Chapter Summaries

After Great Qin’s torture of captured players spread and failed to drive the attacking army away, Zhao Fu targeted the strongest player force with the Undead Catastrophe. The undead army charged Liu Hongjiang’s eastern army, which prepared to defend as arrows flew in from both sides.

• The player army recoiled at the tortured corpses, but its commander reported the scene and later persuaded the soldiers to stay with doubled rewards and Suicide Pills.
• News of Great Qin’s brutality spread through the real world, drawing condemnation while dynasty factions resolved to keep attacking.
• Zhao Fu chose to strike Liu Hongjiang’s eastern army with the Undead Catastrophe, hoping to break the strongest force and damage its morale.
• Liu Hongjiang ordered his troops into formation when a black magic formation summoned more than two million skeletons toward them.
• Arrows shot from both sides before the undead army reached Liu Hongjiang’s shield wall.

Great Qin defeated Liu Hongjiang’s player army with the undead, archers, and City Lords, but Zhao Fu discovered that the victory had led them into a trap. Armies were closing in from all four directions, leaving Great Qin surrounded.

• Bai Qi and the other generals attacked the player army’s shield wall while Great Qin’s hidden archers fired from the flanks, and the undead broke through the defenses.
• Liu Hongjiang urged the players to hold their ground by promising ten times the reward, but Zhao Fu appeared and killed him with an arrow.
• With Liu Hongjiang dead, the player army routed as the undead pursued them; Great Qin won but lost nearly half its skeletons.
• Zhao Fu ordered the battlefield cleared, then sensed danger and discovered armies approaching from three directions, along with 1.2 million Tier 1 soldiers and twelve City Lords to the east.

Zhao Fu used all of Great Qin’s national fortune to unleash Demon Realm Gate against the nine million players and 1.2 million system soldiers surrounding Great Qin. The gate opened above the battlefield, releasing a vast tide of flesh-and-blood demons as the players faced the oncoming horde in fear.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s 800,000 soldiers to confront the system army while he blocked the three player armies alone.
• Zhao Fu decided to spend Great Qin’s accumulated national fortune because the Wild Azure Dragon and Golden Dragon could not help.
• Zhao Fu gathered the national fortune into himself, causing a terrifying pressure to shake the Terror Forest and frighten the charging players.
• Twelve Great Qin City Lords blocked the system City Lords as they tried to stop Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu opened Demon Realm Gate, and countless demons poured through to attack the player armies.

Great Qin’s demons, undead, and soldiers attacked the system forces, while Ge Nie revealed his allegiance by striking down a system city lord. The betrayal sparked a battle between the city lords as fighting engulfed both armies.

• The demonic tide and Great Qin’s skeletons struck the players from two sides, breaking their defenses and driving them into a massacre.
• Bai Qi, Wei Liao, Wang Jian, Meng Tian, and Sima Cuo activated their General’s Artifacts, empowering Great Qin’s soldiers to break through the system army’s line.
• The two armies fought fiercely as the system and Great Qin city lords unleashed the power of their City Lord Seals.
• Ge Nie killed a system city lord, took his City Lord Seal, and revealed himself as Fighting City’s young city lord acting for Great Qin.
• Ge Nie attacked another system city lord, prompting the Great Qin city lords to engage their opponents, while Fighting City soldiers attacked the system troops around them.

Zhao Fu kept the Demon Realm Gate open until he collapsed, and Great Qin won the battle at a heavy cost. After waking, he learned of the casualties and received notifications that the Great Chaotic World had entered its second stage and Huaxia faced the threat of losing its foremost inheritance status.

• Zhao Fu commanded the demons and undead to keep attacking as the player army faltered, while commanders held the players in place by promising double rewards for those who died fighting.
• Great Qin's soldiers, the Fighting City troops, and the generals fought the system army and City Lords, with Great Qin gaining the upper hand.
• Zhao Fu endured severe pain and bleeding to maintain the Demon Realm Gate until he lost consciousness and fell from the sky.
• Xian Ru told Zhao Fu that Great Qin had won, losing 240,000 people and five generals while killing 700,000 enemies, capturing 100,000 soldiers and one City Lord, and killing six City Lords.
• Zhao Fu viewed notifications announcing the early closure of the Heavenly Domain Barrier's second layer, the Great Chaotic World's second stage, Huaxia's altered rewards and danger of erasure, and the backlash he had suffered.

