Recaps

After Lujiang Town’s people consumed the Dragon King’s blood and flesh, boats vanished in deadly whirlpools and the townspeople found themselves trapped. Bai Yujun raised the river into a towering wave to take revenge, while cultivators led by Lian Tianxing rushed to confront her.

• The townspeople found that fishing boats were swallowed by whirlpools, and several men disappeared beneath the river.
• The landlord’s family tried to flee, but the mountain roads and bridges had been destroyed, leaving the town trapped.
• At dawn, the river withdrew as Bai Yujun raised its water into a massive wave and drove it toward Lujiang Town.
• The old man kowtowed as the townspeople watched the wave advance, while the landlord accepted that his household had no escape.
• A group of cultivators spotted the wave and hurried toward it, led by Lian Tianxing with a treasure sword.

Bai Yujun sent a colossal flood that destroyed Lujiang Town, while Lian Tianxing vowed to pursue her. On Mount Hua, Master Yuan and Li Xiangyan agreed to support Li Chongqian against Li Chongjun, and Chu Zhe asked permission to form a Dao companionship with Bai Yujun, provoking an immense aura.

• Bai Yujun unleashed a towering wave that swallowed Lujiang Town, leaving the grandfather and grandson in the Dragon King Temple as its only survivors.
• Lian Tianxing failed to stop Bai Yujun, ordered a pursuit, and went to Nanyuan City to seek his Martial Uncle Yu Rong.
• Master Yuan asked Li Xiangyan for Chunyang Palace's help against the demonic sect and named Li Chongqian as a possible Human Emperor.
• Chu Zhe decided to ask Li Xiangyan for permission to take a Dao companion, despite fearing his teacher's reaction to her identity.
• Chu Zhe told Li Xiangyan he wished to form a Dao companionship with Bai Yujun, and an immense aura knocked Mount Hua's cultivating disciples to the ground.

Chu Zhe defied Li Xiangyan by kneeling outside Jade Void Palace, while Li Xiangyan faced pressure from the Demon Subjugation Sect over Bai Yujun. At Lujiang Town, Yu Rong confronted the devastation caused by Bai Yujun and had to decide how to judge her as disciples argued over punishment.

• Chu Zhe knelt outside Jade Void Palace for days after Li Xiangyan refused to grant his request.
• Deng Yunhe asked Li Xiangyan to hand over Bai Yujun for destroying Dianjun Mountain’s earth vein, but Li Xiangyan secretly resolved not to let the Demon Subjugation Sect take her.
• Yu Rong learned that Bai Yujun had destroyed Lujiang Town and flew there with Chunyang Palace elders and disciples.
• Yu Rong heard the sole survivors explain that townspeople had captured the wounded Bai Yujun, eaten her flesh, and drunk her blood before she flooded the town.
• Lian Tianxing demanded justice for the humans, while Yang Mu and Xu Ling pleaded for Bai Yujun and Yu Rong called her out of the river.

After returning to Nanyuan, Bai Yujun was whipped and bound for judgment, while Yu Rong received an order to take her and Lian Tianxing back to Mount Hua. The group hurriedly departed, leaving Bai Yujun to wonder what punishment awaited her.

• Bai Yujun came ashore wounded and surrendered to Yu Rong, who punished her with five lashes before binding her.
• Yu Rong ordered two Golden Core Stage disciples to take Bai Yujun back to Nanyuan City, where Yang Mu and Xu Ling accompanied her and Tieqiu rejoined the group.
• Yu Rong received a message ordering her to bring Bai Yujun and Lian Tianxing back to Mount Hua, then appointed Elder Zhao to oversee Nanyuan.
• Yang Mu collected Bai Yujun's silver and weapons, and Yu Rong took Bai Yujun, Lian Tianxing, Yang Mu, Xu Ling, and Tieqiu toward Mount Hua.
• Yang Mu stopped Xu Ling from treating Bai Yujun's wounds so she would appear more miserable, while Bai Yujun guessed she might be imprisoned beneath the mountain for decades.

