Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun and his companions crossed a plaza guarded by Emperor Realm experts and discovered a vast treasure pavilion filled with ancient coffins and corpses. They continued toward the next corridor without a fight, but Emperor Jiao Yu suggested Fang Yun had gained a powerful treasure.

• Fang Yun and his companions chose to cross the plaza despite the Emperor Realm experts gathered there.
• Fang Yun told the experts that his group was only passing through, and the Bronze Giant urged the others not to hinder him on behalf of the Ancient Demon Clan.
• Fang Yun's group saw a massive silver coffin surrounded by Ancient Corpse Giant Coffins and a wall of ancient corpses.
• Fang Yun and the three Great Scholars passed the experts and headed for the next corridor, though the Great Scholars struggled against the Emperor Rivers.
• Emperor Jiao Yu laughed and accused Fang Yun of having obtained an extraordinary treasure that helped him advance to the Fourth Realm.

Fang Yun stripped Emperor Jiao Yu of his Water Race bloodline after exposing his treacherous intentions, then fled with Yun Yangzhao, Tian Songshi, and He Mingyuan. A powerful Fallen Sun Saint Spirit caught up and demanded to search Fang Yun’s treasures, leaving the group in danger.

• Fang Yun used the Dragon Bone Sage Edict and Two-Dragon Imperial Seal to expel Emperor Jiao Yu from the Water Race and drain most of his bloodline power.
• The Bronze Giant attacked the weakened Emperor Jiao Yu, blasted apart his lower body, and pursued him as he fled.
• Fang Yun and his companions escaped the Treasure Pavilion plaza, then set up illusions and obstacles when they feared the other Emperors would pursue them.
• A Sunless Peak Saint Spirit caught up with the group and accused Fang Yun of helping kill one of its kind, demanding to inspect his seashell and Mountain Island.
• Fang Yun denied responsibility and accused the Saint Spirit of coveting his treasures, then realized it belonged to the powerful Falling Sun Race.

Fang Yun confronted the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit, trading information about Sunless Peak and Inverted Stele Mountain for its account of their origins. After Fang Yun sent it a memory and fled, the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit was struck by the Coffin-Bearer’s power.

• Fang Yun formed a defensive line with the three Great Scholars and questioned the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit about Sunless Peak and Inverted Stele Mountain.
• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit explained that Fallen Sun Saint Spirits were born from the Black-Wheel Saint Ancestor’s blood and that Inverted Stele Mountain was tied to an Ancestor Stele.
• Fang Yun inferred that Burial Saint Valley would soon undergo a major upheaval, then offered the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit a ball of divine-sense light containing his memories.
• Fang Yun ordered the group to flee as the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit absorbed the memory, revealing that his true trick had not been tampering with it.
• The Coffin-Bearer’s power struck the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit, whose body burst into white flame as a tiny Sunless Peak Saint Spirit emerged from its Sun Wheel.

Fang Yun tried to reason with the wounded Fallen Sun Saint Spirit while fleeing through the labyrinth, but it purged the Coffin-Bearer's power and restored its strength. As the Saint Spirit caught up, Fang Yun ordered Tian Songshi and the other Great Scholars to escape while he stayed behind to face it.

• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit survived the Coffin-Bearer's power with help from Sunless Peak's Half-Sage, but emerged wounded and weakened.
• Fang Yun taunted the Saint Spirit and warned that pursuing him could leave it vulnerable to other enemies, while urging it to turn back.
• The Saint Spirit expelled the Coffin-Bearer's lingering power and transformed into a towering flame giant with a black Sun Wheel, regaining its peak aura.
• Fang Yun stopped fleeing when the Saint Spirit accelerated past him, while Tian Songshi and the other Great Scholars continued retreating.
• Fang Yun reminded Tian Songshi of those who had sacrificed themselves during the Three Valleys Battle and insisted that the others survive as he stayed to face the Saint Spirit.

Fang Yun confronted the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit after the other Great Scholars withdrew, then revealed Tao Yuanming’s Half-Sage Regalia when it attacked. The regalia repelled the spirit’s flames, and Fang Yun entered the Founding the World Realm to face it.

