Chapter Summaries

After surviving the gravity trial, Zhao Fu watched the other candidates undergo trials of the heart, though he experienced no trial himself. When fewer than fifty people remained, the final trial began, and Zhao Fu was pulled toward the seven-colored orb by the Earth Realm Mark on his hand.

• Zhao Fu helped Nü Lü, Xian Ru, and Gao Li endure the gravity trial, which left only several hundred people standing.
• The trial of one's true heart began, sending candidates into personal illusions while Zhao Fu remained awake and wondered why he had no trial.
• Arthur Tina, Akhenaten, and Si Ji emerged from their trials and realized Zhao Fu had awakened before them.
• Candidates failed and were expelled from the arena, including Xian Ru and Gao Li, leaving fewer than fifty people.
• A notice announced the final trial against the Defender of the Way, and Zhao Fu's Earth Realm Mark appeared as he flew uncontrollably toward the seven-colored orb.

Zhao Fu revealed himself as the Guardian of the Dao and began the final trial by attacking the fifty participants. Arthur Tina, Akhenaten, Si Ji, and Geluofei fought back, but Zhao Fu effortlessly countered their attacks.

• Zhao Fu emerged from the seven-colored sphere, and the crowd realized that he was the Guardian of the Dao.
• Zhao Fu transformed the Sky Platform into a blood-red world and charged at the fifty participants.
• Arthur Tina ordered everyone to scatter, then met Zhao Fu's sword strike and was wounded by their clash.
• Akhenaten sent a sand giant to slap Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu severed its hand with a sword arc.
• Si Ji attacked with a purple dragon, and Zhao Fu dispersed it with a seven-colored barrier.
• Geluofei launched a spear of light from the sky, but Zhao Fu deflected it as more attacks followed.

Zhao Fu overwhelmed the challengers in the final trial, leaving only the eight great inheritors alive under the protection of the Earth Realm Mark. At the world consciousness’s prompting, he began humiliating them to awaken their power, starting with Arthur Tina and Oleg.

• The challengers attacked Zhao Fu together, but his seven-colored barrier left him unharmed, and Nü Lü held back because she could not attack her husband.
• Zhao Fu swept his seven-colored sword through the battlefield, defeating dozens and leaving only about a dozen challengers standing.
• Zhao Fu summoned a seven-colored flying sword and struck down the remaining challengers, but the eight great inheritors survived with severe injuries.
• The world consciousness instructed Zhao Fu to torment the eight inheritors to awaken their Earth Realm Mark power, and Zhao Fu agreed after seeing its offered conditions.
• Zhao Fu mocked Arthur Tina, who calmly accepted her defeat and asked him not to insult her.
• Oleg rose in anger, but Zhao Fu stomped his head into the ground and taunted him about his earlier insults toward Huaxia and Great Qin.

The world consciousness took control of Zhao Fu’s trial, subjecting the eight inheritors to terrifying illusions that awakened the power within their souls. The eight emerged surrounded by blood-red light and stared at Zhao Fu with intense killing intent.

• The world consciousness judged Zhao Fu’s humiliation of Oleg insufficient and took over the trial, promising Zhao Fu rewards for his Protector status.
• In their illusions, Zhao Fu violated Arthur Tina, tortured Akhenaten’s loved ones, stripped Si Ji of his inheritor status, and tormented Geluofei, Oleg, Babilon, Hanano Mai, and Ramis.
• Zhao Fu waited impatiently as the eight remained unconscious, wondering whether the ordeal had awakened the power of their Earth Realm Marks.
• The eight roared awake as blood-red light emerged from their bodies and shot skyward, then fixed Zhao Fu with overwhelming killing intent.

The eight inheritors awakened the power of the Earth Realm Mark and attacked Zhao Fu with overwhelming hatred, leaving him unsure why they blamed him. Zhao Fu unleashed his own Earth Realm Mark and clashed with all eight in a battle that ended with both sides wounded and thrown back by a massive explosion.

• Hanano Mai attacked Zhao Fu with a demonic halberd, and Babilon and Oleg struck his multicolored barrier until cracks formed.
• Arthur Tina shattered Zhao Fu’s barrier with True Sword of Justice, while Si Ji, Geluofei, Ramis, and Akhenaten joined the assault.
• Zhao Fu fought back with his multicolored light sword, but the eight inheritors continued attacking and wounded him.
• Zhao Fu activated the Earth Realm Mark and released a multicolored pillar of light as the eight launched attacks together.
• Zhao Fu’s thousand-meter crescent slash collided with the eight attacks, causing a vast explosion that left both sides bloodied and sent them flying.

