Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Mo’s death, Bai Ruxue learned that he had left her a book to ease her search for a way to extend his life, then annihilated the cultivators who came to kill her. She used their souls in a forbidden formation to restore Xiao Mo’s destroyed soul, and charged at the Heavenly Dao when it struck him with lightning.

• Bai Ruxue asked Fuchen whether Dragon Thunder Liquid could prolong life, and Fuchen explained that Xiao Mo had written the book to spare her a futile search.
• Li Sisi warned Bai Ruxue that over a hundred cultivators were approaching, but Bai Ruxue sent Fuchen and Li Sisi away and waited for them.
• Bai Ruxue killed the pursuing cultivators, including four Jade Raw Realm fighters, and trapped their souls in ice pillars.
• Bai Ruxue used the dragon clan’s Soul-Gathering Formation and the cultivators’ souls to gather Xiao Mo’s destroyed soul.
• When heavenly lightning struck Xiao Mo’s soul, Bai Ruxue shielded him and charged toward the storm despite Fuchen’s warning.

After protecting Xiao Mo’s soul so it could enter reincarnation, Bai Ruxue returned to Shiqiao Village and tried to resume life alone in the empty farmhouse. The children’s ballad about a scholar and his bride made her cry, and she insisted Xiao Mo would worry if he saw her from the sky.

• Bai Ruxue told the whisk-bearing woman she would search for Xiao Mo for as long as it took, even though his reincarnation might fail or take a very long time.
• Bai Ruxue returned to the farmhouse in Shiqiao Village, imagined her former life with Xiao Mo and the girl, then cleaned the empty home and ate alone.
• Shen Lili, Hu Hui, Hong Hui, and Qi Ming visited Bai Ruxue and asked why her hair had turned silver and where Grandpa Xiao was.
• Bai Ruxue told the children Xiao Mo was resting far away, and Hu Hui sang a ballad about a scholar and a bride to cheer her up.
• Bai Ruxue cried when she heard the ballad, then told the children she must not cry because Xiao Mo would worry if he saw her from the sky.

After completing Bai Ruxue's first life in the Book of a Hundred Lives, Xiao Mo received rewards that strengthened his cultivation and improved his chances in future trials. The chapter left him preparing to welcome Elder Huang of the Myriad Sword Sect and two disciples to the Imperial Capital.

• Xiao Mo emerged from the Book of a Hundred Lives overwhelmed by memories of the fifty-seven years he had lived as Bai Ruxue's companion.
• Xiao Mo received Myriad Family Incense and Official Heart Righteous Qi, along with Dragon Thunder Liquid and Flood Dragon Essence Blood, for his life and deeds in Qi.
• Xiao Mo drank the Dragon Thunder Liquid and rose to Qi Cultivation Level 5 as his Root Bone improved.
• Eunuch Wei told Xiao Mo that Elder Huang and two Myriad Sword Sect disciples were approaching the Imperial Capital and that officials had asked him to welcome them at the city gate.

Xiao Mo prepared to welcome the Myriad Sword Sect, ordered secret protection for Wang Can in Lingnan, and met the sect’s delegation outside the capital. Jiang Qingyi concealed her identity as an inner sect disciple, but she recognized Xiao Mo when he stepped from the Dragon Chariot.

• Xiao Mo learned that Elder Huang had delayed the Myriad Sword Sect’s visit to obtain a fourth-grade ferocious beast core as a gift.
• Xiao Mo ordered Wei Xun to send men to Lingnan to protect Wang Can, then left the palace to welcome the sect delegation.
• Jiang Qingyi arrived near the Zhou Kingdom capital with Elder Huang Wei and Qiu Ye, disguising herself as an ordinary inner sect disciple.
• Yan Shan'ao greeted Elder Huang and led him and the two disciples toward Xiao Mo’s Dragon Chariot.
• Jiang Qingyi saw Xiao Mo step from the carriage and recognized him.

Jiang Qingyi recognized Xiao Mo as the master she had lost three thousand years earlier and learned that he was the puppet ruler of Zhou Kingdom. After hearing that a Yan Clan woman was to enter his palace as empress, she demanded to know the woman’s name.

• Jiang Qingyi watched Xiao Mo during his reception of the Myriad Sword Sect, unable to look away despite her veil.
• Xiao Mo hosted Elder Huang and the sect’s two disciples at a lavish welcoming banquet arranged by Yan Shan'ao.
• After the banquet, Jiang Qingyi summoned Elder Huang and asked what he knew about Xiao Mo.
• Elder Huang explained that Xiao Mo was a puppet ruler and that Yan Shan'ao planned to make a talented Yan Clan woman his empress.
• Jiang Qingyi’s sword intent shattered a pond when she heard about the planned coronation, then she asked the woman’s name.

