Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun’s snowy mountain store received a young cultivator who could not afford the Spirit Ascension Clear Pill and chose to trade away the Gold-Inlaid Jade Bangle he treasured most. After surrendering the token of his lost childhood love, he felt his attachment fade and took the pill.

• Bai Yujun’s wish for snow covered the mountaintop overnight, and Fat Orange woke her with his startled roar.
• A young Qi Refining cultivator arrived at the Myriad Worlds General Store and chose the Spirit Ascension Clear Pill, hoping to change his poor cultivation aptitude.
• Unable to pay with his possessions, the young cultivator offered the Gold-Inlaid Jade Bangle, telling Bai Yujun how his childhood sweetheart had accepted a prodigy’s proposal after their different aptitudes separated them.
• The young cultivator placed the bangle on Fat Orange’s tray, completed the trade, and felt his painful attachment fade.
• Bai Yujun congratulated him for letting go, and he swallowed the Spirit Ascension Clear Pill.

Bai Yujun completed a sale to a young cultivator, then welcomed a black-striped great snake seeking revenge for the people who killed its eggs. She offered it a Thundercloud Bead in exchange for observing its memories, leaving the transaction about to begin.

• Bai Yujun sold a pill to a young cultivator, who used it to improve his cultivation before leaving the store.
• Bai Yujun sensed a mountain spirit creature approaching and found Fat Orange facing a timid black-striped great snake at the stairs.
• The great snake told Bai Yujun that a Martial Artist had crushed and eaten its eggs thirty-five years earlier, and it wanted to kill his entire Household.
• Bai Yujun offered the great snake a Thundercloud Bead that would shield it from high-level divine beast pressure for three days, allowing it to take revenge.
• The great snake chose to trade its memories, and Bai Yujun began the transaction by asking it to look into her eyes.

Bai Yujun gave the Black-striped Great Snake the Pearl that Seals Thunder Clouds and Lightning and urged it to seek revenge without harming innocents. She then left the mountaintop pavilion with Fat Orange and watched the snake hide in the woods outside town as rain clouds gathered.

• Bai Yujun placed the Pearl that Seals Thunder Clouds and Lightning in the Black-striped Great Snake's mouth and warned it not to harm innocent beings while taking revenge.
• The Black-striped Great Snake thanked Bai Yujun and slithered down the mountain after she told it that rain would help its revenge.
• Bai Yujun remembered the snakes that had saved her and picked up a Dusk Cloud Grey Paper Umbrella that had fallen from a shelf.
• Fat Orange carried Bai Yujun through the fog and across the countryside to Bamboo Peak beside the town.
• Bai Yujun spotted the Black-striped Great Snake hiding in the woods outside town as dark clouds gathered overhead.

Bai Yujun watched the Small World’s righteous cultivators struggle against forces eroding its order while the Black-striped Great Snake approached the grand residence where its enemies had set a trap. The snake reached the residence gates in a downpour, with the cultivators inside unaware of what would happen next.

• Bai Yujun observed the Small World’s fading order and considered whether its people could restore it before her empire intervened.
• Bai Yujun saw the great snake’s enemies waiting at the grand residence with cultivators they had invited to deal with it.
• The residence’s owner fawned over a purple-robed cultivator, who reassured him that the arriving snake was no threat.
• The purple-robed cultivator sensed that the snake had arrived as lightning and thunder startled everyone at the residence.
• The Black-striped Great Snake carried a pearl through the lotus pond and approached the residence gates in the heavy rain.

Bai Yujun and the fat tiger watched as the Black-striped Great Snake confronted Xiao Xiong’s household, but the snake’s bead summoned the overwhelming shadow of a Divine Bird and subdued everyone nearby. As the pressure faded, the snake entered the ruined mansion and faced Xiao Xiong, who struggled to protect his family.

• Bai Yujun and the fat tiger reached Xiao Xiong’s mansion and watched from its wall as the Black-striped Great Snake arrived in the rain.
• Xiao Xiong begged the middle-aged cultivator in purple to save his household, and the cultivator promised to kill the snake demon.
• The Black-striped Great Snake released a bead that summoned the colossal shadow of a Divine Bird, freezing the rain and pinning creatures across hundreds of li to the ground.
• After the pressure subsided, the Black-striped Great Snake crossed the ruined gate and told Xiao Xiong it still remembered his scent.
• Xiao Xiong struggled beneath a beam and raised his head to meet the snake’s scarlet eyes.

The Black-striped Great Snake avenged its lost child by killing Xiao Xiong’s sons, wife, and concubine while forcing him to confront the suffering he had inflicted on others. As the snake prepared to kill Xiao Xiong’s little granddaughter, Bai Yujun appeared and ordered it to stop.

