Recaps

Bai Yujun tested a sleeping clone to mislead the hidden hand manipulating dreams, while Xu Xian pursued medical studies and began having vivid dreams of a mysterious girl. The chapter left the Snake Demon Boy enraged after four scholars insulted his companions.

• Bai Yujun created a lifelike clone, concealed her aura, and found that it began dreaming after three days.
• Xu Jiaorong and Li Da Niu discussed Xu Xian’s future, and Li Da Niu remembered that Doctor Du of Hundred Herbs Hall wanted an apprentice.
• Xu Xian hurried home with medical books and worried over recurring dreams in which a White-clothed Girl killed him.
• The Snake Demon Boy, Little Stone, and Hui Xian camped beneath a banyan tree as four scholars mocked them.
• The Snake Demon Boy flew into a rage, and Little Stone lunged to restrain him.

Bai Yujun discovered that a hypnotic dream was steering her clone toward the Legend of the White Snake and a supposed love tribulation. She resolved to protect Qing Ling from the story’s deadly fate and prepared to travel to Suzhou and Hangzhou to disrupt the scheme.

• Bai Yujun watched a female immortal appear in the King Cobra’s dream and recite lines about her mortal bonds and a destined lover.
• Bai Yujun recognized the vision as a preprogrammed attempt to force her into the Legend of the White Snake and end her independence through a love tribulation.
• Bai Yujun recalled that Qing Ling’s role in the tale led to a terrible fate and decided she would not let Qing Ling leave the Southern Wilderness.
• Bai Yujun studied a map of Suzhou and Hangzhou, focused on Golden Mountain Courtyard, and planned to seize the chance to absorb its Earth Vein Dragon Qi.

Bai Yujun prepared contingencies before heading back to the Central Plains, arranging a military strike if she was trapped and putting Qing Ling into protected hibernation. After securing her territory and supplies, she left for the city.

• Bai Yujun gave Tieqiu a scale and ordered him to lead one hundred thousand demon soldiers against the Yan Kingdom if she became trapped, while sparing civilians and surrendered captives.
• Bai Yujun decided Qing Ling would be safest hibernating beneath the Bai residence’s Earth Vein Dragon Qi formation.
• Bai Yujun called Qing Ling back and found her mind troubled by conflicting impulses, though she still warned Bai Yujun not to go to the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun soothed Qing Ling to sleep, placed her under the Earth Vein Dragon Qi, and ordered the bedroom and study formations activated.
• Bai Yujun stored most of her possessions in the warehouse and flew toward the city.

Bai Yujun leisurely traveled downriver toward Jiangnan while Shenhua Mountain prepared for trouble and tomb raiders uncovered a White Jade Fragment in Chancellor Hu’s ancestral grave. The ship reached Jiangnan, where Xu Xian was living quietly as a medicine apprentice.

• Bai Yujun admired the river scenery, caught a red leaf, and tucked it into her hair as her ship continued east.
• Yu Rong ordered Yang Mu and Xu Ling to help defend Shenhua Mountain, while Qi Yun assigned Gan Wu to guard the mountain gate and prepared to leave with other True Persons.
• Tomb raiders posing as caravan merchants found Chancellor Hu’s ancestral grave and broke into his grandfather’s burial chamber.
• The tomb raiders opened the coffin and the leader removed a White Jade Fragment from beneath the corpse’s hands, causing the body to decay rapidly.
• Bai Yujun’s ship reached Jiangnan, where nineteen-year-old Xu Xian was living peacefully as an apprentice at Hundred Herbs Hall.

Xu Xian met Bai Yujun during a rainy Qingming outing at West Lake, and their brief encounter stirred memories of the girl from his dreams. After he failed to find her again, they unexpectedly reunited aboard a boat heading back to the city.

• Xu Xian was left behind at West Lake when Xu Jiaorong and Li Da Niu went off together without him.
• Xu Xian picked up Bai Yujun’s fallen jade hairpin and was captivated when she turned to thank him.
• Xu Jiaorong scolded Li Da Niu for leaving Xu Xian behind, then returned to the city with him by boat.
• Xu Xian searched the lakeside for Bai Yujun, but eventually gave up and hired a boat back to the city.
• Bai Yujun boarded Xu Xian’s boat, and he sat face-to-face with her beneath its canopy.

Bai Yujun gave Xu Xian an umbrella after she failed to kill him or reach the earth veins protected by Golden Mountain Courtyard. Xu Xian returned home smitten with her, while Bai Yujun settled into Nanyu Hut and began considering how to use him in her plans.

