Chapter Summaries

Thirteen and the Pao Ge Society attacked the Garrison Regiment to keep it from reinforcing the execution ground, then returned to block its route when the regiment refused to chase them. Thirteen led a hundred sworn brothers, including Li Xiaomao, into a desperate charge against the vastly larger force.

• Li Xiaomao told Thirteen he had drawn the death lot and wanted to fight for his family and ancestors, but Thirteen and the other bomb men urged him to stay with them.
• Thirteen attacked the Garrison Regiment’s lead vehicle, and the Pao Ge Society opened fire from nearby rooftops, killing hundreds of ordinary soldiers before retreating into the alleys.
• Thirteen told the Pao Ge brothers to delay the regiment while avoiding a head-on fight, but the Kou Island soldiers stopped pursuing and turned back toward the execution ground.
• Thirteen called Xiao Yuan, learned he needed ten minutes, and declared that the Pao Ge Society would stay to support Little White Tiger and uphold its loyalty.
• Commander Matsushita led his troops toward the execution ground, but Thirteen and a hundred Pao Ge men returned to block the route and charged the regiment with their sabers.

The Hei Family Brothers and Xiang Prefecture Lei Zis attacked Kou Island, overwhelming the Police Special Forces while coordinated assaults struck key institutions. As the Emperor considered sending troops, a Lei Zi blasted through the palace wall and threatened anyone who tried to leave.

• The Hei Family Brothers blocked the Police Affairs Bureau entrance, then Black Six revealed that Lei Zis were targeting other locations across Kou Island.
• Reports reached Captain Sakata that Blackstone Prison had been breached, the courthouse and prosecutor’s office had been attacked, and the National Bank and Emperor’s residence were under assault.
• Black Six turned the Police Special Forces’ blade energy back on them with Yin-Yang Reversal, while Hei Ba fought Sakata’s forces and the Lei Zis headed into the building.
• Black Six used his formation to teleport defenders away from the Police Affairs Bureau entrance and leave the Lei Zis free to advance.
• At the Emperor’s residence, the Emperor discussed sending reinforcements before a Lei Zi blasted open the outer wall and threatened the palace.

Captain Zhou warned Ji Min that Kou Island’s reinforcements were approaching, while Overlord and Tai Sui faced the five great priests and a hidden figure above the execution ground. Overlord ordered his sworn sons to retreat to the Dragon Kingdom and opened a path through the wall, leaving the brothers to flee as he prepared to fight.

• Captain Zhou refused Private Li Xiaoshan’s request to go ashore, moved the fleet closer to Kou Island, and sent Ji Min a warning that reinforcements would arrive within an hour.
• Xiao Yuan warned Overlord that reinforcements were coming, but Mitsui and the white-robed priest summoned the Red Dragon Society to seal the execution ground’s gates.
• Overlord and Tai Sui ordered their children to retreat and revealed four concealed priests: Bei Wuyang, Si Yehai, Bei Cangjing, and Qianchi Ma.
• Overlord ordered Overlord Stronghold to withdraw to the Dragon Kingdom, while Tai Sui backed him and Hu Du agreed to lead the younger brothers away.
• Overlord punched through the execution ground’s wall to clear a path, and Xiao Yuan, Pestilence, Sickness, and Hu Du began taking the sworn sons home.

Xiao Mai and the Lei Zis sacrificed themselves to protect Little White Tiger as he escaped. Xiao Mai killed Mitsui with his final move, but Amaterasu appeared above the battlefield, leaving the pursuers and the fate of the retreating group unresolved.

• Xiao Mai sent Hi Dog away and called the Lei Zis back to hold off Mitsui’s pursuers so Little White Tiger could escape.
• The Lei Zis returned to fight, and Little White Tiger and his brothers knelt to thank them before continuing their retreat.
• Mitsui wounded Xiao Mai and revealed that Lord Amaterasu had arrived, while Xiao Mai vowed to die rather than let the pursuers pass.
• Xiao Mai used Permanent Steelification to turn himself and his intestines into steel, strangling Mitsui until another Lei Zi cut off Mitsui’s head.
• Xiao Mai’s body dissolved into steel shavings after he declared that he had not disgraced Brother Yan'er or the boss.

