Recaps

Sun Fei killed Platini and freed the souls trapped inside the twelve God Warriors. As the fallen warriors blessed him with their faith, Pato appeared to thank his brother, leaving Sun Fei face to face with a familiar soul.

• Sun Fei rejected Platini's offer and crushed the last remnant of his will, killing him.
• Sun Fei absorbed Platini's golden source energy while Maradona watched and thanked him for their victory.
• Maradona offered Sun Fei the twelve God Warriors, but Sun Fei chose to free them rather than use them as weapons.
• Sun Fei purified the God Warriors, releasing the souls of the human warriors trapped inside and receiving their blessings and Power of Faith.
• Pato appeared before Sun Fei and thanked his brother for giving his soul peace.

After Pato and the God Warriors sacrificed themselves, Sun Fei escaped the chaotic goblin world when he could not destroy the fallen Main God's body. Over the next few days, the Church suffered a crushing defeat in Allianz City after rumors spread that Platini had been killed by Sun Fei.

• Pato’s apparition faded, the twelve God Warriors collapsed into ash, and their Power of Faith poured into Sun Fei’s Divine Domain Great World.
• With Platini dead, the goblin world descended into chaos, and Sun Fei killed its powerful goblins while absorbing their origin power.
• Sun Fei failed to damage the fallen Main God's body, and Maradona warned that it would keep creating goblins; Sun Fei then left with the Valkyrie using the Throne of Creation.
• The Church urged Eastern Region powers, including the Sunderland Empire and the Everton Empire, to prepare for war against the Northern Region Empire, while Rosario’s forces terrorized Allianz City.
• Hasselbaink and the Northern Region Empire’s experts attacked the Church, Juventus, and Barcelona forces in Allianz City, killing Rosario and other god-level Church fighters.
• After spies spread word that Platini was dead, Allianz City’s human factions joined the Northern Region Empire, and the Church lost control of the city in less than a night.

The Northern Region Empire defeated the Church’s forces after the Eastern Region Empires Allied Army switched sides and exposed the Church’s deception, accelerating the Church’s collapse. The Northern Region Empire then focused on the Southern Region, where humanity drove the goblins back to a confined area in the far south.

• The Eastern Region Empires Allied Army turned against the Church, Barcelona, and Juventus at the Bay of Naples, helping the Northern Region Empire rout them and seize extensive territory.
• Golden Lion Lampard killed Atkinson, while Quagliarella fell and Piqué was gravely wounded in the battle.
• Adam Johnson, Fellaini, and others revealed that the Holy Church had framed them and that the Northern Region Empire had saved them.
• The Holy Church faced widespread condemnation and internal strife, withdrew from territories, and made no effective effort to stop the Northern Region Empire’s advance.
• The Northern Region Empire sent troops to fight the goblins, and the goblins’ numbers began to decline as they suffered repeated defeats.
• Human forces drove several hundred million goblins into a confined area on a plateau at the southernmost end of the Southern Region Continent.

After refining Platini’s and the goblin God Kings’ power, Sun Fei strengthened his realm while directing the Northern Region Empire to pause its war against the Holy Church. Half a year passed as humanity eradicated the goblins from the Southern Region, until shocking news came from the Church’s Holy Mountain.

• Sun Fei spent a month refining Platini’s power, then another month refining the origin power of more than twenty goblin God Kings, raising his fusion with the Divine Domain Great World to fifty-six percent.
• Sun Fei continued consolidating his realm and studying Demon King's Sharp Sword while growing faith in him strengthened his power.
• Sun Fei ordered the Northern Region Empire to halt its offensive against the Holy Church to avoid weakening humanity ahead of the prophesied demon threat.
• Human armies drove more than a hundred million goblins into the Sea of Mist and reclaimed the Southern Region, though they failed to find the goblin realm.
• The ten Gold Saints, including Robben, Garcia, Deisler, Drogba, Pierce and Oleg, attained the rank of Demigod as the Southern Region’s spheres of influence were redrawn.
• Astonishing news came from the Holy Mountain on Sicily Island, the Holy Church’s headquarters.

After Platini’s crimes were exposed, the Holy Church arranged a meeting with Sun Fei in Meazza to discuss relations with the Northern Region Empire. On the day of the meeting, the Church’s flying temple appeared above the city, while Sun Fei and Maradona had yet to arrive.

