Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng trapped the Demon Lords in his Water World after they escaped his first world, prompting the Red Dragon Clan Chief to call for the Demon God to kill him. The Demon God appeared but held back as Yuan Qingshan threatened an all-out war, leaving both sides facing off.

• The Demon Lords broke out of Yu Sheng's dark world and saw that a Demon Lord had self-detonated while Yu Sheng, Yuan Qingshan, and another Eighth Awakening fighter hunted it.
• Yu Sheng trapped the Red Dragon Clan Chief and the other Demon Lords in his Water World, which drained their demon aura.
• The Red Dragon Clan Chief concluded that Yu Sheng threatened the Demon Domain and called on the Demon God to kill him, urging it to ignore the agreement.
• Old White Ape watched from a distance while Yuan Qingshan warned that the Human Race would send every Ninth Awakening fighter to war if the Demon God attacked.
• The Demon God appeared in the sky with a net of lightning but did not strike, and Yuan Qingshan stood his ground as the Red Dragon Clan Chief continued calling for action.

Yu Mo realized he could not control the war and prayed for Yu Sheng’s safe return as Yu Sheng’s group prepared to withdraw. Yuan Qingshan then chose to turn back and save the Army-Breaker recruits, asking Yu Sheng whether he would risk his life to help them.

• Yu Mo admitted that his plans and intelligence were powerless against the Demon God and prayed for Yu Sheng to return safely.
• Yuan Qingshan ordered Yu Sheng to retreat, and the fighting stopped as the Human Race experts gathered around him.
• Old White Ape allowed Yu Sheng and the others to leave, saying he had no reason to fight them to mutual destruction.
• Yu Sheng asked Yuan Qingshan whether they were going to save the recruits.
• Yuan Qingshan said the Human Race would risk even an Eighth Awakening expert to save one ordinary person, then asked Yu Sheng if he would risk his life to save the recruits.

Yu Sheng and the Eighth Awakening elders refused to retreat, prompting Old White Ape to ask the Demon God to intervene by framing the fight as an internal matter of the Demon Domain. Meanwhile, Yu Mo and Confucian Scholar discussed the plan’s risks, and the chapter ended with the Demon God’s lightning attack striking the elders’ defenses.

• Zhong Yushu rallied the elders to keep fighting until Army-Breaker returned, and Old White Ape asked the Demon God to take action, claiming the battle did not violate the treaty.
• In Deep Mountain, Yu Mo asked Confucian Scholar whether Old White Ape had said the battle had nothing to do with the treaty, and Confucian Scholar confirmed it before disappearing.
• Yuan Qingshan warned Yu Sheng to retreat if the elders died, but Yu Sheng kept watching the Demon God.
• The Demon God sent down a rain of lightning arrows, and an Eighth Awakening elder spread golden wings to shield the group as the blows battered the defense.

Zhong Yushu and the Eighth Awakening experts tried to protect Yu Sheng from the Demon God, while the Reserve Corps lent Zhong Yushu its army soul. Zhong Yushu destroyed the Demon God’s lightning dragon, but the Demon God attacked personally, and Zhong Yushu urged Yu Sheng to escape.

• The Demon God’s lightning shattered Old Man’s wings, then overwhelmed the energy shield raised by Zhong Yushu and the other Eighth Awakening experts.
• Zhong Yushu told Yu Sheng that the elders would stay behind to uphold the Ink Pavilion’s rules and give him a chance to survive and lead the Human Race.
• Zhong Yushu called on the Reserve Corps, whose soldiers sent their army soul to him before he charged the lightning dragon and shattered it with his spear.
• The Demon God dismissed the army soul as an unorthodox trick and summoned an enormous claw to attack Zhong Yushu and the others.
• Zhong Yushu faced the claw without fear and again ordered Yu Sheng to fall back, telling him that the Human Race needed him to live.

Yu Sheng watched Zhong Yushu and the others face the Demon God while Old White Ape tried to persuade him to attack. Old White Ape explained that he wanted to defeat the Human Race in a way that would make the victory unforgettable, as the battle above continued.

• Zhong Yushu and the others summoned their Awakening Objects and prepared to face the Demon God's enormous claw as Yu Sheng retreated.
• Old White Ape blocked Yu Sheng's path and urged him to stay and watch the battle, but Yu Sheng showed no interest in fighting him.
• Old White Ape repeatedly offered Yu Sheng chances to kill him and revealed that he knew Yu Mo had placed his hopes in Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng guessed that Old White Ape wanted a spectacular victory over the Human Race, and Old White Ape admitted that defeating them through intelligence alone would be too boring for him.

