Recaps

Bai Yujun defended the City God Temple from Chen Quan and his bandits until Senior Sister Wei arrived and drove them off. After returning to their base, Bai Yujun slept, dreamed of the wildfire that had destroyed her home, and woke longing to return to the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

• Bai Yujun fought Chen Quan with a saber and used poison to gain an advantage, but he ordered his men to shoot her with arrows.
• Bai Yujun used Chunyang Art, Stabilize Heaven and Earth to deflect the arrows, and Chen Quan considered killing her with a jade talisman.
• Senior Sister Wei arrived on a flying sword, and Chen Quan and the bandits fled when she ordered them to scram.
• Senior Sister Wei told Bai Yujun that she had arranged the aftermath and that their plans would change amid the chaos; Bai Yujun returned to their base and collapsed into sleep.
• Bai Yujun dreamed that arsonists burned her valley and killed her, then woke frightened and wished to return to the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Bai Yujun worried about punishment for killing people while the sect ordered its disciples to avoid the rebellion and return to the outpost. After days of vegetarian meals, she went to the river to catch fish, and Xu Ling and Yang Mu followed to share the catch.

• Xu Ling comforted Bai Yujun about the trouble she might face, while Yang Mu asked whether sabers were better for fighting and then left to ponder her answer.
• Senior Sister Wei announced that the disciples must not interfere in the rebellion unless supernatural threats appeared, and ordered them back to the temporary outpost to await further instructions.
• After several days of vegetarian meals, Bai Yujun went to the river to catch fish; Xu Ling mistook her absence for an escape from punishment until Yang Mu explained.
• Xu Ling and Yang Mu hurried to the upper river, where they found Bai Yujun devouring large fish and asked her to catch more for roasting without using venom.
• Bai Yujun nodded and dived back underwater to pursue another large fish.

Bai Yujun, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu witnessed rain end the drought, but days of heavy rainfall threatened to flood the county town and endanger the refugees. While Senior Sister Wei organized preparations, the group waited out the storm and passed the time with a card game.

• Bai Yujun, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu talked about becoming immortals beside their campfire when rain began falling across the drought-stricken land.
• The refugees celebrated the rain, while the rebel leader regretted that it would weaken his cause and the Tang Emperor welcomed it as Heaven’s aid.
• Rain kept Bai Yujun, Senior Sister Wei, and the others in the county town for three days and caused the nearby river to rise dangerously.
• Senior Sister Wei ordered the refugees moved to higher ground and told the disciples to watch the river and prepare to seal the city gates.
• Bai Yujun, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu played cards indoors, and Yang Mu won after defeating Xu Ling’s bombs.

As the flood crest threatened to destroy the county town, Senior Sister Wei exhausted herself trying to hold it back. Bai Yujun discovered she could control water and transformed into a giant white snake to confront the flood, leaving the people convinced a divine dragon had come to save them.

• Constable Yu begged Senior Sister Wei to save the civilians as the floodwaters rose, and she agreed to help.
• Senior Sister Wei used sword techniques to slow the flood, but the water kept surging into the city and depleted her spiritual power.
• Bai Yujun sensed that she might be able to control water and told Senior Sister Wei she wanted to try.
• Bai Yujun crossed the flood on floating debris, transformed into a giant white snake, and instinctively began directing the water against the flood crest.
• The civilians saw Bai Yujun in the mist and knelt, believing a divine dragon had appeared to save them.

Bai Yujun redirected the flood threatening the county, and the townspeople’s worship helped her regain strength as the rain stopped. After resting for three days, she discovered the people had begun treating her as a Divine Dragon and offering her incense and prayers.

• The townspeople hailed Bai Yujun as a Divine Dragon while she struggled to redirect the floodwaters, and their devout blessings helped transform her fate and restore her strength.
• Bai Yujun created a whirlpool that kept the flood from rushing toward the county town, while Xu Ling and Senior Sister Wei wondered how she had managed it.
• The rain stopped, sunlight illuminated Bai Yujun, and the flood receded as the townspeople credited her with saving the county.
• Exhausted, Bai Yujun returned to the residence, where Senior Sister Wei, Yang Mu, Xu Ling, and Lingxu Palace disciples gave her pills that she promptly ate.
• After sleeping for three days, Bai Yujun opened a window and discovered townspeople gathered outside with incense and offerings, cheering and praying to her as the Dragon Girl.

After returning to Mount Hua, Bai Yujun received a surprisingly light punishment for killing more than a hundred people: a year of confinement in Chen Tang Stream. Yu Rong explained that the confinement was meant to temper Bai Yujun’s nature and keep her from losing her true heart, then led her to the valley.

