Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun watched the imperial troops and rebels clash, then discovered a Ghost Cultivator was absorbing the fallen soldiers’ souls and decided to intervene. She prepared to leave her tree and act, dressing in her Chunyang Daoist Robe before confronting the danger.

• Bai Yujun watched Mo Qin and Mo Yuan depart, then settled in a tree to observe the coming battle.
• Bai Yujun lounged in the tree, used a gentle breeze to cool herself, and fell asleep.
• Bai Yujun awoke to a night battle in which the imperial troops and rebels both launched fire attacks, and she watched the slaughter until dawn.
• Bai Yujun noticed the imperial troops retreating and sensed a sinister yin aura among the rebels.
• Bai Yujun discovered that a Ghost Cultivator was absorbing the dead soldiers’ souls and decided she had to stop it.
• Bai Yujun took up her weapons, put on her Chunyang Daoist Robe, and prepared to act.

Bai Yujun arrived at the burning county town as Mo Yuan, Mo Qin, and the surviving defenders prepared to die fighting, then challenged the Ghost Cultivator who was harvesting Lost Souls with a Soul Summoning Banner. She blocked his Yin Wind and rushed into close combat, leaving the fight underway.

• Mo Yuan rallied the trapped soldiers and righteous martial artists to face the advancing rebels despite the burning town and their lack of escape.
• Bai Yujun charged through the rebel ranks and leaped onto the wall where the Ghost Cultivator was waving his Soul Summoning Banner.
• Bai Yujun identified herself as a Chunyang Palace disciple and ordered bystanders to stand back before confronting the Ghost Cultivator.
• The Ghost Cultivator attacked with Yin Sha Soul Devouring Wind, but Bai Yujun used Transforming into Three Pure Ones to block it and hurled Hengdao at him.
• Bai Yujun charged in with her heavy ruler as the Ghost Cultivator retreated and sent two black-and-red shadows to attack her.

Bai Yujun battled a gray-clad Ghost Cultivator atop the city wall, overcoming his ghosts and poison with her Chunyang techniques. As their fight continued, a young spear-wielding cultivator arrived and joined her against him.

• Bai Yujun smashed a straw substitute, destroyed the Ghost Cultivator’s two fierce ghosts, and wounded him after tracking him through the smoke.
• The Ghost Cultivator unleashed resentful souls, but Bai Yujun dispersed them with Snow Breaks the Bridge and continued fighting him with her ruler and sword.
• Their corpse poison, Yin Energy, and snake venom mixed into a mutated toxic haze, so both fighters retreated after inhaling some of it.
• A young man charged through the rebel troops and attacked the Ghost Cultivator, while Bai Yujun held the enemy in place and blew away the poisonous smoke.
• The young cultivator used Cloud Piercer to drive the Ghost Cultivator back as he and Bai Yujun fought him together on the city wall.

Bai Yujun and Yang Ning chased a fleeing Ghost Cultivator through the smoke-filled county town and into the mountains. The Ghost Cultivator called on his friend, a powerful Wild Boar Demon, leaving Bai Yujun to prepare for another fight while low on spiritual power.

• The Ghost Cultivator used black mist and ghostly attacks to cover his escape, but Bai Yujun and Yang Ning pursued him out of town.
• Bai Yujun dodged a flying skull and destroyed it with No Self, No Sword, impressing Yang Ning, who introduced himself as Yang Ning.
• Yang Ning explained that the Ghost Cultivator used the Five Ghosts Technique to run, and Bai Yujun introduced herself before pulling ahead.
• The chase led to Qingxi Mountain, where Yang Ning warned that a Wild Boar Demon lived there and was rumored to be friends with an evil cultivator.
• The Ghost Cultivator called for Brother Zhu, and a massive Wild Boar Demon emerged to protect him.
• Bai Yujun stopped pursuing the Ghost Cultivator and conserved her strength because she had spent much of her spiritual power and the Wild Boar Demon was at full strength.

Bai Yujun and Yang Ning confronted the Wild Boar Demon and the gray-robed Ghost Cultivator after learning the demon had abducted women. Bai Yujun fought the boar with her heavy ruler, then met his charge head-on and left him badly injured.

