Chapter Summaries

Eldrad forced Phoenix King Finubar to accept Aeldari rule over the High Elves, while Tyrion wrestled with his defeat and the Sword of Khaine’s call. Elsewhere, Imperial forces devastated Mannfred’s Undead Legion with an orbital strike, and Arthas watched the bombardment as a lesson in war.

• Eldrad and the Aeldari envoys demanded that Finubar submit the High Elves to their rule, and Finubar agreed while warning them not to exploit his people.
• Eldrad threw Tyrion aside and an Aeldari warrior cut Teclis’s staff and held a sword to his throat, demonstrating the envoys’ overwhelming strength.
• Alarielle urged Tyrion to understand Finubar’s decision and the danger posed by the Imperium, while Tyrion vowed to resist if the Aeldari oppressed the High Elves.
• The Sword of Khaine called to Tyrion after Alarielle left, promising him invincibility if he drew it.
• Mannfred’s Undead Legion was devastated by an orbital bombardment and airship attacks, so Mannfred ordered his forces to scatter and retreat toward Nagashizzar.
• Arthas watched the destruction of the Undead Legion from the battleship Light of the Imperium as the supreme commander taught the recruits how the Imperium handled defiance.

Marshal Rhes taught Natal recruits the brutal logic of war and assigned Arthas to investigate the undead stronghold of Nagashizzar. At the Isle of the Dead, Cegorach opened a path to the Elven Pantheon, and Eldrad ordered the Ynnari to kill Asuryan.

• Marshal Rhes told the Natal recruits that victory and protecting the Imperium mattered more than individual lives, and Arthas listened closely.
• Rhes assigned Arthas to deal with the mastermind behind the Undead Legion at Nagashizzar, and Arthas began assessing the enemy’s defenses.
• Cegorach led the Aeldari emissaries to the Isle of the Dead to find a way into the gods’ realm and awaken Ynnead by completing the concept of death.
• Phoenix King Finubar realized the Aeldari intended to kill Asuryan and protested, but Cegorach’s warriors subdued the High Elf guards.
• Cegorach opened a path to the Elven Pantheon, Asuryan appeared before them, and Eldrad ordered Thousand Faces and the other Ynnari leaders to chop him to death.

Eldrad and the Ynnari leaders trapped and killed Asuryan to obtain his divine essence, leaving the High Elves mourning their creator god. Cegorach then named Khaine as their next target.

• Eldrad urged the Ynnari leaders to attack Asuryan after the Farseers summoned him into the mortal realm.
• The Farseers sealed Asuryan in the mortal world, and the Aeldari Warriors wounded him with their specially forged weapons.
• Cegorach joined the battle and killed Asuryan by driving a cursed blade into his chest.
• Asuryan's divine fragment fell into Cegorach's hand, and his death ended the supernatural turmoil and extinguished his sacred flame.
• Cegorach put away Asuryan's fragment and named Khaine, the Blood-Handed god of War, as their next target.

Khaine died, ending the curse on Tyrion and Malekith, while the Imperium captured Nagash after conquering Nagashizzar. Arthas then turned his attention to further expansion, as Regula prepared to use an Amonro as the protagonist of a new experiment.

• The Aeldari Warriors swarmed Khaine, and Cegorach granted him his fated death, ending the curse that had plagued Tyrion and Malekith.
• Malekith sensed Khaine's death and decided to go to Ulthuan with a powerful army to discover what had happened and reclaim his lost status.
• Mannfred and the surviving undead fled to Nagashizzar, where Nagash raged at their defeat and prepared to face the advancing Imperium fleet.
• Nagash unleashed the Realm of Absolute Death, but the Imperial airships absorbed its power, and the Imperium conquered Nagashizzar and captured Nagash.
• Arthas oversaw the victory from orbit and reviewed the lands still outside Imperial control, while the Imperium's Exterminatus destroyed the Amonro on Nine Provinces.
• Regula selected an Amonro as the subject of a new experiment, intending to test his Dharma-Ending device and investigate fortune and destiny.

