Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng fought the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son and the Six-Tailed Fox while enduring the mental pressure from the sleeping Nine-Tailed Fox. The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son ordered the Six-Tailed Fox to kill Zhao Zicheng, leaving the two humans facing a renewed attack.

• Yu Sheng charged the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son with his Giant Hammer while Zhao Zicheng sat down and fired his Sniper Rifle at the Six-Tailed Fox.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son attacked Yu Sheng with its tails, but Yu Sheng blocked them and proved his body was stronger than the demon expected.
• Zhao Zicheng shot at a tail as Yu Sheng threw bombs, blasting the ground and blackening the Six-Tailed Fox's fur while the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son shielded itself.
• Zhao Zicheng reloaded and kept watch for another chance to shoot the Six-Tailed Fox.
• After confirming the explosions had not disturbed the Nine-Tailed Fox, the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son ordered the Six-Tailed Fox to kill Zhao Zicheng, and it lunged at him.

Zhao Zicheng used taunts and a feigned limp to keep the Six-Tailed Fox chasing him around the room, while Yu Sheng fought the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son in the center of the mental tide. The Six-Tailed Fox remained unable to defeat Zhao Zicheng and called out that it would soon help its prince.

• The Six-Tailed Fox tried to persuade Zhao Zicheng to leave, but he fired at it and mocked its slowed movements.
• Zhao Zicheng used a wooden chair to block the Six-Tailed Fox's tail and limped away, keeping the fight at the room's edge.
• Zhao Zicheng revealed that his limp was an act, dodged the Six-Tailed Fox's attack, and struck its tail with the chair.
• Yu Sheng and the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son fought fiercely in the center of the mental tide, both becoming bloodied and badly injured.
• The Six-Tailed Fox continued chasing Zhao Zicheng and promised the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son it would finish him and come help.

Zhao Zicheng realized the Six-Tailed Fox had been holding back and watched Yu Sheng battle the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son as the Nine-Tailed Fox awakened. The ancestor exposed the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son's hidden plan, leaving it bewildered.

• Zhao Zicheng figured out that the Six-Tailed Fox was stalling and conserving its strength while watching the fight.
• Yu Sheng and the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son traded blows, with the Six-Tailed Fox alternately attacking Zhao Zicheng and backing off as the battle shifted.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son and the Six-Tailed Fox prostrated themselves as the Nine-Tailed Fox began to awaken.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son urged the ancestor to unite the Beast Race and enslave the Heavenly Race, while Yu Sheng watched and Zhao Zicheng collapsed into a chair.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox questioned why it should enslave the Heavenly Race and revealed that it had read the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son's thoughts about using it to help its father seize power and control a Demon God.

The Nine-Tailed Fox gave the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son Beast Race mental cultivation methods and passed Zhou Wuyang's cultivation technique to Yu Sheng before walking away to join its lost master. As Zhao Zicheng and the Six-Tailed Fox considered their standoff, the Six-Tailed Fox questioned whether either of them had any reason to die for someone else's ideals.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox refused to return to the world or support the war, but gave the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son mental cultivation methods that flooded his mind with painful information.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox told Yu Sheng that Zhou Wuyang had praised him and passed on a cultivation technique combining body and spirit refinement.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox walked away, its body fading as it headed toward its master, while Yu Sheng and the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son processed the techniques they had received.
• Zhao Zicheng and the Six-Tailed Fox watched the Nine-Tailed Fox disappear, and Zhao Zicheng recognized that the Ancient Beast Race could coexist with humans.
• Zhao Zicheng asked the Six-Tailed Fox if it still wanted to fight, and the fox argued that killing each other would accomplish nothing while its superior remained asleep.

The Six-Tailed Fox explained that it avoided killing Zhao Zicheng to protect itself and build a useful connection, then pretended to attack him while moving him away from the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son. As the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son woke up, Zhao Zicheng and the Six-Tailed Fox were still sparring, and the fox refused to risk its life by sharing intelligence.

• The Six-Tailed Fox told Zhao Zicheng it had fought him earlier to avoid drawing suspicion from the nearby Demon Lord's Legitimate Son, and admitted it could have killed him quickly.
• The Six-Tailed Fox said it had spared Zhao Zicheng and other humans to turn enemies into future allies, while warning him that the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son was waking.
• Zhao Zicheng refused to run, so the Six-Tailed Fox lightly struck him and drove him out through the doorway to move the fight away.
• The Six-Tailed Fox said it hoped Zhao Zicheng might repay its favors in the future, but refused to pass him intelligence because it only did risk-free business.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son slowly opened its eyes, delighted by the cultivation technique left by the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Yu Sheng inherited the Nine-Tailed Fox’s master’s memories and learned to control his strength, using an ordinary punch to wound the Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son. The Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son vowed to stop Yu Sheng from carrying the ancient cultivation technique out of the Divine Ruins.

