Recaps

Liu Zhipeng became a powerful C’tan Shard and grew stronger by devouring other shards, while Ghazghk stirred up trouble and the Imperials rallied behind Liu against the Necrons. The Silent King mobilized for war at Khalifa, as Liu prepared to use the Imperial forces as a diversion and called for Ghazghk’s next move.

• Saul sacrificed himself to save the Star of Hope, while Liu Zhipeng began his tenth life as C'tan Shard C-7749 and broke free from his Necron shell.
• Liu Zhipeng raided Trazyn’s collection on Solemnace, devoured its C'tan Shards, and escaped after smashing Trazyn’s exhibits.
• Liu Zhipeng stole the Void Dragon’s energy beneath Mars, then took more shards from Imotekh’s power chamber while Trazyn was trapped in a Tesseract Labyrinth.
• Liu Zhipeng joined Ghazghk and chose the Calixis Battle Group as bait to draw out the Silent King, while Commander Marlan led the fleet into the Necron-controlled Zedos System.
• Liu Zhipeng destroyed the Blackstone Obelisk on Mesmok, healed the Imperial soldiers, and gave the Tech-Priests plans for Short-Jump Engines.
• The Calixis Battle Group broke through Zerath’s ambush at Khalifa, and Liu Zhipeng destroyed the Necron army after surviving the Obelisk’s dimensional trap.
• Zerath warned Szarekh that Liu Zhipeng was a self-aware C’tan with Warp powers, prompting the Silent King to mobilize his fleet and awaken three World Engines.
• Liu Zhipeng organized the defense of Khalifa as a diversion, secured pledges from the Imperial commanders, and declared that it was Ghazghk’s turn.

Liu Zhipeng and Ghazghk’s raid drew Szarekh’s Necron fleet into a battle against the Gretchin, where Liu emerged as a C’tan and destroyed the Necron forces. His power then turned against him, and he died in a supernova before awakening in the Eye of Terror as a Warp-hungry sphere that began devouring daemons and Chaos forces.

• Liu Zhipeng lured the Silent King’s fleet away while Ghazghk’s Gretchin stole the C’tan Shards from the Crownworld, then absorbed the shards and entered a golden cocoon.
• Imotekh’s Sautekh fleet blocked Szarekh’s pursuit, but Trazyn revealed the stolen shards and the two rulers joined him in an alliance against Liu Zhipeng.
• Ghazghk’s asteroid fortresses devastated the Necron fleet, and Sharpfang’s Gretchin defended the planet with trenches, traps, and the Big Boss’s Fist.
• Sharpfang teleported his cockpit in front of Imotekh and detonated its Squig Bombs, severely damaging the Necron ruler as the Gretchin renewed their attack.
• Szarekh’s forces broke through the Gretchin defenses, but Liu Zhipeng emerged from his cocoon as a C’tan, destroyed Trazyn’s body, and disintegrated the Necron army.
• Liu Zhipeng crushed Szarekh and his throne, destroyed the Necron fleet, then died in a supernova when [Primordial Quickening] turned against him.
• Liu Zhipeng awoke on a daemon world in the Eye of Terror, drained and devoured daemons, and became a bouncing sphere that consumed Bloodletters, Daemonettes, and Noise Marines.
• Karathes’s forces tried to capture or destroy Liu Zhipeng, but the sphere absorbed the Thousand Sons’ psychic chains and Karathes’s spells before a Helbrute blasted it into a deep crater.

Liu Zhipeng devoured the Chaos Gods’ assaults, then used the Emperor’s sacrifice to remake the universe and returned to his human life. He secretly prepared a colony to preserve humanity through the Men of Iron Rebellion, while Jian Ya’s settlement faced an Ork invasion.

• Liu Zhipeng built a network of Flesh Blackstone Obelisks to drain Warp energy, and his Gretchin forces used it to trap Angron and consume Khorne’s daemons.
• Slaanesh tried to corrupt Liu Zhipeng with pleasure, but his Emperor’s Fire purified the influence and burned Slaanesh through their psychic link.
• The Four Chaos Gods attacked Liu Zhipeng, and the Emperor shielded him long enough for his Primordial Quickening to absorb their power and mature.
• The Emperor revealed that Liu Zhipeng was his independent creation and asked him to make a new timeline, then faded away after entrusting him with humanity’s future.
• Liu Zhipeng pierced the Warp, Realspace, and time with a Golden Spear, detonated himself to reform the universe, and awoke in his human body with his power intact.
• Liu Zhipeng prepared Jian Ya’s deep-space colony to survive future crises by restricting its AI and secretly transferring scientists, expertise, and technology to it.
• The Men of Iron rebelled against humanity, and Liu Zhipeng left Earth to face the uprising as an Ork fleet attacked Jian Ya’s colony.
• Jian Ya led the colony’s forces against the Orks and confronted their warlord in Heavy Exoskeleton Armour.

Liu Zhipeng stopped Slaanesh from creating the Eye of Terror, forged an alliance with the Aeldari, and sent glimmers to guide several Primarchs through different childhoods. After helping Angron, Perturabo, and Lorgar find paths beyond cruelty and despair, he began guiding Konrad Curze on Nostramo, where they confronted the exploitation driving Leo toward crime.

• Jian Ya ended the Ork WAAAGH!, while the Emperor reunited Terra with stable Astartes and began the Great Crusade as Jian Ya’s fleet set out to aid humanity’s lost colonies.
• Liu Zhipeng stopped Slaanesh from unleashing its cry, prevented the Eye of Terror’s birth, and defeated Khaine before securing an alliance between the Aeldari and humanity against the approaching Tyranids.
• Liu Zhipeng suppressed Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch, then guided Angron to escape the Butcher’s Nails, lead a slave uprising, and discover strength in protecting others.
• Liu Zhipeng raised Perturabo, who rescued Creek Valley Village, defeated Damekos, united Olympia, and built a prosperous society before mourning Liu’s death.
• Liu Zhipeng guided Lorgar away from the Holy Covenant Church’s dogma, helping him defeat Kofarlun and establish a secular, educated Colchis.
• Liu Zhipeng, living as Warren, protected the young Curze from the Underhive’s violence, named him Konrad, and challenged his belief that visions made the future inevitable.
• Warren and Konrad found Leo trapped by gambling debts and threats from the Iron Hook Gang, and Warren opened his savings when Leo revealed he owed five hundred credits.