Chapter Summaries

Lorewalker Cho rejected Vol'jin’s offer and prepared the Shado-Pan Monastery to resist Nazgrim’s invading army, while Robbie and Vanessa arrived with a strategy to force the Orcs to retreat. As Nazgrim’s army reached Kun-Lai Summit, a sneak attack killed several vanguard commanders.

• Lorewalker Cho captured Master Snowdrift, learned he was the August Celestials’ inside man, and dismissed Vol'jin’s offer to cooperate before ordering Vol'jin’s incarnation beaten.
• Lorewalker Cho learned that Nazgrim was advancing with five thousand elite Kor'kron Orcs and resolved to defend the Shado-Pan Monastery.
• Robbie and Vanessa arrived as Defias Brotherhood envoys, and Robbie advised threatening Nazgrim to make him withdraw.
• Lorewalker Cho proposed using the Soul-Body Separation Technique for a coordinated sneak attack on Nazgrim.
• Nazgrim led his army into Kun-Lai Summit, where several vanguard commanders had been killed in their sleep.

After five Orc commanders died mysteriously, Nazgrim blamed the Shado-Pan Monastery and used a fabricated Mantid threat to leave Kun-Lai Summit. He appointed Garik to lead the army against the monastery, but Garik died mysteriously after his name appeared on its death list.

• Nazgrim learned that the Shado-Pan Monastery had claimed responsibility for the commanders’ deaths and threatened him with its death list.
• Nazgrim killed a Frostwolf commander after the Orc questioned his claim that Mantid forces threatened their rear.
• Nazgrim persuaded the commanders that he must intercept Shek'zeer, then chose Garik Drek'Thar to lead the army against the monastery.
• Nazgrim withdrew with a small force while Garik delayed the march, fearing the monastery’s assassins.
• After Garik’s name appeared on the death list, he surrounded himself with soldiers and summoned Shamans to ward off evil.
• The soldiers found Garik dead in the center of their protective circle after the night passed peacefully.

With the Orc army stalled outside the Shado-Pan Monastery, Nazgrim left its fate to the Peace Dove, which captured the deserter Guteer and made him commander. When assassins and Pandaren experts failed to stop Master Gu Chuanyun from killing Guteer, Gu revealed his supposed mastery of the realm of Unity of Heaven and Humanity and vanished.

• The Warsong commanders and then commanders from other clans fled, leaving the Orc soldiers without leadership as Pandaren captives cursed the Shado-Pan Monastery.
• Nazgrim decided to take the commanders to Halfhill for food and wine, leaving the monastery to the Peace Dove.
• Three Peace Dove members cornered the exhausted Guteer Durotan, a deserter who admitted his claims about Durotan and Thrall were lies, and forced him to return to command the Orc army.
• After Guteer's name appeared on the monastery's death list, Ravenholdt assassins and Peace Dove experts guarded his tent with steel wires and a formation.
• Master Gu Chuanyun entered the guarded tent, killed Guteer despite the defenses, and claimed his kung fu had reached the realm of Unity of Heaven and Humanity.
• Gu Chuanyun identified Lu Ke Shizhi, He Ruanzu, and Sun Rouxin, claimed he could kill Nazgrim whenever he wished, and vanished.

Sun Rouxin and her senior brothers returned to Master Lao with news that Gu Chuanyun had reached Unity of Heaven and Humanity, and Master Lao offered to teach Sun Rouxin the Golden Lotus Divine Skill if she married his son. He then named Lorewalker Cho and Chen Stormstout as the two Pandaren who could overcome Gu Chuanyun’s Shado-Pan Fist.

• Sun Rouxin and her senior brothers returned to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and told Master Lao that Gu Chuanyun had mastered the Shado-Pan Fist and could not be defeated by them.
• Master Lao explained that the Shado-Pan Fist’s seventh level led to Unity of Heaven and Humanity, then claimed the Golden Lotus Divine Skill was even greater.
• Master Lao offered to teach Sun Rouxin the Golden Lotus Divine Skill if she married Lao Ruanzu, and recounted how the sect’s founder learned the art from Wu Da.
• He Ruanzu warned that cultivating the skill would take too long and asked how they should answer General Nazgrim.
• Master Lao said Lorewalker Cho and Chen Stormstout were the two Pandaren capable of overcoming the Shado-Pan Fist.

