Chapter Summaries

After the Bloodmang Realm was attacked, Fang Yun collapsed when the Bloodmang Will spent its power defending the realm. He woke with severe injuries and a strange new power in his Literary Palace, while the Demon Realm mourned the deaths of six Half-Sages.

• Five Half-Sage Incarnations left the Sacred Academy as news of the Bloodmang Realm's attack was sealed from the public.
• Six Heavenly Blood Waterfalls appeared over the Demon Realm, and the Death Knell Horn sounded as the demons mourned their dead Half-Sages.
• Fang Yun woke the next day and told six Great Scholars that the Bloodmang Will had repelled the attackers but that his life remained bound to the realm.
• Ji Qingyang divined that the Demon Realm had attacked the Bloodmang Realm, while Fang Yun examined his severe internal injuries and discovered a new light around his Literary Palace statue.
• Fang Yun deduced that the Bloodmang Realm's growth had stalled and concealed the full extent of his blessing from the worried Great Scholars.

After recovering from his injuries, Fang Yun learned that his unconsciousness had deterred the Eagle-Dove King and that a Half-Sage had helped the Bloodmang Will revive him. As the humans neared the Undetermined River, Ji Qingyang privately warned that one or possibly two powers of Sainthood were targeting Fang Yun, and Fang Yun began recalling the Ice Emperor Grand Hall’s origins.

• Yan Ningxiao explained that the Eagle-Dove King had abandoned his attack after finding Fang Yun gravely wounded, sparing the human group.
• Medical School scholars examined Fang Yun and found that his severe bodily injuries were healing, though they could not treat the damage from Ice Palace Mountain.
• Ji Qingyang and the Great Scholars deduced that a Half-Sage Incarnation had aided the Bloodmang Will, allowing Fang Yun to regain consciousness.
• Ji Qingyang privately warned Fang Yun that at least one power of Sainthood, and possibly a second, was targeting him; Fang Yun suspected a human Half-Sage but doubted Saint Zong was responsible.
• The humans traveled through the snow toward the Undetermined River, killing Ice Clan scouts along the way as the Ice Emperor Palace’s cold claimed more travelers.
• Fang Yun saw the Undetermined River and recalled that the Ice Emperor Grand Hall had once been part of an Ancient Demon training arena.

Fang Yun and the Human Race reached the Undetermined River and discovered that the Star Demon Barbarians had been slaughtered by the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians with the savage beasts’ help. As Hu Li mourned, King Shi Kan revealed the massacre and proposed a joint attack on the humans before the Ice Emperor Grand Hall opened.

• Fang Yun led the Human Race toward the Undetermined River, where they saw the Ice Emperor Palace and the gathered beasts, Ice Clan, and Blood Demon Barbarians.
• Fang Yun confirmed that no Star Demon Barbarians had arrived, and Hu Li and Fang Yun’s private troops began to weep.
• King Shi Kan boasted that the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians had promised the Winged Bear King a passage quota in exchange for killing every Star Demon Barbarian of the Seventh Cold City.
• Fang Yun comforted Hu Li as the surviving Star Demon Barbarians recognized that their fallen leaders had sent them to preserve their bloodlines under Fang Yun and Hu Li’s protection.
• King Bing Han confronted Eagle-Dove King, and King Shi Kan proposed that the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians send Great Demon Kings to attack the humans before the Ice Emperor Grand Hall opened.

Fang Yun and the humans reached the Undetermined River while the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians held back from attacking, unwilling to risk losing Great Demon Kings or jeopardize their crossing. Fang Yun’s enemies blamed him for their enormous losses, and the chapter ended with furious Blood Demon Barbarians repeatedly charging at him and being restrained.

• Bing Tong proposed sending eighteen Great Demon Kings and two hundred Demon Kings to attack the humans, but the other races hesitated because they needed their strength to cross the Undetermined River.
• Yan Ningxiao dared the attackers to try, warning that the humans would kill their genius Demon Kings first.
• The Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians refrained from attacking as the humans approached the river, and King Shi Kan said an old agreement kept the races from fighting at the riverbanks.
• The humans reached the Undetermined River’s bank, while the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians blamed Fang Yun for the deaths of millions of their people.
• Blood Demon Barbarians charged toward Fang Yun in fury, but their stronger companions knocked them unconscious and dragged them back.

