Recaps

Old White Ape found the imprisoned Eight-Tailed Fox, the former Demon Domain Lord, and freed it from the chains and plants suppressing its power. The Eight-Tailed Fox was left bleeding and barely conscious as Old White Ape said it deserved to fight in the final battle.

• Old White Ape opened a hidden passage by feeding a Light Blue Pearl into a mechanism in the wall.
• Old White Ape entered the prison and identified the Void Snake corpses, Heavenly Abyss Flowers, Mandala Flower stems, and Demon God chains restraining the Eight-Tailed Fox.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox told Old White Ape that its captors expected to find a path beyond Demon God and no longer cared whether it became a Demon God.
• Old White Ape snapped the chains and pulled them and the Mandala Flower stems from the Eight-Tailed Fox, reopening its wounds.
• Old White Ape watched the weakened Eight-Tailed Fox and said it deserved to leave its name in the final battle.

Old White Ape freed the Eight-Tailed Fox from imprisonment, expecting it to become strong enough to challenge him and play a role in the coming final battle. The Eight-Tailed Fox saw through his intentions and refused to seek revenge on the Demon Gods, leaving Old White Ape to reconsider how much he had underestimated it.

• Old White Ape watched the Eight-Tailed Fox recover from its wounds and praised it for choosing to keep its scars as reminders.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox proposed trying to kill Old White Ape in half an hour or working for him if it failed, but Old White Ape offered it a week to prepare.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox recognized that Old White Ape was confident he could defeat it and asked what he wanted it to do.
• Old White Ape admitted he had taken the Eight-Tailed Fox's former place and asked whether it would believe him if he had nothing for it to do.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox said it had no intention of seeking revenge on the Demon Gods and would fight back if Old White Ape imprisoned it again.
• Old White Ape smiled and admitted that he had underestimated the Eight-Tailed Fox.

Old White Ape decided to release Eight-Tailed Fox, who realized Old White Ape had concealed his strength and began gathering demon aura to advance further. Outside Deep Mountain, a cheetah confronted Yu Sheng on the Demon Lord’s orders.

• Old White Ape agreed to release Eight-Tailed Fox in exchange for a favor and warned it that a Ninth Awakening human had entered the Demon Domain.
• Eight-Tailed Fox suspected Old White Ape had hidden his true strength and concluded that their confrontation had been decided from the start.
• Eight-Tailed Fox gathered demon aura around itself as it prepared to enter the Demon God Realm.
• A cheetah stopped Yu Sheng outside Deep Mountain and said it had come because the Demon Lord ordered it.

Cheetah delivered Old White Ape’s message that he had killed Shi Guang, expecting Yu Sheng to be shaken and intimidated. Instead, Yu Sheng had Brawny Man seize Cheetah and prepare to roast him, leaving the messenger terrified and unable to resist.

• Cheetah told Yu Sheng that Old White Ape had killed Shi Guang and mocked him for being powerless against the Demon Lord.
• Yu Sheng asked whether the Demon Lord was Old White Ape, and Cheetah confirmed it before warning him not to provoke powerful figures.
• Yu Sheng asked Brawny Man if he was hungry and pointed out Cheetah as something to roast.
• Brawny Man instantly grabbed Cheetah and examined his mouth while discussing how to prepare him.
• Cheetah remembered Old White Ape’s warning not to harm Yu Sheng and wondered how someone supposedly at the third awakening had overpowered him.

Yu Sheng and Brawny Man killed Cheetah and roasted him, while Yu Sheng reflected on Cheetah's threat involving Shi Guang. After Brawny Man devoured the cheetah and discovered the joy of eating, Yu Sheng suggested their next meal would be Demon Lord meat.

• Cheetah threatened Yu Sheng with the Demon Lord's vengeance and mentioned Shi Guang, but Yu Sheng dismissed his provocation.
• Brawny Man snapped Cheetah's neck, drained his blood, and prepared a fire and tools to cook him.
• Yu Sheng seasoned the roasted meat and explained that cheetah meat was only ordinary food for staving off hunger.
• Brawny Man ate the entire cheetah and happily asked Yu Sheng what they would eat next.
• Yu Sheng suggested they try Demon Lord meat, either boiled or roasted.

