Recaps

Yue Xiaofei forced Ito Makoto to see the humiliating state of his great-grandfather, Ito Yūgorō. After Ito Yūgorō called to him, Ito Makoto recognized him and watched his pride and beliefs collapse.

• Ito Makoto berated the crowd and boasted that his great-grandfather would save him, but the crowd and livestream viewers laughed at him.
• Yue Xiaofei removed Ito Makoto’s blindfold and told him to look at his great-grandfather.
• Ito Makoto saw Ito Yūgorō slumped on the ground, covered in filth, and insisted the man was an actor.
• At Yue Xiaofei’s command, Ito Yūgorō called out to Ito Makoto, who recognized his voice and realized the old man was his great-grandfather.
• Yue Xiaofei mocked Ito Yūgorō as Ito Makoto’s god and trump card, calling him a pile of shit.

Yue Qinhu forced Ito Yūgorō to face the memorial names and the Tiger Regiment’s flag, then demanded that he confess and repent for his crimes. Ito Yūgorō knelt before the Modu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall as viewers around the world watched.

• Ito Makoto spat blood and fainted after the crowd mocked him.
• Yue Qinhu approached Ito Yūgorō with the Tiger Braves Battle Flag and the bayonet that had blinded him.
• Yue Qinhu made Ito Yūgorō look at the memorial wall and the 1,319 heroes of the Tiger Regiment, then ordered him to kowtow and repent.
• Overcome by fear, Ito Yūgorō knelt before the memorial hall, more than eighty years after his crimes.
• Viewers in the livestream sent gifts, praised Yue Qinhu, and honored the fallen heroes.

Yue Qinhu saw Ito Yūgorō kneel and mourned the comrades whose names he had carried on his Patchwork Garment, declaring that they had finally won. After confronting Ito’s insults, Yue Qinhu faced a hostile reporter who accused him of hating all Eastern Japanese people and being a butcher.

• Yue Qinhu released his bayonet and let go of the Tiger Braves battle flag, which Yue Xiaofei caught and replanted.
• Yue Qinhu remembered his fallen comrades by touching the patches on his garment and told them that Ito Yūgorō had knelt and they had won.
• Yue Qinhu saluted the comrades he imagined behind him and cried out, “Brothers, we won!” as veterans and livestream viewers wept and celebrated.
• Ito Yūgorō insulted Yue Qinhu and claimed he had only been forced to kneel because of luck.
• Yue Qinhu warned Ito that he should be grateful the Dragon Kingdom was civilized and had not destroyed his country for its past crimes.
• A reporter from Eastern Japan rushed through the security cordon and challenged Yue Qinhu over his supposed hatred of Eastern Japanese people and his wartime killings.

Yue Qinhu rejected a reporter’s attempt to portray the trial as racial hatred, distinguishing ordinary Japanese people from the invaders who committed atrocities. Yue Xiaofei then forced Ito Yūgorō to pick up an Edict of Self-Accusation and prepare to read it aloud, leaving Ito trembling as he agreed.

• Yue Qinhu told the reporter that he did not hate ordinary people from Eastern Japan, but hated the invaders who murdered and burned in the Dragon Kingdom.
• Yue Qinhu’s answer silenced the reporter and drew thunderous applause from the crowd.
• Yue Xiaofei threw an Edict of Self-Accusation at Ito Yūgorō and ordered him to read every word in his native language and the language of the Dragon Kingdom.
• Yue Qinhu picked up the rust-covered bayonet that had blinded him and used its threatening presence to make Ito fear refusing.
• Ito Yūgorō overcame his hesitation, picked up the document with shaking hands, and said he would read it.

Ito Yūgorō publicly confessed to his family’s war crimes and its decades-long effort to influence Dragon Kingdom writers and public intellectuals, igniting widespread anger and an online campaign against suspected collaborators. As netizens identified a scholar whose recent work matched the confession, he panicked and tried to erase his posts, but people had already exposed him.

