Chapter Summaries

Ma Qingshan sent Old Ninth to kill Ma Fangshan while secretly arranging to eliminate Old Ninth afterward. Old Ninth reached the hotel, killed Ma Fangshan’s secretary, and attacked the guards as Ma Fangshan fled.

• Ma Fangshan spotted unfamiliar men watching the hotel and suspected that Ma Qingshan had made a deal with Old Ninth.
• Old Ninth arrived with Hi Dog, Bone, Xiao Feng, and others, while Ma Qingshan ordered his watchers to gather forces and ensure Old Ninth did not leave alive.
• Ma Fangshan tried to escape through the emergency exit, but his secretary switched clothes with him to draw Old Ninth away.
• Old Ninth killed the secretary with a hatchet when the elevator doors opened, mistaking him for Ma Fangshan because he wore Ma Fangshan’s clothes.
• Ma Fangshan ordered his guards to attack Old Ninth, then fled down the corridor as Bone, Xiao Feng, and the others joined the close-quarters fight.

Old Ninth trapped Ma Fangshan in a deadly illusion, beat him, and used compromising photos to secure his promise of Ice Prefecture and ten million. The chapter left Ma Fangshan furious and at Old Ninth’s mercy, with one week to make good on his deal.

• Ma Fangshan ran through the same stairwell floor repeatedly, realized he was trapped in Old Ninth’s illusion, and discovered that its pain and injuries were real.
• Old Ninth accused Ma Fangshan of betraying False Eye and said Ma Qingshan had tried to use him, then demanded that Ma Fangshan submit to a beating.
• Ma Fangshan attacked Old Ninth with Moonglow Flash Blade, but Old Ninth dismissed the moonlight within his illusion and beat him unconscious.
• Ma Fangshan woke with broken bones and found himself naked as Old Ninth and the others photographed him in compromising poses.
• Ma Fangshan offered Ice Prefecture and ten million in exchange for his release, and Old Ninth gave him a week to resolve matters with Ma Qingshan.
• Hi Dog showed Ma Fangshan the humiliating photos, and Old Ninth taunted him with the possibility of scandalous headlines.

Ma Qingshan led hundreds of Ma Family Awakened to avenge Ma Fangshan, only to find his younger brother alive and playing mahjong with Old Ninth and the others. As they played along and taunted him about hiring Lei Zi without paying a deposit, Ma Qingshan hinted that the supposed rule-breaker had a valuable face.

• Ma Qingshan tortured and killed Ming King's men at a KTV, then set out to avenge his brother.
• Ma Qingshan rallied the Ma Family Awakened and led them to the hotel, where they found Ma Fangshan alive and playing mahjong with Old Ninth, Hi Dog, and Bone.
• Ma Fangshan and Old Ninth pretended to be surprised by Ma Qingshan's arrival, while Bone and Xiao Feng kept his entourage outside.
• Ma Qingshan sat down to play mahjong and implied that the person who hired Lei Zi without paying a deposit was worth a lot.

Old Ninth and Ma Fangshan joined forces against Ma Qingshan, but the Ma Family’s Old Man arrived and confronted Old Ninth over his demand for Ice Prefecture. Old Ninth and his men charged at the Old Man after he used his power to pressure them.

• Ma Qingshan tried to renew his deal with Old Ninth, but Old Ninth and Ma Fangshan exposed his false mahjong win and made clear they had teamed up.
• Ma Qingshan claimed he had trapped Ma Fangshan’s people and tried to leave, but Ma Fangshan stopped him and gave him one last chance to surrender.
• Old Ninth chopped off Ma Qingshan’s left hand, then the Ma Family’s Old Man arrived with two Seven Awakenings and slapped Ma Qingshan down.
• The Old Man blocked Old Ninth from leaving and challenged him over attacking Ma Qingshan; Old Ninth demanded Ice Prefecture and threatened the Ma Family’s descendants.
• The Old Man unleashed pressure that forced Hi Dog to one knee, but Hi Dog stood again, and Old Ninth and his brothers charged at the Old Man.

Old Ma captured Old Ninth and planned to use him to pressure Little White Tiger and Chun Prefecture. Old Ninth mocked the Ma Family and revealed its feud over the phone, leaving Old Ma furious but unable to easily kill him.

• Old Ma captured Old Ninth after defeating him and took him away in the Ma Family convoy.
• Old Ma ordered Old Ninth to call Little White Tiger and demand that he come to Shen Prefecture if he wanted Old Ninth alive.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger discussed Ma Qingshan and Ma Fangshan’s feud while Old Ma listened, growing increasingly angry.
• Little White Tiger threatened to fight the Ma Family if Old Ninth was harmed, but Old Ninth said he had a secret weapon and hinted he possessed Ma Fangshan’s nude photos.
• Old Ma hung up and filled the car with killing intent as Old Ninth continued to show no fear.

