Recaps

Little Stone’s desperate attempt to protect the silver for Bamboo Spring Temple awakened a fiery power within him. He slaughtered the bandits attacking Li Da Niu and the others, ending the chapter as a blood-red, lava-like force consumed their leader.

• Little Stone clung to the temple’s silver while bandits beat him and eventually struck him with a saber.
• A strange red energy spread through Little Stone, igniting his heart and covering his body with glowing, lava-like cracks.
• As the bandits closed in on Li Da Niu and the others, Little Stone rose and warned that anyone who took his master’s silver would die.
• Little Stone moved with inhuman speed, smashing or severing the bandits’ knees and killing many of them despite their attacks.
• The bandit leader begged for mercy, but Little Stone seized his face and burned his head to ash.

Little Stone returned to normal after killing the bandits, while Bai Yujun faced the White-robed Young Monk, the real Wisdom King, beneath the frozen Golden Pagoda. Chu Zhe arrived and forced the Wisdom King back, allowing Bai Yujun to turn to the pagoda and the Earth Vein Dragon Qi.

• Little Stone gathered the bandits' silver, carried it into the shop, and hid behind the braced door, crying.
• Bai Yujun sensed the White-robed Young Monk approaching the frozen Golden Pagoda and recognized him as the mastermind behind the schemes.
• The young monk attacked Bai Yujun, and she used the blizzard, her dragon spear, and the Colored Treasure Pearl to resist his overwhelming strength.
• Bai Yujun summoned lightning and crashing ice against the young monk, but his power diverted the attacks and pushed her backward.
• Chu Zhe descended with Li Xiangyan's treasured sword, whose aura forced the Wisdom King back.
• Bai Yujun thanked Chu Zhe and began dealing with the pagoda to reach the Dragon Qi in the earth vein.

Bai Yujun destroyed Golden Mountain Courtyard’s pagoda and drained the earth vein’s fortune while Chu Zhe and Gan Wu held Wisdom King back. As she began evolving in the storm, Old Hui Xian arrived and addressed Wisdom King as his junior brother.

• Chu Zhe told Wisdom King that he and Gan Wu would join forces against him.
• Bai Yujun smashed the pagoda’s treasure, transformed into her flood dragon form, and constricted the tower until it collapsed.
• Bai Yujun dug into the ruins and drew away the earth vein’s fortune, leaving Golden Mountain Courtyard severely diminished.
• Bai Yujun flew into the storm’s eye to begin an evolution across realms while Chu Zhe and Gan Wu watched Wisdom King.
• Old Hui Xian and a Little Snake Demon approached, and Old Hui Xian greeted Wisdom King as his junior brother.

Hui Xian confronted Wisdom King, who left after insisting he could not let go of his attachments, while the battle ended as Bai Yujun evolved into a Demon Emperor. In Suzhou and Hangzhou, Snake Demon Boy faced hundreds of bandits and charged into them to avenge the attack on his companions.

• Hui Xian urged Wisdom King to abandon hatred and remember his original heart, but Wisdom King reaffirmed his identity and walked away.
• Hui Xian and Snake Demon Boy left the frozen mountain as the Western Teachings and Chunyang stopped fighting, recognizing that Bai Yujun’s rise to Demon Emperor had decided the outcome.
• Bai Yujun absorbed the blizzard’s energy as her body grew and her horns forked, while the storm gradually weakened above Suzhou and Hangzhou.
• Hui Xian comforted Little Stone in Osmanthus Alley, and Snake Demon Boy learned that the loud-voiced woman had been attacked by bandits.
• Lu Mouren led hundreds of bandits to surround the shop, and Snake Demon Boy charged them with his Ring-pommel Saber, killing bandits and biting Lu Mouren’s neck.

Bai Yujun awakened as a nearly true dragon and revealed herself above Suzhou and Hangzhou, where the suffering people mistook her for a divine savior. She flew toward the city’s bandits, and the chapter left them fearing her arrival.

• Xu Xian awoke after the deadly poison in his body receded, relieving Xu Jiaorong and Li Da Niu.
• Li Da Niu saw that Golden Mountain Courtyard had been replaced by a snowy mountain and glacier created by Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun woke, discovered pointed ears on her head, and tested her newly grown dragon body by flying and diving into the river.
• The people of Suzhou and Hangzhou saw Bai Yujun coiled around the mountain and knelt, believing a divine dragon had come to save them.
• Bai Yujun flew toward Suzhou and Hangzhou, frightening the bandits as the Snake Demon Boy cheered from a rooftop.

