Recaps

Sun Fei defended the Cauldron-Casting Shop when City Lord Henry’s troops surrounded it and attacked. His overwhelming power stopped the soldiers and revealed a golden sun-rank image above the city, leaving the army in shock.

• Thousands of City Lord Henry’s soldiers surrounded the Cauldron-Casting Shop, trapping its staff and customers inside.
• Sun Fei stopped sixteen crossbow bolts from killing a fleeing merchant, then silenced the soldiers’ intimidation with a snort that knocked Dou Qi warriors from nearby rooftops.
• The officer on the white horse ordered the archers to fire, but Sun Fei halted the arrows with golden light and sent them back, killing the officer.
• Sun Fei’s golden flames rose around the shop and formed the image of a golden sun above Deren City, revealing him as a great sun-rank venerable.

Sun Fei revealed the power of a Great Sun-Rank Venerable and forced City Lord Henry to clear the Cauldron-Casting Shop of wrongdoing and compensate it. After Henry and his army withdrew, Glazer left Deren City, while Sun Fei returned to his inn and found Lloris in a bad mood.

• The people of Deren City recognized the golden rising sun as the sign of a Great Sun-Rank Venerable, and the soldiers dropped their weapons and knelt.
• Sun Fei summoned City Lord Henry and demanded he answer for accusing the Cauldron-Casting Shop of colluding with thieves and the Sea Clan.
• Henry accepted Sun Fei's demands: the shop was declared lawful, the Edge-Washing Shop was made to compensate 130,000 gold coins, and its customers were promised protection.
• Henry and his army withdrew, and Glazer left Deren City under cover of darkness with some servants.
• Crowds gathered outside the closed Cauldron-Casting Shop in the rain, hoping to sense the Great Sun-Rank Venerable's aura.
• Sun Fei returned to his inn before midnight and found Lloris in a very bad mood.

Sun Fei and Lloris traveled toward the Lyon Empire’s capital while drawing out the people tracking them, hoping to provoke D'Alessandro and find a chance to expose his lies. In Lola's Blood Forest, sixteen Moon Class masters surrounded them inside a sealing array, and Sun Fei prepared to face them without killing them if possible.

• Sun Fei told Lloris that he had revealed their whereabouts deliberately to make D'Alessandro act, and admitted that the Cauldron-Casting Shop belonged to him.
• Sun Fei and Lloris spent three days openly moving around Deren City, then left for the Lyon Empire’s capital; Sun Fei prioritized finding and destroying the golden skeleton.
• Sun Fei asked Lloris to take him to the mysterious man who had planted the blood-colored skeleton inside him.
• While traveling through Lola's Blood Forest, Sun Fei sensed powerful pursuers and stopped beside a lake with Lloris for the night.
• Sixteen Moon Class masters, including people from the Church, trapped Sun Fei and Lloris in a sealing magic array and accused them of betraying humanity.
• Sun Fei told Lloris not to kill the attackers, saying they might help clear their names or provoke D'Alessandro.

Sun Fei and Lloris tried to convince a group of Moon Class masters that D'Alessandro had deceived them, but the warriors’ hidden instigators pushed them into attacking. Sun Fei broke their seal with ease, yet the battle began anyway.

• Lloris accused D'Alessandro of betraying humanity and explained that the King of Chambord had stopped the Sea Clan's evil god, but the Moon Class masters dismissed his claims.
• Sun Fei broke the Martial Arts Prohibition Seal with a single punch, injuring the hidden mages who maintained it.
• Sun Fei urged the masters to reconsider whom they trusted, and some began to doubt D'Alessandro's story.
• Several concealed voices stirred the crowd by invoking D'Alessandro, the bounty, and the prospect of earning Maradona's favor.
• The Moon Class masters launched their strongest attacks at Sun Fei and Lloris, making a bloody battle unavoidable.

Sun Fei defeated the Moon Class masters who had come to kill him and warned them not to trust rumors or ambitious schemers. After Kohler summoned accomplices to murder the helpless masters and frame Sun Fei, Sun Fei appeared beside him with an offer to lend a hammer.

• Sun Fei stopped Lloris from killing the attackers and subdued all twenty-six Moon Class masters with twenty-six punches.
• Sun Fei accused Kohler and two others of inciting the attack, then spared everyone and left with Lloris after warning them their restraints would lift in thirty minutes.
• The masters began questioning the rumors about Sun Fei, but Kohler activated a magic item to summon members of his organization.
• Kohler ordered the newly arrived black-armored Moon Class masters to kill the restrained witnesses and frame Sun Fei for their deaths.
• When Kohler demanded that the killings be done with hammers, Sun Fei appeared nearby and offered to lend one, leaving Kohler stunned.

