Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun appeared to panic as Sage Niu Xun drew him into a Sacred Power vortex, but he seized an unexpected opening and killed the Half-Sage incarnation with the True Dragon Ancient Sword. As Fang Yun fled toward Crime Sea City, Wolf Gu Sage and the others moved to pursue him.

• Fang Yun’s War Poetry slowed Sage Niu Xun, but Niu Xun steadily advanced while Fang Yun’s aim grew erratic and he angrily rebuked Qi Luo.
• Sage Niu Xun summoned a vast Sacred Power vortex that weakened the Sand Boat and dragged him and Fang Yun toward its center.
• At close range, Sage Niu Xun unleashed Heaven-Earth Fist, while Fang Yun appeared to panic and scatter his attacks.
• Sage Niu Xun instinctively slapped his waist and exposed an opening, allowing Fang Yun to freeze his arms, bind him with Sin Turtle Chains, and pierce his skull with the Withering Force-infused True Dragon Ancient Sword.
• Fang Yun fled toward Crime Sea City, and Wolf Gu Sage called on the others to help catch him.

Wolf Gu Sage unleashed his Supreme Sacred Might against Fang Yun, but Fang Yun destroyed the Nine-Wolf Giant Claw with the Bloodmang World Realm and the Withering Force. As Fang Yun neared exhaustion, an Elephant Clan half-sage incarnation charged in to keep him from reaching Crime Sea City.

• Wolf Gu Sage combined sacred power with the Camp-Tent Armor and struck Fang Yun with Ten Thousand Ghosts Wail.
• Fang Yun’s Rhapsody on the Three Capitals and Realm of Family, State, and World failed to stop the Nine-Wolf Giant Claw, so he invoked the Bloodmang World Realm.
• The Withering Force shattered the Nine-Wolf Giant Claw, and the Poison-Assault Giant Serpent killed Wolf Gu Sage’s incarnation with poisonous flames.
• The Demon Barbarian half-sage incarnations suspected Fang Yun might be feigning exhaustion and agreed to attack him one at a time before he could return to Crime Sea City.
• An Elephant Clan half-sage incarnation took their sacred power, overtook Fang Yun, and attacked, forcing him farther from Crime Sea City.

Fang Yun defeated wave after wave of Half-Sage Incarnations, then used the Teleportation Conquest Gate and its endless ancient corpses to survive Ao Zhou’s attack. The armies launched an assault on Crime Sea City, where Fang Yun supplied more than ten thousand repaired mechanisms for the city’s defense as the Plague Lord demanded that he be handed over.

• Fang Yun killed the Elephant Clan Half-Sage Incarnation and continued defeating successive Half-Sage Incarnations until he appeared close to death on the Sand Boat.
• Ao Zhou charged Fang Yun after secretly agreeing with the Plague Lord to proceed with their plan, but Fang Yun summoned ancient corpses through the Teleportation Conquest Gate.
• Fifty Emperor Realm ancient corpses surrounded Ao Zhou, and an endless stream of reinforcements eventually killed his incarnation.
• The Plague Lord ordered all forces to attack, while the Ancient Corpse Emperors pushed Fang Yun’s Sand Boat back to Crime Sea City.
• Fang Yun told the Water Race he could no longer fight and released more than ten thousand repaired mechanisms from the Craftsmen Realm for the city’s defense.
• The Plague Lord offered to cease hostilities for ten years if Crime Sea City handed over Fang Yun.

Crime Sea City's defenses weakened under the Ancient Demon Battle Souls' relentless siege, while Fang Yun helped repel their attacks. As the Azure Barrier neared collapse, Qi He agreed to hand Fang Yun over to the Plague Lord in exchange for a ten-year truce.

• The Ancient Demon Battle Souls repeatedly detonated themselves against the Azure Barrier, forcing the Water Race to fight back with war machines and demonic arts.
• The siege wore down Crime Sea City's defenses, and by the third day the moonstone supply was running short and the barrier began to fail.
• Fang Yun killed many enemies with his Ancient Corpse Emperors and in person, but Emperor Realm attackers began avoiding him.
• The city's Emperor Realm experts gathered at Fang Yun's camp, and he realized they had found a way to expel him from Crime Sea City.
• Qi He asked the Plague Lord whether his offer still stood, then agreed to hand Fang Yun over in exchange for a ten-year truce.

