Recaps

Yu Mo explained why the suspicious Old White Ape would likely sacrifice part of the Demon Clan rather than risk a decisive fight if the Human Race declared war. Yu Sheng ignored Yu Mo’s bids for attention, but Yu Mo discovered a Demon Domain Declaration of War Plan among Yu Sheng’s papers.

• Yu Mo argued that the Human Race could gain an advantage by declaring war before the Demon Domain finished consolidating its power.
• Yu Mo explained that Old White Ape would likely choose a cautious strategy because he distrusted Yu Mo’s possible trump cards.
• Yu Mo begged Yu Sheng to ask him a question, and Yu Sheng asked whether he had eaten dinner.
• Yu Sheng asked whether Yu Mo had a trump card, then left to get food without waiting for an answer.
• Yu Mo noticed a handwritten Demon Domain Declaration of War Plan beneath Yu Sheng’s neatly arranged documents.

Yu Mo read Yu Sheng’s intelligence and plan, then resolved to draw Old White Ape’s attention away from Skyvault Ravine so the Human Race’s Fourth Generation could complete its secret goal. He accepted that history would portray him as a villain and vowed to kill anyone he judged worse than himself.

• Yu Mo read the vague reports about the Demon Domain and Yu Sheng’s analysis, which ended with the words “I do!”
• Yu Mo realized Yu Sheng did not know the full situation at Skyvault Ravine or the Fourth Generation’s secret purpose.
• Yu Mo decided to make the Human Race more tempting to Old White Ape and draw his attention away from Skyvault Ravine, even if it meant sacrificing something.
• Yu Mo imagined history recording Ji Hong as a framed and drugged victim who destroyed the Demon Domain before killing Yu Mo, the Human Race’s greatest villain.
• As darkness fell, Yu Mo accepted that people could debate his merits and faults, and declared he would kill anyone worse than himself.

Yu Mo left Yu Sheng in charge of the coming declaration of war, hoping he could become a hero who surpassed Zhong Yushu. After the Ink Pavilion announced the war against the demons, the Reserve Corps mobilized across Human Race territory while the Light Group warned people not to criticize the campaign.

• Yu Mo left the Ink Pavilion, deciding to hand the lead in the coming declaration of war to Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng received Yu Mo’s message, then returned to his office and absorbed High-Rank Demon Beast Crystal Stones while training with his treasures.
• The Ink Pavilion’s official media announced, “Wind rises! Battle the demons!”
• Reserve Corps units across Human Race territory assembled, recalled soldiers home on leave, and posted their traditional battlefield image.
• The Guard Bureau and Dark Pavilion appeared around the streets as the Light Group threatened severe punishments for people who criticized the war.

Yu Sheng delivered a flatly recited speech announcing the Human Race’s intention to carry the war beyond Demon-Suppressing Pass, while public discussion focused on his expressionless manner and the risks of war. Three days later, Zhao Zicheng told the group chat that his wife was pregnant and insisted he would still fight, believing the battle could help him reach the Seventh Awakening.

• Yu Sheng read a prepared speech at the Ink Pavilion’s press conference and announced that he would lead from the front at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• People online called Yu Sheng the Stone-Faced Pavilion Master, then shared his smiling Ink Academy graduation photo and debated whether the Human Race should start a war.
• Yu Sheng returned to his routine at the Ink Pavilion and showed little tension about the coming war.
• Zhao Zicheng announced in the group chat that his wife was pregnant and worried that fighting might make him a tragic casualty.
• Sun Wen and Lin Xiaoxiao urged Zhao Zicheng to sit out the battle, but he said he could not make an exception for himself and expected the fighting to help him reach the Seventh Awakening.

Yu Sheng considered pushing the coming battle toward Hundred Desolate Mountain after learning Shi Guang had been missing there for a month. In the Demon Domain, Old White Ape rejected Young White Ape’s plan to sabotage Army-Breaker and reflected on Yu Mo’s careful calculations.

