Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu used Long Xiaoxiao’s power to slay thousands of ice and fire spirits, collected their crystals, and reached a crystal hall in Gloomwood. Two powerful women, Binuoxiu and Kelahe, revived from crystal coffins, and Binuoxiu attacked him with a firebird.

• Zhao Fu coaxed Long Xiaoxiao out of the sword seal with a kiss, then used her sword to kill roughly three thousand ice spirits and fire spirits in one attack.
• Zhao Fu tested the dropped Ice Crystals and Crackfire Crystals, finding that they could be used to launch powerful attacks.
• Zhao Fu continued through Gloomwood on foot, killing more spirits and two spirit lords and obtaining crystals that granted reusable skills.
• Zhao Fu reached a crystal hall and found two crystal coffins whose occupants unleashed immense cold and fire auras as they revived.
• Binuoxiu and Kelahe emerged from the coffins, and Binuoxiu summoned a firebird to attack Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu defeated Binuoxiu and Kelahe in the crystal hall and obtained the Fire Source Spirit Crystal and Ice Source Spirit Crystal. He planned to return to Great Qin and use the crystals to create two powerful bloodline races.

• Zhao Fu used the Divine Gate of Hell to distract Binuoxiu and Kelahe, then struck them from behind and sent them crashing into the ground and an ice seal.
• Binuoxiu began casting a forbidden spell, but Zhao Fu bound her with the Crown of Kings and interrupted her casting; the uncontrolled meteor shower also disrupted Kelahe's spell.
• Zhao Fu bound both women and entered the crystal hall, where he found the Fire Source Spirit Crystal and Ice Source Spirit Crystal on a pedestal.
• Zhao Fu decided to bring the crystals back to Great Qin and fuse them with Legendary-grade City-Building Hearts to create ice- and fire-bloodline races.
• As Zhao Fu prepared to leave, he noticed Binuoxiu and Kelahe glaring at him and wondered what to do with them.

Zhao Fu brought Binuoxiu and Kelahe back to Great Qin and made them consorts, then dealt with two Ice-Fire Crystals that could not be fused into Great Qin’s inheritance cities. After Great Qin began clearing another region, a hidden regional lord unleashed a massive beast tide, and Zhao Fu led six generals into the mountains to find it.

• Zhao Fu used the Six Desires Immortal Scripture on Binuoxiu and Kelahe, and both women followed him afterward.
• Zhao Fu made Binuoxiu and Kelahe consorts and fused the Ice-Fire Crystals into two Gold-grade towns named Flame Town and Ice Town.
• Great Qin finished clearing a region, established Wing Province, and began clearing the next region.
• A regional lord hiding underground unleashed a beast tide of more than ten million beasts against Great Qin’s soldiers.
• Zhao Fu ordered the city lords to help defend and led Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, Sima Cuo, Meng Kuo, and Li Mu into the mountains to locate the purple python.

Zhao Fu and his group fought their way through the giant python’s cave and discovered a tree bearing legendary Ginseng Fruits, guarded by a powerful purple python. Zhao Fu ordered his companions to retreat and was left battling the python alone.

• Zhao Fu blasted through the cave’s rock barriers and led the group past venomous snakes and four giant snakes.
• Zhao Fu’s group entered a vast chamber and found a Ginseng Fruit tree beside a thousand-meter purple python.
• The purple python flooded the chamber with corrosive poison, and its green glow kept the mist away from the fruit tree.
• Zhao Fu fought the purple python while Bai Qi and the others struggled to resist the poison.
• Zhao Fu ordered his companions to withdraw, then dodged the python’s attack as it smashed a crater into the ground.

Zhao Fu killed the Purple-Scaled Great Serpent with the Great Qin Seal, despite being wounded by its corrosive attack. He claimed the serpent’s rewards, including a gallstone that could unlock his sense of sight and an ominous purple cauldron.

• Zhao Fu dodged the Purple-Scaled Great Serpent’s venom and attacks, then wounded it with a massive water blade.
• After its purple light-snakes shattered Zhao Fu’s King's Domain, Zhao Fu called on Bai Qi and the other five to channel their strength into the Great Qin Seal.
• Zhao Fu and the serpent struck at the same time; its purple beam pierced his shoulder, but his poisonous spirit physique absorbed the toxins.
• Zhao Fu repeatedly smashed the serpent’s head with the Great Qin Seal and killed the regional lord, earning battle merit, regional Fate, city EXP, and a Legendary Point.
• Zhao Fu learned that Legendary Points could be exchanged for legendary equipment or a City Creation Stone, then collected the serpent’s materials and found a Millennium Snake Gallstone and a small purple cauldron.