Zhao Fu fought the eight inheritors and killed four of them, including Oleg with a devastating sword slash. As the remaining four empowered themselves, Geluofei invoked “God Says,” and Zhao Fu felt the world crushing his body and soul.

• Hanano~Mai charged Zhao Fu, but he blocked her halberd strike and drove back the sphinx summoned by Akhenaten.
• Arthur Tina struck Zhao Fu with the True Sword of Contract, and Geluofei and Ramis followed with attacks that wounded him.
• Zhao Fu grabbed Ramis’s iron club and stabbed him through the chest, then killed Babilon with a backward sword strike.
• Oleg unleashed his power and charged Zhao Fu, who killed him with a massive slash that also fatally wounded Akhenaten.
• Akhenaten died after pleading for Zhao Fu’s death, leaving four inheritors alive to face him.
• Geluofei spread eight blood wings and declared, “God Says: All evil in this world shall be nothingness!”, causing Zhao Fu to feel his body and soul being crushed.

Zhao Fu defeated the eight inheritors in an illusion after the trial’s power drove them into a deadly battle, then nearly attacked them again before a beam of light restored his senses. The Trial Festival ended in failure, and Zhao Fu returned to the Apocalypse World with the Defender of the Way identity and its restricted power over the world’s origin.

• Zhao Fu awakened a crystal sword and killed Geluofei, Si Ji, Hua Ye, and Arthur Tina as his power overwhelmed the inheritors in the illusory world.
• Arthur Tina and the other seven inheritors reappeared on the platform and realized their battle with Zhao Fu had been a misunderstanding caused by the illusion.
• Zhao Fu prepared to attack the inheritors again, but a beam of white light removed the Defender of the Way’s power and restored his senses.
• Arthur Tina apologized to Zhao Fu, and he put on his black cloak before reuniting with Nü Lü.
• The Trial Festival ended after the final trial failed, and Zhao Fu returned to the Apocalypse World with Nü Lü, Xian Ru, and Gao Li.
• Zhao Fu examined his gains and learned that he could wield the world’s origin only during major events or when the world faced destruction, and not against people from the same world.

Zhao Fu’s bloodlines fused into the Qin Emperor Bloodline, and his power of a king evolved into Emperor’s Power. After the Trial Festival, he began expanding Great Qin’s operations as the world reacted to his rise as a Guardian of the Way.

• Zhao Fu gained a level 17 Qin Emperor Bloodline that combined his Great Qin, God-Slaying, and Heaven-Slaying bloodlines, and his First-Generation Royal Blood carried Emperor’s Power.
• Zhao Fu took out the World Grade Purifying World Rainbow Butterfly egg and fed it his blood so it would bond with him when it hatched.
• Zhao Fu learned that Nü Lü, Xian Ru, and Gao Li had gained powerful rewards from the Trial Festival.
• Zhao Fu reorganized Great Qin’s troops and resumed clearing the region while construction of the inner Great Wall continued.
• News spread that Zhao Fu had become a Guardian of the Way, prompting factions to fear Great Qin, Oleg to stop provoking Huaxia, and people to seek ties with Great Qin.

Zhao Fu advanced Great Qin and its subordinate states in Apocalypse World, then met with Wu Qingniang in the real world. After warning her about a coming catastrophe and offering his help, he left her to prepare for it.

• Great Qin City rose to a Secondary Main City, while Wei State and Northern Zhou became small cities and Great Shun and Zheng State reached Advanced Small Town status.
• Wu Qingniang visited Zhao Fu and urged him to join her after expressing fear that Great Qin's Imperial Prince would kill him.
• Zhao Fu and Wu Qingniang became intimate, and Zheng Yuqin overheard them outside the room.
• Zhao Fu told Wu Qingniang about the situation beyond the Land of Inheritance and offered to help her prepare for the catastrophe.
• Wu Qingniang hurried away to make preparations, while Zhao Fu apologized to Zheng Yuqin after leaving the room.

Zhao Fu inspected the inner Great Wall as Great Qin focused on clearing regions and building its defenses. After conquering eighteen regions and completing the wall, Great Qin had grown vastly stronger, though Zhao Fu worried about money and the dangers posed by the rising Demon Horn Empire.

• Zheng Yuqin hid from Zhao Fu, then blushed and struggled with thoughts of him and Wu Qingniang.
• Zhao Fu inspected the inner Great Wall, whose construction relied on Great Qin’s full strength and storage rings to speed the work.
• As autumn approached, Great Qin finished clearing eighteen regions and reached a population of 106 million, including 16 million soldiers.
• Great Qin expanded its forces and equipment, including 225 wyverns, more than 4,000 Corpse Soul Guards, and 4 million sets of rune equipment, while Zhao Fu’s funds dwindled.
• The Wild Goose Consortium became Koshi Kingdom’s largest consortium, drawing official scrutiny and prompting both sides to keep their dealings secret.
• Great Qin completed the inner Great Wall, and Zhao Fu turned his attention to expanding in all directions as he prepared for future dangers.

