Recaps

Bai Yujun traveled with Ye Zi and Little Ye Zi, gathering Dragon Qi as the Yan Army advanced and preparing to consume Southern Chu’s last reserves. While she waited near the capital, Southern Chu’s feng shui experts began a desperate attempt to sever the Central Plains dragon vein and delay the Yan Army.

• Qiao Jin left Southern Wu by ship for the Southern Wilderness, carrying a flood dragon scale as a talisman.
• Bai Yujun traveled ahead of the Yan Army with Ye Zi and Little Ye Zi, defeating warlords and absorbing their Earth Vein Dragon Qi while teaching the girls.
• Bai Yujun reached Southern Chu and settled near its royal mausoleum, where she waited for the Yan Army and sampled the local food.
• Bai Yujun sold goods outside the royal palace and set up a flute stall with Ye Zi, while she watched Southern Chu’s officials and generals.
• Bai Yujun sensed Southern Chu might seek help from the Jiuli Black Tribe, but the tribe did not send troops.
• Southern Chu’s feng shui experts ordered thousands of laborers to cut through a mountain range in a desperate effort to sever the Central Plains dragon vein and slow the Yan Army.

Bai Yujun sensed that a mountain excavation was disturbing the Central Plains' dragon veins and discovered that Demonic Beasts were involved. She sealed the valley and attacked them, while the cultivator surnamed Zhang begged for forgiveness.

• Bai Yujun woke from a dream of a mountain splitting apart and flew toward the disturbance she sensed through the Southern Chu dragon vein.
• At the excavation site, the old steward discovered the well had dropped and the workers and guards collapsed under Bai Yujun's immense pressure.
• Bai Yujun questioned the old feng shui master and detected Demonic Beasts disguised among the workers and soldiers.
• Bai Yujun accused the old man and the cultivator surnamed Zhang of cooperating with Demonic Beasts to excavate the Central Plains' dragon veins.
• Bai Yujun sealed the valley with Turn Heaven and Earth and attacked the exposed Demonic Beasts with spiritual-energy clones and two Scale Clones.
• The cultivator surnamed Zhang knelt and begged for forgiveness as the battle continued and Bai Yujun found no powerful Demonic Beast among the opponents.

Bai Yujun stopped the excavation of a mountain after Demonic Beasts were found in the valley, and a rain-triggered mudslide buried part of the worksite. She returned to Southern Chu’s capital, found the Demonic Beasts gone, and went to sleep; meanwhile, Qiao Jin arrived in the Southern Wasteland and reached a customs hall in the Flood Dragon Demon King’s territory.

• Bai Yujun questioned the old fortune-teller, then used her Scale Clones to kill the Demonic Beasts in the valley.
• A torrential downpour caused a mudslide that buried the excavation breach and trapped several laborers and soldiers.
• Bai Yujun ordered the old fortune-teller to stop digging, warned him she would kill them if they continued, and left for Southern Chu’s capital.
• Bai Yujun found that the Demonic Beasts had vanished from the capital, left the investigation to Chunyang Palace and the Western Teachings, and went to sleep.
• Qiao Jin arrived in the Southern Wasteland after her scale summoned Bai Yujun’s clone to defeat evil cultivators and their creatures.
• Qiao Jin marveled at the mixed population of the Flood Dragon Demon King’s territory and reached a hall marked “Customs.”

Qiao Jin arrived in the Flood Dragon Demon King's territory and was given identification before Mu Duo asked whether she could cook fish. In Southern Chu, Bai Yujun watched Yan's conquest end, withdrew the last Anti-Dragon's dragon qi, and sailed back toward the Southern Wasteland while awaiting Jiang Mian's enthronement ceremony and her earned merit.