• Sun Wen mocked Zhao Zicheng in the group chat, and Zhao Zicheng bragged about his pregnant wife and the gifts he expected for his child.
• Yu Sheng warned the group to pursue easy kills and avoid recklessness before they agreed to meet at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yu Sheng learned that Shi Guang had been missing for a month after going to Hundred Desolate Mountain, then considered advancing the battle there.
• Young White Ape proposed using secret pawns to disrupt Army-Breaker, but Old White Ape rebuked him and explained the plan’s risks.
• Old White Ape praised Young White Ape’s eagerness but said he lacked Yu Mo’s foresight and admitted he still could not grasp all of Yu Mo’s intentions.

Old White Ape considered Yu Mo’s motives for starting a war, concluding it could help the Human Race prepare Yu Sheng as a leader while covering for Ji Hong’s plans. He dismissed his nephew’s ambitions, then withdrew alone to the King’s Hall and vowed to destroy his enemies himself.

• Old White Ape told Young White Ape that Yu Mo’s war declaration might be a calculated gamble that distracted him from Ji Hong and helped prepare Yu Sheng to lead the Human Race in wartime.
• Young White Ape resolved to work hard and one day live up to his uncle’s example, while Old White Ape privately judged him a diligent but foolish intelligence gatherer.
• Old White Ape considered whether the person who obtained the Mirage Dragon’s Demon Core had replaced Young White Ape, then decided Young White Ape’s identity seemed genuine.
• Old White Ape lamented that he had no one to rely on, returned to the dark King’s Hall, and declared that he alone would annihilate Ji Hong, Yu Mo, Yu Sheng, and the wielder of the Mirage Dragon’s Demon Core.

Old White Ape resolved to face the coming war and used his power to bring the White Ape Clan into Skyvault Ravine’s God Race roster. When Ji Hong insisted that the Yellow Monkey Clan join as well, Old White Ape accepted him, then declared their karmic ties severed.

• Old White Ape donned a black robe, questioned whether the demons were truly guilty, and vowed to meet the coming war head-on.
• Old White Ape summoned the clan chiefs and announced that the White Ape Clan would join the Skyvault Ravine God Race roster.
• Black Flood Dragon and the other clan chiefs agreed after sensing that Old White Ape had reached the pinnacle of demon lord strength.
• Ji Hong arrived from Deep Mountain and declared that the Yellow Monkey Clan should also join, tearing through the domain formed by the twelve Great Demons.
• Old White Ape accepted Ji Hong into the roster as the thirteenth God Race, and Ji Hong withdrew behind the fog as Old White Ape declared their karmic ties severed.

Old White Ape rallied the Demon Domain’s leaders and tribes to fight the Human Race, ordering an army to march on Demon-Suppressing Pass in three days. Yu Mo, Yu Sheng, and Ji Hong concluded that the conflict would likely be a limited war and considered using Azure Birds to spread information in the Demon Domain.

• Old White Ape declared that the Demon Domain would fight the Human Race and persuaded the eleven God Race Clan Leaders to support the war by promising lending priority based on military merit.
• Old White Ape offered other Demon Beasts lending quotas for battlefield merit, and they roared in support of the coming battle.
• Old White Ape ordered the army to assemble and march on Demon-Suppressing Pass in three days, then destroyed the flowers and rocking chair outside his King's Hall.
• Yu Mo and Yu Sheng agreed that Old White Ape could not halt the war but was unlikely to make it decisive, and that the Demon Domain would suffer greater losses.
• Yu Sheng suggested using the Azure Birds to spread information, and Ji Hong agreed that they should try despite Old White Ape’s likely countermeasures.

Yu Sheng proposed taking the initiative against the Demon Clan before its army reached the gates, while Yu Mo assessed the risks and the plan’s value to Army-Breaker. Yu Mo ended by asking whether Yu Sheng would still choose Hundred Desolate Mountain if Shi Guang had disappeared somewhere else.

• Yu Mo and Yu Sheng discussed using Azure Birds to carry messages and the danger of Old White Ape targeting Army-Breaker.
• Yu Mo explained that Army-Breaker’s mission would test the force and could either make it rise or leave it absorbed into the Reserve Corps.
• Yu Mo said the Eleven God Race had come under Old White Ape’s influence and asked Yu Sheng what to do.
• Yu Sheng proposed sending elites through the passes to seize the Thousand-Li Demon Plain and Ten Thousand Demon Forest, then hiding in Hundred Desolate Mountain.
• Yu Sheng said Hundred Desolate Mountain suited the plan because it was vast, divided among many factions, and could keep the Thousand-Li Demon Plain in check.
• Yu Mo asked whether Yu Sheng would still choose Hundred Desolate Mountain if Shi Guang had disappeared in the Swamp Pool or Yellow Springs Graveyard instead.

