Chapter Summaries

Commander Sun ordered the Fourth War Zone to stay put while Zhou Zheng’s troops and the Lei Zis fought their way out of the Imperial Palace. Commander Sun arrived as the violence halted, and Little White Tiger’s Lei Zis bowed in honor of the wronged souls of Nanjing City.

• At Guan Residence, the Old Man concealed the loss of contact with the Fourth War Zone and Seventh Fleet, ordered the General Staff Department to make no moves, and called in the Guard Regiment.
• Zhou Zheng’s armored division escorted the wounded Lei Zis out of the Imperial Palace, threatening the Emperor and Amaterasu with overwhelming firepower.
• Amaterasu attacked Zhou Zheng, but Little White Tiger and the sworn sons of Overlord Stronghold intervened, and Old Ninth killed two Amaterasu Sect priests.
• After the Kou Islanders attacked, Zhou Zheng ordered his troops to open fire, killing over a thousand people and leaving the Emperor helpless.
• Commander Sun arrived with the White Garment Guard Squad and ordered everyone to stop; Little White Tiger then led the seven hundred Lei Zis in a bow for Nanjing City’s three hundred thousand wronged souls.

Commander Sun prepared to raise the Dragon Flag over Kou Island’s imperial palace, turning the ceremony into a public declaration that the Dragon Kingdom had overcome its past humiliation. As dignitaries from across the kingdom arrived, Dragon Flags covered the capital, and the chapter ended with the proclamation that the world belonged to the Red Flag.

• Commander Sun announced that he would raise a flag over Kou Island’s imperial palace and ordered a ceremony to begin in three hours.
• Commander Sun asked the Emperor for the heads of three thousand enemies, and Little White Tiger ordered Overlord Stronghold to carry out the request as the Emperor and his dignitaries fled.
• Commander Sun ordered Zhou Zheng to broadcast the ceremony nationwide and said he would return to the Capital afterward to accept punishment for the Fourth War Zone’s unreported deployment.
• Commander Sun destroyed the Kou Island flag and the palace walls, then prepared the Dragon Kingdom’s honor guard to raise its flag before a nationwide audience.
• Sikong Jian and delegations from across the Dragon Kingdom arrived by plane, while Wang Shengnan ordered Dragon Flags released over Kou Island.
• Dragon Flags descended across Kou Island’s capital as Commander Sun wept, and the chapter ended with the declaration that the world belonged to the Red Flag.

At Kou Island, Commander Sun and the assembled forces consecrated the flag by executing three thousand Kou Island prisoners and raising the Dragon Kingdom’s battle-scarred banner. The ceremony ended with the people of Nanjing celebrating and rushing to the Martyrs’ Cemetery.

• Guan Ming and Yan Qinghua refused to arrest Commander Sun, and Yan paid tribute to the Fourth War Zone on behalf of Nanjing’s three hundred thousand departed souls.
• Wang Shengnan and the gathered warriors stepped forward as executioners, and Little White Tiger began the ceremony by beheading a prisoner.
• The Lei Zis and the Dragon Kingdom’s assembled forces executed three thousand prisoners, then Fang Mu called for the descendants to stand strong.
• Commander Sun ordered the battle-scarred flag raised, and the soldiers and assembled heroes saluted as Little White Tiger saw the spirits of fallen soldiers.
• People across Nanjing celebrated the news of revenge and rushed toward the city’s Martyrs’ Cemetery.

Old Sun prepared to defend Capital City against Kou Island’s advancing forces, while the Qin Family and other allies joined the fight. Qin Feng’s warriors ambushed one enemy column, and a Broadsword Team leader confronted another force near the capital.

• Old Sun refused to leave Kou Island and ordered Zhou Zheng to hold Capital City as he prepared to fight the island’s troops.
• Purple Gold, the Pao Ge Society, the Qin Family, the Wolf Soldiers, and Little White Tiger pledged to fight alongside Old Sun.
• Qin Feng and several hundred Qin People blocked Sakata’s advance force on a mountain trail and charged into battle.
• A Broadsword Team leader confronted the Empire Eighth Corps near Capital City and challenged its commander with his red-scarfed blade.