Yorn Ye was expelled from the Ye clan after losing his cultivation, but a sign-in system restored his Life Palace and raised him to the Inscription Realm. Elsewhere, Sage Regula observed Yorn Ye as part of an Imperial experiment to steer Amonro toward self-destruction, before Lord Calgar summoned him.

• A Ye clan elder publicly expelled Yorn Ye, and Yorn Ye declared that he was leaving the clan by choice.
• Yorn.Mei caught up with Yorn.Ye and urged him to stay, but he refused and left Kangtan City by carriage.
• Yorn Ye’s system awarded him the seven-star World Tree Life Soul, restoring his Life Palace and raising his cultivation to the mid-stage of the Inscription Realm.
• Yorn Ye decided not to return to Kangtan City until he was strong enough to face the King Realm expert who had crippled him.
• Sage Regula used the End-of-Dharma Device experiment to implant guidance modules in three thousand Amonro and marked Yorn Ye as a Transmigrator.
• A voice told Sage Regula that Lord Calgar wished to speak with him.

Sage Regula learned that Calgar’s forces had discovered a vast civilization in Universe 04 and advised weakening it with Dharma-Ending devices while gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, Yorn Ye arrived at Maplefire Academy to pursue its number one beauty, an Amonro, after regaining his strength and receiving a system mission to conquer her.

• Sage Regula reviewed Calgar’s report about a powerful, multi-race civilization spanning a supercluster and learned that its cultivation depended on energy converted from the Warp.
• Regula disconnected from his laboratory systems and held a faster-than-light conference with Calgar about how to defeat the civilization.
• Regula recommended that Calgar gather intelligence, infiltrate the enemy, and use Dharma-Ending devices to weaken its supernatural powers while conquering other regions.
• Calgar accepted Regula’s plan and promised to collect more information for a practical strategy.
• Yorn Ye confronted a furious female Amonro at Maplefire Academy after stealing a piece of her clothing during their fight.
• Yorn Ye recalled gaining the Chaos Great Wilderness Art and a system mission to conquer Maplefire Academy’s number one beauty.

Yorn Ye defeated Leqi Yanran and took her away, leaving Maplefire Academy’s number one prodigy with a revenge system and a mission to pursue them. The story then shifted to Uruk and his Orks fighting rune puppets, ending as Uruk’s Stompa charged into close combat with a Big Rock Monster.

• Leqi Yanran attacked Yorn Ye, but he overpowered her and carried her into a nearby cave.
• After Yorn Ye emerged with Leqi Yanran, she declared herself his partner and rejected Maplefire Academy’s number one prodigy.
• The number one prodigy received the Extreme Demonic Path Growth System, gained powerful rewards, and accepted a quest to avenge his humiliation.
• Uruk and his Orks rampaged through a ruined city, fighting minotaurs and calling rune puppets Big Rock Monsters.
• Uruk summoned his Stompa, whose shield held against a Big Rock Monster’s attacks, and the two sides began a close-quarters battle.

Uruk’s Orks destroyed a minotaur city and its rune golems, while Scarface’s forces drove He Bin’s survivors to their last refuge in Mountain-Taming Sect. As the Minotaurs prepared for a final stand, Raven Guard Captain Yorn infiltrated another world to gather intelligence for the Imperium.

• Uruk led the Boyz in slaughtering the minotaurs and destroying their rune golems, then claimed a rune-carved greatsword Mogrick had found.
• The chapter recounted how Scarface’s Orks conquered the minotaur lands and pursued He Bin’s people into the Vast Mountains.
• He Bin inspected Mountain-Taming Sect’s defenses and prepared its remaining warriors and civilians for the expected final battle at dawn.
• Yorn endured an ultra-long-distance teleportation into a primeval forest and began scouting a world inhabited by humans and alien races.

Yorn investigated a supernatural world for the Imperium, observed its beasts and humans, and secretly saved a child from a Hou Beast. The chapter ended as the Fish-Dragon clan began breaching Pingyan City’s defenses to enslave its human population.

