Recaps

Bai Yujun met Little Stone, a young monk from Bamboo Spring Temple, and gave him a carp that he chose to release. After enjoying a bamboo feast in town, Bai Yujun spotted Little Stone seeking alms and turned back toward him.

• Little Stone found Bai Yujun sleeping beside the pond and nervously told her his name and that his master, Hui Xian, had sent him to seek alms.
• Bai Yujun gave Little Stone a carp, and he released it into the lake rather than eat it.
• Bai Yujun teased Little Stone about sharing his alms, then sent him on his way to seek food.
• Bai Yujun flew to a nearby town and enjoyed its famous All-Bamboo Feast at the Little Bamboo House.
• Bai Yujun saw Little Stone begging from house to house and turned around, remarking that he would not let a snake rest easy.

Bai Yujun rescued Little Stone from a monster who lured him into the woods with promises of white-flour buns, then coaxed him into eating cured meat on the way home. At Bamboo Spring Temple, she found Old Monk Huixian trying to persuade a cobra to leave his vegetable garden.

• A silk-clad woman lured Little Stone out of town by promising him white-flour buns, then revealed herself as a monster and tried to eat him for his primordial yang spiritual energy.
• Bai Yujun killed the monster and took the frightened Little Stone back toward Bamboo Spring Temple.
• Bai Yujun shared cured meat with Little Stone, persuading the novice monk to eat it despite his objections.
• Bai Yujun and Little Stone found Old Monk Huixian in the vegetable garden, trying to persuade a ten-foot-long spectacled cobra to leave.

Bai Yujun rescued Hui Xian and Little Stone from a cobra, then listened as Hui Xian recounted why he had left Chang'an to live in seclusion. After Bai Yujun departed, she settled into a long sleep beneath the lotus pond while life at Bamboo Spring Temple continued around the stubborn cobra.

• Bai Yujun dragged a venomous cobra away from Hui Xian and Little Stone, then questioned Hui Xian about living in the wilderness.
• Hui Xian told Bai Yujun how he had become an eminent monk in Chang'an, criticized wrongdoing within his order, and left to seek enlightenment at Bamboo Spring Temple.
• Little Stone fell asleep while Hui Xian recounted his past, and Bai Yujun listened until sunset before leaving down the mountain.
• Hui Xian scolded Little Stone for bringing a demon to the temple, then found the cobra had returned to the vegetable plot.
• Bai Yujun hid beneath the lotus pond and began a long, peaceful sleep, while Hui Xian and Little Stone continued gathering bamboo shoots and living with the cobra nearby.

Two months after settling near town, Bai Yujun sensed unfinished business and stayed in a bamboo house. Meanwhile, Old Monk Huixian and Little Stone tried to deal with a deadly ghost haunting Steward Hu’s fishpond, and fled when their rites failed to resolve the danger.

• Bai Yujun left the lotus pond, sensed she could not yet leave the area, and built a bamboo house in the bamboo grove.
• Steward Hu found Huixian at Bamboo Spring Temple and begged him to exorcise a ghost haunting his fishpond.
• Huixian learned that a vicious Ghostly Entity had killed the fish and frightened away the workers, but he went to the pond with Little Stone anyway.
• Huixian and Little Stone chanted beside the fishpond, and their powerful Buddhist chanting tormented the Ghostly Entity.
• As evening came, Huixian packed up and hurried back up the mountain with Little Stone, and Steward Hu ran after them in fear.

Steward Hu and the villagers suffered through nights of ghostly nightmares, and after other masters failed to resolve the haunting, Steward Hu asked Old Monk Huixian for help. Huixian sent Little Stone to find Bai Yujun, who heard the request while fishing.

• Steward Hu woke to find his workers and servants gathered outside, and they told him they could no longer work because the village was haunted.
• The villagers sought help from various masters, but the frauds were exposed and the capable ones left without stopping the ghostly Yin Wind.
• Steward Hu begged Old Monk Huixian to save the village, and Huixian said he knew a master who might help.
• Huixian sent Little Stone to find the Female Demon, and Little Stone went down the mountain to Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun asked Little Stone why he had come, and he told her that his master wanted her to exorcise a ghost.

Bai Yujun, Hui Xian, and Little Stone went to Steward Hu’s estate to deal with a vengeful ghost in the fishpond. After Bai Yujun raised the murdered man’s corpse and Hui Xian soothed the ghost with sutras, the ghost regained his senses and began telling them what happened.

