Recaps

Old White Ape called Yu Mo back after waiting for him to respond to a threat, then argued that Yu Sheng’s survival was at stake if Yu Mo refused to cooperate with his Loan Plan. Yu Mo agreed to cooperate but asked what he would gain, leaving Old White Ape to conclude that he was asking for a bribe.

• Old White Ape waited ten minutes for Yu Mo to call back, then phoned him and asked why he had not.
• Yu Mo joked that Old White Ape had been acting like Party B in a negotiation and advised him to watch fewer TV shows.
• Old White Ape warned Yu Mo that he would abandon the Loan Plan and pursue Yu Sheng if Yu Mo refused to cooperate.
• Yu Mo said that Yu Sheng and Army-Breaker had fallen outside the Wartime Agreement, but Old White Ape replied that two Demon Lords could kill Yu Sheng in the Demon Domain.
• Yu Mo agreed to cooperate, then asked what he would gain from it.
• Old White Ape recognized that Yu Mo was asking for a bribe and complained that humans preferred to hint instead of asking plainly.

Yu Mo and Old White Ape haggled over a Demon God's Demon Core, with Yu Mo offering human citizenship and Old White Ape offering cheetahs before their negotiation devolved into insults. Yu Mo played a recording of Animal World to embarrass Old White Ape, who insisted he already knew what it was.

• Yu Mo asked Old White Ape for a Demon God's Demon Core, saying a ninth awakening might heal his legs and let him run freely.
• Old White Ape offered Yu Mo ten Demon Lord Level cheetahs instead, and Yu Mo offered to arrange an official identity and a Human Race visa.
• Yu Mo demanded at least ten Demon Lord Demon Cores and threatened Old White Ape, while Old White Ape mocked Yu Mo's disability and taunted him about female apes.
• Yu Mo played a recording of Animal World to ridicule Old White Ape, then offered to sell him a video version for one Demon God Demon Crystal.
• Old White Ape yelled that he knew the recording was Animal World and claimed he had simply never bought it, while Yu Mo mocked him for not knowing what it contained.

Yu Mo and Old White Ape negotiated over the phone, trading threats until they agreed on Demon Lord and Demon King Demon Core payments. Old White Ape then revealed a planned attack on Demon-Suppressing Pass and warned Yu Mo not to destroy the attacking force.

• Yu Mo threatened to fight Old White Ape unless he paid nine Demon Lord Demon Cores.
• Old White Ape offered three Demon Lord Demon Cores, and Yu Mo accepted before demanding Demon King Demon Cores as well.
• Yu Mo bargained Old White Ape down from a hundred Demon King Demon Cores to ten, then tried to ask for sixth-level Demon Beast Demon Crystals.
• Old White Ape told Yu Mo that four tribes would launch a surprise attack on Demon-Suppressing Pass before dawn, with two tribes attacking and two supporting.
• Old White Ape told Yu Mo to limit casualties and stage a narrow Human Race victory, warning that wiping out the force would trigger an immediate final showdown.

After bargaining with Old White Ape, Yu Mo questioned its reaction to a recording of white apes and called an animal expert to identify the sounds. He left the expert listening to the recording under threat, hoping to resolve his suspicions about Old White Ape.

• Yu Mo agreed to arrange a death soldier to deliver the trade items to the city wall the next day, and Old White Ape told him to stop playing the recording.
• After ending the call, Old White Ape reflected on its curiosity about Yu Mo and its frustration with their conversations.
• Yu Mo watched a video of white apes and wondered whether Old White Ape had been steering his thoughts or hiding its embarrassment.
• Yu Mo called an elderly animal expert and asked him to identify the species in a recording.
• When the expert shouted at him, Yu Mo threatened the man's granddaughter and children until he agreed to listen.
• Yu Mo resumed the video and waited in silence.

Yu Mo called an elderly scholar to identify the cries heard near Old White Ape, then used the scholar’s expertise to question whether Old White Ape was truly an ape. The possibility left Yu Mo suspicious of Old White Ape’s identity and hidden strength.

• Yu Mo asked the old man to identify recorded cries, and the old man identified them as White Apes from before the Spirit Energy Revival.
• Yu Mo had the old man listen to a documentary recording and asked whether a modern White Ape might mistake the cries for those of Yellow Apes.
• The old man insisted the sounds were unmistakably White Apes, and Yu Mo told him that his family had been saved from the brink of death.
• After ending the call, Yu Mo wondered whether Old White Ape had misidentified the sounds because he was not actually a White Ape.
• Yu Mo considered that Old White Ape might be concealing his true race, talent, and strength, then angrily struck the table over how much the incident had made him think.

