Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun arrived at the Nanyuan Lake battlefield with Chunyang Palace and saw the devastation war had brought to the region. Rather than risk fighting on the front lines, she joined the Spirit Void disciples as a military physician.

• Bai Yujun traveled through Qufeng Gorge and saw civilians fleeing and towns ruined by the war.
• The ship reached Nanyuan Lake, where Bai Yujun saw the imperial forces' busy docks, wounded soldiers, and military camp.
• Chu Zhe told Bai Yujun the war would be difficult to end within three years and led her toward the Chunyang outpost in Nanyuan City.
• Bai Yujun chose to keep a low profile and avoid the battlefield, where powerful cultivators fought.
• Bai Yujun registered at the Spirit Void disciples' camp and began treating wounded soldiers as a military physician.

Bai Yujun treated wounded soldiers at the barracks, using stitches to save several men and earning Xu Yue’s respect. When a seventeen-year-old soldier arrived with a severe abdominal wound, Bai Yujun agreed to attempt an operation and began preparing him for it.

• Bai Yujun treated lightly wounded soldiers with stitched wounds and careful cleaning, while struggling to control her hunger at the smell of blood.
• Xu Yue learned from Bai Yujun’s methods and improved the treatment of wounded soldiers.
• Xu Yue judged that a young soldier with a dirt-covered abdominal wound could not be saved, despite his father begging for help.
• Bai Yujun examined the soldier and agreed to try, then moved him to a rear tent and gathered liquor and cotton to clean the wound.
• Bai Yujun gave the soldier baijiu to drink and ordered his father and the other soldiers to hold him down before beginning the operation.

Bai Yujun treated wounded soldiers in the Barracks, discovered that her water spiritual power could ease their pain, and earned their admiration. Later, she and Yang Mu discussed the war’s likely stalemate, her grudge against the Demonic Cultivator who nearly killed her, and the Demon Subjugation Sect.

• Bai Yujun stitched a young soldier’s wound and found that water spiritual power eased his pain, then recorded the treatment for later observation.
• Bai Yujun continued treating wounded soldiers until evening, as they began calling her the Heavenly Fairy Maiden.
• Yang Mu invited Bai Yujun to a banquet, and the two headed toward the city while discussing Li Xiangling’s cultivation.
• Bai Yujun told Yang Mu that a Nascent Soul Realm Demonic Cultivator had ambushed the encampment and that she intended to avenge herself once she grew stronger.
• Yang Mu explained that the conflict at Nanyuan Lake might remain a training ground for young disciples rather than escalate into a great war, and said Purple Void disciples were willing to trouble the Demon Subjugation Sect.

After discovering that a pebble was Spirit Incense, Bai Yujun set out to find more on Bijiadao Island. She beat up soldiers who harassed her aboard a ship, then swam toward her destination in snake form, alarming sailors who mistook her for a dragon.

• Bai Yujun found a fragrant reddish pebble on a wounded soldier and learned from Senior Sister Xu Yue that it was Spirit Incense.
• Bai Yujun traded the pebble for pills, gave the old soldier a Healing Pill, and left to search for more Spirit Incense.
• A squad officer harassed Bai Yujun aboard a ship bound for Qingshui Island, so she beat him and the soldiers who tried to help him.
• After reaching Qingshui Island, Bai Yujun slipped into the lake and swam toward Bijiadao Island in snake form.
• Sailors spotted Bai Yujun's large white shape beneath their boat and cried that a dragon was passing.

Bai Yujun secretly searched Nanyuan Lake and excavated a large piece of Spirit Incense from a cave beneath Bijiadao Island. As she swam away with her prize, two powerful cultivators began fighting above her, and she hid herself on the lakebed to watch.

• Bai Yujun dove into Nanyuan Lake and searched beneath Bijiadao Island for Spirit Incense.
• Bai Yujun found a cave where turtles gathered around the scent, then pried a large piece of Spirit Incense from a crack in the rock.
• Bai Yujun waited out the heavy rain in the cave before swimming toward the lakebed with the Spirit Incense and her Hengdao.
• Bai Yujun sensed two powerful cultivators fighting over the lake and hid by covering her White Snake body with sand, stones, and waterweed.
• Bai Yujun watched the fight from beneath the lakebed as the cultivators battled over treasure above her.

Bai Yujun ambushed a wounded Demonic Cultivator underwater after he came to retrieve a treasured sword, turning a chance encounter into a fight for survival. Though he injured her, she dragged him back to the lakebed and kept attacking with water drills.

