Chapter Summaries

After the T'au fleet fled Jade VII, Liu Zhipeng revealed that the Gretchin had faked their defeat and assembled a vast hidden army. He ordered them to attack the disorganized Tyranids, beginning the real battle for the planet.

• Qingliu watched the T'au commander return safely, and the T'au fleet left Jade VII with gratitude and respect for the Gretchin.
• After the Broodlord died, the Tyranid forces lost their unified command and fell into confusion.
• Sharpfang rose from the battlefield, blew his horn, and signaled the hidden Gretchin to reveal themselves and retrieve their weapons and armor.
• Shelters opened to release millions of mechs, four Gundams, and vast artillery forces, while hundreds of millions of Gretchin assembled.
• Liu Zhipeng descended from the Lighthouse, revealed himself as the Ember Lord, and ordered the Gretchin to eat.
• The Gretchin charged the disorganized Tyranid Swarm with mechs and coordinated Gauss rifle formations.

Liu Zhipeng’s Gretchin forces swept across the Tyranid battlefield as he approached Ork Warboss Skullkrak. Their first clash ended with Liu stopping Skullkrak’s Power Claw with one fist, while Golden Judgment’s Reality Correction began increasing his strength without limit.

• Liu Zhipeng’s red and white war machines slaughtered the Tyranids, while he disintegrated a charging Carnifex with one finger.
• Skullkrak and his Orks fought the Tyranids until he noticed a blue curtain of light erasing the swarm and the Gretchin forces advancing.
• Liu Zhipeng confronted Skullkrak and declared that his WAAAGH! would end there.
• Skullkrak charged and struck at Liu, but Liu stopped his Power Claw with a single punch.
• Liu’s Golden Judgment effect began stacking without limit, causing his strength to surge exponentially.

Liu Zhipeng defeated Skullkrak and ordered the Gretchin fleet to destroy the Tyranid and Ork forces in orbit. With both enemies beaten on Jade VII, his troops began collecting Tyranid biomass and salvaging Ork machinery.

• Liu Zhipeng shattered Skullkrak's Power Claw with a punch and sent the Ork Warboss crashing into the ground.
• Liu Zhipeng ordered Ghazghk to initiate the Scouring protocol, and ten thousand Gauss Cannons destroyed the ships and creatures in orbit.
• Liu Zhipeng killed Skullkrak by crushing his head, breaking the WAAAGH! field and ending the surviving Orks' battle frenzy.
• Gretchin forces harvested the disorganized Tyranid remnants and overwhelmed the Orks on Jade VII.
• Liu Zhipeng received reports that his troops had secured Carnifex genetic samples and hauled away Ork battlewagons for salvage.

Liu Zhipeng claimed Jade VII and contacted the T'au, presenting the Gretchin survivors as heroes who had helped destroy the Orks and Tyranids. He told Suisxing that fewer than five hundred thousand remained and that they were stranded, leaving the T'au officers distressed by their allies’ plight.

• Liu Zhipeng ordered Snot to connect with the T'au and prepared to act like a wounded survivor.
• Qingliu reported the Gretchin’s supposed sacrifices to the Ethereal Council aboard the Dawnbringer.
• The T'au officers received a signal from the surviving Freedom Fighters and Suisxing eagerly answered it.
• Liu Zhipeng claimed the Orks and Tyranids had destroyed each other after Skullkrak detonated his flagship’s WAAAGH! energy core.
• Liu Zhipeng told Suisxing that fewer than five hundred thousand Gretchin remained, most were wounded, and their fleet could no longer travel between stars.

Liu Zhipeng secured the T'au Empire's support by presenting the Gretchin as devastated war survivors, then used its aid to rebuild Jade VII into the City of Hope. As the Gretchin grew stronger, Sharpfang asked when they would liberate more of their people.

• Suisxing and Qingliu urged the Ethereal Council to help the Freedom Fighters, and Ethereal Anva recognized them as a top-priority ally and promised extensive aid.
• Liu Zhipeng thanked the T'au Empire while privately celebrating that he had won Jade VII and secured long-term supplies and technical support.
• Several months later, Jade VII had become the industrial City of Hope, trading ore to T'au transports while its Gretchin modified the T'au-built starport and equipment.
• Liu Zhipeng learned that new Vanguard-model mechs had reduced costs and increased firepower, and that the population had reached one billion.
• Sharpfang asked Liu Zhipeng when they would liberate more Gretchin.

