Chapter Summaries

After Zhao Zicheng's wedding, Yu Sheng stayed in Mobei City and returned to Xinfa Media to investigate why the company seemed unaffected by someone going missing. He reached the reception desk and noticed that a different woman was greeting visitors.

• Sun Wen said his Fortune ability could affect a hundred people, and Mu Yu said she was close to the Seventh Awakening.
• Yu Sheng offered Zhao Zicheng the Mountains and Seas Realm after Zhao Zicheng declined to become Deputy Pavilion Master.
• Sun Wen, A Tai, and Mu Yu left after the wedding, while Lin Xiaoxiao stayed with Zhao Zicheng's wife and Sun Wen paid her to keep staying.
• Yu Sheng checked into a hotel near Xinfa Media and watched the company continue its routine despite someone having gone missing.
• Yu Sheng returned to Xinfa Media in the appearance he had used before and told the new receptionist that she had not been there last time.

Yu Sheng visited Xinfa Media to investigate a mysterious advertisement and learned that the employee who had handled it had suddenly resigned. He arranged for the ad to read “I've found you, Li Wangsun!” and left suspecting that deeper forces were at work in Mobei City.

• Yu Sheng insisted on booking the newspaper’s fourth advertising slot, despite the middle-aged manager saying it was already taken.
• The manager explained that Sister Wang had resigned two days earlier and that he had entered the original advertisement from a note she left behind.
• Yu Sheng ordered the ad changed to “I've found you, Li Wangsun!” and the manager processed it after Yu Sheng called the Mobei City Lord.
• Yu Sheng asked the receptionist where Sister Wang lived, then left Xinfa Media planning to return the next day.
• Yu Sheng reflected that Xinfa Media appeared ordinary and wondered who was behind events in Mobei City and whether Yu Sanshui had a deeper reason for settling there.

Yu Sheng investigated Xinfa Media after learning that its boss had been absent for years, and brought Ink Pavilion personnel to question the company and inspect its records. He found that the legal representative was Yu Sanshui.

• Yu Sheng returned to Xinfa Media and learned that the other receptionist was on sick leave, which made him suspect the company had a connection to Soul Hunt.
• Yu Sheng asked the receptionist about the boss, then asked whether she belonged to Soul Hunt; she did not recognize the name.
• Yu Sheng called Ink Pavilion, and its personnel arrived at Xinfa Media so he could continue questioning the receptionist.
• The receptionist said she had worked there for six months and that, according to colleagues, the boss had not visited the company in three years.
• Ink Pavilion personnel requested company records, and the acting manager provided documents and the business license.
• Yu Sheng saw that the business license listed Yu Sanshui as the legal representative.

Yu Sheng discovered that Yu Sanshui owned Xinfa Media and had used it to feed on Soul Hunt’s intelligence network, suggesting a long-running scheme centered in Mobei City. He investigated the women Yu Sanshui had pursued, but their backgrounds revealed no clear pattern, leaving Yu Sheng unable to decide whether they were part of the plan or simply his lovers.

• Yu Sheng concluded that Yu Sanshui had founded Xinfa Media to trick Soul Hunt into passing intelligence through his company and monitor its plans.
• Yu Sheng returned to the hotel and wondered whether Yu Sanshui’s apparent schemes extended beyond Mobei City.
• Yu Sheng suspected Yu Sanshui’s former romantic interests might be connected to his plans and asked Zhao Zicheng to investigate them.
• Zhao Zicheng sent Yu Sheng detailed profiles, but the women’s backgrounds showed no obvious connection or shared wealth.
• Yu Sheng rejected the idea that Yu Sanshui pursued the women merely for pleasure and kept searching the list for a hidden pattern.

Yu Sanshui and Black Robe admitted that their three-year pursuit of each other had been an act to keep one another occupied while they pursued their own plans. With their goals nearly achieved, they agreed to reveal what they knew over food and beer.

• Yu Sanshui teased Black Robe, then proposed that they get married and have another child, though she remained wary.
• Yu Sanshui explained that he had recognized Black Robe's deliberate mistakes and said they had both acted to keep each other tied down.
• Black Robe agreed to lay their cards on the table after Yu Sanshui suggested they discuss their plans.
• Yu Sanshui prepared dishes and beer, and the two agreed to take turns asking questions, with the person who guessed wrong drinking.

Yu Sanshui and Black Robe questioned each other over drinks, but Yu Sanshui kept asking personal, unserious questions and professing his attraction to her. Black Robe ended the conversation still unable to understand his motives.

