Recaps

After Tzeentch teleported him to an unknown planet, Li Qinwu awoke naked in a feudal farming village and was mistaken for a monster by local children. Taro stopped the children from chasing him with cow dung and invited Li Qinwu to his home.

• Li Qinwu regained control of his body in a rice field and discovered that he was naked among human villagers.
• Li Qinwu punished Yamashita Maru for poking him with a stick, then asked the child where he was.
• Yamashita Maru and the other children attacked Li Qinwu with cow dung, forcing him to flee through the fields.
• Taro stopped the children and explained that Li Qinwu was only tall, not a monster.
• Taro bowed to Li Qinwu and invited him to his home because he had nothing to wear.

Li Qinwu reached a secluded village with Taro and met Taro’s father, Genpei, while trying to understand the unfamiliar planet. He learned that its people knew nothing of the wider universe and believed all lands beneath the sky belonged to the Son of Heaven.

• Taro led Li Qinwu through a bamboo grove to his family’s home and left him in the woodshed while fetching clothes.
• Li Qinwu found that the Warp was shrouded in fog and he could not contact his beacon, though drawing on Psychic Power felt unusually easy.
• Taro helped Li Qinwu dress in his father’s traditional clothes and led him to the main house.
• Li Qinwu met Genpei, who introduced himself as a country farmer and politely welcomed him.
• Li Qinwu told Genpei and Taro that he was Count and an aide to Inquisitor Thraxol, and asked to meet the planetary governor.
• Genpei and Taro explained that their world had no governor or Imperial forces and that its people knew neither the universe nor that their planet was round.

Li Qinwu learned that the planet was ruled by the Eastern Rising Dynasty and that its people feared monstrous demons called big monsters. After staying with Genji to investigate the world, he suspected the creatures were connected to the Warp.

• Li Qinwu accepted Genji’s offer to stay at his home while he investigated the unfamiliar planet.
• Li Qinwu learned that Genji hoped to become an official, though the Eastern Rising Dynasty mostly appointed people through hereditary succession.
• Genji explained that Kyoto and the Emperor’s Castle Keep could be seen from Peach Blossom Mountain.
• Li Qinwu asked what a big monster was, and Genji described demons that hunted humans in autumn and winter.
• Li Qinwu suspected big monsters were Warp-related creatures and wondered whether their seasonal appearances followed Warp fluctuations.

Li Qinwu learned about the Big Monsters threatening Bamboo Forest County and then helped a widow and her children till their paddy. Genpei and Taro watched in amazement as Li Qinwu’s strength eased the family’s hardship.

• Li Qinwu asked the county magistrate about Big Monster attacks and learned that Genpei had killed one that entered the area two years earlier.
• The county magistrate described the largest Big Monster he had seen and recounted Kyoto’s extermination of one over three meters tall.
• While walking through the fields, Li Qinwu saw Genpei working in a paddy with his wife and son, then spotted Yamashita Maru helping his widowed mother till their field.
• Li Qinwu tied the plow to his shoulders and sprinted through the paddy until Yamashita Maru’s family’s field was tilled.
• Yamashita Maru’s mother prayed in gratitude, while Genpei and Taro watched Li Qinwu’s feat with amazement.

Li Qinwu helped Genpei teach Taro that a swordsman needed a steel-hard heart by testing him with Genpei’s treasured blade. Afterward, Li Qinwu recognized the family heirloom as a Power Sword and wondered why the Imperium of Man had vanished from the world.

• After finishing the fieldwork, Li Qinwu performed a series of poses and returned home with Genpei.
• Genpei sparred with Taro and explained that the Heart-Steel Iron-Cutting Style required a swordsman to temper his heart as well as his body.
• At Genpei’s request, Li Qinwu attacked Taro with the treasured sword, cutting through Taro’s wooden sword and frightening him into retreat.
• Genpei told Taro that his heart was still unsettled, while Li Qinwu reassured him and returned the sword to Genpei.
• Li Qinwu recognized the Steel-Cutting Sword as a Power Sword and wondered why he had found no trace of the Imperium of Man.
• Genpei praised Li Qinwu’s warrior spirit, saying that although he carried no sword, he had a sword in his heart and great righteousness within him.