• Bai Yujun gave Xu Xian her paper umbrella and told him she lived at Nanyu Hut in Osmanthus Alley.
• Xu Xian returned home delighted, clutching the umbrella, and Xu Jiaorong and Li Da Niu wondered why he was so cheerful.
• Bai Yujun went to Nanyu Hut, brewed tea, and painted a rain-soaked view of West Lake to sell in her shop.
• The three old monks at Golden Mountain Courtyard worried that their plans involving Bai Yujun had gone awry and that she remained an unpredictable variable.
• Xu Jiaorong mistook Xu Xian's lovestruck behavior for possession, but Li Da Niu reassured her that he had met a beautiful woman.
• Xu Jiaorong decided to pray for Xu Xian at Golden Mountain Courtyard, and Li Da Niu urged her to ask that he marry soon.

At Golden Mountain Courtyard, the Wisdom King planned to draw Xu Xian and the Flood Dragon Maiden into marriage and later suppress her, while Xu Xian searched for the white-clothed girl to return her umbrella. He found Bai Yujun’s shop, where she invited him in and showed him a mysterious painting.

• The Wisdom King told the elderly monks that he would wait for the Flood Dragon Maiden and Xu Xian to marry and have a child before drawing Xu Xian into their faith and seizing her.
• Xu Xian went to Osmanthus Alley to find Nanyu Hut and return the umbrella, but an old man misunderstood his request for directions.
• Xu Xian found Bai Yujun sitting outside her shop and offered to return the umbrella; she called him back and introduced herself.
• Bai Yujun invited Xu Xian inside and showed him a painting of Misty West Lake Rain, which she priced at ten taels of gold.
• Xu Xian sensed something strange about the painting but did not realize it showed another scene when turned upside down.

Bai Yujun tried to draw the Earth Vein Dragon Qi beneath Golden Mountain Courtyard from afar, but sensed a treasure guarding it and began considering how Xu Xian might help her find an opening. Months later, she witnessed Hui Xian give away the money he had saved to rebuild his temple to pay for a sick child’s medicine, and he heard a familiar voice as he left.

• Bai Yujun tested her ability to absorb Golden Mountain Courtyard’s Dragon Qi from Suzhou and Hangzhou, briefly stirring it before withdrawing when she sensed a protective treasure.
• Bai Yujun settled into a quiet life selling umbrellas in Osmanthus Alley, while Xu Xian regularly found excuses to visit her and the Golden Mountain Courtyard monks watched their relationship develop.
• Bai Yujun’s outings brought misfortune to troublesome admirers, and she considered using Xu Xian to help her reach the Dragon Qi.
• At Hundred Herbs Hall, Hui Xian gave the silver he had saved to rebuild Bamboo Spring Temple to Doctor Du so he could treat Madam Hu’s gravely ill daughter.
• As Hui Xian left with Little Stone and the Little Snake Demon, he stopped after hearing a familiar accent say, “You’re still the same as ever~”

Bai Yujun reunited with Hui Xian, Little Stone, and Snake Demon Boy, then helped them open a shop beside hers. She went out with Xu Xian and discovered his jade pendant contained a spell formation, while deciding to use him to enter Golden Mountain Courtyard.

• Bai Yujun treated Hui Xian, Little Stone, and Snake Demon Boy to a meal and offered to arrange lodging for them.
• Bai Yujun rented the neighboring shop, where Hui Xian made umbrellas and the boys minded the stall; Snake Demon Boy drew his sword when customers mocked them, and Little Stone restrained him.
• Xu Xian visited Bai Yujun's shop, and Snake Demon Boy reacted to the Toad Demon scent on him.
• Bai Yujun decided to accompany Xu Xian on his walk and use him to get into Golden Mountain Courtyard.
• Bai Yujun inspected Xu Xian's jade pendant and found a soul-interfering spell formation inside it.

Bai Yujun accompanied Xu Xian to treat Steward Liu, where she discovered a wicked water demon was secretly draining yang energy from the household and bewitching his daughter. She recognized that the demon had infiltrated the residence as the guard Lai Wu, while Xu Xian remained unaware of the danger.

• Bai Yujun encouraged the envious Xu Xian as they walked beside West Lake and arrived at Steward Liu's residence.
• Xu Xian examined Steward Liu and prescribed rest, sunlight, and medicine, while Bai Yujun sensed wicked demon qi in the courtyard.
• Bai Yujun discovered that a demon had bewitched Steward Liu's daughter and was secretly drawing yang energy from people nearby.
• Steward Liu concealed the danger to protect his daughter's reputation, and his guard Lai Wu arrived to learn how to prepare Xu Xian's medicine.
• Bai Yujun recognized Lai Wu as the disguised demon and noticed him avoiding Xu Xian's jade pendant, while Xu Xian began to feel unwell.

