Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lu introduced herself to Gong Chenyue as Yaochen, an immortal sent to punish evil entities, and recognized that the Eldest Princess might be able to contend for the throne. She agreed to accompany Gong Chenyue to the imperial capital, bringing White Tiger with her.

• Gong Chenyue followed White Tiger and found Jiang Lu petting the tamed beast, then asked who Jiang Lu was.
• Jiang Lu called herself Yaochen and told Gong Chenyue she had come to punish evil entities but could not become deeply involved in worldly affairs.
• Jiang Lu told Gong Chenyue that her dense dragon aura meant she could contend for the realm, and Gong Chenyue resolved to pursue the throne.
• Jiang Lu saw signs that Gong Chenyue might overcome her early-death fate and agreed to travel with her to the imperial capital.
• Jiang Lu climbed onto White Tiger and departed with Gong Chenyue, astonishing the others when they saw the princess return with the beast and the immortal.

Jiang Lu traveled with Gong Chenyue’s procession, and her White Tiger frightened the townspeople when they entered a market. Jiang Lu calmed the crowd and restored the overturned stalls with her powers, while the townspeople interpreted her arrival as protection against coming demons.

• Gong Chenyue introduced Jiang Lu and the White Tiger to the procession as an immortal maiden and a Spirit Tiger.
• The White Tiger’s appearance in a town market terrified the townspeople and sent them fleeing in chaos.
• Jiang Lu rang the Heart-Calming Bell to still the crowd, then used spiritual power to return the scattered goods to their stalls.
• Jiang Lu told the townspeople she would only slay evil entities, reduced the White Tiger’s size, and continued traveling with Gong Chenyue.
• After the procession departed, the townspeople discussed rumors of demons and troubled times, and a burly woman decided to worship Jiang Lu.

Jiang Lu settled into the princess's residence in the Imperial City and reflected on the prosperous mortal world, which faced an approaching rebellion. At the Temple of Heaven, the Dragon Vein asked her to restore the world's fate, and she accepted the Heavenly Dao's offer of all the Merit Power and a Heavenly Dao Blessing.

• Jiang Lu arrived at the Imperial City and settled into Moonlit Pavilion in the princess's residence.
• Jiang Lu learned about the realm's schools, public institutions, and prosperous everyday life, then worried that the feudal princes' rebellion would devastate the people.
• Jiang Lu sensed the Dragon Vein's call, used an Invisibility Talisman to reach the mountains behind the Temple of Heaven, and found the spirit vein.
• The Dragon Vein explained that the Heavenly Dao had rewound time after a foolish Child of Fortune disrupted the world, weakening the barriers between realms and the national fortune.
• The Dragon Vein asked Jiang Lu to slay otherworldly evil spirits, prevent the troubled age's chaos, and mend the barriers, offering all the Merit Power and a Heavenly Dao Blessing.
• Jiang Lu agreed to help the Heavenly Dao restore fate to its original course.

Jiang Lu returned from the mountains and learned that the Emperor was near death, while Gong Chenyue and the Empress began plotting for power. Jiang Lu watched the factions in the imperial city and decided Gong Chenyue might be fit to rule.

• Jiang Lu left the now-ordinary mountain and headed to the Eldest Princess's Residence.
• Gong Chenyue visited the palace, learned the Emperor was occupied, and found the Empress handling state affairs in his place.
• Gong Chenyue told the Empress about Jiang Lu and proposed that she could claim power herself; the Empress agreed to prepare with help from Gong Chenyue's maternal grandfather.
• Gong Chenyue returned to her residence, where Jiang Lu remained in meditation and gave the bored White Tiger a Beast Spirit Pill.
• Jiang Lu sensed that the Emperor was near death and assessed the imperial factions, concluding that Gong Chenyue had the qualities and support to become a ruler.

Jiang Lu discovered Liu Qingqing, Lu Lingfeng, and Xi Siyu stranded in the Mortal Realm with almost no spiritual power, then learned why the senior brothers indulged Liu Qingqing. After the emperor’s death, Jiang Lu met them at Prince Cheng’s Residence and prepared to search the fiefs for demonic cultivators.

• Jiang Lu saw Liu Qingqing, Lu Lingfeng, and Xi Siyu struggling without spiritual power and suspected Liu Qingqing had been sent to aid King Cheng.
• Nine bells announced the emperor’s death, and Jiang Lu left a letter before going to Prince Cheng’s Residence with the White Tiger.
• Jiang Lu reunited with the three disciples, and Lu Lingfeng privately explained that Liu Qingqing had Supreme-Grade Spiritual Roots but could cause disaster if left unchecked.
• Lu Lingfeng said their master had taken Liu Qingqing in and that the senior brothers indulged her to keep her dependent on them.
• Jiang Lu told the three that she had found no demonic cultivators near the Imperial City and proposed searching the fiefs.

