Recaps

Jiang Kui received grain and supplies from Yang Ge’s allies, sent five exceptional horses as gifts, and learned that Yang Ge was recovering in seclusion at Hongze Lake. Yang Ge emerged after three months with a transformed cultivation and reached the Quasi-Peerless Grandmaster realm.

• Jiang Kui welcomed Wu Eryong at Ji Prefecture’s docks and accepted a shipment of grain, salt, and cloth from the Chain Wharf and Yang Tiansheng’s Greenwood Hall.
• Jiang Kui gave five prized horses to Wu Eryong for Yang Ge and the Zhoushan Five Heroes, including the untamed Ten-Thousand-Mile Cloudlight.
• Wu Eryong told Jiang Kui that Yang Ge had escaped a fight with a Peerless Grandmaster-level palace eunuch but had entered Hongze Lake alone to heal; Jiang Kui invited him to seek refuge beyond the frontier.
• Yang Yinghao visited Yang Tiansheng at Hongze Lake and asked him to approach Yang Ge about joining the Bright Cult, while Yang Tiansheng warned that Yang Ge would likely refuse.
• Yang Ge emerged from seclusion as the Cold Moon Saber and five pillars of light announced his return, and he realized his rebuilt Five-Element cultivation had brought him to the Quasi-Peerless Grandmaster realm.

Yang Ge declined the Bright Cult's invitation to Bright Summit, explaining to Yang Tiansheng that he would not help provoke a war that harmed the common people. Meanwhile, the Dao Venerable ordered Yang Ge's ranking revised and arranged a battle between him and Li Qing.

• Yang Ge reunited with the Bright Cult's Greenwood Hall elites and cooked a feast for them beside the lake.
• Yang Ge told Yang Tiansheng that Tong Ying was likely dead and refused to meet the Bright Cult's leader because he would not risk becoming a cause of war.
• Yang Yinghao accepted Yang Ge's decision, and the group shared a lively meal beneath the night sky.
• At Pure Serenity Monastery, the Dao Venerable and Seven Envoys debated revising the Heroes' Ranking and learned Yang Ge had emerged from seclusion with suspected mastery of Five Elements Returning to Origin Qi.
• The Dao Venerable ranked Yang Ge above the Seven Heroes as a quasi-Peerless grandmaster and ordered a battle between 'Qin Hero' Li Qing and 'Han Hero' Yang Erlang.

Yang Erlang’s rise to the top of the Heroes Ranking sparked a bitter north-south dispute over whether he or Li Qing was stronger. Meanwhile, Shen Fa and Wei Heng discussed how the Court could counter Tower Beyond Towers, and Shen Fa agreed to approach Yang Erlang if the Sovereign approved.

• Tower Beyond Towers ranked Yang Erlang first among the heroes after he killed Tong Ying, while martial artists argued over whether he surpassed Li Qing.
• Wei Heng confronted Shen Fa, demanding that the Embroidered Uniform Guard help the Western Factory deal with Tower Beyond Towers.
• Shen Fa made Wei Heng acknowledge that the Western Factory needed to ask the Embroidered Uniform Guard for assistance.
• Shen Fa outlined plans to petition the Sovereign for a joint campaign, expose Tower Beyond Towers, or persuade Yang Erlang not to oppose the Court.
• Shen Fa offered to approach Yang Erlang himself if the Sovereign approved, and Wei Heng left to report the proposals to the Sovereign.

Yang Ge told Chain Wharf’s heir why he was refusing to act against the factions stirring up conflict in the martial world, and the two discussed how to use the delay to strengthen Chain Wharf. Their tea gathering was interrupted by a White Lotus Cult woman and then her husband, leaving Yang Ge caught between the pair as they arrived to speak with him.

