Chapter Summaries

Cen He chose Cen Zhuo to marry a Dragon Girl from the Daoist sect’s Pure Yang lineage and sent him with a grand procession of betrothal gifts to Daoist Mountain. As the Cen ships arrived, a refined scholar quietly stepped ashore.

• Cen Zhuo nervously met Cen He, who explained that the Martial Arts Competition would arrange a marriage and gave him a Marriage Red Thread and Concentric Lock.
• Cen He told Cen Zhuo to depart for Daoist Mountain in three days and revealed that his intended bride was a Dragon Girl and disciple of the Pure Yang lineage.
• Cen He announced the marriage across the city, prompting the Cen clan to envy Cen Zhuo’s sudden rise in standing.
• Cen Zhuo left a gold-threaded sachet with a young woman, then departed with the Cen clan’s grand wedding procession.
• Months later, the red-decorated Cen ships reached the lotus pool beneath Daoist Mountain, where a refined scholar quietly stepped ashore.

A mysterious visitor offered Li Xiangyan a chance to escape the Heavenly Dao’s punishment by poisoning the White Dragon, recruiting him to help carry out the plan through Qingxu Palace. Li Xiangyan heard the proposal but had not agreed to betray the Daoist sect.

• A blue-robed visitor wandered through the Daoist mountain and made his way toward Chunyang Peak, sharing a goal with the Cen clan but using different methods.
• Li Xiangyan reflected on his past, his ruined fortune, and the possibility of dying before comprehending the Great Dao.
• The visitor revealed that he knew Li Xiangyan’s crisis came from offending the White Dragon and claimed there was a way to resolve it.
• Li Xiangyan initially refused to stir up trouble, but the visitor persuaded him that he still could not bear to abandon the immortal path.
• The visitor proposed poisoning the White Dragon and showed Li Xiangyan a small bottle of lethal black poison.
• The visitor said the poison could be administered through Qingxu Palace with help from an insider, but Li Xiangyan had not accepted the role.

Li Xiangyan rejected the mysterious man's poison and broke free of Heaven's shackles through enlightenment, then joined Chunyang Palace's experts in fighting the intruder. The mysterious man escaped the Daoist Mountain, leaving the others to wonder about his strange abilities.

• Li Xiangyan admitted he had been tempted by the offer but crushed the poison vial and burned its contents, choosing not to betray Yu Rong or abandon his Dao.
• Li Xiangyan's shackles shattered, and he appeared with Yu Rong, Gu Cangyu, Jiang Li, Qi Yun, Chu Zhe, and Gan Wu on the mountain's martial platform.
• Li Xiangyan and the Chunyang Palace experts attacked the mysterious man, but his powerful fists let him break through their sword array and flee downhill.
• The mysterious man passed through a trapping formation with a Law Breaking attribute and destroyed a ship carrying wedding gifts near the dock before vanishing.
• Li Xiangyan and the others abandoned the pursuit, while Gan Wu remarked that the fugitive's sturdy defense resembled Junior Sister Bai's.

Bai Yujun left Bamboo Spring Temple after saying goodbye to her friends and giving them a pile of valuable spoils. Near a Hell Rift, two young men mapping the rifts were attacked by an evil ghost, which Bai Yujun accidentally killed as she flew past.

• Bai Yujun said goodbye to Qing Ling, Old Hui Xian, and the others, urging them to stay safe and giving them her collected spoils.
• Bai Yujun flew away from Bamboo Spring Temple and headed back toward the Daoist sect.
• Youngster Yuan and Gongyang used a Mechanical Wooden Bird to inspect Hell Rifts, and Yuan mapped their locations and recorded his deductions.
• A powerful evil ghost appeared behind Youngster Yuan and Gongyang, spotted the map, and threatened to devour them.
• Bai Yujun streaked past and smashed the evil ghost to pieces, then complained about the clutter in the sky.

Youngster Yuan and Gongyang survived a crash in their Mechanical Wooden Bird and discovered that the Hell Rifts formed part of a huge formation. In a lakeside town, Bai Yujun sensed that suspicious ships and another hidden figure were plotting against her.

• Youngster Yuan and Gongyang’s Mechanical Wooden Bird lost its core component and crashed in a mountain forest, leaving both men alive but injured.
• Youngster Yuan showed Gongyang the marked locations of the Hell Rifts, which together resembled an enormous formation.
• Bai Yujun stopped in a small town near Daoist Mountain to eat pickled cabbage fish at a lakeside inn.
• Bai Yujun used her innate talent to Gaze into the Future and saw suspicious tower ships at Daoist Mountain’s dock.
• Bai Yujun sensed that another hidden figure was lurking nearby and angrily wondered who was courting death.