• Maradora confirmed that Platini had orchestrated the goblin upheaval, and a Diwei Crystal recording of the atrocities and Platini’s battle with the Human Emperor was verified and released.
• The major empires condemned the Holy Church, while Sun Fei gained widespread support and Power of Faith as the Northern Region Empire’s Black-Robed Holy Temple spread.
• The pope invited Sun Fei to meet in Meazza ten days later and asked Maradona to witness the talks; Sun Fei and Maradona both accepted.
• The Northern Region Empire and the Holy Church prepared for the meeting by sending experts to Meazza and stationing a million troops each along the front.
• At noon on the meeting day, the Holy Church’s flying temple emerged above Meazza, drawing the attention of experts gathered around the city.

Maradona and Alexander arrived at the three-way talks in Meazza, where Alexander faced Pope Blatter before the gathered powers of the continent. Blatter admitted the Church had abandoned its principles and become corrupt, and Sun Fei challenged whether his words were genuine repentance or hypocrisy.

• Maradona appeared in silver flame and cut away part of the Holy Church's Light Holy Power above Meazza.
• Sky City emerged from invisibility, and Alexander arrived on a silver throne accompanied by Frank Lampard and Fernando Torres.
• Alexander called for the pope to show himself, and Blatter stepped out of the Church's flying temple to meet him.
• Blatter said the Church had lost its principles and become rotten and corrupt.
• Sun Fei questioned whether Blatter's confession was hypocritical or sincere repentance.

The pope introduced Sun Fei to a bound old prisoner, who was revealed to be the former pope, Sepp Blatter. Sun Fei realized that the masked figure holding the Scepter of the Twilight of the Gods had seized control of the Holy Church and toppled Blatter.

• The pope urged Sun Fei to reconsider his hostility toward the Holy Church, but Sun Fei demanded to know why he had been summoned.
• The pope had two divine knights escort an elderly prisoner out of the flying temple, and Sun Fei sensed the old man possessed sealed God King-level power.
• Batistuta whispered the prisoner's identity to Sun Fei, shocking him.
• An expert identified the prisoner as Sepp Blatter, and Maradona confirmed that the former pope had been overthrown.
• Sun Fei recalled Blatter's past role in Platini's downfall and looked to the masked figure with the scepter for answers.

Sun Fei demanded that the masked pope reveal his face, and Batistuta recognized the ancient man as Guillermo Stábile, the Holy Church pope who had disappeared more than eight hundred years earlier. Stábile’s return stunned the watching masters and left the mystery of his disappearance—and its possible connection to Blatter—unresolved.

• Sun Fei ordered the masked man posing as pope to remove his mask, revealing a frail, ancient figure.
• Batistuta recognized the man as Stábile after hearing him speak, and Sun Fei recalled Guillermo Stábile’s place in the Holy Church’s history.
• Sun Fei considered whether Stábile had returned to Sicily Island and reclaimed papal power from Blatter, who might have been involved in his disappearance.
• Batistuta rushed to Stábile and knelt in tears, recalling how the pope had blessed and taught him as a child.
• The surrounding masters learned that the pope who had vanished eight hundred years earlier had returned alive and were left astonished.

Stábile revealed that Blatter and several popes had imprisoned and tortured him for over eight hundred years before he escaped and reclaimed control of the Church. He and Sun Fei began a respectful conversation, leaving the question of the Black-Robed Holy Temple’s leadership and the Church’s future unresolved.

• Stábile thanked Batistuta for reviving the Black-Robed Holy Temple and explained that Blatter and several popes had imprisoned him in a dungeon beneath Sicily Island eight hundred years earlier.
• Stábile said Platini had secretly contacted him during his struggle with Blatter, giving him the chance to regain strength, escape, and take control of the Church.
• Sun Fei and the watching powerhouses considered whether Stábile’s return could restore the Church and prevent conflict with the Northern Region Empire.
• Batistuta returned to Sun Fei’s side, troubled by the possibility that Stábile’s return would spark a dispute over who led the Black-Robed Holy Temple.
• Stábile asked Sun Fei to speak with him calmly, and Sun Fei bowed and agreed to a conversation.

Stábile reunited with Maradona and revealed that he had gathered the continent’s strongest figures to discuss secrets sealed away for over a thousand years. He began explaining that the God and Demon Clans vanished after facing a formidable enemy, leaving Sun Fei to wonder whether the enemy was the Defilers.

