Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun and the others witnessed Shi Wang, the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis, and Ao Huang gather at the Dragon Ascension Platform’s altar. After Lei Jiu accused Fang Yun of taking their share and threatened him, Ao Huang defended Fang Yun and invited the group to occupy the remaining Dragon Qi Eyes, leaving them poised to absorb the power and open the altar.

• The Floating Cloud Lands and Dragon Qi Eyes converged around a central altar as Shi Wang, the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis, and Ao Huang arrived.
• Lei Jiu accused Fang Yun of taking Dragon Qi from the group and threatened to shatter his Literary Palace, but Fang Yun rejected the accusation and Zhang Zhixing defended him.
• Ao Huang warned Lei Jiu and the others not to harm Fang Yun, then joked with Fang Yun about marrying into the Dragon Palace.
• Ao Huang invited Fang Yun and the others to occupy the five empty Dragon Qi Eyes, explaining that all eight had to be filled before the altar could open.
• Fang Yun flew toward the central sky island with the others, while Zhang Zhixing and Mo Shan acknowledged that Fang Yun had brought them an opportunity and Sima He fell silent.

Fang Yun absorbed the Super-Giant Dragon Qi Eye’s immense power, drawing astonishment from Ao Huang and the others as nine complete Dragon Patterns formed above his Literary Palace. As the altar’s opening approached, Ao Huang warned him about an unknown Demon Barbarian trump card, and the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis created a passage for the incoming forces.

• Sima He apologized to Fang Yun, and Fang Yun accepted before the group flew toward a Super-Giant Dragon Qi Eye.
• Lei Jiu accused Fang Yun of using a trick to take the Dragon Qi and flew away, while Zhang Zhixing and Mo Shan went to other Dragon Qi Eyes.
• The Super-Giant Dragon Qi Eye moved to Fang Yun and poured dense Dragon Qi into him, astonishing Ao Huang, Shi Wang, and the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis.
• Ao Huang told Fang Yun that the altar might hold several valuable things and warned him that the Demon Barbarians had an unknown trump card.
• The Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis linked broken sky islands into a passage, and Kong Detian and Yun Nongzhang joined the gathering forces.
• Fang Yun absorbed the last Dragon Qi from the Super-Giant Dragon Qi Eye, completing nine Dragon Patterns above his Literary Palace.

Fang Yun absorbed Dragon Qi until his Literary Palace’s nine Dragon Patterns shattered and a golden dragon began forming above it. The dragon’s body lacked a tail, but Dragon Qi from Lei Jiu’s and Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis’s Super-Giant Dragon Qi Eyes began pouring into Fang Yun, leaving both furious and stunned.

• Shi Wang provoked Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis to ambush Ao Huang, while Ao Huang privately urged Fang Yun to help eliminate Shi Wang and explained that the altar held a great treasure.
• Ao Huang told Fang Yun that the Dragon Ascension Platform opened when treasures were revealed and that the altar contained a Dragon Turtle among its treasures.
• Fang Yun absorbed Dragon Qi from multiple Dragon Qi Eyes as Zhang Zhixing and Mo Shan directed him to take Mo Shan’s eye and then Sima He’s.
• Fang Yun’s nine Literary Palace Dragon Patterns shattered, and a dragon roar from his Literary Palace stunned the races gathered around the altar.
• A pale golden dragon formed above Fang Yun’s Literary Palace but exploded before its tail could form; it began condensing again as Dragon Qi poured in from outside.
• Lei Jiu and Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis saw their Super-Giant Dragon Qi Eyes feed Fang Yun and protested as he continued absorbing their Dragon Qi.

Fang Yun was attacked after seizing Dragon Qi from Lei Jiu and the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis, but Ao Huang and Mo Shan helped protect him. As the two Dragon Qi Eyes emptied into his Literary Palace, his Dragon Pattern Literary Palace transformed into a Dragon-Coiled Literary Palace.

• Fang Yun’s seizure of the Dragon Qi enraged the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis and drew the attention of nearby dragons, humans, and Demon Barbarians.
• The Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis attacked Fang Yun, but Ao Huang drove it away with Dragon Flame before Shi Wang ambushed Fang Yun with a powerful black wind.
• Fang Yun blocked Shi Wang’s demon art with repeated Canglang Journey poems and his Tortoise-Praising Paperweight, but Shi Wang pressed in behind the wind.
• Mo Shan used his belt to invoke Rigid Conformity, shielding Fang Yun until Ao Huang returned and forced Shi Wang to retreat.
• The Dragon Qi Eyes withered as their Dragon Qi entered Fang Yun’s Literary Palace, where his Dragon Patterns vanished and a giant golden dragon coiled around the palace.

