Recaps

Harald held the narrow bridge alone, killing English soldiers as they charged him and raising the Vikings’ morale. After forty Englishmen fell and Harald grew exhausted, Harold II ordered two swimmers to attack him from behind with daggers.

• Harald defended the bridge and killed the first English swordsmen with his massive axe.
• Harold II offered fifty silver coins to the soldier who killed Harald, prompting more Englishmen to charge.
• Harald killed forty English soldiers over an hour, while Olaf recognized that his lord was seeking an honorable death.
• Harold II’s adviser proposed sending two skilled swimmers underwater to climb onto the bridge and stab Harald from behind.
• Harold II approved the plan and ordered the adviser to carry it out.

Li Qinwu and his aides reached the battle near York, where Harald Hardrada’s Viking force fought King Harold II’s English army. After Harald was ambushed and wounded, the Vikings lost the bridge and fled, and Li Qinwu’s group continued along the Gravity Track toward the next era.

• Li Qinwu identified the battle as Harald Hardrada’s raid against King Harold II near York and described the Viking warrior defending the bridge.
• English archers pinned the Vikings behind their shields while two assassins climbed onto the bridge and stabbed Harald from behind.
• Harald fought back against his attackers but was badly wounded, and Olaf helped him retreat from the bridge.
• King Harold II sent his troops across the bridge, forcing the Vikings to flee into the forest and ending their raid in failure.
• Li Qinwu and his aides left the battlefield and followed the Gravity Track toward the next era.

Li Qinwu and his companions traveled through the forest and encountered a large band of Viking warriors who mistook them for English pursuers. The Vikings attacked, and Li Qinwu fought back as the two sides clashed.

• Li Qinwu led the group through the forest while Rudosen and the Traffic Light Trio discussed the planet’s corruption and the chance to rescue wealthy stranded visitors.
• A Viking warrior emerged from the bushes, mistook the armored group for Englishmen, and threw a javelin at Li Qinwu.
• Li Qinwu caught the javelin and hurled it back, killing the Viking and alerting the four or five hundred warriors behind him.
• The Vikings charged, and Li Qinwu’s companions formed a shield line while Li Qinwu held the front against their javelin volley.
• Li Qinwu split a Viking berserker with his greatsword and began cutting down the charging warriors.

Li Qinwu held off the Viking force as it tried to surround him and his aides. Harald stopped his warriors and, hoping for an honorable death, challenged Li Qinwu to a duel.

• Li Qinwu cut down Vikings who attacked him, while his armor turned aside their weapons.
• The Vikings tried to circle around Li Qinwu and reach the aides behind him.
• Harald, wounded and supported by Olaf, ordered the Vikings to stop and declared that he would fight Li Qinwu himself.
• Olaf let Harald go, and Harald drank poisonous mushroom liquor before stepping into the circle to challenge Li Qinwu.

Li Qinwu killed Harald in a duel, and Olaf led the Vikings in giving their king a funeral at sea. Li Qinwu and his aides continued toward the forest separating the eras and the next era.

• Harald charged Li Qinwu with his battle axe, but Li Qinwu shattered the axe blade and cut Harald in half.
• Olaf stopped the Vikings from attacking Li Qinwu and listened as Harald asked to be buried with his treasures among his people.
• After Harald died, Olaf ordered the Vikings to let Li Qinwu and his aides pass, and they continued along the Gravity Track.
• From the mountain, Li Qinwu watched the Vikings place Harald and his grave goods in a boat and send it downriver.
• Olaf fired a flaming arrow into the boat, and it burned and sank at sea.

Li Qinwu and his group emerged from the forest into a Tang-era battlefield, where he killed dozens of cavalrymen before meeting a larger Tang Dynasty force. He claimed to fight for the Tang and called for An Lushan’s death, leaving the soldiers approaching him with questions.

• Li Qinwu led the group out of the forest and was attacked by a hundred mounted soldiers in matching lamellar armor.
• Li Qinwu used his speed and greatsword to kill fifty or sixty cavalrymen, while the survivors fled.
• Joel warned Li Qinwu that more than five hundred cavalrymen were approaching from behind.
• Li Qinwu recognized the Sun, Moon, and Three Stars Banner and saluted the approaching force, shouting that he would restore the Tang Dynasty.
• A Tang officer rode forward, asked where Li Qinwu came from, and Li Qinwu called for the rebels to be slain and An Lushan beheaded.

