Recaps

Yue Xiaofei exposed Cao Xuanye’s role in Cao Longxiang’s murder with recovered surveillance footage and a recording of his deal with Ghost Hand. As Cao Xuanye and Cao Zhengchun faced the proof, Marshal Long Qianshan, Zhao Mengsheng, and Xu Anbang arrived together to support Yue Xiaofei.

• Yue Xiaofei used evidence traced by his hacker friend to link Cao Xuanye to the poison needle that killed Cao Longxiang.
• Yue Xiaofei played a clear recording of Cao Xuanye buying the poison needle from Ghost Hand, leaving Cao Xuanye unable to deny the murder.
• Cao Zhengchun angrily condemned Cao Xuanye after realizing his eldest son was guilty.
• Long Qianshan, Zhao Mengsheng, and Xu Anbang arrived together on Changping Street, signaling their support for Yue Xiaofei.
• Cao Zhengchun greeted the three military leaders humbly and asked what had brought them there.

Cao Zhengchun handed Cao Xuanye over to face National Law after Marshal Long Qianshan declared that law stood above family rules. Yue Xiaofei then accused Cao Zhengchun himself of bearing responsibility for Cao Longxiang’s murder and using his sons as tools.

• Zhao Mengsheng condemned Cao Zhengchun for protecting the real killer and treating Yue Xiaofei like a criminal.
• Long Qianshan declared that National Law stood above Family Rules, making clear Cao Xuanye had to be handed over.
• Cao Zhengchun ordered the guards to seize Cao Xuanye and deliver him to face National Law.
• Cao Xuanye cursed Cao Zhengchun as the guards dragged him away.
• Yue Xiaofei stopped the proceedings and accused Cao Zhengchun of being the one who should answer for the murder and his sons’ fates.

Yue Xiaofei accused Cao Zhengchun of framing Yue Changlong and orchestrating the South Mountain Massacre, then played a recording of Cao Xuanye admitting the Cao Family’s role. Cao Zhengchun denied the recording was genuine and claimed his family’s status made him immune to arrest.

• Yue Xiaofei accused Cao Zhengchun of framing Yue Changlong, forcing him out of the Ironblood Division, and arranging the South Mountain Massacre.
• Zhao Mengsheng recognized the accusations as the truth about the elder brother he respected and confronted Cao Zhengchun in fury.
• Yue Xiaofei played a recording in which Cao Xuanye boasted that his father had ruined Yue Changlong and driven him from Capital City.
• Cao Zhengchun collapsed at the recording, then denied it was authentic and claimed the Cao Family had immunity from arrest.

Yue Xiaofei refused to let the authorities arrest Cao Zhengchun and vowed to destroy the Cao Family before killing him himself. As Yan Qingsi drove him away, he explained that his revenge would make Cao Zhengchun watch everything he valued crumble before his death.

• Yue Xiaofei stopped the guards from arresting Cao Zhengchun and vowed to kill him after destroying the Cao Family.
• Cao Zhengchun survived but feared Yue Xiaofei’s promised revenge, while Cao Yuyao tried to comfort him.
• Xu Anbang, Long Qianshan, and Zhao Mengsheng left, and the other guests fled as the disgraced Cao Family remained beside Cao Longxiang’s body.
• Yan Qingsi picked up Yue Xiaofei in her Ferrari and warned him that releasing Cao Zhengchun had put him in danger.
• Yue Xiaofei told Yan Qingsi that he would make Cao Zhengchun watch everything he treasured collapse before killing him himself.

Yue Xiaofei dismissed Yan Qingsi’s warnings about the Cao Family’s bounty and the Underworld, saying he welcomed the chance to eliminate his enemies. After returning to the Su Family villa, he revealed that he was the mysterious man who disrupted the Cao Family funeral, but Su Guohua laughed at him.

• Yan Qingsi warned Yue Xiaofei that the Cao Family’s overseas forces and a ten-billion bounty would bring assassins and mercenaries after him.
• Yue Xiaofei said he was unafraid and intended to use the hunt to wipe out the Underworld’s hidden enemies.
• Su Guohua told Jiang Lan and Su Wanning the story of the young man who exposed the Cao Family’s eldest son as a murderer at the funeral.
• Jiang Lan worried that Yue Xiaofei might have been caught up in the day’s unrest, and Yue Xiaofei returned safely to the villa.
• Su Guohua mocked Yue Xiaofei and warned him not to cause trouble, while Su Wanning defended him.
• Yue Xiaofei claimed that he was the mysterious man from the funeral, and Su Guohua burst out laughing in disbelief.

