Chapter Summaries

Chu State, Wu State, and Yan State mobilized against Wei State as Cao Cao gathered a massive army and prepared to meet Liu Bei in Jizhou. The rival forces began arriving on the battlefield, and Liu Bei launched the first clash to test Wei State's strength.

• Chu State sent Liu Bei and Guan Yu north with its main force while Lü Shen and Taishi Ci guarded its rear, and Luo Qi left Linzi to maintain the alliance with Jin State.
• Luo Chu ordered Wu State to attack Runan, assigned Kuai Yue and Cai Mao to defend Xiangyang, and placed Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Sun Ce together in a separate force.
• Yan Lin responded to internal unrest over Liaodong's resettlement by accepting Liu Bei's offer and leading Yan State's cavalry south to fight Wei State and Chu State.
• Cao Cao learned that Chu State, Yan State, and Wu State had joined the war, celebrated with his ministers, and declared that he would personally lead Wei State's army against Liu Bei.
• Chu State and Yan State entered Jizhou but kept their armies separate, while Cao Cao advanced behind a forty-thousand-strong Wei vanguard with his main force.
• Liu Bei began fighting the Wei vanguard to test its strength and look for weaknesses.

The author reflected on Faker’s fourth championship and decided not to abandon Three States despite pressure from readers and declining confidence. He chose to finish the story without an outline, beginning its wrap-up, and vowed to return to the summit after it ended.

• The author deleted an earlier post about giving up on himself after Faker won his fourth championship.
• He recalled Three States’s past success and explained how reader criticism and pressure had made him anxious and harmed his writing.
• The author decided to mute more people and raise the fan-point threshold to protect himself.
• He abandoned the outline and planned to write whatever came to mind, even if everyone, including the Luo Clan, died.
• The author said Three States would begin wrapping up without the planned shining moments or final exits for its heroes, and he vowed to return to the summit after it ended.

Liu Bei’s alliance defeated Cao Cao at Jizhou after Ma Chao’s betrayal, Lü Bu’s assault, and a wind-driven inferno devastated the Wei camps. Luo Qi died after returning to Liu Bei, who mourned him before turning his attention to a coming war with Yan State.

• Fa Zheng urged Liu Bei to use Ma Chao’s fear of Cao Ang to turn him against Cao Cao, and Liu Bei rallied his ministers to keep fighting for the Han.
• Liu Bei and Yan State launched a night attack on the Wei camps, while Ma Chao rebelled, burned the granaries, and spread chaos among Cao Cao’s troops.
• Lü Bu and Luo Qi led the Bingzhou Cavalry into the battle as Cao Cao ordered his forces to hold their camps until dawn.
• Luo Qi used a northwest wind to drive burning oil and smoke through the Wei encampments, forcing Cao Cao to retreat as the fire consumed hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
• Liu Bei celebrated Cao Cao’s defeat, but Luo Qi returned gravely wounded, commended Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng, and died before Liu Bei could answer him.
• At dawn, Liu Bei surveyed the burned battlefield and then prepared to fight Yan State for Jizhou after Cao Cao fled toward Henei.

After Cao Cao’s defeat in Jizhou, he moved Liu Xie to Luoyang and accepted his abdication, founding Wei, while Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor of Han and established his capital at Linzi. With three emperors now ruling, the chapter ended by asking whether Luo Chu of Wu would also claim the title, as Ji Zhao remained dormant after merging with the Heavenly Pillar.

• Cao Cao ordered Liu Xie and Wei’s nobles moved from Xuchang to Luoyang as Wei’s defeat forced a retreat toward Guanzhong.
• Liu Bei captured half of Jizhou after Yan Lin withdrew from Handan, then prepared to campaign against Yanzhou and Yuzhou.
• Cao Cao accepted Liu Xie’s abdication in Luoyang, founded Wei, and named Liu Xie the Duke of Longxi Commandery.
• Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor of Han in Linzi and established an ancestral temple honoring the Han emperors, including Liu Xie.
• The rise of Wei and Han left three emperors in the realm, and observers wondered whether Luo Chu of Wu would proclaim himself emperor.
• The chapter settlement awarded the Luo family Fortune Points and Imperial Fortune, while Ji Zhao remained dormant after merging with the Heavenly Pillar.

