Chapter Summaries

Sun Fei defeated Baal in the Worldstone Chamber and found the corrupted Worldstone, but Tyrael demanded that he destroy it. Sun Fei ignored the archangel and discovered the Immortal King's Soul Cage Sacred Armor among Baal’s drops.

• Sun Fei fought through Baal’s summoned demons, entered the Worldstone Chamber, and battled Baal’s true body until he killed it.
• Sun Fei ignored Baal’s dropped treasure and retrieved the corrupted Worldstone from the end of the T-shaped corridor.
• Tyrael appeared and told Sun Fei to destroy the corrupted Worldstone, but Sun Fei turned away from him.
• Sun Fei identified a green armor drop from Baal’s corpse and recognized it as the Immortal King's Soul Cage Sacred Armor.

Sun Fei defeated Baal and claimed powerful equipment, including a piece of the Immortal King Set, before taking the corrupted Worldstone to Akara and Cain. As they searched for a way to purify it, Sun Fei examined the mysterious chamber’s golden skeleton and found that even his level 99 Barbarian could not approach it.

• Sun Fei equipped Bul-Kathos' Soul Cage Sacred Armor and gained a surge of strength, then collected Baal's other equipment and sold or stored what he did not need.
• Sun Fei heard Tyrael warn that the corrupted Worldstone could destroy the world, then traveled from Harrogath City to the mysterious stone chamber.
• Sun Fei showed the corrupted Worldstone to Akara and Cain, who warned him not to let anyone else touch it and said they were close to finding a way to purify it.
• Sun Fei saw Akara and Cain studying Demon King's Wisdom after they had removed it from the floating stone lamp's confinement space.
• Sun Fei approached the golden skeleton and discovered that its killing intent prevented even his level 99 Barbarian from coming within five meters.

Sun Fei learned that the Demon King's Wisdom pointed to a God and Demon Altar capable of purifying the Worldstone, but Akara and Old Man Cain did not know its location. He linked the altar’s Black Shadow Merfolk to the mysterious underground waters beneath Twin Flag City and decided to investigate them.

• Sun Fei tested the golden skeleton’s aura with his Laying of Hands gloves, which nearly shattered, and resolved to claim the skeleton’s golden axe when he grew strong enough.
• Akara and Old Man Cain activated a hidden array in the Demon King's Wisdom and projected an image of the towering God and Demon Altar, surrounded by statues resembling dwarves.
• Old Man Cain explained that the altar could purify the Worldstone, but neither he nor Akara knew where it was.
• Sun Fei spotted Black Shadow Merfolk in the projection and connected them to the mysterious underground waters beneath Twin Flag City.
• Sun Fei decided to search the underground waters, memorized the altar’s image, and left the Demon King's Wisdom with Akara and Old Man Cain.
• Old Man Cain thanked Sun Fei for returning the artifact and presented him with four purple-glowing scrolls.

Sun Fei received experimental confinement scrolls from Old Cain and Auntie Akara and proposed recreating Diablo’s teleportation formations in the World of Light. The chapter ended with the Snow Mountain Hermit reprimanding Fairenton for neglecting his martial training, while Fairenton accepted the rebuke.

• Old Cain and Auntie Akara showed Sun Fei their new Scrolls of Confinement, which could trap powerful targets for as long as a day.
• Old Cain told Sun Fei that Chambord City’s first reconstruction stage was complete and that the Demon King's Wisdom might help them build teleportation formations if they obtained the Demon King's Martial Power.
• Sun Fei left the mysterious stone chamber to investigate the waters beneath Twin Flag City and search for the God and Demon Altar and a way to purify the Worldstone.
• Prince Fairenton visited his master, the Snow Mountain Hermit, at the Ajax camp and was told that his martial progress had slowed.
• Fairenton apologized for neglecting his training and asked the Snow Mountain Hermit to punish him.

The Snow Mountain Hermit advised Fairenton to strengthen his martial cultivation and speculated that Alexander’s power was growing at an extraordinary rate. He predicted that powerful figures would soon gather over a mysterious site beneath the desert waters, and Fairenton was left preparing for a major development.

• The Snow Mountain Hermit urged Fairenton to prioritize martial cultivation if he hoped to rule the Ajax Empire, and Fairenton accepted his counsel.
• Fairenton told the Snow Mountain Hermit about Alexander’s rapid rise, leading the Hermit to suspect Alexander’s strength was increasing faster than reports could track.
• The Snow Mountain Hermit revealed that an old friend had appeared in Twin Flag City and warned that peak experts, including Emperor Chivu, would arrive within three days.
• Murdoch advised Fairenton to notify military headquarters, while Fairenton realized the gathering experts were likely drawn by the suspected God and Demon Ruins beneath the desert waters.
• A rider galloped to Fairenton’s tent shouting that something terrible had happened, and Fairenton demanded to hear the report privately.

