Recaps

Chief Zhu arranged for Uncle Yu and his companion to be sent to prison, but the Security Bureau seized them and tried to force them to implicate Little White Tiger. Wu Yan’s mentor died protecting him, and the chapter ended with Deputy Chief Dong Gui ordering the Lei Zis’ families seized and Little White Tiger arrested.

• Chief Zhu arranged for Uncle Yu and his companion to plead guilty and serve their remaining days in East City High-Level Prison.
• Young bailiff Wu Yan defended the Lei Zis when Security Bureau officers seized them, but his mentor died shoving him out of the path of their vehicle.
• Wu Yan’s mentor urged him to keep faith in the law before dying, and Wu Yan vowed to find another way to make the powerful tremble.
• Deputy Chief Dong Gui offered Uncle Yu and his companion freedom in exchange for implicating Little White Tiger in the massacre, but they refused.
• Dong Gui summoned an Awakened interrogation expert and ordered his men to capture the Lei Zis’ families, while ordering Ai Ping to arrest Little White Tiger.

After learning Uncle Yu had been abducted by the Security Bureau, Zhu Le'er checked on Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, whose consciousness was trapped with the Wraith Fiend and the Two-Headed Flood Dragon. Old Ninth discovered the flood dragons wanted their horns back and threatened to kill himself to force both enemies to bargain.

• Zhu Le'er told Little White Tiger that Uncle Yu had been abducted by the Security Bureau, which answered to Elder Pei.
• Zhu Le'er visited Old Ninth in the ICU and saw that he was still breathing as he struggled inside his sea of consciousness.
• Black Old Ninth revealed himself as Resentment, formed from the resentment of the 172 people Old Ninth had killed, while a Two-Headed Flood Dragon emerged from the black water.
• The White Flood Dragon explained that White Garment had torn out its horns during a failed Heavenly Tribulation, and asked Old Ninth to return them in exchange for helping him reach Nine Awakenings.
• Old Ninth rejected the flood dragons' claims after Black Old Ninth warned that they intended to kill him, and the dragons revealed their plan to use him for a Blood Sacrifice.
• Old Ninth pressed a knife to his neck and threatened to kill himself, forcing the Two-Headed Flood Dragon and the Wraith Fiend to stop and listen.

Old Ninth survived a clash between the Wraith Fiend and the Two-Headed Flood Dragon, then began transforming into a Demon Dragon. White Garment intervened during the resulting Heavenly Thunder tribulation, leaving Old Ninth’s fate uncertain.

• Old Ninth threatened to kill himself unless the Two-Headed Flood Dragon and the Wraith Fiend fought, and the Wraith Fiend attacked first using abilities copied from people Old Ninth had killed.
• The Two-Headed Flood Dragon overwhelmed the Wraith Fiend with a torrent, but the Wraith Fiend survived and warned Old Ninth that the dragons had marked him and would soon come to devour him.
• Old Ninth stabbed the Wraith Fiend, then followed its advice to eat the Black Flood Dragon’s head as the Wraith Fiend fell asleep.
• Heavenly Thunder began striking Old Ninth’s Sea of Consciousness as a red Demon Dragon tattoo appeared across his body and swallowed the little scarlet flood dragon inside him.
• White Garment explained that Old Ninth was transforming into a Demon Dragon, but Heavenly Thunder resumed after he asked for it to be postponed.
• White Garment went into the clouds to face the Heavenly Thunder, and experts in Chun Prefecture saw him endure dozens of bolts before he departed.

Security Bureau Captain Ai Ping tried to arrest Little White Tiger for the Massacre Incident, but Little White Tiger’s Lei Zi forces surrounded them and turned the failed arrest into a counterattack. Little White Tiger left the hospital to get Old Ninth discharged and flee the city, ordering his men to kill the officers.

• Ai Ping arrived at the hospital with seven or eight Awakened and accused Little White Tiger of involvement in the Massacre Incident, citing Lei Zi’s confession.
• Ai Ping’s men seized Little White Tiger and killed the five ordinary men sent by Black Mountain Town as they took him to the elevator.
• Hi Dog and dozens of Lei Zi waited in the hospital lobby, where Hi Dog killed the wounded lookout Xiao Shun in front of Ai Ping and his officers.
• Little White Tiger revealed that he had brought thirty Lei Zi into the city overnight, received their greeting as boss, and recognized the person who answered the phone.
• Little White Tiger ordered his men to get Old Ninth discharged and leave the city, then told the Lei Zi to hack the Security Bureau officers to death.

