Chapter Summaries

The Golden Dragon broke free from the nations’ restraints, killed sect leaders, and used their hearts to advance Zhao Fu’s Heaven-Slaying Bloodline. After the guardian beasts attacked, Zhao Fu saved the Golden Dragon and completed its transformation into a being of the human world, though another stage of fusion remained.

• The Golden Dragon shattered the chains and Nation-Guarding Artifacts, then gathered more fate as its power grew.
• The Golden Dragon killed numerous sect leaders and used their hearts to form a blood-colored magic formation that transformed Zhao Fu’s soul.
• The Golden Dragon attacked the inheritors of national legacies, but the four guardian beasts intervened and struck at it.
• Zhao Fu opened his blood-colored double pupils and used the Earth Realm Mark to repel the guardian beasts’ beams and save the Golden Dragon.
• The guardian beasts withdrew after the Golden Dragon became part of the human world, and a blood-red slaughter rune appeared in Zhao Fu’s soul.
• Zhao Fu released another black dragon to continue the remaining fusion.

Zhao Fu merged the Golden Dragon into Great Qin, greatly strengthening the empire’s fortune and raising his bloodline to Level 16, the Emperor Bloodline. The dragons returned to his body, leaving Great Qin’s position at the top even more secure.

• Zhao Fu summoned Great Qin’s fortune and poured it into the Golden Dragon, transforming it into Great Qin’s dragon of fortune.
• Zhao Fu used the power within his soul’s rune to strengthen the Black Dragon as pillars of light and storms spread across the Apocalypse World.
• The Golden Dragon and Black Dragon completed their transformation, and both dragons entered Zhao Fu’s body.
• The Golden Dragon’s fortune strengthened Great Qin’s foundation, while its power raised Zhao Fu’s Heaven-Slaying Bloodline to Level 16, the Emperor Bloodline.
• Zhao Fu retained his loyalty to Great Qin despite possessing both the Great Qin Bloodline and the Heaven-Slaying Bloodline.

After Zhao Fu gained an emperor-grade bloodline and Great Qin’s Golden Dragon became known, Great Qin continued clearing the Terror Forest while its enemies formed a worldwide coalition to stop its expansion. The chapter left the coalition preparing to attack Great Qin, despite objections to joining forces with foreign powers.

• Zhao Fu returned to Xian Ru and the generals after gaining an emperor-grade bloodline, and Great Qin continued clearing the Terror Forest.
• The news of Great Qin’s Golden Dragon reached the real world, prompting former opponents to seek peace with the Ying Family, which rejected them.
• The White Lotus Sect’s saintess told Mei Xiaoyan to use Great Qin’s support for revenge and try to win Zhao Fu over.
• The Huaxia dynasties decided to investigate the Golden Dragon before launching a four-direction offensive against Great Qin.
• Foreign factions joined the Huaxia dynasties in providing full support for a coalition to suppress Great Qin, dismissing objections to cooperating with outsiders.

The major dynasties and foreign factions prepared a massive assault on Great Qin, while Zhao Fu and his generals considered how to withstand their forces. A sudden three-day snowfall blanketed the Apocalypse World and halted both sides’ plans.

• The major dynasties rejected the Clans’ plea to leave Great Qin alone and demanded that it surrender the Fate Clan Artifact and restrict its power.
• The dynasties and foreign factions decided to invade the Terror Forest, preparing against Great Qin’s traps and drawing in nearly ten million players from four regions.
• Zhao Fu learned of the impending attack and discussed the danger with his generals, knowing Great Qin’s soldiers could not revive like the players.
• The Hundred Schools of Thought and various sects reconsidered their hostility toward Great Qin, while Flower Moon remained neutral as it sought cooperation.
• Temperatures plunged across the Apocalypse World, and three days of heavy snow buried the land and forced both the attacking factions and Great Qin to halt their plans.

Zhao Fu learned that the Spring Festival would halt wars across the Apocalypse World and reward participants through general summons and general fortune. He examined the festival’s offerings at the exchange stele, which could strengthen commanders and help factions obtain powerful generals.

• Zhao Fu ordered preparations for the Spring Festival, which began at midnight and forbade war under threat of the negative Destroyer trait.
• Zhao Fu visited the exchange stele and learned that the festival focused on generals, with General Tokens for summoning and general fortune for awakening general stars.
• The exchange stele listed ten parallel-world historical generals, including Sun Hanxiang, Bai Xihan, and Huo Linxue.
• Zhao Fu learned that general fortune could give commanders Great General, Heavenly Dipper, or Earthly Fiend General Stars.
• Zhao Fu concluded that General Tokens favored great national factions, while general fortune could help rising and aristocratic factions close the gap.

