Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun and Yang Ning drove off the two Jiuli experts who had pursued him, but Yang Ning collapsed from his injuries afterward. Bai Yujun teased him by pretending they had a romantic history, leaving his wife furious and Yang Ning struggling to explain himself.

• Bai Yujun held off the two Jiuli experts while Yang Ning returned to the fight with his spear.
• Yang Ning and Bai Yujun counterattacked together, badly injuring the Jiuli experts and forcing them to retreat.
• Yang Ning returned to his wife, then dropped to his knees as his internal injuries flared up.
• Yang Ning failed to recognize Bai Yujun, so she playfully suggested they had once been involved.
• Yang Ning's wife accused him of fooling around with a Southern Wasteland woman, and Bai Yujun corrected her that she was a snake spirit.

Bai Yujun hosted Yang Ning and his injured wife, Guo Zhen, at her bamboo house and learned they had come to the Southern Wilderness to find Golden Thread Grass. The next morning, she set out for a Jiuli village to ask whether anyone knew where to find it.

• Yang Ning recalled old companions Mo Qin and Mo Yuan, who had died more than a hundred years earlier.
• Yang Ning explained that Guo Zhen had been injured in an ambush, and that Golden Thread Grass was needed to treat the poison in her heart and lungs.
• Bai Yujun agreed to ask a Jiuli village about the herb and gave Guo Zhen the bed while the couple rested at her house.
• Bai Yujun prepared breakfast, then flew through the morning mist to a nearby Jiuli village to seek information.

Bai Yujun learned that Golden Thread Grass grew in a valley guarded by a Deity Transformation Stage demon beast, and Yang Ning set out to retrieve it for Guo Zhen despite the danger. Three days later, a mountain collapsed deep in the Southern Wasteland, revealing a mysterious ruin as a vast aura spread across the region.

• Bai Yujun learned that Golden Thread Grass grew in a remote valley within the territory of a Deity Transformation Stage demon beast.
• Yang Ning, devastated by the danger, resolved to enter the Hundred Thousand Mountains and gather Golden Thread Grass to save Guo Zhen.
• Bai Yujun gave Yang Ning a Snake Scale to conceal his aura, and he left while Guo Zhen watched and prayed for his safe return.
• On the third day after Yang Ning left, a mountain deep in the Southern Wasteland collapsed and exposed a mysterious ruin.
• Bai Yujun felt a vast, majestic aura sweep across the Southern Wasteland.

Bai Yujun followed a mysterious lure into the Southern Wilderness and found an ancient palace, where a Golden Roc father and son attacked her. Injured but alive, she hid inside the palace and vowed to take revenge.

• Bai Yujun resisted the lure drawing aquatic demonic beasts into the mountains, but eventually left Guo Zhen behind and followed them.
• Bai Yujun traveled cautiously through the Southern Wilderness, avoiding powerful beasts and witnessing a Nascent Soul Realm bird kill a Crocodile Demon.
• Bai Yujun reached an ancient palace exposed by a collapsed mountain and flew toward its gates.
• A Golden Roc boy pointed out Bai Yujun and asked his father to let him eat her, so the golden-robed man attacked her with a giant golden palm.
• Bai Yujun slowed the palm with an exploding Spiritual Energy Sword, escaped into the palace with a badly injured shoulder, and hid from the Golden Roc pair.
• Bai Yujun recognized the father and son as Golden Rocs, treated her wound, and vowed to slaughter their nest.

Bai Yujun recovered from her injuries in the ancient palace and discovered that a carved stone wall could help her comprehend an ability connected to clouds and mist. After making a small cloud and eating a defeated hawk to regain her strength, she ventured toward the palace’s dangerous central axis to seek more carvings.

• Bai Yujun healed her shoulder and explored the palace’s outer ruins while avoiding the other demon beasts.
• Bai Yujun sensed a mysterious artistic conception in a stone wall carved with dragons and meditated on it through the night.
• Bai Yujun opened her eyes at dawn and found that her comprehension had produced several tiny floating clouds.
• Bai Yujun killed and roasted a wounded hawk demon, shared an offer of food with a carp demon, and replenished her strength.
• Bai Yujun searched the outer buildings for dragon murals and reliefs, then headed toward the central axis and passed numerous demon beast corpses.

Bai Yujun scavenged demon beast hearts while demons fought over treasures in the palace plaza, then sensed a mysterious presence in the golden dragons on the hall’s pillars during a thunderstorm. She climbed onto one dragon’s head to study its artistic conception.