• Yorn watched a giant gorilla kill a colossal serpent and concluded that the world’s dense Aether had transformed its creatures and shaped a cultivation-based civilization.
• Yorn observed the people of Savage Village and judged them potential recruits, noting that their souls showed no signs of corruption.
• A child wandered beyond Savage Village’s protective stones, and Yorn killed a Hou Beast before giving the child back his butterfly and disappearing.
• The villagers found the Hou Beast dead, and the child described the black-armored stranger with a two-headed golden eagle on his chest.
• The Fish-Dragon clan attacked Pingyan City while its female Saint was weakened, and one of its experts killed the human Commander-in-Chief with a single punch.
• The Fish-Dragon clan’s forces bombarded Pingyan City’s protective formation and prepared to slaughter its people after breaking through.

Pingyan City’s defenders faced annihilation as four alien Saints arrived, and the Second Commander betrayed Granny Fool to help the invaders seize her Immortal-Slaying Flying Sword. Yorn appeared, killed all four Saints in moments, and left the remaining attackers fleeing.

• The Fish-Dragon Clan and other invaders massacred Pingyan City’s people, killed human prodigies, and slew an old man who had sacrificed himself to defend the city.
• Granny Fool stepped forward to protect the wounded defenders, but four alien Saints arrived and threatened to destroy the city.
• Granny Fool revealed the Immortal-Slaying Flying Sword and challenged the Saints, but the Second Commander stabbed her from behind and several humans turned on their fellow defenders.
• Yorn appeared beside the Fish-Dragon race Saint, killed him, then swiftly killed the other three Saints with his weapons.
• The xenos watched the Saints fall, and the Fish-Dragon Clan expert ordered a retreat and fled.

Yorn used an anti-magic field to slaughter the alien forces attacking Pingyan City, then implanted a memetic virus in surviving xenos and sent them home as carriers. He told Shi Tian and the other survivors that humanity could join the Imperium, while the infected aliens returned to their ancestral lands and began repeating strange words.

• Yorn activated an anti-magic field and killed the alien warriors, while the cultivators of Pingyan City confronted the traitors led by the Second Commander.
• Yorn spared several xenos, implanted a memetic virus in them, and sent them away with ships loaded with corpses.
• Pingyan City's survivors crippled and hanged the traitors, mourned the dead, and buried those who had fought for the city.
• Yorn introduced himself to Shi Tian as a Raven Guard executor of the God-Emperor and explained how Pingyan City could seek the Imperium's protection.
• The surviving xenos returned to their ancestral lands, where the Fish-Dragon Clan interrogated its surviving expert as the infected aliens repeated strange words.

Yorn’s Meme Virus drove the Fish-Dragon Clan and other powerful races to destroy themselves, while the Imperium consolidated its influence in Pingyan City. Scarface’s Orks annihilated the Mountain-Taming Sect, and Scarface received a new mission to prepare for a much larger war.

• Balong returned to the Fish-Dragon Clan’s ancestral city carrying strange words that infected the minds of its prodigies and elders, triggering a riot and massacre.
• The Fish-Dragon Clan Patriarch awakened the clan’s immortal artifact but succumbed to the same madness, destroying the ancestral city and shattering the artifact under heavenly punishment.
• The Meme Virus spread through other clans, provoking battles that destroyed their cities, immortal artifacts, and powerful fighters; Yorn reviewed the devastation from Pingyan City.
• The Fish-Dragon Clan Founding Father blamed extraterrestrial heavenly demons and proposed rallying the Eastern Wasteland Immortal Domain’s forces against them.
• Scarface and his Orks destroyed the Mountain-Taming Sect, killed its minotaurs, looted the ruins, and claimed the world for the Imperium.
• A human official gave Scarface a new mission and told him that the Emperor would soon arrive, promising a far larger war than the small-world battles he had grown tired of.

Calgar and the Imperium’s leaders finalized preparations to invade the Forgotten Civilization in Universe 04, coordinating forces, technology, and strategies against powerful Warp-wielding enemies. The meeting ended as the Imperium began mobilizing its vast industrial and military machine for a civilization-wide war.

