Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun learned that Broken Bone came from savages near the northwestern desert and continued preparing Ren Zhuo for Bian City's martial arts competition. After sending Black Horse ahead and preparing for a coming confrontation with Liang Kingdom's cultivators, she left Ren Zhuo dreaming beside his family's memorial tablets.

• A Golden Core Cultivator questioned Bai Yujun about her origins and why she was helping Ren Zhuo, but she dismissed him and he left.
• As the competition drew near, Bai Yujun let Ren Zhuo rest and accompanied him to a restaurant in Bian City.
• Ren Zhuo told Bai Yujun that Broken Bone had been taken from savages near the snow mountains of the northwestern desert, and she promised to keep their contract and prepare him for the competition.
• Bai Yujun bought cooking supplies, salt, and other necessities, then sent Black Horse ahead to prepare for their journey.
• Ren Zhuo got drunk while speaking to his parents' memorial tablets and declared he would destroy Liang Kingdom and make Bai Yujun his queen, but she spared him when her clone nearly killed him.
• Bai Yujun reinforced her weapons and repaired her black armor while Ren Zhuo slept, and Black Horse galloped away beneath the night sky.

At the Martial Arts Competition, Ren Zhuo challenged the royal family and five Aristocratic Clans, then killed the Seventh Princess’s lover in a brutal duel. The victory triggered a hidden betrayal among the Golden Core Cultivators, leaving the king in shock as Bai Yujun watched.

• Bai Yujun gave Ren Zhuo a stimulating leaf before he entered the Martial Arts Competition.
• Ren Zhuo challenged the younger generation of the royal family and five Aristocratic Clans to life-and-death duels, and his first opponent died.
• Ren Zhuo fought the Seventh Princess’s lover, overcame his higher cultivation, and killed him with his Ring-pommel Saber.
• The Seventh Princess collapsed in horror after her lover’s death.
• The five Golden Core Cultivators of the Aristocratic Clans attacked the royal family’s Golden Core Cultivator from behind and blasted him apart while Bai Yujun watched.

Bai Yujun let the five Aristocratic Clans overthrow the Liang Kingdom royal family, then attacked them to fulfill her deal with Ren Zhuo and draw out the hidden Nascent Soul Cultivator. After slaughtering the clan leaders and their forces, she trapped the surviving Golden Core Cultivators, but the Nascent Soul Cultivator still had not appeared.

• The five Aristocratic Clans massacred the Liang Kingdom royal family, captured the Seventh Princess, and placed one of their leaders on the throne.
• Bai Yujun rescued Ren Zhuo from an assassin and confirmed that the five clans were his targets, then waited for the hidden Nascent Soul Cultivator to appear.
• Bai Yujun created ten duplicates and attacked the five clans while fighting their Golden Core Cultivators.
• Bai Yujun killed the newly enthroned clan leader as her duplicates slaughtered the clans’ experts, fulfilling her deal with Ren Zhuo.
• The clans’ forces destroyed the duplicates at great cost, while Ren Zhuo watched his revenge end without feeling relief.
• Bai Yujun killed another Golden Core Cultivator and trapped the three survivors in an invisible cage, but the Nascent Soul Cultivator remained unseen.

Bai Yujun brought the wounded Golden Core cultivators to the old Ren family residence, where Ren Zhuo found his father’s hidden chest and learned the relic was a family portrait and a letter urging him to abandon revenge. After killing the three cultivators, Bai Yujun took Ren Zhuo to safety, then continued northwest and claimed a horse for herself.

• Bai Yujun spared the three defeated Golden Core cultivators at Ren Zhuo’s request and led them to the old Ren family residence.
• Ren Zhuo followed his memories to uncover a chest containing gold, a family portrait, and a letter from Ren Canghai warning him not to seek revenge.
• Ren Zhuo wept over the portrait, and Bai Yujun killed the three Golden Core cultivators after the relic was found.
• Bai Yujun carried Ren Zhuo and the chest of gold to a peaceful town, then said farewell and flew northwest.
• Bai Yujun spotted a galloping horse on an ancient road, landed on its back, and rode away.

Bai Yujun and Black Horse reached the Yellow River, where Bai Yujun transformed into a dragon to play in the water and feast on giant fish. A local raft ferryman glimpsed the dragon and then encountered the talking Black Horse, fleeing in terror.

