Chapter Summaries

The Alliance delegation came to Fei Island to retrieve Gold and deny responsibility for his actions, but Old Man rejected their claims and forced them to negotiate under threat. After setting harsh demands, Old Man learned that Little White Tiger had landed at Sunshine Beach and ordered him to act ruthlessly.

• Colonel Smith arrived on Fei Island and told Old Man that Gold had acted alone, then demanded Gold’s return to the Alliance.
• Xiao Yuan killed Gold with her high heel, and Old Man ordered the delegation detained and made to kneel in the snow.
• Old Man forced Smith to agree that the Alliance Corps would stay away from Sunshine Beach and demanded one hundred heads and compensation for the downed planes.
• Smith objected to the demands, but Old Man told him to seek approval and keep kneeling if it was refused.
• Old Man learned that Little White Tiger had landed at Sunshine Beach and told him to be ruthless while Old Man kept the Alliance occupied.

Old Ninth and Little White Tiger entered Sunshine Beach to target the Inverted Cross and recruited a local cowboy as their guide. After seeing how the Inverted Cross oppressed the city’s residents, they planned to arm the resistance groups and build support for an attack.

• Old Ninth and his companions entered Sunshine Beach disguised as Dragon Kingdom merchants and noticed a cowboy following them.
• The cowboy and a group of teenagers tried to rob them, but Old Ninth’s crew revealed their weapons and forced the robbers to surrender.
• The cowboy claimed he had robbed them because the Inverted Cross had left the city’s poor with few ways to survive, and Little White Tiger recruited him as a guide.
• Old Ninth’s crew gave weapons to the teenagers, hoping to weaken the Inverted Cross’s control over the city.
• The cowboy led them through an abandoned sewer filled with people driven underground by the Inverted Cross’s taxes.
• Little White Tiger asked the cowboy to contact the resistance groups, and Old Ninth offered to supply them with unlimited weapons.

Old Ninth terrorized Chang He’s Inverted Cross headquarters by sending Fina’s corpse in a bomb-rigged crate, while Little White Tiger planned to dismantle Inverted Cross’s leaders one by one. The chapter ended with Tete offering to help Little White Tiger hunt Madman and Old Ninth appearing as Little White Tiger mentioned his own madman of a brother.

• Kuer’s men brought a crate containing Fina’s corpse into Inverted Cross headquarters, and it exploded after Kuer recognized the ticking sound.
• Chang He panicked and ordered his men to find Old Ninth, while Kuer called the attack psychological warfare.
• Outside the base, Old Ninth told Hi Dog he wanted to break Inverted Cross little by little instead of attacking directly.
• Cowboy explained Inverted Cross’s strength and its seven detachments to Little White Tiger, who decided to take their leaders down one by one.
• Tete volunteered to help Little White Tiger kill Madman, who had eaten Tete’s little sister.
• Little White Tiger mentioned having a madman for a brother, and Old Ninth walked over asking who had called him.

Old Ninth watched Madman’s mercenaries attack the Resistance Organization, then intervened after Tete begged him to save the survivors. He killed the Awakened fighter with a glance and vanished into Madman’s building to confront him.

• Madman’s mercenaries returned from hunting with captured women and children, prompting the Resistance Organization to attack them.
• The mercenaries’ Awakened fighter broke through the Resistance Organization’s line and killed many of its members while Old Ninth watched.
• As the remaining fighters pleaded with Tete and his companions to escape, Tete begged Old Ninth to help them.
• Old Ninth accepted a dying fighter’s copper coins as payment and killed the Awakened man by making him snap his own neck.
• Old Ninth vanished with Tete and entered Madman’s building as Madman watched from the rooftop.

Old Ninth confronted Madman on the rooftop and discovered he could absorb the darkness energy behind Madman’s attacks. After summoning Black Old Ninth, he proposed capturing Madman so they could exploit the Demon God within him.

