Recaps

Bai Yujun left Lingxiao Palace after being appointed North Heavenly Gate Guardian and traveled to the frozen frontier to take over from Old Black Tortoise. After their handover, she received the guardian’s seal, which transformed the black tortoise carved on it into a divine dragon.

• Bai Yujun left Lingxiao Palace with her appointment documents and gathered her belongings from her room.
• Bai Yujun thanked the Great General, who gave her fire-element pills and warned that tremendous changes were coming.
• Bai Yujun collected new armor and traveled north through increasingly desolate parts of the Heavenly Court.
• Bai Yujun reached the North Heavenly Gate and met Old Black Tortoise, who advised her to use her post to strengthen her foundation.
• Old Black Tortoise approved Bai Yujun’s documents, completed the handover, and passed her the golden seal, whose carved tortoise transformed into a divine dragon.

Bai Yujun took up her post as guardian of the North Heavenly Gate and spent a year driving back the endless monsters of the Gloomy Cold Land. She left the story standing in her immense dragon form, with a candle burning atop her nose to light the darkness.

• Bai Yujun shrank the Guardian Seal and learned from Old Black Tortoise that she had to guard the North Heavenly Gate against monsters trying to invade from the Gloomy Cold Land.
• Old Black Tortoise left through the icy wilderness, and Bai Yujun waited outside the gate for the monsters to approach.
• Three months later, Bai Yujun fought off a vast swarm, discovering that her attacks could permanently kill monsters that revived after being cut down.
• Bai Yujun cleared away the monsters with a gale, then revealed her dragon form and roared until the remaining creatures feared to approach the gate.
• After more than half a year on guard, Bai Yujun set a lit lotus lamp on the nose of her immense dragon form.

Bai Yujun spent decades guarding the North Heavenly Gate, reflecting on the past and advancing her cultivation in the quiet. When an injured old man and his grandson fled through the Gloomy Cold Land and reached the gate, she destroyed the monsters pursuing them and revealed herself as its divine dragon guardian.

• Bai Yujun recalled old friends, places, and memories while guarding the North Heavenly Gate alone.
• Bai Yujun cultivated seriously for many years, strengthened her foundations, and advanced toward the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• An old man carried his mortal grandson through the Gloomy Cold Land, fighting monsters as they searched for a way out.
• The old man noticed the monsters feared a powerful presence ahead, but continued onward because retreat meant certain death.
• The old man and his grandson reached the North Heavenly Gate, where the divine dragon's might forced him to his knees.
• Bai Yujun annihilated the pursuing monsters and warned them that trespassers were forbidden; the old man begged the Divine Dragon to save them.

Bai Yujun gave a grandfather and his grandson a chance to earn passage through the Heavenly Court by defeating her ice clone, then secured them a Heavenly Edict after the old man won. Their escape revealed a broader plot in which masked attackers had driven many people into the Gloomy Cold Land, and Bai Yujun suspected the boy’s connection to Huang Yu had helped him survive.

• Bai Yujun told the grandfather and grandson that they could not enter the Heavenly Court without permission, then offered them one chance to earn a passage document by fighting her ice clone.
• The old man fought the Ice Dragon girl while his grandson waited safely inside a protective circle, and he eventually won by cutting through a gap in her armor.
• Bai Yujun said she had asked an immortal official for a Heavenly Edict, then questioned how the pair had entered the Gloomy Cold Land and learned masked attackers had hunted them.
• Bai Yujun recognized the boy as Huang Yu’s son and said his mother’s fortune had helped them survive the Gloomy Cold Land.
• The ice clone received a golden passage document, and the grandfather and grandson crossed the Heavenly Gate as Bai Yujun investigated the dead immortals’ resentments and suspected the attackers were using people as cannon fodder.

Bai Yujun spent New Year’s Eve alone in her restored divine palace before falling asleep, while the monkey descended from Bamboo Spring Temple to seek an opportunity for enlightenment. As he crossed a world plagued by violence, exploitation, and famine, he remained unable to understand the people’s struggles or find the opportunity he sought.

• Bai Yujun decorated her divine palace for New Year’s Eve, toasted the year alone, and fell asleep while keeping watch over the snow.
• The monkey left Bamboo Spring Temple with his iron staff to travel aimlessly and seek enlightenment, buying buns before choosing to eat grass and fruit along the way.
• After seeing corpses in a well and witnessing armed men kill people, the monkey killed a man who attacked him, took the dead leader’s clothes, and chanted a funeral scripture over the bodies.
• The monkey passed a mine where people and demons were forced to extract ore, recalling that Bai Yujun had once stopped similar abuses.
• The monkey crossed a battlefield and passed starving refugees, but his observations of the suffering around him still brought him no enlightenment.