After Great Qin’s Fate was exhausted, Huaxia’s enemies invaded to seize its territory and claim the rewards, while its dynasties and factions feared the resulting calamity. Zhao Fu learned that Fate backlash had left him gravely weakened, but Xian Ru said Great Qin’s recovering Fate and the Imperial Phoenix Statue could heal him.

• The world notification announced that Great Qin’s defeat had closed the second layer of the Heavenly Domain Barrier, ended the Spring Festival event early, and begun the second stage of the chaotic age.
• Twenty-one of the twenty-two countries surrounding Huaxia invaded, while Huaxia’s clans, Hundred Schools of Thought, dynasties, and factions feared that Great Qin’s collapse would bring disaster to all Huaxia.
• Huaxia people cursed Great Qin for ending the Spring Festival event, blaming it for their lost rewards.
• Zhao Fu asked Xian Ru about his severe Fate backlash, and she said Great Qin’s recovering Fate and the Imperial Phoenix Statue could help heal him.

After Great Qin defeated the system army, Zhao Fu surveyed its heavy losses and organized its gains and new City Lords while recovering from his injuries. The chapter ended with Great Qin bringing six women with phoenix aura to Zhao Fu to help heal him.

• Zhao Fu rose with Xian Ru's help, thanked Ge Nie for aiding Great Qin in battle, and returned to Great Qin with his forces.
• Zhao Fu mourned the 240,000 soldiers and five generals lost, then reviewed the seven captured system main cities, prisoners, corpses, and equipment.
• Zhao Fu appointed Sun Wu, Chen Man, Li Mu, Du Kong, Liu Yeqing, Niu Shili, and Li Yun as City Lords.
• With Great Qin still short of one small city for its upgrade, Zhao Fu continued searching for a Goblin or Elf city so Rogge or Daisy could become a City Lord.
• Xian Ru sent Great Qin Assassins to capture women with phoenix aura, and they brought six women before Zhao Fu to help heal his injuries.

Zhao Fu discovered that Sun Sisi was among six women captured for their phoenix qi, and he made them Imperial Consorts to heal his injuries. As the women were taken to their courtyard, Huaxia faced a massive invasion by twenty-one nations, bringing the coming Humiliation of Huaxia into view.

• Zhao Fu recognized Sun Sisi and learned that Great Qin had captured her and five other women for their phoenix qi.
• Sun Sisi recognized Zhao Fu as her former classmate and discovered he was the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Zhao Fu kept Sun Sisi and the other women in Great Qin to protect his identity and avoid trouble with Flower Moon.
• Zhao Fu used the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to name Sun Sisi, Zhao Yining, Liu Rubai, An Yanling, Bao Ningzhu, and Li Wanbai Imperial Consorts, and their phoenix qi helped heal his injuries.
• Liu Rubai reunited with her Fourteenth Sister, who had also been captured from Flower Moon.
• Twenty-one nations attacked Huaxia while it remained unprepared, pushing it toward the historic Humiliation of Huaxia.

Oleg led Great Russia’s massive army against Huaxia, whose players chose surrender and peace over resistance. Huaxia activated Absolute Neutrality Mode, forcing its people outside the city, where Oleg ordered his forces to kill them all, including those who surrendered.

• Oleg led more than ten million Great Russian players to surround Huaxia’s two system main cities and rejected a representative’s plea for peace.
• Huaxia’s players argued over whether to fight or surrender, and most supported peace while condemning those who wanted to resist.
• Huaxia’s city lords activated Absolute Neutrality Mode, and the system barrier expelled the city’s players outside.
• Oleg’s archers fired on the unprepared Huaxia players, killing one-third in the first volley and many more in the next.
• Oleg rejected the surrendering Huaxia players and ordered the Great Russians to kill them all.

Oleg’s Great Russia army massacred the Huaxia people in Houfeng Region, claimed the region, and moved on to another target. Tut’s Mongol State cavalry then slaughtered the Huaxia population in a neighboring border region and rode onward with their heads displayed as trophies.

• Oleg ordered his troops to kill the remaining Huaxia people outside the neutral system main city, while the city lord refused to let them inside.
• Great Russia looted the battlefield, received notice that Houfeng Region had been occupied, and raised its flag over a mountain of Huaxia corpses.
• Tut led the Mongol State cavalry into a border region after its system main city entered absolute neutrality and expelled the Huaxia people.
• The Mongol State cavalry cut down Huaxia people who resisted or surrendered, killing nearly all of the region’s fewer than 1.5 million residents.
• Tut ordered his soldiers to cut off Huaxia heads and hang them from their horses before leading the army toward the next region.