After Xiao Mo entered the Book of a Hundred Lives, he watched Bai Ruxue spend millennia searching for his reincarnation. She remained determined to keep looking, even when Xiao Qing urged her to give up.

• Xiao Mo entered the River of Time and watched Bai Ruxue leave Shiqiao Village with Xiao Qing after her injuries healed, refusing to believe he was dead.
• Bai Ruxue and Xiao Qing searched across Qi and other kingdoms for Xiao Mo's reincarnation while Bai Ruxue helped people and fought demons.
• Bai Ruxue entered the Immortal Realm, built a Dragon Palace, and spent centuries constructing a Three Lives Array to locate Xiao Mo.
• After two thousand three hundred years without a response from the array, Xiao Qing pleaded with Bai Ruxue to stop searching.
• Bai Ruxue said Xiao Mo had waited for her for a lifetime, so she would spend a lifetime looking for him.

Xiao Mo began his third life in a fishing village, seven hundred years after promising Bai Ruxue he would wait for her. Bai Ruxue found him in the village and introduced herself, leaving him face-to-face with her again.

• Xiao Mo entered the Book of a Hundred Lives and promised Bai Ruxue he would wait seven hundred years for her.
• After Xiao Mo vanished, Bai Ruxue searched the palace, and the Three Lives Array activated and sent a beam toward a fishing village.
• Xiao Mo began life as a seven-and-a-half-year-old orphan in Huanyu Village and learned he had to help Bai Ruxue complete her final Dragon Transformation.
• The Book of a Hundred Lives warned Xiao Mo not to reveal his recovered memories or risk drawing the attention of the Heavenly Dao and a mysterious entity called "It."
• Bai Ruxue arrived at Xiao Mo's courtyard and asked the boy his name.

Bai Ruxue found Xiao Mo in a fishing village and, pretending to be a weary traveler, asked him for water, food, and a place to stay. After Xiao Mo agreed to take her in, she gave him her snake-scale pendant and told him to keep it safe.

• Bai Ruxue asked Xiao Mo his name, and he introduced himself while hiding his recognition of her.
• Xiao Mo gave Bai Ruxue water and shared sesame flatbread with her as they talked about his parents and her search for someone important.
• Bai Ruxue asked to stay with Xiao Mo, and he reluctantly agreed to let her live in his home.
• Bai Ruxue gave Xiao Mo her snake-scale pendant and asked him not to lose it.

Bai Ruxue cared for Xiao Mo in Huanyu Village, where they visited an ancestral hall that honored a sage named Xiao Mo. At the shore, she refused the Yao Race World’s demand to join its attack on Myriad Laws Under Heaven and began preparing to refine a pill for Xiao Mo.

• Bai Ruxue washed and fed Xiao Mo, then took him around Huanyu Village to meet the villagers.
• Village Chief Zhao explained that the village’s ancestors had fled Qi Kingdom and that a silver-white flood dragon had protected them; Xiao Mo recognized the sage statue as himself.
• Xiao Qing arrived and told Bai Ruxue that the Yao Race World had demanded she join its attack on Myriad Laws Under Heaven, threatening the North Sea if she refused.
• Bai Ruxue rejected the Yao Race World’s demand, left North Sea affairs to Xiao Qing, and ordered ingredients gathered so she could refine a pill.

After settling into Huanyu Village, Bai Ruxue offered to teach Xiao Mo so he could prepare to help her become a true dragon. Their lessons brought back memories of their past life, and Bai Ruxue promised that she would never lie to him.

• Bai Ruxue spent a month caring for Xiao Mo and sharing fish with the villagers, while secretly leaving the village to refine pills.
• Xiao Mo decided to study so he could find a way to help Bai Ruxue transform into a true dragon.
• Bai Ruxue persuaded Xiao Mo to learn from her instead of traveling to Longhai Village and returned from town with two trunks of Imperial Examination books.
• Bai Ruxue delighted in being called Teacher Bai and began teaching Xiao Mo poetry.
• Bai Ruxue warned Xiao Mo that pretty women were good at lying, then declared that she was an exception and would never lie to him.

Bai Ruxue completed a pill meant to improve Xiao Mo’s constitution, despite a Pill Tribulation, and set out to bring it to him. Li Sisi warned her that making Xiao Mo cultivate during the coming war could expose him to deadly karma, leaving Bai Ruxue to consider Fuchen’s plea to let the past end.