Jiang Lu took Lu Lingfeng, Xi Siyu, and Liu Qingqing to Jingzhou to hunt demonic cultivators and tracked a suspicious old man to their hideout. The demonic cultivators learned that the three Flowing Cloud Sect disciples were in the city and planned to seize their blood essence, unaware that Jiang Lu was watching.

• Jiang Lu learned that Lu Lingfeng and the others had come to slay demonic cultivators, then brought them to Jingzhou, where she detected Demonic Qi.
• Jiang Lu gave the three Qi-Replenishing Pills and led them into Jingzhou Prefectural City disguised as wandering martial artists.
• At their lodging, Jiang Lu set up formations and used her Divine Sense to follow a strange old man from Prince Qi's Residence to a nearby house.
• The old man met three demonic cultivators and told them that three Flowing Cloud Sect disciples had arrived in Jingzhou.
• The demonic cultivators learned that the disciples were at Late Qi Refinement with dissipating power and celebrated their chance to absorb the disciples' blood essence.

Jiang Lu lured four demonic cultivators into a formation, drained their spiritual power, and absorbed their souls with the Myriad Souls Banner. She also destroyed evil cultivation techniques in Prince Qi's Residence and collected resentful souls before telling her companions she would investigate further.

• Jiang Lu used Slumber Talismans to quiet the inn and lured four demonic cultivators into a courtyard formation that drained their spiritual power.
• Jiang Lu absorbed the four cultivators' souls into the Myriad Souls Banner, burned their bodies, and erased their auras from two residences.
• Jiang Lu found evil cultivation techniques in Prince Qi's Residence, knocked out the goat-bearded adviser, destroyed the books, and used a Forgetting Pill to erase his recent memories.
• Jiang Lu sent the Myriad Souls Banner through a mass graveyard and several other places to absorb resentful souls.
• The next morning, Jiang Lu told Xi Siyu and the others that she had eliminated the demonic cultivators and would investigate other abnormalities; Lu Lingfeng advised Liu Qingqing not to question her.

Jiang Lu led her companions southeast in search of the missing evil cultivator, and Liu Qingqing began opening up to her during a campfire conversation. Liu Qingqing revealed that she came from another world and had long craved others’ approval because her parents never valued her.

• Jiang Lu and her companions saw a notice offering fifty taels for information about the missing evil cultivator, then bought horses and rode southeast.
• Jiang Lu bought buns and gave the group Purifying Pills so they could eat mortal food without accumulating most of its impurities.
• Jiang Lu led the group to camp for the night, where Lu Lingfeng lit a fire and Xi Siyu brought back wild chickens.
• Jiang Lu asked Liu Qingqing if she had been feeling unwell, and Liu Qingqing decided she could confide in her.
• Liu Qingqing told Jiang Lu that she came from another world and had always longed for approval because her parents never valued her.

Liu Qingqing questioned whether the people around her were real, and Jiang Lu urged her to open her heart and believe in them. Later, Jiang Lu’s group learned that Jingzhou had fallen into turmoil and helped two sisters fleeing to the Imperial City with a letter and token for the Eldest Princess.

• Liu Qingqing told Jiang Lu that she had dreamed of a past life and wondered whether the people around her truly existed.
• Jiang Lu suggested Liu Qingqing saw others as characters in storybooks and encouraged her to sincerely face them.
• Two women collapsed near the group after riding toward them, and Lu Lingfeng gave them healing pills.
• Mu Wanxin and Mu Wanqing explained that Prince Qi had rebelled and their family had been seized for refusing to cooperate.
• Jiang Lu gave the sisters a letter and token to present at the Eldest Princess’s residence, and they set off for the Imperial City.

Jiang Lu and her companions were ambushed by robbers in a mountain pass, but they quickly disarmed them and forced them to lead the way to Black Wind Stronghold. As they approached the stronghold, its leader waited in a tree, unaware that his men had been captured.

• Jiang Lu and the others entered a narrow mountain pass and were surrounded by armed robbers.
• The robbers demanded toll money, but the companions used their abilities to send the robbers’ weapons flying.
• Liu Qingqing suggested killing the robbers, but Lu Lingfeng warned that cultivators could incur Karma by killing mortals.
• Jiang Lu bound the robbers with spiritual power and ordered them to lead the group to Black Wind Stronghold.
• The stronghold’s scarred leader waited in a tree and talked about using the chaos to build a fortune and become a power unto himself.

