Chapter Summaries

The Literary World's fourteen armies entered the Combat Zone and saw the immense Two Worlds Mountain City Wall, where Fang Yun heard its battle cries and the human race's vow never to fall. As the armies settled in, they learned about the Military Merit Register and saw how few armies from the Saint Origin Continent ranked among the leaders.

• The fourteen Literary World armies reached the Combat Zone and roared, "Never retreat!" alongside the voices they heard from the wall.
• Fang Yun listened as the cries of past battles converged into the vow, "The human race shall never fall!"
• Jie Bingzhi explained the wall's immense dimensions and the numbered naming system used for armies at Two Worlds Mountain and other Ancient Lands.
• Qu Tong explained the Military Merit Register and the strength of the ten strongest armies, which were only deployed when a second Battle of Two Worlds Mountain broke out.
• Zhang Qingfeng noted that Chu's three armies were absent from the rankings and that Qin's Imperial Guard Army was nearly wiped out; Fang Yun memorized the list, including Shu's Unstoppable Flying Army in fifty-fifth place.

Qu Tong and Jie Bingzhi led the Pearl River Army to its barracks, where the new Literary World soldiers learned about the recent demon assault and the privileges tied to military merit. After training on defensive mechanisms, Fang Yun and the other newly arrived armies were told they could only observe the wall for three days, then watched fewer than fifty thousand survivors arrive from the Literary World armies that had been withdrawn.

• Jie Bingzhi explained that the recent assault had killed thirty-seven Great Demon Kings and Great Barbarian Kings, leaving the newly arrived armies little chance to earn a place on the Military Merit Register.
• Fang Yun sensed the chaotic primordial energy and tremors around the Boundary Mountain City Wall and recognized it as the true battlefield.
• On the fourth day of the ninth month, Fang Yun and the other scholars trained to operate defensive mechanisms, including flame and crossbow mechanisms.
• On the sixth day of the ninth month, the fourteen new armies assembled on the parade ground, where Pang Zhong announced that they could only observe the wall for three days and could not fight.
• After waiting two hours, Fang Yun and the assembled soldiers watched fewer than fifty thousand survivors from the Literary World armies arrive.

Fang Yun reported Gou Bao for preventing the Pearl River Army from learning the veterans’ combat experiences, and Two Worlds Mountain deducted seven days of the Qishan Army’s military merits. Fang Yun then challenged Gou Bao to a three-month contest in killing demon barbarians, with both armies’ banners and a public apology at stake.

• The veterans from the Huayang Army and Shangwu Army joined the Qishan Army and shared their battlefield experiences, but Gou Bao sealed off the area so the Pearl River Army could not listen.
• Fang Yun reported Gou Bao to Two Worlds Mountain, which ruled that Gou Bao could restrict access but deducted seven days of the Qishan Army’s military merits for violating its rules.
• Gou Bao accused Fang Yun of maliciously reporting him and demanded that Fang Yun return the Qishan Army’s legacy banner or face a literary battle.
• Fang Yun proposed a three-month contest in earning military merits, with both armies’ banners and a public apology at stake, and Gou Bao accepted.
• Fang Yun dismissed Gou Bao and said the contest would help the human race regardless of who won, earning praise from nearby generals.

Fang Yun and the fourteen armies climbed onto the Boundary Mountain City Wall, where he witnessed the defenders battle demon barbarians launched by the Demon Realm. The wall’s blood-soaked stones revealed why it was known as Blood City.

• The fourteen armies jogged up the wall’s long stairways, where the bloody stench made many soldiers and scholars vomit.
• Fang Yun emerged onto the wall and saw the blood moon above the Demon Realm and the human defenders fighting amid war machines.
• Demon Barbarian Boulders flew onto the wall, where the released demon barbarians attacked before the defenders killed them at the cost of thousands of human casualties.
• Fang Yun recognized the dried blood covering the wall as the source of the stench and understood that this was the Blood City the Shangwu Marquis had described.

