Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun and the Mountain Saint Spirits searched Thunderweave Mountain for Sacred Qi Clusters and Spirit Bones, but found far fewer than expected. A Thunder Dragon targeted Fang Yun and blocked their escape, leaving them to fight as its lightning attack sent them crashing toward the ground.

• Fang Yun and the ten Mountain Saint Spirits found only seventy-nine Sacred Qi Clusters and no Spirit Bones while searching Thunderweave Mountain.
• Shanzhong Yang suspected someone had collected the Spirit Bones first, and Fang Yun agreed that more than one person might be involved.
• Shanzhong Yang sensed a powerful being watching them, and Fang Yun ordered the group to retreat when a Thunder Dragon emerged from the clouds.
• Fang Yun concluded that someone had used an object bearing his aura to provoke the Thunder Dragon into pursuing him.
• A Mountain Saint Spirit turned to attack the Thunder Dragon but was overwhelmed by its lightning, and the dragon soon appeared ahead of the fleeing group to block their way.
• Fang Yun ordered everyone to fight together, but the Thunder Dragon shattered their attacks with a wave of lightning and drove them toward the ground.

Fang Yun and the Mountain Saint Spirits struggled to escape the Thunder Dragon’s relentless assault inside Thunderweave Mountain. As their defenses began to tire, Fang Yun unleashed a sacred qi cluster and gained a clearer view of the battle.

• Ye Hongyu flew into Thunderweave Mountain, where his Tongue Sword endured the falling lightning.
• The Thunder Dragon knocked Fang Yun and the ten Mountain Saint Spirits down, and they decided to flee along the ground under their sacred qi defenses.
• Shanzhong Yang formed the Body of Ten Thousand Mountains and attacked the Thunder Dragon, but one strike shattered his defenses and severely injured him.
• Fang Yun sent sacred qi clusters to the Mountain Saint Spirits, and they charged forward together while the Thunder Dragon bombarded them with lightning.
• As the Mountain Saint Spirits grew fatigued, Fang Yun released sacred qi from his Literary Palace and gained a heightened perception of the battlefield.

Fang Yun and the ten Mountain Saint Spirits were trapped by the Thunder Dragon’s Thunder Prison on Thunderweave Mountain. Fang Yun summoned the Marquis Wu Chariot to shield them, and they escaped the prison, but Ye Hongyu then veered toward a disturbance in the lightning.

• Fang Yun used sacred qi to cultivate while casting two Enemy-Blocking Poems, buying time as he fled from the Thunder Dragon.
• The Thunder Dragon formed a vast Thunder Prison around Fang Yun and the Mountain Saint Spirits, and their attacks failed to break through.
• Fang Yun spotted a weakness in the prison and coordinated a strike with the Mountain Saint Spirits, but the Thunder Dragon altered the prison and flooded it with lightning.
• Fang Yun summoned the Marquis Wu Chariot and used it to shield the group while the Mountain Saint Spirits broke open the prison wall.
• The group escaped and fled toward Thunderweave Mountain’s exit as the Thunder Dragon attacked, but Ye Hongyu changed direction after detecting an unusual disturbance in the lightning.

Fang Yun and the Mountain Saint Spirits were trapped by the Thunder Dragon inside a Thunder Prison, while an Eye of Sacred Might began attacking them. The Mountain Saint Spirits sacrificed themselves one by one to weaken the attack, leaving Fang Yun alone as the Thunder Dragon descended toward him.

• Fang Yun learned that the Mountain Saint Spirits had almost exhausted their Sacred Qi and struggled with them to break out of the Thunder Prison.
• The Thunder Dragon strengthened the prison and summoned an Eye of Sacred Might, prompting Shanzhong Yang to propose sacrificing the Mountain Saint Spirits so Fang Yun could escape.
• Shanzhong Yang spent all his Sacred Qi to block the first lightning strike, and his Mountain Core fell to the ground.
• Ku of the Mountains and the other Mountain Saint Spirits took successive strikes, weakening the Eye of Sacred Might until all ten had become Mountain Cores.
• The Thunder Dragon restored the Eye of Sacred Might, and after it struck down the remaining Mountain Saint Spirits, it descended to within a hundred zhang of Fang Yun.

