Chapter Summaries

Elder Pei and Xin Mo prepared to host Chun Prefecture’s biggest auction, where Xin Mo met Jin Zhichang and learned that two guests were hostile toward alien races. Overlord, Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and their entourage arrived in force, and Xin Mo welcomed them into the auction despite Overlord’s status as an SSS-level wanted criminal.

• Elder Pei and Xin Mo discussed the auction and greeted Xin Ru and his overseas classmate Jin Zhichang.
• Elder Pei warned Xin Mo that Little White Tiger and Old Ninth were hostile toward alien races and advised him to keep Jin Zhichang out of the spotlight.
• Overlord arrived at the hotel with Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, and their men, startling the assembled guests.
• Xin Mo welcomed Overlord and offered him a handshake, while Overlord joked about being a wanted criminal and Elder Pei ushered the group inside.

At the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s opening auction, Old Ninth and Little White Tiger clashed with Jin Zhichang after he insulted their group, while Xin Mo tried to keep the event from erupting into a fight. Jin Zhichang stayed despite the warnings and plotted to use his money to humiliate them and pursue Zhu Le’er.

• Old Ninth threatened Jin Zhichang with a knife after hearing him insult the group, but Xin Mo intervened and warned him to leave Chun Prefecture.
• At the auction, Jin Zhichang sat near Little White Tiger with two Fourth Awakening bodyguards, and Little White Tiger provoked him until Xin Ru moved him to another seat.
• Zhu Le’er switched seats with Little White Tiger to keep an eye on Old Ninth and warned him not to cause trouble on the Xin Family’s turf.
• Xin Ru told Jin Zhichang that Xin Mo disliked Alien Races and suggested he approach Xin Mo’s second sister instead.
• Jin Zhichang ignored Xin Ru’s warnings and plotted to use his wealth to outbid the group and pursue Zhu Le’er.

Little White Tiger bid on an animalistic Innate Awakened boy, then faced Jin Zhichang’s provocations over the San Mu Group shares. As Jin Zhichang flaunted his money, Bone slapped him for supposedly stepping on his shadow.

• Little White Tiger had False Eye bid one hundred thousand for the caged boy, and Jin Zhichang drove the price up before quitting at five hundred thousand.
• Old Ninth had Bone and the others leave the auction, while Elder Pei and Xin Mo worried about the coming sale of the San Mu Group stake.
• Jin Zhichang openly challenged Little White Tiger over the shares, and Xin Ru failed to stop him.
• Jin Zhichang raised his bids by tiny increments, while Old Ninth rejected Elder Pei’s offer of money and vowed to play him to the end.
• Bone returned with the others and slapped Jin Zhichang, accusing him of hurting his shadow by stepping on it.

Little White Tiger’s men abducted Jin Zhichang, extorted money from him, and left him to Lao Yang’s bandits when he could not pay everyone. With Overlord and Old Pei’s support, Little White Tiger secured the San Mu Group at auction and emerged as a rising power in Chun Prefecture.

• Old Ninth’s men planted grenades in Jin Zhichang’s pants, disabled him, and forced him out of the venue while Overlord subdued his bodyguards.
• Bone and False Eye made Jin Zhichang write checks for the men who had taken him, then Lao Yang and his bandits surrounded him and beat him when he could not pay them too.
• Xin Mo resumed the auction after Jin Zhichang was removed, and Little White Tiger won the San Mu Group without further bidding.
• The guests congratulated Little White Tiger and Old Ninth as their backing from Overlord and Old Pei became clear.
• Little White Tiger told False Eye to have Lao Yang take Jin Zhichang out of the city and extort fifty million from his family.

Little White Tiger took the auctioned child, whom he named Hungry Ghost, under his protection after realizing he was starving and could understand him. When Hungry Ghost transformed into a powerful beast and fought Old Ninth and Overlord, Overlord identified him as a Taotie, a legendary innate Awakened who could grow stronger by eating.