• Yang Ge explained that Tower Beyond Towers had likely started the unrest and that multiple factions were exploiting it to expand their power.
• Yang Ge said he would remain publicly inactive so the conspirators could not use his actions to plunge the Court and martial world into chaos, then settle accounts with them later.
• The Chain Wharf heir recognized that Yang Ge’s restraint would buy his faction time to prepare, and Yang Ge urged him to use it well.
• A woman from the White Lotus Cult arrived to lobby Yang Ge, but he refused to help her faction and warned her not to involve him in its schemes.
• A scarred man carrying an Ox-Tail Saber arrived, recognized the woman as his wife, and glared at Yang Ge after hearing him joke about having the surname Cao.

Yang Ge and Shen Fa discussed the Court’s attempt to use Yang Ge against Tower Beyond Towers, then Yang Ge declared that he would leave for the Eastern Isles and sever his ties with the Court. After returning his Gilt Waist Token, Yang Ge received a wild black horse as a gift and set about taming it.

• Yang Ge and Shen Fa exchanged thanks and regrets over the Welcome Inn, then argued about whether Yang Ge’s presence threatened Great Wei and its people.
• Shen Fa explained that Tower Beyond Towers had been stirring conflict to pit the martial world’s Four Elders against the Court, and described the Court’s proposed strategies for dealing with it.
• Yang Ge agreed to help by stepping away, but told Shen Fa he would travel to the Eastern Isles to punish the Japanese Pirates’ homeland and warned that foreign invaders must pay for attacking Divine Land.
• Yang Ge told Shen Fa that he and the Court owed each other nothing from then on, returned his Gilt Waist Token, and said he would be known as Yang Erlang rather than Yang Ge of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
• Wu Eryong told Yang Ge that Hero Jiang had sent him a wild Dragon-Blooded Steed, and Yang Ge mounted the horse and struck its forehead when it tried to throw him.

Yang Ge subdued the savage black horse, named it Erhei, and began organizing an expedition to the Eastern Isles for revenge and riches. He set a small, skilled crew to gather at South Sand Bay and left Wu Eryong hoping to earn a place on the voyage.

• Yang Ge endured the black horse's rampage, then tossed it over Hongze Lake until it surrendered and accepted his green wood true qi.
• Yang Ge named the horse Erhei and announced that he and Li Jincheng would prepare an expedition to the Eastern Isles, leaving in early September with no more than twenty skilled men.
• Yang Ge told Shen Fa he would not tolerate the Court luring Wang Zeng to the capital under amnesty and killing him, then set South Sand Bay as the meeting place.
• Wu Eryong pleaded to join the expedition, and Yang Ge suggested Li Jincheng help him advance his cultivation; Li Jincheng agreed, leaving Wu Eryong eager to train before they sailed.

Yang Ge left his lakeside cabin and headed toward Zhoushan, but the White Lotus Cult intercepted him and tried to recruit him for his journey to the Eastern Isles. He accepted Tang Qing’s Twelve Earthly Branches as helpers, severed his friendship with Liu Dongjun, and learned that Yang Potian was waiting for him in Hangzhou.

• Yang Ge packed his belongings, said goodbye to his lakeside cabin, and rode Erhei toward Zhoushan.
• Outside Anji County, Yang Ge saw through a staged bandit attack and struck the actress when she insulted him, then demanded that the hidden White Lotus Cult reveal itself.
• Tang Qing emerged and offered Yang Ge the post of Eastern Heavenly King, along with men and ships, in exchange for joining the White Lotus Cult.
• When Yang Ge threatened to fight, Tang Qing offered him the Twelve Earthly Branches as companions for the journey to the Eastern Isles, and Yang Ge accepted them.
• Yang Ge ended his friendship with Liu Dongjun, warned her to stay away, and told her that Shen Fa owed him a beating.
• Tang Qing told Yang Ge that Yang Potian was waiting for him in Hangzhou, and the Twelve Earthly Branches followed him as he rode on.

