Chapter Summaries

Leona learned that the First Prince’s men were pursuing Kang De and wanted to rescue him, but the old butler forbade her from involving the Vidal Family directly. He proposed using the orcs seeking the prophesied Big Mek to reach Kang De first, leaving the story with Leona accepting the scheme.

• Leona learned that the First Prince’s agents had located Kang De and were likely pursuing him to use him against Tina.
• Leona considered sending Vidal fighters to rescue Kang De, but the old butler warned that doing so would openly commit the family to a political side.
• Leona admitted she feared the Vidal Family would lose a chance to earn Kang De’s trust if it failed to help him.
• The old butler proposed hiring the orcs who were searching for the prophesied Big Mek, then sending them toward Kang De and the First Prince’s men.
• Leona agreed with the plan to use the orcs, while the old butler privately judged Kang De’s war chariot to be suitably waaaagh for the prophecy.

Kan Fantian’s greenskins set out to find the Big Mek while Kang De fled a stronger force pursuing him. Trapped underwater in his Hummer, Kang De enchanted it with White Mist, and the vehicle began to transform and come to life.

• The Vidal Family’s old butler told Kan Fantian that they had found traces of the Big Mek, hoping to lure the greenskins into fighting the eldest prince’s forces.
• Kan Fantian led his excited greenskins toward Kang De, eager to watch the Big Mek in action rather than fight alongside him.
• Kang De escaped an ambush and a magical pursuit in his enchanted Hummer, then planned to abandon the vehicle and use a bomb against his pursuers.
• A powerful spell drove Kang De off a cliff, and the Hummer plunged into a river with him inside.
• Unable to recover or take the Hummer back to the White Mist World, Kang De poured his White Mist power into an enchantment, and the vehicle began transforming into a living machine.

Kang De’s White Mist enchantment succeeded, bringing the steel giant Autobots to life and rescuing him from the river. Kang De ordered Autobots to kill their pursuers, and the two fought the attackers on the cliff.

• The pursuers watched Kang De plunge into the river and prepared to search for him with magic.
• Autobots rose from the water in robot form, lifted Kang De out, and called him Father.
• Kang De ordered Autobots to kill the pursuers, and Autobots launched rockets and explosives at the group on the cliff.
• Autobots killed Mage Lisake and fought off the warriors with his axe, guns, and vehicle transformations.
• Autobots shot Mage Aoweili and struck down a fleeing mage with a thrown axe.
• Kang De shot the fallen mage and retrieved his battle-axe while the fight continued.

Kang De and the Autobots annihilated the pursuing force, while Leona decided to pursue an alliance with him because she was both impressed by his strength and personally interested in him. Kang De drove the Autobot to a secluded valley and prepared to talk with him.

• Kang De and the Autobots killed nearly all the pursuing soldiers and knights, leaving two alive after Kang De ordered them to spare a couple.
• Kan Fantian arrived with the greenskins, who celebrated the battlefield’s destruction and searched for the missing Big Mek.
• Leona and the old butler concluded that Kang De had annihilated the entire force and discussed the Vidal Family’s decision to invest in him.
• Leona admitted she was very interested in Kang De and decided to go ahead to Goth and wait for him.
• Kang De drove west in the Hummer, stopped in a secluded valley, and told the Autobot they should talk.

Kang De spoke with the newly awakened Autobot, learned how his memories and consciousness had formed, and asked whether he would join him despite the violence ahead. The Autobot pledged to travel and fight alongside Kang De, who welcomed him aboard and proposed the name Invincible Iron Bull.

• Kang De tested the Autobot’s transformation on camera, and the Autobot revealed that he remembered everything from before his awakening, including Kang De’s private moments.
• The Autobot explained that Kang De had awakened him by sharing his life and spiritual power, and said he wanted to travel with Kang De before making his own way in the world.
• Kang De warned that his plans to help Goth and settle personal grudges would involve a war and many deaths.
• The Autobot said he would follow and fight for Kang De because he trusted him to do the right thing.
• Kang De welcomed the Autobot aboard and suggested naming him Invincible Iron Bull.

