Recaps

Bai Yujun prepared the snake demons to continue studying while she was away, then flew to Cloud Remote Ancient Village and learned that poisonous corpses had escaped the Black Division’s control. She offered several ways to destroy them, but Mu Duo asked her to leave the matter alone for now.

• Bai Yujun gave the snake demons a day off, assigned two of them to sweep her courtyard, and watched as Qing Ling taught them how.
• Bai Yujun wrote martial techniques and spells into beast-hide books, left them and a stockpile of weapons for the snake demons, and put Qing Ling in charge of teaching them to read and write.
• Bai Yujun flew toward Cloud Remote Ancient Village after spotting a withered forest and smelling evil and death near Black Division territory.
• Bai Yujun arrived during a meeting and learned from Mu Duo that poisonous corpses had broken loose, devastated Black Division stockades, and threatened to spread toward the White Division.
• Bai Yujun offered to burn, flood, or dry out the poisonous corpses, but Mu Duo told her to give her some peace before Bai Yujun offered her dried fish.

Bai Yujun listened as a Ghost Rock Village envoy warned Cloud Remote Ancient Village that a poison corpse king was spreading disaster through the Black Tribe villages and sought cooperation. The village leaders weighed the threat, while Bai Yujun suspected the envoy was hiding something.

• Bai Yujun sat through Cloud Remote Ancient Village's meeting as its leaders debated the ongoing crisis.
• A messenger announced that an envoy from Ghost Rock Village had arrived, and the chieftain ordered him to enter.
• The envoy asked Cloud Remote Ancient Village to help suppress a poison corpse king, warning that the spreading corpse tide would threaten their lands next.
• The envoy revealed that two villages had been destroyed and four more were struggling to survive, and Mu Duo asked him to explain what a poison corpse king was.
• The envoy described how the king commanded infectious poison corpses, while Bai Yujun suspected he was concealing part of the truth.

Bai Yujun and the others traveled toward Ghost Rock Village, where they found a vast horde of poisonous corpses threatening Cloud Remote Ancient Village. Bai Yujun incinerated the horde with her Chunyang Art-enhanced dragon breath, and the group continued toward Ghost Rock Village.

• Bai Yujun let Mu Duo ride on her head and flew playfully through the clouds before they continued toward the Black Tribe's territory.
• Bai Yujun and the others saw that the withered region had advanced toward Cloud Remote Ancient Village and found guards building defenses against the poisonous corpses.
• Bai Yujun discovered that the corpses' virus withered vegetation, while their dense Yin Energy made them difficult to burn with ordinary flames.
• The group spotted a massive horde of poisonous corpses filling a valley and advancing toward the village's border pass.
• Bai Yujun breathed Chunyang Art-infused white flames across the valley, burning the corpse horde to ashes.
• Bai Yujun and the others resumed their journey toward Ghost Rock Village.

Bai Yujun circled Ghost Rock Village while Mu Duo explained the Black tribe’s hierarchy and their long conflict with the White tribe. After discovering the village was hiding a powerful poison corpse, Bai Yujun secretly altered the earth veins and left the story with a sudden collapse near Ghost Rock Village.

• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo surveyed Ghost Rock Village, where survivors hid behind the walls as poison corpses swarmed outside.
• Mu Duo explained that Black tribe nobles ruled over commoners and slaves, and that the White and Black tribes had fought for generations.
• Bai Yujun used True Sight to find a four-meter-tall poison corpse hidden in a cavern beneath a remote cliff.
• Mu Duo said both sides had come to investigate the outbreak and pursue their own aims, while Bai Yujun suspected Ghost Rock Village planned to use the poison corpses against White tribe experts.
• Bai Yujun altered the earth veins beneath a mountaintop near the village, then noticed the poison corpses were all human and wondered whether animals were immune.
• Cloud Remote Ancient Village departed without an agreement, and a tremendous boom and earthquake struck near Ghost Rock Village as Bai Yujun smiled.

Three injured cultivators fled a Leopard Demon through the Hundred Thousand Mountains until two humanoid demon beasts drove it away. The demon beasts declared the survivors their prisoners and ordered them to come along.

