Recaps

Bai Yujun fought fiercely for Chunyang, killing Western Teachings cultivators and easing pressure on the senior disciples. The battle remained unresolved, but Chu Zhe and Gan Wu began breakthroughs that could turn the tide.

• Bai Yujun charged six Nascent Soul cultivators and killed them in a single exchange with her dragon spear.
• Bai Yujun created Scale Clones and weaker translucent clones to attack Western Teachings cultivators, helping Chunyang's senior disciples counterattack.
• Bai Yujun unleashed wind, rain, lightning, and venom against the Western Teachings as the fighting continued across the battlefield.
• Yu Rong told Chu Zhe and Gan Wu that Chunyang's safety rested on them, and they began mobilizing their cultivation at the mountain gate.
• Bai Yujun sensed that Chu Zhe and Gan Wu were about to enter the Great Ascension Stage, revealing Chunyang's hidden advantage to the alarmed Wisdom King.

Chu Zhe and Gan Wu broke through to the Great Ascension Stage, turning the tide of the battle in Chunyang’s favor. Bai Yujun helped Yang Mu, killed a monk who ambushed her, and then attacked the Western Teachings’ Golden Core disciples to weaken their forces.

• Chu Zhe and Gan Wu broke through to the Great Ascension Stage, strengthening Chunyang and throwing the Western Teachings into disarray.
• Bai Yujun hurled her dragon spear through the battle and skewered two monks besieging Yang Mu, nearly striking him as well.
• A Western Teachings monk shot Bai Yujun in the back, but her armor deflected the arrow, and she caught and killed him as he tried to flee.
• Bai Yujun charged into the Western Teachings’ Golden Core disciples and swept the formation with flames and translucent clones.

After Chunyang Palace defeated Western Teachings, Bai Yujun rested while the sect treated the wounded and cleared the battlefield. She killed a wounded enemy monk who was about to receive care, then set out with disciples to patrol around Mount Hua.

• Chunyang Palace routed Western Teachings, while Spirit Void disciples and ordinary disciples treated the wounded and collected the dead.
• Bai Yujun rested beside the destroyed Golden Incense Burner as Yang Mu and Li Xiangling tended his injury.
• Disciples found a wounded Western Teachings monk and prepared to take him for treatment, but Bai Yujun stomped him to death.
• Bai Yujun learned that Jiuli and Southern Wasteland demon beasts had attacked Western Teachings’ southern territory while it was fighting Chunyang Palace.
• Yu Rong assigned Bai Yujun and a group of disciples to patrol around Mount Hua, and Bai Yujun set out in Daoist robes.

Bai Yujun enjoyed a peaceful stretch at Qingxu Palace, bathing, eating, and passing her days at leisure while Chunyang Palace prepared for Chu Zhe’s inauguration. The chapter left her relaxing on Mount Hua, with her horse Black Horse returned and no immediate plans to leave.

• Bai Yujun bathed, slept in the tub, and got ready for a meal with Xu Ling.
• Bai Yujun and Xu Ling ate extra dishes at the dining hall, where a disciple told Bai Yujun that her horse had returned.
• Bai Yujun confirmed Black Horse was hers when she heard he had said “giddyup,” and the disciple offered to bring him to Qingxu Palace.
• Bai Yujun settled into a carefree routine on Mount Hua while Chunyang Palace prepared for Chu Zhe’s inauguration as sect master.
• Bai Yujun played music, threw paper airplanes, and performed for money on the sect’s commercial street.

Bai Yujun mourned the Chunyang disciples killed in battle, then returned to Qingxu Palace and settled into hibernation. In the southern lands, the ruined Western Teachings reeled from their defeat as Huang Zhao and the mad Wisdom King encountered a mysterious young monk.

• Bai Yujun watched from afar as the fallen Chunyang disciples were buried, poured wine before their graves, and blessed them.
• Bai Yujun returned to Qingxu Palace, dismissed the young disciples' gossip, and began hibernating.
• Huang Zhao hid in a ruined temple after learning his father had died and the Wisdom King had gone mad.
• The Western Teachings returned from Shenhua Mountain defeated and discovered their southern temples destroyed and their forces scattered.
• A mysterious visitor entered the ruined temple and calmly told the Wisdom King that he was the Wisdom King yet was not.
• The prayer banners parted, and a young monk stepped out before Huang Zhao and the Wisdom King.

Huang Zhao witnessed a young monk defeat the aged Wisdom King and was made an official disciple. At Shenhua Mountain, Bai Yujun painted a landscape with a flood dragon and gave it to Yang Mu as a wedding gift, while Chunyang Palace prepared for its new sect master’s inauguration.

