Chapter Summaries

The humans retreated to the rift as the Fish Scale Clan overwhelmed their defenses, but Arthur Tina revealed her power as a true king and Ice Island’s formation unleashed a devastating wave of cold. After billions died, the Fish Scale Clan’s leading inheritor declared that the humans had lost, just as a distant explosion shocked them all.

• Akhenaten ordered the humans to retreat toward the rift, and six hundred million people died as the Fish Scale Clan pursued them.
• Arthur Tina unleashed True · Sword of the King, sending a fanged Fish Scale inheritor flying and revealing that she had become a true king.
• Akhenaten announced that the Fish Scale Clan had brought the coming retaliation upon itself as Ice Island’s formation released a vast wave of frigid energy.
• The cold swept through the Fish Scale army, killing more than two billion Fish Scale people while the humans lost six hundred million.
• Akhenaten called for peace, but the leading Fish Scale inheritor claimed the humans had lost, and a distant explosion stunned everyone.

Yu Xuan and his younger brother opened a second rift in the Heavenly Domain Barrier, allowing a four-billion-strong Fish Scale army to invade the Southern Continent. The humans were trapped between the new invasion and the forces holding them in place, while Fish Scale troops massacred civilians in the cities.

• Yu Xuan’s younger brother used his ability to tear open a second rift in the barrier, and Yu Xuan’s army prepared to enter the human world.
• Yu Xuan ordered the Fish Scale army to charge through the rift as Akhenaten called for the humans to retreat and stop them.
• A Fish Scale heir rallied the troops to hold the humans in place, and the humans were forced to defend themselves against attacks on the city walls.
• The Fish Scale army overwhelmed the human defenders, whose fear and falling morale left them unable to resist effectively.
• Fish Scale troops entered the cities, killed civilians, and turned one city into a silent wasteland.

The Fish Scale invasion crushed the human forces in the Southern Continent, killing billions and forcing the survivors to retreat. As Fish Scale forces overran nearly the entire continent, its factions fled to other continents, and Akhenaten chose the Western Continent as the Land of Pharaohs’ new foundation.

• Fish Scale forces broke through the human defenses, seized cities, and slaughtered civilians as the human army collapsed and fled.
• Akhenaten and the surviving forces withdrew with only 1.2 billion troops, while the Fish Scale side lost just 300 million.
• News of the defeat spread panic across the human world, and Southern Continent factions began migrating to other continents.
• Yu Xuan welcomed more Fish Scale forces into the invasion as they flocked to claim the Southern Continent’s spoils.
• Within a week, Fish Scale forces occupied nearly ninety percent of the Southern Continent, and Akhenaten settled in the Western Continent.

Fish Scale World occupied the Southern Continent, enslaving and brutalizing its people, while humanity gathered to confront the threat. The council descended into anger over the absent Great Qin Imperial Prince, ending with an old man telling the leaders to stop blaming him and face the Fish Scale Clan themselves.

• Thousands of Central Continent city lords joined Si Ji's alliance, while Great Qin received no support and faced growing blame for the alliance's defeat.
• Fish Scale forces raided Southern Continent villages, enslaved survivors, and established slave markets beside the rift.
• Human leaders, including Si Ji, Oleg, Babilon, and Liu Ye, gathered to discuss the Fish Scale threat, but the Great Qin Imperial Prince did not attend.
• The assembled leaders cursed the Great Qin Imperial Prince for refusing to help, until an old man reminded them that he could choose whether to come and challenged them to confront the Fish Scale Clan themselves.

The human factions argued over responsibility for the Fish Scale World's invasion and whether to seek Great Qin's help. After the Fish Scale World offered to spare humanity if it helped destroy Great Qin, the human world split between supporters and opponents of cooperation.

• An old man blamed Huaxia and other factions for their past attempts to destroy Qin and for inviting the Defenders who now threatened humanity.
• Mediators urged the factions to unite against the Fish Scale World and suggested apologizing to the Great Qin Imperial Prince to bring Great Qin into the fight.
• A messenger announced that the Fish Scale World's Defender had offered to spare the human factions if they stayed neutral or helped kill the Great Qin Imperial Prince.
• Some factions welcomed the offer, while others warned that the Fish Scale World would attack humanity once Great Qin was gone.
• Arthur Tina declared that she would stand with Great Qin and humanity and would never cooperate with the Fish Scale people.
• The human world split, with thirty percent supporting cooperation against Great Qin and seventy percent opposing it.

