Recaps

Sun Fei calmed and healed the Crimson Flame Beasts, then witnessed Angela effortlessly settle a herd of warhorses. After experimenting with Assassin Mode to modify a Dou Qi manual, he rushed to the back mountains when an intruder triggered the traps and began fighting him.

• Sun Fei used his druid abilities and Healing Potions to calm and heal the injured Crimson Flame Beasts, then instructed the servants to care for them.
• Sun Fei saw Angela surrounded by kneeling warhorses, and she told him she had sensed their feelings and comforted them.
• Sun Fei modified the Two-Star Class Rock-Splitting Slash manual by adding seven Dou Qi channels, potentially raising it to Three-Star Class.
• Sun Fei sensed a power fluctuation from the forbidden area in Chambord City's back mountains and hurried there in Assassin Mode.
• Sun Fei found Petr Čech and elite guards fighting a masked intruder, then attacked the intruder himself and forced him to retreat.

Sun Fei drove off a masked intruder who had infiltrated the back mountain, then learned the intruder was likely the same mysterious visitor who had come before. He secured the forbidden area and continued into the renovated Underground Grotto Labyrinth City.

• Sun Fei used Tiger Strike and Dragon Talon to overpower the masked man in black, but the intruder healed himself with purple flames and escaped after Sun Fei struck him with Fists of Fire.
• Sun Fei healed the soldier the intruder had injured, and Petr Čech reported that the masked man had reached the fourth magic trap before being detected.
• Čech identified the intruder as the same person who had visited before and said he seemed to be searching for something while avoiding harm to the guards.
• Sun Fei rearranged the back mountain's magic traps and ordered the guards to keep the intruder out of the Underground Grotto Labyrinth City.
• Sun Fei considered the intruder's unusual purple Dou Qi and arrived at the transformed grotto, where new living quarters and wooden-cage elevators had replaced much of the prison's former layout.

Sun Fei celebrated the completion of the underground grotto, naming it the City of Heroes and assigning it as Chambord City's secret logistics base and training ground. After learning that a mysterious imperial mage had incited the nine kingdoms to attack, he ordered Oleg to interrogate the captured wind mage and prepared to leave for the unexplored area beyond the giant iron gate.

• Sun Fei admired the grotto's statues, greenery, streams, and fountains as the workers asked him to name it.
• Sun Fei carved “City of Heroes” into the entrance stele and declared the grotto Chambord City's secret logistics base and training ground.
• Oleg told Sun Fei that the nine kings had signed new documents and that a mysterious mage from Saint Petersburg had incited their attack.
• Sun Fei ordered Oleg to use every interrogation method to uncover the instigator's identity, regardless of the captured mage's noble connections.
• Sun Fei gave Oleg instructions for the coming month, and Oleg realized that Sun Fei planned to explore beyond the giant iron gate; Oleg warned him that it was too dangerous.

Sun Fei prepared Chambord City and the City of Heroes to function without him, then secretly entered the sealed passage beyond the massive steel doors to explore the dangerous labyrinth. After he left, the city continued to develop under the leaders and experts he had entrusted with its affairs.

• Sun Fei decided to explore beyond the steel doors and secretly gathered supplies with Warden Oleg while preparing Chambord City for his absence.
• Sun Fei established Chambord City University in the City of Heroes, assigning Diablo World figures to teach specialized subjects and adding recreational facilities and sports.
• Sun Fei created a military training ground where soldiers could fight summoned Fallen monsters, then put Petr Čech in charge of it.
• Sun Fei entrusted the warhorses' Hulk Potion feed to Angela and announced that he would enter seclusion for a month.
• Sun Fei entered the passage beyond the steel doors, and Warden Oleg sealed them and concealed the evidence.
• Chambord City continued developing under Kashya, Akara, Right Chancellor Best, and Gordon Brook while Sun Fei was away.

Sun Fei explored a vast underground cavern filled with signs of an ancient battle and discovered that its eerie white tower was a carefully constructed mountain of bones. He realized the bones belonged to countless powerful beings and began to consider their value as weapons.

• Sun Fei summoned a raven and sent it and three giant white wolves to scout the cavern.
• Sun Fei examined the carved pillars surrounding the central structure and found evidence of battles involving powerful masters.
• Sun Fei used the raven's vision to confirm that the cavern lay beneath a vast expanse of rock.
• Sun Fei discovered that the glowing white tower was a mountain of bones, searched it for inhabitants, and found none.
• Sun Fei found enormous bones from many kinds of creatures and concluded they belonged to super experts.
• Sun Fei pulled out a curved bone, tested it against a stone pillar, and realized the bones could make powerful weapons.