• A treasured sword sank near Bai Yujun, and she hid beneath the lakebed as the cultivators fighting above fell silent.
• A wounded Demonic Cultivator dived for the sword, and Bai Yujun recognized his clothing as resembling that of the cultivator who had ambushed the Jiangzhou outpost.
• Bai Yujun used an undercurrent to turn the Demonic Cultivator toward her, then struck with her fangs and venom as he reached for the sword.
• The Demonic Cultivator broke free, but Bai Yujun struck him with her tail and his face blistered from her venom.
• Bai Yujun transformed into human form and attacked with Hengdao, but the Demonic Cultivator wounded her and tried to flee toward the surface.
• Bai Yujun dragged him back to the lakebed with her water control and repeatedly attacked him with sharp water drills.

Bai Yujun fought a Golden Core Stage Demonic Cultivator underwater, using the lake currents to wear him down and kill him despite suffering severe injuries. She returned to Nanyuan City with a few valuables and learned where she could sell the seized magic artifacts.

• Bai Yujun dragged the poisoned Demonic Cultivator through the lake currents while preventing him from reaching the surface or taking pills.
• The Demonic Cultivator sent his severed arm flying at Bai Yujun, but she blocked it with Turn Heaven and Earth before the blast broke her arms and injured her.
• Bai Yujun pulled the Demonic Cultivator back underwater, battered him for an hour, and killed him with Hengdao before destroying his corpse and taking his valuables.
• Bai Yujun returned to Nanyuan City and sold a large piece of Spirit Incense to Senior Sister Xu Yue and her companions.
• Xu Yue noticed Bai Yujun's injuries and told her she could sell the seized magic artifacts at the black market in Taiping Town.

Bai Yujun disguised herself to visit Nanyuan City’s black market, where she traded magical tools for nourishing pills and inspected the market’s wares. After finding no remarkable treasures, she left by way of the river.

• Bai Yujun disguised herself as an old man and entered the abandoned town that served as a black market.
• Bai Yujun exchanged one high-grade, two mid-grade, and one low-grade Magic Tool for more than a dozen bottles of nourishing pills.
• Bai Yujun wandered through the black market, observing its sellers, cultivators, and goods.
• Bai Yujun tested a Demon Revealing Mirror, which showed her human appearance with vertical pupils and fangs.
• Bai Yujun left the black market, jumped into the river, and disappeared.

Bai Yujun returned to the Barracks after Xu Yue dragged her from her nest, where she treated wounded soldiers through another battle on Nanyuan Lake. When an assistant general tried to summon her for his own pleasure, she beat him and made sure he had injuries to treat.

• Xu Yue pulled Bai Yujun from her nest to help treat the many wounded soldiers at the Barracks.
• Bai Yujun bandaged a young soldier whose chest wound was minor, while he grew flustered by her closeness.
• Bai Yujun amputated A Niu's badly crushed leg as his fellow villagers held him down and mourned.
• Bai Yujun treated wounded soldiers during another great battle on Nanyuan Lake and reflected on the hardships of mortal life.
• An assistant general demanded that Bai Yujun serve him, so she beat him and carried him to a sickbed for treatment.

A Water Monster attacked an Imperial Army supply ship near Nanyuan Lake, prompting the army to seek help from the immortals. Unaware of the Crocodile Demon, Bai Yujun headed to the lake to catch turtles for food.

• A Crocodile Demon destroyed a supply ship, killed most of its crew, and was wounded by a ballista bolt as the survivors swam for shore.
• Vanguard Camp's Lu Zheng reported that Water Monsters had attacked eighteen ships, sinking fourteen and killing more than two hundred soldiers, while rebels struck amid the chaos.
• The Imperial Army commanders agreed to ask the immortals to subjugate the demons, and Chu Zhe decided to send Golden Core Stage junior brothers to investigate at dawn.
• Bai Yujun cooked and ate an old mountain chicken with nourishing ingredients, then decided to seek hundred-year-old turtles at the lake.
• Bai Yujun carried a bamboo basket through the city toward the lakeside and considered visiting the brothels for flower wine and company.

Bai Yujun went to Nanyuan Lake to catch turtles and instead attacked an alligator Demonic Monster headed for a fishing village. She subdued it underwater, while a fisherman mistook the black-clad person who fell from a boat for another person who had died for love.

