Chapter Summaries

Zhen Bei led his newly formed hundred-thousand-strong Heavenly Army through a Space Jump to Great World Xun-Jia 223, where the Empire began its counterattack. He joined the battle in the Dark Void, formally opening the Empire’s campaign against the various forces.

• Several months after gaining command of a hundred-thousand-strong Heavenly Army, Zhen Bei departed from the South Heavenly Gate with his troops and the Wyvern.
• During the Space Jump, the newly recruited brothers grew dizzy and nauseated while the Snake Demon Soldiers and leopard demon helped them cope.
• The fleet arrived at Great World Xun-Jia 223, and Zhen Bei ordered his army to follow the staff team's battle plan.
• The brothers armed themselves and descended toward the war-torn world in Flying Devices as Zhen Bei led ten Snake Demon Immortal Generals into the Dark Void on the Wyvern.
• Zhen Bei and the immortal generals attacked fleeing enemy experts, beginning the White Dragon Empire's counterattack against the various forces.

Feng Ying and Yu survived a calamity locust swarm when crows arrived to prey on it, then continued toward Sky Pillar Mountain despite Feng Ying’s doubts about her journey and the home she left behind. At a black market built over the region’s only remaining spiritual spring, they found rival factions searching travelers, especially snake demons.

• Feng Ying and Yu hid from the locust swarm until crows descended and devoured the mutated insects, neutralizing the threat.
• Feng Ying told Yu she was weary and uncertain about her dream, but said she would not return to a home that had changed beyond recognition.
• At dawn, Feng Ying and Yu resumed their journey while disguising themselves and avoiding the factions searching the area.
• Yu recognized that powerful spells had severed the region’s earth veins, leaving the black market’s site as the only remaining spiritual spring within a thousand li.
• Feng Ying and Yu entered the black market, where immortals from various factions used detection treasures to inspect travelers, particularly snake demons, but the treasures did not react to them.

Feng Ying and Yu bought a smuggling route map toward Genlong Ridge from a vulture intelligence seller, then hurried out of the black market after learning a Yu Clan prodigy was coming to search for the White Dragon Divine Weapon. The Yu Clan prodigy arrived only two hours later, leaving the vulture relieved that his customers had already escaped.

• Feng Ying and Yu met the vulture intelligence seller at the Monster Tavern and asked him for a detailed map toward Sky Pillar Mountain.
• The vulture explained that the Yu Clan Immortal Clan guarded the route and offered a map as far as Genlong Ridge, including alternate paths, patrol schedules, and hidden passages, for two Thousand-Year Spirit Medicines.
• Feng Ying and Yu inspected the map, swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao, and completed the exchange with the vulture.
• The vulture warned Feng Ying and Yu that a Yu Clan prodigy searching for the White Dragon Divine Weapon would arrive the next day, so they left the black market before sunrise.
• A luxurious tower ship bearing the Yu Clan insignia arrived two hours after Feng Ying and Yu departed, and the vulture decided to lie low for half a year.

The vulture found the crushed robber cultivator and waited for him to die before eating him, while the patrol envoy tightened the search for the White Dragon Blade Soldier. Feng Ying and Rain crossed the crystal perilous ground, found a sealed image of an ancient cave dwelling, and saw that the child attendant depicted inside appeared to have moved.

• The vulture heard that a robber cultivator had been crushed outside the North Gate, found him still alive, and waited until he died before eating him.
• The patrol envoy criticized the Immortal Domain's defenses and ordered intensified searches for suspicious blade soldiers, especially near Sky Pillar Mountain.
• The patrol envoy studied a map through the night and focused his attention on Genlong Ridge.
• Feng Ying and Rain reached the crystal perilous ground, made protective lenses and sun coverings from Black Crystal, and searched for the route marker.
• Feng Ying and Rain found an ancient mountain painting sealed beneath the crystal and noticed that the child attendant at the cave entrance seemed to have moved.

Feng Ying and Yu crossed the Crystal Land, endured a Flame Tide, and encountered strange beings while following the black market map. After hiding from Yun Clan patrols overnight, they resumed their journey and found a remarkably lifelike village mirage.

• Feng Ying and Yu crossed the Crystal Land through a Flame Tide, with Feng Ying's Rusty Saber opening a safe space around them.
• Feng Ying and Yu followed a crystal-fused demon bird landmark and encountered a strange figure that tried to lure them closer; Yu shot it with a crossbow, but it survived.
• Feng Ying sensed that the strange child from the underground mountain painting cave dwelling was following them, and Yu prepared special crossbow bolts to attack strange things.
• Feng Ying and Yu hid beneath Black Crystal chunks to avoid Yun Clan Immortal Domain patrols, then waited through the night as a passenger ship passed overhead.
• Feng Ying and Yu left their hiding place after dawn, crossed another Flame Tide, and saw a realistic mirage of green mountains, a river, and a village.

