Recaps

Huo Yuhao challenged Yue Ye’s view of human-demon coexistence and asked her to arrange contact with the hybrids’ organization, which he suspected was led by Moon Demon God Agares. Two nights later, Chen Zidian met the organization’s representative outside Demon Capital Heart City to discuss human slaves, while remaining wary of a possible trap.

• Huo Yuhao argued that unequal power made the unions behind human-demon hybrids difficult to call reasonable and compared their situation to that of low-ranking demons and disabled high-ranking demons.
• Yue Ye agreed to help Huo Yuhao contact the organization, and he inferred that Moon Demon God Agares was its leader.
• Chen Zidian and two companions waited in disguise at a desolate valley outside Demon Capital Heart City for the organization’s representative.
• Chen Zidian had brought Demon God's Fall to the meeting despite fearing an ambush because the message concerned enslaved humans in demon territory.
• Chen Zidian recalled unusual demon activity and construction north of Heart City as the approaching figure drew closer.

Huo Yuhao met Chen Zidian in secret to arrange the return of enslaved humans to the Temple Alliance and discuss future rescues. Chen Zidian remained suspicious and demanded proof that Huo Yuhao could carry out his promises.

• Huo Yuhao and Chen Zidian confirmed each other's identities with their awkwardly chosen code phrases.
• Huo Yuhao approached without spiritual defenses, and Chen Zidian and his companions noted that he looked entirely human despite his presence in Demon Race territory.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted to return 124 formerly enslaved humans and plan routes for future groups, with caravan permits for transporting them.
• Chen Zidian suspected Huo Yuhao intended to trade the rescued humans for supplies, and Huo Yuhao clarified that the caravans would carry separate goods.
• Chen Zidian asked what gave Huo Yuhao the ability to guarantee the rescues and why the Temple Alliance should trust him.

Huo Yuhao convinced Chen Zidian to help rescue enslaved humans and arranged for 124 people to return to the Temple Alliance with the Yue Ye Caravan. After the caravan departed, Huo Yuhao and Yue Ye considered whether their actions could change the conflict.

• Huo Yuhao revealed his Angel Divine Power and gave Chen Zidian three Demon Gods' Crown of Inheritance Magic Crystals, convincing him to hear the proposal.
• Huo Yuhao gave Chen Zidian a list and an Image Recording Soul Tool documenting 124 people, and Chen Zidian agreed to meet them and secretly escort them.
• Huo Yuhao gave Leng Xiao a book on Soul Tools, alchemy, magic, and Spiritual Power, then had A Nan ensure she studied it.
• Huo Yuhao brought the recovering captives to Yue Ye's caravan encampment, where Yue Ye had prepared carriages and a disguised Demon Hunt Squad stood ready.
• Huo Yuhao watched the caravan depart for the Temple Alliance and told Yue Ye that they were taking action despite not knowing whether it would change the future.

Four years after Huo Yuhao began helping Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu suppress his spiritual backlash, Huo Yuhao had transformed the Demon Race’s food production and infrastructure and gained a powerful role in its administration. His growing influence divided the provinces, and some Demon Gods objected to his appointment to the decision-making circle.

• Huo Yuhao used the Power of Fate to temporarily suppress Feng Xiu’s spiritual power backlash in exchange for greater freedom and authority over his territory.
• Huo Yuhao secured trading permits, built roads across demon territory, and organized demons to cultivate sixty percent of its land, producing enough food for over ninety percent of the Demon Race.
• Low-ranking demons and high-ranking demons with disabilities increasingly followed Huo Yuhao’s orders, while Demon Gods’ personal guards and nobles formed a separate faction in the provinces.
• Feng Xiu brought Huo Yuhao into the Demon Race’s decision-making circle two years earlier, placing him below Star Demon God Vasak to assist Moon Demon God Agares.
• Some Demon Gods refused to accept Huo Yuhao’s appointment.

Huo Yuhao challenged the Demon Gods to a spar and defeated Undead Demon God Samigina with a swift display of his combined powers. He left the arena standing alone, showing the Demon Gods that he could not be dismissed despite his lower cultivation rank.

