Chapter Summaries

Little White Tiger and Hi Dog left Ice Prefecture to find hired guns, but a settlement town’s driver and armed locals tried to extort them. After turning the tables, they stole the van and fled as the town chased them, while Earthworm set off after his vehicle.

• Little White Tiger and Hi Dog rode out of Ice Prefecture in a van bound for a nearby settlement town to find hired guns.
• The driver and several armed locals demanded thousands in extortion money, but Little White Tiger and Hi Dog drew weapons and forced them to back down.
• Little White Tiger took the van, and he and Hi Dog fled after he fired a warning shot at the driver.
• The townspeople chased the van, but Little White Tiger drove far enough to escape them.
• Earthworm took an automatic rifle and ran after his van while the townspeople decided to target other newcomers.

After Little White Tiger and Hi Dog encountered Earthworm being hunted by a Transformed, Little White Tiger saved him with help from Silver-Patterned Tiger. Earthworm offered to connect them with a crew from Black Mud Mountain who could work as hired guns.

• Hi Dog and Little White Tiger heard gunshots and saw Earthworm fleeing a Transformed in the Wilderness.
• Earthworm ran out of ammunition and broke his dagger fighting the Transformed, but Hi Dog and Little White Tiger rescued him.
• Little White Tiger struggled to defeat the Transformed until Silver-Patterned Tiger emerged and killed it with one swipe.
• Earthworm followed them back to their cave, saying he owed them for saving his life.
• Earthworm claimed his cousin Xiao Fei led a powerful Black Mud Mountain crew that could take hired-gun jobs.

Little White Tiger, Earthworm, and Hi Dog reached Black Mountain Town to find hired guns, but a team of killers ambushed them at a breakfast shop. Wounded by gunfire, Little White Tiger prepared to attack as the killers closed in.

• Earthworm led Little White Tiger and Hi Dog through Black Mountain Town and offered to help find hired guns for their job.
• Little White Tiger noticed suspicious men in three SUVs and warned his companions not to provoke them.
• The killers sent two men to confirm Little White Tiger's identity, but Little White Tiger exposed their intentions and Earthworm and Hi Dog killed them.
• The leather-jacketed killer fled into the breakfast shop and was shot dead by the proprietress, while the remaining attackers opened fire on the trio.
• The proprietress pulled Little White Tiger, Earthworm, and Hi Dog into the shop, but the killers blasted open the shutter with a grenade.
• Little White Tiger revealed that three bullets were lodged in his muscles and prepared to attack the four advancing killers.

Little White Tiger survived an attack by Old Ding’s hitmen with help from Earthworm and the armed residents of Black Mountain Town. After learning that Brother Lang had also sent another team after Old Ninth in Dongpu, Little White Tiger was left racing to warn his people.

• Earthworm stopped Little White Tiger from charging the hitmen, and Earthworm’s Third Uncle armed himself and summoned help.
• Black Mountain Town’s residents surrounded the breakfast shop as Little White Tiger revealed himself as an Awakened and helped subdue the surviving hitmen.
• Little White Tiger and Earthworm pressured the captured leader into admitting that Brother Lang, Old Ding’s Red Stick, had ordered the attack.
• The hitman revealed that another group had been sent to Dongpu to find Old Ninth, who was still unconscious.
• The old man offered Little White Tiger a Satellite Phone, then shot the hitman in both knees before letting him crawl away.

Piglet stayed behind to guard the unconscious Old Ninth, then fought off assassins who broke into the apartment to find him. He sacrificed himself to protect Old Ninth, ending the chapter badly wounded but still blocking the bedroom doorway.

• Piglet hid Old Ninth under the bed when he spotted four armed men picking the apartment lock, then shot the first attacker through the door.
• Piglet called Little White Tiger and told him assassins were after Old Ninth while he tried to hold them off until his brothers returned.
• A hooded assassin entered through the kitchen window, shot Piglet in the arm, and let his companions seize and torture him for Old Ninth's location.
• Piglet refused to reveal where Old Ninth was, swallowed part of his severed ear, and continued defying the assassins.
• When the assassins approached Old Ninth's bedroom, Piglet pulled a grenade, clung to their leader, and detonated it to stop them.
• Wounded by the blast, Piglet crawled to the bedroom doorway and told the assassins they would not get past him.

Old Ninth emerged from hiding to save Piglet and fought the assassins who had come to kill him. After killing them, he traced their lone phone call to the person behind the attack and declared war on Old Ding and his allies.

