Recaps

Chun Prefecture held a funeral for Big Bear, an unsung hero who had died protecting the Dragon Kingdom, and fighter jets honored him with a salute. After the burial, Little White Tiger and Old Ninth prepared to avenge him by targeting Chang He, while Xiao Yuan ordered a separate purge of Kou Island’s spies.

• Xiao Yuan led the Eight-Nine Group’s mourning procession as Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, Hi Dog, and Bone carried Big Bear’s coffin to the Loyalty and Righteousness Stele.
• Yixiu told Big Bear’s daughter that her father was a hero, but she pleaded for her father back.
• Guan Lei and the other Guan Family children flew fighter jets over the funeral and saluted Big Bear, while the crowd of Chun Prefecture residents gathered to pay their respects.
• Instructor comforted Big Bear, then Old Ninth declared that Chang He had to die before Big Bear could rest in peace.
• Broken Shoe, False Eye, and Third Uncle volunteered to help kill Chang He, and Wu Yan offered Black Maitreya’s support.
• Xiao Yuan refused Wu Yan’s offer to enter the Capital, assigned him another task, and ordered Broken Shoe, White Mouse, and False Eye to assemble their men for a strike against Kou Island’s spies.

Xiao Yuan captured two Kou Island spies with Ma Ran’s help and tortured them for information about the Fox Group’s agents in the Dragon Kingdom. She ordered her Lei Zis to eliminate the hundred names they revealed and planned to send their heads to the Emperor.

• Yamamoto and his fellow spy learned that Xiao Yuan had found them, then tried to flee their hotel in Shen Prefecture.
• Ma Ran and his men intercepted the spies and brought them outside the city to Xiao Yuan.
• Xiao Yuan had Old Pestilence torture the woman until she gave up information about hundreds of Fox Group agents hiding in the Dragon Kingdom.
• Xiao Yuan ordered the Lei Zis to kill the hundred people named on the bloodstained paper within five days and arrange to send their heads to the Emperor.

Tian Bo warned the Tian Family to stay out of Old Ninth and Little White Tiger’s arrival in the Capital, while secretly telling Chang He to lie low. Old Ninth exposed a lookout and his men drove off the other families’ scouts with explosives as they headed to find Chang He.

• A secretary told the Tian Family that Old Ninth had entered the Capital with Little White Tiger, and Tian Bo identified the situation as internal strife involving Chun Prefecture and the Chang Family.
• Tian Bo ordered the Tian Family to avoid the brothers and quietly warn Chang He, explaining that the Chang Family and Chun Prefecture should be made to fight overseas.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger entered the Capital and forced a shoeshine vendor who was watching them to lead them to Chang He.
• Hi Dog, Earthworm, and Bone threatened the vendor until he agreed to cooperate, then the brothers set off in taxis under his guidance.
• Hi Dog stopped a car following them, and Bone threw Hand Ls inside, blowing it up before warning the remaining scouts not to cross the line.

Old Man Chang accepted Old Guan’s terms to keep Chang He alive, while Old Ninth and his crew went to the Saint Lidu Grand Hotel to capture him. The chapter ended with Hi Dog and Earthworm storming the hotel lobby as Old Ninth’s team began its assault.

• Old Man Chang and Chang Jiang waited for Old Guan, knowing Chang He’s actions had angered the Guan Family and Chun Prefecture.
• Old Guan demanded that the Chang Family transfer half its assets to the Dragon Kingdom, triple its investment in Chun Prefecture, and provide annual military funding, while Chang He entered the First War Zone under Guan Lei’s supervision.
• Old Man Chang accepted the terms after learning Old Ninth had gone to the Saint Lidu Grand Hotel for Chang He.
• At the hotel, Chang He spotted Old Ninth and his men arriving, while Old Ninth assigned them routes through the building.
• Old Ninth threatened Minister Tian into ordering the hotel security to stand aside, and Hi Dog and Earthworm charged into the lobby with shotguns.

