Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun fought off the allied armies at the supposed North Heavenly Gate, then revealed that she had lured them into an Ancient Ruin full of monsters. As the invaders were overwhelmed and forced to retreat, she returned toward the real North Heavenly Gate.

• Bai Yujun transformed into a giant dragon and slaughtered the allied forces with her claws, jaws, and Scorching Dragon Flame, destroying a large portion of their army.
• The gray-robed True Immortal ordered several Heavenly Immortals to break through the gate while he kept Bai Yujun occupied, and the allied forces shattered the formation and rushed inside.
• Bai Yujun withdrew her dragon might, retrieved a paper umbrella, and vanished into the snow as the invaders realized the gate led to an Ancient Ruin and a monster nest.
• The gray-robed True Immortal ordered a retreat, but black monsters poured out after the allied forces and attacked them.
• Bai Yujun watched the invaders being besieged, then flew back toward the North Heavenly Gate, noting that Xiao had calculated well.

Bai Yujun tended her wounds as upheaval spread through the Nine Heavens and the mortal world, while traitors fought their way toward Lingxiao Palace. The Female Guard Camp resisted the rebels until Bai Yujun arrived and turned the battle with a brutal attack.

• Bai Yujun treated the wounds on her back, inspected the dimming North Heavenly Gate Guardian Seal, and prepared for more fighting.
• Immortals and wreckage fell from the Nine Heavens as chaos spread across the mortal world, Jiuli, and the Four Seas.
• Qing Shao roared as the seal on the Seabed Volcano weakened, but its runes stabilized before the Four Dragon Kings could escape.
• Blue-ribboned rebels killed their way toward Lingxiao Palace, where the Female Guard Camp and its allies formed a battle line against them.
• Commander Wei fought three True Immortals while the opposing forces clashed across the Golden Jade Steps.
• Bai Yujun appeared at the plaza, skewered a rebel with her Black Spear, and crushed his head.

Bai Yujun helped the Female Guard Camp hold off the rebels, then fought the rebel Heavenly King while challenging his vision for the Heavenly Court’s destruction. After her dragon flame devastated the rebel formation, the Howling Celestial Dog arrived with reinforcements.

• Bai Yujun broke through the rebels’ defenses and helped the Female Guard Camp hold its ground.
• As the Female Guard Camp suffered heavy losses, Bai Yujun created more than a thousand clones to attack the rebel formation.
• Bai Yujun fought the Heavenly King and argued that overthrowing the Heavenly Court would bring a long era of bloodshed and chaos.
• Bai Yujun empowered her dragon spear and used dragon flame to engulf the rebel shield wall, destroying the soldiers there.
• The Howling Celestial Dog arrived with reinforcements as the Heavenly King charged Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun and the Heavenly Court’s defenders fought desperately to stop the rebels from reaching Lingxiao Palace, while demon immortals rallied under her command. The battle turned when the allied Heavenly King revealed himself as a traitor and helped the rebels prepare a hidden weapon, leaving Bai Yujun struggling to break through their delaying attacks.

• Bai Yujun and the Female Guard Camp fought the rebel True Immortals as the battle spread across the Heavenly Court, and reinforcements arrived with the Howling Celestial Dog.
• Demon immortals asked Bai Yujun for orders, and she sent the fighters to aid the Female Guard Camp and the others to treat the wounded.
• The rebels sacrificed themselves to delay Bai Yujun, who broke free of their bindings and fought through them with her dragon horns, tail, and Scorching Dragon Flame.
• The rebel Heavenly King sent his forces toward Lingxiao Palace, and the long-faced Heavenly King who had joined the defenders betrayed them by stabbing the Female Guard Camp Commander.
• The rebels failed to breach Lingxiao Palace’s Defense Array, while their leader and three Heavenly Immortals fed their blood into the concealed markings on the long halberd.
• Bai Yujun sensed danger, attacked the rebels blocking her path, and unleashed Scorching Dragon Flame again as they prepared the halberd.

Bai Yujun tried to protect the Lingxiao Palace as rebel True Immortals attacked it, but two of them self-destructed and brought it down. The Heavenly Court’s fortune vanished, and its floating island fell until two other islands stopped its descent.

• Bai Yujun broke through the rebel forces and stopped a bloodstained halberd from striking the Lingxiao Palace, then shattered it with her strength.
• A wounded rebel Heavenly King ignited his power and self-destructed, blasting Bai Yujun into the palace structures.
• Another rebel True Immortal exploded, destroying the Lingxiao Palace and ending the Heavenly Court’s remaining fortune.
• Bai Yujun rose from the rubble as the fighters stopped and the allied forces withdrew; two rebel True Immortals had died and the other two had fled.
• The floating island bearing the Lingxiao Palace fell from the Nine Heavens and came to rest on two islands in the Eighth Heaven.