Sun Fei rescued a group of Moon Class masters from Kohler’s ambush, searched Kohler’s memories, and left the survivors to investigate the prisoners. He and Lloris then hurried toward Gerland, where Sun Fei hoped to find the person who planted the Blood-Colored Skull in Lloris and planned to kill him if necessary.

• Sun Fei revealed he had stayed near the lake, subdued the Moon Class masters who attacked him, and crippled Kohler by searching his memories.
• The rescued masters thanked Sun Fei, and he returned their strength and asked them to tell the great empires what had happened.
• Sun Fei and Lloris flew toward the Lyon Empire’s capital, Gerland, aboard the Throne of Chaotic Times.
• Sun Fei told Lloris he hoped to find the person who planted the Blood-Colored Skull in him and intended to kill that person whether or not he matched Sun Fei’s suspicions.

Sun Fei and Lloris reached Kearney City, where Sun Fei destroyed the Gale Mercenary Corps, exposing it as a branch of the Dark Temple. The discovered records revealed that D'Alessandro had hired the assassins to kill Sun Fei and Lloris and had admitted to framing them.

• Sun Fei and Lloris stopped in Kearney City to rest before continuing toward Gerland.
• Sun Fei attacked the Gale Mercenary Corps' castle and told Lloris to guard the exits.
• Sun Fei broke into the hidden underground complex and killed the black-armored Dark Temple assassins.
• Sun Fei stopped the branch leaders from escaping through a teleportation array and wiped out the Gale Mercenary Corps.
• Kearney City learned the corps had been a Dark Temple front and that its secret documents implicated D'Alessandro in hiring the assassins and framing Sun Fei and Lloris.

Sun Fei and Lloris traveled to Gerland, where Dark Temple assassins repeatedly attacked them along the way. They arrived in the Lyon capital, and Sun Fei sensed numerous powerful experts within the city as they continued their search for a mysterious expert.

• Sun Fei admitted he had forged a contract to spread rumors about D'Alessandro, and Lloris warned that D'Alessandro was in Gerland.
• Lloris asked Sun Fei to avoid a destructive fight in the capital, and Sun Fei agreed to hold back while they searched for a mysterious expert.
• Four Dark Temple assassins attacked Sun Fei and Lloris, struck the Throne of Chaotic Times' protective barrier, and vanished.
• Sun Fei and Lloris continued toward Gerland, enduring more than ten further attacks; Sun Fei killed six Moon Class Great Perfection assassins.
• Sun Fei and Lloris reached Gerland, where Sun Fei surveyed the vast city and sensed many powerful experts, including several exceptionally strong auras.

Sun Fei and Lloris secretly entered Gerland and went to the besieged Buckingham residence, where Lloris's family faced starvation and execution. The Princess of Buckingham asked Meilida for food, but he rejected her and said the clan was doomed.

• Sun Fei surveyed Gerland's defenses and discovered the Lyon Empire had several powerful masters, including D'Alessandro.
• Lloris planned to find the mysterious master first, but Sun Fei urged him to visit his family, and they went together.
• Sun Fei and Lloris used the Throne of Chaotic Times to slip into Gerland and headed to the Buckingham residence.
• The Princess of Buckingham emerged from the besieged mansion with maids and offered soldiers jewels in exchange for provisions.
• Meilida arrived and told the Princess he would not help her because she had chosen Lloris over him, and he said the Buckingham Clan was doomed.

Sun Fei and Lloris arrived outside the Buckingham residence and learned that Meilida was using the family’s hunger to force Consort Julia to submit to him. Julia agreed after demanding provisions for the residence, but just as Meilida tried to take her into a carriage, his hand was blasted off by an unseen attacker.

• Meilida taunted Consort Julia and threatened to starve the Buckingham residence unless she agreed to his demands.
• Julia agreed to meet Meilida’s demand in exchange for a thousand jin each of rice, clean water, and pork.
• Sun Fei and Lloris watched from a concealed spatial rift as Meilida’s men brought the provisions to the gates.
• After the provisions were moved inside, Meilida tried to take Julia into a carriage, and Julia secretly gripped a short blade beneath her sleeve.
• Meilida’s outstretched hand exploded, and the Supervision Department’s soldiers formed ranks around him and sent up a warning flare.