Sun Rouxin and the other disciples told General Nazgrim that Unity of Heaven and Humanity was limited to Pandaria, prompting him to flee by sea rather than face the Shado-Pan Monastery. When Rokhan joined him with reinforcements, he proposed resurrecting Chen Stormstout, and Antonidas arrived with a reconstructed Forsaken Chen.

• Sun Rouxin explained that Unity of Heaven and Humanity made someone nearly impossible to kill in Pandaria, and she claimed it did not work beyond the continent.
• Nazgrim used the arrival of five thousand Trolls and five thousand Orcs as an excuse to leave Halfhill Market and sail out beyond the mists to fish.
• Rokhan met Nazgrim at sea and said that Chen Stormstout had been an impostor, then revealed he had asked Sylvanas to resurrect the real Chen.
• Antonidas arrived through a Portal with Forsaken carrying a coffin and announced that they had found Chen Stormstout's soul and rebuilt his appearance.

Chen Stormstout was resurrected as a Forsaken and explained how Pandaren assassins had used a Chi-cloning technique to kill Orc commanders. Rokhan warned Nazgrim not to trust Chen, then steered him toward treating the Golden Lotus as a threat instead of attacking the Shado-Pan Monastery.

• Nazgrim welcomed the resurrected Chen Stormstout, who swore loyalty to Warchief Garrosh after learning that Thrall had become the Destroyer and was blamed for his death.
• Nazgrim asked Chen to investigate the Shado-Pan Monastery killings, and Chen demonstrated the Soul-Body Separation Technique to the Ravenholdt assassins who had witnessed them.
• Chen explained that overlapping Chi clones could shatter hearts and that Pandaren likely approached the Orc camp secretly before the assassinations.
• Nazgrim prepared to attack the Shado-Pan Monastery, but Rokhan privately warned that Chen might be deceiving him, and Nazgrim reconsidered.
• Rokhan argued that Nazgrim should focus on the Golden Lotus, which he said might cooperate with Thrall, and Nazgrim began considering how to act against it.

Rokhan and Nazgrim plotted to use the Golden Lotus as food for the orcs, while Rokhan warned Sun Rouxin and her companions that they were being deceived. Sun Rouxin led the remaining Golden Lotus masters to the orc camp, where Rokhan confronted them beside boiling pots and asked whether they were willing to be eaten.

• Rokhan told Nazgrim to find an excuse to destroy the Golden Lotus so Garrosh could publicly punish him while secretly approving.
• Sun Rouxin, He Ruanzu, and Lu Ke Shizhi led Golden Lotus masters toward the orc camp to help attack the Shado-Pan Monastery.
• A masked stranger showed them a vision of themselves in a cooking pot and warned that the orcs planned to eat them, but Sun Rouxin dismissed the warning as an inner demon.
• Lu Ke Shizhi cautioned Sun Rouxin that the orcs might eat them, and nearly half the Golden Lotus masters secretly fled.
• Rokhan welcomed Sun Rouxin and her companions, told them Pandaren had long been Horde food, and led them to dozens of boiling pots.
• Rokhan asked Sun Rouxin whether she was willing to be eaten by the orcs.

Rokhan poisoned the Golden Lotus experts and forced the survivors to falsely accuse Master Lao and their fellow members of plotting to destroy Azeroth. Meanwhile, Lao Xianglong revealed that he expected the Orcs to eat the Golden Lotus once the group had outlived its usefulness.

• Rokhan challenged Sun Rouxin and the Golden Lotus experts to prove they were willing to become food for the Orcs, then ordered them boiled when they agreed.
• Sun Rouxin and the others tried to flee, but Rokhan's poison left them helpless, and the Orcs boiled most of the Golden Lotus experts.
• Rokhan threatened Sun Rouxin, Lu Ke Shizhi, and He Ruanzu until they claimed Master Lao and the Golden Lotus were conspiring with Thrall to destroy Azeroth.
• Rokhan praised the coerced testimony as proof that the Orcs had saved Azeroth, while Sun Rouxin and the other survivors begged to live.
• At the Shrine of Two Moons, Lao Xianglong told Lao Ruanzu that the Orcs would eat the Golden Lotus after the Shado-Pan Monastery was destroyed, and revealed that he had taught his son only escape skills.