Yu Mo concluded that Old White Ape might actually be a Mirage Dragon using Illusion to disguise himself as a white ape. He was left shaken by how little he knew about Old White Ape’s true strength or motives.

• Yu Mo reconsidered whether Old White Ape’s mistake about white apes was an accidental slip rather than a prank.
• Yu Mo recalled Old White Ape’s unusually silky fur and how he repeatedly deflected questions about it.
• Yu Mo reasoned that Old White Ape’s disguise, self-mutilation, rapid growth, and inexplicably healing injuries pointed to a Mirage Dragon using Illusion.
• Yu Mo wondered whether Old White Ape was using the lending system as cover for a hidden plan and realized he trusted only himself.
• Yu Mo admitted that he no longer felt confident he could defeat Old White Ape.

Yu Mo realized Old White Ape had hidden a deadly secret and that discovering it might give the Human Race an advantage. After recovering from his injuries, Yu Sheng made his way to Hundred Desolate Mountain, where Army-Breaker's Soldiers were still waiting for him.

• Yu Mo reconsidered Old White Ape's past words and actions, concluding that he had once seriously intended to kill Yu Mo but had held back for reasons tied to the past.
• Yu Mo calmed himself, recognized that learning Old White Ape's secret had prevented a potentially disastrous misjudgment, and turned off Animal World.
• Yu Sheng woke in the tree hollow, ate and replenished his strength with Demon Crystals, then changed his damp clothes.
• Yu Sheng traveled slowly to Hundred Desolate Mountain while continuing to absorb energy from Demon Crystals.
• Yu Sheng found Army-Breaker's Soldiers still assembled and waiting as he had ordered.

Yu Sheng told Army-Breaker to avoid the Demon Clan’s guarded perimeter and prepare to raid weaker tribes deep in the Demon Domain. The soldiers embraced his plan to rob their enemies, leaving eager to put their newly devised tactics into action.

• Yu Sheng said Army-Breaker would stay concealed on Hundred Desolate Mountain for three days before heading deep into the Demon Domain.
• Yu Sheng explained that the soldiers should raid weak Demon Clan tribes and steal their demon plants, Demon Crystals, and Demon Cores.
• Army-Breaker’s Soldiers became excited about robbing the enemy and joked about apologizing to novelists whose stories they had once mocked.
• A young soldier worried that raiding would dishonor Army-Breaker, but his fellow soldiers convinced him it was right to rob and kill their enemies.
• Army-Breaker’s Soldiers began developing more than a dozen robbery tactics, while Yu Sheng focused on keeping them alive.

Yu Sheng led Army-Breaker’s Soldiers into Hundred Desolate Mountain after they planned a coordinated raid on Demon Domain tribes. The Demon Beasts fled at the sight of Yu Sheng, and he left the soldiers to wait while he went deeper into the mountain for three days.

• Army-Breaker’s Soldiers organized into combat squads and devised a plan to rob and burn Demon Domain tribes.
• The Middle-Aged Man revealed he had written the novel that inspired their formation and said he joined the group after readers trashed his book.
• Yu Sheng put two depleted Demon Crystals into the Mountains and Rivers Bottle and led the soldiers into Hundred Desolate Mountain.
• Demon Beasts across the nearby mountains fled when Yu Sheng appeared, leaving the soldiers free to gather without hiding.
• Yu Sheng said he had something to take care of, went deeper into the mountain with two fresh Demon Crystals, and told the soldiers he would return in three days.

Yu Sheng followed the increasingly urgent voice to the three mountains deep within Hundred Desolate Mountain, where he encountered a powerful group of Demon Beasts. He left without fighting after learning they had seen or used a large Space Rift, and continued searching for another passage.

• As Yu Sheng traveled deeper into Hundred Desolate Mountain, the voice in his mind grew clearer and one Jade Pendant began to tremble and warm.
• Yu Sheng reached the three deep mountains, where elite Demon Beasts confronted him and warned him away from Divine Mountain.
• Yu Sheng showed the Eagle Clan bird a picture and asked whether it had seen the person from the Crystal Coffin, but it denied seeing him.
• Yu Sheng asked about a large Space Rift, and the bird's reaction led him to conclude that the Demon Beasts had seen or used one.
• Yu Sheng chose to leave rather than fight the gathered Demon Beasts, while the voice in his mind grew more urgent.

Yu Sheng followed the mysterious calls and tested the being in the Divine Ruins by refusing to enter until she opened a new rift and pleaded. He entered the familiar ruins, reached the Crystal Coffin, and wondered whether the woman inside was truly the one who had called him.

