Recaps

The young masters of the Nine Great Conglomerates tore up their families’ Blood Covenants and agreed to shut out Yue Xiaofei and the Bai family. Bai Bing accused the family heads of using the dispute as an excuse to suppress the Bai family.

• Pei Ye and Xu Ming urged the young masters to tear up the Blood Covenants, and their fathers tacitly allowed it despite their fears of retribution.
• Yue Xiaofei laid out the nine remaining Blood Covenants and said anyone could tear theirs up, warning that they would face consequences.
• Pei Ye, Xu Ming, and the other young masters tore up their families’ Blood Covenants, while Chen Duo apologized to Yue Xiaofei for being unable to stop them.
• Li Feiyu proposed that the conglomerates join forces to isolate Yue Xiaofei and the Bai family, and the young masters pledged to block them from services across Modu.
• Yue Xiaofei asked them to leave Bai Bing out of the dispute, but Bai Bing said the families were using his identity as a pretext to attack the Bai family.

As the family heads moved to blacklist Yue Xiaofei, the last two surviving signatories of the Blood Covenant arrived and recognized him as the Lu family’s heir. The chapter ended with Bai Zhengling and Li Bowen kneeling before Yue Xiaofei and renewing their loyalty to the Lu family.

• Bai Bing reminded the family heads that their Blood Covenant bound them to the Lu family, while Yue Xiaofei worried his search for his father had brought trouble to her family.
• Bai Zhengling and Li Bowen arrived at the vault, and Li Bowen asked to meet the Lu family heir.
• Yue Xiaofei identified himself as a descendant of the Lu family, and Li Bowen rose from his wheelchair to kneel and pay his respects.
• Li Bowen rebuked Li Feiyu for insulting Yue Xiaofei and ordered him to kneel before the young master.
• Bai Zhengling also rose from his wheelchair and knelt before Yue Xiaofei, explaining that the Blood Covenant made the families servants of the Lu family.
• Bai Zhengling and Li Bowen vowed to brave fire and water for every generation of the Lu family.

Yue Xiaofei learned that Elder Bai and Elder Li recognized him as Miss Lu’s young master, while Li Bowen condemned the families for tearing up their Blood Covenants. Bai Zhengling warned the gathered heirs that their ingratitude would bring terrible consequences.

• Bai Zhengling and Li Bowen knelt before Yue Xiaofei, called him their young master, and praised his resemblance to Miss Lu.
• Li Bowen found the torn Blood Covenants and learned from Yue Xiaofei that Li Feiyu and the other young masters had destroyed the agreements of nine families, leaving only the Bai family’s intact.
• Li Bowen kicked Li Feiyu and demanded that the heirs kneel, apologize to Yue Xiaofei, and swear loyalty, but Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan dismissed his warnings.
• Li Feiyu insulted Li Bowen and rejected the idea of returning the family’s assets to Yue Xiaofei, leaving Li Bowen heartbroken.
• Bai Zhengling reminded the families how Miss Lu had helped their ancestors rise to power and warned them that tearing up the Blood Covenants and forgetting her kindness would bring terrible consequences.

Yue Xiaofei and Bai Zhengling condemned Li Feiyu and the other young masters for betraying the Blood Covenant, but Li Feiyu dismissed their warnings and boasted about buying rights to Myanmar’s Pagan Old Mine. His trusted subordinate then reported that the warlord who signed the contract had been killed and the new regime had voided it, wiping out the Li family’s thirty-billion investment.

• The family heads and young masters recalled their ancestors’ hardships after Bai Zhengling exposed their families’ pasts.
• Li Feiyu, Xu Ming, and Chen Hao offered to repay Miss Lu’s old gifts in money, while Yue Xiaofei argued that her help had been worth far more than its original value.
• Li Bowen and Bai Zhengling warned that breaking the Blood Covenant and betraying their benefactor would bring divine punishment, but Li Feiyu and the other young masters denied it.
• Li Feiyu boasted that he had spent thirty billion to secure fifty years of operating rights to Myanmar’s Pagan Old Mine, and Gao Yuyan praised him.
• After Li Feiyu challenged Miss Lu’s spirit to strike him down, his subordinate called to report that the warlord who signed the contract had been killed and the new warlord had voided all prior mining contracts.

