Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun fought a Black Tribe priest who sacrificed himself to summon a monstrous evil god projection, then lured it toward the Dragon Gate. The Golden Divine Dragon struck the monster, and Bai Yujun attacked it in her true form as it weakened.

• Bai Yujun ended her storm, but detected the wounded Black Tribe priest still alive and raised the storm again to kill him.
• The priest mourned the destruction of his lover’s skull artifact, then sacrificed his body, blood, and soul to summon a monstrous projection.
• Bai Yujun spotted the Dragon Gate and flew toward it, drawing the pursuing monster after her.
• The Golden Divine Dragon struck the monster with a surge of energy, sending it crashing into the sand.
• Bai Yujun transformed into a gigantic white flood dragon and attacked the weakened monster with her claws and Dragon Breath.
• The monster’s attacks grew weaker as Bai Yujun’s scales blocked them, and it struggled to find a fatal strike before its energy ran out.

Bai Yujun defeated the evil god incarnation and rested in the desert. At dawn, a golden palace complex emerged from the sand, and she discovered that only she could enter its main hall and claim the treasure pearl reserved for the fated one.

• Bai Yujun forced the monster's mouth open and burned it from the inside until it vanished into ash.
• After resting through the night, Bai Yujun woke and noticed a golden palace complex exposed by the sandstorm.
• Bai Yujun inspected the palace, recognized its ancient architectural style, and entered the main hall through a threshold that felt like a barrier.
• Bai Yujun found a five-colored treasure pearl in the hall, while the people gathered outside could not pass through the spell formation.
• Bai Yujun took the pearl, sat on the dragon throne, and read the words on its Jade Plate: “Reserved for the fated one?”

Bai Yujun gave Mo Xu and Mo Qin treasure swords after recognizing them as descendants of her old friend, then returned to the great hall to study the pearl and heal her scales. Meanwhile, the Dragon Gate Inn’s proprietress and her group found an ancient gate that seemed connected to the white flood dragon’s ability to pass through the palace restrictions.

• Bai Yujun gave Mo Xu and Mo Qin a treasure sword each and told them to seek the Golden Void Lineage at Chunyang Palace to have the swords reforged.
• Mo Xu said that he and Mo Qin descended from Mo Yuan’s line and invited Bai Yujun to visit Nanyuan City.
• Bai Yujun returned to the great hall, found that the pearl accelerated her recovery, and pulled out scales too damaged to heal.
• Treasure seekers searched the palace complex but found little of value outside the restricted great hall.
• The Dragon Gate Inn’s proprietress and her group discovered an ancient, warded gate carved with a tree bearing fruit.
• After noticing that the gate’s restriction resembled the great hall’s, the group suspected Bai Yujun’s bloodline let her pass through the palace wards.

As the sandstorm returned to bury the Ancient Palace Ruins, Bai Yujun opened the Mysterious Gate and entered the hidden world beyond it. The Dragon Gate Inn proprietress failed to follow her, and the ruins vanished beneath the sand, leaving the survivors unable to find them again.

• Bai Yujun carried the pearl to the Mysterious Gate after the proprietress revealed her interest in what lay beyond it.
• Bai Yujun explained that a restriction prevented the group from entering, then pulled open the gate and passed through it.
• The proprietress charged at the gate but struck the invisible restriction and was injured, while her attendants pulled her away from the rising sandstorm.
• Yellow Sand swallowed the Ancient Palace Ruins, and the gate closed as the storm erased every trace of the palace.
• The Dragon Gate Inn group searched for the buried ruins and dug into the dunes, but found only rock and hard earth.

Bai Yujun entered a hidden paradise filled with ancient trees and spirit herbs, where she met the powerful girl Mu. Mu fed her rare spirit fruits until Bai Yujun transformed into her flood-dragon form and fell into hibernation to absorb their energy.

• Bai Yujun passed through the Mysterious Gate into a lush space filled with abundant spirit herbs and enormous ancient trees.
• Bai Yujun harvested and ate spirit herbs while an unseen observer watched her.
• Mu appeared, recognized Bai Yujun as a flood dragon, and introduced herself.
• Mu led Bai Yujun to a lake beneath the ancient tree and fed her several precious red fruits.
• The fruit's energy overwhelmed Bai Yujun, who reverted to her flood-dragon form and entered hibernation to absorb it.

