Recaps

After the Demonic Beasts’ defeat, Bai Yujun withdrew her forces and sought Green Wood Mountain’s help in building a stronger snake-demon army. Three days later, she and Mu Duo flew to Cloud Remote Ancient Village to face the aftermath of the rebellion.

• Bai Yujun thanked Rain Swallow and sent the Snake Demon Soldiers and Green Wood Mountain’s demon beasts back to her territory.
• Bai Yujun asked Rain Swallow to seek permission from the Demon King for Green Wood Mountain to send her newly transformed snake demons and newly awakened spirit creatures to train.
• Bai Yujun noticed Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s flood-dragon banner and resolved to settle its troubles before focusing on her cultivation.
• Three days later, Mu Duo and the White Tribe’s High Priests joined Bai Yujun as she flew toward Cloud Remote Ancient Village to witness its uncertain future.

The High Priest arrived at Cloud Remote Ancient Village, restored its leaders, and ordered the traitors executed, ending the village’s calamity. Bai Yujun returned to Bai Residence and resumed her work, while Qing Ling, Ironball, and the demon soldiers headed to Green Wood Mountain to recruit snake demons for Snake Valley.

• Mu Duo appeared with Bai Yujun and the sacred beast, telling the villagers that everything awaited the High Priest’s judgment.
• The High Priest arrived, released the old clan chief and old priest, and ordered the traitorous fallen ones executed under Jiuli clan rules.
• The High Priest rebuked the village experts, while Mu Duo and the leaders reclaimed authority and Bai Yujun rested on the pavilion roof.
• Bai Yujun returned to Bai Residence, enjoyed several quiet days, and then resumed helping the Human Emperor weaken the Vassal Kings.
• Qing Ling, Ironball, Rain Swallow, Black Horse, and a hundred demon soldiers went to Green Wood Mountain to search for snake demons to bring back to Snake Valley.
• Ironball explained that Bai Yujun withheld the method of cultivating into dragons because the transformation was a deadly path that only a rare, heaven-favored being could survive.

Bai Yujun expanded her snake-demon army and rebuilt her workshop while preparing to evolve. During a storm atop Snake Valley, she endured lightning striking her forehead as dragon horns began to grow, and her cultivation advanced toward Spirit Transformation.

• Bai Yujun recruited newly enlightened snake demons, and Qing Ling and Iron Ball brought back seven or eight hundred for training at the academy.
• The snake-demon force grew to more than two thousand over half a year, while Bai Yujun moved the workshop to a riverside site and expanded its forging and research work.
• After settling affairs in the Central Plains, Bai Yujun secluded herself on a mountain peak with Scale Clones guarding her as she prepared to evolve.
• Bai Yujun's precious pearl flew out during her evolution, and repeated lightning strikes split the bulges on her forehead as dragon horns began to grow.
• Bai Yujun endured the storm and lightning as her jade-white horns branched and her cultivation rose beyond Nascent Soul Perfection toward Spirit Transformation.

Bai Yujun grew dragon horns, entered the Deity Transformation Stage, and announced herself as a Demon King before returning to the Bai Residence. After discovering her horns remained visible in human form, she relaxed in a bath, where Qing Ling sought reassurance that their bond had not changed.

• Bai Yujun grew dragon horns after enduring three days of lightning and reached the Deity Transformation Stage.
• Bai Yujun roared across the Southern Wilderness to announce her rise as a Demon King, then flew back to the Bai Residence.
• Bai Yujun found that her dragon horns became tiny antlers in human form and could not be retracted.
• Bai Yujun soaked in a hot bath and drifted off while eating fruit.
• Qing Ling entered the bath and embraced Bai Yujun, relieved that her elder sister remained gentle with her.
• Bai Yujun dressed and left for the waterside pavilion while Qing Ling stayed in the bath.

The young general entered a provincial city devastated by war and resolved to end the chaos, while a Western Teachings monk joined his campaign to unify the Central Plains. Meanwhile, Bai Yujun expanded her territory and developed workshops, education, and standardized systems among her people.

• The young general rode into the ruined city, grieved over its destruction, and agreed with the Chunyang Disciple that peace required killing those who created chaos.
• The young general met a Western Teachings disciple delivering the dead, invited him to assist the army, and established the royal residence as the center of the Yan force.
• The young general grew close to the Western Teachings disciple as his power expanded across the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun gained land from the White and Black Tribes and occupied surrounding unclaimed territory, greatly enlarging her domain.
• Bai Yujun trained snake demons and craftsmen, promoted literacy and Arabic numerals, and standardized weights and measures.

