Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun gave the monkey a newly forged Ruyi Jingu Bang, and the two spent half a year wandering in search of ancient ruins. After finding a notice about an evil dragon on Jiyun Mountain, they headed to the county yamen to investigate the reward.

• Bai Yujun presented the monkey with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, and he eagerly tested its weight and power.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey spent half a year excavating ancient sites but found no useful clues about divine abodes.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey entered a city and read a notice claiming an evil dragon on Jiyun Mountain abducted women and devoured human remains.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey made their way toward the county yamen, trading jokes and drawing wary glances from the City God.
• Bai Yujun heard cultivators describe the Jiyun Mountain monster as a powerful dragon and decided to investigate it.
• The yamen's Door Knocker Beast and Bright Mirror reacted to the monkey, but Bai Yujun calmed them with a glance.

Bai Yujun and the monkey traveled toward Jiyun Mountain to investigate a supposed divine dragon, taking their time while Bai Yujun examined the ancient terrain. After discovering a faint trace of dragon bloodline and a strange aura over the mountain’s main peak, they decided to seek out the creature.

• Bai Yujun and the monkey let other cultivators reach Jiyun Mountain first, hoping they would test the demon before the pair got involved.
• Four Rogue Cultivators ambushed them in the forest and tried to rob them, but the monkey sent three flying and wounded the fourth.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey continued through the mountain range, and none of the cultivators who had gone ahead returned by dawn.
• Bai Yujun detected a faint Dragon Bloodline scent and used her dragon eyes to spot a strange vicious-beast aura above Jiyun Mountain’s main peak.
• Bai Yujun became interested in the creature claiming to be a divine dragon and set off with the monkey to investigate.

Bai Yujun and the monkey watched a battle in Jiyun Mountain while investigating a demon hidden in a basin. After a richly dressed young man ordered the Sinister Old Man to kill them, Bai Yujun defeated the assassin and the monkey struck him down.

• Bai Yujun and the monkey watched cultivators fighting near the basin and sensed a demon inside it.
• The Young Man in Fine Clothes ordered the Sinister Old Man to kill Bai Yujun and the monkey.
• Bai Yujun tracked the invisible Sinister Old Man and exchanged blows with him using Hengdao.
• The Sinister Old Man broke free of Bai Yujun's pressure, but she shattered his black spike and drove him back.
• Bai Yujun called out the monkey's position, and the monkey smashed the Sinister Old Man's head with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.

Bai Yujun and the monkey uncovered a Second-generation Immortal’s scheme to feed people to a Dragon Descendant demon so he could harvest its blood. They descended into the demon’s cave and found the creature, whose appearance stunned them.

• Bai Yujun and the monkey attacked the young master and his guards, but the young master escaped using a jade talisman and the burly man fled after fighting the monkey.
• Bai Yujun questioned two maidservants and learned that the Second-generation Immortal had arranged for local authorities to lure mortal cultivators into feeding the Dragon Descendant demon.
• Bai Yujun let the maidservants go, then decided to investigate the sinkhole cave with the monkey.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey entered the vast, foul-smelling cave and heard the demon’s strange cry as they approached its lair.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey encountered Jiyun Mountain’s so-called divine dragon and stared at it in astonishment.

Bai Yujun and the monkey entered a winding cave, where she used spiritual clones to map its passages while the monkey tried to copy her technique by plucking and blowing on its hair. A Second-generation Immortal sealed the entrance and pursued them, leaving the pair deeper in the cave with the threat closing in.

• Bai Yujun frightened the bloodthirsty worm into retreating, then gave the monkey treasure-grade cloth boots to wear.
• Bai Yujun sent dozens of spiritual clones into the branching tunnels to find a route and mark dead ends.
• Bai Yujun plucked a hair from the monkey and demonstrated how she expected it to make a clone, but nothing happened.
• The Second-generation Immortal arrived with his entourage, sealed the cave entrance, and ordered his men to capture Bai Yujun and the monkey.
• Bai Yujun led the monkey into a small tunnel and erased their tracks, then told it she made clones without plucking scales because doing so hurt.

