Recaps

Poison Bee warned Yu Sheng that the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit would ripen in four days and that he must leave before Poison Bee sealed the area. At Demon-Suppressing Pass, Shi Guang and Yuan Qingshan urged the aged Chu Yu to survive and defend the pass rather than die in the next battle, but Chu Yu remained resolved to follow her heart.

• Poison Bee told Yu Sheng to restore the organs that nourished the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit and to take two fruits and leave when they ripened in four days.
• Poison Bee said his Talent Divine Ability would seal the area for at least twenty years and wished Yu Sheng success among the Human Race.
• At Demon-Suppressing Pass, Shi Guang thanked Chu Yu for her sacrifice and called her the most beautiful person she had ever seen because her heart was clean.
• Chu Yu said she would die in her next fight and intended to give everything she had, even though she could no longer paint.
• Yuan Qingshan told Chu Yu not to fight in the final battle so she could remain alive to defend Demon-Suppressing Pass and deter the Demon Domain.
• Chu Yu rejected Yuan Qingshan's apology and said she had no regrets about following her heart.

Yu Mo urged Yuan Qingshan to concentrate the Human Race’s forces at Demon-Suppressing Pass, arguing that the Eight-Tailed Fox wanted to use them as a whetstone rather than destroy them outright. After Yu Mo showed him intelligence that strengthened the case for taking the risk, Yuan agreed to a major troop transfer, leaving the decisive battle to hinge on the plan.

• Yuan Qingshan met Yu Mo, who proposed gathering the Human Race’s forces at Demon-Suppressing Pass because he believed the Eight-Tailed Fox would leave the other passes alone.
• Yuan Qingshan warned that Yu Mo’s plan was a dangerous gamble, but Yu Mo argued that it could reduce casualties and buy the Human Race time.
• Yu Mo gave Yuan documents containing intelligence he believed was ninety percent reliable, changing Yuan’s assessment.
• Yuan Qingshan agreed to transfer most of the forces from the other three passes and Border Armies, along with many fourth-awakening fighters, to reinforce Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yu Mo wondered whether Yu Sheng had died in the Swamp Pool, then had the Confucian Scholar wheel him back toward Ink City.

Old White Ape and Ji Hong realized Eight-Tailed Fox had kept them from the final battle because it feared their ambitions, and they decided to fight back. Eight-Tailed Fox prepared the remaining Demon Lords for battle and watched the two suspiciously as they began plotting against it.

• Old White Ape lamented that Eight-Tailed Fox had used him and Ji Hong as pawns, and Ji Hong agreed they should fight rather than accept their exclusion.
• Eight-Tailed Fox thanked the Demon Lords and promised rewards, while ordering most Twelve God Clan leaders to oversee the battle from the rear and naming Bifang and Zhu Yan as vanguards.
• Eight-Tailed Fox privately judged Ji Hong and Old White Ape too ambitious to trust, fearing they would eventually turn against it as they had turned on Fei.
• Old White Ape sensed Eight-Tailed Fox watching them, and he and Ji Hong accused each other of devising ways to scheme against it.

As the New Year approached, Yu Mo returned and redirected Light Group leaders and volunteers to the looming battle at Demon-Suppressing Pass. At Ink Academy, Xu Yuanqing became vice principal, while the vice principal announced he would take over as principal after the battle.

• Old White Ape recognized that Ji Hong was still using his War God persona to deceive the Eight-Tailed Fox and keep up appearances even with him.
• Chu Huai organized New Year festivities and public morale efforts before Yu Mo returned and ordered him to join the battle at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Chu Huai tried to escape his duties by jumping out a window, but Yu Mo sent the Confucian Scholar to bring him back.
• People quietly left their families and assembled to reinforce the battlefield as Demon Beasts gathered on the Thousand-Li Demon Plain and soldiers amassed at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• The principal appointed Xu Yuanqing vice principal, and Xu Yuanqing tried to bribe the current vice principal after learning he would become principal following the battle.
• The vice principal kicked Xu Yuanqing after discovering his promised token was only twenty thousand.

Xu Yuanqing learned why Ink Academy’s Eighth Awakening leaders had to leave for the front lines, then discovered his driving school venture had failed. Meanwhile, Yu Sheng began laying an array for Poison Bee to protect the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit, though the array would also help Poison Bee revive.

