Recaps

Bai Yujun spent peaceful days on Shenhua Mountain, drinking tea with Yu Rong, reconnecting with old disciples, and enjoying food and rest. Several days later, she opened a stall beside Taiji Plaza selling goods from the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

• Yu Rong invited Bai Yujun to play the qin in a snowy pavilion, and the music drew Immortal Cranes to circle overhead.
• Bai Yujun collected a new Daoist robe and pills with Xu Ling and Little Ironball, then promised to find Ironball enormous ants to eat.
• Bai Yujun went to the dining hall with Xu Ling and recognized two Nascent Soul cultivators as girls she had recruited into the sect years earlier.
• Bai Yujun ate at the dining hall and secretly ate more than twenty koi on her way back to Qingxu Palace.
• Bai Yujun rested and cultivated on an ancient pine, then set up a stall beside Taiji Plaza selling specialties and attire from the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

After hibernating through winter, Bai Yujun left Qingxu Palace at Qingming to bring rain to drought-stricken regions of the Northern Lands. Yu Rong explained that disaster relief could earn the merit Bai Yujun needed to pursue the difficult path from flood dragon to dragon transformation, and Bai Yujun set out to begin.

• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball slept through winter while Chunyang Palace celebrated New Year's Eve and the seasonal festivals.
• At Qingming, Xu Ling invited Bai Yujun to a spring outing, but Bai Yujun said she had something to do and went to see Yu Rong.
• Bai Yujun told Yu Rong she would descend the mountain to bring rain to the drought-stricken Northern Lands.
• Yu Rong showed Bai Yujun a detailed map, described the suffering caused by drought and war, and explained that disaster relief could earn her merit.
• Yu Rong warned Bai Yujun that flood dragon transformation was exceptionally difficult and required heaven and earth's recognition.
• Bai Yujun declined Iron Ball's offer to accompany her, memorized the map, and left Chunyang Palace to begin her journey.

Bai Yujun gathered an immense mass of rain clouds over the East Sea and dragged them toward drought-stricken lands. After a village girl recognized her as Changbai, Bai Yujun repaid an old granny’s tea by bringing rain to the village and continued onward.

• Bai Yujun reached the East Sea and summoned wind and clouds, gathering rain clouds for three days and nights.
• Bai Yujun struggled to drag the heavy clouds toward the Northern Lands, traveling slowly and letting some rain leak along the way.
• At a Dilapidated Temple, martial arts experts saw Bai Yujun pass beneath the clouds and speculated that she was pulling them along.
• Bai Yujun arrived at a village, asked for tea, and received a bowl from an old granny after the little girl called her “Bai... Chang...”
• Bai Yujun drank the tea, promised to give the granny water in return, and brought rain to the cheering village before leaving.

Bai Yujun traveled for weeks to bring rain to a drought-stricken region, then continued making trips between the Eastern Sea and the Northern Lands to restore life to the land. As humans fought over the Central Plains, she kept spreading rain and greenery, leaving the work unfinished.

• Bai Yujun walked for over half a month, gathering rainwater and brewing tea as she headed toward the drought-stricken region.
• Bai Yujun confirmed her position and brought rain to the parched land, where people and wildlife rejoiced at the first downpour in more than a hundred years.
• Bai Yujun drew the rain onward for several days until the clouds emptied, leaving damp land turning green and a rainbow overhead.
• Bai Yujun rested, then flew toward the Eastern Sea to bring more rain, while displaced commoners emerged from underground shelters.
• Bai Yujun repeatedly traveled between the Eastern Sea and the Northern Lands, bringing rain even as human factions fought across the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun crossed a battlefield untouched, watered household fires and wildfires, and watched greenery spread.

Bai Yujun brought rain to the Northern Lands and ate seafood swept up by a tornado, unaware that people had discovered her location. A Vassal King mobilized to capture her, while the Dragon Hunters found ancient instructions for making weapons to slay flood dragons.

