Recaps

Zhou Pengfei put Yue Xiaofei on a video call with Young Master Zhong, who revealed he had forced Yue Changlong out of the Ironblood Division and wanted Lu Lanxin’s treasure. The chapter ended with Young Master Zhong showing Yue Xiaofei that he was standing at Ye Qingmei’s grave.

• Zhou Pengfei stopped Du Asan’s men from beating Yue Xiaofei when Young Master Zhong called, then showed Zhong the captive.
• Young Master Zhong taunted Yue Xiaofei about Yue Changlong and demanded that he kneel, while Jin Dapao angrily challenged him.
• Du Asan told Young Master Zhong that Yue Feng was on his way to Modu and claimed snipers and troops were waiting to kill him.
• Young Master Zhong revealed that Yue Xiaofei was bait and that the Zhong Family wanted Lu Lanxin’s treasure.
• Yue Xiaofei invoked Sha Zhenjiang’s connection to Ye Qingmei, but Young Master Zhong switched his camera to reveal Ye Qingmei’s gravestone in Qingshan Cemetery.

Young Master Zhong threatened to desecrate Ye Qingmei’s grave to torment Yue Xiaofei, who was being held captive. Li Fei tried to stop him and, despite being beaten unconscious, shielded the headstone with his body as Zhong’s men prepared to smash it.

• Young Master Zhong ordered his men to dig up Ye Qingmei’s grave while Yue Xiaofei and the Azure Alliance watched helplessly.
• Li Fei arrived at Qingshan Cemetery and ordered Zhong’s men to leave, but Zhong commanded them to attack.
• The men in black disarmed and beat Li Fei, then prepared to smash Ye Qingmei’s headstone.
• Li Fei rose again, wrapped himself around the headstone, and vowed that no one would touch it while he still had breath.

Li Fei was beaten while defending Ye Qingmei’s gravestone, and Young Master Zhong tormented Yue Xiaofei by digging up the grave and opening the coffin. The chapter ended with everyone stunned to find Ye Qingmei’s coffin empty.

• Young Master Zhong ordered his men to beat Li Fei, who held on to Ye Qingmei’s gravestone until he collapsed.
• Yue Xiaofei vowed to destroy the Zhong Family and make Young Master Zhong pay for his actions.
• Young Master Zhong’s men dug up Ye Qingmei’s grave and uncovered her coffin.
• Young Master Zhong ordered the coffin opened to humiliate Yue Xiaofei.
• Young Master Zhong, Yue Xiaofei, and the people at Azure Alliance Headquarters saw that the coffin was empty.

Yue Xiaofei learned that Ye Qingmei’s coffin was empty, raising the possibility that his mother was still alive. As Young Master Zhong ordered a public execution, Yue Xiaofei’s brother had not appeared by midnight, and Yue Xiaofei was dragged toward the Azure Alliance Headquarters entrance.

• At Qingshan Cemetery, Young Master Zhong’s men opened Ye Qingmei’s coffin and found it empty, leaving Yue Xiaofei wondering whether his mother had survived.
• Young Master Zhong ordered his men to smash the gravestone and coffin, but Yue Xiaofei mocked him and warned that he would face judgment.
• Young Master Zhong pointed to the time and declared that Yue Feng was a fraud for failing to arrive before midnight.
• Young Master Zhong ordered Du Asan to hold a public execution, and Third Master Du agreed before ordering his thugs to drag Yue Xiaofei outside.
• As the clock reached midnight, Yue Xiaofei silently trusted his brother and prepared to avenge his family.

Yue Feng returned to Azure Alliance Headquarters just as Third Master Du prepared to execute Yue Xiaofei and the other captives. His explosive entrance devastated the fighters, and he appeared before his younger brother after five years away.

• Third Master Du ordered three thousand elite fighters to shoot Yue Xiaofei and the other prisoners.
• A blazing object struck the square, killing and scattering the fighters and leaving a warblade embedded in a crater.
• Third Master Du suspected the blade was a weapon capable of containing immense explosive power.
• Yue Feng walked into the square, and Yue Xiaofei recognized his older brother.

Yue Feng returned to save his wounded younger brother Yue Xiaofei, devastating the Azure Alliance and revealing the overwhelming force at his command. He reached Yue Xiaofei and assured him that his big brother was back.

• Yue Feng arrived at the Azure Alliance Headquarters, where Yue Xiaofei and Bai Bing recognized him.
• Yue Feng retrieved the Asura Warblade and confronted Third Master Du for attacking Yue Xiaofei.
• Third Master Du ordered his snipers to shoot, but unseen allies killed them before they could hit Yue Feng.
• Thousands of fighter jets bearing the Asura Totem appeared above the headquarters as Yue Feng's masked army assembled behind him.
• The Azure Alliance fighters surrendered, and Third Master Du and Zhou Pengfei realized they had been defeated.
• Yue Feng reached Yue Xiaofei, patted his shoulder, and told him he was back.