• Yue Xiaofei forced Ito Yūgorō to read his confession in both Eastern Japanese and Dragon Kingdom speech, including accounts of massacres and human experiments.
• Ito Yūgorō confessed that the Ito Family had bribed 137 Dragon Kingdom writers and scholars to distort history and undermine national spirit.
• The crowd and livestream viewers erupted in anger, and netizens began searching for public intellectuals whose posts matched the confessed influence campaign.
• A renowned historian recognized that Ito Yūgorō’s confession matched his own articles and suspected payments, then tried to close the livestream and delete his posts.
• Furious netizens flooded the historian’s accounts with accusations and preserved screenshots as they called for his arrest.

Yue Xiaofei sentenced Ito Yūgorō to be imprisoned in Jiangcheng's Martyrs' Cemetery and forced to endure a grueling punishment rather than be killed. Ito Yūgorō faced a life of humiliation and torment as he carved his crimes into stone.

• Ito Yūgorō finished reading the Edict of Self-Accusation and collapsed, begging Yue Xiaofei to let him go.
• Yue Qinhu looked down at Ito Yūgorō with disgust, and Yue Xiaofei announced that he would not be released easily.
• Yue Xiaofei ordered Xu Wenqiang to take Ito Yūgorō back to Jiangcheng and lock him in the Martyrs' Cemetery.
• Yue Xiaofei ordered that Ito Yūgorō be kept in an iron cage, made to kneel before the memorial, and forced to hear the army's bugle and lights-out calls.
• Yue Xiaofei ordered Ito Yūgorō to carve every crime from the edict onto a stone tablet, allowing him only one meal a day and threatening three days without food if he faltered.

Yue Xiaofei sentenced Ito Yūgorō to lifelong humiliation at the Martyrs' Cemetery, and Xu Wenqiang stopped him from killing himself before taking him and the others away. Yue then offered the Tiger Braves battle flag to the Modu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall so it could be honored by future generations.

• Yue Xiaofei declared that Ito Yūgorō would be imprisoned at the Martyrs' Cemetery and made to face the memory of his crimes.
• Ito Yūgorō broke down and tried to bite off his tongue, but Xu Wenqiang dislocated his jaw and stopped him.
• Yue ordered Xu Wenqiang to take Ito Yūgorō, the unconscious Ito Makoto, and Tanaka away, and to let Ito Makoto choose his fate when he awoke.
• Xu Wenqiang's men loaded the three Eastern Japan officials into vehicles and drove them away as Tanaka protested.
• Yue Xiaofei and his grandfather offered the Tiger Braves battle flag to the Modu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall.

Yue Xiaofei and the veterans entrusted the Tiger Braves Battle Flag to the Memorial Hall and toured its exhibits. In the second-floor exhibition, Yue Qinhu recognized a young man in a photograph as Zhenhua.

• The Memorial Hall director accepted the Battle Flag from Yue Xiaofei and Yue Qinhu and ordered it placed at the center of the main exhibition hall.
• Yue Qinhu, supported by Yue Xiaofei, entered the Memorial Hall with Xu Anbang, Li Erniu, and the other veterans.
• The veterans recalled fallen comrades as they viewed battlefield relics and photographs.
• At the Resistance War Miracle exhibition, the veterans saw a portrait of a young soldier who resembled Yue Xiaofei.
• Yue Qinhu recognized the man in the photograph and cried out, “Zhenhua!”

Yue Xiaofei discovered that the legendary soldier in a Memorial Hall photograph was his granduncle, Lu Zhenhua, who had killed at least 563 Japanese invaders while holding a position during the Changsha Campaign. The director began recounting the battle, explaining that Lu was the only man left standing after his regiment was effectively destroyed.

