Chapter Summaries

The World's Number One Spear arrived just as Old Bat and the Pope were about to kill Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, turning the battle in their favor. He pinned Old Bat with Black Crow and left the Pope facing a new opponent, though his own failing life force remained a concern.

• The Pope and Old Bat teamed up to attack Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, and the Pope redirected his Cross of Faith toward a city full of civilians.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth charged the cross to protect the civilians, while Old Bat prepared a sneak attack against them.
• A black spear shot in and pinned Old Bat to the ground, and the Pope recognized it as Black Crow.
• The man in black arrived, identified himself through his White Sparrow and Black Crow reputation, and taunted the Pope and Old Bat.
• The man in black mocked Old Bat's threat about his failing life force, then vomited onto Old Bat's face.

Gunman drove the Pope and Old Bat away before they could kill Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, but Little White Tiger began comprehending a law as he faced the grief and guilt of Instructor’s death. White Garment arrived wounded, and Gunman prepared to face his old rival.

• Gunman confronted the Pope and Old Bat, forcing them to abandon their attack on Little White Tiger and Old Ninth.
• Little White Tiger charged the retreating Pope, but the Pope and Old Bat escaped after threatening the Dragon Kingdom and Chun Prefecture.
• Gunman explained that he had only two years left to live and had avoided a prolonged battle, then asked Little White Tiger to repay him by protecting his disciple someday.
• Little White Tiger began passing the trial of the heart as he comprehended a law, and Gunman warned Old Ninth not to disturb him.
• White Garment arrived bloodied after forcing Qingmu into the abyss, and Gunman’s fighting spirit stirred Black Crow.

Gunman spared the wounded White Garment, who decided to undergo Immortal Ascension immediately and sent Old Ninth to gather their forces for the final battle. Inside his Sea of Consciousness, Little White Tiger faced his grief over Instructor and his fallen brothers, who gave him strength to awaken the Human Emperor Law Path.

• Gunman confronted White Garment but left without fighting, insisting he would face him when White Garment had recovered.
• White Garment said he would undergo Immortal Ascension immediately and ordered Old Ninth to return to Chun Prefecture and gather their forces once Little White Tiger woke.
• Little White Tiger wandered through darkness in his Sea of Consciousness and met Old Man, Xiao Fei, Beibei, and his other fallen brothers.
• Instructor told Little White Tiger not to blame himself and urged him to protect the Dragon Kingdom and care for the living.
• Little White Tiger's brothers dissolved into starlight and entered his Human Emperor Seal, helping him comprehend the Human Emperor Law Path.

Little White Tiger awakened the Human Emperor Law Path and learned to command other laws, while White Garment prepared for an inevitable battle against the West. After Instructor was killed, the Old Man rejected calls for restraint and declared war on the Alliance.

• White Garment explained that the Human Emperor Law Path could command the laws of the heavens, and Old Ninth and White Garment watched Little White Tiger awaken its power.
• Little White Tiger created the Blue Star Shield by commanding Mental Law and said he could currently command one law at a time.
• White Garment ordered everyone to return to Chun Prefecture and prepare for a great war within a month, saying he intended to crush the West.
• The Old Man refused Yang Huaimin, Minister Bai, and Minister Ding's attempts to restrain him after Instructor's death and ordered his forces to prepare for war.
• The Old Man rejected Mr. Scheer's peace-seeking call, blamed the Alliance and Holy See for the attacks, and threatened to bring war to the Alliance Congress.

Old Guan rallied Yang Huaimin, Ministers Ding and Bai, and the Capital’s families to support White Garment’s planned ascension and prepare for war against the alliance. As the First War Zone mobilized, representatives across the Capital pledged their forces and resources, leaving the Dragon Kingdom united and ready to fight.

• Old Guan told Yang Huaimin, Minister Ding, and Minister Bai that White Garment’s early ascension made war unavoidable, then asked them to support the Dragon Kingdom.
• Yang Huaimin committed the Security Department and Yang Family to the First War Zone, while Ding promised supplies and Bai pledged the Bai Family and vowed to suppress cowardice.
• Old Guan ordered all six war zones to mobilize and declared that war had begun, as Guan Lei, Guan Ming, and Guan Ting led the Guan Family’s children in answering the call.
• Tian Bo and Yun Fei pledged the Tian Family and European Capitalist Faction to the war, and the Wang Family patriarch committed Purple Gold’s branches to the First War Zone.
• Zhang Yang offered the National Situation Bureau’s intelligence network and presented Chun Prefecture’s emblem, while Wang Shengnan placed the Third Branch and Su Residence under the First War Zone.
• The Chang, Luo, and other powerful Capital families requested battle, filling the courtyard as Guotai Min'an saw the Dragon Kingdom’s forces unite.

