Chapter Summaries

Viet Guard defeated its enemies and captured 260 cities, but the victory left its members questioning the faction’s motives. Li Qinqian promised to explain, then secretly used truth-mixed tea to strip the player City Lords of their identities and take their City Lord Seals, leaving them to hear her reason.

• Viet Guard charged the enemy city, overcame its defenses, and won the battle at the cost of two million people while the enemy lost four million.
• Li Qinqian fought a minor City Lord in the sky as Viet Guard killed or captured the remaining defenders.
• Viet Guard and its allies gathered 25 million surviving troops and claimed 260 cities after sweeping through thirty-five regions.
• Disturbed by accusations that Viet Guard was disguising its ambitions, its members demanded answers, and Li Qinqian promised to explain the next day.
• Li Qinqian summoned Viet Guard’s upper ranks and served them medicinal tea mixed with the Fruit of Truth, stripping the player City Lords of their City Lord identities.
• Li Qinqian collected the player City Lords’ seals and said she would explain the reason behind the sweep.

Li Qinqian revealed that Viet Guard was a Great Qin plot to destroy the Yue Kingdom and persuaded its remaining player City Lords to submit. As the system armies attacked and slaughtered Viet Guard, Great Qin began its operation.

• Li Qinqian told Viet Guard's members that Great Qin had planted the faction to destroy the Yue Kingdom and offered the player City Lords protection if they submitted.
• A City Lord attacked a Viet Guard member who tried to expose the conspiracy, and Li Qinqian stopped the City Lords from killing the players.
• The player City Lords accepted Li Qinqian's offer to submit to Great Qin as an army approached.
• Li Qinqian left with the player City Lords and said Viet Guard's other members would die because they were obstacles to Great Qin.
• The system armies surrounded Viet Guard and stormed its city, killing its members after Great Qin lured the two system factions there with false intelligence.
• Great Qin officially began its operation.

The system army destroyed Viet Guard, only to discover that Great Qin had used the battle as bait to trap them. Zhao Fu offered the surrounded forces submission or death, and Great Qin’s buried Destruction Crystals devastated their attempted escape.

• The system army killed nearly all of Viet Guard’s forces, while fewer than one million escaped and the system army lost four million soldiers.
• News of Viet Guard’s destruction shocked the Yue Kingdom, where factions and ordinary people reacted to the sudden collapse.
• A force of at least one hundred million Great Qin soldiers and fifteen hundred City Lords surrounded the victorious system army as it prepared to leave.
• Zhao Fu emerged and demanded that the system forces submit to Great Qin or die.
• A system City Lord ordered a breakout to the east, but thirty Destruction Crystals exploded across the city and killed at least five or six million soldiers.
• Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s City Lords in a fierce attack on the devastated system forces.

Great Qin annihilated the Yue Kingdom’s national legacies and seized all 120 regions in a surprise assault. Zhao Fu then led his army toward the Yue Kingdom’s second Great Wall as reports began revealing the three-year conspiracy behind the upheaval.

• Zhao Fu and the Great Qin forces slaughtered the system City Lords and soldiers, forcing the survivors to surrender with fifteen million troops.
• Bai Qi used the Seven Killings Star to suppress and kill a national legacy inheritor before Great Qin captured his city.
• Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, Li Mu, and Bai Xihan led five forces that destroyed the other national legacies and killed their inheritors.
• Great Qin conquered all 120 regions of the Yue Kingdom and assigned its armies to absorb the cities, populations, and resources.
• Zhao Fu marched toward the Yue Kingdom’s second Great Wall while reports of the attacks began exposing a conspiracy plotted over three years.

Great Qin’s destruction of much of the Yue Kingdom left the weakened nation furious, while the world recognized Great Qin as the restored Qin State. When Yue Kingdom leaders confronted Zhao Fu at the second Great Wall, their people charged after he ordered weapons aimed at them, and Great Qin opened fire.

• Great Qin’s exposure of Viet Guard’s betrayal and its conquest of 120 Yue Kingdom regions shocked nations and factions, which regarded Great Qin as Qin State.
• Yue Kingdom survivors gathered at the second Great Wall, where Zhao Fu faced their leaders as they demanded an explanation and his withdrawal.
• Zhao Fu refused to negotiate and ordered Great Qin’s ballistas and weapons to aim at the Yue Kingdom crowd.
• A Yue Kingdom player urged the crowd to resist, and thousands charged toward the wall.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to fire, killing five or six million of the players at the front.

After Great Qin’s attack killed millions of Yue Kingdom players in reality, Zhao Fu abandoned his plan to wipe out Yue Kingdom when two neighboring countries intervened, and the conflict settled into a tense stalemate. Great Qin expanded and prepared to establish a nation, while Zhao Fu later gave Xu Liuyi a newly forged General’s Artifact, hoping to awaken the Army Breaker Star.

