Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng investigated the Demon Plants in the sea of flowers, discovering that one spread through its sap and collecting a jugful to use as seeds. After realizing the plants were intelligent and had been hiding from him, he returned to hunt them and search for their seeds, leaving the sea of flowers in chaos.

• Yu Sheng cut open a vine, found no seeds inside or underground, and concluded that its sap carried the means to reproduce.
• He collected the vine's sap in a jug, then covered its exposed roots with soil and hoped more vines would grow.
• Yu Sheng wandered through the sea of flowers but found no other Demon Plants attacking him and wondered why they had gone still.
• He used a mirror to spot flowers swaying behind him and realized the Demon Plants might be intelligent and watching him.
• Yu Sheng charged back into the sea of flowers, studied and bloodied the plants while searching for seeds, and discovered that one plant's rhizomes were its seeds.

Yu Sheng studied the sea of flowers and the dangerous woods, then collected samples and saplings to take with him. After he left, the trees consumed injured trees and cleaned the blood from the forest floor.

• Yu Sheng spent three hours studying the flowers, washed his bloodied hands with water from a morning-glory-like plant, and left the sea of flowers.
• Yu Sheng released a mole into the woods, where an ancient tree killed it and drained its blood.
• Yu Sheng entered the woods, examined an ancient tree’s thorny branch, and cut it off to test whether it could serve as a sapling.
• Yu Sheng collected saplings for an hour and left the woods bloodstained.
• After Yu Sheng departed, the trees drained several injured trees and absorbed the blood from the ground, restoring the woods to their quiet state.

Yu Sheng searched the Divine Ruins for treasures, found another impoverished village, and tested whether he could reach the sun by ascending with his power of rules. Unable to break through the spatial barrier, he headed toward a distant mountain to look for a cliff, leaving the ruins with no new treasures or dangers encountered.

• Yu Sheng explored the vast Divine Ruins and ransacked a ruined village, finding it as poor as the one he had visited before.
• He recalled that treasures tended to be hidden in caves and other secluded places, then set off toward a distant mountain to search for them.
• Yu Sheng found only a sea of flowers and some woods, and pondered why each fragment of the Divine Ruins had its own sun.
• He launched himself skyward with his power of rules but stalled about a hundred meters up when the space resisted him.
• Yu Sheng landed safely, speculated that stronger awakenings might overcome the barrier, and continued toward the mountain to seek a cliff.
• A nearby tree withdrew its branch after sensing the sap on Yu Sheng's clothes, then trembled at the power he had briefly unleashed.

Yu Sheng encountered a high-rank cheetah demon beast in the Divine Ruins and discovered it had entered from the Demon Domain. After overpowering it, he dragged it toward a cliff to make it answer his questions.

• Yu Sheng dropped a mole from a cliff to test whether a hidden cave lay below, then considered using a Round Ball Bomb to scout the way.
• A sixth-level cheetah demon beast ambushed Yu Sheng, and he realized it was not native to the Divine Ruins.
• The cheetah attacked with lightning, but Yu Sheng absorbed and redirected the bolt before striking the beast with his Giant Hammer and Iron Rod.
• Yu Sheng assessed that the cheetah had been forcibly raised to its level and crippled its hind legs before trying to question it.
• When the cheetah refused to answer, Yu Sheng dragged it toward the cliff, prompting it to ask what he wanted to know.

Yu Sheng learned that the Eight-Tailed Fox had secretly sent about thirty Demon Beasts into the space, then pushed the cheetah off a cliff in search of a cave. He found a hidden cave by smashing through the rock, but a wall’s energy killed the cheetah as he dragged it inside, leaving him to investigate the cave alone.

• The cheetah told Yu Sheng that the Eight-Tailed Fox had secretly brought about thirty Demon Beasts into the space, including three genuine sixth-level beasts with divine beast bloodlines.
• Yu Sheng pushed the cheetah off the cliff, then jumped down after it when it landed on a ledge.
• When Yu Sheng found no cave on the ledge, he smashed the rock wall with his hammer until he opened one and the ledge collapsed.
• Yu Sheng dragged the cheetah toward the cave entrance, but two patterns on the wall released energy that chased the cheetah down the cliff and killed it.
• Yu Sheng took out his giant flashlight and turned to inspect the wall that had released the energy.

