Recaps

Li Dakang arrived at Black Tortoise Manor, suspended Jin Dapao, and threatened to have him shot as a suspect. Yue Xiaofei tried to expose the Gao Family’s plot, but Li Dakang sided with Director Ruan, leaving Yue determined to appeal to higher authorities.

• Li Dakang arrived and announced that Jin Dapao was suspended and named a suspect for assaulting a superior.
• The Flying Tiger Squad Members prepared to defend Jin Dapao, but he ordered them to stand down and said he would take responsibility himself.
• Director Ruan taunted Jin Dapao by threatening his family, provoking Jin Dapao’s murderous aura and prompting Li Dakang’s Elite Guards to aim their guns at him.
• Yue Xiaofei intervened and said Gao Zisheng’s men had kidnapped him, while Hou Tao and Director Ruan had been bribed to stop Jin Dapao from rescuing him.
• Li Dakang demanded proof of Yue Xiaofei’s claims and favored Director Ruan’s side, so Yue vowed to appeal to the Provincial Capital or Longdu.

Jin Dapao stood up to Director Ruan’s threats and called for military reinforcements while Yue Xiaofei held firm in his complaint. A fighter jet descended over Black Tortoise Manor, announcing the arrival of Jin Dapao’s old comrade Zhao Mengsheng.

• Yue Xiaofei vowed to take his complaint to Longdu, and Director Ruan threatened to imprison him and Jin Dapao.
• Jin Dapao seized Director Ruan at gunpoint, then revealed the weapon was a signal gun and fired a flare into the sky.
• Jin Dapao announced that his reinforcements were his old military comrades, while Li Dakang insisted the city’s streets were sealed.
• Jin Dapao declared that his reinforcements were coming through the sky, and a supersonic fighter jet swooped toward Black Tortoise Manor.
• Jin Dapao welcomed the pilot as his brother and old comrade as the jet arrived.

Zhao Mengsheng arrived at Black Tortoise Manor in a White Emperor fighter jet to help Jin Dapao and Yue Xiaofei, leaving the crowd stunned by his presence. Li Dakang, Hou Tao, and Director Ruan mistook him for a low-ranking officer and grew bold enough to threaten to arrest him.

• Jin Dapao revealed that his reinforcements were coming as a White Emperor fighter jet swooped down and landed at Black Tortoise Manor.
• Li Dakang identified the aircraft as an advanced fighter from the Nantianmen Project, and Zhao Mengsheng stepped out in a bloodstained uniform without rank insignia.
• Jin Dapao greeted Zhao Mengsheng angrily for arriving late and reminded him how much Yue Xiaofei had suffered.
• Hou Tao and Li Dakang reasoned that Zhao Mengsheng was probably an ordinary officer because he had arrived alone, unaware that a hundred thousand troops were following him.
• Director Ruan claimed Zhao Mengsheng was only a regimental commander and threatened to have the Northern Frontier Army arrested alongside Jin Dapao.

Zhao Mengsheng found Yue Xiaofei badly injured and, grieving that he had arrived too late, gave him his own military uniform and vowed to protect him. When Li Dakang challenged Zhao and threatened to call his superiors, Jin Dapao revealed Zhao’s name and his connection to Yue Changlong.

• Zhao Mengsheng saw Yue Xiaofei’s injuries and erupted in fury at the people who had harmed him.
• Yue Xiaofei recognized Zhao Mengsheng from his father’s photograph and told him that Yue Changlong had promised Zhao would stand by his friends.
• Zhao Mengsheng blamed himself for arriving late, but Yue Xiaofei reassured him that he had been defending their country.
• Yue Xiaofei pulled away from Zhao Mengsheng’s embrace because he feared staining the uniform, so Zhao draped his own military uniform over the boy and vowed no one would hurt him again.
• Li Dakang confronted Zhao Mengsheng and threatened to report him, but Jin Dapao identified him as a scout trained by Yue Changlong and revealed his name to the crowd.