Kazakh State invaded Huaxia’s Sandbar Region, massacred its defenders, and forced captives into a cruel hunting contest led by Ke Jie. As invasions spread across the southern continent, Zhao Fu consulted his generals and arranged defenses while remaining too weak to travel.

• Kazakh State surrounded Huaxia people in the Sandbar Region, killed most of them, and captured around twenty thousand.
• Ke Jie ordered the captives to be used as prey in a hunting contest, and Kazakh archers shot nearly all of them as the others watched.
• Kazakh State occupied the Sandbar Region, while Huaxia remained unaware that invasions were spreading from multiple directions.
• Zhao Fu discussed the crisis with his generals and arranged deployments and defenses, receiving reports because his weakened body kept him from traveling.

Korea invaded Huaxia’s eastern region with six million players, and commander Piao Xuehui punished captured Huaxia people for refusing to submit. After forcing some survivors to profess loyalty, she ordered her forces to capture Huaxia natives and impose a slave system.

• Piao Xuehui led six million Koreans into the region, but most Huaxia players fled before they arrived.
• Korean forces caught over three thousand Huaxia stragglers, and Piao Xuehui ordered the captured people brought before her.
• Piao Xuehui demanded that the prisoners call Huaxia people Korea’s servants and claim Huaxia had stolen Korean culture, then ordered the deaths of those who refused.
• About four hundred prisoners escaped after making the demanded declarations, while the others were killed.
• Piao Xuehui sent the Koreans to search for Huaxia native villages and announced that they would enslave the captured natives, prompting furious protests online.

Oda Kamiya led Japan’s invasion of Huaxia territory and ordered attacks on native villages, while Japan announced its plan to enslave Huaxia women. Flower Moon prepared to resist Japan and also demanded that Great Qin return its Fourteenth Sister and Twenty-Sixth Sister.

• After Japan’s forces found Huaxia native villages, Oda Kamiya ordered his men to slaughter the men, elderly people, and children and assault the women.
• Oda Kamiya killed a middle-aged man who begged for his family’s safety, then attacked the man’s wife.
• Oda Kamiya ordered the surviving women taken to Japan as slaves, and Japan publicly announced its female slave system.
• The Japanese invasion enraged Huaxia people, especially Huaxia women.
• Flower Moon prepared to resist Japan and demand the return of its Fourteenth Sister and Twenty-Sixth Sister from Great Qin.

Foreign nations occupied several Huaxia regions, with the Philippines slaughtering Huaxia defenders and the Joseon Kingdom, Malaysia, and Indonesia taking more territory. Zhao Fu returned to the real world, learned how severe Huaxia’s crisis had become, and saw that the worst fighting was in western Huaxia.

• Japan occupied the Withered Wood Region, while the Philippines invaded another region with over ten million troops and killed the Huaxia defenders who resisted.
• Edra had captured Huaxia survivors tortured and killed, then led the Philippine army onward.
• The Joseon Kingdom, Malaysia, and Indonesia occupied the Spring Harmony, Crimson, and Many Implements Regions, respectively, through a coordinated three-pronged invasion.
• Zhao Fu returned to the real world weakened by the backlash from fortune and declined to meet the family heads, Flower Moon, Feng Shiyu, and the White Lotus Sect representatives.
• Zhao Fu read Mu Guilin’s intelligence, learned how grave Huaxia’s situation was, and concluded that western Huaxia faced the most brutal conflict.

Huaxia suffered a massive invasion as India and other nations occupied its border regions, prompting the authorities, factions, and dynasties to organize resistance. Zhao Fu refused Huaxia’s appeal for Great Qin’s help, judging that he could not stop the invasion and that it would weaken Great Qin’s enemies.

• India’s forces, led by Shaluo with the Pillar of Ashoka and the Peacock Dynasty’s Fate Clan Artifact, invaded Huaxia while seven other nations attacked from the south.
• Notifications reported that India and Uzbekistan had occupied several Huaxia regions, weakening Huaxia’s national destiny and strengthening their own.
• Huaxia’s authorities urged the people, Hundred Schools of Thought, sects, dynasties, and factions to unite against the invaders.
• The authorities invited Zhao Fu and Great Qin to join the defense, but Zhao Fu rejected the request and returned the invitation.
• Zhao Fu considered possible ways to intervene, but decided he lacked the means and that the invasion would benefit Great Qin by weakening its enemies.

Huaxia organized a counterattack against the invading forces, using defensive works and traps to blunt the Russian and Mongol advances while Liu Canfei’s forces repelled the Kazakh army. The southern front settled into a growing stalemate, and Huaxia also prepared to respond to Han Kingdom and Japan in the east.

