Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun infiltrated the golden mountain’s summit hall, uncovered the sect’s plans and its covert campaign against the local snake demons, and killed the plump High Person who ruled the mountain. She left after condemning an old pilgrim who had abandoned his family to seek the High Person’s blessing.

• Bai Yujun and Six-Winged secretly hunted and swallowed four High Persons on the golden mountain.
• Bai Yujun reached the summit hall with Fat Head Cat and saw mortals worshipping the Golden Statue and the plump High Person.
• Bai Yujun used Six-Winged to cripple the plump High Person and examined his memories, learning that the search for Ancient Desolate Remnants had intensified after the great sun fell.
• Bai Yujun discovered that the golden mountain’s leaders had secretly helped drive the Great World’s native snake demons close to extinction.
• Bai Yujun swallowed the plump High Person and his guardians, ending the High Person’s chance to reincarnate and cultivate again.
• Bai Yujun rebuked an old pilgrim for abandoning his wife and children, then left the hall with Fat Head Cat.

Bai Yujun reached Golden Mountain’s hidden Teleportation Array, overpowered its guards, and modified the formation after identifying the lantern-bearing plague creature through the six-winged creature’s memory. She activated the array and teleported toward the creature’s location.

• Bai Yujun found the secluded courtyard housing the Teleportation Array and knocked out the three Martial Monks guarding it.
• Bai Yujun used stones to disguise the defeated guards, then examined the crude array while Fat Head Tiger removed two Purple Crystals.
• The six-winged creature recognized an aura and showed Bai Yujun an image of a dried corpse carrying a lantern that could spread plagues.
• Bai Yujun identified the lantern-bearing creature as a plague specialist and decided to capture it and imprison it in the Dragon Palace or Heavenly Prison.
• Bai Yujun memorized the array’s coordinates, blocked most routes, repaired its flaws, added a timed self-destruction formation, and teleported toward the creature.

Bai Yujun sent Six-Winged Strange Snake to find and capture the Lantern Monster on a dead star while she followed at a leisurely pace. As their battle continued, Bai’s consciousness returned to her frozen true body at Sky Pillar Peak, where eight Immortal Lords had gathered to discuss matters with her.

• Bai Yujun arrived on a desolate dead star, put away her cloud mount, and ordered Six-Winged Strange Snake to find the Lantern Monster.
• Six-Winged Strange Snake tracked down the Lantern Monster and attacked, evading his poisonous lantern while steadily gaining the advantage.
• The Lantern Monster tried to recruit Six-Winged Strange Snake by claiming he had the Buddhist Sect’s backing, but the strange snake mocked him and cut off his legs with a feint.
• Fat Head Cat carried Bai Yujun toward the battlefield, but she fell asleep before they reached it as the Lantern Monster sensed their approaching auras.
• Bai Yujun’s consciousness returned to her true body in the ice at Sky Pillar Peak, where eight concealed Immortal Lords waited around the mountain to speak with her.

Bai Yujun met with eight Immortal Lords, who sought an agreement about the future ruler of the Primordial World. She recognized that their proposal would preserve the old powers’ independence, and the chapter ended with her considering the easy path of accepting it.

• The Immortal Lords gathered around Sky Pillar Mountain and waited for Bai Yujun to respond to their message.
• Bai Yujun appeared as a half-human, half-dragon figure and greeted the Immortal Lords.
• Old Immortal Lord Xia proposed cooperation, but Bai Yujun said she preferred fair trade and asked to hear the details of their agreement.
• Old Immortal Lord Xia proposed that any new Emperor preserve the old rules, avoid acting against the Immortal Lords, and refrain from absorbing their domains.
• Bai Yujun realized the proposal would leave the Immortal Lords as de facto separatist rulers, repeating the compromises of past Heavenly Courts, and considered how easy it would be to agree.