• The factions learned that five or six million Yue Kingdom players had died in reality, and the survivors fled as Zhao Fu prepared to attack them.
• When players from two neighboring countries came to Yue Kingdom’s aid, Zhao Fu sent fifty million troops to intercept them instead of exterminating Yue Kingdom.
• Several days later, Great Qin defended its occupied territory against Yue Kingdom and its allies, while the invasion’s gains brought its population to 1.2 billion and its military strength to 180 million.
• As wars spread and hidden forces such as the Shu Kingdom, Wu Kingdom, and Wei Kingdom appeared, Zhao Fu focused on clearing regions and preparing Great Qin to establish a nation.
• A month later, Zhao Fu named the newly sprouted Lord-grade flower demon Xiao Qiang and arranged for her and Xiao Jiu to be cared for together.
• After Li Wen delivered another hundred Soldier Souls, Zhao Fu gave the fused Soldier God Soul to Xu Liuyi so she could fuse with the General’s Artifact.

Xu Liuyi fused her General's Artifact as three general stars gathered over Great Qin, followed by ten more stars surrounding Zhao Fu. Zhao Fu underwent a painful transformation that shook all four worlds, leaving rulers and countless beings kneeling beneath an overwhelming heavenly presence.

• Xu Liuyi summoned the Army Breaker Star and fused the ten Soldier God Souls into her General's Artifact.
• Bai Xihan and Sun Hanxiang awakened their general stars, forming a second three-star gathering above Great Qin.
• As the pressure of the stars struck Zhao Fu, an ancient blood-red rune appeared on his brow and ten generals were compelled to circle him and raise their General's Artifacts.
• Ten additional general stars descended as the sky darkened, and the rulers of the Fish Scale World, Demon Profound World, Greenfield World, and human world sensed their royal bloodlines tremble.
• Zhao Fu roared as black aura surged from his body, splitting the skies of all four worlds and forcing countless beings, including some rulers, to kneel.

A Heavenly Emperor Star descended over a frontier region, prompting a powerful Heavenly Dao Sect elder to recognize the omen. His disciple was shocked that such a star could appear outside Apocalypse World's central region.

• A supreme heavenly will spread across the worlds, forcing most living beings to kneel while Arthur Tina, Fish Scale, Demon Xuan, and Green Shade resisted and were gravely injured.
• A vast golden star descended above the human world, and an elder on a mountain in Apocalypse World sensed its arrival.
• The elder identified the star as a Heavenly Emperor Star, while his disciple proposed investigating the central-region empire where its imperial son had been born.
• The elder revealed that the Heavenly Emperor Star was in a frontier region and that disturbed heavenly secrets concealed its precise location.
• The disciple was shocked that a Heavenly Emperor Star had appeared in a frontier region.

Mandate of Heaven elders discovered that Zhao Fu's Heavenly Emperor Star was accompanied by a sinister blood-red destiny star, but the stars repelled their attempt to investigate. The Heavenly Book Pavilion announced the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star's arrival and warned that its wielder's information could not be obtained.

• A disciple asked his master about the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star in the border wilderness, and the old man said it carried traces of killing intent, calamity, and darkness.
• Mandate of Heaven elders used the Heavenly Mechanism to trace Zhao Fu's Heavenly Emperor Star and found a blood-red star beside it.
• The two stars blasted the elders' consciousness back, injuring them as they tried to investigate.
• The elders described the two destiny stars to Mandate of Heaven, prompting others to search ancient records and report to the Venerable of Destiny.
• The Heavenly Book Pavilion's Pavilion Master announced that the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star had descended and said its wielder's information could not be obtained.

The appearance of the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star revealed that it belonged to Zhao Fu, though the Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group kept his identity secret and other factions searched for him. As purple qi poured into Zhao Fu beneath the star above Great Qin, it gathered into a dragon egg inside his chest.

• A refined middle-aged man explained that the Heavenly Emperor Star was hidden in the border wastelands by heavenly secrets, and ordered others to investigate the region.
• The Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group discovered that the mysterious First-generation Emperor Blood belonged to the owner of the seventh Heavenly Emperor Star and classified the information as top secret.
• A Death Clan young man reflected on the human race's new Heavenly Emperor Star, while awakened leaders of the god, devil, and demon races ordered their people to find its owner.
• A black-clad great power watched Tuoba Qing's aura and smiled faintly.
• Above Great Qin, Zhao Fu was lifted beneath the golden star as purple qi flooded into him and condensed around the Golden Dragon into a fearsome dragon egg.

