Recaps

Li Qinwu refitted an Armed Merchant Ship into the Knight Legion and joined Titus’s crusade, surviving a Warp Storm that others believed had killed him. He infiltrated the Chaos warbands, disrupted their alliance, and led Fortune and Knight Legion against their ships, ending the stretch in pursuit of the Death Lord’s flagship.

• Li Qinwu refitted the Armed Merchant Ship as the Knight Legion, then joined Titus’s fleet as it set out on the Five Hundred Worlds Crusade.
• Li Qinwu pushed a Warp Storm away from the fleet at the cost of his body and soul, but later reappeared alive at his own memorial before Titus began the assault on the Tyranids.
• Titus remained to fight the Tyranids while Li Qinwu took Fortune and Knight Legion toward a Death World to confront the Chaos warbands gathered there.
• Li Qinwu befriended Swift Shadow and Yellow Sand, recruited them to cooperate with him, and entered the Death Lord’s gathering under the guise of a Chaos warband leader.
• When the Chaos warbands formed an alliance, Li Qinwu called out a trap and attacked, sparking a battle that left more than half the Chaos Astartes dead.
• Li Qinwu, Swift Shadow, and Yellow Sand chased the fleeing Death Lord, but he escaped after his Shuttle crashed and his guards teleported away.
• Fortune and Knight Legion destroyed traitor ships and crippled the Nurgle warband’s plague ship, then pursued the Death Lord’s flagship as it remained in the system.

Li Qinwu formed a new alliance with Yellow Sand and Swift Shadow, then sent Inquisitor Thraxol to build the Night Watch Fleet and Chapter. At Thunder Saint Alliance, Father Anthony’s microscopic warfare forced the Tyranids into a massive assault, and Li Qinwu’s forces fought back as Knight Mechs and unusual weapons joined the battle.

• Li Qinwu promised protection and work for Yellow Sand’s family, accepted Swift Shadow as a follower, and made the two men his sworn brothers.
• The Death Lord’s boarding force attacked the Knight Legion, where Knight Mechs killed the invaders, and Li Qinwu won the surrender of the enemy ship’s fallen mortals.
• Li Qinwu sent Inquisitor Thraxol away with Wraithbone armor, supplies, and a Rosette that shielded him from the Chaos Gods’ whispers.
• Inquisitor Thraxol built the Night Watch Fleet and Chapter, which fought across T'au territory for centuries while the Imperium suspected it was a Chaos Warband.
• Li Qinwu joined the defense of Thunder Saint Alliance, where Father Anthony released successive bioweapons that killed billions of Tyranids before the Hive Mind adapted.
• The Hive Mind sent Tyranid Saints and a vast swarm against the Great Wall, and Li Qinwu deployed Knight Bastions and Knight Mechs to stop them.
• Knight Mechs and their pilots killed Tyranid Saints, including Luca and the Gorilla Knight, while Li Dadan and Li Zhongdan used Lance-converted rifles to wound Saints and shoot down two Harpies.

Li Qinwu’s forces broke the Tyranids’ planetary command network and reclaimed the equator, while he arranged repairs and upgrades for the Knight Mechs and strengthened his military resources. He then entered the Blood Daemon’s domain with Swift Shadow and Yellow Sand, where the three faced a growing horde of Cultists on their way to the Grand Fortress.

• Li Qinwu and the Knight Guard repelled the Tyranid attack on the Great Wall, and Li Qinwu learned that Cultists were harvesting Tyranid blood to fuel a Daemon Portal.
• Li Qinwu launched a counteroffensive toward the equator with the Fleet Iron Guard and the Astra Militarum, but the advancing forces encountered Zoanthropes and a Brain Bug Tyrant that shielded the Tyranids from their attacks.
• With Bruce Crocodile’s help, Li Qinwu brought Troy onto the battlefield to strike the Brain Bug Tyrant during a brief gap in its Psychic Shield, triggering a chain reaction that killed Tyranid synapse creatures across the planet.
• Li Qinwu returned to Fortune, learned the equatorial campaign had succeeded, and arranged repairs for Luca’s damaged Knight Mech and the unrecoverable Quadraped Heavy Cannon Knight.
• Li Qinwu brought the wrecked machines to Moon 2, where the Iron Skull Archmagos began upgrading Luca’s Lancer and discussed a Warmaster-class Titan and a Giant Plasma Cannon for the Knight Legion.
• After Titus’s forces advanced toward the Grand Fortress, Li Qinwu learned that the Blood Daemon’s aura made ordinary weapons ineffective and that Cultists grew stronger through primitive combat.
• Li Qinwu entered the daemon’s domain with Swift Shadow and Yellow Sand, crossed a deserted military camp, and reached a bloodied arena where Cultists fought for the Blood God.
• When thousands of Cultists charged, Li Qinwu, Swift Shadow, and Yellow Sand formed a defensive triangle and killed the first- and second-tier attackers before the seventh-tier Acolyte sent nearly three hundred stronger Cultists against them.

Li Qinwu helped stop the Blood Demon’s ritual, defeated the daemon, and secured the Brass Cauldron’s destruction. As Titus launched a crusade to reclaim the Five Hundred Worlds, Ricardo arrived to take Oluka to Terra.

• Li Qinwu and his allies fought through the Foot-washing Acolytes, and Li Qinwu killed the seven Seventh Turn warriors with a Boltgun, disrupting the ritual.
• Khorne summoned Blood Demon with seven-eighths of his power, while Li Qinwu absorbed the missing portion and received the God-Emperor’s intervention to stop his corruption.
• Li Qinwu summoned Luca, whose Centaur Knight Mech fought Blood Demon until Luca beheaded him with his Giant Sword.
• The Warp Storm weakened the Chaos forces, and Li Qinwu captured Oluka after destroying his Rosette and hearing his account of the Brass Cauldron.
• Titus and Li Qinwu agreed to destroy the Brass Cauldron aboard the warship, where golden flames erased its Warp energy and transformed the statue’s Power Klaw into a Lightning Claw.
• Li Qinwu soulbound the Lightning Claw, tested it as a Macro Cannon projectile, and later offered Titus annual supplies in exchange for presenting a goldenwood table to Guilliman.
• Titus assembled the Astartes and their fleets for a parade, and Li Qinwu declared the Great Crusade begun before Titus departed to reclaim the Five Hundred Worlds.
• Ricardo arrived with an Inquisition fleet and asked Li Qinwu to hand over Oluka, explaining that Oluka was another Inquisition Grand Master’s direct disciple.