Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun protected Zhang Wan from the Wang brothers, exposed their attempt to poison her, and kept her safe as the household collapsed into conflict after Old Landlord Wang died. Seven or eight days later, Eldest Sister Wang arrived and ordered Bai Yujun to leave the Wang estate.

• Bai Yujun exposed the abortifacient meant for Zhang Wan and accused the four Wang brothers of killing Wang Jufu, provoking Old Landlord Wang's fury.
• Old Landlord Wang died during the ensuing uproar, and Bai Yujun drove off the four brothers and their armed servants when they attacked Zhang Wan's courtyard.
• The brothers and their wives fought over the inheritance while Bai Yujun gathered supplies and cared for Zhang Wan.
• Eldest Sister Wang returned to the estate, reprimanded her brothers, and demanded that Bai Yujun leave the Wang Household.

Bai Yujun drove Eldest Sister Wang away and moved Zhang Wan out of the Wang household after Old Landlord Wang’s death. Five days later, two cultivators hired by the prefect’s wife arrived in Wang Family Village, and Bai Yujun found them disappointing.

• Bai Yujun cursed at Eldest Sister Wang and restrained her guards with water snakes when they attacked.
• Eldest Sister Wang left to arrange Old Landlord Wang’s funeral and sent a letter asking cultivators from the Prefecture City to intervene.
• Bai Yujun accompanied Zhang Wan to honor Old Landlord Wang, then rented a house and hired servants so Zhang Wan could move out of the Wang household.
• Bai Yujun warned the Wang family not to spread rumors about Zhang Wan, and Zhang Wan’s parents visited before her father severed ties with the Wang siblings.
• On the fifth day after the move, two Late Qi Refining Stage cultivators arrived in the village, and Bai Yujun watched them approach.

Bai Yujun made an oil-paper umbrella while two Qi Refining Stage cultivators repaired the gate they had broken. She continued protecting and nourishing Zhang Wan as the pregnant woman grew healthier, while Zhang Wan remained unaware of the larger matter surrounding her child.

• Two Qi Refining Stage cultivators smashed Bai Yujun's gate, but her aura frightened them into rebuilding it under her orders.
• Bai Yujun crafted an oil-paper umbrella, coating it with tung oil and later painting a landscape on it.
• The cultivators left and smashed the Wang household's gate, after which the Wang family sent chickens, ducks, and half a pig to Zhang Wan.
• Bai Yujun decided to wait before using the earth veins to help Zhang Wan, since her first attempt had made Zhang Wan feel unwell.
• Bai Yujun nourished Zhang Wan with spiritual energy, and Zhang Wan's mood and appearance improved as her pregnancy progressed.

As the General Star’s impending birth attracted powerful factions, Bai Yujun prepared to protect Zhang Wan and the child by strengthening her surroundings and harnessing the Hualing River. She broke through a mountain pass, diverting river water into a lake near Wang Family Village, and left the villagers facing the sight of a giant snake.

• Bai Yujun warned Zhang Wan that danger was coming because her child was attracting attention, then prepared for a fight during the rainy season.
• Bai Yujun redirected the surrounding earth veins to strengthen herself and conceal the courtyard, then decided to use the Hualing River to create a lake near Wang Family Village.
• Bai Yujun plunged into the Hualing River and repeatedly battered the weak mountain pass with waves and her tail, terrifying people along both banks.
• The mountain pass collapsed, sending river water and mud into the lowlands and flooding fields seized by Landlord Wang’s four sons from Widow Ma.
• The four sons fled to higher ground and saw Bai Yujun emerge from the pass as river water filled the low ground and formed a lake before Wang Family Village.

Bai Yujun’s diverted River Water expanded the pond into a lake that flooded the Wang family estate, while Hui Xian was pressured into going to subdue the supposed giant snake demon. After realizing Bai Yujun was likely the demon in question, Hui Xian hurried toward the village anyway, pretending to be eager to help.

• Bai Yujun assured Zhang Wan and Mother Zhang that the growing lake would not flood their village, though it would inundate the Wang family’s main hall.
• The Wang family’s four brothers watched their estate flood and decided to seek Hui Xian’s help in subduing the snake demon.
• A fallen temple gate pinned the eldest Wang brother when he knocked, and the Wang brothers then demanded compensation from Hui Xian.
• The Wang brothers forced Hui Xian and Little Stone to accompany them, and Hui Xian recognized Bai Yujun as the likely giant snake demon when they passed her home.
• Hui Xian hurried toward the village with Little Stone, claiming they needed to reach the demon before it escaped.

