Chapter Summaries

The Dao Cultivation Sect sealed itself after learning how dangerous Zhao Fu had become, while Green Wood Kingdom proposed a marriage alliance with Great Qin and offered full support in founding a kingdom. Great Qin rejected the demand to make Qingmu Rou its sole Empress, and Qingmu Rou went to the imperial palace to confront its ruler, where Zhao Fu appeared.

• After receiving Bai Shengjun’s warning, the Dao Cultivation Sect recalled its disciples and sealed itself to avoid provoking Zhao Fu.
• The Ancient Sword Sect, Bear Mountain Kingdom, and Yin Nether Dynasty continued hunting Zhao Fu, unaware of the danger they faced.
• Green Wood Kingdom proposed marrying Qingmu Rou to Zhao Fu and promised full support for Great Qin to become a kingdom, on the condition that she be made its sole Empress.
• Qingmu Rou rejected the marriage, while Great Qin also refused Green Wood Kingdom’s demand to make her Empress.
• Angry that the refusal made it seem Great Qin did not want her, Qingmu Rou went to the Great Qin Imperial Palace and demanded to see its ruler.
• Zhao Fu appeared before Qingmu Rou, whom he knew from the Guti Ranking and a previous fight.

Zhao Fu rejected Green Wood Kingdom’s marriage alliance with Qingmu Rou, then learned that Great Qin had gathered enough Soldier Souls to synthesize a King's Artifact. He summoned twenty-four generals to begin the process, but still needed to choose the vessel for the artifact.

• Zhao Fu told Qingmu Rou that she could become an ordinary consort but that Green Wood Kingdom could not interfere in Great Qin.
• Qingmu Rou saw Zhao Fu surrounded by many beautiful women, became upset, and left; Zhao Fu worried that rejecting the alliance could bring trouble from Green Wood Kingdom.
• After spending time with the women, Zhao Fu returned to the main hall to handle state affairs.
• Li Wen reported that Great Qin had obtained more than a thousand Soldier Souls by defeating skeletons underground.
• Zhao Fu ordered the Soldier Souls brought forward and summoned the twenty-four generals who possessed General's Artifacts.
• Zhao Fu prepared to synthesize a King's Artifact but still needed to select its vessel.

Zhao Fu prepared the Imperial Killing Sword and the generals’ Soldier Souls for the creation of a King’s Artifact. After refining the King’s Remnant Soul, he stood ready to begin the fusion.

• Zhao Fu chose the Imperial Killing Sword as the vessel because it held no sword spirit and had once been the Monarch Sword Zhanlu.
• Zhao Fu led Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Wei Liao, and the other generals to a distant mountain peak and distributed one thousand Soldier Souls, giving the most to Seven Killings, Greedy Wolf, and Army Breaker.
• The generals used their General’s Artifacts and auras to refine the Soldier Souls into solid beads, which they fused into larger multicolored beads.
• Zhao Fu placed the Imperial Killing Sword in spiritual liquids to calm its powerful sword intent and killing intent.
• Zhao Fu took out and began refining the King’s Remnant Soul, while the Golden Dragon watched it with unusual delight.
• The generals finished fusing the Soldier Souls, and Zhao Fu prepared for the final step of creating the King’s Artifact.

Zhao Fu and his generals summoned the twenty-four General Stars to empower one hundred Soldier God Pearls and form a massive ten-colored formation. After Zhao Fu added the King's Remnant Soul and the Imperial Killing Sword's holy power, the formation drew energy from the surrounding worlds and plunged the world into darkness.

• Zhao Fu commanded the generals to summon the twenty-four General Stars, whose light and pressure shook the surrounding region.
• The generals poured the stars' power into the Soldier God Pearls, which arranged themselves into a ten-colored formation and split apart the earth.
• Zhao Fu placed the refined King's Remnant Soul at the formation's center, causing it to awaken and gather the power of heaven and earth.
• Zhao Fu poured holy power from the Imperial Killing Sword into the formation, which expanded and began drawing power from more than a dozen nearby worlds.
• The sky and the world darkened until people could see nothing, as fear spread that a great calamity was approaching.

Zhao Fu successfully fused the Imperial Stars’ power into the Imperial Killing Sword, but the sword broke free and shot toward the heavens. Its cry stirred the fortune of the entire Apocalypse World, drawing the attention of powerful figures.

• Four Imperial Stars descended, forcing people and creatures across many worlds to submit beneath their immense pressures.
• Yao Ming resisted the golden star’s force but was overwhelmed when the Purple Heavenly Dragon Star descended.
• Zhao Fu commanded the four Imperial Stars to merge their power into the ten-colored magic formation and the Imperial Killing Sword.
• The Imperial Killing Sword absorbed the Imperial Stars’ power, completing the King’s Artifact fusion as the stars and formation vanished.
• The sword broke free from Zhao Fu and shot toward the heavens, its cry shaking many worlds.
• Powerful figures sensed the Apocalypse World’s fortune gathering toward an unknown place and began searching for its source.

