Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun left the blacksmith shop and traveled across the mountains to Melt Heaven Ridge to find Earth Fire for forging a shield. After finding only an extinct volcano and nearly overheating while digging for gold, she disguised herself as a peddler and headed to a Barbarian Tribe settlement for help.

• Bai Yujun closed her shop, gathered materials, and set out for Melt Heaven Ridge while demon beasts watched her leave.
• Bai Yujun crossed rivers and mountains, befriended animals by sharing salt, and finally spotted Melt Heaven Ridge in the distance.
• Bai Yujun reached the scorching red-earth region, used the Chunyang Art to endure the heat, and searched its mountains for Earth Fire.
• Bai Yujun climbed an extinct volcano, found gold in its crater, and left when the heat made her blood boil.
• Bai Yujun packed her goods, resumed her peddler disguise, and headed to a Barbarian Tribe settlement to ask for help.

Bai Yujun hid in the Southern Wasteland, terrified and ashamed as the Central Plains fell into a devastating war, and promised herself she would become stronger and braver. After forging a mechanical shield in a lava cave, she sensed the war had likely ended and resolved to prepare for her transformation into a flood dragon.

• Bai Yujun sensed the battle raging in the Central Plains and cowered in a Barbarian Tribe settlement, ashamed that she had fled instead of fighting alongside her friends.
• After packing up her stall, Bai Yujun walked west to escape the danger and promised herself she would someday be brave enough not to retreat.
• Bai Yujun searched Melt Heaven Ridge for lava until her infrared vision revealed a hot cave containing a lava spring.
• Bai Yujun spent more than two months forging a heavy mechanical shield in the cave and left with it folded into an Arm Shield.
• Bai Yujun sensed that the Central Plains' spiritual energy tides had subsided and decided to gather the nutrients needed for her flood-dragon transformation, vowing to become stronger and braver.

Bai Yujun traveled to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and began cultivating in its lake, drawn to the mountain’s powerful dragon vein as she prepared to transform into a Flood Dragon. Fifty years later, Jade Dragon Village invited her to become its sacred beast, and she agreed before returning to her training.

• Bai Yujun left Cloud Remote Ancient Village and traveled to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain after Mu Duo told her of its lake and dragon vein.
• Bai Yujun entered the lake, revealed her true form, and began absorbing Earth Vein Dragon Qi to prepare for her transformation.
• Fifty years later, Mu Duo visited with Jade Dragon Village’s leaders and brought Bai Yujun food to support her cultivation.
• Jade Dragon Village’s leaders asked Bai Yujun to become their sacred beast, and Bai Yujun agreed, promising to regulate their Water Vein when she had time.
• Bai Yujun returned to the lakebed and continued cultivating, determined to become a Flood Dragon before attempting to become a dragon.

After the Central Plains war devastated the land, Bai Yujun attended Jade Dragon Village’s ritual before leaving to hunt evil cultivators and Demonic Cultivators. She returned to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain at dawn, having marked the end of her Demon Core Stage life with a night of slaughter.

• Bai Yujun surfaced from the lake and took part in Jade Dragon Village’s ceremony, then grew bored and ate the offerings.
• Bai Yujun flew to a small kingdom near the Hundred Thousand Mountains, armed herself in black armor, and attacked a Demonic Sect hideout.
• Bai Yujun slaughtered Demonic Sect disciples, evil cultivators, and other demons and fiends throughout the night.
• Bai Yujun encountered and killed a tenacious Demonic Beast, then washed the blood from herself as dawn broke.
• Bai Yujun reflected that the city’s survivors would eventually forget the massacre and flew back to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to resume cultivating.

On the summit of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Bai Yujun prepared to undergo the tribulation that would transform her into a flood dragon, receiving dragon aura from the mountain. As the tribulation began to gather, its upheaval drove birds and beasts from the mountain and alarmed Jade Dragon Village.

• Bai Yujun reflected on her five hundred years of cautious survival and wondered whether she would fear death during her coming transformation.
• She climbed to the summit of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, bowed to its main peak, and received dragon aura from the mountain veins.
• Bai Yujun meditated and recited scriptures to calm herself before the flood-dragon transformation tribulation.
• The clouds darkened, the wind and snow intensified, and Bai Yujun unleashed the full might of her Demon Core Stage Perfected cultivation.
• The villagers of Jade Dragon Village watched birds flee and beasts stampede from the mountain, then contacted Cloud Remote Ancient Village.