Great Qin led five hundred million cavalry into the Southern Continent, where over ten billion Fish Scale people surrounded them. Zhao Fu’s forces launched an unexpected attack with white spears that created magic formations in the sky and caused the Fish Scale people to suffocate.

• A messenger announced that Great Qin had taken five hundred million soldiers to attack the Southern Continent, shocking the human leaders debating whether to submit to the Fish Scale World.
• Great Qin occupied the last unoccupied northern area of the Southern Continent, and Fish Scale people gathered to surround its army.
• Fish Scale leaders mocked Zhao Fu and threatened to destroy Great Qin, while Yu Xuan watched from the shadows.
• Zhao Fu remained silent as Great Qin’s cavalry charged and hurled white spears into the sky, where they formed glowing magic formations.
• Fish Scale people began collapsing from lack of oxygen, and the terrified forces fled as Great Qin’s cavalry continued forward.

Great Qin used formations to force the Fish Scale people into their true bodies and drain the City Lords of oxygen, then Zhao Fu fought Yu Xuan. Yu Xuan fled with his younger brother, leaving the Fish Scale forces to scatter.

• Great Qin cavalrymen hurled crystal spears that activated blood-red formations, forcing the Fish Scale people into their true bodies and making them fear real death.
• Yu Xuan emerged and struggled against the white formations, but Zhao Fu attacked him with the Heavenly Demon Sword and wounded him.
• Zhao Fu sent chains after Yu Xuan’s younger brother, and Yu Xuan fought them off with his golden trident.
• Yu Xuan grabbed his younger brother and fled, while the Fish Scale people and City Lords scattered from Great Qin.

Great Qin’s cavalry routed the Fish Scale people across the Southern Continent, killing billions and driving the survivors back into the Fish Scale World. Great Qin stopped at the rift, leaving the terrified Fish Scale factions to seek a way to defend their world as humanity celebrated its victory.

• Great Qin’s cavalry sealed the area’s Teleportation Arrays with redwood spears and slaughtered the fleeing Fish Scale people while Zhao Fu stayed behind to command the battle.
• Fish Scale people learned that billions had died and that Great Qin had defeated their City Lords and Guardians of the Way, prompting more survivors to flee.
• News of the massacre spread, and the Fish Scale Clan retreated to the Fish Scale World in panic.
• Great Qin swept across the Southern Continent and stopped near the rift without entering the Fish Scale World.
• The Fish Scale factions gathered in fear to discuss how to stop Great Qin from invading their world.
• Humanity celebrated after hearing that Great Qin had driven the Fish Scale people out of the Southern Continent and ended the crisis.

After Great Qin drove the Fish Scale people from the Southern Continent, Zhao Fu revealed that he had captured four billion of them using a formation that induced suspended death. He decided to take them into Great Qin, but planned to control and rank them as lowborn, leaving the defeated Fish Scale people under strict restrictions.

• News that Great Qin had slaughtered billions of Fish Scale people and driven them from the human world stunned the human leaders, and former supporters of cooperation with the Fish Scale Clan praised Great Qin.
• Arthur Tina and Geluofei marveled at Great Qin’s victory, while Arthur Tina reflected that Zhao Fu was the one person she sincerely admired as her superior.
• Zhao Fu explained that the white magic formation had extracted oxygen from aquatic races on land, allowing him to capture four billion Fish Scale people, though the formation failed in water and could be countered with Water Oxygen Pills.
• Zhao Fu chose to accept the Fish Scale people into Great Qin because they could strengthen its population and military, but ordered them controlled with Evil-Warding Pills to prevent rebellion.
• Zhao Fu classified the Fish Scale people as second-rank lowborn because they had enslaved humans, while reserving first-rank lowborn status for citizens of countries that had fiercely resisted Great Qin.

After absorbing Fish Scale people into Great Qin, Zhao Fu received a peace envoy from the Fish Scale World and demanded territory and the return of captured humans in exchange for a three-year noninvasion promise. The envoy left to consult their leaders, while Zhao Fu kept the gifts and sent the women back without receiving them.

• Li Si selected over fifteen hundred Fish Scale beauties for Zhao Fu as Great Qin incorporated the captured people as second-class commoners.
• A soldier told Zhao Fu that the Fish Scale World had sent an envoy to negotiate peace and prevent an invasion.
• The envoy praised Zhao Fu and offered fifty billion gold coins, treasures, and three thousand five hundred beauties in return for peace.
• Zhao Fu accepted the gifts and demanded Netherwater Continent, the return of captured humans, and a three-year noninvasion agreement backed by a blood contract.
• The envoy left to consult the Fish Scale World leaders, and Zhao Fu placed the money and treasures in Great Qin's treasury.
• The Fish Scale women undressed before Zhao Fu, but he told them to dress and return to Great Qin because the situation remained tense.

