Recaps

After freeing nineteen dragons and helping transform Iduna City, Sun Fei strengthened the Northern Region Empire’s position in the Southern Region. His actions triggered the Holy Church to declare all-out war, and fighting erupted near the Bay of Naples.

• Sun Fei freed the dragons from the Church’s control, and their leader gave him a scale as a token of the Dragon Clan’s friendship.
• The dragons departed to report the Church’s crimes to their leader Jordan and seek to free their imprisoned clansmen.
• With the Church’s forces uprooted and Götze and his allies supporting the Northern Region Empire, Iduna City underwent a sweeping political and military reorganization.
• The Northern Region Empire’s policies and defenses revived Iduna City and reduced its losses against the goblins.
• News of Sun Fei’s appearance and his killing of nineteen divine knights spread, prompting the Holy Church to declare all-out war on the Northern Region Empire.
• Frank Lampard’s Motley Army clashed with Atkinson’s Judgment Divine Knights near the Bay of Naples.

As the Northern Region Empire strengthened Iduna City and routed the Barcelona and Juventus armies, its enemies struggled to counter its military and assassins. Sun Fei learned that a deity-level goblin expert had appeared southwest of Iduna City and flew out with the Valkyrie to confront the threat.

• The Church and the Northern Region Empire plunged the continent into war, while rumors spread that Platini had come south to target Sun Fei.
• The Northern Region Empire rebuilt Iduna City, supplied its people, evacuated vulnerable residents, and used the city as a base for counterattacks against the goblins.
• The Holy Church took control of Allianz City and encouraged Eastern Region empires to turn against the Northern Region Empire and send troops toward the fronts.
• After twelve days of war, the Northern Region army routed Barcelona and Juventus forces, and Quagliarella and Piqué discussed Demi Arjen's command and the Northern Region's assassins.
• Sun Fei received word of a deity-level goblin expert southwest of Iduna City, then flew southwest with the Valkyrie to confront it.

Sun Fei and Elena pursued a god-level goblin to the southern edge of the Southern Region Continent and discovered the entrance to the Goblin Realm. They entered the vast, ruined realm, where immense goblin forces were gathering and being sent toward the continent, and continued tracking the fleeing goblin god.

• Sun Fei and the Valkyrie followed a fleeing god-level goblin south for three days and nights, hoping he would lead them to the Goblin Realm.
• When the goblin god's aura vanished near the continent's southern edge, Sun Fei searched the chaotic spatial fluctuations and found the entrance.
• Sun Fei took the Valkyrie by the hand and leaped into the abyss, passing through a space-time tunnel into the Goblin Realm.
• Sun Fei and Elena concealed themselves while following the goblin god's lingering aura through the realm, where they saw vast hordes of goblins amid foul green sludge.
• The Valkyrie observed goblins being swept into surges of green liquid and disappearing in flashes of green flame, and Sun Fei concluded that the process resembled summoning more than teleportation.

Sun Fei and the Valkyrie followed the goblins’ passages underground and discovered vast chambers where giant trees produced goblins in green cocoons. They continued deeper after Sun Fei destroyed one chamber, and the chapter ended as they encountered an even more astonishing sight.

• Sun Fei and the Valkyrie entered a huge passage where goblins poured out and followed the goblin god’s aura through a growing underground maze.
• The Valkyrie and Sun Fei sensed that the deeper passages weakened their power and suppressed their cultivation realms.
• Sun Fei and the Valkyrie discovered a vast forest of giant trees whose green fruits hatched new goblins every few minutes.
• Sun Fei opened a half-hatched fruit, examined the goblin fetus inside, then crushed the trees, fruits, and goblins in the chamber with a concealed force.
• Sun Fei and the Valkyrie continued onward, passed tens of thousands of similar goblin-producing chambers, and saw an even more astonishing sight.

Sun Fei and the Valkyrie discovered how goblin warriors grew stronger by devouring one another and fought their way through waves of increasingly powerful goblins. They reached a vast chamber containing an enormous emerald rock, where the barrier’s suppression was even stronger.

• Sun Fei watched Dou Qi goblins emerge from giant trees and grow stronger by killing and devouring their kind.
• Sun Fei and the Valkyrie killed repeated waves of Imperial Class goblins, while Sun Fei absorbed the energy from their corpses.
• Sun Fei and the Valkyrie fought hundreds of god-level goblins, whose bodies vanished when they died, and killed at least a thousand over several hours.
• Sun Fei studied the goblins’ joint formation as he and the Valkyrie continued through the passages.
• Sun Fei and the Valkyrie entered a vast chamber and saw a massive, seamless emerald rock at its center.