Old White Ape revealed to Yu Sheng that he had engineered the conflict to stage a grand final battle and wanted Yu Sheng to become strong enough to challenge him. Yu Sheng refused to fight, while the Human Race’s Eighth Awakening fighters neared collapse and Old White Ape waited for Yu Mo’s reinforcements.

• Old White Ape explained that he had protected heroes such as Zhong Yushu, Yuan Qingshan, and Qi Changshan so he could defeat them himself in a carefully staged final battle.
• Old White Ape told Yu Sheng he wanted to outscheme Yu Mo and Ji Hong, then defeat Yu Sheng after he grew strong enough to make the victory impressive.
• Yu Sheng refused to fight, and when Old White Ape threatened to kill him, Yu Sheng turned his back and accepted the threat.
• Old White Ape urged Yu Sheng to grow stronger and offered him resources, but Yu Sheng ignored him.
• As the Demon God attacked and the Human Race’s Eighth Awakening fighters neared collapse, Old White Ape cursed the delay in Yu Mo’s reinforcements and urged the fighters to attack.

Old White Ape told Yu Sheng that everything had been arranged and that Army-Breaker would die regardless of what happened. As Confucian Scholar fought the Demon God to protect Zhong Yushu, Yu Sheng insisted that Army-Breaker would become very strong in the future.

• Old White Ape told Yu Sheng how much he had regretted Chu Yu's death and said he had arranged everything for the coming grand feast.
• Confucian Scholar shielded Zhong Yushu and attacked the Demon God with characters written in midair.
• Confucian Scholar's powerful character was shattered by the Demon God, who then struck at him with a huge tail.
• Confucian Scholar fled the Demon God's attack while Old White Ape watched and remarked that he was an unusual fighter.
• Yu Sheng told Old White Ape that Army-Breaker would become very strong, but Old White Ape replied that Army-Breaker would die that day.

Old White Ape explained that he wanted the final battle to become a spectacle whose unknown outcome mattered less to him than directing and starring in it. As he watched a Demon God battle Yu Sheng’s allies, Yu Sanshui debated whether to risk joining the fight.

• Old White Ape offered to trade a Demon God for Army-Breaker and proposed keeping another flashy fighter alive to raise his awakening and kill later.
• Yu Sheng rejected Old White Ape’s claims, while Old White Ape said he welcomed the final battle’s uncertainty and cared most about the spectacle and his role in it.
• Old White Ape wondered why the Human Race’s other ninth awakenings had not arrived and urged Yu Sheng to chat, then offered to let Army-Breaker go if Yu Sheng fought him.
• Yu Sheng agreed to Old White Ape’s proposal, and Old White Ape returned to watching the battle.
• Yu Sanshui watched from a tree and weighed sneaking into the fight against the risk of an ambush, even as he worried that others would die if he stayed out.

Yu Sanshui took advantage of the Confucian Scholar’s apparent immortal descent to sneak up on the Red Dragon Demon God and strike him. He left the Demon God dazed and called for the hidden fighters to join the attack.

• Yu Sanshui psyched himself up by deciding he was risking his life for his own future, then crept toward the Demon God.
• The Confucian Scholar realized he was being bullied in his own dream and used blood-red writing and refracted sunlight to stage an apparent immortal descent.
• The Demon God saw through the spectacle, destroyed the writing, and challenged the Confucian Scholar to summon a real immortal.
• Yu Sanshui appeared behind the Demon God, claimed to be an immortal, and struck him with a pitch-black Awakening Object.
• Yu Sanshui hit the dazed Demon God again and shouted for the hidden fighters to attack.

Yu Sanshui, Zhong Yushu, and the Confucian Scholar tried to keep the Red Dragon Demon God disoriented while finding a way through his defenses. As the Demon Beasts charged to aid their leader, the Human Race fighters held them back, and Zhong Yushu worked to pry open the demon’s mouth.

• Zhong Yushu charged the dazed Red Dragon Demon God and thrust his spear between the demon’s brows, but the demon’s roar sent him flying.
• Yu Sanshui hammered the Red Dragon Demon God’s head and directed Zhong Yushu and the Confucian Scholar to attack vulnerable spots while Human Race fighters blocked the arriving Demon Beasts.
• Zhong Yushu’s spear barely pierced the demon’s defenses, and the Red Dragon Demon God began recovering his awareness.
• When the demon tried to roar, Zhong Yushu aimed his spear into its mouth, but the demon snapped its jaws shut and only took a small cut on its chin.
• The Confucian Scholar pried the demon’s jaws apart slightly while convincing himself he was a strongman, and Zhong Yushu wedged his spearhead into the mouth to lever it open.
• Yu Sanshui told the Confucian Scholar to stop muttering and write inside the Red Dragon Demon God’s mouth.

