Chapter Summaries

As the Barbarian Race prepared an all-out assault on Ning'an City, Fang Yun gathered the scholars to discuss their defense. Liu Shan argued that the city would fall and revealed that the Sacred Academy would not come to its aid, leaving the defenders to consider how to face the coming attack.

• The Barbarian Race mobilized its legions and Demon Barbarian kings as Fang Yun summoned the available Great Scholars and Grand Academicians to plan Ning'an's defense.
• Liu Shan urged the army to retreat to Jade Sun Pass, but Zhang Poyue and Zhou Junhu challenged his claims about the battle and its likely outcome.
• Liu Shan warned that Ning'an was unlikely to hold and said the Sacred Academy would not defend it, citing opposition from the Zong Family and the Eastern Sage Pavilion.
• Fang Yun said he had guessed the reason for the Sacred Academy's decision, and the scholars privately concluded that Saint Zong might have reached an agreement to withhold aid.
• The news left lower-ranked scholars feeling abandoned, and Jiang Hechuan redirected the discussion to resisting the barbarian offensive.

Ning'an City prepared for the Barbarian Race’s massive assault as Fang Yun remained the humans’ essential battlefield commander. The siege began with the barbarians’ combined blood banner and waves of demonic arts, while Fang Yun commanded the defense and continued forging his Martial Temple Literary Platform.

• Liu Shan argued that Ning'an City should retreat if the Sacred Academy refused to help, while Zhang Poyue accused him of plotting and doubted his courage.
• Zhang Poyue warned that the barbarians would attack when Fang Yun rested, and the scholars acknowledged that the defense depended on Fang Yun’s command.
• After night fell, Niu Shan challenged Barbarian Emperor Lang Yuan as the barbarians surrounded Ning'an City and combined four blood banners into one enormous banner.
• When Fang Yun woke after a quarter of an hour, he used the Song of Righteous Qi to take command and reverse the disordered battle.
• Three hours later, four hundred Barbarian Kings began attacking from within one li of the city, draining the Grand Academicians as Fang Yun commanded the army and forged his Martial Temple Literary Platform.

The Barbarian Race’s relentless assault wore down Ning'an City’s defenses, and Fang Yun ordered the four Grand Academicians to use their Literary Platforms against a massive charge. The city suffered major damage and casualties, while Zhou Junhu proposed a surprise strike that the other Great Scholars rejected.

• The Barbarian Kings’ demonic arts depleted the Water Race’s defenses and allowed more barbarians to establish a foothold on Ning'an City’s walls.
• Fang Yun ordered four Grand Academicians to defend the city’s four sides with their Literary Platforms as four million barbarians charged.
• The Barbarian Kings countered with Sage Aspect Strikes, blasting breaches into all four walls and causing the humans their first large-scale casualties.
• Craftsmen School mechanisms repaired the walls, and the four Grand Academicians withdrew their attacks as the barbarians resumed their assault.
• Zhou Junhu secretly proposed that the Great Scholars ambush the Barbarian Kings, but the others opposed the plan until the city faced destruction.

Fang Yun unveiled the Martial Temple Literary Platform, which strengthened Ning'an City's soldiers, weapons, and military powers. Its blessings and Li Guang's support let the defenders slaughter millions of barbarians, forcing their army to retreat and leaving the Rebel Species leader convinced Fang Yun had lured them into attacking in packed formations.

• More than ten million barbarians charged Ning'an City's walls on each side as the human and Water Race forces struggled to hold them back.
• Fang Yun summoned the Martial Temple Literary Platform, and Jiang Ziya's power strengthened the city's soldiers, weapons, military techniques, and defenses.
• Li Guang's power enhanced the human archers and their weapons, while Fang Yun ordered more bow-armed War-Poem Soldiers into battle.
• A barrage from the archers, mechanical devices, and War-Poem Soldiers killed 120,000 barbarians, and the barbarian kings ordered their forces to retreat three li.
• The barbarians counted six million dead, and the leading Rebel Species member accused Fang Yun of waiting for their tightly packed charge.

