Chapter Summaries

After a hurricane cleared the plains, Bai Yujun and the other leaders debated how to defeat the powerful Black Bone Corpse, while also preparing to clear the remaining rotting corpses. As Bai returned to the Chunyang outpost, her dragon spear suddenly reacted, warning her that something was wrong.

• The Black Bone Corpse examined its wounds and recognized the weapons that had injured it as Dragon Tomb weapons.
• Yu Rong explained that the Black Bone Corpse was an exceptionally powerful Unyielding Bone, and the gathered leaders struggled to find a way to destroy it while protecting the fortress.
• Bai Yujun and Qiao Jin left the council hall without hearing a workable plan and discussed the proposed joint sweep of the remaining rotting corpses.
• Bai told Qiao Jin to keep the Snake Demon Soldiers near the fortress and coordinate with Jiuli's White Tribe rather than rely on Yan Kingdom's Imperial Court for field command.
• As Bai returned to the Chunyang outpost, her anklet transformed into the dragon spear, and every scale on her body stood on end.

Bai Yujun survived an assassination attempt by four Deity Transformation Stage killers and learned that a demon had hired them with the promise of advancement. The attackers’ use of a zombie bone revealed that demons had allied with the Black Bone Corpses, and Bai Yujun’s fury rose as she prepared for the danger ahead.

• Four assassins ambushed Bai Yujun inside the fortress, but she killed one, nailed another to a wall, and trapped the remaining attackers with her clones and umbrella.
• Bai Yujun killed the earth-escaping dwarf and crippled the drunken assassin, then tore out his soul after recognizing the scent of the demon who had hired them.
• Chu Zhe identified the assassins as the Seven Deadly Sins, while the surviving gaunt man admitted that a demon had promised them a chance to reach the Great Ascension Stage before killing himself with his poisoned whip.
• Yu Rong recognized the sharp weapon used in the ambush as a zombie bone and warned that demons had joined forces with the Black Bone Corpses.
• Bai Yujun realized the alliance might have targeted her because she had destroyed many rotting corpses, and her anger gathered dark clouds and thunder over the fortress.

Bai Yujun hunted Demonic Cultivators who were disrupting supply routes and blaming their crimes on her, then joined a trap for the demon lord. The demon lord escaped after striking a decoy, but two high-ranking zombies were killed.

• Bai Yujun appeared at a supply convoy ambush, exposed the hidden Demonic Cultivator, and killed him and the bandits who had framed her.
• Over the following days, Bai Yujun exterminated hidden Demonic Cultivators across the region, clearing the main roads and drawing public attention.
• The demon lord learned where Bai Yujun had been appearing and set an ambush with two high-ranking zombies.
• The demon lord struck what he thought was Bai Yujun, but she was a decoy; Chunyang True Humans revealed a sword formation around the attackers.
• The demon lord escaped with Blood Escape, while Bai Yujun and Gan Wu killed the two high-ranking zombies.

Bai Yujun traveled up the Yellow River to seek Mu’s help with a hidden danger, while a scholar witnessed her at Hukou Waterfall and spread tales of the Dragon Girl. At the fortress, the armies marched beyond the pass to clear scattered rotten corpses, and Qiao Jin watched the Imperial Court’s troops head north.

• A middle-aged scholar saw Bai Yujun leap from Hukou Waterfall and swim upstream, then later spread stories of the Yellow River Dragon God and an Ode to the Dragon Girl.
• Bai Yujun used the Yellow River’s dragon vein to travel toward the Dragon Gate Desert and seek Mu’s help with a long-delayed hidden danger.
• The Imperial Court, Jiuli’s Black and White Divisions, and the Snake Demon Soldiers sent troops beyond the pass to clear the scattered rotten corpses.
• Ye Zi gave Little Ye Zi talismans, jade talismans, and Healing Pills, and advised her to stay near the Great Wall and seek help from Chunyang Palace if needed.
• The Snake Demon Soldiers and White Division marched east, the Black Division went west, and the Imperial Court’s army marched north.
• Qiao Jin watched the Yan Kingdom cavalry raise dust as they headed north.

Bai Yujun traveled through the upper Yellow River and desert to visit Mu, then learned that the Dragon Gate’s sword might be a trap laid specifically for her. She was left terrified and demanded to know who had targeted her and why.

• Mu Duo found a diligent 'Bai Yujun' reading in a room and realized she was looking at a clone, while two other clones remained unaccounted for.
• Bai Yujun swam up the Yellow River, passed near Jade Gate Pass, and flew into the Dragon Gate Desert.
• Bai Yujun reunited with Mu, who fed her spirit fruits and played with her by the water.
• Bai Yujun asked whether the Dragon Gate could appear elsewhere, and Mu explained that its damaged formation could be undone only by someone with the right bloodline.
• Mu warned Bai Yujun not to approach the Dragon Gate yet and revealed that a treasured sword there posed a danger.
• Bai Yujun feared that the sword had been placed for her, and she demanded that Mu tell her who was trying to harm her.

