Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun set up a stall between the Jiuli and Heavenly Army, trading with the Jiuli to expose and capture the generals responsible for massacring their clansmen. She kept the captives for herself rather than handing them over, then invited the bewildered onlookers to browse her goods.

• Bai Yujun transformed her book chest into a stall and explained that she could sell goods, revenge, and fate.
• Bai Yujun struck a burly Jiuli man with lightning when he threatened her, then offered to help him punish the true culprit behind the massacre.
• The burly man agreed to spare the deceived Heavenly Army troops, and Bai Yujun gave him the coordinates of the fleeing generals.
• The Jiuli experts attacked the generals, while the Lone Wolf captured the escaping Great General and delivered him to Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun stripped the captives of their immortal armor, refused to hand them over to the Jiuli, and began advertising her stall's goods.

Bai Yujun traded the rebels’ lives for passage through Jiuli, then discovered the peacock-backed chief was targeting her over a suspected Phoenix Feather. She revealed her command of Xin Camp and ordered the Celestial Army to board, as the Jiuli forces attacked.

• Bai Yujun offered the captives a choice of trinkets, then beheaded those who chose wooden boats and sent their True Spirits southwest; she spared the Heavenly Soldier who chose the paper umbrella.
• Bai Yujun refused to hand the corpses to the Jiuli and demanded that the tattooed chief let the Celestial Army leave.
• The peacock-backed chief demanded a Phoenix Feather, and Bai Yujun concealed her alarm while denying that she had one.
• Bai Yujun showed her Identity Jade Slip, declared herself commander of Xin Camp, and ordered the Celestial Army aboard the ships.
• The tattooed chief ordered the Jiuli divisions to attack, and the Blue Peacock charged at Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun rescued the Xin Camp from Jiuli, but suspected a traitor was behind the conflict. After returning to camp, she was summoned before General Lu, where the generals accused her of wrongdoing and she learned the Jiuli Peacock Tribe chieftain’s son and sacred beast’s son were dead.

• Bai Yujun used her White Dragon Extends Her Claw technique to defeat Blue Peacock and the tattooed brawny man, then escaped with the Heavenly Army fleet.
• Bai Yujun learned from Lone Wolf that the defeated pair were the Peacock Tribe chieftain’s son and its sacred beast’s son.
• The fleet returned to camp, and Bai Yujun worried that an insider in the main camp had helped orchestrate the conflict.
• General Lu summoned Bai Yujun, and one general called for her arrest while another urged a cautious investigation.
• General Lu told Bai Yujun that the Jiuli Peacock Tribe chieftain’s son and sacred beast’s son were dead, and she feigned surprise.

After being removed as Xin Camp commander, Bai Yujun returned to the Heavenly Court for an assembly where officials debated whether she and the Xin Camp should be handed over to the Jiuli Peacock Tribe. The court left her fate unresolved as she recognized that forged dragon-flame evidence pointed to the Divine Dragon Hall’s involvement.

• General Lu declared that Bai Yujun had acted under orders, removed her from command, and ordered her to attend the Heavenly Court assembly.
• Bai Yujun sailed back to the Heavenly Court, noticed Jiuli experts and Divine Dragon Hall demons at the camp, and used Gaze into the Future before falling asleep.
• Bai Yujun attended court and observed that many officials were distracted and that the Queen Mother had come to Lingxiao Palace.
• The Jiuli Peacock Tribe demanded the Xin Camp and Bai Yujun, presenting feathers supposedly burned by dragon flame as evidence.
• Bai Yujun recognized the feathers as bearing impure, forged dragon flame and suspected the Divine Dragon Hall had helped frame her.
• Immortal officials argued over whether Bai Yujun and the Xin Camp were guilty, while she waited calmly as the debate continued.

Bai Yujun was transferred from the Yaochi Female Guard Camp and appointed North Heavenly Gate Guardian after the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother issued an edict. The Queen Mother privately revealed that she knew Bai Yujun’s extraordinary sight and warned her that a difficult road lay ahead.

• Immortal officials argued over Bai Yujun’s punishment while the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother listened, and a proposal from the Divine Dragon Hall to marry her to its master was ignored.
• The Queen Mother privately told Bai Yujun that the immortal realm had grown stagnant, revealed she knew about Bai Yujun’s eyes, and assigned her a difficult duty for her safety and growth.
• Taibai Venus proclaimed the edict transferring Bai Yujun from the Yaochi Female Guard Camp and appointing her North Heavenly Gate Guardian in place of the retiring Black Tortoise.
• Old Black Tortoise emerged from the ice at the North Heavenly Gate and lamented that he could not leave worldly affairs behind.
• Green Dragon Qing Shao learned of Bai Yujun’s appointment and wept over the dragon race’s continued imprisonment.
• At Bamboo Spring Temple, Ironball, the monkey, and Qing Ling reacted to the edict, while Mu Duo at White Dragon Waterfall realized Bai Yujun had known what was coming.