• Qiao Jin passed the Customs Hall inspection, received identification, and entered the Flood Dragon Demon King's orderly territory.
• Mu Duo accepted Qiao Jin's scale and asked her if she could make fish stew or other fish dishes.
• Bai Yujun watched Yan's army besiege Southern Chu as its fortune faded and the royal palace burned.
• Bai Yujun drew away the final Anti-Dragon's dragon qi, bringing the dust of the war to settle.
• Bai Yujun sailed toward the Southern Wasteland with Ye Zi and the other girl, planning to await Jiang Mian's Heaven Worship and Enthronement ceremony for her merit.

Jiang Mian prepared to establish the Yan Kingdom and asked for Bai Yujun to appear at the founding ceremony, but she refused. As the ceremony affirmed her as a true dragon and bestowed merit and fortune, Bai Yujun returned to her mountain pool and began hibernating.

• Chang'an filled with visitors as Jiang Mian prepared to ascend the throne and found the Yan Kingdom.
• Jiang Mian asked Pan Hongzu to invite Bai Yujun to the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony, but Pan said she would not attend and reminded him to issue an edict affirming her as a true dragon.
• Jiang Mian learned that Bai Yujun's demon forces had grown beyond ten thousand and were planned to reach one hundred thousand within thirty years.
• At the ceremony, the Crown Prince proclaimed the founding edict affirming Bai Yujun, while five-colored merit gathered in the sky above her in the Southern Wasteland.
• Bai Yujun felt the edict strengthen her fortune, then flew to her hidden sinkhole pool and began hibernating in her true form.

An Imperial Prince arrived at Shenhua Mountain to perform the Fengshan rites, while five infiltrators secretly approached Chunyang Palace’s Stone Tower to steal a sealed demonic artifact. Gan Wu restored the tower’s seal after discovering the artifact was missing and condemned the intruders, leaving the stolen object’s fate unknown.

• The Imperial Prince’s procession climbed Shenhua Mountain and was welcomed by a Jade Void Palace Elder.
• Five Black Shadows left their guest rooms at night and followed a red-glowing moth down the cliffs toward the Stone Tower.
• One infiltrator fell to his death, and the remaining four reached the tower, where sword light destroyed the moth.
• Three intruders stabbed themselves in the heart as their companion released an evil cultivator who fought the tower’s guards and triggered the alarm.
• Gan Wu arrived, destroyed the fleeing Ghost Flute, and found that the sealed demonic artifact was missing.
• Gan Wu restored the Stone Tower’s seal, ordered the bodies cleared, and dismissed the Demonic Beasts and Demonic Cultivators as trash.

Mu Duo, Qing Ling, and the Ye Zi sisters played in the artificial winter around the sinkhole while Bai Yujun slept beneath the ice. They discovered the pleasures of eating ice and drinking it with sugar, and Qing Ling suggested adding osmanthus.

• Mu Duo, Qing Ling, and the Ye Zi sisters entered the snow-covered sinkhole to skate and admire the rime.
• Bai Yujun swam beneath the ice in her sleep, then broke through the frozen surface before sinking back into the pool.
• Mu Duo secretly licked a piece of ice, and the Ye Zi sisters joined her in tasting and crunching ice.
• Mu Duo imagined making a sweet iced drink, and Qing Ling later tried it and suggested adding osmanthus.

After sleeping for decades and awakening as a late Spirit Transformation flood dragon, Bai Yujun returned to the Bai Residence and caught up on events. She learned that Demonic Beasts had stolen a demonic artifact and dismissed the Yan Kingdom court’s requests for military aid and industrial technology.

• Bai Yujun awakened from her evolution, reflected on the loneliness of outliving mortal friends, and flew back toward her territory.
• Bai Yujun saw that the riverside city had expanded greatly and found Ye Zi studying cultivation manuals at the Bai Residence.
• Bai Yujun read Yang Mu’s old letter about a demonic artifact stolen from the Stone Tower on Shenhua Mountain and suspected the Demonic Beasts needed help to overcome their predicament.
• Bai Yujun dismissed the Yan Kingdom emperor’s request to send demon soldiers against the Chi Mang people as an attempt to weaken her forces.
• Bai Yujun rejected the court’s request for factory equipment and technical blueprints, suspecting the Aristocratic Clans wanted them without paying.