Bai Yujun rejected the Immortal Lords’ old rules unless they offered her a worthwhile price, and the meeting ended without agreement. Frozen in Sky Pillar Mountain, she resolved to pursue the Heavenly Emperor’s throne to stop the growing calamities, while her distant incarnation returned to find Six Wings and Fat Tiger examining the Lantern Monster’s remains.

• Bai Yujun told the Immortal Lords she would not follow their old rules without sufficient benefits and threatened anyone who tried to force her.
• Bai Yujun dismissed the old rules as disorder, and the Eight Immortal Lords left Sky Pillar Mountain after their negotiations broke down.
• The Immortal Lords noticed two girls carrying Bai Yujun’s weapon approaching and decided to let their descendants interfere with them while avoiding direct conflict with White Dragon.
• Frozen inside an Ice Pillar, Bai Yujun considered the cost of refusing the Immortal Lords and concluded she needed to become Heavenly Emperor to halt the great calamity.
• Bai Yujun projected her consciousness to a distant incarnation and found Six Wings and Fat Tiger inspecting the dead Lantern Monster, with Six Wings trying to extinguish its flame by spitting on it.

Bai Yujun captured and studied the Lantern Monster, discovering that its life depended on the flame in its lantern and that order laws could extinguish it. After nearly putting the flame out, she spared the monster and teleported away with it, Fat Tiger, and Six-Winged.

• Six-Winged reported that he had captured the Lantern Monster, while the captive insulted him and Six-Winged proudly affirmed his loyalty to Bai Yujun.
• Bai Yujun examined the Lantern Monster as Six-Winged repeatedly injured him, observing the lantern flame restore his body.
• Bai Yujun used Gaze into Past and Future and confirmed that the Lantern Monster would die if the lantern flame went out.
• Bai Yujun studied the flame's order laws and blew it down to a tiny spark, prompting the Lantern Monster to beg for mercy.
• Bai Yujun stopped the experiment, called the Lantern Monster a wasted natural spiritual being, and teleported away with Fat Tiger, Six-Winged, and the captive.

Bai Yujun brought the Lantern Monster into the Spatial Secret Realm, where Qiu Qi taunted it with the truth about its interrogation and the White Dragon watching over the realm. Afterward, Bai Yujun sent a letter to Qiao Jin, deputy commander of the Snake Demon Army.

• Bai Yujun and her companions arrived in the secret realm, where Fat Tiger vomited over Qiu Qi’s flowers and the Lantern Monster’s escape was thwarted by the White Giant Dragon.
• Qiu Qi told the Lantern Monster that its strength was suppressed and that its escape attempts were futile.
• Qiu Qi revealed that the Lantern Monster had already been thoroughly interrogated without its memories being altered.
• Qiu Qi pointed out the White Dragon’s ability to gaze into the past and future, frightening the Lantern Monster with the possibility that the dragon’s mother was watching them.
• Bai Yujun wrote a letter in the Dragon Palace study and sent it to Qiao Jin.

At a military meeting, Qiao Jin reported that the Phoenix Clan and the West were working to awaken Ancient Desolate Exotic Beasts, while the monkey and Little Phoenix remained silent. After the council learned that two women carrying the White Dragon Divine Weapon were heading toward Sky Pillar Mountain, Zhen Bei proposed striking the Yun Clan Immortal Domain to draw enemy forces away and give them a chance to reach it.

• Qiao Jin reported that the Phoenix Clan had helped the West locate sleeping Ancient Desolate Exotic Beasts and that the enemy could disrupt fallen soldiers’ True Spirits from returning through the Divine Bridge.
• Qiao Jin proposed systematically awakening Ancient Desolate Creatures and said the Wind, Cloud, Thunder, and River Divine Generals had moved to sabotage the West and Phoenix Clan’s recruitment efforts.
• Qiao Jin showed a projection of two ordinary-looking women whose wrapped saber matched Bai Yujun’s divine weapon, then traced their route toward Sky Pillar Mountain.
• Zhen Bei asked whether the two women belonged to their side, and Qiao Jin confirmed it but warned that sending help could expose them further or trigger an unprepared war.
• Zhen Bei proposed destroying a strategic Great World on the Yun Clan Immortal Domain’s route to its worlds, drawing away enemy forces and creating an opening for the women to reach Sky Pillar Mountain.

