Recaps

Zhang Guangmu dismissed his Demon Forging Theory class early, then urged the hungry beginners to join forces and fight for what they needed. Fang Yi tried to bait them into attacking him, but his plan failed; on the way to Divination Class, he saw Zhang Guangmu at the cemetery and felt his sorrow seep into him.

• Zhang Guangmu dismissed the class after giving the beginners a few blunt lessons, while privately considering how to repair his poor reputation at Demon Hunting Academy.
• Zhang Guangmu explained the academy's food shortage and recounted how he had once gathered beginners to seize food from repeating students.
• Fang Yi recognized that Zhang Guangmu was encouraging the new students to unite with beginners, and he grew more wary of the dean.
• Fang Yi bought a steak and waited for someone to try taking it so he could claim self-defense and compensation, but no one took the bait.
• On his way to Divination Class, Fang Yi saw Zhang Guangmu standing at a gravestone and felt a faint sorrow that seemed to come from him.

Fang Yi and the other novices began to see Zhang Guangmu as a grieving, caring mentor after Tang Lanshan explained his cold manner, helping him reverse his reputation. Three months passed in an instant, and Zhang found his students protesting his forced removal as Act Three began.

• Fang Yi met Tang Lanshan at the cemetery, where she explained that Zhang Guangmu had buried seventy-two graduates after the Demon Disaster and concealed his affection for his students.
• Tang Lanshan stopped the novices from disturbing Zhang and explained that his emotional distance helped spare him the pain of hearing about students' deaths.
• Zhang Guangmu used the moment to deepen the students' sympathy for him, then left after telling Tang Lanshan to mind her own business.
• The novices interpreted Zhang's coldness as grief and hidden care, while Fang Yi began to pity him despite his earlier resolve to stay away.
• After leaving the cemetery, Zhang experienced a Time Flow that skipped three months, then found students protesting the headmaster's decision to force him out.

After three months at Demon Hunting Academy, Zhang Guangmu had won over students with his teaching and faced a vote to replace him as dean. He calmly allowed the vote to begin, then summoned Tarot Cards that showed their backs to the professors.

• Over three months, Zhang Guangmu and the other Subconscious Actors improved their abilities, while Zhang Guangmu built a strong reputation through his Demon Forging Theory classes.
• Students gathered outside Pitch Black Academy's conference hall to protest the plan to replace Zhang Guangmu as dean.
• Job Bolsolfer urged Zhang Guangmu to preside over the vote, expecting the principal and several professors to remove him from office.
• Zhang Guangmu calmly accepted the vote, saying he would remain a professor and Demon Hunter even if he lost his titles.
• As the vote began, Zhang Guangmu conjured multicolored Demon Forging radiance that formed Tarot Cards with their backs facing the professors.

Tang Lanshan defended Zhang Guangmu during the vote to remove him, and her support helped sway the professors against the motion. Zhang then called for a student representative, and Fang Yi stepped forward, binding himself to the Guangmu Faction as the dean’s disciple.

• Tang Lanshan cited seven years of rising graduate assessment results and voted against removing Zhang Guangmu.
• Job challenged Tang Lanshan’s right to speak, but she rebuked him and claimed Zhang was the only one who could lead the academy through an approaching crisis.
• Several neutral professors followed Tang Lanshan and voted against the motion, while Job argued over the voting rules.
• Zhang Guangmu stopped Job from pressing the procedural argument and asked the students to choose a representative.
• Fang Yi tore through the barrier into the conference hall, and the professors recognized his extraordinary ability.
• Fang Yi accepted the role of student representative and realized he had officially become Zhang Guangmu’s disciple and part of the Guangmu Faction.

Fang Yi defended Zhang Guangmu’s leadership, and Pitch Black Academy’s professors unanimously rejected the proposal to remove him as principal. Zhang Guangmu then answered the old principal’s summons and found him transformed into a giant in a vast office.