Zhao Mengsheng’s general’s belt and commanding presence alarmed Li Dakang, but Director Ruan mistook him for an ordinary soldier and boasted of his father-in-law, Liang Wanfeng. Zhao had Liang called directly and confronted him, leaving his identity and the consequences for Jiangbei unresolved.

• Li Dakang noticed Zhao Mengsheng’s General’s Belt and feared he might serve under the Northern Frontier’s God of War Shanhe.
• Director Ruan dismissed Zhao as an old noncommissioned officer and threatened him with the influence of his father-in-law, Liang Wanfeng.
• Zhao Mengsheng stopped Jin Dapao from revealing his rank and asked Director Ruan who his father-in-law was.
• Zhao ordered his deputy general to contact Liang Wanfeng, shocking the onlookers and deepening Li Dakang’s suspicions.
• The deputy general connected Zhao to Liang, and Zhao demanded to know what Liang had done wrong.

Liang Lu demanded that Liang Wanfeng punish Jin Dapao for beating Ruan Zhongxian, but learned that God of War Shanhe was heading to Jiangcheng with an army of one hundred thousand to save someone. The chapter ended with Liang Wanfeng slapping Liang Lu after she imagined Shanhe was coming for her.

• Liang Lu burst into Liang Wanfeng's study and demanded that he arrest Jin Dapao for beating Ruan Zhongxian.
• Liang Wanfeng said he had already arranged to have Jin Dapao removed from his post and explained that Jiang Bichij controlled the Gao Family and would retaliate against him.
• Liang Wanfeng told Liang Lu that God of War Shanhe was rushing to Jiangcheng with an army of one hundred thousand after lighting all one hundred Beacon Fire towers.
• Liang Wanfeng said Shanhe was coming to save someone, and Liang Lu fancied that he might be coming for her.
• Liang Wanfeng slapped Liang Lu when she asked whether Shanhe might be secretly in love with her.

Liang Wanfeng and Liang Lu learned that God of War Shanhe was the Zhao Family’s heir and hoped to win his favor, but Zhao Shanhe called to condemn Liang Wanfeng for protecting Ruan Zhongxian and the Gao Family. He gave Liang Wanfeng one minute to settle the matter or face the consequences.

• Liang Wanfeng told Liang Lu that God of War Shanhe was the eldest son of the Longdu Zhao Family, and Liang Lu imagined marrying him.
• Liang Wanfeng received a call from Zhao Shanhe, while Liang Lu wrongly assumed the call was about a proposal.
• Zhao Shanhe accused Liang Wanfeng of letting Ruan Zhongxian bully people, having Jin Dapao removed from his post, and covering up the Gao Family’s crimes.
• Liang Wanfeng realized Zhao Shanhe’s forces had come over the mistreatment of the young man at Black Tortoise Manor and tried to blame Ruan Zhongxian alone.
• Zhao Shanhe rejected Liang Wanfeng’s promise to deal with Ruan Zhongxian later and gave him one minute to settle the matter.

Zhao Mengsheng confronted Director Ruan outside Black Tortoise Manor and claimed he could handle anything Jiangbei could not. Liang Wanfeng’s furious call revealed his fear of Zhao and left Director Ruan ordered to kneel and apologize.

• Zhao Mengsheng told Director Ruan that he had spoken with Liang Wanfeng, but Director Ruan and Hou Tao dismissed the call as a bluff.
• Zhao Mengsheng declared that he could handle whatever Jiangbei could or could not handle, silencing the crowd with his imposing presence.
• Director Ruan answered Liang Wanfeng’s call and boasted that he planned to arrest Zhao Mengsheng.
• Liang Wanfeng furiously cursed Director Ruan, disowned him as a son-in-law, and warned him that he had provoked someone he could never afford to offend.
• Director Ruan dropped his phone and challenged Liang Wanfeng’s warning, but Liang ordered him to kneel, kowtow, and apologize to Zhao Mengsheng.

