Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu rested at an inn near the Otherworld Region while a Tigerfolk prince and his companions arrived. Assassins attacked the prince that night, and Zhao Fu pulled an injured tigerfolk woman into his room.

• Zhao Fu and his group stopped at an inn, where Ai Fei arranged their rooms and attendants.
• The Seventh Prince of the Tigerfolk Kingdom entered the inn with his companions and declined to take Zhao Fu's women despite his subordinate's suggestion.
• Masked assassins attacked the tigerfolk party at night, and the prince fled while his companions held off the attackers.
• The assassins overwhelmed the prince's companions, killing the stern youth and injuring the short-haired tigerfolk woman before pursuing the prince.
• The injured woman crashed into Zhao Fu's room, and Zhao Fu seized her with an invisible hand.

Zhao Fu rescued the Tigerfolk Seventh Prince from assassins and agreed to help him seize the throne in exchange for ancestral items and things related to deities. The prince returned with Zhao Fu and Hu Min to the royal city, where he reunited with his mother and declared his intention to compete for the throne.

• Hu Min explained that the Tigerfolk ruler was near death and the princes were killing one another to claim the throne, so Zhao Fu agreed to help the Seventh Prince in return for valuable items.
• Zhao Fu killed the assassins pursuing the Seventh Prince and offered to support his bid for the throne; the prince accepted Zhao Fu's terms.
• The Seventh Prince noticed Hu Min's relationship with Zhao Fu, but set aside his feelings and welcomed her concern for him.
• Zhao Fu paid the innkeeper for the damage and left with the others under cover of night, reaching the royal city.
• The Seventh Prince reunited with his mother, rejected her plea to withdraw from the succession, and told her Zhao Fu would help him claim the throne.

Zhao Fu learned about the Seventh Prince’s weak position in the Tigerfolk Kingdom’s succession struggle and agreed to help after Hu Linger and Hu Wangchan drew him into an intimate alliance. He planned to eliminate the rival princes and promised the two women he would handle the dangers of the royal city.

• Hu Wangchan arrived, and Hu Linger introduced Zhao Fu as an expert helping the Seventh Prince claim the throne.
• After the Seventh Prince left to see the king, Hu Wangchan told Zhao Fu that his faction controlled less than ten percent of the kingdom’s forces while three rival princes held twenty percent each.
• Zhao Fu said the effort might not be worth his help, so Hu Linger sent Hu Wangchan away and offered herself to secure his support.
• Hu Wangchan returned, joined Zhao Fu and Hu Linger, and the three later discussed how to help the Seventh Prince.
• Zhao Fu proposed killing the rival princes, and he assured Hu Wangchan and Hu Linger that he could handle their guards, the royal city, and the fate dragon.

Zhao Fu infiltrated the Tigerfolk royal palace and seized control of the succession by killing the ruler and three rival princes. With Hu Baibai’s help, he declared the Seventh Prince heir, and the other factions submitted to him.

• The Seventh Prince returned from meeting the ruler and told Hu Linger and Hu Wangchan that he had been ordered to give up his claim to the throne.
• Hu Linger and Hu Wangchan asked Zhao Fu for help, and he agreed to resolve the succession dispute.
• Unable to infiltrate the ruler’s guarded bedchamber, Zhao Fu followed the grieving empress, Hu Baibai, and persuaded her to help him after forcing himself on her.
• Hu Baibai dismissed the guards, allowing Zhao Fu to enter the bedchamber, kill the dying ruler, and summon and kill the three rival princes using the ruler’s orders.
• Zhao Fu issued military transfers and worked with Hu Baibai to forge an edict naming the Seventh Prince heir, after which the other factions pledged loyalty to him.

Zhao Fu acquired the Tigerfolk Kingdom’s ancestral item, then traveled with his companions to the Otherworld Region. There he saved a Ratfolk girl’s sick mother and asked to speak with her alone, leaving the woman embarrassed by his possessive gaze.

• The Seventh Prince became king, and Hu Linger and Hu Wangchan secretly left with Zhao Fu after he obtained and fused the Tigerfolk ancestral amber.
• Zhao Fu and his companions arrived in the Otherworld Region, where he noticed a Ratfolk girl begging for money to treat her mother.
• Zhao Fu followed the girl to her home and cured her mother with a medicinal pill and spring water of life.
• After giving the girl fruit and sending her outside, Zhao Fu turned his attention to her mother, who blushed under his gaze.