Fang Yun survived Shi Wang’s ambush, formed a Dragon-Coiled Literary Palace, and absorbed Dragon Qi alongside Ao Huang. As the five factions gathered around the remaining Dragon Qi Eyes, an army of skeletal demons emerged from the altar and attacked them all.

• Fang Yun emerged unharmed, and Ao Huang gave him a genuine Dragon Pearl while noticing a False Dragon presence in his Literary Palace.
• Fang Yun and Ao Huang occupied a Dragon Qi Eye as the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis, Shi Wang, and the other factions gathered around the remaining eyes.
• Zhang Zhixing defended Fang Yun against Lei Jiu, while Ao Huang backed down after Lei Jiu invoked his descent from the Thunder Master.
• After Fang Yun absorbed the sixth Dragon Qi Eye, skeletal demons poured from the altar, and the five factions fought against their army.

Fang Yun and the others fought Bone Demons unleashed by the altar’s collapse while he absorbed Dragon Qi to complete his Lip Spear and Tongue Sword. When four treasures emerged from the altar, Ao Huang and the other factions fought over them, and the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis took an Oracle-Bone Dragon Jade before threatening Fang Yun.

• Bone Demons poured from the black smoke pillar, and the Sacred Academy Metropolitan Graduates used a Spear-Sword Net and War Poetry to defend their group.
• Fang Yun absorbed Dragon Qi from the sixth Dragon Qi Eye, and a solid golden Dragon Pattern appeared on his nearly gestated Lip Spear and Tongue Sword.
• The Bone Demons fled as the altar shook, and four golden rays emerged from the pit; Ao Huang seized one, while another escaped into the sky.
• The masked person captured a golden ray that became Dragon Ginseng, and the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis seized the Oracle-Bone Dragon Jade.
• The Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis swallowed the jade, entered the altar pit, and threatened to kill Fang Yun, who remained calm as his weapon neared completion.

Lei Jiu, Zong Ji, and Sima He entered the altar pit, and the eight Metropolitan Graduates debated whether to flee the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis or search the treasure trove. They chose to enter together, and Fang Yun used his knowledge of ancient Azure Dragon customs to advise which passages to explore.

• Lei Jiu entered the pit with Zong Ji and Sima He after forbidding Fang Yun from joining them.
• Kong Detian urged the group to flee with Fang Yun, but Sun Renbing and others argued that the treasure trove held priceless divine objects.
• The eight Metropolitan Graduates decided to enter together, and Fang Yun agreed that they should not abandon the treasure.
• Mo Shan proposed either following Ao Huang or searching the passages independently, and none of the group chose to follow Ao Huang.
• Fang Yun identified the ancient Azure Dragon Clan as the builders and reasoned that the greatest treasure lay to the east, so the group had to choose among the other directions.

Fang Yun led the Metropolitan Graduates into the Desolate Sands, the Dragon Race’s temporary burial ground, where they discovered Dragon Demons had entered ahead of them. As a falling, flame-wreathed stone struck the desert and unleashed a giant sand wave, Sun Renbing stopped the first wave, but a second one appeared.

• Fang Yun explained that the group should head south to the Desolate Sands, and they followed a passage through the maze-like tunnels.
• Mo Shan’s Clockwork Bird found traces of Dragon Demons, and the group chose to follow them toward the Desolate Sands despite the danger of encountering the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis.
• Fang Yun explained the Desolate Sands’ history after the group emerged into its vast desert, then a crack opened in the sky and a sun began falling.
• The falling stone struck the desert, collapsing the passage behind the group and sending a thousand-zhang sand wave toward them.
• Sun Renbing used his power to halt the first sand wave, but a second enormous wave appeared, and Dong Yulu stepped forward to face it.

Fang Yun and the other Metropolitan Graduates survived the falling sun’s sand waves, only to discover that Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis had lured them into a trap. As Dragon Sage Corpse Aura spread toward them and their attacks failed to stop it, Fang Yun remained behind while the others retreated.

