Chapter Summaries

Xiao Nan escaped Rui by driving 'Yuguang' into a frenzied attack, but Rui killed the beast and continued pursuing him. Yu Mo persuaded Shi Guang to follow the commotion, while Rui’s rampage drew humans and demons toward its location.

• Xiao Nan slowed Rui by stabbing 'Yuguang' with daggers, then released a sweet-smelling smoke that sent the beast into a frenzy against Rui.
• Xiao Nan used the opening to flee, but Rui quickly subdued 'Yuguang' and killed it despite its pleas.
• Rui vowed that humans must die and resumed chasing Xiao Nan.
• Yu Mo urged Shi Guang to follow Rui and watch the likely fight, and she agreed after he offered to pay extra.
• Rui attracted the attention of humans and demons across the Divine Ruins while Xiao Nan fled in fear.

Xiao Nan tried to escape Rui, which relentlessly pursued him through the Divine Ruins. Seeing Sun Wen and Zhao Zicheng near a building, Xiao Nan diverted Rui toward them, while Yu Mo watched and prepared to intervene.

• Rui chased Xiao Nan through the Divine Ruins, ignoring his pleas to hunt Yu Sheng instead.
• Xiao Nan used his speed and the terrain to evade Rui, but Rui quickly tracked him past his traps.
• Xiao Nan called for help, then spotted Sun Wen and Zhao Zicheng and flew toward them to draw Rui over.
• Yu Mo watched Xiao Nan redirect the danger and considered teaching him about rules after they left the Divine Ruins.
• Sun Wen and Zhao Zicheng recognized the threat and fled, with Zhao Zicheng proposing they split up.

Xiao Nan fled Rui while Zhao Zicheng and Sun Wen hid the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son in a pit. A Military Academy youth intervened, but Rui remained a deadly threat as Xiao Nan continued circling the valley and begging for help.

• Xiao Nan and Zhao Zicheng fled in different directions, while Sun Wen escaped and later returned to Zhao Zicheng.
• Zhao Zicheng and Sun Wen ordered the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son to leave the pit, then buried him again when danger approached.
• Xiao Nan called for help as Rui wounded him, and a Military Academy youth attacked Rui with a spear that shattered on contact.
• The Military Academy youth stood ready to fight Rui, while Xiao Nan, Sun Wen, and Zhao Zicheng called him an idiot for risking his life.
• Xiao Nan kept circling the valley and signaling Zhao Zicheng, who ignored him and furtively covered the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son with dirt.

Yu Mo intervened when Rui turned on the Military Academy youth, trapping Rui in a sword formation as Mu Yu and others joined the fight. Yu Mo admitted he could not defeat Rui alone and asked Shi Guang to let him hold out until Yu Sheng arrived, while the Basin erupted into a wider melee.

• Xiao Nan redirected Rui away from the Military Academy youth, and Yu Mo sent his longswords to block Rui and draw him into a sword formation.
• Yu Mo held Rui back with several swords, while Xiao Nan cheered and secretly scattered powder toward Rui.
• Mu Yu attacked Rui with black energy from the Gravestone as more Human Race youths gathered and cheetahs arrived, starting a chaotic battle across the Basin.
• Rui summoned the shadow of a Six-Tailed Fox and declared that Yu Mo's bones belonged in his collection.
• Yu Mo told Shi Guang he could not beat Rui but could stall until Yu Sheng arrived, and persuaded her to stop pushing his wheelchair.

Yu Mo tried to hold off Rui, but Rui broke through his sword formation and overwhelmed him. Yu Mo was left wounded on the ground as Rui approached, apparently waiting for him to crawl away.

• Rui charged through Yu Mo's six-sword formation and scattered it with brute force.
• Shi Guang let go of Yu Mo's wheelchair and slipped into the woods, leaving him behind.
• Yu Mo announced his final order: Xiao Nan should be killed if Yu Mo died, and Xiao Nan charged to rescue him.
• Yu Mo fought Rui with his swords, but Rui's attack overturned his wheelchair and threw him to the ground.
• Rui slowly approached the wounded Yu Mo, seemingly anticipating that he would try to crawl away.

Yu Mo endured Rui’s attacks rather than crawl for his life, while Xiao Nan watched, knowing Yu Mo’s choice would decide his own fate as well. Yu Mo declared that Rui had no place in his plans and was not worthy of entering his world.

