Chapter Summaries

Xu Jiaorong learned that the Martial Monk had failed to subdue Bai Yujun, then sought Bai Yujun out and begged her to reject Xu Xian. Bai Yujun said she had no intention of causing trouble with him.

• Xu Jiaorong asked the Martial Monk whether he had subdued Bai Yujun, and he admitted that he had failed.
• Bai Yujun bought black rice cakes from an old granny and listened to her account of fleeing famine and making a living in town.
• Xu Jiaorong approached Bai Yujun’s shop, overcame her fear, and knelt to ask her for a favor.
• Xu Jiaorong begged Bai Yujun to reject Xu Xian so he could establish a family and career.
• Bai Yujun replied that she was doing well on her own and had never planned to pursue Xu Xian.

Xu Jiaorong visited Bai Yujun to plead for Xu Hanwen, and Bai Yujun agreed to handle the matter while selling a painting to a customer. Xu Jiaorong forgot the encounter, while Xu Xian remained distracted by Bai Yujun until an old monk lured him to the river to discuss his marriage fate.

• Xu Jiaorong pleaded with Bai Yujun to reject Xu Hanwen, and Bai Yujun reassured her before joking about eating human flesh.
• Little Stone announced a new customer, and Bai Yujun demonstrated her painting skill for an old gentleman who bought a painting for one hundred taels.
• Xu Jiaorong returned home, forgot the encounter with Bai Yujun, and decided to help Xu Hanwen with his marriage.
• Xu Xian spent the day at Hundred Herbs Hall distracted by thoughts of Bai Yujun and flickering memories of a jade pendant.
• An old monk approached Xu Xian about his marriage fate and led him to the river, while a golden-haired young man stayed back.

Xu Xian tested whether Bai Yujun was a demon by bringing her rice wine from an old monk, then left reassured and carrying her painting. Meanwhile, Bai Yujun dealt with the King Cobra soul, and rising floodwaters threatened Suzhou and Hangzhou.

• An old monk gave Xu Xian rice wine said to repel demons and urged him to resolve his doubts about his destined marriage.
• Xu Xian brought the wine to Bai Yujun, watched her drink it without reacting, and relaxed, believing his suspicions were unfounded.
• Bai Yujun gave Xu Xian the Misty West Lake Rain Painting, and after he left, she extracted the altered King Cobra soul from her clone and sent it onto Yellow Springs Road.
• Rain clouds gathered as reports warned that upstream floods were raising the great river and that Suzhou and Hangzhou could face a flood disaster.
• Xu Xian stored Bai Yujun's painting in a wooden box and often opened it to look at the scene of the White-clothed Girl by West Lake.

As the autumn rain kept Bai Yujun’s enemies waiting for her to enter a mortal tribulation, she gathered osmanthus and carried on with her ordinary life. When the rain cleared, she accompanied Xu Jiaorong to Golden Mountain Courtyard, where Xu Jiaorong began to sense that something about Bai Yujun was familiar.

• Bai Yujun gathered osmanthus during the relentless rain while cultivators watched for signs that she had entered her tribulation.
• Bai Yujun drove a hostile Big White Goose into the river and welcomed Old Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the Snake Demon Boy into her shop to shelter from the rain.
• After the rain stopped, Xu Jiaorong invited Bai Yujun to visit Golden Mountain Courtyard and offer incense.
• Bai Yujun accepted the invitation, hoping to visit the Western Teachings’ stronghold while they could not openly act against her.
• On the boat to Golden Mountain Courtyard, Xu Jiaorong chatted about Xu Xian and noticed Bai Yujun’s white gauze scarf, prompting a vague sense that she had overlooked something important.

Bai Yujun visited Golden Mountain Courtyard with Xu Jiaorong, casually exploring the temple and unsettling its watching monks before meeting Martial Monk at a snack stall. Back in Suzhou and Hangzhou, she settled into the shop’s quiet routine as winter arrived and snow began to fall.

• Bai Yujun sensed the Western Teachings’ suppressive energy at Golden Mountain Courtyard, but her Dragon Qi dispelled its effect.
• Bai Yujun wandered through the temple and approached the pagoda guarding an Earth Vein acupoint, then turned away before the monks intervened.
• Bai Yujun ate snacks outside the temple and teased Martial Monk, who warned her not to return before leaving.
• Xu Jiaorong finished drawing lots, and she and Bai Yujun left Golden Mountain Courtyard by boat.
• Bai Yujun stayed at Nanyu Hut as her reputation and rumors about Xu Xian grew, while Old Hui Xian and Little Stone kept warm in the winter cold.
• Bai Yujun noticed that snow had begun to fall.