Bai Yujun and an unseen expert stalked each other through a lakeside town, each hiding among ordinary people and refusing to reveal their position. While the Daoist disciples prepared to help, Bai Yujun continued fishing in disguise, and signs of her strange activity spread through the town.

• Bai Yujun disguised herself as townspeople and moved through the lakeside town while trying to locate the expert, but neither opponent dared expose themselves.
• Yu Rong and the others noticed their swords’ dragon might vibrating and suspected Bai Yujun was near the mountain gate, locked in a dangerous hidden battle with the Mysterious Person.
• Yu Rong sent Gan Wu to wait outside the mountain gate, and Gan Wu took up a position on a lotus leaf where his conspicuous Sword Qi could be seen from town.
• Bai Yujun spent the next morning posing as a Fisher Girl and fishing on the lake, but a carp she caught triggered a sudden shift that left her with hazy memories.
• The carp escaped and multiplied into many fish, while a grass snake crawled ashore and a traveling merchant inspected a shabby courtyard.

A young wealthy merchant searched the lakeside town for Bai Yujun, while she hid in a school of fish and used the weather to identify him as Xiao. After recognizing his disguises and intentions, Bai Yujun left to confront him, beginning a contest of stealth between the two dragons.

• The young wealthy merchant used a spell to test a white-clothed Wandering Swordsman, then transformed into a scholar and sent an Immortal Crane toward the lake to search for Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun hid as a fish among a school in the lake, but rain and wind failed to reveal her opponent, who could conceal himself in the weather.
• After the rain cleared, Bai Yujun disguised herself among white waterfowl on a pine-covered mountain and considered why she could not see her opponent's appearance or fortune.
• Bai Yujun recognized Xiao as the one hiding in rain, mist, water, and wind, and suspected he still possessed the immortal lotus.
• Bai Yujun vanished from the pine and prepared to face Xiao in a contest of stealth, relying on her caution and greater range of divine abilities.

The Cen clan’s marriage proposal to the Dragon Girl stirred an uproar at Daoist Mountain as Bai Yujun prepared to seek out Xiao and the Daoist experts gathered around Gan Wu. The mountain was sealed in a mysterious space, and an enormous dragonlike beast appeared beneath the lake, leaving the onlookers baffled.

• A Cen clan immortal general announced that Cen Zhuo had brought lavish gifts to Chunyang Peak to seek marriage with the Dragon Girl, drawing crowds of angry Daoist disciples and curious visitors.
• The Chunyang Five and their disciples hurried toward the mountain gate, while the Daoist Mountain became mysteriously sealed off from its surroundings.
• Bai Yujun fished by the lake, turned one of her black hairs white with dragon aura, and sent it into the water, where a gigantic white shadow swam away.
• Bai Yujun set out to find Xiao, stopped using Gaze into the Future to avoid revealing her trump card, and relied on instinct to track him.
• Daoist and Chunyang experts gathered around Gan Wu as formations channeled Sword Qi into a giant sword above him.
• A huge dragonlike creature with sharp spines surfaced briefly beneath the lotus islands, then dove back underwater as the watching immortals stared in confusion.

Bai Yujun used her dragon form to conceal herself in the lake while the Chunyang Palace immortals prepared a sword formation, frustrating Xiao’s scheme. After Xiao attacked her in disguise, Bai Yujun repelled him with a Rain Swallow transformation and challenged him to reveal himself, but he remained hidden.

• Bai Yujun’s dragon aura spread through the lake, helping her hide while Yu Rong ordered the Chunyang immortals to hold steady.
• Xiao realized Bai Yujun had outmaneuvered him, then vanished from the crowd to provoke a fight before leaving.
• Bai Yujun transformed into human form on the lake, where an osprey spell attacked her.
• Bai Yujun shaped rainwater into a Rain Swallow, which fought the osprey and destroyed the spell.
• Bai Yujun called out Xiao for hiding, then mocked his skills as a latte artist while searching the shore for him.

Bai Yujun and Xiao exposed fragments of their secret realms while trying to locate each other, but the Cen Clan’s intervention disrupted their contest. As Xiao withdrew after its clone was shattered, the gray-furred monkey in Bai Yujun’s mountain phantom attacked with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.

• Bai Yujun revealed a fragment of her secret realm after Xiao manifested its estate and secret realm over the lake.
• Bai Yujun searched for Xiao while considering but withholding her Dragon Hunting Crossbow.
• The Cen Clan arrived to mediate, and Cen Zhuo introduced himself to Bai Yujun.
• Xiao refused the Cen Clan’s request to stop fighting, so its six members formed a battle formation and attacked.
• Xiao’s clone shattered, forcing Xiao to withdraw its secret realm and leave after realizing it had been exposed.
• The gray-furred wild monkey in Bai Yujun’s mountain phantom struck at Xiao with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.