• Bai Yujun rode across the Loess Plateau with Black Horse, longing to reach water and cleanse her dusty companion.
• Bai Yujun and Black Horse arrived at the Yellow River, and Bai Yujun dove in and revealed her white dragon form.
• Bai Yujun frolicked in the river and swallowed enormous Yellow River Carp as the river creatures fled upstream.
• A raft ferryman gathered fish that leaped onto his raft, then saw Bai Yujun's huge dragon head pass close by.
• The ferryman fled to shore and tried to catch the riderless Black Horse, but she spoke and sent him running home in fear.

Bai Yujun absorbed the Yellow River dragon vein’s aura, advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage before continuing west with Black Horse. They reached Liangzhou, where she stopped at an inn and eagerly ate a roast lamb.

• Bai Yujun anchored herself beneath a Yellow River waterfall and cultivated for three days, drawing in the river’s dragon aura as strange lights and rainbows appeared along the Water Vein.
• Bai Yujun reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, climbed ashore, and slept for a day and night while Black Horse kept his distance.
• Bai Yujun transformed into human form and rode Black Horse upstream, consulting a map and robbing bloodstained caravans along the way.
• Bai Yujun and Black Horse entered Liangzhou, where she found an inn, bought her horse feed, and ordered a whole roasted lamb.
• Bai Yujun grabbed the half-cooked lamb and tore into it as a young man from the Western Regions watched in terror.

Bai Yujun ate in Liangzhou, learned that war beyond Jade Gate Pass had made the usual trade routes dangerous, and decided to cross the Dragon Gate Desert. After raiding the City Lord's Manor for a map, she found a mysterious branch and tried to question the city lord, but needed a translator.

• Bai Yujun ate mutton at an inn and overheard merchants say that war beyond Jade Gate Pass threatened travelers from the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun studied a rough map and decided to cross the Dragon Gate Desert after leaving Jade Gate Pass.
• Bai Yujun went to the City Lord's Manor, knocked out its occupants, took a more accurate map, and collected food and valuables.
• Bai Yujun found a living, iron-hard tree branch and woke a fat man to ask where it came from.
• Bai Yujun discovered she had questioned the wrong fat man, woke the city lord, and then summoned the first man to translate.

Bai Yujun killed a group of men who tried to steal Black Horse and abduct her in Liangzhou, then left the city lord too frightened to pursue her. Days later, a silver-haired young man and his companions arrived in Liangzhou searching for clues, while the identity of the person manipulating events remained unknown.

• Bai Yujun surveyed Liangzhou and returned to the inn with food, where she discovered two groups fighting over Black Horse.
• Bai Yujun drove off the men grabbing Black Horse, then killed two warriors who tried to seize her and the young leader who attacked her.
• Bai Yujun rode away, and the city lord abandoned plans to capture her after learning she was the Female Demon.
• Several days later, four sinister experts and their companions arrived in Liangzhou searching for Bai Yujun and for clues about an earlier incident.
• A silver-haired young man stopped one of his subordinates from attacking two evil cultivators and ordered his group to avoid conflict unless provoked.

Bai Yujun left Jade Gate Pass and rode Black Horse into the Dragon Gate Desert, where she faced an immense sandstorm. She braced herself against the gale and kept moving with Black Horse as the storm swallowed them.

• Bai Yujun admired Jade Gate Pass, stocked up on food and water, and entered the Western Regions desert.
• Bai Yujun revealed her dragonlike features and rode Black Horse away from the Silk Road toward Dragon Gate Desert.
• Bai Yujun and Black Horse crossed the hot, dangerous desert for several days, passing exposed bones and desert creatures.
• Bai Yujun prepared Black Horse and their supplies when she saw a massive sandstorm approaching.
• Bai Yujun led Black Horse through the storm, revealed part of her true form to steady herself, and urged them to keep moving.

Bai Yujun crossed the dust-choked Dragon Gate Desert and discovered a colossal, damaged Dragon Gate that awakened her instincts to approach it. A sword embedded in its plaque terrified her into fleeing, and the gate vanished beneath the sandstorm.

• Bai Yujun woke after sleeping for two days, watered and fed the Black Horse, and set out toward Dragon Gate Inn.
• Bai Yujun traveled through the desert, spotted shell fossils in exposed rock, and later dismounted to lead the horse through a gale.
• Bai Yujun saw an enormous structure ahead and pressed on despite the Black Horse’s fear and the growing pressure.
• Bai Yujun reached the ancient Dragon Gate, revealed her white flood dragon form, and struggled against the pressure urging her to approach.
• Bai Yujun noticed a sword embedded in the Dragon Gate plaque, panicked at its killing intent, and fled with the Black Horse as a sandstorm buried the gate.
• Bai Yujun stopped to curse the sword, but the Dragon Gate had disappeared.