Fairenton learned that his provisions convoy and elite cavalry had been destroyed by Zenit forces, leaving his army in crisis. Beneath Twin Flag City, Sun Fei discovered that powerful experts were searching the waters around the mysterious buildings and resolved to grow stronger before confronting the man in red.

• A scout told Fairenton that Zenit troops had burned most of the army’s provisions and killed Lord Dean during an ambush.
• Other scouts reported that the twelve thousand Earth Tiger cavalry had suffered a crushing defeat, General Kelundo had died, and General Erdos was retreating with the survivors; Fairenton collapsed unconscious.
• Sun Fei failed to reach the underwater buildings, sensed mermaid-like creatures and identified a structure resembling the [God and Demon Altar].
• Sun Fei evaded several powerful underwater scans and concluded that seven or eight Moon Class experts were watching the waters for something important.
• Sun Fei visited the unconscious Angela and Elena, vowed to make the man in red pay, and then headed toward the western gate with Fernando Torres.

Sun Fei prepared Twin Flag City for the return of the soldiers who had destroyed an Ajax supply convoy, while the battered survivors approached the city. Their return was interrupted when they encountered a mysterious man and child on a dune in the war zone.

• Sun Fei overheard militia reservists praising him and ordered Torres to spread timely, reassuring reports of the fighting throughout the city.
• Sun Fei told Torres to have the nobles prepare a feast at the west gate to welcome the three hundred returning warriors.
• Ribery and Andrei Shevchenko led 238 survivors toward Twin Flag City after their ambush burned more than half of the Ajax supplies, at the cost of over sixty soldiers.
• Ribery and Shevchenko spotted a white-robed man and a golden-haired child on a dune, surrounded by an invisible force that kept the blowing dust away.
• A soldier called out to warn the child about the danger, and Ribery and Shevchenko reacted with alarm.

Shevchenko and Ribery encountered the terrifying boy Arthur and his mage companion in the desert, while a Holy Church group tracked the necromancer Hasselbaink toward Twin Flag City. In Twin Flag City, Sun Fei welcomed the returning raiders and honored the warriors who had died.

• Arthur frightened Shevchenko, Ribery, and their more than two hundred warriors with a glance, but the middle-aged mage calmed him and they vanished in black flame.
• A Holy Church group led by Lord Deacon tracked Hasselbaink’s aura to the desert near Twin Flag City and set out for the city.
• Lord Deacon used a crystal ball to locate the middle-aged mage and Arthur, then decided the Church would enter the City of Gods and Demons to await Hasselbaink.
• Sun Fei praised generals Andrei and Frank for burning a hundred Ajax supply wagons and promised to report their achievement for rewards.
• Sun Fei led the soldiers in a toast to the sixty-four warriors who had died during the surprise attack.

Sun Fei honored the returning soldiers and warned Shevchenko about two powerful strangers near Twin Flag City. A Holy Church party led by red-robed deacon Pellegrini arrived, and Sun Fei let them into the city despite the danger, only for cries and curses to break out as he approached the gate.

• Sun Fei toasted the 238 returning imperial warriors, promised them merit and gold, and spoke of hoping they would survive the war.
• Shevchenko told Sun Fei about the mysterious mage and the frightening boy Arthur, and Sun Fei ordered soldiers not to provoke them.
• Sun Fei and Shevchenko spotted a powerful party bearing the Holy Church's banner approaching Twin Flag City through the Ajax encampment.
• A Church knight demanded that the city gate be opened, and Sun Fei silenced him with a display of power before ordering the gate opened.
• The Church party entered Twin Flag City, and Sun Fei and Shevchenko headed toward the gate as screams, curses, and a whip crack sounded below.

Sun Fei intervened when Church divine knights abused the soldiers guarding Chambord City's gate, then used his golden Holy Power to pose as a Son of God before red-robed deacon Pellegrini. Pellegrini accepted Sun Fei's identity provisionally and asked him to accommodate the Church's official business in the city.

• Sun Fei leaped from the city wall and stopped a divine knight from whipping the gate guards, then healed the wounded soldiers with Prayer.
• The divine knights recognized Sun Fei's golden Holy Power and treated him with awe as the soldiers hailed him as Lord Alexander.
• Sun Fei rebuked the divine knights for violating Church doctrine, and they lowered their heads without answering.
• Pellegrini arrived and questioned Sun Fei about his temple and purpose, while Sun Fei assessed the deacon's powerful aura.
• Sun Fei identified himself as Alexander, king of Chambord City, and Pellegrini asked him to accommodate the Church's official business.

