Recaps

Sun Fei investigated the battlefield where two powerful fighters had clashed, then used its lingering danger to strengthen his spiritual power. As assassinations and purges spread through the empire, he and Chambord's people continued training, and Sun Fei increased his daily game time to four hours and ten minutes.

• Sun Fei reconstructed the battle from its traces and concluded that the mysterious fighter who had hunted him was badly injured after losing to an unknown opponent.
• Sun Fei escaped the magic array, forged his spiritual power to 220 weights, and left the Moro Mountains before daybreak.
• Arshavin and Dominguez's investigations identified six affiliated kingdoms as collaborators with the Spartak Empire, and everyone from those kingdoms was executed.
• Assassinations spread through Saint Petersburg, targeting imperial nobles and officials, while Tanasha narrowly escaped and Dominguez was ambushed.
• Emperor Yassin postponed the Martial Combat Competition, ordered the remaining affiliated kingdoms to stay in camp, and sent the Imperial Knights' Hall to hunt the assassins.
• Sun Fei and Chambord's people continued training, and six days later Sun Fei raised his daily game-time limit from four hours to four hours and ten minutes.

Sun Fei met with Paris, who arranged for him to enter the imperial capital and attack the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps. After reaching the capital under cover of a Public Security Office patrol, Sun Fei learned the target’s layout and agreed to let Chambord take thirty percent of the spoils.

• Paris visited Sun Fei and explained that he could enter the imperial capital with up to ten people and would have two hours to deal with the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps.
• Jima and Angela interrupted the meeting, but Paris won them over with gifts and a personal account of her past.
• Paris’s soldiers disguised themselves as Public Security Office troops and escorted Sun Fei’s group through the capital’s guarded southern gate.
• At a tavern controlled by Dominguez, a Public Security Office officer showed Sun Fei the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps’ headquarters and described its gathered forces.
• Sun Fei agreed that Chambord would receive thirty percent of the spoils if he destroyed the mercenary corps.

Sun Fei learned that Blood Blade had captured Chambordians as slaves and prepared to destroy the mercenary corps, while Blood Blade’s leaders dismissed him as a foolish young king. The chapter ended with Sun Fei ordering his forces to seal the headquarters’ escape routes as Blood Blade’s commander considered confronting him.

• Red Beard Granero escorted Sun Fei and his companions into the imperial capital, then left after Sun Fei thanked and dismissed him.
• Sun Fei confronted the captive One-Eyed Mad Python and declared that Blood Blade’s destruction had arrived.
• Sun Fei sensed other powers waiting near Blood Blade’s headquarters and ordered his strongest companions to block every escape route and wipe out the mercenary corps.
• A Blood Blade member reported that Alexander had destroyed its northern slave-catching squad and killed its men at the Kingdom of Byzantium’s camp.
• Blood Blade’s commander dismissed Alexander’s motives as foolish, and his men boasted about confronting him and taking revenge on Chambord.

Sun Fei attacked the Blood Blade headquarters in Sorceress Mode, setting its buildings ablaze and fighting the commander. As the battle began, observers across the capital wondered who the masked mage was and how he was connected to the King of Chambord.

• The Blood Blade commander and his senior members grew confident until explosions and flames struck their headquarters.
• Sun Fei appeared in a devil-horn mask atop a burning statue and used fire magic to attack Blood Blade’s senior members and ignite the compound.
• The Blood Blade commander ordered his men to fight the fires and charged Sun Fei with his Kiss of Ice technique.
• A young observer at the headquarters wondered about the King of Chambord’s hidden forces and urged his family to recruit the masked mage.
• Arshavin watched from a northern rooftop, failed to sense the King of Chambord, and ordered an investigation into the mage’s origins.
• The empire’s senior mages discussed the masked mage’s unfamiliar aura, compared it to the God and Demon Ruins, and chose not to intervene.

As Sun Fei’s masked mage persona set the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps headquarters ablaze, onlookers discussed his identity and power. The Blood Blade commander demanded a duel, and the masked mage stopped to prepare a killing move.

• Materazzi watched the battle from the clouds and speculated about the masked mage’s identity with his silent companion.
• Paris observed the fighting with Second Prince Dominguez, Chris Sutton, and Red Beard Granero; Dominguez and his puppy Oka fell asleep.
• The masked mage evaded the Blood Blade commander, killed mercenaries with fireballs, and spread flames throughout the headquarters.
• The Blood Blade commander ordered his men to regroup and fight the fires while he pursued the masked mage.
• The masked mage accepted the commander’s challenge and promised to leave if the commander survived his killing move.

