Recaps

Yue Xiaofei refused to let the Dragon Kingdom endure public humiliation after an Eastern Japan fighter injured its soldiers, and Zhang Beihai tacitly allowed him to act on his own. Yue Xiaofei and Han Duoduo headed to the competition venue, where they learned their opponent was Ito Makoto.

• Yue Xiaofei demanded to avenge the Dragon Kingdom's injured soldiers, but Zhang Beihai warned that intervening could spark an international dispute and expose Yue Xiaofei as a secret weapon.
• Han Duoduo showed Yue Xiaofei footage of an Eastern Japan warrior breaking the limbs of ten Snow Wolf Special Forces soldiers, insulting them with a plaque, and taunting the cameras.
• Yue Xiaofei declared that he would confront the warrior in his own name and take personal responsibility, and Zhang Beihai tacitly approved by noting Yue Xiaofei was not yet under Bureau 7's authority.
• Han Duoduo took Yue Xiaofei to the Modu International Expo Center, the competition's main venue, where the Eastern Japan team was giving interviews.
• Han Duoduo identified the opponent as Ito Makoto, a twenty-five-year-old physical-enhancement Awakened and one of the Divine Sons of the Amaterasu Group.

Yue Xiaofei arrived at the venue after Ito Makoto’s team defeated the Dragon Kingdom’s Snow Wolf special forces, leaving the soldiers and spectators humiliated. When Eastern Japan’s team mocked the Dragon Kingdom, Yue Xiaofei stepped forward to challenge their claim that the country had no worthy fighters.

• Han Duoduo told Yue Xiaofei that Ito Makoto had super-speed regeneration, neural acceleration, and swordsmanship capable of slashing through the sound barrier.
• Yue Xiaofei and Han Duoduo reached the venue and saw the ten injured Snow Wolf soldiers being carried out on stretchers.
• Yue Xiaofei comforted the soldiers and promised to repay their humiliation tenfold, a hundredfold.
• Nine Eastern Japan team members mocked the Dragon Kingdom and trampled a plaque bearing the words "Sick Man of East Asia" as spectators watched in anger.
• Yue Xiaofei stepped out of the crowd and shouted, "Who said the Dragon Kingdom had no one?!"

Yue Xiaofei stormed the Eastern Japan team after they humiliated the Dragon Kingdom, easily defeating two members and destroying the trampled plaque. He challenged vice-captain Koinu Taro to a duel with a humiliating wager, and Koinu Taro accepted.

• Koinu Taro mocked Yue Xiaofei, but Yue ignored him and headed for the plaque the Eastern Japan team had trampled.
• Yue Xiaofei sent one team member flying with a broken arm, then knocked another unconscious with a devastating kick.
• Yue Xiaofei complained that the blood on his shoe came from the second man’s face, then kicked the plaque in half despite the tournament officials’ intervention.
• Koinu Taro stopped his teammates and challenged Yue Xiaofei to a showdown, but Yue declared that Koinu was unworthy and demanded Ito Makoto instead.
• Yue Xiaofei agreed to fight Koinu Taro on the condition that he swallow the broken plaque in front of the world’s media if he lost; Koinu accepted and threatened to kill him.

Yue Xiaofei defeated Koinu Taro and the six other Eastern Japan team members in thirty-one seconds, forcing them to eat the broken plaque in front of the crowd. After meeting Han Duoduo, he learned that Ito Makoto was at the Bund No. 8 Club and discovered that the club—and Bund Nos. 1–38—belonged to him.

• Yue Xiaofei defeated the seven Eastern Japan team members in thirty-one seconds and knocked Koinu Taro's jaw out of joint.
• Koinu Taro and the other six team members emerged from the fighting room and ate the plaque fragments as the Dragon Kingdom spectators celebrated.
• Yue Xiaofei slipped out the back and met Han Duoduo, who told him Ito Makoto was at the Bund No. 8 Club.
• Yue Xiaofei called Bai Zhengling to arrange a club membership, and Bai Zhengling revealed that the Bund No. 8 Club and Bund Nos. 1–38 were Yue Xiaofei's properties.

