Recaps

Xuan Qinghua and Immortal Eight led more than a thousand immortals through the Immortal Gates to search the mortal realm for the mysterious person. Their arrival in the Great Immortal Rift terrified everyone nearby, and the immortals and Forbidden Land creatures fled.

• The Holy Sons speculated that the mysterious senior would eventually ascend to the Immortal Realm and resolved to focus on their own cultivation.
• Immortal Eight told Xuan Qinghua that questioning the Holy Sons had revealed nothing, and Xuan Qinghua said he had sent immortals to search the lower realm for the mysterious person.
• Immortal Eight and Xuan Qinghua prepared to descend through the Immortal Gate in the Great Immortal Rift, overcoming the mortal realm’s force of rejection.
• More than a thousand immortals entered Immortal Gates across the Immortal Dao Sect, resisting the force of rejection as they descended.
• The Immortal Gate in the Great Immortal Rift opened, and Xuan Qinghua and Immortal Eight appeared before the terrified people gathered there.
• People and Forbidden Land creatures fled after realizing that immortals had descended to the mortal realm.

The Immortal Dao Sect’s unprecedented dispatch of a thousand immortals stirred alarm across both realms, though no one knew its purpose. Unaware that the commotion centered on him, Zhao Fu searched for a Half-Immortal Realm while a mysterious gaze altered his destiny and watched Hao Dao in the Immortal Realm.

• Factions across the Immortal and Mortal Realms reacted to the Immortal Dao Sect sending a thousand immortals below, but even its ordinary higher-ups did not know why.
• After nearly being captured by Immortal Eight, Zhao Fu left the Great Immortal Rift and continued searching for a suitable place to build a Teleportation Array.
• Having found no suitable locations in the four Immortal Realm rifts, Zhao Fu used a map to search remote Half-Immortal Realms instead.
• At the center of Apocalypse World, a pair of eyes watched the descending immortals, then secretly sent force into Zhao Fu’s destiny without him, Di Xi, or the Great Void Patriarch noticing.
• The mysterious gaze turned to Hao Dao, who planned to report his training results and his encounter with Zhao Fu to his master.

Zhao Fu searched for a Half-Immortal Realm until the Great Void Patriarch revealed that one lay on the hidden eleventh floor of the Great Void Ruins. After Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, the Patriarch began opening the ruins so Zhao Fu could take control of them, leaving factions across nearby domains confused by the sudden purple radiance.

• Zhao Fu explored a third dust world with Ling Ji and Feng Wu Ye, then learned from the Great Void Patriarch that he knew of distant Immortal Realm Rifts and owned a small Half-Immortal Realm.
• The Great Void Patriarch told Zhao Fu that his Half-Immortal Realm was on the Great Void Ruins' eleventh floor, where the Immortal Peach tree also grew.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with Ling Ji and Feng Wu Ye after more than a month and asked the Great Void Patriarch how to control the Great Void Ruins.
• The Great Void Patriarch opened the ruins and instructed Zhao Fu to enter the eleventh floor, where the ruins could be controlled.
• Purple light spread across the nearby domains, startling the factions, whose Great Void Tokens had not reacted.

Zhao Fu entered the Great Void Ruins, whose opening had left the Great Void Tokens unresponsive and confused those gathered outside. Guided by the Great Void Patriarch, he flew through the ruins’ levels and reached the redwood door at the fourth level.

• The Great Void Ruins opened, but the Great Void Tokens did not react, leaving Bing Qixue, Volcano, Shi Shuge, You Qianyue, Long Yang, and others puzzled.
• The jade flute carried Zhao Fu into the Silver Forest, where the Great Void Patriarch explained that damage to the ruins meant Zhao Fu had to proceed from the first level to the tenth.
• Zhao Fu passed through the Silver Forest and the ninth, eighth, seventh, and sixth levels as the Void Beasts sensed the Patriarch’s aura and prostrated themselves.
• At the fifth level, Zhao Fu saw the ruined settlement and heard the Great Void Patriarch sigh over the people who had once lived there.
• Zhao Fu continued to the fourth level and arrived at a huge redwood door decorated with golden flowers and birds.

Zhao Fu returned to the Great Void Ruins with the Great Void Patriarch and won the loyalty of the guards at the red gate. He traveled through the dark layers, recalled his past encounters there, and reached the site of the final trial.