Fang Yun provoked the Blood Demon Barbarians while the races prepared for the coming struggle at the Ice Emperor Palace. On the third day, the Grand Hall opened, and Fang Yun was lifted above the Undetermined River under the protection of six Great Scholars.

• Fang Yun enraged the Blood Demon Barbarians by declaring that the Demon Realm would one day look up to humanity, while the humans celebrated his defiance.
• The Ice Clan kings planned to join the Blood Demon Barbarians in attacking the humans after the Ice Emperor Grand Hall closed, expecting the Ice Ancestor connection to protect them from human Sages.
• The humans prepared to send their Grand Academicians across the Undetermined River before extreme cold qi froze it and rising waters forced the races to fight for space.
• Fang Yun recovered somewhat over the next two days, and Hu Li and Fang Yun helped settle the dispirited Star Demon Barbarian private troops.
• On the third day, the snow stopped and the Ice Emperor Grand Hall doors opened; Fang Yun rose above the river on Walking the Blue Clouds as six Great Scholars cast Protective War Poetry over him.

Fang Yun crossed the Undetermined River safely and used his limited control over its extreme cold qi to force the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians to promise not to attack the humans after crossing. The chapter left the two races convinced he could enforce his threat, while the Zong Family watched its influence and standing collapse.

• Fang Yun crossed the Undetermined River under the protection of war poems cast by six human Great Scholars.
• Fang Yun offered the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians a choice: let him enter the Ice Emperor Grand Hall alone or agree not to attack the humans after crossing.
• King Bing Han sent Bing Can across the river to test Fang Yun's threat, but Fang Yun drew extreme cold qi around him and Bing Can froze and shattered.
• Fang Yun's limited command of the extreme cold qi, gained through the Ice Palace Mountain inheritance, convinced the two races that his warning was real.
• Xiao Yetian recognized that the Six Second Saint Families were openly excluding the Zong Family, whose members had been outmatched by Fang Yun throughout the journey.

Fang Yun negotiated with King Bing Han over the safety of the six hundred thousand humans and access to the Ten Cold Kings’ contest. After both sides rejected initial terms, King Bing Han proposed a compromise, and Fang Yun began challenging its details.

• King Bing Han refused Fang Yun’s demand, then swore in the Ice Emperor’s name not to harm the humans if the Demon Kings could cross the river; Fang Yun instead demanded an oath to Tu Ting, the Ice Ancestor.
• When King Bing Han refused to swear by the Ice Ancestor, Fang Yun turned toward the Ice Emperor Grand Hall and told the humans that their enemies would kill them regardless; the humans supported his decision to deny their rivals the thrones.
• Fang Yun promised to avenge the humans and occupy the Ten Cold Ancient Land after the battle, making the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians realize that refusing his terms could doom them.
• King Bing Han proposed that the Ice Clan avoid joining forces with the Blood Demon Barbarians and never attack humans simultaneously in exchange for entry to the hall; Fang Yun rejected the loophole and demanded one-on-one fights against humans of the same rank.
• King Bing Han objected that humans could stall while occupying too much ground, and Fang Yun asked whether they would stop attacking if the humans yielded space; King Bing Han considered the proposal and consulted the other Great Demon Kings.

Fang Yun secured the Ice Clan and blood demon barbarians’ promise not to attack humans by swearing an oath to the Ice Ancestor, then built a multilevel ice structure to provide space for every race. He entered the Ice Emperor Grand Hall with Hu Li, where they began the Hunting Forest trial by setting traps against prey and their rivals.