Fang Yun survived the Thunder Dragon’s attack when Ye Hongyu arrived and killed it with the Thunder-Listening Ancient Sword. After exchanging maps and information, Fang Yun decided to seek the spirit bones at the Zhuge Family burial site near Moon-Splitting Lake.

• Fang Yun revealed his status as a Literary Star Dragon Noble, but the Thunder Dragon attacked him under the Eye of Sacred Might.
• Ye Hongyu recited a verse and sent the Thunder-Listening Ancient Sword through the Thunder Dragon, splitting it in two and shattering the Eye of Sacred Might.
• Fang Yun told Ye Hongyu how the Thunder Dragon had been drawn to him and gave him a route map in thanks for saving his life.
• Ye Hongyu shared his experiences in Burial Saint Valley and gave Fang Yun private maps, including an old map of the Zhuge Family burial site.
• Fang Yun learned the burial site had become part of a Fierce Land near Moon-Splitting Lake and said he could still search for its spirit bones.

Fang Yun and Ye Hongyu searched Moon-Splitting Lake for the burial site containing Spirit Bones, traveling through the dangerous weak-water mist. They reached the mapped location, but the terrain had changed and the site was missing, so Ye Hongyu began searching for the bones with his Realm of Family, State, and World.

• Ye Hongyu agreed to help Fang Yun find the burial site and said they would each take one set of Spirit Bones, with the Literary Ancestor's bones going to Fang Yun.
• Fang Yun and Ye Hongyu discussed their Sacred Qi Clusters and agreed to prioritize forming Fang Yun's Ninth Literary Platform before dividing any remaining clusters.
• Fang Yun and Ye Hongyu entered Moon-Splitting Lake and used their abilities to withstand the weak-water mist as they traveled toward the site on their terrain map.
• Fang Yun and Ye Hongyu found that the burial site had disappeared as the river channels had shifted and merged.
• Ye Hongyu said he could sense Human Race Spirit Bones within five li using his Realm of Family, State, and World, and Fang Yun gave him a Sacred Qi Cluster to sustain the search.

Ye Hongyu and Fang Yun searched Moon-Splitting Lake for human spirit bones while Ye Hongyu demonstrated his Realm of Family, State, and World. After battling fierce spirits and absorbing their Black-Marked Crimson Eyes to improve their vision, Ye Hongyu found a human skeleton glowing faintly gold in the river mud.

• Ye Hongyu manifested his Realm of Family, State, and World and used it to search Moon-Splitting Lake for human spirit bones, while Fang Yun studied its power.
• Fang Yun and Ye Hongyu searched for hundreds of li but found nothing as the mist thickened and visibility worsened.
• Two third-realm fierce spirits attacked them, and Ye Hongyu used sacred qi to empower his Thunder-Listening Ancient Sword and kill them.
• Ye Hongyu gave Fang Yun two Black-Marked Crimson Eyes, which Fang Yun absorbed to extend his vision to thirty li.
• After two days of searching, Ye Hongyu pulled a human skeleton with a faint golden glow from the riverbed mud.

Fang Yun and Ye Hongyu left Moon-Splitting Lake without finding the Zhuge Family’s Literary Ancestor Spirit Bones, and Ye Hongyu gave Fang Yun the complete human Spirit Bones for protection. They searched Thunderweave Mountain for sacred qi clusters and Spirit Bones, collecting a large haul while avoiding deadly Thunder Dragons.

• Fang Yun and Ye Hongyu searched Moon-Splitting Lake for another set of Spirit Bones but found none and returned toward Thunderweave Mountain.
• Ye Hongyu gave Fang Yun the complete fourth-realm human Spirit Bones, and Fang Yun activated them with a sacred qi cluster.
• Fang Yun reasoned that the person who had ambushed him could likely control only one Thunder Dragon, so they searched the mountain for sacred qi clusters.
• Ye Hongyu used the Thunder-Listening Ancient Sword to collect thirty-two sacred qi clusters from a valley filled with dense lightning.
• Fang Yun and Ye Hongyu searched for a day and night, collecting 324 sacred qi clusters and two incomplete sets of third-realm Spirit Bones, while two Thunder Dragons fled from Ye Hongyu.

