Recaps

Li Qinwu and his companions were trapped in the Era Promenade, where they crossed historical battles and witnessed Constantinople’s fall. Elsewhere, Lu Sen divided his forces, while Harald challenged the English army alone.

• Li Qinwu took his underlings to the Era Promenade, where he discovered that its historical scenes were real and that the route was part of a Daemon ritual.
• Li Qinwu led his companions through the Normandy landing and the Battle of the Somme, using his psychic powers and captured weapons to survive.
• Li Qinwu tested the forest routes and found they looped back, then guided his group through the Battle of Hampton Roads and the Siege of Pilsen.
• Li Qinwu traded sugar for plate armor and forged a greatsword from a cannon breech before leading his group into Constantinople shortly before its fall.
• Li Qinwu held the breach against Ottoman troops, then gave Constantine XI detonators and escaped through a tunnel as Constantine died in the ensuing explosion.
• Lu Sen split his forces with Ke Suo Ye, sending him east to secure cities and request reinforcements while Lu Sen moved toward the mountain entrance.
• Harald armed himself after Olaf reported the English advance, then walked onto the bridge alone and challenged Harold II’s army.

Li Qinwu crossed several historical battlefields before discovering that Aifeisi’s Era Promenade was a ritual to raise her into a servant of Slaanesh. He returned to Purple Diamond Star to stop the ascension, but after recognizing Aifeisi as his online friend, he watched her transformation begin.

• Harald defended the bridge until English assassins wounded him, then challenged Li Qinwu and died by his greatsword.
• Li Qinwu fought through the Tang rebellion and the Roman battle against Spartacus, then left the Era Promenade and learned that Inquisitor Thraxol no longer recognized him.
• Li Qinwu discovered that Aifeisi had built the Era Promenade as a vast offering to Slaanesh, while the Stargate Fleet refused to risk the Stargate to stop her ritual.
• Li Qinwu lured the rebel ships into the Stargate Fleet’s firing zone, then returned to Purple Diamond Star and ordered a surface assault after the fleet destroyed the rebels.
• Li Qinwu sent the Traffic Light Trio to rescue Baron Dallas and descended in a Drop Pod, where he fought through the corrupted city while resisting Slaanesh’s influence.
• Li Qinwu failed to destroy the ritual with nuclear bombs and recognized Aifeisi as his online friend Blood Rose, while she recognized him as Flowery Prosperity.
• Aifeisi’s anger and Warp energy triggered her ascension, and Slaanesh named her Daemon Prince Storyteller as Li Qinwu wondered whether he could escape.

Li Qinwu ruined Aifeisi’s ascension ritual, took charge of part of Inquisitor Thraxol’s legacy, and continued toward Terra with Nova. Along the way, he advanced his military and industrial plans before reaching Terra’s crowded arrival queue.

• Li Qinwu dropped stored ship waste onto Aifeisi’s sacrificial site, and Slaanesh abandoned her as she mutated into a Chaos Spawn.
• Inquisitor Thraxol entrusted Li Qinwu with his Rosette and pregnant Nova before his reported death, while the loyal PDF devastated Purple Diamond Star in a purge.
• Li Qinwu secured control of eight remaining armed merchant ships after invoking his Living Saint status and promising to protect Nova’s unborn child’s inheritance.
• Li Qinwu knocked Baron Dallas unconscious after his abuse of the crew and ordered him kept sedated for delivery to his father on Terra.
• Li Qinwu commissioned Heavy Power Armor production, inspected the enhanced Astartes recruits, and calmed Aman during the Black Rage.
• Li Qinwu adopted Nightingale’s proposal for lunar nuclear development and enlisted the Iron Skull Archmagos to demand resources from his replacement.
• Lord Ricardo investigated Purple Diamond Star and granted Li Qinwu’s fleet permission to travel to Terra.
• Li Qinwu reached Terra’s arrival queue, invoked Little Sun’s presence to seek faster access, and advertised a Power Sword sale to fund his crew’s surface tickets.

Li Qinwu built his repair business on the route to Terra, gained a place in the Inquisition, and secured valuable Terra soil while defending Nova and Thraxol’s family. He then sought a warship and tried to arrange a memorial toll for the Broken-Winged Angel Chapter, but Hero’s Tower refused to proceed without official approval.

• Li Qinwu expanded the Golden Land’s ship-repair and parts business, met Dorodo, and learned that natural goods and Terra Soil were valuable on Terra.
• Li Qinwu accepted Grand Mentor Sigurd’s offer to work as an independent Inquisition operative, received equipment, recruited more than a thousand Ogryns, and obtained his Inquisitor’s Rosette.
• Li Qinwu and Nova visited Thraxol’s family, where he fought off the old lion’s guards and the Second Young Master after they threatened Nova and her unborn child, then escaped with the ancient pine tree and its Terra Soil.
• Li Qinwu gave Nova half the soil and entrusted the pine tree and the remainder to the old monk, then sold Sigurd 3,500 cakes of Holy Tea and received authorization to seek a capital ship from Mars.
• Li Qinwu learned that Mars had no available warships and that taking over a nearly completed battlecruiser would require 410 million Thrones upfront and 100 million annually.
• Li Qinwu brought the Broken-Winged Angel Chapter’s banners to Hero’s Tower and asked for the Bell of Lost Souls to be rung in their honor.
• The cardinal demanded pontifical approval and paperwork, so Li Qinwu declared himself a Living Saint, but the cardinal rejected his claim and Li Qinwu left without securing the ceremony.