Chapter Summaries

Mu Bai killed the Merfolk Demon General, then traveled with Hu Meier to Sand Rain City to help Jiang Yu relieve a devastating drought. He used the Jade Dragon River Marrow to summon vast clouds over the city, and the parched beasts awaited the rain.

• Mu Bai arrived as Hei Feng and killed the Merfolk Demon General, then gave the remaining fish pearls to Hu Meier and Old Catfish.
• Mu Bai and Hu Meier decided to go help Jiang Yu rather than travel to the merfolk's territory, and Old Catfish returned to the River Palace with Hei Feng's concubines.
• Mu Bai and Hu Meier reached drought-stricken Sand Rain City, where beasts endured a hundred-li queue for water.
• Jiang Yu brought water to the city's pool and explained that he had been fetching water to save his subjects.
• Mu Bai activated the Jade Dragon River Marrow and formed five enormous water-vapor clouds above Sand Rain City, darkening the sky.

Mu Bai used the Jade Dragon River Marrow to bring a night of torrential rain to Sand Rain City, saving Jiang Yu’s beastfolk and leaving the desert covered in new grass. He and Hu Meier then traveled north, their playful exchange over Hei Feng’s plunder drawing them closer.

• Mu Bai summoned thunderclouds and poured rain across Sand Rain City, while Jiang Yu knelt gratefully among his rejoicing beastfolk.
• Hu Meier wavered over her plan to kill Mu Bai as she saw his care for the land and its people.
• After the rain lasted until daybreak, green grass sprouted across the sands, and Jiang Yu thanked Mu Bai and offered him more gold sand.
• Jiang Yu recognized that Mu Bai was not Hei Feng and asked him to oversee the merfolk’s and Hei Feng’s territories; Mu Bai and Hu Meier then headed north.
• Hu Meier accused Mu Bai of taking treasures from Hei Feng’s treasury, seized a leather whip, and chased him as they joked and grew more at ease with each other.
• Mu Bai offered Hu Meier Demon Cores, Beast Cores, and top-grade Soul Soldiers, but few of the treasures appealed to her.

Mu Bai and Hu Meier reached Jiayu Fort, where Hu Meier used her charm to gain an invitation from Huang De, the Beast Race Demon General. While she kept Huang De occupied at a banquet, Mu Bai prepared for his return to Eastern Ridge by refining a golden skeleton and reckoning with his plans for revenge.

• Mu Bai refused Hu Meier’s demand that he become her servant, then persuaded her to lead him across the Jialan Embankment Wall.
• At Jiayu Fort, Hu Meier introduced Mu Bai as Young Master Qi, and Huang De welcomed them inside.
• Mu Bai climbed the embankment wall and looked toward Southern Marsh and Eastern Ridge, thinking of his homeland and the people he had left behind.
• Mu Bai withdrew from Huang De’s banquet and refined the golden skeleton with a thread of his mind.
• Hu Meier flirted with Huang De through the banquet, and he grew drunk and tried to embrace her.

Hu Meier told Huang De that Mu Bai had murdered Hu Shan, and Huang De promised to avenge him before luring Mu Bai to a hunt outside the city. Huang De led them to a valley full of human refugees and began an attack, where Cheng Peng and the wounded cultivators prepared to resist.

• Hu Meier claimed that Mu Bai had killed her father, Hu Shan, and Huang De promised to avenge him.
• Huang De invited Mu Bai and Hu Meier on a hunt, and the group rode north from the city with thousands of beasts and birds.
• Mu Bai and Huang De raced their mounts before Huang De led the party to a valley where humans were hiding.
• Huang De broke the humans’ protective formation and gave them ten breaths to flee before the hunt began.
• Cheng Peng stepped forward to defy Huang De, and several thousand cultivators gathered behind him to fight.

