Recaps

Eastern Japan’s Old Witch announced she would visit the Sacred Toilet in three days, provoking outrage in the Dragon Kingdom and drawing the world’s attention. At Hua Gate headquarters, Lu Zhenhua reacted with icy fury as his Hall Masters urged him to retaliate.

• The Old Witch rejected her ministers’ pleas and insisted she would visit the Sacred Toilet in Eastern Japan, protected by the Self-Defense Forces.
• Eastern Japan’s government announced the visit, prompting the Dragon Kingdom to issue a forceful protest and its people to call for vengeance.
• Lu Zhenhua watched the announcement at Hua Gate headquarters and crushed the walnuts in his hand.
• The Hall Masters urged Lu Zhenhua to intensify economic sanctions and abduct Eastern Japanese business leaders.

Lu Zhenhua rejected limited retaliation and ordered Hua Gate to launch the Dog-Slaughter Plan against the Old Witch, despite his failing health. He sent his granddaughter Lu Qingxue to Jiangcheng to find Yue Xiaofei and test whether he could help lead the operation.

• Lu Zhenhua dismissed economic sanctions and kidnappings as inadequate and declared that Hua Gate would take direct action.
• Lu Zhenhua ordered every Hua Gate elite fighter committed to the Dog-Slaughter Plan, targeting the Old Witch within three days.
• After the Hall Masters left, Lu Qingxue asked Lu Zhenhua whether his health could withstand the operation, and he said he would not die with his old regrets unresolved.
• Lu Zhenhua instructed Lu Qingxue to go to Jiangcheng, find Yue Xiaofei, and assess whether he could serve as Hua Gate's trusted contact and spearhead.
• Lu Qingxue departed for the Dragon Kingdom while Lu Zhenhua vowed to make their enemies pay for their blood debts.

Yue Xiaofei demanded permission from Bureau 7 Chief Zhang Beihai to use [Reverse Scale] to kill Eastern Japan’s leader over her planned shrine visit, but Zhang refused and warned that acting alone would be treason. Left furious and powerless, Yue Xiaofei understood why his father and eldest brother had left the military and acted outside its rules.

• Yue Xiaofei watched the Dragon Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry condemn Eastern Japan’s planned shrine visit and grew enraged.
• Yue Xiaofei called Zhang Beihai and requested permission to go with [Reverse Scale] and kill the Old Witch.
• Zhang Beihai denied the request, citing Eastern Japan’s trap and the risks to the Dragon Kingdom, and ordered Yue Xiaofei not to leave the country without authorization.
• Yue Xiaofei slammed his fist into a wall after Zhang Beihai warned that disobedience would be treated as treason.
• Yue Xiaofei reflected on why his father, Yue Changlong, had left the military and his brother, Yue Feng, had gone overseas to establish Asura Hall.

After official orders prevented Yue Xiaofei from acting, a mysterious woman who knew his recent exploits invited him to meet alone at Jiangcheng Old Wharf. Suspecting she might offer a way to break free of his restrictions, Yue Xiaofei decided to go despite the possibility of a trap.

• Yue Xiaofei decided to act on his own after Bureau Chief's orders barred him from leaving the country.
• An unknown woman called Yue Xiaofei, recited details of his identity and recent exploits, and asked whether he would obey his restrictions or break free.
• The woman invited Yue Xiaofei to meet her alone at Jiangcheng Old Wharf at midnight, then hung up.
• Yue Xiaofei considered whether the invitation was a trap or a recruitment attempt by a mysterious third party.
• Yue Xiaofei chose to attend the meeting, confident he could fight his way out even if it was an ambush.

Yue Xiaofei prepared for the mysterious woman’s invitation and went alone to Jiangcheng Old Wharf, where he discovered four Grandmasters waiting in ambush. The masked woman offered him a fortune and a new life abroad if he left Bureau 7 and joined her consortium, leaving his decision unanswered.

• Yue Xiaofei equipped himself with Bureau 7 weapons and armor before secretly leaving his apartment.
• Yue Xiaofei reached Jiangcheng Old Wharf and sensed four Grandmasters hiding among the containers.
• Yue Xiaofei approached the woman in white as the hidden attackers trained their killing intent on him.
• The woman in white signaled two men to open cases filled with US dollars and gold bars.
• The masked woman offered Yue Xiaofei the money and help relocating his family abroad if he left Bureau 7 and joined her consortium.

