Chapter Summaries

Tu Yue oversaw the search at Barren Stone Beach and found that the Lotus Lantern was warning of danger buried beneath the soil. The Tu family uncovered a gigantic skull, and Tu Yue sealed off the area while the lantern dispelled its ominous aura.

• A laborer unearthed a carved tombstone, and Tu Yue ordered the workers to excavate outward along the black-soil layer.
• Bai Yujun spent a quiet day at Dragon Palace, where she discovered that a waterfall’s mist had formed a small secret realm.
• Tu Yue’s cultivation broke through, while the Lotus Lantern repeatedly warned her about something buried at Barren Stone Beach.
• A laborer struck a pitch-black object, and its strange metallic sound made nearby workers dizzy and nauseated.
• Tu Yue arrived with the Lotus Lantern, drove away the ominous aura, and ordered the area sealed off.
• The Tu family cultivators excavated the object and revealed a monstrous skull as large as a house.

Bai Yujun examined an ancient Demonic Beast skull unearthed at Barren Stone Beach, discovered signs of a hidden secret in the Majestic Mountains, and went to investigate. Her search stopped when she smelled Scallion Pancakes and approached a group of Rogue Cultivators cooking in the mountains.

• Tu Yue explained the black bone’s discovery, and Bai Yujun identified it as the remains of a Demonic Beast that had died at least a trillion years earlier.
• Bai Yujun viewed the skull’s past, connected it to the ancient demon race and the Black Water Sarcophagus, then compressed and purified it into a silver sphere.
• Bai Yujun asked Tu Yue about the Majestic Mountains, then vanished to search them for the secret she suspected was hidden there.
• Bai Yujun crossed the mountains while low-level cultivators and Martial Artists camped nearby, then abandoned her search after catching the scent of Scallion Pancakes.
• Bai Yujun approached five Rogue Cultivators gathered around a campfire and urgently told Sister Wu to flip the pancakes before they burned.

Bai Yujun shared a Scallion Pancake with a group of cultivators and gave the female cultivator surnamed Wu a cultivation manual in exchange. After learning the mountains held no obvious clues about the stone stele, Bai Yujun resumed searching the region for the black skull and its secret realm.

• A four-eyed Green Wolf emerged from the grass, but Bai Yujun frightened it away with a glance.
• Bai Yujun gave the female cultivator surnamed Wu a cultivation manual as payment for the Scallion Pancake, and Wu absorbed it into her mind.
• The older male cultivator told Bai Yujun that his group had spent over half a month searching for stone stele fragments under the Tu Household's bounty without finding anything unusual.
• Wu thanked Bai Yujun and discovered that the manual had revived her Qi and Blood and renewed her hope for cultivation.
• Bai Yujun used detection spells to scan the mountains, sky, and ground for clues to the black skull and possible secret realm.

Bai Yujun searched Cold Mountain for a sealed hidden realm by scattering crude realms, accidentally sweeping people into them along the way. She finally located the hidden realm and began uncovering it, while Fat Tiger feared the opponent Bai had chosen for his final trial.

• Bai Yujun told Fat Tiger to choose one of four opponents and endure ten moves to pass his final trial.
• Bai Yujun scattered crude hidden realms across the mountains to detect an anomaly, sending several bounty-seekers into strange pocket realms.
• Bai Yujun pinpointed a hidden realm on a hillside, while Fat Tiger mistakenly ended up choosing Gan Wu of Purple Void instead of Old Monk Huixian.
• Bai Yujun analyzed the hillside, used powdered materials to reveal the hidden realm's outline, and ordered Fat Tiger to dig carefully for a stone.

Bai Yujun discovered that the buried carving was the base for a missing stone stele, leaving the secret realm inaccessible until its fragments were found. She returned to Barren Stone Beach, promised to help the Tu family, and astonished them by refining three high-grade Nascent Soul Condensing Pills.

• Bai Yujun identified the carving as a stone stele base and resolved to prioritize finding the missing stele fragments.
• Bai Yujun returned to Barren Stone Beach and told Tu Yue that she had caused the events in the mountains, then urged the Tu family to continue excavating.
• Tu Yue asked Bai Yujun to refine a Nascent Soul Condensing Pill for a Golden Core Stage clansman, and Bai Yujun agreed to refine as many as their materials allowed.
• Bai Yujun refined the herbs without a pill furnace and produced three Nascent Soul Condensing Pills, which the Tu family verified as exceptionally high-grade.

Bai Yujun made pills for the Tu family, relocated her General Store to the Dragon Palace mountain, and sent Fat Head Tiger through a month of punishing trials. After days of rain, news arrived that Stone Tablet Fragments had been unearthed at Barren Stone Beach.

