Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun looted the Dragon Soul Battlefield and failed to find a way to take the Purple Heaven Pillar. The Flood Dragon Woman revealed that removing it required the consent of two commanders and the approval of the lingering thoughts of two Saint Ancestors.

• Fang Yun acquired two Dragonfire War Engines and one Dragonthunder War Engine, then gathered other treasures from the Dragon Soul Battlefield.
• Fang Yun gave up on taking the Purple Heaven Pillar because he would not destroy Mountain Bearer Great Sage's Spirit Bones for it.
• The Flood Dragon Woman thanked Fang Yun and told him that the Purple Heaven Pillar sealed Divine Blood beneath the battlefield.
• The Flood Dragon Woman explained that Two-Headed Dragon Sage wanted to move the Divine Blood, but removing the pillar required the commanders' consent and the satisfaction of two Saint Ancestors' lingering thoughts.
• The Flood Dragon Woman said Two-Headed Dragon Sage had warned Shanzhong Sheng away from the Ancient Demon camp, but Shanzhong Sheng entered and was forced to retreat.

Fang Yun visited the Two-Headed Dragon Sage to enlist his help in obtaining the Purple Heaven Pillar and learned that the Dragon Sage needed a relic or offering to approach the Saint Ancestors’ remnant wills. Fang Yun revealed that he had a suitable offering but asked for soul-returning algae and cultivable divine medicinal plants in return.

• Fang Yun learned from the Flood Dragon Woman that the Purple Heaven Pillar required the Dragon and Ancient Demon camps to cooperate, and he questioned her about the Two-Headed Dragon Sage’s treasures and whereabouts.
• The Flood Dragon Woman directed Fang Yun to the Dragon Palace at the Crown of Peaks, and Fang Yun traveled there using the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones.
• The Two-Headed Dragon Sage greeted Fang Yun and discussed joining forces to obtain the Purple Heaven Pillar, but worried about persuading the Saint Ancestors’ remnant wills.
• Fang Yun said the Saint Ancestors required proper sacrificial rites and an appealing offering, then asked the Two-Headed Dragon Sage for soul-returning algae and cultivable divine medicinal plants in exchange for his own offering.

Fang Yun secured the consent of the Ancient Demon and Dragon Ancestor wills to retrieve their treasures, then approached the Purple Heaven Pillar and discovered its rare Gold-Eating Grass. He left the pillar uncollected while locating the grass’s twelve main roots.

• Two-Headed Dragon Sage agreed to help Fang Yun in exchange for access to the Dragon Palace and its plants, and the two traveled to the Dragon Soul Battlefield.
• Fang Yun won the Ancient Demons’ cooperation and sacrificed the Light-Brewing Bottle’s divine-light wine to Ancestral Emperor Pan Kong, who accepted the offering.
• Fang Yun gained the Dragon camp commander’s permission and offered wine to Dragon Emperor Ao Jue, whose lingering will repaired the bottle before taking wine.
• Fang Yun brought Two-Headed Dragon Sage into the Ancient Demon camp as the armies withdrew, then went to the Purple Heaven Pillar with the Two-Dragon Seal and Shanzhong Sheng’s blood talisman.
• Fang Yun recognized the Gold-Eating Grass covering the pillar as a rare crafting resource and found its twelve main roots.

Fang Yun harvested the Gold-Eating Grass, claimed the Purple Heaven Pillar and Divine Blood, and stripped the Dragon and Ancient Demon camps of their supplies. The Two-Headed Dragon Sage then offered him more treasures and revealed that Shanzhong Sheng possessed a Myriad Things Stone, prompting them to head for the Skull-Offering Mountains.

• Fang Yun gathered the old Gold-Eating Grass leaves and shrank the Purple Heaven Pillar with a blood talisman before storing it in the Heaven-and-Earth Shell.
• The Divine Blood fled its pool but was drawn onto Fang Yun's animal hide, and the Dragon Soul Battlefield's lingering wills disappeared.
• The Two-Headed Dragon Sage thanked Fang Yun, who then collected the supplies and Dragon Might War Gear from both the Ancient Demon and Dragon Race camps.
• The Two-Headed Dragon Sage teleported Fang Yun to the Dragon Palace, where Fang Yun harvested half of each type of divine medicine.
• Fang Yun told the Two-Headed Dragon Sage he could carry away many materials using a Myriad Things Stone, and the Sage revealed that Shanzhong Sheng had one.
• The Two-Headed Dragon Sage offered Fang Yun discarded divine metal and proposed they go to the Skull-Offering Mountains to pressure Shanzhong Sheng for the stone.

