Chapter Summaries

Huo Yan challenged Zhao Fu to battle, staking his rewards to test the strength of the Emperor's Son. Zhao Fu effortlessly blocked Huo Yan's strongest attack and stood unharmed, leaving the arena astonished.

• Huo Yan challenged Zhao Fu, and Zhao Fu agreed to fight if Huo Yan put up his rewards as the stake.
• Zhao Fu flew down to Huo Yan's platform and invited him to attack.
• Huo Yan struck first, but Zhao Fu's black dragon-patterned barrier knocked him back.
• Huo Yan unleashed nine fiery crows in his strongest attack, sending them crashing down on Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu emerged unharmed in a crater, with all nine fire crows caught in blood-colored energy barriers.

Zhao Fu blocked Huo Yan’s strongest attack, and the Guti Ranking listed him as a six-year-old after Huo Yan conceded. After Gu Qingyue defeated Bing Qixue, she challenged Zhao Fu, leaving the two facing off on the platform.

• Zhao Fu controlled Huo Yan’s fire crows, but Huo Yan conceded and asked to fight him again someday.
• Huo Yan left the platform, and the Guti Ranking placed Zhao Fu in tenth place with an age of six.
• Bai Haoran defeated Ancient Sword and sent him off the platform.
• A Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group elder offered Zhao Fu a place to stay, and Zhao Fu relaxed after learning he could change regions by building a city.
• Gu Qingyue defeated Bing Qixue, challenged Zhao Fu, and faced him on the platform.

Zhao Fu fought Gu Qingyue, who broke through his defenses but ultimately conceded after he overwhelmed her with blood-colored energy shields and close-range attacks. Zhao Fu rose to eighth on the Guti Ranking and invited others to challenge him as he sought to test his strength before traveling to the Heaven Domain.

• Gu Qingyue attacked Zhao Fu and cracked his Emperor Domain with her kicks.
• Zhao Fu countered with blood-colored energy shields, but Gu Qingyue invoked Martial God and knocked away his Saint Realm Domains.
• Zhao Fu summoned thirty-six energy shields, struck Gu Qingyue from behind, and continued attacking until she surrendered.
• Zhao Fu took eighth place on the Guti Ranking, while Gu Qingyue fell to ninth.
• Zhao Fu challenged anyone else to fight him so he could test his strength for his journey to the Heaven Domain.

Zhao Fu defeated You Qianyue and Qingmu Rou in succession, continuing his challenge against the Guti Domain’s top fighters. Leng Shang, the Guti Domain’s expert of the killing path, stepped onto the platform to face him.

• You Qianyue summoned ghost armies to attack Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu’s Ghost God Armorer destroyed the ghost soldiers and forced You Qianyue to concede.
• Zhao Fu challenged the crowd again after defeating three Guti Ranking fighters in a row, while Xiong Xiao recognized him as vaguely familiar but chose not to fight.
• Qingmu Rou attacked Zhao Fu with plants and swallowed him in her Demon Bean, but Zhao Fu cut his way out and countered with the Royal Wood Sword.
• Zhao Fu defeated Qingmu Rou in close combat, bruising her face until she ran off the platform crying.
• Leng Shang stepped onto the platform with murderous intent to challenge Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu faced Leng Shang, whose Saint Realm killing intent initially overwhelmed Zhao Fu’s defenses, but Zhao Fu revealed the Death Sword and unleashed his full power. He defeated Leng Shang and called for another challenger.

• Leng Shang opened the battle by cutting through Zhao Fu’s Emperor Domain with a single slash.
• Zhao Fu summoned the Death Sword and sent a wave of deathly energy at Leng Shang, who split it and charged forward.
• Zhao Fu used seventy-two blood-red spears to force Leng Shang onto the defensive, then struck him with a powerful gray sword light.
• Leng Shang released his full killing intent, stirring the killing sword intent inside Zhao Fu and prompting Zhao Fu to end the battle quickly.
• Zhao Fu unleashed black flames and imperial might, then struck Leng Shang with the deathly energy of a palace-gowned apparition, knocking him unconscious.
• Zhao Fu asked aloud who else dared to fight.