• Dong Yulu used Dong Zhongshu’s power to suppress the second sand wave, and Jia De and the others helped the group withstand the next two waves.
• After the sand waves passed, the group saw that the falling sun had devastated the desert and destroyed the passages behind them.
• Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis emerged from the crater with the Rare Object Inkstone Turtle and revealed that he had dropped the sun to kill the humans.
• Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis escaped through a spatial rift and released Dragon Sage Corpse Aura, which spread rapidly toward the group.
• Kong Detian ordered the Metropolitan Graduates to attack the yellow mist, but their War Poetry had no effect, so they retreated while Fang Yun stayed behind.

Fang Yun discovered that the Heavenly Tree Seedling could absorb Dragon Sage Corpse Aura, saving everyone from the deadly cloud. As the aura poured into him, a wisp of its Sacred Way power strengthened the Dragon Pattern on his Talent Qi Ancient Sword into a True Dragon Pattern.

• As Dragon Sage Corpse Aura approached, Kong Detian and the others accepted their deaths, and Kong Detian reached Literary Guts First Realm Great Completion.
• Yun Nongzhang played Lament of Changmen, causing everyone to weep under the combined effects of the music and the aura.
• Fang Yun used the Heavenly Tree Seedling to absorb the Dragon Sage Corpse Aura, stopping its influence and astonishing the group.
• Fang Yun kept the Heavenly Tree Seedling secret while the others speculated about how he could absorb the aura.
• Fang Yun found that a wisp of Sacred Way aura had enhanced the Dragon Pattern on his Talent Qi Ancient Sword into a True Dragon Pattern.

Fang Yun led the Metropolitan Graduates to search the giant pit for the source of the Dragon Sage Corpse Aura, using the Dragon Breath Stone Inscription to locate something buried in the wall. They uncovered a hard object, and Mo Shan sent in his Mechanical Rat to dig it out.

• Fang Yun absorbed the Dragon Sage Corpse Aura, strengthening his Talent Qi Ancient Sword and causing the Heavenly Tree Seedling to grow a third leaf with a mysterious droplet.
• Fang Yun flew toward the aura's source, and the group discussed the Inkstone Turtle and the Four Literary Treasures.
• Fang Yun used the Dragon Breath Stone Inscription to locate a spot in the pit wall and directed the Metropolitan Graduates to excavate it.
• Ji Shouyu's Talent Qi Ancient Sword struck something hard, so Mo Shan sent his Mechanical Rat into the trench to dig further.

Yun Nongzhang and the others uncovered a dragon’s bones and a coffin containing D Luo, a powerful member of the legendary Emperor Race. After waking, D Luo borrowed Fang Yun’s Desolate-Suppressing Heavenly Inscription and pointed a strange power at him, leaving Fang Yun unconscious and the other Metropolitan Graduates gravely injured.

• Yun Nongzhang and the others excavated enormous Dragon Sage vertebrae and a dragon skull, finding a jade-armored figure inside a coffin in its jaws.
• D Luo awakened, transformed the surrounding desert into spring and winter landscapes, and revealed power that could rend the Void with his breath.
• Fang Yun shielded the Metropolitan Graduates and wrote that D Luo might be an Emperor Race member who wanted to know who had disturbed his slumber.
• D Luo understood Fang Yun’s writing, identified the Human Race, and asked to borrow the Desolate-Suppressing Heavenly Inscription.
• Fang Yun gave D Luo the inscription and asked for a deposit, so D Luo pointed a power at him and knocked him unconscious.
• D Luo’s power struck the other Metropolitan Graduates with an aftershock, leaving them vomiting blood and barely alive.

D Luo healed the seven Metropolitan Graduates, empowered Fang Yun, and left through a Void Gate after asking them to borrow the Gou Emperor Armor from Di Ji for him. The others collected the Dragon Sage’s remains and prepared to head east toward the treasure trove’s most precious object.