• Yu Sanshui told Black Robe that Soul Hunt was only an unexpected source of interest, not the sole reason he stayed in Mobei City.
• Yu Sanshui asked whether Black Robe was a woman, and she silently revealed her delicate hand.
• Yu Sanshui estimated that Black Robe was at least seventy and praised how well she had maintained her appearance.
• Black Robe asked whether Yu Sanshui was staying close to her to target Soul Hunt, and he denied it, claiming he wanted to bring fun into his kid's life and was attracted to her.
• Yu Sanshui asked whether Black Robe was single, leaving her unable to make sense of his questions.

Yu Sanshui and Black Robe questioned each other over drinks, and Black Robe finally asked whether he was of the Human Race. Yu Sanshui avoided a direct answer and began telling her a story about a boy named Xiaoming.

• Black Robe asked whether Yu Sheng was central to Yu Sanshui's fight against Soul Hunt, and he said no while admitting he would drink.
• Black Robe asked whether Yu Mo was key to his plan, and Yu Sanshui said yes before asking if she had any fondness for him.
• Black Robe drank after Yu Sanshui asked whether she liked him, and he celebrated, though she warned she would still kill him without hesitation.
• Black Robe suddenly asked whether Yu Sanshui was of the Human Race, and he recognized that this was her real purpose.
• Yu Sanshui said he needed to think carefully before answering honestly, then began telling Black Robe about Xiaoming, a happy child who lived peacefully in his village.

Yu Sanshui and Black Robe exchanged questions during their drinking game, then discussed why she had stayed with him for three years. The chapter ended with Yu Sanshui insisting that he was an ancient member of the Heavenly Race, while Black Robe said she did not believe him.

• Black Robe pointed out that Yu Sanshui had answered her questions by telling his story, and he replied that the story could mean whatever she thought it meant.
• Yu Sanshui asked whether Black Robe had ever imagined marrying him, then asked whether an incident from the past involved Yu Sheng; she asked whether Yu Sheng was his biological son, and Yu Sanshui emphatically said he was.
• Black Robe asked whether Yu Sheng was part of her Soul Hunt plan, and Yu Sanshui said he was not; she then left without eating the meal he had prepared.
• After Black Robe went to her room, Yu Sanshui sat outside the supermarket and speculated that she had stayed with him to investigate the Heavenly Race before giving up and leaving.
• Black Robe appeared behind Yu Sanshui and confirmed his guess; he asked whether she would have stayed if he belonged to the Heavenly Race, then insisted that he really was an ancient member of it.
• Black Robe said she did not believe Yu Sanshui, who insisted that she had to.

Yu Sanshui claimed to know everything about the Heavenly Race and tried to bargain with Black Robe by proposing marriage and a child. Black Robe revealed that Yu Sanshui had never known her true voice or appearance, leaving him devastated and vowing to destroy Soul Hunt.

• Yu Sanshui told Black Robe he was a genuine member of the Heavenly Race and offered to reveal everything if she married him and had a child with him.
• Black Robe mocked Yu Sanshui for drinking and challenged whether his honesty had broken the rules of their game.
• Black Robe changed her voice from a young girl's to a man's, then to an elderly woman's, shocking Yu Sanshui.
• Yu Sanshui protested that Black Robe had deceived him for three years and insisted her hands could not belong to a man.
• Black Robe showed him a wrinkled, aged hand, and Yu Sanshui lamented his fate before swearing to wipe out Soul Hunt.

Yu Sanshui confronted Black Robe about Soul Hunt and Xiao Nan, then abruptly confessed his love and pressed closer despite her resistance. Black Robe’s dagger shattered against him, leaving Yu Sanshui unharmed and convinced she could not bear to kill him.

• Black Robe dismissed Yu Sanshui’s threats, arguing that Soul Hunt’s crimes would not bring serious consequences for her.
• Yu Sanshui angrily accused Black Robe of taking Xiao Nan, his pawn, and complained that Yu Mo had set his sights on him.
• After a silence, Yu Sanshui told Black Robe that he loved her soul regardless of her gender or appearance.
• Black Robe tried to pull away and threatened Yu Sanshui with a dagger, but he kept advancing and declaring his love.
• Black Robe slashed Yu Sanshui’s throat, but the dagger shattered without harming him, and he claimed she could not bear to kill him.

Yu Sanshui recognized Black Robe and teased her about their past, while she reflected on their stalemate and her failure to learn more about the Heavenly Race. The chapter ended with both of them awake and troubled by the mysteries of the Heavenly Race before silence returned to the supermarket.