Ancient Sword’s overwhelming attack injured Zhao Fu and seemed to put him at a disadvantage, but Zhao Fu unleashed the Emperor Bloodline’s imperial aura and matched the sword qi river. As Ancient Sword prepared a devastating vortex, Zhao Fu’s suppressed killing sword intent began to stir, and a blood-colored sword mark appeared on his brow.

• Yin Ruoshi declined to fight Zhao Fu, and Ancient Sword stepped onto the platform to challenge him.
• Ancient Sword summoned over a thousand swords and sent a massive river of sword qi crashing through Zhao Fu’s layered defenses, injuring him and blasting him away.
• The crowd believed Ancient Sword had proved stronger, while Yin Ruoshi reconsidered whether she could fight Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu unleashed the Emperor Bloodline’s power, forcing people across the arena to kneel and meeting Ancient Sword’s sword qi with overwhelming imperial aura.
• Ancient Sword rose into the sky and formed a vast vortex of sword qi as Zhao Fu’s killing sword intent stirred and a blood-colored sword mark appeared on his brow.

Zhao Fu defeated Gu Jian with an uncontrolled burst of Killing Sword intent, then accepted Bai Haoran’s challenge. As Bai Haoran unleashed his self-created world, Zhao Fu summoned the Six Paths Demon Idols to conceal the source of his sword intent and prepare to end the battle quickly.

• Zhao Fu’s sword intent struck Gu Jian, leaving him gravely injured, and the Ancient Sword Sect’s Sect Master stabilized him and identified sword intent erosion.
• The crowd and Yin Ruoshi were awed by Zhao Fu’s strength, while Zhao Fu worried that using the Killing Sword intent might expose his identity.
• Bai Haoran challenged Zhao Fu, and Zhao Fu accepted.
• Bai Haoran unleashed his full strength and spread his five-colored Heaven and Earth ring across the platform.
• Zhao Fu countered the ring with ghostly qi and summoned the Six Paths Demon Idols, shocking the great figures and leading the King of the Yin Nether Dynasty to suspect Zhao Fu carried Death Clan imperial blood.
• Zhao Fu used the Six Paths Demon Idols’ power to divert attention from his Killing Sword intent and planned to end the battle quickly.

Zhao Fu defeated Bai Haoran and claimed first place on the Guti Ranking, but his attempt to leave was interrupted when the sword intent inside Ancient Sword became uncontrollable. The Sect Master of the Ancient Sword Sect attacked Zhao Fu, leaving the two with a lasting enmity.

• Zhao Fu used the Six Paths Demon Idols to break Bai Haoran's World Domain and win the final battle.
• Zhao Fu took first place on the Guti Ranking, received its fate fortune, and pocketed most of the rewards for the top ten.
• Ancient Sword began suffering as the blood-colored sword intent inside him resisted the Sect Master of the Ancient Sword Sect's attempts to suppress it.
• Zhao Fu tried to flee, but the Sect Master of the Ancient Sword Sect struck him with sword light and sent him crashing to the ground.
• The Sect Master of the Ancient Sword Sect threatened Zhao Fu over Ancient Sword's condition, while Zhao Fu endured the blow and resolved to leave and repay the humiliation later.

The Ancient Sword Sect Master attacked Zhao Fu despite the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group elder’s plea, and Zhao Fu was left badly wounded and unable to resist. When the elder intervened to protect him, the Ancient Sword Sect Master killed him, leaving Zhao Fu’s fate unresolved.

• The Ancient Sword Sect Master weighed the danger of Zhao Fu’s Imperial Blood but continued considering whether to kill him, while the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group elder pleaded for him to stop.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Master struck Zhao Fu with a powerful sword light, and Zhao Fu’s Six Paths Demon Idols failed to protect him from being badly wounded.
• Jiu Xiaoyun and Qingmu Rou discussed Zhao Fu as he struggled to rise, while Bai Haoran hoped the Dao Cultivation Sect Master would intervene; the Dao Cultivation Sect Master remained still.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Master summoned his flying sword and prepared a killing move against Zhao Fu.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group elder attacked the Ancient Sword Sect Master to protect Zhao Fu, but the Ancient Sword Sect Master cut him into pieces with his flying sword.

