Chapter Summaries

Lu Wuyin summoned nine corrupted Space Wolf veterans and vanished, leaving them to attack Li Hai alongside a massive plasma barrage. The combined assault engulfed the Relic City ruins and shook the enormous Ship Wreck, with Li Hai’s fate left unclear.

• Li Hai demanded the Dimensional Rift coordinates from Lu Wuyin, who learned that Bai E had revealed their existence.
• Lu Wuyin brought out nine wolf-head pendants tainted by Tzeentch and summoned nine dead Space Wolf veterans whose bodies and souls he had corrupted.
• Lu Wuyin sacrificed an eye, an ear, an arm, and a leg to control the veterans, then vanished and claimed Li Hai could not harm him until they were all defeated.
• The nine veterans charged Li Hai as thousands of plasma torrents converged on him.
• The attacks exploded across the Relic City ruins, shook the Ship Wreck, and sent blazing energy bursting from its hull.

Li Hai’s Heart-Steel Armor grew stronger as he fought the Astartes, but Lu Wuyin trapped his consciousness in the Spirit Cage and tried to expose the darkness in his subconscious. When Lu Wuyin lifted the Masked Man’s Justice mask, a mysterious black hand seized his wrist.

• Li Hai let nine Astartes batter his armor until it strengthened enough to withstand their blows, then struck back with his Chainsword and destroyed six of them with his Bolter.
• The three surviving Nine-Pin Veterans transformed into giant wolf-beasts as countless eyes above Li Hai fired beams at him.
• Lu Wuyin used sorcery to pull Li Hai’s consciousness into the Spirit Cage, where Li Hai appeared as a masked wanderer carrying a tombstone marked “Humanity.”
• Lu Wuyin approached the Masked Man and tried to provoke his subconscious by questioning his Justice mask and lifting its edge.
• A pitch-black hand emerged from beneath the mask and tightly gripped Lu Wuyin’s wrist, leaving him frozen in terror.

A buried darkness overwhelmed Lu Wuyin and destroyed him, restoring Li Hai to consciousness and allowing him to defeat the remaining Relic City forces. With eight hundred Stronger Fragments, Li Hai headed deeper into the wrecked battleship to search a warehouse for Astartes equipment.

• The enormous black hand shattered the Masked Man’s mask and the wasteland, while the darkness revealed a horrifying presence that drove Lu Wuyin into madness and destroyed his body and soul.
• The Masked Man reappeared in the wasteland, and Li Hai regained consciousness in the real world before transforming into a gigantic armored wolf.
• Li Hai crushed two wolf-transformed Astartes with his claws, then killed the third by hurling it into the ship’s ceiling and pouncing on it, wiping out Lu Wuyin’s Relic City forces.
• Li Hai counted 237 newly gained Stronger Fragments, bringing his total to 800, and wondered how Lu Wuyin had died and why unfamiliar memories had appeared in his mind.
• Li Hai used Lu Wuyin’s memories to find a warehouse deeper in the battleship wreck and went there to look for useful Astartes equipment.

Li Hai found a Warp Shuttle and used a battleship cannon to launch himself toward the Wasteland and its Dimensional Rift. Meanwhile, a Yellow-Hat Child searched for the rift after destroying Scrap City and found the remains of the Midnight Blues Detective Agency.

• Li Hai found a Warp Shuttle in the ruined warehouse and attached it to his armor.
• Li Hai aimed a ship's cannon toward Scrap City and fired himself toward the Wasteland.
• A Yellow-Hat Child drained life from creatures in the forest and mutated them into monsters.
• The Yellow-Hat Child used telekinesis to raze Scrap City, killing nearly all its million residents.
• The Yellow-Hat Child spotted the remains of the Midnight Blues Detective Agency and found the Dimensional Rift.

Li Hai arrived at the buried agency ruins and knocked the Nurgle Greater Demon known as the Yellow-Hat Child deep underground before it could attack the Iron Nail sisters. The sisters were left exposed in their chamber as Li Hai identified the demon and its plague-based abilities.

• Little Iron Nail and Little Iron Pincer feared they would starve after their buried chamber ran out of food and nearly ran out of water.
• The Yellow-Hat Child dug the sisters’ chamber out of its hundred-meter-deep hiding place and prepared to kill them with psychokinesis.
• Li Hai spotted the sisters and the Yellow-Hat Child, recognized the child as a Nurgle Greater Demon, and struck it from the sky.
• Li Hai drove the Yellow-Hat Child through the earth, leaving a molten hole in the ground.
• Li Hai examined the demon’s status and learned that its abilities included widespread plagues, curses, healing, and planetary-scale disease attacks.