Ghazghk built the Boing-class Dimensional Engine, allowing Liu Zhipeng to launch a galaxy-wide campaign to arm Gretchin slaves and inspire rebellion against the Ork Empire. The first fleet reached a workshop on Armageddon, where Liu Zhipeng urged the Gretchin to take up weapons and fight.

• Ghazghk announced that he had built the Boing-class Dimensional Engine, which let ships travel through folds in Realspace without entering the Warp.
• Liu Zhipeng ordered every Ember-class cruiser refitted with the engine and divided the fleet into small guerrilla forces to distribute Gauss Weapons, energy shields, and holographic messages.
• A rust-red cruiser emerged above a workshop on Armageddon and dropped crates beside the Gretchin slaves.
• Liu Zhipeng's hologram told the Gretchin that they deserved dignity and called on them to take up weapons against their oppressors.

Gretchin slaves across the galaxy revolted with advanced weapons, crippling the Ork Empire and drawing the attention of the Imperium and T'au Empire. The Imperium ordered the God of Hope assassinated, while the T'au chose to keep aiding and monitoring the uprising.

• A Gretchin slave killed Overseer Ironwhip with a Gauss Rifle, and Gretchin revolts erupted across the galaxy.
• Gretchin attacks disrupted Ork supply chains, industrial production, and military campaigns.
• An Ordo Xenos Lord Inquisitor judged the Gretchin Civilization an extreme threat and called for its destruction and the death of its leader, the God of Hope.
• The Officio Assassinorum dispatched Wendigo sniper assassins and Callidus Shapeshifter Assassins to kill the Heretic.
• The T'au Ethereal Council decided to continue aiding the Freedom Fighters, increase surveillance, and send Water Caste diplomats to guide them.

Bonecrusher Mag Uruk Saraka rallied the Orks to destroy the Gretchin rebellion, sending an overwhelming Waaagh! toward the City of Hope. After the T'au Empire abandoned its alliance and imposed a blockade, Liu Zhipeng activated the Great Wall Defense Plan and headed to the First Wall to meet Saraka's vanguard.

• Gork and Mork commanded Saraka to erase the Gretchin's independence, and he summoned Orks across the galaxy to attack the City of Hope.
• Gretchin crews launched desperate suicide attacks against the approaching Ork fleet, forming the first line of defense.
• The T'au Empire declared the alliance terminated, withdrew its fleets, and blockaded the City of Hope.
• Liu Zhipeng rejected Sharpfang's call to attack the T'au and ordered the defenders to activate the Great Wall Defense Plan.
• Liu Zhipeng sent Sharpfang, Ghazghk, and Snot to their defensive duties, then flew toward the First Wall as Saraka's vanguard approached.

Liu Zhipeng arrived at the First Wall as an immense Ork fleet invaded, and the Gretchin fought back with their planetary defenses and weapons. As the Orks pushed toward their lines, Sharpfang deployed four Gundams to join the battle.

• Nug prepared his Katyusha Squig launcher while the Gretchin awaited the invasion at the First Wall.
• Liu Zhipeng landed on the command platform and reassured the Gretchin before ordering them to open fire.
• The First Wall’s mines and Gauss Cannon turrets destroyed many Ork ships, but others crashed onto the planet and sent Ork Boyz charging toward the defenses.
• Sharpfang ordered the Gretchin to launch rockets and fire Gauss Rifles, wiping out waves of Orks as the battle line slowly gave ground.
• Sharpfang deployed four Gundams, which charged onto the battlefield.

Bonecrusher Mag Uruk Saraka descended onto the battlefield and destroyed the defending Gundams, but Liu Zhipeng confronted him and effortlessly stopped two Imperial assassins. The chapter ended as Saraka swung his Power Claw at Liu Zhipeng, who answered with a punch.

• Red Comet, White Devil, Lightning, and Infinite Freedom fought through the Ork forces until Bonecrusher Mag Uruk Saraka crashed through the planet's shield.
• Saraka tore Infinite Freedom and Lightning apart, killed their Gretchin pilots, and shattered the defensive line.
• Liu Zhipeng crossed the battlefield to confront Saraka, while a hidden Wendigo assassin fired an Executioner Bullet at him.
• Liu Zhipeng stopped the bullet and erased a Callidus Assassin who had approached from behind in Sharpfang's disguise.
• Saraka charged Liu Zhipeng with his Power Claw, and Liu Zhipeng met the attack with a punch.

