Chapter Summaries

Liu Zhipeng’s fleshy sphere devoured the Thousand Sons’ psychic power and Karathes’s Chaos spells, shrugging off his attacks. A Helbrute then unleashed thirty seconds of heavy fire on the sphere, leaving the battlefield shrouded in explosions.

• A Thousand Sons sorcerer’s psychic chains connected to Liu Zhipeng’s sphere, which drained the power of more than a dozen Thousand Sons until they fell as dried corpses.
• Liu Zhipeng taunted Karathes, who attacked the sphere with a pillar of nine-colored flame, but the sphere emerged unharmed and belched after consuming it.
• Karathes unleashed a storm of Chaos spells, and Liu Zhipeng’s sphere sucked them into its mouth and rated the meal eight out of ten.
• A Helbrute arrived, locked onto the three-meter sphere, and bombarded it with its weapons for thirty seconds, creating a hundred-meter-deep crater.
• A Chaos Space Marine cautiously asked whether the bombardment had worked.

Liu Zhipeng’s flesh ball devoured a Helbrute from the inside, then expanded and swallowed the Chaos army as it fled. With the battlefield silent and his forces gone, Karathes was left facing the flesh ball’s offer to eat him next.

• The flesh ball survived the Chaos attack, struck the Helbrute, and consumed its power claw and daemonic core.
• Liu Zhipeng’s flesh ball reached the Helbrute’s cockpit and devoured its fused Chaos Space Marines, daemonic heart, and other contents in thirty seconds.
• The surviving Chaos forces fled, but the flesh ball grew to nearly 150 meters across and used thousands of Abyssal Maws to swallow them in one minute.
• Karathes watched his army and Helbrute disappear, then trembled as Liu Zhipeng asked whether he would jump in or be invited.

Karathes summoned a divine scythe with Khorne’s power to fight Liu Zhipeng, but Liu Zhipeng’s ball of flesh ate the weapon and then devoured Karathes. Afterward, Liu Zhipeng surveyed the ruined battlefield and found no living things left.

• Karathes refused to flee and summoned a blood-red scythe by sacrificing half his life force.
• Liu Zhipeng’s ball of flesh caught the scythe in its mouth and chewed it up.
• Karathes tried to teleport away, but Liu Zhipeng’s golden chain pulled him out of the teleportation circle.
• Liu Zhipeng absorbed Karathes’s spells, dragged him into the Abyssal Maw, and swallowed him.
• Liu Zhipeng surveyed the battlefield and saw only ruins, broken weapons, and an empty Helbrute shell.

Liu Zhipeng devised a plan to reverse blackstone’s polarity and draw Warp energy away from the Chaos Gods so he could feed more efficiently. He summoned Ghazghk and Sharpfang’s forces to begin building the network.

• Liu Zhipeng calculated that devouring Daemons one by one would take centuries and decided he needed a more efficient way to gather Warp energy.
• Liu Zhipeng realized that reversing blackstone’s polarity might attract Warp energy and planned to build a network throughout the Eye of Terror.
• Liu Zhipeng entered his soul world and asked Ghazghk and Sharpfang to help with the plan.
• Liu Zhipeng summoned the Gretchin souls above a ravaged Daemon World, where Ghazghk arrived with 150,000 technical troops and Sharpfang with millions of engineering and logistics troops.

Liu Zhipeng organized three million Gretchin to prepare for construction while he transformed into a colossal ball of mouths and began clearing nearby Daemon Worlds. He devoured Nurgle’s plague-spore world and Khorne’s gladiatorial arena, then moved on to consume more worlds.

• Liu Zhipeng assigned Ghazghk to devise a way to reverse blackstone’s polarity and create simplified blueprints, while Sharpfang organized the construction crews and logistics.
• Liu Zhipeng grew into a colossal sphere covered in Abyssal Maws and announced that he would clear the surrounding Daemon Worlds for construction.
• Liu Zhipeng descended on Nurgle’s tentacle forest, devoured its creatures and plague spores, and left the Daemon World stripped bare.
• Liu Zhipeng attacked Khorne’s gladiatorial arena and swallowed its daemons, weapons, buildings, and walls of screaming souls.
• Liu Zhipeng finished clearing the arena and continued toward nearby Daemon Worlds.

