Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng and Brawny Man searched the Aurora Snowfield for traces of Shi Guang, finding only blood-red ice and no body. As Yu Sheng continued to wonder what had happened, night fell over the snowfield for the first time, revealing a brilliant green aurora.

• Brawny Man followed Yu Sheng into the Aurora Snowfield, insisting that he owed Yu Sheng work for the food and shelter he had received.
• Yu Sheng and Brawny Man searched the snowfield for a week, finding nothing until Brawny Man uncovered several chunks of blood-red ice.
• Yu Sheng said he could not identify whose blood was in the ice, though touching it made him feel sad, and the two continued searching outward.
• Yu Sheng and Brawny Man searched the snowfield again and again but found no body, while the snowfield’s natural magnetic field limited Yu Sheng’s Mental Power.
• Yu Sheng questioned why Shi Guang’s body was missing, and night suddenly fell over the Aurora Snowfield as a green aurora appeared in the sky.

Mu Yu realized that he could escape Aurora Space during its spatial fluctuations, but more importantly, he stopped trying to imitate Yu Sheng and resolved to follow his own path. He committed to leaving and returning to the responsibilities and people he had left behind.

• Yu Sheng sensed spatial fluctuations beneath the expanding green light and prepared for what might happen.
• Mu Yu realized Aurora Space weakened whenever it opened to absorb something, creating a chance to break through and escape.
• Shi Guang questioned why they needed to leave, since the space allowed them to cultivate faster and they could depart whenever they wished.
• Mu Yu explained that he needed to return to his family, friends, and the Human Race's approaching final battle.
• Mu Yu accepted that he was different from Yu Sheng and resolved to stop imitating him and walk his own path.

Mu Yu and Shi Guang combined their powers to open a passage through space. Mu Yu turned back after spotting Yu Sheng, and Shi Guang ultimately followed him out before the rift vanished.

• Mu Yu reflected on his childish behavior and told Shi Guang that he understood her and Yu Sheng’s hidden kindness.
• Mu Yu awakened the Gravestone’s seventh pattern, while Shi Guang merged with her shadow and doubled her aura.
• Mu Yu and Shi Guang struck the same point, creating a passage wide enough for one person.
• Mu Yu began stepping through, but returned after he spotted Yu Sheng and decided Yu Sheng should know Shi Guang was there.
• Shi Guang stepped through the passage just before it disappeared.

Yu Sheng reunited with Shi Guang in the snowy wilderness, then learned Mu Yu had reached the Eighth Awakening and needed a Demon Lord-level Demon Core. Yu Sheng revealed that he had several to spare, leaving Mu Yu stunned by how powerful and well supplied Yu Sheng had become.

• Yu Sheng and Shi Guang quietly confirmed that each other had survived.
• Mu Yu complained that Yu Sheng had overlooked him, then explained that he had found his own path and reached the Eighth Awakening.
• Mu Yu said he needed a Demon Lord-level Demon Core, and Yu Sheng produced several from the Mountains and Rivers Bottle.
• Yu Sheng said he and Brawny Man had killed the Demon Lords, and confirmed that he had reached the Ninth Awakening.

Yu Sheng gave Mu Yu and Shi Guang Demon Cores to help them break through while he guarded them in the Demon Domain. As the storm worsened, he set up tents for Shi Guang and Brawny Man, but left Mu Yu buried in snow.

• Mu Yu lamented that he lagged far behind Yu Sheng in strength and wealth, then received a Demon Core from him.
• Yu Sheng chose a Demon Core from his stockpile for Shi Guang, who began her breakthrough after reaching the Seventh Awakening.
• Mu Yu absorbed his own Demon Core and asked Yu Sheng to keep watch.
• Yu Sheng gave Brawny Man a Demon Beast carcass, firewood, and a windproof tent so he could cook.
• Yu Sheng kept watch in the snow, set up another tent for Shi Guang, and left Mu Yu to become a snowman.

After Mu Yu’s breakthrough, Nine-Tailed Fox approached Yu Sheng and asked to speak with him alone. Mu Yu warned Yu Sheng not to trust the Demon Clan as the group faced the fox’s unexplained request.

