Chapter Summaries

Two Demon Kings from the Southern Wilderness arrived and demanded that the Golden-Winged Great Peng answer for betraying his clan. The Golden-Winged Great Peng accepted a life-and-death duel against seven Nascent Soul eagle demons, and the assembled factions prepared to watch.

• The Wisdom King accused the Southern Wilderness demons of exploiting the conflict, but the Green Wood Demon King declared that they had come to punish the Golden-Winged Great Peng for betraying Wind Thunder Cliff and his clan.
• The Green Wood Demon King promised the demons would leave after the duel, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng accepted the challenge.
• Seven eagle and falcon demon commanders insisted on fighting the Golden-Winged Great Peng themselves to restore their clan's honor, despite the Wind Thunder Cliff Demon King's warning.
• The Green Wood Demon King set the duel as a life-and-death fight between the seven Nascent Soul commanders and the Golden-Winged Great Peng, a Deity Transformation Demon King.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng agreed, Yu Rong kept the grand formation on alert, and the factions cleared a space in the sky for the duel.

The seven Eagle Demon commanders fought the Golden-Winged Great Peng in a brutal duel, determined to avenge their clan and the young eagles whose Spiritual Intelligence had been destroyed. As the Great Peng was pinned down, the two eagles who had flown away returned at full speed, ready to sacrifice themselves for the glory of the eagle clan.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng urged the seven Eagle Demon commanders to return to the Southern Wasteland, but they answered with an eagle cry and attacked.
• The Great Peng and the seven commanders revealed their true forms and fought in the sky, while Bai Yujun watched without interfering.
• The elderly black goshawk traded its life for a deep wound to the Great Peng’s chest before falling to the ground.
• The Great Peng wounded the remaining eagles, but they kept attacking; two of them then flew away while the others continued the duel.
• Bai Yujun removed her helmet in salute as four eagles pinned the Great Peng, and the two fleeing eagles turned back and charged at it at full speed.

Seven hawk demon commanders sacrificed themselves to defeat the Golden-Winged Great Peng, and the surviving eagles forced the Western Teachings to return their enslaved kin. The chapter ended with the eagle clan leaving with its dead and wounded after killing the younger eagles whose minds had been destroyed.

• Two hawks made suicidal charges through the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s chest, fatally wounding it as their companions continued the attack.
• The remaining hawks shattered the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s heart and skull, killing it at the cost of two commanders’ lives and severe injuries to the survivors.
• The Green Wood Demon King and the Demon King of Wind Thunder Cliff tended the surviving hawks and gathered their fallen companions’ bodies.
• The aged goshawk demanded that the Western Teachings return the eagle clan’s captured young, and Yu Rong supported the demand before the onlookers.
• Wisdom King ordered the monks to release the captured eagles, but the young birds flew back toward the Western Teachings, their minds irreparably damaged.
• Four surviving hawk commanders killed the young eagles, and the demon kings took away the corpses of the Golden-Winged Great Peng and the dead young birds.

Bai Yujun fought the Western Teachings in the skies before Shenhua Mountain and discovered that her dragon spear could easily shatter their golden artifacts. As the Western Teachings unleashed a massive Sect-Guarding Treasure, Yu Rong sent four Grand Elders to stop it, and Bai Yujun came up with an idea.

• The Western Teachings’ Golden Brilliant Treasure collided with Chunyang Palace’s Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram, and cultivators on both sides began fighting across the sky.
• Bai Yujun evaded attacks and killed Western Teachings disciples, then destroyed a pagoda artifact with her dragon spear and killed its wielder with Hengdao.
• Bai Yujun shattered a hawk-nosed monk’s Vajra Pestle, pierced his chest with her spear, and decapitated him with Hengdao.
• Bai Yujun continued breaking enemy artifacts and ambushing Western Teachings cultivators, retreating whenever Deity Transformation Stage opponents appeared.
• The Western Teachings sent a house-sized Golden Incense Burner into the battle, and five Deity Transformation Stage monks drove it through Chunyang’s defenses while Qi Yun remained occupied by four Great Ascension Stage cultivators.
• Yu Rong ordered four Grand Elders to block the Sect-Guarding Treasure, and Bai Yujun came up with an idea as they struggled against its power.

Bai Yujun was trapped beneath the Western Teachings' Golden Incense Burner, but she tore her way out and destroyed the Sect-Guarding Treasure. The battle continued with the Western Teachings losing control of one of their most important weapons.

