Recaps

Zhao Fu used the City God Stones to build a City God Temple, then reversed the Myriad Ghost-Warding Talisman's effect to draw ghosts toward Great Qin Town. More than ten thousand ghosts attacked the town, where Bai Qi led the defense and ghost-warding talismans covered the walls.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Town with his soldiers, ten City God Stones, and twenty-six thousand ghost crystals.
• Zhao Fu used the City God Stones to create a City God Temple that weakened evil creatures and gave residents slight protection.
• Zhao Fu attached the Myriad Ghost-Warding Talisman near the City Heart, then used Gu Feng's Reversal Talisman to draw ghosts from within a thousand li toward Great Qin.
• More than ten thousand ghosts charged toward Great Qin, and Bai Qi ordered the soldiers to fire arrows from the walls.
• The arrows killed most of the ghosts, while ghost-warding talismans plastered across the walls scorched the survivors as they tried to climb.

Great Qin Town repelled a night-long siege by ghosts, including evil ghosts, and Zhao Fu upgraded its City God Temple with the battle’s rewards. With the temple’s protective power strengthened, Zhao Fu left Great Qin Town to handle other matters.

• Bai Qi assigned soldiers and residents to defend the four walls as ghost hordes attacked from every direction.
• More than twenty thousand ghosts, including evil ghosts, assaulted the town, and defenders fought them with arrows, blood, and peachwood weapons.
• An evil ghost climbed the wall and killed a soldier before the defenders joined forces to kill it.
• The defenders killed the remaining ghosts by sunrise, earning 164,300 Ghost Crystals and ten City God Upgrade Stones.
• Zhao Fu used the ten stones to upgrade the City God Temple to blue grade, raising its suppression of evil creatures to 10%, then left Great Qin Town.

Zhao Fu traded equipment for Ghost Crystals in Orc City, then received a discovery from Liu Subai that gave him a way to weaken the orcs in a future conflict. He prepared supplies for the coming night of fighting ghosts and agreed to let Liu Subai visit Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu visited Orc City and exchanged ordinary and fine-quality equipment for the orcs’ fifty or sixty thousand Ghost Crystals.
• Bodili sensed Zhao Fu’s increased strength, and Gunado considered the implications after Zhao Fu left.
• Zhao Fu visited Willow Mountain Town, where Liu Subai showed him Steel-Shattering Iron discovered by the soldiers.
• Zhao Fu recognized that weapons containing Steel-Shattering Iron could shatter opponents’ weapons and praised Liu Subai for the discovery.
• Liu Subai asked to visit Great Qin, and Zhao Fu agreed before buying supplies for the longer, more dangerous ghost battle expected that night.

Zhao Fu spent heavily on talismans, peachwood, yang blood, and ghost-crystal exchanges to prepare Great Qin for the Ghost Festival. As sunset fell, the festival’s ghostly energy returned stronger than the night before.

• Zhao Fu bought fifteen million ordinary talismans, large quantities of high-grade talismans and peachwood, and powerful yang blood, spending eight million silver coins.
• Zhao Fu exchanged most of his ghost crystal points for a valuable item and two other supplies, then returned confident that he was prepared for the Ghost Festival.
• Zhao Fu learned that major factions had deployed specialized arrays to defend against ghosts, while his own Yin General Ghost-Suppressing Array drew ghosts to him.
• Zhao Fu mobilized Great Qin to make peachwood arrows and cover the city walls with talismans, including four enormous gold-grade Evil-Warding Talismans.
• At sunset, ghostly energy surged back across the world, and the Night Parade became several times fiercer than the previous night.

