Chapter Summaries

Liu Zhipeng won Bonecrusher’s approval for a three-layer defense system that recycled Tyranid biomass into weapons and reinforcements, while Ork forces gathered across Octarius. The chapter left the Orks preparing a giant portal to Armageddon as a Tyranid swarm converged on the sector.

• Liu Zhipeng explained his three-layer meat grinder defense plan, and Bonecrusher ordered him to command its implementation.
• Old Captain arrived at Octarius with his pirate fleet and pledged to fight in the great WAAAGH!, drawing more raiders to the sector.
• Face-Rippa Grakka led his Skullcrushers legion onto the battlefield as the Ork forces swelled to unprecedented numbers.
• Mad Dok Grotsnik and his team built a gigantic portal intended to link Octarius directly to Armageddon.
• Bonecrusher watched the portal take shape as millions of Tyranid biological signals converged on Octarius.

Liu Zhipeng built Orkutar into a three-layer defensive system designed to recycle casualties and supplies into the war effort. As the Hive Mind and its immense fleet arrived, the Old Captain’s Freebooters prepared to fire the first shot.

• Liu Zhipeng surveyed the Meat Grinder’s three defensive lines and ordered the Orks to test the Mekboys’ Curving Bullets.
• Liu Zhipeng sensed that the WAAAGH! was coming, and Orks across the planet stopped to look toward space.
• The Old Captain’s fleet spotted tens of millions of Tyranid Bio-ships surrounding Orkutar.
• The Old Captain ordered the Freebooters to raise their Skull Flag, ignite their engines, and fire the first shot.

Old Captain’s pirate fleet fought a desperate delaying action against the Tyranids until Bonecrusher’s main fleet arrived, shifting the battle toward an immense clash between WAAAGH! and the Shadow in the Warp. On Orkutar, Liu Zhipeng prepared the First Meat Grinder for the coming ground assault.

• Old Captain’s pirate fleet charged the Tyranid fleet and destroyed a Bio-ship with a massive iron projectile.
• Tyranid Ramming Ships overwhelmed pirate vessels, and Old Captain ordered his fleet to hold on until Bonecrusher arrived.
• Bonecrusher’s main fleet arrived with The Biggest, Unbeatable One, unleashing a vast WAAAGH! field that rallied the Orks.
• The Hive Mind redirected half its forces toward Bonecrusher’s fleet as its largest mothership gathered psychic power for a confrontation with the WAAAGH!.
• Liu Zhipeng watched the battle from Orkutar and ordered the First Meat Grinder’s Boyz to sharpen their Choppas for the approaching enemies.

The Tyranid hive mind abandoned its fleet attack and launched a massive ground assault on the Orks’ prepared defenses. Liu Zhipeng’s forces held the first line with heavy fire, but the arrival of Flesh Eaters sparked a brutal clash with the Ork mechs.

• Bonecrusher destroyed the Tyranid mothership and its escorts, prompting the hive mind to send landing spores toward the green planet.
• Liu Zhipeng ordered the Orks to fire on the landing spores, and their anti-aircraft barrage destroyed many before they reached the ground.
• Tyranid Termagants and Gargoyles poured from the surviving pods, but Ork guns cut down the first waves as Liu Zhipeng directed the defense.
• The hive mind sent tens of thousands of Flesh Eaters to smash the Ork bunkers, and one destroyed a frontline position.
• Liu Zhipeng sent the Big Tin Cans and Killa Kans to meet the Flesh Eaters, and the two sides began a devastating melee in which both a Big Tin Can and its opponent were destroyed.

Liu Zhipeng faced the Tyranids’ elite assault and led his Steel Legion and bodyguards against the Digger Serpents attacking the Orks’ rear defenses. His walkers found the beasts’ weak points and began bringing them down.

• Liu Zhipeng ordered the Gretchin reserve to salvage anything usable after the first wave was repelled.
• The Hive Mind deployed Tyranid Warriors, Genestealers, Tyrant Guards, and Digger Serpents to attack the Orks’ rear lines.
• Liu Zhipeng called his Big Tooth Gang bodyguards and led the Steel Legion toward the Digger Serpents.
• A Big Tin Can fired rockets into a Digger Serpent’s mouth, killing it.
• Liu Zhipeng’s walkers targeted the Digger Serpents’ eyes, mouths, and exposed armor gaps.