• Xiao Xiong admitted his guilt and begged the Black-striped Great Snake to kill him instead of his family.
• When Xiao Xiong’s young son threatened the snake, it seized and fatally poisoned him, then killed Xiao Xiong’s eldest son.
• The Black-striped Great Snake crushed Xiao Xiong’s first wife, and Xiao Xiong realized that his victims had left behind grieving families just like his own.
• The snake killed Xiao Xiong’s favorite son and the boy’s mother, then moved to kill Xiao Xiong’s little granddaughter.
• Bai Yujun appeared on a collapsed roof ridge and stopped the Black-striped Great Snake just before its fangs reached the girl’s neck.

Bai Yujun ended the feud between the Black-striped Great Snake and Xiao Xiong by revealing that seven of the snake’s offspring were still alive and allowing it to take revenge on Xiao Xiong alone. She returned the snake to its mountain home with cultivation manuals and medicine, leaving it to grow strong enough to seek its children.

• Bai Yujun told the Black-striped Great Snake that seven of its offspring had survived after Xiao Xiong sold the Snake Eggs decades earlier.
• Xiao Xiong recalled selling nine or ten unusually hard Snake Eggs through an intermediary, but said the intermediary had died and he did not know where the offspring were.
• Bai Yujun summoned the ghosts and karmic spirits connected to Xiao Xiong and the Ziyi cultivator, then declared that everyone must bear the consequences of their actions.
• Bai Yujun allowed the Black-striped Great Snake to kill Xiao Xiong while sparing his remaining Household, ending the snake’s revenge.
• Bai Yujun led Fat Tiger and the Black-striped Great Snake back to the mountain, gave the snake cultivation manuals and medicinal pills, and departed.

Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger reached a blood-soaked market town and discovered its people were preparing a monthly sacrifice to the Blood God Ancestor. After Bai killed the boasting Blood God Ancestor and sent Fat Tiger to punish his followers, she found a mysterious stone fragment in his cave that seemed connected to someone acting across the River of Time.

• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger entered a market town where Blood Cultivators escorted hundreds of children toward a sacrificial ritual.
• The butcher told Bai Yujun that the children were offerings to the Blood God Ancestor, and she followed the procession to the ritual site.
• The Blood God Ancestor boasted about eating dragons, and Bai Yujun crushed him with an unseen force before ordering Fat Tiger to punish the other Blood Cultivators.
• Bai Yujun searched the Blood God Ancestor's cave and used Gaze into the Past to investigate why he had spoken about divine beasts and fierce beasts.
• Bai Yujun found a fragment resembling an inscribed stele in the blood pool, whose past she could not see, and sensed that someone had made arrangements across the River of Time.

Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger left the Blood Cultivators’ lair and traveled openly through the region toward a great city, where they sought a meal and information about a mysterious stone fragment. The chapter ended as they reached an upscale restaurant and were escorted to a private room on its highest floor.

• Fat Tiger finished dealing with the Blood Cultivators while Bai Yujun emerged from the underground cave and gave him a fragment of inscribed stone to keep.
• Bai Yujun praised Fat Tiger and told him to kill anyone who spoke disrespectfully, offering to send Heavenly Soldiers and Generals if he needed help.
• Fat Tiger carried Bai Yujun through the air, startling cultivators and sects as they crossed their territories without stopping.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger entered a great city by passing over its walls unnoticed, then landed and went in search of food and clues about the stone fragment.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger arrived at a luxurious lakeside restaurant, where a maidservant escorted them to a private room on the highest floor.

Bai Yujun dined at a restaurant while forcing Fat Head Cat to train inside her paper umbrella’s secret realm. The proprietor, Tu Yue, then asked Bai Yujun to save her poisoned mother, leaving Bai Yujun ruefully reflecting on how her General Store had become known as a medical pavilion.

• Bai Yujun ordered nearly every dish on the menu and seven hundred jin of fresh beast meat, then decided Fat Head Cat needed combat training.
• Bai Yujun sent Fat Head Cat into her paper umbrella’s secret realm, where the tiger faced increasingly powerful opponents modeled on foes Bai Yujun had fought.
• Bai Yujun feasted while Fat Head Cat battled through the secret realm, and the restaurant’s proprietor, Tu Yue, requested an audience.
• Tu Yue asked whether Bai Yujun was the Medical Immortal of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and pleaded for help treating her poisoned mother.
• Bai Yujun confirmed that the pavilion was her General Store and sighed that others had turned her into a medicine peddler.

