Recaps

Bai Yujun followed a mysterious summons from her underground tomb to an abandoned village, where court officials revealed a trap meant to capture her and return her to the True Dragon Hall. The Four Heavenly Kings attacked, leaving Bai Yujun surrounded and facing the court’s prepared weapons.

• Bai Yujun dreamed of Li Chongqian and then, compelled by his voice, left her tomb and walked to the surface.
• Bai Yujun found four cloaked officials building a house in an abandoned village and warned that it needed a main beam.
• The officials revealed themselves and accused Bai Yujun of abandoning her post as the Tang’s True Dragon, demanding that she return to the True Dragon Hall.
• Bai Yujun refused, criticized the court, and drew her Hengdao as the officials summoned four giant earthen generals.
• The officials formed the Heavenly Net array and prepared demon-binding weapons while the Four Heavenly Kings attacked Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun fought four earthen giants in the imperial court’s Heavenly Net formation and used wind and careful probing to find a way past its defenses. She escaped underground through a weak point in the formation, leaving the four generals behind.

• Bai Yujun evaded the earthen giants’ attacks and discovered that they rapidly regenerated after being damaged.
• She summoned a violent wind from the sky, clearing the dust and battering the giants with Wind Blades.
• Bai Yujun led the mobile formation toward a burial mound and identified the giants’ legs as the source of their power.
• She found that the underground barrier was weaker than the one in the sky and reached the burial mound’s passage.
• Bai Yujun used three bursts of speed to separate two giants, break through the ground’s weak point, and disappear underground.

Bai Yujun reverted to her enormous serpent form and fought the four experts, killing Third Brother with her venom. After the leader sent Second Brother and Fourth Brother to summon reinforcements, Second Brother joined him in holding Bai Yujun back while Fourth Brother escaped with the Dragon Seeking Plate and formation foundations.

• Bai Yujun emerged from underground in her true form and destroyed one of the earth giant formation foundations.
• Bai Yujun attacked the experts with her massive body, tail, and venom, then seized Third Brother in her jaws.
• The experts bombarded Bai Yujun until she spat out Third Brother, who died as her venom dissolved his body.
• The leader retrieved the Dragon Seeking Plate and formation foundations, then ordered Second Brother and Fourth Brother to gather troops at the Eastern Mountain Camp.
• Bai Yujun returned to human form and fought the leader with her saber as he tried to pass the Dragon Seeking Plate and formation foundations to Fourth Brother.
• Second Brother chose to stay and help the leader hold Bai Yujun back, while Fourth Brother left to carry out their mission.

Bai Yujun defeated the four men sent to capture her and refused their leader’s plea to return to True Dragon Hall, telling him people had to save themselves. She continued north through a realm ravaged by war, banditry, and famine, crossing a battlefield untouched by its fighters.

• Bai Yujun killed Second Brother and crippled the four brothers’ leader, who begged her to return to True Dragon Hall and bring peace.
• Bai Yujun told the leader that people had to save themselves and stop deceiving the common people, then left him alive.
• An elite army arrived and found that the Dragon Seeking Plate had stopped responding.
• Bai Yujun traveled north through bandit raids, ruined towns, and armies marching across the drought-stricken land.
• Bai Yujun wove straw hats beside a battlefield and continued across it as anyone who tried to attack her died.

As Li Tang collapsed and Chang'an burned, Bai Yujun watched Emperor Renwu and the Old Eunuch die before revealing her true form to claim the capital's remaining Dragon Qi. After defeating the Demonic Cultivators and absorbing the Dragon Qi beneath True Dragon Hall, she vanished into the clouds.

• Rebels overwhelmed Chang'an, and Emperor Renwu fled to the hills with the Old Eunuch as Bai Yujun waited nearby.
• Bai Yujun offered Emperor Renwu an umbrella, then watched as he hanged himself and the Old Eunuch followed him.
• Bai Yujun transformed into her true form and flew toward Daming Palace to absorb the Dragon Qi left behind by Li Tang.
• Demonic Cultivators attacked Bai Yujun, but she struck them with lightning and forced the Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivators to flee.
• Bai Yujun summoned a tornado that destroyed True Dragon Hall, absorbed its Dragon Qi, and disappeared into the clouds.

