Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun left the village and traveled south by boat, stopping in a dock town where she fought off a group of ruffians. She then ferried an ascetic monk across the river, leaving them together on the water.

• Bai Yujun bid farewell to the villagers and rowed south down the great river in her homemade boat.
• After more than ten days of travel, Bai Yujun stopped at a bustling dock town to eat cooked fish and noticed an ascetic monk begging nearby.
• A scoundrel sent two lackeys to seize Bai Yujun, so she knocked them down, beat the scoundrel unconscious, and left without paying for her meal.
• Bai Yujun returned to her boat and found the monk waiting for a ferry across the river.
• Bai Yujun agreed to take the monk across and rowed toward the opposite bank.

Bai Yujun traveled south to escape the spread of Western Buddhist temples and entered Jiuli territory, where she borrowed silver ornaments from a Jiuli woman to dress like a local. Meanwhile, a White Tribe stockade came under attack, and its priest prepared to use a sacred artifact as the defenders faced defeat.

• Bai Yujun drifted downriver, learned that the Western Buddhist Sect had become the state religion, and left Jiangnan because temples stood everywhere.
• Bai Yujun traveled southwest through dangerous mountain roads, crossed into Jiuli territory, and found the region free of temples.
• Bai Yujun knocked out a Jiuli woman and took her silver ornaments to complete her Jiuli attire.
• Black Tribe attackers breached a White Tribe stockade, killed defenders, and captured women and children.
• The White Tribe priest decided to use the stockade’s sacred artifact, and the clan chief ordered his people to protect the priest.

The White Tribe fought desperately against the Black Tribe as its old priest used a bone flute to summon Bai Yujun for help. As the priest's granddaughter continued the summoning, the Black Tribe's hidden agent chose to take his own life rather than harm her, while Bai Yujun raced toward the village as a giant serpent.

• The White Tribe's chieftain and priest fought back against the Black Tribe's attack, but the enemy raised the dead and pressed toward the altar.
• The old priest played a bone flute, sending a plea for protection that reached Bai Yujun on a mountain path.
• Bai Yujun accepted the summons and transformed into a giant serpent, heading toward the village.
• After the old priest collapsed, his granddaughter continued chanting while the White Tribe warriors defended the altar from the Black Tribe.
• The Black Tribe chieftain ordered his son, the hidden agent, to kill the girl, but the son stabbed himself rather than harm her.

Bai Yujun answered the White Tribe’s summons, routed the Black Tribe attackers, and helped the White Tribe take prisoners. The chapter ended with her rejecting the tribe’s offering of two children as a sacrifice.

• The Black Tribe’s chief ordered his people to retreat when Bai Yujun appeared, then charged her to buy time for the young people and was knocked unconscious by her tail.
• Bai Yujun crushed the stronghold’s defenses and routed the Black Tribe fighters, then killed its priest and destroyed the corpses he controlled.
• Bai Yujun questioned the girl on the altar, understood that she wanted captives, and coiled up while the White Tribe tended the wounded and captured over a hundred people.
• That evening, the White Tribe’s chief presented two children as Bai Yujun’s sacrifice, but she roared that she did not eat people.

Bai Yujun left the ruined Bai tribe village and explored the Southern Wasteland in search of treasures. After a disastrous cliff dive, she searched a deep pool and found valuables but no rare Spirit Grass or Divine Weapon.

• Bai Yujun refused the Bai tribe's child sacrifice, accepted Spirit Grass instead, and left the village.
• The old priest and the burly chief decided the survivors would move to Cloud Remote Ancient Village, and the burly man led the tribe there the next morning.
• Bai Yujun observed the tribe's departure, then continued her cultivation and treasure hunt in the mountains of the Southern Wasteland.
• Bai Yujun jumped from a cliff toward a deep pool but misjudged her flying spell and crashed into the water.
• Bai Yujun searched the pool's bottom, found bones, ornaments, boxes, weapons, and beast fangs, and collected the valuables.