• Huo Yuhao asked Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu to let him spar with the Demon Gods, and Feng Xiu agreed.
• Undead Demon God Samigina stepped forward to challenge Huo Yuhao, confident that his higher cultivation would secure victory.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on how Angel Divine Power could integrate other powers and how Rakshasa Divine Power drew strength from desire and malicious thoughts.
• Huo Yuhao combined his Holy Necromancer Martial Soul with Angel Divine Power and Rakshasa Divine Power, making Samigina wary.
• Samigina summoned his Demon God Pillar, but Huo Yuhao cast a Magic Array beneath him and struck him down with a pillar of white light.

Huo Yuhao proved his strength to the Demon Gods, then worked with Agares and Yue Ye to investigate the Demon Race’s population, human-demon hybrids, and enslaved humans. The massive paperwork drove Agares into seclusion and left Yue Ye and Leng Xiao helping Huo Yuhao organize the records.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Samigina, healed him, and won the Demon Gods’ acceptance as the Demon God Emperor confirmed his position.
• Agares brought Huo Yuhao to the Moon Demon Palace and explained that the Demon Race had little oversight of its everyday affairs.
• Huo Yuhao proposed counting the Demon Race’s population, human-demon hybrids, their surviving parents, and enslaved humans, noting that he had already sent more than twenty-five hundred people back to the humans.
• Agares read Huo Yuhao’s collected records, summoned Yue Ye, and vanished into seclusion, leaving her responsible for the work.
• Yue Ye and Leng Xiao helped Huo Yuhao organize the remaining documents and became more composed through the task.

Huo Yuhao explained to Star Demon God Vasak why he taught morality and shared knowledge with the Demon Race, drawing on his experiences of injustice and the importance of protecting the weak. He continued to the Moon Demon Palace, still searching for Long Haochen while Vasak remained unable to divine anything about Austin Griffin.

• Huo Yuhao asked Star Demon God Vasak whether he had learned anything about Austin Griffin, and Vasak said the matter remained shrouded in chaos.
• Vasak gave Huo Yuhao a book recording the laws of a human empire from the Glorious Era.
• Vasak asked why Huo Yuhao emphasized morality and taught skills and knowledge for free, and Huo Yuhao said knowledge should be passed down and morality helped people restrain themselves.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on how past suffering and social injustice had shaped his efforts to teach low-ranking members of the Demon Race that society could be different.
• Vasak left after speaking with Huo Yuhao, who continued toward the Moon Demon Palace.

Huo Yuhao visited Yue Ye, learned that she had reached the ninth order, and then returned to Demon City, the new settlement he had planned for the Demon Race. As he walked among its diverse residents, he reflected on his own past and on building a place where different peoples could live together instead of fighting.

• Huo Yuhao reported the Demon Race's situation to Yue Ye, who said her father was in seclusion and told him she had reached the ninth order through his training plan.
• Yue Ye asked about A Bao, and Huo Yuhao told her that A Bao was staying with him.
• Huo Yuhao left the Moon Demon Palace and went to Demon City, which he had planned using Mingdu's layout and which had grown to rival Demon Capital Heart City in size.
• A demon addressed Huo Yuhao as the Demon King as he walked through a city where demons, hybrids, and humans could live without discrimination based on their origins or cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on the injustices he and others had suffered and affirmed his belief that different peoples should have another way to live together besides conflict.

Huo Yuhao surveyed how Demon City had developed over four years into a center for demon communities, education, and non-military soul tool production, while human mothers and their hybrid children remained caught between the Demon Race and the Temple Alliance. He returned to his tower, where A Bao and A Nan trained and Leng Xiao lay exhausted from her studies.

