Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao restored the weakened humans’ elemental balance, fed them, and arranged for their return to the Temple Alliance. When three Demon Hunt Squad members doubted his request to escort them, he revealed his Angel Divine Power to prove his identity.

• Huo Yuhao used his Angel Divine Power to revive the humans’ spirits and calm them, then cooked food to ease their hunger.
• Huo Yuhao reassured the humans when they panicked at seeing the wounded demons and distributed food to both groups.
• Huo Yuhao explained to A Nan that he helped others because he hoped someone would do the same for him, and A Nan followed him back to the caravan.
• Huo Yuhao summoned three Demon Hunt Squad members and asked them to escort fifty humans to the Temple Alliance, showing them the distant carriage through Spiritual Detection Sharing.
• When the three squad members hesitated and wanted to discuss the request, Huo Yuhao revealed his golden hair and three pairs of white wings.

Huo Yuhao escorted rescued humans back toward the Temple Alliance, then returned to Demon Capital Heart City after studying the demons and their harsh environment. The Demon God Emperor questioned him about three slain Demon Gods, but Huo Yuhao’s mention of Bai Yue revealed that the name affected Feng Xiu.

• Huo Yuhao used his aura of light to earn three Demon Hunt Squads’ trust and handed the rescued humans over to them, then returned to the caravan without joining their escort.
• Huo Yuhao distributed food to demons along the route, observed the barren land and the demons’ condition, and developed ideas he planned to pursue after returning to Heart City.
• Huo Yuhao and Leng Xiao returned to Heart City, while A Nan and the other disabled demons remained in the wilderness with food Huo Yuhao had provided.
• Huang Shuo summoned Huo Yuhao to meet Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu, who questioned him about the three Demon Gods killed near the caravan route.
• Huo Yuhao admitted killing the Demon Gods because they had tried to rob the caravan, then mentioned his pleasant conversation with Bai Yue and noticed Feng Xiu’s reaction to her name.

Huo Yuhao negotiated permission from the Demon God Emperor to live outside the Demon Empress Palace and manage land near Heart City, promising to aid the fight against Austin Griffin. He began enclosing a barren plot and preparing it for cultivation, summoning A Nan and the others to join him.

• Huo Yuhao used the Power of Nature to grow and wither his balcony plants, collected their seeds, and met the Demon God Emperor in the courtyard.
• Huo Yuhao asked to move out of the Demon Empress Palace and manage nearby land, and the Demon God Emperor granted his request after Huo Yuhao had cured Bai Yue.
• Huo Yuhao told the Demon God Emperor he wanted to help the Demon Race's lower-ranking members live meaningful lives and asked for future permission to act within its territory, offering to help face Austin Griffin.
• The next day, Huang Shuo accompanied Huo Yuhao to the wilderness outside Heart City, where Huo Yuhao raised four immense earthen walls around a plot of land.
• Huo Yuhao entered the enclosed land, used Spiritual Detection Sharing to summon A Nan and the others, scattered seeds across the barren ground, and spread the Power of Nature through it.

Huo Yuhao sought a lasting way to end the Demon Race’s famine by developing crops suited to the darkened Holy Demon Continent. After seven days of rapid growth and repeated seed selection, he produced several promising plants and decided to let nature take its course rather than continue selecting them without restraint.

• Huo Yuhao concluded that buying grain or relying on war would only perpetuate the Demon Race’s famine, so he chose to cultivate local plants that could survive in demon territory.
• Huo Yuhao identified the demons’ dark elements as the main cause of the continent’s barren land and planned to select suitable plants through repeated planting.
• Leng Xiao visited Huo Yuhao while he worked, complained about his daily planting, and stayed for lunch as he cooked for her.
• Huo Yuhao used the power of nature to grow and wither plants through tens of thousands of selection rounds, producing edible roots, stems, and wheat-like seeds.
• Huo Yuhao decided to stop selecting plants for now and allow them and the environment time to adapt.

Huo Yuhao adapted human farming tools for disabled demons and concluded that demons could work if their tools fit their bodies. He also discovered that destroyed Demon God Pillars caused higher-ranking demons to lose the aura sustaining them, but he focused on solving the food shortage first.

• Huo Yuhao observed that demons could use weapons but struggled with human-made tools because of their different bodies and the hunger that drove many lower-ranking demons into savage behavior.
• Huo Yuhao designed and made modified tools, and disabled high-ranking demons successfully used them to sow and harvest, though clumsily.
• Huo Yuhao connected the demons’ lack of production to neglect by the Demon Gods, battlefield deaths, and widespread starvation among lower-ranking demons.
• Huo Yuhao noticed that Medusa and the Leopard Demon were losing the Demon Race aura within them and traced the decline to two destroyed Demon God Pillars.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that destroying every Demon God Pillar could threaten the lives of higher-ranking demons, while human-demon hybrids would be less affected, and he prioritized solving the food problem.