Cloud Remote Ancient Village took in refugees who described Bai Yujun, a powerful White Snake that had spared their lives and accepted spiritual medicine instead of human sacrifices. As Bai Yujun continued searching the mountains, she caught the scent of a rare spiritual medicine and rushed toward it.

• Cloud Remote Ancient Village accepted several hundred survivors from a settlement destroyed by the Black tribe’s attack.
• The survivors told the High Priest and Great Chieftain that a gigantic White Snake had crushed their stone houses, flown, spoken, and taken spiritual medicine instead of eating its human sacrifices.
• A village girl delivered the Holy Maiden’s order not to antagonize the White Snake and to find it as soon as possible.
• Bai Yujun searched the mountains for more than ten days and found only a few patches of weak Spirit Grass.
• Bai Yujun caught the scent of a rare spiritual medicine and surged through the mist toward it.

Bai Yujun followed the scent of a spirit herb to a mountain formation and encountered a middle Golden Core Stage cultivator guarding it. When he attacked her to keep her from revealing his secret, she escaped by diving into the clouds.

• Bai Yujun sensed a spirit herb in a mountain hollow and noticed a human cultivator nearby, so she planned to leave rather than risk a fight.
• The eight-character mustache man approached Bai Yujun and falsely claimed he had permission from Cloud Remote Ancient Village to grow herbs there.
• Bai Yujun tried to depart, but the man questioned her village and secretly prepared to kill her to protect the spirit herb.
• The man attacked with a spell, and Bai Yujun leaped off the cliff into the clouds to escape.
• The eight-character mustache man pursued Bai Yujun on his gourd, but she vanished into the thick mist.

Bai Yujun hid from the Eight-character mustache man, then harassed him for days while waiting for a chance to take revenge and claim his spirit herb. She lured him into a fight at the lake and began shaping the water into a weapon.

• Bai Yujun escaped into the fog and hid in the lake, while the Eight-character mustache man chose to stay and wait for his spirit herb to mature.
• Bai Yujun secretly attacked the man's formation each morning, targeting the spirit herb and wearing down his patience.
• The Eight-character mustache man finally charged at Bai Yujun when she revealed herself, and she fled toward the lake to exploit the terrain.
• Bai Yujun slowed his flying sword with water magic and fired droplets at him while completing a series of hand seals.
• Bai Yujun pulled a transparent treasured sword made of water from the lake.

Bai Yujun used the lake to fend off the Eight-character mustache man, whose flying sword and treasures could not overcome her endless water-based attacks. After their fight ended without a victor, she began harassing him while he guarded a spiritual herb, waiting for a chance to steal or destroy it.

• Bai Yujun summoned water serpents and swords from the lake, forcing the Eight-character mustache man to retreat without defeating her.
• The Eight-character mustache man flew back up the mountain, while Bai Yujun withdrew into the lake and he waited in ambush behind a boulder.
• The next day, Bai Yujun rolled a boulder toward the spiritual herb, but the Eight-character mustache man broke it with his turtle shell before she escaped into the water.
• Bai Yujun repeatedly pestered the Eight-character mustache man with water serpents, Spiritual Energy Bombs, and boulders while he guarded the herb.
• Bai Yujun waited for a chance to steal the spiritual herb or smash it with rocks so the Eight-character mustache man could not have it.

Bai Yujun turned her daily harassment of Ling Shanzi into a final battle, using the rainy weather to wield water-based attacks. Their fight escalated as she revealed the Chunyang Art, and she closed in on Ling Shanzi with water swords and a storm of droplets.

• Bai Yujun continued harassing Ling Shanzi by throwing boulders and other foul objects at his mountaintop post, refusing his attempt to make peace.
• Bai Yujun used the rain as cover to confront Ling Shanzi and taunted him into fighting.
• Bai Yujun formed a massive water snake from the rain, while Ling Shanzi strengthened his flying sword and destroyed it.
• Bai Yujun blocked Ling Shanzi's flying sword with the Chunyang Art's Turn Heaven and Earth, startling him with her knowledge of Chunyang Palace's cultivation method.
• Bai Yujun formed a water Hengdao and four water swords, then charged toward Ling Shanzi behind them as the battle to the death began.