Zhao Fu planned Great Qin’s expansion beyond the Inner Great Wall and sent surrender offers to the surrounding regions while preparing to conquer the northern forces. He led thirteen million soldiers north and urged the outnumbered city lords to submit, claiming Great Qin would protect them.

• Zhao Fu chose to persuade the surrounding system city lords to surrender, offering to preserve their positions and spare their residents.
• Zhao Fu and his generals mapped out a national territory of 120 regions and assessed the four forces surrounding Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu sent surrender letters to the eastern, southern, and western city lords, stationed one million troops in each direction, and led thirteen million soldiers north.
• The ten northern regions faced Great Qin’s army with only 3.5 million soldiers, and their city lords feared they could not win.
• Zhao Fu appeared above the northern forces, identified himself as a Guardian of the Way, and urged the city lords to surrender to Great Qin.

Zhao Fu attacked the northern factions after they hesitated to surrender, using Great Qin’s overwhelming forces and varied assaults to break their resistance. The northern City Lords capitulated, and Zhao Fu accepted ten regions before moving their cities and people inside the Inner Great Wall.

• The northern City Lords debated whether to surrender until Zhao Fu launched an attack against their defenses.
• Zhao Fu summoned five Stone Giants while Meng Kuo, Sima Cuo, Li Mu, and Bai Xihan formed four immense Army Qi beasts to assault the wall.
• Great Qin’s ghost mist, Calamity Knights, and Skeleton Mages overwhelmed the defenders and terrified the northern City Lords.
• The northern City Lords agreed to surrender, and Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin’s forces to stop attacking.
• Zhao Fu accepted the surrender of ten regions and began relocating their system main cities and populations inside the Inner Great Wall.

After annexing ten regions, Zhao Fu weighed how Great Qin should deal with neighboring factions while avoiding a united response from the other three directions. His generals proposed several ways to persuade or defeat them, but Zhao Fu had not yet chosen a course.

• The northern City Lords entered Great Qin, saw its peaceful and prosperous cities, and felt reassured about joining it.
• Zhao Fu decided not to invade the Yue Kingdom yet and ordered defensive walls built along the border.
• Zhao Fu followed his generals’ advice to pause expansion in the other directions and focus on consolidating the ten regions.
• After no main cities responded to Great Qin’s surrender letters, Sun Hanxiang proposed inviting their City Lords inside, while Wei Liao urged caution and continued diplomacy.
• Bai Qi proposed concentrating forces to crush one direction quickly, and Li Si suggested using marriages to build trust with City Lords.
• Zhao Fu considered the proposals, concerned that attacking in any direction would drive more City Lords to unite against Great Qin.

With the force restraining the system main cities gone, they began massacring players through deadly traps disguised as rewards and events. Zhao Fu gathered intelligence as the conflict spread, while the chapter ended with Firebird City burning players alive.

• Guo Binglin told Zhao Fu that system main cities were moving against players, and Zhao Fu returned to the real world to gather intelligence.
• Long-Hanging City lured players to a porridge event and poisoned most of them, while soldiers attacked those who tried to flee; fewer than two thousand escaped.
• Heavenly Wu City trapped 110,000 players in a walled building and killed them with arrows, while the remaining 40,000 fled.
• Firebird City lured players to Fire Ground with promises of rewards and burned them alive.

After system main cities massacred players and the final stage of the Great Chaotic Era began, Zhao Fu assessed the new dangers and benefits facing the world. He chose to pause Great Qin’s campaigns in three directions and focus on securing its ten northern regions.

• System main cities slaughtered players across the world, prompting survivors to flee into villages and the wilderness while a massive player counterattack failed against Absolute Neutrality Mode.
• Some City Lords formed factions to recruit and control players, as Zhao Fu worried that the widespread conflict would weaken humanity’s ability to face the future invasion.
• Zhao Fu received notifications that the Great Chaotic Era’s final stage had begun, calamities would reduce production, the third Heavenly Domain Barrier layer had fallen, and players could travel freely within their countries.
• Zhao Fu concluded that Great Qin’s high calamity resistance and stocked supplies would protect it, while the completed Inner Great Wall reduced the danger of enemy attacks.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to avoid campaigns east, west, and south, station three million troops at the Great Wall, and concentrate on clearing its ten northern regions.

Zhao Fu gathered twenty-four Indian beauties to refine India's Fate Clan Artifact and strengthen the Imperial Phoenix Statue. After the Glass Peacock was tamed, he began transforming the artifact so it would belong to the Great Qin Clan rather than India or Huaxia.

