Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun cursed those responsible for burning the forest, then used her gift of commanding wind and rain to restore the scorched land. After eleven days of effort, she finally summoned a downpour and began spreading the rain across the burned forest.

• Bai Yujun unleashed a curse against the arsonists, causing misfortune among people and cultivators who had burned forests.
• Bai Yujun delivered the souls of beasts killed in the fire and resolved to restore the forest with her gifts.
• Bai Yujun repeatedly tried and failed to summon rain, exhausting herself as she drove wind and clouds above the scorched land.
• Bai Yujun changed her mindset and called on her compassion for the forest as she tried again.
• Bai Yujun finally summoned lightning and heavy rain, washing the ash from the land and rejoicing as she began spreading the rain farther.

Young Master Ding and Old Liu led cultivators to capture Bai Yujun, hoping to make her Young Master Ding’s demon slave. Bai Yujun turned the storm against them, injuring Young Master Ding and forcing Old Liu into a hard fight as Ding vowed to keep trying.

• Young Master Ding and Old Liu approached the storm with Foundation Establishment cultivators and planned to capture Bai Yujun with nets and chains.
• Young Master Ding ordered an attack, and Bai Yujun stopped the rain and cursed at him before mocking his appearance.
• Enraged, Young Master Ding attacked with his strongest sword move while Old Liu supported him.
• Bai Yujun intensified the rain and used explosive water and Spiritual Energy Swords to injure Young Master Ding.
• Old Liu drew Bai Yujun away and fought her while Young Master Ding took a pill and vowed to capture her.

Bai Yujun drove off the Ding Family’s hunters, then brought rain to revive the scorched land while evading cultivators searching for her. After resting beside an underground river, she was ambushed by a white-bearded monk and escaped into the water.

• Zhang Qiang and the Ding Family’s cultivators were overwhelmed by Bai Yujun, who killed several before the survivors fled with Young Master Ding and Old Liu.
• Bai Yujun spread rain across the scorched land, restoring streams and lakes and helping new plants sprout.
• Bai Yujun frightened commoners away from their slash-and-burn fields, while the Ding Family’s search parties failed to find her.
• After more than ten days of bringing rain and evading cultivators, Bai Yujun rested beside a pool connected to an underground river.
• A white-bearded monk invited Bai Yujun to take refuge in Buddhism, then attacked her with a golden palm; she blocked it briefly and escaped underwater.

After receiving a mysterious call from Cloud Remote Ancient Village, Bai Yujun returned and found Mu Duo waiting for her. Mu Duo urged her to stay because the Southern Wilderness outskirts were dangerous, while Bai Yujun settled in for a meal.

• Bai Yujun woke after days of sleep and sensed Mu Duo calling her from Cloud Remote Ancient Village.
• Before leaving, Bai Yujun retrieved the Metal Materials she planned to use for forging a weapon.
• Bai Yujun arrived at Cloud Remote Ancient Village and slithered into Mu Duo's house.
• Mu Duo told Bai Yujun to stay in the village for a few days because many people wanted to plot against her.
• Bai Yujun asked for food, then stunned Mu Duo and the Jiuli girls by devouring raw bird meat with her hands.

Bai Yujun spent peaceful days in Cloud Remote Ancient Village before forging herself a new Hengdao. At Wind Thunder Cliff, the Golden Roc’s fortune recovered, but it remained intent on finding whoever had cursed it.

• Mu Duo reflected on how Bai Yujun’s presence had improved the village and worried about its troubles, while Bai Yujun slept through the night.
• Bai Yujun woke, ate breakfast, and wandered the village as its people brought her spiritual herbs and spirit fruits; Mu Duo emerged from a meeting with an icy expression.
• Bai Yujun spent many days smelting ore and forging a one-meter Hengdao, then imagined using it to take revenge on the two old birds.
• The Golden Roc learned that its fortune had recovered and vowed to find the person who had used Evil Arts against it.
• The Golden Roc ordered a banquet and respectfully invited its honored guests to take their seats.

Bai Yujun eavesdropped on a meeting where the Green Wood Demon King urged Cloud Remote Ancient Village to join an alliance against the Tang army. After leaving the tower, she saw bloody Killing Intent gathering over many men in the village, signaling that they would be caught up in an approaching slaughter.

