Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng, disguised as White Ape, killed Gu Diao and collected valuable spoils before waiting at the altar for more demon beasts to arrive. After he killed two newly teleported beasts, the surviving spear-wielding boy mistook him for a human experiment subject and offered to help him return to human territory.

• Yu Sheng killed Gu Diao with the Dragon-Patterned Staff, collected spring water, and packed away the corpses and other valuable spoils.
• Yu Sheng restored his White Ape disguise and waited near the altar for the next group of demon beasts to teleport in.
• White Ape killed two of the three demon beasts that appeared, while the spear-wielding boy remained unharmed.
• The spear-wielding boy guessed White Ape was a half-demon human like A Tai and offered to help him return to human territory.
• White Ape asked whether the boy was in the Reserve Corps, and the boy said a Reserve Corps member outside could help them get him back alive.

Yu Sheng left the mountain’s interior and headed toward a lake, where two Young Flood Dragons were bullying the other demons. As a human boy and an axe-wielding young man mourned what they believed were fallen compatriots, Yu Sheng charged at the Flood Dragons in his White Ape disguise.

• White Ape encouraged the spear-wielding boy, refused to return to the Human Race, and left without revealing that he was Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng reviewed the Demon Beasts he had studied and left the mountain’s interior after waiting in vain for more prey.
• At the lake, Yu Sheng saw a Gu Diao facing off against a Young Flood Dragon and decided to intervene.
• The axe-wielding young man waited for the White Ape and spear-wielding boy to emerge from the Stone Hall, then left believing they had died and vowed to fight for the Human Race.
• The spear-wielding boy heard the young man’s shout from the mountainside, repeated his vow, and continued through the woods.
• Two Young Flood Dragons subdued the demons around the lake, but Yu Sheng charged toward them as a White Ape, raised his club, and urged the Gu Diao to attack.

Yu Sheng disguised himself as a White Ape, used a staff strike to turn the Demon Beasts against the Young Flood Dragons, then slipped away toward the cave behind the waterfall. He entered carrying a corpse as bait for the tiny fish in the water, while the battle continued outside.

• Yu Sheng struck a Young Flood Dragon with his staff, shattering its demon aura barrier and leaving it convulsing before the other dragon knocked him into the lake.
• Gu Diao urged the Demon Beasts to attack the Young Flood Dragons and pledge allegiance, while the real Yu Sheng recorded the battle from across the lake.
• Yu Sheng dragged the genuine White Ape away and returned about twenty minutes later wearing its fur as a disguise.
• As the battle grew bloodier, Yu Sheng circled beneath the waterfall and charged toward the cave, drawing the demons' attention while Gu Diao kept them focused on the Young Flood Dragons.
• Yu Sheng sensed sinister energy and tiny transparent fish in the waterfall, then used a Demon Beast's corpse as a shield and bait to enter the cave; the fish devoured it down to its skeleton.

Yu Sheng searched the cave behind the waterfall, collected its heat-filled red crystals, and found a crystal coffin containing a corpse and a jade pendant. After spending more crystals to retrieve the pendant, he scraped pure energy from the melted coffin and stored it, while fighting sounds resumed outside.

• Yu Sheng dug six red crystals from the cave walls and stored them in the Mountains and Rivers Bottle.
• Yu Sheng found a crystal coffin containing a desiccated corpse and used a red crystal to burn a small hole through it.
• Yu Sheng looped fishing line around the jade pendant in the corpse's hand, but the opening was too small to pull it out.
• Yu Sheng used two more Blood Crystals to widen the opening and retrieved the jade pendant, which seemed ordinary to him.
• Yu Sheng scraped the pure energy left where the coffin had melted and put it in a porcelain bottle as fighting sounds echoed outside again.

Yu Sheng tried to excavate the Crystal Coffin but instead collected energy-infused water from it. As the Divine Ruins vanished, he killed two Young Flood Dragons, took their corpses and his collected water, and returned with the last Young Flood Dragon alive.