• Zhan Houlong led Huaxia people in the south to build a defensive wall and traps that halted Oleg’s Russian advance.
• Hong Chang used horse-tripping ropes and iron spikes to stop the Mongol State’s Cavalry charge and buy time for Huaxia to build defenses.
• Liu Canfei divided Huaxia’s forces into three groups and ambushed the Kazakh army, forcing it to retreat after heavy losses.
• Huaxia and the invading armies built defenses as reinforcements continued arriving, leaving the southern front deadlocked.
• Huaxia prepared a direct response to Han Kingdom and Japan on the eastern continent.

Huaxia fought on several fronts as it repelled Japan and the Philippines and held defensive lines against other nations, while suffering a severe retreat against India. India crossed the borderlands and invaded Huaxia’s territory, leaving the western battlefield in an increasingly brutal state.

• Huaxia’s army defeated the Han Kingdom in a direct clash, forcing it to retreat after three million Han soldiers and 3.6 million Huaxia soldiers died.
• Huaxia repelled Japan after a costly battle, while both armies waited for reinforcements.
• Huaxia’s defenses turned back the Philippines, and Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Joseon Kingdom stopped attacking.
• Huaxia and the five northern nations held their positions, with the five nations wary of Great Qin.
• Shaluo led forty million Indian forces into Huaxia, driving its troops back and invading five regions beyond the borderlands.
• Huaxia poured reinforcements into the west as hundreds of thousands died each hour in the brutal fighting.

After the invasions stalled, Zhao Fu assessed Huaxia’s predicament and Great Qin’s growing strength in Apocalypse’s second year. He acquired a way for Great Qin to kill ordinary players in reality, leaving the kingdom with a weapon that could threaten the invading nations.

• The inheritors of Great Han, Great Qing Dynasty, and Great Tang joined forces to stop India’s invasion, while the fronts around Huaxia settled into a tense standoff.
• Zhao Fu reviewed how Chaotic Era Points were earned and exchanged, and concluded that the conflict between Huaxia and the foreign nations would be prolonged.
• Great Qin’s population reached five million, and its army numbered about 720,000 soldiers after Fighting City joined under Ge Nie; Zhao Fu agreed to preserve the city’s arena.
• Zhao Fu ordered branch academies built to expand Great Qin’s education and continued planning to unify the five regions, with only one small city needed for its next upgrade.
• After Golden Dragon explained that Void Ink and Void Paper could produce talismans that inflicted real-world damage, Zhao Fu spent three billion New Year Points to obtain supplies for 30 million pieces.
• Zhao Fu learned that talisman-armament equipment could multiply the talismans’ effect, allowing Great Qin to kill up to 360 million ordinary players and potentially force the invaders to retreat.

Zhao Fu used Village-Seeking Compasses to speed Great Qin’s expansion while staying out of Huaxia’s border war. After a player revealed the location of Northern Qi, Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s army to surround the Nation’s Legacy, hoping to seize its fate and help Great Qin advance.

• Zhao Fu decided not to intervene in Huaxia’s war and spent 500 million New Year Points on fifty Village-Seeking Compasses.
• A week later, Great Qin had cleared two-thirds of the Terror Forest, and Zhao Fu learned that Northern Qi was the final Nation’s Legacy within Great Qin’s planned territory.
• A player sold Great Qin Northern Qi’s location after spotting the small city during its upgrade.
• Zhao Fu gathered Great Qin’s troops and personally marched toward Northern Qi, with Xian Ru supporting him and Ge Nie guarding him.
• Great Qin surrounded Northern Qi with its army, ready to conquer the Nation’s Legacy.

Great Qin surrounded Northern Qi City and demanded its surrender, but Northern Qi's inheritor chose to resist. Zhao Fu's forces quickly suppressed her dragon of fortune, captured her alive, and took the city.

• Bai Qi surrounded Northern Qi City with Great Qin's army and demanded that its people surrender.
• Northern Qi's inheritor argued against Great Qin's invasion, while Xian Ru revealed to Zhao Fu that she was a woman with dragon and phoenix aura.
• Northern Qi's inheritor summoned a gray dragon of fortune, but Great Qin's City Lords imprisoned it with their City Lord Seals.
• Zhao Fu ordered his City Lords to capture Northern Qi's inheritor alive, and she was fed a Fruit of Truth that fused her real-world body with her body in Apocalypse World.
• Northern Qi's forces surrendered, ending the battle for the city.