Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun and Fat Head Cat traveled aboard the Super Giant Ship to a remote, lawless world, where she planned to open a shop and make a fortune. After collecting weapons from the ship’s stores, she reached a cliffside and used a Pavilion Model to begin building her shop.

• Bai Yujun packed gunpowder weapons from the Super Giant Ship’s warehouse into sacks, while Fat Head Cat carried them.
• After a long voyage, the Super Giant Ship landed briefly in a remote Small World and dropped Bai Yujun and Fat Head Cat off before departing.
• Bai Yujun sensed the World Will’s favor and decided to open a shop in the chaotic wilderness.
• Fat Head Cat carried Bai Yujun across the wilderness, where they encountered two weak evil demons before finding a cliffside location.
• Bai Yujun chose the cliffside for her shop and tossed down a Pavilion Model, which grew into an exquisite multistory building.

Bai Yujun opened a remote mountain shop and waited weeks for a customer before a struggling cultivator discovered the hidden road to it. Fat Head Cat went down to guide the wary woman into the shop.

• Bai Yujun arranged the shop’s weapons, umbrellas, paintings, and assorted trinkets, then celebrated its opening with firecrackers.
• After weeks without customers, Bai Yujun painted a courtyard and mountain road and concealed the route in thick fog.
• A lone, poor cultivator searching for Spiritual Plants noticed a strange shape in the fog and entered the hidden mountain path.
• The cultivator found herself trapped on the stairs before Bai Yujun’s pavilion and nervously called out to a Senior.
• Fat Head Cat came down to meet the customer, sniffed her, and signaled for her to follow him back up the stairs.

A woman entered Bai Yujun’s mysterious shop and browsed its strange goods, then became captivated by the Chunyang Art Beginner’s Volume. She discovered its price could be paid by letting Bai Yujun watch and comprehend her entire life.

• Fat Head Cat led the woman into the pavilion, where Bai Yujun welcomed her to the shop.
• The woman examined a flatbread, a strange weapon, paper umbrellas, and various other unusual goods.
• The woman found the Chunyang Art Beginner’s Volume, and Bai Yujun let her read its first page.
• The woman was enthralled by the cultivation manual but could not turn to the next page.
• The woman read the listed price and saw that she could pay by letting Bai Yujun watch and comprehend her entire life.

Bai Yujun persuaded a struggling female cultivator to trade for the introductory chapter of the Chunyang Art by letting her relive her past. The woman left with the manual to cultivate, while Bai Yujun reflected on the world’s pervasive evil and corruption.

• The female cultivator initially rejected Bai Yujun’s offer to relive her past and browsed the shop’s other treasures instead.
• Bai Yujun warned the woman that her declining Qi and Blood would soon end her chance to advance, and the woman agreed to buy the manual.
• As the woman touched the manual, she relived memories of her childhood, family, and difficult years as a cultivator.
• The woman confirmed that the Chunyang Art was a genuine cultivation method and asked where to find its next portions; Bai Yujun told her to master the introductory chapter first.
• The woman left the hidden pavilion with the manual and resolved to find a quiet place to cultivate.
• Bai Yujun recalled the woman’s memories and realized that evil demons, bloody rituals, and corrupted cultivators were widespread throughout the world.

Bai Yujun welcomed the exhausted Thousand-Household Officer Ge into her shop and showed him the saber Second Day, which impressed him but came with a shocking price. Ge was being hunted by demons, and the chapter left him inspecting the weapon after reading its cost.

• Bai Yujun had Fat Head Cat wake the man collapsed outside her shop, and he introduced himself as Thousand-Household Officer Ge from Bingzhou.
• Ge explained that demons were pursuing him, and Bai Yujun urged him to browse the shop for goods that could solve his problem.
• Ge passed the books, firearms, and paper umbrellas before stopping at the straight saber Second Day.
• Bai Yujun let Ge hold the saber, and he praised its killing power as a fine weapon.
• Ge read the saber’s price and nearly dropped it in shock.

Thousand-Household Officer Ge accepted the saber’s second method of payment and let Bai Yujun observe his entire past. After seeing his life of fighting fiends and defending ordinary people, Bai Yujun gave him the saber and predicted that he might one day stand alongside the gods in a mortal body.