• Bai Yujun created a tornado over the Eastern Sea, roasted the seafood it carried into the sky, and continued her rain journey north.
• A Vassal King learned that the white flood dragon had been seen by the Eastern Sea and ordered his troops to capture her with Demon Binding Nets.
• The Vassal King's mobilization spread across the realm, stirring up rival powers and drawing attention to Bai Yujun's movements.
• The Dragon Hunters searched ruins, tombs, and libraries for ways to kill a flood dragon, convinced that her power threatened humanity.
• A group of Dragon Hunters uncovered a stone stele describing a dragon-hunting method and began forging weapons from ancient blueprints.

Bai Yujun was intercepted while guiding rain clouds through a valley by an army serving an ambitious king, who tried to claim her as his Empress. Enraged, she abandoned the rain and charged into battle against two Nascent Soul Cultivators, ending the chapter as she unleashed a lightning-charged attack.

• Bai Yujun found the valley sealed by soldiers, cultivators, and Demon Binding Nets while she was guiding rain clouds to their destination.
• An old woman invited Bai Yujun to serve the king as a guardian divine beast, but Bai Yujun refused and demanded that they clear her way.
• The king declared that he would make Bai Yujun his Empress and use their descendants to establish an enduring imperial bloodline.
• Bai Yujun abandoned control of the clouds, armed herself, and used wind and rain to slaughter the surrounding troops as she attacked the two Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Bai Yujun summoned three bolts of lightning onto Hengdao and charged at the two cultivators with a killing move.

Bai Yujun defeated two Nascent Soul Cultivators and confronted the Vassal King and the hunched old woman, exposing their reliance on demonic forces and a false body. After warning the soldiers to flee, she unleashed Heavenly Punishment on those who remained and flew back toward the East Sea.

• Bai Yujun drove off the two Nascent Soul Cultivators after overpowering one of them, and they chose to retreat.
• Bai Yujun confronted the Vassal King and revealed that the hunched old woman was using a Human Skin while her true body hid elsewhere.
• Bai Yujun warned everyone in the valley to leave if they wanted to live, and many soldiers fled.
• Bai Yujun called down Heavenly Punishment, unleashing lightning across the valley and killing those who remained.
• Floodwaters swept through the valley, and Bai Yujun flew toward the East Sea.

Bai Yujun returned to the drought-stricken Northern Lands as a white flood dragon and brought rain, earning merit as the land began to recover. Two martial artists hiding nearby tested special garments intended to conceal them from her, but she unknowingly rested directly above them.

• Bai Yujun flew to the Eastern Sea, transformed into her true form, and gathered rain clouds before returning to the drought-stricken land.
• She spread rain across the Northern Lands, where streams, grass, insects, birds, and beasts began to return as the land recovered.
• Two martial artists watched Bai Yujun and planned to test their concealment garments, despite one man's doubts about targeting a dragon doing good deeds.
• The two dug a hidden hollow near a place where Bai Yujun had rested and waited nearly a month for her return.
• Bai Yujun brought another rainfall, then landed to rest without sensing the two people concealed in the grass beneath her head.
• The martial artists realized their garments hid them from Bai Yujun, but feared she might accidentally step on them as she breathed sparks nearby.

Bai Yujun continued her rainmaking journey and discovered an entrance to the underground Rift Valley, where refugees had built a hidden settlement called Ghost City. After beating a man for information, she entered the city disguised as a wandering fortune-teller and began exploring its strange, dimly lit world.

• Villagers built a small Dragon King Temple and prayed to Bai Yujun, unknowingly adding a thread of fortune that would help her become a true dragon a thousand years later.
• While spreading rain across the Northern Lands, Bai Yujun detected unusual warmth and found an entrance to an underground cave.
• A man emerging from the cave threatened Bai Yujun, so she beat him, took his silver, and learned about the underground Rift Valley and Ghost City.
• Bai Yujun disguised herself in black clothes and entered Ghost City, a sprawling settlement built along a deep Rift Valley.
• Bai Yujun took a fortune-telling banner and compass from a stall owner and wandered among ordinary residents and evil cultivators in the lantern-lit city.

Bai Yujun explored Ghost City and spent several days watching and betting on brutal fights in the Beast Cage before remembering her duty to summon rain in the East Sea. After she flew away, two exhausted men who had been tracking her found an earthen hole and approached it, where they discovered a battered corpse.