• After the flood, grateful commoners renamed the county Longze County and turned the Chunyang temporary residence into a Dragon Girl Temple dedicated to Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun returned to Mount Hua with the other Chunyang Disciples and anxiously awaited the Law Enforcement Hall’s ruling.
• Lian Tianxing prepared to seize Bai Yujun, but Gan Wu took charge of the case and delivered the punishment order.
• Gan Wu announced that Bai Yujun would be confined in Chen Tang Stream for one year for unauthorized fighting and violating sect rules.
• Yu Rong told Bai Yujun that she considered her actions justified but wanted the confinement to temper her Beastly Nature and protect her path to true fruition.
• Bai Yujun accepted the punishment, took Yu Rong’s pills and jade talisman, and followed her toward Chen Tang Stream.

Bai Yujun endured a lonely confinement in Chen Tang Stream while Chunyang Palace prepared to host a royal party seeking treatment for Li Chongqian. Princess Xiangling arranged to stay at Qingxu Palace with her brother, where Yang Mu was also present.

• Bai Yujun passed the time in Chen Tang Stream by swallowing Failed Pills and practicing spells to catch fish.
• Chu Zhe learned that Bai Yujun had been confined and struggled to keep his thoughts from returning to her.
• Li Xiangling and Li Chongqian arrived at Chunyang Palace, where Chu Zhe formally welcomed them.
• Li Xiangling asked to stay at Qingxu Palace with Li Chongqian, and Chu Zhe allowed it on the condition that they limit their attendants.
• Li Xiangling negotiated permission for five attendants each, and the royal party prepared to reside temporarily at Qingxu Palace.

At Qingxu Palace, Li Chongqian and Li Xiangling learned that Bai Yujun was a snake demon suppressed beneath Mount Hua, while Yang Mu warned Xiangling not to visit Zuowang Peak. The chapter ended with Chu Zhe bringing food and medicine to Bai Yujun in Chen Tang Stream, where he felt an unexpected urge to free her.

• Yang Mu told Li Chongqian and Li Xiangling that Bai Yujun was a snake demon suppressed beneath the mountain.
• Li Xiangling asked Yang Mu to accompany her to the lotus pond, then asked to visit Zuowang Peak, but Yang Mu refused.
• Yang Mu and Xu Ling realized it was the fifteenth, the day they delivered supplies to Bai Yujun.
• Chu Zhe brought Bai Yujun Failed Pills, a medicinal pill, a braised pork knuckle, and a roast chicken.
• Chu Zhe left after feeling an urge to cut through Bai Yujun's iron chain, while Bai Yujun ate the food and tried to swallow the bones.

Bai Yujun spent New Year’s alone in the valley at Chen Tang Stream, then slept through the winter while life continued on Mount Hua. After waking briefly in spring, she remained asleep as Yang Mu rejected Li Xiangling’s advances at Qingxu Palace.

• Bai Yujun roasted a fish, watched snow melt into the stream, and lamented that her iron chain still kept her trapped in the valley.
• The disciples celebrated New Year’s Eve on Mount Hua with festivities, lanterns, and fireworks while Bai Yujun went to sleep alone at the bottom of Chen Tang Stream.
• Chu Zhe visited Bai Yujun on New Year’s Day, found her asleep, left some things behind, and departed.
• Bai Yujun slept through the following festivals, waking only briefly before returning to sleep.
• Yang Mu told Li Xiangling that they were not suited to walk the same path, and she left in tears.
• Xu Ling teased Yang Mu about turning down a Princess, then went back inside with Li Chongqian.

After the Imperial Court recognized Longze’s Dragon Girl Temple, Bai Yujun received a surge of heavenly fortune and grew stronger during her year of suppression. When the appointed time arrived, she broke free, climbed out of the valley, and shed her skin, leaving her cultivation greatly improved.

• The emperor approved the Dragon Girl Temple after the people of Longze built it themselves, and the imperial decree formally established it.
• Bai Yujun unknowingly received heavenly fortune from the emperor’s decree and became more confident and spiritually solid.
• As her year of suppression ended, Bai Yujun broke the iron chain around her wrist when the Chunyang Palace bell rang.
• Bai Yujun climbed out of the valley and savored the sunlight and fresh air before returning to her White Snake form.
• Bai Yujun shed her skin on Lotus Peak and gained a major advance in cultivation.

After shedding her skin, Bai Yujun returned to Qingxu Palace and discovered that a princess and an Imperial Prince were staying there. When Yang Mu identified her as the snake demon released from beneath the mountain, the palace attendants panicked and drew their swords.

