Chapter Summaries

Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong met Huang Cao, a Weasel Spirit imprisoned with them, and agreed to help him escape in exchange for his help. Huang Cao dug a tunnel through the earth, and the three began their escape into a secluded mountain valley.

• Huang Cao explained the difference between mortal Cultivation Sects and immortal dwellings, and Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong realized they had sought help in the wrong places.
• Huang Cao argued with Cloud Traveler, then knocked him unconscious with his foul-smelling attack.
• Huang Cao persuaded Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong to remove the talismans restraining him so they could escape together.
• Huang Cao freed himself, beat Cloud Traveler, and asked Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong for money to buy chickens after their escape.
• Huang Cao dug a narrow passage through a crack in the prison wall, and a small head emerged from a hillside in a secluded mountain valley.

Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong escaped the mountain with Huang Cao, who guided them along animal trails and helped them survive the journey. They reached a small town and celebrated their reunion with people by drinking at its inn.

• Huang Cao, Yuan Qi, and Gongyang Dong recovered the map of Hell Rifts after it flew back to them.
• Huang Cao led the two men through remote animal trails, explaining how he had learned human speech and why he had left his mountain home.
• The group crossed a slippery tree over a ravine, rested in a cave, and traveled through the mountains for two days.
• Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong encountered a woodcutter and rejoiced at finding people.
• At the town inn, Huang Cao drank wine with Yuan Qi and Gongyang Dong while the innkeeper and waiter watched in fear.

Bai Yujun joined the Qingxu disciples on the immortal mountain to attend a Celestial Master's birthday gathering, where she met Senior Sister Gong and used Gaze into the Future to test the Cen clan's Concentric Lock. Her vision ended when a distant, inexplicable sorrow overwhelmed her and brought tears to her eyes.

• Bai Yujun left the hotel before dawn, cultivated on a mountain peak, then returned to Qingxu Palace for Morning Class.
• Yu Rong dressed Bai Yujun for the birthday gathering and warned her to stay vigilant because even Daoist Mountain had its own conflicts.
• Bai Yujun met Senior Sister Gong, who invited her to spar because she wanted to test her skills against a dragon.
• Bai Yujun used Gaze into the Future to inspect the gathering and locate the Cen clan party, then tested how Cen Zhuo used the Concentric Lock across several possible futures.
• Bai Yujun felt overwhelming sorrow from a distant world, ended her vision, and wiped tears from her eyes.

Yuan Qi, Gongyang Dong, and Huang Cao traveled by Wooden Wheel Bicycles toward a Daoist Temple, but found a newly formed Hell Rift blocking the official road. As evil ghosts fled past them and Hellfire flickered, they realized something dangerous was happening across the Nine Provinces.

• Gongyang Dong told Huang Cao how his ancestor had seen a monkey and a white-robed fairy riding a Wooden Wheel Bicycle, inspiring him to become a carpenter.
• Yuan Qi failed to calculate the answer he sought, while Huang Cao said they should seek help from a Daoist Temple rather than a Heavenly Clan sect.
• The travelers reached a new Hell Rift that had appeared across the official road, and Huang Cao and Gongyang Dong argued over who had led them there.
• Yuan Qi warned that they had been discovered, and the three fled downhill as a horde of evil ghosts rushed past them.
• Hellfire flickered, and deathly qi surged briefly at Hell Rifts across the Nine Provinces before everything returned to normal.

Fragments shed by the Dying Star hurtled toward Shengping, where the resulting upheaval sent animals fleeing and threw the world into chaos. The Snake Demon Army mistook the disaster for a Devil Race invasion and prepared to fight as panic spread among the people below.

• The Dying Star erupted and cast fragments into space, sending them toward Shengping.
• Animals across Shengping panicked and fled in every direction, alarming the Snake Demon Soldiers stationed on the mountain.
• The Snake Demon Soldiers suspected a Devil Race invasion, alerted the Empire, and formed up for battle.
• The demon general realized the chaos had spread beyond the forest to the entire world.
• Birds swarmed over the market below, and a startled horse broke loose and trampled pedestrians.