• The young monk froze the aged Wisdom King in midair, drained his body, and declared that he was the true Wisdom King, yet neither was the true Wisdom King.
• The young monk told Huang Zhao that the old Wisdom King had failed to protect Huang Zhao’s father and made Huang Zhao an official disciple rather than a mount.
• Golden light restored Huang Zhao’s missing arm, and the young monk vanished; another old monk entered, muttering that he was the only Wisdom King.
• Bai Yujun painted Mount Hua and added a striking ink flood dragon in her final stroke.
• Yang Mu praised Bai Yujun’s painting, accepted it as a wedding gift, and went to have it mounted.
• Bai Yujun returned with her clones as Chunyang Palace prepared for the new sect master’s inauguration ceremony the next day.

Bai Yujun attended Chunyang Palace’s grand ceremony before planning her return to the Southern Wasteland. She stopped at Golden Void to gather supplies and equipment for her forces, then began learning prospecting and furnace construction.

• Bai Yujun and Xu Ling arrived late to the ceremony, stood at the back, and waited impatiently until it ended and they could eat.
• Bai Yujun decided to avoid Western Teachings territory on her way home and planned a northwest route through the Dragon Gate Desert and Melt Heaven Ridge.
• Bai Yujun went to Golden Void and commissioned swords, shields, spears, longbows, and mechanical crossbows to equip her subordinates.
• Bai Yujun asked the Golden Void Peak Master to teach her prospecting and furnace construction, offering to let him study her dragon spear.
• Bai Yujun transformed her anklet into the dragon spear and began learning ore prospecting from Golden Void books.

Bai Yujun rode into Dragon Gate Desert after sending her two True Human escorts away, intending to draw out the enemies waiting to capture her. When four Western Teachings monks ambushed her, Mu appeared and killed them, then checked that Bai Yujun was unharmed.

• Bai Yujun thanked the two True Humans for escorting her and continued into Dragon Gate Desert with Black Horse alone.
• Bai Yujun rode through a sandstorm, expecting enemies to attack because she had deliberately left her escorts behind.
• Four Deity Transformation Stage monks from the Western Teachings surrounded Bai Yujun and demanded that she come with them.
• Bai Yujun called for help, and the sandstorm vanished as the group was transported to a tranquil world where Mu appeared.
• Mu killed all four monks with a surge of power, then descended to Bai Yujun's shoulder and confirmed she was safe.

Bai Yujun rested in Mu’s secret realm and spoke of her longing for a peaceful life before returning to her territory in the Southern Wasteland. She reunited with Qing Ling and Mu Duo, while Iron Ball led a caravan carrying gold toward her lands.

• Bai Yujun told Mu how the dangers and violence of her life had left her yearning for the quiet days she had known as a little snake demon.
• Bai Yujun stayed several more days in Mu’s secret realm before traveling south toward the Southern Wasteland.
• Bai Yujun returned to her territory, found the snake demons still following her rules, and rested with Qing Ling and Mu Duo at Bai Manor.
• Iron Ball led a caravan laden with goods through the Nine Li White Tribe’s territory and lamented that moving all the gold would take many more trips.

Bai Yujun organized the Snake Clan’s territory and began building a disciplined army, while setting up training, education, food production, and trade. With the territory on track and more than two hundred soldiers trained, she planned to visit the Jiuli Bai Tribe and search for scattered low-level snake spirits.

• Bai Yujun ordered a training ground built and required shapeshifted demons in her territory to attend school or leave.
• Bai Yujun recruited more than two hundred snake demons, gave them weapons and armor, and established rules demanding loyalty, discipline, and obedience.
• Bai Yujun divided the recruits into three units and trained them in formations and drills while Mu Duo observed their equipment and instruction.
• Bai Yujun arranged for livestock, trade, medicinal herb cultivation, and smithing to support the territory and its army.
• After a month, Bai Yujun saw the soldiers moving in disciplined formation and decided the force needed to grow to at least five thousand.
• Bai Yujun planned to visit the Jiuli Bai Tribe and find low-level snake spirits scattered across the lands.

Bai Yujun spent several years building a thriving town, academy, and Snake Demon Army in the southern wilderness. Yang Mu visited her territory, impressed by its growth but uneasy about the army’s future power.