Chang He escaped the hotel with help from a manager as Little White Tiger and Earthworm destroyed the helicopter carrying a decoy. After discovering Chang He had fled using a corpse, Guan Lei ordered a search, while the manager urged Chang He to leave the Dragon Kingdom and return to the Alliance.

• Chang He panicked at the hotel and followed a manager through a secret exit after Old Man Chang told him to stay put.
• Guan Lei tried to stop Old Ninth and Little White Tiger from reaching Chang He, but Little White Tiger broke through the elevator shaft and reached the rooftop.
• Little White Tiger threw Earthworm toward a fleeing helicopter, and Earthworm destroyed it with Starburst.
• Guan Lei recognized that the body recovered from the wreck was not Chang He and ordered everyone to find him.
• In a storeroom, the manager led Chang He to suspect his father had betrayed him and advised him to leave the Dragon Kingdom for the Alliance.

Little White Tiger and Old Ninth were ordered out of the Capital while Chang He remained missing. As Chang He fled the city with help from the Tian Family, Tian Bo plotted to exploit his suspicions of his father, and Chang He came to believe Old Man Chang had betrayed him.

• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth argued with Old Man Guan and Old Man Chang over Chang He's disappearance, but Old Man Guan ordered them to return to Chun Prefecture.
• Old Ninth paid scout Old Quan one million to use his connections to search for Chang He, while Little White Tiger threatened to take them to the Tian Family.
• Tian Bo told Yun Fei he meant to deepen Chang He's suspicions of Old Man Chang and provoke him into splitting the Chang Family, potentially with the Inverted Cross Mercenaries Group.
• The hotel manager led Chang He out of the Capital through the wilderness and was shot after telling Chang He where to run.
• Chang He heard his pursuers discuss notifying Old Man Chang and concluded that his father had sold him out.

Chang He learned that his father had supposedly ordered his death and fled to Kou Island, where he decided to seize Fei Island rather than return to the Alliance. Tian Bo and Fei Yun abandoned their plan to use him against the Chang Family and ordered the people connected to him eliminated.

• Chang He called Old Man Chang and accused him of arranging his murder, then hung up after refusing to trust his father.
• Old Man Chang decided to go to the Guan Residence to save Chang He, while Chang He prepared to leave Kou Island for the Alliance.
• A middle-aged man warned Chang He to protect himself from his father, prompting Chang He to consider taking control of Inverted Cross.
• Chang He changed his mind about returning and announced that he would attack Fei Island and become its regional lord.
• Tian Bo and Fei Yun listened to Chang He's plans and decided to cut ties with him, kill Old Li, and eliminate everyone connected to him.

Inverted Cross prepared to seize Fei Island, while the Dragon Kingdom detected the mercenaries’ unauthorized transport aircraft and ordered them to be intercepted. After a mercenary shot down one fighter, the damaged plane’s pilot rammed his burning aircraft into the transport, leaving the raid’s first wave in chaos.

• Kuer rallied Inverted Cross’s eight thousand soldiers to invade Fei Island, and Fina led the First Squadron toward the island.
• The Old Man ordered Dragon Kingdom forces to monitor the unidentified aircraft and warned them not to enter its airspace.
• Dragon Kingdom fighter pilots tried to escort the transport aircraft away, but the mercenary John shot down Number One.
• Number Two’s burning fighter plunged into the transport aircraft’s open cabin, where mercenaries scrambled in panic.

After two Dragon Kingdom fighter aircraft disappeared while searching for a transport plane, Fang Mu suspected an attack on Fei Island, while Tian Bo panicked upon learning Chang He’s mercenaries had shot down First War Zone aircraft. Old Guan took command and prepared to confront the mercenaries at sea.