• Old Ninth led Tete to the rooftop and challenged Madman, who asked who had sent him.
• Old Ninth slapped Madman across the rooftop, then repeatedly asked him to strike his left cheek so his injuries would be symmetrical.
• Madman summoned a Demon God and used darkness-powered attacks, but Old Ninth absorbed the energy and healed.
• Old Ninth jumped headfirst into the ground to summon Black Old Ninth, who appeared furious at being called through self-injury.
• Old Ninth suggested taking Madman back to Chun Prefecture to absorb his darkness energy, while Black Old Ninth said he wanted to eat the Demon God.

Old Ninth defeated Madman despite the Demon God's intervention, while Black Old Ninth revealed himself as a Wraith Fiend and restrained the Demon God. Old Ninth brought the crippled Madman back as a doll, but Tiger threw him away, leaving Old Ninth furious and bereft of his darkness power.

• Madman attacked Old Ninth with corrosive Demon Liquid and a Darkness Scythe, but Old Ninth absorbed both and devoured the scythe.
• The Demon God summoned a massive void sphere, and Black Old Ninth took control of the Demon Dragon, revealed himself as a Wraith Fiend, and restrained the Demon God.
• Old Ninth and Madman fought without their inner powers, and Old Ninth used the Chainsaw to take Madman's leg and defeat him.
• The civilians emerged from hiding as Madman begged for mercy, and Old Ninth sawed him into a doll and dragged him away.
• The next morning, Old Ninth discovered Tiger had thrown Madman away and angrily complained that his doll and darkness power were gone.

Kuer and Feis confronted Little White Tiger among the ruins after Madman was mutilated, while Feis deduced that Old Ninth might be targeting the Inverted Cross’s base. Feis let Little White Tiger leave and called for someone to make their move.

• Kuer learned that Old Ninth had mutilated Madman and killed civilians who reported what happened.
• Feis identified Old Ninth as Fina’s killer and argued that the Inverted Cross should avoid searching blindly for him.
• Feis revealed Little White Tiger’s hiding place by firing his golden sword through the ruins, and Little White Tiger offered to return Madman alive.
• Little White Tiger fought Tank, Thousand-Man Slayer, Butcher, and Grizzly Bear, then demonstrated that he could wield the Sun God’s power.
• Feis guessed that Old Ninth had gone to the Inverted Cross’s base, so Kuer raced there to protect Chang He.
• Feis stopped his men from pursuing Little White Tiger and called someone to make their move after Little White Tiger departed.

Little White Tiger reunited with Old Ninth and warned him that Feis was plotting something. The brothers met Kim Hye-ji’s Resistance Organization, but after she proposed an alliance and threatened them, Little White Tiger remained skeptical; Kim Hye-ji later reported that they had taken the bait.

• Little White Tiger returned to the sewer with news that Feis seemed to be plotting, and Cowboy explained Feis’s noble background and scandalous past.
• Tete thanked Old Ninth for avenging him and offered to help, while Cowboy introduced Broken Home, a large Resistance Organization seeking an alliance.
• Kim Hye-ji asked Little White Tiger’s group for weapons and manpower to raid the Inverted Cross while Kuer attended a meeting in five days.
• After Kim Hye-ji’s companion threatened them with a display of swordsmanship, Old Ninth knocked him down with a brick, and Little White Tiger refused to commit to cooperation.
• Kim Hye-ji left the sewer and texted someone that the fish had taken the bait.

Feis pressured Kim Hye-ji into luring Little White Tiger and staged an attack on himself to bolster the resistance. At a meeting of island resistance leaders, Hi Dog's group confronted them, and Xiao Yuan agreed to Kim Hye-ji's plan for a coordinated assault on Kuer's forces.

