Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun sent the ghost away, then ordered Fat Tiger to capture anyone causing trouble near Barren Stone Beach. Cheng Su faced a probing elder beneath a village tree and prepared to summon help while pretending to exchange cultivation techniques.

• Bai Yujun discarded the ghost's gold, joined Fat Tiger, and told him to imprison any human or demon who caused trouble for three hundred years.
• Cheng Su told the elder she was temporarily cultivating at Dragon Palace and used stones to divine her fortune.
• Cheng Su saw a bee escape a spiderweb when a gust of wind tore the web, and took it as a sign that she might survive the danger.
• The elder invited Cheng Su to exchange cultivation techniques, hoping to learn more about her and the tiger demon rumored to guard Barren Stone Beach.
• Cheng Su agreed to discuss cultivation while secretly gripping a Deity Summoning Talisman in her sleeve.

After learning that talented young cultivators were secretly harvested for spirit medicine, Cheng Su hurried back toward the Dragon Palace and was pursued by multiple attackers. She reached the ancient stone archway exhausted, having used her last Deity Summoning Talisman and gained enlightenment during the flight, while the elder’s voice appeared near the hidden sect.

• An elder told Cheng Su that many gifted cultivators were cultivated and then refined into spirit medicine for powerful experts, and she understood why the Palace Master had sent her down the mountain.
• Cheng Su left the village and concealed her trail, but an attacker ambushed her in a valley, so she summoned an immortal’s divided spirit with a Deity Summoning Talisman and fled.
• As more cultivators pursued her, Cheng Su used additional Deity Summoning Talismans to hold them off and raced toward the mountain where the Dragon Palace stood.
• After fleeing through the night, Cheng Su used her last Deity Summoning Talisman and had the enlarged little fox carry her, while her exhausted flight brought her a clearer state of mind.
• Cheng Su and the fox reached the ancient stone archway, where they heard the elder’s voice nearby, while Little Hedgehog examined the Cloud Stone Pillar.

Cheng Su returned to the Dragon Palace with a stone fragment while the old man became trapped in the mountain gate’s secret realm. Bai Yujun ordered Fat Cat to imprison him in a barren realm for three hundred years, then continued repairing the damaged stone stele.

• The old man tried to escape the Golden Cloud Layer but discovered that every route returned him to his original position and that his spiritual power was running out.
• Little Hedgehog summoned minor demons beneath the mountain gate and cleaned Cheng Su’s shoes and the little fox’s paws as they passed through.
• Cheng Su gave Bai Yujun the stone fragment, and Bai Yujun praised her steadiness before sending her to rest and practice drawing talismans.
• Bai Yujun ordered Fat Cat to remove the old man from the mountain gate’s secret realm and imprison him in a barren realm for three hundred years.
• Fat Cat activated the mountain gate’s restriction, seized the restrained old man, and sent him to a desolate wilderness with thin spiritual energy.
• Bai Yujun fitted Cheng Su’s fragment into the damaged stele and calculated that two more pieces would let her activate it.

Bai Yujun restored the stone tablet’s inscription and set out with Fat Tiger for Barren Stone Beach to find more fragments. On the way, she delighted in a thunderstorm and nearly grasped an elusive spark of enlightenment.

• Bai Yujun used dragon energy to restore the damaged Golden Text characters on the stone tablet, repairing its cracks as night fell.
• Fat Tiger passed the Paper Umbrella Secret Realm trial, but the sword immortal’s promise to guide it after ascension made it dread reaching the Immortal Realm.
• Bai Yujun praised Fat Tiger, healed its injuries, and told it to prepare for a long trip to Barren Stone Beach.
• Bai Yujun packed the stone tablet and fruit, then rode Fat Tiger away from the Dragon Palace to seek two more fragments.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger crossed a rainstorm, where Bai Yujun enjoyed the weather and nearly entered enlightenment.

Bai Yujun prepared Medicinal Frost for the excavation laborers and told the Tu Lineage that everyone could enter the ancient secret realm if the stone stele opened it. The laborers uncovered a fragment of the stele, and Bai Yujun rested beneath a peach tree she had grown from a pit.

• Fat Tiger carried Bai Yujun to Barren Stone Beach, where she wrote and sketched through the night before pulling a Four-legged Cauldron of Black Metal from her sack.
• Bai Yujun brewed Medicinal Frost in the cauldron and ordered Tu Yue to give one spoonful to each laborer, saying it would restore their strength and help them find something before sunset.
• Bai Yujun told the Tu Lineage that everyone could enter the ancient secret realm if the stone stele opened it, though entering could bring fortune or disaster.
• Bai Yujun planted a peach pit and used a spell to grow it into a large tree, then climbed into its branches to sleep while Fat Tiger rested below.
• Tu Yue's people distributed the Medicinal Frost, and the strengthened laborers excavated at three times their usual speed.
• That afternoon, the laborers found a stone stele fragment marked with golden runes.