After decades of sleep, Bai Yujun woke from a three-month nap and spent her time roaming the mountains and rivers of her territory. She resolved to live quietly for the next century, while remembering that Mu had once promised to visit the Southern Wilderness.

• Bai Yujun woke, admired the Lotus Spirit growing in her pond, and noticed that the Wild Chicken Spirit avoided announcing noon when he saw her.
• She transformed into a white flood dragon and raced through the forests, across a lake, and up a Giant Tree before resting in its canopy.
• Bai Yujun enjoyed a durian and decided to stay out of the wider world's conflicts, living quietly in her territory for roughly a century.
• She resumed patrolling, watched over snake eggs, frightened Water Monsters, and brought rain to villages of the Nine Li White Tribe.
• Bai Yujun recalled Mu's promise to visit and realized that Mu's idea of a few days could mean several centuries.

After nearly a century in the Southern Wasteland, Bai Yujun returned to Shenhua Mountain after learning that Yu Rong planned to retire and Yang Mu would take charge of the Qingxu lineage. She reunited with Yang Mu, Xu Ling, and Yu Rong, then celebrated with them before falling asleep in her old room.

• Bai Yujun received a letter from Chunyang Palace saying Yu Rong and other elders planned to withdraw from worldly affairs, while Yang Mu had reached the True Person realm and would lead Qingxu.
• Bai Yujun arranged for Mu Duo and the Green Wood Demon King to watch over her affairs, then traveled north to Shenhua Mountain.
• Bai Yujun climbed Mount Hua, offered incense at the Three Pure Ones Hall, and reflected on how the disciples and mountain had changed over the centuries.
• Yang Mu and Xu Ling welcomed Bai Yujun at Qingxu Palace, and the three disciples paid their respects to Yu Rong.
• Bai Yujun cooked a feast for Yang Mu, Xu Ling, and Yu Rong, then returned to her old loft bedroom and dreamed of her early days on the mountain.

Qingxu Palace celebrated Yang Mu’s appointment as Peak Master, while Bai Yujun arranged for Gan Wu to meet Ye Zi and consider taking her as a Purple Void disciple. After the ceremony, Bai Yujun, Yang Mu, and Xu Ling relaxed together beneath the stars on Lotus Peak.

• Bai Yujun ignored Lian Tianxing when he arrived at Qingxu Palace with Sect Master Chu Zhe.
• Bai Yujun told Gan Wu about Ye Zi’s talent and hardships, and Gan Wu agreed to visit the Southern Wilderness to assess her for Purple Void.
• Yang Mu completed the Peak Master ceremony and formally accepted the token from Sect Master Chu Zhe.
• Bai Yujun slipped away to steal koi, and Xu Ling later joined her in wandering around and causing trouble.
• Bai Yujun, Yang Mu, and Xu Ling reminisced about meeting in the Southern Wilderness and spent the night chatting beneath the stars on Lotus Peak.

Bai Yujun tried to arrange for Ye Zi to become Gan Wu’s closing disciple, but Ye Zi refused to leave Little Ye Zi behind. When Little Ye Zi was targeted by a deceitful stranger, Bai Yujun had demon patrol soldiers arrest him and his servant, just as Little Ye Zi came out of the shop and ordered them to stop.

• Gan Wu wanted Ye Zi as his closing disciple, but Ye Zi refused to go unless Little Ye Zi could come too.
• Bai Yujun explained Gan Wu’s strength and said Ye Zi already had a foundation for cultivating under Purple Void.
• Bai Yujun and Ye Zi spotted Little Ye Zi chatting with a handsome stranger, whom Bai Yujun recognized as a swindler plotting to steal blueprints and exploit her.
• Bai Yujun stopped Ye Zi from intervening and sent nearby demon patrol soldiers to arrest the stranger and his servant.
• The demon soldiers captured the pair, and Little Ye Zi came out of the clothing shop and shouted for them to stop.

