Recaps

The Black-striped Great Snake avenged its lost child by killing Xiao Xiong’s sons, wife, and concubine while forcing him to confront the suffering he had inflicted on others. As the snake prepared to kill Xiao Xiong’s little granddaughter, Bai Yujun appeared and ordered it to stop.

• Xiao Xiong admitted his guilt and begged the Black-striped Great Snake to kill him instead of his family.
• When Xiao Xiong’s young son threatened the snake, it seized and fatally poisoned him, then killed Xiao Xiong’s eldest son.
• The Black-striped Great Snake crushed Xiao Xiong’s first wife, and Xiao Xiong realized that his victims had left behind grieving families just like his own.
• The snake killed Xiao Xiong’s favorite son and the boy’s mother, then moved to kill Xiao Xiong’s little granddaughter.
• Bai Yujun appeared on a collapsed roof ridge and stopped the Black-striped Great Snake just before its fangs reached the girl’s neck.

Bai Yujun ended the feud between the Black-striped Great Snake and Xiao Xiong by revealing that seven of the snake’s offspring were still alive and allowing it to take revenge on Xiao Xiong alone. She returned the snake to its mountain home with cultivation manuals and medicine, leaving it to grow strong enough to seek its children.

• Bai Yujun told the Black-striped Great Snake that seven of its offspring had survived after Xiao Xiong sold the Snake Eggs decades earlier.
• Xiao Xiong recalled selling nine or ten unusually hard Snake Eggs through an intermediary, but said the intermediary had died and he did not know where the offspring were.
• Bai Yujun summoned the ghosts and karmic spirits connected to Xiao Xiong and the Ziyi cultivator, then declared that everyone must bear the consequences of their actions.
• Bai Yujun allowed the Black-striped Great Snake to kill Xiao Xiong while sparing his remaining Household, ending the snake’s revenge.
• Bai Yujun led Fat Tiger and the Black-striped Great Snake back to the mountain, gave the snake cultivation manuals and medicinal pills, and departed.

Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger reached a blood-soaked market town and discovered its people were preparing a monthly sacrifice to the Blood God Ancestor. After Bai killed the boasting Blood God Ancestor and sent Fat Tiger to punish his followers, she found a mysterious stone fragment in his cave that seemed connected to someone acting across the River of Time.

• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger entered a market town where Blood Cultivators escorted hundreds of children toward a sacrificial ritual.
• The butcher told Bai Yujun that the children were offerings to the Blood God Ancestor, and she followed the procession to the ritual site.
• The Blood God Ancestor boasted about eating dragons, and Bai Yujun crushed him with an unseen force before ordering Fat Tiger to punish the other Blood Cultivators.
• Bai Yujun searched the Blood God Ancestor's cave and used Gaze into the Past to investigate why he had spoken about divine beasts and fierce beasts.
• Bai Yujun found a fragment resembling an inscribed stele in the blood pool, whose past she could not see, and sensed that someone had made arrangements across the River of Time.

Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger left the Blood Cultivators’ lair and traveled openly through the region toward a great city, where they sought a meal and information about a mysterious stone fragment. The chapter ended as they reached an upscale restaurant and were escorted to a private room on its highest floor.

• Fat Tiger finished dealing with the Blood Cultivators while Bai Yujun emerged from the underground cave and gave him a fragment of inscribed stone to keep.
• Bai Yujun praised Fat Tiger and told him to kill anyone who spoke disrespectfully, offering to send Heavenly Soldiers and Generals if he needed help.
• Fat Tiger carried Bai Yujun through the air, startling cultivators and sects as they crossed their territories without stopping.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger entered a great city by passing over its walls unnoticed, then landed and went in search of food and clues about the stone fragment.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger arrived at a luxurious lakeside restaurant, where a maidservant escorted them to a private room on the highest floor.

Bai Yujun dined at a restaurant while forcing Fat Head Cat to train inside her paper umbrella’s secret realm. The proprietor, Tu Yue, then asked Bai Yujun to save her poisoned mother, leaving Bai Yujun ruefully reflecting on how her General Store had become known as a medical pavilion.

• Bai Yujun ordered nearly every dish on the menu and seven hundred jin of fresh beast meat, then decided Fat Head Cat needed combat training.
• Bai Yujun sent Fat Head Cat into her paper umbrella’s secret realm, where the tiger faced increasingly powerful opponents modeled on foes Bai Yujun had fought.
• Bai Yujun feasted while Fat Head Cat battled through the secret realm, and the restaurant’s proprietor, Tu Yue, requested an audience.
• Tu Yue asked whether Bai Yujun was the Medical Immortal of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and pleaded for help treating her poisoned mother.
• Bai Yujun confirmed that the pavilion was her General Store and sighed that others had turned her into a medicine peddler.

