Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun left Dragon City for Northern Polar Sky City after parting from his six teammates, while a Dragon-Scale Token from Ao Zhen saved them from an ambush. As the skies over Dragon City broke open with falling Half-Sage incarnations, Fang Yun emerged from the Great Sea Eye into a frozen land beneath the same starfall.

• Fang Yun decided to travel alone to Northern Polar Sky City, and his six teammates agreed to separate and seek their own paths.
• Fang Yun handed over repaired mechanisms, took damaged mechanisms from the logistics camp, and set out with his companions for a Great Sea Eye.
• Thirty demon barbarian and water race Emperor Realm experts ambushed the group, but Ao Zhen's Dragon-Scale Token summoned an Azure Dragon that killed them all.
• Fang Yun bid farewell to his six teammates and plunged into the Great Sea Eye as they watched him disappear.
• The sky over Dragon City cracked open, and more than a thousand Half-Sage incarnations descended as stars, prompting the six companions to leave through the Great Sea Eye.
• Fang Yun emerged from the Great Sea Eye into a world of ice and snow while stars fell across the sky.

Fang Yun watched Half-Sage incarnations descend across Dragon City and the surrounding regions, while Wang Jinglong escaped the black dragons unleashed by Candle Dragon Hall. In the Northern Polar Icefield, Fang Yun encountered an Ancient Demon battle soul and claimed his Mountain Bearer identity, leaving the Blood-Body Giant Elephant uncertain.

• Five hundred Demon Barbarian Half-Sage incarnations descended on Candle Dragon City, but black dragons erupted from the earth and killed or drove off more than half of them.
• Wang Jinglong escaped Sage Lang Lu and the other pursuers, while Xue Baiyi, Ao Min, and the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon arrived in different parts of the region.
• Fang Yun rode his Sand Boat into the Northern Polar Icefield as Half-Sage incarnations continued to descend.
• A Blood-Body Giant Elephant charged Fang Yun, accusing him of betraying the Ancient Demons.
• Fang Yun revealed his Mountain Bearer inheritance and claimed he was an inside agent planted among the Dragon Race by the Tree Venerable.
• The Blood-Body Giant Elephant absorbed Fang Yun's inheritance diagram and hesitated after seeing the Tree Venerable's instructions.

Fang Yun reached Northern Polar Sky City and was detained in its Dragon Prison while trying to reinforce the city. When General Whale blocked his passage with prison regulations, Fang Yun revealed his Crime-Suppressing Literary Platform and summoned the Crime Suppression Hall, leaving the general terrified.

• Fang Yun persuaded the Blood-Body Giant Elephant to let him seek the Dragon Race's trust by fighting enemies at Northern Polar Sky City, and received a token to protect him from Ancient Demons.
• Fang Yun traveled beneath the icefield to Northern Polar Sky City and saw a colossal octopus guarding the black-rock foundation.
• Fang Yun presented Ao Zhen's token, but an enormous arm seized him and carried him into a Dragon Prison water cell.
• Crab officers escorted Fang Yun to General Whale, who began questioning him under strict prison rules and threatened to keep him confined.
• Fang Yun challenged General Whale's authority and raised his Crime-Suppressing Literary Platform, manifesting the Crime Suppression Hall as powerful Divine Sense descended into the prison.

Fang Yun confronted General Whale in the water prison, where Hall Master Ao Ku punished the treacherous whale and ordered Fang Yun to join the campaign to retake South Wing Gate. Fang Yun negotiated for freedom and permission to repair Northern Polar Sky City’s mechanisms, agreeing to help Ao Ku while keeping the Crime-Suppressing Hall’s location secret.

• General Whale tried to appease Fang Yun after the Crime-Suppressing Hall appeared, but Ao Ku intervened and had the Whale Race Emperor Realm expert dragged away by a Sin Turtle Prison Chariot.
• Ao Ku ordered Fang Yun to join Gu Houjun in retaking South Wing Gate, threatening that Fang Yun would remain in Northern Polar Sky City if the gate was not reclaimed.
• Fang Yun challenged Ao Ku’s motives, then offered three Saint Body Fruits in exchange for his freedom; Ao Ku accepted after learning the Crime-Suppressing Hall was in the Bloodmang Realm.
• Fang Yun and Ao Ku agreed to postpone reclaiming the Crime-Suppressing Hall until after the Dragon Shadow Four Rankings, while Fang Yun agreed to help retake South Wing Gate.
• Fang Yun requested authorization to repair all mechanisms in Northern Polar Sky City, and Ao Ku granted it, noting that the work could earn Fang Yun first place on the Extraordinary Talent Ranking.