• Yang Ning told Bai Yujun that Squire Zhu had kidnapped women and explained that local cultivators had failed to defeat him.
• The Wild Boar Demon asked Bai Yujun whether she was married, and she attacked him with her heavy ruler.
• Bai Yujun fought the Wild Boar Demon while Yang Ning engaged the gray-robed Ghost Cultivator.
• Bai Yujun struck the boar repeatedly, provoking him to transform into a giant wild boar and charge her.
• The Wild Boar Demon sent Bai Yujun crashing through trees, but she rose, charged him back, and fractured his nasal bone with her heavy ruler.

Bai Yujun found a way to defeat the Wild Boar Demon while Yang Ning failed to stop the Ghost Cultivator from escaping. The group celebrated the demon’s death with a feast in the valley.

• Bai Yujun disoriented the Wild Boar Demon, drove her Hengdao into its mouth, and rode it until it collapsed near Mo Qin and Mo Yuan.
• Bai Yujun shattered the boar’s skull with one final blow, then returned to help pursue the Ghost Cultivator.
• Yang Ning admitted that the Ghost Cultivator had escaped, and Bai Yujun walked back with him.
• Bai Yujun cut up the Wild Boar Demon and shared its meat with Mo Qin, Mo Yuan, and the others, who celebrated beside a bonfire.

After the evil cultivator fled, Bai Yujun parted from Yang Ning and the Mo siblings and traveled to Jiangzhou to recover at a Chunyang outpost. The Ghost Cultivator escaped the search and spread news of Bai Yujun’s appearance, while she encountered children being sold amid the flood disaster in Jiangzhou.

• A Golden Core senior brother questioned Bai Yujun, promised her a reward for killing the pig demon, and flew off to search for the Ghost Cultivator.
• Bai Yujun told Yang Ning she would rest at the Jiangzhou outpost before returning to Mount Hua, then declined his request to travel with her.
• Bai Yujun retrieved her book case, said farewell to Yang Ning and the Mo siblings, and set out for Jiangzhou as the rebel army retreated.
• The Ghost Cultivator escaped the Golden Core cultivator and spread word that Bai Yujun had appeared in the county town.
• Bai Yujun entered Jiangzhou, rested at the Chunyang outpost, and bought pastries as the city recovered from the floods.
• Bai Yujun passed a poor district where parents were trying to sell their children for food, then left without intervening.

After a month of rest in Jiangzhou, Bai Yujun sensed danger and hurried back to the Chunyang outpost, where a powerful cultivator launched a devastating attack. As the man killed the two Senior Brother Yuxu, he struck Bai Yujun and brought the pavilion crashing toward the lake.

• Bai Yujun left the outpost to watch an opera, but sudden chest pain and her prophetic instincts warned her of impending danger.
• Bai Yujun rushed back to the outpost and urged the two Senior Brother Yuxu to flee.
• A powerful man in purple-black robes appeared in the sky and destroyed buildings throughout the outpost.
• One Senior Brother Yuxu charged the attacker and was killed, and the other attacked with his treasure sword before also dying.
• The attacker noticed Bai Yujun, called her a beautiful cultivation furnace, and sent a streak of light toward her chest as the pavilion began collapsing.

After a mysterious cultivator destroyed the Chunyang Palace outpost in Jiangzhou City, Bai Yujun survived the attack by feigning death and escaping from the lake. The sect mobilized to investigate the unrest as injured Bai Yujun was found and taken for treatment.

• A powerful cultivator razed the Chunyang outpost and fled after mocking Chunyang Palace, alarming Jiangzhou’s citizens and officials.
• Li Xiangyan ordered Chu Zhe to gather traveling disciples and lead forces into the southeast, then sent Lian Tianxing to investigate the southern provinces.
• Bai Yujun crawled out of the lake with a grave chest wound and realized she would need to become stronger to be safe.
• Two Golden Core Stage senior sisters found Bai Yujun alive, gave her a bitter pill, and carried her to a nearby inn.

Bai Yujun recovered from her severe wounds after sleeping for half a month while Chunyang Palace fought fiends across the southeastern regions. She woke hungry and weak, then regained her strength by devouring a huge meal at a restaurant.

• Senior Brother Du said Bai Yujun was healing and needed to sleep, so Chu Zhe fed her a precious Healing Pill before leaving to lead Chunyang Palace forces into battle.
• While Bai Yujun remained unconscious, Chunyang Palace counterattacked fiends who had allied with rebel forces and seized territory across the southeastern regions.
• After half a month, Bai Yujun awakened, felt anxious about her safety, and struggled out of the inn in search of food.
• Bai Yujun bought more than twenty plates of meat and a roasted suckling pig, then paid her bill and left the astonished restaurant staff behind.