Thirteen and the remaining Pao Ge fought the Garrison Regiment until the retreat signal appeared, but Li Xiaomao sacrificed himself to destroy a munitions truck and save Thirteen. Hei Ba rescued Thirteen from Matsushita, then fled with him as Black Six and Black Seven arrived pursued by soldiers after abducting the Emperor’s wife.

• Thirteen and the surviving Pao Ge stood ready to fight Matsushita’s depleted Garrison Regiment, and Thirteen declared they would die rather than retreat.
• After the retreat signal appeared, Li Xiaomao ignited the explosives on his waist and charged the enemy, then blew up the munitions truck and engulfed the street in flames.
• The Pao Ge shielded Thirteen from Matsushita’s Tachi until Hei Ba pierced Matsushita’s chest and pulled Thirteen from beneath their bodies.
• Black Six and Black Seven arrived pursued by soldiers, and Black Seven carried the Emperor’s naked wife after they had abducted her from her bath.
• Hei Ba carried Thirteen away at a run, while Thirteen realized their actions had stirred up a hornet’s nest.

Overlord unleashed his Overlord Soul and trapped the five great Priests inside his Small World, where he destroyed the White Garment Priest’s soul. He revealed that he had held back while Little White Tiger was nearby and declared that he would kill Amaterasu to protect his children.

• Little White Tiger and the others continued toward the city gates as the Xiang Prefecture Lei Zi’s abduction of the Emperor’s wife drew pursuers away.
• Overlord fought the five great Priests at the Execution Ground while Tai Sui watched, and he broke through their Five-Direction God-Trapping Formation.
• The Priests transformed into Five Elements Blades and attacked Overlord, but his Overlord Armor withstood their strikes.
• Overlord summoned an Ancient War Soul and pulled the Execution Ground into his Small World, trapping the five Priests inside.
• Overlord shattered the White Garment Priest’s soul with Rift Wound, revealing that his power could destroy souls as well as bodies.
• Overlord explained that he had let Little White Tiger escape so he could fight without fear for his son, then vowed to kill Amaterasu to clear the way for his children.

As Xiao Yuan’s group scattered to evade the city’s pursuers, Little White Tiger and Old Ninth chose to return to the execution ground to save Overlord, while Hu Du also turned back. There, Overlord and Tai Sui faced Amaterasu, who revealed the Yasakagami mirror and its power to reflect their attacks.

• Xiao Yuan ordered the Lei Zis to split up and meet at the seaside, while Hu Du, Pestilence, Sickness, Fatty, and Black Raccoon led separate groups away.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth refused to escape with Xiao Yuan and headed back toward the execution ground; Little White Tiger kissed Xiao Yuan as Old Ninth confronted their pursuers.
• Hu Du ordered the Overlord Stronghold members to retreat, then turned back toward the execution ground to help Overlord.
• Overlord emerged from the crater after defeating the five great Priests, and Amaterasu restored the two surviving Priests before descending to face him and Tai Sui.
• Overlord and Tai Sui attacked Amaterasu, but the Yasakagami mirror reflected their strike and blasted them backward.

Tai Sui sacrificed himself to unleash his strongest attack against Amaterasu, while Overlord aided him with three drumbeats and joined the final strike. Their attack devastated Kou Island’s Capital City and shattered the Yasakagami, but Amaterasu survived with the Kusanagi Sword as Overlord fell.

• Tai Sui summoned eight desiccated corpses and used Nine Souls, One Body to raise his strength to the peak of eight awakenings.
• Tai Sui opened the Ghost Gate and Overlord struck the Overlord Drum three times, triggering a tsunami and a volcanic eruption on Kou Island.
• Tai Sui summoned ten thousand ghosts and transformed into his sword strike, Annihilate the Clan, which shattered thirty-one layers of Amaterasu’s Yasakagami.
• Overlord seized Tai Sui’s sword and combined his strength with the ghosts to strike Amaterasu, Black, and Gray, devastating Capital City and destroying the Yasakagami.
• Overlord fell and Tai Sui’s sword broke apart, but Amaterasu survived with the Kusanagi Sword, grievously wounded.

