Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun used the Divine Gold Mechanism Giant to overpower Lei Konghe in the undersea pit. Lei Konghe unleashed the First Projection of the Heaven-Viewing Mirror, but Fang Yun smashed through it and killed him, leaving only the broken mirror.

• Fang Yun revealed that the Divine Gold Mechanism Giant was assembled by scholars of the Craftsmen Realm from discarded Divine Gold and needed time for debugging.
• Fang Yun transformed the giant's rusted sword into a mace and struck Lei Konghe's golden tiger body, breaking its forelegs and overwhelming its Sacred Way defenses.
• Fang Yun pursued Lei Konghe to the bottom of the undersea pit and battered his External Saint Body into a ball of flesh.
• Lei Konghe summoned the First Projection of the Heaven-Viewing Mirror and poured his flesh and blood into it, unleashing its power against Fang Yun.
• Fang Yun's Divine Gold Mace struck through the mirror and killed Lei Konghe, leaving behind the broken Heaven-Viewing Mirror.

Fang Yun escaped the three pursuing Half-Sages by using the Ancient Star River Tributary, disappearing along with the First Projection of the Heaven-Viewing Mirror. The Half-Sages believed he might die or become trapped without a Time Anchor and decided they could wait for his return.

• The Divine Gold Giant collapsed after its mace broke, and Fang Yun crawled out of the wreckage and retrieved the Starfire Armillary Mirror and the Sand Boat.
• Ao Zhou, Sage Niu Xun, and Wolf Gu Sage descended through torn space and attacked Fang Yun together.
• Fang Yun used the Ancient Star River Tributary to freeze the Half-Sages, then vanished with the Heaven-Viewing Mirror into the star river.
• The Half-Sages discussed whether Fang Yun had the time power and Time Anchor needed to survive the Ancient Star River.
• Sage Niu Xun said Fang Yun might become trapped and die or return, and the three Half-Sages laughed and chose to wait.

Fang Yun used the three lights on his wrist to guide the Time-Pointing Chariot through the Ancient Star River and escape its vast destructive storms. He emerged battered and unconscious, then woke on a tiny Four-Legged Black Snake whose voice claimed to be an emperor.

• Fang Yun found himself in a strange starry realm, with his possessions sealed away and only the broken Heaven-Viewing Mirror and jade skirt-trousers remaining.
• Fang Yun saw immense Void Storms beneath the stars and realized the Ancient Star River was far more dangerous than he had expected.
• Fang Yun activated the seven-colored light, D Luo's white light, and the Ancestral Dragon's Light to steer the Time-Pointing Chariot toward an exit.
• Enormous Destructive Storms nearly swallowed the chariot, but the Ancestral Dragon's Light restrained them long enough for Fang Yun to enter a white opening.
• Fang Yun lost consciousness from the passage's pain and woke sitting on a Four-Legged Black Snake, which threatened its attacker and called itself an emperor.

Fang Yun arrived in Emperor Land, where the dense primordial energy injured him and left him unable to use his powers. He exposed the Four-Legged Black Snake as a pretender, and the snake revealed that he was an obscure juvenile who knew several powerful beings.

• Fang Yun woke amid storms and layers of vitality crystals, then realized the Four-Legged Black Snake's tail was beneath his foot.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake offered to guide Fang Yun to the Emperor Race Tribe if Fang Yun became his attendant, and Fang Yun asked about his identity.
• After the Four-Legged Black Snake denied being a member of the Emperor Race, an Archaic Clan, a Saint Ancestor, a Great Sage, or a Half-Sage, Fang Yun grabbed and shook him.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake admitted he was no great emperor and said he did not know what he was, then boasted about his connections to powerful beings.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake described Lord Wangshan, the Sea-Fishing Elder, and the Star Shepherd as juveniles below Saint Enfeoffment, and asked Fang Yun not to tell the Emperor Race about his complaints.

Fang Yun forced the Four-Legged Black Snake to guide him toward the Emperor Race Tribe and learned about Emperor Land’s dangers and the Emperor Race’s power. He discovered that his Literary Guts and divine sense remained strong despite traveling through time, and the pair reached the tribe.

• Fang Yun made the Four-Legged Black Snake his attendant and ordered it to lead him to the Emperor Race Tribe; the snake secretly took the damaged First Projection of the Heaven-Viewing Mirror.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake told Fang Yun that Emperor Land was vulnerable after an attack by the Genesis World-Extinguishing Dragons, and Fang Yun found he could not reveal his name because of time-travel restrictions.
• Fang Yun discovered that his Literary Guts and divine sense retained great power, but he could not absorb the vitality crystal’s energy.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake explained the Emperor Race’s life stages and said its members used time-powered treasures to advance toward Ancestral Emperor.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake warned Fang Yun about Nethernight White Demons, then spotted the Emperor Race Tribe ahead.

