Recaps

Sun Fei explored an orc city and learned that Pope Ernst’s reforms had transformed life across the Behemoth Beastmen’s homeland. A summons from the royal clans and Beast God Temple priests brought Sun Fei closer to meeting the pope he suspected might share his origins.

• Artest explained the ten royal clans and complained that the Pig Pig Clan deserved a higher rank.
• Sun Fei and his companions saw orc institutions and city features that reminded them of Chambord City.
• Artest credited Pope Ernst with reforms including public toilets and using waste as fertilizer, which improved sanitation and harvests.
• Sun Fei wondered whether Ernst was a transmigrator but dismissed the possibility while anticipating their meeting.
• A green bird delivered word that the ten royal clans’ nobles and Beast God Temple priests were waiting for Sun Fei at the Beast God Church, and Sun Fei agreed to go.

Sun Fei became nearly certain that Pope Ernst was also a transmigrator after learning about his inventions and reforms among the orcs. He reached the modest Beast God Temple for a possible alliance discussion, but powerful orcs blocked his party outside the tent.

• Aitest led Sun Fei and his companions along a riverside shortcut toward the Beast God Temple.
• Artest explained that Ernst had introduced family planning, mahjong, and sports to address overpopulation and a lack of entertainment, convincing Sun Fei that the pope was likely a transmigrator.
• Sun Fei and his companions discovered that the Beast God Temple consisted of shabby tents on a vast plaza.
• Nash told Sun Fei that the ten royal clans still doubted an alliance with Chambord City, but Ernst had shown strong interest in him.
• Nash explained that Ernst had rejected a lavish temple and palace in favor of public facilities and traveled among orc cities to heal their inhabitants.
• More than a dozen powerful orcs emerged from an opposite tent and blocked Sun Fei and his companions as they approached Ernst's lodging.

Sun Fei entered Pope Ernst’s spatial tent to meet him, but found the Orc Clan nobles waiting there instead. He met Janković, chief of the Snake Serpent Clan, and broke the enchantment she used on him.

• Nash introduced Ernst’s twenty-three powerful followers to Sun Fei and the others.
• The flame-haired lioness demanded that Sun Fei enter alone without his weapons, cloak, or storage ring, and he complied while secretly retaining access to his equipment and other resources.
• Sun Fei entered the enormous totem-powered tent and found more than twenty powerful Orc Clan nobles waiting, while Ernst’s seat stood empty.
• Janković, the beautiful chief of the Snake Serpent Clan, introduced herself and examined Sun Fei.
• Sun Fei sensed Janković’s enchanting aura and used his Spiritual Power to break its effect.

Sun Fei faced tests from the Golden Race patriarchs as they considered an alliance with Chambord, impressing them with his restraint and strength. Before Pippen could challenge him, a follower summoned him to meet Pope Ernst, and Sun Fei entered the final room alone.

• Janković tried to seduce Sun Fei and offered to discuss trade, but he rejected her advances and said he had come to negotiate an alliance with the Behemoth Orc Clan.
• Janković revealed that her approach had been a test, and the Orc nobles regarded Sun Fei more favorably after seeing his conduct and power.
• Pippen introduced himself as patriarch of the Azure Rhino Clan and challenged Sun Fei to exchange moves.
• A Minotaur follower interrupted the challenge and summoned Sun Fei to meet Pope Ernst, while the Orc nobles voiced their respect for the pope.
• Sun Fei followed the pope’s followers through guarded halls and entered the final room alone.

Sun Fei entered the Foxes’ rear hall and discovered that Ernst, the millennial sage pope, was a fellow Chinese transmigrator surrounded by familiar modern objects. After matching Ernst’s crude couplets, the two embraced as long-lost countrymen and began comparing their lives in the new world.

• Sun Fei entered the rear hall and found it furnished with modern appliances and a tennis court.
• He saw Ernst playing tennis with Holy Maiden Sharapova, then accepted Ernst’s invitation to play.
• After losing three games, Sun Fei asked whether Ernst was the millennial sage pope, and Ernst confirmed it.
• Ernst tested Sun Fei with crude couplets about Mutō Ran, and Sun Fei answered every line correctly.
• Sun Fei and Ernst recognized each other as fellow Chinese transmigrators and embraced while lamenting their lives among the beastmen.

