Chapter Summaries

Gu Xu underwent Saint Enfeoffment in Dragon City and produced five extraordinary phenomena, including the Heaven-Piercing Bridge, convincing the races that he could become a Saint Ancestor. As others feared for Fang Yun and the Human Race, Fang Yun answered Gu Xu’s boast by declaring that this was the pinnacle of his life.

• Gu Xu’s Saint Enfeoffment caused the realm-wide celebration, Blood Lotus Filling the Sky, and Sacred Way Sword Lord phenomena, establishing him as a Sage Lord.
• A True Blood Sage Seat appeared, granting Gu Xu protection and the power to resurrect, and Wang Jinglong’s avatar feared that the Human Race was in peril.
• Gu Xu produced the Heaven-Piercing Bridge, an Ancestral-Enfeoffment Phenomenon that could let him become a Saint Ancestor.
• The races compared Gu Xu favorably to Fang Yun, while Ao Zhou considered switching allegiance but decided not to act until he understood Fang Yun’s identity.
• Standing atop Ao Zhou’s head, Fang Yun addressed Gu Xu and said that today was the pinnacle of Gu Xu’s life.

Fang Yun returned to Northern Polar Sky City, where his overwhelming bloodline and power astonished the Water Race and convinced Ao Ku that he might defeat Gu Xu. After learning that Dragon City had not yet uncovered what happened in Crime Sea, Fang Yun opened a spatial gate and set off with Ao Zhou to confront Gu Xu, now called the Sacred Way Sword Lord.

• Ao Ku emerged from the tower, paid respects to Fang Yun, and apologized for Dragon City's failure to protect him in Crime Sea.
• Fang Yun learned that only seventeen days had passed and accused someone in Dragon City of delaying the investigation.
• Ao Ku revealed that the Saint Ancestors remained remnant thoughts and warned Fang Yun that Gu Xu had powerful treasures and ways to escape.
• Fang Yun said he was certain of victory and revealed that he had defeated Ao Zhou, Wolf Gu Sage, and Bull Barbarian Sage using only one-tenth of his strength.
• Fang Yun announced that he would confront Gu Xu, opened a spatial gate, and brought Ao Zhou through it.
• Ao Ku failed to deduce Fang Yun's method of opening the gate and concluded that Fang Yun might truly defeat Gu Xu.

Zong Ganyu and the scholars of Kong City reluctantly welcomed Fang Yun’s Sacred Image into the Hall of All Sages. The ceremony ended in astonishment when even Sage Kong’s statue bowed to Fang Yun.

• Zong Ganyu rejected his relatives’ suggestions to defy the ceremony and urged them to endure the humiliation while plotting against Fang Yun later.
• Zong Ganyu carried Fang Yun’s Sacred Image to the Hall of All Sages as scholars across Kong City knelt in welcome.
• Zong Ganyu presented the Sacred Image, and the Hall’s Sacred Images came alive and greeted it.
• The Half-Sages, Second Saints, and even Sage Kong’s statue returned Fang Yun’s greeting, shocking Zong Ganyu.

Fang Yun's Sacred Image took the foremost position among the Half-Sages, and his Sage Tablet was welcomed into Temples of Sages across the Human Race. In the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land, Sage Jing yielded his place to Fang Yun, while Fang Yun arrived in the Starfall Sea and met Gu Xu.

• The sages returned Fang Yun's bow, and their Sacred Images moved aside so Fang Yun could take the foremost position among the Half-Sages.
• Zong Ganyu dropped the ceremonial tray, fainted, and was carried away as Wu Jiu took over the ceremony.
• Fang Yun's Sage Tablet descended into Temples of Sages across the Human Race, taking the foremost position among the Half-Sages.
• Haiya scholars discovered Fang Yun's Sage Tablet in the Sea-Cliff Ancient Land's main hall, where Sage Jing's Sacred Image had yielded the sacred dais to it.
• Fang Yun flew out of the Void Gate atop Ao Zhou and greeted Gu Xu in the Starfall Sea.