A gray-furred monkey sought enlightenment while refugees suffered, then began farming after witnessing death and violence. He continued tending his crops as the world’s armies fought around him, still wondering why people did not farm.

• The monkey traded his silk robe and tobacco for a dying old man's pipe, shared a smoke with him, and watched him die.
• Cultivators attacked the refugees, and the monkey killed them with his iron rod and a stone before the survivors fled.
• The monkey buried the old man, decided to grow grain, and turned the corpses into fertilizer for his field.
• The monkey settled into farming by the Thatched Hut as refugees and armies passed through the surrounding countryside.
• The monkey watched his crops grow, chased a rabbit that kept eating the shoots, and carried water to irrigate the field.

A gray monkey cultivated the land and lived quietly among the mortals of Monkey Village until he grasped the Way and broke through to a new realm. He then wandered in search of further insight, eventually becoming a ferryman on a dangerous great river.

• The monkey reclaimed wasteland with his iron staff, farmed it for years, and watched a village grow around his fields.
• As the villagers harvested rice, the monkey understood the Way, broke through to a new realm, and leapt a thousand li into the clouds.
• The monkey traveled in disguise and took on assorted jobs while seeking another breakthrough.
• Using his carpentry skills and Bai's dragon scale, the monkey built boats and docks to ferry people across a perilous river.
• At dawn, the monkey sat fishing and drinking at his dock, waiting for passengers and using ferrying to cultivate himself.

A gray-furred monkey began ferrying travelers across a dangerous river, accepting their burdens as payment while earning money to repair its house. After helping a grieving swordswoman reach the far shore, it ferried a cultivator and received two medicinal pellets, leaving its new business underway.

• The monkey ferried a grieving female wandering swordsman across the river and told her that leaving her sorrow behind had paid her fare.
• The female wandering swordsman thanked the monkey and stepped onto the far shore with renewed resolve.
• The monkey returned to the village, traded two carp for jars of cloudy wine, and waited several days without customers.
• A mortal-world cultivator found the ferry and asked the monkey to take him across the river.
• After reaching the far shore safely, the cultivator left two medicinal pellets in the monkey’s fish basket as payment.

After two years ferrying travelers, the monkey killed a cultivator who refused to pay and continued his nighttime work as a Yin-Yang Ferryman. He delivered a boatload of wandering souls to the underworld, where he found no trees to climb.

• The monkey became a well-known boatman, and he threw a cultivator into the river for bullying ordinary passengers.
• When an old cultivator refused to pay his fare and insulted him, the monkey bit through his throat and left his body for the river fish.
• That night, the monkey lit his lantern and gathered a group of wandering souls to ferry through the fog.
• A woman asked to return home to see her child, but the monkey told her that life and death could not be crossed back.
• The monkey reached the underworld and saw departed souls walking beneath a gray, barren sky.

Bai Yujun received a fleeting vision of a woman from her past before continuing her watch at the North Heavenly Gate, while the gray monkey left his ruined ferry and continued seeking understanding through the mortal world. A golden monk tried to recruit the monkey into his faith, but the monkey rejected him, struck him down, and called out the others waiting in ambush.

• Bai Yujun awoke to a retrospective image of the Imperial Palace Dress Woman, who comforted her before the vision vanished and she resumed guarding the North Heavenly Gate.
• Bai Yujun calculated that she had reached three thousand years old and sensed that her rapid growth was preparing her for a crisis.
• The gray monkey’s boat sank, prompting him to pour out his remaining wine, leave the Gray Monkey Ferry, and continue pursuing comprehension.
• A golden monk approached the monkey and urged him to abandon his demon body, practice righteous Dharma, and follow the monk’s faith, but the monkey defended his identity as a demon monkey.
• The golden monk tried to take the monkey to a holy land, so the monkey attacked and knocked him flying with a single punch.
• The monkey revealed that his three thousand comprehensions had made him stronger and challenged the others he knew were lying in ambush.

The demon monkey fought eight golden monks who tried to subdue him, revealing armor that resisted their flames and breaking through their formation with the Ruyi Jingu Bang. As the battle continued, Bai Yujun sensed him through the dragon scale at North Heavenly Gate and realized the long-awaited conflict had begun.

