Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun led the Heavenly Court army into the Netherworld to relieve the siege of the underworld city. As she used her dragon’s power to annihilate the Ghostly Entities, she sensed the dragon-shaped city wall react to her roar.

• Bai Yujun reassured her deputy that the Death Legion would keep Ghost Gate Pass safe as the army passed the ancient defenders on Yellow Springs Road.
• King Zhao and nineteen Celestial Immortal generals charged after the enemy chieftains, leaving Bai Yujun to command the hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers against the siege.
• Bai Yujun formed the army into ranks and advanced on the Evil Ghosts surrounding the underworld city.
• Bai Yujun’s dragon might reduced the descending Fierce Spirits to ash, and her Dragon’s Roar devastated the Ghostly Entities across the battlefield.
• Bai Yujun sensed the dragon-shaped city wall move in response to her roar and was startled by the discovery.

Bai Yujun searched the Ghostly Entity army for its hidden commander, but her hunt uncovered a gigantic black evil artifact that devastated the Heavenly Army. Trapped inside the artifact, she began to break it from within as its master prepared another attack.

• Bai Yujun used her paper umbrella's false sun and dragonflame to destroy evil ghosts while searching for the hidden commander.
• Bai Yujun sensed living breath and triggered a tremendous upheaval that raised a mountain-sized black artifact from underground.
• A hunched, genderless figure atop the artifact attacked the Heavenly Army with blood-red ripples, killing thousands of soldiers and destroying a warship.
• The figure revealed that Bai Yujun was trapped inside an ancient artifact tempered with dragon blood and claimed bloodline suppression would defeat her.
• A flying sword struck at the artifact, but the figure's deathly sword intercepted it; then a crash from within cracked the artifact's black stone exterior.

Bai Yujun fought the blood-corrupted dragon inside the evil artifact and began destroying it, weakening the artifact’s defenses. Meanwhile, attackers seized Ghost Gate Pass and the Boundary of Yin and Yang, until an ancient army answered the horn call and charged to meet them.

• The Skeleton Monster ordered the Gray Evil Ghosts to help repair the evil artifact as the Heavenly Army and Underworld City Wall attacked it.
• Bai Yujun pinned down the Blood-red Strange Dragon, recognized it as corrupted dragon blood, and used her Demon-Breaking Attribute and Scorching Dragon Flame to break it apart.
• Living Souls hidden among the Lost Souls attacked the guards and captured Ghost Gate Pass, while the Unknown Organization seized the Boundary of Yin and Yang.
• The Ghost General sounded the Ancient Beast Horn, summoning an awakened army of Red-armored soldiers and Iron Cavalry along Yellow Springs Road.
• The mixed forces planned to unleash Hellish Evil Ghosts into the mortal world, but the Black Knight led the Iron Cavalry in a charge that routed and slaughtered the demons.

Bai Yujun broke free from the black evil artifact, destroyed it, and defeated the half-dragon monster who had been controlling it. She uncovered his past and killed him, then watched the Hellish Evil Ghosts flee into the River of Forgetfulness.

• Bai Yujun burst out of the sealed artifact in dragon form and crushed it with Death Coil.
• Bai Yujun knocked down the wounded monster and used her ability to examine his past, learning he was a half-dragon person whose Lineage had been slaughtered by Xiao.
• Bai Yujun removed the monster’s head covering and saw the scars where he had cut off his dragon horns and pointed ears.
• The monster threatened Bai Yujun and her dragon clan, but she vowed to kill his master and burned him to ashes with her saber.
• Bai Yujun revealed that Xiao, a Dragon Clan Traitor, had slaughtered the monster’s Lineage as the Hellish Evil Ghosts fled toward the River of Forgetfulness.

Bai Yujun helped secure victory over the forces attacking the underworld, then learned that the Dragon Gate Sword’s master remained in hell. After months of fighting and service, she rested by a campfire while considering the unfinished vengeance.

• Bai Yujun watched the heavenly army drive the fleeing Hellish Evil Ghosts toward the River of Forgetfulness and realized the underworld’s Dragon Corpse was restoring its power.
• Bai Yujun learned that the underworld’s formations had reawakened and its crisis was resolved, while the Heavenly King led discussions with underworld authorities.
• Bai Yujun served in the underworld as heavenly forces hunted stragglers and suppressed the entrance to hell.
• Bai Yujun received word from Iron Ball and the monkey that the master of the destroyed Dragon Gate Sword was in hell.
• Bai Yujun read the letter beside a campfire, ate roasted fish, and decided to rest for the night.