Zhong Yushu and the Confucian Scholar wounded the Red Dragon Demon God while Yu Sanshui’s awakening object held it in place. When Yu Sanshui called for a retreat, Zhong Yushu salvaged the Demon God’s blood and ordered two fighters to guard it.

• Zhong Yushu urged the Confucian Scholar to attack the Red Dragon Demon God, and the Confucian Scholar wounded it by writing a character in the air.
• Yu Sanshui warned that his control would last only a few more seconds as he continued hammering the thrashing Demon God.
• Zhong Yushu challenged the Confucian Scholar for reciting unnecessary lines, and the Confucian Scholar stopped reciting and attacked more efficiently.
• Yu Sanshui called for a retreat, and Zhong Yushu and the Confucian Scholar fled as the Red Dragon Demon God roared in pain.
• Zhong Yushu wrung Demon God blood from his clothes into a hollowed rock and ordered two Seventh Awakening fighters to guard it.

Old White Ape kept Yu Sheng from joining the battle while the demon beasts and Demon Lords stalled around the Red Dragon Demon God. After emerging from the Hundun State, the wounded Red Dragon Demon God attacked Yu Sanshui, who evaded his tail but was trapped by lightning and rain.

• Old White Ape shielded Yu Sheng and held back the demon beasts while criticizing their schemes and pretending to regret his lost cultivation.
• Old White Ape asked Yu Sheng about the Heavenly Race inheritance and the path beyond the ninth awakening, and Yu Sheng said he had received nothing.
• The Demon Lords held back their attacks, hoping to seize the Red Dragon Demon God's place or devour his demon core.
• The wounded Red Dragon Demon God emerged from the Hundun State and roared at Yu Sanshui before sweeping his tail at him.
• Yu Sanshui stepped a li away to evade the attack, but the Red Dragon Demon God followed and trapped him with lightning and rain.

Yu Sanshui, Zhong Yushu, and the Confucian Scholar fought the Red Dragon Demon God, with Yu Sanshui struggling to hold it back as the others joined in. Zhong Yushu drank from its wounds for strength and lamented the blood going to waste as the demon god bled across the battlefield.

• The Red Dragon Demon God furiously attacked Yu Sanshui, who intercepted its blows but called Zhong Yushu and the Confucian Scholar for help.
• Zhong Yushu charged the demon god with his Spear while the Confucian Scholar wrote characters in the air to hinder it.
• Yu Sanshui, Zhong Yushu, and the Confucian Scholar drove the Red Dragon Demon God into a disadvantage and opened a deep wound in its waist.
• Zhong Yushu rushed in and drank from the demon god’s wound before it blasted him away.
• Zhong Yushu savored the nourishing Demon God blood and lamented the blood spilling from the demon god’s many wounds.

Old White Ape criticized the humans for not fighting with enough desperation and warned the Demon Lords that the other Demon Gods would arrive in five minutes. Under that pressure, Yu Sanshui and Zhong Yushu intensified their assault on the Red Dragon Demon God, which began to weaken and grow afraid.

• Old White Ape complained that Yu Sanshui and Zhong Yushu were ruining the grand feast's intended final battle and told Yu Sheng to make Yu Sanshui fight with more passion.
• Old White Ape warned the Demon Lords that they would face consequences when the Demon God returned, prompting the Red Dragon Clan Chief to attack desperately and strain the human blockade.
• Old White Ape shouted that the other Demon Gods would arrive within five minutes and that Yu Sanshui would die if they did not win before then.
• Yu Sanshui abandoned his cautious strategy and fought the Red Dragon Demon God recklessly, while he cursed Zhong Yushu for drinking blood instead of helping kill it.
• Zhong Yushu charged back into battle, and within a minute the Red Dragon Demon God's injuries doubled, its strength declined, and fear appeared in its eyes.

Yu Sanshui broke the Red Dragon Demon God’s fighting spirit and forced it to flee, while Zhong Yushu used the chaos to gather Demon God bloodstained soil. After the others withdrew, Zhong Yushu stayed behind to confront Old White Ape over Yu Sheng, who asked him to return and leave the matter to him.

• The Red Dragon Demon God’s fear overcame its anger, and it fled as Yu Sanshui threatened to kill it.
• Yu Sanshui invoked Black Flood Dragon’s death to terrify the Red Dragon Demon God and ordered the others to retreat.
• Zhong Yushu stopped Confucian Scholar from joining the fight and enlisted him to dig up soil stained with Demon God blood.
• The Eighth Awakening fighters gathered, while the Seventh Awakening fighters carried bloodied rocks toward Demon-Suppressing Pass as the Demon Lords cleared their path.
• After the others left, Zhong Yushu turned his spear on Old White Ape and demanded to know whether he would release Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng asked Zhong Yushu to head back, saying he would handle the matter himself.