• Bai Yujun advanced to Foundation Establishment Early Stage after shedding her skin and returned to Qingxu Palace with her old snakeskin.
• Bai Yujun overheard a girl lamenting that Yang Mu would not be with her and declaring she would ask Father Emperor to let her cultivate on Mount Hua.
• Yang Mu told Bai Yujun that a small path led out of the valley, revealing that she had needlessly climbed the cliff to escape.
• Bai Yujun met Li Chongqian and rubbed his face before learning from a eunuch that he was an Imperial Prince.
• Li Xiangling confronted Bai Yujun, and Yang Mu revealed that she was the snake demon Master had released; the palace attendants screamed and drew their swords.

Bai Yujun traded seven freshly shed scales to the Lingxu Palace steward for a nutritious pill, then learned about the upcoming sect tournament and got Yu Rong’s permission to participate. Her entry added a snake to Qingxu Branch’s unusually small roster.

• Bai Yujun visited Lingxu Palace, where the steward asked her for snake scales to make medicine for his sick nephew.
• Bai Yujun gave the steward seven freshly shed scales and received a nutrient-rich pill in return.
• Bai Yujun saw the notice announcing next month’s sect tournament and decided she wanted to compete.
• Bai Yujun asked Yu Rong for permission to enter, and Yu Rong agreed immediately.
• The other branches noticed that Qingxu Branch’s tournament roster had grown from two disciples to two disciples and one snake.

Bai Yujun trained with Yang Mu to improve her combat skills before the sect's grand competition, combining her heavy ruler, hengdao, spells, and flexible movements. After learning the Sword Absorption Technique, she challenged Yang Mu again and lasted longer against him.

• Bai Yujun asked Yang Mu to spar with her at Qingxu Palace while Xu Ling, Princess Xiangling, Imperial Prince Li Chongqian, attendants, and Jinwu Guards watched.
• Yang Mu quickly defeated Bai Yujun, then coached her as she adjusted her defense and learned to use the heavy ruler more effectively.
• Bai Yujun practiced combining the heavy ruler with her hengdao, but discovered that she could not switch weapons if one was too far away.
• Bai Yujun found the Sword Control Technique in the library and learned only its retrieval method, which she called the Sword Absorption Technique.
• Bai Yujun returned to challenge Yang Mu, pulled her heavy ruler back into her hand during the fight, and held out against him longer by mixing her weapons with fists, kicks, and her flexible body.

Bai Yujun trained with Yang Mu, then went to Taiji Plaza to study spell techniques and sparred with a fire-specialist disciple. She won the match and sat down afterward to review what she had learned.

• Bai Yujun used her adapted Three Rings Embrace Moon saber technique and heavy ruler against Yang Mu, but their prolonged sparring left her exhausted.
• Yang Mu praised Bai Yujun’s performance and told her to study spells before beginning spell practice in the coming days.
• Bai Yujun ate at the dining hall and headed to Taiji Plaza, where disciples practiced for the grand competition.
• Bai Yujun challenged a Foundation Establishment Early Stage disciple who specialized in fire spells and countered his attacks with her weapons and water magic.
• Bai Yujun dodged the disciple’s sword thrust and struck his waist with the flat of her blade, prompting him to concede.
• Bai Yujun sat outside the arena and reviewed the match, considering her strengths and weaknesses.

Bai Yujun competed in the Foundation Establishment Realm tournament and defeated Lü Yan before fighting Senior Sister Gong of Purple Void to a narrow victory. Exhausted, she returned to Qingxu Palace and fell asleep after eating Failed Pills, while the emperor’s children continued studying nearby.

• Bai Yujun defeated Lü Yan of Jade Void with a heavy ruler and Hengdao, advancing in the tournament.
• After resting with Xu Ling, Bai Yujun faced a Purple Void disciple and fought her to a draw before narrowly winning with her blade across Senior Sister Gong’s waist.
• A Purple Void disciple revealed that Senior Sister Gong was at Qi Refining Stage completion and had been sent to compete in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Bai Yujun saw her name advance on the notice board, returned to Qingxu Palace exhausted, ate Failed Pills, and fell asleep amid the emperor’s children reciting lessons.

Li Xiangyan and the Chunyang Palace elders responded to an imperial plea about a flying treasure that had caused cultivators to slaughter civilians, while Bai Yujun competed against a Golden Void Lineage disciple. The chapter left Bai Yujun victorious and her name higher on the contest notice board.