• Mu Yu awoke after an hour-long breakthrough, and Brawny Man examined his Gravestone before admitting he was hungry.
• Yu Sheng left the Snowfield with Shi Guang after asking about her new skill.
• Nine-Tailed Fox arrived and recalled how Yu Sheng had helped bring about its defeat by Old White Ape.
• Brawny Man asked Yu Sheng if he could eat Nine-Tailed Fox, but Yu Sheng said he would not get the chance that day.
• Nine-Tailed Fox explained that it had come to discuss something with Yu Sheng alone, and Mu Yu warned him not to trust the Demon Clan.

The Nine-Tailed Fox asked Yu Sheng to cooperate and explained that Old White Ape had rescued it after years of imprisonment. It shared its suspicion that the Demon Gods were occupied with something, leaving Yu Sheng to decide whether the information could help the Human Race.

• Yu Sheng agreed to speak with the Nine-Tailed Fox alone despite Mu Yu's concern.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox told Yu Sheng it trusted only him and wanted to cooperate.
• Yu Sheng reasoned that the Nine-Tailed Fox had been imprisoned after its failed breakthrough and had returned as a hidden Demon God.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox revealed that Old White Ape had rescued it, then explained that the Demon Gods had not intervened during its breakthrough.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox suggested the Demon Gods were occupied with another matter and warned Yu Sheng that the information might be a trap.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox said it still could not understand what Old White Ape stood to gain by freeing it.

The Nine-Tailed Fox explained that it had deduced Old White Ape was a lunatic planning something disastrous for both the Demon Domain and the Human Race. After Yu Sheng revealed Old White Ape’s scheme, the Nine-Tailed Fox proposed they cooperate against it, but acknowledged Yu Sheng had to gamble on the chance Old White Ape had given humanity.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox explained why it had realized Old White Ape was a dangerous lunatic and concluded that the Ninth Awakening cultivator with Yu Sheng was its target.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox asked Yu Sheng to explain the threat, and Yu Sheng described Old White Ape’s scheme.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox reacted with disbelief and proposed joining forces with Yu Sheng to kill Old White Ape, while insisting it would ultimately destroy the Human Race.
• Yu Sheng questioned whether cooperation would benefit him, and the Nine-Tailed Fox admitted humanity had better odds by taking Old White Ape’s fifty-fifty gamble.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox reflected that Old White Ape had made its opponents feel powerless and afraid as they uncovered its plans.

The Nine-Tailed Fox resolved to follow Old White Ape’s plan and attack Yu Sheng, believing that weakening the Human Race was the best path for the Demon Domain. Yu Sheng escaped its trap with a substitute, but the Nine-Tailed Fox then used its formidable mental power to incapacitate Brawny Man.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox admitted it knew Old White Ape was steering it, but decided its duty to the Demon Domain outweighed resisting him.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox attacked Yu Sheng with its nine tails as Shi Guang and Mu Yu moved to intervene.
• Brawny Man rushed toward the Nine-Tailed Fox, eager to eat, while Yu Sheng revealed he had escaped using his seventh skill, Substitute.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox rejected Yu Sheng’s refusal to cooperate and declared it would destroy the Human Race by any means.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox froze Brawny Man with its mental power and explained that its ancient cultivation technique had strengthened its mind as well as its body.

The Nine-Tailed Fox tried to recruit Yu Sheng and then attacked Brawny Man, but Brawny Man overpowered it and treated it as food. After escaping with Mental Power, the fox threatened to control Brawny Man and kill Yu Sheng, but Brawny Man declared that it could not harm his boss.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox tightened its tail around Brawny Man’s neck when Yu Sheng refused to work with it, but Brawny Man woke up and seized the fox’s tail.
• Brawny Man pinned the Nine-Tailed Fox and asked Yu Sheng how to cook it, while Yu Sheng suggested he try everything.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox struck Brawny Man with its tails, then used Mental Power to escape and keep its distance.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox warned Yu Sheng that it could wear Brawny Man down and kill him, but Brawny Man recovered and said the fox could not kill him.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox threatened to control Brawny Man and kill Yu Sheng, and Brawny Man solemnly told it that Yu Sheng was his boss.

Brawny Man resisted Nine-Tailed Fox’s mental assault to protect Yu Sheng, while Mu Yu sent him the Gravestone. Yu Sheng tested the power of his fused world against Nine-Tailed Fox and learned how much stronger he still needed to become.