Yu Sheng sent Zhong Yushu away before attacking Old White Ape, who fled from the Demon Beasts’ sight with Yu Sheng chasing him. Meanwhile, badly wounded Yu Sanshui killed the Red Dragon Demon God after deciding he could not safely bring him back alive.

• Yu Sheng told Zhong Yushu that he could not defeat Old White Ape and that Yu Sheng alone could save Army-Breaker, so Zhong Yushu left to follow the others.
• Old White Ape invited Yu Sheng to fight, and Yu Sheng suddenly struck him with a hammer, sending him fleeing away from the Demon Domain’s main base.
• Old White Ape told his subordinates to save the Demon God instead of him, but the Demon Beasts could not reach either him or the Red Dragon Demon God in time.
• The Red Dragon Demon God begged Yu Sanshui to spare him and let him join the Human Race, but Yu Sanshui decided he could not keep him under control.
• Yu Sanshui used his Awakening Object to kill the Red Dragon Demon God.

Yu Sanshui drank the Red Dragon Demon God's blood, took his corpse, and fled toward Demon-Suppressing Pass as another Demon God pursued him. The Red Dragon Clan Chief tried to intercept Yu Sanshui to claim credit, but other Demon Lords copied him, and the pursuing Demon God passed overhead in anger.

• Yu Sanshui drank the Red Dragon Demon God's blood to restore his Spiritual Power, then fled with the corpse when he sensed a Demon God approaching.
• Yu Sanshui raced toward Demon-Suppressing Pass, cursing the Old White Ape for lying about how long he had before the pursuer arrived.
• The Red Dragon Clan Chief attacked Yu Sanshui while pretending to avenge his father, but Yu Sanshui struck him down and continued on.
• Other Demon Lords rushed after Yu Sanshui to share the credit, angering the injured Red Dragon Clan Chief.
• A shadowy Demon God pursued Yu Sanshui, and the Demon Lords fell silent as it passed overhead in a foul mood.

Yu Sanshui fled toward Demon-Suppressing Pass with the Red Dragon Demon God's corpse while another Demon God pursued him, until Sun Yingxiong intervened. Zhu Yan confronted Sun, but the Old Woman appeared eager to start a decisive battle and went to rally the other elders.

• Yu Sanshui, nearly out of spiritual energy, called to the Human Race for help as the pursuing Demon God closed in.
• Sun Yingxiong intervened from the Demon Domain and ordered the Demon God to settle their grievances three years later.
• The Demon God recognized Sun Yingxiong and threatened that a Ninth Awakening human should die in revenge for the fallen Demon God.
• Sun Yingxiong challenged Zhu Yan to fight, while Zhu Yan questioned whether the Human Race would dare retaliate if Sun were killed.
• The Old Woman appeared and eagerly called for an immediate decisive battle, saying she would wake the other elders and gather them.

Old White Ape took responsibility for Red Dragon’s death and persuaded Zhu Yan to postpone the Demon Domain’s war against the Human Race for three years. The army withdrew toward Skyvault Ravine, while Old White Ape promised revenge at Demon-Suppressing Pass.

• Old White Ape arrived wounded and asked Zhu Yan to endure for three years before attacking the Human Race.
• Zhu Yan accepted Old White Ape’s plea, warned him to explain himself later, and told Sun Yingxiong to return to the Human Race.
• Sun Yingxiong descended to Demon-Suppressing Pass and left as the Reserve Corps soldiers watched.
• A Demon King carried the injured Old White Ape back to his throne, where he asked after the Demon Beasts and lamented Red Dragon’s death.
• Old White Ape ordered the army to return to Skyvault Ravine to rest and vowed to lead it against Demon-Suppressing Pass in three years.

The Demon Domain retreated from Demon-Suppressing Pass united by a desire for revenge, while Army-Breaker’s Soldiers returned as hardened warriors. Yu Sheng came back to Deep Mountain, where Yu Mo told him that the path through the pass and its public glory were no longer meant for him.

• Old White Ape rallied the Demon Beasts to return home with renewed anger toward the Human Race, prompting them to unite and strengthen themselves.
• Army-Breaker’s Soldiers returned to Demon-Suppressing Pass hardened by battle and changed from inexperienced recruits into true warriors.
• Yu Sheng returned to Deep Mountain, and Yu Mo asked why he had not gone through Demon-Suppressing Pass to claim the glory he had earned.
• Yu Mo told Yu Sheng that Deep Mountain represented the Human Race’s hidden path of loneliness and devotion, and that this path was closed to Yu Sheng.
• Xin Yongfeng returned to Deep Mountain, greeted Yu Sheng, and moved Yu Mo’s Wheelchair so he could lovingly tend to the black stone beneath it.