• Bai Yujun fought off three Western Teachings fanatics as the Golden Incense Burner descended to capture her.
• The burner slammed into the ground with Bai Yujun trapped inside, while the Wisdom King taunted Yu Rong about losing her disciple.
• Bai Yujun battered through the burner's base and tore it open with her hands, forcing the fighting around it to shift in Chunyang Palace's favor.
• Bai Yujun climbed out, spat out a wounded fanatic, and prepared to strike the damaged treasure with her heavy saber.
• Bai Yujun used the Mountain Dwelling Saber Technique, First Form—Sunset Lake, and smashed a hole through the burner, destroying it and making the five Deity Transformation monks lose control of it.

Bai Yujun fought fiercely for Chunyang, killing Western Teachings cultivators and easing pressure on the senior disciples. The battle remained unresolved, but Chu Zhe and Gan Wu began breakthroughs that could turn the tide.

• Bai Yujun charged six Nascent Soul cultivators and killed them in a single exchange with her dragon spear.
• Bai Yujun created Scale Clones and weaker translucent clones to attack Western Teachings cultivators, helping Chunyang's senior disciples counterattack.
• Bai Yujun unleashed wind, rain, lightning, and venom against the Western Teachings as the fighting continued across the battlefield.
• Yu Rong told Chu Zhe and Gan Wu that Chunyang's safety rested on them, and they began mobilizing their cultivation at the mountain gate.
• Bai Yujun sensed that Chu Zhe and Gan Wu were about to enter the Great Ascension Stage, revealing Chunyang's hidden advantage to the alarmed Wisdom King.

Chu Zhe and Gan Wu broke through to the Great Ascension Stage, turning the tide of the battle in Chunyang’s favor. Bai Yujun helped Yang Mu, killed a monk who ambushed her, and then attacked the Western Teachings’ Golden Core disciples to weaken their forces.

• Chu Zhe and Gan Wu broke through to the Great Ascension Stage, strengthening Chunyang and throwing the Western Teachings into disarray.
• Bai Yujun hurled her dragon spear through the battle and skewered two monks besieging Yang Mu, nearly striking him as well.
• A Western Teachings monk shot Bai Yujun in the back, but her armor deflected the arrow, and she caught and killed him as he tried to flee.
• Bai Yujun charged into the Western Teachings’ Golden Core disciples and swept the formation with flames and translucent clones.

After Chunyang Palace defeated Western Teachings, Bai Yujun rested while the sect treated the wounded and cleared the battlefield. She killed a wounded enemy monk who was about to receive care, then set out with disciples to patrol around Mount Hua.

• Chunyang Palace routed Western Teachings, while Spirit Void disciples and ordinary disciples treated the wounded and collected the dead.
• Bai Yujun rested beside the destroyed Golden Incense Burner as Yang Mu and Li Xiangling tended his injury.
• Disciples found a wounded Western Teachings monk and prepared to take him for treatment, but Bai Yujun stomped him to death.
• Bai Yujun learned that Jiuli and Southern Wasteland demon beasts had attacked Western Teachings’ southern territory while it was fighting Chunyang Palace.
• Yu Rong assigned Bai Yujun and a group of disciples to patrol around Mount Hua, and Bai Yujun set out in Daoist robes.

Bai Yujun enjoyed a peaceful stretch at Qingxu Palace, bathing, eating, and passing her days at leisure while Chunyang Palace prepared for Chu Zhe’s inauguration. The chapter left her relaxing on Mount Hua, with her horse Black Horse returned and no immediate plans to leave.

• Bai Yujun bathed, slept in the tub, and got ready for a meal with Xu Ling.
• Bai Yujun and Xu Ling ate extra dishes at the dining hall, where a disciple told Bai Yujun that her horse had returned.
• Bai Yujun confirmed Black Horse was hers when she heard he had said “giddyup,” and the disciple offered to bring him to Qingxu Palace.
• Bai Yujun settled into a carefree routine on Mount Hua while Chunyang Palace prepared for Chu Zhe’s inauguration as sect master.
• Bai Yujun played music, threw paper airplanes, and performed for money on the sect’s commercial street.

Bai Yujun mourned the Chunyang disciples killed in battle, then returned to Qingxu Palace and settled into hibernation. In the southern lands, the ruined Western Teachings reeled from their defeat as Huang Zhao and the mad Wisdom King encountered a mysterious young monk.

• Bai Yujun watched from afar as the fallen Chunyang disciples were buried, poured wine before their graves, and blessed them.
• Bai Yujun returned to Qingxu Palace, dismissed the young disciples' gossip, and began hibernating.
• Huang Zhao hid in a ruined temple after learning his father had died and the Wisdom King had gone mad.
• The Western Teachings returned from Shenhua Mountain defeated and discovered their southern temples destroyed and their forces scattered.
• A mysterious visitor entered the ruined temple and calmly told the Wisdom King that he was the Wisdom King yet was not.
• The prayer banners parted, and a young monk stepped out before Huang Zhao and the Wisdom King.

