Recaps

Ji Hong and Old White Ape killed Fei and united Eagle Ravine Mountain, while Eight-Tailed Fox made them Mountain Lord and Deputy Mountain Lord and ordered their forces to intimidate the Human Race. Meanwhile, Yu Mo reviewed security and Reserve Corps checks as Chu Huai said Soul Hunt was nearing the end of its operation.

• Old White Ape watched Ji Hong leave after Fei’s death and mused that the Thousand-Li Demon Plain would soon be in for a feast.
• Old White Ape declared that Eagle Ravine Mountain was united and under his control, and said it would distinguish itself in the coming war.
• Eight-Tailed Fox decided to honor Fei’s death with merit points, then ordered the Taotie Clan leader to appoint Ji Hong and Old White Ape as Mountain Lord and Deputy Mountain Lord at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Eight-Tailed Fox ordered Eagle Ravine Mountain’s troops to mobilize outside Demon-Suppressing Pass and intimidate the Human Race.
• Officials reported that 32,168 Reserve Corps members had falsified their identities, including eight with questionable backgrounds; Yu Mo allowed eligible veterans to fight but ordered survivors to retire after the war and barred recruits under twenty-five.
• Yu Mo asked Chu Huai about Soul Hunt, and Chu Huai said they were closing the net as voice messages began appearing in the group chat.

The Light Group prepared for war while Yu Mo pushed Chu Huai into the role of its public face, making Chu Huai realize how thoroughly Yu Mo anticipated his actions. Meanwhile, the Dark Pavilion’s senior members gathered and decided it still had work to do alongside the Light Group.

• Five voice messages reported that Light Group spies had captured several Soul Hunt operatives and an Ink Pavilion branch master, while the Ink Pavilion headquarters remained intact.
• Yu Mo ordered the Light Group to prepare for war and demanded strict punishment for wartime crimes to prevent unrest among the Human Race.
• Yu Mo reminded Chu Huai of their old exchange and made clear that Chu Huai would take on the burden of leading the Light Group and announce its wartime rules.
• Chu Huai recognized that Yu Mo had anticipated his behavior, regained his resolve, and left the meeting room with his usual friendly demeanor.
• An old man at a Dark Pavilion meeting said the organization still had a purpose and that it should take on some of the responsibilities now carried by the Light Group.

The Dark Pavilion and the Demon-Slaughtering Pavilion mobilized for war, while Yu Sheng left Ink Academy to pursue his path in the Demon Domain. His friends watched him go and resolved to keep improving until they met again at Demon-Suppressing Pass.

• Old Man announced that the Dark Pavilion would activate the Shadow Project and step into the light as it prepared for war.
• The Demon-Slaughtering Pavilion rallied its members around the Ultimate Demon Spy Plan and sent them toward the mountains beside Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yu Sheng packed his belongings, replenished the egg with energy, and left Ink Academy without looking back.
• Zhao Zicheng, Sun Wen, Mu Yu, A Tai, and Lin Xiaoxiao watched Yu Sheng depart and encouraged one another to keep moving forward.
• Yu Sheng said he would meet his friends at Demon-Suppressing Pass, while Shi Guang watched him leave and vowed to work harder.

Yu Mo visited Yu Sheng before his departure and claimed they were brothers, but Yu Sheng recognized the story as copied from a novel. Yu Mo then praised Yu Sheng’s rationality and proposed they become sworn brothers.

• Xu Yuanqing told Yu Sheng that someone had paid him a hundred yuan to arrange a meeting.
• Yu Mo arrived at Ink Academy in a wheelchair and said he had rushed there to see Yu Sheng before he left.
• Yu Mo claimed Yu Sheng was his younger brother and told a tragic story about hiding him from their enemies.
• Yu Sheng identified the story as the backstory of a character in Dawn Era: Sin City Chronicles and pointed out its details had barely been changed.
• Yu Mo said Yu Sheng had passed his test and proposed they become sworn brothers.

Yu Sheng assured Yu Mo that he would not harm humanity, and Yu Mo entrusted him with retrieving the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit and urged him to return alive. Yu Sheng drove out of Jiangcheng, while Xu Yuanqing tried to collect money from Yu Mo and the vice principal’s loudspeaker exposed Xu Yuanqing’s lies.