• Huo Yuhao walked through Demon City and reflected on its facilities, mixed population, and the Temple Alliance's difficulty accepting human-demon hybrid children.
• Huo Yuhao noted that the city taught morality, law, and soul tool manufacturing, while he restricted production to non-military tools to avoid provoking war.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his tower, where demons and human-demon hybrids helped him review reports from across the Demon Race's lands.
• Huo Yuhao saw A Bao training with A Nan; A Bao had reached Ninth Step, Level Four, while A Nan neared Ninth Order, Seventh Level.
• Huo Yuhao opened the top-floor room and found Leng Xiao lying on the floor after immersing herself in her studies.

Huo Yuhao encouraged Leng Xiao to study and cultivate while reflecting on her progress and A Bao’s uncertainty after defeat. A Bao remained unsure of his goal, and Huo Yuhao urged him to keep going as he considered the fears both of them carried.

• Huo Yuhao urged Leng Xiao to study after she finished eating, but she made excuses and went to meditate.
• Leng Xiao recalled that the Demon God Emperor had ordered her to cultivate under Huo Yuhao, and that sparring with A Bao had pushed her to improve.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that Leng Xiao had made great progress despite her efforts to slack off, and chose not to force her to keep studying.
• Huo Yuhao reflected that A Bao seemed calmer after his defeat but remained uncertain whether he could reach his old goal.
• A Bao told Huo Yuhao that he did not know whether he could still reach the height he had once sought, and Huo Yuhao told him to keep going.
• Huo Yuhao considered the fears he and A Bao shared, then returned to his room after clearing the table.

Huo Yuhao reviewed the Demon Race’s affairs and used grain, provincial contact points, and local organization to curb covert attacks on the Temple Alliance. His efforts had eased famine and kept disabled demons alive, but they were also allowing long-standing tensions between low-ranking demons and the ruling Demon Gods and nobles to grow.

• Huo Yuhao reviewed reports on operations against Great Yak City and assessed the Demon Race’s population and food supply.
• He noted that his grain had reduced deaths from famine and discouraged routine attacks on the Temple Alliance, though some Demon Gods still arranged covert raids to obtain slaves.
• To prevent those attacks without provoking the Demon God Emperor, Huo Yuhao organized local low-ranking and physically disabled demons to disrupt the Demon Gods’ preparations.
• Huo Yuhao used provincial roads and contact points to coordinate grain, tools, medicine, and information, while planning a council-based system for managing affairs beyond demon cities.
• The chapter described how Demon Gods and nobles had long mistreated low-ranking and disabled demons, and how Huo Yuhao’s support had given those groups time to recognize their grievances as tensions continued to build.

Over four years, Huo Yuhao encouraged demons to surround cities and free enslaved humans, gradually weakening the Demon Gods’ ability to launch wars without provoking open conflict. As he reviewed the report on the fifteenth uprising in Great Yak City, five hundred thousand demons had entered the city, and Chen Zidian was to retrieve the rescued humans.

• Huo Yuhao supplied food, medicine, and Defensive Soul Tools to demons gathering outside cities, and they eventually broke through the gates without destroying the Demon God Pillars.
• The demons took enslaved humans from the cities and escorted them toward Demon City, where many returned to the Temple Alliance and some stayed with children who had demon blood.
• Human slaves in other cities learned of the rescues and began helping demons open gates, while Chen Zidian arranged for Demon Hunt Squads to receive the freed people.
• The Demon Gods largely tolerated the incidents because confronting Huo Yuhao risked defeat, and they increasingly relied on goods and food from Demon City.
• Over four years, demons charged into cities fifteen times, while Huo Yuhao avoided escalating the uprisings because his cultivation remained sealed.
• Huo Yuhao read a report stating that five hundred thousand demons had entered Great Yak City, and Chen Zidian needed to be notified to retrieve the humans.

