Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun continued hunting Dragon Hunters, but one captive condemned her for interfering in human affairs, leaving her weary and unwilling to argue. Meanwhile, masked plotters prepared a trap in a flooded county town and devised a way to lure her there without alerting her to danger.

• Bai Yujun burned Dragon Hunters at an inn and questioned a captive who accused her of manipulating human history and killing people.
• Bai Yujun left the captive in the flames, then gave the grieving innkeeper several dozen taels of silver before heading southwest.
• Masked Mysterious Persons in a flooded county town learned that Bai Yujun had stopped killing and worried she might leave before their trap was ready.
• One plotter proposed using snakes to lure Bai Yujun to the town, while another promised to conceal the danger from her senses.
• The Mysterious Persons agreed to carry out the plan and vowed to kill Bai Yujun.

Masked people slaughtered snakes in an abandoned county town to lure Bai Yujun, whose instincts sensed the mass deaths and drove her into a furious flight toward them. She arrived at the town with her flood-dragon aura unleashed.

• Flood refugees captured snakes and transported them to the abandoned county town, where laborers packed them into enclosed estates.
• The masked leader explained that mass snake deaths would draw Bai Yujun and ordered the fighters to slaughter the snakes.
• Bai Yujun sensed countless snakes dying and became violently agitated.
• Bai Yujun accelerated toward the county town, overcoming her restraint and releasing her flood-dragon aura.
• Bai Yujun reached the abandoned county town as the masked people declared that she had arrived.

Yu Rong was lured from Shenhua Mountain into an ambush, while Bai Yujun faced a human force that used imprisoned snakes to draw her to a flooded county town. After the swordsmen began killing the captives, Bai Yujun transformed and launched a devastating attack, with the battle still raging.

• Yu Rong sensed that her third disciple was in danger, went southeast, and was surrounded by Western Teachings experts and demonic sect remnants.
• Sects and cultivation clans across the southeastern region closed their mountain gates as people prepared to confront the white flood dragon.
• Bai Yujun arrived above the county town and used her detection ability to search for traps and locate the people waiting for her.
• After swordsmen killed snakes in their cages to provoke her, Bai Yujun transformed into a giant white flood dragon and began attacking.
• Bai Yujun smashed the town's ballistae and catapults, while lightning, wind, and heavy rain killed and wounded the attackers.

Bai Yujun cleared the area outside the county town with Dragon Breath while a masked man’s dragon-slaying plan continued despite the loss of one Dragon Hunting Crossbow. The remaining plotters pressed on with their attack, and the flood dragon kept slaughtering those around the city wall.

• A young man survived the collapse of the city gate and found himself trapped beside Bai Yujun’s claws.
• Bai Yujun breathed fire across the streets and buildings near the gate, killing those caught in the flames.
• The masked strategist ordered his people to wait, saying the deaths outside were meant to enrage and distract Bai Yujun.
• A messenger reported that Bai Yujun’s fire had melted one Heaven-grade Dragon Hunting Crossbow and killed its crew.
• The masked strategist ordered the operation to continue with the two remaining Dragon Hunting Crossbows.

The Dragon Hunters fired their sole Dragon Hunting Crossbow bolt at Bai Yujun as she attacked the county town. The bolt struck her chest and brought her crashing down, while powerful cultivators across Shenhua Mountain and the surrounding skies reacted to a sudden surge of spiritual energy.

• Bai Yujun devastated the flooded county town with lightning, flames, and water flood dragons as the Dragon Hunters prepared their crossbow.
• A masked man signaled the shooter to fire the Dragon Hunting Crossbow bolt at Bai Yujun’s chest between her front claws.
• Bai Yujun’s Dragon Breath engulfed the crossbow crew, but the bolt pierced her chest and drained her strength.
• Bai Yujun fell from the sky and crashed onto the ground with the bolt embedded in her chest.
• Spiritual energy surged around Shenhua Mountain, prompting Qi Yun of Purple Void, Chu Zhe, Gan Wu, and other experts to rush southeast.
• Qi Yun, the number one fiend under heaven, appeared above Shenhua Mountain, while Yu Rong severely injured a Western Teachings monk and a demonic sect expert.

Bai Yujun survived the dragon-slaying attack and freed the snakes, but her uncontrolled dragon qi triggered an earthquake that swallowed the ruined county town. As the Cultivation World reeled from reports of the attack on Shenhua Mountain, Iron Ball secretly set out with a list of sects he blamed.