Fang Yun faced Gu Xu, the newly advanced foremost Half-Sage of the Demon Realm, and prepared to fight him while revealing an extraordinary collection of Half-Sage literary treasures. The chapter ended with Gu Xu accusing Fang Yun of using his Ancient Star River Tributary, and Fang Yun claiming it as his own and confirming he had used it.

• Gu Xu stood atop the enslaved skeleton of Ao Zhou's clan uncle, enraging Ao Zhou, who threatened to destroy Gu Xu's clan.
• Fang Yun told Ao Zhou to leave Gu Xu to him and said Ao Zhou could deal with Gu Xu's descendants later.
• Gu Xu dismissed Fang Yun's Myriad Worlds Bear Witness and offered not to attack him for three years if he left, but Fang Yun ignored him and began arranging a desk and literary treasures.
• Fang Yun brought out the restored Zixia Brush, Brush Elder, the transformed Inkstone Turtle and Ink Maiden, and more than a hundred powerful Sage Pages, astonishing Ao Zhou and Gu Xu.
• Gu Xu shattered the space around himself and accused Fang Yun of using the Ancient Star River Tributary that belonged to him; Fang Yun replied that the tributary was his and admitted using it.

Fang Yun summoned the Sacred Way Study and a Hundred-Arms Saint while beginning to write the History of the Emperor Race. Hundred-Arms battled Gu Xu, who weathered its attacks before striking back with a blood-colored Sacred Blade.

• Gu Xu questioned Fang Yun about the era and place he had visited, then realized the ancient wager had enabled Fang Yun to use the Ancient Star River Tributary.
• Fang Yun unfolded the Sacred Way Study, bringing its aura and power to the battlefield as Ao Zhou recognized its resemblance to Sage Kong’s study.
• Fang Yun began writing the History of the Emperor Race on ordinary paper imbued with Sacred Way aura.
• Fang Yun summoned Hundred-Arms, which charged Gu Xu while Fang Yun continued writing and Ao Zhou watched the battle.
• Gu Xu disrupted Hundred-Arms’s barrage with repeated punches, but Hundred-Arms struck with all its arms and smashed him through fourteen volcanoes.
• Gu Xu rose with a blood-colored Sacred Blade and slashed Hundred-Arms repeatedly, cutting wounds into its body.

Gu Xu fought Hundred-Arms while Micro Nether struck from concealment, but Fang Yun sent Ancient City into the battle as well. Gu Xu unleashed black-sand burrs that blasted Hundred-Arms apart, while the battle left Gu Xu badly wounded.

• Micro Nether secretly struck Gu Xu, whose Hundred-Life Iron Furnace and red ribbons helped him withstand the attacks.
• Gu Xu countered Micro Nether and severed seven of Hundred-Arms's arms, preventing them from regenerating quickly.
• Fang Yun sent Ancient City to attack Gu Xu, and Gu Xu met its charge with the power of the Demon Realm Star.
• Ancient City smashed Gu Xu's arms and damaged his Great Sage Sacred Armor, while Micro Nether's renewed attack made him vomit blood.
• Gu Xu unleashed black-sand burrs that forced Micro Nether to flee and tore Hundred-Arms's body apart.

As the Four Ancient Demon Fiends fought Gu Xu, Fang Yun paused his work on the History of the Emperor Race and began writing the third volume of the History of the Ancient Demons. Ao Zhou realized Fang Yun had achieved the Fifth Realm of Calligraphy and suspected Gu Xu might soon flee.

• The Ancient City rammed Gu Xu while Hundred-Arms regenerated, and Ao Zhou used the opening to recover his uncle's remains.
• Hundred-Li Jellyfish joined the battlefield, completing the Four Ancient Demon Fiends and forcing Gu Xu to divide his attention.
• Fang Yun stopped writing the History of the Emperor Race and decided to finish the third volume of the History of the Ancient Demons instead.
• Ao Zhou saw Fang Yun's writing produce a golden dragon and phoenix and recognized his calligraphy as the Fifth Realm.
• Ao Zhou reconsidered Fang Yun's earlier powers and warned that Gu Xu might be thinking of fleeing.

