Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng killed the treacherous cheetah and reasoned that the tomb’s stone guardians ignored demon beasts. He and Sun Wen tested the statues, and the giant python statue did not react when Yu Sheng approached it.

• Yu Sheng asked the cheetah to curse him, but it pretended to submit before attacking him and was killed.
• Sun Wen emerged from the Mountain Cave and questioned why Yu Sheng had killed a potential scout.
• Yu Sheng suggested that the stone sculptures ignored the cheetah because they were demon-beast guardians, then looped explosives around the statues from a distance.
• Sun Wen urged Yu Sheng to test the statues before detonating the explosives and proposed approaching them one at a time.
• Yu Sheng approached the giant python statue, which remained still, while Sun Wen recorded the result and directed him toward a vulture statue.

Yu Sheng awakened the phantom of an ancient Beast Race warrior, who learned that the Heavenly Race had fallen and reflected on how the Beast Race had come to resemble its former oppressors. After the phantom disappeared, Yu Sheng briefly questioned what the Human Race might do if it gained power, then returned to his immediate goal of surviving.

• Yu Sheng approached the Fierce Beast statue after Sun Wen noticed its pupils move, and a phantom emerged from it.
• The phantom recognized that the Heavenly Race had fallen and described how it had enslaved and exploited the Beast Race.
• Yu Sheng shared his knowledge of the present world, and the phantom learned that the Beast Race now held the advantage over the Human Race and Demon Clan.
• The phantom recalled its resentment and desire for revenge, then concluded that powerful races tended to enslave or destroy the weak.
• Before disappearing, the phantom asked Yu Sheng whether his people would rule the Demon Clan justly if they won.
• Yu Sheng wondered what the Human Race might become, then focused on staying alive and fighting demons that wanted to kill him.

Yu Sheng and Sun Wen opened the second Coffin and found it empty except for a Jade Pendant matching one Yu Sheng had obtained before. Yu Sheng suspected Yu Sanshui knew the Divine Ruins well, but remained uncertain why he wanted the pendant and recalled how he had once separated himself from the dangerous man.

• Sun Wen realized he could not see the soul-like presence Yu Sheng had encountered, and Yu Sheng said it had shared only philosophical reflections.
• Yu Sheng opened the jade Coffin while Sun Wen prepared to cover him, but they found no corpse inside, only an ordinary Jade Pendant.
• Sun Wen searched the empty Coffin and wondered why anyone had built such an elaborate tomb around nothing.
• Yu Sheng compared the two tombs and considered whether their occupants had climbed out after the chambers were built, then questioned whether Yu Sanshui had once emerged from a Coffin.
• Yu Sheng concluded that Yu Sanshui knew a great deal about the Divine Ruins and might have visited them, but he could not determine why the man wanted the Jade Pendant.
• Yu Sheng recalled Yu Sanshui presenting proof that they were father and son, taking him home, and later prompting Yu Sheng to find ways to distance himself from him.

Yu Sheng uncovered a hidden basement beneath the Coffin after realizing Sun Wen’s Awakening Object had not revealed everything. Inside, they found energy-rich Crystal Stones of every attribute, all apparently raised to top grade over thousands of years.

• Yu Sheng wondered what Yu Sanshui wanted from him and whether the Jade Pendant was part of a scheme.
• Sun Wen examined the Coffin and concluded it had no value, so Yu Sheng smashed it with his Giant Hammer.
• After questioning Sun Wen about his Awakening Object, Yu Sheng began striking the ground beneath the Coffin.
• Yu Sheng broke through the floor and revealed a small basement filled with energy and dusty Wooden Boxes.
• Yu Sheng opened a box to reveal top-grade Crystal Stones, and Sun Wen marveled at their value and noted that Xu Bighead could not enter the Divine Ruins.

Yu Sheng and Sun Wen discovered crystal stones in a mountain cave and learned that Sun Wen’s Skill guided them toward wealth, while boasting triggered mishaps. Meanwhile, Yu Sanshui continued pursuing Black Robe until she fled through the wilderness with him following close behind.

• Yu Sheng found crystal stones, rotten fruits, and books that crumbled to ash in the chests, and concluded that Sun Wen’s Skill led people toward existing wealth rather than creating it.
• Sun Wen boasted after leaving the cave and was frozen by a hidden floor tile, so Yu Sheng freed him and urged him to stay quiet.
• Yu Sheng and Sun Wen avoided further accidents and plundered the surrounding area for several miles.
• Black Robe told Yu Sanshui to leave her alone, but he declared his love and offered to let her attack him.
• Black Robe walked away, and Yu Sanshui followed her through the wilderness as they moved faster and faster without a destination.

