Chapter Summaries

Li Mao and five Tier 3 soldiers visited Zhou Chang to persuade him to join Great Qin, revealing its immense military strength, protection from disasters, and plans to found a nation. After learning that Zhao Fu had become a Protector of the Way, Zhou Chang asked whether he could serve Great Qin.

• Zhou Chang received Li Mao and five formidable Tier 3 soldiers in his main hall.
• Li Mao said he was a Great Qin Academy student sent with more than a thousand teams to show city lords Great Qin’s friendly intentions and invite them to join.
• Zhou Chang realized Great Qin’s forces vastly outnumbered his own and was shaken by its claims of security from the disasters ravaging the Land of Inheritance.
• Li Mao promised city lords noble positions in Great Qin, which was preparing to found a nation and had an army of tens of millions behind the Great Wall.
• Li Mao announced that Zhao Fu had become a Protector of the Way, and Zhou Chang asked whether he would be suitable for a position in Great Qin.

Zhao Fu’s envoys sought to persuade the city lords to submit to Great Qin, but several hostile lords killed them. After learning that fifty envoys had died, Zhao Fu prepared a rapid retaliation against the cities responsible.

• About one hundred and fifty city lords sent envoys to Great Qin to investigate, while many others hesitated or remained hostile.
• Liu Dacheng ordered Great Qin’s envoys killed despite a soldier’s warning, and five soldiers and a scholar died in Orange City.
• Zhao Cheng attacked Great Qin’s envoys in Great Cart City, killed the scholar, and ordered the six men’s heads sent to Great Qin.
• Zhang Linnei demanded that Qian Chang kneel, then killed him and several soldiers in East Peace City.
• Zhao Fu learned that fifty of his one thousand envoys had been killed and decided to use the deaths as justification to attack the responsible cities.
• Zhao Fu led ninety city lords in three teams to destroy fifty cities in one night and take only their City-Building Stones.

Zhao Fu took revenge on Orange City for killing Great Qin’s people, killing Liu Dacheng and forcing the city to surrender. He then attacked Zhang Linnei in East Peace City, where three other City Lords arrived and faced his warning to stay out of the conflict.

• Zhao Fu slaughtered the banquet guests in Orange City and killed its City Lord, Liu Dacheng.
• Zhao Fu spared the man in blue after he begged to submit, then ordered him to pacify Orange City until Great Qin could take over.
• Zhao Fu relocated Orange City and left its subdued forces behind while he continued hunting those responsible for killing Great Qin’s people.
• Zhao Fu attacked Zhang Linnei in East Peace City, destroying his house and killing his wife, but Zhang Linnei survived.
• Three other City Lords arrived, and Zhao Fu warned them that interfering in Great Qin’s dispute with East Peace City would bring consequences.

Great Qin destroyed fifty system main cities in one night, killing Zhao Cheng and shocking the surrounding regions. As Great Qin City reached level five and several City Lords agreed to submit, rival powers in the east, south, and west launched an attack against Great Qin.

• Zhang Linnei attacked Zhao Fu after three City Lords refused to help him, and Zhao Fu killed him.
• Zhao Fu led ninety City Lords to Great Cart City, rejected Zhao Cheng's surrender, and killed him as he fled.
• Great Qin's forces slaughtered Great Cart City's defenders and residents, leaving the city in ruins.
• News that Great Qin had destroyed fifty system main cities in one night spread fear throughout the nearby regions and put pressure on City Lords to submit or fight.
• Great Qin City advanced to level five after the destruction, while envoys reported on the peaceful lands inside the Great Wall.
• Several City Lords agreed to join Great Qin, prompting powers in the east, south, and west to attack it.

Great Qin faced simultaneous attacks from the eastern, western, and southern factions, prompting Zhao Fu to redistribute his forces and personally take command of the southern front. On the eastern front, Bai Qi’s army matched the attackers’ numbers and opened the battle with ballista fire across Leaf Prefecture’s marshland.

• The eastern and western factions attacked Leaf Prefecture and Pot Prefecture with ten million and eight million troops, while the southern faction advanced into Martial Prefecture with twelve million troops and one hundred City Lords.
• Zhao Fu assigned Bai Qi and Wang Jian to the eastern and western fronts, then took command of the south with one million Tier 1 soldiers and ten City Lords while sending the remaining forces to reinforce the other fronts.
• Zhao Fu ordered Li Si to conscript militia to guard the north against possible moves by the Yue Kingdom, and Great Qin halted other work to prepare military supplies.
• Bai Qi oversaw the eastern front as reinforcements brought Great Qin’s forces to ten million troops and ninety City Lords, matching the eastern faction’s strength.
• The eastern faction’s City Lords cleared the fog over Leaf Prefecture and hardened the marsh, but Bai Qi ordered Great Qin’s Tier 1 ballistas to fire on their shield wall.