Bai Yujun fought Ling Shanzi through a storm, breaking down his defenses and surviving his demonic blood-mist attack. Their battle continued in midair as she used wind, rain, and hidden venom to wear him down.

• Bai Yujun battered Ling Shanzi's turtle-shell artifact with powerful punches until he recalled it.
• Ling Shanzi unleashed blood mist from his demonic gourd, but Bai Yujun escaped it using Transforming into Three Pure Ones.
• Bai Yujun recognized Ling Shanzi as a Demonic Cultivator and pressed her attack with sword strikes, rain, and her snake tail.
• Bai Yujun repeatedly attacked Ling Shanzi, who invoked the righteous path as justification for killing her.
• Bai Yujun spread venom through the rain and mixed snake venom into her water attacks as their battle continued.

Bai Yujun defeated Ling Shanzi with venom, rain attacks, and her giant snake form, but he escaped using a blood-burning technique. She then went to claim the spirit herb he had been guarding.

• Bai Yujun corroded Ling Shanzi’s flying sword with venom and forced him to rely on talismans and a fragile shield.
• Bai Yujun transformed into a giant snake, exploded her broken Hengdao against Ling Shanzi, and bit him while he struggled to hold her jaws apart.
• Ling Shanzi revealed his demonic cultivation, but the snake venom weakened him and Bai Yujun struck him with her tail.
• Bai Yujun rammed into the mountainside after Ling Shanzi, but he escaped by using a blood-burning secret art.
• Bai Yujun retrieved Ling Shanzi’s gourd and flew to the mountaintop to take the spirit herb protected by arrays.

Bai Yujun destroyed Ling Shanzi’s formations, guarded and swallowed the ripened spirit herb, then slept for more than a month and gained greatly increased lifespan. After waking, she began searching for more herbs and abducted Jiuli villagers to learn their language, accidentally spreading fear of demon beasts among the stockades.

• Bai Yujun tore through Ling Shanzi’s three formations and stayed beside the spirit herb until it ripened.
• At dawn, Bai Yujun swallowed the fruit, reverted to her White Snake form, and hid underwater to digest it.
• A Jiuli elder investigated the ruined hillside but failed to find Bai Yujun, who slept in the lake for over a month.
• Bai Yujun woke with greatly increased lifespan, hunted wild beasts, and decided to seek out spirit herbs near cultivators and demon beasts.
• Bai Yujun abducted several Jiuli villagers and made them teach her their language until she could speak it fluently.
• The villagers returned home, and rumors of a demon beast abducting people led stockades to mistake travelers for demons and burn them.

Bai Yujun traded scavenged relics for gemstones at a Jiuli market while an ominous celestial anomaly appeared across the land. As the Sha Po Lang stars shone in daylight, Chunyang Palace’s leaders feared looming conflict and worried that the divided human realm was unprepared.

• Bai Yujun sold relics from pools and ravines to Jiuli villagers in exchange for shiny stones and herbs.
• Three stars appeared beside the Sun Star in daylight, alarming powerful cultivators, mysterious beasts, and Jiuli leaders.
• A scholar identified the stars as the Sha Po Lang configuration and predicted calamity and chaotic times.
• Bai Yujun admired the unusual stars and pretended to take a picture of them.
• At Chunyang Palace, Yu Rong, Qi Yun, Jiang Li, and Gu Cangyu discussed the threat of demonic beasts and demonic sects, the weakening of Chunyang Palace, and the imperial court’s inability to prepare effectively.

Bai Yujun enjoyed a Jiuli wedding banquet until the demonized Ling Shanzi attacked the village. She defeated him in a brutal fight, leaving the villagers safe and Ling Shanzi dead.

• Ling Shanzi was transformed by the three Sha Po Lang stars and began slaughtering tribes to consume their blood qi and heal his injuries.
• Bai Yujun joined a Jiuli wedding procession and feasted at the village celebration.
• Ling Shanzi flew toward the wedding village, drawn by the crowd, and attacked the villagers.
• Bai Yujun recognized Ling Shanzi and struck him down before he could harm the wedding guests.
• Bai Yujun beat Ling Shanzi until she crushed his skull.