Li Qinwu planned to investigate Kyoto but learned that entering without permission could endanger Genpei's family, so he decided to wait for a safer chance. When the Emperor's procession approached, Genpei prepared to seek Imperial Favor, and Li Qinwu hoped Genpei's success would help him reach Kyoto.

• Li Qinwu learned that commoners needed approval to enter Kyoto and decided to wait until the city opened its gates in spring.
• Genpei heard that the Emperor's procession would pass near Bamboo Forest County and prepared to seek Imperial Favor.
• Genpei bathed and dressed in armor with help from his wife and Taro, then waited beside the road with Li Qinwu.
• Genpei told Li Qinwu he wanted to serve the country and its people, while Li Qinwu wished him success and asked him to take him to Kyoto.
• A grand procession arrived, with hundreds of samurai and attendants surrounding an enormous curtained palanquin that carried the Emperor.

Genpei failed to gain the emperor’s favor and refused Li Qinwu’s offer to serve another country, but offered his son Taro as an aide. As monsters awakened across the land, a six-meter-tall Big Monster led an army that destroyed Mulberry Leaf Country and sent its terrified lord to Kyoto to spread fear.

• The emperor refused to meet Genpei, and armed guards forced him off the road.
• Li Qinwu offered Genpei a place in his service, but Genpei declined and offered his son Taro as an aide instead.
• Big Monsters emerged in Mulberry Leaf Country as the weather turned cold and began slaughtering villagers.
• A six-meter-tall Big Monster united the monsters, destroyed the country’s force of two thousand warriors, and equipped his followers with their weapons and armor.
• The Big Ogre Legion captured Mulberry City, killed and ate many of its 150,000 inhabitants, and seized the lord after killing his family.
• The six-meter-tall Big Monster bit off the lord’s nose and ears, then sent him to Kyoto to spread fear.

The Emperor learned that a Giant Monster commanded nearly five hundred Big Monsters and sent the Grand General north with Kyoto’s forces to stop them. The armies met on open farmland, where the humans formed spear squares against the monsters’ armor and weapons, and the Big Monsters began their assault by displaying human limbs.

• A wounded daimyo reached Kyoto and warned the Emperor that Big Monsters had destroyed Mulberry Leaf Country.
• Mounted scouts confirmed the Giant Monster’s horde was advancing on Kyoto, but the sole returning warrior died after reporting that the monsters had wiped out the country.
• The Grand General pledged to defeat the horde and led ten thousand warriors and thirty thousand support troops north.
• The Grand General’s troops formed spear squares on farmland as the approaching Big Monsters appeared in layered armor with shields and weapons looted from Mulberry Leaf Country.
• The Grand General steadied his troops, and the Big Monsters advanced before pulling human limbs from their weapons, shields, and bodies.

The Big Monsters routed the spear warriors by slaughtering them in gruesome ways and spreading terror. The general survived the battle but was mutilated and sent back toward Kyoto to spread fear.

• The Big Monsters displayed and hurled mutilated victims at the spear warriors, breaking their morale and provoking a chaotic battle.
• The Big Monsters overpowered the spear warriors, eating and dismembering them until many fled.
• The general tried to force his fleeing soldiers back into the fight, but a Giant Monster killed his horse and captured him.
• The Giant Monster spared the general, saying it would modify him so he could spread fear.
• Two days later, a handless, blind warrior carried the legless, deaf general to Kyoto's walls, terrifying the guards.

The Demon Army reached Kyoto, broke through its defenses, and massacred the city’s residents. The Giant Monster left the old nobleman alive after eating his son, then led the demons to Peach Blossom Mountain to watch for anyone trying to flee.

• The Emperor ordered the legless, deaf commander-in-chief to commit seppuku and had him killed when he pretended not to understand.
• The Demon Army scaled Kyoto’s walls, overwhelmed the defenders, and entered the city to kill and eat its people.
• The Giant Monster smashed into a nobleman’s residence and searched the rooms for the people hiding inside.
• The Giant Monster chose the nobleman’s son to eat and spared the old nobleman, saying he had already eaten one hundred people that day.
• The Demon Army followed the Giant Monster to Peach Blossom Mountain, where they watched Kyoto’s main gate for fleeing residents.
• The old nobleman collapsed beside the bodies of his family and servants.

The Emperor learned that the Giant Monster was trapping Kyoto and killing one hundred people a day to make its citizens more afraid, while attempts to seek reinforcements failed. In Bamboo Forest County, Taro charged a Big Monster that was eating a Kyoto rider, determined to save him and learn what he knew.