• Bai Yujun secretly ate the hearts of dead demon beasts while the others fought over a saber.
• When a pursuing herd rushed toward her, Bai Yujun smeared herself with blood and played dead until they passed.
• After nightfall, Bai Yujun watched powerful demons fly deeper into the palace and imagined becoming a Demon King or Demon Emperor.
• A thunderstorm revealed that Bai Yujun could sense the golden dragons carved around the hall’s pillars.
• Bai Yujun climbed onto a golden dragon’s head and began comprehending its mysterious artistic conception.

Bai Yujun comprehended the golden dragons’ artistic conceptions, repairing her innate abilities and slowly advancing her cultivation before exploring deeper into the palace ruins. She discovered murals about divine dragons and the world’s ancient disasters, then avoided a young Golden Roc whose Demon King father had once tried to kill her.

• Bai Yujun spent nearly a month comprehending the golden pillars, gaining the ability to command wind, clouds, rain, thunder, and lightning while her cultivation began to rise.
• Bai Yujun explored the palace’s dragon-themed ruins and found murals depicting the emergence of Demonic Beasts, their wars against other races, and divine dragons fighting alongside radiant people.
• Bai Yujun encountered the young Golden Roc who had wanted to eat her and recognized him as the son of the Demon King who had pursued her.
• Bai Yujun judged that fighting the Golden Roc would risk her life, so she turned around and left.

Bai Yujun escaped the ruin disguised in lobster armor after the golden pillars shattered in her wake, then headed back toward Snake Valley. On the journey, she sensed Yang Ning’s Snake Scale near a roc’s territory and turned toward him, fearing he had been captured by the Golden Roc family.

• Bai Yujun disguised herself in a lobster shell to conceal her aura and decided to leave the ruin as demon kings gathered to fight over its treasures.
• Bai Yujun bowed to the twenty-four golden pillars, which suddenly cracked and collapsed; she fled with two chunks of gold as the ruin’s beasts resumed fighting.
• The tiny Golden Roc searched the ruin for Bai Yujun but gave up and flew toward the sealing formation.
• Bai Yujun discarded the lobster shell in a lake, used her strengthened Water Control Divine Ability to hide from a Nascent Soul Realm demon beast, and continued toward Snake Valley.
• Bai Yujun sensed Yang Ning’s Snake Scale near the roc’s territory and changed course, suspecting that Yang Ning had been captured by the Golden Roc family.

Bai Yujun infiltrated the Hawk-Eagle Rocs’ valley at night to search for Snake Scales and discovered that Yang Ning and many other humans were imprisoned in a cave. She reached the prison without alerting the guards, but the chapter ended before she could free them.

• Bai Yujun entered the valley under cover of darkness, gathered Golden Thread Grass, and raided low-lying eagle nests for eggs.
• Bai Yujun found a guarded cave after smelling Yang Ning and other humans inside, then watched a jackal demon patrol the area.
• Bai Yujun distracted the cave guards with a falling stone and slipped inside using her Wind Control Talent.
• Bai Yujun climbed along the cave ceiling past patrolling demons and found Yang Ning imprisoned with more than a hundred civilians and cultivators.

Bai Yujun rescued Yang Ning from a dungeon in the Demon King Golden Roc’s territory and fled through the forest as demon beasts pursued them. Three Demon Core Stage beasts and a powerful Nascent Soul Realm demon closed in while she raced toward the dawn mist.

• Bai Yujun knocked out the Badger Demons guarding the dungeon and found Yang Ning imprisoned and badly wounded.
• Bai Yujun freed Yang Ning but refused to rescue the other captives, then carried him through the cave while knocking out lesser demons.
• Bai Yujun told Yang Ning they were in the territory of the Deity Transformation Stage Demon King Golden Roc, and they learned the humans had been captured as food for the king’s guests.
• Bai Yujun escaped the cave with Yang Ning as alarms sounded, while the freed commoners were overwhelmed by demon beasts.
• Bai Yujun raced over the forest canopy toward the gathering dawn mist with three Demon Core Stage beasts and a powerful Nascent Soul Realm demon pursuing them.

Bai Yujun fled three Demon Core Stage beasts while carrying Yang Ning, then hid him in the forest and continued alone to a lake. She ambushed one of the pursuing Bat Demons and dragged it underwater, while the other two remained above the lake.