• Shu Dong mobilized the Lei Zis to search for the missing aircraft, but Fang Mu warned that Fei Island might be the attackers’ real target and urged caution.
• Tian Bo learned from Yun Fei that Chang He’s mercenaries had shot down First War Zone aircraft, then ordered Yun Fei to seek the Guan Family’s forgiveness and frame Manager Li.
• Guan Lei learned that the hostile aircraft had disappeared near Fei Island and identified Chang He’s mercenaries as the likely attackers.
• Little White Tiger offered to return to Fei Island with reinforcements, but Old Guan ordered him back to Chun Prefecture and declared that he would crush the mercenaries himself.

Fina and Inverted Cross seized Fei Island’s airport and prepared to attack its major powers, but the Dragon Kingdom swiftly retaliated and the Alliance abandoned the mercenaries. Fang Mu, Shu Dong, and Ruan Lie arrived with over ten thousand people to confront them.

• Fina’s mercenaries took over the airport, and she ordered squads to attack the Ruan Family, the Bai Family, and Chun Prefecture’s branch office.
• Gold warned Fina that attacking the Dragon Kingdom’s fighter aircraft could provoke war, then prepared to leave and stop further transport flights.
• Dragon Kingdom fighters destroyed the transport planes and made another attack, while their squadron commander struck Fina before flying away with his aircraft.
• Over a hundred helicopters and a fleet of warships approached as governments condemned or disavowed Inverted Cross, which the Alliance designated a terrorist organization.
• Fang Mu, Shu Dong, and Ruan Lie arrived outside the airport with over ten thousand people and prepared to attack the mercenaries.

Commander Guan arrived at Fei Island with military forces and confronted Inverted Cross over its attack on Dragon Kingdom aircraft and soldiers. With Xiao Yuan, Old Sick, and Chun Prefecture's Lei Zi joining the fight, the chapter ended as they charged the enemy.

• Fina prepared Inverted Cross to fight as Commander Guan's forces surrounded Fei Island by air, land, and sea.
• Commander Guan arrived, followed by Zhou Zheng and his eighteen hundred troops, and declared that the attack on Dragon Kingdom soldiers would be answered on the battlefield.
• Fina tried to invoke Guan's seniority, but he insisted he was a soldier first and challenged the mercenaries to face him together.
• Xiao Yuan arrived, while Old Sick injured Fina and Xiao Yuan stamped on her face.
• Commander Guan ordered Guan Lei to contact the Alliance about Gold, and Xiao Yuan led two hundred Lei Zi and Fang Mu into a charge against Inverted Cross.

Chang He was expelled from Kou Island and barred from returning to the Alliance, while Fina’s mercenary force was defeated on Fei Island. Old Ninth arrived, killed Fina through Ruan Lie, and called Inverted Cross’s leader, inviting him to Fei Island.

• The Emperor’s Guard forced Chang He onto a plane after Inverted Cross attacked a Dragon Kingdom fighter aircraft, and his mentor told him the Federation had denied him entry to the Alliance.
• On Fei Island, Fina surrendered after Xiao Yuan’s forces routed her mercenaries, but Zhou Zheng ordered Ruan Lie’s warriors to slaughter the disarmed soldiers.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger arrived, and Old Ninth mocked Ruan Lie and Fang Mu for needing help to hold the island.
• Fina attacked Old Ninth with her shield, but he destroyed it and had Ruan Lie stab her while claiming he did not kill women.
• Old Ninth took Fina’s phone, called Inverted Cross’s leader, and invited him to bring his location so Old Ninth could visit.

The Alliance delegation came to Fei Island to retrieve Gold and deny responsibility for his actions, but Old Man rejected their claims and forced them to negotiate under threat. After setting harsh demands, Old Man learned that Little White Tiger had landed at Sunshine Beach and ordered him to act ruthlessly.

