Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu defeated Snow Woman and forced her to submit, preserving Wolf Cang Kingdom under her rule while secretly bringing its forces under his influence. After ordering the City Lord's Heart moved and the city looted, he withdrew to avoid drawing attention and provoking the other Green Shade Kingdoms.

• Snow Woman attacked Zhao Fu, but he repelled her with a single sword strike and reached the City Heart.
• Zhao Fu offered to let Snow Woman keep Wolf Cang Kingdom if she submitted, but she stalled while hoping the other kings would arrive.
• Zhao Fu sensed three powerful auras approaching, seized Snow Woman despite her defensive barrier, and overpowered her Nation-Guarding Artifact.
• Snow Woman agreed to submit, and Zhao Fu placed six masses of demonic qi inside her as restrictions.
• Zhao Fu ordered Snow Woman to move the City Lord's Heart, then had his soldiers loot the city and withdraw with her forces discreetly.

Zhao Fu kept Lelai Kingdom’s role in Wolf Cang Kingdom’s destruction understated while the seven invading nations divided the fallen kingdom’s territory. After returning to Lelai Kingdom, he began rebuilding Wolf Cang Kingdom in secret, but Le Yuyu opposed creating an independent nation within Lelai’s borders.

• Zhao Fu ordered Lelai Kingdom to evacuate and spread word that it had gained nothing, while Cang Snow Woman’s pursuers found the royal city abandoned.
• The seven nations divided Wolf Cang Kingdom’s territory, with the Greenfield People claiming 230 regions and the Half-Wolfmen taking 110.
• The Greenfield People and the Half-Wolfmen argued over the occupied land but avoided war, then began building Great Walls around their gains.
• Zhao Fu declined a victory banquet and returned to Lelai Kingdom, where he counted the expedition’s hidden gains and kept them there to strengthen the kingdom.
• Zhao Fu secretly began rebuilding Wolf Cang Kingdom inside Lelai Kingdom, but Le Yuyu objected to an unsubmissive nation existing within its borders.

Zhao Fu went to Elf World to find a nation that could serve as Great Qin’s hidden chess piece, but Zhanlu Sword’s unusual reaction drew him to an ancient tomb. There, he intervened after the Musi Family’s Third Young Master massacred onlookers, leaving the young noble and the city lords defeated.

• Zhao Fu told Le Yuyu that he had controlled the Cang Snow Woman, then urged Le Yuyu to strengthen Lelai Kingdom and help Wolf Cang Kingdom recover for Great Qin’s future invasion plans.
• Zhao Fu decided to plant a chess piece in Elf World and spent several days gathering information before choosing a target.
• When Zhanlu Sword trembled as Zhao Fu passed a city, he learned of an ancient tomb nearby and followed the sword’s apparent call to its location.
• At the tomb, the Musi Family’s Third Young Master ordered the crowd to leave and killed over a thousand people when they hesitated.
• After the Third Young Master struck down a city lord who mentioned Lord Corey, a black-cloaked figure arrived and blasted the young noble and the city lords to the ground.

Zhao Fu entered the blood-filled tomb and was pulled through a fissure into a collapsing, blood-colored world, where a terrifying killing intent nearly overwhelmed him. After the Zhanlu Sword absorbed the killing intent, Lord Corey attacked Zhao Fu in a corrupted state, leaving them facing off.

• Zhao Fu crushed the golden-robed young man to death and spared the kneeling City Lords before flying into the tomb.
• Zhao Fu found shattered corpses and a blood-qi-spewing fissure in the tomb hall, then was dragged through it into another world.
• Zhao Fu blocked the blood qi with his Emperor Domain but was nearly consumed by an immense killing intent, which his Emperor Blood and other powers helped him suppress.
• The Zhanlu Sword eagerly absorbed the killing intent while the other sword spirits resisted its corrupting influence.
• Lord Corey appeared with a blood sword fused to his arm and struck Zhao Fu, whose strengthened Emperor Domain withstood the attack.

Zhao Fu killed an elf in the First Turn Sword-Wielding Demonic State, and Golden Dragon explained the history and deadly nature of the Killing Sword World. The chapter left Zhao Fu contemplating the world’s Ninth Turn Sword Master and the power of an immortal.

• Golden Dragon recognized the place as the Killing Sword World as the elf attacked Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu struck the elf through the heart, but Golden Dragon explained that a First Turn Sword-Wielding Demonic State fighter could only be killed by destroying his body.
• Zhao Fu unleashed his full power and cut the elf into mangled pieces.
• Golden Dragon explained that the Sword World became the Killing Sword World after the one hundred and thirty-seventh Sword Master fell into the demonic path and spread slaughter sword intent throughout it.
• Golden Dragon described the Sword-Wielding Demonic State’s nine levels, and Zhao Fu learned that the Ninth Turn Sword Master had power comparable to an immortal.