Kang De and the newly created Autobot agreed to travel together, though the Autobot chose to postpone naming himself and listed the supplies he needed to restore his weapons. Kang De returned to the White Mist World to gather supplies, leaving the Autobot to interrogate their prisoners.

• Kang De joked about naming the Autobot, and the Autobot decided to choose his own name after learning more about the world.
• Kang De and the Autobot agreed on temporary forms of address, with Iron Ox forbidden, and decided to travel together.
• The Autobot told Kang De he needed white mist, gasoline, metal, and ammunition, and explained that he could recycle small-caliber rounds into limited replacement ammunition.
• Kang De told the Autobot to question their two prisoners and record their answers, then returned to the White Mist World to find supplies.
• The Autobot woke one prisoner by throwing him onto a boulder and threatened him until he answered who he served.

Kang De learned that Tina had declared herself engaged to him and was heading toward a confrontation with the elves, while the Vidal Family had supplied information about his whereabouts. After killing two captives who had attacked him, he began plotting to use his newly awakened Autobot son to automate the labor of enchanting ammunition.

• Kang De learned from a captured knight that Tina had called him her husband and was leading her followers toward Gaoluin, near the Goth border and the elven army.
• Kang De questioned the knight about the Vidal Family, then shot him and another captive after concluding that his enemies needed to fear the consequences of attacking him.
• The Autobot told Kang De that the captives had paid for their actions, and Kang De agreed that the first prince was responsible for the chain of events.
• Kang De realized the Autobot could absorb transferred Elements and might be able to help produce enchanted bullets, while also reworking weak .22-caliber ammunition into stronger rounds.
• Kang De coaxed the Autobot into agreeing to help and prepared to transfer a blueprint and task to him using a USB drive.

Kang De persuaded the Autobots to help develop tools that could make enchanted ammunition production easier, while planning to use the resulting strength against the elves and the Empire. Leona deduced Kang De’s likely route into Goth and learned that a powerful mercenary group was searching for him.

• Kang De convinced the Autobots to handle enchanting work and explore devices for storing and outputting Elements so other workers could draw enchantments.
• Kang De fell asleep, and the Autobots promised to help him carry out his plans.
• Leona examined the two dead knights and concluded Kang De had intimidated and interrogated them before killing them.
• Leona reasoned that Kang De would travel west into Goth and then north to reach Tina, so she planned to search for him there and tell the greenskins where to go.
• Leona learned that a powerful mercenary group led by a formidable fighter was using its connections to find Kang De.

Kang De traveled west through the wilderness toward Goth, hoping to reach Tina before her volunteers entered the battlefield. As he and the Autobot continued their journey, Kang De considered supplies, weapons, and another trip to Earth, leaving their next steps unresolved.

• Kang De chose to avoid imperial settlements and drive west toward Goth, since traveling north through the empire risked an ambush.
• Kang De cooked a steak and joked about being Tina’s husband, while the Autobot questioned his supposedly unhappy reaction.
• Kang De considered buying property near a US military base in Japan to access military supplies through the White Mist World.
• The Autobot replenished ammunition and experimented with explosives, incendiaries, and enchanted bullets under Kang De’s guidance.
• Kang De noted that the Autobot’s fuel use was high and decided he needed to return to Earth to find supplies, property, and money.

Kang De continued toward Goth, hoping to contact Tina and learn about the war, while weighing what her engagement to him meant. He planned to raise money by robbing wealthy, corrupt nobles and merchants, and tried to justify his plans to the Autobots.

• Kang De told the Autobots they would reach the border that afternoon and visit a nearby imperial city to learn about wealthy nobles and merchants.
• Kang De explained that he needed money for a house and planned to melt down stolen gold to sell on Earth.
• Kang De described his planned robbery as redistributing wealth from exploitative rich people, while the Autobots pointed out that Kang De made him do chores.
• Kang De insisted that helping family with housework was not exploitation and called his household law-abiding and kind.
• Kang De told the Autobots that robbing wealthy enemies in Glittering Sand had been deeply satisfying and urged him to understand the appeal.