Little Ye Zi fought the Demon King’s patrol soldiers to protect the young master she admired, turning a street arrest into a major disturbance. Ye Zi arrived and let the soldiers take her sister and the two Central Plains men to the yamen, while Bai Yujun watched from nearby and anticipated the trouble ahead.

• Little Ye Zi blocked the demon soldiers from arresting the young master and drew her sword when they refused to release him.
• The demon soldiers fought Little Ye Zi with the backs of their blades, and she knocked them down as the crowd fled.
• A signal arrow brought heavily armored city guards and archers, who surrounded Little Ye Zi and the two Central Plains men.
• A demon general prepared to act, but paused after hearing something and allowed the confrontation to continue.
• Ye Zi arrived, scolded Little Ye Zi, and kicked the young master before the demon soldiers shackled all three and took them to the yamen.
• Bai Yujun watched from the teahouse and reflected on Little Ye Zi’s rebellion and the young master’s provocation.

Bai Yujun confronted Little Ye Zi and Young Master Feng after his theft of the blueprints and his manipulation of her had been exposed. Young Master Feng was taken away for legal proceedings, while Little Ye Zi was left heartbroken by the truth.

• Neighbors discussed the arrest and praised the demon soldiers for enforcing the law.
• Ye Zi and Little Ye Zi argued over Young Master Feng, with Little Ye Zi insisting he was innocent and Ye Zi condemning him as a spy.
• Bai Yujun stopped the quarrel with her Killing Intent and repeated Young Master Feng's boastful, insulting remarks from the clothing shop.
• Little Ye Zi realized Young Master Feng had deceived her when he begged Bai Yujun to spare him and invoked his grandfather's status.
• Bai Yujun ordered the demon soldiers to take Young Master Feng and his servant to prison for legal proceedings.

Bai Yujun arranged for Ye Zi to study under a Purple Void master and for Little Ye Zi to train with Qiao Jin, separating the sisters so they could grow more independent. Ye Zi joined Gan Wu at Purple Void Palace, where she repeatedly closed his door at night, leaving him baffled.

• Bai Yujun reprimanded Little Ye Zi for injuring the demon soldiers and decided to separate her from Ye Zi.
• Ye Zi agreed to study at Mount Hua under a Purple Void master, while Little Ye Zi was assigned to train with Qiao Jin.
• The next day, Gan Wu departed with Ye Zi, and Qiao Jin took Little Ye Zi to the barracks in the forest.
• Ye Zi received a Daoist robe and treasured sword at Shenhua Mountain and moved into Purple Void Palace.
• Ye Zi crept to Gan Wu's room on three nights in a row to close his door, giving him a headache.

Bai Yujun slept while her territory expanded and her snake demons turned to art and technology. Years later, two men searched Dragon Fall City for the Dragon Hunting Crossbow and dragon scales, and a villager uncovered a snow-white fragment.

• Bai Yujun returned to the sinkhole pool and slept while Mu Duo and Qing Ling built a treehouse and began selling shaved ice in the city.
• Iron Ball expanded Bai Yujun's territory, while her forces gathered low-level snake demons and grew to one hundred thousand before turning to crafts and technology.
• Four years into a search at Dragon Fall City, a Silver-haired Man and a masked man in black discussed finding the missing Dragon Hunting Crossbow and dragon scales to break a seal.
• A villager digging in the ruins uncovered a snow-white fragment.

After the Shattered Dragon Scale was stolen and the Yan Empire and Southern Wasteland settled into tense trade, two hundred years passed. The chapter ended with the Wisdom King arriving at Golden Mountain Courtyard and enjoying tea with two old monks.