Bai Yujun attacked the rebels who had used her name and momentum to commit atrocities in Suzhou and Hangzhou, killing their leaders and massacring their forces. As fleeing bandits escaped by river, she watched and warned them to row faster.

• Bai Yujun found the rebels occupying Suzhou and Hangzhou and confronted them from a tower, condemning their crimes and declaring she would end their chaos.
• Bai Yujun killed the bandit leader who challenged her, then used nearly a hundred clones to slaughter the charging bandits.
• Bai Yujun dragged the soul of the long-bearded scholar who had tortured imprisoned girls from his body and hurled it into hell, then killed the other leaders with ice cones.
• Bai Yujun summoned more clones to hunt bandits through the city while she sat eating in the bandit king’s chair.
• Bandits fled by ship with stolen riches, and Bai Yujun watched from the dock, urging them to row faster as they escaped downstream.

Bai Yujun crushed the fleeing bandits and rejected a group sent by Grand Tutor Gao, killing one of their members after sensing his heavy karma. As the city’s cleanup continued, the Snake Demon Boy killed the bandit leader who had impersonated a Chunyang Disciple.

• Bai Yujun received a message that Chunyang True Human and leaders of the Western Teachings had gone to the Northern Lands to investigate a danger that had triggered warnings.
• Bai Yujun summoned Water Monsters and water demons to attack the bandits’ ship, sinking it and dragging its crew underwater.
• Bai Yujun refused to rescue Suzhou and Hangzhou’s people and decided to seek revenge on her enemies before returning south.
• Experts sent by Grand Tutor Gao approached Bai Yujun, and she killed the pot-bellied man after identifying the dense karma clinging to him, then dismissed the others.
• The Martial Monk recognized the approaching Chunyang-clad bandit as an impostor, and the Snake Demon Boy cut the bandit leader in two.

After settling matters in Suzhou and Hangzhou, Bai Yujun left for the Southern Wasteland and paused at West Lake to admire the lingering snow. She parted from Xu Xian by severing the fortune that bound him to her, leaving him with an umbrella as he began to forget her.

• Bai Yujun said farewell to Hui Xian and the Snake Demon Boy, gave the boy a Ring-pommel Saber, and left the city for West Lake.
• Bai Yujun admired the snowy lake alone while Xu Jiaorong speculated about her being a Dragon Girl and Xu Xian stared at the Misty West Lake Rain Painting.
• After hearing about a girl in white at West Lake, Xu Xian hurried there by boat to find Bai Yujun before she left.
• Bai Yujun sheltered Xu Xian beneath her umbrella, gave it to him, and told him to return to his ordinary life.
• At Qingshi Bridge, Bai Yujun scattered the fortune connecting her to Xu Xian, and he began to forget her as she disappeared into the snow.

Bai Yujun visited the declining Demon Subjugation Sect to settle an old grudge against Guo Lian and the sect master Yunhe. After wrecking their graves, she left as the sect’s fortune collapsed behind her.

• The Demon Subjugation Sect Master feared Bai Yujun would retaliate after becoming a Demon Emperor and ordered his disciples to keep away from the hall.
• Bai Yujun entered the hall, sold the sect master an oil-paper umbrella, and asked him to lead her to Guo Lian and Yunhe.
• The sect master guided Bai Yujun to the graves of Guo Lian and Yunhe in the back mountain cemetery.
• Bai Yujun confirmed their remains were in the graves, then destroyed the feng shui of both burial mounds.
• Bai Yujun left the mountain, and the Demon Subjugation Sect’s fortune crumbled.

Bai Yujun’s demon army maintained a tense but largely peaceful border with the Yan Kingdom, whose commander Qian Chaogui kept provoking them despite his soldiers’ reluctance. Qiao Jin learned how Yan soldiers were evading the conflict and watched a company arrive seeking work in the Southern Wasteland.

• Bai Yujun continued her journey toward the Southern Wasteland, confident she could avoid ambushes, and sent word that the demon army would not invade the Yan Empire.
• Qiao Jin surveyed a Yan Kingdom outpost with a telescope while her soldiers recorded its defenses on detailed maps.
• Little Ye Zi told Qiao Jin that Qian Chaogui was provoking the demon army, while Yan soldiers quietly warned the demons and some crossed over to find work.
• Qiao Jin concluded that Qian wanted to strengthen his authority and train his troops by manufacturing an external threat, while his soldiers and the demon army both disliked him.
• A Yan Army company of just over seventy men arrived at Qiao Jin’s position and asked to work at the docks.

