Chapter Summaries

As Bai Yujun and the monkey approached the Cave Scorpion Tribe, Bai foresaw an ambush arranged by the tribe and the Divine Dragon Hall. She sent Long Zhao to a secret realm, then joined the monkey in flying toward the Giant Scorpion Mountains as the conspirators prepared to attack.

• Bai Yujun asked the monkey what identity she should use, and he told her she was a brutal predator.
• Bai used Gaze into the Future and discovered the Cave Scorpion Tribe and the Divine Dragon Hall had joined forces to ambush her.
• Bai sent Long Zhao to her secret realm, where Long Zhao saw a phoenix and a grand palace in the distance.
• Bai and the monkey put on their armor and flew through the storm toward the Giant Scorpion Mountains.
• The Cave Scorpion Patriarch demanded half of Bai's body in exchange for helping the Divine Dragon Hall kill her.
• The black-robed Divine Dragon Hall figure agreed to split Bai's body equally with the Cave Scorpion Patriarch, though both men secretly distrusted each other.

Xiao exposed the Demon Dragon King’s attempt to replace the Crocodile Dragon in the plan against Bai Yujun, forcing him to flee. Bai Yujun and the monkey attacked the Cave Scorpion Tribe, where the monkey fought its chieftain and the White Dragon battled its sacred scorpion; Bai Yujun realized Xiao had changed the future she had seen.

• Xiao confronted the disguised Demon Dragon King and warned him to leave, so the Demon Dragon King abandoned the meeting and flew back toward Divine Dragon Hall.
• The Cave Scorpion chieftain summoned the tribe’s sacred beast by sounding the Bronze Drum and sent for reinforcements.
• Bai Yujun emerged from the clouds and attacked the giant venomous scorpion with dragon flame while the monkey leapt down to fight the Cave Scorpion chieftain.
• The White Dragon’s fire burned and injured the scorpion, while the monkey and the chieftain exchanged blows that shattered a stone statue.
• Bai Yujun noticed that events differed from the future she had seen and realized Xiao had interfered.

Bai Yujun killed the Cave Scorpion Tribe’s sacred venomous scorpion and ate it while the monkey fought the tribe’s chief. Reinforcements from Jiuli’s sacred land arrived, and their elder admitted the chief had coerced the Half-Dragon People, leaving Bai ready to negotiate.

• Bai Yujun overwhelmed the Cave Scorpion Tribe’s poisonous insects with her dragon might and lightning, then pinned down and killed its sacred venomous scorpion.
• The monkey fought the Cave Scorpion Tribe chief until the scorpion’s death caused the chief’s scorpion-pincer arm to fall off.
• The monkey noticed reinforcements approaching from Jiuli’s sacred land and flew to block their path while Bai Yujun ate the scorpion.
• The Jiuli elder asked Bai Yujun to quell her anger and explained that the Cave Scorpion Tribe chief had secretly coerced the Half-Dragon People into offering up women.
• Bai Yujun recognized that the elder’s admission left room for negotiation and transformed into her half-dragon, half-human form.

After Bai Yujun killed and ate the Cave Scorpion Tribe’s sacred beast, Jiuli’s elder invited her to the sacred land, but she distrusted him and questioned Jiuli’s support for the Half-Dragon People. Mu Duo arrived and persuaded Bai Yujun to accept the invitation, leaving the elder to wonder why the sacred land had summoned the White Dragon.

• Bai Yujun warned the Cave Scorpion Tribe experts away from the remains of their sacred beast, and Jiuli’s elder stopped the chieftain from seeking revenge.
• Bai Yujun used Gaze into the Future, saw Jiuli’s sacred land and an old woman mention an ancestor’s prophecy, then heard the elder invite her as a guest.
• Bai Yujun asked whether Jiuli would abandon the Half-Dragon People, and the elder said Jiuli had already sent experts to support them.
• Bai Yujun suspected the invitation was a trap until Mu Duo arrived on a giant butterfly and reassured her.
• Bai Yujun, Mu Duo, and the monkey departed for Jiuli’s sacred land on auspicious clouds, while the elder rebuked the Cave Scorpion chieftain for his actions.

Bai Yujun visited the Jiuli sacred ground and joined its people for a welcoming feast. As she enjoyed their songs and food, she remembered her old home and asked Mu Duo to return there with her when they had time.

• The Jiuli welcomed Bai Yujun, Mu Duo, and the monkey with singing and dancing at their sacred village.
• The old priestess recognized Bai Yujun as a true dragon and led her group through the stone gate.
• Bai Yujun accepted the Jiuli's invitation to share food and wine with the monkey and Mu Duo.
• Bai Yujun watched the festivities and remembered her peaceful days in Cloud Remote Ancient Village.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo that they should go back to their old home when they had time.