Sun Fei explored the dark passage with summoned wolves, finding traces of earlier expeditions before a powerful wind forced him to rely on his Werebear form. After hours of travel, he reached a vast chamber where the lead wolf spotted a pyramid-like pile of white bones.

• Sun Fei changed into Druid Mode and sent three Spirit Wolves to scout as he entered the passage.
• Sun Fei found discarded torches and other equipment left by earlier explorers from Chambord City.
• As the wind grew stronger, it swept away the wolves, and Sun Fei transformed into a Werebear to continue forward.
• Sun Fei endured several hours of powerful wind by repeatedly using Werebear, then summoned three new wolves after the wind died down.
• The lead wolf spotted a vast space ahead with countless white bones piled like a pyramid.

Sun Fei discovered that the bones in the God and Demon Ruins were valuable remains of powerful demons and brought Akara and Cain to inspect the mountain. Akara and Cain recognized the bones’ immense worth and eagerly threw themselves into the hoard.

• Sun Fei gathered more than a hundred bones to use as weapons, then entered the Diablo World to rest and study with Akara.
• Sun Fei showed Akara a demon bone, and she explained that such bones could be forged into magic weapons or used to make scrolls and potions.
• Cain arrived with Evans’s unlocked storage ring and magic manuals, and Sun Fei examined the ring’s large capacity and valuable contents.
• Sun Fei summoned Akara and Cain to the mountain of bones in the God and Demon Ruins.
• Akara and Cain recognized the immense value of the bones and excitedly began handling them.

Sun Fei and Elena discovered a maze of identical chambers containing mysterious magic arrays, but found no way through by exploring at random. Sun Fei sent Elena back to the City of Heroes with a cultivation manual for Lampard, then headed to the mountain of white bones to seek help identifying the arrays.

• Elena crossed the abyss on a giant-winged raven, while Sun Fei used a cable and Werewolf form to reach the cave passage.
• Sun Fei placed a perfect-grade amethyst in one of five stone pillars, activating the lines of its magic array, but nothing else happened.
• Sun Fei and Elena explored several branching passages and found identical chambers with the same pillars, monuments, and arrays.
• Sun Fei led Elena back out of the maze and gave her the Lightning Lightspeed Fist manual to deliver to Lampard with a warning to stop if he found flaws.
• Elena returned to the City of Heroes through a portal, and Sun Fei went toward the mountain of white bones to seek help and rest.

Sun Fei discovered that Charsi’s magical hammer could forge the nearly indestructible demon remains and explored the vast space with Elena. They found a deep abyss bordered by a wall riddled with tens of thousands of human-carved passages, and Sun Fei prepared to investigate them.

• Sun Fei summoned Charsi, who used her magical hammer to shatter demon remains and began forging them into equipment.
• Charsi forged a powerful bone sword, which Sun Fei claimed, while Akara and Cain studied the bones and Charsi continued making weapons.
• Sun Fei set up a portal back to the Diablo World, summoned Rogues to guard the bone mountain, and explored farther with Elena.
• Sun Fei and Elena reached a deep abyss and saw a smooth wall on the opposite side riddled with openings.
• Sun Fei used a giant-winged crow to explore several openings and discovered that each led to a neatly carved passage.

Sun Fei endured a violent cycle of extreme cold and heat in the mysterious space, discovering that it had strengthened his body and exposed a magic array and portal beneath the mountain of bones. After another ten days of training in the Diablo World, his month of seclusion ended, and he prepared to return to Chambord City.

• Sun Fei tied himself to a stone pillar and endured the hurricane and alternating cold and heat because he felt a mysterious call from the mountain of bones.
• The hurricane tore apart the mountain of bones, revealing a working magic array and deep-blue portal that called to Sun Fei.
• Sun Fei resisted the urge to approach the portal and waited for the storm to weaken, watching the bones settle back into a tower-shaped mountain.
• Sun Fei failed to dig through the tightly interlocked bones but found that the extreme temperatures had at least doubled his body's strength.
• Sun Fei spent ten more days in the Diablo World killing monsters, leveling up, training, forging equipment, and studying magic before his seclusion ended.

Sun Fei and his companions uncovered Black Iron Essence and learned how to smelt it with Earthcore Flame, while Sun Fei continued exploring the ruins and growing stronger. The mysterious space then erupted into a violent clash of heat and cold, and Sun Fei took shelter as a storm began to form.