After Liang Wanfeng disowned Director Ruan, Zhao Mengsheng ordered Ruan and his accomplices taken away. Zhao then revealed his identity as the Nine-Star God of War, leaving Li Dakang stunned.

• Liang Wanfeng ended the call after warning Director Ruan not to drag the Liang Family down, and Ruan fell to his knees begging Zhao Mengsheng for mercy.
• Director Ruan crawled to Jin Dapao and Yue Xiaofei to plead, but Jin kicked him away and Zhao ordered the guards to take him.
• Zhao Mengsheng accused Li Dakang and Hou Tao of helping the Gao Family and ordered them taken away as well.
• Li Dakang claimed Zhao had no authority to arrest him, so Zhao showed him a Credential identifying himself as Zhao Shanhe, the Nine-Star God of War.
• Li Dakang recognized Zhao Shanhe's identity and collapsed in shock.

Zhao Mengsheng and Yue Xiaofei headed to the Gao Corporation Building to confront the Gao Family, while Zhao told Yue about his father, Yue Changlong. He began recounting how Yue Changlong returned from his wedding journey to lead his company into battle at Black Hat Mountain.

• Zhao Mengsheng ordered the Guards to take Li Dakang and Hou Tao away, then learned from Yue Xiaofei that the Gao Family was holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony downtown.
• Zhao Mengsheng, Yue Xiaofei, and Jin Dapao drove toward the Gao Corporation Building, and Yue insisted on going despite his injuries.
• Yue Xiaofei asked Zhao Mengsheng what his father, Yue Changlong, had been like to the soldiers who served with him.
• Zhao Mengsheng recalled that Yue Changlong's wedding leave had finally been approved, but the 7th Armored Company received orders to attack Black Hat Mountain soon after he left.
• As the company prepared to march without its commander, Yue Changlong returned exhausted from the road and appeared before his men.

Zhao Mengsheng told Yue Xiaofei how his father returned to his company after hearing that war had broken out, walking over a hundred miles through the wilderness. He ended by recalling the toast his father gave the 7th Armored Company before it set out for Black Hat Mountain.

• Zhao Mengsheng recalled that Yue Xiaofei's father left his wedding journey and walked back to the camp after hearing news of fighting at the border.
• Zhao Mengsheng explained that Yue Xiaofei's father had walked over a hundred miles, wearing through his army shoes and enduring hunger and thirst.
• Yue Xiaofei wept as he realized his father had wanted to be with his family but had answered a greater responsibility.
• Zhao Mengsheng said Yue Xiaofei's father spent the company's pooled wedding money on Moutai and Zhonghua cigarettes for the 120 men.
• Zhao Mengsheng recalled Yue Xiaofei's father raising his cup and telling the company, “Comrades! Finish your drinks! Smoke your cigarettes! We'll meet at Martyrs' Cemetery!”

Zhao Mengsheng brought Yue Xiaofei and Jin Dapao to the Gao Corporation Building’s ribbon-cutting to publicly accuse the Gao family of crimes. He handed Yue Xiaofei a remote control and revealed that its red button would level the building.

• Yue Xiaofei arrived with Zhao Mengsheng and Jin Dapao at the Gao Corporation Building as the Gao family prepared to celebrate its new headquarters.
• Zhao Mengsheng interrupted the ribbon-cutting and declared that the Gao family’s mansion, wealth, and descendants would face ruin.
• Jin Dapao accused the Gao family of kidnapping Yue Xiaofei and burying residents beneath a construction site, while Yue Xiaofei accused Gao Zisheng of threatening his grandfather and trying to kill him.
• Gao Tianxiong called Jin Dapao a fugitive and ordered his guards to seize him and Yue Xiaofei, but Zhao Mengsheng stopped their advance with his presence.
• Zhao Mengsheng handed Yue Xiaofei a remote control and said its red button would reduce the Gao Corporation Building to rubble.

