Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun sold oil-paper umbrellas at a roadside stall, concealing their protective formations behind an ordinary appearance. After a group of cultivators ignored her warning and were drenched by rain that bypassed their spells, their master bought five umbrellas and left, recognizing her power.

• Bai Yujun sold an oil-paper umbrella to a scholar for one tael of silver, though its painted formation offered powerful protection.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator and his four disciples stopped at the tea house, and Bai Yujun recognized their master as a Pseudo Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Bai Yujun warned the group to buy umbrellas because rain was coming, but one disciple insulted her and the group departed without buying any.
• Rain fell and passed through the cultivators' spells, while Bai Yujun and her umbrellas remained dry.
• The master returned, paid ten taels for five umbrellas, and thanked Bai Yujun for sparing their lives; she returned five taels in change and told them to forget what happened.

Bai Yujun prepared to confront four Golden Core experts who were pursuing the General Star, donning the heavy armor she had spent years crafting. She challenged the four brothers on a mountain, intent on fighting them without revealing her identity.

• Bai Yujun packed up her stall and continued avoiding investigators without exposing her saber or true form.
• Bai Yujun heard that cultivators searching for the General Star had caused mortal deaths and waited for a chance to mislead them.
• Bai Yujun sensed four Golden Core experts flying toward Woniu Village and left her stall to intercept them.
• The four brothers, famed for their coordinated combat, flew toward Woniu Village to investigate the General Star.
• Bai Yujun put on her custom armor, strapped Hengdao across her back, and blocked the brothers on a mountaintop.
• Bai Yujun told the four brothers she wanted to beat them to death or be beaten to death by them.

Bai Yujun fought four Golden Core quadruplets who coordinated their attacks with a formation, using her strength, weapons, and poisonous tactics to hold them off. As the battle continued, the brothers combined their flying swords and split off two to attack her during her clash with the giant blade.

• The four brothers formed a formation and attacked Bai Yujun with their flying swords, but she charged them with Crane Returning Fall and scattered them with the impact.
• Bai Yujun blocked the brothers’ spells while descending through the air, then hurled a boulder and a venom-coated tree at them to disrupt their formation.
• Bai Yujun used Wind Blades and Spirit Shock Crossing to wound one brother and damage his magic treasure before both sides retreated briefly.
• The brothers formed their array again and attacked together, while Bai Yujun met their flying swords with her heavy blade and struck back with a long blade of spiritual power.
• The brothers combined their four swords into a giant flying sword, and as Bai Yujun met it with Spirit Shock Crossing, two swords broke away to attack her.

Bai Yujun defeated four Rogue Cultivators but let them escape, then extinguished the fire they started. After deciding that Woniu Village was no longer a useful place to hide, she packed up and left, telling Zhang Wan to forget her.

• Bai Yujun used her armor and weapons to fight the four brothers, shattering their flying swords and injuring them despite the force of their Nine Chapters of Law seal.
• Bai Yujun summoned three spiritual Hengdao and exploded them among the brothers, then struck the injured Second Brother while the others fled with him using jade talismans.
• Bai Yujun evaded the jade talismans' fire techniques and used a water snake to extinguish the burning mountain.
• Bai Yujun returned to her stall, packed her belongings, and told the old shopkeeper she was moving elsewhere.
• Bai Yujun appeared before Zhang Wan, told her that Zhang Qi would rise to great heights and that she must forget Bai Yujun, then vanished.
• Bai Yujun left Woniu Village on foot, wearing a bamboo hat and carrying her bundle.

Bai Yujun set up an umbrella stall outside the county town, then followed a group of noble youths to Mirror Lake to sell her stock. She made the weather turn rainy and forced their servants to buy umbrellas by drawing her Hengdao.

• Bai Yujun tossed three thugs into the grass, set up her stall outside the city gate, and used mist to keep dust off the road.
• After few people bought her umbrellas, Bai Yujun asked a fisherman where the noble youths were headed and learned they were visiting Mirror Lake.
• Bai Yujun packed up her stall and followed the wealthy procession to Mirror Lake, where she laid out her umbrellas for sale.
• Bai Yujun summoned thunder and clouds until the noble youths and their servants needed umbrellas.
• When servants argued over the price, Bai Yujun drew Hengdao, and the guards urged them to buy the umbrellas quickly.

