Chapter Summaries

The Old Man learned that Chang He had poisoned Chun Prefecture’s people and nearly killed Little Third, while Chief Zhu tried to persuade him to protect the Chang Family. Meanwhile, Yixiu and Big Bear were diverted to Shen Prefecture and came under attack from the Fox Group, leaving Yixiu to challenge them over the walkie-talkie.

• Chief Zhu told the Old Man that Chang He had poisoned Chun Prefecture’s people and nearly killed Little Third.
• Chief Zhu argued that Chang Fengnian’s investment and plans to transfer assets showed the Chang Family wanted to work with the Guan Family.
• Yixiu and Big Bear heard that their plane would make an emergency landing in Shen Prefecture, and Xiao Ben reacted with a strange smile.
• Yixiu and Big Bear left the airport with Xiao Ben and spotted signs that spies were watching them.
• The Fox Group followed Yixiu and Big Bear, but a Giant Bear destroyed their lead car and Yixiu taunted the attackers over the walkie-talkie.

Xiao Yuan stopped Old Ninth and Little White Tiger from killing Chang He, accepting a costly settlement to preserve the Old Man’s plans. After learning that Yixiu was trapped in Shen Prefecture and targeted by the Snake Group, Little White Tiger sought help from Brother Yan to rescue him.

• Old Ninth and the Lei Zis attacked the Chang family at Chun Prefecture Airport, but Zhu Le'er stepped in and persuaded them to hear the Chang family’s offer.
• Old Guan told Xiao Yuan to pull back, and Old Man Chang offered two and a half billion while agreeing that Chang Jiang would oversee the investment in Chun Prefecture.
• Xiao Yuan let the Chang family leave but ordered Chang Jiang to remain until the investment arrived, and Old Ninth departed after warning Zhu Le'er he was compromising only for her and Old Guan.
• Zhu Le'er received a message that Yixiu was trapped in Shen Prefecture, then accused Chang He of colluding with Kou Island; the Chang family fled as Old Ninth and Little White Tiger learned Yixiu was in danger.
• Little White Tiger chose to prioritize rescuing Yixiu, and he contacted Brother Yan, who agreed to fly over if his airfare was covered.

Yixiu and Big Bear waited in a dark hotel room while Sakata’s Snake Group tried to force them into the open. Sakata used a group of schoolchildren to draw Yixiu out, and after the assassins attacked, Big Bear found the children surrounded by more Snake Group members.

• Sakata ordered the Snake Group to keep the hotel under watch rather than rush the fifth floor, which he believed was the battlefield chosen by Shadow Ghost.
• Yixiu and Big Bear slept fully dressed, and Big Bear looked at a photograph of the little girl he had not visited at the Orphanage for three months.
• At dawn, Sakata shot out a streetlight near a group of children and threatened to target a girl in a rabbit hat, prompting Yixiu to fire from the hotel.
• Sakata sent five Awakened toward the children, and Yixiu killed several while Big Bear descended and snapped the last attacker’s neck.
• Big Bear spoke gently with the children, then tried to escort them away, but ten Snake Group members blocked each end of the street.

Big Bear and Yixiu fought the Snake Group while protecting a group of children, and both were mortally wounded. Big Bear carried the children to safety and died beneath the morning sun.

• Big Bear distracted the children with a game, then fought the approaching Snake Group while Yixiu supported him with gunfire.
• Big Bear and Yixiu killed several attackers, but Snake Group members appeared behind the children and attacked them.
• Yixiu sacrificed his left hand to survive a Kunai attack and helped Big Bear kill Sakata through coordinated gunfire and force.
• The Snake Group's deputy leader sent the remaining attackers after the children, and Yixiu stayed behind while Big Bear carried them away.
• Big Bear collapsed after taking the children to safety, shared candy with them, and died as dawn broke.

Yixiu fought the Snake Group until a blast destroyed the hotel and prevented them from taking Xiao Ben, then prepared to die before Black Maitreya intervened. Black Maitreya condemned the Ma Family for standing aside and issued it a Sin-Questioning Card as Ma Ran watched.

• Ma Ran ordered his Awakened to seal off the street and keep watch, while Yixiu continued fighting the Snake Group alone.
• The deputy leader wounded Yixiu and declared victory, but Yixiu laughed after an explosion destroyed the hotel and killed the Awakened searching for Xiao Ben.
• As Yixiu tried to shoot himself, a sniper shot his revolver from his hand, and twelve black-cloaked figures wearing Maitreya Masks appeared on a rooftop.
• A burly member of Black Maitreya gave the Ma Family a Sin-Questioning Card, declaring that it would claim nine lives because the family had stood by while their countrymen were attacked.
• The burly man carried Big Bear's body back toward the rooftop, while Ma Ran stared at the card and his butler urged him to withdraw.

Black Maitreya arrived in Shen Prefecture, where Wu Yan used the Ninefold Karmic Fire to execute the Snake Group. As Old Ninth took the wounded Yixiu and Big Bear’s body outside the city, Black Maitreya attacked the Ma Family’s ancestral residence, leaving Old Ninth caught between the two sides.

• Wu Yan and Black Maitreya arrived to rescue Yixiu, and Wu Yan executed the Snake Group with Ninefold Karmic Fire.
• Black Maitreya brought the barely breathing Yixiu and Big Bear’s corpse to Old Ninth outside the city gates.
• A Black Maitreya member announced that the Ma Family still had to pay for its crimes, and Old Ninth slapped the Ma Family’s chief steward when he confronted him.
• An explosion struck the Ma Family’s old residence, and a messenger reported that Black Maitreya was nearing the ancestral hall.
• The Black Maitreya member flew back into the city to attack, while Old Ninth restrained the chief steward and offered to cover the Ma Family’s funeral expenses.

Instructor forced Old Ma to let Black Maitreya leave safely after Big Bear was killed in Shen Prefecture, while the Ma Family avoided a wider conflict. Three days later, Yixiu woke from his critical condition and asked where Big Bear was.

• Instructor confronted Old Ma at the Ma Family residence and revealed that Shadow Ghost's Big Bear had been killed in Shen Prefecture.
• Old Ma realized Ma Qingshan and Ma Fangshan had concealed the crisis to target Shadow Ghost, then learned Black Maitreya was attacking the Ma ancestral estate.
• Instructor stopped Old Ma from calling the Ancestral Shrine and threatened a conflict with Chun Prefecture if Black Maitreya were harmed.
• After learning Old Ninth was outside the city, Old Ma agreed not to pursue Black Maitreya, and Instructor left.
• Three days later, Yixiu was moved out of the ICU and woke after receiving treatment and medicinal supplies from his friends.
• Yixiu asked where Big Bear was, and everyone fell silent.

Yixiu received an honorable discharge from Shadow Ghost and was urged to begin a new life with Huang Yiyi in Chun Prefecture. As his former comrades said farewell, the Chun Prefecture group gave him a gold badge and made him their head instructor, while Old Ninth and Little White Tiger vowed to pursue Big Bear’s killers.

• Huang Yiyi told Yixiu she still wanted to marry him and would be his left hand.
• Instructor read Commander Guan’s order stripping Yixiu of his Shadow Ghost membership and directed him to retire in Chun Prefecture.
• Instructor and the Shadow Ghost members saluted Yixiu and urged him to live on, keep their secrets, and start a new life.
• Little White Tiger pinned a gold badge on Yixiu and appointed him Chun Prefecture’s head instructor.
• After the group left the hospital room, Old Ninth said they would not let Big Bear’s death go unanswered, and Little White Tiger planned to lead a team to the capital after the funeral.

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.