• Stábile praised Sun Fei and welcomed Maradona, who revealed his unassuming appearance and greeted his old friend.
• Maradona asked why Stábile had staged such a secretive gathering, and Stábile admitted he had used their influence to draw the continent’s powerful figures together.
• Stábile announced that he would reveal secrets about the God and Demon Clans’ disappearance more than a thousand years earlier.
• Sun Fei recalled evidence linking the clans’ disappearance to the Defilers and wondered whether Stábile would confirm it.
• Stábile said the God and Demon Clans had vanished because they encountered an enemy they could scarcely resist.

Stábile revealed that the God Clan and Demon Clan fought the Defilers in an ancient war that devastated Azeroth, then claimed the gods and demons ultimately won at the cost of nearly their entire civilization. Sun Fei was left confronting an account that contradicted what he had previously learned about the Defilers.

• Stábile described how the Defilers overwhelmed the God Clan, Demon Clan, and their vassal races, destroying their capitals and driving civilization toward collapse.
• A powerful human questioned why humanity survived and where the Defilers had gone after their supposed victory.
• Sun Fei asked why the gods and demons had vanished if they had defeated the Defilers.
• Stábile said the gods and demons exterminated the Defilers but nearly perished themselves, with their rulers sacrificing their lives in the final battle.
• Stábile explained that the surviving gods and demons founded the Holy Church, erased humanity's memories of the war, and eventually died from their injuries.

Sun Fei questioned Stábile’s claim that the gods and demons had defeated the Defilers, since his earlier evidence suggested the invaders still threatened the continent. Stábile presented a preserved Defiler and began showing further evidence, leaving the gathered leaders alarmed by the creatures’ numbers and ability to evolve.

• Sun Fei asked Stábile for proof that the Defilers had been defeated and warned that they might return to destroy the continent.
• Stábile summoned a giant crystal coffin containing the preserved body of a low-level Defiler from the Holy Church’s temple.
• Sun Fei recognized the monster as resembling a bug from Starship Troopers, while Stábile explained that quadrillions of such creatures had fought the gods and demons.
• Stábile told the gathered leaders that Defilers had many higher forms and could evolve from weak monsters into god-level threats in a month.
• Stábile removed a pale-red scroll from a runic treasure chest and began presenting more evidence.

Stábile showed Sun Fei, Maradona, and the others ancient scrolls depicting the Defilers nearly destroying the God Clan and Demon Clan before the gods’ rulers used the Creation Sacred Artifact Set to defeat them. The images ended with the rulers warning humanity not to repeat their mistakes before their bodies broke apart.

• Stábile used a Light-Reversal Scroll to show the Defilers overwhelming the gods and Demon Gods in an ancient battle.
• Sun Fei and Maradona confirmed the scroll was genuine, and Sun Fei asked how the God Clan and Demon Clan had survived.
• Stábile revealed that the God Clan and Demon Clan’s rulers united and used their blood to awaken the Creation Sacred Artifact Set, burning their origin power to destroy the Defilers.
• A second scroll showed the rulers wiping out the Defilers and warning humanity not to repeat their mistakes.
• The rulers’ bodies cracked apart and drifted through the sky after the images showed several streaks of light scattering across the world.

Stábile explained that the God Clan and Demon Clan had destroyed the Defilers, easing Sun Fei’s fear of a coming catastrophe. He then called for humanity to unite under one authority and named Sun Fei as the only person capable of peacefully joining the Church and the Northern Region Empire.

• Stábile explained that the God Clan and Demon Clan had sacrificed themselves and their allies to summon the Creation Sacred Artifact Set and defeat the Defilers.
• Sun Fei felt relieved that the Defilers had been destroyed a thousand years earlier and reconsidered the purpose of the Northern Region Empire’s expansion.
• Stábile said he had convened the meeting to address the Church’s past mistakes, examine the age of gods and demons, and urge humanity to unite against future invaders.
• Stábile declared that the continent needed a single center of power, unsettling those who feared he meant to bring the Northern Region Empire under the Church.
• Sun Fei asked whether Stábile had a plan for unifying humanity, and Stábile said Sun Fei was the only person who could peacefully unite the Church and the Northern Region Empire.

Stábile proposed that Sun Fei become pope and unite the Holy Church with the Northern Region Empire, explaining that he had only six months to live and would prepare the Church for the transition. After the meeting in Meazza, the plan spread across Azeroth, stirring hope and fear as Stábile and Maradona went to Sicily Island and Sun Fei returned to the Northern Region.