Yixiu and his teammates arrived in Chun Prefecture and recruited local enforcers to find the Twelve Knights. Disguised as Dragon Kingdom people, the Twelve Knights hid near Eight-Nine Prefecture, where Weiss received the Pope’s approval to massacre Chun Prefecture’s residents.

• Yixiu reassured his teammates that the Twelve Knights would have trouble surviving in Chun Prefecture and used his gold badge to mobilize the local enforcers.
• Yixiu gave the enforcers documents showing the Twelve Knights and sent his group to Eight-Nine Prefecture to seek reinforcements.
• Weiss and the other Knights removed their human-skin masks in a hotel overlooking Eight-Nine Prefecture and urged him to attack the city.
• Weiss contacted the Pope, who ordered the Twelve Knights to carry out their planned massacre disguised as Dragon Kingdom people.

Weiss planned for the Holy Knights to massacre Chun Prefecture and destroy its supplies, but Francis left the group and was captured in a hotel ambush. Xiao Gang ordered the Lei Zi to castrate Francis as the attack began.

• Weiss assigned Francis and three knights to purify Chun Prefecture's government district, sent Puko to destroy its warehouses, and planned to capture Yu Leer in Eight-Nine Prefecture.
• Francis went downstairs for a hotel prize draw after hearing its grand prize was a night with the emperor's wife.
• Francis used his qi to locate the winning golden egg, but needles from a Seven-Aperture Exquisite Box sealed his qi while Ghost Thorn struck his waist.
• Three disguised boys revealed that they had recognized Francis, and he fled toward the stairwell as the Lei Zi waited there.
• Xiao Gang ordered the Lei Zi to castrate Francis, declaring that he had defiled the young lady and invaded Chun Prefecture despite the Guan Family's war against the Alliance.

Xiao Yuan captured Francis and used his phone and White Mouse’s mimicry to lure the eleven holy knights out of Eight-Nine Prefecture. The knights followed Francis’s trail into an ambush, where Duan Ka, Zuo Ju, and the Shadow Ghost members surrounded them.

• Xiao Yuan interrogated Francis, then had Sick Ghost kill him when he refused to reveal why he had come to Chun Prefecture.
• White Mouse imitated Francis’s voice and called Weiss, claiming Xiao Yuan was fleeing with Yu Leer and asking the knights to meet him outside the city.
• Weiss led the eleven holy knights to a camp thirty kilometers from the city, where they found Francis’s mutilated body and realized they had been ambushed.
• Duan Ka revealed that he and Zuo Ju were hiding in Chun Prefecture after blowing up Guotai Min'an's plane.
• Yixiu and Shadow Ghost coordinated with Sick Ghost, Plague Ghost, Hungry Ghost, and White Mouse to surround the holy knights.

Duan Ka and Hungry Ghost overwhelmed Weiss and the Holy Knights after Xiao Yuan’s trap drew them outside Chun Prefecture. As the knights faced defeat, Weiss revealed that Eden had sent another team into Eight-Nine Prefecture, where Sikong Yuan and Yu Leer had been left alone.

• Duan Ka revealed that Eight-Nine Prefecture had tracked Weiss’s group and led them to a prepared ambush outside the city.
• Old Sickness played a recording of Little White Tiger’s command, rousing Hungry Ghost, who broke the Holy Knights’ formation and killed their scout.
• Weiss ordered the surviving knights to break out, but Duan Ka used Buddhist seals to block their attacks and defeat them.
• Duan Ka explained that he and Hungry Ghost could kill anyone below nine awakenings, while Hungry Ghost returned from the darkness carrying a nearly eaten severed leg.
• Weiss warned that Adam had sent another Eden team into Eight-Nine Prefecture, where Sikong Yuan and Yu Leer were alone.

Enoch came to Eight-Nine Prefecture to take Yu Leer, whom he believed was Eve, back to Eden, but Xiao Yuan and Turtle Ancestor stopped him. Yu Leer rejected his claims, leaving Enoch trapped between Adam’s orders and Turtle Ancestor’s threat.

• Enoch entered Eight-Nine Prefecture after Adam assured him that the courtyard had no guards or ambush.
• Enoch told Xiao Yuan and Yu Leer that he had come to return Eve to Eden and explained that she was Adam’s other half.
• Xiao Yuan refused to let Enoch take Yu Leer and prepared to fight him with her Fire Phoenix Power.
• Xiao Yuan called on Turtle Ancestor, who appeared and warned Enoch to leave or face him.
• Yu Leer declared that she was Yu Leer, Old Ninth’s woman, and Enoch realized he could neither take her nor safely fight Turtle Ancestor.