Zhao Fu watched Great Qin celebrate the Spring Festival, received a fortune bag, and went to sleep to enter the shared New Year Dreamscape. The dream event began with Zhao Fu joining the realm alongside everyone else.

• Zhao Fu watched the lively Spring Festival celebrations in Great Qin and spent the evening eating with Xian Ru.
• At midnight, colorful lights filled the sky and everyone received a New Year fortune bag; Zhao Fu found several copper coins inside his.
• Zhao Fu learned that sleeping would let him enter the shared New Year Dreamscape, where participants could use only their own strength.
• Zhao Fu let the Xianbei maidservants remain in his warmed bed, then lay down and entered the New Year Dreamscape.

Zhao Fu entered the New Year Dreamscape as a Year Beast and learned how tangyuan, New Year Points, attacks, and protection worked. As his protection ended, he stole 50 points from a fleeing Year Beast and escaped while the others resumed their pursuit.

• Zhao Fu discovered that he had become a small Year Beast protected by a temporary white light, and learned the rules for earning and stealing New Year Points.
• Zhao Fu hid while his protection faded and watched several Year Beasts chase a larger Year Beast they called uncle.
• Zhao Fu attacked the uncle Year Beast just after his protection vanished, stealing 50 New Year Points before retreating.
• Zhao Fu drew the pursuing Year Beasts toward the uncle Year Beast, then slipped away as they continued after their larger target.

Zhao Fu collected New Year Points in the New Year Dreamscape, defeating a larger Nian Beast with help from another player and advancing to Level 2. He and his new partner then agreed to hunt other Level 2 Nian Beasts.

• Zhao Fu ate several rice balls and gained New Year Points before a newly spawned girl Nian Beast tried to ambush him.
• Zhao Fu struck the girl Nian Beast three times, gaining points and causing her to respawn.
• Zhao Fu agreed to cooperate with a young male Nian Beast to attack a much larger Level 2 Nian Beast.
• Zhao Fu and his partner coordinated their attacks, defeating the larger Nian Beast and taking most of its New Year Points.
• Zhao Fu gained a speed-boosting attribute and reached Level 2, then continued hunting with his partner until the partner also advanced to Level 2.
• Zhao Fu and his partner discussed ambushing other Level 2 Nian Beasts.

Zhao Fu and Liu Xinze hunted Year Beasts together, advanced to Level 3, and then split up to claim separate regions. Hunting alone, Zhao Fu spared a familiar-sounding female Year Beast before a golden tangyuan appeared and drew a swarm of Year Beasts.

• Zhao Fu and Liu Xinze cornered and killed a Level 2 Year Beast, while Zhao Fu caught and humiliated the female Year Beast who had tried to ambush them.
• Zhao Fu and Liu Xinze shared tangyuan, exchanged names, and advanced to Level 3 Year Beasts.
• Zhao Fu and Liu Xinze parted ways so each could hunt in a separate region, and Zhao Fu gained Strength Enhancement and Protective Shield.
• Zhao Fu spared a fleeing Level 2 Year Beast after her voice seemed familiar, then punished a roguish Year Beast who cursed at him.
• A golden tangyuan worth 500 New Year Points appeared, and countless Year Beasts rushed toward it.

Zhao Fu became a Level Four Year Beast, hunted other beasts for New Year Points, and dealt with the girl Year Beast again. As he wondered how to earn points faster, Golden Dragon began explaining to the four swords how they could help him.

• A Level Two Year Beast swallowed the golden tangyuan and became Level Three, drawing a crowd of beasts that Zhao Fu attacked from behind.
• Surrounded by Year Beasts, Zhao Fu advanced to Level Four, drove them off, and killed two Level Three Year Beasts for 1,200 New Year Points.
• Zhao Fu caught the girl Year Beast, released her, then tricked and defeated her when she tried to slap him.
• Zhao Fu continued hunting Level Two Year Beasts and gained Enhanced Perception upon reaching Level Four.
• Outside the New Year Dreamscape, Golden Dragon asked the four swords whether they wanted to help Zhao Fu, and began explaining a method.

Zhao Fu endured a sudden attack of head pain, then awakened the power of his four swords and rapidly rose through the Year Beast levels by slaughtering his rivals. At Level Nine, he encountered the young girl Year Beast again and knocked her away without killing her.

