Chapter Summaries

Old White Ape concealed his cold intentions after using Nine-Tailed Fox’s illusion, while unseen Demon Gods debated whether to trust him and Ji Hong. After two days of tension in Barbarian City, Old White Ape announced that the three-day deadline had passed and demanded to know what everyone would do.

• Old White Ape pretended to recover on a boulder while privately considering the possibility of a Demon God dying in the Demon Domain.
• Nine-Tailed Fox and the other unseen voices debated whether to kill Old White Ape and Ji Hong, then exchanged accusations about past killings.
• Yu Sheng and his companions roamed Barbarian City, killing Demon Beasts who approached them, while Sun Wen warned the others against trusting Old White Ape’s promises.
• Old White Ape called out from beyond the city and asked what everyone intended to do now that the three-day deadline had passed.

Sun Wen confronted Old White Ape at the city gate, trying to confirm that Xiao Nan was alive and that Old White Ape did not intend to kill them. Old White Ape challenged Sun Wen’s confidence, while Yu Sheng and his companions enforced their ten-meter boundary by killing a Demon Beast that crossed it.

• Sun Wen led Yu Sheng and the Demon Beasts to the city gate to meet Old White Ape, while the Demon Beasts hoped for a chance to seize an Invitation Letter to Skyvault Ravine.
• Old White Ape appeared in his Shroud and threatened to dye it red with their blood as Demon Aura gathered into a monstrous head above him.
• Sun Wen argued that Old White Ape’s actions suggested Xiao Nan had returned to the Human Race and that the Black Market group was not meant to die in Barbarian City.
• Old White Ape accused Sun Wen of being afraid and burdened by attachments, then questioned whether he might genuinely intend to kill them.
• A Demon Beast crossed the ten-meter boundary, so Yu Sheng struck it with his Hammer, Shi Guang slashed its abdomen, and Zhao Zicheng guarded them with his Sandbag.
• Zhao Zicheng declared the area within ten meters a forbidden zone.

Mu Yu prepared to fight the Demon Beasts, but Sun Wen bravely confronted Old White Ape, who revealed that he had only been testing the humans. A wealthy old man appeared at Barbarian City's gates and demanded that Old White Ape kneel, and Old White Ape agreed when he learned the newcomer had reached the Eighth Awakening.

• Mu Yu hurled the Gravestone at the Demon Beasts, while Lin Xiaoxiao readied her spear and Big White stopped A Tai from charging.
• Zhao Zicheng mocked Sun Wen for hesitating, and Sun Wen stepped forward to challenge Old White Ape, betting that the beast would not kill them.
• Old White Ape praised Sun Wen's courage, backed away, and claimed he had only been joking and offering guidance.
• A lavishly dressed old man appeared outside Barbarian City's gates and mocked Old White Ape, then told him to kneel.
• Old White Ape agreed to kneel after the old man revealed he had reached the Eighth Awakening.

Yu Sheng revealed the city to the fat old man, who realized the deal was far bigger than expected and attacked Old White Ape before a Demon God intervened. The fat old man stopped, questioned the Demon God about Barbarian City, then resumed berating Old White Ape.

• The fat old man asked Yu Sheng to explain the deal, and Yu Sheng silently showed him the city.
• The fat old man saw the city, regretted not bringing a Ninth Awakening Old Ancestor, and asked Old White Ape to die for the Black Market.
• Old White Ape agreed to die, but the fat old man stabbed him with his cane and then tried to slash his throat with a hidden blade.
• A Demon God intervened and displaced the fat old man, who asked whether Barbarian City’s combat strength peaked at the Demon God level.
• The Demon God said Barbarian City had nothing to do with it, and the fat old man stopped his attack, insulted the Demon God, and cursed at Old White Ape.
• Old White Ape sat down to recover, but the fat old man immediately complained that Old White Ape had taken his seat.

Fat Old Man confronted Old White Ape in Barbarian City and explained how the balance between the Demon Domain and the Human Race shaped their choices. After hearing Sun Wen's account, he showed Sun Wen why Old White Ape had been forced to kill him if he had stayed, leaving Sun Wen shaken by his own mistaken judgment.

• Old White Ape yielded his warm boulder to Fat Old Man, who explained that he disliked Old White Ape bullying Sun Wen, seeking a share of the affair, and invoking the Demon God.
• Old White Ape said Barbarian City was his chessboard and that killing Fat Old Man would upset the balance with the Eight-Tailed Fox.
• Fat Old Man asked Sun Wen to recount the recent events in Barbarian City, and Old White Ape stepped aside so he could speak.
• Fat Old Man told Sun Wen that Old White Ape had sensed his arrival and would have killed Sun Wen to avoid appearing to cooperate with the Human Race.
• Sun Wen realized that his reasoning had been immature and feared that his trust in his own judgment had nearly led the others into disaster.