Overlord faced execution by Amaterasu after their battle devastated Capital City, but Big Boss took the Kusanagi Sword meant for him and died asking Little White Tiger to spare his son. Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and their allies returned to protect Overlord, and Little White Tiger revealed that his pseudo-divine body had preserved both his Demon Ancestor's Blood and Er Niu as they prepared to fight Amaterasu's Tyrant Warriors.

• Amaterasu recovered under divine light and sentenced Overlord to annihilation with the Kusanagi Sword.
• Big Boss took the sword thrust meant for Overlord and begged Little White Tiger to spare his son before dying.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth returned, and Overlord accepted Big Boss's life in exchange for his son's.
• Overlord's sworn sons, Xiao Yuan, and the Hei Family Brothers assembled to fight Amaterasu and Kou Island's forces.
• Amaterasu ordered his Tyrant Warriors to attack after Hu Du revealed that Amaterasu was badly weakened.
• Little White Tiger stepped forward and revealed that his pseudo-divine body had preserved his Demon Ancestor's Blood and Er Niu.

Little White Tiger’s control of the Tyrant Warriors turned the battle against Amaterasu, and Old Ninth wounded the god before being captured. White Garment cut Amaterasu free from the fight and drove him back to the Divine Realm; afterward, Old Man Guan ordered the Seventh Fleet to land on Kou Island under the guise of disaster relief.

• Little White Tiger commanded the Tyrant Warriors to kneel, and Old Ninth taunted Amaterasu as his avatar prepared to attack.
• Little White Tiger and their allies launched Old Ninth into the sky, where he joined with Black Old Ninth and charged Amaterasu.
• Old Ninth struck Amaterasu’s face and gouged flesh from him, but Amaterasu seized him and began bringing him to his mouth.
• White Garment’s fruit knife cut through four of Amaterasu’s fingers, freeing Old Ninth, and White Garment threatened Amaterasu until the god fled into the sky rift.
• Old Man Guan ordered Guan Lei to send the Seventh Fleet to Kou Island to provide disaster relief and recover Dragon Kingdom compatriots.

After Amaterasu’s defeat, Little White Tiger and his allies fought the enraged Kou Islanders until fighter aircraft and Captain Zhou’s forces intervened. Captain Zhou arranged to take the Dragon Kingdom group home under the guise of a chance meeting and disaster relief, while Amaterasu was left powerless to stop them.

• Amaterasu urged the Kou Islanders to attack, and Little White Tiger ordered the Tyrant Warriors to cut down the charging crowd.
• Hu Du, Hei Ba, and the Xiang Prefecture Lei Zi joined the battle as Amaterasu charged Overlord, but a wall of fire and fighter aircraft struck the Kou Island forces.
• The squadron leader ordered the fighter aircraft to protect their compatriots and told the pilots to claim they had mistaken attackers for Transformed.
• Captain Zhou arrived, challenged Amaterasu, dismissed the civilians’ protests, and said complaints about the air force would take years to process.
• Captain Zhou invited Xiao Yuan and the others to return with him, while Li Xiaoshan insulted Kou Island and Captain Zhou’s troops presented relief supplies that contained swill.

Captain Zhou and his men forced Amaterasu to let Little White Tiger and the others leave Kou Island, while Hei Ba’s staged surrender gave them a way to claim the islanders’ deaths were the work of a Dragon Kingdom criminal. White Garment then ordered Amaterasu to lend him his sword, leaving Old Ninth and Little White Tiger demanding it in person.

