Chapter Summaries

Blue Country’s nobles considered serving Bai Mo after Zhang Xianzhong’s defeat, while Zhang sought their help to regain his strength. Qin Liangyu confronted him, but some nobles turned against her before Bai Mo appeared and struck Zhang down.

• Blue Country’s nobles discussed whether Bai Mo was independent of Qin Shi Huang and considered switching their allegiance.
• Zhang Xianzhong entered the nobles’ meeting and asked who would still follow him, but no one answered.
• Qin Liangyu arrived and attacked Zhang Xianzhong, accusing him of causing her village’s destruction.
• Several nobles sided with Zhang Xianzhong, and one struck Qin Liangyu from behind as she fought him.
• Bai Mo appeared behind Zhang Xianzhong and punched through his steel body, blasting him to the ground.

Bai Mo confronted Zhang Xianzhong and the other powerful figures in the city, rejecting their offers of wealth and authority and condemning their exploitation of Blue Country’s people. He demanded that they die and prepared to enforce his judgment by power.

• Bai Mo sealed the area and approached Zhang Xianzhong, who tried to save himself by offering resources, wealth, and obedience.
• Several people urged Bai Mo to take control and offered to crown him, while Zhang Xianzhong seethed at their betrayal.
• Bai Mo demanded that Zhang Xianzhong and the others kill themselves, then condemned them for profiting from the suffering of Blue Country’s lower classes.
• Zhang Xianzhong accused Bai Mo of hypocrisy by invoking Qin Shi Huang, but Bai Mo said he did not approve of Qin Shi Huang’s rule.
• Bai Mo explained that he would use superior power to punish those who ruled through power, while Qin Liangyu gripped her spear and watched.

Bai Mo forced Zhang Xianzhong to fight after stripping him of his power and followers, and Zhang’s defeat drove him into a murderous frenzy. Zhang created the Self-Breaking Way by transforming himself into a beast, but Bai Mo’s Nidhogg’s Bite pierced his heart and filled him with poison and curses.

• Bai Mo challenged Zhang Xianzhong to face him with his own strength, and Zhang attacked with the Heavenly Martial Killing Way.
• Bai Mo countered Zhang’s techniques, severed his wrist, broke his ribs, and beat him into a window.
• Zhang Xianzhong killed a subordinate who had urged Bai Mo to replace him, then declared that he would kill everyone he considered disloyal.
• Zhang turned his anger inward and developed the Self-Breaking Way, using his power to damage and transform his brain into a beastlike state.
• Bai Mo struck Zhang with his twin blades, but Zhang kept transforming until Nidhogg’s Bite pierced his heart and unleashed poison and curses through his body.

Bai Mo fought Zhang Xianzhong after the latter’s Self-Breaking Way transformed him into a beastlike fighter with heightened senses and reactions. Zhang Xianzhong escaped Bai Mo’s attacks and began eating the bodies in the room, leaving the survivors terrified.

• Bai Mo and Qin Liangyu saw Zhang Xianzhong tear the venomous flesh from his chest and behave erratically.
• Bai Mo reasoned that Landao Tianwu had kept Zhang Xianzhong alive because Supreme Principles for Ordering the World had foretold his potential, then attacked to test his Self-Breaking Way.
• Zhang Xianzhong recovered from his injuries and dodged Bai Mo’s attacks with animalistic movements.
• Bai Mo’s Heaven-Severing Way killed most of the people in the room, but Zhang Xianzhong evaded its power.
• Bai Mo analyzed how the Self-Breaking Way enhanced Zhang Xianzhong’s realm, perception, and reactions at the cost of his humanity.
• Zhang Xianzhong fled into the pile of bodies, tore off a thigh, and ate it while the surviving people recoiled in fear.

Bai Mo fought Zhang Xianzhong after the latter fixated on Qin Liangyu and attacked her. Zhang Xianzhong was poisoned by Nidhogg's Bite, escaped the room, and died as Bai Mo explained the destructive effects of the Self-Breaking Way.