Dong Gui pressured Uncle Yu and another gunman to implicate Little White Tiger at a press conference, but Uncle Yu chose to remain loyal to the code despite threats against his family. At Chun Prefecture West Garden Prison, a young bailiff asked a notorious prisoner to enforce the law.

• Dong Gui told Bu Tingyang that he had kidnapped the gunmen's families to force them to testify against Little White Tiger.
• Dong Gui promised Uncle Yu's wife and son support in exchange for Uncle Yu's testimony, but Uncle Yu's family urged him to keep his principles.
• Uncle Yu decided to testify without betraying Earthworm, while the other gunman admitted he had chosen to betray his beliefs.
• A young bailiff bribed a prison guard for a private conversation with a notorious prisoner and asked him to enforce the law.

Dong Gui’s televised attempt to frame Chief Zhu and implicate Little White Tiger collapsed when Uncle Yu exposed the scheme, revealed San Mu Bank’s empty vault, and killed his accomplice. The Security Bureau’s case briefing ended in chaos after a caller threatened Dong Gui’s family and masked gunmen delivered the mutilated bodies of his men, including Ai Ping.

• Dong Gui presented Uncle Yu and his accomplice at a live Security Bureau briefing, intending to make them identify Little White Tiger as the mastermind.
• Chief Zhu ordered Zhu Le'er to get Little White Tiger out of Chun Prefecture and warned that harming him would provoke the Overlord.
• Uncle Yu said he and his men had been hired to rob San Mu Bank but did not know who hired them, then revealed the vault had been empty and named the accomplices who escaped.
• Uncle Yu exposed Dong Gui for telling him to blame Chief Zhu for the massacre, then killed his accomplice and collapsed while Security Bureau officers restrained him.
• An unknown caller threatened Dong Gui unless he sent Uncle Yu’s family out of the city within an hour, and Dong Gui realized his own family was in danger.
• A silver van delivered eight mutilated bodies to the venue, including Ai Ping’s head, while masked gunmen declared that the attack on the Security Bureau would continue.

Elder Pei and Gu Xia revealed that they had used Bu Tingyang’s plot against Little White Tiger to drive him out of Chun Prefecture, then punished Bu for failing. At the city gate, Captain Xing stopped Dong Gui’s hostage-exchange convoy and, claiming to speak for Gu Xia, pressured him to lure Little White Tiger into the city.

• Elder Pei questioned Bu Tingyang about acting against Little White Tiger and told him that San Mu had been intended as a scapegoat.
• Gu Xia explained that the Pei Family had allowed Bu’s scheme because they wanted to drive Little White Tiger out without provoking Overlord, and Elder Pei confined Bu to his home for six months.
• Gu Xia and Elder Pei discussed using Dong Gui before his death, citing the danger to Dong Gui’s wife and children outside the city.
• Dong Gui led Security Bureau personnel and Awakened toward the city gate to exchange hostages, but Captain Xing blocked his convoy and ordered him back for questioning.
• Xing told Dong Gui that Gu Xia wanted him to bring Little White Tiger into the city, and Dong Gui agreed to make the call.

Little White Tiger and his brothers debated how to exchange hostages after Dong Gui refused to leave the city, and Little White Tiger decided Earthworm would go in his place. Meanwhile, Gu Xia prepared to kill Dong Gui and ordered the Kou Islanders to ambush Little White Tiger if he entered the city.

• Earthworm reported that Dong Gui had changed the hostage-exchange location to inside the city and refused to come to Dongshan Settlement Town.
• Little White Tiger rejected his brothers’ warnings and agreed to let Earthworm lead the exchange with fifty men accompanying him.
• Gu Xia and Old Xing watched Dong Gui at the exchange site and revealed their plan to kill him and frame Little White Tiger.
• Gu Xia ordered Old Xing to tell the Kou Islanders that Little White Tiger was entering the city, using San Mu’s name to provoke them into killing him.