• Yu Sheng deduced that the being in the Divine Ruins could move its entrance, then ignored the first rift and continued walking.
• After the being opened another rift and its calls weakened into pleading, Yu Sheng entered the Divine Ruins.
• Yu Sheng recognized the ruins from his earlier visit and noted that they appeared to have remained active all along.
• Yu Sheng followed the increasingly hot Jade Pendant to the deep mountain and entered the cave.
• Yu Sheng found the woman lying in the Crystal Coffin and questioned whether she was the one calling him, noting that her empty hand had once held the Jade Pendant.

Yu Sheng investigated the Jade Pendant’s connection to the woman in the Crystal Coffin before Yu Sanshui appeared in the Divine Ruins. Yu Sheng accepted that he was powerless against his father’s Ninth Awakening, while Yu Sanshui tried to frame their strained relationship as deep family affection.

• Yu Sheng repeatedly put the Jade Pendant away and retrieved it, noticing that the woman in the Crystal Coffin moved her fingers when it was separated from her.
• Yu Sheng heard footsteps, summoned the Hammer, and waited for whoever was approaching.
• Yu Sanshui entered and teased Yu Sheng about their reunion, claiming he had forgiven his son and felt no hostility toward him.
• Yu Sheng said that Yu Sanshui’s Ninth Awakening made resistance pointless and accepted that he was effectively a captive.
• Yu Sanshui gave a sentimental speech about being an aloof but devoted father, prompting Yu Sheng to summon his Hammer again before stopping himself from striking.

Yu Sanshui tried to convince Yu Sheng that he was his father, but Yu Sheng questioned the origins of his surname and his mother. Yu Sanshui offered to reveal secrets connected to the heavenly race, yet Yu Sheng showed little interest and only asked where Shi Guang was.

• Yu Sanshui claimed that finding Yu Sheng a sworn older brother was an act of fatherly love, then insisted Yu Sheng had to keep the surname Yu.
• Yu Sheng suspected Yu Sanshui had taken the surname Yu from him, but Yu Sanshui denied that Yu Sheng had a mysterious background.
• Yu Sanshui named Yu Sheng's mother Wang Cuilian and gave details about her birthday and hometown, while Yu Sheng pointed out that the birth year did not match the zodiac sign.
• Yu Sanshui listed the mysterious voice, space rift, Jade Pendant, woman in the Crystal Coffin, and Shi Guang's disappearance as secrets involving the heavenly race.
• Yu Sheng asked where Shi Guang was, and Yu Sanshui admitted that he did not know.

Yu Sheng coaxed Yu Sanshui into revealing what he knew about the woman in the Crystal Coffin and the Jade Pendant. Yu Sanshui identified her as a dying member of the Heavenly Race, then explained that he had no connection to that race as their conversation continued.

• Yu Sheng asked Yu Sanshui where Shi Guang was, but Yu Sanshui admitted he did not know.
• Yu Sheng asked about the woman in the Crystal Coffin and the Jade Pendant, and Yu Sanshui revealed that the woman belonged to the Heavenly Race and was dying because of the pendant.
• Yu Sheng inferred that the Jade Pendant helped preserve someone’s bodily functions during sleep, but Yu Sanshui refused to confirm it.
• Yu Sanshui realized Yu Sheng had been provoking him to draw out information, and Yu Sheng admitted it.
• Yu Sheng asked about Yu Sanshui’s past and whether he belonged to the Heavenly Race, and Yu Sanshui denied any connection as wisps of energy spread from his body.

Yu Sanshui proved he was human by revealing his Awakening Object, then denied that Yu Sheng was one of the Heavenly Race. He began explaining the Divine Ruins, confirming that the voice Yu Sheng had heard originally came from the woman in the Crystal Coffin.

• Yu Sanshui revealed his Awakening Object and argued that his powers proved he was not one of the Heavenly Race.
• Yu Sheng asked whether he was one of the Heavenly Race, but Yu Sanshui insisted Yu Sheng was his biological son and human.
• Yu Sanshui asked why Yu Sheng had not followed his lead in Mobei City and destroyed Soul Hunt, but Yu Sheng said he simply did not like the idea.
• Yu Sanshui began explaining the Divine Ruins and said the voice that had called to Yu Sheng at first came from the woman in the Crystal Coffin.

Yu Sanshui told Yu Sheng that the woman had summoned him to kill him over the Jade Pendant, then claimed he had helped her and protected Yu Sheng’s opportunity in the Divine Ruins. The woman repeatedly exposed his lies, leaving Yu Sheng convinced that none of Yu Sanshui’s words could be trusted.

