Recaps

After the Divine Ruins, Yu Sheng and his friends settle into life at Ink Academy, share the human cultivation technique, and grow strong enough to graduate together. Their paths split after the ceremony, while Yu Sheng stays behind until Shi Guang returns and invites him to leave that night.

• Ji Hong killed Six-Tailed Fox and Rui to keep the cultivation technique secret, then told Old White Ape that Eight-Tailed Fox’s son might know what lay inside the Divine Ruins.
• Yu Sheng emerged from the vanished Divine Ruins, and Xu Yuanqing confiscated most of the students’ gains before Ink Academy escaped with its hidden haul.
• Yu Sheng settled the poisoned cheetahs and their cubs at Ink Academy, while the students returned to missions and training after the Divine Ruins ordeal.
• Yu Mo told Yu Sheng that the human cultivation technique would be shared under strict rules, thanked him on behalf of humanity, and named him the fifth generation’s standard-bearer.
• Yu Sheng traveled across human territory for six months, then returned to Ink Academy and faced Mu Yu in a fight that showed how far their friends had advanced.
• Sun Wen urged the group to graduate, and Yu Sheng and his friends crossed Xu Yuanqing’s blazing graduation road before thanking him and parting ways.
• Yu Sheng stayed at Ink Academy while Sun Wen, A Tai, Lin Xiaoxiao, Mu Yu, and Zhao Zicheng departed for their chosen destinations.
• Yu Sheng cultivated beside the egg and prepared to leave with Shi Guang after she returned to Ink Academy and confirmed she had reached the Sixth Awakening.

Yu Sheng and Shi Guang avenged Shi Guang’s parents, completed most of their wishes, and entered the Demon Domain to hunt and gather resources. In Barbarian City, they planned to rob an auction, while the Mountain-Guarding Old Man revealed his long infiltration of the Cheetah Clan.

• Shi Guang left Ink Academy with Yu Sheng, and they ambushed Shen Yanchang near Autumn Water City after learning of his crimes.
• Yu Sheng and Shi Guang killed Shen Yanchang, surrendered to the Autumn Water City Lord, and reported their actions to the Guard Bureau.
• Yu Sheng and Shi Guang completed their remaining wishes except for killing their fathers, then left for the Demon Domain after Yu Mo refused to let them go together under Human Race protection.
• Ji Hong and Old White Ape challenged Eight-Tailed Fox’s control of Barbarian City by sending Azure Bird representatives to compete against the Cheetahs.
• Yu Sheng bribed Zhong Yushu to let them avoid the Demon-Suppressing Pass fee, then he and Shi Guang hunted Demon Beasts across the Thousand-Li Demon Plain.
• Yu Sheng and Shi Guang entered Barbarian City, where the Azure Birds and Cheetahs stirred unrest and an auction was announced to draw Demon Beasts back into the city.
• Yu Sheng and Shi Guang decided to rob the auction goods, and Shi Guang refused to leave him to handle the job alone.
• The Mountain-Guarding Old Man pulled Yu Sheng into a building and revealed that he had spent over three years infiltrating the Cheetah Clan to win Lady Seven-Tailed Fox’s favor.

Yu Sheng and Shi Guang seized the auction and turned Barbarian City into a battleground, drawing the Demon Beasts into a scramble for invitations and supplies. As the Young Chieftains confronted Yu Sheng and a riot broke out outside the city, Ink Academy’s 140th Cohort arrived, while Yu Mo remained unreachable.

• The Mountain-Guarding Old Man revealed his plans against Ji Hong and the Demon Domain, while Yu Sheng and Ji Hong discussed the struggle over Barbarian City and Yu Mo’s involvement.
• Yu Mo suspected Yu Sheng was in Barbarian City, and Yu Sheng and Shi Guang captured Azure Bird and Cheetah before confronting the Mountain-Guarding Old Man and taking his supplies.
• The Mountain-Guarding Old Man killed Azure Bird and impersonated him, while Xiao Nan entered Barbarian City and drew the Demon Beasts’ attention.
• Yu Sheng took control of the auction, offered invitations for the deaths of Azure Bird and Cheetah, and the Demon Beasts killed both envoys before he announced an auction for five days later.
• The Demon Beasts fought and robbed one another for auction goods, while Old White Ape and Ji Hong realized the Human Race had disrupted their plans and the Eight-Tailed Fox considered Yu Sheng the key to Barbarian City.
• Major tribes cleared unaffiliated Demon Beasts from the city, and Yu Sheng confronted sixteen Young Chieftains, exposing how Skyvault Ravine had used them to sabotage the auction.
• Yu Sheng teased the Young Chieftains with his last invitation until a Goshawk reported a riot outside the city, and Xiao Nan urged the gathered Demon Beasts to fight the clans.
• A Tai, Lin Xiaoxiao, Mu Yu, Sun Wen, Zhao Zicheng, and the students of Ink Academy’s 140th Cohort joined the fighting, while Yu Sheng confronted Xiao Nan and learned Yu Mo had ignored his calls and messages.

Yu Sheng and his companions broke the blockade of Barbarian City and delayed the auction while Sun Wen tried to unravel Old White Ape’s plans. Ji Hong secured divine resources, and Old White Ape gained permission to challenge Eight-Tailed Fox for the Demon Lord Seat without divine assistance.

• Yu Sheng and his companions helped the Demon Beasts break the blockade, and the Young Chieftains swore not to obstruct entry or kill anyone before the Auction.
• Ji Hong swore to bathe the Human Race in blood if he became a Demon God, received a Demon Crystal and divine blood, and entered seclusion near Skyvault Ravine.
• Yu Sheng postponed the auction by ten days, while Sun Wen concluded that Old White Ape and Eight-Tailed Fox were using Barbarian City to buy time.
• Old White Ape demanded that Yu Sheng’s group leave within three days and threatened to kill the Human Race’s Fifth Generation if they stayed.
• Xiao Nan confronted Old White Ape outside the city and negotiated a possible partnership by naming the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit.
• Yu Sheng told Sun Wen that he had contacted the Black Market to manage Barbarian City, and Sun Wen asked him to look after A Tai if he died.
• Old White Ape killed two Six-Tailed Foxes and sent the survivor to demand that Eight-Tailed Fox abandon the Demon Lord's throne.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox forced Old White Ape to admit that Ji Hong was an undercover agent and permitted him to compete for the Demon Lord Seat without its help.