Lao Xianglong revealed why he had betrayed the Pandaren and challenged Sun Rouxin’s beliefs before leading his followers to Mogu'shan Palace. As the Horde invaded, he urged the Pandaren to abandon their version of history and pray to the sleeping Mogu for salvation.

• Lao Xianglong told Lao Ruanzu that he had hidden his martial talent after Niuzao forced him into serving the August Celestials, and said he had betrayed the Pandaren to gamble on destroying them.
• After learning the Horde had arrived, Lao Xianglong ordered his followers to choose between becoming Orc rations and taking refuge at Mogu'shan Palace, then went to the Vale's gate.
• Sun Rouxin accused Lao Xianglong of conspiring against Azeroth and deceiving his students about the Dao, while Lao Xianglong admitted that he had taught those doctrines as lies and revealed his Golden Lotus Dao Heart.
• Rokhan dismissed the Dao Heart as useless against the August Celestials and ordered the Horde to attack, while Lao Xianglong's followers gathered at Mogu'shan Palace.
• Lao Xianglong told the Pandaren that the Mogu had abandoned Pandaria rather than been defeated by them, and urged them to pray to the sleeping Mogu to escape the Orcs.

Lao Xianglong led the Golden Lotus into Mogu'shan Palace to escape the advancing Horde, while Rokhan sent troops inside and withdrew himself. Within the palace, Lao Xianglong revealed the Disc of the Red Flying Cloud and the Pandaren encountered towering stone lions and ancient murals.

• Pandaren leaders, officials, young nobles, soldiers, and ruffians entered Mogu'shan Palace as the Horde approached, and Lao Xianglong opened additional passages to help them escape.
• The Horde army arrived and slaughtered several thousand Pandaren who had not made it inside.
• Lao Xianglong challenged Rokhan to enter the palace, and Rokhan claimed he feared no danger before following the Golden Lotus inside.
• Rokhan ordered his deputy to lead five thousand Darkspear and five thousand Kor'kron into the palace, then withdrew from the Vale of Eternal Blossoms with his personal guard.
• Lao Xianglong descended into the palace on the Disc of the Red Flying Cloud, relieved that the Golden Lotus and Horde had entered.
• The Pandaren found towering painted stone lions and ancient, colorful murals inside Mogu'shan Palace.

Pandaren explored Mogu'shan Palace and rejected murals claiming the Mogu had created their races and that Pandaren descended from Mogu. Deep inside the palace, Lao Xianglong told the living King Xien that the Orcs could stop the Curse of Flesh and that the Mogu should awaken.

• Pandaren studied murals that attributed the origins of the Saurok, Jinyu, Hozen, and Cloud Serpents to Mogu Soul Magic, but they dismissed the claims as lies.
• Pandaren saw murals claiming the Mogu had driven out the Mantid and created the August Celestials, and they angrily denounced them before fleeing from the approaching Horde.
• Pandaren found murals identifying them as Mogu whose bodies had become entirely flesh, but they laughed off the story and continued running from the Horde.
• Lao Xianglong approached the living King Xien and said he had found a way to stop the Curse of Flesh.
• Lao Xianglong told King Xien that Orcs carried the power to stop the curse and could serve as the antidote that would awaken the Mogu.

King Xien learned that Orc blood might halt the Curse of Flesh and ordered the capture of the Orcs who had entered Mogu'shan Palace. Meanwhile, the fleeing Golden Lotus Pandaren found food in a mysterious cauldron and discovered a mural about Emperor Shaohao.

• Lao Xianglong told King Xien that C'Thun had found a power in Orc blood that could stop the Curse of Flesh, and Xien explained the Mogu's history and their war with Elune.
• King Xien ended his petrification, ordered Jiehan to capture five thousand Orcs for testing, and designated five thousand Trolls as a gift for Titan Keeper Ra-den.
• King Xien opened a spatial rift and took Lao Xianglong to meet Ra-den.
• The Golden Lotus Pandaren rested in a vast chamber after their pursuers disappeared, and a rune-covered cauldron produced a feast for them.
• A Pandaren spotted a mural depicting Emperor Shaohao and shouted that the Mogu were lying.

Pandaren rejected a mural claiming Emperor Shaohao had been the last Mogu emperor, while Dark Prophet Zul found them unconscious and questioned his own faith in prophecy. Meanwhile, Lao Xianglong and Xien consulted Ra-den about the Orcs and the Curse of Flesh, and Lao Xianglong revealed that he had heard of Wrathion.