Ghazghk and the Gretchin built the Abyssal Darkweb, a growing network of Flesh Blackstone Obelisks that siphoned Warp energy to Liu Zhipeng. With more than twelve thousand obelisks already operating across over sixty Daemon Worlds, Sharpfang pushed crews to build faster while Ghazghk explored ways to expand each obelisk’s range.

• Sharpfang led Gretchin crews to build the first Flesh Blackstone Obelisk, and Ghazghk confirmed that it could siphon Warp energy into Liu Zhipeng.
• Liu Zhipeng continued rolling across Daemon Worlds and felt energy flowing from the new obelisk into his soul.
• The Gretchin built twelve thousand obelisks across more than sixty Daemon Worlds and connected them into Ghazghk’s Abyssal Darkweb.
• Sharpfang ordered construction crews to work three nonstop shifts so they could keep pace with Liu Zhipeng’s rapid progress.
• Ghazghk calculated that doubling each obelisk’s suction radius could reduce the number needed by 75 percent, then began testing whether the Flesh Keystone could handle the increased load.

Ghazghk’s Gretchin upgraded the Flesh Blackstone Obelisks, strengthening the Abyssal Darkweb and easing Liu Zhipeng’s hunger as it spread across Daemon Worlds. The Four Chaos Gods finally noticed the network’s theft of their power, and Tzeentch sent his forces to corrupt it.

• Ghazghk introduced the MK-II Obelisk design, and Sharpfang ordered construction crews to build new models and retrofit completed ones.
• The first MK-II Obelisk drew Warp energy more powerfully and converted it more efficiently, prompting Sharpfang to order a network-wide upgrade.
• Liu Zhipeng felt [Primordial Quickening] approach a balance of physical and Warp energy, then chose Tzeentch’s Crystal Labyrinth as his next target.
• The Four Gods noticed that the Abyssal Darkweb was siphoning energy from them as twelve thousand Obelisks linked across more than sixty Daemon Worlds.
• Tzeentch grew angry after discovering that his tribute had fallen by nearly thirty percent and sent his children to corrupt the network.

Tzeentch’s conceptual daemons failed to disrupt Liu Zhipeng’s Obelisk network because [primordial quickening] devoured them, leaving Tzeentch furious and unable to see through [Temporal Wraith]’s protection. Khorne sent Angron and a vast army to attack the network, where they met Sharpfang’s Gretchin defenders.

• Tzeentch unleashed conceptual daemons through the Obelisks’ energy conduits toward Liu Zhipeng’s soul.
• [primordial quickening] consumed the conceptual daemons and converted them into Warp energy.
• Tzeentch failed to calculate Liu Zhipeng’s weakness through [Temporal Wraith] and shrieked in frustration.
• Khorne mocked Tzeentch and ordered Angron to lead an assault on the Obelisk network.
• Angron led Bloodthirsters and other Khorne daemons into battle against Sharpfang’s Gretchin forces.
• Sharpfang’s Gretchin opened fire, but the endless Khorne daemons pressed forward and battered their defenses.

Angron led Khorne’s forces through the Gretchin defenses and leapt toward the central Obelisk, intent on destroying it. Liu Zhipeng triggered the twelve thousand Obelisks at maximum overload just before Angron’s axe could strike, unleashing a Warp-wide suction that froze the battlefield and began pulling everything in an unknown direction.

• Sharpfang commanded the Gretchin to fire from their defensive line as the Scrap Gargant’s beam disintegrated Bloodletters, but Khorne’s forces surged through the gap.
• Angron charged through Gretchin mechs, killing pilots and machines with Bloodfather and Bloodson while eight Greater Daemons devastated the defensive line behind him.
• Angron leapt toward the central Obelisk and raised his axe for a strike powerful enough to split a planet.
• Liu Zhipeng saw that Khorne’s forces were surrounded by the Obelisk network and switched all twelve thousand MK-II flesh-and-blood Blackstone Obelisks to maximum overload.
• The overloaded Obelisks unleashed a powerful suction across the Warp, freezing the battlefield before it lurched in an unknown direction.

Liu Zhipeng’s Obelisks devoured Khorne’s charging army and trapped Angron, turning him into a living source of energy. The humiliation reached Khorne’s Brass Throne, where the Blood God stared at the image in silence.