Zhao Fu’s Great Qin Town slaughtered successive waves of ghosts and collected the promise of hundreds of thousands of ghost crystals. At midnight, the Ghost Moon turned blood-red as a much larger horde, including Six Paths Hungry Ghosts, approached, and Zhao Fu prepared the town’s Ballista for battle.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin Town’s defenders to fire talisman-covered arrows, destroying the first 120,000 ghosts and killing every one that tried to flee.
• Great Qin Town repelled several more waves, and Zhao Fu estimated that he had killed over 500,000 ghosts, worth five million ghost crystal points.
• At midnight, the Ghost Moon turned hazy blood-red, and a horde of 200,000 ghosts charged Great Qin Town from all four directions.
• Six Paths Hungry Ghosts appeared among the attackers, and Zhao Fu ordered his soldiers to deploy the town’s more than 16,000 Ballista.

Zhao Fu’s forces slaughtered two successive ghost hordes, using specialized arrows to counter the Six Paths Hungry Ghosts. After the battle, he had Asani play the reinforced Mourning Flute with the Requiem, and the weather began to change.

• Zhao Fu’s soldiers and ballistas decimated the first horde of two hundred thousand ghosts, while Six Paths Hungry Ghosts destroyed talismans on part of the wall.
• Zhao Fu equipped 150 elite archers with special ghost-slaying arrows, and they killed nearly all the remaining ghosts as Liu Subai watched Great Qin’s strength in awe.
• After midnight, Zhao Fu’s forces easily defeated another horde of around 120,000 ghosts, which had no Six Paths Hungry Ghosts.
• Zhao Fu asked Asani to play the reinforced Mourning Flute with the Requiem, and the wind and rain abruptly changed as the music began.

Asani’s flute drew a horde of 350,000 ghosts toward Great Qin, where Bai Qi used army qi to summon a blood eagle and break up their charge. A Heavenly Ghost attacked Asani, but Zhao Fu and Ge Nie intervened, and Ge Nie ultimately killed it with his sword and Ghost-Slaying Talisman.

• Asani continued playing her flute as 350,000 ghosts surged toward Great Qin.
• Bai Qi gathered the army qi of twenty thousand soldiers to summon a blood eagle, which scattered the ghost horde while Great Qin’s soldiers attacked.
• A Heavenly Ghost appeared and sent a giant hand toward Asani, but Zhao Fu cut it apart and blocked the Heavenly Ghost’s sword strike.
• Zhao Fu ordered Ge Nie to kill the Heavenly Ghost, and Ge Nie fought it through more than a dozen exchanges.
• Ge Nie evaded the Heavenly Ghost’s sudden thrust and killed it by piercing its heart with his sword, aided by a gold-quality Ghost-Slaying Talisman.

After the Ghost Festival battle ended, Zhao Fu upgraded the City God Temple and summoned thirty Underworld Constables, though they could not capture ghosts during the festival. He then opened the Heavenly Ghost treasure bags and found an Unsealing Stone that might restore his sealed strength.

• Ge Nie returned three dropped items to Zhao Fu as Great Qin finished slaughtering the ghost horde and several more waves before sunrise.
• Zhao Fu let the exhausted soldiers rest, then had others collect more than 2.4 million ghost crystals, treasure bags, and City God Stones.
• Zhao Fu used ten upgrade stones to raise the City God Temple to silver quality and unlocked the Underworld Constables ability.
• Zhao Fu converted currency into underworld coins and summoned thirty Ox-Heads and Horse-Faces, but their leader explained that they could not capture ghosts during the Ghost Festival.
• Zhao Fu inspected the upgraded City God Temple and found that it weakened evil creatures within the territory and protected residents from certain dark powers.
• Zhao Fu opened three Heavenly Ghost treasure bags and found an Unsealing Stone that could release sealed or suppressed objects, giving him hope of recovering his peak strength.

Zhao Fu exchanged for the Hundred Ghost Illusionist profession after securing more ghost crystals, alarming major factions that had hoped to claim the top professions. Back in Great Qin, he tested the profession’s powers and began transferring soldiers into it.

