Recaps

Great Liang pressed its campaigns against the Great West Empire, Frostwest, and the Moses Empire while Lin Yi cultivated ties with Xinma and investigated the Ocean Ring. The fighting at the Xiling Corridor broke through Frostwest’s defenses, but Ashina Tiandu’s vastly larger army remained locked in a stalemate with Bai Zizai.

• Xinier befriended Cao Cao as Lin Yi declared the Great West Empire an enemy and sent Huo Qubing’s army across its border.
• Abaddon learned Huo Qubing served Great Liang and joined forces with Adolf, who revealed he was Abaddon’s biological father, to resist the invasion.
• Abide Leier weighed retreat as Xue Rengui approached, while Ashina Tiandu prepared Frostwest for a desperate battle against Lin Rusong’s forces.
• Princess Dada sought potatoes and an alliance with Great Liang, and Lin Yi investigated Xinma, its black gold steel, and the mysterious Ocean Ring.
• Xinier and Princess Dada learned from intelligence supplied by Xing Daorong that Great Liang greatly outmatched Xinma, and Dada chose to pursue friendly trade while assessing the empire.
• Lin Rusong ordered Zhao Yun to disrupt enemy reinforcements before Great Liang launched its assault on the Xiling Corridor.
• A Long’s allied forces tried to lure Great Liang into their planned battle, but Great Liang’s cannons and Qu Yi’s Vanguard Dare-to-Die Warriors broke through the corridor’s defenses.
• A Long discovered a white-robed cavalry force had destroyed his reinforcements, while Ashina Tiandu’s eight hundred thousand troops failed to dislodge Bai Zizai’s three hundred thousand Asura Army soldiers.

Great Liang defeated Frostwest and turned toward the Great West Empire while Lin Yi arranged trade with the Xinma Empire and learned the locations of Moses Empire’s colonies. The arc left Great Liang preparing a colonial expedition as Abide William pledged to serve Lin Yi.

• Ashina Tiandu ignored Nishu’s warnings and sent Frostwest’s army to exhaust Great Liang’s arrows, while Bai Zizai learned of the planned assault through the Net.
• Bai Zizai and Ma Chao trapped and routed Frostwest’s attackers, and Ashina Tiandu’s forces turned on one another as Ashley and Xiaoniu defected.
• Ashley ordered Frostwest to surrender, Wang Xuance revealed his role in the plan, and Jia Xu accepted the city’s capitulation as Ma Chao raised Lin Yi’s Golden Dragon Flag.
• Jia Xu declared Frostwest part of Great Liang, while A Long retreated toward the Great West Empire and Abaddon prepared to resist the coming invasion.
• Lin Yi welcomed Li Mu and Zhao Kuo’s troops, named the conquered territory Anxi, and ordered Great Liang to blockade the Great West Empire as his ministers discussed how to govern Frostwest.
• Lin Yi negotiated trade with Princess Dada, refused to give her gunpowder, and agreed to exchange goods and crops, including thread-drawing flower, seeds, and weapons.
• Princess Dada and Xinier marveled at Great Liang’s abundant rice harvest and decided to return to the Xinma Empire to prepare trade goods, while Lin Yi celebrated the harvest with his ministers.
• Abide William revealed the Moses Empire’s colonial coordinates and agreed to guide Great Liang there, so Lin Yi ordered his officials to plan an expedition and prepare for unfamiliar climates and diseases.

Lin Yi destroyed the Frostwest and Great West Empires, completing Great Liang’s conquest of the continent as the Moses Empire moved against Xinma. Great Liang prepared to aid Xinma and counter a Moses assassination plot against Lin Yi.

• Lin Yi executed his plan to end the Frostwest Empire, spared Ashina Mafa after Ashina Tiandu’s death, and named Wang Ziwen grand protector of Anxi.
• Princess Dada returned to Xinma with Great Liang’s trade goods, and Empress Mary An Da sought Great Liang’s military aid against the approaching Moses Empire.
• Great Liang’s armies broke through the Great West Empire’s defenses, and Abaddon died by suicide after his soldiers surrendered and Great Liang occupied the country.
• Lin Yi received rewards for unifying the continent, welcomed Zhuge Liang as an adviser, and began discussing new administrative divisions for Great Liang.
• Lin Yi announced the continental victory, celebrated with his consorts, and authorized a seven-day feast and a statue of Great Emperor Zhenwu.
• Princess Dada and Xinier reached Great Liang to request help, while Chen Dao and Wang Ping’s forces routed Abide Leier’s troops in the mountains.
• Emperor Moshili learned that Great Liang had conquered the Central Continent and approved a disguised Judgment Legion mission to assassinate Lin Yi.
• The Net learned of the assassination plan and prepared to retaliate as the Moses Empire mobilized against Xinma.

Lin Yi strengthened Great Liang at home while preparing to intervene in Xinma’s war against the Moses Empire. After Meng Huo destroyed the Judgment Legion’s assassination force, Lin Yi escalated retaliation, and Moshili Chaer began seeking new alliances as Xinma held the front.

• The Moses Empire attacked Xinma, and Princess Dada sought Great Liang’s aid while promising that Xinma could become her dowry.
• Mary An Da named Princess Dada Xinma’s next empress and sent Black Gold Steel to support her negotiations as Great Liang’s forces seized Moses colonies.
• Lin Rusong returned victorious, and Lin Yi welcomed his retiring generals, received captured Great West ministers, and learned that Princess Anne and the eastern palace empress were expecting children.
• Lin Yi staged a ceremony in which a Nine Provinces Tripod Cauldron descended beside the altar, then approved reforms and prepared Great Liang for overseas campaigns.
• Lin Yi allowed Lü Qiling to lead the Flying Phoenix Camp overseas after she proved her strength to the skeptical ministers.
• Princess Dada offered Xinma as her dowry, but Lin Yi refused and promised to conquer Xinma and give it to her, while pledging five hundred thousand naval troops to its defense.
• Meng Huo and Great Liang’s troops destroyed Adorno’s Judgment Legion after it infiltrated the country, and Lin Yi ordered a retaliatory campaign against the Moses Empire.
• As Xinma held the Moses army in a stalemate, Moshili Chaer considered negotiating with Great Liang or approaching Xinma for an alliance against it.