Recaps

Li Qinwu drove the Aeldari Warrior away from General Zeppelin by threatening the Spirit Stones of her captured companions, then treated the wounded general. Three days later, a devastating attack forced the Hive City's leaders to tighten security and offer a massive bounty, leaving the Aeldari Warrior in hiding for months.

• Li Qinwu threatened to have the Spirit Stones of the Aeldari Warrior's four captured companions destroyed, and she abandoned her attempt to assassinate General Zeppelin and escaped.
• Li Qinwu injected General Zeppelin with a Green Needle, applied Divine Cooling Balm, and sent for a doctor from the Rejuvenation Cult.
• Three days later, the Hive City responded to the Aeldari Warrior's attacks, which had killed millions and contaminated vast residential areas.
• The Hive City's upper levels reinforced nuclear facilities and armories, gathered elite forces in the Spire, and restricted and falsified nobles' information.
• The Hive City's leaders offered 100 billion and rank and title for the Aeldari Warrior's head, prompting bounty hunters to search the streets.
• The Aeldari Warrior stayed hidden for several months as security measures severely limited her ability to survive and attack.

Li Qinwu returned to the Spire after looting damaged Power Armor and Bolt Carbines, then met with General Zeppelin, who had summoned him after Li Qinwu saved his life. General Zeppelin’s radiation-induced infertility left him grieving, and he asked Li Qinwu to become his adopted son.

• Li Qinwu led his troops in looting nearly 200 suits of Power Armor and 41 Bolt Carbines before taking the equipment to Father Anthony for repairs.
• Father Anthony said he could repair only fifty suits and asked Li Qinwu to bring him 101 Lubricant; Li Qinwu postponed his skeletal reinforcement surgery.
• General Zeppelin summoned Li Qinwu to the Governor’s Palace, where Li Qinwu won their Gomoku game with one move.
• General Zeppelin lamented that radiation had killed his family and left him infertile, while his butler explained that the local Rejuvenation doctors could not cure him.
• Li Qinwu tried to console General Zeppelin by joking that he could find sons everywhere, so General Zeppelin asked Li Qinwu to become his adopted son.

General Zeppelin asked Li Qinwu to become his adopted son and inherit the Count Zeppelin title, explaining that this would preserve his family’s culture and protect Li from powerful enemies. Li Qinwu rejected him at first, but accepted the offer in the end.

• General Zeppelin urged Li Qinwu to become his adopted son, but Li refused because they were not related by blood.
• The butler explained that powerful nobles were targeting Li and that General Zeppelin had protected him from their attention.
• The butler explained that choosing one of Zeppelin’s blood relatives would let another noble family absorb the Zeppelin family and erase its culture.
• General Zeppelin described his failing health and offered Li his wealth, businesses, land, army, and connections in exchange for inheriting the title.
• Li Qinwu finally called General Zeppelin “Uncle Zeppelin” and said he was hungry.

Li Qinwu joked with Reno about their wealthy benefactors, then asked General Zeppelin to secure an Aeldari Warrior prisoner. He wanted to study Eldar swordsmanship and grow stronger after realizing how completely the Aeldari Warrior had outclassed him.

• Reno and Li Qinwu compared their pampered lives over a video call, revealing that Reno was being served by a wealthy woman and Li Qinwu was staying with General Zeppelin.
• Li Qinwu ended the call after Reno misunderstood his relationship with General Zeppelin, then asked the general for a Planetary Governor position.
• After the butler said Li Qinwu could not become Planetary Governor, Li Qinwu requested an Eldar prisoner instead.
• Li Qinwu explained that he wanted to study the Aeldari Warrior's combat methods, and General Zeppelin agreed to arrange for a prisoner.
• Li Qinwu resolved to learn Eldar swordsmanship and become stronger after the Aeldari Warrior exposed the gap between his power and the wider universe.

Li Qinwu imprisoned an Aeldari Warrior to train his swordsmanship through repeated fights to the death, but her fear kept her from fighting until she put on a War Mask. He charged her and was killed in one blow, waking in the Hideout.

