Recaps

Yu Sanshui watched Yu Sheng begin to open up to his classmates, then challenged Yu Mo over secretly steering him and worried there was little time left. Meanwhile, Sun Wen ordered Gold Ingot Group to sell all its shares and buy Demon King Realm Demon Crystals, provoking fierce objections at a shareholders' meeting.

• Yu Sheng's classmates gathered around him after he greeted Xu, and he gradually accepted their friendly attention.
• Yu Sanshui and Zhao Zicheng's wife watched Yu Sheng at school, and Yu Sanshui explained that children might help him open his heart without making him wary.
• Yu Sanshui called Yu Mo, criticized him for steering Yu Sheng, and heard Yu Mo promise to confess everything before Yu Sheng left Jiangbei City.
• Sun Wen ordered Gold Ingot Group to cash out all its shares and use the proceeds to buy as many Demon King Realm Demon Crystals as possible.
• Gold Ingot Group shareholders objected that selling the flourishing company's shares was irrational and would harm its future development.

Sun Wen faced resistance from Gold Ingot Group shareholders over his decision to sell his shares, but the Ink Pavilion pledged unconditional support. Several shareholders backed Sun Wen, while Uncle Zhou continued to oppose him.

• A minor shareholder urged the Ink Pavilion representative to intervene against Sun Wen’s decision.
• The Ink Pavilion representative announced that Yu Mo had ordered him to support Sun Wen unconditionally and threatened anyone who objected.
• Sun Wen told the representative that he would not change his decision and asked Uncle Zhou whether he opposed it for the human race or for himself.
• Uncle Zhou insisted that preserving Gold Ingot Group was essential to the human race.
• One shareholder admitted he had been blinded by profit and chose to support Sun Wen, and two others followed him to the corner.

After Uncle Zhou tried to oppose Sun Wen’s plans, a Light Group agent took him away and made him abandon his ambitions. Sun Wen then put his Gold Ingot Group shares up for sale in exchange for Demon Crystals, sparking a buying frenzy across the Human Race.

• Sun Wen ended the call after declaring that everything would proceed as planned, while the Ink Pavilion staff warned Uncle Zhou to keep quiet.
• An agent posing as an Ink Pavilion staff member took Uncle Zhou from Gold Ingot headquarters and revealed he worked for the Light Group.
• Uncle Zhou dropped his resistance and promised to obey the Light Group rather than continue fighting over the shares.
• Zhou Hong relinquished his authority at the Gold Ingot Group, and Sun Wen announced he was selling all his shares.
• Sun Wen demanded Demon Crystals instead of money, prompting merchants across the Human Race to buy them in bulk.

Yu Sheng chose to take his final exam with his classmates rather than go out with Yu Sanshui, then celebrated with them before deciding to leave Jiangbei City. Yu Sanshui sent him off with advice to follow his heart, and Yu Sheng reached the city gate, where he saw someone waiting in a wheelchair.

• Yu Sanshui urged Yu Sheng to skip his final exam for an outing, but Yu Sheng went because he had promised to take the test with his classmates.
• After the exam, Yu Sheng finished last in his class and joined his classmates for a modest celebration.
• Yu Sheng packed his belongings and prepared to leave Jiangbei City, and Yu Sanshui told him to seek what he truly wanted in his heart.
• Yu Sheng left home carrying his bundle and walked toward the city gate, where he spotted a person sitting in a wheelchair.

Yu Sheng calmly forgave Yu Mo for manipulating events in his life, explaining that he had been happy over the past year. Meanwhile, Yu Sanshui feared Yu Sheng’s reckoning, and Chu Huai asked Yu Mo to transfer him back to the Light Group after a year of tedious administrative work.

• Yu Mo admitted that he had arranged Yu Sheng’s enrollment and his time with Zhao Zicheng’s daughter, but Yu Sheng said he was not angry.
• Yu Sheng explained that he had enjoyed the past year and accepted that people pursued their own interests, then left Yu Mo behind.
• Yu Mo reflected that Yu Sheng was unusually forgiving and wheeled himself away.
• Yu Sanshui panicked at home, endured five minutes of distress, and concluded that Yu Sheng’s offense against him had been minor before heading to Shufen’s home.
• Chu Huai asked Yu Mo to transfer him back to the Light Group, but Yu Mo noted that the group had already destroyed Soul Hunt and had little to do.