• Yue Xiaofei recognized the photograph's Lu Zhenhua as his granduncle and read that he had killed 563 enemy invaders during the Changsha Campaign.
• Xu Anbang, Li Erniu, and the other veterans doubted the astonishing record until the director said Japanese records and reports from reinforcements confirmed it was accurate, and possibly an underestimate.
• Xu Anbang asked the director to explain the battle, and the director described the regiment's desperate defense of the southern bank of the Xinqiang River.
• The director said Lu Zhenhua's regiment had been wiped out as a fighting unit by the third day, leaving Lu as the only man on the position who could still stand.

The curator recounted how Lu Zhenhua single-handedly held a position against repeated Japanese assaults and survived artillery and poison gas. After his deeds earned him the chance of exceptional promotion, Lu refused the honors and chose to go overseas to learn technology and industry so the Dragon Kingdom could grow strong.

• The curator described how Lu Zhenhua turned the position into a trap-filled stronghold and held off more than a dozen Japanese assaults alone.
• The Japanese attacked with artillery and poison gas, but reinforcements found Lu unconscious in a collapsed bomb shelter without life-threatening wounds.
• Yue Xiaofei asked the curator what became of Lu Zhenhua after his legendary battle.
• The curator revealed that Lu refused commendations and promotion after waking from his coma.
• Lu told his superior he wanted to study powerful countries’ technology and industry overseas to help the Dragon Kingdom build a stronger nation and military.

Yue Xiaofei learned that his Granduncle Lu Zhenhua disappeared overseas after leaving the army to seek a way to make the Dragon Kingdom prosperous and strong, and resolved to find him. As Yue Qinhu and the veterans left the Memorial Hall, a young People's Armed Police platoon leader recognized the old man’s uniform and ordered his squad to salute.

• The curator told Yue Xiaofei that Lu Zhenhua had left for overseas and that no one knew whether he was alive or dead.
• Yue Xiaofei resolved to uncover Lu Zhenhua’s fate and ensure the hero was not forgotten.
• Yue Xiaofei supported Yue Qinhu as the group left the Memorial Hall, where the staff bowed to them in farewell.
• Yue Qinhu looked at Modu’s bright nightscape and murmured that there was no more shellfire.
• A young People's Armed Police platoon leader noticed Yue Qinhu’s old military uniform and ordered his squad to salute.

Yue Qinhu received a respectful salute from a squad of young soldiers and fell asleep peacefully after Yue Xiaofei brought him back to the Bai family’s residence. Yue Xiaofei asked Han Duoduo to find his missing granduncle, Lu Zhenhua, and resolved to uncover what had happened to the rest of his family.

• A squad of young soldiers saluted Yue Qinhu, who returned their salute and said that no one would dare bully them anymore.
• Yue Xiaofei helped Yue Qinhu settle into bed, where the old man soon fell asleep peacefully.
• Yue Xiaofei called Han Duoduo and asked her to investigate Lu Zhenhua, his grandmother’s younger brother.
• Han Duoduo agreed to search for Lu Zhenhua, though she warned Yue Xiaofei that the investigation could take time.
• Yue Xiaofei reflected on his father, mother, sister, and granduncle, and resolved to uncover their fates and bring his family home.

After Ito Yūgorō’s public humiliation sparked outrage in Eastern Japan, the Female Chancellor plotted to have him killed in the Dragon Kingdom and frame the country for his death. She ordered officials to hire an overseas Chinese assassin group, Hua Gate, to carry out the murder.

• The video of Ito Yūgorō kneeling spread worldwide, drawing celebration abroad and furious protests across Eastern Japan.
• The Female Chancellor smashed a tablet replaying the footage and berated her ministers for failing to prevent the disgrace.
• An intelligence official reported that the Amaterasu Group’s elite fighters, including the Twelve Demon Shadow Guards, had failed to reach the masked man.
• The Female Chancellor ordered Ito Yūgorō killed in the Dragon Kingdom so his death could be blamed on its people and used to justify sanctions or a blockade.
• The intelligence official proposed hiring Hua Gate, an overseas Chinese assassin organization, and the Female Chancellor offered up to a billion US dollars for Ito’s head to be cut off on Dragon Kingdom soil by someone with a Dragon Kingdom face.