• Fang Yi told the professors that the other three academies’ students had stayed away because they feared Pitch Black Academy would surpass them under Zhang Guangmu, then thanked Zhang Guangmu for his guidance.
• Professor Job Bolsover’s father cast the decisive vote against the proposal, saying Zhang Guangmu had matured and shown the restraint and tolerance befitting a principal.
• All Pitch Black Academy professors, including Job, voted against the proposal, securing Zhang Guangmu’s position as principal.
• Yue Yiji announced that the principal had summoned everyone and opened a costly Teleportation Array, which Zhang Guangmu and the professors used to travel to the principal’s office.
• Zhang Guangmu arrived in a vast office and saw the old principal enlarged to several times his normal size, lying across a desk before he woke and fixed his gaze on Zhang Guangmu.

The disheveled old dean revealed that Zhang Guangmu had passed his final test and began appointing him as the next Lord of the Demon Hunting Magic Ring. The old dean died before completing the succession, and an alarm sounded as cries rose from outside.

• The old dean summoned the professors to share his last words and revealed that he had once belonged to Pitch Black Academy.
• The old dean recounted a prophecy about a gifted sorcerer from Pitch Black Academy who would kill him and take his position, and Zhang Guangmu offered to fulfill it.
• The old dean explained that his proposal to depose him had been a test, and declared that Zhang Guangmu had passed because he was wise, kind, and loved by the people.
• The old dean broke his staff and began transferring his position and power to Zhang Guangmu, but corruption emerged from his body and he died before finishing the appointment.
• Rainbow radiance began empowering Zhang Guangmu's staff, and an alarm rang as screams and sobs came from outside the corridor.

After the Demon Tide invaded the Four Academies, Zhang Guangmu took charge of organizing the professors to rescue the students while the other deans pursued their own ambitions. He headed toward the cemetery and theory-class study rooms, where he encountered a powerful demonized lion looming over an unlucky student.

• Bai Yongsheng suspected an inside traitor and learned from Yue Yiji that Shang Guizang had betrayed humanity.
• Bai Yongsheng and Sang Shenyou left the principal's office, while Zhang Guangmu persuaded the remaining professors to work together and assigned them rescue duties.
• Zhang Guangmu ordered the professors to regroup at the library after their rescues, then set off alone for the cemetery and theory-class study rooms.
• Zhang Guangmu encountered a massive, rotten lion monster and judged that fighting it head-on would likely get him killed.
• Zhang Guangmu noticed an unlucky student beneath the demonized lion and considered how to deal with the monster.

Zhang Guangmu rescued a Demon Forging Staff from a demonized lion and organized the surviving students into a fighting force that pushed through the academy. The group reached the source of the Demon Tide, where Fang Yi faced the suspected traitor Shang Guizang.

• Zhang Guangmu darted past the demonized lion, seized a nearby Demon Forging Staff, and burned the creature to ash with hellfire.
• Zhang Guangmu gathered the survivors and assigned strong upper-grade students to protect the group’s front and rear as they advanced through the academy.
• The students followed Zhang Guangmu’s orders, coordinated their Demon Hunting Sorcery, and cut down demons along the way.
• Zhang Guangmu led the group to a hole in the castle wall where demons poured into the academy and found Fang Yi confronting Shang Guizang.
• A student warned Zhang Guangmu that Shang Guizang had betrayed humanity and joined the demons.

Shang Guizang revealed that he had stolen the Forbidden Demon Staff and intended to seize the Demon Hunting Magic Ring’s power, then demonstrated its strength by killing Professor Job and Old Professor Job. He demanded that Zhang Guangmu surrender and serve as his Number One Sorcerer.

• Zhang Guangmu arrived beside the wounded Fang Yi and arranged for him to receive treatment while Shang Guizang subdued the surrounding demonic creatures and weakened the students’ staffs.
• Shang Guizang revealed that Fang Yi possessed a staff bearing destiny and confessed that he had stolen the Forbidden Demon Staff to claim the Demon Hunting Magic Ring’s power, regardless of the cost to humanity.
• Shang Guizang killed Professor Job with a flash of crimson light, and Old Professor Job warned Zhang Guangmu that the Forbidden Demon Staff could seal the power of most Demon Hunting Sorcerers’ staffs.
• Old Professor Job’s ambush failed, and Shang Guizang killed him with an Azure Death Ray; Old Professor Job handed his staff to Zhang Guangmu before dying.
• Shang Guizang told Zhang Guangmu that even a jade-grade staff would be severely weakened against the Forbidden Demon Staff and demanded that Zhang Guangmu surrender and become his Number One Sorcerer.