Yu Sheng documented an unfamiliar array at the cave entrance and ventured inside, where he found murals depicting a powerful ancient civilization that used Demon Beasts as pets, transport, and weapons. After recording the first three murals, he analyzed what they revealed about the civilization’s people and cultivation, then continued examining the images.

• Yu Sheng photographed and made a rubbing of the cave entrance array, which appeared to target only the Demon Clan and required no energy core.
• Yu Sheng entered the dry, long passage and found increasingly clear signs of human workmanship as he traveled deeper into the mountain.
• Yu Sheng discovered murals showing an ancient city where people kept powerful Demon Beasts and a young man stood apart from the crowds.
• Yu Sheng saw later murals depicting the young man as a leader defending the city from an army, then sitting among the aftermath as its people rebuilt.
• Yu Sheng recorded and analyzed the first three murals, concluding that the ancient humans followed a powerful cultivation-based path and had not researched technology.

Yu Sheng studied murals depicting the City Lord’s struggle to protect his people as disasters worsened and spiritual energy faded, then watched him help create a New World where the experts escaped while the city’s people were abandoned. The murals left Yu Sheng questioning his earlier belief that they were the City Lord’s autobiography, and he documented them before going farther inside.

• The murals showed the City Lord and the city’s Ninth Awakening experts facing escalating natural disasters as spiritual energy weakened.
• The City Lord attended a meeting with other elders, then returned home dejected and unable to meet his people’s trusting gazes.
• The experts suppressed the disasters and created a New World by filling a special Otherworld Space with their Power of Rules.
• The experts and their families entered the New World, leaving the city’s people behind despite their pleas.
• The City Lord sent a bewildered child through the rift, ignored his son’s calls, and returned to the city as the opening closed.
• Yu Sheng reconsidered his theory about the murals, recorded them in videos and photographs, and continued deeper inside.

Yu Sheng explored the Mountain Cave, hoping its burial chamber would contain treasures, but discovered it was a cenotaph and found nothing. He continued down the passage and opened a sturdy door, where dazzling golden light greeted him.

• Yu Sheng found a massive stone door and raised it with a light strike from his Giant Hammer.
• He entered the passage beyond, tested whether the stone door would fall behind him, and continued onward when it stayed open.
• Yu Sheng reached a burial chamber and found a rotted, empty coffin with carved writing above it, realizing it was a cenotaph.
• He photographed the writing and followed the remaining passage to an ordinary-looking metal door.
• Yu Sheng pushed the door open, and dazzling golden light shone over him.

Yu Sheng found the real entrance at the mountain’s foot and realized the murals had been backward, revealing a history of the city and its leaders rather than a burial chamber. He spent the rest of the day searching the Divine Ruins but found little beyond the cheetah’s Demon Crystal and Demon Core.

• Yu Sheng smashed the hidden door at the mountain’s foot and put it into the Mountains and Rivers Bottle.
• Yu Sheng examined the murals in reverse and saw the old man leave his city, conflicts and disasters follow, and a young man later overlook a thriving city.
• Yu Sheng realized the mountain chamber had not been a burial chamber and hurried away, hoping Sun Wen and the others would not learn of his mistake.
• Yu Sheng searched the nearby terrain and the lake throughout the day but found nothing significant.
• Yu Sheng returned to the valley and recovered the cheetah’s Demon Crystal and Demon Core.

Yu Sheng reunited with Sun Wen in the Divine Ruins and discovered that the peaceful places around him were full of dangers for Sun Wen. After Sun Wen cleaned up and joined him, they set off together to search for treasure.

• Sun Wen, covered in blood, ran through a stretch of grassland while vines repeatedly attacked him, and Yu Sheng recognized him.
• Sun Wen showed Yu Sheng the fruits, Demon Plants, and small jade-like sword he had collected while being attacked.
• Sun Wen rushed toward the lake to wash, but aquatic weeds dragged him underwater until Yu Sheng approached and scared them off.
• Sun Wen changed into fresh clothes from Yu Sheng's Mountains and Rivers Bottle and declared that they would claim the Divine Ruins' treasures.
• Yu Sheng walked on without responding as Sun Wen followed him, boasting and asking about the treasures Yu Sheng had found.

Sun Wen accidentally found seeds hidden inside a hollow tree, then told Yu Sheng about a tomb near a mountain. They headed toward it together, while Yu Sheng wondered whether the nearby mountain he had already explored might also hold something.