Bai Yujun waited by the lake for a hostile visitor seeking the General Star, while Huixian and Little Stone continued pretending to subdue the local demon. When a powerful Arhat Monk arrived and attacked her, Bai Yujun met his fist with her own.

• Huixian told Little Stone they would remain by the lake for several more days to reassure the villagers, while a fortune-teller entered Wang Family Village to investigate its strange earth veins.
• Bai Yujun dismissed the fortune-teller and watched the villagers begin plans to raise fish in the flooded lake.
• As rain fell, Bai Yujun waited beneath an oil-paper umbrella for an ill-intentioned visitor she sensed coming from the east.
• The Arhat Monk arrived carrying a Crescent Spade and demanded to know why Bai Yujun blocked the road; she told him to leave because the area was where she cultivated.
• The Arhat Monk declared he would subjugate her and charged, and Bai Yujun drew her Hengdao before meeting his fist with her scaled hand.

Bai Yujun defeated the Arhat Monk but let him leave so word of a demon in Wang Family Village would keep seekers of the General Star away. After the village returned to calm, Hui Xian and Little Stone departed with gifts from the grateful villagers, and Hui Xian told his disciple to run.

• Bai Yujun used water spells and fierce attacks to overpower the Arhat Monk, then spared him and told him to leave.
• The Arhat Monk spread word that a demon lived in Wang Family Village, while local officials decided not to confront a Demon Core Stage beast that had harmed no one.
• Bai Yujun returned to Zhang Wan's home and told Mother Zhang she was not yet a fairy.
• The villagers thanked Hui Xian for supposedly subduing the demon and gave him and Little Stone food as gifts.
• Hui Xian and Little Stone left the village, and after checking behind them, Hui Xian told his disciple to run.

Horse bandits raided Wang Family Village, where Bai Yujun defeated their leader and took gold to pay for a broken gate. The bandits fled to Bamboo Spring Temple, where the leader died in an accident and a venomous cobra drove the others away.

• More than a dozen horse bandits rode into Wang Family Village and attacked its villagers.
• Two bandits rushed into Bai Yujun’s courtyard, but she sent them flying and demanded payment for the gate they broke.
• The bald leader attacked Bai Yujun, but she caught his saber, shattered it, struck him, and took the gold from his purse.
• The bandits fled to Bamboo Spring Temple, where the leader was crushed by a fallen gate and died when the broken blade in his chest was driven deeper.
• A cobra bit one of the bandits, and the survivors fled while Old Monk Huixian lamented that the temple gate needed repairs.

Bai Yujun concealed Zhang Wan’s pregnancy and guarded her from evil and demonic cultivators drawn to the unborn child’s General Star aura. After killing two attackers, she told Zhang Wan that her fate was extraordinary and promised to protect her as best she could.

• Zhang Wan watched the rain stop after she sighed, and Bai Yujun later let it begin again at noon.
• Bai Yujun spent two months hiding the General Star aura and drew potential enemies toward the lake to keep them away from Zhang Wan.
• Bai Yujun killed a Qi Refining Stage evil cultivator with a Water Blade while fishing.
• Bai Yujun defeated and killed a Golden Core Stage demonic cultivator at the lake, then buried his body and returned to fishing.
• Zhang Wan asked Bai Yujun why she was being targeted and whether Bai Yujun would protect her, and Bai Yujun said her fate was extraordinary and promised to do her best.

Li Xiangling returned to Daming Palace after more than two centuries to help the declining Li Tang dynasty amid signs of a great calamity. She found the young Emperor Renwu surrounded by powerful courtiers and challenged those who had taken control of the court.

• Li Xiangling entered Daming Palace and saw signs of the dynasty’s decline.
• Li Xiangling retrieved a golden hairpin hidden in a flowerbed and remembered her mother.
• Li Xiangling entered the Imperial Study and realized that Emperor Renwu’s authority had been hollowed out.
• Li Xiangling rebuked Minister of State Luo for speaking before the emperor and ordered him out.
• Li Xiangling challenged the Old Eunuch for interfering in state affairs.

Li Xiangling confronted the regents, asserted the imperial family’s authority, and left with Emperor Renwu Li Ziyu on better footing. Meanwhile, Bai Yujun guarded Zhang Wan in Wang Family Village as more cultivators arrived, leaving her exhausted and worried about the threats to come.

