Recaps

Emperor Yassin revealed to Akinfeev that Frank Lampard was the trusted junior apprentice brother of Mushnikov, who had secretly arranged for him to protect the hidden third prince. He explained that Lampard had crippled his own cultivation to conceal his strength, leaving his reasons for doing so unanswered.

• Akinfeev worried that Lampard's rapid rise and mysterious origins might threaten Chambord City.
• Emperor Yassin assured Akinfeev that Lampard was trustworthy and revealed he had known Mushnikov.
• Yassin explained that Mushnikov had entrusted the third prince's secret protection to his junior apprentice brother before dying.
• Yassin identified Lampard as Mushnikov's junior apprentice brother and recalled his exceptional martial talent.
• Yassin revealed that Lampard had abandoned his Half Moon Class Lightning-Element Dou Qi and injured himself to cultivate Water-Element Dou Qi instead.

Emperor Yassin explained how Mushnikov and Lampard protected his missing third son, Alexander, and why he had long favored Chambord City. He then revealed to Akinfeev that he intended Alexander to inherit the throne.

• Emperor Yassin explained that Mushnikov hid his connection to Lampard to keep their enemies from discovering the third prince's identity.
• Emperor Yassin recounted how Lampard dispersed his cultivation, recovered in Chambord City, and continued protecting the third prince.
• Akinfeev understood why Emperor Yassin had supported Chambord City and defended Alexander from criticism.
• Emperor Yassin said he had overlooked his sons' conflicts because he valued his children more after losing and finding Alexander.
• Emperor Yassin revealed that he had granted Christo command of the west city gate to give him a chance to serve the empire.
• Emperor Yassin told Akinfeev that Alexander was the only son fit to inherit the throne.

Emperor Yassin gave Akinfeev a secret succession decree and decided to wait until the war ended before acknowledging Alexander as his third prince. In Chambord City, Torres learned that the Barcelonans had invaded Zenit and set out to warn Alexander, who was still away.

• Emperor Yassin told Akinfeev that he wanted Alexander to inherit the throne but would wait until the war ended to formally acknowledge him.
• Emperor Yassin gave Akinfeev a sealed secret decree of succession and warned that Alexander’s enemies would target him once his identity became known.
• After Akinfeev left, Emperor Yassin heard a report about a reckless prince and gave his son one more chance to change his ways.
• Torres returned to Chambord City and learned from Brook that Barcelonan forces had invaded Zenit, Constantine had been captured, and several defenders were missing or fighting elsewhere.
• Prime Minister Best urged the kingdom to summon Alexander, and Torres immediately set out to warn him.

Brook and Best reviewed Alexander’s plans and mobilized Chambord City to prepare for the Behemoth Beastmen’s migration and the war against Barcelona. Meanwhile, Sun Fei remained in a deep state of refinement as growing faith strengthened the Divine Domain world, and a mysterious voice suggested he might finish ahead of schedule.

• Brook stopped Torres and asked him to explain the situation in the Land of Exile, prompting Torres to hand over Alexander’s instructions and letters.
• Best and Brook decided to secure the Behemoth Orc Clan as an ally, prepare migration infrastructure, and support Zenit while buying Alexander time.
• Best sent Torres back with a recording scroll for Alexander and promised that Chambord City would prepare for the Behemoth Beastmen’s migration within twenty days.
• Torres and several Behemoth Beastmen experts departed for the Land of Exile, while Best regretted not keeping the experts to fight Barcelona’s forces.
• Sun Fei continued refining the Divine Domain world as faith from Zenit’s people and the Behemoth Beastmen gathered around him.
• The mysterious voice observed that Sun Fei might complete the Divine Domain’s refinement ahead of schedule.

Wars spread across every region of Azeroth as human empires faced dwarves, elves, goblins, dragons, and the Holy Church. At Saint Petersburg, Granero realized the Barcelonans had used a feigned retreat to lure Zenit’s elite warriors away from the walls just as their main force renewed its attack.

• The Manchester City Empire and other Eastern Region powers enslaved dwarves and gnomes, provoking a devastating war against their advanced weapons and machinery.
• The Madrid and Barcelona alliances drew most of the Western Region into war, while the Elf Empire split between the Green Elves, Blood Elves, and Black Elves.
• The Southern Region’s human empires considered joining forces against the expanding Goblin Empire, with Diego Maradona and his disciples arriving to support them.
• The Dragon Clan and Holy Church continued their destructive war in the Central Region, while Barcelona’s siege of Saint Petersburg stalled at the city’s defenses.
• Granero condemned Fourth Prince Christo for repeatedly sending elite Zenit warriors after retreating Barcelonans to collect heads for military merit.
• More than two hundred Zenit Star-Rank Warriors defeated a group of Barcelona mages, but powerful Barcelona fighters then surged toward Saint Petersburg as the main army charged again, and Granero realized the retreat had been a trap.

