Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu exchanged Great Qin’s ghost monster points for resources, weapon manuals, an array artifact, and the Yin Soul War Banner before the Ghost Festival ended. When the Divine Fish Festival began, he used his converted points to choose Sword Mountain, intending for Ge Nie to lead it.

• Zhao Fu exchanged for spirit liquid, Evil-Breaking Spear crafting manuals, a Yin Qi Grand Array artifact, and the Yin Soul War Banner.
• Zhao Fu learned the banner could transform unlimited yin soldiers into C-rank Yin Soul Ghost Soldiers, while Great Qin’s ghost seals gave it command of twenty-five million yin soldiers.
• Zhao Fu spent nearly all of Great Qin’s ghost monster points and let his exhausted people rest before the individual Fish Spirit World event.
• The Ghost Festival ended, and the Divine Fish Festival began as seven-colored fish filled the night sky and the ghost monster points became Divine Fish Points.
• Zhao Fu found he had enough points for the top-ranked city and exchanged them for Sword Mountain, planning to appoint Ge Nie as its city lord.

Zhao Fu began fishing in the Divine Fish Festival with Emperor Blood as bait and the Water God’s blessings, catching several powerful divine fish and discovering a way to improve the Fish God’s Wheel. He left the Water God opening the wheels while he continued fishing, encouraged by his blood’s influence on the divine fish.

• Zhao Fu traveled to the deep sea with the Water God, who blessed his fishing rod as he used fish that had devoured Emperor Blood for bait.
• Zhao Fu caught a Tricolor Eel and received a Fish God’s Wheel instead of a fish treasure.
• The Water God sensed divine power in the wheel and said she could fuse with it to help control its rewards and avoid the No Reward section.
• Zhao Fu caught another Tricolor Divine Fish, then used the Great Qin Seal’s power to pull up a Seven-Colored Ray and received a Fish God’s Wheel and a Water God Stone.
• The Water God fused with the wheel’s divine power, and Zhao Fu gave her his new wheel to open while he continued fishing.
• Zhao Fu caught another Tricolor Divine Fish and discovered that his blood repelled lower-grade divine fish while attracting those above the Tricolor grade.

Zhao Fu and the Water God fished up rewards, including an Experience Stone and a mermaid, before Zhao Fu encountered and fought an enormous Eight-Colored Divine Fish. The chapter ended as Zhao Fu’s giant water sword cut through the fish’s water-pillar attack and swept toward it.

• The Water God spun the wheel and won an Experience Stone, then received a low-grade Epic material on the next spin.
• Zhao Fu caught more Divine Fish while the Water God spun their wheels, and they obtained a male mermaid who became the Water God’s subordinate.
• Zhao Fu and the Water God gained a powerful Water God Blessing, then Zhao Fu was nearly pulled into the water by a massive fish.
• Zhao Fu leaped into the water and found a hundred-meter Eight-Colored Divine Fish, which attacked him with its tentacles and a water pillar.
• Zhao Fu used the Calamitous Dragon Sword and the City Lord Seal to unleash a huge water sword that split the pillar and flew toward the Eight-Colored Divine Fish.

Zhao Fu defeated the Eight-Colored Divine Fish, gained its rewards, and continued fishing with the Water God through the night. He returned to Great Qin with many useful treasures and exchanged his Divine Fish Points for the City of Immortals after Sacred God City had already been claimed.

• Zhao Fu cut down the Eight-Colored Divine Fish’s tentacles, dragged it from the water, and received the Fish God’s disk, a high-grade Water God Stone, and the Fish God Staff.
• Zhao Fu gave the Fish God Staff to the Water God, who then spun the disk and won a Seafaring Spirit Boat.
• Zhao Fu continued fishing, defeated another Eight-Colored Divine Fish, and later obtained a Deep-Sea Tree Fish egg that he planned to cultivate as a valuable product for Great Qin.
• At sunrise, Zhao Fu and the Water God returned to Great Qin with their fishing rewards and Zhao Fu found that Sacred God City had already been exchanged.
• Zhao Fu spent all his Divine Fish Points to exchange for the City of Immortals and prepared for the next stage of the Calamity Festival.