Bai Yujun stayed in Mu’s sealed sanctuary, where the ancient tree spirit kept feeding her spiritual fruits and herbs. As her cultivation approached the Nascent Soul Late Stage and a horn began forming, Bai Yujun asked how to leave so she could resume searching for Broken Bone, nearly bringing Mu to tears.

• Bai Yujun woke in the pool and discovered that Mu was feeding her spiritual fruits and herbs to help her grow faster.
• Bai Yujun learned that Mu was a powerful tree spirit who wove bird nests, though no birds could enter the sealed sanctuary.
• Mu explained that a human she had once saved had tried to steal her stored Hong Guo and cut off a branch, so Bai Yujun returned the branch she had found.
• Mu revealed that she had saved fruits for dragons and flood dragons, and Bai Yujun decided to stay a few days while Mu continued feeding her.
• Bai Yujun’s cultivation neared the Nascent Soul Late Stage and a bump appeared on her forehead as she asked Mu how to leave, nearly making Mu cry.

Bai Yujun learned how to leave and return to the secret realm, then departed after promising to bring Mu birds and squirrels. A few days later, Bai Yujun returned with them, bringing Mu happiness and companionship.

• Bai Yujun discovered the Mysterious Gate no longer transported her and asked Mu how to leave the secret realm.
• Mu explained that Bai Yujun could fly upward to exit and could return through the gate, which Mu could also use to bring her in directly.
• Bai Yujun promised to visit again with birds and squirrels, then flew out of the secret realm as Mu watched her go.
• Mu planted spirit fruits and medicines while waiting for Bai Yujun to return with the creatures she had promised.
• Bai Yujun returned with more than a dozen kinds of birds and several squirrels, and Mu welcomed her by feeding her spirit fruits.

Snake Valley’s demons and human villagers settled into their daily routines under the White Residence’s rules while Qing Ling oversaw construction. Far away, Bai Yujun crossed the Dragon Gate Desert with Black Horse and found signs that a group of Central Plains people had passed through two days earlier.

• Lu Gui returned to Snake Valley and prepared to teach the demon beasts gathered for class at the White Residence.
• Zhu Da caught a net full of fish, sold them to the demons, and traded herbs at the General Store.
• Qing Ling supervised renovations near the pagoda while Mu Duo remarked that Bai Yujun never stayed still.
• Bai Yujun crossed the desert with Black Horse and stopped at a rocky water source to refill their waterskins.
• Bai Yujun found dried fruit shells and footprints that showed a group of Central Plains people had passed through two days earlier, then continued onward.

Bai Yujun rode Black Horse across Ghost City, resting through the night before continuing through the desert. She reached the colorful Danxia Landform, admired its beauty, and then resumed her journey northwest toward the Southern Wasteland.

• Bai Yujun guided Black Horse through the windy ravines of Ghost City and stopped in a cave to eat, clean up, and sleep.
• Black Horse shouted “Giddyup” in the middle of the night, startling Bai Yujun, who threw a shoe at it and ordered it to be quiet.
• Bai Yujun and Black Horse crossed Ghost City in two days and passed through another stretch of desert.
• Bai Yujun admired the Danxia Landform and reflected that appreciating nature could help cultivators comprehend the Dao.
• Bai Yujun decided the dry, remote region was unsuitable for a retreat and rode Black Horse northwest toward the Southern Wasteland.

Bai Yujun and the Black Horse crossed the Gobi, endured a saline lake, and traveled across the Sky Mirror before reaching a snowy mountain. There, Bai Yujun discovered a temple being built by enslaved laborers and recognized a familiar scent that belonged to a hated enemy.

• Bai Yujun met Western Regions merchants on the Silk Road, received supplies after they saw her Snake Scales, and continued across the Gobi with the Black Horse.
• Bai Yujun and the Black Horse reached a saline-alkali lake, drank its bitter water, and Bai Yujun used water manipulation to give the Black Horse fresh water.
• Bai Yujun and the Black Horse crossed the vast Sky Mirror salt lake and continued north toward a snow mountain.
• Bai Yujun followed human scents to a snowy mountain and saw a temple being built by enslaved laborers.
• Bai Yujun recognized a familiar birdlike scent and realized that a deeply hated enemy was nearby.

Bai Yujun watched Huang Zhao guard the Western Teachings’ Snow Mountain Temple and learned that he was the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird who had once attacked her. She chose not to confront him yet, then discovered more than two thousand savages approaching the temple and saw a mysterious force transform them into half-beasts.