• Zhao Fu learned that the Unsealing Stone could release his sealed power for only one day, then traded top-grade equipment with Gunado for over eighty thousand ghost crystals.
• Zhao Fu exchanged the crystals for the Hundred Ghost Illusionist profession, causing its entry to vanish and prompting factions across the world to scramble for more ghost crystals.
• Si Ji, Di Wutian, Ji Shenming, and Liu Ye worried about their factions falling behind, while Jiang Ziya advised Ji Shenming not to focus solely on Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin Town with the Hundred Ghost Illusionist Class Transfer Stele and tested the profession’s skills and ghost power.
• Zhao Fu selected 298 soldiers with strong Intelligence attributes to become Hundred Ghost Illusionists.

Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin for another night in the ghost world, but the Ghost Moon turned crimson and unleashed a massive horde that threatened to overwhelm the city. As ghosts climbed the walls and defenses faltered, Zhao Fu ordered Ge Nie to activate a final countermeasure.

• Zhao Fu gave Liu Subai and Li Qinqian the Hundred Ghost Illusionist class, and the two women became friendlier after meeting.
• Great Qin completed its Advanced Teleportation Array, and Zhao Fu ordered Bai Shan to research a Top-tier Teleportation Array.
• At midnight, the Ghost Moon turned crimson, and Asani's flute provoked a vast horde of ghosts to charge toward Great Qin.
• Bai Qi's blood eagle fought the horde and disrupted part of its advance, but most of the ghosts continued toward the city.
• Zhao Fu ordered Ge Nie to activate a hidden defense as ghosts overwhelmed the talismans and began climbing Great Qin's walls.

Zhao Fu used the Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Grand Formation to destroy the ghost flood, then exchanged Ghost Crystal Points for the Ghost Summoner profession and upgraded Great Qin’s City God Temple to gold quality. He left Great Qin with a stronger ghost-summoning force and the newly unlocked ability to summon Black and White Impermanence.

• Zhao Fu activated the Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Grand Formation, and its Golden Crow incinerated the ghost flood before he hunted down the fleeing ghosts.
• After the Ghost Moon passed, Great Qin counted 2.6 million Ghost Crystals, over ten thousand treasure bags, and eight City God Temple Upgrade Stones.
• Zhao Fu discovered that Ghost Sounder had disappeared from the exchange list and spent 21 million Ghost Crystal Points to obtain Ghost Summoner.
• Zhao Fu transferred three hundred people into the Ghost Summoner profession, and one soldier summoned a powerful horned ghost.
• Zhao Fu used Heavenly Ghost Upgrade Stones to raise the City God Temple to gold quality, unlocking the ability to summon Black and White Impermanence.
• Zhao Fu spent Yin coins to summon Black and White Impermanence, and what happened next nearly shattered his worldview.

Zhao Fu learned that the female Black and White Impermanence were Bai Xiaoxi and Hei Xiaojie, then led Great Qin through another dangerous night of the Ghost Festival. The next morning, he exchanged for the last top-ten profession, the Ghost Demon Archer, just before Li Baiqing could claim it.

• Zhao Fu met Bai Xiaoxi and Hei Xiaojie, learned their names, and heard that their family had sent them to build a connection with him.
• Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin for the fourth night of the Ghost Festival, and his forces defeated the attacking ghosts without Asani playing the Requiem.
• Great Qin collected over 2.4 million ghost crystals, around ten thousand monster treasure bags, and countless City God Stones.
• Zhao Fu spent 18 million ghost crystal value to exchange for the Ghost Demon Archer profession.
• Li Baiqing arrived ready to exchange for the Ghost Demon Archer, discovered it was gone, and angrily demanded to know who had taken it.

After obtaining the Ghost Demon Archer, Zhao Fu spent his ghost crystals on two troop upgrade stones and raised Great Qin’s troop grade to E+. As the sixth night’s stronger ghosts emerged, Great Qin relied on its defensive formations and Gold-quality City God Temple to survive.

