Chapter Summaries

Yu Sanshui told Yu Sheng that the woman had summoned him to kill him over the Jade Pendant, then claimed he had helped her and protected Yu Sheng’s opportunity in the Divine Ruins. The woman repeatedly exposed his lies, leaving Yu Sheng convinced that none of Yu Sanshui’s words could be trusted.

• Yu Sanshui explained that the woman had wanted Yu Sheng to come to the Divine Ruins so she could kill him for taking her Jade Pendant.
• Yu Sanshui claimed he had secretly helped the woman and dismantled her traps, then theatrically insisted he had acted out of fatherly love for Yu Sheng.
• The woman, still lying motionless in the Crystal Coffin, spoke in the modern language and denied ever setting traps.
• Yu Sanshui changed his story, threatening the woman when she mocked him and insisting he had helped control the entrance to the Divine Ruins for Yu Sheng’s sake.
• A precise space rift appeared between Yu Sheng and Yu Sanshui, and the woman laughed again as Yu Sanshui furiously accused her of showing off.
• Yu Sheng watched Yu Sanshui’s claims unravel and concluded that nobody should trust a word he said.

Yu Sanshui brought Yu Sheng to meet a dying woman from the Heavenly Race, whose Crystal Coffin shattered after Yu Sanshui provoked her. After Yu Sanshui fled when she began to mention the Heavenly Race’s legacy, the woman told Yu Sheng that losing his Jade Pendant had not made her fate worse: she would have died even if it remained with her.

• Yu Sanshui insisted that the woman hated Yu Sheng because he had destroyed her chance of revival, while she repeatedly denied feeling hostility toward him.
• The Crystal Coffin cracked and exploded, and the woman opened her eyes and confronted Yu Sanshui despite the cost to her remaining lifespan.
• The woman apologized to Yu Sheng for not realizing he had been sketching the Crystal Coffin and asked to speak with him alone.
• When the woman began to explain something about the Heavenly Race’s legacy, Yu Sanshui interrupted her and vanished.
• Yu Sheng asked whether she was from the Heavenly Race and whether taking her Jade Pendant had caused her condition, and she said she would have died either way.

Yu Sheng learned that he was the Heavenly Race’s sole legacy and that the women who had entered slumber were all his mothers, tasked with keeping him alive. Yu Sanshui confirmed that their Revival Plan had been a smokescreen, then asked whether they knew about him.

• A woman told Yu Sheng that she was his mother, then clarified that all of them were his mothers and that he was one of the Heavenly Race.
• Yu Sheng showed little surprise and asked no questions, leaving the conversation stalled in silence.
• Yu Sanshui reappeared and took over the conversation, asking why the women considered themselves Yu Sheng’s mothers.
• The woman explained that Yu Sheng was the Heavenly Race’s sole legacy and carried the spirit of them all, so their mission was to keep him alive.
• Yu Sanshui guessed that the Revival Plan had been a smokescreen designed to protect Yu Sheng while the women slept, and the woman confirmed his conjecture with a nod.
• Yu Sanshui asked if the woman knew about him, and she nodded while looking at him with coldness and killing intent.

Yu Sanshui explained how he found Yu Sheng as a child in a Divine Ruins and why he left him in Sin City, where he expected to reclaim something Yu Sheng had absorbed. He ended by asking how a certain being had described Yu Sheng’s survival.

• Yu Sanshui said he had stumbled into a Divine Ruins while being hunted and found a living child in a coffin.
• After lifting the child out, Yu Sanshui saw the murals and realized the child was one of the Heavenly Race and part of an important plan.
• Yu Sanshui said the child absorbed something he had worked hard to obtain, costing him the chance to become the strongest at the ninth awakening.
• Yu Sanshui admitted he considered killing Yu Sheng and taking back what he had lost, but could not bring himself to kill a child.
• Yu Sanshui said he left Yu Sheng in Sin City, where he expected him to die and planned to reclaim what belonged to him.
• Yu Sanshui said Yu Sheng’s survival in Sin City had astonished him and asked how a certain being had described it.

Yu Sanshui and the woman explained how a Heavenly Race safeguard had protected Yu Sheng in Sin City, while an accident in the Divine Ruins derailed the race’s plans. The woman revealed that the plan had been to make Yu Sheng into a true deity, and the story ended with Yu Sanshui learning that only a god could save the Heavenly Race.

