Chapter Summaries

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.

Little White Tiger gathered Chun Prefecture’s forces and allies to honor Instructor’s grave before the coming war. Overlord and the armed bandits pledged to fight for the Dragon Kingdom, and the chapter ended as more allies arrived ahead of the final battle.

• Overlord, his adopted sons, Ruan Lie, and the Peninsula leaders came to Loyalty and Righteousness Mountain to see Instructor off.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth told Yixiu they had received their assignments and might not meet Shadow Ghost again after heading to war.
• Overlord poured treasured wine onto Instructor’s grave, thanked him for guiding Little White Tiger, and pledged that Overlord Stronghold would give everything in the war.
• Little White Tiger led the armed bandits in saluting the unknown hero and vowed they would repay Instructor by killing those who threatened the Dragon Kingdom.
• Li Youxian, the Pao Ge Society, Ji Min, and A Huo arrived with their forces to bid farewell and prepare to fight alongside Chun Prefecture.

Enoch escorted Federation weapons to Kou Island, where the Dragon Kingdom launched a surprise air attack that destroyed the docks and nearby military camps. The Iron Eagle Squadron crossed a deadly thunderstorm and began its first strike, intending to prevent any Kou Island aircraft from taking off.

• Enoch accompanied Kou Island officers to the docks as Federation-supplied weapons were unloaded for the war against the Dragon Kingdom.
• Enoch grew uneasy at how quiet the journey had been, while the legion commander dismissed the risk of a Dragon Kingdom attack.
• Dragon Kingdom artillery bombarded the docks and nearby military camps, destroying the ammunition and killing or injuring troops.
• The legion commander revealed that Kou Island had no patrols because the storm made him believe enemy warships could not enter its waters.
• The Iron Eagle Squadron reported that more than a hundred aircraft had crossed the thunderclouds, accepted that its pilots would be martyrs, and flew toward Kou Island.

Commander Sun and the Dragon Kingdom’s forces launched a devastating assault on Kou Island, while Enoch fled and was cornered by Sun. Sun ordered Zhou Zheng to take soldiers to the emperor’s palace and make the emperor kneel outside the city gate.

• Enoch discovered that the Dragon Kingdom fleet had arrived, while the jammed signal left him unable to report Kou Island’s danger to the West.
• Commander Sun ordered the harbor’s warships destroyed, and over a hundred Nuclear Cannon blasts wiped out Kou Island’s remaining fleet.
• Sun rallied the Fourth War Zone’s soldiers with a call for vengeance, then led them ashore to attack Kou Island; Guan Lei ordered the Seventh Fleet to join them.
• Enoch fled toward the city, but Commander Sun landed in front of him and blocked his escape.
• Sun surrounded Enoch with elite fighters and ordered Zhou Zheng to take soldiers to the emperor’s palace and make the emperor kneel outside the city gate.

Zhou Zheng and the Fourth War Zone stormed Kou Island’s palace, captured the newly appointed emperor, and beat him as the island’s rulers’ dreams collapsed around them. As the palace burned and its defenders were slaughtered, Beast and the Xiang Prefecture Lei Zi continued their paid killing spree.

• The obese emperor dismissed reports of fighting outside the city and boasted to his lover about conquering the Dragon Kingdom and the West.
• Zhou Zheng and Yazi-masked soldiers seized the emperor in his bedchamber, beat him, and mocked his claim to be sovereign.
• Zhou Zheng revealed his identity and said the attack was revenge for wrongs against their ancestors, then ordered his men to beat the emperor again.
• The soldiers dragged the emperor outside, where he saw the palace burning and its people being slaughtered.
• Beast told Zhou Zheng that the Xiang Prefecture Lei Zi were fulfilling Ninth Master’s order to kill for pay, and urged them to keep hunting victims.