Yu Mo dismissed Chu Huai’s ambition to lead the Light Group, while Chu Huai agreed to resume hunting Soul Hunt. In Skyvault Ravine, Old White Ape and Ji Hong decided to approach the Black Flood Dragon King as they built their own power.

• Chu Huai complained that Yu Mo had left him idle and said he wanted to live in the spotlight.
• Yu Mo told Chu Huai he still lacked what it took to lead the Light Group.
• Chu Huai agreed to investigate Soul Hunt and left Yu Mo’s office.
• Old White Ape wondered why Eight-Tailed Fox had stopped reacting to his actions in Skyvault Ravine.
• Old White Ape and Ji Hong decided to build their own force while Eight-Tailed Fox was occupied, beginning with the Black Flood Dragon King.

Old White Ape and Ji Hong planned to recruit the Black Flood Dragon King and unite Skyvault Ravine while the Eight-Tailed Fox left the clan vulnerable. Meanwhile, Sun Wen and Yu Sheng continued gathering unknown treasures in the Divine Ruins.

• Ji Hong explained that the Eight-Tailed Fox had little reason to protect the Black Flood Dragon Clan and could profit by letting other tribes strip it of its status and wealth.
• Old White Ape and Ji Hong agreed to bring the Black Flood Dragon King into their fold and quickly expand their territory and forces in Skyvault Ravine.
• Ji Hong set out to gather his former subordinates, while Old White Ape chose a bright red robe and went to approach the Black Flood Dragon King.
• In the Divine Ruins, Sun Wen found an unfamiliar pale blue fruit among demon plant corpses and gave it to Yu Sheng to store.
• Sun Wen and Yu Sheng, after two days and nights of searching and looting, found treasures even in places Yu Sheng had already visited.

Sun Wen persuaded Yu Sheng to stop collecting treasures and search the Divine Ruins for the important site or object that Yu Mo and the Eight-Tailed Fox were watching. At the ruins’ central basin, Zhao Zicheng and his companions confronted a Six-Tailed Fox and two cheetahs, and the fox trapped Zhao Zicheng in an illusion.

• Sun Wen reasoned that the Divine Ruins contained a valuable location or item and proposed searching the entire wasteland at full speed.
• Yu Sheng agreed, and he and Sun Wen began racing through the Divine Ruins without stopping to gather treasures.
• At a grand, overgrown building in the central basin, a Six-Tailed Fox demanded that Zhao Zicheng, Zhou Sheng, and Yu Shuang withdraw.
• Zhao Zicheng challenged the Six-Tailed Fox while Zhou Sheng and Yu Shuang faced the two cheetahs.
• The Six-Tailed Fox used its illusion ability on Zhao Zicheng, making him see himself on a throne surrounded by admirers and kneeling soldiers.

Zhao Zicheng broke free of the Six-Tailed Fox’s illusion and fought off his attacks with the Sandbag, using battlefield instincts to survive the fox’s elusive hit-and-run assault. The Six-Tailed Fox vanished again after Zhao Zicheng anticipated one of his strikes, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Zhao Zicheng escaped the Six-Tailed Fox’s illusion and blocked his opening attack with the Sandbag.
• The Six-Tailed Fox recalled the brutal trials of his childhood, then regained control and acknowledged Zhao Zicheng’s strength.
• Zhao Zicheng sensed the Six-Tailed Fox behind him and swung the Sandbag to block his second attack, though the impact sent him flying.
• The Six-Tailed Fox used his Talent Divine Ability to strike from shifting positions, cutting Zhao Zicheng’s arm while taunting him.
• Zhao Zicheng predicted the Six-Tailed Fox’s attack from behind and slammed the Sandbag into the empty air, forcing the fox to retreat before he vanished again.

Zhao Zicheng, Zhou Sheng, and Yu Shuang joined forces against the Six-Tailed Fox despite their severe injuries, while Sun Wen and Yu Sheng spotted a building at the center of the Divine Ruins. The chapter ended with Sun Wen recognizing Zhao Zicheng in danger and urging Yu Sheng to attack.

• Zhao Zicheng wounded the Six-Tailed Fox with a dagger and detonated four hidden explosives, but the fox quickly healed and left him badly injured.
• Zhou Sheng and Yu Shuang arrived after defeating the cheetah, and the three prepared to fight the Six-Tailed Fox together.
• Zhao Zicheng charged while Zhou Sheng and Yu Shuang attacked from the sides, and the Six-Tailed Fox vanished as their battle resumed.
• Sun Wen reached a mountaintop with Yu Sheng and spotted a building he believed stood at the center of the Divine Ruins.
• Yu Sheng raced toward the basin, and Sun Wen recognized Zhao Zicheng before shouting for Yu Sheng to attack.

