Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng left the blood-red egg and more than a hundred Demon Beast corpses with the old man after Zhong Yushu explained the egg’s potential and risks. Zhong Yushu returned to Demon-Suppressing Pass and called Sun Yingxiong.

• Zhong Yushu examined the egg, identified traces of several powerful bloodlines, and described options for eating it, raising it, or risking that it might turn on Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng asked how long the egg would take to hatch, then hesitated to leave it with the old man because he did not trust him.
• The old man insisted on keeping the egg, and Yu Sheng reluctantly agreed after Zhong Yushu offered to guard it at Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yu Sheng used his Dragon-Patterned Staff to produce over a hundred Demon Beast corpses from its storage space and asked the old man to keep those as well.
• The old man returned to the mountaintop with the egg, while Yu Sheng left and Zhong Yushu went back to Demon-Suppressing Pass and called Sun Yingxiong.

Tensions over the Divine Ruins grew as Dragon Python kept Fire Carving alive for his usefulness, while Chu Yu prepared for a risky experiment at the Ink Academy. Yu Sheng returned to the Thousand-Li Demon Plain as ten human youths approached the rift, and Fei agreed to give the Flood Dragon Clan places in the Divine Ruins at Ji Hong’s urging.

• Dragon Python dismissed Fire Carving but secretly resolved to destroy him once he found another talent he could control.
• An elder warned Chu Yu that the unprecedented experiment could permanently harm her and that her detached temperament might undermine her will; she agreed to proceed.
• Yu Sheng returned to the Thousand-Li Demon Plain, avoided the Goshawks, and waited near the rift as level-four Demon Beasts gathered and ten youths left Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Ji Hong persuaded Fei to grant the Flood Dragon Clan places in the Divine Ruins, and Fei sent the young Flood Dragons despite the danger.

Yu Sheng entered the Divine Ruins, killed several Demon Beasts, and searched an abandoned village for useful items. As he crossed the overgrown rice fields, he saw a cheetah sink into the ground and began to study the danger beneath his feet.

• Dragon Python opened the Divine Ruins, and the young Flood Dragons, Gu Diao Clan, other Demon Beasts, and ten human men entered in turn.
• Zhong Yushu watched from Demon-Suppressing Pass and hoped that more of the human youths would return alive.
• Yu Sheng emerged inside the ruins, killed a Demon Beast before it recovered, and concealed himself to survey the ancient settlement.
• Yu Sheng searched the village, found two rusted hoes, and killed two more Demon Beasts, gathering Gray Aura from them.
• Yu Sheng crossed the abandoned rice fields and watched a cheetah struggle before sinking halfway into the soil.

Yu Sheng discovered hidden sinkholes in the rice field and used them to trap Demon Beasts, learning that their despair produced abundant gray gas. He spent the night luring more beasts into the traps and experimenting with ways to make them yield more.

• Yu Sheng watched a leopard sink into a hidden patch of soft, suctioning soil and received gray gas after it died.
• Yu Sheng used the Dragon-Patterned Staff to probe the rice field and memorized the locations of four concealed sinkholes.
• Yu Sheng lured a Fire Lion into a sinkhole, taunted it with questions, and repeatedly offered then withdrew the staff as it struggled to escape.
• The Fire Lion sank beneath the soil, yielding a huge amount of gray gas as it grew desperate.
• Yu Sheng spent the night bringing Demon Beasts to the sinkholes and testing ways to obtain gray gas, including teaching a black tiger to sing.

Yu Sheng collected Demon Beast corpses as he traveled deeper into the Divine Ruins, while the old man accidentally cracked the blood-red egg and covered it with colorful plant juice. A young bird struggled to hatch inside the egg, trapped beneath the old man’s Scepter and tormented by strange smells.

• Yu Sheng left the rice field and followed the Demon Beasts’ path, collecting and storing their corpses in the Mountains and Rivers Bottle.
• The old man reflected on his strength at the Demon-Suppressing Pass, then accidentally cracked the egg with his foot.
• The old man used his energy to stop the cracks, but they returned whenever he withdrew his hand, so he placed his Scepter above the egg.
• The old man covered the cracked shell with crushed leaves and other materials, turning it into a colorful mess he admired.
• A young bird inside the egg repeatedly pecked at the shell, exhausted itself, and waited for another chance to hatch amid the strange smells.