• Yu Sheng told Yu Mo that he respected humanity’s rules and believed he was not a bad person.
• Yu Mo said he believed Yu Sheng and urged him to experience ordinary life, suggesting that he might be missing a home of his own.
• Yu Mo entrusted the human race’s hopes to Yu Sheng and said the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit was crucial to ending the battle.
• Yu Sheng drove away from Ink Academy, repeatedly crashing his car into the wall as he tried to master driving.
• Xu Yuanqing demanded money from Yu Mo for saving his life and offered to wake the vice principal for an additional fee.
• The vice principal’s loudspeaker accused Xu Yuanqing of lying about being in seclusion and condemned him.

Yu Mo summoned the Confucian Scholar to deal with Xu Yuanqing, then reached Ink Academy after the vice principal agreed to his conditions. The Three Major Universities announced that they would head to the Human Race’s Four Passes, while Ink Academy finally posted a message asking where its graduates were.

• Yu Mo called for the Confucian Scholar, who took Xu Yuanqing away after Yu Mo suggested he could offer incense.
• The vice principal agreed to guide Yu Mo into Ink Academy’s Inner Courtyard and later accepted several of Yu Mo’s conditions.
• Spirit Mind Academy and the Military Academy announced that their teachers would go to the Human Race’s Four Passes, while the Military Academy also pledged to send students.
• The Light Group and the Yu Clan Emblem barred anyone under twenty-five from combat, frustrating Military Academy students.
• Spirit Martial Academy issued a blunt call to fight, and figures from the Three Major Universities set out for the front lines.
• The Ink Academy vice principal posted, “Where are our graduates?” after Yu Mo left in his wheelchair.

Ink Academy issued a decree sending eligible graduates to the passes, while Sun Yingxiong resigned as Ink Pavilion Head and appointed Yuan Qingshan and Qi Changshan as acting heads. Yu Sheng headed for the Demon Domain with an enormous bundle, and the chapter ended with the Twelve God Clans preparing to leave Skyvault Ravine.

• Ink Academy ordered graduates without essential posts or Ninth Awakening strength to ascend the passes and added that anyone leaving Ink City had to kick Yu Mo once.
• Sun Yingxiong resigned as Ink Pavilion Head, named Yuan Qingshan and Qi Changshan acting heads, and barred them from joining the battle.
• Yuan Qingshan and Qi Changshan arrived at the Ink Pavilion bruised and swollen, frightening the staff on their first day as heads.
• Zhong Yushu saw Yu Sheng carrying a huge bundle toward the Demon Domain and joked that he would keep Yu Sheng safe at the foot of the mountain.
• Yu Sheng hurried away when Zhong Yushu mentioned the Reserve Corps, leaving Zhong Yushu to curse at his soldiers.
• In the Demon Domain, someone declared that it was time for the Twelve God Clans to leave Skyvault Ravine.

The patriarchs of the Twelve God Clans led a massive procession from Skyvault Ravine toward Demon-Suppressing Pass, drawing Ink Academy alumni back together to face the coming threat. The gathering ended in chaos when the newly appointed Ink Pavilion Heads proposed leading the charge and Yuan Qingshan provoked his old classmates.

• Demon aura surged from Skyvault Ravine as the patriarchs of the Twelve God Clans and their followers marched toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Xiao Yan and Senior Miao argued over who should face the danger, then fell silent when Senior Lu arrived.
• Ink Academy graduates gathered atop Demon-Suppressing Pass and reminisced about their school days and the crooked tree outside the academy gates.
• Yuan Qingshan and Qi Changshan announced that the Ink Pavilion Heads would lead the charge alongside the Reserve Corps.
• Yuan Qingshan teased his former classmates, discovered several had reached the Eighth Awakening, and tried to flee before Qi Changshan tripped him.

As the Twelve God Clans approached Demon-Suppressing Pass, Chu Yu watched Ink Academy’s elders joke and bicker before joining their card game. Meanwhile, Yu Sheng slipped into the Demon Domain in disguise, finding the Demon Plain eerily empty.

