Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun and the monkey left the ruined capital and traveled toward the address in a wooden box, making a bicycle along the way. As they rode into a mountain village, Bai Yujun sensed something briefly before dismissing it, while an Immortal Lord welcomed his newborn granddaughter, Lan.

• Bai Yujun and the monkey raided the Imperial Kitchen, drove out the rebel soldiers, and ate the food they cooked.
• After leaving the capital, Bai Yujun studied the wooden box for an address and set out with the monkey along concealed mountain paths.
• An Immortal Lord and his wife welcomed their newborn granddaughter and named her Lan.
• Bai Yujun briefly sensed something on the road, then decided to make transportation for the journey.
• Bai Yujun built a bicycle from bamboo, wood, and copper parts, and she and the monkey rode it through fields and into a village.

Bai Yujun and the monkey traveled to a mysterious fog-filled pit, where an illusion concealed a forest occupied by human cultivators. After falling through an anti-flight array, they met a young female cultivator who invited them to join her team.

• The monkey rode Bai Yujun’s oversized bicycle through the wilderness, and they stopped at a cliff after nearly colliding with a pursuing wild boar.
• Bai Yujun used her dragon eyes to see through the fog and discovered a forest and cultivators hidden below.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey descended into the pit, where an anti-flight array disrupted their flight and sent them crashing near a campfire.
• A young female cultivator explained that other members of her team were exploring the forest and invited Bai Yujun and the monkey to join them.

Bai Yujun joined a group of low-level cultivators exploring Spirit Medicine Valley and searched its earth veins for the secret she suspected lay beneath it. After finding nothing, she watched a brilliant Treasure Light suddenly erupt from the forest, drawing the valley’s cultivators toward a possible opportunity.

• Bai Yujun agreed to join the young cultivator girl’s party, then prepared a feast for her and the five cultivators led by Zhang Ke.
• Zhang Ke explained that Spirit Medicine Valley, also called Poor Valley, was a resource-poor training ground that powerful cultivators and sects had found unworthy of claiming.
• Bai Yujun asked about dangerous places and heard that even immortals had searched the valley without finding anything unusual.
• After nightfall, Bai Yujun traced the earth veins through the valley and sensed that someone had altered the terrain, but she found no treasure.
• Treasure Light suddenly pierced the fog from deep within the forest, and the cultivators in the valley rose excitedly.

Bai Yujun and the monkey ignored the rush toward the Treasure Light until morning, then set out with Zhang Ke and the others to search for it. As cultivators poured into the valley and fought or coerced weaker arrivals, the group headed deeper into the forest.

• Bai Yujun deduced that the treasure could not be reached safely for several days and told Zhang Ke's group to wait until morning.
• After dawn, Bai Yujun avoided a falling Golden Core Cultivator and his flying sword as cultivators began crashing into the valley.
• Bai Yujun, the monkey, Zhang Ke, and the others ate breakfast, then rode and walked toward the forest's depths to seek the treasure.
• Bai Yujun told the monkey that cultivation meant improving oneself rather than relying on treasures, and he agreed.
• Cultivators formed temporary alliances, fought over the search, and forced low-level cultivators to scout for traps.

Bai Yujun and the monkey traveled toward a treasure’s location, passing judgment on a sword cultivator and defeating bandits along the way. They reached a newly formed Rift Valley whose depths held dense demon aura, a hint of dragon aura, and a broken stone stairway.

• Bai Yujun told the East Mountain Sword Lord that his past actions had ruined his fortune and left him no hope of further advancement.
• Bai Yujun explained to the monkey that capturing spirit beings born from mountains and forests brought lasting misfortune to those who exploited them.
• The monkey killed three cultivators who were robbing travelers, and Zhang Ke and the other rookies collected the bandits’ valuables.
• Bai Yujun and the group reached the treasure site and found a vast Rift Valley that had not been there before.
• Bai Yujun used True Sight to glimpse a broken stairway in the valley and sensed dense demon aura and a trace of dragon aura.

Bai Yujun and Monkey Brother descended into the fissure with the other cultivators to investigate the underground lake and its rumored treasure. Below, Bai Yujun found a damaged barrier written in ancient Dragon Script and sensed a great demon carrying dragon aura.

