attacked the renewed advance toward Great Qin.

Zhao Fu and Great Qin fought the attacking insect beast army as the Insect Beast King battered the city walls and challenged Zhao Fu. With Alasna joining the battle, they wounded the giant cockroach and Zhao Fu ultimately decapitated it.

• Great Qin’s defenses killed climbing cockroach insect beasts with arrows, blades, and life-draining vines as the creatures corroded the city wall with green liquid.
• Zhao Fu confronted the Insect Beast King and struck its head, but the beast retaliated and damaged Great Qin’s wall with its corrosive spray.
• The insect beast army reached the walls and fought Great Qin’s soldiers while flying creatures clashed overhead.
• Zhao Fu used the Calamitous Dragon Sword to counter the Insect Beast King’s green liquid with a water dragon.
• Alasna joined Zhao Fu, wounded the Insect Beast King with the Darkness Divine Sword, and helped send it reeling.
• Zhao Fu struck with the Imperial Killing Sword and severed the Insect Beast King’s head.

After Great Qin defeated the cockroach insect beasts, Zhao Fu collected their Nest Stones and eggs, then learned that the beasts contained life-rich stones that might be turned into potions. He ordered further research and sent people across Great Qin to gather public opinion about the recent crises.

• After the Insect Beast King died, Great Qin routed the insect tide and pursued the surviving beasts before stopping.
• Zhao Fu led his soldiers to the cockroach nest, where they cleared out the remaining defenders and collected hundreds of Nest Stones and a vast number of insect eggs.
• Back in Great Qin, Alasna told Zhao Fu that the army had lost several tens of millions of soldiers while killing three and a half billion insect beasts, earning enough points to reach one-third of the Dao-Seeking Stone’s cost.
• Researchers showed Zhao Fu a life-rich stone found inside each cockroach insect beast and said they were studying how to make its Power of Life usable by Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu ordered the researchers to report their progress and dispatched people throughout Great Qin to collect the public’s opinions and suggestions.

Zhao Fu visited a mountain village recovering from a flood and learned how the court’s inspections and strict policies affected the villagers. The village chief mistook him for a high-ranking official and brought him home to meet his family.

• Zhao Fu arrived in a flood-stricken mountain village and saw the villagers clearing mud from their fields.
• The village chief explained that officials treated the villagers respectfully and that flood relief had brought grain and seeds, but warned that complaints could be treated as rebellion.
• Zhao Fu reflected on Great Qin’s harsh measures and decided not to change the policy.
• The village chief invited Zhao Fu to lunch and introduced him to his grandson, Little Niu, hoping Zhao Fu could help the boy’s future.
• Zhao Fu gave his surname as Zhao and said he was a minor official in Xianyang, while the village chief remarked that the surname was blessed.

Zhao Fu met a village chief and his grandson, whose father had died serving in Great Qin’s army, and learned why the boy wanted to enlist. He gave the boy a token granting him admission to Qin Times Academy, leaving the boy determined to work toward protecting Great Qin.

• The village chief asked Zhao Fu to assess his grandson’s aptitude, and the boy said he wanted to follow his father into the Great Qin Army.
• Zhao Fu learned that the boy’s father had died in battle and warned that the boy might face the same fate.
• The village chief explained that Great Qin’s unification had ended years of war and that its people needed to protect their peace.
• The boy insisted that he wanted to defend Great Qin and fulfill his father’s unfinished ideal.
• Zhao Fu found the boy’s aptitude promising and gave him a Black Gold Dragon Token for free admission to Qin Times Academy.
• The boy kowtowed to Zhao Fu, thanked him, and promised to work hard.

Zhao Fu left the village and visited a pleasure boat carrying talented scholars who felt overlooked by Great Qin’s court. After hearing their accusations of factional favoritism, he wondered whether ministers were preventing capable people from serving and resolved to investigate the matter when he returned.

• Zhao Fu flew away from the village after the village chief urged the boy to study hard and serve the Great Qin Empire.
• Zhao Fu landed on Nalan Ruo’s ship, where scholars and talented young men had gathered to enjoy the river scenery.
• Nalan Ruo explained that she had invited talented people who had not been recognized by the court.
• A blue-robed young man accused court ministers of promoting their own factions, while a white-robed young man warned him that such criticism could endanger his family and friends.
• Zhao Fu claimed he was a minor official who was also overlooked, and the scholars sympathized with him.
• Nalan Ruo ended the discussion and redirected everyone’s attention to poetry and the river scenery.

Zhao Fu revealed that he could recommend talented people to meet Great Qin’s ruler and invited the scholars to present their ideas. He challenged a woman’s proposal for gender equality as impractical, then heard the blue-robed young man question Great Qin’s harsh laws.

• Zhao Fu felt out of place among the scholars trading poems, and Nalan Ruo offered him a private room.
• Zhao Fu told the blue-robed young man he could recommend him to His Majesty if he truly had talent, shocking everyone aboard the boat.
• A woman in a red palace dress proposed harsher punishment for discrimination and more publicity to advance women’s equality.
• Zhao Fu argued that rapid reforms would risk unrest and that lasting equality required gradual change within Great Qin’s ancient society.
• The blue-robed young man praised Zhao Fu’s insight and began criticizing laws that punished criminals’ families and friends along with them.