Recaps

Yu Mo opened a public proceeding in Ink City to hear the arguments over A Tai’s fate, beginning with an anonymous vote that showed most people were undecided. A young man argued for executing A Tai, and Sun Wen stepped forward to respond.

• Yu Sheng fled through the Demon Domain as white apes and wild beasts pursued him toward Ink City.
• A Tai arrived at Ink City’s Central Square with Sun Wen, Mu Yu, and others as a crowd gathered and Yu Mo opened the proceedings.
• Yu Mo introduced himself as Yu Yongyan’s grandson, announced that both sides could present their arguments, and asked A Tai why he had come to Ink City.
• A Tai said he had come to avoid implicating his companions and the Ink Pavilion, and because his death there would be widely known.
• Yu Mo held an anonymous online vote, which recorded 130,000 votes to execute A Tai, 10,000 against, and 3,500,000 abstentions.
• A young man called A Tai a murderous demon and demanded his execution, after which Sun Wen stepped forward.

Sun Wen and Zhao Zicheng challenged accusations against A Tai, while Mu Yu revealed A Tai’s record of fighting for the Human Race. The crowd began to reconsider its judgment, and Sun Wen ended by urging people to see A Tai as a tortured former human who had chosen to protect them.

• Sun Wen argued that A Tai’s accomplishments on Demon-Suppressing Pass and the Heart-Training Path contradicted claims that he was a Demon Clan infiltrator.
• Zhao Zicheng questioned why the Demon Domain would release the photographs and why their source had vanished, prompting some people to reconsider their certainty.
• Mu Yu revealed that A Tai had earned Second-Level Cloud Merit and showed a video of him defending the Ink Academy Gate against the Evil Cult.
• Some people continued to condemn A Tai, while others began discussing the photographs and investigating who had exposed them.
• Sun Wen described his family’s losses in the war against demons and urged the crowd to consider that A Tai had been captured, tortured, and transformed as a child before escaping to protect the Human Race.

Sun Wen urged the crowd to reconsider judging A Tai and focus on fighting the demons, while Yu Mo called for a second vote that showed most people abstaining. In the Demon Domain, wounded Yu Sheng fled a pursuing demon army as An Xin and Zhao Qingyi spotted him but chose to continue toward a nearby Demon Beast cave.

• Sun Wen argued that A Tai’s tragedy should strengthen the resolve to fight demons, and a middle-aged man said he would apologize if A Tai could be proven not evil by nature.
• Yu Mo opened a second five-minute vote, and the results showed 80,000 votes to execute A Tai, 30,000 against, and 6,440,000 abstentions.
• Sun Wen continued defending A Tai as the boy watched the changing votes with renewed hope and the debate grew more heated.
• Wounded Yu Sheng ran across a plain in the Demon Domain, teleporting to evade attacks while the pursuing Demon Clan closed in.
• An Xin recognized Yu Sheng and complained that he still owed her a car, while Zhao Qingyi watched him flee.
• An Xin decided to collect Heavenly Demon Flowers from a nearby level-five Demon Beast cave and advance to the Fifth Awakening, and Zhao Qingyi followed while worrying about Yu Sheng.

Gu Diao left the Ten Thousand Demon Forest to pursue Yu Sheng, while Old White Ape was given three years to advance the Demon-Human Plan. Yu Sheng reached the mountain where the old man had promised protection, but Gu Diao arrived just as the old man prepared to defend him.

• Gu Diao threatened to eat Old White Ape if the Demon-Human Plan made no progress within three years, then flew out of the forest.
• A horned python blocked Gu Diao's route and demanded a Moon Jiao Flower, which Gu Diao gave before continuing toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yu Sheng used the Mountains and Rivers Bottle's awakened skill to restore his strength as the White Apes pursued him across the plain.
• A level-six demon beast struck Yu Sheng down, but he protected the hard drive, got back up, and ran on as the White Ape wounded him again.
• Yu Sheng reached the mountain and called on the old man's promise of safety; the old man summoned the Scepter and drove the pursuing demons to hesitate.
• Gu Diao arrived with overwhelming demon aura, and the old man recognized him as Gu Diao of the Ten Thousand Demon Forest and questioned whether he was truly only at the Fourth Awakening.

