Chapter Summaries

The Imperial Princes forced Chunyang Palace to leave Chang'an, but the Tang Emperor warned the Crown Prince that the court had invited demonic forces into the realm and urged him to flee to Mount Hua if the city fell into chaos. After the Emperor died, the succession struggle erupted into civil war, and the Crown Prince was killed as fighting spread beyond Chang'an.

• Imperial Court ministers and Imperial Princes accused Chunyang Palace of crimes, while wary officials began leaving Chang'an with their households.
• The regents ordered Chunyang Palace to vacate its outpost, and Chunyang Palace and many Aristocratic Clans departed the city.
• The Tang Emperor told the Crown Prince that Chunyang Palace had protected the realm and advised him to take the young Imperial Princes and Princesses to Mount Hua if he could not restore order.
• The Tang Emperor died on the seventh day of the first winter month, and rival factions began fighting in the palace and throughout Chang'an.
• On the morning of the eighth day, rebel soldiers killed the Crown Prince and more than two hundred of his guards, after which the Imperial Princes' forces turned against one another and the unrest spread to nearby provinces and commanderies.

After Li Chongjun seized the throne by executing his brothers, he revoked Chunyang Palace’s title as the Divine Sect Protecting the Nation and sent an envoy to summon Li Xiangling and Li Chongqian back to Chang'an. The siblings refused, and Third Brother stopped the envoy’s attempt to assassinate Li Chongqian.

• Li Chongjun had the imprisoned princes executed on Zhuque Avenue, then held his enthronement ceremony amid condemnation and weak support from regional lords.
• Li Chongjun revoked Chunyang Palace’s title after it failed to attend his ceremony, prompting its members at branch temples to return to the mountain.
• An imperial eunuch arrived at Chunyang Palace and ordered Li Xiangling and Li Chongqian to return to Chang'an, but Li Xiangling refused.
• The eunuch suddenly attacked Li Chongqian with a poisoned Stinger Sword, and Third Brother froze him before he could strike.

After months of seclusion, Bai Yujun emerged from her cave transformed and much larger, startling the people gathered on the island. Her new appearance left Yu Rong and Xu Ling uncertain whether she could still be called a snake.

• Mo Qin and Mo Yuan brought meat to the island and found Yang Mu, Yu Rong, Xu Ling, and Iron Ball waiting there.
• Yang Mu introduced Yu Rong as his master, one of the Chunyang Five, and told the siblings that Bai Yujun had been secluded on the island for months.
• The air grew fresh and the weather stirred as Yu Rong sensed that Bai Yujun had finally completed her cultivation.
• Bai Yujun opened her eyes in the cave, finding herself larger and her head subtly changed after her long seclusion.
• Bai Yujun swam through the underground tunnels and burst from Nanyuan Lake in a tremendous wave, leaving Xu Ling and Yu Rong wondering whether she was still a snake.

After emerging from hibernation, Bai Yujun reunited with Yu Rong and learned that Xu Ling had reached the Golden Core Realm. She set out with her pangolin follower for Jiangnan to secretly take revenge on the Demon Subjugation Sect.

• Bai Yujun frolicked in Nanyuan Lake, noticed her head was changing, then greeted Yu Rong, who praised her cultivation and advised her not to rush a breakthrough.
• Bai Yujun discovered that Xu Ling had become a Golden Core Cultivator, and she returned with the others to Nanyuan City.
• After deciding that Chunyang Palace would not avenge her against the Demon Subjugation Sect, Bai Yujun bought maps of cultivation sects and planned to weaken the sect secretly.
• Bai Yujun left Nanyuan Lake at night with her pangolin follower and traveled underwater down the Yangtze River, concealed by her Water Control Divine Ability.
• Bai Yujun entered Jiangnan and approached Dianjun Mountain, intending to make the Demon Subjugation Sect suffer without revealing where its troubles came from.

