Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun discovered that his fourth-realm Realm of Family, State, and World had gained unity and unceasing renewal, then found two Ancestral God Clan Wolf Barbarian Kings guarding a broken mirror in the Ancient God Treasure Pavilion. When they attacked, Fang Yun countered with his literary platforms, but Wolf Shadow King unleashed a Sage Aspect Strike.

• Fang Yun tested the Bloodmang World Realm and found its overall power equivalent to the fifth world realm, surpassing the Four Seas Realm.
• Fang Yun realized his fourth-realm Realm of Family, State, and World formed a complete system and continually renewed its powers, including the Withering Force.
• Fang Yun continued through the Ancient God Treasure Pavilion and found Lang Zong and Lang Ying inside a treasure pavilion with a broken mirror fragment and desiccated corpses.
• Lang Zong and Lang Ying demanded that Fang Yun leave, but Fang Yun ordered them to surrender their treasures and kneel.
• Wolf Shadow King and Wolf Trace King attacked Fang Yun; Flowing Current fought Wolf Trace King while the Crime-Suppressing Literary Platform failed to bind Wolf Shadow King.
• Wolf Shadow King launched a Sage Aspect Strike, sending a giant wolf claw down toward Fang Yun.

Fang Yun overwhelmed Wolf Shadow King and Wolf Trace King by exploiting the Bloodmang World Realm and his superior combat insight. After killing Wolf Shadow King and withstanding Wolf Trace King’s strongest strike, he demonstrated that his Realm of Family, State, and World could endure a Fifth Realm Great Barbarian King’s attack.

• Fang Yun repeatedly destroyed Wolf Shadow King’s Sage Aspect and Celestial Aspect attacks with the True Dragon Ancient Sword.
• Wolf Trace King realized the Bloodmang World Realm weakened their reactions and Divine Sense, and Wolf Shadow King was badly injured when he extended his Divine Sense.
• Fang Yun revealed that the realm’s power also affected Ancestral God Aura, then killed Wolf Shadow King with a single sword stroke.
• Wolf Trace King unleashed his strongest Celestial Aspect Strike, but Fang Yun’s Realm of Family, State, and World absorbed the impact and remained intact.

Fang Yun killed Wolf Trace King in the Treasure Pavilion and faced thirty-seven ancient corpses. He used the Bloodmang World Realm to disrupt their divine sense and began fighting back while searching for the coffins that could resurrect them.

• Fang Yun blocked Wolf Trace King’s escape with an Enemy-Blocking Poem and continued attacking despite the king’s threat to awaken the ancient corpses.
• Wolf Trace King struck the ancient mirror fragment, which reflected his attack and left him vulnerable for the True Dragon Ancient Sword to kill him.
• The Treasure Pavilion’s walls cracked, releasing thirty-seven ancient corpses that charged Fang Yun at the peak of the Fifth Realm.
• Fang Yun transformed his realm into the Bloodmang World Realm, disrupting the corpses’ divine sense and making them hesitate as they searched for him.
• Fang Yun used War Poetry to fight the ancient corpses while the Poison-Assault Giant Serpent consumed their corpse qi, and he sent Mosquito-Fly Mechanisms to search for Ancient Corpse Giant Coffins.

Fang Yun defeated the ancient corpses with his Bloodmang World Realm and Withering Force, then retrieved a fragment of the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror from the Treasure Pavilion. After fleeing a powerful Emperor Realm pursuer, he confirmed the fragment’s identity and began testing it.

• Fang Yun fought the ancient corpses, discovering that his Withering Force could kill them once enough had accumulated, and stored the seventeen intact bodies.
• Fang Yun recovered two points of light from Wolf Shadow King's and Wolf Trace King's bodies and drew them into his Mountain Island.
• Fang Yun and his forces dimmed the Treasure Pavilion's wall patterns, then took the shining mirror fragment after a Divine Sense voice warned him to leave the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror alone.
• Fang Yun fled a veteran or peak Emperor Realm pursuer for six hours, using obstacles and false trails to evade him.
• Fang Yun used the ancient demon inheritance to identify the fragment as part of the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror and tested it in his hand.