• Li Qinwu had General Zeppelin obtain a female Aeldari Warrior and locked her with him in a reinforced cage at the Strategic Reserve Warehouse.
• Li Qinwu threw the Aeldari Warrior an iron scimitar and challenged her to a fight, but she huddled in the corner and cried.
• Li Qinwu threatened the Aeldari Warrior until she picked up the scimitar, though she still trembled and showed no fighting spirit.
• Li Qinwu tossed her a War Mask, and she put it on, transforming into a poised and battle-ready Aeldari Warrior.
• Li Qinwu charged the masked Aeldari Warrior with his two-handed sword, but she killed him in one blow, and he woke in the Hideout.

After repeatedly dying in seconds against the Aeldari Warrior, Li Qinwu decided he needed to improve his physical stats before challenging her again. He went to Father Anthony for bone enhancement surgery, bringing six Rejuvenation Doctors to supervise and prevent the Adeptus Mechanicus from secretly implanting devices in him.

• Li Qinwu repeatedly challenged the Aeldari Warrior in the Cage, but she killed him instantly each time.
• Li Qinwu assessed the gap between their combat abilities and decided to raise his physical stats before fighting her again.
• Li Qinwu went to the Temple of the Machine God and demanded immediate bone enhancement surgery from Father Anthony.
• Li Qinwu brought six Rejuvenation Doctors to disinfect the operating table and supervise Father Anthony.
• Father Anthony complained about the doctors' presence but agreed to perform the surgery as Li Qinwu's team watched.

Li Qinwu underwent surgery to have every bone removed, strengthened, and reinserted, enduring the procedure without showing pain. The Rejuvenation Doctors monitored him afterward and decided to try the Green Needle he had provided to speed his recovery.

• Li Qinwu lay still as Father Anthony removed his thigh bone, while six Rejuvenation Doctors marveled that he had received no anesthesia and made no sound.
• Father Anthony spent four hours removing Li Qinwu's bones and placing them in equipment for density enhancement, while Li Qinwu remained able to move despite his boneless state.
• Father Anthony reinserted and sutured Li Qinwu's strengthened bones, and the Rejuvenation Doctors applied ointment to fade his scars.
• Father Anthony told Li Qinwu to rest, explaining that his bone weight had increased from twenty-three to twenty-five kilograms and that he should return for another procedure after gaining about ten kilograms.
• The Rejuvenation Doctors monitored Li Qinwu and, after hesitating, the older doctor ordered them to inject the Green Needle he had supplied.

Li Qinwu recovered from surgery and spent a month using the Hideout’s training area to build his strength, endurance, energy, and psychic abilities. He challenged the Aeldari Warrior again, but she fatally wounded him before he died promising to defeat her someday.

• Li Qinwu healed completely with a Green Needle, then began an intense routine of strength, agility, and psychic training, reviving himself whenever exhaustion wore down his will.
• After a month of training, Li Qinwu saw that his Strength and Endurance had reached 38 and his Energy had reached 55, then went to the Cage to face the Aeldari Warrior.
• Li Qinwu ordered the Aeldari Warrior to wear her War Mask, and she resumed control as the warrior persona.
• The Aeldari Warrior dodged Li Qinwu’s Psychic Blast and skewered him with her curved blade, but Li Qinwu spat blood onto her mask and punched her in the abdomen.
• Li Qinwu collapsed from his wound, gave the Aeldari Warrior the middle finger, threatened to defeat the Eldar someday, and died.

After surviving a few moves against the Aeldari Warrior, Li Qinwu underwent a second bone density enhancement and rapidly built more muscle through extreme training. With his health holding steady, he decided to learn swordsmanship from a human master before challenging the Aeldari Warrior again.

