Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu mastered alchemical power, then created an Apocalypse World Philosopher's Stone using an alchemical formation. He tested whether a Great Qin soldier could absorb it, and the soldier successfully refined and fused it into his body after more than half a day.

• Zhao Fu punched through the thunderclouds with a mechanical arm, ending the heavenly punishment and successfully grasping alchemical power.
• Zhao Fu returned to Apocalypse World and gathered crystals of twelve attributes, including rare time-attribute crystals.
• Zhao Fu used an Apocalypse Array modeled on an alchemical formation to combine yin and yang powers with the attribute crystals and create a cube-shaped Philosopher's Stone.
• Zhao Fu examined the stone and found that it differed from Alchemy World's Philosopher's Stones, with spiritual energy alongside its other powers.
• Zhao Fu gave the Philosopher's Stone to a Great Qin soldier, who refined it over more than half a day and fused it into his body.

Zhao Fu successfully developed Philosopher's Stones that soldiers could safely condense, discovering that they sharply increased the strength of lower-level soldiers. He realized Great Qin could rapidly expand its army's power, but scarce time-attribute materials remained the obstacle to producing stones for everyone.

• Zhao Fu had a soldier condense a Philosopher's Stone, confirmed its power and safety, and found that it mechanized part of the soldier's body.
• Zhao Fu tested Philosopher's Stones on soldiers of different cultivation levels and found that their benefits diminished with higher cultivation, offering no increase at Seventh Order.
• Zhao Fu gave a Blood God Pill to a soldier who had risen from Stage 1 to Stage 6, and the soldier advanced to First Order cultivation.
• Zhao Fu concluded that Great Qin could use Philosopher's Stones and Blood God Pills to rapidly build up its soldiers and citizens.
• Zhao Fu recognized that the shortage of time-attribute materials prevented Great Qin from producing Philosopher's Stones on a large scale.

Zhao Fu led Great Qin’s preparations against a renewed Alchemy World assault, then faced Fire Ghost’s vastly stronger forces at the Gate of War. The battle began with Great Qin’s barrier being destroyed, and the chapter ended as the attackers advanced their siege.

• A soldier reported that over six hundred million Alchemy World troops and three thousand War Sacred Beasts had launched an attack on Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu ordered nine hundred million Tier 2 soldiers mobilized, sending four hundred million to reinforce the Alchemy World garrison and keeping five hundred million on standby.
• Fire Ghost demanded that Zhao Fu return the captured family disciples, then ordered his troops to attack Great Qin.
• The War Sacred Beasts’ beams shattered Great Qin’s enhanced defensive barrier, while the Sacred Light Envoys’ counterattack was blocked by the beasts’ energy barrier.
• Alchemy soldiers charged the city walls and fired metal spears from their formations, which Great Qin’s shield wall deflected or shattered.
• Ladder-builders gathered and pressed their hands to the ground as alchemy formations began to appear.

Great Qin fought off the Alchemy Clan’s assault on its city walls, but the alchemical soldiers breached the defenses and engaged its troops in close combat. Zhao Fu unleashed the Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Formation, turning the battle in Great Qin’s favor as the weakened invaders were driven back.

• Great Qin used ballistas, Holy Light Envoys, and Shield Bearers to repel the alchemical soldiers’ first assault, though the War Sacred Beasts’ cannon fire shattered the city’s defenses and killed many defenders.
• The Alchemy Clan sent more soldiers up the metal stairs and walls, while its red stones absorbed Great Qin’s flames and allowed the attackers to keep climbing.
• Alchemical soldiers breached the walls and fought Great Qin Soldiers in a desperate melee.
• Zhao Fu released ninety-nine golden crystals to activate the Sunblazing Immortal Emperor Formation, summoning golden crows whose Chaos-infused sunlight weakened and scorched the alchemical soldiers.
• Protected by their Sunlight Pearls, Great Qin Soldiers counterattacked and slaughtered the weakened invaders, forcing them into retreat.

Great Qin fought off the Alchemy Clan’s assault until Fire Ghost’s explosive weapon blasted a huge gap through the city wall. Great Qin held the breach and forced the attackers to retreat after Di Moji nearly killed Ghostfire, who was saved by a Holy Beast.