Sun Fei used his apparent status as a Son of God to protect his soldiers from Pellegrini and the Church’s divine knights, then ordered Shevchenko to watch the Church party. After tending to Angela and Elena, Sun Fei entered the Diablo World and found that he could choose Nightmare Difficulty.

• Sun Fei accused the divine knights of blasphemy, but accepted Pellegrini’s offer of gold compensation and repentance instead of punishing them.
• Pellegrini led the Divine Judgment Squad into Twin Flag City, while Sun Fei noticed the deacon’s concealed killing intent and suspected the Church had another purpose beyond hunting Hasselbaink.
• The soldiers thanked Sun Fei for saving them, and Shevchenko resolved to follow him and addressed him as “Your Majesty.”
• Sun Fei ordered Shevchenko to monitor the Church’s church and temple, then checked on Angela and Elena before returning to the west gate tower.
• Sun Fei entered the Diablo World, selected Barbarian Mode, and saw the choices “Normal Difficulty Version” and “Nightmare Difficulty Version.”

Sun Fei entered [Nightmare Difficulty] and discovered that its NPCs were lifeless copies, while its monsters were vastly stronger than those in [Normal Difficulty]. After killing fifty monsters, he underwent a dramatic transformation as golden power surged through his body and a new aura rose from his soul.

• Sun Fei entered the [Nightmare Difficulty] world and found himself in the [Rogue Encampment].
• Sun Fei confirmed that the camp's NPCs, including the wooden version of Sister Akara, had no intelligence and accepted the quest to clear the Den of Evil.
• Sun Fei left the camp and killed a [Quill Rat], discovering that each monster released golden liquid that entered his body.
• Sun Fei fought [Fallen] and [Zombies] in the [Blood Moor], suffered injuries, and killed fifty monsters before reaching the [Den of Evil].
• Sun Fei absorbed the fiftieth drop of golden liquid, underwent a complete bodily transformation, and felt a new aura rise from his soul.

Sun Fei completed his transformation as he entered the Nightmare Difficulty world, discovering that his levels and attributes had reset even though his power had grown far stronger. After clearing the Den of Evil and leveling up again, he continued building his strength as a level 1 Nightmare Difficulty Barbarian.

• Sun Fei realized the golden haze from the Barbarian guardians and Angela’s aura had helped transform his body, and he allowed their power to work within him.
• After the transformation ended in the Nightmare Difficulty Blood Moor, Sun Fei found that his character level and attributes had reset, but his physical power had greatly increased.
• Sun Fei tested his new silver-white power with Whirlwind Slash and Heavenly Frost Fist, then renamed his fist technique Undefeated Emperor Fist.
• Sun Fei assigned his five attribute points to Strength, saved his skill point, and entered the Den of Evil as a level 1 Nightmare Difficulty Barbarian.
• Sun Fei cleared the Den of Evil and killed ten more monsters, collected eighty golden droplets, and leveled up again, putting his new attribute points into Strength.

After leaving seclusion, Sun Fei advanced to the Moon Class, triggering a vast transformation of heaven and earth around Twin Flag City. The [Snow Mountain Hermit] recognized the breakthrough as Sun Fei’s, while a mysterious tower sweeper celebrated it and two demon kings watched from the desert.

• Sun Fei completed five Nightmare Difficulty quests, reached level sixteen, and raised his Barbarian Mode combat power to the Moon Class before returning to the real world.
• Torres sensed a tremendous power rising from the gatehouse hall and could not enter as silver light and a vast cloud vortex transformed the sky above Twin Flag City.
• The [Snow Mountain Hermit] recognized the phenomenon as Sun Fei’s Moon Class breakthrough and worried that their enmity would bring further trouble.
• A mysterious sweeper beneath a magic tower congratulated Sun Fei on advancing and said the breakthrough strengthened his confidence in carrying out his plan.
• Two demon kings in the desert observed the pillar of light, and one joked that the world had gained another righteous powerhouse capable of killing them.

Sun Fei endured the world’s elemental test and advanced to Moon Class with ease, while powerful observers took notice of his breakthrough. The chapter ended as he forced the elements to recognize his strength.