Bai Yujun agreed to cure Tu Yue’s mother in exchange for a search for clues about a broken stone, then Fat Tiger emerged from the Paper Umbrella Secret Realm stronger after a month of training. She ordered Fat Tiger to train there daily until it could defeat a Tribulation Stage cultivator.

• Bai Yujun refused Tu Yue’s spiritual herb and offered to cure her mother if Tu Yue searched for the broken stone or clues to where it was found.
• Bai Yujun identified Tu Yue’s mother’s ailment as Gu poison and cured her with tea infused with dragon aura.
• Tu Yue recorded the broken stone’s image and promised to mobilize her connections to search for it in return for a fated item from the Myriad Realms General Store.
• Fat Tiger emerged from the Paper Umbrella Secret Realm after spending a month inside, battered but stronger, and its aura frightened the restaurant’s diners.
• Bai Yujun ordered Fat Tiger to enter the secret realm every day until it could defeat a Tribulation Stage cultivator, and promised even tougher opponents after they ascended.

Bai Yujun studied an ancient stone inscription, then searched the Snake Demon Army archives for clues about Dragon Court survivors and found accounts of lost ships, fallen dragons, surviving bloodlines, and a drifting fortress full of the dead. Deeply affected by the records, she left the tavern and settled on a mountain peak to meditate in her true body.

• Bai Yujun deciphered the stone fragment and concluded it likely recorded the history of a group connected to the Dragon Court rather than its enemies.
• Bai Yujun searched the Snake Demon Army archives and found records of a fallen ship, a dragon who died alone, descendants of Half-Dragon Demonic Beasts, and a deserted fortress carrying the coffins of its dead crew.
• Bai Yujun left the tavern after telling the little maid to send word through the fog if she found a clue, and Fat Tiger carried her away through the night.
• Bai Yujun chose a mountain peak beneath a blooming pear tree and returned her consciousness to her true body to meditate within the Solid Ice.

Bai Yujun decided to build a Dragon Palace-style Daoist Temple on the mountain and summoned nearby spirits and little demons to work on its foundation. After offering them pills, cultivation methods, and protection as wages, she put them to work while Fat Tiger guarded the area.

• Bai Yujun searched the nearby mountains, found no local spirits or monsters occupying the peak, and summoned more than fifty creatures to gather there.
• Bai Yujun raised the Black Bear spirit to the summit, gave every gathered creature spiritual energy, and offered a daily pill in exchange for helping build the foundation.
• The white-bearded old tree demon, the Bamboo Demon, the Flower Demon, the Little Hedgehog, and two snake demons chose to stay and work.
• Bai Yujun gave the little demons basic cultivation methods and task-specific knowledge for finding, cutting, carrying, and stacking stones, and assigned Fat Tiger to help.
• The little demons began work as Bai Yujun rested and reviewed Daoist scriptures, while Fat Tiger drove away nearby threats and the mountain cat cut foundation stones.

Bai Yujun rewarded the little demons, sent the fat tiger through a trial in her Paper Umbrella Secret Realm, and returned with it to the General Store Pavilion. She caught the store’s objects and the pavilion itself partying in her absence, stopped the commotion, and went to bed.

• Bai Yujun gave the little demons their pills, and they chose to cultivate on the platform overnight.
• Bai Yujun sent the fat tiger into the Paper Umbrella Secret Realm for a month-long trial, then released it exhausted.
• Bai Yujun made an avatar and led the fat tiger through the fog to the General Store Pavilion.
• Bai Yujun found the pavilion and its animated store objects rocking and making noise, then burst in and shouted at them.
• The store objects rushed back into place, and Bai Yujun went upstairs to bed while the fat tiger guarded the entrance.

Bai Yujun’s General Store received Ku Cai Feng, a gaunt tailor whose unusual eyes were hurt when he tried to measure her. After Bai Yujun healed him and invited him to browse, he found an item that stirred his lifeless gaze.

• Bai Yujun dismissed a dishonest customer who had tried to trade worthless goods under false pretenses.
• Tu Yue launched a widespread search for mysterious stone fragments, mobilizing ordinary people and offering rewards to local clans.
• Ku Cai Feng arrived at the General Store and tried to leave until Fat Tiger forced him inside.
• Ku Cai Feng offered to tailor a dress for Bai Yujun, but his rare eyes were injured when he tried to determine her measurements.
• Bai Yujun healed Ku Cai Feng and told him to choose an item from the shelves; while browsing, he found one that caught his attention.