Fang Yun tested the damaged Radiance-Reflecting Mirror and discovered it could reveal concealed treasures, though its abilities were limited. When an Emperor Realm being approached again, he fled deeper into the labyrinth while using the Book of Changes to deduce the maze’s paths.

• Fang Yun looked into the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror fragment, endured its scorching power, and saw chaos and shifting mist within it.
• Fang Yun tested the fragment on several treasures and found that it could reveal their images through concealment and from a distance.
• Fang Yun discovered that the fragment reacted more strongly to complete Sacred Way treasures than to damaged Sacred Bones or the Origin of Heaven and Earth.
• Fang Yun sensed the Emperor Realm being approaching again and fled, suspecting it wanted the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror fragment for a secret of the Ancient God Pagoda.
• Fang Yun used the Book of Changes and his map of the explored corridors to predict routes through the labyrinth, gaining some help despite imperfect results.

Fang Yun used the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror to uncover hidden materials in a Treasure Pavilion and collected several treasures while searching the labyrinth. He then encountered an Elephant Clan Emperor Realm expert guarding another pavilion and demanding that he kneel.

• Fang Yun evaded an Emperor Realm pursuer by laying traps and illusions, then continued searching Treasure Pavilions after deciding he had shaken the pursuer.
• Fang Yun defeated and captured twenty-one ancient corpses in a pavilion, then claimed a powerful Emperor Realm weapon resembling both a sword and a saber.
• Fang Yun used the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror to reveal a mountain of divine materials, Sea-Swallowing Shells, and an azure coral tree that could accelerate Tempering Destiny.
• Fang Yun searched more Treasure Pavilions, gathering treasures and deciding to look for the entrance to the Ancient God Pagoda’s second level.
• Fang Yun followed the aftermath of a battle to a pavilion entrance, where an Elephant Clan Emperor Realm expert confronted him and demanded that he kneel.

Fang Yun rushed to rescue four Great Scholars trapped by Elephant Kui Emperor and used his poem to evade the emperor’s attacks. He reached the Treasure Pavilion entrance, where six Spirit Bones blocked his way as Elephant Kui Emperor pursued him.

• Fang Yun identified He Mingyuan, Yun Yangzhao, Tian Songshi, and Nie Shoude holding Elephant Kui Emperor back with the Four Seas Realm.
• Fang Yun told He Mingyuan to transform the realm into the Five Peaks World and give him Mount Tai’s position, then refused to abandon the Great Scholars.
• Elephant Kui Emperor placed six Spirit Bones at the Treasure Pavilion entrance and charged Fang Yun, while the Great Scholars warned they could not help him break through.
• Fang Yun cast Seeing Off at Jingmen, repeatedly distracting Elephant Kui Emperor with an endless Yangtze and shifting illusions as he circled past him.
• Fang Yun reached the Treasure Pavilion entrance, but the six Spirit Bones blocked him, and Elephant Kui Emperor turned to pursue him.

Fang Yun and four Great Scholars drove Elephant Kui Emperor from the Treasure Pavilion with a powerful new war poem, then killed Nie Shoude after exposing his betrayal. Elephant Kui Emperor escaped badly wounded, while Fang Yun and the others secured the pavilion.

• Fang Yun joined the four Great Scholars inside the Treasure Pavilion and used the Crime-Suppressing Literary Platform to absorb Fifth Realm Spirit Bones.
• Fang Yun and the others recited “River Town: Three Farewells to the Barbarian Emperor,” then Fang Yun composed “Gazing at Mount Tai” and drew power from the Five Peaks World and the stars.
• Fang Yun’s empowered Sun Quan apparition loosed the Wolf-Shooting Arrow, destroying most of Elephant Kui Emperor’s body and forcing him to flee with the Ivory Tusk Jade Tablet.
• Tian Songshi and the other Great Scholars surrounded Nie Shoude after Fang Yun revealed that he had betrayed him, and the Poison-Assault Giant Serpent killed Nie Shoude.
• Fang Yun surveyed the Treasure Pavilion with the surviving Great Scholars after Elephant Kui Emperor and Nie Shoude had been dealt with.

