Recaps

Lin Yuanzheng revealed that Lu Chengfeng had been expelled and vanished, then shared a lead that someone resembling him had been seen at Modu Naval Port. Yue Xiaofei resolved to investigate, while Zhao Mengsheng and Jin Dapao ordered the Gao father and son taken away for questioning.

• Lin Yuanzheng told the crowd that the Chief Designer had expelled Lu Chengfeng, stripped his rank, and sealed his records, despite protests from military leaders.
• Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng accused Yue Changlong of treason, but Zhao Mengsheng challenged their claims and pointed out that the timeline did not fit.
• Yue Xiaofei asked Lin Yuanzheng where his father had gone, and Lin said a soldier had spotted someone resembling Lu Chengfeng at Modu Naval Port three years earlier.
• Lin Yuanzheng told Yue Xiaofei that the Sea Dragon was expected to dock at Modu Naval Port within days, giving him a chance to investigate.
• Zhao Mengsheng ordered the Gao father and son detained, and Jin Dapao identified himself as acting head of the provincial public security department and ordered an investigation into the Gao Family.

After Zhao Mengsheng left Jiangbei, Yue Xiaofei planned to recover and travel to Modu for clues about his father and the Modu Vault. In Longdu, Second Master Jun and Jiang Bichij hired Asura Hall to kill him, but the Darkness Emperor reacted with shock when he heard the target's name.

• Jin Dapao had Gao Tianxiong and Gao Zisheng taken away after Gao Zisheng wet himself in fear.
• Zhao Mengsheng promised Yue Xiaofei he would investigate his father's case and invite him to Longdu for the victory ceremony before returning to his unit.
• Yue Xiaofei told Jin Dapao he wanted to go to Modu because the Sea Dragon might offer clues about his father, and Jin Dapao agreed to accompany him after he recovered.
• Second Master Jun told Jiang Bichij to sacrifice Gao Tianxiong to protect Gao Zisheng, then ordered her to arrange Yue Xiaofei's death through Asura Hall.
• Jiang Bichij placed a ten-million-dollar bounty on Yue Xiaofei, and Asura Hall accepted the job for completion within three days.
• When an aide reported the bounty's target, the Darkness Emperor rose in alarm and demanded to hear Yue Xiaofei's name again.

The Darkness Emperor learned that Yue Xiaofei was the son of the family in his hidden photograph and revealed himself to be Yue Xiaofei’s missing eldest brother, Yue Feng. He accepted the bounty on Yue Xiaofei as a ruse and declared that Asura Hall would protect him.

• The Darkness Emperor learned that Yue Xiaofei’s mother, Ye Qingmei, had died after developing a vaccine and working herself to exhaustion.
• The Darkness Emperor opened the Demon Box and looked at a family portrait, then removed his mask and revealed that he was Yue Feng, Yue Xiaofei’s missing eldest brother.
• Yue Feng recalled faking his death to investigate a conspiracy involving overseas forces, wealthy families, and the Nantianmen Project, and vowed to protect Yue Xiaofei.
• Yue Feng ordered Asura Hall to accept the Dark Web assassination mission against Yue Xiaofei as a ruse to mislead Jiang Bichij.
• Yue Feng placed Yue Xiaofei on Asura Hall’s highest-level Whitelist and warned that anyone who harmed him would become an enemy of Asura Hall.

Yue Feng activated the dormant Reverse Scale team to investigate Jiang Bichij, the Gao Family mistress, and uncovered her ties to Second Master Jun and foreign forces. He ordered the team to punish her by forcing her to entertain one hundred people a day at a low-tier establishment for a month.

• Yue Feng rejected the warning that investigating Jiang Bichij would take a week and logged into the secret Reverse Scale system.
• Yue Feng sent the message “[I'm back!]” and all twelve Reverse Scale members came online, welcoming him after five years.
• Yue Feng ordered Reverse Scale to compile Jiang Bichij’s family, connections, and past misdeeds within ten minutes.
• Reverse Scale members reported Jiang Bichij’s links to Second Master Jun, her daughters’ marriages, and her dealings with foreign forces.
• Yue Feng reviewed the compiled information and ordered Jiang Bichij sent to Flower Moon Street to entertain one hundred people a day for one month.