After Su Wanning suggested Yue Xiaofei might be telling the truth, Cao Zhengchun blamed the upheaval on a conspiracy by rival powers and ordered a $100 billion bounty on Yue Xiaofei. The Cao Family prepared to risk its fortune to have assassins hunt him down.

• Su Wanning told Su Guohua and Jiang Lan that Yue Xiaofei might be telling the truth, but they dismissed her and went upstairs.
• At the Cao Family ancestral residence, the elders feared that Yue Xiaofei's revelations about the South Mountain Massacre could expose the family's collusion with Skull and Bones.
• Cao Zhengchun claimed the Ye Family, Xu Family, Zhao Family, and Long Qianshan were using Yue Xiaofei to target the Eight Great Clans.
• Cao Zhengchun ordered the Cao Family to contact its overseas partners and post a $100 billion US dollar bounty on the Dark Web for Yue Xiaofei.

After the Cao Family posted a 100-billion-dollar contract on Yue Xiaofei, Dark List hunters mobilized from around the world to travel to Longdu. The Sun King accepted the contract and announced he would personally hunt Yue Xiaofei, escalating the coming pursuit into a global confrontation.

• The Siberian Eagle, Thousand Cherry Blossoms, and the Humanoid Tyrannosaurus each received the contract and prepared to head for the Dragon Kingdom.
• Assassins, mercenaries, and bounty hunters turned toward Longdu as Yue Feng remained unreachable while searching for Ye Qingmei at Cloudtop Heavenly Palace.
• The chapter identified the Blood Tyrant and the Sun King as the top two figures on the Dark List.
• Three hours after the contract appeared, the Sun King accepted it and said he would personally travel east to hunt Yue Xiaofei.

The Reverse Scale learned that the world’s top assassins, including Sun King, were coming for Yue Xiaofei after the Cao Family posted a massive bounty. Zhao Mengsheng arrived to protect him but was ordered to return to the Northern Frontier, leaving Yue Xiaofei and the squad to face the assassins alone.

• Wild Chicken, White Tiger, Stone Monkey, and Han Duoduo discussed the hundred-billion-dollar bounty and learned that Sun King had accepted the job.
• Han Duoduo said they had lost contact with Yue Feng inside the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace on Changbai Mountain.
• Zhao Mengsheng arrived and promised to mobilize the Mountains and Rivers Cavalry to protect Yue Xiaofei.
• Zhao Mengsheng received orders to return to the Northern Frontier after Wolf Country sent three hundred thousand troops to the border and the Snow Wolf Legion attacked an outpost.
• Zhao Mengsheng suspected Cao Zhengchun had colluded with Wolf Country to draw him away, and Yue Xiaofei urged him to leave and defend the frontier.
• After Zhao Mengsheng departed, Yue Xiaofei told Reverse Scale to prepare to welcome the incoming assassins.

Yue Xiaofei used himself as bait to draw the assassins hunting him to an abandoned steel mill in Longdu. As the first assassin fired, Yue Xiaofei remained poised atop the furnace.

• Han Duoduo reported that more than three hundred assassins and mercenaries had infiltrated Longdu and that she was tracking them through the city's Skynet System.
• Yue Xiaofei ordered Han Duoduo to leak his location and chose the abandoned steel mill as the place to lure the assassins.
• Han Duoduo posted an encrypted message on Hellfire claiming Yue Xiaofei would appear at the steel mill in one hour.
• Assassins across Longdu headed for the mill, where Yue Xiaofei waited alone and sensed them surrounding him.
• Viper fired an armor-piercing bullet at Yue Xiaofei from a tower a thousand meters away, and his grin froze as it neared its target.

Yue Xiaofei slaughtered the assassins who had infiltrated the Steel Factory, demonstrating that their weapons and explosives could not harm him. He rejected the survivors’ pleas for mercy and prepared to kill them all.

• Yue Xiaofei caught Viper’s armor-piercing bullet between two fingers and flicked it back, killing Viper from a thousand meters away.
• The terrified assassins tried to flee, but Yue Xiaofei raced through the Steel Factory and killed them with his speed.
• Human Bomb detonated the C4 strapped to his body, but Yue Xiaofei emerged unharmed from the explosion.
• The surviving assassins dropped their weapons, knelt, and begged Yue Xiaofei to spare them.
• Yue Xiaofei refused to show mercy, telling the assassins they would all stay since they had come.

