Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun returned from Kunlun Ruins and set out with the fleet for the Heavenly Court, but she sensed that Iron Ball had become an immortal and asked to leave. The Great General granted her leave, gave her a Heavenly Edict and documents for a new mission, and told her to return safely; Bai Yujun then flew down toward the River Water.

• Bai Yujun said goodbye to Ba Snake, crossed the divine bridge, and left Kunlun Ruins through the Mysterious Gate.
• Bai Yujun returned to the divine palace, reported to the Great General, and departed for the Heavenly Court with the fleet.
• Bai Yujun sensed her dragon scale’s ripple and realized Iron Ball had become an immortal, so she asked the Great General for leave to visit.
• The Great General obtained approval, gave Bai Yujun a Heavenly Edict and mission documents, and told her to collect her Profound Immortal armor and return safely.
• Bai Yujun collected her supplies, left the fleet, and plunged toward the surging River Water.

Bai Yujun reunited with Iron Ball in the Immortal Realm and learned from him that Boss Mu had warned their home world was in trouble and only Bai Yujun could repair it. After hiding the Imperial Palace Dress and returning to Dragon Sleep Lesser World, she flew toward the divine tree, startling the gathered visitors with her aura.

• Bai Yujun followed the dragon scale’s resonance through demon territory and found Iron Ball sleeping on a mountain path.
• Bai Yujun and Iron Ball reunited, shared news of their old home, and drank together through the night.
• Iron Ball said Boss Mu had told him that something was wrong with their home world and that only Bai Yujun could repair it.
• Bai Yujun asked Iron Ball to search for dragon-related objects and tombs in the Immortal Realm, then hurried back to Little Broken Ball World.
• Bai Yujun concealed the Imperial Palace Dress, returned to the Heavenly Court, and traveled through a teleportation vortex to Dragon Sleep Lesser World.
• Bai Yujun appeared above the Dragon Gate and headed toward the divine tree, alarming the visitors gathered on a nearby cliff.

Bai Yujun returned to the Snake Demon Elf territory, began repairing breaches throughout the Dragon Sleep Lesser World, and learned that hidden forces had been exploiting it. After three days, she pursued infiltrators who had seized newborn bodies and confronted one in Qishan Valley.

• Bai Yujun landed at the Snake Demon Elf temple, where the guards welcomed the Dragon Emperor’s return and Mu and Xi gave her details about breaches and escaped infiltrators.
• Bai Yujun linked herself to the world and spent three days repairing its breaches, discovering that a peculiar force field had prevented divine offices from emerging and that the far north seemed to be exploited by hidden hands.
• Bai Yujun left her avatar guarding the temple and flew to Qishan Valley, where an infiltrator had taken over a newborn in an Aristocratic Clan household.
• Bai Yujun revealed herself as the White Dragon and used True Sight to identify the infant as an intruder who had destroyed the original soul and seized its body.
• When the intruder refused to reveal its Immortal Registry Name or who had sent it, Bai Yujun pressed a Lightning Ball into the infant and vanished into the storm.

Bai Yujun hunted souls of demon immortals who had infiltrated the mortal world and taken over the bodies of gifted descendants, despite the Cultivation World's anger and fear. She found one hidden within the infant Lin'er and persuaded it to reveal another infiltrator's whereabouts by offering it a chance to reincarnate.

• Bai Yujun destroyed a sect while searching for an infiltrator, and the sect master accused her of murdering his son.
• Bai Yujun revealed that the person she had killed was the soul of a demon immortal and continued hunting infiltrators born into powerful families.
• The Cultivation World turned against Bai Yujun, but Sect Leader Ye announced that the Immortal Realm's Daoist sects had ordered righteous cultivators to assist her.
• A young couple feared Bai Yujun would target their son Lin'er, whose birth had been marked by auspicious signs.
• Bai Yujun arrived at the couple's cottage and confronted the soul hiding inside Lin'er.
• The infiltrator asked Bai Yujun to spare it if it revealed another soul's location, and Bai Yujun offered it a chance to reincarnate instead.

The imperial court prepared for the White Dragon’s arrival as the young emperor and his elders debated the newborn prince’s Body Seizure and their family’s future. The White Dragon appeared atop the palace, found the hidden figure in the Imperial Chamber, and looked toward the pavilion where she had once been imprisoned.