Shang Guizang tried to force Zhang Guangmu to surrender, but Zhang refused and stopped Fang Yi from sacrificing himself. Zhang Guangmu then used Mooncake to transform with Swiftness of the Spirit Cat, leaving his new form revealed as he faced Shang Guizang.

• Shang Guizang offered to spare the students if Zhang Guangmu agreed to become his subordinate, but Zhang rejected the offer.
• Shang Guizang revealed that Zhang Guangmu could not use his Demon Forging Staff or cast Demon Hunting Sorcery under the Forbidden Magic Staff’s suppression.
• Zhang Guangmu cast basic enhancement spells on himself, while Shang Guizang prevented Fang Yi from handing over the Fate Staff.
• Fang Yi began to transform into a monster, but Zhang Guangmu stopped him and promised he would not lose.
• Zhang Guangmu used Mooncake as a medium to cast Swiftness of the Spirit Cat and appeared in a new form.

Zhang Guangmu used Life Fusion Augmentation Technique to evade Shang Guizang’s attacks and killed him with a single punch. With the Demon Tide’s culprit dead, Zhang Guangmu organized the students to secure the Four Great Academies, then Fang Yi asked to speak with him privately.

• Shang Guizang recognized Zhang Guangmu’s Life Fusion Augmentation Technique and attacked him with the Forbidden Magic Staff, but Zhang Guangmu dodged the Azure Death Rays.
• Zhang Guangmu punched through Shang Guizang’s sorcerous armor, destroyed his heart, and killed him.
• The students checked Shang Guizang’s corpse and confirmed that he was dead, reversing the crisis at the Four Great Academies.
• Zhang Guangmu returned Mooncake to her little black cat form and assigned students to clear monsters, deliver messages, and stabilize the academies.
• Fang Yi approached Zhang Guangmu with an old-looking staff and nervously asked to speak with him in private.

After Fang Yi performed well, Zhang Guangmu offered to teach him the Life Fusion Augmentation Technique, earning Fang Yi’s trust. Fang Yi gave Zhang Guangmu the Fate Staff to study, leaving Zhang with two revealed Divine Artifacts to investigate.

• Zhang Guangmu praised Fang Yi and invited him to learn the Life Fusion Augmentation Technique during the break.
• Fang Yi realized Zhang Guangmu sincerely wanted him to grow stronger and decided to trust him.
• Fang Yi offered Zhang Guangmu the Fate Staff so they could study its secrets together.
• Zhang Guangmu gave Fang Yi another powerful staff to use and took the Fate Staff, bringing his Divine Artifact collection to two.
• Zhang Guangmu assigned tasks to the students, returned Mooncake to his shoulder, and began testing the Fate Staff with Demon Hunting Sorcery.

Zhang Guangmu finished analyzing the Fate Staff and returned it to Fang Yi, then offered to teach the students his improved Fusion Augmentation Technique. Director Feng Chuang reflected on how Zhang Guangmu’s sense of responsibility shaped his performance and worried that it would make it difficult for him to defeat Bai Yongsheng and Sang Shenyou.

• Zhang Guangmu used the Forbidden Magic Staff to analyze the core mysteries of the Fate Staff and committed their sorcery knowledge to memory.
• Zhang Guangmu returned the Fate Staff to Fang Yi and explained that it could let its wielder switch between human and monster forms.
• Zhang Guangmu told Fang Yi to inform the other students that they could learn his improved Fusion Augmentation Technique if their theory grades qualified.
• Fang Yi accepted the Fate Staff and set out to help the others clear monsters, inspired by Zhang Guangmu.
• Director Feng Chuang said the experiment had drawn out Zhang Guangmu’s strong sense of responsibility and blamed himself for giving Zhang Guangmu a role burdened with humanity’s fate.

After the Demon Tide, Zhang Guangmu became acting principal, but leaders from the other academies questioned his claim because he had not inherited the Demon Hunting Divine Body. With Yue Yiji and Tang Lanshan’s help, he mastered the Divine Artifacts’ secrets and perfected a safe second-stage transformation, then ordered Tang Lanshan to watch Sang Shenyou as the other principals prepared to act.