Zhao Mengsheng used a remote to demolish the newly completed Gao Corporation Building, exposing the Gao Family to a shocking show of force. As the building collapsed, Gao Tianxiong and the guests watched in terror.

• Gao Zisheng mocked Yue Xiaofei and Zhao Mengsheng, insisting the building could not be demolished by a remote.
• Yue Xiaofei declared that he would seek justice for the people the Gao Family had harmed and pressed the remote’s red button.
• The Gao Corporation Building remained standing for several seconds, leading Gao Zisheng and Gao Tianxiong to believe Zhao Mengsheng had been bluffing.
• Zhao Mengsheng counted down from three, and explosions tore through the building from the top floor downward.
• The Gao Corporation Building collapsed in a controlled demolition while nearby buildings remained untouched.

Zhao Mengsheng demolished the Gao Corporation Building as revenge for the Gao Family’s threats against the Yue Family, then faced ten armed bodyguards. He charged them with the Black Dragon Eighteen Hands, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Zhao Mengsheng’s precision demolition charges destroyed the Gao Corporation Building without damaging nearby buildings or hurting anyone.
• Yue Xiaofei thanked Zhao Mengsheng for avenging him and the Yue Family, while Gao Zisheng erupted in rage and Gao Tianxiong demanded to know how the building had been destroyed.
• Zhao Mengsheng warned that the building’s destruction was only an appetizer, and Gao Zisheng ordered his ten bodyguards to capture Zhao Mengsheng and Yue Xiaofei.
• The bodyguards advanced with stun batons and daggers as Zhao Mengsheng stepped in front of Yue Xiaofei and charged them with the Black Dragon Eighteen Hands.

Zhao Mengsheng effortlessly defeated Gao Tianxiong’s ten bodyguards, but Gao refused to back down and summoned over a thousand armed men to surround the plaza. As the mob closed in, Zhao revealed a vast fleet of Kunpeng transport planes emerging from the storm clouds above.

• Zhao Mengsheng defeated all ten bodyguards in just over a minute, impressing the guests and alarming Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng.
• Brother Dao warned Gao Tianxiong that Zhao was far too formidable to provoke, but Gao refused to retreat and summoned his men to the plaza.
• Over a thousand armed thugs arrived and surrounded Zhao Mengsheng, Yue Xiaofei, and Jin Dapao after Gao offered a ten-million reward for their deaths.
• Yue Xiaofei urged Zhao and Jin to leave, but Zhao reassured him that the mob was no threat.
• Zhao challenged Gao’s claim that the Gao Family ruled Jiangcheng and pointed to the sky, where more than a thousand Kunpeng transport planes emerged from the clouds.

Zhao Mengsheng brought a hundred thousand Northern Frontier soldiers to confront Gao Tianxiong and his thugs, revealing his immense authority and his connection to Yue Xiaofei’s father. The thugs surrendered, leaving Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng isolated as Jin Dapao declared that Jiangcheng’s balance of power had changed.

• More than a thousand Kunpeng transport planes and a hundred thousand Northern Frontier soldiers surrounded the square, terrifying the Gao Family’s thugs.
• Senior military officers reported to Zhao Mengsheng, and Yue Xiaofei realized his father’s comrade commanded the assembled forces.
• Zhao Mengsheng confronted Gao Tianxiong, accused the Gao Family of kidnapping and trying to kill Yue Xiaofei, and asked the soldiers what punishment they deserved.
• Jin Dapao ordered the thugs to surrender, and they dropped their weapons, blamed the Gao father and son, and left them isolated.
• Gao Tianxiong warned Jin Dapao that he was still a fugitive, but Jin Dapao replied that Jiangcheng’s balance of power had changed long ago.

Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng tried to threaten Zhao Mengsheng with a complaint, but Political Commissar Zhou Hongbing arrived and reported for duty under orders from Supreme Command. The Gāo family’s hoped-for intervention instead left them facing another powerful opponent.