• Feis told Kim Hye-ji to bring Little White Tiger into an alliance and promised to reunite her with her daughter if she helped.
• Three days later, news spread that a resistance group had severely injured Feis in an attack, inspiring the island's resistance.
• Kim Hye-ji convened the resistance leaders, but Little White Tiger and Old Ninth sent Hi Dog, Earthworm, Bone, Xiao Feng, and Tete in their place.
• Hi Dog attacked a resistance leader who mocked Old Ninth, while Earthworm restrained Kim Hye-ji.
• Kim Hye-ji proposed simultaneous attacks on Kuer's four remaining sixth-awakening captains and the base, and Xiao Yuan agreed to cooperate.

Kim Hye-ji proposed a plan to defeat the Inverted Cross at Sunshine Beach, but Xiao Yuan learned the Spirit-Devouring Net was ineffective and suspected a trap targeting Little White Tiger. She summoned Hungry Ghost, Chun Prefecture’s hidden trump card, and sent him to protect his brother.

• Kim Hye-ji told Hi Dog and the Resistance Organization that the Spirit-Devouring Net would disable special abilities and asked them to infiltrate the Inverted Cross base while her suicide squad distracted its captains.
• The Resistance leaders pledged their forces and lives to save Sunshine Beach, and Xiao Yuan promised them three tonnes of weapons within two days.
• Xiao Yuan asked Old Man Guan about the Spirit-Devouring Net and learned it was impractical and could not stop Awakened fighters from defeating ordinary people.
• Xiao Yuan concluded that Kim Hye-ji was setting a trap for Little White Tiger and decided to send Chun Prefecture’s trump card to protect him.
• Xiao Yuan awakened Hungry Ghost by telling him his brother was in danger, then ordered him to kill everyone at Sunshine Beach except people he recognized.

Old Ninth infiltrated the Inverted Cross Base while the Resistance Organization prepared to storm it, unaware that Kim Hye-ji’s deputy had betrayed them. As both sides entered the battle, Feis hurried off to confront Old Ninth, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Feis promised Selina he would stop killing after settling his debt to Kuer, then left their home; Old Ninth appeared there and introduced himself to Selina as a robber.
• Kim Hye-ji’s deputy told Hi Dog’s group to disable the Spirit-Devouring Net and charge the base, while privately warning the deputy to stay safe and escape.
• Old Ninth walked openly past the base’s sentries, and five minutes later the base’s lights went out as a blue energy net spread overhead.
• The deputy urged the Resistance fighters to charge, while he secretly slowed down; Hi Dog and the fighters surged toward the base.
• Chang He and Kuer prepared an ambush and ordered their forces to lure the Resistance Army inside, planning to kill Old Ninth and Little White Tiger.
• As the battle began, Feis insisted on taking Old Ninth himself and hurried away with his scepter.

Kuer’s forces massacred the Resistance Organization after Kim Hye-ji betrayed them, but Old Ninth’s group secretly rescued Chang He with Feis’s help. As Kuer prepared to pursue them, Old Ninth’s powerful allies arrived by ship, and he challenged Kuer to a head-on fight.

• Kuer ambushed the Resistance Organization and ordered his mercenaries to slaughter its members.
• Kim Hye-ji arrived and admitted she had betrayed the Resistance to protect her daughter, then learned Hi Dog had used her operation to help Old Ninth take Chang He.
• Kuer discovered that Old Ninth, Little White Tiger, Feis, and Chang He had escaped by boat, and he ordered his men to pursue them.
• Feis confronted Old Ninth about his plans, while Old Ninth demanded a ransom before agreeing to discuss Feis’s wife, Selina.
• A large ship arrived carrying Old Ninth’s allies, including Xiao Yuan, who pledged their support against Inverted Cross.
• Old Ninth called Kuer and declared that his thirty people would face Kuer’s seven thousand when the boat docked.

A Dragon Kingdom squad arrived by fishing boat and overwhelmed the Inverted Cross’s defenses, leaving Tank unable to stop them from advancing toward headquarters. Wu Yan stayed behind to confront the mercenaries, invoking Dragon Kingdom law and preparing to execute them.