Cheng Peng fought Huang De to protect the people in the valley but was nearly killed before Mu Bai sent his Silver-Backed Ape clone to take his place. Huang De withdrew with Mu Bai and Hu Meier, and Hu Meier claimed Mu Bai was the enemy who had killed her father, prompting both men to pledge to protect her.

• Cheng Peng battled Huang De for nearly a hundred exchanges, but Huang De repeatedly wounded him and threatened the people behind him.
• Mu Bai used his Silver-Backed Ape as a clone, gave Cheng Peng medicinal pills, and fought Huang De in his place.
• Mu Bai's clone and Huang De fought for several hundred exchanges until Huang De stopped attacking and returned to Mu Bai and Hu Meier.
• Mu Bai tried to persuade Huang De to leave the human settlement alone, but Hu Meier said Mu Bai had killed her father and asked them for help.
• Huang De and Mu Bai pledged to avenge Hu Meier and protect her, then led the White Tiger Legion and Gray Eagles back toward Jiayu Fort.

Mu Bai taught five young cultivators in Qishan Canyon to refine pills and inspired Cheng Peng and others to search the mountains for herbs. Meanwhile, Huang De returned to Jiayu Fort and prepared an army to attack the canyon at daybreak.

• Mu Bai gave Cheng Peng and the people of Qishan Canyon medicinal herbs and Beast Cores in exchange for teaching them pill refining.
• Mu Bai trained five young cultivators to make Life-Saving Pills in iron pots and began teaching them to refine pills for injuries to the soul and mind.
• Cheng Peng repaired the protective formation and led dozens of cultivators into the Qishan Mountain Range to search for medicinal herbs.
• Hu Meier offered to help Huang De, who vowed to kill Mu Bai and hurried back to Jiayu Fort.
• Huang De mustered thirty thousand troops of the Beast Army to attack Qishan Canyon at daybreak.

Hu Meier distracted Huang De long enough for Mu Bai’s avatars to reach Qishan Canyon and prepare its defenders. Huang De arrived with thirty thousand beast troops, and the battle began with Mu Bai directing the defense.

• Hu Meier charmed Huang De and kept him occupied for several days while Mu Bai’s Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru avatars slipped away toward Qishan Canyon.
• Mu Bai’s Silver-Backed Ape avatar rescued Cheng Peng and the surviving cultivators from an encirclement, and Mu Bai treated their injuries and put the gathered herbs to use.
• Mu Bai’s other two avatars joined him in the valley, and Cheng Peng organized the cultivators to protect the residents and children before battle.
• Huang De led thirty thousand beast troops and enormous fierce birds to Qishan Canyon, then ordered an immediate attack.
• Cheng Peng led a thousand Body Cultivators against the Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion while Mu Bai ordered the Soul Cultivators to fire volleys at the beast army’s center.

Mu Bai’s clones helped the Southern Marsh survivors defeat Huang De’s army at Qishan Canyon, destroying the Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion and forcing Huang De to retreat. As the survivors celebrated, Hu Meier considered killing Mu Bai but could not bring herself to strike while he was occupied.

• Huang De sent the Giant Bird Legion to attack the cultivators’ rear, but Mu Bai’s Divine Crow clone and five hundred cultivators stopped the birds with fire and killed many of them.
• Mu Bai’s Origin Water Chiru clone led more than two thousand cultivators to block the canyon entrance and attack Huang De’s central and rear forces, leaving the Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion isolated and surrounded.
• Huang De ordered a retreat; his Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion was wiped out, and more than half the fierce bird legion was slain.
• Cheng Peng celebrated the victory with the people of the canyon, while Mu Bai’s Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru clones guarded against a counterattack; Huang De requested General Nangong Zhan’s aid.
• Hu Meier visited Mu Bai at Jiayu Fort and considered killing him while he was distracted, but memories of their time together stopped her from striking.

Mu Bai’s Divine Crow clone returned to Qishan with Cheng Peng and other cultivators to gather medicinal herbs, then killed two Trunk-Nosed Apes and nearby powerful beasts. As Qishan Canyon’s people tried to make a home there, Huang De’s reinforcements arrived, leaving a major attack on the horizon.