Bai Yujun disrupted Dianjun Mountain’s dragon vein to deprive the Demon Subjugation Sect of its spiritual energy, absorbing Earth Vein Dragon Qi and redirecting the flow at several nodes. As the sect suffered worsening spiritual decline and disasters, a Feng Shui master arrived and revealed that its Feng Shui had been sealed.

• Bai Yujun and Tieqiu found a hidden dragon-vein node near Dianjun Mountain, where she absorbed Earth Vein Dragon Qi to weaken the Demon Subjugation Sect’s mountain for several years.
• The Demon Subjugation Sect’s spiritual energy began to fade, alarming its disciples and forcing its elders to end their secluded cultivation.
• After ten days, Bai Yujun could absorb no more Dragon Qi, so she altered its course and led Tieqiu to another dragon-vein node to keep redirecting the earth energy.
• The sect’s spiritual energy fell to an ordinary level as fires, collapses, deaths, cultivation setbacks, and drying springs struck Dianjun Mountain.
• The Demon Subjugation Sect summoned a nearby Feng Shui master, who inspected the mountain and declared that its Feng Shui had been sealed.

Bai Yujun returned to Nanyuan Lake after secretly leaving Jiangnan, while the Demon Subjugation Sect used the Great Priestess of the Jiuli Black Tribe to investigate the feng shui disaster at its mountain. The sect’s leaders suspected that Bai Yujun was the White Snake demon behind their troubles and prepared to blame Chunyang Palace.

• Bai Yujun practiced playing a bamboo flute in a forest with Ironball, then slipped back to the Yangtze River and returned to Nanyuan Lake after more than a month.
• The Great Priestess of the Jiuli Black Tribe told the Demon Subjugation Sect that a heaven-blessed female White Snake demon had disrupted Dianjun Mountain’s feng shui and brought water into Jiangnan.
• The Great Priestess rebuked the sect leaders for doubting her, then explained that the White Snake appeared weak but could accomplish what powerful beings could not.
• Elder Guo Lian connected the Great Priestess’s description to the White Snake he had once vowed to deal with, whom he believed was associated with Chunyang Palace.
• A Demon Subjugation Sect leader angrily declared that he would go to Chunyang Palace and demand justice.

Bai Yujun encountered Chen Quan, whose surrender revealed that the evil fiends were preparing a decisive battle against Yu Rong. As Chunyang and the navy mobilized, Bai Yujun was ordered to protect the ships from water monsters and sailed for Qingshui Island.

• Bai Yujun recognized Chen Quan at Nanyuan City’s docks, though he did not recognize her, and learned later that he had surrendered to the imperial court.
• Chen Quan warned that the evil fiends planned a final battle and had sent a great expert to deal with Yu Rong.
• Yu Rong ordered preparations for battle, drawing Chunyang disciples, elders, Rogue Cultivators, and naval forces to Nanyuan Lake.
• Yang Mu told Bai Yujun to prepare to protect the navy’s ships from water monsters, and she agreed to depart for Qingshui Island.
• Bai Yujun boarded a Chunyang tower ship and sailed across Nanyuan Lake with the mobilized forces.

Bai Yujun fought alone underwater to protect the government navy from waves of Water Monsters, sustaining severe injuries as the battle at Nanyuan Lake raged. After the rebels retreated, she was missing, and Iron Ball left Nanyuan City to search for her.

• Government and rebel forces fought for days across Nanyuan Lake, while fishermen recovered and buried the dead.
• Bai Yujun spent the battles underwater killing Water Monsters, suffering wounds as she protected the government navy.
• After learning that Water Monsters were attacking near Qingshui Island, Bai Yujun rushed into a fierce battle against more than a dozen monsters.
• Bai Yujun killed her opponents but fainted underwater before reaching the surface, and the battle ended with the rebels retreating.
• Iron Ball waited at Nanyuan City’s gate, then tunneled through the city wall and left to search for Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun, a badly injured white snake demon, was dragged from the river near Lujiang Town and mistaken for a dead Dragon King. When the townspeople discovered she was alive, greed for her blood and flesh drove them to restrain and butcher her, leaving her trapped on the riverbank.

