Chapter Summaries

Zheng Dong and his companions entered Great Qin’s imperial palace and learned that Xiao Xiyun had become one of Zhao Fu’s consorts. They were brought before the Great Qin Imperial Prince, where they discovered that the feared ruler was their old friend Zhao Fu.

• Great Qin soldiers escorted Zheng Dong and the others through the palace, warning them to follow proper etiquette.
• Xiao Xiyun and Bai Yan greeted the group alongside four famous former superstars, and Xiao Xiyun offered to take them to meet His Majesty.
• A soldier addressed Xiao Xiyun as Imperial Consort, and she told Zheng Dong she had come to Great Qin willingly because her mother and the person she loved were obsessed with Zhao Fu.
• Xiao Xiyun led the nervous group into the great hall and presented them to Zhao Fu.
• Zhang Yue recognized Zhao Fu’s voice, and Zheng Dong and the others were stunned to see that the Great Qin Imperial Prince was their former friend.

Zhao Fu reunited with his former classmates and rewarded them after revealing his status as Great Qin’s emperor. He then found Jiang Rou living in a secluded valley, but she refused to leave her pastoral life and told him she would wait for him if he ever grew weary of ruling.

• Zhao Fu’s former classmates realized he was Great Qin’s emperor, and Zheng Dong and Zhang Yue recalled how they had once underestimated him.
• Zhao Fu rewarded Zheng Dong, Zhang Yue, and others, then hosted a banquet for his former classmates and teachers.
• Soldiers reported that they had found Jiang Rou, whom Zhao Fu had been searching for since she left the Jiang Family.
• Zhao Fu traveled to a secluded mountain valley and reunited with Jiang Rou, who had made a peaceful home there.
• Zhao Fu asked Jiang Rou to return to Great Qin, but she declined and said she would wait for him if he grew tired of his life there.

After Great Qin returned to the human world, Zhao Fu assessed threats from Greenfield World and the arrival of several mighty experts before encountering a violent entourage on the road. He killed the man who attacked him, leaving the carriage and its companions before him.

• Zhao Fu continued developing Great Qin and placed Zhanlu Sword in the Sword Seal after its evolution into a weapon of pure killing.
• Zhao Fu learned that Greenfield factions had split over whether to build defenses against the human world or prepare to invade it.
• Zhao Fu heard that seven or eight mighty experts had passed through the frontier and feared they might be coming for him.
• A group of horsemen lashed people aside as they escorted an ornate carriage, and one man attacked Zhao Fu with a whip and saber.
• Zhao Fu cut the attacker and his horse in half with a flash of sword light.

After killing one of the Bear Mountain Kingdom's Third Prince's men, Zhao Fu learned that the Guti Domain's kingdoms were far stronger than Greenfield and tried to flee. The Third Prince's powerful World Seal bearer pursued and attacked him, and Zhao Fu dodged another devastating strike as the confrontation continued.

• People around Zhao Fu feared the Bear Mountain Kingdom's retaliation and explained that princes and princesses from the Guti Domain's kingdoms had gathered to seek great experts as teachers.
• Zhao Fu realized Great Qin was too weak to challenge a kingdom and fled the city when the prince's men charged after him.
• The Third Prince attacked Zhao Fu from his carriage, but Zhao Fu countered with the Death Sword and was blasted back, coughing up blood.
• An azure-robed man from the carriage caught Zhao Fu and slammed him into the ground, devastating the surrounding area as the city lord ordered an evacuation.
• Zhao Fu confronted the azure-robed man, who revealed his immense strength through a World Seal and attacked again; Zhao Fu dodged, and the man's punch left a huge crater.

Zhao Fu fought the blue-clad prince, but a great power’s intent halted their battle and forced Zhao Fu to flee. He escaped back to the human world, shaken by the encounter.

• Zhao Fu unleashed the Six Paths Demon Idols and clashed with the blue-clad man, who overwhelmed him with Snake Slay and sent him crashing through a city wall.
• Zhao Fu released the power of the Great Qin King Seal and the Six Paths Demon Idols, revealing an Emperor’s aura that made the blue-clad man wary.
• A great power’s intent froze everyone and focused on Zhao Fu, while Golden Dragon urged him to run.
• Zhao Fu escaped as the blue-clad man remained immobilized, and the great power’s intent eventually withdrew.
• Zhao Fu fled through the Heavenly Domain Barrier to the human world, where he recovered from his fear and cold sweat.