Zhao Fu claimed the Myriad Poisons Divine Cauldron and a ginseng fruit tree after defeating the Purple-Scaled Great Python, then returned to Great Qin and activated his visual sense. His double pupils evolved into triple pupils, and the chapter ended with him spending the night with Nü Lü and the other women.

• Zhao Fu inspected the Myriad Poisons Divine Cauldron and the ginseng fruit tree, then decided to bring the tree back to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi's group dug up the ginseng fruit tree as the regional lord's death caused the beast tide to collapse.
• Zhao Fu collected the Purple-Scaled Great Python's venom and poisonous blood in the Myriad Poisons Divine Cauldron before returning to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu planted the ginseng fruit tree and swallowed the Thousand-Year Gallstone, activating his visual sense.
• Zhao Fu discovered that his double pupils had evolved into triple pupils, with two red pupils and one white pupil.
• Nü Lü approached Zhao Fu, and he spent the night with her and the other women.

Zhao Fu divided Great Qin’s forces to invade Quyang and the swamp-bound Leaf South, seeking to complete its eastern territory and secure the Void-Severing Belt. After taking Leaf South’s first city and defeating its fleeing City Lords, he returned with three City Lord Seals and two more cities under Great Qin’s control.

• Zhao Fu assigned Bai Qi to invade Quyang with 1.5 million troops while he led 3 million troops to attack Leaf South, leaving Wang Jian and five City Lords to defend Great Qin.
• Bai Qi arrived in Quyang through a Teleportation Array and began besieging its city.
• Zhao Fu’s army crossed Leaf South’s swamp on prepared ice paths, surrounded a system main city, and attacked while nineteen City Lords targeted its City Lord.
• The Leaf South City Lord surrendered, and Zhao Fu confiscated the soldiers’ weapons, took the City Lord Seal, and allowed the frightened players to leave.
• The City Lords of the other three main cities fled; Zhao Fu pursued them, killed one, and returned holding three City Lord Seals as two cities followed him.

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin after conquering system main cities, raising its population and military strength and upgrading Great Qin City to a Tier 3 heavy city. He learned that the Demon Horn Empire was threatening the Blue-Eyed and Greenfield worlds, while the costly purchases of corpses and rune stones left Great Qin facing a growing need for money.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with people and soldiers from relocated system main cities, leaving one strategically important city behind.
• Bai Qi conquered and relocated three more system main cities, bringing Great Qin's population to 30.2 million and its army to 5.5 million soldiers.
• Great Qin City leveled up to a Tier 3 heavy city, leaving two upgrades before it could become a capital city.
• Zhao Fu resumed clearing regions and expanded Great Qin's trade purchases to include soldier corpses and rune stones.
• Ruoxi told Zhao Fu that the Demon Horn Empire was attacking the allied Blue-Eyed People and Greenfield People, whose forces were losing ground.
• Zhao Fu spent more than 30 million gold coins on corpses and rune stones, declined Ruoxi's gift of three maidservants, and left the consortium.

Zhao Fu bought Wild Extreme and his son Wild Martial from a slave market, gave Wild Extreme the Silver Lake Shield, and brought them to Great Qin. As pressure mounted over clearing the remaining regions, Zhao Fu opened two regional treasure chests and found that the second contained a valuable item.

• Zhao Fu bought Wild Extreme and Wild Martial, then used a Language Stone to learn their names and gave Wild Extreme the Silver Lake Shield.
• Wild Extreme and Wild Martial pledged loyalty to Zhao Fu, who took them back to Great Qin after finding the final owners of the Silver Lake Seven-piece Set.
• Zhao Fu told Great Qin's generals about the tense outside situation and changed the plan to unify the national territory before building an inner Great Wall.
• Zhao Fu considered using the Undead Catastrophe to clear regions quickly but worried that Great Qin would lose their populations and suffer a backlash.
• Zhao Fu opened two regional treasure chests, discarded the Soul-Nurturing Wood, and smiled after inspecting the large piece of animal hide from the second chest.

Zhao Fu used the Earth Beast Hide to speed Great Qin’s mapping and conquest, while preparing laws and defenses for the restored nation. After two months of rapid development, Great Qin had cleared all seven regions and unified the east, leaving its next military moves unknown to other factions.

• Zhao Fu used the Earth Beast Hide to reveal terrain and villages within five thousand li, then ordered his generals to clear a region within ten days.
• Great Qin commanders assigned troops to attack villages using the newly mapped locations, and the soldiers set out in disciplined units.
• Zhao Fu chose the south as Great Qin’s next target and planned to exploit loopholes in the alliance contract to attack it.
• Zhao Fu began drafting laws for Great Qin and ordered large-scale brick production for roads, buildings, and future Great Walls.
• Two months later, Great Qin had cleared all seven regions and unified the eastern territory while making no moves against outside factions.