• The survivors celebrated the apparent death of the white flood dragon, but the wounded Bai Yujun pulled free the crossbow bolt and freed the snakes trapped in a cage.
• Bai Yujun smashed the cage wall, fed the snakes her spilled blood, and let them carry her into the river.
• Bai Yujun’s uncontrolled dragon qi set off an earthquake that split the county town open and submerged its ruins in muddy water.
• The survivors escaped toward the mountains, while the white flood dragon vanished into the river and its fate remained unknown.
• Rumors spread that the dragon-slaying incident had targeted Shenhua Mountain and that Purple Void and Yu Rong had defeated the attackers.
• Iron Ball secretly left Mount Hua carrying an iron plate inscribed with the names of sects and schools.

Bai Yujun hid in a secluded valley to recover from her grievous wounds, while Ironball found her and joined her there. As she continued to consider fleeing to Jiuli if she could not heal, she began teaching him cultivation and combat skills.

• Bai Yujun nursed her injuries in the valley, gathering food and herbs while struggling with a lingering wound from a mysterious crossbow bolt.
• Ironball escaped the hunt for the hole-digging demon and found Bai Yujun by the stream.
• Ironball told Bai Yujun about the temples and graves he had dug up, then offered to help her take revenge once she recovered.
• Bai Yujun and Ironball shared spicy boiled fish, and Ironball settled into the courtyard while preferring to sleep underground.
• Bai Yujun considered traveling to Jiuli if her injuries failed to heal and began teaching Ironball cultivation, combat techniques, and rules for traveling the Jianghu.

Injured Bai Yujun and Ironball traveled through the Wu Kingdom seeking medicinal ingredients, enduring a slow journey and months of rain. They reached a mountain village to shelter for the night, where a young scholar opened his door to them.

• Ironball gathered wild taro for Bai Yujun, and they set out for a city to find an apothecary and rare medicinal ingredients.
• Bai Yujun struggled with her injuries as she and Ironball traveled south through the Wu Kingdom, stopping by a river to cook fish.
• As the heavy rains spread, Ironball spotted a mountain village where they could seek shelter.
• Ironball scared off the village's Big Yellow Dog, and Bai Yujun told him to keep a low profile and ask villagers for lodging.
• A young scholar opened his door, saw Bai Yujun, and heard her ask to stay the night.

Bai Yujun and Iron Ball stayed overnight at Xiang Zhi’s home, where Bai paid for their lodging with an oil-paper umbrella. Years later, Xiang Zhi carried the umbrella to Lanruo Temple and escaped a ghostly encounter, while Ning Caichen later spent a peaceful night there.

• Iron Ball cooked a salty meat stew at Xiang Zhi’s home, and Xiang Zhi learned that Bai Yujun was his guest’s name.
• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball slept at Xiang Zhi’s house, while Xiang Zhi stayed awake imagining how to impress her.
• In the morning, Bai Yujun offered Xiang Zhi a tael of silver for lodging, but when he refused, she gave him an oil-paper umbrella instead.
• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball left the village, and Xiang Zhi kept the umbrella as villagers teased him about her.
• Years later, Xiang Zhi sheltered from a storm at Lanruo Temple, saw a beautiful woman who claimed to be homeless, and fled after discovering the temple was empty.
• Several days later, Ning Caichen spent a peaceful night at Lanruo Temple and continued on his way to the imperial examinations.

Bai Yujun and Iron Ball entered a prosperous city to seek medicine, disguising themselves to gain access to its most prestigious pharmacy. Bai Yujun avoided a Golden Core Cultivator but left the physician puzzled by her abnormal pulse and apparent illness.

• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball searched the city for medicine, and Iron Ball collapsed an erhu workshop because it used python skin.
• The pharmacy gatekeeper turned them away, so they changed into wealthy attire and were welcomed inside.
• Bai Yujun spotted a Golden Core Cultivator and hid Iron Ball's jade pendant while trying to avoid notice.
• Bai Yujun made a noblewoman leave the physician's queue by coughing and then offered her wrist for examination.
• The old physician found Bai Yujun's pulse unusually slow and her body cool, and told her she was ill.