Yang Ge avoided Hangzhou after learning Yang Potian was waiting for him, while Yang Potian and Yang Yinghao discussed the White Lotus Cult’s attempt to influence him and agreed to support his Eastern Expedition. News of the expedition spread across the martial world, and the Court’s proclamation restoring Yang Erlang to his post helped turn it into a massive public cause, with martial artists flocking toward Jiangzhe.

• Yang Ge diverted toward Yuhang to avoid a meeting with Yang Potian and possible conflict with Bright Cult members who had fought beside him.
• At the Old Yu Tea House, Yang Potian and Yang Yinghao learned that Tang Qing had planted people under Yang Ge’s command, and they wagered on whether the White Lotus Cult could win him over.
• Yang Potian agreed to send the Eight Guardian Vajras to accompany Yang Ge on the Eastern Expedition, despite Yang Yinghao’s concerns.
• Rumors of Yang Ge’s plan to avenge South Sand Bay spread, and rival factions circulated expedition rosters showcasing their fighters.
• The Court publicized South Sand Bay as the assembly point and restored Yang Erlang to his former post, prompting martial artists from across the country to head south for the expedition.

Yang Ge gathered a growing force of martial artists for an Eastern Expedition and established the rules they would follow on the mission. After their names were carved into a monument at South Sand Bay, he embraced the expedition as a vanguard for Yan and Huang.

• Yang Ge finished cultivating, checked his increased strength, and reflected that he needed to temper his mind before growing stronger.
• Yang Tiansheng and Li Jincheng arrived with a large group of recruits, including Xiang Wudi, Zhou Fu, and the White Lotus Cult's Twelve Earthly Branches; Yang Ge counted seventy-two fighters in all.
• Yang Ge learned that Shen the Second had helped spread the Eastern Expedition through the martial world, and Zhou Fu, Liu Tang, and Nangong Feiying explained their orders to join or gather intelligence.
• Yang Ge warned the recruits that the expedition would be deadly and required them to obey decisions and stand by one another; the assembled men unanimously agreed.
• Yang Ge ordered Yang Tiansheng to arrange ships and Li Jincheng to find a stone, then shaped it into a monument at South Sand Bay.
• Xiang Wudi carved Yang Ge's title and the expedition members' names into the monument as Yang Ge declared his willingness to serve as a vanguard for Yan and Huang.

Yang Ge led the Eastern Expedition to sea while martial-world spectators named the departing group the Seventy-Two Demon-Slashing Warriors. Aboard ship, he confronted Wang Cheng about his loyalties, then chose a route to invade the Eastern Isles and crush its powerful daimyos.

• The warriors sailed from South Sand Bay as the crowd left ashore discovered the inscribed roster and named its members the Seventy-Two Demon-Slashing Warriors.
• Wang Cheng hosted Yang Ge and the expedition leaders, identifying Hirado as a key port ruled by Matsuura Takanobu and offering to lead the attack there.
• Yang Ge warned Wang Cheng not to betray Great Wei or bargain away his people's interests, and Wang Cheng promised to remember his advice.
• Wang Cheng showed the leaders a silk map and described the Eastern Isles' capital, coastal ports, and powerful daimyos.
• Yang Ge declared that the expedition would land at Hirado and sweep through the central region and Kanto to crush the daimyos gathered there.

Yang Ge spent the voyage fishing while his companions worried that his cultivation had gone awry, then explained his simple strategy for the Eastern Expedition. The discussion ended when he caught a shark and hauled it onto the ship.

• Yang Ge befriended Old Zhang over fresh fish and promised to help him return home and settle his past troubles.
• Yang Tiansheng, Li Jincheng, and Xiang Wudi questioned Yang Ge about his cultivation and raised the possibility of the Grandmaster Mystery.
• Yang Ge denied having doubts about his Dao, claimed his foundations would catch up during the expedition, and explained that the group would raid quickly and flee when necessary.
• Yang Ge’s fishing line snapped during an argument with Li Jincheng, but he leaped into the sea and returned carrying a shark.
• Xiang Wudi teased Li Jincheng by asking whether Yang Ge looked like his father.