Chu Huai reflected on the approaching decisive battle and vowed that Sin City natives would have a place in it, despite Yu Mo treating him as a tool. In Aurora Space, Mu Yu attempted to break through its barrier but resumed cultivating, determined to reach the Ninth Awakening and shatter the space.

• Yu Mo dismissed Chu Huai’s complaints about bonuses, then hung up after revealing he knew Chu Huai’s schedule.
• Chu Huai inferred that a final decisive battle was nearing and resolved to make a place for himself and other Sin City natives.
• Mu Yu declared he would reach the Eighth Awakening and used the Gravestone to strike Aurora Space’s barrier.
• Shi Guang rose as the barrier rippled, and Mu Yu returned to cultivating, saying he would break the space once his spiritual energy reached the Ninth Awakening.
• Shi Guang absorbed a streak of green light, and Aurora Space fell quiet again.

Old White Ape dismissed his subordinates’ calls for action and studied the Human Race’s recent activity, focusing on the Ink Pavilion and its strongest figures. He concluded the sides remained evenly matched for now, while warning his subordinates to monitor possible breakthroughs.

• Two Demon Lords urged Old White Ape to respond to the Human Race’s growing Army-Breaker unit and its taunts on the forum, but he brushed off their concerns.
• Old White Ape asked for a detailed report on the Human Race’s recent actions and became interested in new policies at the Ink Pavilion, suspecting Yu Sheng was absent.
• Old White Ape named more than twenty prominent Human Race figures and ordered the Demon Lords to track them closely, especially for news of breakthroughs.
• After his subordinates left, Old White Ape assessed the balance of power and identified Zhong Yushu as a possible threat who could reach the Ninth Awakening.

Old White Ape planned to use the coming battle to stage a grand spectacle and build a new world after everything was destroyed. Near Sin City, Yu Sheng met the daughter of a man he had killed, whose words about wanting to survive left him asking what she lived for.

• Old White Ape imagined the ninth-awakening fighters creating grand scenes while younger and weaker fighters supplied the battle’s emotional weight.
• Yu Sheng asked a rental-shop owner for a motorcycle to travel to Sin City, but the man refused to rent or sell one.
• The owner’s daughter followed Yu Sheng and asked why he had killed her father, and Yu Sheng said his employer had ordered him to do it.
• The girl said she did not seek revenge because she was happy with her new father and only wanted to stay alive.
• Yu Sheng asked what she was living for, and the girl admitted she did not know and feared the pain of dying.

Yu Sheng questioned the Little Girl about why she wanted to live, and her hope for the future led him to reconsider his own life. Remembering the wishes he once shared with Shi Guang, he realized he had been drifting while Shi Guang had found a new goal.

• Yu Sheng asked the Little Girl why she had followed him, and she said Papa Zong had treated her well and she wanted to ask him something.
• The Little Girl said she wanted to live because the future held new people, experiences, schoolwork, and possibly other papas; she also promised to avenge Papa Zong.
• After the Little Girl left, Yu Sheng pondered whether life mattered without hope and wandered beyond Sin City’s gates.
• Yu Sheng remembered Zhao Zicheng, his classmates, and others who had brought smiles into his life.
• Yu Sheng recalled promising Shi Guang that they would find new wishes and goals whenever they fulfilled their old ones.
• Yu Sheng realized Shi Guang had found a new goal while he himself had remained in place, drifting through life.

Yu Sheng remembered that his true wish was to survive alongside Shi Guang, and resolved to kill Old White Ape after learning that Old White Ape wanted him dead. As Yu Sheng turned away from Sin City, Yu Sanshui appeared, explaining that Yu Mo had sent him to watch over his son.

• Yu Sheng recalled Shi Guang’s determination and realized his own path was to stay alive with her, not to sacrifice himself for the Human Race.
• Yu Sheng’s sealed Awakening Objects emerged as he resolved to kill Old White Ape and turned away from Sin City.
• Yu Sanshui appeared before Yu Sheng and greeted him affectionately, despite their having been apart for only five days.
• Yu Sheng pointed out that Yu Sanshui had reached the Ninth Awakening, and Yu Sanshui admitted Yu Mo had ordered him to follow his son.
• Yu Sanshui said he could not disobey because the powerful Ink Pavilion members had threatened him after he exposed his aura.