• The Obelisks pulled Khorne’s Daemons, beasts, and fallen into their surfaces, consuming their bodies, souls, and Warp energy.
• Skal tried to resist the suction, but it tore off his wings and swallowed him.
• Angron slammed into an Obelisk and became pinned there as his struggles only increased its drain.
• Angron raged and flailed while the Gretchin watched, and Ghazghk mocked him as if he were dancing.
• Khorne saw Angron trapped as an energy source, and his laughter abruptly stopped.

Khorne prepared to personally attack the Purple Meatball and its allies, but withdrew when he sensed Slaanesh using divine power nearby. Slaanesh watched Angron's humiliating predicament in the Eye of Terror and delighted in the spectacle.

• Khorne erupted in fury over the humiliation of his legion and rose from the Brass Throne, taking up his Greatsword.
• As Khorne prepared to cross into the Eye of Terror and destroy the Purple Meatball, he sensed Slaanesh's divine power rising elsewhere in the Warp.
• Khorne withdrew rather than share his prey or battlefield with Slaanesh, crushed a nearby brass fortress, and vowed to kill them both later.
• Slaanesh watched Angron pinned against the Obelisk and laughed at Khorne's humiliation.

Slaanesh mocked Khorne by broadcasting Angron's humiliation across the Warp, then began secretly infusing Liu Zhipeng with divine temptation through the Obelisk network. The chapter ended as Slaanesh tried to transform his appetite into endless gluttony from within his soul.

• Slaanesh projected footage of Angron clinging to the Obelisk across the Warp and taunted Khorne.
• Khorne roared in fury, and the space around the Brass Throne began to collapse.
• Slaanesh concluded that brute force and magic could not stop the purple mass, so they chose to corrupt it instead.
• Slaanesh drained pleasure energy from their Daemons and turned it into invisible pheromones that entered the Obelisk network.
• The pheromones reached the golden control room in Liu Zhipeng's soul and surged toward the [primordial quickening].

Liu Zhipeng absorbed Slaanesh’s pleasure-laced energy through the Abyssal Darkweb, becoming increasingly addicted to its flavor as Slaanesh planned to shape him into a god of gluttony. As pinkish-purple influence spread through his soul, the Primordial Divine Flame was finally touched by the divine pheromones.

• Liu Zhipeng relished the new pleasure-laced energy entering his soul and increased its absorption through Primordial Quickening.
• Slaanesh watched Liu Zhipeng consume the energy, believing its plan to plant indulgence in his soul was working.
• Liu Zhipeng’s hunger turned into an addiction, and he redirected the Abyssal Darkweb to drain more of Slaanesh’s Daemon Worlds.
• Gretchin engineers suggested painting the Obelisks pink and adding gems and loudspeakers, but Ghazghk kicked one and ordered them back to work.
• Slaanesh sensed Liu Zhipeng’s growing gluttony and raised a wineglass to celebrate his transformation into a god of gluttony.
• Slaanesh’s divine pheromones reached the Primordial Divine Flame deep within Liu Zhipeng’s soul.

Liu Zhipeng’s Emperor’s Fire purified Slaanesh’s corruption and surged back through the psychic link, burning the Chaos god and renewing its old wounds. Slaanesh severed the connection in terror, while Grandfather Nurgle prepared to try his own generous approach.

• Liu Zhipeng’s Emperor’s Fire annihilated Slaanesh’s influence inside him and purified the energy of its divinity.
• Liu Zhipeng awoke, realized how close he had come to falling, and felt pure killing intent toward Slaanesh.
• Slaanesh’s psychic link carried the Emperor’s Fire back to its source, reigniting the golden fissures in its body and causing it unbearable pain.
• Slaanesh tore apart its connections with Liu Zhipeng and retreated into its palace, terrified of the Chaos Spawn’s Emperor’s Fire.
• Grandfather Nurgle waited by his plague cauldron, confident that his generous strategy would succeed where his brothers’ methods had failed.

Liu Zhipeng absorbed Nurgle’s corrupting soup and converted it into nourishment, leaving Nurgle bewildered. After the Chaos Gods recognized him as a threat they could no longer tolerate, their primal wills descended to erase him.

• Nurgle fed Liu Zhipeng a vast serving of divine soup intended to corrupt and transform him.
• Liu Zhipeng’s [Primordial Quickening] purified Nurgle’s decay and stagnation, turning the soup into energy that strengthened his body.
• Nurgle tested Liu Zhipeng with more soup, watched him grow healthier, and dropped his ladle in confusion.
• The Chaos Gods agreed to erase Liu Zhipeng at any cost and descended with their primal wills.
• Khorne gathered the fury and war-will of countless battles into a blood-red force that tore through the void.