• Bai Yujun developed her territory, establishing an academy and a tranquil town while keeping Bai Manor peaceful.
• Bai Yujun woke from her nap, reflected on the years since the Shenhua Mountain war, and went to inspect the territory.
• Bai Yujun watched five hundred Snake Demon Army soldiers perform precise formations and resolved to build the strongest army in the world.
• Yang Mu arrived with Iron Ball and was surprised by the army’s discipline, though he worried about what Bai Yujun might do with its growing strength.
• Bai Yujun welcomed Yang Mu and showed him the flourishing town, where Central Plains people, Jiuli people, and demons lived and traded together.

Yang Mu asked Bai Yujun to help the Human Emperor unify the Central Plains and keep Jiuli from interfering. Bai Yujun secured peace agreements with Cloud Remote Ancient Village and several other villages, then Mu Duo questioned whether the gold from the Central Plains was truly cursed.

• Yang Mu told Bai Yujun that Heaven's will had set a Human Emperor on the path to unify the Central Plains, and asked her to restrain Anti-Dragon and help his rise.
• Yang Mu explained that demonic beasts from the ancient battlefield had grown stronger and that he had come to negotiate peace with Jiuli; Bai Yujun agreed to help and warned she could persuade at least six White Tribe villages.
• Bai Yujun contacted Mu Duo and brought Yang Mu to Cloud Remote Ancient Village, where the leaders refused to give up their gains from the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun warned the leaders that their gold carried a curse, and the old priestess agreed that Cloud Remote Ancient Village would stop interfering in the Central Plains.
• Yang Mu and the village leaders signed a peace agreement, and Bai Yujun helped several other villages sign similar documents before Yang Mu departed.
• Mu Duo asked Bai Yujun whether the gold was really cursed, and Bai Yujun replied that Mu Duo had already seen its effects.

Bai Yujun began supporting the weak Human Emperor of Yan by weakening rival warlords’ dragon veins, while her territory’s forces prepared to repel infiltrating Demonic Beasts. The chapter ended with a snake demon patrol detecting something abnormal in the forest.

• Bai Yujun found the Human Emperor of Yan and saw that a Chunyang Palace Daoist had arrived to aid him.
• Bai Yujun attacked a nearby warlord’s false dragon, weakening his aura as he dreamed of being devoured by a flood dragon.
• Tieqiu deployed two hundred Snake Demon Army crossbowmen to patrol the territory and kill or report Demonic Beasts and Demonic Cultivators.
• The chapter recalled how Tieqiu had repeatedly risked her life to rescue Bai Yujun, fueling her hatred of Demonic Beasts and Demonic Cultivators.
• A little boy raced through the forest toward the territory’s edge, using his ability to burrow through a hill.
• A snake demon patrol sensed vibrations in a Giant Tree and reported that something ahead was abnormal.

The Snake Clan demons defended their border against Demonic Beasts, using ambushes and their keen senses to kill intruders. As pressure grew and arrows ran low, Qing Ling, Lu Gui, and Ironball agreed to seek reinforcements from Green Wood Mountain if necessary.

• Ten Snake Clan demons ambushed three wounded Demonic Monsters in the forest, killing two with arrows and the last with a female demon’s Hengdao.
• Snake Clan patrol squads continued intercepting Demonic Beasts at the border, while Ironball raced along the territory to handle stronger intruders.
• After several days of fighting, Qing Ling, Lu Gui, and several dozen Snake Clan demons delivered supplies, including arrows, and discussed the worsening defense situation.
• Qing Ling, Lu Gui, and Ironball agreed to stop intruders at the border and ask the Green Wood Demon King for help if Snake Valley came under threat.

Lu Gui, Qing Ling, and Iron Ball planned defenses against the Demonic Beasts pouring into the Southern Wasteland, while Lu Gui grew concerned about Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s condition. As Qing Ling set out to seek reinforcements from Green Wood Mountain, Mu Duo resolved that Cloud Remote Ancient Village had to change.

• Lu Gui proposed establishing temporary border camps and moving troops and capable fighters there, and Qing Ling agreed to send three hundred troops before seeking aid from Green Wood Mountain.
• Lu Gui offered to suspend academy classes and help, then suggested investigating the Jiuli region to locate the main Demonic Beast forces.
• Iron Ball and Lu Gui entered Cloud Remote Ancient Village, learned that its defenses were struggling, and criticized the villages’ dwindling effort and motivation.
• The two reached the mountain defense line and saw Demonic Beasts overrunning the area; Iron Ball worried that their forces could not stop them without risking the snake demons.
• Lu Gui said he was more concerned about Cloud Remote Ancient Village, while Mu Duo stood at a window and declared that the village had to change.

