Chapter Summaries

Yu Sanshui had Yu Sheng attend school and follow an ordinary routine, hoping he would understand how ordinary people lived. Yu Sheng noticed little change, but Yu Sanshui urged him to keep trying to see the world from an ordinary person's position.

• Yu Sanshui picked Yu Sheng up from school each day and proudly introduced him to other parents, while the principal repeatedly hinted that Yu Sheng should support the school.
• After Yu Sheng gave the principal a silent look, the principal stopped approaching him and increased his homework, including math problems and classical prose to memorize.
• Yu Sheng worked hard for a week but remained last in his class, and Yu Sanshui felt gratified when he saw the report card.
• Yu Sheng asked whether school and homework were helping his cultivation, and Yu Sanshui asked him to consider what had changed in his life and whether he had seen darkness again.
• Yu Sheng said he had still seen darkness because the principal had subjected him to under-the-table rules.
• Yu Sanshui explained that Yu Sheng was experiencing an ordinary life, in which people worked toward their own goals, and asked him to try putting himself in an ordinary person's position.

Yu Sheng began accepting the Principal’s lessons and continued to rank last, though he stopped guessing on tests. In the Demon Domain, Shi Guang awoke in a strange dark space and encountered Mu Yu, who told her she needed to absorb the green spiritual energy there.

• Yu Sanshui defended the Principal’s motives and urged Yu Sheng to stop letting suspicion cloud his judgment.
• Yu Sheng spent the next weeks attending lectures and completing assignments, then scored last on the class assessment without relying on guesses.
• Shi Guang awoke in a dark, unfamiliar space and realized she had survived despite her body having been frozen and its organs having stopped.
• Shi Guang cautiously explored the space until a green light approached, and Mu Yu told her to absorb it to avoid starvation or running out of spiritual energy.
• Mu Yu emerged from the darkness carrying an enormous Gravestone, and Shi Guang recognized her voice.

Shi Guang met Mu Yu in the aurora-filled space where he had been trapped for months, and learned that its spiritual energy had helped him approach the Eighth Awakening. Meanwhile, Yu Sheng received an invitation to celebrate Zhao Zicheng’s son turning one hundred days old, just as his teacher appeared before him.

• Shi Guang told Mu Yu that she had died and awakened in the space, while Mu Yu explained that he had entered to fulfill a dream of seeing the aurora.
• Mu Yu said he had found no exit, but the spiritual energy there had brought him close to the Eighth Awakening, and proposed that he and Shi Guang work together to break the barrier.
• Shi Guang told Mu Yu that Yu Sheng had already reached the Eighth Awakening and killed several Demon Lords, then left to explore.
• Yu Sheng read Zhao Zicheng’s message inviting him to celebrate his son’s hundredth day, and Zhao Zicheng’s wife, Yu Sheng’s teacher, appeared in front of him.

Yu Sheng attended class with Zhao Zicheng’s wife, then joined her and Yu Sanshui for Zhao Zicheng’s baby’s hundred-day celebration, bringing test papers instead of a conventional gift. After months of visiting the family and holding the rapidly growing child, Yu Sanshui stopped Yu Sheng on their usual route and said they would not go there that day.

• Zhao Zicheng’s wife caught Yu Sheng looking at his phone in class and told him to study before agreeing they would visit together afterward.
• Zhao Zicheng mistook the box of placement-test papers Yu Sheng carried for a gift, but Yu Sheng explained he had bought more test papers for Zhao Zicheng’s child.
• Yu Sheng, Yu Sanshui, and Zhao Zicheng’s family celebrated the child’s hundredth day quietly, and Yu Sheng learned the child was unusually strong and could already walk and sometimes run.
• Yu Sanshui began taking Yu Sheng to Zhao Zicheng’s house for meals after school, where Yu Sheng often held the child, and the routine continued for about two months.
• As Yu Sheng headed toward Zhao Zicheng’s house after school, Yu Sanshui stopped him and said they were not going that day.

Yu Sanshui helped Yu Sheng recognize that his attachment to Zhao Zicheng’s daughter had opened him to trusting others and urged him to accept more people. The next morning, Yu Sheng took a small step by greeting a classmate, who excitedly told the classroom that Pavilion Master Yu had spoken to him first.