Sun Fei disguised himself as a Great Sun-Rank Venerable and drove the Inspection Department away from the Buckingham residence, where Lloris reunited with Julia. Sun Fei and Lloris stayed hidden there as the Lyon Empire investigated the mysterious expert and D'Alessandro launched a probe at the residence.

• A white-haired, black-masked old man emerged from the Buckingham residence and killed knight commander Meilida with a flick of his sleeve.
• The old man declared that he would protect the Buckingham residence, and the Inspection Department's forces withdrew after realizing he was a Great Sun-Rank Venerable.
• Julia followed the old man inside and reunited with Lloris, who asked her to keep their arrival secret and gave her Sun Fei's invented story about the senior expert.
• Sun Fei and Lloris secretly remained at the residence while Sun Fei maintained his disguise and waited to see how the Lyon Empire's royal family would respond.
• The emperor ordered an investigation into the unfamiliar Great Sun-Rank aura, and D'Alessandro sent a burst of sword qi toward the Buckingham residence to test its defender.

Sun Fei defended the King of Buckingham's residence by fighting D'Alessandro to a draw, though he recognized that he was slightly weaker. After the battle, Lloris asked Sun Fei to take him to Emperor Juninho, and Sun Fei agreed.

• D'Alessandro attacked the King of Buckingham's residence with a powerful sword strike, and Sun Fei answered with a pillar of gray mist.
• Sun Fei and D'Alessandro's forces clashed in the sky for more than ten minutes before destroying each other in a draw.
• Gerland's powerful figures warned the two fighters that they would intervene if the battle continued in the imperial capital.
• Sun Fei sat beneath the damaged tree and considered growing stronger after realizing he had been slightly inferior to D'Alessandro.
• Lloris asked Sun Fei to take him to Emperor Juninho, and Sun Fei agreed.

D'Alessandro worried that Sun Fei and Lloris might have survived the Sea Clan's pursuit and resolved to act before the truth about his actions emerged. Sun Fei escorted Lloris into the Lyon imperial palace to meet Emperor Juninho, and the chapter ended as they entered his document-filled hall.

• D'Alessandro recalled the danger posed by the unknown expert at the Buckingham residence and feared Sun Fei and Lloris had survived beneath the sea.
• Sun Fei and Lloris passed the Lyon imperial palace's defenses and reached the side hall where Emperor Juninho reviewed documents.
• Sun Fei gave Lloris a scroll that could return him to the Buckingham residence and promised he could help evacuate its people.
• Lloris declined the scroll, but Sun Fei insisted he keep it and said he could get the Buckingham Clan safely out of Gerland.
• Emperor Juninho called out to Lloris and Sun Fei, revealing he had noticed them waiting outside the hall.
• Sun Fei and Lloris entered the hall and found it lined with shelves of files and documents.

Sun Fei met Emperor Juninho in the Lyon palace and refused his offer to protect him by joining Lyon. After learning that D'Alessandro and more than forty Moon Class warriors were heading to Zenit, Sun Fei left to confront them, while Juninho asked Lloris to explain the campaign.

• Juninho recognized Sun Fei, who removed his disguise and confirmed his identity.
• Juninho questioned Sun Fei about his alliance with Lloris and his plan to face D'Alessandro; Sun Fei said he would kill anyone who came after him.
• Juninho warned that Zenit’s imperial family and Chambord City were under pressure, but Sun Fei said he trusted the Zenit Imperial Family to protect Chambord.
• Juninho received word that D'Alessandro and more than forty Moon Class warriors had left for Zenit, and Sun Fei realized the journey threatened the empire.
• Juninho offered Sun Fei protection in exchange for entering Lyon’s service, but Sun Fei vowed to make D'Alessandro regret his decision and vanished.
• Juninho ordered the palace guards to stand down and asked Lloris to recount what had happened during the campaign.

After hearing Lloris’s account of Sun Fei’s power and the Sea Clan battle, Emperor Juninho worried about Lyon’s conflict with Zenit. Sun Fei went to the Holy Church’s first cathedral to investigate the mysterious expert and the Blood-Colored Skull, where an old man appeared.

• Lloris told Emperor Juninho that Sun Fei had knocked away D'Alessandro’s God Dou Weapon and shattered the Sea Clan evil god’s arm.
• Juninho acknowledged that Lyon could face calamity if it continued making enemies of Zenit, though he said his own concern was different.
• Sun Fei traveled to the Holy Church’s first cathedral in Gerland City to uncover the source of the mysterious expert and the Blood-Colored Skull.
• Sun Fei entered the cathedral and activated the green gemstone Lloris had used to contact the mysterious expert.
• A kindly old man formed from silvery-white mist appeared in the cathedral’s inner sanctum.