Iron Ball and Lu Gui abandoned their post and headed back to discuss countermeasures, but a clash broke out at the territory’s edge. They returned just as the snake demons finished defeating the attacking Demonic Monsters and cutting off their heads.

• Iron Ball and Lu Gui decided there was no point guarding their post and set out to return with five hundred demon soldiers.
• Ten snake demon archers encountered nearly a hundred Demonic Beasts at the territory’s edge, and the patrol captain fired signal arrows for reinforcements.
• The Demonic Beasts charged the snake demons’ shield wall, but coordinated arrow volleys and spear thrusts cut down their front ranks.
• The snake demon soldiers counterattacked with spears and Hengdaos, then pursued and killed the fleeing Demonic Beasts.
• Iron Ball and Lu Gui arrived as the snake demons chopped off the defeated monsters’ heads.

Ironball used a scale Bai Yujun had left him to summon her Scale Clone, which helped guard Snake Valley and rallied the snake demons. Elsewhere, Yuan, a young scholar in Bamboo Forest Village, watched dragons battle across the central plains but chose to remain in seclusion with his family.

• Ironball and Lu Gui inspected the fallen Demonic Beasts and worried that stronger enemies might attack before reinforcements arrived.
• Ironball summoned Bai Yujun's Scale Clone with the Dragon King's scale, and the snake demons mistook it for their Great King and knelt.
• Ironball explained that the figure was a clone and ordered the soldiers to patrol or rest while they awaited further orders.
• The Scale Clone guarded the border and periodically hunted Demonic Beasts in the forest, giving the snake demons hope.
• Yuan saw a powerful dragon aura protect a little dragon as it killed and devoured a false dragon across the central plains.
• Yuan wondered whether his ancestors had meant for him to aid a rising Human Emperor, but chose to stay in Bamboo Forest Village with his wife and child.

Bai Yujun watched as a greedy feng shui swindler tried to take revenge on the young future Human Emperor by directing him to bury his father in death ground. After learning what had happened, Bai Yujun recognized that she would have to intervene to protect the grave site she had prepared.

• After the future Human Emperor’s father died, the young General hired a local master to choose a burial place.
• The master recognized the General from an old grievance and accepted ten taels of silver while plotting to send him to death ground.
• The master rejected the auspicious Back Mountain and marked a rocky hollow for the grave, prompting the General’s men to begin digging there.
• The master returned to the Back Mountain, intending to choose it as his own burial site.
• Bai Yujun learned of the swindler’s scheme and resolved that the grave prepared for the future Human Emperor’s father must be protected.

Bai Yujun used Heaven’s fortune to guide a young general’s funeral procession to an auspicious burial site, then returned to regulating fortune. At the territory’s edge, Tieqiu and Lu Gui waited for Qing Ling’s reinforcements and discussed the changes in Bai Yujun’s territory.

• Bai Yujun appeared as a glowing dragon before the young general and told him, “Fork in the road towards the elm, rosy dawn rises in the east.”
• The young general followed Bai Yujun’s directions and led the funeral procession toward the elm tree, where the grave had already been dug by exhausted workers.
• The procession buried the coffin beneath auspicious dawn clouds, and the young general credited the divine dragon’s blessing.
• Bai Yujun returned to her fortune-regulating work and vowed she would not help arrange another funeral.
• Tieqiu and Lu Gui ate grilled fish at the territory’s edge, where Tieqiu wondered what Bai Yujun was doing and Lu Gui remarked that the territory kept growing more wondrous.

Iron Ball and Lu Gui led the snake demons in a fighting retreat as a massive force of Demonic Beasts invaded the White Flood Dragon's territory. After losing a soldier, they withdrew toward Snake Valley and harassed the enemy while waiting for reinforcements, as Rain Swallow raced to join them with an army.

• Lu Gui recalled a fortune-teller's warning, and Iron Ball confirmed that calamity was coming as Demonic Beasts gathered beyond the border.
• Iron Ball ordered the archer patrols to retreat while they set traps, but one snake demon was killed by the pursuing Demonic Beasts.
• Iron Ball and Lu Gui chose to withdraw toward Snake Valley, with the Scale Clone and archers harassing the enemy and using poisoned arrows.
• Iron Ball ambushed Demonic Beasts from underground, while the Scale Clone attacked their strongest fighters as the defenders retreated.
• Iron Ball used his signature spinning attack to tear through a line of pursuing Demonic Beasts and urged the demon soldiers to keep withdrawing.
• Rain Swallow led one hundred Demon Core Stage demon generals and two thousand demon soldiers toward the battle, then flew ahead in her true form.