Qi He used a Dragon Court edict to force Fang Yun out of Crime Sea City, and Fang Yun condemned the city before leaving. Qi Luo defied his clan and joined Fang Yun, leaving Crime Sea City to punish him by refusing his Battle Soul spiritual radiance.

• Qi He presented a Dragon Court Sage Edict ordering Fang Yun to leave Crime Sea City for an investigation into suspected defection to the Ancient Demons.
• Fang Yun announced that he would investigate the attempts against him, then asked who would leave the city with him and set off alone in his Sand Boat.
• Qi He and the other sailfish pressured Qi Luo to denounce Fang Yun and testify against him, threatening him when he refused.
• Qi Luo rejected their demands, denounced the Qi Qing Clan’s treatment of him, and rushed after Fang Yun to follow him out of the city.
• Qi He ordered Crime Sea City to refuse Qi Luo’s Battle Soul spiritual radiance, and Fang Yun asked Qi Luo whether the sailfish Lineage and the city deserved his loyalty.

Fang Yun left Crime Sea City with Qi Luo, only to be surrounded by Demon Barbarian Half-Sage Incarnations and ancient demon battle souls. He revealed his forces and used the Starry Mountain and Sin Turtle Prison Chariots to turn back the assault.

• Fang Yun and Qi Luo departed Crime Sea City as the Plague Lord revealed that the Chaotic Star Disc had sealed the area against teleportation.
• The Plague Lord admitted that the Demon Realm had deliberately driven Fang Yun to the Crime Sea and had allied with ancient demon battle souls to pursue a broader plan.
• Fang Yun sent Qi Luo into his Six-Silver Body, opened the Teleportation Conquest Gate, and deployed a hundred Ancient Corpse Emperors and two hundred thousand war-poem soldiers.
• Fang Yun summoned the Fu Yue Clan's Starry Mountain, terrifying most ancient demon battle souls and disrupting their Demon Sea Tactic.
• Fang Yun activated the Bloodmang World Realm and the Ten Halls of Suppressing Sin, whose Sin Turtle Chains captured and absorbed the attacking battle souls.

Fang Yun fought the Ancient Demon Battle Souls for days while concealing his true stamina, then faced an all-out assault by more than ninety Half-Sage Incarnations. As his defenses began to fail, he summoned the Four Literary Treasures and began a fifth linked War Poem, startling the sages with its opening lines about Qin Shi Huang.

• Fang Yun fought continuously for three days, and the Plague Lord realized he had earlier feigned exhaustion to lure the Half-Sage Incarnations into battle.
• The Plague Lord ordered more than ninety Half-Sage Incarnations to attack Fang Yun from a distance, destroying his War-Poem Soldiers and killing many Ancient Corpse Emperors.
• The Half-Sage Incarnations drove Ancient Demon Battle Souls to detonate themselves against Fang Yun, gradually breaking down his Realm of Family, State, and World, the Sand Boat's defenses, and the Western Sea Crown's power.
• As Fang Yun's barrier began to collapse, he used the Sand Boat to raise protective walls and summoned the Four Literary Treasures before writing four linked battle poems.
• Fang Yun began a fifth battle poem about Qin Shi Huang, and its opening lines alarmed the Half-Sage Incarnations who recognized their significance.

Fang Yun completed Ode to the First Emperor, the final poem in a five-part linked sequence that praised Qin Shi Huang and the human forces behind his unification. The poem gathered immense power and reached the Fourth Realm: Sacred Soul, while its manifestations alarmed the Half-Sage Incarnations.

• Fang Yun finished Ode to the First Emperor, describing Qin Shi Huang’s conquests, his search for immortality, and his fearless acceptance of death.
• The five linked poems formed five layers of linked-poetry treasure light, and the Half-Sage Incarnations sensed the poem’s imperial spirit.
• Qin Shi Huang’s Mount Tai Fengshan Book entered the poetry page, which displayed a map of the Saint Origin Continent and rose to the Third Realm: Saint Invocation.
• The Literary Palace Coiled Dragon entered the poem, raising it to the Fourth Realm: Sacred Soul, as Literary Heart Fish and literary heart flames strengthened it.
• The Sage Page doubled certain treasure lights, bringing the poem to more than thirty layers, and Golden Resonance of Jade appeared.
• The Poetry Cauldron produced Red Sleeve Adds Fragrance, further empowering the poem and changing the Half-Sage Incarnations’ expressions.