Sun Fei used a feint to distract the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps commander while a hidden attacker stabbed him from behind. As the commander lay dying, Sun Fei revealed his identity and prepared to kill him.

• Sun Fei challenged the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps commander to withstand his powerful move, keeping the commander focused on him.
• A small, frail figure emerged from behind and stabbed the commander through his protective Dou Qi and robe with a black dagger.
• The wounded commander struck his attacker backward, but his injuries left him near death.
• Sun Fei mocked the commander for calling the attack despicable and told him he did not deserve a warrior’s death.
• Sun Fei whispered his name to the commander, then pulled out the dagger and raised it to finish him.

Sun Fei searched the Blood Blade headquarters after sensing a faint summoning aura and discovered a secret passage hidden behind the mercenary leader’s throne. He carefully disarmed its traps and reached the passage beyond, where the mysterious aura came from.

• Sun Fei learned that Inzaghi’s injuries were minor, then ordered his forces to delay wiping out Blood Blade while he investigated something he had sensed.
• Prince Arshavin ordered an investigation into the masked mage, while Materazzi and Krasic discussed whether the mage was Alexander.
• Sun Fei destroyed the twin-lion throne in Hall Number One, revealing a secret passage and a strange ancient archway, which he removed and stored.
• Sun Fei followed the summoning aura into the passage and switched to Assassin Mode to detect its hidden traps.
• Sun Fei spent thirty minutes dismantling a narrow route through the traps and reached the passage’s end without triggering any.

Sun Fei explored the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps’ hidden underground hall and found its hoard, weapons, manuals, and supplies. At the hall’s rear, he discovered a pit filled with skeletons whose ghostly flames surged toward him.

• Sun Fei cut nine mysterious runes from the passage wall and stored them for Akara and Cain to study.
• Sun Fei found Blood Blade’s enormous treasure mound but left it untouched, mindful of his agreement to claim only thirty percent.
• Sun Fei examined the fine weapons and armor, then took the Dou Qi manuals and magic journals for Chambord City.
• Sun Fei found food and supplies prepared as a refuge, unaware that Blood Blade’s commander had planned to escape and rebuild his power there.
• Sun Fei used Sorceress Mode to light the pit and saw countless skeletons as blue ghost flames rushed up toward him.

Sun Fei followed a summoning will through a hidden portal and found a golden skeleton guarding a crimson-flamed battle-axe. Meanwhile, Cahill and his men fled the burning Blood Blade headquarters with two captive women, only to be confronted by a powerful figure demanding to know whether they were Blood Blade mercenaries.

• Sun Fei found a mechanism beneath the bones that opened a Diablo-style town portal, then stepped through it and saw a golden skeleton leaning on a crimson-flamed battle-axe.
• Cahill led more than twenty trusted subordinates out of the burning Blood Blade headquarters, carrying their stolen treasure and two captive women in sacks.
• Cahill warned his men not to touch the women because he had an important use for them.
• A powerful, red-haired figure in strange armor blocked the mercenaries' escape and asked whether they belonged to the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps.
• Cahill and his men trembled as they recognized the killing intent of the figure confronting them.

Lampard, Drogba, Pierce, Elena, and Torres slaughtered waves of Blood Blade mercenaries as they carried out the King of Chambord’s plan. Inzaghi relayed orders to stall the fleeing mercenaries while Sun Fei investigated a mysterious golden skeleton.

• Lampard revealed himself as a Leo Saint serving the King of Chambord and killed Earth Tiger Cahill and the Blood Blade mercenaries in the alley with Lightning Lightspeed Fist.
• Drogba and Pierce blocked the eastern street and killed the fleeing mercenaries, including Embracing Lizard Tony, with Great Horn and Holy Sword Excalibur.
• Inzaghi arrived after the fight and complained that he was late again.
• Elena used her magic arrows to kill dozens of Blood Blade mercenaries while Inzaghi rushed to join her.
• Torres repeatedly shot down fleeing mercenaries before Warden Oleg could use Sekishiki Shock Wave, and Inzaghi told them to stall for time.
• Sun Fei stood before a golden skeleton that radiated an overwhelming presence.

Sun Fei explored the sealed chamber and discovered [Demon King's Wisdom], a floating book filled with ancient knowledge and part of a trove of gifts left by the Demon King. Meanwhile, Arshavin watched Chambord's forces slaughter the routed Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and realized Chambord was far stronger than he had expected.