Fang Yun saw the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon and realized her bloodline could complete the Mountain Bearer Inheritance. He and the Four-Legged Black Snake then found a grove of Sacred Resonance Fruits, which the snake considered ordinary wild fruit.

• Fang Yun recognized the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon as the likely source of most of the Mountain Bearer Bloodline and began planning how to complete the inheritance.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake described the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon as a powerful, greedy Saint Ancestor who had fought the Genesis World-Extinguishing Dragons.
• Fang Yun stopped when he saw a grove of Sacred Resonance Fruits, and the Four-Legged Black Snake said the unripe fruit was common in the Emperor Land.
• Fang Yun and the Four-Legged Black Snake agreed to search the grove together and split any good fruit equally.

Fang Yun traveled through the Archaic forest with Four-Legged Black Snake, whose excitement over Fang Yun’s kindness revealed how harshly others had treated him. After they found rare fruits, Fang Yun tasted a trace of one and collapsed, leaving Four-Legged Black Snake convinced he had killed his new big brother.

• Fang Yun flew through the forest and promised to teach Four-Legged Black Snake cultivation methods after reaching the Emperor Race.
• Fang Yun observed that the forest’s trees radiated powerful energy, though he could not absorb it or bring the trees to the future.
• Four-Legged Black Snake brought Fang Yun four rare fruits, and Fang Yun identified their likely effects and discovered three strange crystals inside the snake.
• Four-Legged Black Snake ate the Amethyst Fruit and the slender fruit, while Fang Yun chose the Verdigris Fruit and shared the Red Grape Fruit with him.
• Fang Yun tasted a trace of juice from the Verdigris Fruit and collapsed, and Four-Legged Black Snake panicked, blamed himself, and decided he could not simply leave.

Fang Yun woke before the Four-Legged Black Snake could steal his Emperor Race jade shorts, then traveled with him toward the Emperor Race Tribe while learning about the snake’s lonely life and the tribe. They reached the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon, still more than a thousand li from the tribe, and prepared to ride it.

• The Four-Legged Black Snake tried to take Fang Yun’s shorts, believing Fang Yun was dead, but Fang Yun woke and slapped him away.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake explained that Emperor Race children’s jade armor grew with their strength, and Fang Yun recalled that D Luo was a Saint Ancestor.
• Fang Yun and the Four-Legged Black Snake set off toward the Emperor Race Tribe, and Fang Yun asked him about the tribe’s people and customs.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake told Fang Yun that the Emperor Race had been kind to him, though its young members bullied him, and revealed that he had no family and survived by scavenging and begging.
• After four hours of traveling, Fang Yun and the Four-Legged Black Snake reached the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon’s tail and decided to ride it toward the tribe.

Fang Yun and Four-Legged Black Snake reached the Emperor Race tribe on the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon’s shell, where Fang Yun saw the powerful, humanlike inhabitants. The children mocked his small stature, but the adults were shocked when he revealed his age.

• Four-Legged Black Snake asked the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon to carry him and Fang Yun to the tribe, and she swept them onto her shell.
• Fang Yun examined the tribe’s land and saw its stone houses, enormous inhabitants, and children playing nearby.
• Six Emperor Race children mocked Fang Yun for looking old but being so small, while Four-Legged Black Snake urged him to ignore them.
• Fang Yun answered the children in fluent Imperial Race Language, surprising Four-Legged Black Snake and easing the adults’ suspicions.
• After learning the children had lived thousands of nights, Fang Yun said he was a little over sixteen hundred nights old, leaving the Half-Sages and Great Sages stunned.

Fang Yun defended the Four-Legged Black Snake from six Emperor Race children and challenged them to a fight. After he easily repelled their combined attack, Di Gan demanded another round, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Fang Yun declared that no one could bully the Four-Legged Black Snake without challenging him.
• Fang Yun challenged the six children to fight, wagering that they would become the Four-Legged Black Snake’s attendants if they lost.
• Di Gan accepted the challenge, and Fang Yun told all six children to attack him together.
• The six children charged Fang Yun with powerful punches, but they bounced off him and fell to the ground.
• Di Gan accused Fang Yun of using treasures, and Di Lan confirmed that Fang Yun had relied on his own strength.
• Di Gan called for another fight, and Fang Yun’s contest with the children remained unfinished.

Fang Yun’s Sacred Sense and Literary Guts kept Di Gan’s six children from breaking his barrier, prompting Di Lan to challenge him to a three-move contest. Di Lan’s Time Tornado passed harmlessly through Fang Yun, leaving the Emperor Race’s elders and Di Lan stunned.