• Bai Yujun arrived at the estate with Hui Xian and Little Stone as the villagers waited for the ghost to appear.
• Bai Yujun saw through the pond water and revealed that a murdered corpse lay beneath it.
• Bai Yujun lifted the corpse from the pond, and Hui Xian chanted sutras to ease the dead man’s resentment.
• The ghost rose from the corpse, and Bai Yujun used her fate-reading ability to identify him as Wang Jufu and tell him that his wife was waiting at home.
• Wang Jufu regained his senses and began recounting how he had been killed.

After sending Wang Jufu’s ghost to the underworld, Bai Yujun investigated the mysterious forces surrounding his death and discovered that Wang Family Village was destined to produce a great general. She decided to go to the village and protect the General Star, hoping to gain merit.

• Bai Yujun forced Wang Jufu to abandon his wish to visit home, and Hui Xian sent his soul to the underworld.
• Bai Yujun ordered Steward Hu to arrange lodging and prepare to report the ghost’s death and visit the Wang family.
• The next morning, Bai Yujun dragged Hui Xian and Little Stone toward Wang Family Village despite Hui Xian’s plan to return to the mountains.
• Bai Yujun read the village’s feng shui and stars, identifying a future great general and a hidden General Star opposed by three Fiend Stars.
• Bai Yujun decided to protect the General Star for the merit, and she felt at ease as she led Hui Xian and Little Stone toward the village.

Bai Yujun brought Huixian and Little Stone to Wang Family Village, where she discovered that the General Star was the unborn child of Wang Jufu’s widow. As Huixian performed funeral rites, Bai Yujun protected the pregnancy and watched Wang Jufu’s four brothers search the Spirit Hall for a wooden box.

• Bai Yujun suspected the giant cobra could protect the General Star and accompanied Huixian and Little Stone to Wang Family Village.
• Bai Yujun sensed the General Star’s aura around Wang Jufu’s grieving widow and persuaded Huixian to guide Wang Jufu’s spirit for the family.
• Bai Yujun discovered the General Star was the widow’s unborn child, calmed her with spells, and gave her a nourishing pill.
• Wang Jufu’s four elder brothers entered the Spirit Hall without mourning and asked the widow whether he had left her a wooden box.
• The widow said she had not seen a box, and the four brothers left to search elsewhere.

Bai Yujun discovered that Zhang Wan was pregnant with the General Star and promised to protect her and the child while they remained in Wang Family Village. The chapter ended with Bai Yujun accidentally knocking a man into the pond with a ruined bamboo flute.

• Bai Yujun carved bamboo flutes in the Spirit Hall while Zhang Wan mourned beside her husband's coffin.
• Bai Yujun introduced herself, calmed Zhang Wan, and learned that she came from the Zhang Family and had married into the Wang Household.
• Bai Yujun told Zhang Wan that she was pregnant and that her child would have a great future.
• Zhang Wan rejoiced at the news, and Bai Yujun put her to sleep and laid her on a mattress.
• Bai Yujun decided to stay in Wang Family Village to protect the General Star until the fortune nourishing him had run its course.
• Bai Yujun accidentally flung a crooked flute into the night, knocking a man into the pond as he relieved himself.

Bai Yujun stayed with Zhang Wan after Wang Jufu’s burial, promising to protect her and her unborn child. She kept the Wang family at bay, then grew suspicious when the cook brought medicine that smelled wrong.

• Old Landlord Wang buried Wang Jufu after learning Zhang Wan was pregnant, while Bai Yujun secretly put Zhang Wan to sleep during the funeral.
• A physician confirmed Zhang Wan’s pregnancy, and Wang Jufu’s four elder brothers silently plotted to prevent the child from being born.
• Bai Yujun told Old Landlord Wang she had been entrusted to protect Zhang Wan and her child, then split a table with Hengdao to silence the eldest brother.
• Bai Yujun remained by Zhang Wan day and night, inspecting the food and utensils the cook brought.
• Bai Yujun noticed the cook looked unwell and walked slowly, then detected that the medicine she carried did not smell like pregnancy-preserving broth.

Bai Yujun protected Zhang Wan from the Wang brothers, exposed their attempt to poison her, and kept her safe as the household collapsed into conflict after Old Landlord Wang died. Seven or eight days later, Eldest Sister Wang arrived and ordered Bai Yujun to leave the Wang estate.