• The thousand guards recognized the Great Void Patriarch, learned that Zhao Fu had revived him and become his master, and pledged their loyalty to Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu promised to reward the guards and free them from guarding the gate, then had them open it so he and the Great Void Patriarch could proceed.
• As Zhao Fu crossed the third and second layers, he passed the site of an old battle and remembered his friendship with Wu Wu.
• In the first layer, Zhao Fu told the Great Void Patriarch that Alasna had escaped her imprisonment, submitted to him, and now led troops in the Chaos World.
• Zhao Fu reached the stone platform holding the stone book, the site where top-ranked contestants could attempt five special trials for five treasures.

Zhao Fu took control of the Great Void Ruins after Great Void Patriarch repaired them, and discovered the Half-Immortal Realm could supply immortal energy to transform the Heaven Realm. He began connecting the Great Void Ruins and its Half-Immortal Realm to the Heaven Realm, causing vast tremors that left experts across more than ten domains stunned.

• Zhao Fu entered the Half-Immortal Realm with Great Void Patriarch and saw the Purple-Pattern Immortal Peach Tree and the Ruins’ control center.
• Great Void Patriarch used the white jade sphere and a purple orb to repair the Great Void Ruins, restoring its layers and benefiting the creatures within.
• Great Void Patriarch gave Zhao Fu control of the Great Void Ruins, and Zhao Fu learned that its first ten layers could move but the Half-Immortal Realm could not.
• Zhao Fu considered connecting the Half-Immortal Realm to the Heaven Realm and chose to preserve and connect the Great Void Ruins as well.
• Zhao Fu activated the control center, unleashing purple light and violent tremors across more than ten domains as Heaven and Earth Realm experts investigated.

The Great Void Ruins shrank into a sphere and vanished from the region while powerful experts fought to claim it. The sphere appeared before Zhao Fu in the Half-Immortal Realm, where he revealed that he had deliberately delayed recalling it.

• The Great Void Ruins shrank to a three-meter sphere, and the Great Void Tokens shattered in people's hands.
• Powerful experts raced to seize the sphere, but an old man in black and other Emperor Heaven Realm experts fought over it.
• The Great Void Ruins transformed into a purple streak and disappeared, leaving the people and experts unable to find it.
• The sphere flew from the Half-Immortal Realm platform to Zhao Fu, who revealed he had delayed recalling the ruins to tease the would-be claimants.

Zhao Fu installed the ten layers of the Great Void Ruins above the Pantheon of Myriad Gods, establishing them as the Heaven Realm’s new layers. He then transformed the top three layers from the Dark Three Domains into the Bright Three Domains, and the chapter ended with him inspecting the changes.

• Zhao Fu placed the expanding sphere above the Pantheon of Myriad Gods, and its ten planes grew into the Heaven Realm’s ten layers.
• The Heaven Realm’s citizens and gods gathered in alarm and watched the ten layers appear, while goddesses greeted Zhao Fu and asked where he had been.
• Zhao Fu went to the Half-Immortal Realm and planned for gods to reside on different layers according to their strength, while reserving the layers for cultivation and spiritual growth.
• Zhao Fu used the jade sphere to transform the top three layers’ dark attributes into light, causing the darkness to recede and the creatures and plants to change.
• The Dark Three Domains became the Bright Three Domains, and Zhao Fu inspected the transformed lands.

Zhao Fu completed the Xianling Formation, drawing immortal qi into the Heaven Realm and advancing the transformation of the Three Realms. He then left Great Qin for the Spirit Domain to awaken the Spirit Race Imperial Star, after instructing his ministers to prioritize stability while he was away.

• Zhao Fu activated the Xianling Formation, which drew vast amounts of immortal qi from the Immortal Realm into the Half-Immortal Realm and the Heaven Realm.
• The immortal qi strengthened the Heaven Realm’s plants and creatures, while Zhao Fu concluded that only time remained for the Three Realms to finish transforming.
• Zhao Fu reviewed his remaining tasks and decided to awaken the Spirit Race Imperial Star before pursuing clues about the Water Race Imperial Star and addressing his cultivation technique at the Six Paths Immortal Sect.
• Li Si and Li Muqing urged Zhao Fu to rest in Great Qin, but he chose to depart for the Spirit Domain because the coming calamity left no time to spare.
• Zhao Fu instructed his ministers to maintain Great Qin’s affairs and avoid expansion, warning them that hostile factions might attack Great Qin in Apocalypse World.

A Greater Thousand World collided with Apocalypse World, opening the Card Battlefield and forcing Marquisate-rank factions, the God Realm, and the Netherworld into the war. Zhao Fu recognized the danger to Apocalypse World and Great Qin, postponed his trip to the Spirit Domain, and prepared to address the crisis.