Yue Feng ordered [Reverse Scale] to protect his younger brother Yue Xiaofei and arranged punishment for Jiang Bichij. After she arranged for Asura Hall to kill Xiaofei, Human Goat’s people abducted her and took her to Flower Moon Street.

• Yue Feng assigned White Tiger to protect Yue Xiaofei in Jiangcheng without revealing his identity.
• Yue Feng reflected on the family he had left behind and promised to return home as the eldest son of the Yue Family.
• Jiang Bichij learned that Asura Hall had accepted her ten-million-dollar contract to kill Yue Xiaofei within three days and disguise it as an accident.
• Two of Yue Feng’s people seized Jiang Bichij at Landscape Manor and took her to Flower Moon Street for a month.
• Human Goat told Yue Feng the abduction was complete, then ordered subordinates to send recently released prisoners to torment Jiang Bichij.

While recovering in the hospital, Yue Xiaofei accepted Lin Xiaolu’s help and agreed to travel with her to Modu. An unknown caller then claimed Yue Xiaofei’s father and brother were alive and directed him to retrieve an item from a Modu Vault safe deposit box.

• Lin Xiaolu visited Yue Xiaofei, gave him a new phone, and said her grandfather was struggling to reach Marshal Qin’s descendants in Longdu.
• Lin Xiaolu agreed to travel to Modu with Yue Xiaofei and help search for his father.
• An unknown caller told Yue Xiaofei that Yue Feng was alive and Yue Changlong was not in prison.
• The caller ordered Yue Xiaofei to go to the Modu Vault in three days, retrieve the contents of Safe Deposit Box No. 001, and deliver them to a location the caller would specify.

After a mysterious caller told Yue Xiaofei that his father and brother were in Modu, he traveled there with Lin Xiaolu to investigate a vault. Lin Xiaolu revealed that the legendary No. 1 Avenue Joffre was once called Lu Mansion, sharing the surname of Yue Xiaofei’s grandmother.

• Yue Xiaofei failed to trace the canceled number, and Jin Dapao confirmed the call had been protected by professional overseas encryption.
• After recovering from his injuries, Yue Xiaofei took his grandmother’s golden Key and left Jiangcheng for Modu with Lin Xiaolu.
• Lin Xiaolu told Yue Xiaofei about her family and showed him Green Lake Residence, where she offered him a spare room.
• Yue Xiaofei noticed the old Villa at No. 1 Avenue Joffre and heard Lin Xiaolu describe the rumors surrounding its mysterious owner.
• Lin Xiaolu told Yue Xiaofei that No. 1 Avenue Joffre had once been called Lu Mansion, the same surname as his grandmother.

Yue Xiaofei learned that his grandmother may have belonged to the vanished Modu Lu family and agreed to attend a banquet to seek clues about his father. At Azure Alliance headquarters, Third Master Du refused an order to kill Yue Xiaofei until Young Master Zhong claimed he was the Lu family’s heir.

• Lin Xiaolu told Yue Xiaofei that the once-powerful Lu family had disappeared decades ago, and Yue Xiaofei wondered whether its fate was connected to his family’s troubles.
• Lin Xiaolu invited Yue Xiaofei to a wealthy heirs’ banquet, arguing its guests might know something about his father, and he agreed to go.
• Lin Xiaolu warned Yue Xiaofei that the Azure Alliance and its leader, Third Master Du, were dangerous forces in Modu.
• Third Master Du refused Young Master Zhong’s request to kill Yue Xiaofei because God of War Shanhe protected him.
• Young Master Zhong claimed Yue Xiaofei was the Lu family’s heir, and Third Master Du stood up in shock, shattering his antique walnuts.

Young Master Zhong revealed that Yue Xiaofei was the Lu family's sole heir, prompting Third Master Du to agree to help him while secretly planning to keep Yue Xiaofei's identity from the Azure Alliance elders. Yue Xiaofei attended a banquet at Bund No. 18 with Lin Xiaolu and Chen Duo, where they learned that Bai Bing had returned.

