Recaps

Xiao Ran uncovered Sophia’s influence over Chidori and brought her to the fortress for protection and training. As dimensional passages spread across Earth, the Burning Legion fought the invasion, discovered that the beasts had once been humans, and gained growing political control as nations sought its protection.

• Xiao Ran learned that Sophia was influencing Chidori Kaname and arranged for Chidori and her friends to travel to the fortress for observation and training.
• Xiao Ran deployed the Burning Legion to confront more than thirty dimensional passages as Renard and Kane moved to bring Earth’s governments under the Legion’s influence.
• Xiao Ran fused with the Dragon God Mecha and used it to fight Dimensional Beasts while the Legion destroyed passages threatening to trigger a Dimensional Quake.
• Xiao Ran and Master Asia defeated an S-class Dimensional General and destroyed its passage with a Reaction Missile.
• Yuzes and the researchers discovered that Dimensional Beasts contained transformed human cells, and Xiao Ran ordered preparations to detect and suppress them.
• Xiao Ran had Kaname, Sheryl, and the Valkyries sing to a captured beast, revealing that it had once been a three-year-old girl whose human feelings returned.
• Xiao Ran ordered the researchers to investigate the cells and learned that Earth’s nations were turning to Renard and the Burning Legion after suffering heavy losses.
• Earth’s governments reorganized their anti-beast forces under the Burning name, while France announced its merger with a country controlled by the Burning Legion.

Xiao Ran united Earth’s factions, prepared defenses against the Dimensional Beasts, and helped Sophia join the Burning Legion. The blockade redirected the invasion to Jupiter, where a Dimensional Quake brought a vast horde and its fortress into the system.

• Mwu secured Luxembourg, and Xiao Ran supported Renard’s plan to unite the New Unified, Amalgam, and Burning Legion while developing new technology and enhancements.
• Renard established Unification, and Xiao Ran warned its leaders that a billion Dimensional Beasts could invade after discovering their world through a dimensional passage.
• Xiao Ran led the defense of Africa, where Sheryl’s singing weakened the Dimensional Beasts and Xiao Ran used Dawn to help repel their forces.
• Xiao Ran recruited Chidori, Sousuke, Tessa, and Sophia for research and military work, while Sophia agreed to join the Burning Legion and seek help reaching her endangered body.
• Luo and his colleagues developed Space Blockade devices that prevented passages from opening on Earth and redirected the Dimensional Beasts toward Jupiter.
• The Burning Legion tested Durandal’s virus on captured beasts, then prepared nanorobots, fleets, weapons, and defenses for a decisive battle near Jupiter.
• More than two hundred passages opened near Jupiter, and the Legion fought as nanorobots spread through the beasts before a Dimensional Quake brought a vast horde and continent into the region.
• Xiao Ran shielded the fleet with the Dragon God Mecha as Dimension Devourer warheads created black holes, while the Dimensional Beast Fortress and S-class Generals slowed their expansion.

Xiao Ran destroyed the Dimensional Beast threat, built up his Legion, and returned to Earth before entering True Game. After gathering resources in Azeroth and securing his family’s safety, he began expanding his power in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and set his sights on the Papal Hall.

• Xiao Ran destroyed the Dimensional Beast Fortress, recovered its world’s jade pearl, and found thousands of people preserved in cryogenic chambers.
• Xiao Ran rescued Sophia from her world, then Renard established Full Metal as Legion territory and settled the surviving residents there.
• Xiao Ran returned to his original world, met Yun Han, secured an invitation to True Game, and entered the game as Ran Alex Xiao.
• Xiao Ran made a deal with King Varian Urien, cleared Stratholme and other threats, and traded his rewards for Azeroth’s knowledge and goods.
• Xiao Ran reunited with his parents, negotiated with Major Luo for land and privacy, and prepared twenty recruits to protect his family.
• Xiao Ran entered Xenoblade Chronicles 2, partnered with Miasma, and used Chairman Baen’s position to gain access to the Argentum Trade Guild’s resources.
• Xiao Ran took control of the salvage operation, seized the Aetherium, and forced the Gamers and Ira Group members to serve him under binding contracts.
• Xiao Ran sent the Gamers to infiltrate the Papal Hall and capture the Pope, then arrived above it in the Dragon God Mecha as its people prepared to resist.

Xiao Ran built a new life with Situ Yaoyao, founded the Burning Legion, and gathered people and technology from several worlds. As the Legion expanded and prepared for a coalition of twenty-five rival legions, it arrived in a new mission world and encountered an approaching blue lion-shaped unit and a purple-black warship.

• Xiao Ran left the Xenoblade world with recovered Cores and technology, returned home, and began forming the Burning Legion with Situ Yaoyao.
• Xiao Ran negotiated with System Eternity to make Situ Yaoyao a Gold-rank Gamer and secure an anime-based Pokémon world for them.
• Xiao Ran and Situ Yaoyao explored the Pokémon world, collected badges, competed in the Indigo League, married, and welcomed a son before Xiao Ran returned to True Game.
• Xiao Ran led Burning Legion Gamers into the Saint Seiya world, cured Saga, and bound Hades to himself as a follower before System Eternity expelled him.
• Xiao Ran returned to his fleet territory, organized his acquisitions into new departments, assigned the Legion major reforms, and began integrating Lelouch World.
• Xiao Ran oversaw fleet development and Legion training, then learned that twenty-five Super Zone Legions had declared Legion Wars against the Burning Legion.
• Xiao Ran accelerated production and preparations for the wars, welcomed the independently manifested Blades Hana, Light, and Yao, and reviewed the coalition’s strength.
• Xiao Ran sent the fleet to Pluto, ordered reconnaissance of the new world, and saw a blue lion-shaped unit approach with a purple-black warship behind it.