Recaps

Sun Fei and Zhong Dajun hunted the Insect Race across a distant star system, gathering life-battleship corpses and learning that the species was ruled by powerful Mother Empresses. They returned to an Earth devastated by the invasion, where humanity had begun rebuilding and adapting to newly emerging powers.

• Sun Fei revived a high-level insect corpse with Undead Magic, and Zhong Dajun warned him that an uncontrolled undead outbreak could consume all life.
• Sun Fei and Zhong Dajun traveled across more than one hundred former Rune Civilization colony planets, killing insects on sixty-eight worlds and collecting at least a thousand battleship-class corpses.
• They learned that the star system was only a remote corner of Insect Race territory, whose distant stronghold was controlled by mysterious Mother Empresses.
• After returning to Earth, Sun Fei and Zhong Dajun found that humanity had wiped out the remaining insects and was beginning to rebuild after catastrophic losses.
• Earth’s laws of power had changed, and people were beginning to develop superhuman abilities as the planet entered a new age of evolution.
• Sun Fei and Zhong Dajun briefed General Liu Yun about the Insect Race and handed the insect corpses to the Joint Laboratory, where Earth’s scientists agreed to cooperate with the Madman's Laboratory.

Sun Fei discovered a silver armor at Earth's core that joined with the Throne and Scepter of Creation, completing the Creation Set and ending the force that suppressed his spiritual power. With the Insect Race's arrival looming, he left Earth for Azeroth to confront Stábile and determine whether the old pope was an Insect Race spy.

• Uncle Cain explained that crushed aragonite produced a mist that corroded the Insect Race's spiritual power, while Sun Fei learned that only he was affected by the force in the underground pit.
• Sun Fei followed the force's pull northwest into Earth's core and found a silver suit of armor that suppressed his spiritual power.
• The Throne of Creation and Scepter of Creation resonated with the armor, joined with it, and entered Sun Fei's body as the complete Creation Set.
• Sun Fei recalled an image of the God Clan and Demon Clan rulers scattering silver artifacts after defeating the Insect Race and suspected the armor had been left on Earth when the set broke apart.
• Sun Fei left Uncle Cain, the old nun, Torres, and other experts on Earth to continue preparations against the Insect Race, then returned to Azeroth to confront Stábile.

As peace spread across Azeroth, Sun Fei arrived on Sicily Island for the coronation that would make him head of the Holy Church. With the continent’s leaders watching, he climbed the Holy Mountain’s steps alongside Angela and Elena, leaving the crowd with a sense that the scene had happened before.

• The Northern Region Emperor’s policies and the alliance between the Northern Region Empire and the Holy Church helped bring peace and rapid social change across the continent.
• The Holy Church invited the continent’s leaders and masters to witness Sun Fei’s coronation on Sicily Island.
• The Holy Church and Northern Region Empire welcomed Sun Fei, with Stábile absent because of illness and eight Gold Saints among the gathered imperial masters.
• The coronation began at sunrise as divine knights and singers led the ceremony on the Holy Mountain.
• Sun Fei climbed the 1,001 steps with Angela and Elena while the continent’s assembled leaders watched and felt the scene was familiar.

Sun Fei was crowned pope of the Holy Church by Stábile and took the new title Pope Alexander. After the ceremony, Stábile led Sun Fei and Maradona into the cathedral alone.

• Sun Fei climbed the cathedral steps with Angela and Elena and met the dying Stábile at the entrance.
• Stábile placed the papal robes on Sun Fei and blessed him with the [Twilight of the Gods] scepter as they exchanged veiled remarks about greed and who would win.
• Stábile placed the [Crown of the Gods] on Sun Fei's head, crowning him pope before the gathered crowd.
• The Holy Spirit Array activated, and sacred lights and falling angel feathers marked Sun Fei's coronation as Pope Alexander, the Holy Church's youngest pope.
• Stábile entered the cathedral with Sun Fei and Maradona, leaving the crowd to wonder why the unplanned meeting included the Continent Martial Saint.

Sun Fei confronted Stábile inside the sanctuary and discovered that he was actually Gela Di Canio, an Insect Race chief who had replaced the real Stábile centuries ago. Di Canio revealed that he had altered the ancient record to hide the Defilers’ return, and Sun Fei asked what he needed the time for.