• Little White Tiger entered the cage despite the experts’ warnings and offered food to the wary child, who accepted it only from him.
• Little White Tiger named the child Hungry Ghost, called him his little brother, and led him out of the cage.
• Hungry Ghost slashed Old Ninth when he tried to touch him, then transformed into a huge beast and fought the Red Demon Dragon and Overlord.
• Hungry Ghost calmed and returned to human form when Little White Tiger ordered him to stop.
• Overlord identified Hungry Ghost as a Taotie, and Xin Mo explained that the creature could turn anything it ate into energy and grow stronger without limit.

Xin Mo refused to rescue Jin Zhichang and focused on finding the Sunlit Heavenly King's Ruins before rival factions. As Little White Tiger organized his forces to take over Chun Prefecture’s underworld, Xiao Yuan offered an alliance and revealed that the ruins would reappear in three days.

• Xin Mo told Xin Ru that they would not save Jin Zhichang, then ordered their people to search outside the city for the Sunlit Heavenly King's Ruins.
• False Eye led Little White Tiger’s men in raids across more than a dozen blocks to seize Chun Prefecture’s underworld territory.
• Little White Tiger assigned the Lower Three Districts to Brother Yan'er, the Upper Three Districts to Black Mountain Town, and the group's legitimate business to Fang Mu.
• Xiao Yuan arrived at Eight-Nine Prefecture and told Little White Tiger and Old Ninth that factions including the Purple Gold, Ji Family, Ma Family, and Gu Family were pursuing the ruins.
• Old Ninth agreed to work with Xiao Yuan, who revealed that the ruins would reappear in three days.

Little White Tiger and Old Ninth went to Chun Prefecture Airport to collect Shu Nan, an illegitimate son of Farbridge Group’s boss, after Xiao Yuan explained why powerful families sent their younger members to Ma Family territory. Shu Nan was humiliated by Shengnan of Purple Gold, then took his anger out on Little White Tiger, who approached him with Old Ninth while deciding to honor Mr. Li’s request.

• Xiao Yuan’s hickeys on Little White Tiger’s neck sparked teasing at breakfast, and she calmly joined the group while he insisted they had not slept together.
• Mr. Li asked Little White Tiger and Old Ninth to look after Shu Nan, and Xiao Yuan explained that powerful families sent juniors to Chun Prefecture because the area belonged to the Ma Family.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth waited at Chun Prefecture Airport for Shu Nan, who arrived among wealthy youths and fawned over Shengnan.
• Shengnan rejected Shu Nan’s advances, mocked his status as an illegitimate son, and warned him not to speak to her again.
• After Purple Gold’s youths left, Shu Nan berated Little White Tiger over the phone, and Little White Tiger and Old Ninth walked toward him while joking about beating him up.

Shu Nan arrived in Chun Prefecture with Little White Tiger and Old Ninth, mistreated them before learning they were the city’s new kings, and was warned to keep his distance. Back at the hotel, a masked conspirator recruited him to act as Farbridge Group’s inside man for a secret task.

• Shu Nan complained about Little White Tiger and Old Ninth’s vans and tried to strike Old Ninth, but Little White Tiger stopped him and warned him to behave in Chun Prefecture.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth brought Shu Nan’s group to the Supreme Hotel, where the assembled factions and hotel staff recognized them as Eighth Master and Ninth Master.
• Shu Nan tried to order an introduction to the local kings, then discovered that Old Ninth was one of them when False Eye held a knife to his neck.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth warned Shu Nan that Farbridge Group carried little influence in Chun Prefecture and left him at the hotel.
• A masked man visited Shu Nan and told him to remember his father’s task, explaining that Farbridge Group was needed as an inside man because the conspirators could not appear in public.

Little White Tiger and the rival factions converged on the ruins beneath a frozen lake, where a barrier allowed only underage Awakened to enter. As the Sunlit Heavenly King appeared on the lake, Little White Tiger prepared to enter the boiling water himself.