Zhao Fu used Great Qin Assassins to coerce southern City Lords into violating their contract, giving Great Qin a chance to invade while their forces suffered a 40% attribute reduction. Zhao Fu and Bai Qi led Great Qin’s prepared army into two regions as the southern City Lords struggled to understand the betrayal.

• Great Qin’s population and military strength grew, while Zhao Fu prepared an invasion of the south and named Little Slaughter Zhao Sha.
• Wang Ergou’s group captured Zhang Nan’s pregnant wife and mother, then forced him to lead his soldiers in an attack on Great Qin.
• The southern factions’ attack triggered a notification that they had broken the contract and suffered a 40% attribute reduction.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s army to attack, and he and Bai Qi led separate forces into two regions.
• The southern City Lords realized their contract had been broken and wondered whether they could sign a new one with Great Qin.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin to conquer the Southern Region in just over a day, then prepared to face the north and west as they scrambled to unite against him. The chapter left the opposing city lords searching for a way to make Great Qin break the contract, including a plan to control one of its generals.

• Fang Yun surrendered Bright Eminence City to Zhao Fu after Great Qin surrounded it, and Zhao Fu accepted the city before continuing his advance.
• Great Qin captured fourteen of the south’s eighteen system main cities, while four escaped and the resistance was crushed.
• Zhao Fu’s forces conquered the Martial Peace and Willow River Regions, including Wei Liao slaying the City Lord of a Goblin small city.
• Zhao Fu announced that southern factions had attacked Great Qin and caused civilian casualties, claiming that this had forced his counterattack.
• The north and west gathered their city lords and discussed forming alliances and abolishing the contract, which weakened their attributes by 40%.
• One city lord suggested controlling a Great Qin general and making him lead an attack against them so Great Qin would violate the contract.

Five City Lords infiltrated Great Qin territory to capture a general and use him to break their contract, while Zhao Fu prepared Great Qin to attack two regions at once. The infiltrators found a Tier 3 target, but Zhao Fu's use of golden liquid triggered a notification to all City Lords just as they were about to act.

• A young woman offered to control a Tier 3 general's mind, and a stubbled young man proposed becoming a commoner so he could enter Great Qin territory.
• The City Lords split up, sending most to recruit allies and five to capture a Great Qin general.
• Zhao Fu returned with twenty-one cities and seven million people, raised Great Qin's population to fifty-two million, and appointed Rogge as a City Lord.
• Zhao Fu ordered Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Wei Liao to expand the army to ten million and plan an attack on two regions at once.
• The five City Lords crossed the Void-Severing Belt, entered a Great Qin region, and selected a thin Tier 3 general near its core city as their target.
• Zhao Fu drank golden liquid before the army, suffered violent pain as characters emerged from his body, and triggered a notification for all City Lords.

After dissolving its contract with the northern and southern regions, Great Qin launched a direct assault on both, with Zhao Fu leading the northern campaign. Zhao Fu charged through the enemy cavalry as the battle began, then turned aside while Great Qin’s rune archers attacked the system army.

• Great Qin dissolved its contract, suffering a 10 reduction to its attributes, and Zhao Fu and Bai Qi split their forces to invade the two regions.
• Zhao Fu led five million troops into the northern region and gave Wang Jian command of the battle while he personally joined the charge.
• Zhao Fu offered the northern City Lords a final chance to submit, but they refused and secretly prepared to attack him.
• Zhao Fu charged under a barrage of arrows behind his shield, and Great Qin’s City Lords met the enemy City Lords as they rushed to kill him.
• Zhao Fu and Great Qin’s cavalry broke through the system army’s cavalry, then Zhao Fu turned aside as one hundred thousand rune arrows struck the enemy army.

Zhao Fu and Bai Qi defeated the system armies, then Zhao Fu marched on the Li River and forced two city lords to surrender. After evacuating the region’s population, he struck the river with the Great Qin Seal to begin his revenge against the Ugly-Bone Fish King.

• Zhao Fu and Wang Jian broke the system army’s defenses while Bai Qi, Sima Cuo, Wei Liao, Meng Kuo, and Li Mu unleashed their General’s Artifacts and led the assault on the other battlefield.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Qi defeated the system armies; Great Qin killed eleven city lords, captured ten, and suffered 270,000 deaths.
• Zhao Fu gathered Great Qin’s city lords and advanced on the Li River, while Bai Qi attacked the Open Pot region.
• Zhao Fu forced two Li River city lords to surrender, and Great Qin evacuated the region’s cities and population before confronting the river’s region lord.
• Zhao Fu struck the Li River with the Great Qin Seal, killing Ugly-Bone Fish and beginning his attack on the Ugly-Bone Fish King.

