Chapter Summaries

The rusty saber took control of Feng Ying and forced her to pursue the Yellow-haired Ferret, which was carrying a sealed box. Rain followed them through the broken ship, and the chase reached the deck, where they encountered the old monk and two children.

• The Yellow-haired Ferret realized that several powerful pursuers were watching it while it hid with the box.
• Feng Ying lost control of her body as her rusty saber glowed and drew itself from its scabbard.
• The saber-controlled Feng Ying attacked the Yellow-haired Ferret, forcing it to dodge while Rain chased after them.
• The Yellow-haired Ferret fled through the broken ship with Feng Ying and Rain close behind, disrupting its cabins and disturbing its occupants.
• Rain saw the ships and Flying Horse cavalry retreating after the battle, then resumed chasing Feng Ying through the ship.
• Feng Ying’s saber shaved a patch of fur from the Yellow-haired Ferret’s head, and the chase reached the deck, where they saw the old monk and two children.

Yellow-haired Ferret tried to escape with the box as Feng Ying and the Imperial Dynasty cultivators turned the deck into a chaotic battlefield. Feng Ying suddenly awakened to a sword technique and sent her saber flying toward the official holding the box.

• Feng Ying attacked Yellow-haired Ferret, and Snake Demon Boy recognized her saber style as resembling his lineage’s technique.
• The young man accused Old Hui Xian and the others of stealing his treasure, and Little Stone resumed fighting him.
• Yellow-haired Ferret threw the box toward the Imperial Dynasty officials and fled as Feng Ying attacked the official who caught it.
• Feng Ying fought the officials, accidentally cut off the official’s beard, and was surrounded by their coordinated attacks.
• Feng Ying entered a state of enlightenment, dodged the encirclement, and used Sword Control Technique to send her saber toward the box-holding official.

Feng Ying and the others fought Imperial Dynasty cultivators over a mysterious box as Rain and the Snake Demon Boy helped protect it. When the box reached Feng Ying, she glimpsed an ancient battlefield, comprehended its wielder’s saber intent, and shattered the box’s shield, while black clouds covered the moon.

• Feng Ying’s saber attacked the box’s shield, and Imperial Dynasty cultivators moved against her as the Brocade-robed Elder tried to recruit the long-faced man.
• The Snake Demon Boy rescued Feng Ying, drove back the cultivators, and pursued the official who had thrown the box away.
• Rain fired arrows to redirect the box through the air and keep it from the cultivators trying to seize it.
• Feng Ying saw a past battle between the Heavenly Court’s celestial army and the Devil Race and comprehended the saber intent of the viewpoint’s owner.
• Feng Ying broke through the box’s shield and cut into it as black clouds covered the moon.

A sinister black spine fragment emerged from the broken box and filled the ship with dread, but Old Hui Xian suppressed it with his prayer beads and Wine Worm. The Brocade-robed Elder’s reinforcements arrived, then the old woman fled with the young man after seeing Old Hui Xian, leaving the Elder confused and the fragment unrecovered.

• The black bone fell from the shattered box, and its evil aura stopped the fighting and drove nearby creatures into terror.
• The Brocade-robed Elder, Long-faced Heavenly King, and a young man rushed to seize the bone while Little Stone and the Snake Demon Boy fought the young man off.
• A refugee below deck watched black water seep through the floorboards and erase a vicious ghost.
• The bone rolled to Old Hui Xian, who looped his prayer beads around it and dispelled its evil aura; his sutras and Wine Worm then sent the Imperial Dynasty cultivators into a deep, drunken sleep.
• Long-faced Heavenly King pulled Little Stone and the Snake Demon Boy back as the Brocade-robed Elder’s allies arrived.
• An old woman arrived, saw Old Hui Xian, and fled with the young man, leaving the Brocade-robed Elder behind without the bone.

Bai Yujun assessed the danger posed by an impure Human Emperor and made secret arrangements to contain the consequences. Meanwhile, a shadow detached from her frozen body and entered a temple dedicated to her, as a wealthy visitor climbed toward her General Store.

• Bai Yujun judged the Human Emperor’s fate impure and ordered Qiao Jin to prepare measures against the half-corpse’s interference.
• A shadow separated from Bai Yujun’s body in the ice cavern, traveled deep underground, and reached an abandoned temple on a mountainside.
• The shadow entered the temple dedicated to Bai Yujun and vanished into her statue, subtly changing the statue’s armor.
• Bai Yujun foresaw a wealthy customer arriving at her General Store and sent Fat Head Cat to greet him.
• Fat Head Cat guided the middle-aged visitor toward the shop as the man examined the pavilions and wondered at their unusual spiritual energy.

