Chapter Summaries

At the Judgment Assembly, Zhou Zhou used a bloodstained Chun Prefecture Badge and bought witnesses to press the case against Chun Prefecture, while Old Ninth struggled to answer. In the Capital, Zuo Ju revealed that he had deceived Seventh Master for years, photographed him to expose his identity, and acted to protect his family.

• Old Ninth admitted Hi Dog had cut off Lingzi’s arm, but Old Master Wang said Lingzi had tried to kill Little Pig of Chun Prefecture and lost his hand as a result.
• Zhou Zhou presented the Chun Prefecture Badge and a dozen students who claimed they had witnessed Lei Zi slaughtering students, then urged the judges to vote on a verdict.
• Seventh Master met Zuo Ju at the Villa and offered him the position of Project Manager for Chun Prefecture after Q removed his blindfold.
• Zuo Ju photographed Seventh Master and used Overlord Armor to withstand Q and J’s attack before sending the image to expose him.
• Zuo Ju revealed he had spent more than a decade pretending to distance himself from his brothers so Seventh Master would recruit him, and said he had embezzled two hundred million to strengthen Overlord Stronghold.

Zuo Ju revealed how he secretly sent messages to Overlord and escaped Seventh Master’s villa by exploiting Yang Pan’s reluctance to harm his father’s Security Department. As Captain Yu’s team took control, Q and J fled, and Zuo Ju left Seventh Master with a warning to watch the television.

• Seventh Master questioned Zuo Ju about Overlord’s survival, and Zuo Ju explained that coded gifts on a female streamer’s platform had carried messages to Overlord’s allies.
• Seventh Master ordered Q and J to stop Zuo Ju from leaving, but Zuo Ju warned that rescuers were arriving and pointed out that the villa’s unknown owner made it easy for anyone to enter.
• Captain Yu and the Security Department Action Team stormed the villa in response to a kidnapping report, giving Zuo Ju protection against Seventh Master acting in front of witnesses.
• Zuo Ju accused Q and J of murdering Overlord and trying to abduct him and Yang Pan, while Captain Yu summoned reinforcements after learning Q and J were Eight Awakenings.
• Seventh Master signaled Q and J to retreat rather than risk implicating his father, and they escaped through the ceiling as Captain Yu pursued them.
• Zuo Ju walked out after telling Seventh Master to watch television, while Seventh Master warned that he still had more cards to play.

Old Ninth and Little White Tiger faced execution after Zhou Zhou secured the Judgment Assembly’s verdict, but Old Ninth revealed footage exposing Lingzi’s murders and turned the proceedings against their accusers. The Lei Zis stormed the venue, and Little White Tiger prepared to impose Chun Prefecture’s law.

• Zhou Zhou won six votes for the death penalty, but the Judges hesitated to carry it out themselves.
• Xiao Gang, Langzi, and Yueyue rushed forward to protect Old Ninth as the guards moved to seize him and Little White Tiger.
• Old Ninth activated the Remote Control, showing footage of Lingzi murdering students at Divine Mountain and reversing public opinion against him and Zhou Zhou.
• Lingzi begged Zhou Zhou to save him, while students admitted Zhou Zhou had threatened them into giving false testimony.
• Ji Min revealed that the guards had left, and Xiao Gang’s signal brought masked Lei Zis and Overlord Stronghold bandits into the venue.
• Little White Tiger invoked Chun Prefecture’s law as the Lei Zis ordered everyone to their knees.

Old Ninth and Little White Tiger forced Zhou Zhou and Lingzi to reveal that Seventh Master had framed Chun Prefecture to control it, while Zhou Zhou exposed evidence linking the scheme to the Yang Family. Zhou Zhou hoped to leave after confessing, but Old Ninth left his fate to the Lei Zis.