• Sun Fei watched Cain draw Earthcore Flame from the fissures, but the first attempt failed when the Flawed Rubies ran out of power.
• Sun Fei activated five arrays in a hidden stone chamber, revealing an unreadable blue pattern with a red dot, then continued exploring the passage maze and leveling up in Lut Gholein.
• Cain used perfect-grade gems to draw Earthcore Flame, and Charsi smelted Black Iron Essence and forged black-coated armor and weapons from demon remains.
• After the mysterious space grew warmer and mist appeared, Sun Fei ordered Charsi and the Rogues to pack up and return to camp.
• Sun Fei found that cold air was surging from the abyss as heat and flames rose from the ground, triggering ice, rain, hail, thunder, and a fierce wind.

Chambord City drew envoys, spies, and mercenaries after Alexander’s victories, while his Golden Knights and Saints enforced order. When the city bell rang, Best’s daughter and her magical beasts hurried back to the city, and outsiders wondered whether Alexander was finally emerging from seclusion.

• News of Chambord’s defeat of the Nine Kingdoms Allied Army spread, and foreign visitors crowded the city ahead of the vassal states’ martial competition.
• Drogba, Pierce, the Saints, and the Urban Management restored order by intimidating and punishing troublemakers.
• Mercenaries gathered to watch Best’s daughter riding Big Black outside the city, and her companion warned them that she was Alexander’s fiancée and was guarded by Crimson Flame Beasts.
• The city bell rang, and Best’s daughter rode Big Black back toward Chambord with the horses and Crimson Flame Beasts following.
• Outsiders looked toward the royal palace and wondered whether Alexander was finally ending his seclusion.

After returning to Chambord City, Sun Fei saw how his earlier orders had improved city life and strengthened its people, while his warriors and officials had grown markedly more capable. With the Martial Combat Competition approaching, he ordered the entire army to march to Saint Petersburg in three days.

• Chambord City's residents welcomed King Alexander's return, grateful for the paper mill, repaired drains, and stricter enforcement that had improved their lives and made the city safer.
• Sun Fei surveyed the king's council hall and found that Drogba, Pierce, Petr Čech, Gordon Brook, Warden Oleg, Frank Lampard, and Fernando Torres had all advanced in strength.
• Sun Fei noted that Chambord City's military and Diablo World experts had gathered in the hall, while Best and the elderly officials continued to manage the city's administration.
• Sun Fei declared that Chambord City would reclaim what it had lost at the Martial Combat Competition and ordered the entire army to march to Saint Petersburg in three days.

After emerging from seclusion, Sun Fei displayed Chambord City’s forces to spies before leading an expedition to the Martial Arts Combat Competition. In the neighboring Kingdom of Laisi, its king offered gifts and sought peace, but Sun Fei warned him that Chambord had not forgotten past wrongs; as the army departed, a Chambord sharpshooter killed a noble who insulted Sun Fei and Angela.

• Sun Fei hosted a citywide feast and military parade, revealing the Saints and Urban Management to the gathered spies and showing his close rapport with Tanasha.
• Three days later, Sun Fei led Chambord City’s army toward the Martial Arts Combat Competition with Angela, Tanasha, and the kingdom’s strongest fighters.
• Best and Gordon Brook watched the expedition leave and discussed the ambitious plans Sun Fei had entrusted to them.
• At a checkpoint in Laisi, the King of Laisi offered Sun Fei chests of gold and a group of young women as an apology for past hostility.
• Sun Fei accepted the gifts but warned the King of Laisi that Chambord would punish further offenses, then led his army onward.
• A Jebe sharpshooter shot and killed a Laisi noble who insulted Sun Fei and Angela as the Chambord expedition rode away.

Sun Fei’s expedition crossed the Kingdom of Laisi and camped in Black Rock City, Chambord’s longtime enemy. As the camp settled for the night, hostile forces began their attack.

• A Chambord scout killed a minor nobleman who insulted Sun Fei, and King Laisi ordered his people to treat Chambord’s citizens with utmost courtesy.
• Sun Fei heard what happened but chose to continue toward the Martial Combat Competition instead of attacking the Kingdom of Laisi.
• The expedition entered Black Rock City, where Sun Fei ordered its banner raised and blood arrows fired to warn nearby cavalry to stay away from the camp.
• A fierce Black Rock City marshal withdrew after seeing the warning arrows, then ordered his units to prepare and sent scouts to report the expedition’s arrival.
• Sun Fei appeared on the hill after the marshal’s departure, drew the Purple and Azure Twin Swords, and destroyed two trees with their powers.
• As Sun Fei wiped his swords in his tent, battle cries and pounding hooves announced an attack on the sleeping expedition.

Black Rock City cavalry repeatedly harassed Sun Fei’s expedition, hoping to exhaust the Chambord soldiers before they crossed the Blazing Sun Mountains. At the mountains’ entrance, Chambord’s experts ambushed and wiped out a cavalry force, including its young royal commander.