Yue Xiaofei rejected the masked woman’s offer of wealth, declaring his loyalty to the Dragon Kingdom and the Yue Family. When four Grandmaster assassins attacked, he remained still until his Emperor engine activated and he finally moved.

• The woman in white offered Yue Xiaofei an astronomical fortune in exchange for his cooperation.
• Yue Xiaofei scorned the money and declared that he served the Dragon Kingdom and the Yue Family.
• The woman in white ordered her four hidden Grandmaster assassins to attack Yue Xiaofei.
• The four assassins launched a coordinated assault, but Yue Xiaofei stood unmoving as they closed in.
• Yue Xiaofei’s heartbeat thundered across the dock as his Emperor engine activated, and he moved.

Yue Xiaofei effortlessly defeated the four Grandmaster-level assassins sent by the masked woman, who revealed they belonged to Hua Gate and had been testing him. After Yue Xiaofei unmasked and interrogated her, she claimed he had passed both a loyalty test and a strength test.

• Yue Xiaofei stomped one attacker away, caught another's kick, and hurled him into a third, defeating all four assassins in seconds.
• The woman in white drew a pistol and threatened Yue Xiaofei, but she gave up when he continued approaching.
• The woman claimed the attack was a test and identified the fallen fighters as Hua Gate's Double-Flower Red Poles.
• Yue Xiaofei dismissed Hua Gate's fighters, grabbed the woman by the throat, and removed her silver mask.
• The woman said Yue Xiaofei had passed her loyalty and strength tests, leaving him confused.

Yue Xiaofei learned that Lu Qingxue was his younger cousin and that Hua Gate had tested his loyalty and strength before inviting him into a dangerous plan. Lu Qingxue revealed the plan’s codename, [Dog Butcher], and its target: the Female Chancellor of Eastern Japan, whom they intended to capture alive.

• Lu Qingxue revealed that she was the granddaughter of Lu Zhenhua, Yue Xiaofei’s missing granduncle, making her his younger cousin.
• Yue Xiaofei apologized for nearly strangling Lu Qingxue, and she explained that Hua Gate had staged the encounter as a test.
• Lu Qingxue said Hua Gate had tested Yue Xiaofei’s loyalty with money and his strength by sending four top enforcers to fight him.
• Yue Xiaofei asked what important plan Hua Gate wanted him to join, and Lu Qingxue named it [Dog Butcher].
• Lu Qingxue said the plan was to capture the Female Chancellor of Eastern Japan alive when she visited in three days.

Lu Qingxue asked Yue Xiaofei to join the Hua Gate's plan to capture the Old Witch alive in Eastern Japan, and he agreed to take on another identity beyond Bureau 7's rules. Lu Qingxue then showed him the Sacred Toilet's security plans and the Old Witch's planned route and schedule.

• Lu Qingxue told Yue Xiaofei that Granduncle Lu Zhenhua had spent decades preparing to settle old blood debts and was willing to sacrifice the Hua Gate to execute the Old Witch publicly.
• Lu Qingxue said the mission needed a top-tier assault specialist and asked Yue Xiaofei to join them.
• Yue Xiaofei agreed, declaring that they would kill whoever Bureau 7 could not and vowing to punish anyone who provoked the Dragon Kingdom.
• Yue Xiaofei and Lu Qingxue struck fists together, sealing their pact to carry out the mission.
• Lu Qingxue showed Yue Xiaofei the Sacred Toilet's layout and security maps, along with the Old Witch's planned route and schedule.

Yue Xiaofei reviewed Hua Gate’s plan to capture the Old Witch during her visit to the Sacred Toilet and recruited Han Duoduo to provide cyber support. Han eagerly agreed to take on Eastern Japan’s networks as Yue prepared to act without authorization.

• Lu Qingxue explained Hua Gate’s sniper backup and drainage-pipe assault plan for capturing the Old Witch alive.
• Yue Xiaofei said the plan needed a fallback fighter and technical support, then called Han Duoduo.
• Han Duoduo realized Yue Xiaofei planned to enter Eastern Japan without Brother Octopus’s authorization and warned him he had lost his mind.
• Yue Xiaofei asked Han Duoduo to attack Eastern Japan’s security, power, traffic, and military networks during the operation.
• Han Duoduo eagerly agreed, excited to challenge Eastern Japan’s Amaterasu defense system.

Yue Xiaofei summoned the Reverse Scale Squad to help Lu Qingxue capture the old witch alive. The team reunited at an abandoned factory outside Jiangcheng, ready to begin the operation.