Gu Diao demanded that Yu Sheng be handed over, but the old man fled with him and called Zhong Yushu for help. Zhong Yushu arrived and joined the old man in threatening to kill Gu Diao for his Demon Core, leaving Gu Diao fleeing toward the Demon Domain Plains.

• Gu Diao confronted the old man and demanded that he surrender Yu Sheng, but the old man refused and carried Yu Sheng away as he fled.
• Gu Diao chased them with lightning attacks while the old man cursed at him, then the old man released Yu Sheng, who teleported into the forest to hide.
• Zhong Yushu arrived and blocked Gu Diao, then asked whether Gu Diao's Demon Core could help the old man reach the eighth awakening.
• The old man and Zhong Yushu charged at Gu Diao, discussing keeping his meat and Demon Core for themselves, so Gu Diao fled toward the Demon Domain Plains.

After surviving Gu Diao’s attack, Yu Sheng learned that A Tai was in Ink City and set out to reach him despite his injuries. In Ink City, the debate over A Tai’s fate stalled as Yu Mo challenged the accusers, and a man accused one of them of being from the Demon Clan.

• The old man and Zhong Yushu found Yu Sheng alive, and Yu Sheng confirmed that the hard drive in his backpack was intact.
• Yu Sheng asked where A Tai was, then headed toward Ink City; Zhong Yushu told him his vehicle was wrecked but offered a vehicle with a Demon-Suppressing Pass permit.
• After Zhong Yushu left, the old man secretly spat blood, then returned to the mountaintop and resumed his pose as a secluded master.
• In Ink City, the debate over whether A Tai should be killed continued into dusk, with 40,000 votes on each side and more than ten million abstentions.
• Yu Mo asked the stone-pillar accusers for new arguments, and a middle-aged man from Lin City accused a young speaker of being from the Demon Clan.
• The middle-aged man’s four Crystal Stones appeared, frightening the young man into sitting down as he protested that murder was against the law.

At the square, the crowd demanded proof that A Tai was good, while Yu Mo urged everyone to wait. Yu Sheng arrived badly wounded with a hard drive, and Yu Mo arranged for its contents to be shown to the crowd and the entire internet.

• A middle-aged Reserve Corps member said he would apologize if A Tai's kindness could be proven, but otherwise still believed A Tai should be killed.
• The Ink Academy Vice Principal offered the academy's guarantee of A Tai's character, but the crowd insisted on evidence.
• Yu Mo asked everyone to wait until something new appeared, then revealed his injured legs when people on the Stone Pillars complained about the cold.
• Yu Sheng drove to the square, confirmed A Tai was alive, and delivered a hard drive before collapsing asleep beside the Stone Platform.
• Yu Mo handed the hard drive to a staff member, and old footage began playing on the square's large screen and across the internet.

A recording revealed that A Tai had been experimented on and demonized as a child, while protecting the other captive children from the Gu Diao. As the Gu Diao continued to torment him and kill the children, one boy at the back began to rise.

• The recording showed Gu Diao using Beast Blood and the Demon King Flower in experiments on human children, with the first attempt killing a child.
• As the children grew older and fewer, A Tai absorbed Beast Blood, transformed, and defended them from the Gu Diao.
• An aged voice ordered the remaining failed specimens killed and sent deep into the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, but A Tai tried to stop the Gu Diao from killing them.
• The Gu Diao beat and taunted A Tai as he insisted the children were his companions and that he had to protect them.
• While the recording focused on A Tai, a surviving boy behind the group shakily stood up.

After A Tai’s past was revealed, the crowd voted overwhelmingly that he did not deserve to die, and the people who had condemned him apologized and saluted him. Yu Mo then exposed that 324 people in the square had voted against A Tai and matched them to the Stone Pillars, leaving them trapped and protesting.