Commander Sun prepared to defend the imperial palace as forces from across the Dragon Kingdom answered the call, while the Wolf Soldiers and Long Saber Team fought Kou Island’s advancing armies. The exhausted Long Saber Team faced a final assault until reinforcements from Wan Prefecture arrived and joined their charge.

• Commander Sun ordered the Ninth Division to be allowed through so he could crush it head-on, while leaders trusted other forces to stop the Sakata and Sakishima Divisions.
• Xiang Lintian brought men from E Prefecture to the imperial palace and offered to reinforce the most dangerous front.
• Wolf Soldiers ambushed the Imperial Guard Division’s advance force, leaving three hundred men to fight it while the rest attacked its main force.
• The Long Saber Team held off the ten-thousand-strong Sakishima Division for eight hours, but fewer than two hundred exhausted fighters remained.
• As the Sakishima Division launched its final assault, a bugle sounded and Wan Prefecture’s men arrived to fight alongside the Long Saber Team.
• The Long Saber Team raised its broadswords and charged with the reinforcements against the Kou Island soldiers.

Qin Feng’s forces fought off Sakata’s troops until Seimei intervened, but Wang Shengnan’s arrival ended the clash without a battle. Seimei then went to the Imperial Palace to kill Commander Sun and found the hall packed with powerful Dragon Kingdom leaders.

• Qin Feng’s two hundred remaining swordsmen held off Sakata’s force, but Seimei arrived and restrained Qin Feng while his disciple’s Shikigami attacked.
• Wang Shengnan froze Kou Island’s soldiers with her Special Ability and confronted Seimei, who chose to withdraw rather than risk a fight with Purple Gold.
• Seimei told Sakata that he would kill Sun after daybreak and that Sakata could return to resolve Capital City’s crisis.
• At dawn, Seimei entered the Imperial Palace and immobilized its guards as he announced his visit to the Dragon Kingdom’s commander.
• Seimei found Commander Sun surrounded by powerful family and faction leaders, and he claimed he had only stopped by to say hello.

Commander Sun demanded that Kou Island hand over the Ninth Division, while Seimei and the Emperor considered his terms. Li Youxian arrived and asked Commander Sun to delay the campaign for ten days.

• Xiao Gang struck Seimei with a chair, and the gathered Dragon Kingdom leaders intimidated Seimei when he threatened to fight.
• Seimei urged Commander Sun to end hostilities, but Commander Sun demanded the Ninth Division, whose soldiers had taken part in atrocities in Nan J.
• Commander Sun gave Seimei one hour to consider the demand and admitted that political opposition had limited his campaign.
• Li Youxian arrived, greeted Commander Sun, and asked him to delay the campaign for ten days.

Li Youxian proposed destabilizing Kou Island by falsely announcing the Emperor’s death, backing his imprisoned brother as a rival ruler, and keeping the island occupied with internal conflict for ten years. He assigned Xiao Gang and the others to make Seimei witness the Emperor’s apparent death, but their provocation ended in a gunshot and a dagger in the Emperor’s chest.

• Li Youxian suggested exploiting the Emperor’s death and his imprisoned brother’s claim to plunge Kou Island into a succession struggle, and Commander Sun agreed the plan could buy Mianbang ten years.
• Li Youxian assigned Xiao Gang and the other boys to kill the Emperor in front of Seimei, while Xiao Gang realized the task was payback for insulting Li Youxian.
• Seimei and the Emperor offered to disband the Ninth Division and build a memorial temple, but the boys failed to provoke Seimei into attacking.
• Xiao Gang spat into the Emperor’s tea and then flicked his crotch, prompting the Emperor to slap him and accuse him of insulting the monarch.
• Xiao Gang and the others attacked the Emperor while Old Ninth and Little White Tiger took Seimei away, and a gunshot rang out as the Emperor lay on the floor with a dagger in his chest.