After the battle outside Ning'an City, the Demon Barbarian kings debated how to challenge the humans while human leaders discussed military affairs and the growing strength of the School of War. Fang Yun explained how he had forged his Martial Temple Literary Platform, leaving scholars eager to follow his example.

• Lang Yuan returned to the barbarian camp and called the kings together, where they debated a Ten Kings Battle but worried about facing Fang Yun.
• Female doctors treated wounded soldiers on Ning'an City's walls, and the soldiers increasingly accepted them as comrades-in-arms.
• Fang Yun told the gathered scholars that he had once wanted to build a temple honoring the past worthies of the School of War, prompting wariness among members of other schools.
• The scholars set aside their concerns about the School of War's growing influence because the Human Race needed unity against the Demon Realm.
• Fang Yun described in detail how he had forged his Martial Temple Literary Platform, and scholars listened closely to learn from him.

Fang Yun and the scholars watched as Lang Yuan used sacred blood to summon the Half-Sage Lang Lu’s incarnation. Lang Lu tried to sway the humans with his saintly bearing, but Fang Yun saw through the influence and ended the encounter by trading threats with him.

• Fang Yun explained that his military merits and knowledge of the School of War’s Sacred Way had allowed him to forge the Martial Temple Literary Platform and awaken several past sages.
• Fang Yun and the scholars noticed the Demon Barbarians forming a ring around a tiger hide as Lang Yuan raised a drop of golden sacred blood.
• Lang Lu’s thousand-foot silver wolf incarnation appeared, and the Demon Barbarians knelt to greet him.
• Lang Lu’s gentle presence inspired admiration among ordinary humans, but Fang Yun and the Great Scholars recognized the Sacred Way’s influence and resisted it.
• Fang Yun sensed the distortion of Lang Lu’s Sacred Way and realized he was close to becoming a Great Scholar.
• Lang Lu offered to make Fang Yun the foremost Rebel Species Half-Sage if he joined the Demon Race, and Fang Yun countered by demanding that Lang Lu become his mount in exchange for a path to Great Sagehood.

Fang Yun refused Lang Lu’s demands for secrets and the Soul-Suppressing Corridor, while trying to persuade him to withdraw the Demon Realm’s forces from Jing Kingdom. The chapter ended with Fang Yun proposing a great oath: Lang Lu would withdraw his forces, and Fang Yun would enter Burial Saint Valley.

• Lang Lu questioned Fang Yun about the Comet Corridor and Blaze Sage, but Fang Yun refused to reveal what he knew.
• Lang Lu offered to spare Fang Yun and withdraw from Jing Kingdom if Fang Yun retrieved the Soul-Suppressing Corridor from the Ten Cold Ancient Land.
• Fang Yun rejected the deal and warned Lang Lu that the Soul-Suppressing Corridor might contain Tu Ting’s power and remnant soul.
• Fang Yun suggested that Mountain Bearer would seek revenge on the Demon Emperor, and Lang Lu confirmed that the Demon Emperor planned to enter Burial Saint Valley.
• Fang Yun proposed swearing a great oath in which Lang Lu would withdraw his forces and Fang Yun would enter Burial Saint Valley.

Fang Yun challenged Lang Lu over his invasion and his effort to stop Human Great Scholars from entering Burial Saint Valley. Chen Guanhai's incarnation arrived to defend Ning'an City and confronted Lang Lu, leaving the two Half-Sages poised to fight.

• Fang Yun accused Lang Lu of invading Jing Kingdom to kill him and block the Human Race's Great Scholars from reaching Burial Saint Valley, then demanded that Lang Lu withdraw or admit he had lied.
• Lang Lu summoned a vast storm of sacred power and sent it crashing toward Ning'an City, while the Great Scholars' attacks failed to stop it.
• Chen Guanhai descended on a cloud stairway, froze Lang Lu's storm, and dispersed it outside the city.
• Chen Guanhai's pale-blue light drove back Lang Lu's power and killed more than four million Demon Barbarians, including two Great Barbarian Kings.
• Lang Lu told Chen Guanhai that he hated his unruffled manner and declared that he would beat him to death.