Liu Zhipeng killed the Digger Serpent leader and rallied the Orks into a counterattack. As the battle paused, he ordered the Gretchin to scavenge the battlefield, leaving the Hive Mind confused by their behavior.

• Big'un smashed a Tyranid Warrior with his power mace and taunted the Genestealers.
• Liu Zhipeng leaped onto the Digger Serpent leader and split its head and cervical spine with his power battleaxe.
• Liu Zhipeng's victory roar rallied the Orks, who charged the disoriented Tyranids and Digger Serpents.
• Liu Zhipeng ordered the second-level Boyz to start the conveyor belt, and millions of Gretchin poured out to salvage corpses and trophies.
• The Hive Mind watched the Gretchin's scavenging and experienced confusion it could not calculate.

Liu Zhipeng’s salvage tactic turned the battle on Orkutar into a chaotic stalemate as Orks and Tyranids fought over battlefield wreckage. After Grakka “Face-Rippa” arrived to take command of the front, Liu planned to lead an assault into the Tyranid rear and kill its synapse leaders.

• Tyranid raiders attacked Orks trying to salvage corpses and wreckage, sparking scattered fights over valuable remains.
• Liu Zhipeng judged that the salvage tactic had stalled the Tyranid advance but would only work until the hive mind adapted.
• Liu Zhipeng resolved to strike at the Tyranids’ synapse creatures and asked whether Grakka “Face-Rippa” had arrived.
• A Gretchin operator reported that Grakka had landed with Choppa Boyz, and Liu decided to hand him the frontline meat grinder.
• Liu Zhipeng told Grakka that he planned to take elite Boyz into the Tyranid rear to kill their leaders, and asked Grakka to hold the front.

Grakka unleashed the Orks’ stored WAAAGH! energy in a devastating lightning storm that crippled the Tyranid swarm, while Liu Zhipeng’s Tunnel Rat Boyz ambushed Tyranids underground. The Hive Mind’s next counterattack emerged behind the Ork lines near their mushroom beer warehouse.

• Grakka detonated the buried WAAAGH! energy wells, and emerald lightning destroyed most of the Tyranids’ Synapse Creatures and silenced the Hive Mind for three seconds.
• Liu Zhipeng led a hundred Tunnel Rat Boyz into the underground tunnels as Git detected Tyranids digging toward the Ork defenses.
• Git and Gurlo collapsed a cavern with explosives, burying hundreds of Genestealers and several Tyranid Warriors.
• Grakka pursued the leaderless Tyranids until a Gretchin warned him that huge bugs had surfaced near the mushroom beer warehouse.

Liu Zhipeng and the Tunnel Rat Boyz lured the Broodlord away from its guards and collapsed a cavern on it, killing the Broodlord and nearby Genestealers. Liu escaped the collapse and returned to the squad’s rendezvous point.

• Digger Serpents broke into the Orks’ rear lines, but the Orks fought back and destroyed them after their Tyranid commanders had been buried by Liu Zhipeng and the Tunnel Rat Boyz.
• Keen-Ear Git spotted a Broodlord guarded by hundreds of Purestrain Genestealers in a cavern.
• Liu Zhipeng sent Git’s team to draw the Genestealers away, ordered Gurlo to plant explosives on the cavern pillars, and positioned Dirty Trick’s squad to attack.
• Liu Zhipeng rushed the Broodlord’s nest and detonated Gurlo’s explosives as the Broodlord struck at him.
• The cavern collapsed, crushing the Broodlord, its nest, and the nearby Genestealers, while Liu escaped and rejoined the Tunnel Rat Boyz.

Liu Zhipeng and his Tunnel Rat Boyz killed Tyranid Synapse Creatures underground, helping Face-Rippa Grakka crush the confused swarm on the surface. Their success led them to a silent underground volcano, where Liu sensed a trap and ordered an immediate retreat.

• Liu Zhipeng and his Tunnel Rat Boyz killed Synapse Creatures with traps, disrupting the Tyranid Swarm and throwing parts of the surface battle into confusion.
• Face-Rippa Grakka recognized the pattern and coordinated with Liu, attacking the swarm whenever the underground killings left it disorganized.
• The Hive Mind analyzed the Orks’ tactics while Liu and his Boyz grew bolder and targeted a powerful Tyrant in an underground volcano.
• Keen-Ear Git warned Liu that the approach to the volcano was unnaturally quiet, and the Boyz found slick walls and a dark cavern at its entrance.
• Liu kicked a caged Squig into the cavern, noticed its cries made no echo, and roared for the team to retreat.