• The Saintess sensed something in the mountains, contacted the old priest, and sent four figures into the mountains.
• Bai Yujun gave Yang Ning the Golden Thread Grass and gold, then dropped him into a fog-covered forest to conceal him from the pursuing beasts.
• Yang Ning landed among the trees, followed Bai Yujun’s instructions, and limped away as the beasts flew past after her.
• Bai Yujun reached a lake, transformed into her White Snake form, and dove underwater to evade the three pursuers.
• Bai Yujun used her Water Control Talent to ambush a Bat Demon, caught it in her jaws, and plunged back into the lake.

Bai Yujun killed and devoured one Bat Demon, then used exploding spiritual energy swords to wound the remaining Bat Demon and escape into the fog. A Green Crow of Nascent Soul Realm strength intercepted her and struck her as she tried to flee.

• Bai Yujun killed the Bat Demon underwater and swallowed its corpse, then dove beneath the lake to escape the surviving Bat Demon’s sonic attack.
• Bai Yujun formed water swords, but the Bat Demon’s shrieks shattered them, so she prepared explosive spiritual energy swords instead.
• Bai Yujun’s exploding swords blasted the Bat Demon, and she fled into the fog while the Leopard Demon rescued its companion.
• A Green Crow released its Nascent Soul Realm pressure and tracked Bai Yujun as she tried to dive back into the lake.
• Bai Yujun twisted away from the Green Crow’s attack and cast Turn Heaven and Earth, but its beak and talons shattered her scales and drew blood.

Bai Yujun narrowly escaped the Green Crow when Rain Swallow and four Jiuli people intervened, then fled underwater while her wounds healed. She left the area and killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator to obtain healing pills.

• The Green Crow nearly killed Bai Yujun, but Rain Swallow attacked and gave her time to dive into the lake.
• Rain Swallow and the Jiuli elder refused to let the Green Crow pursue Bai Yujun, and he flew away with the Leopard Demon and Bat Demon.
• Rain Swallow left after warning the Jiuli people not to harm Bai Yujun, but they discovered the snake had vanished.
• Bai Yujun concealed herself underwater, drifted away through a creek, and hid while treating her injuries.
• After reaching safety, Bai Yujun emerged from the creek, flew through the fog, and hid again when it cleared.
• Bai Yujun ambushed a Foundation Establishment cultivator at the river and dragged him underwater.

Yang Ning returned to Snake Valley with Golden Thread Grass and treated Guo Zhen, while Bai Yujun made it back after evading pursuit and recovered from her ordeal. After Yang Ning and Bai Yujun noticed fighting nearby, they went to investigate, where Bai Yujun saw Central Plains cultivators battling a troop of Monkey Demons.

• After more than ten days of waiting, Guo Zhen reunited with Yang Ning, who returned with Golden Thread Grass and treated her.
• Bai Yujun returned to Snake Valley exhausted, ate the household’s food, and slept for three days and three nights while clutching gold.
• Bai Yujun woke refreshed and roasted meat, then learned that Yang Ning had noticed a fight beyond the mountain.
• Yang Ning flew to investigate, and Bai Yujun followed to protect the snakes living in her territory.
• Bai Yujun saw four Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators fighting several Monkey Demons after an injured monkey had summoned its troop.

Bai Yujun stopped Yang Ning from attacking the Monkey Demons and revealed that she was a demon, leaving him unable to reconcile her identity with her kindness. After Yang Ning and Guo Zhen departed, Bai Yujun returned to her quiet routine, then discovered that her stored metal ores had mysteriously increased and sensed someone waiting by the pool.

• Yang Ning charged the Monkey Demons, but Bai Yujun stopped his spear and demanded that the four cultivators return the dead baby monkey and leave Snake Valley.
• Bai Yujun revealed her snake eyes and told Yang Ning that she was a demon, shocking him and the four cultivators.
• The four cultivators left the baby monkey's body behind, and Yang Ning flew away after a long silence.
• Yang Ning and Guo Zhen prepared to leave the Bamboo House; Guo Zhen thanked Bai Yujun, and Yang Ning paused to thank her before departing with his wife.
• Bai Yujun returned to her daily routine of tending snake eggs and practicing Swallowing Clouds and Exhaling Mist.
• Bai Yujun went to retrieve her stored metal ores, found that the stockpile had grown, and sensed someone by the pool as the saintess of Cloud Remote Ancient Village waited on the shore.