Sun Fei confronted Glorious John, who had been possessed by the golden skeleton, inside the first church. John trapped him in a prepared god-level magic array, leaving Sun Fei searching for a way out as a new change began.

• Glorious John revealed that he had become a god and controlled everything.
• Sun Fei recognized the bloody light in John's eyes as the golden skeleton's and attacked him with Whirlwind Slash, the Scroll of God Imprisonment, and punches.
• A crystal wall blocked Sun Fei's attacks and prevented the Divine Runes from binding John.
• John said he had prepared the Lament of Divine Grace for Sun Fei, and white lines spread across the church to form a god-level magic array.
• Sun Fei realized the golden skeleton had used Lloris to lure him into a trap and began searching the array for a way out.
• A startling change occurred while Sun Fei studied the magic array.

Sun Fei was trapped inside the [Sigh of Divine Grace] while the golden skeleton revealed its plan to reclaim the [Scepter of Creation]. The skeleton used the church’s Holy Power to weaken Sun Fei’s control of the artifact, leaving his survival uncertain.

• The [Sigh of Divine Grace] trapped Sun Fei in an illusion of boundless space and prevented the [Throne of Chaotic Times] from teleporting him out.
• The golden skeleton revealed that the stone pillar inside Sun Fei was part of the [Scepter of Creation] and accused him of taking it and occupying [Creation God King City].
• The golden skeleton admitted that it had orchestrated the Sea Clan’s release and tried to reclaim the [Scepter of Creation] and the [Throne of Chaotic Times].
• Sun Fei deduced that the skeleton had used Lloris to lure him to the First Church and prepare the array.
• The golden skeleton revealed that it was using the priests and believers of Gerland City to sever Sun Fei’s connection to the [Scepter of Creation].
• Sun Fei realized that the [Scepter of Creation] was stirring inside him and slipping beyond his control.

Sun Fei was trapped in the Sigh of Divine Grace array as Bishop John gathered the Holy Church’s power to separate the Scepter of Creation from him. With Sun Fei growing weaker and no rescue yet in sight, the array was driven nearly to its limit by prayers from believers across the Lyon Empire.

• Sun Fei realized the array was weakening his bond with the Scepter of Creation and began searching for a way to escape before D'Alessandro reached Zenit.
• Bishop John ordered the Gerland diocese’s clergy to pray, and their Holy Power strengthened the array trapping Sun Fei.
• Emperor Juninho learned from Lloris that Sun Fei had gone to confront the mysterious master, and chose to wait and see whether Sun Fei could escape.
• Sun Fei failed to open a portal or use a teleportation array, and hoped Lloris would interfere with the array from outside.
• After a day and a night, Bishop John ordered believers across Lyon to pray, driving the Sigh of Divine Grace array almost to its limit.

Sun Fei remained trapped in the Sigh of Divine Grace array as the mysterious stone pillar absorbed Holy Power, while Diocesan Bishop John grew anxious over the delay. In the Lyon palace, Emperor Juninho and Lloris debated whether to help King of Chambord Alexander, until a sudden change in the Church diocese shocked them.

• Sun Fei endured three days and nights in the array as the stone pillar changed and its connection to him stopped fading.
• Diocesan Bishop John considered using his last method to obtain the Scepter of Creation and the Throne of Chaotic Times.
• Emperor Juninho had dismissed charges against King of Buckingham Lloris and blocked Prince Milner from pursuing him.
• Lloris urged Emperor Juninho to help King of Chambord, but Juninho explained that attacking the Church risked accusations of killing priests and releasing a demon.
• A sudden change in the Holy Church's diocese made Emperor Juninho stagger and exclaim at the Church's audacity and scheming.

A forbidden surge of Holy Power engulfed Gerland City, revealing the Church’s terrifying strength and provoking a furious response from its leaders. As the Church mobilized against the Gerland diocese, Sun Fei faced the array’s deadliest assault and the golden skeleton’s attempt to seize his divine legacy.

• Holy Power overwhelmed Gerland City, restricting other forms of power, while Emperor Juninho and Lloris watched the city impose martial law and surround the Holy Church district.
• Emperor Juninho suspected that the Holy Church was finally revealing its ambition.
• Pope Platini learned that someone had released the power sealed for a thousand years, ordered Chief Judge Hening to arrest Bishop John and his senior clergy, and prepared to visit Pope Blatter.
• Pope Blatter reacted violently to an unknown event, and a huge portal appeared over Sicily Island.
• The Sigh of Divine Grace array intensified its assault on Sun Fei, while the golden skeleton declared that it would take the legacy Sun Fei had obtained.

