Chapter Summaries

The Verdant Green Maiden tested Wang Mang’s fate before witnessing the Han Dynasty’s fall and becoming a Five Classics Doctor in the New Dynasty. Years later, Liu Xiu left the Imperial Academy, promising to seek justice for all under Heaven as golden clouds settled above him.

• The Verdant Green Maiden met Wang Mang and told him that fortune and disaster depended on each other, then concluded he was not a transmigrator.
• Wang Mang forced the Han Dynasty to abdicate and founded the New Dynasty, while the Verdant Green Maiden saw the Han’s fate persist and the New Dynasty’s auspicious fortune fail to appear.
• In the first year of Tian Feng, Wang Mang appointed the Verdant Green Maiden Five Classics Doctor after she bested the Imperial Academy teachers in debates.
• The Verdant Green Maiden taught Liu Xiu and other new students at the Imperial Academy.
• Years later, Liu Xiu bid farewell to the Verdant Green Maiden and vowed to seek justice for all under Heaven, as golden clouds settled above him.

Verdant Green Maiden refused Wang Mang’s plea to guide the New Dynasty, then left Chang’an as auspicious fortune scattered across the land. During a drought in Nanyang, she gave out porridge, met Liu Xiu again, and learned that Little Tiying had gone south with Jingang.

• Wang Mang summoned Verdant Green Maiden, who foretold his death and the New Dynasty’s fall before rejecting his offer to make her his Jiang Ziya.
• Verdant Green Maiden told Wang Mang that he was not worthy of the role because the times had changed, then left the palace.
• After leaving Chang’an, Verdant Green Maiden saw auspicious fortune drifting in different directions and noted that Liu Xiu had won its favor first.
• During a severe drought in Nanyang, Verdant Green Maiden distributed porridge and met Liu Xiu, who said he still intended to seek justice for all under Heaven.
• Hong Luan returned with grain and told Verdant Green Maiden that Little Tiying had likely gone south with Jingang.

Verdant Green Maiden and Hong Luan visited Qingcheng Mountain, where Verdant Green Maiden met the young Bai Suzhen and taught her cultivation for half a day. After parting with her new disciple, Verdant Green Maiden returned to the Central Plains and wondered what kind of ancient world she had entered.

• Verdant Green Maiden and Hong Luan traveled to Qingcheng Mountain, where Verdant Green Maiden sang about Bai Suzhen and revisited the scenery of her old home.
• Verdant Green Maiden sensed a disturbance and saw a hunter holding a white snake while a young shepherd boy traded fruit to save it.
• After the hunter left, Bai Suzhen transformed into a girl, and Verdant Green Maiden stopped her and captured her with a bamboo hat.
• Verdant Green Maiden revealed that she was a snake and agreed to teach Bai Suzhen cultivation for half a day.
• Bai Suzhen bowed to Verdant Green Maiden as her master, and Verdant Green Maiden told her to cultivate well and not repay kindness by giving herself away.
• Verdant Green Maiden and Hong Luan returned to the Central Plains, and Verdant Green Maiden wondered what ancient world she had entered.

Verdant Green Maiden watched Liu Xiu defend Kunyang against the overwhelming Xin Mang Army, where a shower of fire meteors routed the invaders. After the victory, she searched the battlefield for valuable meteorites, but one suddenly cracked open as she tapped it.

• Verdant Green Maiden brought Hong Luan to Kunyang and saw Liu Xiu ride out to seek reinforcements against the approaching Xin Mang Army.
• Liu Xiu met Verdant Green Maiden, who served him a lavish meal and urged him to fight without fear.
• Liu Xiu led three thousand troops against the four hundred thousand Xin Mang soldiers as fire meteors struck the battlefield and threw the invaders into disarray.
• The Xin Mang Army fled, and Liu Xiu ordered his soldiers not to disturb Verdant Green Maiden as she collected spoils from the battlefield.
• Verdant Green Maiden tapped an Extraterrestrial Meteorite, which split open and left her stunned.