• Yu Sanshui reasoned that a hidden self-preservation force had let five-year-old Yu Sheng survive in Sin City and asked the woman whether the Heavenly Race had planted one in him.
• The woman confirmed that the Heavenly Race had placed a protective seed in Yu Sheng, which took control in a crisis but disappeared once he grew used to surviving in Sin City.
• Yu Sheng recalled that Shi Guang had initially been wary of him and only gradually changed her attitude as he grew older.
• Yu Sanshui realized that he had entered the unstable Divine Ruins by accident while fleeing, and that his Ninth Awakening had come after Yu Sheng no longer needed the seed.
• Yu Sanshui asked what would have happened if he had not carried Yu Sheng away, and the woman said the Heavenly Race had planned to make him a true deity to save their people.

The woman explained that the Heavenly Race had planned to make Yu Sanshui a true deity, but the collapse of the Heavenly Realm and his later actions destroyed that plan. Yu Sanshui learned that the woman had surpassed the ninth awakening and begged her to teach him the path, but she refused.

• The woman described how the Heavenly Race planned to channel its power into Yu Sanshui, but spiritual energy dried up and the Heavenly Realm broke apart before they could finish.
• She blamed Yu Sanshui for destroying nearly all the realm’s fragments, while Yu Sheng explained that another member of the Heavenly Race had accepted their fate and left Yu Sanshui its remaining gifts.
• The woman insisted that the Heavenly Race should rule the world and claimed she could defeat even the Human Race’s strongest fighter with one finger.
• Yu Sanshui realized the woman’s power exceeded the ninth awakening and demanded to know how to advance further.
• Yu Sanshui offered to join the Heavenly Race and help restore it, but the woman only sneered and remained silent.

Yu Sheng spoke with the woman of the Heavenly Race, who accepted his choice not to seek revenge and told him that he was her family. She revealed that Shi Guang had been found injured in the Heavenly Realm and that the magical scroll held the Heavenly Race’s inheritance, then told Yu Sheng where Shi Guang was as she weakened.

• Yu Sanshui left so the woman could speak privately with Yu Sheng.
• The woman asked whether Yu Sheng regretted never becoming a god, and he said he was satisfied with his life and friends.
• The woman apologized for wanting Yu Sheng to avenge the Heavenly Race and said she would respect his choice and help fulfill his wishes.
• Yu Sheng showed the woman Shi Guang’s photograph, but she recognized the Mountains and Rivers Bottle and asked whether he had a magical scroll.
• The woman explained that Shi Guang had entered the Heavenly Realm by mistake while badly injured, and that the Heavenly Race had left Yu Sheng an inheritance of trained spirit beasts.
• The woman told Yu Sheng where Shi Guang was, urged him to live his own life, and assured him the Heavenly Race would always be his family.

The woman said goodbye to Yu Sheng, entrusted the Heavenly Race’s objects to protect him, and sent him away. Left alone, she set out to take revenge on Yu Sanshui, whom she dragged back through a rift.

• The woman told Yu Sheng to live as a human and be healthy and happy, then embraced him in tears.
• The Mountains and Rivers Bottle and the Scroll appeared, and the woman asked them and the other objects to protect Yu Sheng and the Heavenly Race’s future.
• The mist around the objects thinned, Yu Sheng learned more about unlocking them, and his connection to them deepened as he advanced toward the Seventh Awakening.
• The woman sent Yu Sheng away, saying she had other matters to attend to.
• The woman declared that she would avenge old grudges, opened a rift, and dragged the fleeing Yu Sanshui back to her.

The last surviving Heavenly Race fighter trapped Yu Sanshui in a collapsing space and cursed him to suffer whenever she wished. After revealing that the spirit beasts had rebelled, she died without treating their uprising as important.

• Yu Sanshui fled from the woman, but she compressed the space around him and trapped him inside it.
• The woman used the Mountains and Rivers Bottle to strip water from the void and prevent Yu Sanshui from opening a passage.
• Unable to kill Yu Sanshui, the woman placed a collar on him that would make him suffer whenever she wished.
• The woman said the spirit beasts had rebelled, then died from her injuries.

Yu Sheng learned that the Mountains and Rivers Bottle connected him to Yu Sanshui and used it to punish him as the Divine Ruins collapsed. He carried the unconscious Shi Guang through a Space Passage, leaving the ruins and their secrets behind.

