Chapter Summaries

Fang Yun punished Xiao Yetian for helping the Zong Family attack him, then stayed outside the Ice Emperor Palace as the human survivors entered. The other races faced the consequences of their choices as the star demon barbarians gathered to discuss their failure to honor their agreement with the humans.

• Fang Yun struck Xiao Yetian with the True Dragon Ancient Sword, then postponed the remaining nine lashes until after the ancient land genesis destruction and ordered the humans into the Ice Emperor Palace.
• Fang Yun remained at the gate while civilians passed him, thanking him and bowing as they entered the palace.
• Zong Ningbing and Ji Mengxian condemned Fang Yun, while Xiao Yetian refused the Zong Family’s Lifesaving Sacred Medicine and agreed to reconsider it if his pain persisted.
• The star demon barbarians convened an emergency council, where Hu Li silently faced the five Great Demon Kings as they regretted rejecting the agreement with the humans.

Fang Yun rejected the Star Demon Barbarians’ attempt to restore their alliance after they had betrayed his trust, but offered to take a private force and their families to the Saint Origin Continent. Hu Li returned with two thousand Star Demon Barbarians and thousands of their dependents as the humans continued entering the Ice Emperor Palace.

• The Star Demon Barbarians debated apologizing to Fang Yun and renewing their agreement, while the other races hesitated to challenge the humans for entry through the palace’s open main gates.
• Hu Li addressed Fang Yun as the Moon Emperor and offered divine treasures to compensate the Human Race for the Star Demon Barbarians’ betrayal.
• Fang Yun refused to restore their alliance but gave Hu Li until all the humans entered the palace to select two thousand Star Demon Barbarian troops for his private force.
• Hu Li returned with four Demon Kings, two thousand Star Demon Barbarians, more than five thousand youths, and fewer than a thousand elderly people.

Hu Li and the Star Demon Barbarians pledged themselves to Fang Yun, who rejected King Shi Kan’s threat to drive them away. As the humans prepared to enter the Ice Emperor Palace, King Rat Hermit asked Fang Yun to yield the main gate to the Star Demon Barbarians.

• Hu Li knelt before Fang Yun and declared that she and the Star Demon Barbarians would serve him as the Moon Emperor.
• King Shi Kan threatened war if Fang Yun sheltered the Star Demon Barbarians, but Fang Yun refused to send them away and called them his private soldiers.
• Fang Yun warned Hu Li that the Blood Demon Barbarians might be planning to trap her people inside the Ice Emperor Palace, then had her push his wheelchair.
• King Rat Hermit approached Fang Yun and asked him to yield the main gate so the Star Demon Barbarians could enter as the defending party.

Fang Yun condemned King Rat Hermit for offering Hu Li to him without her consent, then led the humans into the Ice Emperor Palace as the Snow Blade Storm and savage beasts descended. The palace doors closed with the other peoples left outside, and Fang Yun said he would await them by the Undetermined River.

• Fang Yun rebuked King Rat Hermit for deciding to give Hu Li to him without letting her choose, and King Rat Hermit left.
• Hu Li told Fang Yun she would have made the same sacrifice and asked him to let the Star Demon Barbarian children enter the Bloodmang Realm if she died.
• Fang Yun spotted the approaching Snow Blade Mist and Winged Bear King, then ordered Hu Li and the humans to retreat into the Ice Emperor Palace.
• The Fox Illusion King claimed the Star Demon Barbarians should enter first, but the peoples surged toward the main entrance as the humans finished entering.
• Fang Yun closed the Ice Emperor Palace doors, leaving the other peoples outside, and declared that he would await them by the Undetermined River.

Fang Yun led the human procession out of the Ice Emperor Palace and into the Icebound Wasteland, where fierce cold and recurring Ice Meteor impacts threatened the group. Meng Jingye repeatedly used Subtle Words, Profound Meaning, to shield them, and the procession prepared to continue through the storm.