After trading away Ling Shanzi’s belongings, Bai Yujun hid her metal and fled into the mountains when she learned the Jiuli were searching for her. She discovered a valley filled with snakes and recognized it as a protected breeding ground.

• Bai Yujun burned the demonic art and traded Ling Shanzi’s remaining treasures for metal, then hid the metal and other valuables beneath a deep pool.
• Bai Yujun learned that the Jiuli tribe was seeking the White Snake, so she sold her goods and disappeared into the mountains.
• Several Jiuli elders tracked Bai Yujun’s trail to the pool, found her hidden treasure, and left it untouched while adding rare metal.
• Bai Yujun wandered into a No Man’s Land and followed an instinctive pull toward a misty valley crowded with snakes.
• Bai Yujun entered the valley, subdued several minor spirit snake demons with her aura, and found that the snakes used the valley as a safe place to lay their eggs.

Bai Yujun settled in Snake Valley and protected its snakes when a Demonic Eagle attacked. After driving off its flock, she confronted the transformed eagle in the air, and it asked whether she was human or demon.

• Bai Yujun named the valley Snake Valley, built a Bamboo House, and helped care for eggs and hatchlings as she patrolled her territory.
• A Demonic Eagle arrived with hawks and falcons, dispersed the valley's protective miasma, and swooped down to prey on the snakes.
• Bai Yujun launched five Spiritual Energy Swords, killing many of the attacking birds and forcing the survivors to flee.
• The Demonic Eagle transformed into a winged man and questioned Bai Yujun about whether she was human or demon.
• Bai Yujun confronted the Demonic Eagle in the air and told it to get lost.

Bai Yujun fought a Demonic Eagle near an underground river until the High Priest and chieftain of Cloud Remote Ancient Village intervened, driving the eagle away. When they tried to invite her to the village, she escaped into the dark river, while the wounded eagle fled to its Demon King for help.

• Bai Yujun battled the Demonic Eagle near Snake Valley and lured it toward an underground dark river to protect the snakes below.
• The High Priest, the chieftain, and the Holy Maiden of Cloud Remote Ancient Village arrived and identified Bai Yujun as the White Snake they had been seeking.
• At the Holy Maiden's command, the High Priest and chieftain attacked the Demonic Eagle, injuring it and forcing it to flee.
• Bai Yujun dove into the pool and concealed her aura in the underground river, leaving the three unable to find her.
• The wounded Demonic Eagle reached its mountain stronghold and pleaded with its Demon King to uphold justice for it.

Black Hawk reported his clash with the Jiuli to the golden-robed Great King, who ordered the demons to target Central Plains cultivators instead. After escaping underground and returning to Snake Valley, Bai Yujun slept for three days, then resumed her peaceful routine and roasted eagles for dinner.

• Black Hawk told the golden-robed Great King that Jiuli humans had attacked him, and the Great King ordered the demons to guard against and kill trespassing Central Plains cultivators.
• Bai Yujun emerged from an underground river into a Jiuli village pond, then returned to Snake Valley under cover of night.
• Bai Yujun slept for three days while demon beasts began attacking Central Plains cultivators, with Jiuli tribes joining in.
• Bai Yujun woke, made bamboo rice, and relaxed in her courtyard, unconcerned by the fighting between humans and demons.
• Bai Yujun hunted eagles and roasted them in her courtyard, astonishing several young snake demons.

Bai Yujun recognized Yang Ning, an old ally from more than two hundred years earlier, fleeing Jiuli pursuers with his injured wife. She intervened to help him, and the two Jiuli cultivators turned their attention to her.

• Bai Yujun spotted Yang Ning and his wife fleeing two Jiuli cultivators, then decided to help her old friend.
• Yang Ning fought off attacks while carrying his injured wife, refusing to abandon her as they fled toward a great river.
• Bai Yujun raised water snakes from the river and blasted the two pursuers, then attacked them with five flying water swords.
• The Jiuli cultivators blocked Bai Yujun's swords with a wall of trees, and she detonated the swords before they turned to face her.