After learning that the Dragon Gate had been rigged to kill her, Bai Yujun steadied herself and searched the buried ruins for the formation controlling it. She discovered a hidden chamber and found a golden treasure chest inside.

• Bai Yujun learned from Mu that the Dragon Gate trap had been designed specifically to kill her when she approached or transformed, and Mu promised to deal with the sword in the future.
• Bai Yujun resolved to survive, grow stronger, and eventually eliminate the person behind the trap, while Mu urged her to be cautious.
• Bai Yujun used a tornado to excavate the ruins buried beneath the desert and searched the exposed buildings for the Dragon Gate's Lock Formation.
• Bai Yujun discovered a hidden door beside the dried-up pool, recognized that the stairs beyond it were a decoy, and entered the secret chamber through the rock wall.
• An ancient Immortal Crane lampstand lit the small chamber, where Bai Yujun found a golden treasure chest on a stone table.

Bai Yujun opened the Dragon Gate by splitting its Warm Jade, allowing it to appear elsewhere for two months. Meanwhile, Little Ye Zi learned that the Yan Kingdom army had been ambushed and that a major battle beyond the Great Wall threatened the trapped survivors and the fortress.

• Bai Yujun opened the golden chest and used her dragon form to pull apart the Warm Jade, making the Dragon Gate able to appear elsewhere for two months.
• A defeated cavalryman told Little Ye Zi that the corpse tide had been a feint and that terrifying zombies and demons had trapped twenty thousand soldiers at Huangyang Ridge.
• Ye Zi warned Little Ye Zi that the Yan Kingdom army had fallen into a trap, then left with Chunyang Purple Void and Western Teachings experts to aid the survivors.
• Ye Zi ordered Little Ye Zi to guard the Great Wall and retreat south if the fortress became unsafe.
• Little Ye Zi recognized that the enemy had used the trapped troops as bait and feared that either abandoning them or attempting a rescue could bring disaster.

Bai Yujun left the Dragon Gate Desert to seek help in the Southern Wilderness as the undead forces prepared to attack the Great Wall fortress ahead of winter. At the fortress, Qiao Jin and Minister Zhe strengthened the defenses while the Allied Army braced for an imminent battle.

• Bai Yujun sensed that the true war was approaching, bid farewell to Mu, and flew south to seek aid in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Qiao Jin worried that the Snake Demon Soldiers would soon be unable to endure the northern cold and planned to withdraw them south within a month.
• Black Bone Corpse and the demon lord learned that winter and advancing ice-and-snow creatures threatened their forces, so Black Bone Corpse ordered an early attack using the prisoners.
• The Allied Army detected the enemy's preparations and declared war readiness as Minister Zhe arrived at the fortress.
• Minister Zhe asked Qiao Jin to help defend Section E-3, and she agreed to send Snake Demon Soldiers and donate mechanical crossbows.

Minister Zhe and Qiao Jin prepared the Great Wall fortress for an approaching army of armed zombies and Demonic Beasts. The enemy opened the assault by hurling the severed heads of more than twenty thousand stranded soldiers over the walls, and Qiao Jin ordered her troops to collect them and ready themselves for battle.

• Minister Zhe warned the generals that the defenders had no choice but to fight to the death as beacon smoke rose and the war drums sounded.
• Qiao Jin took command of the Snake Demon Soldiers while the three Boss Bais remained to help defend the fortress.
• Minister Zhe saw through his spyglass that the demon army included disciplined, heavily armed zombies and Demonic Beasts equipped with the weapons and armor taken from the defeated soldiers.
• The demon army stopped five hundred paces from the fortress and prepared its trebuchets while the defenders braced for battle.
• The demons launched the severed heads of the more than twenty thousand stranded soldiers over the walls, terrifying the defenders and staining the fortress with blood.
• Qiao Jin ordered the Snake Demon Soldiers to collect their comrades' heads and prepare for battle.

Qiao Jin and Minister Zhe led the fortress defenders through a brutal assault by zombies and Demonic Beasts. As the city wall burned and the gate tower collapsed, a terrified young soldier survived a monster’s attack when a Snake Demon Soldier rescued him.

• Minister Zhe watched enemy heads fall to break the Allied Army’s morale, while Qiao Jin ordered rockets to target the stone throwers and drums to restore the defenders’ courage.
• Gigantic corpse monsters roared, and the fiend army charged; the defenders answered with arrows, burning boulders, and slick oil that sent climbers slipping from the walls.
• Iron siege ladders reached the battlements as zombies and Demonic Beasts overwhelmed sections of the wall, and the gate tower caught fire and collapsed.
• A young farmer-soldier watched his centurion and comrades die, then thrust his spear at a Demonic Beast that raised its saber to kill him.
• A Snake Demon Soldier appeared, killed the beast and nearby zombies, and threw the beast’s body outside the city.

