Chapter Summaries

Yu Mo thanked Yu Sheng for taking on the Human Race’s hopes and promised to stop interfering with the Ink Pavilion after Yu Sheng took office. As the press conference began, footage of the battle at Demon-Suppressing Pass revealed Yu Sheng’s name among the figures tied to the Human Race’s victory three years earlier.

• Yu Mo told Yu Sheng that the Human Race’s future rested on him and thanked him for accepting the responsibility.
• Yu Sheng gave Yu Mo a quiet nod, and Yu Mo said he would no longer interfere with the Ink Pavilion after Yu Sheng took office.
• The press conference stage went dark, and the Large Screen began showing surveillance footage from Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• A narrator explained that three years earlier the Demon Domain had launched a massive invasion that could have overwhelmed human territory.
• The footage showed exhausted Reserve Corps soldiers facing a vast Demon Beast force, while the livestream audience recalled that the war had ended in a sudden Human Race victory.
• The narrator named Yu Sheng, An Xin, Zhao Qingyi, and Sun Xiaohu as figures to remember from the battle, leaving the audience puzzled by Yu Sheng’s inclusion.

A broadcast revealed Yu Sheng’s role in retrieving the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit and the ancient human cultivation technique, turning public criticism into gratitude. The Ink Pavilion Head handover ceremony began, where Yuan Qingshan praised Yu Sheng and hinted at his exploits in the Yellow Springs Graveyard.

• The broadcast showed Yu Sheng braving the Swamp Pool to retrieve the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit, while An Xin and another girl sacrificed themselves to detonate it.
• The voice-over said Yu Sheng’s expedition and the Demon God skeleton helped the human race and earned him a place on the list.
• The broadcast revealed that Yu Sheng had retrieved an ancient human cultivation technique from the Divine Ruins, prompting commenters who had criticized him to apologize and share how it had helped them.
• Yuan Qingshan began the Ink Pavilion Head handover ceremony, while Qi Changshan stood aside after Yuan teased him about his appearance and smile.
• Yuan Qingshan called Yu Sheng like a child of his own and praised him as the human race’s future, then asked how demon beasts had reacted when Yu Sheng stormed into the Yellow Springs Graveyard.

Yuan Qingshan formally handed leadership of the Ink Pavilion to Yu Sheng, presenting him as the Human Race’s hope against the Demon Domain. Yu Sheng’s terse answers frustrated reporters, and the ceremony ended with the press struggling to write about him.

• Yuan Qingshan praised Yu Sheng’s victories over Demon Kings and declared that he would lead the Human Race toward claiming Skyvault Ravine.
• Yuan Qingshan named Yu Sheng master of the Ink Pavilion, and the gathered Human Race members greeted him as Elder Yu.
• Yu Sheng silently accepted the handover, while Qi Changshan remarked that Yu Sheng spoke better than he did and left.
• Yu Mo watched from outside the cameras’ view, then wheeled away and said he was ready to begin a life-or-death game with Old White Ape.
• Yu Sheng answered reporters’ questions with brief nods and refusals, leaving them baffled and unable to draw much from the press conference.
• The handover ceremony concluded, and reporters spent the night staring at blank documents, unwilling to invent news about Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng adjusted to life as Ink Pavilion Head and documented loopholes in the Pavilion’s criminal law, while Yu Mo used staged livestreams to restore fear of him among the Human Race. In Yu Sheng’s second month in office, someone announced a wedding in the “Grow Big and Strong” group.

• Yu Sheng listed the loopholes he had found in the Ink Pavilion’s criminal law and handed the document to his shocked secretary.
• Yu Sheng kept his secretary at a distance, eventually using teleportation to leave rather than accept his help.
• The Light Group livestreamed members beating people who mocked Yu Mo, then later showed them using knives before the apparent victims got up and walked away.
• Yu Mo recognized that Old White Ape was trying to reduce his intimidation among the Human Race and wondered how the debt collection was going.
• A member of the “Grow Big and Strong” group announced a wedding for the following weekend and urged everyone to attend.