• Tian Songshi, He Mingyuan, and Yun Yangzhao left Fang Yun alone to escape the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit’s pursuit.
• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit explained that it had revived itself and demanded Fang Yun’s treasures before killing him.
• Fang Yun deduced that the spirit’s rebirth had limits and connected its interest in him to the Coffin-Bearer and Inverted Stele Mountain.
• Fang Yun revealed Tao Yuanming’s Half-Sage Regalia, but the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit attacked with two whips of radiant flame.
• The Saint Tao Regalia transformed Fang Yun and dispelled the spirit’s attack, after which Fang Yun entered the Founding the World Realm.

Fang Yun composed Wang Wei’s Peach Blossom Spring Journey, fully activating Tao Yuanming’s Half-Sage Regalia and strengthening his Bloodmang World Realm. The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit countered his realm with Mirror Armor and pressed the attack, leaving Fang Yun’s True Dragon Ancient Swords at a disadvantage as the battle continued.

• Fang Yun transformed the corridor into his Bloodmang World Realm and composed Peach Blossom Spring Journey, causing Tao Yuanming’s Half-Sage Regalia to surge with power.
• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit activated its Sun Wheel Ring and formed Mirror Armor, reflecting Fang Yun’s attacks and neutralizing most of his realm’s power.
• Fang Yun used Single-Stroke Completion to create Breaking the Formation and a Sword-Summoning Poem, sending two True Dragon Ancient Swords against the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit.
• Fang Yun’s True Dragon Ancient Swords severed the Saint Spirit’s flaming whips, but it countered with four Sun Swords and forced them onto the defensive.
• Fang Yun recognized that the Saint Spirit’s combat skill was weaker than that of Demon Barbarian Emperors, while its Mirror Armor and sunlike power made it dangerous.

Fang Yun used his army and powerful War Poetry to break down the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit’s Mirror Armor. When the armor’s shattered fragments surged toward him, peach blossoms and chrysanthemums rose to protect him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Fang Yun sent ten thousand mechanical ballistae to bombard the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit, while his Sacred Power and Withering Force weakened its Mirror Armor.
• Fang Yun summoned Li Guang with Linked Poetry, and Li Guang’s arrow cracked one of the spirit’s mirrors.
• Fang Yun repeatedly unleashed Wolf-Shooting Arrows with River Town, driving the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit back and cracking dozens of mirrors.
• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit’s Mirror Armor shattered, sending a torrent of fragments toward Fang Yun.
• Peach blossoms and chrysanthemums formed a protective tornado around Fang Yun, holding back the mirror fragments.

Fang Yun used the Starfire Armillary Mirror to absorb the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit’s power while pretending to weaken, loosening the treasure seal and draining the Sun Wheel. After Fang Yun regained his strength and pursued the weakened spirit, it called to a hidden figure from the Bone-Painting River for help.

• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit expanded its Sun Wheel and unleashed flames, but the Starfire Armillary Mirror absorbed them and loosened its treasure seal.
• Fang Yun pretended to weaken as the mirror consumed the Sun Wheel’s power, while the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit waited for him to collapse.
• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit’s Sun Wheel began melting, and Fang Yun revealed he had been feigning exhaustion to break the mirror’s seal.
• Fang Yun restored the Half-Sage Regalia’s power, and the weakened Fallen Sun Saint Spirit fled as he pursued it.
• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit called out to a figure from the Bone-Painting River, and Fang Yun saw an enormous figure emerge around a corridor corner.

Fang Yun faced the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit and two Bone-Painting Fierce Spirits in the corridor, revealing the Light-Brewing Set after they believed his Half-Sage Regalia would soon fail. The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit recognized the set and offered Fang Yun a deal.

• A Bone-Painting Fierce Lizard arrived to aid the Fallen Sun Saint Spirit, then another Bone-Painting Fierce Spirit revealed itself as a Flowing-Gold Fierce Spirit.
• Fang Yun withdrew, then stopped after finding marks left by the other Great Scholars, while the three enemies pursued and cornered one another.
• The Bone-Painting Fierce Spirits warned Fang Yun that his Half-Sage Regalia would fade within three hundred breaths and said they would wait him out.
• Fang Yun summoned all nine Light-Brewing Sets, filling the corridor with the fragrance of Volcanic Brew.
• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit explained that the Light-Brewing Set could empower its race and offered Fang Yun a deal.

