Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu’s forces captured Fragrant Moon City after the Nether Ghost Realm and undead overwhelmed its defenders, while Huaxia forces looted and attacked the city. As Hu Ming burned his life to hold off the besieging City Lords, Chen Xiangyue escaped, vowing revenge against Zhao Fu.

• The Nether Ghost Realm engulfed the eastern wall, terrifying the Little Viet defenders while Zhao Fu sent Stone Giants and skeletons to slaughter them.
• Zhao Fu’s forces took the eastern wall and opened the gates, and Huaxia forces captured the remaining walls as Little Viet defenders fled.
• Huaxia forces poured into Fragrant Moon City and began massacring and looting, while Great Qin Soldiers stayed on the eastern wall and did not enter.
• Hu Ming told Chen Xiangyue to escape, then burned his life to unleash a powerful blade attack against the nine City Lords surrounding them.
• Chen Xiangyue used a secret technique to flee, promising to repay Zhao Fu for the defeat.

Zhao Fu captured Chen Xiangyue, took the City Lord Seals, and conquered Waterflow City and Fragrant Moon City. After the Wood Viet Region fell to Huaxia, the world announced that Border Tokens had become available.

• Zhao Fu killed Hu Ming and took his City Lord Seal, then seized Chen Xiangyue’s seal and sealed her cultivation.
• Xian Ru stopped Zhao Fu from killing Chen Xiangyue, and Zhao Fu left her in Xian Ru’s care.
• Zhao Fu announced that surrendering natives would be spared, and Chen Xiangyue urged people from both cities to surrender.
• Zhao Fu occupied and relocated Waterflow City, gaining little, then relocated Fragrant Moon City and received battle merits, fate, experience, and war points.
• System notifications announced that Lesser Viet players could no longer respawn in the region, that the Wood Viet Region belonged to Huaxia, and that Border Tokens were now available worldwide.

After Great Qin defeated Little Viet, Zhao Fu rebuilt the captured cities, appointed Zhang Han and Xian Ru as their city lords, and brought five women into the main hall. The chapter ended with the women facing Zhao Fu with hatred and fear.

• The national announcement declared that Little Viet's defeat and the destruction of two system main cities had increased Huaxia's fortune, while the Border Token appeared and Zhao Fu decided against attacking more border regions.
• Zhao Fu assessed the battle's casualties, prisoners, and spoils before Great Qin withdrew with the captured cities and their population.
• Zhao Fu rebuilt Waterflow City and appointed Zhang Han its city lord.
• Zhao Fu gave Fragrant Moon City's City Lord Seal to Xian Ru, who accepted it, while Xiao Jian and Zhang Dahu hid their disappointment.
• After dismissing the generals, Zhao Fu told Xian Ru to bring in five women, who entered the main hall with anger, hatred, wariness, and fear toward him.

Zhao Fu made Chen Xiangyue, Fu Qing, Hu Meile, Yi Banxue, and Yang Xi consorts of Great Qin to absorb their phoenix aura, despite Chen Xiangyue and Fu Qing refusing. When the two tried to kill themselves, Zhao Fu stopped them and threatened to slaughter everyone connected to them.

• Zhao Fu presented five women captured from Fragrant Moon City and Little Viet with consort titles, intending to channel their phoenix aura into Great Qin.
• Chen Xiangyue and Fu Qing refused the titles, while Hu Meile, Yi Banxue, and Yang Xi agreed to become Zhao Fu's consorts.
• Zhao Fu used the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to confer the titles regardless of their objections, and their phoenix aura flowed into the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• Chen Xiangyue and Fu Qing tried to kill themselves rather than submit, but Zhao Fu restrained them with his power.
• Zhao Fu threatened to slaughter everyone in Fragrant Moon City and all those connected to the two women if they tried again.

Zhao Fu forced Chen Xiangyue and Fu Qing to submit by threatening Fragrant Moon City, then ordered them to undress before dismissing them. Later, he set aside plans to target a third system main city and decided to focus on meeting Great Qin’s requirements to upgrade to a major city.

• Zhao Fu threatened Chen Xiangyue and Fu Qing with the fate of Fragrant Moon City until they stopped resisting.
• Zhao Fu ordered Chen Xiangyue and Fu Qing to remove their clothes, inspected them, and left without touching them.
• Chen Xiangyue and Fu Qing dressed and were taken to a prepared courtyard, where they met Miao Qianmeng and Bai Yiqin.
• Xian Ru asked Zhao Fu whether he would proceed against a third target, and he said Great Qin should first fulfill its major-city upgrade requirements.

Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin for future expansion while Si Ji used a cure for an ancient poison to bring a system main city under the Great Xia Dynasty. The Great Xia Dynasty gained a city and one hundred thousand Tier 1 soldiers through the scheme.

• Zhao Fu ordered Wang Ergou and Guo Binglin to gather information on small towns and cities, then rested his soldiers before renewing the campaign.
• Si Ji offered to cure the city lord's gravely ill wife in exchange for the city lord's submission to the Great Xia Dynasty.
• After the maidservant warned that the wife was near death, the city lord accepted Si Ji's condition.
• Fuxi's descendant gave the woman a pill that stabilized her condition, and she recovered fully after more than three days.
• The city lord submitted to the Great Xia Dynasty, which gained a system main city and one hundred thousand Tier 1 soldiers.
• The chapter revealed that Great Xia had secretly poisoned the city lord's wife with an ancient poison obtained from a ruin.

Zhao Fu oversaw Great Qin’s economic reforms and its upgrade to a great city before a Wind Dragon Lord attacked the City of Holy Light to reclaim its stolen egg. The City Lord returned the egg, leaving Zhao Fu unable to exploit the conflict.

• Zhao Fu fed king-titled beasts to the Crown of Kings and encouraged wages, commerce, and taxation in Great Qin.
• Great Qin City upgraded into a great city, and Zhao Fu set his sights on meeting the requirements for its next upgrade.
• A Wind Dragon Lord attacked the City of Holy Light, and a Great Qin Assassin told Zhao Fu that the regional lord was responsible.
• Zhao Fu saw the Wind Dragon Lord fighting the City of Holy Light’s City Lord and realized it had come to reclaim the Wind Dragon Egg sold at auction.
• The City Lord returned the egg to the Wind Dragon Lord, while Zhao Fu held back from interfering.

After reclaiming her egg, the Wind Dragon Lord demanded treasure from City of Holy Light and fought the girl in white when she refused. Zhao Fu brought Great Qin’s army to exploit the battle and offered the dragon lord the city’s valuables in exchange for its City-Building Stone.

• The Wind Dragon Lord demanded five million gold coins or the valuables in City of Holy Light, and the girl in white refused to surrender the city’s possessions.
• The Wind Dragon Lord attacked the girl in white, and the two fought as Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin City and prepared an army of more than 600,000 troops.
• The Wind Dragon Lord unleashed a massive tornado, but the girl in white split it apart with her sword and wounded the dragon lord.
• Zhao Fu arrived above City of Holy Light with Great Qin’s forces and offered the Wind Dragon Lord every valuable in the city in exchange for its City-Building Stone.

Zhao Fu joined forces with the Wind Dragon Lord to attack the City of Holy Light while Great Qin prepared to ambush both her and the girl in white. Meanwhile, the three system main cities united with factions across the Terror Forest and prepared a massive assault on Great Qin, but Zhao Fu had not yet realized the danger as the siege progressed.

• The Wind Dragon Lord agreed to cooperate with Zhao Fu, and both secretly planned to betray the other and claim the spoils.
• Zhao Fu apologized to the girl in white and ordered the siege of the City of Holy Light while Great Qin's other nine City Lords waited nearby to strike.
• The other two system main cities rallied players and native inhabitants with rewards, threats, and promises of protection, drawing in factions including the Zhou Family, Jiang Family, the Holy Light Corps, and the Alliance of Soldiers.
• Heaven's Choice stayed out of the mobilization, but hostility toward it grew because it had been founded by Zhao Fu and was linked to Great Qin.
• Great Qin's intelligence personnel warned Zhao Fu that the three system main cities had gathered a force approaching four million, including three hundred thousand Tier 1 soldiers, and had learned to break the Isolation Grand Formation and teleport troops to the City of Holy Light.
• Zhao Fu remained unaware of the approaching threat as the Wind Dragon Lord held back the City of Holy Light's City Lord and the siege continued smoothly.

Zhao Fu withdrew Great Qin from the City of Holy Light after sensing a massive force approaching, but four million opponents soon blocked their escape. He used Great Qin’s power to halt their advance briefly, while leaders among the crowd urged everyone to fight.

• The Wind Dragon Lord warned Zhao Fu that danger was coming, and Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to retreat from the City of Holy Light.
• The girl in white sent City of Holy Light soldiers after Great Qin, so Zhao Fu left 150,000 skeletons behind to stall them.
• Zhao Fu learned that major factions and players had arrived, and he saw four million opponents blocking Great Qin’s path.
• Zhao Fu unleashed the power of Great Qin’s artifacts and forced the advancing crowd to stop temporarily.
• Voices in the crowd urged the people to fight Great Qin, promising rewards and warning that the three System Main Cities were at risk.