Liu Zhipeng’s Ork squad was ambushed by Lictors in the volcanic ruins, and Gurlo sacrificed himself with a massive explosion to open an escape route. As the survivors charged through, the Tyrant emerged from the darkness and stopped them with its psychic presence.

• Lictors revealed themselves and launched a surprise attack on Liu Zhipeng’s squad, killing and maiming the Orks in a one-sided massacre.
• Liu Zhipeng ordered Big Bomb B Gurlo to blast a way out of the encirclement.
• Gurlo charged into the Lictors with his explosives and detonated them, tearing open a gap and triggering a cave-in.
• Liu Zhipeng carried Git “Keen-Ear” and led fewer than thirty surviving Orks toward the escape route.
• The Tyrant emerged from the darkness and its psychic pressure slowed the fleeing Orks.

Liu Zhipeng ordered the surviving Tunnel Rat Boyz to flee with the unconscious Git, then unleashed all his WAAAGH! energy to fight the Tyrant. Their final blows killed them both, leaving Liu Zhipeng dead beside the Tyrant’s corpse.

• Liu Zhipeng ordered the surviving Tunnel Rat Boyz to carry the unconscious Git to safety and leave him behind.
• Liu Zhipeng detonated his accumulated WAAAGH! energy and charged the Tyrant with his power axe.
• Liu Zhipeng and the Tyrant fought through the collapsing underground volcano, wounding each other as the battle destroyed the ruins and swept away the Lictors.
• Liu Zhipeng struck through the Tyrant’s cracked skull with his final blow, while the Tyrant’s bone blade sheared away nearly half of Liu Zhipeng’s head.
• Liu Zhipeng and the Tyrant died beside each other.

After Liu Zhipeng died stopping the Tyrant, Grotsnik rebuilt him with Tyranid nerves and Ork machinery. As Liu’s soul was pulled into the green realm of the Orks, he saw the immense figures of Gork and Mork wrestling.

• Big'un returned with Liu Zhipeng’s mangled corpse, while the Tyranids lost their connection to the Hive Mind and began to rout.
• Grakka and the Orks mourned Liu’s death, but Grotsnik discovered that a spark of WAAAGH! still remained in him and carried him to the operating room.
• Grotsnik grafted Tyranid nerve bundles onto Liu’s surviving brain and fitted him with a metal skullcap, a camera eye, and a Gargant thinking module.
• After three days of surgery, Liu’s consciousness left his broken body and waited in the void for the system to reincarnate him.
• A powerful WAAAGH! voice seized Liu’s soul and drew him into a green ocean, where he witnessed Gork and Mork wrestling.

Gork and Mork sent Liu Zhipeng to Cadia to provoke a spectacular fight, empowering his soul with WAAAGH! energy before he returned to his body. Grotsnik’s surgery transformed Toothy Big Chomper into a half-Ork, half-machine, part-Tyranid monstrosity, who rebooted with his consciousness intact.

• Gork and Mork called the battle at Octarius boring and showed Liu Zhipeng the standoff around Cadia.
• Gork and Mork ordered Liu Zhipeng to go to Cadia and start a fight so the gods and the Emperor would witness a proper WAAAGH!.
• Gork and Mork struck Liu Zhipeng with their fists and flooded his soul with WAAAGH! energy.
• Grotsnik finished operating on Toothy Big Chomper, replacing part of his head with machinery and adding Tyranid neural tissue.
• Toothy Big Chomper rebooted, sat up, and scanned the Orks with a cybernetic eye as his system reported that the upgrade was complete.

Liu Zhipeng recovered with a new half-flesh, half-steel head and received Bonecrusher's support for a crusade beyond the Octarius sector. He led three rebuilt cruisers toward Cadia and the Eye of Terror to fight Chaos and other foes.