Feng Ying and Rain were pursued across the Crystal Sky Realm by a mirage that the eerie child had gathered from fragments of the past. A reflection of the Dragon Girl destroyed the pursuing threat, and the chapter ended with the two watching a lonely elder light festival lamps in a peaceful mirage.

• Rain explained that the lifelike mountain-and-river mirage preserved a fragment of the past, while Feng Ying and Rain prepared to attack the child stalking them.
• Rain shot the eerie child and Feng Ying wounded it with her blade, but the limping child escaped into the mirage and led its villagers in pursuit.
• The moving village merged with mirages of a Cultivation Sect and a ruined city, forcing Feng Ying and Rain to flee as the enormous image swept across the Crystal Sky Realm.
• At dusk, a reflection of the Dragon Girl mending the heavens unleashed dragon might and shattered the child’s gathered mirage, after which Feng Ying and Rain hid in a pit.
• Deep into the night, Feng Ying and Rain watched a peaceful festival mirage in which a gray-haired elder lit lamps outside their secluded courtyard.

Feng Ying and Yu followed a smuggling route through an abandoned mine tunnel beneath the Immortal Domain, where rat demons and human refugees lived among the old workings. They reached a flooded passage, and Feng Ying went ahead through the water while Yu threatened a rat demon before following.

• Feng Ying and Yu found the hidden mine entrance by following the vulture’s map and checking two landmarks with a telescope.
• They discovered a cavern filled with giant skeletons, abandoned mining equipment, and traces of an old mine worked by chained six-armed giants.
• As they followed the main passage, they encountered a colony of rat demons and humans who mined and smuggled beneath the Immortal Domain army.
• Feng Ying and Yu reached a flooded stretch of tunnel where groundwater blocked the route and earth escape was difficult.
• Feng Ying entered the water to scout ahead, while Yu threatened a rat demon who had seen them before splashing in after her.

Feng Ying and Yu traveled out of the mines and across the beast-nest tunnels, then saw the aftermath of a major battle over a blazing star. They reached a dangerous swamp and prepared to cross it, with Genlong Ridge beyond.

• Feng Ying and Yu encountered a young stowaway in the mine tunnel, agreed to pass peacefully, and continued on their way.
• Feng Ying and Yu crawled through a winding beast-nest maze and underground fissures, emerging after three months below ground.
• Feng Ying and Yu saw a star blazing in the daylight and learned that the Snake Demon Army had defeated the immortal domain clans in a battle there.
• Feng Ying and Yu traveled for several days and arrived at a sprawling swamp marked as the most dangerous part of their route.
• Feng Ying and Yu studied the vulture demon's map and prepared to cross the swamp toward Genlong Ridge.

A mosquito escaped the ice of Sky Pillar Mountain but found Bai Yujun bound inside the cavern by chains it could not overcome. While it raged at its misfortune, Feng Ying and Yu caught crabs in a marsh outside the Yun Clan Immortal Domain.

• A young Patrol Venerable Immortal ordered the garrison generals to strengthen patrols and promised overdue stipends within three days.
• Bai Yujun observed the mosquito digging toward her cavern and secretly weakened the ice to hasten its escape.
• The mosquito broke through the ice, saw Bai Yujun, and tried to reach her through the chains around the Ice Pillar.
• The chains stopped the weakened mosquito, which cursed the unknown enemy who had bound Bai Yujun.
• Feng Ying caught crabs in a marsh while Yu collected them and asked her to gather freshwater clams.

Yu and Feng Ying rested in the marsh, where an unseen force prevented flight, and discussed the dangers left by the Great Sun’s fall. When a storm swept in, they spotted three Immortal Domain patrol soldiers riding white cranes and hid beneath the grassland.

• Yu prepared raw-marinated river crab with Feng Ying while they rested on the grassland.
• Yu complained that flight was forbidden in the marsh, and Feng Ying grew uneasy about the dangers ahead.
• Yu and Feng Ying discussed how the Great Sun’s fall had changed the marsh and left its gods without offerings.
• A storm approached, and Yu cheered in the rain while Feng Ying sheltered beneath a lotus leaf and rain cape.
• Feng Ying spotted three riders beneath the clouds, and Yu identified them as Immortal Domain patrol soldiers on white cranes.
• Yu and Feng Ying hid underwater and watched the patrol riders pass through the storm.