• Zhao Fu prepared to leave for the Spirit Domain when a vast world collided with Apocalypse World, shaking heaven and earth.
• Apocalypse World announced the opening of the Card Battlefield and new requirements for participating factions, including monthly point quotas and material support rights.
• Zhao Fu concluded that the new world was likely a Card World and that Apocalypse World now faced three Greater Thousand Worlds.
• Zhao Fu realized Apocalypse World's possible destruction would endanger Great Qin and decided to handle the crisis before visiting the Spirit Domain.
• The ministers felt the upheaval and hurried back to the hall, expecting Zhao Fu to summon them for a discussion.

After Great Qin revised its plans in response to Card World’s invasion, Zhao Fu entered the new world alone to gather intelligence. He discovered that its creatures turned into cards when killed, but found no people before stopping to rest beside a lake.

• Zhao Fu and his ministers agreed to slow Great Qin’s wars elsewhere, strengthen its defenses, and improve its soldiers’ strength.
• Zhao Fu entered Card World through the Gate of War to investigate the new world and prepare for the required war.
• Zhao Fu killed a red-scaled bird and found that it dropped cards containing its soul, meat, and hide.
• Zhao Fu killed a herd of unicorn-horned cattle and confirmed that creatures in Card World disappeared into light and dropped Food Cards and Material Cards.
• After searching for people without success, Zhao Fu rested by a lake and examined the cards, which he could not use as an outsider.

Zhao Fu encountered a princess and her female cavalry in Card World, captured them, and forced them into submission. He asked the princess to tell him everything she knew about Card World, and she realized he came from Apocalypse World.

• A Tier 5 squirrel approached Zhao Fu for an immortal fruit, then leaped onto the golden-haired princess’s shoulder as her cavalry arrived.
• The princess ordered her knights to leave, but Zhao Fu stopped them and demanded to know about Card World.
• The princess and her twelve female cavalry charged Zhao Fu, but his black chains pierced their barriers and bound them and their horses.
• Zhao Fu subdued the bound women, and they spent the rest of the day with him.
• Zhao Fu asked the princess for information about Card World, and she recognized him as someone from Apocalypse World.

Zhao Fu told Hillary and the female Cavalry that he was the lord of Great Qin and intended to expand into Card World, prompting their concern for Locke Kingdom. Hillary then explained Card World's central region and its feudal system, leaving Zhao Fu with a clearer picture of the territory Great Qin had entered.

• Zhao Fu revealed that he came from Apocalypse World to gather intelligence and declared the women he had taken his own.
• Zhao Fu identified himself as Great Qin's lord and said his army would soon enter Card World, alarming the women because Locke Kingdom and their loved ones could be threatened.
• Hillary asked Zhao Fu not to wage war on Locke Kingdom, but he explained the risks of coexistence and claimed he would eventually rule the surrounding territories.
• Hillary introduced herself and the other women, then explained that Great Qin had arrived in Card World's central region through the Gate of War.
• Hillary described Card World's feudal hierarchy, the Knights' Guild, and the authority kings and lords held over those beneath them.
• Zhao Fu contrasted Card World's divided feudal rule with Great Qin's centralized system and resolved not to create kings or share imperial authority.

Hillary explained the Card World's cardification system, card hearts, skill cards, and revered Card Book Divine Sun to Zhao Fu. After using Hillary's blood to temporarily gain cardification, Zhao Fu turned a tree into a card and considered the Card World's strength compared with other worlds.

• Hillary explained that cardification could be voluntary, performed by others, or forced, and that powerful creatures could resist or escape it.
• Hillary described card hearts, different types of cards, skill cards, and the Card Book Divine Sun, which became the Card Book Divine Moon at night.
• Zhao Fu asked Hillary for blood and used the Eight Forbidden Blood Art to absorb it, temporarily gaining the Card Clan's cardification ability.
• Zhao Fu cardified a large tree, shocking the women, and explained to Hillary that the ability would eventually disappear.
• Zhao Fu compared the Card World with the Apocalypse and Alchemy Worlds and judged the Alchemy World the most dangerous.

Zhao Fu persuaded Hillary to become king of Locke Kingdom and promised Great Qin’s support. They returned to the royal palace, where the king mistakenly believed Hillary had agreed to marry Thunder Kingdom’s crown prince.

• Hillary told Zhao Fu about Locke Kingdom’s three royal heirs and explained that she had fled to avoid marrying Thunder Kingdom’s crown prince.
• Zhao Fu offered to help Hillary become king, and Melissa and the other female Cavalry soldiers urged her to accept; Hillary agreed.
• Zhao Fu said he would control Hillary’s father and brothers, and that Great Qin’s army would crush anyone who resisted her rule.
• Zhao Fu and the women dressed, freed the horses and squirrel, and traveled with Hillary back to Locke Kingdom’s royal palace.
• The palace guards reported Hillary’s return to the king, who assumed she had agreed to the marriage alliance with Thunder Kingdom.