Bai Yujun trapped seven powerful intruders in a Space Formation when they threatened the laborers excavating the pit. She offered to spare their lives in exchange for their most precious treasures, then began choosing her first target as the group struggled to escape.

• Tu Yue chose to keep the Tu Lineage with Bai Yujun and quietly told its members to carry on as usual as seven powerful humans and demons approached.
• One of the intruders attacked the laborers, and Bai Yujun called his cruelty childish.
• Bai Yujun’s Space Formation trapped the seven intruders and cut them off from the outside world; a cultivator identified the peach tree as its core.
• Bai Yujun demanded the seven redeem their lives with their three most precious treasures, while laborers unearthed a larger Stone Tablet Fragment.
• When the intruders pursued Bai Yujun’s cloud-borne double, they found themselves unable to move closer, and Bai Yujun pointed past the nearest fiend toward the gloomy-faced human elder.

Bai Yujun recovered the final large Stone Tablet Fragment, subdued the intruders, and completed the tablet. She ended the excavation at Barren Stone Beach and prepared to open the ancient secret realm, asking Tu Yue to join her afterward.

• Bai Yujun summoned four snake demon soldiers to stop the seven guests’ followers and imprisoned the intruders in temporary secret realms.
• Bai Yujun had the Tu family wash the newly excavated Stone Tablet Fragment, then carried it back to the peach tree.
• Bai Yujun forced the seven guests to promise all their wealth as ransom before releasing them, and they fled without helping their injured disciples.
• Bai Yujun fitted the fragment into the tablet, joined its Golden Text, and told Tu Yue to end the excavation and pay the workers.
• Bai Yujun warned Tu Yue that she would open the ancient secret realm in half an hour and asked her to settle family affairs before meeting her in the mountains.

Bai Yujun opened the ancient stone tablet as a teleportation gate and led the Tu family into a remote Small World. There, she found relics that let her glimpse a powerful, blurry figure from the past, then warned the others before leaving to explore.

• Bai Yujun restored the stone tablet’s position, set up eight Deity Summoning Talismans, and pushed the blank stone portion open.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger passed through the Golden Text, and Tu Yue and the Tu family followed them into a gloomy world of forests and mountains.
• Bai Yujun used a petrified Demonic Beast as an anchor to trace its past and recovered a two-foot arrowhead from its remains.
• Bai Yujun realized the valley’s formation and stone tablet had formed a teleportation gate, and that the Small World’s creator remained blurry despite the clues she found.
• Bai Yujun warned Tu Yue and the others about lingering demonic qi and remnant souls, then left with Fat Tiger to explore the fog-shrouded world.

Bai Yujun explored the fog-covered Small World, using silver butterflies to scout its dangerous terrain and uncovering the fate of the Gods and Devils who had pursued the Dragon Court. She continued searching for the powerful being that had created the place, confident she could escape or summon help if danger arose.

• Bai Yujun failed to pierce the clouds with True Sight and noticed that the forest had no rivers despite its abundant moisture.
• She transformed insect eggs into silver butterflies and sent them ahead to scout for traps and ambushes.
• Bai Yujun mapped the misty terrain as she and Fat Tiger explored, collecting well-preserved weapons and armor along the way.
• She touched a moss-covered divine skeleton and saw that Gods and Devils had overwhelmed a dragon before a powerful being swept them away as food.
• Bai Yujun sensed no immediate danger, prepared a Deity Summoning Talisman, and continued searching among the divine remains.

Bai Yujun discovered a mountain-sized, hallucinogenic mushroom growing above a corpse-filled valley, captured it in a Crystal Bottle, and had Fat Tiger dig into the exposed pit. Metal clanged underground, and Bai Yujun flew into the hole to investigate.

• Bai Yujun spotted a giant mushroom whose spores created rainbow light and warned Fat Tiger to avoid breathing them in.
• Bai Yujun saw that the valley was filled with corpses and bones, and noticed that her silver butterflies were being drawn toward the mushroom by its hallucinogenic spores.
• Bai Yujun lifted the mushroom and the surrounding valley, compressed the space, and stored the mushroom in a Crystal Bottle.
• Bai Yujun sent Fat Tiger into the pit to dig while she refined a silver butterfly into oversized wings attached to her clothes.
• Fat Tiger struck something underground with a metallic clang, and Bai Yujun flew down the hole to investigate.

Bai Yujun found a living Ancient Creature buried beneath the valley and tried to wake it with a powerful hammer strike and Fat Tiger’s roar. Neither worked, leaving the creature’s identity and strength unknown as Bai considered summoning Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.

