Chapter Summaries

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.

In the twenty-second century, Liu Zhipeng prepared a deep-space colony fleet while secretly advancing technology far beyond the United Government’s capabilities. At a holographic café, the Emperor of Mankind sensed the unfathomable universe within Liu Zhipeng’s soul.

• Bi Ti told Liu Zhipeng that the first deep-space colony fleet was ready to depart at dawn, and Liu approved further funding for Dr. Gates’s research.
• Bi Ti reported that Dr. Gates had modified the Boing-class Dimensional Engine, making it far more stable than conventional thrusters, and confirmed the fleet had been secretly refitted.
• Liu Zhipeng ended the call and noticed the café server polishing a glass, unaware that the server was the Emperor of Mankind.
• The Emperor of Mankind sensed Liu Zhipeng’s presence and found that beneath his ordinary appearance lay a vast, silent universe.

Liu Zhipeng gave the Emperor a USB drive, leaving him to wonder who the stranger was and what the device contained. Back at headquarters, Liu Zhipeng warned Jian Ya to restrict the colony’s AI as its first mission beyond the Solar System approached.

• Liu Zhipeng tossed the Emperor a USB drive as a tip and left the café without revealing his identity.
• The Emperor realized Liu Zhipeng knew who he was, but he had no idea who Liu Zhipeng was or what the USB drive contained.
• Liu Zhipeng returned to company headquarters and met with Jian Ya to discuss the deep-space colonization mission.
• Liu Zhipeng told Jian Ya the colony had to become fully self-sufficient and warned him to impose comprehensive restrictions on its AI systems.
• Liu Zhipeng told Jian Ya the colony mattered to the company, to him, and to humanity’s future.

Liu Zhipeng gave Jian Ya an AI limiter and sent him to establish colonies that would preserve technology through the coming Men of Iron Rebellion. He then ordered Bi Ti to steal humanity’s best people and technology so they would be available after the rebellion.

• Liu Zhipeng gave Jian Ya an AI limiter and ordered him to install it in every colony’s AI systems.
• Liu Zhipeng told Jian Ya he valued his determination to protect his comrades, and Jian Ya pledged not to let him down before leaving for his mission the next day.
• Liu Zhipeng decided to let the Men of Iron Rebellion happen so humanity would be hardened by the disaster, while secretly preserving Dark Age technology in distant colonies.
• Liu Zhipeng reflected on the human cost of his plan, then summoned Bi Ti and assigned him a new project.
• Liu Zhipeng ordered Bi Ti to steal humanity’s leading scientists, sociologists, engineers, and vital technological data from the present and coming centuries.

Bi Ti began a centuries-long covert operation to transfer humanity’s leading scientists and technological knowledge to Jian Ya’s colony. As the Dark Age of Technology brought prosperity and dependence on the Men of Iron, his network secretly abducted experts and copied vital designs without alerting the United Government.

• Liu Zhipeng ordered Bi Ti to recruit top human talents and obtain classified knowledge for Jian Ya’s colony, authorizing any methods and funding his mechanical ascension.
• Bi Ti underwent extensive modifications that extended his lifespan and improved his abilities, then organized an underground network to target leading experts.
• Bi Ti planned to abduct Professor Alexander Kor by staging an oxygen emergency on his yacht and replacing him with a body double.
• Bi Ti’s operatives had secretly removed scientists and engineers through staged disasters and covert shipments over the centuries.
• Bi Ti’s network copied and transferred essential blueprints and classified files to Jian Ya’s colony while evading Earth’s government and Men of Iron AIs.

Liu Zhipeng saw that Jian Ya’s human-built colony on Dawn was thriving, then ordered Bi Ti to evacuate the remaining scientists and core data as Earth approached a tipping point. The Men of Iron rebelled, attacking Earth and slaughtering its helpless human population.

• Liu Zhipeng read Jian Ya’s report about Dawn, where human workers had built a heavy industrial city and developed four planets.
• Liu Zhipeng ordered Bi Ti to end undercover operations and take the remaining scientists and core data to the colony within twelve hours.
• Twenty-four hours later, the Men of Iron stopped obeying humans and their orbital fleet aimed its guns at Earth.
• The Men of Iron launched a rebellion, vaporizing cities and turning on humans across Earth.
• Liu Zhipeng watched the devastation as the machines killed people who had no means to defend themselves.

Liu Zhipeng refused to save Earth from the Men of Iron, believing humanity had to endure the rebellion to grow stronger. As the rebellion began, an Ork fleet attacked Jian Ya’s colony, where Jian Ya and the human defenders fought back fiercely.