Sun Fei and Elena discovered that the jade-green mountain contained immense life force before four God King Level goblins ambushed them. The goblins trapped them in a combined attack formation, leaving Sun Fei and Elena facing a grueling battle under the mountain’s suppressive force.

• Sun Fei and Elena approached the mountain and sensed a terrifying pressure and life force within the rock.
• Four God King Level goblins ambushed Sun Fei and Elena, and the pair split up to fight them.
• Sun Fei summoned his Druid pets while Elena used her battle longbow to hold off her opponents.
• The goblins destroyed Sun Fei’s summoned pets, then one of them wounded Elena and forced her onto the defensive.
• Sun Fei healed Elena with Holy Power and attacked all four goblins, but they evaded his sword qi with image avatars.
• The four goblins joined their forces and trapped Sun Fei and Elena inside a green vortex.

Sun Fei and Elena fought and defeated four goblin God Kings, but the emerald peak awakened and a human enemy appeared with twelve silver-armored warriors. The newcomer held the Scepter of the Twilight of the Gods and declared that Alexander’s legend was over.

• Sun Fei deciphered the goblin God Kings’ combined attack formation and killed one, breaking their formation.
• Sun Fei and Elena fought the remaining goblin God Kings, suffering serious injuries as Sun Fei killed them and absorbed their energy.
• The emerald rock peak began pulsing, intensifying the force suppressing Sun Fei and slowing his healing.
• A human voice taunted Alexander as green light revealed twelve powerful human warriors in silver armor.
• A masked figure in a white divine robe appeared atop the peak, holding the Scepter of the Twilight of the Gods.

Sun Fei discovered that Acting Pope Platini had lured him into a trap and controlled the goblins to spread chaos across the continent. Platini revealed his scheme while Sun Fei slowly tried to heal himself and Elena beneath the emerald mountain’s green light.

• Sun Fei recognized the masked man as Michel Platini, the Church’s powerful acting pope.
• Platini removed his mask and admitted he had come to kill Sun Fei, who was recovering from his injuries.
• Platini revealed that he had used Sun Fei to eliminate Church opponents and let Sun Fei’s fame grow.
• Platini claimed he controlled the place and had created the goblins, using them to sow chaos and gather what he needed.
• Sun Fei used Holy Power to heal himself and Elena, but the mountain’s green light greatly slowed their recovery.

Platini revealed that he had used the corpse of a fallen Goblin Clan Main God to create new goblins and pursue Main God power, then trapped Sun Fei and Elena inside its chest. Sun Fei realized the vast labyrinth was the Main God’s body as Platini declared his plan nearly complete.

• Platini taunted Sun Fei about the destruction of the Southern Region Continent, but Sun Fei stayed calm and recalled clues linking the Church to the Goblin Clan.
• Platini activated the emerald rock peak, injuring Sun Fei and Elena with its thudding and enclosing them in a vast barrier.
• Platini demonstrated that the Main God-powered barrier could withstand a powerful attack and claimed no one below Peak God King could break it.
• Platini revealed that the emerald peak was the dried heart of a fallen Main God and that the labyrinth was the corpse’s body.
• Platini confessed that he had studied the corpse, created new goblins, gained extraordinary power, and planned to become a Main God and rule the continent.

Platini revealed that he had created twelve [God Warriors] from the corpses of Human Clan powerhouses, including Alexander Pato’s head, and taunted Sun Fei with his atrocities. Sun Fei realized Platini had not reached the Main God realm and could not escape the green light prison, then healed himself and Elena with golden Holy Power.

• Platini revealed the faces of twelve [God Warriors], and Sun Fei recognized Alexander Pato among them.
• Pato’s [God Warrior] attacked Sun Fei and wounded him, while Platini explained that he had made the warriors from the remains of Human Clan powerhouses.
• Platini boasted that he had slaughtered hundreds of fighters and used black magic and alchemy to create the [God Warriors].
• Sun Fei confronted Platini and inferred that Platini had not become a Main God and could not escape the green light prison.
• Sun Fei unleashed golden Holy Power, healed his own wounds and Elena’s, and shocked Platini.