A Yan Army Commandant led more than seventy soldiers into River City to find work, where Qiao Jin and Little Ye Zi arranged their entry and accommodations. After witnessing the city’s prosperity and the cooperation between humans and demons, the soldiers settled in and one praised the demons as good people.

• Qiao Jin directed Little Ye Zi to escort the Commandant and his men to River City, and they left their weapons at the sentry post.
• Little Ye Zi explained that the soldiers would likely find dock work, and the group traveled down the mountain toward River City.
• The Commandant’s men encountered other Yan soldiers returning from the territory and marveled at River City’s size, busy shipping, and mixed human-demon workforce.
• Little Ye Zi guided the soldiers through Customs, where they received temporary residence permits and identification documents.
• The city administration arranged dormitory accommodations and a meal for the soldiers, prompting one man to say that demons were good people.

The battalion commander settled into dock work in the Central Plains and heard another former commander explain why he and his men had left military service to earn a living. Back in the Southern Wasteland, Bai Yujun planned to expand into the southern rainforest and begin building a new fleet, while sensing trouble in the north but choosing not to intervene.

• The battalion commander and his men started hauling cargo at the docks, where a veteran foreman from the Yan Army welcomed him and offered him a cigarette.
• The veteran foreman told the battalion commander about his unit’s hardships and how work in the city provided food, shelter, and hope for their families.
• Bai Yujun returned to the Southern Wasteland, where Qing Ling woke after a year’s sleep and sulked.
• Bai Yujun studied the map and chose the Chi Mang lands in the southern rainforest as the next area for her territory to expand into.
• Bai Yujun sensed unrest in the north but decided not to interfere, then began planning new-style warships for a push toward the sea.

Bai Yujun strengthened her territory, dealt with a Yan Army provocation, and traveled into the Hundred Thousand Mountains to revisit an ancient dragon relic. Meanwhile, Chunyang Palace and the Western Teachings searched the Northern Lands for a missing flood dragon scale, while its hidden holders emerged from a swamp after a searcher passed.

• Bai Yujun ordered the academy to develop from her blueprints and sent troops and merchant caravans south to scout and establish coastal camps.
• After Qian Chaogui provoked the border forces, Bai Yujun ordered a lesson, and five thousand demon soldiers routed his army and drove him to flee.
• Bai Yujun traveled through the Hundred Thousand Mountains in search of the ancient dragon relic, avoiding disputes with the many powerful demons she encountered.
• Chunyang Palace and the Western Teachings searched the Northern Lands for a flood dragon scale linked to a sealed dragon's remains beneath the far northern ice plains.
• Several mud-covered figures crawled out of a swamp after a Chunyang disciple searching for the scale flew away.

Bai Yujun fought off male demons who challenged her in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, then continued her journey through the wilderness. She finally spotted the ruins she had been seeking and recognized them as a place she had returned to after several hundred years.

• Bai Yujun defeated a black-furred Demon Emperor who tried to make her his mate, then kicked him away after he insulted her appearance.
• Bai Yujun boiled a giant bird egg and rolled it over the bruise on her forehead before eating it.
• Bai Yujun continued through the Hundred Thousand Mountains, eating and drinking as she followed her memories toward the ruins.
• Bai Yujun crossed a towering mountain range and saw grand buildings atop a broken cliff in the distance.
• Bai Yujun said she had returned after several hundred years apart.

Bai Yujun approached a guarded ruin in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and met the Demon Emperors gathered there. She learned that they had been hired to protect the injured White Ape from his elder brother.

• Bai Yujun sensed several Demon Emperors and many detection-focused demons surrounding the ruins, then cautiously approached the main gate.
• A Striped Python Demon appeared behind Bai Yujun but took a detour toward the gate, and she watched him join the other Demon Emperors.
• Bai Yujun reached the gate and met an alluring fox demon, a Crested Crane, a pair of Giant Elephants, a gorilla, and the Striped Python Demon.
• The fox demon told Bai Yujun that outsiders had tried to steal from the ruins and that the injured White Ape had hired them with five-hundred-year spiritual herbs.
• The fox demon revealed that White Ape's elder brother was the opponent they were guarding against.

