Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu prepared to lead a scouting expedition into the dangerous world beyond the realm, but an insect swarm attacked Great Qin's settlement. He captured the young boy commanding it and put off the expedition to question him for intelligence.

• Bai Xihan urged Zhao Fu to build defenses and scout the area gradually, and Zhao Fu said he would lead a team with Alasna while the women guarded the settlement.
• A swarm of ten million insect beasts charged toward Great Qin's settlement, led by a little boy demanding the release of his older brother.
• Great Qin's soldiers killed most of the insect beasts with a barrage of arrows, and the survivors fled.
• The little boy tried to escape with a stone plaque, but Zhao Fu tracked him with his golden eye and captured him.
• Zhao Fu returned to the settlement with the boy and postponed the scouting expedition to obtain intelligence from him.

Zhao Fu tortured a captured Mixed Spirit Clan boy for information and used his injured older brother to pressure him, but the boy refused to betray his people. A woman arrived offering the location of the Sunlight Gems in exchange for the brothers’ release, and Zhao Fu kept her there until she disclosed more about the region.

• Zhao Fu tortured the chained boy and threatened to hurt him and his brother unless he revealed what he knew.
• Zhao Fu brought the boy to see his scarred older brother, but the brothers urged each other not to betray the Mixed Spirit Clan.
• A red-haired woman arrived and offered to trade the Sunlight Gems’ location for the release of her husband and beloved younger brother.
• The woman told Zhao Fu that they were in the Withered Grass Region west of the Chaotic Realm, but refused to reveal more about the area or their identities.
• Zhao Fu demanded the gems’ location and information about the surrounding area, then ordered the woman to stay until she reconsidered.
• The woman smiled and asked whether Zhao Fu’s faction was a kingdom.

Zhao Fu captured a woman from the Mixed Spirit Clan and forced her to reveal information after Great Qin discovered and destroyed her village. A mysterious gray pearl was recovered, and Zhao Fu expected the woman to explain it and the other mysteries surrounding her people.

• The woman offered information about nearby threats and a Sunlight Gem mine in exchange for her family’s freedom, but Zhao Fu refused and kept her captive.
• Zhao Fu accepted the woman’s offer of herself, then refused to release her family afterward.
• A Gray Wolf Guard reported that Great Qin had found and destroyed the outsiders’ village, and the woman begged Zhao Fu to spare its people.
• Zhao Fu brought the woman to the main hall, where she recognized her father among the captives and explained that the Mixed Spirit Clan hated people from Apocalypse World.
• Soldiers reported that the village had fewer than a thousand residents but had been protected by hundreds of thousands of insect beasts.
• A soldier presented Zhao Fu with a faintly glowing gray pearl found after the village’s capture, and Zhao Fu looked to the woman for answers.

Zhao Fu learned from Hong Mei about the outer world’s village system, hostile factions, and the location of a Sunlight Gem mine, then ordered Great Qin to investigate and strengthen its defenses. Hong Mei visited the imprisoned Hong Li and Hong Dong, where she saw Hong Li’s wounds and broke down in tears.

• Hong Mei explained that the gray pearl was a basic Village-Building Pearl and that her people could gather insect beasts but could not refresh their population through villages.
• Hong Mei described dangerous factions and swarms surrounding the area, including the Mixed Evil Clan and its billions of insect monsters, prompting Zhao Fu to plan stronger defenses for Great Qin.
• Hong Mei revealed that her village had found a Sunlight Gem mine beneath a large mountain, and Zhao Fu sent people to investigate its size and dangers.
• Zhao Fu allowed Hong Mei to visit Hong Li and Hong Dong, and she hurried to the prison.
• Hong Mei saw Hong Li covered in wounds, began crying, and asked whether he was all right.

Hong Mei visited her husband Hong Li and hid the truth about submitting to Zhao Fu, while Zhao Fu led Great Qin to seize a vast Sunlight Gem mine after burning and fighting through a canyon filled with worms. He fused a powerful Nest Stone into a flying dragon, whose body showed signs of strain.

• Hong Mei visited Hong Li and falsely claimed that nothing had happened between her and Zhao Fu, while Hong Li urged her to escape and move their village.
• Great Qin scouts reported that the Sunlight Gem mine could meet their needs and that a canyon nearby contained tens of millions of worms.
• Zhao Fu led Great Qin to the canyon and ordered fifty thousand flying soldiers to pour fire oil into it and ignite the worms.
• Great Qin soldiers killed most of the worms with flames, arrows, and spears, while fewer than half escaped from the far side.
• Zhao Fu obtained a large Nest Stone and fused it into a flying dragon, enlarging it and strengthening it but leaving cracks across its body.