Chen Guanhai and Lang Lu formed a Sainthood Star Wall, enclosing their confrontation in a separate space while the Demon Barbarians besieged Ning'an City. Fang Yun commanded the defense and used his True Dragon Ancient Sword to halt the Barbarian Kings and slaughter the advancing army.

• Lang Lu and Chen Guanhai formed linked Star Walls that created a separate battlefield above the Saint Origin Continent.
• Lang Yuan ordered the Demon Barbarians to attack Ning'an City and challenged Niu Shan, who charged to fight him.
• Lang Chi sent thousands of Barbarian Kings into battle as a massive army surrounded and besieged the city.
• Fang Yun assigned the Grand Academicians to defend three sides and ordered Zhang Poyue to remain with him on the northern wall.
• Fang Yun sent out his True Dragon Ancient Sword, forcing a hundred Barbarian Kings to retreat and killing the barbarians caught in its path.

Fang Yun’s True Dragon Ancient Sword cut through a Barbarian King’s Sage Aspect Strike and killed him, terrifying the Demon Barbarian army. Lang Lie forced the remaining Barbarian Kings to attack, and eight of them unleashed simultaneous strikes from every direction at the sword.

• The Wolf Barbarian King attacked Fang Yun with a Sage Aspect Strike, but Fang Yun’s True Dragon Ancient Sword pierced it and beheaded him.
• The fallen strike hit the ground and killed more than ten thousand barbarians.
• Zhang Poyue, Zhou Junhu, and Jiang Hechuan watched Fang Yun’s attack with shock and discussed his mastery of the sword.
• Lang Lie killed eleven more Barbarian Kings for their hesitation and threatened the survivors into action.
• Eight Barbarian Kings attacked the True Dragon Ancient Sword at once with Sage Aspect Strikes from multiple directions.

Fang Yun’s True Dragon Ancient Sword destroyed the Eightfold Sage Aspect Strike and slew eighty-eight Barbarian Kings. The Lang Lu Incarnation then attacked the Guanhai Incarnation, whose sacred War Poetry stopped him, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• The True Dragon Ancient Sword used Giant Spirit Patrols the Sea to withstand the Eightfold Sage Aspect Strike and cut down all eighty-eight Barbarian Kings.
• The other Barbarian Kings were frightened and retreated, allowing Human scholars to kill several of them.
• Tian Songshi and Jiang Hechuan praised Fang Yun’s sword strike and discussed the Yangtze River power within it.
• The Lang Lu Incarnation asked whether he could kill Fang Yun, then charged the Guanhai Incarnation at more than Ten Resonances.
• The Guanhai Incarnation instantly formed a sacred Great Wall and mountain range with War Poetry, halting Lang Lu and re-forming the barrier after he smashed through it once.

Fang Yun watched Chen Guanhai’s incarnation fight Lang Lu, studying the Half-Sage’s combat techniques as the Battle of Ning'an eased. Lang Lu then invoked Lone Star Accompanying the Moon, greatly strengthening the barbarians and plunging Ning'an City into an unprecedented crisis.

• Lang Lu split into sixty-four seemingly real incarnations and attacked Chen Guanhai, who answered with a projection of the Chongsi Sacred Brush.
• Fang Yun studied Chen Guanhai’s defensive fighting while the Half-Sage incarnations battled, and the fighting at Ning'an slowed as the kings watched.
• After Chen Guanhai refused to leave Ning'an, Lang Lu summoned the Demon Moon and Sirius with Lone Star Accompanying the Moon.
• The barbarians grew stronger, and their attacks nullified half the power of incoming strikes as they charged the city walls.
• Lang Lu moved to attack, and Ning'an City faced an unprecedented crisis.

Fang Yun and Ning'an City's defenders faced an overwhelming Barbarian assault while the Guanhai Incarnation fought Lang Lu above the city. The chapter ended with the Guanhai Incarnation badly wounded and bleeding as the Barbarian advantage grew.