The fat old man advised Sun Wen about the gap between genius and freaks, using Yu Sheng and Old White Ape as examples. He then revealed that his guidance had been a prelude to demanding that Sun Wen surrender Gold Yuanbao’s business in ten cities, turning their friendly conversation confrontational.

• The fat old man told Sun Wen that experience and time gave people wider horizons, and that Sun Wen was not yet ready to take Yu Mo’s position.
• The fat old man described Old White Ape’s willingness to endure provocation and asked whether Sun Wen could tolerate such humiliation; Sun Wen admitted he would likely fight.
• The fat old man recalled Yu Sheng questioning people left near death about their pain, breathing, emotions, and regret, and warned that Yu Sheng was dangerous to provoke.
• Sun Wen asked why the fat old man had guided him, and the old man said Sun Wen owed him ten favors for ten life lessons.
• The fat old man demanded that Sun Wen give up Gold Yuanbao’s business in ten cities because it was taking business from the Black Market, then threatened him with his cane.

Sun Wen negotiated with the fat old man, Mr. Hei, and thanked him for his guidance before returning to Barbarian City's gate. Old White Ape then revealed that he had brought Mr. Hei to Barbarian City to draw the surrounding forces into his plan and offered the city to the Black Market for ten years, with the Demon Clan's armies agreeing not to attack.

• Sun Wen refused to repay Mr. Hei in the way he demanded, citing his grandfather's Ninth Awakening and proposing an investment deal in ten cities instead.
• Mr. Hei became enthusiastic about Sun Wen's investment proposal, and Sun Wen thanked him for his guidance before returning to Barbarian City's gate.
• Mr. Hei confronted Old White Ape and demanded to know why he had gone to such lengths to bring him there.
• Old White Ape explained that he expected Yu Mo and the Ink Pavilion to stay out of Barbarian City's affairs, while Mr. Hei was the person Yu Sheng could call upon.
• Mr. Hei surmised that Old White Ape wanted to draw attention to Barbarian City and the surrounding thousand kilometers, then demanded payment for his involvement.
• Old White Ape offered Barbarian City to the Black Market for ten years and promised that the Demon Clan's armies would pass through peacefully without attacking.

Old White Ape offered the Black Market Barbarian City for ten years in exchange for neutral trade between the Human Race and Demon Domain, but Fat Old Man questioned whether he could deliver. The conversation ended with Fat Old Man asking whether the youngsters at Barbarian City's gate were Old White Ape's pawns.

• Old White Ape argued that the Black Market should remain neutral and trade with both the Human Race and Demon Domain.
• Fat Old Man accused Old White Ape of asking him to betray the Human Race, but Old White Ape said the trade would benefit it instead.
• Old White Ape admitted he could not yet represent the Demon Domain, but promised the deal would stand if he became Demon Domain Lord within a month.
• Old White Ape said the Demon Gods cared about results and would not object to the arrangement over a small city.
• Fat Old Man asked whether the youngsters at Barbarian City's gate were Old White Ape's pawns.

Old White Ape met with Fat Old Man and Seven-Tailed Fox outside Barbarian City, proposing to use the city and its Demon Beasts to stage a bloody upheaval. He left Seven-Tailed Fox with no choice but to follow his plan or die, while Fat Old Man waited for his subordinates to arrive.

• Old White Ape told Fat Old Man that the people who had disrupted his plans would have to die, and Fat Old Man doubted his explanation.
• Old White Ape revealed Seven-Tailed Fox, the Demon Lord's younger brother, and confirmed that Fat Old Man was part of his plan.
• Seven-Tailed Fox demanded to know how Fat Old Man could bring down his brother, while Old White Ape hinted that Seven-Tailed Fox's Old Ancestor might be watching.
• Old White Ape described their factions and proposed using Barbarian City as a gu vessel, with its Demon Beasts as gu, to provoke a bloody upheaval.
• Fat Old Man approved of the idea and complained that his subordinates had not caught up after two hours.
• Old White Ape warned Seven-Tailed Fox that he was trapped in the plan and ordered him to follow obediently or die.

The Fat Old Man arrived at Barbarian City with a team that quickly assembled him a luxurious house and furnished it with his own bed, leaving the Demon Beasts and even a hidden Demon God yearning for similar comforts. After the spectacle inspired plans for a Demon Domain real estate project, Old White Ape told Yu Sheng that he would not kill them and claimed he had never killed anyone.

• Xiao Nan arrived with the Fat Old Man’s exhausted workers, who assembled a lavish red sandalwood couch and its furnishings.
• A second team built a refined wooden house outside Barbarian City and carried the couch inside.
• The Fat Old Man explained that he brought his own bed for comfort, then retired into the finished house.
• Old White Ape and the Demon Beasts watched in astonishment, while a concealed Demon God considered building homes and supporting the Black Market.
• The Fat Old Man imagined rolling out the Demon Domain Real Estate Project but noted that Old White Ape would not give him ten years to put it into practice.
• Yu Sheng asked whether Old White Ape still planned to kill them, and Old White Ape said no and claimed he had never killed anyone.