Yue Xiaofei learned that Bund Nos. 1-38 belonged to him and declined Bai Zhengling’s offer to send a convoy. At Bund No. 8 Club, Wang Zicong and his friends protested being kicked out until Bai Zhengling arrived, leaving them intimidated.

• Yue Xiaofei was stunned to learn that Bund Nos. 1-38 belonged to him, while Han Duoduo imagined buying lollipops by the pound.
• Yue Xiaofei declined Bai Zhengling’s offer to send a convoy and said he would take a taxi to the club.
• Manager Li escorted Wang Zicong and the other wealthy guests out of Bund No. 8 Club because an important guest had booked it for the night.
• Wang Zicong refused to leave the entrance, and he rebuked an influencer model who dismissed the expected guest.
• Bai Zhengling arrived in a convoy led by a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, and Wang Zicong warned the model that even his father would have to kowtow to Bai Zhengling.

Yue Xiaofei arrived at The Bund No. 8 with Han Duoduo, where Bai Zhengling and the club staff welcomed him with elaborate deference. After learning that Ito Makoto and a Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce executive were meeting several heiresses upstairs, Yue Xiaofei headed to confront them.

• Bai Zhengling waited outside The Bund No. 8, then bowed to Yue Xiaofei and welcomed him as Young Master, stunning Wang Zicong and the assembled rich heirs.
• Yue Xiaofei told Bai Zhengling to keep a low profile, and Bai dismissed the welcoming crowd before leading Yue Xiaofei and Han Duoduo inside.
• Bai Zhengling reported that Ito Makoto was in the Heavenly Palace private dining room and that Section Chief Jia of the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce was there too.
• Bai Zhengling told Yue Xiaofei that Section Chief Jia had invited daughters of Modu's Ten Great Financial Groups, who were already in the private dining room.
• Yue Xiaofei recalled the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce's role in the deaths of 117 Night Watchers and decided to visit Ito Makoto.

Ito Makoto and Section Chief Jia lured nine heiresses from Modu’s financial families to a private dining room, where Ito intended to choose women to bear his children. After the heiresses rejected him and tried to leave, Ito defeated their bodyguards and left them trapped with him.

• Section Chief Jia told Ito Makoto he had gathered nine heiresses from Modu’s financial families for him.
• The nine heiresses arrived, and Chen Duo and the others questioned Section Chief Jia about the supposed business meeting.
• Section Chief Jia announced that Ito wanted to choose some of the heiresses as his women and ordered them to kneel in gratitude.
• The heiresses rejected Ito and turned to leave, but Section Chief Jia had the doors shut.
• Ito Makoto swiftly defeated the heiresses’ bodyguards and asked whether anyone still wanted to leave.

Ito Makoto threatened the nine heiresses and forced Chen Duo to agree to wear a maid outfit to save Huo Shuixian. Just as he mocked Yue Feng, Yue Xiaofei burst into the dining room and challenged him to fight.

• Ito Makoto announced that he had chosen the nine heiresses as his consorts, while Section Chief Jia revealed that he had blocked the room's phone signal.
• Ito Makoto ordered Chen Duo to wear a maid outfit and threatened to kill Huo Shuixian if she refused.
• Huo Shuixian and the other heiresses begged Chen Duo to comply, and Chen Duo agreed as Ito Makoto counted down.
• Chen Duo warned Ito Makoto that Yue Feng could defeat him, but Ito Makoto mocked the claim.
• Yue Xiaofei kicked open the dining room's gold doors and declared that he would deal with Ito Makoto himself.

Yue Xiaofei entered Ito Makoto’s private dining room and found Chen Duo and eight other heiresses in danger. He told them he had come alone, then revealed that he had already defeated Ito Makoto’s special forces, leaving Ito furious and murderous.