• Captain Zhou defended Little White Tiger and the others, and Amaterasu rallied Kou Island’s people to block their departure.
• Hei Ba and his brothers shot into the crowd, after which Hei Ba claimed responsibility and surrendered so Captain Zhou could promise to take him back to the Dragon Kingdom for trial.
• Old Ninth pretended to call White Garment, and Amaterasu backed down rather than risk confronting him.
• White Garment called Old Ninth, ordered Amaterasu to let the group leave, and asked to borrow Amaterasu’s sword.
• Amaterasu resisted lending the sword, so White Garment ended the call and told Old Ninth to bring it back; Old Ninth and Little White Tiger confronted Amaterasu.

After surviving the battle on Kou Island, Xiao Yuan urged Little White Tiger and Old Ninth to choose between joining the Guan Family and building their own power. Ji Min proposed a partnership to unite the streets, business, and political influence, and Little White Tiger and Old Ninth left the offer under consideration.

• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth reflected on how close they had come to dying on Kou Island as Ji Min and Xiao Yuan joined them on deck.
• Xiao Yuan laid out two options: seek the Guan Family's protection through White Garment or forge an independent alliance.
• Little White Tiger rejected the idea of becoming a powerful family's blade, citing his loyalty to his brothers and distrust of profit-driven clans.
• Ji Min proposed combining his family's money, Little White Tiger's Lei Zis, and a Capital young master to build a powerful alliance.
• Ji Min offered two hundred million to start the venture, while Old Ninth remained doubtful and Little White Tiger said they would think about it.

During the journey home, Ji Min proposed that Little White Tiger and Old Ninth join forces with the Ji Family to seize an Energy-Concentrating Stone mine on Fei Island and expand overseas. Little White Tiger and Old Ninth committed to building a Lei Zi Corps, while Thirteen offered to get involved and the Hei Family Brothers remained independent.

• Hei Ba and his brothers played cards with seized gold bars, while Black Six joked about demanding a ransom for the kidnapped empress.
• Xiao Yuan and Little White Tiger invited the Hei Family Brothers to join their plans, but the brothers refused to be recruited.
• Ji Min revealed that a deposit of Energy-Concentrating Stones had been found on Fei Island, where Korean and monkey settlements stood in their way.
• Thirteen expressed interest in joining the Fei Island venture, and Ji Min said they could discuss it once the higher-ups approved the plan.
• Little White Tiger told Overlord he and Old Ninth intended to form a Lei Zi Corps, and Overlord agreed to approach Lei Zi in Chun Prefecture and Ice Prefecture.
• Xiao Yuan pledged her fortune and her life to Little White Tiger, while Old Ninth mocked their romantic moment.

Shu Dong was released from prison after the Farbridge Group fell and learned that Amaterasu had killed his father, Big Boss. Xiao Yuan offered to clear the Shu Family of treason if Shu Dong returned to Kou Island and secretly established himself on Fei Island, leaving him with no choice but to accept her plan.

• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth took Shu Dong from prison to a smuggling port and told him that Amaterasu had killed Big Boss.
• Old Ninth spared Shu Dong because Overlord had promised Big Boss, then secretly asked Hei Ba to kill him.
• Xiao Yuan found Shu Dong at the port and blamed Kou Island and Amaterasu for Big Boss's death and the Farbridge Group's collapse.
• Xiao Yuan offered to clear the Shu Family of treason if Shu Dong returned to Kou Island and made his way to Fei Island.
• Shu Dong realized that Amaterasu would eventually kill him and accepted that he had to follow Xiao Yuan's plan.

Overlord learned that Tai Sui’s Power of Ten Thousand Ghosts was shutting down his organs, and Old Ninth stole a piece of Amaterasu’s flesh from Black Old Ninth in hopes of saving him. In the Capital, White Garment and Old Man Guan discussed rewarding Little White Tiger and negotiating control of Fei Island’s mine.

• A doctor told Ji Min and Overlord’s sworn sons that Overlord’s organs were failing because of Tai Sui’s Power of Ten Thousand Ghosts, and that only a breakthrough might disperse it.
• Overlord accepted his fate, while Little White Tiger and Ji Min searched for ways to help him advance beyond Eight Awakenings.
• Old Ninth found that Black Old Ninth had eaten the rest of Amaterasu’s flesh, then cut a piece from him to take back for Overlord.
• White Garment and Old Man Guan praised the Kou Island Expedition and debated how to reward Little White Tiger and the other returning fighters.
• White Garment urged Old Man Guan to let Demon Blade handle Fei Island’s mine, and Old Man Guan decided to assess the arriving fighters before committing.