Fang Yun discovered the Light-Brewing Set in the Ancient God Treasure Pavilion and learned why his poem “Gazing at Mount Tai” had gained eternal-transmission radiance. He and the three Great Scholars then considered how to claim the treasure guarded by a giant coffin and more than a hundred ancient corpses.

• Tian Songshi explained that he, He Mingyuan, Nie Shoude, and Yun Yangzhao had been trapped by the Elephant Kui Emperor while trying to rescue one another.
• Fang Yun recognized the Light-Brewing Bottle and Bowls as an incomplete Half-Sage treasure that could brew extraordinary light into powerful liquid nectar.
• He Mingyuan, Tian Songshi, and Yun Yangzhao asked Fang Yun about his poem’s radiance, and Fang Yun confirmed Yun Yangzhao’s explanation that its excellence had let it combine with Founding the World Realm.
• The group surveyed the ancient corpses and giant coffin, and He Mingyuan warned that the coffin could reform corpses after they were destroyed.
• Fang Yun proposed that the four of them try to claim the treasure, with him taking the lead and the others withdrawing if danger arose.

Fang Yun and the three Great Scholars prepared to seize the Light-Brewing Bottle, and Fang Yun’s Four Seas Realm proved far more powerful than expected. Their attempt to take the bottle triggered an attack by the Treasure Pavilion’s ancient corpses, leaving them facing a hundred foes, including an Emperor Realm Ox Emperor.

• He Mingyuan, Tian Songshi, and Yun Yangzhao insisted that Fang Yun accept the Light-Brewing Bottle without compensating them, and Fang Yun agreed to supply sacred qi and share any wine it produced.
• Fang Yun distributed nine hundred sacred qi clusters among the three Great Scholars and established the Four Seas Realm.
• Fang Yun discovered that his Four Seas Realm drew on both the Saint Origin Continent and Bloodmang Realm, giving it power comparable to the Nine Provinces World Realm.
• Fang Yun tried to reach the Light-Brewing Bottle, but an invisible force repelled his sacred-qi hand and awakened the ancient corpses.
• The Great Scholars fought the sluggish, apparently drunken corpses as Fang Yun warned them to watch for the Emperor Realm Ox Emperor.

Fang Yun faced the powerful Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse and deliberately endured its charge, surviving through his Tortoise Armor Battle Body and a Life-Bestowing Fruit. After recovering, he began holding the corpse back with war-poem soldiers and an Enemy-Blocking Poem.

• The Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse emerged and targeted Fang Yun, its Emperor River battering the Great Scholars as it advanced.
• Fang Yun sent He Mingyuan, Tian Songshi, and Yun Yangzhao away, then used the Ode to Li Guang to block the corpse’s green fire and learned that it could travel through the flames.
• Empowered by the White Bone Sacred Mountain, the Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse shattered Fang Yun’s defenses and charged into him, pulverizing his body.
• Fang Yun swallowed a Life-Bestowing Fruit before striking the wall, then regenerated his internal injuries and stood back up.
• Fang Yun sent war-poem soldiers against the Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse and used an Enemy-Blocking Poem to trap it in a Yangtze River.
• The Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse raised its forehooves and brought them crashing down.

Fang Yun held off the Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse while the three Great Scholars struggled against a hundred ancient corpses, leaving them close to abandoning the Light-Brewing Bottle. After a Snake Demon King spotted him, Fang Yun began writing a poem, apparently preparing a new way to change the battle.

• Fang Yun evaded the Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse and attacked with his powers, but could barely damage the Emperor Realm corpse.
• Fang Yun realized that He Mingyuan, Tian Songshi, and Yun Yangzhao were being overwhelmed by a hundred Fifth Realm ancient corpses.
• Fang Yun used the poem "Red Dust Kill" to evade the Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse and continued sending Withering Force into him.
• The three Great Scholars told Fang Yun they might not last long enough to retrieve the Light-Brewing Bottle, while Fang Yun remained reluctant to give it up.
• A Snake Demon King spotted Fang Yun and fled, raising the risk that other Demon Barbarian Emperor Realm beings would find him.
• Fang Yun dipped his brush into ink on the Inkstone Turtle and wrote, "Drunk, I raised the lamp to gaze upon my sword!" as literary qi surged.