Bai Yujun sensed the Anti-Dragon threatening the Li Tang Imperial Family and traveled toward Jiangnan, gathering Earth Vein Dragon Qi to kill it. Meanwhile, the Zhao clan sent Zhao Yude to Luoyang to prepare for the rise of a new dynasty.

• Bai Yujun sensed the Anti-Dragon attacking the Li Tang Imperial Family’s dragon qi from Jiangnan and set out to confront it herself.
• Bai Yujun gathered Earth Vein Dragon Qi as she traveled, summoning a moving raincloud and tempering herself with each step.
• A band of mountain bandits attacked Bai Yujun, but her uncontrolled aura killed them before she passed by.
• The Zhao Clan Chieftain told his grandson Zhao Yude to go to Luoyang and conceal his Jiangnan origins.
• Zhao Yude left the Zhao residence the next day and rode toward Luoyang.

Bai Yujun traveled through the rain toward the Anti-Dragon and encountered Zhao Yude at a hillside tea stall. She stripped away the dragon qi bestowed on him and warned him that pursuing power would destroy his household, then continued on as the Zhao Clan Chieftain mobilized to protect the clan’s dragon vein.

• Zhao Yude stopped at a hillside tea stall, where he and his guards waited out the rain.
• Bai Yujun approached through the rain, and Zhao Yude and a snake catcher sensed the danger she carried.
• The Zhao Clan Chieftain dreamed that a white figure threatened the clan’s dragon vein, then awoke and ordered the estate, authorities, and troops to prepare for an attack.
• Bai Yujun warned Zhao Yude to accept an ordinary life or bring ruin upon his household, and her serpent aura devoured the dragon qi he had received from the dragon vein.
• Bai Yujun continued along the road, while the terrified snake catcher’s snakes escaped from their basket and he kowtowed to her.

An old master repaid his debt to the Zhao family by trying to stop Bai Yujun from disrupting the grand trend of heaven and earth. He met her in the mountains, where she agreed to settle their disagreement with a contest.

• The Zhao Clan Chieftain begged a hemp-clad old man to save the Zhao family, and the old man agreed to repay his debt to the clan.
• The old man left Zhao Manor and used a bamboo ruler to alter the mountains’ momentum before building a Thatched Hut in the wilderness.
• Half a month later, Bai Yujun found the old man and tried to sell him an oil-paper umbrella.
• The old man recognized Bai Yujun as the one acting against the Zhao family and warned her that defying heaven’s grand trend could bring annihilation.
• Bai Yujun said she had found a thread of life and could exploit loopholes in the rules, then agreed to the old man’s proposal for a contest.

Bai Yujun battled a feng shui master protecting the Zhao Household, then defeated him by using her mastery of dragon veins and learned his methods along the way. She left unharmed, and the dying old man recognized her as the legendary true dragon before passing away.

• The old man used a deadly feng shui formation against Bai Yujun, while she studied his techniques and countered them with her control over dragon veins.
• Bai Yujun turned the defense into a full-scale offense and told the exhausted old man that he was no match for her.
• The old man said he would die defending the Zhao Household because he owed a debt of gratitude, but Bai Yujun returned the gathered earth-vein qi and prepared to leave.
• Bai Yujun revealed her snake pupils and fangs, and the old man recognized her as the true dragon before dying.
• Passersby found the old man's body and buried him in the mountains.

Bai Yujun advanced on the Zhao Household while her Earth Vein Dragon Qi snake devoured the Anti-Dragon’s energy and weakened the Zhao clan. After forcing the Anti-Dragon back into its underground acupoint, she reached the manor and offered the chieftain an umbrella.

• A scholar recognized the struggle between dragon veins, while Bai Yujun’s giant snake began devouring the Anti-Dragon’s energy and strengthening her.
• As the Anti-Dragon weakened, the Zhao clan’s businesses, officials, and health began to decline, and Bai Yujun drove off a hidden watcher with her Hengdao.
• Three days later, Bai Yujun reached the Zhao family’s farmland and pressed the resisting Anti-Dragon back into its dragon vein, accidentally killing two guards with the pressure she released.
• The Zhao Clan Chieftain gathered his people at the main gate as Bai Yujun arrived and offered to sell him an oil-paper umbrella for one tael of silver.

Bai Yujun burrowed beneath Zhao Manor and found an underground Anti-Dragon, whose earth energy she began devouring as it fought back. The imperial dragon energy from Chang'an joined her against it, while earthquakes and strange phenomena spread across the Tang Empire.

