Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun and the others reached a ruined village where Eel Thunder Emperor’s team had found treasures. The team revealed that a disastrous expedition had killed three companions, and they planned to enter the dangerous place again to obtain treasure for Whale Dawn Emperor’s descendants.

• Eel Thunder Emperor led the team to a village in the valley and explained that they had searched it for treasures before.
• Eel Thunder Emperor said they would rest at the village and hoped Fang Yun could find something valuable using Search for Antiquity.
• Emperor Yanwen explained that Ao Fen had pressured Eel Thunder Emperor to explore a dangerous place despite several teammates opposing the decision.
• Ao Fen admitted that two teammates died during the expedition and Whale Dawn Emperor sacrificed himself to save Ao Fen from a destructive hurricane.
• Eel Thunder Emperor said the surviving team members planned to enter the dangerous place again and give the most important treasure to Whale Dawn Emperor’s descendants.
• Ao Fen asked Fang Yun and the other new members whether they were willing to enter.

The team debated whether to return to the Starfall Sea, and Fang Yun persuaded them to honor their fallen teammates and proceed to the Divine Light Grotto. He then investigated a ruined village house and examined a jade artifact that might be connected to its stone altar.

• Yungen King asked about the team's odds, and Eel Thunder Emperor said they had a seventy-percent chance of victory and a ninety-percent chance of escape.
• Fang Yun asked whether the three fallen members had left the team before their deaths, then declared them teammates; the others agreed to continue the mission.
• Eel Thunder Emperor decided the team would set out for the Divine Light Grotto after resting.
• Fang Yun explored the village and examined the ruined house's stone platform, which the others said could not be removed.
• Fang Yun took out a jade artifact from the house and studied its red-veined design.

Fang Yun found a fragment of an ancient stone plaque that matched his jade piece and took it after agreeing to contribute sacred blood to the team. The group reached Mist Cliff on the way to the Divine Light Grotto, where Emperor Xiangyi was kicked into the mist and forced to keep moving forward.

• Fang Yun discovered that Ao Pang had left divine sense in the village refuge and found no treasures there.
• Fang Yun returned to the village, excavated a broken stone plaque, and found that it matched a section of his jade piece.
• Eel Thunder Emperor awarded the plaque to Fang Yun, who agreed to contribute sacred blood to the team.
• Eel Thunder Emperor warned the team that anyone entering Mist Cliff must keep moving forward and never retreat.
• Emperor Xiangyi froze at the mist's edge, so Emperor Yanwen kicked him into Mist Cliff, where he continued forward despite his fear.

Fang Yun and his companions passed through Mist Cliff, where Emperor Xiangyi’s terror and confusion caused a comic mishap. Eel Thunder Emperor led the seven toward the Nine-Coil Mountain Path, warning them that its endless stairs had to be climbed without flying or skipping steps.

• Fang Yun emerged from Mist Cliff without trouble, while Emperor Xiangyi charged out screaming and crashed into a mountain wall.
• Fang Yun and Ao Fen helped Emperor Xiangyi realize he had escaped Mist Cliff, and he described the frightening sensations he had experienced inside the fog.
• Fang Yun admitted that he had accidentally touched Emperor Xiangyi’s rump, then kicked him aside after Emperor Xiangyi reacted with suspicion.
• Eel Thunder Emperor warned the group about the dangers of the Nine-Coil Mountain Path and told them to step on every stair without flying.
• Emperor Xiangyi teased the others about climbing the path, and Fang Yun and the group silently agreed to beat him up after leaving the Starfall Sea.

Fang Yun and his companions climbed the strange mountain path, reached the entrance to the Divine Light Grotto, and crossed the netherwater fire. They emerged exhausted into an open area where three hostile groups of outsiders were waiting.

