Chapter Summaries

After recovering, Bai Yujun’s overwhelming hunger drove her to gorge on river creatures before she raced through the wilderness for fun. She reached Cloud Remote Ancient Village to thank Mu Duo, but her attempt at a serious visit was interrupted by another mouthful of fish.

• Bai Yujun dropped off the young woman in the mountain village, ate the offerings, then flew to the great river to hunt.
• Bai Yujun swallowed a large catfish and used her innate talents to pull many other aquatic creatures into her mouth.
• After eating her fill, Bai Yujun raced through clouds, lakes, gorges, and a primeval forest, crashing into an ancient tree along the way.
• Bai Yujun decided to visit Cloud Remote Ancient Village and thank Mu Duo for helping her.
• Mu Duo confirmed Bai Yujun had recovered, then watched her hiccup up a live fish and swallow it.
• Bai Yujun intensified her digestion with a series of hand seals, while Mu Duo struggled to describe what she had just seen.

Bai Yujun spent a leisurely stretch of time in the Jiuli villages before traveling to Snake Valley. Seeing the snakes gathered below, she decided to teach them cultivation and build a force of her own.

• Bai Yujun traded goods at the market and helped the Jiuli villages with rain, waterways, and spells while Qing Ling stayed by her side.
• Qing Ling entered seclusion to cultivate, and Iron Ball went to fight demons in the Green Wood Demon King's territory.
• Bai Yujun soaked in a mountain Hot Spring for two days and nights before flying toward Snake Valley in her enormous flood dragon form.
• Bai Yujun saw the many snakes in Snake Valley and considered sharing her cultivation knowledge to create an organized force.
• Bai Yujun resolved to study how to spread cultivation so the snakes could grow stronger and improve their chances of survival.

Bai Yujun worked out how to awaken cultivation instincts in Snake Valley’s snakes, then devised a way to keep teaching them without her constant effort. She inscribed cultivation insights into three of her scales and placed them around the valley, binding them so they would work only there.

• Bai Yujun hovered over Snake Valley for days, spreading cultivation insights until the Black Snake and then more snakes awakened Spiritual Intelligence and began cultivating.
• After discovering the method worked but exhausted her, Bai Yujun considered an array formation that could teach the snakes in her absence.
• Bai Yujun studied array books from Chunyang Palace and decided to use her own scales as the array’s foundation.
• Bai Yujun tore off three scales and inscribed them with cultivation insights through the night.
• Bai Yujun placed the three scale arrays around Snake Valley and used Dragon's Covenant to make them ineffective if removed from the valley.

Bai Yujun established formations in Snake Valley that helped newborn snakes cultivate, then began building a courtyard to house and teach the growing number of snake spirits. She and Tieqiu started the construction, which was expected to take at least a year and a half.

• Bai Yujun planted and activated three scale formations, boosting the spirituality of Snake Eggs and helping adult snakes gain insight into cultivation.
• Bai Yujun watched a clever hatchling emerge and later saw more young snake spirits develop over several months.
• Bai Yujun decided to create a cultivation site for the snake demons and leave their teaching to Qing Ling.
• Bai Yujun chose a site by a pond and began building a brick-and-tile courtyard, preparing the ground and cutting stone for its foundation.
• Tieqiu helped Bai Yujun shape stone and prepare timber as they built a side kitchen and learned to make bricks and tiles.

Bai Yujun and her helpers built an elegant Jiangnan-style home called Bai Residence in the mountains. She then gathered the snake spirits and demons under her rule and began teaching them cultivation, establishing the residence as a place for them to learn.

• Bai Yujun, Qing Ling, and Iron Ball built a house, then enlisted White Tribe carpenters to finish its buildings, garden, and carvings.
• Bai Yujun named the completed compound Bai Residence and invited her friends and the craftsmen to celebrate with a feast.
• Bai Yujun told Qing Ling to invite willing snake spirits and demons to study under her, and she considered collecting books and building a library tower.
• The next day, Qing Ling gathered the snake demons beneath the old Ginkgo Tree, where Bai Yujun declared them her followers and her territory's demons.
• Bai Yujun taught the snake demons cultivation, and the old tree beneath which she taught gradually became a holy site for nearby demons.