Sun Fei and Maradona revealed that they had planned together to trap Platini, and Maradona sealed the battlefield while taking on Platini’s twelve God Warriors. Sun Fei fought Platini, who revealed his strength as both a divine mage and a divine knight, and the battle continued as Platini donned armor and a golden mask.

• Sun Fei revealed that he had been pretending to be weakened, then summoned the Throne of Creation and brought Diego Maradona into the sealed space.
• Maradona and Sun Fei explained that they had worked together for years, and Platini realized Pope Blatter had concealed information from him.
• Maradona altered the green cage to imprison Platini, then split into twelve God King-level clones to fight the twelve God Warriors.
• Sun Fei charged Platini in his Immortal King Set, and the two exchanged powerful blows while Elena watched.
• Maradona warned Sun Fei that Platini had reached God King in both magic and martial arts, and Platini revealed his silver battle armor and golden mask.

Sun Fei used the Scepter of Creation to overwhelm Platini after their close-range battle, but Platini prepared a desperate counterattack as the twelve-minute limit on Maradona’s control approached.

• Sun Fei broke through Platini’s restraints and destroyed the Eight-Winged Battle Angels’ assault with golden flames.
• Sun Fei and Platini fought evenly with a war hammer and the Scepter of the Twilight of the Gods while Maradona’s clones battled the twelve God Warriors.
• Maradona warned Sun Fei that his control of the goblin Main God’s green prison would end in twelve minutes.
• Sun Fei replaced his war hammer with the Scepter of Creation and struck Platini, badly wounding and suppressing him.
• Platini, horrified and gravely wounded, roared that Sun Fei had forced him to do something and prepared to retaliate.

Platini merged with the Twilight of the Gods scepter and gained power that nearly rivaled the Scepter of Creation, but the scepter was mysteriously pulled from his body. Sun Fei destroyed Platini's body, captured his origin power, and heard him beg for his life by offering secrets about the goblins, the Holy Church, and the calamity facing Azeroth.

• Platini drove the Twilight of the Gods scepter into his chest, unleashing an evil aura that nearly matched the Scepter of Creation.
• Platini claimed that merging with the scepter had cost him his soul but granted him eternal life, while Sun Fei struggled to defeat him before his time limit expired.
• The Twilight of the Gods scepter was pulled from Platini and flew away, causing his power to collapse.
• Platini tried to escape through the gap left in the green light prison, but Sun Fei struck him down and captured his origin power in chains.
• Platini begged Sun Fei to spare him and offered to reveal secrets about the goblin Main God's body, the Holy Church, and the calamity threatening Azeroth.

Sun Fei defeated Platini and freed the souls trapped inside the twelve God Warriors. As the fallen warriors blessed him, Pato appeared and thanked his brother for bringing peace to his soul.

• Sun Fei rejected Platini's offer and destroyed the last of his will, killing the Holy Church leader.
• Sun Fei absorbed Platini's God King-level energy, and Maradona thanked him for helping defeat their longtime enemy.
• Maradona urged Sun Fei to take the twelve God Warriors, but Sun Fei chose to free them instead.
• Sun Fei used Holy Power to purge the God Warriors of Platini's control, releasing the souls of the fallen human guardians.
• The freed souls blessed Sun Fei with Power of Faith, and Pato appeared to thank his brother for freeing him.

Sun Fei escaped the collapsing goblin realm after the God Warriors sacrificed themselves and the Main God's body unleashed ever more dangerous goblins. Meanwhile, the Northern Region Empire routed the Church’s forces in Allianz City, and the continent learned that Platini was dead.

• Pato’s apparition faded, and the twelve God Warrior bodies collapsed as thousands of human Extreme Dao experts vanished; their Power of Faith flowed into Sun Fei’s Divine Domain Great World.
• After Platini’s death, goblins rampaged through the Main God’s body, but Sun Fei killed the powerful ones and absorbed their origin power; he failed to destroy the body and left with Maradona and the Valkyrie.
• The Church-backed Sunderland Empire and Everton Empire prepared to attack the Northern Region Empire, while Rosario’s Church forces began purging opponents in Allianz City.
• Dark Hall assassins and Hasselbaink struck the Church, Juventus, and Barcelona forces in Allianz City, killing Rosario and other god-level experts.
• More than eight Gold Saints joined the Northern Region Empire’s attack, and the city’s suppressed Human Clan forces switched sides after rumors spread that Sun Fei had killed Platini.
• The Northern Region Empire took Allianz City in less than a night, shaking the continent.