• Three cultivators fleeing poison corpses accidentally entered a Leopard Demon's territory, and the demon wounded them as they ran.
• The cultivators abandoned their packs, but the Leopard Demon caught and injured two of them during the chase.
• The survivors reached a shallow mountain stream and realized it could not protect them from the Leopard Demon.
• Two humanoid demon beasts appeared behind the cultivators, and the bewitching woman hissed at the Leopard Demon until it retreated across the stream.
• The humanoid demon beasts called the three cultivators prisoners and ordered them to come with them.

Lu Gui and his companions were taken to the White Residence, where they became servants among a community of snake demons. Ten days later, Lu Gui watched the demons study and wondered who had created this strange, peaceful place.

• Lu Gui treated his injured companion with a herbal paste made by one of the demon beasts, and it healed the wound better than Blood-Stopping Powder.
• The two demon beasts escorted Lu Gui and his companions through the mountains to the White Residence, where Tieqiu ordered them to wash and put them to work.
• Over the next ten days, the injured man recovered while Lu Gui and his companions cleaned the residence and tended its grounds.
• Lu Gui watched the snake demons attend lessons beneath the ancient tree, curious about their cultivation arts and the White Residence's mysterious owner.

Lu Gui became the teacher of Bai Manor’s snake demons and met Bai Yujun, who revealed herself as the manor’s master. As Bai Yujun worried that poison corpses were nearing her territory, beasts began fleeing across the border, and a snake demon hurried to warn her.

• Lu Gui taught the snake demons to read and explained their martial manuals, earning a role as their teacher.
• Bai Yujun appeared beneath the ancient tree, identified herself as Bai Manor’s nonhuman master, and ordered Lu Gui to teach the demons reading and writing.
• Bai Yujun worried that poison corpses and Poison Corpse Kings might reach her territory, while considering inspecting the border after resting.
• Beasts fled across the border stream into the White Flood Dragon’s territory as two snake demons watched from a tree.
• One snake demon raced toward Bai Manor to report the approaching animals.

Bai Yujun redirected an underground river to slow the poison corpses from entering her territory, then infiltrated the withered forest to find who was moving them. She discovered a black-robed Black Tribe shaman and let him flee, hoping he would lead her to the others.

• Bai Yujun transformed into a white flood dragon and changed the earth veins to bring an underground river to the surface along her territory's border.
• Bai Yujun sent a voice transmission to two snake demons, disguised herself in Jiuli clothing, and entered the poison corpse region.
• Bai Yujun destroyed a huge poison corpse with Spiritual Energy Swords while searching for the one directing the horde.
• Bai Yujun detected a human figure and found a black-robed Black Tribe shaman chanting to send poison corpses toward the deep mountains.
• Bai Yujun crept behind the shaman and questioned him, but he fled and decided to seek out the others for protection.

Bai Yujun used her heat-sensing and aerial mobility to find and attack Black Tribe camps in the mountains. After destroying one camp, she struck a second with a heavy saber dropped from high altitude and left its powerful shaman near death.

• Bai Yujun descended on a Black Tribe camp, drove off its poisonous insects, and killed the shamans and zombies with Spiritual Energy Swords.
• The black-robed man who fled the camp was caught by Bai Yujun and struck down after she tracked his body heat.
• Bai Yujun climbed above the forest and used her thermal sensing to locate another Black Tribe camp with a powerful shaman.
• Bai Yujun dropped her heavy saber from high altitude, accelerating it with the Sword Control Technique until it struck the camp and destroyed a building full of shamans.
• The old shaman survived the saber's impact, but Bai Yujun slammed into him at high speed and left him battered and barely alive.

Bai Yujun killed the old wizard by accident, then returned to the Bai Estate to rest after the poisonous corpses stopped advancing. Mu Duo arrived with an antidote plan that depended on Bai Yujun making rain across the Black Tribe's territory, and Bai Yujun agreed to help.

• Bai Yujun accidentally killed the old wizard when her uncontrolled heavy saber struck his head, then looted the area and burned a valley full of poisonous corpses.
• Bai Yujun returned to the Bai Estate, where the snake demons reported that the poisonous corpses had become disorganized and stopped advancing.
• Bai Yujun spent the day relaxing in the back garden until Mu Duo visited and said she needed her help.
• Mu Duo explained that she had prepared an antidote for the poisonous corpses and needed Bai Yujun to spread it through rain across the Black Tribe's territory.
• Bai Yujun agreed to use her rainmaking ability to distribute the antidote when the weather was suitable.