• Piglet shielded Old Ninth from the assassins until Old Ninth burst through the door and carried him to safety.
• Old Ninth injected Piglet with adrenaline, called an ambulance, and confronted the three assassins, whose bullets could not pierce his scales.
• The lead assassin sacrificed himself to hold Old Ninth back and help his two brothers escape, but they returned and died beside him.
• Old Ninth's brothers arrived with the ambulance, and Old Ninth stopped Xiao Feng from shooting the dead assassins, saying their deaths settled the score.
• Old Ninth called the number on an assassin's phone and threatened the person who answered, declaring war and promising to kill Old Ding.

Little White Tiger refused Mr. Li’s plea to stop Old Ninth and arranged for Black Mountain Town to support their fight against Old Ding. As Old Ninth’s attack threatened to embarrass Old Ding, A Lang claimed responsibility for the attempted killings to draw attention away from his boss.

• Mr. Li told Little White Tiger that Piglet was in the hospital and Old Ninth had disappeared with nine brothers after entering the West Garden District.
• Little White Tiger told Mr. Li that he would put his brothers first, then asked Earthworm to take him to the Old Man of Black Mountain Town for troops.
• The Old Man agreed to provide men in exchange for a hundred City Residence Permits and Little White Tiger’s promise to pay, and ordered Red Ghost to destroy Old Ding’s bases outside the city.
• A Lang and Red Hair worried that Old Ninth might attack Old Ding’s headquarters and that Little White Tiger and Mr. Li were mobilizing against them.
• A Lang told his underlings to spread the word that he had sent men to kill Old Ninth and Little White Tiger.

Little White Tiger hired Braided Hair and his bandits to help attack Old Ding, while Old Ninth launched an assault on A Lang’s KTV without waiting for the others. Old Ninth’s men stormed the Joyful Mansion, where a dreadlocked youth shot and beat a rich customer as the attack began.

• Little White Tiger hired Braided Hair’s bandits for a five-million job against Old Ding, and Braided Hair said he could get them into the city.
• Old Ninth told Mr. Li he would leave Old Ding alone if A Lang was killed, then refused to call off his attack.
• Mr. Li learned that Old Ninth’s men were already outside the Joyful Mansion and ordered someone to find him.
• Old Ninth sent Bone and four other youths into the KTV while his men waited nearby.
• A dreadlocked youth pulled a shotgun from their bag, shot a rich young man in the thigh, and beat him with the gun.

Bone and his companions attacked A Lang’s karaoke club, then Old Ninth arrived to confront A Lang himself. The chapter ended with Old Ninth blowing A Lang out of the elevator with a blasting charge.

• Bone and his companions shot the club’s guards, injured Young Master Duan, killed three men, and damaged the lobby before escaping.
• Bone doubled back to shoot Captain Zhou’s radio, threatened the doorman, and challenged A Lang on Red Three Street.
• A Lang learned of the attack, ordered his men to find Bone’s group, and then received a taunting call from Old Ninth.
• Old Ninth entered the club with his armed companions and sent the customers fleeing before heading upstairs to confront A Lang.
• A Lang charged into the elevator with a machete, but Old Ninth had left a burning blasting charge inside and the explosion hurled A Lang out.

Old Ninth used traps and his awakened abilities to blind and nearly kill A Lang, but A Lang’s returning men surrounded him and pinned him down. Just as Old Ninth faced overwhelming odds, Hi Dog, Bones, and Xiao Feng led their men back into the fight.

• Old Ninth shot A Lang in the eye, then blasted him again with a hidden explosive as A Lang pursued him through the KTV.
• A Lang grabbed Old Ninth by the throat, but Old Ninth revealed his scales, blinded A Lang in his remaining eye, and fought him into the street.
• Old Ninth used Death coil to crush A Lang, but a shopkeeper’s gunfire let A Lang break free and rally against him.
• A Lang’s returning men and armed shopkeepers trapped Old Ninth behind a car and prepared to overwhelm him.
• Hi Dog and his riders, Bones and his men, and Xiao Feng and his men returned to help Old Ninth despite the gunfire.

Old Ninth and Little White Tiger united their men to defeat A Lang and establish their power in Ice Prefecture. After A Lang was killed, Old Ding arrived and mourned his headless brother.

