Chapter Summaries

Alvin helped Aisopan and the Divine Eagle Alliance move toward a fair succession contest, then decided with Fox to get married on Java Island after their underwater adventure. The Falcon Knights began the contest as Alvin and his family celebrated their plans.

• Lama Sangji agreed that the Divine Eagle Alliance should choose a suitable successor and asked Alvin to address the Falcon Knights, but Alvin refused and urged them to decide for themselves.
• Alvin reassured Aisopan about the Eagle Pearl and encouraged her to make her own choice; she went to Lama Sangji and helped begin the contest.
• Lama Sangji announced the rules, and the Falcon Knights released their falcons and rode out to search the mountains.
• Alvin told Little Ginny that Aisopan might not need to win, and promised that she would always have her family.
• Alvin proposed that he and Fox marry on Java Island during the children's spring break, and Fox eagerly agreed to help plan the wedding.
• Alvin and Fox joked about their bachelor party plans, with Alvin saying he wanted to go to Las Vegas with his friends.

Alvin and Stark joked about marriage and planned to travel through China with their families. Aisopan learned that she could remain an Eagle God Knight outside the Divine Eagle Alliance, while Alvin realized Gesang had arranged events without relying on him.

• Pepper, Shirley, and Frank arrived, and Alvin gathered the families while Stark complained about Alvin's sudden marriage plans.
• Alvin and Stark joked about bachelor parties before Stark asked about the Falcon Knights and their ritual.
• The golden giant eagle appeared, and a Falcon Knight fed an Eagle Pearl to his falcon, which painfully plucked out its feathers.
• The giant eagle gave Aisopan an Eagle Pearl, and Aisopan realized she could remain an Eagle God Knight without joining the Divine Eagle Alliance.
• Wu Lie told Aisopan she was free to choose her path, and she asked the giant eagle to care for her grandfather.
• Stark invited himself on Alvin's China trip, and Alvin agreed to travel with their families and asked Stark about finding an RV.

Alvin advised Danzeng Nima to preserve the Divine Eagle Alliance’s principles as it joined the Gun Club, then discussed with Stark moving industries and assets to the Dark Aster. The chapter left Alvin confident that his control of the passage would protect his plans from government pressure.

• Danzeng Nima inherited leadership of the Divine Eagle Alliance after feeding an Eagle Pearl to his falcon, and he admitted that the cost and his family responsibilities had made the choice difficult.
• Alvin reminded Danzeng Nima that the Alliance needed a divine eagle and urged him to honor Old Gesang’s wishes while working with the Gun Club.
• Alvin and Stark argued about wealth, inheritance, and whether their fortunes should be donated or passed on to their children.
• Alvin revealed that he planned to move Steel Digital’s core manufacturing operations to the Dark Aster and establish residency there.
• Stark said the Dark Aster’s renovation was advancing quickly and suggested moving his own core industries there, while warning Alvin that his South America plan would provoke political backlash.
• Alvin dismissed the threat of government hearings, saying his control of the passage would force them to treat him with respect.

Stark warned Alvin that the South America Plan could become an uncontrollable financial monster, and urged him to let his think tank handle negotiations. As Alvin prepared to hunt monsters in the Snow Region, Zhang Qiang arrived over alarming energy readings and clashed with him over the Gun Club’s involvement.

• Stark explained that the South America Plan’s trade system could destabilize fragile economies and urged Alvin to have his think tank negotiate with the World Security Council.
• Alvin told Stark they would stay at Eagle God Cliff and hunt monsters to avenge a little girl.
• Zhang Qiang arrived with Zhi He, brushed past Lama Sangji and Danzeng Nima, and hurried to Alvin while Zhi He told the two to stay out of the way.
• Lama Sangji and Danzeng Nima left disappointed, and Alvin told Aisopan that Danzeng Nima had shown backbone and honored her grandfather’s spirit.
• Zhang Qiang accused Alvin of triggering energy readings that nearly prompted a missile strike, but Alvin blamed the Gun Club and forced Zhang Qiang to apologize.
• Zhang Qiang ordered Zhi He to investigate the Divine Eagle Alliance, unaware that he had previously proposed bringing it into the Gun Club.