Bai Yujun was secretly assigned to protect Yang Chen and infiltrated his residence in Qingyan City by joining a Pear Garden troupe. She began training as a dancer, discovering that her cover required much more than simply blending into the background.

• Rebel forces allied with evil demons, prompting Chunyang Palace and Lingxu Palace to arrange protection and healing for Yang Chen, while Yu Rong assigned Bai Yujun to guard him secretly.
• Bai Yujun used an aura-concealing jade talisman and traveled to Qingyan City disguised as an ordinary woman in a merchant caravan.
• After an elder hired a Pear Garden troupe for the Yang residence, Bai Yujun joined it as a dancer to gain entry.
• The troupe's manager ordered Bai Yujun to rehearse, and she struggled through dance practice as the instructor scolded her.

Bai Yujun practiced dancing at the Yang residence while secretly serving as a hidden sentry, then was assigned to carry dishes at Yang Chen’s banquet. The chapter left her serving food in a hall guarded by Chunyang Palace disciples, with the guests gathered to discuss the rebellion.

• Bai Yujun practiced as an accompanying dancer and learned she would perform at a banquet welcoming Lord Yang.
• During a break, Bai Yujun sneaked out to eat meat and buy medicinal tonics before returning to the residence.
• The Yang residence prepared for Yang Chen’s banquet and found poisoned ingredients, which Chunyang Palace disciples burned.
• An elder assigned the dancers to serve dishes so Bai Yujun could use her keen sense of smell to detect poison.
• Bai Yujun checked the dish meant for Yang Chen, found no poison, and entered the hall to serve the guests.

Bai Yujun served and danced at Yang Chen’s banquet while keeping watch for poison, and she noticed that the fruit platter for the main table had been tampered with. After Chu Zhe discreetly took the platter, Bai Yujun seized it when it was carried away and began examining the fruit with a hairpin.

• Bai Yujun served dishes at the banquet and recognized Chu Zhe seated beside Yang Chen.
• Bai Yujun danced with the Pear Garden performers, while Yang Chen stopped Young Master Yang from assigning dancing girls to entertain the guests.
• Bai Yujun smelled something suspicious on the fruit for the main table and signaled Chu Zhe, who pulled the platter toward himself.
• After the dance, Bai Yujun took the platter from a maid and used a silver hairpin to inspect the fruit.

After avoiding a possible Gu poisoning and resting at the Yang residence, Bai Yujun discovered she could sense dragon veins and earth qi. She followed the mountain’s dragon vein into a buried cave, where she began absorbing the energy deep within.

• Bai Yujun recognized translucent insect eggs as Gu, discarded the dish, and burned her hands to avoid contamination.
• Three newly hired servants were taken away by two Pure Yang Golden Core disciples and never seen again.
• Bai Yujun climbed a mountain near Qingyan City and sensed unusual energy around the city and the surrounding mountain range.
• Bai Yujun realized her new ability let her sense dragon veins and followed one toward a feng shui treasure land.
• Bai Yujun found a collapsed cave and crawled inside, greedily absorbing the growing concentration of earth qi.

Bai Yujun discovered a dragon vein cavern and absorbed its earth energy, strengthening her body and abilities until her cultivation disturbed Qingyan City's veins and caused a mild earthquake. After realizing the trouble she had caused, she returned to the Yang Household and planned to find a way to cultivate without harming the earth veins.

• Bai Yujun found a cavern filled with Dragon Vein earth energy and discovered a dragon-shaped stalactite in its pool.
• Bai Yujun transformed into a snake and cultivated by absorbing the earth energy, improving her physique and water-related abilities.
• A mild earthquake shook Qingyan City, and a roadside fortune-teller recognized that the city's earth dragon energy veins had been disturbed.
• Bai Yujun sensed danger, left the cavern, and hurried back to Qingyan City after realizing a day and a half had passed.
• Bai Yujun returned to the Yang Household and realized her cultivation had caused the earthquake, though it had injured no one.
• Bai Yujun resolved to test ways of cultivating without affecting the earth veins while the city and household returned to normal.