Yu Sheng stole a green fruit from a blood-stained ancient tree and continued deeper into the Divine Ruins, where Demon Beasts fought over treasures. After watching two Fire Lions battle a Gu Diao over a pink flower, he withdrew and began disguising himself with a White Ape’s fur.

• Yu Sheng used Demon Beast meat to distract the ancient tree, stole its green fruit, and escaped its branches with the Dragon-Patterned Staff.
• Yu Sheng spotted tribes of Demon Beasts traveling together, including a Young Flood Dragon climbing toward a stone structure at the summit.
• Two Fire Lions pretended to yield the pink flower in a rock crevice to the Gu Diao, then attacked it together.
• A Young Flood Dragon struck a Goshawk from the air with a claw formed from its demon aura and tore it apart.
• Yu Sheng watched the battles, withdrew to a secluded corner, and began plucking fur from a White Ape’s corpse to stick onto his skin.

Yu Sheng disguised himself as a White Ape and joined the Gu Diao’s fight against two Fire Lions. He helped defeat the Fire Lions by striking them down himself, leaving the Gu Diao dumbfounded.

• Yu Sheng copied the dead White Ape’s appearance and aura, then returned to the battle carrying its wooden staff.
• As the injured Fire Lions, the Gu Diao, and a human youth faced off over the pink flower, Yu Sheng emerged and stood beside the Gu Diao.
• After the Gu Diao ordered him to attack, Yu Sheng fought one Fire Lion while the Gu Diao engaged the other.
• Yu Sheng struck the dying Fire Lion dead, then knocked the human youth back and killed the other Fire Lion as well.
• The Gu Diao stared at Yu Sheng in disbelief after he claimed both kills.

White Ape killed Gu Diao while a fleeing human watched, then studied the corpses to learn their weak points and tried to imitate an ape. As he climbed the mountain among other Demon Beasts, a Gu Diao questioned why he had no tail, and White Ape struck a nearby leopard on the backside.

• White Ape replaced his wooden staff with the Dragon-Patterned Staff and beat Gu Diao to death as a young human watched from afar.
• The young human fled, convinced White Ape was a monster, while White Ape cleaned his bloodstained fur and examined Gu Diao's neck and Fire Lion's bones for weaknesses.
• White Ape disguised his movements to look more like an ape and climbed the mountain, where other Demon Beasts allowed him to pass warily.
• A second Gu Diao pointed out White Ape's backside and a leopard's, apparently asking where his tail was.
• White Ape charged at the leopard and struck it across the backside, leaving the leopard howling in pain but hesitant to retaliate because of the Gu Diao Clan.

Gu Diao tried to direct White Ape to mutilate a captured cheetah, but White Ape misunderstood and stopped when Gu Diao called him back. As the demons and two human fighters reached the stone hall at the summit, the young flood dragon demanded blood to open its restricted gate, and Gu Diao pointed the humans out for the others to kill—while White Ape remained motionless.

• Gu Diao pointed at the cheetah's tail, but White Ape hesitated with his bone dagger and returned to stand behind Gu Diao when summoned.
• A wounded human boy and a young man carrying a great axe climbed toward the summit together, keeping the demons at bay.
• The young flood dragon waited at the mountaintop while the demons suspected it wanted them to serve as cannon fodder.
• The two human men strode ahead of the demons to the summit, where they found a sealed stone hall on a flat platform.
• Gu Diao joined the young flood dragon, which said it needed blood to open the restricted gate.
• Gu Diao pointed at the two humans to order their deaths, but White Ape did not move.

Gu Diao sent White Ape to attack two human cultivators, but White Ape was repeatedly knocked down and misunderstood Gu Diao’s orders. When the humans moved to kill him, Gu Diao intervened with lightning, but White Ape charged toward a cheetah instead.

• Gu Diao ordered White Ape to attack the spear-wielding and axe-wielding humans, but White Ape’s club strike sent him flying.
• White Ape returned to Gu Diao’s side with his club, while the young flood dragon mocked Gu Diao and the humans wondered whether White Ape was the formidable warrior they remembered.
• As the humans and Demon Beasts prepared to fight, White Ape repeatedly charged the humans and was beaten back, losing fur from his left arm.
• The axe-wielding youth called for White Ape to be killed, so Gu Diao summoned lightning and drove the humans back.
• Gu Diao shook his head to tell White Ape to return, but White Ape misunderstood and charged at the cheetah whose backside he had smacked earlier.