• Bai Yujun realized that the hard substance beneath the shaft was a living Fierce Beast and stopped Fat Tiger from digging further.
• Bai Yujun decided to wake the sleeping Ancient Creature and struck the ground with the Gavel of Finality, causing the shaft to collapse without stirring it.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger escaped the collapsing earth, and Bai concluded that physical force had failed to awaken the creature.
• Bai Yujun had Fat Tiger roar from the mountaintop to provoke the creature, but the valley showed no reaction.
• Bai Yujun chose to avoid revealing her own power and considered using a Deity Summoning Talisman to call Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.

Bai Yujun used a formation of talismans to summon a powerful Snake Demon Army heavenly general and strike the Ancient Creature sleeping beneath the valley. The creature awoke and began upheaving the landscape, leaving Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger at a distance as she tried to assess its size and nature.

• Bai Yujun arranged seventy-two Deity Summoning Talismans around a Heavenly General Talisman, and Fat Tiger supplied spiritual energy to activate the formation.
• The talismans forged a thirty-foot-tall, partly illusory female Snake Demon Army heavenly general, who plunged her sheathed saber into the valley.
• The strike blasted a deep pit and raised a mushroom cloud, while its shockwave battered distant mountains and injured a Tu family cultivator.
• Bai Yujun realized the sleeping Ancient Creature might be far larger than the valley, and the ground began trembling as it stirred.
• Miasma and violent winds erupted from openings in the earth as mountains collapsed and the landscape shifted; Bai Yujun teleported away with Fat Tiger twice.
• Bai Yujun estimated the underground creature resembled but was not part of the dragon race, and stayed cautious as she waited to see its true form.

Bai Yujun discovered that the foggy world lay underground and confronted a colossal Six-Winged Strange Snake awakening from a sleep of hundreds of millions of years. After she forced it awake and learned of its former ties to Dragon Court, the snake questioned her about the Dragon Court’s fate, while Bai Yujun remained wary of it.

• Bai Yujun realized that solid earth lay above the gray clouds and that she and her companions had been transported into an underground world.
• The Six-Winged Strange Snake awoke, rose from beneath the earth, and fixed its crimson eyes on Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun blocked the snake’s spiritual pressure and manifested a hundred-zhang dragon soul before forcibly Gazing into the Past to awaken its mind.
• The snake regained its wisdom, recognized Bai Yujun’s dragon aura, and asked about Dragon Court, the Heavenly Court, and the traitor Xiao.
• Bai Yujun told the snake that she was probably the Emperor and Empress’s daughter, described her wanderings, and kept her guard up despite its former service to Dragon Court.

Bai Yujun fought the Six-Winged Strange Snake with her hundred-zhang dragon soul after the snake revealed its greed and attacked her. The battle continued as Bai Yujun threw a Paper Talisman at her opponent, while a monkey near the South Heavenly Gate reacted to the starry sky.

• Bai Yujun sensed the Six-Winged Strange Snake's intent to kill her and took up an enlarged immortal heavy saber.
• The Six-Winged Strange Snake vanished to prepare a sneak attack, but Bai Yujun tracked her with True Sight.
• Bai Yujun destroyed the snake's flaming illusion with a saber strike and countered her true body's ambush.
• Bai Yujun dodged the Poisonous Thorn and struck the Six-Winged Strange Snake's face with the heavy saber, shocking her with lightning.
• Bai Yujun threw a Paper Talisman at the Six-Winged Strange Snake as their battle continued, while a monkey outside the South Heavenly Gate looked up and cried out.

Bai Yujun, the monkey, and Little Phoenix overwhelmed the Six-Winged Strange Snake before stopping to question it. The snake revealed that many ancient divine and ferocious beasts still survived, including groups in Kunlun Ruins and the Heavenly Prison.

• Bai Yujun summoned the monkey, whose spirit projection joined her fight against the Six-Winged Strange Snake.
• Little Phoenix secretly crossed the Immortal Bridge and descended into the battle, helping Bai Yujun and the monkey drive the snake into retreat.
• Bai Yujun stopped the fight before the collapsing cavern buried them and asked the strange snake how many ancient beasts remained.
• The Six-Winged Strange Snake said at least half had survived in hiding and named Kunlun Ruins and the Heavenly Prison as places where many could be found.
• The strange snake explained that Kunlun Ruins sheltered beasts who fled the fall of the Dragon Court, while the Heavenly Prison held ferocious beasts and traitors imprisoned by the dragons.

Bai Yujun left the underground world after learning that Dragon Court beasts still survived across the cosmos, then returned to Sky Pillar Mountain. Her accelerated consumption of the sun weakened the ice sealing her, causing an earthquake and raising questions about the future.