Zhao Fu helped Hillary confront her father over her arranged marriage, then used her royal blood to sever the king’s link to the Nation-Guarding Artifact and take control of him. He declared that the Locke Kingdom would belong to Great Qin and moved to secure the kingdom by controlling its princes.

• The king summoned Hillary and insisted she marry the Thunder Kingdom’s crown prince for the Locke Kingdom’s sake, but she refused.
• Zhao Fu appeared in the royal hall, and Hillary told her father that Zhao Fu was her man and that she had decided to marry him.
• The king and his guards attacked Zhao Fu, but he trapped them with roots and used Hillary’s blood to cut off the king’s connection to the Nation-Guarding Artifact.
• Zhao Fu controlled the king, revealed that he came from the Apocalypse World, and demanded that the Locke Kingdom submit to Great Qin.
• After the king cursed Hillary, Zhao Fu controlled him again, sent Hillary away, and brought the three princes to the palace to take control of them.

Zhao Fu tried to bring Locke Kingdom’s powerful lords under control without starting a war, but many refused the king’s summons. He then visited the Fero Family under the pretext of an inspection tour, arriving at its castle for a banquet.

• Zhao Fu summoned Locke Kingdom’s great lords through the old king, but many declined to attend.
• Zhao Fu ordered the kingdom’s soldiers to assemble, prompting the great lords to gather their own forces in preparation for resistance.
• Zhao Fu announced an inspection tour with three thousand guards, easing the lords’ fears that the kingdom would attack them.
• Zhao Fu led the old king to the Fero Family’s territory, where the family head greeted the king without showing much deference.
• Zhao Fu controlled the old king through the Fero Family’s welcome and followed him into the castle’s banquet hall disguised as a guard.

Zhao Fu infiltrated the Fero Family head’s room after the family discussed seizing the Locke Kingdom and revealed that he had overheard their plans. He easily broke their card restraints and captured the Fero Family members, leaving their fate in his hands.

• The old king and the Fero Family head drank together at a feast until the old king passed out and was escorted away.
• The Fero Family head’s children proposed imprisoning the old king and taking the Locke Kingdom, but he and the women cautioned them to wait for a better opportunity.
• Zhao Fu emerged from the void as the Fero Family members prepared to leave and was trapped by cards that restrained him with a ring of light and vines.
• Zhao Fu shattered both restraints, prompting the Fero Family head to attack and the others to flee.
• Zhao Fu sent chains from the void and bound the Fero Family head and everyone else, leaving them terrified.

Zhao Fu revealed that he controlled Locke Kingdom and used his power to subdue the Fero Family head and his son, while forcing the family’s women to submit. Afterward, he left the Fero Family’s territory to bring the next family under his control.

• The Fero Family head offered Zhao Fu riches and service, but Zhao Fu revealed that Locke Kingdom’s king was his puppet and that he was from Apocalypse World.
• Zhao Fu used his demonic power to control the Fero Family head and the handsome young man, then promised to spare the family if the four women obeyed him.
• Evony, Fuxisi, Josie, and Judy submitted to Zhao Fu, who told them he planned to control the remaining families and use Locke Kingdom as a base for war against neighboring nations.
• The next morning, Zhao Fu left the women sleeping, and the Fero Family head and the handsome young man returned to normal under his control.
• Zhao Fu instructed the three married women on several matters, then led his people toward the territory of the next family.

After Thunder Kingdom declared war over Locke Kingdom canceling the royal marriage, Zhao Fu seized control of Locke Kingdom’s lords and prepared to fight. The chapter ended with Locke Kingdom’s smaller army facing Thunder Kingdom’s forces at the border, while Zhao Fu remained confident of victory.

• Zhao Fu canceled Hillary’s marriage to Thunder Kingdom’s prince, prompting Thunder Kingdom to declare war on Locke Kingdom.
• Locke Kingdom’s lords urged the king to restore the marriage and seek peace, while Hillary trusted Zhao Fu to handle the crisis.
• Zhao Fu used his power to control the lords and ordered them to gather their troops.
• Zhao Fu embraced Hillary and declared that Locke Kingdom would fight Thunder Kingdom, assuring her that they would not lose.
• Locke Kingdom assembled five hundred million Tier 2 soldiers against Thunder Kingdom’s eight hundred million, and Zhao Fu watched the enemy army from the border wall with Hillary.