Bai Yujun discovered that Jiuli had imprisoned three Heavenly Army generals and freed them, then demanded an explanation from the old priest. The priest claimed the generals had entered Jiuli’s forbidden ground while fighting Divine Dragon Hall, and Bai Yujun began examining their memories to learn what had happened.

• Bai Yujun surveyed Jiuli’s sacred land with her True Sight and uncovered an illusion concealing an underground iron prison.
• Bai Yujun saw three poisoned Heavenly Army generals imprisoned in the iron prison and broke its runes and Nether Iron chains.
• Bai Yujun purified the generals of Gu poison and Human-faced Spiders, and the three recognized her as General Bai.
• The old priest explained that the generals had entered Jiuli’s forbidden ground while fighting Divine Dragon Hall, whose beasts had injured Jiuli clansmen.
• Bai Yujun looked into the generals’ past to verify the priest’s account.

Bai Yujun rejected the Jiuli priest’s attempt to make her their totem, then persuaded Mu Duo to pursue influence among the Jiuli people so they could become allies. At the banquet, Bai Yujun revealed that Xiao possessed an immortal lotus, setting news of the treasure loose and leaving its purpose unknown.

• Bai Yujun grew angry at the Jiuli priest’s brutal imprisonment methods, and the storm clouds above her reflected her displeasure.
• Bai Yujun urged Mu Duo to work toward becoming a saintess with influence across Jiuli, and Mu Duo agreed to try.
• The old priest recognized Mu Duo’s unusual fortune and concluded that she could become key to resolving Jiuli’s crisis.
• Bai Yujun told the Jiuli people and the three immortal generals that Xiao possessed an immortal lotus and had used it to tempt her into freeing someone from the Heavenly Prison.
• Bai Yujun revealed that Xiao’s original form had been changed into a human appearance and said it lived in the stone gate secret realm, while the monkey called it ugly.
• The gathering wondered what the immortal lotus was used for as news of its existence threatened to spread through the Immortal Realm, the Demon Realm, and the Demon Race.

Bai Yujun and the demon monkey celebrated with the Jiuli clanspeople, and Jiuli agreed to help the Half-Dragon People resist the Divine Dragon Hall. They headed back to the Half-Dragon territory, where Bai prepared to recruit loyal Half-Dragon People while worrying about the sealed underworld.

• Bai Yujun and the demon monkey feasted and drank at Jiuli, then Mu Duo used her giant butterfly’s pollen to draw everyone into dancing around the bonfire.
• Bai Yujun and the demon monkey left after Jiuli agreed to help the Half-Dragon People withstand the Divine Dragon Hall’s harassment.
• Bai Yujun remembered Long Zhao, summoned her from the Dragon Secret Realm, and explained that Jiuli’s support would protect the Half-Dragon People.
• Long Zhao asked about Bai Yujun’s secret realm, and Bai said she planned to recruit some Half-Dragon People rather than move the entire population.
• Bai Yujun warned Long Zhao not to reveal the phoenix’s existence, then wondered about the underworld and the growing number of Ghostly Entities in the mortal realm.
• Bai Yujun reached the Half-Dragon territory openly in dragon form as Long Zhao considered which loyal Half-Dragon People to select.

Bai Yujun selected more than a thousand young Half-Dragon People, disregarding their bloodline strength, and claimed them for her command. The recruits were transported to a vast secret realm, where Jiang arrived under the Dragon Emperor’s edict to take them aboard a flying ship.

• Old Hui Xian and his companions continued through a desolate ruin, clearing the way past an evil ghost.
• Long Zhao and five Dragon Scale Clones screened young Half-Dragon People, accepting candidates regardless of their thin bloodlines.
• Bai Yujun approved the more than one thousand selected youths and declared that the Half-Dragon People territory could no longer command them.
• Bai Yujun transported the recruits to a secret realm, where Jiang ordered them to board a flying ship.

With Wenhuo Great World’s fortress on the verge of falling, Huang Yu chose to remain behind and prayed to the divine dragon for help. Bai Yujun sensed her plea and sent a blessing, while Gan Wu arrived and unleashed a sword formation against the Demonic Beast horde.

• Huang Yu learned that the defenders had to abandon the fortress and ordered its formation to destroy it after their retreat.
• At the well, Huang Yu decided to stay in her homeland and prayed for the divine dragon to save them.
• Bai Yujun sensed Huang Yu’s distress from afar and cast Dragon’s Blessing for her.
• A Devil Race expert fled into a tower ship, which Gan Wu pursued and split apart.
• Gan Wu appeared above the fortress and used Six Harmonies, Sole Sovereance to trap the Demonic Beasts as Sword Qi rained down.