• Little White Tiger arrived to protect Old Ninth, then summoned a snowplow and three trucks carrying more than a hundred armed men, forcing A Lang's followers to take cover.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger's forces overwhelmed A Lang's men, and the hired gunmen acknowledged Old Ninth as their boss.
• A Lang called Old Ding, admitted defeat, and chose to stay behind rather than risk Old Ding's life.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger restrained A Lang while Hi Dog sawed through his steel-covered neck, killing him as he called out to his boss.
• Old Ninth lifted A Lang's head, and Little White Tiger led their men away; ten minutes later, Old Ding arrived and howled over his brother's body.

Old Ninth and Little White Tiger visited the badly injured Piglet before Mr. Li advised them to lie low while Old Ding grew reckless. They learned Xiao Fei was the notorious Smoke Fiend, who explained how he had earned the Nalan Family’s hatred and why he had joined their fight.

• Old Ninth and the brothers visited unconscious Piglet in the hospital, brought him A Lang’s head, and stayed by his bedside through the night.
• Mr. Li arranged for Piglet to leave Ice Prefecture and told Old Ninth and Little White Tiger to avoid Old Ding until his backers abandoned him.
• Mr. Li revealed that Xiao Fei was the infamous Smoke Fiend, shocking Old Ninth and Little White Tiger.
• Xiao Fei explained that he had killed more than a hundred members of the Nalan Family after taking revenge for a mutilated girl who had paid him five bucks.
• Xiao Fei said he would stay in the fight because Little White Tiger had saved his cousin, and Little White Tiger praised him.

New West Garden District Police Commissioner Zhang Yang confronted Old Ding over A Lang’s death, then went to the East Prosperity Hotel to arrest those responsible. He subdued most of Mr. Li’s group with his power, but Xiao Fei remained ready to fight him.

• Master Flower ordered Old Ding to stop his search and lie low because Commissioner Zhang Yang was investigating him.
• Zhang Yang questioned Old Ding about A Lang and his criminal record, and Old Ding named Li Youxian, Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and outside gunmen as the killers.
• Zhang Yang confronted Mr. Li at the East Prosperity Hotel and accused him of trying to bribe Zhang Yang through his mother-in-law.
• Zhang Yang demanded that Old Ninth, Little White Tiger, and Xiao Fei’s group surrender, but Earthworm threatened him with a shotgun.
• Zhang Yang froze and shattered Earthworm’s shotgun, then overwhelmed most of the group with his aura.
• Zhang Yang recognized Xiao Fei as Smoke Fiend, and Xiao Fei challenged him to fight.

Zhang Yang chose to cooperate with Mr. Li, Little White Tiger, and Old Ninth against Old Ding instead of arresting them. Mr. Li revealed that he had engineered Zhang Yang’s downfall and transfer to the Ice Prefecture as part of a plan to strike at the powerful figures behind Old Ding.

• Xiao Fei and Zhang Yang nearly fought until Mr. Li showed Zhang Yang images of children imprisoned in Old Ding’s warehouse.
• Little White Tiger explained that he and Old Ninth had killed A Lang for revenge against Old Xie and to protect the children.
• Mr. Li urged Zhang Yang to work with them against Old Ding and the powerful figures exploiting the Ice Prefecture.
• After Zhang Yang’s subordinates reported that they were assembled, Zhang Yang ordered them to stand down, freed Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, and gave them ten days to find Old Ding’s hideout.
• Mr. Li revealed that he had planned Zhang Yang’s downfall and transfer, then said he would leave to recruit someone powerful enough to counter Old Ding’s backers.
• Mr. Li told Little White Tiger and the others to expose Old Ding publicly while he was away, and they agreed.

Old Ding agreed to help Young Master Hua arrange a dangerous deal with the Three Suns Society in exchange for Young Master Hua handling A Lang’s killers. Before Young Master Hua could carry out his plan, a group of Awakened youths kidnapped him and drove away with him and his companion.

• Old Ding learned that Young Master Hua wanted him to help collect a Wasteland Artifact from the Three Suns Society in exchange for goods and gold.
• Young Master Hua promised to deal with A Lang’s killers, persuading Old Ding to accept the job.
• Young Master Hua ordered Jun Jun to gather people to attack the men who had crossed the Hua family.
• While Young Master Hua was distracted in his car, four youths seized him, wounded him when he tried to call for help, and drove away past his oblivious bodyguards.
• One of the kidnappers offered Young Master Hua’s terrified companion money to spend time with them, prompting her to protest that they had misunderstood her prices.