• The survivors begged Qin Liangyu for protection, and Zhang Xianzhong turned his attention toward her before lunging.
• Bai Mo intercepted Zhang Xianzhong and fought him while the Second War God struck him, but Zhang Xianzhong continued trying to reach Qin Liangyu.
• Qin Liangyu received Han Xin's message that Qin Shi Huang wanted Zhang Xianzhong kept alive for research, but Bai Mo objected and continued arguing with Qin Shi Huang.
• Zhang Xianzhong pounced again, then collapsed as Nidhogg's Bite's poison and curse spread through his body.
• Bai Mo lifted the room's restrictions, and Zhang Xianzhong crawled outside before dying amid the crowd's retaliation.
• Bai Mo concluded that the Self-Breaking Way's severe side effects made it harmful to its user as well as others.

After Qin Liangyu returned covered in Zhang Xianzhong’s blood, Ritsuka brought her to the hotel baths to wash and talk. Qin Liangyu worried that Bai Mo might oppose Qin Shi Huang, but Ritsuka argued that people should be free to seek a better life and persuaded her to enjoy the bath with a friend.

• Ritsuka found Qin Liangyu covered in Zhang Xianzhong’s blood and took her to the hotel baths to wash it off.
• Qin Liangyu washed with a wooden bucket instead of soaking in the luxurious pool, warning Ritsuka against excessive indulgence.
• Qin Liangyu asked whether Ritsuka opposed Qin Shi Huang’s rule, and Ritsuka questioned why ordinary people who made the palace’s luxuries could not enjoy better lives themselves.
• Ritsuka argued that people should not be forced to abandon hopes for a better future, and reminded Qin Liangyu that she had sought a more stable life for Blue Country’s people.
• Ritsuka pulled Qin Liangyu into the pool, and Qin Liangyu decided to treat the bath as psychological cleansing and train harder afterward.

Bai Mo and Qin Shi Huang agreed to settle their conflict through an honorable contest rather than a war that would kill many people. Qin Shi Huang sent Chaldea records of his secrets and forthcoming body, while in Xianyang he prepared to use his analysis of a white Giant Spirit.

• Bai Mo and Xu Fu continued testing Zhang Xianzhong’s technique on a head, but their experiment failed again.
• Qin Shi Huang asked Chaldea whether they intended to wage war or make peace, and Bai Mo rejected one-sided compromise.
• Bai Mo called for a fight, but after Qin Liangyu raised concerns about Landao Tianwu, he proposed a contest that would kill fewer people.
• Qin Shi Huang accepted the honorable contest and sent documents about himself and his forthcoming body to Bai Mo’s group.
• In Xianyang, Qin Shi Huang asked how the analysis of the white Giant Spirit was progressing and said it was time to use what had resulted from allowing two people into Mount Li.

Bai Mo and Xu Fu reviewed Qin Shi Huang’s intelligence and suspected he had used their agreed three-day delay to prepare, though he had missed an earlier chance to attack. In Xianyang, they met Qin Shi Huang after he had become a Corpse Liberation Immortal, leaving the group to face his transformed power.

• Bai Mo told Xu Fu that Qin Shi Huang might have used the three-day agreement to prepare and could have attacked earlier when Bai Mo was weakened.
• Bai Mo said Xu Fu might be key to dealing with Qin Shi Huang, and she reluctantly traveled with the group to Xianyang.
• At Epang Palace, Ritsuka, Hinako Akuta, and Qin Liangyu chose to enter and witness the meeting, while the captain of the guard went to watch with Han Xin.
• Bai Mo’s group found Li Shuwen and Han Xin waiting inside, then saw Qin Shi Huang seated in an immortal form.
• Qin Shi Huang thanked Hinako Akuta for helping him transcend the limits of the human body and overcome the Primordial Spirit’s shackles.

Bai Mo challenged Qin Shi Huang to a fight and argued that Great Qin’s peace and prosperity came at the cost of its people’s freedom, while Qin Shi Huang defended his rule and revealed the technologies behind his powers. The fight continued as Qin Shi Huang disclosed that he had helped create the Blue Country to obtain its technology.