Bai Yujun left Lingxiao Palace after being appointed North Heavenly Gate Guardian and traveled to the frozen frontier to take over from Old Black Tortoise. After their handover, she received the guardian’s seal, which transformed the black tortoise carved on it into a divine dragon.

• Bai Yujun left Lingxiao Palace with her appointment documents and gathered her belongings from her room.
• Bai Yujun thanked the Great General, who gave her fire-element pills and warned that tremendous changes were coming.
• Bai Yujun collected new armor and traveled north through increasingly desolate parts of the Heavenly Court.
• Bai Yujun reached the North Heavenly Gate and met Old Black Tortoise, who advised her to use her post to strengthen her foundation.
• Old Black Tortoise approved Bai Yujun’s documents, completed the handover, and passed her the golden seal, whose carved tortoise transformed into a divine dragon.

Bai Yujun took up her post as guardian of the North Heavenly Gate and spent a year driving back the endless monsters of the Gloomy Cold Land. She left the story standing in her immense dragon form, with a candle burning atop her nose to light the darkness.

• Bai Yujun shrank the Guardian Seal and learned from Old Black Tortoise that she had to guard the North Heavenly Gate against monsters trying to invade from the Gloomy Cold Land.
• Old Black Tortoise left through the icy wilderness, and Bai Yujun waited outside the gate for the monsters to approach.
• Three months later, Bai Yujun fought off a vast swarm, discovering that her attacks could permanently kill monsters that revived after being cut down.
• Bai Yujun cleared away the monsters with a gale, then revealed her dragon form and roared until the remaining creatures feared to approach the gate.
• After more than half a year on guard, Bai Yujun set a lit lotus lamp on the nose of her immense dragon form.

Bai Yujun spent decades guarding the North Heavenly Gate, reflecting on the past and advancing her cultivation in the quiet. When an injured old man and his grandson fled through the Gloomy Cold Land and reached the gate, she destroyed the monsters pursuing them and revealed herself as its divine dragon guardian.

• Bai Yujun recalled old friends, places, and memories while guarding the North Heavenly Gate alone.
• Bai Yujun cultivated seriously for many years, strengthened her foundations, and advanced toward the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• An old man carried his mortal grandson through the Gloomy Cold Land, fighting monsters as they searched for a way out.
• The old man noticed the monsters feared a powerful presence ahead, but continued onward because retreat meant certain death.
• The old man and his grandson reached the North Heavenly Gate, where the divine dragon's might forced him to his knees.
• Bai Yujun annihilated the pursuing monsters and warned them that trespassers were forbidden; the old man begged the Divine Dragon to save them.

Bai Yujun gave a grandfather and his grandson a chance to earn passage through the Heavenly Court by defeating her ice clone, then secured them a Heavenly Edict after the old man won. Their escape revealed a broader plot in which masked attackers had driven many people into the Gloomy Cold Land, and Bai Yujun suspected the boy’s connection to Huang Yu had helped him survive.

• Bai Yujun told the grandfather and grandson that they could not enter the Heavenly Court without permission, then offered them one chance to earn a passage document by fighting her ice clone.
• The old man fought the Ice Dragon girl while his grandson waited safely inside a protective circle, and he eventually won by cutting through a gap in her armor.
• Bai Yujun said she had asked an immortal official for a Heavenly Edict, then questioned how the pair had entered the Gloomy Cold Land and learned masked attackers had hunted them.
• Bai Yujun recognized the boy as Huang Yu’s son and said his mother’s fortune had helped them survive the Gloomy Cold Land.
• The ice clone received a golden passage document, and the grandfather and grandson crossed the Heavenly Gate as Bai Yujun investigated the dead immortals’ resentments and suspected the attackers were using people as cannon fodder.

Bai Yujun spent New Year’s Eve alone in her restored divine palace before falling asleep, while the monkey descended from Bamboo Spring Temple to seek an opportunity for enlightenment. As he crossed a world plagued by violence, exploitation, and famine, he remained unable to understand the people’s struggles or find the opportunity he sought.