• Bai Yujun refined batches of Nascent Soul Condensing Pills and gave Tu Yue a Spirit Transformation Pill, then instructed her to deliver any excavated Stone Tablet Fragments.
• Bai Yujun moved the General Store from the Mountain Peak to a hill near the Dragon Palace’s main hall.
• Fat Head Tiger entered the paper umbrella’s trial and repeatedly fought Gan Wu at Chunyang Palace on Mount Hua, getting defeated each time.
• After one month, Fat Head Tiger emerged from the trial battered and exhausted.
• Following three days of heavy rain, Bai Yujun received news that Stone Tablet Fragments had been unearthed at Barren Stone Beach.

Tu Yue brought a Stone Tablet Fragment to Bai Yujun, who instructed her to spread news about the fragments and then sold a rocket launcher to a youth seeking revenge on the bandits who destroyed his village. After the transactions, Bai Yujun assembled the fragment and found an inscription suggesting an ancient ferocious beast might still be alive.

• Tu Yue entered the mist with the Stone Tablet Fragment and followed a Little Hedgehog through the Dragon Gate to Bai Yujun's General Store.
• Tu Yue warned Bai Yujun that outside sect forces and the City Lord's Manor's backers were investigating Barren Stone Beach, and Bai Yujun told her to spread limited information to draw out other fragment holders.
• Fat Tiger brought a poor youth to the store, where the youth asked Bai Yujun for the power to kill the bandits who had slaughtered his village.
• Bai Yujun examined the youth's memories and gave him a rocket launcher, explaining how to use it against the bandit lair.
• Bai Yujun pieced together the Stone Tablet Fragments and concluded that an ancient ferocious beast might not have died easily.

Bai Yujun sent Tu Yue to bring a low-level female cultivator with ties to the Dragon Palace to the mountain, while a poor boy used a rocket launcher to avenge his murdered family. Tu Yue punished Tu family members who tried to seize the female cultivator’s fox and escorted her away to meet Bai Yujun.

• Bai Yujun told Tu Yue that a female cultivator would clash with Tu family members in the city and ordered her to bring the woman to the mountain.
• Tu Yue toured the mountain, accidentally entered a water-filled secret realm, and later returned to the city to search for the woman.
• A poor boy climbed above his burned village and fired a rocket launcher at the bandits who had murdered his family, destroying them and the village.
• Tu Yue found Tu family guards and two young masters attempting to take a female cultivator’s fox, then ordered them to receive punishment at the Enforcement Hall.
• Tu Yue invited the female cultivator to meet Bai Yujun, and the woman gathered her stall goods before boarding Tu Yue’s flying boat.

Bai Yujun welcomed the first cultivator of the Chunyang Art, Cheng Su, into the Dragon Palace to study the Dao and gave her a Daoist name and a powerful jade pendant. Cheng Su settled into her new home and began cultivating, while Bai Yujun warned that her plans would soon need to move forward.

• Tu Yue departed, and the Golden-furred Black-striped Tiger led the female cultivator and her fox through the Dragon Palace to Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun invited the female cultivator to remain and study the Dao, and she accepted.
• Bai Yujun named her Cheng Su and gave her a jade pendant with powerful abilities and an inner space.
• Bai Yujun told Cheng Su to learn the basics from Flower Demon and Bamboo Demon, then study at her side after a month.
• Cheng Su received clothing and supplies from Old Tree Demon, moved into a house near the divine hall, and began cultivating.

After the Holy Dynasty and Snake Demon Army agreed to a truce, Feng Ying and Yu prepared to leave the village and continue toward Sky Pillar Peak. They said goodbye to the boy they had guided, who gave them food for the road, while a Flood Dragon watched them depart.

• Feng Ying watched the boy bring back battlefield spoils and reflected on the dangerous fate awaiting him.
• Yu announced that the Holy Dynasty and Snake Demon Army had called a truce, and Feng Ying and Yu decided to resume their journey.
• Feng Ying advised the boy to remember the village and stay true to himself, while Yu teased him and Feng Ying encouraged him to protect the villagers.
• Feng Ying and Yu packed their belongings as the boy secretly went scavenging beyond the village, and a Flood Dragon watched the women from Cloud Ridge.
• The boy caught up with Feng Ying and Yu at the village pond, gave them food for their journey, and waved goodbye as they set off toward Sky Pillar Peak.

Mu Duo watched the Snake Demon Army defeat an immortal-domain fleet near Sky Pillar Mountain and reflected on the failing formations restraining Bai Yujun. She climbed the mountain to a village Small Temple, where a reflection in its rain-filled incense bowl caught her attention.