• Mu Yu used Sever Yin-Yang to briefly bewilder Rui, giving Yu Mo and Xiao Nan a chance to wound it with swords and poison.
• Rui recovered, found no trace of its hidden attacker, and turned its attention to Yu Mo.
• Rui taunted Yu Mo to crawl for a chance to live, but Yu Mo refused and mocked Rui’s own past.
• Xiao Nan asked whether crawling could save them both, then stepped back to watch Yu Mo decide.
• Yu Mo said he would crawl or sacrifice his dignity if his plan required it, but Rui was not worthy of entering his world.

Yu Sheng arrived at the Back Mountain with nearly twenty leashed cheetahs and confronted Rui, while Yu Mo withdrew and let him handle the fight. Yu Sheng and Rui clashed in a fierce contest of physical strength, and Yu Mo wondered whether Yu Sheng had obtained what he sought.

• Yu Sheng descended from the mountain with the cheetahs and questioned Yu Mo about why he had not flown to the mountaintop.
• Yu Mo explained that Yu Sheng was his summoned creature and retreated in his wheelchair, leaving him to fight Rui.
• Yu Sheng tied the cheetahs to a tree and warned them not to move because he might have forgotten which poison he had given them.
• Rui attacked Yu Sheng with a dark phantom and his six tails, but Yu Sheng struck back with the Hammer and shattered the phantom's protective armor.
• Yu Sheng and Rui charged at each other and fought hand to hand, matching each other's strength.
• Yu Mo watched the battle and wondered whether Yu Sheng had really obtained it.

Xiao Nan explained to Yu Mo that he trusted only himself and believed his usefulness would keep him safe, then swore to fight the Demon Clan if he reached the Ninth Awakening. He ended by fawning over Yu Mo, but froze when Shi Guang appeared behind him.

• Yu Mo questioned Xiao Nan about his actions, and Xiao Nan said Sin City had taught him to do whatever it took to survive.
• Xiao Nan argued that survival depended on proving his value and said he would try to become more valuable than Yu Sheng.
• Xiao Nan described his Sixth Awakening poison abilities and his goal of reaching the Ninth Awakening to eliminate the Demon Beasts.
• Xiao Nan swore a Heaven and Earth Oath to enter the Demon Domain and slaughter the Demon Clan if he reached the Ninth Awakening, while vowing not to use his skills against ordinary humans.
• Xiao Nan insisted he supported the Human Race and trusted only himself, then returned to Yu Mo's wheelchair and praised him.
• Shi Guang spoke from behind Xiao Nan, who recoiled and nervously greeted her.

Yu Mo learned why Xiao Nan feared Shi Guang: after Xiao Nan sold information about her in Sin City, she chased and cut him repeatedly for three days while supplying medicine to keep him alive. The conversation ended with Yu Mo marveling at the unpredictable habits of his classmates and Shi Guang revealing that Yu Sheng was her biological younger brother.

• Xiao Nan approached Shi Guang with fawning apologies and hurried away after seeing her.
• Yu Mo asked Shi Guang why Xiao Nan feared her, and she recounted chasing and cutting him for three days in Sin City after he sold information about her.
• Shi Guang explained that she gave Xiao Nan medicine after each cut and that Yu Sheng had stopped her from killing him because it would break Sin City’s rules.
• Yu Mo considered how Sin City’s rules balanced trust with the threat of retaliation, then asked whether Shi Guang had been frightened.
• Shi Guang said she had been exhausted rather than scared, and recalled that Yu Sheng had recruited people to clean up the blood.
• Yu Mo changed the subject, praised Yu Sheng’s valor, and Shi Guang revealed that Yu Sheng was her biological younger brother.

Yu Mo tried to provoke a reaction from Shi Guang with a fabricated tale about being her brother, then discovered that a remark about smiling touched a nerve. Meanwhile, Yu Sheng and Rui fought to a stalemate until Xiao Nan secretly interfered and disrupted Rui's aura.

• Yu Mo claimed that Yu Sheng was his biological younger brother, then invented a story that he was Shi Guang's older brother, but she barely reacted.
• Yu Mo noticed Shi Guang respond to the idea that people should smile and guessed that someone important, possibly Chu Yu, had said it to her.
• Yu Sheng and Rui continued their brutal fight, each sustaining injuries as Rui used leaves and visions to hinder Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng used his Phoenix Hammer and six Crystal Stones to strike Rui, but neither fighter gained a clear advantage.
• Xiao Nan watched from the mountaintop and used pale green light to make Rui grunt, turn purplish, and lose control of its aura.