Hua Gate Money Hall Master Qian Tong accepted a five-hundred-million-dollar contract from people of Eastern Japan to kill Ito Yūgorō, violating Hua Gate’s founding rule. The Dragon Head appeared, punished Qian Tong, and ordered Nianqing to give him his blade.

• Qian Tong learned that people of Eastern Japan were offering five hundred million dollars to kill Ito Yūgorō in Jiangcheng.
• Qian Tong ordered ten elite men to infiltrate Jiangcheng and kill Ito within three days.
• The Dragon Head arrived and confronted Qian Tong for accepting a job from Eastern Japan.
• Qian Tong admitted Hua Gate’s rule against serving Japanese invaders but begged the Dragon Head for mercy.
• The Dragon Head pierced Qian Tong’s palm with a teacup lid and told Nianqing to give him his blade.

Lu Zhenhua punished Qian Tong for betraying the Hua Gate, then learned that Yue Qinhu was alive and recognized him as his long-lost brother-in-law. Overcome with emotion, Lu Zhenhua ordered a plane prepared so he could return to Modu and see him.

• Lu Nianqing stabbed Qian Tong three times, leaving six holes in his body, after he defied the Dragon Head’s punishment.
• Lu Zhenhua asked why people from Eastern Japan were paying so much to kill one of their own, and the Intelligence Hall Master reported what had happened at the Modu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall.
• The Intelligence Hall Master identified the masked man as Yue Xiaofei and the elderly man beside him as his grandfather, Yue Qinhu.
• Lu Zhenhua recognized Yue Qinhu in the photograph as his brother-in-law, whom he had believed lost for eighty years, and broke down in tears.
• Lu Zhenhua struggled to rise from his wheelchair and ordered his people to prepare a plane so he could return to Modu and see Yue Qinhu.

After learning that his sister Lu Lanxin had died, Lu Zhenhua vowed to return to the Dragon Kingdom and protect her descendants. Hua Gate rejected Eastern Japan’s bounty and declared its support for the Yue family, prompting the Female Chancellor to order an elite squad to infiltrate Jiangcheng.

• Lu Zhenhua learned that Lu Lanxin had died, and his grief over their eighty-year separation nearly caused a medical crisis.
• Lu Nianqing reminded Lu Zhenhua that Lu Lanxin’s husband and grandnephew were still alive, renewing his resolve to return and meet them.
• Lu Zhenhua ordered Hua Gate to protect Yue Qinhu and Yue Xiaofei and to monitor Eastern Japan.
• Hua Gate rejected Eastern Japan’s bounty, punished Qian Tong for accepting it without authorization, and sent a scornful message to the Japanese.
• The enraged Female Chancellor ordered the Wild Wind Special Forces to infiltrate Jiangcheng despite warnings that the move could amount to declaring war on the Dragon Kingdom.

Ito Yūgorō endured Yue Xiaofei’s punishment in a cage at the Martyrs' Cemetery when Han Duoduo warned that an Eastern Japanese special forces unit was coming to rescue and kill him. Yue Xiaofei went to the cemetery and found Taoist priests led by Zhang Huaiyu waiting at the gate to confront the attackers.

• Ito Yūgorō remained imprisoned in a padded cage, forced to carve his crimes into a stone while guards prevented him from harming himself.
• Han Duoduo called Yue Xiaofei and told him that the Wild Wind Special Forces were coming to break Ito Yūgorō out and kill him.
• Yue Xiaofei asked whether to call the Azure Alliance or the military, but Han Duoduo said she had recruited people beyond the mundane world to deal with the attackers.
• Yue Xiaofei entered the cemetery and found a formation of Taoist priests guarding the entrance.
• Yue Xiaofei recognized Zhang Huaiyu, the Wudang prodigy, beside the elderly Taoist master and wondered how they could face a special forces unit.