Fang Yun negotiated a private trade fair in Northern Polar Sky City and bargained with Ao Ku for treasures to develop his Literary World. He left Ao Ku stunned by his plans and determined to seek the rare resources he still needed.

• Fang Yun secured permission from Ao Ku to hold a trade fair and offered a catalog containing tens of thousands of treasures.
• Fang Yun agreed to sell Ao Ku some divine medicines while reserving part for himself and other buyers, and he placed the goods in a Heaven-and-Earth Shell pending payment.
• Fang Yun asked Ao Ku for heavenly origin mother fluid and fragments of the Nine-Pole Heavenly Pillar, then wagered on winning first place in three rankings.
• Ao Ku realized Fang Yun wanted treasures to evolve and strengthen his Literary World, and he explained that the All Beings Spring was believed to exist only in Emperor Land.
• Fang Yun insisted he would still try to find the All Beings Spring despite Ao Ku's warning that no one could create a perfect Sacred Realm.

Fang Yun learned how All Beings Spring could turn the power of living beings into his own, then used his token from Ao Ku to gather mechanisms, materials, plans, and records in Northern Polar Sky City. After resting, he set out for South Wing Gate, where he was due to appear on the third day.

• Ao Ku explained the power of All Beings Spring and gave Fang Yun a token, ordering him to appear at South Wing Gate on the third day and warning him not to attend the trade fair unless he had killed a hundred Emperor Realm cultivators.
• Ao Shan led Fang Yun to a warehouse, where Fang Yun selected seven damaged Sacred Way mechanisms and took more than a thousand damaged war engines.
• Fang Yun collected extra repair materials and components, then requested the designs for every mechanism in Northern Polar Sky City.
• Fang Yun spent a day and night recording the Illusory Tower Pearls and stone inscriptions in the Strange Book World, then rested and ate before heading to South Wing Gate.
• On the way, Fang Yun observed Northern Polar Sky City, built inside a vast platform cut from a floating mountain and surrounded by walls lined with military equipment.

Fang Yun reached South Wing Gate and saw the Water Race defending against an Ancient Demon assault, including the terrifying Hundred-Li Jellyfish. When South Structure Gate was breached, Fang Yun rushed to the eastern front and found himself facing the advancing Ancient Demons.

• Fang Yun crossed Northern Polar Sky City and saw the Hundred-Li Jellyfish command a vast force of puppets while defending South Wing Gate.
• Fang Yun arrived at the camp, where Ao Kang greeted him and began assigning Gui Jie to show him around.
• A Turtle Race emperor reported that Ancient Demons had breached part of South Structure Gate, and Ao Kang led Water Race forces east to intercept them.
• Fang Yun ignored Gui Jie's warning and flew to the eastern battlefield, where the Water Race was being pushed back.
• A Lava Ape recognized Fang Yun as a traitor and called for his death in exchange for a Half-Sage treasure.

Fang Yun helped the South Wing Gate Water Race repel an Ancient Demon ambush with the Starfire Armillary Mirror and several borrowed Half-Sage treasures. After earning credit for killing thirty-four Emperor Realm Battle Souls, he asked how much merit he would gain for killing the Hundred-Li Jellyfish.

• Fang Yun used the Starfire Armillary Mirror to break the Ancient Demons’ attack and gave Ao Kang and two other Emperors three Half-Sage treasures.
• Ao Kang and the other Emperors used the treasures to fight back, while Fang Yun wrote Frost Sword Lights that killed many Ancient Demon Battle Souls.
• Fang Yun and the Water Race generals routed the Ancient Demons, killing more than a thousand Great Demon Kings and thirty-four Emperor Realm Battle Souls.
• Ao Kang held a victory banquet and tallied Fang Yun’s achievements.
• Fang Yun asked how many Emperor kills the Hundred-Li Jellyfish would count for, and Ao Kang said it controlled 105 Emperors and would grant merit exceeding two hundred Emperor kills.

Fang Yun and Ao Kang launched an assault to retake the South Wing Gate, using Water Race forces to pin down the Ancient Demons while Fang Yun deployed Ancient Corpse Emperors against the Hundred-Li Jellyfish’s puppets. The battle remained unresolved, but the jellyfish’s controlled Emperors began to fall to Fang Yun’s relentless tactic.