• The Alchemy Clan’s beams destroyed the ninety-nine Golden Crows, allowing the Alchemy Soldiers to resume their attack as Zhao Fu ordered Holy Light Envoys and Ballistas to strike their ladders and troops.
• Fire Ghost threw a metal sphere that exploded into a vast crater and shattered a broad section of Great Qin’s city wall, killing many Great Qin Soldiers.
• Ghostfire ordered the Alchemy Soldiers to charge through the breach, and Zhao Fu sent his reserve troops to form defensive lines there.
• Great Qin Soldiers and flying dragons slaughtered the attackers and held the gap while Zhao Fu sent Di Moji to kill Ghostfire.
• Di Moji struck Ghostfire down, but a Holy Beast blasted her away, and the leaders ordered their forces to retreat.

After Great Qin repelled the Alchemy army, Zhao Fu sought ways to counter the next attack and investigated the Alchemy Clan's weaknesses. Research revealed that insect beasts from the Chaotic Realm could resist alchemy power, and Zhao Fu considered luring them into the Alchemy World despite the danger.

• Zhao Fu ordered battlefield cleanup and sent scouts to find time-related resources for the Philosopher's Stone, but they found too little to use widely.
• Zhao Fu visited Bai Shan's researchers, who reported that destruction, death, and flame could restrain alchemy power, with destruction having the strongest effect.
• Bai Shan showed Zhao Fu an insect beast fighting an Alchemy Clan member; the beast's chaos power weakened the alchemical attacks, while its own charge shattered the member's metal defense.
• Zhao Fu considered using fissures to lure insect beasts into the Alchemy World, where they would attack the Alchemy Clan, but recognized that the beasts could become uncontrollable.
• The insect beast bit the Alchemy Clan member in half and ate the corpse.

Zhao Fu tested whether insect beasts could absorb the Philosopher's Stone and discovered that sufficiently powerful Chaos World creatures could transform its alchemy power into Chaos power. He left the story considering whether Great Qin could use this process with Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes.

• Zhao Fu watched an insect beast consume a Philosopher's Stone, briefly develop a mechanized carapace, and then explode.
• Zhao Fu tested more insect beasts and found that lower-ranked ones exploded or died, while a fifth-order insect beast survived after digesting the stone.
• Zhao Fu discovered that the surviving insect beast had converted the alchemy power into Chaos power, increasing its strength and defense.
• Mu Minxian urged Zhao Fu to continue researching the insect beasts' ability to digest Philosopher's Stones.
• Zhao Fu considered integrating Philosopher's Stones into Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes.

Zhao Fu devised a way to extract power from Philosopher's Stones and safely imbue it into the third-tier Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes. The successful experiment left one mosquito 60 percent mechanical and able to wield chaos-attributed alchemy power.

• Zhao Fu tried cutting a Philosopher's Stone with sword light, but it exploded, so he inscribed a chaos magic formation to cut it into fragments.
• Zhao Fu fed the fragments to Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes and swallowed one himself, discovering that the cutting process had stripped the stones of their power.
• After several days of experiments, Zhao Fu created a formation that extracted Philosopher's Stone power and injected it into a Blood Demon Snake Mosquito.
• The mosquito cried out in pain as it absorbed the power, while its body gradually became mechanical and its aura grew stronger.
• After the mosquito finished absorbing the power, Zhao Fu found that 60 percent of its body was mechanical and that it had gained stronger defenses and chaos-attributed alchemy power.

Zhao Fu ordered research into fusing Chaos World and Apocalypse World nests to create stronger alchemy creatures, then learned that the Apocalypse World's declining origin was damaging Great Qin’s agriculture. Li Si had organized a response to crop diseases, but the worsening harvests left Great Qin facing a serious threat to its food supply.

• Zhao Fu ordered Great Qin to gather powerful Apocalypse World nests and build alchemy formations so it could transform its millions of Blood Demon Snake Mosquitoes.
• A soldier summoned Zhao Fu to meet Li Si, who was waiting beside a rice field with agricultural ministers and the Agricultural Goddess.
• Li Si and the Agricultural Goddess told Zhao Fu that the world's declining origin had weakened her powers and caused crop yields to fall across Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu inspected shriveled rice and a dead field as Li Si explained that common diseases were spreading among rice, wheat, and other crops.
• Li Si reported that he had warned Great Qin's commanderies and counties to watch for crop diseases and deal with them promptly.

Zhao Fu inspected how the waning power of heaven and earth had damaged Great Qin’s crops, then found that the medicinal herb fields remained mostly healthy thanks to the Flower Fairies’ blessings. After reviewing reports of worsening conditions farther from Xianyang, he ordered relief for affected farmers and research into solutions.