• Fang Yun studied the Ice Emperor Palace corridor as the human procession advanced and scouts cleared the way.
• Fang Yun entered the Icebound Wasteland, endured its damp cold, and put on a thick fur coat.
• An Ice Meteor struck nearby, intensifying the gale, and Meng Jingye used Tongue Blossoms Thunder and Subtle Words, Profound Meaning, to calm the wind.
• Meng Jingye ordered the humans to regroup and set out, and they finished preparing about three hundred breaths later.
• A closer Ice Meteor struck ten li away, driving lethal winds and steel-hard ice fragments toward the humans, and Meng Jingye used Subtle Words, Profound Meaning, to stop the disaster.

The Human Race traveled through the Icebound Wasteland for weeks, enduring deadly cold and Ice Meteors until they reached the Ice Vein Mountains. As the scholars prepared to break through the Ice Emperor Guards, Fang Yun warned them that the sight behind them might be as crushing as the dangers ahead.

• Yan Ningxiao ordered the Human Race to travel day and night, and Great Scholars used War Poetry to strengthen the exhausted people.
• The Human Race endured Ice Meteors and relentless cold on the journey, burying 9,200 people in 7,421 ice pits.
• On the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the Human Race reached a camp near the Ice Vein Mountains and saw thousands of Ice Emperor Guards ahead.
• Fang Yun told the scholars that the Snow Blade Mist had surrounded Ice Emperor Palace one day and four shichen after the main gate closed, leaving many races unable to enter.
• Fang Yun began a discussion about breaking through the Ice Emperor Guards and warned the scholars to consider what they would see if they looked back.

The human Great Scholars formed an incomplete Realm of Family, State, and World to protect their camp, then held a meeting to finalize their plan for escorting hundreds of thousands of people past the Ice Emperor Guards. Fang Yun told Yan Ningxiao that his ancient demon inheritance might help him pass safely, but warned that revealing more secrets inside the Ice Emperor Palace could bring punishment.

• Meng Jingye and Yan Ningxiao led the Great Scholars in forming a protective Realm of Family, State, and World around the human camp.
• Fang Yun and the other Grand Academicians studied the incomplete realm while the Great Scholars finalized their protections.
• Yan Ningxiao shared the six great families' information about the Ice Emperor Guards, and the scholars spent until the following day completing their escort plan.
• Yan Ningxiao privately asked Fang Yun about his knowledge of the Ice Emperor Guards, and Fang Yun explained that his Tu Ting Clan command incantations might not control them but should help him avoid attack.
• Yan Ningxiao asked Fang Yun to reveal more details about the Ten Cold Ancient Land, and Fang Yun warned that divulging ancient demon secrets inside the Ice Emperor Palace could bring obstruction or punishment.

Fang Yun explained that the Ten Cold Ancient Land was the surviving core of Ancestral Emperor Tu Ting’s Frost Realm Grand Arena, a deadly gladiatorial ground now distorted by time. As he and Yan Ningxiao discussed the danger, over a thousand Ice Sparrows appeared and began combining their hurricanes into a colossal storm aimed at the human camp.

• Fang Yun told Yan Ningxiao how Tu Ting’s children, the Ice Emperor and Snow Maiden, were born from the Frost Realm’s power and explained that the Ten Cold Ancient Land was the arena’s surviving core.
• Yan Ningxiao realized the arena had been a gladiatorial pit and feared its Genesis Destruction could wipe out everyone; Fang Yun said he had no escape plan and believed no one controlled the Ice Emperor Palace.
• Fang Yun and Yan Ningxiao warned the humans not to spread the truth, while Fang Yun explained how the arena’s old hazards had changed and grown more dangerous.
• A flock of over a thousand Ice Sparrows approached, prompting the human camp to prepare for battle and the Great Scholars to rise and deploy their defenses.
• Meng Jingye unleashed Rhapsody on the Three Capitals, but the Ice Sparrows produced over a thousand black hurricanes that merged into a vast storm spanning ten li.