Yu Sheng led the brawny man to the Hundred Cave Grotto, where the man pursued its pangolin Demon Lord for its meat. The brawny man blasted apart the mountaintop and left the fleeing pangolin exposed in midair.

• The brawny man eagerly asked Yu Sheng where they could find Demon Lord meat, and Yu Sheng set off without naming a destination.
• Yu Sheng spread his human spiritual energy as he walked, alarming nearby demon beasts before he arrived at the Hundred Cave Grotto.
• Yu Sheng remarked that pangolin meat was good for boiling, prompting the brawny man to charge up the mountain as its beasts and giant ants attacked him.
• The brawny man entered the pangolin's cave and found it digging a tunnel to escape.
• The brawny man punched through the rock until he blasted away the mountaintop, exposing the frightened pangolin in midair.

Yu Sheng and Brawny Man hunted down Pangolin, a Demon Lord, and cooked him for dinner. After learning that Demon Lords were delicious, Brawny Man continued with Yu Sheng into the Demon Domain to search for more.

• Pangolin mistook Brawny Man for a hunter violating the treaty, but Brawny Man explained that he wanted to eat him.
• Yu Sheng asked Pangolin who had gone to kill Shi Guang, and Pangolin pleaded for time to remember.
• Brawny Man knocked Pangolin unconscious and prepared him in a pot while Yu Sheng showed him how to use a lighter and added seasonings.
• Brawny Man ate the cooked Demon Lord meat and declared that he wanted to eat it again.
• Yu Sheng and Brawny Man set off deeper into the Demon Domain to look for other Demon Lords, with Brawny Man carrying the Stone Pot.

Yu Sheng continued killing Demon Lords in the Demon Domain while wondering whether Shi Guang was truly dead. Old White Ape dismissed his defiance as part of the script, sent another messenger after him, and noticed that someone in Skyvault Ravine had broken through to Demon God.

• Yu Sheng questioned a Fire Hawk Demon Lord about Shi Guang, then left it to Brawny Man, who prepared to eat it.
• Yu Sheng wondered whether the script would protect him from harm and questioned why Skyvault Ravine had not sent anyone to intercept him.
• Old White Ape said the script had backup plans and could turn the conflict into a two-year war if Yu Sheng tried to disrupt it.
• Old White Ape realized an earlier messenger might have failed to deliver its lines and sent a sharper, though still foolish, Demon Beast to find Yu Sheng.
• Old White Ape sensed someone deep in Skyvault Ravine had broken through to Demon God and wondered whether the Demon Domain's Child of Destiny was controlling the timing.

After the Demon Lord declared that Shi Guang had died in the Aurora Snowfield, Yu Sheng decided to go there despite the warning. Brawny Man followed him, carrying the dead messenger in his Stone Pot.

• Old White Ape left Eight-Tailed Fox alone after his breakthrough and returned to the King's Hall, leaving the observers to wonder about his intentions.
• A cheetah delivered the Demon Lord's message that Shi Guang had died in the Aurora Snowfield and that her body was buried in snow.
• When the cheetah taunted Yu Sheng, Brawny Man killed him after Yu Sheng clarified that killing did not mean he had to eat him.
• Yu Sheng gathered his belongings and set off for the Aurora Snowfield, while Brawny Man followed with the cheetah's corpse in his Stone Pot.

Yu Sheng and Brawny Man reached the Aurora Snowfield, where Yu Sheng searched for someone whose presence he could no longer sense. He told Brawny Man to leave after killing one Demon Lord, warning that the danger ahead could kill him, but Brawny Man fell silent as Yu Sheng continued toward the snowfield.

• Yu Sheng led Brawny Man across the Demon Domain, and the Demon Lords fled whenever they sensed Yu Sheng approaching.
• At the edge of the Aurora Snowfield, Yu Sheng sat motionless beneath the falling snow while Brawny Man ate and then roasted a snow hare.
• Yu Sheng opened his eyes and wondered whether the person he could no longer sense was truly dead.
• Yu Sheng told Brawny Man to leave after killing one Demon Lord and warned that the dangerous task ahead could kill him.
• Brawny Man lowered his head without answering, and Yu Sheng turned and walked toward the Aurora Snowfield.

