Chapter Summaries

Ding Baobao confronted the Ma Family over Ding Ya’s ordeal, but the dispute erupted into a fight and the family’s experts subdued the siblings. Shisan and his companions arrived just as Ding Ya pleaded for help, and Shisan threatened the man holding her.

• Ding Baobao demanded that the Ma Family hand over Ma Qingshan and threatened to smash its ancestral hall when Second Uncle Ma refused.
• Second Uncle Ma and Ding Baobao’s opposing forces clashed after Ding Baobao ordered his men to break through the gates.
• Ma Family elders overwhelmed Ding Baobao and seized Ding Ya, while Second Uncle Ma said Minister Ding would need to explain himself before taking them away.
• Ding Ya stopped pleading with the Ma Family when she saw Shisan arrive with Old Ninth, Ji Min, Tao Tao, and the Great Island Master.
• Shisan entered the hall after a guan dao smashed inside and warned the goateed elder not to touch Ding Ya.

Old Ninth, Little White Tiger, and Ji Min confronted the Ma Family over their attacks and the Great Island Master’s personal vendetta. The Great Island Master revealed that Second Uncle Ma had raped his eldest sister and massacred Peach Tree Village to hide the crime, and Old Ninth prepared to kill him.

• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger entered the room and confronted Second Uncle Ma over the Ma Family’s seizure of Old Ninth’s goods.
• The Great Island Master confronted Second Uncle Ma, while Tao Tao and her brother revealed their hatred for him.
• The Great Island Master recounted how Second Uncle Ma had raped his eldest sister and slaughtered Peach Tree Village’s hundred-odd households, leaving only the siblings alive.
• Second Uncle Ma tried to excuse his actions by claiming he had loved Tao Xin, but the people present showed contempt for him.
• Old Ninth revved his Chainsaw, and Little White Tiger ordered the group to attack Second Uncle Ma.

Thirteen rescued Ding Ya as Ding Baobao allied with Chun Prefecture to attack the Ma Family and destroy its nameplate. The Ma and Chun forces summoned reinforcements, and Little White Tiger and Old Ninth began battling the Ma Family elders.

• Thirteen drove back Elder Li, rescued Ding Ya, and tried to lead her out of the fight.
• Ding Baobao broke free, demanded that Chun Prefecture help him attack the Ma Family, and Little White Tiger agreed to mobilize its forces.
• Second Uncle Ma ordered Elder Li to hold Ding Ya, but Thirteen and the others shielded her and forced their way toward the exit.
• The Ma Family and Chun Prefecture fired signal flares, marking the start of their battle for control of the Northeast.
• The Ma Family elders attacked Ding Baobao, but Little White Tiger protected him with Eight Dragons Body Protection and blasted the elders back with Long River Sunset.

After the Ma Family’s cargo heist gave Chun Prefecture a pretext to attack, Xiao Yuan and Sikong Jian mobilized forces to invade Shen Prefecture. In the Capital, Old Ma and Minister Ding argued over responsibility until Minister Ding revealed that his daughter had been sold to a Ma Family club.

• Xiao Yuan learned that Tiger had fired Chun Prefecture’s Righteous Gathering Cannon three times and ordered Chun Prefecture’s forces to assemble and support him in Shen Prefecture.
• Sikong Jian sent Xiao Feng and the surviving convoy into Shen Prefecture, ordered more troops from the Southwest, and led his own forces toward the city.
• Sikong Jian ordered Ma Qingshan killed as Chun Prefecture’s forces prepared to attack the Ma Family.
• At the Guan Residence, Old Ma and Minister Ding argued over the cargo heist while Guan, Bai, and Yang tried to keep the two families from fighting.
• Old Ma offered to accept any terms if Chun Prefecture released the captives, but Minister Ding erupted and accused the Ma Family of selling his daughter to one of its clubs.

Old Ma agreed to hand Ma Qingshan over for trial under Dragon Kingdom law, but the settlement collapsed when Chun Prefecture mobilized against the Ma Family. Old Ninth and Ding Baobao refused to stop the attack, leaving Old Ma terrified as Shen Prefecture faced a massacre.

• Minister Ding demanded Ma Qingshan, and Old Ma agreed to hand him over for a legal trial after the others warned him to yield.
• A caller reported that Little White Tiger had issued a Righteous Gathering Order and that thousands of Chun Prefecture fighters were heading for Shen Prefecture, while Ding Baobao had hired Lei Zi to attack the Ma Family.
• Old Ma blamed Old Guan for provoking Little White Tiger by hijacking his supplies, and Minister Ding stalled when urged to stop Ding Baobao.
• Old Ma pleaded with Old Guan to intervene, and Old Ninth finally answered while fighting in Shen Prefecture.
• Old Ninth said he was following his boss's orders, and Ding Baobao refused to halt the attack despite the Capital's demand.