Li Hai learned the ranks of Warp Daemons and discovered that the Nurgle Greater Demon could resist his True Damage with its Level 5 True Defense. As the demon tried to swallow him, Li Hai advanced his Astartes evolution system to the Emperor's Chosen Custodes.

• Li Hai studied the Demon Summoning Authority and learned the hierarchy of Warp Daemons, from Demon Spawn to Sub-God Greater Demons.
• Li Hai used Phenomenon Fiction to focus his devastating kick on the Nurgle Greater Demon and protect the surrounding area.
• The Nurgle Greater Demon resisted Li Hai's kick and healed its mouth almost instantly.
• Li Hai found that the demon's Level 5 True Defense countered his Wrath of Truth's True Damage.
• The Nurgle Greater Demon tried to swallow Li Hai, and he raised his Imperial Bloodline to the Emperor's Chosen Custodes.

Li Hai completed his transformation into an Emperor’s Chosen Custodes, awakening the tangible Flame of Truth. He overwhelmed the Nurgle Greater Demon deep beneath the planet, leaving it badly wounded and unable to heal as their fight continued in the molten mantle.

• Li Hai’s body and abilities were remade through thousands of years of imagined Biological Alchemy, elevating him to an Emperor’s Chosen Custodes and turning Wrath of Truth into the Flame of Truth.
• Li Hai grew to five meters tall, withstood the Nurgle Greater Demon’s bite, and kicked it through the planet’s crust.
• Li Hai repeatedly punched the Greater Demon deeper underground and into the mantle, while the Flame of Truth stopped its healing and severely weakened its powers.
• The Greater Demon recognized Li Hai as an Emperor’s Chosen Custodes and cried out as Li Hai struck it again, vaporizing the surrounding mantle into plasma.

Li Hai killed the Nurgle Greater Demon and discovered that its death yielded extra Stronger Fragments, possibly because the Flame of Truth also destroyed its true body in the Warp. After realizing his battle had damaged Backroom Star, he rushed to the surface and appeared beside Little Iron Nail and Little Iron Pincer as earthquakes threatened them.

• Li Hai battered the Nurgle Greater Demon through the mantle and into the planet's core, then cut it into pieces with his Chainsword, destroying its projection and true body.
• Li Hai found that he had gained 818 Stronger Fragments instead of 808 and suspected the Flame of Truth had harvested fragments from the demon's true body as well.
• Li Hai realized his rampage might have badly damaged Backroom Star and stomped upward through the core and mantle to reach the surface.
• Little Iron Nail and Little Iron Pincer feared they would be crushed in their cabin as earthquakes shook Scrap City.
• Li Hai suddenly appeared outside the sisters' cabin.

Li Hai reunited with Little Iron Nail and Little Iron Pincer, stopped the earthquake with a punch, and told them that the convergence of the two universes would end in an hour. He showed them a gateway left by their president and asked whether they wanted to stay or go to another world.

• Li Hai revealed himself to Little Iron Nail and Little Iron Pincer and reassured them as they asked where he had been and what had happened.
• Li Hai punched the ground and dissipated the earthquake, stabilizing the ruins and quelling quakes across a thousand miles.
• Li Hai sensed a mysterious ripple and explained that the two universes would separate again in an hour, bringing the Warp back to their starry sky.
• Li Hai explained the existence of other worlds and asked the sisters whether they wanted to stay or leave.
• Li Hai pulled a glowing eye-shaped gateway from a hole beside the cabin and told the sisters their president had left it behind.

Li Hai took the Iron Nail and Iron Pincer sisters through a gateway into the Backrooms, where they arrived in Level 11, an apparently quiet and safe Endless City. After sensing the surrounding area, Li Hai detected a huge hostile entity approaching from far away.

• Li Hai warned the sisters that Warp would be more dangerous than the Wasteland and that entering the Backrooms meant they could never return, but they chose to go.
• Li Hai strengthened the sisters' bodies, taught them martial arts and killing techniques, and led them through the gateway.
• The three arrived in a vast supermarket, where frightened humans questioned them; Li Hai learned their language and gave it to the sisters so they could communicate.
• Li Hai identified the level as Level 11—Endless City and sensed that it held only a few human groups and no nearby monsters.
• Li Hai judged the level safe, then sensed a large, malicious entity flying toward them from far away.