Zhao Fu took Mouse Su and her daughter Mouse Ming away from their difficult life and helped Mouse Su discover that her husband, Mouse Chang, had abandoned them for wealth. He brought Mouse Su to confront Mouse Chang and planned to pursue the Rat Spirit Jade, which could help him awaken the Ratfolk Totem.

• Mouse Su agreed to leave with Zhao Fu after he promised to care for her and help find her missing husband.
• An elderly Ratfolk revealed that Mouse Chang had married into a wealthy family and abandoned Mouse Su and Mouse Ming.
• Zhao Fu learned that Mouse Chang's new family possessed the Rat Spirit Jade, a treasure he wanted for awakening the Ratfolk Totem.
• Zhao Fu brought Mouse Su and Mouse Ming to the family's territory, where Mouse Su hoped to see Mouse Chang once more.
• Mouse Chang tried to leave after seeing Mouse Su, and Zhao Fu stopped him by suggesting they talk before anyone learned about his past.

Zhao Fu forced Mouse Chang to help him steal the Rat Spirit Jade from a powerful family, then infiltrated the family and coerced its female head and her daughter into cooperating. The family head agreed to hand over the treasure if Zhao Fu obtained the remaining two keys, and her daughter offered to help him approach the next keyholder.

• Zhao Fu warned Mouse Chang to help steal the Rat Spirit Jade, and Mouse Chang explained that three keys were needed to open the family's secret chamber.
• Zhao Fu infiltrated the family head's room and discovered the family head and her daughter together.
• Zhao Fu revealed himself and used their secret to gain leverage over the mother and daughter.
• Zhao Fu told them he wanted the Rat Spirit Jade and used his power and bodily restrictions to force their cooperation.
• The family head agreed to give him the jade if he obtained the other two keys and promised not to harm the family.
• The daughter said her aunt held the second key and offered to help Zhao Fu approach her.

Zhao Fu obtained the final key from Mouse You Yue and secured the Rat Spirit Jade, though he could not enter the family's secret chamber. The chapter ended with him holding the jade, a blue-green sphere containing a seemingly living rat eye.

• Zhao Fu waited in Mouse Yu Yu's room and joined her in assaulting her aunt, Mouse Nan An, while Mouse Chang listened outside and recognized Zhao Fu afterward.
• Zhao Fu lured Mouse You Yue into the wilderness and demanded her key, but she attacked him instead.
• Zhao Fu used the Nation-Guarding Artifact's power to defeat Mouse You Yue and take her key.
• Zhao Fu gathered the keys but still could not enter the family's secret chamber, then accepted the Rat Spirit Jade from the women.

Zhao Fu absorbed the Rat Spirit Jade and continued toward the Otherworld Ten Academies, stopping in the Elephantfolk Kingdom. There, he witnessed the Elephant God fail to remove the young prince’s bloodline curse and learned that only an Imperial Son might be able to dispel it.

• Zhao Fu absorbed the Rat Spirit Jade, gained an azure Ratfolk totem on his back, and continued traveling with his group.
• Zhao Fu arrived in the Elephantfolk Kingdom and followed a crowd to an altar where elephantfolk prayed for their cursed young prince.
• An elephantfolk priest summoned the Elephant God, who used divine power to try to drive the curse from the prince.
• The curse surged out as a blood-colored hand, and the Elephant God stopped its attempt, warning that forcing out the curse could kill the prince.
• The Elephant God told the elephantfolk ruler that an Imperial Son with an exceptionally high-grade bloodline might be able to remove the curse.

The Elephantfolk grieved over the young prince’s incurable bloodline curse until Zhao Fu stepped forward and used his Saint power to remove it. The Elephantfolk King thanked Zhao Fu and invited him to a grand feast.

• Elephant God vanished, leaving the Elephantfolk to pray helplessly for the suffering young prince.
• The Elephantfolk King decided to seek an imperial heir to lift the curse, or else accept the evil god’s offer.
• Zhao Fu offered to help, and the Elephantfolk King invited him to the altar despite doubts about his cultivation.
• Zhao Fu poured Saint Bloodline power into the young prince, driving out the blood-red aura and silencing the curse.
• The Elephantfolk King confirmed the curse was lifted, and he invited Zhao Fu to a grand feast in gratitude.

Zhao Fu accepted gifts from the Elephantfolk King and refined an Elephantfolk ancestral relic while traveling onward. After his group was ambushed by Rhinocerosfolk, Ai Fei captured several survivors, whom Zhao Fu questioned about their origins.