Bai Yujun avoided being seized at an apothecary by pretending to be gravely ill, then bought medicine for her injuries. When a powerful Demonic Beast attacked the shop, she and Iron Ball hid among the fleeing crowd and prepared to continue toward the Southern Wastelands of Jiuli.

• Bai Yujun coughed up venomous black blood to drive off a Golden Core Cultivator who had tried to seize her, and the old physician mistook her injuries for a terminal illness.
• Bai Yujun bought three sets of the available ingredients from the apothecary’s storehouse, paying with gold bars and tipping the medicine boy.
• Bai Yujun sensed that the Golden Core Cultivator had been killed and warned Iron Ball to stay alert as a powerful demonic aura approached.
• Bai Yujun told Iron Ball to imitate a human child, then pretended to panic when a Demonic Beast broke into the apothecary and stormed toward its medicine tower.
• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball slipped out with the fleeing crowd and decided to find food before continuing their journey.

Bai Yujun and Tieqiu fought the Demonic Beast that had been terrorizing the town after stealing spirit medicine. They killed it, but Bai Yujun coughed up blood from the effort, and the pair fled into an alley.

• The Demonic Beast chased Bai Yujun and Tieqiu through the town while attacking and eating the townsfolk.
• Bai Yujun ordered Tieqiu to fight the beast while she supported him with her guqin, and their attacks wounded it.
• The Demonic Beast took to the rooftops and pressed its attack, while Tieqiu protected Bai Yujun and she prepared a powerful counterattack.
• Bai Yujun unleashed a concentrated sonic attack that stopped the beast in midair, then Tieqiu tore through its abdomen and killed it.
• Tieqiu helped Bai Yujun escape into a small alley after she coughed up blood.

Bai Yujun recuperated from her injuries with Iron Ball in an abandoned mountain village, then they resumed their journey toward the Southern Wasteland by boat. The chapter left them traveling downstream, with Bai Yujun still in pain and Iron Ball recovering from seasickness.

• Bai Yujun drank medicine and cultivated for several days to suppress her injuries while Iron Ball cared for her.
• Iron Ball told Bai Yujun that any mountain forest could be home and said he would kill anyone who harmed his kind.
• Bai Yujun promised to take Iron Ball to see the pangolin whose scent he had noticed at the apothecary.
• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball left the village, bought a covered wooden boat, and began traveling toward the Southern Wasteland by river.
• Iron Ball became seasick, vomited over the side of the boat, then ate ants floating in the water.
• Bai Yujun coughed as the pain in her chest worsened.

Bai Yujun and Iron Ball continued their journey downriver, initially ignoring a woman and her infant stranded after a Catfish Demon sank their ship. Bai Yujun ultimately turned back and rescued them, then gave them food and medicine as the boat continued onward.

• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball camped beside the river while a Catfish Demon attacked a passing cargo ship, and they chose not to intervene.
• The next morning, Bai Yujun and Iron Ball found a woman and her infant stranded on a reef beside the wrecked ship, with the Catfish Demon circling them.
• Bai Yujun initially let the boat pass, unwilling to involve herself in human affairs, but the woman's kindness and her thoughts of her mother changed her mind.
• Bai Yujun told Iron Ball to turn back as the Catfish Demon prepared to attack the woman and child.
• Bai Yujun pulled the exhausted woman and infant aboard, gave them a blanket, medicinal fruits, and chicken legs, and continued traveling.

Bai Yujun left the river and visited her old acquaintances at Bamboo Spring Temple, where she reunited with the still-living Old Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the snake spirit. Old Hui Xian examined her injury and explained that fear of their ageless lives had isolated the temple from nearby villagers.

• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball abandoned their boat near a county town and traveled toward Bamboo Spring Temple to visit old friends.
• Bai Yujun found the temple restored and discovered Old Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the snake spirit alive in its vegetable patch.
• Bai Yujun marveled that Old Hui Xian had found his own path of cultivation and that the snake spirit had grown strong enough to take human form.
• Old Hui Xian examined Bai Yujun's injury and offered to pray for her, prompting her to scold him for trying to bless a demon with Buddhist scriptures.
• Old Hui Xian explained that villagers had avoided the temple because they feared its ageless residents, so he had withdrawn from life beyond the mountains.

