Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun shared Craftsmen School technologies from the Saint Origin Continent with the Craftsmen Realm and presented several inventions at its Literary Assembly. The chapter ended with the Great Scholars preparing to develop rail vehicles powered by Literary Qi and Lu Ban Rulers.

• Zhao Qianzhang briefed Fang Yun on the Craftsmen Realm's mechanism-based battles against the Demon Barbarians, and Fang Yun shared news of technology on the Saint Origin Continent.
• Zhao Qianzhang introduced Fang Yun at the Literary Assembly, where Fang Yun explained the Jenny Machine, Mule Spinning Machine, and Water-Powered Loom to craftsmen across the realm.
• Fang Yun exchanged technologies with the Craftsmen Realm's Great Scholars, combining knowledge from the Saint Origin Continent and the Strange Book World with local inventions.
• Zhao Qianzhang and the other Great Scholars reopened the Divine Craftsmen Assembly for Great Scholars, where Fang Yun presented the Man-Powered Mine Cart and Mine Cart Track.
• The Heaven-Measuring Ruler descended and increased craftsmen's power, and Fang Yun proposed steel tracks and Traction Locomotive Mechanisms that the Great Scholars agreed to develop.

Fang Yun restored his Literary Rank to a Fourth Realm Great Scholar and taught Craftsmen techniques at the Literary Assembly. When the Demon Barbarians launched a massive attack, he joined the reinforcement force heading to Chong City, where fifty-two Great Demon Kings ambushed them.

• Zhao Qianzhang explained the limits on Fang Yun's Literary Qi, and Fang Yun received eight bell tolls that restored him to a Fourth Realm Great Scholar.
• Fang Yun discovered that his Power Literary Platform, Lu Ban Ruler, and Realm of Family, State, and World had grown stronger, and that another Cloud-Patterned Chime had appeared in his Literary Palace.
• Fang Yun taught Craftsmen techniques at the Literary Assembly until an alarm announced simultaneous Demon Barbarian attacks on Chuan City and Chong City.
• Fang Yun and Zhao Qianzhang led seven Great Scholars and thirty-four Grand Academicians toward Chong City, where millions of Demon Barbarians were gathering.
• Fang Yun detected an ambush near Chong City, and fifty-two Great Demon Kings, including six Fifth Realm Great Demon Kings, attacked the group.
• Fang Yun sent out his eight-patterned True Dragon Ancient Sword as the Great Scholars' mechanisms froze.

Fang Yun used the True Dragon Ancient Sword to kill most of the Great Demon Kings with startling speed, then faced the combined Celestial Aspect Strikes of the survivors. He left the scholars’ defenses to meet the attack himself and emerged unharmed, though he admitted that the blow had been strenuous.

• Fang Yun’s True Dragon Ancient Sword killed fourteen newly advanced and first-realm Great Demon Kings in one breath.
• The sword killed twenty-two more second- and third-realm Great Demon Kings, leaving sixteen survivors to retreat in shock.
• Fang Yun told Zhao Qianzhang that the enemies were real Great Demon Kings but had mediocre bloodlines, then a fifth-realm Great Demon King rallied the survivors to attack.
• The Great Scholars and Grand Academicians formed Rigid Conformity, but Fang Yun rushed beyond its protection and met the sixteen Great Demon Kings’ combined Celestial Aspect Strikes with his Realm of Family, State, and World.
• The explosion severely injured the fourth-realm Great Demon Kings and damaged Fang Yun’s realm, but it rapidly repaired itself while Fang Yun remained unharmed.

Fang Yun helped the Craftsmen Realm scholars turn the battle against the demon barbarians, then used the Mountain of Ten Thousand Menaces and Founding the World Realm to kill two Fifth Realm Great Demon Kings. Four Fifth Realm Great Demon Kings remained, now facing Fang Yun and the humans.