Sun Fei learned that Ernst, a fellow transmigrant who had lived for a thousand years, expected to die now that Sun Fei had arrived. Ernst explained that a mysterious Main God-level being had given him a historical mission to guide the Beastmen, but he did not know the larger plan.

• Sun Fei and Ernst talked about their shared former world, and Ernst said Sun Fei’s arrival meant his task was complete and he was going to die.
• Ernst explained that time magic had brought them to Azeroth a thousand years apart and that he had been promised a thousand years of youthful life.
• Ernst revealed that the modern-looking devices in his home were hand-carved replicas he made to remember his old life.
• Ernst told Sun Fei that he had left behind his loving family, university graduation, new job, and girlfriend after dying in a car accident.
• Ernst said a mysterious being had offered him a thousand years of life and a mission, after which he became pope of the Behemoth Beastman Clan.
• Ernst said the being was at least a Main God and had tasked him with helping the Beastmen survive until their return to the Azeroth Continent a thousand years later.

Sun Fei learned how Ernst had become pope of the Behemoth Beastmen and discovered that Ernst’s life was ending. Ernst told Sun Fei that he was destined to become the new pope and protect the clan.

• Ernst explained that a prophecy led a wounded Main God to choose him to save the Behemoth Beastmen, and that he had fulfilled the task over a thousand years.
• Sun Fei and Ernst discussed Ernst’s inability to use magic or Dou Qi after transmigrating, and Ernst demonstrated how his singing let him wield totem power.
• Ernst told Sun Fei that the arrival of someone from his original world meant his mission was complete and the Behemoth Beastmen could return to Azeroth.
• Sun Fei objected that he was human and urged Ernst to lead the clan, but Ernst said his thousand-year life was ending and declared Sun Fei the next pope.

Sun Fei learned that Ernst had lived a thousand years as the Behemoth Orc Clan’s pope and had already arranged for Sun Fei to take his place in the coming turmoil. Ernst revealed his Earth name, Zhong Dajun, then startled Sun Fei by pretending to die before explaining that he was only tired.

• Ernst boasted to Sun Fei about his thousand years of power, conquests, reforms, and pleasure, but admitted he wished he had lived an ordinary life on Earth.
• Ernst told Sun Fei that he had prepared the Behemoth Beastmen for his departure and that Sun Fei was destined to face the coming turmoil.
• Sun Fei offered to find a way to extend Ernst’s life, but Ernst insisted he was only a backup and urged Sun Fei to prioritize Azeroth’s fate.
• Ernst said his real name on Earth was Zhong Dajun, then slumped back with his eyes closed.
• Sun Fei panicked and patted Zhong Dajun’s cheeks, but Zhong Dajun opened his eyes and said he had only fallen asleep from exhaustion.

Pedro’s Barcelona army suffered costly ambushes and met a prepared Zenitian force that began to surround it after a thousand-kilometer advance. As Pedro unleashed his power to break the stalemate, an equally powerful presence emerged among the Zenitians, leaving him wondering whether Emperor Yassin had joined the battle.

• Barcelona’s troops found Byzantium abandoned after capturing it, while the tortured King Constantine refused to reveal anything.
• Zenitian forces ambushed Barcelona’s vanguard and repeatedly harassed its advance, inflicting thousands of casualties as Pedro’s army moved inland.
• After the Barcelona army advanced more than a thousand kilometers, a Zenitian force repelled its elite battalion and began to encircle it.
• Pedro recognized that a skilled Zenitian tactician had prepared the ambushes and ordered his troops to withdraw from the melee so he could attack directly.
• A power matching Pedro’s appeared among the Zenitian ranks, and Pedro wondered whether Emperor Yassin had taken the field.