Thirteen fought his way out of the Ma Family estate with Ding Ya and faced thousands of armed forces in Shen Prefecture. He protected her through the bloody battle, leaving the surrounding crowd momentarily afraid to advance.

• The Ma Family raised the alarm, mobilizing Shen Prefecture’s forces against Thirteen and Ding Ya.
• Thirteen refused to abandon Ding Ya and gave her his phone so she could call Little Cat if she escaped.
• Thirteen charged into the crowd with Ding Ya, cutting down attackers while the five leading combatants held back.
• When dozens of Elemental Skills targeted Ding Ya, Thirteen pulled her close and took the attacks on his back.
• Thirteen unleashed a sweeping saber strike that killed dozens of thugs, then declared his identity and challenged the crowd, which stopped advancing.

Thirteen fought his way through the Ma Family’s forces while protecting Ding Ya, but the goateed elder impaled him with flying swords. Just as Thirteen sent Ding Ya toward safety, Sikong Jian arrived and stopped the attack.

• Thirteen used Time Key-Heaven and Earth as One and Blade Rise-Eight Directions Slash to kill the five Sixth Awakening stewards and destroy the city gate.
• The goateed elder attacked Thirteen and Ding Ya, and Thirteen used Time Key-Imprisonment to stop the first wave of wooden swords.
• Thirteen shielded Ding Ya from the second wave of swords, was impaled, and confessed that he considered her his woman before groping her breast.
• Thirteen threw Ding Ya toward the city exit, but Sikong Jian arrived on a silver spear and confronted the goateed elder.

The Ma Family's direct-line troops arrived to defend their clan, and many injected the Undying Warrior Agent to fight without fear or pain. The agent empowered them enough to transform wounded Seven-Awakening elders into Eight-Awakening fighters who seized Little White Tiger as the undying legion kept charging.

• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger taunted Second Uncle Ma as the Ma Family elders remained suppressed.
• Ma Family direct-line troops arrived, and their leader urged them to fight to the death before the Great Island Master killed him with an arrow.
• The Ma Family descendants injected the Undying Warrior Agent, which boosted their strength while stripping away reason and fear.
• Little White Tiger’s powerful punches failed to stop the advancing legion, and four wounded elders reached Eight Awakenings after injecting the agent.
• The four elders seized Little White Tiger by the wrists as Second Uncle Ma thanked them and the others mourned their sacrifice.

The Ma Family unleashed its Undying Serum reserves, turning its elders into pseudo-eight-awakening fighters as Ji Min, Tao Tao, Ding Baobao, Little White Tiger, and Old Ninth tried to escape. Just as Ji Min faced another devastating attack, a nine-awakening figure appeared and blasted back both sides.

• Old Ninth released his black form and fought the undying warriors in a savage battle while Little White Tiger held off four fighters.
• The Ma Family's twelve elders injected Undying Serum, raising their power to eight awakenings at the cost of their lives, and Ji Min fled with Tao Tao and Ding Baobao.
• Second Uncle Ma pursued Ji Min, and seven pseudo-eight-awakening fighters struck him until his Undying Insect body shattered while shielding Tao Tao.
• Ji Min reassembled himself as a jelly shield and called for help as the Ma Family fighters attacked again.
• A nine-awakening figure appeared in the sky, blasted the fighters away, and greeted Little White Tiger.

Xiao Yuan ordered Chun Prefecture’s Lei Zis to attack the Ma Family before Guotai Min'an and Old Man Guan could arrive, determined to put her man on the throne of Northeast King. En route, a Russian mercenary attack on the officials’ plane was secretly arranged by Overlord Stronghold and used to eliminate the mercenaries, leaving the five elders unable to prove who was behind it.

• Xiao Yuan ordered the masked Lei Zis to parachute into Ma Family territory and crush the family before the Old Man arrived.
• Zuo Ju and Old Fourth paid Russian mercenaries to shoot down the plane carrying Guotai Min'an and Old Ma, lying that it carried Overlord’s mistress.
• The Russian leader fired a Qi Bullet that disabled the plane’s electronics, forcing five elders to leap out and locate the attackers.
• Duan Ka summoned Overlord Stronghold’s ambushing Lei Zis, who killed the mercenaries before they could escape.
• Guotai Min'an arrived and accused Zuo Ju and Duan Ka, but they claimed they had acted to stop foreign trouble, and the dead mercenaries left the elders without proof.

The Pseudo-Divine Body arrived to protect Little White Tiger and revealed that he had mastered eight laws after merging with Man. After he annihilated the Ma Family’s pseudo-eight awakenings fighters, the Great Island Master wounded Ma Tai, and the forces of Chun Prefecture and Bai launched an assault to destroy the Ma Family.