• A small Year Beast slapped Zhao Fu while he was incapacitated, gaining enough power to become a Level Two Year Beast.
• Zhao Fu recovered, unleashed four streaks of sword light to slaughter the surrounding Year Beasts, and became a Level Five Year Beast with seven-colored radiance from his Emperor Bloodline.
• Zhao Fu ambushed Year Beasts gathering around a purple rice ball, killed them with sword light, swallowed the rice ball, and advanced to Level Six, gaining Beast King Domain.
• Zhao Fu continued hunting for seven or eight hours until he reached Level Nine and grew twenty meters tall, becoming so fearsome that ordinary Year Beasts fled at his approach.
• Zhao Fu caught the young girl Year Beast he had met before and swatted her away without killing her after she recognized him and threatened him.

Zhao Fu ranked first in the New Year Dreamscape and returned to find Long Xiaoxiao kissing him, then claimed the event’s rewards and used Great Qin’s pooled points to secure another top-ranked token. The chapter left Great Qin with the General Token for first place and Zhao Fu holding an Epic-grade Light Sword.

• Di Wutian and the other dynasty inheritors dominated the Year Beasts as the New Year Dreamscape announced its rankings, with Zhao Fu’s identity hidden at first place and 580,000 points.
• The Dreamscape closed, and Zhao Fu returned to his body to find Long Xiaoxiao kissing him; she fled into the Calamitous Dragon Sword and claimed she had been applying a status effect.
• The Golden Dragon warned Zhao Fu that festivals offered rare benefits that would be essential for surviving future dangers.
• Zhao Fu opened his first-place reward and obtained an Epic-grade Light Sword.
• Zhao Fu gathered Great Qin’s more than 500 million New Year Points and spent them all to secure the General Token for first place.

Zhao Fu sought a way for all of Great Qin to benefit from the New Year events and learned that an Eight Absolute Sword Formation required eight top-grade swords. After fusing the Six-Winged Angel Heart with the Light Sword, he obtained a transformed Six-Winged Angel sword, leaving him hopeful that he could complete the formation.

• Zhao Fu asked Golden Dragon how Great Qin could share the benefits of sword qi, and learned that he needed eight top-grade swords to deploy the Eight Absolute Sword Formation.
• Zhao Fu caught a Golden Chicken and a Golden Pig at the City Lord Manor, but each yielded only a gold-grade item, so he left the remaining creatures to his subordinates.
• Zhao Fu inspected the exchange stone monument and worried that Great Qin might soon lose its second-ranked General Token.
• Zhao Fu realized that fusing the Six-Winged Angel Heart with the Light Sword might raise the sword's quality enough to meet the formation's requirements.
• Zhao Fu fused the Six-Winged Angel Heart and Light Sword, and the resulting angel appeared before him before transforming into a sword.

Zhao Fu equipped the Sword Harness, completed and tested the Eight Absolute Sword Formation, then entered the New Year Dreamscape and fought his way to Level 7. When the Dreamscape rankings were announced, Arthur Tina ranked first, marking the first time a foreigner had surpassed everyone from Huaxia.

• Zhao Fu used the Sword Harness to store his swords and completed the Eight Absolute Sword Formation with swords borrowed from Bai Qi and the others.
• After discussing the approaching invasion and preparing for it, Zhao Fu activated the formation and entered the New Year Dreamscape as a small Year Beast.
• Zhao Fu used white sword qi to attack Year Beasts, met and briefly cooperated with Liu Xinze, and later defeated a group of Level 5 Year Beasts to reach Level 6.
• Zhao Fu reached Level 7 before the Dreamscape closed, but did not match his previous run to Level 9.
• The Dreamscape rankings placed Arthur Tina first with 190,000 New Year Points, ahead of Si Ji and Ji Shenming.

After Great Qin fell to fifty-eighth place in the New Year Points ranking, Zhao Fu discovered that it had earned 2 billion points and hurried to exchange them for General Tokens. He secured four more tokens and summoned five generals, whose loyalty was only 50.

• The factions celebrated Great Qin's absence from the top ten, while Zhao Fu accepted the result and resolved not to help those who opposed Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu returned from the New Year Dreamscape and learned that Great Qin had earned 2 billion New Year Points.
• Zhao Fu hurried to the exchange stele and obtained the tokens for Bai Xihan, Wei Qing, Li Mu, and Xu Liuyi before the remaining tokens disappeared.
• Zhao Fu summoned five generals, including Sun Hanxiang, and discovered that their loyalty was only 50.