The system army overcame Great Qin’s swamp defense and charged the Great Wall, forcing Bai Qi to summon the Seven Killings General Star. Empowered by the star and the soldiers’ Army Qi, a colossal blood eagle shattered the enemy’s advance, leaving at least a million system soldiers dead.

• The system City Lords used earth-element crystals to turn the swamp into solid ground, allowing their army to advance while their City Lords fought Great Qin’s City Lords.
• Great Qin’s arrows barely slowed the ten-million-strong system army, whose gathered momentum protected its charge toward the Great Wall.
• Bai Qi raised the Seven Killings Sword and summoned the blood-colored Seven Killings General Star, gathering the soldiers’ Army Qi into a colossal blood eagle.
• The blood eagle collided with the system army’s torrent and swept through it, killing at least a million soldiers and breaking the charge.

Bai Qi and Great Qin fought the system armies across multiple fronts as the attackers pressed toward the Great Wall. At Pot Prefecture, Wang Jian allowed the enemy to widen the terrain before launching its assault, then prepared Consort Xiu and Consort He to meet the charge.

• Bai Qi used the military aura of ten million troops to devastate the system army, then returned the scarlet giant eagle’s power to the Great Qin Soldiers as both sides battled at the Great Wall.
• Meng Tian, Bai Xihan, and other Great Qin city lords fought system city lords in the eastern sky, while the armies clashed below.
• At Pot Prefecture, Wang Jian held his forces back as the system city lords repeatedly widened the narrow pass, then let their army charge toward the Great Wall.
• Wang Jian ordered arrows fired at the advancing troops, sent Great Qin city lords to intercept their counterparts, and asked Consort Xiu and Consort He to act.
• As the system soldiers surged toward the wall, an aura of annihilation spread across the battlefield, filling them with terror and making their bodies tremble.

Binuoxiu and Kelahe fused their forbidden spells to devastate the system army, forcing it to halt its assault on the Great Wall. In the south, Zhao Fu faced a twelve-million-strong army and defended Great Qin’s mountain wall with rolling stones and rune arrows.

• Binuoxiu and Kelahe fused Meteor Descent and Frozen World into an ice-fire ball that killed more than 1.6 million soldiers and exhausted their strength.
• The system city lords halted their assault, wary that Great Qin might unleash another devastating attack.
• Zhao Fu refused the system city lords’ demand that Great Qin stop expanding and prepared to defend the southern Great Wall with one million soldiers.
• Zhao Fu’s troops sent massive stone spheres rolling downhill, crushing the charging system soldiers until the city lords stopped the stones with their City Lord Seals.
• Zhao Fu ordered his soldiers to fire rune arrows from Ballistas at the city lords.

Zhao Fu used rune arrows, Dragon-Shooting Ballistas, and a Death Catastrophe to repel the system army’s assault on the Great Wall. The system soldiers were still fighting the empowered undead as the surviving city lords charged toward Zhao Fu again.

• The system soldiers charged while Great Qin’s rune arrows and rolling stone balls inflicted heavy casualties.
• Zhao Fu ordered three Dragon-Shooting Ballistas to fire, killing seven city lords, then used more arrows to kill three more as they attacked.
• The system army reached the foot of the Great Wall, and Zhao Fu ordered ten Calamity Knights to summon two tides of undead against it.
• Zhao Fu sent the Calamity King's Ring into the magic formation, empowering the skeletons with the Death Catastrophe while Great Qin soldiers fired arrows.
• The surviving city lords charged toward the Great Wall, aiming to kill Zhao Fu and end the battle.

Zhao Fu used the power of Great Qin’s artifacts to confront the attacking System City Lords, then feigned defeat to lure them into the enhanced Nether Ghost Realm. The trap left most of the City Lords trapped with Zhao Fu while only thirty escaped.

• Zhao Fu had one hundred thousand Tier 2 soldiers fire rune arrows, but the City Lords combined their strength to block the barrage with a barrier.
• Zhao Fu caught an arrogant young man’s spear and killed him, using the power of the Twelve Golden Men and the Heirloom Seal of the Realm.
• Zhao Fu raised his Black Dragon-Pattern Shield against the City Lords’ attacks, then flew into the sky and challenged them to fight him one by one.
• The City Lords attacked Zhao Fu together and blasted him into a crater, believing he was too wounded to resist.
• Ten Hundred Ghost Illusionists activated the Yin Qi Grand Array and trapped the City Lords in an enhanced Nether Ghost Realm; only thirty escaped.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin to victory across the eastern, southern, and western battlefields, forcing the enemy forces to retreat and gaining control of many regions. After the war, eighty system city lords pledged allegiance, and Great Qin City became a Level One Capital City.