• Bai Yujun listened to the tower meeting by sensing vibrations through a wooden beam, bypassing the spell that blocked magical eavesdropping.
• Bai Yujun learned that Wind Thunder Cliff wanted the Green Wood Demon King and nearby White Tribe villages to unite against the Central Plains forces and ambush the Tang army.
• Bai Yujun suspected something was wrong because Wind Thunder Cliff’s demonic forces should not have suffered such heavy losses against the Tang army.
• Bai Yujun left the tower and realized that Cloud Remote Ancient Village would likely join the alliance.
• Bai Yujun saw blood-red Killing Intent gathering over many village men and feared they would face a deadly calamity.

Bai Yujun tried to protect her reputation by warning the villagers not to travel far, claiming the gods had issued an oracle. After Mu Duo paid her for an explanation, Bai Yujun revealed that she expected the expedition to suffer devastating losses, leaving Mu Duo troubled by the warning.

• Bai Yujun abandoned her attempt to persuade the leaders to avoid war and decided to protect her reputation instead.
• The Green Wood Demon King returned to Green Wood Mountain to prepare for war while the old priest and chieftain planned the village’s expedition.
• Bai Yujun beat the village drum and told the gathered villagers that a divine oracle forbade them from traveling more than a hundred li over the next year.
• Mu Duo dragged Bai Yujun away from the crowd and asked whether the oracle was real.
• Bai Yujun took Mu Duo’s gold hairpin as payment and claimed she had predicted the expedition by reading the stars and divining.
• Bai Yujun warned Mu Duo that the expedition would likely suffer devastating losses and said she had intervened to protect her reputation as the sacred beast.

Bai Yujun warned Mu Duo that the village’s planned war was dangerous, then fled to a secluded mountain pool while Mu Duo failed to stop the Nine Li from preparing for battle. As Bai Yujun hid from a passing monk, she wondered why he had come from the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

• Bai Yujun insisted she had told Mu Duo the truth, then left for the deep mountains to avoid being blamed for what happened.
• Mu Duo urged the old priest and chieftain to postpone sending troops, but they agreed only to send half their forces while the rest stayed in the village.
• The Nine Li villagers prepared for war as Mu Duo watched anxiously and worried that the plan against the Central Plains people might fail.
• Bai Yujun relaxed in a warm mountain pool, reflected on her slow cultivation, and hid underwater when she sensed someone approaching.
• Bai Yujun saw that the passing figure was a monk and wondered why he had come from the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Bai Yujun strengthened Snake Valley’s defenses as the war between the Central Plains, Jiuli, and demons spread through the mountains. The chapter left the armies of Jiuli and its demonic allies gathered against a strained Li Tang force, with the Baleful Intent growing denser.

• Bai Yujun drove hyenas away from two human corpses and saw the forest damage caused by the fighting and fire spells.
• Bai Yujun expanded the swamps and miasma around Snake Valley, then considered hiding in the Underground Dark River Cave as the Baleful Intent intensified.
• More than thirty thousand warriors from Cloud Remote Ancient Village, Divine Cave Tribe, and Thousand Leaf Village assembled alongside nearly ten thousand demonic beasts from Green Wood Mountain and Wind Thunder Cliff.
• Li Tang’s army faced poor terrain, unfamiliar conditions, and depleted strength, while its conscripted soldiers lacked training.

Chunyang’s leaders discussed the war in the Southern Wasteland and Yu Rong warned that the Fiend Stars and demonic sects made the conflict dangerous for everyone. Gan Wu set out to visit Bai Yujun, carrying Chu Zhe’s gifts and message as Yu Rong and Qi Yun prepared to follow with the Great Sects’ leaders.

• Yu Rong told Gu Cangyu and the other leaders that the Southern Wasteland war was being manipulated and that Chunyang should help prevent the aftermath from harming Jiuli and the demon beasts.
• Yu Rong decided to travel south with Qi Yun and gather the Great Sects’ leaders, while Qi Yun agreed to bring Gan Wu to visit Bai Yujun.
• Gan Wu departed for the Southern Wasteland as a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator and Chunyang Purple Void’s foremost successor.
• Chu Zhe gave Gan Wu a storage pouch filled with treasures for Bai Yujun and asked him to tell her to return soon.
• Gan Wu accepted Chu Zhe’s message, then left the mountain through the snow.

