Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun returned to the Heavenly Court, gave a brief report about her disappearance, and rested before setting out to visit Yu Rong and the Daoist sect. She arrived near the sect’s immortal mountains, where the familiar landscape quieted her restless spirit.

• Bai Yujun returned through the Immortal Bridge and entered the Heavenly Court in battered armor, while planning an excuse to conceal what had happened to the Bronze Sarcophagus.
• A Profound Immortal divine general accepted Bai Yujun’s report that she had lost the coffin-like evil object while fleeing evil fiends in the Sea of Stars, then granted her leave and back pay.
• Bai Yujun collected replacement Grand Immortal-level armor and weapons, then returned to her courtyard and found a letter from Yu Rong inviting her to visit the Daoist sect.
• After resting for five days, Bai Yujun accepted a mission to descend to the lower realm and boarded an immortal vessel bound for the Daoist sect.
• Bai Yujun reached the sect’s immortal mountains and felt her restless spirit grow calm as she admired the landscape.

Bai Yujun arrived at Daoist Mountain, ate a koi on the way in, and revealed herself as a dragon at the gate. At the reception hall, she flirted with a Daoist woman who recognized her from Xu Ling’s warning.

• Bai Yujun admired Daoist Mountain’s lake and swallowed a black carp that leaped into her mouth, startling the immortals aboard her ship.
• Bai Yujun reached the mountain gate, identified herself as a Heavenly Court immortal general, and revealed her dragon nature to the gathered disciples and visitors.
• A gatekeeping disciple asked whether Bai Yujun had eaten a koi, and she admitted it before entering the mountain.
• Bai Yujun went to the reception hall, pushed aside an immortal, and flirted with a beautiful woman in Daoist robes.
• The woman recognized Bai Yujun and said Xu Ling had told her to expect a Dragon Girl who teased beautiful women.

Bai Yujun visited Chunyang Palace and reunited with her master, Yu Rong, and fellow disciples Xu Ling and Yang Mu. She offered to help Yang Mu find his deceased wife’s reincarnation, then shared gifts and hot pot with the others, ending with a group selfie.

• Bai Yujun wandered through Chunyang Palace, frightened an Immortal Crane with her dragon might, and met Xu Ling and Yang Mu.
• Bai Yujun joked with Xu Ling and offered to find Yang Mu’s wife’s reincarnation so he could renew their bond; Yang Mu said he would think about it.
• Bai Yujun reunited with Yu Rong, who welcomed her and stroked her hair.
• Bai Yujun gave her master and fellow disciples phones, selfie sticks, hot pot seasoning, and other gifts, while Xu Ling learned to take selfies and Yang Mu became interested in anime art books.
• Bai Yujun prepared hot pot as she told Yu Rong about life in the Heavenly Court, and Xu Ling took a group photo of the four disciples and their master.

Bai Yujun enjoyed a long stay with her Daoist Mountain companions before leaving to complete a Heavenly Court mission. After returning, she was immediately ordered to descend to the mortal world and restore the rightful imperial succession.

• Bai Yujun rested with Xu Ling and Yang Mu at the Daoist Mountain, where they discussed the rarity of dragons and phoenixes.
• As her leave ended, Bai Yujun said goodbye to Yu Rong, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu, who gave her candy and a scabbard.
• Nine days later, Bai Yujun killed an evil cultivator and returned to the Heavenly Court to report her mission complete.
• The Great General of the Female Guard Camp assigned Bai Yujun a special mission to stop those who had altered mortal fate and stolen imperial power.
• Bai Yujun accepted the Golden Scroll and prepared to descend to the mortal world at once.

Bai Yujun descended to Fuliang Kingdom under a Heavenly Edict and found Imperial Princes being seized amid a succession crisis. She stopped one prince from giving his pregnant wife abortifacient medicine, promised to protect his family, and vanished, leaving him unsure whether he had dreamed it.

• Bai Yujun descended to Fuliang Kingdom, disguised herself as a swordswoman, and explored the capital while sampling its food.
• Soldiers seized Imperial Princes from their manors as the capital's succession crisis unfolded.
• An Imperial Prince sent his guards and servants away, then tried to brew medicine for his pregnant Princess Consort.
• Bai Yujun appeared in his smoky kitchen, poured out the abortifacient medicine, and promised to keep his family safe.
• Bai Yujun vanished, and the prince woke to find the medicine pot empty, unsure whether the encounter had been real.