Kandrash Forgedisaster sacrificed nearly ten thousand humans in a ritual aboard the Scythe of Blood Throat, seeking a way for the World Eater Legion to escape the Endless City. The Dark Priests revealed a spacetime rift twelve million kilometers to the southeast that could lead them home if they fed it enough energy.

• The Scythe of Blood Throat tore through the Endless City, destroying buildings as the World Eater Legion searched for a way out.
• Kandrash Forgedisaster began a ritual to seek Khorne’s guidance, and the Chaos Space Marines gathered in the Skull Cathedral.
• The Chaos warriors slaughtered nearly a thousand human captives as sacrifices while the Dark Priests chanted and received fragmented visions.
• After repeated rituals consumed nearly ten thousand sacrifices, Kandrash learned of a spacetime rift twelve million kilometers to the southeast.
• Kandrash learned that the Legion could enlarge the rift with sufficient energy and use it to return to its original universe.

Kandrash learned that Li Hai was an Emperor's Chosen Custodian and planned to capture him for a Chaos ritual, but Li Hai flew toward the World Eater flagship to stop it from reaching the sisters. As Li Hai sensed a threat powerful enough to destroy his body, the Scythe of Blood Throat prepared to attack him.

• A Dark Priest told Kandrash that a near-god commanding spatial and temporal rifts bore the Flame of Truth, and Kandrash identified him as another Custodian.
• Kandrash planned to weaken the Custodian with the Scythe of Blood Throat's main guns, then fight him with Grosax and Mortarion while preserving his body for a Chaos ritual.
• The Scythe of Blood Throat detected an unknown fast-moving signal approaching from 590,000 kilometers away, and Kandrash realized it was the Custodian.
• Li Hai flew toward the flagship to destroy it before it could devastate the land and endanger Little Iron Nail and Little Iron Pincer.
• After flying for more than ten minutes and covering six million kilometers, Li Hai sensed an intense threat that could destroy his Super White Dwarf-level body.

Li Hai survived the Scythe of Blood Throat’s moon-destroying cannon and awakened with power beyond an elite Custodian. After killing Grosax and the Chaos Warriors with a nuclear explosion, he approached Mortarion, who had witnessed his strength.

• The Scythe of Blood Throat’s main cannon blasted Li Hai into a black skeleton and carved a vast crater into the ground.
• Grosax, Mortarion, and twenty Chaos Warriors arrived to retrieve Li Hai, but his recovered body sent them and their craft flying with a shockwave.
• Li Hai settled the power that had restored him and realized he had surpassed the Emperor’s Chosen Custodes, reaching the level of an elite Custodian.
• Grosax led the Chaos Warriors in a charge while Mortarion fled to report Li Hai’s sudden transformation.
• Li Hai created a nuclear-fusion fireball with his palm, killing Grosax and the Chaos Warriors and leaving Mortarion stunned beside the craft.

Li Hai killed Mortarion, Grosax, and twenty Chaos Warriors with his upgraded power, then tore open the Scythe of Blood Throat and confronted Kandrash. Kandrash mistook Li Hai’s sudden strength for a blessing from Khorne as Li Hai unleashed an overwhelming aura.

• Li Hai killed Grosax and twenty Chaos Warriors by burning away their bodies, minds, and souls, then killed Mortarion as he flew past.
• Aboard the Scythe of Blood Throat, Kandrash learned that Li Hai’s signal strength had surged to match his own and speculated that Khorne had chosen him.
• The Dark Servitor reported that Grosax, Mortarion, and twenty Chaos Warriors had all disappeared, and Kandrash urged his followers not to fear.
• Li Hai ripped away the ship’s forward hull and appeared before Kandrash and the Chaos Warband.
• Li Hai warned Kandrash that he disliked death matches with opponents at his level, then released an aura that terrified everyone aboard.

Li Hai advanced to Crown Custodes and annihilated the forces aboard the Scythe of Blood Throat, including Kandrash. Khorne then blessed Li Hai as one of his Chosen, and he gathered the dead Custodes’ armor and weapons.

• Li Hai advanced from elite Custodes to Crown Custodes and crushed the Chaos forces with his aura and Flame of Truth.
• Li Hai killed Kandrash, then received a sudden blessing from Khorne and rose to the Stellar Level.
• Kandrash realized Li Hai had become one of Khorne’s Chosen and burned to ash, unable to accept it.
• Li Hai summoned the scattered armor plates and assembled a suit of Custodes Exclusive Armor.
• A golden spear, gun, and blade flew from the Scythe of Blood Throat and hovered around Li Hai.