Bai Yujun agreed to cure Tu Yue’s mother in exchange for a search for clues about a broken stone, then Fat Tiger emerged from the Paper Umbrella Secret Realm stronger after a month of training. She ordered Fat Tiger to train there daily until it could defeat a Tribulation Stage cultivator.

• Bai Yujun refused Tu Yue’s spiritual herb and offered to cure her mother if Tu Yue searched for the broken stone or clues to where it was found.
• Bai Yujun identified Tu Yue’s mother’s ailment as Gu poison and cured her with tea infused with dragon aura.
• Tu Yue recorded the broken stone’s image and promised to mobilize her connections to search for it in return for a fated item from the Myriad Realms General Store.
• Fat Tiger emerged from the Paper Umbrella Secret Realm after spending a month inside, battered but stronger, and its aura frightened the restaurant’s diners.
• Bai Yujun ordered Fat Tiger to enter the secret realm every day until it could defeat a Tribulation Stage cultivator, and promised even tougher opponents after they ascended.

Bai Yujun studied an ancient stone inscription, then searched the Snake Demon Army archives for clues about Dragon Court survivors and found accounts of lost ships, fallen dragons, surviving bloodlines, and a drifting fortress full of the dead. Deeply affected by the records, she left the tavern and settled on a mountain peak to meditate in her true body.

• Bai Yujun deciphered the stone fragment and concluded it likely recorded the history of a group connected to the Dragon Court rather than its enemies.
• Bai Yujun searched the Snake Demon Army archives and found records of a fallen ship, a dragon who died alone, descendants of Half-Dragon Demonic Beasts, and a deserted fortress carrying the coffins of its dead crew.
• Bai Yujun left the tavern after telling the little maid to send word through the fog if she found a clue, and Fat Tiger carried her away through the night.
• Bai Yujun chose a mountain peak beneath a blooming pear tree and returned her consciousness to her true body to meditate within the Solid Ice.

Bai Yujun decided to build a Dragon Palace-style Daoist Temple on the mountain and summoned nearby spirits and little demons to work on its foundation. After offering them pills, cultivation methods, and protection as wages, she put them to work while Fat Tiger guarded the area.

• Bai Yujun searched the nearby mountains, found no local spirits or monsters occupying the peak, and summoned more than fifty creatures to gather there.
• Bai Yujun raised the Black Bear spirit to the summit, gave every gathered creature spiritual energy, and offered a daily pill in exchange for helping build the foundation.
• The white-bearded old tree demon, the Bamboo Demon, the Flower Demon, the Little Hedgehog, and two snake demons chose to stay and work.
• Bai Yujun gave the little demons basic cultivation methods and task-specific knowledge for finding, cutting, carrying, and stacking stones, and assigned Fat Tiger to help.
• The little demons began work as Bai Yujun rested and reviewed Daoist scriptures, while Fat Tiger drove away nearby threats and the mountain cat cut foundation stones.

Bai Yujun rewarded the little demons, sent the fat tiger through a trial in her Paper Umbrella Secret Realm, and returned with it to the General Store Pavilion. She caught the store’s objects and the pavilion itself partying in her absence, stopped the commotion, and went to bed.

• Bai Yujun gave the little demons their pills, and they chose to cultivate on the platform overnight.
• Bai Yujun sent the fat tiger into the Paper Umbrella Secret Realm for a month-long trial, then released it exhausted.
• Bai Yujun made an avatar and led the fat tiger through the fog to the General Store Pavilion.
• Bai Yujun found the pavilion and its animated store objects rocking and making noise, then burst in and shouted at them.
• The store objects rushed back into place, and Bai Yujun went upstairs to bed while the fat tiger guarded the entrance.

Bai Yujun’s General Store received Ku Cai Feng, a gaunt tailor whose unusual eyes were hurt when he tried to measure her. After Bai Yujun healed him and invited him to browse, he found an item that stirred his lifeless gaze.

• Bai Yujun dismissed a dishonest customer who had tried to trade worthless goods under false pretenses.
• Tu Yue launched a widespread search for mysterious stone fragments, mobilizing ordinary people and offering rewards to local clans.
• Ku Cai Feng arrived at the General Store and tried to leave until Fat Tiger forced him inside.
• Ku Cai Feng offered to tailor a dress for Bai Yujun, but his rare eyes were injured when he tried to determine her measurements.
• Bai Yujun healed Ku Cai Feng and told him to choose an item from the shelves; while browsing, he found one that caught his attention.

