Chapter Summaries

Great Qin destroyed Laos and Thailand as Zhao Mo, Elise, and Zhao Fu led attacks against the four nations. Zhao Fu killed Sukhothai Kingdom’s heir and seized the Nation’s Treasure Jade, while Bai Qi blocked the factions rushing to save the remaining nations.

• Zhao Mo and Elise destroyed Laos, and Zhao Mo devoured Lan Xang Kingdom’s golden elephant Nation-Guarding Artifact before their forces advanced on Stockade Kingdom.
• Bai Qi and Great Qin’s remaining forces intercepted the factions hurrying to rescue the four nations, starting another battle.
• Zhao Fu attacked Thailand with eight sea beasts, and the Six-Eyed Demon Whale spared cities whose people surrendered.
• Zhao Fu confronted Sukhothai Kingdom’s heir and demanded submission, then attacked when the heir remained silent.
• Sukhothai Kingdom’s heir ordered their people to stand down and brought out Thailand’s Nation’s Treasure Jade, but Zhao Fu killed them and destroyed the kingdom.

After Great Qin conquered Stockade Kingdom, all five nations had fallen, and the disappearance of their people terrified the world. Zhao Fu spared the captured players but made them lowly commoners who had to earn their way into Qin citizenship, leaving them under threat of collective punishment.

• Great Qin occupied Stockade Kingdom, completing its conquest of the four northern nations as Yue Kingdom had already vanished.
• News that the people of all five nations had disappeared from the real world spread panic, and system factions either submitted to Qin State or fled.
• Zhao Fu gathered the players from the five nations and considered slaughtering them, but his ministers, including Bai Qi, urged him to spare them.
• Great Qin soldiers executed players who refused to kneel or disturbed the gathering, killing hundreds of thousands until the crowd fell silent.
• Zhao Fu declared that the surviving players would be lowly commoners who had to earn merit to become Qin citizens, and threatened to execute their families if they became disloyal.

After conquering northern Huaxia, Great Qin absorbed vast new territories and population, then refined four Nation-Guarding Artifacts to strengthen its power. Zhao Fu intimidated rival factions into neutrality or submission, while the Fish Scale World continued to develop.

• Great Qin tallied the gains from its conquests, bringing its population to 7 billion and its controlled regions to 3,720.
• Zhao Fu rewarded his officials, kept the women they refused to accept in the imperial palace, and ordered the construction of Spirit Spider Palace for Elise.
• Zhao Fu planned to consolidate the north, build the Great Wall, and upgrade Great Qin before pursuing further conquest.
• Zhao Fu refined the four Nation-Guarding Artifacts with Great Qin's fortune, transforming them and placing them beside the City Heart.
• Great Qin threatened rival factions into neutrality or submission, weakening their alliance as nations across the Central Continent grew wary.
• Zhao Fu inspected the neighboring worlds and found that the Fish Scale World had 1,400 city lords.

Zhao Fu discovered that Brain Worms had helped his Fish Scale World faction grow into Darkwater Continent’s largest system faction, but most of its city lords remained beyond his control. He traded rare lifespan and healing items for Brain Worms in the Communication Zone, then faced a request to share his insights into the Dao.

• Zhao Fu learned that his faction had grown to 1,400 cities, with 700 million people and 140 million soldiers, though Brain Worms controlled only 300 of its city lords.
• Zhao Fu checked the Heavenly Spirit Stele’s Brain Worm missions and decided to offer Ginseng Fruit and intermediate Life Spring Water in the Communication Zone.
• Zhao Fu traded a Ginseng Fruit for 100 Brain Worms and intermediate Life Spring Water for ten more.
• A participant offered Zhao Fu one Brain Worm in exchange for his insights into comprehending the Dao.
• Zhao Fu realized he had no cultivation insights to share and recalled the Tao Te Ching.

Zhao Fu recited the Tao Te Ching through the Heavenly Spirit Stele, hoping to trade its verses for Brain Worms, but the cultivators who saw them instead treated them as profound Dao teachings. Their reactions led powerful factions to suspect he was a reincarnated Half-Immortal, while the Heavenly Dao Sect mistakenly gained credit for his words.

• Zhao Fu recited the opening of the Tao Te Ching through the Heavenly Spirit Stele and waited, baffled when nobody replied.
• High-level cultivators entered the stele, saw the verses glowing with seven-colored light, and sank into Dao comprehension.
• The Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group reported Zhao Fu’s words to its leaders, who suspected he might be a reincarnated Half-Immortal and a danger to Apocalypse World.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect Master consulted the sect’s ancestors, then ordered the verses carved onto a mountain for disciples to study.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples and the wider world mistakenly credited the verses to a great power from the sect, raising its reputation.