Bai Yujun reunited with a fox demon she had known centuries earlier and listened to the story of the human scholar she had loved and lost. After three days of waiting in the rain, a white ape emerged from the relic, just as a violent aura approached.

• Bai Yujun recognized the fox demon from their encounter centuries ago, when she had been a White Snake helping humans control a flood.
• The fox demon recalled meeting a foolish scholar, marrying him, and staying by his grave after he grew old and died.
• Bai Yujun declared that her only goal was to survive, and she and the fox demon waited in the rain with the other Demon Emperors for three days.
• A graceful white ape dressed as a scholar emerged from the relic and thanked the gathered demons for their help.
• A violent aura rushed toward the relic gate while the demons assessed the white ape.

Bai Yujun watched the Demon Emperors gather around the ruins as the Golden-haired Ape arrived to hunt the thief who had injured the White Ape. When a powerful Demonic Beast appeared with a mind-stirring pagoda, Bai Yujun revealed herself as the umbrella-selling flood dragon and confronted it.

• Bai Yujun hid beneath a tree as the Golden-haired Ape arrived and threatened to kill the thief who had injured the White Ape.
• The Golden-haired Ape and the other Demon Emperors grew alert when Bai Yujun sensed a Demonic Beast approaching.
• A powerful Demonic Beast appeared carrying a black pagoda-shaped magic treasure that stirred dark emotions and disrupted sanity.
• Bai Yujun used True Sight to spot another demon lurking near the ruins, then approached the Demonic Beast under an umbrella and offered to sell it one.
• The Demonic Beast recognized Bai Yujun as the flood dragon who sold umbrellas, and Bai Yujun challenged it as red light flared in her eyes.

Bai Yujun fought a demon trying to use a black pagoda artifact to distract the demon emperors and help its accomplice reach the ruins. She shattered the pagoda with her dragon spear and declared herself an Artifact Breaker.

• Bai Yujun provoked the demon into a close-range fight, wounded it with her umbrella, and poisoned the wound.
• Bai Yujun summoned lightning, exposing a second demon sneaking toward the ruins, while the fox demon held the accomplice back.
• The demon activated its black pagoda artifact to interfere with the demon emperors, but the Golden-haired Ape attacked and forced it to retreat.
• Bai Yujun transformed her ankle ring into a dragon spear and charged the pagoda with lightning-enhanced force.
• Bai Yujun shattered the black pagoda, sent the demon flying, and announced, "I am an Artifact Breaker."

Bai Yujun helped the demon emperors drive off two demonic fiends, then pursued one fleeing Demonic Beast through the clouds and captured it. She found a clue to what the fiends had sought in the ruins and burned the captive to ashes.

• Bai Yujun and the demon emperors overwhelmed the Demonic Beast, while the Golden-haired Ape and others battled the demonic fiend.
• Bai Yujun wounded the Demonic Beast until it burned its blood essence and fled, and the demonic fiend escaped separately.
• Bai Yujun pursued the weakened Demonic Beast through the clouds and tracked it to a forest stream.
• Bai Yujun crippled the Demonic Beast, searched it for clues, and confirmed what the demonic fiends had targeted.
• Bai Yujun burned the Demonic Beast to ashes with white flames.

Bai Yujun returned from killing the Demonic Beast and persuaded the White Ape to let her enter the ancient ruin to retrieve an item. She followed a route on the beast-hide paper to an empty side building and realized the Demonic Beasts had been used as free thugs.

• Bai Yujun returned carrying proof that she had slain the Demonic Beast, while the Golden-haired Ape praised her strength and then bounced away with a tree trunk.
• Bai Yujun warned off an old python and told the White Ape that she wanted to enter the ruin for one item, threatening to beat him if he refused.
• The White Ape let Bai Yujun enter the ruin, and the fox demon and White Ape followed her inside.
• Bai Yujun recalled her earlier visit to the ruin and followed the rough route marked on the beast-hide paper to a shabby side building.
• Bai Yujun found the building empty, examined the beast-hide paper, and concluded that the Demonic Beasts had been used as free thugs.

Bai Yujun discovered that humans had forged the ancient beast-hide painting used to trap the demon lords, while the surviving demon lord realized the plan had ended in disaster. In the Southern Wasteland, she entered an ancient painting and found a box of jewelry and a White Umbrella that was a weapon.