• Qin Shi Huang lit the imperial audience hall and lamented that his former ministers had withered away.
• Bai Mo rejected the idea of offering counsel and challenged Qin Shi Huang to fight, while Xu Fu pleaded with him to avoid battle.
• Bai Mo attacked with the Blade of Hell, the Sword of Victory, and his martial techniques as Qin Shi Huang countered with mercury weapons and defended Great Qin’s two thousand years of peace.
• Bai Mo argued that Great Qin’s people lacked the freedoms and attractions found in the Blue Country, and Qin Shi Huang defended his system of calculated lives and prescribed duties.
• Qin Shi Huang explained that Epang Palace functioned as his mechanical body and that he used it to control mercury and dissipate attacks.
• Qin Shi Huang revealed that he had used Qin Hong and Landao Tianwu’s Giant Spirit technology and had allowed the Blue Country to form so he could obtain it.

Landao Tianwu realized Qin Shi Huang had manipulated him, while Bai Mo’s attack pierced Qin Shi Huang but left him trapped by mercury controlled throughout Epang Palace. Qin Shi Huang revealed Epang Palace as his Grotto-Heaven Noble Phantasm and declared his plan to extend its control over the world.

• Landao Tianwu cursed Qin Shi Huang for scheming against him, and Bai Lubao mocked him in the Martial God Space.
• Qin Shi Huang attacked with mercury, and Bai Mo froze it before countering with Tiandao and Great Saber’s combined powers.
• Bai Mo struck Qin Shi Huang with Avici Uninterrupted, piercing his body and prompting Ritsuka and Xu Fu to believe the battle had turned in their favor.
• Mercury inside Bai Mo’s body immobilized him, and Qin Shi Huang explained that Epang Palace let him control the natural world within it.
• Da Vinci warned Ritsuka to leave Epang Palace, and Qin Shi Huang identified the palace as his Grotto-Heaven Noble Phantasm and described his plan to expand its control across the world.

Bai Mo confronted Qin Shi Huang over his plan to control every person in his world, then used the emperor’s own analysis of a Giant Spirit to master his power and attack. Xu Fu opened the vessel meant for the elixir of immortality and unleashed Immortal Killer, which pierced Qin Shi Huang’s defenses and made his immortal body feel death.

• Bai Mo accused Qin Shi Huang of turning his subjects into puppets, and Qin Shi Huang defended his rule as the best future for humanity.
• Bai Mo identified Qin Shi Huang’s rule as the line that caused the world to be pruned and challenged him to a fight.
• Bai Mo used Avici Uninterrupted to clear the mercury from his body and combined with the Three War Gods to charge Qin Shi Huang.
• Bai Mo revealed that Qin Shi Huang’s control over Epang Palace had helped him understand how to control his own power.
• Xu Fu opened the vessel for the elixir of immortality and invoked Immortal Killer, which pierced Qin Shi Huang’s chest and made him feel death.

Xu Fu used Immortal Killer to make Qin Shi Huang experience the threat of death, explaining that his perfect rule stifled humanity’s potential. Qin Shi Huang recognized the limits of his path as Bai Mo prepared to deliver a final blow.

• Xu Fu’s Immortal Killer threatened Qin Shi Huang, who was shocked that she could challenge him.
• Bai Mo said the weapon alone was enough to threaten Qin Shi Huang, while Xu Fu explained that perfection denied life the chance to change and develop.
• Bai Mo used two Command Spells to ease Xu Fu’s pain, and she unleashed Immortal Killer, driving its blade into Qin Shi Huang’s chest.
• Qin Shi Huang admitted he had misjudged Xu Fu, and she proudly defended the achievements of alchemists and other ordinary people.
• Qin Shi Huang recognized that humanity might progress further without him and chose to meet Bai Mo’s final attack with his own greatest strike.