The defenders repelled the first assault on the Great Wall, but learned that the fiends were preparing a ritual to summon creatures from the Demon Realm. Yu Rong warned that the gates of hell could open in five days, prompting the human leaders to plan an attack on the ruins.

• Minister Zhe beheaded fleeing generals and promoted battle-tested soldiers, helping stabilize the Great Wall’s defense.
• The Black Bone Corpse noticed the flood dragon was absent and ordered the fiends to withdraw; Ye Zi mourned the losses among her fellow disciples.
• As the battle ended, meteors streamed north across the Central Plains night sky.
• Huang Zhao reported that captives were being sacrificed at an altar in ancient ruins, where a central formation was surrounded by six smaller ones.
• Yu Rong identified the formation as a modified Evil Cult ritual to summon creatures from the Demon Realm and warned that it could open the gates of hell in five days.
• The human leaders resolved to leave the pass and attack the ruins.

Minister Zhe committed the Yan Kingdom’s army to a desperate campaign against the evil demons, haunted by the soldiers he had lost in past wars. As the allied forces formed up at the basin, a bronze war horn stirred the human soldiers’ courage, and Qiao Jin saw signs that they were ready to fight.

• Minister Zhe told Yu Rong and the elderly monk that he would lead four hundred thousand Yan Kingdom troops into battle, then signed the military orders despite his grief over past casualties.
• The Snake Demon Army and Nine Li prepared to join the Yan Kingdom forces, while Mu Duo wondered where Little White had gone and Little Ye Zi watched a sword light disappear into the sky.
• Minister Zhe led the allied army out of the fortress with only seven days of rations, and Yuan Xiu foresaw peril and death but detected a faint trace of life in the south.
• At the basin, Qiao Jin inspected the allied formations as the evil demon army emerged and stopped about six hundred paces away.
• Minister Zhe ordered ten men to sound ancient bronze horns, prompting the human soldiers to roar and making the zombies and Demonic Beasts recoil.
• Qiao Jin smiled as she recognized that someone among the humans had awakened.

Zhe ChangGong led five hundred thousand Central Plains, Jiuli, and demon troops into a final charge against the fiendish army, knowing they had no chance to retreat or survive. The armies collided in a bloody battle, and the defenders fought on without yielding.

• Zhe ChangGong rallied the doomed troops by telling them the truth about their fate and urging them to die fighting for their countrymen.
• Qiao Jin led six thousand demon soldiers forward alongside the Jiuli elite as the combined army advanced toward the fiends.
• Zhe ChangGong swallowed an excessive dose of medicine, charged alone toward the enemy, and called for the ranks to break through.
• A young soldier and newly promoted commanders followed Zhe ChangGong, turning the army's advance into a full charge.
• The archers fired volleys and Qiao Jin ordered the artillery to launch every rocket shell as the two armies collided.
• The Border Army, Snake Demon Soldiers, and Jiuli troops fought the fiends in a brutal battle, with wounded soldiers sacrificing themselves to help their comrades.

The Allied Army and cultivators fought the evil demons at the Great Wall, suffering heavy losses as the Black Bone Corpse threatened to destroy them. Just as the battle turned desperate, Bai Yujun arrived with a vast host of beasts, Demon Emperors, and Demon Kings and led them into the fight.

• A young commander and his soldiers killed a Butcher with thrown spears, but enemy forces continued to press across the battlefield.
• Qiao Jin and Zhe ChangGong led the ground troops forward as the demons retreated, only for rows of Butchers to appear and renew the attack.
• Qi Yun, Yu Rong, Yang Mu, Xu Ling, and the other cultivators fought desperately as the Black Bone Corpse overwhelmed the human forces and vowed to destroy Shenhua Mountain.
• A massive host of Fierce Beasts charged the evil demons, then golden sunlight broke through the clouds as Bai Yujun appeared with the Golden-haired Monkey and many Demon Emperors and Demon Kings.
• Bai Yujun ordered her forces to attack the Black Bone Corpse and the evil demons, beginning a world-shaking battle.

Mu’s plan brought demons from the Southern Wasteland north to join the fight, giving the defenders new hope as Bai Yujun and the Demon Emperors attacked the altar. Bai Yujun cracked the Blood-Red Crystal with her shield, but a pitch-black figure descended to block it before she could destroy it.

• Mu continued weaving bird nests after summoning the demons of the Southern Wasteland north to fight the evil fiends.
• Yuan Xiu saw the arriving demons and beasts streak over the Great Wall Fortress, and the soldiers cheered at the news.
• The beast tide disrupted the evil fiends’ formation, allowing the human soldiers and Snake Demon Soldiers to counterattack.
• Bai Yujun, the Golden-haired Monkey, and several Demon Emperors fought through the corpse horde toward the altar and found a Blood-Red Crystal fed by the sacrifices.
• Bai Yujun hurled her shield at the crystal, cracking it, but a pitch-black figure descended and blocked it.