Bai Yujun exposed Lai Wu as a Toad Demon and killed him after he threatened Xu Xian. Xu Xian declared that all demons should be killed, and he and Bai Yujun parted ways uneasily.

• Bai Yujun secretly drove the demonic energy from Xu Xian and let Lai Wu escort them away from the estate.
• Lai Wu trapped Xu Xian and Bai Yujun in a secluded alley and threatened to kill Xu Xian before attacking Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun immobilized Lai Wu, identified him as a demon, and used her jade pendant to reveal his toadlike form.
• Bai Yujun burned the Toad Demon to ash with Chunyang Art spiritual power, while Xu Xian panicked and refused to reclaim the pendant.
• Bai Yujun asked Xu Xian what he would do if someone he knew were a demon, and Xu Xian answered that all demons should be killed.
• Bai Yujun and Xu Xian returned to a crossroads and went their separate ways, while Xu Xian noticed burn marks on her palm.

Bai Yujun sold two paintings in Suzhou and enjoyed a chilled melon and bayberry treat during the oppressive heat. When townspeople paraded a paper dragon to pray for rain, she decided she would only bring rain if formally invited by the emperor, then spat a fruit seed toward Golden Mountain.

• Bai Yujun painted a willow scene and sold two paintings to scholars for two hundred taels of silver.
• Bai Yujun gave Hui Xian one hundred taels and advised him to seek rebuilding funds from wealthy clans and families.
• Bai Yujun made chilled melon and bayberry soup and ate it while watching the canal.
• Townspeople paraded a paper dragon through the streets to pray for rain, and Bai Yujun recognized the event as a folk custom.
• Bai Yujun refused to summon rain without an official invitation from the emperor, then spat a fruit seed toward Golden Mountain.

Xu Jiaorong discovered that the beautiful woman her lovesick brother Xu Xian visited was a monster and sought help from Golden Mountain Courtyard. A Martial Monk agreed to follow her to Osmanthus Alley to confront the supposed fiend.

• Xu Jiaorong noticed Xu Xian was heartsick and questioned Li Da Niu about the woman he loved.
• Xu Xian visited Bai Yujun while she washed clothes by the river in Osmanthus Alley, and Xu Jiaorong secretly watched them.
• Xu Jiaorong asked the neighbors about Bai Yujun and became convinced that she would make a suitable match for Xu Xian.
• Bai Yujun's hair came loose, revealing two small white horns on her forehead, and Xu Jiaorong fled in terror.
• Xu Jiaorong traveled to Golden Mountain Courtyard and begged a Martial Monk to save Xu Xian from the monster.
• The Martial Monk promised to investigate and followed Xu Jiaorong back toward Osmanthus Alley.

Bai Yujun met a Martial Monk who came to subdue her, and the two began fighting in the alley. Their battle left the monk staggering, while the outcome remained unresolved.

• Hui Xian took Little Stone and the Snake Demon Boy out to beg for alms while Bai Yujun stayed home.
• A Martial Monk arrived at Bai Yujun’s shop, and she asked him to help fold her curtains before realizing he had come to subdue her.
• The Martial Monk offered Bai Yujun a choice between being destroyed and taking refuge in his teachings, but she told him to leave because he could not defeat her.
• Bai Yujun tied back her hair and faced the Martial Monk as Xu Jiaorong watched from behind a tree.
• Bai Yujun and the Martial Monk exchanged powerful blows, and she struck him twice, sending him staggering backward.

Bai Yujun fought a Martial Monk who had come to confront her in Suzhou and Hangzhou, then recognized that she had ferried him across a river centuries earlier. She spared him after he acknowledged his debt, but made him pay for the damage before he left.

• Bai Yujun repeatedly beat the Martial Monk, who used a secret technique to strengthen himself and kept attacking.
• Xu Jiaorong fled in fear as Bai Yujun seized the Martial Monk and smashed him into the ground.
• Bai Yujun moved onto a canal boat and challenged the Martial Monk to stop fighting or face her control of the water.
• Bai Yujun reminded the Martial Monk that she had ferried him across a river centuries ago, and he recalled the favor.
• The Martial Monk saluted Bai Yujun and offered himself to her; she spared him and demanded that he pay for the repairs before leaving.