As strange animal behavior and unnatural weather spread around Suzhou and Hangzhou, Bai Yujun sensed that a disaster was approaching while visiting Golden Mountain Courtyard with Xu Xian. Old Hui Xian and the Snake Demon Boy set out by boat to find her, leaving the danger unresolved.

• Bai Yujun gave her paintings to Old Hui Xian to help rebuild Bamboo Spring Temple and noticed signs of unrest around Suzhou and Hangzhou.
• Bai Yujun joined Xu Xian on a Painted Boat trip through the snow toward Golden Mountain Courtyard.
• Bai Yujun heard countless birds overhead and saw fish thrashing beneath the river, sensing an impending disaster as animals across the region panicked.
• At Golden Mountain Courtyard, Bai Yujun reflected on the ancient Ginkgo Tree and spoke to Xu Xian about the cycles of life.
• Old Hui Xian and the Snake Demon Boy learned of the strange animal behavior and took a small boat toward Golden Mountain Courtyard to find Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun sensed an earthquake before it devastated Suzhou and Hangzhou, destroying buildings and Golden Mountain Courtyard. Bandits exploited the disaster to invade the ruined city, while Xu Jiaorong recognized the monster in Xu Xian’s fallen painting and remembered what she had forgotten.

• Bai Yujun sensed the Earth Dragon Turning Over and warned Xu Xian as the earthquake began.
• The earthquake collapsed buildings and the city gate tower, capsized boats, and split apart Golden Mountain Courtyard.
• A rebel alliance led by a square-faced burly man ordered its bandits to attack Suzhou and Hangzhou, and they began looting and killing survivors.
• Xu Jiaorong put out the stove fire in Li Da Niu’s home and found Xu Xian’s fallen painting depicted an enormous monster descending from the sky.
• Xu Jiaorong’s forgotten memories returned, and she cried out for Hanwen.

Bai Yujun bit Xu Xian to knock him unconscious, then revealed her dragon form and attacked Golden Mountain Courtyard’s treasure pagoda. Surrounded by Western Teachings monks, she announced that she could command the blizzard as a god.

• Bai Yujun drew close to Xu Xian, bit his neck, and laid him in the snow after promising to make him forget everything.
• Bai Yujun revealed her horns and scales, donned black armor, and transformed her anklet into a dragon spear.
• Bai Yujun charged toward the treasure pagoda while Yu Rong and the Chunyang True Humans intercepted the Golden Mountain monks.
• The pagoda’s Defense Formation repelled Bai Yujun, and six or seven Deity Transformation Stage monks surrounded her.
• Bai Yujun warned the monks that she was a god at certain times, then invoked a blizzard.

Bai Yujun fought off the Western Teachings defenders at Golden Mountain Courtyard and used a massive blizzard to freeze the Golden Pagoda. She prepared the mysterious pearl against a hidden Soul Sorcery user, but it floated between her dragon horns instead of hanging around her neck.

• Bai Yujun battled the Western Teachings experts in the blizzard, killing or disabling the defenders, including the Martial Monk.
• Bai Yujun directed the storm’s freezing winds and ice against the Golden Pagoda, overwhelming its formations and sealing its lowest level in ice.
• Bai Yujun took out the mysterious pearl to guard against the hidden foe she suspected had used Soul Sorcery.
• Bai Yujun raised the pearl above her head, and it floated between her dragon horns, staying there when she shook her head.

After the White Flood Dragon’s attack devastated Golden Mountain Courtyard, the injured Martial Monk carried Xu Xian away while the city fell to invading bandits. In Osmanthus Alley, Little Stone tried to protect the shop’s silver from looters and was dragged away clutching the chest.

• The Martial Monk carried the unconscious Xu Xian across the frozen river toward Suzhou and Hangzhou as the blizzard weakened behind them.
• The Martial Monk encountered Old Hui Xian and the Snake Demon Boy, who were worrying over a borrowed boat frozen into the ice.
• Bandits breached Suzhou and Hangzhou, killing Doctor Du and driving Li Da Niu, Xu Jiaorong, and others to shelter at the shops in Osmanthus Alley.
• Little Stone guarded the shop’s silver while the bandits surrounded the alley and demanded revenge for their dead companions.
• The bandit leader kicked Little Stone aside and ordered his men to take the silver, but Little Stone grabbed the chest and was dragged along the path without letting go.