Fang Yun surveyed the defenses at Boundary Mountain City Wall and joined the Grand Academicians in fighting an airborne assault by demon barbarians. As the attack continued, other Grand Academicians discussed his swordsmanship and mocked the Literary World soldiers who were still struggling to endure the battlefield.

• Jie Bingzhi explained the rotating shifts and warned Fang Yun not to disturb the Gray Robes, who carried the wounded from the battlefield.
• Fang Yun rose on Walking the Blue Clouds and saw the vast demon barbarian forces, the enormous piles of corpses below the wall, and the advancing elephant and bird demons.
• Elephant demons hurled demon barbarians toward the wall while hundreds of thousands more were dropped from the bird demons, prompting the defenders to unleash arrows, war poetry, Lip Spears, and Tongue Swords.
• Fang Yun used the Edge-Concealing Poem and Sword-Summoning Poem to send two True Dragon Ancient Swords into the sky, where their Dragon Flame killed demon barbarians in a wide area.
• The Shangwu Marquis praised Fang Yun's Pearl River Ancient Sword, while Grand Academicians discussed his skill and disparaged the Literary World soldiers.

Fang Yun’s War Poems helped the human forces repel the Demon Barbarians before they could reach the wall, showing how his poetry had changed the battle. After Main Force Army officers pushed the Literary World Army aside and its leaders explained that they faced harsher rotations, Fang Yun urged his generals to survive and rely on their training.

• The human forces repelled the bird and elephant demons, and Fang Yun watched soldiers use his Transmissible Battle Poems to kill enemies before they climbed the wall.
• A Hanlin Academician ordered Fang Yun to withdraw from the Main Force Army’s defensive sector, and Fang Yun said they feared he would take their military merits.
• Wang Li protested the treatment of the Literary World Army, while Gou Bao argued that his actions had saved the army from destruction.
• Jie Bingzhi explained that the Literary World Army had to fight three days for every day of rest, unlike other armies that fought shorter rotations.
• Qu Tong defended the policy by saying Literary World people had to prove their strength, and Fang Yun answered that military merits would decide their standing.
• Fang Yun reminded his generals to keep themselves alive and asked whether they remembered their drills; they assured him they did.

As night fell over Two Worlds Mountain, more than a thousand Demon Kings and Barbarian Kings launched a massive assault on the human defenses. Light Iron Poison Arrows and human scholars killed or wounded many, but 223 kings landed on the wall and tore through its defenders.

• Jie Bingzhi explained that the Demon Kings and Barbarian Kings grew stronger beneath the Silver Moon and said their attack would begin that night.
• More than a thousand Demon Kings and Barbarian Kings charged toward Two Worlds Mountain alongside waves of demon barbarians.
• The city defenses fired Light Iron Poison Arrows, killing 231 kings near the heart or skull and forcing many others to retreat wounded.
• Human Grand Academicians and Hanlin Academicians attacked the surviving kings with war poetry, Lip Spears, and Tongue Swords.
• Two hundred and twenty-three Demon Kings and Barbarian Kings landed on the wall, killing the humans around them and opening huge gaps in the defenders’ ranks.

Fang Yun and the human defenders used mechanisms, poison arrows, and scholars’ attacks to repel a Demon Barbarian assault, though one Wolf Demon King killed twenty thousand people with a secret Sage Aspect Strike. The siege continued into the night, leaving over a million Literary World soldiers ordered to sleep on the wall while fighting carried on nearby.

• The humans’ attacks and Flying Iron Ox mechanisms knocked most of 223 Demon Kings and Barbarian Kings off the wall before they could unleash their Sage Aspect Strikes.
• Three Great Scholars contained the five Sage Aspect Strikes that were unleashed, but a dying Wolf Demon King secretly killed twenty thousand soldiers with its own strike.
• The defenders counted nearly three hundred Demon Kings and Barbarian Kings killed, then recovered Light Iron Poison Arrows and repaired their mechanisms.
• Fang Yun surveyed the thousands of mechanisms and their Craftsmen School operators as the battle continued and casualties mounted.
• At late night, Literary World Office personnel ordered the third rotation of Literary World soldiers to sleep on the bare wall while the fighting continued nearby.

