Recaps

Yang Feng was exposed by the Heavenly Screen as a future contender for the throne, then seized power in Huainan after Yuan Shu’s fall. The screen revealed that his next struggle would be to gain a foothold in Yizhou through Fa Zheng and Li Yan, leaving Yang Feng alarmed by the enemies his plans had made.

• Yang Feng learned that the Heavenly Screen had named him the future greatest emperor, and he tried to convince Yuan Shu and the officials that it had made a mistake.
• The screen revealed Yang Feng’s plans to flee Yuan Shu and later rise in Yizhou, while Yuan Shu accused him of betrayal and Yan Xiang and Ji Ling rallied behind him.
• Yan Xiang and Ji Ling seized control of Shouchun, and Ji Ling beheaded Yuan Shu after Yang Feng’s accidental words were taken as an order.
• Yang Feng initially refused to claim the throne, but Yan Xiang and Ji Ling later pressed him to accept, and he proclaimed the Great Yang Empire.
• Cao Cao and other warlords reacted to Yang Feng’s accession, while Liu Zhang panicked that the Heavenly Screen would expose his future defeat.
• The screen revealed that Liu Zhang would try to poison Yang Feng and that Yang Feng expected Fa Zheng and Li Yan to join him, stunning observers across the realm.
• The screen said Fa Zheng and Li Yan admired Yang Feng’s poetry and planned to marry their daughters to him while helping him establish himself in Yizhou.
• Yang Feng worried that the revealed plan had made enemies of Liu Zhang and Cao Cao, while Yan Xiang and Ji Ling defended him from officials who whispered that he gained power through women.

The Heavenly Screen’s visions exposed Yang Feng’s rise, the fall of Liu Zhang, Cao Cao’s defeat of Yuan Shao, and the coming division of the realm. Lü Bu abandoned Cao Cao and pledged allegiance to Yang Feng, who accepted him but refused to become his adoptive father.

• The Heavenly Screen’s revelations led Fa Zheng and Li Yan to kill Liu Zhang and surrender Yizhou to Yang Feng, while Yang Feng feared the new territory would bring him powerful enemies.
• The screen showed Cao Cao defeating Lü Bu and advancing toward Yizhou, but Yang Feng’s Heaven and Earth Cannon shattered Cao Cao’s army and forced him to retreat.
• The screen revealed Cao Cao’s victory over Yuan Shao at Guandu and predicted that Liu Biao would surrender Jing Province to Yang Feng as the realm divided into three powers.
• Chen Gong urged Lü Bu to join Yang Feng, and Lü Bu left Xu Province for Shouchun while Zhang Liao raised the Great Yang Empire’s flag there.
• Yang Feng received Lü Bu, who pledged allegiance and asked to become his adoptive son, but Yang Feng declined the adoption.