• Fang Yun learned that the Hundred-Li Jellyfish controlled its puppet Emperors with deadly coordination, then decided to retake the South Wing Gate.
• Ao Kang sounded the whale call and gathered more than a hundred million Water Race soldiers beneath the walls.
• Fang Yun ordered the Emperors to hold off the Ancient Demons while they waited for his signal to attack the Hundred-Li Jellyfish.
• Ao Kang raised the water to the height of the walls, allowing the Water Race army to charge the battlements as its mechanisms battered the defenders.
• Fang Yun summoned fifty Ancient Corpse Emperors through the Teleportation Conquest Gate and sent them against the jellyfish’s puppets while he made tea.
• The Ancient Corpse Emperors exploded against the puppets, killing one and forcing the Hundred-Li Jellyfish’s tentacles to tremble.

Fang Yun continued summoning Ancient Corpse Emperors while calmly drinking tea, leaving the watching Emperor Realm experts baffled about how he sustained the power. As the Hundred-Li Jellyfish used three Half-Sage treasures to devastate the attackers, Fang Yun recognized the Ancient Wall Stone Gate and explained its extraordinary origins and abilities.

• Ao Kang asked to taste Fang Yun’s tea, but learned it was ordinary spirit tea and could not restore power.
• The Hundred-Li Jellyfish lost fourteen puppet Emperors before deploying three puppet Emperors with Half-Sage treasures.
• The Shell Clan puppet Emperor used the Hundred-Twenty-Thousand Lights to blast the Ancient Corpse Emperors, killing nineteen of thirty-seven.
• The Azure Dragon puppet Emperor used the Crystal Flame Ice Stone to freeze and destroy the remaining Battle Souls and Ancient Corpses.
• Fang Yun identified the Crab Clan puppet Emperor’s Ancient Wall Stone Gate as a treasure made from Heavy-Star Cluster material and described its three abilities.

Fang Yun and Ao Kang exploited the Hundred-Li Jellyfish’s weakening strength to destroy it despite the Ancient Wall Stone Gate. The Hundred-Li Jellyfish burned to ashes, and the Ancient Demon army fled.

• Fang Yun noticed the Hundred-Li Jellyfish weakening after it had lost more than half its puppets and begun driving its Half-Sage treasures with its own power.
• Fang Yun warned Ao Kang to prepare a close-range attack, and Ao Kang ordered the Water Race Battle Souls to charge as Ancient Corpses continued pouring from the Teleportation Conquest Gate.
• The Hundred-Li Jellyfish retreated behind the Ancient Wall Stone Gate, but Fang Yun’s gate appeared in front of it and released over a hundred Ancient Corpse Emperors, who attacked and exploded against its body.
• Fang Yun emerged from the Teleportation Conquest Gate and used the Starfire Armillary Mirror’s Solar True Fire to burn the weakened Hundred-Li Jellyfish’s fragments to ashes.
• The Ancient Demon army lost morale and scattered in flight.

Fang Yun retook South Wing Gate by crossing the Ancient Wall Stone Gate with the Strange Gate and killing the Hundred-Li Jellyfish, earning major military merit. As he prepared to defend the city, the Ancient Demons launched a counterattack with the Hundred-Li Jellyfish already resurrected.

• Fang Yun pursued and slaughtered the Ancient Demon Battle Souls after the Ancient Wall Stone Gate left South Wing Gate, and the Water Race surged onto the walls.
• Ao Kang congratulated Fang Yun, confirmed he had killed 147 Emperor Realm cultivators, and worked out how Fang Yun had crossed the gate and defeated the Hundred-Li Jellyfish.
• Fang Yun agreed to help hold South Wing Gate while Ao Kang organized the army and sought support from Sky City Tower.
• Fang Yun exchanged Hundred-Twenty-Thousand Lights for military merit and kept the Crystal Flame Ice Stone, despite the Dragon Race cultivators' objections.
• The Ancient Demons emerged from their city in force, led by the resurrected Hundred-Li Jellyfish, and Fang Yun realized a Half-Sage had likely helped revive it.

Fang Yun defended South Wing Gate against the Ancient Demons and used his Ancient Corpse Emperor Realm beings to wear down their forces. When the Hundred-Li Jellyfish led a final assault, Fang Yun unleashed the True Dragon Literary Platform and froze it and nearly all the attacking Emperor Realm beings, leaving Ao Kang to counterattack.