Bai Yujun lured Xiao into the Chunyang Sword Formation’s attack and swallowed his immortal lotus while both dragons were struck by the sword. Xiao escaped into the lake, and the wounded Bai Yujun collapsed with the lotus burning in her stomach.

• Yu Rong directed Gan Wu to unleash the Chunyang Sword Formation as the monkey attacked a false silhouette on the lake.
• Xiao used the opening to approach Bai Yujun, but she thrust at him with her dragon spear and seized him.
• Bai Yujun held Xiao in place as the sword formation’s enormous sword descended on them both.
• Xiao used the immortal lotus to defend against the Sword Qi, and Bai Yujun swallowed it in one bite.
• The sword struck, injuring Bai Yujun and Xiao; the monkey attacked again, and Xiao fled into the lake.
• The monkey helped Bai Yujun toward the Chunyang Sword Formation, but she dropped to her knees as the immortal lotus burned in her stomach.

After Bai Yujun was injured while defeating Xiao, she recovered on a lotus leaf with the Chunyang disciples and prepared to return to the mountain. When Cen Clan representatives arrived to reassure her and introduce Cen Zhuo, Bai Yujun recognized him and exposed his secret tryst.

• Bai Yujun burped from being overfull after consuming an ancient immortal lotus, while Yu Rong treated her wounds and scolded her for risking her life against Xiao.
• Yu Rong ordered Bai Yujun to recuperate on Shenhua Mountain, and Gan Wu apologized for missing his strike as Chu Zhe gave her medicine.
• Cen Clan experts led by an elder approached the Chunyang group and promised to hunt down Xiao before introducing Cen Zhuo.
• Bai Yujun recognized Cen Zhuo from the Martial Arts Competition and teased him about his crimson robes, his secret lover, and his apparent kidney deficiency.

Bai Yujun recovered at Qingxu Palace while the Cen Clan pressed its attempt to use two Marriage Treasures on her, and she learned that her senior brothers and the Daoist sects were preparing to fight the Devil Race. The Cen Clan remained outside Chunyang Palace, while Bai Yujun rested and considered the danger of Xiao’s destroyed poison.

• Elder Cen rebuked Cen Zhuo for his conduct, then reminded him to use the two Marriage Treasures to deal with the Dragon Girl; Cen Zhuo confidently agreed.
• Bai Yujun learned why the Cen Clan had come and angrily threatened them, while Yu Rong sent the juniors away to keep the dispute from escalating.
• The Cen Clan kept visiting Chunyang Palace and waiting outside its sealed mountain road, unable to reach Bai Yujun at Qingxu Palace.
• Bai Yujun rested with Xu Ling, who told her that Eldest Senior Brother, Senior Brother Gan, Master, and the martial uncles would take missions against the Devil Race.
• Xu Ling explained that Martial Uncle Li had destroyed Xiao’s poison after exposing the scheme, and Bai Yujun regretted losing the chance to study it.

Bai Yujun relaxed with Xu Ling at Qingxu Palace, then slept for five days in a hot spring. Meanwhile, the Cen clan struggled to find a way to approach her and use their Marriage Treasures, and ended the chapter urgently seeking a plan.

• Xu Ling shared an Immortal-grade Nut with Bai Yujun and suggested she take on simple tasks at Qingxu Palace.
• Bai Yujun swallowed a trace of immortal lotus qi, then built a hot spring pool in the Back Mountain and fell asleep in the water for five days.
• The Cen clan elders sought help from their acquaintances but could not reach Chunyang Palace because its grand formation was sealed.
• Cen Zhuo explained that the Marriage Treasure worked best within four chi of Bai Yujun, and the elders realized why their ancestor had chosen him.
• The Cen clan elder demanded that everyone devise a plan that night before they had to answer to their ancestor.

Elder Cen received the ancestor’s final plan and prepared Cen Zhuo to approach the Dragon Girl at Celestial Master Tong’s birthday celebration. While completing a stream-clearing task on Daoist Mountain, Bai Yujun improved an ancient Spirit Wood and then spotted Cen Zhuo holding two special treasures.

• Elder Cen read the ancestor’s reply and summoned Cen Zhuo and the others to prepare for the birthday celebration at Lone Cloud Peak.
• Elder Cen told Cen Zhuo to get within four chi of the Dragon Girl and warned him that he had only one chance.
• Bai Yujun explored Daoist Mountain and chose a task to clear and guide a mountain stream.
• Bai Yujun used the monkey’s hoe and clones to alter the streambed while sparing the ancient Spirit Wood.
• Bai Yujun examined the Spirit Wood, sensed its dormant consciousness, and used dragon aura to improve its aptitude.
• Bai Yujun spotted Cen Zhuo on a stone bridge and saw two special treasures in his hands.