Yu Sheng and his companions slaughtered Demon Beasts outside Barbarian City while Old White Ape pretended to sympathize with the victims and urged the others to follow the humans’ rules. The gates closed with no beasts choosing to leave, and Fat Old Man remarked that Old White Ape had become too immersed in his role.

• Yu Sheng, Zhao Zicheng, and Sun Wen attacked the Demon Beasts they claimed had provoked them, killing more than a dozen while the others retreated into Barbarian City.
• Old White Ape lamented that he was powerless to protect the beasts, turning their resentment away from him and toward the absent Demon Lord.
• Sun Wen told Old White Ape that they would close the gates, and Old White Ape warned the beasts to obey the humans’ rules.
• Old White Ape said the Demon Lord’s people had taken his Invitation Letters to Skyvault Ravine, but Yu Sheng still had one, and he offered safe passage to any beast that left the city.
• The Demon Beasts stayed inside as Zhao Zicheng closed the gates, and Old White Ape dropped his sorrowful act after they shut.
• Fat Old Man watched from his room and teased Old White Ape for getting too deep into character.

Old White Ape psychologically provoked Seven-Tailed Fox, then revealed he had fabricated the rumor that Eight-Tailed Fox planned to kill it. After restraining Seven-Tailed Fox, Old White Ape blamed its betrayal on its own distrust of its brother and urged it to examine itself.

• Old White Ape told Fat Old Man that Yu Sheng and the others remained the protagonists, while another protagonist might soon attack Barbarian City and retrieve Seven-Tailed Fox.
• Old White Ape taunted Seven-Tailed Fox with a vivid description of the terror and regret it would feel before death.
• Seven-Tailed Fox broke down, claiming it had betrayed Eight-Tailed Fox because it believed its brother meant to kill it.
• Old White Ape admitted that he had started the rumor about Eight-Tailed Fox and restrained Seven-Tailed Fox when it attacked him.
• Old White Ape told Seven-Tailed Fox that its own distrust had caused its downfall and urged it to reflect on how it viewed its brother.

The Seven-Tailed Fox tried to justify betraying its brother, but Old White Ape warned that its followers could not protect it from the brother’s coming wrath. Old White Ape then asked Fat Old Man about buying his luxury house, only to learn he could not afford it and be pitched burial clothes instead.

• The Seven-Tailed Fox claimed it had acted to protect itself and insisted it could replace its brother as the second Eight-Tailed Fox.
• Old White Ape challenged the Seven-Tailed Fox’s claims and warned that its brother would likely come for it within hours.
• Old White Ape exchanged a knowing glance with Fat Old Man, then asked how much it would cost to buy the house as a mobile home.
• Fat Old Man quoted two Demon Lord demon crystals, and Old White Ape withdrew the idea after hearing the price.
• Fat Old Man tried to sell Old White Ape better burial clothes and an urn, while Xiao Nan quietly moved out of sight.
• Old White Ape asked the price of the clothes, and Fat Old Man held up two fingers.

Old White Ape confronted Xiao Nan over the overpriced burial clothes, but the arrival of three Demon Lords sent by Eight-Tailed Fox interrupted the beating. He claimed Seven-Tailed Fox as his slave and stood between it and the Demon Lords, forbidding them from entering the Barbarian City Area.

• The Fat Old Man realized Sikong Nan had sold Old White Ape burial clothes for roughly five million and took pleasure in Xiao Nan’s impending punishment.
• Old White Ape beat Xiao Nan, who offered to repay the money and even wear burial clothes in public to avoid further punishment.
• Old White Ape noticed that Eight-Tailed Fox’s three Demon Lords had arrived six hours early, and Seven-Tailed Fox begged him to save it.
• Old White Ape stood before Seven-Tailed Fox and told the Demon Lords that they could not enter the Barbarian City Area.
• Old White Ape declared that Seven-Tailed Fox had acknowledged him as its master and that he alone would decide whether his slave lived or died.

Old White Ape revealed that he had become a Demon Lord and faced three Demon Lords from Skyvault Ravine alone. As they attacked, Fat Old Man mocked Seven-Tailed Fox for accepting Old White Ape’s protection while potentially blaming and betraying him later.

• The Demon King taunted Old White Ape, who calmly revealed his strength and declared himself a Demon Lord.
• The Demon King called on two other Demon Lords to help kill Old White Ape, and they surrounded him to avoid offending Eight-Tailed Fox.
• Fat Old Man offered to help, but Old White Ape declined and warned the attackers not to damage the house.
• Eight-Tailed Fox’s subordinate accused Old White Ape of colluding with humans, and Old White Ape admitted it before the three Demon Lords attacked.
• Fat Old Man questioned whether Seven-Tailed Fox would someday betray Old White Ape, and Seven-Tailed Fox lowered its head in silence.