Yu Mo questioned Yu Sheng about his loyalties, hidden abilities, and motives, while Yu Sheng explained that he mainly wanted to survive and live comfortably. Yu Mo remained unconvinced and reflected that he had long ago lost the ability to be himself.

• Yu Sheng said he would deploy troops and hide in Hundred Desolate Mountain, while resigning as Ink Pavilion Head and going to Swamp Pool and Yellow Springs Graveyard.
• Yu Mo accepted Yu Sheng's honest answer and asked whether Yu Sheng resented him for forcing him into the position.
• Yu Sheng said he did not hate Yu Mo because their arrangement had been a deal, and explained that Sin City's rules had shaped his view of their unequal bargain.
• Yu Mo accused Yu Sheng of hiding his intelligence and asked whether he had another purpose; Yu Sheng said he only wanted to stay alive and live more easily.
• Yu Mo said he did not believe Yu Sheng, and Yu Sheng replied calmly that Yu Mo's answer had already been decided.
• Yu Mo admitted he had lost the ability to be himself long ago.

Yu Mo asked Yu Sheng to compare their intelligence and assess Sikong Nan’s character and threat to the Human Race. Yu Sheng explained why Sikong Nan had gone to Barbarian City, and the conversation ended with Yu Sheng noting that Sikong Nan was also avoiding Yu Sanshui.

• Yu Mo asked Yu Sheng how intelligent he was, and Yu Sheng rated himself below Yu Mo while saying Yu Mo’s intelligence made him formidable.
• Yu Sheng assessed Sikong Nan as clever, cautious, and ambitious, and said his combat ability could make up for the gap between them.
• Yu Mo asked whether Sikong Nan should be killed before he grew stronger, and Yu Sheng said Sikong Nan would stay within the Human Race’s limits while a potential killer remained.
• Yu Sheng explained that Sikong Nan had moved to Barbarian City to stay beyond the Human Race’s reach and avoid Yu Mo.
• Yu Sheng added that Sikong Nan was also keeping away from Yu Sanshui, who had treated him badly.

Yu Sheng explained why he had avoided trying to control Barbarian City, and Yu Mo praised his cautious approach while reflecting on Zhong Yushu and the sacrifices of the Human Race. Their conversation ended with Yu Mo demanding an explanation about Yu Sheng’s offer of a heavenly star diamond coffin.

• Yu Sheng told Yu Mo that Yu Sanshui had made Xiao Nan a pawn and that Barbarian City was Xiao Nan’s only escape, so stopping him from taking charge would make him fight to the death.
• Yu Sheng explained that controlling Barbarian City would cost too much and risk making an enemy of Xiao Nan, who still posed a threat.
• Yu Mo said Yu Sheng often chose to retreat strategically and argued that this caution made him a suitable Ink Pavilion Head.
• Yu Mo praised Zhong Yushu for earning the Reserve Corps’ admiration through decades of leading the fight at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yu Mo said their conversation had eased his mind and left him ready to pursue things he had long wanted to do.
• Yu Sheng offered to give Yu Mo a coffin made of heavenly star diamond, and Yu Mo demanded to know what was going on.

Yu Sheng told Yu Mo that a Jade Pendant from the Divine Ruins had begun calling to him, possibly signaling that the person in a crystal coffin was about to revive. Their conversation then turned to Yu Sanshui, leaving Yu Sheng uncertain whether the powerful man who brought him to Mobei City was truly his father.

• Yu Sheng explained that the Jade Pendant had warmed and let him sense a call from outside their current space, and he suspected the corpse in the Divine Ruins was about to revive.
• Yu Sheng showed Yu Mo the Pendant and a paper covered in lines that he had copied from the caller, explaining that he had drawn the coffin in response to her pattern.
• Yu Sheng said he hoped to return to the Divine Ruins and take the coffin, while Yu Mo mocked his attempt to ask for it through their unclear exchange.
• Yu Mo steered their discussion toward Yu Sanshui, and Yu Sheng said he could not see through him or remember him as his father.
• Yu Sheng recalled that Yu Sanshui arrived just as he left Sin City and revealed enough power to leave him no chance to resist, so he followed him to Mobei City.

