Chapter Summaries

Sun Fei explored the sealed chamber and discovered [Demon King's Wisdom], a floating book filled with ancient knowledge and part of a trove of gifts left by the Demon King. Meanwhile, Arshavin watched Chambord's forces slaughter the routed Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and realized Chambord was far stronger than he had expected.

• Sun Fei found he could not approach the golden skeleton or take the double-bladed battle-axe it held, so he searched the chamber around it.
• Sun Fei discovered a floating book whose ancient script described mechanisms, traps, construction, forging, and other knowledge.
• Sun Fei deciphered part of the book's final page, which mentioned the Demon King's gifts and a dying defender's plea to protect them and inherit the Demon God's glory.
• Sun Fei recognized the book as [Demon King's Wisdom] and realized its knowledge could greatly strengthen Chambord City.
• Arshavin watched Chambord experts slaughter the routed Blood Blade Mercenary Corps in the four streets surrounding its headquarters and was shocked by Chambord's strength.

Arshavin witnessed Chambord’s formidable experts destroy the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and wondered whether Alexander might one day rival the empire. Sun Fei found he could not reach the Demon King's Wisdom, then used a portal to secure access to the mysterious chamber and erase the entrance mechanism; the chapter ended with him deducing that the Blood Blade commander had discovered and guarded the place.

• Arshavin watched six Chambord experts slaughter the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and sensed that Alexander’s growing power could threaten the empire.
• Materazzi questioned Krasic about his intentions, and Krasic vanished into the darkness after replying that he needed time.
• Sun Fei found a silver barrier and six chained stone lamps protecting the Demon King's Wisdom, then used Summon to travel between the chamber and the Diablo World.
• Sun Fei returned to the underground hall, identified the footprint pedals and magic array that opened the chamber portal, and destroyed them and the array pattern.
• Sun Fei concluded that the Blood Blade commander had discovered the chamber, hidden it, and set the magical traps in the passage.

Sun Fei finished searching the underground hall beneath Blood Blade’s headquarters, where he had found a vast store of treasure and weapons, as rival factions broke through the traps and rushed in. When soldiers attacked him and called him a Blood Blade remnant, he effortlessly defeated them, and the chapter ended with a young Five-Star mage ordering Sun Fei killed while the soldiers warned that he was too strong.

• Sun Fei regretted that he could not approach the golden skeleton safely, then heard intruders destroying the traps in the passage.
• Soldiers from the imperial capital’s factions poured into the underground hall and began marveling at its treasure, weapons, and armor.
• When soldiers accused Sun Fei of being a Blood Blade remnant and charged him, he sent them flying with an invisible force.
• Big Beyoncé arrived with a young Five-Star mage and denied knowing Sun Fei, despite recognizing him.
• After Lafa accused Sun Fei of resisting arrest, the mage ordered him killed, but the soldiers hesitated and said they were no match for Sun Fei.

Sun Fei confronted Fourth Prince Christo after Christo burned Lafa to death and ordered Sun Fei to die. Christo’s fire spell failed against Sun Fei, leaving the prince wary and asking who he was.

• Christo killed Lafa by burning him into black mist, then ordered the soldiers to kneel.
• Christo told Sun Fei to kill himself, but Sun Fei said he was not with the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and asked whether Christo knew who he was.
• Christo identified himself as the empire’s fourth prince and attacked Sun Fei with [Dragon Flame].
• Sun Fei stopped the fire dragon with one hand and effortlessly broke the spell.
• Christo realized Sun Fei was far stronger than he expected and asked who he was; Sun Fei reminded him that he had said he did not need to know.

Paris introduced the powers assembled to divide Blood Blade’s remaining wealth, and most accepted the agreed shares. Christo challenged Sun Fei’s claim, alleging that he had taken valuables before the others arrived and that the fire he set should reduce Chambord’s share; several factions supported him.

• Paris introduced Baresi, Kode, Christo, Beyoncé, Laudno, and the other representatives to Sun Fei.
• Paris proposed dividing Blood Blade’s remaining holdings according to the previous agreement, with Chambord City receiving three tenths.
• Pavlyuchenko, Baresi, and Laudno accepted the arrangement, while Kode showed his displeasure.
• Christo claimed Sun Fei might have taken treasures from the underground hall before the others arrived, and Bono supported his insinuation.
• Kode questioned soldiers who confirmed that Sun Fei had arrived first.
• Christo argued that the value of Blood Blade’s buildings burned by Sun Fei should be deducted from Chambord’s share, drawing agreement from several people.