• Bai Yujun explored Ghost City's underground riverbank and entered the Beast Cage to watch its fighters.
• Bai Yujun placed bets, lost silver, then won enough to break even and slipped away with extra taels from the entranced betting clerk.
• Bai Yujun spent about three days eating, sleeping, and watching fights in Ghost City before remembering she had to summon rain in the East Sea.
• Bai Yujun returned to the surface and flew toward the East Sea as two exhausted trackers spotted her.
• The two trackers found an earthen hole and cautiously approached it, where a scarred person lying in the grass raised their face and died.

Bai Yujun explored the underground ghost city and entered its life-and-death Beast Cage tournament to win silver. After watching the brutal fights, she was called into the arena and faced a towering warrior from the Northern Lands grasslands.

• Bai Yujun discovered that the Rift Valley contained several underground cities with Beast Cages and other businesses, and she began betting on arena fights.
• When the largest ghost city's Beast Cage announced a tournament with a prize of one thousand taels, Bai Yujun tested the formation and signed up for a life-and-death fight.
• Bai Yujun registered under the code name “King of the Green Grassland” and received contestant number seventy-two.
• Bai Yujun watched competitors fight brutally, including a skilled female martial artist who quickly defeated her male opponent.
• The announcer called Bai Yujun to fight, and she entered the arena to face a huge, bare-chested warrior from the Northern Lands grasslands.

Bai Yujun won the Beast Cage’s Martial Arts Competition and its thousand-tael prize while hiding her identity. When she recognized a black snake as a descendant of Black Bridge, she left the arena to intervene in its deadly beast fight.

• Bai Yujun defeated the Prairie Fierce Tiger and won the Martial Arts Competition, earning a thousand taels of silver.
• The Heroine of Danzhou won her bet on Bai Yujun and watched the competition from the stands.
• A beast fight began between a gladiator slave and a massive black snake, while Bai Yujun recognized the snake’s bloodline as related to Black Bridge.
• Remembering Black Bridge’s kindness, Bai Yujun ran out of the Beast Cage and leaped into the underground river to save his descendant.
• As the black snake fought the gladiator slave, Ghost City residents saw a massive white shadow rise from the river.

Bai Yujun rampaged through Ghost City in her enormous flood-dragon form, seized Black Snake from the Beast Cage, and carried him away. After confirming his bloodline and learning he was descended from a clan that had once helped her, she flew toward a human-free refuge in the Southern Wasteland.

• Bai Yujun transformed into a gigantic flood dragon and charged through Ghost City, terrifying its residents and destroying buildings as she entered the Beast Cage.
• Bai Yujun ignored the attacks of the crowd, bit Black Snake from the Gladiator Arena, and escaped the collapsing cavern as a slave fled behind her.
• Bai Yujun forced her way up through the Rift Valley and burst out onto the wasteland, while Ghost City residents followed to watch her leave.
• Bai Yujun set Black Snake down in a mountain gorge, confirmed his bloodline, and learned that his territory was on Wunü Mountain.
• Bai Yujun offered to take Black Snake somewhere without humans to repay his ancestor's favor, then carried him toward the Southern Wasteland and fed him pills along the way.

Bai Yujun finished repaying her debt to Black Bridge by leaving his descendant with a cultivation manual, then brought snow to the Northern Lands. As Wolf Riders advanced to raid a village, her dragon qi drove back their wolf aura, and she waited for the raiders to approach.

• Bai Yujun released Black Bridge's descendant in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and gave it a cultivation manual before heading for the Eastern Sea.
• Yang Mu and Gan Wu descended Shenhua Mountain to warn the factions not to interfere with Bai Yujun's rainfall.
• Bai Yujun brought rainclouds north, discovered the region had entered winter, and made it snow instead.
• Bai Yujun heard an old villager worry about Wolf Riders as nearly a thousand raiders advanced through the snow toward the villages.
• Bai Yujun sensed the Wolf Riders' wolf aura and instinctively drove it back with her dragon qi.
• Bai Yujun spotted the raiders with her infrared vision and waited as they inexplicably turned toward her.

Bai Yujun confronted a lost raiding party in a snowstorm and revealed herself as an enormous white flood dragon. As the cavalry fled, she began devouring their Giant Wolves and pursued the scattered survivors.