Bai Yujun prepared the snake demons to continue studying while she was away, then flew to Cloud Remote Ancient Village and learned that poisonous corpses had escaped the Black Division’s control. She offered several ways to destroy them, but Mu Duo asked her to leave the matter alone for now.

• Bai Yujun gave the snake demons a day off, assigned two of them to sweep her courtyard, and watched as Qing Ling taught them how.
• Bai Yujun wrote martial techniques and spells into beast-hide books, left them and a stockpile of weapons for the snake demons, and put Qing Ling in charge of teaching them to read and write.
• Bai Yujun flew toward Cloud Remote Ancient Village after spotting a withered forest and smelling evil and death near Black Division territory.
• Bai Yujun arrived during a meeting and learned from Mu Duo that poisonous corpses had broken loose, devastated Black Division stockades, and threatened to spread toward the White Division.
• Bai Yujun offered to burn, flood, or dry out the poisonous corpses, but Mu Duo told her to give her some peace before Bai Yujun offered her dried fish.

Bai Yujun listened as a Ghost Rock Village envoy warned Cloud Remote Ancient Village that a poison corpse king was spreading disaster through the Black Tribe villages and sought cooperation. The village leaders weighed the threat, while Bai Yujun suspected the envoy was hiding something.

• Bai Yujun sat through Cloud Remote Ancient Village's meeting as its leaders debated the ongoing crisis.
• A messenger announced that an envoy from Ghost Rock Village had arrived, and the chieftain ordered him to enter.
• The envoy asked Cloud Remote Ancient Village to help suppress a poison corpse king, warning that the spreading corpse tide would threaten their lands next.
• The envoy revealed that two villages had been destroyed and four more were struggling to survive, and Mu Duo asked him to explain what a poison corpse king was.
• The envoy described how the king commanded infectious poison corpses, while Bai Yujun suspected he was concealing part of the truth.

Bai Yujun and the others traveled toward Ghost Rock Village, where they found a vast horde of poisonous corpses threatening Cloud Remote Ancient Village. Bai Yujun incinerated the horde with her Chunyang Art-enhanced dragon breath, and the group continued toward Ghost Rock Village.

• Bai Yujun let Mu Duo ride on her head and flew playfully through the clouds before they continued toward the Black Tribe's territory.
• Bai Yujun and the others saw that the withered region had advanced toward Cloud Remote Ancient Village and found guards building defenses against the poisonous corpses.
• Bai Yujun discovered that the corpses' virus withered vegetation, while their dense Yin Energy made them difficult to burn with ordinary flames.
• The group spotted a massive horde of poisonous corpses filling a valley and advancing toward the village's border pass.
• Bai Yujun breathed Chunyang Art-infused white flames across the valley, burning the corpse horde to ashes.
• Bai Yujun and the others resumed their journey toward Ghost Rock Village.

Bai Yujun circled Ghost Rock Village while Mu Duo explained the Black tribe’s hierarchy and their long conflict with the White tribe. After discovering the village was hiding a powerful poison corpse, Bai Yujun secretly altered the earth veins and left the story with a sudden collapse near Ghost Rock Village.

• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo surveyed Ghost Rock Village, where survivors hid behind the walls as poison corpses swarmed outside.
• Mu Duo explained that Black tribe nobles ruled over commoners and slaves, and that the White and Black tribes had fought for generations.
• Bai Yujun used True Sight to find a four-meter-tall poison corpse hidden in a cavern beneath a remote cliff.
• Mu Duo said both sides had come to investigate the outbreak and pursue their own aims, while Bai Yujun suspected Ghost Rock Village planned to use the poison corpses against White tribe experts.
• Bai Yujun altered the earth veins beneath a mountaintop near the village, then noticed the poison corpses were all human and wondered whether animals were immune.
• Cloud Remote Ancient Village departed without an agreement, and a tremendous boom and earthquake struck near Ghost Rock Village as Bai Yujun smiled.

Three injured cultivators fled a Leopard Demon through the Hundred Thousand Mountains until two humanoid demon beasts drove it away. The demon beasts declared the survivors their prisoners and ordered them to come along.

• Three cultivators fleeing poison corpses accidentally entered a Leopard Demon's territory, and the demon wounded them as they ran.
• The cultivators abandoned their packs, but the Leopard Demon caught and injured two of them during the chase.
• The survivors reached a shallow mountain stream and realized it could not protect them from the Leopard Demon.
• Two humanoid demon beasts appeared behind the cultivators, and the bewitching woman hissed at the Leopard Demon until it retreated across the stream.
• The humanoid demon beasts called the three cultivators prisoners and ordered them to come with them.