• Young Master Zhong told Third Master Du that Yue Xiaofei was Lu Lanxin's grandson and the Lu family's sole heir, and warned that the Azure Alliance elders might side with him.
• Third Master Du agreed to help Young Master Zhong, who ordered him to watch Yue Xiaofei and wait for further instructions; Du resolved to conceal Yue Xiaofei's identity from Zhao Mengsheng and the elders.
• Yue Xiaofei met Lin Xiaolu and Chen Duo outside Bund No. 18 and asked Chen Duo to help find his father, Yue Changlong.
• Chen Duo warned Yue Xiaofei to be careful around the influential young heirs at the Li family's banquet, then entered the venue with him and Lin Xiaolu.
• Lin Xiaolu noticed heirs from the leading financial families gathered at the banquet, and Chen Duo explained that Bai Bing, the eldest daughter of the Bai family, had returned.

At a banquet welcoming Bai Bing back to Modu, Yue Xiaofei drew the attention of Gao Yuyan and her husband, Li Feiyu, who arranged to frame him for breaking a priceless vase. Chen Duo offered to pay, then learned the vase was supposedly worth three hundred million.

• Lin Xiaolu explained Bai Bing’s status as the Bai family’s powerful heir, and Chen Duo said the banquet was held to welcome her home.
• Gao Yuyan spotted Yue Xiaofei and blamed him for sending her father and brother to prison, while worrying that she could not contact her mother, Jiang Bichij.
• Gao Yuyan asked Li Feiyu to punish Yue Xiaofei, and Li Feiyu ordered a server to drop a porcelain vase near him and accuse him of breaking it.
• The server blamed Yue Xiaofei and claimed he had to pay, while the guests gathered and insulted him.
• Chen Duo stepped in and offered to pay for the vase, but the server announced that it was worth three hundred million.

Yue Xiaofei was accused of smashing a priceless Yuan Blue-and-White Porcelain Vase at Bund No. 18, but he insisted the Li family had staged the incident. The chapter ended with Li Feiyu claiming the banquet hall cameras were broken, leaving Yue Xiaofei without the footage he had requested.

• Lin Xiaolu and Yue Xiaofei challenged the waiter’s demand for three hundred million yuan and said Yue had not caused the vase to fall.
• Chen Duo confronted the waiter, but Li Feiyu arrived with Gao Yuyan, who accused Yue of smashing a vase intended for Bai Bing.
• Li Feiyu demanded three hundred million yuan and threatened to keep Yue there, while Gao Yuyan insulted Yue and his father.
• Chen Duo invoked Yue Changlong and God of War Shanhe Zhao Mengsheng, but Li Feiyu mocked the warning and insisted the Li family made the rules.
• Yue demanded that Li Feiyu show the security footage, and Li claimed the banquet hall cameras had broken down that day.

Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan tried to frame and humiliate Yue Xiaofei, then ordered their bodyguards to beat him. Just as the attack began, a woman at the entrance intervened and threatened anyone who touched him.

• Yue Xiaofei tried to call the police over the broken vase, but Li Feiyu stopped him and threatened him.
• Gao Yuyan accused Yue Xiaofei of stealing her watch, and Li Feiyu ordered bodyguards to search him and beat him if he resisted.
• Lin Xiaolu stood up for Yue Xiaofei and warned Li Feiyu that her grandfather was Lin Tiejun, but Li Feiyu dismissed the threat.
• Li Feiyu admitted he targeted Yue Xiaofei because he disliked him, while Gao Yuyan demanded Yue Xiaofei kneel and let her ride him like a dog.
• Yue Xiaofei refused to bow, and the bodyguards rushed at him with batons.
• A woman at the banquet hall entrance ordered the bodyguards to stop and warned Li Feiyu that anyone who touched Yue Xiaofei would make an enemy of her.

Bai Bing intervened when Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan tried to humiliate Yue Xiaofei, paid Li Feiyu for the vase, and demanded Gao Yuyan kneel and act like a dog. After Gao Yuyan insulted her, Bai Bing ordered A Li to slap her, and Yue Xiaofei realized Gao Yuyan was Gao Zisheng’s second sister.