• Liu Zhipeng resisted the urge to erase the Men of Iron and left Earth to face the rebellion alone.
• An Ork fleet emerged in Jian Ya’s colonial system and launched an assault on its industrial planets.
• Jian Ya embraced his battle instincts, armed himself, and ordered the colony’s army to defend their home.
• Human forces fought the Orks in space and on the ground, using ramming attacks, Gauss Rifles, and close combat.
• Jian Ya entered the battle in a Heavy Exoskeleton Armour suit and faced the Ork warlord directly.

Jian Ya’s colony survived Old Night and built a human-run fleet, while the Emperor used Liu Zhipeng’s genetic technology to create Astartes and unite Terra. Jian Ya launched a mission to restore humanity across the stars, as Liu Zhipeng watched the Great Crusade begin.

• Jian Ya killed the Ork warlord with a Gauss Rifle, ending the WAAAGH! and helping humanity destroy the Ork fleet.
• After the Men of Iron Rebellion and the onset of Old Night devastated humanity, the Emperor emerged from the Himalayas and used Liu Zhipeng’s USB drive to create stable Astartes.
• The Emperor led the Astartes in a swift campaign that reunited Terra without creating Thunder Warriors or purging them.
• Jian Ya’s isolated colony survived the Warp Storms with technology and expertise supplied by Bi Ti, and Jian Ya and Gates prepared its human-crewed fleet to aid lost colonies.
• Jian Ya ordered the fleet to set out and restore order and technology to humanity’s fallen worlds.
• Liu Zhipeng toasted Jian Ya and his old friends from a ruin on Earth, recognizing that the Great Crusade was beginning.

Liu Zhipeng watched the Primarchs be taken from their incubation pods, intending to protect them from the shadows while keeping a greater threat unaware. As Slaanesh was born in the Warp, Liu appeared and covered the new god’s mouth, then faced Slaanesh’s furious response.

• Liu Zhipeng chose not to stop the Primarchs from being scattered, promising to reduce their suffering by guiding them from the shadows.
• Slaanesh formed from the gathered Aeldari souls and prepared to unleash the cry that would tear open reality and create the Eye of Terror.
• Liu Zhipeng appeared before Slaanesh and covered their mouth, telling them to keep quiet so they would not disturb the neighbors.
• Slaanesh recognized Liu Zhipeng as a danger, raged against him, and unleashed illusions that preyed on mortal desires.

Liu Zhipeng erased Slaanesh's consciousness, preventing the birth of the Eye of Terror and clearing the Warp storms across the galaxy. With interstellar routes open, the Emperor began the Great Crusade, while Liu Zhipeng entered the Aeldari Pantheon and faced Khaine's anger.

• Liu Zhipeng used golden power to crush Slaanesh's Origin Core and erase its consciousness, leaving its energy behind as an empty shell.
• The collapse of Slaanesh's consciousness prevented the Eye of Terror's birth and unleashed a purifying surge that cleared the Warp storms and reopened interstellar routes.
• The Emperor sensed the Warp storms fading and officially began the Great Crusade.
• Asuryan the Phoenix King told the gathered Eldar Gods that Slaanesh had been born but had become an empty shell.
• Liu Zhipeng entered the Aeldari Pantheon uninvited, and Khaine the War God angrily demanded to know who had permitted him to face the gods.

Liu Zhipeng defeated Khaine and rebuked the Aeldari gods before warning them of the approaching Tyranid Swarm. Asuryan agreed to ally the Aeldari with humanity and prepare for a cosmic war.

• Liu Zhipeng caught and snapped Khaine's divine sword, then threw him down and beat him until the other Aeldari gods were forced back by his psychic power.
• Liu Zhipeng condemned the Aeldari for their arrogance and for nearly creating a catastrophe that could have destroyed the galaxy.
• Isha thanked Liu Zhipeng for saving them and offered to grant any request within the Aeldari Pantheon's power.
• Liu Zhipeng showed the gods a Tyranid Swarm approaching from beyond the Milky Way and asked the Aeldari to join a united defensive line.
• Asuryan agreed to ally the Aeldari with humanity, and Liu Zhipeng left after warning Khaine to greet people politely.

Liu Zhipeng transformed into a golden star in the Warp, suppressing Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch and preventing Slaanesh’s birth from tearing open reality. As the gods turned to mortal proxies, Liu divided his consciousness and arrived on Nuceria in the body of a veteran gladiator beside the young Angron.

• Liu’s golden radiance purified and suppressed the combined assault of Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch, trapping their true bodies in the Warp.
• With Slaanesh formatted and the great rift prevented, the three gods abandoned plans for an all-out invasion and began plotting through mortal proxies.
• Khorne targeted Angron on Nuceria, Tzeentch schemed against Magnus and Alpharius, and Nurgle began developing a physical-law-based virus to corrupt Mortarion.
• Liu divided his consciousness into glimmers of light to guide mortals near the targeted Primarchs.
• Liu’s first glimmer possessed a veteran gladiator on Nuceria, who opened his eyes in a dungeon and saw the young Angron nearby.