The Fish Scale World debated Zhao Fu’s demand for a continent, then agreed to cede Netherwater Continent and signed a Blood Pact with Great Qin. The pact secured three years of peace, and Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin to assess its enormous gains.

• Fish Scale leaders argued over Zhao Fu’s demands until an elderly man urged them to cede Netherwater Continent and use the Blood Pact to buy time for a future counterattack.
• Zhao Fu realized the Fish Scale World had agreed and planned for Great Qin to gain control of a second continent while humanity unified.
• Four days later, Zhao Fu and the Fish Scale representatives met near the fissure, agreed on the Blood Pact’s clauses, and sealed the contract with their blood.
• The Fish Scale invasion ended with territory, compensation, beauties, and treasures granted to Great Qin, bringing the two worlds into a period of peace.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and began taking stock of the war’s enormous gains.

After Great Qin secured the Southern and Netherwater Continents, Zhao Fu arranged their defenses and planned to assimilate the Fish Scale people. He refused demands from human factions to return the Southern Continent, while recognizing that their combined forces could threaten Great Qin before it had absorbed its new gains.

• Zhao Fu distributed people and cities between the two continents, kept the Fish Scale people under control, and planned to assimilate them into Great Qin over three years.
• Zhao Fu ordered Wang Jian to garrison the Netherwater Continent and planned defenses there, while the Southern Continent would be cleared and designated Great Qin territory.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and passed the congratulatory letters from human factions to Li Si without reading them.
• Li Si presented twenty letters asking Great Qin to return the Southern Continent in exchange for compensation.
• Zhao Fu rejected the demands and declared that the factions could take the territory themselves or submit to Great Qin.
• Li Si warned that more than twenty thousand cities displaced from the Southern Continent could join anti-Qin forces, and Zhao Fu concluded that Great Qin needed to absorb its new population quickly.

After Great Qin defeated the Fish Scale invasion, Huaxia and the southern factions turned against it, accusing it of abandoning humanity and occupying the Southern Continent. When those factions launched an operation to retake the continent, Zhao Fu ordered the Clan-Refining Artifact to destroy Huaxia.

• Great Qin swept through the region and kept the human world at peace for a month after driving out the Fish Scale people.
• Huaxia factions tested Great Qin with probing attacks, confirmed it would not retaliate, and began condemning its treatment of the Fish Scale people.
• Southern factions accused Great Qin of causing the invasion’s casualties and demanded that it return their territories in the Southern Continent.
• Huaxia and the southern factions formally joined forces and launched an operation to retake the Southern Continent on September 3rd.
• Zhao Fu read a memorial, left his quarters, and ordered Li Si to use the Clan-Refining Artifact to destroy Huaxia.

Zhao Fu began refining Huaxia’s Fate Clan Artifact, intending to strengthen Great Qin and unify Huaxia, while the other factions rallied the people against him. The chapter ended with Huaxia’s factions, joined by several sects, preparing to resist Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu decided to refine the Heirloom Seal of the Realm after Great Qin’s growing strength made him confident it could eventually unify Huaxia.
• Zhao Fu and more than a dozen great generals activated the Heaven and Earth Grand Refining, drawing Huaxia’s fate toward the array.
• Huaxia people felt dread from their bloodlines and realized Great Qin was refining their Fate Clan Artifact.
• Huaxia’s factions condemned Great Qin and called on the people to resist, warning that the refining would weaken their fate and bloodlines.
• The Confucian School, Mohist School, Buddhist School, and other sects joined Huaxia’s factions against Great Qin.

Great Qin’s attempt to refine the Heirloom Seal of the Realm met fierce resistance from Huaxia’s factions and citizens. The crystalline sphere shattered, the refinement failed, and Huaxia celebrated its victory over Zhao Fu.

• The Heirloom Seal of the Realm absorbed fate fortune and formed a crystalline sphere as Great Qin began refining it.
• Huaxia’s dynasties and factions rallied citizens against Great Qin, and their united will caused the sphere to crack.
• Zhao Fu poured his personal fate fortune and Great Qin’s fortune into the seal, briefly weakening its resistance.
• Huaxia’s factions, schools, and citizens renewed their resistance, overwhelming the seal with their united will.
• The crystalline sphere shattered, ending Great Qin’s refinement, and Huaxia’s people cheered their victory.

