Chapter Summaries

After moving Zhang Wan's family to a secluded home, Bai Yujun investigated a private school for Zhang Qi and rejected its teaching. She beat Scholar Dong and decided to educate Zhang Qi herself, using the knowledge she had gained in her previous life.

• Bai Yujun moved Zhang Wan's family after Zhang Qi absorbed the Earth Vein Dragon Qi, then settled them in a remote village by a lake.
• Old Doctor Zhang decided to send Zhang Qi to Scholar Dong's private school, and Bai Yujun went to inspect the teacher and his lessons.
• Bai Yujun judged Scholar Dong's teaching useless for Zhang Qi and planned to teach him herself.
• Scholar Dong insulted Bai Yujun, so she beat him while Zhang Qi's father watched.
• Bai Yujun bought writing supplies and furniture paint, intending to use her knowledge to teach Zhang Qi.

Bai Yujun forged a massive Heavy Straight Saber at a Chunyang outpost and tested its devastating power before returning to Woniu Village. She prepared to teach Zhang Qi, but her family learned she would begin with reading rather than the Four Books and Five Classics.

• Bai Yujun took her rare metals to a Chunyang outpost, where Gold Void disciples helped her forge a thousand-jin Heavy Straight Saber.
• Bai Yujun tested the saber at the martial training ground, smashing a wide crater into the earth with one explosive strike.
• Bai Yujun spent over two months at the outpost before flying back to Woniu Village with daily necessities and forging tools.
• Bai Yujun made a blackboard, chalk, desks, and stools to prepare for Zhang Qi's lessons.
• Bai Yujun told the family she would begin teaching Zhang Qi to read the next day and explained that she would not start him on the Four Books and Five Classics.

Bai Yujun agreed to teach Zhang Qi martial arts and reading, then offered free reading and writing lessons to other village children. The villagers welcomed the chance to learn, and Woniu Village began building a private school.

• Bai Yujun asked Zhang Qi what he wanted to learn, and he chose martial arts over preparing for the Imperial Examination.
• Bai Yujun agreed to teach Zhang Qi martial arts in the morning and reading in the afternoon, and Zhang Qi bowed to become her student.
• Zhang Qi asked if his friends could join, and Bai Yujun offered free lessons and classroom supplies to any children who wanted to learn.
• The old village chief tested Bai Yujun's literacy, heard her recite poems, and knelt to thank her on behalf of Woniu Village.
• The villagers agreed to build a private school, and Woniu Village began gathering materials and constructing it.

Bai Yujun opened Woniu Village Primary School and taught the children basic arithmetic before beginning martial arts training the next day. She left the children exhausted but well fed after an endurance run, while Zhang Qi began to understand how food and physical strength shaped combat ability.

• Bai Yujun opened the village school, insisted that girls attend, and taught the children to count from one to ten.
• Bai Yujun began martial arts lessons at the Threshing Ground and demonstrated the power of her eleven-hundred-jin heavy saber.
• Bai Yujun ordered the children to run to the front mountain and back in formation, promising meat to those who finished.
• Zhang Qi led the children on the run, and Bai Yujun fed them mutton and mutton soup when they returned.
• Zhang Qi realized that a strong material foundation was vital to combat strength.

Bai Yujun taught Zhang Qi practical lessons, the Supreme Ultimate Art, and basic cultivation, preparing him to become a general. Zhang Qi began drawing spiritual energy into his body, while Bai Yujun left his future advanced training to other teachers.

• Bai Yujun praised Zhang Qi's quick progress in arithmetic and began teaching him everyday knowledge.
• When Zhang Qi asked for the world's most powerful skill, Bai Yujun taught him to speak of virtue publicly while using ruthless and underhanded tactics against enemies.
• Zhang Qi eagerly accepted the Supreme Ultimate Art, and Old Doctor Zhang overheard the lesson and broke down in distress.
• Bai Yujun continued the village children's daily exercise and lessons, which the villagers welcomed because the children grew stronger and learned to write.
• At night, Bai Yujun taught Zhang Qi basic cultivation and meditation, and he began drawing spiritual energy to temper his body.

While forging armor at Chunyang outpost, Bai Yujun met Li Xiangling, who asked her to introduce the General Star to the Li Tang court. Bai refused to interfere with his fate but offered to extend the dynasty’s fortune by a few decades, then returned to forging protective gear.