Yu Sheng read a top-secret report about Sin City and questioned whether someone existed above Taboo, while Zhao Zicheng and their friends discussed his upcoming wedding. The chapter ended with Sun Wen defending his plan to place a life-size Demon Crystal statue outside Zhao Zicheng’s home, even if a thief killed him.

• Zhao Zicheng announced that he was engaged and told the group how he had met and pursued a teacher at Mobei Second High School.
• Zhao Zicheng said his wedding would be next weekend and threatened to attack anyone who failed to attend.
• Yu Sheng read the Human Race’s top-secret information on Sin City and wondered whether someone above Taboo existed and why they had never appeared.
• Lin Xiaoxiao asked Yu Sheng what wedding gift he planned to give Zhao Zicheng and suggested making him a down jacket from Big White’s shed feathers.
• Sun Wen proposed commissioning a life-size Zhao Zicheng statue made from Demon Crystals and placing it outside his home.
• Yu Sheng questioned whether Zhao Zicheng could survive an attack on the statue, and Sun Wen said his death would motivate their friends to train and avenge him.

Yu Sheng discussed Sun Wen’s Seventh Awakening, then revealed how far he would go to avenge Shi Guang if she died. Yuan Qingshan removed Yu Sheng’s secretary after the secretary objected, while turning Spirit Mind Academy into a well-funded school and arguing with Qi Changshan over the flowers.

• Sun Wen told Yu Sheng that he had reached the Seventh Awakening and bragged that he was the youngest Human to do so.
• Yu Sheng considered what gift might please Sun Wen, then reviewed records of Shi Guang’s injuries and battles without intervening.
• Yu Sheng told his secretary that if Shi Guang died, he would go to the Demon Domain himself to avenge her, even if the Human Race fell into turmoil.
• The secretary reported Yu Sheng’s words to Yuan Qingshan and urged him to replace the Ink Pavilion Head, so Yuan Qingshan reassigned the secretary to a remote clerical post.
• Yuan Qingshan funded Spirit Mind Academy, appointed himself principal, and recruited students, while Qi Changshan repeatedly trampled his flowers and provoked his angry roars.

Yu Sheng left the Ink Pavilion and returned to his old home in Mobei City, where he discovered that newspaper advertisements had carried hidden intelligence about Yu Sanshui. He began to suspect that people in the city had been monitoring Yu Sanshui and wondered whether they were still there.

• Seventh Awakening experts offered Shi Guang free healing whenever she returned injured, and she continued ranging deeper into the Demon Domain.
• Yu Sheng spent five days working at the Ink Pavilion before quietly leaving, while his secretary calmly handled visitors in his absence.
• Yu Sheng entered Mobei City during preparations for the City Lord's wedding and returned to Yu Sanshui's old home instead of immediately seeking Zhao Zicheng.
• Yu Sheng cleaned the house, noticed the old bloodstain Li Yihan had left, and examined the newspapers stored there.
• Yu Sheng noticed patterns in the surnames listed in the newspapers' fourth recruitment advertisements and suspected they had been used to pass intelligence about Yu Sanshui.

Yu Sheng realized that Yu Sanshui had deliberately left newspapers from Xinfa Media for him to find and went to the company to investigate. Disguised as a middle-aged man, he entered and claimed he wanted to place an ad.

• Yu Sheng recognized that Yu Sanshui had read the Xinfa Media newspapers and suspected he had left them as a deliberate clue.
• Yu Sheng left his room and traveled through bustling Mobei City to Xinfa Media.
• Yu Sheng changed his appearance with the pale blue bead at his brow and entered the company.
• Yu Sheng told the receptionist he wanted to place an ad, and she led him to Wang.