• Lang Lu's rapid attacks clashed with the Guanhai Incarnation's strange spherical field, filling the Star Wall with blinding light.
• Five hundred Barbarian Kings attacked Ning'an City, while Great Barbarian Kings and Great Demon Kings overwhelmed the defenders and forced Fang Yun to recall the True Dragon Ancient Sword.
• Fang Yun confronted Liu Shan over his refusal to help, and Liu Shan blamed Fang Yun for the impending deaths of a million soldiers.
• Fang Yun sensed the Guanhai Incarnation's power fading and called Niu Shan back from his fight with Lang Yuan.
• The light in the Star Wall dispersed, revealing Lang Lu holding a crushed heart and the bloodied Guanhai Incarnation standing opposite him.

After the Guanhai Incarnation fell to the Lang Lu Incarnation, the humans’ morale collapsed and the renewed battle turned against Ning'an City. As Lang Lu threatened to raze the city, Liu Shan urged the defenders to flee, provoking Zhang Poyue and the Jing scholars.

• The Guanhai Incarnation shattered and dissolved, leaving the Lang Lu Incarnation victorious as the demon barbarians roared in triumph.
• Lang Lu gave Chen Guanhai a quarter of an hour to appear before he razed Ning'an, while the humans despaired over their loss.
• The barbarians resumed their assault, and a wolf barbarian commander killed a young soldier who charged him alone.
• Liu Shan urged Fang Yun to retreat and abandon the soldiers and scholars, driving the city’s despair deeper.
• Zhang Poyue and the Jing scholars furiously denounced Liu Shan.

Fang Yun challenged Liu Shan to prove his devotion to the Jing Kingdom by helping him drive back the Demon Barbarians, and wagered his own fate against Liu Shan’s promise to serve him. Liu Shan accepted the oath before the Sages, leaving Ning'an’s defenders watching Fang Yun as the battle hung in the balance.

• Fang Yun confronted Liu Shan’s claim of loyalty and ordered him to cover the army’s retreat, but Liu Shan refused.
• Fang Yun mocked Liu Shan by demanding that he massage his legs and remove his boots, promising to write War Poetry that would drive back tens of millions of barbarians.
• Liu Shan agreed to serve Fang Yun if he drove back the barbarians, while Fang Yun warned that everyone knew the consequences if he failed.
• Fang Yun challenged Liu Shan to swear before the Sages, and Liu Shan swore he would serve him like a slave or maidservant if Fang Yun succeeded.
• Jiang Hechuan and the other scholars begged Fang Yun not to risk his life, as the people of Ning'an watched from within the city walls.

As Lang Yuan threatened Ning'an City after Niu Shan was badly injured, Fang Yun prepared to write a third poem for the Barbarian Emperor. The chapter ended as Fang Yun borrowed Literary Qi from the Temple of Sages and began writing, with the city surrounded by barbarians.

• Liu Shan told Fang Yun that Ning'an and the Jing Kingdom depended on him if Chen Guanhai did not arrive.
• Niu Shan ignored Fang Yun’s order and charged Lang Lu’s Incarnation, who repeatedly smashed him into the ground until Quan Xi carried him back to the city.
• Lang Yuan advanced on Ning'an City, declaring that he could slaughter its people himself, while his Emperor Realm pressure forced weaker defenders to the ground.
• Fang Yun poured wine and announced he would give Lang Yuan a third poem, prompting Lang Yuan to call it Fang Yun’s swan song and order the barbarians to wait before attacking.
• Fang Yun borrowed Literary Qi from the Temple of Sages, raised his Literary Rank to Half-Day Great Scholar, and began writing “River Town: Three Farewells to the Barbarian Emperor.”

Fang Yun wrote a war lyric invoking Sun Quan and promising to shoot down Sirius, while the Sword of the Realm lent the poem the Jing Kingdom’s national fortune. As the army soul appeared and primordial qi surged across the land, Lang Yuan panicked and begged Lang Lu to intervene before the poem’s power could strike.