Luo Jiaojiao was framed by an elderly woman and her son after she stopped to help the woman, then lost her case in a Jinling court. After Luo Jiaojiao publicized the judge’s reasoning, the imperial family intervened, punished the corrupt judges and convicted the pair, while Luo Jiaojiao later joined her senior’s company.

• Luo Jiaojiao stopped to help Chen Xiuyun, who accused her of knocking her down, and Zhao Chengcai joined in demanding compensation.
• The Ministry of Justice transferred the case to the Court of Judicial Review after the surveillance cameras were found to be broken, and Luo Jiaojiao refused to settle.
• The Tongcheng District Court of Judicial Review found Luo Jiaojiao guilty, ordered her to pay expenses, and sentenced her to several months in prison, so she appealed.
• Luo Jiaojiao told her senior what had happened, and he helped spread the judge’s remark across the internet.
• The Luo Clan Imperial Family sent the Dare-to-Fight Warriors Corps to investigate Jinling’s courts, and nearly seventy percent of the judges were taken to Luoyang for trial.
• The old woman and her son were convicted of the moral disorder crime and sentenced to life imprisonment, and Luo Jiaojiao later joined her senior’s company.

Ji Zhao discovered that forces from the Reincarnation Hall had invaded his world and confronted them on the battlefield at Shangyi. After killing Kameda Taro and surviving William’s Blood Pearl, Ji Zhao faced the remaining reincarnators and declared himself the tallest in his world.

• Ji Zhao warned Taigong Wang that an ominous threat might appear as the Zhou Army prepared to attack Shangyi.
• William killed the Marquis of Tang with a Blood Pearl, causing panic among the Zhou and Shang soldiers.
• Ji Zhao restored the Zhou Army’s courage, then killed Kameda Taro with a single spear thrust when the ninja attacked him.
• William’s Blood Pearl exploded in front of Ji Zhao, but its force failed to harm his body or soul.
• Seven or eight more reincarnators appeared, and Ji Zhao identified himself as the tallest person in the world.

Ji Zhao used the Celestial Card to become a celestial being and destroyed the reincarnation squad that had invaded his world. After the Main God erased the squad’s leader, Ji Zhao resumed the Zhou campaign, while the author added a progress note about the next volume.

• The reincarnators attacked Ji Zhao, but he resisted their force fields and mental assaults and killed several of them.
• The black-haired Sword Cultivator and other powerful reincarnators pressed Ji Zhao, while a wizard disarmed him with Expelliarmus.
• Ji Zhao activated the Celestial Card, summoned thirty thousand li of purple qi, and became powerful enough for the reincarnators’ escape abilities to fail.
• Ji Zhao killed the squad’s weaker members, shattered the Sword Cultivator’s flying swords, and hunted down those who fled.
• Ji Zhao captured the woman in white, but the Main God erased its will within her; he then ordered Taigong Wang to continue east toward Haojing.
• The author noted that the main text had reached three hundred characters and that posting would begin after fifteen thousand had accumulated.

Wang Cheng of the Progressive Faction and Luo Ziye helped spark a public debate over whether society should respect the old and cherish the young. Ji City University lost its debate against Ji City Art Institute, but the negative side’s arguments ignited a major online discussion, while Luo Ziye gained a large following.

• Wang Cheng saw conflicting reports about elderly people and began considering how to challenge the traditional principle of respecting the old and cherishing the young.
• Luo Ziye’s debate team received the negative position, and he persuaded them to compete rather than appeal the assignment.
• Luo Ziye’s team argued that age alone did not merit respect or care and proposed respecting the worthy and cherishing the good instead.
• Luo Ziye’s closing speech argued that law should punish wrongdoing regardless of age, and Ji City University lost the debate.
• The debate went viral, young people argued over the principle online, and Luo Ziye’s follower count soared.

A time traveler awakens as Fusu and assumes he can use his future knowledge to secure Great Qin, while Luo Ling considers the empire’s structural weaknesses. At court, Fusu proposes relocating the old nobles, but Li Si explains that the Qin Dynasty lacks the local power to carry out such an order without provoking widespread revolt.