Yu Sheng arrived just as Zhao Zicheng was about to sacrifice himself, then turned to fight the Six-Tailed Fox. The fox fled through space, but Yu Sheng used his Space Rules to drag it back into the open.

• Sun Wen tracked approaching reinforcements and reported Zhao Zicheng’s condition to Yu Sheng while assembling equipment.
• As the Six-Tailed Fox prepared to kill him, Zhao Zicheng revealed he was a Blood-Colored Twin Fiend and reached for a hidden bomb.
• Yu Sheng appeared and struck the Six-Tailed Fox with his Giant Hammer, saving Zhao Zicheng before he fainted.
• Yu Sheng assessed Zhao Zicheng’s injuries, then confronted the Six-Tailed Fox as it began to recover.
• The Six-Tailed Fox fled using its spatial Talent Divine Ability, but Yu Sheng tore open space with his hammer and knocked it back out.

Yu Sheng injured the second Six-Tailed Fox despite the Demon Lord's legitimate son demanding restraint, while Sun Wen used an explosive sniper round to wound one of the supporting cheetahs. The Demon Lord's legitimate son agreed to postpone the conflict until they found the treasure, and Yu Sheng ended by demonstrating the power of his hammer in terms of an imaginary potato.

• The Six-Tailed Fox escaped Yu Sheng's illusion, and the Demon Lord's legitimate son arrived to protect it and urge both sides to exercise restraint.
• Yu Sheng waited until the illusion's three seconds had passed, then struck the Six-Tailed Fox with his hammer and faced the Demon Lord's legitimate son as two cheetahs arrived.
• Sun Wen assembled a sniper rifle and detonated an explosive round embedded in one cheetah, badly wounding it.
• The Demon Lord's legitimate son agreed to let the matter rest until they found the treasure, and Yu Sheng gestured with his hands before using a potato-sized unit to describe his hammer blow.

Yu Sheng defeated the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son's challengers, while the Six-Tailed Fox recovered enough to follow its leader inside the manor. Sun Wen treated Zhao Zicheng and the injured students, leaving Zhao Zicheng screaming as he applied a painful medicine.

• The Six-Tailed Fox stood despite its injuries, claimed it had trained to endure beatings, and followed the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son into the building.
• The cheetahs followed their leader, and Sun Wen arrived as Yu Sheng examined the injured Zhao Zicheng.
• Zhao Zicheng asked whether he had said anything before passing out, then knocked himself unconscious when Yu Sheng confirmed it.
• Zhao Zicheng woke again, denied saying anything, and urged Sun Wen to treat him and hurry after the others inside.
• Sun Wen said Zhou Sheng and Yu Shuang would survive, reset Zhao Zicheng's arm, and applied medicine that made Zhao Zicheng scream.

Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng entered a hidden space inside the Divine Ruins, where Yu Sheng examined the strange spatial laws. They left the courtyard to explore, with Zhao Zicheng eager to fight despite his wounds.

• Sun Wen hid the two wounded men, cleaned the blood away, and told Yu Sheng that Zhao Zicheng’s secret stash could fund a banquet.
• Yu Sheng told Zhao Zicheng that Sun Wen and Xu Yuanqing had seen him hide his money, leaving Zhao convinced Xu Yuanqing had already taken it.
• Zhao Zicheng picked up the Sniper Rifle and hurried toward the building, determined to find a haul, while Yu Sheng followed.
• Yu Sheng realized the doorway had led them into a separate, stable space within the Divine Ruins and considered how far his own understanding of spatial laws fell short.
• Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng surveyed the courtyard, agreed to explore, and Zhao limped ahead while boasting about their fighting partnership.

Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng searched an ancient settlement and entered an unremarkable building, where they found a powerful-looking middle-aged man seated in a chair. Yu Sheng identified him as the corpse of the man from the murals, but the corpse’s eyelids twitched as Yu Sheng backed away with a hammer.

• Zhao Zicheng reasoned that the Demon Clan would investigate the largest courtyard, so Yu Sheng used a spinning spoon to choose an unremarkable building instead.
• A beast roared from the largest building, and Zhao Zicheng and Yu Sheng cautiously approached their chosen building.
• Yu Sheng opened the door and found a middle-aged man in an old-fashioned gown sitting motionless in a grand armchair.
• Yu Sheng sensed no breathing or heartbeat, approached the corpse, and recognized him as the middle-aged man who had defended the city in the murals.
• Yu Sheng wondered whether the ruins held clues to the Ancient Human Race’s extinction and legacy, then spotted the corpse’s eyelids twitching and raised a giant hammer.

Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng endured the growing pressure from the seated Middle-Aged Man, which steadily tempered their bodies and purified their energy. Zhao Zicheng retreated to recover, realizing the man might embody the cultivation method Yu Mo had sought.

