Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun summoned Great Sage Mountain Bearer, escaped with him to Hundred Coffin Island, and tested the island’s coffins. The coffins revealed a terrifying connection to the Underworld, forcing Fang Yun to withdraw before anything emerged.

• Fang Yun fed Mountain Bearer three sacred qi sources, then rode atop him as his roar grievously injured Flower Maiden, Crab Spider, and the Golden Giant.
• Fang Yun gave the three Ancient Demons Saint Body Fruits to heal them, and they traded him seven Space-Breaking Talismans for sacred qi.
• Fang Yun used the Double-Dragon Arch to travel with Mountain Bearer, shrinking him first so they could pass through the arch.
• The three Ancient Demons discussed Fang Yun’s growing power and found Ancient City buried beneath the ground after Mountain Bearer’s stomp.
• Fang Yun reached Hundred Coffin Island, collected three sacred qi sources, and discovered the Double-Dragon Arch needed time to recharge.
• Fang Yun approached a coffin on Mountain Bearer and made all hundred coffin lids slide open, but he withdrew Mountain Bearer’s power when Yellow Springs Force surged from within.

Fang Yun used the Great Sage Mountain Bearer’s remains to travel to the Dragon Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum, where he learned that Ao Wushan had obtained Half-Sage spirit bones and that the Demon Emperor had fought sacred remains to a standstill. He entered the mausoleum and encountered four Water Race Great Demon Kings, then asked where Princess Yu Wei was.

• Fang Yun annihilated the Emperor Realm ancient corpses in Obelisk Valley, but they revived, so he left through a Space-Breaking Talisman.
• Fang Yun traveled through a Lightless Graveyard and flew to the Dragon Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum on the Great Sage Mountain Bearer’s remains.
• Fang Yun discovered and subdued a Snake Race Great Demon King from the Fang-Slaying Guard, who revealed that Ao Wushan had obtained Half-Sage spirit bones and that a Wolf Emperor had failed to defeat the Demon Emperor.
• Fang Yun killed the Snake Race Great Demon King and entered the Dragon Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum, using the Starfire Armillary Mirror to melt the ice inside its Lightless Graveyard.
• Fang Yun reached a seabed plaza, compelled four Water Race Great Demon Kings to greet him, and asked where Princess Yu Wei was.

Fang Yun learned that the Edict Hall Remnant Lineage had seized control of the Blood Tomb Mausoleum dispute and defeated the injured Ao Yuwei after humiliating the Eastern Sea Water Race. He asked what harsh conditions the Edict Hall had demanded, and the four Water Race creatures reacted uneasily.

• Fang Yun surveyed the Blood Tomb Mausoleum and demanded to know what had happened to Ao Yuwei and where she was.
• Fang Yun declared himself overseer of the Blood Tomb Mausoleum and used the Two-Dragon Imperial Seal and Dragon Bone Sage Edict to compel the four Water Race creatures to speak.
• The Turtle Demon King explained that the Edict Hall Remnant Lineage had brought a Two-Dragon Seal to claim jurisdiction, angering Princess Yu Wei and the Four Seas Water Race.
• The Turtle Demon King said that after Ao Wushan became Dragon Emperor Wushan, the Edict Hall dragons gained strength and retaliated against the Eastern Sea Water Race while Princess Yu Wei was away and injured.
• The Turtle Demon King explained that Princess Yu Wei challenged the Edict Hall after awakening but was defeated, and Dragon Emperor Wushan's mediation failed because the Edict Hall's terms were unacceptable.
• Fang Yun asked what harsh conditions the Edict Hall Remnant Lineage had proposed, and the four Water Race creatures visibly changed expression.

Fang Yun reached the Dragon Race Sacred Mausoleum and asserted his Literary Star Dragon Noble authority before the gathered Water Race and dragon lineages. Ao Huo challenged his title, and Fang Yun condemned the Edict Hall remnant lineage as usurpers, leaving the gathering in an uproar.

• Fang Yun pressured the Turtle Demon King into showing him the route to the Dragon Race Sacred Mausoleum.
• Fang Yun crossed the lava sea and entered the mausoleum, where he found wounded Water Race members, powerful dragons, and signs of a recent battle.
• Fang Yun invoked his Literary Star Dragon Noble authority and forced most of the Water Race to bow, while dragons from several remnant lineages and the Western Sea Dragon Palace refused.
• Ao Huo, Dragon Emperor of the Edict Hall, accused Fang Yun of impersonating the Star Dragon Noble, while Jing Kai warned Fang Yun about Ao Huo's strength.
• Fang Yun argued that the Four Seas Dragon Palaces had granted him the title and denounced the Edict Hall remnant lineage as usurpers, provoking an uproar.