A meteorite struck toward the mountain peak, where the demon general’s soldiers shattered it with a Divine Crossbow. When the fragments revealed a Meteor Shower falling across Shengping, she sounded the alarm and sent the snake demon soldiers to intercept the largest fireballs.

• The demon general spotted an enormous meteorite falling toward the mountain peak and ordered her soldiers to fire the Divine Crossbow.
• A silver bolt shattered the meteorite, scattering burning fragments that caused fires, floods, and destruction across the land.
• The demon general ordered a bird demon soldier to retrieve a fragment, then recognized it as valuable Meteorite Iron and told Team A to collect more.
• The demon soldiers noticed a dense Meteor Shower approaching and the demon general declared a catastrophe.
• The demon general ordered a warning sent to the Empire, assigned soldiers to attack the largest falling stars, and made Big Ox sound the horn.

Big Ox recognized the silver streaks and falling fireballs as a catastrophe and rushed to evacuate the village with the boy. A fireball struck a nearby town, and its blast hurled Big Ox, the boy, and Old Yellow Dog back beneath the old tree.

• The boy practiced martial arts at the Threshing Ground while Big Ox returned from the fields and urged him to rest.
• Big Ox recalled how the Demonic Beasts had ravaged the land until snake demons descended from the mountain and defeated them.
• The boy spotted streaks in the sky, and Big Ox saw silver flashes near the mountain and ordered everyone to flee toward it.
• Big Ox grabbed the boy and ran to the village, shouting for people to take food and bedding and hitch up their ox carts.
• A smoking fireball struck a nearby town, and the resulting shockwave threw Big Ox, the boy, and Old Yellow Dog back beneath the old tree.

As an earthquake and falling meteors devastated the land, Big Ox led the villagers away from the township toward Divine Mountain. A demon general destroyed a massive falling rock, but a huge tiger’s appearance showed that the journey remained dangerous.

• Big Ox rescued the boy and urged villagers to gather food and livestock and flee toward Divine Mountain instead of the already-destroyed township.
• Big Ox led most of the villagers through the mountains while meteors struck around them, encouraging the boy to face danger bravely.
• A mountain-sized black stone fell toward the procession, but a demon general split it apart with a blade and flew away.
• Big Ox told the villagers the demon general was one of the heavenly soldiers who lived on the solitary peak.
• A gigantic Colorful Fierce Tiger emerged from the roadside forest, then turned and fled; Big Ox warned that even spirit beasts were running for their lives.

Meteor Fire Rain devastated Shengping World, and the demon general ordered his exhausted troops to abandon interception and return to Lone Peak. Big Ox led refugees toward the peak through ash and falling fire, while cultivators from across the regions also sought refuge there.

• Meteorites destroyed cities, forests, mountains, and seas as the demon general and his soldiers struggled to intercept the largest ones.
• The demon general saw the devastation across Shengping World and ordered the demon army to stop intercepting meteors and return to Lone Peak.
• Big Ox led a growing procession of villagers and refugees across an ash-covered landscape toward Lone Peak.
• A meteorite crater blocked the refugees’ route, so Big Ox directed them around it and urged them to save their grain and carts.
• A fireball struck another refugee procession, killing dozens as Big Ox continued leading his people onward.
• Cultivators from every region flew toward Lone Peak, hoping to find refuge with the snake demons and their ship.

The Female Demon General refused to evacuate Lone Peak as a giant meteor approached, and she and the Snake Demon Soldiers prayed for the Divine Dragon to save the Shengping Small World. Half a day earlier, Bai Yujun sensed an impending disaster at a Celestial Master's birthday banquet and tried to choose a favorable future.

• Cultivators gathered at Lone Peak and asked the Female Demon General to let them board the flying vessel as the world faced a worsening calamity.
• An elder offered the Female Demon General rare pills in exchange for seats, but she refused to leave before receiving orders.
• The elder said they could not save all the mortals below, and the Female Demon General answered that they could pray to the Divine Dragon.
• The Female Demon General and the Snake Demon Soldiers knelt and prayed as a huge meteor drew nearer.
• At a birthday banquet on a Daoist Mountain, Bai Yujun worried that her visions foretold a serious disaster and used her ability to interfere with the future.