White Ape brutally beat the leopard after misunderstanding Gu Diao’s orders, then the Demon Beasts charged the two humans at the Young Flood Dragon’s command. A young man’s awakening skill killed a Savage Bull, whose blood opened the palace doors, while White Ape quietly looted its remains and further angered Gu Diao.

• White Ape struck the leopard repeatedly with his club until Gu Diao called him back, and the Demon Beasts watched in stunned silence.
• The impatient Young Flood Dragon ordered the Demon Beasts to attack the two humans, but the beasts advanced cautiously.
• The greataxe-wielding young man used his awakening skill to cleave a Savage Bull in half, then collapsed from exhaustion as the spear-wielding boy defended him.
• A black tiger tossed the Savage Bull’s corpse to the Young Flood Dragon, who used its blood to fill the patterns on the stone doors.
• The blood-covered doors glowed red and the palace shook, while White Ape searched the corpse and pocketed its Demon Core and Demon Crystal, frustrating Gu Diao.

The young flood dragon killed an azure wolf to test the stone hall, then entered while Gu Diao chose another passage and ordered White Ape to guard the entrance. White Ape abandoned his post, and the Demon Beasts fought among themselves as they rushed into the hall.

• The young flood dragon sent an azure wolf into the stone hall, then crushed him with demon aura before entering himself.
• Gu Diao entered a passage opposite the young flood dragon’s and told the other demons to stay out of both paths.
• Gu Diao ordered White Ape to block the doorway, but White Ape stepped aside and then moved outside as the demons gathered.
• The Demon Beasts surged toward the entrance, and a chimpanzee struck the leopard with an iron rod.
• The leopard fought the chimpanzee while White Ape watched and the other demons continued pushing into the stone hall.

The boy entered the stone doorway while the injured greataxe youth stayed behind, where White Ape killed the chimpanzee and beat the leopard before going inside. The greataxe youth was left wondering why the Demon had spared him.

• The boy entered the stone doorway after the greataxe youth urged him to keep going, while the youth remained outside to recover.
• White Ape killed the nearly defeated chimpanzee, then stopped the leopard from entering the doorway and battered it with his wooden stick.
• White Ape patched his shed white fur with fur taken from the leopard, leaving himself with a conspicuous yellow-and-white coat.
• White Ape dragged away both corpses, faced the greataxe youth, and then unexpectedly entered the stone doorway without attacking him.
• The greataxe youth sank down, relieved but confused about why White Ape had spared him.

A young man with a giant axe waited for the White Ape, determined to kill it before it could threaten the Human Race. Elsewhere, an old man struggled to keep a changing egg intact, while Mu Yu reached the Fourth Awakening during a desperate fight and resolved to follow his own path.

• The young man with the giant axe decided the White Ape had become too dangerous to let escape the Divine Ruins, so he stayed behind to recover and wait for it.
• The old man kept feeding energy into the egg and trying to mend its cracks, while the baby bird inside repeatedly failed to break through the increasingly hard shell.
• Zhao Zicheng, A Tai, and Big White faced a wounded but dangerous Fifth Awakening middle-aged man as Mu Yu meditated behind them.
• Mu Yu reached the Fourth Awakening, and Zhao Zicheng taunted him for imitating Yu Sheng before declaring they would defeat the Fifth Awakening opponent.
• Mu Yu questioned why others overlooked him, then resolved to follow his own path and let black vapor pour from the Gravestone.

Mu Yu used his fourth skill to kill a fifth-awakening wanted criminal, then collapsed unconscious. After Sun Wen called the Dark Pavilion about the bounty, Zhao Zicheng and the others took money from the criminal and went to eat, where Mu Yu finally woke up, too weak to feed himself.

• The middle-aged wanted criminal attacked Mu Yu, while Zhao Zicheng fought him in close combat.
• Mu Yu inscribed his fourth skill, Sever, on the Gravestone and cut the middle-aged man into pieces before passing out.
• Sun Wen checked the group's injuries and called the Dark Pavilion, then found a wallet but refused to accept its money.
• Zhao Zicheng found money on the corpse, and Lin Xiaoxiao and A Tai helped carry Big White and Mu Yu away to eat.
• At the hot pot restaurant, Mu Yu woke up from the smell of food and asked for help, but A Tai was busy eating.