• Yu Sanshui explained that the woman had wanted Yu Sheng to come to the Divine Ruins so she could kill him for taking her Jade Pendant.
• Yu Sanshui claimed he had secretly helped the woman and dismantled her traps, then theatrically insisted he had acted out of fatherly love for Yu Sheng.
• The woman, still lying motionless in the Crystal Coffin, spoke in the modern language and denied ever setting traps.
• Yu Sanshui changed his story, threatening the woman when she mocked him and insisting he had helped control the entrance to the Divine Ruins for Yu Sheng’s sake.
• A precise space rift appeared between Yu Sheng and Yu Sanshui, and the woman laughed again as Yu Sanshui furiously accused her of showing off.
• Yu Sheng watched Yu Sanshui’s claims unravel and concluded that nobody should trust a word he said.

Yu Sanshui brought Yu Sheng to meet a dying woman from the Heavenly Race, whose Crystal Coffin shattered after Yu Sanshui provoked her. After Yu Sanshui fled when she began to mention the Heavenly Race’s legacy, the woman told Yu Sheng that losing his Jade Pendant had not made her fate worse: she would have died even if it remained with her.

• Yu Sanshui insisted that the woman hated Yu Sheng because he had destroyed her chance of revival, while she repeatedly denied feeling hostility toward him.
• The Crystal Coffin cracked and exploded, and the woman opened her eyes and confronted Yu Sanshui despite the cost to her remaining lifespan.
• The woman apologized to Yu Sheng for not realizing he had been sketching the Crystal Coffin and asked to speak with him alone.
• When the woman began to explain something about the Heavenly Race’s legacy, Yu Sanshui interrupted her and vanished.
• Yu Sheng asked whether she was from the Heavenly Race and whether taking her Jade Pendant had caused her condition, and she said she would have died either way.

Yu Sheng learned that he was the Heavenly Race’s sole legacy and that the women who had entered slumber were all his mothers, tasked with keeping him alive. Yu Sanshui confirmed that their Revival Plan had been a smokescreen, then asked whether they knew about him.

• A woman told Yu Sheng that she was his mother, then clarified that all of them were his mothers and that he was one of the Heavenly Race.
• Yu Sheng showed little surprise and asked no questions, leaving the conversation stalled in silence.
• Yu Sanshui reappeared and took over the conversation, asking why the women considered themselves Yu Sheng’s mothers.
• The woman explained that Yu Sheng was the Heavenly Race’s sole legacy and carried the spirit of them all, so their mission was to keep him alive.
• Yu Sanshui guessed that the Revival Plan had been a smokescreen designed to protect Yu Sheng while the women slept, and the woman confirmed his conjecture with a nod.
• Yu Sanshui asked if the woman knew about him, and she nodded while looking at him with coldness and killing intent.

Yu Sanshui explained how he found Yu Sheng as a child in a Divine Ruins and why he left him in Sin City, where he expected to reclaim something Yu Sheng had absorbed. He ended by asking how a certain being had described Yu Sheng’s survival.

• Yu Sanshui said he had stumbled into a Divine Ruins while being hunted and found a living child in a coffin.
• After lifting the child out, Yu Sanshui saw the murals and realized the child was one of the Heavenly Race and part of an important plan.
• Yu Sanshui said the child absorbed something he had worked hard to obtain, costing him the chance to become the strongest at the ninth awakening.
• Yu Sanshui admitted he considered killing Yu Sheng and taking back what he had lost, but could not bring himself to kill a child.
• Yu Sanshui said he left Yu Sheng in Sin City, where he expected him to die and planned to reclaim what belonged to him.
• Yu Sanshui said Yu Sheng’s survival in Sin City had astonished him and asked how a certain being had described it.

Yu Sanshui and the woman explained how a Heavenly Race safeguard had protected Yu Sheng in Sin City, while an accident in the Divine Ruins derailed the race’s plans. The woman revealed that the plan had been to make Yu Sheng into a true deity, and the story ended with Yu Sanshui learning that only a god could save the Heavenly Race.

• Yu Sanshui reasoned that a hidden self-preservation force had let five-year-old Yu Sheng survive in Sin City and asked the woman whether the Heavenly Race had planted one in him.
• The woman confirmed that the Heavenly Race had placed a protective seed in Yu Sheng, which took control in a crisis but disappeared once he grew used to surviving in Sin City.
• Yu Sheng recalled that Shi Guang had initially been wary of him and only gradually changed her attitude as he grew older.
• Yu Sanshui realized that he had entered the unstable Divine Ruins by accident while fleeing, and that his Ninth Awakening had come after Yu Sheng no longer needed the seed.
• Yu Sanshui asked what would have happened if he had not carried Yu Sheng away, and the woman said the Heavenly Race had planned to make him a true deity to save their people.