Li Qinwu and the Tang cavalry prepared to face a thousand rebel riders during the Battle of Xiangji Temple. As the armies charged, he explained the Tang rebellion and the battle’s stakes to his companions.

• The Tang cavalry mistook Li Qinwu’s strange appearance for that of a foreign monk, then spotted a thousand rebel riders approaching from the north.
• The Tang commandant formed his five hundred riders into three columns and charged to block the rebels from flanking the central army.
• Li Qinwu sent Little Knife, Little Joel, and the others to shelter behind a tree, then prepared to join the fight after the cavalry clashed.
• Rudosen asked about the battle, and Li Qinwu explained that the Tang Dynasty was fighting rebels led by An Lushan and Shi Siming.
• Li Qinwu described the Battle of Xiangji Temple as an eight-hour clash between 150,000 Tang soldiers and 100,000 rebels, with tens of thousands of casualties on both sides.

Li Qinwu entered the cavalry battle at Xiangji Temple and slaughtered rebel riders with his greatsword and overwhelming strength. He continued fighting amid the melee, leaving the rebels unable to stop his advance.

• The Tang and rebel cavalry charged one another with horse lances, suffering heavy losses as they clashed.
• A rebel officer gathered twenty or thirty riders to form up, but Li Qinwu charged in and killed them all within a minute.
• Li Qinwu rejoined the melee, killing rebel riders and horses with his greatsword, a thrown lance, and his bare hands.
• A rebel cavalryman attacked Li Qinwu with a mace, but Li Qinwu broke the horse’s jaw, pinned the rider beneath it, and stomped his head apart.
• Li Qinwu deflected a horse lance with his helmet and skewered its wielder with his greatsword.
• Li Qinwu let a charging lance glance off his shoulder armor, then smashed into the horse and sent its rider flying to his death.

Li Qinwu survived the annihilation of the Tang and rebel cavalry, then found Rudosen wounded and led his group toward the Gravity Track. They reached a hill overlooking the immense, disciplined armies at the center of the Battle of Xiangji Temple.

• Li Qinwu finished killing the remaining rebel cavalrymen after the five hundred Tang cavalrymen and one thousand rebels had been wiped out.
• A dying Tang cavalry commandant told Li Qinwu, "The Tang banner shall not fall," and Li Qinwu repeated the words before the man died.
• Li Qinwu picked up the bloodied Sun, Moon, and Three Stars Banner and found Rudosen wounded by a broken horse lance.
• Li Qinwu ordered Little Knife, Joel, and the others to make a stretcher for Rudosen and led the group along the Gravity Track.
• Li Qinwu and his group reached a hill and saw the vast battlefield, where hundreds of thousands of soldiers stood in highly organized formations.

Li Qinwu and his companions crossed the edge of the Battle of Xiangji Temple while the Tang and rebel armies fought. When rebel elites burned the Tang banner and prepared to raise the Yan Kingdom flag, Li Qinwu killed them, restored the banner, and rallied the Tang army, which began pushing toward Chang'an City.

• Li Qinwu led his companions around the battlefield through a lightly guarded forest, and they reached the era’s boundary after several hours.
• Rudosen asked Li Qinwu whether the Tang Empire recovered after winning the rebellion, and Li Qinwu explained that it declined and eventually fell.
• Six hundred rebel elites attacked the Tang banner guard, killed them, and set the Sun, Moon, and Three Stars Banner ablaze.
• The surviving rebels began raising the Yan Kingdom banner, but Li Qinwu arrived and killed them with his greatsword.
• Li Qinwu raised the Tang banner and shouted that it would not fall, inspiring the Tang soldiers to rally and push north toward Chang'an City.

Li Qinwu led his group through the forest to a battlefield from the Spartacus Revolt, where Roman legions were crushing the slave Rebel Army. With Rudosen near death, Li Qinwu charged through the fighting and stopped before a reserve regiment of five thousand Roman soldiers.

• Li Qinwu treated Rudosen's wound and hurried with Little Knife, Joel, and the others through the forest.
• Li Qinwu recognized the battlefield as the final clash between Crassus's Roman legions and Spartacus's Rebel Army.
• Li Qinwu led the group straight through the melee, clearing a path while Little Knife, Joel, and the others carried Rudosen.
• Li Qinwu reached the edge of the fighting and found a five-thousand-man Roman reserve regiment blocking the Gravity Track.
• Li Qinwu threw aside his helmet and greatsword, gathered Psychic Blast as golden Psychic Lightning flashed from his eyes, and ordered the group to keep charging.