• After declaring that he would remain himself, the monkey challenged the eight golden figures who surrounded him.
• The monks struck the monkey with a Vajra Palm, but he endured the blow and provoked them to continue.
• The monks formed a Golden Lotus that trapped the monkey in flames, but he emerged in mysterious armor with fiery tail feathers.
• The monkey summoned the Ruyi Jingu Bang, pierced the monks' formation, and fought them with his staff and brute strength.
• The monkey broke the Brahma Heart Shackles and kicked a monk wielding a Demon Subduing Pestle away.
• At North Heavenly Gate, Bai Yujun sensed the monkey through the dragon scale and recognized that the long-awaited event had begun.

The monkey defeated the eight monks’ golden statue and escaped, becoming a legend in the Immortal Realm. As the long-anticipated change spread across the worlds and powerful leaders withdrew into seclusion, Bai Yujun’s Solid Ice began to crack at the North Heavenly Gate.

• The eight monks formed a gigantic golden statue and attacked the monkey with its eight arms and magic tools.
• The monkey pierced the statue with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, forcing the monks to retreat after they vomited blood.
• The wounded monkey followed Bai’s advice and somersaulted away, leaving onlookers to spread tales of the demon monkey.
• The change descended across the Primordial Main World, other worlds, and the starry void as leaders in several realms prepared for seclusion.
• Erlang the Manifested True Lord moved into the Heavenly Army Camp to stabilize the Heavenly Court.
• Bai Yujun heard the monsters of the Gloomy Cold Land howl as the Solid Ice covering her body cracked and fell away.

The Immortal Domains challenged the Heavenly Court at the South Heavenly Gate, forcing Erlang Shen to fight five immortal lords at once. At the North Heavenly Gate, Bai Yujun spotted intruders crossing the Gloomy Cold Land.

• A fleet of Immortal Domains sailed through the ruins of an Ancient Ruin toward the Heavenly Court.
• Erlang Shen ordered the East and West Heavenly Gates sealed and kept the South Heavenly Gate open while the garrisons guarded against threats in the Demon Realm.
• Five immortal lords brought their forces to the South Heavenly Gate after the Heavenly Court refused their request for an audience.
• Erlang Shen confronted the five lords and fought them while thousands of soldiers clashed outside the gate.
• Bai Yujun watched the Gloomy Cold Land from the North Heavenly Gate and detected clusters of intruders with her heat vision.

Bai Yujun prepared an ice-and-snow legion at the North Heavenly Gate as a force from the Five Great Immortal Domains advanced through the Gloomy Cold Land. When they arrived, she revealed Celestial Immortal-level strength and attacked their leaders, leaving the battle underway.

• Bai Yujun summoned an army of ice soldiers and waited at the North Heavenly Gate, anticipating a surprise attack by the Five Great Immortal Domains.
• Bai Yujun sensed Dragon Remains and spotted the approaching force, which included seven Celestial Immortals and another concealed aura.
• The allied force crossed the Gloomy Cold Land under a formation made from a blue dragon's remains and reached the North Heavenly Gate.
• Bai Yujun refused the enemy leader's demand to surrender and ordered her ice-and-snow legion to attack.
• Bai Yujun used wind and snow to rush through a blue Fire Phoenix and strike down one Celestial Immortal, then wounded another as the remaining five continued the fight.

Bai Yujun fought the rebel coalition at the North Heavenly Gate, revealing her dragon spear and overwhelming strength as she battled the gray-robed True Immortal. She killed a wounded Heavenly Immortal and then suddenly dove toward the ground, leaving the True Immortal alarmed.

• Bai Yujun’s shield and saber were destroyed when she defended against the gray-robed True Immortal’s black-and-white sword.
• Bai Yujun transformed into her white-haired dragon form and summoned the Black Bracelet as a powerful dragon spear.
• Bai Yujun clashed with the gray-robed True Immortal while the coalition’s Heavenly Immortals maneuvered against one another.
• Bai Yujun pierced a heavily wounded Heavenly Immortal with her spear and swung him into the barrage of attacks, killing him.
• Bai Yujun feinted toward the gray-robed True Immortal, then dived toward the ground, prompting him to cry out in alarm.

Bai Yujun fought off the allied armies at the supposed North Heavenly Gate, then revealed that she had lured them into an Ancient Ruin full of monsters. As the invaders were overwhelmed and forced to retreat, she returned toward the real North Heavenly Gate.