Fang Yun forged the Ninth Literary Platform to ninety-nine tiers but still needed more sacred qi clusters, while Ye Hongyu supplied sacred qi and a powerful Ancient Demon Thunderbone Battle Corpse. After twelve days of searching, Fang Yun saw a golden pillar rise in the southeast and suspected a treasure land had appeared.

• Ye Hongyu escorted Fang Yun out of Thunderweave Mountain and promised to gather sacred qi clusters for his Ninth Literary Platform.
• Fang Yun used more than three hundred sacred qi clusters to forge ninety-seven tiers and a quarter of the ninety-eighth tier.
• Ye Hongyu returned with an Ancient Demon Thunderbone Battle Corpse and 724 sacred qi clusters, and Fang Yun shared Dragon Race secrets with him in return.
• Fang Yun returned ten mountain cores to the Mountain Saint Spirit, then completed the ninety-ninth tier of his Literary Platform halfway and determined he needed another twelve hundred clusters.
• Fang Yun searched for sacred qi clusters for twelve days, relying on four sets of spirit bones to survive encounters with powerful beings and killing sixteen Fierce Spirits.
• A pale golden pillar of qi rose in the southeast, and Fang Yun wondered whether a Dragon Roll-Over or treasure land had appeared.

Fang Yun and Nie Shoude traveled toward a Dragon Roll-Over treasure land, where they planned to seize a few treasures and retreat before powerful beings arrived. They reached the site and saw a pillar of pale golden light launching a sacred qi cluster into the distance.

• Fang Yun decided to race toward the treasure land to gather sacred qi, then leave and forge his Ninth Literary Platform.
• Fang Yun met Nie Shoude, a Great Scholar from Qi Kingdom, and the two discussed their abilities, plans, and need for sacred qi as they traveled together.
• Fang Yun and Nie Shoude agreed to take a few treasures and withdraw rather than challenge powerful beings.
• Fang Yun and Nie Shoude reached the treasure land and saw a vast pillar of pale golden light rising from the mountains amid a cloud of dust and flying rocks.
• A sacred qi cluster shot out of the pillar at extraordinary speed, and Fang Yun briefly showed a strange expression.

Fang Yun competed with several demons for treasures from the Sacred Qi Light Pillar, then headed toward the dangerous black mist despite Nie Shoude's warning. A Fourth Realm Fierce Spirit appeared and seized a treasure, leaving Nie Shoude pleading with Fang Yun for help.

• Ying Hong seized the first Sacred Qi Cluster, and Fang Yun recognized its contents through the light's glow.
• Fang Yun and the others pursued fourteen treasures; Fang Yun intimidated She Kuo into abandoning a contested target and obtained three balls of light.
• Ying Hong told Fang Yun that the Golden Giant had the Tree Venerable's Leaf Book and might be in the Blood Tomb Mausoleum or the Flowing Gold Sea.
• Fang Yun flew toward the black mist despite Nie Shoude's warning that those below the Fifth Realm could not enter, and Ying Hong followed.
• A Fourth Realm Fierce Spirit appeared, seized the treasure Nie Shoude was pursuing, and prompted Nie Shoude to beg Fang Yun for help.
• Fang Yun told Nie Shoude that the Fierce Spirit would not attack him as long as he did not provoke it before the pillar dissipated.

Fang Yun entered the black mist beneath the sacred qi light pillar and used the Starfire Armillary Mirror to withstand its sacred might. With the Bronze Giant and Human Race Great Scholar spirit bones gathering sacred qi clusters, he surveyed the globes ahead for worthwhile prizes.

• Fang Yun charged into the black mist under the protection of sacred qi while the two Great Demon Kings watched smugly.
• The crushing sacred might and violent gales prevented Fang Yun from reaching a sacred qi cluster, so he brought out the Starfire Armillary Mirror.
• The Starfire Armillary Mirror scattered the sacred might around Fang Yun and expanded his vision to three hundred zhang.
• Fang Yun sent the Bronze Giant and Human Race Great Scholar spirit bones to seize nearby globes, and they captured two sacred qi clusters.
• Fang Yun stored the clusters and examined the globes in sight, dismissing the common bones, metals, and divine objects as not worth the sacred qi needed to store them.