• Bai Yujun flew to Chunyang outpost during the rain to forge armor and encountered Li Xiangling, who had come to find her.
• Li Xiangling asked Bai Yujun to help bring the General Star into the Li Tang court.
• Bai warned that changing the General Star’s destiny could bring retaliation and disaster.
• Li Xiangling accepted that the Li Tang’s fate was difficult to change, and Bai offered to regulate its dragon ley lines to extend its rule by a few decades.
• Bai Yujun went back to the Forging Furnace and began making layered armor from hard metal and resilient inner materials.

Bai Yujun returned to Cloud Remote Ancient Village during the rainy season and reunited with Mu Duo. She ate, joked about her exploits, and adjusted the village’s feng shui while the search for her in the Central Plains continued without success.

• Cultivators failed to find Bai Yujun, and the High Priest of the Nine Li Black Tribe was badly hurt after trying to divine her whereabouts.
• Mu Duo sat by the window in Cloud Remote Ancient Village, listening to villagers play the tune Bai Yujun had taught them and reflecting on her duties as holy maiden.
• Bai Yujun appeared at Mu Duo’s pavilion and said she had returned to check on the village and its waterways.
• Mu Duo told Bai Yujun that Cloud Remote Ancient Village had prospered since she became its sacred beast, and Bai Yujun claimed credit for improving its feng shui.
• Mu Duo asked about Bai Yujun’s battle in Wang Family Village, and Bai Yujun exaggerated her exploits before asking for food.
• Bai Yujun ate a feast and adjusted Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s feng shui.

After leaving Cloud Remote Ancient Village, Bai Yujun traveled through the southern wilderness and rested on Eight-cornered Mountain, where Jiuli herb gatherers mistook her for a divine dragon. She continued to the Green Wood Demon King's territory to resume her weapon-trading business, and the demon beasts celebrated her return.

• Bai Yujun said goodbye to Mu Duo and flew from Cloud Remote Ancient Village toward the southern wilderness.
• Bai Yujun admired Eight-cornered Mountain, climbed to its perilous upturned ridge, and relaxed beneath a shaft of sunlight she summoned.
• Jiuli herb gatherers spotted Bai Yujun flying away in her giant snake form and called her a divine dragon.
• Bai Yujun traveled into the demon beast territories to trade weapons and gather metal for her armor.
• Bai Yujun returned to her wooden house in Green Wood Mountain, and the demon beasts spread word that the White Snake demon was back.

Bai Yujun traveled between demon king territories, forging and repairing weapons in exchange for ore. At her latest stop, she spared a captive human cultivator after he offered to lead her to a demonic sect’s hidden nest.

• Bai Yujun spent three days at Green Wood Mountain trading weapons for ore and heard that the Golden Roc Demon King had been driven away from Wind Thunder Cliff.
• Bai Yujun left Green Wood Mountain and continued her weapon business in another demon king’s territory.
• Two demon beasts escorted a captured Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator past Bai Yujun’s smithy, and he begged her to save him.
• Bai Yujun agreed to bargain for the cultivator’s life, and he offered to show her the demonic sect’s nest he had found.
• Bai Yujun gave the injured cultivator a Healing Pill, closed her smithy, and told him to recover before leading her to the nest.

Bai Yujun followed a captured cultivator to a hidden Demonic Sect mine in a sinkhole and discovered thousands of enslaved miners extracting a rare ore. She left the mine and used Earth Vein Dragon Qi to locate the Sect’s cavern nest, then entered an underground river to approach it unseen.

• Bai Yujun forced the captured cultivator to lead her through hidden fissures to a red tree and a concealed passage.
• Bai Yujun crossed the fissures with the cultivator and found Demonic Cultivators guarding thousands of enslaved miners in a vast sinkhole.
• Bai Yujun observed the miners producing only a small amount of mineral sand and suspected the ore was exceptionally precious.
• Bai Yujun retreated into deeper fissures and used Earth Vein Dragon Qi to locate the Demonic Sect’s cavern nest.
• Bai Yujun reached an underground river and slipped into its current to conceal her approach.

Bai Yujun sneaked through an underground Demonic Sect nest, killed a gravely injured cultivator, and broke into a warehouse to steal Golden Spirit Sand and pills. She left the treasure chests filled with dirt and rocks as a supposed fair exchange.