After defeating more than three hundred assassins and mercenaries, Yue Xiaofei faced two members of the Dark List’s top ten. He killed Siberian Eagle in less than a minute, while Thousand Cherry Blossoms remained at the factory entrance.

• Yue Xiaofei noticed Thousand Cherry Blossoms and Siberian Eagle watching from the factory entrance.
• Siberian Eagle praised Yue Xiaofei’s slaughter, then declared that the Dark List’s top ten were on another level.
• Siberian Eagle donned the White Bear combat armor and charged Yue Xiaofei with a powerful mechanical punch.
• Yue Xiaofei caught the punch, crushed the armor’s fist and Siberian Eagle’s arm, then dodged his energy beam.
• Yue Xiaofei appeared behind Siberian Eagle and punched through the armor, killing him.

Yue Xiaofei killed Thousand Cherry Blossoms after defeating the Siberian Eagle, then faced the arrival of the Blood Tyrant and his forces at the Steel Factory. The Blood Tyrant ordered his men to kill Yue Xiaofei.

• Yue Xiaofei ignored Thousand Cherry Blossoms' seduction and killed her when she attacked with Phantom Cherry Blossom Kill.
• Yue Xiaofei called out the watchers in the darkness, and the Humanoid Tyrannosaurus emerged with the [Titans] mercenary corps.
• The Blood Tyrant arrived with over a thousand blood-red soldiers and confronted Yue Xiaofei.
• The Blood Tyrant praised Yue Xiaofei's strength, declared him no match, and ordered his forces to kill him.

Yue Xiaofei fought off over a thousand Blood Warriors while Reverse Scale rushed to help, only to be confronted by Humanoid Tyrannosaurus. As White Tiger and the squad faced his attack and Han Duoduo was defeated by a network intruder, Asura Hall’s emblem appeared, revealing Captain Heavenly Dragon’s arrival.

• Yue Xiaofei battled the Blood Warriors alone, while Stone Monkey warned that the fight was draining his stamina and Blood Tyrant and Humanoid Tyrannosaurus had not yet joined in.
• White Tiger and Reverse Scale decided to support Yue Xiaofei, and Han Duoduo sent attack drones to bomb the Blood Warriors as the squad charged in.
• Blood Tyrant ordered Humanoid Tyrannosaurus to attack Reverse Scale, and the transformed giant charged at White Tiger and her comrades while Yue Xiaofei remained pinned down.
• An unidentified high-level user breached Reverse Scale’s network, overwhelmed Han Duoduo, and blacked out the base’s screens.
• Asura Hall’s emblem appeared on the screens, and Reverse Scale recognized it as Captain Heavenly Dragon’s.

Asura Hall’s Four Great Kings arrived at the steel factory to protect Yue Xiaofei and challenged the Blood Tyrant, while the battle erupted above the city. The Ten Great War Generals then appeared and paid their respects to Yue Xiaofei as their young master.

• A broadcast announced Asura Hall’s arrival, and the Four Great Kings descended over the factory, startling the Blood Tyrant and the fighters below.
• The Night King revealed that Yue Xiaofei was the Hall Master’s younger brother, and the Blood Tyrant ordered his Blood Warriors to attack.
• The Blood Tyrant charged the Four Great Kings, and the Black King met him with a massive axe strike that lit the night sky with their clash.
• The Humanoid Tyrannosaurus charged the [Reverse Scale] squad, but Yue Xiaofei blocked his path and declared him his opponent.
• The Sea King called for the Ten Great War Generals, who appeared, knelt before the Four Great Kings, and hailed Yue Xiaofei as the young master.

Yue Xiaofei challenged the Blood Tyrant and overwhelmed him with a single punch, destroying his Blood Sea Unbound technique. The Blood Tyrant refused to accept defeat and summoned a far more powerful demon god with his secret art, Blood God Descent.

• Yue Xiaofei stopped the Humanoid Tyrannosaurus from escaping and ordered the fighters to stand down.
• The Four Great Kings disengaged from the Blood Tyrant and returned to stand behind Yue Xiaofei, leaving the two to face each other.
• Yue Xiaofei unleashed his Emperor Engine and struck the Blood Tyrant with a gigantic golden fist.
• Yue Xiaofei shattered the Blood Tyrant's sea of blood and sent him flying, decisively defeating him with one punch.
• The Blood Tyrant rejected his loss, activated Blood God Descent, and formed a hundred-meter-tall blood-red demon god behind him.