Bai Yujun spent a leisurely stretch at home before helping the Bai tribe fight the poison corpses with rain and wind. At the ruined Ghost Rock Village, she searched for records and valuables, then destroyed the remaining zombies with a Chunyang Art bomb.

• Bai Yujun rested at Cloud Remote Ancient Village while Lu Gui taught the demons and Qing Ling stopped Tieqiu from eating a poisonous butterfly.
• Bai Yujun helped the Bai tribe's shamans scatter medicine over poison-corpse-infested areas by summoning rain and wind.
• Bai Yujun accompanied Mu Duo and Cloud Remote Ancient Village's experts to Ghost Rock Village to search for poison-corpse records and burn them.
• Bai Yujun collected a fallen village flag as a valuable keepsake and teased the zombies hiding inside a stone house.
• Bai Yujun threw a bead of Chunyang spiritual energy into the stone house, reducing the zombies inside to ash.

Bai Yujun helped the Cloud Remote Ancient Village experts deal with the threat inside Ghost Rock Village’s sealed cave by using Dragon Breath to drive out the Corpse King. The Corpse King burst from the cave engulfed in flames as the experts attacked it.

• Bai Yujun burned the zombies hidden in Ghost Rock Village by tearing open rooftops and exposing them to sunlight.
• Bai Yujun sensed a dangerous presence and the smell of blood inside the reinforced cave beneath the cliff, and warned Mu Duo and the others that a Corpse King might be inside.
• The old chieftain decided the experts should eliminate the Corpse King, and Bai Yujun proposed making a fist-sized hole in the stone door so she could attack it from outside.
• The experts punched a hole in the stone door, and Bai Yujun breathed Dragon Breath into the cave, filling it with flames.
• The Corpse King broke through the cracked stone door, and the ancient village experts struck it with a barrage of magical attacks.

After the White Tribe defeated the Corpse King, Bai Yujun searched the burned-out cave and uncovered an ancient Broken Bone whose aura faintly resembled her bloodline. She learned it had likely been placed beneath the altar during repairs and decided to travel to the Central Plains to trace its origin.

• The White Tribe subdued the Corpse King while Bai Yujun felt drawn toward the still-smoking cave.
• Bai Yujun entered the cave with Mu Duo and the others, cleared the poisonous smoke, and searched the altar.
• Bai Yujun shoved aside the offering stone and found a Broken Bone hidden in a groove beneath it.
• Mu Duo said Ghost Rock Village had repaired the altar the year before last and suggested the bone may have come from a Central Plains caravan called the Maohe Chamber of Commerce.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo she planned to travel to the Central Plains to discover the bone's source, and Mu Duo urged her to protect herself.

Bai Yujun built a wooden tower to house the cultivation manuals she had written and arranged for craftsmen and snake demons to settle in the Southern Wasteland. With the Bai Household's affairs settled, she prepared to investigate Broken Bone and sent three Central Plains men home with their wages.

• Bai Yujun commissioned cultivation manuals, arranged for Mu Duo to care for the snake demons, and began building a tower on the Back Mountain.
• Central Plains craftsmen built the tower under generous conditions, and more than ten chose to remain in Snake Valley and make new homes there.
• After several months, Bai Yujun completed the five-story wooden tower and filled it with manuals guarded by the snake demons.
• Bai Yujun decided to seek the truth behind Broken Bone after surveying her growing territory.
• Bai Yujun gave Lu Gui and the other two men leave to visit their families, warned them not to reveal the Southern Wasteland's location, and paid them with spirit medicine.

Bai Yujun traveled with a merchant caravan to Gushan Market to find the struggling Maohe Chamber of Commerce. When its guards tried to seize her, she knocked them down and prepared to enter the shop.

• Bai Yujun learned that Maohe Chamber of Commerce had been suppressed after offending a powerful figure and that it had a branch in Gushan Market.
• Bai Yujun waited three days to join a caravan, then traveled in disguise and asked fellow travelers about the chamber of commerce.
• Lu Gui and his two companions discussed abandoning cultivation for a comfortable life, while Lu Gui remained unsure and decided to go home first.
• Bai Yujun reached Gushan Market and found Maohe Chamber of Commerce’s rundown storefront guarded by four burly men.
• When the guards claimed the chamber owed them money and tried to seize Bai Yujun, she struck and knocked all four unconscious.

