Recaps

Bai Yujun entered the tomb to rescue Pan Xiong’s son and destroyed the Ghost Bride and Liu Ghost King after unleashing her full strength. She returned the unconscious man to his family as the ritualist searching for the Ghost Kings lost contact with them.

• Bai Yujun gave Pan Xiong an oil-paper umbrella and sent his Household down the mountain while she entered the tomb to rescue his captured son.
• Bai Yujun found the Ghost Bride and Liu Ghost King in the burial chamber, revealed her dragon-like features, and fought them with spells, lightning, and her Hengdao.
• Bai Yujun reduced Liu Ghost King to ash and collapsed the tomb before emerging with Pan Xiong’s unconscious son.
• Bai Yujun caught up with Pan Xiong’s group, returned his son, and recalled the oil-paper umbrellas.
• An old man in the Pan Family’s former residence failed to contact the Bride Ghost King through his ritual, while Pan Xiong’s son later described the terrifying fanged ghost he had seen underground.

Bai Yujun escorted the Pan Family to a secluded mountain refuge, then learned that the Broken Bone came from Ren Canghai, who had already died. She headed to Bian City to search for his surviving relatives, but her attempt to divine their location led to a public commotion.

• Bai Yujun brought the Pan Family to Pan Xiong’s hidden mountain refuge and asked him about the Broken Bone.
• Pan Xiong said it had come from Ren Canghai of Bian City, and Bai Yujun calculated that Ren Canghai had died the previous summer.
• Bai Yujun said Ren Canghai’s relatives were still alive and left the mountain refuge to seek clues through them.
• In Bian City, Bai Yujun failed to pinpoint the relatives’ location with her calculations and tossed her shoe to decide where to search.
• After bystanders scolded her for taking off her shoe, Bai Yujun struck an old man with it, then cut the line into the city with Black Horse.

Bai Yujun sought help finding the family of the dead cultivator Ren Canghai and recruited the Bian City ruffian Wall-Hopper Brother. The chapter left Wall-Hopper Brother agreeing to make a deal with her.

• Bai Yujun planned to use local constables and ruffians to search for Ren Canghai's family, then asked a restaurant proprietor to list the city's best-informed contacts.
• Bai Yujun and Black Horse found Wall-Hopper Brother patrolling his turf and beating a man from a neighboring gang.
• Bai Yujun frightened Wall-Hopper Brother with her glowing eyes and fangs, then showed him Ren Canghai's name and asked him to find the cultivator's family near Bian City.
• Wall-Hopper Brother accepted the task but insisted on receiving something in return, and Bai Yujun agreed to a fair deal.

Bai Yujun waited for Wall-Hopper Brother to find Ren Canghai's family while she wandered the streets and dealt with thieves. After Wall-Hopper Brother returned with the information, he asked her to make him stronger, and she used dragon aura to improve his constitution.

• Bai Yujun strolled through the streets eating snacks while Wall-Hopper Brother searched for Ren Canghai's family.
• Bai Yujun mocked a deserted bookstore and defeated thieves, constables, and street toughs who tried to seize Black Horse.
• Wall-Hopper Brother found news of Ren Canghai's family in four days and asked Bai Yujun to discuss the reward privately.
• Wall-Hopper Brother requested greater strength and speed so he could protect himself and his money.
• Bai Yujun seized Wall-Hopper Brother and used dragon aura to improve his constitution.

Bai Yujun learned that Ren Canghai’s son, Ren Zhuo, had been ruined and sent to Dewdrop Town, so she rode there to find him. She arrived during a storm and confronted the guards outside his shack after they attacked her.

• Wall-Hopper Brother told Bai Yujun that Ren Canghai’s son, Ren Zhuo, lived in Dewdrop Town, and Bai Yujun set out to find him.
• Ren Zhuo endured hunger and humiliation in a ruined shack while four young men beat him and mocked his family.
• Bai Yujun entered Dewdrop Town in heavy rain and followed Ren Zhuo’s cries to his shack.
• Six martial arts experts attacked Bai Yujun, and she swiftly knocked them into the mud.
• Bai Yujun asked Ren Zhuo whether he was Ren Zhuo and introduced herself as an honest merchant.

Bai Yujun rescued Ren Zhuo, healed and strengthened him, and made a trade: she would help him grow strong enough to settle his grudges if he revealed where his father obtained the Broken Bone. When Ren Zhuo’s enemies came to Dewdrop Town, Bai Yujun crippled their forces and let him take revenge on the young men who had bullied him.