• A fisherman in Lujiang Town caught a huge white figure in his net and called it the River God.
• The townspeople dragged the motionless white dragon ashore and argued over what to do with it.
• An idle townsman suggested eating the dragon for immortality, and the landlord encouraged the idea.
• The townspeople attacked Bai Yujun with tools and drank her blood, while she dreamed of being devoured by ants.
• Bai Yujun awoke and tried to escape, but the townspeople pinned her down and continued cutting into her as she struggled.

Bai Yujun endured a day of torture as Lujiang Town's people bound her and harvested her blood and flesh, believing they were consuming the Dragon King. Ironball freed her before dawn, and she escaped into the river, turning back toward the town with bloodthirsty fury.

• The people of Lujiang Town pinned Bai Yujun down, hacked at her wounds, and shared her blood and flesh despite pleas from an old man and his grandson.
• The old man took his grandson and their valuables to the Dragon King Temple to atone, while the townsfolk left Bai Yujun bound beneath a rusted sword through the stormy night.
• Bai Yujun struggled against her ropes and chains but remained too badly injured and suppressed by the sword to escape.
• Ironball found Bai Yujun, tore through her restraints and the stone mill, and freed her.
• Bai Yujun crawled to the river and swam away as a man spotted her escape; she looked back at Lujiang Town with a bloodthirsty expression.

After Lujiang Town’s people consumed the Dragon King’s blood and flesh, boats vanished in deadly whirlpools and the townspeople found themselves trapped. Bai Yujun raised the river into a towering wave to take revenge, while cultivators led by Lian Tianxing rushed to confront her.

• The townspeople found that fishing boats were swallowed by whirlpools, and several men disappeared beneath the river.
• The landlord’s family tried to flee, but the mountain roads and bridges had been destroyed, leaving the town trapped.
• At dawn, the river withdrew as Bai Yujun raised its water into a massive wave and drove it toward Lujiang Town.
• The old man kowtowed as the townspeople watched the wave advance, while the landlord accepted that his household had no escape.
• A group of cultivators spotted the wave and hurried toward it, led by Lian Tianxing with a treasure sword.

Bai Yujun sent a colossal flood that destroyed Lujiang Town, while Lian Tianxing vowed to pursue her. On Mount Hua, Master Yuan and Li Xiangyan agreed to support Li Chongqian against Li Chongjun, and Chu Zhe asked permission to form a Dao companionship with Bai Yujun, provoking an immense aura.

• Bai Yujun unleashed a towering wave that swallowed Lujiang Town, leaving the grandfather and grandson in the Dragon King Temple as its only survivors.
• Lian Tianxing failed to stop Bai Yujun, ordered a pursuit, and went to Nanyuan City to seek his Martial Uncle Yu Rong.
• Master Yuan asked Li Xiangyan for Chunyang Palace's help against the demonic sect and named Li Chongqian as a possible Human Emperor.
• Chu Zhe decided to ask Li Xiangyan for permission to take a Dao companion, despite fearing his teacher's reaction to her identity.
• Chu Zhe told Li Xiangyan he wished to form a Dao companionship with Bai Yujun, and an immense aura knocked Mount Hua's cultivating disciples to the ground.

Chu Zhe defied Li Xiangyan by kneeling outside Jade Void Palace, while Li Xiangyan faced pressure from the Demon Subjugation Sect over Bai Yujun. At Lujiang Town, Yu Rong confronted the devastation caused by Bai Yujun and had to decide how to judge her as disciples argued over punishment.