• Li Xiangyan read the Tang Emperor's letter describing a tower-shaped treasure that drew cultivators into cities and caused tens of thousands of deaths.
• Yu Rong suspected someone was using the treasure to stir conflict, and Li Xiangyan sent Qi Yun and Yu Rong to warn the cultivators at the treasure assembly.
• Li Xiangyan unleashed his Tribulation Transcendence aura as a warning, and cultivators at the assembly felt its pressure.
• Bai Yujun exchanged heavy-weapon blows with Senior Brother Jin Xu, then set her weapon aside and fought him with fists and kicks.
• Bai Yujun knocked Senior Brother Jin Xu down and beat him until he could barely defend himself, then saw her name rise on the notice board.

After placing 876th in the Martial Arts Competition, Bai Yujun was unexpectedly taken by Yu Rong, Qi Yun, and Gan Wu to a ruined basin where cultivators were gathering to fight over a treasure. Yu Rong planned to stop the conflict from going too far and introduce Bai Yujun as Chunyang Palace’s demon snake, leaving the group at the edge of the crowded ruins.

• Bai Yujun received a Huan Yuan Pill for ranking 876th in the Martial Arts Competition.
• Bai Yujun climbed an ancient pine at Sword Discussion Peak to watch the Golden Core Stage matches, but suddenly vanished after eating a Failed Pill.
• Bai Yujun found herself flying high above the ground with Yu Rong, Qi Yun, and Gan Wu, and clung to Yu Rong in terror.
• After landing, Bai Yujun rejoiced at being back on the ground and hurried to catch up with Yu Rong, Qi Yun, and Gan Wu.
• Yu Rong told Bai Yujun they had come to oversee cultivators fighting over a treasure and to make the cultivation world recognize her as Chunyang Palace’s demon snake.
• Bai Yujun followed Yu Rong into a basin filled with ancient ruins and gathered cultivators.

Bai Yujun watched Gan Wu resist the pagoda’s temptation and break through, while Chunyang Palace declared it would not fight for the treasure so long as the common people were left alone. As rival cultivators argued below, a sect’s suspicious delegation climbed toward the summit, provoking Bai Yujun’s hostility.

• The pagoda’s Treasure Light nearly ensnared Bai Yujun, while Qi Yun and Yu Rong let Gan Wu face its temptation to test his Dao Heart.
• Gan Wu rejected the treasure, reaffirmed his devotion to the sword, and advanced greatly in cultivation.
• Yu Rong announced Chunyang Palace would not claim the pagoda and warned the cultivators not to involve the common people beyond the mountain.
• Qi Yun took Gan Wu to train, while Yu Rong and Bai Yujun remained on the summit as the cultivators below argued over the pagoda.
• A white-haired elder and more than ten members of his sect climbed toward the summit, and Bai Yujun sensed their lingering traces of demonic beasts and the stench of blood.

Guo Lian tried to claim Bai Yujun for the Demon Subjugation Sect, but Yu Rong refused and drove him and his insulting disciple away. As the major sects auctioned the pagoda’s treasures, Yu Rong warned Bai Yujun about cultivators’ greed and urged her to protect the peaceful life she valued.

• Guo Lian used the Demon Revealing Mirror to identify Bai Yujun as a demon and asked Yu Rong to hand her over to the Demon Subjugation Sect.
• Yu Rong refused Guo Lian’s request and declared Bai Yujun was a gate guardian treated like a Chunyang Disciple.
• Guo Lian’s disciple insulted Chunyang Palace, and Yu Rong’s intimidating presence forced Guo Lian to drag him away.
• Yu Rong removed Bai Yujun’s concealment so nearby cultivators could recognize her demon aura and avoid provoking Chunyang Palace.
• The major sects agreed to auction the pagoda’s treasures to the highest bidder and divide the equivalent payment among themselves, excluding smaller groups and Rogue Cultivators.
• Yu Rong warned Bai Yujun about cultivators’ greed and urged her to remember and protect the flourishing, peaceful life she had known in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

A tower-shaped demonic artifact drove the cultivators around the basin into madness, and Bai Yujun was also overcome by its Demonic Sound. Yu Rong and Qi Yun tried to stop the slaughter and find the artifact’s controller, while Bai Yujun’s restraint began to fail.

• Bai Yujun heard the demonic sound from the pagoda and began to lose control until Yu Rong used a spell to suppress its influence.
• Qi Yun and Gan Wu returned and identified the pagoda as a demonic artifact that was making cultivators attack one another.
• Yu Rong left Gan Wu to watch over Bai Yujun and flew with Qi Yun to stop the fighting, where the major sects joined forces against them.
• Qi Yun fought off the sect cultivators while Yu Rong’s spiritual sword briefly restored the attackers’ clarity, but the artifact’s bells drove most of them mad again.
• Gan Wu fought cultivators who charged up the mountain as Bai Yujun’s restraint weakened; her eyes opened with vertical pupils.