• Zhao Fu killed sixty city lords on the southern battlefield, then led Great Qin to defeat the remaining forces and claim seventy City Lord Seals.
• The southern defeat prompted the enemy forces on the eastern and western fronts to retreat, while Yue Kingdom factions withdrew from their planned attack.
• Great Qin won the war but suffered heavy casualties on the eastern battlefield; Binuoxiu and Kelahe’s forbidden spell had killed 1.6 million enemies in the west.
• Wang Jian joined Zhao Fu as Great Qin cleaned up the battlefields and relocated the cities of defeated city lords, leaving twenty-two eastern and twenty-five southern regions cityless.
• Eighty system city lords personally pledged allegiance to Zhao Fu, who accepted them and held a banquet to welcome them and reward Great Qin’s generals.
• The newly relocated cities and pledged system main cities caused Great Qin City to upgrade into a Level One Capital City.

After Great Qin became a Level 1 Capital City, Zhao Fu prepared for the kingdom’s restoration and ordered a royal palace built. He then invaded the western faction, whose leaders fled or surrendered, while Great Qin swiftly took the western region.

• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin City’s new status and considered how difficult it would be to gather the three Level 1 Capital Cities required for a Royal City.
• Zhao Fu assigned Li Si and Shang Yang to plan a royal palace and discussed destroying the western faction with his generals.
• After the western faction refused to surrender, Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s thirty million soldiers westward.
• A white-haired old man offered a system main city’s surrender, and Zhao Fu accepted before continuing the invasion.
• Great Qin swept across the western region with little resistance, but most western City Lords escaped and Zhao Fu captured only sixteen.

After Great Qin gained seventy-seven regions, Zhao Fu continued expanding its influence through envoys and opened the regional treasure chests he had collected. He found several useful treasures, including a Dragon-Shooting Ballista, Silver Spirit Liquid, and a City Upgrade Stone, but ended still hoping for more upgrade stones.

• Great Qin counted seventy-seven regions and began planning to clear the remaining seventy-four while sending envoys to persuade regions to join peacefully.
• Zhao Fu opened regional treasure chests and obtained a Dragon-Shooting Ballista along with various equipment, materials, and other items.
• Zhao Fu found Silver Spirit Liquid, which could age each plant it was used on by one hundred years, and considered using it on Great Qin's Trees of Life and Ginseng Fruit Trees.
• Zhao Fu discovered a City Upgrade Stone that could raise a city one level without experience and rejoiced at the experience it could save Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu opened more than a dozen further chests without finding another City Upgrade Stone and eventually calmed his expectations.

Zhao Fu opened the remaining regional treasure chests and obtained several useful items, most notably a Refresh Point Stone for the Flying Dragon Nest and a Heavenly Spirit Stele that could connect Great Qin to missions and information across Apocalypse World. He left the final chest’s ordinary material behind and was eager to place the stele and explore it.

• Zhao Fu obtained a Refresh Point Stone that could add four refresh points to a city nest, greatly increasing Great Qin’s potential flying dragon production.
• Zhao Fu opened several chests and found an epic-grade greatbow, a Dragon-Shooting Ballista, a City Upgrade Stone, and Silver Spirit Liquid.
• Zhao Fu found an earth-element skill book and then discovered that the purple stone stele was a Heavenly Spirit Stele, which connected users across Apocalypse World.
• Zhao Fu decided to place the Heavenly Spirit Stele immediately and explore it, but first opened the final chest and found only an ordinary epic-grade metal material.

Zhao Fu used his blood to create an account with the Heavenly Spirit Stele, revealing his exceptionally powerful First-Generation Emperor Bloodline. Heaven's Secret Pavilion learned of the bloodline and called an emergency meeting, where a demon clansman challenged the claim that it surpassed demonic bloodlines.

• Zhao Fu activated the Heavenly Spirit Stele and registered his blood, creating a bloodline account.
• A young man reported the Emperor Bloodline account to Wu Zi, who learned it was First-Generation Emperor Blood and ordered it discreetly investigated.
• Wu Zi showed the blood-colored sphere to the white-robed elder, who sensed its overwhelming killing intent and called an emergency meeting.
• Old Li presented the sphere to Heaven's Secret Pavilion's stewards and described its destructive power.
• A demon clansman doubted Old Li's claims and argued that humans could not possess bloodlines more terrifying than those of demons.