• Fang Yun urged the Craftsmen Realm scholars to attack, and Zhao Qianzhang and the others deployed their mechanisms against the demon barbarians.
• Fang Yun held off four Fifth Realm Great Demon Kings while the human scholars killed the wounded Fourth Realm Great Demon Kings and pressured two other Fifth Realm opponents.
• The demon kings shifted forces to suppress the humans, while two Fifth Realm Great Demon Kings skirmished with Fang Yun to keep him from ending the fight quickly.
• Fang Yun used the Mountain of Ten Thousand Menaces to smash one Fifth Realm Great Demon King, then pierced its heart core with the True Dragon Ancient Sword and killed it.
• A second Fifth Realm Great Demon King fled, but Fang Yun trapped it with Founding the World Realm and killed it with a barrage of treasures and the True Dragon Ancient Sword.
• The four remaining Fifth Realm Great Demon Kings realized how dangerous Fang Yun was as he turned to face them.

Fang Yun helped the Human Race defeat a force of Great Demon Kings, then rushed alone to aid the besieged scholars heading for Chuan City. He arrived to find their mechanism fortress close to collapse beneath the assault of fifty-three Great Demon Kings.

• Fang Yun and the Human Race craftsmen defeated four Great Demon Kings, and the battle ended without any Human Race deaths.
• Zhao Qianzhang praised Fang Yun and ordered the group to collect the Great Demon King corpses and continue to Chong City.
• Fang Yun accepted a mechanism fortress from Zhao Jiuzhang and raced toward Chuan City, while Zhao Qianzhang ordered safeguards placed in the Haiya scholars' Mechanism Pouches.
• Fang Yun reached Chuan City and saw more than fifty Great Demon Kings surrounding the scholars' damaged mechanism fortress.
• Fang Yun assessed the besieging force and found it stronger than the group he had just defeated, with eight Fifth Realm Great Demon Kings.

Fang Yun rushed to rescue the humans besieged at Chuan City and used a deception to conceal his strength while killing the Demon Barbarians sent against him. The Wolf-Hero King sent the Fifth Realm Wolf-Tooth King and four Great Demon Kings to attack, and Fang Yun pretended to sacrifice a hundred years of his life as the next battle began.

• Fang Yun realized the Wolf Race Emperor Realm expert had united the Demon Barbarians and that he needed to deal with the Emperor to complete his trial.
• Fang Yun reached the Mechanism Fortress near Chuan City, reassured Liu Lieyang, and instructed him to keep the Demon Barbarians from escaping.
• Fang Yun faked using Jade-Blooded Loyalty and killed the first two groups of eight Great Demon Kings while the besieged humans watched.
• The Wolf-Hero King sent Wolf-Tooth King and four Fourth Realm Great Demon Kings after Fang Yun.
• Fang Yun shouted that he would trade a hundred years of his life for righteous qi, and his aura surged as he appeared even older.

Fang Yun hid his strength while enduring Wolf-Tooth King’s assault, then used the Withering Force to kill him and four other Great Demon Kings. He and Liu Lieyang trapped the remaining Great Demon Kings between two Mechanism Fortresses and detonated them against the enemies’ combined strike, leaving the Craftsmen Realm shaken.

• Fang Yun fought Wolf-Tooth King and four Fourth Realm Great Demon Kings while appearing to weaken under Jade-Blooded Loyalty.
• Fang Yun unleashed the Withering Force, killing the four Fourth Realm Great Demon Kings and then Wolf-Tooth King.
• Wolf-Hero King recognized Fang Yun’s strength and led the Great Demon Kings in a Divine Aspect Combined Strike against him.
• Fang Yun summoned a second Mechanism Fortress and, with Liu Lieyang, transformed both fortresses into walls that trapped the Great Demon Kings.
• Fang Yun and the humans retreated as the two Mechanism Fortresses exploded against the combined strike, creating a vast blast that shook the Craftsmen Realm.

Fang Yun rescued the Human Race survivors after an explosion devastated the Demon Barbarian army, then learned that Chuan City faced a renewed threat. As the Wolf God Emperor arrived with a vast army, Fang Yun resolved to fight the Lion-Tiger King.

• Fang Yun survived the blast, rescued the buried scholars, and used a Saint Body Fruit to heal their injuries.
• Fang Yun executed the six surviving Fifth Realm Great Demon Kings and noticed the Craftsmen Realm’s suppression of him had weakened.
• Liu Lieyang told Fang Yun the Human Race had suffered fewer losses than the Demon Barbarians, while Fang Yun warned that the Wolf God Emperor would be difficult to defeat.
• Fang Yun and the survivors approached Chuan City, where the Lion-Tiger King challenged them; Fang Yun insisted on fighting it to break the enemy’s morale.
• The Wolf God Emperor appeared with a vast Demon Barbarian army, leaving Liu Lieyang alarmed.

