Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun sent a message through golden characters, prompting the Heavenly Army to dispatch a Snake Demon Soldier. As Bai Yujun headed toward an ancient Daoist temple, the soldier captured a suspected Snake Demon but lost him to a restriction that destroyed his Primordial Spirit.

• Bai Yujun dismissed the officials' concerns about the rebels and wrote a message in golden characters in the air.
• Bai Yujun's message appeared at the Heavenly Army's Military Command Center, and a demon soldier was sent out.
• Bai Yujun rode Fat Tiger toward a thousand-year-old Daoist temple in the mountains.
• The Snake Demon Soldier ambushed a man in a distant valley and sealed his cultivation.
• The soldier found bloody bottles among the man's belongings, but the man's Primordial Spirit burned away before he could be questioned.

Bai Yujun stayed overnight in the town below the mountain, then climbed to an ancient Daoist Temple with Big White. After reflecting on the temple’s desolate beauty, she realized that she belonged there.

• Bai Yujun enjoyed local food and a song at the town eatery, then slept through a rainy night.
• Bai Yujun rode Big White up the mountain, passing pilgrims and travelers who marveled at the tiger-riding immortal.
• Bai Yujun dismounted to walk and play her Xiao Flute, moving the listeners and catching the attention of an Old Daoist inside the temple.
• Bai Yujun reached the temple’s mountain gate and platform, where the Old Daoist greeted her and saw incense smoke form a true dragon.
• Bai Yujun looked at the weathered main hall and said that after years in the mortal world, she had finally understood where she belonged.

Bai Yujun rested at a Daoist Temple, accepted tea from an elderly Daoist, and painted a divine dragon to protect the mountain. After briefly checking the Primordial Main World, she returned to watching the clouds, leaving its ongoing wars for later.

• Bai Yujun explored the Daoist Temple and rested on a stone beside Fat Tiger.
• An elderly Daoist served Bai Yujun treasured tea, and she offered to paint a picture in return.
• Bai Yujun painted a vast divine dragon amid the mountain’s clouds and warned the Daoists not to remove or sell the painting.
• Bai Yujun returned to her true body at Sky Pillar Peak, checked the Primordial Main World, and saw that wars still raged.
• Bai Yujun returned her consciousness to the Small World and continued watching the clouds.

Bai Yujun left the mountain and patrolled her prosperous fief, then began planning a bridge to prevent seasonal floods from cutting off travel. Divination revealed that the Evil Cult was moving to infiltrate her territory, so she rode Fat Tiger back to the Princess Mansion to respond.

• Bai Yujun offered incense at the cliff before leaving the mountain with Fat Tiger, who glided and leaped down the slopes.
• Fat Tiger crashed into a village woman's vegetable patch, and Bai Yujun paid her for the damaged vegetables before continuing on.
• Bai Yujun patrolled her fief, where the County Yamen resettled refugees and the people enjoyed good harvests.
• Bai Yujun surveyed a wide river and drew plans for a bridge to keep travel open during the rainy season.
• Bai Yujun divined that the Evil Cult was accelerating its collection of faith power and preparing to infiltrate her fief as the bandit army gained strength.
• Bai Yujun told Fat Tiger to return to the Princess Mansion with her so she could answer the threat.

After rebels captured Hu County and massacred its people, imperial spies sent evidence of the atrocities to the court. Bai Yujun refused an offer to flee to the Prefecture City and prepared to defend her fief, while the storm broke over the Princess Mansion.

• Bandit soldiers forced civilians to kneel before a deity statue and took part in a bloody worship ceremony as rebels slaughtered people across the city.
• Two imperial spies documented the massacre and sent their report by gray swallow before the bandits killed them.
• The prefectural governor forwarded the spies’ intelligence to the imperial court, and the Emperor summoned military officials for an urgent meeting.
• County Lieutenant Gao told Bai Yujun that Hu County had fallen and urged her to leave for the Prefecture City, but she refused and assured him the Princess Mansion was safe.
• Bai Yujun completed a Deity Summoning Talisman and decided to summon the monkey, then asked the fat beaver to deepen its dam before heavy rain began.

A mysterious cultivator arrived at the Princess Mansion during a thunderstorm and threatened the household into relocating, but Bai Yujun struck him down with lightning. After the guards and beasts finished him off, Bai Yujun rewarded them and returned to bed.