• Di Gan ordered the six unruly children to attack Fang Yun, but his barrier repelled them despite hours of effort.
• Di Lan stopped the children from targeting the Four-Legged Black Snake and challenged Fang Yun to a contest using Sacred Sense.
• Fang Yun agreed to Di Lan’s three-move challenge and asked for a favor if he won.
• Di Lan revealed that he commanded the Time Storm and summoned a gigantic Time Tornado as his first move.
• Di Lan sent the Time Tornado through Fang Yun, but it left him completely unharmed.

Fang Yun comprehended a new Literary Palace mural, the Eternal Kunlun Diagram, while Di Lan attacked him with a Time Hurricane. Kunlun’s overwhelming pressure suppressed Di Lan and forced four Great Sages to raise their Heavenly Aspects before Fang Yun regained control and the mountains faded.

• An old Emperor Race man noticed Fang Yun’s unusual state as he began cultivating during his sparring match with Di Lan.
• Di Lan expanded his Time Tornado into eight overlapping Time Hurricanes, but their power left Fang Yun completely unharmed.
• Fang Yun understood the mountain-shaped jade artifact’s secret, and the Eternal Kunlun Diagram appeared on his Literary Palace wall.
• Kunlun descended over Di Lan, pinning him in place and forcing four Great Sages to combine their Heavenly Aspects to resist it.
• A Great Sage shouted for Fang Yun to stop, and Fang Yun’s awareness returned as the Kunlun mountains faded.

Fang Yun defeated Di Lan by summoning the Myriad Mountains Ancestral Court, then entered the Emperor Race Tribe as a new clansman while waiting to meet Di Ji. Di Han welcomed him, and Di Lan led him to a stone house with a rich vegetable garden.

• Di Lan conceded defeat after Fang Yun’s manifestation overwhelmed him, and Di Gan declared Fang Yun the children’s Big Brother.
• Di Han praised Fang Yun, welcomed him into the tribe, and said Di Ji was away on campaign.
• Di Gan and the other children became Fang Yun’s followers, while Di Lan led him toward a place to live.
• Di Gan punched an Emperor Race child for insulting the Four-Legged Black Snake and declared them family.
• Di Lan explained that Fang Yun had summoned the Myriad Mountains Ancestral Court, and the group reached a stone house with a garden of divine soil.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake relieved itself by the garden’s vine and told Fang Yun they had struck it rich.

Fang Yun explored the Emperor Race garden and discovered that the stone house contained Primordial Power that rapidly strengthened his body and restored his Realm of Family, State, and World. After cultivating for ten days, he reached a bottleneck with his body close to a Saint Body.

• Fang Yun examined the garden’s four varieties of legendary divine medicine while the Four-Legged Black Snake admitted to eating the dangerous Yin-Yang Twin Serpents.
• Fang Yun entered the stone house and found that its pressure contained a power that strengthened his body and restored his Realm of Family, State, and World.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake guarded the entrance and played with Di Gan and the other children while Fang Yun cultivated.
• After two black nights of the Emperor Land, Fang Yun’s physical strength surpassed ordinary Demon Barbarian Emperors and approached a Saint Body.
• Fang Yun recognized the stone house’s power as likely Primordial Power, the force contained in Primordial Stones.

Fang Yun’s Primordial Power rapidly strengthened him as he waited for news of Di Ji, then he traveled with Four-Legged Black Snake to the Great Empty Sea to seek Sea-Fishing Elder’s guidance. Their arrival interrupted Sea-Fishing Elder’s fishing, and his furious roar shook the sea.

• Fang Yun sensed that Primordial Power had sharpened his mind and brought him close to the foundation for Saint Enfeoffment.
• Fang Yun sent the Emperor Race children away to cultivate and asked Four-Legged Black Snake about Sea-Fishing Elder and Star Shepherd.
• Four-Legged Black Snake reported that Di Ji had not returned, then arranged for Hundred Wings to take Fang Yun to the Great Empty Sea.
• Di Lan allowed Fang Yun and Four-Legged Black Snake to leave the turtle’s back and told them to stay near the sea.
• Fang Yun spotted Sea-Fishing Elder fishing with a Divine Sense line, but Four-Legged Black Snake called out and the line snapped.
• Sea-Fishing Elder turned toward them and roared, sending huge waves across the shore.

Fang Yun met the Sea-Fishing Elder in the Great Empty Sea and used his knowledge of the Sea-Fishing Art to guide the elder’s cultivation. The Sea-Fishing Elder accepted Fang Yun as his teacher, while the Four-Legged Black Snake watched in astonishment.