After waking from a three-year sleep, Bai Yujun emerged from an ancient tomb and learned that the Great Tang had fallen. She changed the earth currents to conceal the tomb and set off to hide from those seeking the True Dragon.

• An old one-armed farmer pondered Dragon Snake’s final words while grave robbers dug into the tomb nearby.
• Bai Yujun awoke when the grave robbers disturbed her, killed their leader, and collapsed the tunnel over the others.
• Bai Yujun learned from the farmer that the Great Tang had been gone for over three years and explained that rigid, rotten traditions prevented peace.
• Bai Yujun altered the earth currents so the ancient tomb would be difficult to find again.
• The farmer warned Bai Yujun that ambitious men were searching for her, and she walked away to find somewhere to hide.

Bai Yujun hid beneath a great river to avoid the coming war, but a battle erupted above her and endangered the river. After helping destroy the Demon Sect’s Water Ghosts, she climbed ashore in a fury and prepared to strike the evil demon army.

• Bai Yujun traveled south in serpent form and hid inside a sunken ship in the river.
• More than two months later, Zhang Qi ordered his army to attack across the river, and the ensuing battle filled the water with soldiers, arrows, and wreckage.
• Bai Yujun used her water-controlling gift and Sword Control Technique to turn submerged arrows against the Water Ghosts attacking the ships and floating bridges.
• The opposing commander poisoned the river, killing the Water Ghosts but badly damaging the water and its surroundings.
• Bai Yujun climbed ashore, enraged by the pollution, and prepared to attack the evil demon army before fleeing.

Bai Yujun revealed her true form, crushed the demonic army’s elite formation, and escaped through the river before the Cultivation World began hunting for her. She hid in a city, found a spring rumored to lead to the Dragon Palace, and plunged inside as a great master arrived too late.

• Bai Yujun transformed into a giant serpent and crushed the demonic army’s elite formation along the riverbank.
• Bai Yujun used Wind Blades to hold off pursuers while Zhang Qi’s water snakes helped her escape underwater.
• The next day, cultivators and martial arts experts searched the great river for Bai Yujun, while she went ashore and ate at a city restaurant.
• Bai Yujun discovered Dragon King Spring, recognized its karst-cave scent, and dived into it.
• A great master arrived at the spring one incense stick later and beat his chest in frustration.

Bai Yujun returned to the Southern Wastes and visited Cloud Remote Ancient Village, where she learned that the White and Black Divisions were fighting again and that the Black Division was making zombies with Central Plains evil cultivators. She settled in to sell her treasures with Mu Duo, leaving the village's war unresolved.

• Bai Yujun reached the Southern Wastes, transformed by a lake, and headed toward Cloud Remote Ancient Village with a block of salt.
• Bai Yujun kicked a Black Division zombie off a mountain path and continued to the village.
• Bai Yujun reunited with Mu Duo and learned that the Black Division was cooperating with Central Plains evil cultivators to create zombies for use against Zhang Qi's army and the White Division.
• Bai Yujun offered to help the White Division if the fighting worsened, then asked Mu Duo to help her sell goods at a stall.
• Mu Duo asked whether Bai Yujun's purchases of Qi-and-Blood-restoring herbs served a special need, and Bai Yujun insisted she needed them to grow.

Bai Yujun slept through a Black Tribe shaman’s soul curse and unknowingly killed him with a sweep of her tail. After returning to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, she resumed trading and decided to travel to Melt Heaven Ridge to forge a shield.

• A Black Tribe shaman killed villagers with a curse, but when he entered Bai Yujun’s dream, she swatted him dead with her tail.
• After resting in Cloud Remote Ancient Village for half a month, Bai Yujun visited Snake Valley to teach Qing Ling before returning to the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• At Green Wood Mountain, Bai Yujun traded salt blocks for ore and forged weapons for the demon beasts.
• Bai Yujun decided to forge a shield to complement her armor and Snake Scales, and set her sights on Melt Heaven Ridge’s volcanic craters.

Bai Yujun left the blacksmith shop and traveled across the mountains to Melt Heaven Ridge to find Earth Fire for forging a shield. After finding only an extinct volcano and nearly overheating while digging for gold, she disguised herself as a peddler and headed to a Barbarian Tribe settlement for help.