• Fat Tiger sensed a fiend outside the shop and went out to confront it, then returned with blood on its mouth.
• Thousand-Household Officer Ge found that the saber’s price was the most precious thing in his heart plus one hundred thousand taels of gold, and discovered a second payment method: letting Bai Yujun observe his past life.
• Thousand-Household Officer Ge calmly agreed to the second method, and Bai Yujun witnessed his upbringing, martial training, and lifelong fight against fiends and injustice.
• Bai Yujun praised Thousand-Household Officer Ge’s integrity and declared the transaction complete.
• Thousand-Household Officer Ge drew the saber named Second Day, and Bai Yujun said it could help him fulfill his conviction and stand alongside the gods.

Bai Yujun welcomed the evil demons gathered outside her shop as potential customers while protecting Thousand-Household Officer Ge from them. After killing two attackers who used cruel techniques, she left the remaining fiends silenced and wary.

• Bai Yujun gave Thousand-Household Officer Ge an antique pistol and told him the evil demons hunting him had arrived, while explaining that she wanted to turn the crowd into customers.
• Bai Yujun rode Fat Head Cat, who transformed into a gigantic tiger, to meet the fiends climbing the mountain and ordered Thousand-Household Officer Ge to let her handle trouble inside the shop's territory.
• An Evil Arts Cultivator attacked Bai Yujun with a soul-seizing technique, but his head exploded and his soul perished before he could harm her.
• Fat Tiger roared at the gathered evil demons, and Bai Yujun fired her pistol to silence them, shooting a low-key Evil Arts Cultivator.
• Bai Yujun recognized the wounded cultivator as a Stitched Skin Evil who had greedily eyed her, then caused him to vomit blood and die.

Bai Yujun defended her shop from demons, evil cultivators, and ghosts who demanded Thousand-Household Officer Ge, using her mysterious power to unleash deadly chaos. With the survivors terrified, she displayed her wares and announced the shop’s rules and prices, leaving them to spread word of the shop.

• A black-robed, grotesque-faced man threatened Bai Yujun and her property, but a vengeful figure stabbed him from behind with a scarlet bone blade.
• When the gathered demons, evil creatures, and ghosts demanded that Bai Yujun hand over Thousand-Household Officer Ge, she cursed them, triggering a fight that killed most of their leaders.
• Bai Yujun silenced the survivors, and an evil cultivator’s attempt to use soul-seizing Evil Arts ended with his head exploding.
• Bai Yujun summoned shelves of damaged pills and Magic Tools, drawing the survivors’ attention to her merchandise.
• Bai Yujun recited the shop’s rules and explained that customers could buy goods with their most precious possessions, while fighting and looting on the grounds meant death.

Bai Yujun left her mountain sanctuary and answered a sincere summons to a remote Small World, where she found Zhen Bei amid a battlefield. Zhen Bei asked her to revive his fallen comrade, and she began healing the corpse, promising a natural return to life.

• Thousand-Household Officer Ge left the mountain with the Divine Blade and set off to hunt evil demons.
• Bai Yujun returned her consciousness to her true body, sensed a summons from a remote Small World, and projected herself there.
• Bai Yujun descended onto a battlefield between two armies, healing wounded soldiers and dispersing the dead soldiers’ resentment and Baleful Intent.
• Bai Yujun recognized Zhen Bei and met the Dragon Scale Clone that had been with him.
• Zhen Bei begged Bai Yujun to revive his brother-in-arms, and she swept her tail over the corpse to heal its wounds.

Bai Moulong resurrected Zhen Bei’s slain brother on the battlefield, then reunited with Zhen Bei and told him that his beloved had become an immortal and was waiting for him. As the soldiers prepared to resume the fight, she offered to recruit Zhen Bei’s brothers as immortal generals.

• Bai Moulong restored Zhen Bei’s dead brother to life, and he woke coughing up filth from his lungs.
• Zhen Bei explained that Bai Moulong had saved his brother, who then mistook her for a fairy before realizing she was a dragon.
• Bai Moulong told Zhen Bei that his wife had become an immortal and served in her divine palace, and that they could reunite in a few years.
• Zhen Bei thanked Bai Moulong and said he would treat her and Monkey to a drink when they met again.
• Bai Moulong offered to recruit Zhen Bei’s brothers as immortal generals in the Heavenly Court.

