Recaps

As the Human Race prepared for the final battle, Yu Mo mobilized its people and resources while Sun Wen struggled to reach the Tenth Awakening. Sun Wen chose to sacrifice himself to call Yu Sheng back, leaving the story with the two reunited on the rooftop.

• Yu Mo suspended rival businesses and sent their leaders to Sin City, while the Demon Domain’s forces prepared to attack in six months.
• The Demon-Slaughtering Pavilion and Dark Pavilion were dissolved into the war effort, academies mobilized their graduates, and the 140th Cohort gathered without Yu Sheng.
• Xu Yuanqing urged the 140th Cohort to keep fighting together, and the Old Principal summoned powerful graduates to Ink Academy.
• Xiao Nan chose to keep Sin City and the Black Market going, while Old Black accepted his decision and left the city’s future in his hands.
• Sun Wen failed to find a path to the Tenth Awakening and asked Yu Mo to arrange a livestreamed press conference.
• Sun Wen stabbed himself on the Gold Ingot Group rooftop, then told the cameras that Yu Sheng had stayed away to keep him alive.
• Zhao Zicheng and the others arrived to keep Sun Wen company, but Sun Wen severed his meridians and begged Zhao Zicheng to summon Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng arrived, and Sun Wen told him he had won their bet before declaring that the Sun Family’s line ended with him.

After Sun Wen’s sacrifice, Yu Sheng and the human forces prepared for the decisive war against the Demon Domain. Old White Ape began a seven-day battle meant to push Yu Sheng toward the Tenth Awakening, while Ji Hong revealed his allegiance to humanity and began transforming into a Demon God.

• Sun Wen transferred his spiritual energy to Yu Sheng and strengthened Zhao Zicheng and Mu Yu before returning his borrowed fortune and dissolving, leaving his final words on his uniform.
• Yu Mo admitted that he had helped Sun Wen carry out his plan, and Zhao Zicheng beat him before Yu Sheng stopped the assault and warned Yu Mo to keep his companions safe.
• Yu Sheng buried Sun Wen’s uniform, then Ink Academy joined the war and sent its graduates to the Human Race’s passes.
• Old White Ape set the final battle in motion, and Yu Mo brought the human forces to Demon-Suppressing Pass as the Demon Domain mobilized.
• Yu Sanshui, Big Sister Soul Hunt, and Black Market Grandpa attacked Bifang, but Zhu Yan intervened before they could defeat it, while Nine-Tailed Fox challenged Old White Ape and died after his defeat.
• Old White Ape struck Yu Sheng down, explained that the Tenth Awakening depended on the heart, and ordered him to watch the seven-day Grand Feast and reach that realm before they fought again.
• Human and Demon forces clashed at the passes as Old White Ape questioned Yu Sheng about humanity and the slaughter continued through the first day.
• Ji Hong challenged Old White Ape’s expectations by announcing his breakthrough to the Demon God Realm, then declared himself Ji Hong of the Human Race and began casting off his Demon identity as the Demon Gods tried to stop him.

Ji Hong’s sacrifice weakened the demons, and the defenders of the passes won at a devastating cost before Yu Sheng defeated Old White Ape. The story then followed the survivors into peace and returned to Yu Sheng and Shi Guang, living in the Outer City.

• Ji Hong destroyed the Demon Domain’s earth veins and died, weakening the demons while Old White Ape withdrew from the war and challenged Yu Sheng’s faith in humanity.
• Old White Ape forced Yu Sheng to watch the defense of Deep Mountain, where Xin Yongfeng’s hidden explosives and the 140th Cohort’s resistance bought time at the cost of Xu Yuanqing, A Tai, Big White, Bai Haitang, and Mu Yu.
• Mu Yu reached the ninth awakening and trapped a Demon God, while fighters at the passes sacrificed themselves to defeat the remaining Demon Gods and turn the war in humanity’s favor.
• Yu Sheng reached the tenth awakening and fought Old White Ape, finally killing him with his dagger before Shi Guang carried the exhausted Yu Sheng into the Demon Domain.
• Yu Mo died after confessing his deceptions, and Confucian Scholar buried him as the survivors mourned their fallen comrades and settled into the postwar world.
• After the story’s farewell and later glimpses of the survivors, Zhao Zicheng and Lin Xiaoxiao recognized a boy who reminded them of someone they had lost, while Zong Ren left his assessment after feeling abandoned.
• Yu Sheng guarded his home from Outer City residents fighting over bloody water, and Shi Guang returned recovered as they agreed to keep Sikong Nan alive and frighten him.