Recaps

Zhao Fu fought the Ancient Sword Sect Master, overpowering him with the Imperial Killing Sword and twelve Bronze Swords until the sect master drew on the Eastflow Ancient Sword’s power to send Zhao Fu crashing into the ground. Zhao Fu answered with iron chains and began unleashing a forbidden power from his bloodied left eye.

• The Ancient Sword Sect Master attacked Zhao Fu with the Eastflow Ancient Sword, and Zhao Fu blocked his strikes before countering with twelve Bronze Swords and knocking him into a mountain.
• Zhao Fu taunted the Ancient Sword Sect Master, then struck him down again when he charged as a sword light.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Master invoked the Eastflow Ancient Sword’s river-like sword intent and claimed its power, empowered by fourteen worlds, surpassed Zhao Fu’s Nation-Guarding Artifact.
• Their attacks collided, and the Ancient Sword Sect Master sent Zhao Fu crashing into a crater.
• Zhao Fu summoned hundreds of thousands of azure iron chains, then released scarlet sword qi from his bloodied left eye.

Zhao Fu and the Ancient Sword Sect Master fought fiercely, each drawing on the power of their Nation-Guarding Artifacts. The Twelve Bronze Men’s blue sword strikes shattered the Ancient Sword Sect Master’s vast sea of swords, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Zhao Fu overwhelmed the Ancient Sword Sect Master with blood-colored sword qi, but the Sect Master counterattacked with waves of white light swords and broke Zhao Fu’s cyan barrier.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Master struck Zhao Fu down and believed he had killed him, but Zhao Fu reappeared behind him and wounded him with a powerful slash.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Master gathered the power of the fourteen worlds under his control and summoned a sky full of white swords.
• Zhao Fu called on the nine worlds controlled by Great Qin, summoning the Twelve Bronze Men, who unleashed blue sword strikes that split the white sea of swords and carved immense scars into the ground.

Zhao Fu escaped after leaving the Ancient Sword Sect Master near death, and news of the mysterious Imperial Prince’s return shook the Guti Domain. The Dao Cultivation Sect sealed itself away while the Heavenly Music Sect prepared for the upheaval, as major factions also moved against the Great Qin Empire.

• Zhao Fu fled as Ancient Sword Sect experts and soldiers arrived, and they found their Sect Master gravely wounded in a ravine.
• News spread that the mysterious Imperial Prince had returned, captured Ancient Sword Sect disciples, and defeated the Ancient Sword Sect Master.
• Bai Haoran and the Dao Cultivation Sect Master feared the Imperial Prince’s retaliation, so the sect sealed its gates and activated its grand formation.
• Yin Ruoshi reminded the Heavenly Music Sect Master that the sect had missed its chance to help the Imperial Prince, and he ordered preparations for the coming turmoil.
• The Heavenly Music Sect Master noted that major factions had sent people to subdue the Great Qin Empire because of its potential.

Yin Ruoshi and her master discussed using marriage to build ties with the Great Qin Imperial Prince, unaware that he was the same man as the mysterious Imperial Prince she admired. Meanwhile, the Yin Nether Dynasty, Bear Mountain Kingdom, and Abandoned Learning reacted to his growing power by preparing for possible retaliation.

• The Heavenly Music Sect Master urged Yin Ruoshi to consider marrying the Great Qin Imperial Prince, but Yin Ruoshi rejected him and admitted she had a trace of fondness for the mysterious Imperial Prince.
• You Qianyue warned his father that the mysterious Imperial Prince might retaliate, while his father planned to lure him into the Yin Nether Dynasty and seize the Netherworld Supreme One.
• The ruler of the Bear Mountain Kingdom ordered the kingdom placed on alert and explained that the mysterious Imperial Prince had once revealed three Imperial Stars.
• The leaders of Abandoned Learning regretted missing an earlier chance to befriend the mysterious Imperial Prince and decided to strengthen their defenses.

The major factions of the Guti Domain went on alert after Zhao Fu’s return, while people discussed his strength and past conflict with the Ancient Sword Sect. Jian Yin, Xiong Xiao, Gu Qingyue, and Bing Qixue left the Great Qin vicinity, but Jiu Xiaoyun and Qingmu Rou headed into Great Qin for safety without knowing Zhao Fu was the mysterious Imperial Prince.