Bai Yujun agreed to perform at Celestial Master Tong’s birthday banquet after the Cen Clan and a Daoist immortal pressured her to take the stage. She used the opportunity to attack the conspirators, killing the Heavenly Immortal and piercing Cen Zhuo with her tail as she seized the Marriage Concentric Lock.

• Bai Yujun told Yu Rong she was leaving and received a robe and scriptures before preparing to depart.
• A middle-aged Daoist Immortal called on Bai Yujun to dance, and the Cen Clan offered Cen Zhuo as her accompanist.
• Bai Yujun agreed to dance only if the Daoist Immortal joined them, and the Cen Clan Elder prevented him from refusing.
• Bai Yujun suddenly attacked the Daoist Immortal, tearing into his chest and throat and killing him.
• Bai Yujun pierced Cen Zhuo through the chest with her tail and took the bloodied Concentric Lock.

Bai Yujun stopped the Cen Lineage’s birthday banquet from escalating with the Monkey’s arrival, then hurried to the Heavenly Court after learning that Shengping Small World had suffered a catastrophe. She reached the Immortal Bridge control platform and prepared to try activating the long-distance route.

• Bai Yujun held the Cen Lineage and its allies at bay until the Monkey arrived and ended the threat of a fight.
• Bai Yujun gave the Monkey a banana, then left the banquet with him to answer the crisis in Shengping Small World.
• Bai Yujun bypassed the crowded South Heavenly Gate, crossed the Gloomy Cold Land, and entered the Heavenly Court through the North Heavenly Gate.
• Bai Yujun reached the South Heavenly Gate’s formation platform and recognized the instructions for operating the Immortal Bridge.

Bai Yujun restarted the Immortal Bridge by using her lightning as an external power source, overcoming its brief energy supply. She activated the Teleportation Array long enough to make it operational, but the power faded after she completed the task.

• Bai Yujun deciphered the golden cauldron’s controls and tried to restart the Immortal Bridge, but its runes repeatedly went dark.
• The monkey suggested that the Immortal Bridge lacked energy, and Bai Yujun realized she would need to supply power herself.
• Bai Yujun arranged for her clone to operate the cauldron’s switches while she prepared to channel lightning into the Teleportation Array.
• Bai Yujun unleashed Electric Tendrils into the array, and her clone pressed both activation pearls when she gave the signal.
• The Immortal Bridge and Teleportation Array fully activated, then dimmed and stopped when Bai Yujun’s lightning ran out.

The Female Demon General received Commander Qiao’s order to withdraw the demon soldiers from the doomed Shengping Small World, leaving its cultivators and inhabitants behind. As the soldiers departed in streaks of light, the people below watched their last hope vanish, while the general remained at Lone Peak.

• The Female Demon General read Commander Qiao’s order and told her soldiers to dismantle the Lone Peak formations and prepare to leave.
• The Lone Peak formation went dark, and the Female Demon General told the cultivators that they had a responsibility to protect their world but that the demon soldiers could not take them along.
• The demon soldiers departed one by one, rising into the sky wrapped in white light, while the cultivators watched in despair.
• Big Ox and the villagers prayed for the sacred mountain’s guardians to save them, and the boy asked whether the immortals would help.
• Big Ox, the boy, and the people at the mountain saw the demon soldiers’ lights depart and broke down as they realized their last hope was gone.

As a dark-red meteorite threatened the Shengping Small World, Hua Xing stayed behind while the cultivators and ordinary people faced destruction. Bai Yujun descended in a pillar of light and flew toward the meteorite to stop it.

• The cultivators asked Hua Xing to take them away, but she refused to abandon her post and warned that the flying vessel lacked the energy to reach another world.
• Big Ox gave up hope as the meteorite neared, while the boy vowed to become strong enough to protect himself.
• The gray sky brightened with auroras, lightning formed a vast ball, and a pillar of light struck the lone peak.
• Bai Yujun descended from the light, and Hua Xing saluted her as the emperor.
• Bai Yujun praised Hua Xing, then flew straight toward the falling meteorite.