• Yuan Qingshan reassured Chu Yu that Ink Academy was united while she painted a picture of the elders beating him up.
• Senior Lu warned that twelve powerful auras from the Twelve God Clans were approaching, and Yuan Qingshan said Ink Academy was ready to fight.
• Yuan Qingshan invited Chu Yu to play cards with the elders, while Senior Lu kept watch from the city wall.
• Yu Sheng returned to his hideout, stored most of his supplies in the Mountains and Rivers Bottle, and chose not to wear his conspicuous white ape coat.
• Yu Sheng disguised himself in ape fur and crossed the Demon Plain, where nearly all intelligent demon beasts had vanished.

Yu Sheng passed through the Demon Plain as Old White Ape and Ji Hong discussed how to approach the leaders of Skyvault Ravine. Eight-Tailed Fox stayed at Eagle Ravine Mountain while the God Clan chiefs advanced toward Demon-Suppressing Pass, each seeking Merit Points and the Demon God's favor.

• Yu Sheng left Fei's remains behind as Demon Beasts devoured his body and drank from the blood-red lake.
• Old White Ape and Ji Hong decided to present a united front to Skyvault Ravine and considered how to win its leaders over.
• The Taotie Clan Chief thanked Eight-Tailed Fox for understanding and dismissed Fei as worthless, having gained 1,000 Merit Points by killing him.
• Eight-Tailed Fox set up camp at Eagle Ravine Mountain and told the God Clan chiefs to proceed to Demon-Suppressing Pass without him.
• The Taotie Clan Chief urged the other chiefs to fight valiantly so the Demon God would notice them, prompting them to suspect his motives.

Yu Mo watched the demon army approach Demon-Suppressing Pass while Sun Yingxiong discovered he could step onto a golden road and was close to the Ninth Awakening. As the Twelve God Clans arrived on the Thousand-Li Demon Plain, Yu Sheng hid inside Broken Mountain, where the Red Dragon Clan chose to camp.

• Yu Mo judged that the demon army's show of force would backfire without overwhelming strength, while Sun Yingxiong celebrated a breakthrough that let him travel along a golden road.
• Yu Sheng concealed himself inside Broken Mountain, disguising his aura and digging a series of hidden caves and an underground tunnel as the demon clouds closed in.
• The Red Dragon chief claimed Broken Mountain for its clan, set up defenses, and announced that it would visit Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yuan Qingshan and Chu Yu played cards atop Demon-Suppressing Pass as the chiefs of the Qiongqi, Taotie, and Black Flood Dragon Clans gathered with the other Demon Lords.
• Yu Sheng moved into a cave halfway up the mountain and worried that his broken-down vehicle had cost him the time he needed.

Yu Sheng stayed hidden inside the mountain while Old White Ape and Ji Hong approached the Twelve God Clans. The Taotie Clan Chief appointed Ji Hong as Eagle Ravine Mountain Lord and ordered the mountain to attack Demon-Suppressing Pass the next day, despite the Seven-Tailed Fox’s objection.

• Yu Sheng considered destroying the mountain but decided he could not overcome the beast tide, then concealed his presence by imitating a mole.
• Old White Ape showed Ji Hong his new robe, and Ji Hong told him it looked like a mourning garment bought from a crooked merchant.
• Ji Hong and Old White Ape greeted the Twelve God Clans, and the Taotie Clan Chief formally appointed Ji Hong Mountain Lord and Old White Ape Deputy Mountain Lord of Eagle Ravine Mountain.
• The Taotie Clan Chief gave them Divine Beast Blood, which Ji Hong and Old White Ape swallowed to strengthen themselves.
• The Taotie Clan Chief ordered Eagle Ravine Mountain to attack Demon-Suppressing Pass the next day, and threatened the Seven-Tailed Fox when he objected that the attack had not been authorized.

The Twelve God Clans’ patriarchs surrounded Demon-Suppressing Pass and tried to intimidate the Human Race, but the defenders’ irreverent antics eased the soldiers’ fear. Qi Changshan then rose from the wall amid elaborate effects conjured by the elders, leaving Yuan Qingshan envious below.