A middle-aged man browsed Bai Yujun’s mysterious shop, weighing powerful treasures against their strange prices and conditions. He found a paper umbrella called Looking Back that stirred memories of his dead beloved, but hesitated to spend his one purchase on it.

• The middle-aged man entered the hall after Fat Tiger signaled him to follow, and Bai Yujun explained that he could choose only one item and must not touch goods that were not fated for him.
• He inspected a Black Spear labeled Dragon Spear—Imitation, a bronze mirror, and a Treasure Gathering Basin, then rejected them for their flaws, unsettling functions, or unavailable status.
• He admired an ornate paper umbrella but found its price and conditions beyond his means, and considered whether he could take it by force before deciding the shop was too dangerous.
• He stopped before an ordinary pale green umbrella labeled Looking Back and read that it could let its user meet a beloved separated by death once, for the duration of an incense stick.
• The umbrella brought back the middle-aged man’s memories of his youthful love and her death, but he jolted awake in the quiet hall and readied himself for a fight.
• He suspected Looking Back was the item fated for him, but wondered whether to spend his only purchase on it instead of a treasure that could grant him strength.

A middle-aged cultivator chose a healing pill over a paper umbrella at Bai Yujun’s mysterious shop, completed the purchase, and left with his old injury still uncertain. As Bai Yujun returned to her quiet life atop Mountain Peak, Divine Dragon Temples spread through the chaotic lands below.

• The middle-aged man abandoned his hesitation and selected a healing pill suited to his long-standing hidden injury instead of the paper umbrella.
• Bai Yujun warned him that the pill would work immediately and promised a double refund if it failed; he paid with materials and took the pill case.
• The man praised the shop, hinted that the pavilion was difficult to reach, and departed without sharing the warning he had considered giving Bai Yujun.
• Fat Tiger stored the payment materials while Bai Yujun returned to reading in the pavilion atop Mountain Peak.
• Across the chaotic Myriad Worlds, Divine Dragon Temples spread as people and Mountain Spirits sought shelter under Bai Yujun’s name.

A self-aware Dragon Scale Clone wandered the disordered Netherworld, where she told a lingering female ghost to stop waiting for someone who would never return. She recognized a timid yin soul from an old incident in the mortal realm and pinned him beneath her saber.

• The Dragon Scale Clone roamed the Netherworld, complaining about its bleakness and the difficulty of finding food and herbs.
• She questioned a female ghost who had waited in the same place for two years, then told her that the person she awaited would not return.
• The clone explored the Netherworld streets and reflected on the different kinds of yin souls living there amid the disrupted passageways.
• She recognized a timid yin soul in a dilapidated courtyard as the man she had once caught marrying a fairy beneath a locust tree.
• The clone pinned the yin soul in place with her saber and asked how he liked the Netherworld.

Bai Yujun's Clone vented an old grievance by beating the yin soul whose wedding she had once disrupted, while underworld officials and ghosts avoided provoking her. After leaving, she wandered past River Nai and saw a golden monk subduing Hellish Evil Ghosts and guiding them to salvation.

• Brother Dog warned the new constable which underworld residences to avoid and explained that a powerful immortal had once protected the mortal yin soul in the broken-gate household.
• Bai Yujun's Clone seized the yin soul and berated him for the long-ago wedding she had helped disrupt while serving in the Heavenly Court.
• The two constables pleaded with Bai Yujun's Clone to spare the yin soul, while the Ghost General and his soldiers kept their distance.
• After venting her anger, Bai Yujun's Clone released the yin soul and swaggered away as nearby ghosts and officials hid or lowered their heads.
• Bai Yujun's Clone passed River Nai and saw a golden monk subdue Hellish Evil Ghosts and patiently deliver them to salvation.

Bai Yujun's blade-carrying Clone wandered the underworld, met a monk delivering evil ghosts, and learned that another of her clones had also developed self-awareness. The stall-running clone said they could choose their own paths, leaving the blade-carrying Clone to decide what to do next.

• Bai Yujun's Clone disrupted the monk's chanting by frightening the evil ghosts, then argued that he should destroy them rather than slowly deliver them from suffering.
• The monk offered to help her leave the underworld and recognized her as a self-aware White Dragon Clone, but she said she had to stay and knew nothing about the clones' purpose.
• The blade-carrying Clone accidentally sneezed the kneeling evil ghosts into ash and smoke, then left the monk and continued wandering the underworld.
• After an unknown stretch of time, the blade-carrying Clone found another clone running a stall near the Bridge of Helplessness and realized she had developed self-awareness too.
• The stall-running Clone told her to do as she pleased, whether becoming a dragon or a flood dragon.