Fang Yun used a Sage Page poem to calm the panicking Literary World armies and turn the Demon Realm’s assault into a rout. The Literary World soldiers returned to their positions, while the other armies tried to discover who had written the poem.

• A Pearl River Army soldier’s nightmare sparked panic, and Fang Yun could not calm the soldiers with Tongue Blossoms Thunder.
• The Demon Realm attacked with more than three hundred Demon Kings and Barbarian Kings among its forces, and the Literary World armies erupted into a camp roar.
• Fang Yun wrote a poem on a Sage Page that summoned a giant phantom flute and calmed the panicking soldiers.
• The poem made lower-ranking demon barbarians flee and forced the Demon Kings and Demon Marquises to retreat with them.
• The Literary World soldiers returned shamefacedly to their positions, while the armies atop the wall wondered who had written the poem.

Fang Yun’s poem drove the demon barbarians to sound their first ceasefire horn in over a year, giving the Literary World Army a peaceful night on the wall. The next morning, the Pearl River Army learned it had entered the Military Merit Register in ninety-fifth place, leaving Gou Bao stunned.

• A Great Khan’s roar gathered the demon barbarians and halted their attack, while Fang Yun saw their resolve weakening.
• The demon barbarians sounded the ceasefire horn and retreated, prompting the humans to celebrate and rotate defenders; the Literary World Army was ordered to remain on the wall for three days.
• The Literary World soldiers recited Fang Yun’s poem, calmed their emotions, and fell asleep beneath the moon as Fang Yun kept watch.
• The Pearl River Army officers worried over whether their actions would earn military merit, while they heard Gou Bao dismiss Fang Yun’s poem.
• Qu Tong and Jie Bingzhi announced that the Pearl River Army had entered the Military Merit Register at number ninety-five, and Gou Bao stared in shock.

The Pearl River Army entered the Military Merit Register, prompting congratulations and resentment at Two Worlds Mountain. Gou Bao challenged the army’s claims about Zhang Wankong and warned that its new honors could become disgrace if it failed in the coming battle.

• The Pearl River Army appeared in ninety-fifth place on the Military Merit Register, and Grand Academicians visited to congratulate Fang Yun.
• Wang Li spoke of eventually unfurling the Pearl River Army Banner at Two Worlds Mountain, and Gou Bao used the remark to accuse the army of arrogant boasting.
• Zhang Qingfeng defended the army’s ambition to compete for first place, but Gou Bao demanded that they confirm Zhang Wankong had raised its banner atop the mountain.
• The Poetry Lord of lyrics intervened, and Fang Yun said he had never heard his father speak of Two Worlds Mountain before rebuking Gou Bao for resenting the army’s success.
• Gou Bao warned that the Pearl River Army’s merit could become wrongdoing if the next demon barbarian attack endangered Two Worlds Mountain and annihilated the army.

Fang Yun prepared the Pearl River Army for its first battle at Two Worlds Mountain as Gou Bao’s Qishan Army gained support from two Grand Academicians. After learning that the Demon Realm was sending massive reinforcements, Fang Yun welcomed five Gray Robes into his army and led his soldiers onto the wall when the armies deployed.

• Gou Bao said the Qishan Army would outperform the Pearl River Army, while the Jing Commandery Prince and Shangwu Marquis offered to help him; Fang Yun urged his army to focus on its first battle.
• Fang Yun asked the Ministry of War about the Demon Barbarian tents and learned that thirty million reinforcements had arrived overnight, with up to one hundred million expected within three days.
• Jie Bingzhi brought five Gray Robes to the Pearl River Army, and Fang Yun welcomed them and advised them to protect the mechanical devices during battle.
• After two days without an assault, the Demon Barbarian camp stirred and fifty armies took up positions along the fifty wall sections.
• Fang Yun led the Pearl River Army toward wall section forty-six after the chief commissioner assigned it there.