Gu Diao and White Ape explored the passage, where Gu Diao found Dragon-Transforming Grass and let White Ape carry it and their other finds. They reached a hall where Young Flood Dragon was waiting, and White Ape began trying to communicate what he had inferred from the floor patterns.

• Gu Diao found Dragon-Transforming Grass in a rotted chest, and White Ape followed him into the passage after failing to understand his gestures.
• Gu Diao used Demon Aura to show White Ape the grass, then drew a pot when White Ape questioned what he planned to do with it.
• White Ape carried the grass and other items as they searched more rooms, while Gu Diao decided to keep the grass until they returned.
• Gu Diao and White Ape reached a lit hall where Young Flood Dragon stood, and the two exchanged wary, disdainful looks.
• White Ape studied the circular patterns on the floor and used Demon Aura to depict himself fighting Demon Beasts, leaving Gu Diao stunned by his apparent bravery.

White Ape repeatedly fought Demon Beasts in the passage, impressing Gu Diao with his strength and earning his protection. Young Flood Dragon used the beasts’ blood to activate an altar as Demon Beasts emerged and began eyeing White Ape and his treasures.

• Gu Diao watched as White Ape charged into the passage, then saw him return with a level-four Azure Wolf’s corpse and its Demon Core and Demon Crystal removed.
• White Ape killed another Demon Beast and prepared to go back into the passage, but Gu Diao stopped him, determined to keep him alive and support his advancement.
• Young Flood Dragon declared the markings an altar that could open a new space, claimed the two corpses, and used their blood to activate it.
• Gu Diao and Young Flood Dragon stood on two circles while White Ape guarded their belongings on the third.
• The altar drained the corpses as energy gathered, and injured Demon Beasts emerged from the passages and began moving toward White Ape’s hoard.

After teleporting from the altar, White Ape, Gu Diao, and Young Flood Dragon explored a dark, blood-soaked cave inside the mountain. Young Flood Dragon led them to a small, freezing pool containing glowing blue crystals, which he and Gu Diao recognized as valuable.

• White Ape, Gu Diao, and Young Flood Dragon appeared in a dim cave after the altar’s energy transported them.
• White Ape lit a Demon Crystal, revealing damp red soil, dripping blood, and tree roots overhead.
• Young Flood Dragon identified their location as inside the mountain and led the others deeper into the cave.
• As the cave grew colder, Gu Diao questioned why White Ape seemed unaffected, and White Ape gestured to his thick fur and light clothing.
• Young Flood Dragon hurried to a small frost-covered pool, where he and Gu Diao stared greedily at the glowing blue crystals in the water.

White Ape repeatedly risked his life to wound the young Flood Dragon and save Gu Diao, giving Gu Diao a chance to fight back over the Heavenly Pool Water. The chapter ended as the two injured demons faced off with their strength apparently balanced.

• White Ape charged the young Flood Dragon and struck his waist with a wooden staff, but was thrown into the wall and left badly injured.
• Gu Diao saw the young Flood Dragon's wound as an opportunity and attacked, but the Flood Dragon's bloodline power overwhelmed him.
• The young Flood Dragon summoned a Flood Dragon phantom that bit Gu Diao and dragged him across the ground.
• White Ape rose again, knocked the phantom away with a broken piece of wood, then stabbed the young Flood Dragon with a wooden fork.
• Gu Diao gathered his strength and brought his lightning attacks together as the wounded young Flood Dragon faced him, leaving the two ready for a fight to the death.

Gu Diao and Young Flood Dragon fought over the Heavenly Mountain Pool Water, then joined forces to kill three arriving Demon Beasts. After White Ape revived and killed Young Flood Dragon, he turned toward Gu Diao with a Dragon-Patterned Staff.

• Young Flood Dragon offered to split the Heavenly Mountain Pool Water with Gu Diao, but Gu Diao refused and continued their fight as three Demon Beasts approached.
• White Ape died, and Young Flood Dragon and Gu Diao agreed to temporarily join forces against the Ice Leopard, Thunderbird, and Rock Bull.
• Gu Diao and Young Flood Dragon redirected their attacks and killed all three Demon Beasts, then agreed to divide the pool water and avoid revenge after leaving the Divine Ruins.
• White Ape began moving again and repeatedly struck Young Flood Dragon with a rock until Young Flood Dragon stopped breathing.
• White Ape picked up a Dragon-Patterned Staff and advanced toward Gu Diao, who had believed White Ape would leave him alone.