Yu Sheng and Yu Mo discussed Chu Huai’s limits and Yu Sanshui’s possible connection to Yu Sheng’s past. Yu Mo admitted that Yu Sheng’s father had threatened him into withholding information, and Yu Sheng accepted the explanation while noting the delay it had caused.

• Yu Sheng said Chu Huai was unlikely to threaten the Human Race, though he was clever and effective at tracking Soul Hunt.
• Yu Mo asked how Yu Sanshui learned Yu Sheng would appear outside Sin City, and Yu Sheng said the information had been imprecise.
• Yu Mo reasoned that Yu Sanshui had either abandoned Yu Sheng in Sin City with hostile intent or had been watching him while preparing for later events.
• Yu Sheng confronted Yu Mo about hiding Yu Sanshui’s company registration, and Yu Mo admitted that he had withheld it to test Yu Sheng’s reaction.
• Yu Mo said Yu Sanshui had threatened him, and Yu Sheng calmly accepted the explanation while observing that he had lost nearly a week in Mobei City.

Yu Sheng explained why he had deliberately stopped pursuing Soul Hunt and refused to share his theory about Yu Sanshui with Yu Mo. After Yu Sheng left for lunch, Yu Mo took out his frustration on the returning secretary.

• Yu Sheng told Yu Mo that he had sent Soul Hunt a message that would make its members hide deeper, since Yu Sanshui posed a greater threat and Soul Hunt had committed few crimes he could prosecute.
• Yu Mo warned Yu Sheng that Yu Sanshui might resent losing control of him, but Yu Sheng said he believed Yu Sanshui still needed him and did not enjoy killing.
• Yu Mo pressed Yu Sheng to explain his guess about Yu Sanshui, but Yu Sheng gave only short replies and then left to find lunch.
• Yu Mo pretended he was no longer hungry and wanted to keep talking, but Yu Sheng went anyway, leaving him alone in the office.
• Yu Mo mistook the returning secretary for Yu Sheng, then threatened to make him clean the floor after realizing who had entered.

Yu Sheng prepared to lead Army-Breaker into the Demon Domain as the Demon Clan advanced toward the Human Race’s defenses. He left the secretary to conceal his absence, which might last as long as three months or end in his death.

• Yu Mo left after warning the secretary to take the Ink Pavilion Master's cleaning duties seriously, and the secretary cursed him once he was gone.
• Yu Sheng returned with lunch for the secretary, then ordered Yuan Qingshan to mobilize Army-Breaker for a mission beyond the pass.
• After reviewing intelligence that the Demon Clan could reach the walls in three days, Yu Sheng canceled the Mobilization Rally and decided to lead Army-Breaker into the Demon Domain himself.
• Yuan Qingshan objected that the Ink Pavilion Head could not enter the Demon Domain, but Yu Sheng insisted that his orders took precedence and told him to assemble Army-Breaker in Deep Mountain before nightfall.
• Yu Sheng told the secretary he might be gone for one to three months, leaving him to conceal the Pavilion Master's absence and possibly his death.

Yu Sheng secretly left the Ink Pavilion for the Demon Domain, while his secretary covered his absence with fabricated rumors that soon spread through the Pavilion. At Demon-Suppressing Pass, Yuan Qingshan prepared the Army-Breaker soldiers for their mission and sent them off with their own salute.

• Yu Sheng left his secretary behind and teleported away, while the secretary lamented his workload and tried to warn him about going somewhere disreputable.
• The secretary loudly pretended to reprimand Yu Sheng, but gossip about the Pavilion Master spread through the Ink Pavilion before afternoon ended.
• A Guard Bureau deputy arrived seeking Yu Sheng's signature, and the secretary claimed that Yu Sheng had personally led troops to defend Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• At Demon-Suppressing Pass, Yuan Qingshan told the Army-Breaker soldiers that Yu Sheng was their supreme commander and ordered them to surrender their phones.
• Yuan Qingshan praised the soldiers, wished them a safe return with their salute, and watched as they silently returned the gesture.