Zhao Fu forced Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, Xu Liuyi, and Bai Xihan to become his consorts, despite the first three wanting to leave Great Qin. Their phoenix aura transformed the Imperial Phoenix Statue, whose growth astonished the Golden Dragon within Zhao Fu.

• Xian Ru urged Zhao Fu to bring the four great generals into the palace as consorts, citing their military ability and phoenix aura.
• Zhao Fu told Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, Xu Liuyi, and Bai Xihan that he wanted them as consorts; Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, and Xu Liuyi's loyalty fell to zero, while Bai Xihan's rose to 60.
• Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, and Xu Liuyi asked to leave, but Zhao Fu refused and declared that they would become his consorts.
• Bai Xihan unexpectedly agreed to become Zhao Fu's consort, and Zhao Fu used the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to invest all four women.
• Golden phoenixes emerged from the four women's bodies and flew toward the Heaven-Prayer Platform, triggering a dramatic transformation of the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• The Golden Dragon inside Zhao Fu remarked that the statue would become immensely terrifying once it grew.

Zhao Fu summoned the Imperial Phoenix Statue, then tried to bring Sun Hanxiang and the other women into accepting their place in Great Qin without forcing himself on them. He entered the New Year Dreamscape afterward, where Arthur Tina ranked first and Zhao Fu finished thirty-first.

• The Imperial Phoenix Statue transformed into a Golden Phoenix, refining Great Qin's destiny before returning to its crystal form.
• Zhao Fu brought Sun Hanxiang and two other women to his room, but lay down without forcing himself on them; Bai Xihan explained that she had offered herself for Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu entered the New Year Dreamscape and continued killing Year Beasts to gain levels and New Year Points.
• The New Year Dreamscape rankings placed Arthur Tina first, Caesar Augustus second, and Japan's Yuan Ren third, while Zhao Fu ranked thirty-first.

After the New Year Dreamscape rankings pushed Huaxia out of the top five, Zhao Fu worried that Huaxia’s fortune was weakening and that other nations might invade. An urgent report reached him just after he returned to his body, leaving the nature of the crisis unknown.

• Zhao Fu exchanged for a commander-grade Martial General Fortune and gave it to Xiao Jian.
• Sun Hanxiang, Wei Qing, and Xu Liuyi grew more loyal to Zhao Fu after seeing Great Qin, while Bai Xihan’s loyalty rose further.
• The New Year Dreamscape rankings placed Akhenaten third and Ji Shenming sixth, as Huaxia fell outside the top five.
• Zhao Fu feared Huaxia’s declining fortune could leave it vulnerable to invasion and considered restoring his nation sooner.
• A soldier urgently summoned Zhao Fu with a report about a major incident.

Four armies of players began a surprise attack on Great Qin during the Spring Festival event, forcing Zhao Fu to mobilize his defenses. As the enemy advanced through the snow, Zhao Fu sent fifty thousand Great Qin Assassins on a secret mission that unsettled Sun Hanxiang and the other women.

• A soldier informed Zhao Fu that four player armies had entered Terror Forest, and Bai Qi explained that isolation formations had blocked their teleportation.
• Zhao Fu investigated in the real world and learned the factions feared Great Qin and believed its absence from the top ten signaled weakness.
• Zhao Fu gathered reports showing that twelve million players were approaching from four directions, vastly outnumbering Great Qin's forces.
• Zhao Fu ordered fifty thousand Great Qin Assassins to carry out a secret command, and Sun Hanxiang and the other three women were chilled by its severity.
• The four armies used ice crystal stones to pave paths across the snow as they slowly marched toward Great Qin.

Great Qin Assassins infiltrated the player camps, killed night watchmen, and abducted more than fifty thousand people for Zhao Fu’s orders. The army discovered the disappearances the next morning, then found a horrific display of tortured captives that filled its soldiers with terror.

• While several watchmen entered the New Year Dreamscape, Great Qin Assassins killed two youths and knocked a middle-aged uncle unconscious.
• Fifty thousand Great Qin Assassins divided into four groups abducted more than fifty thousand people from the four player armies over the night.
• The Great Qin Assassins bound the captives, woke them with cold water, and began carrying out Zhao Fu’s orders.
• The player army found slain watchmen and discovered about fifty thousand people were missing, but its commander ordered the force to continue toward the other armies.
• The soldiers ahead broke down in terror when they saw captives tortured and displayed among the trees, and the commander-in-chief recoiled at the sight.