Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu used the Corpse Soul Blood Pool to recover from his injuries while the Corpse Soul Sword Spirit and Calamitous Dragon Sword Spirit confronted him about his impending death. With his strength restored to eighty percent, he faced the approaching alliance of four worlds, whose Green Shade king offered Great Qin a surrender contract.

• Zhao Fu ordered Hundred Demons to return to the Four Soul Demon Realm and activate the Demon Grand Array, then gave Bai Shan the realm pearl from the Guti Grand Assembly.
• Zhao Fu entered the Corpse Soul Blood Pool to heal, while the Corpse Soul Sword Spirit shielded him from its evil aura and asked what would happen to her if he died.
• The Corpse Soul Sword Spirit kissed Zhao Fu and asked to experience lovemaking with him, but the Calamitous Dragon Sword Spirit interrupted, and Zhao Fu refused them both.
• After four days, Zhao Fu had recovered to eighty percent of his former strength as the four-world alliance and Great Qin prepared for battle.
• The nine-billion-strong allied army met Great Qin's forces at the Great Wall, and Zhao Fu faced Yao Ming with renewed confidence.
• A Green Shade king presented a contract intended to make Great Qin surrender and end the war.

Great Qin fought off the allied armies and demon beasts as Zhao Fu battled Yao Ming, who unleashed a powerful attack that sent Zhao Fu flying. As the siege reached the city walls, Bai Qi activated a formation inside the Four Soul Demon Realm.

• Zhao Fu rejected the allies’ demands for Great Qin to surrender, and he attacked Yao Ming, restarting the war.
• Great Qin’s fierce beasts defended against the demon beast army while both sides’ legion auras formed colossal creatures that clashed near the Great Wall.
• The allied Kings forced the injured Eight Sea Beast Kings into a defensive struggle as Zhao Fu gained the upper hand against Yao Ming.
• Yao Ming summoned his Nation-Guarding Artifact and transformed his demonic aura, then struck Zhao Fu with a giant purple tiger that shattered his defenses.
• Bai Qi saw the allied troops reach the city walls and activated a magic formation in the Four Soul Demon Realm, causing a silver bead to shine and freeze the surrounding space.

Great Qin used teleportation traps to turn the Demon Horn Empire’s demon beasts into monsters and deployed pollen that incapacitated the allied armies. The four worlds retreated after their defeat, while Yao Ming threatened an all-out war against Great Qin.

• Great Qin’s soldiers activated trap formations that transported demon beasts into the Four Souls Barrier, where demonic aura transformed them into monsters loyal to Zhao Fu.
• The traps captured more than half of the Demon Horn Empire’s 1.2 million demon beasts, prompting Yao Ming to attack Zhao Fu and demand their return.
• Humanoid plants released multicolored pollen that drove alliance soldiers into hallucinations, forcing the Kings to halt their advance.
• Great Qin slaughtered two billion soldiers left at the front as the four worlds withdrew from the battlefield.
• Yao Ming vowed that the Demon Horn Empire would wage all-out war against Great Qin, and Zhao Fu let the retreating armies go.
• News of the four worlds’ defeat spread, surprising people who had expected the Demon Horn Empire to prevail.

After Great Qin's victory over the four worlds, Zhao Fu replenished its lost ferocious beasts and went to inspect the demon beasts transformed in the Four Soul Demon Realm. His Imperial Ruin Curse interrupted the inspection, and he discovered that the demons who had gathered to serve him were among the transformed demon beasts.

• Zhao Fu counted Great Qin's losses and gains after the battle, then chose to delay reclaiming the three occupied continents until Great Qin had built up more strength.
• Zhao Fu replenished the 30,000 lost City Lord Seals and used them to restore Great Qin's ferocious beast force to 170,000.
• Zhao Fu went to the Four Soul Demon Realm to inspect 500,000 demon beasts, where Tamamo-no-Mae and Maple Leaf Hunt welcomed him.
• The Imperial Ruin Curse flared, and Tamamo-no-Mae and Maple Leaf Hunt served Zhao Fu along with other demons who joined them.
• Maple Leaf Hunt asked to bear Zhao Fu's child, but Zhao Fu said his imperial bloodline made conception exceedingly unlikely.
• Maple Leaf Hunt revealed that the snake, black cat, and bird demons serving Zhao Fu were among the transformed demon beasts he had come to inspect.