Bai Yujun appeared on the battlefield, stopped the fighting, and reunited with Zhen Bei, who invited her to a feast. After warning him that a powerful enemy threatened the future, she took him and his brothers to a riverbank, where they hunted and grilled food for her.

• Bai Yujun froze the battlefield and changed her appearance at Zhen Bei's request.
• Bai Yujun told Zhen Bei to host her, then explained that a powerful enemy would bring great pressure until she could act.
• Zhen Bei admitted he had sought Bai Yujun because he could not bear to watch his brothers die, and she said she understood.
• Bai Yujun teleported Zhen Bei and his brothers to a riverbank, where they washed, hunted, and caught fish.
• Zhen Bei and his brothers tended the barbecue while Bai Yujun ate a pork knuckle by the bonfire.

Zhen Bei learned that Bai Yujun had altered the battlefield survivors’ memories, while Bai Yujun rested in a remote Small World and later noticed a young visitor arriving at her Household. The chapter left Bai Yujun on the mountain path, wondering whether her visitor was a little beggar.

• Zhen Bei asked Bai Yujun's Dragon Scale Clone about her true body's condition, and the clone said Bai Yujun had overeaten and gotten something stuck in her throat.
• The rough men woke with muddled memories, and Zhen Bei realized Bai Yujun had altered the memories of tens of thousands on the battlefield.
• Bai Yujun rested in a remote Small World with Fat Head Cat while she endured the effects of being sealed in ice.
• After four days, Bai Yujun went outside, found Spirit Grass and weeds around her Household, and decided to leave the grass for mountain creatures.
• Bai Yujun gathered scallions for cooking, sensed someone approaching, and wondered if the visitor was a little beggar.

Bai Yujun and Fat Head Cat welcomed a starving little beggar into the Myriad Worlds General Store and offered him a biscuit in exchange for what he cherished most. The boy traded his bone whistle, which held memories of his father and childhood, and ate the biscuit.

• Bai Yujun watched a little beggar struggle through the mountain mist and told Fat Tiger to bring him in and clean him up.
• Fat Tiger washed the boy, carried him to the pavilion, and returned to his golden tabby form as Bai Yujun introduced the Myriad Worlds General Store.
• The beggar ignored the store's treasures and fixed his attention on the dry ration biscuit.
• Bai Yujun explained that the biscuit could be exchanged for money, memories, or the thing most precious to him, and the boy offered his bone whistle.
• Bai Yujun recognized the whistle as the boy's most treasured possession, placed it on the shelf, and handed him the biscuit, which he ate.

Bai Yujun traded the little beggar a sky-blue paper umbrella in exchange for his memories, promising it would help him find his older sister. The umbrella reunited the siblings in the rain, while lightning struck a residence in the city.

• Bai Yujun saw that the little beggar had another chance to trade and heard that he wanted to find his older sister.
• Bai Yujun gave the little beggar a sky-blue paper umbrella and instructed him to open it where they had been separated, then walk beneath it until the rain stopped and a rainbow appeared.
• The little beggar left Bai Yujun’s pavilion, found copper coins along the way, and used them to buy food while waiting for rain.
• When rain came, the little beggar opened the umbrella and saw his older sister in the rain.
• The siblings walked beneath the umbrella until the rain stopped and a rainbow appeared, and a residence in the city was struck by lightning.

Feng Ying and Yu traveled through a devastated wasteland toward Sky Pillar Peak and found a crashed tower ship inhabited by desperate survivors and ghosts. They entered the wreck as night fell and saw the living and dead crowded together inside.

• Feng Ying and Yu searched the ruins for water and food while crossing a war-ravaged wasteland.
• Feng Ying and Yu spotted a huge abandoned flying ship and headed toward it, hoping to find salt.
• Feng Ying and Yu discussed building a home together after the war and talked about Yu’s lost memories and headaches.
• Feng Ying and Yu watched two starving people drag a cart carrying corpses past scavenging hyenas.
• Feng Ying and Yu reached the crashed ship and entered through a hole in its hull, where sickly survivors and groups of ghosts occupied the passageways.

Feng Ying and Yu explored the ghost market inside the wrecked ship, witnessing its taverns, gambling hall, stage, and fighting arena. They encountered a mysterious group led by Hui Xian, whose companions remarked that Feng Ying resembled someone they knew.