• Bai Yujun sheltered Ren Zhuo from the rain, fed him, healed his injuries, and asked about the Broken Bone his father had sold.
• Ren Zhuo agreed to tell Bai Yujun what he knew if she helped him become strong enough to enter the Martial Arts Competition, defeat his tormentors, and confront those involved in his father's murder.
• Bai Yujun improved Ren Zhuo's cultivation potential and began restoring his body through intensive training in Dewdrop Town.
• Several dozen experts and retainers arrived to kill Bai Yujun and Ren Zhuo on behalf of the Ren Household's enemies.
• Bai Yujun used her flying sword to cripple the attackers, while Ren Zhuo beat the four young men who had bullied him to death.

Bai Yujun killed the Seventh Princess’s palace maid and fought off the royal experts who attacked her courtyard after they tried to intimidate Ren Zhuo. The Seventh Princess left after Bai Yujun dismissed her as an ordinary person, while Ren Zhuo laughed at the royal forces’ defeat.

• Bai Yujun watched the Seventh Princess arrive in Dewdrop Town and berate Ren Zhuo over his fallen family and status.
• The old palace maid tried to slap Ren Zhuo, and Bai Yujun killed her with a bamboo strip.
• Ren Zhuo laughed as palace experts rushed the courtyard, and Bai Yujun used bamboo strips to kill every attacker who tried to enter.
• The Seventh Princess confronted Bai Yujun, warned her against opposing the Liang Kingdom, and left after Bai Yujun told her to recognize her own status.

Bai Yujun created spiritual-energy clones and developed them into sparring opponents for Ren Zhuo, helping him improve his combat skills. She began experimenting with durable, scale-based clones and demonstrated that she could summon ten clones at once.

• Ren Zhuo began training with a Ring-pommel Saber, and Bai Yujun recalled a formidable student she had taught long ago.
• Bai Yujun created a palm-sized Virtual Clone, enlarged it, and sent it to attack Ren Zhuo with sword techniques.
• Ren Zhuo endured the clone’s relentless attacks and gradually improved until he could counterattack and sometimes injure it.
• Bai Yujun experimented with arrays and jade, then used her shed scales to make clones that could last longer but remained weak and limited to martial techniques.
• Bai Yujun practiced creating ordinary spiritual-energy clones and summoned five on each side, with all ten performing different techniques.

Bai Yujun caught an assassin stalking her and killed him after the Black Horse startled him by shouting “Giddyup.” She continued Ren Zhuo’s brutal training and ate a fish hotpot while he struggled through medicinal cuisine, leaving their routine in town unchanged.

• Bai Yujun followed Xun Thirteen as he crept toward her house, then the Black Horse startled him by shouting “Giddyup.”
• Xun Thirteen spotted Bai Yujun behind him, and she crushed his head and threw his corpse into the night.
• Bai Yujun discovered that the Black Horse could speak, though it only repeated “Giddyup.”
• Bai Yujun intensified Ren Zhuo’s training with three sparring clones and urged him to fight with greater resolve.
• Bai Yujun ate pickled cabbage fish hotpot while Ren Zhuo forced down medicinal cuisine, and the Black Horse’s shout made him spit out his food.

Bai Yujun learned that the Liang Kingdom’s royal family and Aristocratic Clans had six Golden Core experts and a Nascent Soul Realm Mysterious Person behind them, while Ren Zhuo trained in the courtyard. When Ren Zhuo’s rival arrived to mock him over the Seventh Princess, Ren Zhuo swore he would repay the people who had harmed the Ren Household.

• Wall-Hopper Brother visited Bai Yujun’s courtyard and reported that the Liang Kingdom’s royal family and several Aristocratic Clans had six Golden Core experts, with a Nascent Soul Realm Mysterious Person behind the royal family.
• Wall-Hopper Brother told Bai Yujun that Ren Canghai’s legacy was rumored to be a Cultivation Manual that had helped him become a Golden Core expert, then left with the jade bottle she gave him.
• Bai Yujun ate Spicy Boiled Fish while Ren Zhuo continued training in the back yard.
• A refined young noble arrived with guards and attendants, and Ren Zhuo confronted him at the courtyard gate with a Ring-pommel Saber.
• The young noble claimed that he and the Seventh Princess were in love, mocked Ren Zhuo, and prompted Ren Zhuo to swear revenge on those who had harmed the Ren Household.

