Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun punished traitors in the Merfolk Tribe and led its forces toward Sea Frontier City, where he planned to retrieve the Literary Star Fragment. The Shark Empress pledged the tribe’s support for his later journey to the Poison Desert, though Fang Yun questioned whether they could withstand the Sea-Cliff Alliance.

• Fang Yun stripped Jiao Hu of his bloodline and gave the Water Race members a chance to surrender.
• Over a thousand Water Race members surrendered, and the Shark Empress learned that traitors had infiltrated her personal guard.
• Fang Yun exposed and executed more traitors, then ordered Water Race members throughout the Merfolk Sea to assemble outside Sea Frontier City.
• Fang Yun led the assembled forces toward Sea Frontier City while the Shark Empress attended to him in the Imperial Carriage.
• Fang Yun told the Shark Empress he intended to retrieve the Literary Star Fragment before heading to the Poison Desert, and she pledged the Merfolk Tribe’s support.

Fang Yun learned more about the Merfolk Tribe’s lost inheritance and took the Merfolk Saint Pearl on loan, but it unexpectedly merged with his Literary Palace Coiled Dragon. As Fang Yun and the Shark Empress traveled toward Sea Frontier City, they found Water Race traitors blocking the road.

• Fang Yun identified the mysterious old man as Lei Konghe and warned the Shark Empress that the Sea-Cliff Alliance might target him over the Half-Sage Former Residence.
• The Shark Empress explained her tribe’s uncertain connection to a Dragon Race Secret Vault, and Fang Yun ordered her to search the Merfolk Sea after he pacified the area.
• The Shark Empress offered Fang Yun her Merfolk Saint Pearl, and he exchanged it for a Water Race Half-Sage treasure so she could stay safe.
• The Merfolk Saint Pearl flew into Fang Yun’s Literary Palace Coiled Dragon, strengthening its Dragonforce, and Fang Yun promised to help the Shark Empress seek Saint Enfeoffment.
• An imperial guard reported that Water Race traitors had formed an army and blocked the road to Sea Frontier City, and Zhang Lang shouted at them to kneel.

Fang Yun confronted the Whale-Burning Emperor, who refused to submit despite Fang Yun’s offer of a path to Half-Sagehood. Fang Yun invoked the Two-Dragon Seal to declare that rebellious whale demons would lose their bloodlines, and the curse began taking effect as their demonic energy rapidly dwindled.

• Fang Yun’s army met the Whale-Burning Emperor and his forces near Sea Frontier City.
• The Whale-Burning Emperor mocked Fang Yun’s authority and demanded that he leave, while Fang Yun warned him to submit or face the Whale Race’s destruction.
• Fang Yun told the water race gathered beside him that the enemy had left him no choice, and none dared object.
• Holding the Two-Dragon Seal, Fang Yun declared in Dragon Language that all rebellious whale demons would be stripped of their bloodlines.
• The whale demons felt heat and itching surge through their bodies, and their demonic energy began to drain rapidly.

Fang Yun crushed the Whale Race rebellion, forced the hostile Water Demons to swear loyalty, and led his army to Sea Frontier City. The Sea-Cliff Alliance welcomed him while privately planning to win him over, but Fang Yun declared that he had come to remove the source of the conflict.

• Whale-Burning Emperor and the Whale Race lost their power and regressed toward ordinary whales after Fang Yun stripped away their bloodline.
• Whale-Burning Emperor begged Fang Yun for mercy, but Fang Yun killed him with the Two-Dragon Seal, and the hostile Water Demons swore loyalty.
• The Sea-Cliff Alliance's leaders debated Fang Yun's identity and decided to entice him with rare treasures and access to the Literary Star Fragment.
• Fang Yun led the ten-million-strong Water Race army to the harbor outside Sea Frontier City, where Jing Liren and the Sea-Cliff Alliance welcomed him.
• Fang Yun told Jing Liren that he had come to remove the source of the trouble and restore peace between the two races.