Zhao Fu awakened the Heavenly Emperor Star and gained a purple divine dragon, but a powerful black-clothed man used an Origin Mark to locate him and attack Great Qin. Zhao Fu’s sword strike wounded the man and began shrinking the blood vortex, but another mutation occurred before it disappeared.

• Zhao Fu absorbed the purple qi, awakened the Heavenly Emperor Star, and birthed a purple divine dragon within his body.
• A black-clothed man used an Origin Mark in a blood pool to summon a blood-colored vortex above Great Qin and try to seize Zhao Fu’s Origin Mark.
• Golden Dragon warned Zhao Fu about the attack, and Zhao Fu ordered everyone to evacuate while he resisted the vortex’s suction.
• Zhao Fu’s Death Sword strike failed to stop the vortex, which expanded and sent a giant hand toward him.
• Zhao Fu drew on the power of nearly three thousand cities to sever the giant hand and wound the black-clothed man, causing the vortex to shrink.
• Another mutation occurred as the blood-colored vortex was about to vanish.

Zhao Fu fought a powerful phantom summoned from a blood vortex, then unleashed the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and defeated it. As that power began tearing his body apart, the will of the Nine Nethers invaded him, awakening the corpses inside twenty-five million black coffins.

• The phantom emerged from the blood and demanded Zhao Fu surrender the Origin Mark, while the blood flooded the surrounding land and killed all living things.
• Zhao Fu gathered power from Great Qin through the Great Qin Seal, but the phantom shattered his Emperor Domain and repeatedly wounded him.
• The phantom approached the seemingly helpless Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu erupted with the ghostly power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Zhao Fu broke free of the phantom's attack, struck him into a mountain wall, and pierced his chest with a claw, causing the phantom to vanish.
• Zhao Fu's body began to break down, and the will of the Nine Nethers invaded him as the corpses in twenty-five million black coffins opened their eyes.

The will of the Nine Netherworlds transformed Zhao Fu as yin energy spread across the Human World and turned it into a realm of ghosts. A Nether Emperor Star descended over the same region, leaving the Heavenly Dao Sect alarmed by its appearance after the Heavenly Emperor Star.

• A massive pillar of yin energy erupted from the Nine Netherworlds, covering the Human World in ghostly clouds and frightening Fish Scale, Demon Profound, and Green Shade.
• The Nine Netherworlds will carried Zhao Fu into the pillar and painfully eroded his body and soul as yin energy and black blood from the Six Paths Demon Idols flooded into him.
• Twenty-five million yin soldiers, ghosts, monsters, and nether guardians bowed to Zhao Fu, and a gray ghost dragon plunged into his body.
• The pillar expanded as a gray star descended, sending waves of nether energy across more than a thousand worlds.
• An old man of the Heavenly Dao Sect recognized the star as the Nether Emperor Star, and his disciple noted that it had descended from the same direction as the Heavenly Emperor Star.

A master and his disciple learned that the Nether Emperor Star had awakened in the frontier region and might belong to the same person as the Heavenly Emperor Star. The Fate Venerable investigated the two stars and began examining Zhao Fu’s fate, but their power pushed back against her.

• The old man told his disciple that the Nether Emperor Star had awakened in the frontier region, not in the Ghost God Empire.
• The old man said the Nether Emperor Star’s aura resembled the Heavenly Emperor Star’s and that both likely belonged to the same person.
• The old man ordered his disciple to gather all the elders for a meeting.
• The Fate Venerable heard the reports about the two stars and used the heavenly calculation instrument to investigate them.
• The Fate Venerable recognized Zhao Fu’s blood-colored star as the Yinghuo Emperor Star and tried to examine his fate.
• The two stars unleashed a powerful hurricane against the Fate Venerable, who struggled to withstand it behind a white barrier.

The descent of a Nether Emperor Star carrying the Six Paths’ aura shocked the Mandate of Heaven, the Heavenly Book Pavilion, the Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group, and the Underworld’s powerful factions. The chapter ended with the Underworld discovering the star in Apocalypse World after the Six Paths Demon Idols roared in fury.

• The Fate Venerable was injured while trying to discern the destiny of the newly descended Nether Emperor Star, then ordered the Mandate of Heaven elders to keep the matter secret.
• The Heavenly Book Pavilion’s Pavilion Master confirmed that the Nether Emperor Star had descended and forbade detailed discussion of it.
• The Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group found that the blood mass was emitting ghostly light and a cold aura, then ordered everyone to keep it secret on pain of death.
• Death Clan experts sensed that the Nether Emperor Star carried a hostile Underworld aura resembling that of the Six Paths Demon Idols.
• The Six Paths Demon Idols roared, throwing the Yin soul world into chaos, and Underworld factions discovered the Six Paths aura on the Nether Emperor Star in Apocalypse World.