• Sun Fei entered the sanctuary with Stábile and challenged him over the Defilers’ return and his ambitions.
• Stábile recognized Sun Fei as the one who had destroyed the Insect Race forces in the Scorpio Galaxy and explained that the Insect Race called itself the God Clan.
• Stábile transformed into an insect-like being and revealed that he was Gela Di Canio, who had killed and impersonated the real Stábile four hundred years earlier.
• Di Canio showed Sun Fei the red scroll’s missing scene, which revealed that the Defilers had only been driven away temporarily and would return after a thousand years.
• Di Canio admitted he had cut the scene from the record to mislead the continent and buy time, and Sun Fei asked what he needed the time for.

Di Canio revealed that he had secretly weakened the spatial Barrier so the Mother Empress and the Insect Race could return to Azeroth. Sun Fei confronted him, but Di Canio’s hidden ally Blatter struck Sun Fei from behind.

• Di Canio told Sun Fei that he had used the Holy Church’s accumulated Holy Power to expose Azeroth’s coordinates and enable the Mother Empress’s return.
• Di Canio revealed that he was an Insect Race agent who had secretly controlled Stábile and corrupted the Holy Church.
• Di Canio transformed into a giant humanoid insect and attacked Sun Fei with spiritual power, but Sun Fei blocked the assault with a technique from the Purple Skill Book.
• Di Canio’s ambush brought Blatter, the supposedly executed former pope, out of hiding to attack Sun Fei from behind and batter him with Holy Power.

Sun Fei killed the traitor Blatter, then faced Di Canio, who had taken control of Diego Maradona and turned him against Sun Fei. As Sun Fei fought Maradona, the Thunder of Destruction of the Gods erupted inside him and left him injured.

• Blatter claimed he could detonate the Thunder of Destruction of the Gods inside Sun Fei, but Sun Fei revealed the attack had failed and killed him.
• Sun Fei extracted the divine essence from Blatter's corpse and confronted Di Canio.
• Di Canio admitted he had used Sun Fei to eliminate Blatter and said Sun Fei had been injured by the Thunder of Destruction of the Gods.
• Di Canio summoned Diego Maradona, whose body and actions were controlled by Di Canio's spiritual power.
• Maradona attacked Sun Fei with full force, and the Thunder of Destruction of the Gods erupted inside Sun Fei, injuring his meridians and internal organs.

Sun Fei was beaten nearly to death by the mind-controlled Maradona while Di Canio prepared to search his soul. As Di Canio let down his guard, Maradona broke free and joined Sun Fei in seizing control of him.

• Di Canio taunted Sun Fei as Maradona attacked him, and Sun Fei struggled to fight back without seriously harming Maradona.
• Di Canio revealed that Maradona carried the blood of the ancient gods and demons and planned to turn him into a slave for the Insect Race.
• Distracted by Di Canio's taunts, Sun Fei was struck through the chest and battered until he fell unconscious at Di Canio's feet.
• Di Canio sent his spiritual power into Sun Fei's mind to search for his secrets, lowering his guard.
• Maradona suddenly regained clarity and struck Di Canio from behind as Sun Fei's spiritual power surged back through their connection and took control of Di Canio.

Sun Fei exposed Di Canio as an Insect Race infiltrator and learned that the Insect Race would reach the Azeroth Continent in ten days. With the invasion now unavoidable, Sun Fei prepared to explain why he had brought Di Canio into the sanctuary.

• Sun Fei revealed that he had freed Maradona from Di Canio’s control and turned the trap against him using the Genesis Silver Armor.
• Sun Fei and Maradona restrained Di Canio, and Sun Fei stopped him from resisting or destroying himself.
• Sun Fei searched Di Canio’s sea of consciousness and learned the Insect Race’s plans and that its armies would arrive in ten days.
• Di Canio admitted he had sent the continent’s coordinates to the Mother Empress, ensuring the Insect Race could find Azeroth even if the coordinates were erased.
• Sun Fei asked Di Canio whether he wanted to know why Sun Fei had risked entering the sanctuary with him.

Sun Fei defeated Di Canio in the cathedral and emerged as the new pope after announcing Stábile's death. Facing the continent's rulers and experts, he declared his intent to unify the continent.

• Di Canio admitted that Sun Fei had turned his scheme against him, then destroyed himself with a burst of spiritual power.
• Sun Fei turned Di Canio's remains to dust, and Maradona acknowledged the Insect Race leader's formidable schemes.
• Sun Fei and Maradona left the cathedral after the conflict ended, and Sun Fei prepared to take over the Holy Church.
• Sun Fei emerged in the pope's robes and announced that Stábile had passed away.
• The nobles, emperors, priests, and experts congratulated Sun Fei or mourned Stábile as the new pope took power.
• Sun Fei declared, "I want to unify the continent," leaving the gathered rulers to recognize the beginning of a new era.