• Yue Xiaofei crashed into the dining room, where Chen Duo and the other heiresses pleaded for him to save them from Ito Makoto.
• Chen Duo told Yue Xiaofei that Ito Makoto had attacked Shuixian and tried to force Chen Duo into degrading clothes.
• Yue Xiaofei said his older brother, Asura Hall’s experts, and other allies had not come, and that he was alone.
• Section Chief Jia mocked Yue Xiaofei and boasted that Ito Makoto’s special forces had defeated Snow Wolf.
• Yue Xiaofei claimed he had crippled Ito Makoto’s soldiers and shown them eating the “Sick Man of East Asia” plaque, then played footage proving it.
• Ito Makoto watched the footage and erupted with murderous rage.

Yue Xiaofei faced down Section Chief Jia, who held him at gunpoint and demanded the Lu family assets. After the gun misfired, Yue Xiaofei took it and shot Section Chief Jia dead.

• Ito Makoto raged at Yue Xiaofei for humiliating the Eastern Japan warriors, while Section Chief Jia claimed Yue had relied on the Azure Alliance.
• Section Chief Jia blocked the door, pointed a handgun at Yue Xiaofei, and demanded that he transfer his Lu family assets to the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce.
• Yue Xiaofei challenged Section Chief Jia to fire, then pressed his chest against the gun as Chen Duo and the other heiresses begged him to back down.
• Section Chief Jia pulled the trigger, but the gun only clicked, allowing Yue Xiaofei to snatch it from him.
• Section Chief Jia insisted the gun was empty, but Yue Xiaofei fired three shots into his chest and told him he had guessed wrong.

Yue Xiaofei killed Section Chief Jia and faced down Ito Makoto and his armed men. After Ito boasted that he was a divine being, Yue Xiaofei struck him so hard that he was embedded in the wall.

• Yue Xiaofei shot Section Chief Jia after sabotaging the gun so it would not fire in Jia’s hands.
• Ito Makoto deduced how Yue Xiaofei had blocked and then cleared the gun’s firing mechanism, and praised his skill.
• Yue Xiaofei refused to surrender or reveal his identity, and Ito Makoto ordered his men to stand down while he confronted him.
• Ito Makoto declared himself the Amaterasu Group’s Divine Son and claimed he had never been defeated.
• Yue Xiaofei slapped Ito Makoto into the marble wall and said that villains died because they talked too much.

Yue Xiaofei effortlessly defeated Ito Makoto’s gunmen after slapping him into a wall, but Ito recovered through super-speed regeneration and prepared to attack. Before their battle began, Yue asked whether Ito had siblings and declared that the Ito Family’s bloodline would end that day.

• Yue Xiaofei’s slap sent Ito Makoto crashing into the wall, and the nine heiresses mocked the defeated prodigy.
• The Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce gunmen fired at Yue Xiaofei, but he evaded their bullets, knocked them unconscious, and caught the bullets in his hands.
• Ito Makoto regenerated from his injuries, revealed his fighting strength, and readied his katana for a duel with Yue Xiaofei.
• Yue Xiaofei asked Ito whether he had siblings, then declared that the Ito Family’s bloodline would end that day.

Ito Makoto revealed his ancestor’s role in the massacre of Modu and attacked Yue Xiaofei with his Demon Blade, but Yue Xiaofei effortlessly evaded every strike. The chapter ended with Yue Xiaofei mocking Ito Makoto as a clown.

• Ito Makoto boasted about his blade and his great-great-grandfather Ito Yūgorō, who had attacked Modu.
• Chen Duo recognized Ito Yūgorō as a war criminal who had massacred tens of thousands of people, while Ito Makoto celebrated his ancestor’s crimes.
• Ito Makoto drew his Demon Blade Murasame and threatened Yue Xiaofei and the nine heiresses before launching a Dimensional Slash.
• Yue Xiaofei dodged Ito Makoto’s attack and then casually evaded a barrage of slashes, leaving Ito Makoto exhausted and furious.
• Yue Xiaofei called Ito Makoto the biggest joker in the deck and a clown rather than Eastern Japan’s Divine Son.