Bai Yujun rested at a supposedly haunted residence and discovered that its ghost was an old dog waiting for its master. When the master finally returned, she helped the reunited pair pass on before continuing her mission.

• Bai Yujun overheard travelers discuss a haunted residence in South Bay Village and went to investigate the Lost Soul there.
• Bai Yujun rested beneath Old Scholar Tree, gave water and dried meat to Big Yellow Dog, and saw memories of the dog waiting for its master for years.
• Bai Yujun recognized an elderly Lost Soul as the dog’s long-awaited master and told Big Yellow Dog that it could finally let go.
• The old man returned to the residence and embraced Big Yellow Dog, ending the haunting.
• Bai Yujun sent the two ghosts downstream in a paper boat and continued her mission.

Bai Yujun killed the final demon on her list, then sensed that the Little Broken Ball World was replenishing its life force. At a volcano, she found the ancient phoenix’s egg undergoing Nirvana Rebirth and gathered earthfire to help it hatch.

• Bai Yujun pinned the wounded demon to the ground and killed it by chanting Daoist blessings until it turned to ashes.
• After the battle, Bai Yujun rested for several days, then summoned rain to nourish the scorched land.
• Bai Yujun sensed an abnormality in the Little Broken Ball World and flew to a volcanic island.
• Bai Yujun used True Sight to find the ancient phoenix’s multicolored egg inside the crater and realized it had undergone Nirvana Rebirth.
• Bai Yujun gathered earthfire into the crater, causing a violent eruption as cracks spread across the eggshell.

Bai Yujun watched a phoenix emerge from Nirvana Rebirth amid a spectacular volcanic eruption and discovered it was a young phoenix with no companions. She took it in, created a volcano for it to live in, and flew toward the mainland with it.

• Bai Yujun painted the volcanic eruption and watched magma form a towering Wutong Tree in the sky.
• A giant phoenix emerged from the crater, circled the Lava Wutong Tree, and then vanished with it, leaving a young phoenix behind.
• Bai Yujun welcomed the Little Phoenix, examined it, and told it to live well despite the possibility that it was the last phoenix.
• Bai Yujun sank the collapsing volcanic island, then created a new volcano where fire veins gathered for the Little Phoenix to inhabit.
• Bai Yujun carried the Little Phoenix toward the mainland, intending to raise it in her Small World.

Bai Yujun settled into her palace while Mu Duo watched the signs of war spreading toward Jiuli and awaited their reunion. After Jiuli's leaders sought ancestral guidance, Mu Duo recognized a dragon in the old priest's cryptic painting.

• Bai Yujun brought the phoenix to her palace on the Floating Mountain and lounged on her dragon throne, thinking she might someday make the world livelier.
• Mu Duo watched the White Dragon Waterfall, remembered Bai Yujun, and sensed that they would meet again soon as war threatened Jiuli.
• Demonic Beasts overwhelmed the heavenly army, and the spreading war forced Jiuli's powerful figures to debate whether to support the Heavenly Court.
• Jiuli's leaders held a ritual and asked their ancestors for guidance on the approaching war.
• The old priest painted a cryptic vision of lightning, a Heavenly Flood, fierce flames, and a Terrifying Giant Beast, and Mu Duo recognized the dragon in it.

Bai Yujun worried over vague visions of an approaching calamity and mourned a fallen Female General before receiving orders to march south. Remembering that the Old Man Under the Moon had once tried to tie her with a marriage thread, she stormed into his Engagement Hall and threatened his tree.

• Bai Yujun watched peach petals and a fallen leaf, but could not decipher what her visions of the future meant.
• Bai Yujun toasted a Female General who had died in battle and hoped her acquaintances would survive the ongoing conflict.
• Bai Yujun received an edict ordering her to march south, where she hoped to visit Mu Duo and confront the Divine Dragon Hall.
• Bai Yujun found the Old Man Under the Moon's Engagement Hall and kicked its gates open, causing his clone to crumble into ashes.
• Bai Yujun discovered the Old Man Under the Moon drunk inside and produced a battle axe, threatening to chop down his tree.