Zhao Fu fished up a Nine-Colored Divine Fish and fought it in a fierce battle. He killed the fish after exploiting its attempt to swallow him, and four items dropped from it.

• Zhao Fu rested while fishing with Water Goddess, then resumed catching divine fish as she spun the wheel.
• Zhao Fu hooked a Nine-Colored Divine Fish whose strength surpassed that of the Eight-Colored Divine Fish and followed it into the water when his fishing line threatened to snap.
• Zhao Fu struck the fish with the Spirit Evil-Breaking Spear and Calamitous Dragon Sword, then defended himself against its attacks with Emperor Domain and fifteen City Lord Seals.
• Zhao Fu let the Nine-Colored Divine Fish swallow him and wounded its mouth from within before it spat him back out.
• Zhao Fu evaded the fish's attacks until he found an opening and killed it with the Calamitous Dragon Sword, causing four items to drop.

Zhao Fu finished the Divine Fish Festival, tallied Great Qin’s treasures, and prepared a plan to help City Lords during the Calamity Festival. When the festival began, he exchanged merit points for a Revival Pill and hunted Disaster Beasts while gathering intelligence about stronger targets.

• The Water God spun the Nine-Colored Roulette and obtained the Heaven-Sealing Sword, which Zhao Fu set aside because he already had other sealing methods.
• After the Divine Fish Festival ended, Zhao Fu gave the Water God enough Water God Stones to build a top-tier Water God Temple and reviewed Great Qin’s festival rewards.
• Zhao Fu discussed a plan with his generals to help other City Lords during the Calamity Festival and gain their gratitude.
• At midnight, disasters struck across the human world, and Zhao Fu exchanged his merit points for a Revival Pill.
• Zhao Fu killed an eighth-level firebird Disaster Beast, collected its Fire Disaster Crystal, and returned to Great Qin after hunting through nearby areas and gathering intelligence.

Zhao Fu hunted level-nine and level-ten calamity beasts, finding that the Sand Calamity Beast dropped a useful heavenly calamity creation. After defeating it, he welcomed several City Lords into Great Qin and flew on to his next target.

• Zhao Fu killed several level-nine calamity beasts, but they yielded only calamity crystals.
• Zhao Fu found a level-ten Sand Calamity Beast in a desert and dragged it from underground with his chains.
• Zhao Fu identified himself to the nearby City Lords as the Great Qin Imperial Prince and killed the Sand Calamity Beast with one sword strike.
• Zhao Fu learned from the Golden Dragon that the dropped Desertification Pearl could be made into a powerful forbidden item.
• One City Lord asked to join Great Qin, and the others soon agreed to join as well.
• Zhao Fu welcomed the City Lords, then flew toward another region while wondering whether he had acted too kindly.

After Zhao Fu learned that level-ten calamity beasts yielded powerful pearls, he hunted them before rushing to the level-twelve Death Calamity in the Underworld Region. The Death Calamity Beast emerged from the fog and overwhelmed the gathered experts, but paused when a terrifying pressure descended from the heavens.

• Zhao Fu killed an Ice Calamity Beast, obtained an Ice Calamity Pearl, and ordered Great Qin’s city lords to hunt level-ten calamity beasts for pearls.
• Zhao Fu collected seventy-two calamity pearls, then learned that a level-twelve Death Calamity had appeared in the Underworld Region and hurried there.
• Si Ji, the inheritors of several dynasties, and powerful figures from various schools entered the spreading death fog.
• The Death Calamity Beast drove the experts from the fog, then emerged and blocked their attacks with deathly energy.
• The Death Calamity Beast prepared to unleash a devastating attack but stopped when a terrifying pressure descended from the heavens.