After the Heavenly Court fell, Bai Yujun drank a toast to its ruins and learned that the Heavenly Gates were being sealed. She closed the North Heavenly Gate and declined the Female Guard Camp’s invitation to travel to Kunlun, leaving her free to explore.

• Erlang Shen freed the rebel prisoners and told them they could no longer serve as Heavenly Soldiers or Generals.
• As sunset fell, the Heavenly Court’s aura changed, and the immortals realized it was gone; most of the heavenly army chose to follow Erlang Shen.
• The Female Guard Camp Commander invited Bai Yujun to join the camp at Kunlun, but Bai Yujun declined and said she wanted to travel.
• Bai Yujun returned to the North Heavenly Gate, dismissed the Frost Giant Dragon, and used the Guardian Seal to close the gate in ice.

After Heaven collapsed, Bai Yujun relocated the demon immortals who had sought her protection, then spent three years in seclusion before returning to the mortal world. She reached Bamboo Spring Temple and discovered that the monkey had comprehended all Three Thousand Dao.

• Bai Yujun gave the demon immortals who gathered beneath her banner a chance to leave, and every one of them chose to stay.
• At dawn, the remaining immortals left Heaven, and Bai Yujun took her new followers into the Little Broken Ball World.
• Bai Yujun spent three years sleeping and letting the Little Broken Ball World grow before returning to the mortal world and traveling toward Bamboo Spring Temple.
• On the way, Bai Yujun saw ruined temples and learned that the local Earth Gods, Mountain Gods, and River Gods had fallen into poverty after Heaven sealed its gate.
• At Bamboo Spring Temple, Bai Yujun found the monkey repairing the gate and learned he had comprehended all Three Thousand Dao.

Bai Yujun visited Old Hui Xian at Bamboo Spring Temple, where they shared tea and discussed his plan to descend the mountain to deliver suffering souls amid the war. She reflected on her desire to live well and pursue her own goals, while the Monkey offered to fight at her side; the chapter ended with their peaceful gathering giving way to the troubled world beyond.

• Bai Yujun arrived as Old Hui Xian packed to leave the temple, and they brewed tea together with Little Stone, the Snake Demon Boy, and the Monkey.
• The Monkey explained that he had learned to eat bamboo shoots from the Black and White Foolish Bear, and Bai Yujun corrected him that it was a panda.
• Old Hui Xian said he planned to descend the mountain to deliver Lost Souls after witnessing blood-red skies and hearing grieving spirits.
• Bai Yujun noted that war and death had spread across the Immortal Realm, but Old Hui Xian insisted he would help as many souls as he could.
• Bai Yujun reflected that she wanted to live well and develop Ball Ball rather than focus on fighting for supremacy, and the Monkey promised to join her when battle came.
• Bai Yujun, the Monkey, and Old Hui Xian finished their tea as the fire went out, while the world beyond the temple remained unsettled.

Bai Yujun and the monkey left Bamboo Spring Temple and traveled through a ruined landscape scarred by war and exploitation. Though Bai Yujun initially tried to ignore a city’s suffering, she stopped and asked the monkey to help, and his troop of monkeys subdued the looters.

• The group descended from Bamboo Spring Temple, where the monkey explained that he had driven away landowners who had enclosed the farmers’ fields.
• Old Hui Xian buried a burned mother beast and her young, then stayed behind to chant sutras for them while Bai Yujun and the monkey continued toward the Daoist sect.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey traveled through abandoned villages and barren mountains, discussing whether she should rule the Immortal Realm.
• They crossed a battlefield and entered a city being looted amid fighting between cultivation factions, while the monkey remarked that the dead would make useful fertilizer.
• Bai Yujun considered leaving the suffering alone to avoid exposing herself, but then stopped and asked the monkey for help.
• The monkey summoned more than a hundred monkeys, who scattered through the ruins and knocked out the blade-wielding looters with sap blows.

Bai Yujun and the monkey traveled through a war-scarred world before reaching Daoist Mountain, where the monkey discovered a giant lotus and attained enlightenment. As Bai guarded him, she sensed that he and Zhen Bei would be essential allies in future battles.

• Bai Yujun used her dragon might to destroy the evil creatures in a valley, then continued traveling with the monkey through ruined lands and peaceful Immortal Domain territory.
• Bai Yujun found traces of Divine Dragon Hall demon beasts and said she would return to her old home to retrieve something.
• After years of travel, Bai Yujun and the monkey reached Daoist Mountain and explored its enormous lotuses while visitors recognized Bai Yujun and kept their distance.
• The monkey studied a lotus stalk and leaf, then sat in a lotus seedpod and attained enlightenment while Bai Yujun watched over him.
• Bai Yujun sensed that the monkey and Zhen Bei would be crucial allies to her in future battles.