• Bai Yujun closed her shop, gathered materials, and set out for Melt Heaven Ridge while demon beasts watched her leave.
• Bai Yujun crossed rivers and mountains, befriended animals by sharing salt, and finally spotted Melt Heaven Ridge in the distance.
• Bai Yujun reached the scorching red-earth region, used the Chunyang Art to endure the heat, and searched its mountains for Earth Fire.
• Bai Yujun climbed an extinct volcano, found gold in its crater, and left when the heat made her blood boil.
• Bai Yujun packed her goods, resumed her peddler disguise, and headed to a Barbarian Tribe settlement to ask for help.

Bai Yujun hid in the Southern Wasteland, terrified and ashamed as the Central Plains fell into a devastating war, and promised herself she would become stronger and braver. After forging a mechanical shield in a lava cave, she sensed the war had likely ended and resolved to prepare for her transformation into a flood dragon.

• Bai Yujun sensed the battle raging in the Central Plains and cowered in a Barbarian Tribe settlement, ashamed that she had fled instead of fighting alongside her friends.
• After packing up her stall, Bai Yujun walked west to escape the danger and promised herself she would someday be brave enough not to retreat.
• Bai Yujun searched Melt Heaven Ridge for lava until her infrared vision revealed a hot cave containing a lava spring.
• Bai Yujun spent more than two months forging a heavy mechanical shield in the cave and left with it folded into an Arm Shield.
• Bai Yujun sensed that the Central Plains' spiritual energy tides had subsided and decided to gather the nutrients needed for her flood-dragon transformation, vowing to become stronger and braver.

Bai Yujun traveled to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and began cultivating in its lake, drawn to the mountain’s powerful dragon vein as she prepared to transform into a Flood Dragon. Fifty years later, Jade Dragon Village invited her to become its sacred beast, and she agreed before returning to her training.

• Bai Yujun left Cloud Remote Ancient Village and traveled to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain after Mu Duo told her of its lake and dragon vein.
• Bai Yujun entered the lake, revealed her true form, and began absorbing Earth Vein Dragon Qi to prepare for her transformation.
• Fifty years later, Mu Duo visited with Jade Dragon Village’s leaders and brought Bai Yujun food to support her cultivation.
• Jade Dragon Village’s leaders asked Bai Yujun to become their sacred beast, and Bai Yujun agreed, promising to regulate their Water Vein when she had time.
• Bai Yujun returned to the lakebed and continued cultivating, determined to become a Flood Dragon before attempting to become a dragon.

After the Central Plains war devastated the land, Bai Yujun attended Jade Dragon Village’s ritual before leaving to hunt evil cultivators and Demonic Cultivators. She returned to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain at dawn, having marked the end of her Demon Core Stage life with a night of slaughter.

• Bai Yujun surfaced from the lake and took part in Jade Dragon Village’s ceremony, then grew bored and ate the offerings.
• Bai Yujun flew to a small kingdom near the Hundred Thousand Mountains, armed herself in black armor, and attacked a Demonic Sect hideout.
• Bai Yujun slaughtered Demonic Sect disciples, evil cultivators, and other demons and fiends throughout the night.
• Bai Yujun encountered and killed a tenacious Demonic Beast, then washed the blood from herself as dawn broke.
• Bai Yujun reflected that the city’s survivors would eventually forget the massacre and flew back to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to resume cultivating.

On the summit of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Bai Yujun prepared to undergo the tribulation that would transform her into a flood dragon, receiving dragon aura from the mountain. As the tribulation began to gather, its upheaval drove birds and beasts from the mountain and alarmed Jade Dragon Village.

• Bai Yujun reflected on her five hundred years of cautious survival and wondered whether she would fear death during her coming transformation.
• She climbed to the summit of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, bowed to its main peak, and received dragon aura from the mountain veins.
• Bai Yujun meditated and recited scriptures to calm herself before the flood-dragon transformation tribulation.
• The clouds darkened, the wind and snow intensified, and Bai Yujun unleashed the full might of her Demon Core Stage Perfected cultivation.
• The villagers of Jade Dragon Village watched birds flee and beasts stampede from the mountain, then contacted Cloud Remote Ancient Village.

