Recaps

Piasson secretly made his way north through a crowd of refugees to deliver Akinfeev’s orders to the King of Chambord as Barcelona pursued Zenit’s survivors. In the City of Behemoths, Ernst and the others worried over the invasion while Sun Fei remained in seclusion, and Elena insisted they keep waiting.

• Piasson disguised himself as a refugee and escaped Saint Petersburg with secret orders from Akinfeev, avoiding Barcelona’s hunters by concealing his power.
• Piasson concluded that Barcelona could detect power fluctuations and hurried north, fearing Chambord City might soon be surrounded.
• Several Barcelona Moon Class powerhouses streaked across the sky as Piasson traveled with the refugees toward Chambord City.
• In the City of Behemoths, Ernst, Elena, and the Chambord delegation discussed the invasion and Sun Fei’s prolonged cultivation in seclusion.
• Pierce, Drogba, and the others wanted to wake Sun Fei, but Elena told them to keep waiting.

Sun Fei emerged from seclusion just as Ernst neared death and the orcs prepared for their migration. In Chambord City, more than twenty golden-armored warriors appeared and attacked the Barcelona masters, killing one with a single punch.

• Elena stopped Ernst’s lover from forcing her way into Sun Fei’s stone hall, and Sun Fei emerged before the two women could clash.
• Sun Fei mistook the aged Ernst for an old man, and Ernst reacted excitedly at seeing him.
• The orcs prepared their migration while Chambord City arranged teleportation and reception plans with the Beast God Temple.
• Five Barcelona Moon Class masters arrived above Chambord Ancient City and one attacked its wall, but a transparent shield reflected the beam.
• More than twenty golden-armored warriors surrounded the Barcelona masters, and one killed a master with a single punch.

Chambord City’s Mithril War Souls slaughtered four Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection masters and drove off Armando, who mistook their limited pursuit range for a weakness. After Armando fled with his supposed discovery, hundreds more puppets appeared above Chambord City, and Best and Brook watched with knowing smiles.

• The golden-armored Extreme Dao masters killed three Barcelona masters and crippled Armando, the last survivor.
• Armando realized the golden warriors were likely magic puppets and guessed they could not travel far from Chambord City’s old walls.
• After testing their range, Armando concluded the puppets could not go more than two thousand meters from the walls and flew toward Saint Petersburg to report his discovery.
• Hundreds of Mithril War Souls appeared above Chambord City, revealing the scale of its hidden defenses, then vanished.
• The sight of the puppets strengthened Chambord’s confidence, while Best and Brook watched Armando’s departure with knowing smiles.

Piasson tried to protect Zenit's secret decree while Armando and Barcelona's reinforcements kept the refugees under guard. Piasson considered his options, while Sun Fei's visit to the dying Pope Ernst ended with Ernst recognizing Zhong Dajun.

• Piasson and his allies discussed using the Mithril Puppets to deter Barcelona's army and protect Zenit's refugees.
• The wounded Armando landed among the refugees, and Piasson decided not to attack the Barcelona Moon Class master.
• Armando ordered Piasson to organize the refugees and build a tent, then summoned his followers and told them to keep the refugees alive and leave Piasson alone.
• Piasson realized he could not escape safely and studied three scrolls as he considered what to do with Zenit's secret decree.
• Pope Ernst cursed Sun Fei for insulting Zhong Dajun, and Sun Fei recognized the old man.

After emerging from seclusion, Sun Fei restored Ernst’s youth and learned that Barcelona’s invasion had devastated Zenit. He agreed to complete the Behemoth Beastmen’s papal succession ceremony before returning to the Azeroth Continent, where the empire needed his help.

• Sun Fei used golden light to restore Ernst’s body to the way it had been at age twenty.
• Ernst told Sun Fei that Barcelona’s invasion had plunged Zenit into disaster, and Torres showed Sun Fei recordings of the empire’s losses and atrocities.
• Sun Fei decided to return to Zenit immediately, but Ernst persuaded him to settle the Behemoth Beastmen’s papal succession first.
• Sun Fei and Ernst arrived at the City of Behemoths, where hundreds of thousands of priests and shamans had failed to receive a response from the Beast God’s statue.
• Behemoth Beastmen wondered whether Sun Fei, rumored to carry Beast God Rexxar’s blood, might receive a miraculous response.