• The old Zhao clan chief knocked Bai Yujun’s umbrella into the mud, and she picked it up before entering Zhao Manor.
• Bai Yujun vanished from the Zhao family’s sight and used Blade Light to burrow underground, evading those searching for her.
• After digging deep into an underground hollow, Bai Yujun transformed into a White Snake and began devouring the Anti-Dragon’s earth energy.
• The Anti-Dragon’s struggle triggered an earthquake, and Bai Yujun joined forces with the imperial dragon energy from Chang'an to suppress it.
• People fled Zhao Manor as cultivators gathered at a distance, while strange phenomena spread across the Tang Empire.
• On Mount Hua, Li Xiangling thanked Senior Sister Bai for undertaking the dangerous task of slaying the Anti-Dragon and regulating the dragon veins.

Bai Yujun devoured the Anti-Dragon and found a crystal dragon vein where she began hibernating to complete her cultivation. Meanwhile, the Zhao clan fell and the young emperor revealed his obsession with capturing and eating Bai Yujun, prompting Li Xiangling to strike him.

• Bai Yujun swallowed the Anti-Dragon and continued deeper into the cavern.
• Bai Yujun discovered a vast crystal mine along a dragon vein and settled on a natural crystal dragon head to cultivate.
• The Zhao clan's army surrendered, its descendants were killed or driven off, and the court seized property across Jiangnan.
• Li Xiangling urged the young emperor to scatter the Li clan before the coming calamity, but he insisted they capture and eat Bai Yujun to secure the dynasty forever.
• The young emperor called Li Chongqian an idiot for letting the true dragon escape and asked Li Xiangling to help capture Bai Yujun.
• Li Xiangling slapped the young emperor twice and declared that she could kill him and strip him of everything as his ancestor.

Li Xiangling confronted the emperor after discovering he had allied with the Demon Sect to seek immortality, then left for Mount Hua as her cultivation advanced. Meanwhile, the court prepared to capture the snake demon, but Bai Yujun awoke underground after evolving and began eating stored food.

• The emperor admitted he had cooperated with the Demon Sect because he feared death and wanted immortality.
• Li Xiangling condemned the emperor for betraying the Tang Empire, severed her ties to the mortal world, and flew toward Mount Hua as her stagnant cultivation loosened.
• More than thirty thousand troops and cultivators surrounded the Zhao Manor and prepared nets, formations, and ballistae to capture the snake demon.
• Bai Yujun awoke underground after her body consumed much of its stored nutrition during evolution and transformed into human form.
• Bai Yujun retrieved cured meat and dried fish from her storage bag and happily ate while her body digested the food.

After escaping the underground leyline, Bai Yujun emerged into the army waiting to capture her, stole food, and poisoned its water before leaving. She watched from a distant hillside as the soldiers continued guarding the site, then departed.

• Bai Yujun found a narrow opening in the crystal wall, dislocated her bones to squeeze through, and dug her way toward the surface.
• Bai Yujun emerged from the ground in the army camp, killing an Imperial Supervisor as she climbed out, then learned from a young scholar that the government army had razed Zhao Manor to capture a demon snake.
• Bai Yujun sensed demonic cultivators among the troops and decided not to confront them, then stole and devoured chickens, ducks, and cured meat from their supply warehouse.
• Bai Yujun put a small drop of venom into the army’s water supply, making the soldiers and laborers likely to suffer vomiting and diarrhea.
• Bai Yujun watched the army from a distant hillside, mocked its efforts to capture her, and left wearing her bamboo hat.

Bai Yujun visited an abandoned village’s black market to sell stolen goods and buy medicinal herbs for her possible transformation into a flood dragon. After a successful day of trading, she stayed overnight in a tree near the market.

• Bai Yujun disguised herself and followed two cultivators through an abandoned village to enter its black market.
• Bai Yujun inspected the stalls, found no valuable divine artifact, and set up her own stall to trade low-grade treasures for spirit herbs.
• At Zhao Manor, Demonic Cultivators mistook an earthworm emerging from the soil for the great snake trying to escape.
• Bai Yujun sold many Demonic Cultivator artifacts and gathered herbs to strengthen her body and replenish Qi and Blood.
• Bai Yujun counted her herbs, worried that her transformation might fail without enough nourishment, and went to sleep in a tree.

