Recaps

Across three lives, Liu Zhipeng built followings among Nurglings and a Genestealer cult before becoming Alexander von Lawrence, a Commissar who rallied the battered 99th Regiment. The regiment reached the Iron Temple as Grak's Orks converged, and Alexander prepared to use its combustible grain dust against them.

• Liu Zhipeng organized the Nurgling Gang and helped Nurgle defeat Khorne's forces with traps and taunts, earning Grandfather's Watch and Love before reincarnating as a Tyranid hybrid.
• As Brother Peng, Liu reshaped Viridia Prime's Genestealer cult around the four Chaos Gods, led an uprising, and summoned daemons to fight the Tyranids before receiving Heretical Leader.
• Reborn as Alexander von Lawrence, Liu lost his parents to Chaos Space Pirates, then gave fellow Schola cadets hope and developed a theory of channeling emotion into collective loyalty.
• Alexander joined the 99th Infantry, comforted the grieving Kasrkin Orik, and rallied the regiment before it was sent to defend Viridia Prime from an Ork Waaagh!.
• At the regiment's first battle, Alexander and Orik helped the 99th defeat Mog "Ironfang" and his bodyguards, while Grak "Ironjaw" Bonecrusher became eager to face the humans.
• Alexander led the exhausted regiment toward the Iron Temple, where he told Colonel Valeus that combustible grain dust could fuel his plan against Grak's advancing Orks.

Alexander led the 99th Regiment through its defense of the Iron Temple and later sacrificed his forces to wound Angron, earning posthumous sainthood. Liu Zhipeng then began his fourth life as an Ork, built the Big Tooth Gang, and was summoned before Bonecrusher Saraka.

• Valeus and Alexander defended the Iron Temple against Grak’s Orks, then Alexander detonated the grain dust and destroyed the horde.
• Krieg rescuers found Alexander and 350 other survivors, and Guilliman later honored the 99th Regiment and made Alexander a Legion Commissar.
• Alexander rebuilt the regiment with replacement troops, and it grew into a loyal family under his Fireplace Theory despite Colonel Carsten’s objections.
• At Malakbel, Alexander prepared a sacrificial defense of the Hymn Engine as Angron and his World Eaters attacked.
• Alexander and his followers helped banish Angron, but Angron struck down the Hymn Engine and unleashed a plague that turned surviving Imperials against one another.
• The Imperium canonized Alexander as the Imperial Saint [The Burned-Out], honored his regiment as the [Emperor's Fireplace], and Liu Zhipeng began his fourth life as an Ork Boy.
• Liu Zhipeng gathered teef, weapons, and followers to form the Big Tooth Gang, then used cunning tactics to board Ghazghkull’s ship and defeat rival gangs.
• Liu Zhipeng grew into a towering Ork, set his sights on Gogrum the Skullcrusher, and was summoned to Bonecrusher Saraka’s command bridge.

Liu Zhipeng helped Bonecrusher defeat the Tyranids at Octarius, dying while hunting their leaders before Grotsnik rebuilt him. Gork and Mork sent Liu to Cadia, and he left Octarius with the Big Tooth Gang to start a new WAAAGH!.

• Liu Zhipeng defeated Gogrum in a fistfight, united both camps under his rule, and took the name Tooth Puller.
• Liu led the Red Comet and the Big Tooth Gang into the Tyranid battle on Orkutar, destroying a Biotitan and helping Bonecrusher turn the tide at Octarius.
• Liu proposed and commanded a three-line meat grinder defense as Bonecrusher gathered Orks and prepared to face Leviathan’s fleet.
• Liu directed the defense against the Tyranids and used Gretchin salvage crews and Tunnel Rat Boyz to disrupt their advance and kill synapse leaders.
• Liu led his Tunnel Rat Boyz into an underground volcano, where he killed a Tyrant but died after it sheared away nearly half his head.
• Grotsnik operated on Liu, grafting Tyranid neural tissue and machinery onto his surviving brain, while Gork and Mork blessed him and ordered him to Cadia.
• Bonecrusher gave Liu three rebuilt Slaughter-class cruisers, and Liu departed Octarius with the Big Tooth Gang for Cadia.

Liu Zhipeng survived the destruction of the Planet Killer and used his knowledge and disguises to expose Horus’s betrayal, though the loyalists were still devastated at Isstvan V. He reached Terra, secretly strengthened its defenses, and helped the White Scars reclaim Lion’s Gate as the Khan wounded Mortarion.

• Celestine wounded Abaddon, but he escaped to the Planet Killer, where Liu Zhipeng and the Big Tooth Gang fought him and his Chaos champions until the Ork souls’ shock wave devastated the Black Legion.
• Liu Zhipeng repeatedly awakened in new bodies, first as a Necron Overlord and then among Orks, before disguising himself as Tech-Sage Kastor Alpha aboard the Iron Fist.
• Liu Zhipeng forged evidence of Horus’s betrayal and presented it to Ferrus Manus, Vulkan, and Corax, but Ferrus led the loyalists into the trap at Isstvan V.
• As the traitor Legions attacked the loyalists from behind, Liu Zhipeng found Erebus and killed him, then escaped the battlefield clinging to a departing Thunderhawk.
• After recalling the sacrifices at Isstvan, Liu Zhipeng resolved to change the Imperium’s fate and secretly improved the Imperial Palace’s defenses with Canoptek Scarabs and other devices.
• Perturabo’s assault on Lion’s Gate failed to break through Liu Zhipeng’s defenses, but Angron and the World Eaters eventually overran the spaceport, prompting the loyalists to retreat.
• Liu Zhipeng used Reality Stabilizers to counter Mortarion’s plague fog, enabling Jaghatai Khan to wound Mortarion and the White Scars and Blood Angels to retake Lion’s Gate.