• Bai Ruxue used the North Sea Seven Dragon Kings to refine a pill, then rewarded them and ordered them to keep the work secret.
• Bai Ruxue traveled toward Huanyu Village with the pill and encountered Li Sisi at sea.
• Li Sisi explained that Fuchen had divined Bai Ruxue’s plan to make Xiao Mo capable of cultivation and had sent her to persuade Bai Ruxue to reconsider.
• Li Sisi warned that the coming war could bring cultivators deadly tribulations and urged Bai Ruxue either to let Xiao Mo live peacefully in the Barren Land or bear the karma of his cultivation.
• Li Sisi relayed Fuchen’s final request that Bai Ruxue stop clinging to the past and let this life end.

Bai Ruxue refused Li Sisi’s request to let go of Xiao Mo and vowed to protect him as he had protected her in her past life. She revealed that she was a cultivator, gave Xiao Mo the means to begin cultivating, and left him determined to protect her in return.

• Bai Ruxue told Li Sisi she would not abandon Xiao Mo, even if fate and the Heavenly Dao stood against them, and Li Sisi departed after wishing them well.
• Bai Ruxue returned to Huanyu Village and took Xiao Mo to the beach to share a secret and give him a present.
• Bai Ruxue revealed she was a cultivator and demonstrated her Spells by shaping seawater into a dragon and raising a wall of water.
• Bai Ruxue gave Xiao Mo the Feather Ascension Pill and Dragon Thunder Liquid, then took his pain into herself as his Spiritual Meridian cleared and his Root Bone opened.
• Bai Ruxue promised to teach and protect Xiao Mo, but he said he would cultivate hard and protect her when he grew up.

After the Feather Ascension Pill and Dragon Thunder Liquid gave Xiao Mo strong spiritual veins and Qi Refining Layer One, he reconsidered becoming an official and decided to pursue cultivation. Bai Ruxue identified the Confucian Path as his best fit and began teaching him, while quietly wondering whether he would wear the blue robe again.

• Xiao Mo woke feeling energetic, sensed his new Spiritual Energy, and realized he could devote himself to cultivation instead of entering the imperial court.
• Bai Ruxue confirmed Xiao Mo had responded well to the medicines and offered to teach him cultivation.
• Xiao Mo took Bai Ruxue's pill and saw a book in his mind, leading her to conclude he was suited to the Confucian Path.
• Xiao Mo considered his past life as a scholar and planned to seek an academy after reaching the Cave Mansion Realm.
• Bai Ruxue explained that Xiao Mo would read books and study supplementary techniques, then sent him to fetch the Analects.
• Bai Ruxue watched Xiao Mo leave and wondered whether he would don the blue robe again.

Over three years, Bai Ruxue trained and cared for Xiao Mo as he cultivated, survived his Foundation Establishment tribulation, and gained experience fighting ferocious beasts. After the Sword Dragon Turtle injured him, Bai Ruxue stopped their sparring, and Xiao Mo later wondered why the turtle looked familiar in the stew she served.

• Xiao Mo studied Confucian works with Bai Ruxue, learned cultivation methods and sword techniques, and advanced to the peak of Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer.
• Bai Ruxue prepared a formation and supplies for Xiao Mo, who safely passed his Foundation Establishment lightning tribulation.
• Bai Ruxue brought ferocious beasts for Xiao Mo to spar with, and he won fifty fights while the beasts held back out of fear of her.
• Xiao Mo sparred with an eighth-rank Sword Dragon Turtle, was struck on the arm, and Bai Ruxue healed him and sent him to rest.
• Bai Ruxue served Xiao Mo a stewpot for dinner, and he recognized a turtle inside as looking familiar.

Bai Ruxue taught Xiao Mo about cultivation before Li Fengshan and Su Ren attacked her, seeking her life and bloodline for Su Ren. She revealed her white flood dragon form to protect Xiao Mo, and the fight continued as Li Fengshan brought out a genuine Immortal Weapon.

• Li Fengshan told Su Ren that the North Sea Dragon Palace threatened humanity and planned to kill Bai Ruxue so Su Ren could absorb her essence and blood.
• Bai Ruxue explained cultivation realms, the Dao, and Spiritual Energy to Xiao Mo, then began to describe opening his three great caves.
• Li Fengshan and Su Ren ambushed Bai Ruxue and Xiao Mo with beams of white light, but Bai Ruxue protected Xiao Mo inside a formation.
• Li Fengshan attacked Bai Ruxue with the Myriad Phenomena Art and golden fire cords, forcing her to reveal her white flood dragon form.
• Bai Ruxue smashed Li Fengshan's cloud pillars and struck him with dragon fire, but he recovered and summoned a genuine Immortal Weapon, the Dragon Catching Basket.

Bai Ruxue defeated Li Fengshan after he tried to capture her, but he possessed Su Ren and attempted to escape by taking Xiao Mo hostage. After Bai Ruxue killed him, Xiao Mo accepted her as a flood dragon, telling her that her kind did not matter as long as she treated him well.