• Gu Diao slaughtered the experimental subjects in front of A Tai, who later escaped the cage-like facility as the images ended.
• Yu Mo called for a final anonymous vote, and the crowd voted 13.52 million to 1,769 that A Tai did not deserve to die.
• The middle-aged man apologized to A Tai, and the crowd saluted him as a member of the Human Race.
• A Tai covered the sleeping Yu Sheng with his jacket while the Vice Principal lamented that he had not gotten to show off.
• Yu Mo raised the Stone Pillars and revealed that 324 people in the square had voted that A Tai deserved to die, prompting them to protest the supposed anonymity of the vote.

Yu Mo exposed the people who had helped condemn A Tai, then made them vote on their own punishment. As the vote began, he warned the public that the Light Group would purge the Human Race and described himself as a ruthless executioner.

• Yu Mo promised to send the people atop the Stone Pillars to the Human Race’s passes, citing their own declarations about fighting Demons, and ordered a Third Awakening man to report to Dome Pass.
• Yu Mo thanked the people on behalf of the Yu family, while Ink Pavilion personnel saluted them.
• Yu Mo showed photographs, coordinates, and records of targeted online accounts, revealing the Ink Pavilion had investigated the people who hunted A Tai for days.
• Yu Mo reopened the anonymous vote, offering to send everyone to the Four Passes, exile everyone to Sin City, or divide them according to their Awakening level.
• The people on the Stone Pillars protested their innocence as Yu Mo gave them five minutes to vote.
• Yu Mo told the camera that the Light Group was responsible for purging the Human Race and warned that his ruthless attention could fall on anyone.

Yu Mo ended the purge vote by exposing and killing five hidden Demons, then warned the crowd that the Light Group would use force to enforce its orders. As the livestream ended and the youths departed, Zong Ren escaped detection and vowed to keep pursuing his plans.

• The voting results sent those below the Third Awakening to Sin City, and Dark Pavilion staff took the condemned away.
• Yu Mo revealed five suspected Demons and challenged them to prove they had been forced to act; they attacked him and showed signs of Demonization.
• A Tai rushed to protect Yu Mo, who used an earthen hand to crush all five attackers before warning the crowd that the Light Group would punish disobedience.
• The livestream ended, and the spectators left focused on Yu Mo; A Tai carried Yu Sheng away with the other exhausted youths.
• Zong Ren reflected on how he had avoided being singled out by Yu Mo, changed his face, and slipped into a dark alley while avoiding the cameras.

Yu Mo concluded that Old White Ape had secretly engineered events to protect the White Ape Clan and ranked him as a threat to the Human Race, while Ji Hong rejoiced over a message from afar. Yu Sheng woke safely in Gold Yuanbao Hotel, repaired his backpack, and resumed cultivating.

• Yu Mo told Sun Yingxiong that harsh punishment was needed to warn others and ordered him to investigate a clever reservist.
• Yu Mo reasoned that Old White Ape had hidden the White Ape Clan from the footage and arranged events to buy the clan time, then urged that Old White Ape be made a top-priority target.
• Sun Yingxiong offered to kill Old White Ape himself, but Yu Mo warned that the calculating demon would be difficult to catch and said he looked forward to Yu Sheng growing stronger.
• Ji Hong read a message that made him smile, declared that becoming filled with demonic aura had been worth it, and stood proudly as Eagle Ravine Mountain’s deputy mountain lord.
• Yu Sheng woke in the hotel, remembered he was safe outside Sin City, checked his wounds and weapons, and carefully mended his torn backpack.
• Yu Sheng sat by the window, held a Demon Crystal, and resumed cultivating with his usual calm.

Yu Sheng and the others regrouped after returning from the Demon Domain, where Zhao Zicheng bragged about his coming Fourth Awakening and got beaten by his companions. In the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, Gu Diao summoned Old White Ape, leaving his next move unresolved.