• A middle-aged man and his boy argued over wine and their shared history before wrestling on a hill.
• Twin Flag City’s residents saw the silver pillar of light and praised the God of War, believing the city was being protected.
• A short, stocky figure and two guards observed Sun Fei’s breakthrough from a courtyard and admired his talent.
• A cloaked man watched the pillar of light from a tavern balcony while a gold-clad middle-aged man drank wine and showed concern.
• Sun Fei recognized the elemental rejection as the test for advancing from Star Class to Moon Class and understood the transformation that followed it.
• Sun Fei’s Diablo World power made the test harmless, and he forced the elements of heaven and earth to recognize him.

Sun Fei broke through to Moon Class, but failed to reach the underwater buildings where he hoped to save Angela and Elena. Suspecting that other masters were waiting for the barrier there to weaken, he flew to the Ajax camp to confront the red-robed man and vent his anger, where he faced Prince Fairenton.

• Sun Fei broke through to Moon Class, and Torres and the others celebrated his advancement.
• Sun Fei dove beneath Twin Flag City to reach the underwater buildings but was repelled by a powerful shield.
• Sun Fei suspected the masters gathering near the waters were waiting for the shield to weaken, so he stopped trying to break through it.
• Sun Fei flew to the Ajax camp, destroyed its gates, and faced the gathered soldiers and Prince Fairenton.

Sun Fei confronted the Snow Mountain Hermit and learned that the Gate of Gods and Demons would open in three days. He revealed a Martial Dao Phenomenon and struck first, sending the Hermit flying before launching a powerful sword attack.

• Sun Fei advanced on the Ajax army, seriously injuring Doni with a glance and forcing the soldiers to retreat until the Snow Mountain Hermit intervened.
• Sun Fei and the Snow Mountain Hermit exchanged threats, and Sun Fei learned that the Gate of Gods and Demons would open in three days.
• Sun Fei manifested a towering Barbarian Martial Dao Phenomenon, startling the Snow Mountain Hermit, who resolved to kill him.
• Sun Fei broke through the Hermit's aura and struck him with Undefeated Emperor Fist First Form One-Hit Kill, sending him backward and devastating nearby soldiers with the impact.
• Sun Fei summoned two greatswords and launched Leap Attack as the Snow Mountain Hermit halted his flight and prepared to counter with a punch.

Sun Fei fought the [Snow Mountain Hermit], cut his robe, and escaped before the older master could kill him. The [Snow Mountain Hermit] withdrew to his camp, while Fairenton returned to his command tent and reacted with shock to something on his command table.

• Sun Fei overwhelmed the [Snow Mountain Hermit] in close combat and tore a piece from his robe.
• The [Snow Mountain Hermit] unleashed [Snow Mountain Dragon Spear Kill], shattering Sun Fei's [Whirlwind Slash], but Sun Fei escaped and promised they would fight again.
• The [Snow Mountain Hermit] considered killing Sun Fei but held back because of the coming [Gate of Gods and Demons] and a powerful acquaintance in Twin Flag City.
• The [Snow Mountain Hermit] struck at Twin Flag City's walls, but their magic defenses repelled his attack, so he returned to his camp.
• Fairenton ordered the army to withdraw and set up camp, then returned to his command tent and knelt after seeing something on the command table.

Sun Fei returned from his fight with the Snow Mountain Hermit and flew toward the Ancient Castle of Death to inspect the Wolf Fang Legion. While crossing the bloody quicksand, he encountered a mysterious presence whose spiritual power overwhelmed his own, then reached the castle.

• A mysterious Ajaxian man reassured Fairenton, praised his report about Alexander, and promised that General Davis would bring military grain the next day.
• Sun Fei reflected on Twin Flag City's defenses and flew toward the Ancient Castle of Death to check on the troops and supplies housed there.
• Sun Fei tested his new Moon Class power, forming silver-white wings and flying over the desert.
• Sun Fei sensed hundreds of millions of Berserk Gold-Devouring Ants in the bloody quicksand and detected a powerful presence beneath them.
• The presence struck back at Sun Fei's spiritual probe, injuring him and draining at least ten units of his spiritual power.
• Reyes challenged Sun Fei as he arrived at the Ancient Castle of Death, and Sun Fei identified himself.

Sun Fei arrived at the Ancient Castle of Death after learning that two powerful strangers had taken over its main hall. He met the odd pair, the middle-aged mage and the boy Arthur, as they questioned Magic Princess Xindi about how the army entered the castle.

• Reyes told Sun Fei that two experts had entered the castle, subdued the soldiers, and made Xindi serve them food and water.
• Sun Fei revealed that he had advanced to Moon Class and headed to the main hall to meet the strangers.
• Arthur and the middle-aged mage bickered over Arthur's childlike body while Xindi roasted meat for them.
• The middle-aged mage guessed that the army had entered through a secret passage and asked Xindi how they had reached the castle.