• Tank ordered his artillery to fire on the fishing boat, but Earthworm destroyed the shells with Burst-Meteor Shower.
• Thirteen swung his Guan Dao and raised a tsunami that carried the fishing boat onto the beach, forcing Tank’s mercenaries to retreat.
• Tank told Kuer that he could not hold off the Dragon Kingdom group, which then continued toward the Inverted Cross headquarters.
• Tank ordered his Vanguard Corps to charge, but Wu Yan cut more than twenty mercenaries in half from a distance with a knife-hand strike.
• Wu Yan took out the Demon Codex, rose into the air, and declared that he sentenced the mercenaries to death under Dragon Kingdom law.

Kuer learned that Old Ninth had brought Black Maitreya and several powerful Dragon Kingdom figures to challenge Inverted Cross. Little White Tiger and his allies faced Inverted Cross’s forces at the outpost, ready to fight.

• Black Maitreya’s eight masked men routed Inverted Cross’s vanguard, and Kuer ordered Tank to stall them while he targeted Little White Tiger.
• The intelligence analysts identified Ji Min, Thirteen, and Hei Ba among Little White Tiger’s allies and revealed their formidable connections and reputations.
• Kuer ordered Kim Hye-ji to hold off Little White Tiger’s group as they reached the outpost.
• Little White Tiger and his allies lit cigarettes and challenged Inverted Cross’s thousand-man force, while Old Ninth called Kuer out and Little White Tiger dared the soldiers to attack together.

Little White Tiger and the Lei Zi attacked the Inverted Cross base, where Kuer rallied six thousand Mercenaries against them. After Hungry Ghost tore through the ranks, Kuer used his ability to draw on his warriors’ strength and reached pseudo-eight awakenings, leaving the Lei Zi preparing to fight him together.

• Thirteen killed Squad Leader Guman with a thrown Guan Dao and demanded the Mercenaries retrieve his weapon.
• Kuer arrived with six thousand Inverted Cross Mercenaries and challenged Little White Tiger’s group to battle.
• Hi Dog and the others threw a chained coffin into the charging formations, releasing Hungry Ghost, which grew by devouring Mercenaries.
• Kim Hye-ji urged Kuer to kill Little White Tiger, and Kuer used Warrior’s Soul to inspire his troops and draw on their strength.
• Feis warned that Kuer’s apparent eight awakenings came from his connection to the Inverted Cross, and Thirteen and Hei Ba charged him with the others.

Kuer overwhelmed Little White Tiger and the others with his Eight Awakenings power, forcing them to fight for their lives. Sword Crane arrived to protect them, while Little Explosion’s master, two powerful figures, and Old Man mobilized toward Sunshine Beach, leaving Kuer facing a growing counterattack.

• Kuer used his Warrior’s Soul abilities to overpower Thirteen, Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, Hi Dog, and Earthworm, badly wounding several of them.
• Thirteen halted Kuer’s attack long enough for Xiao Yuan and Ji Min to rescue Little White Tiger, and Feis revealed that Kuer had to stay near his soldiers to absorb their power.
• Kuer attacked Feis, then pursued the retreating group; Little White Tiger turned back to protect the injured Hi Dog and Earthworm from Kuer’s deadly strike.
• Earthworm’s plea awakened Sword Crane’s divine soul, and she shattered Kuer’s cross-shaped sword and tore through his golden armor.
• Sword Crane ordered Little White Tiger to take Little Explosion away, while his master left secluded cultivation to come to his aid.
• Two powerful figures crossed the sea toward Sunshine Beach, and Old Man ordered fighter aircraft into the air and threatened the Alliance with war if Little Explosion died.

Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and their allies refused to retreat and launched a desperate assault on Kuer as Sword Crane’s Divine Soul began to fade. Xiao Yuan awakened her Phoenix ability and urged Hungry Ghost to unleash Devouring the Heavens, which began swallowing the battlefield and threatened to cut off Kuer’s power source.