Yue Xiaofei met Zhang Daoxuan, the Old Celestial Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain, and learned that he and his Taoist disciples had come to fight an elite Japanese agent team. The disciples revealed their weapons, leaving Yue Xiaofei astonished by their preparations.

• Zhang Daoxuan sensed Yue Xiaofei hiding near the Cemetery gate and called him out.
• Zhang Huaiyu recognized Yue Xiaofei and introduced Zhang Daoxuan as the current Celestial Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain.
• Zhang Daoxuan praised Yue Xiaofei and explained how he and his master had fought Japanese Invaders to defend their country.
• Yue Xiaofei asked whether the Taoists could face the heavily armed agents, and Zhang Daoxuan told his disciples to reveal their weapons.
• The Taoists opened their cases to show Type 191 Automatic Rifles, ammunition, Tactical Grenades, and a Squad Light Machine Gun.

Yue Xiaofei discovered that the Daoists of Dragon Tiger Mountain were heavily armed and prepared to fight Eastern Japan’s Wild Wind Special Forces at the Cemetery. As the enemy advanced on the iron cage, the Old Celestial Master’s Desert Eagle fired the first shot.

• The Old Celestial Master revealed his Desert Eagle, and Zhang Huaiyu explained that Dragon Tiger Mountain trained its disciples in firearms and marksmanship.
• The Old Celestial Master spotted the approaching Japanese invaders and ordered the Daoists to take up positions around the Cemetery.
• The Old Celestial Master assigned Yue Xiaofei to roam the battlefield and hunt anyone who slipped through the defensive lines.
• Yamamoto led the Wild Wind Special Forces toward the Cemetery, planning to destroy Ito Yūgorō and the iron cage with explosives.
• Yamamoto sensed something was wrong, but the Old Celestial Master fired his Desert Eagle before he could finish his warning.

The Old Celestial Master and the Taoist priests ambushed Yamamoto’s Wild Wind Special Forces with overwhelming gunfire while Yue Xiaofei hunted those trying to flank them. As Yamamoto’s survivors charged through smoke toward the Cemetery, the Old Celestial Master revealed a Gatling gun and opened fire.

• The Old Celestial Master’s shot killed Yamamoto’s deputy captain and began the ambush on the Wild Wind Special Forces.
• The Taoist priests’ rifles and light machine gun pinned down the Japanese attackers, inflicting heavy casualties.
• Yue Xiaofei silently killed agents attempting to circle behind the defenders while watching the battle.
• Yamamoto ordered the survivors to use smoke grenades and charge toward the Cemetery gates.
• The Old Celestial Master uncovered a six-barrel Gatling gun, invoked the Gatling Celestial Venerable, and pressed the firing button.

The Old Celestial Master’s Gatling Gun wiped out the Wild Wind Special Forces, but Yamamoto survived by injecting an Enhancement Drug and rushed to kill Ito Yūgorō. As Yamamoto’s sword neared Ito, Yue Xiaofei appeared before the cage with the Emperor Engine’s heartbeat echoing through the Cemetery.

• The Old Celestial Master opened fire with the Gatling Gun and killed the Wild Wind Special Forces, including most of Captain Yamamoto’s body.
• Ito Yūgorō cowered in his cage as he realized the Japanese agents had been slaughtered by the Taoists.
• Yamamoto rose from the wreckage, injected an Enhancement Drug, and charged toward Ito Yūgorō to carry out the Female Chancellor’s order to kill him.
• Yamamoto reached the cage and thrust his Samurai Sword toward Ito Yūgorō’s heart.
• The Emperor Engine’s heartbeat sounded, and Yue Xiaofei appeared between Yamamoto and Ito Yūgorō.

