Chapter Summaries

As the Heavenly Demons battered Beijing, Ling Xuan and the musicians of the Thousand Sounds Domain joined Humankind and the Demon Race in a powerful concert that strengthened the Allied Army. The soldiers renewed their assault, but Chu Chang and Kuang Cang knew the Outer City Wall was close to falling.

• Elderly Night Spirit Race soldiers arrived to join the battle, insisting they would not be treated as cowards, and the Demon Race formation officer let them through.
• Cheng Yu asked Ling Xuan to aid the soldiers, and she rang a silver-blue bell to begin the concert at eight points in the Inner City.
• The Demon Race's horns and drums joined the masked beauties' instruments, and Heavenly light blessed the warriors with strength.
• The Allied Army's battle cries drowned out the demons' howls as Humankind and the Demon Race fought side by side, while Chu Chang and Kuang Cang joined the battle despite knowing the Outer City Wall would soon fall.
• Luo Xiaotian watched from the world bubble and asked his system whether battle music could boost him enough to justify carrying a speaker.

After the Northern and Southern Outer City Walls fell, Cheng Yu assigned Kuang Cang and Chu Chang to defend the Inner City District while Bai Man led the urban defense. The Allied Army trapped the invading demons in prepared strongholds, while the Abyssal rulers discussed their losses and Mammon concealed his plans.

• Demons broke through the Outer City Walls, and Bai Man's defenses contained them in the Outer City District until both walls fell.
• Shen Yuan organized the Northern Wall Defenders' withdrawal, and ten days later the Southern Wall also fell, beginning urban warfare.
• Cheng Yu praised Kuang Cang and Chu Chang, assigned Chu Chang the Inner City District's northern and southern walls, and sent Kuang Cang to reinforce Bai Man.
• Bai Man's fortifications and Shi Yan's formations funneled demons into checkpoints, where the Allied Army killed them and used their corpses to fuel the formations.
• Lucifer reported the Abyss's heavy losses, and Mammon refused to reveal his plans while the Abyssal rulers discussed the invasion.

In the sixth year after the Seventh Great Wall fell, Cheng Yu reviewed the worsening war and ordered Humankind and the Demon Race to find more reinforcements for besieged Beijing City. In the Outer City District, Bai Man’s experts hunted powerful Demons in costly urban guerrilla warfare as both sides struggled to keep the city from falling.

• Cheng Yu reviewed the Northern Continent’s situation and learned that Beijing City remained isolated while the second defensive line held and the allied fleets defeated the Demons at sea.
• Shen Yuan arrived at the Imperial Palace, exhausted by his inability to intervene in the fighting.
• Bai Man led elite groups in surprise attacks on key locations and Demons of Legendary rank or higher, accepting heavy losses among ordinary Allied Army troops.
• Shen Yue and Wen Chenghe reported that exhausted Teleportation Arrays and depleted populations left Humankind and the Demon Race unable to send enough reinforcements to Beijing City.
• Cheng Yu ordered the two races to gather troops by any means, and they lowered enlistment standards to include untrained adults and the elderly.

Over fifty years after the Seventh Great Wall fell, the Allied Army fought an exhausting war as the demons ravaged Beijing and the Northern Continent. As the demons finally attacked the Inner City wall, Cheng Yu received the long-awaited message from the Heavenly Dao, signaling the moment for his final plan.

• Cheng Yu and the Allied Army endured successive demon offensives, shifting reinforcements between Beijing and the Northern Continent as the war lasted for decades.
• By the fiftieth year, Cheng Yu stood on the Inner City wall with Chu Chang, Kuang Cang, Bai Man, Ling Xuan, and You Lian as the Heavenly Dao warned that it would reclaim the sages’ power at the last moment.
• Cheng Yu restored Chu Chang, Kuang Cang, and Bai Man, then intimidated the demons as they began their assault.
• Oliver and Xavier realized they could not defeat Cheng Yu and fled while the Demon Army hesitated below the wall.
• After waiting a day and night, the demons charged the Inner City wall, and Cheng Yu’s eyes lit up as the long-awaited message from the Heavenly Dao arrived.

Cheng Yu erased the demon tide and faced the Abyssal Will’s attack, but its Mythic power overwhelmed him. Shen Yu then took control of their body, explaining that Cheng Yu could wield only part of his strength, and began to confront the attack himself.