Fang Yun took command of Chuan City as the Demon Barbarians gathered in overwhelming numbers and began their siege. When the Human Race’s mechanisms proved unable to overcome the attackers, he summoned his Power Literary Platform to strengthen Chuan City’s defenses.

• Liu Lieyang told Chuan City’s commanders that Fang Yun had helped slay dozens of Great Demon Kings and transferred command of the city to him.
• Fang Yun judged that the Demon Barbarians had committed their full force and advised gathering scholars from other cities to defend Chuan City.
• News arrived that the Demon Barbarians had withdrawn from Chong City and were advancing toward Chuan City, so Fang Yun recommended bringing in more reinforcements.
• Fang Yun’s arrival and his deeds spread through Chuan City, easing some of the people’s fear.
• The Demon Barbarians deployed millions of troops around Chuan City and began attacking from four directions.
• Seeing that the Human Race was at a disadvantage, Fang Yun raised his Power Literary Platform above the city and empowered its mechanisms.

Zhou Chunlei and Li Xianquan discovered that the red light from the fireball strengthened and repaired their mechanisms, helping them hold the city wall against the demon barbarians. The western battle remained evenly matched as the eastern defenders killed more attackers.

• Zhou Chunlei found that the red glow made his Mechanical Giant Bear easier to control and strong enough to crush attacking Wolf Demon Marshals.
• Li Xianquan's damaged mechanical snake, Little Spike, recovered and became more agile after the red light descended.
• Li Xianquan used Little Spike to poison an Ox Demon General, and a crossbow bolt finished it off.
• Li Xianquan and the burly Provincial Graduate teamed up to kill two Demon Marshals and fourteen Demon Generals in less than a quarter-hour.
• The Human Race held its ground in the battle west of the city.

Fang Yun’s Power Literary Platform transformed the city’s mechanisms, allowing humans to kill Demon Barbarians far more efficiently. After revealing the platform’s power and testing its ability to draw on others’ strength, he left the defenders hopeful but still unable to confront the Wolf God Emperor.

• Huang Zhi and other defenders found their mechanisms suddenly strengthened by red light, raising their power by thirty percent.
• The humans repelled increasingly large Demon Barbarian attacks and began killing faster than the enemy could supply fighters.
• Chuan City's scholars learned from Liu Lieyang that Fang Yun’s Power Literary Platform caused the change, and Fang Yun explained that Sacred Power and Sacred Might had strengthened it.
• Fang Yun drew on Liu Lieyang’s Literary Qi to test the platform and confirmed it could absorb outside power, though much of the energy was lost.
• Liu Lieyang and the other scholars celebrated the platform’s potential but acknowledged that the Wolf God Emperor still prevented them from taking the offensive.

Fang Yun discovered that killing demon barbarians weakened the Craftsmen Realm's suppression, while Chuan City's exhausted defenders awaited mechanical reinforcements. When the demon barbarians sent a huge army to intercept the newcomers, Fang Yun unleashed the Crime-Suppressing Ancient Sword and annihilated every enemy below Demon King rank outside the eastern wall.

• Fang Yun found that the Craftsmen Realm's suppression was weakening and shared mechanical constructs with the scholars and Great Scholars gathered in Chuan City.
• Fang Yun asked Zhao Qianzhang to keep the Haiya Great Scholars away from the battle and remove those still in the city.
• The demon barbarians attacked Chuan City all day, losing over ten million troops while the exhausted human defenders held the walls.
• Craftsmen from various cities arrived with mechanical constructs, but a ten-million-strong demon barbarian army led by over a hundred Great Demon Kings advanced to intercept them.
• Fang Yun warned the demon barbarians to withdraw, then launched his enlarged Crime-Suppressing Ancient Sword at their army.
• The sword's clash with ten Great Demon Kings' Celestial Aspect Strikes created a devastating shock wave that killed every demon barbarian below Demon King rank outside Chuan City's eastern wall.

As over a hundred Great Demon Kings charged toward the human reinforcements, Fang Yun learned that the Craftsmen Realm’s world mechanism might counter them but required a Half-Sage to control. He revealed that he possessed Half-Sage Regalia and prepared to join the Great Scholars in activating the mechanism.