Yu Sheng decided to spend a year in Sin City after hearing Yu Mo’s suggestion, while Yu Sanshui urged him to resent Yu Mo for sending him there. Yu Sheng reached the city gates and announced he would enter, though the next chance for anyone to leave was five months away.

• Yu Sanshui told Yu Sheng that Yu Mo wanted him to visit Sin City and persuade its two remaining Jailers to prepare for the final battle.
• Yu Sheng ignored Yu Sanshui’s attempt to provoke him and headed for Sin City, while Yu Sanshui rushed off to report back to Yu Mo.
• A gate guard named Pei Yong recognized Yu Sheng as the Pavilion Master and proudly reported that he had been fulfilling his duties.
• Yu Sheng sat down at Sin City’s gate and said he intended to enter the city.
• Pei Yong warned Yu Sheng that Sin City only allowed one person to leave each year and that the next chance would come in five months.

Yu Sheng stayed at Sin City’s gate while Pei Yong left, and the chapter showed how the city’s starving residents preyed on one another. As night approached, the better-fed survivors gathered to wait for the gate to open and hunt newcomers.

• Yu Sheng thanked Pei Yong and remained focused on Sin City’s gate, while Pei Yong moved away rather than risk getting trapped without Spiritual Energy.
• A one-armed young man ambushed a woman, but she killed him and searched his pockets without finding anything.
• The vultures swarmed the young man’s corpse, and an old man hiding in a ditch killed the woman and stole her food.
• At eight that night, the vultures withdrew and cleaner-dressed residents emerged from hiding to head toward the city gate.
• The residents waited in ambush for the gate to open, expecting newcomers to bring food and become targets.

Yu Sheng returned to Sin City and made his way through its streets toward the Inner City, where he tried to persuade the blind old man to leave with him by offering food. The old man accepted the food but had not yet agreed to go.

• A Sin City resident attacked Yu Sheng for his backpack, but Yu Sheng sent him flying with devastating force and continued toward the Inner City.
• The other residents backed off as Yu Sheng walked away, then Lame Wang stole the dead man's steamed bun and invoked Sin City's rules to escape without retaliation.
• At the Inner City gates, the blind old man recognized Yu Sheng and asked why he had returned.
• Yu Sheng said he had come to trick the old man into leaving Sin City, then laid out fragrant foods from his backpack as an offer.

Yu Sheng reflected on the old man's belief that Sin City and its people could become the Human Race's hope, but reaffirmed his own strict view of right and wrong. After returning to the Outer City, he approached a powerful, chained man and asked whether he would leave Sin City.

• The old man explained that he could not leave Sin City because he was bound to its people and believed it might become the Human Race's last city of hope.
• Yu Sheng questioned his own belief that Sin City natives were inferior, then insisted that right and wrong remained distinct to him.
• Yu Sheng returned to the Inner City and visited the home where he had once lived, but left without disturbing its current residents.
• Yu Sheng went to a room in the Outer City, where a fierce, chained man emerged and recognized Yu Sheng as strong.
• Yu Sheng invited the man to leave Sin City, explaining that he could fight many people stronger than himself.

Yu Sheng discovered that the terrifying burly man could be persuaded to help leave Sin City with food, and learned that a steamed bun had once convinced him to aid Zong Ren. After Yu Sheng gave him a roast chicken, the burly man promised to risk his life to help Yu Sheng escape, though he could act only once.

• Yu Sheng asked why the burly man killed people, and the burly man said they provoked him and carried food.
• Yu Sheng offered the burly man a steamed bun in exchange for help leaving Sin City, and learned he had helped someone escape before.
• The burly man revealed he could act only once because someone would stop him if he interfered again in Sin City's affairs.
• Yu Sheng gave the hungry burly man food he had prepared for the blind old man, and the burly man devoured a roast chicken, bones and all.
• The burly man promised to fight the old man to help Yu Sheng escape, then said the skeletons had tasted sour when he tried eating them.

Yu Sheng offered the burly man a life of unlimited food in exchange for leaving Sin City, then confronted Old Man when he tried to take him out. Old Man refused to bend the city’s rules, and Yu Sheng threatened to kill everyone in Sin City to prevent risks during the Exit-the-City Battle.