Zhao Fu awakened after the Nether Emperor Star’s descent, returning to a more human appearance while gaining a gray pupil and a powerful ghost dragon. The celestial upheaval ended, but its display of Great Qin’s strength reshaped the plans and attitudes of factions across several worlds.

• Zhao Fu awakened with a gray pupil, a ghost dragon, and a strange, powerful human-ghost aura as the Nether Emperor Star faded.
• The yin energy and dark clouds receded, sunlight returned, and observers concluded that Great Qin’s Imperial Prince possessed three king stars.
• The great families abandoned hopes of dominating Great Qin and sought shelter with the Ying Family, while the Yue Kingdom considered submitting to Great Qin.
• The major dynasties resented being forced to kneel, and Arthur Tina was the only human-world inheritor who resisted the heavenly will, though she was gravely injured.
• The Greenfield World changed its invasion plans, the Demon Profound World reassessed humanity, and Demon Seven returned to the human world more cautiously.
• The Fish Scale World regretted invading, and its golden-scaled protector of the Way entered the human world to observe humanity.

After awakening the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and gaining a half-ghost, half-human bloodline, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and focused on defense and recovery. A group of women from the conquered Yue Kingdom then requested an audience with him.

• Zhao Fu learned from the Golden Dragon that his two Emperor Stars had awakened through accumulated fortune and the Origin Mark, and he resolved to hide the mark and restore the Six Paths Demon Idols.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the Ghost King Seal had fused into a ghost dragon, giving him control over ten million Yin soldiers.
• Bai Qi and the generals checked on Zhao Fu, who led them back to Great Qin City and ordered stronger defenses, faster Great Wall construction, and low-profile development.
• Zhao Fu asked Li Si to prepare a top-grade Yinwood coffin so he could absorb Yin Qi at night and help the Six Paths Demon Idols recover.
• A large group of women, mostly players from the Yue Kingdom who had been captured during Great Qin’s conquest, requested to see Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu agreed to spare the Yue Kingdom women’s families if they submitted, then spent time flying kites with Xiao Jiu and Xiao Qiang. In the real world, he met factions seeking to join Great Qin, kept his identity as the Great Qin Imperial Prince secret, and accepted their gifts while warning women sent to him that they might be ignored.

• More than one hundred and twenty women from Yue Kingdom asked Zhao Fu to spare their families in exchange for serving him, and he promised not to harm relatives who submitted.
• Xiao Jiu and Xiao Qiang interrupted the women, and Zhao Fu took them outside to fly kites with Black Forest, the Moon Wolf, Fat Cat, and the flying dragon.
• Family heads and faction representatives met Zhao Fu in the real world, believing he was only the Great Qin Imperial Prince’s spokesperson.
• Zhao Fu ended the banquet and said factions seeking to join Great Qin had to offer proof of their sincerity, prompting them to send women, treasures, and resources.
• Zhao Fu advised the actresses, models, and singers sent as gifts that the Great Qin Imperial Prince might not pay them any attention.

Zhao Fu agreed to take a group of women to Great Qin after they insisted they needed its protection. Before he could bring them, a mysterious faction sent him the Zhanlu Sword, whose benevolent nature conflicted with his hegemonic path and which seemed to possess consciousness.

• A singer warned Zhao Fu that the women believed the Great Qin Imperial Prince would eventually claim them, and they preferred to seek his protection willingly.
• Several women pressured Zhao Fu to take them to Great Qin, and he agreed after hearing that they had chosen this to survive the chaos.
• Zhao Fu delayed bringing the women after receiving an ancient black sword from an unidentified faction.
• Zhao Fu recognized the sword as Zhanlu, a legendary blade associated with benevolence and virtue.
• Zhao Fu sensed that Zhanlu had its own consciousness when an eye opened in the darkness as he held it.

Zhao Fu struggled to understand why Zhanlu Sword had chosen to watch him, then brought a group of celebrities to Great Qin. In the imperial palace, the women mistook Zhao Fu for a minor servant and feared the Great Qin Imperial Prince would punish him for his flirtatious advances.

• Zhao Fu found that Zhanlu Sword's watchful eye remained with him even after he put the sword away, while others felt nothing when they held it.
• Zhao Fu speculated that the mysterious faction had sent him Zhanlu Sword to unsettle him, then gave the celebrities one last chance to reconsider before taking them to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu had the women consume the Fruit of Truth and brought them through the Teleportation Array to Great Qin City and the imperial palace.
• Zhao Fu lifted Miss Zhang's chin, and she slapped his hand away while the singer warned them to keep the incident from the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Zhao Fu stroked the singer's cheek as well, leaving the women convinced that the supposed minor servant was risking his life by flirting with them.