Alvin warned Zhang Qiang that Eagle God Cliff held the Golden-Winged Roc’s protected skeleton and Xingtian’s dangerous coffin, prompting the Gun Club to restrict the area. Stark then brought two luxury RVs through Alvin’s Space Gate, and Ginny admitted she still preferred camping in tents.

• Zhi He flirted with Stark and invited him to dinner with her sister, Liu Yukui, before Alvin revealed that Liu Yukui was Zhang Qiang’s wife.
• Alvin told Zhang Qiang about the Roc’s skeleton and Xingtian’s coffin beneath Eagle God Cliff, warning him not to disturb them.
• Zhang Qiang asked whether the coffin could be used against an enemy, and Alvin explained that Thanos’s forces were expected to reach Earth in a few months.
• Zhang Qiang designated Eagle God Cliff a level-two restricted zone and ordered regular patrols by the Divine Eagle Alliance.
• Alvin opened a Space Gate so Stark could bring two luxury RVs from Stark Manor to the wilderness.
• Ginny told Stark she liked the RV but preferred tents for telling scary stories.

Alvin and his companions explored the luxurious Elemmment Palazzo motorhomes and decided to visit Aisopan while discussing where their travels might take them. The group joked about Pepper’s bachelorette party and teased one another before Alvin assigned Lin Hai to teach the children during the journey.

• Alvin admired the motorhomes’ lavish interiors and took photos with Ginny and Little Morgan.
• Alvin decided the group would visit Aisopan for lamb and to discuss their next steps, while Stark argued they should travel by plane.
• Pepper suggested holding a bachelorette party on Java Island with Duke as a performer, but Alvin and Stark rejected the idea and Stark proposed Paris instead.
• Alvin, Stark, and Frank joked about getting Duke sent away or killed, while Fox laughed at Alvin’s teasing of Shang-Chi.
• Alvin sent Wu Lie to drive and ordered Lin Hai to tutor the children in the motorhome, then increased Nick’s classes after Nick offered to help him get even with Shang-Chi.

Alvin and his companions began a road trip from Aisopan’s home toward Namtso, with plans to continue through the Snow Region and Sichuan. On the drive, Alvin and Frank discussed enjoying the journey and learned that Steve was investigating strange creatures attacking camps on Nidavellir.

• Alvin, Stark, Frank, Wu Lie, Lin Hai, Aisopan, Shang-Chi, and the children set out in a convoy after resting at Aisopan’s home.
• Alvin and Frank talked about travel, Frank’s changing outlook, and his unhappy memories of a military operation.
• Alvin asked when the Avengers would leave Nidavellir, and Frank explained that they were helping Earth’s forces work with the Asgardians and Dwarves.
• Frank told Alvin that strange creatures had attacked Bio-Men camps on Nidavellir, leaving strange Bugs and no corpses behind.
• Frank said Steve had led a team to investigate the attacks, and Alvin said Steve was reliable in battle.

Alvin stopped the RVs to offer food and water to pilgrims traveling toward Lhasa, while Ginny worried that they were being forced to hurt themselves. After speaking with a pregnant pilgrim, Ginny saw that the woman was happy and returned to Alvin still puzzled by the pilgrimage.

• Ginny called Alvin over the radio, alarmed by pilgrims prostrating themselves along the road, and Alvin stopped to host them for lunch.
• Alvin explained that the pilgrims had chosen their journey and began preparing food, while Ginny searched for someone she could rescue.
• Aisopan prepared Butter Tea, and Frank bluntly praised its usefulness while insulting its taste, upsetting her.
• Alvin teased Frank about his sharp tongue, then prepared tea and a stove for the pilgrims.
• Ginny spoke to a pregnant pilgrim, saw her smile and offer a blessing, and realized the woman seemed happy.
• Ginny returned to Alvin, admitted the pilgrims appeared happy, and wondered if her classes had made her stupid.