Zhao Fu planned defenses for Qin Land and followed Hong Mei to a plain of man-eating vines, where he attacked the powerful Man-Eating Vine Demon. The demon retaliated with vast numbers of vines, and Zhao Fu unleashed the Royal Wood Sword’s World Tree Domain.

• Zhao Fu ordered defensive preparations for Qin Land, including deep trenches and rows of ballistas, and Hong Mei suggested planting man-eating vines near the walls.
• Hong Mei led Zhao Fu and his people to a plain filled with man-eating vines and told him about the enormous Man-Eating Vine Demon at its center.
• Zhao Fu burned the plain with fire oil and hardened the ground with Earth Element Stones to stop surviving vines from emerging.
• Zhao Fu and Alasna flew toward the center, where the Man-Eating Vine Demon attacked with hundreds of thousands of vines.
• Zhao Fu severed the demon’s vines with the Royal Wood Sword, then spread the World Tree Domain to drain their vitality.

Zhao Fu subdued the Vine Demon and strengthened Great Qin’s defenses with man-eating vines. The Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Grand Formation then produced nine Sun Divine Stones that could dispel the Corpse Cloth World’s curse, leaving Great Qin to find a way to keep the Demon Horn Empire from interfering with its next attack.

• Zhao Fu used the Royal Wood Sword to draw out the Vine Demon, and Alasna hauled it aboveground.
• Zhao Fu cut apart the Vine Demon’s attacking vines with the Imperial Killing Sword, then bound it with his Saint Blood and made it submit.
• Zhao Fu brought the Vine Demon and its ordinary vines to Qin Land, planting them to reinforce the city’s defenses.
• The Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Grand Formation produced nine Sun Divine Stones, which Zhao Fu recognized as powerful enough to break the Corpse Cloth World’s curse.
• Zhao Fu concluded that Great Qin needed to hold back the Demon Horn Empire before it could attack the Corpse Cloth World again.

Zhao Fu and the Gongsun sisters developed weapons that used materials from beyond the world to damage Apocalypse World equipment. He then deployed nine Golden Crows as suns over the Corpse Cloth World, clearing its cursed darkness as Great Qin launched a surprise attack.

• Gongsun Zhu showed Zhao Fu a rune-forged sword made with Fire-Red Ant materials, and he tested its ability to cut armor and corrode spiritual qi.
• Zhao Fu embraced Gongsun Zhu and Gongsun Lin, and Gongsun Lin asked whether he had wanted her for years; he admitted he had and said he remembered her leaving nine years earlier.
• Gongsun Zhu taught the Armaments Department to produce the new weapons, while Zhao Fu chose to use them selectively because Spirit-Extinguishing Stone could counter them.
• Seven days later, Great Qin prepared a covert nighttime assault on the Corpse Cloth World, with its soldiers ready to pass through Teleportation Arrays.
• Zhao Fu summoned nine golden crystals that became blazing suns, dispelling the cursed aura and destroying ghost infants across the Corpse Cloth World.
• As people stared at the nine suns, Great Qin Soldiers entered through the Teleportation Arrays and attacked the Corpse Cloth World.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin's overwhelming invasion of the Corpse Cloth World, breaking through its defenses despite the defenders' clay soldiers. He confronted the world's seven inheritors and killed two, leaving the rest terrified and helpless.

• Zhao Fu ordered more than eight billion Great Qin soldiers and their monsters to attack the Corpse Cloth World through Teleportation Arrays.
• Maple Leaf Hunt and Great Qin's beasts slaughtered the defenders as Great Qin soldiers scaled the walls and joined the battle.
• The Corpse Cloth World deployed tens of thousands of Clay Soldiers, but Great Qin's beasts overwhelmed them with superior numbers.
• Zhao Fu demanded that the seven inheritors submit or die, then seized one and snapped his neck after the inheritor invoked a Nation-Guarding Artifact.
• Zhao Fu cut down a second inheritor who tried to flee, leaving the remaining inheritors too frightened to move.

Zhao Fu secured the Corpse Cloth World after its protector and inheritors surrendered, then Great Qin repelled the Demon Horn Empire’s attack with arrows made from materials from other worlds. He returned to the conquered territory and found Great Qin soldiers hanging people who had resisted, including their family members.

• Shi Su offered her submission and herself as Zhao Fu’s consort, prompting Shi Xiao and the other inheritors to surrender.
• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to invade the Corpse Cloth World and left Wang Jian to oversee its subjugation.
• Yao Ming launched a three-pronged attack on Great Qin, but Bai Qi’s arrows pierced the Demon Horn soldiers and beasts, forcing them to retreat.
• The Demon Horn Empire learned that Great Qin’s arrows used materials from other worlds, and Yao Ming ordered his people to find a countermeasure.
• Zhao Fu returned to a royal city in the Corpse Cloth World and saw Great Qin Soldiers hanging those who had resisted, along with their family members.