Pedro’s Barcelona legion fought a bloody battle against Zenit forces, but the Zenit army withdrew in good order before Barcelona reinforcements could arrive. Pedro then ordered Telue to carry out “Mowing Grass” across the surrounding region, targeting Zenit civilians for extermination.

• Pedro and the Zenit expert held back while their armies fought, and Zenit forces surrounded Pedro’s outnumbered legion.
• Pedro’s troops suffered heavy losses and were forced to defend the hill as Zenit warriors charged to avenge their slain kings and soldiers.
• Pedro executed an officer who urged retreat and ordered his army to hold its position.
• The Zenit army withdrew in disciplined formations, and Barcelona reinforcements led by Telue arrived too late to trap it.
• Pedro acknowledged that Zenit’s commander had foiled his plan, then ordered Telue to lead cavalry in “Mowing Grass” across the surrounding area.
• Telue eagerly accepted the order and led his cavalry away to slaughter Zenit inhabitants.

Pedro sent an urgent warning to Barcelona after learning how powerful Chambord City and Sun Fei were. Meanwhile, Sun Fei secured the Behemoth Beastmen’s alliance, but the banquet ended abruptly when elite Lion Clan riders arrived with urgent news.

• Pedro gathered intelligence on Chambord City and Sun Fei, grew alarmed by their strength, and requested Extreme Dao reinforcements from Barcelona.
• Sun Fei defeated the Ten Golden Races’ challengers, and leaders including Pippen, Janković, and Woods accepted Chambord City as an ally.
• Pope Ernst hosted a banquet where the orc nobles and Chambord’s guests celebrated their alliance and discussed the Beastmen’s looming need to migrate.
• Elite Lion Clan riders arrived at the banquet with a golden token, prompting Ernst to dismiss the guests and have Nash escort Sun Fei and the others away.

In Zenit, Arjen warned Dominguez that his outnumbered forces could not fight Barcelona head-on, while Sun Fei accompanied the Orc leaders to investigate a disturbance in the Land of Exile. The group reached the Metal Storm, where they found a vast crimson sandstorm containing dangerous Dread Beasts.

• Arjen told Dominguez that Zenit's forces lacked the numbers to defeat Barcelona in a direct battle and could only delay them while seeking reinforcements.
• Arjen privately hoped that the King of Chambord would return from his journey to the Behemoth Orc Clan in time to help Zenit.
• After a report that the Dread Beasts were rioting in the Metal Storm and Evil Water Swamp, Ernst led Sun Fei and thousands of Orc warriors toward the disturbance.
• The group flew for six or seven hours across a desolate desert before landing near a towering wall of crimson sand suspended in a hurricane.
• Fox explained that the Dread Beasts inside the storm attacked by instinct and that Orc troops and Ernst's totem arrays guarded the area.

Sun Fei entered the expanding blood desert with Pope Ernst and the orc masters to investigate its changes, discovering that slain Dread Beasts released energy only he could absorb. As the group reached stronger monsters, Sun Fei revealed his overwhelming power, while Ernst seemed to recognize something about it.

• Sun Fei joined Pope Ernst and twenty-five orc masters in entering the blood desert, leaving Elena and the others outside under the protection of the Mithril Puppet armor.
• The group encountered a Dread Beast, and Sun Fei absorbed the mysterious energy released by its corpse, which no one else could perceive.
• Sun Fei observed that the Dread Beasts had varied, unnatural forms and grew more numerous and powerful as the group traveled deeper into the desert.
• Sun Fei volunteered to lead the way and blasted through the desert and hundreds of Dread Beasts, absorbing their energy as the orcs watched in awe.
• Dozens of giant humanoid Dread Beasts attacked, but Sun Fei's invisible wave dispersed their magical weapons, and he destroyed more than a dozen with his war hammer.
• Ernst watched Sun Fei's display and appeared to realize something about the power he had used.

Sun Fei advanced to Peak Demigod Class while traveling with Ernst and the Behemoth Beastmen through Metal Shamo, then used his powers to destroy a huge ambush of Dread Beasts. Ernst sensed that an unseen force was directing the creatures, leaving the group to face the possibility that Dread Beasts could be organized into an army.

