Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun helped the Rogue Cultivators defeat the Demonic Cultivators who had stolen children, then followed the survivors to their mountain lair. Under cover of rain, she infiltrated the stronghold and killed a Golden Core Stage Demonic Cultivator.

• Bai Yujun prepared to attack, but dozens of Rogue Cultivators charged the Demonic Cultivators and helped the children escape.
• Old Hui Xian accidentally seemed to frighten the attackers, while Bai Yujun secretly killed the Foundation Establishment Realm leaders and other powerful Demonic Cultivators.
• The surviving Demonic Cultivators fled into the mountains, and Bai Yujun followed them to a lair holding many captive children.
• Bai Yujun waited until nightfall, then used rain and darkness to slip into the lair.
• Bai Yujun destroyed a Golden Core Stage Demonic Cultivator's Dantian and killed him before his soul could escape.

Bai Yujun infiltrated a demonic lair and assassinated one Demonic Cultivator before stalking the final target. She launched an attack when footsteps approached, but the target saw through her feint and realized he had been fooled.

• A Demonic Cultivator used the Blood Demon Art to lure civilians into a blood pool, but Bai Yujun ambushed and killed him, saving the survivors.
• Bai Yujun concealed her bodily functions and crawled along the cave ceiling toward the last Demonic Cultivator.
• The final Demonic Cultivator sensed danger and remained still, while Bai Yujun waited for a chance to strike.
• When footsteps sounded outside the chamber, Bai Yujun made a noise overhead and attacked, but the Demonic Cultivator recognized the distraction and saw his subordinate at the entrance.

Bai Yujun killed the last Golden Core Stage Demonic Cultivator in the cave and slaughtered the demon sect disciples throughout the valley. She freed the captives and left for the forest.

• Bai Yujun used her agility and venom to defeat the injured Demonic Cultivator after he activated Heavenly Demon Blood Burning.
• Bai Yujun beheaded the poisoned Demonic Cultivator, then took his storage pouch, weapon, and valuables.
• Bai Yujun left the stone chamber and killed the demon sect disciples guarding the cave and valley.
• Bai Yujun used spiritual Hengdaos to break open the cages and free the captured children, young girls, and other captives.
• Bai Yujun walked through the battlefield and vanished into the forest.

Bai Yujun bought and licked a large block of salt, then shared some with an Ox Demon in exchange for hearing how he gained Spiritual Intelligence and lost the old farmer who cared for him. After hearing his story, she gave him more salt and advised him to leave the city and live quietly in the mountains.

• Bai Yujun ate breakfast at a stall, entered the city, and bought five catties of coarse salt to restore her strength.
• Bai Yujun sat by a wall and licked the salt block, drawing curious looks from passersby.
• An Ox Demon approached, and Bai Yujun shared a piece of salt with him in exchange for his story.
• The Ox Demon told Bai Yujun how an old farmer had cared for him, until tax collectors and a gentryman beat the farmer to death and the Ox Demon killed them in revenge.
• Bai Yujun gave the Ox Demon another piece of salt and told him to leave the city and stay in the remote mountains.
• The Ox Demon accepted her advice, took the salt she gave him, and left.

Bai Yujun reunited with Hui Xian and Little Stone at a teahouse, where she learned that Little Stone was born from a stone womb with a legendary Stone Heart. When fighting broke out at the black market, Bai Yujun set off to make money, while Hui Xian stayed behind, hoping to raise funds to repair Bamboo Spring Temple.

• Bai Yujun met Hui Xian and Little Stone in a teahouse as they took shelter from the rain.
• Little Stone revealed that he and Hui Xian had come down the mountain because Bamboo Spring Temple's gate had collapsed and they needed money to repair it.
• Hui Xian told Bai Yujun that he had found Little Stone inside a boulder and raised him, and that the boy was born with a Stone Heart.
• Bai Yujun sensed the power in Little Stone's heart but chose not to seek any advantage from his unusual birth.
• When battle erupted near the black market, Bai Yujun left to earn money while Hui Xian decided to remain with Little Stone and keep raising repair funds.

Bai Yujun, in black armor, rescued the black market’s Rogue Cultivators by defeating and beheading a Golden Core Demonic Sect cultivator. She returned to the teahouse, where the rain had stopped and a camel caravan arrived in the busy streets.