Bai Yujun confronted the Moon Elder over the red thread tied to her and learned that marriage records had been secretly tampered with by people in the Heavenly Court. After touring the Engagement Hall, she reached the Lover’s Tree and wondered whether it was a deity.

• Bai Yujun grabbed the Moon Elder and accused him of tying a marriage thread around her, then threatened him with an axe.
• Bai Yujun recounted a scholar’s story about fate and questioned whether the Moon Elder’s red threads could bring people together through cruel or troubling circumstances.
• The Moon Elder admitted that someone in the Heavenly Court had secretly interfered with the marriage records, though he did not know who was responsible.
• Bai Yujun decided the Moon Elder was likely avoiding trouble rather than aiding the rebels, then toured the Engagement Hall with him.
• Bai Yujun entered the rear courtyard, saw the ancient tree covered in red cords and flowers, and asked whether the Lover’s Tree was a deity.

Bai Yujun found no marriage thread bearing her name beneath the Lover's Tree, then awakened the ancient tree by speaking to it in Dragon Tongue. The tree gave her an ancient lamp with divine fire, which she sensed was extremely important.

• Bai Yujun searched the Lover's Tree and found no red thread or tag bearing her name.
• The Old Man Under the Moon said her thread had vanished long ago and praised her, narrowly avoiding her anger by calling her savage and terrifying.
• Bai Yujun opened her vertical pupils to examine the tree, causing its leaves to shine and a faint ancient consciousness to awaken.
• Bai Yujun spoke to the tree in Dragon Tongue until it formed a face and managed to say, "Dragon" and then "Fine."
• The tree produced an ancient lamp with an unextinguishable divine flame, and Bai Yujun sensed it was very important.

Bai Yujun arrived at the southern frontline and plunged into the brutal fighting, hunting Demonic Beasts while hiding her true strength. After days of battle, she spotted a powerful horned demon with guards and began approaching it under the guise of an ordinary Heavenly Soldier.

• Bai Yujun boarded a warship with the Heavenly Army and traveled toward the southern frontline.
• The fleet entered the battlefield, where Heavenly Soldiers charged into the Demonic Beast horde.
• Bai Yujun fought fiercely, killing high-ranking demons and saving Heavenly Soldiers from a giant Demonic Beast.
• After days of relentless fighting, Bai Yujun noticed a powerful horned demon defeat an immortal general.
• Bai Yujun concealed her aura, joined a Heavenly Soldier formation, and moved closer to the horned demon and its hidden guards.

Bai Yujun battled through the exhausting war between the Heavenly Army and the demons, then ambushed the goat-horned demon and wounded his hidden protector before retreating to recover. After the fighting dragged on until both sides were exhausted, she revealed her dragon form and broke the Devil Race’s morale, allowing the Heavenly Army to win and pursue the fleeing demons.

• Bai Yujun maneuvered her battle formation closer to the goat-horned demon while concealing her intent to strike.
• Bai Yujun used her burst of speed to attack the goat-horned demon, cutting off his horn before striking him and his hidden protector with her heavy saber.
• The Devil Race expert suffered a ruined arm, then dragged the wounded goat-horned demon away as Bai Yujun and the two immortal generals returned toward their forces.
• Bai Yujun treated her wound aboard a warship, changed armor, and concealed herself among the Heavenly Soldiers to rest.
• After the battle continued until both armies were exhausted, Bai Yujun revealed her true form and burned thousands of Demonic Beasts with dragonfire.
• Bai Yujun’s dragon might shattered the Devil Race’s morale, and the Heavenly Army pursued the collapsing enemy in a one-sided massacre before she concealed herself again.

After surviving the battlefield by hiding in a pond, Bai Yujun heard prayers from Jiuli and went to investigate a group of Half-Dragon People worshipping beside a waterfall. The chapter ended as one girl spotted her in the mist.

• Mu Duo watched the distant battlefield from Jiuli, remembered her past with Bai, and wished that Bai would live freely.
• Bai Yujun emerged from the muddy pond on the devastated battlefield, listened to prayers from Jiuli, and left after sensing someone nearby.
• A Half-Dragon People clan chief explained that sincere prayers at a waterfall could reach a dragon through the local dragon vein.
• The Half-Dragon People continued praying, and a soft-featured girl saw Bai Yujun appear in the waterfall's mist.