Sun Fei rapidly unified the continent through military force, alliances, and reforms while preparing it for the Defilers’ expected arrival. He stood over a hidden island with Messi and worried that fewer than eight days remained before the threat came.

• Sun Fei sent the Northern Region Empire’s armies against the other regions, while the Elf Empire and the Dwarf and Gnome Alliance pledged loyalty to him.
• Several empires surrendered or were defeated, and Sun Fei spared the ruling families of Juventus and Barcelona, appointing their nobles and masters to govern military districts.
• Sun Fei’s forces spread the Twelve Bronze Men Code and empowered the poor, while Frank Lampard slaughtered Bilbao’s rebellious nobles after they attacked Northern Region troops.
• The Northern Region Empire distributed powerful weapons across the continent, as rumors spread that the Defilers would soon return.
• Sun Fei stood above an ocean beside Messi and said that fewer than eight days remained before the Defilers’ arrival.

Sun Fei found the hidden island where Arshavin, the eldest princess, and a million Zenit soldiers had spent two years preparing to fight the Defilers. Messi then revealed that Emperor Yassin had not died at his hands, but had willingly returned to the stars for the sake of Azeroth.

• Messi used a golden flame to locate the law-protected island and brought Sun Fei there.
• Sun Fei reunited with Arshavin and the eldest princess, who had brought a million Zenit soldiers to the island after Saint Petersburg fell.
• Sun Fei learned that the soldiers had trained for two years in a battle formation and ability designed to counter the Defilers.
• The story returned to the previous day, when Sun Fei met Messi at Camp Nou and agreed to share a drink before killing him.
• Messi showed Sun Fei Emperor Yassin's sword and said Yassin had willingly returned to the embrace of the stars for Azeroth's sake.

Messi told Sun Fei how Emperor Yassin defeated him, revealed the Defilers’ threat, and entrusted him with a secret object that could determine the continent’s fate. He explained that Barcelona’s invasion of Zenit was driven by the corrupted Church’s search for that object, leaving Sun Fei to confront the implications of Yassin’s death.

• Messi recounted how Emperor Yassin defeated him repeatedly more than twenty years earlier and secured his promise to do one thing for him.
• Messi said Yassin told him about the Defilers and entrusted him with protecting an object that could decide the continent’s fate.
• Messi explained that Yassin taught him a way to break through the Demigod barrier, after which Messi entered the God Realm and became a trusted confidant of the Church’s acting pope.
• Messi told Sun Fei that the Defilers had corrupted part of the Church and used Barcelona’s invasion of Zenit to search for the object, having begun to suspect Yassin.
• Sun Fei realized that Yassin may have had to die because of the Church’s search for the secret object.

Messi revealed that Emperor Yassin had entrusted him with a powerful key and arranged the fall of Zenit to keep it from the Defilers. Sun Fei received the key and found Yassin’s hidden army, which was preparing to meet the Defilers in the starry sky before they reached Azeroth.

• Messi explained that Yassin had arranged his death and Zenit’s fall to conceal the key and protect it from the Church’s dark force.
• Messi gave Sun Fei the key, which contained an imprint of power beyond the Main God level, and told him Yassin had prepared a hidden army and two commanders.
• Two days later, Sun Fei found the missing million-strong Zenit army on a prehistoric divine island near the Endless Abyss.
• The eldest princess and Arshavin told Sun Fei that Yassin had warned them not to fight the Defilers on Azeroth and had planned to intercept them in the starry sky.

Sun Fei learned that the ancient God and Demon Clans had prepared a Starry Battlefield and began organizing the continent’s forces for the Defilers’ return. After uniting most of the races, he entered the desolate Goblin Realm to find what he needed.

• Messi told Sun Fei that the golden key could open a Starry Battlefield where warriors of Five-Star Class or higher could survive, and that Sun Fei had to fuse with it to master its secrets.
• Sun Fei ordered preparations for the battle seven days away and called on the continent’s experts and armies to answer the empire’s summons.
• Sun Fei assembled the Elf, Dwarf, Orc, and Gnome Clans into a coalition and pressured the Dragon Clan into signing the Divine Emperor’s Pact.
• Sun Fei persuaded the Sea Clans of the seven sea regions to send elite armies to ambush the Insect Race on the Starry Battlefield.
• Sun Fei traveled to the southernmost end of the continent and entered the desolate Goblin Realm to find what he needed.