• Bai Bing entered the banquet hall and stopped Li Feiyu’s bodyguards from attacking Yue Xiaofei.
• Bai Bing paid Li Feiyu 300 million yuan for the vase, then demanded he answer for Gao Yuyan’s attempt to frame and humiliate Yue Xiaofei.
• Bai Bing ordered Gao Yuyan to kowtow and crawl around Bund No. 18, but Li Feiyu offered money to spare his wife the public humiliation.
• Gao Yuyan refused and insulted Bai Bing and Yue Xiaofei, so Bai Bing ordered A Li to slap her.
• Yue Xiaofei recognized Gao Yuyan as Gao Zisheng’s second sister and wondered how Bai Bing had known her name.

Bai Bing forced Li Feiyu to make Gao Yuyan humiliate herself before ordering Yue Xiaofei and the Li family’s bodyguards to smash every antique at Bund No. 18. She gave Li Feiyu three days to refill the venue, promising to bring Yue Xiaofei back to smash it all again.

• Bai Bing privately threatened Li Feiyu, who slapped Gao Yuyan and forced her to kneel, kowtow, and let Yue Xiaofei ride on her back across the banquet hall.
• After Gao Yuyan carried Yue Xiaofei around the hall, Bai Bing smashed a Blue-and-White Porcelain Vase and invited Yue Xiaofei to break the other antiques.
• Yue Xiaofei smashed more than a dozen antiques, then Bai Bing ordered Li Feiyu’s bodyguards to destroy every antique in Bund No. 18.
• Li Feiyu obeyed Bai Bing and watched as the bodyguards smashed the remaining antiques.
• Bai Bing gave Li Feiyu three days to renovate Bund No. 18 and replace the antiques, saying she would return with Yue Xiaofei to smash them again.

After Bai Bing humiliated Li Feiyu at the banquet, she took Yue Xiaofei to a hotel and revealed her connection to his missing older brother. The chapter ended with Bai Bing explaining that Yue Feng had returned and ordered [Reverse Scale] to protect Yue Xiaofei.

• Bai Bing ordered Li Feiyu to restore his antiques and have them smashed again in three days, then sent him away in disgrace.
• Lin Xiaolu and Chen Duo questioned Yue Xiaofei about Bai Bing, but he insisted they had only just met.
• Bai Bing took Yue Xiaofei to a presidential suite and revealed that her codename was [White Tiger] and she served in Bureau 7's [Reverse Scale] team.
• Bai Bing told Yue Xiaofei that his missing older brother Yue Feng had been [Reverse Scale]'s first captain and that the team lost contact with him five years earlier.
• Bai Bing said [Reverse Scale] had recently received a message announcing that [Heavenly Dragon] was back and ordering the team to protect Yue Xiaofei.

Yue Xiaofei learned that his big brother, Heavenly Dragon, was alive and went with Bai Bing to the Modu Vault to investigate a key his grandmother had left him. They opened Safe Deposit Box No. 001, a private vault belonging to the Lu family, and froze at what they found inside.

• Bai Bing revealed that Li Feiyu was not the Li family head’s biological son and explained why she enjoyed working as an agent.
• Yue Xiaofei asked to contact Heavenly Dragon, but Bai Bing said he had not responded since sending his message.
• Yue Xiaofei told Bai Bing about an anonymous caller who directed him to collect his grandmother’s belongings at the Modu Vault, and they went there together.
• Bai Bing summoned Manager Wang, who escorted them to the vault’s basement and recognized Yue Xiaofei’s key as the one for Safe Deposit Box No. 001.
• Manager Wang opened the Lu family’s sealed private vault, and Yue Xiaofei and Bai Bing stared in shock at its contents.

Yue Xiaofei and Bai Bing discovered a hidden Jinling Pagoda in the Modu Vault, revealing that Yue’s grandmother had left him an extraordinary inheritance. Meanwhile, the Li family planned to target Yue, but news that Vault No. 001 had been opened interrupted them.

• Bai Bing and Yue Xiaofei found a concealed chamber behind the empty shelves and used Yue’s Golden Key to open it.
• Bai Bing shattered a hollow porcelain Buddha head, exposing a five-tier Jinling Pagoda hidden inside.
• Yue opened the pagoda’s bottom drawer and found a title deed to the two-billion-yuan villa at No. 1 Avenue Joffre.
• The Head of the Li Family told Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan to accept Bai Bing’s humiliation, but considered their demand to punish Yue.
• The Head of the Li Family’s secretary called to report that someone had opened Vault No. 001 at the Modu Vault.