Yue Feng reunited with Yue Xiaofei and forced Third Master Du to release the hostages by arriving with an overwhelming force. Mistaking Yue Feng for Seven Kills’s subordinate, Third Master Du tried to recruit the general’s support and demanded an apology and compensation from Yue Feng.

• Yue Feng broke Yue Xiaofei’s handcuffs and apologized for failing to protect him, and Yue Xiaofei welcomed his brother’s return.
• Yue Feng threatened Third Master Du, who ordered his men to release Jin Dapao, Bai Bing, and the family heads of the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates.
• Bai Bing saluted Yue Feng as the Four Great Kings and Ten Great War Generals, including Seven Kills, joined him.
• Third Master Du mistook Yue Feng for Seven Kills’s subordinate and pleaded with Seven Kills to make Yue Feng apologize and compensate him.

The Seven Kills General punished Third Master Du after he insulted Yue Feng, while Zhou Pengfei learned Yue Feng commanded the Asura Hall. Yue Xiaofei revealed their mother's grave had been empty, and Zhou Pengfei ended by naming the Darkness Emperor as his backer.

• The Seven Kills General beat Third Master Du for demanding an apology from Yue Feng and calling the general his brother.
• Bai Bing reported to Yue Feng, and Jin Dapao and the Family Heads of the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates paid him their respects.
• Yue Xiaofei told Yue Feng that their mother's grave had been empty, leaving Yue Feng hopeful she might still be alive.
• Yue Xiaofei explained that Li Fei had been badly injured defending the grave and identified Zhou Pengfei as Young Master Zhong's agent targeting the family's businesses.
• Yue Feng ordered the Seven Kills General to take Zhou Pengfei away and make him talk, but Zhou Pengfei claimed he had a more powerful backer.
• Zhou Pengfei declared that the Darkness Emperor, ranked third on the overseas Dark List, was his backer.

Zhou Pengfei claimed the Darkness Emperor backed him and tried to use a communicator to threaten Yue Feng and Asura Hall. The chapter ended with Yue Feng inviting him to call, revealing that Yue Feng himself was the person Zhou Pengfei had supposedly relied on.

• Zhou Pengfei declared that the Darkness Emperor was his backer and demanded Yue Feng and the others kneel and apologize.
• Yue Feng and the Asura Hall members stayed silent before bursting into laughter at Zhou Pengfei’s boast.
• Zhou Pengfei showed off a communicator, believing it let him contact the Darkness Emperor directly.
• The Seven Kills General and the others recognized the device as a low-grade handset for peripheral informants, not a direct-call phone.
• Zhou Pengfei threatened Yue Feng and insisted that the Darkness Emperor would punish him.
• Yue Feng beckoned Zhou Pengfei to make the call, saying he wanted to see how Zhou Pengfei would contact him.

Yue Feng revealed that he was the Darkness Emperor and the master of Asura Hall, leaving Zhou Pengfei broken and the gathered forces kneeling before him. Yue Feng then shattered Zhou Pengfei’s kneecaps and challenged him to call on his supposed backer.

• Yue Feng used Asura Hall’s Main Communicator to call Zhou Pengfei’s Satellite Phone and proved he was the Hall Master.
• Zhou Pengfei realized Yue Feng was the Darkness Emperor and collapsed in terror.
• The senior members of Asura Hall and tens of thousands of soldiers knelt and paid their respects to Yue Feng.
• Bai Bing explained to Yue Xiaofei that Yue Feng ruled Asura Hall, while Third Master Du and the Azure Alliance lay paralyzed with fear.
• Yue Feng stomped on Zhou Pengfei’s kneecaps, permanently disabling him, and taunted him to summon his backer.

Yue Feng captured Zhou Pengfei and forced him to answer Young Master Zhong's call, exposing Zhong's orders to seize the Lu family's businesses and target Yue Xiaofei and Ye Qingmei. After learning Yue Feng was the Darkness Emperor, Zhong heard Yue Feng promise to bury him in the Sin Mausoleum with an epitaph declaring he died at forty-two.