Old Ninth tried to evade Evil Jiao, who had blocked the Ma Family convoy and demanded his life. After Old Ninth dragged Old Ma into their dispute, Evil Jiao beat him and attacked again while Old Ninth prepared to leave with Ma Fangshan.

• Old Ninth and Old Ma argued about the Ma Family’s authority before a walkie-talkie reported that someone had blocked the convoy.
• Old Ninth recognized the woman as Jiao Jiao and tried to hide, but she shattered the convoy’s windows and confronted him.
• Old Ninth called Old Ma his godfather and claimed he was the Ma Family heir, provoking Old Ma’s denial and Jiao Jiao’s anger.
• Evil Jiao attacked them with black slime, and Old Ma raised a qi barrier to stop it.
• Evil Jiao broke Old Ma’s barrier with one punch and struck him again while Old Ninth taunted her.
• Old Ninth went to Ma Fangshan’s car and asked them to leave while Old Ma prepared to face Evil Jiao.

Old Ninth used compromising photographs and threats to make Old Ma withdraw the Ma Family from Ice Prefecture, while the Ma Family focused on its political ambitions in the Capital. The Ming King kept control of Ice Prefecture and decided to have Shorty killed for joining the Ma Family.

• Old Ninth taunted Old Ma over the phone and threatened to bring Jiao Jiao to the Ma Family or Shen Prefecture unless the Ma Family gave up Ice Prefecture.
• Old Ninth sent Old Ma photographs of Ma Fifth Young Master with a dog and used them to force the Ma Family to withdraw from Ice Prefecture, while retaining the photographs as leverage.
• Old Ma chose to tolerate Old Ninth for now so the Ma Family could pursue political influence in the Capital with the European Capitalist Faction.
• The Ming King celebrated that Old Ninth and the Ma Family had left Ice Prefecture without taking it, and the butler credited his feigned weakness for helping him keep control.
• The Ming King decided to kill Shorty, who had joined the Ma Family, and rose on the leg Overlord had once broken, now healed.

Old Ninth returned to Ice Prefecture and killed Shorty, whom he said had sided with the Ma Family. He confronted the Ming King, exposed his feigned lameness, and prepared to kill him.

• The Ming King surrounded Shorty's residence and planned to rebuild the Five Overlords by inviting investors from the Capital.
• The Ming King entered Shorty's residence and found Shorty and dozens of Awakened dead inside.
• The Ming King discovered Old Ninth watching television among the corpses, with Hi Dog and the others beside him.
• Old Ninth said Shorty had sided with the Ma Family and revealed that Elder Ma had made him a sworn brother and given him Ice Prefecture.
• The Ming King signaled his men to kill Old Ninth, but Old Ninth mocked his acting and stood up to fight.

A mysterious girl arrived in Ice Prefecture and met Earthworm, who gave her money for candied hawthorns before hurrying off to fight. In Shorty Prefecture, Ming King confronted Old Ninth, but explosions interrupted the battle as Earthworm and the Black Mountain Town fighters arrived.

• The girl in white searched Ice Prefecture for a man she called a stinking snake, then stopped to admire candied hawthorns despite having no money.
• Earthworm bought candied hawthorns for the girl and gave her cash, then left with Third Uncle and his hired fighters to fight someone.
• Ming King faced Old Ninth at the main building in Shorty Prefecture and prepared to send his butler and Awakened fighters against him.
• Hi Dog whistled, triggering more than a dozen explosions in the courtyard.
• Earthworm arrived outside the courtyard carrying Third Uncle, followed by Wine, Sword, Spear, and the people of Black Mountain Town.

Black Mountain Town launched its revenge against Ming King, and Old Ninth confronted him in a brutal fight. As Old Ninth’s bloodlust took over and Ming King gained the upper hand, a woman revealed the location of his acupoint.

• Third Uncle led Black Mountain Town in opening Xiao Fei’s coffin, distributing weapons, and swearing vengeance on Ming King.
• Earthworm and Hi Dog led the attack on Ming King while Old Spear, Old Sword, and Old Wine killed the butler who tried to intervene.
• Ming King used his Golden Body to repel the brothers and explained that it reflected attacks.
• Old Ninth stepped in to protect Hi Dog, then traded blows with Ming King until the fight destroyed Shorty’s home.
• Ming King shattered the scales on Old Ninth’s chest, triggering his episode, and Old Ninth slapped and taunted him.
• A woman told Earthworm that Ming King’s acupoint was on top of his head.

Old Ninth killed the Ming King and claimed Ice Prefecture in Little White Tiger’s name. He assigned Old Sword and Third Uncle to manage the city, leaving Ice Prefecture under Black Mountain Town’s control as Little White Tiger’s power in the Northeast grew.