Little Stone’s desperate attempt to protect the silver for Bamboo Spring Temple awakened a fiery power within him. He slaughtered the bandits attacking Li Da Niu and the others, ending the chapter as a blood-red, lava-like force consumed their leader.

• Little Stone clung to the temple’s silver while bandits beat him and eventually struck him with a saber.
• A strange red energy spread through Little Stone, igniting his heart and covering his body with glowing, lava-like cracks.
• As the bandits closed in on Li Da Niu and the others, Little Stone rose and warned that anyone who took his master’s silver would die.
• Little Stone moved with inhuman speed, smashing or severing the bandits’ knees and killing many of them despite their attacks.
• The bandit leader begged for mercy, but Little Stone seized his face and burned his head to ash.

Little Stone returned to normal after killing the bandits, while Bai Yujun faced the White-robed Young Monk, the real Wisdom King, beneath the frozen Golden Pagoda. Chu Zhe arrived and forced the Wisdom King back, allowing Bai Yujun to turn to the pagoda and the Earth Vein Dragon Qi.

• Little Stone gathered the bandits' silver, carried it into the shop, and hid behind the braced door, crying.
• Bai Yujun sensed the White-robed Young Monk approaching the frozen Golden Pagoda and recognized him as the mastermind behind the schemes.
• The young monk attacked Bai Yujun, and she used the blizzard, her dragon spear, and the Colored Treasure Pearl to resist his overwhelming strength.
• Bai Yujun summoned lightning and crashing ice against the young monk, but his power diverted the attacks and pushed her backward.
• Chu Zhe descended with Li Xiangyan's treasured sword, whose aura forced the Wisdom King back.
• Bai Yujun thanked Chu Zhe and began dealing with the pagoda to reach the Dragon Qi in the earth vein.

Bai Yujun destroyed Golden Mountain Courtyard’s pagoda and drained the earth vein’s fortune while Chu Zhe and Gan Wu held Wisdom King back. As she began evolving in the storm, Old Hui Xian arrived and addressed Wisdom King as his junior brother.

• Chu Zhe told Wisdom King that he and Gan Wu would join forces against him.
• Bai Yujun smashed the pagoda’s treasure, transformed into her flood dragon form, and constricted the tower until it collapsed.
• Bai Yujun dug into the ruins and drew away the earth vein’s fortune, leaving Golden Mountain Courtyard severely diminished.
• Bai Yujun flew into the storm’s eye to begin an evolution across realms while Chu Zhe and Gan Wu watched Wisdom King.
• Old Hui Xian and a Little Snake Demon approached, and Old Hui Xian greeted Wisdom King as his junior brother.

Hui Xian confronted Wisdom King, who left after insisting he could not let go of his attachments, while the battle ended as Bai Yujun evolved into a Demon Emperor. In Suzhou and Hangzhou, Snake Demon Boy faced hundreds of bandits and charged into them to avenge the attack on his companions.

• Hui Xian urged Wisdom King to abandon hatred and remember his original heart, but Wisdom King reaffirmed his identity and walked away.
• Hui Xian and Snake Demon Boy left the frozen mountain as the Western Teachings and Chunyang stopped fighting, recognizing that Bai Yujun’s rise to Demon Emperor had decided the outcome.
• Bai Yujun absorbed the blizzard’s energy as her body grew and her horns forked, while the storm gradually weakened above Suzhou and Hangzhou.
• Hui Xian comforted Little Stone in Osmanthus Alley, and Snake Demon Boy learned that the loud-voiced woman had been attacked by bandits.
• Lu Mouren led hundreds of bandits to surround the shop, and Snake Demon Boy charged them with his Ring-pommel Saber, killing bandits and biting Lu Mouren’s neck.

Bai Yujun awakened as a nearly true dragon and revealed herself above Suzhou and Hangzhou, where the suffering people mistook her for a divine savior. She flew toward the city’s bandits, and the chapter left them fearing her arrival.

• Xu Xian awoke after the deadly poison in his body receded, relieving Xu Jiaorong and Li Da Niu.
• Li Da Niu saw that Golden Mountain Courtyard had been replaced by a snowy mountain and glacier created by Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun woke, discovered pointed ears on her head, and tested her newly grown dragon body by flying and diving into the river.
• The people of Suzhou and Hangzhou saw Bai Yujun coiled around the mountain and knelt, believing a divine dragon had come to save them.
• Bai Yujun flew toward Suzhou and Hangzhou, frightening the bandits as the Snake Demon Boy cheered from a rooftop.