Yue Xiaofei defeated Ito Makoto and rejected his threats and pleas for mercy, demanding that Ito summon his great-grandfather, Ito Yūgorō, to Modu to confess and beg forgiveness. Ito remained alive but pinned and beaten as Yue Xiaofei laid down his demand.

• Yue Xiaofei broke Ito Makoto’s sword arm, took the Demon Blade Murasame, and beat him while the blade’s chill suppressed his regeneration.
• Yue Xiaofei answered Ito Makoto’s threats about his powerful family with a defiant speech about the Dragon Kingdom’s history, and Chen Duo and the other eight heiresses cheered him.
• Ito Makoto begged for his life and offered money and favors, while Yue Xiaofei forced his face into the bloodied floor and made him call him Grandpa.
• Yue Xiaofei told Ito Makoto to summon Ito Yūgorō to Modu, confess before the cemetery of the murdered Dragon Kingdom citizens, and publicly kneel, kowtow, and beg forgiveness.

Yue Xiaofei confronted Ito Makoto over Eastern Japan’s war crimes and demanded that Ito’s great-grandfather come to Modu and apologize. After threatening to kill Ito, Yue forced him to agree to contact his great-grandfather.

• Yue Xiaofei demanded that Ito Makoto’s great-grandfather come to Modu and kowtow in apology, threatening to kill Ito if he refused.
• Chen Duo and the other heiresses denounced Ito’s claims that Eastern Japan had liberated the Dragon Kingdom and accused his people of atrocities.
• Yue Xiaofei reminded Ito that December 13 was the national memorial day for the victims and broke Ito’s other leg.
• Yue Xiaofei threatened Ito with Demon Blade Murasame and declared that the balance of power had shifted and the Dragon Kingdom could strike back.
• As Yue Xiaofei prepared to cut his throat, Ito Makoto agreed to contact his great-grandfather.

Yue Xiaofei spoke with Ito Yūgorō, the influential great-grandfather of Ito Makoto, and ordered him to come to Modu to confess his wartime crimes. After Ito Yūgorō threatened Yue and his loved ones, Yue cut off five of Ito Makoto’s fingers and challenged the old man to stop him.

• Ito Makoto ordered the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce gunmen to disable the Signal Jammer and called his great-grandfather, Ito Yūgorō.
• Ito Yūgorō praised Ito Makoto for defeating the Snow Wolf unit and made lewd remarks about women in Modu, enraging Chen Duo, the other heiresses, and Yue Xiaofei.
• Ito Makoto begged Ito Yūgorō to save him, and Yue Xiaofei took the phone and ordered Ito Yūgorō to come to Modu within twelve hours to confess and atone at the War of Resistance Memorial Hall.
• Ito Yūgorō refused Yue’s demand, threatened him and his loved ones, and ordered him to release Ito Makoto and beg for mercy.
• Yue Xiaofei cut off all five fingers on Ito Makoto’s left hand, then told Ito Yūgorō that he had cut off five fingers and asked what the old man could do to him.

Yue Xiaofei threatened Ito Makoto, destroyed his phone, and provoked Ito Yūgorō into deploying the Twelve Demon Shadow Guards to Modu. As the heiresses feared the fallout, Bai Zhengling, Han Duoduo, and Xu Wenqiang arrived at the dining room.

• Yue Xiaofei ended his call with Ito Yūgorō after threatening to remove a piece of Ito Makoto every hour, then crushed the satellite phone.
• Ito Yūgorō ordered the Female Chancellor to use the Amaterasu satellite system to locate Yue Xiaofei and summoned the Twelve Demon Shadow Guards.
• Ito Yūgorō sent the twelve guards to Modu to protect Ito Makoto and kill Yue Xiaofei.
• Chen Duo and the other heiresses worried that Yue Xiaofei's actions could cause an international incident, but he remained unconcerned.
• Bai Zhengling entered with Han Duoduo and Xu Wenqiang, and Xu Wenqiang knelt to pay his respects to Yue Xiaofei.