• Old Ninth and Earthworm killed the Ming King after Old Ninth revealed his healing ability and destroyed the Ming King with a demon dragon.
• The Tyrant Warriors and Black Mountain Town wiped out the Awakened forces, leaving Ice Prefecture’s last two overlords dead in one night.
• Old Ninth declared that Ice Prefecture would bear the name Bai, then ordered his men to consolidate control and bring the city’s forces under Little White Tiger.
• Old Sword suggested Old Ninth should rule Ice Prefecture, but Old Ninth rejected the idea and declared that Little White Tiger was the only king.
• Old Ninth assigned Old Sword, Third Uncle, and their allies to manage Ice Prefecture, while the wider plan placed Chun Prefecture under Little White Tiger and the company under Xiao Yuan.
• Little White Tiger’s forces became the Northeast’s second-largest power after the Ma Family, setting the stage for the Ma Family’s later betrayal.

Six months after the Five Overlords fell, Little White Tiger's group prospered in Ice Prefecture and prepared to divide profits from its Fei Island investment. The chapter ended with Earthworm's planned romantic confession ruined when Bone and the others played an erotic movie instead.

• Little White Tiger's group took over the Ming King's former office building, while Old Ninth, False Eye, and the others were chained together and forced to play cards for two days until Zhang Yang and Ji Min stopped the game.
• Hi Dog told Ji Min that Little White Tiger, Thirteen, and Fang Mu would arrive that night for a shareholders' meeting to divide the group's first investment profits.
• Ji Min asked about Third Uncle and Earthworm, and Hi Dog revealed that Third Uncle was in the hospital after Old Ninth beat him for failing an exam.
• Earthworm dressed up and planned to confess to a girl at a movie theater, while Bone and the others secretly arranged to play an erotic film as the movie's climax.
• Earthworm froze as the erotic scenes began, then cursed Bone and the others when they admitted they had played the film he had asked them to put on.

Old Ninth and the Little White Tiger Group distributed New Year supplies in Ice Prefecture, where the people publicly showed their gratitude and trust in him. Meanwhile, an armed group approached the city to capture a woman carrying a photo album tied to Kou Island’s invasion of the Dragon Kingdom.

• Old Ninth gave away his dividends to provide supplies for Ice Prefecture’s poorest residents, and the Little White Tiger Group prepared to attend a shareholders’ meeting.
• An elderly man thanked Old Ninth for killing Flower Boss, and the hundreds of people waiting for supplies knelt to show their gratitude.
• Old Ninth promised the people that nobody in Ice Prefecture would bully them or demand protection money without facing him.
• A burly middle-aged man led five off-road vehicles toward Ice Prefecture, saying his group had orders to capture a woman before she could reveal the photo album from Kou Island’s invasion of the Dragon Kingdom.
• The men realized the woman was heading toward Ice Prefecture, where Old Ninth and Little White Tiger could make the album difficult to reclaim.

Fang Mu reported the group’s profits, and Xiao Yuan explained how the money would be distributed among their allies and employees. A badly injured woman reached the Ice Prefecture branch seeking Eighth Master, but she was being pursued for evidence exposing Kou Island’s wartime atrocities.

• Fang Mu reported that the group had earned 160 million from Fei Island, while the company’s other operations and projected investments were also discussed.
• Ji Min demanded repayment of his loan, but Little White Tiger and Old Ninth joked and argued with him until Xiao Yuan explained the group’s obligations.
• A battered woman staggered through Ice Prefecture asking for Eighth Master and Ninth Master, then reached the Eight-Nine Group branch.
• Little White Tiger heard someone call out, but Hi Dog found only bloodstained footprints in the snow, and the group left without seeing the woman.
• Two men using a Blinding Bead revealed that they were pursuing the woman for a photo album documenting Kou Island’s human experimentation laboratory and threatened to hand her over if she refused to surrender it.

In an abandoned warehouse, Lian refuses to surrender a photo album documenting history, even as Kou Island students torture and threaten her. After Zhang and the others turn against their orders to protect her, Xiaodao kills Zhang and incapacitates the group, leaving the middle-aged man fleeing as the students seize Lian.

• Lian tells her captors that her teacher and senior died protecting the album and insists that history must not be forgotten.
• Xiaodao and the Kou Island students arrive, demand the album, and prepare to torture Lian after she refuses them.
• Zhang rebels against the middle-aged man's orders, frees Lian, and tries to take her away, but Xiaodao slashes his throat and incapacitates the others with anesthetic.
• The middle-aged man wounds his own thigh to resist the anesthetic and escapes toward a window as his companions urge him to flee.
• The middle-aged man looks back and sees the Kou Island students lay Lian on a table as her screams fill the warehouse.