Bai Yujun sold Ku Cai Feng a Tiger Whisker Needle in exchange for viewing his memories, allowing him to mend his family’s corpses and lay decades of grief to rest. After Ku Cai Feng left the General Store with renewed purpose, Bai Yujun served a plant demon who traded an artifact-refining material for a cultivation technique.

• Bai Yujun recommended the Tiger Whisker Needle to Ku Cai Feng and offered him a trade for his most cherished treasure or memories.
• Ku Cai Feng exchanged his memories and relived how an evil cultivator had killed his family, leading him to spend decades stitching corpses.
• Ku Cai Feng used the Tiger Whisker Needle to mend his family’s bodies, saw them appear peaceful, and finally released his grief.
• Bai Yujun refused Ku Cai Feng’s offer to return the needle and encouraged him to keep doing good deeds; he left the General Store with renewed resolve.
• A Nine-Death Returning Soul Grass arrived and exchanged a piece of artifact-refining material for a cultivation technique suited to plants.

Old Man Yu recovered a glowing stone fragment and traded it to Tu Yue for land, houses, and oxen rather than gold. After studying the fragment, Tu Yue followed a fog-shrouded path to the mountain pavilion to report to the Mysterious Girl.

• Old Man Yu revealed the hidden fragment to his son and daughter-in-law, then decided to exchange it with the Tu Family for a safer provision for his household.
• Old Man Yu brought Tu Yue the fragment, and she agreed to move his family to Tu Family Territory and provide land, houses, and three plow oxen.
• Tu Yue recognized the fragment’s glowing writing as the character “fall” but could not decipher the rest.
• When thick fog appeared outside the Rooftop Terrace, Tu Yue followed the stone stairway into the mountains carrying the fragment.
• Tu Yue reached the pavilion with Fat Tiger and entered the hall to meet the Mysterious Girl.

Bai Yujun used Tu Yue’s account of a mountain flood to narrow down where more stone tablet fragments might be found, then ordered a careful search. Tu Yue received a pill that greatly improved her cultivation aptitude, while Bai Yujun left the pavilion for the Dragon Palace’s new site.

• Bai Yujun studied the two stone fragments but could not reconstruct the tablet without more of its writing.
• Tu Yue traded land, houses, and a plow ox for a pill that improved cultivation aptitude, then told Bai Yujun how the fragments had been found at Barren Stone Beach after a mountain flood.
• Bai Yujun projected the surrounding terrain and reversed the flood’s effects, determining that the fragments likely came from the mountains upstream of Barren Stone Beach.
• Bai Yujun instructed Tu Yue to organize a gradual search for more fragments and forbade her from forcibly taking land or harming residents.
• Tu Yue left with the pill, swallowed it in a secret chamber, and discovered that her meridians and ability to absorb spiritual energy had improved.
• Bai Yujun warned the pavilion and its goods not to cause trouble, then rode Fat Tiger to the Dragon Palace’s new site.

Bai Yujun completed the Dragon Palace, filled its mountain with hidden secret realms, and organized the demons who stayed to serve there. Meanwhile, Tu Yue began searching Barren Stone Beach for Stone Tablet Fragments, drawing workers and rival households to the area as Old Man Yu’s family moved away.

• Bai Yujun transformed the mountain into the Dragon Palace, installed a White Dragon Idol, and recruited the local demons to work and cultivate there.
• Bai Yujun created numerous secret realms throughout the Dragon Palace, with the demons sometimes stumbling into them and returning with spirit medicines.
• Tu Yue bought Barren Stone Beach and hired workers, martial artists, and cultivators to search for Stone Tablet Fragments.
• Other households learned of Tu Yue’s search and sent their own people to Barren Stone Beach to seek a share of the discoveries.
• Old Man Yu’s household packed their belongings and left their village for a new home.

Bai Yujun sent the fat tiger to deliver a Lotus Lantern to Tu Yue as payment for organizing the excavation at Barren Stone Beach. The treasure bonded with Tu Yue, while the fat tiger returned to the mountain and was pulled into another combat trial.

• Bai Yujun gave the fat tiger a Lotus Lantern for Tu Yue and ordered him to protect her excavation work.
• Tu Yue faced criticism from Tu Lineage Clan Elders who wanted access to the mysterious Great Cultivator.
• The fat tiger arrived at Barren Stone Beach, delivered the Lotus Lantern to Tu Yue, and pinned a Clan Elder who reached for it before releasing him at Tu Yue’s request.
• The Lotus Lantern bonded with Tu Yue as a pink lotus tattoo and protected her Divine Soul, while the fat tiger flew back to the mountain.
• A paper umbrella pulled the fat tiger into the secret realm for another combat trial, and Bai Yujun later led the little demons in offering incense and listening to Daoist scriptures.