• Bai Ruxue broke Li Fengshan's ancient shields and used a dragon skeleton to pin down the Dragon Catching Basket before destroying his body with dragon fire.
• Li Fengshan possessed Su Ren and tried to escape with a spatial pearl, but Bai Ruxue sealed the space around the island.
• Li Fengshan tried to bind Bai Ruxue with a mountain-and-sea scroll and seize Xiao Mo as a hostage, but Bai Ruxue tore the scroll apart and killed him and his fleeing soul.
• Bai Ruxue transformed back into human form and nervously awaited Xiao Mo's reaction to seeing her as a dragon.
• Xiao Mo praised Bai Ruxue's dragon form and reassured her that whether she was human or demon did not matter to him.

After Xiao Mo reached the Cave Mansion Realm, Bai Ruxue took him to the North Sea Dragon Palace to receive a treasure suited to his cultivation. She made him a concealed Dragon Scale Soft Armor from scales offered by herself and the seven Dragon Kings, leaving him with her scales over his heart.

• The Myriad Phenomena Sect's master apologized to Bai Ruxue and offered compensation, and she kept the Dragon Catching Basket rather than returning it.
• Two years later, Xiao Mo opened his first Cave Mansion, and Bai Ruxue prepared a metal-attributed treasure for him.
• Bai Ruxue took Xiao Mo to the North Sea Dragon Palace and introduced him to Xiao Qing and the seven Dragon Kings.
• Bai Ruxue ordered the nine dragons to offer their hardest scales and used them to craft Xiao Mo a concealed Dragon Scale Soft Armor.
• Bai Ruxue explained that her scales lay on Xiao Mo's chest, closest to his heart.

Xiao Mo grew into a young man while training under Bai Ruxue, and on his eighteenth birthday she gave him a scholar’s robe and asked him to call her by her name. He recreated a homecoming from their past, leaving Bai Ruxue overwhelmed by memories of the courtyard they had shared three thousand years earlier.

• Xiao Mo refined the Dragon Scale Soft Armor and, over the following years, opened three caves while Bai Ruxue guarded them with the Water Dragon Pearl, the Canghai Wooden Sword, and herself.
• Bai Ruxue trained Xiao Mo with the Northern Sea Dragon Kings and watched closely whenever June sparred with him after June had once taken him for a ride.
• Xiao Mo reached the early Dragon Gate Realm and killed a Two-headed Sea Covering Snake, then considered seeking instruction at White Deer Academy to advance along the Confucian Path.
• Bai Ruxue celebrated Xiao Mo’s eighteenth birthday with a feast and gave him a blue robe she had made for him.
• Bai Ruxue asked Xiao Mo to stop calling her Sister Bai and call her Ruxue instead, and he said her name aloud.
• Xiao Mo walked away and returned in his blue robe, calling out that he was home; Bai Ruxue remembered their courtyard in Shiqiao Village and welcomed him back.

Yan Ruxue met Myriad Sword Sect Master Jiang Qingyi on the way to Hundred Lantern Temple, where Jiang warned her to leave the Zhou Kingdom. Afterward, Jiang ordered Huang Wei to secure her appointment as Imperial Preceptor and have her residence built inside the inner palace.

• Yan Ruxue traveled with her mother to Hundred Lantern Temple, but Jiang Qingyi stopped their carriage and knocked the guards, horses, Yan Ya, and Xiao Chun unconscious.
• Jiang Qingyi confronted Yan Ruxue, revealed she knew Yan was the Lord of the Four Seas, and told her to leave the Zhou Kingdom.
• Yan Ruxue asked Xiao Qing to have Tinghai Pavilion investigate everything Jiang Qingyi had ever been through.
• Jiang Qingyi told Huang Wei that the Yan Clan did not understand Yan Ruxue and ordered him to make her Imperial Preceptor.
• Jiang Qingyi ordered Huang Wei to have the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion built inside the Zhou Kingdom's inner palace.

After Yan Ruxue survived an assassination attempt, she prepared for her wedding to Xiao Mo and began telling Xiao Chun the story behind an anonymous Confucian book. At Hundred Lantern Temple, a girl remained in Zhou Kingdom hoping to find someone who might not remember her.

• Yan Ruxue told Madam Yan about the assassins, and Yan Zhen reported the attack to Yan Shan'ao, who ordered an investigation.
• Yan Ruxue tried on the revised Phoenix Crown and Robe, then explained to Xiao Chun that Zhi Xing He Quan had been written by a scholar four thousand years earlier.
• Hui Ming delivered his master's letter asking the girl to return and Zhou Kingdom's invitation for her to bless the ruler's wedding, but she did not reply.
• The girl told Chaos that they would stay at Hundred Lantern Temple because she felt they might find him there, and said she would remember him even if he did not remember her.