Alvin and his companions stopped to host three Tibetan pilgrims, including a pregnant woman making the journey for her unborn child, and helped them with supplies and truck repairs. As the group prepared to continue toward Lhasa, Frank worried that Shirley might be changed by the pilgrims’ example, and Alvin urged him not to overthink her feelings.

• Aisopan invited the three pilgrims to rest and translated their story: a married couple had been traveling for three months, accompanied by a girl fulfilling her grandmother’s wish.
• The pilgrims’ village had lent them a truck and supplies so they could carry the villagers’ hopes along on their journey.
• Pepper and Shirley gave the pregnant woman supplies, while Stark worked on repairing the pilgrims’ truck.
• Frank worried that Shirley’s emotional reaction might make her question what it meant to be a good mother, and Alvin told him to stop fixating on it.
• Frank recalled feeling similarly when Nick’s mother was pregnant, and Alvin encouraged him to remain himself and help get the group back on the road toward Lhasa.

Alvin’s convoy reached Lhasa, where a traffic accident and a growing crowd forced him and Stark to flee under police escort. Zhang Qiang then told Alvin that a monster had appeared in Namtso and the Military was organizing a lockdown.

• Alvin and Stark helped a pilgrimage family reach Lhasa after Stark extensively repaired their truck.
• A young man’s sedan scraped Alvin’s motorhome, and Alvin intervened when the driver began beating the passenger.
• The passenger recognized Stark as Tony Stark, while Ginny revealed that the woman had staged the apparent beating; Alvin let the couple leave.
• Alvin and Stark improvised an argument to escape the crowd, but a police car began following their convoy.
• Zhang Qiang told Alvin about the Namtso monster and the Military’s planned lockdown, then joked that Alvin attracted trouble wherever he went.

After a traffic incident disrupted Alvin’s plans, police director Cai Wang hosted Alvin and his group at a guesthouse near the Potala Palace and arranged sightseeing and a local meal. Alvin stayed behind with Little Ginny, then joined Stark to greet the crowd as he planned to livestream their next day’s trip to Namtso.

• Alvin followed police to a remote guesthouse, where Cai Wang explained that the group’s unlicensed vehicles could not be driven on the road.
• Cai Wang warned Alvin and Stark against going out amid the tourist crowds, then offered to arrange sightseeing for the others; Little Ginny chose to stay with Alvin.
• Alvin asked Cai Wang to track down the driver who had hit him, and Cai Wang joked that he would ask traffic enforcement to deal with the reckless driver.
• Alvin wrote a souvenir list for Fox and arranged a meal of local yak meat and hand-grabbed lamb, with Cai Wang choosing the food.
• Alvin and Stark went to meet the crowd outside the guesthouse, and Alvin said he would livestream their planned monster hunt at Namtso the next day.

Alvin and Stark were mobbed by fans outside the guesthouse, and the crowd crushed the gate despite their efforts to keep everyone safe. After Stark set off a costly fireworks display, Cai Wang told them to eat, sleep, and get ready to visit Namtso the next day.

• Cai Wang arranged for the women to leave in vans while Alvin and Stark drew the fans’ attention at the guesthouse entrance.
• Alvin and Stark tried to manage the crowd, but hundreds of fans surged forward and forced them to hold up the collapsing gate.
• Stark fired signal flares, and Venom protected people and raised barriers, but the gate eventually broke and pinned Alvin and Stark until Cai Wang and the staff rescued them.
• Stark complained that the fans had harassed him, while Cai Wang noted that Stark was in China illegally and said he would need to consult his superiors.
• Stark launched his Iron Man Armor into the sky, creating a huge fireworks display that caused the Military to waste an interceptor missile.
• Cai Wang told Alvin and Stark to eat and turn in early before he took them to Namtso the next day, and Stark offered to pay for the missile.

At Namtso, Alvin and his companions prepared to draw out the lake monsters while Cai Wang worried about the children near the water. As Wu Lie, Lin Hai, and Shang-Chi headed toward the lakeshore, Cai Wang rejected Frank’s offer of a gun and explained why he opposed civilian gun ownership.