• Liu Zhipeng rose from the operating table after Grotsnik replaced his head, feeling empowered by Gork and Mork's blessing.
• Liu Zhipeng met Bonecrusher, who praised his victory over the bugs and granted his request to take a WAAAGH! beyond the sector.
• Bonecrusher gave Liu Zhipeng three rebuilt Slaughter-class cruisers and permission to choose their crews.
• A week later, Liu Zhipeng and the Big Tooth Gang departed the Octarius sector aboard the three warships.
• Liu Zhipeng announced that their destination was Cadia and rallied the crew to fight the forces waiting there.

Liu Zhipeng guided his Ork fleet through the Warp toward Cadia, where the Black Legion was overrunning the planet and Abaddon prepared to kill Ursark E. Creed. The fleet emerged near Cadia as Abaddon raised his Talon of Horus over the wounded Creed.

• A three-armed Mekboy threatened the fleet’s Warp engine, and the ships plunged into the Warp.
• Liu Zhipeng navigated the fleet through Warp hazards while Big'un vomited from the journey.
• A Gretchin spotted a giant eye, and Liu Zhipeng ordered the fleet to prepare to leave the Warp.
• The Black Legion breached Cadia’s defenses as Cadian soldiers continued fighting across the planet.
• Abaddon taunted the wounded Creed and raised his Power Claw to kill him.

Ork ships attacked the Planet Killer, forcing Abaddon to abandon his confrontation with Creed and return to his flagship. As Abaddon prepared to teleport, Celestine reappeared and struck him from behind with the Blade of the Seraphim.

• Three Ork ships rammed the Planet Killer, and the largest bored into its hull with a Siege Drill.
• The Planet Killer's bridge commander told Abaddon that the Orks had drilled into the ship.
• Abaddon ordered his forces to teleport back to the Planet Killer and warned Creed that he would return to destroy Cadia.
• Celestine appeared behind Abaddon as he prepared to teleport and stabbed him through a weak junction in his Terminator Armour.

Living Saint Celestine wounded Abaddon, who escaped through a collapsing Warp Rift and emerged on the Ork-infested bridge of the Planet Killer. Liu Zhipeng mocked the fallen Warmaster as Abaddon ordered his Chaos Terminator bodyguards to attack.

• Living Saint Celestine struck Abaddon, but he held her sword in place and escaped through the Warp Rift with his bodyguards.
• Celestine remained among the ruins while Ursark E. Creed looked on with awe and gratitude.
• Liu Zhipeng and the Big Tooth Gang ransacked the Planet Killer’s bridge and turned it into an Ork scrapyard.
• Abaddon and his battered Chaos Terminators tumbled out of an unstable rift onto the bridge, where Abaddon saw Liu Zhipeng seated on his throne.
• Liu Zhipeng mocked Abaddon, who ordered his bodyguards to tear the Orks apart.

Liu Zhipeng and the Big Tooth Gang fought Abaddon and his Chaos Terminators aboard the Chaos flagship. Liu overwhelmed the wounded Abaddon with a kick, leaving him battered on the deck.

• Big'un and the Big Tooth Gang bodyguards charged the Chaos Terminators, with Big'un smashing the lead Terminator's head.
• The Orks used their strength and heavy armor to overpower the Chaos Terminators in a bloody melee.
• Liu Zhipeng cut through the Chaos forces and confronted Abaddon directly.
• Abaddon met Liu's Power Battle Axe with the Talon of Horus, but the impact drove him to one knee.
• Abaddon struck at Liu with Drach'nyen, but Liu dodged and kicked his wounded abdomen, hurling him into a ruined console.

Liu Zhipeng crushed Abaddon unconscious, then fought Khârn and Lucius after the Planet Killer’s intelligence teleported them onto the bridge. The battle was interrupted by an urgent warning that enemy forces had boarded his ship and surrounded it with more vessels.

• The Planet Killer’s emergency protocol teleported Khârn and Lucius onto the bridge as Liu Zhipeng was about to finish Abaddon.
• Khârn charged Liu Zhipeng while Lucius attacked him with his whip, and Liu Zhipeng stomped Abaddon unconscious before turning to face them.
• Liu Zhipeng blocked Khârn’s attack, then used a hidden mechanical tentacle to fling Lucius into Khârn and disrupt their assault.
• Liu Zhipeng fought both Chaos champions at once, using his strength and cunning to keep them off balance.
• An urgent message warned Liu Zhipeng that enemy forces had boarded his ship, his crew was struggling to hold them back, and more ships had surrounded them.