Bai Yujun was brought before Chunyang Palace’s leaders and admitted to destroying Dianjun Mountain’s feng shui and slaughtering hundreds in Lujiang Town. Li Xiangyan sentenced her to death, and as Deng Yunhe and Chu Zhe tried to stop him, Bai Yujun thanked Yu Rong with three kowtows.

• Two Golden Core Stage disciples escorted the wounded, bound Bai Yujun to Jade Void Palace while Ironball, Little Millet, and Zhuo Feng watched from a distance.
• Li Xiangyan questioned Bai Yujun about Dianjun Mountain, and she admitted destroying its feng shui because the Demon Subjugation Sect had tried to kill her.
• Bai Yujun also admitted slaughtering the people of Lujiang Town, and Li Xiangyan sentenced her to execution on the Demon Slaying Platform.
• Deng Yunhe and Chu Zhe rushed forward to oppose the execution, while Yang Mu and Xu Ling remained immobilized by a spell.
• Bai Yujun kowtowed three times to Yu Rong and promised to repay her kindness in her next life.

After Chu Zhe pleaded for Bai Yujun, Yu Rong spared her from execution but sentenced her to three hundred years of suppression at Chen Tang Stream. Master Yuan then revealed that Bai Yujun was needed to restore Chang’an’s dragon vein and help the Ninth Imperial Prince stabilize the realm.

• Chu Zhe begged Li Xiangyan to spare Bai Yujun, while Lian Tianxing drew his sword to kill her but stopped when Chu Zhe conceded defeat.
• Yang Mu and Xu Ling shielded Bai Yujun and pleaded for her life until Yu Rong intervened and sentenced her to three hundred years of suppression at Chen Tang Stream.
• Bai Yujun thanked Yu Rong for sparing her, accepting that suppression was better than execution.
• Master Yuan asked Chunyang Palace to lend him Bai Yujun and explained that the Ninth Imperial Prince could become emperor to stabilize the troubled realm.
• Master Yuan revealed that Bai Yujun, as a White Dragon, could guide and strengthen Chang’an’s imperial dragon vein and protect the imperial family’s fortune.

Master Yuan arranged for Bai Yujun to be taken to Chang'an and suppressed at Daming Palace’s dragon vein to protect Li Chongqian and stabilize Li Tang. After her wounds were treated, Bai Yujun remained confined at Qingxu Palace, uncertain about her future and resentful of the bracelet that prevented her escape.

• Master Yuan warned that killing Bai Yujun could bring retribution and proposed suppressing her at the dragon head of Daming Palace’s earth vein for three hundred years.
• Li Xiangyan and Yu Rong agreed to lend Bai Yujun to Master Yuan, and he asked them to prepare her to accompany the army coming to receive Li Chongqian.
• Bai Yujun told Yu Rong that Dianjun Mountain’s feng shui would recover in three years, and Yu Rong had her treated and confined at Qingxu Palace.
• Chu Zhe visited Bai Yujun, apologized, and left dejected after she dismissed the idea of becoming Dao companions.
• Bai Yujun watched Li Chongqian celebrate his future throne and examined the restrictive bracelet she could not remove.

The Aristocratic Clans turned against Li Chongjun and prepared Li Chongqian to replace him as emperor, while Bai Yujun waited to learn her role in the coming campaign. Li Chongqian gained support through claims that a divine dragon had chosen him, and preparations began for an army to march on Chang'an.

• The Aristocratic Clans sent representatives to Mount Hua and secured Third Brother’s agreement to support replacing Li Chongjun with Li Chongqian.
• The clans brought Li Chongqian a ceremonial retinue, attendants, and guards, while Xu Ling and Yang Mu visited Bai Yujun with supplies to comfort her.
• Yang Mu and Xu Ling told Bai Yujun that Li Xiangling had chosen to stay away from Chang'an rather than risk being used in a political marriage.
• Xu Ling explained that nearby prefectures and rebel kings were pledging allegiance to Li Chongqian and might soon ask him to lead an army against Chang'an.
• Bai Yujun learned that rumors of a divine dragon had strengthened Li Chongqian’s claim to be the true Son of Heaven, and wondered how she would protect his dragon aura.