• The old noble told the Emperor that the Giant Monster had trapped Kyoto and planned to eat one hundred people each day as their fear grew.
• After fleeing citizens were killed, the old noble concluded that the open gate was a trap to leave only frightened people in the city, and the Emperor ordered scouts to seek help.
• The Demon Army chased the scouts, and the daimyos refused to send troops, so the Emperor turned to seeking wandering heroes.
• Two Big Monsters caught a Kyoto rider near Bamboo Forest County, where one tore off his hand and began eating him as the other charged into town.
• Taro ran toward the Big Monster despite an old farmer's warning, picked up the rider's katana, and struck at the monster's neck.

Li Qinwu rescued Yamashita Maru from a Big Monster and killed it with a millstone, then punished the boy for fighting it. At Bamboo Forest County’s entrance, Genpei faced another Big Monster and beheaded it in a single sword strike, saving Taro.

• A Big Monster broke into a farm woman’s home, but Yamashita Maru distracted it by throwing cow dung before fleeing when it charged after him.
• Li Qinwu struck the Big Monster into a wall, then crushed it to death with a millstone and explained that the cow dung tactic only worked before it hit the monster.
• Li Qinwu spanked Yamashita Maru for recklessly challenging the Big Monster, and the crying boy smeared cow dung on him.
• At the entrance to Bamboo Forest County, Taro’s sword failed to cut a Big Monster, and he began to fear it.
• Genpei took Taro’s katana, confronted the Big Monster, and beheaded it with one slash.

After learning that demons had besieged Kyoto, Genpei decided to go there and fight for the emperor. He arrived at the city wall with his wife, Taro, and Li Qinwu, and the soldiers agreed to let them enter.

• A dying cavalryman told Genpei that the Demon Horde had besieged Kyoto and urged him to help restore peace.
• Genpei told Bamboo Forest County’s leaders to flee to nearby domains and spread news of Kyoto’s siege.
• Genpei chose to go to Kyoto, and his wife and Taro insisted on accompanying him rather than risk enslavement as refugees.
• Genpei asked Li Qinwu to join them, and the four set out for Kyoto the next morning, avoiding Peach Blossom Mountain.
• The group reached Kyoto’s right-side wall at dusk, where Genpei offered his service to the emperor.
• A warrior on the wall ordered soldiers to lower a basket and bring Genpei and his companions inside.

Li Qinwu entered Kyoto and discovered that a hidden group of monks had preserved fragments of the Imperial Cult. An old monk told him a Warp Storm had cut the planet off from the Imperium 386 years earlier and caused its people to forget their faith and technology.

• The Genpei family settled in an abandoned Kyoto residence after the city guards warned them about Big Monster and its demons.
• Li Qinwu wandered through Kyoto and found a monk preaching belief in the Golden Sun to frightened citizens.
• The monk recognized Li Qinwu's Imperial Aquila salute and led him to a remote temple, where its old monk also mistook him for an Angel before accepting that he was an Inquisitor.
• The old monk explained that a Warp Storm had isolated the planet 386 years earlier, erased memories of the Imperium, and caused its society to regress.
• The old monk said a few believers had recovered fragments of their faith and preserved scriptures that revealed the Imperium, Angels, and the Golden Sun.

Li Qinwu learned how the Eastern Rising Dynasty erased the Imperium’s history and how Imperial Cult monks secretly preserved records for centuries. He found no planetary coordinates in their archives, but uncovered a history of the dynasty’s brutal exploitation and engineered famines.

• The old monk told Li Qinwu that the Son of Heaven had burned records of the Imperium, adopted Buddhism as the only legal religion, and forced surviving Imperial Cult members to hide as monks.
• The old monk led Li Qinwu through a hidden passage to an underground archive filled with books and statues of the Gene-Primarchs.
• The old monk showed Li Qinwu a golden God-Emperor statue, and Li Qinwu mocked the statue and the monks’ claim that they had saved the gold through frugality.
• Li Qinwu searched the preserved books for the planet’s coordinates but found none because the Son of Heaven had destroyed records and the monks had preserved no such information.
• Li Qinwu read the dynasty’s history and learned that rulers restricted movement and loyalty, manufactured slaves, and caused famines including the Man-Made Rice Famine, Maggot Rice Incident, and Human Fertilizer Incident.