The Fourth War Zone and the Xiang Prefecture Lei Zi devastated Kou Island’s capital as Commander Sun forced the emperor to surrender. Sun left Kou Island’s fate conditional on its people obeying while the Dragon Kingdom prepared to face the Federation.

• Zhou Zheng watched reports of the Xiang Prefecture Lei Zi’s destruction and told the emperor that Kou Island’s past crimes could not be dismissed as the deeds of ancestors.
• Commander Sun arrived with Enoch’s corpse, prompting the emperor to beg for surrender and the killing to stop.
• Sun revealed that Dragon Kingdom forces had assassinated the commanders of Kou Island’s main armies and demanded that its military surrender and the island stop resisting.
• Sun threatened that more Lei Zi were waiting offshore and claimed they were civilians outside the military’s control, so the emperor agreed to comply.
• Sun said Kou Island was not the Dragon Kingdom’s main target and warned that its people owed Xiang Prefecture, while Zhou Zheng said the Fourth War Zone was preparing to confront the Federation.

The Old Man prepared for a swift offensive into India while the Dragon Kingdom’s allies and Lei Zi mobilized for war. In Holy Sword City, Alliance general Nancy Archer revealed a plan to lure the Fifth War Zone into a city rigged with explosives, sacrificing its residents.

• The Old Man ordered Shadow Demon to report India's troop deployments and urged the Fifth War Zone to seize the three border cities before India could prepare.
• Guan Ming reported that Old Eighth, Old Ninth, the Overlord, and their allies had issued calls for Lei Zi to fight, while the old lady of the Four Prefectures of Mountains and Rivers issued the Mountains and Rivers Order.
• Nancy Archer arrived in Holy Sword City, warned Indian officers that thirty thousand troops from the Fifth War Zone would attack that night, and said he had brought fifty thousand elite Alliance soldiers.
• Nancy Archer ordered the Indian troops to retreat into Holy Sword City and draw the Dragon Kingdom's main force inside, where buried explosives would destroy the city and its residents.

Nancy revealed his plan to lure the Dragon Kingdom forces into Holy Sword City, but Shadow Demon agent Wang Ziyang discovered the ambush and escaped after sacrificing an arm. Near death in the snow, Wang paid Lei Zi to deliver a warning, and Lei Zi and his two companions split up to carry it through while Nancy’s forces pursued them.

• Nancy instructed the Indian officers to retreat toward Holy Sword City while the Mahakala Legion hid in underground tunnels, then promised them three days of plunder in the Dragon Kingdom.
• Nancy exposed the disguised Wang Ziyang as a Dragon Kingdom spy, but Wang released Green Pufferfish poison, severed his own arm, and escaped.
• Nancy ordered the city sealed and pursued Wang, who crossed the snowy wilderness while badly wounded and determined to warn the Dragon Kingdom about the ambush.
• A helicopter’s gunmen shot Wang, but a crimson shell destroyed their helicopter, and Lei Zi and his companions found him in the snow.
• Wang gave Lei Zi his last ten yuan and asked him to warn the Fifth War Zone, and Lei Zi, Wang Minghao, and Jiang Yu split up as Nancy’s forces arrived.

The Dragon Kingdom’s vanguard departed for the border as civilians sent them off with food and pleas to return alive. On the snowfield, Chen Dongqian gave his life to warn of an ambush at Holy Sword City, and a group of Lei Zi emerged to take over his mission.

• Civilians gave the departing soldiers food and urged them to return safely, and the vanguard commander Xiang vowed to defend the Dragon Kingdom’s border.
• Nancy’s forces caught Chen Dongqian in wolf form, shot him, and demanded to know what Shadow Demon had told him.
• Chen Dongqian refused to betray his mission and sent up a crimson signal to summon nearby Lei Zi before he died.
• Chen Dongqian warned that an ambush awaited at Holy Sword City and called for someone to take the job.
• Dayu, Guaizi, Xiaowu, Xiao Axing, and other Lei Zi appeared from the snow and announced they were taking over the mission.