After escaping a mighty expert, Zhao Fu returned to managing Great Qin and later traveled to Demon Profound World, where he considered how to expand the Night Dynasty. The Third Prince resolved to kill Zhao Fu before the expert could find him, while Zhao Fu prepared to establish and then absorb the Night Dynasty into Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu escaped the mighty expert and returned to clearing regions and building the Great Wall, unaware that the expert soon appeared and asked the Third Prince about him.
• The Third Prince failed to become the drunkard's disciple, learned the expert wanted to find Zhao Fu a good master, and developed a killing intent toward Zhao Fu.
• Those present secretly decided to seek out Zhao Fu to curry favor with the mighty expert, while remaining cautious of the Third Prince.
• A week later, Zhao Fu arrived in Demon Profound World and considered whether the Night Dynasty should establish a nation despite the future risks of vassal states.
• Zhao Fu decided the Night Dynasty could establish a nation before Great Qin annexed and assimilated it, and he allocated experience to three capital cities to help it advance.
• With weaker factions gone from the Southern Continent, Zhao Fu chose the Demonic Dao Sect as the Night Dynasty's first target.

Zhao Fu arranged a banquet to draw the Demonic Dao Sect’s leaders together and demand that the sect join the Night Dynasty. The Sect Master refused and ordered his people to leave, leaving the gathering on the verge of conflict.

• Zhao Fu rejected invading the Demon Profound World for now and planned to seize control of the Demonic Dao Sect by gathering its leaders and forcing their submission.
• Zhao Fu arranged a banquet under the pretext that the Night Dynasty would soon establish a nation, while Demon Enchantress and the two ancestors persuaded the sect to attend.
• The Demonic Dao Sect’s Sect Master praised Ye Cang and proposed that he marry Demon Enchantress, but Ye Cang did not respond warmly.
• Ye Cang demanded that the Demonic Dao Sect merge into the Night Dynasty, prompting the Sect Master and several ancestors to rise in anger.
• The Sect Master refused the demand and ordered the Demonic Dao Sect’s people to leave the banquet.

Zhao Fu used overwhelming force and a sealed formation to prevent the Demonic Dao Sect from escaping, then forced its surrender to the Night Dynasty. After Demon Enchantress revealed her allegiance and promised to become its new Sect Master, Ye Cang took control of the sect and appointed her a City Lord.

• Ye Cang revealed that the Demonic Dao Sect had no choice but to submit to the Night Dynasty, while a formation blocked its members from teleporting away.
• The Demonic Dao Sect's Sect Master tried to persuade Zhao Fu to support his faction, but Zhao Fu refused and stopped the sect members from fleeing with his aura.
• Zhao Fu demanded their surrender and intensified his pressure until the Demonic Dao Sect and Night Dynasty members were injured and collapsed.
• Demon Enchantress emerged, called Zhao Fu her Master, and promised her father that she would become the Demonic Dao Sect's new Sect Master.
• The Demonic Dao Sect's Sect Master agreed to submit, and Ye Cang took control of the sect and appointed Demon Enchantress a City Lord.

After Night Dynasty absorbed the Demonic Dao Sect, Zhao Fu assessed its strength and planned how to deal with two rival factions. Back in Great Qin, he established rules for the Hundred Schools of Thought, supporting compliant schools while targeting sects he considered dangerous.

• Zhao Fu calculated that Night Dynasty now controlled 1,390 cities and planned to join forces with one rival faction to attack the other.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin to discuss the factions and their possible alliance against Night Dynasty with his ministers.
• Great Qin officially recognized the Hundred Schools of Thought and allowed compliant schools to form sects and teach, provided they upheld loyalty to Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu banned the Buddhist School, Confucian School, Mohist School, School of Diplomacy, and White Lotus Sect, while supporting a Qin Confucian ideology and planning to turn surviving White Lotus members into an intelligence organization.

Zhao Fu established the White Sect as Great Qin’s third major intelligence organization, then Great Qin’s plan to manipulate Night Dynasty City and the system forces set off a chain of attacks and accusations. Night Dynasty City faced the system forces with a huge army while the player forces saw an opening to strike its exposed territory.

• Zhao Fu named Ye Qiuye’s organization the White Sect and designated it one of Great Qin’s three major intelligence organizations alongside Eternal Night and Flower Moon.
• Night Dynasty City announced a two-year peace pact, then secretly attacked system main cities, killed their City Lords, massacred civilians, and blamed the player forces.
• The system forces debated who was responsible, suspected Night Dynasty City, and decided to join with the player forces to resist it.
• Ye Cang led Night Dynasty City’s army against the system forces, accusing them of attacking Night Dynasty City, while they denied the charge.
• The player forces learned that Night Dynasty City had left its interior exposed and recognized the chance to launch a surprise attack.