Fang Yun arrived in Sea Frontier City under the alias Ji Zhibai and won the Sea-Cliff Alliance’s respect while concealing his conflict with Lei Tingyu. He paid his respects at the Temple of Sages, affirming his position in the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land as the dispute over the Literary Star Fragment remained unresolved.

• Fang Yun arrived at the harbor, introduced himself as Ji Zhibai, and learned that Lei Tingyu had left before dawn.
• Fang Yun asked after Jing Lixiao, and Jing Liren said his elder brother had not returned from Burial Saint Valley.
• Fang Yun declined Jing Liren’s banquet invitation until he had paid his respects at the Temple of Sages.
• Jing Liren told Fang Yun that the Literary Star Fragment lay in the grove and asked how he would resolve the conflict between the two races, but Fang Yun postponed the discussion.
• Fang Yun paid his respects to the sages in a side hall and then bowed to Sage Jing’s Sacred Image in the main hall.

Fang Yun revealed his identity and authority after installing his own Sage Tablet in the Temple of Sages in Sea Frontier City. The temple recognized him as master, and he declared that he was taking control of it.

• Fang Yun asked Jing Liren to show him the Literary Star Fragment, then confirmed its location in the grove.
• Fang Yun requested sanctified rosewood and carved it into a Sage Tablet with his True Dragon Ancient Sword.
• Fang Yun inscribed his name on the tablet and placed it among the sages’ tablets, after which the scholars performed the rites of homage.
• Fang Yun revealed his many titles and identified himself as the master of the Political Way.
• Fang Yun used his Official Seal to take control of the Temple of Sages in Sea Frontier City and threatened to kill anyone who resisted.

Fang Yun established his authority over the Temple of Sages and revealed his extraordinary literary achievements and the changes on the Saint Origin Continent to the scholars of the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land. As he prepared to discuss why he had come, Jing Liren reported that Jing Family members had clashed with the water race at the docks.

• Fang Yun took control of the Temple of Sages, then carved and displayed war poetry tablets spanning every Literary Rank.
• Fang Yun added Li Wenying's poem praising him, and Jing Liren learned that Fang Yun was not yet twenty-five.
• Fang Yun transmitted news of the human race's recent changes, leaving the Sea-Cliff scholars envious and ashamed of how far behind they had fallen.
• Jing Liren asked Fang Yun to forgive the Jing Family's young people, then explained that they had used powerful mechanisms and family treasures in a clash with the water race at the docks.

Fang Yun confronted Jing Yuanhu over the attack on the Water Race and the insults he had made, then seized the Literary Star Fragment after rejecting the Jing Family’s offer of compensation. The chapter ended with Fang Yun striking a Great Scholar who tried to stop him.

• Fang Yun used his Divine Sense to witness Jing Yuanhu boasting that he would make Fang Yun bow to the Jing Family’s authority.
• Fang Yun summoned both sides of the dock fight and demanded an account before deciding what to do.
• Jing Yuanhu admitted fault after Jing Liren slapped him, but Fang Yun confronted him about his earlier threats to drive Fang Yun from the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land.
• Jing Liren knelt and offered to bear Jing Yuanhu’s punishment, but Fang Yun rejected the gesture and refused the Jing Family’s compensation.
• Fang Yun pulled the Literary Star Fragment from the ground and absorbed it into his brow.
• A Fifth Realm Great Scholar attacked Fang Yun, who shattered the attack and struck him with a Literary Qi hand.

Fang Yun punished Jing Yuanhu and his clan uncle, then confronted Jing Chengxi over who owned the Literary Star Fragment. Jing Chengxi invoked the Sea-Cliff Alliance’s authority, leaving the two sides at an impasse.

• Fang Yun sealed the Literary Ancestor Jing’s Literary Palace and slapped him to the ground for insulting him.
• Jing Liren apologized for his clan uncle, and Fang Yun banned Literary Ancestor Jing from entering the Sacred Academy.
• Fang Yun blamed Jing Yuanhu for the incident, while Jing Chengxi defended him and told him to stand.
• Jing Chengxi demanded that Fang Yun return the Literary Star Fragment to the Sea-Cliff Alliance, but Fang Yun claimed it belonged to him as the lord of Haiya’s Water Race.
• Jing Chengxi declared that the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land followed the Sea-Cliff Alliance’s rules rather than Fang Yun’s Political Way.