• Gao Tianxiong learned that Director Ruan and Li Dakang had been removed and placed under investigation, while Jin Dapao had been reinstated.
• Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng threatened to expose Zhao Mengsheng and smear him through online campaigns.
• Zhou Hongbing arrived from the Provincial Capital, rejected Gao Tianxiong’s appeal, and accused him of passing off inferior supplies as quality goods.
• Zhou Hongbing saluted Zhao Mengsheng and announced that Supreme Command had ordered him to report for duty.

Political Commissar Zhou revealed that Zhao Mengsheng had ordered beacon fires across more than a hundred cities, then presented him with a uniform bearing nine general’s stars. The chapter ended with Zhou identifying him as God of War Shanhe, Zhao Shanhe.

• Political Commissar Zhou arrived, saluted Zhao Mengsheng as Chief, and apologized for being late.
• Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng challenged Zhao Mengsheng’s authority and threatened to complain to God of War Shanhe.
• Zhou told the crowd that Zhao Mengsheng had ordered beacon towers lit across more than a hundred cities.
• Zhou presented Zhao Mengsheng with a new military uniform, and Zhao put it on as Zhou fastened nine-star shoulder boards to it.
• Zhou revealed Zhao Mengsheng’s identity as God of War Shanhe, Zhao Shanhe, leaving the Gao father and son terrified.

Political Commissar Zhou revealed Zhao Shanhe as the legendary War God, forcing Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng to face the consequences of attacking Yue Xiaofei. Zhao Shanhe rejected their attempts to buy forgiveness and honored the soldiers who died for Great Xia, leaving the Gao father and son at his mercy.

• Political Commissar Zhou identified Zhao Shanhe as the War God, and the Northern Frontier soldiers demanded that the Gao family kneel.
• Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng fell to their knees, blamed each other, and exposed their resentment as Yue Xiaofei thanked Zhao Shanhe.
• Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng offered money and compensation to escape punishment, but Yue Xiaofei and Jin Dapao rejected their pleas.
• Zhao Shanhe condemned Gao Tianxiong for thinking money could repay a soldier's life and recounted the soldiers' sacrifice at Black Hat Mountain.

Zhao Shanhe inspired the crowd by saying soldiers fought for their country, not money, then rejected Gao Tianxiong’s attempt to use Jiang Bichij’s connections as leverage. He publicly called Jiang Bichij a prostitute and claimed Gao Zisheng was not Gao Tianxiong’s biological son, leaving the father and son humiliated and powerless.

• Zhao Shanhe praised soldiers who fought for their country, prompting the guests to applaud and condemn Gao Tianxiong.
• Gao Tianxiong invoked his wife Jiang Bichij’s supposed connections to persuade Zhao Shanhe to let him go.
• Gao Zisheng boasted that his mother could connect Zhao Shanhe to powerful families and imagined the benefits of befriending him.
• Zhao Shanhe called Jiang Bichij a common whore and said she had no powerful background.
• Zhao Shanhe told Gao Tianxiong that Jiang Bichij had been unfaithful and that Gao Zisheng was not his biological son.
• The crowd mocked the Gao father and son as Gao Tianxiong staggered back, unable to respond or retaliate against Zhao Shanhe.

Zhao Mengsheng answered Gao Zisheng’s taunts by calling the Zhao Family’s ancestral home and ordering the Gao Family of Jiangcheng bankrupted within three minutes. The chapter ended as Butler Zhao received the command, while Jiang Bichij’s attempt to gain entry to the Zhao Family had just been rejected.

• Gao Zisheng mocked Yue Xiaofei’s poverty and insisted that his family’s money would keep him safe despite Zhao Mengsheng’s warning.
• Yue Xiaofei defended his family’s honor, and Zhao Mengsheng said he could bankrupt the Gao Family with a single word.
• At the Zhao Family ancestral home in Longdu, Butler Zhao tore up Jiang Bichij’s letter of introduction and ordered her gifts thrown away.
• Butler Zhao answered a call from Zhao Mengsheng, who demanded that the Gao Family of Jiangcheng be bankrupted within three minutes.