• Cai Wang warned Ginny and the other children to stay away from the lake because monsters were in the water, but they remained excited and unconcerned.
• Alvin proposed using Wu Lie and Lin Hai as bait, so Wu Lie put on his Powered Armor and marched toward the shore while Lin Hai prepared her Crane Army Armor.
• Shang-Chi volunteered to join the attempt and ran toward the lake, while Alvin teased Stark about his physique and hinted he knew a way to help him.
• Frank assembled an Electromagnetic Rifle and other weapons, then gave Cai Wang a 1911 Pistol after criticizing his worn police sidearm.
• Cai Wang returned the pistol and explained that he had served thirty years without firing a gun, arguing that widespread gun access could make violence more deadly.
• Frank defended guns as a means of self-protection, saying he would rather see his child face court than be carried to the cemetery.

Cai Wang registered the weapons in Frank’s vehicle while Alvin joked with the officers and let one of them try Warhammer armor. Stark then spotted a huge creature swimming through Namtso Salt Lake, and Lin Hai moved in to expose more of its body.

• Cai Wang asked for a weapons list and registered Frank’s arsenal, while Alvin gave him a note blaming Zhang Qiang for the equipment.
• A young officer admired the weapons and spoke of wanting to return to the army, so Alvin offered to let him try Warhammer armor.
• Nick led the young officer toward the RV as Mindy knocked Little Harry down during their mud fight.
• Stark’s wristband showed a thorn-backed monster emerging in Namtso Salt Lake and swimming toward the group.
• Lin Hai dived at the creature and forced part of its serpentine body above the water, reminding Alvin of the monster in Old Gesang’s tent story.

Alvin and his allies discovered that Namtso Salt Lake contained far more Hook Snakes than the two reported by the military, including a large number of energy readings beneath the lake. As Stark and Zhang Qiang investigated the unexpected readings, the group prepared to face the monsters and question how they had appeared.

• Lin Hai dodged a Hook Snake's attacks over Namtso Salt Lake and struck back, while Stark reconstructed the monster as nearly sixty meters long.
• Alvin told Lin Hai to withdraw, but a second Hook Snake ambushed her; Frank shot off its tail hook and saved her as it surfaced.
• Alvin ordered Shang-Chi and the others to attack the wounded Hook Snake as Stark's scans revealed many more energy readings beneath the lake.
• Alvin called Zhang Qiang, who confirmed that military scans forty-eight hours earlier had found only two Hook Snakes and no other high-energy readings.
• Alvin wondered whether the Hook Snakes had come to Namtso to reproduce and how so many had appeared.

Alvin learned from Zhang Qiang that Namtso’s rapidly breeding Hook Snakes were likely reacting to an awakened Blue Orb, tied to the World Tree and the revival of ancient inheritances. He decided he might keep an Orb for Shang-Chi before returning it, and the chapter ended as Old Gesang’s golden Divine Eagle arrived over the children.

• Stark showed Alvin the Hook Snakes’ rapid growth and mating at Namtso, while Zhang Qiang warned him not to act recklessly and explained the Monster Caverns’ history.
• Zhang Qiang described how ancient emperors had broken into five dead Monster Caverns and revealed that the Gun Club’s president had taken a sixth, where they learned the caverns were not truly enemies.
• Zhang Qiang said the caverns were energy nodes connected to the World Tree, and that the Gun Club had removed a Blue Orb that could awaken ancient inheritances.
• Alvin deduced that Wu Fengji’s strength might come from a Blue Orb and learned that the World Tree’s missing roots corresponded to the dead Monster Caverns.
• Alvin hung up on Zhang Qiang and considered keeping an Orb for Shang-Chi, then wondered about the Qin Emperor’s tomb and the Emperor’s two Orbs.
• Old Gesang’s golden Divine Eagle appeared overhead as Aisopan and the children cheered.

Alvin and his companions fought Hook Snakes at Namtso Salt Lake while searching for the Blue Orb. After Shang-Chi and Wu Lie killed one, a group of Hook Snakes linked together and charged the shore, prompting Alvin to go help them.

