Recaps

Su Chen awakened Dayu through the Nine Provinces Cauldron, restored Huaxia’s lost history, and inherited Dayu’s power. As Huaxia prepared to secretly awaken Dayu’s descendants, Jin Dachang pushed Haidong Country toward war and Zhu Yuanzheng exposed officials who had betrayed Huaxia.

• Su Chen recognized Huaxia’s ancestral symbol as a cauldron, awakened it as the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and summoned Dayu, who identified himself as Emperor Xia, Si Yu.
• Dayu defeated Jin Junxian and the Haidong Awakened, stripped them of their powers, and exposed Haidong Country’s claims to Huaxia’s history as false.
• Su Chen showed Dayu modern Huaxia’s people enduring floods, disasters, and hardship together, and Dayu praised his descendants before passing his inheritance to Su Chen.
• Jin Dachang blamed Huaxia for Haidong’s loss of power, directed public anger against Huaxia, and resolved to have Su Chen killed.
• Su Chen told Zhu Yuanzheng and Li Shuhua that Dayu had hundreds of millions of descendants and proposed keeping their numbers secret while luring Haidong into an invasion.
• Huaxia’s authorities published articles about Kim Chunchu’s historical ties to Huaxia, and Jin Dachang responded by demanding an apology and threatening war.
• Zhu Yuanzheng defended Su Chen against officials demanding his arrest, accused Lou and others of secretly handing Huaxia’s assets to Haidong, and ordered their arrests.

Su Chen led Huaxia to defeat Haidong’s invasion and restore confidence across the country, but the descent of ancestor symbols revealed a larger conflict. When Sakura claimed Huaxia’s Imperial Seal, Su Chen went alone to reclaim it and awakened Qin Shi Huang, then faced Sakura’s Awakened as Qin descendants rushed to protect him.

• Su Chen summoned the Nine Provinces Cauldron to destroy Haidong’s fleet, then awakened a million descendants of Dayu to defeat Jin Dachang and his forces.
• Haidong fell into turmoil after its Awakened were defeated, while Huaxia celebrated Su Chen’s victory and grew more stable and influential.
• The Yata Mirror struck Huaxia’s symbol into the Eastern Ocean, and Su Chen concluded that ancient ancestors might be guiding the symbols’ appearance ahead of a global calamity.
• Sakura announced it had found Huaxia’s Imperial Seal, and Su Chen identified it as the legacy of Qin Shi Huang and decided to retrieve it alone.
• The Qin Clan recognized the seal’s inscription and traveled to Sakura, while Su Chen arrived and told the story of Great Qin before summoning Ying Zheng.
• Noda Shino accused Su Chen of stealing Sakura’s symbol and ordered Sakura’s Awakened to attack him as people around the world condemned Huaxia.
• Hundreds of Qin descendants charged to protect Su Chen, who pushed them clear of the fighting and called on Ying Zheng’s dragon soul to awaken and protect them.