Sun Fei summoned Duriel inside the Sigh of Divine Grace array, hoping the clash between the demon’s dark energy and the array’s holy power would create a way out. Meanwhile, Lloris resolved to save Sun Fei, and Juninho sent a strand of sword qi toward Gerland City to act in his place.

• Sun Fei summoned Duriel and used the demon’s resistance to the Light Holy Power to provoke a violent explosion inside the array.
• Sun Fei searched for an opening in the trembling space, but Duriel was nearly destroyed and the shock waves were fading before one appeared.
• Lloris told Juninho he intended to save Sun Fei as a friend, despite the danger to the Lyon Empire.
• Juninho praised Lloris’s resolve and said he would act in his place.
• Juninho sent a strand of silver sword qi toward the brightest flames in the Gerland City parish.

Sun Fei escaped the First Church’s divine array and pursued the Golden Skeleton, but the monster fled. Emperor Juninho ordered Lyon’s forces to withdraw from the Church while warning Lloris that greater chaos was coming; Sun Fei then abandoned the chase and hurried back to Zenit.

• Juninho Dadi used a hidden strand of sword energy to disrupt the array, allowing Sun Fei to escape from the First Church.
• Sun Fei battered the Golden Skeleton’s possessed body, but the monster abandoned John’s body and fled.
• Sun Fei chased the Golden Skeleton for hours but lost its trail after it escaped through space.
• Emperor Juninho told Lloris to stay hidden and ordered Lyon’s forces to end their confrontation with the Holy Church.
• Sun Fei gave up searching for the Golden Skeleton and rushed toward Zenit, fearing D'Alessandro and the Moon Class masters had already arrived.

As rumors that King of Chambord Alexander had released an evil Sea Clan god spread, neighboring empires sent envoys to pressure Zenit into punishing him and the Chambordians. On the eighteenth day of the crisis, eight more delegations arrived in Saint Petersburg, where their guards openly looked down on the hostile commoners.

• Fourth Prince Christo lost support after his defeat, while Second Prince Dominguez took control of the southern frontier war zone and held the enemy forces at a stalemate.
• Rumors accused Alexander of betraying humanity, prompting neighboring empires to demand punishment and dividing Zenit's nobles, while the capital's commoners continued to defend him.
• Eight delegations from neighboring empires arrived at Saint Petersburg, bringing the number of empires that had sent pressure on Zenit to at least twenty.
• Anzhi knights mocked the Zenit commoners as the envoys' convoy advanced toward the imperial palace.

Anzhi envoys provoked Zenit’s people as they arrived in the capital, while foreign representatives attended the Senate meeting and bargained with its nobles. The Senate decided to strip Sun Fei of his Empire-Protecting Martial Saint title, and a conspiracy against the people of Chambord began to take shape.

• An Anzhi knight threatened a fruit seller, but Andrew Johnson of the Iron-Blooded Camp stopped him and identified himself to the young envoy Moro.
• The fruit seller and the crowd praised Sun Fei and condemned the Anzhi envoys as their procession continued to the imperial palace.
• Envoys from twenty-two countries attended the Council of Elders meeting, although foreign representatives had no right to be there.
• After a day of political maneuvering, the Senate decided to strip the King of Chambord of his Empire-Protecting Martial Saint position, and powerful figures in the Military Department moved against the Chambord contingent at the southern frontier.
• The imperial family did not challenge the Senate’s decision, and several warriors left the Anzhi embassy at night, radiating killing intent.

Uncle Sam, a poor fruit seller in Saint Petersburg, met two friendly strangers who praised his defiance of an Anzhi envoy and bought his remaining fruit. When the envoy returned with armed men to take revenge, the two strangers laughed at him, leaving their response to the threat unresolved.

• Uncle Sam told the two burly strangers that his son had fought beside the Martial Saint and died defending Saint Petersburg.
• The black-haired and white-haired men praised Uncle Sam and bought all the fruit in his basket.
• The Anzhi knight surrounded Uncle Sam with hostile men and threatened to make him disappear in revenge for their earlier confrontation.
• Uncle Sam shouted for help and tried to signal the two strangers to flee, but they kept eating fruit.
• The black-haired man snickered at the Anzhi knight, who dismissed both strangers as harmless fools.