• Fang Yun offered to make more room for the Ice Clan, and King Bing Han agreed that the Ice Clan and blood demon barbarians would stop attacking humans after the hall closed.
• Fang Yun required the Ice Clan and blood demon barbarians to swear an oath to Ancestral Emperor Tu Ting, then allowed all races to cross the river.
• Fang Yun created a four-story ice structure around the Ice Emperor Grand Hall, giving the races separate areas and enough room.
• Hu Li pushed Fang Yun into the Ice Emperor Grand Hall, where they emerged in an unfamiliar pine forest called the Hunting Forest.
• Fang Yun explained that traps could help them pass the trial and hinder their enemies, then guided Hu Li in setting traps and killing enough prey to advance.

Bing Po was overwhelmed and killed by a horde of beasts in the Hunting Forest, while Fang Yun and Hu Li made it through by hunting and laying traps. They reached Silent City, where Fang Yun explained its deadly sound-triggered dangers before they entered.

• Bing Po ran into the Hunting Forest, killed several beasts, and was drawn into an ambush by an aura released from a drugged beast he had slain.
• The ferocious beasts surrounded Bing Po, exhausted his strength, and devoured him after he died fighting.
• Fang Yun and Hu Li hunted beasts and set traps as they crossed the Hunting Forest, weakening many Demon Kings with poison.
• Fang Yun and Hu Li reached Silent City, and Fang Yun warned her that sounds and contact with the city could trigger lethal Silent Killing Sound.
• Fang Yun and Hu Li secured their clothing and accessories, then prepared to fly through the city without speaking or touching the ground.

Fang Yun and Hu Li carefully navigated Silent City, where sound could trigger deadly attacks, and witnessed a Demon King die after roaring. They continued mapping the labyrinth cautiously, while violent tremors behind them suggested someone had triggered a deadly Heavy Sound Zone.

• Fang Yun and Hu Li flew through Silent City, enduring the shrill Silent Killing Sound as they mapped its labyrinth and avoided Heavy Sound Zones.
• After fourteen hours, they encountered Bing Luo, and his instinctive roar triggered Silent Killing Sound that pulverized him.
• Fang Yun used the threat of an attack to frighten a Wolf Demon King into fleeing, though the sound forced the demon to expend blood-qi power.
• Fang Yun and Hu Li felt violent tremors behind them and suspected someone had triggered a Heavy Sound Zone capable of killing a Great Demon King.
• They spent two days and two nights cautiously avoiding Heavy Sound Zones and recording their route.

Fang Yun and Hu Li entered the soundless Voidless Desert, where their powers were restricted and the oppressive silence began to wear down Hu Li. Fang Yun kept his own mind steady through reading and helped Hu Li resist the desert’s influence; the chapter left her reading the Collected Commentaries on the Analects.

• Fang Yun and Hu Li passed through a gate from Silent City into the Voidless Desert, a world with no sound and only blue sky and yellow sand.
• Fang Yun discovered that the desert prevented him from using literary qi and wrote to Hu Li that they could only keep moving forward and endure.
• As they traveled, the desert’s silence increasingly unsettled Hu Li, and Fang Yun repeatedly helped her regain control.
• Fang Yun used Dual-Mindedness to read and stay calm, while Hu Li gradually recognized how the desert and Ice Emperor Palace were affecting her.
• When Hu Li again became restless, Fang Yun gave her the Collected Commentaries on the Analects, and she began reading it.

Hu Li and Fang Yun crossed the Storm Sea and reached Ice Emperor Mountain, where they waited for the Ice Clan to open the way to the Frost Lord Imperial Crowns. As Ice Clan genius Bing Tong arrived, Fang Yun examined the mountain despite his dwindling strength, while Hu Li worried that their enemies would attack them.

• Hu Li read Fang Yun’s commentaries on The Analects and Mencius while they crossed the Voidless Desert, and they later passed the Storm Sea and the Grand Arena’s obstacles.
• Fang Yun and Hu Li reached the icy region around Ice Emperor Mountain, where Fang Yun explained that the cold strengthened the Ice Clan and that he lacked the Literary Qi to open the mountain himself.
• Hu Li warned Fang Yun that Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarian Demon Kings might reach the mountain before the human Grand Academicians and surround him.
• Fang Yun said he was willing to stake his life, then flew toward Ice Emperor Mountain to inspect it while Hu Li followed.
• Bing Tong arrived, tossing the Black Pearl, and remarked that Fang Yun had kept his abilities hidden.