Fang Yun continued writing while Gu Xu fought the Four Ancient Demon Fiends, but Gu Xu’s treasures and Blackstone Mountain turned the battle against them. Fang Yun drank from the Light-Brewing Bottle and began reciting a poem as a black vortex appeared behind him.

• Fang Yun hoped Gu Xu would flee and continued writing the History of the Ancient Demons as Ao Zhou warned that Gu Xu’s Sacred Power could outlast his own.
• Gu Xu used the Illusory Void White Feather to evade attacks and wounded three of the Four Ancient Demon Fiends, but the Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons trapped him as an Azure True Dragon descended.
• Gu Xu summoned Blackstone Mountain and unleashed rings of black flame, forcing the Four Ancient Demon Fiends back while he fought the Azure-Blue Dragon.
• Fang Yun stopped writing, gathered his literary treasures, and drank crimson liquor from the Light-Brewing Bottle, setting his body ablaze nine times.
• Fang Yun laughed, summoned the Zixia Brush, and recited a poem about drinking; a black vortex appeared behind him.

Fang Yun completed Bringing in the Wine, whose Saint-Shocking power summoned a mysterious white-robed drinker. The poem’s Sage Page then called down the Sacred Power Yangtze River to extinguish Blackstone Mountain’s flames, leaving Gu Xu to withdraw the sacred treasure while the Kunlun mountains remained overhead.

• Fang Yun sent divine wine through void vortices to friends across Dragon City, then finished writing Bringing in the Wine and raised it to the Saint-Shocking level.
• The poem’s phenomena stalled because no fitting Human Race sage could answer its call, until a pale-blue Temporal Storm brought a white-robed man who drank ten dou of wine and fell asleep.
• The Sage Page transformed into divine light, and the Sacred Power Yangtze River descended onto Blackstone Mountain, extinguishing its flames.
• Gu Xu’s blood-qi attack passed harmlessly through the river, so he withdrew Blackstone Mountain, though the Kunlun mountains remained in the sky.

Fang Yun continued his battle with Gu Xu after a mysterious sage’s poem shattered Blackstone Mountain, then summoned the fully corporeal Crime-Suppressing Hall and sent ten Sin Turtle Prison Chariots against him. Gu Xu inferred that Fang Yun’s time-space journey had entangled him with the Dragon Race and warned that a great calamity awaited him when he returned.

• A sacred torrent shattered Blackstone Mountain, and the mysterious sage vanished after one wine cup disappeared from the Light-Brewing Bottle.
• Gu Xu fought off Fang Yun’s Four Ancient Demon Fiends and Dragon-Snake Twin Sages with a sacred shield while Ao Zhou praised his strength and warned Fang Yun not to underestimate him.
• Fang Yun continued writing History of the Ancient Demons, explaining that he owed Gu Xu half an hour because of their past encounter in the Bloodmang Realm.
• Ao Zhou noticed a tiny star behind Fang Yun, then the fully corporeal Crime-Suppressing Hall appeared and opened all ten gates.
• Ten Half-Sage Sin Turtle Prison Chariots emerged from the hall, startling Gu Xu and giving Micro Nether an opening to strike.
• Gu Xu deduced that Fang Yun’s time-space journey had affected his earlier ties to the Dragon Race and warned that a great calamity awaited him upon his return.

Fang Yun confronted Gu Xu, who believed the Demon Realm and the Secret of Time and Space had empowered him to become Fang Yun’s tribulation. When Gu Xu used a Dragon Court Edict to halt Dragon City’s forces, Fang Yun’s Sage Edict inexplicably revoked it, leaving Gu Xu stunned and the battle paused.

• Gu Xu explained that the Demon Realm and the Secret of Time and Space had made him a tool to obstruct Fang Yun, and Ao Zhou realized the stakes of Fang Yun’s actions.
• Fang Yun continued writing the History of the Ancient Demons as the Sin Turtle Prison Chariots surrounded Gu Xu.
• Gu Xu revealed a Dragon Court Edict, causing the Sin Turtle Prison Chariots to withdraw and protecting him from Dragon City’s forces.
• Fang Yun wrote a Sage Edict ordering the Dragon Court Edict revoked, and both the edict and its protection vanished.
• Ao Zhou and Fang Yun’s manifestations and companions laughed at Gu Xu, while Gu Xu was left baffled and furious.