Fang Yun unleashed the fivefold linked war poem “Ode to the First Emperor,” overwhelming the enemy forces with Qin Shi Huang figures, golden men, and Battle Souls from Burial Saint Valley. After the Demon and Water Race armies were destroyed, the captured Plague Lord vowed that the Demon Realm would seek Fang Yun’s death.

• Fang Yun’s war poem gained Sacred Qi treasure radiance and fused into a powerful display of Besieged on All Sides.
• Reuse an Old Trick and the Four Literary Treasures multiplied the giant Qin Shi Huangs until one hundred and sixty stood across the sea.
• The poem summoned one thousand nine hundred and twenty golden men and Battle Souls from the Dragon Soul Battlefield to encircle the enemy.
• Fang Yun ordered the Battle Souls and golden men to attack, and they annihilated the Ancient Demon Battle Souls and nearly all the Half-Sage Incarnations.
• Bound by Sin Turtle Chains, the Plague Lord accused Fang Yun of humiliating the Demon Realm and vowed that it would never let him go.

Fang Yun deduced that the Demon Realm had tampered with the Treasure Wager and was preparing a massive invasion through the Crime Sea. The Plague Lord revealed that a greater Demon Realm force was descending, and Fang Yun sensed a huge wolf’s paw emerging from a spatial rift.

• Fang Yun explained that the Demon Realm had used the Treasure Wager and the Chaotic Star Disc to prepare an invasion while preventing news from escaping.
• The Plague Lord admitted that the Demon Realm had tampered with the treasures and that a prize in the Hall of Doom was more valuable than the Dusk Void Sun Fragment.
• Fang Yun inferred that the Saint-Enfeoffment Talisman and External Saint Body had been sabotaged, and the Plague Lord confirmed the trap.
• The Plague Lord announced that a great being was descending, and Fang Yun unleashed his divine sense as Crime Sea City trembled.
• Fang Yun perceived a spatial rift opening above the seawater, from which an enormous wolf’s paw emerged.

Lang Lu, a Half-Sage wolf, descended through a spatial rift and healed from his injuries, exposing Fang Yun and Crime Sea City to his overwhelming Sacred Might. As Lang Lu restored the Plague Lord’s incarnation, Fang Yun learned that the Dragon-Suppressing Seat had allowed Lang Lu to connect with the Demon Realm and descend near him.

• Lang Lu emerged from the spatial rift, and his Sacred Might emptied the sea around Fang Yun while Crime Sea City’s barrier resisted it.
• Lang Lu healed completely, and the Water Race who saw the Fire Prison Plain in his eyes were blinded.
• Fang Yun recognized Lang Lu from their previous meeting, and Lang Lu promised that it would be their last.
• Lang Lu freed the Plague Lord’s incarnation from the Sin Turtle Chains and restored its ruined body with Sacred Blood.
• Fang Yun asked how Lang Lu had descended, and the Plague Lord explained that the Dragon-Suppressing Seat could connect Dragon City to the Demon Realm.
• Fang Yun realized the Plague Lord had wanted to lose the Treasure Wager so Lang Lu could use the seat to descend and kill him.

Fang Yun questioned Lang Lu about the plot that had sent him into the Crime Sea, while learning that the Demon Realm planned to seize Dragon City with the Lei Family’s help. Lang Lu prepared to kill him as Ancient Demon holy Battle Souls approached Crime Sea City.

• Lang Lu sealed the area with Sacred Might, and Fang Yun inferred that he had powerful help within Dragon City.
• Fang Yun asked Lang Lu who had forced him into the Crime Sea, then offered his treasures in exchange for his life; Lang Lu refused and said he would eliminate the Human Race’s future.
• Fang Yun deduced that the Moon Trees had transferred Lang Lu early and warned that bringing in more Half-Sages could damage their origins.
• Lang Lu revealed that Ancient Demon holy Battle Souls would reach Crime Sea City within a quarter hour, and Fang Yun realized the Demon Realm meant to seize the Crime Sea as a base to take Dragon City.
• The Plague Lord admitted that the Demon Realm and Lei Family were cooperating, and Fang Yun learned that Lei Konghe had joined them over his alleged seizure of the Saint-Enfeoffment Foundation.