Bai Yujun learned that Broken Bone came from savages near the northwestern desert and continued preparing Ren Zhuo for Bian City's martial arts competition. After sending Black Horse ahead and preparing for a coming confrontation with Liang Kingdom's cultivators, she left Ren Zhuo dreaming beside his family's memorial tablets.

• A Golden Core Cultivator questioned Bai Yujun about her origins and why she was helping Ren Zhuo, but she dismissed him and he left.
• As the competition drew near, Bai Yujun let Ren Zhuo rest and accompanied him to a restaurant in Bian City.
• Ren Zhuo told Bai Yujun that Broken Bone had been taken from savages near the snow mountains of the northwestern desert, and she promised to keep their contract and prepare him for the competition.
• Bai Yujun bought cooking supplies, salt, and other necessities, then sent Black Horse ahead to prepare for their journey.
• Ren Zhuo got drunk while speaking to his parents' memorial tablets and declared he would destroy Liang Kingdom and make Bai Yujun his queen, but she spared him when her clone nearly killed him.
• Bai Yujun reinforced her weapons and repaired her black armor while Ren Zhuo slept, and Black Horse galloped away beneath the night sky.

At the Martial Arts Competition, Ren Zhuo challenged the royal family and five Aristocratic Clans, then killed the Seventh Princess’s lover in a brutal duel. The victory triggered a hidden betrayal among the Golden Core Cultivators, leaving the king in shock as Bai Yujun watched.

• Bai Yujun gave Ren Zhuo a stimulating leaf before he entered the Martial Arts Competition.
• Ren Zhuo challenged the younger generation of the royal family and five Aristocratic Clans to life-and-death duels, and his first opponent died.
• Ren Zhuo fought the Seventh Princess’s lover, overcame his higher cultivation, and killed him with his Ring-pommel Saber.
• The Seventh Princess collapsed in horror after her lover’s death.
• The five Golden Core Cultivators of the Aristocratic Clans attacked the royal family’s Golden Core Cultivator from behind and blasted him apart while Bai Yujun watched.

Bai Yujun let the five Aristocratic Clans overthrow the Liang Kingdom royal family, then attacked them to fulfill her deal with Ren Zhuo and draw out the hidden Nascent Soul Cultivator. After slaughtering the clan leaders and their forces, she trapped the surviving Golden Core Cultivators, but the Nascent Soul Cultivator still had not appeared.

• The five Aristocratic Clans massacred the Liang Kingdom royal family, captured the Seventh Princess, and placed one of their leaders on the throne.
• Bai Yujun rescued Ren Zhuo from an assassin and confirmed that the five clans were his targets, then waited for the hidden Nascent Soul Cultivator to appear.
• Bai Yujun created ten duplicates and attacked the five clans while fighting their Golden Core Cultivators.
• Bai Yujun killed the newly enthroned clan leader as her duplicates slaughtered the clans’ experts, fulfilling her deal with Ren Zhuo.
• The clans’ forces destroyed the duplicates at great cost, while Ren Zhuo watched his revenge end without feeling relief.
• Bai Yujun killed another Golden Core Cultivator and trapped the three survivors in an invisible cage, but the Nascent Soul Cultivator remained unseen.

Bai Yujun brought the wounded Golden Core cultivators to the old Ren family residence, where Ren Zhuo found his father’s hidden chest and learned the relic was a family portrait and a letter urging him to abandon revenge. After killing the three cultivators, Bai Yujun took Ren Zhuo to safety, then continued northwest and claimed a horse for herself.

• Bai Yujun spared the three defeated Golden Core cultivators at Ren Zhuo’s request and led them to the old Ren family residence.
• Ren Zhuo followed his memories to uncover a chest containing gold, a family portrait, and a letter from Ren Canghai warning him not to seek revenge.
• Ren Zhuo wept over the portrait, and Bai Yujun killed the three Golden Core cultivators after the relic was found.
• Bai Yujun carried Ren Zhuo and the chest of gold to a peaceful town, then said farewell and flew northwest.
• Bai Yujun spotted a galloping horse on an ancient road, landed on its back, and rode away.

Bai Yujun and Black Horse reached the Yellow River, where Bai Yujun transformed into a dragon to play in the water and feast on giant fish. A local raft ferryman glimpsed the dragon and then encountered the talking Black Horse, fleeing in terror.

• Bai Yujun rode across the Loess Plateau with Black Horse, longing to reach water and cleanse her dusty companion.
• Bai Yujun and Black Horse arrived at the Yellow River, and Bai Yujun dove in and revealed her white dragon form.
• Bai Yujun frolicked in the river and swallowed enormous Yellow River Carp as the river creatures fled upstream.
• A raft ferryman gathered fish that leaped onto his raft, then saw Bai Yujun's huge dragon head pass close by.
• The ferryman fled to shore and tried to catch the riderless Black Horse, but she spoke and sent him running home in fear.