Fang Yun argued that the Dragon Race Remnant Lineage had no lawful right to inherit the Edict Hall’s authority, then revealed his own Two-Dragon Imperial Seal. Ao Huo and the remnant dragons tried to seize it, but their confidence faltered when they learned of Fang Yun’s past attack on the Three Seas Dragon Palaces.

• Fang Yun cited Dragon Race Law to reject the remnant lineages’ claim to control the Blood Tomb Mausoleum, and Ao Huo answered that their authority came from the Two-Dragon Seal.
• Fang Yun revealed his Two-Dragon Imperial Seal, prompting the remnant dragons to accuse him of stealing a Dragon Race treasure and move to take it.
• Ao Huo demanded that Fang Yun surrender the seal and threatened to investigate his origins if he refused.
• Fang Yun warned the dragons that defying him recalled the Dragon Descent into Eel incident, and Ao Huo learned from the Western Sea dragons how Fang Yun had crippled the Three Seas Dragon Palaces.

Fang Yun faced the Dragon Race remnant bloodlines as they activated the Dragon Horn Sea to stop him from reaching Ao Yuwei. After healing Jing Huang and learning how badly Ao Yuwei was hurt, Fang Yun threatened to destroy anyone who obstructed him.

• The remnant bloodlines united to activate the Dragon Horn Sea and block Fang Yun, while Jing Huang warned him that the weapon could kill even a Half-Sage.
• Fang Yun fed Jing Huang a supreme-grade Saint Body Fruit, restoring his body and helping him advance into the Emperor Realm.
• Jing Huang told Fang Yun that Ao Yuwei had been severely injured and remained unconscious, so Fang Yun ordered him to take him to her and promised to use as many fruits as needed to heal her.
• Ao Huo and the remnant bloodlines blocked Fang Yun, while Jing Huang and the Eastern Sea Water Race stood ready to protect him.
• Fang Yun warned the remnant bloodlines to let him pass or become his enemies, then unleashed his Withering Force and divine sense.

Fang Yun faced the Dragon Emperors’ attempt to seize the Two-Dragon Imperial Seal and used a Dragon Bone Sage Edict to appoint himself Military Inspector and Grand Censorate Special Envoy. His new authority halted their attack briefly, but Ao Huo denounced the appointment and prepared to challenge him again.

• Fang Yun gave Jing Huang a River-Drinking Shell containing divine medicines for Yu Wei, shocking Jing Huang with its contents.
• Ao Huo and the other dragons called Fang Yun an impostor and demanded the Two-Dragon Imperial Seal, then joined forces to attack him with Dragon Horn Sea.
• Fang Yun activated the Dragon Bone Sage Edict and appointed himself Military Inspector and Grand Censorate Special Envoy.
• Fang Yun invoked his appointment and the Two-Dragon Seal’s Dragon Sage pressure, causing the dragons to withdraw Dragon Horn Sea’s attack.
• Ao Huo called Fang Yun’s Sage Edict fake and used the Two-Dragon Imperial Seal to counter Fang Yun’s Sacred Might.

The dragons prepared to attack Fang Yun, but a Sage Edict from the Dragon Court arrived and recognized his Dragon Race status. Ao Wushan appeared and disputed Fang Yun’s title, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Ao Huo and the other dragons poured their power into the Dragon Horn Sea to launch a combined attack on Fang Yun.
• A Sage Edict from the Dragon Court descended, and Fang Yun thanked it before it entered his Two-Dragon Seal.
• Fang Yun appeared in a Dragon Sage’s crown and robe, stunning the Water Race and the Remnant Dragon Race.
• Ao Huo accused Fang Yun of forging the edict, while another Dragon Emperor warned that it might be genuine.
• Ao Wushan arrived, greeted Fang Yun as the Human Race Void Sage, and called his Literary Star Dragon Noble title a joke.
• Fang Yun insisted that the Dragon Court’s Sage Edict had established his title and standing.