Four Imperial Stars fused with the Imperial Killing Sword, unleashing a terrifying aura of calamity across Apocalypse World. The factions began searching for the sword and its maker, unaware that Zhao Fu had forged it.

• The four Imperial Stars poured their power into the Imperial Killing Sword, and immense fate fused them together.
• The sword’s cry stirred Apocalypse World’s fate and spread an aura of calamity, slaughter, war, and evil that alarmed powerful figures across the races.
• Mighty factions sent disciples and experts to search for the vicious sword after heavenly secrets prevented them from locating it by divination.
• Teachers at Imperial Path Academy discussed the sword’s danger and speculated about its maker and the method used to forge it.
• The Human-Phoenix Empire mobilized experts to find the sword, while Feng Qianghua remained focused on locating Zhao Fu and did not realize he had forged it.

The Imperial Killing Sword formed after absorbing the fortune of Heaven and Earth, and factions across the world sought to destroy or seal it. Heaven’s Secret Pavilion identified its origins and was ordered to keep watching Zhao Fu without interference; the sword remained under Zhao Fu’s control before suddenly shooting toward him.

• Factions across the world discussed the evil sword and began searching for it so they could destroy it or seal it.
• Heaven’s Secret Pavilion concluded that the sword had formed when Zhao Fu fused the Killing Sword True Body with the power of four Emperor Stars, and explained why it bore the Yinghuo Emperor Star’s calamity attribute.
• The white-clad young woman received orders from the pavilion’s elders to continue observing Zhao Fu, avoid interference, and forbid anyone from discussing the matter.
• The Imperial Killing Sword floated above Great Qin after absorbing immense fortune, and Zhao Fu sensed that he still controlled it.
• The Imperial Killing Sword burst with sword light and shot toward Zhao Fu, startling him.

Zhao Fu discovered that the Imperial Killing Sword's spirit was Yue, the younger sister of Xi, the Golden Dragon fused with him. After learning the sword had twelve names and an array of extraordinary powers, Zhao Fu took control of it without resistance.

• Zhao Fu tried to seize the Imperial Killing Sword, but the sword spirit cut apart his black hand and appeared before him as a woman.
• Xi emerged from Zhao Fu and reunited with Yue, explaining their history and revealing Zhao Fu's bloodline and blessings.
• Yue learned that the Heaven-Slaying Empire had merged with the Great Qin Empire, and Xi returned to Zhao Fu while Yue returned to the sword.
• Zhao Fu asked the two spirits their names and learned they were Xi and Yue, then called the Imperial Killing Sword into his hand.
• Zhao Fu examined the sword's attributes and found twelve names, including Imperial Path Sword, Fortune Sword, Calamity Sword, and Human Lord Sword.

Zhao Fu examined the Imperial Killing Sword's twelve powers and discovered that it had gained formidable attributes, including a world-spanning Sword Domain and enhanced production. After testing the sword and securing it, he returned to Great Qin, where envoys arrived to ask about the four powerful stars in the sky.

• Zhao Fu learned that the Imperial Killing Sword's twelve names each represented a powerful ability and saw that its attributes had grown with the Imperial Killing Sword World.
• Zhao Fu entered the Imperial Killing Sword World and found four stars in its sky, while its Killing Sword Intent had weakened and gained Imperial Path power.
• Zhao Fu put the sword away, confident that only he could control it and that its power would not backlash against him.
• Great Qin's generals congratulated Zhao Fu on obtaining the divine weapon, and dawn brought a heap of troublesome matters.
• Envoys from surrounding factions arrived at Great Qin and asked Zhao Fu about the four powerful stars in the sky.

Zhao Fu weathered the attention surrounding Great Qin by stalling the envoys and disguising his appearance, while investigating whether the kingdoms had discovered his identity. He refused three factions’ marriage proposals, and the chapter ended with the Immortal Peach sprouting as Xi suggested transplanting it.

• Zhao Fu claimed a powerful expert had blessed Great Qin and ordered his people to entertain the envoys without revealing anything.
• The Green Wood Kingdom, Jiu Yun Dynasty, and Ancient God Sect expressed intentions to marry Qingmu Rou, Jiu Xiaoyun, and Gu Qingyue into Great Qin, while the rumor about Yin Ruoshi proved false.
• Zhao Fu learned that the kingdoms suspected a link between him and the mysterious Imperial Prince but had not confirmed his identity, then decided to reveal himself in disguise.
• Zhao Fu used Disguise Divine Liquid to appear ordinary, personally received the envoys, and politely refused the three marriage proposals.
• Qingmu Rou visited Great Qin to mock Zhao Fu, and a few days later the Immortal Peach sprouted as Xi suggested transplanting it.

