Chapter Summaries

Little White Tiger and Xiao Yuan completed their wedding bows amid tributes to their teachers, family, and brothers. After the banquet began, Little White Tiger discovered that Hi Dog had secretly installed cameras to spy on the bridal chamber and charged after him with a brick.

• Old Ninth led Little White Tiger and Xiao Yuan in bows to Li Youxian, the Marshal, and their brothers, honoring fallen and living comrades.
• Little White Tiger vowed to stay with his brothers, and the Lei Zis knelt to him and Xiao Yuan in return.
• Little White Tiger and Xiao Yuan bowed to Sikong Jian and each other before heading to the bridal chamber.
• Little White Tiger grew suspicious when his brothers stayed unusually quiet, while Hi Dog and the others watched the couple on television through hidden cameras.
• Ji Min accidentally revealed the camera scheme during a phone call, and Little White Tiger rushed toward Hi Dog's room carrying a brick.

Old Man Guan secretly visited Little White Tiger and Xiao Yuan during their wedding to explain the political support behind Chun Prefecture’s planned expansion into a million-person supercity. He left them with a development outline and warned Little White Tiger to stay out of the Korean supercity issue, while refusing to explain the Seventh Master’s role.

• Old Man Guan visited Little White Tiger’s bridal chamber in secret, while Guan Lei and Guan Ming represented the Guan Family at the wedding.
• Old Man Guan explained that he had fought for Chun Prefecture’s rewards and gave Little White Tiger a development outline promising a threefold expansion and funding.
• Old Man Guan said the Guan Family had sacrificed promotion opportunities to secure Chun Prefecture’s development, though its administrative control would eventually return to the central government.
• Little White Tiger proposed settling people from outside the city and building a hundred-thousand-strong Lei Zi Corps to guard the Northeast.
• Old Man Guan rebuked Little White Tiger for the military proposal, then said the Korean supercity would not be built and refused to discuss the Seventh Master.

Little White Tiger argued with Old Guan over the demand that Chun Prefecture give up the Peninsula and help establish Korean gathering zones, then reluctantly accepted Old Guan’s promise that the zones would not be built. At the banquet, Zuo Ju brought Dong Kuan and Ku'er to meet Old Ninth, whose companions bristled when Ku'er claimed they had something valuable to offer Chun Prefecture.

• Little White Tiger objected that Chun Prefecture had conquered the Peninsula and paid the cost of defending it, while Old Guan urged him to compromise and promised that the Korean gathering zones would not be built.
• Little White Tiger demanded to know who the Seventh Master was, but Old Guan said the matter involved major implications and that someone else would handle it.
• Guan Lei and Guan Ming arrived at the banquet, and Guan Lei publicly showed the closeness between the Guan Family and Chun Prefecture by greeting Overlord and embracing Old Ninth.
• Zuo Ju introduced Dong Kuan to Old Ninth and led him and Ku'er into the inner hall.
• Ku'er said they had something good for Chun Prefecture, prompting Thirteen and the others at Old Ninth's table to put down their chopsticks and challenge him.

Old Ninth learned that Zuo Ju had joined Shadow Investment, which had financed several underworld powers, including Flower Boss, Ming King, and Sikong Jian. Mr. Dong explained why the group had failed to recover its investment from Sikong Jian, leaving Old Ninth with a clearer picture of Shadow Investment’s reach and constraints.

• Mr. Dong led Old Ninth and Zuo Ju to the back courtyard to discuss the Peninsula, while Thirteen and Ji Min provoked Ku'er until he hurried away.
• Zuo Ju admitted that he had advised the Seventh Master Group for years and revealed that Flower Boss and Ming King had received backing from Shadow Investment.
• Zuo Ju explained that Shadow Investment funded underworld forces across the Dragon Kingdom and had once planned to help Overlord rise, but Overlord rejected its support.
• Mr. Dong told Old Ninth that Shadow Investment had also funded Sikong Jian, who seized power early, took more money from the group, and then refused to repay it.
• Mr. Dong explained that Shadow Investment could not sue Sikong Jian without exposing its connection to his criminal operations, and said the group’s other agents sent to the Southwest had disappeared.