Yu Sheng and Brawny Man searched the Aurora Snowfield for traces of Shi Guang, finding only blood-red ice and no body. As Yu Sheng continued to wonder what had happened, night fell over the snowfield for the first time, revealing a brilliant green aurora.

• Brawny Man followed Yu Sheng into the Aurora Snowfield, insisting that he owed Yu Sheng work for the food and shelter he had received.
• Yu Sheng and Brawny Man searched the snowfield for a week, finding nothing until Brawny Man uncovered several chunks of blood-red ice.
• Yu Sheng said he could not identify whose blood was in the ice, though touching it made him feel sad, and the two continued searching outward.
• Yu Sheng and Brawny Man searched the snowfield again and again but found no body, while the snowfield’s natural magnetic field limited Yu Sheng’s Mental Power.
• Yu Sheng questioned why Shi Guang’s body was missing, and night suddenly fell over the Aurora Snowfield as a green aurora appeared in the sky.

Mu Yu realized that he could escape Aurora Space during its spatial fluctuations, but more importantly, he stopped trying to imitate Yu Sheng and resolved to follow his own path. He committed to leaving and returning to the responsibilities and people he had left behind.

• Yu Sheng sensed spatial fluctuations beneath the expanding green light and prepared for what might happen.
• Mu Yu realized Aurora Space weakened whenever it opened to absorb something, creating a chance to break through and escape.
• Shi Guang questioned why they needed to leave, since the space allowed them to cultivate faster and they could depart whenever they wished.
• Mu Yu explained that he needed to return to his family, friends, and the Human Race's approaching final battle.
• Mu Yu accepted that he was different from Yu Sheng and resolved to stop imitating him and walk his own path.

Mu Yu and Shi Guang combined their powers to open a passage through space. Mu Yu turned back after spotting Yu Sheng, and Shi Guang ultimately followed him out before the rift vanished.

• Mu Yu reflected on his childish behavior and told Shi Guang that he understood her and Yu Sheng’s hidden kindness.
• Mu Yu awakened the Gravestone’s seventh pattern, while Shi Guang merged with her shadow and doubled her aura.
• Mu Yu and Shi Guang struck the same point, creating a passage wide enough for one person.
• Mu Yu began stepping through, but returned after he spotted Yu Sheng and decided Yu Sheng should know Shi Guang was there.
• Shi Guang stepped through the passage just before it disappeared.

Yu Sheng reunited with Shi Guang in the snowy wilderness, then learned Mu Yu had reached the Eighth Awakening and needed a Demon Lord-level Demon Core. Yu Sheng revealed that he had several to spare, leaving Mu Yu stunned by how powerful and well supplied Yu Sheng had become.

• Yu Sheng and Shi Guang quietly confirmed that each other had survived.
• Mu Yu complained that Yu Sheng had overlooked him, then explained that he had found his own path and reached the Eighth Awakening.
• Mu Yu said he needed a Demon Lord-level Demon Core, and Yu Sheng produced several from the Mountains and Rivers Bottle.
• Yu Sheng said he and Brawny Man had killed the Demon Lords, and confirmed that he had reached the Ninth Awakening.

Yu Sheng gave Mu Yu and Shi Guang Demon Cores to help them break through while he guarded them in the Demon Domain. As the storm worsened, he set up tents for Shi Guang and Brawny Man, but left Mu Yu buried in snow.

• Mu Yu lamented that he lagged far behind Yu Sheng in strength and wealth, then received a Demon Core from him.
• Yu Sheng chose a Demon Core from his stockpile for Shi Guang, who began her breakthrough after reaching the Seventh Awakening.
• Mu Yu absorbed his own Demon Core and asked Yu Sheng to keep watch.
• Yu Sheng gave Brawny Man a Demon Beast carcass, firewood, and a windproof tent so he could cook.
• Yu Sheng kept watch in the snow, set up another tent for Shi Guang, and left Mu Yu to become a snowman.

After Mu Yu’s breakthrough, Nine-Tailed Fox approached Yu Sheng and asked to speak with him alone. Mu Yu warned Yu Sheng not to trust the Demon Clan as the group faced the fox’s unexplained request.