• Black Rock City cavalry repeatedly rode up to Chambord’s camp at night, shouting and withdrawing to deprive the soldiers of sleep.
• Sun Fei’s expedition crossed the grasslands and reached the Blazing Sun Mountains, where Black Rock City had established a military fortress and guarded checkpoints.
• The cavalry harassed the camp again near midnight, and their young leader boasted that his father, King Kant, planned to conquer Chambord and enslave its people.
• After the cavalry turned to leave, a swift attacker killed several riders, then a burly man with a black greatsword struck down more with his Lightning-speed-fist.
• Drogba and Pierce charged into the cavalry and killed the young leader, while other Chambord experts joined the attack.
• Chambord’s experts slaughtered all two hundred cavalrymen on Black Rock City’s own ground.

Sun Fei led the Chambord Expeditionary Army toward Blackstone Fortress, where King Kant of Black Rock confronted him over the slaughter of Prince Aike and two hundred cavalrymen. Sun Fei denied responsibility and demonstrated his overwhelming speed by cutting off Kant’s beard, leaving the two kings facing a decisive standoff.

• A Black Rock patrol discovered the bodies of Prince Aike and his two hundred cavalrymen, and the one-eyed knight fled with Aike’s head.
• Sun Fei’s army advanced toward Blackstone Fortress while Frank Lampard reflected on his progress with the Lightning Lightspeed Fist.
• King Kant led more than two thousand cavalry out of the fortress and surrounded the Chambord forces, but Big Black’s barking frightened their horses and ruined their battle momentum.
• Kant demanded that Sun Fei hand over the culprit who killed Aike and the cavalrymen or face an attack.
• Sun Fei demanded that Kant open the fortress gates, then swiftly cut off part of Kant’s beard to show his strength.

Sun Fei forced King Kant of Black Rock to retreat, then led the Chambord Expeditionary Army through Blackstone Fortress. After seeing the fortress’s defenses and the suffering of its mine slaves, Sun Fei heard a scream from the far end of the square.

• Sun Fei counted down while holding King Kant at swordpoint, and the Chambord warriors’ battle momentum grew as they joined in.
• King Kant ordered the Black Rock knights to retreat, and the Chambord Expeditionary Army advanced to Blackstone Fortress.
• The gates stood open, and Sun Fei entered with his army while Čech and the others kept the group on guard against a trap.
• Sun Fei observed the fortress’s defenses and learned that Black Rock relied on mine slaves, many of them taken from Chambord.
• Sun Fei saw tortured mine slaves chained to pillars in the central square, then heard a scream from its far end.

Sun Fei rescued Luka Modrić, a boy from Chambord City who had been tortured by Black Rock soldiers for giving bread to a wounded mine slave. Luka told Sun Fei that the prisoners were waiting for Chambord’s king to come save them, while the soldiers surrounded Sun Fei and his companions.

• Black Rock soldiers dragged Luka to a pillar, chained him up, and whipped him while Captain Robbie insulted Chambord City.
• Fernando Torres shot arrows into Robbie and three soldiers to stop the beating, and Sun Fei healed Luka with his paladin skills.
• Robbie called for reinforcements, and more than forty Black Rock soldiers surrounded Sun Fei and his companions.
• After Sun Fei calmed him with holy Aura, Luka urged his rescuers to flee and introduced himself as the son of Caruso.
• Luka explained that Robbie had caught him bringing bread to Uncle Zola, a wounded Chambord mine slave, and that Zola had been punished for giving the prisoners hope by telling them their king would rescue them.

Sun Fei realized how badly he had failed the people of Chambord after hearing Luka Modrić describe their suffering in Blackstone Fortress. He rescued the mutilated Zola and revealed that he was Alexander, the new King of Chambord, as the attack on the fortress began.

• Luka Modrić urged Sun Fei to save Chambord's oppressed people, and Sun Fei ordered his companions to kill the Black Rock soldiers threatening the boy.
• Lampard killed forty soldiers with Lightning Lightspeed Fist, while Sun Fei carried Luka toward Uncle Zola and blasted apart the fortress defenses when soldiers attacked them.
• The King of Black Rock saw Sun Fei destroying the fortress and angrily denounced the King of Chambord.
• Luka guided Sun Fei to a pit filled with corpses, where they found Zola gravely injured and near death.
• Sun Fei healed Zola with a Full Rejuvenation Potion, then identified himself as Alexander, the new King of Chambord.

