Recaps

Sun Fei memorized the Divine Runewords generated by the God and Demon Altar as it absorbed Hell’s power and partially purified the Nightmare Difficulty Worldstone. After sharing a fraction of his notes with Old Cain and Sister Alaka, Sun Fei discovered Sky City’s greatest secret.

• Sun Fei memorized the Divine Runewords while Old Cain and Sister Alaka watched, unable to record them with a Diwei Crystal.
• The God and Demon Altar absorbed the blood-red power of Hell and restored about a tenth of the Worldstone to its sky-blue state.
• The altar stopped, and the God and Demon Stone Pillar shed its crust, then shrank and returned to Sun Fei’s body.
• Old Cain explained that the larger Worldstone would need repeated purification, and Sister Alaka and Old Cain demanded Sun Fei write down the runes.
• Sun Fei drew more than a hundred pages of notes for Old Cain and Sister Alaka, then realized he had discovered Sky City’s greatest secret.

Sun Fei discovered that the Nine-Flower Golden Lotus in Sky City’s God King Hall controlled the city’s defenses and unlocked its blocking function. He learned that nine such lotuses governed eighty-one powers, then returned to Chambord City to make arrangements before leaving.

• Sun Fei realized that the Nine-Flower Golden Lotus was Sky City’s defensive control hub and used his Druid Mode to make another flower bloom.
• The newly awakened flower activated a powerful shield around Sky City, and Sun Fei identified the nine defensive functions governed by the lotus.
• Sun Fei learned that eight more lotuses could eventually unlock seventy-two additional city functions, though doing so would require enormous energy.
• Sun Fei adjusted Sky City’s defensive functions and left God King Hall while Angela and Elena were still away.
• Sun Fei returned to Chambord City to arrange matters before leaving.

Before leaving Chambord City, Sun Fei reviewed its administration and defenses, gave a lecture, and planned to visit Jessica. At the Soros Chamber of Commerce shop, he learned that someone was threatening her and followed Heskey upstairs as an attacker struck.

• Sun Fei met with Best, then gave Chambord's officials urgent instructions and attended a university lecture and military meeting.
• Sun Fei left the meetings reassured that Chambord could respond to a sudden attack and walked through the city with Heskey.
• Sun Fei and Heskey entered the Soros Chamber of Commerce shop to visit Jessica and found its attendants gathered anxiously downstairs.
• An attendant told Heskey that someone was bullying Jessica upstairs, and Heskey headed for the stairs in anger.
• A man upstairs ordered Chek to kill Heskey, and Chek's saber strike was shattered by Sun Fei, who then followed Heskey upstairs.

Sun Fei arrived to find Jessica’s guards beaten and tied up by visitors from the Villarreal Empire’s Soros Chamber of Commerce. After the young man threatened Jessica and ordered his guard to attack, Sun Fei silenced him and forced the Eight-Star Class warrior to reveal where they came from.

• Sun Fei and Heskey found Jessica’s four guards beaten and bound, while an Eight-Star Class warrior confronted them with a saber.
• A guard mistook Sun Fei for Jessica’s lover and urged him to fetch King Alexander, prompting Sun Fei to realize how far the rumors had spread.
• The young man insulted Jessica and threatened to take her, but Sun Fei stopped Heskey and Jessica from responding.
• Sun Fei asked whether the visitors belonged to the Soros Chamber of Commerce, and the young man tried to order his guard to kill him.
• Sun Fei used a gesture to make the young man unable to speak, then compelled the Eight-Star Class warrior to identify their branch as belonging to the Villarreal Empire.

Sun Fei sentenced the Villarreal Empire supervisor’s arrogant son to death after he disrupted Chambord City, and Chambord’s forces defeated the rescue party sent for him. After the execution, Sun Fei departed by reverse-whale warship with students from Chambord City Civil and Martial University to travel around the continent.

• Sun Fei identified himself as King Alexander and ordered the Villarreal Empire caravan’s young master executed for five crimes under Chambord City’s Twelve Bronze Men Code.
• Jessica took in Arthur, the ancient undead dragon, as a temporary worker after Sun Fei recommended him.
• Assassins attacked several Chambord City sites overnight, but the rescue force at the Soros Chamber of Commerce shop was stopped by Arthur.
• The young man’s companions revealed that all forty-six experts sent to rescue him had been killed and that Sun Fei had reached Great Sun-Rank Venerable level.
• Chambord officials executed the young man while his father, Lord Nihat, remained days away in the City of Love Songs.
• Sun Fei boarded the King Alexander with Torres and students including Louis, Pato, Portland, and Lukaku, and the warship submerged into the river.