Earthworm, Hi Dog, and Lao Yang went to Chun Prefecture City to exchange Uncle Yu’s family for hostages, while Dong Gui’s Security Bureau team prepared an ambush. The exchange stalled when Little White Tiger and Old Ninth failed to appear, so Hi Dog forced Dong Gui to release the family by threatening his wife.

• Earthworm found Hi Dog gambling in a tavern and asked him to accompany him into the city to get weapons for the hostage exchange.
• Hi Dog gathered his brothers, but Earthworm refused to bring the group; Hi Dog and Lao Yang went with him anyway.
• Dong Gui and his team prepared to exchange Uncle Yu’s wife and son while Gu Xia positioned Security Bureau forces nearby.
• Hi Dog and Lao Yang arrived with the hostages, but Little White Tiger and Old Ninth were absent, leaving Dong Gui wary of a trap.
• Hi Dog told Lao Yang to threaten Dong Gui’s wife, pressuring Dong Gui to release Uncle Yu’s family.

Hi Dog, Earthworm, and Lao Yang exchanged Uncle Yu’s wife for Dong Gui’s wife but kept Dong Gui’s son as leverage, then tried to leave Chun Prefecture. Gu Xia and Elder Pei planned to exploit a clash between the Kou Islanders and the convoy, and thousands of Kou Islanders arrived to attack.

• Hi Dog forced Dong Gui to release Uncle Yu’s wife by threatening to expose his wife to public humiliation, while Lao Yang pretended to assault her.
• Dong Gui’s men released Uncle Yu’s wife, and Lao Yang returned Dong Gui’s wife, but Hi Dog revealed that Dong Gui’s son was still outside the city.
• Two heavy trucks and dozens of bandits shielded Hi Dog, Earthworm, and Lao Yang from Dong Gui’s men as they prepared to drive away.
• Gu Xia asked Elder Pei whether to proceed without Little White Tiger, and Elder Pei ordered him to let the Kou Islanders and the convoy fight so they could justify expelling the Kou Islanders.
• Thousands of Kou Islanders surrounded Hi Dog’s convoy, and Lao Yang ordered the bandits to form a defense line and fight.

Zhu Le'er ordered the Police Bureau to open fire on the Kou Islanders and let Hi Dog, Lao Yang, and their allies retreat inside. Overlord Stronghold’s men sacrificed themselves to hold the crowd back, leaving Lao Yang as the sole survivor outside the bureau gates.

• Zhu Le'er ordered the bureau to treat Kou Islanders attacking Dragon Kingdom citizens as invaders and shoot them, then sent word for reinforcements.
• Hi Dog, Lao Yang, Earthworm, and the Overlord Stronghold men fought the advancing Kou Islanders, but Black Dog and Awakened fighters attacked them from the rear as well.
• The Kou Islanders overwhelmed the defenders with weapons and fire, and several Overlord Stronghold brothers died in a grenade blast while covering their comrades.
• Zhu Le'er opened the Police Bureau gates and ordered gunfire to cover the retreat, while Earthworm shielded Auntie and the child as he ran inside.
• Dayong and the wounded Overlord Stronghold brothers stayed outside to hold the crowd back, urging Lao Yang to escape as the gates closed.
• Dayong and more than a dozen brothers detonated their bombs, killing themselves and shocking the crowd, while Lao Yang wept inside the bureau.

Zhu Le'er and the Police Bureau fought San Mu Ichiro and the Kou Island Awakened, who had come to avenge San Mu's younger brother and draw Little White Tiger into the city. As Black Dog's group pursued Hi Dog and Earthworm, Hi Dog shut himself behind a chained door to let Earthworm escape.

• Zhu Le'er led Hi Dog and Earthworm into the Police Bureau, where San Mu Ichiro demanded Little White Tiger and attacked after Hi Dog refused to surrender him.
• San Mu's strike wounded Hi Dog, and the Kou Island Awakened stormed the Bureau as Zhu Le'er and Uncle Li fought to hold them back.
• Hi Dog urged Lao Yang to take Auntie to safety, then Earthworm carried the badly wounded Hi Dog upstairs while Lao Yang escaped through the basement passage.
• Earthworm found an exterior escape stairway, but Hi Dog shut the iron door between them and told Earthworm to live on without him.
• As Black Dog and the others reached the corridor, Hi Dog chained the door shut and prepared to face them alone.