Fang Yun imposed his authority on the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land, threatening the Water Race and suppressing the Political Way as he left with the Shark Empress. The Jing Family decided not to confront him directly for now, but Jing Yuanhu persuaded Jing Chengxi and Jing Liren to consider testing him outside the Temple of Sages.

• Jing Chengxi argued that Haiya belonged to its people, but Fang Yun declared that he would make the rules of the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land and left the scholars behind.
• Fang Yun used Tongue Blossoms Thunder to forbid the Water Race from attacking humans first and declared the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land forbidden to the Political Way, invoking Sacred Way Suppression.
• Jing Chengxi demanded that Fang Yun leave the Literary Star Fragment, and Fang Yun replied that he had spared the Jing Family because they were fellow humans before departing for the harbor with the Shark Empress and the Water Race.
• Jing Liren told Jing Chengxi that Fang Yun was likely targeting Lei Tingyu and Lei Konghe, and urged the Jing Family to avoid fighting him over the Literary Star Fragment.
• Jing Yuanhu proposed sending someone to test Fang Yun outside the Temple of Sages, and Jing Liren eventually nodded.

Fang Yun restored the Merfolk Palace, reorganized the Water Race, and set out for the Poison Desert to find the Brush Elder. On the way, twenty-four disguised scholars ambushed him and demanded the Literary Star Fragment, but Fang Yun charged at them after they refused to back down.

• Fang Yun led the Water Race back to the Merfolk Palace and reorganized its institutions as they traveled.
• Fang Yun discussed the Dragon Race Secret Vault with the elderly Merfolk, then decided to seek the Brush Elder in the Poison Desert.
• Fang Yun quietly left the palace the next day and headed toward the Poison Desert, passing Sea Frontier City.
• Fang Yun sensed hostile figures hidden in clouds and revealed twenty-four disguised scholars, including Great Scholars, Grand Academicians, and five Literary Ancestors.
• The scholars demanded the Literary Star Fragment and threatened to ruin Fang Yun's reputation, but he refused and charged at them.

Fang Yun overwhelmed the twenty-four men confronting him, destroying nine Great Scholars’ Realms of Family, State, and World and revealing his Crime-Suppressing Hall and formidable Legalist power. He imprisoned the nine Great Scholars and ten Grand Academicians in Sin Turtle Prison Chariots, leaving only the five Literary Ancestors free.

• Fang Yun expanded his Realm of Family, State, and World and shattered the nine Great Scholars’ realms, sending the twenty-four men flying.
• Fang Yun revealed his ten-hall Literary Platform, the Crime-Suppressing Hall, and a Legalist Canon over a chi thick.
• Fang Yun summoned ten Sin Turtle Prison Chariots, whose chains surrounded the men.
• The five Literary Ancestors established the Five Peaks World Realm and forced the chains back, but discovered that the other nineteen men had been captured.
• The five Literary Ancestors saw the nine Great Scholars and ten Grand Academicians imprisoned inside the Sin Turtle Prison Chariots.

Fang Yun revealed the full force of his Legalist Canon against the five Jing Family Literary Ancestors and the nineteen captives who had plotted to seize the Literary Star Fragment. He summoned powerful instruments, Literary Platforms, and transformed swords as he prepared to take control of Sea-Cliff Ancient Land.

• Fang Yun stripped the captives of their disguises, revealing Jing Liren and other conspirators, while Jing Chengxi and Jing Chengliang warned him to surrender the Literary Star Fragment.
• Fang Yun told the five Literary Ancestors to kneel and confess, then declared that Sea-Cliff Ancient Land would have a new master.
• Fang Yun opened his supplementary Legalist Canon and summoned the Five Punishments, including the Golden Dragon Guillotine, Myriad-Bone Spiked Hammer, Prison-Suppressing Cage, Demon-Slaying Needle Casket, and a Phoenixfire Chains fragment.
• Fang Yun manifested his True Dragon and Poison-Attack Literary Platforms, whose power alarmed the captives and Literary Ancestors.
• Fang Yun brought out the True Dragon Ancient Sword and its replica, imbued them with withering force, and named them Crime-Suppressing and Grievance-Examining.