• After conquering ten more regions, Zhao Fu opened their treasure chests and gained another Dragon-Shooting Ballista, bringing Great Qin's total to three.
• Liu Mei told Zhao Fu that they were ready to refine India's Fate Clan Artifact, and he summoned twenty-four captured Indian beauties, including the nine highest-ranked women.
• Zhao Fu made the women his consorts, and Eudora and Ashara willingly approached him while the others reacted with fear, anger, or resistance.
• Zhao Fu brought the women to the chained Glass Peacock, and the encounter strengthened his Six Desires Demonic Qi and helped tame the creature.
• Zhao Fu found that combining dragon qi and phoenix qi made the refinement more effective, then set out to make the Fate Clan Artifact belong to the Great Qin Clan.

Zhao Fu and nine generals used the Heaven and Earth Refining Array to refine India’s Glass Peacock into Great Qin’s Fate Clan Artifact. The ritual drew fortune from across Huaxia and the Central Continent, and ended with Great Qin’s fortune turning the artifact into a fearsome black sphere.

• Zhao Fu gathered nine generals and placed the Glass Peacock in the Heaven and Earth Refining Array to begin refining it.
• Zhao Fu and the generals channeled their City Lord Seals into the array, sending the Glass Peacock into the sky as a ten-colored sphere.
• The ritual stirred fortune across Huaxia, alarming masters and ordinary people as a vast vortex formed above Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu activated Heaven and Earth Grand Refining, and the sphere absorbed the gathered fortune and shone across the Central Continent.
• One million native Indians knelt and declared themselves citizens of Great Qin, while their fortune flowed into the sphere and provoked panic across India.
• Zhao Fu drew Great Qin’s fortune into the sphere, which turned black and radiated demonic might.

Zhao Fu and the others completed the refinement of Great Qin’s Fate Clan Artifact, a fierce black peacock that strengthened Great Qin’s people and harmed those elsewhere, especially in India. The Taoist School leader feared Great Qin might separate from Huaxia, while Zhao Fu summoned the peacock and it became a small crystal sculpture.

• Zhao Fu added his blood to the black sphere, causing it to crack and burst open as a black peacock emerged.
• The peacock released a shockwave that benefited Great Qin’s people but injured people across the world, with India suffering the most.
• The Taoist School sect leader identified the peacock as one of the human world’s four Fate Clan Artifacts and worried Great Qin might turn against Huaxia.
• The Taoist School and other sects ordered their followers never to become enemies with Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu summoned the black peacock, and it transformed into a palm-sized black crystal sculpture.

Zhao Fu made the Great Qin Imperial Peacock Great Qin’s Fate Clan Artifact while keeping the Heirloom Seal of the Realm tied to Huaxia. As natural disasters and killing spread across the world, Great Qin remained protected, and Wu Zetian urged Zhao Fu to press its advantage through surrender offers and faster expansion.

• Zhao Fu considered refining the Heirloom Seal of the Realm into Great Qin’s Fate Clan Artifact, but abandoned the idea because Great Qin’s roots remained in Huaxia.
• Zhao Fu renamed the black crystal peacock the Great Qin Imperial Peacock and placed it beside the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to suppress Great Qin’s fate.
• Half a month later, floods, droughts, ice disasters, earthquakes, and wind disasters struck the world, while food grew scarce and killing for rewards made travel dangerous.
• Great Qin’s Disaster Resistance and Inner Great Wall protected it from calamities and enemies, and its forces cleared three regions.
• Zhao Fu upgraded the two Ice and Fire villages into small cities for Binuoxiu and Kelahe and examined the special bloodlines they produced.
• Wu Zetian advised Zhao Fu to send surrender offers across nearby regions and accelerate Great Qin’s expansion while other factions struggled with the chaos.

Zhao Fu prepared an envoy mission to persuade City Lords to meet with Great Qin, sending scholars accompanied by Tier 3 soldiers and gifts. The first envoys reached Divine Martial City, where City Lord Zhou Chang agreed to hear their request amid growing unrest and food shortages.

• Wu Zetian told Zhao Fu she trusted him to help Wu Qingniang and asked him not to neglect her daughter Lingyue.
• Zhao Fu selected and trained eloquent scholars from Qin Times Academy to serve as envoys to the City Lords.
• Zhao Fu equipped each envoy team with five Tier 3 soldiers and valuable Great Qin specialties before dispatching them across the regions.
• Zhou Chang struggled with riots, natural disasters, and dwindling grain supplies in Divine Martial City.
• A soldier informed Zhou Chang that envoys from the Great Qin Empire had arrived to meet him.