• Li Qinwu found that the first bone density enhancement and a month of training had strengthened him, then asked Father Anthony for a second procedure.
• Father Anthony added five kilograms to Li Qinwu's skeleton and implanted a small piece of iron under his arm at Li Qinwu's request.
• Li Qinwu resumed intense training, gained thirteen kilograms in half a month, and reached Strength 45, Endurance 45, and Energy 56.
• A Rejuvenation Doctor reported that Li Qinwu's health indicators were normal and offered him a real-time health monitor.
• Li Qinwu decided to find a human swordsmanship master and learn their skills before facing the Aeldari Warrior again.

Li Qinwu visited the Middle Hive Church to seek a swordsmanship master but found The Devout One and Sister Teresa distributing porridge amid a worsening famine. He proposed recruiting the starving into work relief and expanding food production, then suggested sending able-bodied residents to farm rebel land, leaving the wider crisis unresolved.

• Li Qinwu arrived at the Imperial Cult Cathedral and saw The Devout One, Sister Teresa, and clergy serving porridge to tens of thousands of starving residents.
• While waiting for The Devout One, Li Qinwu read Imperial Cult books and reflected on their strict teachings about desire, knowledge, and freedom.
• The Devout One told Li Qinwu that food aid had kept his district’s two million residents from starving, but newcomers had raised the population to three and a half million.
• Li Qinwu offered to provide more food and proposed recruiting people as nuns and missionaries to give them work and expand the Imperial Cult.
• Li Qinwu suggested that able-bodied residents farm rebel land and share the harvest, with half of the food brought back to feed Hive City residents.

The Devout One considered Li Qinwu’s proposal to send Hive City residents outside to farm, weighing the political and military risks. He then recommended a swordsmanship instructor, and Li Qinwu secured the Pine-Cypress Sword Saint’s agreement to train him in exchange for three hundred million.

• The Devout One questioned Li Qinwu about the fighting and the risks of sending civilians outside to farm, and Li Qinwu explained that the PDF had pushed the rebels back and the first farms could be kept near the Hive City.
• Li Qinwu asked the Devout One for a swordsmanship instructor, and the Devout One recommended the Pine-Cypress Sword Saint with a letter of introduction.
• Li Qinwu’s butler arranged a visit, and Li Qinwu traveled to the Pine-Cypress Sword Saint’s villa in the Spire.
• The Pine-Cypress Sword Saint assessed Li Qinwu’s strength and offered to teach him basic swordsmanship, while mentioning that he could not afford physical modification surgery.
• Li Qinwu offered the Pine-Cypress Sword Saint three hundred million to move to his Lower Hive training ground and teach him, and the Sword Saint swore to share his swordsmanship knowledge.

Li Qinwu trained under the Pine-Cypress Sword Saint and fought the Aeldari Warrior to improve his swordsmanship, while his physical growth eventually plateaued. He underwent his third and final Bone Enhancement Surgery and arranged to test whether implanted cartilage would return with him after resurrection.

• Li Qinwu used Power Armor to spar with the Pine-Cypress Sword Saint, learned sword stances and patterns, and began landing occasional strikes.
• Li Qinwu continued fighting the Aeldari Warrior in the Cage, improving from being killed with one slash to lasting nearly ten rounds.
• Li Qinwu’s physical attributes stopped increasing at Strength 48, Endurance 48, and Energy 59, so he went to the Temple of the Machine God for his final Bone Enhancement Surgery.
• Before the surgery, Li Qinwu asked Father Anthony to implant cloned cartilage in his arm to test whether the resurrection mechanism would treat it as part of his body.
• Father Anthony increased Li Qinwu’s bone weight by nine kilograms, then urged him to replace more of his body with mechanical parts; Li Qinwu refused and went off to exercise.

After four months of sword training, Li Qinwu finally killed the Aeldari Warrior in the Cage and recovered from his wounds. He returned to his villa and learned from Killian that production on Garden Island was expanding, though it remained far short of the captain’s food requirements.