• Sun Fei found he could not approach the golden skeleton or take the double-bladed battle-axe it held, so he searched the chamber around it.
• Sun Fei discovered a floating book whose ancient script described mechanisms, traps, construction, forging, and other knowledge.
• Sun Fei deciphered part of the book's final page, which mentioned the Demon King's gifts and a dying defender's plea to protect them and inherit the Demon God's glory.
• Sun Fei recognized the book as [Demon King's Wisdom] and realized its knowledge could greatly strengthen Chambord City.
• Arshavin watched Chambord experts slaughter the routed Blood Blade Mercenary Corps in the four streets surrounding its headquarters and was shocked by Chambord's strength.

Arshavin witnessed Chambord’s formidable experts destroy the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and wondered whether Alexander might one day rival the empire. Sun Fei found he could not reach the Demon King's Wisdom, then used a portal to secure access to the mysterious chamber and erase the entrance mechanism; the chapter ended with him deducing that the Blood Blade commander had discovered and guarded the place.

• Arshavin watched six Chambord experts slaughter the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and sensed that Alexander’s growing power could threaten the empire.
• Materazzi questioned Krasic about his intentions, and Krasic vanished into the darkness after replying that he needed time.
• Sun Fei found a silver barrier and six chained stone lamps protecting the Demon King's Wisdom, then used Summon to travel between the chamber and the Diablo World.
• Sun Fei returned to the underground hall, identified the footprint pedals and magic array that opened the chamber portal, and destroyed them and the array pattern.
• Sun Fei concluded that the Blood Blade commander had discovered the chamber, hidden it, and set the magical traps in the passage.

Sun Fei finished searching the underground hall beneath Blood Blade’s headquarters, where he had found a vast store of treasure and weapons, as rival factions broke through the traps and rushed in. When soldiers attacked him and called him a Blood Blade remnant, he effortlessly defeated them, and the chapter ended with a young Five-Star mage ordering Sun Fei killed while the soldiers warned that he was too strong.

• Sun Fei regretted that he could not approach the golden skeleton safely, then heard intruders destroying the traps in the passage.
• Soldiers from the imperial capital’s factions poured into the underground hall and began marveling at its treasure, weapons, and armor.
• When soldiers accused Sun Fei of being a Blood Blade remnant and charged him, he sent them flying with an invisible force.
• Big Beyoncé arrived with a young Five-Star mage and denied knowing Sun Fei, despite recognizing him.
• After Lafa accused Sun Fei of resisting arrest, the mage ordered him killed, but the soldiers hesitated and said they were no match for Sun Fei.

Sun Fei confronted Fourth Prince Christo after Christo burned Lafa to death and ordered Sun Fei to die. Christo’s fire spell failed against Sun Fei, leaving the prince wary and asking who he was.

• Christo killed Lafa by burning him into black mist, then ordered the soldiers to kneel.
• Christo told Sun Fei to kill himself, but Sun Fei said he was not with the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and asked whether Christo knew who he was.
• Christo identified himself as the empire’s fourth prince and attacked Sun Fei with [Dragon Flame].
• Sun Fei stopped the fire dragon with one hand and effortlessly broke the spell.
• Christo realized Sun Fei was far stronger than he expected and asked who he was; Sun Fei reminded him that he had said he did not need to know.

Paris introduced the powers assembled to divide Blood Blade’s remaining wealth, and most accepted the agreed shares. Christo challenged Sun Fei’s claim, alleging that he had taken valuables before the others arrived and that the fire he set should reduce Chambord’s share; several factions supported him.

• Paris introduced Baresi, Kode, Christo, Beyoncé, Laudno, and the other representatives to Sun Fei.
• Paris proposed dividing Blood Blade’s remaining holdings according to the previous agreement, with Chambord City receiving three tenths.
• Pavlyuchenko, Baresi, and Laudno accepted the arrangement, while Kode showed his displeasure.
• Christo claimed Sun Fei might have taken treasures from the underground hall before the others arrived, and Bono supported his insinuation.
• Kode questioned soldiers who confirmed that Sun Fei had arrived first.
• Christo argued that the value of Blood Blade’s buildings burned by Sun Fei should be deducted from Chambord’s share, drawing agreement from several people.

Sun Fei rejected Fourth Prince Christo’s demand that he surrender his storage ring and accept deductions from Chambord City’s share of the spoils. When Christo and several powerful allies tried to enforce their claim, Sun Fei struck the prince across the face, leaving the hall stunned.