Sun Fei rejected Fourth Prince Christo’s demand that he surrender his storage ring and accept deductions from Chambord City’s share of the spoils. When Christo and several powerful allies tried to enforce their claim, Sun Fei struck the prince across the face, leaving the hall stunned.

• The major powers reconsidered their promised share after seeing how easily Sun Fei’s forces defeated the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps, while Paris, Pavlyuchenko, Ziyan, Laudno, and Baresi remained silent.
• Fourth Prince Christo demanded that losses from the fire be deducted from Chambord City’s share, but Sun Fei refused to accept responsibility for them.
• Christo accused Sun Fei of hiding Blood Blade’s treasures and demanded that he surrender his storage ring for inspection.
• Kode, the Crouching Tiger commander, the Hall of Radiance commander, and Beyoncé backed Christo and pressed Sun Fei to hand over the ring.
• Sun Fei said strength came from hard fists, then cursed the group and struck Christo with a transparent palm, sending him crashing into the hall wall.

Sun Fei beat the Fourth Prince Christo and Beyoncé, then killed Kode and the ten members of the Bronze Spear when they challenged him. The hall’s witnesses looked to Dominguez for a reaction, but he praised Sun Fei and went back to sleep.

• Sun Fei slapped Christo twice, crushing his cheekbones and knocking him unconscious.
• Beyoncé accused Sun Fei of treason, and he struck her unconscious with a single slap.
• Sun Fei attacked Kode, and the Bronze Spear used God's Formation to block his first punch.
• Sun Fei unleashed Heavenly Frost Fist’s second form, One-Hit-Kill, destroying the formation and killing Kode and the ten warriors.
• Christo woke, saw the massacre, and fainted again, while Dominguez praised Sun Fei and closed his eyes.

Sun Fei drove the Crouching Tiger and Hall of Radiance mercenary corps from the underground hall and oversaw the redistribution of Blood Blade’s treasure. As he prepared to leave with Paris, the Second Prince revealed himself as Oka Dominguez and told Sun Fei that he liked him.

• Sun Fei insulted the mercenary commanders, then ordered the Crouching Tiger and Hall of Radiance corps to leave; they withdrew without protest.
• Sun Fei and the assembled representatives divided Blood Blade’s treasure, with the Soros Chamber of Commerce receiving the shares forfeited by the expelled mercenaries.
• Divine Master Baresi displayed precise control of Holy Power, gave his share of coins and magic stones to Sun Fei, and left the hall.
• Paris explained Sun Fei’s new nickname, One Fist Spanning the Heavens, and offered to escort him out as dawn approached.
• Oka Dominguez stopped Sun Fei, said he liked him, and asked Sun Fei to call him Oka rather than the Second Prince.

Sun Fei met the second prince Dominguez and came away impressed by his genuine affection for his disabled dog, Oka, despite suspecting that the prince sometimes played the fool. As Sun Fei and his companions left the imperial capital, Paris explained Oka’s history and revealed that she was one of the only two people besides Sun Fei who could call the prince by that name.

• Dominguez joked with Sun Fei, introduced his disabled dog Oka, and carelessly scattered most of the offered gold and magic stones across the hall.
• Sun Fei and his companions changed into Public Security Office armor, left the capital with Paris’s help, and discussed Dominguez’s favor toward him.
• Sun Fei reflected that Oka’s trust in Dominguez suggested the prince had truly cared for the dog since rescuing him.
• Paris explained that Dominguez had saved Oka after finding him injured at the capital gates six years earlier, when he arrived as a bastard son.
• Paris told Sun Fei that Dominguez kept his mother’s surname, Oka, despite criticism from nobles and displeasure from Emperor Yassin.
• Sun Fei asked who else could call Dominguez Oka, and Paris revealed that Red Beard Granero and she were the other two.

Sun Fei learned from Paris that Zenit faced a worsening succession crisis and that the Martial Combat Competition could offer him a chance to raise Chambord’s standing. After Paris asked him to save Dominguez if he ever fell into trouble, Sun Fei returned to camp, where Angela had prepared a hot bath for him.

• Paris told Sun Fei that Spartak was waiting for Emperor Yassin to die and that the emperor’s health had sharply declined.
• Paris said the Martial Combat Competition would begin in three days, with military command and battlefield merit among the possible rewards.
• As Paris escorted Sun Fei to the Chambord camp, she questioned him about the masked mage Jianjiao, and Sun Fei claimed he was one of six secret royal envoys.
• Before leaving, Paris asked Sun Fei to save Dominguez once if he ever got into trouble.
• Sun Fei returned to the tent and found Angela asleep after preparing a heated bath for him.