• Mu Yu awoke after an hour-long breakthrough, and Brawny Man examined his Gravestone before admitting he was hungry.
• Yu Sheng left the Snowfield with Shi Guang after asking about her new skill.
• Nine-Tailed Fox arrived and recalled how Yu Sheng had helped bring about its defeat by Old White Ape.
• Brawny Man asked Yu Sheng if he could eat Nine-Tailed Fox, but Yu Sheng said he would not get the chance that day.
• Nine-Tailed Fox explained that it had come to discuss something with Yu Sheng alone, and Mu Yu warned him not to trust the Demon Clan.

The Nine-Tailed Fox asked Yu Sheng to cooperate and explained that Old White Ape had rescued it after years of imprisonment. It shared its suspicion that the Demon Gods were occupied with something, leaving Yu Sheng to decide whether the information could help the Human Race.

• Yu Sheng agreed to speak with the Nine-Tailed Fox alone despite Mu Yu's concern.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox told Yu Sheng it trusted only him and wanted to cooperate.
• Yu Sheng reasoned that the Nine-Tailed Fox had been imprisoned after its failed breakthrough and had returned as a hidden Demon God.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox revealed that Old White Ape had rescued it, then explained that the Demon Gods had not intervened during its breakthrough.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox suggested the Demon Gods were occupied with another matter and warned Yu Sheng that the information might be a trap.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox said it still could not understand what Old White Ape stood to gain by freeing it.

The Nine-Tailed Fox explained that it had deduced Old White Ape was a lunatic planning something disastrous for both the Demon Domain and the Human Race. After Yu Sheng revealed Old White Ape’s scheme, the Nine-Tailed Fox proposed they cooperate against it, but acknowledged Yu Sheng had to gamble on the chance Old White Ape had given humanity.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox explained why it had realized Old White Ape was a dangerous lunatic and concluded that the Ninth Awakening cultivator with Yu Sheng was its target.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox asked Yu Sheng to explain the threat, and Yu Sheng described Old White Ape’s scheme.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox reacted with disbelief and proposed joining forces with Yu Sheng to kill Old White Ape, while insisting it would ultimately destroy the Human Race.
• Yu Sheng questioned whether cooperation would benefit him, and the Nine-Tailed Fox admitted humanity had better odds by taking Old White Ape’s fifty-fifty gamble.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox reflected that Old White Ape had made its opponents feel powerless and afraid as they uncovered its plans.

The Nine-Tailed Fox resolved to follow Old White Ape’s plan and attack Yu Sheng, believing that weakening the Human Race was the best path for the Demon Domain. Yu Sheng escaped its trap with a substitute, but the Nine-Tailed Fox then used its formidable mental power to incapacitate Brawny Man.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox admitted it knew Old White Ape was steering it, but decided its duty to the Demon Domain outweighed resisting him.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox attacked Yu Sheng with its nine tails as Shi Guang and Mu Yu moved to intervene.
• Brawny Man rushed toward the Nine-Tailed Fox, eager to eat, while Yu Sheng revealed he had escaped using his seventh skill, Substitute.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox rejected Yu Sheng’s refusal to cooperate and declared it would destroy the Human Race by any means.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox froze Brawny Man with its mental power and explained that its ancient cultivation technique had strengthened its mind as well as its body.

The Nine-Tailed Fox tried to recruit Yu Sheng and then attacked Brawny Man, but Brawny Man overpowered it and treated it as food. After escaping with Mental Power, the fox threatened to control Brawny Man and kill Yu Sheng, but Brawny Man declared that it could not harm his boss.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox tightened its tail around Brawny Man’s neck when Yu Sheng refused to work with it, but Brawny Man woke up and seized the fox’s tail.
• Brawny Man pinned the Nine-Tailed Fox and asked Yu Sheng how to cook it, while Yu Sheng suggested he try everything.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox struck Brawny Man with its tails, then used Mental Power to escape and keep its distance.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox warned Yu Sheng that it could wear Brawny Man down and kill him, but Brawny Man recovered and said the fox could not kill him.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox threatened to control Brawny Man and kill Yu Sheng, and Brawny Man solemnly told it that Yu Sheng was his boss.

Brawny Man resisted Nine-Tailed Fox’s mental assault to protect Yu Sheng, while Mu Yu sent him the Gravestone. Yu Sheng tested the power of his fused world against Nine-Tailed Fox and learned how much stronger he still needed to become.