• Ji Zhao senses that a time traveler has entered the world and leaves Luo Ling and Xiang Yu to deal with matters.
• The time traveler awakens as Fusu and resolves to strengthen Great Qin by eliminating rival clans and using capable figures from history.
• Luo Ling reflects on the Qin Dynasty’s dependence on continual warfare and concludes that its policies will drive it toward collapse.
• At the Grand Court Audience, Fusu warns Qin Shi Huang about unrest among the former states and argues that their nobles should be relocated to guard the imperial mausoleum.
• Qin Shi Huang questions Fusu about the number of nobles in Chu, and Li Si explains that relocating them would trigger widespread rebellion because they dominate local society.
• Fusu realizes the Qin Dynasty lacks the grassroots control needed to enforce his proposal and privately blames the Qin enthusiasts who misled him.

An unnamed orphan in the Luo State grew up in a loving adoptive family, excelled academically, and eventually recognized Ling'er's feelings for him. After university, he became a senior Aid Society fund manager and worked to improve the lives of children like his younger self.

• The orphan received annual welfare inspections and agreed to be adopted at seven by the parents of Ling'er, a friend whose life he had saved.
• His adoptive parents transferred both children after classmates targeted his orphan status, and the authorities disciplined the school community and the offending children's parents.
• He excelled at school, earned government scholarships, and attracted the Education Department's attention while remaining devoted to his family.
• He entered Luoyang University while Ling'er enrolled at the nearby Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and he befriended a member of the Luo Clan.
• He finally recognized Ling'er's feelings and joined the Aid Society for Widowers, Widows, Orphans, and the Childless Elderly through his Luo Clan friend's introduction.
• He rose to manage numerous foundations with Ling'er's help and returned to his childhood orphanage, where he met the daughter of the psychologist who had inspected his welfare.

After Fusu ordered Liu Bang and Xiang Yu killed, he learned that the Qin Court suspected his sudden change in temperament and persuaded the First Emperor that his knowledge came from a dream of Great Qin’s fall. The First Emperor intensified his search for the Luo Clan and traveled to Chu, while the Xiang Clan remained beyond Qin’s reach and Xiang Yu declared that the First Emperor could be replaced.

• Fusu gained the First Emperor’s trust, ordered Liu Bang killed, and sent Qin Officials to capture Xiang Yu and the Xiang Clan.
• Luo Ling went to Jiangdong, met Xiang Yu, and recognized his strength and potential to help restore Chu State.
• Qin Officials returned to Xianyang with borrowed heads, claiming they had killed Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, and Fusu believed his two greatest rivals were gone.
• The First Emperor questioned Fusu about rumors that he had changed, and Fusu claimed a dream had shown him Great Qin’s fall and the falsehood of the Elixir of Immortality.
• The First Emperor increased his attention to Chu and began searching more aggressively for the Luo Clan, while Fusu kept quiet and postponed his plans for reform.
• News spread that the Luo State Ruling House had survived in Southern Heaven; the First Emperor traveled to Chu, where Xiang Yu declared, “He can be replaced!”

Valentina recounted her life in Luo State, where she studied art, married Luo Chengye, and worked to bring the Snow Country’s artistic traditions into Luo State’s culture. She ended by reflecting proudly on her efforts to enrich people’s inner lives.

• Valentina arrived in Luo State, settled with her aunt’s family, and began studying at Qing Saint University, where students nicknamed her the Flower of the Snow Country.
• Valentina learned from her cousin how Luo State’s strict laws connected morality and public conduct, and she gradually adapted to life there.
• Valentina met Luo Chengye, questioned whether their different family standings made them unsuitable, and came to understand her aunt’s view of equality in marriage.
• Valentina saw Luo Chengye’s grandfather’s Sacred Mark, married Luo Chengye before finishing university, and began organizing art exhibitions and studying ways to combine Snow Country and Luo State art.
• Valentina researched Luo State’s art history, gave birth to her daughter Luo Ling, and continued her work with encouragement from Luo Chengye and her aunt.
• Valentina looked back on her life and took pride in working to enrich people’s inner worlds.