• Zhao Fu visited the vegetable fields, where farmers had to burn diseased crops, and learned the damage was widespread across Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu inspected the orchard and found that some trees had withered while the remaining fruit was smaller and bitter.
• Zhao Fu found the medicinal herbs in acceptable condition and credited the Flower Fairies’ daily blessings.
• Zhao Fu reviewed reports showing that crop damage grew worse farther from Xianyang and that Great Qin’s buildings and temples offered only limited protection.
• Zhao Fu ordered compensation for severely affected farmers and summoned scholars to find a way to prevent further damage.

Zhao Fu sought a way to protect Great Qin’s crops from diseases caused by the decline in heaven and earth’s origin power. He developed spirit water as a temporary treatment and ordered it distributed, while leaving crop research and a larger formation for the future.

• Zhao Fu realized that crops needed life force to resist the diseases brought on by the decline in origin power, but Great Qin lacked enough Life Spring Water to irrigate its vast farmland.
• Zhao Fu tested a Spirit-Gathering Formation on rice and saw diseased crops recover, but abandoned the idea of building formations across every field because it required too many materials.
• Zhao Fu devised spirit water by enriching water with spiritual energy, adding Life Spring Water, and having the Flower Fairies bless it.
• Zhao Fu tested the spirit water on crops and found that their diseases eased and their fruit improved.
• Zhao Fu ordered spirit water distributed and applied periodically to protect basic crop yields while Scholars continued their research.

Reports of disasters reached Zhao Fu as torrential rain threatened villages in Eastern Yue Commandery County, an earthquake devastated Fangsan Commandery County, and extreme heat suggested a drought in Yellow Rock Commandery County. The local officials reported the crises to the court, while villagers trusted that the emperor would find a solution.

• An Inspector in Eastern Yue Commandery County surveyed flooding during a prolonged downpour and ordered villagers evacuated by Teleportation Array while asking that the disaster be reported to the city lord.
• A severe earthquake struck Fangsan Commandery County, and the white-haired commandery governor dispatched soldiers to rescue people and assess the damage before drafting a memorial to the court.
• A farmer in Yellow Rock Commandery County left his fields because the sun and heat became unbearable.
• The village chief told the worried villagers that nearby regions faced the same conditions and that a drought was likely, saying the commandery governor had reported it to the court.
• The farmer told his daughter that a drought might be coming, while his wife worried that their crops would die.

Natural disasters struck several regions of Great Qin, prompting officials and villagers to report the dangers and evacuate while trusting Zhao Fu to respond. After receiving memorials about the disasters, Zhao Fu wondered why Great Qin’s resistance to natural-disaster attributes seemed useless.

• A family in a village felt reassured after hearing that the court knew about their problem, and the father told his daughter stories about Zhao Fu.
• A fierce storm spread across Nine Houses County, causing casualties, and an official sent a memorial to the Great Qin Imperial Palace.
• Young villagers in Ring Mountain County recognized signs of a volcanic eruption and rushed home, but the eruption began before they arrived.
• The village chief ordered the villagers to evacuate through the Teleportation Array, and they left in an orderly manner while trusting Zhao Fu to handle the disaster.
• Fish scale people discovered a destructive water tornado near Waterhold County, and the city lord prepared to evacuate citizens and sent a memorial to Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu read the incoming memorials and wondered why Great Qin’s resistance to natural disasters was not helping.

Zhao Fu responded to disasters caused by the weakening of the world's origin, sending powerful experts to deal with them and personally stopping the flood in Eastern Yue Commandery County. He arrived at the earthquake-stricken Fangsan Commandery County and began healing the wounded, leaving the rescue efforts underway.

• Zhao Fu summoned Heaven and Earth Realm and Extreme Heaven Realm experts, including Shang Long, Zi Lingye, Mo Wulin, and Jue Tianling, and sent them to suppress disasters across Great Qin.
• Zhao Fu reached Eastern Yue Commandery County and blasted a hole through the storm clouds, scattering them and stopping the rain.
• The citizens of Eastern Yue Commandery County celebrated Zhao Fu's intervention as the floodwaters receded and the area began returning to normal.
• Zhao Fu arrived at earthquake-stricken Fangsan Commandery County, where citizens and officials greeted him with hope.
• Zhao Fu tossed a Life Stone into the sky, and its green motes healed nearby wounded people.

Zhao Fu traveled across Great Qin to suppress an earthquake, end a drought, and halt a devastating windstorm. He then arrived at Ring Mountain County, where lava threatened the evacuated villagers’ homeland.