• Bai Yujun exposed the abortifacient meant for Zhang Wan and accused the four Wang brothers of killing Wang Jufu, provoking Old Landlord Wang's fury.
• Old Landlord Wang died during the ensuing uproar, and Bai Yujun drove off the four brothers and their armed servants when they attacked Zhang Wan's courtyard.
• The brothers and their wives fought over the inheritance while Bai Yujun gathered supplies and cared for Zhang Wan.
• Eldest Sister Wang returned to the estate, reprimanded her brothers, and demanded that Bai Yujun leave the Wang Household.

Bai Yujun drove Eldest Sister Wang away and moved Zhang Wan out of the Wang household after Old Landlord Wang’s death. Five days later, two cultivators hired by the prefect’s wife arrived in Wang Family Village, and Bai Yujun found them disappointing.

• Bai Yujun cursed at Eldest Sister Wang and restrained her guards with water snakes when they attacked.
• Eldest Sister Wang left to arrange Old Landlord Wang’s funeral and sent a letter asking cultivators from the Prefecture City to intervene.
• Bai Yujun accompanied Zhang Wan to honor Old Landlord Wang, then rented a house and hired servants so Zhang Wan could move out of the Wang household.
• Bai Yujun warned the Wang family not to spread rumors about Zhang Wan, and Zhang Wan’s parents visited before her father severed ties with the Wang siblings.
• On the fifth day after the move, two Late Qi Refining Stage cultivators arrived in the village, and Bai Yujun watched them approach.

Bai Yujun made an oil-paper umbrella while two Qi Refining Stage cultivators repaired the gate they had broken. She continued protecting and nourishing Zhang Wan as the pregnant woman grew healthier, while Zhang Wan remained unaware of the larger matter surrounding her child.

• Two Qi Refining Stage cultivators smashed Bai Yujun's gate, but her aura frightened them into rebuilding it under her orders.
• Bai Yujun crafted an oil-paper umbrella, coating it with tung oil and later painting a landscape on it.
• The cultivators left and smashed the Wang household's gate, after which the Wang family sent chickens, ducks, and half a pig to Zhang Wan.
• Bai Yujun decided to wait before using the earth veins to help Zhang Wan, since her first attempt had made Zhang Wan feel unwell.
• Bai Yujun nourished Zhang Wan with spiritual energy, and Zhang Wan's mood and appearance improved as her pregnancy progressed.

As the General Star’s impending birth attracted powerful factions, Bai Yujun prepared to protect Zhang Wan and the child by strengthening her surroundings and harnessing the Hualing River. She broke through a mountain pass, diverting river water into a lake near Wang Family Village, and left the villagers facing the sight of a giant snake.

• Bai Yujun warned Zhang Wan that danger was coming because her child was attracting attention, then prepared for a fight during the rainy season.
• Bai Yujun redirected the surrounding earth veins to strengthen herself and conceal the courtyard, then decided to use the Hualing River to create a lake near Wang Family Village.
• Bai Yujun plunged into the Hualing River and repeatedly battered the weak mountain pass with waves and her tail, terrifying people along both banks.
• The mountain pass collapsed, sending river water and mud into the lowlands and flooding fields seized by Landlord Wang’s four sons from Widow Ma.
• The four sons fled to higher ground and saw Bai Yujun emerge from the pass as river water filled the low ground and formed a lake before Wang Family Village.

Bai Yujun’s diverted River Water expanded the pond into a lake that flooded the Wang family estate, while Hui Xian was pressured into going to subdue the supposed giant snake demon. After realizing Bai Yujun was likely the demon in question, Hui Xian hurried toward the village anyway, pretending to be eager to help.

• Bai Yujun assured Zhang Wan and Mother Zhang that the growing lake would not flood their village, though it would inundate the Wang family’s main hall.
• The Wang family’s four brothers watched their estate flood and decided to seek Hui Xian’s help in subduing the snake demon.
• A fallen temple gate pinned the eldest Wang brother when he knocked, and the Wang brothers then demanded compensation from Hui Xian.
• The Wang brothers forced Hui Xian and Little Stone to accompany them, and Hui Xian recognized Bai Yujun as the likely giant snake demon when they passed her home.
• Hui Xian hurried toward the village with Little Stone, claiming they needed to reach the demon before it escaped.