Huo Yuhao reflected on the Temple Alliance’s fear of the Demon Race’s rapid development and its conflicting efforts to recruit or kill him. He left his documents behind and marked a map, while his plans to break the Demon God Emperor’s restrictions and leave the Holy Demon Continent remained unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao recalled that the Temple Alliance had ordered title-grade Demon Hunt Squads to kill him, though Chen Zidian and the others had kept the mission from him.
• Huo Yuhao considered how Demon City’s growth and the Demon Race’s new ability to produce food, goods, and technology had shifted the balance against the Temple Alliance.
• Huo Yuhao remembered telling Chen Zidian that he had initiated the city’s construction and later giving him a basic theory book on Soul Tools for the Temple Alliance.
• Chen Zidian had urged Huo Yuhao to join humanity or help overthrow the Demon God Emperor, but Huo Yuhao had only smiled and kept his own plans to leave the continent private.
• Huo Yuhao and Chen Zidian had acknowledged their opposing loyalties while promising to do what they could, and Huo Yuhao then put away his documents and drew on a map.

Huo Yuhao continued searching Demon Race territory for traces of Long Haochen and the others, but found no clues despite discovering many forgotten ruins and relics. Meanwhile, Leng Xiao confronted A Bao about how he had changed, and the siblings agreed to settle their conversation with a fight.

• Huo Yuhao searched the provinces of Demon Race territory for signs of Long Haochen and the others, finding hidden ruins, ancient texts, weapons, and rare ores but no trace of them.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed the areas he had searched and put away his map as evening fell.
• Leng Xiao visited A Bao while he was meditating and teased him about how different he had become.
• A Bao asked Leng Xiao to explain how he used to act, and she described his anger, stern demeanor, and reactions to Long Haochen.
• A Bao challenged Leng Xiao to fight before he would answer her questions, and Leng Xiao accepted, confident in her ninth-order, level-three strength.

Leng Xiao used her Demon Dragon Staff and soul tools to overwhelm A Bao during their fight, but her celebration gave him an opening. A Bao counterattacked after reflecting on how he had grown calmer over the past four years, leaving the duel unresolved.

• A Bao charged Leng Xiao, who blocked his sword with an Invincible Barrier and attacked with a dark magic array.
• A Bao shattered the array, but Leng Xiao evaded his follow-up strike with a Soul Tool Shield and blasted him with a dark dragon-shaped attack.
• Leng Xiao trapped A Bao under pressure and rained black meteors down on him, believing she had finally won.
• A Bao broke free and approached Leng Xiao while she celebrated, having learned to control his emotions and accept his shortcomings.
• A Bao struck at Leng Xiao from above, and she blocked his attack before asking how he had escaped.

A Bao sparred with Leng Xiao, conceded after she outmaneuvered him with Soul Cannons, and agreed to treat her to dinner. As they walked through the bustling, brightly lit Demon City, A Bao reflected on how much the Demon Race had changed and began questioning the ideal he had once pursued.

• A Bao disarmed Leng Xiao, but she aimed a Class 7 Soul Tool Piercing Cannon at him and refused his offer to call their fight a draw.
• A Bao tried a sneak attack, but Leng Xiao anticipated him, blocked his strike, and fired two Soul Cannons before holding them to his head.
• A Bao conceded and offered Leng Xiao a meal; she put away her weapons after he let her choose the dishes.
• A Bao and Leng Xiao walked through Demon City, where demons of all ranks lived and gathered amid bright lights, busy streets, and abundant restaurants.
• A Bao reflected on the contrast between Demon City and the restricted demon cities of his past, then Leng Xiao urged him into a nearby restaurant.

A Bao and Leng Xiao toured Demon City’s restaurants, where Leng Xiao’s enormous appetite embarrassed him and prompted a conversation about his estrangement from Yue Ye. Watching the city, A Bao questioned the perfection he had pursued and the purpose of his power, while remaining uncertain about his future and his engagement.

• Huo Yuhao’s administration of Demon City followed simplified policies inspired by Mingdu, including low taxes and expanded education, healthcare, and assistance for vulnerable demons.
• Leng Xiao ate her way through four restaurants, ordering every dish, while A Bao felt embarrassed by the attention her appetite drew.
• Leng Xiao asked when A Bao would visit Yue Ye, and A Bao admitted he had no plans to see her.
• A Bao reflected on how his pursuit of perfection had distorted his feelings for Yue Ye and left him afraid to face her or end their engagement.
• As he watched the demons in Demon City, A Bao questioned what his ideal of perfection was for and doubted his role as the Demon Race Crown Prince.