• Zhang Guangmu took the position of acting principal after defeating Shang Guizang and resolving the Demon Tide, though the other academies withheld their support because he lacked the Demon Hunting Divine Body.
• Yue Yiji reported that he had completed his assigned work, and Zhang Guangmu thanked him for helping with post-disaster affairs.
• Zhang Guangmu reflected on how Yue Yiji and Tang Lanshan’s efforts had given him time to study Fang Yi’s Demonization Staff and Shang Guizang’s Seal Demon Staff.
• Zhang Guangmu mastered the principles of demonization and sealing demons, perfected his second-stage transformation, and eliminated its risks.
• Tang Lanshan warned Zhang Guangmu that Bai Yongsheng and Sang Shenyou seemed ready to act, and Zhang Guangmu told her to watch Sang Shenyou.

Seven days after the Demon Tide invasion, Zhang Guangmu’s position as acting principal had gained support after he gave Tang Lanshan the Seal Demon Staff. Bai Yongsheng then challenged Zhang Guangmu to a duel, wagering that a victory would annul the Black-Red Protocol.

• Tang Lanshan promised Zhang Guangmu she would keep a close eye on Sang Shenyou, while Yue Yiji avoided joining their discussion.
• Zhang Guangmu gave Tang Lanshan the Seal Demon Staff so she could better guard against Sang Shenyou.
• After seven days of accelerated time, Zhang Guangmu had taught students across all three grades the first-stage transformation method of his Improved Fusion Augmentation Technique.
• Professors came to view Zhang Guangmu as a generous acting principal because he had gifted Tang Lanshan the Divine Artifact.
• Bai Yongsheng approached Zhang Guangmu in the great graveyard, declared his ambition to become Demon Hunting Magic Ring King, and challenged him to a duel with the Black-Red Protocol at stake.

Zhang Guangmu accepted Bai Yongsheng’s challenge, with the Black-Red Protocol and popular support at stake. As their duel began in the Great Graveyard, Bai Yongsheng revealed a new close-combat style, but Zhang Guangmu answered by transforming with the Second-Stage Fusion Augmentation Technique.

• Bai Yongsheng explained that the Black-Red Protocol required Pitch Black Academy to give Crimson Academy forty percent of its food and teaching supplies each quarter, and offered to annul it if Zhang Guangmu won.
• Zhang Guangmu accepted Bai Yongsheng’s challenge, and Bai Yongsheng immediately took a dueling stance in the Great Graveyard.
• Zhang Guangmu spread a Forbidden Magic Domain across the graveyard, preventing the onlookers from using sorcery.
• Bai Yongsheng formed a fiery greatsword from his staff and explained that Zhang Guangmu’s example had inspired him to develop a close-combat style.
• Zhang Guangmu invoked the Second-Stage Fusion Augmentation Technique, surrounding himself and Mooncake with black Demon Forging radiance before reappearing in a new form.

Zhang Guangmu defeated Bai Yongsheng in a duel after revealing his second-stage transformation and effortlessly countering Bai’s attacks. After Bai conceded, Zhang Guangmu noticed Yue Yiji holding a bloodstained bounty notice bearing his portrait and the words “One Hundred Million People.”

• Zhang Guangmu transformed into his second stage, wielding a cloud-patterned saber as Bai Yongsheng assessed his magic resistance and intimidating eyes.
• Bai Yongsheng charged Zhang Guangmu with his crimson greatsword, but Zhang dodged and deflected his attacks with ease.
• Zhang Guangmu dismantled Bai Yongsheng’s sword-and-sorcery techniques while praising his skill and comparing him favorably to Shang Guizang in combat.
• Bai Yongsheng ended the duel and accepted Zhang Guangmu’s victory, though he remained bewildered by how thoroughly Zhang had countered him.
• Zhang Guangmu noticed Yue Yiji holding a bloodstained parchment with his portrait and the words “Zhang Guangmu,” “bounty,” and “One Hundred Million People.”

After defeating Bai Yongsheng, Zhang Guangmu abolished the Black-Red Protocol and announced a new system for distributing supplies among the Four Great Academies. Yue Yiji brought him news that a highly intelligent demonic lord was preparing demons for war and that Zhang Guangmu had been placed on their kill list, just as his Usable Ability Points arrived.