• Flooding swept away the Silver-haired Man and the man in black’s search, and a thief’s rat brothers stole their brocade pouch containing the dragon scale fragment.
• The Silver-haired Man discovered the theft, while the fragment passed into the hands of a wretched-looking man and its whereabouts became unknown.
• The Yan Empire built border fortresses after a prefect’s failed campaign against the Flood Dragon Demon King, and Water Monsters later destroyed the tax checkpoints.
• Two hundred years passed as the Central Plains recovered and the Flood Dragon Demon King’s territory continued to change.
• The Wisdom King arrived at Golden Mountain Courtyard with a golden-haired youth and met two old monks in a Bamboo House.
• The Wisdom King praised their West Lake Longjing Tea and said his journey had not been in vain.

Wisdom King met with two elderly monks of Golden Mountain Courtyard to discuss the approaching World Calamity and the need for Western Teachings to cooperate with Chunyang Palace. They suspected the Sea of Corpses beneath the ice plains would cause the disaster, and the chapter ended with the monks looking to Wisdom King for a plan to deal with the White Flood Dragon.

• Wisdom King and the two monks agreed that the teachings should set aside their rivalry and unite against the coming World Calamity.
• The three identified the Sea of Corpses beneath the ice plains, suppressed by a dragon skeleton, as the likely source of the calamity.
• Wisdom King said the White Flood Dragon had not taken the dragon bones, but warned that missing dragon-scale fragments could eventually be used to break the restriction.
• Wisdom King explained that Chunyang Palace had gained strength and destiny through the White Flood Dragon’s power and southern wilderness demon army.
• The monks considered how the White Flood Dragon’s long path to dragon transformation would keep her aiding Chunyang for centuries, then looked to Wisdom King for a strategy against her.

The Wisdom King devised a plan to bring Bai Yujun under Western Teachings by manipulating her romantic fate, while Bai Yujun recognized that someone was using Soul Sorcery to influence her dreams. The sorcerer decided to stay several more years after finding that Bai Yujun resisted his influence.

• The Wisdom King told two old monks that Bai Yujun could be reached through love, and proposed arranging for her to fall in love, marry, and have a child.
• The Wisdom King claimed a man destined for Bai Yujun was about to be reborn in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the three monks began planning how to use the match to control her.
• Bai Yujun, now eight hundred years old and at Deity Transformation Stage Perfection, returned to the Bai Household after experiencing strange romantic dreams.
• Bai Yujun used the mysterious pearl to detect the dream intrusion, pretended to remain asleep, and realized an expert was using Soul Sorcery against her.
• Qing Ling also experienced dreams that gradually reduced her resistance to visiting the Central Plains.
• A young monk whose presence went unnoticed by the crowd concluded that Bai Yujun resisted sorcery and decided to remain for several more years.

An elderly monk visited the Xu household and named their newborn son Xu Xian, with Hanwen as his courtesy name, then gave him a jade pendant to protect him. After the monk left, Xu Xian’s older sister watched over him and promised to protect him from the old man.

• An elderly monk arrived at the Xu household and confirmed that their newborn son had the spiritual qualities he sought.
• The monk asked to see the infant and learned his birth hour from the Xu couple.
• The monk named the boy Xu Xian and suggested Hanwen as his future courtesy name.
• The monk gave Xu Xian a jade pendant, and the baby stopped crying when his mother put it on him.
• After the monk departed, Xu Xian’s older sister promised to care for him and threaten the old man if he returned.

Hui Xian, Little Stone, and Snake Demon Boy traveled to Suzhou and Hangzhou to earn money after their temple fell apart. After entering the Xu Family’s home to ask for water, Hui Xian sensed that something inside was wrong.

• Hui Xian and his companions left their ruined temple to seek a living in Suzhou and Hangzhou, though Little Stone had forgotten how to make umbrellas.
• Snake Demon Boy ate a frog, then nearly attacked a young master and his lackeys after they mocked the group, but Little Stone restrained him.
• Hui Xian noticed something amiss at a nearby household and led the others to the Xu Family’s door.
• The Xu Family’s little girl mistook the bedraggled visitors for baboons, but Mr. Xu invited them in and offered them tea.
• Hui Xian sat in the Xu Family’s courtyard and continued to feel that something inside the house was wrong.