• The young emperor questioned an imperial ancestor about Shenhua Mountain’s claim that the newborn prince had undergone Body Seizure, while the elders weighed the White Dragon’s influence over imperial power.
• A long-bearded elder urged the imperial Clan Elders to treat the child as their own and imagine their Lineage rising with him.
• As the White Dragon’s presence approached, the imperial Clan Elders were overcome by fear and left after promising to protect the child.
• The young emperor laughed bitterly, then left the ruined pavilion as fortune-tellers sensed fate becoming unreadable and a man named Yuan hurried his family indoors.
• The White Dragon arrived on the palace roof, recognized the pavilion where she had once been suppressed, and spotted someone hiding in the Imperial Chamber.

Bai Yujun entered the imperial palace and faced a Demon Subduing Formation meant to kill her, but she recognized the infant in a noblewoman’s arms as the Dream Immortal Master behind the scheme. The formation failed against her Profound Immortal cultivation, and the infant revealed his aged voice.

• Bai Yujun descended before the palace, frightened the soldiers into retreat, and healed a young soldier who had been trampled.
• Bai Yujun met Elder Fang Wende and a monk at the palace entrance, then vanished into the hall.
• Bai Yujun ignored the Aristocratic Clan leaders’ accusations and focused on the infant held by a noblewoman.
• The clans and sects activated a Demon Subduing Formation around Bai Yujun, using a deathly treasure as its core.
• Bai Yujun identified the treasure as a remnant from the War of the Five Armies and accused the infant of being the Dream Immortal Master.
• The infant spoke in an aged voice, floated out of the swaddling cloth, and learned that Bai Yujun was now a Profound Immortal, beyond the formation’s power.

Bai Yujun defeated an immortal who sacrificed his soul to strike at her, then returned to the Southern Wasteland to visit her old home and friends. After a quiet day at Bai Residence, she fell asleep beneath the stars, with repairs to the Small Worlds still awaiting her.

• Bai Yujun demanded answers from the old immortal, but he burned his spirit and froze time to launch a final sword attack.
• Bai Yujun caught the sword tip with two fingers, shattered the blade, and destroyed the old immortal when time resumed.
• Bai Yujun stopped the rain and flew from the imperial palace as onlookers watched her ascend into the clouds.
• Bai Yujun returned to Bai Residence, shared a feast with Mu and Xi, Qing Ling, and other acquaintances, and advised Qing Ling about ascension.
• Bai Yujun rested at home, reflected on her wish for a peaceful life, and fell asleep while watching the night sky.

Bai Yujun spent three centuries repairing Small Worlds and fighting the Devil Race before finally resting in the peaceful town near Bamboo Spring Mountain. She reunited with Old Hui Xian at a teahouse, where he nervously greeted her as Benefactor Bai.

• Bai Yujun used her freedom to enter Small Worlds, defeat Body Seizure infiltrators, and restore damaged Heavenly Dao while concealing her actions.
• The rebel organization recalled its souls from the Small Worlds, but Bai Yujun continued repairing their remaining breaches.
• Qing Ling settled at Bamboo Spring Temple, where the monkey, Iron Ball, Little Stone, Old Hui Xian, and the Snake Demon Boy made their home.
• Three hundred years later, Bai Yujun wandered through the peaceful town near Bamboo Spring Mountain and rested at a teahouse.
• Bai Yujun spotted Old Hui Xian and offered to buy him tea, and he sat down and introduced himself as Hui Xian.

Bai Yujun visited Bamboo Spring Temple with Old Hui Xian, reminisced about a primordial ocean world, and reunited with Qing Ling and the others. The group gathered at the temple to eat and celebrate together.

• Bai Yujun told Old Hui Xian about her travels through a world of ocean, where she had ruled the seas and built an undersea Dragon Palace.
• Old Hui Xian explained that Monkey had once been named Prince of the Southern Commandery, making the town unusually peaceful.
• Bai Yujun and Old Hui Xian left town for Bamboo Spring Temple, carrying preserved meat and hoping to drink its spring water.
• Qing Ling recognized Bai Yujun and embraced her, then asked whether becoming a god had been worth the loss of freedom.
• Bai Yujun reunited with Monkey, Little Stone, Qing Cha, Snake Demon Boy, and Iron Ball at the temple as Monkey repaired its gate.
• The group cooked preserved meat, opened wine buried for three hundred years, and celebrated together by candlelight.

Bai Yujun left the temple with Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the Snake Demon Boy to visit Jinling City’s festival. At Jinshan Mountain, she entered a painting competition, won the chance to paint a temple mural, and agreed to paint a dragon for ten taels of gold.

• Bai Yujun set out with Hui Xian, Little Stone, and the Snake Demon Boy after Hui Xian invited her to Jinling City’s festival.
• The group traveled on foot, camping and crossing rainy mountain paths before reaching Safe Crossing near Jinling City.
• Bai Yujun and her companions visited Jinshan Mountain and found a gathering of painters competing for a chance to decorate a great hall.
• Bai Yujun changed into an elegant dress, entered the competition, and won with her spiritually vivid landscape painting.
• A Jinling City Merchant Guild elder offered Bai Yujun ten taels of gold to paint a dragon on the temple’s interior wall, and she accepted.