• Bai Yujun concluded that humans had added a false depiction to genuine antique beast-hide paper to lure the demon lords into a trap.
• The wounded demon lord drank a fawn's blood to recover, sensed that his companion had died, and roared in regret as he realized the plan had failed.
• Chunyang Palace disciples and Western Teachings experts searched the Northern Frontier forests while ice and snow creatures continued destroying awakened zombies.
• Bai Yujun spent nearly half a month exploring the palace complex, found an energy-field doorway behind the main hall, and stepped into an ancient painting.
• Bai Yujun opened a red Dressing Box in the painted chamber and took its jewelry.
• Bai Yujun opened a white paper umbrella bearing an ink-wash dragon and read the note beneath it, which said "gift."

Bai Yujun left the ruins after the White Ape tried to claim a share of her gains, then traveled to Dragon Gate Desert to visit Mu. Mu warned her that a major event was coming, but said the attempt to disturb the dragon bones in the north would fail.

• The White Ape demanded a share of the treasures Bai Yujun had obtained in the ruins, but the storm and his instincts warned him against attacking her.
• The White Ape offered Bai Yujun a few more days of hospitality, and she declined before flying away as the rain cleared.
• Bai Yujun traveled through the outer regions at her own pace and then went to Dragon Gate Desert to visit Mu.
• Mu warned Bai Yujun that something major was happening outside and offered her refuge if danger came.
• Bai Yujun suspected someone planned to disturb Senior's remains beneath the northern ice plains, but Mu said the attempt would fail.

Bai Yujun discovered that officials across the Northern Lands were demolishing the Dragon Girl Temples, so she caused strange phenomena when the temples fell. In Longze County, her Divine Soul appeared as the county magistrate prepared to obey the demolition order, and a storm drove him to promise the temple would be spared.

• Bai Yujun learned that court experts were provoking the Snake Demon Army, while Little Qing brought Jiuli experts to help suppress them.
• Bai Yujun realized that officials had begun destroying the remaining Dragon Girl Temples across the Northern Lands.
• In a remote village, officials toppled a small temple, and the well behind it suddenly gushed, frightening the villagers and sending the officials fleeing.
• The Longze County magistrate reluctantly led officials toward the Dragon Girl Temple, where more than a thousand residents had gathered to oppose its destruction.
• Bai Yujun's Divine Soul arrived at the Longze temple as wind and lightning rose, and the county magistrate pleaded for the Dragon God to calm down and promised not to demolish it.

While Bai Yujun lounged peacefully at home, the Silver-haired Man crossed the northern ice plains and reached the silent ice lake where the Divine Dragon rested. After attacking pursuing cultivators with a mechanical crossbow, he turned to face a massive Golden Roc.

• Bai Yujun relaxed in the rear garden and dismissed the destruction of the Northern Lands' dragon temples as none of her concern.
• The Silver-haired Man secretly crossed the ice plains, evading monsters and the Chunyang Palace cultivators and Western Teachings monks searching for the dragon remains.
• The Silver-haired Man reached the silent ice lake, where spells and spiritual power could not be used, and continued toward its center with a mechanical crossbow.
• The Silver-haired Man shot down a pursuing Chunyang cultivator and a Western Teachings disciple, then resumed walking across the lake.
• The Silver-haired Man heard familiar heavy footsteps, turned around, and saw a massive Golden Roc behind him.

The Silver-haired Man defied Huang Zhao’s warning and used explosives to break through the ice and enter the Dragon Tomb, hoping to gain the power needed to escape death. As Bai Yujun sent the dragon’s remains back to heaven and earth, the dragon bones vanished and the Silver-haired Man was pulled into a collapsing fissure.

• Huang Zhao urged the Silver-haired Man to abandon his plan, but the man insisted that entering the Dragon Tomb was his only chance to become immortal.
• Huang Zhao accepted that he could not stop his friend and left, while the Silver-haired Man assembled an ice axe and planted explosives beneath the ice.
• The explosion shattered the ice, and the Silver-haired Man leaped into the water as disciples of two sects rushed toward him too late to stop him.
• Inside the Dragon Tomb, the Silver-haired Man used a flood dragon scale to withstand the pressure and approached the enormous dragon skeleton.
• Bai Yujun formed a hand seal from afar, sending golden energy from the dragon’s forehead into the Silver-haired Man before she knelt and kowtowed to return the dragon to heaven and earth.
• Mysterious runes appeared on the dragon bones, which shattered and vanished, dragging the Silver-haired Man into a fissure as the hidden space collapsed.