Main Story and Quests

Overview

The main story of Honor of Kings: World follows the player protagonist, the Child of the Primal Flow (元流之子), through their time as a student at Jixia Academy. The S0 Season launch content is divided into 27 chapter entries confirmed by current community data. is the most detailed chapter listing that surfaced in Chinese launch-week coverage.

The narrative introduces the academy, its faculty (the Three Sages), the student adventuring squad called the Jixia Star Team (稷下星之队), and a rotating cast of familiar Honor of Kings heroes. launch coverageDongfang Yao is the player's initial in-world guide.

The Prologue: 灭世之战

The story opens with a Prologue chapter titled 灭世之战 ("Battle of the World's End" / "Apocalyptic Battle"). The Prologue functions as a tutorial boss fight against Di Xin (帝辛), the historical last king of the Shang dynasty (also known as King Zhou / 纣王). After the player defeats Di Xin in a scripted encounter, a cutscene plays and the player enters the character creation flow. Di Xin is a Prologue tutorial boss only; he does not reappear as a recurring antagonist in the verified launch chapters.

The 27 Chapter Entries

The full chapter list from the post-launch walkthrough:

Key Story Observations

The launch narrative is episodic rather than centered on a single overarching villain. Each chapter typically resolves its own boss and hero arc. Notable structural elements:

• The first real chapter after the Prologue is "First Steps at Jixia" (初涉稷下), which formally introduces the academy

• Chapter 1 of Jixia proper is 梦启春溪原 (Dream Awakens at Chunxi Plain), placing Chunxi Plain / Springbrook Plains as the first open-world region players explore

• Dongfang Yao has a dedicated arc across Chapters 11 to 12 (Cloud Fall Anomaly and Stellar Awakening), culminating in his confrontation with 云狌 (Yunsheng / "Divine Pattern Yunsheng")

• The "Yao Series" chapters 20, 22, 24 are framed as fiction-within-fiction storybook adventures featuring Dongfang Yao

• Chapter 25 Truth Outside the Book is the climactic chapter where the storybook framing breaks, with the boss 闻声晓 (Wen Sheng Xiao)

Verified Main Characters

• Child of the Primal Flow (元流之子) - the player protagonist, a custom avatar

• Fuzi (夫子) - headmaster of Jixia Academy and first Sage

• Mozi - second Sage, inventor of Mohist Machinery

• Zhuangzi - third Sage and creator of Dreaming Word Lakeside

• Dongfang Yao - senior at Jixia and player's initial guide; protagonist of Chapters 11-12 arc and the Yao Series meta-chapters

• Xi Shi - Jixia Star Team face, has treasure-hunting environmental content

• Wang Zhaojun - has a dedicated biography mission ("Zhaojun Chronicles" / 昭君传记) reported as a 30+ minute story arc

• Leng Chun - Jixia Academy school physician (校医), S0 original hero

Playtime Estimates

Per launch-week Chinese community coverage:

• discussion: "pure story content is about 30+ hours" and "story and map can be played for two weeks" (community self-reports, not official)

• full walkthrough series (BV17PD4BAE7K): 41 episodes totaling approximately 10 hours of recorded guided playthrough footage

• Chuapp review: Wang Zhaojun's biography mission alone runs 30+ minutes

Tencent has not published an official total main-story playtime figure. Casual first-time completion likely lands in the 20 to 30+ hour range based on these community benchmarks. Earlier wiki drafts that claimed "10 chapters / 40 to 60 hours" were based on pre-launch speculation and have been corrected.

Chang'an and Post-Launch Regions

Chang'an and the Wu Clan storyline are NOT in the S0 launch content. The chapter listing contains zero Chang'an entries, and no launch-week coverage describes an in-game Chang'an quest. Chang'an is described in the game's broader lore (built by Mozi atop the Mecharium) but is reserved for future content. Similarly, the Great Wall / Northern Wilds region tied to Mulan, Kai, and Wang Zhaojun is lore-present but not a playable region at S0.

Corrections From Earlier Drafts

This article previously contained fabricated claims that have been removed:

• "Xin" as main antagonist / "Man-in-Black": 帝辛 (Di Xin) is a real character but functions as the Prologue tutorial boss only. He is not a recurring antagonist or a "Man-in-Black." No verified source describes an ongoing main villain for the S0 launch content.

• "Yunyue" as mentor character: This name is fabricated. The actual canonical character is 云狌 (Yunsheng), which is a boss encounter in Chapter 12 "Stellar Awakening" (神纹云牲 / Divine Pattern Yunsheng) tied to Dongfang Yao's story arc. Yunsheng is an antagonist boss, not a mentor.

• "10 chapters, 40 to 60 hours": Replaced with the verified 27-chapter walkthrough list and community playtime estimates of roughly 10 to 30+ hours.

Liu Cixin Framing

Tencent announced a 2021 "inspiration co-creation" (灵感共创) partnership between Liu Cixin's short novel 《诗云》 (Poetry Cloud) and Honor of Kings: World. No launch-week source I could find confirms that Liu Cixin contributed specific S0 story beats, characters, or quests. The collaboration has been described throughout in thematic / inspirational terms rather than as direct story authorship. See Liu Cixin Collaboration for the verified scope.