Zhao Fu used the Heavenly Demon Sword and powerful artifacts to summon demons that held back the advancing forces long enough for Great Qin’s soldiers to escape to Great Qin City. The retreat damaged Great Qin’s reputation, though some families continued to support it, believing it still had hidden strength.

• Zhao Fu summoned more than a hundred thousand demons with the Divine Gate of Hell, briefly stopping the vast human tide as Great Qin’s soldiers escaped through the Teleportation Array.
• The attackers celebrated forcing Great Qin to retreat, while three City Lords worried that Great Qin would retaliate.
• News of Great Qin’s retreat spread to the real world, encouraging factions and dynasties that had feared its power.
• The dynasties fulfilled their promised rewards to the people in Terror Forest, and many celebrated their victory.
• Most people surrounding the Ying Family left, but a small number stayed, and several aristocratic families resolved to continue supporting Great Qin.

After Great Qin’s forces were driven from the system main cities and players began searching for Great Qin City, Zhao Fu’s anger triggered a dangerous transformation linked to the Yinghuo Emperor Star and his demon god nature. Xian Ru brought him back to himself, and Bai Qi asked how Great Qin should respond to the search.

• The Ying Family learned Zhao Fu had not awakened, while Liu Ruyan and Pan Yuling accepted their new place in the family, Feng Shiyu worried about Zhao Fu, and Li Muqing continued her usual pursuits.
• The system main cities sealed Great Qin’s shops and players destroyed its forces and Heaven’s Choice in Terror Forest, while Heaven’s Choice’s core members remained safe within the Ying Family.
• The three City Lords and various dynasties offered large rewards for finding Great Qin City, prompting players to begin a widespread search.
• After hearing the news, Zhao Fu erupted in anger and began transforming as the Yinghuo Emperor Star’s destructive power and his demon god nature stirred.
• Xian Ru used five-colored radiance to bring Zhao Fu back to his original state, and Bai Qi asked how Great Qin should respond to the search.

Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to send assassins against the people searching for its location and to fortify its territory with traps, while Xian Ru warned him about the effects of his demonic power. The Great Qin Assassins began hunting in Terror Forest, where they soon encountered their first targets.

• Zhao Fu ordered Bai Qi to send out the Great Qin Assassins, attack the searchers from different directions, and set traps around Great Qin territory with the soldiers and a million civilians.
• Zhao Fu instructed Bai Shan to research a way to threaten people in the real world, then asked Xian Ru about his recent loss of control.
• Xian Ru warned Zhao Fu that demonic divinity and the Yinghuo Demon Star could drive him toward an unknown evolution, and urged him to spend time with women who carried strong phoenix aura.
• Long Xiaoxiao made lewd remarks, prompting Heavenly Demon and Zhao Fu to rebuke her before Xian Ru joked that the sword needed proper maintenance.
• Thirty thousand Great Qin Assassins led by the Twelve Assassins entered Terror Forest and began hunting the people searching for Great Qin.
• The searchers, confident after their supposed victory over Great Qin, moved through the forest without caution, and the assassins soon encountered them.

Great Qin Assassins ambushed the player army searching for Great Qin, killing hundreds of thousands before the survivors fled to the system main cities. The players’ confidence collapsed, and none dared continue searching for Great Qin’s location.

• A squad of seven players dismissed the threat of Great Qin, but hooded Great Qin Assassins killed them and concealed their bodies.
• Great Qin Assassins continued attacking small squads at the front of the player army, while those farther back remained unaware.
• As night fell, players lit campfires and rested, giving the Great Qin Assassins clearer targets.
• Players returning to the real world saw reports on the Apocalypse Forum of sudden attacks and rushed back to warn others.
• Great Qin Assassins pursued the exposed players through the night, killing them in a series of attacks.
• At dawn, only a little over 2.6 million of the more than three million players had returned, and the survivors stopped searching for Great Qin.

Great Qin prepared a layered defense against a massive player army, using traps and Ugly-Bone Fish to inflict heavy casualties before the enemy reached its core territory. After losing nearly a million fighters, the three city lords and faction leaders questioned whether to continue their advance.