Yang Ge led his seventy-two warriors ashore at Hirado Port and launched a surprise assault on its defenses. After the others seized the harbor walls, he entered Hirado Castle and slaughtered the Japanese pirate martial experts, while his companions decided not to interfere with his rampage.

• Yang Ge warned his warriors to fight armed Japanese pirates without mercy and assigned Wang Cheng to handle supplies and serve as their escape route and cleanup force.
• Yang Ge divided the warriors into three groups to attack Hirado Port’s walls and gate, then smashed the gate tower with a strike of golden blade qi.
• Yang Tiansheng, Xiang Wudi, and Li Jincheng led their forces over the walls and captured the harbor defenses before the cannons could fire.
• Yang Ge entered Hirado Castle and killed five Japanese pirate martial experts, then pursued and killed two fleeing ninjas.
• Yang Tiansheng, Li Jincheng, and Xiang Wudi discussed Yang Ge’s killing spree and chose to let him continue.

Yang Ge seized Hirado Castle, destroyed the Matsuura House, and began identifying and punishing Japanese pirates who had raided Huaxia. He left the city’s adult men gathered under guard, using rewards and fear to turn them against the pirates and further his goal of eliminating Japanese piracy.

• Yang Ge ordered Hirado Castle sealed, then entered the daimyo residence and killed its defenders with flying blade fragments.
• Yang Ge defeated Matsuura Takanobu, destroyed the Matsuura House, and ordered Zhou Fu’s Embroidered Uniform Guards to gather the city’s wealth and adult men.
• On hearing that it was September 18, Yang Ge recalled his homeland and softly sang about the Northeast and his parents.
• Yang Ge assembled more than five thousand adult men with the city’s valuables and offered rewards to anyone who identified Japanese pirates who had raided Huaxia.
• Yang Ge’s men executed the accused pirates, and he told Yang Tiansheng that his purpose was to ensure there were no Japanese pirates left.

Yang Ge explained his plan to fracture the Eastern Isles from within by empowering its paupers to fight the Japanese Pirates and each other. The chapter ended with the paupers carrying out bloody executions and Yang Tiansheng accepting that he would join Yang Ge’s campaign.

• Yang Ge told Yang Tiansheng and the others that he planned to break the Eastern Isles’ power by raising paupers against its leaders and keeping the people divided.
• Yang Tiansheng, Xiang Wudi, and Li Jincheng agreed to support Yang Ge, while Zhou Fu worried about the consequences of his methods.
• Yang Ge ordered the paupers to execute captured Japanese Pirates and promised a surname, slaves, and a hundred taels of silver to the first person to begin.
• A pauper named Kangami Ichirō beheaded an elderly Japanese Pirate, and Yang Ge rewarded him with silver and slaves.
• The paupers rushed to hack the bound Japanese Pirates to death as Yang Ge urged them to become more ruthless.

After seizing Hirado Castle, Yang Ge organized the captured islanders into a samurai-rank system and ordered Zhou Fu to train them while keeping them dependent and expendable. When scouts found two thousand pirates waiting in ambush in Chikuzen Province, Yang Ge and three companions rode ahead to break their ranks and force the auxiliaries into battle.

• Yang Ge and his companions left Hirado Castle with a thousand auxiliaries, while Wang Cheng's men transported the captured goods back to Great Wei.
• Yang Ge told Zhou Fu to train the auxiliaries harshly but withhold real military knowledge, and to remove capable leaders by sending them into dangerous missions.
• Zhou Fu imposed collective punishment through the Baojia System, and the auxiliaries began to take on the appearance of a military force after two days of marching.
• An Embroidered Uniform Guard scout reported that at least two thousand troops with bows, crossbows, cannons, and traps were waiting in a valley ahead.
• Yang Ge decided that he, Yang Tiansheng, Li Jincheng, and Xiang Wudi would attack the ambushers, break their fighting spirit, and send the auxiliaries in to finish the fight.
• The four men rode toward the valley, jokingly turning the attack into a contest to see who could kill the most Japanese.