King Constantine led the surviving Byzantine troops in a night raid to retake their occupied royal city, but the attack became a trap as Lyon forces surrounded them. The chapter ended with powerful enemies emerging from the palace and Lyon soldiers closing in from every direction.

• The Ten Empires Allied Army invaded Azure Wind Province, forcing Constantine and his remaining troops to flee Byzantium’s royal city and continue resisting from the sea.
• After hearing that the Lyon garrison had weakened and sent troops away, Constantine led more than two thousand Byzantine troops through the moat into the royal city.
• The Byzantines caught the Lyon soldiers off guard and advanced toward the palace, with Constantine using the Seven Injuries Fist to break through their defenses.
• As Constantine entered the palace, a Lyon leader revealed that the raid had been anticipated and declared that the Byzantines would be wiped out.
• Powerful auras rose from the palace as Lyon soldiers surrounded Constantine’s forces from every direction.

King Constantine led the surviving Byzantines through a desperate retreat from Lyon forces, only to be trapped at sea by a much larger fleet. As the Byzantines prepared to fight to the death, a mysterious submersible ship surfaced and raised Chambord City's royal flag.

• Constantine ordered his army to retreat and held off the pursuing Lyon soldiers while the Byzantines escaped to their warships.
• Elderly Byzantine civilians stayed behind to cover the retreat, and the Lyon forces killed the last fifty-one defenders before the young Lyon nobleman ordered the fleet to pursue the survivors.
• At dawn, Constantine's remaining ships found themselves surrounded by Lyon warships, and King Hugo Lloris offered to spare Byzantium if Constantine surrendered.
• Constantine rejected Hugo's offer and led his outnumbered fleet toward the Lyon ships, despite worrying about his pregnant wife Isabella.
• A huge ship rose from underwater between the fleets, and Constantine recognized the flag it raised as the royal flag of Chambord City.

Sun Fei and the Chambord students traveled aboard the King Alexander to the Sea of Fragrance, where they encountered a Lyon fleet surrounding the Byzantine ships. The Lyon fleet began retreating after learning Sun Fei was aboard, but King of Buckingham Hugo Lloris flew out to block the King Alexander.

• The King Alexander surfaced near the mouth of the Zuli River after more than three days of underwater travel.
• Heskey spotted Lyon warships surrounding the King Alexander and ordered Chambord's forces to prepare for battle.
• The Lyon commander demanded to know the ship's origin, and Heskey announced that it was His Majesty Alexander's flagship and called on the Lyon fleet to surrender.
• Constantine recognized the King of Chambord and ordered the Byzantine fleet to charge and protect him.
• Hugo Lloris ordered the Lyon fleet to retreat, then flew between the fleet and the King Alexander to block its path.

Sun Fei and the Byzantine forces overwhelmed the retreating Lyon navy, while two handsome blond Moon Class archers destroyed warships with their arrows. As Sun Fei faced Lloris, the Lyon commander called on a sinister power that rapidly raised his strength into the Great Sun-Rank Venerable realm.

• Lloris ordered the Lyon fleet to retreat and faced Sun Fei alone, but Sun Fei effortlessly erased his flame giants and the sea fog.
• The Byzantine and Chambordian forces pursued the Lyon fleet, and the King Alexander's magical crossbows sank four warships.
• Two blond archers appeared on the King Yalishan and shattered the Lyon flagship and other warships with their arrows.
• Sun Fei recognized that Lloris was far weaker than he was after his recent Diablo training, while the Lyon fleet suffered heavy losses.
• Lloris roared for power and transformed as his strength surged past Moon Class Great Perfection into the Great Sun-Rank Venerable realm, making Sun Fei wary.

Sun Fei defeated the demonized Lloris and disrupted the Lyonese fleet’s escape before taking the king to the Throne of Chaotic Times to study the dark power inside him. The chapter ended with Sun Fei forcing Lloris’s body to turn transparent, revealing a blood-red skeleton attached to his own.

• Lloris transformed under a demonic force and attacked Sun Fei, who endured the fight to study the power within him.
• Sun Fei emerged from the blood-red mist holding Lloris, then used golden energy and waves to delay the Lyonese warships that had not yet escaped.
• The Chambordian and Byzantine forces defeated the disorganized Lyonese navy while Sun Fei carried Lloris high above the sea and bound him with magic-suppressing shackles.
• Sun Fei concluded that Lloris’s demonic seed differed from the golden skeleton that had possessed One Sword and began examining its source and weaknesses.
• Lloris broke the shackles and charged Sun Fei, but Sun Fei pinned him to the platform and forced his body to reveal a blood-red skeleton clinging between his flesh and natural bones.