Fang Yun used the Half-Sage Regalia to activate the Light-Brewing Bottle and defeat two Bone-Painting Fierce Spirits and a Fallen Sun Saint Spirit in the Ancient God Maze. Afterward, he recovered and resolved to be more cautious in the Ancient God Pagoda.

• The Fallen Sun Saint Spirit tried to persuade Fang Yun to trade the Light-Brewing Set for treasures at Sunless Peak, while the Bone-Painting Fierce Lizard demanded that he hand it over.
• Fang Yun rejected their offers, channeled the Half-Sage Regalia’s Sacred Power into the Light-Brewing Bottle, and recited a poem that strengthened his moonlight and sword qi.
• Fang Yun poured his power and more than a hundred Sacred Qi Clusters into the bottle, trapping the three Emperor Realm beings in darkness before a vision of countless suns destroyed them.
• The Light-Brewing Bottle returned to Fang Yun’s literary palace, and the Half-Sage Regalia fell back into his book chest as he descended and checked himself.
• Fang Yun found that his power had advanced and decided to be twice as careful in the Ancient God Pagoda.

Fang Yun followed the Great Scholars’ trail through the Ancient God Treasure Pavilion, while supernatural upheavals spread across the Divine Gift Mountains and Seas and Burial Saint Valley. The Dark Sun Realm emerged in black pillars of light that even a Half-Sage could not damage, and a strange aura at Mount Ten Thousand Deaths caused widespread deaths.

• Fang Yun used Subtle Words, Profound Meaning to dispel the traps and concealed powers left along the three Great Scholars’ route, then reached a fork with no way to know which direction they had taken.
• Fang Yun continued searching the Ancient God Treasure Pavilion for treasure pavilions and a route to its legendary second level as strange lights and black fissures appeared over the Divine Gift Mountains and Seas.
• A powerful force swept through Burial Saint Valley, where black pillars of light began appearing and consuming all light around them.
• A Half-Sage struck the pillar in the Half-Human Mound with an enormous half-human, half-dragon palm, but the pillar remained unmoved.
• The races learned that the pillars came from the Lightless Graveyard’s Dark Sun Realm and contained gloomy black suns visible only to Sainthood beings.
• A strange aura erupted from Mount Ten Thousand Deaths, making most living beings within three hundred thousand miles swell and explode while a few survivors were left with permanent cracks across their bodies.

Scholars gathered in Yueyang City for the Saint Apricot Literary Assembly as Fang Yun continued exploring the Ancient God Treasure Pavilion and collected powerful treasures. He entered a blue-mist Mist Treasure Pavilion and found himself surrounded by countless Ancient Corpses.

• Scholars and officials converged on Yueyang City, where Jing Kingdom expanded the Literary Academy with a Heaven-and-Earth Shell for the Saint Apricot Literary Assembly.
• Fang Yun searched the Ancient God Treasure Pavilion for the missing Great Scholars and collected numerous treasures, including three objects that could accelerate Tempering Destiny.
• Fang Yun fought Ancient Corpses and Demon Barbarians, using War Poems and the True Dragon Ancient Sword to claim treasures and replenish his Sacred Qi Clusters.
• Fang Yun encountered a pale blue mist, recognized it as an entrance to a dangerous Mist Treasure Pavilion, and prepared his defenses before entering.
• Fang Yun found a beautiful mountain-and-grassland realm inside, where countless Ancient Corpses roared and surged toward him.

Fang Yun entered a valley filled with ancient corpses and towering stone monuments, then fought his way into the monument forest. The corpses could not cross its invisible boundary, leaving Fang Yun inside the forest while they roared outside.