• Yu Sheng promised the burly man unlimited food if he left Sin City, and the man readily agreed because he had stayed only to secure occasional meals.
• Yu Sheng told the burly man they would leave the next day, despite the usual four-month wait before leaving Sin City.
• At the Inner City's gate, Yu Sheng summoned Old Man by mentioning the soy sauce beef, and Old Man appeared to discuss their departure.
• Old Man said Yu Sheng could leave in four months and that the Exit-the-City Battle would not be held, but Yu Sheng insisted on taking the burly man through a trade.
• After Old Man rejected Yu Sheng’s offer and walked away, Yu Sheng told the burly man they would kill everyone in Sin City, making Old Man freeze in place.

Yu Sheng persuaded the burly man to help him by offering unlimited food, and the old man let them pass without a fight. At the city gate, Yu Sheng opened a way out of Sin City, leaving its residents stunned as they recognized him as a legendary figure.

• Yu Sheng revealed the burly man and said they could face the old man together.
• The burly man agreed to fight because Yu Sheng had offered him unlimited food, and the old man reluctantly walked away.
• Yu Sheng headed for the city gate with the burly man following him, while Outer City residents and Inner City elites watched.
• Yu Sheng looked toward empty space, and the closed gate opened a gap wide enough for one person.
• An Outer City resident identified Yu Sheng as the Ink Pavilion's Pavilion Master, and Inner City residents recalled their seniors calling him Sin City's most subversive legendary figure in nearly twenty years.

Yu Sheng paused at Sin City's open gate to photograph the place where he and Shi Guang had once fought for their lives, then chose to revisit his past instead of leaving. He showed the burly man his first home in Sin City and began recalling how he and Shi Guang sheltered there after escaping.

• Yu Sheng stopped near the gate, remembered fighting there with Shi Guang, and took a photo for Shi Guang to see later.
• Sin City's residents watched the gate hopefully but withdrew when Yu Sheng turned away from it.
• Yu Sheng walked into the Outer City with his phone to revisit and record places from his past.
• The burly man asked Yu Sheng what was special about a dilapidated, abandoned house.
• Yu Sheng explained that it had been his and Shi Guang's first home after they escaped, where they blocked a broken window with stones to keep out the winter wind and snow.

Yu Sheng showed the burly man places from his and Shi Guang’s past, recalling how they buried the dead and survived a deadly pursuit. He left the burly man curious about the two children’s story as they continued to another memory.

• Yu Sheng recalled how he and Shi Guang warmed their frozen hands with blood from a corpse and buried the dead man in a pit they dug themselves.
• Yu Sheng explained that burying the dead gave them a sense of purpose, and that after they had strength, they arranged burials for others, reducing the number of “vultures” in Sin City.
• The burly man listened quietly and followed Yu Sheng, growing curious about the children’s past.
• Yu Sheng showed the burly man a hole where he and Shi Guang had hidden from people trying to kill them.
• Yu Sheng recalled that Shi Guang risked entering the Inner City to steal anti-inflammatory pills, then returned badly injured; they recovered together in the hole and later defeated the “boss” who had tried to kill them.

Yu Sheng left Sin City with the burly man after visiting a house full of memories, while the city’s residents watched and hoped they could follow. When the gate opened again, Old Man challenged them to overcome the fear that had kept them inside.

• Yu Sheng photographed the house where he and his companions had lived, then left to find Miss Shi Guang with the burly man.
• Yu Sheng walked through Sin City’s gate without harm, prompting the residents to rush toward it.
• A resident was killed by an energy storm as the gate closed, and the others despaired at being trapped.
• Old Man appeared on the city wall and told the residents that their own fear, rather than the city, had kept them from leaving.
• Old Man opened the gate a crack and asked whether they dared to leave now.

After Yu Sheng left Sin City, Old Man explained that the open gate had been a possible path out, but fear had made the residents reject it. Yu Mo learned that Yu Sheng was heading toward the Demon Domain and called Yu Sanshui to ask him to keep Yu Sheng there longer, but the call was cut off.