Bai Yujun absorbed the Yellow River dragon vein’s aura, advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage before continuing west with Black Horse. They reached Liangzhou, where she stopped at an inn and eagerly ate a roast lamb.

• Bai Yujun anchored herself beneath a Yellow River waterfall and cultivated for three days, drawing in the river’s dragon aura as strange lights and rainbows appeared along the Water Vein.
• Bai Yujun reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, climbed ashore, and slept for a day and night while Black Horse kept his distance.
• Bai Yujun transformed into human form and rode Black Horse upstream, consulting a map and robbing bloodstained caravans along the way.
• Bai Yujun and Black Horse entered Liangzhou, where she found an inn, bought her horse feed, and ordered a whole roasted lamb.
• Bai Yujun grabbed the half-cooked lamb and tore into it as a young man from the Western Regions watched in terror.

Bai Yujun ate in Liangzhou, learned that war beyond Jade Gate Pass had made the usual trade routes dangerous, and decided to cross the Dragon Gate Desert. After raiding the City Lord's Manor for a map, she found a mysterious branch and tried to question the city lord, but needed a translator.

• Bai Yujun ate mutton at an inn and overheard merchants say that war beyond Jade Gate Pass threatened travelers from the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun studied a rough map and decided to cross the Dragon Gate Desert after leaving Jade Gate Pass.
• Bai Yujun went to the City Lord's Manor, knocked out its occupants, took a more accurate map, and collected food and valuables.
• Bai Yujun found a living, iron-hard tree branch and woke a fat man to ask where it came from.
• Bai Yujun discovered she had questioned the wrong fat man, woke the city lord, and then summoned the first man to translate.

Bai Yujun killed a group of men who tried to steal Black Horse and abduct her in Liangzhou, then left the city lord too frightened to pursue her. Days later, a silver-haired young man and his companions arrived in Liangzhou searching for clues, while the identity of the person manipulating events remained unknown.

• Bai Yujun surveyed Liangzhou and returned to the inn with food, where she discovered two groups fighting over Black Horse.
• Bai Yujun drove off the men grabbing Black Horse, then killed two warriors who tried to seize her and the young leader who attacked her.
• Bai Yujun rode away, and the city lord abandoned plans to capture her after learning she was the Female Demon.
• Several days later, four sinister experts and their companions arrived in Liangzhou searching for Bai Yujun and for clues about an earlier incident.
• A silver-haired young man stopped one of his subordinates from attacking two evil cultivators and ordered his group to avoid conflict unless provoked.

Bai Yujun left Jade Gate Pass and rode Black Horse into the Dragon Gate Desert, where she faced an immense sandstorm. She braced herself against the gale and kept moving with Black Horse as the storm swallowed them.

• Bai Yujun admired Jade Gate Pass, stocked up on food and water, and entered the Western Regions desert.
• Bai Yujun revealed her dragonlike features and rode Black Horse away from the Silk Road toward Dragon Gate Desert.
• Bai Yujun and Black Horse crossed the hot, dangerous desert for several days, passing exposed bones and desert creatures.
• Bai Yujun prepared Black Horse and their supplies when she saw a massive sandstorm approaching.
• Bai Yujun led Black Horse through the storm, revealed part of her true form to steady herself, and urged them to keep moving.

Bai Yujun crossed the dust-choked Dragon Gate Desert and discovered a colossal, damaged Dragon Gate that awakened her instincts to approach it. A sword embedded in its plaque terrified her into fleeing, and the gate vanished beneath the sandstorm.

• Bai Yujun woke after sleeping for two days, watered and fed the Black Horse, and set out toward Dragon Gate Inn.
• Bai Yujun traveled through the desert, spotted shell fossils in exposed rock, and later dismounted to lead the horse through a gale.
• Bai Yujun saw an enormous structure ahead and pressed on despite the Black Horse’s fear and the growing pressure.
• Bai Yujun reached the ancient Dragon Gate, revealed her white flood dragon form, and struggled against the pressure urging her to approach.
• Bai Yujun noticed a sword embedded in the Dragon Gate plaque, panicked at its killing intent, and fled with the Black Horse as a sandstorm buried the gate.
• Bai Yujun stopped to curse the sword, but the Dragon Gate had disappeared.