Barcelona launched a coordinated surprise attack on Saint Petersburg with disguised soldiers and four Extreme Dao masters, while Zenit’s defenders fought to hold the city. Granero reached the west gate, where the infiltrators had been killed and the siege equipment damaged, but he discovered that about fifty Barcelona soldiers were still unaccounted for.

• Barcelona soldiers disguised as Zenit warriors attacked from within the west gate as the Barcelona army assaulted the city, and four Extreme Dao masters joined the offensive.
• Granero rushed to reinforce the west gate while Emperor Yassin, Hasselbaink, Lampard, and a Chambord master confronted the four Barcelona masters in the sky.
• Granero found the west gate defenders alive, the disguised attackers apparently dead, and much of Chambord City’s siege-defense equipment destroyed.
• Granero rebuked Christo for his actions and ordered the bodies counted; the soldiers reported 571 Zenit dead and 100 Barcelona bodies.
• Granero realized more than 150 disguised Barcelona soldiers had reached the walls and asked where the other fifty or so were.

Emperor Yassin punished Christo for his failures and disregard for his soldiers, then ordered Granero to hunt down the Barcelona spies still hidden in the capital. Granero began organizing a citywide search as his sense of impending danger grew.

• Christo accused Granero of spreading rumors, while Granero warned that fifty Barcelona warriors were still missing and could sabotage the Protection of Mother Earth magic array.
• Emperor Yassin arrived after the battle in the sky ended and the Barcelona army retreated, then pinned Christo to the ground with his power.
• Emperor Yassin stripped Christo of his military authority, demoted him to a sixth-rank noble, and barred him from future civil or military appointments before sending him flying from the wall.
• Emperor Yassin apologized to the soldiers for his appointment of Christo and thanked them, renewing their determination to defend Zenit.
• Emperor Yassin ordered Granero to find the Barcelona spies and authorized him to mobilize troops; Granero returned to the public security office to begin a citywide investigation.

Granero sought Dominguez’s advice after failing to find Barcelona’s spies, then discovered they were Eindhoven agents working with Barcelona. An interrogation revealed a threat to the First Magic Tower, and Granero raced there as Zenit’s citywide protective array faced possible destruction.

• Granero visited Dominguez and asked why Arshavin, the eldest princess, and most of the empire’s troops were absent from the capital.
• Paris revealed that Yassin had secretly withdrawn the eight hundred thousand troops and that Arshavin and the eldest princess were also missing; Dominguez suggested the spies might have changed their appearance.
• Granero followed Dominguez’s hint and resumed the search while Paris prepared to act on her own assignment.
• Granero’s men captured a spy who turned out to be an Eindhoven citizen trained by Barcelona, exposing a network of Eindhoven agents working with the Barcelonans.
• Granero’s interrogation of the captured spies uncovered a threat to the First Magic Tower, so he alerted the imperial family, the Military Department, and Dominguez before racing to the tower.

Granero rushed to the First Magic Tower and discovered that the deposed fourth prince had entered it before the tower began to collapse and the [Protection of Mother Earth] shield failed. With Saint Petersburg exposed to the Barcelonans, Granero led the remaining defenders toward the tower to kill the spies who had sabotaged it.

• Granero reached the First Magic Tower and learned that the fourth prince had entered with fifty guards, claiming to act on Emperor Yassin's orders.
• The ground shook, the First Magic Tower began to collapse, and its magical alarm sounded across Saint Petersburg.
• The [Protection of Mother Earth] shield broke, leaving the city exposed to the Barcelonans.
• Granero sent a trusted knight away with a message, then called on his men to stay and avenge the empire.
• Granero charged toward the tower, followed by the knights and imperial soldiers singing the imperial anthem.

Barcelona forces broke through Saint Petersburg’s defenses after destroying the central magic tower, and Emperor Yassin was trapped by five Barcelona Demigods. Dominguez learned that Granero had sacrificed himself to stop the spies, but refused to flee and prepared to fight.