• The Seven-Tailed Fox withdrew after the Twelve God Clans’ patriarchs scorned him, realizing that borrowed support was unreliable.
• Taotie and ten other patriarchs gathered outside Demon-Suppressing Pass and unleashed their pressure against the Human Race.
• Yuan Qingshan abruptly ended the card game, claiming the elders had to defend the honor of the Human Race, while the soldiers watched their bickering instead of fearing the enemy.
• Qi Changshan stopped Yuan Qingshan from standing and stepped into the air as the elders conjured sunlight, golden stairs, music, and other effects around him.
• Yuan Qingshan envied Qi Changshan’s grand entrance and complained to Chu Yu about the paint that kept him from showing off himself.

Qi Changshan confronted the Twelve God Clans outside Demon-Suppressing Pass, using a display of overwhelming power to deter them while Yuan Qingshan secretly supported him. Red Dragon refused to abolish the Convention and declared that war would begin tomorrow, as both sides gathered their forces.

• Qi Changshan challenged the God Race clan leaders over whether they intended to tear up the Convention, and they threatened that the Human Race could not withstand the Demon Clan.
• Yuan Qingshan hid by the city wall and used his abilities to help create the lightning spectacle as Qi Changshan advanced.
• Qi Changshan’s lightning devastated the land outside Demon-Suppressing Pass, prompting Red Dragon to insist the Convention remain in force while declaring war for the following day.
• Qi Changshan warned the God Race that blood would spill when the snow fell, while Red Dragon announced the Demon Clan would choose the battlefield.
• Demon Lords and Human Race fighters rose into the sky, and the God Race leaders privately debated the Human Race’s newly revealed forces.

As war approached Demon-Suppressing Pass, Ink Academy’s principal broke through to the eighth awakening and rallied the school to join the battle despite the Light Group’s age restriction. Yu Mo analyzed the enemy’s plans and prepared to strike at the other passes, while Yu Sheng set out through the underground caves toward Swamp Pool with the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit.

• At Demon-Suppressing Pass, Yuan Qingshan and Qi Changshan celebrated achieving their goal and anticipated their next chance to show off.
• The principal of Ink Academy reached the eighth awakening after the vice principal called him to prepare for war.
• The principal ordered Ink Academy’s teachers and students to assemble for the march to Demon-Suppressing Pass, disregarding the Light Group’s ban on participants under twenty-five.
• Yu Mo deduced the enemy’s plan to cripple Demon-Suppressing Pass and then attack the other three passes, and he focused his analysis on those other passes.
• Yu Mo worried that the coming battle would cause immense casualties and hoped Yu Sheng’s Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit could save people.
• Yu Sheng woke in a cave, sealed each passage behind him with stone from the Mountains and Rivers Bottle, and continued through the tunnels toward Swamp Pool.

Yu Sheng crossed the Thousand-Li Demon Plain by disguising himself as a yellow monkey and slipping through the demon beasts’ attention. Meanwhile, Red Dragon secretly searched his mountain for traces of Mirage Dragon, but the Heavenly Dog Clan chief grew suspicious and baited him in front of the other clan chiefs.

• Yu Sheng emerged from an underground hole disguised as a yellow monkey, startled an antelope, and used the ensuing commotion to move through the shadows.
• Yu Sheng hid beneath a tree and waited for another chance to advance across the demon-beast-filled plain.
• Red Dragon searched his mountain for Mirage Dragon’s scent and concealed an opening in the stone wall when the Heavenly Dog Clan chief watched him.
• The Heavenly Dog Clan chief suspected Red Dragon was hiding a secret and proposed trading for his mountain.
• Red Dragon refused, while the other clan chiefs connected his behavior to Mirage Dragon and declared that they would avenge him.

The Demon Race leaders realized they had been tricked and prepared to attack Demon-Suppressing Pass at sunrise, while Gray Snake headed toward the battlefield with a plan to infiltrate their ranks. At the pass, Sun Yingxiong arrived and realized the welcoming elders were setting a trap for him, but his escape route was already blocked.