• Sun Fei absorbed energy from the Dread Beasts he killed and advanced to Peak Demigod Class while Ernst and the orcs guarded him.
• Sun Fei resumed leading the group and found that killing more Dread Beasts barely improved his realm, so he considered that he needed to condense a Divinity to become a god.
• Sun Fei transformed into a silver giant bear, shocking the Behemoth Beastmen, and Ernst cited records that Beast God Rexxar could also take that form.
• Ernst warned the group as they traveled deeper into Metal Shamo, and countless high-level humanoid Dread Beasts emerged from the sands and surrounded them.
• Sun Fei used a magic-countering wave and his war hammer to slaughter several thousand Dread Beasts, while Nowitzki and O'Neal remarked that the group had been ambushed.
• Ernst said he had sensed a hidden force directing the Dread Beasts, and Nash worried that an intelligent enemy could turn them into a devastating army.

Sun Fei and Ernst uncovered blood-red altars that spawned coordinated Dread Beast armies, while Sun Fei healed and empowered the orcs and copied a teleportation array before they continued toward the Evil Water Swamp. Elsewhere, Dominguez ordered a retreat from the Barcelona army, but five enemy powerhouses reached his headquarters and attacked him.

• Sun Fei and the orcs found a newly appeared blood-red altar, and Ernst suspected it was connected to the Dread Beasts and their ambushes.
• When O'Neal was wounded by blood-red sand magic, Sun Fei healed him and used a paladin aura to restore and strengthen the orcs.
• Sun Fei investigated a newly formed altar, confirmed it was a one-way spatial teleportation array, and copied its pattern before it destroyed itself.
• Ernst decided the group had achieved its main purpose and planned to visit the nearby Evil Water Swamp after resting.
• Dominguez ordered the weakened Zenit army to retreat as the Barcelona forces advanced, while Hasselbaink remained locked in battle with an enemy powerhouse.
• Five Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection powerhouses broke through the Zenit officers and reached Dominguez, with one forming a giant hand to seize him.

Dominguez and old Arjen were cornered by five Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection masters until a mysterious newcomer arrived and struck Jeffrén down. Meanwhile, Sun Fei and his companions emerged from the Evil Water Swamp, where they discovered that the lake’s invisible death gas destroyed weapons and could kill even powerful masters; Nash hinted that an unusual species survived there.

• Old Arjen tried to defend Dominguez from the Barcelona masters, but Dominguez pushed him aside and revealed his Early-Tier Full Moon Class strength.
• Five Barcelona masters overwhelmed Dominguez, and Jeffrén moved to capture him.
• A flash of lightning heralded a newcomer who punched Jeffrén into unconsciousness.
• Sun Fei and his companions emerged from the Evil Water Swamp and learned from Ernst that its clear lakes contained lethal death gas.
• Sun Fei tested the gas with a magic sword, which was ruined, and Nash said that an unusual species still lived in the swamp.

Sun Fei watched the Orc Clan masters hunt the strange creatures in the Evil Water Swamp and discovered that their Spiritual Power came from silver crystals inside their bodies. Pope Ernst explained that the crystals could regenerate the creatures’ meat after a year in the lake, leaving Sun Fei curious about their nature.

• Fox High Priest Nash explained that the strange creatures were weak and lived in the Evil Water Swamp.
• Nowitzki crushed a Dread Beast over the lake, and its blood drew the hidden creatures out of the water.
• Sun Fei watched O'Neal and the other Orc Clan masters butcher the creatures for meat and throw their silver crystals back into the lake.
• Sun Fei retrieved a crystal and found that it no longer showed any Spiritual Power fluctuations and could not be crushed with thirty percent of his strength.
• Pope Ernst told Sun Fei that the crystals were useless but could produce fresh meat again after a year in the lake.

Sun Fei discovered that the silver crystals were intelligent life-forms and persuaded one to pledge its race to him in exchange for stronger bodies. After the Behemoth Beastmen returned home, Sun Fei stayed in the Metal Shamo, stabilized his Demigod realm, and prepared to act on his plan with Basturk standing guard.

