Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun visited Yu Rong at the fortress, learned that wilderness tribes and their Wolf Riders were disrupting the Yan Army’s supply lines, and joined the fight against powerful zombies. After assessing the enemy and confirming the strongest fighters were tied down, she left to deal with the crisis behind the lines.

• Bai Yujun arrived at the Chunyang Palace residence and reunited with her exhausted master, Yu Rong.
• Yu Rong told Bai Yujun to clear up the rear and explained that wilderness tribes and Wolf Riders were disrupting the Yan Army’s supply lines.
• Bai Yujun joined Yu Rong, Yang Mu, and the other cultivators when powerful zombies attacked the fortress.
• Bai Yujun killed an early Mahayana-level zombie with her dragon spear, lightning, and Dragon Breath, then returned to the formation.
• Bai Yujun fought through the afternoon and learned that the zombies’ numbers, rather than their strength, posed the greatest threat.
• Bai Yujun mounted Black Horse and left the fortress to handle the crisis behind the lines.

Bai Yujun led eighty thousand demon troops to the capital and used a scale clone to find and kill a powerful zombie among the corpse tide. After recovering the zombie’s body, she left Qiao Jin to carry out the plan to cleanse the rotten corpses as the battle began.

• Bai Yujun rode south through the Sea of Corpses, using clones to kill wasteland raiders who were pillaging villages.
• Bai Yujun marched north with eighty thousand demon troops, leaving forces behind to handle the Chi Mang people and defend her territory.
• Outside the capital, Bai Yujun spotted a powerful zombie directing the corpse tide and sent a scale clone to attack it.
• The scale clone fought and killed the zombie, then took its body back to Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun told Qiao Jin to cleanse the rotten corpses according to plan.

The Snake Demon Army used rockets to scatter the corpse tide outside the ancient capital, then advanced in formation to attack the zombies. As the city guards gained hope and Minister Zhe awaited news, a furtive figure climbed into the Ministry of War.

• A junior officer on the city wall saw rockets explode among the corpses, and the blasts slowed the zombies and stirred confusion among the defenders.
• Qiao Jin observed the bombardment and ordered the Snake Demon Army to stop firing and wipe out the scattered corpses.
• The Snake Demon Army advanced in ranks, using arrows and Mo Dao blades to cut through the corpse horde.
• The city guards took heart when they saw that an army had come to fight the zombies, while Minister Zhe regarded the Snake Demon Army as the city's last hope.
• A furtive figure climbed over the courtyard wall of the Ministry of War.

Bai Yujun stopped an assassination attempt on Minister of War Zhe ChangGong and began negotiating with the Yan Kingdom court over the capital’s siege. The demon army withdrew to rest after clearing rotting corpses from the fields.

• Five demonic cultivators attacked the Ministry of War and took Zhe ChangGong hostage, hoping to escape the city and sow chaos.
• Bai Yujun arrived in the rain, recognized the attackers as demonic cultivators, and killed all five when they tried to resist.
• Zhe ChangGong thanked Bai Yujun for saving him and confirmed that he commanded the capital’s defenses.
• Bai Yujun met with Yan Kingdom representatives to discuss the siege, provisions for her army, and military funds.
• The demon army devoured a mass of rotting corpses, withdrew to a ridge before the corpse tide gathered, and rested amid the devastated wheat fields.

Bai Yujun met with Minister Zhe in the besieged capital, explaining that demons—not the corpse hordes—were her true target. As she returned to her army, a demon lord prepared to confront her and consume her flesh.

• Bai Yujun ate a lavish banquet while Minister Zhe asked her to send troops to protect the Northern Lands and reinforce the Great Wall.
• Bai Yujun told Minister Zhe that the corpse hordes were not her target and warned that demons lurked nearby, then said she planned to speak with their demon lord.
• Bai Yujun left to prepare to kill the demon lord, while Minister Zhe remained troubled by her calls for reform.
• The demon lord, blaming Bai Yujun for the demons’ losses in the Southern Wasteland, decided to kill her and grow stronger by eating her flesh and blood.
• The demon lord walked toward the demon army, determined to fight Bai Yujun in the storm.

Bai Yujun fought the devil outside the city while soldiers and cultivators watched from the walls. After two hours of brutal combat, she drove her spear through the devil’s abdomen, but it began swelling into a larger form.