Bai Yujun waited by the lake for a hostile visitor seeking the General Star, while Huixian and Little Stone continued pretending to subdue the local demon. When a powerful Arhat Monk arrived and attacked her, Bai Yujun met his fist with her own.

• Huixian told Little Stone they would remain by the lake for several more days to reassure the villagers, while a fortune-teller entered Wang Family Village to investigate its strange earth veins.
• Bai Yujun dismissed the fortune-teller and watched the villagers begin plans to raise fish in the flooded lake.
• As rain fell, Bai Yujun waited beneath an oil-paper umbrella for an ill-intentioned visitor she sensed coming from the east.
• The Arhat Monk arrived carrying a Crescent Spade and demanded to know why Bai Yujun blocked the road; she told him to leave because the area was where she cultivated.
• The Arhat Monk declared he would subjugate her and charged, and Bai Yujun drew her Hengdao before meeting his fist with her scaled hand.

Bai Yujun defeated the Arhat Monk but let him leave so word of a demon in Wang Family Village would keep seekers of the General Star away. After the village returned to calm, Hui Xian and Little Stone departed with gifts from the grateful villagers, and Hui Xian told his disciple to run.

• Bai Yujun used water spells and fierce attacks to overpower the Arhat Monk, then spared him and told him to leave.
• The Arhat Monk spread word that a demon lived in Wang Family Village, while local officials decided not to confront a Demon Core Stage beast that had harmed no one.
• Bai Yujun returned to Zhang Wan's home and told Mother Zhang she was not yet a fairy.
• The villagers thanked Hui Xian for supposedly subduing the demon and gave him and Little Stone food as gifts.
• Hui Xian and Little Stone left the village, and after checking behind them, Hui Xian told his disciple to run.

Horse bandits raided Wang Family Village, where Bai Yujun defeated their leader and took gold to pay for a broken gate. The bandits fled to Bamboo Spring Temple, where the leader died in an accident and a venomous cobra drove the others away.

• More than a dozen horse bandits rode into Wang Family Village and attacked its villagers.
• Two bandits rushed into Bai Yujun’s courtyard, but she sent them flying and demanded payment for the gate they broke.
• The bald leader attacked Bai Yujun, but she caught his saber, shattered it, struck him, and took the gold from his purse.
• The bandits fled to Bamboo Spring Temple, where the leader was crushed by a fallen gate and died when the broken blade in his chest was driven deeper.
• A cobra bit one of the bandits, and the survivors fled while Old Monk Huixian lamented that the temple gate needed repairs.

Bai Yujun concealed Zhang Wan’s pregnancy and guarded her from evil and demonic cultivators drawn to the unborn child’s General Star aura. After killing two attackers, she told Zhang Wan that her fate was extraordinary and promised to protect her as best she could.

• Zhang Wan watched the rain stop after she sighed, and Bai Yujun later let it begin again at noon.
• Bai Yujun spent two months hiding the General Star aura and drew potential enemies toward the lake to keep them away from Zhang Wan.
• Bai Yujun killed a Qi Refining Stage evil cultivator with a Water Blade while fishing.
• Bai Yujun defeated and killed a Golden Core Stage demonic cultivator at the lake, then buried his body and returned to fishing.
• Zhang Wan asked Bai Yujun why she was being targeted and whether Bai Yujun would protect her, and Bai Yujun said her fate was extraordinary and promised to do her best.

Li Xiangling returned to Daming Palace after more than two centuries to help the declining Li Tang dynasty amid signs of a great calamity. She found the young Emperor Renwu surrounded by powerful courtiers and challenged those who had taken control of the court.

• Li Xiangling entered Daming Palace and saw signs of the dynasty’s decline.
• Li Xiangling retrieved a golden hairpin hidden in a flowerbed and remembered her mother.
• Li Xiangling entered the Imperial Study and realized that Emperor Renwu’s authority had been hollowed out.
• Li Xiangling rebuked Minister of State Luo for speaking before the emperor and ordered him out.
• Li Xiangling challenged the Old Eunuch for interfering in state affairs.

Li Xiangling confronted the regents, asserted the imperial family’s authority, and left with Emperor Renwu Li Ziyu on better footing. Meanwhile, Bai Yujun guarded Zhang Wan in Wang Family Village as more cultivators arrived, leaving her exhausted and worried about the threats to come.

