Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun sensed the remains of a dragon beneath Fengdu Ghost City but chose not to investigate further, then returned to the Heavenly Court with her soldiers. Meanwhile, Zhong Qi became Crown Prince and traveled to Bamboo Spring Temple to thank the divine general, accidentally crushing its rotten door as he tried to repair it.

• Bai Yujun found the dragon's skeleton beneath Fengdu Ghost City but withdrew her dragon energy and abandoned her search.
• Bai Yujun warned the little ghost child against visiting the Heavenly Court, gathered her soldiers, and left the underworld.
• Zhong Qi received the imperial decree naming him Crown Prince and decided to visit the master who had predicted his rise.
• After more than a month of travel, Zhong Qi reached Bamboo Spring Temple with gifts and found Hui Xian and his two disciples returning from begging for alms.
• Zhong Qi tried to prop up the temple's rotten door, but crushed it into splinters when Little Stone shouted at him to stop.

After returning from the underworld, Bai Yujun relaxed at Yaochi while County Magistrate Shen Zhu began investigating Yeyu’s devastating floods. When the Gu Clan prayed to the Divine Dragon, Bai Yujun’s sleepy gesture stopped the rain over their residence.

• Bai Yujun led the Heavenly Soldiers out of the underworld, completed her mission, and went to Yaochi to drink beneath a waterfall.
• Shen Zhu arrived in Yeyu as its new County Magistrate and asked an elderly local about the recurring floods of the Kun and Li Rivers.
• After the old man urged him to consider the rivers’ dragons, Shen Zhu commissioned Gu Yuan to paint a true dragon to strengthen his resolve to control the floods.
• Gu Yuan studied the rivers in the rain for days, fell ill, and prompted the Gu Clan to offer sacrifices and pray to the Divine Dragon.
• Bai Yujun twitched an ear and waved her hand in her sleep, stopping the rain over the Gu Family residence.

While unconscious from a fever, Gu Yuan encountered Bai Yujun in an illusory storm and saw her true dragon form. He woke convinced he had seen a real dragon and rushed to paint it.

• As the Gu Clan prayed for Gu Yuan and the river works, he drifted through a violent storm in a tiny boat inside his dream.
• Bai Yujun, playing amid the clouds and waves, heard Gu Yuan call for help and rescued him from the collapsing waves.
• Gu Yuan told Bai Yujun he wanted to paint a dragon, and she displayed her powers and appearance for him.
• Bai Yujun warned Gu Yuan that he might not return if he drowned in the illusory world, then flew away through the clouds.
• Gu Yuan woke suddenly, insisted he had truly seen a dragon, and hurried to his desk to begin painting.

Gu Yuan gave Shen Zhu the True Dragon Painting, which helped inspire Shen to control Yeyu’s floods and earn the people’s gratitude as Lord Ye. As rumors that Lord Ye loved dragons spread, Bai Yujun heard a false tale that a Heavenly Dragon had frightened him and wondered whether to visit him herself.

• Gu Yuan presented Shen Zhu with the True Dragon Painting and claimed to have seen a true dragon while gravely ill.
• At Bamboo Spring Temple, Hui Xian and Little Stone welcomed several hundred people who came up the mountain to worship.
• Shen Zhu surveyed Yeyu, organized river works, and gradually reduced the floods; the grateful people began calling him Lord Ye.
• Rumors spread that Lord Ye loved dragons, and Shen Zhu ignored the stories as they grew more elaborate.
• Bai Yujun heard that a Heavenly Dragon had frightened Lord Ye and considered going to see whether she could scare him herself.

As floods threatened Yeyu’s dikes, Bai Yujun discovered that river demons were secretly intensifying the waters and went to meet the legendary Lord Ye, Shen Zhu. She revealed her dragon presence to him, but he collapsed instead of fleeing, leaving her disappointed.

• Shen Zhu despaired as relentless rain threatened to destroy Yeyu’s new dikes and flood the city again.
• Bai Yujun investigated the unnatural flooding and discovered two water demons using Water Magic to strengthen the Kun and Li Rivers.
• Bai Yujun descended to Yeyu and approached the County Yamen to see Lord Ye before dealing with the flood.
• Shen Zhu saw Bai Yujun’s dragon tail outside his window, then glimpsed her dragon form when she appeared behind him.
• Bai Yujun made her eyes glow red, and Shen Zhu collapsed into a chair; she complained that he had not run away.