Bai Yujun recuperated at Bamboo Spring Temple and practiced the qin in the bamboo grove, but a powerful visitor from Chunyang Palace suddenly appeared. As Bai Yujun faced what seemed like certain defeat, Hui Xian arrived and tried to persuade the stranger to spare her.

• Bai Yujun stayed at Bamboo Spring Temple to recover and used the peaceful bamboo grove to calm her injuries.
• Bai Yujun practiced qin music and studied the bamboo, hiding sharp sonic attacks within her melodies.
• Bai Yujun reflected on her slow cultivation and the need to wait for a chance to avenge her grudges.
• Bai Yujun's qin suddenly sounded a warning, and she sensed a terrifying presence that she could not locate.
• A figure in a Chunyang Palace Daoist robe descended into the grove, and Bai Yujun realized she could not fight him in her injured state.
• Hui Xian rushed to the grove and pleaded with the visitor to spare Bai Yujun and avoid harming the plants.

Lian Tianxing cornered Bai Yujun at Bamboo Spring Temple and threatened to kill her, blaming her for becoming Chu Zhe’s tribulation of love. He ultimately lowered his sword and left, allowing Bai Yujun and Old Hui Xian to survive.

• Lian Tianxing revealed that he had tracked Bai Yujun to Bamboo Spring Temple and intended to kill her before she could grow stronger.
• Lian Tianxing told Bai Yujun that Peak Master Yu had been injured while trying to save her, but reassured her that she was well.
• Old Hui Xian tried to intervene, but Lian Tianxing’s power kept him from reaching Bai Yujun as the ancient sword advanced toward her neck.
• Lian Tianxing stopped his sword at Bai Yujun’s throat, admitted that he had never truly intended to kill her, and departed.
• Bai Yujun slumped against the bamboo in relief while Old Hui Xian sighed that laying down the butcher’s blade could make one a Buddha.

Bai Yujun and Ironball traveled by donkey to the Southern Wilderness, where Mu Duo and the White Tribe priests arranged treatment for Bai Yujun’s injuries. Bai Yujun agreed to become the totem sacred beast of several villages and was set to travel to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain for healing.

• Bai Yujun and Ironball left Bamboo Spring Temple and bought donkeys to continue their journey.
• After nearly a year on the road, they reached the Southern Wilderness and met Mu Duo and several village experts, who flew them back to Cloud Remote Ancient Village.
• White Tribe priests examined Bai Yujun and identified her weapon-inflicted injuries as damage from energy designed to target flood dragons.
• Several villages offered spirit medicines for free if Bai Yujun would become their totem sacred beast, and she readily agreed.
• The priests planned to treat Bai Yujun at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain with medicines and shamanic rites performed by the villages.
• Ironball delightedly ate a giant ant, and Bai Yujun promised to take him to find even larger ones after she recovered.

Bai Yujun returned to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain with Mu Duo and several holy maidens to undergo healing rites for her injuries. The sacred mountain blessed the medicine, and the ritual began as Bai Yujun fell asleep.

• Several Jiuli White Tribe villages held ceremonies to honor Bai Yujun as their totem, while Mu Duo and village fighters escorted her toward Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo she planned to return in a year or two after healing and take revenge for her injuries.
• Holy maidens from several villages joined the journey, and the group reached the tundra atop Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
• Bai Yujun greeted the mountain, whose winds and rainbow halo signaled its response and whose snow blessed the medicine in the bronze cauldron.
• Bai Yujun transformed into her injured flood-dragon form, and the holy maidens and Mu Duo began the healing shamanic ritual as villagers joined in from afar.
• The glowing medicine floated toward Bai Yujun's wound, and she fell asleep.

After sleeping through winter on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Bai Yujun awoke when a young Jiuli woman accidentally cracked the ice encasing her. Bai Yujun took the stunned woman along as she flew down the mountain.

• Bai Yujun slept on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain while Mu Duo, Qing Ling, and Iron Ball occasionally checked on her.
• The Jiuli villages kept watch over Bai Yujun as seasons passed and snow buried her beneath a thick layer of ice.
• In early summer, a young Jiuli woman climbed to the summit to inspect the sleeping holy beast.
• The woman tapped the ice with her hatchet, causing cracks to spread across Bai Yujun's frozen body.
• Bai Yujun woke, shattered the ice, and offered the frightened woman a ride down the mountain.
• The woman nodded, and Bai Yujun flew down the mountainside carrying her.