• Chu Zhe knelt outside Jade Void Palace for days after Li Xiangyan refused to grant his request.
• Deng Yunhe asked Li Xiangyan to hand over Bai Yujun for destroying Dianjun Mountain’s earth vein, but Li Xiangyan secretly resolved not to let the Demon Subjugation Sect take her.
• Yu Rong learned that Bai Yujun had destroyed Lujiang Town and flew there with Chunyang Palace elders and disciples.
• Yu Rong heard the sole survivors explain that townspeople had captured the wounded Bai Yujun, eaten her flesh, and drunk her blood before she flooded the town.
• Lian Tianxing demanded justice for the humans, while Yang Mu and Xu Ling pleaded for Bai Yujun and Yu Rong called her out of the river.

After returning to Nanyuan, Bai Yujun was whipped and bound for judgment, while Yu Rong received an order to take her and Lian Tianxing back to Mount Hua. The group hurriedly departed, leaving Bai Yujun to wonder what punishment awaited her.

• Bai Yujun came ashore wounded and surrendered to Yu Rong, who punished her with five lashes before binding her.
• Yu Rong ordered two Golden Core Stage disciples to take Bai Yujun back to Nanyuan City, where Yang Mu and Xu Ling accompanied her and Tieqiu rejoined the group.
• Yu Rong received a message ordering her to bring Bai Yujun and Lian Tianxing back to Mount Hua, then appointed Elder Zhao to oversee Nanyuan.
• Yang Mu collected Bai Yujun's silver and weapons, and Yu Rong took Bai Yujun, Lian Tianxing, Yang Mu, Xu Ling, and Tieqiu toward Mount Hua.
• Yang Mu stopped Xu Ling from treating Bai Yujun's wounds so she would appear more miserable, while Bai Yujun guessed she might be imprisoned beneath the mountain for decades.

Bai Yujun was brought before Chunyang Palace’s leaders and admitted to destroying Dianjun Mountain’s feng shui and slaughtering hundreds in Lujiang Town. Li Xiangyan sentenced her to death, and as Deng Yunhe and Chu Zhe tried to stop him, Bai Yujun thanked Yu Rong with three kowtows.

• Two Golden Core Stage disciples escorted the wounded, bound Bai Yujun to Jade Void Palace while Ironball, Little Millet, and Zhuo Feng watched from a distance.
• Li Xiangyan questioned Bai Yujun about Dianjun Mountain, and she admitted destroying its feng shui because the Demon Subjugation Sect had tried to kill her.
• Bai Yujun also admitted slaughtering the people of Lujiang Town, and Li Xiangyan sentenced her to execution on the Demon Slaying Platform.
• Deng Yunhe and Chu Zhe rushed forward to oppose the execution, while Yang Mu and Xu Ling remained immobilized by a spell.
• Bai Yujun kowtowed three times to Yu Rong and promised to repay her kindness in her next life.

After Chu Zhe pleaded for Bai Yujun, Yu Rong spared her from execution but sentenced her to three hundred years of suppression at Chen Tang Stream. Master Yuan then revealed that Bai Yujun was needed to restore Chang’an’s dragon vein and help the Ninth Imperial Prince stabilize the realm.

• Chu Zhe begged Li Xiangyan to spare Bai Yujun, while Lian Tianxing drew his sword to kill her but stopped when Chu Zhe conceded defeat.
• Yang Mu and Xu Ling shielded Bai Yujun and pleaded for her life until Yu Rong intervened and sentenced her to three hundred years of suppression at Chen Tang Stream.
• Bai Yujun thanked Yu Rong for sparing her, accepting that suppression was better than execution.
• Master Yuan asked Chunyang Palace to lend him Bai Yujun and explained that the Ninth Imperial Prince could become emperor to stabilize the troubled realm.
• Master Yuan revealed that Bai Yujun, as a White Dragon, could guide and strengthen Chang’an’s imperial dragon vein and protect the imperial family’s fortune.

Master Yuan arranged for Bai Yujun to be taken to Chang'an and suppressed at Daming Palace’s dragon vein to protect Li Chongqian and stabilize Li Tang. After her wounds were treated, Bai Yujun remained confined at Qingxu Palace, uncertain about her future and resentful of the bracelet that prevented her escape.