Li Qinwu found a priceless STC template for a katana-style Power Sword and promised the old monk that the Imperium would come in time. Meanwhile, the Big Monsters demanded increasingly cruel daily sacrifices from Kyoto, and the Emperor ordered the city to comply after a general and his guards were slaughtered.

• Li Qinwu accepted the Electronic Storage Board STC Template from the old monk and discovered it contained a manufacturing template for a katana-style Power Sword.
• The Giant Monster’s horde entered Kyoto’s barbican, devoured the bound people there, and demanded a thousand sacrifices each day, including children, elderly people, and married couples on successive days.
• The Big Monsters’ demands spread through Kyoto, causing panic as the Emperor asked his ministers what to do.
• A general led one hundred guards out of the city to fight the Big Monsters, but they were killed and their mutilated bodies were returned.
• The Emperor ordered the city to provide whatever people the Big Monsters demanded so Kyoto could gain a moment of peace.

As the demons terrorized Kyoto and slaughtered people trying to escape, Genpei defied the warriors’ warnings and confronted the enormous demon general. He returned with its head, and the headless monster soon fell.

• The Emperor’s personal guards abducted children throughout the city to prepare blood offerings, while other residents tried to flee over the walls.
• A four-meter Big Monster massacred commoners who reached the forest, then charged toward those climbing back up the wall.
• Genpei ignored his unit leader’s warning and descended from the wall to stand between the Big Monster and the fleeing commoners.
• Genpei charged the demon general and fought it in the darkness as the warriors watched from the wall.
• Genpei returned carrying the demon general’s head, and its headless body collapsed moments later.

After slaying the demon general, Genpei became the Emperor’s retainer and promised to fight the Giant Monster the next night, while the Emperor secretly continued gathering children as sacrifices. As Genpei and his family prepared for the battle, Li Qinwu learned that surviving old-era books were kept in the Emperor’s Tenshukaku.

• A samurai brought the demon general’s head to the Emperor, who summoned Genpei and recognized him as the village samurai he had once dismissed.
• The Emperor made Genpei his retainer, and Genpei explained that decades of martial training and his treasured sword had enabled him to kill the demon general.
• Genpei promised to slay the Giant Monster the next night and asked the Emperor to house his wife and son and release the captured children.
• After Genpei left, the Emperor refused to release the children and ordered another two hundred captured as a reserve in case the demons needed more to eat.
• Genpei reunited with his wife and son in the palace, reassured them about the coming fight, and learned that Taro had left the Count a letter at their old residence.
• Li Qinwu learned from the old monk that some old-era books had survived the Emperor’s burnings and were stored in the Tenshukaku.

Yuan Pingding confronted the Demon Horde alone in Kyoto's rebuilt barbican, condemning their cruelty and declaring his intent to kill their leader. He charged the Big Monsters as the samurai, children, and parents watched.

• Soldiers rebuilt Kyoto's barbican gate overnight after the demons destroyed the main gate.
• Yuan Pingding entered the barbican, knelt alone, and listened to the demons approaching and the captured children and parents crying.
• A Giant Monster arrived with the Demon Horde, but held back the other Big Monsters from attacking Yuan Pingding.
• Yuan Pingding denounced the demons for destroying human lives and courage, shaming the samurai on the walls.
• Yuan Pingding drew his ancestral Steel-Cutting Sword, vowed to cut off the Giant Monster's head, and charged the Big Monsters.

Lord Genpei wounded the Giant Monster and nearly killed him, but the monster escaped while his Big Monsters attacked. As the Barbican’s warriors charged out to help, Genpei and the soldiers renewed their fight against the monsters.

• Lord Genpei cut off the Giant Monster’s thumb, wounded his arm and knee, and slashed a major artery in his neck.
• The Giant Monster shook Lord Genpei from his back and struck him into the ground, then limped toward the city gate.
• Lord Genpei fought through the Barbican and killed several Big Monsters, but he ran out of strength as the horde closed in.
• Warriors fired arrows from the walls, opened the Barbican gates, and charged out to help Lord Genpei.
• Lord Genpei rallied the warriors to kill the monsters.

Genpei returned victorious with two hundred Big Monster heads, and the Son of Heaven ordered him to lead another attack after five days of rest. Meanwhile, Li Qinwu learned that three-eyed cultivators on Snow Flower Mountain preserved knowledge of the Imperium and hurried to meet them.