Over ten years, Bai Yujun strengthened her territory while living a leisurely life and tracking the Human Emperor’s expanding war in the Central Plains. Her domain grew into a peaceful, prosperous center of trade and military training as the wider war continued.

• Bai Yujun read Qing Ling’s report that the Human Emperor had taken coastal lands and that the Central Plains war would likely last at least twenty years.
• Bai Yujun, Qing Ling, and Mu Duo relaxed together in the pavilion while Bai Yujun played the hulusi.
• Bai Yujun’s Snake Demon Soldiers expanded from five hundred to five thousand and trained under well-provisioned conditions.
• Bai Yujun built a riverside city, established a shipping route between Jiuli and the Central Plains, and protected trade among merchants, mountain folk, and demon beasts.
• Bai Yujun adjusted the earth veins and cultivated spirit herbs to support the training and cultivation of her soldiers.

Bai Yujun traveled toward the Dragon Gate Desert to investigate who wanted to exterminate the dragon race and revisit the ruins beneath the sand dune. Meanwhile, Purple Void Pan Hongzu’s identity startled Chen Jia, and Bai Yujun continued north beneath the moon.

• Chen Jia asked the Chunyang Disciple for his name, learned he was Purple Void Pan Hongzu, and hurried out of the hall in fear.
• A future Human Emperor noticed that people behaved strangely after Chen Jia fled, while Pan Hongzu said he was ashamed of his own state of mind.
• Gushan Market’s cultivators dwindled as armed and organized demon beasts, poisonous corpses, and the White Flood Dragon disrupted travel through the Southern Wilderness.
• Bai Yujun set out for the Dragon Gate Desert to learn who threatened the dragon race and to retrieve treasures from the ruins beneath a sand dune.
• Bai Yujun flew over a remote kingdom, startling its cultivators and other beings with her demon king’s pressure, then continued northwest toward the desert.

Bai Yujun conjured a sandstorm to reveal the Dragon Gate and tested how close she could approach it, but Mu pulled her away when the gate’s sword reacted. After scolding and feeding Bai, Mu agreed to consider visiting the Southern Wilderness once she had finished several matters.

• Bai Yujun summoned a sandstorm over the Dragon Gate Desert, revealing the golden Dragon Gate, and approached it with a multicolored pearl and dragon spear.
• Bai Yujun’s dragon spear began to glow and grow heavier as the sword on the Dragon Gate plaque trembled and released killing intent.
• Mu whisked Bai Yujun away and angrily forbade her from going near the Dragon Gate before she transformed into a dragon.
• Mu fed Bai Yujun spirit fruit and groomed her dragon horns while refusing to explain who had targeted the dragon race.
• Bai Yujun asked to revisit the palace beneath the sand dunes, and Mu agreed to consider moving to the Southern Wilderness after completing several matters.
• Bai Yujun recalled her days at Chunyang Palace and agreed with Mu that staring blankly had been happy.

After visiting Mu and looting the ancient ruins, Bai Yujun returned to the northern wasteland to weaken Green Wolf by draining dragon qi from its veins. She hid in a great river to absorb its Water Dragon vein, while tribal unrest began to disrupt the planned southward campaign.

• Bai Yujun searched the ancient ruins, filled her storage with treasures, and failed to move the dragon throne before saying goodbye to Mu.
• Bai Yujun flew toward the northern wasteland, intending to drain its dragon qi and cut off Green Wolf's fortune.
• Bai Yujun used the Yellow River's dragon vein to strike Green Wolf, prompting tribal chieftains to receive visions of a flood dragon and order a search.
• Bai Yujun traveled under cover of rain to a great river, found a crucial node, and began extracting its dragon qi.
• Bai Yujun fell asleep underwater as shamans failed to find her and two tribes erupted into deadly conflict, disrupting the year's southward campaign.

Bai Yujun drained the Dragon Qi from a Water Vein and continued searching the wasteland for Earth Veins. After finding a royal tomb with the help of a wasteland strongman, she cleared its evil presence and looted its treasures.

• Bai Yujun spent half a year extracting Dragon Qi from the Water Vein, then disguised herself in wasteland clothing and continued following the Earth Vein.
• Bai Yujun encountered two wasteland riders who planned to seize her, so she subdued them and took a dagger buried with the dead.
• Bai Yujun threatened the strongman until he pointed her toward the dagger's source, then ate nearly a thousand cattle and sheep before making him guide her there.
• Bai Yujun found an ancient royal tomb, cleared its Yin Energy and zombie with a Chunyang Art flash bomb, and lit red candles in place of the required white ones.
• Bai Yujun extracted Dragon Qi from the tomb and took its gold and silver.