• Feng Ying and Yu entered the ship at night and saw a Rat Demon thrown out of a tavern before it vomited and settled among the refugees.
• The two women passed a chaotic tavern, a gambling hall, and a ghostly stage where ordinary people watched performances for burned paper money.
• Feng Ying and Yu reached a crowded fighting arena, and Yu recalled that she had once boxed at the Underground Rift Black Market.
• The women came across Hui Xian, the Young Monk, Little Stone, the Long-faced Strongman, and a white worm.
• The Long-faced Strongman and the Young Monk said Feng Ying only resembled someone they knew, and Hui Xian introduced himself.

Feng Ying and Rain ate at a strange restaurant run by an irritable wild boar demon and overheard news about the new Human Emperor’s conscription. Feng Ying reflected on her connection to the Dragon Girl and Sky Pillar Peak before she and Rain left and spotted the old monk’s group confronting a finely dressed young man.

• Feng Ying and Rain entered a restaurant aboard the ship, where a fierce ghost called the wild boar proprietor to serve them.
• The wild boar demon demanded payment, cooked them salty wild vegetables and rice, and cursed at the customers as they ate.
• Feng Ying overheard unorthodox cultivators discussing the Human Emperor’s recruitment and recalled how war had threatened her fishing village.
• Feng Ying thought about the Dragon Girl, Sky Pillar Peak, and the mysterious force drawing her toward the mountain, until Rain brought her back to the present.
• Feng Ying and Rain left the restaurant and saw the old monk and his companions apparently in conflict with a proud young man dressed in fine clothes.

Little Stone and the Bamboo Spring Temple group confronted an arrogant young man who accused them of stealing, but Hui Xian stopped the conflict from escalating. After the group left to eat, Feng Ying and Yu headed upstairs to explore the black market and buy poison and concealed weapons.

• Little Stone and the snake demon argued with the young man after he accused them of stealing, and the long-faced man warned him to stop provoking them.
• The young man tried to flee past Feng Ying and Yu, but Hui Xian’s words stopped him, and the long-faced man cautioned him about the dangers of the outside world.
• The Bamboo Spring Temple group left to find vegetarian food, while the humiliated young man walked away without confronting them further.
• Feng Ying remarked that Yu’s pride resembled the young man’s, and Yu questioned whether that was true.
• Feng Ying and Yu went to the ship’s second level to look for poison and concealed weapons.

Rain experienced a premonition of danger aboard the broken ship, and she and Feng Ying tried to leave before the Imperial Dynasty’s army surrounded it. The chapter ended with Rain spotting Old Hui Xian and his group as the attack began.

• Old Hui Xian’s group ate at a Rabbit Demon restaurant and overheard that a Yellow-haired Ferret had been seen aboard the ship, prompting Old Hui Xian and Long Face to suspect it was connected to the mysterious young man’s missing item.
• Feng Ying and Rain bought poison and medicine in the black market, where Rain noticed a strange demon and then suffered a sudden bout of pain and disorientation.
• Rain warned Feng Ying that they needed to leave the ship, but she sensed they were already too late when she saw several tower ships approaching to surround it.
• Feng Ying and Rain retreated to the ship’s lower level as the Imperial Dynasty’s army arrived, including Flying Horse cavalry and immortals aboard tower ships.
• Rain spotted Old Hui Xian and his group while anxiously searching for a way out.

Yu and Feng Ying watched immortals battle over a supposedly stolen object, while the broken ship and its inhabitants suffered from stray attacks. As they tried to flee when the fighting stopped, Yu spotted a strangely overlooked yellow-furred rodent demon holding a box that her heated eyes could see.

• Yu and Feng Ying pushed through the crowded ship as stray immortal attacks shook it and injured or killed bystanders.
• Yu explained that the immortals had not meant to attack the ship and cared little whether its inhabitants lived or died.
• Feng Ying recognized familiar elements in the Snake Demon Boy’s saber techniques, and Little Stone transformed and joined him against the immortals.
• Yu said the fight continued because the stronger side’s beliefs mattered more than proof that the old monk’s group had stolen anything.
• The immortals stopped fighting and retreated as a luxurious-robed old man appeared, prompting Yu and Feng Ying to try to escape.
• Yu noticed a yellow-furred rodent demon hiding unnoticed with a box, and her heated eyes revealed it to her.