Bai Yujun and the monkey found an ancient Black Stone Gate sealed with dragon blood beneath Jiyun Mountain and prepared to open it. Behind them, cultivators struggled to identify the safe path through the caves as the mountain’s buried secret emerged.

• A cultivator used glowing powder to trace a figure into a cave, but saw similar figures appear at every entrance and claimed they were clones while formation experts began deductions.
• A Rogue Cultivator entered a cave alone, and the smell of blood soon drifted out.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey reached a towering Black Stone Gate and discovered that its faded dragon-blood seal had once suppressed something filled with resentment.
• Bai Yujun saw that nothing living remained beyond the gate, scraped the dried dragon blood into a jade bottle, and decided not to absorb it.
• Bai Yujun warned that the other cultivators would soon arrive, then she and the monkey braced themselves to push open the gate together.

Bai Yujun and the monkey opened the sealed Ancient Black Stone Gate and entered a cavern containing an ancient corpse, only to discover that the site was a Death Prison saturated with resentment. They left the chapter facing the corpse’s traces of madness and finding no treasure.

• Bai Yujun and the monkey forced open the Ancient Black Stone Gate, releasing resentment that struck the Immortal Realm experts’ formation and contaminated an attendant.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey entered the cavern, where she sent glowing paper cranes through the darkness to illuminate the underground space.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey found a black earthen mound covered in weathered bones and realized it was the remains of an enormous creature.
• The monkey became agitated, and Bai Yujun spotted claw marks across the cavern walls and ceiling that revealed the corpse’s desperate struggle before it died.
• Bai Yujun resisted the resentment, then concluded that the place was a Death Prison rather than a treasure site.

Bai Yujun burned away the corrupted soil and hateful markings inside the cave, then found and pocketed an unburned bronze mirror. When a group of experts arrived, she and the monkey ambushed them and fled deeper into the cave.

• Bai Yujun decided the Filth Qi and resentment in the cave could endanger Jiyun Mountain, so she used dragon flame to burn them away.
• Bai Yujun discovered an unburned bronze mirror among the remains and stored it with the melted metal.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey hid within the flames as experts gathered outside the Black Stone Gate, then planned an ambush and escape.
• The monkey leapt from the fire and killed a Mortal Immortal with his staff while Bai Yujun severed the arm of a burly hammer-wielding man.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey fled down the cave, realizing they had killed only one of their attackers.

Bai Yujun and the monkey escaped their pursuers by collapsing a cave, then stole a flying vessel and sold it after flying away with their treasure. They arrived in a Mortal City planning to rest and learn to make money by following the rules.

• Bai Yujun and the monkey collapsed part of the cave while the monkey held off the pursuing immortals, then escaped through the tunnels.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey took the Young Master in Fine Clothes's flying vessel and threw its former captain overboard.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey flew away with the treasure, examined the mirror, and agreed to sell the vessel in a large city.
• Three days later, Bai Yujun and the monkey sold the vessel on the black market and headed to a Mortal City to rest for two months.
• Bai Yujun said she would teach the monkey to make money legally, then changed their appearances so she looked like an ordinary female cultivator and he looked like a boy.

Bai Yujun taught the monkey to make money through begging, then started him on a roasted-sweet-potato peddling business. The monkey eagerly learned about food and commerce but still struggled to communicate with people.

• Bai Yujun told the monkey that earning money through business was better than fighting, and promised to teach him begging after they ate and slept.
• Bai Yujun pretended to be a dead, impoverished woman while the monkey stood beside her, and passersby dropped copper coins into their bowl.
• The monkey successfully collected money while Bai Yujun slept all day, and she realized people had mistaken her for a corpse needing burial.
• A few days later, Bai Yujun made a stove and taught the monkey to sell roasted sweet potatoes, correcting her mistake after dragon flame burned the first stove away.
• The monkey enthusiastically roasted and ate other foods, then tried to call out to customers in squeaks until Bai Yujun told him to speak human.

Bai Yujun and the monkey ran their snack stall while she searched for clues to the imperial palace library, then planned a nighttime theft. They sheltered from the rain at the City God Temple, where Bai Yujun finished sewing the monkey a hooded cloak and discovered a needle hidden in its lining.