Li Youxian’s plan helped put Huairen on Kou Island’s throne, while Commander Sun and the assembled leaders prepared to attack the Ninth Division. Xiang Lintian’s small guerrilla unit spotted the Ninth Division retreating and warned Commander Sun, but Xiang feared the enemy would escape through Flying Dog Gorge before the main force arrived.

• Li Youxian explained that he had sent Huairen five million in Mianbang’s name and a video of Qingren’s resuscitation, prompting Huairen to seize the throne before Qingren’s survival became known.
• Commander Sun gathered the leaders and ordered them to pursue the Ninth Division, while Minister Yan and Guan Ming tried to block their way; Old Ninth knocked Minister Yan down, and Guan Ming let the group pass.
• Guan Ming warned Commander Sun that the Ninth Division had already begun withdrawing, and Commander Sun led the force out to pursue them.
• Xiang Lintian and his guerrillas found a Kou Island outpost preparing to retreat, so Xiang called Commander Sun, who told them to stay hidden and wait for the main force.
• Xiang Lintian worried that the Ninth Division would escape through Flying Dog Gorge before the main force arrived, while his companions reminded him that their unit numbered only twenty.

Xiang Lintian sacrificed himself to block the Ninth Division’s retreat through Flying Dog Gorge, killing many soldiers and badly burning Mitsui. After the passage was cleared, descendants of the E Prefecture Guerrilla Force launched another attack and sacrificed themselves to block the convoy again.

• Xiang Lintian chose to stay behind and destroy Flying Dog Gorge rather than retreat with his companions.
• Xiang Lintian fought the Ninth Division alone, but Mitsui wounded him and prepared to kill him.
• Xiang Lintian used his final ability, A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire, setting the passage ablaze, burning Mitsui, and blocking the division’s retreat with exploding vehicles.
• After the passage was cleared three hours later, a group of E Prefecture guerrillas attacked from above the gorge and detonated explosives as they leapt into the convoy.
• Lao Kui, Ma San'er, Li Xiaoqi, and the remaining guerrillas sacrificed themselves, setting off more explosions and blocking the passage again.

Old Ninth arrived at Flying Dog Gorge after the Guerrilla Force trapped the Ninth Division, and he began hunting the Kou Island soldiers responsible for Xiang Lintian’s death. He cornered Mitsui and his deputy in their tent and demanded that Xiang Lintian’s killer identify himself.

• Mitsui struggled to clear the collapsed passage and move the Ninth Division’s ordinary soldiers through the snow.
• Old Ninth appeared beside Xiang Lintian’s charred corpse, lit three cigarettes with a burning soldier’s arm, and vowed to take revenge.
• Mitsui’s Awakened scouting squad entered the passage, but Old Ninth made all ten men slit their own bellies.
• Old Ninth vanished from the drone footage and appeared inside Mitsui’s tent, where he said he had set up a barrier and killed the guards outside.
• Old Ninth asked Mitsui and his deputy to reveal who had killed Xiang Lintian.

Old Ninth infiltrated the Kou Island military camp, broke Mitsui with illusions, and sawed off the Ninth Division commander's left hand. Little White Tiger arrived to protect him as the furious commander unleashed his Seven Awakenings aura.

• Old Ninth taunted Mitsui, while Xiang Lintian stabbed him from behind and Mitsui later stabbed Xiang Lintian, whose face changed into Mitsui's son's.
• Old Ninth trapped Mitsui and the deputy in an illusion that made Mitsui mistake the deputy for his bride, leaving both men humiliated and shaken.
• The Ninth Division commander arrived with more than a hundred Awakened and found Mitsui and the deputy in the tent.
• Old Ninth introduced himself to the commander and sawed through his left arm as Mitsui warned the others that Old Ninth could use mental illusions.
• Little White Tiger crashed down and blasted away the Kou Island warriors attacking Old Ninth.
• The commander escaped with his left hand severed, then unleashed his Seven Awakenings aura as Old Ninth offered to saw off his right hand too.