• Ao Kang told Fang Yun that reinforcements were delayed and the Ancient Demons had turned Water Race prisoners into puppets linked to the Hundred-Li Jellyfish.
• Fang Yun decided to hold South Wing Gate for three days, both to earn military merit and to kill Ancient Demon Emperor Realm beings toward Ao Zhen's demand of three thousand.
• Fang Yun sent fifty Ancient Corpse Emperor Realm beings to fight, and they killed forty-seven Emperor Realm beings in the first hour while poisoning the attackers near the walls.
• When the Ancient Demon assault weakened, Fang Yun taunted them by yawning, covering himself with a blanket, and going to sleep on the Marquis Wu Chariot.
• The Hundred-Li Jellyfish led the Emperor Realm beings in a full-scale attack, but Fang Yun's True Dragon Literary Platform unleashed the Crystal Flame Ice Stone's power and froze the jellyfish and nearly all the attackers.
• Ao Kang ordered a full-scale counterattack, and the Water Race charged from the walls as Fang Yun sat up.

The Demon Emperor and the Plague Lord agreed to join forces to find an ancient supreme treasure linked to Fang Yun, using a Treasure Wager to reveal whether he possessed it. Meanwhile, Fang Yun’s forces routed the Ancient Demon army at Northern Polar Sky City, and Ao Kang thanked him for ending the South Wing Gate’s long humiliation.

• The Plague Lord told the Demon Emperor that the Grand Windseer had linked an ancient supreme treasure in Dragon City to Fang Yun and warned that using the Ancient Star River Tributary recklessly risked death.
• The Demon Emperor agreed to help the Plague Lord obtain the treasure and the Ancient Star River Tributary in exchange for support in becoming a Great Sage.
• The Plague Lord revealed that he planned to challenge Fang Yun to a Treasure Wager to discover whether Fang Yun possessed the treasure, which might be the Dusk Void Sun Fragment.
• Sage Niu Xun and several other Half-Sage Incarnations agreed to participate in the Plague Lord’s plan.
• Fang Yun watched the Water Race defeat the Ancient Demon army at the South Wing Gate instead of pursuing the fleeing enemy.
• Ao Kang thanked Fang Yun for helping him wash away the gate’s former humiliation and said he would credit Fang Yun if he achieved Saint Enfeoffment.

Fang Yun survived an Emperor Realm Micro Nether’s assassination attempt and killed it inside the Craftsmen Realm. He returned to the Water Race, where Ao Kang and the others learned that the assassin had died for good.

• After three days without another Ancient Demon attack, the Water Race celebrated securing the South Wing Gate, but an unseen force struck Fang Yun inside his Realm of Family, State, and World.
• Fang Yun escaped to Zhuge Liang's Half-Sage Former Residence in the Craftsmen Realm, where Sacred Way power healed him and trapped the Emperor Realm Micro Nether that had attacked him.
• Fang Yun revealed his miniature Summit of Myriad Stars, and his little Micro Nether drained and killed the Emperor Realm assassin before falling asleep.
• Fang Yun confirmed the Micro Nether had truly died, left the Half-Sage Former Residence, and ordered the Water Race to keep its existence secret.
• Ao Kang used a Mouth-Sealing Edict as the Ancient Demon Giant City roared; Fang Yun told him the Micro Nether was dead, leaving Ao Kang and the Water Race members horrified.

While holding South Wing Gate, Fang Yun studied Northern Polar Sky City's records and uncovered early accounts of Ao Pang's rise. The records linked Ao Pang's rule on Manglin Star to Ancestral Emperor Cang Yue's youth, leaving Fang Yun to examine the troubling details of Ao Pang's reforms.

• Sky City Tower sent a True Dragon Emperor to South Wing Gate to announce Ao Ku's praise and rewards, and Fang Yun rose to ninth on the Military Merit Ranking.
• Ao Ku ordered Fang Yun to hold South Wing Gate until the trade fair ended, while Fang Yun read Dragon City records in Strange Book World.
• Fang Yun found Northern Polar Sky City's evaluation of Ao Pang, written by the future Dragon Emperor Ao Zong, which called Ao Pang unfit for major responsibility.
• Fang Yun discovered secret reports showing that Ao Pang had been sent to Wild Slope Star, later called Manglin Star, the birthplace of Cang Yue.
• Fang Yun read that Ao Pang won the Ancient Demons' support through reforms, released imprisoned Ancient Demons, appointed them to office, and drove Water Race members back to Dragon City.
• Fang Yun learned that Ao Pang's released appointees included Ancient Demons who had killed Water Race and Dragon Race members, some of whom had been slated for execution.