Lu Gui and his companions were taken to the White Residence, where they became servants among a community of snake demons. Ten days later, Lu Gui watched the demons study and wondered who had created this strange, peaceful place.

• Lu Gui treated his injured companion with a herbal paste made by one of the demon beasts, and it healed the wound better than Blood-Stopping Powder.
• The two demon beasts escorted Lu Gui and his companions through the mountains to the White Residence, where Tieqiu ordered them to wash and put them to work.
• Over the next ten days, the injured man recovered while Lu Gui and his companions cleaned the residence and tended its grounds.
• Lu Gui watched the snake demons attend lessons beneath the ancient tree, curious about their cultivation arts and the White Residence's mysterious owner.

Lu Gui became the teacher of Bai Manor’s snake demons and met Bai Yujun, who revealed herself as the manor’s master. As Bai Yujun worried that poison corpses were nearing her territory, beasts began fleeing across the border, and a snake demon hurried to warn her.

• Lu Gui taught the snake demons to read and explained their martial manuals, earning a role as their teacher.
• Bai Yujun appeared beneath the ancient tree, identified herself as Bai Manor’s nonhuman master, and ordered Lu Gui to teach the demons reading and writing.
• Bai Yujun worried that poison corpses and Poison Corpse Kings might reach her territory, while considering inspecting the border after resting.
• Beasts fled across the border stream into the White Flood Dragon’s territory as two snake demons watched from a tree.
• One snake demon raced toward Bai Manor to report the approaching animals.

Bai Yujun redirected an underground river to slow the poison corpses from entering her territory, then infiltrated the withered forest to find who was moving them. She discovered a black-robed Black Tribe shaman and let him flee, hoping he would lead her to the others.

• Bai Yujun transformed into a white flood dragon and changed the earth veins to bring an underground river to the surface along her territory's border.
• Bai Yujun sent a voice transmission to two snake demons, disguised herself in Jiuli clothing, and entered the poison corpse region.
• Bai Yujun destroyed a huge poison corpse with Spiritual Energy Swords while searching for the one directing the horde.
• Bai Yujun detected a human figure and found a black-robed Black Tribe shaman chanting to send poison corpses toward the deep mountains.
• Bai Yujun crept behind the shaman and questioned him, but he fled and decided to seek out the others for protection.

Bai Yujun used her heat-sensing and aerial mobility to find and attack Black Tribe camps in the mountains. After destroying one camp, she struck a second with a heavy saber dropped from high altitude and left its powerful shaman near death.

• Bai Yujun descended on a Black Tribe camp, drove off its poisonous insects, and killed the shamans and zombies with Spiritual Energy Swords.
• The black-robed man who fled the camp was caught by Bai Yujun and struck down after she tracked his body heat.
• Bai Yujun climbed above the forest and used her thermal sensing to locate another Black Tribe camp with a powerful shaman.
• Bai Yujun dropped her heavy saber from high altitude, accelerating it with the Sword Control Technique until it struck the camp and destroyed a building full of shamans.
• The old shaman survived the saber's impact, but Bai Yujun slammed into him at high speed and left him battered and barely alive.

Bai Yujun killed the old wizard by accident, then returned to the Bai Estate to rest after the poisonous corpses stopped advancing. Mu Duo arrived with an antidote plan that depended on Bai Yujun making rain across the Black Tribe's territory, and Bai Yujun agreed to help.

• Bai Yujun accidentally killed the old wizard when her uncontrolled heavy saber struck his head, then looted the area and burned a valley full of poisonous corpses.
• Bai Yujun returned to the Bai Estate, where the snake demons reported that the poisonous corpses had become disorganized and stopped advancing.
• Bai Yujun spent the day relaxing in the back garden until Mu Duo visited and said she needed her help.
• Mu Duo explained that she had prepared an antidote for the poisonous corpses and needed Bai Yujun to spread it through rain across the Black Tribe's territory.
• Bai Yujun agreed to use her rainmaking ability to distribute the antidote when the weather was suitable.