• Zhao Zicheng woke, went back to sleep, and was startled when Sun Wen sneaked into his bedroom.
• A Tai emerged, and the group teased him by assigning him cleaning duty; Zhao Zicheng then noticed Xu Yuanqing’s mocking video of the Vice Principal spreading online.
• Yu Sheng warned Zhao Zicheng that he could not enter the Demon Domain before his Fourth Awakening, while Zhao Zicheng boasted about his imminent breakthrough and future strength.
• Mu Yu brought out the Gravestone, Sun Wen and Big White joined in, and the group beat Zhao Zicheng until A Tai pulled them apart and lifted him up.
• Gu Diao suppressed his anger in the Ten Thousand Demon Forest and ordered Old White Ape to come see him.

Gu Diao reprimanded Old White Ape over the leaked human-experiment records and demanded faster progress on the half-demon experiments. After Yu Sheng and the others returned to Ink Academy, they found Xu Yuanqing staging a fake hanging to protest a pay cut.

• Gu Diao questioned Old White Ape about why the White Ape Clan was absent from the leaked video and ordered him to speed up the half-demon human experiments.
• Old White Ape returned to his clan and considered seeking a divine beast's demon core to break through level six.
• Zhong Yushu yelled at Yu Sheng over the damaged car, then accepted his money transfer and ended the call cheerfully.
• Yu Sheng and the others returned to Jiangcheng, while his companions remained too afraid to let him drive.
• The group found Xu Yuanqing hanging himself in a staged protest outside Ink Academy, demanding the return of his pay.

Xu Yuanqing returned to Ink Academy after being locked out overnight and gave the students rules and money for summer assignments. Yu Sheng planned to train in the Demon Domain, while the others decided to take assignments of their own.

• Xu Yuanqing spent the night outside Ink Academy, failed to get through the gate, and was finally allowed back after pleading with the vice principal.
• Zhao Zicheng, Sun Wen, Mu Yu, and the others discussed summer work and decided to take assignments instead of relying on Xu Yuanqing.
• Yu Sheng said he planned to train in the Demon Domain, and his friends offered to go with him, but he warned they were not ready to enter it.
• Xu Yuanqing joined the group at breakfast and forbade them from using Gold Ingot Group resources, giving each student five hundred for one month of assignments.
• Xu Yuanqing boasted that he could enter Ink Academy whenever he wanted, then quietly pocketed extra steamed buns.

Yu Sheng prepared to return to the Demon Domain, reflecting that he needed strength before he could live without fear. After leaving Ink Academy, he headed to a car dealership, excited to test-drive a new car before his journey.

• Lin Xiaoxiao showed everyone a video of Xu Yuanqing pleading with the Vice Principal at the Ink Academy Gate, and Xu Yuanqing angrily blamed the Vice Principal before publicly praising him online.
• Yu Sheng put away his backpack, packed a few Round Balls, and left Ink Academy while his dormmates called out their hopes of joining him in the Demon Domain someday.
• After Yu Sheng left, Zhao Zicheng went looking for someone to provoke so he could grow stronger by taking a beating, while Sun Wen and the others envied his unusual training method.
• Yu Sheng realized he had no car for the trip to the Demon-Suppressing Pass and decided to buy another one, eager to test his driving skills.
• A salesperson offered Yu Sheng a test drive of Fierce Tiger's latest model, and Yu Sheng's eyes lit up.

Yu Sheng bought a heavily damaged car after testing its durability, while Qiu Xiaoxiao arranged for the Myriad Gods Church to contact the Demon Domain. In Skyvault Ravine, the Fei proposed an alliance with the Flood Dragon Clan and Xiangliu to defend their territories, and the black Flood Dragon agreed to hear the plan.

• Yu Sheng decided the car had survived his test drive well enough, bought it, and drove away with temporary plates.
• Qiu Xiaoxiao ordered an agent to offer the Demon Domain a free job on behalf of the Myriad Gods Church.
• The Fei warned the black Flood Dragon that the Flood Dragon Clan's treasured territories were at risk and proposed joining forces.
• The Fei revealed that Xiangliu would join the alliance, and Xiangliu's phantom confirmed the proposal was feasible.
• The black Flood Dragon asked how the alliance would work, and the Fei said the Flood Dragon Clan should monitor Skyvault Ravine and provide intelligence.