Bai Yujun investigated the Divine Master disrupting the imperial succession and visited the capital’s City God Temple, where cultivator Shuying sought information. After the City God gave Shuying little help, Bai Yujun kicked the altar and demanded that he come out.

• Bai Yujun heard citizens praise the Divine Master and deduced that he was an outside force interfering with the imperial succession.
• Bai Yujun went to the City God Temple and found Shuying, a Hua Ming Sect disciple investigating the Divine Master.
• Shuying asked the City God about the Divine Master, and he said the man was human and that he had reported the matter to the Heavenly Court.
• Shuying decided to leave the capital, but Bai Yujun told her to watch and learn before kicking the altar and demanding the City God appear.

Bai Yujun interrogated the capital’s City God about the Divine Master Kun Huazi, but her attempt to divine Kun Huazi’s whereabouts failed. After leaving the temple, she concealed herself in the lantern-festival crowd, where Cultivator Shuying encountered Old Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the Snake Demon Boy.

• Bai Yujun ignored the City God’s attacks, revealed her Heavenly Court jade tablet, and forced him to explain what he knew about Kun Huazi.
• The City God said Kun Huazi had arrived three years earlier, served the Fuliang Kingdom’s emperor, and wielded two large, white, garlic-smelling hammers.
• Bai Yujun failed to calculate Kun Huazi’s whereabouts, left the temple, and warned Cultivator Shuying that the most terrifying devils could be in people’s hearts.
• Cultivator Shuying pondered Bai Yujun’s words as she wandered through the lantern festival, then spotted Old Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the Snake Demon Boy approaching.
• Cultivator Shuying and the Snake Demon Boy prepared to fight, but Old Hui Xian’s ongoing lecture broke their tension.

Bai Yujun secretly investigated the City God after suspecting he had concealed something, tracing his earlier movements to the Divine Master's Residence. She discovered that officials there were plotting against threats to the throne contenders and found someone inside an Underground Palace.

• Little Stone, the Snake Demon Boy, and Old Hui Xian ate beneath a willow tree while Shuying watched them, then left without confronting them after witnessing three young masters assault a woman and kill her father.
• Bai Yujun repeatedly traveled between the Heavenly Gate and the mortal realm while debating whether to open the Heavenly Edict scroll in the Spatial Tunnel, but she ultimately kept it sealed.
• Bai Yujun disguised herself and went to the Fuliang Kingdom's capital to investigate the City God, whom she found absent from his temple.
• Bai Yujun used Gaze into the Past to follow the City God's earlier route to the Divine Master's Residence, where she overheard officials plotting to eliminate threats to the throne contenders.
• Bai Yujun used True Sight to discover a deep Underground Palace beneath the Divine Master's Residence and sensed that someone was inside.

Bai Yujun struggled to assess a threat near the imperial palace, then reunited with Old Monk Huixian and his companions after they arrived in the Main World. She brought them to the Imperial Prince’s estate, where their unexpected visit introduced new variables.

• Bai Yujun sensed two Profound Immortals near the imperial palace and decided she would report a possible high-level Devil Race threat if she could not resolve the situation.
• Bai Yujun sensed Old Monk Huixian’s group, left the tavern, and explained that they were now in the Main World.
• Bai Yujun reunited with Old Monk Huixian, Little Stone, and the Snake Demon Boy, then treated them to a meal.
• Bai Yujun sent a clone to tell the Imperial Prince to welcome visiting experts, then led the group to his estate.
• The Imperial Prince warmly welcomed Old Monk Huixian and the two children into his residence.

Bai Yujun discovered that the Divine Master was stealing the emperor’s dragon aura and returned it, while the Snake Demon Boy defended the princely residence from thirteen attackers. The storm continued through the night, leaving the Divine Master’s scheme undone and the residence’s defenders unharmed.

• As thirteen thieves entered the princely residence, the Snake Demon Boy went out to confront them while Little Stone returned to the pavilion with Old Hui Xian.
• Bai Yujun used True Sight and saw the emperor’s dragon aura being siphoned into the Divine Master’s residence.
• Bai Yujun froze the stolen aura and used her Dragon Clan Talent to return it to its source, thwarting the Divine Master’s attempt to claim it.
• The Snake Demon Boy fought the attackers with his saber and venom, killing them before returning to guard Old Hui Xian.

Bai Yujun uncovered a hidden alteration in the Heavenly Edict and repaired it, realizing that her enemies had laid a trap to make her bear the blame for disrupting mortal affairs. When Senior Brother Gan Wu arrived, she asked him to escort Hui Xian and his companions away from danger rather than involve him in the larger scheme.