• The Ancient Sword Sect and other major factions heightened their defenses, and people across the Guti Domain discussed Zhao Fu’s reputation and power.
• Jian Yin received news of the danger and decided to return to the Ancient Sword Sect.
• Xiong Xiao was ordered home because of his past grudge with Zhao Fu and returned to the Bear Mountain Dynasty.
• Gu Qingyue chose to leave for her sect, and Bing Qixue left Zhao Fu a letter offering the Icefield Kingdom’s help before departing.
• Jiu Xiaoyun and Qingmu Rou headed to Great Qin, hoping to stay safe and persuade its ruler, unaware that Zhao Fu was the Imperial Prince they feared.

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, considered the growing Sword-Wielding Demonification army, and resumed governing as the new year brought student recruitment at Qin Times Academy. The chapter ended with a village boy and his grandfather reaching the academy in the imperial capital.

• Zhao Fu learned the Ancient Sword Sect Master had survived and resolved to destroy the sect rather than kill him immediately.
• Zhao Fu found more than one million Ancient Sword Sect disciples absorbing the Slaughter Sword Pool’s killing aura in the Imperial Killing Sword World.
• Zhao Fu returned to the Great Qin Imperial Palace, learned Jiu Xiaoyun and Qingmu Rou had stayed behind, and handled state affairs.
• Qin Times Academy opened recruitment, drawing returning students and families hoping their children could enroll.
• An old man and his grandson Little Niu traveled from their village to Great Qin’s capital, where a vendor guided them to Qin Times Academy.

Little Niu and his grandfather arrived at Qin Times Academy, where a chubby boy challenged their claim that he could study there without an admission notice. When the grandfather revealed the Emperor of Great Qin’s Black Dragon Token, the soldiers recognized it and let them enter, while the crowd learned of Little Niu’s connection to the Emperor.

• Little Niu promised his grandfather he would study hard at Qin Times Academy and become a great general.
• Qian Wuli mocked Little Niu for lacking an admission notice and offered to make him his bookboy, but Little Niu refused.
• Little Niu explained that a flying lord had given him a token, and his grandfather led him toward the academy gate rather than show it to Qian Wuli.
• A Great Qin Soldier stopped the grandfather and Little Niu for lacking an admission notice or entry pass, so the grandfather presented the wrapped token.
• The soldiers recognized the Black Dragon Token as the Emperor of Great Qin’s and knelt, prompting the crowd, Qian Wuli, Little Niu, and his grandfather to do the same.
• The soldier allowed the grandfather and Little Niu to enter, and the crowd rose and gathered around them with friendly smiles.

An old man and a young boy arrived at Qin Times Academy with Zhao Fu’s token, while Zhao Fu learned that the Wind God Empire soldiers imprisoned in the Monster Realm had completed their transformation. He subdued the newly formed monster army and decided to keep strengthening it until war began.

• Wealthy visitors crowded around the old man to curry favor, but soldiers escorted him and the young boy inside, where a chubby boy befriended the child.
• Zhao Fu learned that the old man had brought a child to Qin Times Academy with his token and returned his attention to state affairs.
• After a report of abnormal changes in the Monster Realm, Zhao Fu went there and saw the Wind God Empire soldiers transformed into terrifying monsters.
• Maple Leaf Hunt and Tamamo-no-Mae told Zhao Fu that the transformation was complete, revealing that the 1.5 billion former soldiers could provide Great Qin with a massive fighting force.
• Zhao Fu used his power as the Lord of Monsters and the Sacred Blood to force the wild monsters to kneel before him, then decided to keep them in the Monster Realm and strengthen them for future war.

Zhao Fu investigated a dangerous ruin in the Netherworld that Yellow Springs Spirit and her queens could not explore. He uncovered the illusion-forming ghost formation, sealed it with the Heaven-Sealing Sword, and continued deeper into the ruin.

• Zhao Fu learned that a newly discovered Netherworld ruin was too dangerous for Yellow Springs Spirit and her queens to explore, and he went with Yellow Springs Spirit to investigate it.
• Yellow Springs Spirit opened the bronze door at the bottom of a dark gorge, and Zhao Fu entered alone as the ruin suppressed his cultivation and blocked the use of Nation-Guarding Artifacts.
• Zhao Fu fought waves of armored evil ghosts and used the Glazed Eye Pupil to discover they were ghostly creatures produced by a formation.
• Zhao Fu drove the Heaven-Sealing Sword into the ground and sealed the formation, causing the evil ghosts to vanish.
• Zhao Fu left the sealed formation behind and continued deeper into the ruin.

Zhao Fu passed through a Gate of Ghosts and entered a chamber filled with bronze gates that produced powerful ghostly creatures. He defeated the creatures and used seven-colored chains to seal the gates, stopping them from reappearing.