Li Qinwu attacked Crassus’s Roman legion with psychic lightning, killing hundreds and turning the legionaries’ own javelins against them. Nearly exhausted, he spotted important Roman horsemen fleeing and launched a final Lightning Sword strike at them.

• Li Qinwu charged Crassus’s 5,000-man Roman legion and devastated its front ranks with Psychic Blasts.
• Roman legionaries hurled hundreds of javelins at Li Qinwu, who stopped them with a psychic force field and sent them back into the formation.
• The javelin attack pinned four or five hundred Roman soldiers, but Crassus’s strict discipline kept the legion from routing.
• Li Qinwu spotted a group of fleeing Roman horsemen carrying eagle standards and gathered his remaining psychic power into a Lightning Sword.
• Li Qinwu fired the golden lightning bolt behind the Roman legion, striking the fleeing horsemen.

Li Qinwu broke the Roman legion’s morale and led his staff officers across the Era Promenade to escape, then opened a Portal to send them to safety. After emerging, he set off to find Inquisitor Thraxol and warned a wealthy visitor from Terra that the planet had heretics.

• Li Qinwu killed Crassus with the Lightning Sword, and the Roman legion scattered in terror.
• Li Qinwu and the staff officers ran across the prehistoric grassland, fought off a Saber-toothed Tiger, and escaped the Era Promenade.
• Li Qinwu reached the platform beneath the Gravity Villa and used his remaining Psychic Power to open a Portal through the Mind Beacon.
• The staff officers carried the unconscious Rudosen through the Portal, while Joel asked Li Qinwu to come with them and Li Qinwu stayed behind to find Inquisitor Thraxol.
• Li Qinwu noticed the young Mr. Stomach Bag and his Power Armor guards, warned him that heretics were on the planet, and ran off.

Li Qinwu raced to the Hive City to warn Inquisitor Thraxol that the Era Promenade had altered the planet, but Thraxol no longer recognized him and treated him as a heretic. Li Qinwu tried to awaken him with his Psychic Power, but the Skaven shot him down and the Ogryn finished him.

• Li Qinwu stole a Shared Fish Head, warned his fleet to leave orbit, and learned that Inquisitor Thraxol was in the Hive City.
• Li Qinwu reached House Adala's spire and found that Thraxol's bodyguards and Skaven staff did not recognize him.
• Inquisitor Thraxol treated Li Qinwu as a stranger and suspected him of involvement in House Adala's heresy.
• Li Qinwu realized Thraxol had become part of the Era Promenade and charged at him, hoping to restore his memories with Psychic Power.
• The Skaven shot away Li Qinwu's lower body, and the Ogryn killed him with a warhammer.

Li Qinwu learned that Aifeisi had offered the Era Promenade as a work of art to Slaanesh, and that the planet’s corruption had surged as she neared daemonhood. He saw Aifeisi conducting a vast performance at the Terminal Station and learned she intended to capture a Living Saint; Purple Diamond Star’s fleet then moved to attack the Golden Road.

• Li Qinwu revived aboard the Golden Road and learned Purple Diamond Star’s Chaos Corruption reading had risen to 6666.
• Li Qinwu realized Aifeisi had built the Era Promenade over three hundred years to present human history to Slaanesh, with Inquisitor Thraxol’s arrival completing the work.
• The captain reported that the corruption reading had reached 66666 and identified the Terminal Station as its center.
• Li Qinwu and the captain watched Aifeisi conduct six enormous orchestras through a performance of human history, nearing her ascension into a Slaanesh Greater Daemon.
• Aifeisi told Li Qinwu she wanted a Living Saint to make her work more perfect, and the captain reported that Purple Diamond Star’s battleships were approaching.

Li Qinwu fled Purple Diamond Star with Inquisitor Thraxol’s fleet and headed for the Stargate, hoping its fleet would help stop Aifeisi’s ritual. The Stargate commander refused to leave his post, leaving the sacrifice unchallenged.