Third Uncle, disguised as a child, encountered Xiaodao and his Kou Island companions while playing with firecrackers and refused to let them leave with an injured man. His guards and the Lei Zis surrounded the group, leaving them trapped in Ice Prefecture.

• Third Uncle’s firecracker startled an injured man out of an alley, and the man muttered “Kou Island” before Xiaodao and his companions arrived.
• Matsushita shoved Third Uncle aside, but Third Uncle shot him and warned the Kou Island group not to take the injured man away.
• Xiaodao recognized Third Uncle’s connection to Old Ninth, while Third Uncle boasted to his classmates that he was the Boss of Ice Prefecture.
• Xiaodao approached Third Uncle with a scalpel, but Black Mountain Town’s men and the Lei Zis surrounded him and his companions.
• The Lei Zis threatened to chop up Xiaodao’s group and make dumplings for their dogs.

After Kou Island youths attacked Third Uncle, Black Mountain Town and its allies mobilized across Ice Prefecture to hunt them down. Old Ninth’s men captured seven youths and began torturing them, while Old Ninth prepared to draw one apart with trucks.

• An alarm sounded in Ice Prefecture after Kou Island youths attacked Third Uncle, and Black Mountain Town’s bosses mobilized to search the city.
• Old Pestilence reported that Third Uncle had intervened when the youths chased a man, and that one attacker escaped after the Lei Zis wounded seven.
• Little White Tiger and Overlord ordered their forces to block the roads and hunt every Kou Island person in Ice Prefecture.
• Old Ninth arrived at a warehouse where seven captured youths were being boiled in gasoline drums by False Eye and the Lei Zis.
• Old Ninth tied one youth to steel cables and ordered trucks to draw him apart, while Hi Dog threatened his family and False Eye invited the men to bet on who would talk first.

Old Ninth tortured the Kou Island captives until Matsushita revealed that Lian Jing had escaped with photographic evidence and was hiding in a West City warehouse. The Lei Zis found her dead after horrific abuse, and Old Ninth and Old Sword vowed to avenge her and recover the film she had swallowed.

• Old Ninth and the Lei Zis tortured the captured Kou Island men, and Matsushita revealed that their leader, Kojima Sen, had ordered the killing of Dragon Kingdom scholars to conceal records of past experiments.
• Matsushita said Lian Jing had escaped with the photographic negatives and was last known to be at an abandoned warehouse in West City; Old Ninth killed him despite his confession.
• Old Ninth arrived at the warehouse and learned that Lian Jing had been alive when the Lei Zis found her, but her injuries were beyond saving.
• Old Sword said Lian Jing had asked them to recover the film she swallowed before she died, and the Lei Zis bowed in respect.
• Old Sword demanded that they find the Kou Island perpetrators and called for his chainsaw so he could avenge Lian Jing.

Kojima and the remaining Kou Island students hid in an inn in Ice Prefecture, but Kojima learned that his powerful contact would not risk confronting Little White Tiger and Old Ninth to rescue him. The innkeeper reported the students to Xiao Feng's men, and Little White Tiger and the others arrived at the alley as she faced Old Ninth.

• The seven remaining students from Kou Island hid in an inn, fearing the groups searching for them after the warehouse was discovered.
• Kojima called Mr. Tian for help, but Mr. Tian refused to rescue him and warned that even the Ma Family would not dare enter Ice Prefecture against Little White Tiger and Old Ninth.
• The innkeeper charged Kojima thirty thousand to keep the students hidden, while Kojima told the others they still needed her to turn away Old Ninth's men.
• The innkeeper left the inn and told Xiao Feng that the wanted students were inside, after recognizing them from the pictures he had sent.
• Little White Tiger and the others arrived at the alley, and Old Ninth asked the trembling innkeeper if she owned the inn.

Xiaodao Yuki learned that Kojima Sen was trapped in Ice Prefecture, while the Black Sun Mercenary Corps ravaged a town abroad. Old Ninth and Little White Tiger’s fighters confronted Kojima Sen’s group at the inn, where Old Ninth mutilated the college freshman and stabbed Xiaodao.

• Xiaodao Yuki spoke with Kojima Sen, who begged his brother to save him from Little White Tiger in Ice Prefecture.
• At the inn, Kojima Sen assured his companions that Xiaodao’s mercenary forces would make Little White Tiger back down.
• Old Ninth arrived with Little White Tiger, Brother Yan'er, Old Sword, Xiao Yuan, Hi Dog, and other high-tier combatants, while severed heads rolled into the room.
• Old Ninth tore out the college freshman’s tongue as Hi Dog and the others held the Kou Island group at weapon point.
• Old Ninth taunted Xiaodao, then stabbed him in the belly while pretending Xiaodao had walked into his blade.