Xu Jiaorong learned that the Martial Monk had failed to subdue Bai Yujun, then sought Bai Yujun out and begged her to reject Xu Xian. Bai Yujun said she had no intention of causing trouble with him.

• Xu Jiaorong asked the Martial Monk whether he had subdued Bai Yujun, and he admitted that he had failed.
• Bai Yujun bought black rice cakes from an old granny and listened to her account of fleeing famine and making a living in town.
• Xu Jiaorong approached Bai Yujun’s shop, overcame her fear, and knelt to ask her for a favor.
• Xu Jiaorong begged Bai Yujun to reject Xu Xian so he could establish a family and career.
• Bai Yujun replied that she was doing well on her own and had never planned to pursue Xu Xian.

Xu Jiaorong visited Bai Yujun to plead for Xu Hanwen, and Bai Yujun agreed to handle the matter while selling a painting to a customer. Xu Jiaorong forgot the encounter, while Xu Xian remained distracted by Bai Yujun until an old monk lured him to the river to discuss his marriage fate.

• Xu Jiaorong pleaded with Bai Yujun to reject Xu Hanwen, and Bai Yujun reassured her before joking about eating human flesh.
• Little Stone announced a new customer, and Bai Yujun demonstrated her painting skill for an old gentleman who bought a painting for one hundred taels.
• Xu Jiaorong returned home, forgot the encounter with Bai Yujun, and decided to help Xu Hanwen with his marriage.
• Xu Xian spent the day at Hundred Herbs Hall distracted by thoughts of Bai Yujun and flickering memories of a jade pendant.
• An old monk approached Xu Xian about his marriage fate and led him to the river, while a golden-haired young man stayed back.

Xu Xian tested whether Bai Yujun was a demon by bringing her rice wine from an old monk, then left reassured and carrying her painting. Meanwhile, Bai Yujun dealt with the King Cobra soul, and rising floodwaters threatened Suzhou and Hangzhou.

• An old monk gave Xu Xian rice wine said to repel demons and urged him to resolve his doubts about his destined marriage.
• Xu Xian brought the wine to Bai Yujun, watched her drink it without reacting, and relaxed, believing his suspicions were unfounded.
• Bai Yujun gave Xu Xian the Misty West Lake Rain Painting, and after he left, she extracted the altered King Cobra soul from her clone and sent it onto Yellow Springs Road.
• Rain clouds gathered as reports warned that upstream floods were raising the great river and that Suzhou and Hangzhou could face a flood disaster.
• Xu Xian stored Bai Yujun's painting in a wooden box and often opened it to look at the scene of the White-clothed Girl by West Lake.

As the autumn rain kept Bai Yujun’s enemies waiting for her to enter a mortal tribulation, she gathered osmanthus and carried on with her ordinary life. When the rain cleared, she accompanied Xu Jiaorong to Golden Mountain Courtyard, where Xu Jiaorong began to sense that something about Bai Yujun was familiar.

• Bai Yujun gathered osmanthus during the relentless rain while cultivators watched for signs that she had entered her tribulation.
• Bai Yujun drove a hostile Big White Goose into the river and welcomed Old Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the Snake Demon Boy into her shop to shelter from the rain.
• After the rain stopped, Xu Jiaorong invited Bai Yujun to visit Golden Mountain Courtyard and offer incense.
• Bai Yujun accepted the invitation, hoping to visit the Western Teachings’ stronghold while they could not openly act against her.
• On the boat to Golden Mountain Courtyard, Xu Jiaorong chatted about Xu Xian and noticed Bai Yujun’s white gauze scarf, prompting a vague sense that she had overlooked something important.

Bai Yujun visited Golden Mountain Courtyard with Xu Jiaorong, casually exploring the temple and unsettling its watching monks before meeting Martial Monk at a snack stall. Back in Suzhou and Hangzhou, she settled into the shop’s quiet routine as winter arrived and snow began to fall.

• Bai Yujun sensed the Western Teachings’ suppressive energy at Golden Mountain Courtyard, but her Dragon Qi dispelled its effect.
• Bai Yujun wandered through the temple and approached the pagoda guarding an Earth Vein acupoint, then turned away before the monks intervened.
• Bai Yujun ate snacks outside the temple and teased Martial Monk, who warned her not to return before leaving.
• Xu Jiaorong finished drawing lots, and she and Bai Yujun left Golden Mountain Courtyard by boat.
• Bai Yujun stayed at Nanyu Hut as her reputation and rumors about Xu Xian grew, while Old Hui Xian and Little Stone kept warm in the winter cold.
• Bai Yujun noticed that snow had begun to fall.