Fang Yun claimed authority as the Grand Censorate’s special military oversight envoy to protect Ao Yuwei from a forced marriage alliance, while Ao Wushan rejected his Dragon Noble status and threatened him. The chapter ended with Fang Yun declaring Ao Yuwei a general under his command and warning that anyone who forced her into marriage could be executed.

• Ao Wushan disputed Fang Yun’s Dragon Court investiture and refused to recognize his authority over the Dragon Race’s internal affairs.
• Fang Yun used the Two-Dragon Imperial Seal to requisition the Water Race and dragons in the Burial Saint Valley for an investigation and appoint Ao Yuwei as army-commanding dragon general, but Ao Wushan and the Remnant Dragon Race rejected the command.
• Ao Wushan summoned a Flood Dragon Sage’s spirit bones, whose pressure left Fang Yun barely able to move, while Jing Kai urged him to retreat.
• Fang Yun accused Ao Wushan of secretly plotting with the Remnant Dragon Race to force Ao Yuwei into a marriage alliance, and Ao Wushan threatened him with the Western Sea Dragon Sage.
• Fang Yun declared Ao Yuwei a general under his command and said he could execute anyone who forced her into marriage.

Fang Yun used the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones to kill Ao Wushan and Ao Huo, proving his authority as the Literary Star Dragon Noble and forcing the Remnant Dragon Race to submit. He then confronted the dragons about Long Yu Wei, but they mistakenly urged him to marry her.

• Ao Wushan ordered the Remnant Dragon Race to attack Fang Yun, but Fang Yun summoned the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones and crushed the Flood Dragon Sage Spirit Bones.
• The Sacred Mausoleum Will appeared to stop the Mountain Bearer Great Sage, then withdrew after the Literary Palace Coiled Dragon roared, allowing Fang Yun to kill Ao Wushan.
• Fang Yun killed Ao Huo and made the Remnant Dragon Race bow and recognize him as the Literary Star Dragon Noble and the Grand Censorate's special military inspector.
• Fang Yun collected the Flood Dragon Sage's body, the Dragon Horn Sea, and the Two-Dragon Imperial Seal, then asked who wanted to marry Long Yu Wei.
• The Remnant Dragon Race urged Fang Yun to marry Long Yu Wei, leaving him unsure how to respond.

Fang Yun accepted Ao Yuwei’s Heaven-and-Earth Shell, explored the depths of the Sacred Mausoleum, and left the Blood Tomb Mausoleum weighing his next destination. A Dragon Roll-Over then appeared near Thunderweave Mountain, prompting him to head toward it.

• Jing Huang told Fang Yun that Ao Yuwei had recovered and was sleeping, while a Mussel Race official presented him with the Heaven-and-Earth Shell Ao Yuwei had prepared.
• Fang Yun accepted the shell, discovering it contained treasures and an Eastern Sea Dragon Sage’s Sage Edict, then entered the depths of the Sacred Mausoleum.
• The Remnant Dragon clans blamed Ao Wushan and Ao Huo for nearly turning them against Fang Yun, while the Eastern Sea Water Race focused on his expedition.
• Fang Yun returned a day later, left Ao Yuwei a Sea-Swallowing Shell, and departed the Blood Tomb Mausoleum.
• As Fang Yun considered whether to visit the Human Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum or the Sky-Hanging River, a Dragon Roll-Over appeared near Thunderweave Mountain, and he decided to go there.

Fang Yun entered Thunderweave Mountain atop Mountain Bearer Great Sage, subdued the Thunder Dragon King, and absorbed its lightning power into his True Dragon Ancient Sword. At the violent Dragon Roll-Over near Sky-Hanging River, he discovered living darkness beneath the mist and suspected the upheaval was tied to ancient sages and other mysteries.

• Fang Yun steered Mountain Bearer Great Sage into Thunderweave Mountain, where the Thunder Dragons fled before his overwhelming power.
• Fang Yun compressed the Thunder Dragon King into a lightning sphere and used it to strengthen his True Dragon Ancient Sword.
• Fang Yun gathered thirty more lightning spheres before traveling to the end of Thunderweave Mountain.
• Fang Yun saw a violent Dragon Roll-Over where Sky-Hanging River should have been and steered Mountain Bearer Great Sage into its black mist.
• Fang Yun used Withering Force to discover a Lightless Graveyard beneath the mist, where a vast, seemingly living darkness lurked.
• Fang Yun connected the Dragon Roll-Over to Divine Gift Mountains and Seas and the resurrection of ferocious beings, then wondered whether it involved the ancestral sages.