• Emperor Yassin attacked Alves and shattered his defensive domain, sending him crashing into the ground.
• Masiqielanuo, Busquets, and Pedro joined Alves to block and encircle Emperor Yassin before he could reach the central magic tower.
• Barcelona troops poured through breaches in the city walls as fires spread and civilians fled in panic.
• Dominguez learned that the central magic tower had collapsed and that Granero had led his men into it to destroy the Barcelona spies.
• Dominguez refused to escape north and ordered his guards to fight with him.

After Barcelona’s attack shattered the Protection of Mother Earth, Dominguez organized civilians to flee Saint Petersburg and sent Paris to open the north gate while he rode toward the imperial military headquarters. As the capital descended into panic and fighting, the ten Judgment Knights assembled before Akinfeev.

• Dominguez led his guards through the panicked streets, calmed the crowd, and ordered civilians to flee north toward Chambord City.
• Dominguez gave Paris his gold token and ordered her to gather elite security troops and clear the north gate for civilians.
• Dominguez set out alone for the imperial military headquarters, telling Paris to tell Alexander that he forgave him.
• Nobles across the residential district barricaded themselves, fled, or formed a makeshift force to fight the Barcelona invaders.
• The ten Judgment Knights assembled in the central tower of the Imperial Knights' Hall, where Akinfeev sat before them.

As the Barcelonans broke through the empire’s defenses, Akinfeev sent Piasson away with a secret scroll and powerful relics, while he and the other Judgment Knights prepared to make their last stand. On Martial Saint Mountain, Chris Sutton rallied Krasic’s disciples to fight and tried to arrange the escape of Luffy’s mother, but One Sword’s wife appeared and said there was no need.

• Akinfeev ordered the ten Judgment Knights to prepare for battle and summoned Piasson to give him a secret scroll to deliver to Alexander.
• Akinfeev gave Piasson two additional scrolls, including one containing the power of Emperor Yassin’s full-strength strike, and ordered him to escape and complete his mission.
• Piasson accepted the mission and left, while Akinfeev led the remaining Judgment Knights and their retainers into battle.
• After the Protection of Mother Earth magic array shattered, Chris Sutton rose from cultivation and rallied the disciples of Martial Saint Mountain to fight.
• Chris Sutton asked his disciples to help Luffy’s mother escape to Chambord City, but One Sword’s wife appeared and said there was no need.

As Barcelonan forces breached Zenit’s capital, the Letters and Visits Office prepared to evacuate its records and establish a covert intelligence network, while Emperor Yassin faced an offer to surrender. The chapter left Yassin surrounded by four Demigods as Busquets urged him to join Barcelona.

• A young woman killed herself rather than risk capture by the Barcelonans, and General Sutton buried her before leading Martial Saint Mountain’s disciples into battle.
• At the Letters and Visits Office headquarters, Modrić ordered the files and documents teleported to Chambord City and assigned the Cold-Blooded Nine Eagles to oversee their transport.
• Modrić tasked Koko, Woods, and Brent with the Hidden Thorn Plan to keep reporting developments in the occupied capital to Chambord City.
• Modrić refused to waste the intelligence organization’s strength defending the capital and ordered its members to begin their assignments.
• Busquets offered Emperor Yassin a place among Barcelona’s ten great generals, while Yassin remained surrounded by four enemy Demigods.

Emperor Yassin unleashed his imperial Dragon Fist sword qi and wounded Barcelona’s four Demigod-level experts, but Leo Messi appeared and effortlessly destroyed the next attack. Yassin recognized Messi as a legendary Barcelona genius and realized Barcelona’s war was driven by a secret.

• Alves, Busquets, Masiqielanuo, and Pedro attacked Emperor Yassin after taunting him and demanding his surrender.
• Emperor Yassin gathered faith from the imperial capital and used golden Dragon Fist sword qi to break the four experts’ attacks and injure them.
• Yassin launched a second wave of sword qi toward the wounded Barcelona experts.
• Four red-and-blue figures appeared, caught the sword qi, and merged into Leo Messi.
• Emperor Yassin recognized Messi’s strength and concluded that Barcelona had started the war to obtain a secret.

Emperor Yassin confronted Leo Messi, who claimed to have condensed a Divinity, and attacked him with Dragon Fist Sword Qi. At the Military Department, Dominguez rallied the frightened officers and ordered them to activate the magical command system despite the danger it posed.

• Leo Messi told Emperor Yassin that he had condensed a Divinity and urged him to fight while his Imperial Dao Faith remained active.
• Emperor Yassin mocked Messi and unleashed Dragon Fist Sword Qi against him.
• Dominguez arrived at the Military Department and challenged the officers to defend the empire rather than surrender to the Barcelona soldiers.
• The officers rallied behind Dominguez and returned to their posts.
• Dominguez ordered the officers to activate the Military Department's magical command system, exposing its location to the enemy.