Fang Yun explored the Burial Saint Valley with the Two-Headed Dragon Sage and secured the Myriad Things Stone from Shanzhong Sheng in exchange for the Purple Heaven Pillar. He then learned an ancient demon secret art to shrink the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones, preparing to trade for the Nine-Star Mountain.

• The Two-Headed Dragon Sage told Fang Yun that the Dragon Roll-Over came from a hidden terror beneath the Burial Saint Valley, but refused to explain the disappearance of most Ancestors.
• The Two-Headed Dragon Sage took Fang Yun to Shanzhong Sheng and demanded the Myriad Things Stone as payment for helping obtain the Purple Heaven Pillar.
• When Shanzhong Sheng resisted, the Two-Headed Dragon Sage started to leave with Fang Yun, and Shanzhong Sheng agreed to hand over the Myriad Things Stone.
• Fang Yun gave Shanzhong Sheng the Purple Heaven Pillar and summoned the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones to trade for the Nine-Star Mountain.
• Shanzhong Sheng taught Fang Yun an ancient demon art, and Fang Yun used it to shrink the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones to ten li long.

Fang Yun completed his exchange with Shanzhong Sheng and learned that the Inverse Saint had placed a reward on capturing him alive. After discussing the dangers surrounding him, he chose to head for the Human Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum and shared parts of his experiences in the Divine Gift Mountains and Seas.

• Shanzhong Sheng gave Fang Yun the Nine-Star Mountain, and Fang Yun ordered the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones to suppress its power.
• Shanzhong Sheng warned Fang Yun that the Inverse Saint wanted him captured alive, and Fang Yun explained that he had encountered the Coffin-Bearer and killed several powerful foes.
• Shanzhong Sheng and the Two-Headed Dragon Sage urged Fang Yun to seek shelter, but Fang Yun said he would visit the Human Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum to carry out the human saints’ instructions.
• The Two-Headed Dragon Sage learned that Fang Yun’s poem had caused the Human Sacred Mausoleum to glow with poem-ancestor radiance.
• Fang Yun recounted selected events from the Divine Gift Mountains and Seas, and the Two-Headed Dragon Sage warned him not to make an enemy of Xue Baiyi.

Fang Yun reached the Human Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum, where the Demon Barbarians prepared to kill him and the Human Race Great Scholars moved to defend him. As the two sides faced off, Yuan Wan arrived with the Sacred Way Eight-Faced Sword to aid Fang Yun.

• Fang Yun left the two Half-Sages and rode the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones toward the Human Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum.
• Ying Mo learned that Fang Yun had obtained the Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones and hurried to recall the Fang-Slaying Guard.
• Demon Barbarians gathered outside the mausoleum and charged toward Fang Yun, forming squads to surround him.
• Yi Zhishi led seventeen Human Race Great Scholars to confront the Demon Barbarians, whose three Half-Sage treasures overpowered the humans' defenses.
• Yuan Wan and dozens of Star Demon Barbarians appeared, and Yuan Wan raised the Sacred Way Eight-Faced Sword to help Fang Yun.

Fang Yun’s allies revealed powerful sacred treasures and ancient beings as the Demon Barbarians tried to isolate him. The Evil Dragon Clan arrived alongside Hundred-Arms, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Yuan Wan revealed the Sacred Way Eight-Faced Sword, and a Bull Clan Barbarian Emperor joined him in opposing the Demon Barbarians.
• The Lion Emperor disclosed that the Demon Emperor had anticipated the allies’ arrival, while Wolf Emperors and a Snake Emperor revealed more Half-Sage treasures that strengthened the Demon Barbarian Sacred Banner.
• Yi Zhishi defied the Lion Emperor and used his righteous spirit to withstand the sacred pressure.
• Hundred-Arms emerged from beneath a mountain and offered Fang Yun his greetings, frightening the Demon Barbarians despite their numerical and treasure advantage.
• More than a hundred Evil Dragons rose from the mountains, and their leader addressed Hundred-Arms about his former battles alongside the leader’s ancestor.