Old Ninth, Little White Tiger, and Hu Du mobilized Overlord Stronghold to rescue Lao Yang and Hi Dog in Chun Prefecture, while Gu Xia and Old Pei watched the fighting and planned to take over San Mu Group. As Hi Dog fought to protect Earthworm, Private Meng Kan burst through the Police Bureau wall and arrived to face Black Dog's group.

• Old Ninth woke and joined Little White Tiger in rallying Overlord Stronghold's men to attack Chun Prefecture and rescue their brothers.
• Hu Du called Overlord, who ordered the stronghold to fight without restraint and said he was coming.
• Gu Xia and Old Pei watched the battle at the Police Bureau, confident that Zhu Bai would be weakened and they would take over San Mu Group.
• Black Dog's group attacked Hi Dog as he held the iron door shut so Earthworm could escape, and Hi Dog urged his friend to leave.
• Private Meng Kan blasted through the fifth-floor wall, introduced himself to Black Dog's group, and confronted them.

Meng Kan defeated the Kou Island Awakened at the Police Bureau before White Garment arrived and used his Nine Awakenings power to execute the attackers. White Garment then turned his attention to the thousands of Kou Island people outside the gate, declaring them enemies of the Dragon Kingdom.

• Meng Kan fought the Kou Island Awakened with ancient martial arts and defeated all but Black Dog within three minutes.
• Meng Kan gave Hi Dog military-developed blue reagent, while Black Dog challenged him and collapsed as a fine thread flew from his forehead.
• White Garment arrived, causing the Kou Island people to kneel in terror as threads connected their brows to his hand.
• White Garment crippled San Mu, challenged him to call the Kou Island Emperor or embassy, and killed over a hundred Awakened with a snap of his fingers.
• White Garment collapsed the Police Bureau's walls and told San Mu that the ordinary Kou Island people outside would watch their compatriots die.

White Garment rejected San Mu Ichiro’s claims, killed him and the Kou Islanders who had stormed the police bureau, then recruited Hi Dog and Earthworm to travel south with him. Before leaving, he gave Zhu Le’er a translated pre-Calamity history textbook for Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, hoping they would find meaning in it.

• White Garment called the Kou Island embassy, which denied that San Mu Ichiro and the attackers were Kou Islanders and abandoned them.
• White Garment killed the more than ten thousand Kou Islanders outside the police bureau, and Meng Kan executed San Mu Ichiro.
• White Garment recognized Hi Dog as one of Little White Tiger’s men and invited Hi Dog and Earthworm to accompany him south.
• Hi Dog and Earthworm accepted after White Garment urged them to grow strong enough to help Little White Tiger and Old Ninth.
• White Garment gave Zhu Le’er a translated pre-Calamity history textbook to pass on to Little White Tiger and Old Ninth.

After White Garment killed the attackers in Chun Prefecture, Old Pei and Gu Xia realized he was shaping Little White Tiger’s rise and decided to seek an alliance. Little White Tiger turned his anger toward Kou Island, then accepted Elder Pei’s invitation to meet, while Bone and Xiao Feng prepared for trouble.

• White Garment left after killing more than ten thousand attackers, and Old Pei and Gu Xia concluded he was building a core team for Little White Tiger and keeping them alive as potential opponents.
• News reports said Kou Island had claimed the dead were its fugitives, thanked White Garment, and donated three hundred million Dragon Kingdom dollars in bounty money.
• Little White Tiger read the history of Kou Island’s past crimes and told Old Ninth to attack people from Kou Island on sight; Old Ninth agreed to stand with him.
• Little White Tiger began to call for Hi Dog, then remembered Hi Dog had left and felt the loss; Old Ninth offered to go with him to hunt down surviving Kou Island attackers.
• Elder Pei’s butler invited Little White Tiger and Old Ninth to meet, promising information about the ultimate technique; Little White Tiger accepted, while Bone alerted their men and Xiao Feng went to get explosives.