• Sun Wen tried to distract Yu Sheng by chopping into a tree and unexpectedly uncovered a battered wooden box filled with seed-like objects.
• Yu Sheng chopped down six other trees but found no treasure, and one of them turned out to be a demon plant.
• Sun Wen asked Yu Sheng for storage space and emptied many items from his pockets.
• Sun Wen said he had found a tomb in a mountain cave, and Yu Sheng realized the mountain was beside the one he had jumped from.
• Sun Wen and Yu Sheng set off toward the tomb, encountering more dangers and troublesome traps along the way.

Sun Wen led Yu Sheng into a hidden Mountain Cave, where they found an array-protected trove of Fire Attribute Crystal Stones. Yu Sheng broke the stones free, and after Sun Wen counted 179 of them and estimated their value at a few hundred million, Yu Sheng again sensed that something about his strange day was wrong.

• Sun Wen revealed a concealed Mountain Cave and persuaded Yu Sheng to enter first while he covered the entrance with vines.
• Yu Sheng noticed that the cave’s passage resembled another Mountain Cave he had explored, though this one sloped upward.
• Yu Sheng found red Crystal Stones covering the walls and photographed the array patterns before cutting through them with his sword.
• Yu Sheng used his Giant Hammer to break the cave wall and knock the Crystal Stones loose, then gathered them with Sun Wen.
• Sun Wen counted 179 Fire Attribute Crystal Stones and estimated that selling them through the Ink Pavilion could bring in a few hundred million.

Yu Sheng and Sun Wen explored a trapped passage in the Divine Ruins, where Sun Wen’s luck appeared to draw both danger and treasure. After finding two mysterious fruits, Yu Sheng wondered whether Sun Wen would trade his Gold Yuanbao for a combat-type Awakening Object.

• A hidden array attacked Sun Wen, but Yu Sheng rescued him and redirected the blast into the array, destroying it.
• Yu Sheng suspected Sun Wen’s Gold Yuanbao attracted danger as well as wealth, then used moles to find a safe route through the trapped passage.
• Sun Wen complained that they had found no treasure, and two strange, electric fruits appeared shortly afterward.
• Yu Sheng considered whether gold coating could improve his Awakening Objects and asked Sun Wen if he would trade his object for a combat-type one.
• Sun Wen grew uneasy at the question, and Yu Sheng turned back toward the fruits and reached for them while using the Power of Rules.

Yu Sheng and Sun Wen explored the Divine Ruins, collected treasures, and fell into mutual suspicion as Yu Sheng tried to coax Sun Wen into drinking water. The chapter ended with Sun Wen testing Yu Sheng’s identity and gripping a bomb while Yu Sheng confronted him.

• Yu Sheng used the Power of Rules to grab two lightning-covered fruits and stored them in the Mountains and Rivers Bottle.
• Yu Sheng repeatedly asked Sun Wen if he was thirsty and finally got him to drink a bottle of water, hoping to make him willing to trade Awakening Objects.
• Yu Sheng and Sun Wen continued through the Divine Ruins, collecting several ordinary crystal stones.
• Sun Wen grew suspicious of Yu Sheng’s strange behavior and wondered whether he was an illusionary creature.
• Sun Wen casually asked whether Yu Sheng had seen Gaga while secretly readying a bomb, and Yu Sheng asked why he was testing him.

Yu Sheng learned that Sun Wen’s Blessing had ended and left him with unusually bad luck, then encountered Xiao Nan after he crashed into their cave. Xiao Nan removed a Human-Skin Mask and tried to reassure Yu Sheng, who remained poised with his hammer.

• Yu Sheng admitted he had been trying to get on Sun Wen’s good side because he wanted his Awakening Object.
• Sun Wen blessed Yu Sheng again and explained that when the blessing ended, Yu Sheng would suffer two years of bad luck.
• Yu Sheng wondered whether ordinary members might trade for an Awakening Object and headed down the passage with Sun Wen.
• A young man smashed through the ceiling into the cave, claiming he had found a tomb chamber and asking for help with his broken flashlight.
• The man introduced himself as Xiao Nan, then removed a Human-Skin Mask that had made him look like Yu Sheng’s twin.
• Xiao Nan explained that he had worn his big brother’s face to make things easier, while Yu Sheng silently raised his hammer.

Yu Sheng and Sun Wen confronted Xiao Nan in a Mountain Cave, where Yu Sheng tried to seize the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit. Xiao Nan admitted he had not brought it and agreed to answer Yu Sheng’s questions.