Fang Yun composed a new War Poetry that produced poem-ancestor radiance, driving back the ancient corpses and drawing powerful forces across Burial Saint Valley. The chapter ended with the three Great Scholars recognizing the poem’s extraordinary power as Shellwing vowed to kill Fang Yun.

• Fang Yun slowly wrote a War Poetry on a Sage Page while the Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse failed to reach him.
• Fang Yun’s completed poem unleashed poem-ancestor radiance that drained nearby vital energy and weakened the ancient corpses.
• Shellwing saw the radiance and declared that Fang Yun had to die, while the Sutra-Chanting Specter, Three Thousand Eyes, and the white-robed man also noticed it.
• A black-furred giant claw attacked the radiance from outside the Divine Gift Mountains and Seas, but a vast root bound and destroyed it after other powers intervened.
• The poem-ancestor radiance returned toward the Human Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum, and the ancient corpses retreated from Fang Yun.
• The three Great Scholars recognized Fang Yun’s poem as a powerful reworking of Xin Qiji’s “Breaking the Formation: A Heroic Lyric Written for Chen Tongfu and Sent to Him.”

Fang Yun created the unprecedented Military-Camp War Poetry “Breaking the Formation,” which summoned armies capable of surviving an Emperor Realm attack and restoring fallen troops. With the Great Scholars also summoning its armies, they prepared to attack the Treasure Pavilion and claim its treasures.

• Fang Yun’s new Poem Ancestor Star elevated “Dragon Sword Poem” to Hanlin Academician rank and strengthened its summoned replica sword.
• Fang Yun’s “Breaking the Formation” summoned a hundred-thousand-strong army, and Reuse an Old Trick produced a second, weaker army.
• The two armies formed a defensive formation against the Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse’s shock wave, and surviving soldiers saw fallen troops revive in their military camps.
• Fang Yun named the poem Military-Camp War Poetry, and Tian Songshi and the other Great Scholars bowed in thanks.
• The three Great Scholars each wrote “Breaking the Formation” and summoned another hundred thousand troops, bringing the force in and around the Treasure Pavilion to five hundred thousand.
• Fang Yun ordered the Great Scholars to attack the Treasure Pavilion’s power and claim its treasures.

Fang Yun and the three Great Scholars subdued the ancient corpses, broke the Treasure Pavilion’s formation, and took the Light-Brewing Set. They escaped the pursuing corpses and began combining their maze maps to navigate the Ancient God Treasure Pavilion.

• Fang Yun and the three Great Scholars used their military camps to restrain the ancient corpses while attacking the Treasure Pavilion’s formation patterns.
• Fang Yun’s Withering Force accumulated inside the Bull Emperor Ancient Corpse until it collapsed and dissolved into corpse qi.
• The four weakened the formation, removed its protection, and Fang Yun took the flask, Eight Bowls, and stone table.
• The four fled as the ancient corpses pursued them, then fought their way onward and killed the pursuers.
• Fang Yun suggested combining the routes they had traveled, and the four shared their maps to make a new one.

The four Great Scholars traveled northwest through Burial Saint Valley, sharing their experiences and searching for a passage to the next level. Tian Songshi, He Mingyuan, and Yun Yangzhao entrusted Fang Yun with treasures and records for delivery to the Sacred Academy, and Fang Yun acquired Heavenly Origin Mother Fluid in exchange for other divine treasures.

