Chapter Summaries

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.

Key plot points and events

• The three powerful visitors—Elder Xu Anbang, Zhao Mengsheng, and Marshal Long Qianshan—reject Cao Zhengchun’s attempt to welcome them and condemn the Cao Family’s lavish funeral for Cao Longxiang.
• Zhao Mengsheng accuses Cao Zhengchun of shielding the real killer while Yue Xiaofei was treated like a criminal.
• Marshal Long Qianshan declares that national law outranks family rules, making clear that Cao Xuanye must be handed over.
• Cao Zhengchun orders his guards to seize Xuanye, publicly presenting the decision as a painful act of justice. Xuanye pleads for his father to save him, then curses him as he is dragged away.
• As the military leaders prepare to leave, Yue Xiaofei stops them. He insists Xuanye is not the only person who must face judgment and accuses Cao Zhengchun of being the true person responsible.

Character developments

• Cao Zhengchun abandons his son to protect the family’s standing, portraying himself as just while hiding his self-interest. Yue’s accusation exposes the limits of his control.
• Cao Xuanye shifts from despair to furious hatred when he realizes his father will not rescue him.
• Yue Xiaofei remains composed and assertive, widening the demand for accountability from the murderer to the person he believes shaped and used him.
• Zhao Mengsheng openly channels his anger over his nephew’s treatment, while Long Qianshan supplies the decisive authority through his statement on the supremacy of law.

Significant themes

• Justice versus family loyalty: The chapter insists that family ties cannot excuse murder or override the law.
• Power, hypocrisy, and performance: Cao Zhengchun’s staged grief and justice-minded posture contrast with his alleged manipulation of his sons.
• Accountability beyond the immediate culprit: Yue argues that responsibility extends to those who cultivate, direct, or exploit wrongdoing.

Character interactions

• Zhao Mengsheng confronts Cao Zhengchun over his handling of Yue and the funeral.
• Long Qianshan’s brief ruling forces Cao Zhengchun to surrender Xuanye.
• Xuanye begs his father for help, then condemns him when he is abandoned.
• Yue directly challenges Cao Zhengchun, turning the confrontation from Xuanye’s guilt toward the patriarch’s own responsibility.

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.

Plot points and events

• Cao Zhengchun invokes an obsolete royal-clan “Immunity” to evade arrest, but Xu Anbang rejects the claim, insisting no one is above the law. Marshal Long Qianshan orders the guards to take Cao into custody.
• Yue Xiaofei stops the arrest. Rather than let Cao face a trial, he vows to destroy the Cao Family and kill Cao himself, making clear that he intends to pursue personal revenge beyond the law.
• Yue leaves the funeral site. The officials accept that he has chosen his own path and decide only to remove official obstacles. The guests flee, leaving Cao Zhengchun, his daughter Cao Yuyao, and Cao Longxiang’s body amid the wreckage.
• Yan Qingsi drives Yue away and challenges his decision, warning that a cornered Cao will retaliate. Yue explains that he wants Cao to lose everything he values and live in regret and despair before Yue kills him.

Character developments and interactions

• Yue Xiaofei rejects legal punishment in favor of deliberate, personal vengeance. His calm manner contrasts with the ruthlessness of his promise.
• Cao Zhengchun is relieved to survive but terrified by the prospect of waiting for Yue’s revenge. He calls Yue a madman and pushes away Cao Yuyao when she tries to comfort him.
• Yan Qingsi acts out of concern, urging Yue to choose the safer legal route. Their exchange reveals that Yue’s revenge is not merely about killing Cao, but about destroying his life first.
• Xu Anbang, Long Qianshan, and Zhao Mengsheng acknowledge Yue’s choice and withdraw. Zhao regards Cao as effectively doomed.

Significant themes

• Justice versus revenge: Yue rejects the courts as insufficient, choosing a blood-for-blood response.
• Fear as punishment: Cao’s greatest immediate torment is the expectation of future retribution.
• The collapse of status: The Cao Family’s influence and prestige offer no protection from public disgrace or Yue’s threat.