Luo Xing traveled to the Western Regions with Diao Chan to take up the High Priest’s position at the Sage King Temple and help preserve stability. After reaching Unshuang City, he received the High Priest’s scepter and robes, then won the Temple Army’s recognition, leaving him with a powerful base of religious and military authority.

• Luo Xing told Diao Chan that he had come west to serve the Luo Clan’s interests and maintain the Western Regions’ stability through the Sage King Temple.
• The King of Xia asked Luo Xing to help spread his prestige, and Luo Xing promised support if the king reached Guanzhong and occupied Chang’an.
• Luo Xing and Diao Chan arrived in Unshuang City, where the people welcomed him and a white-haired Luo Clan elder led him to the temple.
• Luo Xing was named High Priest and received the temple’s scepter, robes, and other ritual regalia.
• Three Temple Army commandants invited Luo Xing to their barracks, where the soldiers welcomed him as their High Priest and pledged themselves to the Sage King’s cause.

The chapter traced the Hu’s rise toward unification and chronicled the shifting wars among the late Han successor states after Cao Cao and Liu Bei proclaimed themselves emperors. It ended with Wei conquering Hanzhong and Liu Zhang seeking terms with Wu, while the author announced that the main story would begin in the next chapters.

• The Hu tribes reorganized into a military empire, chose the name Xia, and sought to unite the Grasslands under their Chanyu Khagan.
• Cao Cao died after moving Wei’s capital to Chang’an, Cao Ang succeeded him, and Liu Bei’s forces attacked Wei’s eastern defenses.
• Liu Bei died and appointed Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, Lü Shen, Liu Ye, and Fa Zheng as regent ministers for Liu Shan.
• Wei, Han, Wu, and Yan repeatedly fought over territory as their rulers and commanders died, shifting the balance of power among the states.
• Wu’s Lu Xun defeated Han’s army on the Huai River and captured Pengcheng, while Yan and Wei also pressured Han from other fronts.
• Wei conquered Hanzhong, and Liu Zhang sent envoys to Wu to seek protection from Wei.

After Ji Zhao vanished into the Heavenly Pillar, the Luo Clan could no longer reach its ancestor and feared the calamity foretold in his prophecy. Luo Jin ordered Zhao City partially sealed and called the descendants home, leaving the clan preparing to face an uncertain future without its ancestor.

• Ji Zhao merged with the Heavenly Pillar, and the Luo Clan lost contact with him and the Divine Artifacts he had taken.
• Luo Jin and Luo Xuan prayed in the Ancestral Temple, while Ji Lingjun chose to remain in the Void Heavenly Realm and wait for the Old Ancestor.
• A crack appeared on Luo Su’s statue in the Hall of Heroes, revealing skin beneath its stone surface.
• Luo Jin reviewed the Luo Clan’s remaining resources and Divine Artifacts and recalled the Old Ancestor’s warning that the Hu mandate would flourish and the Xia mandate wane.
• Luo Jin summoned the Luo Clan’s descendants and Zhao State’s ministers, ordered most descendants living elsewhere to return within three years, and announced that Zhao City would be partially sealed.
• Luo Xuan declared that the measures were the will of the Sage King Sovereign, silencing the gathered crowd.

After Luo Chu died on the frozen Yellow River, Luo Jin gathered the Luo Clan’s branches in Zhao City and revealed that the Sage King had vanished and a catastrophe involving the Hu People was coming. He ordered the clan to migrate to Liaodong and leave Zhao City to become a forbidden marsh until the Sage King returned.

• Luo Chu collapsed and died in a snowstorm while traveling to Zhao City, leaving Luo Xi final words for Luo Jin.
• Luo Xi delivered Luo Chu’s message and death to Luo Jin, who mourned the loss of his brothers.
• Luo Jin told the gathered Luo Clan that the Sage King had vanished and that Heaven was preparing for the Hu People to rise.
• Luo Jin explained that the clan must continue the Sage King’s mission and ordered its descendants to migrate to Liaodong.
• Luo Jin decreed that Zhao City would become a forbidden marsh until the Sage King returned and the divine scepter struck the land again.
• Heavy rain flooded Zhao City, and the Luo Clan migrated as the city became Luo Marsh and its human traces disappeared.