• Genpei revealed his injuries after the warriors praised him for driving back the Big Monsters and bringing back two hundred heads.
• The Son of Heaven ordered Genpei to lead three thousand warriors against the remaining Big Monsters in five days and agreed to compensate the families of fallen soldiers.
• Li Qinwu learned from the old monk that three-eyed cultivators on Snow Flower Mountain possessed Ashura's power and knowledge from the era of the Imperium.
• Li Qinwu recognized the cultivators as likely Navigators and ordered the old monk to lead him to them.

Li Qinwu hurried the old monk to Snow Flower Mountain to meet the Three-Eyed Wizard, brushing past a refugee slave market on the way. When the gatekeeper tried to turn him away, Li Qinwu threatened an Inquisitorial investigation, and the Wizard rushed out to welcome him.

• Li Qinwu carried the old monk at a sprint from near Kyoto to the Snow Flower Kingdom, reaching Snow Flower Mountain in a little over five hours.
• As they climbed the mountain, the old monk explained that the refugees outside Snow Flower City were being sold as slaves and described the Three-Eyed Wizard's powers.
• At the cave entrance, the gatekeeper said the Three-Eyed Wizard was away, but Li Qinwu threatened him with an Inquisitorial investigation and punishment.
• The Three-Eyed Wizard hurried out, bowed to Li Qinwu, and ushered him into the cave, while the old monk taunted the Wizard about being investigated.

Li Qinwu secured the loyalty of the Three-Eyed Wizard’s Navigator family and learned that their planet was hidden by dense Warp Mist. The Three-Eyed Wizard described Big Monster’s seasonal appearances and disappearance, while the old monk offered a theory that the creatures were formed from the resentment of people who had starved to death.

• Li Qinwu theatrically accused the Three-Eyed Wizard of wrongdoing, then recruited the family by promising its young Navigators a chance to guide Imperial warships.
• The Three-Eyed Wizard gave Li Qinwu the planet’s coordinates from over 380 years earlier and explained that thick Warp Mist now hid the Astronomican.
• The Three-Eyed Wizard said Big Monster appeared in autumn and winter to devour people, then vanished in spring and summer.
• The Three-Eyed Wizard recounted that a captured Big Monster melted in spring, leaving an ordinary human skeleton and releasing intense human hunger and terror.
• The old monk proposed that Big Monster formed from the Warp-tainted resentment of people who starved during famines and disappeared when spring brought the hope of returning to farm.

Li Qinwu learned that stolen Psychic Power texts had been traced to Emperor's Castle Keep, then encountered Snow Flower Kingdom samurai enslaving refugees at the border. He slaughtered the samurai by fighting with whatever body part or weapon remained, finally killing their horned leader with a crushing butt-first leap.

• The three-eyed wizard told Li Qinwu that Kyoto ninjas had stolen ancient Psychic Power texts and that the books were in Emperor's Castle Keep.
• Li Qinwu and the old monk found samurai guarding bound refugees at Snow Flower Kingdom's border, and the horned daimyo's son ordered them to capture Li Qinwu as an ox.
• The horned samurai threatened the old monk, so Li Qinwu killed ten attackers with the monk's bow and arrows.
• Li Qinwu killed more samurai with a pole saber, a katana, his fists, and a midair split kick as the horned samurai repeatedly taunted him.
• Li Qinwu turned and launched himself butt-first into the horned samurai, crushing his chest and killing him.

Li Qinwu rescued Yamashita Maru from slavery after the boy’s mother and younger brothers were killed, then brought him back to Kyoto and left him in the old monk’s care. He headed for the Son of Heaven’s palace, suspecting the ruler might be connected to Tzeentch.

• Li Qinwu freed the slaves captured by the horned samurai and discovered Yamashita Maru among them, badly wounded.
• Yamashita Maru told Li Qinwu that the samurai had killed his mother and two younger brothers when they resisted being taken as slaves.
• Li Qinwu carried Yamashita Maru toward Kyoto, stopping along the way to have a doctor treat him.
• Li Qinwu returned to the Genpei House’s former residence and learned that Genpei had become a household retainer of the Son of Heaven.
• Li Qinwu entrusted Yamashita Maru to the old monk, promised to return for him, and set off for the Son of Heaven’s palace.