• Bai Yujun warned Zhang Ke and the five rookies that the fissure was dangerous, but they chose to continue.
• A cultivator from the Bai Family tried to drive the group away, and his attack knocked Monkey Brother's peach into the fissure; a terrified scream followed as someone fell after it.
• Bai Yujun prepared steel cables and pulleys, then led the descent while the five rookies and other cultivators followed.
• Bai Yujun reached the underground lake and suspected that an unrecognized wild god occupied a divine position there.
• Bai Yujun discovered a damaged barrier formed from ancient Dragon Script and sensed a great demon with dragon aura.

Bai Yujun searched the underground lake for ruins and a hidden demon, using her dragon powers to investigate the waters. After the demon began dragging cultivators and boats beneath the lake, she pursued it, but its skill at controlling water made it a formidable threat.

• Bai Yujun deduced that the Treasure Light came from an unclaimed treasure and waited for the hidden demon to reveal itself.
• Bai Yujun gathered Zhang Ke's group and Monkey Brother, then set off to search the underground lake for ruins.
• Bai Yujun sensed that an ancient formation blocked her control of part of the lake and steered her bamboo raft toward Daji Mountain.
• A hidden force used powerful currents to split a dharma vessel and drag its passengers beneath the lake.
• Bai Yujun investigated the ambush underwater, found a piece of the vessel, and realized the demon could control water from afar.
• Another dharma vessel was pulled underwater by the currents.

Bai Yujun confronted a powerful demon hiding in the lake and lured it out of the depths after their water magic clashed. The demon surfaced near the Bamboo Raft, where Bai Yujun and the monkey prepared to attack it together.

• Bai Yujun cut off the undercurrent that trapped cultivators, then discovered the demon was protected by a Defense Array.
• Bai Yujun guided the Bamboo Raft toward the demon, while the monkey agreed to help her defeat it.
• Bai Yujun descended into the lake and fought the demon, which attacked her with water magic and sticky bubbles.
• Bai Yujun drove the demon toward the surface, where the bubbles lost their effect, and returned to the Bamboo Raft.
• Bai Yujun moved the Bamboo Raft back as the enormous demon rose beneath the lake surface, and the monkey searched for a back of its head to strike.

Bai Yujun and the monkey confronted the Carp Demon Yonghu, which fled and revealed the hidden Yonghu Dragon Palace. Cultivators rushed toward the palace but became trapped in an illusion before its gate, while Bai Yujun struggled to find a way through.

• Bai Yujun identified the supposed Dragon King as an immortal Carp Demon, and she and the monkey prepared to attack it.
• The Carp Demon fled when Bai Yujun and the monkey threatened it, and Bai Yujun sent blades after it.
• Mist dispersed to reveal the hidden Yonghu Dragon Palace, drawing the nearby cultivators toward its open gate.
• Bai Yujun stopped Zhang Ke and the others from stepping onto the palace grounds and explained that the people who entered were alive but trapped in an illusion.
• Bai Yujun saw the trapped cultivators scattered across the patterned bricks but could not figure out how to break the formation.

Bai Yujun and her companions approached the Dragon Palace at Yonghu Lake and waited for other cultivators to break its formation. After cultivators used blood and human sacrifices to open a gap, Bai led her group through the illusion formation, leaving them at the palace’s main gate.

• Bai Yujun admitted she knew little about formations and decided to let the cultivators gathered at the Dragon Palace find a way through.
• Bai Yujun saw powerful cultivators bleed weaker cultivators to defile the formation and taught the monkey not to become cruel or forget his roots.
• The cultivators found a flaw in the ancient formation, and Bai Yujun chose to bring Zhang Ke's group of five through the gap with her and the monkey.
• Bai Yujun led the group across the formation’s crushing pressure while the monkey guarded the rear, and the other cultivators pursued illusions instead of them.
• Bai Yujun and her companions reached the Dragon Palace’s main gate.

Bai Yujun and the monkey entered the dragon palace courtyard and discovered a carp clerk pretending to be a dragon king. After the carp’s courtly majesty failed to affect them, they attacked it, and Bai Yujun trapped it inside by locking the gates.