Young cultivators toured the South Heavenly Gate and watched the Divine Dragon Empire deploy a fleet through the Immortal Bridge while their master warned them to choose their futures carefully. Meanwhile, Zhen Bei and Qiao Jin discussed the failing Heavenly Court seal and suspected it was connected to the True Dragon’s release.

• The Heavenly Court closed the Immortal Bridge to the public as a fleet of warships assembled for deployment, and young cultivators watched the enormous vessels pass.
• The eldest senior brother explained the fleet and Immortal Bridge to his fellow disciples, while their master reminded them that the Divine Dragon Empire’s forces kept the terminal safe.
• The master warned his disciples not to choose sides lightly and told them to weigh their future paths carefully amid the coming great tribulation.
• After the military meeting, Zhen Bei and Qiao Jin observed the ruined Heavenly Court and discussed its weakened seal and the possibility that the True Dragon would break free.
• Zhen Bei urged Qiao Jin to work toward entering Lingxiao Palace, saying that White Dragon would not have accepted being suppressed for a million years.

A Yun Clan inspector abandoned his search for the White Dragon Divine Weapon and prepared to march most of his forces to the Outer Void, leaving Feng Ying and Yu unexpectedly free to move. A mysterious flute seller revealed that the White Dragon’s war was meant to give them a chance to approach Sky Pillar Mountain and urged them to hurry and survive.

• A Yun Clan inspector agreed to march for the Outer Void in three days, suspending the clan’s pursuit of the White Dragon Divine Weapon and loosening its defenses around Sky Pillar Mountain.
• Feng Ying and Yu found the streets near Sky Pillar Mountain largely unguarded and wandered into an alley after Feng Ying’s saber twitched.
• A strange girl selling bamboo flutes spoke to Feng Ying about obsession and letting go, then revealed her pointed ears and scales.
• The flute seller told Feng Ying and Yu that the White Dragon’s war was creating an opportunity for them to approach Sky Pillar Mountain before the other Immortal Domains intervened.
• Feng Ying and Yu left the alley as Yun Clan ships began rising toward the sky, and Feng Ying agreed to buy and stockpile food.

A dragon girl investigated the Underworld’s unstable Ghost Gate Pass while another dragon girl traded with lost souls at Bridge of Helplessness. When a monk approached, the two anticipated that he would try to win them over or subdue them, and prepared to resist.

• A saber-carrying dragon girl monitored Ghost Gate Pass and Yellow Springs Road, then teleported through the Underworld after sensing movement.
• A newly dead wealthy ghost begged the stall-keeping girl to help him return to the human world, offering gold and power.
• The stall-keeping girl asked whether he would sell his soul, but the saber-carrying girl interrupted and ordered the Underworld Emissaries to move him along.
• The two dragon girls discussed the monk’s likely attempt to persuade or enslave them and vowed to defend the Heavenly Dao’s order and laws.
• A monk strolled toward the two girls from the direction of the netherworld.

Two Nether Dragon girls confronted a monk who sought to drive them from the underworld, and their arguments turned into a battle on the Bridge of Helplessness. The monk revealed his eight-armed arsenal, but the dragons counterattacked with a storm of saber techniques.