• Colonel Smith arrived on Fei Island and told Old Man that Gold had acted alone, then demanded Gold’s return to the Alliance.
• Xiao Yuan killed Gold with her high heel, and Old Man ordered the delegation detained and made to kneel in the snow.
• Old Man forced Smith to agree that the Alliance Corps would stay away from Sunshine Beach and demanded one hundred heads and compensation for the downed planes.
• Smith objected to the demands, but Old Man told him to seek approval and keep kneeling if it was refused.
• Old Man learned that Little White Tiger had landed at Sunshine Beach and told him to be ruthless while Old Man kept the Alliance occupied.

Old Ninth and Little White Tiger entered Sunshine Beach to target the Inverted Cross and recruited a local cowboy as their guide. After seeing how the Inverted Cross oppressed the city’s residents, they planned to arm the resistance groups and build support for an attack.

• Old Ninth and his companions entered Sunshine Beach disguised as Dragon Kingdom merchants and noticed a cowboy following them.
• The cowboy and a group of teenagers tried to rob them, but Old Ninth’s crew revealed their weapons and forced the robbers to surrender.
• The cowboy claimed he had robbed them because the Inverted Cross had left the city’s poor with few ways to survive, and Little White Tiger recruited him as a guide.
• Old Ninth’s crew gave weapons to the teenagers, hoping to weaken the Inverted Cross’s control over the city.
• The cowboy led them through an abandoned sewer filled with people driven underground by the Inverted Cross’s taxes.
• Little White Tiger asked the cowboy to contact the resistance groups, and Old Ninth offered to supply them with unlimited weapons.

Old Ninth terrorized Chang He’s Inverted Cross headquarters by sending Fina’s corpse in a bomb-rigged crate, while Little White Tiger planned to dismantle Inverted Cross’s leaders one by one. The chapter ended with Tete offering to help Little White Tiger hunt Madman and Old Ninth appearing as Little White Tiger mentioned his own madman of a brother.

• Kuer’s men brought a crate containing Fina’s corpse into Inverted Cross headquarters, and it exploded after Kuer recognized the ticking sound.
• Chang He panicked and ordered his men to find Old Ninth, while Kuer called the attack psychological warfare.
• Outside the base, Old Ninth told Hi Dog he wanted to break Inverted Cross little by little instead of attacking directly.
• Cowboy explained Inverted Cross’s strength and its seven detachments to Little White Tiger, who decided to take their leaders down one by one.
• Tete volunteered to help Little White Tiger kill Madman, who had eaten Tete’s little sister.
• Little White Tiger mentioned having a madman for a brother, and Old Ninth walked over asking who had called him.

Old Ninth watched Madman’s mercenaries attack the Resistance Organization, then intervened after Tete begged him to save the survivors. He killed the Awakened fighter with a glance and vanished into Madman’s building to confront him.

• Madman’s mercenaries returned from hunting with captured women and children, prompting the Resistance Organization to attack them.
• The mercenaries’ Awakened fighter broke through the Resistance Organization’s line and killed many of its members while Old Ninth watched.
• As the remaining fighters pleaded with Tete and his companions to escape, Tete begged Old Ninth to help them.
• Old Ninth accepted a dying fighter’s copper coins as payment and killed the Awakened man by making him snap his own neck.
• Old Ninth vanished with Tete and entered Madman’s building as Madman watched from the rooftop.

Old Ninth confronted Madman on the rooftop and discovered he could absorb the darkness energy behind Madman’s attacks. After summoning Black Old Ninth, he proposed capturing Madman so they could exploit the Demon God within him.

• Old Ninth led Tete to the rooftop and challenged Madman, who asked who had sent him.
• Old Ninth slapped Madman across the rooftop, then repeatedly asked him to strike his left cheek so his injuries would be symmetrical.
• Madman summoned a Demon God and used darkness-powered attacks, but Old Ninth absorbed the energy and healed.
• Old Ninth jumped headfirst into the ground to summon Black Old Ninth, who appeared furious at being called through self-injury.
• Old Ninth suggested taking Madman back to Chun Prefecture to absorb his darkness energy, while Black Old Ninth said he wanted to eat the Demon God.