Mu Duo sought Bai Yujun out to ask her to become Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s sacred beast, promising freedom and cultivation benefits. Bai Yujun transformed into human form and asked about the rewards, leaving Mu Duo speechless.

• After months of searching, Mu Duo waited by a deep pool and finally encountered Bai Yujun.
• Mu Duo explained that the Ancestor God had chosen Bai Yujun to protect Cloud Remote Ancient Village as its sacred beast during a coming calamity.
• Bai Yujun worried that being a totem meant being skinned and hung from a pole, but Mu Duo assured her she would remain free and receive worship and offerings.
• When Bai Yujun hesitated, Mu Duo offered her own service as part of the bond between the Holy Maiden and sacred beast, then began removing her clothes.
• Bai Yujun transformed into a Jiuli girl, asked Mu Duo about the village’s material benefits, and told her to put her clothes back on.

Bai Yujun negotiated an agreement to become Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s sacred beast totem in exchange for gold, gems, food, and mutual protection. As the village prepared a ceremony to welcome her, she settled in and surprised a Central Plains merchant with an unusual painting.

• Bai Yujun bargained with Mu Duo and agreed to serve as Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s totem for offerings and protection.
• Bai Yujun returned to the ancient village, where the villagers prepared a ceremony and arranged a pavilion for her.
• Bai Yujun enjoyed the village’s offerings, treasured a fist-sized Rough Diamond, and wandered through the settlement.
• Bai Yujun visited a Central Plains merchant’s stall, asked him to grind ink, and began painting a gift.
• The merchant watched Bai Yujun’s strange, simple-lined painting and was dumbfounded by its style.

Bai Yujun amused herself in Cloud Remote Ancient Village before joining the ceremony welcoming her as its sacred beast. The ceremony began successfully, and the White Division welcomed her dramatic arrival as the gathered tribes watched.

• Bai Yujun gave Mu Duo a drawing of Lazy Goat and learned that she only needed to coil around the Giant Tree during the ceremony.
• Bai Yujun wandered through Cloud Remote Ancient Village, sampling food and disrupting villagers’ daily activities.
• Villages and tribes gathered at Cloud Remote Ancient Village for the sacred beast’s return ceremony, while the Black Division viewed the White Division’s discovery with hostility.
• The old priest chanted as a White Snake totem appeared, and Mu Duo invited the sacred beast.
• Bai Yujun emerged from the Sea of Mist, surrounded by colored clouds, and her arrival drew a spontaneous roar from the crowd.

Bai Yujun completed the Jiuli White Tribe’s ritual and became Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s totem, then left for Snake Valley as fighting between humans and demon beasts spread around the Southern Wasteland. She found the valley unchanged, but a battle’s disturbance interrupted her peaceful return.

• Mu Duo finished the ritual, and Bai Yujun ate the three offerings as the Jiuli White Tribe cheered.
• Bai Yujun redirected the Earth Vein Dragon Qi beneath Cloud Remote Ancient Village, improving its fortune while avoiding its own fortune settling on her.
• As war between humans and demon beasts intensified near the Hundred Thousand Mountains, the Black Tribe and White Tribe stayed out of the conflict and Cloud Remote Ancient Village remained peaceful.
• Bai Yujun left the village for Snake Valley, circling Mu Duo’s window to greet her before flying away.
• Bai Yujun returned to Snake Valley, greeted the snake spirits, and settled into the Bamboo House before distant battle fluctuations reached her.

Bai Yujun saw signs of a looming calamity and hid in the Underground Dark River Cave for a year. After awakening, she discovered that a vast forest had been burned to scorched earth and cursed whoever had set the fires.

• Bai Yujun spotted human cultivators and demon beasts fighting beneath darkening blood baleful intent, then fled back to Snake Valley and fortified it with miasma, poisonous plants, and venom.
• Fearing the Fiend Stars of Sha Po Lang and the killing tribulation, Bai Yujun hid her treasures in the Sinkhole Deep Pool and went underground, where she slept for a year.
• After awakening and leaving the Underground Dark River Cave, Bai Yujun sensed something wrong near the eastern forest and flew there to investigate.
• Bai Yujun found a vast forest reduced to scorched earth, with injured and dead animals fleeing or lying among the ashes.
• Bai Yujun recognized traces of spellwork above the wasteland, roared in fury, and cursed whoever had burned the mountain forests.