• Bai Yujun ambushed the Golden Core Demonic Cultivator as his disciples attacked the black market, then killed the fleeing Demonic Sect disciples in the fight.
• Bai Yujun disarmed and brutally beat the Golden Core Demonic Cultivator, then executed him with Hengdao while the surviving Rogue Cultivators watched.
• Bai Yujun spared a young Demonic Sect disciple who pretended to be dead and told him to change careers before leaving with the dead cultivator’s storage bag.
• Bai Yujun returned to the teahouse, cooled the tea with a spell, and drank the entire pot while Old Hui Xian watched.
• After the rain stopped, the streets filled with travelers and a caravan of merchants from the northwestern desert arrived with camel bells.

Si Tieyou left Woniu Village with Zhang Qi to serve amid the turmoil in the Northern Lands. Elsewhere, Bai Yujun, Old Hui Xian, and Little Stone approached a haunted manor and stopped to watch a ghostly opera.

• Si Tieyou told Zhang Qi to prepare to leave for the Northern Lands, and Zhang Qi eagerly went home to tell his family.
• Si Tieyou, Zhang Qi, and a richly dressed old man left Woniu Village the next day as unrest spread across the realm.
• Bai Yujun urged Old Hui Xian to honor their paid ghost-exorcism job and led him and Little Stone toward an abandoned manor.
• Bai Yujun heard gongs and drums in a graveyard and took Old Hui Xian and Little Stone to watch an eerie opera.
• When the Paper Figures stopped singing, Bai Yujun threatened them, and they resumed their performance.

Bai Yujun learned that a Ghost King and an evil cultivator were connected to the haunted manor, then led Hui Xian and the cobra there to confront them. The group entered the manor after Bai Yujun kicked in its gates and was welcomed by a seductive ghost woman.

• Bai Yujun enjoyed a ghost opera and questioned a yellow-haired weasel spirit, who told her that a Ghost King ruled the local ghosts and an evil cultivator had been seen at the manor.
• Bai Yujun decided to take the manor's spoils and set out with Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the cobra to deal with the fierce ghost.
• Hui Xian admitted he was afraid but said he would enter the ghost den to deliver the evil ghosts from suffering.
• Bai Yujun and her companions reached the lavishly lit manor, where music and laughter came from within.
• Bai Yujun kicked open the gates, teased the bewitching woman who answered, and entered the manor with Hui Xian and the cobra.

Bai Yujun and Hui Xian attended a banquet in an evil cultivator’s hall, where they confronted a Ghost King and the cultivator who collected women’s skins. Bai Yujun battered the Ghost King while Hui Xian’s chanting drove off the lesser ghosts, and the fight continued in the hall.

• Bai Yujun saw through the banquet’s alluring women and recognized them as ghosts wearing the skins of murdered girls.
• The evil cultivator arrived with the female Ghost King and declared that he wanted Bai Yujun’s skin for his collection.
• Bai Yujun attacked the Ghost King with Hengdao, then shielded Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the cobra from the ghost’s soul attack.
• Hui Xian began chanting sutras, forcing the lesser Ghostly Entities to flee or writhe in pain.
• A female ghost tried to attack Hui Xian, but the cobra knocked her down and left her Human Skin deflated on the floor.

Bai Yujun fought the evil cultivator’s Infant Fiend in the hall, using her speed, Hengdao, and Chunyang Art to wound and suppress it. As the cultivator hesitated to intervene and the ghost king stayed back, Bai Yujun began forming a seal to destroy the fiend.

• Bai Yujun battered the female ghost with a rapid barrage of punches while Hui Xian’s chanting weakened it.
• The evil cultivator summoned an Infant Fiend from a small black coffin, and Bai Yujun recognized its dense Yin Sha Qi.
• Bai Yujun defended against the Infant Fiend’s relentless attacks, dodged its Black Qi, and cut its neck with the Hengdao.
• Bai Yujun struck the Infant Fiend with a powerful crescent Blade Light that sent it rolling and tore through the hall.
• Bai Yujun kicked the Hengdao toward the Infant Fiend, and the fiend clamped onto the blade as the evil cultivator hesitated to rescue it.
• Bai Yujun began forming a complex seal to destroy the Infant Fiend.