• A nearly thousand-strong party lost its way in a blizzard, and its leader ordered the men to find shelter.
• The eight Giant Wolves refused to advance when the party encountered Bai Yujun beneath a Withered Tree.
• A young man shot an arrow that struck the tree, and the cavalry lowered their weapons after seeing Bai Yujun’s beauty.
• Bai Yujun revealed her fangs and roared, frightening the Giant Wolves into retreating.
• Bai Yujun emerged as a huge, scale-covered flood dragon and swallowed the Giant Wolves while the cavalry’s arrows bounced off her scales.
• The leader ordered the cavalry to flee, and the party scattered as Bai Yujun moved to pursue them.

Bai Yujun left the snowy wilderness and became a successful poison seller in the underground ghost city. After Heroine of Danzhou bought her venom to kill her father, she returned to tell Bai Yujun how he died.

• The white flood dragon devoured warhorses and sheep during a snowstorm, then flew away from the survivors.
• Bai Yujun washed the blood from her mouth in the snow and went underground to escape the cold.
• Bai Yujun set up a stall by the underground river and became the ghost city’s famous Poison King by selling diluted venom as Half-Step Mad Laughter.
• Heroine of Danzhou bought two bottles of poison and told Bai Yujun she planned to kill her father.
• Half a month later, Heroine of Danzhou said she had poisoned her father and watched him suffer for a day and a night before he died.

Bai Yujun visited a secluded fortune-teller in the ghost city, but his attempt to read her fate backfired and left him gravely injured. Bored with life underground, she went to a nearby city, where another fortune-teller’s predictions about her marriage earned him a beating.

• Bai Yujun killed a Demonic Beast that tried to accost her on the ghost city’s plankway.
• She visited an old fortune-teller whose attempt to read her fate caused him to suffer a severe backlash.
• On her way back, Bai Yujun encountered two Demonic Beasts and sent them crashing past a cave of vicious men.
• Growing bored with the ghost city, she went to a nearby city, bought Tea Leaves and salt, and sought a fortune reading.
• When a fortune-teller predicted her marriage and future children, Bai Yujun smashed his head onto the table and left him unconscious.

Bai Yujun celebrated New Year's Eve alone above the town, reflecting on the passage of time, before returning to Shenhua Mountain after a message summoned the sect's disciples. At Sword Discussion Peak, the gathered disciples awaited an unexplained announcement, while Yang Mu teased Bai Yujun by refusing to reveal what was happening.

• Bai Yujun watched townspeople celebrate the New Year and secretly enjoyed the offerings at the White Dragon King temple.
• Bai Yujun spent New Year's Eve on the city gate tower, cooking dumplings and celebrating by herself.
• Bai Yujun received her master's message and flew to Shenhua Mountain with many other recalled disciples.
• Gu Cangyu ordered everyone except the mountain guards to gather at Sword Discussion Peak.
• Bai Yujun reunited with Xu Ling, Yang Mu, and Ironball, and Yang Mu refused to tell them why the disciples had been summoned.

Bai Yujun watched Gu Cangyu ascend, then spent seven years bringing rain to the drought-stricken Northern Lands. After the final drought ended and the land recovered, she looked forward to being recognized as an outstanding demon beast.

• Gu Cangyu prepared for and survived his ascension tribulation, then left a newly strengthened Spirit Weapon on Shenhua Mountain as he ascended.
• Bai Yujun meditated during the tribulation and developed tiny clouds that produced lightning, but she felt she had gained little insight before returning to Qingxu Palace.
• At Qingming, Bai Yujun set off for the Eastern Sea and began bringing rain to the drought-stricken lands.
• For seven years, Bai Yujun traveled between the Eastern Sea and the Northern Lands, steadily restoring rainfall and greenery while gaining merit.
• Bai Yujun watched heavy rain fill the final drought-stricken riverbed and declared that she would be rated an outstanding demon beast.

Bai Yujun headed southeast to control a devastating flood, choosing to drive the rainclouds away before regulating the rivers. As she worked, Dragon Hunters exploited the disaster to spread rumors that she had caused it and organized a plan to kill her.