Fang Yun recognized that the demon barbarians were gathering a vast Mouse Clan and Rabbit Clan force to overwhelm Two Worlds Mountain with the Demon Sea Tactic. He prepared the Pearl River Army to use his Crossfire method, and the chapter ended as hundreds of millions of demon barbarians began their assault.

• Fang Yun examined the blood-soaked wall and sensed the resentment beneath Two Worlds Mountain.
• Fang Yun saw more than a hundred million Mouse Clan and Rabbit Clan demon barbarians gathering and realized they planned to use the Demon Sea Tactic.
• Gou Bao blamed Fang Yun for giving the demon barbarians an excuse, but the left chief of the Command Office ordered him to stop speaking.
• Wang Li and Zhang Qingfeng praised Fang Yun's Crossfire method, which had proved effective in drills and against barbarian tribes.
• Fang Yun declared that the Pearl River Army would rule the battlefield and ordered his generals to prepare.
• After drums sounded at sunset, hundreds of millions of demon barbarians charged Two Worlds Mountain, and Fang Yun welcomed the battle with excitement.

As the demon barbarians charged Two Worlds Mountain, a Great Scholar used the Goose-Exchange Brush to empower the defenders with the Expedition Poem, Chang Wu. Fang Yun then deployed the Pearl River Army in an unconventional formation, and its first test volley sent arrows more than two and a half kilometers.

• A purple-robed Great Scholar wielded the Goose-Exchange Brush to write the Expedition Poem, Chang Wu, strengthening every soldier on the city wall.
• Fang Yun rallied the Literary World troops and ordered the Pearl River Army to form up with sixty thousand archers and crossbowmen arranged in a V.
• Gou Bao and Qishan Army commanders mocked Fang Yun's unbalanced formation and predicted the Pearl River Army would be destroyed quickly.
• The Pearl River Army's officers used War on Paper and Strong Bow Poems to prepare the archers, while craftsmen measured distances and firing angles.
• The armies launched a test volley, and empowered arrows flew more than two and a half kilometers.

Fang Yun’s Pearl River Army used disciplined, rotating volleys to devastate the demon barbarians and held its wall section far more effectively than the other Literary World Army sections. After the chief director requested his training methods, Fang Yun sent the documents and turned his attention to the furious Qishan Marquis.

• Fang Yun ordered the Pearl River Army’s archers to fire in three rotations, and their poisoned, demon-slaying arrows killed large numbers of demon barbarians.
• The Pearl River Army maintained strict firing discipline while other armies’ archers often shot freely, and a Great Scholar recognized its organized system of measuring and issuing orders.
• Scholars summoned War-Poem Soldiers, who joined the defenders’ suppressive fire, while demon barbarians struggled to reach or climb the better-defended wall sections.
• The Pearl River Army’s section held firm, contrasting with the final Literary World Army sections, where demon barbarians began climbing the wall.
• The chief director of the Literary World Office asked Fang Yun to share his training methods, and Fang Yun sent copies of his documents.
• Fang Yun looked toward the Qishan Army, where Gou Bao stared at the Pearl River Army’s success with a livid expression.

Fang Yun’s Pearl River Army held its section of the wall against a growing demon assault, while the Imperial Jade Seal executed Mei Gu for directing attackers toward them. The seal’s use provoked the Great Demon King, and suspicion over the Qishan Army’s treachery left Gou Bao facing a damaging accusation.

• Fang Yun read Record of Bloodbath Studio as the Pearl River Army’s disciplined Crossfire doubled the casualties among the demon barbarians attacking its wall.
• Demon barbarians from the forty-fifth section moved toward the Pearl River Army’s flank, and a Great Scholar condemned Mei Gu for harboring malicious intent.
• The Imperial Jade Seal crushed Mei Gu and demon barbarians within twelve li of Two Worlds Mountain before a withered dragon claw from Demon Barbarian City destroyed those farther out.
• The Great Demon King ordered an even fiercer charge, and scholars suspected Mei Gu had deliberately let the demon barbarians target the Pearl River Army.
• Wang Li cursed the Qishan Army, while the Poetry Lord suggested that rebel species might be hidden within it, leaving Gou Bao angered by the accusation.