Fang Yun faced the Demon Barbarians, Evil Dragons, and Inverse Stele Fierce Spirits as forces gathered around the cemetery entrance. The Inverse Stele Fierce Spirits attacked with a giant bone stele and black sun, and three strange stone beings appeared from the mountains.

• Yuan Wan warned the Star Demon Barbarians that the Evil Dragons could stall Hundred-Arms while the Demon Barbarians fought Fang Yun and the humans, but the Star Demon Barbarians refused to retreat.
• Thirty-six Inverse Stele Fierce Spirits arrived and demanded that Fang Yun return to Inverted Stele Mountain, while the Lion Emperor urged the Demon Barbarians to join them against him.
• Fang Yun revealed that he had killed an Inverse Stele Fierce Spirit and refused to submit, insulting the group and provoking their attack.
• The Inverse Stele Fierce Spirits merged their bone steles into a colossal stele beneath a black sun, spreading darkness across the battlefield.
• Three ten-foot-tall, dark-red stone beings with void-separated limbs and star-filled gems in their foreheads flew out from the mountains.

The Star Deities demanded Fang Yun's Literary Star Fragment in exchange for his safe passage through Burial Saint Valley, while the other enemy races agreed to join them against him. Fang Yun rejected the deal and challenged his enemies, and a Star Deity unleashed a meteor storm against him.

• The Frost-Pattern Star Deity offered to escort Fang Yun safely out of Burial Saint Valley if he surrendered his Mist Treasure Pavilion memories, his gains, and his Literary Star Fragment.
• The Frost-Pattern Star Deity learned that Fang Yun possessed a Literary Star Fragment and offered to trade his own fragment for pieces of other celestial bodies.
• Fang Yun refused the Star Deity's demand and called on all those who wanted to kill him to appear.
• The Blood Demon Barbarians, Evil Dragons, Inverse Stele Fierce Spirits, and Star Deities agreed to oppose Fang Yun.
• A Star Deity opened rifts in the sky and sent a growing storm of enormous meteors toward Fang Yun.

Fang Yun withstood the Frost-Pattern Star Deity’s endless meteor attack, then sealed the rifts feeding it. When the Star Deity summoned a world-destroying comet, Fang Yun crushed it with one hand, leaving his enemies stunned.

• Yuan Wan explained that the Star Deities could attack endlessly by drawing power directly from the void as meteors bombarded Fang Yun.
• Fang Yun raised a barrier that deflected the meteors, then used the Star Shepherds’ technique, Withering Force, and divine sense to seal the rifts in the sky.
• The Frost-Pattern Star Deity opened a vast rift with Sky Rend and summoned a colossal comet with Starfall.
• Fang Yun formed a giant hand of sacred power and crushed the comet nucleus, astonishing the Frost-Pattern Star Deity and the watching forces.

Fang Yun crushed the Frost-Pattern Star Deity, the evil dragons, and the Inverse Stele Fierce Spirits with the Mountain Bearer's Claw, then faced the Blood Demon Barbarians. When a Sacred Mausoleum envoy tried to negotiate for them, Fang Yun struck anyway.

• Fang Yun used the Mountain Bearer's Claw to crush the Frost-Pattern Star Deity and his companions, then took the Star Deity's fireball treasure.
• The Emperor Realm evil dragon attacked Fang Yun with a lightning-wreathed black sphere, but Fang Yun sent it back and killed the evil dragons in its explosion.
• The Inverse Stele Emperor offered to lead Fang Yun to the Inverse Saint for talks, but Fang Yun crushed the Inverse Stele Fierce Spirits and their bone stele.
• The Lion Emperor tried to negotiate the Blood Demon Barbarians' retreat, while Fang Yun demanded their treasures.
• The Sacred Mausoleum's special envoy arrived with a Sage Edict to negotiate, but Fang Yun ignored the appeal and brought down the Mountain Bearer's Claw.