Jiang Lu and her companions brought Xu Five’s group to Black Wind Stronghold, where the chief realized they had encountered a dangerous opponent. Jiang Lu revealed the Myriad Souls Banner and enveloped the stronghold, drawing the bandits’ souls into it.

• Goudan saw Xu Five and his companions bound and hurried to warn the chief of Black Wind Stronghold.
• The chief learned that Xu Five’s group had been captured and went to confront Jiang Lu’s party at the stronghold gate.
• Jiang Lu used her Heavenly Eye and sensed that the stronghold’s occupants were steeped in resentment.
• Jiang Lu summoned the Myriad Souls Banner, terrifying the bandits and prompting them to drop their weapons and beg for mercy.
• Jiang Lu swept the Myriad Souls Banner over the stronghold, sucking the bandits’ souls into it.

Jiang Lu entered Black Wind Stronghold with Lu Lingfeng, Xi Siyu, and Liu Qingqing after the Myriad Souls Banner killed its occupants. While exploring, she discovered a hidden passage containing human remains and Gu insects raised on people’s flesh and blood, and collected the jars before continuing to investigate.

• Jiang Lu used the Myriad Souls Banner to kill the people at Black Wind Stronghold and sent their bodies inside.
• Jiang Lu led the others into the stronghold, found its secret chamber, and let them take spoils while she stored what they left behind.
• Jiang Lu followed You Meng to another building and discovered a foul-smelling hidden passage behind a wardrobe.
• Jiang Lu found empty cages, human bones, and jars of Gu insects that had been fed human flesh and blood.
• Jiang Lu collected the jars of Gu insects into her storage space so You Meng could deal with them later.

Jiang Lu and her companions left the burned Black Wind Stronghold and met Mu Qiu, who was heading there to confront the bandits. They reached Peach Blossom County to rest, while Mu Qiu’s group found the stronghold empty and feared the worst.

• Jiang Lu burned the underground passage, and Lu Lingfeng decided to leave the intact stronghold as a possible refuge for civilians.
• Liu Qingqing told Mu Qiu that they had killed the Black Wind Stronghold bandits, and he rode toward the stronghold to confirm it.
• Jiang Lu said Mu Qiu and his group would come find them, then led her companions toward Peach Blossom County.
• Jiang Lu noticed the county was desolate and rice prices had risen before her group settled at an inn.
• Mu Qiu’s group climbed to Black Wind Stronghold and found its gates open and the stronghold empty.

Mu Qiu found Black Wind Stronghold empty of people and valuables, with no signs of a struggle, and ordered a renewed search for the missing Tiger Tally. Jiang Lu questioned a Peach Tree Spirit, learned that demonic cultivators had gone to the coast and heard local rumors, then returned to the inn.

• Mu Qiu learned that Black Wind Stronghold contained no living people, bodies, or traces of fighting, while the bandits’ wealth had also vanished.
• Mu Qiu ordered his guards to search again for the missing Tiger Tally, then left the stronghold without finding it.
• Jiang Lu asked the Peach Tree Spirit about strange auras, and it said three demonic cultivators had passed through and gone to the coast.
• The Peach Tree Spirit shared rumors about power from another world, a missing Tiger Tally, unusual activity at Wudang Exchange, and rising prices.
• Jiang Lu gave the Peach Tree Spirit Wood Spirit Liquid and returned to the inn.

Jiang Lu recognized the borderland Tiger Tally as a dangerous military token and decided her group should stay in the town to temper their states of mind. The next morning, Liu Qingqing followed a prompting from her dreams and brought Jiang Lu and the others to help an elderly neighbor wash clothes.

• Jiang Lu examined the Tiger Tally and recalled that it could mobilize the border garrison, whose involvement in court strife could invite an invasion.
• Mu Qiu surrounded Liu Qingqing, Xi Siyu, and Lu Lingfeng, but backed down and promised to visit them the next day.
• Jiang Lu emerged from hiding and told her companions they would remain in town for several days to temper their states of mind.
• The next morning, Liu Qingqing dressed plainly and handed Jiang Lu a basin of laundry, explaining that they should help their elderly neighbor.
• Liu Qingqing also gave washing paddles to Lu Lingfeng and Xi Siyu, then led the group to the river, where Jiang Lu asked the granny how long she had lived there.