Old Ninth defeated Madman despite the Demon God's intervention, while Black Old Ninth revealed himself as a Wraith Fiend and restrained the Demon God. Old Ninth brought the crippled Madman back as a doll, but Tiger threw him away, leaving Old Ninth furious and bereft of his darkness power.

• Madman attacked Old Ninth with corrosive Demon Liquid and a Darkness Scythe, but Old Ninth absorbed both and devoured the scythe.
• The Demon God summoned a massive void sphere, and Black Old Ninth took control of the Demon Dragon, revealed himself as a Wraith Fiend, and restrained the Demon God.
• Old Ninth and Madman fought without their inner powers, and Old Ninth used the Chainsaw to take Madman's leg and defeat him.
• The civilians emerged from hiding as Madman begged for mercy, and Old Ninth sawed him into a doll and dragged him away.
• The next morning, Old Ninth discovered Tiger had thrown Madman away and angrily complained that his doll and darkness power were gone.

Kuer and Feis confronted Little White Tiger among the ruins after Madman was mutilated, while Feis deduced that Old Ninth might be targeting the Inverted Cross’s base. Feis let Little White Tiger leave and called for someone to make their move.

• Kuer learned that Old Ninth had mutilated Madman and killed civilians who reported what happened.
• Feis identified Old Ninth as Fina’s killer and argued that the Inverted Cross should avoid searching blindly for him.
• Feis revealed Little White Tiger’s hiding place by firing his golden sword through the ruins, and Little White Tiger offered to return Madman alive.
• Little White Tiger fought Tank, Thousand-Man Slayer, Butcher, and Grizzly Bear, then demonstrated that he could wield the Sun God’s power.
• Feis guessed that Old Ninth had gone to the Inverted Cross’s base, so Kuer raced there to protect Chang He.
• Feis stopped his men from pursuing Little White Tiger and called someone to make their move after Little White Tiger departed.

Little White Tiger reunited with Old Ninth and warned him that Feis was plotting something. The brothers met Kim Hye-ji’s Resistance Organization, but after she proposed an alliance and threatened them, Little White Tiger remained skeptical; Kim Hye-ji later reported that they had taken the bait.

• Little White Tiger returned to the sewer with news that Feis seemed to be plotting, and Cowboy explained Feis’s noble background and scandalous past.
• Tete thanked Old Ninth for avenging him and offered to help, while Cowboy introduced Broken Home, a large Resistance Organization seeking an alliance.
• Kim Hye-ji asked Little White Tiger’s group for weapons and manpower to raid the Inverted Cross while Kuer attended a meeting in five days.
• After Kim Hye-ji’s companion threatened them with a display of swordsmanship, Old Ninth knocked him down with a brick, and Little White Tiger refused to commit to cooperation.
• Kim Hye-ji left the sewer and texted someone that the fish had taken the bait.

Feis pressured Kim Hye-ji into luring Little White Tiger and staged an attack on himself to bolster the resistance. At a meeting of island resistance leaders, Hi Dog's group confronted them, and Xiao Yuan agreed to Kim Hye-ji's plan for a coordinated assault on Kuer's forces.

• Feis told Kim Hye-ji to bring Little White Tiger into an alliance and promised to reunite her with her daughter if she helped.
• Three days later, news spread that a resistance group had severely injured Feis in an attack, inspiring the island's resistance.
• Kim Hye-ji convened the resistance leaders, but Little White Tiger and Old Ninth sent Hi Dog, Earthworm, Bone, Xiao Feng, and Tete in their place.
• Hi Dog attacked a resistance leader who mocked Old Ninth, while Earthworm restrained Kim Hye-ji.
• Kim Hye-ji proposed simultaneous attacks on Kuer's four remaining sixth-awakening captains and the base, and Xiao Yuan agreed to cooperate.

Kim Hye-ji proposed a plan to defeat the Inverted Cross at Sunshine Beach, but Xiao Yuan learned the Spirit-Devouring Net was ineffective and suspected a trap targeting Little White Tiger. She summoned Hungry Ghost, Chun Prefecture’s hidden trump card, and sent him to protect his brother.