• Yu Sanshui cooked dinner for Yu Sheng, who described feeling a sense of loss after leaving Zhao Zicheng’s home and the little girl.
• Yu Sanshui explained that Yu Sheng had grown attached to the child and had willingly lowered his guard around her.
• Yu Sanshui encouraged Yu Sheng to open his heart further, trust others, and notice more of the world’s beauty.
• The next morning, Yu Sheng greeted a boy at school for the first time since enrolling.
• The surprised boy ran into the classroom and announced that Pavilion Master Yu had greeted him first.

Yu Sanshui watched Yu Sheng begin to open up to his classmates, then challenged Yu Mo over secretly steering him and worried there was little time left. Meanwhile, Sun Wen ordered Gold Ingot Group to sell all its shares and buy Demon King Realm Demon Crystals, provoking fierce objections at a shareholders' meeting.

• Yu Sheng's classmates gathered around him after he greeted Xu, and he gradually accepted their friendly attention.
• Yu Sanshui and Zhao Zicheng's wife watched Yu Sheng at school, and Yu Sanshui explained that children might help him open his heart without making him wary.
• Yu Sanshui called Yu Mo, criticized him for steering Yu Sheng, and heard Yu Mo promise to confess everything before Yu Sheng left Jiangbei City.
• Sun Wen ordered Gold Ingot Group to cash out all its shares and use the proceeds to buy as many Demon King Realm Demon Crystals as possible.
• Gold Ingot Group shareholders objected that selling the flourishing company's shares was irrational and would harm its future development.

Sun Wen faced resistance from Gold Ingot Group shareholders over his decision to sell his shares, but the Ink Pavilion pledged unconditional support. Several shareholders backed Sun Wen, while Uncle Zhou continued to oppose him.

• A minor shareholder urged the Ink Pavilion representative to intervene against Sun Wen’s decision.
• The Ink Pavilion representative announced that Yu Mo had ordered him to support Sun Wen unconditionally and threatened anyone who objected.
• Sun Wen told the representative that he would not change his decision and asked Uncle Zhou whether he opposed it for the human race or for himself.
• Uncle Zhou insisted that preserving Gold Ingot Group was essential to the human race.
• One shareholder admitted he had been blinded by profit and chose to support Sun Wen, and two others followed him to the corner.

After Uncle Zhou tried to oppose Sun Wen’s plans, a Light Group agent took him away and made him abandon his ambitions. Sun Wen then put his Gold Ingot Group shares up for sale in exchange for Demon Crystals, sparking a buying frenzy across the Human Race.

• Sun Wen ended the call after declaring that everything would proceed as planned, while the Ink Pavilion staff warned Uncle Zhou to keep quiet.
• An agent posing as an Ink Pavilion staff member took Uncle Zhou from Gold Ingot headquarters and revealed he worked for the Light Group.
• Uncle Zhou dropped his resistance and promised to obey the Light Group rather than continue fighting over the shares.
• Zhou Hong relinquished his authority at the Gold Ingot Group, and Sun Wen announced he was selling all his shares.
• Sun Wen demanded Demon Crystals instead of money, prompting merchants across the Human Race to buy them in bulk.

Yu Sheng chose to take his final exam with his classmates rather than go out with Yu Sanshui, then celebrated with them before deciding to leave Jiangbei City. Yu Sanshui sent him off with advice to follow his heart, and Yu Sheng reached the city gate, where he saw someone waiting in a wheelchair.

• Yu Sanshui urged Yu Sheng to skip his final exam for an outing, but Yu Sheng went because he had promised to take the test with his classmates.
• After the exam, Yu Sheng finished last in his class and joined his classmates for a modest celebration.
• Yu Sheng packed his belongings and prepared to leave Jiangbei City, and Yu Sanshui told him to seek what he truly wanted in his heart.
• Yu Sheng left home carrying his bundle and walked toward the city gate, where he spotted a person sitting in a wheelchair.

Yu Sheng calmly forgave Yu Mo for manipulating events in his life, explaining that he had been happy over the past year. Meanwhile, Yu Sanshui feared Yu Sheng’s reckoning, and Chu Huai asked Yu Mo to transfer him back to the Light Group after a year of tedious administrative work.