• Black Robe sent energy toward Yu Sanshui, but he stepped back and recognized her as someone he had held when she was a child.
• Yu Sanshui teased Black Robe about her childhood and proposed that they get a marriage license, but she returned to the supermarket and shut the door.
• Black Robe reflected that Yu Sanshui had repeatedly outmaneuvered her and that she would have to maintain their stalemate until his plan was complete.
• Black Robe regretted that three years with Yu Sanshui had taught her little about the Heavenly Race and left her more confused about his identity.
• Yu Sanshui wondered why people sought knowledge of the Heavenly Race and warned himself that uncovering buried history could bring disaster.

Yu Mo interrogated Sister Wang in the Light Group basement, trying to learn who had sent her to approach him and what she knew about Soul Hunt. He subjected her to four days without sleep, and she was left barely conscious as he continued his experiment.

• Yu Mo questioned the chained, injured Sister Wang, who claimed she did not know the answers and begged him to let her go.
• Yu Mo said Soul Hunt members were difficult to make talk and decided to keep testing Sister Wang’s endurance.
• Yu Mo left the interrogation room to rest, while two Light Group members kept Sister Wang awake with icy water whenever she closed her eyes.
• For three days, the Light Group fed Sister Wang and cared for her basic needs but prevented her from sleeping, leaving her increasingly gaunt and dazed.
• Yu Mo returned and used a powerful flashlight and bursts of energy to keep Sister Wang awake, telling her that surviving without sleep could benefit humanity.

Yu Mo tortured Sister Wang to keep her awake and pressure her into revealing her story. After a day and night of torment, he removed the needles from her eyelids and coached her on how to insult him.

• Yu Mo noticed a flicker of recognition in Sister Wang's eyes and concluded that she had a story to tell.
• When Sister Wang repeatedly nodded off, Yu Mo ordered a Light Group member to keep waking her.
• Yu Mo had the member hook sharp steel needles against Sister Wang's eyelids, making her suffer whenever she blinked or fell asleep.
• After a day and night, Yu Mo returned and found Sister Wang exhausted and cursing him.
• Yu Mo ordered the needles removed, then told Sister Wang to target his disability when insulting him.

Yu Mo broke Sister Wang’s resistance during interrogation, and she agreed to confess despite believing she would die afterward. He deduced that she belonged not only to Soul Hunt but also to the Demon Clan, leaving her convinced that no confession could save her.

• Yu Mo described increasingly disturbing forms of torture until Sister Wang’s defenses collapsed and she agreed to talk.
• Yu Mo had a Light Group member unchain Sister Wang and offered to let her rest, but she asked to confess first and sleep before dying.
• Yu Mo said Sister Wang was a core member of Soul Hunt and suggested that affiliation alone would not make her execution inevitable.
• Yu Mo deduced that Sister Wang also belonged to the Demon Clan and explained that Soul Hunt’s members could expose her if she betrayed them.
• Sister Wang sank into despair as Yu Mo asked her to provide a more detailed confession.

Sister Wang confessed that she had worked with the Demon Clan to transport Human Race youths and children, and Yu Mo ordered her killed after keeping her awake for another day. Yu Sheng learned that the Demon Clan might also be involved with Xinfa Media and its receptionist, then placed a conspicuous advertisement in the newspaper as tensions gathered in Mobei City.

• Sister Wang confessed her years of cooperation with the Demon Clan and described how she used her Soul Hunt position to conceal the transports.
• Yu Mo refused to honor his promise to let Sister Wang sleep and ordered the Light Group staff to keep her awake for a day and night before killing her.
• Yu Mo told his contact to leave the Demon Domain lead alone temporarily and later infiltrate it with Elder Xin disguised as youths.
• Yu Sheng learned from Yu Mo that the Demon Clan might have planted the receptionist at Xinfa Media and reflected on the three factions tied to Mobei City.
• Yu Sheng's advertisement appeared prominently in Xinfa Media's latest newspaper issue, stirring undercurrents beneath the city's calm.

Yu Sheng returned to the Ink Pavilion and took up his duties while delegating the search for the Demon Domain attendant. A month later, the Spirit Martial Academy responded to the Spirit Mind Academy’s growing success by opening a Wise Department with unusual admission requirements.