Elder Pei invited Little White Tiger and Old Ninth to the Pei Residence, hoping to reconcile and persuade them to take over the San Mu Group. He offered them a discounted chance to acquire it at auction in ten days, but Little White Tiger said they lacked the money and needed time to consider.

• Elder Pei hosted Little White Tiger and Old Ninth and explained that he wanted to clear up their misunderstanding and keep the San Mu Group out of alien control.
• Elder Pei offered the San Mu Group to the two men, prompting Old Ninth and Little White Tiger to mistake his offer for a trap and draw their knives.
• Bu Tingyang stopped Xiao Feng and Bone from attacking Elder Pei, and Gu Xia reassured the brothers that the invitation was genuine.
• Elder Pei explained that he feared making an enemy of White Garment, and Little White Tiger and Old Ninth let him continue believing they were connected to him.
• Elder Pei offered to help the pair acquire the San Mu Group cheaply at a public auction in ten days, but Little White Tiger said they had no money and would think it over.

Elder Pei explained why the ultimate technique was likely hidden outside Chun Prefecture and offered Little White Tiger a stake in the San Mu Group, but the Overlord arrived and took him and Old Ninth away. Elder Pei and Gu Xia admitted the Overlord had seen through their plan to use the shares to bind Little White Tiger to the Pei Family.

• Elder Pei deduced from Crooked Old Wu's movements and injuries that the ultimate technique was hidden within a three-day journey of Chun Prefecture, an area the Overlord could search.
• The Overlord stormed into the Pei Residence, mistook Elder Pei's invitation for a kidnapping attempt, and threatened to kill him and Gu Xia.
• Old Ninth explained the misunderstanding, and Little White Tiger stopped the Overlord from attacking the two elders.
• The Overlord rejected the Pei Family's offer of San Mu Group shares, recognized their plan to make Little White Tiger dependent on Bu Tingyang, and took the two young men away.
• Afterward, Elder Pei and Gu Xia acknowledged that the Overlord had seen through their scheme and was more perceptive than his rough demeanor suggested.

Overlord advised Little White Tiger and Old Ninth to avoid White Garment’s wider conflict while using his support to build power in Chun Prefecture. The group settled on taking over San Mu Ichiro’s sealed residence as their base.

• Overlord scolded Little White Tiger and Old Ninth for their handling of the San Mu Group, then reassured them that he had rushed from Ice Prefecture to protect them.
• Old Ninth explained White Garment’s involvement, and Overlord warned the brothers to stay out of White Garment’s dangerous affairs.
• Master Bai advised Little White Tiger and Old Ninth to use Old Pei’s assumptions about their connection to White Garment to establish themselves in Chun Prefecture.
• Overlord agreed to help them expand their control of the streets, offered money rather than Overlord Stronghold’s men, and forbade them from seeking help from Li Youxian.
• Overlord tore the seals off San Mu Ichiro’s residence and declared that the group would stay there, promising Master Bai would later buy it for them.

Little White Tiger and Old Ninth set up their new corporate group in Chun Prefecture and welcomed False Eye back after Instructor saved him. They put Fang Mu in charge of management and tasked False Eye with unifying three districts, declaring their ambition to take over Chun Prefecture within three months.

• Bone replaced the San Mu family's estate plaque with one reading Eight-Nine Prefecture, and Little White Tiger and Old Ninth gathered Fang Mu and the club's senior managers to organize the group.
• Fang Mu reported that he had handed the club back to Mr. Li and accepted Little White Tiger's trust to manage the new group, including removing every pro-Kou Island employee.
• False Eye returned to the estate, where Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, Bone, and the others welcomed him and heard how Instructor had saved him after San Mu wounded him.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth invited False Eye to join them, assigned him three districts, and promised him five hundred men from Overlord Stronghold to help unify the streets.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth rallied their brothers and vowed to take over Chun Prefecture within three months.

Elder Pei and Xin Mo prepared to host Chun Prefecture’s biggest auction, where Xin Mo met Jin Zhichang and learned that two guests were hostile toward alien races. Overlord, Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and their entourage arrived in force, and Xin Mo welcomed them into the auction despite Overlord’s status as an SSS-level wanted criminal.