• Zhao Fu discovered that the Gate of Ghosts weakened intruders and produced evil ghosts, then stored it in his storage ring.
• Zhao Fu entered a vast space containing about a thousand smaller bronze gates and found that they arranged themselves to summon Saint Realm ghostly creatures.
• Zhao Fu fought the ghostly creatures with the Imperial Killing Sword, then activated Immortal Mode and wiped out a large wave of them.
• Zhao Fu realized the creatures returned through the bronze gates and pressed his hand to the ground to summon seven-colored chains.
• Zhao Fu's chains pierced the creatures, bound the bronze gates, and sealed them, causing the ghosts to vanish.

Zhao Fu found the Guardian God of the Ghost Gate and defeated her after she refused to submit to him. He sealed her power and carried her away, intending to subdue her back in Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu collected the bronze gates he had found and continued through the cavern until he reached the Guardian God of the Ghost Gate.
• The Guardian God identified herself and ordered Zhao Fu to leave, but he demanded that she submit to him.
• When she refused, Zhao Fu fought the Guardian God, overcame her attacks, and defeated her with his seven-colored sword light.
• Zhao Fu sealed the Guardian God’s power, carried her out of the cavern, and encountered Yellow Springs Spirit waiting outside.

Zhao Fu forced the Guardian Goddess to submit, learned she was the Ghost Gate god, and began preparing to use her abilities for Great Qin. He then led troops to the Yellow Springs Kingdom and mobilized an attack on the three remaining Netherworld forces, whose leaders disagreed over whether to surrender or fight.

• Zhao Fu bound the Guardian Goddess and used Godslayer Power and Six Desires Demonic Qi until she agreed to submit.
• The Guardian Goddess told Zhao Fu she was the Ghost Gate god, who could create bronze gates and strengthen Great Qin’s defenses.
• Zhao Fu arranged for the Ghost Gate god to receive faith power and divine envoys, then returned to the Great Qin Imperial Palace.
• Zhao Fu led troops to the Yellow Springs Kingdom and decided to attack the three remaining Netherworld forces after learning they had formed an alliance with nine billion troops.
• Zhao Fu split his forces into three armies and began preparations for a simultaneous assault, prompting the three forces to debate surrendering or fighting.

Zhao Fu rejected the three factions’ offers of tribute and demanded their submission, then launched attacks against them. He led the assault on Mountain Charm Kingdom, where both armies unleashed powerful defenses and colossal manifestations of Army Qi, leaving their forces clashing before the city walls.

• Three envoys asked Zhao Fu to spare their factions and offered beauties, treasures, and supplies, but he demanded that they submit or perish.
• Zhao Fu launched three armies against the factions, leading the attack on Mountain Charm Kingdom while other Yellow Springs Queens and generals commanded the remaining forces.
• Zhao Fu’s soldiers fired arrows at Mountain Charm Kingdom’s defensive wall, and their ballistae shattered its first energy barrier.
• Mountain Charm Kingdom raised blue light shields that blocked Great Qin’s arrows, so Zhao Fu ordered his soldiers to manifest their Army Qi.
• Great Qin and Mountain Charm Kingdom formed colossal beasts from their soldiers’ qi and sent them charging toward each other above the battlefield.

Zhao Fu unleashed Great Qin’s ferocious beasts to break Mountain Charm Kingdom’s blue light shields while the two armies’ military-aura creatures and summoned ghosts fought overhead. After Great Qin’s arrows shattered the shields, its soldiers stormed the city walls and the battle’s outcome was decided.

• Zhao Fu sent Great Qin’s ferocious beasts against the blue light shields, and Mountain Charm Kingdom’s soldiers fired arrows that barely harmed them.
• Mountain Charm Kingdom’s robed figures summoned towering ghost creatures as Great Qin’s beasts battered the shields and the armies exchanged volleys of arrows.
• Great Qin’s soldiers raised a shield wall against Mountain Charm’s counterattack, then fired arrows that covered the blue barriers in cracks.
• Great Qin’s military-aura creatures and real beasts gained the advantage over Mountain Charm’s formations and summoned ghosts, destroying many of the ghosts.
• Great Qin’s arrows shattered the blue light shields, and its soldiers charged the city walls, beginning the formal siege and swiftly climbing into the city.

Great Qin and Yellow Springs forces broke through the three factions’ defenses, while Zhao Fu’s army advanced into Mountain Charm Kingdom’s capital. After civilians were rounded up and the city fell under brutal occupation, Zhao Fu reached the royal palace and awaited reports.