The avatar in the underworld examined and dispersed a ghost, then considered how to transform into a flood dragon or dragon. In the primordial wilderness, a newly transformed Flood Dragon explained to five cultivators that it had killed a corrupt catfish River God and had been wrongly blamed for his crimes.

• The avatar sensed a ghost on the Yellow Springs Road and freed him from the Underworld Emissaries’ chains.
• She identified the short, sturdy ghost’s missing neck as evidence that he had been trampled by a flood dragon, then immobilized and dispersed him.
• The avatar wondered whether she should evolve into a dragon or flood dragon outside the underworld or within it, and told the Underworld Emissaries to disperse similar ghosts.
• After a flood, five cultivators confronted a Flood Dragon in a rice paddy over accusations that it had caused floods and demanded sacrifices.
• The Flood Dragon said it had killed and eaten a catfish that falsely claimed to be the River God, and argued that the cultivators had mistaken it for the culprit.

The Flood Dragon traveled through a desolate land, hiding by day and searching for the mysterious summons drawing her onward. She found a human stronghold protected by a temple to Bai Yujun, then watched a hungry boy eat its offering without punishing him.

• The Flood Dragon restored the damaged field ridges, left the rice seedlings for later replanting, and swam downstream toward the summons.
• She crossed ruined lands where water was scarce and evil cultivators roamed, eventually hiding in a mud pit near a human settlement.
• The Flood Dragon sensed that the region’s spiritual energy was barren and discovered a stronghold whose small stone temple housed a statue of Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun’s lingering divinity protected the stronghold’s people from evil fiends, cultivators, and demons.
• A hungry little boy prayed at the temple, then ate the beast-meat offering, and the Flood Dragon allowed it because he meant no harm.

A hungry boy stole offerings from the altar while the Flood Dragon watched the struggling stockade from its mud pond. When hunting dogs sensed danger, the villagers barricaded themselves, only to face approaching mounted bandits as the Flood Dragon watched their horses hungrily.

• The boy ate the offerings, thanked the Dragon Empress, and left, while the Flood Dragon sensed his great destiny.
• The village chief and a muscular brute replaced the stolen meat and discussed the boy’s hunger and the stockade’s hardship.
• The boy went to fetch irrigation water, but hunting dogs sensed the Flood Dragon and the villagers retreated behind their gates.
• The villagers waited through the afternoon, unable to identify the danger, while the Flood Dragon stayed hidden in the pond.
• Mounted bandits approached at sunset, and the village chief ordered the children into a secret room and rallied everyone to defend the stockade.
• The Flood Dragon watched the bandits’ horses and drooled.

The Flood Dragon hunted down and ate the horse bandits and their demonic horses as they threatened a village. While searching their remains, it found a black iron spike that stirred an instinctive sense of dread.

• The horse bandits demanded food from the villagers and threatened to storm the stockade and assault the women.
• After night fell, the Flood Dragon left its mud pit and swam toward the bandits.
• The Flood Dragon attacked the bandits in the darkness, killing them and eating their demonic horses as the villagers watched in terror.
• The villagers remembered their temple and took comfort in the Dragon Empress's protection.
• After finishing its meal, the Flood Dragon searched the spoils and found a black iron spike that felt ominous.

The Flood Dragon destroyed a Dragon Vein Nail at a bandit stronghold, then followed an intense summons to a damaged dragon vein in a remote mountain range. After realizing she could either abandon her mission or remain underground for years to repair it, she accepted the responsibility and dove into the mountain.

• The Flood Dragon destroyed the iron nail she suspected had been used to pin down a dragon vein, then left the stronghold behind.
• After traveling for three days, the Flood Dragon reached a chaotic mountain range and found several iron nails driven into its rocky ridge.
• She pulled out all the nails, but the dragon vein and magnetic field did not change, and the summons continued.
• The Flood Dragon realized she could merge with the dragon vein to repair it or abandon her mission and live freely.
• After watching the sunrise and accepting that becoming a dragon required shouldering a mission, the Flood Dragon plunged into the mountain range.

The Flood Dragon merged with the earth’s magnetic field and began repairing the Yunling Dragon Vein, freeing its branches from the Dragon Vein Nails and bringing faint changes to the barren land. Cultivators and other forces converged on the mountain, where they discovered the Flood Dragon and debated whether to help it or stop it.