• Bai Yujun received a message from Yu Rong asking her to help control the southeastern flood and hurried there to earn merit.
• Bai Yujun saw the flooded land and chose to lead the rainclouds away to reduce the rainfall before tackling the waters.
• Bai Yujun transformed into her white flood-dragon form and guided the clouds, unaware that her efforts were being used against her.
• People who saw Bai Yujun in the storm believed rumors that she had unleashed the flood, and crowds began calling for her death.
• Dragon Hunters gathered in a southeastern city and quietly distributed assignments to carry out their plan to slay Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun discovered that someone had blamed her for the flood by teaching villagers to burn paper dragons, weakening her cultivation. She tracked down and killed one of the plotter’s pawns, but the mastermind remained unknown.

• Bai Yujun watched villagers burn an effigy of a white flood dragon and curse her for causing the flood.
• Bai Yujun learned that a passing master had taught the villagers the ritual and used her thermal-sensing talent to track him.
• Bai Yujun confronted a middle-aged man riding a donkey and accused him of being a pawn in the scheme against her.
• The man refused to reveal anything, so Bai Yujun killed him with two green leaves.

After discovering that people had plotted against her and spread rumors blaming her for the floods, Bai Yujun began killing those involved while posing as an umbrella seller. A Buddhist monk concealed the Heavenly Secrets to aid the Dragon Hunter’s plan, and the chapter ended as Bai Yujun entered the conspirators’ meeting hall.

• Bai Yujun killed a wandering swordsman who refused to buy an umbrella, and similar murders spread through the rain-soaked land.
• Two old monks discussed one monk abandoning his cultivation to conceal the Heavenly Secrets and help their teaching flourish against the white dragon.
• The Dragon Hunter’s followers learned of their comrades’ deaths but refused to abandon their plan to destroy the dragon.
• Bai Yujun arrived at the conspirators’ house as an umbrella seller, immobilized the people there with her red-eyed gaze, and entered the hall with her fangs exposed.

During the endless flood, Bai Yujun visited Scholar Guo’s home selling umbrellas and spared his family after his mother recognized her and offered a silver bracelet. Scholar Guo realized Bai Yujun was the White Flood Dragon and discovered the neighboring Wang and Zhang Families had already died.

• Scholar Guo patched his leaking roof while his family endured the relentless rain and worried about their poverty.
• Bai Yujun arrived at the Guo home selling an oil-paper umbrella for one tael, and the infant began crying when she entered.
• Madam Guo’s mother recognized the danger, knelt before Bai Yujun, and offered her family’s silver bracelet in exchange for their lives.
• Bai Yujun accepted the bracelet, gave the old woman her umbrella, and left after warning the family to behave properly.
• Scholar Guo saw Bai Yujun transform into a White Flood Dragon, then found the Wang and Zhang Families dead and realized she had spared his household.

Bai Yujun tracked the people who had secretly worked to damage her reputation, forcing a captured cultivator to reveal their connection to the Li family in Wuhai City. After killing a man at Li Manor, she located more than a dozen likely conspirators gathered in a concealed room at a brothel.

• Bai Yujun captured a low-ranking cultivator at a luxurious estate and threatened him until he revealed that the group was at the Li family in Wuhai City.
• Bai Yujun flew to Wuhai City and waited outside Li Manor, tuning her guqin in the rain.
• A wealthy man arrived at Li Manor, and Bai Yujun killed him with a note from her guqin.
• Bai Yujun concluded the other conspirators were probably meeting at a brothel and searched it with her infrared vision.
• Bai Yujun found more than a dozen martial artists and low-ranking cultivators gathered in a concealed room.

Bai Yujun killed the Dragon Hunters who had gathered in a brothel, but the survivors retaliated by spreading rumors and staging diversions to draw her away from the Flood Disaster. She hunted down one of the rumor-spreaders and demanded to know where the others were, but he refused to tell her.

• Bai Yujun disguised herself as a zither player and killed the Dragon Hunters gathered in the brothel after the final member returned.
• The Dragon Hunters learned that Bai Yujun was targeting their people and agreed to send volunteers to draw her away from their plan.
• Dragon Hunters spread rumors and taught people to burn paper dragons, worsening hostility toward Bai Yujun and distracting her from controlling the flood.
• Bai Yujun killed a Dragon Hunter spreading rumors and captured another, demanding that he reveal where his companions were.
• The captured Dragon Hunter refused to answer, and Bai Yujun killed him in front of the ancestral tablets.