• Bai Yujun decorated her divine palace for New Year’s Eve, toasted the year alone, and fell asleep while keeping watch over the snow.
• The monkey left Bamboo Spring Temple with his iron staff to travel aimlessly and seek enlightenment, buying buns before choosing to eat grass and fruit along the way.
• After seeing corpses in a well and witnessing armed men kill people, the monkey killed a man who attacked him, took the dead leader’s clothes, and chanted a funeral scripture over the bodies.
• The monkey passed a mine where people and demons were forced to extract ore, recalling that Bai Yujun had once stopped similar abuses.
• The monkey crossed a battlefield and passed starving refugees, but his observations of the suffering around him still brought him no enlightenment.

A gray-furred monkey sought enlightenment while refugees suffered, then began farming after witnessing death and violence. He continued tending his crops as the world’s armies fought around him, still wondering why people did not farm.

• The monkey traded his silk robe and tobacco for a dying old man's pipe, shared a smoke with him, and watched him die.
• Cultivators attacked the refugees, and the monkey killed them with his iron rod and a stone before the survivors fled.
• The monkey buried the old man, decided to grow grain, and turned the corpses into fertilizer for his field.
• The monkey settled into farming by the Thatched Hut as refugees and armies passed through the surrounding countryside.
• The monkey watched his crops grow, chased a rabbit that kept eating the shoots, and carried water to irrigate the field.

A gray monkey cultivated the land and lived quietly among the mortals of Monkey Village until he grasped the Way and broke through to a new realm. He then wandered in search of further insight, eventually becoming a ferryman on a dangerous great river.

• The monkey reclaimed wasteland with his iron staff, farmed it for years, and watched a village grow around his fields.
• As the villagers harvested rice, the monkey understood the Way, broke through to a new realm, and leapt a thousand li into the clouds.
• The monkey traveled in disguise and took on assorted jobs while seeking another breakthrough.
• Using his carpentry skills and Bai's dragon scale, the monkey built boats and docks to ferry people across a perilous river.
• At dawn, the monkey sat fishing and drinking at his dock, waiting for passengers and using ferrying to cultivate himself.

A gray-furred monkey began ferrying travelers across a dangerous river, accepting their burdens as payment while earning money to repair its house. After helping a grieving swordswoman reach the far shore, it ferried a cultivator and received two medicinal pellets, leaving its new business underway.

• The monkey ferried a grieving female wandering swordsman across the river and told her that leaving her sorrow behind had paid her fare.
• The female wandering swordsman thanked the monkey and stepped onto the far shore with renewed resolve.
• The monkey returned to the village, traded two carp for jars of cloudy wine, and waited several days without customers.
• A mortal-world cultivator found the ferry and asked the monkey to take him across the river.
• After reaching the far shore safely, the cultivator left two medicinal pellets in the monkey’s fish basket as payment.

After two years ferrying travelers, the monkey killed a cultivator who refused to pay and continued his nighttime work as a Yin-Yang Ferryman. He delivered a boatload of wandering souls to the underworld, where he found no trees to climb.

• The monkey became a well-known boatman, and he threw a cultivator into the river for bullying ordinary passengers.
• When an old cultivator refused to pay his fare and insulted him, the monkey bit through his throat and left his body for the river fish.
• That night, the monkey lit his lantern and gathered a group of wandering souls to ferry through the fog.
• A woman asked to return home to see her child, but the monkey told her that life and death could not be crossed back.
• The monkey reached the underworld and saw departed souls walking beneath a gray, barren sky.

Bai Yujun received a fleeting vision of a woman from her past before continuing her watch at the North Heavenly Gate, while the gray monkey left his ruined ferry and continued seeking understanding through the mortal world. A golden monk tried to recruit the monkey into his faith, but the monkey rejected him, struck him down, and called out the others waiting in ambush.

• Bai Yujun awoke to a retrospective image of the Imperial Palace Dress Woman, who comforted her before the vision vanished and she resumed guarding the North Heavenly Gate.
• Bai Yujun calculated that she had reached three thousand years old and sensed that her rapid growth was preparing her for a crisis.
• The gray monkey’s boat sank, prompting him to pour out his remaining wine, leave the Gray Monkey Ferry, and continue pursuing comprehension.
• A golden monk approached the monkey and urged him to abandon his demon body, practice righteous Dharma, and follow the monk’s faith, but the monkey defended his identity as a demon monkey.
• The golden monk tried to take the monkey to a holy land, so the monkey attacked and knocked him flying with a single punch.
• The monkey revealed that his three thousand comprehensions had made him stronger and challenged the others he knew were lying in ambush.