• D Luo restored the seven Metropolitan Graduates and gave Fang Yun an additional surge of life force before opening a Void Gate with the Desolate-Suppressing Heavenly Inscription.
• D Luo told the group to ask Fang Yun to borrow the Gou Emperor Armor from Di Ji, then placed a mysterious power into Fang Yun and left with the coffin’s lid cracked.
• The Metropolitan Graduates discussed D Luo’s identity and realized his intervention had increased their strength and lifespan, though they had forgotten what he said about something Fang Yun gave him.
• Kong Detian stored the Dragon Sage’s Horns in a Sea-Swallowing Shell and proposed dividing one horn among the eight Metropolitan Graduates while giving the other to the Sacred Academy.
• The group decided to leave Fang Yun resting and dig open the passage so they could head east to see the treasure trove’s most precious object.

Fang Yun woke after D Luo’s intervention, discovered changes in his Literary Palace and a dramatic increase in strength, and learned that he had been tasked with finding Di Ji and borrowing the Gou Emperor Armor. The group reached a hall where the Dragon Race, demon barbarians, and Dragon Demons faced off, and Fang Yun exposed the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis’s possession of a Dragon Turtle Inkstone Turtle, escalating the standoff.

• The sages of the Demon Realm detected Break Army returning to its position and concluded that an Emperor Lord had descended.
• Fang Yun woke and found a white glow over his bracelet and a faint image of D Luo wielding a sword in his Literary Palace.
• Kong Detian told Fang Yun that D Luo had left a coffin in his River-Drinking Shell and instructed him to find Di Ji and borrow the Gou Emperor Armor.
• Fang Yun discovered that his body had become powerful enough to bend and snap a brass paperweight, then joined the group as they left the Desolate Sands.
• The group encountered Ao Huang arguing with Shi Wang and the others in a grand hall beneath a glowing dragon-head statue.
• Fang Yun translated the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis’s denial and revealed that it possessed a Dragon Turtle Inkstone Turtle, prompting the gathered factions to covet it.

The Dragon Race, Demon Barbarians, and humans learned that the divine treasure in the dragon statue was Ancestral Dragon True Blood, and rival factions prepared to fight for it. When it emerged, its Sacred Way Power subdued everyone’s desires except Fang Yun’s, leaving him unaffected.

• Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis tried to learn what Fang Yun and the others had found in the Desolate Sands, and Kong Detian said they had obtained Dragon Sage Bones.
• Ao Huang claimed that the divine treasure would choose him, but Shi Wang revealed that it was Ancestral Dragon True Blood.
• Lei Jiu explained that the blood could purify the lineages of the Dragon Race, Demon Barbarians, and Ancient Demons, while its Ancestral Dragon Will determined its power for humans.
• Shi Wang offered Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis a divine treasure in exchange for helping him hold off Ao Huang, and Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis accepted.
• The dragon statue opened its mouth and revealed a drop of Ancestral Dragon True Blood inside a cracked Dragon Pearl, blasting everyone back.
• The blood’s Sacred Way Power erased everyone’s desire to claim it, but Fang Yun remained unaffected.

Ao Huang, Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis, Shi Wang, and Lei Jiu competed for the Ancestral Dragon True Blood, each drawing on bloodline power or relics. The blood bypassed them all and entered Fang Yun’s Literary Palace, leaving everyone stunned while Fang Yun protested that he had done nothing.

• The Ancestral Dragon True Blood emerged from its shattered Dragon Pearl, and Ao Huang called on it to strengthen the Dragon Race.
• Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis revealed a Half-Sage Dragon Pearl Fragment that gave him a true dragon bloodline, while Shi Wang and Lei Jiu produced Ancestral Dragon relics to draw the blood toward themselves.
• Ao Huang accused Lei Jiu and the Western Sea Dragon Palace of colluding, and Lei Jiu admitted the Western Sea Dragon Sage had promised to support his family in exchange for the blood.
• Ao Huang offered his heart’s blood to the ancestor, but Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis and the relic bearers countered, making the true blood spin between them.
• Ao Yun ordered Shi Wang to help Lei Jiu, and the true blood began moving toward Lei Jiu as Ao Huang vowed revenge and Lei Jiu mocked Fang Yun.
• The Ancestral Dragon True Blood slipped past Lei Jiu and flew into Fang Yun’s Literary Palace, prompting Fang Yun to raise his paper and insist he was truly wronged.

Fang Yun was accused of stealing the Ancestral Dragon True Blood and faced an attack led by Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis while Shi Wang fought Ao Huang. As Fang Yun began an Edge-Opening Poem to strengthen his newly formed Lip Spear and Tongue Sword, Kong Detian invoked Confucius’s Will to slow the attackers.