Yue Xiaofei crushed the Blood Tyrant with one finger and revealed that he had killed a member of [Skull and Bones]'s Twelve Thrones. Before Yue Xiaofei could finish the Blood Tyrant, the Sun King arrived and was urged to pass judgment on him.

• The Blood Tyrant and his blood-colored Demon God attacked Yue Xiaofei, but Yue stopped the trident with one finger and shattered it, defeating the Blood Tyrant.
• Yue Xiaofei told the Blood Tyrant he had killed a member of [Skull and Bones]'s Twelve Thrones, horrifying the defeated man.
• Yue Xiaofei raised his hand to finish the Blood Tyrant, but a vast sacred pressure descended over Longdu.
• The Sun King appeared in the sky, and the Blood Tyrant begged him to save him and judge Yue Xiaofei.

The Sun King killed the Blood Tyrant and attacked Yue Xiaofei, who initially blocked his Holy Light Judgment with the Emperor Engine. The Sun King opened his Second Stage Gene Lock and reached the legendary National Power Level, leaving Yue Xiaofei’s barrier cracking as a colossal hand of light descended.

• The Sun King purified the Blood Tyrant with holy light, killing him instantly.
• The Sun King declared that he had come to judge heretics and unleashed Holy Light Judgment against Yue Xiaofei.
• Yue Xiaofei activated the Emperor Engine and blocked the Sun King’s barrage of light swords with a golden barrier.
• The Sun King opened his Second Stage Gene Lock, and Han Duoduo identified his strength as National Power Level before warning Yue Xiaofei to run.
• The Sun King sent a colossal hand of light crashing down, and Yue Xiaofei drove the Emperor Engine to its limit and struck back as his barrier cracked.

Yue Xiaofei was left helpless after the Sun King shattered his Emperor Phantom, but Ning Hongye arrived and stripped the Sun King of his divine power. The chapter ended with Ning Hongye severing the Sun King's left arm.

• The Sun King destroyed Yue Xiaofei's Emperor Phantom and left him gravely injured in a crater.
• Cao Zhengchun celebrated Yue Xiaofei's apparent defeat, while Yan Qingsi and the other clan leaders and young women gave up on him.
• The Sun King prepared to deliver the final blow when Ning Hongye appeared at the Steel Factory.
• Ning Hongye removed her blindfold and used [Illuminating All Things] to close the Sun King's second-stage gene lock and sever his connection to the light origin.
• Yue Xiaofei launched the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, and the Sun King's left arm was cut off.

Ning Hongye subdued the Sun King and severed his arm, but he retaliated by summoning the forbidden Spear of Longinus and piercing her through the chest. The Sun King declared her dead as she stood impaled by the cursed weapon.

• Ning Hongye used [Illuminating All Things] to suppress the Sun King's power and cut off his arm.
• The Sun King rejected defeat and summoned the Spear of Longinus from the void.
• Nether King identified the weapon as the forbidden spear that had slain a god, and Sea King warned the others to avoid it.
• The Sun King infused the Spear of Longinus with divine blood and hurled it at Ning Hongye.
• The spear pierced Ning Hongye through the chest, and the Sun King proclaimed that she was dead.

After seeing Ning Hongye impaled, Yue Xiaofei awakened the [Earthshaking] power, which made his heartbeat shake the surrounding land and suppressed the Sun King. He slammed the Sun King into the ground but remained consumed by madness as the injured enemy tried to raise the Spear of Longinus.

• Yue Xiaofei saw Ning Hongye impaled and erupted in fury, awakening the [Earthshaking] power.
• Stone Monkey identified Yue Xiaofei’s heartbeat as the cause of the violent tremors around the crater.
• Yue Xiaofei emerged with white hair and crimson eyes, then used [Earthshaking] to suppress the Sun King’s flight.
• Yue Xiaofei seized the Sun King by the throat and hurled him from the sky into a massive impact crater.
• The battered Sun King tried to strike Yue Xiaofei with the Spear of Longinus, but Yue Xiaofei grabbed his spear-wielding arm.

Yue Xiaofei brutally beat the Sun King to death and snapped his neck, but his bloodlust remained unleashed. He turned on his allies, and Asura Hall tried to contain him with its strongest trapping array.

