Chapter Summaries

The allied army of nine kingdoms reached the Zuli River and mocked Chambord City, but its confidence faltered as the city’s forces crossed the bridge and deployed. Sun Fei arrived, eager to capture Red Water City’s Flame Beasts, as both sides prepared for battle.

• The kings of the allied army discussed conquering Chambord City, enslaving its people, and demanding its surrender, while the king of Red Water City urged caution.
• Chambord City lowered its drawbridge and marched out troops carrying enormous tower shields, bows, and giant axes, startling the allied army.
• The allied leaders regained some confidence when they saw Chambord’s disorderly infantry, then mocked a group of armored men struggling across the bridge.
• The king of Red Water City boasted that his Flame God Iron Hooves could crush Chambord’s armored troops, while the allied kings eyed their armor as spoils.
• Sun Fei arrived after leaving the underground grottoes and ordered his men to capture Red Water City’s Flame Beasts alive.

Sun Fei faced the allied army of nine kingdoms, mocked its leaders, and let Black Whirlwind terrify the king of Red Water City. Red Water City's forces began their attack, while the allied kings believed Chambord City was badly outmatched.

• Chambord City's procession of armored soldiers, carriages of women, and children bewildered the allied kings.
• Sun Fei rode Black Whirlwind to the front and demanded the war reparations owed by the allied kingdoms.
• The king of Red Water City refused to pay and threatened to destroy Chambord City.
• Black Whirlwind roared, frightening the king's Crimson Flame Beast into collapsing and throwing him to the ground.
• Chambord City's soldiers and children laughed at the fallen king, raising their side's morale.
• The king of Red Water City ordered an attack, and his infantry charged toward Chambord City's formation.

Sun Fei revealed Chambord City's fifty Jebe-class sharpshooters, who killed a hundred Red Water City infantrymen with two volleys and halted the allied army's advance. He then led Chambord City's men to loot the corpses as the allied forces tried to stop them.

• The King of Red Water City sent over a hundred spear-and-shield infantrymen toward Chambord City's formation.
• Sun Fei ordered Chambord City's fifty archers to fire, and they killed the fifty soldiers at the front with precise shots through their shields' viewing holes.
• The archers fired a second volley, killing another fifty infantrymen and leaving the allied army shocked and fearful.
• Sun Fei revealed that he had strengthened and trained the archers, then ordered Chambord City's men to loot the fallen soldiers' equipment.
• The King of Red Water City ordered the allied forces to fire at Sun Fei and the looters.

Sun Fei and Chambord City's Urban Management officers looted Red Water City's fallen soldiers, outfitting themselves while taunting the allied kings. The allied army then advanced on Chambord City after the Jebe sharpshooters withdrew, leaving the confrontation poised for a new attack.

• Sun Fei and the Urban Management officers retrieved all one hundred fallen Red Water soldiers and their equipment while the Jebe sharpshooters kept the allied army at bay.
• The Urban Management officers donned the captured armor and mocked the King of Red Water, who flew into a rage and ordered the King of Shenhua to send in his heavy infantry.
• The fifty Jebe sharpshooters suddenly abandoned their position, claiming their fingers hurt, and disappeared into the distant grass.
• The King of Shenhua ordered his heavy infantry to advance, while the eldest prince of Luneng and other allied leaders sent their troops charging toward Chambord City.
• The allied kings urged their soldiers to seize Sun Fei, loot Chambord City, and capture the women on the carriages.

Princess Tanasha watched as Sun Fei faced the allied armies of nine kingdoms, confident he had a plan and judging the kingdoms’ rulers as weak and complacent. Sun Fei’s thirty giant-axe warriors hurled their weapons into the charging heavy infantry, turning the assault into a massacre.

• Tanasha refused Roman Pavlyuchenko’s offer to stop the attack and told him to study Alexander’s fighting style, while reflecting on Zenit’s decline and her interest in his rule.
• Sun Fei watched the allied forces charge and signaled Chambord City’s formation to change, sending thirty giant-axe warriors forward after the tower shields were moved aside.
• The kings of the allied kingdoms held back some troops and watched cautiously as their heavy infantry advanced toward the outnumbered warriors.
• The thirty giant-axe warriors spread into a line, spun, and hurled their axes at the charging infantry.
• The axes tore through the soldiers, armor, and weapons, leaving the front ranks severed and the battlefield filled with blood and screams.