Flood Dragon Sage Ao Zhou discovered that the Ancestral Emperor Ruins were the Ten Cold Ancient Land and planned to sell their location to the Demon Realm. At the Ice Emperor Palace, the Ice Emperor Guards defeated the Ice Sparrows, and Fang Yun identified the guards’ weaknesses for the humans.

• Ao Zhou reached the edge of a sun, spotted the Ten Cold Ancient Land, and decided to claim its treasures before selling its location to the Demon Realm.
• The Ice Sparrows unleashed a powerful hurricane against the humans, whose Great Scholars and Grand Academicians joined forces to withstand it.
• The Ice Emperor Guards emerged from their ice sculptures and drove off the Ice Sparrows with their hammers and ice walls.
• Fang Yun studied the Ice Emperor Guards and sent their strengths and weaknesses to the Grand Academicians of the Craftsmen School and the School of War.
• The humans used Fang Yun’s findings to devise countermeasures that could reduce their casualties by at least half.

Fang Yun watched the humans prepare to cross the Ice Emperor Guards and saw them begin their advance toward the Ice Vein Mountains. When the guards unexpectedly turned on the human column, Fang Yun tried to command them with the Ancient Demon Command Spell, but it failed.

• Elderly humans thanked Fang Yun for opening the Ice Emperor Palace and confronted the Zong Family, while Hu Li discussed the differences between human and star demon barbarian responses to internal mistakes.
• The humans trained against the Ice Emperor Guards and devised a plan to advance toward the Ice Vein Mountains.
• Great Scholars and Grand Academicians led the human column forward, using War-Poem Kings, famous generals, and war-poem soldiers to hold off sixty-four Ice Emperor Guards.
• After the column advanced ten li, a hundred more Ice Emperor Guards charged, and the original sixty-four abandoned their opponents to attack the humans.
• Fang Yun used the Ancient Demon Command Spell to order the Ice Emperor Guards away, but the command had no effect.

As the humans advanced toward the Ice Vein Mountains, the Ice Emperor Guards began attacking in overwhelming numbers and proved impossible to kill permanently. Yan Ningxiao revealed his Ritual Literary Platform and invoked a sacrifice, after which a crimson light appeared in the sky.

• Fang Yun warned the Great Scholars and Grand Academicians that the Ice Emperor Guards were acting strangely when hundreds of them charged the humans.
• Yan Ningxiao ordered the procession forward and directed the scholars to attack guards that came within three hundred zhang, temporarily smashing those that approached.
• Another hundred Ice Emperor Guards awakened, and Yan Ningxiao told the five other Great Scholars that he would leave things to them once they reached the Ice Vein Mountains.
• Yan Ningxiao manifested his Ritual Literary Platform, summoned the Brow of Heaven, and sacrificed a chicken, a duck, and a rabbit.
• A candle-sized flame shot into the sky, and several breaths later a great crimson light appeared overhead.

Yan Ningxiao used the Way of Ritual to devastate the Ice Emperor Guards, but thousands more appeared and left him exhausted as the Human Race neared the Ice Vein Mountains. Fang Yun discovered that every guard was targeting him, and the chapter ended with the seven hundred thousand humans in peril as Ji Qingyang prepared to take over.

• Yan Ningxiao invoked Heaven's Punishment for Violating Ritual and vaporized four hundred Ice Emperor Guards, though they slowly began to regenerate in weakened forms.
• More than eleven hundred Ice Emperor Guards awakened, forcing Yan Ningxiao to keep fighting while the Human Race continued toward the Ice Vein Mountains.
• Fang Yun used Memory Reversion and discovered that the Ice Emperor Guards had all been targeting him since they went berserk.
• Over three thousand Ice Emperor Guards attacked as the Human Race came within half an hour of the Ice Vein Mountains, and Yan Ningxiao showed signs of exhaustion.
• Ji Qingyang stepped forward to relieve Yan Ningxiao, while Xiao Yetian urged Ji Qingyang to conserve strength for the final battle despite the danger to the people.