• Little White Tiger confronted Zhou Zhou and Lingzi, and Lingzi named Seventh Master as the person behind the framing.
• Old Ninth offered to spare whoever talked first, so Zhou Zhou and Lingzi competed to confess.
• Zhou Zhou said Seventh Master wanted to control Chun Prefecture to support the Koreans and produced chat logs implicating Security Department official Ma Yu.
• Bo Wen questioned Zhou Zhou's evidence, while Ji Min revealed that he had arranged paid trolls to steer public suspicion toward the Yang Family.
• Old Ninth refused to let Zhou Zhou leave, saying the Lei Zis would decide what happened to him.

Overlord and Chun Prefecture’s leaders cleared the Judgment Assembly venue of reporters and refused to let the other powerful families interfere as they dealt with Zhou Zhou and Lingzi. Three hours later, the venue had been cleaned, and both men had vanished.

• Overlord, Ji Min, and Thirteen forced the reporters and spectators to leave, while Xiao Gang apologized to Old Wang for blocking his door.
• Old Wang and Old Qin departed, and Bo Wen said he would not protect Zhou Zhou, leaving Chun Prefecture to handle the two men.
• Old Ninth ordered Zhou Zhou dragged away, but Xiao Feng intervened and chose to keep him alive for punishment.
• Old Ninth and the Lei Zis tortured Lingzi after he blamed Zuo Ju, while Zhou Zhou watched in terror.
• The Ji Family’s media praised Chun Prefecture, and the Security Department found the venue spotless, with Zhou Zhou and Lingzi gone.

Xiao Yuan ordered Chun Prefecture to accept the Capital’s retaliation and sent its men home after Yang Pan escaped and fled the country. Yang Pan vowed to continue his contest with Chun Prefecture, while outside the Yang Family Compound he secretly said farewell to Yang Huaimin.

• Fang Mu reported that the Chun Prefecture Expansion Project had been halted, and Xiao Yuan told everyone to keep a low profile and endure the powerful figures’ retaliation.
• Xiao Yuan ordered False Eye to take the brothers back to Chun Prefecture, while Fang Mu revealed that Yang Pan had escaped the Security Department and was wanted nationwide.
• Little White Tiger received a call from Yang Pan, who said he had abandoned the Peninsula, was at sea, and planned to continue their contest.
• Yang Pan told Little White Tiger that he had lost to Zuo Ju and left gifts for both sides before ending the call.
• Yang Huaimin withdrew from public duties, and a disguised Yang Pan bowed outside the Yang Family Compound and said farewell to his father.

Zuo Ju explained the ambush against Overlord and was sent to help his brothers in the Capital, but Yang Pan’s assassins intercepted him in a snowstorm. Q and J revealed Yang Pan’s gift: a final attack by the assassins he was leaving behind as he withdrew from the Dragon Kingdom.

• Overlord confronted Zuo Ju for deceiving and stabbing him, then discussed the Man in Black’s strange punches and suspected he was an Awakened from the West connected to Eden.
• Overlord ordered his men to return to Chun Prefecture and told Zuo Ju to stay in the Capital to help his younger brothers.
• Zuo Ju drove toward Little White Tiger but lost control when a tire burst in the worsening snowstorm.
• Q and J led masked assassins marked with red number 1 as they surrounded Zuo Ju and told him Yang Pan had sent them to kill him.

Zuo Ju faced Yang Pan’s assassination attempt and revealed that he had concealed a rare light-element ability. Yang Huaimin arrived with the Security Department, and Zuo Ju left the two Eight Awakenings experts to him.

• Yang Pan told Zuo Ju he had sought the Peninsula and joined Shadow Investment to obtain medicine for his ailing father, and Zuo Ju said he would have made the same choice.
• Yang Pan ordered Q and J and more than a hundred assassins to kill Zuo Ju, but Zuo Ju used Overlord Armor and his hidden light ability to slaughter the front ranks.
• Zuo Ju called for Yang Huaimin, who approached wearing a Security Department badge and used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch.
• Yang Pan admitted he had used the assassination as a pretext to hand Q and J over, hoping their deaths would earn Yang Huaimin a major achievement and help clear his name.
• Zuo Ju explained that Yang Pan had used Little White Tiger to alert Chun Prefecture and the Security Department, then left as Yang Huaimin prepared to face Q and J.

Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, Ji Min, and Thirteen learned that their punishment for the Capital unrest was assignment to the Death Camp, where they would investigate Shadow Investment’s operations on Prison Island. They agreed to go after securing support for Chun Prefecture’s expansion, and Yang Huaimin asked them to bring back Yang Pan if they found him.

• Lei Zi and Overlord Stronghold withdrew from the Capital, while Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, Ji Min, and Thirteen were detained for disturbing the peace.
• Ji Min told the others that Yang Huaimin had defeated Yang Pan’s forces and explained that Yang Huaimin owed their Old Fourth a favor.
• Old Guan arrived and announced that the four would be sent to the Death Camp instead of receiving ordinary prison sentences.
• Thirteen examined Yang Pan’s document and found that Shadow Group had invested in Ground-Level Forces across much of the Dragon Kingdom.
• Yang Huaimin explained that Shadow Investment had a major presence on Prison Island and asked the four to investigate it and bring back Yang Pan if they found him.
• Old Eighth agreed to go after Yang Huaimin promised to fund Chun Prefecture’s expansion, while Ji Min also demanded support for expanding Demon City.

Little White Tiger and Chun Prefecture’s allies spent a month digging through Divine Mountain to rescue Hi Dog and Bone, who were trapped in an unreachable small world. As the trapped men lost hope and Tiger refused to stop, Xiao Yuan knelt and begged him to return, leaving Hi Dog and Bone devastated.

• Little White Tiger led Chun Prefecture’s core members to Divine Mountain, where they began digging by hand to find Hi Dog and Bone.
• Trapped in an endless icy space, Hi Dog and Bone ran out of supplies and heard their brothers digging above them, though neither side could reach or communicate with the other.
• Over the next month, thousands of people from Chun Prefecture and its allies joined the excavation, while Hi Dog and Bone’s hope faded.
• Xiao Yuan confronted Little White Tiger, arguing that Hi Dog and Bone were dead and that Chun Prefecture needed its leaders to return.
• Xiao Yuan slapped Little White Tiger, then knelt and begged him to go back, extinguishing Hi Dog and Bone’s will to keep living.

Hi Dog and Bone nearly destroyed themselves to escape the Small World, but Jian appeared and revealed the history and purpose of the Immortal Medicine. He ruled out Old Ninth as its recipient and said Tiger had no need for it, leaving the medicine’s fate unresolved.

• Hi Dog and Bone tried to self-destruct, but the aurora healed them and summoned Jian, a lone soul guarding the Immortal Medicine.
• Jian explained that he had trapped them because they did not meet the Human Emperor’s conditions, though he had spared them after sensing Lu’s aura in their Qi.
• Jian revealed that the Human Emperor had refined the Immortal Medicine to create an army of Immortals, then sacrificed himself after its limitations became clear and he defeated the western Gods.
• Jian said the remaining medicine could only go to someone benevolent who held the Dragon Kingdom in his heart, and he rejected Old Ninth because of his path of slaughter.
• Jian told Bone that Tiger needed no Immortal Medicine, while Hi Dog shamelessly asked whether he and Bone could take it.

Little White Tiger and Old Ninth called White Garment to rescue Hi Dog and Bone from a Small World, where Jian had guarded immortal medicine for a thousand years. After White Garment arrived and the group reunited, Jian recognized him as a possible heir to the Human Emperor’s Will and urged him to accept it.