Zhao Fu learned that several thousand demon beasts had taken human form and considered how their strength might benefit Great Qin. As the new year passed, he faced the need to choose a successor from the Ying Family because he had no bloodline to inherit the throne, and the chapter ended as Wu Qingniang entered to see him.

• Maple Leaf Hunt told Zhao Fu that powerful demon beasts with high-grade bloodlines could transform and grow stronger, and Zhao Fu learned that five or six thousand had reached humanoid form with Tier 9 strength.
• Zhao Fu inspected the remaining demon beasts and recognized their army as a potential source of power for Great Qin against the Demon Horn Empire.
• During the new year celebrations, Zhao Fu played with Xiao Jiu and Xiao Qiang before discussing Great Qin's succession with Li Si and Bai Qi.
• Li Si reported that no Ying Family member could match Zhao Fu, and Zhao Fu entrusted Great Qin to Li Si and Bai Qi while ordering them to keep his impending death secret.
• Six Ying Family candidates appeared before Zhao Fu, who found them disappointing and sent them away to consider further tests.
• A soldier reported that Wu Qingniang was trying to force her way in, and Zhao Fu allowed her to enter and dismissed the others.

Wu Qingniang confronted Zhao Fu about giving in to the Imperial Ruin Curse, and her words restored his resolve to fight for survival. Zhao Fu revived Great Qin’s preparations for war and began reviewing the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group’s rewards, hoping some might help him overcome the curse.

• Wu Qingniang slapped Zhao Fu and demanded that he promise not to die, then rebuked him for accepting his fate.
• Zhao Fu realized he had become dispirited, promised Wu Qingniang that he would survive, and emerged from the hall with renewed determination.
• Bai Qi and Li Si rejoiced as Great Qin’s departments resumed operating, while intelligence agents gathered information on surrounding worlds.
• Zhao Fu learned that the three major factions had destroyed the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group and vowed that Great Qin would avenge it.
• Zhao Fu reviewed the group’s rewards, transferred the Death Sword’s spirit into the Death Clan Sword, and decided to use the Saint Pill and Blood Jade himself.

After Zhao Fu combined the Saint Pill with the masterless blood crystal, he reached Saint aptitude and saw hope of weakening the Imperial Ruin Curse. He then led an elite team into the Demon Horn Empire to steal demonic beasts, preparing to infiltrate their heavily guarded beast grounds.

• Zhao Fu swallowed the masterless blood crystal and Saint Pill, underwent a golden heavenly transformation, and raised his aptitude to Saint level while slightly weakening the Imperial Ruin Curse.
• Zhao Fu reviewed Great Qin’s military strength and four urgent concerns, then decided to seize demonic beasts from the Demon Horn Empire to strengthen his forces.
• Zhao Fu crossed the Half-Werewolf World with several thousand Eternal Night assassins, but left most behind and infiltrated the Demon Horn Empire with just over a hundred elites.
• Zhao Fu’s group reached the protected demonic beast grounds, swallowed Demonic Aura Pills to disguise their auras, and received Restriction-Melding Talismans to pass through the barriers undetected.

Zhao Fu infiltrated the Demon Horn Empire to steal demon beasts, then kidnapped Yao Ming’s younger brother when the prince’s disappearance threatened his operation. After teleporting away fewer than a hundred thousand beasts, Zhao Fu held the youth hostage and demanded five hundred thousand demon beasts and the Empire’s breeding method, leaving Yao Ming to decide what price to offer.