• The Flood Dragon spent more than ten days aligning itself with the magnetic field and extending its Meridians through the Dragon Vein.
• As the Flood Dragon began repairing the vein, Dragon Vein Nails shook loose at multiple mountain nodes, and the surrounding land showed signs of change.
• A girl at a village mud pond found that the sludge held more water, while people attempting to repair a Dragon Vein node sensed its slight recovery.
• Cultivators, demons, spirits, and other forces flew toward the mountain range as the government dispatched an armed fleet from its city.
• Cultivators inspecting a Yunling Dragon Vein node found a removed nail and used a Treasure Mirror to locate the Flood Dragon inside the mountain.
• The old man urged the others to aid the Flood Dragon if it was reviving the Dragon Vein, but to fight it if it was harming the vein for its own benefit.

The flood dragon worked to merge and repair Cloud Ridge’s earth veins while demons, cultivators, and evil cultivators gathered above, drawn by the growing spiritual energy. As the court’s fleet approached, the old man remembered the war that had destroyed his home, and the chapter ended with the restorers fearing the court would disrupt the mountain’s revival.

• Demons and evil cultivators gathered at Cloud Ridge, but the Daoist-robed cultivator warned Old Wolf and the Bewitching Snake Demon to leave, and they refused.
• The flood dragon accelerated her calculations to restore the earth veins and crushed demonic beasts that tried to tunnel into the mountain.
• More figures arrived as the ridge grew chaotic, and impatient demons and cultivators prepared to seize the apparent opportunity.
• Tower ships and flying vessels appeared on the horizon, and the dragon vein restorers feared the court would halt the restoration.
• The old man recalled how the court’s war had destroyed Cloud Ridge and forced him and his fellow disciples to flee their home.

The Yunling Dragon Vein revived as the Flood Dragon reconstructed the Cloud Ridge Mountain Range, prompting the Sacred Dynasty to attack. Just as the dynasty troops clashed with the dragon-vein restorers, an armored, pointed-eared figure appeared in a pillar of light, followed by more arrivals.

• The Red Robe Official arrived with the Sacred Dynasty’s fleet, denounced the dragon-vein restorers as rebels, and ordered his forces to surround them.
• The old man and his companions hesitated to abandon their work and were encircled by soldiers and Aristocratic Clan disciples.
• A heartbeat spread through the Cloud Ridge Mountain Range as the Flood Dragon’s mountain projection reached a critical threshold and revived the dragon vein.
• The Red Robe Official discovered the Flood Dragon with an imitation Sky Patrol Mirror and ordered the army to sever the mountain range and kill it.
• The old man and his companions formed a defensive circle as the dynasty troops charged, but a Light Pillar brought an armored, pointed-eared figure between them, and more Light Pillars appeared.

A hundred Snake Demon Soldiers appeared at Cloud Ridge and launched a devastating battle against the Saint Dynasty Army. As the Snake Demon captain discovered the Flood Dragon merging with the Earth Vein and called for aid, Cloud Ridge began to tremble with a powerful heartbeat.

• The Snake Demon Soldiers arrived through a Light Pillar, and the Red Robe Official branded them demons and ordered the Saint Dynasty Army to attack.
• The Snake Demon Soldiers overwhelmed the Local Garrison, killing many troops while the Red Robe Official forced Aristocratic Clan youths and soldiers to keep fighting.
• The Red Robe Official formed a military array, but the Snake Demon Soldiers disrupted it and resumed their slaughter; Light Pillars carried away the souls of fallen Snake Demons.
• The Snake Demon captain examined Mountain Ridge Collapse with a Treasure Mirror, saw the Flood Dragon merging with the Earth Vein, and reported the discovery to the Empire.
• The Snake Demon captain joined the battle and smashed two tower ships, while the Red Robe Official used his Official Seal to hold him back.
• Cloud Ridge trembled again as a deep, powerful heartbeat sounded.

As the dragon vein revived and clouds appeared over the Cloud Ridge Mountain Range, the Human Sacred Dynasty’s forces fought desperately against the Snake Demon Army. Reinforcements arrived for both sides, leaving the battle poised to grow even larger.

• The Red Robe Official demanded that the Aristocratic Clan disciples summon their ancestors, while distant onlookers watched the slaughter.
• A young female cultivator spotted clouds forming over the Cloud Ridge Mountain Range, and the repair group celebrated the signs of the land’s revival.
• Four mortal immortals arrived to reinforce the Red Robe Official, but hesitated to fight the Snake Demon Immortal General, who demanded they withdraw two thousand li.
• The Red Robe Official urged the four Lineage ancestors to attack after the Snake Demon Immortal General refused to withdraw.
• Three hundred Snake Demon Soldiers arrived through Light Pillars, and more than ten tower ships carrying Sacred Dynasty reinforcements appeared in the distance.