Mr. Dong tried to secure Chun Prefecture’s cooperation in Shadow Investment’s expansion into the Peninsula, but Old Ninth turned the negotiations into a demand for money. The meeting ended with Mr. Dong surrounded by Chun Prefecture enforcers and forced to provide a wedding gift.

• Mr. Dong and Zuo Ju told Old Ninth that Shadow Investment would not invest in Chun Prefecture without aligning with its leaders, and revealed their concern about Sikong Jian and his possibly living master, Gunman.
• Mr. Dong offered funding and a share of Peninsula profits if Chun Prefecture surrendered its claim to the Peninsula, while warning that refusing could bring trouble and delay Chun Prefecture’s expansion.
• Old Ninth agreed to cooperate only if Shadow Investment transferred a billion first, then pressed Mr. Dong to sign a contract and pay before withdrawing his people from Fei Island.
• Mr. Dong backed away from signing and asked to revisit the matter after Eighth Master’s wedding, so Old Ninth left the negotiations.
• Xiao Gang, Hi Dog, False Eye, and Langzi confronted Mr. Dong over his wedding gift, entered ten million in the ledger, and threatened him with armed enforcers until he paid or signed an IOU.

Xiao Yuan and Little White Tiger organized Chun Prefecture’s expansion, assigning missions to secure funding, retrieve Lulujian, and pressure Seventh Master’s faction for compensation. They left Fang Mu in charge of building the new city and set ambitious goals for Chun Prefecture’s future.

• Fang Mu explained that Chun Prefecture needed to fund a two-billion shortfall to begin its expansion, and senior members offered their personal savings.
• Little White Tiger refused the brothers’ money, while Xiao Yuan decided to accept Seventh Master’s faction’s funds and ordered Wine Sword Spear and two others to form the Sickle gang with eight thousand fighters.
• Xiao Yuan sent Hi Dog and the sworn brothers to the No-Man’s Zone to retrieve Lulujian using clues from White Garment’s book.
• Xiao Yuan ordered Old Ninth to take her to Seventh Master’s people and demand at least 1.8 billion in compensation.
• Little White Tiger appointed Fang Mu chief coordinator, ordered the new city completed in three years, and vowed to drive the Ma Family from the Northeast within five years and become its true king within seven.

Xiao Gang’s harassment of the Dong Family ended when Old Ninth and Xiao Yuan arrived, and the sides began formal negotiations over a partnership in the Peninsula. They failed to agree on a price, so Xiao Yuan accepted Mr. Dong’s wager to wait a month and see who would give in first.

• Xiao Gang blocked the Dong Family from leaving the hotel and provoked Ku'er until Old Ninth and Xiao Yuan arrived and ended the farce.
• Xiao Yuan presented partnership terms asking for five billion, while Mr. Dong offered one billion and argued that Chun Prefecture would eventually have to withdraw from the Peninsula.
• Xiao Yuan set two billion as her bottom line, but Mr. Dong refused and proposed a one-month wager, offering to seek two billion if Chun Prefecture held out or one billion if it gave in.
• Xiao Yuan accepted the wager and left the hotel with Old Ninth, telling him to wait for the Dong Family to make its move.

Hi Dog, Xiao Feng, Bone, and Little Pig reached a snowy tavern near the Divine Mountain, where Little Pig unexpectedly encountered his former girlfriend, Xiaomai. After Lingzi mocked him and Little Pig insisted his companions leave, Xiaomai slipped him a bank card as she departed for her exam.

• Hi Dog, Xiao Feng, and Bone waited for Little Pig at a tavern near the Divine Mountain and joked about Sword Crane and Earthworm.
• Little Pig arrived injured with Xiaomai and a group of students, and Lingzi mocked him for being an ordinary person and for following his ex-girlfriend.
• Little Pig stopped Bone and the others from retaliating, then explained that he had come on business and exchanged apologies with Xiaomai about their separation.
• Lingzi warned Little Pig and his companions not to bother Xiaomai, citing her father’s position and Wang Shengnan’s authority.
• Xiaomai told Little Pig she did not regret knowing him, slipped a card into his hand with their anniversary as the PIN, and left for her exam.