Bai Yujun discovered a way to circulate Earth Vein Dragon Qi through her body and built a routine of cultivating at North Mountain while working at the Yang residence. As the southeast war grew deadlier and assassinations intensified, she advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and began slowing down to stabilize her Dao foundation.

• Bai Yujun secretly returned to the underground cavern and found that she could circulate Earth Vein Dragon Qi through her body before expelling it, avoiding the unease caused by absorbing it directly.
• Bai Yujun began splitting her days between cultivating at North Mountain and rehearsing or performing dances at the Yang residence.
• Rebels, imperial troops, Chunyang Palace cultivators, fiends, and heretical cultivators fought across the southeast, while the Yang residence coordinated supplies and contributions from powerful families.
• After half a month of cultivation, Bai Yujun noticed that Earth Vein Dragon Qi’s effects had diminished and that her demonic aura was fading.
• Bai Yujun reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage, then slowed her cultivation to stabilize her Dao foundation as the war’s deadlock brought more assassinations of commanders.

Bai Yujun noticed that several people in the Yang Residence had blurred fate patterns, then performed with Pear Garden at the evening banquet hosted by Yang Chen. As she felt that trouble was coming, cultivators quietly heightened their vigilance.

• Bai Yujun found that more than a dozen guards, maids, and servants had blurred fate patterns, though they still seemed to be the same people.
• Bai Yujun argued with Steward Sun until the woman in charge of Pear Garden intervened and sent her back to rehearse.
• Yang Chen and Old Master Yang hosted an evening banquet for officials, generals, and local nobles.
• Bai Yujun served dishes and danced at the banquet, then felt that something bad was about to happen.
• An elder behind a screen alerted the Golden Core Stage cultivators, and they increased their vigilance.

During the attack on the Yang residence, Bai Yujun sensed that the protective formation was being used to turn people inside it into assassins. She stopped the transformed guards from killing Yang Chen and continued fighting to protect the courtyard.

• Chunyang Palace cultivators battled black-clad attackers while Yang Chen gathered the residence’s people and guests in a protected courtyard, bringing the dancers as ordered.
• Yang Chen activated a Chunyang formation over the courtyard, but Bai Yujun sensed something was wrong as strange vibrations swept through the crowd.
• Black-clad figures at a distant gate tower chanted, and several guards and servants in the courtyard began suffering from pain and vacant spells.
• Three guards suddenly attacked Yang Chen, but Bai Yujun blocked their blades, broke them, and struck back before they could kill him.
• Bai Yujun drove off other transformed attackers, including a maid who had wounded the eldest young master, while Yang Chen watched her fight.

Bai Yujun helped Yang Chen survive an attack by cursed guards and hidden Demonic Cultivators, though she remained irritated by her dancer’s outfit and mocked Yang Chen’s eldest son. After the Chunyang Palace elders returned and the enemy retreated, Bai Yujun explained that the servants who attacked had been cursed and did not need to be killed.

• Bai Yujun knocked out the last crazed guard while Yang Chen watched his eldest son cry on the ground.
• The Demonic Cultivators retreated after an elder destroyed their gate tower, and Yang Chen thanked Bai Yujun for saving him.
• Bai Yujun mocked Yang Chen’s eldest son and sharply answered Yang Chen’s attempts at conversation.
• The Chunyang Palace elders returned with the disciples, opened the formation, and confirmed that the enemy had retreated.
• Bai Yujun left Pear Garden after the danger passed and told Yang Chen that the servants had been controlled by curses and should be spared.

Bai Yujun left the Yang residence for the frontline main camp after spending her spare time practicing cultivation and earning money as a fortune-teller. She traveled by boat with Chu Zhe, Yang Mu, and other Chunyang disciples, admiring the scenery along the river.

• Bai Yujun practiced on North Mountain and gained a reputation in Qingyan City as a white dragon appearing among the clouds.
• Bai Yujun set up a fortune-telling stall, drew a crowd, and left a fellow fortune-teller without customers.
• Chu Zhe found Bai Yujun at her stall and told her to join him at the main camp the next morning.
• Bai Yujun reunited with Yang Mu, and the two traded teasing remarks about their past misdeeds.
• Bai Yujun packed her belongings and silver, then departed with Chu Zhe, Yang Mu, and more than a dozen Chunyang disciples.
• Bai Yujun and Yang Mu admired the mountains, cliffs, waterfalls, and birds as the group traveled by boat toward the frontline main camp.