Recaps

Li Qinwu used Lilith’s Wedding Ring to test Planetary Forges, uncover Adamantium, and expand Agricultural Planet 496b’s industry while making deals with visiting factions. He brought his sons into military service and helped Bruce Crocodile’s forces retake Sweet Star, ending the T’au occupation.

• Li Qinwu sacrificed the Blade of Stings and Whip of Torment, then took the Emperor’s Bolt Pistol from the shrine as Bruce hatched and revealed Lilith’s Wedding Ring.
• Li Qinwu used the ring to manipulate Adamantium, then built Planetary Forges on Moon 2 until an oversized forge drained his Psychic Power and exploded, killing three scientists.
• Li Qinwu planned new industrial sites on the moons, assessed his children’s abilities, and learned that Li Danü had befriended an approaching Void Whale.
• Li Qinwu negotiated trades for Agricultural Planet 496b, exchanged a fabricated saint’s hand bone for an armed merchant ship, and arranged to mine Adamantium beneath the Great Desert.
• Li Qinwu used the ring to drill a shaft into the magma and contain its emissions, allowing Adamantium-rich obsidian to be mined and processed on Moon 2.
• Li Qinwu gave body-part relics to Little Joel, Rudosen, and Parson, then brought Li Dadan and Li Zhongdan aboard the Fortune to learn warship command.
• Li Qinwu joined the final assault on Sweet Star as Bruce Crocodile rallied the PDF, but Flameburst Commander seized Bruce and threatened the troops.
• Li Qinwu shot Bruce Crocodile and Flameburst Commander, then ordered the PDF to storm the Spire and exterminate the remaining T’au, restoring Sweet Star to the Imperium.

Li Qinwu profited from Iron Shield Star’s civil war by selling weapons and equipment to both sides while Nova built a vehicle-repair business. As the war devastated the planet, Li Qinwu secretly recovered powerful tank wrecks, and the arc ended with him finding two rival nobles frozen beside their wrecked tanks.

• Li Qinwu sent Mario into the Eldar Webway to find a route to Macragge, then received Sigurd’s praise and unlocked the Way of the Inquisitor mission.
• After both sides on Iron Shield Star rejected mercenaries but sought weapons, Li Qinwu sold Bullpup Rifles to the Silver Shield Council and tanks and armored vehicles to the Flower Shield Council.
• Nova organized air-conditioner installations and vehicle salvage, repaired the Duke’s King Knight, and established the competing Money-First Caravan.
• Li Qinwu and Bruce Crocodile uncovered and recovered several buried tank wrecks while Li Qinwu witnessed the civilians harmed by minefields and leaking propellant.
• The Silver Shield and Flower Shield armies fought catastrophically over a Baneblade wreck, where two wounded enemy soldiers sheltered together before Li Qinwu secretly removed the tank.
• The rival councils sent noble armies across an icefield, where their soldiers perished and their commanders fought a duel in Baneblade Tanks.
• Both commanders destroyed their tanks and stabbed each other, then froze together in the snow until Li Qinwu found them ten years later.

Li Qinwu stole the Knight Mechs from both factions’ tombs, then used Bruce Crocodile and a staged monster invasion to unite their forces against a common enemy. After the battle, he arranged a joint wedding and offered Spirit Tea as the nobles faced his challenge to end their civil war.

• Li Qinwu recovered the Knight Mechs from both Valhallas, then recruited noble families to help him oppose Bruce Crocodile and arranged for Li Dadan and Li Zhongdan to meet potential brides.
• Li Qinwu sent Bruce Crocodile to Everfrost Island and offered his own soul to the Beast God, who summoned more than a hundred giant beasts through Bruce’s Portal.
• Li Qinwu led the two councils’ Knight forces against the beasts, while Luca and the young pilots fought alongside them through the fog and mountains.
• The Silver Shield Grand Noble led a flanking party that vanished, while the Flower Shield Grand Noble rallied the main force and advanced toward the Portal.
• Li Qinwu arranged for burrowing beasts to trigger an avalanche that buried the Knights, then helped the pilots emerge and watched Bruce Crocodile escape through the Portal.
• Li Qinwu warned the nobles that Bruce would return stronger and arranged a joint wedding aboard the Fortune for Li Dadan and Li Zhongdan.
• At the wedding, Li Qinwu gave the brides Rosariuses and their families Spirit Tea, then challenged the nobles to consider whether they would keep fighting one another.

Li Qinwu ended the nobles’ war, accepted a mission to investigate the Daemon-tainted Thunder Saint Alliance, and traveled through the Webway to Macragge seeking a warship and allies. He supplied Titus’s forces with weapons and armor while preparing for the campaign, and his statue was raised on the Triumphal Arch as an olive oil merchant offered to sell him a ship.

• Li Qinwu united the Silver Shield and Flower Shield nobles through a children’s game, ending their war with the creation of the Silverflower Council, then restored Knight Mechs whose former pilots’ souls became the Spirit Knight Order.
• Inquisitor Anliexier retrieved Lucius and gave Li Qinwu Grand Master Sigurd’s mission to arrest the son of Sigurd’s rival, who was implicated in a Daemon invasion on Thunder Saint Alliance.
• Li Qinwu used a Webway route to reach the Ultramar Sector, brought his fleet to Macragge, and tried to trade his cargo for an Armed Merchant Ship.
• Li Qinwu met Titus and offered his fleet and Shipboard Factory to support the expedition, demonstrating his weapons, vehicles, Knight Mechs, Holy Wine, and the Emperor’s Bolt Pistol.
• Titus and Li Qinwu agreed to share intelligence while retaining independent command, and Li Qinwu’s factory began supplying the Titus Mortal Guard with improved weapons and armor.
• Li Qinwu arranged a billion-Sola weapons order for Macragge’s regiments, traded for olive oil, silk, perfume, and paintings, and gifted the tribune Power Armor.
• Macragge’s artists painted and sculpted Li Qinwu, whose statue was installed on the Triumphal Arch, while he sent Titus three thousand suits of Power Armor.
• Titus imposed a wartime tax on the olive oil merchant’s products, and the merchant approached Li Qinwu with an offer to sell his Armed Merchant Ship.