Fang Yun used the Sacred Way Codex to imprison five Literary Ancestors of the Founding the World Realm and divided his powers to attack them. He confronted Jing Chengxi inside the Five Peaks World, while the other four Ancestors were held off by his treasures and weapons.

• Fang Yun summoned the Mountain of Ten Thousand Menaces, the True Dragon Ancient Swords, and other treasures before using Drawing Borders to Imprison to trap the five Literary Ancestors and their Five Peaks World.
• Fang Yun sent his treasures against four Ancestors and entered the Five Peaks World to attack Jing Chengxi at Mount Tai.
• Jing Chengliang struggled against Fang Yun's True Dragon Ancient Swords, which battered his Lip Spear and Tongue Sword until one was chipped.
• Fang Yun revealed six pieces of Literary Jade, whose War Poems attacked Jing Chengxi, defended Fang Yun, and strengthened the True Dragon Ancient Swords.
• Jing Chengxi suffered a Withering Force attack from the Literary Jade War Poems and had to use a treasure to purge it, while the prisoners on the Sin Turtle's back watched Fang Yun besiege all five Ancestors.

Fang Yun fought the five Literary Ancestors and destroyed Jing Chengxi’s Sand Boat projection with the Starfire Armillary Mirror. After Jing Chengxi tried to negotiate, Fang Yun attacked him with One Sword Frosts Fourteen Prefectures, and Jing Chengxi raised a water curtain to block it.

• Fang Yun summoned more than ten War-Poem Kings and attacked Jing Chengxi while resisting Five Peaks World.
• Jing Liren warned Jing Chengxi that Fang Yun could not be defeated normally and urged him to use the Sand Boat or seek reinforcements.
• Jing Chengxi launched the Sand Boat projection at Fang Yun, but Fang Yun used the Starfire Armillary Mirror to hold it back and burn it away.
• Jing Chengliang identified the Starfire Armillary Mirror as a Dragon Race Ancestral Treasure, and Jing Chengxi abandoned the ruined Sand Boat and tried to negotiate.
• Fang Yun gripped his brush like a sword and sent One Sword Frosts Fourteen Prefectures at Jing Chengxi, who blocked it with a curtain of water.

Fang Yun used his Withering Force to overwhelm Jing Chengxi and the other Jing Sage Family Literary Ancestors, revealing that it could drain an opponent’s rank and vitality. Jing Chengliang’s power kept collapsing despite his allies’ surrender, and he died as gray vines consumed his body and produced a fruit that vanished.

• Jing Chengxi’s treasures and Protective War Poetry failed to stop Fang Yun’s Frost Sword Light, and he recognized Fang Yun’s sacred might.
• Jing Chengxi warned Jing Chengliang to search for the foreign force within him, but Jing Chengliang dismissed the danger as his literary rank began to fall.
• Fang Yun explained that his Withering Force caused whatever it touched to break and decay, while Jing Chengliang discovered gray vines consuming his Literary Palace and body.
• Jing Chengliang’s Five Peaks World vanished as his rank dropped, and Jing Chengxi caught him with an immortal crane after he began falling.
• Jing Chengxi admitted defeat and begged Fang Yun to restore his brother, but Jing Chengliang died as his body shriveled and gray vines produced a golden-yellow fruit that vanished.

Fang Yun overwhelmed the four Sea-Cliff Ancient Land Literary Ancestors after Jing Chengliang died, leaving three of them gravely wounded by Sacred Way power. He offered them the possibility of healing with Saint Body Fruits, then put the fruit away, leaving their fate in his hands.