Bai Yujun eavesdropped on two Demonic Cultivators and learned that their sect was searching for her while urgently demanding tribute offerings from Hongcheng City's Aristocratic Clans. She tracked one of them to a town and found signs of a hidden underground space, then infiltrated the courtyard after he left.

• Bai Yujun used vibrations carried by a spider’s silk to overhear two Golden Core Stage Demonic Cultivators discussing the search for her and the sect’s overdue tribute offerings.
• Bai Yujun followed an Altar Master from the black market by tracking his scent and heat from a distance.
• Bai Yujun followed the Altar Master to a small town and swam through a stream to conceal her aura as she approached his destination.
• Bai Yujun detected unusually warm ground inside a wealthy landowner’s courtyard and suspected there was an active underground space beneath it.
• After the Golden Core Cultivator flew away at midnight, Bai Yujun slipped over the courtyard wall to investigate the remaining Demonic Cultivators.

Bai Yujun uncovered a Demonic Cultivator den holding children and young women as tributes, then alerted Chunyang Palace rather than exposing herself. Chunyang disciples destroyed the den and rescued the prisoners, while Bai Yujun plundered wealth and stayed to enjoy the townspeople’s free porridge.

• Bai Yujun secretly followed a Demonic Cultivator into an underground dungeon and discovered dozens of imprisoned children and young women.
• Bai Yujun left the dungeon, wrestled with whether to intervene, and decided to report the atrocity to Chunyang Palace.
• Bai Yujun brought four senior disciples back to the town, where they killed the Demonic Cultivators and rescued the captives.
• The senior disciples reported the crime to the sect as townspeople cared for the rescued children and helped reunite them with their families.
• Bai Yujun plundered wealth, changed into her Chunyang Daoist Robe, and joined the townspeople for free porridge.

As Chunyang withdrew its disciples from their outposts and retreated to Shenhua Mountain, Bai Yujun grappled with the end of the sect’s long role in the world. The returning disciples gathered at the mountain gate, where Yu Rong hoped Bai Yujun’s future evolution would someday restore Chunyang Palace’s fortune.

• Qin Shuang told Bai Yujun that Chunyang planned to abandon its outposts and return to Shenhua Mountain as the Western Teachings rose.
• Bai Yujun decided not to return with the sect, partly because she preferred life outside the mountain and needed food and money.
• A Spiritual Energy Sword delivered the order for the four Chunyang disciples to return, and Bai Yujun watched them fly away before leaving town.
• Chunyang disciples from across the Central Plains streamed back to Shenhua Mountain as the sect’s withdrawal became clear to cultivators everywhere.
• Yu Rong and the others watched the disciples return and hoped that Bai Yujun’s progress toward becoming a dragon would one day bring Chunyang Palace renewed fortune.

Bai Yujun opened an assassin stall to earn money and accepted a job from Du Ding to kill his elder brother, Du Yuan. After Du Yuan died, Du Ding begged her not to kill him, and she told him to spread the word about her services.

• Unable to sell umbrellas amid the city’s chaos, Bai Yujun decided to become an assassin and set up a stall advertising her services.
• Du Ding joked that he wanted his elder brother, Du Yuan, killed and gave Bai Yujun a tael of silver; she accepted the job.
• Bai Yujun went to Du Yuan’s mansion that night and assassinated him.
• The next morning, Du Ding learned that Du Yuan was dead and became the sole heir to the family fortune.
• Du Ding knelt before Bai Yujun and offered his silver, but she returned it and asked him to spread the word about her assassination business.

Bai Yujun went to Dangyun Mountain to confront the Demonic Sect and follow its child-trafficking operation to its hidden lair. When Hui Xian and Little Stone disrupted the exchange, a concealed cobra killed the Demonic Cultivator Wei Xiong, leaving Bai Yujun's plan in jeopardy.

• Du Ding told Bai Yujun that the Demonic Sect had ordered Hongcheng City's clans to deliver children to Dangyun Mountain, and she warned him they could not refuse.
• Bai Yujun went to Dangyun Mountain to track the Demonic Cultivators and find their true hideout.
• The clans' carts arrived with kidnapped children, and Demonic Cultivators exchanged gold with the clan stewards.
• Hui Xian and Little Stone confronted the traffickers, disrupting Bai Yujun's plan to follow them.
• As Wei Xiong raised his saber against the monks, a concealed cobra killed him, and Hui Xian thanked the unseen benefactor.