• Li Xiangling rebuked the regents and Empress Dowager for mistreating Li Ziyu, threatening their clans if the emperor came to harm.
• Li Xiangling revealed that the white dragon who had broken out of True Dragon Hall was her senior sister, then took Li Ziyu to the imperial garden.
• Li Xiangling set out south with several fellow disciples to find the General Star and assist the Li Tang Imperial Family.
• Bai Yujun killed a wounded Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator who had come to Wang Family Village, then took his valuables and left his body to the crows.
• Bai Yujun returned to the courtyard and fell asleep while Zhang Wan worried about the danger to her unborn child and Bai Yujun’s mission.

Bai Yujun sensed a Demon Subjugation Sect disciple approaching Wang Family Village and challenged Ye Ying and her giant tiger, Wind Tiger, in battle. After exchanging devastating blows with the tiger, Bai Yujun formed an enormous spiritual-energy blade and prepared to strike again.

• Bai Yujun used lightning and disrupted earth veins to conceal the connection between the General Star and Zhang Wan's unborn child.
• Ye Ying rode Wind Tiger toward Wang Family Village after hearing that a great demon had attacked Demon Subjugation Sect disciples.
• Bai Yujun spotted Ye Ying and Wind Tiger, released her mid-Demon Core Stage aura, and confronted them over the lake.
• Ye Ying ordered Wind Tiger to capture Bai Yujun, and the tiger charged her through the air.
• Bai Yujun canceled Wind Tiger's wind arts, summoned a giant water snake, and clashed with him above the lake.
• Bai Yujun and Wind Tiger wounded each other, then she merged more than a dozen spiritual-energy blades into a giant blade and swung it at him.

Bai Yujun overwhelmed Ye Ying and Wind Tiger with her control of wind, rain, and water, then trapped the tiger beneath a massive Taiji Diagram. She discovered that Wind Tiger was enslaved and begged to die, leaving her to decide whether to grant its plea.

• Bai Yujun struck Wind Tiger with a greatsword, wounding it and sending it crashing into the lake.
• Bai Yujun attacked Ye Ying while using the lake water to restrain Wind Tiger, and Ye Ying fled after being injured.
• Bai Yujun formed a huge Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram that blocked Wind Tiger's attack and pressed it beneath the water.
• Bai Yujun realized the subdued Wind Tiger was controlled by drugs and curses and offered to spare it if it could leave the Demon Subjugation Sect.
• Wind Tiger pleaded with Bai Yujun to kill it, saying it wanted to return to the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Bai Yujun killed Wind Tiger and returned to Wang Family Village, where she worried about the danger of the Demon Subjugation Sect sending reinforcements. When malicious spirits attacked the village that night, she destroyed them with rain charged with killing intent.

• Bai Yujun used Hengdao to pierce Wind Tiger's skull, then sank his corpse into the lake.
• Bai Yujun meditated by the lake as her cultivation improved slightly, then returned to the village without catching any fish.
• Bai Yujun ate dinner with Zhang Wan and the others, worried that the escaped Demon Subjugation Sect disciple would bring stronger reinforcements.
• Bai Yujun left the courtyard at night and destroyed wicked entities around Wang Family Village with Water Blades.
• An evil cultivator sent over a hundred malicious spirits and fierce ghosts toward the village, and Bai Yujun dispersed them with her deadly rain.

Bai Yujun struggled to protect Wang Family Village while injured, then fought a Demonic Beast in her true form as Zhang Wan discovered she was a White Snake. After defeating it, Bai Yujun returned to fishing, still concealing how well she had recovered.

• Zhang Wan and the other women ate while Bai Yujun returned wounded and went to rest, worrying that she might not be able to protect them until Zhang Wan gave birth.
• Bai Yujun recalled killing three Golden Core Stage cultivators and a Demonic Cultivator, but her injury had weakened her concealment over Wang Family Village and drawn attention from distant experts.
• Zhang Wan watched Bai Yujun return repeatedly with wounds and gradually noticed signs of her inhuman nature.
• A gigantic Demonic Beast appeared behind Wang Family Village, and Bai Yujun revealed her enormous White Snake form to fight it.
• Bai Yujun wore down the Demonic Beast with spells, crushed it in her coils, poisoned it, and tore into its neck until it died.
• Bai Yujun returned to her usual spot and fished, while privately revealing that she had been pretending to be injured for days.