• Lei Jiu and Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis accused Fang Yun of stealing the Ancestral Dragon True Blood, and Shi Wang arranged for Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis to lead the assault while he held off Ao Huang.
• Shi Wang attacked Ao Huang, while Lei Jiu withdrew and vowed to challenge Fang Yun in a Life-and-Death Literary Battle after they left the Dragon Ascension Platform.
• Kong Detian, Sun Renbing, and five other Metropolitan Graduates formed a line to protect Fang Yun as Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis advanced with the allied force.
• Fang Yun’s Lip Spear and Tongue Sword rang out, and he began reciting an Edge-Opening Poem that sent Sword Qi toward the enemy.
• Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis unleashed True Dragon Dragon Flame, and Kong Detian summoned Confucius’s Will to slow everything within thirty zhang.

Fang Yun completed his Dragon Sword Poem and Edge-Opening Poem, producing Poem-Ancestor Radiance and two unprecedented Lip Spears and Tongue Swords. As the battle turned against the attackers, the masked man revealed himself as Fierce Lord Meng Lintang and unleashed the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon’s power against Fang Yun and the others.

• Sage Kong’s Will slowed Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis and the surrounding fighters while two Eastern Sea dragons attacked the exposed half of his body.
• Fang Yun recited the Edge-Opening Poem’s third line and wrote the Dragon Sword Poem, whose Poem-Ancestor Radiance made him the ancestor of a new kind of War Poetry.
• Shi Wang awakened his Great Sage bloodline and charged Fang Yun, but Ao Huang struck him aside with his Dragon Pearl power.
• Fang Yun completed the Edge-Opening Poem and formed a mighty True Dragon Sword and an Ink Sword, then the Dragon Sword Poem summoned identical additional swords.
• The masked man unleashed the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon’s power, revealed himself as Fierce Lord Meng Lintang, and threatened to tear Fang Yun apart.
• Fang Yun realized that Fierce Lord had allied with the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon after its will invaded him when Fang Yun killed his divided consciousness.

Fang Yun survived Fierce Lord’s attempt to give the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon a True Dragon body when D Luo’s phantom appeared and killed the ancient dragon. Fang Yun then unleashed his True Dragon Swords against the Demon Barbarians and Dragon Demons, leaving the hall strewn with the dead.

• Ao Huang fled to Fang Yun as the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon turned its attention toward him, and Ao Yun realized Fierce Lord’s plan to possess Ao Huang and kill Fang Yun.
• D Luo’s phantom emerged from Fang Yun’s Literary Palace and spoke with the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon in Oracle Bone Script while disasters erupted around the hall.
• D Luo split the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon with his sword, caught its fleeing black light, and sent it to Fang Yun, where it became a Dragon Pattern on the Blood-Drop Beast Hide.
• Fang Yun thanked the Ancient Flood Dragon Marquis for trapping them in the Desolate Sands, then declared that his swords had been waiting for this moment.
• Fang Yun’s two True Dragon Swords swept through the hall and killed the Demon Barbarians and Dragon Demons, while their Dragon Qi and Dragon-Climbing Stones flowed into the Dragon Qi Cloud and the swords.

Fang Yun’s enlarged Tongue Sword wiped out most of the remaining enemies, but Fierce Lord escaped after detonating a Poison Flood Dragon Pearl that poisoned Zhang Zhixing and Lei Jiu. Fang Yun cured Zhang Zhixing with Dragon Snake Grass, while Lei Jiu died before Fang Yun could reach him.

• Kong Detian and the others mistook the power behind Fang Yun’s enlarged Lip Spear and Tongue Sword for Ancestral Dragon True Blood, while Fang Yun’s weapons gained two and a half Dragon Patterns.
• Fierce Lord threw a Poison Flood Dragon Pearl and fled, filling the hall with poisonous smoke and bone needles.
• Zhang Zhixing and Lei Jiu were poisoned, and Zhang Zhixing’s companions failed to stop the deadly poison with antidote pills.
• Fang Yun arrived with Dragon Snake Grass and cured Zhang Zhixing, then urged him to take restorative medicine.
• Fang Yun flew toward Lei Jiu, but Lei Jiu died from the poison before Fang Yun reached him, and Kong Detian defended Fang Yun’s actions.