The Four Gods destroyed Liu Zhipeng’s Abyssal Darkweb and unleashed their full power to erase him. As his body and soul began to disintegrate, the Emperor of Mankind awakened on Holy Terra and sent a bolt of golden lightning toward the battlefield.

• The Four Gods converged on the Abyssal Darkweb and erased the flesh obelisks and Gretchin souls that sustained it.
• Khorne severed Liu Zhipeng’s conceptual connections, Tzeentch erased the logic of his existence, and Nurgle drove his energy toward absolute stillness.
• Slaanesh’s spear pierced Liu Zhipeng and targeted the primordial quickening within his soul.
• Liu Zhipeng’s body and consciousness began to disintegrate under the Four Gods’ attacks.
• The Emperor of Mankind awakened on the Golden Throne and sent a bolt of golden lightning across the void toward Liu Zhipeng.

Liu Zhipeng absorbed the combined divine power of the Four Chaos Gods and the Emperor, completing his transformation into the Lord of Miracles and Destruction. He met the fading Emperor across space and time, and learned that their first encounter in an alley had been deliberate.

• The Emperor used his remaining strength to shield Liu Zhipeng from the Four Chaos Gods' attack, buying him time.
• The Four Gods' powers and the Emperor's golden will filled Liu Zhipeng's [primordial quickening], which devoured the energy and matured.
• Liu Zhipeng's purple Chaos Spawn shell exploded as he was remade into a being who commanded the universe's underlying laws.
• Liu Zhipeng joined the fading Emperor in a final exchange, and the Emperor praised him for doing better than expected.
• Liu Zhipeng asked whether the Emperor had deliberately staged their first alley encounter, and the Emperor confirmed it.

The Emperor revealed that Liu Zhipeng was the independent human portion he had separated from himself and had shaped through eleven lifetimes. He asked Liu Zhipeng to use his extraordinary power to return to the past and create a new timeline, leaving Liu silent after hearing the plan.

• The Emperor explained that he had separated his humanity to create Liu Zhipeng, who was his own independent person rather than a clone or tool.
• The Emperor said Liu Zhipeng's eleven lifetimes had helped him grow into a source of hope.
• Liu Zhipeng questioned how he could represent hope while carrying power that threatened the universe.
• The Emperor explained that Liu Zhipeng's combined powers could pierce time and create a new timeline without the Horus Heresy.
• The Emperor asked Liu Zhipeng to return to before the Unification Wars and guide the new universe, and Liu remained silent.

Liu Zhipeng learned that creating a new timeline would erase the one he knew, including the Emperor and everyone who had fought beside him. After the Emperor entrusted him with humanity’s future and faded away, Liu Zhipeng forged a Golden Spear from all his past and future power, and the Chaos Gods saw visions of his eleven lives.

• The Emperor told Liu Zhipeng that making a new timeline would turn their universe into a dream that never happened, but its suffering would help him build a better future.
• The Emperor explained that he would vanish with the old timeline and entrusted Liu Zhipeng with his faith in humanity.
• The Emperor faded away after telling Liu Zhipeng to fulfill their dream, and Liu Zhipeng thanked him before facing the Chaos Gods.
• Liu Zhipeng gathered his power and will from across time and formed a Golden Spear, stopping the Warp’s flow.
• The Chaos Gods saw memories of Liu Zhipeng’s eleven lives, including his struggles and sacrifices across the galaxy.

Liu Zhipeng reset the Warhammer 40K universe by sacrificing himself and received the final ascension of his abilities from the Eternal Reincarnation System. He awoke in his original world with his power intact and resolved to prevent the Chaos Gods from rebuilding a universe of endless war.

• Liu Zhipeng thrust his spear through the Warp, Realspace, and time, then detonated himself and the spear to reverse causality and reform the universe.
• The Eternal Reincarnation System completed its final settlement, ascended Liu Zhipeng’s abilities, and confirmed that Ghazghk and Sharpfang would meet him again with new identities.
• Liu Zhipeng awoke in the alley where he had first crossed over, back in his ordinary human body but still connected to immense power.
• Liu Zhipeng recognized that the Chaos Gods could be born again and decided to shape the new universe toward hope and peace.
• Liu Zhipeng walked into the darkness of the alley, leaving the fate of the universe in his hands.