Bai Yujun met the Half-Dragon People, heard of their persecution by the Divine Dragon Hall, and learned more about a traitor tied to an immortal. She declined their invitation to join their clan and left in a water avatar, while the four Sea Area Dragon Kings remained imprisoned.

• Long Yun and the Half-Dragon People paid respects to Bai Yujun at the waterfall, and she told them they did not need to kneel.
• Long Yun described the Divine Dragon Hall’s persecution of the Half-Dragon People, and Bai Yujun said she would discuss suppressing it with the Heavenly Army and Jiuli.
• Bai Yujun told the Half-Dragon People that the four Sea Area Dragon Kings were still imprisoned and would not escape for several centuries.
• Bai Yujun showed the elders the face of a Half-Dragon traitor who had become an Evil Ghost, and Long Yun conjured a portrait of the immortal who had once taken him as a disciple.
• Bai Yujun said she had killed the traitor, declined Long Yun’s invitation to stay with the clan, and vanished as her water avatar dispersed.

Bai Yujun reunited with Mu Duo in the mountains and spent the day flying, playing, and planting rice with her. As evening fell, the two friends walked home with the villagers.

• Bai Yujun swam through an underground river and emerged from White Dragon Waterfall as Mu Duo sang to welcome her.
• Bai Yujun scooped Mu Duo into her mouth, then carried her through the sky and let her ride between her horns.
• Bai Yujun drank from White Dragon Waterfall and frolicked through the clouds with Mu Duo.
• Bai Yujun raced through the muddy rice fields on a plow pulled by a water buffalo, then helped Mu Duo plant rice seedlings.
• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo joined the villagers walking home at sunset.

Bai Yujun shared a quiet meal with Mu Duo and told her about the Demon Realm’s advance and the dangers facing the wider world. As the night ended, Mu Duo warned Bai Yujun that a Jiuli prophecy might concern her, while Bai Yujun said she would soon have to leave for the Heavenly Court.

• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo ate meat porridge by the Fire Pit, and Bai Yujun recounted how the Half-Dragon People had asked her to join them.
• Bai Yujun warned Mu Duo that the Demon Realm was expanding, the Heavenly Court was losing battles, and much of the world might be destroyed.
• Bai Yujun reassured Mu Duo that the Dragon Sleep Lesser World was protected by her clones and powerful allies, and shared news of their fellow townsfolk.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo that she might have to leave for a while because the Heavenly Court was busy.
• Mu Duo said a Jiuli priest’s prophecy showed a dragon that might be Bai Yujun, and warned her to be careful.

Bai Yujun and Mu Duo visited Butterfly Spring, unaware that a traitorous Heavenly Army force was advancing into Jiuli and massacring its people. When Mu Duo learned that four stockades had been slaughtered, Bai Yujun realized the attack was likely the work of traitors, and Jiuli experts flew to respond.

• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo flew to Butterfly Spring, where Mu Duo played music among the butterflies and they grilled food by the water.
• A disguised Great General ordered General Pang and his fleet to march into Jiuli without a proper deployment order.
• General Pang’s two trusted fellow officers ambushed and killed him after revealing their treachery.
• The fleet entered Jiuli and massacred four stockades under orders from the disguised commanders.
• Mu Duo learned of the killings through anxious birds, and Jiuli experts flew toward the scene as Bai Yujun suspected Heavenly Court traitors.

Bai Yujun reached the besieged Xin Camp and used a massive storm to interrupt the battle between the Heavenly Army and Jiuli forces. As both sides withdrew, a mysterious merchant appeared and revealed herself to the gathered leaders.

• Bai Yujun warned Mu Duo to stay out of the conflict, then contacted the female immortal generals and was appointed commander of Xin Camp.
• Bai Yujun arrived at the battlefield as the Heavenly Army and Jiuli forces began fighting around the besieged Xin Camp.
• Bai Yujun unleashed lightning, wind, rain, and hail, forcing both armies to halt their assault.
• The Heavenly Army's Great General decided to withdraw, while the Jiuli leader demanded to know who had controlled the storm.
• A mysterious woman dressed as a merchant walked through the air and introduced herself as a humble merchant.