Fang Yun provoked Lang Lu and exposed Qi Qing’s failure to protect Crime Sea City, while the Demon Barbarians and Ancient Demon Battle Souls prepared for his death and planned for the possibility that Lang Lu might fail. The chapter ended with Lang Lu threatening Fang Yun, who remained defiant and addressed the Plague Lord.

• Ancient Demon Battle Souls debated the dangers of entering the Crime Sea and dismissed Fang Yun as a threat, while Wu Tang vowed to kill him.
• At the Sages' Tree, the Demon Sages discussed what to do if Lang Lu failed to kill Fang Yun and considered sending additional Half-Sages.
• A gigantic black shadow appeared outside Dragon City and decided to watch and wait after its avatar was killed there.
• Fang Yun challenged Qi Qing for leaving him undefended, and his words spread through Crime Sea City, stirring disappointment among the Water Race.
• Lang Lu revealed that Half-Sages had entered the battle beyond Two Worlds Mountain and threatened to slaughter Fang Yun's clan.
• Fang Yun dismissed Lang Lu's threats and insisted that he had never been arrogant.

Crowds in Candle Dragon City saw Fang Yun take first place on all four Dragon Shadow rankings, while outside Crime Sea City Lang Lu and the Plague Lord attacked him. Star-moon radiance protected Fang Yun from Lang Lu’s blow, and Fang Yun questioned whether the two Half-Sages knew where the protection came from.

• Members of many races gathered around the Dragon Shadow Four Rankings and saw Fang Yun at the top of all four.
• Onlookers debated how Fang Yun had amassed immense military merit, Emperor Realm kills, and extraordinary talent merit, while Emperor Shark Zhuo predicted others would try to catch up.
• Lang Lu attacked Fang Yun outside Crime Sea City and threatened to exterminate the Human Race.
• Fang Yun mocked Lang Lu by describing how humans would use the pelts and flesh of Lang Lu’s tribespeople.
• Star-moon radiance shielded Fang Yun from Lang Lu’s descending claw, prompting Lang Lu and the Plague Lord to prepare another attack.
• Fang Yun asked Lang Lu and the Plague Lord whether they knew where star-moon radiance came from.

Fang Yun unleashed the Annihilation Dragon Spear, destroying Lang Lu, the Plague Lord's incarnation, and Crime Sea City. He survived the strike unharmed and ordered someone to come out.

• Fang Yun revealed that he had delayed the battle to wait for the Annihilation Dragon Spear, whose power shattered the Chaotic Star Disc and cracked Crime Sea City's Azure Barrier.
• Qi He warned Fang Yun that the spear's aftershock would destroy Crime Sea City, but Fang Yun refused to stop it and condemned the Water Race for forcing him out and failing to help him.
• Half-Sage Qi Qing emerged from the city and asked Fang Yun to stop the spear, then fled when Fang Yun told him to scram.
• Lang Lu tried to defend himself as the Annihilation Dragon Spear descended, but its light erased him, the Plague Lord's incarnation, the reinforcements, and Crime Sea City.
• Fang Yun stood unharmed at the center of the enormous seabed crater and called for someone to come out.

After Fang Yun used the Annihilation Dragon Spear to kill Lang Lu, his rankings surged, revealing the weapon’s power and his access to a Moon Fortress. The Demon Realm’s sages debated whether to sacrifice the Moon Tree or themselves to stop Fang Yun, while the Ancient Demon Half-Sage Battle Soul force halted near Crime Sea City.

• A Moon Fortress exploded above Dragon City, and debris rained toward the planet as a few observers saw a spear of light enter it.
• The crowd saw Fang Yun’s Emperor-Slaying count pass 110,000 and his military merit rise to fifty times second place, then realized he had used the Annihilation Dragon Spear to kill an enemy Half-Sage.
• At Sages' Tree, the Demon Realm’s Half-Sages mourned Lang Lu and argued over how to kill Fang Yun before he could escape.
• The Demon Realm’s sages weighed using the Moon Tree’s power, which could damage it, against sacrificing their own interests to stop Fang Yun.
• The Ancient Demon Half-Sage Battle Soul force stopped while heading toward Crime Sea City.