• Stábile urged Sun Fei to take the papal throne and unite the Holy Church with the Northern Region Empire.
• Stábile said he had only six months left and promised to remove Blatter and Platini's remaining followers and prepare the Church for Sun Fei.
• Sun Fei accepted the proposal, trusting Stábile and agreeing to prepare for the transition.
• The outcome of the Meazza meeting spread across Azeroth, delighting Sun Fei's supporters and alarming rival empires and independent rulers.
• Stábile and Maradona headed to the Church's headquarters on Sicily Island, while Sun Fei returned to the Northern Region and war briefly ceased across the continent.

After mastering the Barrier spatial magic law, Sun Fei traced the mysterious call to Earth, his true hometown. He sensed powerful, violent energy filling the Sun System and descended toward Earth to discover what had happened.

• Sun Fei spent nearly a month traveling with his two wives before returning to Sky City and resuming his duties.
• Sun Fei reinforced the seals on the eggs beneath Anzhi City and moved the time-dilated arsenal eggs to Sky City.
• Sun Fei studied spatial magic with the theories of Auntie Akara and Grandpa Cain, then mastered the Barrier law.
• Sun Fei clearly heard the urgent call and tore open the spatial barrier to leave the laboratory.
• Sun Fei recognized the Sun System and Earth, identified Zhong Dajun as the source of the call, and sensed violent energy around the planet.
• Sun Fei scanned Earth with his spiritual power and plunged toward it.

Sun Fei arrived in a ruined Beijing and found the city overrun by [Defilers]. After destroying thousands of the bugs, he suddenly appeared behind a group of survivors watching him from the Times Tower.

• Sun Fei examined Beijing’s corpses and concluded that the disaster had happened more than ten days earlier.
• A swarm of [Defilers] surrounded Sun Fei, who wondered how they had reached Earth despite Old Pope Stábile saying they were wiped out.
• Sun Fei released a fraction of his power and turned the nearby bugs to ash.
• Wang Jian and the other survivors watched from the Times Tower and were astonished when the bugs vanished.
• Sun Fei appeared behind Wang Jian and the survivors, who nervously asked who he was.

Jian Jie explained to Sun Fei how alien bugs had devastated Earth after strange spatial passages appeared across the sky. As Sun Fei led Wang Jian and the other survivors out to search for safety and his missing companion Zhong Dajun, he captured a bug and discovered its strength before killing several more with its own bone spike.

• Jian Jie told Sun Fei that wormholes had appeared above Earth, releasing black spheres and swarms of bugs that overwhelmed cities and collapsed human civilization.
• Sun Fei decided to gather survivors in Beijing and lead them to a city base that had not fallen while searching for Zhong Dajun.
• Sun Fei led Wang Jian and his companions downstairs after their food and water ran out.
• A bug rushed out of the stairwell, but Sun Fei caught it in the air and examined its body, intelligence, and strength.
• Sun Fei snapped off the bug's Bone Spike and used it to kill several bugs charging through a concrete wall.

Sun Fei rescued Wang Jian, Jian Jie, and the others from the damaged building and protected them from swarms of insects with his divine powers. He decided to gather Beijing City’s survivors, then created a thousand identical clones to help.

• Sun Fei led the group down from the hundredth floor, killing insects as they descended.
• Sun Fei used his spiritual power to carry everyone out of the building and shielded them inside a circle of golden light.
• While Sun Fei changed into a Li-Ning tracksuit, the golden flames burned the insects that swarmed around Wang Jian, Jian Jie, and the others.
• Sun Fei returned and said he would gather Beijing City’s survivors somewhere large enough to shelter them.
• Sun Fei produced a thousand identical clones, leaving Wang Jian, Jian Jie, and the others stunned.

Sun Fei learned that Ernst had come from the same world and had spent a thousand years preparing the Behemoth Beastmen for a historical mission. Ernst said Sun Fei’s arrival meant his task was complete and that he was going to die, but he left the reasons unexplained.

• Sun Fei and Ernst celebrated meeting someone from their old world and talked about the life they had left behind.
• Ernst told Sun Fei that he had waited a thousand years to meet him and that Sun Fei’s arrival meant he was going to die.
• Ernst explained that time magic had brought them to this world a thousand years apart and that he had been granted a thousand years of youthful life.
• Ernst showed Sun Fei the handmade, nonfunctional models he had carved to remind him of his old world.
• Ernst recounted that a car accident had killed him and that a mysterious supreme being had offered him a new life and a historical mission.
• Ernst said his mission had been to inherit the mantle and help the Beastmen survive on barren land until they could return to the Azeroth Continent a thousand years later.