Verdant Green Maiden received a monkey sent by Heaven and named him Sun Huo Wang before witnessing the fall of Wang Mang’s New Dynasty. Years later, as Han rule returned, she saw its Auspicious Fortune divide between Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu.

• Verdant Green Maiden learned that Heaven had sent the unnamed monkey to keep her company, and she named him Sun Huo Wang.
• With the Green Forest Army advancing from the east and the Qin Clan from the west, Verdant Green Maiden told Wang Mang his ideal state had failed and said universal harmony would not arrive for thousands of years.
• The Green Forest Army captured Chang'an, killed Wang Mang at the Gradual Terrace, and presented his head to Liu Xuan.
• More than ten years later, Liu Xuan paid homage at Gaomiao and the Qing Xiao Jade Maiden Temple as Han banners flew over Chang'an.
• From Mount Tai Bai Peak, Verdant Green Maiden saw Han’s Auspicious Fortune split into frail Gengshi Fortune and Liu Xiu’s mighty aura.

Verdant Green Maiden and Sun Huo Wang confronted Liu Xuan as Liu Xiu’s forces closed in, then traveled the world after the fall of Chang’an and Liu Xiu’s unification of the realm. Years later, Verdant Green Maiden returned to Mount Tai and reunited with Chunyu Tiying, who asked about Sun Huo Wang.

• Verdant Green Maiden and Sun Huo Wang subdued Liu Xuan’s officials at Gaomiao while Liu Xuan appealed to Liu Bang’s spirit for help against Liu Xiu.
• Verdant Green Maiden criticized Liu Xuan’s rule and urged him to surrender, but he refused because he feared Liu Xiu would avenge his executed brother.
• Liu Xiu’s army breached Hangu Pass, Liu Xuan vanished amid the chaos, and the Imperial Jade Seal was delivered to Liu Xiu.
• Liu Xiu made Luoyang his capital, and twelve years later he unified the realm.
• Verdant Green Maiden traveled with Sun Huo Wang and Hong Luan before returning to Mount Tai, where Chunyu Tiying asked whether she had enlightened the ape.

Verdant Green Maiden reunited with the aging Emperor Liu Xiu on Mount Tai and advised him to let the people decide whether to build her a temple. Liu Xiu agreed to consult the locals and ordered the palace expanded, while the Mount Tai shrine remained unchanged for now.

• Sun Huo Wang reported that Emperor Liu Xiu had arrived at Mount Tai to perform the Feng Shan Ritual.
• Sun Huo Wang and Jingang escorted Liu Xiu up the mountain, where he recognized Verdant Green Maiden as his former Master and was astonished to see Chunyu Tiying still alive and young.
• Verdant Green Maiden told Liu Xiu not to build a temple for her without the people's support and urged him to govern well so that Idolatrous Worship would fade.
• Liu Xiu told his officials to select skilled artisans to expand the palaces and to ask Mount Tai's residents for their opinions about building a temple.

Verdant Green Maiden watched Liu Xiu die after Heaven revealed that the Later Han had to repay the price of his assistance, then learned that Buddhism's arrival in the Eighth Year of Yongping was different from before. The chapter ended with Heaven warning her that Emperor Liu Zhuang had sent people west to seek Tianzhu.

• The people at the foot of Mount Tai built a shrine honoring Verdant Green Maiden and Chunyu Tiying, the Medicine Dispensing Female Immortal.
• Verdant Green Maiden visited the dying Liu Xiu and urged him to send the Prince to Chang'an, but he died before she could explain further.
• Heaven told Verdant Green Maiden that Liu Xiu's death was the price the Later Han paid for Heaven's help.
• Liu Zhuang granted Liu Xiu the temple title of Shizu and built the Ancestral Temple.
• Heaven told Verdant Green Maiden that the Western Teachings had arrived as Buddha and that Liu Zhuang had sent people west to seek the Tianzhu Kingdom.

Heaven told Verdant Green Maiden to establish herself as the Glazed Medicine Pure Light Bodhisattva before Buddhism spread east and bound her fate. Verdant Green Maiden traveled to the Kushan Empire with Hong Luan and wrote the Glazed Sutra to spread her Dharma name.