Bai Yujun emerged from hiding to find the Hundred Thousand Mountains engulfed in flames after Southern Wasteland’s defeat. As the Demon Kings arrived to confront the Central Plains forces, she summoned rain to save Snake Valley, but three Golden Core Cultivators attacked her.

• Bai Yujun left the underground river and discovered that a vast fire was consuming the forest and driving its creatures to flee.
• She saw the Golden Roc and two monks hunting the Green Wood Demon King, while humans attacked fleeing demonic beasts and Green Crow fought against the Golden Roc’s side.
• Seven Demon Kings and other Southern Wasteland forces arrived, forcing the powerful cultivators to break off their fight and the opposing armies to face each other.
• With the fire approaching Snake Valley, Bai Yujun transformed into the White Snake and gathered dark rain clouds using her innate divine ability.
• Three Golden Core Cultivators flew at Bai Yujun and launched their swords as she tried to bring rain.

Bai Yujun fought off cultivators while desperately trying to summon rain before a wildfire consumed Snake Valley. As the flames spread and the snakes died, the attackers closed in on her, but their weapons suddenly snapped apart.

• Bai Yujun used her instant attack and suction talents to kill one of three cultivators, then drove the others back with her tail.
• Bai Yujun summoned wind, rain, and lightning as the wildfire advanced toward Snake Valley and the cultivators fanned the flames.
• The fire entered Snake Valley, killing eggs, hatchlings, and a female snake that stayed to guard her eggs.
• Bai Yujun pushed herself to summon rain while the two surviving cultivators returned with five or six companions to attack her.
• The cultivators charged Bai Yujun, but their magic treasures and flying swords abruptly broke apart.

Gan Wu arrived to protect Bai Yujun, and she summoned a torrential rainstorm that extinguished the mountain fire and halted the Central Plains cultivators’ advance. When a monk tried to capture her for her rare rain-summoning ability, Gan Wu and the injured Green Wood Demon King intervened, shattering his golden palm.

• Gan Wu revealed that Bai Yujun was Chunyang’s third disciple and agreed to protect her while she summoned rain.
• Bai Yujun called down a heavy storm that extinguished the fire threatening Snake Valley and weakened the Central Plains cultivators’ fire spells.
• The Central Plains cultivators withdrew as the rain stopped their advance, while a monk decided to capture Bai Yujun and make her a spirit beast.
• A Deity Transformation Stage monk formed a golden palm to seize Bai Yujun, but Gan Wu and the Green Wood Demon King attacked together and shattered it.

Gan Wu fought a Deity Transformation Stage monk while Bai Yujun joined the counterattack against the Western Teachings forces. The rain-driven slaughter continued as Bai Yujun cut down their fleeing disciples, including a young monk.

• Gan Wu challenged the kindly-faced monk with a sword strike, and the Green Wood Demon King joined the fight against him.
• Bai Yujun summoned Hengdao from Snake Valley and flew toward the Western Teachings disciples as the rain helped the demons regain the advantage.
• Bai Yujun attacked the fleeing disciples, killing dozens of Foundation Establishment Realm and Qi Refining Stage cultivators while sparing Golden Core Stage opponents who were not monks.
• A young monk fled through the ash-covered mountains, questioning the violence and vowing to avoid fighting after he returned.
• Bai Yujun passed the young monk, who was left impaled through the chest on a charred tree branch.

Bai Yujun turned the storm into her own domain and fought more than a dozen Golden Core Western Teachings monks while Gan Wu kept their Deity Transformation Stage monk occupied. She seized one monk by the throat, leaving him choking on blood as the battle continued.

• Bai Yujun froze the rain across a two-li domain, forged countless water blades, and attacked the Western Teachings disciples.
• The disciples raised a golden bell shield and then surrounded Bai Yujun, but she used a water serpent and Wind Blades to block their spells and counterattack.
• Bai Yujun intensified the storm by dragging down a black cloud, while the fox demon and Badger Demon endured the downpour below.
• Bai Yujun created several more water serpents and disrupted the Golden Core monks’ attacks with the rain and wind.
• Bai Yujun suddenly appeared beside one distracted monk, seized his neck, and retreated as he began choking and coughing blood.

Bai Yujun fought off the Western Teachings monks until Rain Swallow arrived and the battle halted at the approach of powerful masters. Gan Wu told Bai Yujun that her master had come and gave her a storage pouch from Chu Zhe, but she only kept the gemstone attached to it.