Sun Fei used his divine power to save Behemoth Square from a meteor shower, revealing himself as a True God. The statue of Beast God Rexxar then awakened and came to life.

• Sun Fei approached the statue of Beast God Rexxar as its yearning drew him closer.
• A meteor shower threatened the City of Behemoths, and the Beastmen prayed for rescue.
• Sun Fei summoned a gigantic golden phantom that destroyed or swallowed the meteorites before they struck the city.
• The Behemoth Beastmen and the Chambord delegation realized Sun Fei had become a True God and erupted in worship and celebration.
• The statue of Beast God Rexxar glowed, healed the Beastmen, and came to life.

Beast God Rexxar’s statue recognized Sun Fei as its master, and Rexxar revealed that Ernst could return to Earth. Ernst departed through a blue portal, while Sun Fei chose to remain in Azeroth, and the Behemoth Beastmen hailed him as their sovereign.

• Rexxar’s statue came to life, bowed to Sun Fei, and entered his body as a light of faith.
• Rexxar’s phantom appeared and offered Ernst a chance to return to Earth, opening a blue portal in the sky.
• Sun Fei considered following Ernst through the portal but chose to stay after thinking of Elena, his friends, and the empire.
• Ernst entered the portal and left for Earth, and Rexxar saluted Sun Fei before vanishing.
• The Behemoth Beastmen knelt before Sun Fei and hailed him as their sovereign.

After returning to Earth, Zhong Dajun discovered that his powers from another world still worked and used them to stop a runaway truck. Meanwhile, Barcelona installed Christo as Zenit’s puppet ruler and advanced on Chambord, where its forces remained stymied by the city’s defenses.

• Zhong Dajun avoided the crossing where he had died before and used a Behemoth Beastmen Priest War Song to stop a runaway truck from hitting pedestrians.
• Zhong Dajun realized his powers had followed him back to Earth and left for home, unaware that a nearby camera had recorded the incident.
• Christo reconstituted the Zenit Imperial Family under Barcelona’s control, and his regime persecuted its opponents while helping Barcelona prepare for its northern campaign.
• Armando returned to Barcelona’s Military Department with news, and Barcelona sent more than two hundred thousand soldiers toward Chambord City.
• After two days of fighting, Busquets and Pedro watched Chambord Ancient City and discussed its powerful defenses, while Barcelona’s forces dared not attack its Mithril Puppets recklessly.

Chambord City withstood Barcelona’s siege by using its Mithril Puppets and accepting more than two hundred thousand refugees, while old Arjen urged the defenders to wait for King Alexander’s return before counterattacking. The chapter ended with Piasson emerging from a tent beside the Barcelona camp’s captive refugees.

• Barcelona’s forces and Fourth Prince Christo’s puppet troops besieged Chambord City, but its Mithril Puppets repeatedly repelled their attacks.
• Brook and Best refused to admit puppet troops into the city, and a puppet royal envoy who demanded surrender was killed and displayed on the walls.
• Ptolemy used starving, injured refugees and hidden Barcelona spies to burden Chambord, but the city took in more than two hundred thousand people without collapsing into chaos.
• Best proposed using hundreds of hidden Mithril Puppets to destroy the enemy forces, but old Arjen warned that the survivors could devastate civilians and reveal the puppets’ limits.
• Old Arjen said Fernando had likely returned to the Land of Exile to inform King Alexander, and the commanders waited for the king’s imminent return.
• Piasson, the former Tenth Judgment Knight of Zenit’s Knights’ Hall, emerged from a luxurious tent beside the Barcelona camp’s captive refugees.

Piasson learned from Armando that Barcelona expected Chambord City to fall by midnight and was ordered to prepare to claim spoils and military credit. As Barcelona’s forces mobilized, Piasson spotted several distinctive figures in the camp and appeared to realize what power they were relying on.

• Piasson boasted to Barcelona officers about his rapid cultivation progress and went to meet his master, Armando.
• Armando told Piasson that Chambord City would fall at midnight and ordered him to prepare his soldiers to seize the city and its treasures.
• Piasson questioned how Barcelona could overcome Chambord’s defenses, but Armando refused to reveal the military secret.
• Piasson took two captured Zenit girls to his tent, where they screamed and pleaded as the soldiers left.
• As Barcelona’s army assembled for battle, Piasson saw several distinctive figures in the camp and froze in apparent recognition.