Zhao Fu confronted the Death Calamity Beast and used the life aura of the Royal Wood Sword to wound her. She repeatedly healed by absorbing deathly energy, then split into two bodies and attacked him alongside her original form.

• Zhao Fu arrived as the Death Calamity Beast attacked him with a spear of deathly energy, which his Emperor Domain dispersed.
• Zhao Fu fought the Death Calamity Beast with his swords while nearby people and dynasties retreated from the battle.
• Zhao Fu used the Royal Wood Sword to summon life-filled vines that absorbed deathly energy, then struck the Death Calamity Beast from behind and wounded her.
• The Death Calamity Beast healed with deathly energy, summoned death beasts, and clashed with Zhao Fu, leaving them both injured.
• The Death Calamity Beast absorbed more deathly energy, split into two identical bodies, and attacked Zhao Fu with both of them.

Zhao Fu defeated and absorbed the Death Calamity Beast, obtaining a Seed of Calamity and transforming the Heaven-Sealing Sword into a Level 7 Saint Artifact. He then faced the wary dynasty inheritors but chose not to attack them yet.

• Zhao Fu used the Royal Wood Sword and his defensive barrier to overpower the Death Calamity Beast and her clones.
• The wounded Death Calamity Beast gathered death energy from several regions, but iron chains restrained her as a crystal sword pierced and absorbed her.
• Zhao Fu collected the Death Calamity Beast's calamity crystal, Death Calamity Pearl, and Seed of Calamity, which could advance a golden-grade city to legendary grade.
• The Heaven-Sealing Sword became the Level 7 Saint Artifact called the Sealed Death Calamity Sword, and Zhao Fu subdued its resisting spirit with Emperor's Power.
• Zhao Fu looked toward the dynasty inheritors but decided to spare them until he had enough strength to avoid provoking all of Huaxia.

Zhao Fu spent Great Qin’s Calamity Festival points on fourth-grade spirit herb seeds, then prepared for the New Year Festival as heavy snow began to fall. After the Six Days Festival ended, he improved Li Si’s aptitude and welcomed the hatched Nine-Tailed Demon Fox Xiao Jiu and Cerberus, whom he named Hell Hound, while realizing Xiao Jiu’s innate charm could affect him.

• Zhao Fu exchanged Great Qin’s Merit Points for more than twenty thousand fourth-grade spirit herb seeds and ordered the Medicine Department to propagate them.
• Zhao Fu learned that Medicinal Stone had improved several pills and supplied Great Qin with useful formulas.
• Heavy snow began at midnight as the New Year Festival started, and Zhao Fu prepared for its activities.
• After the Six Days Festival ended, Zhao Fu gave the generals their general fortune and raised Li Si’s aptitude to SSS grade with a Historical Aptitude Pill.
• Zhao Fu used spirit liquid to hatch the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and Cerberus, naming them Xiao Jiu and Hell Hound.
• Xiao Jiu clung to Zhao Fu and used her tearful charm to keep his attention, prompting him to remember the Golden Dragon’s warning about Nine-Tailed Demon Foxes.

Zhao Fu established a flower-growing domain and prepared a yin formation to convert corpses into yin soldiers. After setting those plans in motion, he turned to the Divine Fish Festival and began addressing its needs.

• Zhao Fu placed the Flower Domain on a plain, planted a lord-grade flower demon seed and many ordinary seeds, and buried a World Flower Seed there.
• Zhao Fu found a valley in Secluded Prefecture, set up the Yin Qi Grand Array, and placed tombstones and a Yin Soul War Banner to gather yin qi and repel ghosts.
• Zhao Fu arranged Ghost Seals in an array and prepared yinwood coffins holding the corpses of recently fallen Great Qin Soldiers for conversion into yin soldiers.
• Zhao Fu decided to obtain additional corpses from wars Great Qin had not fought, since those dead would be less likely to resent Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu ordered preparations for up to 25 million yin soldiers from Great Qin’s reserves of 700 million corpses, then turned to the Divine Fish Festival.
• Zhao Fu planned to breed Deep-Sea Tree Fish in saltwater lakes, added more than a dozen merfolk villages, and sought to cultivate stronger merfolk bloodlines.