• Yu Sheng discovered that the Mountains and Rivers Bottle gave him a way to make Yu Sanshui suffer, and learned that its collar had once been used by the Heavenly Race on livestock.
• The Divine Ruins began collapsing after the woman's death, ending the Heavenly Race's last presence in the world and their God-Making Plan.
• Yu Sanshui searched for Yu Sheng and urged him to escape, but Yu Sheng used the bottle to strike him down.
• Yu Sheng carried Shi Guang deeper into the cave and found a Space Passage the woman had opened to help him leave safely.
• Yu Sheng entered the Space Passage with Shi Guang, and the Divine Ruins collapsed completely about half an hour later.

Yu Sheng returned to Hundred Desolate Mountain with Shi Guang and rested while Army-Breaker’s Soldiers guarded him. Yu Sanshui found Yu Sheng but could not approach, so he waited nearby, planning to reconnect with him and ask for help removing his ring and reaching Above the Ninth Awakening.

• Yu Sheng left the gorge carrying Shi Guang instead of going to one of the deep mountains.
• Army-Breaker’s Soldiers rested on the outskirts, then stood guard when Yu Sheng arrived and went to sleep.
• Yu Sanshui searched for Yu Sheng while hiding his energy to avoid attracting the Demon Gods.
• Yu Sanshui found Yu Sheng but decided not to approach the vigilant soldiers.
• Yu Sanshui hid nearby and planned a heartwarming father-son conversation to persuade Yu Sheng to remove his ring and explain how to reach Above the Ninth Awakening.

Yu Sheng slept through the night while Yu Sanshui stood guard, and the Human Race celebrated the Reserve Corps’ staged victory over a Demon Clan raid. Yu Sheng’s reputation as Army-Breaker’s leader soared, leaving him hailed as a War God.

• Yu Sheng slept for hours while the Reserve Corps soldiers kept him and Shi Guang warm and cooked Demon Beast meat, and Yu Sanshui reluctantly guarded them before falling asleep.
• Demon Clan troops attacked Demon-Suppressing Pass, where a small force of soldiers fought them off while most of the troops slept elsewhere.
• Human Race forums spread reports praising the Reserve Corps and Army-Breaker after the raid ended with minimal casualties.
• People admired Army-Breaker’s soldiers for their insults against the Demon Clan and celebrated their fearless reputation.
• A photograph of Yu Sheng punching Old White Ape circulated, and the Human Race praised Yu Sheng as a War God despite not knowing what had happened.

The Secretary feared the Light Group would discover that he had started the rumor about Yu Sheng, while Chu Huai let the gossip spread and searched for Soul Hunt operatives. Chu Huai tried to recruit a hidden watcher, but got no reply.

• The Secretary panicked after seeing a photo of Yu Sheng at Demon-Suppressing Pass and worried the Light Group would trace the rumor back to him.
• Ink Pavilion members reported the Secretary’s strange behavior to the Light Group, but Chu Huai told them to keep him and let him spread gossip about Yu Sheng.
• Chu Huai ordered his Second Group to watch a suspected Soul Hunt operative disguised as a newspaper seller, then called off the pursuit because he suspected the man was bait.
• Chu Huai ordered surveillance equipment placed around the street and complained about being stuck catching spies while others were on the front lines.
• Chu Huai addressed an unseen watcher and offered to join Soul Hunt, but received no response.

Chu Huai discovered signs that Soul Hunt had copied an Awakening Object and began using a covert operation to trace their network, confident he could exploit their caution. Yu Sheng dreamed of a warm coffin turning into a vision of Sin City, where he saw himself as a dangerous five-year-old holding a dagger.

• Chu Huai concluded that Soul Hunt had exposed itself in Mobei City and decided to hunt down its members to prove his value to the Light Group.
• Chu Huai asked a Light Group member about covert-operation preparations and learned that technicians had detected severe network fluctuations while he was alone in his office.
• Chu Huai ordered the Light Group to investigate the anomalous network traffic while continuing overt arrests to draw Soul Hunt's attention.
• Chu Huai dismissed Soul Hunt as cautious and planned to use its network specialist's trail to find more important targets.
• Yu Sheng dreamed of warm, gentle voices around him before the coffin and his surroundings turned cold and revealed Sin City.
• Yu Sheng saw a numb, cold five-year-old version of himself holding a small dagger in Sin City.

Yu Sheng recalled a buried memory of his childhood in Sin City, when he killed a group of men and Little Girl silently stayed by his side. After waking, he wondered whether Shi Guang's words had begun unlocking his memories and remembered how he had come to accept her.