Zhao Fu completed the initial construction of Wrath of the War God by raising a vast aerial island and empowering it with the God Clan Stone and Immortal Peach. He then considered Great Qin’s expansion and chose to investigate and target the Corpse Cloth World first.

• Zhao Fu transplanted the Immortal Peach to the site of Wrath of the War God and gathered Great Qin’s talisman masters to build a region-wide formation.
• Zhao Fu placed the Myriad-Weight Source Stone in the formation, causing the land to rise into a colossal aerial island one hundred thousand li across.
• Zhao Fu placed the God Clan Stone and transplanted the Immortal Peach, greatly improving Wrath of the War God’s defenses, flight, and vitality.
• Zhao Fu considered expanding into the Charm Demon World and learned that the Demon Horn Empire planned to attack the Mermaid World.
• Zhao Fu weighed expansion toward the Corpse Cloth World or an unknown neighboring world and chose to clarify and target the Corpse Cloth World first.

Zhao Fu entered the Corpse Cloth World to investigate its people and military capabilities, discovering a world ruled by seven continent-spanning factions. Shi Xiao and the other leaders feared Great Qin’s coming attack, while Zhao Fu’s findings showed that conquering the unified world would be difficult.

• Zhao Fu arrived in the Corpse Cloth World and learned that its residents used yin-soaked bandages as weapons and armor.
• Zhao Fu threatened a village into revealing information, then traveled to larger cities to investigate the world.
• Zhao Fu learned that Shi Xiao and six other inheritors each ruled a continent and had established powerful nations.
• Zhao Fu studied the Corpse Cloth World’s unusual combat methods, which relied on beast materials and controllable bandages.
• Shi Xiao and the other six leaders discussed the danger Great Qin posed, while keeping the threat secret from ordinary people.

Zhao Fu investigated Corpse Cloth World and returned to Great Qin to prepare for a future attack. Before he could travel onward, the Wind God Empire arrived in the region, seized a continent of Charm Demon World, and massacred its inhabitants, alarming the surrounding powers.

• Shi Xiao and the other leaders of Corpse Cloth World secretly prepared forbidden methods to resist Great Qin, while Zhao Fu gathered intelligence about their weapons, weaknesses, and rumored Netherworld treasure trove.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and ordered preparations for an attack on Corpse Cloth World, though the invasion had to wait while Great Qin consolidated Spirit Light World.
• An Emperor Heaven Realm cultivator announced that the Wind God Empire claimed the world beneath Charm Demon World, and three billion Tier 3 soldiers seized a continent there.
• The Wind God Empire's soldiers slaughtered nearly all the Charm Demons on the continent, prompting panic and defensive preparations across the region.
• Representatives from the Inner Guti Domain sought to learn the Wind God Empire's intentions, while Yao Ming recognized that its arrival had made it the region's strongest power.

Zhao Fu investigated the Wind God Empire’s sudden arrival and visited the Charm Demon World, where Mei Xianggu told him a continent’s ruler sought a powerful man’s protection. He headed there, while Yao Ming arrived first to contend for the ruler’s favor.

• Zhao Fu tried to enter the world where the Wind God Empire had appeared, but its barrier blocked him, so he sent Mosak and Yu Ling through to gather intelligence.
• Zhao Fu visited the Gurao Kingdom and asked Mei Xianggu about the Charm Demon Empire’s response to the Wind God Empire.
• Mei Xianggu told Zhao Fu that Mei Qiangu, ruler of a continent, sought a powerful man who could conquer her and protect her land; Zhao Fu agreed to go meet her.
• Yao Ming arrived before Zhao Fu and challenged several Charm Clan men, while Mei Qiangu recognized him as the ruler of the Demon Horn Empire.

Mei Qiangu sought protection for her continent by negotiating with Yao Ming, but Zhao Fu arrived and drove the Demon Horn Empire king away. She then pledged herself and her four female generals to Zhao Fu, leaving their alliance with Great Qin established.

• Mei Qiangu accepted Yao Ming's offer of support and invited him to conquer her physically according to the Charm Clan's customs.
• Zhao Fu arrived with Mei Xianggu and struck Yao Ming back when he tried to seize Mei Qiangu.
• Mei Qiangu recognized Zhao Fu as the Emperor of the Great Qin Empire and rejected Yao Ming, provoking him to attack her.
• Zhao Fu fought Yao Ming and forced him to escape from Mei Qiangu's territory.
• Mei Qiangu thanked Zhao Fu, led him into her tent, and introduced her four female generals.
• Mei Xianggu and the four generals joined Zhao Fu and Mei Qiangu in the tent.