Huo Yuhao secretly completed a powerful Fixed Soul Cannon Shell using the power of faith, preparing it as a last resort against Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu. He reflected on how he had gathered that faith by helping the Demon Race rather than promoting worship, and remained determined to change the suffering he saw around him.

• Huo Yuhao sealed his room and took out the components he had crafted from rare metals and infused with gold of life.
• Huo Yuhao assembled the components into a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell and slowly merged a nearly transparent ball of the power of faith into its metal core.
• Huo Yuhao sealed the completed shell in a specially made box and concealed its aura with the power of fate.
• Huo Yuhao considered the shell a last resort against Feng Xiu and recalled that he had gathered the power of faith through feeding the Demon Race, teaching farming, and sharing knowledge.
• Huo Yuhao remembered Elder Yi's advice to keep thinking and resolved that the Demon Race's suffering should not be accepted as inevitable.

Huo Yuhao reflected on why he refused to make the demons worship him and explained his belief that people should strive to protect life rather than serve grand institutions. His teachings earned him a slow but unusually pure power of faith, leaving him pleased with his progress yet ashamed of his motives.

• Huo Yuhao rejected the methods of Spirit Hall, Shrek Academy, empires, and the Temple Alliance, choosing not to turn the demons into tools for gathering faith.
• Huo Yuhao recalled that he had never truly identified with any empire or organization and had acted for the people who had helped him, not for their institutions.
• A fourth-rank Zelin Dual-Blade Demon asked Huo Yuhao what the Demon Race was, and Huo Yuhao said it belonged to every demon striving to live and protect life.
• Huo Yuhao's message spread among the demons, and the faith they placed in him gradually accumulated in a pure form.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that his plan had partly succeeded, but felt ashamed because he had helped the demons partly to achieve his own aims.

Huo Yuhao explained why he had gathered faith power to build a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell rather than pursue Godhood, and why he planned to confront Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu only when the moment was right. He remained committed to improving the Demon Race’s lives and creating a path where people could choose and defend a better future.

• Huo Yuhao recalled that Feng Xiu was seeking a ready-made Divine Core to become a god, while Huo Yuhao had no intention of condensing a Godhood on the Holy Demon Continent.
• Huo Yuhao used faith power to complete a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell capable of killing Feng Xiu, but he waited for a chance when the Demon God Emperor’s attention was elsewhere.
• Huo Yuhao continued working to improve life for the Demon Race, reduce hatred between demons and humans, and rescue enslaved humans despite knowing old scars would remain.
• Huo Yuhao remembered Xue Ke’s words about fate and concluded that struggle and continued efforts to change were part of nature, even without a final solution to suffering.
• The Cherry-Pink Soul Ring flickered in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness before becoming still.

Huo Yuhao continued helping enslaved humans escape Demon territory while the Temple Alliance’s growing hostility made Chen Zidian’s attempts to recruit him increasingly urgent. The chapter ended with Chen warning that soon there might be no chance left to talk.

• Huo Yuhao noticed the Dragon Clan Crown Prince’s remnant soul absorbing a little of the Power of Faith, then left more of it nearby without driving him from his Sea of Consciousness.
• A Bao and Leng Xiao encountered Huang Shuo eating at a stall in Demon City, where he admitted that demons secretly visited because Demon Capital Heart City offered little to see.
• Huo Yuhao gave Chen Zidian a list of enslaved humans to rescue, and Chen said he would return to the Temple Alliance for its decennial elections.
• Chen Zidian urged Huo Yuhao to join the Temple Alliance and help end the age of darkness, but Huo Yuhao refused and said he could not leave the Demon Race.
• Chen Zidian warned that the Temple Alliance’s attitude toward Huo Yuhao was growing more hostile and that soon there might be no opportunity for discussion.