• Five-year-old Yu Sheng slaughtered the men who threatened him and Little Girl, then studied the wounded to learn how to kill them precisely.
• Little Girl tried to move the bodies alone, and Yu Sheng helped her bury them in a secluded pit.
• Yu Sheng woke beneath the moon as Army-Breaker soldiers watched him with concern.
• Yu Sheng wondered why the memory had surfaced and whether Shi Guang's words were unsealing his forgotten past.
• Yu Sheng recalled that he had accepted Shi Guang while watching her stubbornly follow him, first pretending to be cold and later becoming genuinely so.

Yu Sheng led Army-Breaker's Soldiers away from Hundred Desolate Mountain overnight, leaving Yu Sanshui asleep and unaware. The next morning, Yu Sanshui was gored by a wild boar, and his fury flared as the boar realized its charge had barely hurt him.

• Yu Sheng ordered Army-Breaker's Soldiers to leave Hundred Desolate Mountain at night so Old White Ape would not focus on them.
• Yu Sanshui slept through the soldiers' departure and woke the next day to find their camp empty.
• Yu Sanshui cursed Yu Sheng and charged around the valley searching for Army-Breaker.
• A sixth-level wild boar mistook Yu Sanshui for an easy target and charged him.
• The boar's tusks tore Yu Sanshui's clothes and caused a minor wound, prompting Yu Sanshui to glare at it with red eyes.

Yu Sanshui tortured a boar to vent his anger, but the animal went mad and gored him twice. He then examined the tracks at Army-Breaker’s camp and concluded that Yu Sheng and the others had gone deeper into the Demon Domain as a diversion.

• Yu Sanshui blocked the fleeing boar and tormented it, repeatedly healing its injuries with a medicinal pill.
• The boar went mad, and Yu Sanshui’s phantom collar appeared and punished him for swearing.
• The boar charged Yu Sanshui again, gored him in the backside, and disappeared into the mountains.
• Yu Sanshui recovered and walked toward Army-Breaker’s camp, where he studied the footprints.
• Yu Sanshui decided that Yu Sheng and the others had gone deeper into the Demon Domain to mislead him.

Yu Sheng tested the Mountains and Rivers Bottle and his newly responsive Awakening Objects before leading Army-Breaker’s Soldiers deeper into the Demon Domain. Yu Sanshui struggled toward Demon-Suppressing Pass, then collapsed after Yu Sheng tormented him again.

• Yu Sanshui endured severe pain whenever he tried to think, fashioned a walking stick, and hobbled toward Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Yu Sheng experimented with the Mountains and Rivers Bottle, concluding that its control worked only at close range and that its surface held its storage space.
• Yu Sheng found that the Phoenix Hammer responded more smoothly and seemed at least a third stronger after the woman’s embrace.
• Yu Sheng ordered Army-Breaker’s Soldiers to keep moving deeper into the Demon Domain while they carried Shi Guang on a makeshift stretcher.
• Yu Sanshui collapsed on a plain, trembling and foaming at the mouth after Yu Sheng tormented him again.

After enduring Yu Sheng’s remote torment, Yu Sanshui realized Sun Wen’s Awakening Object had likely been distorting his judgment and suspected Sun Wen had reached the Eighth Awakening. Now on guard, Yu Sanshui resumed pursuing Army-Breaker across the Wasteland.

• Yu Sanshui endured another bout of convulsions, then spent three hours recovering and reconsidering his route toward Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sanshui realized his choices had repeatedly led him away from Yu Sheng and suspected Sun Wen’s Awakening Object was influencing his judgment.
• Yu Sanshui wondered whether Sun Wen had reached the Eighth Awakening, since his luck enhancement could now affect someone at the Ninth Awakening.
• Yu Sanshui recovered, set off after Army-Breaker, and expected to catch sight of it within a day if nothing unexpected happened.

Sun Wen celebrated reaching the Eighth Awakening and planned to join Zhao Zicheng and Lin Xiaoxiao at Demon-Suppressing Pass, where the fighting had been strangely uneventful. Just as he prepared to leave, he sensed that someone powerful was targeting Yu Sheng.

• Sun Wen bragged to Zhao Zicheng about reaching the Eighth Awakening and teased him about eventually reaching the Seventh.
• Sun Wen called Lin Xiaoxiao, who saw through his plan to show off, while Zhao Zicheng explained that the Demon Clan’s attacks were brief and the front line was almost entirely peaceful.
• Sun Wen eagerly decided to go to Demon-Suppressing Pass with A Tai and bring food and wine so he could show off to the gathered soldiers.
• Sun Wen suddenly sensed that someone strong was targeting Yu Sheng.