Bai Yujun ate and joked with Xu Ling and Yang Mu at Mount Hua before Li Chongqian’s supporters prepared to march against the emperor. The Aristocratic Clans instead staged an extravagant welcome for Bai Yujun as a divine dragon, leaving Li Chongqian’s ceremony nearly deserted as she was carried beneath the Dragon Gate.

• Bai Yujun, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu shared a meal in the dining hall while Ironball followed them, and their banter about eating people frightened the young disciples away.
• More than a month later, an army gathered below Mount Hua, and Master Yuan presided over a ceremony to proclaim Li Chongqian’s cause.
• The Aristocratic Clans learned that a dragon would suppress the royal dragon aura and decided to honor Bai Yujun with an elaborate welcome ceremony.
• Attendants dressed Bai Yujun in a yellow-and-white Imperial Palace Dress Long Skirt and adorned her with gold and silver ornaments before leading her from her room.
• The Aristocratic Clans left Li Chongqian’s ceremony to welcome Bai Yujun beneath the Dragon Gate, where thousands knelt as she approached a carriage drawn by nine white horses.

Bai Yujun departed Mount Hua in a grand procession bound for Chang'an, where Li Chongqian’s arrival was expected to end the siege and Li Chongjun’s reign. She endured the journey in her guarded carriage, while Chang'an waited tensely for the city gates to open.

• Bai Yujun bid farewell to Ironball, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu, then revealed her dragon form before the crowd as she left Mount Hua.
• Bai Yujun traveled toward Chang'an in a luxurious but closely guarded carriage, stopping as officials and Aristocratic Clans offered provisions and gifts.
• Bai Yujun used the wind to ruin Li Chongqian and the Aristocratic Clan representatives’ feast, covering them in dust and turning their food and wine filthy.
• The army surrounding Chang'an waited without attacking, while the city’s people feared the coming change of power.
• Li Chongjun raged inside Daming Palace as his supporters disappeared and the besiegers waited for Li Chongqian to arrive and demand the city’s surrender.

After Chang'an surrendered, Li Chongqian entered Daming Palace and confronted his desperate brother Li Chongjun. Li Chongjun killed himself on the dragon throne, leaving Li Chongqian to face the throne and wonder whom he could trust.

• The defenders of Chang'an opened the gates and surrendered, allowing Li Chongqian's procession to enter the city without a fight.
• Bai Yujun saw Chang'an's deserted streets and reflected on how far the city had fallen.
• Li Chongqian and his followers entered Daming Palace, where Li Chongjun sat amid the wreckage after destroying the hall.
• Li Chongjun accused the newcomers of rebellion, and Li Chongqian offered to let him live as a wealthy man.
• Li Chongjun warned Li Chongqian not to trust anyone, then stabbed himself and died on the dragon throne.
• Li Chongqian stared at Li Chongjun's body and wondered how the Li Tang Imperial Family had fallen into such ruin.

Bai Yujun tried to prepare for her impending suppression and tested an escape, but the demon-suppressing lotus forced her back. She persuaded the disciples to keep the suppression private, then remained in the tent outside Daming Palace as Chang'an recovered and people brought offerings to the supposed Divine Dragon.

• Bai Yujun melted gold and silver fittings together and used wind and rain to cover her escape attempt from the convoy.
• A senior disciple revealed a demon-suppressing lotus, and its power made Bai Yujun suffer until she returned within its range.
• Bai Yujun asked the two Golden Core Stage senior disciples to keep outsiders away during the suppression, and they agreed.
• Chang'an resumed trade and public order as proclamations announced a new emperor and the arrival of a Divine Dragon.
• Bai Yujun ate the fish offerings in her tent while Master Yuan turned away visitors seeking the Divine Dragon's protection.