Fang Yun gathered sacred qi in the black mist, then left with his spirit bones as powerful figures from many races watched. After protecting Nie Shoude from two attackers, Fang Yun escaped, but Wolf Abyss King turned back and captured Nie Shoude while the others scrambled for spheres scattered by the sacred qi pillar.

• Fang Yun collected 121 sacred qi clusters, avoided a sphere containing a powerful but incomplete Demon Race sacred treasure, and continued gathering until he had 1,500 clusters.
• Fang Yun emerged from the black mist and found many Great Demon Kings and other powerful beings gathered nearby, with Nie Shoude besieged by two Great Barbarian Kings.
• Fang Yun ordered the two Great Barbarian Kings to leave, and his Fourth Realm spirit bones drove them off before he warned Nie Shoude and headed for the Skull-Offering Mountains.
• Lang Hu urged the Demon Barbarians to stop Fang Yun, and a Fourth Realm Wolf Race Great Demon King attacked him but was knocked back by Fang Yun's spirit bones.
• The sacred qi light pillar erupted and scattered spheres, drawing the gathered races into a scramble; Wolf Abyss King seized the opportunity to shatter Nie Shoude's Realm of Family, State, and World and capture him.

Fang Yun completed his ninth Literary Platform in the Skull-Offering Mountains and underwent a transformation to advance to Great Scholar. After three days and nights, his new body formed beneath seven orange moons, and people across the Saint Origin Continent felt the sky tremble.

• Fang Yun reached the Skull-Offering Mountains, entered a concealed cave, and used his Sacred Qi to forge the ninety-ninth level of his Ninth Literary Platform.
• The Ninth Literary Platform formed as the Sacred Soul Literary Platform, and Half-Sage Wang Jinglong's Sacred Blood became a statue atop it.
• Fang Yun's Literary Palace treasures and powers formed a nine-level tower, while his body broke down into nine stars before transforming into a new body.
• After three days and nights, Fang Yun completed his advancement to Great Scholar and condensed seven orange moons of Literary Qi.
• People across the Saint Origin Continent felt the sky tremble when Fang Yun advanced.

The Literary Star shattered into fragments that descended across the Human Race’s lands, filling them with denser literary star light and primordial qi. Fang Yun found a fragment in Burial Saint Valley and absorbed it into his Literary Palace, strengthening his powers.

• The Literary Star cracked and shed forty-nine fragments, leaving behind a smaller star that radiated much denser light.
• Fragments shrank as they fell into the Sacred Academy, Kong City, the Ten Kingdoms, the Eastern Sea, and other human settlements, while scholars celebrated their increased cultivation resources.
• The Eastern Sea Dragon Sage tossed aside a fragment that landed on his head, and a massive hand carried away the fragment that struck the Governor-General’s Office in Yueyang.
• Fang Yun left his cave in Burial Saint Valley and reflected on his new Great Scholar abilities and plans to advance further.
• Fang Yun recognized a fallen meteorite as a Literary Star Fragment and drew it into his Literary Palace, where it merged with his miniature literary star and strengthened his powers.

Fang Yun absorbed the immense Literary Star Light from two Literary Star Fragments and completed the Great Scholar’s self-cultivation trial. After declaring that he sought to bring peace for ten thousand generations, he glimpsed the principles of the Sacred Way and began forging his Realm of Family, State, and World.

• Fang Yun recited the Sages’ Classics as he cultivated within his Literary Palace, where the Literary Star Light overwhelmed its capacity.
• Fang Yun faced a stone statue of himself, which questioned the motives behind the major events of his life.
• Fang Yun declared that he sought to use all he had learned to usher in peace for ten thousand generations, and the statue vanished.
• Fang Yun perceived the principles of all things and saw a starry road revealing the paths available to him.
• Fang Yun summoned his seven Literary Qi Moons, and the first exploded in a surge of orange literary qi.