• A great butterfly made creatures and immortals dance as it flew through the mist around Sky Pillar Mountain.
• The Snake Demon Army ambushed the immortal-domain fleet, controlled the battle, and forced the surviving ships to retreat.
• Mu Duo realized the layered sealing formations were weakening and that the Setting Sun, not the formations, truly restrained Bai Yujun.
• The Snake Demon Army withdrew through Light Pillars, and Mu Duo rode the butterfly higher up Sky Pillar Mountain using a Jiuli secret technique.
• Mu Duo reached a dilapidated Small Temple in a remote village and noticed that the moss reflected in its rain-filled bowl resembled a mountain peak.

Mu Duo followed a dragon-shaped cloud across Sky Pillar Mountain to find Bai Yujun, reflecting on the chaos in the world and Bai Yujun’s efforts to preserve order. She reached a hidden crack in the mountain and entered to visit Bai Yujun, who remained trapped inside.

• Mu Duo saw a dragon-shaped cloud point toward a peak on Sky Pillar Mountain and flew after it.
• As she climbed, Mu Duo thought about the disorder caused by the Heavenly Court Incident and understood why Bai Yujun had founded an empire.
• Mu Duo found the peak from her porcelain bowl and sensed a concentration of dragon aura there.
• Bai Yujun spoke to Mu Duo, assured her that hidden watchers could not spy on them, and invited her inside.
• Mu Duo entered a narrow crack in the rock and continued through the freezing passage toward Bai Yujun.

Mu Duo reached the heart of Sky Pillar Mountain and found Bai Yujun sealed inside supreme yin ice, where they spoke despite Bai’s immobility. Bai revealed that she had swallowed the Great Sun Star and was balancing its True Sun Flame with Taiyin cold aura; the ice cave continued to crack around them.

• Mu Duo flew through the increasingly freezing caverns of Sky Pillar Mountain, where Taiyin ice replaced the ore and her Spiritual Sense was suppressed.
• Mu Duo found Bai Yujun frozen inside a clear ice wall and heard her speak, learning that Saints were watching Mu Duo and several others.
• Mu Duo touched the ice and suffered frostbite before Bai explained that her Taiyin cold aura was balancing the True Sun Flame inside her.
• Mu Duo reacted with alarm when Bai revealed she had swallowed the Great Sun Star, then advised her to chew more carefully next time.
• Bai described the sun as a hot, round morsel she had slowly absorbed, while cracks spread through the surrounding ice and a chunk fell and shattered nearby.

Mu Duo visited Bai Yujun, who remained trapped in ice while using Taiyin chill to balance the heat of the sun she had eaten. They shared memories and discussed Bai Yujun’s emerging flood-dragon avatars before Mu Duo was forced to leave; Bai Yujun remained frozen alone in the Ice Cave.

• Mu Duo endured the Ice Cave’s cold and chatted with Bai Yujun, who apologized and joked about sharing street food once she escaped.
• Bai Yujun and Mu Duo reminisced about their travels and imagined future adventures, including digging up Old Man Yuan’s grave.
• Mu Duo told Bai Yujun that one of her flood-dragon avatars lived in the Jiuli region and asked whether Bai Yujun meant to restore the dragon race.
• Bai Yujun said she did not know her original purpose and asked Mu Duo to help the new flood dragon live safely.
• As the cold overwhelmed Mu Duo’s protections, Bai Yujun urged her to leave, and Mu Duo flew out of the Ice Cave.
• After Mu Duo departed, the cave fell silent as the ice around Bai Yujun gradually thinned into frost and divine iron ore.

Mu Duo met Qing Shao, the East Sea Dragon King, who revealed that the Four Seas were under attack by evil demons and that the Dragon Kings had dreamed of returning to the Dragon Court. Mu Duo directed him to seek the Snake Demon Army’s help at the South Heavenly Gate and join its cause.

• Mu Duo sensed a dragon approaching through the rain clouds and recognized him as a powerful dragon, likely the East Sea Dragon King.
• Qing Shao arrived and told Mu Duo that evil demons were using black water to devour sea life, while the Four Dragon Kings struggled to defend the Four Seas.
• Qing Shao said the four Dragon Kings had shared a dream summoning them back to the Dragon Court, and he had come to contact its trapped ruler on Sky Pillar Mountain.
• Mu Duo explained that Bai Yujun envisioned a Heavenly Court for all living things, and Qing Shao affirmed the Dragon Kings’ support for her reforms.
• Mu Duo advised Qing Shao to seek the Snake Demon Army at the South Heavenly Gate, help resolve the Four Seas crisis, and join the effort to establish a new Heavenly Court.

Mu Duo traveled through the Heavenly Court’s Immortal Bridge and the Divine Dragon Realm, where she searched for the monkey and Little Phoenix. She found them beating a young man over his comic’s stopped updates, then joined them on their way to the night market.