Adam appeared in Eight-Nine Prefecture and explained that Eden wanted Yu Leer back to help stop White Garment, but Xiao Yuan refused. Yu Leer awakened as Eve and attacked the group before her memories and affection for Xiao Yuan made her falter, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Adam projected himself through the Mechanical Ball and claimed Yu Leer was his wife, showing memories of Eden’s creation of Eve and her lost memories.
• Xiao Yuan refused to hand Yu Leer over, and Adam revealed that Eve was engineered from five deceased Nine Awakenings powerhouses to help stop White Garment and manage Eden.
• The Thunder Squad surrounded Adam and Enoch, but Adam plunged the city into darkness and used the Mechanical Ball’s magnetic field to pull Turtle Ancestor’s consciousness into the virtual world.
• Adam sent Enoch away and restored Yu Leer’s memories as Eve; when Enoch was attacked, she shielded him and declared that she would kill those who had deceived her.
• Yu Leer attacked Xiao Yuan, but stopped her nails just short of killing her and begged Xiao Yuan to take everyone away because she could not hurt her friend.

After Yu Leer was taken by Eve to Eden, Little White Tiger and Old Ninth prepared to wage war while the West declared it would attack the Dragon Kingdom in seven days. Old Ninth chose to join the defense and avenge Yu Leer, and forces across the Dragon Kingdom began mobilizing.

• At Eight-Nine Prefecture, Duan Ka explained that Yu Leer had awakened Eve’s mind and displayed power at least equal to Adam’s, while Old Turtle described nearly being killed in their virtual-space fight.
• Little White Tiger vowed to gather his forces and settle the score over Yu Leer’s abduction and the attack on Eight-Nine Prefecture.
• Guan Lei told Little White Tiger that the West had declared war on the Dragon Kingdom and that White Garment planned to ascend to immortality on Divine Mountain in half a month.
• Old Ninth learned that Eden was among the hostile forces and agreed to join the war, saying they would kill Eve if they could not save Yu Leer.
• Little White Tiger ordered the troops of Bing and Shen Prefectures, Fei Island, the Peninsula, Prison Island, and the Overlord Stronghold to prepare for battle.
• Little White Tiger contacted Earthworm, Ji Min, and Thirteen, who confirmed that their allies and forces across the Dragon Kingdom were mobilizing for war.

Sikong Jian committed the Southwest’s forces to the First War Zone, while Old Guan prepared to take the fight to the Western coalition. The chapter ended with orders for a Dragon Kingdom offensive across India, Kou Island, and into the Federation.

• Sikong Jian ordered eighty thousand Wolf Soldiers mobilized and pledged the Southwest to follow the First War Zone, threatening civilian factions that failed to attend a meeting.
• Old Guan assessed the Western coalition’s troop movements and predicted it would use Kou Island and India as staging grounds.
• Old Guan ordered the Fourth War Zone to invade Kou Island, disrupt its command system, and prevent it from serving the Western coalition.
• Old Guan sent forces from Qing Prefecture, Tibet Prefecture, and Chuan Prefecture to invade India and take New Delhi within ten days.
• Old Guan ordered Little White Tiger to the Capital and directed thirty thousand Lei Zi to cross Russian territory and strike into the Federation.

As the allied forces threatened to reach Asia within a week, Old Guan gathered the Dragon Kingdom’s leaders to discuss the coming war. Little White Tiger and Old Ninth pledged Chun Prefecture’s full support, and Old Guan urged the elders to set an example for the next generation.

• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth arrived at the Guan Residence, where their strength unsettled Tian Bo and frightened the Chang family.
• Old Ninth teased the old lady, and Little White Tiger quickly smoothed things over by affirming their loyalty to Old Guan.
• After the hall was sealed and phones collected, Old Guan asked the assembled leaders for their thoughts on the allied forces’ imminent arrival.
• Old Ninth called for burying any invaders, while Little White Tiger pledged that Chun Prefecture’s thirty thousand Lei Zi would fight and never retreat without orders.
• Old Guan praised the Dragon Kingdom’s young fighters and called on the elders to demonstrate patriotism and courage one last time.
• The Pao Ge Society elder complained that Thirteen had lost his fighting spirit since getting together with Minister Ding’s daughter.

Old Guan ordered Little White Tiger and Old Ninth to lead Chun Prefecture in a dangerous strike into the Federation’s heartland, and they accepted his saber and mission. As they left, Tian Bo and the gathered powers set aside their feuds for the war and urged them to return alive.

• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth volunteered for Old Guan’s perilous mission, and he ordered them to assemble their forces within two days and disrupt the Federation’s deployments.
• Old Guan gave Little White Tiger his saber and declared that the Peninsula would belong to the Dragon Kingdom after the war.
• Tian Bo acknowledged his personal feud with the two men but promised not to undermine them while they fought the foreign enemy.
• Yun Fei and the leaders of the various powers bowed to Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, wishing them victory and safe return.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth returned the salute and departed, agreeing with their former enemies to resume their conflicts after the war.