Bai Yujun climbed Daoist Mountain with Monkey Brother and reunited with her Eldest Senior Brother, Chu Zhe, before continuing to visit her master. After parting from Chu Zhe, she planned to return to the Dragon Sleep Lesser World someday and took Monkey Brother toward Qingxu Hall.

• Bai Yujun and Monkey Brother crossed Qingshi Bridge, where she playfully flirted with a Daoist fairy while Monkey Brother recoiled in disgust and kicked up the grass.
• Bai Yujun learned that her master and senior brothers and sisters were on the mountain, then dragged Monkey Brother farther uphill toward Qingxu Hall.
• Bai Yujun met Chu Zhe by a bamboo grove and greeted her Eldest Senior Brother, who thanked her after sensing her adjustment of his destiny and blessings.
• Bai Yujun watched Chu Zhe leave with young disciples, glimpsed his future, and decided she should revisit the Dragon Sleep Lesser World.
• Bai Yujun headed to see her master with Monkey Brother and told him to change into his old outfit.

Bai Yujun returned to Clear Void Peak and reunited with Yu Rong, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu, bringing the Demon Emperor Monkey as her guest. As they shared a meal, Yu Rong struggled to discuss Bai Yujun’s old grudge with Li Xiangyan, whose cultivation and fortune had been harmed by the conflict.

• Bai Yujun arrived at Clear Void Peak, greeted Xu Ling and Yang Mu, and offered incense in the hall.
• Bai Yujun paid her respects to Yu Rong and introduced Monkey as the Demon Emperor of the Southern Wilderness Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Yu Rong, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu welcomed Monkey, and the group gathered for a lively hot-pot meal.
• Yu Rong hesitated to raise the subject of reconciling Bai Yujun with Li Xiangyan, who had been suppressed for two hundred years after nearly using the Demon Slaying Sword against her.
• Yu Rong recalled their master's warning that Bai Yujun’s growing cultivation would increasingly affect Li Xiangyan’s fortune, and that only the one who tied the bell could untie it.
• The group continued eating and drinking into the night, while Yang Mu befriended Monkey and Bai Yujun kept eating.

Bai Yujun discovered that Yu Rong had been injured in an ambush by Divine Dragon Hall and resolved to retaliate. After leaving Daoist Mountain, she parted ways with Monkey Brother at Wind and Rain Bridge to pursue her own plans.

• Bai Yujun used Gaze into the Past and learned that demonic beasts with dragon aura had ambushed Yu Rong, who was rescued by Li Xiangyan and Gu Cangyu but suffered internal injuries.
• Bai Yujun offered Yu Rong her healing pills and promised to settle the score with the attackers after learning they were linked to Divine Dragon Hall.
• Bai Yujun planned to weaken Divine Dragon Hall, seek allies among the Half-Dragon People, and return to her old home after leaving Daoist Mountain.
• After the mountains were covered in snow, Bai Yujun said farewell to Yu Rong, her senior brothers, and her senior sister, then descended the mountain with Monkey Brother.
• At Wind and Rain Bridge, Bai Yujun parted from Monkey Brother, who offered to help her later, and set off in another direction.

Tieqiu, Qing Ling, and the Wine Worm uncovered and destroyed a concealed passage to Nine Nether Hell inside an ancient tomb. Meanwhile, Bai Yujun returned openly to the Dragon Sleep Lesser World and began touring her territory.

• Tieqiu and Qing Ling found traces of a visitor and sensed danger behind the tomb’s stone door through their White Dragon Scales.
• Tieqiu smashed the door, and the scales’ light destroyed the evil spirits inside the burial chamber.
• The group discovered a pool connecting to Nine Nether Hell and attacked the trapped figure and portal with spells until the figure went lifeless.
• Bai Yujun returned through the Dragon Gate, greeted Mu and Xi, and traveled from the Southern Wasteland into the human world.
• Cultivation Sects lowered their banners and silenced their drums as the returning dragon passed through her domain.

A poor father told his son and four travelers the old story of a dragon slain above an ancient city, whose ruin and scattered scales drew treasure seekers to the wasteland. As thunder struck close by, an antlered humanlike shadow appeared outside the postal station.