Li Hai destroyed the Scythe of Blood Throat, rescued and restored the millions of humans held aboard it, and gave them food and knowledge of the Backrooms. As he flew away, he discovered that his fragment count had passed one thousand and unlocked a lottery wheel of skills.

• Li Hai tested the Custodes golden halberd and learned it could unleash energy blades far larger than a planet.
• Li Hai erased the Scythe of Blood Throat, leaving its millions of mutilated human captives unharmed on the ground.
• Li Hai restored the humans’ bodies, gave them instant noodles, and transmitted information about the Backrooms and Endless City into their minds.
• Li Hai flew away, unaware that the humans would eventually build a civilization across countless levels and worship him as their supreme god.
• Li Hai checked his interface and saw that the Scythe of Blood Throat’s destruction had raised his Stronger Fragment count to 1003 and unlocked a skill lottery wheel.

After earning a skill lottery for collecting 1,000 Stronger Fragments, Li Hai drew the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and discovered that he could use it to kill enemies above his level. He tested its power by erasing a vast region of land, buildings, and air, then vanished from the resulting storm.

• Li Hai learned that his lottery reward would give the skill he drew Permanence and Omnipresence across instance worlds.
• Li Hai spun the wheel and drew the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which added the [Causality ≥ Level 1] trait to his interface.
• Li Hai raised the Mystic Eyes to their peak and found that his Level 5 trait could let him kill Level 6 enemies.
• Li Hai activated the Mystic Eyes and cut through the death lines, erasing everything across a region tens of thousands of kilometers wide.
• Li Hai watched the resulting winds and lightning form an apocalyptic storm, then vanished from the chaotic sky.

Lager Falcon and Lester Storm led the Thorn Bird Legion’s expedition to destroy seven stable Alien Dimension Rifts on Backroom Star, despite a survival estimate of just 0.01%. As demons attacked the fleet and planet, Lager’s forces began their assault, unaware that a Chaos Greater Demon had descended nearby.

• Lager Falcon and Lester Storm discussed the mission’s deadly odds and learned that stable rifts might persist after the universes separated, allowing Backrooms entities to appear elsewhere.
• The Rainbow Light reached Backroom Star three days later, where Warp rifts opened and demon hordes attacked the planet and fleet.
• Lager Falcon ordered Lester Storm to defend against demons in space while he led the main force to find and destroy the seven Alien Dimension Rifts.
• Thirty drop pods landed in the Kangmo Mountain desert, and Lager Falcon led thirty Astartes out onto Backroom Star.
• A Chaos Greater Demon descended above the Luminous Mountains, less than a thousand kilometers from Lager Falcon’s landing site.

Lager led the Space Marines toward an Alien Dimension Rift while forty members of the Survivor Squad arrived on the planet for an ultimate trial. The newcomers learned their mission was set in Warhammer 4000K, leaving Meng Wei panicked by the four-million-year setting.

• Lager divided six hundred Space Marines into twenty squads and sent them to find and destroy the Alien Dimension Rifts, while the Astra Militarum supported them against the demons.
• Lager struck the desert ground with his Chainsword, silencing the creatures beneath the sands, then led his squad toward a Rift at supersonic speed.
• A pillar of light deposited forty members of the Survivor Squad in a ruin, and Sun Xiaobao, Shi Jing, and Meng Wei woke first.
• Sun Xiaobao and Shi Jing discussed the difficulty of their ultimate trial, while Meng Wei boasted that he would fight ten Greater Demons.
• The Main God displayed the trial details, identifying the world as Warhammer 4000K and requiring the squad to survive until a new Emperor or god was born.
• Meng Wei realized the setting had changed from Warhammer 40K to Warhammer 4000K and angrily despaired over the mission.

Meng Wei, Sun Xiaobao, and Shi Jing struggled to understand how drastically the Warhammer 40K setting had changed and debated the mission to lie low until a new Emperor or god appeared. When the Main God's protective barrier vanished, a Khorne Daemon Prince's challenge echoed across the desert.

• Shi Jing used his cybernetic eye to hypnotize the thirty-seven newly arrived Reincarnators, leaving them unconscious in the desert.
• Sun Xiaobao, Meng Wei, and Shi Jing discussed their uncertain mission and wondered what the arrival of a new Emperor and a new god would mean.
• Sun Xiaobao noticed that the Main God's protective barrier was about to end, and it vanished moments later.
• Luo O'aitasi announced himself as a Daemon Prince of Khorne and challenged the Astartes to fight.