• The mountain steps changed for Fang Yun, allowing him to climb as easily as the others, while Eel Thunder Emperor struggled behind.
• Fang Yun reached the summit first and waited as his companions arrived; Eel Thunder Emperor identified a stream as the entrance to the Divine Light Grotto.
• Ao Fen jumped into the stream and vanished after shrinking, so the others followed him into the grotto.
• Fang Yun and the others crossed the sea of spectral blue fire with Ao Fen shielding them, then reached an open area beyond it.
• Three groups of outsiders watched Fang Yun and his companions with mocking, malicious looks, leaving Ao Fen agitated and Eel Thunder Emperor unsure what to do.

Fang Yun’s team encountered three other teams in a valley surrounded by Netherwater Fire and learned that the Silver Race could combine its members’ power at great cost. The Sailfish Emperor revealed that no one could leave the valley without someone attaining Sainthood, and Ao Fen’s attempt to escape ended with him striking an invisible barrier.

• Emperor Yanwen and Yungen King explained the Silver Race’s power, hierarchy, and weaknesses to Fang Yun’s team.
• The Sailfish Emperor told Eel Thunder Emperor that the teams were trapped in the valley until someone attained Sainthood.
• Eel Thunder Emperor inspected the valley and reported that its mountains and surroundings had changed since his previous visit.
• Ao Fen charged toward the valley entrance and was thrown back by an invisible barrier.

Fang Yun’s group learned that Wind-Thunder Gorge had become a trap where entrants could not leave, and Fang Yun began deciphering Eel Thunder Emperor’s hidden carving in search of a way out. Meanwhile, Ao Yuan’s allies discovered Fang Yun was in Emperor Land and expected the Demon Emperor to help them kill him.

• Emperor Xiangyi charged the invisible barrier, broke his tusks, and was knocked unconscious, while the others mocked his failed attempt.
• Fang Yun warned that the other teams seemed to want them to enter Wind-Thunder Gorge and die, so Eel Thunder Emperor traded sacred blood to learn what had changed.
• Eel Thunder Emperor learned that people could no longer leave the area or Wind-Thunder Gorge, and Fang Yun proposed that they needed to obtain something inside the Divine Light Grotto to escape.
• Eel Thunder Emperor gave Fang Yun a secret stone carving, and the team guarded him as he began examining it in his Literary Palace.
• Ao Yuan’s allies revealed that the Grand Shaman had detected Fang Yun in Emperor Land, and they expected the Demon Emperor to help them obtain the treasure and kill Fang Yun.

Lion Dread Emperor’s horde sought Fang Yun with the help of Windseer, who was blinded when he investigated Ao Yuan’s wooden box. Windseer foresaw Fang Yun dying at the Demon Emperor’s hands, while the Demon Emperor arrived at Tail-Horn City as his subordinates reported they had found Fang Yun’s whereabouts.

• Lion Dread Emperor told Ao Yuan that the horde had mobilized to eradicate Fang Yun, and Ao Yuan recognized Windseer among them.
• Windseer said Ao Yuan’s fate would collide with Fang Yun’s, then suggested using an item Fang Yun had frequently used to track him.
• Ao Yuan produced a sealed wooden box that Ao Yuwei had given Fang Yun, and Windseer identified it as an item originally meant for the Demon Emperor.
• When Windseer used his power to investigate the box, golden light burned out his eyes and destroyed his prophetic abilities.
• Windseer said he had glimpsed that Fang Yun would die at the Demon Emperor’s hands.
• The Demon Emperor arrived outside Tail-Horn City, where his subordinates told him they had determined Fang Yun’s whereabouts.

Fang Yun revealed that the Divine Light Grotto was a shortcut to the Sun God Palace and that its Hall of Doom held a Dusk Void Sun Fragment he wanted for a friend. The team agreed to pursue it, and Fang Yun proposed that Emperor Xiangyi lead their charge through the Wind-Thunder Gorge.