After the Nine Great Conglomerates broke the Blood Covenant and moved against Yue Xiaofei, their assets were struck by disasters, while the Bai family remained untouched. Bai Zhengling told Yue Xiaofei about his grandmother Lu Lanxin, whose loyalty to the nation had defined her life.

• Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan blamed each other after learning that the Li family's thirty billion investment had vanished and its bank loan was due.
• The other eight conglomerate heads received reports of catastrophic losses, while the Bai family suffered no harm.
• Bai Zhengling said the disasters were retribution for the families' betrayal of Miss Lu and the Blood Covenant.
• Yue Xiaofei asked Bai Zhengling about his grandmother, and Bai described Lu Lanxin as an exceptional leader who had made the Lu family the wealthiest in the country.
• Bai Zhengling recalled that when Japanese invaders threatened the country, Lu Lanxin declared that the nation came before the family.

Bai Zhengling revealed how Miss Lu sacrificed her fortune for the country and helped establish the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates, changing how everyone viewed the Blood Covenant. After the covenant breakers began suffering its backlash, Yue Xiaofei refused to forgive them, and a voice claimed there was one way to save them.

• Bai Zhengling recounted Miss Lu's resistance to the Japanese, her wartime donations, and her support for the founders of the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates.
• Bai Zhengling explained that the families had begged Miss Lu to create the Blood Covenant, and Yue Xiaofei realized his grandmother had lived a heroic life.
• Pei Ye and the other heirs and Family Heads who tore up the covenant began bleeding, coughing blood, and suffering dizziness and chest pain.
• The Family Heads and heirs begged Yue Xiaofei for mercy, blamed Li Feiyu, and attacked Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan.
• Yue Xiaofei declared that betrayal had a price and said he could not stop heaven's punishment, until a voice announced there was one more way.

Li Bowen urged the assembled families to sign a new Blood Covenant as household slaves to escape Heaven’s Retribution, while Yue Xiaofei exposed Li Feiyu as unrelated to the Li family. The Head of the Li Family expelled Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan, and Yue Xiaofei warned that the Gao family would face further investigation.

• Li Bowen and Bai Zhengling explained that signing a slave covenant would place the signers and their assets under the Lu family’s control, and several families agreed to sign rather than die.
• Li Feiyu claimed Yue Xiaofei and the Bai family had poisoned the chamber, but Yue Xiaofei said Li Feiyu was not related by blood to the Li family.
• Bai Bing presented Li Feiyu’s birth records and photographs linking his mother to her fitness trainer, and the Head of the Li Family struck Li Feiyu and rejected him as his son.
• The Head of the Li Family expelled Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan, removed Li Feiyu’s name from the family register, and ordered the recovery of his assets.
• Yue Xiaofei cited the Gao family’s crimes and said Uncle Jin Dapao’s Investigation Team would investigate its businesses and immediate family members.

Yue Xiaofei brought Modu’s Ten Great Financial Groups under his command and found letters in the Jinling Pagoda’s fourth tier, signed by Lu Zhenhua, the missing younger brother of his grandmother Lu Lanxin. The chapter ended as Yue Xiaofei began reading a letter explaining that Lu Zhenhua had enlisted to fight the enemy and serve his country.

• Yue Xiaofei ordered Li Feiyu and Gao Yuyan imprisoned, then accepted the other family heads’ renewed servant blood covenants and warnings against betrayal.
• The family heads and young masters’ nosebleeds and other symptoms stopped after the final Blood Covenant was signed, placing Modu’s Ten Great Financial Groups under Yue Xiaofei’s command.
• Yue Xiaofei asked about his father, Yue Changlong, but the family heads knew nothing and pledged to search for information.
• Yue Xiaofei opened the Jinling Pagoda’s fourth-tier drawer and found a bundle of letters signed by Lu Zhenhua.
• Bai Zhengling and Li Bowen identified Lu Zhenhua as Lu Lanxin’s missing younger brother and the Lu family’s rightful young master.
• Yue Xiaofei read Lu Zhenhua’s letter, which said he had enlisted to fight the enemy and serve his country.