• He Mingyuan and the others mapped the Treasure Pavilion distribution and chose to travel northwest toward the center of Burial Saint Valley.
• Tian Songshi gave Fang Yun Great Sage Essence Jade and a jade pendant containing his experiences, asking him to deliver them to the Sacred Academy as military merit for his descendants.
• He Mingyuan and Yun Yangzhao entrusted Fang Yun with a divine egg and Heavenly Origin Mother Fluid, along with jade pendants for the Sacred Academy.
• Fang Yun traded divine treasures worth twice the value of Yun Yangzhao's Heavenly Origin Mother Fluid and accepted the three men's entrusted items.
• Fang Yun inspected Tian Songshi's treasures and identified a rust-covered ring as a Dragon Slave Ring.

Fang Yun acquired the heavenly origin mother fluid and tested the Light-Brewing Bottle, discovering that it could gather extraordinary light into a vast star-filled world. He gained basic control of the bottle but learned that its smallest stars held destructive power.

• Fang Yun explained the Dragon Slave Ring's history and limits, then chose treasures from He Mingyuan and Yun Yangzhao and completed the trade for the heavenly origin mother fluid.
• Fang Yun told Tian Songshi that he hoped the Light-Brewing Bottle could turn literary star light into divine wine, and the three Great Scholars stood guard while he tested it.
• Fang Yun fed Withering Force into the Light-Brewing Bottle for two hours until it stopped draining him and produced a layer of white mist.
• Fang Yun used his divine sense to explore the bottle's interior, where he saw countless colorful stars moving through a vast universe.
• Fang Yun discovered that smaller stars held greater power and that a black star could destroy his divine sense if he approached it.

Fang Yun drew a drop of wine from the Light-Brewing Bottle’s weakest star and used the Light-Brewing Bowl to brew it into Volcanic Brew, whose vapor strengthened his Literary Palace. He shared portions with three intoxicated Great Scholars and then turned to studying how to brew Literary Star Light Wine.

• Fang Yun failed to control the star with divine sense, then used Withering Force to draw its sphere of light toward the bottle’s mouth.
• The sphere released a drop of dark-red liquid into the Light-Brewing Bowl, where it expanded into a volcanic cycle of wine that the Literary Palace sealed in and absorbed as vapor.
• Fang Yun named the wine Volcanic Brew and found that ordinary jade melted when it touched the brew, while sacred blood could contain it and conceal its aura.
• Fang Yun divided the Volcanic Brew into four portions, kept one, and gave the other three to Tian Songshi, He Mingyuan, and Yun Yangzhao.
• Fang Yun resumed studying the Light-Brewing Bottle, focusing on brewing Literary Star Light Wine.

Fang Yun learned to control the Light-Brewing Bottle and discovered that volcanic brew could greatly accelerate the production of Withering Force in his Realm of Family, State, and World. By the end, that power had begun condensing into a stronger form.

• Fang Yun experimented with the Light-Brewing Bottle until he could regulate its absorption of literary star light and palace-star light.
• Fang Yun concluded that volcanic brew would gradually enhance him and poured multiple cups, placing the sixth in his Realm of Family, State, and World.
• Fang Yun discovered that the Realm of Family, State, and World absorbed volcanic-brew fumes and produced Withering Force ten times faster.
• Fang Yun placed eight Light-Brewing Bowls in the realm, boosting Withering Force production to a thousand times its previous speed.
• Fang Yun watched thousands of strands of Withering Force intertwine and condense into a power changed in both quantity and quality.

Fang Yun reflected on his strengthened Withering Force and his understanding of Tempering Destiny while searching the Ancient God Treasure Pavilion with three Great Scholars. The group found no treasure pavilions near the maze’s heart, and Fang Yun spotted a faint light around the next corner.

• Fang Yun watched the new Withering Force fill his Realm of Family, State, and World, then judged that it had reached its current limit.
• Fang Yun considered how Tempering Destiny refined a person’s inherent nature through the actions described in the eight articles of the Great Learning.
• Fang Yun told Tian Songshi, He Mingyuan, and Yun Yangzhao that he sought a divine substance to aid Tempering Destiny, and each Great Scholar yielded the opportunity to him.
• The four Great Scholars noticed that treasure pavilions were absent from an area where the map suggested many should be, but they could not explain why.
• Fang Yun spotted a faint flicker around a corner, warned the others that the passage beyond was unusually wide, and deployed the Four Seas Realm.