As strange animal behavior and unnatural weather spread around Suzhou and Hangzhou, Bai Yujun sensed that a disaster was approaching while visiting Golden Mountain Courtyard with Xu Xian. Old Hui Xian and the Snake Demon Boy set out by boat to find her, leaving the danger unresolved.

• Bai Yujun gave her paintings to Old Hui Xian to help rebuild Bamboo Spring Temple and noticed signs of unrest around Suzhou and Hangzhou.
• Bai Yujun joined Xu Xian on a Painted Boat trip through the snow toward Golden Mountain Courtyard.
• Bai Yujun heard countless birds overhead and saw fish thrashing beneath the river, sensing an impending disaster as animals across the region panicked.
• At Golden Mountain Courtyard, Bai Yujun reflected on the ancient Ginkgo Tree and spoke to Xu Xian about the cycles of life.
• Old Hui Xian and the Snake Demon Boy learned of the strange animal behavior and took a small boat toward Golden Mountain Courtyard to find Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun sensed an earthquake before it devastated Suzhou and Hangzhou, destroying buildings and Golden Mountain Courtyard. Bandits exploited the disaster to invade the ruined city, while Xu Jiaorong recognized the monster in Xu Xian’s fallen painting and remembered what she had forgotten.

• Bai Yujun sensed the Earth Dragon Turning Over and warned Xu Xian as the earthquake began.
• The earthquake collapsed buildings and the city gate tower, capsized boats, and split apart Golden Mountain Courtyard.
• A rebel alliance led by a square-faced burly man ordered its bandits to attack Suzhou and Hangzhou, and they began looting and killing survivors.
• Xu Jiaorong put out the stove fire in Li Da Niu’s home and found Xu Xian’s fallen painting depicted an enormous monster descending from the sky.
• Xu Jiaorong’s forgotten memories returned, and she cried out for Hanwen.

Bai Yujun bit Xu Xian to knock him unconscious, then revealed her dragon form and attacked Golden Mountain Courtyard’s treasure pagoda. Surrounded by Western Teachings monks, she announced that she could command the blizzard as a god.

• Bai Yujun drew close to Xu Xian, bit his neck, and laid him in the snow after promising to make him forget everything.
• Bai Yujun revealed her horns and scales, donned black armor, and transformed her anklet into a dragon spear.
• Bai Yujun charged toward the treasure pagoda while Yu Rong and the Chunyang True Humans intercepted the Golden Mountain monks.
• The pagoda’s Defense Formation repelled Bai Yujun, and six or seven Deity Transformation Stage monks surrounded her.
• Bai Yujun warned the monks that she was a god at certain times, then invoked a blizzard.

Bai Yujun fought off the Western Teachings defenders at Golden Mountain Courtyard and used a massive blizzard to freeze the Golden Pagoda. She prepared the mysterious pearl against a hidden Soul Sorcery user, but it floated between her dragon horns instead of hanging around her neck.

• Bai Yujun battled the Western Teachings experts in the blizzard, killing or disabling the defenders, including the Martial Monk.
• Bai Yujun directed the storm’s freezing winds and ice against the Golden Pagoda, overwhelming its formations and sealing its lowest level in ice.
• Bai Yujun took out the mysterious pearl to guard against the hidden foe she suspected had used Soul Sorcery.
• Bai Yujun raised the pearl above her head, and it floated between her dragon horns, staying there when she shook her head.

After the White Flood Dragon’s attack devastated Golden Mountain Courtyard, the injured Martial Monk carried Xu Xian away while the city fell to invading bandits. In Osmanthus Alley, Little Stone tried to protect the shop’s silver from looters and was dragged away clutching the chest.

• The Martial Monk carried the unconscious Xu Xian across the frozen river toward Suzhou and Hangzhou as the blizzard weakened behind them.
• The Martial Monk encountered Old Hui Xian and the Snake Demon Boy, who were worrying over a borrowed boat frozen into the ice.
• Bandits breached Suzhou and Hangzhou, killing Doctor Du and driving Li Da Niu, Xu Jiaorong, and others to shelter at the shops in Osmanthus Alley.
• Little Stone guarded the shop’s silver while the bandits surrounded the alley and demanded revenge for their dead companions.
• The bandit leader kicked Little Stone aside and ordered his men to take the silver, but Little Stone grabbed the chest and was dragged along the path without letting go.