Yue Xiaofei read Lu Zhenhua’s letter describing how he abandoned his planned escape overseas and joined the defenders at Sihang Warehouse. The family heads and others were left shaken and ashamed by his sacrifice, while Chen Duo and Lin Xiaolu wept over his courage.

• Lu Zhenhua wrote that he left his ship at Wusongkou, gave his protection money to civilians, and followed retreating soldiers toward the fighting.
• Lu Zhenhua joined the soldiers heading to Sihang Warehouse and described their retreat under fierce enemy fire.
• The family heads reacted with shame and admiration as Yue Xiaofei read about Lu Zhenhua choosing to fight despite being the Lu family’s only son.
• Lu Zhenhua’s letter described the defenders’ position at Sihang Warehouse and declared that he would live or die with Regimental Commander Xie and the Eight Hundred Heroes.
• Yue Xiaofei finished reading Lu Zhenhua’s pledge to defend his homeland, leaving the chamber silent as Chen Duo and Lin Xiaolu wept.

Yue Xiaofei read Lu Zhenhua’s second letter, which described the desperate defense of Sihang Warehouse and the soldiers who sacrificed themselves to break a Japanese steel-plate assault. The family heads were overcome with grief and shame, and vowed to honor the fallen with a monument bearing their names.

• Bai Bing, Li Bowen, and Bai Zhengling praised Lu Zhenhua’s courage and sacrifice after hearing his first letter.
• Yue Xiaofei read Lu Zhenhua’s account of the defenders’ dwindling numbers and his bond with deputy squad leader A Sheng.
• A Sheng and other soldiers strapped on explosives and leaped from the warehouse, breaking the Japanese steel-plate formation at the cost of their lives.
• Lu Zhenhua described his grief at watching the soldiers die and vowed to live on and see the Japanese driven out.
• Bai Zhengling declared that the fallen must be remembered, and the Head of the Li Family proposed erecting a monument inscribed with their names.

Yue Xiaofei read Lu Zhenhua’s letter describing how civilians and members of the Azure Alliance risked their lives to supply the defenders at Sihang Warehouse. Zhenhua recounted raising and protecting the Dragon Kingdom’s flag under Japanese fire, and ended with a vow to drive out the invaders.

• Yue Xiaofei continued reading Lu Zhenhua’s letter to Bai Zhengling and the others.
• Civilians on the south bank sent supplies to Sihang Warehouse, while Old Ghost and the Azure Alliance organized volunteers to carry a telephone line across a bridge watched by Japanese sharpshooters.
• More than a dozen volunteers died carrying the wire, and a young woman brought a national flag across the bridge to Regimental Commander Xie.
• Regimental Commander Xie announced that the flag would be raised above Sihang Warehouse, and Zhenhua was chosen to serve on its flag guard.
• Japanese planes strafed the flag, but Zhenhua and the wounded flag guards braced the pole with their bodies and kept the flag flying.
• Zhenhua declared that he was unafraid to die if the Dragon Kingdom could drive out the Japanese Invaders.

Yue Xiaofei read Lu Zhenhua’s final letter, which described the soldiers’ internment after they withdrew from Sihang Warehouse and their determination to resist. The letter ended with Lu Zhenhua preparing to fight his way out, leaving Yue and the others grieving his likely death.

• Yue Xiaofei finished reading Lu Zhenhua’s first letter, moving the gathered family heads and others with its account of the defense of Sihang Warehouse.
• Bai Bing and Bai Zhengling praised Lu Zhenhua’s heroism, while Yue Xiaofei wondered whether his granduncle had survived the battle.
• Yue Xiaofei read Lu Zhenhua’s final letter, which recounted Regimental Commander Xie’s order to withdraw and the foreigners’ confinement of the soldiers in the Solitary Army Camp.
• Lu Zhenhua wrote that the Japanese Invaders assassinated Regimental Commander Xie and that fewer than a hundred of the more than eight hundred soldiers remained.
• Lu Zhenhua described his plan to fight out of the camp and closed his letter with a wish for the Dragon Kingdom to grow strong and a declaration of loyalty.