• Fang Yun overcame his initial fear and spread his Bloodmang World Realm across the valley.
• Fang Yun examined the valley, spotted the exit vortex above and the forest of inscribed monuments, and found signs that other beings had died there.
• Fang Yun charged toward the monument forest as exotic treasures, War Poetry, Flowing Current, and his Tortoise Armor Battle Body protected him from the ancient corpses.
• The ancient corpses coordinated their attacks, forcing Fang Yun to deploy the Starfire Armillary Mirror and strengthen his defenses with War Poetry.
• Fang Yun reached the monument forest, where an invisible force stopped the ancient corpses from following him.

Fang Yun found a Myriad Things Stone in a clearing and encountered eight powerful figures gathered around it. He joined Ying Hong and the others, while an Inverse Stele Fierce Spirit demanded that they give up the treasure.

• Fang Yun steered Flowing Current through the sharp steles and found a clearing with an altar, a strange dragon-shaped doorframe, and a Myriad Things Stone.
• Fang Yun recognized that the Myriad Things Stone could transform into any object for a quarter of an hour and studied the unfamiliar doorframe and ordinary garden surrounding the altar.
• Fang Yun saw Fire Luo Emperor, Ying Hong, a Shadow Race expert, a Half-Human Fierce Spirit, an Inverse Stele Fierce Spirit, Yue Kong, a Golden Giant Lion, and a White Moon Wolf gathered there.
• Fang Yun greeted the group and stood beside Ying Hong, Fire Luo Emperor, and the Shadow Race expert as they all watched the treasure.
• The Inverse Stele Fierce Spirit demanded that the others step aside, warning that its two emperors would sweep them away if they refused.

Fang Yun strengthened his alliance by hiring Yue Kong and lending Ying Hong a Half-Sage treasure as the two Fierce Spirit Emperors and Demon Barbarians plotted against him. The groups faced off in the Mist Treasure Pavilion, with the division of its treasures still unresolved.

• The Inverse Stele Emperor attacked Fang Yun to test his allies, and the Fire Luo Emperor, Ying Hong, and the Shadow Race Great Demon King joined forces to stop the spear.
• The White Moon Wolf offered the Fierce Spirit Emperors the treasures and cooperation in exchange for killing Fang Yun, but Fang Yun persuaded Yue Kong to sell him the goods he found in exchange for rare items and information.
• Yue Kong accepted Fang Yun's offer, swallowed the metal plate and astral purple gold, and moved to Fang Yun's side.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor agreed to cooperate with the White Moon Wolf and Lion Gold King to kill Fang Yun if they could do so quickly.
• Fang Yun lent Ying Hong the Wolf-Head Sacred Hammer and said he valued his allies more than the Myriad Things Stone, prompting the Fire Luo Emperor and Shadow Race Great Demon King to reaffirm their alliance.
• The Demon Barbarians and Fierce Spirits faced Fang Yun's group across the road, while the treasure division remained undecided.

The Inverse Stele Emperor, Wolf-Key King, Lion Gold King, and Elephant-Human Emperor agreed to kill Fang Yun, with the Elephant-Human Emperor bargaining for first choice of the treasures. After the Elephant-Human Emperor blocked Ying Hong’s Wolf-Head Sacred Hammer, the other three attacked Fang Yun.

• Wolf-Key King urged the group to kill Fang Yun, while the Elephant-Human Emperor questioned the risks of provoking his allies and the Half-Human Mound’s Sage Edict.
• The demons offered the Fierce Spirits treasures and secrets, and the Elephant-Human Emperor agreed to help in exchange for first choice among the altar, the Strange Gate, and the Myriad Things Stone.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor gave Fang Yun and his companions ten breaths to leave, but they prepared to fight instead.
• The Elephant-Human Emperor used a blood curtain to trap Ying Hong’s Wolf-Head Sacred Hammer for a quarter of an hour, then charged the Fire Luo Emperor.
• The Inverse Stele Fierce Spirit, Wolf-Key King, and Lion Gold King attacked Fang Yun together.

Fang Yun and his allies fought the Inverse Stele Emperor, whose abilities Fang Yun identified and countered while the battle raged. After his Black Sun Light failed to break Fang Yun’s armor, the Inverse Stele Emperor turned on Lion Gold King and Wolf-Key King, draining their power through blood-red tubes.