• Bai Yujun prayed at the lakeshore, then dove into Nanyuan Lake to catch turtles for soup.
• Bai Yujun found an eighty-year-old turtle and tethered it while continuing to search underwater.
• Bai Yujun sensed an alligator Demonic Monster approaching a fishing village and transformed into a White Snake to attack it.
• Bai Yujun hurled the alligator into the air and constricted it; the tethered turtle struck the black-clad flute player, knocking them into the lake.
• The boatman rowed away without rescuing the black-clad person, and Bai Yujun held the alligator underwater as it struggled.
• A fisherman later pulled the black-clad person's corpse into his net and assumed the young man had died for love.

Bai Yujun sold the giant crocodile meat she had brought to Nanyuan City and reunited with Mo Qin and Mo Yuan. After the meat sold out, she took the siblings to the garrison and arranged for a Golden Void senior brother to make them leather armor from the crocodile hide.

• Bai Yujun brought the crocodile meat to Nanyuan City, set up a stall, and hired soldiers to keep order while she sold it.
• Mo Qin and Mo Yuan met Bai Yujun on South City Street and helped her call customers until the crocodile meat sold out.
• Bai Yujun paid the soldiers their wages, gave each of them two jin of meat, and drove the siblings and the ox cart back to the garrison.
• Bai Yujun asked a Golden Void senior brother to make Mo Qin and Mo Yuan two sets of leather armor from the crocodile hide, offering him the leftover material as payment.
• Bai Yujun explained that the siblings should wear the armor in battle so their descendants could inherit it scarred from their deeds, then invited them to eat barbecue.

After nearly revealing her true form from drinking Realgar Wine, Bai Yujun agreed to help Chunyang Palace deal with Water Monsters that Golden Core Stage disciples could not fight effectively. She planned to use her water-control talent in the hunt scheduled for the next morning.

• Mo Yuan offered Bai Yujun Realgar Wine, and she drank it before realizing it was poisonous to snakes and rushing to vomit at the lakeshore.
• Chunyang Palace’s Golden Core Stage disciples withdrew after Demonic Cultivators blocked them from attacking the Water Monsters beneath Nanyuan Lake.
• The senior disciples asked Bai Yujun to hunt the Water Monsters while they held off the Demonic Cultivators, and she negotiated to keep the monsters’ parts as well as receive medicinal pills.
• Bai Yujun planned to fight underwater using her Water Control Divine Ability and agreed to set out the next morning.
• Bai Yujun sharpened Hengdao at the Golden Void Workshop and considered turning her advantage against Water Monsters into a way to earn money.

Bai Yujun joined Chunyang Palace’s senior disciples to clear Water Monsters from Nanyuan Lake while they held off the Demonic Cultivators. After killing and eating a giant lizard monster, she continued hunting and encountered a huge creature approaching underwater.

• A senior sister explained that Demonic Cultivators used water demons to attack ships, and she flew Bai Yujun to the front-line waters.
• Bai Yujun plunged into the lake while the Chunyang Palace disciples and government forces drew the rebels into a battle above the water.
• Bai Yujun used her control of water to bind and kill a giant lizard Water Monster, then ate its heart.
• Naval troops hauled the monster’s corpse ashore, while Bai Yujun continued searching underwater for more prey.
• Bai Yujun spotted a huge creature approaching and wondered whether it was a lobster or a turtle.

Bai Yujun used her Water Control Divine Ability to restrain a Shrimp-Crab Hybrid and force it to the surface, where Chunyang Palace disciples killed it. As the battle shifted, a Demonic Cultivator sent a Giant Black Python toward her, and Bai Yujun faced it with Hengdao.

• Bai Yujun trapped the Shrimp-Crab Hybrid with controlled currents but could not kill it underwater.
• Bai Yujun flipped the monster belly-up and pushed it to the surface, where a Golden Core Stage senior sister killed it with Sword Qi.
• Bai Yujun asked the senior sister to preserve the monster’s shell and arranged for water soldiers to haul it back to Nanyuan City.
• The evil fiends withdrew, then a Demonic Cultivator appeared with an Iron Whip and drove a Giant Black Python toward Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun faced the Giant Black Python with Hengdao as the Golden Core Stage fighters kept each other occupied in the sky.

Bai Yujun met Black Bridge, an old Black Python captured and corrupted by a demonic sect, and received his Vital Blood Essence as a final gift. After the Demonic Cultivators killed him, she preserved his remains and vowed to destroy the sect if she became strong enough.