• Calgar convened military and civilian officials, including Custodes Shield-Captain Li Weifu, to plan the campaign against the Forgotten Civilization.
• An intelligence officer outlined the enemy realms and powerful Warp-corrupted foes, along with plans to establish footholds, deploy Dharma-Ending Devices, and use Primaris Warriors and assassins for decapitation strikes.
• Magos Feila reported that local factories could produce advanced warships and weapons, and proposed improved Beacon installations to strengthen communications and the God-Emperor’s power.
• The Officio Assassinorum representative confirmed that Culexus Temple assassins were ready to target dangerous enemies.
• After a day and night of discussion, Calgar and the high command coordinated production and troop deployments across Universe 04.
• The Imperium began mass-producing war engines, moving Dharma-Ending Devices toward the front, and swearing its legions to the coming invasion.

Yorn Ye refused a system mission to sacrifice Wild City, but Ultimate Demon Venerable destroyed Kangtan City, killed Yorn Ye’s loved ones, and defeated him. Ultimate Demon Venerable then prepared to spread demonic poison while Sage Regula advanced the Imperium’s plans, as the Ancient Desolation Realm faced an approaching invasion and sent its young prodigies toward the Immortal Realm.

• Yorn Ye rejected the system’s mission to sacrifice Wild City and set off for Kangtan City to live in seclusion with his loved ones.
• Yorn Ye found Kangtan City ruined and learned from the dying strongest expert of the Southern Desert that Ultimate Demon Venerable was responsible.
• Ultimate Demon Venerable showed Yorn Ye a recording of his captured loved ones, then defeated him and killed them; Yorn Ye survived after being swept away by turbulent currents of space-time.
• Ultimate Demon Venerable completed his revenge mission, received Demonic Poison and the Primordial Chaos Demon Body, and ordered an Amonro expert to spread poison through righteous cities.
• Sage Regula reviewed the Imperium’s plans and ordered experiments accelerated to find the native-universe coordinates of the transmigrated Amonro.
• The powerful factions of the Ancient Desolation Realm decided to send their still-maturing prodigies to the Immortal Realm ahead of the extraterrestrial invasion.

The extraterritorial demons invaded the Ancient Desolation Realm as Orks descended on the Great Luo Immortal Palace, overwhelming its defenders and destroying much of the sacred land. The surviving disciples and leaders retreated to the Inner Pavilion, where the Orks brought forward more than a hundred colossal machines to attack its protective formation.

• The Great Luo Immortal Palace and the Immortal Realm opened a passage so selected heavenly geniuses could escape to the Immortal Realm before the demons arrived.
• A colossal object emerged from a rift in the sky and unleashed bombardments across the world as Orks landed and attacked the Great Luo Immortal Palace.
• Scarface ordered the Orks to assault the Great Luo Immortal Palace's protective formation, while the disciples fought back and struggled against contaminated spiritual energy and endless enemies.
• The Orks breached the outer defenses, destroyed floating islands, and forced the surviving disciples to retreat into the Inner Pavilion.
• The Great Luo Immortal Palace's sect master opened the treasury and awakened the sect puppets to defend the Inner Pavilion, but the Orks soon approached with more than a hundred colossal machines.

The Orks breached the Great Luo Immortal Palace’s formation and overwhelmed its defenders, killing the senior brother and driving the survivors toward the main peak. Meanwhile, Imperial forces prepared a stable passage to the Immortal Realm from the Fish-Dragon Clan’s ruined city, as Man Hu marveled at their structures.

• The Orks destroyed a formation anchor, poured into the Great Luo Immortal Palace, and began a brutal battle against its disciples and awakened puppets.
• The senior brother rallied the defenders at Spirit Immortal Palace and unleashed the Great Wilderness Devours Heaven Art, but the Gambling Addict killed him and the Orks overran the palace.
• The Orks captured the Eight Peaks and drove the remaining disciples toward the main peak while planting Imperial Aquila banners across the conquered territory.
• Imperial personnel built a spacetime passage in the ruins of the Fish-Dragon Clan’s ancestral city to open an invasion route to the Immortal Realm.
• Man Hu of Savage Village admired the Imperial structures and recalled that his village had joined the human empire in exchange for supplies, knowledge, and protection.