• Master Yuan warned that killing Bai Yujun could bring retribution and proposed suppressing her at the dragon head of Daming Palace’s earth vein for three hundred years.
• Li Xiangyan and Yu Rong agreed to lend Bai Yujun to Master Yuan, and he asked them to prepare her to accompany the army coming to receive Li Chongqian.
• Bai Yujun told Yu Rong that Dianjun Mountain’s feng shui would recover in three years, and Yu Rong had her treated and confined at Qingxu Palace.
• Chu Zhe visited Bai Yujun, apologized, and left dejected after she dismissed the idea of becoming Dao companions.
• Bai Yujun watched Li Chongqian celebrate his future throne and examined the restrictive bracelet she could not remove.

The Aristocratic Clans turned against Li Chongjun and prepared Li Chongqian to replace him as emperor, while Bai Yujun waited to learn her role in the coming campaign. Li Chongqian gained support through claims that a divine dragon had chosen him, and preparations began for an army to march on Chang'an.

• The Aristocratic Clans sent representatives to Mount Hua and secured Third Brother’s agreement to support replacing Li Chongjun with Li Chongqian.
• The clans brought Li Chongqian a ceremonial retinue, attendants, and guards, while Xu Ling and Yang Mu visited Bai Yujun with supplies to comfort her.
• Yang Mu and Xu Ling told Bai Yujun that Li Xiangling had chosen to stay away from Chang'an rather than risk being used in a political marriage.
• Xu Ling explained that nearby prefectures and rebel kings were pledging allegiance to Li Chongqian and might soon ask him to lead an army against Chang'an.
• Bai Yujun learned that rumors of a divine dragon had strengthened Li Chongqian’s claim to be the true Son of Heaven, and wondered how she would protect his dragon aura.

Bai Yujun ate and joked with Xu Ling and Yang Mu at Mount Hua before Li Chongqian’s supporters prepared to march against the emperor. The Aristocratic Clans instead staged an extravagant welcome for Bai Yujun as a divine dragon, leaving Li Chongqian’s ceremony nearly deserted as she was carried beneath the Dragon Gate.

• Bai Yujun, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu shared a meal in the dining hall while Ironball followed them, and their banter about eating people frightened the young disciples away.
• More than a month later, an army gathered below Mount Hua, and Master Yuan presided over a ceremony to proclaim Li Chongqian’s cause.
• The Aristocratic Clans learned that a dragon would suppress the royal dragon aura and decided to honor Bai Yujun with an elaborate welcome ceremony.
• Attendants dressed Bai Yujun in a yellow-and-white Imperial Palace Dress Long Skirt and adorned her with gold and silver ornaments before leading her from her room.
• The Aristocratic Clans left Li Chongqian’s ceremony to welcome Bai Yujun beneath the Dragon Gate, where thousands knelt as she approached a carriage drawn by nine white horses.

Bai Yujun departed Mount Hua in a grand procession bound for Chang'an, where Li Chongqian’s arrival was expected to end the siege and Li Chongjun’s reign. She endured the journey in her guarded carriage, while Chang'an waited tensely for the city gates to open.

• Bai Yujun bid farewell to Ironball, Xu Ling, and Yang Mu, then revealed her dragon form before the crowd as she left Mount Hua.
• Bai Yujun traveled toward Chang'an in a luxurious but closely guarded carriage, stopping as officials and Aristocratic Clans offered provisions and gifts.
• Bai Yujun used the wind to ruin Li Chongqian and the Aristocratic Clan representatives’ feast, covering them in dust and turning their food and wine filthy.
• The army surrounding Chang'an waited without attacking, while the city’s people feared the coming change of power.
• Li Chongjun raged inside Daming Palace as his supporters disappeared and the besiegers waited for Li Chongqian to arrive and demand the city’s surrender.