Tu Yue oversaw the search at Barren Stone Beach and found that the Lotus Lantern was warning of danger buried beneath the soil. The Tu family uncovered a gigantic skull, and Tu Yue sealed off the area while the lantern dispelled its ominous aura.

• A laborer unearthed a carved tombstone, and Tu Yue ordered the workers to excavate outward along the black-soil layer.
• Bai Yujun spent a quiet day at Dragon Palace, where she discovered that a waterfall’s mist had formed a small secret realm.
• Tu Yue’s cultivation broke through, while the Lotus Lantern repeatedly warned her about something buried at Barren Stone Beach.
• A laborer struck a pitch-black object, and its strange metallic sound made nearby workers dizzy and nauseated.
• Tu Yue arrived with the Lotus Lantern, drove away the ominous aura, and ordered the area sealed off.
• The Tu family cultivators excavated the object and revealed a monstrous skull as large as a house.

Bai Yujun examined an ancient Demonic Beast skull unearthed at Barren Stone Beach, discovered signs of a hidden secret in the Majestic Mountains, and went to investigate. Her search stopped when she smelled Scallion Pancakes and approached a group of Rogue Cultivators cooking in the mountains.

• Tu Yue explained the black bone’s discovery, and Bai Yujun identified it as the remains of a Demonic Beast that had died at least a trillion years earlier.
• Bai Yujun viewed the skull’s past, connected it to the ancient demon race and the Black Water Sarcophagus, then compressed and purified it into a silver sphere.
• Bai Yujun asked Tu Yue about the Majestic Mountains, then vanished to search them for the secret she suspected was hidden there.
• Bai Yujun crossed the mountains while low-level cultivators and Martial Artists camped nearby, then abandoned her search after catching the scent of Scallion Pancakes.
• Bai Yujun approached five Rogue Cultivators gathered around a campfire and urgently told Sister Wu to flip the pancakes before they burned.

Bai Yujun shared a Scallion Pancake with a group of cultivators and gave the female cultivator surnamed Wu a cultivation manual in exchange. After learning the mountains held no obvious clues about the stone stele, Bai Yujun resumed searching the region for the black skull and its secret realm.

• A four-eyed Green Wolf emerged from the grass, but Bai Yujun frightened it away with a glance.
• Bai Yujun gave the female cultivator surnamed Wu a cultivation manual as payment for the Scallion Pancake, and Wu absorbed it into her mind.
• The older male cultivator told Bai Yujun that his group had spent over half a month searching for stone stele fragments under the Tu Household's bounty without finding anything unusual.
• Wu thanked Bai Yujun and discovered that the manual had revived her Qi and Blood and renewed her hope for cultivation.
• Bai Yujun used detection spells to scan the mountains, sky, and ground for clues to the black skull and possible secret realm.

Bai Yujun searched Cold Mountain for a sealed hidden realm by scattering crude realms, accidentally sweeping people into them along the way. She finally located the hidden realm and began uncovering it, while Fat Tiger feared the opponent Bai had chosen for his final trial.

• Bai Yujun told Fat Tiger to choose one of four opponents and endure ten moves to pass his final trial.
• Bai Yujun scattered crude hidden realms across the mountains to detect an anomaly, sending several bounty-seekers into strange pocket realms.
• Bai Yujun pinpointed a hidden realm on a hillside, while Fat Tiger mistakenly ended up choosing Gan Wu of Purple Void instead of Old Monk Huixian.
• Bai Yujun analyzed the hillside, used powdered materials to reveal the hidden realm's outline, and ordered Fat Tiger to dig carefully for a stone.

Bai Yujun discovered that the buried carving was the base for a missing stone stele, leaving the secret realm inaccessible until its fragments were found. She returned to Barren Stone Beach, promised to help the Tu family, and astonished them by refining three high-grade Nascent Soul Condensing Pills.

• Bai Yujun identified the carving as a stone stele base and resolved to prioritize finding the missing stele fragments.
• Bai Yujun returned to Barren Stone Beach and told Tu Yue that she had caused the events in the mountains, then urged the Tu family to continue excavating.
• Tu Yue asked Bai Yujun to refine a Nascent Soul Condensing Pill for a Golden Core Stage clansman, and Bai Yujun agreed to refine as many as their materials allowed.
• Bai Yujun refined the herbs without a pill furnace and produced three Nascent Soul Condensing Pills, which the Tu family verified as exceptionally high-grade.