Sun Fei finished preparing Earth and the Azeroth Continent for the coming war, then learned that Angela had given birth to twins. After briefly meeting his children, he traveled to the Starry Battlefield to inspect the place where the decisive battle would be fought.

• Sun Fei moved the sealed giant eggs beneath the orc military district into the Divine Domain Great World, where he could keep the Demon Gods suppressed.
• Sun Fei visited Earth, where the Joint Laboratory had converted the Insect Race living motherships and developed weapons from ore that corroded insect spiritual power.
• Sun Fei returned to Azeroth, prepared for war, and spent several days in seclusion studying the Key and consolidating his power.
• Sun Fei emerged to learn that Angela had given birth to a boy and a girl, and he held the twins before leaving to continue his preparations.
• Sun Fei used information from the Key to locate the Starry Battlefield and appeared above its vast, barren continent.

Sun Fei explored the Starry Battlefield, discovered the ruins of an ancient city, and prepared to move the strongest forces of Earth and Azeroth there to ambush the Insect Race. The chapter ended with the Insect Race mobilizing to attack its former enemy and seize the continent’s energy.

• Sun Fei reached the Starry Battlefield and found a vast, lifeless continent suitable for fighting the Insect Race.
• Sun Fei uncovered the ruins of an ancient city and wondered whether they were connected to ruins on the Azeroth Continent.
• Sun Fei surveyed the battlefield, returned to Azeroth, and began preparing to transport the allied forces there using spatial powers, teleport formations, and Worldstones.
• Sun Fei learned that the Insect Race’s route passed near the battlefield and planned to lure its army into an ambush.
• The Insect Race mobilized to attack its former enemy and claim the energy it needed to reach the peak of its evolution.

Sun Fei and Maradona ambushed the Defilers as their endless army emerged through wormholes, killing billions and destroying wormholes while discovering that higher insects yielded pure energy. The insects kept arriving in greater numbers and strength, and the two men continued holding them off in space.

• The Insect Race traveled through space, devouring planets and growing stronger as the Mother Empress led it toward its destination.
• Sun Fei and Maradona waited at the insects’ arrival point and let the lower insects gather before attacking.
• Sun Fei and Maradona charged into the swarm, killing hundreds of millions of insects in minutes.
• As the Insect Race increased the flow of stronger insects through the wormholes, Sun Fei created thousands of clones and destroyed wormholes with his Fists of Fire.
• Sun Fei trapped and refined a wounded true god-level insect, discovering that higher insects provided pure energy he could absorb.
• After more than four hours and over forty billion kills, Sun Fei and Maradona continued fighting as stronger insects began to resist them.

The Azeroth alliance prepared its defenses and war plans on the Starry Battlefield while Sun Fei and Maradona held off the Insect Race and studied its forces. Maradona returned with information for the commanders, and Sun Fei continued fighting alone as his summoned Barbarian Warriors began to fall.

• The human, elven, dwarven, gnomish, and dragon forces built defenses and prepared the Starry Battlefield for the Insect Race.
• The allied army’s commanders, including Arshavin, Mourinho, Wenger, Ferguson, and Capello, worked together to plan the coming battle.
• Sun Fei and Maradona killed insects for half a day and recorded information about hundreds of Defiler types.
• Sun Fei told Maradona to return with the gathered intelligence, and Maradona left for the Starry Battlefield.
• Sun Fei summoned fifteen Barbarian Warriors to fight the insects, but about two hours later he sensed that they were beginning to fall.

Sun Fei tested the Insect Race’s strength, then used his Main God-level power to wipe out the insects in the star system without closing their wormholes. When a supergiant insect emerged and attacked him with green flames, the chapter ended with Sun Fei engulfed in fire.

• Sun Fei summoned fifteen Barbarian warriors, learned that True God-level insects could overwhelm them, and stopped summoning them after the test.
• Sun Fei unleashed his Main God-level power and crushed the insects across the star system while leaving the wormholes intact.
• Giant True God-level insects sent information through the wormholes, and Sun Fei summoned Barbarian warriors to fight them while he studied their abilities.
• A supergiant insect began emerging from the central wormhole, and Sun Fei killed the giant insects and recalled the Barbarian warriors.
• The supergiant insect attacked Sun Fei with a torrent of green fire, engulfing him.

Sun Fei killed a peak God King-level giant locust monster after it emerged from the wormhole, then learned that hundreds more powerful Insect Race fighters were approaching. He and Maradona prepared to hold them off for ten days while others arranged a response.