Bai Yujun destroyed the Infant Fiend, Ghost Queen, and evil cultivator in the ghost manor, then left the manor standing so local people could reuse its materials. The forest began to recover, and she and her companions headed down the mountain while chatting about salt and the sea.

• Bai Yujun burned the Infant Fiend to ash with her pure-yang power and killed the Ghost Queen with her roar.
• Bai Yujun crushed the evil cultivator and shattered his soul, then took his storage pouch.
• Hui Xian turned away and chanted scriptures while Bai Yujun dealt with the manor’s enemies, and a little female ghost slipped away.
• Bai Yujun refused to burn the manor, saying local mountain folk could reuse its beams and tiles.
• The group left the recovering forest, and Bai Yujun told Little Stone and Hui Xian how seawater could be dried or boiled into salt.

Bai Yujun’s group struggled to earn money amid growing unrest and decided to switch from selling umbrellas to working as bodyguards. A Little Girl named Lian'er paid Bai Yujun a copper coin to kill the County Magistrate's Son for harming her sister, and Bai Yujun vanished to carry out the job.

• Bai Yujun added a wanted-criminal capture service to the group’s failing umbrella stall as unrest and prices worsened.
• The County Magistrate's Son rode through the market, injuring commoners, while a Little Girl watched him with hatred.
• Bai Yujun learned the rider was the County Magistrate's Son and decided the group should become bodyguards instead of selling umbrellas.
• Lian'er gave Bai Yujun a copper coin and asked her to kill the County Magistrate's Son for harming her sister.
• After Lian'er's sister found her, Bai Yujun accepted the contract and suddenly vanished.

Bai Yujun continued rescuing children from the Demonic Sect while struggling to hold on to her fading humanity and memories. The chapter revealed that the sect had gathered thousands of children for a blood sacrifice, and ended with Bai Yujun waking briefly in the wilderness after sensing that something was wrong.

• Bai Yujun took gold from the County Magistrate's residence, burned it down, and returned his severed head to the girl whose family he had wronged.
• Bai Yujun, Hui Xian, and Little Stone rescued abducted children and traveled through the region, while Bai Yujun sold seized Demonic Sect goods in black markets.
• Hui Xian asked Bai Yujun why she saved children, and she explained that doing good deeds helped her preserve memories of her past and resist her beastly nature.
• Powerful figures failed to find the Demonic Sect's hidden gathering place, while a scholar in Bamboo Sea Village realized the scheme could not be stopped.
• The Demonic Sect sacrificed countless children on a rune-carved altar as Bai Yujun, Hui Xian, and Little Stone slept in a mountain bamboo grove.
• Bai Yujun woke in the night with a vague sense that something bad had happened, then changed position and went back to sleep.

After parting from Hui Xian and Little Stone, Bai Yujun lay low and settled into a quiet life running an umbrella shop in a small city. As heavy rain brought customers to her shop, a wealthy couple came inside and waited for the storm to ease.

• Bai Yujun gave Hui Xian and Little Stone another hundred taels of silver and watched them leave for Bamboo Spring Temple.
• After killing many demonic cultivators and attracting the attention of Nascent Soul old monsters, Bai Yujun parted from her companions and later hibernated in a lake.
• Bai Yujun bought a house in a peaceful city, opened an oil-paper umbrella shop, and began living quietly among its residents.
• Bai Yujun reinforced a bird's nest in her courtyard and prepared umbrellas and bamboo hats when thunder warned of rain.
• A wealthy middle-aged couple entered Bai Yujun's shop during a downpour, bought a blue paper umbrella, and stayed inside to drink tea until the rain eased.

Bai Yujun watched a poor boy get beaten by the Song family for resisting their seizure of his ancestral land, then gave him food and shelter after seeing his extraordinary fate. The next morning, he thanked her and left as she opened her shop for another day.

• Bai Yujun spent a rainy day in her quiet shop with a fat cat, then fell asleep behind the counter.
• Bai Yujun saw the Song family's servants beat a young fish seller who had protested their destruction of his home and ancestral grave.
• Bai Yujun used her fate-reading talent to glimpse the boy's promising future, bought him two flatbreads, and urged him to stay alive and find shelter.
• The boy spent the night beneath Bai Yujun's shop eaves, clutching half a flatbread.
• Bai Yujun opened her shop and prepared an advertising sign, while the boy thanked her and limped away.