• Yu Sheng tried to dig the Crystal Coffin out of the ground, then abandoned the plan when the stone proved too hard and the task too large.
• Yu Sheng poured water over the Crystal Coffin and collected the energized water, filling containers with water from the waterfall and filtering out its impurities.
• Yu Sheng emerged from the cave carrying a Demon Beast corpse as the exhausted Demon Beasts gathered around the lake and the Divine Ruins began to vanish.
• At the Gu Diao's urging, Yu Sheng attacked the three Young Flood Dragons and killed two with his wooden club.
• Yu Sheng put away the two Young Flood Dragon corpses, returned to the cave to collect his buckets, and watched the Divine Ruins disappear.

After the Divine Ruins vanished, the surviving Demon Beasts feared the Flood Dragon Clan’s retaliation, while the Gu Diao Clan planned to blame the White Ape Clan. Yu Sheng removed his White Ape disguise and reviewed his experience as the humans left the Thousand-Li Demon Plain with Heavenly Mountain Pool Water.

• The Demon Beasts realized only two of the five Flood Dragons had returned, and the surviving Young Flood Dragons vowed that the Gu Diao and White Ape Clans would answer for the attack.
• A White Ape slipped away unnoticed, while the Gu Diao Clan abandoned its plans to act against the Flood Dragons after the Dragon Python passed by.
• The Gu Diao decided to report back to their ancestor and make the White Ape Clan take the blame, and the Dragon Python was pleased that the trouble would fall on them instead of his clan.
• Four humans left the Thousand-Li Demon Plain unchallenged, and one carried a bottle containing a drop of Heavenly Mountain Pool Water.
• Yu Sheng removed his White Ape fur disguise, kept the remaining fur, and recorded problems from the Divine Ruins trip as he considered learning the White Ape language.

Yu Sheng returned to the mountaintop to retrieve the egg and found that the old man had covered it in paint while secretly feeding it energy. The old man concealed the egg’s condition with an elaborate artistic excuse, and the chapter ended when the egg cracked and he hurriedly stabilized it.

• Yu Sheng left the Thousand-Li Demon Plain and headed for the mountain, hoping the Reserve Corps had preserved the Demon Beast carcasses and egg.
• The old man struggled with the rocking egg, which had consumed much of his energy and left its occupant dizzy inside.
• When the old man saw Yu Sheng approaching, he painted over the egg’s cracks, poured in more energy, and blocked Yu Sheng’s view of it.
• Yu Sheng confirmed the Demon Beast carcasses were intact and asked the old man to return the egg.
• The old man claimed he had decorated the egg as an artwork, and Yu Sheng’s disbelief produced Gray Aura that flowed into his Scroll.
• The egg suddenly cracked, and the old man covered it with energy until it became still again.

Yu Sheng left with the egg and a vehicle loaded with Demon Beasts, while Zhong Yushu watched him go and got into an argument with a stubborn middle-aged man over what he had overheard. The egg’s hatchling endured Yu Sheng’s rough driving, and Zhong Yushu ultimately knocked the man unconscious to silence him.

• Yu Sheng wondered whether the egg was about to hatch, thanked the old man, and left with it.
• Yu Sheng loaded Demon Beasts onto his Fierce Tiger XXS and drove away with the egg in the passenger seat, jolting the hatchling around inside.
• Zhong Yushu watched Yu Sheng’s loaded car pass and considered robbing him, but decided against it.
• A middle-aged man confronted Zhong Yushu about hearing him mention porn DVDs, and Zhong Yushu finally admitted it before telling him to be quiet.
• The middle-aged man continued shouting, so Zhong Yushu knocked him unconscious.

Yu Sheng arrived at Ink Academy with a haul of Demon Beasts after his battered Fierce Tiger XXS went viral online for drifting with its handbrake on. Xu Yuanqing calculated the carcasses were worth 17.9 million, but after learning Yu Sheng had encountered Divine Ruins, he abandoned his plan to quit and turned eagerly to Yu Sheng for a chat.