Bai Yujun hired the impoverished scholar Zhang Yao to paint a dragon, paying him to capture its form after showing him her true dragon shape. Zhang Yao realized the encounter was real and rushed to Jinshan Mountain to begin painting, where his work stirred the weather.

• Bai Yujun found Zhang Yao and offered him one hundred taels of silver to paint a dragon for her.
• Zhang Yao said he needed to see a real dragon to capture its spirit, so Bai Yujun transformed into the White Divine Dragon before him.
• Bai Yujun gave Zhang Yao a twenty-tael deposit and painting supplies, then sent him to the Jinshan Mountain temple.
• After finding the silver, brushes, ink, and a lip-marked red leaf, Zhang Yao understood that the encounter had not been a dream and ran to Jinshan Mountain.
• Zhang Yao began painting at the temple, and the waters near the ferry and Jinshan Mountain grew rough as his work stirred the weather.

Bai Yujun enjoyed a quiet day on the lake before seeking out local delicacies in the city. At Jinshan Mountain, Zhang Yao asked Hui Xian whether he could spend his life with the Dragon Lady, then mistook the monk’s struggle with a chicken for advice to persevere.

• Bai Yujun drifted through the misty lake, ate a lotus flower, and later ordered a table of local specialties in the city.
• Zhang Yao finished a day’s work on his enormous dragon painting and returned to the divine hall as Hui Xian, Little Stone, and Snake Demon Boy came back with a rescued chicken.
• Zhang Yao told Hui Xian that he had seen a beautiful Dragon Lady and asked whether he could spend his life with her.
• While Hui Xian repeatedly tugged the chicken’s rope, Zhang Yao took the scene as a lesson to persevere and thanked the monk for showing him the way.
• Zhang Yao stayed up late painting, while Hui Xian remained unaware of what Zhang Yao thought he had said.

Zhang Yao stopped painting the dragon’s eyes after Old Monk Huixian warned that the dragon-infused painting could bring disaster. Far away, Iron Ball and the monkey investigated a strange gravestone and learned a village legend about a Baxia incarnation frozen by a pregnant woman’s gaze.

• Old Monk Huixian stopped Zhang Yao from painting the dragon’s eyes and chanted until the storm around Jinshan Mountain calmed.
• A drunken scholar saw Bai Yujun leap into the lake, mistook her disappearance for a ghostly sign, and fled.
• Iron Ball and the monkey adjusted their ancient star chart, searched underground for a tomb, and found a puzzling stone stele near a village.
• Iron Ball and the monkey asked a local elder about the stele, who recounted that a Baxia carrying it had turned to stone after being seen by a pregnant woman with four eyes.

Ironball and the monkey searched for the ancient tomb by tracing Baxia’s long journey, while Zhang Yao’s dragon mural drew a crowd at Jinshan Mountain. Snake Demon Boy confronted two demons with dragon aura at the dock and was wounded before Little Stone charged to defend him.

• The monkey realized Old Barren Mountain was only one stop in Baxia’s journey, and Ironball used a map to estimate where the ancient tomb might be.
• Zhang Yao continued painting four dragons on the temple wall as Hui Xian sat before the mural, and visitors praised the work while a scholar criticized the dragons’ blank eyes.
• Little Stone told Hui Xian that two uninvited guests had arrived, and Hui Xian left the temple with him.
• At the dock, Snake Demon Boy refused to let a man and woman with dragon aura pass and drew his sword when they threatened him.
• Snake Demon Boy fought the pair, was struck in the chest, and staggered back bleeding.
• Little Stone charged at the two demons, vowing to kill them for hurting his brother.

Snake Demon Boy and Little Stone fought two demons until Hui Xian made them leave, while Bai Yujun slept beneath the lake. Three days later, Zhang Yao dotted the eyes of two dragons in his mural, bringing them to life before they eventually vanished into the clouds.

• Snake Demon Boy and Little Stone battled two demons by the riverside until Hui Xian arrived and persuaded the demons to leave.
• Hui Xian settled the disturbance, and he and his disciples went into Jinling City to seek alms.
• Zhang Yao prepared to dot the eyes of his dragon mural as crowds gathered at Jinshan Mountain to watch.
• Zhang Yao painted eyes on two dragons, which broke free of the mural and flew into the storm clouds.
• The painted dragons dissipated, leaving two blank spaces in the mural, and eighty taels of silver appeared before Zhang Yao.