• Heaven explained that Verdant Green Maiden could act as the Glazed Medicine Pure Light Bodhisattva under Medicine Master Buddha and warned that Buddhist forces were coming for her.
• Verdant Green Maiden told Chunyu Tiying, Jingang, and Sun Huo Wang to guard Mount Tai while she left, and Hong Luan followed her despite the danger.
• Verdant Green Maiden and Hong Luan flew west to a city in the Kushan Empire, where Verdant Green Maiden asked Hong Luan to survey the city.
• Verdant Green Maiden wrote the Glazed Sutra in a month and explained that she intended to use it to spread her Dharma name.
• Hong Luan helped Verdant Green Maiden perform miracles in the Kushan Empire to promote the Glazed Medicine Pure Light Bodhisattva.

Verdant Green Maiden established herself as Glass Bodhisattva and passed the Glazed Sutra to Kashyapa Matanga and Dharmaratna, setting Buddhism on its eastward course. At White Horse Temple, Heaven congratulated her for securing a place in Buddhist mythology and revealed that he had done so to protect her from the Western Buddhist Gate.

• Verdant Green Maiden spread the Glazed Sutra and healed people in the Kushan Empire, earning a following in Medicine Offering City.
• Kashyapa Matanga and Dharmaratna arrived with eight hundred Bhikshus and Bhikshunis to investigate Glass Bodhisattva, but Hong Luan led the two monks to meet Verdant Green Maiden.
• Verdant Green Maiden gave Kashyapa Matanga and Dharmaratna the Glazed Sutra, and they connected her to Buddhist scripture as Medicine Master Buddha’s fellow practitioner.
• Verdant Green Maiden left Medicine Offering City, and half a year later Cai Yin and Qin Jing invited Kashyapa Matanga and Dharmaratna to Luoyang to spread Buddhism.
• Liu Zhuang ordered White Horse Temple built, and Verdant Green Maiden visited it before Heaven explained that her status as Glass Bodhisattva would shield her fate from changes to Buddhist mythology.

Verdant Green Maiden joined Ban Chao’s mission to the Western Regions and guided the delegation toward the Xiongnu Kingdom. The delegation arrived to find the Tianshan Chanyu and a thousand members of the Chanyu Court waiting to welcome them as envoys of Sky Han.

• Verdant Green Maiden woke on Jade Emperor Peak, learned it was Yongping Sixteen, and decided to travel to Chang'an.
• She watched Ban Chao’s delegation leave Chang'an, then met them on the road and insisted on joining their mission under the name Qing Gu of the Qin Clan of Yong City.
• Ban Chao sent a man to verify Qing Gu’s identity, and the King of Qin confirmed it and urged the delegation to care for her.
• After crossing Yumen Pass, Verdant Green Maiden persuaded Ban Chao to head for the Xiongnu Kingdom at the Foothills of Heavenly Mountain instead of Shanshan.
• Ban Chao’s delegation reached Tiancheng and found the Tianshan Chanyu and a thousand members of the Chanyu Court bowing to welcome them as envoys of Sky Han.

Verdant Green Maiden helped Ban Chao secure the Tianshan Chanyu’s cooperation, enabling the Han to reestablish the Western Regions Protectorate. After Liu Zhuang died, the Xiongnu attacked Shule City, where Verdant Green Maiden arrived to find the Han defenders nearly out of food and men.

• Verdant Green Maiden reunited with Hong Luan and Jingang in the Chanyu Court while Ban Chao spoke with the Tianshan Chanyu.
• Verdant Green Maiden appeared as the Heavenly Maiden, and the Tianshan Chanyu agreed to support her instructions and the Han delegation.
• Ban Chao received Verdant Green Maiden’s message that she had prepared an opportunity for him, then learned she had already left.
• With Xiongnu support, Ban Chao advanced his plans, and Liu Zhuang later issued an edict reestablishing the Western Regions Protectorate.
• After Liu Zhuang died, the Xiongnu attacked Shule City with a hundred thousand troops while the Cheshi Kingdom betrayed the Han.
• Geng Gong told Verdant Green Maiden that Shule City was nearly out of food, had barely a hundred fighters left, and could not receive its blocked reinforcements.

