Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu welcomed Li Muqing and two other women into Great Qin, then considered Nü Lü’s plea to treat the women he had captured more kindly. As Great Qin continued clearing nearby regions, twenty neighboring regions formed a 10.4-million-soldier alliance against it, leaving Zhao Fu unable to expand for the moment.

• Zhao Fu revealed himself as the Great Qin Imperial Prince, reassured Feng Shiyu, and made her and the other two women his consorts.
• Zhao Fu showed Li Muqing Qin Times Academy, and she agreed to remain in Great Qin.
• Nü Lü urged Zhao Fu to treat his captive women with care, and Zhao Fu promised to consider it.
• Great Qin cleared another third of Hundred Bamboo, while Zhao Fu found Silver Lake inheritors Kuka and Dalem; only the shield remained undiscovered.
• Twenty neighboring regions formed four defensive alliances totaling seventy-one system main cities and 10.4 million troops, forcing Great Qin to halt its outward expansion.

Facing a combined threat of over ten million combat strength, Zhao Fu tried to prevent Great Qin from being attacked on all sides by offering gifts and proposing non-aggression contracts to the three weaker factions. The northern and southern factions agreed to sign, while the western faction remained divided over whether to reconcile with Great Qin or join the east against it.

• Wei Liao advised Zhao Fu to placate the four neighboring factions before they attacked Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu sent envoys with valuable gifts to the west, south, and north, offering peace and high-grade contracts while making no overture to the stronger eastern faction.
• The northern faction’s city lords agreed that signing a contract with Great Qin was the safest choice.
• The southern faction’s leaders also agreed to sign a contract after discussing the gifts and Great Qin’s peaceful offer.
• Western faction leaders debated whether to accept Great Qin’s offer or join the eastern faction in eliminating Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu secured peace contracts with the northern and southern factions while the eastern faction held back from attacking Great Qin. On his way west, Jing Qianxue and three allied City Lords ambushed him, but Zhao Fu easily repelled their opening strikes.

• The factions around Great Qin agreed to sign peace contracts, while the eastern faction chose to defend itself and wait for better intelligence.
• Zhao Fu signed a contract with the northern faction, accepting harsher penalties for Great Qin, then traveled south and signed another contract.
• Jing Qianxue learned Zhao Fu could not use the Nation-Guarding Artifact and persuaded Diao Nanlu, Zhuang Yuqin, and Fu Yingyan to help ambush him.
• Jing Qianxue and the three women attacked Zhao Fu with coordinated sword strikes, but he shattered their opening attacks with the Calamitous Dragon Sword.

Jing Qianxue and three companions ambushed Zhao Fu with a sword formation, but he broke free and defeated them with the power of the Great Qin Seal. Xian Ru stopped him from killing the women, and the western City Lords proceeded with the contract signing, handing the four women over to Great Qin.

• Jing Qianxue and three women formed a sword qi vortex to suppress and kill Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu drew on the Great Qin Seal and the other City Lords’ power to break the formation, then struck down Jing Qianxue and Diao Nanlu.
• Zhao Fu disarmed and grievously wounded Zhuang Yuqin and Fu Yingyan as they attacked him.
• Jing Qianxue begged Zhao Fu to spare the others, but he raised his sword to kill Fu Yingyan.
• Xian Ru reminded Zhao Fu that the women could provide phoenix aura, so he stopped and let the western City Lords continue signing the contract.
• The western City Lords handed Jing Qianxue and her companions over to Great Qin.

After conquering and relocating four cities in the Flower Region, Zhao Fu forced their city lords to become consorts and strengthened Great Qin with their people and soldiers. He obtained a third Wild Blood Mask fragment, but learned that restoring the artifact required help from the extinct kingdom’s royal family.

• Serya and Minae healed Jing Qianxue and her three sisters after Zhao Fu defeated them and took their City Lord Seals.
• Zhao Fu threatened to kill the injured women and destroy their cities unless Jing Qianxue persuaded the civilians and soldiers to relocate.
• Jing Qianxue’s people and soldiers cooperated, allowing Zhao Fu to take four system main cities, 1.9 million people, and 400,000 first-tier soldiers to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu forcibly conferred consort titles on the four women, and their phoenix aura strengthened the Imperial Phoenix Statue.
• Zhao Fu opened the Regional Treasure Chest and found a third Wild Blood Mask fragment.
• The Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu that restoring the Wild Blood Mask required help from the royal family of its long-extinct kingdom.