Bai Yujun emerged from the lake and explored Jinling, where she heard mortal stories that portrayed the Heavenly Court as cruel and noticed factions searching the city after the painted dragon on Jinshan Mountain flew away. She reunited with Old Hui Xian and his companions, who decided to return to Bamboo Spring Temple.

• Bai Yujun left the lake, warned a little girl to stay away from its monsters, and disguised herself as an ordinary person.
• Bai Yujun listened to a storyteller retell Dong and the Purple-robed Fairy Maiden’s tale, recognized its attack on the Heavenly Court, and left.
• Bai Yujun heard more stories criticizing the Heavenly Court and ate at a food stall while considering the motives of the factions gathering in Jinling.
• Bai Yujun spotted a demonic beast tied to the Divine Dragon Hall and several low-cultivation beings with faint Dragon Bloodline searching the city.
• Old Hui Xian and the other two found Bai Yujun, and the trio decided to return to Bamboo Spring Temple.

Bai Yujun followed the monkey and Iron Ball into a secluded realm containing a suspected Dragon Tomb. She found them trapped asleep in a vat of ancient immortal wine, woke them with a Dragon’s Roar, and warned that the place held an unknown danger.

• Bai Yujun traced the monkey and Iron Ball’s route from the broken stele to a mountain raised from underground, where she sensed their dragon scales.
• Bai Yujun climbed the mountain’s inverted cliff path and followed the pair through a cave into a secluded realm with a golden tomb gate.
• Bai Yujun sent clones through the tomb gate and discovered the monkey and Iron Ball asleep in a giant Wine Vat filled with fragrant Aged Immortal Liquid.
• Bai Yujun dispersed the wine fragrance, awakened the pair with a Dragon’s Roar, and pulled them from the vat when the sticky wine trapped them.
• Bai Yujun led the monkey and Iron Ball away from the wine and warned them that something about the Dragon Tomb was wrong.

Bai Yujun and her companions confronted a Wine Worm and a gray phantom after the Dragon Tomb valley fell into darkness. She identified the phantom as a dragon-blood-and-scale clone and tried to persuade it to open the tomb before declaring she would relocate the grave.

• Bai Yujun suspected the wine-filled vat housed a Wine Worm and prepared to burn it, but the valley abruptly plunged into darkness.
• A gray phantom appeared beside the vat, warned the trespassers away, and fought the monkey and Iron Ball with two battered Pumpkin Hammers.
• Bai Yujun used dragon flame to make the Wine Worm surrender, then held it in place with her paper umbrella while the battle continued.
• Bai Yujun found dragon scales and blood aura on the ground and realized Gray Shadow was likely a clone made from dragon materials.
• Bai Yujun asked Gray Shadow to open the tomb chamber, but after he refused, she said she had come to help him relocate his grave.

Bai Yujun uncovered that the Dragon Tomb was an empty secret realm where the ancient dragon Xiao had faked his death, and learned of dangers deeper inside. While her companions drank with the Wine Worm, she discovered the Wine Vat was an artifact stolen from the Ancient Heavenly Court.

• Gray Shadow vanished after warning Bai Yujun and her companions to leave, while Bai Yujun's True Sight failed to reveal the tomb's secrets.
• Bai Yujun kicked the Wine Vat until the Wine Worm emerged, then questioned it about the tomb.
• The Wine Worm revealed that the tomb was empty, Xiao was not dead, and the site had once been a dragon's secret realm.
• The Wine Worm warned that a dangerous swamp lay ahead and that the mausoleum's central area could only be entered at night.
• The Wine Worm served its aged immortal wine while Bai Yujun kept watch and used Gaze into the Future.
• The Wine Worm told Bai Yujun that Xiao had stolen the Wine Vat from the Ancient Heavenly Court, and Bai Yujun recognized the artifact.

Bai Yujun herded the forest in her Small World, then led the monkey and Iron Ball through a haunted swamp toward Xiao’s mausoleum. After finding a safe path, they encountered a corpse that tried to lure them into the water.

• Bai Yujun seized the ancient Wine Vat and stored it in her Little Broken Ball World.
• Bai Yujun played her bamboo flute to make plants take root and spread the forest across the wasteland.
• Bai Yujun, the monkey, Iron Ball, and the Wine Worm searched the swamp for a safe route to the mausoleum.
• The monkey sent out hair-clone monkeys, which found a solid path formed by a lifeless tree root.
• Bai Yujun led the group along the root path and destroyed a submerged corpse that tried to beguile Iron Ball.
• The monkey uncovered more ancient creature corpses beneath the aquatic plants.