Recaps

Liu Zhipeng helped the loyalists defeat Horus, then returned to the Necron tomb world and set the Maynarkh Dynasty against its enemies. He destroyed the Dynasty’s Core Database, leaving its Necrons mortal as Xunbekel faced the Blood Angels.

• Horus attacked the Eternal Wall, but Liu Zhipeng’s Reality Stabilization Field weakened the daemons and Warp energy, allowing Sanguinius to defeat Ka'Bandha and Angron before Horus wounded him.
• Liu Zhipeng rescued Sanguinius from Horus, and the Emperor went to the Vengeful Spirit and killed Horus after Horus mortally wounded him and Ollanius Pius intervened.
• Dorn placed the dying Emperor on the Golden Throne, and the loyalists counterattacked as the traitor forces retreated, and Liu Zhipeng escaped Terra and returned to the Maynarkh tomb world as Overlord Leo.
• Xunbekel discovered that Liu Zhipeng was alive and tried to seize him, but he escaped and provoked the Blood Sails and Orks into attacking the Dynasty while the Third Legion rebelled.
• Leo opened the Void Dockyard and escaped through the Dolmen Gate, then crashed into Asdrubael Vect’s quarters in Commorragh and stole the Khaine Shard.
• Vect pursued Leo back to Maynarkh, where Hekaton died destroying part of the Drukhari fleet, and Leo then alerted the Imperial fleet, which joined the fighting against the Necrons and Drukhari.
• While Sanguinius led the Blood Angels toward the Throne Room, Leo entered the Hall of Souls and drove the Khaine Shard into the Core Database, destroying the Necrons’ soul records and Reanimation Protocols.
• The Maynarkh Necrons became mortal as Vect’s forces captured them, while Xunbekel’s scream wounded Sanguinius and the surviving Blood Angels charged her.

After his fifth life ended, Liu Zhipeng awakened as Horus Lupercal and rescued the infant Fulgrim from Fabius Bile’s laboratory. He escaped the Chaos Gods and Trazyn’s collection, then freed Imperial warriors and led them to the gene-seed vault, where Fulgrim spotted an overlooked dataslate.

• Leo overloaded his core and destroyed Xunbekel, ending his fifth life before gaining Temporal Wraith in his sixth.
• Liu Zhipeng awakened as Horus Lupercal in Fabius Bile’s ruined laboratory on Harmony and found the infant Fulgrim in an incubation pod.
• Horus rescued Fulgrim, fought through Fabius’s forces, and killed Fabius after Mace revealed how to reach the Stormbird.
• Horus and Fulgrim escaped Harmony and rejected Khorne, Nurgle, and Slaanesh before the Emperor helped them pass through the Eye of Terror.
• Horus arranged for Trazyn to collect him and Fulgrim, then escaped his display case on Solemnace and seized control of the museum’s systems.
• Horus deactivated stasis fields and gathered Imperial warriors, who pledged obedience after a golden will compelled them to follow him.
• Horus led the warriors through Solemnace’s exhibits to the Gene-seed Vault, where they found gene-seed for the Legions and their successors.
• As Horus prepared to claim the gene-seed, Fulgrim pointed out an overlooked crystal dataslate, and Horus stopped when he saw it.

Horus escaped Solemnace, built Zelanis into a growing empire, and began rebuilding the Legions before leading an expedition to reconnect with Guilliman. While young Fulgrim defeated his daemon counterpart, Horus confronted Mortarion and Angron on Lythera IX, striking at the source of Angron’s strength.

• Horus freed Solemnace’s stasis exhibits, destroyed its central spire, and fled into a Great Rift storm that swept his frigate away.
• Horus’s fleet answered a distress call from Zelanis, where he defeated the Orks at Hope’s Grasp, killed Warboss Ugrul, and made the planet the foundation of his plans.
• Horus gave Sage Malthus a complete STC, reorganized Zelanis, and persuaded the Loyalist commanders to support rebuilding the Legions, including the Penitent Legions.
• After fifteen years of growth, Horus set out for Vigilus to secure the Nachmund Gauntlet and reconnect with Guilliman, leaving Fulgrim as Lord Regent.
• When Daemon Fulgrim attacked Oya IV, young Fulgrim joined Zelanis’s forces and, empowered by the Emperor, destroyed his corrupted counterpart.
• On Lythera IX, Horus resisted Mortarion’s plague-tempered Anathame and battered the Death Guard primarch, while Perturabo watched and Angron arrived to challenge him.
• Horus broke Mortarion’s Silence, grappled Angron through his charge, and sent Worldbreaker crashing into the Butcher’s Nails at the back of Angron’s head.

Horus saved Vigilus, defeated Abaddon, and died from an assassin’s spear, leaving Guilliman with his technology and Fulgrim as Warmaster of Imperium Nihilus. Reborn as an Avatar of Khaine, Liu Zhipeng saved Biel-Tan and led the Ember Guard toward Iyanden as the Tyranids overwhelmed it.

• Horus defeated Angron and Mortarion, then led his fleet to Vigilus and rallied its defenders against Orks, Chaos, Genestealers, and Drukhari.
• Horus destroyed the Crawling Patriarch and Kroodaka, while his allies routed the Drukhari and drove back the other threats to Vigilus.
• Horus accepted Abaddon’s challenge, killed him, and then was fatally wounded by a hidden Cabal assassin’s spear.
• Horus entrusted Cawl with a technology chip, sent his loyal warriors to Calgar, and disintegrated, and Perturabo later killed Katavonus as the Black Legion withdrew.
• Guilliman gave Fulgrim the task of serving as Warmaster of Imperium Nihilus, while Liu Zhipeng’s sixth life ended and his seventh began on Biel-Tan.
• Liu Zhipeng took control of the Avatar of Khaine, became Ember, saved Biel-Tan from Slaanesh’s daemons, and formed the Ember Guard from its awakened spirits.
• Ember proposed uniting the Aeldari and working with humanity, then led the Ember Guard through the Webway toward Tyranid-overrun Iyanden.
• A Tyranid Hive Tyrant killed Iyanden’s Avatar of Khaine, and Khaelmon ordered the Heart of Fire activated despite warnings that it would destroy the Craftworld and its Infinity Circuit.