Zhao Fu discovered that Tuoba Qing’s bloodline was linked to the Wild Blood Mask and learned how Great Qin could restore it. Tuoba Qing agreed to become his consort and asked him to accept Wu Qian as one too, while Great Qin continued securing Hundred Bamboo and trading beyond the Land of Inheritance.

• The Wild Blood Mask fragment reacted to Tuoba Qing’s blood, revealing her connection to the Wild Blood Clan and possibly its royal lineage.
• The Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu to marry Tuoba Qing, use City-Building Stones to grow a related race to one hundred thousand people, and draw on its fate to restore the mask.
• Zhao Fu explained the plan to Tuoba Qing, who agreed to become his consort and revealed that Wu Qian also liked him; Zhao Fu agreed to accept them both.
• Tuoba Qing left to tell Wu Qian, while Zhao Fu noted that one Wild Blood Mask fragment was still missing and turned his attention back to Great Qin’s preparations.
• Zhao Fu deployed half his soldiers to guard the east and sent the rest to finish clearing Hundred Bamboo.
• During a later trade outside the Land of Inheritance, Zhao Fu obtained fewer soldier corpses than before, bought more high-grade rune stones, and received two significant pieces of news.

Zhao Fu learned that a demon world and a water world had appeared near the Human World, while a powerful Horn Demon Clan had forced the Blue-Eyed People and Greenfield People to halt their war. After Great Qin unified Hundred Bamboo and grew stronger, Zhao Fu sent its armies east to begin external conquest.

• Zhao Fu learned about the neighboring demon and water worlds and worried that the Horn Demon Clan might destroy the Blue-Eyed People and Greenfield People.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to accelerate its campaign in Hundred Bamboo.
• Great Qin unified Hundred Bamboo, renamed it Bamboo Prefecture, and gained the highest authority over the region.
• Great Qin City became a Level 2 major city as Great Qin's population reached 20.5 million and its army grew to 3.8 million soldiers.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin's soldiers to advance eastward against the eastern factions.

Zhao Fu drew the eastern alliance’s 3.1 million troops out by meeting them with a smaller Great Qin force, then ordered a retreat instead of attacking their defensive formation. The eastern city lords pursued Great Qin, leaving their careful formation behind.

• The eastern city lords learned that Great Qin was advancing with roughly two million troops and debated whether to attack or defend.
• The eastern alliance formed a defensive military formation and advanced toward Great Qin’s army.
• Zhao Fu met the eastern forces but ordered Great Qin to withdraw rather than risk attacking their larger formation.
• After debating what to do, the eastern city lords ordered their army to pursue Great Qin.

Zhao Fu used six million skeletons to pin down the Eastern army while Great Qin attacked with arrows, cavalry, and ballistae. Great Qin overwhelmed the System Cavalry and inflicted heavy losses, but the Eastern Shield Bearers still held their formation as Zhao Fu ordered the Tier 1 Ballistae to break through it.

• Zhao Fu activated the Calamity King's Ring and summoned six million skeletons to attack the Eastern army from both flanks.
• The Eastern soldiers formed a defensive military formation and held off the skeletons, while Great Qin's 3.8 million troops and 28 City Lords joined the battle.
• Great Qin's City Lords engaged the Eastern City Lords as Great Qin's Archers fired arrow volleys into the System soldiers.
• Three hundred thousand System Cavalry charged Great Qin, but seventy thousand Tier 2 Great Qin cavalry pierced through them and routed the cavalry force.
• Great Qin's repeated arrow volleys killed six or seven hundred thousand System soldiers, while the skeletons lost more than two million of their number.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Tier 1 Ballistae to target the outer Shield Bearers and break the Eastern army's shield wall.

Zhao Fu’s forces broke the eastern faction’s shield wall with rune arrows and defeated its army, then counted the dead, captives, and survivors. Great Qin began relocating captured system cities and invading a nearby region to seize its population.

• Zhao Fu ordered rune arrows fired at the Shield Bearers, tearing a huge gap in their shield wall and allowing the undead to overwhelm the formation.
• The eastern faction’s retreat failed as Great Qin’s forces killed two City Lords and the undead and arrows trapped the soldiers.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s cavalry and infantry to attack, routing the weakened system army and forcing the remaining City Lords to flee.
• After the battle, Zhao Fu counted five escaped, three captured, five surrendered, and eight dead eastern City Lords; about 2.6 million system soldiers had died, and eighty thousand Great Qin soldiers had fallen.
• Zhao Fu ordered the captured system main cities relocated and destroyed, then invaded a nearby region to plunder its population.