• Huang Zhao dismissed the warning that someone might interfere with the Snow Mountain Temple’s construction, while an old monk privately sneered at him.
• Bai Yujun recognized Huang Zhao as the younger Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird from the Hundred Thousand Mountains and recalled his past attacks and the Western Teachings’ claims about dragons.
• After deciding Huang Zhao would be difficult to defeat, Bai Yujun spotted savages stealthily approaching the temple and chose to let their attack add to the trouble.
• Bai Yujun watched more than two thousand savages led by a burly man creep toward the construction site as a mysterious force gave them beastly traits.

Bai Yujun disrupted the battle between the feral men and the Western Teachings by toppling a giant statue onto the believers and triggering avalanches. The feral men withdrew after rescuing their kin, while Bai Yujun escaped into the mountains.

• The feral men attacked the temple construction site, freeing captured kin and battling the Western Teachings as Huang Zhao fought their tiger leader.
• Bai Yujun watched the duel and decided to exploit the battle by bringing down the unfinished statue.
• Bai Yujun found a fracture behind the statue's neck, widened it with her saber, and kicked the statue loose.
• The statue collapsed onto the Western Teachings' forces, and the resulting tremors triggered avalanches across nearby peaks.
• Bai Yujun hid in a cave and laughed over her escape as the feral leader led his people in an orderly withdrawal.

Bai Yujun merged with the dragon vein of a snowy mountain while Chunyang Palace faced mounting threats from the Cultivation World. Yu Rong revealed that dragon bones in the Northern Lands might counter the flood dragon’s influence, and Chunyang’s forces arrived as a silver-haired man carrying the bones realized they were coming for him.

• Bai Yujun entered a hidden fissure, transformed into a white flood dragon, and absorbed the snowy mountain’s dragon qi.
• Qi Yun sent Gan Wu to quiet the Cultivation World alliance gathered below Shenhua Mountain, and Gan Wu’s challenge silenced them before they began to disperse.
• Yu Rong warned that Chunyang’s enemies would eventually attack and revealed that dragon bones from beyond the Northern Lands’ snowy mountains could offset Bai Yujun’s powers.
• A silver-haired young man carrying dragon bones rode near the Gobi with several hundred subordinates and complained about the price he expected to receive.
• The silver-haired young man saw twenty sword lights approaching from the Central Plains and broke his jade talisman to send an emergency message.

Bai Yujun joined a Chunyang Palace party sent to help her find and seize the dragon bone, and she led the Purple Void Sword Cultivators toward a barbarian tribe holding clues. The group set off with Black Horse following, while the Golden-Winged Great Peng had already escaped.

• A Chunyang Palace party of two Deity Transformation Grand Elders and eighteen Nascent Soul Purple Void Sword Cultivators gathered beneath a Taiji cloud signal.
• Bai Yujun emerged from the underground cavern, saw the gathering, and flew over to meet them.
• A Grand Elder gave Bai Yujun a letter explaining that the sect had sent them to help seize the dragon bone, and she took charge of the group.
• Bai Yujun proposed attacking Snow Mountain Temple and the Golden-Winged Great Peng, but the cultivators said the bird had fled and prioritized finding the dragon bone.
• Bai Yujun led the party toward the barbarian tribe using her heat-sensing ability, while Black Horse galloped after them and nearly drew the cultivators' swords.

Bai Yujun asked the savage chieftain about Broken Bone and learned that the tribe considered it a sacred relic stolen by people from the Central Plains. The chieftain told her it had been found beneath the ice plains, fifty sunrises north, and she traded him an iron rod before leaving.

• Bai Yujun entered the savage tribe with twenty Chunyang disciples and met its tiger-transforming chieftain.
• The chieftain recognized the Purple Void cultivators and recalled that Gan Wu had slain powerful beasts on the northern ice plains.
• Bai Yujun showed the chieftain her sketch of Broken Bone, and he identified it as the tribe's stolen sacred relic.
• The chieftain explained that his grandfather had said the relic was found beneath the ice plains, fifty sunrises north.
• Bai Yujun gave the chieftain an iron rod and left.

Bai Yujun left Black Horse with a Chunyang Palace disciple and led twenty Purple Void disciples north across the icefields in search of dragon bones. After a blizzard forced them to shelter with elk herders, she recorded their route and went to sleep while rival groups also headed into the icefields.