Master Yuan completed True Dragon Hall and brought Bai Yujun there to serve as the dragon protecting the dynasty. After her imprisonment began, she remained inside under a Golden Talisman while Li Chongqian and Master Yuan left.

• Master Yuan oversaw the construction of True Dragon Hall and prepared the ritual to extend the dynasty.
• Li Chongqian completed his enthronement ceremonies, issued an edict, and declared a general amnesty.
• Master Yuan presided over Bai Yujun's ceremonial arrival at True Dragon Hall and told her she would be confined for four hundred years.
• Bai Yujun cursed Master Yuan and tried to attack him before Chunyang disciples dragged her into the hall.
• The disciples emerged after the ritual, and Master Yuan entered the transformed hall with Li Chongqian to find Bai Yujun seated on the throne beneath a Golden Talisman.
• Bai Yujun demanded that Master Yuan remove the talisman, but he refused and left with Li Chongqian as the doors closed.

Bai Yujun was confined in the True Dragon Hall, where she absorbed and repaired the Li Tang dragon veins while using the dragon qi to strengthen herself. After helping the imperial court pacify much of the realm, she stopped to rest, and the palace maids found her eating in the hall.

• Bai Yujun discovered that the True Dragon Hall let her absorb the imperial dragon qi and began repairing the turbulent Li Tang dragon vein.
• Over two months, palace maids grew accustomed to the quiet Dragon Girl, while rumors of her spread through Daming Palace and Chang'an.
• Bai Yujun sensed distant rebellious dragon veins and began suppressing and reclaiming them piece by piece.
• Over the next two years, the imperial court pacified nearby rebellions and restored much of the Central Plains, while Bai Yujun exhausted herself repairing the dragon veins.
• Bai Yujun took time to recover and ate the offerings as nine young palace maids entered the hall.

Bai Yujun, trapped in True Dragon Hall while tending the Li Tang dragon vein, demanded better treatment from Li Chongqian and Master Yuan. She gave them three days to furnish the hall and punish an official who had beaten her young maid.

• Bai Yujun listened to the palace maids gossip and learned that Official Zhang had beaten Xin'er for supposedly improper etiquette.
• Bai Yujun healed Xin'er's arm and told the maids to seek her protection if anyone mistreated them.
• Bai Yujun offered to grant three wishes if the maids removed the Golden Talisman, but they refused because the Chief Eunuch had forbidden it.
• Bai Yujun tried to tear the talisman from the dragon wall, but its backlash drove her away, and she decided to demand better living conditions from Li Chongqian.
• Bai Yujun demanded a golden bed, a golden-thread quilt, and five hundred pots of flowers, then gave Li Chongqian and Master Yuan three days to comply.
• Bai Yujun ordered them to send Official Zhang to do laundry as punishment for beating Xin'er.

During Bai Yujun’s long imprisonment in True Dragon Hall, the world changed around her: Zhuo Feng avenged his parents, Yang Chen died, and Xiang Yang rose in the court. After more than twenty years, Bai Yujun had strengthened her constitution and altered her fate, but remained sealed in the hall and noticed strange changes to her snake form.

• Zhuo Feng returned home, ruined the Zhuo family, recovered his father’s remains, and buried his parents together.
• Yang Chen died after years of service, and Li Chongqian honored him with a posthumous promotion, noble titles, and a grand funeral.
• Xiang Yang excelled in the Imperial Examination and rose quickly to become a favored official under Li Chongqian.
• Bai Yujun continued cultivating in True Dragon Hall while waiting for the right moment to escape and strike.
• More than twenty years later, Bai Yujun found that bony spines had begun growing along her snake form as she remained trapped in the hall.

A dying Master Yuan visited Bai Yujun in True Dragon Hall and told her how the realm had changed since he imprisoned her to protect the Li Tang dynasty. Bai Yujun remained trapped, waiting for Li Xiangyan to ascend before she dared leave.