Huo Yuhao sent twenty-five injured and disabled high-ranking demons to distribute food and seeds and investigate human slaves, while preparing to learn whether his efforts would help. A week later, A Bao challenged him again and was quickly defeated, leaving Huo Yuhao to take Leng Xiao to eat.

• Huo Yuhao gave twenty-five high-ranking demons storage bracelets, Invincible Barriers, medicine, food, seeds, tools, and illustrated planting guides.
• Huo Yuhao tasked the demons with distributing food and seeds to low-ranking demons and recording the condition of injured, disabled, or ill human slaves.
• A Nan asked whether the effort would matter, and Huo Yuhao said they would only know after trying.
• A Bao arrived with Leng Xiao and challenged Huo Yuhao, who defeated him even faster than before and drove him into the ground.
• Huo Yuhao left A Bao to calm down and invited Leng Xiao to eat, and she followed him.

A Bao brooded over his repeated defeats and lashed out at Leng Xiao when she tried to feed him while he was stuck in the ground. After Huo Yuhao pulled him free, A Bao dismissed starving Demon Race members as worthless, and Huo Yuhao knocked him into a pit before challenging him to consider his mother’s love; A Bao then left for Demon Capital Heart City.

• A Bao remained immobilized and grew angry over his losses to Long Haochen and Huo Yuhao.
• Leng Xiao tried to feed A Bao, but he shouted at her to leave, making her drop the food and run off.
• Huo Yuhao and A Nan discussed A Bao’s inability to accept defeat, and Huo Yuhao pulled him out of the ground.
• A Bao told Huo Yuhao he wanted to prove he was stronger, then called starving low-ranking Demon Race members useless wretches.
• Huo Yuhao kicked A Bao into a pit and rebuked him for disregarding the suffering of Demon Race members and enslaved humans.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether A Bao’s mother had given him his name out of love, then left as A Bao slowly headed toward Demon Capital Heart City.

Huo Yuhao welcomed the returning demons and human slaves, then organized the gathered tribes to reclaim farmland and build housing. While the Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu dismissed his efforts as harmless, Star Demon God Vasak suspected Huo Yuhao had a deeper purpose.

• Huo Yuhao saw the twenty-five demons return with more than twenty thousand demons and about twenty sick human slaves, then provided food and basic treatment.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the group had distributed supplies, gathered followers, and escaped the attention and attacks of demon nobles.
• Medusa of the Snake Demon Race and the Golden Bird Demon explained that they had bought the sick human slaves from guards in Great Yak City.
• Huo Yuhao settled the human slaves in his house, promised to help them return to the Temple Alliance, and used Spiritual Detection Sharing to assign the demons work reclaiming farmland and building housing.
• A week later, Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu dismissed Huo Yuhao's efforts as inconsequential, but Star Demon God Vasak suspected Huo Yuhao had a purpose beyond playing house.

Two months after Huo Yuhao began building a settlement for demons, nearly two hundred thousand had gathered there, living in crude homes and cultivating farmland while he arranged food and treated rescued human slaves. Believing the Demon Gods’ indifference gave him time, Huo Yuhao decided to visit Yue Ye and seek a link to the Temple Alliance.

• Huo Yuhao’s settlement expanded as demons built homes and reclaimed farmland, and crops were expected to reduce his need to produce food with the power of nature.
• More than a hundred human slaves rescued from across demon lands received Huo Yuhao’s treatment, though they remained wary of demons.
• Huo Yuhao observed that the Demon God Emperor and other Demon Gods ignored the settlement, while his spiritual power drove away people who tried to spy on it.
• After Leng Xiao complained about the settlement’s noisy construction, she suggested visiting Yue Ye, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Huo Yuhao decided Yue Ye’s human-demon hybrid organization could help him establish indirect contact with the Temple Alliance and arrange the return of the rescued humans.

Huo Yuhao asked Yue Ye to help return human slaves to the Temple Alliance and sought contact with the human-demon hybrid organization. Yue Ye agreed to transport the first group and asked whether hybrids proved humans and demons could coexist.

• Huo Yuhao and Leng Xiao visited Yue Ye at the Moon Demon Palace, where Yue Ye asked whether Huo Yuhao was trying to bridge the divide between humans and demons.
• Huo Yuhao asked Yue Ye when her caravan would next trade, then secretly met her at its base after leaving the palace.
• Huo Yuhao asked Yue Ye to take 124 human slaves back to the Temple Alliance, and said more would follow.
• Huo Yuhao asked Yue Ye to connect him with the human-demon hybrids, offering to help their cause despite disagreeing with what they sought.
• Yue Ye agreed to help and asked Huo Yuhao whether people like her proved that humans and demons could coexist.

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.