Bai Yujun met County Magistrate Shen Zhu in the study and agreed to control Yeyu’s floodwaters in exchange for offerings. She flew toward the demon beast causing the flooding, and the rain began to ease as a dragon’s roar sounded in the distance.

• Bai Yujun appeared in the study and recognized the white dragon in Lord Ye’s painting as herself.
• Shen Zhu bowed to Bai Yujun and asked her to save Yeyu from the flooding.
• Bai Yujun refused to help for free, and Shen Zhu offered sacrificial animals and fruit in exchange for her aid.
• Bai Yujun flew toward the demon beast stirring up the Kun River’s floodwaters.
• Shen Zhu ordered hot tea as the rain eased, the clouds rolled away, and a dragon’s roar sounded in the distance.

Bai Yujun subdued the water demons behind the flooding of the Kun and Li Rivers, then calmed the waters and reassured Shen Zhu that Yeyu still needed to maintain its defenses. The people of Yeyu worshipped the true dragon, and Bai Yujun left with the offerings.

• Bai Yujun confronted a giant Black Toad in the Kun River and warned it to stop flooding Yeyu City.
• The Black Toad refused and threatened to drown the city, so Bai Yujun pinned it beneath her and forced it to flee.
• Bai Yujun found the Catfish Demon in the Li River, defeated it, and sent it downstream before calming the floodwaters.
• Shen Zhu ordered the people of Yeyu to prepare offerings for the true dragon, and Bai Yujun told him to keep building dikes and dredging the rivers.
• The people worshipped the dragon at the riverbank, and Bai Yujun took the offerings after the incense was burned.

Bai Yujun returned to the Celestial Court and relaxed in her home before watching the demon monkey face its heavenly tribulation in the Dragon Sleep World. The monkey began taking lightning strikes head-on and demanded more, leaving the onlookers stunned as the tribulation continued.

• Bai Yujun returned from a mortal-world mission, checked her tally notebook, and soaked in her wooden bathtub at Jade Pool.
• Bai Yujun’s Clone and Mu watched the demon monkey prepare for tribulation in the Southern Wilderness Hundred Thousand Mountains, while discussing the ancient Dragon Palace nearby.
• True Person Ye and the Chunyang Palace cultivators arrived and greeted Bai Yujun and Mu before joining them to watch.
• The demon monkey buried a peach pit, then roared as the heavenly tribulation began.
• The demon monkey endured the first lightning strike without dodging, then danced and shouted for the lightning to strike again.

Bai Yujun returned to work after sleeping for three days and sought easy missions to earn leave. At South Heavenly Gate's Mission Hall, she reviewed miscellaneous jobs and found one hiring temporary workers to fan the flames at Doushuai Palace.

• Bai Yujun woke in the immortal spring, resolved to take more missions, and headed out to work at the Female Guard Camp's Mission Hall.
• She searched the camp's mission boards, then learned from Sister Li that simple errands were usually available at South Heavenly Gate's Mission Hall counter.
• Bai Yujun flew to South Heavenly Gate and asked the nice fellow to find her short, easy missions nearby.
• While the nice fellow sorted through the jobs, Bai Yujun waited in her usual corner and read the documents he brought her.
• Bai Yujun spotted a temporary job at Doushuai Palace to fan the flames.

Bai Yujun reported to Doushuai Palace for a mission to fan the flames and prepare alchemy materials. After a sleepy Daoist acolyte showed her to the Gengzi Alchemy Room and explained the task, she changed clothes and began reading the instructions.

• Bai Yujun registered for the mission and traveled by boat to Doushuai Palace in Lihentian.
• Bai Yujun reported at the side gate, where a crane summoned someone to receive her.
• A sleepy Daoist acolyte checked Bai Yujun’s document and led her to the Gengzi Alchemy Room.
• The acolyte instructed Bai Yujun not to wander and told her to follow the jade talisman’s directions while melting the materials into essence.
• Bai Yujun entered the alchemy room, changed into a white dress, and sat down to read the jade talisman.

