Recaps

Liu Zhipeng united Imperial and Aeldari forces, defeated Abaddon and helped resurrect Guilliman before leading a campaign to seal the Eye of Terror. When the Four Gods destroyed three of the four Obelisks, Liu and the surviving Aeldari plunged into the Eye of Terror while Guilliman organized the remaining Imperial fleet.

• Liu Zhipeng escaped the doomed planet through Yvraine’s Webway gate, then gave Eldrad and the Craftworld representatives Obelisk schematics and set out to stop Abaddon at Cadia.
• At Cadia, Liu Zhipeng dismantled the Blackstone wreckage while Cawl activated the Obelisk network, which cut off the Warp and let Liu kill Abaddon.
• Liu Zhipeng, Yvraine, Cawl, Celestine, and Greyfax traveled through the Webway to Macragge, where Yvraine resurrected Guilliman after Cawl removed him from stasis.
• Guilliman and Liu Zhipeng defeated Ku’gath, Scabeiathrax, and Mortarion, then Guilliman accepted Liu’s offer of cooperation as the Imperium’s forces regrouped.
• Liu Zhipeng entered Commorragh, freed Xilis and Vect from Slaanesh’s mark, and led the Drukhari who sought salvation, while Vect and Yvraine used the souls of those who refused to awaken the Avatar of Ynnead.
• The Aeldari alliance and Vect’s Drukhari fleet joined Liu Zhipeng to build four Blackstone Obelisks around the Eye of Terror, and Guilliman assigned Imperial forces to defend the sites.
• As the Four Gods attacked the Obelisk sites, Liu Zhipeng and Vect fought the daemons while Guilliman and the Imperial forces held their assigned lines.
• The Four Gods destroyed three Obelisks, and Liu Zhipeng led the surviving Aeldari into Slaanesh’s palace as Guilliman rallied the Imperial fleet around the expanding Eye of Terror.

After sacrificing himself to wound Slaanesh, Liu Zhipeng reincarnated among the Gretchin and forged them into an armed rebellion. He captured Scrap World’s strongholds and founded the City of Hope, while an Imperial crusade gathered and his new Gretchin state took shape.

• Liu Zhipeng led the Ember Legion through Slaanesh’s six rings, losing most of its souls before sacrificing himself to grievously wound Slaanesh and drive the other Chaos Gods back.
• Yvraine led the surviving Aeldari out of the Warp, while Liu Zhipeng reincarnated with Primordial Divine Fire and the ability to return his followers’ souls alongside him.
• Liu Zhipeng freed the Gretchin in an Ork workshop, formed the Ember Company, and equipped its fighters with modified Ork technology and Gauss rifles.
• Liu Zhipeng’s Gretchin defeated Gurlok’s army, freed slaves at Rust Fungus Mine, and expanded their rebellion across Scrap World.
• Liu Zhipeng’s forces battered Ironfang Fortress, while Maximian’s Space Marines confronted him on the command tower and withdrew after he claimed to serve the Emperor’s will.
• Liu Zhipeng killed Grob Muchcoin, captured Ironfang Fortress, and renamed it the City of Hope, as Inquisitor Valerius assembled a crusade against Scrap World.
• Liu Zhipeng established strict city laws and Ork-spore purifications, ordered orbital shipyards and new mechs built, and helped found a Gretchin Ecclesiarchy that proclaimed him a god.

Liu Zhipeng led the Gretchin from Hope Star to Jade VII, using a staged war of liberation to gain the T'au’s trust and supplies. After the T'au fleet escaped, he revealed his hidden forces, defeated the Orks and Tyranids, and prepared to deceive the T'au again as a wounded survivor.

• Liu Zhipeng discovered a sleeping Necron army beneath Hope Star, ordered the mine sealed, and prepared his people to evacuate as Imperial forces attacked.
• The Gretchin fleet fled into the Warp and accidentally saved the T'au ship Steadfast Heart from an Ork landing craft near Jade VII.
• Liu Zhipeng presented the Gretchin as refugees seeking the Greater Good, accepted T'au repairs, and used propaganda to draw enslaved Gretchin away from the Orks.
• Liu Zhipeng arranged a chaotic assault on Skullkrak’s forces, and a massive Gretchin rocket barrage devastated the Ork flank before the Gretchin uprising swelled with freed captives.
• Tyranids overwhelmed the battlefield, and Liu Zhipeng staged the Justice Enforcer’s explosive sacrifice to convince the T'au that Madeye and the Gretchin had died protecting them.
• Liu Zhipeng claimed eighty million Gretchin had died and secured T'au weapons and technology, then sent Sharpfang’s survivors to distract the Tyranids while Suisxing attacked the Broodlord.
• After Suisxing killed the Broodlord and the T'au fleet escaped, Liu Zhipeng revealed hundreds of millions of Gretchin, mechs, Gundams, and artillery hidden on Jade VII.
• Liu Zhipeng defeated Skullkrak, destroyed the forces in orbit, and overwhelmed the remaining Orks and Tyranids before claiming to Suisxing that fewer than five hundred thousand wounded Gretchin had survived.

Liu Zhipeng united the Gretchin and fought Saraka’s divine assault, then began a new life as Saul, whose miracles helped the Sons of Sorrow rescue millions from an Ork invasion. The Ark of Hope reached Optera, where Saul’s power led the Chapter to debate whether he should be revered as a Living Saint or trained as a warrior.

• Liu Zhipeng secured T'au aid for Jade VII, turned it into the City of Hope, and spread weapons and messages that sparked Gretchin revolts across the galaxy.
• Gork and Mork sent Saraka against the City of Hope, and the T'au withdrew their support as Liu Zhipeng ordered the Gretchin to defend their home.
• Liu Zhipeng killed Saraka, but Gork and Mork revived him as their avatar, who destroyed the First Wall and killed countless Gretchin defenders.
• Saraka killed Liu Zhipeng at the City of Hope, where the souls of fallen Gretchin joined him and the system began his ninth life as Sarah’s newborn child.
• Sarah and the resistance sabotaged the Orks while the Sons of Sorrow arrived to free the human slaves, and Sarah gave birth to Saul in a collapsed mine.
• Jason named the infant Saul, whose miracles healed Malakai and restored communications, then convinced the Sons of Sorrow to repair an Ork ship as an ark for eight million people.
• Hector’s mechanics revived the ship as the Sons of Sorrow fought off the Orks, and Saul’s golden light restored its engines and later protected it from Warp daemons.
• The Ark of Hope emerged near Optera, where the Sons of Sorrow discovered that Saul’s blood could stabilize gene-seed damaged by the black rage and debated his future.