• Li Qinwu completed his training with Teacher Songbai, who praised his swordsmanship, accepted three hundred million, and left the Lower Hive.
• Li Qinwu fought the Aeldari Warrior in the Cage, killed her after two hours, and staggered out with fatal injuries while carrying her head.
• Li Qinwu recovered using Xiangxiang, the Surgical Kit, and medical kits, then celebrated finally defeating the Aeldari Warrior after four months of repeated battles.
• Li Qinwu returned to his baronial villa, bathed, and called people to learn what had happened during his training.
• Killian told Li Qinwu that Garden Island had cleared its forest for crops and built facilities capable of producing canned goods from one million Guga Beasts every three months, with plans to expand to one hundred breeding farms.

Li Qinwu learned that an Aeldari Warrior’s attack on the planetary governor’s residence had exposed a failed coup and left thirty PDF regiments disbanded. After General Zeppelin offered to help him earn a promotion at the front, Li Qinwu decided to pursue status by confronting the Aeldari Warrior instead.

• Big Joel told Li Qinwu that wine sales had boomed, production had expanded five times, and Red Lady was paying him 150 million each month.
• Reno told Li Qinwu that an Aeldari Warrior had entered the planetary governor’s residence, killed the butler, and escaped, prompting the governor to purge more than twenty nobles.
• General Zeppelin told Li Qinwu that nobles had plotted a coup and that dozens of PDF regiments had tried to mutiny before the planetary governor trapped them in the Great Elevator.
• General Zeppelin offered to help Li Qinwu earn a ten-thousand-man regiment commander’s post by gaining credentials at the front.
• Li Qinwu rejected the slow plan and resolved to raise his status by confronting the Aeldari Warrior.

An exhausted Aeldari Warrior hid in the Hive City's maintenance spaces, cut off from supplies and reliable intelligence while bounty hunters pursued her. A public broadcast by Li Qinwu addressed her directly and showed the devastation caused by the nuclear reactor explosion.

• The Aeldari Warrior tapped into a communications line, gathered information, and used Psychic Power to repair her damaged Wraithbone Power Armor.
• She assessed her dwindling weapons and supplies as bounty hunters forced her to keep moving and encrypted communications left her without intelligence.
• She remembered that her attempt to kill the planetary governor had failed, her human noble contacts had been eliminated, and she had not freed her companion.
• She briefly removed her War Mask and began to fall asleep before a notification prompted her to connect to the Hive City's public broadcast.
• Li Qinwu addressed the Xenos across the Hive City and showed footage of radiation victims, including twenty million people suffering from Radiation Sickness.

Li Qinwu used a broadcast to inflame Hive City against the Aeldari Warrior, displayed the remains of her kin, and challenged her to a duel for the last three Spirit Stones. After the broadcast made him a celebrated figure, the grieving Aeldari Warrior walked toward bounty hunters searching for her.

• Li Qinwu denounced the Xenos on a citywide broadcast, and Hive City erupted in hatred and calls for their extermination.
• Li Qinwu showed four yo-yos made from Aeldari prisoners and smashed a Spirit Stone, destroying the soul trapped inside it.
• Li Qinwu challenged the Aeldari Warrior to meet him at a valley three hundred kilometers south of Hive City, offering an Avirlus Shuttle and threatening to crush one remaining Spirit Stone each day after he arrived.
• Hive City praised Li Qinwu as a hero, while the Aeldari Warrior grieved alone for her slain kin.
• The Aeldari Warrior walked toward bounty hunters who had tracked her, and gunfire and screams sounded from the darkness.

With his duel against the Xenos approaching, Li Qinwu rallied public support and prepared his weapons, armor, and body for battle. After receiving blessings from The Devout One, he left the cathedral to a cheering crowd, ready to fight for humanity.

• Li Qinwu visited Radiation Sickness patients and pledged his one-billion fortune to help affected children, promising to donate the hundred-billion bounty if he survived the duel.
• Li Qinwu went to the Temple of the Machine God, where Father Anthony and thirty senior Tech-Priests maintained his weapons and fitted him with twelve Neural Interfaces for Neural-Feedback Power Armor.
• The Tech-Priests solemnly armored Li Qinwu and presented him with his Power Sword, which he tested by activating its Blue Disintegration Field.
• Li Qinwu visited the Imperial Cult Cathedral, where The Devout One blessed him and affixed Purity Seals to his armor.
• Li Qinwu emerged before tens of thousands of people, raised his Power Sword, and shouted, “Long live humanity,” as the crowd cheered.