• Zhao Fu sealed the earthquake with a formation and flew away.
• Zhao Fu sealed the drought in Yellow Rock Commandery County, summoned clouds, and brought relief-giving rain.
• Zhao Fu split the windstorm in Nine Houses County with the Imperial Killing Sword, and the middle-aged man and citizens praised him.
• Villagers watched from a distance as lava flowed toward their homes in Ring Mountain County, grieving as their homeland faced destruction.

Zhao Fu and Great Qin’s experts resolved a series of disasters across the empire, saving threatened villages and cities. After every calamity was stopped in less than a day, Zhao Fu returned to Great Qin exhausted and ready to rest.

• Zhao Fu sealed an erupting volcano with a fire-attributed spear, stopping the lava and saving a nearby village.
• Zhao Fu destroyed a massive waterspout near Waterhold County with the Calamitous Dragon Sword and told the young fishman City Lord that Great Qin accepted subjects of other races.
• Great Qin’s experts stopped the remaining tsunamis, sand disasters, and insect plagues using their power.
• Zhao Fu returned to the Great Qin Empire exhausted after all the disasters had been resolved.

Zhao Fu investigated whether Great Qin could turn natural disasters into Calamity Pearls, but the proposed method would require disasters to run rampant and cause heavy losses. He then learned that the City of Calamity had grown stronger amid the disasters and went to inspect it.

• Zhao Fu ordered Talisman Masters and Scholars to study a sealed disaster source and find a way to condense its power into Calamity Pearls.
• A young scholar reported that formations could gather disaster power into a Calamity Pearl, but only after the disaster had caused extensive damage and with formations built across every commandery county.
• Zhao Fu rejected the costly method and ordered the scholars to continue researching alternatives.
• Zhao Fu reviewed reports of disaster damage across Great Qin and neighboring powers, noting that the alliance had suffered the worst losses.
• The City Lord of the City of Calamity told Zhao Fu that the city's calamity power had greatly increased, so Zhao Fu went to inspect the glowing cube at its center.

Zhao Fu discovered that the City of Calamity absorbed calamity power and tested whether its core could condense Calamity Pearls. He succeeded with a sealed earthquake disaster, then tested the method on a tornado, where absorption proved slow.

• Zhao Fu learned that the City of Calamity had absorbed calamity power and prevented disasters across dozens of commandery counties.
• Zhao Fu decided against making the City of Calamity Great Qin’s capital and considered splitting off its calamity power to create Calamity Pearls.
• Zhao Fu extracted a black sphere from the cube and used it to absorb earthquake calamity power released from a sealing formation in Fangsan Commandery County, forming a Calamity Pearl.
• Zhao Fu took another black sphere to a tornado in the border wilderness and found that it absorbed the wind disaster’s power too slowly.

Zhao Fu developed the Calamity Spear to harvest calamity power without draining the City of Calamity's source, then formed a squad of Calamity Sealers to wield the weapons. He sent them to resolve disasters beyond Great Qin, leaving the city's peaceful surroundings undisturbed.

• Zhao Fu found that forcing source calamity power from the City of Calamity's cube weakened it and risked damaging the city heart.
• Zhao Fu planned a calamity weapon that combined calamity materials, an absorbing formation, and the light sphere, and summoned the Gongsun Zhu sisters to forge it.
• Gongsun Zhu and the talisman masters completed the black Calamity Spear, and Zhao Fu tested it by absorbing water calamity power from a flood until the rain stopped.
• Zhao Fu ordered 120 Calamity Spears and selected 120 of the City of Calamity's strongest people to become Calamity Sealers.
• Zhao Fu rejected using the Calamity Sealers to manipulate the alliance and chose to send them beyond Great Qin to resolve natural disasters and condense Calamity Pearls.

Zhao Fu sent Disaster Sealers across distant lands to gather Calamity Pearls, hoping to keep Great Qin's other fronts peaceful while it focused on the Alchemy World. The Sealers' efforts became public, and people began hunting and torturing them to steal their Calamity Spears; the chapter ended with another Sealer killed by a pursuing crowd.

• Zhao Fu ordered the Disaster Sealers to secretly resolve natural disasters and collect Calamity Pearls, then returned to state affairs after resting.
• Word spread that mysterious figures could dispel natural disasters, and people began targeting the Disaster Sealers for their Calamity Spears.
• A tribe surrounded a Disaster Sealer, killed him, and took his spear and body.
• A gloomy young man had a captured Disaster Sealer tortured for information, then displayed his corpse at the city gates.
• An evil-aura woman mutilated and questioned another Disaster Sealer before he died from his wounds.
• A large crowd pursued a Disaster Sealer with help from three experts, killed him, and carried away his corpse.