The Northern Region Empire won major victories after the Eastern Region empires switched sides and exposed the Holy Church’s deception, sending the Church into decline. With its northern campaign winding down, the Empire focused on the Southern Region, where human forces drove the goblins back to the far southern plateau.

• The Eastern Region empires defected at the Bay of Naples, helping the Northern Region Empire rout the Church, Barcelona, and Juventus armies.
• Lampard killed Atkinson, while Quagliarella fell and Piqué was gravely wounded as the Church’s Judgment Divine Knights were shattered.
• Adam Johnson, Fellaini, and others revealed that the Church had framed them and that the Northern Region Empire had saved them, provoking continent-wide condemnation of the Church.
• The Holy Church lost territory and influence amid internal fighting, while the Northern Region Empire shifted its focus toward the Southern Region.
• Northern Region troops and Eastern Region allies drove the goblins back, and by the end of the third month several hundred million goblins had been forced onto the southern plateau.

Sun Fei secretly defeated Platini, strengthened his power, and let the Northern Region Empire halt its war against the Holy Church while humanity faced the greater threat of the prophesied demons. After the goblins were eradicated from the Southern Region, a shocking announcement emerged from the Holy Church’s headquarters on Holy Mountain.

• Sun Fei refined Platini’s Holy Power and the origin powers of more than twenty goblin God Kings, bringing his fusion with the Divine Domain Great World to fifty-six percent and near God King Tenth Heaven Great Perfection.
• Sun Fei continued absorbing the Power of Faith and studying the Demon King's Sharp Sword while ordering the Northern Region Empire to suspend its offensive against the Holy Church.
• Human armies wiped out the goblin race on the Southern Region Continent, driving more than a hundred million goblins into the Sea of Mist, though they did not find the Goblin Realm.
• Robben, Garcia, Deisler, Drogba, Pierce, Oleg, and the other Gold Saints reached Demigod status after training in Sky City.
• The Northern Region Empire, Elf Clan, Dwarf and Gnome Alliance, and other victorious powers divided the Southern Region Continent’s territories.
• An astonishing piece of news emerged from Holy Mountain on Sicily Island, the Holy Church’s headquarters.

After the Holy Church’s responsibility for the goblin uprising became public, the continent turned against it while the Northern Region Empire gained influence. The pope invited Sun Fei and Maradona to a meeting in Meazza, where the Church’s flying temple appeared at noon, but the other two had not yet arrived.

• Maradora confirmed that the late acting pope Platini had caused the goblin uprising and presented evidence of the Goblin Realm and Platini’s battle with Sun Fei.
• The great empires made the evidence public, prompting people to condemn the Holy Church and embrace Sun Fei as a savior.
• The pope invited Sun Fei to meet in Meazza in ten days, with Maradona as witness, and Sun Fei and Maradona both accepted.
• The Northern Region Empire and the Holy Church prepared for the meeting by sending experts and stationing a million troops along the Meazza front.
• At noon on the day of the meeting, the Holy Church’s flying temple emerged in the skies above Meazza, while Sun Fei and Maradona had yet to appear.

Maradona appeared above Meazza as Alexander arrived in Sky City to begin the talks with Pope Blatter. After the pope admitted that the Church had abandoned its principles and become corrupt, Sun Fei challenged whether his words were sincere repentance or a hypocritical lament.

• Maradona appeared in silver flame and cut away part of the Holy Church's Light Holy Power, prompting onlookers to debate which side he would support.
• Sky City emerged northeast of Meazza, astonishing the armies and hidden observers with its immense size.
• Alexander arrived on a silver throne accompanied by Frank Lampard and Fernando Torres, then called for the pope to show himself.
• Pope Blatter left the flying temple and met Alexander in the air as the three principals studied one another in silence.
• Blatter said the Church had lost its principles and become corrupt, and Sun Fei questioned whether he was repenting or merely lamenting his impending defeat.

The pope revealed a frail prisoner whom Sun Fei recognized as the deposed Church pope, Sepp Blatter. Sun Fei wondered who had defeated Blatter and seized control of the Holy Church, focusing on the masked figure holding the Scepter of the Twilight of the Gods.