Bai Yujun attacked the rebels who had used her name and momentum to commit atrocities in Suzhou and Hangzhou, killing their leaders and massacring their forces. As fleeing bandits escaped by river, she watched and warned them to row faster.

• Bai Yujun found the rebels occupying Suzhou and Hangzhou and confronted them from a tower, condemning their crimes and declaring she would end their chaos.
• Bai Yujun killed the bandit leader who challenged her, then used nearly a hundred clones to slaughter the charging bandits.
• Bai Yujun dragged the soul of the long-bearded scholar who had tortured imprisoned girls from his body and hurled it into hell, then killed the other leaders with ice cones.
• Bai Yujun summoned more clones to hunt bandits through the city while she sat eating in the bandit king’s chair.
• Bandits fled by ship with stolen riches, and Bai Yujun watched from the dock, urging them to row faster as they escaped downstream.

Bai Yujun crushed the fleeing bandits and rejected a group sent by Grand Tutor Gao, killing one of their members after sensing his heavy karma. As the city’s cleanup continued, the Snake Demon Boy killed the bandit leader who had impersonated a Chunyang Disciple.

• Bai Yujun received a message that Chunyang True Human and leaders of the Western Teachings had gone to the Northern Lands to investigate a danger that had triggered warnings.
• Bai Yujun summoned Water Monsters and water demons to attack the bandits’ ship, sinking it and dragging its crew underwater.
• Bai Yujun refused to rescue Suzhou and Hangzhou’s people and decided to seek revenge on her enemies before returning south.
• Experts sent by Grand Tutor Gao approached Bai Yujun, and she killed the pot-bellied man after identifying the dense karma clinging to him, then dismissed the others.
• The Martial Monk recognized the approaching Chunyang-clad bandit as an impostor, and the Snake Demon Boy cut the bandit leader in two.

After settling matters in Suzhou and Hangzhou, Bai Yujun left for the Southern Wasteland and paused at West Lake to admire the lingering snow. She parted from Xu Xian by severing the fortune that bound him to her, leaving him with an umbrella as he began to forget her.

• Bai Yujun said farewell to Hui Xian and the Snake Demon Boy, gave the boy a Ring-pommel Saber, and left the city for West Lake.
• Bai Yujun admired the snowy lake alone while Xu Jiaorong speculated about her being a Dragon Girl and Xu Xian stared at the Misty West Lake Rain Painting.
• After hearing about a girl in white at West Lake, Xu Xian hurried there by boat to find Bai Yujun before she left.
• Bai Yujun sheltered Xu Xian beneath her umbrella, gave it to him, and told him to return to his ordinary life.
• At Qingshi Bridge, Bai Yujun scattered the fortune connecting her to Xu Xian, and he began to forget her as she disappeared into the snow.

Bai Yujun visited the declining Demon Subjugation Sect to settle an old grudge against Guo Lian and the sect master Yunhe. After wrecking their graves, she left as the sect’s fortune collapsed behind her.

• The Demon Subjugation Sect Master feared Bai Yujun would retaliate after becoming a Demon Emperor and ordered his disciples to keep away from the hall.
• Bai Yujun entered the hall, sold the sect master an oil-paper umbrella, and asked him to lead her to Guo Lian and Yunhe.
• The sect master guided Bai Yujun to the graves of Guo Lian and Yunhe in the back mountain cemetery.
• Bai Yujun confirmed their remains were in the graves, then destroyed the feng shui of both burial mounds.
• Bai Yujun left the mountain, and the Demon Subjugation Sect’s fortune crumbled.

Bai Yujun’s demon army maintained a tense but largely peaceful border with the Yan Kingdom, whose commander Qian Chaogui kept provoking them despite his soldiers’ reluctance. Qiao Jin learned how Yan soldiers were evading the conflict and watched a company arrive seeking work in the Southern Wasteland.

• Bai Yujun continued her journey toward the Southern Wasteland, confident she could avoid ambushes, and sent word that the demon army would not invade the Yan Empire.
• Qiao Jin surveyed a Yan Kingdom outpost with a telescope while her soldiers recorded its defenses on detailed maps.
• Little Ye Zi told Qiao Jin that Qian Chaogui was provoking the demon army, while Yan soldiers quietly warned the demons and some crossed over to find work.
• Qiao Jin concluded that Qian wanted to strengthen his authority and train his troops by manufacturing an external threat, while his soldiers and the demon army both disliked him.
• A Yan Army company of just over seventy men arrived at Qiao Jin’s position and asked to work at the docks.