Liu Zhipeng defeated Saraka and ended the Waaagh! field, then left Sharpfang to finish off the disoriented Orks and flew toward the City of Hope to confront the T'au Empire. Gork and Mork then revived Saraka as their divine avatar, and the Gretchin's weapons failed to stop him.

• Liu Zhipeng overpowered Saraka with golden-flamed punches and killed him with a blow through his chest.
• The Waaagh! field vanished, leaving the Orks confused and powerless, and hundreds of billions of Gretchin hailed Liu Zhipeng as the Big Boss.
• Liu Zhipeng ordered Sharpfang to wipe out the remaining Orks and flew toward the City of Hope to make the T'au Empire pay for its betrayal.
• Gork and Mork poured their divine wills into Saraka's corpse, healed him, and raised him as their avatar.
• Sharpfang ordered the Gretchin forces to fire, but their weapons could not penetrate Saraka's emerald divine radiance.

Saraka unleashed a new WAAAGH! that gave the Orks reality-defying weapons, and they overwhelmed the Gretchin. After the last Gretchin died resisting, the First Wall fell completely.

• Saraka's WAAAGH! empowered the Orks' weapons to alter reality, and the Gretchin's defenses collapsed.
• Sharpfang ordered the remaining Gundams to attack Saraka, but Saraka destroyed the Red Comet and White Devil with conceptual powers.
• Orks surrounded Sharpfang after the Royal Guard fell, and he detonated a gauss grenade while charging them.
• Gretchin across the planet sacrificed themselves with gauss grenades, and hundreds of billions died fighting the Orks.
• The First Wall fell completely.

Liu Zhipeng learned that the First Wall had fallen and turned back toward the City of Hope as Saraka’s divine Ork fleet began its crusade. As the Gretchin fleet returned to defend their home, Liu Zhipeng and the City of Hope’s last guards prepared for a final battle.

• Liu Zhipeng felt the souls of the fallen reach him, saw Saraka’s godlike power, and realized the First Wall had fallen.
• Saraka rallied the Orks into a unified fleet and launched it toward the City of Hope.
• Qingliu and Suisxing watched the fleet’s advance and feared the force they had helped unleash.
• Gretchin guerrilla fleets returned and formed a defensive line against the Orks, while Liu Zhipeng arrived at the City of Hope.
• Ghazghk reported that the City of Hope’s defenses and final gift were ready, and Liu Zhipeng exchanged a silent oath with the Imperial Guard.
• The Gretchin fleet engaged the Orks, beginning a desperate battle in the void.

Iron Guts led the Gretchin fleet in a suicide attack against the vastly larger Ork armada, fighting to protect the City of Hope. The fleet was annihilated, and the Orks advanced toward the planet.

• Iron Guts ordered the Gretchin warships to charge their dimensional engines and jump into the center of the Ork fleet.
• Iron Guts rallied the Gretchin to defend their home and the dignity the Big Boss had given them.
• The Gretchin ships appeared inside the Ork formation and opened fire at point-blank range.
• Iron Guts ordered the Unyielding to ram an Ork cruiser, and its reactor and engine detonated, destroying the cruiser and nearby vessels.
• Gretchin warships detonated across the battlefield, but the Orks replenished their losses with more ships.
• The Gretchin fleet fell silent, and the Ork armada reached orbit around the City of Hope.

The Ork fleet corrupted the City of Hope and launched a ground invasion, while Liu Zhipeng rallied its defenders against the WAAAGH! influence. As the battle overwhelmed the city, Pip sacrificed himself with a Gauss Grenade and felt his soul carried toward the Lighthouse.

• Gork and Mork corrupted the planetary shield, and Liu Zhipeng shut it down before the green energy could turn it against the defenders.
• Green light warped the city and transformed a Gretchin soldier into an Ork, while Liu Zhipeng used the primordial divine flame to strengthen his people's resistance to corruption.
• Ork landing forces descended on the City of Hope and attacked its defenders across the streets.
• Pip and his squad fought from a fortified ruin, but a giant Ork crushed their Katyusha Squig and charged their position.
• Liu Zhipeng's words restored Pip's resolve, and Pip leaped at the giant with a Gauss Grenade, sacrificing himself as his soul rose toward the Lighthouse.