Fang Yun researched Ao Pang’s role in the Ancient Demons’ rise while preparing a trade fair in Northern Polar Sky City. As the fair quieted for the night, Lei Konghe challenged Fang Yun to reveal his best treasures, and the crowd joined in.

• Fang Yun found records showing that Ao Pang urged the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon to train the Ancient Demons as mercenaries, a policy that helped them grow and later contributed to the Dragon Race’s downfall.
• Fang Yun added information about Ao Pang to his History of the Ancient Demons and continued researching Dragon City technology with the Craftsmen Realm’s Great Scholars, who found a possible way to repair the Sainthood Mechanism.
• On his thirteenth day in Northern Polar Sky City, Fang Yun received permission to attend the trade fair at the Grand Exhibition Hall and sensed that someone was following him.
• Fang Yun arranged the exhibits and watched the guests arrive, including Lei Konghe and an incarnation of the Void Devourer; Ao Ku’s sacred might kept the fair orderly.
• Fang Yun completed several trades through the Water Race, then heard Lei Konghe complain that the fair lacked special treasures and demand that Fang Yun reveal his best items.
• The crowd called for Fang Yun to show his true treasures, and some suggested holding a treasure wager by Dragon Race custom.

Lei Konghe challenged Fang Yun to a treasure wager, claiming Fang Yun’s trade fair offered nothing worthy of Dragon City. Fang Yun agreed in principle but sought oaths against retaliation and disclosure, leaving the wager’s rules unresolved as the crowd pressed him to take part.

• Lei Konghe proposed a treasure wager and explained that he resented Fang Yun and considered him unqualified to hold a trade fair alone.
• Ao Shan defended the fair’s offerings, but Lei Konghe argued that Half-Sage treasures were too commonplace to make a worthy wager.
• Fang Yun accepted the possibility of wagering and demanded that he and Lei Konghe swear not to deliberately harm or provoke each other afterward.
• Fang Yun proposed that everyone swear to keep the wager’s proceedings secret, while the Void Devourer warned that an incarnation’s oath could not bind its true body.
• Fang Yun pointed out that someone could sacrifice an incarnation to leak information, but the Barbarian Wolf Sage Incarnation demanded to know whether he dared wager treasures.

Fang Yun humiliated Wolf Gu Sage into wagering a Saint-Enfeoffment Talisman, then agreed to Lei Konghe’s challenge under strict conditions. As the wager was arranged, the gathered sages realized Lei Konghe meant to uncover Fang Yun’s treasures and that the Demon Barbarians might be using the contest to prepare to kill him.

• Fang Yun taunted Wolf Gu Sage and Lei Konghe until Wolf Gu Sage agreed to stake a Saint-Enfeoffment Talisman against Fang Yun’s wager.
• Fang Yun used wordplay to make Wolf Gu Sage accept that the winner would take the talisman, then left Wolf Gu Sage fuming over the humiliation.
• Fang Yun told Lei Konghe that their next three wagers must involve treasures worth more than Half-Sage treasures and be inspected by Ao Ku.
• Lei Konghe said he had brought three valuable treasures and insisted that Fang Yun could not use the Starfire Armillary Mirror, previously used treasures, or treasures whose existence was known.
• Fang Yun agreed not to use the Starfire Armillary Mirror and, after objecting to Lei Konghe’s final restriction, accepted the terms and called for Ao Ku to inspect the treasures.

Ao Ku inspected the three treasures in Lei Konghe’s Heaven-and-Earth Shell and approved the wager between Lei Konghe and Fang Yun, while warning them not to cheat. Fang Yun then challenged Lei Konghe to add a Thunder Ancestor’s Relic to the stakes, leaving the wager unresolved.

• Ao Ku descended into the Grand Exhibition Hall and confirmed that Lei Konghe’s three treasures far surpassed half-sage treasures.
• Ao Ku offered Fang Yun a chance to withdraw and avoid conflict, but Fang Yun insisted on continuing the wager.
• Ao Ku approved the wager and threatened to kill anyone who played tricks, then warned Fang Yun that he would be sent to the Crime Sea afterward.
• Fang Yun argued that Lei Konghe had an unfair advantage because he had come prepared and demanded equal chances or an additional stake.
• Fang Yun demanded a Thunder Ancestor’s Relic, and Lei Konghe refused because the relics belonged to the Lei Family as a whole.