• Nine-Tailed Fox attacked Brawny Man with its mental power, but Brawny Man endured the strain and insisted it could not kill Yu Sheng.
• Brawny Man reminded Yu Sheng of their agreement in Sin City, then urged Mu Yu to use the Gravestone.
• Mu Yu sent the Gravestone through a space rift to Brawny Man, while Nine-Tailed Fox threatened Yu Sheng and struck at him with a tail.
• Yu Sheng manifested a clearer projection of his fused world and punched Nine-Tailed Fox’s tail, but the impact sent him flying and shattered the projection.
• Yu Sheng estimated that his Phoenix Hammer could hold off Nine-Tailed Fox for five minutes and recognized that a physically powerful Demon God like Zhu Yan would be harder to face.
• Brawny Man declared that Yu Sheng was the best person in the world because he gave him more food than he could count.

Brawny Man regained memories and power through Mu Yu’s Gravestone, then used Mu Yu’s Mental Power to overpower the Nine-Tailed Fox. He left Mu Yu badly strained and hurled the Demon God away.

• Brawny Man joined the chains around his arms to Mu Yu’s Gravestone and began to remember that it had once been his.
• Brawny Man asked Mu Yu to lend him Mental Power, and Mu Yu agreed.
• Brawny Man used the Gravestone to shield himself from the Nine-Tailed Fox’s Mental Power and struck it into a pit.
• Brawny Man dragged the Nine-Tailed Fox from the pit and beat it while Mu Yu bled from the strain of lending his Mental Power.
• Brawny Man called Mu Yu lucky, then swung the Nine-Tailed Fox by its tail and hurled it away.

Brawny Man drove off the Nine-Tailed Fox and told Yu Sheng about the Feather Race, its rivalry with the Beast Race, and its destruction in the Spiritual Energy Catastrophe. He left the cause of his survival and the Feather Race’s fate unexplained.

• Brawny Man frightened the Nine-Tailed Fox into fleeing, then approached Yu Sheng and said he would not kill him.
• Yu Sheng recognized Brawny Man as belonging to the Heavenly Race, and Brawny Man asked why Yu Sheng had never heard of the Feather Race.
• Brawny Man explained that the Feather Race had three paths of cultivation and once fought the Beast Race as an equal.
• Brawny Man said the Feather Race defeated the Beast Race, but the Spiritual Energy Catastrophe struck before they could prepare to escape.

Brawny Man told Yu Sheng how the Feather Race created the City of Hope and eventually died out while waiting for spiritual energy to return. Before losing clarity, he recognized Yu Sheng as an inheritor chosen by the Heavenly Race and declared that the Feather Race had chosen Yu Sheng too.

• Brawny Man explained that the Feather Race had hidden in the City of Hope within the Sea of Space, hoping to return when spiritual energy came back.
• He described how the Feather Race members in the city gradually died, and how he left a thought behind with a gravestone recording their names.
• Brawny Man reflected on the surviving fool, madman, and old man, then asked Yu Sheng to treat his body and the others kindly.
• Brawny Man sensed the Heavenly Race’s aura on Yu Sheng and identified him as its chosen inheritor.
• Brawny Man declared that Yu Sheng was also the Feather Race’s chosen inheritor, and the characters on the gravestone began to glow.

Brawny Man awakened the Feather Race’s legacy through Shi Guang, revealing that she was the soul formed from the race’s gathered spirits and its final hope. He lost his memories after the ritual, while Shi Guang remained enveloped in light and Mu Yu mourned that he was not the inheritor.

• Brawny Man offered his blood and invoked the Feather Race’s legacy, but the Gravestone’s power flowed into Shi Guang instead of Mu Yu.
• The ritual surrounded Shi Guang with light as Brawny Man used the blood of War, the thoughts of Shaman, and the will of Sacrifice to strengthen her.
• Brawny Man explained that Shi Guang was the Feather Race’s gathered soul and final hope, and thanked Mu Yu for bringing the Gravestone to him.
• Brawny Man declared that the Feather Race would be no more, then lost his lucidity and returned to his familiar, simple-minded self.
• Yu Sheng watched over Shi Guang as she remained within the beam of light, while Brawny Man asked him for food and Mu Yu sat alone with the Gravestone.