The Pearl River Army held off the Demon Barbarians despite their use of demonic arts, while the Human Race recognized Crossfire’s advantages and ordered its adoption. The chapter ended with fresh Pearl River Army troops rotating onto the walls and briefly struggling to match the veterans.

• Scholars condemned Gou Bao as the Poetry Lord used the charge of Rebel Species allegiance to suppress the Qishan Army.
• Grand Academicians found that Crossfire arrows retained more power against demonic arts, and dispatches called for its study and mandatory adoption.
• The Pearl River Army killed a rabbit Demon Marshal and repelled Demon Barbarians who reached its battlements without losing a soldier.
• Observers noticed Zhang Qingfeng leading Hanlin Academicians and Metropolitan Graduates in coordinated attacks on Demon and Barbarian Marquises, while Fang Yun continued reading.
• Seventy thousand fresh Pearl River Army soldiers replaced the veterans, and the Demon Barbarians surged onto their section of wall as the newcomers struggled.

Fang Yun watched the Literary World armies falter during a troop rotation as the Demon Barbarians intensified their attack. He killed a Demon Marquis with his Tongue Sword, but the Pearl River Army remained in trouble.

• The Demon Barbarians exploited the troop rotation, and the inexperienced Literary World armies lost formation while other armies steadied their positions.
• Fang Yun realized that elite Demon Marquises and a Blood-Qi Demon Banner were strengthening the assault, likely under a strategist’s or Demon Emperor’s orders.
• As the Pearl River Army retreated under pressure, Fang Yun rose into the air and sent his True Dragon Ancient Sword and Ink Sword against the enemy.
• Fang Yun’s True Dragon Ancient Sword advanced to Five Resonances and pierced a rat Demon Marquis’s throat, while the Ink Sword cut off its head.
• The Poetry Lord praised Zhang Longxiang’s fighting skill and predicted that Void Sage Fang could become a Grand Academician within two years.
• The Poetry Lord noticed that the Pearl River Army was in trouble.

Fang Yun refused to retreat when a hundred Demon Marquises and Barbarian Marquises mounted the wall and threatened the Pearl River Army. He completed a powerful Myriad-Army Battle Poem that summoned ten thousand cavalry, whose charge struck the enemy marquises as the three giant weapons above them remained still.

• The demon marquises redirected their attack toward the Pearl River Army, and other commanders expected Fang Yun to withdraw rather than risk his soldiers.
• Fang Yun ordered the Pearl River Army to tighten its formation and keep fighting even as the hundred marquises leaped onto the wall.
• The True Dragon Ancient Sword reached Six Resonances and killed three marquises, while Fang Yun wrote a war poem amid the enemy assault.
• Fang Yun's completed poem summoned ten thousand armored cavalry along with a giant halberd, longsword, and bow.
• The cavalry charged immediately, striking more than fifty demon and barbarian marquises before they could mount an effective defense.

Fang Yun’s War-Poem Cavalry devastated the Demon Marquises and Barbarian Marquises storming the wall, while the Pearl River Army attacked the trapped enemies. The assault by a hundred marquises failed after Fang Yun summoned another ten thousand cavalrymen to surround them.

• Fang Yun’s War-Poem Knights killed the leading dog Demon Marquis with weapons formed from their remains, and the cavalry slew nineteen Demon Marquises and twelve Barbarian Marquises within five breaths.
• The remaining marquises failed to escape the cavalry’s encirclement, while Pearl River Army scholars and soldiers concentrated their attacks on them.
• Fang Yun’s War-Poem Cavalry killed an ox Demon Marshal and held back the other demon barbarians as the humans continued firing.
• When the cavalry dwindled to three thousand, Fang Yun wrote Marching to War and summoned ten thousand fresh War-Poem Cavalrymen to reinforce the encirclement.
• Several marquises killed over a hundred cavalrymen with their full strength, but the resulting counterattack crushed them, and the hundred-marquis assault failed.