Old White Ape fought three Demon Lords while Fat Old Man watched, refusing at first to intervene. When Old White Ape prepared to die fighting, Fat Old Man stepped in with his Bagua Diagram and forced everyone down to the ground, leaving Old White Ape questioning why Fat Old Man had chosen him as a partner.

• Old White Ape remained calm as he took wounds fighting a Demon Lord, while Fat Old Man and Seven-Tailed Fox watched and Fat Old Man questioned Old White Ape’s motives.
• Old White Ape asked Fat Old Man for help, but Fat Old Man refused, saying he no longer fought.
• Old White Ape accepted the refusal and gathered his remaining demon aura to fight to the death, prompting Fat Old Man to decide he could not bear to take a loss.
• Fat Old Man entered the fight and used his Bagua Diagram to make Old White Ape and the three Demon Lords descend from the sky as rifts appeared where they had been.
• Old White Ape praised Fat Old Man’s power and asked whether he had chosen him for the Black Market, his Bagua Diagram, or because he was an important pawn in Fat Old Man’s game.

Old White Ape and Fat Old Man turned two Demon Lords against the remaining Demon Lord and joined forces to kill it. Old White Ape finished the battle badly wounded, while the two survivors withdrew to Skyvault Ravine.

• Old White Ape swore not to retaliate against the two hesitant Demon Lords and offered them an alliance.
• The two Demon Lords declined to ally with Old White Ape and left, abandoning their companion.
• Fat Old Man and Old White Ape agreed to kill the remaining Demon Lord so it could not report what happened.
• Fat Old Man trapped the Demon Lord with his Eight Trigrams diagram and struck it with his cane.
• Old White Ape delivered the fatal blow, then stood panting and bloodied.

Old White Ape gave Fat Old Man the Demon Crystal and Demon Core in exchange for protecting the Seven-Tailed Fox, then declared he would cripple his cultivation and surrender to the Human Race. Fat Old Man could not understand Old White Ape’s sudden decision as the chapter ended.

• Old White Ape gave Fat Old Man the Demon Crystal and Demon Core, offering Barbarian City as further payment for his help.
• Old White Ape and Fat Old Man agreed that the Seven-Tailed Fox would stay under Fat Old Man’s protection, and Old White Ape promised to deliver Barbarian City in a month.
• Old White Ape told the Seven-Tailed Fox to live on, explaining that he wanted to test whether help might have changed his own past.
• Old White Ape declared that the Eight-Tailed Fox would stop hunting the Seven-Tailed Fox and that he would cripple his cultivation, retreat to the Human Race, and become a prisoner.
• Fat Old Man watched Old White Ape’s declaration and wondered what his true objective was.

After crippling his cultivation, Old White Ape explained to Seven-Tailed Fox that he had staged the crisis to protect him and left sealed instructions for his survival. He promised Fat Old Man that the Black Market would endure regardless of who won the war, then departed, declaring that his Demon Clan drama would begin after the auction and end when he returned.

• Old White Ape survived the backlash but fell to the Demon King realm, and he told Fat Old Man that a master had once said leaving was for the sake of a better return.
• Old White Ape explained to Seven-Tailed Fox that Eight-Tailed Fox had targeted him and that his feigned conflict had helped Fat Old Man intervene; he said crippling his cultivation would keep Seven-Tailed Fox safer.
• Old White Ape wrote and sealed a note for Seven-Tailed Fox, then asked Fat Old Man to deliver it after Barbarian City's auction.
• Old White Ape promised Fat Old Man that the Black Market would remain after the war, regardless of whether the Human Race or Demon Clan won.
• Old White Ape assured Fat Old Man that Seven-Tailed Fox would follow the note's instructions and announced that the film would begin when the auction ended and conclude when he returned.

Old White Ape left the Demon Domain for the Human Race after crippling his cultivation, while the Demon Gods debated whether to let him go. He arrived at Demon-Suppressing Pass and met Yu Mo, who greeted him from a wheelchair.

• Fat Old Man told the Seven-Tailed Fox to guard his door, and Barbarian City settled into an eerie peace as Yu Sheng and his companions waited for the auction.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox and other Demon Gods discussed Old White Ape’s cooperation with the Human Race and decided to let him continue toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Old White Ape walked across the wilderness as Demon Beasts watched him, then sped up after his injuries had healed.
• At sunrise, Old White Ape called out to Demon-Suppressing Pass, announcing his visit to the Human Race.
• Yu Mo appeared in a wheelchair atop the pass and introduced himself to Old White Ape.