Verdant Green Maiden helped Geng Gong defend Shule City, then watched the Han’s fortunes rise and collapse amid successive disasters after the deaths of Liu Da and Liu Zhao. As she struggled to aid the suffering people, a messenger arrived with a request from Empress Dowager Deng Sui.

• Verdant Green Maiden supplied food and medicine to Geng Gong’s soldiers, helping them hold Shule City until the Xiongnu and Cheshi Auxiliary Army retreated.
• Han reinforcements relieved Shule City, and Geng Gong returned to Yumen Pass as his story inspired the Han Army.
• After Liu Da and Liu Zhao died young, floods, earthquakes, famine, war, and locust plagues struck the Great Han under Empress Dowager Deng Sui’s rule.
• Verdant Green Maiden and her companions traveled throughout the Thirteen Provinces to comfort people, but she struggled to ease the widespread suffering.
• Deng Sui prayed to Qing Xiao Jade Maiden for the Great Han, and a messenger summoned Verdant Green Maiden at the Empress Dowager’s request.

Verdant Green Maiden comforted Deng Sui in a dream, and the calamities eased before Deng Sui and Liu Hu died. After reuniting with her exhausted companions on Mount Tai, Verdant Green Maiden learned that Zhang Daoling had asked to meet her and hurried off.

• A messenger told Verdant Green Maiden that Deng Sui wished to meet her, but she refused and later appeared to Deng Sui in a dream.
• Verdant Green Maiden reassured Deng Sui that the calamities were not her fault and urged her to continue governing rather than seek divine help.
• Deng Sui ordered people to honor Qing Xiao Jade Maiden, the calamities gradually faded, and Deng Sui later died; Liu Hu then died after his Mount Tai Fengshan Ceremony.
• Verdant Green Maiden reunited with Chunyu Tiying, Hong Luan, Jingang, and Sun Huo Wang on Mount Tai after their years of helping people.
• Sun Huo Wang revealed that Zhang Daoling had nearly captured him but let him go after hearing Verdant Green Maiden's name, and Verdant Green Maiden immediately packed to leave.

Verdant Green Maiden visited Zhang Daoling to settle Sun Huo Wang’s Karma and learned that he was a Dharma Body who urged her to follow the Heavenly Dao. After traveling for decades, she returned to Mount Tai and confronted Hong Luan about her true identity.

• Verdant Green Maiden left Mount Tai to find Zhang Daoling on Crane Call Mountain and settle the Karma caused by Sun Huo Wang.
• Zhang Daoling explained how Immortals used Dharma Bodies across the Myriad Realms and warned Verdant Green Maiden not to alter the Major Trend.
• After years spent refining pills, Zhang Daoling watched Verdant Green Maiden reject the Heavenly Dao and depart; Damn Heaven discussed her defiance and opened the Book of Fate.
• Verdant Green Maiden traveled south and learned that Zhang Daoling had founded the Five Pecks of Rice Dao, then spent more than thirty years traveling before returning to Mount Tai.
• Verdant Green Maiden asked Hong Luan whether she was truly Qing Niao or another celebrated female Immortal, leaving Hong Luan frozen in place.

Verdant Green Maiden learned that Hong Luan had helped arrange her destiny and left Jade Emperor Peak after confronting her. Hong Luan later resolved to search for her, while Verdant Green Maiden urged Zhang Jiao to overthrow the decaying Han world.

• Verdant Green Maiden pressed Hong Luan to reveal that Queen Mother of the West had sent her to watch over Verdant Green Maiden and guide her toward becoming the Dragon of Auspicious Fortune.
• Hong Luan admitted she had arranged for the King of Qin to build a temple and had stopped Fusu from changing Qin Law, prompting Verdant Green Maiden to condemn the Gods and Buddhas for planning her life.
• Verdant Green Maiden left Jade Emperor Peak, telling Sun Huo Wang and Jingang to obey Chunyu Tiying when she returned.
• Chunyu Tiying comforted the dispirited Hong Luan and persuaded her to go search for Verdant Green Maiden.
• In Ye City, Verdant Green Maiden met Zhang Jiao as he distributed Talisman Water to refugees and told him to break the decaying world, declaring, "Azure Sky is Dead, Yellow Sky Shall Rise!"