Piasson discovered that the Holy Church might be helping Barcelona and sent two young women to warn Chambord, while staying behind in the enemy camp. As Barcelona began its attack, Chambord protected and admitted the refugees, and the women reached old Arjen with urgent intelligence for the King.

• Piasson told two rescued Zenitian women his suspicions about the Holy Church and arranged for them to carry a warning to the King of Chambord.
• Piasson disguised the women as beaten captives and ordered soldiers to send them toward Chambord beneath the city walls, keeping the secret scroll for a chance to deliver it himself.
• Robben, Best, and old Arjen prepared Chambord’s defenses as Barcelona’s forces assembled, and old Arjen ordered that the refugees continue entering the city.
• Barcelona bombarded the refugees, but old Arjen expanded Chambord’s protective barrier while warriors escorted the refugees through magic portals and Rogues killed spies stirring up chaos.
• Two young women arrived at Chambord’s walls and asked to report urgent intelligence to the King, so old Arjen ordered them brought up.

After Piasson’s messengers warned Chambord that the Holy Church was joining Barcelona’s assault, old Arjen ordered the civilians evacuated and prepared to meet the Church’s Battle Angels. The attackers began their assault on the city’s barrier, and a Battle Angel emerged from a portal above the battlefield.

• Two blood-covered girls told old Arjen, Best, and Brook that the Holy Church was involved and begged them to rescue Piasson from the Barcelona camp.
• Best promised to save Piasson, and old Arjen ordered the girls cared for before directing civilians and refugees to evacuate.
• Barcelona’s forces advanced toward the Zuli River as Busquets and the divine priest Gianni Infantino led a group of Extreme Dao experts.
• Infantino’s Spear of Judgment struck Chambord City’s protective barrier, but the God Level barrier held.
• Infantino and eleven Demigod-class divine priests opened an interdimensional portal, and a winged Battle Angel emerged.

Infantino summoned forty Battle Angels to attack Chambord City, but they were met by dozens of Mithril Puppets and suffered heavy losses. As the puppets gained the upper hand, Infantino and the divine priests used potions to open a larger summoning portal, bringing Chambord City to a new crisis.

• Infantino ordered forty Battle Angels to attack Chambord City, while old Arjen tightened the city’s shield and sent out its Mithril Puppets.
• The Battle Angels and Mithril Puppets clashed above the Zuli River, and their shock waves killed tens of thousands of soldiers outside the protected city.
• The Battle Angels proved slightly stronger individually, but the Mithril Puppets matched them in numbers and continued fighting despite severe damage.
• Old Arjen sent another sixty Mithril Puppets into the battle, giving Chambord’s forces the advantage as Battle Angels began to fall.
• Piasson watched Chambord’s strength with excitement, while Barcelona’s commanders and troops lost confidence.
• Infantino and ten divine priests drank red potions and summoned a larger silver vortex, from which a terrifying aura emerged.

A Four-Winged Battle Angel overwhelmed Chambord’s magic puppets as Barcelona’s forces prepared to sack the city. Sun Fei returned to the battlefield and instantly struck the angel down, leaving Chambord’s defenders and Piasson stunned with hope.

• A Four-Winged Battle Angel emerged from the Holy Power vortex and joined the battle against Chambord’s magic puppets.
• The angel damaged or destroyed dozens of Mithril Magic Puppets, while Armando urged the Barcelonan soldiers to prepare to loot Chambord City.
• Piasson resolved to attack the Barcelonans’ command and die for Zenit if Chambord fell.
• Alves taunted Chambord’s defenders and threatened to slaughter everyone in the city.
• Sun Fei appeared above the battlefield and sent the Four-Winged Battle Angel flying with a single push.
• Best, Brook, Arjen, and Piasson recognized Sun Fei’s return and reacted with tears and astonishment.

Sun Fei confronted the Barcelona forces and effortlessly captured Infantino, shocking both armies with his strength. The Four-Winged Battle Angel absorbed the fallen angels and transformed into a Six-Winged Battle Angel, creating a new threat as the battle continued.

• Chambord’s soldiers roared their support as Sun Fei arrived, while Busquets, Pedro, and the other Barcelona leaders feared his reputation and power.
• Infantino challenged Sun Fei, who declared that he alone decided who was a traitor and seized Infantino by the neck with a casual gesture.
• The Barcelona Extreme Dao experts retreated as Sun Fei held Infantino helplessly before both armies.
• The Four-Winged Battle Angel recovered by absorbing the energy of fallen angels and tearing apart the remaining Two-Winged Battle Angels.
• The angel gained a second pair of wings, became a Six-Winged Battle Angel, and threatened Sun Fei as both sides watched anxiously.