Yu Sheng captured Sister Wang, who had tried to escape after he questioned her about an unusual newspaper advertisement. He took her to a hillside outside Mobei City and declared the Ink Pavilion’s anti-torture rules temporarily void, leaving her terrified as he prepared to interrogate her.

• Yu Sheng ordered a one-issue newspaper ad for hiring servers and gave contradictory contact names, prompting Sister Wang to try to escape through the office window.
• Yu Sheng sealed the window with space rifts, restrained Sister Wang, and removed two poisoned back teeth before asking to talk.
• Yu Sheng threw Sister Wang out of the window and took her to a secluded hillside outside Mobei City.
• Sister Wang accused Yu Sheng of planning torture, and he displayed a collection of interrogation implements.
• Yu Sheng showed Sister Wang a note voiding Articles seven and twenty-two of the Ink Pavilion Act for two hours and identified himself as the Ink Pavilion Head.
• Sister Wang begged Yu Sheng to kill her as he prepared to begin the interrogation.

Yu Sheng interrogated Sister Wang and learned she was an affiliate of Soul Hunt Group Three, then connected Soul Hunt’s disappearance to Yu Sanshui and a possible Mobei City base. He called Yu Mo with a chance to take down the group, and Yu Mo fell silent.

• Yu Sheng psychologically pressured Sister Wang and began to torture her with a bamboo splinter.
• Sister Wang confessed that she handled newspaper registrations for Soul Hunt Group Three in Mobei City but knew little about its core members.
• Sister Wang said Soul Hunt had vanished three years earlier and begged Yu Sheng to protect her from its reprisals.
• Yu Sheng reasoned that Yu Sanshui’s disappearance might be tied to Soul Hunt’s leader and that Mobei City could hold an important Soul Hunt base.
• Yu Sheng called Yu Mo and suggested they had a chance to eliminate Soul Hunt, leaving Yu Mo briefly silent.

Yu Sheng left Sister Wang to Yu Mo’s Light Group and chose not to act on Yu Sanshui’s plan against Soul Hunt. He returned to Mobei City, where a bizarre convoy and aerial display announced Zhao Zicheng’s wedding.

• Yu Sheng told Yu Mo what he had discovered and decided to leave the situation alone for now.
• Yu Mo suspected Sister Wang was a core member who had fallen in love, and sent people to take her away.
• Sister Wang begged Yu Sheng to save her, but he watched the Light Group members escort her into their van.
• Yu Sheng returned to Mobei City and saw a long convoy of luxury vans covered in drawings and mocking words.
• More than ten Sixth Awakening experts scattered flowers and unfurled banners congratulating Zhao Zicheng on his wedding.

Sun Wen arranged an extravagant wedding spectacle for Zhao Zicheng in Mobei City, using powerful old acquaintances to provide banners and special effects. His romantic, otherworldly entrance turned into a public joke when he revealed a message inviting single people to flirt with him, and the chapter ended with his helpers demanding the rest of their payment.

• Sixth Awakening experts held banners for Zhao Zicheng while an unseen Eighth Awakening expert created dazzling special effects over Mobei City.
• Sun Wen appeared in the sky in elegant robes, assisted by six concealed Seventh Awakening experts.
• Sun Wen asked the experts to turn him around, revealing the words "Single, feel free to flirt!" on his back.
• Zhao Zicheng scolded Sun Wen from a rooftop, and Sun Wen descended while pretending to resent being forgotten for a new love.
• The women lost interest in Sun Wen, who admitted he had been frightened before boasting about his entrance.
• The Seventh Awakening experts demanded the remaining payment and left, while Zhao Zicheng recognized them as old acquaintances.

Yu Sheng reunited with Zhao Zicheng and Sun Wen ahead of Zhao Zicheng’s wedding, then asked where Yu Sanshui had been imprisoned. He suspected there might be a problem within Mobei City’s Guard Bureau and said he would kill everyone in Soul Hunt if Zhao Zicheng’s father was involved.