• Jing Chengliang's body shattered after Jing Chengxi lifted it, and Fang Yun told Jing Chengxi he could carry out the threats Jing Chengxi had only spoken in anger.
• Fang Yun attacked Jing Chengxi despite his surrender, then suppressed all four Literary Ancestors as they turned the Four Seas Realm against him.
• Fang Yun used the Two-Dragon Seal to seize control of the Four Seas and blast the four Literary Ancestors, grievously injuring three while Jing Chengxi survived with a treasure.
• Jing Chengxi gave the three injured Literary Ancestors Life-Bestowing Fruits, but the fruits could not heal wounds inflicted by Sacred Way power.
• Fang Yun showed the three a Saint Body Fruit and claimed he had many more, saying it could heal them and strengthen their bodies, then put it away.

Fang Yun killed Jing Chengxi after the three Literary Ancestors refused to help him, then offered the survivors a choice between submission and the Jing Family’s destruction. Zhu Qiyue pledged his family’s allegiance, and Jing Liren surrendered as Fang Yun prepared to suppress the Jing Family for thirty years.

• Fang Yun surrounded Jing Chengxi with his forces and killed him after the three Literary Ancestors backed away.
• Fang Yun gave each Literary Ancestor a Saint Body Fruit, and Zhu Qiyue accepted his offer and pledged the Zhu Family to Fang Yun.
• Fang Yun told Jing Liren he would suppress the Jing Family for thirty years, while Jing Liren warned that the Sacred Academy could punish the family for trying to kill a Void Sage.
• Jing Liren surrendered to Fang Yun, but Jing Yuanhu protested and was bound by chains and fed to the Sin Turtle.

Fang Yun executed the Jing Family’s relatives involved in the attack, then offered the survivors a chance to choose sides after his expedition to the Poison Desert. He left Zhu Qiyue in charge of the group and flew toward the Poison Desert, while the others realized his wealth likely came from a Divine Medicine Garden.

• Fang Yun ordered the Sin Turtle Prison Chariot to execute eight people related by blood to those already killed, then told the remaining nine to wait in Sea Frontier City until he returned or the Jing Family did.
• Fang Yun gave Zhu Qiyue divine medicines and treasures, reclaimed the Saint Body Fruits from two indecisive Literary Ancestors, and instructed Zhu to work with the Merfolk Tribe if needed.
• Fang Yun flew toward the Poison Desert in the Marquis Wu Chariot, leaving Zhu Qiyue to lead the survivors back to Sea Frontier City.
• A Literary Ancestor urged Zhu Qiyue to seek the Jing Family’s eldest master, but Zhu defended his decision to serve Fang Yun and pointed to the value of Fang Yun’s gifts.
• Jing Liren and the others realized Fang Yun’s abundant divine medicines suggested he had found a Divine Medicine Garden in Burial Saint Valley, and the two Literary Ancestors regretted not joining him sooner.

Zhu Qiyue and the others reconsidered Fang Yun’s hidden strength and feared the Jing Family’s coming defeat. Fang Yun reached the Poison Desert and began investigating its deadly, unfamiliar power.

• A Literary Ancestor regretted refusing Fang Yun’s offer and asked Zhu Qiyue to put in a good word for him when Fang Yun returned.
• Zhu Qiyue challenged the Sea-Cliff Alliance’s confidence, and Jing Liren and the others recalled Fang Yun’s feats and concluded he could contend with Literary Grandmasters or those in the Emperor Realm.
• Jing Liren admitted that his instincts had warned him of Fang Yun’s strength, while Zhu Qiyue pointed out that Fang Yun had not even used the power of the Political Way.
• Fang Yun reviewed the battle from the Marquis Wu Chariot and credited his timing and combat insights from Great Sage Mountain Bearer’s Spirit Bones for his easy victory.
• Fang Yun reached the edge of the Poison Desert and used his Poison-Attack Literary Platform and Medical Book to study its deadly poison, sensing traces of Corpse Qi, Sacred Qi, and the Yellow Springs Force of Hundred-Coffin Island.