The Dragon Gate vanished from the desert, while strange signs of its appearance stirred distant places. Bai Yujun failed to find it again and resumed her journey, where she encountered a Sand Monster.

• The Dragon Gate's appearance caused uncanny disturbances at Shenhua Mountain, a temple in the Central Plains, the Dragon Girl Temple, the Nine Li village, and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
• After the sandstorm ended, Bai Yujun found the Dragon Gate gone and concluded that the damaged gate could draw dragon-cultivating creatures into a dangerous trial.
• Bai Yujun searched the desert for five days but found no trace of the Dragon Gate, then continued toward Dragon Gate Inn with Black Horse to replenish supplies.
• Bai Yujun sensed a lurking presence and stabbed a Sand Monster hidden beneath the dunes, but it escaped underground and its severed arm crumbled into sand.

Bai Yujun fought off a huge swarm of Sand Monsters, but their ability to reform made them too troublesome to defeat by ordinary attacks. When they pursued her again, she tried using Dragon Breath and successfully trapped one inside a solidified crystal.

• Bai Yujun prepared for the returning Sand Monsters by protecting Black Horse with an array and surrounding herself with clones.
• Bai Yujun and her clones repeatedly shattered the Sand Monsters, but the creatures re-formed and began targeting the weaker clones.
• Bai Yujun forced open a path through the swarm, sent Black Horse ahead, and fled while using vibrations to damage the pursuing monsters.
• When the Sand Monsters caught up again, Bai Yujun sent Black Horse away and decided to attack them with Dragon Breath.
• Bai Yujun melted an airborne Sand Monster into crystal, trapping its writhing sand body and frozen face inside.

Bai Yujun trapped several Sand Monsters in crystal glass, took one as a sample, and finally reached Dragon Gate Inn during a prolonged sandstorm. Her arrival drew the attention of the inn’s unusual patrons, but she settled in and ordered raw meat.

• Bai Yujun stomped Sand Monsters out of the dunes, melted them into crystal glass, and took one specimen on Black Horse.
• Bai Yujun traveled through the continuing sandstorm toward Dragon Gate Inn.
• At Dragon Gate Inn, the innkeeper’s wife managed a crowded hall of humans, monsters, Ghostly Entities, and cultivators while the storm raged outside.
• A powerful presence knocked at the door, and Bai Yujun entered the inn with Black Horse.
• Bai Yujun chose a table, looked disdainfully at the evil cultivators and Central Plains experts, and ordered a basin of raw meat.
• Bai Yujun ate the raw meat as the inn’s patrons watched.

At the Dragon Gate Inn, Bai Yujun learned that the landlady knew nothing about the Dragon Gate Desert’s name and discovered that four evil cultivators tracking her had been controlled with Gu Worms. She hid a clone at the inn and spent each night gathering and compressing the sandstorm overhead, leaving the storm around the inn to grow ever fiercer.

• Bai Yujun questioned the landlady about the Dragon Gate Desert’s name, but the landlady said everyone had always called it that.
• Bai Yujun rejected a human-flesh bun, then warned the four evil cultivators that she would deal with them when their pursuers arrived.
• Bai Yujun identified the four trackers’ Gu Worms as the Black Tribe’s work and concluded that the desert’s climate would weaken them.
• Bai Yujun made a near-perfect clone from a scale, left it at the inn, and flew into the sandstorm.
• Bai Yujun spent the night compressing a massive sphere of wind high above the inn, then returned at dawn and slept.
• Bai Yujun repeated her routine of appearing at the inn by day and strengthening the storm by night, while the landlady muttered that Heaven had gone mad.

Bai Yujun waited at Dragon Gate Inn as Black Tribe experts entered Dragon Gate Desert through the sandstorm, then entertained herself by teasing the inn’s demons and questioning a Central Plains pair. The man said he and his sister had come to seek rumored ruins, while Bai Yujun offered to sell them living Glazed Crystal.

• Black Tribe experts flew through the sandstorms toward Dragon Gate Desert, following a beetle in a jade jar.
• At Dragon Gate Inn, Bai Yujun noticed the proprietress watching her twig, put it away, and sensed that the Black Tribe experts had entered the desert.
• Bai Yujun teased the Ghostly Entity by asking how it had died, then fed dried meat to the lizard demon.
• Bai Yujun asked a well-dressed man and woman why they had come to Dragon Gate Desert, but the woman rejected her as a demon.
• The man told Bai Yujun that he and his sister were searching for rumored ruins, and Bai Yujun offered to sell them living Glazed Crystal.