Bai Yujun continued draining the wilderness’s Earth Veins to cripple Green Wolf’s fortune and prevent the royal clans from waging war. At the Ancestral Vein, the Wild Wolf Demon King confronted her and demanded she become his wife, so she summoned her dragon spear and prepared to fight.

• Bai Yujun woke in the rain after a long sleep, covered her dragon horns with a felt hat, and set out to drain more Earth Veins.
• The Yuan clan’s scholar used the Ancient Animal Hides map to trace Bai Yujun’s route and realized she had circled the wilderness while draining its Earth Veins.
• Bai Yujun spent years draining the marked Earth Veins, weakening Green Wolf’s fortune until it called powerful wilderness creatures to defend the Ancestral Vein.
• More than ten thousand wolves gathered around Bai Yujun as she waited for the Wild Wolf Demon King to appear.
• The Wild Wolf Demon King said he would not fight over the wilderness humans but demanded Bai Yujun become his wife because she was on his clan’s territory.
• Bai Yujun rejected the demand, revealed her dragon spear, and declared that making a great fuss would be better.

Bai Yujun defeated the Wolf Demon King in a one-move duel, then entered the wilderness dragon vein and began drawing out its Earth Vein Dragon Qi. Years later, the future Human Emperor arrived at Longze County, where Chen Jia nearly disparaged Bai Yujun before Pan Hongzu warned him to watch his words.

• Bai Yujun and the Wolf Demon King agreed to settle their conflict with one move, and Bai Yujun won the contest.
• Bai Yujun entered a dragon vein node and began extracting its Earth Vein Dragon Qi, while wilderness sorcerers searched the mountains for her.
• The Yan Tribe reclaimed territory amid the Central Plains wars, and its leader became one of the realm's renowned Vassal Kings.
• The future Human Emperor rode into Longze County, whose people believed a Dragon Girl protected them.
• Chen Jia prepared to disparage Bai Yujun to the Human Emperor, but Pan Hongzu opened his eyes and warned him to watch his words.

In Longze County, the Great General became fascinated with the Dragon Girl after seeing her statue and ordered information about her gathered, while Pan Hongzu grew wary of his interest. Far away, Bai Yujun reached the Mid-stage Nascent Soul realm, emerged from hiding, and flew southwest.

• A local guide led the Great General and his companions to the Dragon Girl Temple, where a gust of wind uncovered the statue and left the Great General staring at it.
• The Great General ordered his subordinates to gather accounts of the Dragon Girl and records from the Great Tang Secret History, while Chen Jia secretly welcomed his interest and Pan Hongzu disapproved.
• Bai Yujun sensed that someone might be plotting against her, dismissed the feeling, and advanced to the Mid-stage Nascent Soul realm after another year of cultivation underground.
• The wilderness races withdrew after failing to find Bai Yujun, who emerged safely, frolicked in a lake, and flew southwest beneath the clouds.
• The Great General asked Pan Hongzu whether the Flood Dragon Maiden was a Chunyang Palace disciple and expressed hope of meeting her, leaving Pan Hongzu struggling to contain his irritation.

Bai Yujun returned to the Southern Wasteland and received an invitation from a Yan warlord king to help him in the Central Plains. Though she wanted to avoid the wars, she decided to meet his envoy and negotiate, hoping to gain merit that would aid her future transformation into a dragon.

• Bai Yujun flew south through autumn weather, briefly joining a flock of geese before continuing west around war-torn provinces.
• After more than a month, Bai Yujun returned to the Bai residence, bathed, and found a pile of golden scrolls sent by the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun read the scroll inviting the White Flood Dragon King to serve as an adviser and strategist for a Yan warlord king, but found no clear offer of benefits.
• Bai Yujun asked Qing Ling to locate the envoy and arrange for him to wait at a tavern in a nearby town.
• Bai Yujun decided to negotiate despite her reluctance, reasoning that helping unite the Central Plains could bring her merit for becoming a dragon.

Bai Yujun met envoys from the Yan Army and agreed to help them only if they promised to proclaim her an Auspicious Divine Dragon after unifying the realm. Wen Xu could not accept the condition on the spot, leaving the negotiations unresolved.