• A mad Outer City resident accused Old Man of tricking them and walked deeper into Sin City, while the others watched the gate and the blood left by the man who had died.
• Old Man closed the gate and told an Inner City Resident that a path became impassable when people believed it was, adding that Yu Sheng would have had to fight in the Exit-the-City Battle if he had stayed.
• Yu Mo read that Yu Sheng had left Sin City for Demon-Suppressing Pass with a chained burly man and decided the trip might buy them time.
• Yu Mo called Yu Sanshui six times and asked him to keep Yu Sheng safely in the Demon Domain for a while longer.
• Yu Sanshui ended the call, and Yu Mo found another number and asked to speak to him.

Yu Mo pressured Yu Sanshui to delay Yu Sheng’s return to the Human Race, and Yu Sanshui reluctantly agreed to do his best. Yu Sanshui then left home after telling Guiqin a dramatic farewell, while the Light Group staff member departed without his phone.

• A Light Group staff member repeatedly knocked on Yu Sanshui’s door and handed him a phone so Yu Mo could speak with him.
• Yu Mo told Yu Sanshui to keep Yu Sheng from returning to the Human Race and warned that the Ink Pavilion’s veterans would be angry if anything went wrong.
• Yu Sanshui said he could not control or fool Yu Sheng, but Yu Mo told him to do his best and ended the call.
• Yu Sanshui returned the phone to the Light Group staff member, who left angrily after realizing it had lost its signal in the Demon Domain.
• Yu Sanshui told Guiqin that the Human Race came before their home and left as if departing for the battlefield.

Mu Yu struggled with the isolation of Aurora Space while Shi Guang remained calm and continued cultivating. Meanwhile, Yu Sheng learned that the burly man accompanying him was a true ninth-awakening fighter, raising concerns about taking him openly into the Demon Domain.

• Mu Yu asked Shi Guang how long they had been trapped, and she said fifteen days had passed for her and that she had reached the seventh awakening.
• Mu Yu feared they might remain imprisoned for years, but Shi Guang said the place was better than the prison where she had spent eighteen years.
• Shi Guang's calm response helped Mu Yu settle his agitation as he considered how Yu Sheng and Shi Guang stayed rational under pressure.
• At Deep Mountain, Xin Yongfeng was shocked to see Yu Sheng bringing a powerful, undisguised fighter toward the Demon Domain and asked if he planned to kill a Demon God.
• Yu Sheng learned from Xin Yongfeng that the burly man was at the true ninth awakening, not the fake ninth awakening like Confucian Scholar.
• Yu Sheng asked the burly man to conceal his aura, but the man said he did not know how and insisted he was strong enough to handle a fight.

Yu Sheng demonstrated to Xin Yongfeng that the Seventh Crystal Stone could conceal Brawny Man, then set out with him for the Demon Domain. Old White Ape learned Yu Sheng was coming and ordered a messenger to tell him that Old White Ape had killed Shi Guang, while hoping Yu Sheng would control his anger until their planned confrontation in two years.

• Yu Sheng used the Seventh Crystal Stone to hide Brawny Man from Xin Yongfeng’s senses, even when Xin Yongfeng searched with Mental Power.
• Xin Yongfeng warned Yu Sheng not to provoke an early war in the Demon Domain, and Yu Sheng said he was only going to find someone and would not cause trouble.
• Old White Ape received intelligence that Yu Sheng had left Sin City with a Ninth Awakening and ordered a Demon Lord to intercept him at the entrance to Deep Mountain.
• Old White Ape instructed the messenger to tell Yu Sheng that Shi Guang was dead and that he had killed her, hoping Yu Sheng would wait for a chance to kill him in two years.
• Old White Ape entered the forbidden forest in Skyvault Ravine, the Sky Dog Demon God’s territory, and continued toward its heart.

Old White Ape found the hidden entrance to the Sky Dog Demon God's underground lair and subdued the giant snake guarding it. He explored the lavish chamber below, admiring its design and deciding not to force it into his final battle.

• Old White Ape opened a fissure in a clearing and encountered a giant snake guarding the Demon God's forbidden ground.
• Old White Ape subdued the snake and made it loyal to him.
• The snake withdrew underground, and Old White Ape entered the passage beneath the clearing.
• Old White Ape reached the Sky Dog Demon God's ornate chamber and admired its Human Race furnishings and starry ceiling.
• Old White Ape considered featuring the chamber in his final battle but decided against changing the script.