Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun searched the Maohe Chamber of Commerce for records of a wealthy trader who had returned from the Nine Li, only to learn that the ledgers had been moved to the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce. She infiltrated the Shen family’s accounting room and found a suspicious record naming Pan Xiong.

• Bai Yujun visited the abandoned Maohe Chamber of Commerce and questioned Fatty about its trade ledgers.
• Fatty revealed that Mister Lan of the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce had moved the ledgers, and that he lived north of Gushan Market.
• Bai Yujun changed her appearance, located the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce, and waited until night to infiltrate it.
• Bai Yujun found the Maohe ledgers and discovered that a caravan had exchanged five hundred jin of salt for twenty packhorses’ worth of valuables.
• Bai Yujun tore out the record naming Pan Xiong, returned the ledger, and erased evidence of her search.

Bai Yujun hid in Gushan Market while black-clad men searched for a missing ledger page and clues connected to Broken Bone. After they gave up and sailed away, she joined a merchant caravan as a guard.

• Black-clad men slaughtered the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce and discovered that a page had been torn from a ledger, then learned the Maohe Chamber of Commerce had also been wiped out.
• Bai Yujun found the fat shopkeeper dead and hid in a brothel to avoid the men’s Detection Array and searches.
• The white-haired Golden Core cultivator searched the brothel but failed to recognize Bai Yujun among the women.
• Bai Yujun stayed concealed in Gushan Market until the black-clad men abandoned their search and sailed east.
• When trade resumed, Bai Yujun signed up as a guard for a merchant caravan.

Bai Yujun traveled from the Southern Wasteland toward the Central Plains, hiding her abilities while seeking clues about Broken Bone and Pan Xiong. In a city, she uncovered the men in black’s investigation of Maohe Chamber of Commerce and killed them before their letter identifying possible witnesses could be sent.

• Bai Yujun caught Xuan'er as he slipped toward a cliff and returned him safely to his parents.
• Bai Yujun crossed mountains and floods with a caravan, concealing her aura as she experienced ordinary human hardship.
• After more than ten days, Bai Yujun reached a great city and discovered that men in black had taken over the local Maohe Chamber of Commerce branch.
• Bai Yujun overheard that the men in black had killed the branch manager and clerks after interrogating them.
• Bai Yujun disguised herself, fought and killed more than ten men in black, and found a letter listing possible witnesses, including Pan Xiong.
• Bai Yujun burned the Maohe Chamber of Commerce buildings and the letter, then disappeared into the darkness.

Bai Yujun tracked Pan Xiong to his home in Wuzhou while traveling through war-torn lands in disguise. She arrived at the Pan Family residence as a mysterious letter courier, and Pan Xiong sensed that both she and her horse concealed formidable power.

• Bai Yujun crossed a river by boat and continued her search for Pan Xiong, avoiding attention as she rode toward Wuzhou.
• She witnessed officials seize grain and conscript villagers, then learned Pan Xiong had returned to his hometown after the Maohe Chamber of Commerce was suppressed.
• Bai Yujun arrived at the Pan Family residence in the rain and asked to deliver a letter to Pan Xiong, frightening the servant at the gate.
• Unsettled by strange signs and unable to sense Bai Yujun or her Black Horse, Pan Xiong invited her inside.
• Bai Yujun entered the main hall and removed her straw hat, stunning Pan Xiong and the others with her beauty.

Bai Yujun agreed to help Pan Xiong’s family escape in exchange for a clue about the goods sent to the Nine Li Black Tribe. As the Pan Family fled under cover of heavy rain, she discovered a scout among them and killed him when he refused to talk.

• Pan Xiong asked Bai Yujun to protect his family in exchange for revealing where the goods sent to the Nine Li Black Tribe had come from, and she agreed to escort them to safety.
• Bai Yujun told the Pan Family to gather their valuables and meet outside the city, then used heavy rain to conceal their escape.
• The Pan Family left the city with Bai Yujun, while the white-haired young male cultivator arrived five days later and ordered a search for them.
• Bai Yujun helped the Pan Family disguise themselves as poor refugees, and Pan Xiong forced his household to abandon its fine clothes and carriages.
• Bai Yujun caught a handsome Wandering Swordsman who had joined the Pan Family’s younger members, demanded to know who he was, and drowned him when he refused to answer.