• Zhao Fu’s group reached a demon-beast gathering place and buried teleportation spears to send beasts into the Four Soul Demon Realm.
• Zhao Fu watched the Second Prince whip several servants to death, then knocked him unconscious and took him hostage.
• When the demon beasts gathered to receive supplies, Zhao Fu ordered the spears activated, teleporting away fewer than a hundred thousand beasts as others fled.
• Yao Ming sealed the space to disable the teleportation arrays, but Zhao Fu stood his ground because Yao Ming was protecting his younger brother.
• Zhao Fu demanded five hundred thousand demon beasts and the Demon Horn Empire’s method of raising them, then asked Yao Ming what price he would pay to save the Second Prince.

Zhao Fu traded the Demon Horn Empire’s captive for demon beasts and a breeding method, then returned to Great Qin and assessed its defenses against future invasions. He ordered improvements to the Dragon-Shooting Ballista and reflected on the Ten Thousand Dragons Seal as Great Qin prepared for more threats.

• Yao Ming agreed to give Zhao Fu fifty thousand demon beasts and a breeding-method scroll in exchange for his little brother, and Zhao Fu left the Demon Horn Empire after the spatial confinement was lifted.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the breeding method required a Ten Thousand Demon Pool, which Great Qin did not possess, while the raid left Great Qin with about one hundred and fifty thousand newly transformed monsters.
• Zhao Fu prepared for the Demon Horn Empire’s retaliation and considered Great Qin’s defenses and hidden reserves, including its six hundred and fifty thousand monster army and the unfinished Progenitor Divine Statue.
• Zhao Fu ordered research into simpler, mass-producible Dragon-Shooting Ballistas and stronger versions capable of striking down powerful experts.
• Zhao Fu considered his difficulty buying rune stones and high-grade corpses, then recalled how the Ten Thousand Dragons Seal had helped weaken the Imperial Ruin Curse and resolved to help the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group if it faced trouble.

Zhao Fu traveled to the Azure Province Domain to buy corpses and talisman stones, while the news of his identity as the mysterious Imperial Son spread and made him fear for Great Qin’s safety. Before returning home, the Ten Thousand Dragons Seal reacted to a treasure being contested by Azure Province’s heavenly prodigies, and Zhao Fu went to investigate.

• Zhao Fu arrived in the Azure Province Domain with Maple Leaf Hunt, Tamamo-no-Mae, Demon Enchantress, Ye Ningshuang, Shui Ruoliang, and Pu He, then heard that the three Guti factions were hunting the mysterious Imperial Son.
• Zhao Fu bought corpses and talisman stones from a major merchant group, though he had to pay standard prices instead of the Ten Thousand Dragons Merchant Group’s discounted rates.
• As Zhao Fu prepared to return to Great Qin, the Ten Thousand Dragons Seal burned against his chest in response to a powerful treasure nearby, so he sent the six women ahead and went to investigate.
• Ye Kuang, Niu Hu, and Yue Qingmu fought over a sphere of light containing divine dragons; when Yue Qingmu moved to claim it, Ye Kuang and Niu Hu joined forces against him.

Yue Qingmu, Niu Hu, and Ye Kuang fought over the Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl until Ming Jian defeated them and moved to claim it. Just as the others were forced to yield, a handsome monk arrived with more than a dozen alluring women, drawing wary reactions from everyone, including Ming Jian.

• Yue Qingmu and Ye Kuang joined forces to stop Niu Hu from reaching the Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl, and Niu Hu explained its value and the dangers of refining it.
• Ye Kuang killed hundreds of people who tried to approach the pearl, and Niu Hu drove the remaining onlookers away by splitting a small hill with his axe.
• Niu Hu struck Yue Qingmu and Ye Kuang aside, but Ming Jian arrived and wounded Niu Hu with a flying sword before reaching for the pearl.
• Niu Hu, Yue Qingmu, and Ye Kuang attacked Ming Jian together, but he overwhelmed them with more than a thousand swords and forced them to the ground.
• A handsome monk arrived with over a dozen alluring women, and his appearance made Ming Jian and the others wary.

Youquan defeated Ming Jian and moved to claim the Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl, but Shi Shuge arrived and challenged him for it. As they prepared to fight, the pearl flew toward a newly arrived person, seeming to recognize him as its owner.