Zhao Fu used Brain Worms to expand Great Qin’s control across Darkwater Continent, while rival factions began investigating his growing power. At the Land of Inheritance, he learned that a terrifying great expert had repeatedly searched nearby worlds and feared the expert had come for him.

• Zhao Fu received enough Brain Worms to control 2,300 City Lords and used them to bring 1,400 more City Lords under Great Qin’s control in Darkwater Continent.
• Great Qin’s growing influence drew concern from factions across Darkwater Continent and other continents, so Zhao Fu planned to secure his territories before expanding.
• Zhao Fu checked on Night Dynasty’s slower progress in Demon Profound World and decided to focus on helping it after unifying Central Continent.
• Zhao Fu learned that a great expert had repeatedly passed through nearby worlds, causing widespread fear and panic, especially in Greenfield World.
• Zhao Fu suspected the great expert was searching for him, possibly because of the two stars that had descended earlier and his connection to the human world.

Zhao Fu worried about a powerful enemy and considered seeking protection from a top-tier faction, while assessing the Demon Horn Empire’s recovery and returning to the real world. There, Wu Qingniang urged him to flee with her, but a notification announced that the real world would be destroyed in 30 days.

• Zhao Fu concluded that he might have to seek shelter from a top-tier faction because neither Great Qin nor the powers of a Defender could withstand the great power threatening him.
• Zhao Fu learned that the Demon Horn Empire had survived a coalition’s attack and was easing tensions with other worlds while preparing to develop more secretly.
• Zhao Fu retrieved ten million talisman stones for Great Qin and returned to the real world, where the Ying Family’s enemies had abandoned plans to attack it.
• Wu Qingniang urged Zhao Fu to leave Great Qin with her and warned that the Great Qin Imperial Prince would seize her.
• A notification announced that the real world would be destroyed in 30 days and that death would then mean true death.

With one month left before the real world’s destruction, society collapsed into riots and shortages. Zhao Fu decided to confess his secret to Wu Qingniang, who waited for him in Apocalypse World with her female guards.

• The destruction announcement triggered panic, currency collapse, strikes, looting, and widespread disorder as nations struggled to maintain order.
• Zhao Fu decided to tell Wu Qingniang the truth about his identity before the real world’s destruction exposed it.
• Wu Qingniang agreed to meet Zhao Fu in Apocalypse World, and he enlisted a beautiful mature woman whose involvement could help resolve the matter.
• Wu Qingniang waited with over twenty female guards, and one guard questioned why Zhao Fu was late.
• Wu Qingniang told the guard that Zhao Fu represented the Great Qin Imperial Prince in the real world and held great authority within the Ying Family.

Wu Qingniang planned to capture Zhao Fu and take him away from the Great Qin Imperial Prince, but the prince arrived before she could act and revealed himself as Zhao Fu. Wu Qingniang learned the truth and reconciled with him, then discovered that Wu Zetian had accompanied him.

• Wu Qingniang told her female soldiers she would capture Zhao Fu and flee with him to the Southern Continent to escape Great Qin.
• The Great Qin Imperial Prince appeared with another cloaked figure, immobilized Wu Qingniang's soldiers, and called her by name.
• Zhao Fu removed his cloak and revealed his identity, explaining to the upset Wu Qingniang why he had hidden it.
• Wu Qingniang's anger softened, and Zhao Fu drew her into an embrace.
• Wu Zetian revealed herself, and Zhao Fu explained her presence to Wu Qingniang.
• Wu Qingniang respectfully greeted Wu Zetian, then glared at Zhao Fu after noticing Wu Zetian holding his arm.

Zhao Fu arranged for Wu Zhou to merge into Great Qin, then returned to the collapsing real world to secure shelter for relatives and friends. He rejected his uncle and aunt’s demand for a city lord position for his cousin and had their family expelled from the Ying Family’s protection.

• Zhao Fu and Wu Qingniang discussed Wu Zhou’s fate, and he agreed to absorb it into Great Qin while granting the Wu Family the title of Wu Lord.
• The Wu Family accepted the merger and began relocating into Great Qin, while Ying Xi worried about being forced to become Zhao Fu’s consort.
• Zhao Fu returned to the real world and arranged shelter for relatives on his grandmother’s side and the families of friends under the Ying Family’s protection.
• Zhao Fu’s aunt asked him to secure a city lord position for his elder cousin, but he refused and left.
• Zhao Fu’s uncle tried to grab him and was knocked away by an invisible force, while his younger cousin attacked and was restrained by bodyguards.
• Zhao Fu ordered his uncle, aunt, and cousins expelled from the Ying Family, despite his grandparents’ attempts to persuade him otherwise.

Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World while Great Qin continued building the Great Wall under pressure from hostile forces. In the Spirit Light World, the Progenitor Divine Statue descended and triggered a battle among its inheritors, while the neighboring Demon Profound World prepared to intervene.

• Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World as Great Qin continued clearing the region and constructing the Great Wall amid harassment from rival forces.
• The Progenitor Divine Statue descended into the Spirit Light World, awakening the Spirit Light God Clan’s bloodlines and drawing its members toward the statue.
• The statue’s aura swept away the first crowd of claimants, but inheritors and other powerful figures entered its barrier and rushed toward it.
• Carmen claimed the Progenitor Divine Statue as the Spirit Light God Clan’s Guardian, prompting the burly inheritor and others to attack him.
• Other claimants fought for a chance to seize the statue, while the Demon Profound World sensed its power and considered intervening.

Carmen nearly took the Progenitor God Statue for the Spirit Light God Clan, but Demon Seven snatched it and fled. Surrounded by Carmen and the pursuing inheritors, Demon Seven unleashed a burst of demonic qi and escaped in several directions.

• Carmen summoned ten Holy Light Dragons to distract his opponents, then lowered the barrier and shrank the Progenitor God Statue.
• As Carmen reached for the statue, Demon Seven appeared, seized it, and fled while Carmen pursued him.
• Carmen hurled his silver spear at Demon Seven, who blocked it with demonic defenses before the inheritors surrounded him.
• Carmen and the inheritors offered to let Demon Seven go if he returned the statue, but Demon Seven refused.
• Demon Seven split his demonic qi into several masses and sent them flying in different directions.

Carmen and Demon Seven pursued Shi Xiao after she stole the Progenitor Divine Statue, but their struggle over the treasure was interrupted by a powerful stranger who appeared from the void. The newcomer seized the statue, leaving all three Dao Guardians wary of the threat.

• Carmen used the Light of World Purification to injure Demon Seven, but Shi Xiao suddenly appeared and snatched the Progenitor Divine Statue.
• Shi Xiao tried to flee with the statue, and Demon Seven and Carmen joined forces to intercept her.
• Demon Seven unleashed Demon Tide while Carmen summoned the Ten Holy Light Dragons, and Shi Xiao fought them with her bandage sword.
• Shi Xiao pretended to surrender the statue, then tried to reclaim it with her bandages as she activated a life-preserving technique.
• A black-cloaked stranger emerged from the void, severed Shi Xiao's bandages, and seized the Progenitor Divine Statue.

Zhao Fu seized the Progenitor Divine Statue and fought off Shi Xiao, Demon Seven, and Carmen as they tried to stop him. After revealing his identity as the Great Qin Imperial Prince, he exposed a fifth Guardian of the Way, who challenged him to face four Guardians at once.

• Zhao Fu arrived after his avatar sensed the Progenitor Divine Statue’s power, took the statue, and tried to retreat.
• Shi Xiao attacked Zhao Fu, but he shattered her bandage assault with a sphere of Six Paths of Reincarnation power.
• Demon Seven and Carmen attacked Zhao Fu together, but Zhao Fu blocked their strikes with nine Black Dragons and revealed his imperial aura.
• Demon Seven identified Zhao Fu as the Great Qin Imperial Prince and urged the others to kill him, so Carmen and Shi Xiao attacked again.
• Zhao Fu sent Carmen and Shi Xiao flying, then struck an apparently empty space and forced a white-haired, white-eyed Guardian of the Way to appear.
• The newly revealed Guardian of the Way mocked Zhao Fu for facing four Guardians, while Spirit Light God Clan members watched from afar in fear.

Zhao Fu fought off the four Guardians of the Way with the Eye of All Ghosts’ powers while trying to seize the Progenitor Divine Statue. The Spirit Light World’s consciousness and other worlds empowered their inheritors and ordered them to kill the Great Qin Imperial Prince, leaving Zhao Fu surrounded by forces determined to destroy him.

• The young man attacked Zhao Fu, Shi Xiao summoned a corpse hound, and Demon Seven trapped Zhao Fu in a demonic hand, but Zhao Fu broke free with Ghost Devour.
• Zhao Fu used the Ghost God Armorer to turn a swarm of ghosts into countless weapons, wounding Demon Seven and the other Guardians of the Way.
• As Zhao Fu prepared to leave with the Progenitor Divine Statue, the Spirit Light World’s consciousness descended and ordered Carmen and other inheritors to keep the statue from him.
• Carmen attacked Zhao Fu with world power, and Zhao Fu unleashed the nine Black Dragons and the Six Paths Demon Idols’ power to block him.
• The other worlds empowered their inheritors and commanded them to kill Zhao Fu, prompting Shi Xiao and the white-haired youth to realize that the worlds considered him a threat.