• Sun Fei absorbed the monster’s green flames, tore apart its law-powered attack, and returned the golden net against it.
• The giant locust monster attacked Sun Fei, but he grew to enormous size, hurled it into the wormhole, and battered it in close combat.
• Sun Fei destroyed the giant insect’s body and spirit, then refined its remains for energy.
• Maradona returned with a God Dou Weapon, while Sun Fei sensed hundreds of powerful auras inside the stabilized wormhole.
• Maradona told Sun Fei they needed to hold out for at least ten days, and Sun Fei worried that Main God-level insects might emerge.

Sun Fei and the Human Clan fought to hold the Insect Race at the wormholes after a Main God-level insect nearly overwhelmed them. Pires became the first human casualty, and the chapter ended with the human army witnessing his fall through Diwei Crystal.

• A lightning-controlling Main God-level insect wounded Sun Fei and gravely injured Maradona before Sun Fei defeated it at great cost.
• Maradona withdrew to the Starry Battlefield to recover, while Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and other human experts joined the battle and gave Sun Fei time to rest.
• Sun Fei observed that the Insect Race struggled to send stronger forces through the wormholes and that opening colossal gates required sacrifices at both ends.
• Pires was surrounded and mortally wounded, so he self-destructed and destroyed the insects around him, becoming the Human Clan’s first casualty in the war.
• Inspired by Pires’s sacrifice, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and the other human fighters attacked in coordinated formations to destroy wormholes and disrupt the Insect Race’s advance.
• The human army witnessed Pires and his dragon fall through Diwei Crystal.

The allied forces mourned Pires and other fallen heroes as Sun Fei grew stronger while fighting the Insect Race in the star field. After the Insect Race sent two Main God-level fighters through wormholes and Sun Fei and Maradona were badly wounded, new allied warriors joined the battle, just as extremely bad news arrived from the Starry Battlefield.

• The Arsenal Empire’s soldiers and allied warriors honored Pires and a green dragon who had died self-destructing against the Insect Race, then hurried to prepare the battlefield.
• Ding Hao summoned Barbarian Warriors to support Messi, Ronaldo, and the other fighters as the defense held the Insect Race back for more than five days, at the cost of five more human divine-level fighters.
• Sun Fei restored his divine power, reached Main God Sixth Heaven, and wiped out the Insect Race in the star field while absorbing the pure energy they left behind.
• The Insect Race opened two wormholes and sent through two Main God-level fighters; Sun Fei killed them with the aid of sacred artifacts, but he and Maradona suffered serious injuries.
• After Maradona returned to recover, warriors from the Elf, Dwarf, Sea, and Gnome Clans joined Sun Fei’s forces, and Sun Fei fought while healing and refining the energy he had gained.
• Extremely bad news arrived from the Starry Battlefield.

Sun Fei left a peak-power clone and the sacred artifacts to hold the Insect Race at the stargate passage, then hurried with Akinfeev to reinforce the Starry Battlefield. There, the allied forces were locked in a devastating battle as a terrifying power emerged from the first mutated wormhole.

• Akinfeev told Sun Fei that insects had ambushed the Starry Battlefield, killed his guard, and blocked attempts to send a warning.
• Sun Fei reinforced the spatial laws, left a powerful clone and three sacred artifacts to defend the passage, and departed with Akinfeev.
• Sun Fei fought through a sea of insects, killed a Main God-level lizard resembling Di Canio, and absorbed its essence as he approached the Starry Battlefield.
• The allied forces suffered heavy losses against the insect invasion, though their ground troops stabilized under commanders including Mourinho, Wenger, Ferguson, Capello, and Arshavin.
• A terrifying fluctuation burst from the first mutated stargate, blasted the supreme fighters on both sides away, and halted their battle.

A mysterious, human-looking green-haired woman emerged from the mutated stargate and was revealed as a sovereign-like figure among the Insect Race. Her lethal green ripples began draining the life and divine essence of the allied army’s strongest fighters, and the chapter ended with Maradona’s countermeasure failing as he spat blood.

• The green-haired woman emerged from the mutated stargate as the Insect Race prostrated themselves before her.
• The woman called the assembled forces lowly creatures and released green ripples that began killing god-level experts, including Guardiola.
• The ripples swept across the Starry Battlefield, destroying a five-clawed golden dragon and consuming Houllier as he charged the woman.
• Maradona awakened and used silver ripples of law power to shield the allied army and oppose the woman’s attack.
• Less than ten minutes later, Maradona spat blood and turned deathly pale.