Vault No. 001’s opening sent the heads of Modu’s Ten Great Financial Conglomerates racing to meet Yue Xiaofei, whom they recognized as the Lu family’s returning heir and the city’s true master. Inside the vault, Bai Bing explained the Lu family’s former power, and Yue opened the Jinling Pagoda’s second tier to find something that shocked her.

• The Head of the Li Family learned Vault No. 001 had opened and told Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan that the Lu family’s heir had returned.
• The heads of the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates abandoned their business and hurried toward the Modu Vault, startling people across the city.
• Yue Xiaofei asked Bai Bing whether the Lu family’s seventy-year-old deed to No. 1 Avenue Joffre was still valid.
• Bai Bing explained that the Lu family had once controlled Modu’s major industries and that Lu Mansion remained maintained.
• Yue Xiaofei wondered why his grandmother had hidden her identity and lived in poverty before Bai Bing urged him to search the Jinling Pagoda for answers.
• Yue Xiaofei opened the second-tier drawer, and Bai Bing exclaimed in astonishment at what she saw.

Yue Xiaofei discovered that the battered cane in the Jinling Pagoda was the Dragon Head Staff, the Azure Alliance’s symbol of supreme authority. Bai Bing warned him that Third Master Du might try to seize it, so Yue Xiaofei hid it before they went to inspect the third level for clues about the Lu family’s disappearance.

• Yue Xiaofei found a heavy, rust-covered cane in the second drawer and scraped its ornament to reveal a dragon head beneath the rust.
• Bai Bing identified it as the Dragon Head Staff, a rare Black Iron treasure made by Ghost Hand Xu and the Azure Alliance’s symbol of power.
• Bai Bing explained that whoever held the staff could claim the title of Dragon Head Supreme, though Third Master Du controlled the Alliance without possessing it.
• Bai Bing warned Yue Xiaofei that Third Master Du might attack him to take the staff, since Yue Xiaofei lacked the Lu family’s protection and powerful allies.
• Yue Xiaofei put the staff back in the drawer, promised to keep it secret, and agreed to inspect the third level with Bai Bing for clues about the Lu family’s disappearance.

At the Azure Alliance’s Branch Hall Assembly, the elders honored Lu Lanxin and debated whether pilot Lu Chengfeng might be her descendant, while Third Master Du rushed to Modu Vault after learning Yue Xiaofei was there. The elders followed him, and Yue Xiaofei opened a drawer in Vault No. 001 that left Bai Bing staring in shock.

• The Azure Alliance elders and branch Hall Masters paid respects to portraits of Lord Guan, founder Chu Qing, and benefactor Lu Lanxin, whom they hoped would lead them to her heir and the Dragon Head Staff.
• The Fifth Elder suggested that pilot Lu Chengfeng might be Lu Lanxin’s descendant, but Third Master Du rejected the idea and the Sixth Elder defended Lu Lanxin’s military family.
• Young Master Zhong told Third Master Du that Yue Xiaofei was inside Modu Vault and the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates were heading there, then ordered him to seize Yue Xiaofei.
• Third Master Du mobilized his men and raced toward Modu Vault, while the six elders followed after suspecting his departure concerned the Lu family.
• Yue Xiaofei opened the third drawer in Vault No. 001, and Bai Bing cried out in disbelief, “G-Grandpa?!”

Yue Xiaofei and Bai Bing discovered ten Blood Covenants in the secret chamber, pledging the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates to serve the Lu family and surrender half their assets to a Lu descendant who presented them. Yue Xiaofei hesitated to claim the fortune, but Bai Bing urged him to accept his grandmother’s legacy and told him, “A man must be tough!”

• Bai Bing recognized her grandfather Bai Zhengling’s handwriting and blood fingerprint on the first Blood Covenant.
• Yue Xiaofei found nine more covenants signed by ancestors of the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates, each promising service to the Lu family and half its property to a Lu descendant.
• Bai Bing explained that Lu Lanxin had helped the great families and worked a mystical Art into the covenants to punish anyone who broke them.
• Yue Xiaofei worried the families might refuse the covenants and retaliate, while Bai Bing trusted that her family would honor its pledge.
• Yue Xiaofei set the covenants aside because he had come to Modu to find his father, not to gain wealth, but Bai Bing insisted the fortune was his inheritance and told him a man must be tough.