• The tavern proprietor rushed to prepare for Bai Yujun's visit and nervously welcomed her when she arrived with Qing Ling.
• Wen Xu and two deputy envoys greeted Bai Yujun and took their seats for the meeting.
• Bai Yujun rejected the Yan Army's proposal to make her an adviser and told Wen Xu to keep future documents concise.
• Bai Yujun offered to help the Yan Army if its future ruler issued an imperial decree proclaiming her an Auspicious Divine Dragon.
• Wen Xu hesitated because he lacked authority to agree to the decree.

Bai Yujun weighed Wen Xu’s proposal for an alliance between the Yan Army and the Snake Demon Army, recognizing that joining the Central Plains war could strengthen her clan’s fortune but also expose it to danger. She left the offer open for negotiation as the envoys departed, sensing that the Snake Clan’s survival would remain difficult.

• Wen Xu asked Bai Yujun to pass the cryptic message “Fork in the road towards the elm, morning glow rises in the east” to the Great General.
• Wen Xu recalled how the envoys had seen Bai Yujun’s well-equipped, disciplined Snake Demon Army during their stay in her territory.
• Wen Xu proposed that the Yan Army ally with Bai Yujun’s demon soldiers to help pacify the realm.
• Bai Yujun considered the potential gains and risks of sending troops, then said the alliance could be discussed after her demands were met.
• Wen Xu and the other envoys left by ship to report to the Great General, while Bai Yujun watched dark clouds and lightning from her pavilion.

Wen Xu and the Yan Army envoys reported to the Great General, who learned that the White Flood Dragon was the Dragon Girl and that she had sent him a cryptic message tied to his father’s burial. Convinced the Divine Dragon’s aid foretold his rise, he accepted her offer of an alliance under the condition that her demon army would leave the Central Plains after helping the Yan Army, and sent treasure south to build goodwill.

• Wen Xu explained how imperial Sealing and Affirmation could help the White Flood Dragon overcome her ascension tribulation, and the envoys testified that she had grown dragon horns.
• The envoys delivered the words “Fork in the road towards the elm; morning clouds rise in the east,” and the Great General recognized them as confirmation of a mysterious event before his father’s burial.
• Wen Xu proposed an alliance with the White Demon King and praised the discipline and equipment of her snake-demon army.
• The Great General accepted the alliance on the condition that the demon army would only enter the Central Plains to aid the Yan Army and would not remain there.
• The Great General postponed formalizing the alliance until a route to the Southern Wilderness was opened and ordered a procession of gold, silver, and jewels sent to the White Demon King.

Bai Yujun resolved to strengthen her army after Mu Duo reminded her that survival required struggle, then organized training to prepare for wars against Central Plains forces. The chapter ended with the White Dragon’s divisions conducting specialized drills, including long-range archery in heavy rain.

• Mu Duo comforted Bai Yujun and reminded her that the Jiuli people had to fight to survive, prompting Bai Yujun to order intensive army training.
• Bai Yujun recruited Central Plains commanders and marshals to study their tactics and built a model city for siege and defense exercises.
• Bai Yujun appointed Iron Ball commander of the demon army despite her limited cultivation, since no demon marshal served under her.
• Iron Ball trained snake demon archers to shoot at targets from eight hundred paces in heavy rain, using live mice to help them aim by heat.
• The archers improved their accuracy but struggled to sense targets through heavy rain, so Iron Ball continued their drills to help them learn each range by feel.

Bai Yujun waited for the Central Plains war to create an opportunity to help the future Human Emperor, then relaxed in a secluded Hot Spring in her territory. Three days later, a young herbalist climbed toward a hidden valley, unknowingly using a strange stone to pass through its barrier.

• Bai Yujun told Qing Ling that they would wait until the future Human Emperor faced a crisis before sending troops.
• Bai Yujun studied reports of the Central Plains war while soaking in a Hot Spring, then fell asleep and spent three days there.
• A young herbalist prepared to climb a dangerous cliff to gather medicine for his sick grandmother.
• The herbalist found a strange Little Stone in an abandoned bird's nest and put it in his medicine basket.
• As the herbalist climbed higher, the Little Stone glowed and dispersed a transparent barrier, letting him approach the hidden valley.

A young herb gatherer climbed into a hidden valley to collect medicine for his sick grandmother, where he stumbled upon Bai Yujun bathing. After she spared him and learned his surname was Xu, he accidentally stepped off the cliff as she turned away.

• The young herb gatherer rested on the mountain and thought about his sick grandmother before continuing to collect herbs.
• Bai Yujun woke in the Hot Spring and attacked the herb gatherer when he came around the bend, pinning him to the rock with water blades.
• Bai Yujun questioned him, noticed his soul felt familiar, and took a metal-repelling stone from him.
• The herb gatherer said his surname was Xu and that he had no name, causing Bai Yujun to react uneasily to the surname.
• Bai Yujun released him and walked away; the herb gatherer backed off the cliff, and she turned back to find him gone.