• The Eternal Heavenly Dao stripped the Six Heavenly Dao Sages of their sage fruit status, and Cheng Yu caught the falling Ling Xuan.
• Cheng Yu destroyed the demons around Beijing City in three steps, leaving the Allied Army stunned.
• Cheng Yu changed his title to World-Destroying Savior, and the sky shattered to reveal the Heavenly Dao Space and the Abyssal Will’s clash with the Eternal Heavenly Dao.
• The Abyssal Will sent one attack at Cheng Yu, whose strength and senses were overwhelmed by the black mist.
• Shen Yu spoke within the darkness, took control of their body, and explained that Cheng Yu could wield only seventy percent of his power.
• Shen Yu closed his eyes as a White Peacock appeared in the black mist and his body began to blaze with light.

Shen Yu defeated the Mythic’s black mist, then gave his life to seal the demons at the First Great Wall as a Peacock-Plume Statue. His sacrifice ended the Second War Against the Heavenly Demons, though the Northern Continent shattered in the aftermath.

• Shen Yu’s light overwhelmed the black mist and stopped annihilation across the Myriad Heavens, while the Myriad Races held the breaking Northern Continent together.
• Netherworld summoned the spirits of fallen soldiers, and the living and dead drove the demons back from the Seventh Great Wall to the First over the following year.
• Shen Yu revealed his true form and walked toward the First Great Wall as Netherworld, Di Yi Yun, Shen Yuan, and others bid the Great Sage farewell.
• Shen Yu released Cheng Yu from his body and shared insights with him before turning to stone as a Peacock-Plume Statue that held back the demons.
• The Second War Against the Heavenly Demons ended, and the Northern Continent broke apart.

Cheng Yu emerged after helping Shen Yu thwart the Abyss’s invasion and received Shen Yu’s Holy Spirit memories and insights as a reward. Nyarlathotep gave Cheng Yu a barely passing character evaluation, then struck him for calling them “Big Shot.”

• Wu Yuan gave up the frontal invasion of the Eternal True World, while the Eternal Heavenly Dao and the three Demon Emperors recognized that the Abyss remained a threat.
• Cheng Yu returned to his true form and reflected on how Shen Yu’s charisma had influenced his thoughts during their plan.
• The System awarded Cheng Yu several achievements and unlocked Holy Spirit-grade merchandise.
• Cheng Yu opened his gift pack and received Shen Yu’s memories and insights from his breakthrough to Holy Spirit.
• The System evaluated Shen Yu’s character score as 100, then Nyarlathotep appeared and gave Cheng Yu a score of 60.
• Cheng Yu begged Nyarlathotep to teach him, but Nyarlathotep flicked his forehead and scolded him for using the title “Big Shot.”

Nyarlathotep converted Cheng Yu’s achievements into currency, bought Mad Song, and upgraded it into the Mad Laughing Blade. They then prepared to take Cheng Yu to portray his next character, an ordinary person in a dangerous Mythic Great World.

• Nyarlathotep converted Cheng Yu’s achievements into 580 million currency and bought Mad Song at full price.
• Nyarlathotep warned Cheng Yu that his next character was an ordinary person who could not use his abilities, then teased him about buying an Unspeakable-tier weapon.
• Nyarlathotep took Mad Song and transformed it into the Mad Laughing Blade, leaving Cheng Yu with zero currency.
• Cheng Yu read the upgraded blade’s effects: its first slash made a target laugh, and its second turned the target into an idiot.
• Nyarlathotep said the blade could even make the abyssal will an imbecile and set off with Cheng Yu to meet the next character.

Cheng Yu possessed the dead Yunyangzi, an ordinary Taoist who could neither cultivate nor safely eat ordinary food. After discovering that even a blade of grass could overwhelm his frail body, Cheng Yu resolved to find a way to survive and earn money.

• Nyarlathotep sent Cheng Yu into an old Taoist temple, where he possessed Yunyangzi, who had starved to death.
• Cheng Yu learned that Yunyangzi had been raised by an old Taoist who disappeared while hunting monsters two years earlier.
• Cheng Yu tried eating a blade of grass and found that its potent nourishment caused him severe pain.
• After the effects wore off, Cheng Yu learned Yunyangzi had wanted to find his master and see the world.
• Cheng Yu decided he needed money to address Yunyangzi’s dangerous constitution and stay alive.

Cheng Yu struggled to survive as an ordinary person in the Daoist temple, then left to seek money and advance the Main Quest. He was still stranded on the mountain after dark when a dangerous wild boar confronted him.

• Cheng Yu equipped the Pure White Emissary as a Daoist outfit, but its power drained his strength until he ate grass to recover.
• Cheng Yu found the old Daoist's cultivation manual, identified it as a method for reaching void Dao, and stored it in the system space.
• Cheng Yu recognized the temple's patriarch as Qingfengzi and replaced his statue with three paintings titled "Three Pillars of the Mythos," then prayed to them.
• Cheng Yu locked the temple and headed down the mountain to earn money and ask the village about the old Daoist, Stillwater.
• Cheng Yu walked until sunset without reaching the foot of the mountain and encountered a wild boar while he was still an ordinary person.