Sun Fei and Chambord’s Saints slaughtered the Black Rock forces inside Blackstone Fortress, overwhelming the soldiers with their strength and powerful techniques. The King of Black Rock remained hidden, but Sun Fei vowed to kill him and destroy Black Rock City.

• Lampard and the Saints drove through Black Rock’s soldiers in the fortress streets, while Oleg, Paul Pierce, and Didier Drogba unleashed devastating signature attacks.
• Zola and Modrić watched in awe as Sun Fei cut down Black Rock officers and Star-Rank Warriors.
• Black Rock archers began firing from the cliffs after an order rang out, and Sun Fei recognized the voice as the King of Black Rock’s.
• Sun Fei blasted open a hidden chamber in the cliff, killing the soldiers inside, but found only a destroyed sound-transmission magic array and no king.
• The King of Black Rock threatened Sun Fei through the magic array, and Sun Fei swore to kill him and destroy Black Rock City for the people of Chambord.

Sun Fei’s forces overwhelmed the Black Rock army and destroyed its hidden magical attacks, then Sun Fei pursued the fleeing King of Black Rock. With the tyrant in his sights, Sun Fei chose not to kill him immediately, having thought of a different way to punish him.

• The King of Black Rock ordered archers to rain arrows on Chambord’s forces, but the Urban Management countered with powerful, accurate volleys.
• Sun Fei sent Lampard, Čech, Oleg, and the Heng and Ha Generals to attack the archers, collapsing sections of the walls and routing them.
• Sun Fei used Strafe to destroy hidden magical attacks and kill the mages preparing them inside the mountain walls.
• Sun Fei located the King of Black Rock in a hidden chamber and pursued him through a secret passage, killing guards along the way.
• Sun Fei chased the King of Black Rock on horseback, shooting down his guards one by one, then held his fire after considering a different punishment for the tyrant.

Sun Fei cursed the King of Black Rock with two necromancer spells and withdrew from Blackstone Fortress rather than risk Chambord City’s future by killing him. The surviving king returned with Prince Ivan, unaware that the curses were already weakening him and stirring him to violence.

• Sun Fei cast [Decrepify Curse] and [Confuse Curse] on the King of Black Rock, then escaped back to Blackstone Fortress in Barbarian Mode.
• Sun Fei chose not to destroy the Kingdom of Black Rock yet, since Chambord needed time to develop and had to avoid provoking the Zenit Empire before the Martial Combat Competition.
• Chambord’s forces defeated Black Rock City’s army, leaving most of its more than four thousand elite soldiers dead or wounded and the survivors surrendered.
• Prince Ivan returned to the King of Black Rock and discussed reporting the defeat to their lord and preparing an operation in the Blazing Sun Mountains.
• The King of Black Rock felt weak, began bleeding from his nose, and nearly attacked Prince Ivan as the curses took hold.

Sun Fei rescued the Chambord mining slaves imprisoned at Blackstone Fortress, honored those who had died, and arranged for the survivors to return home. As the expeditionary army prepared to continue toward Saint Petersburg, a giant eagle attacked one of Sun Fei’s summoned ravens, and Fernando Torres shot it down.

• The King of Black Rock and Prince Ivan rode toward Black Rock City without revealing how Sun Fei had defeated them.
• Sun Fei entered Blackstone Fortress’s dungeon, healed the imprisoned Chambord mining slaves, freed them from their chains, and apologized for failing to protect them.
• The rescued slaves reunited with relatives and acquaintances in Blood Bead Square, while Sun Fei promised that no Chambord person would ever again be enslaved and arranged for the dead to be taken home for burial.
• Sun Fei and his leaders assigned Lampard, the Heng and Ha Generals, twenty-five Saints, and fifty Urban Management members to escort the recovering slaves back to Chambord City.
• Sun Fei summoned wolves and ravens to patrol the fortress, but a giant white-winged eagle attacked a raven, so Fernando Torres shot the eagle in the head.

Sun Fei entered Tal Rasha's Tomb in Barbarian Mode and defeated Duriel with a greatsword forged from demon remains. He found two level-seven green set swords among the drops, leaving him astonished by the unexpected loot.

• Sun Fei roasted the Windwhisper Eagle and spent the night guarding Blackstone Fortress while revising two Three-Star Class Dou Qi manuals.
• Sun Fei entered the Diablo World, checked on Chambord through Elena, and traveled with her to the final Tal Rasha's Tomb.
• Sun Fei inserted the Horadric Staff into the altar, opened the sealed passage, and entered Duriel's chamber with Elena.
• Sun Fei opened a Town Portal as an escape route and then killed Duriel in less than ten minutes with his greatsword forged from demon remains.
• Sun Fei collected Duriel's drops and discovered two level-seven green set swords.