Fang Yun formed his Realm of Family, State, and World, though its boundary settled at an unusually small radius of two li and ten zhang. As he filled it with the powers and features of his Literary Palace, Wolf Abyss King approached the Skull-Offering Mountains with Nie Shoude, intending to kill him.

• Fang Yun’s seven Literary Qi Moons exploded, and a grand phenomenon of literary qi and eight ten-thousand-li rainbows appeared above the Skull-Offering Mountains.
• Lei Konghe saw the phenomenon and wondered whether Fang Yun was advancing to Great Scholar.
• Wolf Abyss King questioned Nie Shoude about Fang Yun, and Nie Shoude warned him that Fang Yun had advanced rapidly and might have help.
• Fang Yun’s eight rainbows fixed the boundary of his Realm of Family, State, and World at two li and ten zhang, a remarkably small extent.
• Fang Yun filled the realm with seven moons, stars, and manifestations of his Literary Platforms, including a miniature Bloodmang Realm, academies, a Temple of Sages, and a host of people and creatures.

Fang Yun formed his Realm of Family, State, and World and discovered its powers of Breakthrough and Guidance. He learned that Eight Rainbows Across the Sky had drawn attention to him and decided to cultivate in seclusion before pursuing the Mountain Saint Spirit and the trapped Great Demon King.

• Fang Yun completed his Realm of Family, State, and World and found that the Cultivation of the Self Realm had made it as strong as possible at this stage.
• Fang Yun tested his realm with War Poetry, the Lip Spear and Tongue Sword, Literary Platforms, and War-Poem Soldiers, discovering its powers of Breakthrough and Guidance.
• Fang Yun determined that Breakthrough and Guidance reflected his aspiration to usher in peace for ten thousand generations.
• Fang Yun used the Cultivation of the Self Realm to choose his next steps: trade with the Mountain Saint Spirit, then fight the Great Demon King trapped by the Blood-Toothed Vine.
• Fang Yun realized he could not leave the Skull-Offering Mountains yet because Eight Rainbows Across the Sky had drawn attention, and Ye Hongyu, Nie Shoude, or the Mountain Saint Spirit might reveal his whereabouts.

Fang Yun trained at Sacred Fang Peak, strengthened his powers, and arranged to seek the Ancient Demon Cemetery with Greedy Wind after they found Saint’s Fingers. As Fang Yun set out to pursue a trapped Great Demon King, Wolf Abyss King confronted him and demanded his surrender.

• Fang Yun met Greedy Wind at Sacred Fang Peak and agreed to join him in searching the Yin-Spirit Plains for Saint’s Fingers before visiting the Ancient Demon Cemetery.
• Fang Yun practiced near Sacred Fang Peak, learned the Mountain Saint Spirits were preparing for war, and saw his literary hearts advance to sacred grade.
• Fang Yun traded sacred qi for Greedy Wind’s blood and used it to strengthen his ancient demon literary platform.
• After three days, Fang Yun left the Skull-Offering Mountains by an unfamiliar route to seek the Great Demon King trapped by blood-toothed vines.
• Wolf Abyss King arrived with Nie Shoude in his claws, demanded Fang Yun bind his arms, and charged at him.

Fang Yun withstood Wolf Abyss King’s Celestial Aspect Strike using his literary treasures and Ancient Demon Literary Platform, then faced a second attack. He answered by summoning his Ink companions and writing Kunwu Sword as Great-Scholar War Poetry.

• Nie Shoude abandoned Fang Yun and fled after Wolf Abyss King threatened him.
• Wolf Abyss King mocked Fang Yun’s small Realm of Family, State, and World and unleashed a Celestial Aspect Strike.
• Fang Yun used Rhapsody on the Three Capitals, the Marquis Wu Chariot, and the Mountain Bearer to withstand the strike.
• Wolf Abyss King began a Sage Aspect Strike, while Fang Yun summoned the Ink Maiden, the Inkstone Turtle, and the Mist Butterfly.
• Fang Yun wrote Kunwu Sword with Saint-Grade Swift Writing and Dual-Mindedness, creating two indistinguishable versions of the battle poem.