After finishing the Six Days Festival’s remaining preparations, Zhao Fu learned that more than six hundred system main cities had joined Great Qin amid a sweeping relocation of cities and the breakdown of the old order. Great Qin’s power surged, while the loss of Absolute Neutrality Mode signaled that Apocalypse World’s arrival in the real world was drawing closer.

• Zhao Fu assigned thirty-six water-class experts to the Fish God Staffs, raised ten Calamity Knights into high-level Lords, and turned a heavy city into a City of Calamity.
• More than six hundred City Lords chose to join Great Qin after system main cities began gathering into enormous city clusters and dividing into factions with different policies toward players.
• Zhao Fu welcomed the new City Lords as Great Qin’s population rose to one billion and its military grew to 160 million soldiers.
• Zhao Fu identified 260 surrounding cityless regions as Great Qin’s next targets and planned to bring them under its control.
• Zhao Fu learned that system main cities could still use Absolute Neutrality Mode, but its impending failure threatened to bring Apocalypse World into the real world.
• Zhao Fu learned that other powerful factions and dynasties had also attracted some City Lords and expanded their strength.

Zhao Fu agreed to arrange for the Ying Family to integrate into Great Qin and considered their offer to send Ying Xi as his consort. Back in Apocalypse World, he planned Great Qin’s expansion and defenses while sending envoys to neighboring factions to secure time for its development.

• The Ying Family heads asked Zhao Fu when their family could join Great Qin, and he promised to arrange their integration.
• The family heads offered Ying Xi and Ying Qiu as consorts; Zhao Fu said he would consider the offer.
• After the family heads left, Zhao Fu received Zhang Hongmei, who arrived embarrassed and flushed.
• In Apocalypse World, Zhao Fu assigned 150 million soldiers to clear regions and ten million to guard the Great Wall, while planning a second wall to protect Great Qin’s expanding territory.
• Zhao Fu planned to seize 120 regions from the Yue Kingdom after Absolute Neutral Mode ended and began preparations to build the new Great Wall.
• Great Qin sent envoys bearing gifts to surrounding factions to seek friendly relations while it expanded and fortified its territory.

Zhao Fu let the Ghost King Seal absorb his blood as it transformed within the Yin Qi Grand Array, then continued expanding Great Qin. A month later, Great Qin City became a sixth-level capital city, leaving only the experience needed to reach royal city status before Zhao Fu could found a nation.

• Great Qin continued building the Great Wall and clearing regions while maintaining friendly relations with surrounding factions.
• The Ghost King Seal began melting as the Yin Qi Grand Array gathered yin qi, killing aura, and kingly aura to nurture something within the ghost seals.
• Golden Dragon urged Zhao Fu not to interfere and told him to fuse his essence blood into the Ghost King Seal, so Zhao Fu bled until the seal was saturated.
• A month later, Zhao Fu received notice that Great Qin City had upgraded to a sixth-level capital city.
• Zhao Fu learned that Great Qin needed 1.2 billion more experience to become a royal city and planned to gain it by clearing regions and attacking the Yue Kingdom.

Zhao Fu used Viet Guard, led by Li Qinqian, to clear Yue Kingdom players from regions near Great Qin under the pretense of restoring order and preparing defenses. Viet Guard emptied fifteen regions without Great Qin sending troops, then moved its operation farther inland.