Bai Bing urged Yue Xiaofei to stop yielding to his enemies, and he embraced his status as Lu Family Heir before opening the fourth drawer. The Li family stormed into Vault No. 001 and learned that the man they had come to honor was Yue Xiaofei, leaving Bai Bing to demand that Li Feiyu kneel to his new master.

• Bai Bing reminded Yue Xiaofei how yielding had encouraged his enemies and urged him to stand firm; Yue Xiaofei vowed not to back down again.
• Bai Bing told Yue Xiaofei that the Blood Covenants bound the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates to support him, then pointed him toward the fourth drawer and clues about his family and father's disappearance.
• Yue Xiaofei reached for the qilin-marked drawer, but Li Feiyu forced his way into the vault with the Head of the Li Family and Gao Yuyan.
• The Head of the Li Family searched for the Lu Family Heir, and Bai Bing revealed that Yue Xiaofei was the heir whose grandmother the Li family had sworn to serve.
• Bai Bing told Li Feiyu that he had to kneel, kowtow to Yue Xiaofei, and call him master.

Yue Xiaofei revealed that he was Lu Lanxin’s grandson and presented the Blood Covenants as proof of his claim to the Lu family’s legacy. The heads of the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates accepted him, but Li Feiyu continued accusing Yue Xiaofei and Bai Bing of fraud.

• Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan called Yue Xiaofei an impostor, while the Head of the Li Family hesitated over whether to accept his claim.
• Yue Xiaofei said his grandmother had given him the Golden Key and challenged the Li family to verify the Blood Covenants in their ancestral hall.
• Bai Bing kicked Li Feiyu behind the knee after he refused to accept Yue Xiaofei’s claim.
• The heads of the Chen, Xu, Pei, and other financial families arrived and bowed to Yue Xiaofei after he said Lu Lanxin was his grandmother and showed them the Blood Covenants.
• Li Feiyu challenged Yue Xiaofei’s knowledge of the Lu family and then accused Bai Bing of using him as a puppet to seize the other families’ businesses.

Yue Xiaofei confronted the family heads' doubts about his identity as Lu Lanxin's descendant, while Bai Bing defended him and the Blood Covenant. Li Feiyu tore the covenant in defiance of warnings, and the chapter ended as the paper ripped.

• The Xu, Pei, and Fu family heads called for Yue Xiaofei's identity to be verified before they accepted the Blood Covenant, and Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan dismissed his photos and letters as possible forgeries.
• Yue Xiaofei slapped Gao Yuyan and punched Li Feiyu after they mocked his grandmother, while Bai Bing stopped the Head of the Li Family from intervening.
• Bai Bing reminded the family heads that Lu Lanxin had once saved their families and warned them of Heaven's Retribution.
• Li Feiyu rejected the Blood Covenant as worthless and demanded that Yue Xiaofei hand it over so he could tear it up.
• Yue Xiaofei gave Li Feiyu the Li family's Blood Covenant, and Li Feiyu pulled it apart.

Li Feiyu tore up the Blood Covenant and dismissed Yue Xiaofei’s claim, but the Li family’s jade pendant shattered and its ancestral tablets toppled, alarming the gathered family heads. Li Feiyu continued denying any supernatural warning and urged the younger heirs to reject Yue Xiaofei, leaving the families divided over the covenant and the Lu family’s legacy.

• Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan tore the Blood Covenant, and Li Feiyu mocked Yue Xiaofei when nothing happened immediately.
• The Head of the Li Family’s inherited jade pendant cracked apart, but Li Feiyu called it old and dismissed the damage as a coincidence.
• The ancestral hall caretaker reported that every Li family tablet had fallen and shattered despite no one entering the hall.
• The Pei and Xu family heads feared the incidents signaled Heaven’s Retribution, while Li Feiyu blamed unstable foundations and denied the covenant’s power.
• Yue Xiaofei accused Li Feiyu of betraying Lu Lanxin, but Li Feiyu claimed the Li family owed its success to its own ancestors.
• Li Feiyu urged the younger family members to reject Yue Xiaofei, calling him an impostor who might seize their family assets.