• Nine-Tailed Fox attacked Brawny Man with its mental power, but Brawny Man endured the strain and insisted it could not kill Yu Sheng.
• Brawny Man reminded Yu Sheng of their agreement in Sin City, then urged Mu Yu to use the Gravestone.
• Mu Yu sent the Gravestone through a space rift to Brawny Man, while Nine-Tailed Fox threatened Yu Sheng and struck at him with a tail.
• Yu Sheng manifested a clearer projection of his fused world and punched Nine-Tailed Fox’s tail, but the impact sent him flying and shattered the projection.
• Yu Sheng estimated that his Phoenix Hammer could hold off Nine-Tailed Fox for five minutes and recognized that a physically powerful Demon God like Zhu Yan would be harder to face.
• Brawny Man declared that Yu Sheng was the best person in the world because he gave him more food than he could count.

Brawny Man regained memories and power through Mu Yu’s Gravestone, then used Mu Yu’s Mental Power to overpower the Nine-Tailed Fox. He left Mu Yu badly strained and hurled the Demon God away.

• Brawny Man joined the chains around his arms to Mu Yu’s Gravestone and began to remember that it had once been his.
• Brawny Man asked Mu Yu to lend him Mental Power, and Mu Yu agreed.
• Brawny Man used the Gravestone to shield himself from the Nine-Tailed Fox’s Mental Power and struck it into a pit.
• Brawny Man dragged the Nine-Tailed Fox from the pit and beat it while Mu Yu bled from the strain of lending his Mental Power.
• Brawny Man called Mu Yu lucky, then swung the Nine-Tailed Fox by its tail and hurled it away.

Brawny Man drove off the Nine-Tailed Fox and told Yu Sheng about the Feather Race, its rivalry with the Beast Race, and its destruction in the Spiritual Energy Catastrophe. He left the cause of his survival and the Feather Race’s fate unexplained.

• Brawny Man frightened the Nine-Tailed Fox into fleeing, then approached Yu Sheng and said he would not kill him.
• Yu Sheng recognized Brawny Man as belonging to the Heavenly Race, and Brawny Man asked why Yu Sheng had never heard of the Feather Race.
• Brawny Man explained that the Feather Race had three paths of cultivation and once fought the Beast Race as an equal.
• Brawny Man said the Feather Race defeated the Beast Race, but the Spiritual Energy Catastrophe struck before they could prepare to escape.

Brawny Man told Yu Sheng how the Feather Race created the City of Hope and eventually died out while waiting for spiritual energy to return. Before losing clarity, he recognized Yu Sheng as an inheritor chosen by the Heavenly Race and declared that the Feather Race had chosen Yu Sheng too.

• Brawny Man explained that the Feather Race had hidden in the City of Hope within the Sea of Space, hoping to return when spiritual energy came back.
• He described how the Feather Race members in the city gradually died, and how he left a thought behind with a gravestone recording their names.
• Brawny Man reflected on the surviving fool, madman, and old man, then asked Yu Sheng to treat his body and the others kindly.
• Brawny Man sensed the Heavenly Race’s aura on Yu Sheng and identified him as its chosen inheritor.
• Brawny Man declared that Yu Sheng was also the Feather Race’s chosen inheritor, and the characters on the gravestone began to glow.

Brawny Man awakened the Feather Race’s legacy through Shi Guang, revealing that she was the soul formed from the race’s gathered spirits and its final hope. He lost his memories after the ritual, while Shi Guang remained enveloped in light and Mu Yu mourned that he was not the inheritor.

• Brawny Man offered his blood and invoked the Feather Race’s legacy, but the Gravestone’s power flowed into Shi Guang instead of Mu Yu.
• The ritual surrounded Shi Guang with light as Brawny Man used the blood of War, the thoughts of Shaman, and the will of Sacrifice to strengthen her.
• Brawny Man explained that Shi Guang was the Feather Race’s gathered soul and final hope, and thanked Mu Yu for bringing the Gravestone to him.
• Brawny Man declared that the Feather Race would be no more, then lost his lucidity and returned to his familiar, simple-minded self.
• Yu Sheng watched over Shi Guang as she remained within the beam of light, while Brawny Man asked him for food and Mu Yu sat alone with the Gravestone.

Mu Yu accepted that the inheritance was not his and declared himself the Human Race’s Heir, while Yu Sheng’s teasing punctured his confidence. Shi Guang remained immersed in a strange transformation, and Brawny Man watched over her, feeling inexplicably close to her.