• Fang Yun explained that the Divine Light Grotto led to the Sun God Palace's Hall of Doom, where a Dusk Void Sun Fragment was enshrined.
• Ao Fen described the Great Wilderness Azure Dragon as one of the top three extraordinary treasures of primordial antiquity and said the Dusk Void Sun carried a mission of creation and destruction.
• Fang Yun said he wanted the Dusk Void Sun Fragment as a substitute for annihilation afterglow that he had failed to find for a friend.
• The Eel Thunder Emperor set terms for Fang Yun to claim the fragment, and the team agreed to pursue the treasures in the Hall of Doom.
• Fang Yun proposed forcing their way through the Wind-Thunder Gorge with Emperor Xiangyi leading the charge.

Fang Yun prepared his team to cross Wind-Thunder Gorge and reach the Sun God Palace, assigning each member a role and lending them powerful treasures. The team faced the gorge with Emperor Xiangyi’s Giant Whale Ram Cart as their main defense and plans to counter its lightning, storm, and rival teams.

• Fang Yun persuaded the terrified Emperor Xiangyi to operate a modified Giant Whale Ram Cart, while warning that the alternative was draining his blood and turning him into an ancient corpse.
• Fang Yun gave the Eel Thunder Emperor a Thunder Dragon power ball to help weaken the heaven's might azure lightning in Wind-Thunder Gorge.
• Fang Yun lent Ao Fen the Red Giant's Fire so he could use solar true fire to weaken the destructive hurricane.
• Fang Yun assigned Emperor Shui Ku and Emperor Yanwen to hold off rival teams and sent the Yungen King into Divine Light Grotto to check whether it was safe.
• The Eel Thunder Emperor remarked that Fang Yun seemed better suited to lead the team.

Fang Yun and Eel Thunder Emperor prepared their team to enter Wind-Thunder Gorge, while Fang Yun had the Craftsmen Realm Great Scholars modify the Giant Whale Ram Cart. The team entered the gorge and set off inside the cart, but an unusual bolt of azure lightning tore open its armor.

• Fang Yun told Eel Thunder Emperor he needed the Dusk Void Sun Fragment to help a friend advance from Half-Sage to Great Sage, and they agreed to delay attacking the rival teams until they entered the Hall of Doom.
• Fang Yun urged the Craftsmen Realm Great Scholars, including seventeen Haiya Great Scholars, to finish modifying the Giant Whale Ram Cart.
• Eel Thunder Emperor took command at Wind-Thunder Gorge, and Ao Fen shoved the reluctant Emperor Xiangyi inside.
• Fang Yun and the others entered the gorge, where storms formed its walls and liquid lightning covered the ground.
• Fang Yun assembled the Giant Whale Ram Cart around Emperor Xiangyi, and the team advanced through the gorge behind it.
• An azure bolt struck the Giant Whale Ram Cart and tore a long gash in its armor.

Fang Yun's team fought through Wind-Thunder Gorge with the Giant Whale Ram Cart, then used their powers to hold open a path to the Divine Light Grotto. As the exhausted team faced three rival groups closing in, Fang Yun began an incantation to intercept them.

• Emperor Xiangyi drove the Giant Whale Ram Cart through enormous tornadoes and a powerful net of heaven's might azure lightning while Fang Yun helped control the cart with his Power Literary Platform.
• The cart pushed onward as its armor wore away, and Emperor Xiangyi spotted the Divine Light Grotto ahead just as the gorge's storms and lightning began closing in from every side.
• At Fang Yun's signal, Eel Thunder Emperor disrupted the ground and sky lightning, while Ao Fen used the Red Giant's Fire to scatter the storm walls.
• Emperor Yanwen raised massive stone walls to push aside the storms, and Emperor Shui Ku transformed into rivers that held back the lightning.
• Fang Yun saw Silver Emperor's team, the Demon Race team, and the Water Race team approaching; after the others had nearly exhausted their strength, he began chanting an incantation to intercept them.

Fang Yun and the others survived the Wind-Thunder Gorge and the terrifying giant within the Divine Light Grotto, reaching the ruined city of the Hall of Doom. As they searched for the Dusk Void Sun, they discovered that moving forward drained their lifespan as well as weighing down their bodies.