Zhao Fu cautiously explored the surviving fragment of Killing Sword World, weighing its danger against the potential benefits for Great Qin. After securing the rift and concealing the site, he returned to investigate deeper, where the blood energy and killing intent grew far stronger.

• Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu that demonic madness had once unleashed a catastrophe across tens of thousands of worlds, and immortals had destroyed Killing Sword World to stop it.
• Zhao Fu decided to cautiously investigate the fragment, drew the excited Zhanlu Sword, and surveyed its lifeless outskirts under the protection of Emperor Domain and nine Black Dragons.
• Zhao Fu returned to the tomb and concealed the site as the mountain collapsed; more than a hundred City Lords arrived, learned that the golden-robed young man had been killed, and withdrew while remembering the grudge.
• Zhao Fu stabilized the rift with tools and a formation, then spent a day exploring the fragment and collected over ten thousand gold-grade items and several dozen legendary items.
• Zhao Fu put up the Six Paths Defensive Barrier and headed toward the deepest part of Killing Sword World, where the blood energy and killing intent were several times stronger.

Zhao Fu strengthened the Zhanlu Sword by absorbing sword soul essences in the Killing Sword World, but its growing killing intent threatened to overwhelm him. With Golden Dragon’s guidance, he began refining the sword with his blood and a severed hand, leaving the blade more powerful and the second refinement complete.

• Zhao Fu slew a group of sword souls and absorbed their essences into the Zhanlu Sword, increasing its power and killing intent.
• Golden Dragon warned Zhao Fu that the sword was becoming difficult to control and said that strengthening their bond would require a price.
• Zhao Fu refined the Zhanlu Sword with his blood, which brought forth a Black Dragon pattern along its spine.
• After several days of fighting more sword souls and absorbing over a thousand essences, Zhao Fu began the second refinement by sacrificing one of his hands.
• The Zhanlu Sword fused Zhao Fu’s severed hand into its body and released an even more intense aura of slaughter.

After refining the Zhanlu Sword with his soul, Zhao Fu gained its killing sword intent and advanced into the deepest part of the space. He discovered a weakened fragment of the Killing Sword World and four blood-crystal coffins beneath it.

• Zhao Fu absorbed over a thousand sword souls into the Zhanlu Sword, bringing its total beyond ten thousand and making it difficult to control.
• Golden Dragon urged Zhao Fu to complete the third refinement, so Zhao Fu used part of his soul to refine the Zhanlu Sword and accepted its Sword Heart.
• Zhao Fu and the Zhanlu Sword erupted with powerful sword intent and imperial aura, and the sword became closely fused with him.
• Zhao Fu swept through the stronger sword souls deeper inside and absorbed their illusory swords into the Zhanlu Sword.
• Zhao Fu reached the space's core and saw a fragment of the Killing Sword World atop a vast blood-crystal mountain, with four men lying in coffins below it.

Golden Dragon took control of Zhao Fu and sealed the four blood-coffin demons in a Ten Thousand Swords Formation. Zhao Fu then fused the Killing Sword World fragment into the Zhanlu Sword, triggering a phenomenon that shook the Guti Domain.

• Golden Dragon possessed Zhao Fu and used golden chains and ghostly figures to drag the four blood crystal coffins into the sealing space.
• Golden Dragon formed the Ten Thousand Swords Formation, stabilizing the collapsing space and sealing the four people while absorbing their sword intent.
• Golden Dragon returned Zhao Fu’s body and explained that he could fuse the Zhanlu Sword with the Killing Sword World fragment to become its one hundred and thirty-eighth generation Sword Master.
• Zhao Fu activated the Zhanlu Sword’s Sword Soul Domain, used his blood to improve its compatibility with the fragment, and began fusing them.
• The final fragment and the Sword Souls entered the Zhanlu Sword, unleashing bloody light and killing intent that spread across several hundred worlds and shook the Guti Domain.

A vast killing intent from the west spread across hundreds of worlds, terrifying the people and prompting Guti Domain’s factions to prepare for disaster. The Dao Cultivation Sect’s master judged that a peerless evil entity might be entering the world and set out to investigate personally.

• The killing intent from the Killing Sword World fragment affected the Elf World most severely, while elves and people in surrounding worlds collapsed or struggled to resist it.
• Kings across the affected worlds tried to withstand and control the killing intent, while factions debated whether the phenomenon was a natural upheaval or caused by someone.
• Wang Xiong Batian ordered experts from the Bear Mountain Kingdom to investigate and readied its army for battle.
• Factions across western, eastern, and northern Guti Domain dispatched investigators and prepared for a possible catastrophe.
• The Dao Cultivation Sect’s master said the heavenly secrets in the west were chaotic and Guti Domain’s fortune was gathering there, then left to investigate himself.