Old Li revealed a first-generation Imperial Blood so terrifying that major merchant groups classified its owner as extremely dangerous and ordered the highest level of observation. Unaware of the alarm he had caused, Zhao Fu explored the Heavenly Spirit Stele, posted a mission for recent news, and left to handle other matters.

• Old Li showed the blood-colored sphere to the demons, whose fear convinced them that the human Imperial Blood was exceptionally powerful.
• Old Li revealed that the sphere held first-generation Imperial Blood and demonstrated that other famous Imperial Bloods recoiled from it.
• The merchant groups reported the discovery to their leaders, who designated its owner a Level Seven Special Account and ordered them not to make contact.
• Zhao Fu explored the Heavenly Spirit Stele’s mission and exchange areas and learned that missions earned the points needed to obtain rare items and raise his level.
• Zhao Fu posted a mission offering 100,000 gold coins for a book about recent events in Apocalypse World, then exited the Heavenly Spirit Stele.

Zhao Fu strengthened Great Qin’s resources and chose Peacock City, Ice Spirit City, and Fireflame City as future capitals, postponing their upgrades until Great Qin reached Level Six. After returning to the real world, he reunited with Zheng Qiu, who called her cousin to join them.

• Zhao Fu upgraded the flying dragon nest with a Refresh Point Stone, allowing it to refresh five flying dragons every two days.
• Zhao Fu used Silver Spirit Liquid to cultivate eighteen Ginseng Fruit Trees, strengthen an older ginseng tree, and grow a Tree of Life beside the Life Spring.
• Zhao Fu selected Peacock City, Ice Spirit City, and Fireflame City as Great Qin’s future capitals, but decided to wait before upgrading them.
• Zhao Fu returned to the real world, ate, and checked the Apocalypse Forum and QQ without finding anything notable.
• Zheng Qiu visited Zhao Fu, and they made love; afterward, she called her cousin, whom Zhao Fu recognized.

Zhao Fu reunited with his university classmate Bai Yan, who had come to join Great Qin and sought his protection. He accepted her as his woman, and the chapter ended with Bai Yan and Zheng Qiu joining him while Zheng Yuqin watched from nearby.

• Zhao Fu and Bai Yan recognized each other as former university classmates, surprising both of them.
• Bai Yan explained that she had left Yang Ze and come to Great Qin, hoping Zhao Fu would become her patron.
• After Zheng Qiu went to sleep, Bai Yan sat with Zhao Fu and began a relationship with him.
• Bai Yan watched Yang Ze lament their breakup in a group chat while she was with Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu accepted Bai Yan as his woman, and Zheng Qiu joined them after waking up.
• Zheng Yuqin woke to the sounds, complained about Zhao Fu's lechery, and touched herself.

Zhao Fu investigated national inheritances and read a chronicle of major events in Apocalypse World, becoming concerned that the Dao Sect had detected the Origin Clan in the northern frontier. Great Qin’s assassins later found two national inheritances that had not relocated, and Zhao Fu requested information on them.

• Zhao Fu ordered the Great Qin Assassins to search eight regions for national inheritances that had not relocated.
• Zhao Fu claimed the Chronicle of Major Events from the Heavenly Spirit Stele and read about major powers and conflicts in Apocalypse World.
• Zhao Fu worried that the Dao Sect’s report of the Origin Clan’s appearance in the north might concern Tuoba Qing, but felt relieved when the chronicle gave no exact location.
• The Great Qin Assassins reported that two national inheritances had not relocated, and Zhao Fu requested information on them.
• Zhao Fu learned that the first inheritance was Chen Kingdom, established by Gui Man, a descendant of Emperor Shun.

Zhao Fu sent Bai Qi to destroy Chen State while he personally led an army against Great West. Bai Qi’s forces surrounded Chen State City, leaving its inheritor Chen Man overwhelmed by fear and regret.

• The chapter recounted Chen State’s history and described Zhang Xianzhong’s Great West regime and its eventual destruction.
• Zhao Fu split Great Qin’s forces, sending Bai Qi west with five million troops to attack Chen State and leading another army east himself to attack Great West.
• Bai Qi ordered his troops to charge Chen State City, and they swept through the surrounding villages.
• Chen Man, Chen State’s inheritor, saw Great Qin’s army from the city walls and despaired at the overwhelming odds.
• Chen Man regretted staying to protect Chen State’s fortune and legacy, realizing that hiding in the mountains would not have kept him safe.