• Sun Fei used a spiritual shockwave and threats to make the soul inside a silver crystal reveal itself, then learned that its race wanted stronger bodies.
• Sun Fei promised the crystal life-form strength in exchange for its race's loyalty, secured its agreement to a soul contract, and hid it in his storage ring.
• The Behemoth Beastmen harvested thousands of Meat Beasts and returned with enough meat to feed a large city through winter.
• Sun Fei told Ernst that he would remain behind to train, then waited until the Orc Clan experts had left before continuing to fight Dread Beasts and absorb energy.
• Sun Fei stabilized his Demigod realm, while Ernst sensed his breakthrough and hoped he would fulfill the plan.
• Sun Fei summoned Basturk to stand guard and took out a Mithril battle armor puppet and the silver crystal.

Sun Fei modified a Mithril Battle Armor Golem to serve as a new body for the silver crystal and bound its occupant to him with a Soul Master-Servant Contract. He named the new servant Number One, who began adjusting to the body, while Bastürk worried that Sun Fei might no longer need him.

• Sun Fei dismantled a Mithril Battle Armor Golem and spent hours altering its magic circuits.
• Sun Fei offered the silver crystal the golem as a body and explained that accepting it required signing a binding contract.
• The silver crystal agreed to the contract, and Sun Fei named it Number One.
• Sun Fei placed Number One in the golem's core and helped it activate its new body.
• Number One took a few steps, then fell and said it needed more time to adjust to the body's weight.
• Bastürk watched and worried that Sun Fei would discard him once Number One had adjusted.

Sun Fei gave silver crystal souls Mithril Battle Armor Golems, trained them with Dark Demon Armor Bastürk, and tested their strength. Elsewhere, Frank Lampard appeared on the Zenit battlefield and killed four Barcelona experts with one sword strike before confronting Pedro.

• A silver crystal soul adapted to its Mithril Battle Armor Golems body, and Sun Fei taught it how to use the armor’s magic arrays.
• Sun Fei ordered Dark Demon Armor Bastürk to train the first silver crystal warrior and promised him command of the Mithril Battle Armor Golems legion if he succeeded.
• Sun Fei found more than twenty silver crystals in Evil Water Swamp, bound their souls to him, and installed them in twenty-five Mithril Battle Armor Golems.
• Sun Fei fought one of the newly trained warriors and found that its strength and resilience could match his own when he used most of his power.
• Frank Lampard appeared during the Zenit army’s retreat and killed Jeffrén and four other Barcelona experts with a single sword strike.
• Pedro attacked Frank Lampard from the sky, and Frank met his blow while Hasselbaink warned him not to underestimate Pedro.

Lampard and Hasselbaink helped the Zenit Southern Frontier army rout Pedro’s Barcelona legion, though Barcelona’s invasion continued and the empire’s survival remained uncertain. Meanwhile, Sun Fei oversaw the birth of one hundred Mithril War Soul warriors and sent Basturk to gather twenty thousand silver crystals before dawn.

• Lampard joined Hasselbaink against Pedro, and the pair gained the upper hand until Pedro used a potion and a powerful magic scroll to turn the fight against them.
• Hasselbaink’s Demigod Dou Weapon wounded Pedro and trapped him in a fierce assault, but a brief opening let Pedro escape alone.
• Hasselbaink attacked the Barcelona soldiers while Lampard watched, and the Barcelona legion collapsed before the Zenit army resumed its orderly retreat.
• Alves ordered nearly ten thousand retreating Barcelona soldiers killed, while reinforcements brought Barcelona’s forces in Zenit to more than five hundred thousand and Zenit sent three hundred thousand troops south.
• Sun Fei praised Hasselbaink for producing the first one hundred Mithril War Soul warriors and ordered Basturk to obtain twenty thousand silver crystals before dawn without forcing the souls within them.
• Sun Fei decided to return to the City of Behemoths.