• Zhang Guangmu abolished the Black-Red Protocol and announced that supplies would be distributed weekly according to the Four Great Academies' combined academic and practical scores.
• Bai Yongsheng admitted defeat, recalled that he had chosen Crimson Academy over Pitch Black Academy, and left while planning to transform his bonded staff and reclaim his path to becoming the Law Ring King.
• Yue Yiji told Zhang Guangmu that field-training graduates had discovered a high-intelligence demonic lord teaching demons human writing and forging equipment, and urged him to secure the Demon Hunting Magic Ring King position.
• Yue Yiji showed Zhang Guangmu the demons' bounty notices, which offered one hundred million people for Zhang Guangmu and ten million each for Bai Yongsheng and Sang Shenyou.
• Zhang Guangmu sensed his Usable Ability Points arriving as he examined the bounty notices.

Zhang Guangmu gained an ability point from the Demon Forging Teaching Diagram, then examined the Demonic Lords’ bounty notices and reassured Yue Yiji that humanity still had a chance. Back in his office, his staff transformed into the Bloodline Staff, giving him the power to enter the second-stage Fusion Augmentation state instantly and the confidence to grasp extraordinary power.

• Zhang Guangmu viewed the Demon Forging Teaching Diagram, gained one usable ability point, and decided to save it.
• Zhang Guangmu learned that Yue Yiji and Tang Lanshan each had a five-million bounty and that Fang Yi had a three-million bounty, then returned the notices to Yue Yiji and told her not to despair.
• Zhang Guangmu returned to his office, where a black-and-red ripple tore up documents as his Destined Divine Artifact finished transforming.
• Zhang Guangmu identified the transformed artifact as the Bloodline Staff and realized it held the power of bloodline and had inherited part of the Demon Hunting Magic Ring’s authority.
• Zhang Guangmu used the Bloodline Staff’s power to resolve the cumbersome preparations and long casting time of the second-stage Fusion Augmentation Technique, allowing him to transform instantly.

Zhang Guangmu pursued a new form of Demon Hunting Sorcery, using his authority and the Four Academies’ resources to research organ modification while Sang Shenyou spread rumors calling him the Mad Principal. Zhang Guangmu completed the research ahead of schedule, published the Guangmu Organ Modification Method, and began a public lecture for the Four Academies.

• Zhang Guangmu decided the Bloodline Staff could help him reach the limits of Demon Hunting Sorcery and began researching a New Bloodline Sorcery.
• Zhang Guangmu used the former principals’ treasuries and issued missions to gather materials for his research.
• Sang Shenyou secretly spread distorted rumors about Zhang Guangmu, prompting people across the Four Great Academies to call him the Mad Principal.
• Zhang Guangmu completed the Guangmu Organ Modification Method in half the expected time and published it in the school newspaper.
• Zhang Guangmu began a public lecture for students and professors of the Four Academies at 8:30 a.m. the next day.

Zhang Guangmu demonstrated his bare-handed sorcery and Demon Forging Organ Modification research, earning recognition as the true Dean of Demon Hunting Academy. Bai Yongsheng resigned to seek a new path, while Sang Shenyou disappeared, and Zhang Guangmu prepared for the finale of “Demon Hunting Academy” with Mooncake.

• Zhang Guangmu demonstrated bare-handed spellcasting during his public lecture, while Fang Yi showcased the results of his living-body modification.
• Bai Yongsheng and Sang Shenyou accepted the significance of Zhang Guangmu’s research, and Zhang Guangmu gained the achievement Sorcery (Steel).
• Bai Yongsheng decided to leave Crimson Academy and later sent Zhang Guangmu a resignation letter explaining that he wanted to help people suffering beyond the academies.
• Zhang Guangmu accepted Bai Yongsheng’s resignation and noted that Sang Shenyou had also vanished without leaving a letter.
• Zhang Guangmu created wings for Mooncake with black flames and asked the cat to ascend the throne of the Demon Hunting Magic Ring with him.