Yu Sheng led the Army-Breaker unit toward the Demon Domain as Yuan Qingshan and Zhong Yushu reflected on the young soldiers’ peril and the need for new leaders. Zhong Yushu recalled his youthful enlistment at Demon-Suppressing Pass, leaving the story with his memories of arriving at war eager to look cool.

• Yu Sheng led the Army-Breaker unit out of the mountain and across the Thousand-Li Demon Plain toward the Demon Domain.
• Yuan Qingshan worried that many of the young soldiers might not return, while Zhong Yushu said the older generation had to end the war and trust Yu Sheng to lead.
• Zhong Yushu told Yuan Qingshan that the younger generation offered hope and teased him with stories about his past with Yu Sheng.
• Yuan Qingshan tried Zhong Yushu’s cigarette, coughed, and complained as Zhong Yushu joked about being immune to lung cancer at the Eighth Awakening.
• Zhong Yushu recalled enlisting at nineteen with a battered bag, snacks, Bluetooth earphones, and a miniature camera, hoping to slaughter demons and capture cool footage of himself.

Zhong Yushu told Yuan Qingshan how the deaths he witnessed at Demon-Suppressing Pass changed his outlook on loss and why he believed the young had to face war themselves. Yu Sheng assembled the soldiers on the Thousand-Li Demon Plain for an attack into the Demon Domain, warning them that many would die and there would be no time to eat.

• Zhong Yushu recalled losing his classmates in their first battle at Demon-Suppressing Pass and explained why he later made a point of speaking to people before they died.
• Zhong Yushu told Yuan Qingshan that he had lost his wife and son, and that the old soldiers had to let go of what they could not change and consider what they could still do.
• Yuan Qingshan watched Zhong Yushu leave and wondered whether he had stayed in the rear too long.
• Zhong Yushu looked at the crescent moon and hoped Yu Sheng would lead an operation that rekindled humanity's confidence against the Demon Clan.
• Yu Sheng arrived on the Thousand-Li Demon Plain, ordered the soldiers to check their weapons, use the toilet, and assemble, and they eagerly followed him.
• Yu Sheng warned the assembled soldiers that they would have no time to eat for the next day and that many would die, so they discarded their food.

Yu Sheng led Army-Breaker in a surprise assault that cleared the Thousand-Li Demon Plain, then ordered them to sweep the Ten Thousand Demon Forest. Old White Ape anticipated Yu Mo’s strategy and ordered his forces to move out early, while wondering what would happen at Skyvault Ravine after he left.

• Yu Sheng led Army-Breaker through the Thousand-Li Demon Plain, where the soldiers slaughtered demons until nearly all of them fled before dawn.
• Yu Sheng proclaimed that Army-Breaker had slaughtered the Thousand-Li Demon Plain and ordered his troops to search every part of the Ten Thousand Demon Forest within a day.
• Old White Ape predicted that Yu Mo would probe the Ten Thousand Demon Forest before retreating toward Hundred Desolate Mountain, and ordered the Demon Lord to set out that night.
• Old White Ape explained to Young White Ape why trapping Army-Breaker at Hundred Desolate Mountain would be difficult, then told him to prepare for the operation.
• Old White Ape wondered whether Eight-Tailed Fox had truly died and what would happen at Skyvault Ravine after he left.

Old White Ape sent the gathered demon tribes toward the Ten Thousand Demon Forest while going ahead himself, and Army-Breaker’s advance there met stiffer resistance than it had in the Thousand-Li Demon Plain. The forest’s defenders began to retreat after Yu Sheng killed two Demon Kings, but they remained capable of counterattacking.

• Old White Ape ordered Young White Ape to assemble the troops and lead them toward the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, then flew ahead alone.
• Young White Ape politely urged the Heavenly Dog Clan Chief and the other tribes to move faster.
• Army-Breaker’s soldiers advanced through the Ten Thousand Demon Forest but became deadlocked against its defending tribes.
• Yu Sheng killed two Demon Kings in three minutes, prompting the demon beasts to retreat while fighting.