• King Shidan led more than a hundred Great Demon Kings toward the human reinforcements after dismissing the ordinary Demon Barbarians’ deaths as acceptable sacrifices.
• Fang Yun revealed that his Crime-Suppressing Ancient Sword had only shed its outer layer, exposing an intact True Dragon Ancient Sword.
• Liu Lieyang explained that the Craftsmen Realm’s world mechanism could fight the Great Demon Kings but required a Half-Sage to sustain and control it.
• Fang Yun revealed that he had Half-Sage Regalia formed from Saint Tao’s power, and the craftsmen planned to connect his Founding the World Realm to the Great Scholars’ mechanism.
• Fang Yun agreed to help activate the world mechanism, though Liu Lieyang warned that it had never been tested in combat against so many Great Demon Kings.

Fang Yun charged alone toward the Mechanism Fortress, broke through the Great Demon Kings intercepting him, and helped the humans complete the Founding the World Mechanism. The giant humanoid mechanism rose as six Celestial Aspect Strikes struck Fang Yun’s defenses.

• Fang Yun left Chuan City alone, carrying the Power Literary Platform and heading for the Mechanism Fortress.
• Zhao Qianzhang and the Great Scholars defended the Mechanism Fortress from the combined Sage Aspect Strike with a Mechanism Giant Turtle.
• King Shidan sent sixteen Great Demon Kings to intercept Fang Yun, but Fang Yun’s Poison-Assault Giant Serpent killed six and drove the others back.
• Fang Yun reached the range needed to control the World Mechanism, and Zhao Qianzhang ordered the Great Scholars to begin Founding the World Mechanism.
• Fang Yun added mechanisms from the Dragon Soul Battlefield to the sphere of light and defended himself against six Celestial Aspect Strikes.
• The sphere became a hundred-zhang humanoid mechanism carrying a shield and sword, while a book chest appeared on Fang Yun’s back.

Fang Yun entered the Mechanism Giant while wearing the Half-Sage Regalia and used its immense strength to devastate the Demon Kings. As he pursued the survivors, a giant silver wolf appeared at the Demon Barbarian camp and launched a powerful attack at him.

• Fang Yun donned the Half-Sage Regalia and entered the Mechanism Giant, gaining control of its body.
• The Mechanism Giant blocked the Demon Kings’ combined strike with its shield and sword.
• Fang Yun killed King Shidan and other Demon Kings with the Mechanism Giant’s sword, then hurled its weapons through the fleeing enemy forces.
• The Mechanism Giant leaped toward the surviving Demon Kings, but a giant silver wolf appeared at the Demon Barbarian camp and fired a spinning sphere of air at it.

Fang Yun’s Mechanism Giant reached Chuan City as the Wolf God Emperor unleashed a devastating attack on its northern wall. Fang Yun then summoned the Starfire Armillary Mirror and set the Demon Barbarian army ablaze, leaving more than a hundred million enemies trapped in a sea of fire.

• The Mechanism Giant killed the remaining Great Demon Kings with thirty-three sword strikes, and Fang Yun charged toward Chuan City as the Wolf God Emperor gathered power.
• The Wolf God Emperor fired a dark-red sphere at Chuan City, destroying part of the northern wall, but Liu Lieyang’s forces repaired the breach within ten breaths.
• Fang Yun reached the eastern outskirts, trampled the attacking Demon Barbarians, then moved outside the northern wall to face the advancing army.
• The Wolf God Emperor crushed the vanguard with a giant wolf paw and ordered the Demon Barbarians to charge.
• Fang Yun invoked the Starfire Armillary Mirror and cast Ten Thousand Fires Descend, but the Wolf God Emperor held the heavenly flames aloft.
• Flames erupted from the ground and engulfed the Demon Barbarians outside Chuan City, trapping more than a hundred million of them in a sea of fire.

Fang Yun’s Starfire Armillary Mirror burned nearly all the Demon Barbarians around Chuan City, leaving the Wolf God Emperor alive and grieving. As the Emperor’s attack threatened to bury Chuan City, reinforcements stabilized it, and Fang Yun began fighting the Wolf God Emperor, secretly planting Withering Force in his heart core.