Player factions launched a surprise assault on Night Dynasty while Night Dynasty faced the System factions, but Zhao Fu and Night Dynasty's army crushed the System forces' attack. Zhao Fu continued slaughtering System City Lords as their army faltered.

• The player factions attacked Night Dynasty with 900 City Lords and eighty million troops while Night Dynasty's main force confronted the System factions.
• The System factions charged Night Dynasty after learning its rear was under attack, but Ye Cang ordered Night Dynasty's soldiers to form ranks instead of retreating.
• Night Dynasty's rune arrows killed dozens of System soldiers, and Zhao Fu appeared and demanded that the System City Lords submit or perish.
• Zhao Fu killed more than thirty System City Lords, while Night Dynasty's arrows and City Lords inflicted heavy casualties on the System army.
• Night Dynasty's soldiers charged and halted the weakened System army as Zhao Fu continued killing its City Lords, leaving the survivors terrified.

Zhao Fu subdued the System factions and led Night Dynasty into a prepared battle against the player army. The players were trapped between Night Dynasty’s forces, lost their means of avoiding death, and faced a battle they were rapidly losing.

• A terrified System City Lord surrendered to Zhao Fu, and the remaining City Lords and soldiers followed.
• Zhao Fu split his forces, sending Night Dynasty troops back to defend while the subdued System armies moved to attack the player factions from behind.
• The player army broke Night Dynasty’s isolation formation and advanced, only to find Night Dynasty waiting at its border.
• A second army appeared behind the players, trapping them between Night Dynasty and the subdued System forces.
• Night Dynasty’s spears destroyed the players’ ability to avoid death, and both armies charged as the player army fell into disarray.
• Night Dynasty’s City Lords and the subdued System City Lords surrounded the player leaders, who angrily accused their former allies of betraying them.

Zhao Fu led Night Dynasty to crush the player forces and annex their cities, making the faction powerful enough to alarm the Demon South Continent. After Night Dynasty rejected the coalition’s humiliating demands, ten thousand enemy city lords united and attacked.

• Zhao Fu used the Zhanlu Sword to slaughter player city lords until the surviving players surrendered.
• Night Dynasty annexed the system main cities and player cities, growing to 2,990 cities and a population of 1.4 billion.
• Factions across the Demon South Continent began plotting to destroy Night Dynasty and rejected its attempts to ease tensions.
• The coalition demanded Night Dynasty surrender half its cities, pay annual tribute, and give them Demon Enchantress as a female pet.
• Night Dynasty gave no response to the demands, and the united factions attacked with ten thousand city lords.

An alliance of Demon South World factions attacked the Night Dynasty with overwhelming force after it refused their demands, leaving Ye Cang’s leaders debating whether to surrender or face destruction. The chapter ended with the Night Dynasty’s leaders looking to Ye Cang for a decision.

• The factions assembled more than ten thousand City Lords and six hundred million troops to seize the Night Dynasty’s territories and force it to submit.
• The Demon Profound World’s factions watched the attack, while Demon East Continent’s inheritances discussed the Night Dynasty’s rise and the mysterious injuries suffered by Demon Seven.
• The allied forces launched their attack, and Night Dynasty citizens and leaders panicked at the prospect of annihilation.
• The Night Dynasty’s leaders argued over whether to surrender their cities and endure humiliation or resist and die.
• The leaders ran out of proposals and looked to Ye Cang for guidance.

Zhao Fu promised not to hand over Demon Enchantress and ordered the Night Dynasty to prepare for the allied invasion. The allied armies rejected the Night Dynasty’s request for time and began breaking through its defenses, while the Dynasty’s people were trapped inside the surrounding formations.

• Zhao Fu reassured Demon Enchantress that he would not send her away and told Ye Ningshuang and the others to follow his instructions.
• The Night Dynasty began moving its population, setting isolation zones, and laying traps under Zhao Fu’s orders.
• The allied armies reached the Night Dynasty’s defensive walls, where its representatives asked for a few days to consider the contract.
• A fat man demanded most of the Night Dynasty’s territory and resources and asked for Demon Enchantress, while a Guardian of the Demon South Continent urged the factions to attack immediately.
• The allied armies ignored the Night Dynasty’s request and advanced, while the Dynasty’s formations slowed them and the factions set up barriers to prevent anyone from escaping.