Bai Yujun lured a group of cultivators away from the Pan Family caravan and killed them with her sword, then returned to protect the caravan. That night, she recalled old enemies and resolved to collect a debt from the nearby Demon Subjugation Sect.

• Bai Yujun rode away from the Pan Family caravan to draw a pursuing group of cultivators onto another route.
• Bai Yujun ambushed the cultivators in a mountain valley and killed more than twenty of them using only her sword.
• Bai Yujun returned to the caravan and told Pan Xiong she had killed pursuers from another route, but did not know who they served.
• Bai Yujun ate stew in an abandoned village house and later recalled the factions that had once plotted against her.
• Bai Yujun decided to collect a debt from the nearby Demon Subjugation Sect and vowed to repay her other enemies when she was stronger.

Bai Yujun comforted a ghost who had waited years for her husband, learned he was dead, and sent her to reincarnate. Elsewhere, an elderly cultivator summoned a Ghost King and bargained for help finding someone alive, offering 150 children as payment.

• Bai Yujun spared a timid ghost at an abandoned village and gave her Yin Energy to sustain her.
• The ghost told Bai Yujun that she had killed herself to escape bandits and had waited for her missing husband, Zhou Quan, to return.
• Bai Yujun discovered Zhou Quan had died years earlier and had once returned to see his wife, then sent the grieving ghost to reincarnate.
• Bai Yujun used a bead of pure yang spiritual energy to kill a low-level zombie that approached during the night.
• An elderly cultivator summoned a Ghost King and agreed to provide 150 virgin boys and girls in exchange for finding a man alive, giving the Ghost King his clothes as a clue.

Bai Yujun led the Pan Family convoy through a haunted mountain pass and confronted a ghostly wedding procession. After protecting the convoy from its bewitched music, she approached the Ghost Bride, whose attention shifted to Bai Yujun’s Pure Yang jade pendant.

• Bai Yujun chose the dangerous mountain road and warned Pan Xiong to keep everyone together and prevent anyone from leaving the convoy.
• The convoy heard wedding music, and a blood-red bridal procession emerged through the rain, frightening the Pan Family.
• Bai Yujun’s oil-paper umbrella woke the Pan Family men from the ghosts’ bewitching music, while her Hengdao’s Baleful Intent made the ghostly musicians retreat.
• Bai Yujun teased the Ghost Bride and invited her to follow along, but the Ghost Bride noticed the Pure Yang jade pendant in Bai Yujun’s hand.

Bai Yujun avoided a confrontation with Hong Niangzi, but Liu Ghost King persuaded the Ghost Bride to help him seize Pan Xiong. As the convoy descended the mountain, Bai Yujun sensed another threat and stopped before a dark figure blocking the road.

• Bai Yujun used flirtation and umbrellas to keep Hong Niangzi from fighting, and the bridal procession retreated into its tomb.
• Liu Ghost King asked Hong Niangzi to help capture Pan Xiong and promised her half the treasure, while she demanded he restrain Bai Yujun.
• Hong Niangzi agreed to seize Pan Xiong after Liu Ghost King promised to hold Bai Yujun back.
• Bai Yujun sensed murderous energy gathering above the convoy and arranged six floating oil-paper umbrellas into an array.
• Bai Yujun halted the convoy when a pitch-black figure appeared in the rain-soaked mountain road, and her Hengdao trembled in readiness.

Bai Yujun fought Liu Ghost King while Hong Niangzi secretly abducted one of Pan Xiong’s sons. Liu Ghost King escaped to the underground tomb, where he discovered Hong Niangzi had brought back the wrong captive instead of Pan Xiong.

• Bai Yujun battled Liu Ghost King with Chunyang techniques while keeping her true abilities hidden.
• Bai Yujun badly wounded Liu Ghost King with a Chunyang exorcism seal, and he realized Hong Niangzi had deceived him.
• A little ghost lured one of Pan Xiong’s sons away, and Hong Niangzi abducted him through a hole in the ground.
• Liu Ghost King fled underground after Bai Yujun blocked his escape, leaving Pan Xiong to discover that one of his sons was missing.
• In the underground tomb, Hong Niangzi told Liu Ghost King she had brought Pan Xiong, but he found only a terrified young man and asked who he was.

Bai Yujun entered the tomb to rescue Pan Xiong’s son and destroyed the Ghost Bride and Liu Ghost King after unleashing her full strength. She returned the unconscious man to his family as the ritualist searching for the Ghost Kings lost contact with them.