• Black Raccoon told Little White Tiger that he had found a pre-Calamity town beneath the lake, where a middle-aged man had expelled him and raised a barrier that barred adults and ordinary people.
• Little White Tiger assembled his companions, ordered Lei Zi to secure the area, and brought Hungry Ghost along to confront anyone who challenged them.
• Little White Tiger's group arrived at the crowded lakeshore, where Bone and the Lei Zi forced rival factions away from the eastern shore.
• A pillar of light heated the lake, and the Sunlit Heavenly King appeared in a boat, singing a tune from before the Great Calamity.
• Old Ninth paid respects to the figure, while Little White Tiger rejected the idea of sending weaker people into the lake and announced that he would enter himself.

Little White Tiger, Old Ninth, Wang Shengnan, and the other contenders endured the Sunlit Heavenly King's blinding light and crushing pressure as they struggled toward his boat. After Old Ninth lost consciousness, Black Old Ninth revealed that the light could help him reach the Third Awakening, and Old Ninth responded by attacking him.

• Wang Shengnan entered the lake first, freezing its surface as she led the Purple Gold youths toward the Sunlit Heavenly King.
• Little White Tiger and Old Ninth were thrown back when they tried to reach the boat, then charged again with Er Niu and the Demon Dragon.
• The Sunlit Heavenly King unleashed Blazing Sun Soul Cleansing, forcing the contenders underwater with scorching light and the pressure of Nine Awakenings.
• Hungry Ghost dragged Old Ninth and Little White Tiger through the lakebed but abandoned Old Ninth as the pressure intensified; the young master of the Gu Family injected Old Ninth with medicine before passing him.
• Old Ninth awoke in the Karst Cave, where Black Old Ninth restored his strength and said he could absorb the Heavenly King's light to reach the Third Awakening and withstand Heavenly Thunder.
• Old Ninth drew his short knife, pinned Black Old Ninth down, and cut off his head.

The Sunlit Heavenly King brought seven survivors into his legacy space, offering his martial arts and urging them to protect the Dragon Kingdom. As they watched his final battle, an Ancestor attacked Old Ninth and Little White Tiger, forcing their consciousnesses back to the classroom with strange memories flooding their minds.

• Old Ninth recovered and passed the Gu Family's young master, who was texting Xiao Mei, before Old Ninth mocked him.
• At the lakeshore, the Sunlit Heavenly King lifted the seven survivors from the lake and drew their consciousnesses into a pre-Apocalypse classroom.
• The Sunlit Heavenly King explained that he wanted to pass on his legacy and will, and the youngsters pledged to protect the Dragon Kingdom.
• Old Ninth promised to teach his brothers the Unique Technique, pleasing the Sunlit Heavenly King, who then showed them his final battle.
• Old Ninth and Little White Tiger saw an Ancestor in the battle, and it sent crimson energy into their foreheads, flooding them with alien memories before their consciousnesses returned to the classroom.

The Sunlit Heavenly King used his blood to help Little White Tiger fuse his Demon Core with the Demon Ancestor's Blood, creating a nascent pseudo-divine body. He explained that it would grow alongside Little White Tiger and could eventually make him a Nine Awakenings powerhouse.

• The Sunlit Heavenly King told Little White Tiger and Old Ninth that their Converted Beast blood prevented them from learning human Nine Awakenings techniques, but encouraged them to develop their own paths.
• The Sunlit Heavenly King awakened Little White Tiger's Demon Core and began fusing it with the Demon Ancestor's Blood, supplying his own blood essence when Little White Tiger's body began to fail.
• The fusion produced a tiny figure resembling Little White Tiger inside the Demon Core, which the Sunlit Heavenly King identified as a nascent pseudo-divine body.
• The Sunlit Heavenly King explained that Little White Tiger now had two bodies and two lives, and described the pseudo-divine body's extraordinary abilities and potential.
• Old Ninth marveled at Little White Tiger's new power and worried about what it meant for himself.

Sunlit Heavenly King rewarded the young cultivators for learning his martial forms, while granting Old Ninth the power of true dragon claws. Before his divine soul faded, he asked Little White Tiger to become his final student and offered to erase the Ancestors' memories within him.

