Chapter Summaries

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.

After defeating Duriel, Sun Fei identified the powerful Bul-Kathos' Children swords and discovered their seal let him wield them at his current level. He equipped the set and collected rare gear for Elena, then stored the remaining items to sell in Lut Gholein.

• Sun Fei recognized the unidentified swords as Bul-Kathos' Children, weapons once wielded by the legendary Barbarian leader Bul-Kathos.
• Sun Fei used Scrolls of Identify to reveal the swords' names, attributes, and set bonuses.
• Sun Fei discovered that a seal reduced the swords' power and requirements, with the seal set to weaken as he leveled until it vanished at level 60.
• Sun Fei equipped both swords and felt their immense power as he swung them.
• Sun Fei identified Duriel's three rare drops—a bow, light armor, and chain boots—and decided to give them to Elena.
• Sun Fei stored the remaining magic items in his belt space to sell in Lut Gholein.

After completing Act II in the Diablo World, Sun Fei returned to Blackstone Fortress and introduced the Saints to his companions by presenting Frank Lampard with the Leo Cloth. The Cloth transformed into armor around Lampard, and Sun Fei heard a mysterious voice explain what had happened.

• Sun Fei found Tyrael imprisoned in a hidden space, heard his familiar command to pursue Diablo and Baal, and left without receiving a reward.
• Sun Fei returned to Lut Gholein, sold equipment, and postponed traveling to Kurast Docks while he leveled up his sorceress and spent time with Elena.
• Back at Blackstone Fortress, Sun Fei studied the stars and recognized constellation patterns resembling those from his previous life.
• Sun Fei summoned Frank Lampard, Warden Oleg, Fernando Torres, Drogba, and Pierce to the tower and told them about the Saints and the constellations.
• Sun Fei presented Lampard with the Leo Cloth, which assembled itself into armor around him as Sun Fei heard a mysterious voice.

Sun Fei used the Grant skill to awaken the Leo Cloth’s power in Lampard, then rewarded other loyal warriors with constellation gear. The next day, the expedition split up, with Lampard and the Heng and Ha Generals escorting the mine slaves home while Sun Fei continued toward the imperial capital.

• Sun Fei activated the Grant skill, and the Leo Cloth equipped Lampard and greatly increased his strength and defenses.
• Lampard’s Cloth formed a starry lion and vanished into his body, leading Torres and the others to mistake it for a Dou Weapon and assume he had reached Moon Class.
• Sun Fei explained why Lampard had earned the Leo Cloth, then granted Drogba the Taurus Cloth and Pierce the Capricorn Cloth.
• Sun Fei rewarded Torres with the Bow of God and Oleg with parts of the Cancer Cloth.
• The next day, Lampard and the Heng and Ha Generals led the mine slaves back to Chambord City while Sun Fei escorted the eldest princess toward the imperial capital; the groups planned to meet outside the city in six days.

Sun Fei led the expeditionary army through the Blazing Sun Mountains, with Zola guiding them and Angela displaying her strange ability to tame beasts. After destroying Blackstone Fortress and freeing slaves from enemy mines, the party reached a lakeside campsite where they found other people already gathered.

• Zola volunteered to guide the expedition, and Sun Fei agreed to bring him and Modrić along.
• Angela calmed a raging Crimson Flame Beast, which then let Zola and Modrić approach.
• Sun Fei demolished Blackstone Fortress after the party left.
• Zola guided the army through the mountains as Oleg destroyed Black Rock mines and freed their enslaved workers.
• Sun Fei's party reached a lake at dusk and discovered a group already camped there.

Sun Fei and his companions encountered the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps, whose slave-catching had devastated Chambord, and attacked its sentries. Sun Fei confronted the corps as it besieged a Soros Merchant Group caravan, declaring that he had come to collect a debt of lives.

• Sun Fei recognized the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps after its sentry warned them away from the lake, and he snapped the sentry’s arrow in two to declare a blood feud.
• Fernando Torres shot the sentries in nearby trees before Sun Fei ordered Warden Oleg, Torres, and Petr Čech to surround the mercenaries.
• Sun Fei’s group approached the clearing, where more than two hundred Blood Blade mercenaries had surrounded the Soros Merchant Group caravan and killed many of its people.
• The one-eyed giant leading the mercenaries explained to Redknapp that the corps had discovered the caravan’s secret route through the Blazing Sun Mountains and planned to kill everyone to conceal the theft.
• Sun Fei said he had come to collect a debt from the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps, then coldly declared that the debt was lives.