• Fang Yun warned Ying Hong, the Shadow Race member, and Yue Kong that spells could be reversed by the Inverse Stele Emperor and that its gloomy black suns fired deadly Black Sun Light.
• Fang Yun unfurled the Bloodmang World Realm, which weakened the enemies and devoured their divine sense, then used military strategy to obscure his group’s position.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor’s Black Sun Light tore through Fang Yun’s protections for more than a hundred breaths, but the Tortoise Armor Battle Body remained intact.
• Fire Luo Emperor fought the Elephant-Human Emperor to a draw while Lion Gold King and Wolf-Key King attacked Fang Yun from a distance.
• After the gloomy black suns collapsed, the Inverse Stele Emperor declared that close combat was unnecessary and sent two blood-red tubes into Lion Gold King and Wolf-Key King to drain their power.

The Inverse Stele Emperor used the incomplete fourth character to unleash the Blood-Burning Flame, but Fang Yun dispelled it and revealed that the emperor’s time-reversal power could not affect him. The Inverse Stele Emperor then brought out an Ancestral Object that merged with its stele, beginning its transformation into a giant lion.

• The Inverse Stele Emperor tried to absorb Wolf-Key King and Lion Gold King, but Fang Yun and his allies attacked, and Yue Kong and the Sin Turtle helped drag the two kings into the Sin-Suppressing Side Hall, reducing their realms to the first realm.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor unleashed its incomplete fourth character, covering the valley in Blood-Burning Flame and blasting Fang Yun and the others backward.
• Fang Yun used the Withering Force to extinguish the Blood-Burning Flame, while Fire Luo Emperor identified it as a power of the Sacred Way.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor used Reverse Time, Return to Antiquity, but Fang Yun was unharmed because he had already killed a fifth-realm Broken Stele Fierce Spirit.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor brought out a blue-green bone Ancestral Object, merged it with the bone stele, and began transforming from a Fierce Spirit camel into a giant lion.

The Inverse Stele Emperor Realm absorbed an Ancestral Object fragment and proved nearly impossible to harm, killing Ying Hong with a single beam. Fang Yun rallied the remaining fighters, but the Inverse Stele unleashed four Crying Fingers that killed the Shadow Race Great Demon King and pursued Yue Kong.

• Fang Yun's True Dragon Imitation Swords wounded the Inverse Stele Emperor Realm's body but left its stele unharmed.
• Ying Hong attacked with the Starry Mountain, but a beam from the Inverse Stele killed him and left behind a black sphere resembling the Gloomy Black Sun.
• Fang Yun urged Fire Luo Emperor, the Shadow Race Great Demon King, and Yue Kong to fight alongside him, and they launched attacks at the Inverse Stele Emperor Realm.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor Realm summoned four Pale Hand, Crying Fingers that shattered the attacks and killed the Shadow Race Great Demon King.
• Yue Kong repeatedly used his Space-Shuttle Talent to evade a pursuing Crying Finger as its power gradually dissipated.

Fang Yun stopped the Inverse Stele Emperor from taking on a dangerous lion form, but the Emperor grew stronger and threatened to devour him. As Yue Kong and Fang Yun faced the Emperor, the Shellwing Emperor arrived, and Yue Kong invited him to join their side.

• The Crying Finger missed Fang Yun, then shattered against the Starfire Armillary Mirror, while the Fire Luo Emperor fled and warned that it had reached the level of Sainthood.
• Fang Yun used the statue on his Sacred Soul Literary Platform to break apart the Inverse Stele Emperor's transforming body, forcing it to return to its camel-like form.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor's power increased, and the Elephant-Human Emperor withdrew his heart and fled the valley, leaving the Wolf-Head Sacred Hammer in Fang Yun's hand.
• Yue Kong exhausted the Crying Finger's power and urged Fang Yun to leave, but Fang Yun chose to wait and said the Emperor would not easily kill him.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor threatened to devour Fang Yun, but the Shellwing Emperor arrived and drew the Emperor's attention.
• Yue Kong invited the Shellwing Emperor to join him and Fang Yun in driving the Inverse Stele Emperor from the valley.