After returning from the south, Bai Yujun and the monkey found the mortal world devastated by a ghostly calamity, with ruins and Hellish Evil Ghosts spreading beyond the mountains. Exhausted by the destruction, Bai Yujun took the monkey through the ancient Dragon Gate to wander and seek old friends.

• Bai Yujun and the monkey left the south and headed back toward Bamboo Spring Temple, discussing whether to visit someone in the Heavenly Prison.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey emerged from the Primitive Mountain Forest and found the land beyond it scarred, ruined, and filled with a gloomy, foul atmosphere.
• Bai Yujun questioned a Rabbit Demon, a Fox Spirit, and a Rat Demon, who said they had fled their home for more than a hundred sunrises to escape the ghost domain.
• Bai Yujun purified approaching Hellish Evil Ghosts with a trace of dragon might and realized that some people had been possessed by them.
• Bai Yujun said she was tired and wanted to find old friends, then swept the monkey into her world and took him through the restored ancient Dragon Gate.

Zhen Bei felt the Dragon Girl’s arrival through his Divine Soul as a supernatural storm disrupted the city, then returned home to find Bai Yujun and a powerful monkey in his apartment. Bai Yujun said she had brought the monkey to Earth for a break and had come to see how Zhen Bei was doing.

• Zhen Bei bought soda and waited for the Number Six bus as strange lightning gathered over the city.
• His Divine Soul trembled, and the Dragon Girl’s avatar said, “I’m here,” before a sudden downpour swept across the streets.
• Bai Yujun brought the monkey to Earth, changed into casual clothes, and walked with him toward Zhen Bei’s home.
• Zhen Bei slammed the door when he first saw Bai Yujun, but she snapped her fingers and appeared inside his apartment with the monkey.
• Bai Yujun made herself comfortable on Zhen Bei’s sofa and explained that she and the monkey had come to visit and take a break.

Bai Yujun and Monkey visited Zhen Bei at his shabby rental room, where they talked about his poverty and unusual fate. Zhen Bei invited them to the night market for barbecue, and the trio left together, taking a bus toward the city.

• Zhen Bei arrived home to find Bai Yujun and Monkey waiting in his room.
• Bai Yujun questioned Zhen Bei’s poor diet and discovered his lottery ticket, then said his rare fate would eventually bring him wealth.
• Monkey climbed into Zhen Bei’s washing machine and enjoyed its spin cycle until Bai Yujun shut the bathroom door.
• Zhen Bei suggested they go to the night market for barbecue, and Bai Yujun offered to pay.
• The three left the apartment and waited for a bus, with Monkey shaking the bus stop signpost before they boarded.

Bai Yujun, Zhen Bei, and the monkey traveled by bus to a night market and shared a lavish barbecue, where Bai Yujun explained that she planned to confront the forces driving the chaos. The night ended with Zhen Bei agreeing to help her when the time came, though the journey to the Primordial Immortal Realm might lie thousands of years in their future.

• Zhen Bei gave the monkey a coin, and the three rode a bus from the old district to the city center.
• Bai Yujun, Zhen Bei, and the monkey ate barbecue while Zhen Bei offered a tribute to his ancestors and fallen comrades.
• Bai Yujun told Zhen Bei that she planned to eliminate the overlords responsible for the turmoil rather than keep drifting through life.
• Zhen Bei wished Bai Yujun success and promised to help if she needed him.
• Bai Yujun joked that she would put her armies under Zhen Bei's command, and he agreed to lead them in battle.
• Bai Yujun said they might have to wait thousands of years before reaching the Primordial Immortal Realm, and the three continued their night of eating and drinking.

After a night of drunken revelry with Zhen Bei and the monkey, Bai Yujun left Earth with the monkey as the South Heavenly Gate’s weakening barrier drew the attention of rival immortals. She parted from Zhen Bei with money and an offer of help, then departed beneath gathering thunderclouds.

• Bai Yujun, Zhen Bei, and the monkey drank and wandered through the empty streets, where the monkey revealed his Great Sage form and entertained Zhen Bei with magic.
• Bai Yujun and her companions returned to their rental unit and slept, while the restrictions at the South Heavenly Gate mysteriously changed.
• Immortal overlords sent forces to test the weakened barrier, but none could enter the Heavenly Court, and their failures helped intensify the struggle for supremacy.
• Bai Yujun and the monkey said farewell to Zhen Bei on the Back Mountain, and Bai Yujun gave him money to support his family.
• Bai Yujun promised that the monkey could help Zhen Bei if trouble arose, then left with the monkey as thunder roared overhead.