Yue Xiaofei broadcast his demand to the world, ordering Ito Yūgorō to confess and kneel at the Modu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall within twelve hours or face the same fate as Ito Makoto. After Ito Yūgorō sent his Demon Shadow Guards to Modu, Yue Xiaofei announced the first hour had passed and delivered a chilling warning as Ito Makoto screamed off camera.

• Yue Xiaofei ordered Xu Wenqiang to set up a global live stream, while Han Duoduo hijacked broadcast signals and added real-time subtitles.
• Yue Xiaofei publicly identified Ito Makoto and demanded that Ito Yūgorō appear at the Modu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall within twelve hours to confess, kneel, and kowtow.
• The Eastern Japan prime minister condemned the broadcast, while the Dragon Kingdom authorities issued a restrained statement that signaled they would not intervene.
• Ito Yūgorō learned that the Twelve Demon Shadow Guards had reached Modu and ordered them to kill Yue Xiaofei in front of the cameras after an hour.
• After the first hour passed, Yue Xiaofei warned Ito Yūgorō that he had eleven hours left as Ito Makoto's scream rang out over the live stream.

As the Dragon Kingdom and foreign powers clashed over Yue Xiaofei’s broadcast, twelve members of the Twelve Demon Shadow Guards infiltrated the club where he was holding Ito Makoto. Yue Xiaofei masked his face, confronted Upper Rank Three, Gōwōza, and declared that he would wash the sky with their blood.

• Foreign leaders condemned the broadcast and demanded an explanation from the Dragon Kingdom, whose officials refused to intervene.
• Han Duoduo detected twelve strange energy signals entering the club, and the lights went out.
• Yue Xiaofei put on a mask and announced that the world would see what happened to those who trespassed on the Dragon Kingdom.
• Gōwōza revealed himself, introduced himself as Upper Rank Three, and demanded Yue Xiaofei’s name.
• Yue Xiaofei mocked Gōwōza as an Ito family pet and called the Twelve Demon Shadow Guards maggots.
• Yue Xiaofei addressed his compatriots through the drone and vowed to wash the sky clean with the invaders’ blood.

Yue Xiaofei used an impossible position swap to make Gōwōza’s devastating punch hit Ito Makoto instead of himself. As Gōwōza prepared another attack, Yue Xiaofei declared that the fight was over and told him to take his last words to King Yama.

• Yue Xiaofei’s livestream declaration provoked furious reactions across the Dragon Kingdom, Eastern Japan, and Western nations.
• Ito Yūgorō ordered Gōwōza to kill Yue Xiaofei as Gōwōza charged and unleashed his Destructive Kill-Annihilation Form.
• Yue Xiaofei remained unharmed after secretly swapping places with Ito Makoto, leaving Ito Makoto critically wounded by Gōwōza’s punch.
• Ito Yūgorō saw Ito Makoto’s injuries on the livestream, spat blood, and furiously attacked the furnishings in his room.
• Gōwōza realized Yue Xiaofei had outmatched him and began preparing another strike, but Yue Xiaofei cut him off and declared it was his turn.

Yue Xiaofei killed Gōwōza with overwhelming speed and strength, then refused Doma’s offer to join the Empire. As Doma ordered the remaining Ghost Shadow Guards to attack, a member of the Dragon Kingdom’s [Reverse Scale] squad arrived to support Yue Xiaofei.

• Yue Xiaofei seized Gōwōza before he could react and killed him with a storm of punches, declaring him the first of twelve enemies to fall.
• Xu Wenqiang and Han Duoduo watched Yue Xiaofei’s victory in shock, while people around the world reacted to the livestream.
• Doma identified himself as Upper Rank Two and offered Yue Xiaofei glory and status if he served the Empire.
• Yue Xiaofei refused to surrender, declaring that his family defended the Dragon Kingdom and that he had nowhere to retreat.
• Doma ordered the ten remaining Ghost Shadow Guards to attack, but [Ugly Ox] of the Dragon Kingdom’s [Reverse Scale] squad entered to provide support.

