Recaps

Yu Sheng and his classmates won the Freshman Competition’s team event, then helped Ink Pavilion sweep through Evil Cult hideouts across several cities. Afterward, they entered the Heart-Training Path and witnessed the Human Race’s history before Yu Sheng stepped into a vision of his own past in Sin City.

• Yuan Qingshan used Heavenly Eye to investigate the Soul Hunt Team, then cooperated with its representative in exchange for information about the Demon Domain invasion and the Evil Cult.
• Yu Sheng won the individual tournament, and Ink Academy’s five students defeated a hundred opponents in the team competition to claim the championship.
• Ink Pavilion captured Evil Cultists and cleared hideouts across multiple cities, while Qiu Xiaoxiao ordered the cult to switch to secret offline communications and vowed revenge.
• Yuan Qingshan brought Luo Yu into the Ink Pavilion’s Information Department, while Sun Wen organized Ink Academy’s students to locate and clear Evil Cult hideouts.
• Sun Yingxiong led Yu Sheng and the others to the Heart-Training Path, where Yu Sheng witnessed Yu Yongyan’s founding of the Ink Pavilion, the defense of the Four Passes, and Li Mocheng’s sacrifice at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yu Sheng returned from the visions of the Human Race’s past and entered the abyss, where each step revealed scenes from his childhood in Sin City.

As public outrage turned A Tai into a target, Yu Sheng and A Tai’s friends acted to protect him while the Ink Pavilion weighed the crisis. Yu Sheng stole evidence from Old White Ape’s hut and escaped the Ten Thousand Demon Forest as A Tai’s companions headed for Ink City to demand an answer.

• Yu Sheng and his classmates returned to Ink Academy, where a ragged boy watched the gates and Yu Sheng suspected he resembled Senior Xu’s killer.
• A Tai’s past as a tortured child in the Demon Domain resurfaced as online accusations spread, and he left the academy to spare his friends from further trouble.
• Yu Sheng questioned the ragged boy, who pointed him toward A Tai, while Yu Sheng’s friends searched for the missing student.
• Photographs of A Tai’s childhood torture inflamed public anger, and Yu Sheng left for the Demon Domain as A Tai walked into the wilderness.
• Sun Wen, Lin Xiaoxiao, Mu Yu, and Zhao Zicheng blocked pursuers and stood by A Tai, while Yu Sheng crossed Demon-Suppressing Pass to seek him.
• An old man prepared to kill A Tai, but Zhao Zicheng stopped his attack and Sun Wen persuaded him to hear A Tai’s case in Ink City.
• Yu Sheng slipped into the White Ape village, stole a hard drive from Old White Ape’s hut, and escaped after Old White Ape gave him ten minutes.
• A wheelchair-bound young man told Sun Yingxiong that the data exposed Old White Ape’s role in the Half-Demon Human Plan, while A Tai’s companions continued toward Ink City.

A Tai was cleared after Yu Sheng brought proof of his childhood captivity, while Yu Mo began punishing those who had persecuted him. Yu Sheng returned to the Demon Domain to train and hunt, as Li Shaobai began his final journey and Yu Mo prepared young people for the approaching Divine Ruins.

• Yu Sheng reached Ink City with a hard drive, and its footage showed Gu Diao’s experiments on children and A Tai’s efforts to protect them.
• After the recording, the crowd voted overwhelmingly that A Tai did not deserve to die, and Yu Mo exposed and punished those who had voted against him.
• Yu Mo revealed suspected Demons among A Tai’s attackers, while Yu Sheng recovered and returned to cultivating before setting out for the Demon Domain again.
• Yu Sheng’s companions returned to Jiangcheng and discussed summer assignments, while Xu Yuanqing pleaded his way back into Ink Academy.
• Yu Sheng bought a new car, entered the Demon Domain, and used Round Balls and disguises to steal Water Moon Lotuses while misleading Old Turtle and the Azure Wolf King.
• Zhao Zicheng demonstrated his sorrow-inducing sandbag skill, and Sun Wen urged his friends to strengthen themselves through missions.
• Li Shaobai departed through Demon-Suppressing Pass for his Death Ceremony on the Thousand-Li Demon Plain and fought two demon kings in the sky.
• Yu Sheng slipped toward a seventh-level demon lord’s territory as Yu Mo and Sun Yingxiong discussed gathering young people for the soon-to-awaken Divine Ruins.

Yu Sheng entered the Divine Ruins and disguised himself as a White Ape, gathering resources while navigating rival Demon Beasts and humans. After the Young Flood Dragon and Gu Diao fought over the Heavenly Mountain Pool Water, Yu Sheng revived, killed the Young Flood Dragon, and advanced toward Gu Diao.

• Li Shaobai opened a crack into the Divine Ruins before disappearing, and Zhong Yushu forced Dragon Python to let humans enter.
• Zhong Yushu and the old man pressured Dragon Python into trading for Fire Carving, while Yu Sheng entrusted the old man with the egg he had stolen.
• Dragon Python opened the ruins, and Yu Sheng entered, explored the ancient settlement, and used hidden sinkholes to trap Demon Beasts for gray gas.
• Yu Sheng disguised himself as a White Ape, killed Fire Lions and Gu Diao, then climbed to a sealed stone hall with the other Demon Beasts and two human youths.
• The Young Flood Dragon opened the hall with blood, and White Ape fought other Demon Beasts, gathered their remains, and entered the stone passage.
• Mu Yu reached the Fourth Awakening and used his new skill, Sever, to kill a Fifth Awakening wanted criminal before collapsing.
• White Ape followed Gu Diao through the passages, and the Young Flood Dragon activated an altar that transported them into a cold cave containing the Heavenly Mountain Pool Water.
• White Ape attacked the Young Flood Dragon, then seemed to die after helping Gu Diao fight him, but revived and battered the Young Flood Dragon to death before approaching Gu Diao.