Yue Xiaofei and the others mourned Lu Zhenhua and vowed to honor his sacrifice after reading his final letter. In the fifth tier of the Jinling Pagoda, Yue Xiaofei found a marriage contract linking the Lu and Ning families, just as Third Master Du arrived with men to surround them.

• Lin Xiaolu, Chen Duo, and the others grieved over Lu Zhenhua's final letter, while Yue Xiaofei vowed to carry on his ideals.
• Bai Zhengling proposed a monument beside Sihang Warehouse, and Li Bowen urged them to bring Lu Zhenhua's ashes home or build a cenotaph.
• Yue Xiaofei opened the fifth-tier drawer and found a sealed Thousand-Mechanism Box and a vermilion letter.
• Bai Zhengling warned that opening the box incorrectly could destroy its contents, so Yue Xiaofei put it away unopened.
• Yue Xiaofei read a marriage contract between the Lu and Ning families, signed by Lu Lanxin and Ning Zhengxiong, and wondered how to find the mysterious Ning family.
• A guard reported that Third Master Du had arrived with many men and surrounded the place.

Third Master Du surrounded the vault and demanded Yue Xiaofei and the Dragon Head Staff, revealing that he planned to seize the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates as well. After Yue Xiaofei handed over the staff to protect the others, Du revealed that a powerful figure wanted Yue Xiaofei dead and declared he would not escape.

• Bai Zhengling warned Yue Xiaofei that Third Master Du had come to cause trouble, but Du and over a hundred Azure Alliance elites stormed into the vault.
• Third Master Du demanded Yue Xiaofei come with him and ordered his men to seize him when Yue refused.
• Bai Zhengling, Li Bowen, and the ten Family Heads stood with Yue Xiaofei and threatened an all-out war if Du harmed him.
• Third Master Du revealed that his men had jammed the phones and surrounded the vault with over a thousand elites, intending to capture everyone and take control of Modu.
• Yue Xiaofei offered Du the Dragon Head Staff in exchange for the Family Heads' safety, but Du took it and revealed that a powerful figure wanted Yue Xiaofei dead.

Third Master Du revealed that Young Master Zhong of the Zhong Family had ordered Yue Xiaofei’s death, then threatened the gathered family heads into surrendering him. Just as Yue Xiaofei offered himself to spare the others, his uncle Jin Dapao burst in and identified himself as a senior provincial police official and Yue Changlong’s former comrade.

• Third Master Du named Young Master Zhong of Longdu as the person who wanted Yue Xiaofei dead, alarming the family heads with the Zhong Family’s power.
• Third Master Du ordered his Azure Alliance fighters to seize Yue Xiaofei and fired warning shots to intimidate the crowd.
• Bai Zhengling, Li Bowen, and the family heads formed a human wall to protect Yue Xiaofei, but Third Master Du threatened to kill them all.
• Yue Xiaofei offered to go with Third Master Du if he let the others leave, while Bai Bing warned that he would kill them regardless.
• Jin Dapao crashed into the secret chamber and announced that he was the acting director of the Jiangbei Provincial Public Security Department, a former comrade of Yue Changlong, and Yue Xiaofei’s uncle.

Jin Dapao arrived at the vault and overpowered Third Master Du, forcing the Azure Alliance guards toward surrender. As the guards prepared to comply, Third Master Du realized Jin Dapao was bluffing and ordered them to take up their guns again.

• Jin Dapao arrived, reassured Yue Xiaofei, and dismissed Third Master Du’s threat to invoke Young Master Zhong.
• Jin Dapao claimed the Jiangbei Flying Tiger Squad had surrounded the vault and ordered the Azure Alliance guards to surrender.
• Third Master Du’s men urged him to surrender, but Jin Dapao slapped him repeatedly and shoved him to the floor.
• Jin Dapao began a three-second countdown, and the guards started to lower their weapons.
• Third Master Du shouted that Jin Dapao was bluffing and ordered the guards to pick their guns back up.

Jin Dapao's bluff was exposed, leaving Yue Xiaofei and the conglomerate heads at the mercy of Third Master Du. Just as Du's men prepared to fire, the Azure Alliance's six surviving elders arrived and knelt before Yue Xiaofei, addressing him as their young master.