• Yue Xiaofei asked Han Duoduo to assemble Reverse Scale, and she promised to bring the full team together within a day.
• Lu Qingxue realized Yue Xiaofei was Heavenly Dragon’s younger brother and said she looked forward to Eastern Japan running red with blood in three days.
• Ugly Ox and Stone Monkey received Reverse Scale’s emergency summons and left their work to join the mission.
• White Tiger Bai Bing, Jade Rabbit, and Spirit Snake also abandoned their tasks and headed to the rendezvous.
• Han Duoduo arrived at the abandoned factory in Jiangcheng, where Yue Xiaofei introduced Lu Qingxue as his cousin and the operation’s client.
• Ugly Ox, Stone Monkey, Spirit Snake, Jade Rabbit, and White Tiger Bai Bing arrived, reuniting Reverse Scale.

Yue Xiaofei gathered Reverse Scale and assigned roles for the Dog-Slaughter Plan, an operation to capture Eastern Japan’s Female Chancellor and put her on trial in a global livestream. As the team prepared to infiltrate Eastern Japan, Yue Xiaofei resolved to make the mission his first step toward rescuing his older brother, Yue Feng.

• Yue Xiaofei introduced his cousin Lu Qingxue and explained the plan to capture Eastern Japan’s Female Chancellor, winning Reverse Scale’s eager support.
• Yue Xiaofei assigned Han Duoduo to take control of Eastern Japan’s capital networks and Stone Monkey and Ugly Ox to prepare equipment and heavy weapons.
• Yue Xiaofei tasked Spirit Snake and Bai Bing with infiltration and intelligence gathering, while Jade Rabbit coordinated intelligence and contingency plans.
• Lu Qingxue thanked Yue Xiaofei for joining the mission, and he said the Yue Family would not be left out of the fight.
• Yue Xiaofei prepared to travel with Lu Qingxue to Eastern Japan and vowed to raise hell while thinking of his brother Yue Feng.

Yue Xiaofei received the Crimson Firmament Sword from Lu Qingxue as he prepared for the mission in Eastern Japan. Meanwhile, Han Duoduo hacked into the capital’s surveillance network and began targeting its traffic system.

• Yue Xiaofei and Lu Qingxue reviewed the Hua Gate’s route and the team’s arrangements for reaching the capital before the Old Witch’s visit.
• Lu Qingxue gave Yue Xiaofei the Crimson Firmament Sword, which Lu Zhenhua had inherited from Lu Lanxin and passed down for the mission.
• Yue Xiaofei drew the sword, learned its history, and vowed to use it to avenge those killed by the Japanese invaders.
• Han Duoduo and [Stone Monkey] prepared for the operation from an apartment in the capital of Eastern Japan.
• Han Duoduo breached the Amaterasu System, accessed surveillance feeds across the capital, and began hacking the traffic system.

Han Duoduo paralyzed the capital of Eastern Japan’s traffic system as a diversion while Yue Xiaofei and Lu Qingxue arrived in Yokosuka to prepare for an operation against the Old Witch. With intelligence revealing formidable guards and a suspected underground energy weapon, the team began Operation [Dog Butcher].

• Han Duoduo turned every traffic light in the capital red, trapping vehicles across the city and distracting its authorities.
• Yue Xiaofei and Lu Qingxue arrived at Yokosuka Port, where Long Wu’s Hua Gate operatives supplied them with vehicles, forged documents, weapons, and a communicator.
• Yue Xiaofei’s group left the port for the capital, and Han Duoduo assured him that she had framed hackers from Eagle Country and could restore the traffic system later.
• Han Duoduo reported that the Sacred Toilet was guarded by thousands of soldiers and police, at least two hundred powerful Shrine Guard members, and four exceptionally strong experts, one possibly nearing S-Level.
• Han Duoduo also warned Yue Xiaofei of a high-intensity energy signature beneath the Sacred Toilet and reminded him to capture the Old Witch alive.
• Yue Xiaofei agreed to rely on his team to handle the guards, and Han Duoduo declared Operation [Dog Butcher] underway.

The Old Witch prepared to visit the Sacred Toilet despite threats from the Dragon Kingdom, confident in her security forces. A masked Skull and Bones figure revealed that her real task was to provoke Yue Xiaofei and lure him into a trap so the organization could capture him alive.