Little White Tiger and his men forced Young Master Hua to reveal that Old Ding’s shipment was leaving Ice Prefecture that night for an exchange involving a Wasteland Artifact. As Old Ding’s convoy left the city with children imprisoned in its trucks, Xiao Fei prepared his men to intercept it.

• Earthworm dragged the half-frozen Young Master Hua from the pigpen, and Little White Tiger and Old Ninth demanded to know where Old Ding had hidden the goods.
• Old Ninth threatened Young Master Hua, who revealed that the shipment was leaving the city that night for an exchange involving a Wasteland Artifact.
• Xiao Fei told Old Black to round up the men so they could move against the shipment.
• Old Ding sent Red Hair and his men out through Ice Prefecture’s city gate with five trucks carrying skeletal children, unaware that Young Master Hua had betrayed him.

Red Hair completed a delivery of children to the Three Suns Society in exchange for a Wasteland Artifact, but Bone and Xiao Fei’s men ambushed him on the way back. After a brutal fight, they captured Red Hair and forced him to reveal where the goods were.

• Red Hair handed the trucks full of children to the Three Suns Society and received a Wasteland Artifact in return.
• On the road back, Red Hair encountered Bone and Old Ninth’s followers blocking the way.
• Bone fired an RPG at Red Hair’s group, then Xiao Feng called hidden Black Mud Mountain bandits into the fight.
• Xiao Fei’s men overwhelmed Red Hair’s crew, while Bone and the others badly wounded Red Hair.
• A squad leader stopped the young men from killing Red Hair and demanded to know where the goods were.
• Red Hair revealed that the goods were in the vehicle.

Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and Xiao Fei ambushed a Three Suns Society convoy carrying gold and trafficked children. Xiao Fei fought the lead Awakened while Little White Tiger and Old Ninth pursued two fleeing enemies with the gold.

• Little White Tiger demanded the Three Suns Society Awakened surrender their cargo, gold, and lives, and Old Ninth attacked their claim to authority over the road.
• Brother Lu and two companions attacked Xiao Fei, but Xiao Fei turned to smoke, poisoned them, and killed one while Little White Tiger and Old Ninth pursued the others.
• The two fleeing Awakened carried cases of gold, and Old Ninth hurled Little White Tiger at them as they tried to escape.
• A Three Suns Society summoner called a Flash Shadow Wolf, but Little White Tiger summoned the Silver-Patterned Tiger to fight it.
• A second Awakened sent a wave of fire at Little White Tiger, but Old Ninth grabbed him and slammed him into the ground.

Old Ninth and Little White Tiger fought the Three Suns Society Awakened and revealed powerful abilities, but Old Fifth’s self-destruction pushed Old Ninth into a second awakening that summoned heavenly lightning. As the lightning descended, Little White Tiger rushed to stand with his brother, and the two faced it together.

• Old Ninth absorbed Old Fifth’s flames and defeated him, while the Silver-Patterned Tiger took over Little White Tiger and revealed his physical defenses and space-cutting claws.
• Old Fifth burned his life force to overload Old Ninth with elemental energy, and Old Ninth endured as his scales cracked and blood seeped from his body.
• Old Fifth self-destructed, and Old Ninth’s second awakening triggered a heavenly phenomenon as a flood-dragon form rose into the sky.
• The flood dragon fell before enduring the lightning, and the Silver-Patterned Tiger warned that Old Ninth would die if the next bolt struck him.
• Little White Tiger lunged beside Old Ninth, and the brothers stood together with their middle fingers raised as the heavenly lightning descended.

Little White Tiger and Old Ninth’s brothers fought the heavenly lightning with their beasts and the Bloodweeping Bow, then everyone lost consciousness. In Ice Prefecture City, Flower Boss learned that his son had been abducted and the cargo stolen, and he planned to trade Old Ding’s arrest for his son’s release.

• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth forced the Silver-Patterned Tiger and the flood dragon out of their bodies to shield their brothers from the heavenly lightning.
• Old Ninth picked up the Bloodweeping Bow, and the brothers drew it together and fired a blood arrow at the lightning.
• The arrow collided with the heavenly lightning, causing an immense shock wave that knocked everyone unconscious.
• The butler told Flower Boss that the cargo had been stolen, the Three Suns Society’s men were dead, and You Gui had been abducted.
• Flower Boss learned that Old Ding had handled the deal and decided to offer him to Smoke Fiend in exchange for You Gui’s release.
• Flower Boss instructed the butler to send his Awakened brother-in-law to Old Ding’s place to learn the business.