Yue Xiaofei saved Ito Yūgorō by killing Yamamoto and crushing his sword with two fingers, then discovered that Yamamoto’s team had been sent by the Female Chancellor. After promising to settle the Yue Family’s debts with Eastern Japan, Yue destroyed the communicator and left the Female Chancellor without a reply.

• Yue Xiaofei stopped Yamamoto’s killing blow with two fingers, broke his sword, and killed him before he could harm Ito Yūgorō.
• The Old Celestial Master ordered the Taoists to clean the battlefield while Yue Xiaofei searched the bodies for clues.
• Yue Xiaofei found an encrypted Satellite Communicator in Yamamoto’s Tactical Vest and answered the incoming call.
• The Female Chancellor recognized Yue Xiaofei and angrily demanded to know who he was.
• Yue Xiaofei warned the Female Chancellor that he would come to Eastern Japan to settle old debts, then crushed the communicator.

Yue Xiaofei told Zhang Huaiyu and the Old Celestial Master that the Kunlun Project had transformed him, and the Old Celestial Master warned him that borrowed power could harm his body. Yue Xiaofei then asked about his missing brother Yue Feng, and the Old Celestial Master’s divination ended with a cryptic prediction about Yue Feng’s path to freedom.

• Yue Xiaofei explained that the Kunlun Project’s modifications had greatly increased his strength.
• The Old Celestial Master warned Yue Xiaofei that relying on the power could bring harmful consequences, and Yue Xiaofei promised to remember his advice.
• Yue Xiaofei asked the Old Celestial Master to divine whether Yue Feng was safe after he went alone to search for their mother at Cloudtop Heavenly Palace.
• The Old Celestial Master divined that Yue Feng was lost among the clouds and would have to climb bloodstained steps before soaring into the heavens.

After the Old Celestial Master warned Yue Xiaofei that Yue Feng was trapped but not in immediate danger, Yue Xiaofei resolved to uncover the mysteries surrounding his brother and punish Ito Yūgorō. Han Duoduo posted a photograph of the Old Celestial Master’s battle on the international dark web, where the revelation of his identity terrified underground forces and left them wary of provoking the Dragon Kingdom.

• The Old Celestial Master told Yue Xiaofei that Yue Feng was trapped in a dangerous predicament but was alive for now, then departed with his disciples.
• Yue Xiaofei pondered the Old Celestial Master’s cryptic words about Yue Feng, Cloudtop Heavenly Palace, and his mother, then turned his attention back to the imprisoned Ito Yūgorō.
• Han Duoduo uploaded a photograph of the Old Celestial Master with a Gatling gun at the Martyrs' Cemetery, captioned with a warning against violating the Dragon Kingdom.
• Dark web users identified the dead soldiers as members of Eastern Japan's Wild Wind Special Forces and recognized the Taoist priest as Zhang Daoxuan, the Old Celestial Master.
• Underground organizations worldwide were shaken by the photograph and added a warning never to provoke the Dragon Kingdom.

After Wild Wind Special Forces were wiped out and [Hua Gate] attacked Eastern Japan’s overseas interests, the Female Chancellor swore revenge and chose an extreme provocation. Her ministers pleaded with her not to visit the “Sacred Toilet” in three days, warning that it would further inflame the Dragon Kingdom.

• The Female Chancellor smashed the furnishings in her residence as she reacted to the photograph of Wild Wind Special Forces’ defeat.
• An intelligence officer reported that more than a dozen secret bases had been attacked, three freighters had been impounded, and the Mitsui Conglomerate chairman had been assaulted, with [Hua Gate] claiming responsibility.
• The Female Chancellor decided to divert attention from Eastern Japan’s losses by making a provocative official visit to the “Sacred Toilet.”
• The intelligence officer, the Defense Minister, and other officials urgently tried to dissuade the Female Chancellor, warning that the visit could drive the Dragon Kingdom to retaliate even more severely.