Wang Shengnan recruited Little Pig and his companions for a journey to Sword Crane’s former cultivation grounds. In Eight-Nine Prefecture, Little White Tiger and Old Ninth responded to Seventh Master’s obstruction of their expansion plans by plotting to disrupt his project on the Peninsula.

• Wang Shengnan arrived at the tavern, and Lingzi and Xiaomai disavowed Little Pig’s group while Hi Dog stayed silent.
• Wang Shengnan asked Hi Dog’s group to join her journey, and Little Pig accepted, saying the payment had already been made.
• Wang Shengnan explained that Divine Mountain had once been Sword Crane’s cultivation grounds, and Su Wanfang understood why Hi Dog’s group would help protect them there.
• Fang Mu reported that Seventh Master had caused Chun Prefecture’s Expansion Blueprints to be rejected, so Little White Tiger ordered Fang Mu to revise them and directed Ruan Lie and Shu Dong to disrupt construction on the Peninsula.
• False Eye reported that a Ji Family ship carrying construction materials was passing Demon City toward the Peninsula, and Little White Tiger sent Old Ninth to borrow the materials and bring them back with an IOU.

Mr. Dong and Seventh Master plotted to frame Old Ninth with a shipment of civilian corpses, while a naked man in Paradise overheard them. The Divine Mountain assessment began, and Hi Dog’s group entered the No-Man’s Zone alongside the students, with Xiaomai giving Little Pig a protective artifact.

• Mr. Dong reported to Seventh Master that the shipment was traveling through Demon City, and Seventh Master revealed his plan to make Old Ninth take the blame for slaughtering civilians.
• A naked man in Paradise listened in as the call ended in static.
• Wang Shengnan greeted Hi Dog’s group respectfully before the Divine Mountain assessment, confusing Xiaomai and Lingzi.
• An old man explained the assessment rules and sent the students toward the mountain when the bronze bell rang.
• Xiaomai gave Little Pig a Thumb Ring that could block a fatal blow, and Little Pig gave her a pendant identified as the Yasakani Magatama.
• Lingzi insulted Hi Dog’s group and called them laborers, and Hi Dog and Little Pig exchanged friendly jokes before following the others.

Lingzi poisoned Little Pig with Rotten Corpse Blood and paralyzed him, intending to let a Converted Beast kill him, but a six-star Thousand-Winged Ice Centipede appeared before the camp. Hi Dog stopped the beast from reaching Little Pig with one hand, leaving Xiaomai and the others stunned.

• Wang Shengnan led the group up Divine Mountain toward her goal of hunting a six-star Converted Beast, while Hi Dog learned that Lingzi was Li Lingfeng, Xiaomai’s longtime suitor.
• Lingzi secretly smeared Rotten Corpse Blood on Little Pig’s clothes and paralyzed him, then left him exposed to attract a Converted Beast.
• A Thousand-Winged Ice Centipede charged through the camp and engulfed Little Pig in a cloud of snow, prompting Xiaomai to fear he had died.
• Wang Shengnan assured Xiaomai that Little Pig was alive as the six-star beast came into view.
• Hi Dog stood in front of Little Pig and held the Thousand-Winged Ice Centipede’s head with one hand while Bone and Xiao Feng protected Little Pig.

Little Pig’s identity as a sworn brother of Chun Prefecture’s Eighth and Ninth Masters was revealed after Lingzi attacked him, and Hi Dog, Bone, and Xiao Feng demonstrated their overwhelming strength by killing the Thousand-Winged Ice Centipede. Lingzi realized he had provoked someone protected by Old Ninth and feared the consequences.

• Little Pig recovered from Lingzi’s attack, and Xiaomai ran to him in tears as Chun Prefecture students recognized him and formed a protective circle.
• Hi Dog, Bone, and Xiao Feng unleashed their Long River Sunset divine ability and pinned the Thousand-Winged Ice Centipede to the ground.
• Hi Dog summoned nine miniature suns and incinerated the centipede while Wang Shengnan raised ice walls to contain the blast.
• Little Pig told Xiaomai that Old Eighth and Old Ninth were his older brothers, and Su Wanfang explained that Little Pig was one of Chun Prefecture’s two treasures.
• Lingzi grew unsteady as he realized that provoking Little Pig could bring Old Ninth after him.