• A beaver spotted a figure approaching the Princess Mansion, and the Lynx Demon and guards mobilized to defend it.
• The Mysterious Person demanded that the household relocate for its safety, while the woman accused him of violating the prohibition against troubling mortals.
• Bai Yujun confronted the Mysterious Person and called down repeated lightning bolts that blasted him into a crater.
• Bai Yujun ordered everyone to finish off the wounded cultivator and loot his belongings, and the guards, Fat Tiger, and a beaver rushed into the crater.
• The woman accepted the recovered items, and Bai Yujun rewarded the household with medicinal pills before returning inside to sleep.

Bai Yujun investigated the growing unrest in her fief and found that a hidden force was interfering with her vision of the Evil Cult. She sent Qiao Jin a letter ordering investigations across every world, then went out to fish and found her usual stone platform underwater.

• Bai Yujun learned that war, bandits, refugees, and the Evil Cult were disrupting her fief, and a bandit army had robbed one of her caravans.
• Bai Yujun's mother told her that her cultivation was advancing unusually quickly, while Bai Yujun dismissed her concerns and reflected on the recent attack.
• Bai Yujun used her True Sight to inspect the Small World but found the Evil Cult concealed by a powerful interference.
• Bai Yujun wrote a letter that traveled to Qiao Jin, who ordered investigations across every world.
• Bai Yujun went out to fish and found the stone platform submerged in water.

Bai Yujun captured bandits who had robbed her caravan, then rode Fat Tiger to a war-torn county town to investigate a statue that seemed to conceal a mysterious substance. She reached the statue’s platform and found a masked man waiting there as Fat Tiger fought the bandit army below.

• Bai Yujun and the Princess Mansion guards surrounded the bandits, and Fat Tiger’s roar stunned them into submission.
• Bai Yujun ordered the bandits shackled and sentenced to ten years of road building for robbing her caravan and slaughtering oxen.
• Bai Yujun rode Fat Tiger toward the county town, passing checkpoints, refugees, and civilians being driven ahead of the bandit army.
• Bai Yujun used a hurricane to throw back five bandit experts, while Fat Tiger fought the soldiers near the raised platform.
• Bai Yujun examined the statue and sensed the same unpleasant presence as in a mysterious crystal, then faced a masked, robed man and drew a talisman.

Bai Yujun summoned a monkey projection to help defeat the bandits and destroyed the statue that concealed a crystal used by the Evil Cult to transfer faith power. She rode Fat Tiger toward the protected leader’s camp and confronted an elderly man in magnificent robes.

• Bai Yujun summoned the monkey projection, which struck the Masked Figure and swept away many bandit army experts.
• Bai Yujun shot the statue with her slingshot, broke off its head, and found a large crystal containing the same gray-black matter as an earlier discovery.
• The bandits and believers attacked Fat Tiger and swarmed the collapsing platform, revealing struggling and motionless limbs beneath the statue.
• Bai Yujun escaped the platform’s collapse on her paper umbrella, landed on Fat Tiger, and rode toward a distant carriage camp.
• Bai Yujun scattered and trapped groups of bandit soldiers with wind and earth magic, then approached a crowd protecting an elderly man in magnificent robes.

Bai Yujun crushed the Evil Cult’s local operation and returned to her true body, where she learned the cult had spread across roughly one in ten thousand Small Worlds. She used her Gaze into Past and Future to trace the Bronze Sarcophagus’s disappearance despite interference from two powerful forces.

• Bai Yujun questioned the old man about the crystal, and Fat Tiger killed him when he refused to explain.
• A young man revealed that his Lineage had spread the Evil Cult after a divine miracle, then accelerated its plans about a year earlier.
• A Snake Demon Soldier arrived to investigate, and Bai Yujun left as the underground river swept away the young man and his guards.
• Bai Yujun returned to her residence, and her consciousness rejoined her true body inside the ice.
• Bai Yujun learned that the Evil Cult had been found in roughly one in ten thousand Small Worlds, and Qiao Jin ordered the cults destroyed and unknown substances seized.
• Bai Yujun used her Gaze into Past and Future to overcome interference and trace the Bronze Sarcophagus’s disappearance.