• Third Master Du sent men outside, who confirmed that Jin Dapao had entered alone and that the Flying Tiger Squad was not there.
• Du ordered his men to kill Jin Dapao, Yue Xiaofei, and the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates' representatives, but Jin Dapao warned them that attacking him meant assaulting a police officer.
• Jin Dapao shot at Third Master Du, but Du's bodyguard pushed him aside and the bullet only grazed his arm.
• Third Master Du ordered his fighters to open fire on everyone in the secret chamber.
• The Azure Alliance's six surviving elders entered with elite guards, confronted Du, then knelt before Yue Xiaofei and paid their respects to the young master.

Yue Xiaofei learned that the Six Great Elders honored his grandmother Lu Lanxin and accepted him as the Azure Alliance’s young master, but Third Master Du used the Dragon Head Staff and Young Master Zhong’s backing to turn the alliance’s guards against them. As Yue Xiaofei and the others faced capture, his phone rang with a call from his long-missing brother, Yue Feng.

• The Six Great Elders bowed to Yue Xiaofei, declared the Azure Alliance indebted to Lu Lanxin, and condemned Third Master Du for plotting against him.
• Third Master Du claimed the Dragon Head Staff made him the Azure Alliance’s legitimate master and ordered his men to seize the elders and Yue Xiaofei.
• Third Master Du’s men fought the elders’ guards in a gun battle, killing or wounding nearly all of them and surrounding the survivors.
• Third Master Du moved to capture Yue Xiaofei as Jin Dapao and Bai Bing lamented their inability to protect him.
• Yue Xiaofei’s phone rang despite the signal jammer, and its caller ID showed “[Big brother]”—his missing brother, Yue Feng.

Yue Feng learned that Yue Xiaofei was in danger at the Modu Vault and used Asura Hall’s Lingxiao satellite to break through the signal block. Yue Xiaofei answered his brother’s call, and Yue Feng reassured him that he had always been there.

• Yue Feng ordered Asura Hall to use the Lingxiao satellite to contact Yue Xiaofei despite the risks.
• Yue Feng remembered promising to protect Yue Xiaofei and vowed to make their enemies pay if anything happened to him.
• Yue Feng connected to Yue Xiaofei’s phone, and the call drew hope and alarm from those gathered in the vault.
• Bai Bing recognized Yue Xiaofei’s brother as Heavenly Dragon and warned Third Master Du about whom he had provoked.
• Yue Xiaofei answered the call, and Yue Feng told him, "Xiaofei, I'm here. I've always been here!"

Yue Feng revealed that he had been watching over Yue Xiaofei and used his knowledge and power to terrify Third Master Du into backing down. Du San demanded that Yue Feng bring his three sons to Azure Alliance Headquarters before midnight in exchange for Yue Xiaofei.

• Yue Xiaofei learned that his older brother Yue Feng was alive and had been watching over him.
• Yue Feng ordered Yue Xiaofei to put the phone on speaker and hand it to Third Master Du.
• Yue Feng exposed Du San's secret Swiss account, his mistresses, and his sons, then threatened to destroy everything he owned if Yue Xiaofei was harmed.
• Du San admitted that Young Master Zhong from Longdu had ordered Yue Xiaofei's death, and Yue Feng said he would deal with him.
• Du San demanded that Yue Feng bring his three sons to Azure Alliance Headquarters before midnight for a hostage exchange, threatening to kill Yue Xiaofei otherwise.

Third Master Du captured Yue Xiaofei and the others and prepared Azure Alliance Headquarters for Yue Feng’s arrival, learning that Yue Feng had once served in Bureau 7. Though Du dismissed him as a former reject, he ordered a massive ambush as the midnight confrontation approached.

• Yue Feng accepted Third Master Du’s challenge to meet at Azure Alliance Headquarters at midnight, despite Bai Bing warning him it was a trap.
• Third Master Du had Yue Xiaofei, Jin Dapao, the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates, and the Six Great Elders cuffed and taken to headquarters.
• Yue Xiaofei urged the prisoners to trust that Yue Feng would rescue them, and Jin Dapao and the others drew hope from his confidence.
• Third Master Du ordered his aide to investigate Yue Feng and learned that he had been a narcotics officer recruited into Bureau 7 before disappearing five years earlier.
• After dismissing Yue Feng as a former Bureau 7 member, Third Master Du ordered thousands of Elite Guards, heavy weapons, hidden sentries, and snipers to ambush him at headquarters.