Sun Fei learned that Ernst had been chosen by a Main God to save the Behemoth Beastmen, and that Ernst had survived for a thousand years using his extraordinary Beastman War Song ability despite being unable to cultivate magic or Dou Qi. Ernst said his lifespan had reached its end and declared that Sun Fei would become the Behemoth Beastmen's next pope.

• Sun Fei asked why a Main God had entrusted Ernst with saving the Behemoth Beastmen, and Ernst explained that a prophecy had pointed to a void soul from another plane as the one with a chance to defeat the Main God's enemy.
• Sun Fei praised Ernst for preserving the Behemoth Beastmen, while Ernst praised Sun Fei's strength and accomplishments.
• Ernst revealed that he could use neither magic nor Dou Qi, but his singing let him wield Beastman War Songs and create powerful totems.
• Ernst told Sun Fei that the Main God had said his task would be complete when someone from his former world appeared, and that the Behemoth Beastmen could then return to Azeroth.
• Ernst said his thousand-year lifespan had reached its end and that Sun Fei would become the next pope, but Sun Fei objected that he was human and urged Ernst to lead the beastmen himself.

Sun Fei learned that Ernst had lived a thousand years as the Behemoth Orc pope and had arranged for Sun Fei to take his place as the coming age’s central figure. Ernst revealed that his former name was Zhong Dajun, then startled Sun Fei by seeming to die before explaining he was only tired.

• Ernst boasted to Sun Fei about his thousand-year rule, accomplishments, and many lovers among the Orc Clan.
• Ernst said he regretted not choosing the ordinary life he had lived on Earth, despite enjoying power and glory for a thousand years.
• Ernst revealed that he had told the Behemoth Beastmen he would soon die and said his plans had positioned Sun Fei 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 told Sun Fei that his Earth name was Zhong Dajun, then closed his eyes and slumped back.
• Sun Fei panicked, but Zhong Dajun opened his eyes and explained that he had only fallen asleep from exhaustion.

Pedro’s Barcelona vanguard suffered heavy losses in Zenit’s Southern Frontier and found itself surrounded by a prepared Zenitian force. As Pedro moved to unleash his power, an equally formidable presence emerged among the Zenitians, leaving him wondering whether Emperor Yassin had joined the battle.

• Pedro reflected on Barcelona’s costly capture of the deserted royal city of Byzantium and King Constantine’s endurance under torture.
• Zenitian forces ambushed and annihilated a two-thousand-man Barcelona detachment, then continued harassing the advancing vanguard.
• After advancing more than a thousand kilometers, Pedro’s army met a stronger Zenitian force that repelled its elite battalion and began surrounding it.
• Pedro recognized that Zenit had prepared for the invasion under a skilled tactician and ordered Barcelona’s troops to withdraw from the fighting.
• Pedro released his power to attack the Zenitians, but an equally powerful, icy presence appeared among their ranks, making him suspect Emperor Yassin had arrived.

Pedro’s Barcelona legion fought a costly battle against Zenit forces, but their commander withdrew before Barcelona reinforcements could arrive. Pedro then ordered Telue to carry out “Mowing Grass,” a campaign of extermination against everyone in the surrounding area who was not from Barcelona.

• Pedro and the opposing Zenit expert held back from fighting while Zenit troops surrounded his army and attacked throughout the day.
• Pedro’s forces suffered heavy losses as Zenit troops repeatedly broke their counterattacks, and he executed an officer who urged retreat.
• The Zenit army withdrew in disciplined order before Barcelona reinforcements arrived, leaving Pedro unable to pursue safely.
• Pedro told Telue that a famed Zenit commander had outmaneuvered his plan, and Telue offered to pursue the retreating forces.
• Pedro ordered Telue to lead cavalry in “Mowing Grass” within a hundred li, killing every Zenit person they encountered.

Pedro became alarmed by reports of Chambord City’s strength and requested reinforcements from Barcelona. Meanwhile, Sun Fei secured an alliance with the Behemoth Beastmen, but urgent news from the Lion Clan abruptly ended the banquet and left the orc leaders on edge.

• Pedro gathered intelligence about Chambord City and Sun Fei, then sent Barcelona an urgent request for Extreme Dao masters.
• Sun Fei defeated the Ten Golden Races’ experts, winning their respect and establishing Chambord City’s alliance with the Behemoth Beastmen.
• At the banquet, the orcs and Chambord’s guests mingled while the threat of the Beastmen’s eventual migration remained in the background.
• A group of Lion Clan riders arrived with a golden token, prompting Ernst to end the banquet and send Sun Fei’s party away while the orc leaders handled the secret matter.