• The Elephantfolk King gave Zhao Fu a mammoth nest and an ancestral heart crystal, and Zhao Fu concealed his origins when asked about his background.
• After the banquet, Zhao Fu refined the Elephantfolk Ancestor Heart inside his carriage, gaining an Elephantfolk totem on his back.
• Mouse Ming brought Zhao Fu yellow flowers, and the group stopped in a flower-covered grassland at the border.
• Several thousand Rhinocerosfolk ambushed the group with arrows, but Zhao Fu blocked the attack with a Black Dragon-Pattern Shield.
• Ai Fei led centaur soldiers in pursuit, killing most of the attackers and bringing several Rhinocerosfolk survivors to Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu asked the captured Rhinocerosfolk where they came from.

Zhao Fu investigated Rhinoceros Lake and discovered its power could awaken a Rhinocerosfolk totem. He slaughtered the lake’s residents and the population of Rhinocerosfolk City, absorbed the lake’s power, and gained a blood-colored Rhinocerosfolk totem.

• Several Rhinocerosfolk told Zhao Fu about Rhinoceros Lake, and he made them take him there.
• Zhao Fu found the lake’s power too weak to awaken a totem, then killed a Rhinocerosfolk woman and her child when they challenged him.
• Zhao Fu used chains to kill Rhinocerosfolk around the lake, causing its power to grow, and sent the surviving guides away to save their families.
• Zhao Fu entered Rhinocerosfolk City and, with fifty thousand Dark Soldiers, slaughtered its inhabitants and threw their corpses into the lake.
• Zhao Fu absorbed the lake’s power until a blood-colored Rhinocerosfolk totem appeared on his back, leaving the lake lifeless.

Zhao Fu reached the Deerfolk World near the Otherworld Ten Academies and rescued a deerfolk princess from Xiong San, a bearfolk prince. After subduing Xiong San, Zhao Fu demanded that the princess repay him with her body.

• Zhao Fu led his group through the friendly Deerfolk World, bringing them close to the Otherworld Ten Academies as enrollment season approached.
• Zhao Fu found Xiong San chasing a deerfolk princess and her guards, then struck the bearfolk prince as he tried to seize her.
• Xiong San fled and threatened Zhao Fu with retaliation from the Bearfolk Kingdom, but Zhao Fu wounded him until he begged for mercy.
• Zhao Fu planted a restriction in Xiong San, who then changed into a wounded bearfolk man and put on clothes.
• Zhao Fu embraced the princess and demanded that she repay him with her body, and she struggled before her body began to soften in his arms.

Zhao Fu brought Lu Yu to the Deerfolk Kingdom to meet her father, but the prince rejected their marriage and ordered his soldiers to attack. Zhao Fu defeated the soldiers and prince, and Lu Yu pleaded with him to spare her father.

• Lu Yu told Zhao Fu about her family’s ancestral deer antlers, and he refused to marry her there, saying he would take her back as a consort.
• Zhao Fu left Lu Yu with his group and went with her to the prince’s residence, where the prince surrounded them with soldiers and demanded that Zhao Fu leave.
• Lu Yu defended Zhao Fu and revealed that she had already given herself to him, prompting the prince to order his soldiers to kill Zhao Fu and seize her.
• A mature woman tried to stop the confrontation, but the prince ordered the soldiers to attack; Zhao Fu’s aura halted them, and he sent them flying with a wave.
• Zhao Fu shattered the prince’s defensive barrier and knocked him down, then pressed on his chest as the prince begged for mercy.
• Lu Yu took Zhao Fu’s hand and pleaded with him to stop hurting her father.

Zhao Fu forced Lu Lu and the Bearfolk Kingdom to pay for the release of their loved ones, then took Xiong Xi as well. After the Bearfolk prince returned home, his father discovered Zhao Fu’s holy-blood seal and reacted with terror.

• Lu Lu agreed to serve Zhao Fu, who released the prince after taking his ancestral deer antlers.
• Zhao Fu demanded an ancestral artifact from the Bearfolk Kingdom in exchange for the Bearfolk prince, and the kingdom sent Xiong Xi with a Bearfolk skull artifact.
• Zhao Fu demanded that Xiong Xi serve him too and threatened to kill her and her brother; Xiong Xi agreed, and Zhao Fu let the prince go.
• The Bearfolk prince returned to the kingdom and told his father that Zhao Fu had taken Xiong Xi.
• The Bearfolk king tried to remove his son’s restriction, sensed the holy-blood seal, and angrily demanded to know whom his son had offended.