Sun Fei suppressed and examined the blood-red skeleton possessing Lloris, but it destroyed itself when he tried to search its spiritual energy, leaving Lloris alive. After the Byzantium-Chambord victory, Constantine met Sun Fei aboard the King Alexander, where Sun Fei noticed something was wrong.

• Sun Fei used the Throne of Chaotic Times to force the blood-red skeleton out of Lloris and pin it down.
• Sun Fei collected bone fragments to study, but the skeleton’s skull exploded when he tried to search its spiritual energy, and the remaining creature vanished.
• Lloris regained signs of life, and Sun Fei considered using him to learn about the possessing skeletons.
• The Byzantium and Chambord forces completed their victory over the Lyon fleet, capturing seventy ships and more than six thousand Lyon soldiers and sailors.
• Constantine boarded the King Alexander to meet Sun Fei, who greeted him warmly and recognized his progress in Seven Injuries Fist before frowning at something amiss.

Sun Fei healed Constantine’s injuries in Byzantium, then let news of his presence spread to rally Zenit and frighten the invading allied army. When enemy experts tried to confirm the reports, Fernando Torres killed or crippled them, proving that the King of Chambord was in Byzantium.

• Sun Fei gave Constantine a Life Restoration Potion and used his Paladin and Barbarian powers to heal his external and internal injuries.
• Sun Fei stayed in Byzantium and allowed the news of his arrival to spread, drawing more than two hundred thousand refugees, soldiers, officials, and nobles to the capital.
• The Ten Empires Allied Army withdrew its troops from the area around Byzantium and stopped its widespread slaughter and enslavement of Zenit civilians.
• The allied army sent ten disguised experts into Byzantium to investigate whether Sun Fei was really there.
• Fernando Torres appeared above the city gate and shot the ten experts, killing several and forcing the sole survivor to flee after severing his own arm.
• The surviving spy’s escape confirmed to the allied army that Sun Fei was in Byzantium.

Sun Fei stayed in Byzantium to help it become a force against the Ten Empires Allied Army and to question the captive Lloris. Lloris refused to reveal Lyon’s military information and challenged Sun Fei to consider how long he could resist the allied empires alone.

• Constantine used the refugees, captured supplies, and warships to rapidly rebuild Byzantium’s army and navy.
• Sun Fei spent four days in Byzantium, offering Constantine limited advice while observing Lloris’s recovery.
• Sun Fei met Lloris in his residence’s rear courtyard and had Heskey remove the captive’s magic-sealing shackles.
• Lloris declared that he would reveal no Lyon military information and urged Sun Fei to serve Lyon, warning him about the strength of the allied empires.

Sun Fei questioned the captured King of Buckingham Lloris about the blood-colored skeleton and learned that a mysterious expert had empowered him through a soul contract. After sealing Lloris’s Dou Qi channels, Sun Fei announced that he would enter the Lyon Empire in six days, and Lloris accepted the challenge.

• Sun Fei warned Lloris that he could use mental power to search his memories, prompting Lloris to explain how he had encountered the mysterious expert and signed a soul contract.
• Lloris told Sun Fei that he had accepted the transformation to protect the Lyon Empire’s naval fleet and had used it to hold Sun Fei back.
• Sun Fei questioned Lloris about the mysterious expert, who had worn a black cloak and mask and was not from the Lyon Empire.
• Lloris refused to reveal any military information, and Sun Fei sealed all seventy-two of his Dou Qi channels with a golden flame.
• Sun Fei said he planned to visit the Lyon Empire in six days and asked Lloris to guide him; Lloris welcomed the prospect, and Sun Fei declared that he dared to go.

While Sun Fei stayed away from Byzantium, Zenit mobilized its forces and assigned two princes to lead separate armies to the southern battlefield. The chapter ended with the first prince kept in the capital to train new legions as the empire’s plans for reclaiming its lost provinces remained unclear.