• The Underworld Emissaries and Ghost Soldiers fled as the monk approached the Bridge of Helplessness, where he faced the two girls.
• The girls mocked the monk and rejected his demand that they leave the underworld, identifying themselves as Nether Dragons.
• The monk invoked a scripture that spread golden light through the surrounding souls and ground, prompting the girls to prepare for combat.
• The two Dragon Girls charged across the bridge, unleashing dragon might that shattered nearby souls and damaged the Ghostly Entities in River Nai.
• The monk revealed eight arms wielding Magic Tools and fought off the dragons' coordinated attacks, then summoned a towering golden bell that knocked them backward.
• The ponytailed girl sent thousands of saber lights toward the monk while the stall-setting girl raised a gigantic heavy saber.

Two Dragon Girls fought a powerful monk whose defenses and Dharma treasures drove the sword-wielding girl into the River Nai. She escaped as a Nether Dragon and rejoined her companion, leaving the battle still raging against the monk.

• The two Dragon Girls attacked the monk with a River of Swords, a heavy saber, and a formation imbued with the Dao of Death, but he broke their assault and revealed his sixteen-armed dharmakaya.
• The monk overwhelmed the sword-wielding girl and forced her into the River Nai, where evil ghosts dragged her beneath the water.
• The stall-tending Dragon Girl fought the monk alone with the Mountain Dwelling Saber Technique while he waited for her strength to fade.
• The sword-wielding Dragon Girl emerged from the River Nai as a blazing Nether Dragon, unleashing dragon flame that corroded the monk’s lotus throne.
• The Nether Dragon joined her companion, and the two dragons resumed their fight against the monk.

Two Dragon Girls fought a monk who trapped them in a Buddhist Kingdom domain, while two Ghost Emperors intervened outside it. The Ghost Emperors freed the dragons and forced the monk to withdraw, leaving the Dragon Girls unsure what had happened.

• The monk trapped the exhausted Dragon Girls inside a golden Buddhist Kingdom domain, where they lost their sense of direction and faced a charging horde of living beasts and people.
• The Dragon Girls prepared to fight through the horde while one attacked and the other searched for traps and a way out.
• Two Ghost Emperors confronted the monk at the Bridge of Helplessness and warned him against bringing the netherworld under his authority.
• One Ghost Emperor tore open the domain and returned the Dragon Girls to the underworld.
• The monk withdrew, the Ghost Emperors vanished, and the Dragon Girls wondered whether someone had helped them.

Two dragons discussed the underworld’s failing order before the story shifted to Old Hui Xian and his companions earning money by chanting at a rural funeral. Snake Demon Boy killed an evil ghost that had escaped to the human world, while Old Hui Xian urged them to ensure it could not escape again.

• The two dragons concluded that the underworld’s instability was allowing evil ghosts to escape, but they continued eating and discussing their next steps.
• At a village funeral, Old Hui Xian calmly chanted sutras while Snake Demon Boy, Little Stone, and Long-faced Heavenly King stayed nearby.
• As villagers told ghost stories after sunset, a chilling wind and a shadow appeared in the courtyard.
• Snake Demon Boy drew his blade and killed the evil ghost before the villagers could react.
• Long-faced Heavenly King explained that the ghost had caused more than a hundred thousand deaths and had fled to avoid punishment.
• Old Hui Xian told Long-faced Heavenly King to make certain the ghost was dead, then resumed chanting, while Long-faced Heavenly King lamented their meager earnings.

Old Hui Xian and his companions stopped a government caravan from destroying a mountain dragon vein, then concealed it. Sensing a terrible disaster in Chaoge City, Old Hui Xian decided to go there with his group, leaving the temple’s repairs and the captured horses behind.

• After a funeral, Old Hui Xian and the Bamboo Spring Temple group encountered a government caravan heading into the mountains to destroy a dragon vein.
• Old Hui Xian led his companions after the caravan, hoping to protect and conceal the dragon vein.
• Long-faced Heavenly King crippled the guards, drove the feng shui masters and leaders away, and took the caravan’s silver, tools, and demon horses.
• Old Hui Xian concealed the dragon vein, then ordered Long-faced Heavenly King to release the demon horses.
• Old Hui Xian announced that the group would go to Chaoge City because he sensed a terrible disaster there, despite Long-faced Heavenly King and the Wine Worm warning against confronting the Human Emperor.