The Aeldari Warrior accepted Li Qinwu’s duel and traveled to the remote arena, where she cautiously watched him before attacking what she thought was his exposed Power Armor. Li Qinwu had used an empty suit as bait and shot her from concealment, leaving her blasted into a pile of rubble.

• The Aeldari Warrior reached the mountain arena early, searched for human forces, and hid while waiting for Li Qinwu.
• Li Qinwu arrived in an Avirlus Shuttle and waited beside it as cameras broadcast the supposed duel to Hive City.
• The Aeldari Warrior inspected the Shuttle and watched Li Qinwu through the day, remaining cautious despite his taunts.
• Li Qinwu threatened to crush a Spirit Stone at sunset, enraging the Aeldari Warrior into rushing down to attack.
• The Aeldari Warrior split the empty Power Armor shell with her Power Scimitar, then Li Qinwu fired a powerful Sniper Lasgun from concealment and blasted her into rubble.

Li Qinwu fought the wounded Aeldari Warrior through a fierce duel, switching from an overstrained Lasgun to a Bolt Carbine and then a Power Sword. As they clashed blade to blade, General Zeppelin prepared reinforcements, while the captain revealed an orbital bombardment contingency if Li Qinwu lost.

• Li Qinwu's overclocked Lasgun exploded after he fired at the charging Aeldari Warrior, so he drew his Bolt Carbine and fired until its magazine ran empty.
• The Aeldari Warrior dodged every Bolt Round and closed to within fifty meters of Li Qinwu.
• General Zeppelin ordered nearby units to prepare to support Li Qinwu, while The Devout One and Sister Teresa prayed for his victory.
• The captain told Red Lady that he had arranged an orbital salvo from Big Ivan if Li Qinwu lost, and Red Lady offered to pay for it.
• Li Qinwu drew his Power Sword and exchanged five rapid blows with the Aeldari Warrior, leaving both fighters evenly matched.

Li Qinwu used his superior strength and energy drinks to wear down the exhausted Aeldari Warrior, then destroyed her Spirit Stone to provoke her into fighting. As their duel continued, the Aeldari Warrior unleashed a piercing psychic shriek at him.

• Li Qinwu judged that the injured Aeldari Warrior was weaker than him and restored his stamina with an energy drink before attacking again.
• Li Qinwu overwhelmed the Aeldari Warrior in a prolonged exchange, while she struggled to defend with one arm and growing fatigue.
• The Aeldari Warrior feinted a thrust and leaped away, but Li Qinwu chased her and fired his Bolt Pistol without hitting.
• Li Qinwu stopped pursuing, pressed his Bolt Pistol against the Spirit Stone Necklace, and shattered the Spirit Stone, sending the soul within to the Chaos Gods.
• The enraged Aeldari Warrior charged Li Qinwu, but he regained control of the duel and wounded her shoulder with his Power Sword.
• The Aeldari Warrior crouched and unleashed a piercing shriek from her mask at Li Qinwu.

Li Qinwu resisted the Aeldari Warrior’s Psychic Howl, then deliberately let her gain the advantage so Hive City would see a dramatic struggle. After she stabbed him through the abdomen, a captain ordered the Big Ivan’s Macro Cannons to prepare to fire.

• The Aeldari Warrior’s close-range Psychic Howl only made Li Qinwu stagger, and he kicked her away before she could recover.
• Li Qinwu noticed Hive City TV was broadcasting the duel and held back his strength to make the fight look more dangerous.
• The Aeldari Warrior wounded Li Qinwu’s shoulder, prompting alarm across Hive City as viewers watched.
• Li Qinwu pretended to be stunned by another Psychic Howl and let the Aeldari Warrior stab through his abdomen.
• The captain at the Red Lady Tavern ordered the Big Ivan cargo ship to prepare its Macro Cannons, and its gunners readied the guns to fire.