• Little White Tiger and the Lei Zis gave up digging for Hi Dog and Bone until Zuo Ju offered to help and called White Garment.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger explained the situation to White Garment, who agreed to arrive the next morning despite being in a fight with Old Bat.
• White Garment arrived above the pit, and Jian opened a path into the Small World before White Garment could act.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth reunited with Hi Dog and Bone inside the Small World, while Jian explained that he had trapped Hi Dog to protect him from Gu Feng.
• Jian told White Garment that only someone at Nine Awakenings could use the immortal medicine and urged him to inherit the Human Emperor’s Will and protect the Dragon Kingdom.

White Garment accepted the Immortal Medicine in exchange for concessions to Chun Prefecture, then learned it would let him become an immortal in a year. As Jian vanished, Xiao Gang and the others begged and grabbed for gifts, and Xiao Gang stole a Human Emperor token that Old Ninth immediately denied having.

• Jian explained that the Immortal Medicine could let an Awakened surpass Nine Awakenings, and White Garment decided he wanted it.
• Little White Tiger gave White Garment the medicine, while Xiao Yuan secured the Peninsula, Old Ninth secured training for Hi Dog and the others, and Zuo Ju secured twenty years of control over personnel appointments and dismissals.
• Jian examined White Garment, then returned with him and the Immortal Medicine; White Garment vowed to fulfill the Human Emperor's wishes and promised to put the Dragon Kingdom at the world's pinnacle within three years.
• Jian told White Garment to take the medicine on the fifteenth day of the eighth month the following year, then prepared to leave the Small World.
• Xiao Gang, Langzi, and Third Uncle begged Jian for gifts and rummaged through his armor, while Xiao Gang stole a Human Emperor token that Jian said could protect the Dragon Kingdom in a desperate moment.
• Old Ninth claimed he had not seen the token when Xiao Gang asked him for it.

Old Ninth forced Adam to reveal that Eden had sent the Man in Black and obtained information about Prison Island and Yang Pan. A week later, Chun Prefecture celebrated Little White Tiger’s rise to regional lord and began its demolition project.

• Old Ninth provoked Adam by invoking Eve, then confirmed Adam’s connection to her when he appeared on the phone.
• Old Ninth learned that Eden had sent the Man in Black to ambush his father and demanded information about Prison Island and Yang Pan.
• Adam sent Old Ninth a file after Old Ninth threatened to livestream himself making babies, then shattered the phone screen with his energy.
• Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and Chun Prefecture’s leaders gathered as fireworks marked the prefecture’s transformation into a regional lord’s domain.
• Chun Prefecture’s leaders prepared to cut the ribbon at the demolition project groundbreaking ceremony.

As Chun Prefecture began its expansion, Guan Ming told Old Ninth that he and the others had to leave for Prison Island within three days and gave him a lead on Old Qian in Xiang Prefecture. Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and their companions prepared for the trip while studying the island’s rulers, though they kept their departure from their subordinates.

• Dozens of bulldozers began building resettlement housing for Chun Prefecture’s slum residents, with Fang Mu explaining that volunteers supplied the labor.
• Guan Ming arrived with orders from the Old Man for Old Ninth’s group to set out within three days and find Old Qian, who could guide them to Prison Island.
• Guan Ming explained that Old Qian had repeatedly escaped capture and was the only known Dragon Kingdom resident to leave Prison Island alive.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth gathered their companions in Eight-Nine Prefecture to study Adam’s information about Prison Island and its three island masters: Wusha, Sea God, and Tao Tao.
• Xiao Yuan warned that Tao Tao was a dangerous seventh-awakening fighter, while Xiao Gang bragged that he would take her on.

Little White Tiger and his group arrived in Xiang Prefecture to meet Master Qiu and prepare to capture Old Qian, with Hei Ba’s associates, the Four Villains, assigned to help them. As they entered the crowded street, Brother Yao and a group of children spotted their gold badges and prepared to rob them.