Yu Sheng set fire to the Ten Thousand Demon Forest to force its hidden leader, a fiery-red fox, to reveal himself. He confronted the fox, who tried to redirect the human force toward Qingfeng Mountain, but Yu Sheng showed he already knew about its Demon Lords and the fox’s own Demon Lord.

• Yu Sheng gathered leaves and ignited the forest, then urged Army-Breaker’s members to join in with their fire and wind abilities.
• The furious fiery-red fox appeared, and Yu Sheng teleported behind him and identified him as the force coordinating the Demon Beasts.
• The fox fled from Yu Sheng’s sword and tried to persuade him to attack Qingfeng Mountain instead.
• Yu Sheng noted that Qingfeng Mountain had two Demon Lords, stopping the fox’s attempt to mislead him.
• The fox began to identify the Ten Thousand Demon Forest’s Demon Lord, and Yu Sheng named Old White Ape.

Yu Sheng met Old White Ape amid the burning Ten Thousand Demon Forest, where the Demon Domain Lord offered him orange soda and denied hiding anything. Old White Ape said the fire was not burning fiercely enough and corrected Yu Sheng's estimate of when he would reach Hundred Desolate Mountain, leaving their cooperation and the forest's fate unresolved.

• A fox warned Yu Sheng that destroying the Ten Thousand Demon Forest could provoke the Demon Domain Lord, and Yu Sheng questioned whether sparing it would save the human race.
• Old White Ape appeared, introduced himself as the Demon Domain Lord, and offered Yu Sheng tea or wine; Yu Sheng asked for orange soda instead.
• Old White Ape produced wine, orange soda, and cola, then claimed he had hidden nothing in the forest, while Yu Sheng accepted his answer with a calm “mm.”
• The fox pointed out that the forest was still burning, but Old White Ape said Yu Sheng should be allowed to watch and remarked that the flames were not fierce enough.
• Old White Ape asked when Yu Sheng would go to Hundred Desolate Mountain and said he had at least five hours; Yu Sheng noted that others had warned him Old White Ape liked to lie.
• Old White Ape protested that he was honest and trustworthy, then dropped his aggrieved act when Yu Sheng remained unruffled.

Yu Sheng led Army-Breaker through the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, burning its land while Old White Ape watched without intervening. As Army-Breaker withdrew before sunrise, Yu Sheng explained that Old White Ape held back because he feared what Yu Sheng might do if left to roam the Demon Domain alone.

• Old White Ape complained that Yu Mo was easier to talk to than the tight-lipped members of the Human Race, while Yu Sheng noticed the soda he had been drinking was five years expired.
• Old White Ape joked that Yu Sheng had burned the Ten Thousand Demon Forest and repaid him with expired soda, as Army-Breaker continued setting fires and taking Demon Plants under Yu Sheng's directions.
• With sunrise approaching, Yu Sheng ordered Army-Breaker to pack up, and Old White Ape reminded him about the unburned east and a hidden passage in the northwest.
• As Army-Breaker withdrew, Old White Ape asked whether Yu Sheng could stop him from attacking, and Yu Sheng admitted he could escape but Army-Breaker would be wiped out.
• Yu Sheng concluded that Old White Ape preferred Army-Breaker to remain in Hundred Desolate Mountain rather than risk Yu Sheng roaming the Demon Domain alone.

After Yu Sheng left the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, Old White Ape restored the devastated forest and prepared for the Demon Domain army’s arrival. He entrusted the forest to the red fox and warned him to keep Yu Sheng away from a forbidden zone, while Yu Mo worried about the defenders at Demon-Suppressing Pass.

• Old White Ape waited until Army-Breaker had left, then used demon aura to restore the burned and trampled Ten Thousand Demon Forest.
• The red fox judged Yu Sheng to be direct and reckless but warned that underestimating him could bring disaster.
• Old White Ape put the Ten Thousand Demon Forest in the red fox’s hands and told him not to let Yu Sheng approach the forbidden zone.
• The Demon Domain army arrived, and Old White Ape ordered it to pass the forest without entering and regroup on the Thousand-Li Demon Plain.
• At Demon-Suppressing Pass, Yu Mo lamented that Yu Sheng was not there to provoke the Demon Domain and worried that his own reputation and condition made him unsuitable.