Fang Yun survived the Annihilation Dragon Spear’s destruction of Crime Sea City, while the Ancient Demon Half-Sage Battle Souls fled rather than confront its power. Lei Konghe also survived, and he revealed that Ao Hui had sent him to persuade Qi Hui and force Fang Yun out of the city.

• Wu Tang recognized the Annihilation Dragon Spear and fled with the other Ancient Demon Half-Sage Battle Souls when they spotted a Sin Turtle Prison Chariot.
• Fang Yun and the Sand Boat turned above the enormous pit left where Crime Sea City had stood.
• Lei Konghe emerged from the pit, battered and enraged, and accused Fang Yun of causing his losses.
• Fang Yun said he had recovered from Lang Lu’s attack and questioned Lei Konghe while they both regained their strength.
• Lei Konghe revealed that Ao Hui had sent him into Crime Sea City to persuade Qi Hui and force Fang Yun to leave.
• Fang Yun demanded to know whether Lei Konghe had still considered himself a Human Race scholar while carrying out that mission.

Fang Yun confronted Lei Konghe over his betrayal and deduced that the Demon Realm might target Starfall Sea, the Hall of Doom, or Emperor Land next. Lei Konghe revealed the truth about the Lei Family’s connection to the Thunder Ancestor and summoned an External Saint Body as his final weapon.

• Fang Yun accused Lei Konghe of plotting against a Human Race Void Sage, and Lei Konghe blamed Fang Yun and the Saints for ruining his chance at Saint Enfeoffment.
• Lei Konghe explained that the Ancient Demon Battle Souls sought revenge and the Demon Barbarians aimed to suppress the Dragon Race, but refused to reveal their next target.
• Fang Yun inferred that Starfall Sea, the Hall of Doom, and Emperor Land could be targets, while Lei Konghe said Fang Yun could not warn the Dragon Race.
• Lei Konghe revealed that the Lei Family’s ancestor had discovered the Thunder Ancestor’s Relic and adopted the surname Lei after gaining the Western Sea Dragon Race’s approval.
• Lei Konghe brought out a golden tiger-shaped External Saint Body, and Fang Yun revealed that his own External Saint Body was protected within his Six-Silver Body.

Lei Konghe transformed into a giant Tiger Clan Half-Sage and tried to kill Fang Yun, but Fang Yun countered him with Zhuge Half-Sage’s Sacred Residence Garb and the Sand Boat. Lei Konghe then used a new power to impede Fang Yun, leaving him trapped in dark smoke as the chase continued.

• Lei Konghe turned himself into a thousand-zhang tiger by merging with the Golden Tiger Statue and attacked Fang Yun with Sacred Might.
• Fang Yun blocked Lei Konghe’s attacks with his treasures and Sacred Soul Literary Platform, then revealed the powerful Sacred Residence Garb from Zhuge Half-Sage’s Former Residence.
• Fang Yun used the regalia’s Sacred Power to empower the Sand Boat and evade Lei Konghe’s pursuit.
• As his transformation began to wane, Lei Konghe swallowed something that changed the surrounding space and spat out black smoke that slowed the Sand Boat.

Fang Yun was overwhelmed by Lei Konghe’s control of Sacred Power and lost the Sand Boat and Starfire Armillary Mirror. He then transformed with the Half-Sage Former Residence’s power into a rust-covered Mechanism Giant, leaving Lei Konghe alarmed when he learned who had forged it.

• Lei Konghe used Sacred Power to toss Fang Yun from the Sand Boat and sever his connection to it.
• Lei Konghe swept the Starfire Armillary Mirror away from Fang Yun, but his claw dipped slightly as he struck.
• Fang Yun summoned the Half-Sage Former Residence’s golden light, which assembled a huge, rust-covered Mechanism Giant around him.
• Lei Konghe laughed at the Mechanism Giant’s junkyard appearance and asked Fang Yun what it was.
• Fang Yun said Lei Tingyu, Jing Bushou, and the other Great Scholars of the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land had forged the Mechanism Giant for him, and Lei Konghe stepped back in alarm.