• Bai Yujun opened the courtyard gates, alarming the cultivators outside who had been breaking the formation.
• Bai Yujun sensed a carp in the administrative hall and warned Zhang Ke and the other five to stay out of the fight.
• The carp used a seal and official robes to pose as a king, forcing Zhang Ke and the others to kneel, but its majesty had no effect on Bai Yujun or the monkey.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey attacked the carp, while the courtyard formation repeatedly shifted their positions.
• Bai Yujun realized the carp could not open or close the gates, shut them, and locked them with her shield.

Bai Yujun defeated the Carp Demon in the Dragon Palace’s front courtyard and took the Official Seal. After hearing how he had entered the palace and studied its formation, she suspected he was still hiding part of the story.

• Bai Yujun and the others were repeatedly shifted around the courtyard by the formation, while a Rogue Cultivator secretly picked up a severed fish scale.
• Bai Yujun fought the Carp Demon, revealed her dragon horns, and struck his skull, but the formation diverted her finishing blow.
• Bai Yujun shattered the Carp Demon’s fish-bone weapon with her dragon spear as the monkey struck his wrist, sending the Official Seal rolling to the young female Rogue Cultivator.
• Bai Yujun reclaimed the Official Seal and forced the Carp Demon to surrender.
• Bai Yujun questioned the defeated Carp Demon about how he had found the Dragon Palace and learned to use its formation, then suspected he had concealed some details.

Bai Yujun questioned the Carp Demon about the Treasure Light and discovered that someone had opened the garden gate it had tried for centuries to breach. She entered the hidden garden and opened its stone gate, where a tiny girl in green emerged and excitedly touched Bai Yujun’s dragon horns.

• Bai Yujun shackled the Carp Demon and used Time Rewind to learn that it had accidentally triggered the Treasure Light while trying to break the central courtyard restriction.
• Bai Yujun inferred that the Carp Demon had been searching for whoever opened the inner door, while cultivators outside fought over the Dragon Palace’s lanterns.
• Bai Yujun led the monkey and the five rookies to the garden gate and opened it, finding a carefully tended garden with a familiar scent like Mu’s.
• Bai Yujun recognized the carved stone gate as an entrance to a secret realm, warned the Carp Demon against its crooked schemes, and introduced herself before opening it.
• A tiny girl in green appeared beyond the stone gate, flew onto Bai Yujun’s head, and delightedly stroked her dragon horns.

Bai Yujun befriended Xi, an ancient tree spirit in Yonghu Dragon Palace, and agreed to take her somewhere safer. After Xi showed her how to absorb the secret realm, Bai Yujun brought it into her own barren inner space, where Xi saw that it had no visible edge.

• Bai Yujun introduced herself to Xi, while the monkey beat the Carp Demon for lusting after the tree spirit.
• Bai Yujun decided Yonghu was too dangerous for Xi and planned to take her to Dragon Sleep World to live with Mu.
• Xi explained that the secret realm had been created by the Yonghu Dragon Girl, who had never returned, and asked Bai Yujun to move it.
• Xi told Bai Yujun to empty her mind and use her innate ability to absorb the secret realm through its stone gate.
• The stone gate and Xi appeared inside Bai Yujun's barren inner space, where Xi remarked that she could not see its edge.

Bai Yujun explored the Yonghu Dragon Palace, found a treasure that upgraded her pearl, and discovered a letter revealing the dragons’ persecution and a destination marked on an ancient map. She left the study with a new clue to pursue, while Xi hoped the Yonghu Dragon Girl was still alive.

• Bai Yujun opened the golden furnace, and its multicolored powder raised the grade of her precious pearl.
• Bai Yujun entered the inner courtyard while Zhang Ke and the others cultivated; the monkey beat the Carp Demon out of boredom.
• Bai Yujun searched the study and reassured Xi that the Yonghu Dragon Girl might still be alive.
• Bai Yujun found a letter describing a calamity, the slaughter of young dragons, and enemies who captured dragons to make magical treasures.
• Bai Yujun compared the letter’s hidden map with the Identity Jade Slip’s star map and found that its destination lay in an uncharted region.

Bai Yujun left the sealed study and fought off cultivators who tried to seize Xi, then defeated a hidden demon with the monkey’s help. After recovering the demon’s head and the Dragon Palace, she set off across Yong Lake toward the black island.