• Xiao Yuan tried to persuade Little White Tiger and Old Ninth to retreat, but the brothers and their allies chose to fight alongside them.
• Old Ninth embraced his growing Darkness Element, while Little White Tiger, Thirteen, Hei Ba, and Ji Min prepared to attack Kuer; Xiao Yuan revealed her Phoenix ability and joined them.
• Ji Min used the Ji Family forbidden technique, sacrificing his life force to seal Kuer and buy the others three minutes.
• Xiao Yuan ordered Hungry Ghost to kill the enemy forces, and he unleashed Devouring the Heavens, swallowing the battlefield’s matter, elements, Qi, and Special Abilities.
• Kuer realized Xiao Yuan meant to destroy the six thousand fighters supplying his power, potentially crippling his Special Ability.

Hungry Ghost devoured Kuer’s mercenaries and drained his strength, while Ji Min sealed Kuer’s strongest strike before collapsing. After Kuer was subdued, an Alliance scholar arrived demanding Chang He, and Xiao Yuan threatened to unleash Chun Prefecture’s Lei Zi if he attacked.

• Hungry Ghost consumed more than half of Kuer’s six thousand mercenaries and drained their Qi as Kuer tried to stop him.
• Ji Min sealed Kuer’s sword strike, then collapsed as Old Ninth, Little White Tiger, Thirteen, and Hei Ba restrained Kuer.
• Xiao Yuan and the Bone brothers stopped Thousand-Man Slayer and the other attackers, while Old Ninth and Hei Ba incapacitated Kuer.
• The Alliance scholar arrived with hundreds of soldiers, declared Kuer’s group a terrorist organization, and demanded that Mr. Bai hand over Chang He.
• Xiao Yuan and Old Ninth refused to surrender Chang He, and Xiao Yuan warned the scholar that Chun Prefecture’s Lei Zi would pursue him if he attacked.

Little White Tiger’s group confronted Pudis and the Alliance soldiers over Chang He, but Kuer was fatally stabbed by Old Ninth before the battle escalated. Kuer’s last words secured the survivors’ escape and ended his feud with Little White Tiger; as the remaining allies prepared to face Pudis’s forces, Xiao Yuan summoned a fire phoenix.

• The scholar Pudis failed to persuade Little White Tiger’s group to spare Chang He and ordered the Alliance soldiers to attack.
• Feis joined Little White Tiger’s side to protect his wife, Selina, and Kuer agreed to fight alongside Old Ninth against Pudis.
• Old Ninth stabbed Kuer, who urged Grizzly Bear and Butcher to leave, warned them against revenge, and asked Little White Tiger to spare Feis’s family.
• Kuer died, and Old Ninth allowed Grizzly Bear and Butcher to leave with their commander’s body; Feis and Grizzly Bear exchanged wishes to stay alive.
• Old Ninth, Little White Tiger, Thirteen, and Hei Ba stood against Pudis’s soldiers, and Xiao Yuan unleashed a fire phoenix.

Pudis nullified the Special Abilities of Old Ninth’s allies and trapped them behind his shield formation, where Bone, Xiao Feng, Er Maozi, and the other brothers fought to protect Old Ninth and Little White Tiger. Er Maozi and several brothers sacrificed themselves in defiance, leaving the surviving brothers attacking Pudis as Old Ninth stood frozen.

• Pudis revealed that his Special Ability erased the Special Abilities of nearby Awakened, then sent his soldiers forward in a shield formation.
• Bone, Xiao Feng, and the brothers charged the formation but were overwhelmed by its coordinated shields and spears.
• Pudis stabbed Bone and threatened the group, prompting Er Maozi to rush him despite being pierced by spears.
• Er Maozi detonated the bomb at his waist while embracing Pudis, sacrificing himself to protect Old Ninth and Little White Tiger.
• Other brothers pulled their fuses and fought to keep the soldiers away from Old Ninth and Little White Tiger.
• Bone led the surviving brothers in a desperate attack on Pudis as Old Ninth froze amid the carnage.