• The Sea-Fishing Elder attacked the Four-Legged Black Snake with a Divine Sense Fishing Line, but Fang Yun countered it with a finer line and stopped the attack.
• Fang Yun explained that the Four-Legged Black Snake had deliberately disturbed the Sea-Fishing Elder and said the elder’s cultivation method was leading him on a long detour.
• Fang Yun deduced that the Sea-Fishing Elder wanted to master the Great Empty Sea to overcome his weakness in close combat.
• Fang Yun proposed refining the Great Empty Sea into a treasure or creating smaller seas linked to fixed locations, delighting the Sea-Fishing Elder.
• Fang Yun advised the Sea-Fishing Elder to seek help from external Sacred Ways, and the elder bowed and called Fang Yun his teacher.

Fang Yun taught the Sea-Fishing Elder to question rigid assumptions, and the Elder gave him a mysterious Turtle Diagram and divine medicines before leaving to pursue Saint Enfeoffment. Fang Yun began cultivating by fishing in the Great Empty Sea, where his thoughts formed a new book, the Sea-Fishing Gazetteer.

• Fang Yun demonstrated that a sphere slid faster down a curved slope and urged the Sea-Fishing Elder to overcome prejudice in his Sea-Fishing Art.
• The Sea-Fishing Elder recognized Fang Yun as his second teacher and presented him with a Turtle Diagram that Fang Yun quickly began to comprehend.
• The Sea-Fishing Elder said Fang Yun's guidance had shown him the path to Saint Enfeoffment, gave him a creel of divine medicines, and left to enter secluded cultivation.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake offered to catch fish while Fang Yun began fishing the Great Empty Sea and formed the Sea-Fishing Gazetteer in the Strange Book World.

Fang Yun learned from the Sea-Fishing Elder’s insights, caught thousands of fish to store, and followed a treasure light through a spatial passage. He and Four-Legged Black Snake emerged at Kunlun Mountain, where glowing stones covered the ground.

• Fang Yun awakened with a deeper understanding of the Great Empty Sea and learned how the Sea-Fishing Elder had drawn insight from its spatial forces.
• Fang Yun caught and roasted a fish, discovered its flesh strengthened him, and shared half with Four-Legged Black Snake.
• Fang Yun used his sacred sense to catch over ten thousand fish, which Four-Legged Black Snake stored away.
• Fang Yun and Four-Legged Black Snake followed a golden treasure light into a spatial passage beneath the sea.
• Four-Legged Black Snake recognized Kunlun Mountain beyond the passage and eagerly began eating the glowing stones scattered there.

Fang Yun explored a mountain of Sacred Power Crystals in Kunlun Mountain, discovered that his body could barely withstand their power, and considered using the mountain to hide Archaic Era treasures for the future. A Phoenix Saint Ancestor appeared, took his Phoenix-Luring Fruit, and left him a mysterious object.

• Fang Yun’s hand burst apart when he touched a Sacred Power Crystal, but it regenerated, and he later absorbed several tiny crystals despite his flesh repeatedly splitting.
• The Four-Legged Black Snake explained that the crystals were part of Kunlun Mountain and could not be taken away, then eagerly gnawed on them.
• Fang Yun reasoned that he could hide Archaic Era treasures near the Gou Emperor Armor and retrieve them in the future, then flew off to search for other treasures.
• A tremendous Sacred Way pressure descended, and Fang Yun recognized the overwhelming presence of a Phoenix Saint Ancestor.
• Fang Yun gave the phoenix his Phoenix-Luring Fruit, and it left an object a little over a foot tall before departing.

Fang Yun escaped Kunlun with Four-Legged Black Snake after the Phoenix gave him an Amber Qilin, then searched the Great Empty Sea for Void Sea Pearls. They returned to shore to wait for the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon, but night fell and Four-Legged Black Snake warned Fang Yun about the deadly beings that appeared after dark.

• The Phoenix flew away after giving Fang Yun an Amber Qilin containing a frail qilin cub, and Fang Yun woke Four-Legged Black Snake, who agreed not to eat it.
• When a huge shadow appeared above them, Fang Yun and Four-Legged Black Snake fled through the spatial passage, which Fang Yun destroyed behind them.
• Four-Legged Black Snake persuaded Fang Yun to search the Great Empty Sea for Void Sea Pearls, and they found five before Fang Yun made them leave.
• Fang Yun returned to the Sea-Fishing Elder's spot to cultivate while Four-Legged Black Snake waited for the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon, which did not arrive before nightfall.
• As the dangerous night began, Four-Legged Black Snake warned Fang Yun not to name or think about certain demons and said that Heaven was the only thing they feared.