Fang Yun explored the Sky-Hanging Abyss inside the Dragon Roll-Over and used the Mountain Bearer Great Sage to gather its treasures. As the other races searched the largely empty ground, Fang Yun mapped the Inner World and continued toward the Sky-Hanging River.

• Fang Yun entered the Sky-Hanging Abyss, endured its nauseating darkness, and discovered that the Inner World suppressed the Mountain Bearer Great Sage’s size and power.
• Fang Yun had the Mountain Bearer Great Sage inhale nearby Sacred Qi Clusters, collecting rare treasures, medicines, remains, and inscribed objects while a spiritual treasure escaped.
• Fang Yun realized ordinary treasures no longer impressed him and shifted his focus to finding the entrance to the Sky-Hanging River.
• The various races entered the Dragon Roll-Over in groups and searched for treasures, but most found nothing and grew convinced that a great treasure lay deeper inside.
• Fang Yun and the Mountain Bearer Great Sage swept through the Inner World, gathering treasures far faster than the other searchers.
• Fang Yun mapped the roughly three-thousand-li-wide Inner World and noted that its hills and valleys restricted those below Half-Sage level from flying.

Fang Yun gathered the treasures in the Dragon Roll-Over’s Inner World, including the damaged Zixia Brush, and its power killed or injured the Demon Barbarians. When the Sacred Qi Light Pillar vanished, Fang Yun was pulled underground into a void where a colossal, mysterious head opened its eye and plunged him into darkness.

• Fang Yun inventoried the Inner World’s treasures and found the damaged Sacred Brush once used by Zixia.
• Fang Yun channeled sacred qi and Withering Force into the Zixia Brush, then tested its Frost Sword Light.
• The Frost Sword Light passed through the Demon Barbarians, killing eight Great Demon Kings and severing the Elephant Emperor’s legs before he escaped.
• The Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones released sacred might as the Sacred Qi Light Pillar collapsed underground, and the resulting suction pulled Fang Yun into a deep hole.
• Fang Yun emerged in a dark void and saw a colossal scaled head whose presence overwhelmed him.
• The giant head opened its right eye, revealing a division of light and darkness that made Fang Yun scream and sink into darkness.

Fang Yun recovered in the Sky-Hanging River after a giant claw and head tore away a tenth of his Divine Sense, then set out to find the Purple Heaven Pillar. He reached the Dragon Soul Battlefield and prepared to enter, wary of its powerful spirits and lingering Dragon Sage wills.

• Fang Yun woke in the Sky-Hanging River and discovered that the experience in the deep hole had cost him a tenth of his Divine Sense and shaken his literary guts.
• Fang Yun found images of a giant claw and a giant head in the Strange Book World, realized his Divine Sense had entered the hole, and decided he needed the Nine-Star Mountain before going to the Human Race's Blood Tomb Mausoleum.
• Fang Yun restored his Divine Sense while searching for the Purple Heaven Pillar, then used the Two-Dragon Seal's aura to pass the Sky-Hanging River's Water Race fierce spirits.
• Fang Yun reached the Dragon Soul Battlefield, put away the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones to avoid provoking the Dragon Sages' wills, and flew toward the battlefield on the Water Throne.

Fang Yun encountered a lingering Flood Dragon Woman who begged him to clear her name, claiming the Dragon Court had wrongly punished her and her tribe. As she explained why she had passed information to the Ancient Demons, Fang Yun saw that she still believed their impossible promises and did not understand her betrayal.

• Fang Yun crossed the Dragon Soul Battlefield and found the Flood Dragon Woman hiding among ruined buildings.
• The Flood Dragon Woman recognized Fang Yun as a Dragon Race official and begged him to clear her wrongful conviction.
• She said the Dragon Court had executed all three thousand members of her Gray Flood Dragon Tribe after accusing her of spying.
• The Flood Dragon Woman admitted she had recorded her tribe's deliberations and sent them to the Ancient Demons, insisting that this was not betrayal.
• She explained that she had hoped to spare her tribe from war and believed the Ancient Demons' promises to make them a Hundred Emperors Tribe and free them from suffering.