After Great Qin conquered the Corpse Cloth World, Zhao Fu took control of the royal palace and learned that seven keys could open a Netherworld ruin. He decided to investigate it using the Nine Nether King Seal.

• Great Qin swiftly conquered the continent, and Wang Ergou brought Zhao Fu to the royal palace, where members of the former imperial family were waiting.
• Zhao Fu forced the Empress Shi Shui Li, the Empress Dowager Shi Yue Lian, Shi Su, and Shi Xiao into his bedchamber.
• Shi Su told Zhao Fu that the seven inheritors had used their keys to open a treasure, but the keys could also unlock a Netherworld ruin.
• Zhao Fu learned that the ruin required all seven keys, a ghost-race member, and immense fortune, and that it held something capable of elevating the Corpse Cloth Clan.
• Zhao Fu realized his Nine Nether King Seal could let him travel to the Netherworld, while Wang Jian reported that Great Qin had subdued the remaining continents and tallied the war’s gains.

After Great Qin abandoned its four continents in Half Wolf, Green Shade, and Elf to Wind God Empire, Zhao Fu prepared to seek power in the Netherworld ruin. He brought Black and White Impermanence and one hundred Nine Nether King Seals to the ghost-soldier transformation site to open the Gate of the Netherworld.

• Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin with seven strange keys after leaving troops behind to finish clearing Corpse Cloth World.
• Wind God Empire claimed Half Wolf, Green Shade, and Elf, and gave Great Qin Empire and Demon Horn Empire three days to withdraw.
• Yao Ming and Zhao Fu sought help from other powers, but no one agreed to support them.
• Demon Horn Empire and Great Qin withdrew their forces, and Zhao Fu resolved to strengthen Great Qin and take revenge later.
• Zhao Fu chose to leave the world beyond the boundary to Bai Xihan and the others while he investigated the Netherworld ruin.
• Zhao Fu brought Black and White Impermanence and one hundred Nine Nether King Seals to the ghost-soldier transformation site to open the Gate of the Netherworld.

Zhao Fu summoned the Gate of the Netherworld and entered it with Bai Xiaoxi and Hei Xiaojie. Meanwhile, the Demon Horn Empire invaded a fishman world and used poison and harpoons to overcome the fishmen’s underwater defenses.

• Zhao Fu used a hundred Nine Nether King Seals and his Six Paths of Reincarnation power to summon the Gate of the Netherworld, guarded by two nether beasts.
• Bai Xiaoxi and Hei Xiaojie asked Zhao Fu to visit their clans, and he agreed before leading them through the opened gate.
• Yao Ming decided to expand the Demon Horn Empire into a neighboring fishman world as the Wind God Empire threatened his territory.
• The Demon Horn army sailed into the fishman world, where fishmen ambushed their ships with coral arrows and underwater attacks.
• Demon Horn soldiers poisoned the water with Deep Sea Blood and fired powerful harpoons, killing many fishmen and driving the rest back.

Yao Ming conquered the Fishman World through a brutal campaign, bringing the Demon Horn Empire to four worlds. Meanwhile, Zhao Fu entered the Netherworld, where the Six Paths Demon Idols broke free of their restraints and the Nether Emperor Star descended.

• Yao Ming sent eight armies of sea beasts and Demon Horn soldiers to attack the Fishman World’s eight continents.
• Yao Ming ordered the slaughter of resisting fishmen and personally committed brutal acts while his forces subdued the population.
• Yao Ming conquered the Fishman World, giving the Demon Horn Empire four worlds and narrowing its gap with Great Qin.
• The Six Paths Demon Idols roared furiously, broke free of the Six Paths of Reincarnation’s restraints, and unleashed a terrifying aura across the Netherworld.
• The Nether Emperor Star descended from the heavens and calmed the Netherworld’s chaos.
• Zhao Fu realized the Six Paths Demon Idols knew of his past mistreatment of them, then felt their immense aura as the Nether Emperor Star broke free of his control.

Zhao Fu and his companions traveled through the Netherworld toward ruins in its central Nether Domain, drawing attention after his Nether Emperor Star subdued the Six Paths Demon Idols. While resting, they witnessed soldiers pursuing four women and two children, and Hei Xiaojie offered to intervene.

• Zhao Fu's Nether Emperor Star calmed the Six Paths Demon Idols, alarming Netherworld factions that sent scouts to identify him.
• Zhao Fu, Hei Xiaojie, and Bai Xiaoxi surveyed Netherwater Land and flew toward a ghost city to use its Teleportation Array.
• The trio traveled through several cities and factions toward ruins in the Nether Domain, then stopped to rest beneath a tree at night.
• A carriage carrying four women and two boys crashed into a boulder while soldiers pursued it, and the soldiers attacked the women.
• The soldiers captured the gentle woman holding a boy, while Hei Xiaojie asked Zhao Fu if she should act and suggested the women could serve him.