• Bai Yujun left the inner courtyard with the monkey, Zhang Ke, and the five rookies, keeping the battered Carp Demon in shackles.
• When cultivators outside the gate targeted Xi, Bai Yujun and the monkey struck down the concealed attacker and drove back the crowd.
• Bai Yujun pursued the injured demon into Yong Lake and killed him underwater, while the monkey waited at the dock.
• Bai Yujun burned the demon’s body, kept his head for a Heavenly Court reward, and freed the Carp Demon.
• Xi helped Bai Yujun collect the Dragon Palace, and Bai Yujun reclaimed the two lanterns before the group sailed toward the black island.

Bai Yujun confronted a Profound Immortal on Black Island after he revealed he wanted the Tree Spirit for medicine and pill refinement. When he refused to give her up and attacked, Bai Yujun fought back with water, lightning, clones, and blades, ending the chapter as she prepared to strike with her heavy saber.

• Bai Yujun landed on Black Island and confronted the old Profound Immortal, accusing him of letting Demonic Beasts grow stronger while he watched.
• The old man offered two-thousand-year Crimson Cloud Ganoderma in exchange for the Tree Spirit, but Bai Yujun refused and warned him to keep away from her.
• The old man attacked with a giant tree man and an ancient treasure sword, and Bai Yujun countered with Water Dragons and a lightning whip.
• Bai Yujun summoned five dragon-scale clones and filled the air with Water Blades while the Water Dragons tore apart the tree man.
• Bai Yujun used a knockoff Fan Tian Yin to stall the ancient sword, then raised her heavy saber to unleash the second form of the Mountain Dwelling Saber Technique.

Bai Yujun fought the Profound Immortal who had tried to seize Xi, revealing her dragon identity and defeating him despite his traps and escape attempts. She burned away his soul, then carried the monkey, Xi, and her five companions away from the secret realm.

• Bai Yujun and her clones overwhelmed the old immortal with coordinated attacks, and she struck him with an enormous lightning-charged saber.
• The old immortal trapped Bai Yujun in a formation, but she broke through it in dragon form and grievously wounded him with her claws.
• The old immortal fled on a Demon Crane, but the monkey struck the mount with the Ruyi Jingu Bang and sent them falling back into the fissure.
• Bai Yujun broke through the old immortal's spell and smashed him into the cliff, then burned his soul until he was completely erased.
• Bai Yujun collected the old immortal's corpse, the monkey, Xi, and the five companions, dropped the companions in a city, and entered a Teleportation Array.

Bai Yujun and the monkey looted a Profound Immortal’s cave, then entered a Heavenly Court garrison and took a mission that assigned them a small warship. They began piloting it through Immortal Bridge toward the teleportation array.

• Bai Yujun and the monkey secretly stripped a cave abode on Green Ox Mountain, taking its valuables and finest spirit herbs before covering their tracks with demonic aura.
• Bai Yujun posed as an unaffiliated demon immortal and brought the monkey into a Heavenly Court garrison, where she collected replacement armor and beat a captured Demonic Beast.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey accepted a mission at the hall and were assigned a small warship.
• Bai Yujun studied the operation manual while the monkey took the co-pilot seat, and they departed the dock after nearly colliding with an immortal on a lotus.
• Bai Yujun knocked the complaining lotus-riding immortal off his mount with a half-eaten peach and continued steering the warship toward the Teleportation Array.

Bai Yujun and the monkey accidentally made hundreds of consecutive teleportation jumps, reaching their destination in a miserable state. Recovering at a Heavenly soldiers’ barracks, Bai Yujun spotted a nearby battlefield that could help them hide their return to the Dragon Sleep Lesser World.

• Xi noticed that Heaven’s scenery resembled illustrations of the Ancient Dragon Clan’s Divine Palace, distracting Bai Yujun as the monkey entered coordinates on the star map.
• The monkey’s coordinate selections sent the warship through hundreds of consecutive teleportation jumps, leaving Bai Yujun and the monkey dizzy, nauseated, and screaming.
• Immortal officials watched the warship’s light dart between teleportation nodes and realized it had broken the small warship’s consecutive-jump record.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey emerged from the landed warship and collapsed, while the monkey vomited in front of the startled Heavenly soldiers.
• After recovering at the barracks, Bai Yujun studied the star map and found a Gods and Demons Battlefield nearby that could help conceal their tracks.