Recaps

After a Dragon Hunting Crossbow nearly killed her, Bai Yujun recovered with help from the Jiuli villages and established a place to teach snake demons cultivation. The arc ended with her gathering them as her followers beneath the old Ginkgo Tree and beginning their instruction.

• Bai Yujun was lured to a flooded county town, where Dragon Hunters shot her with a Heaven-grade crossbow and she escaped into the river with the help of the snakes she freed.
• While recovering, Bai Yujun met Ironball, traveled through the Wu Kingdom, and fought a Demonic Beast with his help before continuing toward the Southern Wasteland.
• Bai Yujun visited Bamboo Spring Temple, where Lian Tianxing confronted her but ultimately lowered his sword and left without killing her.
• Mu Duo and the White Tribe villagers brought Bai Yujun to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, where their shamanic healing ritual helped her recover over the changing seasons.
• After waking, Bai Yujun returned to Cloud Remote Ancient Village, then traveled to Snake Valley and used her knowledge to awaken the snakes’ Spiritual Intelligence and teach them cultivation.
• Bai Yujun created three scale formations to help the snakes cultivate in her absence, then built Bai Residence with Qing Ling and Iron Ball as a place for snake demons to study.
• Bai Yujun gathered the snake demons beneath the old Ginkgo Tree, declared them her followers and territory’s demons, and began teaching them cultivation.

Bai Yujun helped contain the poison-corpse outbreak, then traced a Broken Bone from Ghost Rock Village to the Maohe Chamber of Commerce and protected Pan Xiong’s family. The arc left her fighting Liu Ghost King as Hong Niangzi abducted one of Pan Xiong’s sons.

• Bai Yujun burned the poison-corpse horde near Cloud Remote Ancient Village and discovered a Black Tribe shaman directing the outbreak.
• Bai Yujun raided the Black Tribe shamans’ camps, disrupting the corpse tide, then helped Mu Duo spread an antidote and destroy zombies at Ghost Rock Village.
• Bai Yujun and the White Tribe subdued the Corpse King, and Bai Yujun found a Broken Bone beneath the altar that she planned to trace to the Central Plains.
• Bai Yujun followed the Broken Bone’s trail through Maohe Chamber of Commerce records, learned that Pan Xiong was a possible witness, and evaded the black-clad men hunting the chamber’s associates.
• Bai Yujun found Pan Xiong and agreed to protect his family in exchange for information about the goods sent to the Nine Li Black Tribe, then led them out of the city disguised as refugees.
• Bai Yujun killed pursuers who followed the family caravan and encountered ghosts along the route, including a Ghost Bride who noticed her Pure Yang jade pendant.
• Bai Yujun fought Liu Ghost King and badly wounded him, but Hong Niangzi abducted one of Pan Xiong’s sons, leaving Liu Ghost King to discover that she had brought him the wrong young man.

Bai Yujun helped Ren Zhuo avenge his family, then journeyed west in search of the Broken Bone’s origins and encountered the vanished Dragon Gate. She reached Dragon Gate Inn, where Black Tribe experts entered the desert and rumors of ruins drew new travelers.

• Bai Yujun rescued Pan Xiong’s son, then traced the Broken Bone to Ren Canghai’s family and found Ren Zhuo in Dewdrop Town.
• Bai Yujun trained Ren Zhuo and helped him defeat the enemies who had destroyed his family, while he learned that his father had warned him against seeking revenge.
• After Ren Zhuo recovered his family’s keepsake, Bai Yujun left him and traveled northwest with Black Horse.
• Bai Yujun cultivated in the Yellow River, reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and continued west through Liangzhou and Jade Gate Pass.
• Bai Yujun encountered the ancient Dragon Gate in the desert, fled from the killing intent of a sword embedded in it, and later found that the gate had vanished.
• Bai Yujun fought re-forming Sand Monsters and crystallized one with Dragon Breath before reaching Dragon Gate Inn during a sandstorm.
• Bai Yujun strengthened the desert storm each night while waiting for the four evil cultivators’ pursuers, and Black Tribe experts entered the desert following a beetle in a jade jar.
• Bai Yujun learned that a man and his sister sought rumored ruins and offered to sell them living Glazed Crystal.

Bai Yujun left the desert, discovered Huang Zhao building a Snow Mountain Temple, and joined Chunyang cultivators in a search for dragon bones in the Northern Lands. The search brought Chunyang, the Western Teachings, and other factions into a standoff amid ancient zombies and icefield creatures, with Bai Yujun using the chaos to lead her group toward the bones.

• Bai Yujun battled the Jiuli Black Tribe, survived the old priest’s sorcery, and killed the priest’s summoned monster before discovering a hidden palace and passing through its Mysterious Gate.
• Bai Yujun met Mu in a sealed sanctuary, recovered through the tree spirit’s fruits, and returned with birds and squirrels before continuing her journey across the desert.
• Bai Yujun recognized Huang Zhao at the Snow Mountain Temple, let a savage attack distract the Western Teachings, and brought down the unfinished statue before absorbing dragon qi in a hidden fissure.
• Chunyang sent Bai Yujun and twenty Purple Void cultivators to seize dragon bones, and she learned from the savage chieftain that the relic had been found beneath the northern ice plains.
• Bai Yujun led the Chunyang party north, located a fissure filled with frozen soldiers and zombies, and directed the search toward the dragon bones.
• Bai Yujun found icefield creatures and powerful zombies guarding the dragon bones, then faced the arriving Western Teachings and other human forces with Chunyang.
• Bai Yujun provoked the surrounding creatures into charging the factions and zombies, while Chunyang’s sword formation advanced toward the dragon bones and circled toward the rear.