Bai Yujun began refining Metal Attribute immortal fruits in Doushuai Palace, enduring days of tedious furnace work. After completing half the task, she spoke with Golden Horn about Silver Horn’s trip to Penglai and heard that Giant Turtles might still inhabit the deep sea.

• Bai Yujun studied the pill-refining instructions, then chose to sleep through the night instead of starting work.
• Bai Yujun tested the furnace and began refining the first Metal Attribute immortal fruit, feeding spiritual power into the fire for three days and nights.
• Bai Yujun drew the melted fruit into a jade bottle, rested, and then refined another fruit more smoothly.
• After more than ten days, Bai Yujun took a break and asked Golden Horn whether he was Silver Horn; Golden Horn said Silver Horn had gone to Penglai Immortal Island to deliver pills.
• Bai Yujun and Golden Horn discussed Penglai’s legends and the Giant Turtles that once supported the island, and talk of the deep sea stirred Bai Yujun’s bloodline.

Taishang Laojun summoned Bai Yujun from her nap and brought her to an ancient divine palace hidden behind Doushuai Palace. He told her that the colossal, long-cold Refining Furnace there held a stroke of fortune for her.

• Bai Yujun dozed in the sun outside Doushuai Palace until Golden Horn told her that Taishang Laojun wanted to see her.
• Bai Yujun paid her respects to Taishang Laojun, blurted out that she was hungry for meat, and eyed the pill furnace hungrily.
• Taishang Laojun led Bai Yujun through a mysterious passage into an ancient divine palace in the Cosmic Void.
• Taishang Laojun pointed out a colossal, cold Refining Furnace and said the place held a stroke of fortune for Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun tried to rekindle an ancient Dragon Clan pill furnace for Taishang Laojun, discovering that only her dragon flame could ignite its arrays. After ten days of tending the fire, the frozen ingredients melted into a fragrant medicinal mixture, though what it would become remained unknown.

• Taishang Laojun told Bai Yujun that the furnace held ancient ingredients and promised she could keep whatever it produced if she relit it.
• Bai Yujun’s fire spells failed to activate the furnace, but her dragon flame briefly ignited an array in its base.
• Bai Yujun transformed into her true white dragon form and breathed enough dragon flame to set the furnace’s arrays burning continuously.
• Bai Yujun maintained the fire with daily bursts of dragon flame while Taishang Laojun watched the furnace heat for ten days.
• The frozen medicinal liquid melted and began bubbling, and Bai Yujun inspected its mixture of metal, herbs, flesh and bone marrow, and spring water.

Bai Yujun drank the ancient dragon soup Taishang Laojun had helped prepare, then slept as her body absorbed its power and grew stronger. She woke after nine days, lamented leaving the enormous cauldron behind, and departed with plans to return and cook in it again.

• Bai Yujun waited for the beast-and-metal soup to finish simmering in the giant cauldron, feeding it Scorching Dragon Flame as needed.
• When the soup was ready, Bai Yujun opened the cauldron and drank every drop, licking the vessel clean while Taishang Laojun watched.
• Bai Yujun fell asleep on the floating island, absorbed energy from the void, and unconsciously strengthened and enlarged her body as the Little Broken Ball began spinning faster.
• Taishang Laojun departed while Bai Yujun slept, and nine days later she woke, transformed into human form, and noticed her improved body and larger horns.
• Bai Yujun decided to leave the ancient cauldron in Doushuai Palace and promised to return with ingredients to make soup.

Bai Yujun finished refining the pills for Golden Horn, collected her mission reward, and left the Heavenly Court for the mortal world. She resumed her black-market business, making bamboo flutes and selling goods, where she advised a cultivator considering a damaged flying sword.

• Bai Yujun finished refining the fruit and handed the completed pills to Golden Horn, who rated her work deeply satisfactory.
• Bai Yujun learned that an Immortal Lord's clan had ordered pills and reminded herself to be cautious when visiting the mortal world.
• Bai Yujun collected her mission reward, reported back to the Female Guard Camp, disguised herself, and used the Teleportation Array to descend to the mortal world.
• Bai Yujun set up a stall at a black market and happily carved bamboo flutes while selling goods.
• A down-and-out cultivator examined a nicked flying sword, and Bai Yujun reassured him that it was well made and worth its price.

