Recaps

Liu Zhipeng rose from Nurgling gang leader to High Priest, then reincarnated as Alexander, a Commissar who led the 99th Regiment against the Orks on Viridia Prime. The regiment destroyed the Ork horde at the cost of nearly all its soldiers, and Alexander left the ward with Inquisitor Valerius as Roboute Guilliman reviewed the battle report.

• Liu Zhipeng organized Nurglings into a gang, sabotaged Khorne’s forces, and helped Nurgle win the war, earning Grandfather's Watch and Love before reincarnating.
• Liu Zhipeng spread the Four-Armed Emperor doctrine among Viridia Prime’s miners, became High Priest, and led the cult’s uprising and defense against the Tyranids.
• Liu Zhipeng and the Hall Masters opened a warp rift that brought Ka'Bandha and other daemons into the fight, then Liu reincarnated with the Heretical Leader ability.
• Alexander developed his emotional-fueling theory, joined the 99th Infantry, and rallied the regiment for its deployment to Viridia Prime.
• Alexander led the 99th Regiment through the Ork invasion, where Sergeant Orik and many soldiers died holding the Iron Temple as Colonel Valeus’s forces fell back to the trap.
• Alexander detonated the grain dust at the Iron Temple, destroying Grak’s army and much of the Ork fleet, but leaving only 351 members of the 99th Regiment alive.
• Alexander woke after twenty-seven days with a prosthetic arm, and the surviving soldiers rallied around him when Inquisitor Valerius arrived to investigate.
• Alexander secured Valerius’s promise to care for and recognize the survivors, then left the ward under escort as Roboute Guilliman read the report on Viridia Prime.

Alexander led the 99th Regiment in a doomed defense against Angron, while Liu Zhipeng’s next life as an Ork carried him from gang leader to Warboss in Ghazghkull’s WAAAGH! The Orks joined the battle for Octarius, where Liu helped turn the tide against the Tyranids and Bonecrusher led the final counterattack.

• Guilliman met Alexander, declared him a hero, preserved the 99th Regiment, and assigned it to the Indomitus Crusade under Colonel Carsten.
• Alexander transformed the regiment’s recruits into a devoted fighting family and led them to Malakbel to defend the Hymn Engine from Angron.
• As Angron overwhelmed the defenses, Alexander ordered the fleet to retreat and led his followers in a sacrificial assault that destroyed eight Bloodthirsters and wounded Angron.
• Angron destroyed the Hymn Engine, spreading Khorne’s curse, while Alexander was posthumously canonized and Liu Zhipeng began his fourth life as an Ork.
• Liu built the Big Tooth Gang through ambushes and cunning, then defeated Gogrum with his fists and declared himself the Warboss Tooth Puller.
• Liu and the Big Tooth Gang joined Ghazghkull’s WAAAGH! on Octarius, where Liu led the Red Comet against the Tyranids and destroyed a Biotitan.
• After Bonecrusher escaped a Digger Serpent, he led the Orks of Octarius in a counterattack against the faltering Tyranid Swarm.

Liu Zhipeng helped Bonecrusher defeat the Tyranids at Octarius, then led an Ork raid on Cadia that devastated the Black Legion before dying again. Reborn as a Necron Overlord, he survived the destruction of an Aeldari world only to awaken in an Ork arena and be torn apart by its horde.

• Liu Zhipeng organized the Meat Grinder defense at Octarius, where Bonecrusher’s WAAAGH! fought off a massive Tyranid invasion.
• Liu Zhipeng led Tunnel Rat Boyz underground to kill Tyranid synapse creatures, then died fighting a Tyrant in a collapsing volcano.
• Grotsnik rebuilt Liu Zhipeng with Tyranid neural tissue and machinery, and Liu received Gork and Mork’s blessing to take a WAAAGH! to Cadia.
• Liu Zhipeng and the Big Tooth Gang invaded the Planet Killer, fought Abaddon and his champions, and unleashed a soul shock wave that devastated the Black Legion.
• Liu Zhipeng’s fourth life ended, and he reincarnated as a Necron Overlord in an Aeldari palace as Slaanesh’s birth destroyed the system.
• Liu Zhipeng reanimated in a scrap-built Ork arena, killed Gurlo 'Ironhead' in a challenge, and was accepted as the strongest boss.
• Liu Zhipeng fought the arena’s Orks until a Gargant stomped him and the horde tore him apart.

Liu Zhipeng secretly aided the loyalists through the Siege of Terra, helping them defeat Horus and drive back the traitors. After the Emperor was placed on the Golden Throne, Liu escaped aboard his Night Shroud and was taken into a Necron tomb city for repairs.

• Liu Zhipeng took Kastor Alpha’s identity, forged evidence of Horus’s betrayal, and presented it to Ferrus Manus, Vulkan, and Corax before the loyalists landed on Isstvan V.
• As the betrayal erupted on Isstvan V, Liu killed Erebus, helped free the captured loyalists, and escaped while Ferrus Manus fought Fulgrim.
• Liu reached Terra with Vulkan, secretly strengthened the Imperial Palace’s defenses, and used hidden Canoptek Scarabs and Reality Stabilizers to support the loyalists during the siege.
• Liu’s Reality Stabilization Field weakened the daemons and traitor champions at the Eternal Wall, allowing Sanguinius to banish Ka'Bandha and Angron before Horus attacked him.
• Liu saved Sanguinius from Horus and helped the Emperor reach the Vengeful Spirit, where the Emperor killed Horus but suffered a mortal wound.
• Dorn carried the Emperor to the Golden Throne, Horus’s death broke the traitors’ coordination, and the loyalists counterattacked across Terra as Abaddon fled toward the Eye of Terror.
• Liu escaped Terra in his Night Shroud, entered stasis during the return journey, and awoke in a Necron tomb city where Scarabs placed him in a Reanimator Chamber for repairs.