Fang Yun rejected Bing Tong’s proposal to search for Ancient Demon burial grounds, though Bing Tong offered him a lead on a Dragon-Slaying Saber Fragment. Bing Tong refused to fight Fang Yun in the Ice Emperor Palace, and when Bing Luo arrived looking for a fight, he hesitated to attack.

• Bing Tong revealed his bloodied cross mark and asked Fang Yun to help him find the Ancient Demons’ burial grounds in exchange for his aid against Fang Yun’s enemies.
• Bing Tong offered Fang Yun information about a Dragon-Slaying Saber Fragment, but Fang Yun refused to betray the Ancient Demons and said he would consider a trade after becoming a Great Scholar.
• Bing Tong said he would neither help nor attack Fang Yun in the Ice Emperor Palace, explaining that he believed Fang Yun had a way to survive.
• Bing Luo arrived and proposed that he fight Hu Li while Bing Tong fought Fang Yun, but Bing Tong walked away and left Bing Luo facing them alone.
• Hu Li mocked Bing Luo for hesitating, and Fang Yun suggested that Bing Luo might be strong enough to defeat them both.

Fang Yun and Hu Li waited on Heaven-Scraping Cliff as Ice Clan and Demon Barbarian kings gathered, while human scholars remained blocked below. After more than a hundred kings agreed to attack, they advanced on Fang Yun, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Bing Luo tried to persuade Bing Tong to kill Fang Yun, but Bing Tong refused and threatened Bing Luo instead.
• Shi Jun arrived, reported killing Bing Ju, and agreed with Bing Luo that the Demon Barbarians and Ice Clan should eventually kill Fang Yun.
• As Demon Kings gathered on Heaven-Scraping Cliff, Fang Yun said the human Grand Academicians had likely died or been blocked below and chose to keep reading.
• More than a hundred Demon Kings debated for two hours before agreeing to attack Fang Yun, and Bing Luo led their advance.
• Hu Li warned the Demon Kings that the Human Race would retaliate, but some only slowed while the others continued forward.

Fang Yun faced a growing force of Ice Clan Demon Kings as Hu Li tried to make them reconsider attacking him. He revealed the Marquis Wu Chariot, shifting the confrontation in his favor.

• Over a hundred Ice Clan Demon Kings formed Cold-Blood Battle Armor, while Bing Luo dismissed Hu Li’s warnings and urged them to kill Fang Yun.
• Hu Li argued that the Human Race would retaliate against the Ice Clan and questioned why Bing Tong was leaving them to fight, causing the Demon Kings to hesitate.
• Bing Luo rallied the Demon Kings by accusing Fang Yun of killing their kin, and they began advancing again.
• At Fang Yun’s request, Hu Li moved forward, and Fang Yun replaced his wheelchair with the Marquis Wu Chariot.
• The Demon Kings recoiled at the sight of the Great Scholar Literary Treasure, and Fang Yun said he had concealed it until the right moment.

Fang Yun rode the Marquis Wu Chariot into a standoff with the Demon Kings, who tried to wear him down but could not breach its barrier. As the Demon Kings debated stronger attacks, they considered sending in a Shattered-Ice Demon King.

• Fang Yun invited Hu Li onto the Marquis Wu Chariot, and the Demon Kings backed away when they saw it.
• The Demon Kings discussed how to stop Fang Yun from claiming a Frost Lord Imperial Crown, but they could neither catch the chariot nor agree on a plan.
• Hu Li warned Fang Yun that the Demon Kings could outlast him, but Fang Yun told her to help with her demonic arts if needed and continued reading.
• Ten Demon Kings attacked the chariot's barrier with Celestial-Aspect Strikes, but it did not move.
• After six groups attacked over an hour without affecting Fang Yun, the Demon Kings debated using Sage Aspect Strikes and proposed sending a Shattered-Ice Demon King.

Fang Yun remained protected by the Marquis Wu Chariot as the Demon Kings failed to break its defenses. Ice Bone King then emerged from Heaven-Scraping Cliff with all the Demon Kings who had entered the Soul-Suppressing Corridor, revealed he had gained a path toward the Half-Sage realm, and ordered them to surround Fang Yun and use the Sage Aspect Strike.