Bai Yujun began her flood-dragon transformation on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and endured an intensifying lightning tribulation as her body grew and changed. With many people and beings praying for her, she remained determined to survive, though the ordeal continued.

• Bai Yujun transformed into her true serpent form and began growing the bones of her four claws, drawing support from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain’s dragon qi.
• Bai Yujun endured the first lightning strikes without using treasures, then chose to grow her hind claws before her foreclaws.
• Bai Yujun’s body lengthened as the tribulation intensified, and she endured severe pain while reabsorbing the blood seeping between her scales.
• Yu Rong, Chu Zhe, and the other great powers at Jade Void Palace gathered the sect’s disciples to pray for Bai Yujun’s survival.
• People at Cloud Remote Ancient Village, Jade Dragon Village, and Dragon Girl Temple offered blessings as cultivators, demonic beasts, evil demons, and Jiuli mountain folk gathered near the mountain.
• Bai Yujun glimpsed those praying for her through the Mysterious Heavens and continued enduring the lightning tribulation.

Bai Yujun endured a prolonged, agonizing lightning tribulation as her body transformed into a jiao. After her forelimbs finished growing, she emerged from the pit and declared herself the White Jiao.

• Bai Yujun suffered through the thunderstorm as her hind limbs, body, and head changed, while lightning shattered her scales.
• Bai Yujun hallucinated a ruined, ash-covered world and desperately searched for signs of water and life before returning to the tribulation.
• Bai Yujun endured another day and night of lightning while replenishing her depleted spiritual energy from the rain and wind.
• Bai Yujun's forelimbs grew scales and claws, and she gradually gained control of her new limbs.
• Bai Yujun rose from the deep pit, announced that she was the White Jiao, and roared.

After transforming into a flood dragon, Bai Yujun discovered her new powers and faced hostile onlookers gathered outside Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. She left the chapter feeding to regain her strength after killing a King Cobra and a concealed human assassin.

• Bai Yujun adjusted to her new flood-dragon body as her transformation stirred dragon veins and strange phenomena across the land.
• Bai Yujun felt an instinctive urge to unleash a flood, then noticed powerful humans and demon beasts gathering outside the black clouds.
• The King Cobra attacked Bai Yujun, but she unexpectedly breathed Chunyang flames, killed it, and ate its body.
• Bai Yujun used her True Sight to find and crush a concealed human assassin, then swallowed it to replenish her strength.

After evolving into a flood dragon, Bai Yujun tested her new flight and strengthened talents, escaped Jade Dragon Snow Mountain beneath storm clouds, and headed for the drought-stricken Northern Lands. She brought rain to the region and earned the people’s prayers and merit.

• Bai Yujun discovered that her new claws let her float and move through the air with almost no effort.
• Bai Yujun unleashed black clouds, rain, thunder, and lightning to cover her escape from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, sweeping nearby hostile followers into the storm.
• Bai Yujun flew toward the Central Plains and chose the drought-stricken Northern Lands as a place to bring rain and adapt to her new form.
• Bai Yujun summoned rain over the Northern Lands, where people had endured more than a century of drought and exile.
• The people saw Bai Yujun circling through the clouds, hailed her as the Dragon King, and prayed as rain fell across their land.

Bai Yujun brought rain to drought-stricken lands, but the ancient battlefield resisted her clouds. There, five cultivators encountered a Drought Demon and were saved at the last moment by Chunyang’s Zhuo Feng.

• Bai Yujun summoned rain over drought-stricken regions, and cultivators who tried to capture or kill her perished when she attacked.
• Bai Yujun pushed her rainclouds toward the ancient battlefield, where a strange force resisted them.
• Five cultivators rested in the ruins of Three Bends while guarding against Demonic Beasts.
• The five spotted a powerful monster, retreated, and fled when it pursued them for their blood.
• A flying sword intervened as the Drought Demon nearly caught the five, and Zhuo Feng of Chunyang arrived to save them.