Sun Fei gave Angela a fur robe to be remade into a warm Wide-Sleeved Flowing Immortal Dress, while the others reflected on his relationships and his growing influence. The next morning, imperial forces launched a strict search for Spartak Empire assassins throughout the Twenty-Li Camp.

• Sun Fei sketched a Wide-Sleeved Flowing Immortal Dress for Angela and offered her the blue fox fur robe to make it from.
• Jima questioned Drogba and Pierce about Paris and Sun Fei, and they reassured her that Sun Fei would not fall for Paris.
• Elena sat alone by the river before dawn, thinking of the person she loved and vowing to fight and draw her bow only for him.
• Tanasha learned that Baresi had given Blood Blade's treasure to Sun Fei and invited him to meet Kaká; she ordered the treasure sent to the Chambord camp as a gift for Angela and Jima.
• At dawn, imperial soldiers and cavalry began searching the Twenty-Li Camp for Spartak Empire assassins and confined the affiliated kingdoms to their camps.

Sun Fei reflected on the turmoil in the empire before Knights' Hall cavalrymen entered the Chambord camp to search for Spartak Empire assassins. The search turned hostile when Drogba stopped them from entering Sun Fei's tent, and the commander hesitated to escalate the confrontation.

• Sun Fei left the sleeping Angela and considered how the princes' power struggle and political assassinations had plunged the empire into chaos.
• Knights' Hall cavalrymen arrived and ordered the Chambord people to gather for a search; Sun Fei allowed them into the camp.
• The cavalrymen drove the Chambord people into the center of the camp and tried to force their way into Sun Fei's tent while Angela was changing.
• Drogba stopped a cavalryman from entering the tent and threw him aside after catching his whip.
• The knight commander ordered his men to seize Drogba, but Drogba raised his axe and the cavalrymen hesitated as their commander reconsidered attacking Sun Fei's men.

Sun Fei blocked the Knights' Hall from searching his camp, but the knights turned their attention to eight unregistered girls and accused them of being enemy assassins. The leopard-eyed knight leader ordered them taken to the Black Prison, and the chapter ended as cavalrymen moved to restrain them.

• The leopard-eyed knight leader threatened Sun Fei with the emperor's search order, but Sun Fei ignored him while onlookers from nearby kingdoms watched.
• Angela and Jima emerged from the central tent, and the Knights' Hall cavalrymen were struck by Angela's beauty.
• The knights searched the camp and checked its roster, then singled out eight girls whose names were missing.
• Sun Fei recognized six girls as former captives given to him by the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps and two others as captives rescued by Lampard.
• The leopard-eyed knight leader accused the frightened girls of being Spartak Empire assassins and ordered them taken to the Black Prison in iron-spike restraints.

Angela protected eight frightened girls from the Knights' Hall, while Sun Fei uncovered a plot to frame Chambord with Blood Blade's stolen valuables. After the Knights' Hall cavalry surrounded the camp, Sun Fei drew a deadly sword mark at its entrance and ordered his men to seize the intruders and interrogate them.

• Angela stepped between the eight girls and the Knights' Hall cavalry, then led the girls toward Sun Fei.
• Knights' Hall cavalrymen produced Blood Blade valuables and weapons they claimed to have found in a Chambord tent, and the leopard-eyed knight commander accused Chambord of colluding with Spartak assassins.
• Sun Fei recognized the valuables as items from Blood Blade's headquarters and questioned the cavalryman who had supposedly found them.
• When the cavalryman denied wrongdoing, Sun Fei struck him, then blasted the first cavalrymen who charged into the camp into bloody mist.
• Sun Fei carved a sword mark outside the camp and warned that anyone who crossed it would die.
• Sun Fei ordered Petr Čech, Torres, the Heng and Ha Generals, Oleg, and the others to seize the intruders, break their legs, and interrogate them for the plot's organizers.

The King of Chambord captured and tortured Knights' Hall cavalrymen after they tried to arrest him, and the First Judgment Knight arrived to confront him. When the First Judgment Knight examined the King of Chambord's sword scar, it unleashed a Fist Intent Spiritual Imprint that shattered his bracer.

• The King of Chambord had his men seize the Knights' Hall cavalrymen who came to arrest him and take control of the Chambord camp.
• A bald, scar-faced Chambordian fat man tortured the captured knights until the leopard-eyed knight leader and the others confessed what they knew.
• The First Judgment Knight arrived from the imperial capital as the Knights' Hall cavalrymen greeted him.
• The First Judgment Knight studied the sword scar outside the camp for several minutes, then reached toward it without crossing it.
• The scar unleashed glazed sword energy that broke the First Judgment Knight's blood-red bracer, and onlookers recognized it as a Fist Intent Spiritual Imprint.