• Bai Yujun gave Pan Xiong an oil-paper umbrella and sent his Household down the mountain while she entered the tomb to rescue his captured son.
• Bai Yujun found the Ghost Bride and Liu Ghost King in the burial chamber, revealed her dragon-like features, and fought them with spells, lightning, and her Hengdao.
• Bai Yujun reduced Liu Ghost King to ash and collapsed the tomb before emerging with Pan Xiong’s unconscious son.
• Bai Yujun caught up with Pan Xiong’s group, returned his son, and recalled the oil-paper umbrellas.
• An old man in the Pan Family’s former residence failed to contact the Bride Ghost King through his ritual, while Pan Xiong’s son later described the terrifying fanged ghost he had seen underground.

Bai Yujun escorted the Pan Family to a secluded mountain refuge, then learned that the Broken Bone came from Ren Canghai, who had already died. She headed to Bian City to search for his surviving relatives, but her attempt to divine their location led to a public commotion.

• Bai Yujun brought the Pan Family to Pan Xiong’s hidden mountain refuge and asked him about the Broken Bone.
• Pan Xiong said it had come from Ren Canghai of Bian City, and Bai Yujun calculated that Ren Canghai had died the previous summer.
• Bai Yujun said Ren Canghai’s relatives were still alive and left the mountain refuge to seek clues through them.
• In Bian City, Bai Yujun failed to pinpoint the relatives’ location with her calculations and tossed her shoe to decide where to search.
• After bystanders scolded her for taking off her shoe, Bai Yujun struck an old man with it, then cut the line into the city with Black Horse.

Bai Yujun sought help finding the family of the dead cultivator Ren Canghai and recruited the Bian City ruffian Wall-Hopper Brother. The chapter left Wall-Hopper Brother agreeing to make a deal with her.

• Bai Yujun planned to use local constables and ruffians to search for Ren Canghai's family, then asked a restaurant proprietor to list the city's best-informed contacts.
• Bai Yujun and Black Horse found Wall-Hopper Brother patrolling his turf and beating a man from a neighboring gang.
• Bai Yujun frightened Wall-Hopper Brother with her glowing eyes and fangs, then showed him Ren Canghai's name and asked him to find the cultivator's family near Bian City.
• Wall-Hopper Brother accepted the task but insisted on receiving something in return, and Bai Yujun agreed to a fair deal.

Bai Yujun waited for Wall-Hopper Brother to find Ren Canghai's family while she wandered the streets and dealt with thieves. After Wall-Hopper Brother returned with the information, he asked her to make him stronger, and she used dragon aura to improve his constitution.

• Bai Yujun strolled through the streets eating snacks while Wall-Hopper Brother searched for Ren Canghai's family.
• Bai Yujun mocked a deserted bookstore and defeated thieves, constables, and street toughs who tried to seize Black Horse.
• Wall-Hopper Brother found news of Ren Canghai's family in four days and asked Bai Yujun to discuss the reward privately.
• Wall-Hopper Brother requested greater strength and speed so he could protect himself and his money.
• Bai Yujun seized Wall-Hopper Brother and used dragon aura to improve his constitution.

Bai Yujun learned that Ren Canghai’s son, Ren Zhuo, had been ruined and sent to Dewdrop Town, so she rode there to find him. She arrived during a storm and confronted the guards outside his shack after they attacked her.

• Wall-Hopper Brother told Bai Yujun that Ren Canghai’s son, Ren Zhuo, lived in Dewdrop Town, and Bai Yujun set out to find him.
• Ren Zhuo endured hunger and humiliation in a ruined shack while four young men beat him and mocked his family.
• Bai Yujun entered Dewdrop Town in heavy rain and followed Ren Zhuo’s cries to his shack.
• Six martial arts experts attacked Bai Yujun, and she swiftly knocked them into the mud.
• Bai Yujun asked Ren Zhuo whether he was Ren Zhuo and introduced herself as an honest merchant.

Bai Yujun rescued Ren Zhuo, healed and strengthened him, and made a trade: she would help him grow strong enough to settle his grudges if he revealed where his father obtained the Broken Bone. When Ren Zhuo’s enemies came to Dewdrop Town, Bai Yujun crippled their forces and let him take revenge on the young men who had bullied him.