Yang Ge and his companions routed Sue Harukata’s forces in the Eastern Isles, and Sue Harukata was killed as he fled. Afterward, Yang Tiansheng and Xiang Wudi marveled at Yang Ge’s and their own rapid martial-arts growth before helping drive the surviving Japanese Pirates into a valley.

• Sue Harukata ordered his warriors to attack Yang Ge, but Yang Ge’s blade qi tore through the ambush and shattered the cannons fired at him.
• Yang Ge reached the hilltop and killed Sue Harukata’s armored guards, while Sue Harukata fled on horseback and died beneath Erhei’s hoof.
• Yang Ge chased the fleeing Japanese Pirates as Yang Tiansheng, Li Jincheng, and Xiang Wudi defeated the forces on the opposite hill.
• Yang Tiansheng unleashed a powerful sword strike that broke the Japanese Pirates’ resistance, and Xiang Wudi said the feat put him on par with Yan Bufan before entering the Heroes Ranking.
• Yang Tiansheng and Xiang Wudi discussed Yang Ge’s seemingly unstoppable martial-arts progress, then the three men drove the remaining soldiers into the valley for Zhou Fu’s auxiliary troops.

Yang Ge crushed the Sue forces, forged the Auxiliary Army into a disciplined fighting force, and led it to conquer Dazaifu. As the city burned, his mental power surged, leaving the Japanese pirates and the Seventy-Two Braves awed by him.

• Yang Ge used floating metal fragments to stop the Auxiliary Army's bloodlust, ordered it to retreat, and forced the surviving Sue soldiers to surrender.
• Zhou Fu reorganized the Auxiliary Army, promoted battle-hardened troops into its ranks, and drilled it through three days of fighting against Sue forces outside Dazaifu.
• Yang Ge and the Seventy-Two Braves broke the Sue formation, allowing Zhou Fu to defeat the remaining troops and expand the Auxiliary Army to more than thirty-five hundred men.
• Yang Ge opened Dazaifu's gates, and the Auxiliary Army sacked the city while its streets and Tang-style Towers burned.
• Yang Ge's realization that he had become a participant in history sparked a surge in his mental power, and Yang Tiansheng, Xiang Wudi, and Li Jincheng decided they had no grounds to challenge him.

Yang Ge divided his forces after the destruction of Dazaifu, sending one group east to invade Honshu and another south to secure the Western Sea Circuit. In Luoyang, Shen Fa and Wei Heng debated how to report Yang Ge’s campaign to the emperor and decided to propose binding him to the imperial family through a marriage arrangement.

• Yang Ge sent Yang Tiansheng, Li Jincheng, and Xiang Wudi back with fifteen hundred Auxiliary Army pirates while he led the remaining forces toward the Shimonoseki Strait.
• The Southern force headed for Buzen and Bungo to unify the Western Sea Circuit and establish a base for Huaxia’s advance.
• Shen Fa and Wei Heng received intelligence describing Yang Ge’s campaign and worried that the emperor would see him as a threat.
• Shen Fa argued that they had to tell the emperor and proposed managing the conflict while gradually binding Yang Ge to the court.
• Wei Heng agreed to raise the idea of sending a princess to Yang Ge’s home as a maid, though he remained uncertain whether Yang Ge would return there.

Yang Ge led the Auxiliary Army through the Eastern Isles toward Heian-kyō, intending to use the islanders as expendable troops for endless campaigns. After foiling an assassination attempt on Zhou Fu, he ordered preparations for an assault that would give the Ashikaga Shogunate time to gather its full strength.