Bai Yujun began her flood-dragon transformation on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and endured an intensifying lightning tribulation as her body grew and changed. With many people and beings praying for her, she remained determined to survive, though the ordeal continued.

• Bai Yujun transformed into her true serpent form and began growing the bones of her four claws, drawing support from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain’s dragon qi.
• Bai Yujun endured the first lightning strikes without using treasures, then chose to grow her hind claws before her foreclaws.
• Bai Yujun’s body lengthened as the tribulation intensified, and she endured severe pain while reabsorbing the blood seeping between her scales.
• Yu Rong, Chu Zhe, and the other great powers at Jade Void Palace gathered the sect’s disciples to pray for Bai Yujun’s survival.
• People at Cloud Remote Ancient Village, Jade Dragon Village, and Dragon Girl Temple offered blessings as cultivators, demonic beasts, evil demons, and Jiuli mountain folk gathered near the mountain.
• Bai Yujun glimpsed those praying for her through the Mysterious Heavens and continued enduring the lightning tribulation.

Bai Yujun endured a prolonged, agonizing lightning tribulation as her body transformed into a jiao. After her forelimbs finished growing, she emerged from the pit and declared herself the White Jiao.

• Bai Yujun suffered through the thunderstorm as her hind limbs, body, and head changed, while lightning shattered her scales.
• Bai Yujun hallucinated a ruined, ash-covered world and desperately searched for signs of water and life before returning to the tribulation.
• Bai Yujun endured another day and night of lightning while replenishing her depleted spiritual energy from the rain and wind.
• Bai Yujun's forelimbs grew scales and claws, and she gradually gained control of her new limbs.
• Bai Yujun rose from the deep pit, announced that she was the White Jiao, and roared.

After transforming into a flood dragon, Bai Yujun discovered her new powers and faced hostile onlookers gathered outside Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. She left the chapter feeding to regain her strength after killing a King Cobra and a concealed human assassin.

• Bai Yujun adjusted to her new flood-dragon body as her transformation stirred dragon veins and strange phenomena across the land.
• Bai Yujun felt an instinctive urge to unleash a flood, then noticed powerful humans and demon beasts gathering outside the black clouds.
• The King Cobra attacked Bai Yujun, but she unexpectedly breathed Chunyang flames, killed it, and ate its body.
• Bai Yujun used her True Sight to find and crush a concealed human assassin, then swallowed it to replenish her strength.

After evolving into a flood dragon, Bai Yujun tested her new flight and strengthened talents, escaped Jade Dragon Snow Mountain beneath storm clouds, and headed for the drought-stricken Northern Lands. She brought rain to the region and earned the people’s prayers and merit.

• Bai Yujun discovered that her new claws let her float and move through the air with almost no effort.
• Bai Yujun unleashed black clouds, rain, thunder, and lightning to cover her escape from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, sweeping nearby hostile followers into the storm.
• Bai Yujun flew toward the Central Plains and chose the drought-stricken Northern Lands as a place to bring rain and adapt to her new form.
• Bai Yujun summoned rain over the Northern Lands, where people had endured more than a century of drought and exile.
• The people saw Bai Yujun circling through the clouds, hailed her as the Dragon King, and prayed as rain fell across their land.

Bai Yujun brought rain to drought-stricken lands, but the ancient battlefield resisted her clouds. There, five cultivators encountered a Drought Demon and were saved at the last moment by Chunyang’s Zhuo Feng.

• Bai Yujun summoned rain over drought-stricken regions, and cultivators who tried to capture or kill her perished when she attacked.
• Bai Yujun pushed her rainclouds toward the ancient battlefield, where a strange force resisted them.
• Five cultivators rested in the ruins of Three Bends while guarding against Demonic Beasts.
• The five spotted a powerful monster, retreated, and fled when it pursued them for their blood.
• A flying sword intervened as the Drought Demon nearly caught the five, and Zhuo Feng of Chunyang arrived to save them.