Overlord broke through to intermediate eight awakenings and became a dual awakener after integrating Tai Sui's ability, drawing Demon City's powerful families to Ji Min's villa. By the next day, news of his rise and the rumors surrounding Old Ninth had spread across the Dragon Kingdom.

• Ghost soldiers and rosy light erupted from Ji Min's villa, attracting Demon City's experts, including Old Man Ji, who learned that Overlord was inside.
• Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, Hu Du, and the other fighters of Chun Prefecture emerged to guard the villa and identified Overlord to the gathered crowd.
• Overlord burst out of the villa after breaking through to intermediate eight awakenings, with both yang and yin qi and Tai Sui's special ability integrated into him.
• Overlord greeted Old Man Ji and credited Old Ninth with obtaining the divine flesh that helped him survive his breakthrough, drawing attention to Old Ninth's strength.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger complained that an unexplained force kept suppressing their attempts to break through.
• News of Overlord's breakthrough spread throughout the Dragon Kingdom, bringing Old Ninth and Little White Tiger to the attention of major powers.

Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and Xiao Yuan visited the Guan Residence to thank White Garment and return the Kusanagi Sword. White Garment revealed the sword’s Heavy Soul ability and explained that he had delayed the pair’s cultivation breakthroughs, leaving them about to face Heavenly Tribulation with help from Old Man Guan.

• Ji Min brought Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and Xiao Yuan to the Guan Residence, where Meng Kan welcomed them.
• Old Man Guan tested Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, then praised their ability to be both reckless and crafty.
• Old Man Guan explained that the Guan Family would support them against Alien Races but would not interfere in their internal conflicts.
• Old Ninth handed the Kusanagi Sword to White Garment, who said he would reforge it into battle sabers and described its Heavy Soul ability.
• White Garment revealed that he had tampered with Little White Tiger and Old Ninth’s cultivation to delay their breakthroughs, and he asked Old Man Guan to help them withstand Heavenly Tribulation.

White Garment protected Old Ninth and Little White Tiger as they endured heavenly thunder and broke through, revealing powerful new abilities. Their transformation drew the Capital’s attention and alarmed Tian Guang, who began considering how to respond to White Garment’s growing influence.

• White Garment shielded Old Ninth and Little White Tiger from most of the heavenly thunder while urging them to use the strikes to break through.
• Little White Tiger absorbed heavenly thunder into his pseudo-divine body and learned to store it for later use.
• Old Ninth and the Demon Dragon transformed, grew horns, and used Demon Dragon Breath to corrode the heavenly thunder.
• The Capital’s media and powerful factions recognized the boys as White Garment’s people.
• Tian Guang warned Tian Bo that White Garment was cultivating successors and discussed using Ji Min’s pursuit of overseas mineral rights as part of a plan.

Little White Tiger and Old Ninth reached Fourth Awakening and attended a Capital gathering with Ji Min to build connections for the Fei Island business. When Gou Rengui approached them about expanding into the Northeast, they suspected he wanted to involve them in Happy Powder and secretly prepared to kill him if he confirmed it.

• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth left the Guan Residence after advancing from Peak Second Awakening to Fourth Awakening overnight, and Ji Min invited them to a gathering of the Capital's wealthy young people.
• Ji Min explained that he was building connections with the Youth Association to secure support for the Fei Island business, then introduced the group to Young Master He.
• Young Master He praised Little White Tiger and Old Ninth's recent rise and suggested they speak with Gou Rengui about his plans to expand into the Northeast market.
• Xiao Yuan warned Little White Tiger and Old Ninth that Gou Rengui smelled of Happy Powder, a harmful banned substance.
• Little White Tiger said they could not get involved with Happy Powder, and Old Ninth told him to call Hi Dog so they could kill Gou Rengui if he confirmed the suspected deal.