• The Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son attacked Yu Sheng while Yu Sheng was absorbed in the Nine-Tailed Fox’s memories.
• Yu Sheng watched the middle-aged city lord cultivate and realized how he used force to guide force and tear through space.
• Yu Sheng instinctively copied the city lord’s punch and opened a rift that wounded the Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son’s forelimb.
• The Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son realized Yu Sheng had learned to control his strength more precisely and resolved to kill him before he could leave the Divine Ruins with the technique.
• The chapter explained how ancient cultivation techniques could greatly strengthen both the Human Race and the Demon Clan.

Yu Sheng fought the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son over a cultivation technique while Zhao Zicheng and the Six-Tailed Fox watched outside and debated survival. The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son was defeated and passed the technique to the Six-Tailed Fox, who was left facing an injured Yu Sheng.

• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son attacked Yu Sheng, using newly learned illusions against Yu Sheng's enhanced hammer strikes.
• The Six-Tailed Fox refused to seek the technique, explaining to Zhao Zicheng that doing so would make him a target and urging Zhao Zicheng to stay outside.
• Zhao Zicheng pretended to hold off the Six-Tailed Fox while the two listened to the fight inside.
• The Six-Tailed Fox concluded that the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son was losing and wondered whether Ink Academy would hire him.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son burst from the building, badly wounded, and transferred the cultivation technique to the Six-Tailed Fox while ordering him to flee.
• Yu Sheng emerged with a deep chest wound and a bloodstained hammer, then fixed his gaze on the Six-Tailed Fox.

The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son held Yu Sheng back while the Six-Tailed Fox escaped, then realized Yu Sheng had deliberately kept it alive. It deduced that the cultivation technique might contain a way to control the Demon Clan and understood that it had carried out the Old Ancestor's plan at the cost of its own life.

• The Six-Tailed Fox fled as Zhao Zicheng fired at it, while the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son attacked Yu Sheng to buy it time.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son fought recklessly and was gravely wounded, but Yu Sheng chose not to kill it because it could be captured alive.
• Yu Sheng told Zhao Zicheng he regretted that the Six-Tailed Fox had escaped, though he showed no real concern about the cultivation technique reaching the Demon Clan.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son realized Yu Sheng had been using their fight to practice and had never intended to kill it.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son inferred that the technique could control Demon Beasts and cursed the Old Ancestor for manipulating it into carrying out the plan.

Yu Sheng captured the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son and crippled him after learning that the Beast Race technique contained a flaw. The Six-Tailed Fox decided to hide the technique and pretend it had been trapped in a secret realm, hoping to avoid being killed by the Demon Lord.

• The Six-Tailed Fox explained why it had passed the technique to Yu Sheng and showed no concern for the conflict between the Human Race and the Demon Clan.
• Yu Sheng bound the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son, shattered his limbs, displaced his spine, and muffled his warnings about the technique's flaw.
• The Six-Tailed Fox fled dozens of li and hid inside a mountainside, then stopped its mental power from growing after realizing it had simulated the technique's demon aura circulation route.
• The Six-Tailed Fox reasoned that the Demon Lord would kill it if it returned with the technique, so it resolved to claim it had been trapped in a secret realm and knew nothing about the technique.

Yu Sheng, Zhao Zicheng, and Sun Wen looted the ancient space and tried to take its enormous Ancient Castle with them. The Six-Tailed Fox hid in its cave, unaware of the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son's warnings, while he remained bound and crying out.

• The Six-Tailed Fox weakened itself to conceal that its mental power had increased, then hid in its Mountain Cave and worried about what the Demon Lord might do.
• Yu Sheng and Zhao Zicheng searched the ancient space, found its armory emptied, and dismantled and collected anything they could carry.
• The two left the space with the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son and wondered whether they could put the whole space inside Yu Sheng's Mountains and Seas Bottle.
• Sun Wen saw them emerge and, after hearing that a space was inside, joined their attempt to lift a pillar and take the Ancient Castle.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son kept crying out, hoping the Six-Tailed Fox would hear him and realize the cultivation technique was dangerous.

Eight-Tailed Fox prepared for another journey into the Divine Ruins, ordering a hundred Grassland Leopard tools and three juniors from his own tribe while warning Seven-Tailed Fox not to disrupt his plans. Meanwhile, Yu Mo investigated why the passage had grown more stable and concluded that something unexpected had happened inside the ruins.