Bai Yujun searched the Maohe Chamber of Commerce for records of a wealthy trader who had returned from the Nine Li, only to learn that the ledgers had been moved to the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce. She infiltrated the Shen family’s accounting room and found a suspicious record naming Pan Xiong.

• Bai Yujun visited the abandoned Maohe Chamber of Commerce and questioned Fatty about its trade ledgers.
• Fatty revealed that Mister Lan of the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce had moved the ledgers, and that he lived north of Gushan Market.
• Bai Yujun changed her appearance, located the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce, and waited until night to infiltrate it.
• Bai Yujun found the Maohe ledgers and discovered that a caravan had exchanged five hundred jin of salt for twenty packhorses’ worth of valuables.
• Bai Yujun tore out the record naming Pan Xiong, returned the ledger, and erased evidence of her search.

Bai Yujun hid in Gushan Market while black-clad men searched for a missing ledger page and clues connected to Broken Bone. After they gave up and sailed away, she joined a merchant caravan as a guard.

• Black-clad men slaughtered the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce and discovered that a page had been torn from a ledger, then learned the Maohe Chamber of Commerce had also been wiped out.
• Bai Yujun found the fat shopkeeper dead and hid in a brothel to avoid the men’s Detection Array and searches.
• The white-haired Golden Core cultivator searched the brothel but failed to recognize Bai Yujun among the women.
• Bai Yujun stayed concealed in Gushan Market until the black-clad men abandoned their search and sailed east.
• When trade resumed, Bai Yujun signed up as a guard for a merchant caravan.

Bai Yujun traveled from the Southern Wasteland toward the Central Plains, hiding her abilities while seeking clues about Broken Bone and Pan Xiong. In a city, she uncovered the men in black’s investigation of Maohe Chamber of Commerce and killed them before their letter identifying possible witnesses could be sent.

• Bai Yujun caught Xuan'er as he slipped toward a cliff and returned him safely to his parents.
• Bai Yujun crossed mountains and floods with a caravan, concealing her aura as she experienced ordinary human hardship.
• After more than ten days, Bai Yujun reached a great city and discovered that men in black had taken over the local Maohe Chamber of Commerce branch.
• Bai Yujun overheard that the men in black had killed the branch manager and clerks after interrogating them.
• Bai Yujun disguised herself, fought and killed more than ten men in black, and found a letter listing possible witnesses, including Pan Xiong.
• Bai Yujun burned the Maohe Chamber of Commerce buildings and the letter, then disappeared into the darkness.

Bai Yujun tracked Pan Xiong to his home in Wuzhou while traveling through war-torn lands in disguise. She arrived at the Pan Family residence as a mysterious letter courier, and Pan Xiong sensed that both she and her horse concealed formidable power.

• Bai Yujun crossed a river by boat and continued her search for Pan Xiong, avoiding attention as she rode toward Wuzhou.
• She witnessed officials seize grain and conscript villagers, then learned Pan Xiong had returned to his hometown after the Maohe Chamber of Commerce was suppressed.
• Bai Yujun arrived at the Pan Family residence in the rain and asked to deliver a letter to Pan Xiong, frightening the servant at the gate.
• Unsettled by strange signs and unable to sense Bai Yujun or her Black Horse, Pan Xiong invited her inside.
• Bai Yujun entered the main hall and removed her straw hat, stunning Pan Xiong and the others with her beauty.

Bai Yujun agreed to help Pan Xiong’s family escape in exchange for a clue about the goods sent to the Nine Li Black Tribe. As the Pan Family fled under cover of heavy rain, she discovered a scout among them and killed him when he refused to talk.

• Pan Xiong asked Bai Yujun to protect his family in exchange for revealing where the goods sent to the Nine Li Black Tribe had come from, and she agreed to escort them to safety.
• Bai Yujun told the Pan Family to gather their valuables and meet outside the city, then used heavy rain to conceal their escape.
• The Pan Family left the city with Bai Yujun, while the white-haired young male cultivator arrived five days later and ordered a search for them.
• Bai Yujun helped the Pan Family disguise themselves as poor refugees, and Pan Xiong forced his household to abandon its fine clothes and carriages.
• Bai Yujun caught a handsome Wandering Swordsman who had joined the Pan Family’s younger members, demanded to know who he was, and drowned him when he refused to answer.