• Li Qinwu ordered his ships to flee the four rebel capital ships and asked whether the Stargate Fleet had also rebelled.
• After learning the Stargate Fleet remained loyal to Terra, Li Qinwu directed the battered fleet toward the Stargate.
• The rebel ships pursued and fired Lances, but their attacks barely drained Li Qinwu’s ships’ Void Shields.
• The Stargate commander warned that the Stargate was closing because of abnormal Chaos Value fluctuations and ordered Li Qinwu’s fleet to stop or leave.
• Li Qinwu told the commander that Aifeisi was performing a sacrifice and pleaded for an orbital bombardment, but the commander refused to abandon the Stargate.

Li Qinwu tried to persuade the Stargate Fleet commander to destroy the Chaos ritual on Purple Diamond Star, but the commander refused to leave the Stargate and insisted on following regulations. Li Qinwu then gambled that the commander would destroy four traitor warships if they pursued him into the fleet’s defensive zone, leaving his own fleet free to attack the ritual; the chapter ended with Li Qinwu preparing to board a Shuttle and his captain questioning the plan.

• Li Qinwu warned the Stargate Fleet commander that a Greater Daemon would soon be born on Purple Diamond Star and urged him to bombard the ritual site.
• The Stargate Fleet commander refused, doubting Li Qinwu’s identity and choosing to follow regulations rather than leave the Stargate.
• Li Qinwu accused the commander of cowardice, then proposed that his fleet lure four traitor warships into the Stargate Fleet’s defensive zone so the commander could destroy them under his standing orders.
• The commander said he would act only according to regulations, and Li Qinwu cut off the communication and ordered a Shuttle prepared.
• Li Qinwu told his captain to return to Purple Diamond Star and bombard the ritual if the traitor ships were destroyed, but otherwise to flee the system through the Mandeville Point.

Li Qinwu fled toward the Stargate Fleet while Lady Aifeisi tried to seduce him into joining the Era Promenade. The Stargate Fleet opened fire on the traitor ships, but its barrage also engulfed Li Qinwu’s Shuttle.

• Li Qinwu piloted a conspicuous Camel Shuttle into the Stargate Fleet’s defense zone while four traitor warships pursued him.
• Lady Aifeisi contacted Li Qinwu and urged him to join the Era Promenade, but her Warp-powered seduction had no effect on him.
• Aifeisi threatened Li Qinwu as the traitor warships drew near, and he spotted the Stargate Fleet opening fire.
• The Stargate Fleet’s barrage blasted one traitor cruiser apart and engulfed Li Qinwu’s Shuttle, ending his consciousness.

Li Qinwu returned to the Golden Land after his death cooldown and ordered the fleet to stop Aifeisi’s Daemon Ascension Ritual. Unable to break the Terminal Station’s Void Shields or find the vanished Era Promenade, he prepared to descend to the surface in a Drop Pod and bring his army through the Vault.

• Li Qinwu learned that the Stargate fleet had destroyed Purple Diamond Star’s rebel fleet and space stations, then ordered it to bombard the Formation Eye.
• The fleet’s bombardment could not break through the Terminal Station’s many Void Shields, so Li Qinwu ordered an attack on the Era Promenade.
• The captain found that the Era Promenade had vanished, leaving Li Qinwu unable to locate another target that could stop the ritual.
• Li Qinwu decided to board a Drop Pod, explaining that he could open a portal to bring troops from the Vault once he reached the surface.
• The captain reported that the warships had twenty Drop Pods, and Li Qinwu ordered all of them launched so he could hide in one and draw the enemy’s anti-aircraft fire.

Li Qinwu learned that Baron Dallas, the Solar Lord’s cherished youngest son, was trapped in a Slaanesh-corrupted Hive City and agreed to pursue the rescue. The chapter left him recognizing Dallas as the 700-pound youth he had previously seen at the Gravity Track’s starting station.

• The Stargate Fleet commander asked Li Qinwu to rescue Baron Dallas from Purple Diamond Star, whose surface was in crisis.
• The commander revealed that Dallas was the Solar Lord’s youngest son and that his father doted on him, persuading Li Qinwu that the rescue could bring great rewards.
• The captain reported that Dallas and several hundred Power Armor guards were hiding atop a noble’s Spire in a Hive City consumed by Slaanesh corruption.
• Li Qinwu looked at Dallas’s photograph and recognized him as the 700-pound youth from the Gravity Track’s starting station.

Li Qinwu assigned the Traffic Light Trio to rescue Baron Dallas’s child while he prepared to descend to the surface and attack the Choir and Aifeisi’s altar. The drop pods came under heavy anti-aircraft fire as they fell toward the Terminal Station, with eight surviving long enough to break through.