Zhao Fu grasped the Zhanlu Sword and absorbed its immense killing intent, becoming the lord of the sword souls as the Killing Sword World collapsed. The resulting power shook the worlds, while the Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group recognized the intent in Zhao Fu’s blood as the ancient Intent of the Killing Sword.

• The Zhanlu Sword absorbed the Killing Sword World’s blood aura, sword souls, crystals, and source power as the world collapsed around Zhao Fu.
• One hundred thousand sword souls knelt before the Zhanlu Sword, and Zhao Fu grasped its hilt to become the Sword Lord.
• The sword’s killing intent transformed Zhao Fu, and he raised the Zhanlu Sword to unleash a blood-light beam that shook Apocalypse World, the Divine World, and the Underworld.
• A Heavenly Spirit Merchant Group observer reported that killing intent from Zhao Fu’s blood had invaded and injured him.
• The group’s important figures examined the blood and identified its power as the ancient Intent of the Killing Sword, now bearing a trace of Emperor Realm aura.

Zhao Fu reforged the Killing Sword World into the Imperial Killing Sword World, gaining control over its powerful killing intent through the Zhanlu Sword. Meanwhile, the Heaven's Secret Pavilion discovered that he had the qualifications to become a Child of Heavenly Fortune and warned against investigating his fate further.

• The Heaven's Secret Pavilion observed blood-red light and killing intent shroud Zhao Fu's three Imperial Stars, and the Fate Venerable was injured while trying to investigate them.
• The Fate Venerable warned the pavilion not to deduce Zhao Fu's fate because it was shrouded in danger and might involve an immortal, but allowed them to keep observing him.
• Zhao Fu used the Zhanlu Sword to restore the collapsed Killing Sword World as a lush, hundred-li-wide realm and named it the Imperial Killing Sword World.
• Zhao Fu learned that slaughter could expand the Imperial Killing Sword World, but transformed swordsmen would become maddened killing machines that only he could control.
• Zhao Fu carved a new passage out of the world and returned to Apocalypse World, where he learned about the disturbance he had caused.

Zhao Fu emerged from the Imperial Killing Sword World with the Zhanlu Sword as its core and discovered that the killing intent had transformed tens of millions of elves into bloodthirsty Killing Sword Elves. As kingdoms began hunting them, Zhao Fu’s plans to reach the Full Moon Kingdom were overtaken by the growing crisis, and Mi Ye prepared his followers for a final slaughter.

• Powerful figures searched the border worlds for the cause of the strange phenomena, then offered rewards for information.
• Zhao Fu left the Imperial Killing Sword World with the Zhanlu Sword, now displaying the grade “Origin,” and learned he could enter the world through it.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the killing intent had created Killing Sword Elves, who worshipped him as the Lord of the Killing Sword, though he could influence rather than control them.
• Zhao Fu’s bloodline advanced to lower-stage Level 18 Emperor Blood, and he considered continuing his search for a chess piece in the Full Moon Kingdom.
• Killing Sword Elves committed murders across the Elf World, prompting kingdoms to order their extermination.
• An elf General’s army cornered several thousand Killing Sword Elves, and Mi Ye ordered them to stop fleeing and begin a final slaughter.

Mi Ye and the remaining Killing Sword Elves fought the encircling army in a brutal, near-suicidal battle. Just as the elf general was about to kill the badly wounded Mi Ye, the cloaked owner of the Killing Sword True Body appeared and slaughtered the entire army with sword souls.

• The elf general ordered his hundred-thousand-strong army to surround and destroy the seven thousand Killing Sword Elves, who charged into battle without fear.
• The Killing Sword Elves killed many soldiers before the general ordered archers and cavalry to attack; Mi Ye swallowed a crystal and fought the general while the battle claimed lives on both sides.
• The elf general defeated Mi Ye and prepared to kill him as the surviving Killing Sword Elves dwindled to just over a thousand.
• A cloaked figure appeared in the blood-red sky, and the Killing Sword Elves recognized the Killing Sword True Body and knelt before him.
• The cloaked figure summoned countless sword souls and slew every soldier in the army.

Zhao Fu revealed himself as the Lord of the Killing Sword, winning the devotion of the Killing Sword Elves and frightening the factions of the Guti Domain. After his plan helped protect the elves and gather them into a force, he headed to Full Moon Kingdom to pursue a new candidate for power.

• Zhao Fu vanished after revealing himself, and the Killing Sword Elves celebrated his appearance while Mi Ye received medicine for his injuries.
• News of the Lord of the Killing Sword spread through Elf World and the Guti Domain, drawing experts who investigated the terrifying phenomenon and feared Zhao Fu's power.
• The gathered experts left Elf World after failing to identify Zhao Fu, while leaving watchers behind.
• The factions of Elf World stopped pursuing the extermination of the Killing Sword Elves, who became more devoted to Zhao Fu and formed a potential force for him.
• Zhao Fu went to Full Moon Kingdom, where he shifted his attention from the youngest prince to another prince who had become a Killing Sword Elf.