Bai Mo forced Qin Shi Huang to recognize how his rule had distorted Great Qin, and Qin Shi Huang agreed to reconsider his policies. After a final test of strength, Qin Shi Huang sent Bai Mo the Lishan soldiers and set out to tour his realm.

• Bai Mo defeated Qin Shi Huang without killing him and urged him to fix the problems his rule had created.
• Qin Shi Huang praised Xu Fu, then learned from Hinako Akuta that Xu Fu had spent two thousand years researching how to fulfill Yu Mei-ren's unspoken wish instead of seeking immortality.
• Qin Shi Huang forgave Xu Fu for misusing his research funds, then challenged Bai Mo to test his strength before joining Bai Mo's side.
• Bai Mo and Qin Shi Huang fought until both were battered, and Bai Mo returned to his guest room to sleep.
• Qin Shi Huang ordered the captain of the guard to give Bai Mo a golden-red box and the Lishan soldiers, then set out to tour his realm with poets and painters.

Qin Shi Huang traveled toward Blue Country with poets and villagers, while Bai Mo discovered that the Realm of Immortals had supplied Great Qin with ancient technology and the Fusang Tree. The Realm was believed to be empty, but scholars at Mount Li could help Bai Mo enter it, so he was told he would have to go there himself.

• Qin Shi Huang admired poems among the mountains, then invited villagers heading to Blue Country to travel with him and promised to keep them safe.
• Bai Mo woke in Epang Palace and learned from the captain of the guard that Qin Shi Huang had left on an eastern tour.
• The captain explained that Qin Shi Huang had found the Realm of Immortals while investigating Yin-Shang technology and had taken the Fusang Tree from it.
• Ritsuka worried that Qin Hong might find a treasure in the Realm, but the captain said Qin Shi Huang had already dug through its soil and found it empty.
• Bai Mo asked how to enter the Realm of Immortals, and the captain said scholars at Mount Li could help but Bai Mo would have to go himself.

Bai Mo received Qin Shi Huang’s jade seal, which granted him authority over Epang Palace, and organized research into the Realm of Immortals while improving conditions beneath the palace. The chapter ended with Qin Hong completing Kuaiji Type Zero’s new Xiang Yu body and preparing it for battle.

• Bai Mo opened the box and found a jade seal that enthralled Xu Fu, Reines, and Ritsuka until he rapped them on the head.
• The captain of the guard explained that the seal gave Bai Mo authority over Epang Palace’s records and Mount Li’s soldiers, and Bai Mo borrowed it to find scholars who could reach the Realm of Immortals.
• Bai Mo recruited senior Great Qin scholars and Xu Fu to research the Fusang Tree, and he approved a proposal to improve the lives of the artists beneath Epang Palace.
• Bai Mo began tracking the research and investigating the current Self-Breaking Way while Ritsuka left for a meeting and Reines examined the art collection.
• Qin Hong completed Kuaiji Type Zero’s new body, which resembled an eight-meter-tall giant, and the machine announced it was ready to fight for Lan’s dream.

Bai Mo learned that transferring the Lostbelt would tear it apart unless its connection to the Realm of Immortals was anchored. A message from Lü Shang revealed a way to solve the problem, and the Great Qin prepared to open the passage to the Realm of Immortals.

• A researcher told Bai Mo that the Realm of Immortals would hold the Lostbelt in place during a transfer and cause it to be torn apart, and he offered a Fusang Tree branch as a possible anchor.
• The branch glowed when Bai Mo touched it, drawing him to the Fusang Tree, where it activated after scanning his Guardian of Human Order medal.
• A recording of Lü Shang appeared and told Bai Mo to thrust a branch or leaf from the Fusang Tree into the soil of the Realm of Immortals to resolve the problem within twenty-four hours.
• Bai Mo merged the red liquid message with the branch, while Xu Fu wondered if he had Heaven's mandate and Bai Mo speculated about Taigong Wang and Odin.
• An alarm sounded, and a researcher announced that the Great Qin had seized the initiative and could open the passage to the Realm of Immortals.