Li Qinwu turned the duel around by trapping the Aeldari Warrior’s weapon and striking her down with a Power Sword blazing with golden Psychic Flame. As the Hive City hailed him and rescuers rushed to his side, he used the cameras to demand donations for Radiation Sickness patients before pretending to die.

• Li Qinwu clamped the Aeldari Warrior’s hand around her Power Scimitar, then revealed his face and declared that he would not lose.
• Li Qinwu raised his Power Sword, which ignited with golden Psychic Flame, shocking the Hive City and drawing the attention of the planetary bishop and governor.
• Li Qinwu invoked the God-Emperor and the ten million murdered Imperial citizens before splitting the Aeldari Warrior in half with his Flame Sword.
• The Hive City cheered as PDF forces, aircraft, reporters, and Rejuvenation Doctors arrived and surrounded Li Qinwu.
• Li Qinwu demanded donations of 100 billion for Radiation Sickness patients, spat blood at the camera, and pretended to die, alarming the doctors.

After Li Qinwu was celebrated as a holy hero, he discussed using his newfound reputation to build wealth and military power, while General Zeppelin explained the titles and influence he might gain. General Zeppelin also described the planetary governor’s history and the rebellion that had driven him from public life, leaving Li Qinwu with a more complicated picture of the man he might soon meet.

• Every television channel aired a program praising Li Qinwu as one of Moving Hive City's top figures.
• Li Qinwu, General Zeppelin, and the butler smoked cigarettes lit with the golden Psychic Flame, and Li Qinwu joked about lighting cigarettes for the hidden Inquisitor and Grey Knight.
• Li Qinwu told General Zeppelin that his achievements were meant to make money and build an army, and they discussed securing him a regiment and eventually a general's position.
• The butler explained that Li Qinwu's future title would depend on the planetary governor and that he should seek land, troops, tax, legislative, and voting rights.
• General Zeppelin told Li Qinwu that the planetary governor was an old friend who had vanished from public view after tax pressures and a rebellion, and described how both the governor and the farmers had viewed the crisis.

Li Qinwu attended a dinner with Planet 496B's governor and bishop, where he defended his public activism and demonstrated his Golden Flame. The gathering ended with the governor and bishop smoking alongside him.

• General Zeppelin warned Li Qinwu to accept any troops, title, or land offered by the governor but refuse a government post.
• Li Qinwu traveled to the Spire and arrived at dinner with the planetary governor and the planetary bishop.
• Li Qinwu asked for roast suckling pig, provoking the governor, who demanded to know his motives and who stood behind him.
• Li Qinwu said he sought fairness and justice for Hive City's citizens and that the masses stood behind him.
• Li Qinwu ignited utensils and liquor with Golden Flame, convincing the bishop of its divine power.
• Li Qinwu offered the governor a cigarette lit with Golden Flame, and the three men sat smoking together.

Li Qinwu argued with the planetary governor over his reward for killing an Aeldari Warrior and received a hereditary earldom with a claim to land he would have to conquer himself. As his investiture ceremony approached, he rejected the planetary bishop’s proposal to elevate him into a Living Saint.

• The planetary governor refused to give Li Qinwu money and granted him a hereditary title of Earl and up to 100,000 square kilometers of land to seize.
• Li Qinwu angrily berated the planetary governor, while the planetary bishop prevented him from summoning hidden Power Axemen by clearing away the wineglasses.
• After Li Qinwu left, the planetary governor revealed that he knew Li Qinwu was a Perpetual and considered selling him to the arriving tax collection fleet to offset unpaid taxes.
• Li Qinwu followed the planetary bishop to the Imperial Cult Spire for a grand investiture ceremony attended by nearly a thousand nobles.
• The planetary bishop proposed making Li Qinwu a Living Saint, but Li Qinwu refused, calling the position dangerous.