Zhuo Feng fought a Drought Demon alone while waiting for reinforcements, and Bai Yujun arrived in the form of a white flood dragon. She wounded the Demon with a high-speed dive, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Zhuo Feng sent five cultivators away, called for reinforcements, and confronted the Drought Demon with a corpse-suppressing talisman.
• The Drought Demon charged Zhuo Feng, who used Chunyang sword techniques and spells to stall it while the five cultivators watched from hiding.
• Black rain clouds approached, and Bai Yujun appeared in the sky as a white flood dragon.
• Zhuo Feng recognized Bai Yujun as Senior Sister Bai, but nearly let the Drought Demon catch him while distracted.
• Bai Yujun dove at the Drought Demon, failed to bite through its defenses, and tore deep wounds into its waist and abdomen with her claws.

Bai Yujun confronted a Drought Demon, armed herself in black armor, and fought it alongside Zhuo Feng. After her lighter weapons failed to finish it, she struck the Drought Demon with her heavy saber and pressed her attack.

• Bai Yujun transformed into human form, put on her black armor, and armed herself with a shield and Hengdao.
• Bai Yujun charged the Drought Demon while Zhuo Feng supported her with flying swords and spells, and the nearby cultivators fled farther away.
• Bai Yujun struck the Drought Demon's head with her shield and slashed its neck, but her Hengdao could not cut through its bone.
• The Drought Demon kicked Bai Yujun away, and she drew a heavy saber to strike its forehead with Sunset Lake.
• Bai Yujun followed the blow with Crane Returning Fall, leaping at the Drought Demon and smashing down toward it.

Bai Yujun fought the Drought Demon with Zhuo Feng's support, using her armor, weapons, flood dragon abilities, and lightning to overwhelm it. The Drought Demon was badly wounded but still tried to pull the lightning-struck Hengdao from its chest as Bai Yujun attacked again.

• Bai Yujun smashed the Drought Demon with her heavy saber, then switched between the saber and Hengdao to break through its defenses.
• Bai Yujun used her flood dragon roar to summon storm clouds while her Wind Blades and weapon strikes steadily injured the Drought Demon.
• Bai Yujun raked the Drought Demon with Dragon Claw, then dodged its claws and struck it with a rapid barrage of punches.
• Zhuo Feng coordinated with Bai Yujun and sent countless sword lights and flying swords into the wounded Drought Demon.
• Bai Yujun plunged the Hengdao into the Drought Demon's chest as lightning struck the blade, then leaped aside and resumed her assault.
• The Drought Demon endured the attack and desperately tried to pull the lightning-charged Hengdao from its chest.

Bai Yujun and Zhuo Feng destroyed the Drought Demon, ending the drought over Three Bends and bringing rain. They headed to the temporary camp with proof of the monster’s death.

• Bai Yujun and Zhuo Feng attacked the Drought Demon together, and Bai Yujun burned it with white flames.
• Bai Yujun dislocated the Drought Demon’s arms and battered its body while Zhuo Feng put away his golden talisman.
• Bai Yujun tore the Drought Demon’s head and spine from its body, killing it as rain fell and washed away the ashes.
• Bai Yujun noticed the merit light, then agreed to rest at the temporary camp with Zhuo Feng.
• Zhuo Feng collected the Drought Demon’s teeth and fingernails as proof, while five cultivators cheered after witnessing the battle.

After hesitating over her painful history with Chunyang Palace, Bai Yujun returned to Shenhua Mountain after several hundred years. She reunited with Chu Zhe, Yang Mu, Xu Ling, Li Xiangling, and Iron Ball, then paid respects at Qingxu Palace.

• Zhuo Feng escorted Bai Yujun to Shiliting, told her that Peak Master Yu missed her and that Iron Ball was thriving, and bade her farewell.
• Bai Yujun struggled with memories of Chunyang Palace’s past treatment of her but decided she had to return to Shenhua Mountain.
• Bai Yujun reached Mount Hua, changed into a Chunyang Daoist Robe, and climbed the familiar mountain path.
• Chu Zhe, Yang Mu, Xu Ling, Li Xiangling, and Iron Ball welcomed Bai Yujun at the mountain gate, and Chu Zhe told her it was good she had returned.
• Bai Yujun walked with them to Qingxu Palace, remembered her old life there, and offered fresh fruit and incense at the altar.