Zhao Fu and Hei Xiaojie rescued four women from soldiers, then Zhao Fu agreed to consider helping You Qin take revenge in Ghost Demon City. The chapter left Zhao Fu weighing the opportunity to use the city’s resources and military strength to build a force in the Netherworld.

• Hei Xiaojie and Bai Xiaoxi killed the soldiers who had attacked the women and forced the survivors to follow them.
• Hei Xiaojie demanded that the women repay their rescue by serving Zhao Fu, and the women eventually agreed under pressure to protect the children and one another.
• You Qin offered Zhao Fu the resources of Ghost Demon City in exchange for helping her take revenge.
• Bai Xiaoxi pointed out that Ghost Demon City could help Zhao Fu build a hidden force in the Netherworld.
• You Qin urged Zhao Fu to take Ghost Demon City back, telling him that she and everything in the city were now his.

Zhao Fu helped You Qin and the former city lord’s supporters seize Ghost Demon City from Ghost Ye, killing him and taking control of the faction. After a night with Ghost Ye’s wife, Liu Yeye discovered Zhao Fu was the new city lord, and he entrusted the city to You Qin as his first foothold in the Netherworld.

• Zhao Fu agreed to help You Qin and learned that Ghost Ye had killed the former city lord and taken control of Ghost Demon City.
• You Qin and the other women contacted the former city lord’s supporters while Zhao Fu prepared to attack Ghost Ye.
• Liu Yeye brought Ghost Ye tonic, then encountered Zhao Fu and spent the night with him without knowing his identity.
• Zhao Fu’s forces defeated Ghost Ye, and Liu Yeye learned that Ghost Ye was dead and Zhao Fu controlled the city.
• Zhao Fu handed Ghost Demon City to You Qin to develop as his first foothold in the Netherworld.

Zhao Fu fought and subdued a powerful Yin-Seeking Beast that had emerged from the Divine Ghost Forbidden Land, hoping to make the rare creature his own. The beast repeatedly refused to submit, and just as Zhao Fu prepared to punish it again, a powerful stream of light approached.

• Zhao Fu and Black and White Impermanence reached the Divine Ghost Forbidden Land, but a gigantic Yin-Seeking Beast charged out and targeted Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu used the Twelve Golden Men and his Blood Sword to wound the beast, then struck it with the Massacre Sword as it strengthened itself with yin power.
• After Zhao Fu blasted the Yin-Seeking Beast into a small mountain, it tried to flee, but he bound it with chains.
• At Hei Xiaojie's suggestion, Zhao Fu demanded that the beast submit, but it refused even after he weakened it with lightning.
• A stream of light carrying powerful energy shot toward Zhao Fu and the others.

Zhao Fu fought an elderly One Heaven Realm expert who demanded the Yin-Seeking Beast, then revealed his Six Paths of Reincarnation power and overwhelmed the ghosts around him. The old man and the Yin-Seeking Beast pledged loyalty to Zhao Fu, believing he would become the supreme ruler of the Netherworld.

• An elderly man demanded that Zhao Fu hand over the injured Yin-Seeking Beast, but Zhao Fu refused.
• The old man and Zhao Fu clashed with ghostly creatures and yin attacks, and Zhao Fu unleashed the power of his Nation-Guarding Artifacts.
• The old man summoned countless ghosts, but Zhao Fu opened a gray vortex with the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and sucked them all in.
• The old man offered to acknowledge Zhao Fu as his master, saying that his power marked him as a future ruler of the Netherworld.
• The Yin-Seeking Beast expressed its loyalty to Zhao Fu, while Black and White Impermanence rejoiced at their choice of master.

Zhao Fu bound Shang Long and the Yin-Seeking Beast, then allowed Shang Long to summon a remnant soul from a Divine Ghost godhead fragment. The summoned Divine Ghost could control only the weakest creatures of her kind, leaving Zhao Fu without the powerful force he had hoped to gain.

• Zhao Fu planted restrictions in Shang Long and the Yin-Seeking Beast, learned Shang Long was an independent cultivator, and named the beast Thousand Seek.
• Thousand Seek found a Divine Ghost godhead fragment, and Shang Long proposed using it and the Great Yin Soul-Summoning Art to summon a remnant soul.
• Shang Long summoned the Divine Ghost, and Zhao Fu seized her and discovered she had no power or memories left.
• Shang Long brought a weak Divine Ghost creature to her, and it became docile in her arms.
• Zhao Fu tested Divine Ghost's influence on other creatures and found she could control only the extremely weak ones.