Bai Yujun traced the past to uncover how the Phoenix Clan took the Bronze Sarcophagus and spread evil matter through Small Worlds to gather faith power. She found the Evil Cults’ mastermind deep in Abyssal Hell, where neither could harm the other, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Bai Yujun watched five Phoenix Clan powerhouses bind and remove the Bronze Sarcophagus, which held the remaining half of the Evil Corpse.
• Bai Yujun learned the Phoenix Clan had carried evil matter from the sarcophagus to Small Worlds, where Evil Cults gathered mortal faith power for the mastermind.
• Little Phoenix left the South Heavenly Gate to secretly pick peaches while factions in a secret realm argued and tried to interfere with Bai Yujun’s past-gazing.
• Bai Yujun gazed into Abyssal Hell, burning through countless Hellish Evil Ghosts as she descended toward the mastermind.
• Bai Yujun and the mastermind exchanged a cold glance and withdrew, unable to reach or harm each other.

Bai Yujun woke in the study and avoided practicing calligraphy while the divine court sent Snake Demon Soldiers to arrest members of the Evil Cult. The purge spread across the empire, but the Snake Demon Commander’s assault on a strange city failed to stop a blood ritual from vanishing into somewhere beyond reach.

• Bai Yujun woke in the study, refused to practice calligraphy, and read letters while eating pastries.
• Two Snake Demon Soldiers delivered the divine court’s arrest list to the emperor and ordered him to help seize suspected Evil Cult collaborators.
• The emperor imprisoned listed ministers and sent troops to raid aristocratic estates as Snake Demon Soldiers subdued resistance across the empire.
• Five Snake Demon Soldiers pursued a wounded great demon to a city of cultivators, where their reinforcements surrounded the defenders.
• The Snake Demon Commander destroyed a building and uncovered an altar and blood pool, but a ritualist used crystals to make the bloody mist disappear, and the commander declared the mission failed.

A surviving girl escaped her destroyed Lineage with a phoenix jade pendant and traveled to its ancestral land, determined to seek the Heavenly God and save her family. She reached the occupied grounds and began climbing the Back Mountain alone.

• The girl woke inside an old tree after her household was destroyed, and the tree urged her to let go of hatred and not seek revenge.
• The girl resolved to save her family and took the phoenix jade pendant her father had given her, which he said would help her reach the Heavenly God.
• The girl escaped through a secret passage, found shelter with an elderly couple, and left the city with them in a Donkey Cart.
• The girl endured the journey and evaded suspicion as they traveled toward her Family Ancestral Land.
• The girl saw soldiers occupying the ancestral grounds and carts carrying away her Lineage’s riches, then thanked the elders and secretly climbed the Back Mountain.

A girl climbed the red hill and used her jade pendant to awaken a Fire Phoenix, begging it to save her persecuted Lineage. After she revealed that Princess Yu had sabotaged the plan, a high-energy being descended into the Small World, drawing the garrison and Bai Yujun’s attention.

• The girl reached the summit, placed her jade pendant in the phoenix-shaped indentation on the Giant Tree, and triggered a burst of light and strange phenomena.
• A Fire Phoenix appeared before the girl, but it began to fade when her plea for help went unanswered.
• The girl told the Fire Phoenix that the plan had failed because Princess Yu had colluded with the heavenly soldiers, and the jade pendant brightened.
• A Light Pillar descended around the old tree, and the garrison commander detected an illegal high-energy lifeform crossing the world barrier and dispatched Snake Demon Soldiers.
• Bai Yujun sensed the distant anomaly and began drawing a talisman as a red-haired young man descended before the girl.

A Red-clothed Man abducted Xiao Yi while investigating Princess Yu, as the Snake Demon Soldiers awaited the arrival of immortal generals. At the Princess Mansion, Bai Yujun went fishing and caught a Ranchu.

• Xiao Yi told the Red-clothed Man that Princess Yu had been involved in the plan's failure, and he dispersed the strange phenomenon on the hill as the Snake Demon Soldiers arrived.
• The Red-clothed Man struck the Snake Demon Soldiers' Golden Shield Wall, then seized Xiao Yi and vanished without causing casualties.
• A hundred li away, the Red-clothed Man questioned a local official about Princess Yu, made him forget their encounter, and took Xiao Yi into the sky.
• Three Light Pillars descended onto the Back Mountain of the Xiao Ancestral Shrine, so the Red-clothed Man strengthened his concealment and continued his investigation with Xiao Yi.
• Bai Yujun went fishing with her maid and Fat Tiger, then caught a Ranchu and blamed the thunder for it.