Bai Yujun fought Zuo Hang and his Green Wolf while the Demonic Sound drove the cultivators into battle. She was gradually pushed onto the defensive, and Gan Wu remained trapped by the Demon Subjugation Sect disciples.

• Zuo Hang tried to capture Bai Yujun with a Beast Taming Circle and Demon Binding Net, but she deflected the circle and destroyed the net.
• Bai Yujun drove Zuo Hang back and fought the Green Wolf, wounding its leg and then its arms with her Hengdao.
• Zuo Hang attacked with a Demon Binding Rope, but Bai Yujun tricked it into binding the Green Wolf before Zuo Hang pulled the beast free.
• Zuo Hang fed the wounded Green Wolf two pills that healed it and heightened its frenzy.
• Bai Yujun struggled against the strengthened Green Wolf and Zuo Hang’s tricks as Gan Wu remained occupied by ten cultivators.

Bai Yujun killed the wolf demon and mortally wounded Zuo Hang, but Guo Lian attacked her after discovering his disciple's death. Yu Rong and Qi Yun suppressed the demonic artifact, while Bai Yujun was left unconscious in her true form.

• Bai Yujun stabbed the wolf demon through the heart, then threw Hengdao at Zuo Hang and severed his right hand.
• Bai Yujun bit Zuo Hang and injected venom, but his Detoxification Pills rolled into a rabbit hole and the rabbit ate one.
• Yu Rong trapped the demonic artifact pagoda in the Big Dipper formation, silencing it and restoring the cultivators' senses.
• The artifact's gray-robed controller fled after the pagoda was suppressed, and Guo Lian found Zuo Hang's corpse.
• Guo Lian attacked Bai Yujun, and Yu Rong failed to stop the strike from hitting her.
• Bai Yujun was gravely wounded, reverted to her true form, and fell unconscious.

After recovering from her wounds, Bai Yujun returned with Yu Rong to Dragon Girl Temple in Longze County, where wealthy men were trying to seize the temple and mistreat the women who cared for it. Bai Yujun drove them out and reunited with the women she had once protected.

• Yu Rong took the injured Bai Yujun to Longze County to recover at Dragon Girl Temple, which had become prosperous and was officially recognized by the imperial court.
• Bai Yujun saw three wealthy young masters and their servants trying to take over the temple and threaten the women who maintained it.
• Yu Rong told Bai Yujun to stay and put things in order, then gave her a Jade Plate marking the temple as Chunyang Palace's property before leaving.
• Bai Yujun disguised herself in a Chunyang Daoist Robe, drove off the servants, and threw the three young masters out of the temple.
• The women recognized Bai Yujun as their former benefactor, knelt before her, and wept as they reunited.

Bai Yujun set up a fortune-telling stall at the Dragon Girl Temple, using her uncanny insight to advise the people of Longze County. After helping a merchant avoid a deadly journey, guiding a shy man toward his future wife, and comforting a grieving young man, she returned to the courtyard at noon, treating the readings as a form of cultivation.

• Zhen'er served tea to Bai Yujun at the Dragon Girl Temple, where Bai Yujun had been reading fortunes for visitors.
• Bai Yujun warned a small merchant not to travel for three months after seeing that bandits would kill him and his caravan.
• Bai Yujun told a bashful brawny man to visit the pond in three days to meet his future wife, and refused his copper coins.
• Bai Yujun told a sorrowful young man that an elder in his family was near death, urged him to fulfill his filial duty, and refused payment.
• Bai Yujun ended her readings at noon and returned to the rear courtyard, reflecting that fortune-telling helped her cultivate her foresight and state of mind.

Bai Yujun avoided a visit from a prince by leaving town to practice her control over wind and rain beside the great river. A scholar named Xiang Yang took shelter with her in a hillside pavilion, but she left before the rain stopped, while he wondered whether he had met a hidden master.

• Bai Yujun descended Chingtou Mountain, where a woodcutter mistook her for a beautiful female ghost after noticing she left no footprints.
• Bai Yujun received a calling card from a prince and made an excuse to leave town rather than read his fate.
• Bai Yujun went to the great river, ate aquatic creatures, broke her flute, and practiced the Art of Wind and Rain.
• Bai Yujun's intensified wind blew Xiang Yang's umbrella away and sent him stumbling into the hillside thatched pavilion.
• Xiang Yang introduced himself and admired Bai Yujun, but she left by Water Walking before the rain stopped.
• Xiang Yang watched Bai Yujun vanish and wondered whether he had encountered a hidden master.