• Sun Wen urged Zhao Zicheng to show him his wife, but Zhao Zicheng told him to wait until the wedding.
• Yu Sheng arrived and explained that he had come early because he was worried he would be late.
• Zhao Zicheng and Sun Wen bickered about whether Sun Wen could be a groomsman as they walked with Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng asked where Yu Sanshui had been imprisoned, and Zhao Zicheng recalled that it was probably the Third Prison through the Guard Bureau.
• Yu Sheng said there might be a problem within Mobei City’s Guard Bureau, prompting Zhao Zicheng to joke that the situation could become melodramatic.
• Yu Sheng said he would kill everyone else in Soul Hunt if Zhao Zicheng’s father was involved, and Zhao Zicheng continued walking and joking with Sun Wen.

Yu Sheng, Sun Wen, and Zhao Zicheng set aside their suspicions about Soul Hunt and went to Zhao Zicheng’s home, where he introduced Yu Sheng to his father. Zhao Changlin saluted Yu Sheng as the Ink Pavilion Head, then relaxed after Yu Sheng greeted him as Zhao Zicheng’s classmate and Uncle.

• Yu Sheng, Sun Wen, and Zhao Zicheng agreed not to discuss Soul Hunt or Zhao Zicheng’s father further.
• Zhao Zicheng invited Yu Sheng and Sun Wen to stay at his home and joked about his father’s expectations and his own choices.
• Zhao Zicheng arrived home and found his father, Zhao Changlin, watching television instead of preparing for the wedding.
• Zhao Changlin recognized Yu Sheng and stood to salute him as the Ink Pavilion Head.
• Yu Sheng introduced himself as Zhao Zicheng’s classmate and greeted Zhao Changlin as Uncle, prompting Zhao Changlin to sit down and offer the guests fruit.

Zhao Zicheng asked his father, Zhao Changlin, whether he had ties to Soul Hunt, prompting Zhao Changlin to swear emphatically that he did not. After the television show ended, Zhao Changlin turned serious and listened as Yu Sheng explained why Soul Hunt might have a presence in the Mobei City Guard Bureau.

• Sun Wen praised Zhao Changlin's workplace savvy while Zhao Zicheng sat embarrassed and Yu Sheng stared blankly at the empty fruit platter.
• Zhao Zicheng asked Zhao Changlin whether he was connected to Soul Hunt, and Zhao Changlin joked that his son might not be biological before denying any ties.
• Zhao Changlin swore that he had no connection to Soul Hunt, leaving Zhao Zicheng, Sun Wen, and Yu Sheng stunned.
• After the television ended, Zhao Changlin asked why Yu Sheng suspected him and whether Soul Hunt had members in the Guard Bureau.
• Yu Sheng said Mobei City was likely a Soul Hunt base and outlined the Guard Bureau's thirty-four employees, noting that active-duty personnel were poor choices for intelligence work.

Yu Sheng and Zhao's father discussed possible Soul Hunt suspects but agreed not to arrest anyone yet, while Zhao Zicheng and his father argued over wedding preparations and work. In Ink City, the department heads demanded the missing Pavilion Master's attention until a news report showed a figure resembling Yu Sheng in Mobei City.

• Zhao's father identified the archives, cafeteria, cleaning staff, and senior Guard Bureau officials as possible Soul Hunt suspects, and Yu Sheng advised against making arrests for now.
• Zhao's father scolded Zhao Zicheng, then learned that his son's wedding was at eight in the morning the day after tomorrow.
• Zhao Zicheng rejected his father's leave request and threatened to ask Yu Sheng to appoint a different Head of the Guard Department.
• Sun Wen asked whether Zhao Zicheng had coordinated with the bride's family, and Zhao's father and son both hurried out after realizing neither had handled it.
• Sun Wen resumed a remote meeting while Yu Sheng sat quietly, absorbing energy through his necklace.
• In Ink City, department heads pressed the Pavilion Master's secretary for access, then a news report showed a figure resembling Yu Sheng in Mobei City.