Zhao Fu’s army conquered several system main cities and brought 5.4 million people and sixteen cities under Great Qin’s control. After reviewing the campaign’s gains and opening regional treasure chests, Zhao Fu discovered a talisman that could turn corpses into swords.

• Zhao Fu offered the people of a surrounded city the chance to surrender, then ordered it burned when more than a hundred thousand refused.
• Great Qin captured people from successive system main cities, using Teleportation Arrays to transport them back.
• Wang Jian reported that the campaign had gained Great Qin 5.4 million people, sixteen system main cities, and six regional treasure chests.
• Zhao Fu named the captured city lords Fu Ningqin, Gongliang Qinruo, Pang Ziling, and Li Chun consorts, strengthening the Emperor Phoenix’s power.
• Zhao Fu opened the regional treasure chests and obtained a Corpse-to-Sword talisman, a Dragon-Shooting Ballista, and the S-rank Azure Stone Divine Art.

Zhao Fu learned of the Six Desires Immortal Scripture and struggled to choose between its abstinent and indulgent cultivation methods. He gave Tuoba Qing a small city, then opened another regional treasure chest before an explosion interrupted him.

• Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu about the Six Desires Immortal Scripture and its two cultivation methods, abstinence and indulgence.
• Zhao Fu postponed choosing a method because both options troubled him.
• Zhao Fu opened a regional treasure chest and obtained an unused small city-building stone.
• Zhao Fu gave the city-building stone to Tuoba Qing so she could establish a small city and condense a City Lord Seal.
• Zhao Fu opened another chest and obtained an epic-grade Flame Spirit Stone, then rushed out when an explosion sounded.

While Tuoba Qing condensed a City Lord Seal, her bloodline awakened and the Wild Blood Mask fragments joined to her face, unleashing a devastating shockwave. The chapter ended with Tuoba Qing standing in a vast crater, apparently newly awakened and stunned.

• A crimson pillar and primordial pressure erupted around Tuoba Qing as she condensed a City Lord Seal, and Zhao Fu carried the frightened Wu Qian away from the storm.
• Zhao Fu identified Tuoba Qing's bloodline as the source of the disturbance, and three Wild Blood Mask fragments flew to her and formed a damaged mask.
• Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu that Tuoba Qing belonged to the Primordial Human Race, an ancient and formidable clan whose members possessed origin bloodlines.
• Tuoba Qing cried out, and a tremendous shockwave destroyed the surrounding landscape and sent Great Qin's City Lords flying.
• Zhao Fu shielded himself and Wu Qian with his King's Domain and Black Dragon-Pattern Shield, but the shockwave hurled him into a mountain wall.
• After the disturbance stopped, Tuoba Qing stood at the center of a gigantic crater, staring around in shock.

Tuoba Qing’s awakening revealed her royal bloodline and Primordial Clan heritage, and Zhao Fu reassured her that he would protect her. After they became intimate, Zhao Fu cultivated the Six Desires Immortal Scripture, while Nü Lü brought Tuoba Qing food and comforted her.

• Tuoba Qing’s transformation unleashed a surge of phoenix aura that enlarged the Imperial Phoenix Statue and injured Zhao Fu, his generals, and people in nearby villages.
• Zhao Fu told Tuoba Qing that she possessed a royal bloodline and belonged to the Primordial Clan, then promised not to abandon her.
• Tuoba Qing kissed Zhao Fu, and the two became intimate; afterward, Zhao Fu promised to take care of her.
• Zhao Fu discovered six black clusters of qi in his dantian and realized he had learned the Six Desires Immortal Scripture.
• Nü Lü brought chicken soup to Tuoba Qing, and the two women chatted as Zhao Fu ate.
• After finishing his meal, Zhao Fu took out the unopened regional treasure chest.

Zhao Fu swallowed the Hundred Dragon Yang Pill, then discussed Great Qin’s plans to digest the six conquered regions. After Li Mu received a General’s Artifact and awakened Lianzhen Star, Great Qin gained another Great General Star.

• Zhao Fu swallowed the Hundred Dragon Yang Pill and spent the night with Nü Lü.
• Zhao Fu told Great Qin’s generals to focus on clearing and absorbing the six conquered regions, with its population at twenty-six million and its military at four and a half million.
• Li Wen brought Zhao Fu one hundred Soldier Souls, and Golden Dragon accepted that they came from soldiers of the Heaven-Slaying Empire.
• Zhao Fu converted the Soldier Souls into ten Soldier God Souls and entrusted them to Li Mu.
• Li Mu used the Soldier God Souls to summon and awaken Lianzhen Star, a purple-blood star with a sinister aura.