Zenit’s soldiers and civilians fought desperately to slow the Barcelonan invasion of Saint Petersburg. Montoya led an elite force into the Military Department, where Second Prince Dominguez ordered the array activated.

• Zenit officers used the Military Department’s magical signals to organize resistance and protect civilians fleeing the capital.
• Two hundred and fifteen Zenit soldiers held an alley against a much larger Barcelonan force for forty minutes, killing more than five hundred enemies before falling.
• Montoya identified the Zenit Military Department as the resistance’s command center and led more than a thousand elite Barcelonan warriors toward it.
• Montoya’s force broke through Zenit blockades, stormed the Military Department, and overwhelmed its defenders.
• Second Prince Dominguez saw the Barcelonans reach the highest military and political hall and ordered the array activated.

Barcelona forces attacked the Zenit Military Department, where Dominguez’s ambush inflicted losses before Montoya engaged him in battle. After Emperor Yassin lost to Leo Messi, Messi revealed that Christo had helped destroy the central magic tower’s formation, and Christo erupted at his father’s accusation of disappointment.

• Dominguez triggered a hidden magic formation that killed hundreds of Barcelona soldiers, then ordered Dragon-Slaying Ballistae to target their Moon Class fighters.
• Montoya charged the Zenit ballista position, and Dominguez intercepted him while the ambushed Zenit troops joined the battle.
• Emperor Yassin questioned why the central magic tower had collapsed, and Messi offered to explain as Yassin stood gravely wounded after losing their fight.
• Messi revealed the Eindhoven spies who had infiltrated the tower and identified Christo as the person who enabled its destruction.
• Yassin asked Christo why he had betrayed Zenit, and Christo shouted that his father knew no word besides “disappointed.”

Christo revealed that he had helped Barcelonan and Eindhovener forces destroy the central magic tower and mutilated Granero. Emperor Yassin disowned Christo, severing him from the Zenit Imperial Family.

• Christo accused Emperor Yassin of favoring his brothers and declared that he would become Zenit's king with Barcelonan support.
• Emperor Yassin rejected Christo's accusations and explained how he had repeatedly tried to protect and provide opportunities for him.
• Christo confessed that he had smuggled Barcelonans and Eindhoveners through the defenses and helped them sabotage the Protection of Mother Earth, then presented the mutilated Granero.
• Emperor Yassin attacked Christo, but Leo Messi stopped the golden sword strike and announced his intention to install Christo as Zenit's new emperor.
• Emperor Yassin acknowledged Granero's suffering, heard Christo boast about torturing him, and cut off his own arm to expel Christo from the imperial bloodline.

Christo swore revenge after the Zenit Imperial Family severed their relationship, while Paris and Dominguez fought to protect civilians and preserve Zenit’s forces during Saint Petersburg’s fall. The chapter ended with Dominguez killing Montoya and detonating the Military Department’s final magic array, as a bright star fell across the night sky.

• Christo vowed to imprison his father, unite the Zenit Empire, kill his siblings, and torment the king of Chambord after their bloodline was severed.
• Paris led more than sixty thousand soldiers at the north gate, ordering them to escort civilians to safety and execute nobles who tried to flee.
• Dominguez refused to retreat from the besieged Military Department while his soldiers and staff issued orders to guide the defenders and civilians.
• Dominguez traded his life for Montoya’s, killing the Barcelona commander before enemy weapons pierced his body.
• Dominguez reached the highest council hall and detonated its final magic array with the remaining civilian officials, destroying the hall as a bright star fell.

Paris and Sutton were struck by the falling star’s omen as they fought to defend Saint Petersburg, while Messi confronted Yassin and Akinfeev. Frankie revealed that she had engineered Zenit’s downfall, and Sutton was swallowed by the Barcelona army.

• Paris saw the starlight fall toward the Military Department, mourned the second prince, and charged into the Barcelona ranks in fury.
• Sutton held the south gate for six hours, resolved to die rather than retreat, and was overwhelmed by the Barcelona army.
• Messi admired the falling star and taunted Yassin and the wounded Akinfeev about Zenit’s defeat.
• Frankie revealed that she was Costacurta’s daughter and had helped Barcelona enter Saint Petersburg, turned Christo against Zenit, and devised the plan to destroy the central magic tower.

Emperor Yassin faced Leo Messi and offered to reveal the secret behind Barcelona’s war in exchange for an end to the slaughter. After Akinfeev killed Frankie and sacrificed himself, Yassin whispered to Messi, then unleashed his Imperial Dao Power of Faith in a blaze of golden light.