Bai Yujun overheard Cen Yan and Cen Zhuo plotting to use a Marriage Treasure on a Daoist maiden, then stole the Marriage Red Thread and Cen Zhuo’s storage artifact. Cen Zhuo concealed the losses from Cen Yan, and the two men left the valley while Bai Yujun’s otter returned to its dam.

• Cen Yan asked Cen Zhuo to use the Marriage Treasure to bind him to a beautiful Daoist maiden, and Cen Zhuo agreed to help.
• Bai Yujun eavesdropped on the men and used Gaze into the Past to learn what Cen Zhuo had been doing.
• Bai Yujun stole the Marriage Red Thread and Cen Zhuo’s storage artifact as the maiden and her two companions approached.
• Cen Zhuo discovered the thefts, told Cen Yan the red thread had already bound him to the maiden, and hurried to leave.
• Fat Otter returned to the dam by the stream.

Bai Yujun examined the Marriage Red Thread, erased the roots of the marriage fate bound to her, and headed for the mountain gate with Monkey Brother. Discovering that the abandoned guest hall could be turned into an inn for Celestial Master Tong’s birthday guests, she began planning to profit from the event.

• Bai Yujun tested the Marriage Red Thread in the valley, then used dragon qi to understand it and destroy the remaining marriage fate and red-luan bond.
• A flash flood swept through the valley, and its displaced creatures marched upstream to demand an explanation.
• Bai Yujun left the valley and invited Monkey Brother to help her work at the mountain gate.
• Bai Yujun registered herself and Monkey Brother under Qingxu’s name and found the guest hall deserted and in ruins.
• Bai Yujun proposed renovating the guest hall into an inn for visitors to Celestial Master Tong’s birthday, and Monkey Brother produced carpentry tools.

Bai Yujun opened the Nine Provinces Four Seas Grand Hotel and welcomed Xia Lan and the Xia Clan immortals, turning their visit into a chance to catch up and exchange news. Xia Lan reported Mu Duo’s victory against the Divine Dragon Hall and said the Devil Race had suffered heavy losses in several Small Worlds, while Bai Yujun kept the reason for those changes to herself.

• Bai Yujun opened her hotel on an auspicious day, with the Land God, the otter, and the Little Treant helping with the preparations.
• Xia Lan and the Xia Clan immortals followed the signs to the hotel, where the monkey greeted them at the entrance.
• The group toured the unusual hotel interior and met Bai Yujun at the reception counter.
• Xia Lan caught up with Bai Yujun and told her that Mu Duo had led Jiuli to defeat the Divine Dragon Hall and rescue the Half-Dragon People.
• Xia Lan reported that the Devil Race had suffered heavy losses in some Small Worlds, and Bai Yujun smiled mysteriously.

Bai Yujun ran the hotel and ate dinner while the monkey suggested she was too ugly to serve guests. Elsewhere, Yuan and Gongyang tried to warn an immortal sect about the Devil Race’s scheme, but after Gongyang struck the mountain gate, sect cultivators captured them, mistaking them for disrespectful mortals seeking immortality.

• Bai Yujun ate a basin of rice and braised pork while the monkey urged her to hire another shopkeeper because he thought she was too ugly to receive guests.
• Yuan and Gongyang reached an immortal sect’s jade mountain gate, only to find a gorge and an array blocking their way across.
• Gongyang tested his homemade wings, crashed, and learned they could not cross the gorge without Immortal Arts.
• Gongyang struck the mountain gate with an iron hammer, triggering its array and drawing an angry response from the sect.
• Three sect cultivators crossed an iron-chain bridge, trapped Yuan and Gongyang in a net, and assumed they were mortals seeking immortality.

Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong were imprisoned after the cultivators dismissed their warning about the Hell Rift. In the pit dungeon, they met a starving chained man and Huang Cao, a one-eyed Weasel Spirit who laughed at their talk of an immortal mountain.

• A cultivator rejected Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong’s warning, sentenced them to seven days in the pit dungeon, and threw away their drawing.
• Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong found themselves locked in a dark cave and used supplies from their carrying box to make a lantern and eat.
• Gongyang Dong and Yuan Qi discovered a filthy, chained man and gave him dried fish.
• A cat-sized, one-eyed weasel named Huang Cao asked for meat, introduced himself, and learned that the two mortals had been imprisoned for knocking on the mountain gate.
• Huang Cao laughed at Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong for calling the sect’s mountain an immortal mountain.