• Zhao Fu instructed Li Qinqian to use Great Qin's funding to mobilize Yue Kingdom players and clear them from the regions Great Qin planned to seize.
• Viet Guard announced that it would restore order in Yue Kingdom, drawing broad public support as the kingdom's largest faction.
• Viet Guard offered players in fifteen regions near Great Qin Teleportation Arrays and travel money to leave, claiming the area would become a defensive zone.
• Viet Guard staged frightening ghost and demon formations to convince players and its own members that its actions were necessary.
• Most players left the fifteen regions, allowing Great Qin to take them without sending soldiers and reducing Yue Kingdom's remaining regions from 120 to 105.
• After inspecting the cleared regions for several days, Viet Guard moved its operation farther inland.

Viet Guard used Great Qin’s plans and the threat of system forces to justify taking control of Yue Kingdom’s remaining regions and building two Great Walls. The walls were secretly intended to secure those regions for Great Qin while avoiding a direct conquest of the entire kingdom.

• Viet Guard assessed the five national legacies and their combined strength, while Great Qin planned to destroy them itself.
• Viet Guard warned players that system forces threatened them and announced plans to build a Great Wall for defense.
• Zhao Fu ordered a second Great Wall beyond the remaining thirty-five regions, bringing all 120 planned regions under Viet Guard’s control.
• Viet Guard hired players and invited factions to build the walls, concealing that they would protect Great Qin from Yue Kingdom’s people.
• The construction and warnings boosted Viet Guard’s prestige as Yue Kingdom’s people celebrated its actions.

Viet Guard began its campaign to cleanse Yue Kingdom’s thirty-five regions, drawing on its righteous public image while remaining under Zhao Fu’s control. Led by Li Qinqian, Viet Guard attacked a settlement of three hundred thousand people and left its ruling factions retreating under assault.

• As two Great Walls advanced, Zhao Fu assigned Viet Guard responsibility for the thirty-five regions behind the first wall and had it urge ordinary players to leave before the coming campaign.
• In May, Viet Guard announced that its cleansing campaign would begin and split its ten million members into three armies to attack forces in three regions.
• Li Qinqian and Zhao Fu led an army of three million soldiers against a settlement of three hundred thousand people dominated by factions that exploited ordinary players.
• After Li Qinqian called on the settlement’s residents to resist their oppressors, a young man rallied them, and ordinary players attacked the factions from within.
• Viet Guard stormed the walls, forcing the factions and their City Lords to retreat as Viet Guard’s City Lords pursued them.

Li Qinqian led Viet Guard in defeating and looting hostile factions while presenting its expansion as a righteous campaign. After cleansing fifteen of Yue Kingdom’s thirty-five regions, Viet Guard grew powerful, leaving the twenty remaining regions trapped and divided.

• Zhao Fu watched from nearby as Viet Guard and the civilians slaughtered the factions’ forces, while Viet Guard City Lords killed their opponents.
• Li Qinqian welcomed new recruits and promised that Viet Guard would distribute the defeated factions’ goods among the people.
• Li Qinqian absorbed the defeated factions’ populations, sent their experience to Great Qin, and led Viet Guard onward as its forces and public support grew.
• Viet Guard captured another gathering place and gained eighty-nine City Lord Seals, bringing the number of cleansed regions to fifteen.
• The twenty remaining regions feared Viet Guard, which isolated hostile factions by sparing some good factions and branding its targets evil.

Viet Guard continued its purge by attacking factions it had newly branded as evil, despite doubts among its soldiers and the anger of the people it attacked. The remaining Lords recognized that Viet Guard intended to seize control of all thirty-five regions, and the chapter ended with them resisting the force they had once trusted.

• Zhao Fu sent Viet Guard’s three teams to sweep the regions, and Viet Guard proclaimed the remaining factions evil.
• Viet Guard attacked a small city, killed its Lord, and took control while some soldiers felt guilty as its people cowered in fear.
• Viet Guard assaulted another faction, and its soldiers continued after a senior officer reminded them that their first rule was to obey orders.
• The remaining factions formed three forces to oppose Viet Guard, though they were much weaker than its armies.
• The resisting Lords accused Viet Guard of hypocrisy and realized its campaign was meant to control the thirty-five regions.