Zhao Fu fought nine Guardians in Spirit Light World without access to world power, while Si Ji and other inheritors disrupted the human world consciousness to prevent it from aiding him. Badly wounded and growing weaker, Zhao Fu was struck by an Azure Tiger attack as his enemies closed in for the kill.

• The Guardians of three worlds unleashed their world power, triggering a calamity that terrified everyone in Spirit Light World.
• Carmen struck Zhao Fu with a divine-script pillar, smashing him into a crater and leaving him covered in blood.
• Si Ji learned that the human world consciousness was trying to send world power to Zhao Fu, and he and other inheritors used their personal destinies to disrupt it.
• Zhao Fu fought back against the nine Guardians with deathly energy, but an arrow and their attacks forced him to retreat.
• The white-haired youth summoned an Azure Tiger that sent Zhao Fu flying through boulders, and the Guardians saw that his strength was fading.

Zhao Fu appeared to die after Carmen pierced his chest, and the survivors immediately fought over the Progenitor Divine Statue. As the white-haired youth reached for Zhao Fu’s corpse, he sensed an overwhelming danger, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Shi Xiao’s bandages and Carmen’s spear struck Zhao Fu, and Carmen’s spear pierced his chest and pinned him to a mountainside.
• Shi Xiao, the Spirit Light Clan, the white-haired youth, and Demon Seven moved to claim or prevent others from claiming the Progenitor Divine Statue.
• Demon Seven fought three Spirit Light Clan members, while two inheritors attacked the white-haired youth and Shi Xiao clashed with Carmen.
• Carmen rejected Shi Xiao’s proposal to keep the statue unused and blasted her with holy light, wounding her.
• The white-haired youth defeated the two inheritors and reached toward Zhao Fu’s corpse, then froze as he sensed a bone-chilling danger.

Zhao Fu revived with three terrifying natal stars descending over Spirit Light World and attacked those who had tried to kill him. As the remaining inheritors fled, Demon Seven stood trapped beneath Zhao Fu’s gaze.

• Three blood-red, golden, and gray stars descended, and Carmen and the others realized Zhao Fu possessed three natal stars.
• Zhao Fu awoke with black eyes and blood-red pupils, then blasted the white-haired youth into a mountain.
• Zhao Fu hurled the silver spear through Carmen’s defenses and pierced his chest.
• Zhao Fu attacked Shi Xiao, shattered her bandage barrier, and slammed her into a massive crater despite her attempt to escape.
• Zhao Fu tore apart the two inheritors restraining the white-haired youth, while three others fled and Demon Seven remained trapped.

Zhao Fu fought Demon Seven and prepared to kill the fallen Carmen and the others, but the Spirit Light World's four guardian beasts arrived to stop him. With his consciousness lost and his power out of control, he battled them and wounded the monstrous bird before slicing through the golden lion's attack.

• Zhao Fu disarmed Demon Seven with a wave and kicked him away, shattering the bones in his chest.
• As Zhao Fu gathered blood-colored swords to kill Carmen and the others, the four guardian beasts of the Spirit Light World descended and declared that he had to die.
• The human-headed, bird-bodied guardian charged Zhao Fu, but he met it head-on with his blood-colored swords and sent it flying, badly wounded.
• The golden lion fired a massive beam at Zhao Fu, who formed a demonic sword and sliced the beam in two before appearing in front of the lion.

Zhao Fu fought the four guardian beasts of Spirit Light World, but they joined their power with the world itself to trap and crush him in a Heaven-Earth Grand Formation. As Zhao Fu’s pupils split open, a world-destroying force erupted from him and began annihilating Spirit Light World.

• Zhao Fu wounded the Divine Gold Lion, bound the Dark Thunder Divine Beast with golden chains, and blasted apart the Heavenly Sacred Eye’s blue giant.
• The four guardian beasts summoned all of Spirit Light World into a Heaven-Earth Grand Formation and restrained Zhao Fu at its center.
• The guardian beasts chose to kill Zhao Fu and intensified the formation until it tortured him with overwhelming force.
• Three stars poured pillars of light onto Zhao Fu, but he survived as his pupils split open and the formation stopped responding to the beasts.
• A world-destroying force erupted from Zhao Fu, killing the four guardian beasts and causing Spirit Light World to collapse.