Huo Yuhao discussed Demon City and the Temple Alliance with Chen Zidian, defending his efforts to improve demons’ lives despite the deep hostility between humans and demons. After Chen Zidian departed, Huo Yuhao considered visiting Knight Sacred Mountain to learn about human-magical beast contracts, but knew he first had to deal with the Magic Arrays on his body.

• Huo Yuhao asked Chen Zidian how much merit his missions were worth, and Chen Zidian said his danger level and reward were second only to Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu's.
• Huo Yuhao asked what Chen Zidian thought of Demon City, and Chen Zidian said it sometimes resembled a Temple Alliance city but remained demon territory.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on his rules for working hours and management, explaining that his own past hardship had led him to protect demons from exploitation.
• Chen Zidian said he would leave and contact Huo Yuhao again if needed, then vanished.
• Huo Yuhao considered visiting Knight Sacred Mountain to study the bonds between knights and magical beasts, but decided he needed to deal with his Magic Arrays first.
• Huo Yuhao left the basement and walked through Demon City toward his residence.

Long Haochen and his companions returned to the Holy Demon Continent after years of cultivation and set out for the Temple Alliance, while Huo Yuhao sensed a brief warning of danger. Their journey through Demon Race territory revealed an unexpected transformation: farmland, villages, and paved roads had replaced the barren landscape they remembered.

• Lin Xin, Sima Xian, and Han Yu joked about being single, while Wang Yuanyuan blushed at her feelings for Zhang Fangfang.
• Long Haochen and Sheng Cai'er emerged from the Eternal Tower, and Long Haochen urged everyone to return to the Temple Alliance without drawing attention in Demon Race territory.
• Sheng Cai'er thought she sensed Electrolux's aura, and Long Haochen remembered how Electrolux's Eternal Heart had brought him back to life.
• Huo Yuhao felt a fleeting warning from the Power of Fate and wondered whether Austin Griffin was involved in a danger approaching the Holy Demon Continent.
• Long Haochen and his companions disguised themselves as demons and traveled toward the Temple Alliance, but stopped in shock at the farmland, village, and paved road in Demon Race territory.

Long Haochen and his companions found demon territory transformed by farming, new crafts, and a calmer way of life, then gathered information from its inhabitants. They learned that a Demon King and Demon City were behind the changes, but still did not know what had happened.

• Long Haochen confirmed the group was on the Holy Demon Continent and told everyone to investigate quietly before regrouping in an hour.
• Long Haochen and Sheng Cai'er questioned a Demon Eye Warlock, who said he had bought his farming tools in Demon City and showed little deference to Long Haochen’s Moon Demon disguise.
• Long Haochen and Sheng Cai'er explored the village and noticed that its demons lived with an unfamiliar sense of leisure.
• Wang Yuanyuan reported hearing about a Demon City and a Demon King who taught demons how to farm and produce goods.
• Yang Wenzhao, Chen Ying'er, Duan Yi, Lin Xin, and Sima Xian reported edible unfamiliar grains, new equipment, and demons teaching one another, while Duan Yi confirmed that four years had passed since the Holy War.
• Long Haochen identified Demon City and the Demon King as crucial leads but remained uncertain about the transformation of demon society.

Long Haochen and his companions traveled toward the Temple Alliance and learned that the Demon Race had changed dramatically, including the liberation of enslaved humans and the appearance of a mysterious Demon King. After escorting the rescued people to Exorcism Pass, the group split up to report to their temples.

• Long Haochen led his companions toward the Temple Alliance to learn more about the Demon Race’s changes.
• Long Haochen’s group encountered the Yue Ye Caravan and joined its escort after identifying themselves to Wensi.
• Wensi told Long Haochen that the caravan was returning enslaved humans rescued from Great Yak City, where 500,000 demons and the captives had opened the gates together.
• Long Haochen and his companions questioned the passengers and heard that the Demon King was a girl with three pairs of pure white wings.
• The next day, Long Haochen and his companions reached Exorcism Pass, saw the rescued people settled, and separated to report to their temples.