Xiao Nan’s poison left Rui vulnerable, and Yu Sheng relentlessly battered it despite Rui’s demands for a fair duel. Terrified of dying, Rui sacrificed one of its tails to escape, but the technique left it permanently weakened to the fifth level.

• Xiao Nan confirmed that Yu Mo had noticed his help before disappearing again.
• Rui struggled to purge the poison, while Yu Sheng attacked it with his hammer.
• Rui accused Yu Sheng of dishonorable sneak attacks and pleaded for a fair one-on-one duel after recovering.
• Yu Sheng rejected Rui’s ideas of warrior pride and kept striking it as the poison weakened it.
• Rui panicked and fled, begging Yu Sheng to spare its life.
• Rui exploded one of its tails and vanished, sacrificing its future strength to remain at the fifth level.

Yu Sheng returned from the Divine Ruins and recounted his discoveries to Yu Mo, including the Ancient Heavenly Race Cultivation Technique a nine-tailed fox had taught him. After capturing more cheetahs, he ordered them to help dig the pit alongside the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son.

• Yu Sheng returned up the mountain, where he reunited with Shi Guang and faced Yu Mo's questions about the Divine Ruins.
• Yu Sheng described his journey in detail before revealing that a nine-tailed fox had taught him a body-strengthening cultivation technique in a separate space.
• Yu Mo, baffled by the story, called Sun Wen over and asked him to explain what had happened.
• Yu Sheng led his captured mounts into battle and used the fighting to capture more cheetahs, whose gray aura was stronger than Yu Mo's.
• Yu Sheng ordered the cheetahs to dig in the deep pit, and they eagerly joined after seeing the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son already working there.

Yu Mo deduced that Yu Sheng had fabricated flaws in the Demon Clan’s cultivation technique to make the Demon Domain distrust it and delay adopting it. He proposed exploiting that suspicion further, while the Divine Ruins situation remained unresolved.

• Sun Wen recounted the incident, and Yu Mo abruptly asked whether Yu Sheng had trouble communicating.
• Yu Mo questioned whether Yu Sheng had ever admitted the Demon Clan’s cultivation technique was flawed, then concluded he was using the Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son to create suspicion.
• Yu Mo explained that the Demon Domain Lord would test the technique cautiously to avoid risking the Demon Clan, giving the Human Race at least a year’s head start.
• Yu Mo suggested deliberately releasing the Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son and publicly insisting that the technique was safe to make the Demon Clan even more suspicious.

Yu Mo told Sun Wen that Xiao Nan would be most useful at the eighth awakening, guarding a city or drawing the Demon Gods’ attention. Meanwhile, Yu Sheng’s cheetahs finished digging, and the chapter ended as he began moving the building into the Mountains and Rivers Bottle.

• Yu Mo told Sun Wen that Xiao Nan’s power would be more useful before the ninth awakening and called him high-grade cannon fodder if used to deter the Demon Gods.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son tried to warn the cheetahs about a trap in their cultivation technique, but they mistook his cries for encouragement and worked harder.
• The cheetahs dug trenches around the building, then climbed out while the injured Demon Lord's Legitimate Son struggled for half an hour to escape the pit on his own.
• Yu Sheng could not distinguish the dust-covered cheetahs, so he set out thirty-four antidotes and told them to pick their own bottles.
• Yu Sheng opened a space rift around the building and began lifting it toward the Mountains and Rivers Bottle, exciting Sun Wen with thoughts of profit.

With the Divine Ruins expected to collapse in three days, the group prepared to search for whatever treasures they could find while Sun Wen celebrated his newfound jumping ability. Yu Mo tried to arrange a marriage between Yu Sheng and Shi Guang, but Yu Sheng rejected the idea of having children without being able to protect them, leaving Yu Mo to reflect on his past before calling Shi Guang to go treasure hunting.

• Sun Wen showed off his ability to jump onto a one-meter-high rock, while Zhao Zicheng recorded him and then left to search the Divine Ruins.
• Yu Sheng's cheetah mounts kept the antidotes they had been given and continued working for him as they waited to see whether the poison would take effect.
• Yu Mo asked Yu Sheng whether he had poisoned the Human Race's senior leadership, then nervously declined Yu Sheng's offer to catch spies.
• Yu Mo tried to arrange a marriage between Yu Sheng and Shi Guang, offering a wedding gift and a free venue.
• Yu Sheng told Yu Mo that having children without ensuring their safety and a good living environment was selfish, then left with his skateboard.
• Yu Mo reflected on Yu Sheng's difficult childhood and called for Shi Guang so they could go treasure hunting.