• Ferocious beasts and Great Qin Soldiers overwhelmed Mountain Charm’s defenders, forcing its army and faction leaders to flee.
• Yellow Springs forces captured territory on the other two fronts and charged into the factions they had defeated.
• Zhao Fu’s army advanced into Mountain Charm’s capital, where Great Qin Soldiers rounded up civilians and killed those who resisted.
• A former envoy offered to submit to Zhao Fu and guide him through the royal palace; Zhao Fu let him follow.
• Zhao Fu entered the palace, took the throne, and waited for reports on the conquest and the other battlefields.

After conquering the northern regions and adding thirty billion people to the Yellow Springs Kingdom, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and used countless newly appointed consorts to unleash a vast wave of phoenix aura. The aura strengthened Great Qin’s fate across nine worlds, leaving rival rulers alarmed and Yao Ming determined to discover Great Qin’s method.

• Zhao Fu received reports that the Great Qin Soldiers had conquered the Mountain Charm Kingdom and the surrounding regions, then ordered the submitted ministers and royal women to return to the Yellow Springs Kingdom.
• Zhao Fu’s armies brought home the plunder and captives, expanding the Yellow Springs Kingdom to eighty billion people and territory equal to four worlds.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and conferred the Netherworld women as consorts, causing their phoenix aura to gather into a gigantic golden phoenix that spread across Great Qin.
• Li Baiqing and Su Yan realized Great Qin had used its consorts’ phoenix aura to increase and stabilize its fate, while Li Baiqing worried that this would make Great Qin harder to defeat.
• Yao Ming ordered the Demon Horn Empire to gather women with phoenix aura, but an old minister warned that imitating Great Qin without its unknown method would damage the empire’s fate.

The Imperial Phoenix Statue released immense power across Great Qin, transforming the women connected to Zhao Fu and granting them Phoenix Power. Other factions watched the display with alarm and envy, while Qingmu Rou and Jiu Xiaoyun grew more wary of Great Qin’s strength.

• Alliance members discussed Great Qin’s surging phoenix aura and wondered what it meant for the coming attacks on the Cursed Land.
• Fengshen Sha admired Great Qin’s phoenix aura and discussed conquering its famous women, adding imperial consorts, and preparing for Great Qin’s next move.
• Qingmu Rou and Jiu Xiaoyun witnessed the Imperial Phoenix Statue’s power and reconsidered their earlier disdain for Great Qin.
• The Imperial Phoenix Statue sent golden threads into the women in the Great Qin Imperial Palace, improving their bodies and aptitudes and granting them Phoenix Power.
• The statue’s power also began transforming every consort Zhao Fu had invested in.

Zhao Fu and Great Qin received extensive benefits as the Imperial Phoenix Statue absorbed phoenix aura and reached the power of a kingdom-grade Nation-Guarding Artifact. After the ceremony, Zhao Fu ordered a celebration and inspected the statue’s increased power.

• Zhao Fu absorbed the phoenix power, gained Phoenix King Power and the ability to be reborn through nirvana, while Great Qin’s people, troops, and lands were strengthened and healed.
• The Imperial Phoenix Statue’s aura erased hidden calamitous powers and revived crops, vegetables, and fruit trees across Great Qin.
• Women and soldiers in the Netherworld, Chaos World, and Alchemy World also received benefits from the golden light.
• The phoenix descended onto the Heaven-Prayer Platform and returned to its statue form, while Zhao Fu’s transformed features vanished.
• Zhao Fu ordered Li Si to prepare a celebration and later confirmed that the Imperial Phoenix Statue had reached kingdom-grade Nation-Guarding Artifact power.

Zhao Fu allowed Qingmu Rou and Jiu Xiaoyun to remain in Great Qin after refusing their proposed alliance, then learned that three temples had been discovered. At the first temple, he found a savage Squid God and began fighting it, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Zhao Fu permitted Qingmu Rou and Jiu Xiaoyun to stay in Great Qin after refusing to submit to their kingdoms or accept an unequal contract.
• Qingmu Rou warned Zhao Fu that several kingdoms planned to pressure Great Qin, while she and Jiu Xiaoyun left to gather intelligence about it.
• Zhao Fu inspected Great Qin’s ongoing projects and received news that three temples had been discovered, including one in Fish Scale World.
• Zhao Fu entered the underwater temple and cut down waves of powerful squid before reaching the Squid God.
• The Squid God attacked Zhao Fu, who struck it with the Imperial Killing Sword and wounded it; the enraged god then unleashed greater power.

Zhao Fu killed the Squid God and took its godhead before entering a temple in the Chaos World that held an Apocalypse World deity. After fighting his way through the temple, he found a dead man and woman in coffins.