Fei secured an alliance with Black Flood Dragon and took ten of his descendants to Eagle Ravine Mountain as leverage, while Yu Sheng entered the Demon Domain by way of a mountain guarded by an old man. In Fancheng, Yu Mo confronted Zhang Qing over his crimes, but Zhang Qing insisted his military merits made him untouchable.

• Fei persuaded Black Flood Dragon to ally with Eagle Ravine Mountain and Zeshan, promising the Flood Dragon Clan greater power in Skyvault Ravine.
• At Fei’s insistence, Black Flood Dragon sent ten black flood dragons, including three of his offspring, with Fei to Eagle Ravine Mountain.
• Black Flood Dragon called an assembly of Skyvault Ravine’s Twelve God Clans and vowed that the Flood Dragon Clan would repay those who bullied it.
• Yu Sheng returned to the mountain passage, but hurried past the old man despite the old man’s claims that he had reached the pinnacle of the Seventh Awakening and could protect him.
• Yu Mo read Zhang Qing’s record of murder, abduction, and corruption, but Zhang Qing dismissed the accusations and claimed his military merits made him essential to the Human Race.

Yu Mo used his Pardon token to dismiss the middle-aged man’s claims and revealed his sword abilities. He killed Zhang Qing with five swords and then challenged the Guard Bureau man to try escaping.

• Yu Mo showed the middle-aged man his ancestor’s Pardon token and said his crimes did not make killing him a crime.
• Yu Mo explained the awakening realms before summoning a blood-red longsword and sending the first three swords after Zhang Qing.
• Zhang Qing blocked the first three swords and tried to flee, but Yu Mo wounded him with the fourth sword, Clear Breeze.
• Zhang Qing charged Yu Mo, believing the longsword’s weakness left its wielder vulnerable, but Yu Mo killed him with the fifth sword, Shadowless.
• Yu Mo recalled the swords and told the middle-aged man from the Guard Bureau that he could try running too.

Yu Mo had the Guard Bureau official taken away after killing Zhang Qing, then declared that it was only the beginning. In the Demon Domain, Yu Sheng tested how to hunt low-level Demon Beasts and traveled by night to a lake whose glowing lotuses were guarded by an old softshell turtle.

• Yu Mo ordered Dark Pavilion staff to seize the terrified Guard Bureau official and said the killing of Zhang Qing was only the beginning.
• Yu Sheng snared and killed a low-level antelope, then stored its corpse and escaped before other Demon Beasts arrived.
• Yu Sheng reflected on the antelope’s tough hide and different throat structure, then continued testing how to kill and assess Demon Beasts.
• After resting in a hollow tree, Yu Sheng consulted Sun Wen’s map and crossed the Thousand-Li Demon Plain under cover of night.
• Yu Sheng reached a lake where Demon Beasts rested and several glowing lotuses grew, while an old softshell turtle claimed the center of the water.

Yu Sheng repeatedly used Round Balls to provoke the Demon Beasts guarding the Water Moon Lotus, then made Old Turtle believe the Azure Wolves were responsible. Old Turtle killed an Azure Wolf, sparking a confrontation with the Azure Wolf King.

• Yu Sheng judged that he could not safely take the Water Moon Lotus and withdrew before using a Round Ball to draw the guarding Demon Beasts away.
• Yu Sheng launched a second Round Ball from a distance, causing widespread chaos across the Demon Plain while he hid.
• Yu Sheng fired again, and Old Turtle intercepted the bolt but failed to identify him as the culprit.
• Yu Sheng used a Round Ball and an Azure Wolf’s appearance to mislead Old Turtle, who struck the wolf and blamed it for disturbing Turtle Lake.
• The Azure Wolf King confronted Old Turtle after finding the wolf’s corpse, and Old Turtle defended the killing and accused the wolf of causing trouble.