• Bai Yujun revealed her snake form, and Black Bridge recognized her as a fellow snake and said he did not want to fight her.
• Black Bridge told Bai Yujun that the demonic sect had captured him, planted a restriction in his soul, poisoned him, and forced him to fight.
• Black Bridge gave Bai Yujun his Vital Blood Essence and warned her never to trust humankind before returning to the rebel army.
• A Demonic Cultivator whipped Black Bridge, who retaliated by biting him, and the Demonic Cultivators killed Black Bridge with spells.
• Bai Yujun vowed to destroy the demonic sect, took the blood essence to ask Senior Sister Lingxu to inspect, and used venom to preserve Black Bridge's remains.

After the old snake incident, Bai Yujun threw herself into killing Water Monsters and eating their meat while the Mo siblings turned their spoils into a booming Nanyuan City stall. Chu Zhe caught Bai Yujun eating a crocodile heart raw, reprimanded the group for acting without approval, and ordered them back to the city.

• Bai Yujun ate the purified essence blood Black Bridge had given her, slept for three days, and emerged with a sturdier body before returning to hunt Water Monsters.
• Mo Qin and Mo Yuan sold Catfish Demon meat at their stall, and Bai Yujun had two garrison disciples beat up heirs and Rogue Cultivators who tried to seize the business before displaying the Chunyang Palace insignia.
• A soldier told his campmates that a huge white dragon had devoured a Water Monster, and Chu Zhe overheard the tale and flew toward Nanyuan Lake.
• Bai Yujun and the advanced Golden Core Stage disciples killed a giant crocodile, and Bai Yujun transformed into human form and ate its heart raw.
• Chu Zhe reprimanded the disciples for acting without an elder's approval, assigned the leader three nights of patrol duty, gave Bai Yujun a handkerchief, and ordered the group to return to Nanyuan City with the crocodile.

Bai Yujun held rites for the dead at Nanyuan Lake, then recruited a Pangolin spirit to dig a tunnel into South Mountain so she could cultivate with its Earth Vein Dragon Qi. After emerging two days later, she accepted the Pangolin as her little brother and gave it one of her scales.

• Bai Yujun delivered the souls of humans and Water Monsters killed in the lake battles, including Black Bridge, through scripture rites.
• Bai Yujun recognized that South Mountain's Earth Vein Dragon Qi could temper the Black Python's blood essence and improve her physique.
• Bai Yujun caught a Pangolin spirit and promised it pills if it dug a tunnel into the heart of South Mountain.
• The Pangolin dug through the mountain, and Bai Yujun coiled around a dragon-head-shaped boulder to cultivate for two days.
• Bai Yujun emerged and accepted the Pangolin as her little brother, giving it a Snake Scale as protection and proof of joining her Household.

Bai Yujun finished her duties at the Barracks and began secluded cultivation in a cave on an island in Nanyuan Lake, drawing on the lake’s spiritual energy and South Mountain’s Earth Vein Dragon Qi. Her cultivation triggered a sudden, unexplained storm that puzzled Chunyang Palace’s elders and Chu Zhe.

• Mo Qin and Mo Yuan settled near the Chunyang outpost after reaching the Qi Refining Stage, while Bai Yujun showed off her pangolin lackey, Iron Ball.
• During a day of torrential rain, Bai Yujun visited the Barracks and discharged the boy whose belly wound had healed.
• Bai Yujun prepared for secluded cultivation, prayed at the outpost temple, and reported her plans to an elder.
• Bai Yujun took Iron Ball to a cave on an island in Nanyuan Lake, left it supplies and a Chunyang Palace jade talisman, then transformed into a White Snake and absorbed the lake’s spiritual energy.
• Dark clouds gathered and a vast rainstorm covered Nanyuan Lake, leaving Iron Ball, Chunyang Palace’s elders, and Chu Zhe bewildered.

As the Tang Emperor lay ill and Chang'an’s court descended further into disorder, an imperial prince conspired with Demonic Cultivators against Chunyang Palace. The Demonic Cultivator agreed to rally Chang'an’s Aristocratic Clans, while the prince prepared to coordinate with his brothers.

• The Tang Emperor refused to see the Empress and Consort An as the princes and court factions continued fighting over power.
• In Longze County, a Prince heard that Vice Minister Zhang had been imprisoned and learned that General Guo was watching his family’s old home.
• The Prince told his Heir to keep sending incense money to the Dragon Girl Temple and reflected on the Tang Emperor’s failing health.
• In Chang'an, an imperial prince met a Demonic Cultivator and demanded that he fulfill his promise to help secure the prince’s ambitions.
• The Demonic Cultivator urged the prince to coordinate with his allied brothers and offered to contact Chang'an’s Aristocratic Clans to restrict Chunyang Palace’s access to the imperial palace.