Yang Pan entered a hostile Federation meeting to face a final test of his loyalty, but responded to the Korean representative’s challenge by striking him and refusing to be intimidated. He left the room’s powerful factions stunned and declared that he attacked because he hated Koreans and being provoked.

• Yang Pan told Gu Feng and the woman driving that the Federation needed him as an insider and that he would make the Coalition Forces lose at least a hundred thousand men in three days.
• Yang Pan entered the Capitol conference room, where the Korean representative challenged his right to attend and the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect displayed hostile chants from the crowd outside.
• Yang Pan recognized Mr. Qiao as the Federation commander and the corporation’s mastermind, then realized Qiao was using the Korean representative to test his loyalty.
• When the Korean representative insulted the Dragon Kingdom and accused Yang Pan of being a spy, Yang Pan smashed an ashtray into his head.
• Gu Feng drew his blade and threatened the assembled representatives while Yang Pan explained that he had attacked because he hated Koreans and being provoked.

Yang Pan faced a test of his supposed defection when Qiao and Eve demanded that he kill Dragon Kingdom spies. After the spies sacrificed themselves to protect his cover, Yang Pan turned back to the assembled powers and asked if they were satisfied.

• Yang Pan claimed he betrayed the Dragon Kingdom to raise the Yang Family to the throne, and Eve arrived to challenge his loyalty to the Federation.
• Eve accused Yang Pan of making a false defection call, but he denied it and demanded proof.
• Qiao and Enoch brought in more than ten captured Dragon Kingdom spies and ordered Yang Pan to kill them as proof of his loyalty.
• Yang Pan recognized the spies as compatriots, but Wang Hong attacked him, then impaled himself on Yang Pan's saber and urged the others to complete their missions.
• The spies declared their identities and missions before leaping from the building to their deaths, and Yang Pan asked the assembled powers if they were satisfied.

Yang Pan described the Dragon Kingdom’s immense wartime strength and offered the coalition deployment intelligence and sabotage. Eve forbade anyone from targeting Old Ninth, and the alliance prepared to launch its offensive in five days as Yang Pan pressed them to choose a commander.

• Yang Pan warned Qiao and the coalition leaders that the Dragon Kingdom could mobilize as many as a hundred million people if the First War Zone issued its highest mobilization order.
• Eve confirmed that Chun Prefecture alone could muster over a hundred thousand troops, and Qiao argued that the coalition had to win quickly before the Dragon Kingdom mobilized its population.
• Yang Pan offered a troop deployment map, border disruptions, and assassinations to help the coalition create chaos, but Eve threatened to kill anyone who harmed Old Ninth because his death could cause her mental collapse.
• Yang Pan noted that Old Ninth was Eve’s forbidden scale, a safeguard left by Yu Leer through her obsession.
• Qiao announced that the first contingent of a hundred thousand soldiers would arrive in the Asian region in five days, after which the all-out offensive would begin.
• Yang Pan asked who would command the troops and placed his hand-drawn deployment map on the table, saying he would give it only to the commander.

Yang Pan manipulated the coalition’s command contest and gave its leaders a partly false deployment map to draw the Federation and Alliance into conflict. He revealed that he had recorded their meeting with a hidden camera in an artificial eye and ordered the launch of the Sunrise in the East plan to turn Western public opinion against Eden.

• Yang Pan fueled the Federation, Alliance, and Holy See’s rivalry over command, then agreed to hold the deployment map and identify weak points for their attacks.
• The coalition planned an Immortal-slaying operation, sending powerful experts and Eve into the Dragon Kingdom to kill White Garment.
• Yang Pan explained to Gu Feng and Xian'er that his deployment map mixed accurate positions with traps designed to exploit the coalition’s haste.
• Yang Pan revealed that he had removed his eye and replaced it with a miniature camera to record Eden at the meeting.
• Yang Pan said footage of the West colluding with Eden could provoke public terror and destabilize the Federation, then told Gu Feng to launch Sunrise in the East.

Yixiu and Shadow Ghost buried Instructor beside Big Bear and renewed their oath to serve the Dragon Kingdom. A vast crowd from across the country arrived to honor Instructor, leaving the funeral procession still growing as Black Mountain Town saluted him.

• Yixiu placed Instructor's military overcoat in the grave beside Big Bear's and led Shadow Ghost in their oath and farewell salute.
• Huang Yiyi asked why Xiao Yuan and the others had not been told, and Xingxing explained that Shadow Ghost could not publicly honor its dead as fallen servicemen.
• Yixiu declared that Shadow Ghost would set out again, while Huang Yiyi accepted that she could not keep him from war.
• Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and Xiao Yuan arrived with a large crowd to see Instructor off and promised to carry on his will.
• False Eye led Shen Prefecture's armed men in a gun salute for Instructor.
• Third Uncle, Xiao Gang, and the people of Black Mountain Town arrived, and Xiao Gang led them in saluting the hero.