Bamboo Spring Temple’s party continued toward the imperial capital while Long-faced Heavenly King reflected on the debts that kept him from taking tonsure. The viewpoint then shifted to Chaoge, where the Human Emperor hosted a mysterious guest arranged by the Phoenix Clan and the Western Teachings.

• Long-faced Heavenly King refused Little Stone’s request for meat buns, explaining that the temple needed to save its silver.
• Long-faced Heavenly King told Little Stone he could not take tonsure until he repaid his debts for his role in the Heavenly Court’s fall.
• Long-faced Heavenly King eventually bought two meat buns with several copper coins and secretly gave them to Little Stone.
• The viewpoint traveled along the road to Chaoge and showed the imperial capital lighting up at sunset.
• The Human Emperor hosted an indulgent, mysterious guest in the palace, though he could not discern the guest’s origins.

The Human Emperor learned that replacing his pseudo-dragon spinal bone with a true dragon’s could resolve his stagnant cultivation and inability to have heirs. The mysterious young man told him a newborn dragon clan had appeared and urged him to search throughout the Imperial Dynasty’s territory.

• The Human Emperor brooded over his inability to win the Immortal Domains’ support, find an Empress, or produce descendants because of his pseudo-dragon spinal bone.
• The young man calmed the frightened guests after the Human Emperor crushed his wine cup in anger, then offered to explain the Human Emperor’s problem.
• The young man said a true dragon’s spinal bone could solve the Human Emperor’s troubles, though the White Dragon and the Four Seas Dragon Kings were not options.
• The young man revealed that a newborn dragon clan had appeared and advised the Human Emperor to use the Imperial Dynasty’s power to search for its members.

The Human Emperor began preparing a long-term campaign to turn people against dragons, while the mysterious Saint gathered allies to arrange an attempt on White Dragon Bai Yujun. The Saint chose San Hui, a mortal with hatred rooted in three lifetimes, and sent the envoys of the Ancient Phoenix Clan and Western Teachings to seek their treasures.

• The Human Emperor planned to cultivate hatred of dragons among officials, generals, and commoners before launching a dragon hunt.
• The mysterious Saint left the imperial palace and met a Phoenix Clan envoy, an elderly monk, and the mortal San Hui on a mountain peak.
• The Saint explained that San Hui had suffered at Bai Yujun’s hands in three lifetimes and promised him support for revenge.
• The Saint revealed that Bai Yujun’s dragon soul could roam the Myriad Worlds and offered to conceal Past and Future for the single chance to destroy it.
• The Saint gave the envoys Jade Slips showing starfields where Bai Yujun’s dragon soul might appear and ordered them to bring out their true treasures.

Bai Yujun returned to the Dragon Palace with a captured monster, packed up the General Store Pavilion, and pondered the approaching great tribulation and strange changes in the Cosmic Void. Meanwhile, Cheng Su recruited Fat Tiger to protect her as she prepared to establish a Dao palace, and Bai Yujun ended by designing clothes for the Flower Demon to sew.

• Bai Yujun returned to the Dragon Palace with Fat Tiger, Six Wings, and a half-dead red-skinned creature, then shrank the General Store Pavilion and took it away.
• Little Hedgehog found the pavilion's empty pit and mourned the vanished threshold that had been her friend.
• Cheng Su enlisted the Tu Clan's help in establishing a sect, then asked Fat Tiger to protect her from two Mahayana Stage cultivators obstructing her plans.
• Fat Tiger eagerly accompanied Cheng Su down the mountain, hoping for a chance to fight and restore his confidence.
• Bai Yujun absorbed her Dragon Palace avatar and its business earnings, then considered the approaching tribulation and unexplained changes in the Cosmic Void.
• Bai Yujun designed hoodies, trousers, and casual shoes for the Flower Demon to make.