• Red Dragon returned to the Mountain Summit humiliated but remained convinced that Mirage Dragon's treasures were hidden beyond the sealed cave entrance.
• Qiongqi and the other clan chiefs concluded that a Human Race man had tricked them and decided to attack Demon-Suppressing Pass at sunrise.
• Gray Snake left his hiding place near Skyvault Ravine and headed for the battlefield to kill a demon, take his place, and approach a Great Demon.
• Sun Yingxiong arrived at Demon-Suppressing Pass as the elders pretended to welcome him warmly.
• Sun Yingxiong recognized that Yuan Qingshan, Qi Changshan, and the others were plotting against him, but found his way back blocked.

Ji Hong arrived at Demon-Suppressing Pass at the head of a massive beast army and declared his intent to attack the city. As the human elders confronted him over his betrayal of Lao Liu, Qiongqi and Taotie considered whether Ji Hong could be recruited.

• Sun Yingxiong and the other old men fought each other, then laughed and reminisced about their old companions.
• Qiongqi announced that the demons would wash Demon-Suppressing Pass in blood, and Red Dragon called on Mountain Lord Ji to begin.
• Ji Hong appeared in a blood-red gown as Old White Ape and a huge army from the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, Thousand-Li Demon Plain, and Eagle Ravine Mountain gathered behind him.
• Lao Ma accused Ji Hong of betraying Lao Liu and vowed to kill him, but Sun Yingxiong stopped him from charging out.
• Ji Hong dismissed the humans as ants and defended his path to godhood, while Qiongqi suggested to Taotie that they might recruit him.

Black Flood Dragon and Ji Hong fought Old Ma and Yuan Qingshan as Sun Yingxiong summoned snow over the battlefield. While the duels raged above, Old White Ape led the Demon Beasts in a charge toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.

• Black Flood Dragon challenged Yuan Qingshan, and both sides took to the sky to fight.
• Sun Yingxiong called down snow, while Yuan Qingshan used his drum techniques to summon lightning and unleash a Beast Tide against Black Flood Dragon.
• Old Ma opened a Scroll-based Painting Soul World and attacked Ji Hong with ink blades and Immortal Soldiers, while Ji Hong summoned Yin Soldiers from a road he called Yellow Springs.
• Old White Ape used Pass Ascension to send the Demon Beasts charging toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.

As the Beast Tide attacked Demon-Suppressing Pass, Senior Lu and the Ink Academy graduates organized the human defenders and fought back against Eagle Ravine Mountain’s forces. Sun Yingxiong then confronted the eleven God Race clan chiefs, provoking them to break the Convention and fight.

• Chu Yu rose to face the Beast Tide, but Senior Lu pressed her back into her chair and ordered everyone below the Eighth Awakening to prepare for battle.
• The Principal placed the Ink Academy graduates below the Eighth Awakening under Senior Lu’s command, and they spread across Demon-Suppressing Pass with their unusual Awakening Objects.
• Senior Lu used his mechanical clock Awakening Object to knock Fire Carving from the pass, and a middle-aged man with two azure Flood Dragons struck the Demon Beast back again.
• Eagle Ravine Mountain’s Demon Beasts charged the pass as human fighters killed or wounded many of them, while Fire Carving realized his forces were probing the Human Race’s strength.
• Sun Yingxiong stepped onto a golden road in midair and challenged the eleven God Race clan chiefs to tear up the Convention, drawing angry reactions from them and concern from an old man below.

Sun Yingxiong was cornered into accepting a fight against five God Race Clan Leaders, despite the old men urging him to retreat. After both sides swore the battle was separate from the Convention, the combatants opened a new battlefield and Taotie tested Sun Yingxiong’s eighth awakening.

• The God Race Clan Leaders recognized the old men’s anxiety and challenged Sun Yingxiong to fight all five of them.
• Sun Yingxiong refused to retreat, named Yuan Qingshan and Qi Changshan as his successors, and rallied the Reserve Corps to fight harder.
• Sun Yingxiong swore the duel had nothing to do with the Convention, and the five Clan Leaders made the same oath.
• Seven-Tailed Fox tried to stop the Clan Leaders, but Qiongqi threatened him and the five proceeded with the fight.
• Taotie tested Sun Yingxiong with his Talent Divine Ability, and Sun Yingxiong summoned a Golden Greatsword and used eight Crystal Stones to steady himself.