Zhao Fu used Great Qin’s overwhelming power to force the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to accept Great Qin’s fate energy and complete its refinement. The seal became Great Qin’s Fate Clan Artifact, strengthening Great Qin while Huaxia’s other factions and citizens suffered severe backlash.

• Zhao Fu unleashed the Great Qin King Seal, three enormous stars, and multiple Nation-Guarding Artifacts to suppress the Heirloom Seal of the Realm.
• Zhao Fu threatened to destroy the seal, and it stopped resisting as the Heaven and Earth Refining Array encased it in a crystal sphere.
• Huaxia’s factions and citizens poured fate energy and resistance into the seal, but it responded only with fear as Si Ji, Liu Ye, Ji Shenming, and the others used their full strength.
• Zhao Fu directed Great Qin’s fate energy into the crystal, and the Heirloom Seal of the Realm gave up resisting and absorbed it.
• The crystal dispersed after Great Qin finished refining the seal, and Great Qin’s people felt their strength rise while Huaxia’s factions and citizens spat blood and weakened.

After refining Huaxia’s Fate Clan Artifact, Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to begin its full-scale invasion of Huaxia and advance toward the southern and western territories. Bai Qi led a billion-strong army through the destroyed isolation zone and attacked Huaxia’s weakened defenses, leaving the battle with Great Qin slaughtering the opposing City Lords.

• Zhao Fu took the Heirloom Seal of the Realm and planned to conquer Huaxia before advancing into the coastal nations to the south and west.
• Bai Qi gathered a billion-strong army and ordered the Fort-Breaking Battalion to blast apart the isolation zone’s restrictions with Destruction Crystals.
• Great Qin advanced to Huaxia’s defensive wall as Huaxia’s people, weakened by the refined Fate Clan Artifact, panicked and struggled to organize a defense.
• Great Qin launched its assault, sending flying dragons, giants, and spiders to overwhelm the defenders and breach the wall.
• Huaxia’s City Lords fought Great Qin’s forces, but Bai Qi ordered all twenty-three legions to unleash their Army Qi Manifestations and slaughter the divided opponents.

Great Qin broke through the Huaxia factions’ defenses and slaughtered people as its armies advanced through the Central Continent. A Taoist priest intervened to protect a child, and Xian Ru ordered Great Qin’s soldiers to spare those willing to submit before flying away.

• The Huaxia City Lords and their soldiers retreated as Great Qin breached the central defensive belt and drove into Huaxia territory.
• Great Qin split its forces and swept through the central region, while Huaxia people fled toward the Western Continent, Eastern Archipelago, and Northern Continent.
• Great Qin’s soldiers killed fleeing people, including those who knelt and offered to surrender.
• A Taoist priest seized a cavalry soldier’s spear to stop him from killing a child, then challenged the soldiers’ orders to slaughter everyone.
• Xian Ru ordered the soldiers to let the Taoist priest and child go and to spare those willing to submit to Great Qin.
• Great Qin continued its advance, capturing more than half of the Huaxia factions’ territories.

After Huaxia's factions fled, Zhao Fu led Great Qin to conquer Huaxia and the surrounding nations, unifying the Central Continent. Great Qin now controlled three continents, while the remaining peoples formed a defensive alliance and warned it against further wars.

• Zhao Fu arrived in Huaxia after its factions had fled, and Great Qin occupied the region while slaughtering many civilians before ministers urged it to spare those who surrendered.
• Great Qin conquered Great Russia, destroyed the Mongol State's five-million-strong cavalry, and received the Kazakh State's surrender.
• Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal surrendered, while Great Qin conquered Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan.
• Great Qin killed sixty percent of India's population before India submitted and was conquered.
• Great Qin unified the Central Continent and held three continents, while refugees joined local peoples on the other continents to form a defensive alliance against it.

After Great Qin unified Huaxia and the Central Continent, Zhao Fu turned to consolidating its vast new territories and suppressing the remaining rival factions. He summoned a group of former classmates and teachers, who feared the audience might end in punishment, and the chapter left them ordered to attend.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin after its victory and prioritized absorbing its newly conquered territories rather than continuing to expand.
• Great Qin declared the Buddhist, Confucian, and Mohist schools forbidden faiths and tallied its gains, including 7,750 newly acquired regions and a total population of eighteen billion.
• A civil official presented Zhao Fu with the requested information, and Zhao Fu ordered the people named in it summoned to an audience.
• The summoned group panicked when they learned the Great Qin Emperor wanted to see them, and Zheng Dong offered to accept punishment on their behalf.
• A soldier rejected their pleas to avoid the audience and ordered them to prepare, threatening to kill anyone who disobeyed.