Zhao Fu captured the Ugly-Bone Fish King by surrounding it with City Lords and threatening to carve off its flesh, then subdued it with a blood pact. With Bai Qi capturing Open Pot, Great Qin unified thirty-one regions and prepared for a long period of clearing and fortification.

• Zhao Fu killed many Ugly-Bone Fish, drew out the Ugly-Bone Fish King, and trapped it with iron chains as more than forty City Lords gathered to attack.
• The Ugly-Bone Fish King begged to negotiate, then surrendered when Zhao Fu and Wang Jian prepared to cut off and eat its flesh.
• Zhao Fu signed a blood pact with the Ugly-Bone Fish King and took control of the fish in the Li River.
• Bai Qi captured the Open Pot region, though most of its system main cities had fled.
• Great Qin unified thirty-one regions, reaching a population of sixty million across eighty-six major cities and six small cities.
• Zhao Fu planned to clear the remaining eighteen regions and build an inner Great Wall while Great Qin entered a period of stable development.

Zhao Fu rested Great Qin’s forces while preparing to clear more regions, build the Great Wall, and revive its martial Qin Wind. Great Qin resumed expansion, alarming neighboring and rival factions as it drew both opposition and would-be supporters.

• Zhao Fu organized Great Qin’s next steps, including building the Great Wall and governing under revised laws, while Li Muqing promoted the martial Qin Wind through poetry.
• Zhao Fu assessed Great Qin’s Wyverns and spirit-tree saplings and considered improving city attributes or finding growth-accelerating items to avoid waiting decades.
• Three days later, Great Qin resumed clearing regions and began constructing the Great Wall, concentrating most of its population on the two projects.
• The Viet Guard infiltrated the neighboring Yue Kingdom as Great Qin’s rapid growth frightened the Yue Kingdom and stirred concern across the Central Continent.
• Great Shang, Great Xia, Great Zhou, and other factions accelerated their development and discussed restraining Great Qin, while some people sought its protection by sending women to the Ying Family.

Zhao Fu returned to the real world and reunited with Zheng Yuqin, but an unexplained surge of darkness drove him to kiss her and awakened the Six Desires Immortal Scripture in the real world. He left to ask the Golden Dragon what had happened, while Zheng Yuqin withdrew to her room in embarrassment.

• Zhao Fu reflected on the ancient beauties claimed by various dynasties and felt uneasy about Wu Qingniang's unresolved situation.
• Zhao Fu returned to the real world and, after seeing Zheng Yuqin's message on QQ, arranged for someone to bring her to him.
• Zheng Yuqin scolded Zhao Fu for disappearing, accepted his apology, and gave him several winter clothes to try on.
• Zhao Fu suddenly embraced and kissed Zheng Yuqin, and black qi made her respond despite her initial resistance.
• Zhao Fu came to his senses, discovered the Six Desires Immortal Scripture within himself, and apologized as Zheng Yuqin fled into a room.
• Zhao Fu entered Apocalypse World to ask the Golden Dragon about the cultivation technique's appearance, while Zheng Yuqin lay in the room wondering how she could face him.

Zhao Fu resisted Golden Dragon’s urging to embrace the darkness stirred by the Six Desires Immortal Scripture, then prepared Great Qin for the Trial Festival. He learned that the final festivals would determine humanity’s inheritors and that the Trial Festival’s exchange rewards were powerful mounts.

• Zheng Yuqin’s fantasies about Zhao Fu overwhelmed her again when she opened his wardrobe, and she left the room in a daze.
• Golden Dragon urged Zhao Fu to embrace the darkness in his heart, but Zhao Fu refused because he would not harm those closest to him.
• The Trial Festival began, offering Trial Points and powerful rewards, with the top eight participants earning Earth Realm Marks and becoming humanity’s inheritors.
• Zhao Fu halted Great Qin’s regional cleanup, shared his intelligence about the festival, and arranged preparations for the event.
• Zhao Fu inspected the exchange stele and found that its top rewards were eggs carrying the bloodlines of guardian beasts and other legendary creatures.

Zhao Fu entered the Trial Festival’s trial space with his powers sealed and found himself surrounded by powerful corpse soldiers. He learned how to exploit their behavior, then acquired his first weapon and armor from a defeated soldier.

• Zhao Fu failed to exchange for one of the eight monster eggs, then entered the Trial Festival when it began at midnight.
• Zhao Fu appeared in a blood-red world with his abilities sealed and hid from a first-tier corpse soldier.
• Zhao Fu discovered corpse soldiers fought one another and observed a second-tier Cavalry leading a corpse horse.
• Zhao Fu lured a corpse soldier through vine traps and into another soldier, then learned they could only be killed by blows to the heart or head.
• Zhao Fu took the dead soldier’s iron sword and armor, discovering both were level-one Corpse Soul Equipment that could evolve by killing corpse soldiers.