• Yang Ge told Zhou Fu to keep Ashikaga Yoshiteru's gifts and return the envoys' heads, then had the Cold Moon Saber kill an assassin who had followed Zhou Fu into camp.
• Yang Ge assigned the Twelve Earthly Branches to protect Zhou Fu and ordered them to prioritize his escape if danger arose.
• Zhou Fu reported that the Auxiliary Army had enough supplies for a month, but Yang Ge ordered ration cuts to drive the army toward Heian-kyō and weed out its weakest soldiers.
• Yang Ge planned to use the Eastern Isles as a base for recruiting auxiliary troops to fight in Goguryeo and the Grasslands, then discussed ways to occupy the islands with Huaxia settlers.
• Yang Ge ordered Zhou Fu to burn the granary, blame the Ashikaga Shogunate, cut rations by twenty percent each day, and attack Heian-kyō in seven days.
• Yang Ge said he wanted the Ashikaga forces to muster fully before he defeated them, while Zhou Fu sat beside the brazier, alarmed by his resolve.

Ashikaga Yoshiteru prepared Heian-kyō for a looming invasion while weighing the dangers of accepting the Tokaido alliance’s aid. In Yang Ge’s camp, he let Zhou Fu manage mounting unrest in the Auxiliary Army and ordered the Embroidered Uniform Guard to watch for enemy spies.

• Mori Motonari blamed Sue Harukata for the defeats and revealed that a golden-armored demon had aided Yang Ge’s forces, prompting Ashikaga Yoshiteru to summon Tsukahara and Kamiizumi.
• Ashikaga Yoshiteru learned that the Kai-Sagami-Suruga Alliance was sending ninety thousand troops and that Oda Nobunaga had arrived with eight thousand soldiers.
• Ashikaga Yoshiteru accepted Yang Ge’s challenge to fight at Tanigawa in seven days and ordered Oda Nobunaga to attend him.
• Yang Ge told Zhou Fu to keep suppressing the Auxiliary Army’s unrest, explaining that he was not afraid of a riot and wanted Zhou Fu to gain experience.
• Yang Ge warned Zhou Fu to have the Embroidered Uniform Guard watch carefully so the enemy could not steal from their camp.

The Japanese slave Auxiliary Army’s starvation-driven riot spiraled out of control, while Yang Ge sheltered his followers and explained why he would show no mercy to the Japanese Pirates. After his men chose to follow him toward Heian-kyō, Yang Ge summoned newly elevated Japanese warriors, and two masters at Tanigawa sensed his killing intent and prepared to confront him.

• The Japanese slave Auxiliary Army erupted into a camp-wide riot after warriors fought over scarce food, and Zhou Fu failed to suppress it with the Twelve Earthly Branches.
• Zhou Fu and his companions retreated to Yang Ge’s warm command tent, where Yang Ge said his hatred of the Japanese Pirates came from atrocities only he remembered and declared that he would slaughter them.
• Yang Ge invited anyone unable to follow his purpose to turn back, but the Twelve Earthly Branches, Liu Tang and the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Nangong Feiying and the Western Factory, the interpreters, and Zhou Fu chose to follow him.
• Yang Ge released his killing intent, beat the marching drum, and summoned Japanese slaves bearing the ranks of Third-Rank Warrior, including Mōri Saburō, Kitaoka Asahi, and Murakami Yūsei.
• At Tanigawa, a lean master and Kamiizumi sensed Yang Ge’s powerful killing intent and resolved to face him; Kamiizumi admitted he might have only one strike against such a powerful foe.

Yang Ge led the Auxiliary Army toward Sasayama and ordered a full-force charge against the Japanese, despite discovering enemy forces positioned to ambush them. He tore open the Japanese ranks and met two formidable Eastern Isles fighters in combat, ending the chapter as he descended to face them both.