Bai Yujun rescued the young man surnamed Xu, warned him never to return, and suspected that a powerful figure was manipulating him. Meanwhile, she continued preparing the Southern Wastes for the coming struggle in the Central Plains and decided to build ships for a river-based campaign.

• Bai Yujun caught the young man surnamed Xu as he fell from the cliff, carried him safely down, and told him to take the valuable stone and never return.
• Bai Yujun suspected that a hidden great power was using the young man surnamed Xu and vowed to kill him if they met again.
• The young man surnamed Xu sold the stone, bought medicine for his grandmother, and became infatuated with Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun developed plans to strengthen weapons and defenses while observing the Human Emperor’s forces struggle with internal problems after expanding too quickly.
• Bai Yujun studied routes from the Southern Wastes to the Central Plains, chose river travel as the safest and fastest option, and ordered Ironball to acquire shipbuilding blueprints.
• Bai Yujun found flaws in the blueprints and began designing improved ships herself.

After two years of longing, Xu decided to return to the mountain and propose to the Mysterious Girl. He reached her valley, where Bai Yujun greeted him with a fierce look as dark clouds gathered.

• Xu lived alone after Granny died and continued to long for the Mysterious Girl.
• The Ox Demon advised Xu to marry, but Xu decided to climb the mountain and propose to her instead.
• Xu ignored a notice sealing off Hot Spring Mountain and climbed the dangerous cliffs to reach the valley.
• Xu found the Mysterious Girl, and Bai Yujun turned toward him as the weather darkened.

Bai Yujun killed the young man surnamed Xu after warning him that someone had drawn him into a deadly scheme, but he survived and was rescued by Big Ox. Heartbroken and unable to forget her, he left the Southern Wasteland for his grandmother’s ruined Central Plains hometown, where he lived out his life.

• Bai Yujun revealed her dragon scales and aura to the young man surnamed Xu, then killed him with Hengdao while warning him not to seek her again.
• Three days later, Big Ox told the wounded young man surnamed Xu that he had found and rescued him near Red Flower Lake.
• The young man surnamed Xu decided to return to the Central Plains, and Big Ox agreed to help with his farmwork until he recovered.
• After nursing his wounds for more than a month, the young man surnamed Xu left the Southern Wasteland by merchant ship.
• The young man surnamed Xu found his grandmother’s old home ruined by war, made his living farming, and eventually grew old while remembering the girl in white.

Bai Yujun prepared to negotiate an alliance with the advancing Yan Army and left the Southern Wasteland with Qing Ling. The sisters traveled toward the meeting place, stopping overnight on a mountain as Qing Ling asked why Bai Yujun helped humans and whether immortals could live freely.

• Bai Yujun ordered the Ox Horn Mountain Tiger Demon King's demon general imprisoned for three years after it tried to eat a person, and told General Iron Ball to strengthen patrols.
• An envoy from the Yan Army invited Bai Yujun to negotiate an alliance in a small city between the Central Plains and the Southern Wasteland.
• Bai Yujun left Mu Duo to oversee matters, placed four scales to guard her territory, and agreed to take Qing Ling with her.
• Bai Yujun and Qing Ling traveled openly by day, resting in inns or the wilderness at night.
• While camping on a mountain peak, Qing Ling asked why Bai Yujun helped humans and whether becoming immortals would make them carefree; Bai Yujun gave uncertain answers.
• After Qing Ling fell asleep, Bai Yujun prepared for the night and sent a clone armed with Hengdao to patrol.

General Jiang settled into a life of indulgence at the Dong residence as his subordinates prepared for an important meeting. Meanwhile, Bai Yujun and Qing Ling arrived in Dongcheng, where Bai dealt with two attackers and agreed to take Qing Ling to a brothel.

• The Dong Family welcomed General Jiang with a banquet, and the Dong Family's young lady was sent to his room as a gift.
• General Jiang spent the following days enjoying the Dong residence's comforts while Pan Hongzu and Chen Jia waited for negotiations to begin.
• Bai Yujun and Qing Ling entered Dongcheng and vanished from the streets into a private room at a tavern.
• Bai Yujun warned Qing Ling about poisoned food and drink, then killed an innkeeper and waiter who tried to attack them.
• Bai Yujun agreed to take Qing Ling to a brothel, while Pan Hongzu waited eagerly at the Dong residence to meet the Grand Elder.