Zhao Fu revealed Great Qin’s overwhelming forces to save Night Dynasty from the allied factions surrounding it. The battle began with Great Qin attacking the enemy city lords and armies while Night Dynasty’s troops charged into the fray.

• The allied factions surrounded Night Dynasty and threatened to slaughter its people unless they surrendered.
• Zhao Fu appeared in the sky and mocked the allied city lords, then summoned more than forty-five thousand city lords to surround them.
• Seven thousand five hundred flying dragons and giants, along with the Eight Sea Beast Kings, appeared and stunned both Night Dynasty and its enemies.
• Zhao Fu drew the Zhanlu Sword and charged at the allied city lords as Great Qin’s forces began attacking.
• Night Dynasty’s soldiers charged the enemy armies while corpse-soul commanders, flying dragons, and the Eight Sea Beast Kings attacked across the battlefield.

Zhao Fu and Night Dynasty overwhelmed the allied forces, slaughtering their City Lords and armies with powerful artifacts, General Stars, and Sea Beast Kings. After Zhao Fu sealed the Demon South Continent inheritor and seized a Nation-Guarding Artifact, an enemy City Lord surrendered as the surrounded alliance faced defeat.

• Zhao Fu unleashed devastating sword attacks, killing dozens of City Lords and forcing the allied forces to activate seven Nation-Guarding or Sect-Guarding Artifacts.
• The Demon Monarch, Elise, and the eight General Stars rose to counter the artifacts, while Zhao Fu attacked the Demon South Continent inheritor.
• Zhao Fu broke through the inheritor’s defenses, destroyed his summoned demon, and sealed him along with the black skeletal hand artifact.
• The eight Sea Beast Kings, flying dragons, Corpse Soul Commander, and Night Dynasty City Lords ravaged the allied armies as Night Dynasty’s 140 million soldiers advanced in formation.
• Zhao Fu killed a dynasty inheritor and collected his City Lord Seal and Nation-Guarding Artifact, while a City Lord surrendered after thousands of allied City Lords died.

After Night Dynasty defeated the allied armies, Zhao Fu accepted their surrender and ordered Great Qin to conquer all of Demon South Continent. Great Qin’s offensive rapidly seized cities as the continent descended into chaos.

• The allied factions surrendered to Zhao Fu, and their soldiers laid down their weapons.
• Bai Qi asked Zhao Fu how to proceed, and Zhao Fu ordered him to prepare for the conquest of Demon South Continent.
• Great Qin’s City Lords, flying dragons, corpse soul commanders, and eight Sea Beast Kings advanced, while Night Dynasty’s people joined the campaign.
• Great Qin quickly took the nearest cities, prompting civilians to flee and news of the allied armies’ defeat to spread across the continent.
• Great Qin began its full-scale assault on other cities, attacking City Lord Mansions and destroying buildings as defenders and residents fled.

Great Qin destroyed the last resistance on the Demon South Continent and completed its conquest, expanding Night Dynasty’s territory to a quarter of the Demon Profound World. The other continents panicked and began meeting to decide how to confront Night Dynasty.

• Great Qin and its eight sea beasts devastated cities across the Demon South Continent, while Night Dynasty’s soldiers took in those who surrendered.
• Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s forces into the Black Demon Region, where they vastly outnumbered the united resistance army.
• The resistance army retreated as soon as Great Qin charged; many surrendered, and Great Qin pursued and wiped out most of the fleeing forces.
• Great Qin captured the Demon South Continent, prompting refugees to spread news of the conquest throughout the Demon Profound World.
• Factions across the other three continents convened to discuss Night Dynasty, and the Heavenly Demon Sect dispatched powerful elders to join the council.

After Great Qin conquered the Demon South Continent, the other Demon Profound factions realized how powerful the mysterious faction supporting the Night Dynasty was and argued over how to respond. Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to invade the Demon West Continent, where its army met the rapidly assembled forces of the other three continents.

• The factions across the Demon Profound World learned that the mysterious faction had annihilated the allied armies and conquered the Demon South Continent, then argued over whether to fight, remain neutral, or negotiate.
• Bai Qi reported to Zhao Fu that the Demon South Continent had been conquered, and Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to swiftly attack the Demon West Continent.
• The other Demon Profound factions panicked at the invasion and hurried to gather their forces to defend the Demon West Continent.
• Great Qin swept into the Demon West Continent and conquered several hundred regions before the opposing armies arrived and faced it.