Feng Ying and Yu hid in a marsh while a bizarre octopus-like creature attacked immortal soldiers and rampaged for days. After it sank back into the marsh, they gathered their dried fish and slipped away, hoping the otters would keep their secret.

• Feng Ying sensed a powerful evil aura after patrol soldiers on white cranes disturbed a hidden creature in the marsh.
• The creature attacked the aerial cavalry, crushing one crane and absorbing an immortal soldier before the survivors fled.
• Feng Ying and Yu stayed concealed in the water for three days as the monster rampaged, and Yu recalled that her earliest memories began in a pool.
• Feng Ying dried fish while the monster continued thrashing, and four immortal generals visited the marsh and left a mark.
• The monster settled into black sludge and sank into the marsh, so Feng Ying and Yu gathered their dried fish and hurried away.

Bai Yujun revealed that she had been watching and studying the weakened ancient mosquito, then trapped it in ice and buried it as a collectible. She shifted her consciousness back to the Savage Small World and prepared to set out on a long journey.

• Bai Yujun formed an ice avatar and confronted the ancient mosquito, telling it she had deciphered its origins and could see its past and future.
• The ancient mosquito threatened to fight to the death, but Bai Yujun froze it into an ice-crystal amber and buried it beneath the cavern floor.
• Bai Yujun checked that her empire and avatars were doing well, then projected her consciousness to the Dragon Palace in the Savage Small World.
• Bai Yujun woke, gave Fat Head Tiger medicinal pills, and told him to prepare their travel bundles and saddle and lock the General Store.
• Bai Yujun asked for rain, and dark clouds soon brought cool rain across the mountain peaks.

Bai Yujun left the Dragon Palace with Fat Tiger to search for hidden wounded fierce creatures, while instructing Cheng Su to cultivate and eventually establish a sect. They discovered and broke a secret formation that was draining the life from a secluded town, then continued their journey.

• Bai Yujun praised Cheng Su's cultivation and told her to establish a sect, promising Fat Tiger as its mountain-guarding spirit beast.
• Bai Yujun set rules for visitors to the Dragon Palace, packed an intelligent cloud into a sack, and departed east with Fat Tiger.
• Bai Yujun searched for hidden fierce creatures by sensing abnormal energy and concluded that someone had revealed their hiding places.
• Bai Yujun found a secret realm formation in a barren region and ordered Fat Tiger to break it, but he did not understand formations.
• Bai Yujun sliced through the formation, revealing a secluded town whose formation had drained the surrounding land's vitality.
• Bai Yujun altered the earth veins to prevent the formation from being rebuilt, then flew away with Fat Tiger as the townspeople watched.

Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger searched for secret realms, barging through hidden places and a sect while looking for clues. After the sect’s Grand Elders pointed them toward an ancient secret realm near Cangyun Valley, they flew there, with Bai Yujun suspecting it was connected to something ferocious.

• Bai Yujun rode Fat Tiger through crude secret realms, collecting treasures while dismissing places that did not interest her.
• Bai Yujun entered a sect’s library, rapidly read its books, and left unimpressed before inspecting a secret realm in the Back Mountain.
• Fat Tiger startled three Grand Elders by appearing beside their meal, then shared their cooked meat while Bai Yujun emerged from their secret realm.
• Bai Yujun told Fat Tiger to pay the Grand Elders, and they gave her clues to an ancient secret realm north of Cangyun Valley.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger flew toward Cangyun Valley after she sensed the secret realm was connected to a ferocious thing.

Bai Yujun found Cangyun Valley’s hidden secret realms and entered the first one to locate the way into the second. After deciding not to enter while the danger remained unclear, she returned to find Fat Tiger had defeated the valley cultivators.

• Bai Yujun arrived at Cangyun Valley with Fat Tiger and discovered a secret realm hidden inside Sky-Piercing Gorge.
• A drunken zither cultivator trapped Fat Tiger in a water curtain and summoned other Cangyun Valley cultivators, while Bai Yujun revealed the secret-realm entrance and went inside.
• Bai Yujun explored the first secret realm, collecting spirit herbs and fruits in exchange for pills as she searched for the entrance to the second realm.
• Bai Yujun dismantled the valley cultivators’ formation research and found the second entrance, but her future sight showed nothing beyond it, so she decided to leave and wait for followers from the Great World to arrive.
• Bai Yujun returned to find Fat Tiger had injured dozens of Cangyun Valley cultivators and scattered their instruments.