• Soldiers, martial artists, and cultivators gathered on the city walls to watch Bai Yujun face the devil near the southern gate.
• Bai Yujun armed herself with her dragon spear, black armor, and Colored Treasure Pearl, then charged the devil as lightning struck around them.
• The two fought across the battlefield, their collisions creating shockwaves that blasted rain into mist and damaged the city wall.
• Bai Yujun knocked the devil’s weapon away, battered it with a knee to the jaw, and continued attacking despite taking a punch to the head.
• After two hours of fighting, Bai Yujun drove her dragon spear through the devil’s abdomen.
• The wounded devil roared and rapidly grew larger, bursting through its skin as its muscles swelled.

Bai Yujun fought a demon that used a formation to transform into a towering monster, but her attacks barely slowed its rapid healing. She revealed her flood-dragon form and drove the demon backward with a powerful charge, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Bai Yujun uncovered a blood-red formation beneath the mud as the demon transformed into a giant black-red monster.
• Bai Yujun struck the demon with lightning and then blasted its chest with eight spiritual blades, but it recovered quickly.
• Bai Yujun fought the demon with her spear until it struck her and sent her tumbling across the field.
• Bai Yujun transformed into a huge white flood dragon, stunning the people on the city walls, who hailed her as a divine dragon.
• Bai Yujun dove from the clouds with a Water Dragon of wind and rain and drove the demon backward through the mud.

Bai Yujun battled a towering demon while Qiao Jin kept the demon marshals from interfering and Gan Wu intercepted another Demonic Beast. After the demon hurled Bai Yujun through the city gate tower and into the city, she climbed back toward the fight as the city erupted in panic.

• Bai Yujun used wind, rain, lightning, and repeated bites to injure the demon while fighting through the corpse tide.
• Qiao Jin stopped the demon marshals from aiding the demon, and four who flew toward the battle returned after Bai Yujun sent them a voice transmission.
• Gan Wu and Ye Zi intercepted a Demonic Beast attempting to ambush Bai Yujun.
• The demon seized Bai Yujun by the jaws, spun her, and hurled her through the gate tower and over the city wall, killing and injuring people and crushing houses.
• Bai Yujun rose amid the wreckage, shook debris from her body, and slithered back onto the city wall.

Bai Yujun fought a demon lord at the city wall, burning it with Dragon Breath and poisoning its wounds. As flowers began blooming across the demon’s body, Mu Duo appeared playing a hulusi, leaving the battle poised for her intervention.

• Bai Yujun climbed onto the city wall and engulfed the charging demon in Dragon Breath, scorching it and cremating the corpses nearby.
• The demon’s wounds worsened from Bai Yujun’s poison, but it tore away the damaged flesh and bone and regenerated.
• The demon lord tried to frighten Bai Yujun into retreating by warning that the Devil Race would descend, but she rejected its argument and said she wanted to be a peddler, not a hero.
• Flowers sprouted and bloomed across the demon’s body, alarming the spectators as Bai Yujun took to the sky and circled it.
• Mu Duo appeared in Jiuli Attire, floating on colorful butterflies and playing a hulusi.

Bai Yujun and Mu Duo drove off a powerful demon with coordinated attacks, then helped the demon army clear the corpse tide around the city. Five days later, Minister Zhe met Bai Yujun to discuss the next campaign, and she urged him to provide logistics and summon armies to the Great Wall.

• Mu Duo bound the demon with witchcraft while Bai Yujun attacked it at close range, forcing it to flee with Blood Escape.
• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo let the injured demon escape, confident that its wounds and venom would keep it from recovering.
• The demon army and defending troops cleared the corpse tide near the southern gate, and the Dragon Girl became a subject of gossip throughout the city.
• Five days later, Minister Zhe visited Bai Yujun at the demon army's camp, where Mu Duo left to avoid dealing with him.
• Bai Yujun told Minister Zhe to arrange logistics and summon armies to the Great Wall, offering to suppress any local unrest herself.

Qiao Jin led Snake Demon Soldiers to destroy the wasteland forces responsible for massacring a city, while Bai Yujun cleared corpse-tainted skies and visited a village that mistook her for its Divine Dragon. The villagers worshiped her as she accepted their offerings and flew away.