Savage Village moved into an Imperium city and clashed with Stone Village over which group would serve in the military. Meanwhile, besieged sect masters at Great Luo Immortal Palace learned the Immortal Realm had severed its connections to the lower worlds and prepared a desperate strike against the enemy.

• Man Yun received the Imperium’s housing assignments, learned to read enough to find Savage Village’s designated district, and led his people into the new city.
• Man Hu and the villagers marveled at their new homes and mistook household assistance system 9527 for a powerful cultivator before Stone Village mocked them.
• A Stone Village man boasted that his people had been recruited for military service, prompting Man Yun and Man Hu to insist Savage Village would prove its worth by enlisting too.
• At Great Luo Immortal Palace, the sect masters contacted their predecessors in the Immortal Realm and learned that extraterrestrial fiends had forced the immortal domains to sever the Ascension Path.
• The Immortal Realm’s connection failed, leaving the sect masters cut off with only a sealing technique; they decided to burn their divine souls and attack the enemy’s world in one final attempt.

The sect leaders invaded the Ork world but were weakened by its green radiance and slaughtered by Scarface, leaving the Great Luo Immortal Palace destroyed. As human immortals endured oppression in the North Cold Immortal Palace, Calgar ordered the Imperium to open passages into the Immortal Realm and begin its invasion.

• The sect leaders used the Heaven and Earth Wheel to open a passage and charged into the Ork world, where green structures suppressed their powers.
• The sect leaders destroyed a green-lit tower and realized the structures weakened them, but Scarface arrived and killed them, including the Pure Yang Sacred Land's sect leader and the Great Luo Immortal Palace's sect leader.
• The Great Luo Immortal Palace's defenses fell, its survivors were massacred, and Gambling Addict led the Ork Boyz away while Big Meks began building a spacetime device.
• A young Ice Dragon Clan member named Hao'er struck a human True Immortal and complained that his father had not returned; his mother explained that his father was guarding the lower-realm border.
• Calgar ordered the Imperium to begin its operation, and forces on one hundred and twenty worlds opened passages into the Immortal Realm.

The Imperium attacked the Northern Cold Heavenly Pass with overwhelming firepower, while Calgar and his forces searched for a weakness in its formations. After the Imperium used prisoners as expendable bait, one cultivator’s grief disrupted the defenses long enough for Primaris Warriors to teleport onto the wall.

• The fiend fleet breached the sealed passage between worlds and bombarded the Heavenly Pass, whose formations resisted the assault.
• The defenders counterattacked and destroyed several Imperial warships, but the enemy’s use of the law of time restored some of them.
• Calgar and Tech-Priest Feila analyzed the wall’s formations and sent captured prisoners into the killing formations to disrupt them.
• A cultivator’s rage over his descendant’s death briefly stalled the defensive formations, and the Imperium concentrated its fire on the resulting weakness.
• A breach opened long enough for a squad of Primaris Warriors to teleport onto the wall, where their leader vowed to cleanse the world in the Emperor’s name.

Argentius and the Silver Skulls teleported onto the Northern Cold Heavenly Pass and attacked the formation’s anchor, slaughtering its defenders with weapons that prevented their souls from returning. The formation collapsed and Imperial reinforcements poured through, while the Palace Master of the North Cold Immortal Palace fled and the remaining defenders began to panic.

• Argentius led the Silver Skulls in a charge toward the xenos array anchor, while battle-brothers including Atigenus fought through heavy losses.
• The Silver Skulls killed the Immortal Dao defenders with lethal speed, and the sect leader of the Extreme Desire Sect died when a fiend shot him.
• Imperial attackers destroyed a tower node, disrupting the grand formation and widening a breach in the city wall.
• More heavily armored fiends appeared atop the Northern Cold Heavenly Pass and slaughtered the Immortal King and forces sent to stop them.
• An Immortal King’s battle flag carried his corpse away to raise the alarm, while the Palace Master of the North Cold Immortal Palace fled and other defenders followed.