• Yu Mo admitted that he had arranged Yu Sheng’s enrollment and his time with Zhao Zicheng’s daughter, but Yu Sheng said he was not angry.
• Yu Sheng explained that he had enjoyed the past year and accepted that people pursued their own interests, then left Yu Mo behind.
• Yu Mo reflected that Yu Sheng was unusually forgiving and wheeled himself away.
• Yu Sanshui panicked at home, endured five minutes of distress, and concluded that Yu Sheng’s offense against him had been minor before heading to Shufen’s home.
• Chu Huai asked Yu Mo to transfer him back to the Light Group, but Yu Mo noted that the group had already destroyed Soul Hunt and had little to do.

Chu Huai reflected on the approaching decisive battle and vowed that Sin City natives would have a place in it, despite Yu Mo treating him as a tool. In Aurora Space, Mu Yu attempted to break through its barrier but resumed cultivating, determined to reach the Ninth Awakening and shatter the space.

• Yu Mo dismissed Chu Huai’s complaints about bonuses, then hung up after revealing he knew Chu Huai’s schedule.
• Chu Huai inferred that a final decisive battle was nearing and resolved to make a place for himself and other Sin City natives.
• Mu Yu declared he would reach the Eighth Awakening and used the Gravestone to strike Aurora Space’s barrier.
• Shi Guang rose as the barrier rippled, and Mu Yu returned to cultivating, saying he would break the space once his spiritual energy reached the Ninth Awakening.
• Shi Guang absorbed a streak of green light, and Aurora Space fell quiet again.

Old White Ape dismissed his subordinates’ calls for action and studied the Human Race’s recent activity, focusing on the Ink Pavilion and its strongest figures. He concluded the sides remained evenly matched for now, while warning his subordinates to monitor possible breakthroughs.

• Two Demon Lords urged Old White Ape to respond to the Human Race’s growing Army-Breaker unit and its taunts on the forum, but he brushed off their concerns.
• Old White Ape asked for a detailed report on the Human Race’s recent actions and became interested in new policies at the Ink Pavilion, suspecting Yu Sheng was absent.
• Old White Ape named more than twenty prominent Human Race figures and ordered the Demon Lords to track them closely, especially for news of breakthroughs.
• After his subordinates left, Old White Ape assessed the balance of power and identified Zhong Yushu as a possible threat who could reach the Ninth Awakening.

Old White Ape planned to use the coming battle to stage a grand spectacle and build a new world after everything was destroyed. Near Sin City, Yu Sheng met the daughter of a man he had killed, whose words about wanting to survive left him asking what she lived for.

• Old White Ape imagined the ninth-awakening fighters creating grand scenes while younger and weaker fighters supplied the battle’s emotional weight.
• Yu Sheng asked a rental-shop owner for a motorcycle to travel to Sin City, but the man refused to rent or sell one.
• The owner’s daughter followed Yu Sheng and asked why he had killed her father, and Yu Sheng said his employer had ordered him to do it.
• The girl said she did not seek revenge because she was happy with her new father and only wanted to stay alive.
• Yu Sheng asked what she was living for, and the girl admitted she did not know and feared the pain of dying.

Yu Sheng questioned the Little Girl about why she wanted to live, and her hope for the future led him to reconsider his own life. Remembering the wishes he once shared with Shi Guang, he realized he had been drifting while Shi Guang had found a new goal.

• Yu Sheng asked the Little Girl why she had followed him, and she said Papa Zong had treated her well and she wanted to ask him something.
• The Little Girl said she wanted to live because the future held new people, experiences, schoolwork, and possibly other papas; she also promised to avenge Papa Zong.
• After the Little Girl left, Yu Sheng pondered whether life mattered without hope and wandered beyond Sin City’s gates.
• Yu Sheng remembered Zhao Zicheng, his classmates, and others who had brought smiles into his life.
• Yu Sheng recalled promising Shi Guang that they would find new wishes and goals whenever they fulfilled their old ones.
• Yu Sheng realized Shi Guang had found a new goal while he himself had remained in place, drifting through life.

Yu Sheng remembered that his true wish was to survive alongside Shi Guang, and resolved to kill Old White Ape after learning that Old White Ape wanted him dead. As Yu Sheng turned away from Sin City, Yu Sanshui appeared, explaining that Yu Mo had sent him to watch over his son.