The Dragon Gate vanished from the desert, while strange signs of its appearance stirred distant places. Bai Yujun failed to find it again and resumed her journey, where she encountered a Sand Monster.

• The Dragon Gate's appearance caused uncanny disturbances at Shenhua Mountain, a temple in the Central Plains, the Dragon Girl Temple, the Nine Li village, and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
• After the sandstorm ended, Bai Yujun found the Dragon Gate gone and concluded that the damaged gate could draw dragon-cultivating creatures into a dangerous trial.
• Bai Yujun searched the desert for five days but found no trace of the Dragon Gate, then continued toward Dragon Gate Inn with Black Horse to replenish supplies.
• Bai Yujun sensed a lurking presence and stabbed a Sand Monster hidden beneath the dunes, but it escaped underground and its severed arm crumbled into sand.

Bai Yujun fought off a huge swarm of Sand Monsters, but their ability to reform made them too troublesome to defeat by ordinary attacks. When they pursued her again, she tried using Dragon Breath and successfully trapped one inside a solidified crystal.

• Bai Yujun prepared for the returning Sand Monsters by protecting Black Horse with an array and surrounding herself with clones.
• Bai Yujun and her clones repeatedly shattered the Sand Monsters, but the creatures re-formed and began targeting the weaker clones.
• Bai Yujun forced open a path through the swarm, sent Black Horse ahead, and fled while using vibrations to damage the pursuing monsters.
• When the Sand Monsters caught up again, Bai Yujun sent Black Horse away and decided to attack them with Dragon Breath.
• Bai Yujun melted an airborne Sand Monster into crystal, trapping its writhing sand body and frozen face inside.

Bai Yujun trapped several Sand Monsters in crystal glass, took one as a sample, and finally reached Dragon Gate Inn during a prolonged sandstorm. Her arrival drew the attention of the inn’s unusual patrons, but she settled in and ordered raw meat.

• Bai Yujun stomped Sand Monsters out of the dunes, melted them into crystal glass, and took one specimen on Black Horse.
• Bai Yujun traveled through the continuing sandstorm toward Dragon Gate Inn.
• At Dragon Gate Inn, the innkeeper’s wife managed a crowded hall of humans, monsters, Ghostly Entities, and cultivators while the storm raged outside.
• A powerful presence knocked at the door, and Bai Yujun entered the inn with Black Horse.
• Bai Yujun chose a table, looked disdainfully at the evil cultivators and Central Plains experts, and ordered a basin of raw meat.
• Bai Yujun ate the raw meat as the inn’s patrons watched.

At the Dragon Gate Inn, Bai Yujun learned that the landlady knew nothing about the Dragon Gate Desert’s name and discovered that four evil cultivators tracking her had been controlled with Gu Worms. She hid a clone at the inn and spent each night gathering and compressing the sandstorm overhead, leaving the storm around the inn to grow ever fiercer.

• Bai Yujun questioned the landlady about the Dragon Gate Desert’s name, but the landlady said everyone had always called it that.
• Bai Yujun rejected a human-flesh bun, then warned the four evil cultivators that she would deal with them when their pursuers arrived.
• Bai Yujun identified the four trackers’ Gu Worms as the Black Tribe’s work and concluded that the desert’s climate would weaken them.
• Bai Yujun made a near-perfect clone from a scale, left it at the inn, and flew into the sandstorm.
• Bai Yujun spent the night compressing a massive sphere of wind high above the inn, then returned at dawn and slept.
• Bai Yujun repeated her routine of appearing at the inn by day and strengthening the storm by night, while the landlady muttered that Heaven had gone mad.

Bai Yujun waited at Dragon Gate Inn as Black Tribe experts entered Dragon Gate Desert through the sandstorm, then entertained herself by teasing the inn’s demons and questioning a Central Plains pair. The man said he and his sister had come to seek rumored ruins, while Bai Yujun offered to sell them living Glazed Crystal.

• Black Tribe experts flew through the sandstorms toward Dragon Gate Desert, following a beetle in a jade jar.
• At Dragon Gate Inn, Bai Yujun noticed the proprietress watching her twig, put it away, and sensed that the Black Tribe experts had entered the desert.
• Bai Yujun teased the Ghostly Entity by asking how it had died, then fed dried meat to the lizard demon.
• Bai Yujun asked a well-dressed man and woman why they had come to Dragon Gate Desert, but the woman rejected her as a demon.
• The man told Bai Yujun that he and his sister were searching for rumored ruins, and Bai Yujun offered to sell them living Glazed Crystal.