Sang Shenyou led elite students away from the Demon Hunting Academy while vowing to return and take revenge, and his defiant words won him unexpected sympathy. Zhang Guangmu then received a three-year False Memory portraying him as having transformed humanity through the Guangmu Organ Modification Method, but he suspected the scenario’s reassuring tone meant he was destined to lose.

• Sang Shenyou left the academy with elite students he had recruited, intending to build a loyal force and eventually return for revenge against Zhang Guangmu, Tang Lanshan, Yue Yiji, and Fang Yi.
• Sang Shenyou’s paranoid delusions made him suspect that Zhang Guangmu was secretly watching him and that a spy might be among his students.
• Sang Shenyou feigned optimism about his chances, and his words strengthened the students’ resolve and softened the Little White Balls’ view of him.
• Zhang Guangmu suddenly received a False Memory in which three years had passed since Sang Shenyou and Bai Yongsheng left.
• In the False Memory, Zhang Guangmu had used the Guangmu Organ Modification Method to turn the four academies’ professors and students into Bloodline Sorcerers whose talents could pass to their descendants.
• Zhang Guangmu reflected that Director Feng Chuang’s reassuring inner monologue sounded like a hint that he was destined to lose.

After three years as principal, Zhang Guangmu had strengthened his position and mastered the Absolute Corruption Mystery through Yue Yiji’s staff. As the Demon Hunting Magic Ring’s energy began to expand and divination failed, the principals realized the Law Ring was about to choose its master.

• Zhang Guangmu heard reports from Tang Lanshan and Yue Yiji, then guided them as the established principal of Demon Hunting Academy.
• Yue Yiji prepared to leave for Azure Blue Academy, but Zhang Guangmu stopped him and recalled how he had gained Yue Yiji’s full allegiance and studied his Demon Corruption Insulating Staff.
• Zhang Guangmu had named the staff’s secrets the Absolute Corruption Mystery, which let him resist demon corruption and draw more power from his Transcendent knowledge.
• Feng Chuang said the production’s coming conflict would involve four factions and praised Zhang Guangmu’s progress.
• Tang Lanshan reported that her divination could no longer glimpse the future as the Demon Hunting Magic Ring’s energy expanded, and Yue Yiji declared that the Law Ring was choosing its master.

As demonic forces surrounded Demon Hunting Academy, Zhang Guangmu and the professors prepared to defend humanity. The Demon Hunting Magic Ring awakened, and Yue Yiji and Fang Yi urged Zhang Guangmu to claim its throne while Tang Lanshan asked to accompany him.

• Fang Yi reported that demonic creatures had surrounded Demon Hunting Academy and asked Zhang Guangmu for permission to fight at the front line.
• Zhang Guangmu announced that the Demonic Lords had completed their mobilization and ordered the others to drive back the coming attack.
• A violent eruption of Demon Forging Power shook the academy, and Yue Yiji, Fang Yi, and Tang Lanshan recognized that the Demon Hunting Magic Ring had awakened.
• Yue Yiji and Fang Yi urged Zhang Guangmu to go claim the throne of the Demon Hunting Magic Ring while they defended the academy.
• Tang Lanshan asked Zhang Guangmu to let her accompany him and guard against hidden dangers.

Zhang Guangmu reached Kokolo Reservoir, where Bai Yongsheng challenged him for the right to become Lord of the Magic Ring. Zhang left Tang Lanshan to hold Bai off and entered the Weibo River, while Yue Yiji spotted a Three-Faced Demon commanding the Demon Tide outside the castle.

• Zhang Guangmu traveled with Tang Lanshan and Mooncake to Kokolo Reservoir, the entrance to the Demon Hunting Magic Ring.
• Bai Yongsheng appeared and declared that he intended to become Lord of the Magic Ring, revealing his Hope Source Fire-powered Life-Burning Staff.
• Tang Lanshan offered to face Bai Yongsheng so Zhang Guangmu could proceed, but Zhang transformed with Mooncake and entered the Weibo River.
• Tang Lanshan unleashed her Third Stage Pure Black Divination as Bai Yongsheng prepared to fight her.
• Yue Yiji used Star-Gazing Sorcery to see a Three-Faced Demon whose faces changed between Bai Yongsheng, Sang Shenyou, and Zhang Guangmu, and recognized it as the Demon Tide's supreme commander.