After the Ancient Sword Sect Master killed Elder Wanlong, Zhao Fu fought him with the Nation-Guarding Artifact but was badly wounded and left without allies. As the Sect Master prepared to finish him, Zhao Fu unleashed his Emperor Bloodline and Six Paths Demon Idols, drawing Great Qin’s fate into his artifact and launching a greatly empowered counterattack.

• Zhao Fu unleashed the Nation-Guarding Artifact and sent twelve Bronze Swords at the Ancient Sword Sect Master, who knocked them aside and blasted Zhao Fu into a crater with a sword attack.
• Bing Qixue and the other onlookers recognized Zhao Fu as a first-generation king, while their factions chose not to intervene.
• Huo Yan pleaded with his sect to save Zhao Fu, but its members refused, and the other sect leaders also stayed out of the fight.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Master struck Zhao Fu again, drove him into the crater, and prepared to deliver the final blow.
• Zhao Fu erupted with the power of his Nation-Guarding Artifact, Six Paths Demon Idols, and Emperor Bloodline as Great Qin’s fate surged into the artifact.
• Twelve Bronze Swords emerged through the black flames with greatly increased power and attacked the Ancient Sword Sect Master.

Zhao Fu summoned the Twelve Golden Men, whose combined attack injured the Ancient Sword Sect Master, but the Sect Master brought out the Eastflow Ancient Sword and overwhelmed them. He struck Zhao Fu with a devastating sword light, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Zhao Fu unleashed his full strength and summoned the Twelve Golden Men, who seized the Bronze Swords and attacked the Ancient Sword Sect Master.
• The Twelve Golden Men’s sword strike sent the Ancient Sword Sect Master crashing into a crater and left him injured.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Master summoned the Eastflow Ancient Sword and used its protective light to block the Twelve Golden Men’s attacks.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Master swung the Eastflow Ancient Sword, blasted the Twelve Golden Men away, and sent a white sword light toward Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu placed the Twelve Golden Men before himself in a desperate defense, but the white sword light swept them aside and swallowed him.

Zhao Fu was brutally humiliated by the Ancient Sword Sect Master, who repeatedly slapped him and then tried to kill him with the Eastflow Ancient Sword. The president of the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group intervened to protect Zhao Fu, helping him flee while holding off the Sect Master.

• The Ancient Sword Sect Master repeatedly slapped Zhao Fu as onlookers, including Bing Qixue, Yin Ruoshi, and Bai Haoran, failed to intervene.
• Zhao Fu erupted with black lightning and summoned the Twelve Golden Men, but the Ancient Sword Sect Master sent them flying and prepared to kill him with a sword strike.
• The president of the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group appeared and blocked the attack with a golden dragon, then asked the Ancient Sword Sect Master to spare Zhao Fu.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Master refused and attacked Zhao Fu with sword-light birds, but the president shattered them and urged Zhao Fu to escape.
• Zhao Fu ignited black flames and fled as the president held the Ancient Sword Sect Master back with another golden dragon, but something unexpected happened as Zhao Fu sped away.

Zhao Fu was attacked by the kings of the Bear Mountain Kingdom and the Yin Nether Dynasty, but the Imperial Killing Sword erupted and revealed him as the Lord of the Killing Sword. The revelation made his enemies more determined to kill him, and the two kings joined forces as the battle continued.