Zhao Fu fused seventy-two Saint Domains into his Six Desires Demon Gods Saint Domain and broke through to the Saint Realm. As the Wind God Empire threatened the Charm Demon World, he arranged for the Charm Bone Kingdom and Gurao Kingdom to move their forces to Great Qin, while Yu Ling and Mosak returned with news.

• Zhao Fu began cultivating after discovering he was close to a breakthrough, while Mei Xianggu persuaded Mei Qiangu and the four female generals to follow her lead in serving him.
• Zhao Fu released the pressure of his Holy Blood as he formed his Saint Domain, frightening Mei Qiangu, Mei Xianggu, and the four female generals into leaving.
• Zhao Fu absorbed the seventy-two Saint Domains he had fused into his body and officially reached the Saint Realm.
• Yao Ming abandoned plans to expand toward the Mermaid World, sent envoys to other kingdoms, and considered joining forces against the Wind God Empire.
• Zhao Fu ordered Mei Qiangu and the Gurao Kingdom to relocate most of their forces to Great Qin, and their forces began moving.
• Yu Ling and Mosak returned to Great Qin with news from their world.

Zhao Fu learned that the Wind Spirit World might be allied with the Wind God Empire and took steps to protect Great Qin by alerting the empire’s rival, the Demon Cloud Empire. With nearby wars easing, he also planned to expand the Imperial Killing Sword World by turning Ancient Sword Sect disciples into Sword-Wielding Demonifications, and went to Lin Yan’er for help.

• Zhao Fu learned that Wei Daozhe ruled the Wind Spirit World’s Central Continent and considered whether the Wind God Empire was an enemy or ally of the Wind Spirit World.
• Zhao Fu discussed preparations with his ministers, investigated the Wind God Empire, and leaked news of its movements to its mortal enemy, the Demon Cloud Empire.
• The Demon Cloud Empire verified the reports and mobilized troops, while Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to strengthen itself and planned to seek support from Inner Domain nations.
• Zhao Fu focused on the Imperial Killing Sword World’s ability to create ten thousand Sword-Wielding Demonifications and chose the Ancient Sword Sect as a source of sword cultivators.
• Zhao Fu visited Lin Yan’er to ask for help understanding the Ancient Sword Sect, and found Ling Feixue there as well.

Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er planned to capture ten thousand Ancient Sword Sect enforcement cultivators by using a captured elder’s token to summon them. Lin Yan'er lured the elder’s beloved disciple, Liu Nan, out of the sect, setting their trap in motion.

• Ling Feixue surrendered to Zhao Fu and asked him to spare some members of the Ancient Sword Sect, and he promised he would.
• Zhao Fu learned from Lin Yan'er that the Ancient Sword Sect’s enforcement squad had more than eighty thousand sixth-order sword cultivators.
• Zhao Fu planned to capture an enforcement elder and use his token to gather ten thousand squad members, relying on his Nation-Guarding Artifact to overcome the elder.
• Lin Yan'er suggested luring out the elder by capturing his cherished disciple, Liu Nan, and said Liu Nan would come if she contacted him.
• Lin Yan'er summoned Liu Nan, who arrived delighted to see her and believed she had missed him.

Lin Yan'er lured Liu Nan into summoning his master, then killed him and joined Zhao Fu to ambush the arriving elder. After killing the elder, Zhao Fu gathered ten thousand Ancient Sword Sect law-enforcement sword cultivators and trapped them with the Imperial Killing Sword's Ghost Lord ability.

• Lin Yan'er tricked Liu Nan into calling his master, then killed him after revealing that Zhao Fu was her husband.
• Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er waited for the elder, and Zhao Fu ambushed him with the Bronze Giant before killing him after several exchanges.
• Zhao Fu used the elder's token to order ten thousand law-enforcement sword cultivators to gather at their location.
• Zhao Fu revealed himself and trapped the gathered cultivators inside a black-blood-colored barrier.
• Zhao Fu activated Ghost Lord, and ghostly figures began dragging the law-enforcement sword cultivators into the void.

Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin after killing the Ancient Sword Sect’s forces and learned that the Demon Horn Empire had broken up the alliance and attacked the isolated White God World. The White God Clan fought back against the invading demon beast army, but the chapter left their defenses under assault.

• Zhao Fu escaped with Lin Yan'er after the Imperial Killing Sword World consumed the Ancient Sword Sect cultivators, and the sect began searching for him.
• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin and heard from Arthur Tina that the Demon Horn Empire’s promises to four worlds had caused the alliance to collapse.
• The Demon Horn Empire attacked the White God World from the Stone Spirit World and the Half-Werewolf World, while the White God World established two defensive lines.
• The White God Clan activated its crystal pillars and fired beams of White Spirit Light at the advancing demon beast army.