• Yu Sheng recalled Shi Guang’s determination and realized his own path was to stay alive with her, not to sacrifice himself for the Human Race.
• Yu Sheng’s sealed Awakening Objects emerged as he resolved to kill Old White Ape and turned away from Sin City.
• Yu Sanshui appeared before Yu Sheng and greeted him affectionately, despite their having been apart for only five days.
• Yu Sheng pointed out that Yu Sanshui had reached the Ninth Awakening, and Yu Sanshui admitted Yu Mo had ordered him to follow his son.
• Yu Sanshui said he could not disobey because the powerful Ink Pavilion members had threatened him after he exposed his aura.

Yu Sheng decided to spend a year in Sin City after hearing Yu Mo’s suggestion, while Yu Sanshui urged him to resent Yu Mo for sending him there. Yu Sheng reached the city gates and announced he would enter, though the next chance for anyone to leave was five months away.

• Yu Sanshui told Yu Sheng that Yu Mo wanted him to visit Sin City and persuade its two remaining Jailers to prepare for the final battle.
• Yu Sheng ignored Yu Sanshui’s attempt to provoke him and headed for Sin City, while Yu Sanshui rushed off to report back to Yu Mo.
• A gate guard named Pei Yong recognized Yu Sheng as the Pavilion Master and proudly reported that he had been fulfilling his duties.
• Yu Sheng sat down at Sin City’s gate and said he intended to enter the city.
• Pei Yong warned Yu Sheng that Sin City only allowed one person to leave each year and that the next chance would come in five months.

Yu Sheng stayed at Sin City’s gate while Pei Yong left, and the chapter showed how the city’s starving residents preyed on one another. As night approached, the better-fed survivors gathered to wait for the gate to open and hunt newcomers.

• Yu Sheng thanked Pei Yong and remained focused on Sin City’s gate, while Pei Yong moved away rather than risk getting trapped without Spiritual Energy.
• A one-armed young man ambushed a woman, but she killed him and searched his pockets without finding anything.
• The vultures swarmed the young man’s corpse, and an old man hiding in a ditch killed the woman and stole her food.
• At eight that night, the vultures withdrew and cleaner-dressed residents emerged from hiding to head toward the city gate.
• The residents waited in ambush for the gate to open, expecting newcomers to bring food and become targets.

Yu Sheng returned to Sin City and made his way through its streets toward the Inner City, where he tried to persuade the blind old man to leave with him by offering food. The old man accepted the food but had not yet agreed to go.

• A Sin City resident attacked Yu Sheng for his backpack, but Yu Sheng sent him flying with devastating force and continued toward the Inner City.
• The other residents backed off as Yu Sheng walked away, then Lame Wang stole the dead man's steamed bun and invoked Sin City's rules to escape without retaliation.
• At the Inner City gates, the blind old man recognized Yu Sheng and asked why he had returned.
• Yu Sheng said he had come to trick the old man into leaving Sin City, then laid out fragrant foods from his backpack as an offer.

Yu Sheng reflected on the old man's belief that Sin City and its people could become the Human Race's hope, but reaffirmed his own strict view of right and wrong. After returning to the Outer City, he approached a powerful, chained man and asked whether he would leave Sin City.

• The old man explained that he could not leave Sin City because he was bound to its people and believed it might become the Human Race's last city of hope.
• Yu Sheng questioned his own belief that Sin City natives were inferior, then insisted that right and wrong remained distinct to him.
• Yu Sheng returned to the Inner City and visited the home where he had once lived, but left without disturbing its current residents.
• Yu Sheng went to a room in the Outer City, where a fierce, chained man emerged and recognized Yu Sheng as strong.
• Yu Sheng invited the man to leave Sin City, explaining that he could fight many people stronger than himself.

Yu Sheng discovered that the terrifying burly man could be persuaded to help leave Sin City with food, and learned that a steamed bun had once convinced him to aid Zong Ren. After Yu Sheng gave him a roast chicken, the burly man promised to risk his life to help Yu Sheng escape, though he could act only once.

• Yu Sheng asked why the burly man killed people, and the burly man said they provoked him and carried food.
• Yu Sheng offered the burly man a steamed bun in exchange for help leaving Sin City, and learned he had helped someone escape before.
• The burly man revealed he could act only once because someone would stop him if he interfered again in Sin City's affairs.
• Yu Sheng gave the hungry burly man food he had prepared for the blind old man, and the burly man devoured a roast chicken, bones and all.
• The burly man promised to fight the old man to help Yu Sheng escape, then said the skeletons had tasted sour when he tried eating them.