Fang Yun crushed the Demon Realm’s forces and killed its special envoy, Eagle Emperor, then thanked his allies and helped the wounded Great Scholars. The group headed for the Blood Tomb Mausoleum with Fang Yun providing medicines to treat their injuries.

• Fang Yun used Mountain Bearer’s claw to destroy four of the five Half-Sage treasures and kill the blood demon barbarians, then collected the surviving Two-Headed Wolf Bronze Statue.
• Fang Yun killed Eagle Emperor after the envoy threatened him and cursed him, then set off toward the Blood Tomb Mausoleum.
• Fang Yun thanked Hundred-Arms and the star demon barbarians for their help, and Yuan Wan returned the Sacred Way Eight-Faced Sword and relayed Blaze Sage’s question about Fang Yun’s poem.
• Fang Yun saluted the seventeen wounded Great Scholars and joined them as they headed toward the mausoleum, where Tian Songshi urged them not to delay because Yi Zhishi was gravely injured.
• Fang Yun distributed Saint Body Fruits and Dragon Shark Pearls to the Great Scholars and gave Yi Zhishi heart-washing grass and a thousand-pattern tuber.

Fang Yun revealed that he had obtained a Medicine Garden, several Sacred Qi Sources, and extraordinary treasures during his time in Burial Saint Valley. He left the Great Scholars astonished as he began listing his gains, including the Stone Fetus Blood Egg, the Myriad Things Stone, and Dragon Might War Gear.

• Fang Yun told the Great Scholars that he had obtained complete divine medicine plants from a Medicine Garden, raising hopes that the Human Race could study and cultivate them.
• Fang Yun offered to use his Sacred Qi Sources to take Yi Zhishi's fragment of the Six Discourses from Burial Saint Valley, and the Great Scholars noticed his Saint Skull Ring held three sources.
• Fang Yun led the Great Scholars into the Human Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum, where they pressed him to reveal his treasures.
• Fang Yun showed the Stone Fetus Blood Egg and explained that he had also obtained the Myriad Things Stone.
• Fang Yun said he had more than ten sets of Dragon Might War Gear, delighting the Great Scholars, especially one Craftsmen School scholar.

Fang Yun revealed that he had obtained Dragon Might War Gear, Sacred Thought Weapons, and vast quantities of divine materials, giving the Human Race a chance to greatly strengthen its military. He also learned that his recent actions had left other treasure hunters empty-handed and possibly driven the Thunder Dragons into hiding.

• Fang Yun produced ten Dragonfire War Engines and three Dragonthunder War Engines, which the Great Scholars eagerly examined.
• Fang Yun said he had enough divine materials to support the Human Race’s mechanical development and had found more than a billion Sacred Thought Weapons in a Dragon Soul Battlefield.
• Fang Yun explained that he had gathered nearly all the treasures from a Dragon Roll-Over between Thunderweave Mountain and the Sky-Hanging River.
• He Mingyuan said that he and other Great Scholars had found almost nothing in the Dragon Roll-Over and that Thunder Dragons had mostly vanished from Thunderweave Mountain.
• He Mingyuan wondered whether Fang Yun was responsible for the Thunder Dragons hiding.

Fang Yun healed the Great Scholars with divine medicines and received treasures that would help him Tempering Destiny. After learning that Yun Yangzhao had died covering He Mingyuan and Tian Songshi's retreat, Fang Yun prepared to visit the Sacred Mausoleum with Tian Songshi.

• Fang Yun gave each of the seventeen Great Scholars a Thunder Dragon Orb and stood guard while they absorbed their Saint Body Fruits.
• Fang Yun offered Dragon Shark Pearls to the injured Great Scholars, and Yi Zhishi used additional medicines to suppress his remaining injuries.
• Yi Zhishi gave Fang Yun hellfire, and Fang Yun offered Void Spring to anyone who needed it.
• He Mingyuan and the other Great Scholars gave Fang Yun treasures that could accelerate Tempering Destiny, entrusting their hopes to him.
• Fang Yun learned that Yun Yangzhao had sacrificed himself so He Mingyuan and Tian Songshi could escape, and promised to deliver Yangzhao's entrusted treasures to the Sacred Academy for his descendants.
• Fang Yun set off for the Sacred Mausoleum, and Tian Songshi offered to guide him.