• Xiao Nan revealed that he was Yu Sheng’s childhood friend and had escaped Sin City a year before him.
• Yu Sheng asked whether Xiao Nan had received and eaten the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit, and Xiao Nan first denied having eaten it before correcting himself.
• Yu Sheng ordered Xiao Nan to face the wall, and Sun Wen searched his pockets, finding several valuable treasures but no Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit.
• Yu Sheng speculated about detaining Xiao Nan and searching his home for the fruit, prompting Xiao Nan to accuse him of abusing his authority.
• Xiao Nan dropped his humble act, lit a cigarette, and asked Yu Sheng what he wanted to know, while Sun Wen watched and wondered how to learn his knack for changing faces.

Yu Sheng interrogated Xiao Nan about Old Codger and learned that Old Codger was Yu Sanshui, who had sent Xiao Nan to find an item in the Divine Ruins. After Xiao Nan left, Yu Sheng wondered whether Yu Sanshui was his biological father, while Sun Wen noted that the story might have been misleading.

• Yu Sheng threatened Xiao Nan with a hammer and sword until Xiao Nan revealed that Old Codger was Yu Sanshui.
• Xiao Nan said Yu Sanshui had ordered him to find a Tomb Chamber in the Divine Ruins and take an item from its Coffin.
• Xiao Nan explained that Yu Sanshui had questioned him about Sin City and Yu Sheng, paying him 100,000 yuan and taking a stake in his store before Xiao Nan later got rid of the shares.
• Yu Sheng let Xiao Nan leave the Mountain Cave, then asked Sun Wen whether Yu Sanshui was his biological father.
• Sun Wen said there were multiple possible explanations and Yu Sanshui might have misled them; Yu Sheng then revealed that the mental illness certificate belonged to someone else.

Yu Sheng and Sun Wen discovered that the eyes watching them in the passage came from demonized plants embedded in the walls. They reached a vast tomb chamber where heavy breathing came from the darkness, and Yu Sheng and Sun Wen prepared to confront whatever was inside.

• Yu Sheng explained that he had prepared a diagnostic report to frighten Xiao Nan, whose childhood torture left him afraid of mentally ill people.
• Yu Sheng and Sun Wen sensed many creatures watching them and searched the passage for the source.
• Yu Sheng smashed the wall with his Giant Hammer, revealing small, blood-like fruits embedded inside it.
• Sun Wen examined one of the fruits and concluded that the demonized plants contained no extractable energy.
• Yu Sheng and Sun Wen reached the tomb chamber, where Sun Wen aimed his pistol and Yu Sheng switched off his flashlight as they heard heavy breathing.

Yu Sheng followed the cheetah into a treasure-filled tomb chamber and watched it trigger a hidden trap. After the wounded cheetah spotted him, it attacked, and Yu Sheng noticed it had stepped on another pale blue floor tile.

• Yu Sheng entered the tomb chamber and found a jade coffin, lifelike animal sculptures, Treasure Grade Demon Plants, and other potential riches.
• Yu Sheng watched a cheetah cautiously approach the coffin, mistakenly believing it was wary of the tiger sculpture.
• The cheetah triggered a trap that fired enchanted crossbow bolts, and one pierced its shoulder.
• Yu Sheng switched on his flashlight and confronted the cheetah, which recognized him as a human and launched a surprise attack.
• Yu Sheng stayed still and noticed the cheetah had pressed down a pale blue floor tile.

Yu Sheng froze and subdued a cheetah, then questioned it about the force that had entered the tomb. The cheetah revealed the Demon Domain Lord’s plans and offered every detail it knew.

• Yu Sheng used a glowing floor tile to slow the charging cheetah with frost, then strapped bombs around its neck.
• The cheetah argued that Yu Sheng would be buried if he detonated the bombs, but Yu Sheng pointed out he could leave the Mountain Cave first.
• Yu Sheng broke the cheetah’s hind leg with a Giant Hammer, preventing it from catching him if he escaped.
• The cheetah told Yu Sheng that the Demon Domain Lord, the Eight-Tailed Fox, had sent more than twenty tribe members led by three six-tailed foxes, one of them its legitimate son with red fur between his brows.
• The cheetah added that the three six-tailed foxes carried single-use demon artifacts and recalled seeing one of them beside a lake to the east.