Gu Xu used Primordial Power and paired Half-Sage abilities to overwhelm the sages, but Fang Yun stripped the Demon Barbarian Power of All Beings from him. The chapter ended with Ao Zhou wondering whether Fang Yun was using the Instructional Sacred Way to transform the Demon Barbarian masses and claim their power.

• Gu Xu unleashed Four Directions Stoppage, disrupting everyone’s movements and preventing them from forming attacks that required time.
• Gu Xu used Body of Wind and Thunder and the Fist of Heaven and Earth to devastate Hundred-Arms and Ancient City.
• Fang Yun realized Gu Xu could choose his Half-Sage abilities and recognized his Primordial Power.
• Fang Yun stripped the Demon Barbarian masses from Gu Xu’s arms, leaving Gu Xu without their Power of All Beings.
• Ao Zhou suspected Fang Yun was using the Instructional Sacred Way to instruct and transform the Demon Barbarian masses.

Fang Yun faced Gu Xu after revealing that a traitor had helped corrupt the Demon Realm’s Power of All Living Beings. Gu Xu unleashed his Great Sage ability, Mount of a Thousand Saints, and Fang Yun answered by summoning powerful Sacred Way Literary Jades as the battle escalated.

• Gu Xu realized that a traitor had helped Fang Yun enlighten Demon Barbarians and undermine the Demon Realm’s Power of All Living Beings.
• Gu Xu charged Fang Yun, but the Four Ancient Demon Fiends and twin dragon-serpent saints could not stop him, so Ao Zhou retreated.
• Gu Xu summoned Mount of a Thousand Saints, whose aura convinced the surrounding saints that it concealed a thousand saints’ power.
• Gu Xu demanded that Fang Yun surrender what he had gained from traversing time and space, while Fang Yun promised to give him his Sacred Way Literary Jade.
• Fang Yun’s Literary Jades united Li Guang, an Ice River Horse, a Stone-Hunting Bow, and a Wolf-Shooting Arrow as the Loulan Horn sounded and fiery yellow sand filled the sky.

Fang Yun deployed four Sacred-Way jade swords to restrain Gu Xu, then revealed six more Sacred-Way Literary Jades whose powers resonated. Their combined force formed a sea of faint light that weakened Gu Xu’s attacks, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Fang Yun sent the Son of Heaven Sword, Fourteen Provinces Sword, Snow-Slaying Sword, and Kunwu Sword against Gu Xu, constraining his movements with their Half-Sage powers.
• Ao Zhou watched as the four swords’ attacks repeatedly struck Gu Xu while remaining beyond his reach.
• Fang Yun revealed Li Guang with the Ice River Horse, Stone-Hunting Bow, and Wolf-Shooting Arrow, bringing the battlefield’s count of great powers to nine.
• Fang Yun summoned the Yama Blade, and Gu Xu warily recognized its connection to the poem addressed to Liu Shan.
• The ten Sacred-Way Literary Jades resonated and formed a sea of faint light that surrounded Gu Xu and reduced his attacks to ninety percent of their strength.

Fang Yun and his allies attacked Gu Xu with the Wolf-Shooting Arrow, but Gu Xu countered with the Great Sage battle skill Heaven and Earth Annihilation. The Sacred Way Study survived the attack intact, and Gu Xu remained standing, having glimpsed Mist Butterfly.

• The Yama Blade sent black banners into Gu Xu, throwing his aura and focus into chaos.
• Li Guang fired the Wolf-Shooting Arrow, shattering Gu Xu's Half-Sage shield and injuring him through his Great Sage Golden Armor.
• Mist Butterfly appeared and created the Wind River Cage around Gu Xu, empowering further attacks with Weak Water and Strange Wind.
• As the Wolf-Shooting Arrow struck again, Gu Xu stopped it with Palm World and formed a vast planet between his hands.
• Fang Yun recalled his forces and sheltered in the Sacred Way Study while Ao Zhou hid there as a tiny flood dragon.
• Gu Xu used Heaven and Earth Annihilation to collapse space around Fang Yun, but the Sacred Way Study remained unharmed; Gu Xu looked at Mist Butterfly and seemed to sigh.