Bai Yujun returned to the Dragon Sleep Lesser World and resolved to lead her demon army against the calamities ravaging the Small Worlds, with the Primordial Immortal Realm as her eventual target. Mu revealed that she had spent centuries preparing the snake demon race and Bai Yujun’s old companions for this mission.

• Bai Yujun and the monkey concluded that they could not end the Small Worlds’ troubles by themselves, so Bai Yujun decided to send her army to intervene.
• Bai Yujun returned through the Dragon Gate and declared that the snake demon race would grow stronger by fighting across the Myriad Worlds.
• Mu became delighted when Bai Yujun said she planned to conquer the Small Worlds first and eventually target the Primordial Immortal Realm.
• Mu explained that she had spent fifteen hundred years cultivating the snake demon race and keeping Bai Yujun’s old generals from ascending until they were needed.
• Mu brought Bai Yujun’s dragon-infused horse into the treehouse and said she would return the waiting generals and companions to her.

After Mu sent Bai Yujun away to begin her next venture, she returned to the Snake Demon Empire and revisited the Bai Residence. She reunited with Qiao Jin and the empire’s other leaders, then revealed her divine palace and world to them before trying to make them feel at ease.

• Bai Yujun left Mu’s treehouse, and the monkey departed for the Hundred Thousand Mountains with a dragon scale.
• Bai Yujun surveyed the thriving Snake Demon Empire and returned to the Bai Residence, where she sent for her old subordinates.
• Qiao Jin and the empire’s officials arrived at the residence and greeted Bai Yujun as the Dragon Emperor.
• Bai Yujun transported them to her divine palace and explained that she had created and ruled the world they were in.
• Bai Yujun chatted with Qiao Jin and reassured her former subordinates, though they remained too formal to return to their old familiarity.

Bai Yujun began planning to retake control of the Snake Demon Empire and studied its military strength, resources, and expansion needs. She returned to the Dragon Sleep World with Mu and Xi to research a teleportation array, while an inverted world appeared above River City.

• Bai Yujun announced that she would retake control of the Snake Demon Empire and asked Qiao Jin and the ministers to report on its strength.
• Qiao Jin and the officials described the Empire’s vast territory, troops, equipment, and capacity to produce ships and flying vessels.
• Bai Yujun gathered former Heavenly Court officials and Half-Dragon People to plan a campaign and prepare a teleportation array for sending troops to other Small Worlds.
• Bai Yujun returned to the Dragon Sleep World and began researching a teleportation array with Mu and Xi, considering whether the Dragon Gate could help.
• An inverted, half-illusory and half-real world appeared above River City, drawing the attention of its residents.

Qiao Jin returned to the Snake Demon Empire and ordered a full mobilization for war, summoning its people to the Southern Wasteland. Snake Demons across the world answered the call, while the empire’s leaders hoped the Dragon Emperor could lead them through the coming conflict.

• Qiao Jin passed through the boundary between worlds, returned to the imperial center, and ordered conscription, weapons production, and memorials for fallen soldiers.
• Mu and Xi watched Snake Demon Elves gather and Mu told Xi that their own work was more important than joining the troops.
• Snake Demons across the oceans and northern ice plains received the summons and headed south toward the Southern Wasteland.
• A Snake Demon named Brother Liu left his human companions after learning that the empire had issued a conscription order and war was about to begin.
• Brother Liu boarded a passenger ship with other returning clansmen and looked forward to reaching the Southern Wasteland.

Bai Yujun and Mu completed a passage token that let ordinary allies cross a Small World barrier through their teleportation bridge. With the route open, Bai Yujun sent Snake Demon troops to clear the world and recruit soldiers, while Xi formed a tree path for the invasion.

• Bai Yujun and the craftsmen discovered that only divine beasts could cross the barrier through the unfinished Dragon Gate, so Mu suggested making a token infused with dragon aura and Dragon's Covenant.
• Bai Yujun crafted a passage token and gained the Small World's acknowledgment, but its aura burned an evil cultivator who came near it.
• A Half-Dragon Person used the token to cross the barrier, proving the passage worked for ordinary allies.
• Bai Yujun arranged for ten thousand Snake Demon Soldiers and unascended Half-Dragon People to enter the world, while Mu planned improvements to the bridge and tokens.
• Qiao Jin assembled the troops in the Southern Wasteland, and Xi grew a Sky-Connecting tree path as Ironclad Ships and soldiers advanced toward the upside-down world.