Bai Yujun stopped a massive star fragment from destroying the Shengping Small World and absorbed its Solar Energy as she pushed it away. After hurling it into the astral winds, she suspected the apocalyptic crisis had been deliberately caused.

• Bai Yujun flew into the falling meteor and used her dragon power to halt its descent.
• Bai Yujun absorbed the meteor’s Solar Energy, balancing the Yin aura in her body and strengthening her dragon flame.
• Bai Yujun pushed the meteor beyond the world and hurled it into the astral winds, removing the greatest threat to the Shengping Small World.
• Bai Yujun sensed Auntie Shengping’s gratitude and recalled that her vision had suggested the crisis was not natural.

Bai Yujun descended to the villagers and heard Big Ox’s account of soldiers who died fighting demons but were erased from the records. She publicly honored the dead by naming their battle and their villages, allowing their lingering souls to find peace.

• Bai Yujun descended from the sky and landed among the villagers, frightening them with her uncontrolled dragon might.
• Bai Yujun noticed the boy withstand her dragon might while Big Ox knelt and thanked her for saving them.
• Big Ox praised Bai Yujun and recited the names of villagers who had died fighting the demons at Kushui Plain.
• Big Ox begged Bai Yujun to tell the world that the soldiers had stood and fought rather than fled.
• Bai Yujun declared that the three hundred thousand warriors who fought at Kushui Plain were heroic martyrs and read the names of the fallen.
• Dragon's Covenant reached the wandering Lost Souls, who finally found peace, while Hua Xing grew more reverent toward Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun created Dragon Gates to evacuate Shengping Small World’s living creatures into Divine Dragon World. Hua Xing opened one in the Sea of Demon Beast Forests, where animals began streaming through, and Bai Yujun waited for the other gates’ results.

• Bai Yujun recognized the boy’s heroic spirit past, then left the gathering crowd and went to a solitary Mountain Peak.
• Bai Yujun gave Hua Xing a simplified Dragon Gate to place in the mountain forests and sent more than a hundred clones out with additional gates.
• The mortal cultivators left the peak, while Bai Yujun rested and noted that her cultivation had advanced.
• Hua Xing followed the tiny Dragon Gate’s guidance to a riverbank, where it expanded into a huge stone gate connecting Shengping Small World to Divine Dragon World.
• Hua Xing watched insects, birds, and beasts pass through the gate, then sat beneath a tree and cried with relief as living creatures gathered from across the forest.

A mysterious stone gate opened, drawing animals from the disaster-stricken wilderness while refugees and city defenders watched in terror. The cultivators learned that beasts could pass through the gate but they were rejected, leaving them to believe they had been abandoned.

• A towering stone gate rose outside a human city, and birds, including a vast wolf pack, began streaming toward it as refugees scattered in panic.
• The wolf pack ran past the crowd without attacking, and one wolf paused before a woman sheltering an infant before rejoining the pack.
• Wild animals and birds from across the region headed for the gate, while a yellow dog returned to its boy and a tabby cat stayed beside its elderly owner.
• The animals entered the stone gate and vanished, leaving mountains and forests eerily silent.
• Several cultivators investigated the gate and learned they could not cross, while the highest-ranking cultivator concluded that they had been abandoned.

Bai Yujun discovered merfolk and three primitive Half-Dragon People in the Small World’s deep sea, then traced the Half-Dragon People’s history back to an ancient civilization resembling Long Zhao’s tribe. Long Zhao recognized the significance of the discovery and revealed that her own tribe had never returned from Ancient Times.

• Bai Yujun’s avatar found a merfolk tribe at an underwater stone gate and let them pass.
• After learning of the merfolk and Mixed-Blood Dragon Beasts, Bai Yujun rushed to investigate a report of Half-Dragon People in the sea.
• Bai Yujun found three primitive female Half-Dragon People and used her power to look into their past, discovering that their ancestors had once worn armor and carried immortal weapons.
• Bai Yujun summoned Long Zhao and asked whether her tribe had lost Half-Dragon People who never returned in Ancient Times.
• Long Zhao examined the three women and their weapons, then said that it was her own tribe that had never returned.