Cheng Yu used Mad Song to subdue a boar, whose slashes made it laugh and then turned it into an idiot. He traveled with the boar through the mountains and finally reached a village, where he faced children whose strength made him wary.

• Cheng Yu drew Mad Song and slashed the charging boar, causing it to laugh uncontrollably whenever he smiled.
• Cheng Yu slashed the boar a second time, making it lose its wildness and become an idiot that followed him.
• Cheng Yu continued down the mountain with the boar following, and no other animals attacked them.
• Cheng Yu walked through the night and reached a village after spotting cooking smoke at daybreak.
• Cheng Yu saw the village children’s strength, put on the air of an accomplished master, and entered the village.

Cheng Yu learned that he had awakened in the year 10,033 of the Peacock Calendar and rested in a village while searching for traces of his old acquaintances. After asking about Daoist Stillwater, he learned that the priest lived nearby but had been summoned to the county town two years earlier to deal with a Demon Monster.

• Cheng Yu entered a village and let the wary village chief believe he was a powerful cultivator.
• The village chief explained that the Peacock Calendar began after the Peacock Great Sage sacrificed himself to stop the Outer Demons; Cheng Yu asked for food and a bed, then slept.
• Cheng Yu woke near sunset, thanked the village chief, and saw Wild Boar playing harmlessly with the village children.
• Cheng Yu declined to eat the family's dinner, then asked the village chief about Daoist Stillwater.
• The village chief said Daoist Stillwater lived on the mountain nearby but had gone to the county town two years earlier to handle a Demon Monster, leaving Cheng Yu wondering what that term meant.

Cheng Yu heard the Old Village Chief recount the history of demon monsters and suspected they had arisen after people glimpsed Tsathoggua during the destruction of the Heavenly Dao Space. He also wondered whether the Abyssal Will was behind their spread, leaving him with questions he could barely investigate as an ordinary man.

• Cheng Yu offered to help the Old Village Chief, who asked whether he knew about demon monsters.
• The Old Village Chief described how demon monsters first appeared, prompting the Human Emperor to establish the Demon Suppression Bureau after a deadly outbreak in the Central Capital.
• The Old Village Chief recalled that most of his fellow soldiers had died or become demon monsters during a campaign, and explained how the bureau shifted from extermination to containment.
• Cheng Yu connected demon monsters to the Eternal True World's glimpse of Tsathoggua and wondered whether the Abyssal Will had helped bring them about.

Cheng Yu set out for the county town and reached the woods where a Demon Monster was said to prey on travelers. A vine swallowed Wild Boar, but the system blocked its contamination, and the fleeing man turned into a giggling fool after Cheng Yu struck him with Mad Song.

• Cheng Yu agreed to try to slay the Demon Monster in the woods on his way to the county town.
• The old village chief gave Cheng Yu a jar of medicinal wine, and Cheng Yu left the village with Wild Boar following him.
• Cheng Yu traveled for four days, using his stored food and sleeping beside Wild Boar along the way.
• At the woods, a terrified man ran toward Cheng Yu as a black-and-red vine emerged from him and swallowed Wild Boar.
• The system blocked the vine's contamination, and the man began giggling after Cheng Yu slashed him with Mad Song.

Cheng Yu encountered two Demon Monsters at the forest entrance, and the woman’s attack helped awaken a Flesh Forest. The entire forest became an idiot, leaving Cheng Yu suspended above a grinning mouth with no safe way down.

• Cheng Yu slept beneath a rock while the grinning Demon Monster man followed him and watched.
• At dawn, Cheng Yu returned to the forest entrance, where a woman called for help and the Demon Monster man repeated her pleas with her for two hours.
• When Cheng Yu approached, the woman transformed into a slime-covered Demon Monster and attacked him with her tongue.
• The Pure White Emissary deflected the tongue into the Demon Monster man, whom the woman swallowed.
• The ground and trees transformed into a Flesh Forest, and the entire forest began chuckling foolishly after sprouting countless mouths.
• The Pure White Emissary left Cheng Yu floating above a huge mouth, trapped between remaining airborne and falling into it.

After being trapped above the Flesh Forest, Cheng Yu used Mad Song to devour it and unlocked the blade’s third-slash effect. He continued toward the county town to seek Stillwater and learn about the Eternal True World, but at the town gate he was asked to show an Identity Token.