Huang Zhao witnessed a young monk defeat the aged Wisdom King and was made an official disciple. At Shenhua Mountain, Bai Yujun painted a landscape with a flood dragon and gave it to Yang Mu as a wedding gift, while Chunyang Palace prepared for its new sect master’s inauguration.

• The young monk froze the aged Wisdom King in midair, drained his body, and declared that he was the true Wisdom King, yet neither was the true Wisdom King.
• The young monk told Huang Zhao that the old Wisdom King had failed to protect Huang Zhao’s father and made Huang Zhao an official disciple rather than a mount.
• Golden light restored Huang Zhao’s missing arm, and the young monk vanished; another old monk entered, muttering that he was the only Wisdom King.
• Bai Yujun painted Mount Hua and added a striking ink flood dragon in her final stroke.
• Yang Mu praised Bai Yujun’s painting, accepted it as a wedding gift, and went to have it mounted.
• Bai Yujun returned with her clones as Chunyang Palace prepared for the new sect master’s inauguration ceremony the next day.

Bai Yujun attended Chunyang Palace’s grand ceremony before planning her return to the Southern Wasteland. She stopped at Golden Void to gather supplies and equipment for her forces, then began learning prospecting and furnace construction.

• Bai Yujun and Xu Ling arrived late to the ceremony, stood at the back, and waited impatiently until it ended and they could eat.
• Bai Yujun decided to avoid Western Teachings territory on her way home and planned a northwest route through the Dragon Gate Desert and Melt Heaven Ridge.
• Bai Yujun went to Golden Void and commissioned swords, shields, spears, longbows, and mechanical crossbows to equip her subordinates.
• Bai Yujun asked the Golden Void Peak Master to teach her prospecting and furnace construction, offering to let him study her dragon spear.
• Bai Yujun transformed her anklet into the dragon spear and began learning ore prospecting from Golden Void books.

Bai Yujun rode into Dragon Gate Desert after sending her two True Human escorts away, intending to draw out the enemies waiting to capture her. When four Western Teachings monks ambushed her, Mu appeared and killed them, then checked that Bai Yujun was unharmed.

• Bai Yujun thanked the two True Humans for escorting her and continued into Dragon Gate Desert with Black Horse alone.
• Bai Yujun rode through a sandstorm, expecting enemies to attack because she had deliberately left her escorts behind.
• Four Deity Transformation Stage monks from the Western Teachings surrounded Bai Yujun and demanded that she come with them.
• Bai Yujun called for help, and the sandstorm vanished as the group was transported to a tranquil world where Mu appeared.
• Mu killed all four monks with a surge of power, then descended to Bai Yujun's shoulder and confirmed she was safe.

Bai Yujun rested in Mu’s secret realm and spoke of her longing for a peaceful life before returning to her territory in the Southern Wasteland. She reunited with Qing Ling and Mu Duo, while Iron Ball led a caravan carrying gold toward her lands.

• Bai Yujun told Mu how the dangers and violence of her life had left her yearning for the quiet days she had known as a little snake demon.
• Bai Yujun stayed several more days in Mu’s secret realm before traveling south toward the Southern Wasteland.
• Bai Yujun returned to her territory, found the snake demons still following her rules, and rested with Qing Ling and Mu Duo at Bai Manor.
• Iron Ball led a caravan laden with goods through the Nine Li White Tribe’s territory and lamented that moving all the gold would take many more trips.

Bai Yujun organized the Snake Clan’s territory and began building a disciplined army, while setting up training, education, food production, and trade. With the territory on track and more than two hundred soldiers trained, she planned to visit the Jiuli Bai Tribe and search for scattered low-level snake spirits.

• Bai Yujun ordered a training ground built and required shapeshifted demons in her territory to attend school or leave.
• Bai Yujun recruited more than two hundred snake demons, gave them weapons and armor, and established rules demanding loyalty, discipline, and obedience.
• Bai Yujun divided the recruits into three units and trained them in formations and drills while Mu Duo observed their equipment and instruction.
• Bai Yujun arranged for livestock, trade, medicinal herb cultivation, and smithing to support the territory and its army.
• After a month, Bai Yujun saw the soldiers moving in disciplined formation and decided the force needed to grow to at least five thousand.
• Bai Yujun planned to visit the Jiuli Bai Tribe and find low-level snake spirits scattered across the lands.

Bai Yujun spent several years building a thriving town, academy, and Snake Demon Army in the southern wilderness. Yang Mu visited her territory, impressed by its growth but uneasy about the army’s future power.