• Bai Yujun questioned the Six-Winged Strange Snake, which panicked after sensing the Dragon Court's Empress and revealed that the Empress had ordered it to leave the stone tablet behind.
• Bai Yujun sent Monkey Brother and Little Phoenix away, then departed the underground world with Fat Tiger and warned the Tu household cultivators to leave before the portal sealed.
• Bai Yujun removed remnants of a Demonic Beast's soul from two Tu household cultivators and demanded payment, then teleported the cultivators and indebted visitors back to the giant pit to collect their assets.
• Bai Yujun returned to her true body in Sky Pillar Mountain, where cracks in her ice seal caused the mountain to tremble and an earthquake to alarm its inhabitants.
• Bai Yujun calculated that learning of surviving Dragon Court beasts had accelerated her consumption of the sun, while her body's vitality returned and the ice's sealing effect weakened.

At the South Heavenly Gate, the monkey watched a battle-worn fleet return from the Gods and Demons Battlefield before spotting an allied army from hostile immortal domains approaching. He raised the alarm as the Heavenly Court mobilized, leaving the enemy commanders facing the freshly returned army and the monkey's growing strength.

• The monkey studied the Immortal Bridge formation and suspected the Heavenly Court barrier would open when Bai Yujun broke free.
• More than a thousand damaged warships returned from the Gods and Demons Battlefield and docked at the immortal island.
• The monkey and Little Phoenix spotted the allied armies of the various immortal domains approaching the South Heavenly Gate.
• The monkey shouted an enemy alert, and the Lishi beat the war drum as the Sky Patrol Mirror located the enemy fleet and the Immortal Bridge halted transport.
• The monkey donned his armor and raised the Snake Demon Army's fighting spirit while the enemy commanders worried about the returned fleet and the demon monkey's strength.

The immortal domains and the Snake Demon Army assembled outside the South Heavenly Gate, and the monkey led the allied forces into battle against the immortal lords. As the war spread across the Ninth Heaven, a girl watched from Little Broken Ball World while a small white dragon told her they would soon part.

• The armies gathered outside the South Heavenly Gate as immortal generals returned, and the Four Seas Dragon Kings joined the Snake Demon Army.
• An arrogant ascender was executed for his crimes, while the other newly arrived immortals received Ascension Handbooks.
• The immortal lords failed to seduce the monkey with beautiful women, and he mocked them for sending women without fur.
• The monkey and the Little Phoenix charged into battle, while the Four Dragon Kings, Mu Duo, and Gan Wu engaged the immortal lords.
• The armies clashed across the Ninth Heaven as their Military Fiend Aura gathered, and Little Broken Ball World mobilized troops, supplies, and medical evacuations.
• A girl watched the battle from a pavilion beside a quiet lake as the small white dragon on her shoulder said they would soon be separating.

The Dragon Girl explained that she had fulfilled her destiny as the girl's guardian and transformed into an independent dragon, then joined the girl on the way to the South Heavenly Gate. As the war intensified, Old Hui Xian and the Bamboo Spring Temple group went to fight, while hidden Saints sensed that a major event was approaching.

• The Dragon Girl told the girl that her fiancé was about to ascend and that she no longer needed to remain by her side, then solidified into an independent dragon.
• The Dragon Girl reassured the girl that they would reunite and took her toward the South Heavenly Gate to witness the Military God emerge.
• Qiao Jin mobilized troops as the battle outside the South Heavenly Gate spread across the surrounding immortal islands and grew increasingly bloody.
• Old Hui Xian rang the Ancient Bell, then led Little Stone, the Long-faced Strongman, and the Snake Demon Boy toward the South Heavenly Gate to fight for a friend.
• The Long-faced Strongman and Little Stone charged into battle, while Old Hui Xian meditated on the Immortal Bridge and deterred enemy troops from approaching.
• Hidden Saints watched the war's growing Baleful Intent and sensed that something momentous was about to happen, but Calamity Qi obscured the Heavenly Secrets.

The Human Emperor’s forces invaded Dragon Country while the Snake Demon Army and newly mobilized defenders fought back with modern weapons. As war spread across the Three Realms, a crack opened in hell and released millions of evil ghosts, while the Military Fiend Aura in the Ascension Platform began to tremble.

• The Human Empire launched coordinated invasions into Dragon Country, prompting emergency conscription and the mobilization of aircraft, medical ships, and air-defense towers.
• Zhang Xiaoyuan led three thousand Snake Demon Soldiers against the invading cultivators while the Profound Immortal heavenly general attacked the enemy commander.
• More than ten thousand concealed fighter craft revealed themselves and bombed the invading army, suffering crossbow fire as they struck the enemy’s forces.
• A new crack opened in hell, and millions of Hellish Evil Ghosts escaped as the Netherworld’s gods and soldiers struggled to contain them.
• Two girls revealed their flood dragon forms and fought the escaping ghosts as the underworld descended into chaos.
• War spread across the Three Realms, and the Military Fiend Aura within the Ascension Platform trembled faintly.