Bai Yujun waited outside Dragon Gate Inn for the Jiuli Black Tribe experts, drawing a deadly sandstorm around herself. After revealing her identity as a white flood dragon, she summoned lightning as the hunters prepared to fight.

• Bai Yujun left the inn’s flagpole and landed on a dune as a powerful cyclone followed her.
• Bai Yujun killed four wicked cultivators to keep them from spreading word.
• Nine Jiuli Black Tribe experts arrived, with eight martial artists surrounding their priest.
• The priest demanded that Bai Yujun surrender or die, and the onlookers realized she was a white flood dragon.
• Bai Yujun revealed a phantom of her flood-dragon form and called down lightning within the sandstorm.

Bai Yujun fought the Black Tribe’s eight martial experts amid a fierce sandstorm, using wind, sand, her shield, and spiritual blades to control the battle. She survived their combined strike and recovered from its disorienting impact after blasting the four enemies who tried to exploit it.

• Bai Yujun sent the spectators farther away, then faced the Black Tribe’s old chief priest and his eight martial experts.
• Bai Yujun summoned a sandstorm and two sand dragons to disrupt the attackers’ formation while her spiritual blades kept several enemies at bay.
• Bai Yujun blocked poisoned hidden weapons with her shoulder armor and landed to limit the directions from which she could be attacked.
• Bai Yujun met the four men’s combined strike with her shield, overwhelmed them, and was left dizzy by the impact.
• Bai Yujun detonated four spiritual blades to strike the other four experts as they closed in, then shook off her dizziness.

Bai Yujun fought the Black Tribe’s eight experts and their triangular-eyed old priest in a sandstorm, using a tornado and her heavy saber to turn the battle against them. She was blasted away after clashing with the priest, but shattered his bone staff and left him badly injured.

• Bai Yujun spun her heavy saber to create a tornado that scattered the eight Black Tribe experts’ coordinated attacks.
• She hurled the heavy saber at the Black Tribe commander, breaking his weapon and killing him.
• Bai Yujun seized the tornado and swung it through the remaining seven experts, scattering them in the sandstorm.
• She charged the triangular-eyed old priest and struck his bone staff with her heavy saber.
• The collision sent Bai Yujun flying into the sandstorm, while the priest’s staff shattered and he spat blood.

Bai Yujun fought the Black Tribe experts through the sandstorm, but after the brother and sister joined her and she sent them away, the old priest used Spirit Calming Sorcery to immobilize her. The Black Tribe survivors began binding her with enchanted beast teeth while she remained trapped by the spell.

• Bai Yujun burned the Gu Worms with Dragon Breath, then wounded several Black Tribe fighters by switching between her heavy saber and Hengdao.
• The brother stopped his sister from entering the battle, while the innkeeper watched from a distance.
• The Black Tribe experts used a combined attack to send Bai Yujun rolling across the sand, but the brother and sister then joined the fight and eased the pressure on her.
• Bai Yujun warned the siblings that the old priest was about to act, and they withdrew from the battlefield.
• As the sandstorm intensified, the old priest cast Spirit Calming Sorcery through a skull, sending a phantom into Bai Yujun's head and freezing her in place.
• The Black Tribe survivors surrounded Bai Yujun and used enchanted beast teeth and phantoms to bind her before she could recover.

Bai Yujun let the Black Tribe believe it had killed her, then revealed the black-armored body was a Scale Clone and unleashed a colossal storm on her attackers. The storm struck the battlefield and obliterated Dragon Gate Inn as Bai Yujun escaped into the sky.

• The Jiuli priest approached the restrained Bai Yujun and tried to make her swallow a parasitic Gu Worm, but it recoiled from her Chunyang cultivation.
• The priest attacked with a poisoned Stinger Sword, and Bai Yujun's black-armored form shattered into starlight, revealing it was a Scale Clone.
• Eight spiritual blades rose from the sand and trapped the Black Tribe fighters in a Chunyang Palace formation.
• Bai Yujun, wearing black armor atop a spinning storm, drove the enormous hurricane down toward the trapped priest and his men.
• The storm slammed into the battlefield, launching thousands of tons of Yellow Sand and crushing Dragon Gate Inn as Bai Yujun flew into the sky.