Bai Yujun confronted the Red-clothed Man and Xiao Yi, seeking information about a half corpse and their secret realm. When the Red-clothed Man attacked, Bai Yujun used lightning and water to test his strength, ending with a flood dragon shielding her from his flames.

• Bai Yujun smashed a seven-jin carp with her bamboo stool after it swam past her fishing rod, then soothed Fat Tiger when he sensed someone approaching.
• Xiao Yi and the Red-clothed Man arrived, and both found Bai Yujun difficult to assess.
• Bai Yujun asked where the Red-clothed Man had hidden a half corpse and what his plans were, but he said nothing about it and demanded to know whether she had informed the long worms.
• Bai Yujun admitted she had intervened against the calamity and asked where the secret realm entrance was, prompting the Red-clothed Man to draw his sword.
• Bai Yujun struck the Red-clothed Man with lightning and a water serpent, then raised a flood dragon from the river to block his flames.

Bai Yujun used a river’s dragon vein and a storm of rain to suppress a Phoenix Clan immortal, then let three immortal generals take over the fight. She returned home after finishing her analysis of the Phoenix Clan and invited the beaver to dinner.

• Bai Yujun transformed the river’s dragon vein into a flood dragon, which battled the Red-clothed Man in the mountains.
• The Red-clothed Man destroyed the flood dragon, then attacked Bai Yujun’s riverbank in his Fire Phoenix form.
• Bai Yujun summoned a massive claw of rainwater and lightning that pinned the Fire Phoenix into the mud.
• Three immortal generals arrived and attacked the Fire Phoenix, who escaped the rain but was blocked by them.
• Bai Yujun returned indoors, said she had finished analyzing the Phoenix Clan, and asked the maidservants to prepare mushrooms and invite the beaver to dinner.

Xiao Yi survived alone in the rain with help from a beaver and found shelter in a hollow tree. Meanwhile, Bai Yujun watched powerful factions layer seals over Sky Pillar Peak and warned her allies not to act rashly.

• Xiao Yi lay drenched and frightened by the river, believing Princess Yu had forgotten her and worrying about surviving without papers or a place to go.
• A chubby beaver brought Xiao Yi shrimp, and she ate them raw to regain her strength.
• Xiao Yi decided to pose as a refugee from a nearby county town massacred by rebels, then found a dry hollow tree and fell asleep inside.
• Bai Yujun grew bored in her projected life and chose to travel in her sleep, returning her consciousness to her frozen true body.
• Bai Yujun sensed Immortals, Demons, and Devils gathering around Sky Pillar Peak and warned the monkey and Qiao Jin not to act rashly.
• The factions joined forces to cast successive seals over Sky Pillar Peak, while the monkey brought several experts to make a brief commotion before withdrawing.

Bai Yujun prepared to travel beyond her territory and join the Empire’s interstellar trade, reaching the Trade Zone with Fat Tiger. After passing the entrance inspection, she saw the enormous ships gathered in the basin.

• The immortal visitors reinforced the seal around Sky Pillar Peak, then departed as clouds covered the mountain again.
• Bai Yujun packed supplies and trade goods, left a letter, and set out with Fat Tiger toward an unknown wilderness world.
• Bai Yujun planned to follow the Empire’s annual trade fleet to explore remote worlds and become a trusted merchant.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger reached the Trade Zone and waited among merchant caravans while an Empire Rotary-Wing Aircraft flew past.
• Bai Yujun presented her golden token to the eunuch and entered the basin, where several Super Giant Ships stood.

Bai Yujun arrived at the orderly Trade Zone, stocked up on supplies, and secured passage aboard a Super Giant Ship bound for an unexplored star region. She waited for departure by lounging with Fat Tiger, while the ship’s trade and garrison activity carried on around her.

• Bai Yujun explored the Trade Zone, bought materials and trinkets, and identified a ship heading toward an unexplored region on the edge of the star map.
• Bai Yujun used her methods to obtain boarding qualifications and settled aboard the Super Giant Ship with Fat Tiger.
• Bai Yujun lounged on the railing while Fat Tiger struggled to climb up with a packet of Osmanthus Candy.
• A garrison squad of Snake Demon Soldiers boarded for a watch rotation, and Bai Yujun noticed their commander seemed troubled about failing to catch the troublemaker.
• Bai Yujun waited through several days of delays as rain fell, then watched a supply ship depart at night while she and Fat Tiger passed the time.