• The Principal explained that after Demon-Suppressing Pass fell, Ink Academy’s leaders decided that anyone who reached the Eighth Awakening must serve where they were needed most, and Xu Yuanqing accepted the rule.
• The Principal revealed that a Mobei City company had monopolized Jiangcheng’s driving school market a year earlier, leaving Xu Yuanqing’s new school without students and crushing his hopes of returning to his business.
• Zhao Zicheng, Lin Xiaoxiao, and Mu Yu remarked that Xu Yuanqing seemed to be a child of fortune, unaware that Shi Guang held a stake in the competing school and Yu Sheng had helped it enter the market.
• Poison Bee warned Yu Sheng that the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit would ripen in two days and said an array was needed to suppress attention from powerful Demon Lords.
• Poison Bee swore a Heaven and Earth Oath that the array would not harm Yu Sheng, then revealed it would also serve as the key to its revival.
• Yu Sheng entered a cavern, found a pitch-black heart, and began carving the array around it with his Long Sword.

Yu Sheng deliberately left the final strokes unfinished on every array in the Mountain Cave, despite Poison Bee’s instructions and apparent concern for him. Elsewhere, Eight-Tailed Fox prepared for the final battle, while Confucian Scholar gave Yu Mo an elusive account of the Immortal Realm.

• Yu Sheng stopped short of completing the final stroke of the first array, and Poison Bee explained that the array needed to be closed to draw on the turtle corpse’s demonic energy and ripen the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit.
• Yu Sheng continued through the Mountain Cave, leaving the final stroke unfinished on each array; after a day, he ate a hard steamed bun and listened as Poison Bee offered to help expand his storage space.
• Eight-Tailed Fox learned that forces from the three mountains, five cities, and six factions had assembled and said they would begin the final battle once the Demon God Drum arrived.
• Yu Mo asked Confucian Scholar about the Immortal Realm, and Confucian Scholar first invented scenes in the darkness before describing it as a transcendent existence he could not convey.

Yu Mo spent New Year's Eve alone at Light Group Headquarters, while Yu Sanshui was released from the Guard Bureau and tried to escape Black Robe, who kept demanding that he return something. After repeated calls, someone at the Light Group finally answered Yu Sanshui's complaint.

• Yu Mo returned to the deserted Light Group Headquarters, wished himself a happy New Year, and worked while the Confucian Scholar brought him water.
• Yu Sanshui was released from the Guard Bureau for the holiday and thanked the staff member who let him go.
• Black Robe followed Yu Sanshui and repeatedly demanded that he give something back.
• Yu Sanshui used his awakening object to escape into the wilderness, but Black Robe appeared beneath his hiding tree and revealed he could track him.
• Yu Sanshui called the Light Group to complain about Black Robe, kept calling through the afternoon, and finally reached a weary staff member.

Yu Sanshui brought the black-robed man back to Mobei City after Yu Mo said the Light Group could not attack Soul Hunt for another fifteen days. At home, Yu Sanshui pretended to have donated his fortune so he could persuade Guiqin to visit, while the black-robed man kept demanding his things back.

• Yu Sanshui called Yu Mo and demanded that the Light Group wipe out Soul Hunt, but Yu Mo said the Light Group was short-handed and asked him to hold the black-robed man for fifteen days.
• Yu Sanshui accused the black-robed man of exploiting the Light Group's weakness, then took him toward Mobei City, and they arrived at Yu Sanshui's home an hour later.
• Yu Sanshui called Guiqin and claimed he had donated his entire fortune to Demon-Suppressing Pass, then persuaded her to come over for steak and red wine.
• Yu Sanshui changed into worn clothes, messed up his hair, and stained his sleeve with red liquid to look pitiful while the black-robed man repeatedly demanded his things back.
• Yu Sanshui told the black-robed man to turn invisible when Guiqin arrived, then waited for her.

Yu Sanshui tried to win Guiqin’s affection while Black Robe silently haunted the room and demanded his belongings. Black Robe’s frightening performance drove Guiqin to flee, leaving Yu Sanshui furious with him.

• Yu Sanshui kept glancing at Black Robe during dinner with Guiqin, who grew uneasy when she noticed his strange behavior.
• Yu Sanshui comforted Guiqin about his poverty and steered her away from the voice demanding its things; Black Robe charged his voice changer on the sofa.
• Yu Sanshui and Guiqin went to bed together, but Black Robe crept to the bedside and demanded his things in a sinister voice.
• Black Robe appeared behind Yu Sanshui as a bloodied figure and repeated that Yu Sanshui owed a life, terrifying Guiqin into fleeing the house.
• Yu Sanshui cursed Black Robe and threatened to kill him.