The woman explained that the Heavenly Race had planned to make Yu Sanshui a true deity, but the collapse of the Heavenly Realm and his later actions destroyed that plan. Yu Sanshui learned that the woman had surpassed the ninth awakening and begged her to teach him the path, but she refused.

• The woman described how the Heavenly Race planned to channel its power into Yu Sanshui, but spiritual energy dried up and the Heavenly Realm broke apart before they could finish.
• She blamed Yu Sanshui for destroying nearly all the realm’s fragments, while Yu Sheng explained that another member of the Heavenly Race had accepted their fate and left Yu Sanshui its remaining gifts.
• The woman insisted that the Heavenly Race should rule the world and claimed she could defeat even the Human Race’s strongest fighter with one finger.
• Yu Sanshui realized the woman’s power exceeded the ninth awakening and demanded to know how to advance further.
• Yu Sanshui offered to join the Heavenly Race and help restore it, but the woman only sneered and remained silent.

Yu Sheng spoke with the woman of the Heavenly Race, who accepted his choice not to seek revenge and told him that he was her family. She revealed that Shi Guang had been found injured in the Heavenly Realm and that the magical scroll held the Heavenly Race’s inheritance, then told Yu Sheng where Shi Guang was as she weakened.

• Yu Sanshui left so the woman could speak privately with Yu Sheng.
• The woman asked whether Yu Sheng regretted never becoming a god, and he said he was satisfied with his life and friends.
• The woman apologized for wanting Yu Sheng to avenge the Heavenly Race and said she would respect his choice and help fulfill his wishes.
• Yu Sheng showed the woman Shi Guang’s photograph, but she recognized the Mountains and Rivers Bottle and asked whether he had a magical scroll.
• The woman explained that Shi Guang had entered the Heavenly Realm by mistake while badly injured, and that the Heavenly Race had left Yu Sheng an inheritance of trained spirit beasts.
• The woman told Yu Sheng where Shi Guang was, urged him to live his own life, and assured him the Heavenly Race would always be his family.

The woman said goodbye to Yu Sheng, entrusted the Heavenly Race’s objects to protect him, and sent him away. Left alone, she set out to take revenge on Yu Sanshui, whom she dragged back through a rift.

• The woman told Yu Sheng to live as a human and be healthy and happy, then embraced him in tears.
• The Mountains and Rivers Bottle and the Scroll appeared, and the woman asked them and the other objects to protect Yu Sheng and the Heavenly Race’s future.
• The mist around the objects thinned, Yu Sheng learned more about unlocking them, and his connection to them deepened as he advanced toward the Seventh Awakening.
• The woman sent Yu Sheng away, saying she had other matters to attend to.
• The woman declared that she would avenge old grudges, opened a rift, and dragged the fleeing Yu Sanshui back to her.

The last surviving Heavenly Race fighter trapped Yu Sanshui in a collapsing space and cursed him to suffer whenever she wished. After revealing that the spirit beasts had rebelled, she died without treating their uprising as important.

• Yu Sanshui fled from the woman, but she compressed the space around him and trapped him inside it.
• The woman used the Mountains and Rivers Bottle to strip water from the void and prevent Yu Sanshui from opening a passage.
• Unable to kill Yu Sanshui, the woman placed a collar on him that would make him suffer whenever she wished.
• The woman said the spirit beasts had rebelled, then died from her injuries.

Yu Sheng learned that the Mountains and Rivers Bottle connected him to Yu Sanshui and used it to punish him as the Divine Ruins collapsed. He carried the unconscious Shi Guang through a Space Passage, leaving the ruins and their secrets behind.

• Yu Sheng discovered that the Mountains and Rivers Bottle gave him a way to make Yu Sanshui suffer, and learned that its collar had once been used by the Heavenly Race on livestock.
• The Divine Ruins began collapsing after the woman's death, ending the Heavenly Race's last presence in the world and their God-Making Plan.
• Yu Sanshui searched for Yu Sheng and urged him to escape, but Yu Sheng used the bottle to strike him down.
• Yu Sheng carried Shi Guang deeper into the cave and found a Space Passage the woman had opened to help him leave safely.
• Yu Sheng entered the Space Passage with Shi Guang, and the Divine Ruins collapsed completely about half an hour later.