• Leo Messi told Emperor Yassin he would halt the attack and spare some of Zenit’s bloodline if Yassin answered his questions.
• Akinfeev confirmed the ten Judgment Knights had died and said he had ensured the third prince would learn everything.
• Akinfeev charged Frankie and killed her before Busquets blasted apart his final attack.
• Old Arjen and the Chambord Saints arrived too late to save the second prince, cleared away the Barcelona soldiers, and headed north to retrieve Lady Paris.
• Emperor Yassin leaned close to Leo Messi as if revealing the secret, then said Messi could have everything the continent had amassed over the past century.
• Messi realized Yassin had said nothing, while Yassin’s Imperial Dao Power of Faith engulfed him in golden light.

Emperor Yassin dissolved into heaven and earth after warning Barcelona that Zenit would be avenged by his third prince. Messi ordered Barcelona’s forces to seize Saint Petersburg and installed Christo as a puppet ruler, while keeping the imperial palace sealed.

• Yassin declared that he had never lost to a mortal, warned Barcelona of future revenge, and dispersed into golden mist, dying without leaving a body.
• The four Barcelona Extreme Dao experts mourned Yassin and wondered whether he had told Messi a secret before his death.
• Messi ordered the four experts to occupy Saint Petersburg and keep the Zenit imperial palace intact and off-limits.
• Messi offered Christo Zenit’s throne on the condition that he obey Barcelona and suppress resistance.
• Christo eagerly offered to join the Catalan imperial family, but Messi questioned whether he was worthy and departed with him, Granero, and [Red Beard].

Arshavin and Natasha sensed the deaths of their father and family in the imperial capital and vowed revenge, while Sun Fei continued refining the Divine Domain Great World with Power of Faith. Imperial Dao Power of Faith then reached Sun Fei, who saw Yaxindadai’s image appear as he heard Emperor Yassin’s Dragon Fist; the chapter also included an author’s update notice about relocating and irregular updates.

• Arshavin and Natasha sensed the loss of their father, Dominguez, and other family members, and Arshavin swore to take revenge on Barcelona.
• Sun Fei’s Power of Faith continued to refine and expand the Divine Domain Great World and perfect its laws.
• A mysterious figure observed Sun Fei’s progress and remarked that he would need the Human Clan’s collective faith to fully refine the world.
• Vast torrents of Imperial Dao Power of Faith shaped like golden dragons entered Sun Fei’s cocoon, astonishing the mysterious figure.
• Sun Fei awoke in grief, heard Emperor Yassin’s Dragon Fist, and saw Yaxindadai’s image appear in a screen of golden faith.

Emperor Yassin gave Sun Fei a vast gift of pure-gold Power of Faith, sending him into an even deeper state of cultivation. Meanwhile, disasters pushed the Behemoth Beastmen toward migration, and Pope Ernst waited anxiously for Sun Fei to emerge and succeed him; the chapter ended with news that Torres and O'Neal had returned from Azeroth.

• Emperor Yassin appeared to Sun Fei, embraced him, and entered his body as a wisp of Power of Faith.
• The pure-gold Power of Faith flooded into Sun Fei and greatly accelerated his refinement of the Divine Domain Great World.
• Natural disasters and the spread of Metal Shamo and the Evil Water Swamp devastated the Land of Exile, prompting the Behemoth Beastmen to prepare to migrate to Azeroth.
• Pope Ernst cursed Sun Fei for entering seclusion while the Beast God Temple's search for a new pope continued without success.
• The Legion of Light rescued orcs from disasters, strengthening rumors that Sun Fei possessed Beast God Rexxar's bloodline or was the Beast God reincarnated.
• Fox High Priest Nash announced that Torres and O'Neal had returned from the Azeroth Continent.

Old Arjen’s group escaped Barcelona’s pursuit and used a teleportation array to send the wounded Lampard, Hasselbaink, Batistuta, and Paris back to Chambord City. Five Barcelona masters then discovered the teleportation’s traces and flew toward Chambord City.

• Old Arjen decided to return to Chambord City so the wounded could receive treatment, while Paris called out Alexander’s name in her sleep.
• Old Arjen’s group activated the teleportation array and sent Lampard, Hasselbaink, Batistuta, and Paris to Chambord City.
• The Saints dismantled and concealed the array after Old Arjen followed the others through the portal.
• Five Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection masters arrived, realized the Zenit survivors had teleported away, and set off to attack Chambord City.