• Zhao Fu examined the Ghost Demon Archer profession and prepared Great Qin to hunt ghosts on the fifth night.
• Great Qin killed most of the fifth night’s ghosts, earning 2.6 million ghost crystals, and Zhao Fu exchanged 10 million for an E-grade and 30 million for a D-grade Troop Type Upgrade Stone.
• Zhao Fu met Jiang Rou, learned that the Zhou Family had gained the Ming Dynasty’s backing, and told Guo Binglin to prepare for the growing influence.
• Zhao Fu used the E-grade Troop Type Upgrade Stone to raise Great Qin’s troop type to E+ and prepared for the sixth night.
• Zhao Fu’s forces endured the sixth night’s more powerful ghosts, including evil ghosts, with help from the City God Temple and two grand formations.

Zhao Fu spent his ghost crystals on more god-slaying supplies and prepared Great Qin for the Ghost Festival’s seventh night. As a blood moon empowered a massive ghost horde and more than fifty Heavenly Ghosts attacked, Zhao Fu joined the battle with an Evil-Breaking Spear.

• Zhao Fu exchanged for the Four-Directional Sealing Array and sixteen Evil-Breaking Spears to prepare for the seventh night and his plan to slay a Demon God.
• Zhao Fu bought the Vast White Armor, Ghost Reinforcement Stones, and talisman paper with his remaining ghost crystals.
• A blood moon rose as a vast torrent of ghosts surged toward Great Qin, and its arrows failed to slow them.
• A small sun appeared over Great Qin, while its ballistae focused on suppressing a swarm of Six Paths Hungry Ghosts.
• More than fifty Heavenly Ghosts attacked despite the sun, so Zhao Fu sent his elite forces, generals, Ge Nie, and Little Slaughter to fight them.
• Zhao Fu gripped an Evil-Breaking Spear and poured his kingly power into it, driving back ghostly qi nearby.

Zhao Fu’s forces defeated the ghost horde, but a powerful Ghost King arrived and challenged him. Ge Nie fought her using Zhao Fu’s King’s Mark, gaining the upper hand just as his killing blow seemed ready to land.

• Zhao Fu used the Evil-Breaking Spear while his soldiers’ holy attacks and peachwood arrows helped kill the Heavenly Ghosts and nearly all the ordinary ghosts.
• A Ghost King appeared, and Zhao Fu ordered Bai Qi to defend the wall before approaching her with Ge Nie and Little Slaughter.
• Little Slaughter attacked the Ghost King but was knocked away, so Ge Nie stepped forward to fight her.
• Ge Nie and the Ghost King exchanged fierce sword attacks until she unleashed greater power and began to overpower him.
• Ge Nie activated Zhao Fu’s King’s Mark, strengthening himself and turning the battle in his favor.
• Ge Nie struck the Ghost King off balance and unleashed a huge black sword beam, but the situation suddenly changed.

The Ghost King unleashed her Killing Field Domain and overwhelmed Ge Nie, forcing Zhao Fu to unseal his power and enter the fight. Zhao Fu challenged her with his King's Domain and Heavenly Demon Domain, and the chapter ended as he sent a gigantic demon phantom toward her.

• The Ghost King created her thousand-meter Killing Field Domain and used it to suppress Ge Nie, driving him back with powerful sword strikes.
• Zhao Fu used the Unsealing Stone to restore his full strength, then told Ge Nie to stand down.
• Zhao Fu formed a ten-meter King's Domain and clashed with the Ghost King, but her rapid attacks and ghostly shadows wounded him.
• Zhao Fu planted the Heavenly Demon Sword in the ground and combined the Heavenly Demon Domain with his King's Domain to trap and blast the Ghost King into the sky.
• Zhao Fu pointed the Heavenly Demon Sword at the falling Ghost King and sent a gigantic demon phantom toward her.

Zhao Fu defeated the Ghost King with Evil-Breaking Spears and the Heavenly Demon Sword, but she transformed into the Ghost-Slaying Sword before he could kill her. After seeing fragments of her memories, he discovered that she remained inside the Semi-Epic weapon.