Zhuo Feng fought a Drought Demon alone while waiting for reinforcements, and Bai Yujun arrived in the form of a white flood dragon. She wounded the Demon with a high-speed dive, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Zhuo Feng sent five cultivators away, called for reinforcements, and confronted the Drought Demon with a corpse-suppressing talisman.
• The Drought Demon charged Zhuo Feng, who used Chunyang sword techniques and spells to stall it while the five cultivators watched from hiding.
• Black rain clouds approached, and Bai Yujun appeared in the sky as a white flood dragon.
• Zhuo Feng recognized Bai Yujun as Senior Sister Bai, but nearly let the Drought Demon catch him while distracted.
• Bai Yujun dove at the Drought Demon, failed to bite through its defenses, and tore deep wounds into its waist and abdomen with her claws.

Bai Yujun confronted a Drought Demon, armed herself in black armor, and fought it alongside Zhuo Feng. After her lighter weapons failed to finish it, she struck the Drought Demon with her heavy saber and pressed her attack.

• Bai Yujun transformed into human form, put on her black armor, and armed herself with a shield and Hengdao.
• Bai Yujun charged the Drought Demon while Zhuo Feng supported her with flying swords and spells, and the nearby cultivators fled farther away.
• Bai Yujun struck the Drought Demon's head with her shield and slashed its neck, but her Hengdao could not cut through its bone.
• The Drought Demon kicked Bai Yujun away, and she drew a heavy saber to strike its forehead with Sunset Lake.
• Bai Yujun followed the blow with Crane Returning Fall, leaping at the Drought Demon and smashing down toward it.

Bai Yujun fought the Drought Demon with Zhuo Feng's support, using her armor, weapons, flood dragon abilities, and lightning to overwhelm it. The Drought Demon was badly wounded but still tried to pull the lightning-struck Hengdao from its chest as Bai Yujun attacked again.

• Bai Yujun smashed the Drought Demon with her heavy saber, then switched between the saber and Hengdao to break through its defenses.
• Bai Yujun used her flood dragon roar to summon storm clouds while her Wind Blades and weapon strikes steadily injured the Drought Demon.
• Bai Yujun raked the Drought Demon with Dragon Claw, then dodged its claws and struck it with a rapid barrage of punches.
• Zhuo Feng coordinated with Bai Yujun and sent countless sword lights and flying swords into the wounded Drought Demon.
• Bai Yujun plunged the Hengdao into the Drought Demon's chest as lightning struck the blade, then leaped aside and resumed her assault.
• The Drought Demon endured the attack and desperately tried to pull the lightning-charged Hengdao from its chest.

Bai Yujun and Zhuo Feng destroyed the Drought Demon, ending the drought over Three Bends and bringing rain. They headed to the temporary camp with proof of the monster’s death.

• Bai Yujun and Zhuo Feng attacked the Drought Demon together, and Bai Yujun burned it with white flames.
• Bai Yujun dislocated the Drought Demon’s arms and battered its body while Zhuo Feng put away his golden talisman.
• Bai Yujun tore the Drought Demon’s head and spine from its body, killing it as rain fell and washed away the ashes.
• Bai Yujun noticed the merit light, then agreed to rest at the temporary camp with Zhuo Feng.
• Zhuo Feng collected the Drought Demon’s teeth and fingernails as proof, while five cultivators cheered after witnessing the battle.

After hesitating over her painful history with Chunyang Palace, Bai Yujun returned to Shenhua Mountain after several hundred years. She reunited with Chu Zhe, Yang Mu, Xu Ling, Li Xiangling, and Iron Ball, then paid respects at Qingxu Palace.

• Zhuo Feng escorted Bai Yujun to Shiliting, told her that Peak Master Yu missed her and that Iron Ball was thriving, and bade her farewell.
• Bai Yujun struggled with memories of Chunyang Palace’s past treatment of her but decided she had to return to Shenhua Mountain.
• Bai Yujun reached Mount Hua, changed into a Chunyang Daoist Robe, and climbed the familiar mountain path.
• Chu Zhe, Yang Mu, Xu Ling, Li Xiangling, and Iron Ball welcomed Bai Yujun at the mountain gate, and Chu Zhe told her it was good she had returned.
• Bai Yujun walked with them to Qingxu Palace, remembered her old life there, and offered fresh fruit and incense at the altar.