Ji Qingyang used his Eight-Trigrams Literary Platform and Sacred Blood to protect the Human Race from the Ice Emperor Guards’ mass self-destruction. He left the people unharmed but descended injured, while Xiao Yetian looked at Fang Yun with a complicated expression.

• Ji Qingyang raised his Eight-Trigrams Literary Platform and trapped the three thousand-plus Ice Emperor Guards in a maze.
• Hu Li recounted how Ji Qingyang had once used the formation to trap Great Demon Kings from the Ice Clan.
• The Great Scholars accelerated the seven hundred thousand members of the Human Race toward the Ice Vein Mountains.
• The Ice Emperor Guards shrank to tiny pellets and exploded, and Ji Qingyang strengthened his Literary Platform with Human Race Half-Sage Sacred Blood to shield everyone.
• The blast left the Eight-Trigrams Literary Platform badly damaged, but no one was injured; Ji Qingyang wiped blood from his mouth and descended on Walking the Blue Clouds.

The Human Race reached the Ice Vein Mountains after surviving the Ice Emperor Guards, but the dangerous crossing cost lives and tested the resolve of the vast procession. As they climbed, the Star Demon Barbarian troops began to question whether modern Demon Barbarians still possessed the fighting spirit of their ancestors.

• Yan Ningxiao led the Human Race safely past the Ice Emperor Guards, though two Great Scholars were left unable to fight and some sick and elderly travelers died after reaching the Ice Vein Mountains.
• Xiao Yetian told the Zong Family members to keep their distance from Fang Yun, warning that the Ice Emperor Guards’ transformation was only the beginning.
• The Human Race entered the Ice Vein Mountains, where people equipped themselves with climbing gear and Demon Kings carried Fang Yun and his wheelchair.
• As the procession climbed through the worsening cold, many people froze to death despite the Medical School’s inability to help them.
• After two days of climbing alongside the humans, the Star Demon Barbarian troops lost their sense of superiority and wondered whether their people still had the resilience of their ancient forebears.

After the Human Race’s exhausted procession crossed the Ice Vein Mountains, they rested while the Great Scholars weighed their dwindling supplies and Fang Yun considered his next Literary Platforms. Fang Yun had forged a Poison-Attack Literary Platform from the Plague Lord’s power and began narrowing down the platforms he wanted to cultivate next.

• The Human Race descended the Ice Vein Mountains after five days, their numbers reduced to six hundred and eighty thousand by exhaustion and cold.
• The six Great Scholars ordered a day and night of rest, then learned that seventy percent of the people had nearly run out of dry rations.
• Fang Yun absorbed part of the Plague Lord’s power and formed the Poison-Attack Literary Platform, which could attack with poison and counter other poisons.
• Fang Yun reviewed his existing Literary Platforms and considered which four more to forge, prioritizing the School of War and an ancient demon platform.

Fang Yun began forging a Crime-Suppressing Literary Platform while the Human Race camped in the freezing Ten Cold Ancient Land. After he distributed provisions to hundreds of thousands of people, an Eagle Clan Great Demon King appeared, and the leaders debated how to proceed toward the dangerous Undetermined River.

• Fang Yun chose to forge a Crime-Suppressing Literary Platform as he listened to the leaders discuss their situation.
• Yan Ningxiao reassured the assembly that the Yan Family had prepared ample rations, and Fang Yun used his shells to distribute food to the people.
• Six hours after the camp was established, Eagle Dove appeared and escaped the Great Scholars' attacks.
• Yan Ningxiao summoned the leaders to discuss whether to hold their position, retreat, or move toward the Undetermined River.
• Meng Jingye explained that crossing the river too early would be dangerous and that the contest of the Ten Cold Kings would bring floods and brutal fighting near the Ice Emperor Hall.

Fang Yun argued that entering the Ice Emperor Grand Hall was safer than remaining outside, despite his injuries, while the others debated the dangers and whether Xiao Yetian would protect him. The dispute exposed Xiao Yetian’s priorities, and Fang Yun told him to pursue the Frost Lord Imperial Crown without worrying about him.