• Bai Yujun sheltered Ren Zhuo from the rain, fed him, healed his injuries, and asked about the Broken Bone his father had sold.
• Ren Zhuo agreed to tell Bai Yujun what he knew if she helped him become strong enough to enter the Martial Arts Competition, defeat his tormentors, and confront those involved in his father's murder.
• Bai Yujun improved Ren Zhuo's cultivation potential and began restoring his body through intensive training in Dewdrop Town.
• Several dozen experts and retainers arrived to kill Bai Yujun and Ren Zhuo on behalf of the Ren Household's enemies.
• Bai Yujun used her flying sword to cripple the attackers, while Ren Zhuo beat the four young men who had bullied him to death.

Bai Yujun killed the Seventh Princess’s palace maid and fought off the royal experts who attacked her courtyard after they tried to intimidate Ren Zhuo. The Seventh Princess left after Bai Yujun dismissed her as an ordinary person, while Ren Zhuo laughed at the royal forces’ defeat.

• Bai Yujun watched the Seventh Princess arrive in Dewdrop Town and berate Ren Zhuo over his fallen family and status.
• The old palace maid tried to slap Ren Zhuo, and Bai Yujun killed her with a bamboo strip.
• Ren Zhuo laughed as palace experts rushed the courtyard, and Bai Yujun used bamboo strips to kill every attacker who tried to enter.
• The Seventh Princess confronted Bai Yujun, warned her against opposing the Liang Kingdom, and left after Bai Yujun told her to recognize her own status.

Bai Yujun created spiritual-energy clones and developed them into sparring opponents for Ren Zhuo, helping him improve his combat skills. She began experimenting with durable, scale-based clones and demonstrated that she could summon ten clones at once.

• Ren Zhuo began training with a Ring-pommel Saber, and Bai Yujun recalled a formidable student she had taught long ago.
• Bai Yujun created a palm-sized Virtual Clone, enlarged it, and sent it to attack Ren Zhuo with sword techniques.
• Ren Zhuo endured the clone’s relentless attacks and gradually improved until he could counterattack and sometimes injure it.
• Bai Yujun experimented with arrays and jade, then used her shed scales to make clones that could last longer but remained weak and limited to martial techniques.
• Bai Yujun practiced creating ordinary spiritual-energy clones and summoned five on each side, with all ten performing different techniques.

Bai Yujun caught an assassin stalking her and killed him after the Black Horse startled him by shouting “Giddyup.” She continued Ren Zhuo’s brutal training and ate a fish hotpot while he struggled through medicinal cuisine, leaving their routine in town unchanged.

• Bai Yujun followed Xun Thirteen as he crept toward her house, then the Black Horse startled him by shouting “Giddyup.”
• Xun Thirteen spotted Bai Yujun behind him, and she crushed his head and threw his corpse into the night.
• Bai Yujun discovered that the Black Horse could speak, though it only repeated “Giddyup.”
• Bai Yujun intensified Ren Zhuo’s training with three sparring clones and urged him to fight with greater resolve.
• Bai Yujun ate pickled cabbage fish hotpot while Ren Zhuo forced down medicinal cuisine, and the Black Horse’s shout made him spit out his food.

Bai Yujun learned that the Liang Kingdom’s royal family and Aristocratic Clans had six Golden Core experts and a Nascent Soul Realm Mysterious Person behind them, while Ren Zhuo trained in the courtyard. When Ren Zhuo’s rival arrived to mock him over the Seventh Princess, Ren Zhuo swore he would repay the people who had harmed the Ren Household.

• Wall-Hopper Brother visited Bai Yujun’s courtyard and reported that the Liang Kingdom’s royal family and several Aristocratic Clans had six Golden Core experts, with a Nascent Soul Realm Mysterious Person behind the royal family.
• Wall-Hopper Brother told Bai Yujun that Ren Canghai’s legacy was rumored to be a Cultivation Manual that had helped him become a Golden Core expert, then left with the jade bottle she gave him.
• Bai Yujun ate Spicy Boiled Fish while Ren Zhuo continued training in the back yard.
• A refined young noble arrived with guards and attendants, and Ren Zhuo confronted him at the courtyard gate with a Ring-pommel Saber.
• The young noble claimed that he and the Seventh Princess were in love, mocked Ren Zhuo, and prompted Ren Zhuo to swear revenge on those who had harmed the Ren Household.