Wang Shengnan and Chun Prefecture negotiated Lingzi’s punishment after he nearly killed Little Pig, and Xiao Yuan turned the dispute into an arrangement for Little Pig and Xiaomai to marry. Meanwhile, Old Ninth prepared to unload a freighter at the Peninsula when a mysterious voice spoke to him through his phone.

• Hi Dog demanded an explanation for Lingzi’s use of Little Pig as bait, and Wang Shengnan condemned Lingzi’s dishonorable methods.
• Wang Shengnan called Xiao Yuan, who agreed that Lingzi would lose an arm and gave him a week before Chun Prefecture’s Lei Zis came for him.
• Xiao Yuan invited Little Pig and Xiaomai to Chun Prefecture and proposed that they marry, bringing the lovers together and easing the conflict with Purple Gold.
• Hi Dog chopped off Lingzi’s arm after Wang Shengnan disowned him and ordered him to leave the Third Branch with his father.
• At the Peninsula, Old Ninth told his Lei Zis to get to work unloading a freighter, then heard a mysterious male voice ask him to chat.

Old Ninth received a proposal from Adam to help bring down Shadow Investment in exchange for a piece of Turtle Ancestor’s shell, while Adam warned him that the freighter was a trap. Old Ninth went to the wharf anyway, where the freighter’s crew and Seventh Master were prepared to frame Chun Prefecture for a massacre.

• Adam offered to help Old Ninth bring down Shadow Investment in exchange for a piece of Turtle Ancestor’s shell and revealed that the freighter was a trap.
• Old Ninth asked Adam to transfer Shadow Investment’s money, then proposed a test of Adam’s abilities before agreeing to further cooperation.
• Adam ended the call, and Old Ninth received an unfamiliar-number message warning him not to go because it was a trap.
• The freighter’s captain told Seventh Master that the crew had planted hidden cameras and would die to make Old Ninth appear responsible for killing civilians.
• Mr. Dong, Ku’er, and Zuo Ju watched the wharf as Old Ninth’s hooded men appeared, while Seventh Master and the group’s executives watched the live feed.

Old Ninth uncovered Seventh Master's attempt to frame him for killing Dragon Kingdom citizens aboard a cargo ship and turned the evidence against the Dong family. The Dong father and sons were arrested in Chun Prefecture after the altered video identified them as the killers.

• Old Ninth and his men killed the guards and laborers at the wharf, then boarded the cargo ship and found containers filled with corpses.
• The captain and crew tried to provoke Old Ninth into appearing on camera and taking the blame, but the footage changed their faces to those of Mr. Dong and the Dong family children.
• Old Ninth publicly identified himself and his companions as Dong family associates while boasting about Seventh Master, and the hacked footage escaped Seventh Master's control.
• False Eye and the Police Bureau's Action Team arrested Mr. Dong and his sons in Chun Prefecture based on the video.
• Old Ninth confirmed his supposed Dong identity by phone, and Squad Leader slapped Ku'er and threatened to convict him.

Seventh Master negotiated a best-of-three wager with Little White Tiger over Chun Prefecture’s terms and sought the identity of the hacker who altered the freighter video. On Divine Mountain, Hei Ba arrived with Chun Prefecture Lei Zis to escort Little Pig home and warned Wang Shengnan that Lingzi was marked for death.

• Seventh Master called Little White Tiger, conceded the first round, and proposed that the winner of the next two rounds would determine Chun Prefecture’s terms while Dong Kuan remained in custody.
• Seventh Master offered Little White Tiger ten million for the hacker’s name, rejected the demand for a hundred million, and ordered Plan B after concluding the Guan Family was not involved.
• Hei Ba arrived on Divine Mountain with more than thirty Fifth Awakening Lei Zis, who bowed to Little Pig and prepared to escort him back.
• Hei Ba told Little Pig that Xiao Yuan had sent him and that Tiger had wanted to come himself after hearing someone tried to harm him.
• Hei Ba told Wang Shengnan that Chun Prefecture Lei Zis would go out to kill in a week and that Lingzi was on Old Ninth’s list.