• The Old Witch asked Koji Sato about threats to her visit, and he described the heavy security surrounding the Sacred Toilet.
• The Old Witch declared that no one would stop her visit and ordered Koji Sato to proceed with the plan.
• The Old Witch secretly called Demon, who told her that Skull and Bones wanted Yue Xiaofei captured alive.
• The Old Witch agreed to provoke Yue Xiaofei and became eager for the promised rewards from Skull and Bones.

Yue Xiaofei learned that Eastern Japan had sealed off the Sacred Toilet, with Eagle Country suspected of helping prepare the defenses. He rejected the suggestion to withdraw and gathered Reverse Scale Squad to reconsider the operation, though Jade Rabbit estimated a frontal assault had no more than a ten percent chance of success.

• Jade Rabbit told Yue Xiaofei that Eastern Japan had raised its alert level and blocked every approach to the Sacred Toilet, leaving Spirit Snake and White Tiger unable to get inside the cordon.
• Han Duoduo reported intercepting unusual signals traced to Eagle Country's Fifth Fleet and suspected Eagle Country had warned Eastern Japan after the previous operation.
• Han Duoduo urged Yue Xiaofei to withdraw because the operation had become too dangerous, but he decided the team would meet to change its plan.
• Yue Xiaofei stopped the van at a secluded rest area and convened an online meeting with Reverse Scale Squad's core members.
• Jade Rabbit assessed the defenses as including thousands of troops, special police, Shrine Guards, four Nation-Guarding Grandmasters, and a laser grid, and estimated a frontal assault had at most a ten percent chance of success.

Yue Xiaofei rejected Reverse Scale’s plan to abandon a mission with only a ten-percent chance of success and vowed to attack the stronghold. The chapter ended with Ugly Ox calling to say he and the others would join him.

• Jade Rabbit recommended abandoning the mission, while Stone Monkey warned that enemy electronic warfare would leave the squad blind and deaf.
• Yue Xiaofei angrily argued that the mission had to continue and declared he would go even if everyone else withdrew.
• After ending the call, Yue Xiaofei prepared to storm the stronghold alone if necessary, while Lu Qingxue silently stood beside him.
• Ugly Ox called Yue Xiaofei back, agreed with his speech, and volunteered to attack the Sacred Toilet with him.

Yue Xiaofei and Reverse Scale agreed to risk an operation against Eagle Country, but their plans were interrupted when a flamboyant hacker broke into their encrypted channel. The stranger identified himself as Wild Chicken, a two-and-a-half-year trainee secretly recruited by Yue Feng, and Yue Xiaofei asked why he had contacted them.

• Spirit Snake, Stone Monkey, White Tiger Bai Bing, Han Duoduo, and Jade Rabbit joined Yue Xiaofei in committing to the dangerous operation against Eagle Country.
• Wild Chicken hacked into Reverse Scale's encrypted communications and introduced himself as the squad's thirteenth attack-sequence member.
• Wild Chicken said Captain Yue Feng had recruited him as a trainee two and a half years earlier, though he remained unofficial because he repeatedly broke rules.
• Wild Chicken cited private incidents involving Han Duoduo and Ugly Ox to prove he knew Reverse Scale's secrets, prompting Spirit Snake to accept him as one of Yue Feng's people.
• Yue Xiaofei asked Wild Chicken why he had contacted the team.

[Wild Chicken] joined Yue Xiaofei’s operation in Eastern Japan and revealed an EMP weapon that could disable the Self-Defense Forces’ equipment and the Takamagahara laser grid. As the team revised its battle plan, the Old Witch arrived at the Sacred Toilet and declared that no threats would stop her visit.

• [Wild Chicken] arrived to help Yue Xiaofei’s team and brought his EMP device, Thunder God's Wrath.
• [Wild Chicken] explained that Thunder God's Wrath could disable unshielded electronics within five hundred meters, including the Takamagahara laser defense grid.
• Yue Xiaofei accepted the new opportunity and ordered the team to revise its battle plan while keeping the same objective.
• The Self-Defense Forces secured a five-kilometer zone around the Sacred Toilet as reporters gathered outside the cordon.
• The Old Witch arrived at nine in the morning and declared to the cameras that no threat or intimidation would stop her visit.

Old Witch's convoy neared the Sacred Toilet as Han Duoduo launched a cyberattack across the capital of Eastern Japan. After crippling the city's infrastructure and breaching its defenses, Han Duoduo prepared to unleash the next stage of her attack.