• The major powers reconsidered their promised share after seeing how easily Sun Fei’s forces defeated the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps, while Paris, Pavlyuchenko, Ziyan, Laudno, and Baresi remained silent.
• Fourth Prince Christo demanded that losses from the fire be deducted from Chambord City’s share, but Sun Fei refused to accept responsibility for them.
• Christo accused Sun Fei of hiding Blood Blade’s treasures and demanded that he surrender his storage ring for inspection.
• Kode, the Crouching Tiger commander, the Hall of Radiance commander, and Beyoncé backed Christo and pressed Sun Fei to hand over the ring.
• Sun Fei said strength came from hard fists, then cursed the group and struck Christo with a transparent palm, sending him crashing into the hall wall.

Sun Fei beat the Fourth Prince Christo and Beyoncé, then killed Kode and the ten members of the Bronze Spear when they challenged him. The hall’s witnesses looked to Dominguez for a reaction, but he praised Sun Fei and went back to sleep.

• Sun Fei slapped Christo twice, crushing his cheekbones and knocking him unconscious.
• Beyoncé accused Sun Fei of treason, and he struck her unconscious with a single slap.
• Sun Fei attacked Kode, and the Bronze Spear used God's Formation to block his first punch.
• Sun Fei unleashed Heavenly Frost Fist’s second form, One-Hit-Kill, destroying the formation and killing Kode and the ten warriors.
• Christo woke, saw the massacre, and fainted again, while Dominguez praised Sun Fei and closed his eyes.

Sun Fei drove the Crouching Tiger and Hall of Radiance mercenary corps from the underground hall and oversaw the redistribution of Blood Blade’s treasure. As he prepared to leave with Paris, the Second Prince revealed himself as Oka Dominguez and told Sun Fei that he liked him.

• Sun Fei insulted the mercenary commanders, then ordered the Crouching Tiger and Hall of Radiance corps to leave; they withdrew without protest.
• Sun Fei and the assembled representatives divided Blood Blade’s treasure, with the Soros Chamber of Commerce receiving the shares forfeited by the expelled mercenaries.
• Divine Master Baresi displayed precise control of Holy Power, gave his share of coins and magic stones to Sun Fei, and left the hall.
• Paris explained Sun Fei’s new nickname, One Fist Spanning the Heavens, and offered to escort him out as dawn approached.
• Oka Dominguez stopped Sun Fei, said he liked him, and asked Sun Fei to call him Oka rather than the Second Prince.

Sun Fei met the second prince Dominguez and came away impressed by his genuine affection for his disabled dog, Oka, despite suspecting that the prince sometimes played the fool. As Sun Fei and his companions left the imperial capital, Paris explained Oka’s history and revealed that she was one of the only two people besides Sun Fei who could call the prince by that name.

• Dominguez joked with Sun Fei, introduced his disabled dog Oka, and carelessly scattered most of the offered gold and magic stones across the hall.
• Sun Fei and his companions changed into Public Security Office armor, left the capital with Paris’s help, and discussed Dominguez’s favor toward him.
• Sun Fei reflected that Oka’s trust in Dominguez suggested the prince had truly cared for the dog since rescuing him.
• Paris explained that Dominguez had saved Oka after finding him injured at the capital gates six years earlier, when he arrived as a bastard son.
• Paris told Sun Fei that Dominguez kept his mother’s surname, Oka, despite criticism from nobles and displeasure from Emperor Yassin.
• Sun Fei asked who else could call Dominguez Oka, and Paris revealed that Red Beard Granero and she were the other two.

Sun Fei learned from Paris that Zenit faced a worsening succession crisis and that the Martial Combat Competition could offer him a chance to raise Chambord’s standing. After Paris asked him to save Dominguez if he ever fell into trouble, Sun Fei returned to camp, where Angela had prepared a hot bath for him.

• Paris told Sun Fei that Spartak was waiting for Emperor Yassin to die and that the emperor’s health had sharply declined.
• Paris said the Martial Combat Competition would begin in three days, with military command and battlefield merit among the possible rewards.
• As Paris escorted Sun Fei to the Chambord camp, she questioned him about the masked mage Jianjiao, and Sun Fei claimed he was one of six secret royal envoys.
• Before leaving, Paris asked Sun Fei to save Dominguez once if he ever got into trouble.
• Sun Fei returned to the tent and found Angela asleep after preparing a heated bath for him.

Sun Fei gave Angela a fur robe to be remade into a warm Wide-Sleeved Flowing Immortal Dress, while the others reflected on his relationships and his growing influence. The next morning, imperial forces launched a strict search for Spartak Empire assassins throughout the Twenty-Li Camp.