• A Pandaren noticed that the mural’s paint was fresh, prompting the Pandaren to call it a forgery and denounce its history.
• Dark Prophet Zul and his attendants found more than a hundred thousand sleeping Pandaren, and Zul wondered whether resurrecting Emperor Archaeus could save the Zandalari Empire.
• Xien brought Lao Xianglong before Ra-den, who recognized the Orcs’ Fel and Elune’s power in him and confirmed that Orc flesh could stop the Curse of Flesh.
• Ra-den asked what Xien would offer for information about whether the Moon Goddess had a hidden plot, then showed interest when Lao Xianglong wondered why some beings sought to enter Azeroth while others wanted to leave.
• Ra-den challenged Lao Xianglong to explain what he knew, and Lao Xianglong mentioned the mysterious Wrathion, who supposedly came from another world.

Xien learned from Ra-den that Orc flesh could cure the Mogu’s Curse of Flesh and that Lei Shen was their best hope against Wrathion, then returned to Mogu’shan Palace with Lao Xianglong. Meanwhile, Malkorok’s Horde soldiers became lost in the palace, the Trolls vanished after hearing an ancient song, and the Orcs collapsed from a mysterious poison.

• Ra-den told Xien that Orc flesh could stop the Curse of Flesh, warned him not to underestimate Wrathion, and urged him to resurrect Lei Shen.
• Xien took Lao Xianglong back to Mogu’shan Palace through a Spatial Rift and explained why Ra-den feared the distant future.
• Malkorok led the Horde soldiers through the mist-filled palace and found the Trolls kneeling and weeping to Zandalar’s Soul’s Praise.
• Malkorok ordered his Orcs to search the mist, but when they regrouped, all five thousand Trolls had disappeared.
• Malkorok’s soldiers found a huge cauldron producing abundant food, and several Orc laborers ate some after the army doctor tested it.
• The Orcs collapsed from dizziness despite not eating the food, leaving Malkorok wondering how they had been poisoned.

Zul learned that the song used to unite the Trolls was an Old Gods-like whisper, while King Xien discovered that Orc blood crystals could treat the Curse of Flesh but were scarce. Shan Jihai devoured Malkorok’s soul, took his body and memories, and prepared to use the Orcs’ pride to draw more of them into the Mogu’s hands.

• Zul learned from Jiehan that the song was not Zandalar’s Soul’s Praise but a whisper that influenced Trolls, and the Trolls helped move the unconscious Orcs.
• Jiehan reported that blood crystals from ten Orcs could treat one Mogu, leaving King Xien to conclude that millions of Orcs would be needed to heal the dormant Mogu.
• King Xien ordered the Soulstealers to conduct espionage, while Malkorok awoke bound in the laboratory and offered Orgrimmar’s secrets to avoid being killed.
• Shan Jihai took an interest in Malkorok, devoured his soul, and discovered that Garrosh had the support of a mysterious great power.
• Shan Jihai occupied Malkorok’s body and told Zul that Orcs would send more forces against the Trolls if they learned that Trolls had defeated them.

Wrathion, Thrall, Anduin, and Madam Goya arrived on the Timeless Isle to prepare an arena and portal for their plans, while Wrathion noticed strange creatures and unusual forces on the island. Their preparations were disrupted when Malkorok reported that Zul’s Darkspear Trolls had killed over a hundred thousand Golden Lotus Pandaren and five thousand Kor'kron Orcs in the Mogu'shan Vaults.

• Madam Goya brought Wrathion, Thrall, and Anduin to the Timeless Isle, where Thrall was badly wounded after attacking a fiery bird and Wrathion healed him.
• Wrathion questioned how the island could sustain so many powerful creatures, while Anduin sensed unfamiliar Holy Light there.
• Madam Goya showed the group her arena, barracks, and unfinished Teleportation Array, and Wrathion agreed to resolve the array’s technical problems.
• Thrall went to the Caverns of Time to request fifty thousand Orc soldiers from the Bronze Dragonflight as Wrathion directed the Yaungol to build the Teleportation Array.
• Madam Goya learned that over a hundred thousand Golden Lotus Pandaren, five thousand Kor'kron Orcs, and five thousand Darkspear Trolls had disappeared in the Mogu'shan Vaults.
• Malkorok reported that Zul had incited the Darkspear Trolls to betray the group and kill the Pandaren and Orcs, while Malkorok killed three thousand Trolls, wounded Zul, and escaped unharmed.