• Sunlit refused to help Old Ninth fully transform into a dragon, explaining that Old Ninth's temperament and the being hidden inside him made it dangerous.
• After learning that the group planned to take revenge on Kou Island, Sunlit gave Old Ninth two genuine dragon claws, leaving dragon-shaped tattoos on his arms.
• Wang Shengnan and Wu Yan each learned five forms, Ji Min learned three, Gu Jiasheng learned two, and Hungry Ghost learned all of them.
• Sunlit thanked the group for their promises to the Dragon Kingdom, asked them to call him Teacher Zhang, and sent them away as his divine soul neared dissipation.
• Sunlit invited Little White Tiger to become his final student and offered to erase the Ancestors' memories within him; Little White Tiger agreed, while Old Ninth protested.

Shu Nan and the Farbridge Group plotted with the Amaterasu Sect to seize the Sunlit Heavenly King's corpse and capture Little White Tiger and Old Ninth. After the group emerged from the Heavenly King's Sea of Consciousness, Kou Island ninjas attacked, while Ji Min also turned back to confront Old Ninth.

• Shu Nan learned that the Farbridge Group had joined forces with the Amaterasu Sect, which planned to extract Demon Ancestor's Blood and seize Little White Tiger and Old Ninth.
• Wang Shengnan, Gu Jiasheng, Ji Min, Wu Yan, Hungry Ghost, and Old Ninth emerged from the Heavenly King's Sea of Consciousness, and Ji Min demanded to know whether Hungry Ghost had learned all nine forms.
• Old Ninth defended Hungry Ghost from Ji Min's threats, while Gu Jiasheng tried to broker a deal for the Sunlit forms and Wang Shengnan said she would visit Little White Tiger the next day.
• More than a dozen Kou Island ninjas arrived, and Black Raccoon attacked them before their leader challenged Old Ninth and ordered the others to search underwater for the Heavenly King's corpse.
• Ji Min grew angry again in the departing vehicle and yanked open the door, declaring that he would beat Old Ninth.

Ji Min intervened when Sanda and the Amaterasu Sect ninjas threatened Old Ninth, provoking them into a fight. As Ji Min faced Sanda, Hungry Ghost tore through the ninjas and defeated Sanda in a single blow, astonishing Ji Min.

• Ji Min arrived at the lake, stopped Old Ninth from fighting the ninjas, and said he would protect the Dragon Kingdom from the Alien Races.
• Ji Min insulted and slapped Sanda, then challenged him while removing his Wasteland Artifacts.
• Sanda attacked Ji Min, but his tachi shattered against Ji Min before he could continue.
• Old Ninth roused Hungry Ghost by telling him the ninjas wanted to kill his brother, and Hungry Ghost slaughtered the attackers.
• Hungry Ghost knocked away Sanda's Natal Tachi and crushed his confidence, leaving Ji Min stunned to learn Hungry Ghost was twelve.

Black Raccoon, Ji Min, and Old Ninth fought the ninjas and the war criminals summoned from the Amaterasu Sect’s scroll by the lake. The resurrected enemies reached the Fifth Awakening, and Old Ninth chose to face them rather than retreat.

• Black Raccoon and Ji Min faced the ninja in white and three mercenaries, while Old Ninth and Little White Tiger remained at risk of being taken away.
• Sanda opened the scroll and summoned Tojo into his body, but Ji Min struck him and challenged him with the Sunlit Heavenly King’s martial techniques.
• Old Ninth attacked the summoned war criminals, killed Doi Yuan, and mocked the resurrected enemy’s weakness.
• Doi Yuan regenerated as the scroll empowered the eight war criminals, raising them to the Fifth Awakening.
• Ji Min and Old Ninth prepared to fight the eight strengthened war criminals, and Old Ninth refused to run despite the danger.

Ji Min and Old Ninth fought Tojo’s group of War Criminals alongside Hungry Ghost, whose Taotie ability could devour their souls. When Doi Yuan stabbed Old Ninth and invoked the slaughter of his forebears, Old Ninth’s episode triggered and Black Old Ninth emerged, leaving the enemies facing his brutal attacks.