The Bamboo Spring Temple group failed to convince the Xu Family to replace Xu Xian’s jade pendant and name, while Bai Yujun traveled through the desert and Shenhua Mountain before returning to the Southern Wilderness. She left a merchant ship at a border inspection, grumbling that allies were unreliable.

• Old Hui Xian offered the Xu Family a Purple Bamboo Gourd and urged them to discard Xu Xian’s jade pendant and change his name for ten copper coins.
• The Xu Family threw the Bamboo Spring Temple group out, and Little Stone stopped the Snake Demon Boy from attacking them.
• Bai Yujun visited Mu in the secret realm, crossed Dragon Gate Desert and Jade Gate Pass, and went to Qingxu Palace to tell Yu Rong someone was plotting against her.
• Yu Rong told Bai Yujun that the time to act had not yet come, and Bai Yujun agreed to wait before killing their enemies.
• Bai Yujun returned to the Southern Wilderness by merchant ship, left when demon soldiers began inspecting the vessel, and muttered that allies were unreliable.

Bai Yujun visited Mu Duo in Cloud Remote Ancient Village, where Mu Duo noticed a Peach Blossom Tribulation affecting her. Bai Yujun chose not to remove it, and the two joked and discussed village affairs before hearing a vague warning about trouble in the north.

• Bai Yujun went to Cloud Remote Ancient Village and found Mu Duo staring at the clouds.
• Mu Duo told Bai Yujun that signs of a Peach Blossom Tribulation showed she might be in love, and Bai Yujun realized someone had meddled with her fate.
• Bai Yujun decided to leave the Peach Blossom Tribulation untouched, then teased Mu Duo with a mock confession until Mu Duo chased and playfully struck her.
• Bai Yujun asked about the village, and Mu Duo said the Black Tribe remained cautious, the villagers had recovered, and a locust plague was their main concern.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo that the High Priest had warned of something major happening in the north, but neither could tell what it meant.

Xu Xian lost the chance to continue his studies after his parents’ deaths and began looking for an apprenticeship, while carrying a jade pendant tied to strange dreams. At Golden Mountain Courtyard, two elderly monks worried about preparations for a coming calamity and whether their actions were right.

• Xu Xian slipped in the rain while protecting his books, and Li Da Niu welcomed him inside and learned that Scholar Ma had driven him out of school.
• Xu Xian told Li Da Niu he wanted to learn a trade and support his household, and Li Da Niu promised to look for an apprenticeship.
• Xu Xian returned home, found his sister did not challenge his decision, and later examined the jade pendant his parents said an immortal had given him.
• Xu Xian recalled recurring dreams of a beautiful girl in white and considered selling the jade to help pay household expenses.
• Two elderly monks at Golden Mountain Courtyard discussed preparations in the Southern Wastes, the possible appearance of dragon scales, and the coming great calamity.

Bai Yujun, stalled at Deity Transformation Stage Perfection, considered taking Earth Vein Dragon Qi from the Western Teachings during the coming Peach Blossom Love Tribulation. At the Bai Residence, she began crafting a convincing clone, using her blood, a scale, and a King Cobra’s soul.

• Bai Yujun realized she needed more Earth Vein Dragon Qi to break through, but most available sources were too dangerous or protected to consume.
• Bai Yujun decided the Peach Blossom Love Tribulation could give her an opportunity to take Dragon Qi from the Western Teachings.
• Bai Yujun returned to the Bai Residence and sealed it with the Earth Vein Dragon Qi in her territory.
• Bai Yujun tore off a scale and used her blood to inscribe an array and create a clone that could fool powerful observers within the residence.
• Bai Yujun caught and killed a King Cobra, extracted its soul, and imprisoned it inside the scale for the clone.