The demon monkey fought eight golden monks who tried to subdue him, revealing armor that resisted their flames and breaking through their formation with the Ruyi Jingu Bang. As the battle continued, Bai Yujun sensed him through the dragon scale at North Heavenly Gate and realized the long-awaited conflict had begun.

• After declaring that he would remain himself, the monkey challenged the eight golden figures who surrounded him.
• The monks struck the monkey with a Vajra Palm, but he endured the blow and provoked them to continue.
• The monks formed a Golden Lotus that trapped the monkey in flames, but he emerged in mysterious armor with fiery tail feathers.
• The monkey summoned the Ruyi Jingu Bang, pierced the monks' formation, and fought them with his staff and brute strength.
• The monkey broke the Brahma Heart Shackles and kicked a monk wielding a Demon Subduing Pestle away.
• At North Heavenly Gate, Bai Yujun sensed the monkey through the dragon scale and recognized that the long-awaited event had begun.

The monkey defeated the eight monks’ golden statue and escaped, becoming a legend in the Immortal Realm. As the long-anticipated change spread across the worlds and powerful leaders withdrew into seclusion, Bai Yujun’s Solid Ice began to crack at the North Heavenly Gate.

• The eight monks formed a gigantic golden statue and attacked the monkey with its eight arms and magic tools.
• The monkey pierced the statue with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, forcing the monks to retreat after they vomited blood.
• The wounded monkey followed Bai’s advice and somersaulted away, leaving onlookers to spread tales of the demon monkey.
• The change descended across the Primordial Main World, other worlds, and the starry void as leaders in several realms prepared for seclusion.
• Erlang the Manifested True Lord moved into the Heavenly Army Camp to stabilize the Heavenly Court.
• Bai Yujun heard the monsters of the Gloomy Cold Land howl as the Solid Ice covering her body cracked and fell away.

The Immortal Domains challenged the Heavenly Court at the South Heavenly Gate, forcing Erlang Shen to fight five immortal lords at once. At the North Heavenly Gate, Bai Yujun spotted intruders crossing the Gloomy Cold Land.

• A fleet of Immortal Domains sailed through the ruins of an Ancient Ruin toward the Heavenly Court.
• Erlang Shen ordered the East and West Heavenly Gates sealed and kept the South Heavenly Gate open while the garrisons guarded against threats in the Demon Realm.
• Five immortal lords brought their forces to the South Heavenly Gate after the Heavenly Court refused their request for an audience.
• Erlang Shen confronted the five lords and fought them while thousands of soldiers clashed outside the gate.
• Bai Yujun watched the Gloomy Cold Land from the North Heavenly Gate and detected clusters of intruders with her heat vision.

Bai Yujun prepared an ice-and-snow legion at the North Heavenly Gate as a force from the Five Great Immortal Domains advanced through the Gloomy Cold Land. When they arrived, she revealed Celestial Immortal-level strength and attacked their leaders, leaving the battle underway.

• Bai Yujun summoned an army of ice soldiers and waited at the North Heavenly Gate, anticipating a surprise attack by the Five Great Immortal Domains.
• Bai Yujun sensed Dragon Remains and spotted the approaching force, which included seven Celestial Immortals and another concealed aura.
• The allied force crossed the Gloomy Cold Land under a formation made from a blue dragon's remains and reached the North Heavenly Gate.
• Bai Yujun refused the enemy leader's demand to surrender and ordered her ice-and-snow legion to attack.
• Bai Yujun used wind and snow to rush through a blue Fire Phoenix and strike down one Celestial Immortal, then wounded another as the remaining five continued the fight.

Bai Yujun fought the rebel coalition at the North Heavenly Gate, revealing her dragon spear and overwhelming strength as she battled the gray-robed True Immortal. She killed a wounded Heavenly Immortal and then suddenly dove toward the ground, leaving the True Immortal alarmed.

• Bai Yujun’s shield and saber were destroyed when she defended against the gray-robed True Immortal’s black-and-white sword.
• Bai Yujun transformed into her white-haired dragon form and summoned the Black Bracelet as a powerful dragon spear.
• Bai Yujun clashed with the gray-robed True Immortal while the coalition’s Heavenly Immortals maneuvered against one another.
• Bai Yujun pierced a heavily wounded Heavenly Immortal with her spear and swung him into the barrage of attacks, killing him.
• Bai Yujun feinted toward the gray-robed True Immortal, then dived toward the ground, prompting him to cry out in alarm.