• Kim Hye-ji told Hi Dog and the Resistance Organization that the Spirit-Devouring Net would disable special abilities and asked them to infiltrate the Inverted Cross base while her suicide squad distracted its captains.
• The Resistance leaders pledged their forces and lives to save Sunshine Beach, and Xiao Yuan promised them three tonnes of weapons within two days.
• Xiao Yuan asked Old Man Guan about the Spirit-Devouring Net and learned it was impractical and could not stop Awakened fighters from defeating ordinary people.
• Xiao Yuan concluded that Kim Hye-ji was setting a trap for Little White Tiger and decided to send Chun Prefecture’s trump card to protect him.
• Xiao Yuan awakened Hungry Ghost by telling him his brother was in danger, then ordered him to kill everyone at Sunshine Beach except people he recognized.

Old Ninth infiltrated the Inverted Cross Base while the Resistance Organization prepared to storm it, unaware that Kim Hye-ji’s deputy had betrayed them. As both sides entered the battle, Feis hurried off to confront Old Ninth, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Feis promised Selina he would stop killing after settling his debt to Kuer, then left their home; Old Ninth appeared there and introduced himself to Selina as a robber.
• Kim Hye-ji’s deputy told Hi Dog’s group to disable the Spirit-Devouring Net and charge the base, while privately warning the deputy to stay safe and escape.
• Old Ninth walked openly past the base’s sentries, and five minutes later the base’s lights went out as a blue energy net spread overhead.
• The deputy urged the Resistance fighters to charge, while he secretly slowed down; Hi Dog and the fighters surged toward the base.
• Chang He and Kuer prepared an ambush and ordered their forces to lure the Resistance Army inside, planning to kill Old Ninth and Little White Tiger.
• As the battle began, Feis insisted on taking Old Ninth himself and hurried away with his scepter.

Kuer’s forces massacred the Resistance Organization after Kim Hye-ji betrayed them, but Old Ninth’s group secretly rescued Chang He with Feis’s help. As Kuer prepared to pursue them, Old Ninth’s powerful allies arrived by ship, and he challenged Kuer to a head-on fight.

• Kuer ambushed the Resistance Organization and ordered his mercenaries to slaughter its members.
• Kim Hye-ji arrived and admitted she had betrayed the Resistance to protect her daughter, then learned Hi Dog had used her operation to help Old Ninth take Chang He.
• Kuer discovered that Old Ninth, Little White Tiger, Feis, and Chang He had escaped by boat, and he ordered his men to pursue them.
• Feis confronted Old Ninth about his plans, while Old Ninth demanded a ransom before agreeing to discuss Feis’s wife, Selina.
• A large ship arrived carrying Old Ninth’s allies, including Xiao Yuan, who pledged their support against Inverted Cross.
• Old Ninth called Kuer and declared that his thirty people would face Kuer’s seven thousand when the boat docked.

A Dragon Kingdom squad arrived by fishing boat and overwhelmed the Inverted Cross’s defenses, leaving Tank unable to stop them from advancing toward headquarters. Wu Yan stayed behind to confront the mercenaries, invoking Dragon Kingdom law and preparing to execute them.

• Tank ordered his artillery to fire on the fishing boat, but Earthworm destroyed the shells with Burst-Meteor Shower.
• Thirteen swung his Guan Dao and raised a tsunami that carried the fishing boat onto the beach, forcing Tank’s mercenaries to retreat.
• Tank told Kuer that he could not hold off the Dragon Kingdom group, which then continued toward the Inverted Cross headquarters.
• Tank ordered his Vanguard Corps to charge, but Wu Yan cut more than twenty mercenaries in half from a distance with a knife-hand strike.
• Wu Yan took out the Demon Codex, rose into the air, and declared that he sentenced the mercenaries to death under Dragon Kingdom law.