• Zhou Pengfei begged Yue Feng for mercy and blamed Young Master Zhong for the attacks on the Lu family and Yue Xiaofei.
• Young Master Zhong called Zhou Pengfei and ordered him to take over Lu Lanxin's businesses and find Ye Qingmei's grave.
• Young Master Zhong insulted Yue Feng until Zhou Pengfei warned him that Yue Feng was the Darkness Emperor.
• Yue Feng took the phone and asked Young Master Zhong his age; Zhong said he was forty-two.
• Yue Feng told Young Master Zhong he would bury him in the Sin Mausoleum and mark his gravestone, "Dead at forty-two!"

Yue Feng humiliated Young Master Zhong by revealing his secret scandals and declaring the entire Zhong Family foolish, prompting a death threat over the phone. After Bai Bing and Yue Xiaofei warned him about the Zhong Family’s power, Yue Feng hinted that his greatest trump card was not his identity as the Darkness Emperor.

• Yue Feng told Young Master Zhong that he would die at forty-two, and Young Master Zhong threatened him while boasting about the Zhong Family’s influence.
• Yue Feng exposed Young Master Zhong’s past business losses, overseas scam, and gambling debt, then insulted him and his family.
• Young Master Zhong threatened to kill Yue Feng and abruptly ended the call.
• Bai Bing and Yue Xiaofei warned Yue Feng that the Zhong Family’s power in Longdu made his actions dangerous.
• Yue Feng asked who had said his greatest trump card was his identity as the Darkness Emperor.

Yue Feng ordered Asura Hall to seize the Azure Alliance, locate Li Fei and Young Master Zhong, and investigate his mother Ye Qingmei, while arranging medical care for Yue Xiaofei. Young Master Zhong learned that powerful military and national authorities backed Yue Feng, then posted a ten-billion bounty on the Dark Web to have Yue Feng and Yue Xiaofei killed.

• Yue Feng ordered Seven Kills and Nether King to take control of the Azure Alliance and extract information about the Zhong Family from Third Master Du and Zhou Pengfei.
• Yue Feng sent Night King to find Li Fei and Young Master Zhong, and ordered Nether King to investigate Ye Qingmei’s death.
• Yue Feng summoned Modu’s best surgeon to treat Yue Xiaofei.
• Young Master Zhong called He Tianming to demand Yue Feng’s arrest, but He Tianming warned that Asura Hall had been escorted by Xiao Tian Ce’s fighters under orders from Jade Spring Mountain.
• Young Master Zhong rejected He Tianming’s warning and posted a ten-billion Dark Web bounty for Yue Feng and Yue Xiaofei’s deaths within twelve hours.

After a ten-billion bounty on Yue Feng and Yue Xiaofei triggered a rush by the Dragon Kingdom’s Underworld, underground factions sent attackers toward the Azure Alliance Headquarters, where they vanished without a trace. Yue Feng then appeared in a forced video call to the leaders of major factions, revealing that he had turned the hunt around and surrounded them.

• A ten-billion bounty funded by the Zhong Family appeared on the Dark Web, and intelligence networks found only a bare name for Yue Feng while uncovering Yue Xiaofei’s background.
• More than ninety percent of underground organizations accepted the bounty, while Nie Kuanglong, Duan Jiude, and the Queen of Hearts ordered their forces to wait and observe.
• Organizations near Modu sent successive waves of assassins and mercenaries toward the Azure Alliance Headquarters, but everyone who entered the five-kilometer area disappeared.
• Yue Feng appeared on a video invitation that forcibly reached the leaders of top underground factions, seated before a bloodstained throne and piles of corpses.

Yue Feng revealed to the Dragon Kingdom's Underworld that he was both the former [Heavenly Dragon] of Bureau 7 and the Hall Master of Asura Hall, the Darkness Emperor. He declared all of Modu off-limits and threatened death to anyone who entered.

• Yue Feng hijacked a video feed reaching underground leaders across the Dragon Kingdom and introduced himself as a former Bureau 7 agent.
• Yue Feng revealed that he had served in the [Reverse Scale] squad under the code name [Heavenly Dragon], shocking the leaders watching.
• Yue Feng said he had left [Reverse Scale] five years earlier and joined Asura Hall.
• Yue Feng turned the camera toward Asura Hall's Four Great Kings, Ten Great War Generals, and tens of thousands of warriors as they knelt and hailed him as Hall Master.
• Yue Feng declared himself the Darkness Emperor and proclaimed all of Modu off-limits, threatening to kill anyone who entered.

After Yue Feng’s video frightened the Dragon Kingdom’s Underworld, the organizations hired to kill him canceled their missions, leaving Young Master Zhong furious and searching for another way to retaliate. He settled on asking his brother-in-law, Hou Liangbing, for help.

