Chapter Summaries

After Barcelona’s attack shattered the Protection of Mother Earth, Dominguez organized civilians to flee Saint Petersburg and sent Paris to open the north gate while he rode toward the imperial military headquarters. As the capital descended into panic and fighting, the ten Judgment Knights assembled before Akinfeev.

• Dominguez led his guards through the panicked streets, calmed the crowd, and ordered civilians to flee north toward Chambord City.
• Dominguez gave Paris his gold token and ordered her to gather elite security troops and clear the north gate for civilians.
• Dominguez set out alone for the imperial military headquarters, telling Paris to tell Alexander that he forgave him.
• Nobles across the residential district barricaded themselves, fled, or formed a makeshift force to fight the Barcelona invaders.
• The ten Judgment Knights assembled in the central tower of the Imperial Knights' Hall, where Akinfeev sat before them.

As the Barcelonans broke through the empire’s defenses, Akinfeev sent Piasson away with a secret scroll and powerful relics, while he and the other Judgment Knights prepared to make their last stand. On Martial Saint Mountain, Chris Sutton rallied Krasic’s disciples to fight and tried to arrange the escape of Luffy’s mother, but One Sword’s wife appeared and said there was no need.

• Akinfeev ordered the ten Judgment Knights to prepare for battle and summoned Piasson to give him a secret scroll to deliver to Alexander.
• Akinfeev gave Piasson two additional scrolls, including one containing the power of Emperor Yassin’s full-strength strike, and ordered him to escape and complete his mission.
• Piasson accepted the mission and left, while Akinfeev led the remaining Judgment Knights and their retainers into battle.
• After the Protection of Mother Earth magic array shattered, Chris Sutton rose from cultivation and rallied the disciples of Martial Saint Mountain to fight.
• Chris Sutton asked his disciples to help Luffy’s mother escape to Chambord City, but One Sword’s wife appeared and said there was no need.

As Barcelonan forces breached Zenit’s capital, the Letters and Visits Office prepared to evacuate its records and establish a covert intelligence network, while Emperor Yassin faced an offer to surrender. The chapter left Yassin surrounded by four Demigods as Busquets urged him to join Barcelona.

• A young woman killed herself rather than risk capture by the Barcelonans, and General Sutton buried her before leading Martial Saint Mountain’s disciples into battle.
• At the Letters and Visits Office headquarters, Modrić ordered the files and documents teleported to Chambord City and assigned the Cold-Blooded Nine Eagles to oversee their transport.
• Modrić tasked Koko, Woods, and Brent with the Hidden Thorn Plan to keep reporting developments in the occupied capital to Chambord City.
• Modrić refused to waste the intelligence organization’s strength defending the capital and ordered its members to begin their assignments.
• Busquets offered Emperor Yassin a place among Barcelona’s ten great generals, while Yassin remained surrounded by four enemy Demigods.

Emperor Yassin unleashed his imperial Dragon Fist sword qi and wounded Barcelona’s four Demigod-level experts, but Leo Messi appeared and effortlessly destroyed the next attack. Yassin recognized Messi as a legendary Barcelona genius and realized Barcelona’s war was driven by a secret.

• Alves, Busquets, Masiqielanuo, and Pedro attacked Emperor Yassin after taunting him and demanding his surrender.
• Emperor Yassin gathered faith from the imperial capital and used golden Dragon Fist sword qi to break the four experts’ attacks and injure them.
• Yassin launched a second wave of sword qi toward the wounded Barcelona experts.
• Four red-and-blue figures appeared, caught the sword qi, and merged into Leo Messi.
• Emperor Yassin recognized Messi’s strength and concluded that Barcelona had started the war to obtain a secret.

Emperor Yassin confronted Leo Messi, who claimed to have condensed a Divinity, and attacked him with Dragon Fist Sword Qi. At the Military Department, Dominguez rallied the frightened officers and ordered them to activate the magical command system despite the danger it posed.

• Leo Messi told Emperor Yassin that he had condensed a Divinity and urged him to fight while his Imperial Dao Faith remained active.
• Emperor Yassin mocked Messi and unleashed Dragon Fist Sword Qi against him.
• Dominguez arrived at the Military Department and challenged the officers to defend the empire rather than surrender to the Barcelona soldiers.
• The officers rallied behind Dominguez and returned to their posts.
• Dominguez ordered the officers to activate the Military Department's magical command system, exposing its location to the enemy.