• A Shattered-Ice Demon King sacrificed itself against the Marquis Wu Chariot, but its attack only caused a ripple in the barrier.
• The Demon Kings took turns attacking Fang Yun, while Bing Tong realized the Marquis Wu Chariot's defenses were far stronger than expected.
• Heaven-Scraping Cliff opened, and Ice Bone King emerged after forcibly dropping from the Great Demon King realm to the Demon King realm.
• Ice Bone King greeted Fang Yun and announced that he had obtained an inheritance connecting the Great Demon King realm to the Half-Sage realm.
• The remaining Demon Kings from the Soul-Suppressing Corridor emerged without losses, and Ice Bone King ordered them to surround Fang Yun and use the Sage Aspect Strike.

Fang Yun exposed Ice Bone King’s connection to the Soul-Suppressing Corridor, then used the Grand Competition Order to summon the arena and the Demon Kings who had opposed him during the Three Valleys Battle. The summoned enemies arrived as Fang Yun vowed to kill them all.

• Ice Bone King revealed that his clan had reached the arena through a passage in the Ice Ancestor Ruins and that Hu Li’s Star Demon Barbarians had died clearing the way.
• Fang Yun questioned Ice Bone King about the Soul-Suppressing Corridor, unsettling him and warning the other Demon Kings not to join his side.
• Fang Yun took out a crystal token and activated Ice Mountain Split as the Demon Kings prepared to attack.
• Ao Cang was pulled from the Western Sea Dragon Palace by a black vortex, while other Demon Kings and Great Demon Kings who had fought in the Three Valleys Battle were summoned from across the Demon Realm.
• The ice mountain split open to reveal the Grand Arena, where Fang Yun faced the summoned enemies and vowed to kill every last one.

Fang Yun used the Grand Competition Order to bring Demon Barbarians and the Sea-Calming Dragon King into the Ten Cold Ancient Land, where the Ice Emperor Palace’s Punishment Thunder killed three Great Demon Kings. The surviving enemies gathered to attack Fang Yun, but he revealed his authority as a Literary Star Dragon Noble and forced Ao Cang to bow.

• Fang Yun began the Soul-Imprisoning Battle, and fourteen Demon Barbarians and Dragon Race members appeared in black vortices, trapped by an invisible force.
• The Ice Emperor Palace’s Punishment Thunder killed She Hu and two other Great Demon Kings, whose souls became blood spheres that followed Fang Yun and lent him power.
• The Sea-Calming Dragon King and ten Demon Kings landed and joined Ice Bone King in calling for Fang Yun’s death.
• Hu Lan revealed the Ancestral God Bloodline’s tiger-head manifestation, while Ao Cang vowed to kill Fang Yun over his grievances against the Dragon Race.
• Fang Yun asserted his Literary Star Dragon Noble authority, and Ao Cang lowered his head to pay respects.

Fang Yun revealed that he had lured the Demon Kings into the Frost Realm Grand Arena to avenge the victims of the Three Valleys Battle, using his Main Grand Competition Order to bind them in a Soul-Imprisoning Battle. He ordered the Dragon King and the other Demon Kings to fight the Ice Clan and Blood Demon Barbarians, and the arena’s power forced them to obey.

• Fang Yun explained that his Main Grand Competition Order let him initiate a Soul-Imprisoning Battle and command the Demon Kings who held Subordinate Orders.
• Fang Yun declared that he intended to kill the Demon Kings to avenge Peng Zouzhao and the others slain at the Three Valleys Battle.
• Ao Cang challenged Fang Yun over his plan to punish him and his grandfather, but Fang Yun vowed to one day wash his sword in the Western Sea.
• Fang Yun ordered Ao Cang to fight the Ice Bone King and commanded the other Demon Kings to divide up the remaining enemies, leaving none alive.
• A Bear Demon King tried to resist Fang Yun’s command, but the Grand Arena took control of his body and made him attack the Ice Clan.