• Bai Yujun swam through the underground river and waited until an injured perfected Golden Core Stage Demonic Cultivator reached a critical point in healing before startling him into a fatal loss of control.
• Bai Yujun refined the cultivator's phantom, took his valuables, and continued exploring while avoiding a Nascent Soul presence.
• Bai Yujun followed a strong Metal Attribute aura through a narrow rock fissure into the Demonic Sect warehouse.
• Bai Yujun identified the mineral sand as Golden Spirit Sand, took it and the pills, and spat out a pill after tasting blood in it.
• Bai Yujun filled the empty iron chests with dirt and rocks, sealed them, and left the warehouse.

Bai Yujun lured the Green Wood Demon King’s forces to the Heaven Pit, where they wiped out the Demonic Sect’s mine operation, while its Nascent Soul leader escaped after discovering the stolen Golden Spirit Sand. She returned to Snake Valley, left supplies for Qing Ling, and practiced her newly adapted Mountain Dwelling Saber Technique.

• Bai Yujun traded information about the Demonic Sect’s lair to the Green Wood Demon King for spirit peaches, prompting him to lead an army toward the Heaven Pit.
• The Green Wood Demon King’s forces attacked the mine and slaughtered the Demonic Cultivators and miner slaves.
• The Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivator found the storeroom flooded and its chests filled with broken stones, killed two Golden Core subordinates, then fled through a secret passage.
• Bai Yujun thanked Rain Swallow Commander, collected her gains, and returned to Snake Valley to check the snake eggs and leave Qing Ling scriptures, manuals, and a sword.
• Bai Yujun practiced the five moves of her Mountain Dwelling Saber Technique with her heavy saber.

Bai Yujun returned to Snake Valley and reunited with Qing Ling, who had been cultivating in her absence. She warned Qing Ling to stay within the Hundred Thousand Mountains until she was strong enough to face the dangers beyond, and they spent the day resting and talking together.

• Bai Yujun practiced with her heavy saber, ate dried fish, and fell asleep on the hillside for three days and nights as rain diverted around her.
• Bai Yujun woke, saw that Qing Ling had recovered, and flew through the rain to the Bamboo House.
• Bai Yujun praised Qing Ling for reaching the Late Qi Refining Stage and reminded her not to follow an evil path.
• Qing Ling asked Bai Yujun to take her out to play, but Bai Yujun told her to wait until she was stronger and warned her not to leave Cloud Remote Ancient Village's territory before reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Bai Yujun and Qing Ling lounged in the pavilion, chatted about the world, and slept there after nightfall.

Bai Yujun regulated the Southern Wasteland’s rainfall and waterways, then answered a small village’s sacrifice by blessing a pregnant woman and her unborn child. After finishing her work around Cloud Remote Ancient Village, she left the Southern Wasteland and traveled east through rain and rivers.

• Bai Yujun regulated rainfall, mountain springs, and waterways to protect the villages’ terraced fields and crops.
• A small village held a sacrifice to thank the sacred beast, and Bai Yujun came to accept their offerings.
• Bai Yujun noticed a devout pregnant woman and replenished her and her unborn child’s life force.
• The villagers cheered as Bai Yujun departed, and the pregnant woman received a share of the remaining food.
• Bai Yujun finished regulating the fields around Cloud Remote Ancient Village and left the Southern Wasteland, traveling east through rain and rivers.

Bai Yujun watched over Woniu Village as Zhang Qi led a group of children to confront a supposedly haunted grave on Back Mountain. As the children approached the grave with weapons and Zhang Qi’s fake talismans, Bai Yujun waited for the strange presence to emerge and planned to punish Zhang Qi afterward.

• Bai Yujun checked Woniu Village’s water supplies and sent away a raincloud before returning to the Zhang household.
• Bai Yujun learned that Zhang Qi had gone to Back Mountain with the village children and followed them there.
• Zhang Qi rallied the frightened children to investigate an old grave, promising them meat and mutton soup if they followed his orders.
• Sanya advanced with her iron hammer while the children approached the grave, and Zhang Qi showed them yellow papers he claimed were ghost-suppressing talismans taught by Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun watched from a tree as the children neared the grave, expecting something to emerge and resolving to teach Zhang Qi a lesson.