Bai Yujun gathered storm clouds over Kaihe Township to hide the General Star’s arrival and prepared to protect Zhang Wan as she went into labor. When Zhang Wan’s labor began, Bai Yujun flew into the storm to fight the Demon Subjugation Sect and the other cultivators converging on Wang Family Village.

• Bai Yujun summoned dense clouds over Kaihe Township, concealed the area with Earth Vein Dragon Qi, and prepared a burrow in the Back Mountain bamboo grove.
• Bai Yujun saw that Zhang Wan might give birth within days while cultivators gathered outside Wang Family Village and powerful experts began heading toward the General Star’s aura.
• When Zhang Wan went into labor, Bai Yujun warned the household to surrender if she did not return, then transformed into a gigantic white snake and flew into the storm.
• Bai Yujun sent water snakes against seven Demon Subjugation Sect disciples, killing two of their demonic beasts before the battle widened.
• As cultivators besieged Bai Yujun, she used the storm and Earth Vein Dragon Qi to fight beyond her usual strength while more experts rushed toward Wang Family Village.

As Zhang Wan went into labor, Bai Yujun tried to keep the cultivators searching for the newborn away from the courtyard. She unleashed Thunder Prison from the storm clouds, leaving the invaders beneath a descending wall of lightning.

• Cultivators flocked to Wang Family Village to claim the bounty for finding Zhang Wan’s newborn, while Golden Core and Nascent Soul experts confronted Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun sensed that Zhang Wan was about to give birth and ordered the Chunyang Disciples to retreat, revealing her identity as a Chunyang disciple.
• Bai Yujun flew into the storm’s vortex and summoned Thunder Prison, forcing the black clouds down toward the village.
• Lightning struck cultivators as they fled or tried to attack Bai Yujun, and the descending storm swallowed nearly everyone caught beneath it.

Bai Yujun’s storm devastated Wang Family Village as Zhang Wan gave birth to the General Star, and a mysterious violet-gold radiance appeared around Bai Yujun. She fled with an injured cultivator while pursuers searched for the newborn, then escaped into a hidden underwater cave.

• Li Xiangling and her companions arrived near Wang Family Village as Bai Yujun’s lightning storm killed or wounded many cultivators.
• Bai Yujun saw the General Star appear as Zhang Wan gave birth, then received a brief violet-gold radiance that powerful beings across the world noticed.
• Bai Yujun transformed into a giant snake and fled with an injured cultivator, drawing Nascent Soul Experts away from the village.
• Four Chunyang Palace elders blocked the pursuers long enough for Bai Yujun to escape downstream along Hualing River.
• Bai Yujun dove into deep water, discarded the drowned cultivator, and hid in an underwater stone cave as the rain clouds cleared.

After hibernating through the aftermath of the battle at Wang Family Village, Bai Yujun basked in the sun and learned that the villagers now revered her as a divine dragon. She returned to find Zhang Wan and the infant safe, but was furious that the courtyard and house doors had been destroyed.

• Bai Yujun emerged from her underwater hiding place and warmed herself in the sun before deciding to keep a lower profile.
• People flocked to Wang Family Village to worship the divine dragon, while Zhang Wan cared for her infant amid the ruins.
• Cultivators searched for the General Star's aura but found no trace of it and departed, noting that the village had been purged of sinister forces.
• Bai Yujun returned to the courtyard, reunited with Zhang Wan, and angrily lamented that the gate and house door had been smashed.

Bai Yujun stayed in Wang Family Village to protect Zhang Wan’s son as he grew, making him a wooden door and helping name him Zhang Qi. She secretly accelerated his Earth Vein Dragon Qi nourishment so they could leave the village sooner, while demonic threats and watchful outsiders kept the village unsafe.

• Bai Yujun made and installed a wooden door, accidentally knocking the four Wang brothers down when the unfinished doors fell outward.
• Zhang Wan chose the surname Zhang for her son, and Bai Yujun named the child Zhang Qi.
• Bai Yujun continued serving as Zhang Qi’s Guardian Spirit Beast and fed him Earth Vein Dragon Qi drawn from the village’s earth veins.
• Bai Yujun judged that Zhang Qi needed several years of nourishment before he could safely leave Wang Family Village, which remained vulnerable to demonic cultivators.
• Bai Yujun secretly increased the flow of Earth Vein Dragon Qi to speed Zhang Qi’s growth while outsiders watched the village warily.