Bai Yujun destroyed the Blood-Red Crystal and stopped the Light Pillar, but the Black Bone Corpse pursued her and fought the Demon Emperors. After striking back with lightning, she exposed the corpse as a creature born of resentment and prepared to finish it.

• Bai Yujun used an illusion to distract the Black Bone Corpse and shattered the Blood-Red Crystal with her Dragon Spear, causing the Light Pillar to vanish.
• Bai Yujun retreated with the Demon Emperors, but the Black Bone Corpse charged after her with a Wolf Tooth Hammer and iron chain.
• Bai Yujun fought off the chain and hammer while the monkey and other Demon Emperors joined the battle.
• Bai Yujun caught a bolt of lightning and struck the iron chain, damaging it before the Black Bone Corpse advanced with its hammer.
• Bai Yujun called the Black Bone Corpse a resentment-born monster and vowed to send it back to its rest.

Bai Yujun and her allies fought the Black Bone Corpse amid the battlefield, but it wounded her and absorbed a piece of her flesh. As the corpse gained flood dragon blood qi from the meat, Bai Yujun realized its reaction might let her plan succeed.

• Bai Yujun battled the Black Bone Corpse with her spear, claws, and fists while Yu Rong, Yang Mu, Xu Ling, and Mu Duo joined the fight.
• The Black Bone Corpse trapped Bai Yujun with its iron chain and struck her shoulder with its Wolf Tooth Hammer.
• Mu Duo used witchcraft to free Bai Yujun, who retreated with a severe wound.
• The Black Bone Corpse admired the flood dragon meat torn from Bai Yujun and absorbed it into its body.
• Bai Yujun recognized that the corpse absorbing her flesh might help her plan succeed.

Bai Yujun fought the Black Bone Corpse despite her grave injuries, then chanted the incantation that summoned the Dragon Gate from Dragon Gate Desert. The Gate appeared over the battlefield, and Bai Yujun pressed her attack with help from the Golden-haired Monkey and Chu Zhe, drawing the Black Bone Corpse toward the sword above it.

• Mu Duo tried to pull Bai Yujun away, but Bai Yujun chose to risk her life and charged the Black Bone Corpse again.
• Bai Yujun took severe injuries in the battle, then planted her spear and chanted the dragon incantation she had learned while undoing the Dragon Gate Lock Formation.
• The Dragon Gate manifested above the battlefield, scattering the Black Qi and drawing the attention of humans, beasts, and fiends.
• Bai Yujun asked the Golden-haired Monkey to knock the Black Bone Corpse toward the Dragon Gate, and the Monkey joined her fight.
• Chu Zhe arrived with his treasured sword and helped Bai Yujun drive the Black Bone Corpse closer to the Dragon Gate as the sword above it trembled.

Bai Yujun realized the mysterious sword at the Dragon Gate needed more flood dragon aura, so she used Dragon’s Roar to make it target the Black Bone Corpse. The sword destroyed the Unyielding Bone and then departed, leaving Bai Yujun alive and overwhelmed with relief.

• Chu Zhe, two True Persons, the Golden-haired Monkey, and the fox demon drove the Black Bone Corpse toward the Dragon Gate while Bai Yujun hid from the sword.
• Bai Yujun deduced that the sword had not detected enough flood dragon aura in the Black Bone Corpse and decided to trigger it with her own Dragon’s Roar.
• Bai Yujun roared, causing the sword to lock onto the flood dragon blood within the Black Bone Corpse.
• The Black Bone Corpse launched a final counterattack, but the sword carved through it and vanished into the sky.
• Bai Yujun confirmed the sword had left, then sobbed with relief, while Mu marveled that the plan had worked.

Bai Yujun defeated the Black Bone Corpse with the Dragon Spear and watched sunlight break through the clouds as the fiends’ defeat became clear. The battle continued, while the exhausted Minister Zhe fell asleep on a bed made from coffin boards.

• Bai Yujun taunted the crippled Black Bone Corpse and explained that she had risked everything to eliminate it and another danger.
• Bai Yujun thrust the Dragon Spear into the Black Bone Corpse’s helmet and twisted it until the creature collapsed and exploded.
• Sunlight pierced the dark clouds as the fiends were driven back and soldiers cheered.
• Zhe ChangGong was treated for a cut on his foot and said he might retire after returning to the Imperial Court.
• Zhe ChangGong’s guards turned a coffin into a bed, and he fell asleep in the sunlight.
• Qiao Jin saw the sleeping Zhe ChangGong and mistakenly spoke as though he were dead, prompting the old man to protest.