Bai Yujun spent a leisurely stretch at home before helping the Bai tribe fight the poison corpses with rain and wind. At the ruined Ghost Rock Village, she searched for records and valuables, then destroyed the remaining zombies with a Chunyang Art bomb.

• Bai Yujun rested at Cloud Remote Ancient Village while Lu Gui taught the demons and Qing Ling stopped Tieqiu from eating a poisonous butterfly.
• Bai Yujun helped the Bai tribe's shamans scatter medicine over poison-corpse-infested areas by summoning rain and wind.
• Bai Yujun accompanied Mu Duo and Cloud Remote Ancient Village's experts to Ghost Rock Village to search for poison-corpse records and burn them.
• Bai Yujun collected a fallen village flag as a valuable keepsake and teased the zombies hiding inside a stone house.
• Bai Yujun threw a bead of Chunyang spiritual energy into the stone house, reducing the zombies inside to ash.

Bai Yujun helped the Cloud Remote Ancient Village experts deal with the threat inside Ghost Rock Village’s sealed cave by using Dragon Breath to drive out the Corpse King. The Corpse King burst from the cave engulfed in flames as the experts attacked it.

• Bai Yujun burned the zombies hidden in Ghost Rock Village by tearing open rooftops and exposing them to sunlight.
• Bai Yujun sensed a dangerous presence and the smell of blood inside the reinforced cave beneath the cliff, and warned Mu Duo and the others that a Corpse King might be inside.
• The old chieftain decided the experts should eliminate the Corpse King, and Bai Yujun proposed making a fist-sized hole in the stone door so she could attack it from outside.
• The experts punched a hole in the stone door, and Bai Yujun breathed Dragon Breath into the cave, filling it with flames.
• The Corpse King broke through the cracked stone door, and the ancient village experts struck it with a barrage of magical attacks.

After the White Tribe defeated the Corpse King, Bai Yujun searched the burned-out cave and uncovered an ancient Broken Bone whose aura faintly resembled her bloodline. She learned it had likely been placed beneath the altar during repairs and decided to travel to the Central Plains to trace its origin.

• The White Tribe subdued the Corpse King while Bai Yujun felt drawn toward the still-smoking cave.
• Bai Yujun entered the cave with Mu Duo and the others, cleared the poisonous smoke, and searched the altar.
• Bai Yujun shoved aside the offering stone and found a Broken Bone hidden in a groove beneath it.
• Mu Duo said Ghost Rock Village had repaired the altar the year before last and suggested the bone may have come from a Central Plains caravan called the Maohe Chamber of Commerce.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo she planned to travel to the Central Plains to discover the bone's source, and Mu Duo urged her to protect herself.

Bai Yujun built a wooden tower to house the cultivation manuals she had written and arranged for craftsmen and snake demons to settle in the Southern Wasteland. With the Bai Household's affairs settled, she prepared to investigate Broken Bone and sent three Central Plains men home with their wages.

• Bai Yujun commissioned cultivation manuals, arranged for Mu Duo to care for the snake demons, and began building a tower on the Back Mountain.
• Central Plains craftsmen built the tower under generous conditions, and more than ten chose to remain in Snake Valley and make new homes there.
• After several months, Bai Yujun completed the five-story wooden tower and filled it with manuals guarded by the snake demons.
• Bai Yujun decided to seek the truth behind Broken Bone after surveying her growing territory.
• Bai Yujun gave Lu Gui and the other two men leave to visit their families, warned them not to reveal the Southern Wasteland's location, and paid them with spirit medicine.

Bai Yujun traveled with a merchant caravan to Gushan Market to find the struggling Maohe Chamber of Commerce. When its guards tried to seize her, she knocked them down and prepared to enter the shop.

• Bai Yujun learned that Maohe Chamber of Commerce had been suppressed after offending a powerful figure and that it had a branch in Gushan Market.
• Bai Yujun waited three days to join a caravan, then traveled in disguise and asked fellow travelers about the chamber of commerce.
• Lu Gui and his two companions discussed abandoning cultivation for a comfortable life, while Lu Gui remained unsure and decided to go home first.
• Bai Yujun reached Gushan Market and found Maohe Chamber of Commerce’s rundown storefront guarded by four burly men.
• When the guards claimed the chamber owed them money and tried to seize Bai Yujun, she struck and knocked all four unconscious.