Yu Sheng stole the Water Moon Lotuses by disguising his aura, provoking a bloody battle between Old Turtle and the Azure Wolf King. At Ink Academy, Zhao Zicheng revealed his fourth skill by making Sun Wen cry.

• Yu Sheng used his new fourth Crystal Stone to disguise himself as an Azure Wolf, stole several Water Moon Lotuses, and escaped by changing his aura and hiding in a tree hollow.
• Old Turtle returned to find the lotuses missing and blamed the Azure Wolf King, who fought him as the two sides suffered casualties.
• After the battle, Yu Sheng heard the Azure Wolf King mention Wolf Forest and became interested in its resources, then spent the next two days gathering data and hunting low-level Demon Beasts.
• At Ink Academy, Zhao Zicheng reluctantly demonstrated his fourth skill by summoning a sandbag, and Sun Wen punched it and burst into tears.

Sun Wen and the others tested Zhao Zicheng’s sorrow-inducing abilities, then agreed to pursue missions and grow stronger on their own. The Vice Principal watched them on surveillance before closing himself away to watch a new episode of Seven-Colored Fairy.

• Zhao Zicheng explained that his dream of becoming the white-robed Snow Sword had gone astray, while Sun Wen tested his skills by punching him.
• Zhao Zicheng drew the Sandbag into his body, strengthening his damage reduction and making his sorrow-inducing effect even more powerful.
• Lin Xiaoxiao, Mu Yu, A Tai, and Sun Wen attacked Zhao Zicheng, then ended up sobbing uncontrollably while he stood bruised and smug.
• Sun Wen urged the group to take missions and build their own strength for the future, then revealed he was close to his Fifth Awakening and sprinted away.
• The others decided they might beat Sun Wen later for showing off.
• The Vice Principal watched the youngsters through surveillance, then locked himself in the room and watched the latest episode of Seven-Colored Fairy.

The Vice Principal learned that Elder Li’s injuries had worsened and that he was going to the Demon Domain. Li Shaobai was escorted to Demon-Suppressing Pass for his Death Ceremony, where the soldiers prepared to see him off toward the Thousand-Li Demon Plain.

• The Vice Principal removed Xu Yuanqing from the work chat and learned that Old Li planned to enter the Demon Domain because his injuries had worsened.
• Li Shaobai asked his son to carry him on his final journey and reminded him to care for Nannan.
• Yuan Qingshan, Qi Changshan, and others escorted Li Shaobai through the Human Domain as citizens and Ink Pavilion officials bowed to him.
• Sun Yingxiong announced Li Shaobai’s record at Ink Pavilion, and Zhong Yushu and the soldiers at Demon-Suppressing Pass saluted his arrival.
• Zhong Yushu declared Li Shaobai’s Death Ceremony and destination, the Thousand-Li Demon Plain, and the Black Giant Python granted him passage.
• Li Shaobai’s son knelt in tears as the soldiers formed a passage for his final departure.

Li Shaobai entered the Thousand-Li Demon Plain for his final battle, while Yu Sheng used the distraction to infiltrate a demon lord’s territory. Yu Mo and Sun Yingxiong anticipated the Divine Ruins opening and began preparing young fighters to seize the opportunity.

• Li Shaobai said farewell at Demon-Suppressing Pass, restored his strength with the seven crystal stones, and flew toward the Thousand-Li Demon Plain.
• Two seventh-level demon kings and several demon generals intercepted Li Shaobai, starting a fierce battle in the sky.
• Yu Sheng took advantage of the demons’ attention on the battle and slipped toward the nearby territory of a seventh-level demon lord.
• Yu Sheng reached a rocky mountain and watched two fifth-level demon beasts patrolling near a source of pure energy.
• Yu Mo told Sun Yingxiong that the Divine Ruins should soon awaken and suggested gathering capable young people with little talent to take the risk.
• Young people waited below Demon-Suppressing Pass as Yu Mo and Sun Yingxiong considered the coming opportunity.