Zenit’s soldiers and civilians fought desperately to slow the Barcelonan invasion of Saint Petersburg. Montoya led an elite force into the Military Department, where Second Prince Dominguez ordered the array activated.

• Zenit officers used the Military Department’s magical signals to organize resistance and protect civilians fleeing the capital.
• Two hundred and fifteen Zenit soldiers held an alley against a much larger Barcelonan force for forty minutes, killing more than five hundred enemies before falling.
• Montoya identified the Zenit Military Department as the resistance’s command center and led more than a thousand elite Barcelonan warriors toward it.
• Montoya’s force broke through Zenit blockades, stormed the Military Department, and overwhelmed its defenders.
• Second Prince Dominguez saw the Barcelonans reach the highest military and political hall and ordered the array activated.

Barcelona forces attacked the Zenit Military Department, where Dominguez’s ambush inflicted losses before Montoya engaged him in battle. After Emperor Yassin lost to Leo Messi, Messi revealed that Christo had helped destroy the central magic tower’s formation, and Christo erupted at his father’s accusation of disappointment.

• Dominguez triggered a hidden magic formation that killed hundreds of Barcelona soldiers, then ordered Dragon-Slaying Ballistae to target their Moon Class fighters.
• Montoya charged the Zenit ballista position, and Dominguez intercepted him while the ambushed Zenit troops joined the battle.
• Emperor Yassin questioned why the central magic tower had collapsed, and Messi offered to explain as Yassin stood gravely wounded after losing their fight.
• Messi revealed the Eindhoven spies who had infiltrated the tower and identified Christo as the person who enabled its destruction.
• Yassin asked Christo why he had betrayed Zenit, and Christo shouted that his father knew no word besides “disappointed.”

Christo revealed that he had helped Barcelonan and Eindhovener forces destroy the central magic tower and mutilated Granero. Emperor Yassin disowned Christo, severing him from the Zenit Imperial Family.

• Christo accused Emperor Yassin of favoring his brothers and declared that he would become Zenit's king with Barcelonan support.
• Emperor Yassin rejected Christo's accusations and explained how he had repeatedly tried to protect and provide opportunities for him.
• Christo confessed that he had smuggled Barcelonans and Eindhoveners through the defenses and helped them sabotage the Protection of Mother Earth, then presented the mutilated Granero.
• Emperor Yassin attacked Christo, but Leo Messi stopped the golden sword strike and announced his intention to install Christo as Zenit's new emperor.
• Emperor Yassin acknowledged Granero's suffering, heard Christo boast about torturing him, and cut off his own arm to expel Christo from the imperial bloodline.

Christo swore revenge after the Zenit Imperial Family severed their relationship, while Paris and Dominguez fought to protect civilians and preserve Zenit’s forces during Saint Petersburg’s fall. The chapter ended with Dominguez killing Montoya and detonating the Military Department’s final magic array, as a bright star fell across the night sky.

• Christo vowed to imprison his father, unite the Zenit Empire, kill his siblings, and torment the king of Chambord after their bloodline was severed.
• Paris led more than sixty thousand soldiers at the north gate, ordering them to escort civilians to safety and execute nobles who tried to flee.
• Dominguez refused to retreat from the besieged Military Department while his soldiers and staff issued orders to guide the defenders and civilians.
• Dominguez traded his life for Montoya’s, killing the Barcelona commander before enemy weapons pierced his body.
• Dominguez reached the highest council hall and detonated its final magic array with the remaining civilian officials, destroying the hall as a bright star fell.

Paris and Sutton were struck by the falling star’s omen as they fought to defend Saint Petersburg, while Messi confronted Yassin and Akinfeev. Frankie revealed that she had engineered Zenit’s downfall, and Sutton was swallowed by the Barcelona army.

• Paris saw the starlight fall toward the Military Department, mourned the second prince, and charged into the Barcelona ranks in fury.
• Sutton held the south gate for six hours, resolved to die rather than retreat, and was overwhelmed by the Barcelona army.
• Messi admired the falling star and taunted Yassin and the wounded Akinfeev about Zenit’s defeat.
• Frankie revealed that she was Costacurta’s daughter and had helped Barcelona enter Saint Petersburg, turned Christo against Zenit, and devised the plan to destroy the central magic tower.

Emperor Yassin faced Leo Messi and offered to reveal the secret behind Barcelona’s war in exchange for an end to the slaughter. After Akinfeev killed Frankie and sacrificed himself, Yassin whispered to Messi, then unleashed his Imperial Dao Power of Faith in a blaze of golden light.