Zhao Fu received the Lianzhen Sword after Li Mu completed his General’s Artifact and learned that Great Qin’s assassins had captured Indian women for refining the Glass Peacock. After surveying Great Qin and reviewing news from the Apocalypse Forum, he logged into QQ to check on people from his former life.

• The Lianzhen Star empowered Li Mu and engraved its name on his sword, completing the Lianzhen Sword as a General’s Artifact.
• Zhao Fu examined the sword’s attributes and its Killing-and-Capturing Soldiers property, then returned it to Li Mu.
• Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin’s assassins had captured Indian women and that the Peacock Dynasty’s Nation-Guarding Artifact had become Great Qin’s Nation-Stabilizing Pillar.
• Zhao Fu continued seeking Indian women on the beauty ranking because he needed their phoenix aura to refine the Glass Peacock, while Indians speculated about the disappearances.
• Zhao Fu inspected Great Qin, read the Apocalypse Forum’s news about the Human World’s turmoil, and worried about the next stage of the age of chaos.
• Zhao Fu logged into QQ after a long absence to see how people from his former life were doing.

After logging into QQ, Zhao Fu caught up with old acquaintances and repaid Lin Qingyu for a small loan by sending her five hundred thousand. He offered help to Dong Meimei and Zheng Yuqin, leaving the conversation prepared to protect those who needed him.

• Zhao Fu read messages from Niu Gu, Lin Qingyu, and Dong Meimei, then asked Lin Qingyu for her card number so he could repay the five yuan she had lent him.
• Zhao Fu transferred Lin Qingyu five hundred thousand, and she joked that he must want her as a mistress before logging off to enter Apocalypse World.
• Zhao Fu left Dong Meimei a message offering to protect her if she faced danger.
• Zhao Fu answered Zheng Dong and Dong Suzhen, then responded to Zhang Yue with an eye-roll emoji.
• Zhao Fu gave Zheng Yuqin his new number and told her she could move to Ying City District if the outside became unsafe, promising to take care of her.

Zhao Fu reconnected with his high school classmates and lent Wang Xiao 400,000 to help with his father’s serious illness, telling him not to repay it. Afterward, Liu Xi privately messaged Zhao Fu, saying she had wanted to talk to him for a long time.

• Zhao Fu joined his high school and university class groups and read his high school classmates’ conversation about Gao Changfeng’s success and Liu Xi’s impending marriage.
• Wang Xiao asked the high school group to lend him 400,000 for his seriously ill father, and Zhao Fu asked what he needed the money for.
• After Wang Xiao explained his family’s situation, Zhao Fu transferred him 400,000 and told him he did not need to repay it.
• The classmates reacted with surprise at Zhao Fu’s generosity, and Zhao Fu left the group conversation without explaining his finances.
• Liu Xi privately messaged Zhao Fu, said he had made a name for himself, and told him she had wanted to talk to him for a long time.

Zhao Fu chatted with Liu Xi about their school days before reading his university group discuss Apocalypse World and Zheng Dong’s plan to form a faction. The chapter ended with Liu Xi telling Zhao Fu she might postpone her wedding if he said no.

• Liu Xi recalled Zhao Fu’s embarrassing high-school moments and admitted she had paid attention to him from the beginning, but said she was about to marry and wished him happiness.
• Zhao Fu read the university group’s discussion of rising prices, Apocalypse World factions, and Wu Qingniang’s recruitment.
• Yang Ze announced that Bai Yan had broken up with him and dropped out, prompting several classmates to flirt with him.
• Xiao Xiyun offered to support Zheng Dong’s plan to establish a faction, and Zhao Fu also offered help.
• Zhao Fu left the group chat, and Liu Xi messaged that she could consider postponing her marriage if he said no.

After an emotional exchange with Liu Xi left him regretful and unable to reach her, Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World and went to explore the interior of Gloomwood. He encountered powerful ice and fire spirits and defended himself against their attacks.

• Zhao Fu wished Liu Xi happiness, then sent a message saying he did not want her to marry so soon, but she had logged off and did not answer his calls.
• Zhao Fu calmed himself and re-entered Apocalypse World, where he decided to explore the depths of Gloomwood.
• Nü Lü brought Zhao Fu food and asked him to stay, but he left for Gloomwood, disappointing her and later meeting Tuoba Qing.
• Zhao Fu flew into Gloomwood's interior and discovered a strange landscape of ice and fire inhabited by powerful ice spirits and fire spirits.
• The spirits bombarded Zhao Fu with fireballs and ice spikes, but his King's Domain and Black Dragon-Pattern Shield withstood their attacks.