Yu Mo enjoyed exploring the Divine Ruins while the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son struggled to escape the pit where Yu Sheng had left him. Elsewhere, the injured Rui encountered a Six-Tailed Fox, and both recognized each other with fear.

• Yu Sheng left the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son behind in a deeper pit, where he endured isolation and repeatedly tried to climb out despite his injured waist.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son's hatred of humans drove him to persist, and he vowed to slaughter them once he escaped.
• Rui tumbled out of space in another part of the Divine Ruins, badly injured and consumed by anger and self-contempt.
• A Six-Tailed Fox found Rui and recognized him, then cautiously tried to keep his distance.

The Six-Tailed Fox learned from Rui that His Highness had been captured and realized both the Demon Lord and the Human Race could have it killed. After two days of searching for a way to survive, it offered to restore Rui to the level of a Demon God in exchange for a lifelong oath, then transmitted a cultivation technique to Rui.

• The Six-Tailed Fox used its mental power to calm Rui and got it to recount what had happened over the past two days.
• The Six-Tailed Fox concluded that it would be targeted by both sides because it knew the cultivation technique and that His Highness had been captured.
• The Six-Tailed Fox spent two days thinking while Rui remained unstable nearby.
• The Six-Tailed Fox offered to help Rui reach the Demon God level if Rui swore a Heaven and Earth Oath to serve it for life.
• Rui immediately swore the oath, and the Six-Tailed Fox transmitted strings of text into Rui's mind.

Rui and the Six-Tailed Fox committed to cultivating an Ancient Cultivation Technique so they could face the Demon Lord, while Sun Wen and his companions continued training and searching the Divine Ruins. The chapter ended with Mu Yu leaving Yu Sheng behind and secretly trying to strengthen his body by striking trees.

• Rui became excited after learning the Ancient Cultivation Technique might help it regain its former strength, and the Six-Tailed Fox decided they would have to kill the Demon Lord to survive.
• Rui and the Six-Tailed Fox spent their final day in the Divine Ruins cultivating instead of searching for treasure.
• Sun Wen continued cultivating as he hunted for treasure, and Zhao Zicheng followed him, breaking open trees and rocks Sun Wen touched or jumped over.
• Sun Wen and Zhao Zicheng could not find Lin Xiaoxiao or A Tai, and Sun Wen decided to keep cultivating while they made money.
• Mu Yu left after seeing Yu Sheng's fight with Rui and, hoping to build a powerful physique, began ramming his shoulder into trees.
• Mu Yu had left before anyone could tell him about the Ancient Cultivation Technique.

Yu Sheng gathered a growing pack of cheetah mounts as the Divine Ruins destabilized, while the Six-Tailed Fox and Rui escaped and sought Ji Hong’s protection. The Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son failed to climb out of its pit, but a space passage appeared beside it.

• Yu Sheng and nearly a hundred cheetahs roamed the Divine Ruins, capturing more cheetahs as the space grew unstable.
• The Six-Tailed Fox and Rui emerged from the Divine Ruins and fled toward Ji Hong, with the Six-Tailed Fox offering to defect and share important information.
• Ji Hong blocked the Eight-Tailed Fox’s demon aura and claimed he wanted to invite the Six-Tailed Fox and Rui to Peach Blossom Pool, protecting them from the Demon Lord.
• The Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son fell back into its pit after three days of trying to escape and gave up hope.
• A space passage appeared beside the Demon Lord’s Legitimate Son.

The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son escaped the Deep Pit through a passage into the Mountain Cave, then broke down as he recounted his ordeal to the Eight-Tailed Fox. The Eight-Tailed Fox grew wary of the ancient cultivation technique and dismissed his son, who left believing his father scorned the sacrifice he had made.

• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son crawled through the passage into the Mountain Cave, questioning whether his effort had mattered.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox dragged his son outside, where he sobbed and released his pent-up bitterness.
• The Six-Tailed Fox realized Rui had misled him about the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son's fate and regretted defecting.
• The Demon Lord's Legitimate Son recounted his time in the Divine Ruins, condemning his Old Ancestor and the Grassland Leopard Clan.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox considered whether the ancient cultivation technique might contain a flaw planted by the Heavenly Race.
• The Eight-Tailed Fox ordered his son to return and reflect, and the Demon Lord's Legitimate Son limped away in dismay.