• Mu Duo used the Immortal Bridge to reach the South Heavenly Gate and learned that the monkey and Little Phoenix might be in the Divine Dragon Realm.
• Mu Duo passed through the Sky-Connecting Divine Bridge and registered her arrival in the Divine Dragon Realm.
• Mu Duo learned from the records that the monkey and the Phoenix God had arrived two days earlier and had not left.
• Mu Duo flew over the bustling city and found the monkey and Little Phoenix pinning down a young man whose comic had stopped updating.
• The monkey and Little Phoenix finished with the young man, then invited Mu Duo to join them for wine and grilled meat at the night market.

Mu Duo spent an evening at the Divine Dragon Realm’s night market with the monkey and Little Phoenix, reflecting on the Snake Demon Empire’s peaceful prosperity and Bai Yujun’s growing power. The monkey explained how Bai had saved Zhen Bei from a demonic invasion and said Zhen Bei would soon arrive, while Bai remained trapped by a formation at Sky Pillar Mountain.

• The monkey and Little Phoenix appeared in a news report as suspects in a violent crime, and they celebrated their brief television fame while Mu Duo tried to ignore them.
• Mu Duo compared the night market’s peaceful mix of humans and demons with the warfare and exploitation beyond the Divine Dragon Realm, and concluded that destiny favored Bai Yujun.
• Mu Duo asked when the Military God Zhen Bei would reach the Immortal Realm, and the monkey recounted how Zhen Bei summoned Bai to help him face a Demon Realm invasion on Earth.
• The monkey explained that Bai defeated the invaders but sent Zhen Bei to another world to continue his tribulations, and said Zhen Bei would soon arrive as a formidable combatant.
• The monkey lamented that Bai was still trapped by a formation at Sky Pillar Mountain, and Mu Duo reacted to his teasing remarks about her appearance.

Mu Duo, the monkey, and Little Phoenix spent the night by the river, where Little Phoenix’s prank made a crowd dance uncontrollably. As Mu Duo revealed that Saints were secretly influencing events, the monkey broke through his bottleneck and concluded that Bai Yujun’s eventual escape would expose their schemes.

• The monkey joked about his salary and repeated a money-making lesson he had learned from White Dragon while the companions walked along the riverbank.
• Little Phoenix deliberately sent the great butterfly’s pollen into a crowd, causing dozens of people and demons to dance until the patrol soldiers arrived.
• While skipping stones and resting by the river, Mu Duo asked the monkey whether ordinary things might be guiding their thoughts, and he recognized the possibility.
• Mu Duo told the monkey that Saints beyond an Immortal Lord’s realm were manipulating events and would hesitate to enter the great tribulation.
• The monkey became excited, broke through his bottleneck, and reasoned that Bai Yujun’s escape would force the Saints to reveal a flaw.

Bai Yujun inspected temples across the world, destroyed suspiciously accumulated incense and faith power, then taught Cheng Su deity-summoning talismans. Cheng Su contacted a Chunyang immortal who acknowledged her as an inheritor and passed down a legacy, while Bai Yujun sent her to retrieve an artifact from Barren Stone Beach.

• Bai Yujun examined countless temples, found a vast and suspicious store of incense and faith power, and ground it into primordial energy to replenish heaven and earth.
• Bai Yujun returned to the Dragon Palace and taught Cheng Su how to use incense and draw a Deity Summoning Talisman.
• Cheng Su's incense reached a female immortal at Chunyang Palace, who recognized the White Dragon Idol's connection to a senior and acknowledged Cheng Su as a Chunyang inheritor.
• The female immortal passed scriptures and cultivation experience to Cheng Su and arranged for lower-ranked disciples to help her draw talismans.
• Cheng Su used the connection to complete a Deity Summoning Talisman and thanked Bai Yujun, who instructed her to retrieve what the Tu family had unearthed at Barren Stone Beach.

Cheng Su descended from the Dragon Palace to retrieve a stone from Barren Stone Beach, while growing uneasy about the Palace Master's intentions and the dangers surrounding her journey. On her way back, a mysterious old man noticed her unusual cultivation aura beneath the village's Old Scholar Tree.

• Cheng Su left the Dragon Palace with the little fox and used Divine Movement Talismans to travel toward Barren Stone Beach.
• After hearing rumors about the Dragon Palace's mysterious shop, Cheng Su worried that she might be cultivation fodder, but continued toward her destination.
• At Barren Stone Beach, Cheng Su met Tu Yue and collected the covered stone, which her jade pendant drew into its storage space.
• Tu Yue warned Cheng Su that Barren Stone Beach had become dangerous, leaving Cheng Su to suspect she had been sent as bait and to hurry back in distress.
• Cheng Su stopped to rest beneath the Old Scholar Tree, where an old man arrived for water and noticed her pure, unfamiliar spiritual energy.