Yu Sanshui discovered that the black-robed figure was a woman after her voice changer broke, then followed her out while trying to woo her. Meanwhile, Yu Sheng completed the arrays that would unleash enough demon aura to ripen the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit, but he questioned Poison Bee’s claim that it needed another day.

• The black-robed figure’s voice changer broke, and Yu Sanshui realized she was a woman.
• Yu Sanshui abruptly shifted from anger to flirtation, apologized to the black-robed woman, and followed her out of the room.
• Poison Bee warned Yu Sheng that the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit needed another day to ripen.
• Yu Sheng completed the arrays, activating the heart and causing demon aura to spread through the Mountain Cave.
• Yu Sheng questioned Poison Bee’s claim that the fruit needed another day, and Poison Bee denied lying to him.

Yu Sheng exposed Poison Bee’s lies about the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit and found a hidden passage beneath the stone tablet. After guessing the fruit was about to ripen, he followed the gray aura in the opposite direction, leaving Poison Bee silent and suspicious.

• Yu Sheng deduced that Poison Bee had shed its body to approach the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit and had lied about the timing of its ripening.
• Yu Sheng used his hammer to break through the ground beneath the stone tablet and uncover a narrow passage.
• Yu Sheng explained that Poison Bee’s urgency, the untouched arrays, and missing hairs at the entrance led him to guess the fruit would ripen that day.
• Poison Bee wondered whether Yu Sheng was trying to distract it, while Yu Sheng followed the gray aura and realized he had initially chosen the wrong passage.
• Yu Sheng turned toward the other end of the passage and disappeared into the darkness.

Yu Sheng saw through Poison Bee’s misleading directions and followed the Gray Aura toward the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit. Poison Bee abandoned his act and summoned a Demon Beast to block Yu Sheng’s path.

• Poison Bee asked how Yu Sheng had discovered the passage’s misdirection, then warned him that the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit’s poisonous gas would kill him.
• Yu Sheng ignored Poison Bee’s pleas and used the Gray Aura to guide himself through the passage toward the fruit.
• Yu Sheng accused Poison Bee of acting poorly and compared him unfavorably to Old White Ape.
• Poison Bee stopped pretending, called Yu Sheng a deceitful human, and summoned a Demon Beast that demanded Yu Sheng step over its corpse to pass.

Yu Sheng pushed through Poison Bee’s Demon Beast attacks and reached the chamber where the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit was ripening. He entered the fruit’s deadly forbidden zone unharmed by mimicking a soul’s aura, leaving Poison Bee stunned.

• Yu Sheng killed the Demon Beasts sent to stop him while mocking Poison Bee’s threats.
• Poison Bee stopped sending weak Demon Beasts and prepared something as Yu Sheng continued down the passage.
• Yu Sheng reached a vast chamber containing a half-black, half-white stele and Poison Bee’s phantom.
• Poison Bee warned that approaching within ten meters of the ripening Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit would annihilate any physical being.
• Yu Sheng stepped into the forbidden zone unharmed, explaining that he had mimicked a soul’s aura and adapted Aura Mimicry to fool the fruit.

Yu Sheng foiled Poison Bee’s Sky Orchid Fragrance poison trap with Energy Fluid and tested Poison Bee’s warnings about the stone tablet. He left Poison Bee’s scheme exposed but did not strike the tablet, whose connection to the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit remained uncertain.

• Poison Bee revealed that Starfall Fruit and Demon Crystals became deadly when combined with Sky Orchid Fragrance, but Yu Sheng was unaffected because he had applied Energy Fluid instead.
• Yu Sheng explained that he had applied the Energy Fluid because Poison Bee’s nagging annoyed him and he felt embarrassed about stripping in front of outsiders.
• Poison Bee warned Yu Sheng not to touch the stone tablet before the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit ripened and threatened to take him down with it.
• Yu Sheng raised his flaming hammer while watching Poison Bee, then put it away without striking the tablet.
• Yu Sheng noticed that Poison Bee released gray aura only after he lowered the hammer, suggesting that striking the tablet would have aided Poison Bee or harmed Yu Sheng.

Poison Bee revealed that he had manipulated Yu Sheng and began using the array to revive by merging with the Turtle Corpse. Yu Sheng triggered explosions with a remote control, breaking the array and ending Poison Bee’s revival attempt.