• Li Qinwu rejected Little Knife, Joel, and Les for the rescue mission because he wanted to preserve them for future command roles.
• The Traffic Light Trio volunteered, and their claims that they were powerful comic relief characters convinced Li Qinwu to assign them the rescue mission.
• The Traffic Light Trio boarded a Camel-type Shuttle with more than three hundred elite Power Armor soldiers and headed for the Hive City.
• Li Qinwu climbed into a drop pod, intending to reach the surface and open a portal to bring out troops from the Vault.
• Twenty drop pods descended toward the Terminal Station under fire from anti-aircraft weapons, and twelve were destroyed before the rest broke through.

Li Qinwu landed in a modern city twisted by Aifeisi’s planetary sacrifice, where Slaanesh’s Warp corruption drove millions into grotesque madness. As he struggled against the corruption and fought off a crowd of lunatics, the chapter left him surrounded by attackers who delighted in self-mutilation.

• Li Qinwu emerged from his Drop Pod seven kilometers from Aifeisi and found a metropolis whose residents had been transformed by her ritual.
• Li Qinwu began suffering Slaanesh’s corruption, but reciting Scripture gave him enough resistance to remain temporarily sane.
• Li Qinwu refused to bring his staff officers through a Warp Portal, fearing the Warp energy would corrupt them instantly.
• Thousands of maddened residents charged Li Qinwu, and he fired his Boltgun, killing more than a hundred before his magazine ran dry.
• A suited lunatic mutilated himself and hurled his guts at Li Qinwu, then staggered toward him, delighted by the pain.

Li Qinwu fought off waves of Warp-corrupted lunatics while resisting the growing influence of the Warp. When the Pleasure Prince noticed him and nearly overwhelmed his will, Li Qinwu used his Power Sword to cut his own throat.

• Li Qinwu killed the lunatics attacking him with his Power Sword and Psychic Blasts as thousands more flooded toward him.
• As the fight dragged on, Li Qinwu's stamina and psychic strength dwindled, and the Warp's influence stirred violent, lewd urges in him.
• Li Qinwu realized the corpse pile beneath him was alive with twitching, laughing remains, while a purple Warp Storm formed overhead.
• At the Formation Eye, Aifeisi conducted an orchestra performing for the Pleasure Prince, whose projection appeared above the altar.
• The Pleasure Prince smiled at Li Qinwu, nearly breaking his will, but Li Qinwu retained a shred of himself and dragged his Power Sword across his throat.

Li Qinwu tried to destroy Aifeisi’s ritual on Purple Diamond Star by launching ten nuclear bombs, but enemy missiles shot them all down. During Aifeisi’s invitation to join the feast for Slaanesh, Li Qinwu and Aifeisi realized they might be online friends who knew each other as Flowery Prosperity and Blood Rose.

• Li Qinwu saw that Aifeisi’s choir was performing amid the chaos around the terminal and ordered the Golden Road to fire all ten nuclear bombs at the ritual site.
• The enemy’s surface missiles destroyed all ten nuclear bombs before they could reach the surface, and Li Qinwu damaged the bridge console in anger.
• Aifeisi contacted Li Qinwu, described Slaanesh’s beauty, and invited him to join her offering ceremony.
• Li Qinwu recognized the feast and perfection as clues to an online friend and asked Aifeisi if she was Blood Rose.
• Aifeisi asked Li Qinwu if he was Flowery Prosperity.

Li Qinwu discovered that the Warp cultist Aifeisi was his online friend, Blood Rose, and the two traded insults until she began ascending into a Daemon Prince. Aifeisi became Storyteller, gaining the authority to summon forces from human history and impose the weapon technology of a chosen era on nearby battlefields, while Li Qinwu wondered if he could still escape.

• Aifeisi recognized Li Qinwu as her online friend Flowery Prosperity and urged him to join her worship of the Pleasure Prince.
• Li Qinwu mocked Aifeisi’s age and appearance, and she insulted his muscles in return, provoking him into a furious argument.
• Aifeisi’s insults and rage gave way to her transformation as Warp energy gathered and six tentacles merged the six choirs into her.
• Slaanesh began Aifeisi’s ascension, naming her Daemon Prince Storyteller and granting her authority over human history and battlefield-era technology.
• Aifeisi threatened revenge on Li Qinwu as her transformation continued, and he wondered whether he could escape before she completed it.