• The king of the Bear Mountain Kingdom struck Zhao Fu into a crater, and the king of the Yin Nether Dynasty arrived to claim his corpse.
• The king of the Yin Nether Dynasty attacked Zhao Fu while the Ancient Sword Sect Master held back the president of the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group.
• The Imperial Killing Sword burst from Zhao Fu and blocked the attack, revealing him as the Lord of the Killing Sword.
• The Dao Cultivation Sect Master, the Ancient Sword Sect Master, and the others recognized Zhao Fu's terrifying power and resolved to kill him.
• Zhao Fu sent the king of the Yin Nether Dynasty and the king of the Bear Mountain Kingdom flying with a blood-colored sword strike.
• The two kings joined forces against Zhao Fu, and the king of the Yin Nether Dynasty summoned a gigantic ghost claw.

Zhao Fu fought the kings of the Yin Nether Dynasty and Bear Mountain Kingdom with the power of his Nation-Guarding Artifact and Imperial Killing Sword, but their combined strength left him gravely wounded. As the Bear Mountain king prepared to kill him, three Emperor Stars appeared and blasted the battlefield, leaving Zhao Fu’s fate unclear.

• Zhao Fu’s sword strike wounded the two kings, who then unleashed the Nether Emperor Skull and Bear God King Fang against him.
• Zhao Fu met their attacks with the Imperial Killing Sword’s power but was overwhelmed and left weak in a massive crater.
• Yin Ruoshi asked her master to save Zhao Fu, but the noble woman said the Heavenly Music Sect could neither contain nor protect him.
• The Dao Cultivation Sect Master hesitated to intervene, while the Ancient Sword Sect Master defeated the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group president and turned toward Zhao Fu.
• As the Bear Mountain king raised his saber for the final blow, three Emperor Stars appeared and cast pillars of light onto Zhao Fu.
• The blast destroyed the platform and left a vast crater with no figure in sight, revealing that Zhao Fu possessed three Emperor Stars.

After Zhao Fu escaped the Guti Domain and returned to Great Qin, the three great factions destroyed the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group. Meanwhile, the expert seeking Zhao Fu's Origin Mark activated the Imperial Ruin curse, and an observer at Heaven's Secret Pavilion sensed danger around Zhao Fu's Imperial Star.

• The people of the Guti Domain learned Zhao Fu possessed three Imperial Stars, while the three sect masters feared the consequences of offending him.
• The three great factions attacked the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group, forcing its president and the surviving forces to flee to another region after devastating losses.
• Zhao Fu escaped through the Imperial Killing Sword World, returned to Great Qin badly injured, and lost consciousness as imperial physicians treated him.
• The expert who had tried to seize Zhao Fu's Origin Mark sacrificed more than ten thousand people with kingly stars to form the Imperial Ruin curse.
• A Heaven's Secret Pavilion observer sensing Zhao Fu's Imperial Star felt a terrifying chill and hurriedly examined its surroundings.

A great power used Imperial Ruin to curse Zhao Fu, sending death energy against his three Emperor Stars and unleashing death dragons upon Great Qin. The death dragons broke through the defenses and invaded Zhao Fu’s body, while the Emperor Stars were gradually overwhelmed.

• A man detected the Imperial Ruin formation targeting Zhao Fu and reported it to the Venerable of Fate, who warned that the curse could kill even an Emperor.
• Death energy descended on Great Qin, weakening its fortune dragon as the Imperial Phoenix and allied sects and generals fought to protect Zhao Fu.
• The great power sacrificed a true Emperor’s corpse to strengthen the death star formation, dimming the Heaven Emperor Star and Yinghuo Emperor Star.
• The death dragons broke free of the chains and General Stars’ pressure, shattered the Imperial Phoenix’s barrier, and poured into Zhao Fu’s body.
• Zhao Fu awoke screaming in agony as the great power believed the curse had succeeded; the Nether Emperor Star continued to resist faintly.

Zhao Fu learned that Imperial Ruin had cursed him to death, leaving him with little more than a year to find a cure. After his final hope offered no solution, he was struck by an urgent report that Great Qin’s continent in the Half-Wolf World had fallen.