Fang Yun used the Fifth Realm of Painting Way to create massive mountains and crush Gu Xu despite his defenses and strength. The battle continued as Fang Yun painted more mountains, while Ao Zhou watched beside Inkstone Turtle.

• Gu Xu drew power from forty Half-Sage statues and strengthened his defenses as Fang Yun released sixteen Sacred Way Literary Jades.
• Fang Yun used Dragon Painting and Eye-Pointing to bring a painted Mount Tai to life and send it crashing down on Gu Xu, breaking his arm and bones.
• Fang Yun painted more mountains and sent them toward Gu Xu, who eventually shattered Mount Tai but was struck by another falling mountain.
• Inkstone Turtle draped a leg over Ao Zhou's shoulder, and Ao Zhou discovered the turtle's True Dragon aura surpassed his own.

Fang Yun used his fifth-realm Painting Way to unleash a Mountain-Range Star against Gu Xu after Gu Xu fought through his falling mountains with the Slaughter Fist. The Demon Barbarian Half-Sages marched on Two Worlds Mountain to demand that Fang Yun stop, while the chapter left Gu Xu buried beneath Fang Yun’s immense painted attack.

• Gu Xu invoked the Slaughter Fist and smashed through more than a thousand falling mountains, returning to Fang Yun’s altitude with his arms and armor badly damaged.
• The Human Race saw translucent mountain phantoms rise from famous mountains across Saint Origin Continent and fly into the starry sky.
• Thirty-four Demon Barbarian Half-Sages set out for Two Worlds Mountain and threatened to attack unless Fang Yun stopped fighting Gu Xu.
• Fang Yun sent the Azure Dragon into his Ten-Thousand-Li Mountain Range Painting and painted a Mountain-Range Star imbued with a Saint Ancestor’s artistic conception.
• The Mountain-Range Star struck Gu Xu and drove him down through Starfall Sea as Fang Yun exhausted a Literary Qi Sun and left Gu Xu’s fate unseen.

Gu Xu broke free of Fang Yun’s Mountain-Range Star by drawing on the Demon Realm’s blood and unleashing the Sovereign of One World power of Dragon City. He transformed into a dragon-scaled giant and attacked Fang Yun at Sacred Way Study.

• The Mountain-Range Star pinned Gu Xu while Fang Yun’s Withering Force drained his power.
• Gu Xu called on the Demon Realm, and blood from the rift restored his body and Great Sage Golden Armor.
• Gu Xu used three thousand Slaughter Fist strikes to shatter the Mountain-Range Star, though the Withering Force remained within him.
• Gu Xu drew on Dragon City’s power as Sovereign of One World, growing into a giant with dragon scales, horns, and a tail.
• Gu Xu explained his plan to use the Dragon Race’s power for the Demon Barbarians, then sent a blood-colored dragon punch at Fang Yun.

Fang Yun stripped Gu Xu of the Demon Realm’s Sovereign of One World power by commanding Dragon City to deny him support. Gu Xu summoned the Thousand Saints Armor, and Fang Yun revealed a damaged Half-Sage Former Residence as the scene shifted to Lei Yuanze and the Craftsmen World’s preparations.

• Gu Xu attacked Fang Yun’s Sacred Way Study with the power of Sovereign of One World, but Fang Yun wrote a decree to deny him Dragon City’s support.
• The Dragon City Will withdrew Gu Xu’s power, and Ao Zhou guessed that Fang Yun had met the Ancestral Dragon while traveling through the ages.
• Fang Yun provoked Gu Xu, who summoned the Thousand Saints Statues and fused them into the Thousand Saints Armor.
• Fang Yun brought out a damaged Half-Sage Former Residence, and the narrative shifted to Lei Yuanze observing a Divine Gold Giant surrounded by a million Divine Gold Oxen and Horses in the Craftsmen World.