• Bai Yujun waited through the night near the city while two Profound Immortals remained hidden in ambush, expecting her to seek revenge at the City God Temple.
• Suspecting the Heavenly Edict had been tampered with, Bai Yujun used True Sight and the Little Broken Ball to discover and repair an altered stroke in the heir's name.
• Bai Yujun concluded that her enemies had intended to lure her into proclaiming a false edict and taking the blame for upheaval in the mortal world.
• Bai Yujun sensed Senior Brother Gan Wu approaching and met him on a mountain outside the city.
• Bai Yujun asked Gan Wu to take Hui Xian and the other two friends away from the city, and he agreed to keep them safe.

Bai Yujun gathered the fortune of the Fuliang Kingdom’s imperial, mountain, and river dragon veins to protect herself from those plotting to kill her. At the capital, she proclaimed the Jade Emperor’s edict naming Fourth Prince Zhong Qi as heir, while the watching City God and Profound Immortals remained poised against her.

• Bai Yujun bid farewell to Senior Brother Gan, Hui Xian, and the others, then set out through the rain toward the capital.
• Bai Yujun absorbed the emperor’s dragon aura and borrowed the fortune of the kingdom’s rivers and mountains, summoning nine dragon veins to shield herself.
• The City God and two Profound Immortals waited in the capital, expecting to attack Bai Yujun after she proclaimed the Heavenly Edict.
• At the hour of the dragon, Bai Yujun unfurled the Golden Scroll and proclaimed the Jade Emperor’s decree naming Fourth Prince Zhong Qi heir to the Fuliang Kingdom.
• Bai Yujun raised the edict into the sky, where its power compelled the gathered gods and cultivators to acknowledge Heaven’s will.

Bai Yujun used the fortune surrounding her to deter two Profound Immortals, then entered the palace and freed the old emperor from an Evil Arts restriction. She pursued the fleeing Divine Master and caught him in the mountains.

• Bai Yujun taunted two Profound Immortals until they abandoned their plans to fight her and descended into the city.
• Bai Yujun entered the imperial palace, put the attendants to sleep, and dispelled the Evil Arts restriction controlling the old emperor.
• The old emperor regained his strength and awareness, and Bai Yujun told him that the Divine Master had fled.
• Bai Yujun returned the emperor’s dragon aura, discovered the City God had departed, and tracked the Divine Master to the mountains.
• Bai Yujun knocked the Divine Master from his flying treasure with the Phantom Dragon Claw as he begged for his life.

Bai Yujun returned the eight dragon veins, made it back to the Heavenly Court, and reported the ambush that nearly killed her while delivering an edict. The Queen Mother ordered an investigation, and more than two hundred immortals were arrested as Bai Yujun returned to her quiet routine but resolved to avoid dangerous missions.

• The former City God entered the Demon Realm, and Bai Yujun destroyed the spatial rift behind him.
• Bai Yujun secretly returned the eight dragon veins to their places, then used a roundabout route to reach the Heavenly Court.
• Bai Yujun brought her petition to the Female General, who told her the Queen Mother had ordered Heavenly King Li to investigate the ambush.
• The next morning, Bai Yujun heard that more than two hundred immortals had been taken away, including several Profound Immortals.
• Bai Yujun resolved to avoid future edict-delivery missions, then drank from a waterfall and washed her hair.

Bai Yujun was assigned to escort more than fifty criminals’ True Spirits to the underworld for reincarnation, giving her a chance to see the fate of those connected to the organization that had harmed her. As the procession headed for the South Heavenly Gate, she sat down with a former immortal official and offered him a drink.

• Dong Yong, broken by Ziyi’s departure, mistook her return beneath the locust tree for a dream, while Bai Yujun glimpsed them with the Sky Patrol Mirror.
• The Female General ordered Bai Yujun to lead an escort mission for criminals whose True Spirits had survived execution and agreed to reincarnate.
• Bai Yujun gathered two hundred heavenly soldiers and received more than fifty prisoners from the Heavenly Prison.
• The escort boarded a vessel and set off for the South Heavenly Gate on its way to the underworld.
• Bai Yujun cast a soundproofing spell, sat opposite a former immortal official, and offered him a drink before his reincarnation.

Bai Yujun questioned the prisoner Cheng Li about the mysterious organization and learned it might be planning to hunt her. She escorted him and the other prisoners through the South Heavenly Gate toward Yellow Springs Road, where they would face reincarnation.