• Fang Yun began writing a Great-Scholar war lyric as Firmament Righteous Qi gathered, and Lang Lu waited for Chen Guanhai’s true body.
• The Sword of the Realm emerged above the capital and entered Fang Yun’s poetry page, infusing it with the Jing Kingdom’s national fortune.
• Fang Yun’s first stanza described reclaiming his youthful spirit and leading troops to fight the Demon Barbarians, drawing praise for its reference to Sun Quan.
• Fang Yun completed the stanza calling on Feng Tang to pardon him and declaring that he would draw his bow and shoot Sirius, prompting scholars and soldiers to erupt in acclaim.
• The Jing Kingdom’s army soul appeared behind Fang Yun, and primordial qi surged across thirty thousand li as Lang Yuan begged Lang Lu to act.

Fang Yun used the Great-Scholar War Poetry “River Town: Three Farewells to the Barbarian Emperor” to summon Sun Quan and a Wolf-Shooting Arrow, making the Demon Barbarian army flee before he even released it. The arrow then pierced Lang Yuan and devastated the battlefield as Lang Lu’s incarnation and true body were held back.

• Fang Yun burned his war poem and summoned Sun Quan, whose appearance brought a Literary Star phantom that astonished humans and barbarians alike.
• Sun Quan aimed a giant bow at Sirius, Lang Lu’s incarnation, and Lang Yuan, concentrating the war poem’s power into a single arrow.
• Lang Yuan fled, triggering a rout among the Demon Barbarians, while Lang Lu’s incarnation struck at Fang Yun and Ning’an City.
• The Chen Family’s Great Scholar used Guanhai’s sacred blood to block Lang Lu’s incarnation, and a sword from beyond the blue heavens stopped Lang Lu’s true body from advancing.
• Fang Yun’s Wolf-Shooting Arrow pierced Lang Yuan and tore through the Demon Barbarian ranks, crushing those below king and setting the Demon Barbarian kings ablaze.

Fang Yun’s Wolf-Shooting Arrow annihilated the northern Barbarian army and triggered a human pursuit that routed the remaining Demon Barbarians. Afterward, Liu Shan fulfilled his humiliating promise to massage Fang Yun’s leg and remove his boot, only to be ordered to put it back on.

• Fang Yun’s Wolf-Shooting Arrow destroyed the northern Barbarian army, while Lang Chi escaped and the sacred sword killed the Lang Lu Incarnation.
• Fang Yun ordered the human and Water Race forces to pursue the fleeing Barbarians, who had lost their fighting spirit and leaders.
• The Great Scholars praised Fang Yun’s poem and discussed its power as Liu Shan stood silent beneath the reminder of his promise.
• Ao Huang returned to record Liu Shan massaging Fang Yun’s leg and removing his boot, but Fang Yun ordered Liu Shan to put the boot back on.
• Liu Shan obeyed, and the assembled scholars recognized that his scholarly reputation had collapsed.

After Fang Yun led the Human Race to a historic victory at Ning'an, he ordered the pursuit of the fleeing barbarians and declared his intention to reclaim Shuofang City. The chapter left the Jing Kingdom's forces rallying to march north, while the scale of Fang Yun's achievements raised questions about how the imperial court would respond.

• Liu Shan left Fang Yun on the city wall in his boots, while Ao Huang cursed Liu Shan and flew off to kill Demon Barbarians.
• Fang Yun ordered armies across the land to hunt down the fleeing barbarians after the battle, and learned that the Wu Kingdom's front had also routed its enemy.
• The Sacred Academy recorded barbarian casualties exceeding one hundred million, giving the Jing Kingdom a historic victory and major military rewards.
• Fang Yun declared that he would pursue the barbarians, break through the Helan Mountains, and reclaim Shuofang City, prompting Jing Kingdom soldiers to shout, "North to Shuofang!"
• Tian Songshi and Yang Xuanye voiced support for the campaign, while Nangong Leng noted that reclaiming Shuofang would greatly expand the Jing Kingdom's territory.
• Jing Kingdom scholars recognized that Fang Yun's achievements dwarfed any ordinary reward and worried that the imperial family or his political enemies might suspect he wanted the throne.