Bai Yujun lured a group of cultivators away from the Pan Family caravan and killed them with her sword, then returned to protect the caravan. That night, she recalled old enemies and resolved to collect a debt from the nearby Demon Subjugation Sect.

• Bai Yujun rode away from the Pan Family caravan to draw a pursuing group of cultivators onto another route.
• Bai Yujun ambushed the cultivators in a mountain valley and killed more than twenty of them using only her sword.
• Bai Yujun returned to the caravan and told Pan Xiong she had killed pursuers from another route, but did not know who they served.
• Bai Yujun ate stew in an abandoned village house and later recalled the factions that had once plotted against her.
• Bai Yujun decided to collect a debt from the nearby Demon Subjugation Sect and vowed to repay her other enemies when she was stronger.

Bai Yujun comforted a ghost who had waited years for her husband, learned he was dead, and sent her to reincarnate. Elsewhere, an elderly cultivator summoned a Ghost King and bargained for help finding someone alive, offering 150 children as payment.

• Bai Yujun spared a timid ghost at an abandoned village and gave her Yin Energy to sustain her.
• The ghost told Bai Yujun that she had killed herself to escape bandits and had waited for her missing husband, Zhou Quan, to return.
• Bai Yujun discovered Zhou Quan had died years earlier and had once returned to see his wife, then sent the grieving ghost to reincarnate.
• Bai Yujun used a bead of pure yang spiritual energy to kill a low-level zombie that approached during the night.
• An elderly cultivator summoned a Ghost King and agreed to provide 150 virgin boys and girls in exchange for finding a man alive, giving the Ghost King his clothes as a clue.

Bai Yujun led the Pan Family convoy through a haunted mountain pass and confronted a ghostly wedding procession. After protecting the convoy from its bewitched music, she approached the Ghost Bride, whose attention shifted to Bai Yujun’s Pure Yang jade pendant.

• Bai Yujun chose the dangerous mountain road and warned Pan Xiong to keep everyone together and prevent anyone from leaving the convoy.
• The convoy heard wedding music, and a blood-red bridal procession emerged through the rain, frightening the Pan Family.
• Bai Yujun’s oil-paper umbrella woke the Pan Family men from the ghosts’ bewitching music, while her Hengdao’s Baleful Intent made the ghostly musicians retreat.
• Bai Yujun teased the Ghost Bride and invited her to follow along, but the Ghost Bride noticed the Pure Yang jade pendant in Bai Yujun’s hand.

Bai Yujun avoided a confrontation with Hong Niangzi, but Liu Ghost King persuaded the Ghost Bride to help him seize Pan Xiong. As the convoy descended the mountain, Bai Yujun sensed another threat and stopped before a dark figure blocking the road.

• Bai Yujun used flirtation and umbrellas to keep Hong Niangzi from fighting, and the bridal procession retreated into its tomb.
• Liu Ghost King asked Hong Niangzi to help capture Pan Xiong and promised her half the treasure, while she demanded he restrain Bai Yujun.
• Hong Niangzi agreed to seize Pan Xiong after Liu Ghost King promised to hold Bai Yujun back.
• Bai Yujun sensed murderous energy gathering above the convoy and arranged six floating oil-paper umbrellas into an array.
• Bai Yujun halted the convoy when a pitch-black figure appeared in the rain-soaked mountain road, and her Hengdao trembled in readiness.

Bai Yujun fought Liu Ghost King while Hong Niangzi secretly abducted one of Pan Xiong’s sons. Liu Ghost King escaped to the underground tomb, where he discovered Hong Niangzi had brought back the wrong captive instead of Pan Xiong.

• Bai Yujun battled Liu Ghost King with Chunyang techniques while keeping her true abilities hidden.
• Bai Yujun badly wounded Liu Ghost King with a Chunyang exorcism seal, and he realized Hong Niangzi had deceived him.
• A little ghost lured one of Pan Xiong’s sons away, and Hong Niangzi abducted him through a hole in the ground.
• Liu Ghost King fled underground after Bai Yujun blocked his escape, leaving Pan Xiong to discover that one of his sons was missing.
• In the underground tomb, Hong Niangzi told Liu Ghost King she had brought Pan Xiong, but he found only a terrified young man and asked who he was.