Sun Yingxiong unleashed his final trump card, drawing strength from the soldiers of Demon-Suppressing Pass as the clan leaders closed in to kill him. On Eagle Ravine Mountain, Eight-Tailed Fox realized Sun Yingxiong might be breaking the deadlock and ordered that he be stopped.

• Seven-Tailed Fox sensed the battle had strayed from the plan and fled toward Eagle Ravine Mountain.
• Sun Yingxiong wounded Qiongqi with his greatsword, but Qiongqi struck back as Taowu and Red Dragon attacked him.
• Sun Yingxiong used Human Tide to reopen Qiongqi's wound, then declared that Wave Tide could be broken but Human Tide could not be stopped.
• Sun Yingxiong invoked Human Race World, drawing faint threads from the soldiers below to heal his injuries and raise his aura.
• Qiongqi, Red Dragon, Taotie, and Taowu converged on Sun Yingxiong as he released blinding golden light, while Old White Ape fled.
• After hearing Seven-Tailed Fox's report, Eight-Tailed Fox concluded that Sun Yingxiong was breaking the deadlock and said they had to stop him.

The Eight-Tailed Fox summoned the Demon God for help against Sun Yingxiong, but the indifferent projection demanded proper deference and offered no rescue. Meanwhile, Sun Yingxiong began breaking through to the ninth awakening and trapped the five God Race Clan Leaders in a human domain, leaving Qiongqi badly wounded but still alive.

• The Eight-Tailed Fox summoned the Demon God and urgently asked it to save the God Race Clan Leaders fighting Sun Yingxiong.
• The Demon God demanded that the Eight-Tailed Fox bow, then its projection vanished without promising aid.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox blamed Yu Mo for disrupting its plans and ordered the Seven-Tailed Fox to follow it to Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yu Mo concluded that the Demon Domain's momentum had been broken and the human race's momentum established.
• Sun Yingxiong realized he was comprehending the path to the ninth awakening, absorbed a seven-colored Demon Core into his greatsword, and formed a domain that trapped the five God Race Clan Leaders.
• Sun Yingxiong wounded Qiongqi with a single move, but Qiongqi escaped by exploding its wings and reappearing elsewhere.

Sun Yingxiong turned the tide of the battle with his overwhelming power, killing Qiongqi and Taowu while his ninth awakening neared. The surviving Demon Clan leaders faced a worsening crisis as Sun Yingxiong continued his assault.

• Sun Yingxiong overwhelmed the Demon Clan leaders, while Yuan Qingshan collected Black Flood Dragon's blood during his retreat.
• Yuan Qingshan watched Ji Hong fight Old Ma and silently vowed to kill Ji Hong one day.
• Qiongqi urged the other leaders to unite and wait for their ancestors, but Sun Yingxiong's ninth-awakening pattern continued to form.
• Sun Yingxiong disabled Qiongqi's Talent Divine Ability and killed him with sword energy.
• Sun Yingxiong forced Taowu out of nothingness and killed him with a hand-on-the-head attack he called the “Head-Patting Kill.”

Sun Yingxiong killed Sky Dog after learning from him and the Red Dragon Clan Chief that Taotie threatened humanity by absorbing its fortune, then collected the spoils and left Demon-Suppressing Pass. He entered the ninth awakening as the Demon God arrived, while the human forces celebrated his victory and the surviving demons faltered.

• Sky Dog urged Sun Yingxiong to kill Taotie, revealing that the Taotie Clan absorbed human fortune, and the Red Dragon Clan Chief confirmed Taotie's threat.
• Sun Yingxiong killed Sky Dog with Face-Touch Kill and gathered his Demon Core, Demon Crystal, and blood for Qi Changshan.
• Sun Yingxiong declared that three kills were his limit, then left Demon-Suppressing Pass to carry the treasures into human territory.
• Sun Yingxiong entered the ninth awakening as the surrounding mountains and rivers turned illusory and sunlight fell on him.
• The Demon God called out, Yuan Qingshan announced Sun Yingxiong's victory, and human soldiers cheered while the demons and surviving God Race Clan Leaders grew wary.