Bai Yujun made pills for the Tu family, relocated her General Store to the Dragon Palace mountain, and sent Fat Head Tiger through a month of punishing trials. After days of rain, news arrived that Stone Tablet Fragments had been unearthed at Barren Stone Beach.

• Bai Yujun refined batches of Nascent Soul Condensing Pills and gave Tu Yue a Spirit Transformation Pill, then instructed her to deliver any excavated Stone Tablet Fragments.
• Bai Yujun moved the General Store from the Mountain Peak to a hill near the Dragon Palace’s main hall.
• Fat Head Tiger entered the paper umbrella’s trial and repeatedly fought Gan Wu at Chunyang Palace on Mount Hua, getting defeated each time.
• After one month, Fat Head Tiger emerged from the trial battered and exhausted.
• Following three days of heavy rain, Bai Yujun received news that Stone Tablet Fragments had been unearthed at Barren Stone Beach.

Tu Yue brought a Stone Tablet Fragment to Bai Yujun, who instructed her to spread news about the fragments and then sold a rocket launcher to a youth seeking revenge on the bandits who destroyed his village. After the transactions, Bai Yujun assembled the fragment and found an inscription suggesting an ancient ferocious beast might still be alive.

• Tu Yue entered the mist with the Stone Tablet Fragment and followed a Little Hedgehog through the Dragon Gate to Bai Yujun's General Store.
• Tu Yue warned Bai Yujun that outside sect forces and the City Lord's Manor's backers were investigating Barren Stone Beach, and Bai Yujun told her to spread limited information to draw out other fragment holders.
• Fat Tiger brought a poor youth to the store, where the youth asked Bai Yujun for the power to kill the bandits who had slaughtered his village.
• Bai Yujun examined the youth's memories and gave him a rocket launcher, explaining how to use it against the bandit lair.
• Bai Yujun pieced together the Stone Tablet Fragments and concluded that an ancient ferocious beast might not have died easily.

Bai Yujun sent Tu Yue to bring a low-level female cultivator with ties to the Dragon Palace to the mountain, while a poor boy used a rocket launcher to avenge his murdered family. Tu Yue punished Tu family members who tried to seize the female cultivator’s fox and escorted her away to meet Bai Yujun.

• Bai Yujun told Tu Yue that a female cultivator would clash with Tu family members in the city and ordered her to bring the woman to the mountain.
• Tu Yue toured the mountain, accidentally entered a water-filled secret realm, and later returned to the city to search for the woman.
• A poor boy climbed above his burned village and fired a rocket launcher at the bandits who had murdered his family, destroying them and the village.
• Tu Yue found Tu family guards and two young masters attempting to take a female cultivator’s fox, then ordered them to receive punishment at the Enforcement Hall.
• Tu Yue invited the female cultivator to meet Bai Yujun, and the woman gathered her stall goods before boarding Tu Yue’s flying boat.

Bai Yujun welcomed the first cultivator of the Chunyang Art, Cheng Su, into the Dragon Palace to study the Dao and gave her a Daoist name and a powerful jade pendant. Cheng Su settled into her new home and began cultivating, while Bai Yujun warned that her plans would soon need to move forward.

• Tu Yue departed, and the Golden-furred Black-striped Tiger led the female cultivator and her fox through the Dragon Palace to Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun invited the female cultivator to remain and study the Dao, and she accepted.
• Bai Yujun named her Cheng Su and gave her a jade pendant with powerful abilities and an inner space.
• Bai Yujun told Cheng Su to learn the basics from Flower Demon and Bamboo Demon, then study at her side after a month.
• Cheng Su received clothing and supplies from Old Tree Demon, moved into a house near the divine hall, and began cultivating.

After the Holy Dynasty and Snake Demon Army agreed to a truce, Feng Ying and Yu prepared to leave the village and continue toward Sky Pillar Peak. They said goodbye to the boy they had guided, who gave them food for the road, while a Flood Dragon watched them depart.

• Feng Ying watched the boy bring back battlefield spoils and reflected on the dangerous fate awaiting him.
• Yu announced that the Holy Dynasty and Snake Demon Army had called a truce, and Feng Ying and Yu decided to resume their journey.
• Feng Ying advised the boy to remember the village and stay true to himself, while Yu teased him and Feng Ying encouraged him to protect the villagers.
• Feng Ying and Yu packed their belongings as the boy secretly went scavenging beyond the village, and a Flood Dragon watched the women from Cloud Ridge.
• The boy caught up with Feng Ying and Yu at the village pond, gave them food for their journey, and waved goodbye as they set off toward Sky Pillar Peak.