• Yu Sheng gave Brawny Man another Demon Beast, and Brawny Man ran off to cook it in his Stone Pot.
• Mu Yu told Yu Sheng he had once hoped to inherit the tomb’s legacy, but now felt relieved and claimed the title of the Human Race’s Heir.
• Yu Sheng pointed out that Mu Yu’s Gravestone belonged to the Feather Race and suggested he was more like their Path Protector, deflating Mu Yu’s confidence.
• Yu Sheng mentioned that people on forums called someone like Mu Yu a Socialist Successor, leaving Mu Yu exasperated but feeling better.
• Shi Guang remained in a strange state for a full day as light strengthened her body and Mental Power.
• Brawny Man told Mu Yu he felt close to Shi Guang and feared something might happen to her.

After waking, Shi Guang tested her newly enhanced abilities with Yu Sheng and learned that her physical strength and Mental Power had greatly improved. She seemed capable of advancing toward the Ninth Awakening, while her full-power Awakening Object left Mu Yu stunned.

• Shi Guang woke and noticed she could briefly freeze falling snowflakes.
• Shi Guang and Yu Sheng exchanged physical attacks, and Yu Sheng judged her strength comparable to a Demon Lord Level Demon Beast.
• Yu Sheng tested Shi Guang's Mental Power and found it near the Human Race's Eighth Awakening, though her reactions were slow.
• Shi Guang said she could absorb an eighth Demon Crystal and that a strange substance inside her continually supplied Spiritual Energy.
• Yu Sheng tested Shi Guang's Awakening Object at full power, leaving Mu Yu shocked by her strength.

Yu Sheng and Shi Guang tested each other with carefully planned techniques before stopping to discuss how to improve their abilities. As they prepared to set off, Yu Sanshui appeared, and Child kicked him under Yu Sheng’s watch.

• Yu Sheng attacked Shi Guang with the Phoenix Hammer, but her soul-powered snowflake shield stopped it until he strengthened the blow.
• Yu Sheng avoided Shi Guang’s hidden dagger by using Substitute to swap places, then struck again and prompted her to concede.
• Yu Sheng and Shi Guang discussed how she could improve her soul ability, then agreed to continue their journey.
• Yu Sheng promised to find Shi Guang an Eighth Awakening Demon Core, leaving Mu Yu resentful that the cores he had received were called ordinary.
• Yu Sanshui appeared and apologized for waiting ten days to visit, and Child kicked him while Yu Sheng summoned the Mountains and Rivers Bottle.

Yu Sheng and his companions left Yu Sanshui behind and traveled back at a relaxed pace, while Yu Mo turned Yu Sanshui’s covert actions into a public heroic identity. The chapter left Yu Sanshui horrified to learn that he had been declared a hero and assigned a role in a final battle.

• Yu Sanshui stopped trying to block Yu Sheng after seeing his strength and watched him leave with his companions.
• Yu Sheng’s group enjoyed a leisurely return journey, catching Demon Beasts to roast as Yu Sheng cooked for them.
• Yu Sanshui called Yu Mo and explained that Yu Sheng, Brawny Man, Mu Yu, and Shi Guang were too strong for him to stop.
• Yu Mo told Yu Sanshui that the Human Race expected him to join the final battle and had revealed his identity to his forty-nine lady friends.
• Yu Mo revealed that he had publicized Yu Sanshui’s identity, created a Weibo account for him, and arranged for a film director to rename a movie’s male lead after him.

Yu Mo told Yu Sanshui that a film about him had become a hit, making him famous as a hero across the Human Race. Yu Sanshui rejected Yu Mo’s attempt to push him toward the final battle, but public admiration made him leave in embarrassed silence.

• Yu Mo told Yu Sanshui that Zhong Yushu had given him the film’s naming rights and that the movie had made Yu Sanshui famous throughout the Human Race.
• Yu Sanshui threatened Yu Mo and accused him of forcing him toward the final battle, while Yu Mo apologized but insisted that Yu Sanshui had to survive it.
• Yu Sanshui rejected Yu Mo’s pressure, hung up, switched off his phone, and decided he could hide rather than fight.
• Sun Qian, a Military Academy student, recognized Yu Sanshui as his idol and saluted him, saying he hoped to protect the Human Race like him.
• A child and the surrounding people praised Yu Sanshui as a great hero, leaving him awkward and overwhelmed as he hurried away.