Verdant Green Maiden watched Zhang Jiao die and the Yellow Turban Army’s rebellion collapse, then traveled with refugees as the Han dynasty’s fortune fell apart. She met Zhuge Liang in Long Zhong, befriended him, and left him with a question about the state of the world.

• Damn Heaven told Verdant Green Maiden that the Yellow Turban Army’s defeat was inevitable, but she challenged him over the deaths of people whose fates he could not control.
• Zhang Jiao died despite Verdant Green Maiden’s efforts to keep him healthy, and the Yellow Turban Army eventually fell after years of resistance.
• When Liu Hong died, the Han dynasty’s fortune dispersed, while Verdant Green Maiden continued guiding followers of the Way of Supreme Peace to safe places.
• Verdant Green Maiden visited Zhuge Liang in Long Zhong, where he was farming, and spoke with him for hours about scholarship and military affairs.
• Verdant Green Maiden and Zhuge Liang agreed to be friends, and she asked him what he thought of the world before leaving.

Verdant Green Maiden taught Zhuge Liang for two years before leaving him with Han Xin's Art of War and traveling to Xia Pi. There, Lu Bu recognized her from a painting taken from Emperor Xiaoxuan's tomb, and after she beat him and destroyed it, Cao Cao and Liu Bei condemned him to die.

• Zhuge Liang explained to Verdant Green Maiden that the world was its people and accepted her offer to teach him.
• Verdant Green Maiden taught Zhuge Liang for two years, gave him Han Xin's Art of War, and left after he escorted her thirty li.
• Verdant Green Maiden arrived in Xia Pi and found Lu Bu drunk and unattended.
• Lu Bu recognized Verdant Green Maiden from a silk painting taken from Emperor Xiaoxuan's tomb, so she beat him and destroyed the painting.
• After Lu Bu was captured and brought before Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Cao Cao considered his offer to serve, but Liu Bei reminded him of Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo.
• As guards dragged Lu Bu away, he called out that he had a secret of the Han Dynasty to reveal.

Cao Cao learned of Verdant Green Maiden through Lu Bu and summoned her to Xuchang, hoping to gain her support. She condemned his massacres and refused to help him, while Cao Cao had Lu Bu seized after she left.

• Lu Bu told Cao Cao and Liu Bei that he had met Verdant Green Maiden, and Cao Cao secretly sent men to excavate Duling for records about her.
• Verdant Green Maiden arrived in Xuchang, watched Liu Bei and his brothers ride out, then went to Cao Cao's residence.
• Lu Bu recognized Verdant Green Maiden, who pressed him into his seat and confronted Cao Cao about excavating Duling.
• Cao Cao claimed he could bring peace to the realm, but Verdant Green Maiden listed his massacres and said she would not help him.
• Verdant Green Maiden said she would help whoever treated the people well, then departed after Snake Girl scattered the guards.
• Cao Cao ordered his men to seize Lu Bu, who struggled and pleaded with him.

Verdant Green Maiden saved Liu Bei from pursuers at Tan Xi and directed him to seek Zhuge Liang in Long Zhong. After three visits, Liu Bei finally met Zhuge Liang, who presented the Long Zhong Plan and reacted with surprise when Liu Bei mentioned Miss Yu Se.

• Verdant Green Maiden saw De Lu leap across Tan Xi with Liu Bei and guided them to a secluded courtyard to escape their pursuers.
• Liu Bei invited Verdant Green Maiden to join him, but she refused and told him about Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, directing him to Long Zhong.
• Liu Bei returned to Xin Ye, then traveled to Long Zhong with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to seek Zhuge Liang.
• After two unsuccessful visits, Liu Bei stopped Zhang Fei from threatening to burn the cottage and waited until Zhuge Liang awoke.
• Zhuge Liang explained the Long Zhong Plan to Liu Bei, then froze when Liu Bei said Miss Yu Se had praised him.