• After another day trapped in the sky, Cheng Yu hurled Mad Song into the Flesh Forest, and the blade began devouring it until he could land.
• The System announced that Cheng Yu had unlocked Mad Song’s third-slash effect, which made the blade’s smiling faces eat dumbass targets.
• Cheng Yu tested the new effect on the remaining Flesh Forest, then set out for the county town to find Stillwater and learn where he was.
• A man in a bright red uniform arrived at the cleared site and wondered whether a passing expert or a stronger Demon Monster had dealt with the Flesh Forest.
• After three more days, Cheng Yu reached the county town and heard soldiers demand travelers’ origins, purpose, and Identity Tokens.
• As Cheng Yu wondered whether Yunyangzi had possessed an Identity Token, someone beside him asked the same questions.

Cheng Yu entered the county town and met Ji Han, who offered him lodging and explained that Taoist Stillwater had disappeared during a mission to clear Demon Monster nests. After settling in, Cheng Yu went to a teahouse to gather information about the Eternal True World and what had happened since Prince Shen became a barrier.

• At the town gate, Cheng Yu identified himself as Yunyangzi of Cuihui Mountain and asked a soldier to summon Ji Han.
• Ji Han met Cheng Yu and explained that Stillwater and two Demon Suppression Bureau experts had vanished while investigating a Demon Monster nest.
• Ji Han invited Cheng Yu to stay with her, gave him Grain-Avoidance Pills, and told him Stillwater had sought treatment for Yunyangzi’s constitution in Azure Sky City.
• Ji Han arranged an identification token and spending money for Cheng Yu, and promised to take him to the site where Stillwater disappeared.
• Cheng Yu went to a teahouse to listen for news about the Eternal True World and the events following Prince Shen’s transformation into a barrier.

Cheng Yu listened to a storyteller recount the wars and upheavals that had unfolded during his ten thousand years of imprisonment, learning how the world and its peoples had changed. He discovered he was in Baiyue Prefecture and heard that his nephew, the Demon Son of Heaven, had offered half-demons a place among the demons if they gave up their human identity and swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao.

• Cheng Yu listened as the storyteller praised Prince Shen and recounted the Demon Race’s struggle with Humankind, though Cheng Yu knew the tale misrepresented how he had outmaneuvered Qin Shuo.
• Cheng Yu returned to Ji Han’s home for the night and came back early the next day to hear more of the story.
• A wealthy listener gave the storyteller an Origin Stone to make him finish the account, and Cheng Yu learned that Shen Yu had bargained with the eternal Heavenly Dao to protect the Demon Race while holding back the Demons.
• Cheng Yu learned that the Northern Continent had shattered and that the Southern Continent’s humans and demons were integrating, producing half-demons who faced prejudice and competing demands from both peoples.
• Cheng Yu heard that the Demon Son of Heaven would accept half-demons into the demon register if they renounced their human identity and swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao.

Ji Han took Cheng Yu toward the mountain range where Stillwater had disappeared, explaining the mission and the earlier demonic calamity. On the way, they encountered two Hunyuan Prefecture disciples under attack by Demon-Worshipping Cult fiends, and Ji Han asked them to help investigate the cult's presence near the Demon Monster nest.

• Ji Han told Cheng Yu she would take him to the mountain range the next morning and rode with him there on a Scale Horse.
• Ji Han explained that Stillwater's mission had seemed safe, though she had reported the disappearance of two deputy bureau chiefs and a Void Inquiry expert to headquarters.
• Cheng Yu and Ji Han heard fighting as they crossed a narrow mountain trail and found Gongliang She and Li Pei'er surrounded by fiends of the Demon-Worshipping Cult.
• Ji Han joined the battle and killed most of the fiends, while the survivors fled into the woods.
• Ji Han learned Gongliang She and Li Pei'er were traveling to Azure Sky City, then asked them to help investigate the cult's presence near the nearby Demon Monster nest.

As Ji Han explained the Demon-Worshipping Cult’s history, Cheng Yu suspected that Humankind and the Demon Race had allowed it to persist as a common enemy that prevented another devastating war. The group continued toward a Demon Monster lair while the others discussed hunting monsters and cultists.

• Gongliang She and Li Pei'er volunteered to help Ji Han fight the Demon-Worshipping Cult, then greeted Cheng Yu, who introduced himself as Yunyangzi of Verdant Micro Mountain.
• Ji Han described the cult’s history and its repeated survival despite efforts by both Humankind and the Demon Race to destroy it.
• Gongliang She and Li Pei'er suggested that shared enemies had helped keep the two races from going to war, and Ji Han rebuked the idea that the cult’s existence was beneficial.
• Cheng Yu reasoned that the leaders of both races might tolerate the cult and Demon Monsters to unite their people against external threats after their peaceful transfer of power.
• Cheng Yu watched as Ji Han, Gongliang She, and Li Pei'er resumed discussing how to slay monsters and vanquish demons on the way to the lair.