• Leo Messi told Emperor Yassin he would halt the attack and spare some of Zenit’s bloodline if Yassin answered his questions.
• Akinfeev confirmed the ten Judgment Knights had died and said he had ensured the third prince would learn everything.
• Akinfeev charged Frankie and killed her before Busquets blasted apart his final attack.
• Old Arjen and the Chambord Saints arrived too late to save the second prince, cleared away the Barcelona soldiers, and headed north to retrieve Lady Paris.
• Emperor Yassin leaned close to Leo Messi as if revealing the secret, then said Messi could have everything the continent had amassed over the past century.
• Messi realized Yassin had said nothing, while Yassin’s Imperial Dao Power of Faith engulfed him in golden light.

Emperor Yassin dissolved into heaven and earth after warning Barcelona that Zenit would be avenged by his third prince. Messi ordered Barcelona’s forces to seize Saint Petersburg and installed Christo as a puppet ruler, while keeping the imperial palace sealed.

• Yassin declared that he had never lost to a mortal, warned Barcelona of future revenge, and dispersed into golden mist, dying without leaving a body.
• The four Barcelona Extreme Dao experts mourned Yassin and wondered whether he had told Messi a secret before his death.
• Messi ordered the four experts to occupy Saint Petersburg and keep the Zenit imperial palace intact and off-limits.
• Messi offered Christo Zenit’s throne on the condition that he obey Barcelona and suppress resistance.
• Christo eagerly offered to join the Catalan imperial family, but Messi questioned whether he was worthy and departed with him, Granero, and [Red Beard].

Arshavin and Natasha sensed the deaths of their father and family in the imperial capital and vowed revenge, while Sun Fei continued refining the Divine Domain Great World with Power of Faith. Imperial Dao Power of Faith then reached Sun Fei, who saw Yaxindadai’s image appear as he heard Emperor Yassin’s Dragon Fist; the chapter also included an author’s update notice about relocating and irregular updates.

• Arshavin and Natasha sensed the loss of their father, Dominguez, and other family members, and Arshavin swore to take revenge on Barcelona.
• Sun Fei’s Power of Faith continued to refine and expand the Divine Domain Great World and perfect its laws.
• A mysterious figure observed Sun Fei’s progress and remarked that he would need the Human Clan’s collective faith to fully refine the world.
• Vast torrents of Imperial Dao Power of Faith shaped like golden dragons entered Sun Fei’s cocoon, astonishing the mysterious figure.
• Sun Fei awoke in grief, heard Emperor Yassin’s Dragon Fist, and saw Yaxindadai’s image appear in a screen of golden faith.

Emperor Yassin gave Sun Fei a vast gift of pure-gold Power of Faith, sending him into an even deeper state of cultivation. Meanwhile, disasters pushed the Behemoth Beastmen toward migration, and Pope Ernst waited anxiously for Sun Fei to emerge and succeed him; the chapter ended with news that Torres and O'Neal had returned from Azeroth.

• Emperor Yassin appeared to Sun Fei, embraced him, and entered his body as a wisp of Power of Faith.
• The pure-gold Power of Faith flooded into Sun Fei and greatly accelerated his refinement of the Divine Domain Great World.
• Natural disasters and the spread of Metal Shamo and the Evil Water Swamp devastated the Land of Exile, prompting the Behemoth Beastmen to prepare to migrate to Azeroth.
• Pope Ernst cursed Sun Fei for entering seclusion while the Beast God Temple's search for a new pope continued without success.
• The Legion of Light rescued orcs from disasters, strengthening rumors that Sun Fei possessed Beast God Rexxar's bloodline or was the Beast God reincarnated.
• Fox High Priest Nash announced that Torres and O'Neal had returned from the Azeroth Continent.

Old Arjen’s group escaped Barcelona’s pursuit and used a teleportation array to send the wounded Lampard, Hasselbaink, Batistuta, and Paris back to Chambord City. Five Barcelona masters then discovered the teleportation’s traces and flew toward Chambord City.

• Old Arjen decided to return to Chambord City so the wounded could receive treatment, while Paris called out Alexander’s name in her sleep.
• Old Arjen’s group activated the teleportation array and sent Lampard, Hasselbaink, Batistuta, and Paris to Chambord City.
• The Saints dismantled and concealed the array after Old Arjen followed the others through the portal.
• Five Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection masters arrived, realized the Zenit survivors had teleported away, and set off to attack Chambord City.