Kang De accidentally crossed into Goth and decided to continue toward the war-torn land rather than turn back. After finding a road and following smoke to a village, he discovered it had been destroyed in an Elvish atrocity.

• Kang De realized he had traveled too far into Goth, then claimed he had entered deliberately and changed his plan to rob the elves instead of an Imperial city.
• Kang De reflected on his bond with the people of Goth and told the Autobots they were entering a domain of war.
• Kang De decided to find a settlement and contact Tina through Goth's communications network, then followed a road across the plain.
• Kang De and the Autobots spotted black smoke and approached a ruined village, with Kang De putting on his armor before they drew near.
• Kang De entered the burned village and found its people dead, some mutilated with Elvish writing carved into their bodies.

Kang De and the Autobots found a village burned to the ground and pursued the elven cavalry whose tracks led north. After confirming the elves had massacred the villagers, they attacked the cavalry with explosives, gunfire, and the Autobots’ transformed battle form, leaving the elite riders stunned and badly injured.

• Kang De and the Autobots found the remains of a massacred village and decided to hunt down the killers.
• They followed spirit deer hoofprints north and caught up with more than thirty elven riders.
• Kang De asked the elves whether they had massacred the village, and their mocking laughter and an ice arrow confirmed their guilt.
• The Autobots fired enchanted Molotov cocktails and explosive canisters, scattering the riders and injuring elves and spirit deer.
• Kang De and the Autobots charged the elven cavalry with guns blazing, and the Autobots transformed and struck them with a battle-axe.

Kang De and the Autobot killed the elven scouts after the elves attacked him and massacred a village. Before the last elf died, Kang De confronted him with the suffering of his victims and left him to die far from home.

• The Autobot cut down the elves and scattered their war stags while Kang De attacked from nearby.
• An elf tried to sound a horn, but the Autobot severed his arms with a thrown axe, and Kang De shot him when he charged for it.
• Kang De questioned the wounded elf about his attack on the village, and the elf defended the killings as revenge and claimed the elves had come to liberate Goth.
• Kang De asked how the elf had become a demon who slaughtered innocents, then told him he would die far from home.
• The elf died with a tear on his cheek, and Kang De reflected that this was war.

After avenging the slaughtered Goth People, Kang De reflected on how war turned ordinary elves into killers and sensed an unexplained change within himself. He returned to cleaning up the battlefield, while far away Hong San was startled when the scroll associated with Master Kang blazed with light.

• Kang De told the Autobots to kill the two surviving elves, and they returned after carrying out his order.
• Kang De spoke with the Autobots about how war and its leaders turned ordinary people into perpetrators, and said the true culprits were those who started the war.
• Thinking about the elves and the war, Kang De experienced a strange change that he could not explain, though the Autobots noticed something had happened.
• Kang De ordered the Autobots to clear the battlefield and collect the elves' equipment, then said he needed to return to Earth sooner than planned.
• Hong San's scroll suddenly grew hot and flashed with dazzling light, and he wondered whether Master Kang had manifested his power.

Kang De looted and erased the traces of the elven scout force, then returned to Earth after leaving the Autobots hidden in a valley. He reunited with Old Wang, whose embrace eased his doubts about how far he had nearly gone in avenging the Goth villagers.

• Kang De searched the elves’ bodies, collected enchanted gear and frost arrows, and warned himself not to underestimate the elven army.
• Kang De decided to take the elves’ heads as proof of vengeance, but the Autobots urged him not to burden himself with a meaningless ritual; Kang De dissolved the bodies and burned the battlefield instead.
• Kang De hid the Autobots in a deserted valley and told them to remain there while he returned to the White Mist World for textbooks.
• Kang De crossed through the White Mist World to Earth, where he found a missed call from the real estate agent and heard someone unlock his door.
• Old Wang entered holding a fire axe, then dropped it and embraced Kang De when she saw he was back.

Kang De returned home briefly and found comfort in Xiaoman’s embrace before asking her to help investigate buying property in Japan. He revealed that he wanted a cheap house near a U.S. military base, leaving Xiaoman to suspect he planned to steal a nuke.