• Zhao Fu’s ministers and physicians tried to save him as gray dragon phantoms devoured his vitality, and the Golden Dragon ordered them to use the Life Spring and summon Black and White Impermanence.
• Black and White Impermanence and the Life Spring eased Zhao Fu’s suffering, and he awakened three days later with gray-white hair and a deathly aura.
• The Golden Dragon told Zhao Fu that Imperial Ruin had cursed him and that he had little more than a year to live unless he found a way to counter it.
• Zhao Fu learned that merging his dragon aura with the phoenix aura of women could lessen his pain, but Black and White Impermanence could not cure the curse.
• Zhao Fu consulted a mighty expert through the Heavenly Spirit Stele, but the expert said he had no solution; Zhao Fu then went alone to his old fishing stream and grieved.
• An urgent battle report reached Zhao Fu: Great Qin’s continent in the Half-Wolf World had fallen.

Zhao Fu reached the front lines as the Demon Horn Empire joined the three worlds’ war against Great Qin, bringing an overwhelming demonic beast army. He fought Yao Ming while the armies clashed, leaving Great Qin struggling to defend its city walls against superior numbers.

• A soldier told Zhao Fu that the Demon Horn Empire had allied with three worlds, broken Great Qin’s defenses on the Half-Werewolf World continent, and threatened Greenfield World; the civilians had evacuated safely.
• Zhao Fu arrived at the battlefield and saw Great Qin’s forces facing Greenfield People, Half-Werewolves, and more than a million demonic beasts.
• Yao Ming appeared and demanded that Zhao Fu submit and send him beauties; Zhao Fu refused to negotiate and attacked him.
• Zhao Fu and Yao Ming began fighting in the sky as the kings and experts of both sides clashed.
• Great Qin’s ferocious beasts and soldiers fought the demonic beast army, while its eight Sea Beast Kings confronted enemy kings aiming to destroy the city walls.
• The demonic beasts overwhelmed Great Qin’s defenders in several places, knocking down and tearing apart some Corpse soul guards.

Great Qin fought desperately to hold the Great Wall against the allied army as Zhao Fu battled Yao Ming, who wielded the Demon Horn Empire’s Nation-Guarding Artifact. After being driven into the wall, Zhao Fu summoned nine golden divine dragons against Yao Ming’s purple barrier, leaving their duel unresolved.

• The allied army assaulted the Great Wall with arrows, ladders, grappling hooks, and spells while Great Qin soldiers fought to repel them.
• Yao Ming overwhelmed Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu activated a Nation-Guarding Artifact and fought back as Yao Ming activated one of his own.
• Fierce fighting continued among the beasts, kings, experts, and soldiers, with heavy casualties on both sides.
• Yao Ming manifested the Demon Horn King and sent Zhao Fu crashing into the city wall; Zhao Fu then manifested the Heirloom Seal of the Realm instead of the Twelve Golden Men.
• Zhao Fu summoned nine golden divine dragons to attack Yao Ming, who raised a purple energy barrier with the Demon Horn King.

After Great Qin lost its occupied continents and retreated into Human World, the four allied factions prepared to invade while Zhao Fu recovered from his wounds. In the palace, Zhao Fu began preparing defenses and saw a possible way to counter the Demon Horn Empire in the demonic beasts’ vulnerability to monster aura.

• Bai Qi ordered Great Qin’s forces to retreat from Greenfield World, and Yao Ming led the Demon Horn army toward Elf World.
• The three worlds and the Demon Horn Empire recaptured the three continents, while surrounding nations assumed Great Qin was finished and focused their attention on the Demon Horn Empire.
• In the Great Qin Imperial Palace, the injured Zhao Fu heard Li Si report the casualties and the impending invasion by four factions.
• Zhao Fu decided to incorporate Night Dynasty into Great Qin and designate Demon South Continent as its territory, enabling twenty thousand City Lord Seals to be fused into Illusion Flower Demons.
• Hundred Demons reported that the Demon Horn Empire’s demonic beasts could quickly transform into powerful monsters when exposed to monster aura, giving Zhao Fu hope of resisting the empire.