• Master Yuan walked through Daming Palace to True Dragon Hall, reflecting on his role in shaping the dynasty and suppressing Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun recognized that Master Yuan was near death, and the two exchanged barbed remarks as he sat beside the Yin-Yang Pool.
• Master Yuan told Bai Yujun that the Great Tang had ended its long civil war and described the deadlock between Chunyang Palace and the demon sect, along with the Demon Subjugation Sect's rumors against her.
• Master Yuan said he had ordered the Li Household to release Bai Yujun after three hundred years, though he wished the dynasty could endure much longer.
• Bai Yujun resolved to keep waiting for Li Xiangyan to ascend, since leaving True Dragon Hall before then could expose her to his power.

Bai Yujun waited in True Dragon Hall as the years passed, watched Li Chongqian grow old and die, and learned that Yu Rong had protected her by making her a personal disciple of Chunyang Palace. After Li Chongqian’s son became emperor, Bai Yujun saw him enter the Imperial Chamber with one of his father’s consorts.

• Master Yuan died within three days of leaving True Dragon Hall, and Bai Yujun continued waiting on the dragon throne.
• Years later, Li Chongqian brought the Crown Prince to visit Bai Yujun and warned his son never to remove her golden talisman.
• Bai Yujun mocked Li Chongqian’s palace life and promised to see the Crown Prince off too, provided he lived as long as his father.
• Li Chongqian told Bai Yujun that Princess Xiangling was well and that Yu Rong had entered Bai Yujun as her third personal disciple to protect her.
• Li Chongqian died, and his son succeeded him as emperor.
• Several days later, Bai Yujun saw the new emperor enter the Imperial Chamber with one of Li Chongqian’s young consorts.

After preparing Chunyang Palace for his departure, Li Xiangyan released his long-suppressed cultivation and survived the heavenly tribulation. He ascended to the Immortal Realm, leaving Chu Zhe with his sword and Bai Yujun convinced that her chance to act had arrived.

• Li Xiangyan handed the sect master's token to Gu Cangyu as acting sect master and instructed Chu Zhe and Lian Tianxing to lead and support Jade Void Palace.
• Li Xiangyan bade farewell to his disciples and fellow cultivators, then walked to the summit of Sword Discussion Peak and unleashed his suppressed cultivation.
• Bai Yujun sensed Li Xiangyan's imposing aura from Chang'an and grew excited because she believed his ascension would leave no one able to restrain her.
• Li Xiangyan blocked the lightning tribulation with his treasured sword, and the clouds parted to reveal an Immortal Bridge amid celestial music and radiant clouds.
• Li Xiangyan gave his sword and Sword Sheath to Chu Zhe, stepped onto the Immortal Bridge, and ascended as witnesses celebrated and the demonic cultivators breathed with relief.
• Bai Yujun lay on the dragon throne in True Dragon Hall and laughed wildly.

After Li Xiangyan’s departure, Bai Yujun began a plan to escape the Green Lotus Wristband’s suppression by weakening the protection around Daming Palace and drawing a demon inside. She then turned her attention to Crown Prince Li Zhang, who grew curious about True Dragon Hall.

• Bai Yujun used the Dragon-shaped Aura above Daming Palace to create a gap that would let demons enter.
• After waiting a month, Bai Yujun let a young Little Fox Demon slip into the palace, then restored the aura’s protection.
• Bai Yujun decided to make the Li Household help with her plan and chose Crown Prince Li Zhang as her next target.
• Bai Yujun caused rain to send Li Zhang and two eunuchs into a pavilion near True Dragon Hall.
• Li Zhang recalled the legend of the immortal true dragon sealed inside True Dragon Hall and became increasingly curious.

Bai Yujun secretly manipulated events in the imperial palace, helping the Little Fox Demon win the Emperor’s favor and gain power while drawing Crown Prince Li Zhang toward the True Dragon Hall. With Li Zhang facing rumors that he might lose his title, he finally approached the hall’s doors.