• Dominguez assembled forty thousand soldiers, defeated the scattered allied forces north of Saint Petersburg, and reopened the route between the capital and the northern territories.
• The imperial family appointed Christo commander of the Giant Strength Legion and prepared him to lead troops south.
• Sun Fei read a bulletin reporting that Zenit had mobilized more than eight hundred thousand soldiers across its legions and other forces.
• The Military Department assigned Dominguez an army of just over one hundred thousand to face Lyon in Red Leaf Province and Christo a similar force to fight allied armies in the southeast.
• Arshavin remained in the capital to train ten newly formed legions while the empire sent only two armies to the southern front.

Sun Fei revisited the mystery of the missing third prince, then learned that a hidden expert had saved the imperial palace from an allied Moon Class kill squad. Chambord sent Frank Lampard and Arjen to join Dominguez’s southern army, leaving Arjen’s future importance on the battlefield unrecognized.

• Sun Fei considered whether the missing third prince might return as a claimant to the throne, but set the question aside to investigate the skeletons and planned to visit the Lyon Empire.
• Sun Fei received intelligence that an allied kill squad of more than ten Moon Class experts had attacked Saint Petersburg and been slain by a mysterious blue-light expert near the imperial palace.
• Sun Fei recognized the palace’s mysterious defender and felt reassured that the expert was protecting the imperial capital.
• Chambord City sent three hundred Urban Management troops, led by Frank Lampard and Arjen, to join Dominguez’s army on the southern frontier.
• Observers interpreted Lampard’s deployment as Sun Fei’s support for Dominguez, while Arjen’s future influence on the war went unnoticed.

Sun Fei gave Constantine powerful manuals and Dragon Transformation Grass, helping him break through to the Nine-Star Class before agreeing to attend a banquet in Byzantium. At the banquet, City Lord Sherwood rudely dismissed Constantine and prepared to introduce the nobles to Sun Fei himself.

• Sun Fei gave Constantine the Seven Injuries Divine Fist manual, the Jade Sea Life-Breathing Art, and Dragon Transformation Grass.
• Sun Fei helped Constantine absorb the Dragon Transformation Grass, and Constantine broke through to the Nine-Star Class.
• Constantine asked Sun Fei to attend a banquet for southern nobles, and Sun Fei agreed to help him deal with the nobles he called flies.
• Sun Fei arrived at the royal palace banquet, where officials and nobles gathered to seek his protection and opportunities.
• City Lord Sherwood condescendingly dismissed Constantine and announced that he would introduce the nobles to Sun Fei.

Sun Fei questioned Lord Sherwood’s conduct during the fall of Azure Wind City, while Rennes Knight and the other nobles spun Sherwood’s retreat as a heroic defense. After Rennes introduced the banquet guests to Sun Fei, Sherwood approached him and prepared to accuse Constantine of wrongdoing.

• Sun Fei challenged Lord Sherwood over abandoning Azure Wind City and the deaths of its civilians and soldiers.
• Rennes Knight claimed Sherwood had tried to save his troops for the defense of Saint Petersburg, and the nobles supported his account.
• Constantine privately recognized the story as a shameless lie but held back from contradicting Sherwood.
• Sun Fei asked Rennes Knight to introduce the banquet guests, and Rennes explained their names, backgrounds, and faction ties.
• Sherwood, Josen, and other nobles approached Sun Fei, and Sherwood began accusing Constantine of outrageous conduct.

Sherwood and the other nobles tried to turn Sun Fei against Constantine and persuade him to seize control of the Byzantine army. Sun Fei listened without revealing his response, leaving Sherwood convinced his plan was working.

• Sherwood accused Constantine of betraying the empire and claimed his resistance to the Lyonese invasion proved he had received special treatment.
• Sherwood and the other nobles alleged that Constantine was building an army in Sun Fei’s name, keeping captured Lyonese soldiers and warships, and refusing to execute their commander.
• Sun Fei listened as the nobles denounced Constantine and then asked what they thought should happen next.
• Sherwood urged Sun Fei to execute Constantine, eliminate the Byzantine royal family, and unify the army under a new commander.
• Berezov and the other nobles endorsed Sherwood as the best candidate to command the army, while Sun Fei silently judged their motives.

Sun Fei exposed the corrupt officials’ schemes and summoned the army and citizens to the drill ground to announce new appointments. As the crowd gathered, he prepared to reveal recorded evidence against Sherwood and his companions.

• Sun Fei ordered Torres to have Constantine assemble the army and summon the nobles, wealthy households, and citizens to the drill ground.
• Sun Fei ended the banquet, and Rennes Knight stayed behind to beg for his life.
• Sun Fei questioned Knight, who accused Sherwood and the others of scheming to seize command of the new army.
• Sherwood, Berezov, and Vincent mocked Sun Fei as they went to the drill ground, confident they had manipulated him.
• Sun Fei arrived at the crowded drill ground, gave a Diwei Crystal to Constantine, and had a mage project its recordings before the assembled people.
• Sherwood and his companions turned pale and began trembling when the crystal screen appeared.