• The Pseudo-Divine Body appeared, reunited with Little White Tiger, and said a deadly tribulation had driven him out of seclusion early.
• The Pseudo-Divine Body used time, spatial, and life laws to kill the Ma Family’s pseudo-eight awakenings fighters.
• The Great Island Master shot Ma Tai with a golden arrow, while Old Ninth and Little White Tiger let him settle their grudge.
• Xiao Yuan rallied the Two Phoenixes, Three Immortals, Four Ghosts, Five Evildoers, and the Lei Zis to wipe out the Ma Family and claim the Northeast for Bai.
• Ding Baobao looked at Little White Tiger and remarked that everyone would know him from then on.

Chun Prefecture destroyed the Ma Family, and Old Ma arrived too late to save it. When he tried to kill Little White Tiger, a powerful figure descended and was introduced as Little White Tiger’s twin brother, Little God.

• Guotai Min'an and Old Ma reached Shen Prefecture and found the Ma Family’s compound destroyed, its warriors dead, and its territories under attack.
• Old Ninth and the others taunted Old Ma, while Ding Baobao offered to take responsibility and Xiao Yuan claimed Chun Prefecture had acted in self-defense.
• Old Man Guan tried to restrain the confrontation, but Old Ma released his Eight Awakenings aura and threatened to kill everyone from Chun Prefecture.
• Little White Tiger challenged Old Ma to strike him, and Old Ma swung the Short Axe at his head.
• The axe shattered before it could hit Little White Tiger, and a powerful figure descended from the sky; Little White Tiger introduced him as his twin brother, Little God.

Old Ma confronted Little White Tiger after the destruction of the Ma Family, but Guotai Min'an and the Demon Ancestors’ arrival made him abandon revenge. Learning that Ma Ran and the youngest children had survived, Old Ma left the Northeast, while Little White Tiger and Old Ninth faced a nominal trial and emerged as the region’s new power.

• Old Ninth signaled Chun Prefecture’s senior members to surround Old Ma, while Yang Huaimin urged Old Ma to stand down.
• Sword Crane and Turtle Ancestor arrived to support Chun Prefecture, and their opposing auras clashed with Guotai Min'an’s forces until Turtle Ancestor called for a settlement.
• Turtle Ancestor asked Little White Tiger to apologize, but Old Ma resisted until Ma Ran called and revealed that he had escaped with the Ma Family’s children under seven.
• Ding Baobao offered to turn himself in, and Old Guan said Little White Tiger and Old Ninth would return to the Capital for trial.
• Old Ma accepted that he could not win, asked how Chun Prefecture would be handled, and left the Northeast as Little White Tiger and Old Ninth stood with their supporters.

After the Lei Zi Army took Shen Prefecture, Xiao Yuan oversaw the purge of the Ma Family’s remaining forces while four senior officials pressured Chun Prefecture to limit the damage. Xiao Yuan explained that the Ma Family’s forces had collapsed quickly because Old Ma fled and most allies lacked loyalty.

• Chun Prefecture’s Lei Zis swept through Shen Prefecture and killed or captured the Ma Family’s remaining forces as Guotai Min'an watched from the Five-Star Hotel.
• The four senior officials detained Ding Baobao, Old Eighth, and Old Ninth, summoned Shen Prefecture officials tied to the Ma Family, and agreed to send Old Eighth and Old Ninth to Death Prison.
• An explosion woke Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, Ji Min, and Ding Baobao, who feared the Ma Family was counterattacking before seeing the Lei Zis clear out the remaining forces.
• Xiao Yuan brought food to the group and explained that the Ma Family’s direct line had been defeated, its allied factions were being rounded up, and its officials were detained nearby.

Little White Tiger worried that Eight-Nine Prefecture might follow the Ma Family’s path and sought guidance on ruling without exploiting the people. Meanwhile, Thirteen woke in the hospital and faced Ding Baobao’s vow to find and castrate the man who had slept with his sister, unaware that Thirteen was the man.

• Xiao Yuan and Ji Min explained how powerful families squeezed the people at the bottom, prompting Little White Tiger to fear that Eight-Nine Prefecture could become like the Ma Family.
• Ding Baobao advised Little White Tiger that rulers needed to balance force with fair treatment of the people, while Old Ninth comforted him as he voiced his doubts.
• Old Man Guan praised Little White Tiger and invited him to return to the Capital in three days to hear answers to his concerns.
• Thirteen woke in the hospital and learned that Ding Baobao believed he had nearly died protecting Ding Baobao’s sister.
• Ding Baobao offered to become Thirteen’s sworn brother, but Thirteen and the others stopped him to avoid making Ding Baobao’s sister Thirteen’s sister.
• Ding Baobao hired the group to find the man who had slept with his sister and vowed to castrate him, while the others awkwardly tried to leave.