• Youquan blocked Ming Jian's strongest sword attack, leaving Ming Jian defeated and the other contenders too afraid to challenge him.
• Shi Shuge, the Poetry Dynasty's eldest princess and the strongest expert on the Azure Province Ranking, arrived and stopped Youquan from taking the pearl uncontested.
• Youquan attacked Shi Shuge, but she shattered his Buddha hand with the character “Break” and summoned the Heavenly Poetry Scroll as both prepared for a major battle.
• The Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl began moving on its own and flew toward someone who had just arrived, as if it recognized him.

Zhao Fu claimed the Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl and defeated Youquan, then fought Shi Shuge when she demanded the treasure. Shi Shuge trapped Zhao Fu with the Eight-Scroll Seal and demanded that he surrender the pearl.

• The Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl flew to Zhao Fu, and he took it after its power surged into his body.
• Youquan attacked Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu cut apart his Buddha and severely injured him with a sword strike.
• Shi Shuge asked Zhao Fu to yield the Dragon Pearl in exchange for the Poetry Dynasty's favor, but Zhao Fu refused and tried to leave.
• Shi Shuge attacked Zhao Fu with black-character spears and sword strikes, while Zhao Fu countered with blood-colored spears, his shield, and the Death Clan Sword.
• Zhao Fu used chains to pierce Shi Shuge, but she dispersed into ink-black qi and reappeared after surrounding him with eight scrolls.
• Shi Shuge restrained Zhao Fu with the Eight-Scroll Seal and demanded the Dragon Pearl, but Zhao Fu challenged her confidence.

Zhao Fu defeated Shi Shuge in a fierce battle and escaped before other powerful experts arrived. He returned to Great Qin with the Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl and began refining it with the Ten Thousand Dragons Seal.

• Zhao Fu broke free of Shi Shuge’s restraints and defeated her after their attacks destroyed her ghosts and shattered her giant sword.
• Zhao Fu fled when he sensed powerful experts approaching, leaving nearby witnesses shocked by Shi Shuge’s defeat.
• Shi Shuge recovered enough to wonder whether Zhao Fu was the Imperial Son, while news of the battle drew the attention of major factions.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin through a secret magic formation with the Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl.
• Zhao Fu gathered blood from sixteen types of divine dragons, immersed himself in it, and pressed the pearl into his Ten Thousand Dragons Seal to begin refining it.

Zhao Fu absorbed the Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl, strengthening his body and weakening the Imperial Ruin Curse, though his bloodline still failed to advance. With the peace treaty with Fish Scale World nearing its end, he gathered his ministers to decide whether Great Qin should attack or seek another treaty.

• The Haotian Sacred Dragon Pearl melted into Zhao Fu and merged its power into his Emperor Bloodline, while the Ten Thousand Dragons Seal reformed with a golden pearl pattern.
• Zhao Fu’s Imperial Stars brightened, his body grew far stronger, and the Golden Dragon told him he could live for another year or so, but his bloodline remained at the middle stage of Level 18.
• Zhao Fu left the emptied Dragon Blood Pool, washed, and gathered his ministers to discuss Fish Scale World.
• Fish Scale World, fearing Great Qin’s growing strength as its peace treaty neared expiration, sought help from three outside worlds and considered a permanent treaty.
• Zhao Fu and his ministers weighed whether Great Qin should attack Fish Scale World or sign another peace treaty before the agreement expired.

Great Qin used its hidden control of Darkwater Continent to launch a feint against Bluewater Continent, drawing its forces together as enormous monsters advanced. The chapter ended with Bluewater’s army surrounded and facing the monstrous charge.

• The Fish Scale World unified against Great Qin, while Great Qin prepared to attack it despite pressure from other worlds.
• The Fish Scale World’s leaders refused to aid Darkwater Continent immediately and decided to demand benefits before sending support.
• Zhao Fu and his ministers prepared Great Qin’s plan, while Darkwater Continent’s army unknowingly followed Great Qin’s orders.
• Darkwater Continent launched a nighttime attack on Bluewater Continent with more than 300 million troops, capturing several hundred regions before being surrounded.
• Darkwater Continent’s city lords revealed that their army was bait, as enormous monsters with human-headed and other grotesque forms charged toward Bluewater’s forces.