• Fang Yun rejected the suggestion that he would give up competing to become one of the Ten Cold Kings, despite the Grand Academicians’ objections to his entering the Ice Emperor Grand Hall while gravely weakened.
• Fang Yun argued that the Demon Realm and Ice Clan might ambush him outside, while the other leaders weighed the dangers of both entering and staying behind.
• Yan Ningxiao estimated that the six Great Scholars had only a twenty percent chance of protecting Fang Yun if the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians attacked with all their strength.
• Zeng Yue challenged Xiao Yetian by asking whether he valued the Frost Lord Imperial Crown more than Fang Yun’s life, and Xiao Yetian admitted he would choose the crown.
• Xun Pingyang and Zeng Yue accused Xiao Yetian of resenting Fang Yun and wanting to prevent him from entering the Ice Emperor Grand Hall, prompting Zong Ningbing to defend Xiao Yetian.
• Fang Yun ended the argument by saying Xiao Yetian did not have to sacrifice his future for him and urging him to win the Frost Lord Imperial Crown for the Human Race.

Fang Yun suffered a mysterious affliction tied to the power of Sainthood as the humans traveled toward the Undetermined River, leaving his companions unable to help him. The humans gathered around him while the Eagle-Vulture King abandoned an ambush, and Yan Ningxiao punished Zong Family members who mocked Fang Yun.

• Xun Pingyang and other human leaders agreed to protect Fang Yun in the Ice Emperor Grand Hall, and the humans rested before setting out for the Undetermined River.
• Fang Yun suddenly collapsed in pain while Hu Li pushed his wheelchair, and Medical School practitioners found his illness beyond their ability to treat.
• Ji Qingyang determined that Fang Yun's condition involved the power of Sainthood, so the human procession stopped and gathered around him.
• After six hours, the Eagle-Vulture King saw Fang Yun's condition and left to report that the planned ambush was no longer necessary.
• Three Zong Family members mocked Fang Yun, and Yan Ningxiao struck them down and sealed their Literary Palaces despite Zong Ningbing's protest.

Six Demon Race Half-Sages gathered outside the Bloodmang Realm to destroy the Bloodmang Will and kill Fang Yun, but an Ancient Great Menace emerged from the Dragon Race Ruins and sent the Fox Sage fleeing. The remaining Half-Sages faced the menace as the Rat Sage also ran.

• The six Demon Race Half-Sages planned to seize the Bloodmang Realm’s treasures and destroy its Will, which they believed would kill Fang Yun.
• The Bloodmang Will surged in strength, causing the realm’s inhabitants to mutate and many scholars to advance in rank.
• The Half-Sages summoned Great Sage avatars and prepared to attack the Bloodmang Realm.
• The Dragon Race Ruins appeared, and countless green leaves spread across it as a massive purple vine rose into the sky and shattered space.
• The Fox Sage recognized the Ancient Great Menace and fled, abandoning his allies and treasures.
• The other Half-Sages hesitated to flee, while the Rat Sage looked back as he ran.

The Devouring Dragon Vine emerged from the Dragon City Ruins and devoured the Demon Race Half-Sages who had attacked the Bloodmang Realm. It returned to the ruins after killing the Rat Sage, leaving the Bloodmang Realm protected by a terror the Demon Realm would fear.

• The Devouring Dragon Vine emerged from the Bloodmang Realm, and its buzz paralyzed the Demon Race Half-Sages.
• The Devouring Dragon Vine swallowed the Lion Sage after effortlessly withstanding his attack, then devoured the other Half-Sages.
• The Rat Sage recognized the Devouring Dragon Vine and sent a warning to the Demon Realm, suspecting Fang Yun had lured the sages into a trap.
• The Devouring Dragon Vine caught and swallowed the Fox Sage, then appeared before the Rat Sage and devoured him, including his escaping true spirit.
• The Devouring Dragon Vine returned to the Dragon City Ruins and fell asleep, while the watching humans and kings of the various races celebrated the Bloodmang Realm's safety.