• Yue Xiaofei tore off the Sun King's right arm and the Spear of Longinus, then pummeled him until he was beaten to death.
• Yue Xiaofei pulled the Sun King's head and spine from his mangled body and roared in triumph.
• Yue Xiaofei's crimson gaze shifted to his allies, and the Nether King warned that he could no longer distinguish friend from foe.
• The Night King urged them to restrain Yue Xiaofei, while the Black King ordered the Ten Great War Generals to form the [Shura Sky-Locking Array].
• Yue Xiaofei charged straight at the array's strongest point, intent on tearing through it by force.

Yue Xiaofei overwhelmed Asura Hall’s forces and turned toward Longdu’s city center, but Bureau 7’s Firmament defense system trapped him within a barrier. The barrier held after he struck it, leaving the city’s fate uncertain.

• Yue Xiaofei shattered the Shura Sky-Locking Array and defeated Asura Hall’s Ten Great War Generals with one attack.
• Yue Xiaofei knocked out the Black King, Sea King, Night King, and Nether King in seconds.
• Ning Hongye urged Yue Xiaofei to go home, but he struck her down and she lost consciousness.
• Yue Xiaofei sent White Tiger, Wild Chicken, and the other [Reverse Scale] members flying as they tried to stop him from reaching Longdu.
• Bureau 7 activated the [Firmament] defense system, which enclosed the factory and a ten-kilometer area in a barrier that withstood Yue Xiaofei’s impact.

Cao Zhengchun arrived at Bureau 7 headquarters and used a joint military and clan authorization to order Yue Xiaofei’s extermination. After Zhang Beihai challenged the order, Cao announced an evacuation of civilians near the abandoned steel factory, sending Longdu into panic.

• Zhang Beihai learned that the [Firmament] system could hold Yue Xiaofei for only about thirty more minutes.
• Cao Zhengchun blamed Yue Xiaofei’s crisis on his instability and denied responsibility for luring the Sun King with a bounty.
• Cao Zhengchun presented an authorization for weapons of mass destruction and declared that a targeted elimination of Yue Xiaofei had been approved.
• Zhang Beihai defended Yue Xiaofei and resisted Cao Zhengchun, while Bureau 7 soldiers reached for their sidearms.
• Cao Zhengchun invoked the [Supreme Extermination Order] and ordered civilians within ten kilometers of the abandoned steel factory to evacuate.
• Air-raid sirens and emergency broadcasts spread panic across Longdu.

As the military prepared to destroy the abandoned Steel Factory with missiles, Ning Hongye chose to remain beside the corrupted Yue Xiaofei. Her presence stirred pain and confusion in him, but his renewed attacks pushed the [Firmament] barrier toward collapse, leaving the two of them alone at the factory.

• Zhao Mengsheng learned that the [Extermination Order] had targeted his nephew Yue Xiaofei and prepared to return to Longdu, while Xu Anbang set out for Military Headquarters to demand an explanation.
• Asura Hall and the [Reverse Scale] squad faced orders to evacuate as Yue Xiaofei continued attacking the barrier, and Ning Hongye woke and announced that she would stay with him.
• Ning Hongye pressed her hand to the barrier and told Yue Xiaofei she was with him, prompting him to look at her and struggle with the thought that he might have hurt her.
• Yue Xiaofei resumed his attacks with greater force, and the [Firmament] system reported cracks, surging energy readings, and dwindling reserves.
• The Nether King led Asura Hall's members away, Stone Monkey urged the [Reverse Scale] squad to evacuate, and Ning Hongye remained alone outside the barrier with Yue Xiaofei inside it.

Hawkeye launched the Godslayer missile at Yue Xiaofei and Ning Hongye, and the blast engulfed Longdu’s Western Suburbs. As the explosion swallowed them, a second, more immense Emperor Engine began to beat within the flames.

• Hawkeye obeyed the launch order and fired the Godslayer missile toward the area enclosed by the Firmament system.
• Zhang Beihai confronted Cao Zhengchun and vowed that he and the Cao Family would pay for what they had done.
• Ning Hongye accepted the approaching blast and opened her arms, while Yue Xiaofei struggled to survive and gathered earth into a massive rock shield.
• The Godslayer missile struck Yue Xiaofei’s shield, and the explosion destroyed the Firmament barrier and vaporized the surrounding area.
• A second, more immense Emperor Engine sounded from within the explosion.