Bai Yujun received Cangyun Valley’s collection of strange tales and warned two elders that an approaching being from the Upper Realm would awaken a danger in the secret realm. She settled in to read while the elders left with their worries unresolved.

• Cangyun Valley disciples delivered meat to Bai Yujun and Big Head, who shared scraps with them before eating.
• Bai Yujun played with the clouds and mist while Big Head ate, licked the bloodstained ground, and tried to clean its injured ears.
• Two Cangyun Valley elders brought Bai Yujun books of strange and bizarre stories, hoping to satisfy her and learn why she had come.
• Bai Yujun warned the elders that someone from the Upper Realm would soon awaken a dangerous being in the secret realm and that Cangyun Valley’s people might become sacrifices or slaves.
• Bai Yujun told the elders she would leave after finishing her business, then settled into a pavilion to read while Big Head slept beneath her lounge.

Bai Yujun waited for the upper-realm visitor, planning to use him to open the hidden secret realm while keeping her increasingly powerful dragon soul from transforming her human body. When the visitor arrived with two monstrous guards, his instincts warned him about Bai Yujun despite her seemingly weak appearance.

• More Cangyun Valley cultivators gathered near the gorge, hoping the upper-realm visitor would bring an opportunity for ascension.
• Bai Yujun reflected on how her growing ability to see the future was dulling her emotions and accelerating her body's evolution toward becoming a dragon.
• Bai Yujun prepared to use the arriving visitor as a pathfinding stone, while Fat Tiger packed away the pavilion and readied himself for battle.
• Golden light and auspicious signs heralded the visitor's descent, drawing cultivators closer, but Bai Yujun told Fat Tiger to flee if he could not win.
• The visitor appeared with a Three-zhang Tall Red-Purple Skinned Monster and a Human-Bodied, Hawk-Winged, Bird-Beaked Monster, then sensed danger from Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun confronted three visitors from the Upper Realm after they descended on Cangyun Valley and demanded reverence. She summoned a Female General and turned the High Person’s deadly drum attack back on him, leaving the visitors’ fate unresolved as the drum appeared before her.

• The High Person’s red-purple guard demanded that Cangyun Valley’s cultivators kneel, but the High Person calmed them with his gentle words.
• Bai Yujun summoned a Female General with a talisman, and she swiftly wounded the eagle-winged guard who attacked her.
• The red-purple monster charged while the High Person struck a deadly drum, threatening everyone within a hundred li.
• Bai Yujun opened a paper umbrella and reflected the drum’s blast, forcing its power back onto the High Person and clearing the sky above Cangyun Valley.
• The High Person bled from his seven orifices, the injured eagle-winged guard collapsed beside Fat Tiger, and the strange drum appeared before Bai Yujun.

Bai Yujun defeated the three beings who had descended into the Small World and learned that someone was seeking and trying to control awakened Ancient Desolate Beasts. She dragged the unconscious High Person into the secret realm as a probe and discovered it was a Suspicious Tomb, then entered with Fat Tiger to explore further.

• Bai Yujun used a snake demon Heavenly General to ambush and incapacitate the young High Person, while the Three-Armed Red-Purple Monster was killed.
• Bai Yujun searched the High Person's memories and learned that others were awakening divine and ferocious beasts and trying to control them with secret arts.
• Bai Yujun ordered Big Head Tiger to gather the fallen enemies and dragged the High Person toward the secret-realm entrance.
• Bai Yujun tossed the High Person through the passage and sensed that the secret realm was a Suspicious Tomb.
• Bai Yujun reopened the passage and entered the ruined tomb with Fat Tiger to continue exploring.

Bai Yujun opened a hidden passage into an ancient secret realm and sent an injured High Person inside as a pathfinder. A seemingly gentle woman healed him and invited Bai Yujun to enter, offering an inheritance if she passed the trial.

• Bai Yujun found that the hidden passage lay within the interlayer at the edge of the Small World's barrier and prepared a Space Formation to open it.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger stripped the High Person of his hidden storage artifacts, put crude iron armor on him, and sent him through the passage.
• The High Person drifted through a brilliant aurora to a floating island covered in unfamiliar trees, insects, and a crude thatched hut beside a hot spring.
• The Six-Winged Strange Snake shrank and hid in Bai Yujun's sleeve as they watched the High Person arrive at the hut.
• A kindly-looking woman appeared, gave the High Person hot spring water that healed his injuries, and invited Bai Yujun inside to claim an inheritance if she passed the trial.