The children of Woniu Village went to the haunted grave under Zhang Qi’s leadership, where they accidentally awakened a zombie. Bai Yujun destroyed the creature with six spiritual Hengdao blades and ordered the children to wash stones that afternoon.

• Zhang Qi led the children to the old grave and slapped several ghost-suppressing talismans onto it.
• The grave cracked open, and Sanya struck the reaching corpse hand with her iron hammer.
• Zhang Qi led the children in retreat as the zombie crawled out and chased them.
• Bai Yujun sent six spiritual Hengdao blades after the zombie and pierced it until it turned to ash.
• Bai Yujun ordered the children to wash stones at the river that afternoon.

Six years after arriving in Woniu Village, Bai Yujun had prepared Zhang Qi to become a capable future general and waited for his next mentor to appear. When a frail old man arrived in a bullock cart, Bai Yujun sent Zhang Qi to provoke him, but Zhang Qi instead beat up his village uncle and fled after sensing the old man’s fearsome aura.

• Bai Yujun spent six years teaching Zhang Qi martial arts and knowledge, and judged that she had laid a solid foundation for him.
• A one-armed man brought a frail old man home to Woniu Village in a bullock cart, and Bai Yujun recognized him as the mentor fate had sent for Zhang Qi.
• Bai Yujun told Zhang Qi to pick a fight with the old man at the village entrance without killing him.
• Zhang Qi recruited Sanya, and the two children beat up Second Uncle from the village entrance instead of the old man.
• The old man and the one-armed man intervened, and Zhang Qi dragged Sanya away after sensing the old man’s formidable aura.
• Bai Yujun realized her plan to make Zhang Qi impress the old man had failed and lamented his disrespect for elders.

Bai Yujun tried to arrange for Zhang Qi to study under the retired Great General Si Tieyou, but he refused to accept the boy. She revealed her true identity and intimidated him, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Zhang Qi sneaked into Bai Yujun's room to search for her armor, but she caught him and sent him to ask Si Tieyou to take him as a disciple.
• Bai Yujun brought Zhang Qi and a basket of eggs to Si Tieyou, who firmly refused to accept another student.
• Bai Yujun appealed to Si Tieyou to teach Zhang Qi, but he rejected her pleas and ordered his one-armed attendant to show her out.
• Bai Yujun sent Si Tieyou's attendant flying through a wall and threatened Si Tieyou when he continued to refuse.
• Bai Yujun manifested the phantom of a white-scaled serpent, and Si Tieyou recognized her as the True Dragon from True Dragon Hall.

After helping Zhang Qi become Si Tieyou’s disciple, Bai Yujun began advancing to the late Demon Core stage in the river and remained submerged for more than ten days. When she returned to Woniu Village to say goodbye, she sensed danger and confronted Si Tieyou about a letter he had sent to an old friend at court.

• Bai Yujun urged Zhang Qi to kneel and become Si Tieyou’s disciple, completing their master-disciple ceremony and earning merit as her cultivation began to rise.
• Bai Yujun plunged into a nearby river to advance, and fisherman Heizi spotted her enormous White Snake form beneath the water.
• Si Tieyou tested Zhang Qi, recognized his talent, and sent a letter to an old friend at court through a one-armed man.
• After more than ten days beneath the river, Bai Yujun gave an elderly fisherman several carp and flew back to Woniu Village to say goodbye.
• Bai Yujun sensed an unfavorable sign, appeared on Si Tieyou’s roof, and asked whether he had contacted the outside world; Si Tieyou admitted that he had sent a letter to an old friend at court.

Bai Yujun learned that Si Tieyou’s letter had attracted attention from the Imperial Court, then intercepted seven assassins sent to investigate in the south. After killing them, she concluded that larger threats were still to come.

• Bai Yujun rebuked Si Tieyou for writing about her abilities and agreed to deal with anyone who came to investigate, though she refused his treasured sword as payment.
• The Imperial Court learned of Si Tieyou’s account and ordered forces stationed in the south to investigate without disturbing the retired general openly.
• Si Tieyou taught Zhang Qi military knowledge in Woniu Village and worried that the coming turmoil would bring suffering to ordinary people.
• Seven masked men rode toward Woniu Village, where Bai Yujun waited by a stream and called them little fish who had already taken the hook.
• The black-clad leader ordered his men to kill Bai Yujun, but she swiftly killed all seven and remarked that bigger fish were behind them.