Sun Fei exposed Sherwood and the nobles’ conspiracy before the assembled army and ordered them arrested and executed. Sherwood protested as he was bound, while Sun Fei challenged him to explain his objection.

• A magic screen played footage of Sherwood and the nobles accusing Constantine of treason and urging the empire to replace him with Sherwood.
• The crowd and soldiers argued as Sherwood’s supporters tried to turn the assembly against Constantine.
• Sun Fei silenced the crowd and condemned Sherwood, Gulait, George, Berezov, and their associates for sacrificing subjects and falsely accusing Constantine.
• Members of Chambord City’s Urban Management bound Sherwood and the other nobles as Sherwood shouted that he would appeal to the imperial family.
• Sun Fei asked Sherwood what he had to object to.

Sun Fei brought surviving officers from the Azure Wind Province garrison to testify against Sherwood and the nobles, stirring the parade ground into fury. He ordered the execution of the accused spies and troublemakers, then had thousands of other criminals and enemy agents arrested and beheaded to secure Constantine’s authority and strengthen Byzantium against the Ten Empires Allied Army.

• Sun Fei presented the wounded survivors of the former Azure Wind Province garrison, who accused Sherwood and the nobles of abandoning civilians and sacrificing soldiers.
• The officers’ testimony enraged the crowd, and civilians and soldiers demanded the nobles’ deaths.
• Sun Fei ordered the execution of the spies and agitators who had incited trouble against Constantine and Byzantium.
• Byzantine warriors and Chambord Urban Management officers arrested thousands of identified enemy spies, traitors, bandits, and criminals across the city.
• The authorities beheaded the arrested people publicly, displaying their bodies and heads at the parade ground.

Sun Fei executed Sherwood and the other nobles responsible for turmoil in Byzantium, then secretly sailed toward the Lyon Empire with nine students and a small party. After returning alone to the cabin, he entered Diablo’s Hell Difficulty world in the Valley of Snakes.

• Sun Fei rejected Sherwood’s appeal to imperial law and ordered the nobles executed.
• King Constantine personally beheaded the nobles, and Sun Fei warned against further disorder in Byzantium.
• Sun Fei secretly departed Byzantium aboard a captured Lyon Empire warship with nine students and a small party.
• The ship sailed into the Sea of Fragrance toward the Lyon Empire, and the students enjoyed the voyage before tiring of the scenery.
• Sun Fei returned alone to the cabin and entered Diablo’s Hell Difficulty world in the Valley of Snakes.

Sun Fei and Elena fought through the two levels of the [Claw Viper Temple] on Hell Difficulty, enduring severe injuries before leveling up and recovering. They killed Fangskin, found the upper part of the [Horadric Staff], completed [Tainted Sun], and left the Diablo World after checking on Chambord City.

• Sun Fei and Elena approached the [Claw Viper Temple], where Sun Fei warned Elena to prioritize safety in its dangerous depths.
• Sun Fei and Elena cleared the temple's first level, ran out of potions, and returned to [Lut Gholein] to resupply.
• Sun Fei and Elena fought through the second level, killed Fangskin, and eliminated the remaining monsters despite serious injuries.
• Sun Fei reached level 22 and Elena reached level 13, and their level-up light healed their injuries.
• Sun Fei and Elena found the upper part of the [Horadric Staff] in an abandoned altar and completed [Tainted Sun].
• Sun Fei checked that Chambord City's renovations were proceeding smoothly and that the Dortmund people had not sought revenge before leaving the Diablo World.

Sun Fei traveled aboard the Light toward the Lyon Empire while advancing through the Arcane Sanctuary in the Diablo World. After reaching level 24, he emerged from his cabin as a deep-sea behemoth attacked the ship and seized several sailors.

• Torres reported that the Lyon prisoners remained obedient as the Light sailed without incident.
• Sun Fei and Elena explored the Arcane Sanctuary, gaining levels but postponing their fight with the powerful Summon Master.
• Sun Fei spotted strange creatures beneath the sea and sensed that trouble awaited the voyage.
• Sun Fei reached level 24, while Elena reached level 15, and they explored nearly all of the Arcane Sanctuary.
• The Light shook violently, and enormous tentacles seized Lyon sailors from the deck.