• Eight-Tailed Fox told Seven-Tailed Fox to stay calm about Ji Hong and Old White Ape, insisting that their troubles would soon be irrelevant to him.
• Eight-Tailed Fox warned Seven-Tailed Fox to keep his departure secret and ordered him to select one hundred Grassland Leopard tools and three juniors from their tribe for the Divine Ruins.
• Seven-Tailed Fox objected that too few Grassland Leopard tools remained, but Eight-Tailed Fox threatened to erase their clan if it resisted.
• Eight-Tailed Fox wondered whether Seven-Tailed Fox had developed ambitions of his own after his brother left.
• Yu Mo examined the increasingly stable spacetime passage and considered whether a hidden being, incoming spiritual energy, or a demon plant had changed the Divine Ruins.

Yu Mo hired Shi Guang to accompany him into the Divine Ruins, while the Eight-Tailed Fox feared humans might find an ancient cultivation technique there. He ordered the Seven-Tailed Fox to send a dangerous sixth-level fox into the ruins to kill any humans inside.

• Yu Mo called Shi Guang and learned she had reached the fourth awakening, with the fifth expected to take two months.
• Yu Mo asked Shi Guang to enter the Divine Ruins with him, and she drove his wheelchair through the Space Passage.
• In Skyvault Ravine, the Eight-Tailed Fox grew increasingly uneasy about the Divine Ruins and suspected humans there might find an ancient cultivation technique.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox ordered the Seven-Tailed Fox to send a powerful, bloodthirsty member of their clan into the Divine Ruins to kill any humans he found.

Eight-Tailed Fox Shan sent cheetahs and Six-Tailed Foxes into the Divine Ruins to kill any humans and retrieve ancient cultivation techniques, while confronting his cousin Rui about their bitter past. From a distant hill, Old White Ape and Ji Hong discussed how to enter the ruins undetected.

• Eight-Tailed Fox Shan ordered the gathered cheetahs to kill any humans they found inside the Divine Ruins.
• Rui arrived and mocked Shan for plotting against him in the war with the Taotie Clan, which had left him deposed and trapped at the Sixth Level.
• Shan told Rui that ancient cultivation techniques in the ruins might restore his path forward, and ordered him to kill any humans and bring the techniques back.
• Rui entered the Mountain Cave, while Shan stayed behind to guard its entrance.
• Old White Ape revealed that he had overheard Shan and Rui by reading their lips, then asked Ji Hong whether his barrier could hide them from Shan.
• Ji Hong said he could kill Shan and get Old White Ape inside the ruins, but Old White Ape lamented that this would spoil his plan to cripple his own foundation and sneak in.

Ji Hong and Old White Ape continued their wary relationship in Skyvault Ravine, with Old White Ape dreaming of taking over the Demon Domain while Ji Hong guarded himself against being manipulated. In the Divine Ruins, Sun Wen failed to pull a building free and threatened the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son.

• Old White Ape joked about making a realistic Demon Beast drama, and Ji Hong left while Old White Ape fantasized about taking control of the Demon Domain.
• After Old White Ape left, Ji Hong reflected on how the ape's kindness could erode his vigilance and resolved to treat their acquaintance as if it had begun that day.
• Ji Hong reminded himself that Old White Ape had laid down only the knife in his hand, then departed.
• In the Divine Ruins, Sun Wen complained that the building was anchored too firmly for his bottle to pull loose.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son glared and cursed at Sun Wen, who slapped him and threatened to lock him inside the building as it drifted away.

Sun Wen, Zhao Zicheng, and Yu Sheng forced the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son to dig out a buried building, then Yu Sheng demonstrated a cultivation technique. The chapter leaves Sun Wen eagerly learning the technique after Zhao Zicheng explained its attack-power benefits.

• Sun Wen proposed using cheetahs to dig, and the three turned to the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son as another possible laborer.
• Yu Sheng healed the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son's forelegs and spine, left its lower back injured, fed it pills, and handed its rope to Sun Wen.
• Yu Sheng tried to teach Sun Wen and Zhao Zicheng a cultivation technique through movements, but Sun Wen mistook them for broadcast calisthenics and focused on plans to make money from the building.
• Zhao Zicheng explained the technique's benefits, prompting Sun Wen to apologize and beg Yu Sheng to demonstrate it again.
• Yu Sheng taught the technique while Sun Wen and Zhao Zicheng followed along, and Sun Wen repeatedly struck the unconscious Demon Lord's Legitimate Son to keep it from waking and listening.

Sun Wen struggled to learn the cultivation technique and made the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son dig beneath the Divine Ruins while he and Zhao Zicheng cultivated. Meanwhile, Yu Mo and Shi Guang encountered Rui, a Six-Tailed Fox, and Yu Mo suspected that the Demon Domain had opened a passage into the Divine Ruins.