• Bai Yujun developed her territory, establishing an academy and a tranquil town while keeping Bai Manor peaceful.
• Bai Yujun woke from her nap, reflected on the years since the Shenhua Mountain war, and went to inspect the territory.
• Bai Yujun watched five hundred Snake Demon Army soldiers perform precise formations and resolved to build the strongest army in the world.
• Yang Mu arrived with Iron Ball and was surprised by the army’s discipline, though he worried about what Bai Yujun might do with its growing strength.
• Bai Yujun welcomed Yang Mu and showed him the flourishing town, where Central Plains people, Jiuli people, and demons lived and traded together.

Yang Mu asked Bai Yujun to help the Human Emperor unify the Central Plains and keep Jiuli from interfering. Bai Yujun secured peace agreements with Cloud Remote Ancient Village and several other villages, then Mu Duo questioned whether the gold from the Central Plains was truly cursed.

• Yang Mu told Bai Yujun that Heaven's will had set a Human Emperor on the path to unify the Central Plains, and asked her to restrain Anti-Dragon and help his rise.
• Yang Mu explained that demonic beasts from the ancient battlefield had grown stronger and that he had come to negotiate peace with Jiuli; Bai Yujun agreed to help and warned she could persuade at least six White Tribe villages.
• Bai Yujun contacted Mu Duo and brought Yang Mu to Cloud Remote Ancient Village, where the leaders refused to give up their gains from the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun warned the leaders that their gold carried a curse, and the old priestess agreed that Cloud Remote Ancient Village would stop interfering in the Central Plains.
• Yang Mu and the village leaders signed a peace agreement, and Bai Yujun helped several other villages sign similar documents before Yang Mu departed.
• Mu Duo asked Bai Yujun whether the gold was really cursed, and Bai Yujun replied that Mu Duo had already seen its effects.

Bai Yujun began supporting the weak Human Emperor of Yan by weakening rival warlords’ dragon veins, while her territory’s forces prepared to repel infiltrating Demonic Beasts. The chapter ended with a snake demon patrol detecting something abnormal in the forest.

• Bai Yujun found the Human Emperor of Yan and saw that a Chunyang Palace Daoist had arrived to aid him.
• Bai Yujun attacked a nearby warlord’s false dragon, weakening his aura as he dreamed of being devoured by a flood dragon.
• Tieqiu deployed two hundred Snake Demon Army crossbowmen to patrol the territory and kill or report Demonic Beasts and Demonic Cultivators.
• The chapter recalled how Tieqiu had repeatedly risked her life to rescue Bai Yujun, fueling her hatred of Demonic Beasts and Demonic Cultivators.
• A little boy raced through the forest toward the territory’s edge, using his ability to burrow through a hill.
• A snake demon patrol sensed vibrations in a Giant Tree and reported that something ahead was abnormal.

The Snake Clan demons defended their border against Demonic Beasts, using ambushes and their keen senses to kill intruders. As pressure grew and arrows ran low, Qing Ling, Lu Gui, and Ironball agreed to seek reinforcements from Green Wood Mountain if necessary.

• Ten Snake Clan demons ambushed three wounded Demonic Monsters in the forest, killing two with arrows and the last with a female demon’s Hengdao.
• Snake Clan patrol squads continued intercepting Demonic Beasts at the border, while Ironball raced along the territory to handle stronger intruders.
• After several days of fighting, Qing Ling, Lu Gui, and several dozen Snake Clan demons delivered supplies, including arrows, and discussed the worsening defense situation.
• Qing Ling, Lu Gui, and Ironball agreed to stop intruders at the border and ask the Green Wood Demon King for help if Snake Valley came under threat.

Lu Gui, Qing Ling, and Iron Ball planned defenses against the Demonic Beasts pouring into the Southern Wasteland, while Lu Gui grew concerned about Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s condition. As Qing Ling set out to seek reinforcements from Green Wood Mountain, Mu Duo resolved that Cloud Remote Ancient Village had to change.

• Lu Gui proposed establishing temporary border camps and moving troops and capable fighters there, and Qing Ling agreed to send three hundred troops before seeking aid from Green Wood Mountain.
• Lu Gui offered to suspend academy classes and help, then suggested investigating the Jiuli region to locate the main Demonic Beast forces.
• Iron Ball and Lu Gui entered Cloud Remote Ancient Village, learned that its defenses were struggling, and criticized the villages’ dwindling effort and motivation.
• The two reached the mountain defense line and saw Demonic Beasts overrunning the area; Iron Ball worried that their forces could not stop them without risking the snake demons.
• Lu Gui said he was more concerned about Cloud Remote Ancient Village, while Mu Duo stood at a window and declared that the village had to change.