Zhao Fu’s 650,000 monsters and the forces of Darkwater Continent crushed Bluewater Continent, exposing Darkwater’s allegiance to Great Qin. After Darkwater conquered the continent, the Fish Scale World’s factions mobilized against Great Qin, and Yu Xuan went to confront the threat.

• Bluewater Continent’s people realized Darkwater Continent had submitted to Great Qin as its monster army approached.
• Darkwater Continent attacked from within Bluewater’s encirclement while the monsters smashed through its defenses and slaughtered its forces.
• Darkwater Continent and the monster army defeated Bluewater Continent, prompting its soldiers and civilians to flee.
• Darkwater Continent conquered Bluewater Continent, capturing its cities and population as some people escaped to other continents.
• The Fish Scale World’s factions mobilized against Great Qin, Yu Xuan personally led forces to respond, and they sent news to the three outside worlds.

Great Qin used its forces and the eight Sea Beast Kings to attack Fish Scale World on two fronts while defending against attacks from several other worlds. After six days, Zhao Fu captured Bluewater and Weakwater Continents, but the Demon Horn Empire’s assault forced him to abandon plans to push farther and focus on defense.

• Green Shade, Half Wolf, Elf, and Demon Profound launched a coordinated attack on Great Qin, while Zhao Fu sent troops to guard the borders.
• The eight Sea Beast Kings returned to Fish Scale World and drove about one million sea beasts to invade Weakwater Continent as Great Qin’s soldiers attacked.
• Yu Xuan fought Arthur Tina in Bluewater Continent while Great Qin’s monsters and Darkwater Continent’s army battled the Fish Scale forces; Great Qin also defended its other fronts.
• After six days of fighting, Zhao Fu captured Bluewater and Weakwater Continents with the help of the sea beast tide.
• The Demon Horn Empire attacked with its demon beasts and Demon Blood soldiers, forcing Zhao Fu to stop his planned assault on Fish Scale World and turn Great Qin to defense.

After Great Qin conquered two more continents, Zhao Fu looked for ways to strengthen his forces and tested whether sea beasts could become monsters. He then witnessed the Imperial Killing Sword World advance, greatly increasing its power and capacity for Sword-Wielding Demonifications.

• Great Qin gained two continents and 11 billion people, but Zhao Fu failed to persuade neighboring worlds to help against the Demon Horn Empire.
• Zhao Fu had the eight Sea Beast Kings drive sea beasts into the Four Soul Demon Realm after Maple Leaf Hunt confirmed they could become only low-level monsters, and only after a long time.
• Zhao Fu entered the Imperial Killing Sword World after the Imperial Killing Sword trembled and found a blood-colored vortex gathering power from a hundred Sword-Wielding Demonifications.
• The Imperial Killing Sword World expanded to the size of a hundred regions, and the Imperial Killing Sword grew stronger and higher in quality.
• The Slaughter Sword Pool expanded tenfold, raising the number of Sword-Wielding Demonifications the world could support to one thousand and leaving Great Qin in need of more sword dao geniuses.

Zhao Fu tried to lure Ancient Sword Sect sword geniuses with a supreme sword intent so he could capture them, but powerful elders arrived and forced him to abandon the plan. When he spotted the Sect Master's wife among the crowd, he prepared Clone Mud Figurines for a new escape and attack strategy.

• Zhao Fu decided to target the Ancient Sword Sect's sword cultivation geniuses and sent fifteen hundred letters infused with altered Killing Sword Intent to draw them to a remote location.
• More than a thousand disciples gathered, but Zhao Fu sensed powerful Ancient Sword Sect elders approaching and prepared to withdraw.
• Zhao Fu recognized the arriving cold and beautiful woman as the Ancient Sword Sect Master's wife and remembered his humiliation at the Sect Master's hands.
• Zhao Fu infused blood and sword intent into Clone Mud Figurines, which transformed into copies of him with matching appearances and auras.