Wrathion and Madam Goya plotted to imprison the weakened August Celestials and harvest their flesh and materials to equip and feed the Orc troops. Thrall and Anduin went to the Deity Palace to negotiate, and Anduin began hinting at a secret about the Burning Legion.

• Thrall mocked Malkorok, then Wrathion confronted him over the arrival of fifty thousand unequipped Orc troops and the missing Golden Lotus members.
• Madam Goya told Wrathion that Lei Shen had been resurrected and explained that his power would weaken the August Celestials, proposing they be imprisoned and harvested.
• Wrathion accepted Madam Goya's proposal, and they devised a plan in which Thrall and Anduin would invite the August Celestials to negotiate.
• Wrathion sent Thrall and Anduin to the Deity Palace and Madam Goya gave Anduin a pouch to open only if the August Celestials refused their request.
• Chi-Ji welcomed Thrall and Anduin, but the August Celestials refused to take sides between Thrall and Garrosh.
• Anduin began telling the August Celestials a secret from Prophet Velen about why the Burning Legion had not wiped out the Draenei.

Anduin and Thrall tried to win the August Celestials’ support by promising new followers, but the Celestials demanded guarantees and insisted on meeting Wrathion. At the arena, Wrathion’s concealed formation was ready as he began negotiations, while Madam Goya successfully hid her involvement from the Celestials.

• Yu'lon saw through Anduin’s attempt to sway the August Celestials with talk of the Burning Legion, so Anduin promised Stormwind’s people would worship them and Thrall offered Kalimdor’s followers.
• Xuen warned Anduin and Thrall that the Celestials could enforce their promises, and Yu'lon decided they should negotiate with Wrathion instead.
• Wrathion told Madam Goya that his Four Directions Void Formation combined several kinds of power and warned her the Celestials could detect lies.
• Anduin and Thrall brought the August Celestials to the arena, where Madam Goya concealed her role in the plan and Xuen accepted her explanation.
• Wrathion offered the Celestials food and raised the question of what territory Anduin had promised, then invited them to discuss the terms privately as they took seats around the arena.

Madam Goya and Wrathion trapped the August Celestials and forced Yu'lon to endure being butchered for the Orcs, while Wrathion studied their Unity of Heaven and Humanity. He proposed forcibly infusing Orcish soldiers with the power, and the story then shifted to General Nazgrim fuming over Rokhan and Malkorok's failures.

• Madam Goya rejected the Celestials' defense of the Pandaren and revealed her plan to make the Celestials suffer as they had.
• Wrathion activated the Four Directions Void Formation, trapping the Celestials, and Thrall prepared to punish them.
• Wrathion tortured Yu'lon until she agreed to become food for the Orcs, and Orcish soldiers stripped her flesh and bones before her body rebuilt itself.
• Wrathion studied the Celestials' recovery and proposed forcibly infusing Orcish soldiers with Unity of Heaven and Humanity, despite the risk that most would die.
• At the Horde's base in the Krasarang Wilds, General Nazgrim wanted to punish Rokhan and Malkorok but held back because both had powerful ties to Garrosh.

Nazgrim blamed and executed four Frostwolf generals for the Horde’s defeat, then ordered Chen Stormstout to send Pandaren into Mogu’shan Vaults. Meanwhile, Robbie and Vanessa investigated the Timeless Isle’s strange overlapping spaces and concluded that the Infinite Dragonflight controlled Ordon Sanctuary, leaving Robbie calling out Murozond.

• Rokhan and Malkorok accused the Frostwolf generals of aiding Zul, and Nazgrim executed four of them when they could not prove their innocence.
• Nazgrim ordered Chen Stormstout to gather a hundred thousand Pandaren to scout Mogu’shan Vaults, with five hundred Kor’kron soldiers to accompany them.
• Robbie and Vanessa arrived on the Timeless Isle and noticed that its spaces and energies seemed to overlap across planes.
• After failing to enter Ordon Sanctuary, Robbie reasoned that the Yaungol were only its cover and that the sanctuary was built within the past few centuries.
• Robbie identified the Infinite Dragonflight as Ordon Sanctuary’s true owners and called out to Murozond.