• A viral video showed Yu Sheng drifting around a highway bend while hauling Demon Beast carcasses, and a racing driver pointed out he had forgotten to release the handbrake.
• Yu Sheng reached Ink Academy and totaled the Fierce Tiger XXS against its sturdy wall.
• Xu Yuanqing inspected the Demon Beasts and calculated their value at 17.9 million, then estimated he could earn at least fifty million by entering the Demon Domain himself.
• The Vice Principal warned Xu Yuanqing that Yu Sheng had encountered Divine Ruins, and Xu Yuanqing immediately withdrew his resignation joke and accepted a one-month salary deduction.
• Xu Yuanqing called Yu Sheng by increasingly deferential names and asked him to talk.

Xu Yuanqing appraised Yu Sheng’s glowing egg and offered to price and catalog his other goods for a fee. After signing a contract, the two went outside, where Yu Sheng began bringing Demon Beast corpses into Ink Academy’s square as returning students watched.

• Xu Yuanqing valued Yu Sheng’s glowing egg at hundreds of millions and urged him to let him touch it.
• Yu Sheng decided he might sell the egg to Sun Wen, who needed a fast-flying Demon Beast.
• Xu Yuanqing offered to price and catalog Yu Sheng’s goods, and Yu Sheng agreed to pay him a hundred thousand.
• Xu Yuanqing returned with a contract, and he and Yu Sheng signed it and added their fingerprints.
• Xu Yuanqing followed Yu Sheng outside, where Yu Sheng carried Demon Beast corpses into Ink Academy’s square as senior students stopped to watch.

Yu Sheng brought Demon Beast corpses and rare treasures to Xu Yuanqing for appraisal, revealing a vast spatial skill and several valuable finds. Xu Yuanqing was left dumbstruck as Yu Sheng produced a Gu Diao with a Divine Beast blood vein.

• Xu Yuanqing told Yu Sheng to show him his Demon Domain spoils, then hurriedly hid the Water Moon Lotus when Yu Sheng began taking it out.
• Xu Yuanqing brought Yu Sheng to a secluded clearing in the inner courtyard to inspect his belongings.
• Yu Sheng revealed that his storage space was about three times the size of the clearing, and the Vice Principal expanded the area to accommodate it.
• Yu Sheng began producing Demon Beast corpses, including two Four-Pattern Fire Lions and a Thunderbird.
• Xu Yuanqing recognized a Gu Diao with a Divine Beast blood vein and shouted in astonishment.

Yu Sheng returned from the Demon Domain with three young flood dragon corpses and a trove of valuable materials, leaving the Vice Principal and Xu Yuanqing stunned. As Xu Yuanqing inventoried the haul, the Vice Principal explained the extraordinary value of the Phoenix Tears and Heavenly Mountain Pool Water.

• Xu Yuanqing admired Gu Diao's corpse until Yu Sheng produced another Gu Diao and a young Black Flood Dragon corpse.
• The Vice Principal arrived, and Yu Sheng revealed that he had killed three young flood dragons, shocking both men.
• Yu Sheng laid out additional demon beasts, herbs, a Phoenix Tears Crystal Stone, Heavenly Mountain Pool Water, and a bucket of energy-rich water, then asked Xu Yuanqing to estimate their value.
• Yu Sheng departed with his contract, while Xu Yuanqing complained that he wanted to run off with the money; the Vice Principal reminded him that he had signed and offered to let him flee for eighty percent of the profits.
• The Vice Principal described how valuable the Phoenix Tears and Heavenly Mountain Pool Water were, explaining their potential effects on demon beasts and human skills.

Xu Yuanqing resisted the Vice Principal’s offer to take a share of Yu Sheng’s Phoenix Tears, choosing instead to make money and buy them himself, but his boasting earned him a public spinning punishment. Yu Sheng returned to the car dealership to buy a replacement, revealing that he had driven his previous car without understanding the handbrake and asking what R gear was.