• Zhao Fu unleashed his full strength and killed the Squid God, then collected its godhead and corpse.
• Zhao Fu traveled to a dilapidated temple in the Chaos World after sensing an Apocalypse World deity inside.
• Zhao Fu repeatedly struck the temple's stone door until he broke its restriction and entered.
• Zhao Fu killed the dark-red-armored soldiers that attacked him and smashed through a second protected door.
• Zhao Fu entered a circular hall and found a dead man and woman in two red coffins.

Zhao Fu sealed two gods whose bodies had died, then defeated and captured a tigerfolk goddess in a cave temple. Back in Great Qin, he built temples for the goddesses, tamed the tigerfolk goddess, and revived the other one.

• Zhao Fu found godheads and surviving souls in the male and female gods’ corpses, sealed both bodies, and stored them in his ring.
• Zhao Fu broke through the cave temple’s doors, killed the black tigers inside, and found a living tigerfolk goddess.
• Zhao Fu defeated the tigerfolk goddess, sealed her power, and carried her back to Great Qin despite her protests.
• Zhao Fu ordered temples and statues built for the two goddesses, then tamed the tigerfolk goddess and made her a god of Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu supplied the other goddess with immense life force and faith, successfully reviving her.

Zhao Fu and twenty-four goddesses opened a gate to the Divine World, and Zhao Fu prepared to enter it in search of time-attribute items and a chance to awaken the God Race Imperial Star. After entrusting Great Qin’s affairs to Li Si and Bai Qi, he activated the formation and vanished into the heavens.

• Zhao Fu revived a Star Goddess, threatened her and her husband into obedience, and learned that they were both Gods of Stars.
• After four or five days of recovery, Zhao Fu gathered twenty-four goddesses on a specially prepared platform to open the gate to the Divine World.
• Divine Ghost led the goddesses in channeling their power into the formation, which connected to the Divine World and drew the attention of Qingmu Rou and Jiu Xiaoyun.
• Zhao Fu left Li Si in charge of internal affairs and Bai Qi in charge of military affairs while he prepared to travel.
• Zhao Fu activated the formation to seek time-attribute items and possibly awaken the God Race Imperial Star, then disappeared into the heavens.

Zhao Fu arrived in the Divine World, learned about its gods and factions from Takmi, and agreed to help rescue Takmi’s imprisoned father. He followed Takmi to Langdong City, intending to use the opportunity to establish Great Qin’s influence there.

• Takmi prayed for a god to save his father, and Zhao Fu appeared before him in a flash of white light.
• Zhao Fu questioned Takmi and learned that the grassland lay outside Langdong City in the Jade God’s territory, where gods ruled factions and believers prayed three times a day.
• Takmi explained that his father had been imprisoned after offending a city official, and Zhao Fu agreed to help him.
• Takmi’s gratitude produced a wisp of faith, but Zhao Fu could not absorb it because of his divine spark and imperial destiny.
• Zhao Fu considered building a Divine World faction for Great Qin and pursuing the formation of the Heaven Book, then followed Takmi toward the City Lord’s Manor.

Zhao Fu forced his way into the City Lord's Manor and demanded that the God of Jade surrender her territory to him. After defeating the City Lord's forces, he faced the Jade God herself and declared that she was now his master.

• Takmi led Zhao Fu to the City Lord's Manor, where Zhao Fu blasted aside the guards who tried to stop him.
• Zhao Fu defeated the soldiers who surrounded him, then declared that the manor belonged to him and demanded to see the God of Jade.
• The City Lord attacked Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu shattered his blade light, wounded him, and cut down the soldiers who charged afterward.
• Zhao Fu threatened to slaughter the city unless the City Lord went to summon the God of Jade, and the City Lord left to report to her.
• The Jade God appeared before Zhao Fu and asked who he was, and Zhao Fu told her that he was her master and her territory belonged to him.

Zhao Fu defeated the Jade Goddess and her followers, forcing her to submit and placing a demonic restriction inside her. The Jade Goddess was freed from her chains but remained under Zhao Fu’s control.

• Zhao Fu overpowered the Jade Goddess in battle and knocked her back, drawing blood.
• Dozens of the Jade Goddess’s experts attacked Zhao Fu, but he sent them flying and killed several.
• The Jade Goddess summoned more than ten thousand jade swords, but Zhao Fu shattered them with the Imperial Killing Sword’s Sword Master technique.
• Zhao Fu bound the Jade Goddess with chains and repelled her followers when they tried to rescue her.
• The Jade Goddess agreed to submit, and Zhao Fu placed Six Desires Demonic Qi inside her as a restriction before sealing its power.
• Zhao Fu released the chains and brought the Jade Goddess back to the ground.