Fang Yun explained to the flood dragon maiden that the Water Race’s admiration of the Ancient Demons came from their strength and the resources they commanded, not from inherent goodness. He challenged her belief that submitting to them would bring prosperity, leaving her confused and unable to answer.

• Fang Yun traced the Water Race’s praise of the Ancient Demons to its decline, fear, and the Ancient Demons’ deceptive alliance during their conflict with the Water Race.
• Fang Yun invoked the imperial seal’s Dragon Might and made the flood dragon maiden kneel in terror before lifting her back up.
• Fang Yun explained that strength and access to resources allowed races to survive and preserve the conditions for prosperity and civilization.
• The flood dragon maiden asked why the Gray Flood Dragon Tribe should not submit to the stronger Ancient Demons, and Fang Yun cited the destruction of races that had surrendered to them.
• Fang Yun questioned why supposedly benevolent Ancient Demons fought over resources, imposed laws, and discriminated against others, leaving the flood dragon maiden staring at him in confusion.

Fang Yun challenged Flood Dragon Woman’s belief that the Ancient Demons would welcome her, urging her to stop blaming her people and build power through her own effort. He then understood what “My Way Runs Freely” meant and reached the battlefield by the Purple Heaven Pillar, where the Water Race and Ancient Demons’ lingering wills were still fighting.

• Fang Yun told Flood Dragon Woman that the Ancient Demons would not share their power with her or fully accept her, and that she had wanted to escape her problems rather than work toward change.
• Flood Dragon Woman confessed that her selfishness had brought ruin on the Gray Flood Dragon Tribe and broke down in tears.
• Fang Yun explained that she could gain power by working among her own people or another people, but that joining another race would bring suspicion and discrimination.
• Fang Yun concluded that learning and experience were the path to a strong heart, then realized that walking and learning were what “My Way Runs Freely” meant.
• Fang Yun reached the Purple Heaven Pillar’s location and saw the lingering wills of the Water Race and Ancient Demons clash across a vast seabed battlefield.

Fang Yun entered the Ancient Demons’ camp under the guise of a Mountain Bearer envoy, hoping to approach the Purple Heaven Pillar while collecting sacred medicines and weapons. After stripping the camp’s aquatic plants for his medical stores, he was summoned to meet the Deep-Dark Squid Great Sage who commanded the battlefield.

• Fang Yun judged that taking the Purple Heaven Pillar by force was too dangerous, chose to pose as an Ancient Demon, and entered their camp under the Mountain Bearer aura.
• Fang Yun discovered that the camp’s aquatic plants had become sacred thought divine medicine and its ancient weapons had become Sacred Thought Weapons.
• Fang Yun asked the logistics officer for permission to take weapons and began harvesting the plants, filling a lake inside his Heaven-and-Earth Shell.
• Fang Yun gathered nearly all the camp’s sacred medicines and resolved to visit the Dragon Race camp as well.
• A messenger summoned Fang Yun to the command tent, where he learned the battlefield was commanded by a Deep-Dark Squid Great Sage, a clan with a feud against Mountain Bearer, but he entered calmly.

Fang Yun invoked several powerful authorities to gain access to the Ancient Demon main camp, where he proved his strength and gathered weapons and supplies. After learning that retrieving the Purple Heaven Pillar would require sacrificing the Mountain Bearer Great Sage's Spirit Bones, he turned to the Dragon Race camp and began taking its resources under the Grand Censorate's name, where he discovered rare Dragon Might War Gear.

• Fang Yun presented Tree Venerable's order, Shanzhong Sheng's blood talisman, and his Mountain Bearer Clan mission to the Deep-Dark Squid Sacred Commander, who demanded that he kill ten Fifth Realm Water Race members before moving freely through the camp.
• Fang Yun killed ten Water Race Great Demon Kings in fewer than ten breaths, returned with their heads, and drank the wine the Sacred Commander had warmed for him before collapsing from its potency.
• After waking, Fang Yun took most of the Ancient Demon camp's weapons and supplies and learned that the Dragon Race guarded the Purple Heaven Pillar; he postponed retrieving it after realizing it would require sacrificing the Mountain Bearer Great Sage's Spirit Bones.
• Fang Yun disguised himself and entered the Dragon Race camp, using the Two-Dragon Seal and the Grand Censorate's reputation to win the commander's trust and strip the camp of aquatic plants and other resources.
• Fang Yun discovered that the Dragon Race camp held the rare Dragon Might War Gear.