Tieqiu and Lu Gui defended the Southern Wasteland against invading Demonic Beasts, but their retreat nearly failed after the Scale Clone was destroyed. Bai Yujun awoke months later and drove the beasts from her territory, then sensed Mu Duo was in danger and headed for Cloud Remote Ancient Village.

• Tieqiu and Lu Gui led five hundred Snake Demon Soldiers in a fierce defense against a thousand Demonic Beasts, then ordered a retreat when six Demon Core Stage beasts attacked.
• The Scale Clone charged into the enemy, killed three Demon Core Stage beasts, and was destroyed while protecting the retreating soldiers.
• Tieqiu and Lu Gui tried to hold off the pursuing beasts until Rain Swallow Commander arrived and killed them, and Qing Ling later brought reinforcements to clear the region.
• More than three months later, Bai Yujun awoke, summoned storms, and killed countless Demonic Beasts to reclaim her territory.
• Bai Yujun realized the invasion had interrupted her chance to evolve into a Demon King, then sensed Mu Duo was in danger and flew toward Cloud Remote Ancient Village.

Bai Yujun returned to Cloud Remote Ancient Village and found Mu Duo imprisoned and controlled by a Gu Worm amid the village’s corruption. After freeing Mu Duo, she learned that the old priest and chieftain were also locked up, while the village’s powerful gathered to confront her.

• Bai Yujun used the mountain and river dragon veins to protect herself before descending into the storm over Cloud Remote Ancient Village.
• Bai Yujun found Mu Duo sealed inside the pavilion and discovered a Gu Worm controlling her heart.
• Bai Yujun forced the Gu Worm out of Mu Duo and burned it, causing the person who controlled it to cough up blood.
• Mu Duo told Bai Yujun that village leaders had oppressed the villagers, and that the old priest and chieftain had been imprisoned.
• People gathered in the village square to deal with Bai Yujun, but strange thunderclaps stopped them from acting.

Bai Yujun waited for the villagers to confront the rebels who had seized control of Cloud Remote Ancient Village, then carried the weakened Mu Duo out of the pavilion. She transformed into her enormous flood-dragon form before the gathered villagers, leaving the rebels and onlookers facing her overwhelming presence.

• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo they would leave for the Bai Residence while the Great Priest of the White Tribe dealt with the rebels.
• The villagers came out of their homes and silently watched the experts surrounding the pavilion, making the rebels falter under their judgment.
• Mu Duo was too weak to walk, so Bai Yujun carried her down from the pavilion and faced the village experts without speaking.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo to hold on, then transformed into a white flood dragon and rose above the crowd.
• Bai Yujun planted her claws before the pavilion as thunder and lightning illuminated her immense form, forcing the surrounding experts to retreat.

Bai Yujun rescued Mu Duo from Cloud Remote Ancient Village and returned her to the Bai Estate before leading troops to hunt Demonic Beasts across the border. After clearing the gathered beasts, she rested with Rain Swallow and declined to take over the village’s territory for now.

• Bai Yujun carried Mu Duo out of Cloud Remote Ancient Village and flew her back to the Bai Estate, where she gave Mu Duo a bracelet containing her Golden Core Stage avatar.
• Bai Yujun left Mu Duo to recover and led Rain Swallow and her troops across the border to kill Demonic Beasts.
• Bai Yujun and Rain Swallow rested in a tree and ate pastries after the surrounding Demonic Beasts had been cleared.
• Rain Swallow asked whether Bai Yujun would take over Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s territory, and Bai Yujun said she did not need it yet.

Bai Yujun and the Southern Wasteland forces trapped nearly ten thousand Demonic Beasts against the Raging Waves River and drove them into its deadly waters. As she warned the high-ranking Demonic Monsters with dragon language, Bai Yujun suspected that human forces had helped the devils escape the ancient battlefield and create their Cannon Fodder.

• Bai Yujun and Rain Swallow confronted high-ranking Demonic Beasts across the Raging Waves River while the enemy's low-ranking troops remained trapped on the cliffs.
• Bai Yujun ordered the Snake Demons and Green Wood Mountain forces to push the stranded Demonic Beasts off the cliffs, where Water Monsters devoured many of them.
• Bai Yujun used dragon language to warn the high-ranking Demonic Monsters, frightening them and making them retreat.
• The demon beasts advanced against the trapped enemies as those who tried to flee were driven into the river and killed.
• Bai Yujun suspected that human forces had helped the devils escape the ancient battlefield and spread their Cannon Fodder across the lands.