• Bai Yujun killed one monk with the help of the monks’ own chaotic spells and venomously injured another while enduring their attacks.
• A Nascent Soul Expert arrived, but Rain Swallow intercepted him and gave Bai Yujun the chance to keep fighting.
• Gan Wu and Green Wood Demon King joined forces against a Deity Transformation Stage opponent as the wider battle raged.
• The fighters on both sides withdrew when powerful figures arrived, and Gan Wu told Bai Yujun that his master Qi Yun and her master had come.
• Gan Wu gave Bai Yujun the storage pouch sent by Chu Zhe, but Bai Yujun tore off its gemstone and returned the pouch.

After the battle, Bai Yujun accepted pills from Gan Wu and chose to remain in the Southern Wasteland rather than return to Mount Hua. As the powerful figures continued their stalemate, she met the Green Wood Demon King and began imagining a future trading across the regions.

• Bai Yujun swallowed a bottle of pills from the storage pouch Gan Wu delivered on behalf of his senior brother.
• Bai Yujun told Gan Wu she wanted to keep wandering the Southern Wasteland, where she could eat and drink for free, rather than return to Mount Hua.
• Bai Yujun and Gan Wu waited on a boulder while the powerful figures remained gathered in the clouds and Central Plains cultivators began withdrawing.
• The Green Wood Demon King thanked Gan Wu for helping her fight a Deity Transformation Stage monk and invited Bai Yujun to visit Green Wood Mountain.
• Bai Yujun imagined becoming a wealthy merchant trading between the Central Plains, Jiuli, and demon beast lands, while Gan Wu mistook her excitement for homesickness.

Bai Yujun waited through the night with Gan Wu for her master, Yu Rong, to arrive. Yu Rong apologized for what Bai Yujun had endured and began giving her rare gifts and protective treasures.

• Bai Yujun waited on a rain-soaked rock beside Gan Wu as the burned forest emptied and dawn arrived.
• Gan Wu teased Bai Yujun about her poor eyesight, and she mistook their approaching master for a tiny figure.
• Qi Yun arrived first, questioned Bai Yujun about her cultivation, and noticed the gemstone she was holding.
• Yu Rong arrived, and Bai Yujun formally greeted her after more than two hundred years apart.
• Yu Rong apologized for failing to protect Bai Yujun and gave her a Dragon Saliva Fruit, a protective piece of jewelry, and other gifts.

After Yu Rong and the others departed, Bai Yujun restored Snake Valley’s damaged habitat and guarded it until the miasma and wildlife returned. The valley recovered, but the three Fiend Stars still foretold trouble, while Mu Duo struggled to manage Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s losses.

• Yu Rong left Bai Yujun in Snake Valley after giving her treasures, scriptures, and cultivation guidance, and warned the Western Teachings before departing.
• Bai Yujun found Snake Valley devastated by Blazing Fire and decided to restore its swamp and miasma without asking anyone for help.
• Bai Yujun drove away raptors, used beast carcasses and her shed scales to protect the valley, and killed lesser demons that entered to feed.
• Over several months, Bai Yujun summoned wind and rain, and Snake Valley’s miasma, forests, birds, and beasts gradually recovered as her cultivation improved.
• Bai Yujun reflected on the three Fiend Stars and the damage to the Nine Li White Tribe villages, then returned to her Bamboo House to sleep.
• Mu Duo continued managing Cloud Remote Ancient Village while its chieftain recovered and the old priest grieved, then sat awake alone by the moonlight.

Bai Yujun visited Cloud Remote Ancient Village, cheered its struggling people, and learned that Black Rock Ancient Village’s young chieftain was pressuring Mu Duo to marry him. Mu Duo said she would accept the marriage if it was necessary to protect her village, and Bai Yujun rejected the idea.

• Bai Yujun passed over the rice terraces, and the mountain folk welcomed the sight of their sacred beast as an auspicious sign.
• Bai Yujun flew into Cloud Remote Ancient Village to lift the villagers’ spirits and met Mu Duo, who said the chieftain was recovering.
• Cai'er told Bai Yujun that Black Rock Ancient Village’s young chieftain had threatened to occupy the village unless Mu Duo married him.
• Mu Duo explained that Black Rock Ancient Village’s sacred beast was a peacock, and Bai Yujun vowed to punish the young chieftain if he returned.
• Mu Duo said she would marry him if there was no other way, and Bai Yujun insisted that it could not happen.