• Bai Yujun paid Zhang Mazi protection money and told the monkey she wanted to investigate the palace library, even considering visiting a Cultivation Sect if she found no clues.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey roasted walnuts, peanuts, and sesame, then baked sweet filled pastries and made frosted peanuts.
• Bai Yujun stirred up the wind, noticed rain was coming, and tried selling oil-paper umbrellas for ten taels of gold each, but the refined scholar walked away.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey took shelter at the City God Temple, frightening the City God and sending the ghost soldiers and attendants into the rear courtyard.
• Bai Yujun finished a hooded cloak for the monkey and found him holding a needle from inside the garment; she asked him to believe it was an accident.

Bai Yujun and the monkey broke into an imperial palace library during a storm to search ancient texts for clues about a coming crisis. As they left with useful information, a critically ill scholar awoke after dreaming of the glowing paper umbrellas.

• Bai Yujun waited for an auspicious hour, then infiltrated the imperial palace with the monkey and evaded its formations.
• Bai Yujun found the hidden entrance to the library's underground collection and sent clones to search its books while she rested.
• The sick scholar dreamed of a deserted, colorless city and recognized the paper umbrellas as a source of hope, but an unseen force pulled him away from them.
• Bai Yujun finished reviewing the ancient texts, left the palace with the sleeping monkey, and strengthened a thread of the imperial family's fortune as payment.
• The scholar awoke and told his family that he was still alive.

A worried elder sought an umbrella seller whose appearance matched his sick son’s dream, hoping to save the young man. He left to consider trading a valuable heirloom for an umbrella, while a Prince’s adviser arrived to claim that same item for the Prince.

• The elder traveled to Bai Yujun’s riverside stall and asked to buy one of her nine unusual umbrellas.
• Bai Yujun raised the price from ten taels of gold and asked the elder to offer something that interested her, then told him that what was not fated could not be forced.
• The elder returned home and admitted that preserving the clan’s future mattered more to him than his son’s life.
• The old driver went to the rear courtyard, and a woman hurried away in a carriage with a box.
• A Prince’s adviser visited the residence and said the Prince had accepted the elder’s proposal but wanted a particular item.

Bai Yujun gave a grieving woman a blue paper umbrella in exchange for an item that could save a gravely ill person, then stopped the woman's relatives from taking it back. As another group of riders approached, Bai Yujun foresaw trouble, prepared her saber, and waited for them.

• After the rain stopped, Bai Yujun accepted a wooden box from a grieving woman and gave her a blue umbrella that would heal the sick and bring peace and safety to her family.
• The old man and several riders charged toward the stall, but the horses panicked at the sleeping monkey's ferocious aura and threw their riders.
• Bai Yujun told the woman to take the umbrella home, while the old man and his companions accused her of using demonic arts and sent up a whistling arrow for help.
• Bai Yujun packed her stall and woke the monkey, then sensed more riders approaching and used her dragon pupil to glimpse the future.
• Bai Yujun drew her sheathed saber, tied up her hair, and prepared to face the newcomers.

Bai Yujun healed a scholar with her umbrella and later faced a Prince who accused her of demonic misconduct. When disguised Heavenly Soldiers arrived, she recognized them as members of the Rebel Organization and revealed her identity as a Heavenly Court Immortal General.

• A woman brought her embroidered paper umbrella to a gravely ill scholar, and its light cured him and reunited the family.
• Bai Yujun drank with the monkey while a Prince accused her of causing trouble and using a supreme treasure to deceive mortals.
• Imperial Astronomical Bureau cultivators hesitated to act because Bai Yujun had harmed no one and there was no evidence against her.
• A squad disguised as ordinary passersby revealed themselves as Heavenly Soldiers and demanded that Bai Yujun surrender.
• Bai Yujun recognized the squad as Rebel Organization members, revealed her dragon horns, and declared that they had betrayed the Heavenly Court.
• Bai Yujun identified herself as an Immortal General of the Female Guard Camp as her divine-beast aura surged forth.

Bai Yujun and the monkey defeated a Rebel Organization immortal general in a battle that devastated West Market Street and the west city gate. Outside the city, Bai Yujun pinned him down and demanded information, but he refused to talk, so she prepared to send him to the Heavenly Court alive.