Kuroba Ichiro led Kou Island’s forces against Little White Tiger and the Dragon Kingdom’s young talents, unleashing a massive lightning attack. Old Ninth absorbed the Thunder Flood Dragon and revealed that his power had risen to Seven Awakenings, leaving Kuroba stunned as Little White Tiger prepared to join him.

• Kuroba Ichiro ordered his division to destroy the passage and attack Little White Tiger, even as Dragon Kingdom troops closed in from three directions.
• Wang Shengnan and Xiao Yuan arrived with twenty-six Dragon Kingdom talents, who gathered to kill Kuroba.
• Kuroba used his Seven Awakenings secret art, Thousand Thunders, and sent a colossal Thunder Flood Dragon toward the group.
• Old Ninth stepped forward, absorbed the Thunder Flood Dragon, and surged to Seven Awakenings while Kuroba watched in disbelief.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger both called on the Heavenly Thunder stored in their bodies.

Little White Tiger and Old Ninth annihilated Heiyu’s forces with their combined Heaven’s Wrath strike. Commander Sun then cast off his uniform and led the old soldiers in a devastating assault that split Kou Island in two, fulfilling his lifelong wish for revenge.

• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth fused their powers into Heaven’s Wrath, creating a lightning tiger that destroyed Flying Dog Gorge and killed Heiyu and thousands of soldiers.
• Heiyu lamented Kou Island’s fate before Little White Tiger blew his charred body into dust, and Old Ninth vowed Kou Island would have no survivors within ten years.
• Commander Sun and the other leaders prepared to attack Kou Island’s stranded elite troops while Ninth Division forces waited for orders.
• Guan, Yang Huaimin, and Minister Bai urged Commander Sun to stop, but he removed his uniform and said he would accept the consequences after avenging Nanjing.
• Commander Sun led dozens of leaders into the sky and called for them to let the dragon roar; their power devastated Kou Island, erased its capital, and split the island into northern and southern halves.

Commander Sun returned to the Capital and faced competing efforts to arrest or honor him. At a meeting of the country’s power brokers, Old Guan proposed disbanding the Fourth War Zone, while Young Luo suggested sending Commander Sun to the Fifth Court to retire, leaving his fate under debate.

• Commander Sun arrived in the Capital, where Zhou Zheng deterred the Capital Police Bureau from arresting him and Minister Yan welcomed him after revealing that White Garment had entered the Capital.
• The First War Zone soldiers saluted Commander Sun, and White Garment joined the heavyweights at the Guan Family's Courtyard to discuss his punishment.
• Old Guan proposed removing the Fourth War Zone from the order of battle, prompting debate over what would happen to its hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
• White Garment said Chun Prefecture could accommodate the troops, and Old Ma accused him of seeking to punish him through Old Ninth and Little White Tiger.
• At Minister Bai's invitation, Young Luo praised Commander Sun but argued that unauthorized troop deployment could not go unpunished and proposed sending him to the Fifth Court to retire.

Young Luo and the political leaders bargained with White Garment over Commander Sun’s fate in exchange for access to the Godforsaken Land. After Little White Tiger and Old Ninth confronted the leaders, Young Luo revealed that he intended to exploit a secret in the Godforsaken Land to keep White Garment from returning and avenge Xiao He.

• Young Luo proposed stripping Commander Sun of his positions and accomplishments, but White Garment refused to let the leaders destroy his teacher’s legacy.
• Young Luo demanded entry tickets to the Godforsaken Land, and White Garment agreed to twenty spots without guaranteeing safety; the leaders settled on removing Commander Sun from office temporarily before restoring him to command.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger confronted the leaders, and Little White Tiger flipped their table while Old Ninth threatened their juniors.
• In the Luo Family’s convoy, Young Luo told Uncle Zhang that he had joined the opposition to the Guan Family and blamed Little White Tiger for Xiao He’s death.
• Young Luo claimed that a secret beyond nine awakenings in the Godforsaken Land would keep White Garment trapped there forever.