Sun Fei returned from the Evil Water Swamp and found that disasters and the spreading desert had driven many Behemoth Beastmen from their homes and plunged the city into panic. At Pope Ernst’s tent, he faced a divided gathering of beastmen, some of whom blamed him for the calamities.

• Dark Demon Armor Bastürk sent the hundred Mithril War Souls to persuade their Silver Crystal Clan kin to swear loyalty to Master Alexander in exchange for powerful bodies.
• The Silver Crystal Clan eagerly agreed to serve Master Alexander after seeing the Mithril War Souls’ strength and mobility, while being warned that they had to sign Master-Servant Contracts and remain loyal.
• Sun Fei saw that Dread Beasts had multiplied and the desert had expanded by over two hundred kilometers, forcing tens of thousands of Behemoth Beastmen to abandon their homes.
• Sun Fei returned to the city and found its residents alarmed after dozens of disasters had killed many Behemoth Beastmen and devastated the western district.
• Fox High Priest Nash brought Sun Fei to Pope Ernst’s crowded tent, where a Hyena Clan beastman accused him of bringing disaster and Woods rebuked the accuser.

Sun Fei learned that a wave of disasters had devastated the Behemoth Beastmen and pushed them toward migration, while rumors blamed him and the other humans. Pope Ernst revealed that his health was rapidly failing, asked Sun Fei to help arrange the migration, and told him to prepare to become the next pope.

• High Priest Nash explained that earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, falling meteors, attacks by wild beasts, and dying crops had caused heavy losses among the Behemoth Beastmen, and that many now believed they had to return to Azeroth.
• Nash said the Ten Golden Races and most powerful Silver races supported migration, but the many tribal leaders had not yet reached a final decision.
• Sun Fei visited Pope Ernst and was shocked to see how much the pope had aged in only four days.
• Ernst asked Sun Fei to help the Behemoth Beastmen begin relocating within two months by using Chambord City's Ultra-Long-Distance Teleport Magic Array technology.
• Ernst said the new pope would be chosen within ten-odd days and that Sun Fei was destined to take the position, then entrusted him to the care of Steve Nash.

Sun Fei received texts on condensing a Divinity and used the Dark Demon Armor to gather silver crystals and organize Mithril War Souls. As natural disasters drove the Behemoth Beastmen toward migration, the alliance with Chambord City gained broad acceptance and Alexander’s standing among them grew.

• Pope Ernst gave Sun Fei a storage ring filled with hundreds of books about condensing a Divinity, and Sun Fei complained about the daunting amount of reading.
• The Dark Demon Armor returned with 101 Mithril War Souls and reported that he had gathered twenty thousand silver crystals without force.
• Sun Fei gave the Dark Demon Armor further instructions, and the armored warriors departed while Sun Fei resumed studying the books.
• Increasing natural disasters and a prophecy from Beast God Rexxar prompted the Behemoth Beastmen to prepare to return to Azeroth.
• The Behemoth Beastmen learned of their alliance with Chambord City and accepted it, encouraged by claims that Alexander had Behemoth and Golden Behemoth ancestry.
• Golden-armored warriors led by the Dark Demon Armor rescued orcs from disasters and declared their service to Alexander, raising his prestige among the Behemoth Beastmen.

Sun Fei studied how to become a True God and began his attempt to condense a divinity by sensing Power of Faith. He discovered an immense supply of faith flowing to him from Chambord City, the Black-Robed Holy Temple’s believers, and people across the Zenit Empire and beyond, then noticed something strange about it.

• Sun Fei considered securing land in the Zenit Empire for the orcs, which would tie their settlement to Chambord City and benefit the Northern Region.
• After studying ancient books, Sun Fei prepared his guarded bedchamber and began attempting to attain True Godhood.
• Sun Fei followed the books’ method to release his spiritual power and sensed streams of Power of Faith rushing toward him.
• Sun Fei traced much of the faith to Chambord City and the Black-Robed Holy Temple’s followers, with more coming from Zenit and other regions.
• Sun Fei discovered something strange about the Power of Faith reaching him.