• Bai Yujun revealed herself as the Dragon Girl and charged the heavenly soldiers, using her shield to strike several of them before clashing with the immortal general.
• The monkey attacked the immortal general with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, and he and Bai Yujun alternated blows until they drove him through the west city gate.
• Bai Yujun pinned the injured immortal general down and pierced his armor with her saber, sealing his cultivation.
• Bai Yujun questioned the immortal general about the Rebel Organization, but he insisted that he could not speak.
• Bai Yujun said she would send the still-living immortal general to the Heavenly Court.

Bai Yujun returned to the Heavenly Court to report after fighting rebels, bringing a captured immortal general to the Law Enforcement Camp and warning them to investigate his accomplices. Back at the Jade Pool Female Guard Camp, she received a mission to replace the Yanzhao Kingdom’s dynasty and improve its people’s livelihood, with the Empress expecting her to use the task to advance her cultivation.

• Bai Yujun told Monkey Brother to wait nearby while she returned to the Heavenly Court, then scolded a fanatic merchant and frightened the caravan away with her dragon appearance.
• Bai Yujun flew to the South Heavenly Gate and delivered the captured rebel immortal general to the Law Enforcement Camp, where they sealed his magic power and stripped him of his office.
• Bai Yujun urged the Law Enforcement Camp to uncover the rebel’s accomplices and invoked True Lord Erlang to pressure them.
• Bai Yujun collected her pay and medicinal pills, then returned to the Jade Pool Female Guard Camp and greeted the Great General.
• The Great General assigned Bai Yujun a mission in the Yanzhao Kingdom to replace its dynasty, address its National Fortune, and improve the people’s livelihood, while advancing her cultivation.

Bai Yujun forged a heavy saber before descending to the mortal world, where she found the monkey watching farmers plant rice. Seeing them step backward as they planted helped the monkey suddenly attain enlightenment, and he began helping in the paddy.

• Bai Yujun drank deeply from the Floating Mountain waterfall, then decided to forge a heavy saber to complement her straight saber.
• Bai Yujun forged the heavy weapon and crossed the Immortal Bridge to descend to the mortal world.
• Bai Yujun found the monkey sitting on a field ridge and asked what he had been watching.
• The monkey explained that farmers moved forward by stepping backward as they planted rice, and he suddenly understood.
• The monkey accidentally trampled a field ridge, repaired it, and joined the farmers in planting rice while Bai Yujun watched in surprise.

Bai Yujun proclaimed Heaven’s mandate over Yanzhao Kingdom, stripped the dynasty of its divine protections, and spent months regulating the realm’s chaotic fortunes as rebellion spread. When rebel soldiers breached the imperial palace, she entered to offer a trade but decided the emperor was not qualified.

• Bai Yujun proclaimed Heaven’s mandate over Yanzhao Kingdom, causing the dynasty’s protective beasts and dragon-shaped fortune to lose their power.
• Bai Yujun entered the special space to suppress Anti-Dragon forces and stabilize the realm’s fortunes, while telling the monkey she planned to trade with the imperial family.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey entered the capital and waited beneath a willow tree as cold rain fell for more than three months and rebellions advanced.
• After nobles opened the city gates to rebel troops, Bai Yujun sensed the palace had been breached and headed there with the monkey.
• Bai Yujun entered the palace, looked at the furious emperor on the dragon throne, and decided he was not qualified to trade.

Bai Yujun and the monkey crossed a palace caught in a bloody purge, saving people by selling paper umbrellas that let them escape unseen. They continued following fate through the palace and discovered the replaced emperor had been practicing a foolish, cruel method of refining medicine.

• Bai Yujun killed the rebel general who threatened palace maids, then set up a stall and sold umbrellas to help them escape the palace unseen.
• A clever young palace maid bought a white umbrella and encouraged the others to buy umbrellas before they fled.
• Bai Yujun found the wounded Imperial Guard general Lu Jin protecting a little Princess and sold them a rare black umbrella and a dagger so they could escape safely.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey wandered through the palace, selling umbrellas to people they deemed worth helping.
• Bai Yujun kicked open a palace door, smelled a greasy odor, and condemned the emperor's failed practice of refining medicine with virgin boys and girls.