• Nie Kuanglong ordered the Ten Dragons Association to disband and announced that he would return home to grow sweet potatoes.
• After learning Xiao Tian Ce had escorted Yue Feng, Duan Jiude suspended the Sky-Blasting Gang’s operations and turned it toward poverty relief.
• The Queen of Hearts canceled Night Rose’s mission and declared Yue Feng her idol.
• Young Master Zhong learned that every organization hired through the [Dark Web] had canceled its mission, and he realized Yue Feng had frightened the Underworld into backing down.
• Young Master Zhong ruled out asking his father or sister for help, then thought of seeking assistance from Hou Liangbing.

Young Master Zhong enlisted his brother-in-law Hou Liangbing to target Yue Feng, and Hou ordered the [Reverse Scale] squad to capture their former captain. When Hou threatened to fire the squad, its members resigned one after another, leaving him stunned.

• Young Master Zhong called Hou Liangbing and falsely portrayed Yue Feng as a threat to the Zhong Family, prompting Hou to promise to deal with him.
• Hou Liangbing recalled Yue Feng as the former [Reverse Scale] captain [Heavenly Dragon] and decided to use the squad against him.
• Hou ordered [Reverse Scale] to go to Modu and capture Yue Feng alive, but [Man-Rat] refused to obey.
• Hou threatened to fire the squad, and [Man-Rat] resigned and cut the connection.
• [Spirit Snake], [Jade Rabbit], [Stone Monkey], [Ugly Ox], and the other [Reverse Scale] members resigned in turn, leaving Hou Liangbing with a busy tone.

After Hou Liangbing forced [Reverse Scale] to resign, Bureau 7 suffered a series of crises that exposed how vital its members were. Zhang Beihai ordered Hou to bring them back and explained that they followed Yue Feng because he had once risked everything to rescue [Man-Rat], leaving Hou confronted with the loyalty behind [Heavenly Dragon]'s legend.

• Hou Liangbing learned that [Reverse Scale] had resigned en masse and vowed to replace the team.
• A breach of Bureau 7's intelligence network and an exposed undercover agent revealed the consequences of [Man-Rat] and [Spirit Snake] resigning.
• A fatal failure in the 'Black Tortoise' combat system required [Stone Monkey] and [Ugly Ox], who had also resigned.
• Zhang Beihai ordered Hou Liangbing to bring all eleven members of [Reverse Scale] back and told him they obeyed only their captain, [Heavenly Dragon].
• Zhang Beihai recounted how Yue Feng had defied orders and rescued [Man-Rat] from an enemy prison, asking Hou what it meant for a sovereign to save his people.

Hou Liangbing learned why [Reverse Scale] remained fiercely loyal to [Heavenly Dragon] and was ordered by Zhang Beihai to bring the eleven members back within half an hour. He kowtowed to [Man-Rat] under threat of exposure, but the rest of the team still refused to return.

• Zhang Beihai told Hou Liangbing how [Heavenly Dragon] rescued [Man-Rat] from the Black Prison, killing tens of thousands of enemy troops and earning the saying, “Better to cross the King of Hell than the Heavenly Dragon!”
• Zhang Beihai gave Hou Liangbing half an hour to get all eleven [Reverse Scale] members back, and Hou Liangbing apologized to the team through its private channel.
• [Man-Rat] mocked Hou Liangbing and demanded that he kowtow on video, then threatened to send the secrets from his phones to his wife in the Zhong Family.
• Hou Liangbing kowtowed three times and begged [Man-Rat] for mercy, prompting the system to announce that [Man-Rat] had returned to the team.
• [Spirit Snake], [Jade Rabbit], [Stone Monkey], and [Ugly Ox] made clear that Hou Liangbing's kowtows had not persuaded them to return.

Hou Liangbing forced the Reverse Scale squad to return by kowtowing, then warned Zhong Xiaofeng not to provoke Yue Feng again. Yue Feng found Zhong Xiaofeng at a secret safe house and renewed his death threat, while Zhong decided to seek the Ning family’s help.

• After the remaining Reverse Scale members demanded the same apology, Hou Liangbing kowtowed thirty times until they returned to the team.
• Hou Liangbing called Zhong Xiaofeng, blamed him for provoking Yue Feng, and warned he would personally make him apologize if he did it again.
• Yue Feng called Zhong Xiaofeng and revealed he had found his supposedly secret safe house in Longdu.
• Yue Feng reminded Zhong Xiaofeng that he would die before his forty-second birthday and dismissed the Zhong Family’s power.
• After the call ended, Zhong Xiaofeng resolved to strike back and decided to ask the Ning family to deal with Yue Feng.