• Ji Min asked Old Ninth to hold off the eight fifth-awakening fighters while he prepared the Ji Family sealing technique.
• Old Ninth mounted the Demon Dragon and clashed with Tojo as Hungry Ghost attacked the killing-intent giant and devoured Matsuda, overcoming the War Criminals’ immortality.
• Old Ninth tore off Tojo’s head, but Doi Yuan stole it and restored Tojo before stabbing Old Ninth with five Tachi.
• Doi Yuan’s words about slaughtering Old Ninth’s forebears triggered his episode, and Black Old Ninth emerged amid a surge of black vapor.
• Black Old Ninth used Thousand Threads to trap an enemy and tore out his organs, terrifying Tojo’s group even as the man regenerated.

Ji Min activated the Ji Family’s Heaven and Earth Sealing, but a sniper shot knocked him unconscious before it could close. Xiao Yuan, Sickness, and Pestilence arrived to confront the attackers, while Little White Tiger awakened beside Old Ninth and prepared to fight the War Criminals.

• Old Ninth restrained the seven War Criminals as Ji Min activated the Heaven and Earth Sealing, draining the Qi of everyone inside its formation.
• A sniper shot Ji Min just before the formation closed, interrupting the seal, and Xiao Yuan arrived with Sickness and Pestilence.
• Sickness infected White Garment Ninja with accelerated disease, while Pestilence’s plague forced both sides to retreat from the affected area.
• Inside the barrier, Old Ninth lay unable to move after exhausting his Qi, and Tojo struck him with a giant Tachi attack.
• Little White Tiger appeared beside the unharmed Old Ninth, lifted him onto a towering wave, and vowed to fight alongside his brother.

Overlord and his allies arrived to save Little White Tiger, while the Sunlit Heavenly King confronted the seven war criminals and fulfilled his long-held wish with a final attack on Kou Island. After Sunlit vanished, White Garment changed course toward Kou Island to continue the retaliation.

• Overlord leaped from a helicopter, killed a Fifth Awakening mercenary, and pursued Kujue, while Shu Nan was surrounded by Bone and the others and stabbed after admitting nothing.
• Little White Tiger fought the seven Fifth Awakening war criminals and used the Sunlit Nine Forms to suppress them until the Sunlit Heavenly King intervened.
• Sunlit named the war criminals as men who had brutalized the Dragon Kingdom, then explained his regret at being unable to avenge the forebears they had killed.
• Sunlit demonstrated his final move, Nanjing, and vanished after sending a devastating attack toward Kou Island that killed six hundred thousand people and laid the three hundred thousand wronged souls to rest.
• Little White Tiger, Overlord, and Old Ninth bid farewell to Sunlit, while White Garment changed course for Kou Island and told Meng Kan, Hi Dog, and Earthworm that they would slaughter two more cities.

After the Sunlit Heavenly King’s final radiance awakened the fallen heroes of the Dragon Kingdom, they returned to protect Little White Tiger and the others from the Kou Island war criminals. The heroes defeated the enemies, then departed after entrusting the Dragon Kingdom’s safety to the living.

• Overlord’s men brought hundreds of Kou Island captives to the lakeshore and shot them as the seven war criminals watched from inside the barrier.
• Bone, Xiao Feng, Wang Shengnan, Gu Jiasheng, and their clans entered the barrier to protect Little White Tiger and Old Ninth.
• Golden starlight fell where the Sunlit Heavenly King had disappeared, and a bugle call sounded from a nearby hill.
• Translucent heroes appeared across the hills, and Tojo recognized them as the fallen soldiers who had once driven the invaders from the Dragon Kingdom.
• The returned heroes charged the seven war criminals and killed them while protecting Little White Tiger and the others.
• The heroes bid farewell to Little White Tiger, left him a broadsword wrapped in red cloth, and the people by the lake knelt in gratitude.