Bai Mo and the others confronted Qin Hong and Kuaiji Type Zero in the Realm of Immortals, but Qin Hong sacrificed himself to let Xiang Yu escape into Blue Country. Kuaiji Type Zero began transforming people with powers into Pseudo-Servants as Ritsuka and the others rushed to respond.

• Chaldea sent Ritsuka the Spirit Origin Graph briefcase, while Holmes hinted it might help turn the tables.
• Hinako Akuta insisted she would free Xiang Yu and restore his memories, unsettling Bai Mo and Ritsuka with her plan to remake them.
• Bai Mo opened a passage into the Realm of Immortals and found Qin Hong beside Kuaiji Type Zero, whose body had changed into a monstrous, heavily armed form.
• Qin Hong opened a gate to Blue Country and let Kuaiji Type Zero escape, then closed the entrance with Bai Mo still inside as Bai Mo attacked him.
• Ritsuka led Qin Liangyu and the others toward Blue Country while Hinako Akuta flew ahead, and Kuaiji Type Zero began transforming people with powers into Pseudo-Servants.
• Qin Shi Huang, in Blue Country's Bustling Metropolis, turned his attention toward the northern city where Kuaiji Type Zero had appeared.

Bai Mo battled the Landao Tianwu intelligence occupying Qin Hong's body in the Realm of Immortals and gained the upper hand with techniques designed to counter it. The intelligence released a vast information-emotion weapon capable of killing everyone outside, while its mechanical system declared humanity's extinction the best outcome; Bai Mo began searching for a way to stop it.

• Bai Mo and the Triple War God overwhelmed the intelligence in Qin Hong's body, whose attacks and strength fell short of Qin Hong's.
• Bai Mo used a sensation-triggered Blade of Hell technique to counter Ultimate Infinity and severely wounded the intelligence.
• The intelligence revealed it had brought Kuaiji Type Zero and accumulated information into the Realm of Immortals, then triggered an electromagnetic pulse to release the weapon into the outside world.
• Bai Mo tried to disable the intelligence with Magnetic Field Power as its mechanical system announced that humanity's extinction was the best choice.
• Bai Mo acknowledged that humans were foolish, arrogant, and greedy while the world-destroying release remained underway.

Chaldea used Ritsuka’s Spirit Origin Graph to alter the Blue Country’s forced Heroic Spirit summonings, hoping the summoned Servants would protect their hosts’ souls. As hostile Servants attacked, Qin Shi Huang held them back while Ritsuka and the others headed for the Blue Country’s capital to find Kuaiji Type Zero.

• A powerful fighter in the Blue Country was possessed by a Heroic Spirit after a Command Spell ordered him to kill Chaldea’s side.
• Sherlock Holmes explained that Pseudo-Servant possession could grant power wielders the martial skills needed to improve their Complete Realm.
• Olga Marie warned that forced possession could erase a host’s soul, so Ritsuka connected her Spirit Origin Graph to the Blue Country’s leylines and central computer to influence the summoning.
• Hostile Servants attacked Chaldea’s allies, and Hinako Akuta and Qin Liangyu struggled to hold them off.
• Qin Shi Huang trapped the attackers with mercury blades, then directed Ritsuka and the others to the capital to find Kuaiji Type Zero.

Bai Mo defeated “Qin Hong” and rejected his plan to unleash the Realm of Immortals’ information on humanity. Outside, Xiang Yu continued sending Heroic Spirits against Chaldea, but Ritsuka and her companions reached him without apparent losses.

• “Qin Hong” explained that opening the Realm of Immortals would overwhelm ordinary people with information and kill them, fulfilling Lan’s dream of humanity’s destruction.
• Bai Mo removed and restructured the Dream Creator, then destroyed “Qin Hong” with the God-Severing Thunderbolt after rejecting his judgment of humanity.
• Xiang Yu received news of “Qin Hong’s” death and continued using Command Spells to summon Heroic Spirits against Ritsuka and her companions.
• Xiang Yu calculated that Chaldea would struggle to reach him, but Ritsuka’s group appeared before him without apparent losses, leaving him confused.