• After players deduced Great Qin’s location, the three system main cities and various factions assembled an army of more than three million and marched toward it.
• Zhao Fu asked Bai Qi whether everything was ready, then led Great Qin’s soldiers out to meet the approaching army.
• Great Qin’s traps killed or injured roughly one hundred thousand players as the army struggled through the defended territory.
• The player army crossed a muddy waterlogged area, where hundreds of thousands of Ugly-Bone Fish attacked and crippled many soldiers.
• The three city lords killed the fish and helped pull survivors from the water, while the army’s remaining combat force fell to about 2.7 million and its leaders debated turning back.

The three system main cities’ army abandoned its advance toward Great Qin, but fell into an ambush of arrows, a beast tide, and undead raised from the dead beasts. Bai Qi and two other city lords blocked the three great city lords, and the battered army eventually retreated with heavy losses.

• The three system main cities decided to abandon their advance after suffering losses and realizing Great Qin had overwhelming numbers.
• Archers attacked the player army near the waterlogged ground, then a beast tide charged in and killed nearly 300,000 players before the army prevailed.
• The three system city lords confronted three figures supporting Great Qin, while their factions’ allies kept Great Qin’s true strength hidden from them.
• Ten pillars of black light raised the dead beasts as undead, which attacked the players while another volley of arrows struck from the forest.
• The leaders ordered a retreat, but Bai Qi and two others prevented the three great city lords from helping; about two million players escaped, and the system forces lost another 50,000 Tier 1 soldiers.

After Great Qin repelled the player army, both sides settled into a tense defensive standoff while Zhao Fu searched for a way to attack the three system main cities. He chose to target Demon Tree City's City Lord and began an assassination attempt with twelve assassins and Xian Ru.

• The three system main cities adopted defensive positions, and news of the player army's defeat spread through the real world.
• Jiang Rou worried that something had happened to Zhao Xin when she found Westfall Tower sealed and empty.
• Great Qin assessed its losses and considered how to stop the three cities from replenishing their player forces.
• Zhao Fu devised a plan to attack without sending in a large army and selected Demon Tree City's City Lord as his target.
• Zhao Fu, Xian Ru, and twelve assassins began their nighttime operation to assassinate the City Lord.

Zhao Fu and twelve assassins infiltrated the City Lord's Manor and launched a coordinated assassination against the green-robed old man. They poisoned and gravely wounded him, then escaped as soldiers rushed in.

• Zhao Fu led the twelve assassins and Xian Ru into the system main city and identified the green-robed old man's location in the City Lord's Manor.
• Zhao Fu's group silently killed the guards outside the old man's room and attacked him, but he dismissed the Tier 2 assassins and countered with green leaves.
• The twelve assassins formed the All Things Are Void barrier, weakening the old man, while Xian Ru sent ten empowered purple talismans at him.
• Zhao Fu appeared behind the old man and stabbed him with the Dagger of Death, while Poison Dragon Liquid spread through his body and made him collapse.
• As soldiers rushed to the room, Zhao Fu ordered the others to flee, and the group escaped.

Zhao Fu killed Demon Tree City's City Lord and occupied the city, then withdrew when the remaining City Lords refused to surrender. Great Qin rebuilt Demon Tree City, while its enemies prepared to defend their two remaining system main cities.

• Zhao Fu pulled the City Lord Seal from the dying green-robed City Lord, killing him, then occupied and relocated Demon Tree City's City Heart.
• Zhao Fu escaped the pursuing City Lords and soldiers, offered the two remaining City Lords a chance to surrender, and left when they refused.
• The Forest of Soldiers City Lord and the white-clothed young woman divided Demon Tree City's displaced players and residents between their cities and ordered emergency defenses.
• Zhao Fu rebuilt Demon Tree City and gave its City Lord Seal to Xiao Jian, bringing Great Qin's total to eleven City Lords.
• Zhao Fu learned that the two remaining system main cities each had at least 1.7 million combat strength and considered how to deal with wilderness villages that could support them.

Zhao Fu poisoned the wells in the Forest of Soldiers, killing hundreds of thousands before unleashing undead forces and evil spirits to create further chaos. The city’s defenders and inhabitants were left fighting one another as the spirits repeatedly possessed new targets.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to buy poison and sent two hundred elite assassins to contaminate wells in the Forest of Soldiers.
• The poisoned well water killed roughly two hundred thousand people in each of the two system main cities, and their leaders blamed Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu activated a black magic formation that turned the dead into attacking skeletons.
• Great Qin’s Skeleton Mages summoned evil spirits that possessed players and made them attack their allies.
• The spirits kept seeking new hosts after their possessed players were killed, worsening the chaos in the Forest of Soldiers.