• The Ghost King split Zhao Fu’s demon phantom, but Zhao Fu pierced her with an Evil-Breaking Spear and wounded her with a barrage of more spears.
• Zhao Fu fought the weakened Ghost King with the Heavenly Demon Sword and knocked her away with a powerful strike.
• As Zhao Fu prepared to deliver the final blow, the Ghost King collapsed into ghostly qi that flowed into her blood sword.
• Zhao Fu touched the transformed sword and saw memories of the Ghost King’s life as a warrior who died in a brutal battle.
• Zhao Fu picked up the Ghost-Slaying Sword, sensed that the Ghost King remained within it, and discovered it was Semi-Epic grade.

Zhao Fu finished the Ghost Festival, traded equipment with the orcs for ghost crystals and a future population exchange, then reinforced the Ghost-Slaying Sword until it underwent a transformation. The sword stirred up a vast ghostly phenomenon and seemed to have advanced, but Zhao Fu had not yet checked its new attributes.

• After Great Qin repelled the remaining ghosts until sunrise, Zhao Fu counted 2.5 million ghost crystals and numerous treasure bags and City God Stones among the night's gains.
• Zhao Fu exchanged ghost crystals for equipment in Orc City and persuaded Gunado to agree to trade high-grade equipment for population after offering Silver-grade equipment as bait.
• Zhao Fu spent more ghost crystals on twenty Evil-Breaking Spears and several other items, then prepared a Black Blood Wood scabbard for the Ghost-Slaying Sword.
• Zhao Fu used Ghost Reinforcement Stones on the Ghost-Slaying Sword, and after three stones were consumed, the sword floated into the air and began to transform.
• The Ghost-Slaying Sword drew in surrounding ghostly qi as sinister clouds covered the sky and countless ghosts gathered around it before Zhao Fu caught the transformed sword and checked its attributes.

Zhao Fu upgraded the City God Temple to Legendary grade and discovered he could appoint a City God himself. He used the General Soul to appoint Beiming Danqiu as Great Qin Town’s City God.

• Zhao Fu reinforced the Ghost-Slaying Sword, and Heavenly Demon asked him for Demon Reinforcement Stones after he refused to give her the General Soul.
• Zhao Fu upgraded the City God Temple to Legendary grade, unlocking its City God ability and stronger protection for the town.
• Zhao Fu learned that he could appoint a City God using the Heirloom Seal of the Realm and chose the General Soul despite having planned to use it for a General’s Artifact.
• Li Si prepared an imperial decree, and Zhao Fu stamped it with the Heirloom Seal of the Realm.
• Li Si proclaimed the decree appointing the General Soul as Great Qin Town’s City God, and the soul transformed into Beiming Danqiu and accepted the appointment.

Zhao Fu appointed Beiming Danqiu as a City God and tallied Great Qin’s enormous gains from the Ghost Festival. After celebrating with his people, Zhao Fu returned to the real world and reviewed other factions’ results.

• Beiming Danqiu became a City God, and Zhao Fu summoned three hundred underworld soldiers.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin’s Ghost Festival rewards, including powerful classes, treasure bags, equipment, and an upgraded Ghost-Slaying Sword.
• Zhao Fu ordered a day of rest and a celebration banquet, then approved Asani’s request to visit the system main city with Liu Mei accompanying her.
• Zhao Fu returned to the real world, checked the Apocalypse Forum, and learned which factions had obtained the top classes.
• Zhao Fu discovered that Great Xia, Great Shang, and Great Zhou had used their Nation-Guarding Artifacts during the festival.

After the Ghost Festival, Zhao Fu focused on Great Qin’s plans to expand its slave trade and acquire corpses to strengthen its soldiers. He considered provoking a war between two system main cities, but knew the scheme could draw both factions’ retaliation.