• Kang De and Xiaoman embraced as he recovered from the strain of his battles in the other world.
• Kang De and Xiaoman reminisced about their childhood habit of talking through their bedroom windows.
• Kang De told Xiaoman he had to leave after midnight and asked her to contact the Japanese agent Xiaolun about buying property in Japan.
• Kang De considered whether ghost exorcism could earn him money, then explained that he genuinely wanted to buy a house.
• Kang De said he wanted a cheap property near a U.S. military base, and Xiaoman asked if he planned to steal a nuke.

Kang De prepared to return to the other world after spending the evening with Xiaoman, while she mistakenly guessed that his plans involved a US military base and Transformers. His journey back was diverted, and he appeared in front of Hong San, who believed Kang De had been dead for forty-nine days.

• Xiaoman warned Kang De not to steal a nuclear weapon or attack a US military base, then agreed to ask Xiaolun about buying a house near one.
• Agent Xu told Kang De that powerful people had pressured him for information about the house, and Kang De suspected Xie Guangjun was behind the inquiry.
• Kang De told Xiaoman he would leave at midnight, downloaded files and entertainment for the other world, and left her asleep with a video of the Hummer transforming.
• Xiaoman watched the video and assumed Kang De was planning another Transformers adventure involving an American military base.
• Kang De arrived somewhere other than the valley and found Hong San burning spirit money for him on the forty-ninth day after his supposed death.

Kang De returned to find Hong San burning offerings for him and learned that Princess Tina had entrusted Hong San with the Crimson Scroll and a mission to deliver it to Goth’s Grand Duke. After sparing Hong San, Kang De joked that he would stay, and Hong San begged to go with him rather than become a mountain lord.

• Kang De appeared at Hong San’s offering table, frightened Hong San, and crushed his own spirit tablet.
• Kang De recognized the Crimson Scroll among the offerings and demanded to know how Hong San had obtained it.
• Hong San explained that Princess Tina had given him the scroll and a letter, ordering him to deliver them to Goth’s Grand Duke or bury them if Goth fell.
• Kang De understood that Tina had lost hope after Glittering Sand and ordered Hong San to get up, acknowledging that he had kept his promise.
• Kang De told Hong San he was not leaving, and Hong San clung to his leg and begged to go with him instead of becoming a mountain lord.

Kang De found himself in a town with Hong San and planned to search for the Autobots, but learned that Hong San had become the leader of a growing refugee group in Valentan. As Kang De offered to help Hong San escape and prepared to leave, the Crimson Scroll suddenly burst into golden flames.

• Kang De threatened Hong San, realized they were in a town, and planned to locate the Autobots using landmarks, his phone photos, and familiar sounds.
• Hong San explained how he had rescued refugees from bandits, organized them, and won several battles, building a large group that settled in Valentan.
• Hong San told Kang De that ambitious followers and Valentan's mayor wanted to use his reputation and people, and admitted he wanted to escape.
• Kang De offered Hong San a way out but refused to take him along, and Hong San agreed to return to the empire.
• Kang De picked up the Crimson Scroll, which erupted in golden flames as his strange insight and rhythm returned; Hong San recognized the glow from the previous night.

Kang De discovered that the Crimson Scroll reacted to him, but he still could not understand its writing before news arrived that the city was preparing for war. With the gates sealed and the elves approaching, Hong San urged Kang De to reveal his identity as Princess Tina’s husband and seek permission to leave.

• Kang De touched the Crimson Scroll, causing it to blaze with golden light, but he could not decipher its characters or discover its effect.
• Hong San sent away young guards who rudely confronted Kang De and warned him that his old associates might soon hear of Kang De’s arrival.
• Old Du reported that the city lord had sealed the gates, requisitioned supplies, and ordered standardized food rations because war was imminent.
• Hong San realized the city was preparing to defend itself against an elven attack and said he could not leave his people behind.
• Kang De offered to use his Extraction ability to dig an escape tunnel, but Hong San warned that Ley Line School mages would detect it.
• Hong San proposed that Kang De reveal he was Princess Tina’s husband and ask the mayor for permission to leave the city.