• Bai Yujun played her flute in the True Dragon Hall, and Crown Prince Li Zhang heard the music and grew curious about its source.
• With Bai Yujun’s help, the Little Fox Demon entered the Emperor’s study as a palace maid and seduced the old Emperor.
• The Emperor made the Little Fox Demon a Talented Lady and neglected court affairs as his exclusive favor toward her provoked resentment.
• Bai Yujun let the fox demon benefit from the imperial family’s fortune while warning that its collapse would bring a dangerous backlash.
• As rumors spread that the Emperor might strip Li Zhang of his Crown Prince title, he went to the True Dragon Hall and placed his hand on its doors.

Li Zhang visited Bai Yujun in True Dragon Hall and obtained medicine that cured the Empress, but the fox demon’s growing influence soon caused trouble for him. The old emperor publicly humiliated Li Zhang at court, leaving his position as Crown Prince surrounded by uncertainty.

• Li Zhang met Bai Yujun in True Dragon Hall and confirmed that she was the true dragon summoned by his ancestors.
• Li Zhang asked Bai Yujun to treat the Empress, and she gave him pills that would restore her health within two days.
• The Empress recovered, and the fox demon responded by demanding a higher rank; the old emperor promoted her to Imperial Concubine.
• Li Zhang searched for help against the fox demon but could find no capable master and hesitated to ask Bai Yujun for another favor.
• The old emperor publicly berated Li Zhang before the court and other Imperial Princes, humiliating him without removing his Crown Prince title.

Crown Prince Li Zhang sought comfort and help from Bai Yujun as Consort Hu’s schemes led to the Empress’s death. Grieving and drunk, he agreed to help Bai Yujun take down a golden talisman in exchange for revenge and the throne.

• Li Zhang repeatedly confided in Bai Yujun, who warned him that Consort Hu coveted the Empress’s position.
• Consort Hu arranged for the Empress to witness the emperor’s disgraceful conduct at a temple, and the Empress fainted and later died.
• Li Zhang rushed to True Dragon Hall for a medicinal pill, but news of his mother’s death reached him before he could return to her.
• After drinking heavily, Li Zhang told Bai Yujun he wanted Consort Hu dead and promised to fulfill any condition in exchange for revenge.
• Bai Yujun persuaded the drunken Li Zhang to climb onto a chair and remove the golden talisman, promising to kill the demon and make him emperor.

Li Zhang refused to remove the golden talisman that imprisoned Bai Yujun, but she tried to tear it off herself and was punished by its lightning. A month later, he returned to ask for her help against Consort Hu and began secretly building support to seize the throne before her investiture as Empress.

• Li Zhang revealed that he had only pretended to be drunk and refused to free Bai Yujun by removing the golden talisman.
• Bai Yujun tried to break the stone and then grabbed the talisman, which struck her with golden lightning as she cried out about her two centuries of imprisonment.
• Li Zhang left True Dragon Hall feeling guilty and stayed away for over a month while Consort Hu gained power and prepared to become Empress.
• Li Zhang returned and asked Bai Yujun to help eliminate Consort Hu, and Bai Yujun agreed if he lured the fox demon near True Dragon Hall.
• Li Zhang gathered support from Aristocratic Clans, martial arts masters, and an Imperial Guard general to seize the throne, while Bai Yujun used destiny to help him force the palace.

Crown Prince Li Zhang launched a palace coup against the old emperor, driven by his followers’ pressure and resentment over his mother’s mistreatment. His forces stormed the palace and reached the emperor’s chamber, while Consort Hu fled to her own palace.

• Li Zhang’s ministers, generals, and clan allies pressured him to begin their planned coup before the Empress’s investiture ceremony.
• A strategist invoked Li Zhang’s mother’s grievance, and Li Zhang ordered his followers to kill their enemies.
• Li Zhang’s troops ambushed the imperial princes at the palace gates, killed several of his brothers, and entered the palace with help from guards wearing red armbands.
• The old emperor dressed in panic as Li Zhang’s soldiers advanced toward his chamber, and Consort Hu escaped through a back door.
• Li Zhang’s hardened soldiers overwhelmed the Imperial Guards and attacked the old emperor’s chamber.