Bai Yujun sold Ku Cai Feng a Tiger Whisker Needle in exchange for viewing his memories, allowing him to mend his family’s corpses and lay decades of grief to rest. After Ku Cai Feng left the General Store with renewed purpose, Bai Yujun served a plant demon who traded an artifact-refining material for a cultivation technique.

• Bai Yujun recommended the Tiger Whisker Needle to Ku Cai Feng and offered him a trade for his most cherished treasure or memories.
• Ku Cai Feng exchanged his memories and relived how an evil cultivator had killed his family, leading him to spend decades stitching corpses.
• Ku Cai Feng used the Tiger Whisker Needle to mend his family’s bodies, saw them appear peaceful, and finally released his grief.
• Bai Yujun refused Ku Cai Feng’s offer to return the needle and encouraged him to keep doing good deeds; he left the General Store with renewed resolve.
• A Nine-Death Returning Soul Grass arrived and exchanged a piece of artifact-refining material for a cultivation technique suited to plants.

Old Man Yu recovered a glowing stone fragment and traded it to Tu Yue for land, houses, and oxen rather than gold. After studying the fragment, Tu Yue followed a fog-shrouded path to the mountain pavilion to report to the Mysterious Girl.

• Old Man Yu revealed the hidden fragment to his son and daughter-in-law, then decided to exchange it with the Tu Family for a safer provision for his household.
• Old Man Yu brought Tu Yue the fragment, and she agreed to move his family to Tu Family Territory and provide land, houses, and three plow oxen.
• Tu Yue recognized the fragment’s glowing writing as the character “fall” but could not decipher the rest.
• When thick fog appeared outside the Rooftop Terrace, Tu Yue followed the stone stairway into the mountains carrying the fragment.
• Tu Yue reached the pavilion with Fat Tiger and entered the hall to meet the Mysterious Girl.

Bai Yujun used Tu Yue’s account of a mountain flood to narrow down where more stone tablet fragments might be found, then ordered a careful search. Tu Yue received a pill that greatly improved her cultivation aptitude, while Bai Yujun left the pavilion for the Dragon Palace’s new site.

• Bai Yujun studied the two stone fragments but could not reconstruct the tablet without more of its writing.
• Tu Yue traded land, houses, and a plow ox for a pill that improved cultivation aptitude, then told Bai Yujun how the fragments had been found at Barren Stone Beach after a mountain flood.
• Bai Yujun projected the surrounding terrain and reversed the flood’s effects, determining that the fragments likely came from the mountains upstream of Barren Stone Beach.
• Bai Yujun instructed Tu Yue to organize a gradual search for more fragments and forbade her from forcibly taking land or harming residents.
• Tu Yue left with the pill, swallowed it in a secret chamber, and discovered that her meridians and ability to absorb spiritual energy had improved.
• Bai Yujun warned the pavilion and its goods not to cause trouble, then rode Fat Tiger to the Dragon Palace’s new site.

Bai Yujun completed the Dragon Palace, filled its mountain with hidden secret realms, and organized the demons who stayed to serve there. Meanwhile, Tu Yue began searching Barren Stone Beach for Stone Tablet Fragments, drawing workers and rival households to the area as Old Man Yu’s family moved away.

• Bai Yujun transformed the mountain into the Dragon Palace, installed a White Dragon Idol, and recruited the local demons to work and cultivate there.
• Bai Yujun created numerous secret realms throughout the Dragon Palace, with the demons sometimes stumbling into them and returning with spirit medicines.
• Tu Yue bought Barren Stone Beach and hired workers, martial artists, and cultivators to search for Stone Tablet Fragments.
• Other households learned of Tu Yue’s search and sent their own people to Barren Stone Beach to seek a share of the discoveries.
• Old Man Yu’s household packed their belongings and left their village for a new home.

Bai Yujun sent the fat tiger to deliver a Lotus Lantern to Tu Yue as payment for organizing the excavation at Barren Stone Beach. The treasure bonded with Tu Yue, while the fat tiger returned to the mountain and was pulled into another combat trial.

• Bai Yujun gave the fat tiger a Lotus Lantern for Tu Yue and ordered him to protect her excavation work.
• Tu Yue faced criticism from Tu Lineage Clan Elders who wanted access to the mysterious Great Cultivator.
• The fat tiger arrived at Barren Stone Beach, delivered the Lotus Lantern to Tu Yue, and pinned a Clan Elder who reached for it before releasing him at Tu Yue’s request.
• The Lotus Lantern bonded with Tu Yue as a pink lotus tattoo and protected her Divine Soul, while the fat tiger flew back to the mountain.
• A paper umbrella pulled the fat tiger into the secret realm for another combat trial, and Bai Yujun later led the little demons in offering incense and listening to Daoist scriptures.