Bai Yujun watched a young man named Yu Xiao prepare to take revenge on the Song family, then saw him slaughter the household and set Song Manor ablaze. When the fire threatened nearby homes, Bai Yujun summoned a torrential rain to put it out.

• Bai Yujun ate breakfast outside her shop as a grain convoy left town and witnessed a gambler’s wife weep after he took their money.
• Bai Yujun recognized the dark-skinned youth, who had gained a faint trace of spiritual aura and was scouting Song Manor.
• Bai Yujun played her bamboo flute, then went inside to sleep while the city settled for the night.
• Yu Xiao attacked Song Manor with a pig-slaughtering knife, killed the Song family head and others, and set the estate on fire.
• Bai Yujun went outside as neighbors rushed to fight the blaze, then summoned thunderclouds and rain that extinguished the fire.

Half a month after the Song family was destroyed, Song Wei returned and threatened the townspeople while seeking the killer. Bai Yujun realized that Yu Xiao was hiding in the ruins of Song Manor, and the story left her watching the conflict begin to unfold.

• Bai Yujun continued her shop routine beside the ruins of Song Manor, where Yu Xiao remained missing.
• Song Wei arrived with more than twenty riders, and the townspeople identified him as a Song family cultivator who had reached the complete Qi Refining Stage.
• A fat official apologized for failing to catch the killer, but Song Wei dismissed his dead relatives as burdens and vowed to punish Yu Xiao.
• Song Wei threatened to send the neighboring townspeople to the underworld, then rode away to pursue the killer.
• Bai Yujun realized that Yu Xiao was hiding in plain sight among the ruins of Song Manor.

Bai Yujun spent an unhurried day fishing and pondering her cultivation as her soul adjusted to her growing strength. She returned to the city before the gates closed and ended the day eating pickled cabbage fish in her courtyard.

• Bai Yujun left the city to fish upstream, where she caught many fish and released a fish spirit.
• Bai Yujun reflected on cultivation and her muddled thoughts while fishing through the day.
• Bai Yujun saw martial artists and gang members searching villages and homes for a dark-skinned youth named Yu Xiao.
• Bai Yujun stopped the city gates from closing with one hand and squeezed inside before nightfall.
• Bai Yujun cooked pickled cabbage fish, shared a small fish with the big-faced cat, and ate beneath the flowering tree.

Bai Yujun experimented with combining flute music and her Wind Control Talent as Song Wei threatened to kill the neighbors of the Song family. Her invisible Wind Blades beheaded Song Wei, leaving the neighbors and Yu Xiao stunned as his followers fled.

• Bai Yujun practiced killing flies with a homemade swatter before the street chief summoned the neighbors.
• Song Wei surrounded the neighbors and declared he would kill them because they had failed to save his family.
• Yu Xiao emerged from the Song Manor ruins, claimed responsibility for killing the Song family, and tried to protect the neighbors.
• Song Wei wounded Yu Xiao with his sword and prepared to kill him, but a flute melody interrupted his attack.
• Bai Yujun combined her flute melody with her Wind Control Talent and beheaded Song Wei with an invisible Wind Blade.
• Song Wei's followers fled, the neighbors panicked, and Bai Yujun calmly wiped her bamboo flute.

Over five years, Bai Yujun lived quietly at her shop, watching the people around her age, die, and move on. After mourning the old tabby cat and bidding farewell to Neighbor Granny’s ghost, she considered opening a new business to break the stillness of her life.

• Yu Xiao thanked Bai Yujun for feeding him, while neighbors cursed the dead Song Wei and the Song family ruins were turned into shops.
• Five years passed as Bai Yujun made umbrellas and flutes, and the big-faced tabby cat grew old and frail.
• Bai Yujun followed the cat to some ruins and watched it die peacefully.
• Neighbor Granny died, and Bai Yujun visited her funeral and later spoke to her ghost, urging her to let go and depart.
• Bai Yujun reflected on the lives and deaths she had witnessed and considered opening a business in the entertainment quarter or a gambling house.