Young Master Zhong called in the Zhong Family’s favor with the Ning family and begged Ning Hongye to eliminate Yue Feng and his brother. Ning Hongye agreed to send someone, dismissing Yue Feng’s overseas power and invoking the Dragon Kingdom’s Heaven Ranking.

• Young Master Zhong took out the Ning family token and called Ning Hongye, the family’s blind young heir.
• Young Master Zhong falsely portrayed Yue Feng and his brother as lawless villains and asked the Ning family to kill them in repayment of its favor.
• Ning Hongye asked whether the brothers’ surname was Yue and said she would not act personally but would send someone.
• Young Master Zhong described Yue Feng’s Dark List rank, Asura Hall, and fighter jets, but Ning Hongye remained unconcerned.
• Ning Hongye declared that the Dragon Kingdom’s Heaven Ranking surpassed the overseas Dark List and that Dragon Kingdom martial arts were second to none.

Ning Hongye sent three Heaven Ranking experts to Modu at the Ning family's command, targeting two people. As Yue Feng prepared to face them at the hospital, he told Yue Xiaofei to warm his wine because he was going to kill.

• Young Master Zhong thanked Ning Hongye after learning that Heaven Ranking experts would be sent to deal with Yue Feng.
• Ning Hongye sent three tokens to Zhang Huaiyu, Qi Canghai, and Feng Tianhao, ordering them to go to Modu and kill two people.
• Zhang Huaiyu, Qi Canghai, and Feng Tianhao accepted the Ning family's command and set out for Modu.
• At First People's Hospital, Yue Xiaofei woke up and asked Yue Feng about the years they had been apart.
• Seven Kills warned Yue Feng that three powerful Heaven Ranking experts were approaching and that Sea King could not stop them.
• Yue Feng handed Yue Xiaofei his liquor and said he was going to kill.

Yue Feng faced three powerful fighters outside the hospital and defeated Zhang Huaiyu in a one-on-one battle, leaving Yue Xiaofei stunned by the existence of warriors beyond ordinary human limits. Qi Canghai then stepped forward to challenge Yue Feng.

• Qi Canghai, Feng Tianhao, and Zhang Huaiyu confronted Yue Feng outside the hospital and demanded that he surrender.
• Zhang Huaiyu challenged Yue Feng to a one-on-one fight, and the two clashed at superhuman speed as Yue Xiaofei watched in shock.
• Zhang Huaiyu used the Golden Light Spell, but Yue Feng shattered his attack with Dragon Raises Its Head and sent him flying.
• Zhang Huaiyu admitted defeat, and Yue Feng spared him and told him to leave.
• Qi Canghai eagerly stepped forward and challenged Yue Feng to fight.

Yue Feng overwhelmed ninth-ranked Heaven Ranking fighter Qi Canghai with his Eight Extremes Fist and forced him to his knees, but Feng Tianhao intervened before Yue Feng could finish him. Qi Canghai admitted defeat, then insisted that his mission required Yue Feng’s death and called on Feng Tianhao to attack together.

• Qi Canghai charged Yue Feng with Prairie Blaze Force and Eight Thunderclap Forms, but Yue Feng blocked his punch and evaded every strike.
• Yue Feng used King of Hell’s Three-Point Hand to break Qi Canghai’s arms, then overpowered him with Fierce Tiger Climbs the Mountain and Overlord Breaks the Reins, forcing him to his knees.
• Yue Feng launched Sky-Piercing Cannon at Qi Canghai, but Feng Tianhao stepped in and met the punch, stumbling backward while Yue Feng remained unmoved.
• Qi Canghai admitted defeat and praised Yue Feng’s Eight Extremes Fist, then declared that his mission still required Yue Feng’s death.
• Qi Canghai asked Feng Tianhao to abandon a fair duel and attack Yue Feng together.

Yue Feng faced attacks from Feng Tianhao, Qi Canghai, and Zhang Huaiyu, three Heaven Ranking masters who joined forces against him. After making them believe they had cornered him, he declared the fight a warm-up and revealed black, dragon-engraved shackles on his arms and ankles.

• Feng Tianhao drew the ancient divine weapon Kunwu Blade and attacked Yue Feng, while Qi Canghai and Zhang Huaiyu joined the assault.
• Yue Xiaofei urged the Seven Kills General to help, but the general insisted Yue Feng could not be driven into a corner.
• The three masters coordinated their attacks and appeared to trap Yue Feng with a blade strike and Zhang Huaiyu’s fly whisk.
• Yue Feng evaded Feng Tianhao’s blade and broke the strands around his legs, then announced that his warm-up was over.
• Yue Feng tore open his shirt and revealed strange black shackles engraved with dragon patterns, shocking Yue Xiaofei and the three masters.