Bai Yujun spent peaceful days on Shenhua Mountain, drinking tea with Yu Rong, reconnecting with old disciples, and enjoying food and rest. Several days later, she opened a stall beside Taiji Plaza selling goods from the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

• Yu Rong invited Bai Yujun to play the qin in a snowy pavilion, and the music drew Immortal Cranes to circle overhead.
• Bai Yujun collected a new Daoist robe and pills with Xu Ling and Little Ironball, then promised to find Ironball enormous ants to eat.
• Bai Yujun went to the dining hall with Xu Ling and recognized two Nascent Soul cultivators as girls she had recruited into the sect years earlier.
• Bai Yujun ate at the dining hall and secretly ate more than twenty koi on her way back to Qingxu Palace.
• Bai Yujun rested and cultivated on an ancient pine, then set up a stall beside Taiji Plaza selling specialties and attire from the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

After hibernating through winter, Bai Yujun left Qingxu Palace at Qingming to bring rain to drought-stricken regions of the Northern Lands. Yu Rong explained that disaster relief could earn the merit Bai Yujun needed to pursue the difficult path from flood dragon to dragon transformation, and Bai Yujun set out to begin.

• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball slept through winter while Chunyang Palace celebrated New Year's Eve and the seasonal festivals.
• At Qingming, Xu Ling invited Bai Yujun to a spring outing, but Bai Yujun said she had something to do and went to see Yu Rong.
• Bai Yujun told Yu Rong she would descend the mountain to bring rain to the drought-stricken Northern Lands.
• Yu Rong showed Bai Yujun a detailed map, described the suffering caused by drought and war, and explained that disaster relief could earn her merit.
• Yu Rong warned Bai Yujun that flood dragon transformation was exceptionally difficult and required heaven and earth's recognition.
• Bai Yujun declined Iron Ball's offer to accompany her, memorized the map, and left Chunyang Palace to begin her journey.

Bai Yujun gathered an immense mass of rain clouds over the East Sea and dragged them toward drought-stricken lands. After a village girl recognized her as Changbai, Bai Yujun repaid an old granny’s tea by bringing rain to the village and continued onward.

• Bai Yujun reached the East Sea and summoned wind and clouds, gathering rain clouds for three days and nights.
• Bai Yujun struggled to drag the heavy clouds toward the Northern Lands, traveling slowly and letting some rain leak along the way.
• At a Dilapidated Temple, martial arts experts saw Bai Yujun pass beneath the clouds and speculated that she was pulling them along.
• Bai Yujun arrived at a village, asked for tea, and received a bowl from an old granny after the little girl called her “Bai... Chang...”
• Bai Yujun drank the tea, promised to give the granny water in return, and brought rain to the cheering village before leaving.

Bai Yujun traveled for weeks to bring rain to a drought-stricken region, then continued making trips between the Eastern Sea and the Northern Lands to restore life to the land. As humans fought over the Central Plains, she kept spreading rain and greenery, leaving the work unfinished.

• Bai Yujun walked for over half a month, gathering rainwater and brewing tea as she headed toward the drought-stricken region.
• Bai Yujun confirmed her position and brought rain to the parched land, where people and wildlife rejoiced at the first downpour in more than a hundred years.
• Bai Yujun drew the rain onward for several days until the clouds emptied, leaving damp land turning green and a rainbow overhead.
• Bai Yujun rested, then flew toward the Eastern Sea to bring more rain, while displaced commoners emerged from underground shelters.
• Bai Yujun repeatedly traveled between the Eastern Sea and the Northern Lands, bringing rain even as human factions fought across the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun crossed a battlefield untouched, watered household fires and wildfires, and watched greenery spread.

Bai Yujun brought rain to the Northern Lands and ate seafood swept up by a tornado, unaware that people had discovered her location. A Vassal King mobilized to capture her, while the Dragon Hunters found ancient instructions for making weapons to slay flood dragons.

• Bai Yujun created a tornado over the Eastern Sea, roasted the seafood it carried into the sky, and continued her rain journey north.
• A Vassal King learned that the white flood dragon had been seen by the Eastern Sea and ordered his troops to capture her with Demon Binding Nets.
• The Vassal King's mobilization spread across the realm, stirring up rival powers and drawing attention to Bai Yujun's movements.
• The Dragon Hunters searched ruins, tombs, and libraries for ways to kill a flood dragon, convinced that her power threatened humanity.
• A group of Dragon Hunters uncovered a stone stele describing a dragon-hunting method and began forging weapons from ancient blueprints.