• Qiao Jin led more than ten thousand Snake Demon Soldiers to trap the Wolf Riders and cavalry in a mountain basin and wipe them out with gunpowder, archers, and Mo Dao troops.
• Bai Yujun summoned wind, rain, thunder, and lightning to clear Filth Qi and destroy corpses as she traveled across the region.
• Bai Yujun noticed Little Ditch Village’s survivors praying at a dragon temple and descended to inspect their offerings.
• The Clan Elder and villagers saw Bai Yujun’s horns, pointed ears, and white tail, then froze in fear as she ate their sacrificial fish and steamed buns.
• Bai Yujun adjusted the Water Vein and earth qi before flying away, and the Clan Elder led the villagers in thanking the Divine Dragon.

Bai Yujun revisited the underground ghost city, fought in the Beast Cage, and then set out with her demon army for the Great Wall. After learning that Shenhua Mountain was under siege and hundreds of thousands of people were in danger, she changed course to defend it, while Chu Zhe urged her to stay safe there and not return to the front.

• Bai Yujun entered the ghost city, returned to the Beast Cage as the King of the Green Grassland, and defeated the Bearded Strongman before collecting her winnings.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo she would go to the Great Wall, then led the eighty thousand Snake Demon Soldiers north after they had cleared rebels from the rear.
• Chu Zhe arrived with a letter from Yu Rong and told Bai Yujun that Shenhua Mountain was under siege and its people were in grave danger.
• Bai Yujun agreed to head for Shenhua Mountain ahead of the demon army, accompanied by Grand Elders Xu and Qian.
• Chu Zhe privately warned Bai Yujun to remain at Shenhua Mountain and not return to the Great Wall, and Bai flew west toward the mountain.

Bai Yujun reached Shenhua Mountain and used her flood-dragon aura to protect the refugees gathered there from the corpse tide. The next morning, Mu Duo arrived and found Bai Yujun entertaining the crowd by smashing walking corpses with stones.

• Bai Yujun flew to Shenhua Mountain, driving away walking corpses she passed on the way.
• A guard explained that Chunyang Palace’s formation talismans had kept the corpse tide from reaching the refugees, and Bai Yujun promised that eighty thousand demon soldiers would arrive the next day.
• Bai Yujun released her aura to make the approaching corpses flee, then went to sleep rather than hunt them down.
• Mu Duo arrived the next morning and found Bai Yujun batting stones at penned-up walking corpses for an amused crowd.
• Bai Yujun struck a stone with a wooden club and shattered a walking corpse’s head, celebrating her hit as Mu Duo covered her forehead.

Bai Yujun showed Mu Duo around Shenhua Mountain while wrestling with guilt over fleeing during an earlier war and fear of the Great Wall. She admitted that her timid senior sister had gone north to fight the zombies, while she still wanted to retreat to the Southern Wasteland.

• Bai Yujun amused herself by smashing rotting corpses with stones, lifting the camp's spirits.
• Mu Duo noticed Bai Yujun was troubled, and Bai Yujun took her to tour Shenhua Mountain.
• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo admired the mountain scenery as they climbed, and Bai Yujun recalled how poor eyesight had once kept her from seeing it clearly.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo she regretted hiding at Melt Heaven Ridge when the General Star fought the demonic cult, and admitted the Chunyang Palace Master's warning about the Great Wall had frightened her.
• Bai Yujun revealed that her usually timid senior sister had gone to the Great Wall to defend against zombies, while she herself wanted to flee home.
• Bai Yujun sensed that something terrifying awaited at the Great Wall, and Mu Duo understood the danger was grave.

Bai Yujun overcame her fear and resolved to join the fight after Shenhua Mountain was relieved, as the Nine Li and demon armies mobilized for the coming war. While Mu Duo explored Chunyang Palace’s library, Bai repaired her armor in preparation for battle.

• Bai Yujun admitted to Mu Duo that she feared death, then remembered the dragon soul that had taught her to hold her head high and refuse to yield.
• Bai Yujun vowed to go to the Great Wall after Shenhua Mountain was relieved, and Mu Duo told her that the White and Black Tribes had sent troops north.
• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo toured Chunyang Palace, where a young female disciple gave Mu Duo a Daoist scripture and introduced her to the Library Tower’s books.
• The demon army arrived, and eighty thousand Snake Demon Soldiers spread out to clear the rotting corpses while civilians watched their camp.
• Mu Duo stayed at the Library Tower to read, while Bai Yujun borrowed a forging platform and repaired her battered black armor.

Bai Yujun finished forging a powerful suit of black armor as the corpse tide threatened the Great Wall, then traveled north with Mu Duo to join the defenders. At the fortress, she reunited with Yang Mu and Xu Ling, who were ready to fight alongside her.