Zhao Mengsheng wagered that he could bankrupt the Gao Family in three minutes, and the family’s businesses, assets, and allies collapsed before the timer ran out. Gao Tianxiong realized the top ten investment groups had united against him and demanded to know who Zhao Mengsheng really was.

• Butler Zhao ordered the Gao Family’s accounts frozen, businesses seized, and agencies to investigate them.
• Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng challenged Zhao Mengsheng to a three-minute bet, and Zhao agreed.
• As the timer reached zero, calls revealed that the Gao Family’s accounts and businesses had been seized, its stock had crashed, and it faced enormous debt and investigations.
• Gao Zisheng learned his assets had been seized and compromising videos had gone viral, while Brother Dao heard that his men had been arrested.
• Gao Tianxiong learned all ten of the Dragon Kingdom’s top investment groups had joined forces against the Gao Family, then asked Zhao Mengsheng what other identity he was hiding.

Zhao Mengsheng ordered the Gao father and son arrested, but Gao Zisheng started a livestream and accused him of abusing his power. Zhao Mengsheng refused to stop the stream and began revealing the truth about Yue Changlong, leaving his next words poised to expose who Yue Xiaofei’s father really was.

• Zhao Mengsheng recalled his service and his grandfather’s support before ordering the Gao father and son taken away for judgment.
• Gao Zisheng started a livestream and portrayed Zhao Mengsheng and Yue Xiaofei as bullies who had ruined the Gao Family.
• Gao Zisheng told viewers that Yue Xiaofei’s father, Yue Changlong, was a criminal imprisoned in Yanshan Prison.
• The Deputy General urged Zhao Mengsheng to stop the stream, but Zhao refused and said viewers could judge for themselves.
• Yue Xiaofei looked to Zhao Mengsheng for the truth about his father, and Zhao began revealing Yue Changlong’s story to the livestream audience.

Zhao Mengsheng revealed that Yue Changlong was a Special-Class Combat Hero and began recounting how he earned his first First-Class Merit during the Black Hat Mountain Campaign. He described the 7th Armored Company’s young Communications Officer Xiaochuan, who crawled back to the battlefield with a broken arm, insisting he could still fight.

• Zhao Mengsheng said Yue Changlong had earned two First-Class Merits and many other honors, prompting Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng to demand evidence.
• Zhao Mengsheng introduced Xiaochuan, the youngest soldier in the 7th Armored Company, and recalled his hard training, love of food, and bond with Yue Changlong.
• Zhao Mengsheng recounted how Yue Changlong led the 120-man company into the Black Hat Mountain Campaign and fought at the front.
• After a week of brutal fighting, just over fifty company members remained, all wounded, and the Snow Wolf Regiment attacked on the eighth day.
• A shell blast broke Xiaochuan’s right arm, but he crawled back toward the position and declared that he could still fight.

Zhao Mengsheng recounted how he, Company Commander Yue, and Xiaochuan fought deep behind enemy lines and helped secure victory in the Black Hat Mountain Campaign. Xiaochuan died from a chest wound after the battle, leaving his comrades to remember his final words and promise to his parents.

• Zhao Mengsheng described how Xiaochuan fought on despite his broken arm and helped him and Company Commander Yue break through enemy lines.
• Xiaochuan sounded a charge on his bugle, tricking enemy soldiers into fleeing and allowing the three men to capture weapons and supplies.
• Zhao Mengsheng recounted how the trio fought for two days and nights, striking enemy units and helping lay the foundation for victory in the Black Hat Mountain Campaign.
• Company Commander Yue and Zhao Mengsheng discovered that Xiaochuan had been shot in the chest after he failed to answer them.
• Xiaochuan imagined the places he had hoped to visit, asked whether they had won, and died after asking his comrades to tell his parents that Liu Weiguo had not let them down.