• Bai Yujun transformed into a giant dragon and slaughtered the allied forces with her claws, jaws, and Scorching Dragon Flame, destroying a large portion of their army.
• The gray-robed True Immortal ordered several Heavenly Immortals to break through the gate while he kept Bai Yujun occupied, and the allied forces shattered the formation and rushed inside.
• Bai Yujun withdrew her dragon might, retrieved a paper umbrella, and vanished into the snow as the invaders realized the gate led to an Ancient Ruin and a monster nest.
• The gray-robed True Immortal ordered a retreat, but black monsters poured out after the allied forces and attacked them.
• Bai Yujun watched the invaders being besieged, then flew back toward the North Heavenly Gate, noting that Xiao had calculated well.

Bai Yujun tended her wounds as upheaval spread through the Nine Heavens and the mortal world, while traitors fought their way toward Lingxiao Palace. The Female Guard Camp resisted the rebels until Bai Yujun arrived and turned the battle with a brutal attack.

• Bai Yujun treated the wounds on her back, inspected the dimming North Heavenly Gate Guardian Seal, and prepared for more fighting.
• Immortals and wreckage fell from the Nine Heavens as chaos spread across the mortal world, Jiuli, and the Four Seas.
• Qing Shao roared as the seal on the Seabed Volcano weakened, but its runes stabilized before the Four Dragon Kings could escape.
• Blue-ribboned rebels killed their way toward Lingxiao Palace, where the Female Guard Camp and its allies formed a battle line against them.
• Commander Wei fought three True Immortals while the opposing forces clashed across the Golden Jade Steps.
• Bai Yujun appeared at the plaza, skewered a rebel with her Black Spear, and crushed his head.

Bai Yujun helped the Female Guard Camp hold off the rebels, then fought the rebel Heavenly King while challenging his vision for the Heavenly Court’s destruction. After her dragon flame devastated the rebel formation, the Howling Celestial Dog arrived with reinforcements.

• Bai Yujun broke through the rebels’ defenses and helped the Female Guard Camp hold its ground.
• As the Female Guard Camp suffered heavy losses, Bai Yujun created more than a thousand clones to attack the rebel formation.
• Bai Yujun fought the Heavenly King and argued that overthrowing the Heavenly Court would bring a long era of bloodshed and chaos.
• Bai Yujun empowered her dragon spear and used dragon flame to engulf the rebel shield wall, destroying the soldiers there.
• The Howling Celestial Dog arrived with reinforcements as the Heavenly King charged Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun and the Heavenly Court’s defenders fought desperately to stop the rebels from reaching Lingxiao Palace, while demon immortals rallied under her command. The battle turned when the allied Heavenly King revealed himself as a traitor and helped the rebels prepare a hidden weapon, leaving Bai Yujun struggling to break through their delaying attacks.

• Bai Yujun and the Female Guard Camp fought the rebel True Immortals as the battle spread across the Heavenly Court, and reinforcements arrived with the Howling Celestial Dog.
• Demon immortals asked Bai Yujun for orders, and she sent the fighters to aid the Female Guard Camp and the others to treat the wounded.
• The rebels sacrificed themselves to delay Bai Yujun, who broke free of their bindings and fought through them with her dragon horns, tail, and Scorching Dragon Flame.
• The rebel Heavenly King sent his forces toward Lingxiao Palace, and the long-faced Heavenly King who had joined the defenders betrayed them by stabbing the Female Guard Camp Commander.
• The rebels failed to breach Lingxiao Palace’s Defense Array, while their leader and three Heavenly Immortals fed their blood into the concealed markings on the long halberd.
• Bai Yujun sensed danger, attacked the rebels blocking her path, and unleashed Scorching Dragon Flame again as they prepared the halberd.

Bai Yujun tried to protect the Lingxiao Palace as rebel True Immortals attacked it, but two of them self-destructed and brought it down. The Heavenly Court’s fortune vanished, and its floating island fell until two other islands stopped its descent.

• Bai Yujun broke through the rebel forces and stopped a bloodstained halberd from striking the Lingxiao Palace, then shattered it with her strength.
• A wounded rebel Heavenly King ignited his power and self-destructed, blasting Bai Yujun into the palace structures.
• Another rebel True Immortal exploded, destroying the Lingxiao Palace and ending the Heavenly Court’s remaining fortune.
• Bai Yujun rose from the rubble as the fighters stopped and the allied forces withdrew; two rebel True Immortals had died and the other two had fled.
• The floating island bearing the Lingxiao Palace fell from the Nine Heavens and came to rest on two islands in the Eighth Heaven.

After the Heavenly Court fell, Bai Yujun drank a toast to its ruins and learned that the Heavenly Gates were being sealed. She closed the North Heavenly Gate and declined the Female Guard Camp’s invitation to travel to Kunlun, leaving her free to explore.