• Yu Sheng recorded the stone tablet as its words faded, while Poison Bee approached it and claimed he did not want to fight over the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit.
• Poison Bee admitted he planned to kill Yu Sheng and use his corpse, then explained that the Heaven and Earth Oath could not restrain him because he existed between life and death.
• Poison Bee began the revival array, causing the Mountain Cave to shake and the Turtle Corpse’s demon aura to press down on Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng pressed a button on his remote control, setting off distant explosions that broke the array and stopped Poison Bee from merging with the Turtle Corpse.

Yu Sheng repeatedly detonated bombs hidden around the Mountain Cave, interrupting the Poison Bee’s attempts to repair the arrays and take control of the old turtle’s corpse. As the Poison Bee’s plan fell further behind schedule, Yu Sheng revealed he had planted a basketful of bombs, and another blast killed the demon beast the Poison Bee controlled.

• The Poison Bee sent a duplicate through the wall to repair a damaged array, then taunted Yu Sheng while the demon beast it controlled cleared the rubble.
• After the Poison Bee restored the array and merged back into it, Yu Sheng detonated another hidden bomb and disrupted its attempt to return.
• The Poison Bee demanded to know when Yu Sheng had planted the bomb, and Yu Sheng explained that he had left it behind while collecting demon hearts.
• As only a third of the writing remained on the stone stele, Yu Sheng set off three more bombs and said he had hidden about a basketful.
• Yu Sheng detonated another bomb, killing the low-level demon beast controlled by the Poison Bee and severely injuring the soul fragment it had sent out.

Yu Sheng forced Poison Bee to admit that the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruits were his only remaining chance, then agreed to compete for them when they ripened. The bombs Yu Sheng placed around the stone tablet remained in place, leaving Poison Bee unable to stop him from destroying the fruits.

• Poison Bee warned Yu Sheng that destroying the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit would spread its poison, but Yu Sheng thanked him and surrounded the stone tablet with bombs.
• Yu Sheng started to leave, and Poison Bee panicked and admitted that he needed all three Ten Thousand Poisons Fruits to form a Demon God's Demon Core.
• Poison Bee proposed that they both grab the fruits when they ripened in fifteen minutes, since neither could harm the other in soul form.
• Yu Sheng moved farther from the stone tablet, reasoning that standing close would be dangerous because everything within five meters would be annihilated when the fruits ripened.
• Poison Bee demanded that Yu Sheng remove the bombs, but Yu Sheng refused, saying he could still blow up the fruits if he could not get them.

The Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit ripened, but Yu Sheng avoided Poison Bee’s trap and realized Poison Bee’s soul could not touch the fruit in daylight. Yu Sheng withdrew rather than take it, suspecting Poison Bee had another safeguard and advising him to wait until night.

• The stone tablet shattered, revealing the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit as a deadly domain erupted around it.
• Poison Bee retreated beyond the five-meter range, but Yu Sheng also pulled back and avoided the trap.
• When the domain weakened, Yu Sheng and Poison Bee raced for the fruit, but Poison Bee passed through it because it was physical in daylight.
• Yu Sheng stopped just before taking the fruit and told Poison Bee to wait until night or inscribe an array.
• Yu Sheng explained that he did not want to die and guessed Poison Bee had kept another safeguard after planning for decades.

Yu Sheng deduced that Poison Bee had hidden most of its soul inside the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit and planned to use it to kill him when he touched it. Poison Bee admitted Yu Sheng had outmaneuvered its decades of preparations, then considered sacrificing its chance to become a Demon God to possess a sixth-level Demon Beast and kill him.

• Yu Sheng reasoned that Poison Bee’s weak soul was only a fragment, with most of it hidden inside the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit.
• Yu Sheng concluded that Poison Bee had spent decades linking its soul to the fruit so it could use the fruit’s poison to kill him and merge with the Turtle Corpse.
• Poison Bee acknowledged Yu Sheng’s insight and said his survival threatened the Demon Domain.
• Poison Bee considered abandoning its preparations, possessing a sixth-level Demon Beast, and killing Yu Sheng, while Yu Sheng watched in silence.

Poison Bee explained that neither he nor Yu Sheng could secure the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit or the turtle corpse without the other giving way, and expected Yu Sheng to retreat. Yu Sheng tested whether the Mountains and Rivers Bottle could hold the corpse, but its space fell short, leaving the stalemate unresolved.

• Poison Bee refused to fight Yu Sheng and said he had safeguards preventing either of them from taking the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit or the turtle corpse.
• Poison Bee urged Yu Sheng to retreat, believing he would eventually lose patience and leave.
• Yu Sheng opened the Mountains and Rivers Bottle and tried to calculate whether its space could contain the turtle corpse.
• Yu Sheng revealed the bottle's enormous interior, astonishing Poison Bee, who estimated it was still about a quarter too small.
• Yu Sheng admitted the corpse would not fit, and Poison Bee said he had nearly been outmaneuvered.