• Bai Yujun traded cups of immortal brew for information from Cheng Li, who explained how he had been drawn into the organization and could not leave.
• Cheng Li revealed that the organization had assigned him to monitor Bai Yujun and might have a hunting plan targeting her.
• Cheng Li guessed that the organization wanted to overturn the stagnant Immortal Realm and create a New Era, though he knew little about its true aims.
• Bai Yujun dismissed Cheng Li's ideals and removed the barrier, then took the prisoners' documents to register their passage.
• Heavenly soldiers escorted the prisoners through the South Heavenly Gate as Cheng Li looked back at it with sorrow and regret.

Bai Yujun escorted prisoners’ True Spirits along the Yellow Springs Road and witnessed the underworld officials suppress a disturbance among Lost Souls. A Ghost General hinted that the road had more formidable guardians ahead, and Bai Yujun’s procession continued toward Fengdu to find them.

• Bai Yujun discovered that her dragon body remained safe in the underworld even without the Divine Light from her divine office.
• Bai Yujun passed Ghost Gate Pass, completed the documents with the underworld officials, and took a selfie while her Heavenly Soldiers waited.
• Several Lost Souls pleaded with the Heavenly Soldiers to save them, triggering unrest that Ghost Soldiers and Underworld Emissaries violently suppressed.
• A Ghost General explained that more powerful guardians watched the Yellow Springs Road ahead, then arranged for Underworld Emissaries to accompany Bai Yujun toward Fengdu.
• Bai Yujun led the procession onward and came upon an unfamiliar sight about one li from Ghost Gate Pass.

Bai Yujun encountered the silent Tang Empire Heavenly Policy Army on the Yellow Springs Road, then explored the River of Forgetfulness before escorting the prisoners’ True Spirits into Fengdu. After completing the underworld’s paperwork, she continued toward the Bridge of Helplessness with more than fifty True Spirits.

• Bai Yujun recognized the iron-blooded legion as the Tang Empire’s Heavenly Policy Army and retreated as it vanished into the Yellow Sand.
• Bai Yujun followed the Lost Souls past the crimson Lycoris Radiata to the River of Forgetfulness and frightened its evil ghosts and Evil Spirits into silence.
• Bai Yujun tested the river’s water and discovered that her dragon aura protected a Wooden Stick, but she could not control the vast river’s Water Vein.
• Bai Yujun crossed the bridge into Fengdu and learned that Ghost Officials handled most Lost Souls’ judgments while the Ten Kings of Hell judged only important figures.
• Bai Yujun verified her identity, signed the documents, and escorted more than fifty prisoners’ True Spirits toward the Bridge of Helplessness.

Bai Yujun escorted Cheng Li and other Heavenly Court prisoners to Meng Po’s Soup, where they lost their memories and entered reincarnation. Speaking with Meng Po about the underworld’s growing number of resentful souls and evil ghosts, Bai Yujun proposed destroying them with heavenly lightning and earthfire to restore order.

• Bai Yujun teased Cheng Li at the Bridge of Helplessness before Heavenly soldiers escorted him and the other prisoners across it.
• Bai Yujun watched the prisoners drink Meng Po’s Soup, and Cheng Li lost his Spiritual Intelligence before walking toward reincarnation.
• Meng Po told Bai Yujun that many souls had died unjustly and that resentful souls and evil ghosts continued to multiply.
• Bai Yujun suggested destroying resentful souls and evil ghosts so their souls could return to their source and be gathered anew.
• Bai Yujun argued that the Heavenly Court and underworld were institutions of force meant to guard order, while Meng Po questioned whether her plan would harm Heavenly Harmony.

Bai Yujun listened to Meng Po’s advice at the Bridge of Helplessness, then explored Fengdu Ghost City after her mission ended. A local ghost told her the city’s Twin Yin Mountains were also called Dragon Horn Peak, leaving her startled by the name.

• Meng Po told Bai Yujun that ancient species had to adapt to survive and warned that the four dragons serving in the Heavenly Court had strayed from the nature of true dragons.
• Bai Yujun offered Meng Po a ladle of water when the old woman coughed, then received permission to explore the underworld.
• Bai Yujun crossed into Fengdu Ghost City with the heavenly soldiers, who rested while she wandered alone through the gloomy streets.
• Bai Yujun tried to question a newly dead ghost about the city’s peaks, but a three-hundred-year-old toddler ghost offered to answer instead.
• The toddler ghost told Bai Yujun that the Twin Yin Mountains were also known as Dragon Horn Peak, and she exclaimed in shock.