• The golden Divine Eagle attacked a Hook Snake, carried it into the air, and dropped it onto a boulder, leaving it barely alive.
• Frank taught Nick and Richard to use electromagnetic rifles; Richard shot and badly wounded a Hook Snake in the lake.
• Shang-Chi and Wu Lie teamed up to kill the fallen Hook Snake, with Shang-Chi's Mountain Shaker and Wu Lie's Giant Bear Spirit Mark overwhelming it.
• Alvin sent probes and summoned crows to search the lake for the densest group of Hook Snakes and the Blue Orb.
• A dozen Hook Snakes linked into a massive net and charged the shore, so Alvin told Stark to watch the others and went to back up Shang-Chi and Wu Lie.

Alvin’s lightning attack electrocuted the Hook Snakes but accidentally accelerated their reproduction and growth, forcing the group to change tactics. Stark searched for the Blue Orb’s core while Alvin prepared to bring the creatures ashore for Shang-Chi and Wu Lie to fight.

• Alvin’s Thunderstorm boiled part of Namtso Lake and electrocuted hundreds of Hook Snakes, while Shang-Chi saved Wu Lie from being shocked.
• Nick celebrated a successful shot, but Mindy emptied a magazine into the helpless Hook Snakes and outshot him.
• Stark discovered that Alvin’s lightning was charging the Blue Orb and rapidly accelerating the Hook Snakes’ reproduction and evolution.
• Alvin stopped his lightning, pulled a living Hook Snake ashore with the Golden Vine, and asked Stark whether finding the Blue Orb would stop the creatures.
• Stark told Alvin to avoid further large-scale spells while his probe mapped the lakebed, and advised bringing Hook Snakes ashore for the others to kill.
• Alvin pointed Shang-Chi and Wu Lie toward the stranded Hook Snake and wondered whether he would have to use himself as bait.

Zhang Qiang and Wu Fengji arrived at Namtso to find Alvin’s group harvesting Hook Snakes and hunting more from a yacht. Cai Wang maneuvered Zhang Qiang into backing the police station’s handling of the group’s weapons, and Zhang Qiang offered him a job at the Gun Club.

• Zhang Qiang and Wu Fengji arrived at Namtso, where the children and adults harvested barbs and tendons from hundreds of Hook Snakes while Fox, Cai Wang, and two officers kept watch.
• Mindy’s knife made a Hook Snake twitch, and Nick knocked her and little Ginny down to protect them before boasting about selling the harvested barbs.
• Pepper welcomed Zhang Qiang and Wu Fengji to camp as Alvin and the others hunted Hook Snakes from a yacht with harpoons, winches, Warhammers, Battle Axes, and Frank’s shotgun.
• Cai Wang asked Zhang Qiang to confirm that he had authorized Alvin’s group to carry weapons, then claimed the police station had received Zhang Qiang’s authorization and secured the Gun Club’s cooperation.
• Zhang Qiang agreed to send an official notice crediting Cai Wang’s station for preventing misuse of the weapons, and offered Cai Wang a position at the Gun Club.

Alvin and Stark hunted Hook Snakes while investigating the Blue Orb’s effects, then returned to shore to search for a sample and claim the orb. Alvin made clear to Wu Fengji that he would take it, leaving Zhang Qiang to interpret his warning about their cooperation.

• Alvin, Stark, Frank, Shang-Chi, and Wu Lie hunted Hook Snakes from the yacht, and Frank shut down its turrets after shooting one Alvin had nearly killed.
• Stark concluded that the Blue Orb’s energy was no longer sustaining all the Hook Snakes, making them hungry and potentially likely to escape through underground waterways; he sent robots to block the routes.
• Alvin and Stark discussed studying the orb and using its apparent energy to accelerate breeding, while Alvin’s vines searched the lake unsuccessfully.
• The group returned to shore with Hook Snake corpses, where Zhang Qiang tried to flirt with Little Ginny and later posed for Alvin’s attention.
• Alvin greeted Wu Fengji with selfies and told her he was taking the orb and would cooperate only without being treated as entitled to it.
• Zhang Qiang tried to imitate Alvin’s cheek-kiss greeting, but Alvin shoved him away and warned him not to make advances.