• The Vice Principal tempted Xu Yuanqing with a share of the Phoenix Tears, but Xu Yuanqing refused to take a student’s property and vowed to earn enough to buy them himself.
• Xu Yuanqing fantasized about reaching the Seventh Awakening and beating the Vice Principal, who spun him through the air and posted a video of it to the work group chat and campus forum.
• An anonymous forum user named Zhao Zicheng suggested ways to make Xu Yuanqing’s spinning more humiliating, and the Vice Principal identified him by his account details.
• Yu Sheng returned to the dealership on foot and said he wanted to buy another car because his previous one was probably beyond repair.
• The saleswoman learned Yu Sheng had forgotten to release the handbrake and asked whether he knew what the car’s gears did.
• Yu Sheng said he knew, then asked what R gear was.

Yu Sheng drove from Jiangcheng toward Sin City while reflecting on Xu Yuanqing and the Phoenix Tear. In the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, Old White Ape convinced Gu Diao that the White Ape Clan had been framed and proposed exploiting the dispute with the Flood Dragon Clan, then privately saw a chance to change his own fate.

• Yu Sheng drove out of Jiangcheng toward Sin City, while Xu Yuanqing complained on his phone about Yu Sheng keeping the Phoenix Tear.
• Gu Diao confronted Old White Ape and three Gu Diao juniors over the killing of two young flood dragons and threatened to make the White Ape Clan answer for it.
• Old White Ape argued that a human impostor had framed the White Ape Clan and blamed Eagle Ravine Mountain and the Fei Clan for orchestrating the killings.
• Old White Ape proposed using the Flood Dragon Clan's need for an ally to turn it against Eagle Ravine Mountain and help Gu Diao replace Fei as Mountain Lord.
• Gu Diao ordered Old White Ape to refine the plan and warned that he would still hand him over if the Flood Dragon Clan refused to cooperate.
• Back in his hut, Old White Ape privately considered the crisis a chance to become a seventh-level Demon King and change his fate.

Old White Ape tried to strengthen Eagle Ravine Mountain’s partnership with the Flood Dragon Clan, while Yu Mo identified Yu Sheng as the white ape behind the attacks. Yu Mo then urged Sun Yingxiong to learn to analyze opponents carefully, warning that the Human Race’s future would depend on him.

• Old White Ape deduced that Yu Sheng had disguised himself as a white ape and decided to focus on Eagle Ravine Mountain, the Flood Dragon Clan, and the Ten Thousand Demon Forest.
• Old White Ape gave Gu Diao a planning report and promised to make the Flood Dragon Clan recognize Eagle Ravine Mountain as its best partner before departing for Skyvault Ravine.
• Gu Diao wavered over whether to kill Old White Ape, then imagined becoming Eagle Ravine Mountain’s Mountain Lord.
• Yu Mo concluded from an intelligence report that Yu Sheng had killed the Young Flood Dragons and gu diaos while disguised as a white ape, and explained Yu Sheng Style to Sun Yingxiong.
• Yu Mo admonished Sun Yingxiong to think more carefully and taught him to begin analyzing a situation by understanding an opponent’s character.

Yu Mo predicted that Old White Ape would manipulate the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, the Flood Dragon Clan, and Eagle Ravine Mountain to eliminate Gu Diao, and concluded the Human Race could benefit by watching the conflict. Sun Yingxiong questioned why he could not follow Yu Mo’s reasoning, while Yu Sheng’s reckless drive to Sin City left gas station employees convinced he was going to turn himself in.

• Yu Mo explained that Old White Ape would offer the Ten Thousand Demon Forest as a vassal to the Flood Dragon Clan, warn Eagle Ravine Mountain of Gu Diao’s ambitions, and push Gu Diao into danger.
• Yu Mo said Old White Ape might gain a trace of divine beast blood by devouring Gu Diao’s Demon Core, but argued that his ambition would keep the Human Race safe in the short term.
• Sun Yingxiong asked Yu Mo why he could not keep up, and Yu Mo blamed his years in the Reserve Corps, though he reassured Sun Yingxiong that he was its smartest member.
• Yu Sheng sped into a highway gas station, narrowly stopped before the fuel tank, and asked the employees to fill his car and accept compensation for a damaged post.
• After refueling, Yu Sheng reversed into a wall, turned back onto the highway, and raced toward Sin City as the employees guessed he was going to turn himself in.