Plot points and events

• After confronting the Cao Family, Yue Xiaofei learns that Cao Zhengchun may call on overseas criminals and mercenary groups. A ten-billion bounty has also made Yue a target throughout the Underworld.
• Yan Qingsi warns him that he faces a worldwide hunt. Yue remains untroubled, welcoming the chance to draw out and eliminate his enemies.
• At the Su Family villa, Su Guohua excitedly recounts rumors about a young man who disrupted the Cao family funeral, overturned Cao Zhengchun’s son’s coffin, and publicly exposed the eldest son as the murderer. He says several powerful military figures supported the young man.
• Su Wanning is fascinated by the story, while Jiang Lan worries that Yue Xiaofei may be caught up in the turmoil.
• Yue returns home and reveals that he was the mysterious man. Su Guohua immediately laughs and refuses to believe him.

Character developments and interactions

• Yue Xiaofei shows no fear of the bounty or the powerful enemies gathering against him. His readiness to face the Underworld makes him seem both formidable and unsettling.
• Yan Qingsi recognizes that Yue’s hostility runs deeper than she understood and is shaken by his apparent willingness to challenge the world.
• Su Guohua admires the rumored hero but dismisses Yue as an idle troublemaker, revealing his bias and inability to recognize him.
• Su Wanning is captivated by the heroic account and defends Yue when her father insults him.
• Jiang Lan remains caring and anxious, checking Yue’s safety and worrying that his involvement could bring danger to the family.

Significant themes

• Defiance and escalating danger: Yue treats a global manhunt not as a threat but as an opportunity to confront his enemies.
• Appearance versus reality: The family celebrates Yue’s deeds as the work of an extraordinary stranger, while dismissing him when he claims credit.
• Admiration and disbelief: The contrast between the family’s idealized image of the hero and their judgment of Yue creates dramatic irony.

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.

Plot points and events

• Yue Xiaofei catches Viper’s armor-piercing sniper round between two fingers, then flicks it back with such force that it kills Viper a thousand meters away.
• The surviving assassins and mercenaries, watching through night-vision equipment, realize their intelligence was wrong and panic. Yue announces that none of them will leave.
• He moves too fast to follow, killing one fleeing assassin with the force of his passage alone. The others try to escape, but Yue pursues them and massacres them with ease; their guns and blades cannot touch him.
• Human Bomb tries to kill Yue and the remaining attackers by detonating the C4 strapped to himself. The blast tears a crater in the ground, but Yue emerges unharmed, protected by an invisible barrier.
• The surviving attackers drop their weapons and beg for mercy. Yue remains unmoved, reminding them that he said they would all stay.

Character developments

• Yue’s already formidable power is revealed to be virtually superhuman: he can catch and return bullets, move at overwhelming speed, and withstand a point-blank C4 blast. His calm, merciless demeanor never changes.
• The assassins shift from confidence and greed to fear, desperate flight, and finally submission. Their reputations and boasts collapse when faced with Yue’s power.
• Viper dies instantly after his failed sniper attack. Human Bomb’s desperate suicide attack also fails to harm Yue.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and fear: Yue’s abilities shatter the attackers’ assumptions about what a human can do.
• The reversal of hunter and prey: The assassins arrive expecting an easy target, only to become helpless prey.
• The futility of greed and violence: Money, status, weapons, and numbers offer no protection against Yue.
• Merciless justice: The attackers beg for their lives, but Yue shows no pity.

Character interactions

• Yue answers Viper’s distant attack by returning the bullet and killing him.
• His threat to keep the intruders at the plant prompts them to flee, but his pursuit turns their attempted escape into a massacre.
• Human Bomb attacks Yue in a final attempt to take him down, while the other survivors watch and briefly hope the blast succeeded.
• The survivors plead with Yue for mercy; he rejects their pleas and repeats his earlier warning.

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.