The Knight of God shattered the sword-energy imprint outside the Chambord camp, then ordered his cavalry to retreat and freed the Knights' Hall men held there. He left for the imperial capital with a Diwei Crystal and the Blood Blade treasure as evidence, while onlookers concluded that Alexander and Chambord were too powerful to provoke.

• The Knight of God unleashed his full strength and destroyed the sword mark Alexander had left in the ground.
• The Knight of God signaled more than three hundred cavalrymen to retreat instead of charging the Chambord camp.
• The Knight of God freed the captured Knights' Hall cavalrymen and ordered them to leave without avenging their injuries.
• Lampard gave the Knight of God a Diwei Crystal and the Blood Blade treasure on Alexander's behalf.
• The Knight of God departed for the imperial capital, and Petr Čech sent Chambord's people back to their posts.
• Observers were left convinced that Alexander might be a Moon Class master and that Chambord was not to be provoked.

Sun Fei took in eight frightened girls and explained why he had surrendered evidence of Chambord City's innocence to the Knight of God. He then brought Akara and Cain to a hidden chamber from Blood Blade's headquarters, hoping they would investigate its secrets and Demon King's Wisdom.

• Sun Fei healed the girls, offered them shelter in Chambord's camp, and said they could become residents of Chambord City.
• Lampard questioned Sun Fei's decision to hand the Knights' Hall evidence, and Sun Fei explained that Chambord could not yet openly oppose the Knights' Hall and needed to rely on strength.
• Sun Fei told the leaders to stay vigilant, then entered Diablo through a portal.
• Sun Fei brought Akara and Cain through a portal to the secret chamber beneath Blood Blade's headquarters, where they saw Demon King's Wisdom and a powerful golden skeleton.
• Sun Fei admitted he did not know what the chamber was and asked Akara and Cain to help uncover its secrets.

Sun Fei studied the chamber’s ancient runes with Old Cain and Akara before focusing on leveling his Barbarian in Diablo World. Back at camp, he saw Constantine drawing attention in Byzantium’s camp and remained wary of an unseen follower.

• Old Cain studied the chamber’s shifting spatial runes, while Akara read [Demon King's Wisdom] and examined its confinement devices.
• Sun Fei set fixed Summon points for Old Cain and Akara, left them the stone door and nine rune stones to study, then returned to Diablo World with Elena.
• Sun Fei leveled his Barbarian from 45 to 46 by completing [Blade of the Old Religion], and he and Elena grew closer during their battles.
• Fernando Torres reported that the Knights' Hall had made no further move, while Sun Fei learned that Emperor Yassin had ended the assassin hunt and scheduled the Martial Combat Competition to begin in two days.
• Sun Fei watched princes and envoys gather around Constantine in the Kingdom of Byzantium's camp, then left without approaching him as he sensed an unidentified person following him.

Sun Fei sensed a powerful watcher following him and went to the Moro Mountains to draw the pursuer out without endangering the people at the Chambord camp. After training there, he encountered an overwhelming stranger who challenged him to survive ten moves and launched a cyan sword at him.

• Sun Fei sensed that a powerful person was following him, so he stayed away from the Chambord camp to protect Angela, Jima, and the others.
• Sun Fei traveled to the Moro Mountains, but the watcher’s presence disappeared before he could confront them.
• Sun Fei crossed the magic arrays to the crater battlefield and trained his spiritual power until it reached 300 weights.
• Sun Fei noticed a flax-robed stranger standing unharmed amid the lingering Fist Intent Spiritual Imprints, though he had not sensed the man’s arrival.
• The stranger identified Sun Fei as the King of Chambord and said he would spare him if he survived ten moves, then sent a cyan sword rushing toward him.

Sun Fei battled a mysterious, overwhelmingly powerful figure whose cyan attacks broke through his defenses and forced him to use several Diablo character forms. The figure launched a fourth technique, Arrow Move, and Sun Fei realized he could no longer stay hidden.

• The slender figure’s Sword Move overwhelmed Sun Fei, destroyed his helmet, and nearly struck him before he escaped with Leap.
• The figure used Blade Move, and Sun Fei met it with Heavenly Frost Fist and Cover the Sky with One Hand, but the clash wounded him and drove him into the ground.
• Sun Fei teleported above his opponent and attacked with a greatsword, but the figure stopped his strike with Palm Move and cracked the weapon.
• Sun Fei switched to Assassin Mode, vanished into the darkness, and studied the ordinary-faced opponent, whose familiar aura he could not place.
• The figure unleashed Arrow Move, summoning countless cyan arrows, and Sun Fei realized he could no longer remain hidden.