Jiang Lu and her companions encountered unnatural, relentless rain and flooding in the south, while Mu Qiu left to join Prince Qi’s rebellion. Jiang Lu investigated the heavens and discovered a disturbing anomaly, her fury and killing intent rising as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Lu and the two Senior Brothers Lu helped the old woman with her laundry and learned of her lonely life.
• Mu Qiu received word that Qi King had raised an army, then led his men to gather troops and head for the front lines.
• Jiang Lu and her companions traveled through the south, where unceasing torrential rain flooded farmland and threatened villages.
• Xi Siyu asked Jiang Lu whether they should use their cultivation to stop the rain, but she chose to investigate its cause first.
• Jiang Lu traced abnormal spiritual currents through the black clouds and opened her eyes with fury and killing intent.

Jiang Lu discovered that demonic cultivators had created a vast Rain-Gathering Formation that caused floods in the south and drought in the north. She found the formation eye and learned that five demonic cultivators guarded it, leaving her and her companions to prepare for a fight before they could break the formation.

• Jiang Lu identified a hidden Rain-Gathering Formation as the cause of the unnatural rain and drought, and the others confirmed its Demonic Qi.
• Jiang Lu concluded that the formation eye lay nearby and ordered Liu Qingqing, Lu Lingfeng, and Xi Siyu to break the formation first.
• The four rode through flooded roads and fleeing refugees toward the formation eye, where Jiang Lu discovered it was built around an underground Dragon Vein node.
• Jiang Lu sensed five demonic cultivators guarding the formation eye, including three at Foundation Establishment Early Stage and two at Peak Late Qi Refinement.
• Jiang Lu told Liu Qingqing, Lu Lingfeng, and Xi Siyu that they had to join forces to kill all five cultivators before breaking the formation, while refugees watched them approach.

Jiang Lu and her companions used Spirit-Taming Disks to sustain their assault on the demonic cultivators disrupting the Dragon Vein formation. Jiang Lu defeated and captured two Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators, while the battle continued around her.

• Jiang Lu gave Liu Qingqing, Lu Lingfeng, and the others Spirit-Taming Disks before the group flew toward the formation's eye.
• Jiang Lu struck the formation's eye with Qianming, disrupting the five demonic cultivators' cultivation and forcing them out into the floodwaters.
• Jiang Lu and her companions attacked the demonic cultivators, while Lu Lingfeng restrained a Late Qi Refinement opponent and the group fought amid the rain and flood.
• Jiang Lu fought two Foundation Establishment Early Stage demonic cultivators and gained the upper hand as their power waned.
• Jiang Lu trapped the two demonic cultivators in a spirit net and sealed it with Spirit-Locking and Demon-Dispelling Talismans.
• The Myriad Souls Banner flew from Jiang Lu's waist and expanded above the battlefield.

Jiang Lu destroyed the Rain-Gathering Grand Formation and stopped the rain, then joined Lu Lingfeng, Xi Siyu, and Liu Qingqing in a grand formation to drain the floods. As the Spirit Gourd swallowed the floodwaters and their Dharma manifestations appeared, the chapter ended with a bell sounding from the formation eye.

• Jiang Lu used the Myriad Souls Banner to kill five demonic cultivators and burned their bodies to ash.
• Jiang Lu struck the formation eye with the Qianming Sword, using purple lightning to break the Rain-Gathering Grand Formation and end the downpour.
• Jiang Lu moved the clouds aside, revealing sunlight as refugees below rejoiced and begged the four cultivators to make the floodwaters recede.
• Jiang Lu, Lu Lingfeng, Xi Siyu, and Liu Qingqing agreed to help despite the cost to their spiritual power and formed the World-Saving Grand Formation.
• The four directed the floodwaters into the Spirit Gourd, exposing ruined roads, fields, and villages as four immense Dharma manifestations rose behind them.
• A bell sounded from the center of the formation eye.

Jiang Lu and three others used their spiritual power to end Jiangnan’s flood disaster, then vanished as the survivors hailed them as immortals. Gong Chenyue received news that the calamity had been resolved, while Jiang Lu awoke alone in a forest transformed into a kitten and heard a woman approach.

• Jiang Lu and the other three restored the flood-damaged land, dispersed disease, and declared that the calamity had ended.
• The four exhausted their spiritual power and disappeared in heavenly light as the commoners bowed and gave thanks.
• Painters among the survivors tried to depict the four immortals but could not capture their divine presence.
• Gong Chenyue received a letter reporting that Jiangnan’s flood disaster had been resolved and took comfort in the news.
• Jiang Lu awoke in a mountain forest in the body of a kitten, unable to call out to Senior Sister Liu or her two senior brothers.
• A woman found Jiang Lu and gently told the little one not to run off again.