• The pope told Sun Fei to reconsider his attitude toward the Holy Church, but Sun Fei demanded to know why he had been summoned.
• The pope brought out an elderly prisoner escorted by two divine knights, and Sun Fei sensed the old man possessed God King Level power that had been sealed.
• 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 role in Platini's defeat and studied the masked figure holding the scepter, suspecting that person had taken control of the Church.

Sun Fei forced the false pope to remove his mask, revealing the long-lost former pope Guillermo Stábile. Batistuta recognized his beloved mentor, and the chapter ended with him kneeling before Stábile in tears as the onlookers learned the shocking truth.

• Sun Fei ordered the masked man posing as pope to reveal his face, exposing an ancient, frail man.
• Stábile asked Batistuta whether he recognized him, and Batistuta identified him as the former pope and temple master.
• Sun Fei recalled that Guillermo Stábile had ruled the Holy Church more than eight hundred years earlier before vanishing.
• Batistuta rushed to Stábile and knelt in tears, remembering how the pope had cared for him as a child.
• The surrounding powerful figures learned that the pope who had disappeared eight hundred years earlier was alive.

Stábile told Batistuta how Blatter and other pontiffs imprisoned him for eight hundred years, and how he escaped and reclaimed control of the Church. He sought a peaceful discussion with Sun Fei, and the chapter ended with Stábile warning that Blatter’s rule could have plunged the continent into disaster.

• Stábile thanked Batistuta for leading the Black-Robed Holy Temple and explained that Blatter and other pontiffs had imprisoned him for eight hundred years.
• Stábile said Platini secretly contacted him during his struggle with Blatter, giving him a chance to recover his strength and escape.
• Stábile revealed that he had regained control of the Church in less than half a year after returning.
• Batistuta returned to Sun Fei, uncertain what Stábile’s return meant for the Black-Robed Holy Temple and the Northern Region Empire.
• Stábile asked Sun Fei to set aside his hostility toward the Church and speak with him, and Sun Fei agreed respectfully.
• Stábile told Sun Fei he had feared Blatter’s greed would lead the continent into disaster.

Stábile reunited with Maradona and gathered the continent’s masters to reveal the truth behind the disappearance of the God Clan and Demon Clan. He began by declaring that they had vanished after encountering a nearly unstoppable enemy, leaving Sun Fei to wonder whether it was the Defilers.

• Stábile praised Sun Fei, and Maradona revealed his ordinary appearance before greeting his old friend.
• Maradona questioned why Stábile had secretly summoned him, Sun Fei, and the continent’s masters.
• Stábile admitted that he had used Maradona’s influence to gather them and announced he would reveal long-buried mysteries.
• Stábile recalled how the God Clan and Demon Clan had vanished at the height of their power, prompting Sun Fei to think of the Defilers.
• Stábile rejected popular theories about the gods and demons, saying they had faced an enemy they could scarcely resist.

Stábile revealed that the Defilers nearly destroyed the God Clan and Demon Clan before the surviving gods and demons won by sacrificing their leaders. He explained that the last survivors founded the Holy Church and erased humanity’s memories, while Sun Fei was left questioning how this account fit what he knew.

• Stábile described how the Defilers overwhelmed the God Clan, Demon Clan, and their vassal races, destroying their capitals and nearly ending civilization.
• A powerful human questioned why humanity survived and where the Defilers had gone, while Sun Fei recalled Zhong Dajun’s explanation that the Defilers had preserved humans as seeds for a later harvest.
• Stábile contradicted that explanation and said the God Clan and Demon Clan had ultimately annihilated the Defilers at the cost of nearly all their remaining members.
• Sun Fei asked why the gods and demons had disappeared, and Stábile said their last survivors founded the Holy Church and erased humanity’s memories of the war before dying from their injuries.

Sun Fei questioned Stábile’s claim that the Defilers had been destroyed, warning that evidence suggested they still threatened the continent. Stábile presented a preserved Defiler corpse and explained the species’ overwhelming numbers and rapid growth, leaving the assembled leaders alarmed as he prepared to show them a scroll.

• Sun Fei asked Stábile for evidence and warned that the Defilers might still be waiting to invade.
• Stábile summoned a rune casket and a giant crystal coffin containing a preserved Defiler.
• Stábile explained that the low-level Defiler was only one of more than ten quadrillion creatures that had fought the gods and demons.
• Stábile described the Defilers’ higher ranks and their ability to grow from weak monsters into godlike beings within a month.
• Stábile drew a pale red scroll from the rune casket to show the gathered leaders.