Zhao Fu turned the elf prince into a half-demonized servant and planned to make him king of the Full Moon Kingdom. When the king left the royal city, Zhao Fu ambushed and killed him, taking the King's Seal.

• The elf prince agreed to Zhao Fu’s offer, but Zhao Fu seized him and used the Imperial Killing Sword to make him a half-demonized servant who obeyed him.
• Zhao Fu sent the elf prince back and decided to remove obstacles to his succession, beginning with the aged king.
• Half a month later, Zhao Fu attacked the king’s forces in the sixth region after setting up an isolation formation.
• Zhao Fu restrained and killed the king, seized the King's Seal, and escaped.
• News of the king’s assassination spread throughout the Full Moon Kingdom and shocked its people.

After seizing Full Moon Kingdom with the King Seal, the eighth prince renamed it Killing Sword Kingdom and welcomed Killing Sword Elves, while Zhao Fu stabilized the kingdom and returned to Great Qin. He then began searching nearby worlds for exceptional sword cultivators to develop the Imperial Killing Sword World.

• The eighth prince took the throne with the King Seal after the old king and several princes were assassinated, then suppressed rebellions and introduced policies that won popular support.
• The new king renamed Full Moon Kingdom Killing Sword Kingdom and invited Killing Sword Elves across Elf World to settle there with equal rights and protection.
• Twenty million Killing Sword Elves arrived, and Zhao Fu managed their settlement as the kingdom's situation stabilized.
• After spending another month in Elf World, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin, intending to cultivate the Imperial Killing Sword World.
• Zhao Fu ruled out using Great Qin's people because entering demonic madness permanently trapped them in slaughter, and he began searching nearby worlds for talented sword cultivators.

Zhao Fu ordered Ge Nie and teams of City Lords to capture a hundred gifted sword cultivators, then used them to create the Slaughter Pool in the Imperial Killing Sword World. He sent the captives into its deadly waters, leaving their fate sealed by the Lord of the Killing Sword.

• Zhao Fu assigned Ge Nie and teams of thirty City Lords to capture sword cultivators using equipment designed to restrain them.
• Zhang Xiaohua was bound by a magic formation and captured, while Ke Jieni was overwhelmed by chains and taken away from the elven children he had been teaching.
• Ge Nie defeated and captured the heavily wounded Lun Ming San after Lun Ming San slaughtered people over a treasure.
• The disappearances unsettled the sword cultivation world, but the mystery gradually faded from public attention.
• Zhao Fu created the Slaughter Pool by plunging the Imperial Killing Sword into the ground and gathering killing intent into a lake.
• Zhao Fu revealed his identity to the captured sword cultivators and sent all one hundred into the Slaughter Pool.

Zhao Fu transformed a hundred sword-wielders who had fallen into demonic possession into obedient Blood Sword fighters and sent them to the front lines after testing their power on an Orc City. He then sought information about the Guti Domain from Medicinal Stone, who warned him that the inner region’s nations had far stronger foundations than novice worlds.

• After nine days in the lake, the hundred sword-wielders emerged transformed, wielding Blood Swords and obeying Zhao Fu without question.
• Zhao Fu led them to a small Orc City, where they killed more than a hundred thousand Orcs and absorbed the corpses’ blood to grow stronger.
• Disappointed that the fighters had faced no challenge, Zhao Fu relocated the Orc City and sent them to the front lines to gain strength through slaughter.
• Zhao Fu continued gathering information about the Guti Domain and summoned Medicinal Stone, who reacted with shock at the attention Zhao Fu had drawn.
• Medicinal Stone warned Zhao Fu to be extremely cautious because the inner region’s strength and the foundations of its nations far exceeded those of novice worlds.

Zhao Fu learned how formidable the Guti Domain’s inner region was and traveled there to seek high-tier corpses for Great Qin. At an inn near the inner region, he and Ge Nie attracted the attention of a white-robed young master and his guards.

• Zhao Fu learned about the inner region’s powerful troops and factions, including the Bear Mountain Kingdom, and decided to use the Imperial Killing Sword less often.
• Zhao Fu decided to travel to the inner region to obtain high-tier corpses and refine them into Blood God Pills to strengthen Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu and Ge Nie spent more than a month traveling and secretly built Teleportation Arrays along the way.
• Zhao Fu arrived in the inner region and planned to cooperate with the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group to secure a steady supply of corpses.
• At an inn, Zhao Fu invited Ge Nie to eat with him, while a white-robed young master arrived with two guards.
• The cold-faced guard noticed Ge Nie, and the white-robed young master met Zhao Fu’s gaze and stiffened at the terrifying look in Zhao Fu’s eyes.