Luo Chen explained why the Luo Clan’s branches had to remain in the Central Plains or Western Regions, while Luo Jin prepared his son to lead the clan north to Liaodong. When Luo Chen announced the migration to the Luo Clan’s longtime allies, dozens chose to follow, and he accepted their pledge.

• Luo Chen told Luo Wu, Luo Xi, Luo Yuan, and Luo Xiang that their branches would remain behind, and Luo Wu accepted the duty of guarding the Temple in the Western Regions.
• Luo Chen gave Luo Wu a hidden clan banner for preserving the Western Regions branch’s identity and bloodline, while Luo Xiang secured permission to migrate north.
• Luo Chen returned to find Luo Jin gravely ill, and Luo Jin instructed him to take the Inheritance Ring and lead the Dare-to-Fight Warriors to build a defensible city in Liaodong.
• Luo Jin told Luo Chen that moving north was the best way to preserve the clan, then spoke of his cautious life and his hope that later generations would remember his decision kindly.
• Luo Chen announced the migration to the Luo Clan’s longtime allies and explained that the Sage King’s oracle had helped guide the decision.
• An old man and dozens of others pledged to follow the Luo Clan to Liaodong, and Luo Chen prostrated himself in acceptance.

As the Luo Clan prepared to migrate north to counter the prophesied rise of the Hu People, its members faced disbelief and political upheaval across the states. Luo Xiang returned to Zhao City after refusing Cao Rui’s offer of office, while Wu State’s clans moved to promote Lu Xun and debated establishing an emperor.

• After Luo Chu died, Luo Xi returned to Wu State and found its clans backing Lu Xun as Grand Commander while raising the question of making Wu State an empire.
• Luo Yuan reassured Liu Shan that he would remain in Han State, though he feared the Luo Clan could not defeat the Hu People alone.
• Luo Xiang rejected Cao Rui’s offer to become Crown Prince’s Attendant and left Chang'an with more than a hundred clansmen to join the northward migration.
• Luo Xiang returned to Zhao City, read letters from Luo Yuan and Luo Xi, and asked Luo Chen what would become of All Under Heaven after the Luo Clan departed.
• Luo Chen said that the Luo Clan’s departure would leave the world’s future in Heaven’s hands.

Luo Chen led the Luo Clan’s northward migration toward Liaodong, refused Murong Chengguang’s warning against the journey, and endured a deadly storm with his clansmen. After honoring three warriors killed by the rain, he renewed their resolve to reach a new home before midsummer next year.

• Luo Chen led hundreds of riders and supply wagons out of Zhao City, telling Luo Xiang that he would face the hardships of migration alongside the clan.
• Murong Chengguang met Luo Chen at the Putuo River and urged him not to lead his people north, but Luo Chen insisted the Luo Clan would guard against the rising Hu threat.
• After the Yan cavalry departed, Luo Chen warned Luo Xiang that the Murong Clan might attack the Han State and that Yan could bring further turmoil.
• Luo Chen rushed into a fierce storm to stop a Dare-to-Fight Warrior from risking his life to protect a grain wagon, then ordered everyone counted after the rain passed.
• Luo Chen learned that three clansmen had died in the storm, ordered their bodies honored, and had Luo Xiang record the region’s dangerous weather.
• Luo Xiang and the Dare-to-Fight Warriors comforted Luo Chen, who rallied them to continue north and find the clan’s new home before midsummer next year.

Luo Chen led the Luo Clan through Liaodong’s deadly winter to the Black Water, where they honored the twenty-seven clanspeople who died on the journey. He chose a city site beside the river and began establishing Deep Winter.

• Luo Chen and his companions crossed the ruined former lands of Yan State as Murong Chengguang imagined Yan’s eventual return to Liaodong.
• Luo Chen summoned Haidongqing to guide the five hundred and thirty-two migrants north through Liaodong’s wilderness and snow.
• Luo Chen cared for the freezing Dare-to-Fight Warriors as the clan endured months of deep snow and bitter cold.
• After a year of travel, Luo Chen reached the Black Water with 505 survivors and held a ceremony for the twenty-seven fallen clanspeople.
• Luo Chen chose a site beside a tributary of the Black Water, and the clan built temporary shelters and a settlement named Deep Winter.