Little White Tiger and Xiao Yuan tried to uncover Seventh Master's identity, while Old Ninth's quarrel with Adam over turtle shells prevented them from getting the AI's help. Elsewhere, Lingzi struggled through a snowstorm toward India before masked strangers appeared and offered him a chance.

• Little White Tiger and Xiao Yuan decided to investigate the Dong-named man and the Koreans' Gathering Zone to learn who Seventh Master was.
• Old Ninth told Little White Tiger that he and Adam had fallen out over ordinary turtle shells, and Adam argued that he had wanted the Turtle Ancestor's shell.
• Little White Tiger blamed Adam for Chun Prefecture's damaged reputation and tried to get compensation before Adam angrily vanished.
• Old Ninth agreed to ask whoever was in charge of the Koreans' Gathering Zone about Seventh Master, while Adam protested that he had no program for spying on Xiao Yuan.
• Lingzi, fleeing toward India with his severed arm, became lost in a blizzard and collapsed as masked strangers approached and offered him a chance.

Seventh Master warned Xian'er to leave the Capital after she insulted his father, then revealed that a pawn near Overlord would carry out Plan B against Chun Prefecture. At Divine Mountain, Hi Dog and the young prodigies found Sword Crane’s cultivation site, where Earthworm’s call to his wife revealed that Ten-Thousand-Year Frozen Ice might be inside.

• Seventh Master told Xian'er to leave the Capital, then choked and threw her down when she insulted the Old Man.
• Seventh Master said he would act as the Old Man’s blade and claimed a pawn planted near Overlord would carry out Plan B against Chun Prefecture.
• Wang Shengnan and the other young prodigies followed Hi Dog to an ice wall he identified as Sword Crane’s cultivation site.
• Wang Shengnan said Sword Crane may have left Ten-Thousand-Year Frozen Ice at the site, and Earthworm called Sword Crane to ask about it.
• Sword Crane offered to take Earthworm to steal Nine Netherworlds Divine Thunder, but Earthworm said Hi Dog wanted the ice for Wang Shengnan.

Wang Shengnan and Hi Dog entered Sword Crane's cave after a warning blade strike drove the other students back. Outside, Lingzi and Zuo Ju massacred the students and framed Chun Prefecture, and Seventh Master ordered Zuo Ju brought to the Capital after accepting his pledge of allegiance.

• Wang Shengnan broke open the ice wall, but Sword Crane's blade aura blasted the students who rushed into the cave back outside.
• Hi Dog called Earthworm to secure entry for his group, and Wang Shengnan ended her deal with the students and entered the cave with them.
• Tianqing urged the students to ambush Hi Dog for the cave's opportunities, but Lingzi arrived with Zuo Ju and more than fifty assassins.
• Lingzi and Zuo Ju attacked the students, and Zuo Ju forced Lingzi to kill his former companions so they would share responsibility for the massacre.
• Zuo Ju planted False Eye's Chun Prefecture badge on Tianqing and reported the deed to Seventh Master, who ordered him brought to the Capital.

Old Wine, Old Spear, and Old Sword attacked Park Il-hun’s convoy in the Peninsula and demanded to know who the Seventh Master was. With Chun Prefecture reinforcements expected soon, the three Lei Zis gave Park Il-hun five minutes to surrender.

• Park Il-hun learned that Fei Island forces had cut off the Peninsula’s supply routes and ordered a joint army with the Jin Family gathering zone.
• Park Il-hun threatened to submit to Kou Island if the Seventh Master’s supplies did not arrive, but an explosion struck the lead troop transport.
• Park Il-hun ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle, then discovered that masked attackers had silently slaughtered two platoons of guards.
• Old Wine, Old Spear, and Old Sword arrived, identified themselves as men from Chun Prefecture, and demanded that Park Il-hun meet Brother Nine.
• Park Il-hun refused to answer Old Wine’s question about the Seventh Master, so Old Sword tore off the car door and kicked him out.
• A Lei Zi warned that reinforcements would arrive in ten minutes, and Old Spear said Park Il-hun would be on his knees within five.