• Li Xiangling rebuked the regents and Empress Dowager for mistreating Li Ziyu, threatening their clans if the emperor came to harm.
• Li Xiangling revealed that the white dragon who had broken out of True Dragon Hall was her senior sister, then took Li Ziyu to the imperial garden.
• Li Xiangling set out south with several fellow disciples to find the General Star and assist the Li Tang Imperial Family.
• Bai Yujun killed a wounded Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator who had come to Wang Family Village, then took his valuables and left his body to the crows.
• Bai Yujun returned to the courtyard and fell asleep while Zhang Wan worried about the danger to her unborn child and Bai Yujun’s mission.

Bai Yujun sensed a Demon Subjugation Sect disciple approaching Wang Family Village and challenged Ye Ying and her giant tiger, Wind Tiger, in battle. After exchanging devastating blows with the tiger, Bai Yujun formed an enormous spiritual-energy blade and prepared to strike again.

• Bai Yujun used lightning and disrupted earth veins to conceal the connection between the General Star and Zhang Wan's unborn child.
• Ye Ying rode Wind Tiger toward Wang Family Village after hearing that a great demon had attacked Demon Subjugation Sect disciples.
• Bai Yujun spotted Ye Ying and Wind Tiger, released her mid-Demon Core Stage aura, and confronted them over the lake.
• Ye Ying ordered Wind Tiger to capture Bai Yujun, and the tiger charged her through the air.
• Bai Yujun canceled Wind Tiger's wind arts, summoned a giant water snake, and clashed with him above the lake.
• Bai Yujun and Wind Tiger wounded each other, then she merged more than a dozen spiritual-energy blades into a giant blade and swung it at him.

Bai Yujun overwhelmed Ye Ying and Wind Tiger with her control of wind, rain, and water, then trapped the tiger beneath a massive Taiji Diagram. She discovered that Wind Tiger was enslaved and begged to die, leaving her to decide whether to grant its plea.

• Bai Yujun struck Wind Tiger with a greatsword, wounding it and sending it crashing into the lake.
• Bai Yujun attacked Ye Ying while using the lake water to restrain Wind Tiger, and Ye Ying fled after being injured.
• Bai Yujun formed a huge Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram that blocked Wind Tiger's attack and pressed it beneath the water.
• Bai Yujun realized the subdued Wind Tiger was controlled by drugs and curses and offered to spare it if it could leave the Demon Subjugation Sect.
• Wind Tiger pleaded with Bai Yujun to kill it, saying it wanted to return to the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Bai Yujun killed Wind Tiger and returned to Wang Family Village, where she worried about the danger of the Demon Subjugation Sect sending reinforcements. When malicious spirits attacked the village that night, she destroyed them with rain charged with killing intent.

• Bai Yujun used Hengdao to pierce Wind Tiger's skull, then sank his corpse into the lake.
• Bai Yujun meditated by the lake as her cultivation improved slightly, then returned to the village without catching any fish.
• Bai Yujun ate dinner with Zhang Wan and the others, worried that the escaped Demon Subjugation Sect disciple would bring stronger reinforcements.
• Bai Yujun left the courtyard at night and destroyed wicked entities around Wang Family Village with Water Blades.
• An evil cultivator sent over a hundred malicious spirits and fierce ghosts toward the village, and Bai Yujun dispersed them with her deadly rain.

Bai Yujun struggled to protect Wang Family Village while injured, then fought a Demonic Beast in her true form as Zhang Wan discovered she was a White Snake. After defeating it, Bai Yujun returned to fishing, still concealing how well she had recovered.

• Zhang Wan and the other women ate while Bai Yujun returned wounded and went to rest, worrying that she might not be able to protect them until Zhang Wan gave birth.
• Bai Yujun recalled killing three Golden Core Stage cultivators and a Demonic Cultivator, but her injury had weakened her concealment over Wang Family Village and drawn attention from distant experts.
• Zhang Wan watched Bai Yujun return repeatedly with wounds and gradually noticed signs of her inhuman nature.
• A gigantic Demonic Beast appeared behind Wang Family Village, and Bai Yujun revealed her enormous White Snake form to fight it.
• Bai Yujun wore down the Demonic Beast with spells, crushed it in her coils, poisoned it, and tore into its neck until it died.
• Bai Yujun returned to her usual spot and fished, while privately revealing that she had been pretending to be injured for days.