Recaps

Li Qinwu passed the Titan’s trial, defeated Black Iron’s Orks, and secured rewards and allies while rebuilding ties on Agricultural World 496B. After provoking Khorne through a Greater Daemon, he drew Tzeentch’s attention and vanished into a strange realm.

• Li Qinwu endured the Ascension Throne’s trial of five thousand Cogitator Arrays as the Iron Skull Archmagos prepared to sacrifice the Titan in the Lava Lake.
• As the Orks attacked the Titan Temple, Captain Dolong and Lieutenant Colonel Noah died helping Li Qinwu reach the Reaver Titan, whose hatch opened for him.
• Li Qinwu passed the Titan’s trial, fought Black Iron’s Stompa, crushed Black Iron beneath the Reaver Titan, and died when the Titan electrocuted him.
• Li Qinwu resurrected, reunited with Busi and the surviving Astartes, obtained tax relief, a lasgun production line, and trade rights, then returned to Nightingale and their baby.
• Li Qinwu developed Agricultural World 496B’s industry, recruited Father Anthony, received Skitarii and supplies, and joined Inquisitor Thraxol’s fleet.
• Li Qinwu and Silent One manipulated the Greater Daemon into striking Khorne, who hurled it into an unknown dimension and earned it the name Fearless One.
• Tzeentch tried to seize Li Qinwu, but the God-Emperor intervened before Tzeentch’s psychic storm swept Li Qinwu into a kaleidoscopic space.

Li Qinwu became stranded on a planet isolated from the Imperium, where seasonal Warp-born monsters besieged Kyoto and Genpei rose to defend it. After learning the planet’s coordinates and the monsters’ possible origin, Li Qinwu rescued Yamashita Maru and headed to the Son of Heaven’s palace.

• Li Qinwu awoke naked in a rice field, met Taro and Genpei, and learned that the world knew nothing of the Imperium or the wider universe.
• While waiting for spring to enter Kyoto, Li Qinwu helped Genpei’s family and watched the Emperor refuse Genpei’s plea for service as Big Monsters destroyed Mulberry Leaf Country and began marching on Kyoto.
• The Demon Army defeated Kyoto’s forces, invaded the city, and trapped its people, while Genpei killed a demon general and then charged the Giant Monster with his ancestral Steel-Cutting Sword.
• Genpei’s fight rallied Kyoto’s warriors, but the Son of Heaven ordered him to lead another campaign as Li Qinwu learned that three-eyed cultivators on Snow Flower Mountain might know the Imperium.
• Li Qinwu reached the Three-Eyed Wizard, recruited the family’s young Navigators, obtained the planet’s old coordinates, and heard that Big Monsters appeared in winter and vanished in spring.
• Li Qinwu fought off the horned samurai who were enslaving refugees, then freed Yamashita Maru and learned that the samurai had killed the boy’s mother and brothers.
• Li Qinwu carried Yamashita Maru toward Kyoto, left him with the old monk after arranging medical care, and set out for the Son of Heaven’s palace.

Li Qinwu helped Genpei defeat the Giant Monster, killed the Emperor, and freed the hidden library world from Warp concealment before returning to his family after ten years. He outfitted the Golden Road and launched an assault on Greyhide’s pirate ship, leaving its bridge under attack.

• Li Qinwu discovered that the Emperor had poisoned Genpei, and Genpei drank the remaining Jade Wine before accepting the antidote and marching to Peach Blossom Mountain.
• Genpei fought the Giant Monster, drove it to Kyoto, and killed it in front of the city’s residents.
• Li Qinwu entered the throne hall disguised as Genpei, killed the Emperor and his attackers, then revealed his identity and claimed that the Imperium would collect taxes again.
• Li Qinwu defeated the Blue Horror and purified the Book of Truth with the God-Emperor’s power, lifting the Warp fog from the library world.
• Li Qinwu returned to Agricultural World 496B after ten years and reunited with Nightingale and their grown sons, Li Dadan and Li Zhongdan.
• Li Qinwu named his repaired Scimitar-class Frigate Golden Road, equipped it with production lines and cargo, and departed with plans to build a Thousand-Machine Knight House.
• Li Qinwu prepared for a pirate boarding attack, then launched a Boarding Torpedo at Greyhide’s ship and fought through its decks toward the Bridgehead.
• Li Qinwu overwhelmed the pirate defenders in the Bridgehead with his Psychic Blast and weapons.

Li Qinwu expanded his fleet, gained the help of the Space Dwarfs, and uncovered a surviving colony-ark AI before joining Inquisitor Thraxol’s campaign against T'au influence on Water Blue Star. After Thraxol’s bombardment ignited open conflict, Li Qinwu allied with the planet’s Imperial loyalists and prepared an assault on Shan Shui’s city.

• Li Qinwu captured a pirate ship, sold its prisoners at Crossroads Star, and had it refitted as a mobile factory before discovering and salvaging a hidden pirate base.
• Li Qinwu freed 108 Space Dwarfs led by Buni Tansen, who improved the factory and gave him Precision Crystal technology after their drinking bet.
• Li Qinwu reunited with Inquisitor Thraxol, gathered his former subordinates and other companions, and learned that Water Blue Star might have fallen under T'au influence.
• Li Qinwu contacted Zero, an AI aboard a lost colony ark, and learned that it needed qualifying human genes and 100,000 tons of helium-3 to restart its engines.
• Thraxol provoked a revolt on Water Blue Star, rejected Shan Shui’s offer to negotiate, and ordered an orbital bombardment that killed many people.
• When T'au and human warships returned to confront Thraxol’s fleet, he assigned Li Qinwu to lead the ground campaign and capture Shan Shui alive.
• Li Qinwu joined Duke Yote’s loyalist forces, learned that the T'au controlled most of the planet, and secretly asked Little Knife to investigate the underhive.
• Li Qinwu chose Shan Shui’s secondary hive city as his first target, promised Duke Yote advancement for crushing the rebellion, and went to inspect the planet’s foundries for artillery production.