Piasson secretly made his way north through a crowd of refugees to deliver Akinfeev’s orders to the King of Chambord as Barcelona pursued Zenit’s survivors. In the City of Behemoths, Ernst and the others worried over the invasion while Sun Fei remained in seclusion, and Elena insisted they keep waiting.

• Piasson disguised himself as a refugee and escaped Saint Petersburg with secret orders from Akinfeev, avoiding Barcelona’s hunters by concealing his power.
• Piasson concluded that Barcelona could detect power fluctuations and hurried north, fearing Chambord City might soon be surrounded.
• Several Barcelona Moon Class powerhouses streaked across the sky as Piasson traveled with the refugees toward Chambord City.
• In the City of Behemoths, Ernst, Elena, and the Chambord delegation discussed the invasion and Sun Fei’s prolonged cultivation in seclusion.
• Pierce, Drogba, and the others wanted to wake Sun Fei, but Elena told them to keep waiting.

Sun Fei emerged from seclusion just as Ernst neared death and the orcs prepared for their migration. In Chambord City, more than twenty golden-armored warriors appeared and attacked the Barcelona masters, killing one with a single punch.

• Elena stopped Ernst’s lover from forcing her way into Sun Fei’s stone hall, and Sun Fei emerged before the two women could clash.
• Sun Fei mistook the aged Ernst for an old man, and Ernst reacted excitedly at seeing him.
• The orcs prepared their migration while Chambord City arranged teleportation and reception plans with the Beast God Temple.
• Five Barcelona Moon Class masters arrived above Chambord Ancient City and one attacked its wall, but a transparent shield reflected the beam.
• More than twenty golden-armored warriors surrounded the Barcelona masters, and one killed a master with a single punch.

Chambord City’s Mithril War Souls slaughtered four Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection masters and drove off Armando, who mistook their limited pursuit range for a weakness. After Armando fled with his supposed discovery, hundreds more puppets appeared above Chambord City, and Best and Brook watched with knowing smiles.

• The golden-armored Extreme Dao masters killed three Barcelona masters and crippled Armando, the last survivor.
• Armando realized the golden warriors were likely magic puppets and guessed they could not travel far from Chambord City’s old walls.
• After testing their range, Armando concluded the puppets could not go more than two thousand meters from the walls and flew toward Saint Petersburg to report his discovery.
• Hundreds of Mithril War Souls appeared above Chambord City, revealing the scale of its hidden defenses, then vanished.
• The sight of the puppets strengthened Chambord’s confidence, while Best and Brook watched Armando’s departure with knowing smiles.

Piasson tried to protect Zenit's secret decree while Armando and Barcelona's reinforcements kept the refugees under guard. Piasson considered his options, while Sun Fei's visit to the dying Pope Ernst ended with Ernst recognizing Zhong Dajun.

• Piasson and his allies discussed using the Mithril Puppets to deter Barcelona's army and protect Zenit's refugees.
• The wounded Armando landed among the refugees, and Piasson decided not to attack the Barcelona Moon Class master.
• Armando ordered Piasson to organize the refugees and build a tent, then summoned his followers and told them to keep the refugees alive and leave Piasson alone.
• Piasson realized he could not escape safely and studied three scrolls as he considered what to do with Zenit's secret decree.
• Pope Ernst cursed Sun Fei for insulting Zhong Dajun, and Sun Fei recognized the old man.

After emerging from seclusion, Sun Fei restored Ernst’s youth and learned that Barcelona’s invasion had devastated Zenit. He agreed to complete the Behemoth Beastmen’s papal succession ceremony before returning to the Azeroth Continent, where the empire needed his help.

• Sun Fei used golden light to restore Ernst’s body to the way it had been at age twenty.
• Ernst told Sun Fei that Barcelona’s invasion had plunged Zenit into disaster, and Torres showed Sun Fei recordings of the empire’s losses and atrocities.
• Sun Fei decided to return to Zenit immediately, but Ernst persuaded him to settle the Behemoth Beastmen’s papal succession first.
• Sun Fei and Ernst arrived at the City of Behemoths, where hundreds of thousands of priests and shamans had failed to receive a response from the Beast God’s statue.
• Behemoth Beastmen wondered whether Sun Fei, rumored to carry Beast God Rexxar’s blood, might receive a miraculous response.