Yue Feng ordered Asura Hall to mobilize all its forces and enter the Dragon Kingdom to reach Modu and save his younger brother. As Xiao Tian Ce challenged him over the invasion, Yue Feng refused to turn back.

• Yue Feng issued the unprecedented ninth Asura Edict and ordered Asura Hall's kings, generals, and forces to assemble for an assault on Azure Alliance Headquarters in Modu.
• Yue Feng dismissed warnings about entering the Dragon Kingdom and declared that he had built Asura Hall so he could return to protect those he loved.
• Asura Hall assembled thousands of warriors and over a thousand aircraft, which headed toward Modu.
• Xiao Tian Ce received reports of more than a thousand unidentified aircraft approaching Modu and learned they belonged to Asura Hall.
• Yue Feng told Xiao Tian Ce that he was bringing one hundred thousand warriors into Modu to save his younger brother, and refused to turn back.

Yue Feng revealed to Xiao Tian Ce that he was Heavenly Dragon, a presumed-dead Bureau 7 hero returning with the Asura Hall to rescue his younger brother. As Xiao Tian Ce prepared to bar the fleet by force, Yue Feng announced he had brought a gift the Dragon Kingdom could not refuse.

• Xiao Tian Ce reestablished contact with Yue Feng and threatened to destroy the approaching Asura Hall fleet if it continued toward the Dragon Kingdom.
• Yue Feng explained that his father had been framed and imprisoned and his younger brother abused while he was overseas, and revealed his former identity as Bureau 7's Heavenly Dragon.
• Xiao Tian Ce learned from a newly declassified file that Yue Feng had been presumed killed in action five years earlier while covering his squad's retreat.
• Xiao Tian Ce acknowledged Yue Feng as a hero but refused to let him cross the Eastern Frontier air defenses, and Yue Feng asked what he would do if he insisted.
• Yue Feng said he had prepared a gift for Xiao Tian Ce and the Dragon Kingdom that they would be unable to refuse.

Yue Feng offered Xiao Tian Ce the complete [Seed] technology in exchange for passage into the Dragon Kingdom, and Xiao vouched for him to the country’s leadership. With approval granted, Asura Hall’s aircraft crossed the border toward Modu, where Xiao feared a bloody storm awaited.

• Yue Feng told Xiao Tian Ce that he had stolen the complete [Seed] technology and gave him three minutes to decide whether to let Asura Hall pass.
• Xiao Tian Ce called an emergency meeting, where officials argued over the risks of admitting Yue Feng and his aircraft.
• Xiao staked his service and life on Yue Feng, explaining that he was returning to save his family, and asked the leadership to open the border.
• The leadership approved passage on the condition that Yue Feng cause no large-scale unrest and accept the technology in return.
• Xiao ordered the Eastern Frontier defenses to stand down and opened an air corridor for Asura Hall’s aircraft.
• More than a thousand Asura Hall aircraft headed toward Modu, and Xiao welcomed Yue Feng home while fearing the city would soon see bloodshed.

Third Master Du waited for Yue Feng while holding Yue Xiaofei and the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates hostage at Azure Alliance Headquarters. Zhou Pengfei arrived on Young Master Zhong’s orders to seize the conglomerates’ shares, and Yue Xiaofei defied him as the chapter ended.

• Third Master Du fortified Azure Alliance Headquarters and threatened to kill Yue Xiaofei if Yue Feng did not arrive by midnight.
• A subordinate announced that Zhou Pengfei had come on Young Master Zhong’s behalf, and Third Master Du welcomed him.
• Zhou Pengfei offered the conglomerate heads agreements surrendering ninety percent of their shares and threatened their families if they refused.
• Zhou Pengfei insulted Yue Xiaofei and tried to pat his face, so Yue Xiaofei spat on his suit and called him a dog of the Zhong Family.