• Bai Yujun spent nearly a month forging and improving a black suit of armor from rare metals.
• After the Yan Kingdom court refused to provide grain and demanded weapons, Bai Yujun and Mu Duo continued with their original plan as troops reinforced the Great Wall.
• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo left Shenhua Mountain for the northern fortress while Qiao Jin gathered the demon army behind them.
• Bai Yujun arrived at the fortress, where she saw the ash urns of fallen Chunyang disciples and met Sect Master Chu Zhe.
• Yang Mu and Xu Ling reunited with Bai Yujun, and the three resolved to fight the zombies together.

Bai Yujun discovered that a powerful zombie was blocking her control of the weather, so she and Yu Rong planned to use an extreme storm to destroy the corpse tide. She began gathering winds and rainclouds atop a mountain, leaving a growing vortex in the sky as the ten-day effort got underway.

• Bai Yujun searched the mysterious world and glimpsed a pitch-black zombie that appeared to notice her, then broke free from the vision.
• Bai Yujun explained to Yu Rong that the powerful zombie controlled the deathly aura above the corpse tide and hindered her weather control.
• Yu Rong asked Bai Yujun to try creating stormy weather, and Bai Yujun estimated she would need ten days and protection from zombie interference.
• Yu Rong ordered Chunyang Palace to support Bai Yujun's plan to eliminate the corpse tide.
• Bai Yujun went to the highest mountain within the pass, took her dragon form, and began gathering and compressing fierce winds and rainclouds into a vortex.

Yuan Xiu watched as Bai Yujun compressed a vast storm above the fortress while human cultivators and Jiuli warriors fought off zombies trying to disrupt her. The battle continued around the spinning sphere as Bai Yujun controlled it with a smaller sphere between her hands.

• Yuan Xiu saw the gale cease and discovered an enormous sphere of dust, clouds, and vapor spinning above the fortress, with Bai Yujun beneath it.
• The zombies charged the fortress, and the Defense Array and allied cultivators engaged them in battle.
• Yang Mu, Xu Ling, and Mu Duo guarded Bai Yujun and intercepted zombies attempting to reach the storm sphere.
• Mu Duo poisoned and killed a zombie after it hurled its weapon toward the sphere, which continued spinning undisturbed.
• Bai Yujun manipulated a small storm sphere between her hands to control the enormous one overhead.

Bai Yujun spent ten days gathering and compressing an enormous Storm Sphere, then carried it beyond the pass to unleash it on the Sea of Corpses. As she pressed the miniature sphere downward, Black Shadow emerged from the deathly energy with a blood-red-flaming spear.

• Bai Yujun maintained control of the Storm Sphere while Yang Mu, Xu Ling, and Mu Duo protected her from zombie attacks, and she repelled a ghost-head saber with her flood-dragon tail.
• After the zombies withdrew, Bai Yujun continued gathering clouds for several days, surviving another midnight attack as the storm grew increasingly powerful.
• On the tenth day, Bai Yujun sent a message to Chunyang Palace's encampment and carried the Storm Sphere away from the fortress while alliance experts watched for interference.
• Black Shadow rose from the Sea of Corpses, took up an ancient spear, and ignited it with blood-red flames.
• Bai Yujun moved beyond the pass, concealed herself briefly in mist, and pressed the miniature Storm Sphere downward as Black Shadow emerged nearby.

Bai Yujun survived the Black Bone Corpse’s ambush by using a Scale Clone, stealing its broken spear, and escaping while the allied forces held the monster back. As the army regrouped at the fortress, she began considering a dangerous plan to eliminate the powerful enemy.

• The Black Bone Corpse hurled its blood-red spear at Bai Yujun, but the attack struck a Scale Clone while she seized the weakened weapon and fled as her storm erupted across the battlefield.
• The Black Bone Corpse pursued Bai Yujun and wounded her, but Yu Rong, Qi Yun, a Western Teachings monk, and other experts intervened and forced it to withdraw.
• Yuan Xiu deduced that the Black Bone Corpse was behind the Sea of Corpses’ advance, and the allied leaders returned to the fortress to plan their response.
• Golden Void Lineage experts examined the stolen spear while Bai Yujun recovered and continued controlling the storm remotely.
• Bai Yujun looked toward the Dragon Gate Desert and began considering a dangerous way to kill the Black Bone Corpse.