Yu Sheng waited outside Sin City for a year before a bloodied girl emerged, and the two set off together with little conversation. At a highway service station, she finished reading the criminal law book he gave her, and he offered her a guide to everyday life.

• Yu Sheng waited by the closed gates of Sin City until a small, bloodied girl walked out, and he welcomed her without interrupting her as she took in the sunlight.
• The girl got into Yu Sheng's car, and he gave her the Complete Compendium of Ink Pavilion Criminal Law while driving recklessly away from the city.
• The girl asked about seat belts and whether Yu Sheng had a driving license, then considered reporting him before he explained why she would be punished for a false report.
• Yu Sheng parked at a highway service station, and he and the girl ate fried rice quietly, noting that food outside Sin City was good.
• After the girl said she had finished the criminal law book, Yu Sheng brought her the Complete Encyclopedia of Everyday Life and said he had read it before.

Yu Sheng and the girl traveled toward Mobei City, where he helped her obtain a replacement ID and household registration booklet. As Shi Guang considered how to repay her debt, Yu Sheng offered to lend her twenty thousand yuan for tuition and rent.

• Yu Sheng and the girl spent the night at a service area, where she read an encyclopedia and asked whether people would report her for wearing bloodstained clothes.
• At dawn, Yu Sheng resumed driving while the girl corrected his gear changes and tried to persuade him to let her drive.
• Yu Sheng explained that Three-Pattern Cloud Merit required killing people and warned that killing outside Sin City was illegal.
• The girl finished reading the encyclopedia as Yu Sheng drove them into Mobei City.
• Yu Sheng paid for the girl to receive a replacement ID card and household registration booklet bearing the name Shi Guang, then calculated that she owed him 3,314 Mo yuan.
• When Shi Guang questioned the charges and began looking around as if considering robbery, Yu Sheng offered to lend her twenty thousand for tuition and rent.

After parting from Yu Sheng, Shi Guang used his notes and a newly purchased phone to find Second High School and attempt to enroll. The principal welcomed her as Yu Sheng’s friend, but her casual account of burying the people he had killed left the conversation chillingly awkward.

• Shi Guang accepted twenty thousand from Yu Sheng and left with his notes, while Yu Sheng hoped she would earn 23,314 before they met at Ink Academy.
• Shi Guang bought a phone, sent Yu Sheng a friend request, and navigated to Second High School.
• When a security guard stopped her at the school gates, Shi Guang blocked his arm with her backpack and nearly fired her crossbow before putting it away.
• The principal rushed over, stopped the guard from calling the Guard Bureau, and welcomed Shi Guang as Yu Sheng’s friend, offering to show her the campus.
• The principal asked how Shi Guang compared with Yu Sheng, and she said he had probably killed more while she had buried everyone he killed in two corpse pits.

Shi Guang enrolled at Mobei Second High School, where the principal eagerly helped her settle in. Meanwhile, Zhao Zicheng and his companions returned to Ink Academy, paid Xu Yuanqing for baths and refreshments, and enjoyed his enthusiastic service.

• Shi Guang heard the principal celebrate her enrollment and dream of Mobei Second High School becoming a key school, while she questioned the advice Yu Sheng had sent her.
• Zhao Zicheng and his ragged companions arrived at Ink Academy, where Sun Wen begged for an attack skill during his Fifth Awakening and called Xu Yuanqing to open the gate.
• Xu Yuanqing welcomed the group, accepted Sun Wen's bank card, and prepared hot water and fresh clothes for them.
• After the group bathed and changed, Xu Yuanqing groomed Big White, and Sun Wen paid him the remaining balance.
• Zhao Zicheng ordered chilled watermelon and iced juice for five credits, then tipped Xu Yuanqing 2.5 credits for juice with pulp.
• Xu Yuanqing flew off to fetch the order after turning on the air conditioner and closing the window.