The Ink Pavilion secretary tried to keep Zhao Zicheng’s strategic plans secret while the Pavilion Master was away, and Mobei City prepared for Zhao Zicheng’s wedding. As his friends wondered about the absent Mu Yu and reflected on their past and the struggle against the Demon Domain, they resolved to keep trying.

• The secretary told visitors that Zhao Zicheng’s role in the Pavilion Master’s plans for Mobei City was top secret, then ordered them to leave and urged punishment for the reporter who had revealed information about the Ink Pavilion Head.
• Over the next two days, the Ink Pavilion accepted its new Pavilion Master’s absence, while Zhao Zicheng learned wedding duties under Sun Wen’s guidance in Mobei City.
• Lin Xiaoxiao and A Tai arrived the day before the wedding, and the group speculated about Mu Yu’s absence and tried unsuccessfully to learn the bride’s identity from Zhao Zicheng.
• The friends gathered beneath the moon and reflected on Zhao Zicheng’s marriage, their years since Ink Academy, and whether their generation could defeat the Demon Domain.
• Yu Sheng said they had to try, and Sun Wen vowed that they would break through the darkness and bring sunlight to the land.

Zhao Zicheng nervously prepared for his wedding before collecting the bride with his friends. Sun Wen surprised him by revealing a lavish marital home built in two weeks, leaving Zhao Zicheng stunned.

• Zhao Zicheng woke at three in the morning and anxiously prepared for the wedding, while Sun Wen, Yu Sheng, and Lin Xiaoxiao watched his frantic efforts.
• Lin Xiaoxiao snapped at Zhao Zicheng after he asked her for makeup advice and repeatedly fussed over his appearance.
• At five, the wedding videographer arrived, and Zhao Zicheng, Yu Sheng, Sun Wen, and A Tai posed and recited slogans before setting off to collect the bride.
• Zhao Zicheng and his friends met the bride, a gentle woman in a white wedding dress, at an ordinary residential complex.
• The wedding motorcade turned toward a newly built estate, and Zhao Zicheng was stunned to learn it had been constructed on land he had approved for demolition.
• Sun Wen explained that he had used awakened workers and the Human Race's finest designer to build and prepare the marital home in two weeks.

Mu Yu arrived at Zhao Zicheng’s wedding and agreed to be his groomsman, reuniting with his old companions. The wedding proceeded smoothly, while Sun Wen complained that nobody in their quiet group would talk to him.

• Sun Wen explained that the City Lord’s home was protected from corruption complaints because Yu Sheng and the Ink Pavilion Head were present.
• Zhao Zicheng escorted his girlfriend’s family to the City Lord’s home, then welcomed guests at the hotel and worried that Mu Yu would not come.
• Mu Yu arrived without the Gravestone, wished Zhao Zicheng a happy wedding, and agreed to be a groomsman.
• Yu Sheng, Sun Wen, Mu Yu, and A Tai joined the wedding party, surprising the guests with the powerful lineup.
• Lin Xiaoxiao hosted the wedding and sang, while Sun Wen muttered commentary and lamented that his companions barely spoke to him.

After Zhao Zicheng’s wedding, Mu Yu and A Tai presented generous gifts for his future child, while the group compared their cultivation progress. Sun Wen revealed his seventh-awakening skill, Fortune Blessing, and its impressive limits.

• Zhao Zicheng finished his wedding and told Sun Wen he would rather fight at Demon-Suppressing Pass than spend another minute onstage.
• Mu Yu gave Zhao Zicheng a pale blue Demon Core taken from a Demon King he had hunted in the Demon Domain.
• A Tai offered his shares in Barbarian City for Zhao Zicheng’s future child, saying cultivation was important.
• A Tai said he expected to reach the seventh awakening soon, astonishing the others with his rapid progress.
• Sun Wen announced that he had reached the seventh awakening and revealed that Fortune Blessing could target up to one hundred people for a day.