• Old Witch rode toward the Sacred Toilet, confident that her plan would succeed and that Yue Xiaofei would be destroyed if he came.
• Han Duoduo tracked Old Witch's convoy and confirmed that Thunder God's Wrath and the other units were ready while Yue Xiaofei and Sister Rabbit reached the rear command center.
• Han Duoduo activated her attack, causing subway trains to stop, power transformers to fail, and traffic lights to send drivers crashing into one another.
• The Metropolitan Police Department reported widespread blackouts, halted subway lines, traffic paralysis, and a breach of its Amaterasu System firewall.
• Han Duoduo said the cyberattack's opening moves were over and began choosing her next strike.

Han Duoduo hijacked screens and speakers across Eastern Japan's capital, broadcasting the emperor’s surrender, the Dragon Kingdom’s “March of the Big Sword,” and photographs of the Nanjing Massacre. The city’s anger gave way to horror and panic as air-raid sirens began wailing and crowds fled, convinced the victims’ spirits had come for them.

• Han Duoduo made screens throughout Eastern Japan’s capital show the emperor’s Jewel Voice Broadcast announcing surrender.
• Hijacked speakers played the Dragon Kingdom’s “March of the Big Sword,” provoking fury among the people of Eastern Japan.
• The screens displayed photographs documenting the Nanjing Massacre, silencing the angry crowds and shocking them.
• Air-raid sirens replaced the song, and a frightened woman’s scream triggered a citywide panic as people cried that ghosts had come for them.

Old Witch’s convoy was trapped amid a cyberattack that plunged Eastern Japan’s capital into chaos and humiliation. After explosions destroyed the road ahead and behind, she realized the unknown enemy intended to kill her.

• Old Witch saw the citywide chaos on her limousine’s screen and angrily demanded that Koji Sato stop the images and music.
• Eastern Japan’s cybersecurity department head told Old Witch that the attacker had rewritten the online world’s underlying rules and could not be stopped.
• Old Witch ordered the convoy to abandon the shrine visit and return to the official residence.
• An explosion destroyed the road ahead, and a second explosion cut off the convoy’s retreat.
• Old Witch realized the enemy had trapped her convoy to take her life.

Wild Chicken activated Thunder God's Wrath, disabling electronics and defenses across the area and trapping the Old Witch inside her armored car. With the Japanese forces’ defenses destroyed, Yue Xiaofei ordered Reverse Scale to advance.

• The Old Witch ordered a retreat and called for air support, but Koji Sato reported that the roads were blocked and communications had failed.
• Wild Chicken revealed Thunder God's Wrath while Yue Xiaofei aimed at the Old Witch's armored car.
• Wild Chicken activated the device, disabling the helicopters, soldiers' equipment, command tower, and laser defenses.
• The Old Witch's armored car lost power, trapping her inside its locked doors.
• Yue Xiaofei declared the warm-up over and ordered Reverse Scale to move in.

Yue Xiaofei and Reverse Scale launched a deadly assault on the Self-Defense Forces, using mechanical weapons and gas to overwhelm them. As Yue Xiaofei cornered the Old Witch, the Shrine Guard emerged from the smoke and halted the attack.

• Ugly Ox opened fire with EMP-proof machine guns while Wild Chicken scattered mechanical roosters that released choking yellow-green smoke.
• Spirit Snake and White Tiger Bai Bing slipped through the fog and killed Self-Defense Forces soldiers as the troops stumbled and fired blindly.
• Yue Xiaofei descended the building and landed on the stalled armored car, terrifying the Old Witch inside.
• A volley of shuriken and cross-shaped darts forced Yue Xiaofei and Reverse Scale to defend themselves before he could reach the Old Witch.
• The Shrine Guard, made up of samurai and ninjas, appeared ahead of the convoy as the Sacred Toilet's final line of defense.

Yue Xiaofei and Reverse Scale fought the Shrine Guard after its captain ordered them killed, but the battle stalled as the enemy samurai and ninja bought time for reinforcements. As Yue Xiaofei was pinned by a Blade Formation, Wild Chicken arrived on the battlefield.

• The Shrine Guard captain challenged Yue Xiaofei and ordered his forces to kill the invaders.
• Yue Xiaofei defeated the captain with a single kick, and the Shrine Guard charged Reverse Scale to avenge him.
• Reverse Scale battled the samurai and ninja, while Yue Xiaofei tried to reach the armored car and capture the Old Witch.
• Seven or eight samurai trapped Yue Xiaofei in a Blade Formation, preventing him from breaking through.
• Wild Chicken entered the battlefield with a strange dance step and called out to the fighters.