Bai Yujun spent her leave trading war spoils for ancient artifacts and searching for clues to the Ancient Dragon Clan, then broke into a wealthy household’s library to read its old books. She discovered that she enjoyed reading as her search continued.

• Bai Yujun traded a jade talisman containing a body-refining technique for Moonlight Stone and gave the hooded cultivator a protective paper umbrella.
• Bai Yujun packed up her stall at dusk, changed her appearance several times, and slept in an ancient well to conceal her tracks.
• Bai Yujun went to a wealthy household the next morning and sneaked into its library to search its books for information about ancient times.
• Bai Yujun used several clones to sort through the library’s books while she read, unnoticed by the old servant sweeping the courtyard.
• Bai Yujun realized that she liked reading.

Bai Yujun followed a clue from a genealogy to a tomb and settled in to read its preserved books. Meanwhile, a newly ascended gray-furred monkey defeated immortals who tried to sell it, then wandered freely until it sensed a familiar scent and sped off.

• Bai Yujun found a genealogy entry about Dongmen Qingshu, who had been buried with three hundred ancient books, and bought candles before nightfall.
• Bai Yujun entered Dongmen Qingshu’s tomb, where a weak zombie retreated into its coffin after sensing her presence, and began reading the books.
• A gray-furred monkey fell from an exploding flying vessel after two immortals tried to trick it into working in a mine.
• The monkey defeated one immortal, took valuables and clothing, and began wandering through the mountains to cultivate.
• After dawn, the monkey sensed a familiar scent, turned toward it, and vanished into the distance.

Bai Yujun reunited with the gray-furred monkey in a burial chamber and welcomed him as a trusted friend over a lavish meal. When the monkey mentioned that someone had called a broken blade the Dragon Slaying Saber, Bai Yujun abruptly rose to kill whoever had said it.

• The monkey burst through the burial chamber ceiling, reuniting with Bai Yujun and destroying the tomb as he entered.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey went to a black-market restaurant, where she treated him to spirit fruits, wine, meat, and pills.
• Bai Yujun explained that she was searching tombs and old records for clues to ancient ruins, possibly those of the ancient dragon race, and the monkey offered to join her and fight.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey declared each other friends and shared stories about their experiences after ascending to the Immortal Realm.
• The monkey said he had killed a captor who called a broken blade the Dragon Slaying Saber, and Bai Yujun rose with her saber, vowing to kill the person responsible.

Bai Yujun and the monkey exposed an illegal mine while evading the Heavenly Patrol, then continued their search for ancient ruins. A red cord meant to bind Bai Yujun to fate failed, and the chapter ended with her locating a place to dig.

• The monkey attacked the mine’s fleeing overseers, and Bai Yujun arrived as a Heavenly Patrol Immortal General to free the prisoners and seize the mine’s remaining valuables.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey concealed their tracks and celebrated their spoils at a black-market tavern the next day.
• An old immortal tried to tie a red cord to a white dragon-patterned bud on the Lover’s Tree, but the bud became an illusory dragon and vanished.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey spent months surveying the land with markers and calculations to reconstruct ancient terrain and find ruins.
• Bai Yujun identified a spot and told the monkey to dig.

Bai Yujun explored an ancient underground cave dwelling but found no useful clues, then left to reforge the monkey’s weapon in the Heavenly Court’s workshop. The monkey stayed on the grassy slope and waited for her return, and Bai Yujun came back after five days.

• Bai Yujun searched an underground Ancient Ruin and found only ruined structures and jade that had lost its spirituality.
• Bai Yujun returned to the surface and told the monkey the expedition had uncovered nothing useful.
• Bai Yujun searched her storage pouch, found immortal-realm ores, and decided to reforge the monkey’s weapon.
• Bai Yujun flew to the Heavenly Court’s workshop and told the monkey to stay where it was.
• The monkey waited through five days of changing weather, and Bai Yujun finally returned from the sky.