Zhao Fu and Hillary defended Locke Kingdom’s city against Thunder Kingdom, whose powerful cavalry regiment shattered the city’s barrier and nearly breached the wall. Thunder Kingdom’s troops advanced as Locke Kingdom’s defenders struggled to hold them back.

• Zhao Fu declared himself Locke Kingdom’s master and Hillary’s man, prompting the King of Thunder Kingdom to order an attack.
• Hillary commanded Locke Kingdom’s archers and card-wielding troops as both sides traded arrows, water attacks, shields, and lightning.
• Thunder Kingdom unleashed a million-strong cavalry regiment that combined purple lightning and smashed through Locke Kingdom’s defensive barrier, heavily damaging the city wall.
• Hillary ordered the archers to attack the cavalry, but the riders’ electric field destroyed the incoming arrows.
• Thunder Kingdom’s army reached the city walls and fired arrows at the defenders, who raised their shields to block them.

Zhao Fu used Evil Flower Enchants the World to break the Thunder Kingdom’s siege of Locke Kingdom and control nearly ten million enemy soldiers. The Thunder Kingdom retreated, while Hillary and the Locke soldiers witnessed Zhao Fu’s overwhelming power.

• The Thunder Kingdom and Locke Kingdom fought fiercely as the attackers scaled the walls and the defenders struggled to hold them back.
• Zhao Fu appeared before the Thunder Kingdom cavalry, blocked their lightning attack, and sent over a hundred thousand riders flying.
• Zhao Fu unleashed Evil Flower Enchants the World, growing a vast black flower and using its bloody aura to control nearly ten million Thunder Kingdom soldiers.
• The controlled soldiers attacked their own forces, and the Thunder Kingdom King ordered a retreat as both armies watched Zhao Fu in fear and awe.
• Zhao Fu pursued the retreating Thunder Kingdom soldiers with his controlled forces before ordering them to stop.

After Zhao Fu helped Locke Kingdom defeat Thunder Kingdom, Hillary became its new king with the support of her father and third brother. Zhao Fu reflected on the devastating power of Card World's cavalry and their ability to kill enormous creatures.

• Zhao Fu ended his control over the battlefield, leaving a little over three million Thunder Kingdom soldiers under his influence as Locke Kingdom celebrated its victory.
• Zhao Fu returned to the palace with Hillary and arranged for her coronation, while the controlled lords followed them.
• Hillary became king of Locke Kingdom; her father accepted her rule, her third brother supported her, and her eldest and second brothers were kept in the palace.
• Neighboring nations sent envoys to congratulate Hillary and sought good relations with Locke Kingdom after Thunder Kingdom's defeat.
• Zhao Fu considered Card World's cavalry a formidable threat, noting that their specialized abilities allowed small squads to kill enormous creatures.

Zhao Fu examined Locke Kingdom’s cavalry and learned how their Card World treasure-artifact equipment linked riders to their horses. He discovered the six grades of cavalry gear, including the legendary imperial-grade sets, and considered how Great Qin might study the technology.

• Zhao Fu recognized that Card World’s cavalry could counter the large creatures Great Qin relied on and decided to study their methods.
• Zhao Fu visited Locke Kingdom’s cavalry, whose Tier 4 soldiers greeted him in water-attributed equipment.
• Zhao Fu examined a complete set of Water Spirit treasure artifacts and learned how its weapons, armor, rings, and pendant enhanced a rider.
• Zhao Fu learned that the Water Spirit Token linked a cavalryman’s thoughts and vitality with their horse and could store the horse.
• Zhao Fu learned the six grades of Card World treasure artifacts and heard that imperial cavalry were legendary, with the power to hunt immortals.

Zhao Fu examined Locke Kingdom’s Cavalry and observed a soldier and Water Scale Horse undergo knight Class Transfer. He learned how the Cavalry’s linked power, lord power, and abilities made the regiment formidable.

• Zhao Fu learned that Card World’s Cavalry drew strength from carefully selected knights, national resources, and the knight class, which only nations could provide.
• Zhao Fu went to Locke Kingdom’s transfer platform and had a soldier bring a Water Scale Horse to undergo Class Transfer.
• Four stone steles enveloped the soldier and horse in light, giving both a glowing blue mark and enhanced strength.
• Zhao Fu examined the pair and sensed that their auras had become linked and that both possessed regional lord power.
• Zhao Fu learned that Cavalry soldiers could combine into a powerful unit, draw on regional power, intimidate enemies, and use the attacks Locke River and River Serpent.