• Si Ji questioned whether Great Qin had secretly won one of the top professions, while Di Wutian, Ji Shenming, and Liu Ye reflected on their festival results.
• Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World and outlined plans to recruit people along Great Qin’s border regions and trade forged equipment for captives.
• Zhao Fu planned to intensify conflicts so factions would be driven to sell people, while ensuring Great Qin appeared neutral and gathering the materials needed for the trade.
• Zhao Fu sought Tier 1 and high-aptitude corpses to strengthen his soldiers, especially the five thousand veterans nearing Tier 1.
• Zhao Fu considered provoking a war between two system main cities to collect their Tier 1 soldiers’ corpses, but recognized the risk of facing both factions’ combined assault.

Zhao Fu opened trading posts to exchange equipment for people, using Great Qin’s troops and guards to support the plan. After he killed a woman who challenged him, the crowd fled, while some players accepted the lucrative trade; Zhao Fu then left with Li Qinqian for Ox Tooth City.

• Zhao Fu brought Li Qinqian to implement his plan as Great Qin reorganized its forces for outward campaigns.
• Great Qin established guarded trading posts in system main cities, offering equipment in exchange for people.
• Zhao Fu silenced angry protesters with his aura and threatened those who tried to disrupt the trade.
• When a woman continued to condemn him, Zhao Fu killed her with a streak of black sword light, and the terrified crowd ran away.
• Some players agreed to obtain people for the trading posts, and Zhao Fu departed with Li Qinqian for Ox Tooth City.

Zhao Fu established Viet Guard in Ox Tooth City and used Li Qinqian’s patriotic speech and generous benefits to recruit members, while secretly intending to use the faction to undermine and eventually conquer Little Viet. Viet Guard gained local attention, and the Little Viet military began considering how to support it.

• Zhao Fu brought Li Qinqian to a property in Ox Tooth City and named her new faction Viet Guard, presenting it as a force to defend Little Viet.
• Zhao Fu planned to use Viet Guard’s patriotic image to recruit people and infiltrate Little Viet before creating internal chaos and conquering it for Great Qin.
• Li Qinqian delivered Zhao Fu’s prepared speech, drawing a large crowd with her appeals to Little Viet’s pride and calls to join Viet Guard.
• Viet Guard offered generous pay and selected 1,500 recruits, while Zhao Fu planned to expand the faction gradually.
• Local factions grew less wary after Viet Guard made gestures of goodwill, and the Little Viet military considered nurturing and assisting it.

After receiving the newly refined Hundred Origin Pills, Zhao Fu discussed Great Qin's strategy and commerce with his advisors, then considered Ba Qing's proposals for expanding trade and developing agriculture and livestock. As Zhao Fu examined a map to choose a site for animal husbandry, a soldier reported that a small town had been discovered seven hundred li from Great Qin.

• Zhang Baishu told Zhao Fu that the Hundred Origin Pills were ready, and Zhao Fu tested one before ordering him to refine enough for the army.
• Zhao Fu discussed Great Qin's future strategy with Bai Qi and the others, then asked Ba Qing for ideas on commerce.
• Ba Qing proposed developing livestock, expanding restaurants, wholesaling goods, and raising regional specialty products in Great Qin's own cultivation areas.
• Zhao Fu considered the difficulties of trading with wilderness villages and decided to pursue other commercial plans as Great Qin gained more people and manpower.
• Zhao Fu inspected a detailed map to identify a suitable livestock area, and a soldier reported a small town seven hundred li from Great Qin.

After learning that a nearby small town had been discovered, Zhao Fu investigated its defenses and decided to gather troops before making a move. He then opened a passage to Green Apricot to spy on Great Shun and returned to Great Qin to plan its next development.

• A soldier told Zhao Fu that Ratfolk scouts had found a small town after its troops wandered into Great Qin's territory.
• Zhao Fu inspected the prosperous town, judged a frontal assault too costly, and left assassins to gather intelligence while he recalled his scattered soldiers.
• Zhao Fu opened a passage to Green Apricot, where Great Shun controlled Apricot City, and ordered spies to investigate it.
• Zhao Fu considered the School of Diplomacy's threat and returned to Great Qin after the soldiers came back.
• Zhao Fu discussed plans with Bai Qi and the others to upgrade Great Qin into a small city as soon as possible.