• Yu Sheng called two men to investigate the attendant, then left Mobei City and returned to the Ink Pavilion.
• Yu Sheng resumed work in his office, handling official documents late into the night while noticing a subtle change in his body.
• The Spirit Mind Academy drew applicants away from the Ink Academy, and the Spirit Martial Academy considered improving its enrollment benefits.
• Yuan Qingshan tricked the Spirit Martial Academy’s leaders into believing the Spirit Mind Academy had far more funding than they could match.
• The Spirit Martial Academy’s leaders went to the Ink Pavilion to protest, but Qi Changshan turned them away.
• The Spirit Martial Academy announced a Wise Department whose admissions requirements included cunning, shamelessness, a pretty face, and preferably a disability.

Spirit Martial Academy’s new Wise Department finally recruited a student through a scheme that cost Yuan Qingshan 200 yuan, while Yu Mo faced protests and was briefly dismissed before returning to lead the Light Group. The chapter leaves the human world’s public unrest subdued and the Demon Domain growing more prosperous but brutally competitive.

• Spirit Martial Academy assessed Wise Department applicants by asking them to make Spirit Mind Academy lose money, and after half a month a dark-skinned man passed by extorting 200 yuan from Yuan Qingshan.
• After the admissions betting ended, the Light Group fined the underground casino owners, then dismissed Yu Mo amid online complaints before reinstating him after he helped an old lady cross the road.
• Yu Mo’s warning that the Light Group would turn those who became completely black red silenced the online denunciations, while establishments were shut down and their owners taken away.
• Yu Mo visited Demon-Suppressing Pass several times and looked toward the Demon Domain, where demons borrowed from the God Race and killed others to repay their loans.
• Competition intensified across the Demon Domain, driving even previously idle demon beasts to work hard to avoid paying others’ interest.

Old White Ape continued profiting from the Demon Domain’s loan scheme as the Eleven God Race members turned against one another. He confronted Ji Hong on his mountain, urging him to pursue a greater goal, but Ji Hong remained silent and withdrew behind the mist, leaving Old White Ape to wait for his next move.

• Old White Ape announced a second round of loans, and the Eleven God Race members began secretly sabotaging one another as they competed for promising Demon Beast borrowers.
• Old White Ape visited Ji Hong’s remote mountain and pressed him to stop sitting in seclusion and act against the Demon Domain.
• Ji Hong told Old White Ape that, given his position, he should want Ji Hong to fail, but Old White Ape explained that he valued the struggle and rivalry more than reaching the summit.
• Old White Ape asked whether Ji Hong had truly given up and said he would be disappointed if Ji Hong sought only to trade lives for a single Demon God.
• Ji Hong said nothing and hid the summit in mist, forcing Old White Ape to leave.
• Old White Ape returned to his King's Hall, convinced Ji Hong would eventually act and eager to see his first move.

Ji Hong discussed with Elder Xin the risks of acting against Old White Ape and the heavy burden of his mission among the Demon Clan. Elder Xin stayed behind in Ji Hong’s place, while Ji Hong vanished into the mist to continue his work.

• Old White Ape crushed a fragrant flower and scattered it into the flowerbed.
• Ji Hong told Elder Xin that Old White Ape might have noticed nothing, and Elder Xin proposed assassinating him.
• Ji Hong explained that an attack would expose his human identity and endanger the fourth-generation heavenly prides who had sacrificed themselves to place him among the Demon Clan.
• Ji Hong warned that Elder Xin might not defeat Old White Ape within three seconds and would then face the Demon God.
• Elder Xin used his Mirage Dragon Demon Core to impersonate Ji Hong as Ji Hong left Skyvault Ravine.
• Elder Xin reflected on Ji Hong’s isolation and remembered how Ji Hong had kept up his disguise before finally recognizing him.

The narrator remembered Ji Hong breaking down after receiving his elder’s understanding, then agreeing to impersonate him with the power of his Mirage Dragon Demon Core while Ji Hong pursued an unknown plan. Old White Ape later deduced that a human carrying a Mirage Dragon Demon Core was helping Ji Hong hide, but he could not figure out what Ji Hong intended to do.

• Ji Hong recalled the faces of those who had died and trembled as he confessed his grief to the narrator.
• The narrator apologized to Ji Hong and thanked him for his efforts, and Ji Hong soon regained his composure and explained their roles.
• The narrator used his Mirage Dragon Demon Core to take Ji Hong’s place on the mountain while Ji Hong quietly departed.
• Ji Hong secretly visited Peach Blossom Pool, moved around it without leaving an obvious trail, then hurried away.
• Old White Ape noticed Ji Hong had worn an old outfit and deduced that a human with a Mirage Dragon Demon Core was impersonating him to conceal him from the Demon God.