• Four travelers arrived at the remote postal station and rented the west room while the burly man cooked porridge.
• At his son's request, the burly man recounted how people slaughtered snakes, enraged a white dragon, and brought it down with a crossbow bolt.
• He said snakes protected the wounded dragon, which escaped into the great river after the battle devastated the city.
• The burly man explained that dragon-scale fragments had brought fortune to their finders and that the river's course had changed after the dragon's slaughter.
• A nearby thunderclap and lightning revealed a human shadow with branched deer antlers outside the window.

Bai Yujun confronted a Dragon Hunter descendant at a ruined post station and offered him a choice of three umbrellas for ten copper coins. When more Dragon Hunters arrived, she used her dragon might to force them to their knees and told them to decide their own fate.

• A burly man opened the door and saw Bai Yujun, who recognized his Dragon Hunter lineage by reading his past and fate.
• Bai Yujun offered the burly man three paper umbrellas for ten copper coins, and he hesitated over which one to choose.
• Bai Yujun sensed a crowd approaching along the official road and identified them as descendants of the Dragon Hunters.
• The burly man told Bai Yujun that his ancestors had guarded the area and waited for her return for fifteen or sixteen centuries.
• Bai Yujun unleashed her dragon might, forced the gathered Dragon Hunters to their knees, and told them their lives were in their own hands.

Bai Yujun revealed her true dragon form to terrify the Dragon Hunters and condemn their ancestors for passing down their doomed beliefs. The brawny man chose the gray umbrella and survived, while the villagers asked Bai Yujun to save their land; she agreed and vanished with two umbrellas.

• Bai Yujun rebuked the angry villagers and transformed into a colossal White Divine Dragon, showing them what a real dragon looked like.
• Bai Yujun denounced the Dragon Hunters’ ancestors for forcing their descendants to inherit their beliefs and face the same slaughter.
• Bai Yujun returned to her half-human, half-dragon form and asked the brawny man to make his choice.
• The brawny man paid ten copper coins and chose the gray umbrella, ending the transaction and ensuring he would not die.
• The old man and villagers begged Bai Yujun to save their land, and she agreed before taking two umbrellas and vanishing.

Bai Yujun searched the ancient battlefield for the last Dragon Hunting Crossbow bolt. A freed Dragon Hunter showed her where the buried city ruins lay, and she rewarded him before sending him back to his son.

• Bai Yujun searched the transformed ruins but could not locate the remaining Dragon Hunting Crossbow bolt.
• The burly man left his son and the four travelers at the relay station and ran to tell Bai Yujun that generations of people had searched for the bolt.
• The burly man explained that an ancient earthquake had shifted the city ruins, making the visible city walls a false landmark.
• Bai Yujun used True Sight to find the buried city ruins among the distant hills and streams.
• Bai Yujun improved the burly man's fortune, called their exchange complete, and sent him back to the relay station.

Bai Yujun spent a year studying the Dragon Hunting Crossbow and evolved until it no longer posed a threat to her. After leaving fragments of dragon scales behind in the wilderness, she relaxed in a hot spring with Mu and Xi, where Mu asked whether Bai had hidden a bird in her world.

• Bai Yujun recovered the unfired Dragon Hunting Crossbow bolt and studied its properties to strengthen her defenses.
• As Bai Yujun meditated in the wasteland, a father and son visited regularly to absorb her dragon aura while the land grew greener and more lively.
• After a year of experiments, Bai Yujun completed a subtle evolution and no longer sensed danger from the Dragon Hunting Crossbow.
• Bai Yujun left several fragments of dragon scales buried in the wilderness and vanished.
• Bai Yujun rested in a hot spring while Mu and Xi fed her fruit and polished her horns, and Mu asked whether she had hidden a bird in her world.

Bai Yujun showed Mu and Xi the prosperous Little Broken Ball World and its divine palace. In the Primordial Main World, the Long-faced Strongman began seeking atonement by helping Old Hui Xian bury the dead, then joined the residents of Bamboo Spring Temple to sweep its path and ring its bell.

• Bai Yujun explained how she had struggled to find food for Little Phoenix, then took Mu and Xi to admire her thriving world and grand divine palace.
• Mu urged Bai Yujun to take on greater responsibilities, while Bai Yujun lounged comfortably on her oversized dragon throne.
• The Long-faced Strongman wandered through devastated lands, confronted the bones beneath his feet, and fled in despair over the sins he had committed.
• The Long-faced Strongman met Old Hui Xian and helped him bury the dead, finding peace in the work and returning to it for half a year.
• The Long-faced Strongman begged Old Hui Xian to save him, and the monk brought him to Bamboo Spring Temple.
• Old Hui Xian told the Long-faced Strongman to sweep the Mountain Stone Path and ring the bell morning and evening until it rang by itself.