• Erlang Shen freed the rebel prisoners and told them they could no longer serve as Heavenly Soldiers or Generals.
• As sunset fell, the Heavenly Court’s aura changed, and the immortals realized it was gone; most of the heavenly army chose to follow Erlang Shen.
• The Female Guard Camp Commander invited Bai Yujun to join the camp at Kunlun, but Bai Yujun declined and said she wanted to travel.
• Bai Yujun returned to the North Heavenly Gate, dismissed the Frost Giant Dragon, and used the Guardian Seal to close the gate in ice.

After Heaven collapsed, Bai Yujun relocated the demon immortals who had sought her protection, then spent three years in seclusion before returning to the mortal world. She reached Bamboo Spring Temple and discovered that the monkey had comprehended all Three Thousand Dao.

• Bai Yujun gave the demon immortals who gathered beneath her banner a chance to leave, and every one of them chose to stay.
• At dawn, the remaining immortals left Heaven, and Bai Yujun took her new followers into the Little Broken Ball World.
• Bai Yujun spent three years sleeping and letting the Little Broken Ball World grow before returning to the mortal world and traveling toward Bamboo Spring Temple.
• On the way, Bai Yujun saw ruined temples and learned that the local Earth Gods, Mountain Gods, and River Gods had fallen into poverty after Heaven sealed its gate.
• At Bamboo Spring Temple, Bai Yujun found the monkey repairing the gate and learned he had comprehended all Three Thousand Dao.

Bai Yujun visited Old Hui Xian at Bamboo Spring Temple, where they shared tea and discussed his plan to descend the mountain to deliver suffering souls amid the war. She reflected on her desire to live well and pursue her own goals, while the Monkey offered to fight at her side; the chapter ended with their peaceful gathering giving way to the troubled world beyond.

• Bai Yujun arrived as Old Hui Xian packed to leave the temple, and they brewed tea together with Little Stone, the Snake Demon Boy, and the Monkey.
• The Monkey explained that he had learned to eat bamboo shoots from the Black and White Foolish Bear, and Bai Yujun corrected him that it was a panda.
• Old Hui Xian said he planned to descend the mountain to deliver Lost Souls after witnessing blood-red skies and hearing grieving spirits.
• Bai Yujun noted that war and death had spread across the Immortal Realm, but Old Hui Xian insisted he would help as many souls as he could.
• Bai Yujun reflected that she wanted to live well and develop Ball Ball rather than focus on fighting for supremacy, and the Monkey promised to join her when battle came.
• Bai Yujun, the Monkey, and Old Hui Xian finished their tea as the fire went out, while the world beyond the temple remained unsettled.

Bai Yujun and the monkey left Bamboo Spring Temple and traveled through a ruined landscape scarred by war and exploitation. Though Bai Yujun initially tried to ignore a city’s suffering, she stopped and asked the monkey to help, and his troop of monkeys subdued the looters.

• The group descended from Bamboo Spring Temple, where the monkey explained that he had driven away landowners who had enclosed the farmers’ fields.
• Old Hui Xian buried a burned mother beast and her young, then stayed behind to chant sutras for them while Bai Yujun and the monkey continued toward the Daoist sect.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey traveled through abandoned villages and barren mountains, discussing whether she should rule the Immortal Realm.
• They crossed a battlefield and entered a city being looted amid fighting between cultivation factions, while the monkey remarked that the dead would make useful fertilizer.
• Bai Yujun considered leaving the suffering alone to avoid exposing herself, but then stopped and asked the monkey for help.
• The monkey summoned more than a hundred monkeys, who scattered through the ruins and knocked out the blade-wielding looters with sap blows.

Bai Yujun and the monkey traveled through a war-scarred world before reaching Daoist Mountain, where the monkey discovered a giant lotus and attained enlightenment. As Bai guarded him, she sensed that he and Zhen Bei would be essential allies in future battles.

• Bai Yujun used her dragon might to destroy the evil creatures in a valley, then continued traveling with the monkey through ruined lands and peaceful Immortal Domain territory.
• Bai Yujun found traces of Divine Dragon Hall demon beasts and said she would return to her old home to retrieve something.
• After years of travel, Bai Yujun and the monkey reached Daoist Mountain and explored its enormous lotuses while visitors recognized Bai Yujun and kept their distance.
• The monkey studied a lotus stalk and leaf, then sat in a lotus seedpod and attained enlightenment while Bai Yujun watched over him.
• Bai Yujun sensed that the monkey and Zhen Bei would be crucial allies to her in future battles.