• Little White Tiger warned his companions to keep a low profile in Xiang Prefecture, where Hei Ba’s contact Wulai introduced himself and the other members of the Four Villains.
• Old Ninth confirmed the Four Villains were reliable, and Little White Tiger explained that they had killed Hattori after skinning him and tearing out his tendons.
• Wulai told Little White Tiger’s group that Master Qiu was angry because the Four Villains had botched a job by bringing back an unrecognizable, bloody head.
• Little White Tiger’s group headed into the busy street to meet Master Qiu while a child warned Brother Yao that they were wealthy targets.
• Brother Yao showed a razor blade hidden on his tongue, whistled, and summoned a dozen child beggars to get to work.

Little White Tiger and Old Ninth let a group of street children pickpocket them, but the clever Brother Yao managed to steal Little White Tiger’s gold badge. Brother Yao divided the haul among the children and planned to save their money until they could go to school.

• Little White Tiger gave money to a group of children led by Lai Litou, then let them pickpocket his watch and coins while Old Ninth watched.
• A tall, clean-looking child bumped into Little White Tiger and secretly took his gold badge before the children scattered.
• Little White Tiger recovered his phone but realized the child had stolen his badge, and Old Ninth teased him for letting his guard down.
• The children brought their haul to Brother Yao, who gave Lai Litou money to buy meat and promised to save the rest for them.
• Brother Yao told Lai Litou that he had felt a knife at Little White Tiger’s waist and stopped the children from taking more because Little White Tiger knew about the theft and had shown them mercy.

A Yao tried to trade a gold badge for Qianqian’s freedom, but the pawnshop’s bald boss refused and humiliated him. After the gang discovered the badge belonged to Chun Prefecture’s leaders, A Yao returned with a knife and attacked the boss.

• A Yao offered the bald boss a gold badge in exchange for Qianqian, but the boss said she had been sold outside the city and offered him only five hundred.
• The boss admitted he had arranged for beggars to attack A Yao, threatened to break his legs, and forced him to accept the money and leave.
• A Yao walked away in tears while a taunting voice urged him to take revenge, and memories of Qianqian fueled his anger.
• The bald boss and his men recognized the badge as one reserved for Chun Prefecture’s Eighth Master and Ninth Master and realized they were in serious trouble.
• A Yao returned, covered the bald boss with a fertilizer sack, and stabbed at him with his knife while demanding Qianqian back.

A Yao tried to kill the bald thug who had abused him and his fellow homeless children, but Little White Tiger and his brothers intervened and rescued him. After learning that Qianqian had been sold outside the city, A Yao killed the bald man and vowed to become as powerful as Tiger.

• A Yao stabbed the bald man, but Old Fifth shot him and the thug broke his arm before preparing to kill him.
• Little White Tiger blocked the fatal blow, and Xiao Gang shot Old Fifth while Bone and Hi Dog subdued the bald man's gang.
• Tiger questioned A Yao about his stolen badge, then advised him to be ruthless and think carefully before acting.
• Tiger gave A Yao the chance to take revenge, and A Yao learned that the bald man had sold Qianqian outside the city.
• A Yao stabbed the bald man to death, thanked Tiger, and shouted that he would become just as powerful; Tiger said he would be waiting.

A Yao returned to find his fellow beggars murdered and was forced by Bald-Headed Tiger to identify the people who had helped him. He caught up with Little White Tiger’s group and asked to join them on their trip to Settlement Town.

• A Yao bought a black vest as a gift for Little White Tiger and returned to his courtyard, where he found more than a dozen little beggars shot dead.
• Lai Litou warned A Yao that the courtyard was ambushed, but Bald-Headed Tiger and his armed men captured them and demanded the identities of A Yao’s helpers.
• Bald-Headed Tiger threatened to kill one of A Yao’s brothers for every day he delayed, forcing A Yao to choose between betraying his rescuers and protecting the children.
• Old Ninth told Little White Tiger’s group that Master Qiu had located Old Qian in Settlement Town, and Wulai drove them toward the town.
• A Yao stopped their car, gave Little White Tiger the vest, and asked for a ride to Settlement Town; Little White Tiger agreed and brought him aboard.