• Liu Tang and Nangong Feiying reported a Japanese ambush of twenty thousand near the enemy formation and traces of another force behind the Auxiliary Army.
• Yang Ge assigned Zhou Fu, Liu Tang, and Nangong Feiying to command the rear and flanks, then ordered the army to fight without taking prisoners or accepting surrender.
• Yang Ge beat the war drum, killed a group of Japanese riders with a blade-qi strike, and led the Auxiliary Army in a direct charge.
• Yang Ge swept aside a storm of arrows, smashed through the Japanese front, and drove a metal dragon of broken weapons through the enemy ranks.
• Two Eastern Isles experts ambushed Yang Ge, but he blocked their attacks and leaped skyward to confront them both.

Yang Ge fought through the Japanese ranks, killed the Eastern Isles master Kamiizumi, and defeated Tsukahara Bokuden in a brutal duel. Wounded but still standing, he raised another Blade-Army Mad Dragon as the battle continued.

• Yang Ge survived a coordinated attack by two Eastern Isles masters, though one sword strike badly wounded his left shoulder and nearly cut his throat.
• Yang Ge used broken weapon fragments to attack the Japanese soldiers and killed the one-armed master Kamiizumi, then confronted the gaunt Tsukahara Bokuden.
• Yang Ge and Tsukahara Bokuden fought at close range, trading fast sword strikes and carving a bloody path through the Japanese ranks.
• Tsukahara Bokuden unleashed Ultimate Iaijutsu: Half Moon and pursued Yang Ge with Ultimate Iaijutsu: Nukidachi, but Yang Ge countered with No Return and killed him.
• Yang Ge caught Tsukahara Bokuden’s severed head, dismissed him as mediocre, and gathered broken weapons into a more dragon-shaped Blade-Army Mad Dragon.

Yang Ge unleashed his completed black-dragon saber technique, shattered the Japanese army’s resistance, and killed Ashikaga Yoshiteru and the Kanto daimyo. As the battle ended in victory, Oda Nobunaga and Hashiba Hideyoshi appeared before Zhou Fu’s rear guard.

• Yang Ge joined the Cold Moon Saber to the Blade-Army Mad Dragon, creating a black dragon powered by killing intent that tore through the Japanese troops and opened a path for the Auxiliary Army.
• The Japanese army broke and fled, while Ashikaga Yoshiteru and the Kanto daimyo led a stubborn counterattack against the rout.
• Ashikaga Yoshiteru struck Yang Ge with his ultimate iaijutsu, but the black dragon survived and killed him and the daimyo, leaving Yang Ge to claim Mikazuki Munechika.
• More than a hundred thousand Japanese troops fled as the Auxiliary Army pursued them, and the exhausted Yang Ge watched the battlefield fall quiet.
• Oda Nobunaga and Hashiba Hideyoshi arrived with Japanese troops at Zhou Fu’s rear guard, and Zhou Fu ordered the Twelve Earthly Branches to attack.

After the defeat of the Japanese forces, Yang Ge planned the occupation and future exploitation of the Eastern Isles with Zhou Fu, Liu Tang, and Nangong Feiying. Heian-kyō fell, Emperor Go-Nara and his family were taken into custody, and the Auxiliary Army began burning the city as Yang Ge denied ordering the slaughter.

• The Auxiliary Army executed 130,000 captured Japanese soldiers, and Yang Ge discussed the next steps with Zhou Fu, Liu Tang, and Nangong Feiying.
• Yang Ge assigned Zhou Fu to command and purge the Auxiliary Army, proposed dividing the Eastern Isles between the Court and his allies, and outlined plans to use the islands as a base for expansion.
• Yang Ge said he would return to Great Wei only after completing the campaign and bringing his companions back with him.
• Yang Ge led the troops to Heian-kyō, where Emperor Go-Nara and the imperial court knelt outside the White Tiger Gate and surrendered the gold seal.
• Yang Ge appointed Zhou Fu to receive the seal, ordered Emperor Go-Nara and the imperial family into custody, and sent the Auxiliary Army into the city.
• The Auxiliary Army set Heian-kyō on fire, and the chapter recorded the fall of the Eastern Isles, the extinction of its imperial lineage, and the collapse of the Ashikaga Shogunate.