Ugly Ox arrived to protect Yue Xiaofei and used an explosive trap to slaughter the Ghost Shadow Guards. Doma was left barely alive, while Yue Xiaofei remained unharmed.

• Yue Xiaofei recognized Ugly Ox as one of his big brother’s trusted comrades from the [Reverse Scale] squad.
• Han Duoduo watched Ugly Ox appear on the surveillance screen and anticipated trouble for the Japanese attackers.
• Doma questioned whether the whole [Reverse Scale] squad had arrived, but Ugly Ox said he was enough on his own.
• Ugly Ox scattered crimson sparks across the Ghost Shadow Guards, then set them off with his lighter.
• The explosions killed all ten Ghost Shadow Guards and hurled Doma into a wall, while an invisible barrier protected Yue Xiaofei.
• Ugly Ox asked the barely surviving Doma whether his explosive art had packed a punch.

Ugly Ox’s destruction of the Demon Shadow Guards left Doma badly wounded, but Doma called on the mysterious Upper Rank One, Kurosaki. Kurosaki emerged from the shadows and nearly killed Ugly Ox before Yue Xiaofei’s Demon Blade Murasame stopped his attack, leaving the assassin hidden and the fight unresolved.

• Dragon Kingdom viewers celebrated as Ugly Ox’s explosive attack devastated the Demon Shadow Guards, while Eastern Japan’s internet fell silent.
• Doma, reduced to his mangled upper body, called for Kurosaki and warned that the final Demon Shadow Guard would wipe them out.
• Han Duoduo told Yue Xiaofei and Ugly Ox that she could find no information on Kurosaki, suggesting everyone who had seen him fight had died.
• Ugly Ox dismissed Kurosaki and moved to finish Doma, but a human-shaped shadow rose behind him and attacked his neck with a black blade.
• Yue Xiaofei hurled Demon Blade Murasame to block the strike, and Kurosaki vanished into the darkness after their blades clashed.
• Ugly Ox escaped with a shallow cut on his neck and cursed at the shadows while Kurosaki remained concealed.

Yue Xiaofei and Ugly Ox struggled against Kurosaki, whose Shadow Breathing Technique let him attack from any shadow, until a mysterious blind woman in red entered the room. She identified herself through the Ning family’s history and warned that Eastern Japan had forgotten the pain of its defeat sixty years earlier.

• Doma revealed that Kurosaki could hide in shadows, and Kurosaki wounded Ugly Ox despite his attempt to illuminate the room with explosions.
• Kurosaki attacked Yue Xiaofei and Ugly Ox from multiple shadows, leaving both badly wounded while Han Duoduo and Xu Wenqiang watched helplessly.
• Ugly Ox prepared to use his powerful Big Ivan explosive and urged Yue Xiaofei to escape, but Yue Xiaofei refused to abandon him.
• As Kurosaki prepared to kill them, bells rang and a blind woman in red entered the dining room.
• The woman said the Ning family had destroyed three thousand martial schools in Eastern Japan sixty years earlier and warned that someone had forgotten that pain.

Ning Hongye appeared to confront Kurosaki, and Yue Xiaofei learned of her family's legendary defeat of Eastern Japan's martial arts world sixty years earlier. Ugly Ox described Ning Hongye as the Three-Nothings Girl, whose final defining trait was being unbeatable.

• Ning Hongye arrived and declared that her family had wiped out three thousand Eastern Japan martial arts schools sixty years earlier.
• Kurosaki recognized Ning Hongye and vowed to kill her to avenge the humiliation of the past.
• Yue Xiaofei realized Ning Hongye was the fiancée he had spoken with by phone, while Ugly Ox celebrated her arrival.
• Ugly Ox told Yue Xiaofei how Ning Hongye's grandfather, Ning Xiong, defeated Eastern Japan's martial arts masters and secured their oath to stay out of the Dragon Kingdom.
• Ugly Ox explained that Ning Hongye was called the Three-Nothings Girl: she lacked joy or sorrow, affection or loyalty, and was unbeatable.