Sun Fei brutally defeated and killed the Six-Winged Battle Angel, then killed Infantino as the Barcelona and Church forces panicked. Busquets and the surviving Demigod-level fighters fled, leaving their army in chaos.

• Sun Fei surrounded the Six-Winged Battle Angel with countless images of himself and beat it until it was gravely wounded.
• Sun Fei tore off the angel’s wings and twisted off its head, killing it in front of both armies.
• The sight of the slain Battle Angel terrified Barcelona’s forces and inspired Chambord’s warriors to celebrate.
• Infantino fled, but Sun Fei pulled him back from the void and killed him.
• Busquets, Pedro, Masiqielanuo, Alves, and the other Demigod-level divine priests fled as Barcelona’s army and puppet troops fell into chaos.

Sun Fei and Chambord’s allies crushed the Barcelona invasion and captured or killed the forces attacking the city. As his allies pursued the fleeing commanders, Sun Fei welcomed El Shaarawy and the Young Supremes, who had arrived to help, and they were astonished by his power.

• The Barcelona army and puppet troops fled in panic after Sun Fei defeated their strongest fighters.
• Elena, Bastürk, the Silver Crystal Battle Souls, and Orc Clan masters arrived to join Sun Fei, while El Shaarawy and the Young Supremes appeared and reunited with him.
• Sun Fei ordered his allies to pursue the fleeing Barcelona masters, and the Mastiff Clan tracked them through the void with the Silver Crystal Battle Souls.
• Chambord soldiers charged across the Zuli River, and the Church divine masters were killed by the Orc Clan masters and Silver Crystal Battle Souls.
• Sun Fei absorbed the dead masters’ energy, and the Barcelona and puppet armies surrendered or chose death rather than surrender.
• Shaarawy and the others landed on Chambord’s walls and realized Sun Fei had advanced beyond the Demigod level.

Sun Fei reunited with his allies and learned that Barcelona had captured Saint Petersburg, killed Emperor Yassin and Dominguez, and slaughtered over a hundred million people. Piasson revealed a secret edict entrusted to him by the dying Grand Knight Commander Akinfeev by cutting three scrolls from his own abdomen.

• Sun Fei warmly greeted Shaarawy, Cassano, Milito, Pato, and the others, and promised to share his cultivation insights after the fighting.
• Old Arjen and the nobles told Sun Fei that Saint Petersburg had fallen, Emperor Yassin and Dominguez were dead, and Barcelona had massacred over a hundred million people.
• Old Arjen recounted how a mysterious Barcelonan powerhouse had defeated Lampard, Hasselbaink, and Batistuta, while Sun Fei learned that Christo had established a puppet empire.
• Hazard brought Piasson, the Silver Moon Knight, before Sun Fei, and Best explained that Piasson had secretly sent two young women into Chambord City with a warning.
• Piasson told Sun Fei that Akinfeev had entrusted him with a secret edict, then cut open his abdomen and presented three hidden scrolls.

Sun Fei healed Piasson after discovering the knight had secretly endured terrible injuries to protect three scrolls and a secret decree. In Saint Petersburg, as Barcelonan occupiers prepared to execute hundreds of Zenitans, a white-robed figure appeared on the execution platform and killed the executioners.

• Sun Fei learned that Piasson had endured severe internal injuries while hiding three scrolls in his stomach.
• Sun Fei healed Piasson and named him the empire's new grand knight commander, then unrolled the secret decree.
• Barcelonan and puppet troops continued ruling Saint Petersburg through terror, executions, and the abuse of Zenitans.
• Barcelonan officers ordered the beheading of more than a hundred prisoners at the north gate.
• An unknown figure in a white robe appeared on the execution platform, and his power severed the executioners' heads instead of the prisoners'.

King of Chambord Alexander returned to the occupied capital and killed the Barcelona forces at an execution platform, inspiring Zenit civilians to rise up. He then entered the black prison and began healing Granero, whom Christo had tortured for more than thirty days.