Sun Fei’s forces devastated the coalition with a surprise magic-archer ambush after thirty axemen cut through the Shenhua infantry and escaped. The nine kings watched in shock as twenty-six women revealed themselves as magic archers and rained arrows on the charging soldiers.

• Thirty burly axemen killed at least a quarter of the Kingdom of Shenhua’s heavy infantry with spinning axes, then dropped their weapons and fled into the grass.
• The coalition soldiers charged toward Sun Fei, while Chambord City’s tower shields opened to expose the Urban Management troops.
• Sun Fei retreated to stand with the schoolchildren and urged them to learn from the battlefield as their fathers defended their homes.
• Multicolored magic attacks struck the charging coalition, killing the earth-element warrior and nearly wiping out the Shenhua heavy infantry.
• The coalition kings discovered that twenty-six women from Chambord City’s carriages were magic archers, firing a relentless barrage of elemental arrows.

After the coalition’s assault was shattered by Chambord City’s magic archers, Sun Fei confronted the nine kings and revealed his swordsmanship when one ordered him killed. The coalition collapsed into a rout, and Sun Fei captured the fleeing kings.

• Chambord City’s female magic archers killed or routed most of the coalition soldiers who charged them, leaving the surviving kings and troops terrified.
• Chambord City’s Rogues moved out on both flanks as Sun Fei descended the hill alone on Black Whirlwind and offered the kings surrender or death.
• The King of Red Water ordered a guard officer to kill Sun Fei, but Sun Fei swiftly cut the officer apart with the Purple and Azure Twin Swords.
• The King of Red Water fled, triggering a coalition-wide rout; Sun Fei pursued the kings while Black Whirlwind’s barking brought nearby warhorses crashing down.
• Sun Fei blocked the kings’ escape, and they dropped to their knees and begged for mercy; Chambord City’s Urban Management bound and captured them.

Sun Fei pursued and captured the King of Chishui while helping Chambord City defeat the Flame God Iron Hooves and the remaining allied soldiers. After the raid ended, the First Princess called Sun Fei a wildcard.

• Sun Fei rode Black Whirlwind after the fleeing King of Chishui as the Flame God Iron Hooves charged to protect their king.
• Black Whirlwind broke through the cavalry formation, and Sun Fei cut down knights with the Purple and Azure Twin Swords as they passed through the charge.
• Sun Fei caught and captured the King of Chishui, while hidden archers surrounded the surviving soldiers and forced them to surrender.
• The armored men strengthened by the Hulk Potion charged into the Flame God Iron Hooves, whose remaining cavalry were stopped by Chambord City's tower shields.
• The First Princess asked Roman Pavlyuchenko what he thought of Chambord City's fighting style, then described Sun Fei as a wildcard.

Roman Pavlyuchenko recognized Sun Fei as an unpredictable variable after Chambord crushed the nine kingdoms’ expedition. Sun Fei ordered the battlefield cleared, the prisoners held and questioned, and the kingdoms to pay doubled reparations within a month.

• Roman Pavlyuchenko reflected on the unexpected strength of Chambord’s forces and understood why the eldest princess told him to remember the battle.
• Sun Fei ordered Chambord’s soldiers to collect weapons and armor, imprison surviving prisoners, execute the gravely wounded, and take the warhorses and Crimson Flame Beasts to the royal stables.
• Paul Pierce slapped the Red Water king for protesting the seizure of his kingdom’s beasts, and the other captive kings submitted.
• Sun Fei demanded doubled war reparations from the nine kingdoms within a month and threatened to collect their kings’ heads if they resisted.
• Sun Fei ordered Oleg to question the kings about how the nine kingdoms had joined forces, then returned to Chambord City, satisfied that his soldiers had gained battlefield experience.

After Chambord City celebrated its victory over the allied forces, Sun Fei reflected on the battle and brought Angela to see the captured Crimson Flame Beasts. In Druid Mode, he calmed the agitated herd and earned their trust.

• Sun Fei returned to Chambord City with the prisoners and spoils while civilians welcomed him and the children celebrated the victory.
• Sun Fei reunited with Angela and Jima, then reviewed the battle and recorded his thoughts at the palace.
• Angela asked about Elena, and Sun Fei reassured her that Elena had recovered while privately deciding to explain his feelings for both women later.
• Sun Fei took Angela to the royal stables to see the captured horses and Crimson Flame Beasts, warning her that the beasts were dangerous.
• After the Crimson Flame Beasts rejected his approach, Sun Fei switched to Druid Mode and soothed them until they came to rub their heads against him.

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.