As the Godforsaken Land expedition prepared to begin, the leaders and young contenders gathered in a valley and clashed over family influence, status, and strength. Little White Tiger and Old Ninth arrived with a heavily armed crew and openly provoked the Capital's elite, leaving the rival groups on the brink of conflict.

• The gathered leaders discussed Commander Sun, the expedition's elite entrants, and the absence of Guan Family youths, while Old Guan defended Chun Prefecture's places for Little White Tiger and Old Ninth.
• Wang Shengnan rejected Little Luo's advances, and Old Wang confronted Old Luo over his pursuit of Old Sun and his actions at Kou Island.
• The entrants split into camps led by Wang Shengnan, the Capital powers, and White Garment's unaffiliated selections.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth arrived with more than a hundred armed riders, and Old Ninth's motorcycle drift showered the Capital scions with gravel.
• Little White Tiger's crew dismounted in formation as he taunted Old Luo and challenged the Capital geniuses to prove they could fight.

White Garment gathered the geniuses to enter the Godforsaken Land and expose what he said was the West’s distortion of the Dragon Kingdom’s history. As the group entered, Old Ninth stole the map Old Luo had given Young Luo, disrupting the Luo father and son’s plan.

• White Garment declared that the Dragon Kingdom’s Awakened had conquered the Godforsaken Land and that the West had stolen credit, then punished Young Luo for repeating the history he had learned abroad.
• Young Luo asked to enter the Godforsaken Land and verify the truth, while Old Luo backed him and privately urged him to retrieve a map and avoid Old Ninth.
• White Garment opened the entrance with a golden cross, and the geniuses prepared to enter as Little White Tiger told Xiao Yuan to stay behind and guard Chun Prefecture.
• Old Luo told Young Luo that White Garment would die and urged him to put the Luo Family’s interests above conscience.
• Old Ninth revealed he had taken Young Luo’s map and refused to return it, while Xiao Yuan and the Lei Zi blocked Old Luo from taking it back.

Little White Tiger and the others entered the Godforsaken Land and found a peaceful village where their special abilities had vanished. As Young Luo confronted Old Ninth over a stolen map, his allies threatened Little White Tiger’s group, leaving a fight imminent.

• Little White Tiger learned that Old Ninth had lost his special ability and the Demon Dragon mark, while Hi Dog still carried weapons and ammunition.
• White Garment told the geniuses that the scenery resembled the Dragon Kingdom before the apocalypse, defended the Dragon Kingdom’s history, and sent them to explore in groups after warning that their abilities were gone.
• Ji Min joined Little White Tiger’s group, and Old Ninth revealed that he had taken Young Luo’s map.
• Young Luo gathered support from the Capital’s powerful families and demanded the map back, while Old Ninth refused to return it.
• One of Young Luo’s lackeys drew a knife and threatened Little White Tiger’s group as the two sides prepared to fight.

Old Ninth and Little White Tiger intimidated Young Luo’s group into retreating, then followed their map to a mountain pavilion where they met White Garment and Yue, who revealed that he was the Blood Moon, also called Calamity. Yue described the Apocalypse as a reshaping of the world and said Awakening was merely a side effect, leaving the group with more questions about the transformation he called the true great path.

• Old Ninth, Hi Dog, Bone, and Little White Tiger used guns and detonators to force Young Luo’s group to kneel and retreat into the village.
• Old Ninth showed his map, and his group headed toward the marked opportunity while Young Luo rallied the others to follow them in secret.
• Little White Tiger’s group reached a mountain pavilion and found White Garment sitting there with a red-robed man named Yue.
• Yue told the group that he was the Blood Moon, called Calamity, and explained that he had reshaped rather than created the Apocalypse.
• Yue said Awakening was a side effect of reshaping and that the true great path was transformation.