• Bai Yujun entrusted Black Horse to a senior Jade Void disciple before departing north with twenty Purple Void disciples.
• Huang Zhao and his Western Teachings experts followed the Chunyang cultivators into the icefields after ending their deal with the Silver-haired Man's faction.
• The Silver-haired Man's faction sent several hundred people into the icefields to claim the dragon bones, while the savage chief led several thousand savages toward Snow Mountain Temple.
• Bai Yujun's group flew north through the freezing wilderness and sought shelter with elk herders when a fierce gale swept across the icefields.
• Bai Yujun paid the herders with herbs and arrows, mapped the route in her notebook, and went to sleep in their tent.

Bai Yujun and the Pure Yang group searched the icy wilderness for the dragon bones, exploring its strange creatures and following a Snow Monkey to a buried fissure. They uncovered an ancient zombie, which the group trapped before it could be destroyed.

• Bai Yujun and the Pure Yang group left the herdsman's family and traveled farther north into a harsh coniferous region filled with unusual ice-and-snow creatures.
• The Purple Void female Grand Elder reasoned that the dragon bones were likely exposed in a fissure or canyon, so the group focused its search there.
• A Snow Monkey followed Bai Yujun and led her to a snow-covered spot, where she uncovered a fissure beneath the surface.
• Bai Yujun and the others sensed something sinister below and identified it as a zombie when an ancient, frost-covered figure emerged.
• The Pure Yang experts surrounded the zombie with flying swords, and Bai Yujun warned them not to smash it to pieces.

Bai Yujun investigated ancient corpses and a frozen battlefield while searching for the dragon bones. The search led her and the Purple Void disciples to a vast standoff between icefield creatures and powerful zombies, leaving their route forward blocked.

• Bai Yujun examined frozen armored zombies and found their equipment had been made with advanced techniques.
• A disciple called Bai Yujun into a fissure, where she discovered countless frozen soldiers and concluded the Northern Lands had once been an ancient battlefield.
• Bai Yujun destroyed the zombies in the fissure and told the group to search for places with fewer zombies, where dragon bones might lie.
• The group searched for two days and found fewer zombies and a strange aura as they approached the suspected dragon bones.
• Bai Yujun and the two Grand Elders found a vast gathering of icefield creatures facing powerful zombies, blocking their way.
• Bai Yujun roared at two Snow Tigers to prevent a fight, and the group decided to try circling around the battlefield.

Bai Yujun and the Purple Void Sword Cultivators found the dragon bones trapped inside a ring of ice and snow creatures and zombies, then encountered the Western Teachings and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird. The old monk condemned Bai Yujun and urged her to repent, leaving both groups poised for a fight.

• Bai Yujun realized that the ice and snow creatures and zombies surrounded the dragon bones, but she could find no way through their defensive rings.
• Bai Yujun and the Purple Void Sword Cultivators prepared to face the approaching Western Teachings, whose goal was also to obtain the dragon bones and counter her divine abilities.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird arrived with the Western Teachings, and Bai Yujun proposed using their arrival to stir up the surrounding creatures and ease the way to the center.
• The Western Teachings party met the Chunyang group in the snow, and the old monk accused Bai Yujun of evil and invited her to repent.
• Bai Yujun rejected the old monk’s offer, called the Western Teachings deceitful, and provoked him as both sides stood ready for conflict.

Bai Yujun uncovered a third faction lying in wait, leaving Chunyang Palace, the Western Teachings, the newcomers, the zombie, and the ice-and-snow monsters in a five-way standoff. She provoked the monster horde into attacking, and as the factions fought their way toward the dragon bones, Chunyang’s sword formation suddenly wheeled around.

• Bai Yujun withdrew as the Purple Void Sword Cultivators formed a precise Taiji formation against the Western Teachings’ flawed formation.
• Bai Yujun sensed humans hiding in the snowstorm, and an old man’s group emerged, creating a three-way standoff among the Central Plains factions.
• Bai Yujun recognized that five hostile forces were gathered around the dragon bones and kept a wary eye on the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird.
• Bai Yujun fired a Spiritual Energy Sword over the ice-and-snow monsters, startling them into charging the zombie and the three factions.
• Chunyang’s sword formation advanced toward the dragon bones as the Western Teachings and the old man’s group pushed through the monster horde.
• Bai Yujun dodged the monsters along the formation’s edge as Chunyang’s formation abruptly turned and circled toward the rear.