Liu Zhipeng confronted Bonecrusher Saraka and was destroyed by the combined power of Gork and Mork, but his death summoned countless Gretchin souls and forged a new Divine Realm from their faith. The system awarded him the permanent ability miracle probability and prepared to begin his ninth life.

• Orks across the planet stopped their rampage and knelt as Bonecrusher Saraka arrived in a Drop Pod to face Liu Zhipeng.
• Liu Zhipeng fought Saraka's incarnation, resisting his conceptual attacks with the Lighthouse and Golden Judgment.
• As Gork and Mork's power descended through the Warp, Saraka struck Liu Zhipeng with an overwhelming blow that erased his body.
• Countless Gretchin souls across the galaxy answered Liu Zhipeng's final summons and merged into his soul, creating a golden Divine Realm.
• A pure-white egg appeared beside the Lighthouse, and the system granted Liu Zhipeng the permanent passive ability miracle probability before beginning his ninth life.

On Slaughterhouse III, Liu Zhipeng’s sacred fire strengthened and protected his pregnant mother, Sarah, as she became a leader in the miners’ resistance. The chapter leaves Sarah and the resistance preparing to use her child’s revelation to infiltrate the guarded power furnace.

• Liu Zhipeng’s soul fire purified Sarah’s meager food and restored her strength, healing her wounds and sharpening her senses.
• Sarah’s growing reputation as someone blessed by the Emperor made her a core member of the underground resistance.
• Jonas proposed sabotaging the central power furnace in Mining Sector Three, but the resistance members feared the heavy guards and patrols.
• Sarah revealed a brief patrol gap near a drainage pipe and said that Hope had told her about it.
• Liu Zhipeng used his Soul Radar to analyze the sounds, airflow, and vibrations around him and quietly passed the tactical information to Sarah.

Sarah’s unborn son, Liu Zhipeng, used Miracle Probability to save the resistance from an Ork patrol and Sarah from an overseer’s whip. With Sarah leading increasingly effective attacks, the resistance grew into a serious threat to Slaughterhouse III’s ruler, Bash Bigboot.

• As Ork patrolmen neared the resistance’s hiding place, Liu Zhipeng activated Miracle Probability, causing a Squig to distract them until they left.
• When Grok attacked Sarah with his whip, he slipped and accidentally strangled himself with it.
• The slaves came to believe the Emperor was protecting Sarah, and her standing among them rose.
• Guided by Sarah, the resistance blew up the Orks’ ammunition depot, contaminated their water, and laid traps.
• Bash Bigboot became enraged as the resistance’s attacks caused increasing trouble.

The Sons of Sorrow Chapter arrived at Slaughterhouse III to rescue the enslaved humans, and their assault triggered a mine collapse that trapped Sarah as she went into labour. With Liu Zhipeng’s power, Sarah killed an Ork Warboss just before giving birth, and the Space Marines found the newborn amid the rubble.

• Bash ordered the Orks to execute over a thousand human slaves each day until the resistance surrendered its leader.
• The Sons of Sorrow Chapter arrived aboard the Daughter of the Storm and began an assault to free the human slaves.
• A mine collapse separated Sarah from the crowd and trapped her as her labour began.
• An Ork Warboss threatened Sarah and her unborn child, so Liu Zhipeng lent her his power and Sarah killed the Ork with a thrown stone.
• Sarah gave birth amid the rubble, and the Sons of Sorrow Chapter broke through the rock wall and found the infant.

The Sons of Sorrow found Sarah and her glowing newborn beside a slain Ork Warboss, and Lion El'Jonson discovered the child had Astartes-like vital signs. When another Ork force attacked, strange accidents repeatedly turned the battle in the Space Marines’ favor, and they defeated the attackers while trapped in the mine.

• The Blades of Mourning entered a collapsed mine cavern and found Sarah holding a radiant newborn beside a dead Ork Warboss.
• Sergeant Malakai recalled how an unexplained power had restored Cassian’s weapon and freed Volrag during the earlier fight.
• Lion El'Jonson examined the child and reported that his vital signs matched those of an Astartes recruit nearing final implantation.
• A new Ork force entered the cavern, and Malakai ordered the Sons of Sorrow to defend Sarah and the child.
• A Gretchin’s Stikkbombs landed among the Orks, and further bizarre mishaps disrupted their attacks as a collapse sealed the Marines’ retreat.
• Cassian killed the last Ork, ending the battle with the Sons of Sorrow still trapped in the mine.