• Alexander appeared at the execution platform and killed the Barcelona officers and collaborationist soldiers surrounding it.
• Zenit civilians recognized Alexander and surged into the city, where they found the occupying forces dead.
• In the black prison, an executioner tortured Granero, who had endured Christo’s punishments without begging for mercy.
• Alexander appeared in the dungeon, immobilized the executioner, and freed Granero from his chains.
• Alexander apologized to Granero and used divine power to regenerate his severed limbs, ear, and eye.

Sun Fei restored Granero and learned how Emperor Yassin had fallen, then led the Black Prison’s freed warriors toward vengeance. As golden light rose over Saint Petersburg, the new emperor Christo sat on the throne in the imperial palace.

• Sun Fei healed Granero, whose restored body gained immense strength, and listened as he recounted Emperor Yassin’s final battle.
• Granero explained that the fourth prince’s treason and Leo Messi’s arrival had led to Yassin’s defeat, and Sun Fei vowed to avenge Zenit.
• Granero killed the executioner who had tortured him, then unlocked the nearby cells and freed the imprisoned warriors.
• Sun Fei’s golden light healed the prisoners and gave them strength as they pledged to fight at his side and marched to seek vengeance.
• Golden light rose from the Black Prison, dispelled the clouds over Saint Petersburg, and illuminated the ruined city.
• Christo sat on the imperial throne as the new emperor, attended by young women bearing food and wine.

Granero confronted Emperor Christo in the imperial palace, then Sun Fei appeared and revealed that Chambord had defeated Barcelona's army. The palace was surrounded by hostile shouts as Christo's rule faced collapse.

• Christo and his ministers praised Barcelona and agreed to meet its demands for supplies and Chambord's weapons.
• Granero appeared in the hall, alive and restored, and denounced Christo and his ministers.
• Christo summoned palace guards and Barcelona masters, who surrounded Granero.
• Sun Fei emerged from the void, shocking Christo.
• Granero announced that Sun Fei had routed Barcelona's four hundred thousand soldiers, while angry shouts sounded outside the palace.

Sun Fei and Granero confronted Christo in the imperial hall, where Granero exposed him as a traitor and revealed Sun Fei as the empire’s rightful ruler. The palace guards defected, Christo was captured, and Sun Fei took the throne as Emperor Alexander.

• Granero declared that the army had sided with the people, and Sun Fei instantly killed the four Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection powerhouses who attacked him.
• Granero urged the black-armored guards to reject Christo, revealed that Yassin had secretly named Prince Alexander as his successor, and called on them to welcome Sun Fei.
• The guards turned their weapons against Christo and pledged allegiance to Sun Fei.
• Granero broke Christo’s arms and called on Sun Fei to take the throne.
• Sun Fei accepted the guards’ acclaim and sat on the imperial throne.

Sun Fei took control of the imperial palace and ordered Granero to reclaim Saint Petersburg from the Barcelona forces. He confronted Christo, then revealed Emperor Yassin’s message identifying him as Alexander and asking him to spare his younger brother.

• Granero and the soldiers hailed Sun Fei as emperor, and Sun Fei sent Granero to aid civilians and drive the Barcelona garrison from Saint Petersburg.
• Sun Fei dismissed the palace guards and kept Christo and the ministers in the throne room.
• Two ministers switched their allegiance to Sun Fei, while Christo accused him of usurping the throne.
• Sun Fei mocked Christo’s failures and explained that strength, not imperial blood, determined who could rule.
• Sun Fei revealed Emperor Yassin’s message, which confirmed Sun Fei’s origins and asked him to spare Christo.

After revealing Alexander as the founder of the Zenit Empire, Sun Fei reclaimed the imperial palace and awaited the defeated Barcelona masters. The four arrived, and Sun Fei’s overwhelming aura forced them to struggle under its pressure as Masiqielanuo prepared to fight.

• Christo spat blood and collapsed after the golden apparition vanished into the scroll.
• Sun Fei rejected two ministers’ attempts to pay respects, and they burst into red mist.
• With Chambord’s fighters assisting, Zenit’s forces overwhelmed the Barcelona army in Saint Petersburg.
• Douglas, the Mastiff Clan fighters, and the Silver Crystal Battle Souls brought Busquets, Alves, Pedro, and Masiqielanuo to Sun Fei in the palace.
• Busquets challenged Sun Fei and warned that Lord Messi still threatened Zenit, but Sun Fei said he would kill the four masters.
• Sun Fei’s aura rose to the peak demigod class and bent the Barcelona masters under its pressure, prompting Masiqielanuo to summon his ancient Grizzly totem.