Zhao Fu refined the Bearman and Deerfolk ancestral spirits, then learned that Xiong Xi understood he was a Holy Son. Near the territory of the Otherworld Ten Academies, he spotted Winged People men secretly meeting with Eaglefolk women.

• Zhao Fu summoned the Bearman and Deerfolk ancestral spirits, bound them, and refined them into totems on his back.
• Zhao Fu returned to the carriage and told Xiong Xi that he was not an Emperor’s Son; Snake God revealed that he was a Holy Son above Emperor’s Sons.
• The group reached highlands near the territory controlled by the Otherworld Ten Academies, where Zhao Fu spotted five winged men flying.
• Zhao Fu followed the men to a mountain pool and watched them meet five Eaglefolk women, with the two groups behaving like familiar lovers.

Zhao Fu captured five Winged People men and five Eaglefolk women who had secretly become lovers, then used the Winged People young master and the forbidden relationship to pressure the Winged People Tribe. The chieftain agreed to hand over the tribe’s ancestral item, while Zhao Fu planned to obtain the Eaglefolk Tribe’s ancestral item as well.

• Zhao Fu bound the five Winged People men and five Eaglefolk women, beat the Winged People young master, and forced the women to serve him while he questioned them.
• The women explained that the Winged People and Eaglefolk were mortal enemies, and that the young master had secretly taken the Eaglefolk chieftain’s daughter as his wife.
• Zhao Fu declared the women his slaves and decided to use the young master and the forbidden relationship to demand the tribes’ ancestral items.
• Zhao Fu secretly contacted the Winged People Tribe and threatened to expose the young master’s relationship with the Eaglefolk woman.
• The Winged People chieftain agreed to give Zhao Fu the tribe’s ancestral item to prevent the scandal from becoming public.

Zhao Fu forced the Featherfolk chief and four women to surrender ancestral treasures and kept the women under his control. After he released the five youths, he threatened the Eaglefolk families into bringing more treasures, and five men arrived to negotiate.

• Zhao Fu demanded ancestral treasures from the families of four captured Featherfolk youths and spared them instead of killing them.
• When the Featherfolk women brought only one ancestral treasure, Zhao Fu assaulted them and then compelled the Featherfolk chief to serve him as well.
• Zhao Fu showed the women their sons, took the Featherfolk Spirit Crystal and a Dwarf ancestor's remnant soul, and removed the youths' chains.
• The women asked to leave with their sons, but Zhao Fu told them to stay; after the fiery woman requested time to prepare, he let them go together.
• Zhao Fu sent threatening letters to five Eaglefolk families, demanding ancestral treasures, and five men arrived at the appointed place.

Zhao Fu kept the five Eaglefolk women as his maids, accepted their ancestral relics, and refined five relics to gain new racial totems. He returned with the women to the group, and two days later they reached the Otherworld Ten Academies.

• Zhao Fu took the Eagle Eyes, a goblin skull, and a gnome ancestor's corpse from the Eaglefolk, then gave their relatives treasures and kept the five women as his maids.
• Zhao Fu brought the five Eaglefolk women together with the five Featherfolk clan chiefs and later returned to the group with them.
• Zhao Fu refined the Eagle Eyes and Featherfolk Spirit Crystal, gaining Eaglefolk and Featherfolk Totems.
• Zhao Fu refined the dwarf ancestor's remnant soul, the goblin skull, and the gnome ancestor's corpse, gaining Dwarf, Goblin, and Gnome Totems.
• Zhao Fu returned with the women and reached the Otherworld Ten Academies two days later.

Zhao Fu left his group and headed alone to the Otherworld Ten Academies, where statues at the gates revealed the prodigies gathered for the assessment. As more statues blazed with purple-gold light, their combined pressure drove nearly everyone away from the entrance.

• Zhao Fu settled his group, cut off contact with them for safety, and traveled alone to the Otherworld Ten Academies after gathering information about its assessment.
• A muscular Orc approached the gates, and the Orc statue shone purple-gold; the crowd identified him as an Orc Empire imperial son.
• A barbarian, a lionman imperial son, and a prince of the Giant Kingdom each triggered their respective statues to shine purple-gold.
• Prodigies including a chickenman, a monkeyman, a rabbitman, and a Goblin approached the gates, causing more statues to flare.
• The statues' combined pressure forced nearly everyone in the crowd to retreat, leaving only several thousand people standing before the gates.