• Sun Wen realized that Yu Sheng's instruction was flawed and suggested forcing the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son to explain how to imprint a cultivation technique directly into someone else's mind.
• Yu Sheng left to find labor, while Sun Wen questioned the gagged Demon Lord's Legitimate Son and failed to get an answer.
• Zhao Zicheng reminded Sun Wen that the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son could not answer with cloth in its mouth, and Sun Wen claimed removing it might let the demon warn its kind about the cultivation technique's flaw.
• Sun Wen ordered the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son to dig through the Divine Ruins' foundation while he and Zhao Zicheng cultivated and shared their insights.
• Yu Mo and Shi Guang arrived in the Divine Ruins and saw Rui, a scarred Six-Tailed Fox; Shi Guang hid Yu Mo when Rui sensed them.
• A cheetah spotted Rui and rushed toward it.

Yu Mo asked Shi Guang how to find traitors within the Human Race, and she recalled Yu Sheng’s brutal but disastrous method of rooting out a mole. Yu Mo was left with no useful plan and worried that Yu Sheng might not know about the current infiltration.

• A cheetah groveled before Rui, who ignored it and walked on, prompting the cheetah to flee in relief.
• Yu Mo defended his strength to Shi Guang, who inferred that he distrusted the Human Race’s senior leadership and was guarding against traitors.
• Yu Mo asked Shi Guang for a way to identify the moles, and she said Yu Sheng was responsible for solving such problems.
• Shi Guang recalled that Yu Sheng had once killed all thirty-one of a gang’s men to ensure there were no moles, leaving their boss to be killed by a neighboring gang the next day.
• Yu Mo asked nervously whether Yu Sheng knew that moles had infiltrated the Human Race’s senior leadership.

Yu Mo realized Yu Sheng might use Poison Bee to poison the Human Race’s senior leaders and hurried to leave the Divine Ruins, while Xiao Nan rode a captured Six-Tailed Fox toward the core building. Yu Sheng went in the opposite direction to find more cheetahs, as the Divine Ruins’ factions converged on different plans.

• Shi Guang told Yu Mo that Yu Sheng might use poison to overcome the strength gap, and Yu Mo remembered that Poison Bee had gone to the Ink Pavilion with Confucian Scholar.
• Yu Mo urgently asked Shi Guang to push him out of the Divine Ruins, but she reminded him that the exit would not appear until the ruins were about to close.
• Yu Mo and Shi Guang set off toward the building, and Yu Mo complained when Shi Guang’s wheelchair acceleration ruined his attempt to strike a pose.
• Xiao Nan captured a Six-Tailed Fox, named it Yuguang, and rode it across the wasteland toward the building.
• Yu Mo and Rui also approached the building while Yu Sheng rode a shovel in the opposite direction, using cheetahs to search for more cheetahs.
• Another Six-Tailed Fox stayed hidden in its refuge and analyzed how to survive.

Sun Wen and Zhao Zicheng struggled to master Yu Sheng’s cultivation technique while making the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son dig a huge pit. Zhao Zicheng explained why Sun Wen’s progress was slow, leaving Sun Wen bristling at his insults.

• Markers across the Divine Ruins converged on the core region, while one growing group swept through the outer ring and gathered at least seven or eight cheetahs.
• After half a day of digging, the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son was exhausted and mechanically scraped out an enormous pit.
• Sun Wen complained that the cultivation technique had only made him comparable to a first-awakening Combat Department Awakened, unlike Yu Sheng’s ability to tear space.
• Zhao Zicheng mocked Sun Wen’s weak combat foundation and explained that his mostly passive skills meant his stored energy rarely strengthened his body.
• Zhao Zicheng compared cultivation progress to upgrading equipment, explaining that Sun Wen was starting close to zero while he and Yu Sheng could build on stronger foundations.

Sun Wen learned that the cultivation technique Zhao Zicheng explained could give him a way to fight, though he remained envious of A Tai’s potential. Meanwhile, Xiao Nan and Yuguang fled from the relentless Rui, and Xiao Nan tried to force their mount to run faster.

• Zhao Zicheng told Sun Wen he could use money to upgrade his equipment and reminded him that the cultivation technique had once made the Heavenly Race powerful.
• Zhao Zicheng provoked Sun Wen by suggesting A Tai could use the technique to defeat Yu Sheng, and the two threatened each other over an old betrayal.
• Sun Wen and Zhao Zicheng threw rocks into the pit and ordered the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son to keep digging; it renewed its effort, determined to survive and protect the Demon Domain.
• Xiao Nan and Yuguang raced across the Divine Ruins as Rui pursued them, and Xiao Nan realized Rui’s pressure rivaled Yu Sheng’s.
• Xiao Nan complained that Yuguang was too slow and stabbed him in the backside with a dagger to make him run faster.