• Elder Pei and Xin Mo discussed the auction and greeted Xin Ru and his overseas classmate Jin Zhichang.
• Elder Pei warned Xin Mo that Little White Tiger and Old Ninth were hostile toward alien races and advised him to keep Jin Zhichang out of the spotlight.
• Overlord arrived at the hotel with Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and their men, startling the assembled guests.
• Xin Mo welcomed Overlord and offered him a handshake, while Overlord joked about being a wanted criminal and Elder Pei ushered the group inside.

At the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s opening auction, Old Ninth and Little White Tiger clashed with Jin Zhichang after he insulted their group, while Xin Mo tried to keep the event from erupting into a fight. Jin Zhichang stayed despite the warnings and plotted to use his money to humiliate them and pursue Zhu Le’er.

• Old Ninth threatened Jin Zhichang with a knife after hearing him insult the group, but Xin Mo intervened and warned him to leave Chun Prefecture.
• At the auction, Jin Zhichang sat near Little White Tiger with two Fourth Awakening bodyguards, and Little White Tiger provoked him until Xin Ru moved him to another seat.
• Zhu Le’er switched seats with Little White Tiger to keep an eye on Old Ninth and warned him not to cause trouble on the Xin Family’s turf.
• Xin Ru told Jin Zhichang that Xin Mo disliked Alien Races and suggested he approach Xin Mo’s second sister instead.
• Jin Zhichang ignored Xin Ru’s warnings and plotted to use his wealth to outbid the group and pursue Zhu Le’er.

Little White Tiger bid on an animalistic Innate Awakened boy, then faced Jin Zhichang’s provocations over the San Mu Group shares. As Jin Zhichang flaunted his money, Bone slapped him for supposedly stepping on his shadow.

• Little White Tiger had False Eye bid one hundred thousand for the caged boy, and Jin Zhichang drove the price up before quitting at five hundred thousand.
• Old Ninth had Bone and the others leave the auction, while Elder Pei and Xin Mo worried about the coming sale of the San Mu Group stake.
• Jin Zhichang openly challenged Little White Tiger over the shares, and Xin Ru failed to stop him.
• Jin Zhichang raised his bids by tiny increments, while Old Ninth rejected Elder Pei’s offer of money and vowed to play him to the end.
• Bone returned with the others and slapped Jin Zhichang, accusing him of hurting his shadow by stepping on it.

Little White Tiger’s men abducted Jin Zhichang, extorted money from him, and left him to Lao Yang’s bandits when he could not pay everyone. With Overlord and Old Pei’s support, Little White Tiger secured the San Mu Group at auction and emerged as a rising power in Chun Prefecture.

• Old Ninth’s men planted grenades in Jin Zhichang’s pants, disabled him, and forced him out of the venue while Overlord subdued his bodyguards.
• Bone and False Eye made Jin Zhichang write checks for the men who had taken him, then Lao Yang and his bandits surrounded him and beat him when he could not pay them too.
• Xin Mo resumed the auction after Jin Zhichang was removed, and Little White Tiger won the San Mu Group without further bidding.
• The guests congratulated Little White Tiger and Old Ninth as their backing from Overlord and Old Pei became clear.
• Little White Tiger told False Eye to have Lao Yang take Jin Zhichang out of the city and extort fifty million from his family.

Little White Tiger took the auctioned child, whom he named Hungry Ghost, under his protection after realizing he was starving and could understand him. When Hungry Ghost transformed into a powerful beast and fought Old Ninth and Overlord, Overlord identified him as a Taotie, a legendary innate Awakened who could grow stronger by eating.

• Little White Tiger entered the cage despite the experts’ warnings and offered food to the wary child, who accepted it only from him.
• Little White Tiger named the child Hungry Ghost, called him his little brother, and led him out of the cage.
• Hungry Ghost slashed Old Ninth when he tried to touch him, then transformed into a huge beast and fought the Red Demon Dragon and Overlord.
• Hungry Ghost calmed and returned to human form when Little White Tiger ordered him to stop.
• Overlord identified Hungry Ghost as a Taotie, and Xin Mo explained that the creature could turn anything it ate into energy and grow stronger without limit.