• Fang Yun summoned Ancient Corpse Emperors and Great Demon Kings, whose explosions caused the Wind-Thunder Gorge to collapse as the team entered the Divine Light Grotto.
• A colossal being turned toward the teams, but Yungen King shielded everyone and turned them transparent, leaving him unconscious after they escaped its gaze.
• Eel Thunder Emperor warned the survivors not to discuss the unknown being until they left the Starfall Sea, and the group explored the stone ruins of the Hall of Doom.
• Fang Yun inferred that the Dusk Void Sun fragments were likely farther north and led the team onward through the ruined city.
• The team discovered that movement through the Hall of Doom increased an invisible weight, and Fang Yun revealed that advancing also cost them lifespan.

In the Hall of Doom, Fang Yun and the others learned that Doomsday Light drained their lifespans and made movement feel heavier. They chose to focus on reducing the dangerous weight effect, and Emperor Yanwen proposed using the Rock Race’s power to counter it.

• Emperor Xiangyi tried to stay perfectly still after Jia Lao warned that movement consumed lifespan, while Fang Yun explained how he had detected the loss.
• Yungen King woke and identified the force as Doomsday Light, a mysterious presence known to the Cloud Race.
• Fang Yun reasoned that Doomsday Light had separate lifespan-draining and weight-increasing effects, and the group debated which one to weaken.
• Fang Yun persuaded the team that excess weight could prove fatal in combat, so Eel Thunder Emperor ordered them to find a way to reduce it.
• Emperor Yanwen said the Rock Race could influence weight and asked the others to describe what they had felt.

The team forged Star-Bearing Discs from Fang Yun’s star-bearing stone, letting them travel through the doomsday light with greatly reduced weight. As they searched for the Dusk Void Sun Fragment and an exit, Emperor Yanwen asked Fang Yun to trade him another stone, revealing it could help him advance to Half-Sage.

• Emperor Yanwen and Ao Fen explained that star-bearing stone was the crucial material needed to forge treasures that weakened the doomsday light.
• Fang Yun produced a star-bearing stone, and the team agreed to use it to make seven temporary treasures.
• Ao Fen used Jia Lao’s Red Giant’s Fire to forge seven Star-Bearing Discs in six hours, and the team set out to search for the Dusk Void Sun Fragment and an exit.
• Emperor Yanwen privately asked Fang Yun to trade him a star-bearing stone and offered his team gains and contributions in exchange.
• Emperor Yanwen told Fang Yun that star-bearing stone could strengthen his secret techniques and make his advancement to Half-Sage possible within months.

Fang Yun traded the star-bearing stone to Emperor Yanwen for the expedition’s credit and gains, three future acts of service, and the prospect of acquiring the Sand Boat later. The team paused in a ruined city as their lifespan loss worsened, and a howl sounded nearby.

• Fang Yun agreed to trade the star-bearing stone to Emperor Yanwen in exchange for the expedition’s credit and gains and three acts of service after Yanwen reached Half-Sage.
• Fang Yun handed over the stone, and Emperor Yanwen swallowed it and sensed his power growing toward the Sacred Way.
• Emperor Yanwen explained Eel Thunder Emperor’s exceptional reputation and why the team trusted his choice of companions.
• Fang Yun asked about the team’s lifespan loss, and Eel Thunder Emperor suggested resting before it worsened.
• The team landed on a ruined rooftop, Ao Fen complained about the eerie silence, and a howl made Emperor Xiangyi dart to the back.

Fang Yun and the others witnessed a Doomsday Wolf devour a sun in the Hall of Doom, then chose to prioritize finding an exit. Meanwhile, Ao Yuan and the Windseer led a Demon Barbarian force into the Hall of Doom to find Fang Yun and reach its core.