Yu Sheng used the Twin-Bloom Flower to fuse the Mountains and Rivers Bottle with his hammer, while the Poison Bee hurried to redraw its array before the fusion was complete. As Yu Sheng gained insight into the rules of space, dangerous spatial rifts formed around him.

• Yu Sheng considered which Awakening Objects to fuse with the Mountains and Rivers Bottle, then chose the hammer over the Dragon-Patterned Staff.
• Yu Sheng swallowed the Twin-Bloom Flower, and the Mountains and Rivers Bottle and hammer began fusing their energies.
• The Poison Bee split off soul avatars and hurried to redraw its array inside the Mountain Cave.
• Yu Sheng's space filled with flames that melted the Demon Plants, while patterns of mountains, rivers, and Phoenixes appeared on the hammer.
• Yu Sheng sensed the rules of space, and spatial rifts flickered around him as he contemplated what lay beyond the Seventh Awakening.

Poison Bee raced to repair its arrays while the Eight-Tailed Fox arrived at the front lines with the Demon God Drum and challenged the Human Race to battle at Demon-Suppressing Pass. Yuan Qingshan answered the challenge and revealed a Purple Giant Drum, demanding a fight to the death.

• Poison Bee recalled a soul fragment and headed for the two remaining locations, hoping to finish the arrays within half an hour.
• The Demon God Drum arrived, and the Eight-Tailed Fox declared that the Demon Domain would ascend Demon-Suppressing Pass at noon the next day.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox projected a colossal fox of Demon Aura and pressured the soldiers, who held their ground.
• Yuan Qingshan mocked the Eight-Tailed Fox, and they traded insults about Yu Mo and fox-fur coats.
• Yuan Qingshan summoned a Purple Giant Drum and challenged the Eight-Tailed Fox to fight him to the death.

Yuan Qingshan challenged the Eight-Tailed Fox to a fight to the death, but it refused, prompting Ji Hong to step forward and rally the Demon Domain. Ji Hong left the Eight-Tailed Fox resentful and suspicious that it would defy orders in the coming battle.

• Yuan Qingshan challenged the Eight-Tailed Fox to fight to the death, and the Human soldiers roared their support.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox refused the duel and withdrew into the Demon Domain, drawing jeers from Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Old White Ape urged Ji Hong to act, and Ji Hong challenged the Human Race to a fight to the death at noon the next day, restoring the demon beasts' morale.
• Yuan Qingshan mocked the Eight-Tailed Fox for its distrust of Ji Hong, then left as Ji Hong withdrew after holding the field for half a minute.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox privately resented Ji Hong's display and suspected it would defy orders, but publicly praised it before the Demon Lords.
• Old White Ape questioned Ji Hong's risky attempt to sway morale, but Ji Hong gave no answer.

Old White Ape told Ji Hong about his dream of becoming a screenwriter and imagined a life where humans and demons could coexist. He ended by admitting that, without a peaceful sanctuary, both sides could only keep striving for power despite how exhausting it was.

• Old White Ape pestered Ji Hong until Ji Hong answered with a single indifferent “oh.”
• Old White Ape described a human TV drama, criticized its plot, and shared his plans for improving it.
• Old White Ape proposed making a show called Please Call Me Ghost Messenger Lord and asked Ji Hong to repair the Signal Tower.
• Old White Ape imagined writing stories and becoming a screenwriter if humans and demons could live together without war.
• Old White Ape told Ji Hong that he wished for a quiet life but believed the world offered only the strong preying on the weak.

Old White Ape and Ji Hong reflected on their hidden selves and the darkness of the path they had chosen, while anticipating a decisive battle. Ji Hong remained in the shadows, resolved to kill Yu Mo when they met and hoping he would not disappoint him.

• Old White Ape left after describing his yearning for justice and his sense that he was destined to be a villain.
• Ji Hong asked whether Old White Ape was truly himself or the white-haired monkey from his story, and Old White Ape briefly revealed a menacing expression before dismissing the question.
• Ji Hong sat between light and darkness and questioned whether Old White Ape’s confession had been another act.
• Ji Hong said he would kill Old White Ape without hesitation when the time came, and that neither of them could turn back.
• Ji Hong affirmed his belief in the Human Race and addressed Yu Mo, hoping he would not disappoint him.