• Zhao Zicheng fired at the Middle-Aged Man, but the bullet stopped before reaching his brow, and Yu Sheng told Zhao Zicheng to wait.
• As the Middle-Aged Man began to stir, his heartbeat and pressure overwhelmed Zhao Zicheng and Yu Sheng, who grew stronger as their bodies and energy were tempered.
• Zhao Zicheng left the room, noticed his strength and energy had improved, then returned to stand closer to the Middle-Aged Man.
• The pressure intensified until Zhao Zicheng reached his limit, flew outside, and began regulating his energy while recovering.
• Zhao Zicheng realized the Middle-Aged Man’s cultivation might be the method Yu Mo had been seeking, though he wondered whether it was too late to begin.

Yu Sheng endured the middle-aged man's overwhelming pressure until the man awakened and examined Yu Sheng's memories, then learned that the Heavenly Race had vanished. The man lamented his failed plan and disappeared, leaving an ordinary Jade Pendant behind.

• Zhao Zicheng repeatedly entered the room to endure the pressure, strengthening his foundations and gaining a chance to reach the Ninth Awakening.
• The pressure burst apart, sending Yu Sheng to one knee as the middle-aged man opened his eyes.
• The middle-aged man communicated with Yu Sheng, learned he was not of the Heavenly Race, and examined memories of the modern world and its Awakeners.
• The middle-aged man lamented the Heavenly Race's disappearance and questioned whether the long-awaited revival was an opportunity or torment.
• The middle-aged man spread his arms in the sunlight and dissolved into specks of light, leaving a Jade Pendant on the ground.

After the Middle-Aged Man died, Yu Sheng examined the Jade Pendant and considered how it might connect to the people who had revived or remained in the Divine Ruins. He reassured Zhao Zicheng that they should stay on their path while still learning from ancient cultivation methods, leaving Zhao Zicheng ruefully asking him to finish his thoughts in one go.

• The Middle-Aged Man suddenly perished, and Zhao Zicheng wondered whether he had left a soul behind or a cultivation inheritance.
• Yu Sheng picked up the Jade Pendant and speculated that its owners might have revived and then vanished, while questioning what had happened to the person in the Tomb Chamber.
• Yu Sheng put away the Jade Pendant without testing whether it could be broken, then rested with Zhao Zicheng after the pressure in the building nearly overwhelmed them.
• Zhao Zicheng asked whether the Middle-Aged Man had been right that they had chosen the wrong path, and Yu Sheng said they should keep their convictions because the Human Race's Ninth Awakening experts had also fallen.
• Zhao Zicheng regained his confidence and rejected the ancient cultivation methods, but Yu Sheng added that they could still learn from them and strengthen their bodies, prompting Zhao Zicheng to complain that Yu Sheng should finish what he was saying in one go.

Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng discovered that the Ancient Beast Race was reviving in a distant building and searched the first floor of their own building for cultivation formulas. They headed toward the beastly roars to disrupt the Beast Race’s plans, while Zhao Zicheng assessed his chances against the Six-Tailed Fox.

• Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng recognized that the roars came from the Ancient Beast Race, which was likely reviving in the building where the enslaved beasts had rested.
• Yu Sheng decided to search for Ancient Human cultivation formulas before confronting the Beast Race, while a cheetah watched them and hurried away to report to the Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son.
• Yu Sheng tested the Grand Tutor Chair with his Long Sword, found it indestructible, and let Zhao Zicheng use it as a crutch after storing his Sniper Rifle.
• Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng searched the first floor, finding Crystal Stones and paper books that crumbled before they could recover anything useful.
• As the demon aura grew stronger, Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng set out to disrupt the revival and deal with the two cheetahs.
• Zhao Zicheng told Yu Sheng he could hold off the Six-Tailed Fox for about seven minutes, but would die within three minutes if it attacked him head-on.

Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng killed the two cheetah guards and entered a building where a Nine-Tailed Fox was struggling against its chains. Zhao Zicheng realized the Demon Aura seemed to purify mental energy, leaving him eager to stay and benefit from it.

• Yu Sheng rushed the cheetah guards while Zhao Zicheng shot them with the Sniper Rifle, giving Yu Sheng the opening to kill them.
• Yu Sheng dragged the second cheetah away from the entrance and beat it to death with his Giant Hammer.
• Yu Sheng ordered Zhao Zicheng to attack on sight, then opened the door to the building.
• Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng found a pet room filled with scattered bones, where a chained Nine-Tailed Fox roared as two Six-Tailed Foxes struggled to approach it.
• Zhao Zicheng recognized that the Nine-Tailed Fox's Demon Aura seemed to purify mental energy and calculated that every second there could be worth millions.