• Sun Fei sketched a Wide-Sleeved Flowing Immortal Dress for Angela and offered her the blue fox fur robe to make it from.
• Jima questioned Drogba and Pierce about Paris and Sun Fei, and they reassured her that Sun Fei would not fall for Paris.
• Elena sat alone by the river before dawn, thinking of the person she loved and vowing to fight and draw her bow only for him.
• Tanasha learned that Baresi had given Blood Blade's treasure to Sun Fei and invited him to meet Kaká; she ordered the treasure sent to the Chambord camp as a gift for Angela and Jima.
• At dawn, imperial soldiers and cavalry began searching the Twenty-Li Camp for Spartak Empire assassins and confined the affiliated kingdoms to their camps.

Sun Fei reflected on the turmoil in the empire before Knights' Hall cavalrymen entered the Chambord camp to search for Spartak Empire assassins. The search turned hostile when Drogba stopped them from entering Sun Fei's tent, and the commander hesitated to escalate the confrontation.

• Sun Fei left the sleeping Angela and considered how the princes' power struggle and political assassinations had plunged the empire into chaos.
• Knights' Hall cavalrymen arrived and ordered the Chambord people to gather for a search; Sun Fei allowed them into the camp.
• The cavalrymen drove the Chambord people into the center of the camp and tried to force their way into Sun Fei's tent while Angela was changing.
• Drogba stopped a cavalryman from entering the tent and threw him aside after catching his whip.
• The knight commander ordered his men to seize Drogba, but Drogba raised his axe and the cavalrymen hesitated as their commander reconsidered attacking Sun Fei's men.

Sun Fei blocked the Knights' Hall from searching his camp, but the knights turned their attention to eight unregistered girls and accused them of being enemy assassins. The leopard-eyed knight leader ordered them taken to the Black Prison, and the chapter ended as cavalrymen moved to restrain them.

• The leopard-eyed knight leader threatened Sun Fei with the emperor's search order, but Sun Fei ignored him while onlookers from nearby kingdoms watched.
• Angela and Jima emerged from the central tent, and the Knights' Hall cavalrymen were struck by Angela's beauty.
• The knights searched the camp and checked its roster, then singled out eight girls whose names were missing.
• Sun Fei recognized six girls as former captives given to him by the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and two others as captives rescued by Lampard.
• The leopard-eyed knight leader accused the frightened girls of being Spartak Empire assassins and ordered them taken to the Black Prison in iron-spike restraints.

Angela protected eight frightened girls from the Knights' Hall, while Sun Fei uncovered a plot to frame Chambord with Blood Blade's stolen valuables. After the Knights' Hall cavalry surrounded the camp, Sun Fei drew a deadly sword mark at its entrance and ordered his men to seize the intruders and interrogate them.

• Angela stepped between the eight girls and the Knights' Hall cavalry, then led the girls toward Sun Fei.
• Knights' Hall cavalrymen produced Blood Blade valuables and weapons they claimed to have found in a Chambord tent, and the leopard-eyed knight commander accused Chambord of colluding with Spartak assassins.
• Sun Fei recognized the valuables as items from Blood Blade's headquarters and questioned the cavalryman who had supposedly found them.
• When the cavalryman denied wrongdoing, Sun Fei struck him, then blasted the first cavalrymen who charged into the camp into bloody mist.
• Sun Fei carved a sword mark outside the camp and warned that anyone who crossed it would die.
• Sun Fei ordered Petr Čech, Torres, the Heng and Ha Generals, Oleg, and the others to seize the intruders, break their legs, and interrogate them for the plot's organizers.

The King of Chambord captured and tortured Knights' Hall cavalrymen after they tried to arrest him, and the First Judgment Knight arrived to confront him. When the First Judgment Knight examined the King of Chambord's sword scar, it unleashed a Fist Intent Spiritual Imprint that shattered his bracer.

• The King of Chambord had his men seize the Knights' Hall cavalrymen who came to arrest him and take control of the Chambord camp.
• A bald, scar-faced Chambordian fat man tortured the captured knights until the leopard-eyed knight leader and the others confessed what they knew.
• The First Judgment Knight arrived from the imperial capital as the Knights' Hall cavalrymen greeted him.
• The First Judgment Knight studied the sword scar outside the camp for several minutes, then reached toward it without crossing it.
• The scar unleashed glazed sword energy that broke the First Judgment Knight's blood-red bracer, and onlookers recognized it as a Fist Intent Spiritual Imprint.