Yi Zhishi warned Fang Yun to avoid confronting the Demon Emperor in Burial Saint Valley, but Fang Yun revealed that he had killed both of the Demon Emperor’s avatars and thwarted his growth. Yi Zhishi credited Fang Yun with saving many lives, and Fang Yun headed with Tian Songshi to the human race’s Sacred Mausoleum.

• Yi Zhishi urged Fang Yun to stay in the Human Race Blood Tomb Mausoleum, explaining that the Demon Emperor could not be defeated without Saint Enfeoffment and had powerful ways to counter spirit bones.
• Fang Yun told the Great Scholars that he had killed the Demon Emperor’s Black Panther Great Demon King avatar and twice slain the Shellwing Emperor avatar, despite being at a lower realm.
• Yi Zhishi explained that Fang Yun’s victories had weakened the Demon Emperor’s strength and spirit, helping save Yi Zhishi, Ao Yuwei, and others from him.
• Fang Yun agreed to remain in the Blood Tomb Mausoleum unless something unexpected happened, then left with Tian Songshi for the human race’s Sacred Mausoleum.
• Tian Songshi recounted how he and his companions had fled the Ancient God Pagoda with a Space-Breaking Talisman after facing too many Emperor Realm foes.

Fang Yun entered the Human Race's Sacred Mausoleum to carry out a mission from the human saints and summon their wills. As the mausoleum awakened around him, he brought out the Ascending Dragon.

• Tian Songshi told Fang Yun how the saints' statues had empowered visitors, especially Yi Zhishi, and warned that the Demon Emperor threatened the Human Race.
• Fang Yun asked Tian Songshi to guard the valley and learned that Lei Konghe had not entered the Sacred Mausoleum and was pursuing mysterious aims.
• Fang Yun placed the Spirit Bones of the Great Sage Fu Yue with Tian Songshi, then bowed to the forty-five statues and called for the wills of the saints to return.
• The Sacred Mausoleum shook as the statues awakened, strange celestial forces swept the valley, and a vast will descended before stopping above Fang Yun.
• Fang Yun recited sacrificial passages as his Sacred Soul Literary Platform rose, then took out the crystal Ascending Dragon.

Fang Yun used the Crystal Ascending Dragon to complete his mission of bringing the Human Race’s saints back to his Sacred Soul Literary Platform. The Sacred Mausoleum Valley collapsed into a lake, and Tian Songshi noticed a mysterious third eye appear briefly on Fang Yun’s forehead.

• Fang Yun swallowed the Crystal Ascending Dragon, experienced the Dragon Race’s path to Half-Sage, and strengthened his divine sense and literary guts.
• Fang Yun called the human saints home, and their statues flew onto his Sacred Soul Literary Platform as it descended around them.
• Fang Yun drew the completed Sacred Soul Literary Platform into his Literary Palace and decided not to use it again before reaching the Sacred Academy and meeting Wang Jinglong.
• Sacred Mausoleum Valley collapsed into a vast pit that filled with water, leaving a lake in its place.
• Tian Songshi told Fang Yun that he had briefly seen what looked like a third eye on his forehead.

Fang Yun refused to reveal details of the Saints’ mission that had caused the Sacred Mausoleum to disappear, leaving Lei Konghe unable to enter and pay his respects. He then explored three human secret realms with Tian Songshi, ending at Desire Land after experiencing Bitter Land.

• Lei Konghe confronted Fang Yun and Tian Songshi about the vanished Sacred Mausoleum and asked what had happened.
• Fang Yun kept the Saints’ mission secret, saying he would explain it only if the Saints permitted him to do so at the Sacred Academy.
• Lei Konghe jumped into the lake, while Tian Songshi speculated about why he had wanted to enter the mausoleum so urgently.
• Fang Yun and Tian Songshi visited the No-Aversion Secret Realm, where Fang Yun relived the books he had read.
• Fang Yun entered Bitter Land, experienced many lives and hardships, then followed Tian Songshi to Desire Land.