• A gigantic Doomsday Wolf swallowed a sun, and its gaze rapidly drained the lifespan of Fang Yun and the others before it vanished.
• Fang Yun concluded the wolf and sun might belong to another time or space, then proposed searching for an exit rather than risking the group for uncertain treasure.
• Emperor Shui Ku and Eel Thunder Emperor agreed that the Hall of Doom's rules might require them to complete its journey, while the group made finding an exit its priority and moved onward.
• At Dusk Valley, Ao Yuan told Lion Dread Emperor that he had once explored the treasure site and had made a deal with the Demon Emperor to help him find Fang Yun in exchange for help reaching its core.
• The Windseer urged the Demon Barbarians to enter the gateway immediately, and Lion Dread Emperor agreed to lead them toward the Sun God Palace and Hall of Doom.

Fang Yun's group endured the life-draining Hall of Doom until they found a stone sphere and encountered the Silver Emperor's diminished alliance. The Silver Emperor demanded that they hand over Fang Yun, but Eel Thunder Emperor and the others refused, and Wolf Lun Emperor suggested letting them leave.

• Fang Yun calculated that the group had lost about a year of lifespan in one day, and Eel Thunder Emperor ordered them to keep searching for an exit.
• The group traveled cautiously for three days, with Emperor Xiangyi's complaints helping keep the team united.
• Emperor Xiangyi spotted an intact stone sphere, where the Silver Emperor's alliance of Water Race and Demon Barbarian survivors waited.
• The Silver Emperor accused Fang Yun of attacking his group and offered cooperation if Fang Yun were handed over, but Eel Thunder Emperor and Ao Fen refused.
• Emperor Xiangyi insulted the opposing group, then admitted he would switch sides if they had sixty Emperors.
• Wolf Lun Emperor quietly suggested avoiding a clash and letting Fang Yun's group leave, while Ao Fen said the Silver Emperor was no longer a threat without his puppets.

Eel Thunder Emperor recognized the Silver Emperor’s group as the enemies who had ambushed them in Wind-Thunder Gorge and ordered his team to kill them. As the two sides clashed in the Hall of Doom, Fang Yun summoned a venomous serpent and a Golden True Dragon, and the Silver Emperor called for a retreat.

• Fang Yun and Eel Thunder Emperor suspected the Silver Emperor’s group had lied about their arrival, and Fang Yun refused their demand for compensation.
• Eel Thunder Emperor formally ordered the enemy team killed, then secretly signaled his teammates to attack while Yungen King stayed back.
• Ao Fen, Emperor Yanwen, and Eel Thunder Emperor unleashed meteors, stone hands, and lightning, killing every enemy Great Demon King and pressuring the six Emperor Realm fighters.
• Emperor Shui Ku added venomous kelp to the assault, while Emperor Xiangyi stopped short of the battlefield after realizing that moving recklessly consumed lifespan.
• Fang Yun summoned his venomous serpent and Golden True Dragon, whose poison and Dragon Flame covered the battlefield.
• The Silver Emperor recognized that the attackers’ powers were unusual and shouted for his team to retreat.

Fang Yun and his allies defeated the six enemy Emperors, with Emperor Xiangyi forcing the Wolf Lun Emperor to surrender. After learning about the Substitute Death Puppets and the Silver Emperor’s storage treasure, Fang Yun questioned the Wolf Lun Emperor about what happened in the Hall of Doom.

• Fang Yun ordered his allies to finish off the fleeing Emperors while he and Emperor Xiangyi pursued the Wolf Lun Emperor.
• Ao Fen’s True Dragon might weakened the two Water Race Emperors, whose Emperor Realm auras then vanished before the allies killed them.
• Emperor Xiangyi repeatedly smashed the Wolf Lun Emperor until he surrendered and begged for mercy.
• Ao Fen, Emperor Yanwen, and Eel Thunder Emperor returned with the other Emperors’ corpses, and Eel Thunder Emperor found Substitute Death Puppets among them.
• The Wolf Lun Emperor revealed that the puppets absorbed the Doomsday Light’s lifespan drain and that the Silver Emperor’s body contained a storage space; Emperor Yanwen recovered a Six-Silver Body.
• Fang Yun asked the Wolf Lun Emperor what he had experienced after entering the Hall of Doom, and the Wolf Lun Emperor said the Emperors had been separated before reuniting two days later.