Three days after Shen Prefecture stabilized, Xiao Yuan and the two kings began taking over the Ma Family’s legitimate businesses, putting Fang Mu in charge of the vast holdings. Li Shan then revealed he knew the location of the Ma Family’s century-old warehouse.

• Fang Mu explained that the former Ma Family company heads could help the new rulers absorb the family’s businesses, and Li Shan proposed transferring their assets into new companies over three to six months.
• Xiao Yuan accepted Li Shan’s help and assigned Fang Mu to lead the acquisition, with Hi Dog and Bone assisting him and someone else chosen to manage Fei Island.
• Little White Tiger named Fang Mu chief steward of Chun Prefecture’s holdings and gave him broad authority over the businesses, appointing Little Pig as his deputy.
• Li Shan told Xiao Yuan and the two kings that he knew where the Ma Family’s warehouse was and that it contained the family’s accumulated wealth.

Before Little White Tiger and Old Ninth left for the Capital, Little White Tiger assigned control of the newly won territories and resources among his allies. The Northeast’s new leadership was in place, with its forces divided between governing the three prefectures and guarding against outside threats.

• Little White Tiger told his gathered allies he would reward those who helped defeat the Ma Family and announced that Black Mountain Town would take full control of Ice Prefecture under Third Uncle.
• Little White Tiger assigned Shen Prefecture to False Eye, with Fang Mu managing its companies, and False Eye accepted the responsibility.
• Little White Tiger ordered Wine Sword Spear to take twenty thousand troops and intervene on the Korean Peninsula, while Broken Shoe, White Mouse, and Xiaowan were sent to Fei Island to watch Ruan Lie.
• Little White Tiger told Li Shan to give half the Ma Family’s accumulated wealth to Overlord Stronghold once the vault was opened.

Earthworm and Sword Crane encountered the Divine Descent Society’s sinister procession in a border town and discovered that it was abducting people for a ritual. The Yuan and Ma families seized the noodle shop owner as a sacrifice while the frightened townspeople watched.

• Earthworm and Sword Crane arrived in a small Dragon Kingdom border town disguised as a couple.
• The noodle shop owner explained that the Divine Descent Society’s daily processions had coincided with more than a hundred unexplained disappearances.
• Sword Crane recognized the procession as a Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, and Earthworm identified its music and ritual as resembling the parade they had seen when they killed Amaterasu.
• Earthworm and Sword Crane noticed the procession included monsters from many mythologies and a stone pillar carved with demons devouring a golden dragon.
• A laborer tried to escape but burst apart, and the priest ordered the Yuan and Ma families to gather eighty-one people for the ritual.
• Yuan Family henchmen kicked open the noodle shop, seized its owner, and threatened everyone else into staying quiet.

Earthworm learned that the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons was part of an Alien Races plot to destroy the Dragon Kingdom’s national fortune, and set out to stop the ritual. In Shen Prefecture, the Pseudo-Divine Body revealed that Little White Tiger faced a Human Emperor Tribulation, but Little White Tiger vowed to fight rather than hide.

• Earthworm promised Niuniu he would protect her grandfather, called Old Ninth for support, and identified himself to the noodle shop’s occupants as a man from Chun Prefecture.
• Sword Crane explained that the procession’s ritual used Dragon-Pinning Pillars to attack the Dragon Kingdom’s national fortune, with ceremonies planned in forty-nine cities.
• Earthworm asked Hi Dog to connect him with Lei Zi’s people in the borderlands so he could confront the threat.
• The Pseudo-Divine Body warned Little White Tiger that the Human Emperor Tribulation was approaching and foresaw White Garment, Overlord, Instructor, and Guotai Min'an falling in the coming battle.
• Little White Tiger refused to avoid the tribulation, declared that he would protect his brothers and country, and led them in vowing to fight Heaven.

Earthworm and Sword Crane blocked a Kou Island procession in Border Town, and Earthworm’s armed men forced one of its warriors to kneel. The priest recognized Earthworm’s connection to Chun Prefecture, leaving the procession fearful of the force that had devastated Kou Island.

• Old Yuan helped the Kou Island procession prepare to sever the Dragon Kingdom’s Dragon Vein, while his sons rejected his betrayal and walked away.
• Earthworm ate noodles at a table blocking the procession’s road, with Sword Crane holding the captured noodle shop owner’s granddaughter, Niuniu.
• A masked Kou Island warrior struck Earthworm’s table, and Sword Crane pinned the man’s hand with chopsticks before Earthworm ordered him to kneel.
• Lei Zi and the armed men arrived, greeted Earthworm as their boss, and blasted the warrior’s knees until he fell before the table.
• The Kou Island priest recognized Earthworm’s connection to Chun Prefecture, and the procession’s anger gave way to fear as they recalled Chun Prefecture’s attacks on Kou Island.