• The Starfire Armillary Mirror trapped the Demon Barbarians in a sea of heavenly fire, killing all but fewer than a hundred survivors and the Wolf God Emperor.
• Grieving over his people, the Wolf God Emperor transformed his body and cracked the ground beneath Chuan City, causing the city to collapse.
• Great Scholars arrived and used their Lu Ban Rulers to reinforce the ground and stop Chuan City from sinking.
• Fang Yun charged the Wolf God Emperor with his mechanism greatsword, and their weapons clashed in midair.
• The Wolf God Emperor kicked Fang Yun away and dispersed most of the Withering Force, but a trace slipped into his heart core.

Fang Yun defeated the Wolf God Emperor with the Crime-Suppressing Literary Platform and the Starfire Armillary Mirror, ending the Demon Barbarians’ main assault on Chuan City. After the scholars began hunting the survivors, Fang Yun proposed that the Craftsmen Realm join forces with the Sacred Academy against the Demon Realm.

• Zhao Qianzhang ordered the scholars and craftsmen to aid Fang Yun as he fought the Wolf God Emperor with the Mechanism Giant and the Starfire Armillary Mirror.
• Fang Yun trapped the Wolf God Emperor with the Crime-Suppressing Literary Platform’s chains, then killed him with a sword strike and the Legalist School’s Crime-Suppressing Punishment.
• The Mechanism Giant collapsed after the battle, but Fang Yun emerged unharmed, and the Great Scholars bowed to him.
• Fang Yun left the surviving Demon Barbarians to Zhao Qianzhang and Liu Lieyang, who ordered the forces of the ten cities to hunt them down.
• Fang Yun told Zhao Qianzhang that the Craftsmen Realm should connect with the Sacred Academy and resist the Demon Realm together.

After the Demon Barbarians’ defeat, Fang Yun led the Craftsmen Realm’s Sage Sacrifice Ceremony, where Brush Elder’s broken brush appeared. The Ink Maiden suggested that the four treasures and verse could help Brush Elder be reborn, and Fang Yun began composing a poem to honor First Sage Zhuge.

• Fang Yun told Zhao Qianzhang to bar the Haiya Great Scholars from the Sage Sacrifice Ceremony but impose no further restrictions afterward.
• Zhao Qianzhang warned Fang Yun that Jing Lan was using his Craftsmen School techniques to win over craftsmen, but Fang Yun said he had the matter in hand.
• Three days later, Fang Yun and the Craftsmen Realm’s people gathered at the Divine Craftsmen Hall for the Sage Sacrifice Ceremony honoring the sages and celebrating the defeat of the Demon Barbarians.
• After Fang Yun’s sacrificial address reached the Zhuge Temple of Sages, the Divine Craftsmen Hall’s main bell rang and Brush Elder’s damaged brush flew before him.
• The Ink Maiden told Fang Yun that the four treasures and verse could help Brush Elder be reborn, while the Inkstone Turtle tried and failed to steal the brush.
• Fang Yun took up the brush and announced that he would compose a poem for First Sage Zhuge.

Fang Yun wrote a poem honoring Zhuge Liang, whose Literary Qi repaired his damaged brush and gave birth to a new Brush Elder who pledged himself to Fang Yun. Meanwhile, the Jing Family and Lei Tingyu concluded Fang Yun might still be undergoing the Half-Sage Former Residence’s trials and pinned their hopes on Jing Lan taking control first.

• Fang Yun wrote a Nation-Quelling poem about his campaigns against the Demon Barbarians and praised First Sage Zhuge, causing powerful literary phenomena.
• The poem’s white light, together with the Ink Maiden and Inkstone Turtle’s power, restored Fang Yun’s damaged brush.
• Holy Light transformed the brush’s radiance into a new Brush Elder, who greeted Fang Yun as his Book Master and agreed to follow him.
• At the Master Craftsmen Workshop, Lei Tingyu and Jing Bushou reasoned that the Half-Sage Former Residence tested candidates in Craftsmen techniques, defeating the Demon Barbarians, and writing.
• Jing Bushou argued that Fang Yun’s victory with the Starfire Armillary Mirror might not count, and Jing Lan vowed to advance to Literary Ancestor and seize control of the Half-Sage Former Residence.