• Hu Meier fled in tears after Mu Bai spoke, while Mu Bai resumed controlling his three soul spirit clones.
• Ya Qing advanced quickly in pill refining, and Mu Bai’s Divine Crow clone and Cheng Peng led cultivators into Qishan to collect scarce medicinal herbs.
• At the Trunk-Nosed Apes’ lair, Mu Bai’s clone fought and killed both apes while Cheng Peng’s group gathered the remains of three fallen Xiu Zun and harvested herbs.
• Mu Bai’s clone killed every nearby Fierce Beast of the fourth tier or higher, making the area safer for Qishan Canyon’s cultivators.
• Qishan Canyon’s residents began clearing a herb field and preparing to stay, while Nangong Zhan led a fifty-thousand-strong Beast Army toward them.
• Huang De brought twenty thousand more troops from Jiayu Fort and personally welcomed Nangong Zhan when he arrived three days later.

Mu Bai’s forces remained trapped in Qishan Canyon while his clones returned to Jiayu Fort and attacked it, forcing Huang De to withdraw. Nangong Zhan also turned back, leaving the siege weakened as Mu Bai’s plan began to draw the Beast Army away.

• Huang De persuaded Nangong Zhan to bring his army to Qishan Canyon, where the two generals encircled the humans and waited rather than risk attacking.
• Mu Bai’s Silver-Backed Ape Clone told Cheng Peng to keep the troops calm while his Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru clones slipped away to seek help.
• Nangong Zhan argued that the siege would reveal whether the mysterious fighters had powerful backing, and Huang De agreed to wait them out.
• Mu Bai reunited with the returning clones at Jiayu Fort, then disguised himself and attacked the city with lightning, killing many Fierce Beasts and a deputy general.
• Hu Meier alerted Huang De that Jiayu Fort was under attack, and Huang De hurried back with his troops despite Nangong Zhan’s warning that it might be a trap.
• Nangong Zhan returned to camp, then broke camp and marched back toward the city as well.

Mu Bai’s Silver-Backed Ape Clone left Qishan Canyon after helping its people repel the Beast Armies, while Huang De invited Mu Bai and Hu Meier toward Southguard Fort. The clone gave the canyon’s people a final promise of protection, and Mu Bai reunited his clones to prepare to leave.

• After three days without another Beast Army attack, the cultivators of Qishan Canyon relaxed, and Mu Bai’s clone continued teaching alchemy to the five young Alchemists.
• Huang De returned to Jiayu Fort, heard Hu Meier’s account of the attack, and thanked Mu Bai and Hu Meier for saving the city, though he privately began to suspect Mu Bai’s involvement.
• Huang De invited Mu Bai and Hu Meier to visit Southguard Fort and White Smoke Long Marsh, and Mu Bai agreed because he needed Hu Meier’s help crossing the final defensive line in Southern Marsh.
• Mu Bai’s clone said farewell to Cheng Peng, Dongming, Ya Qing, and the people of Qishan Canyon, giving the five Alchemists a Jade Slip containing the Classic of Medicinal Herbs and Thousand Divine Herb Formulas.
• Mu Bai carved “Death to all who invade this canyon!” into the cliff, then gathered his clones and prepared to depart while Hu Meier eagerly awaited their pilgrimage.

Huang De brought Mu Bai and Hu Meier to White Smoke Long Marsh, where Young Lord Chi Lun challenged Mu Bai after insulting Hu Meier. Their fight escalated into a fierce duel, and it continued as both revealed powerful armor and weapons.

• Huang De introduced Mu Bai and Hu Meier to Nangong Zhan, who led them to a banquet at White Smoke Long Marsh.
• Huang De recognized Young Lord Chi Lun aboard a pleasure boat and knelt to pay his respects; Mu Bai gave the name Qi Lin when Chi Lun questioned him.
• Chi Lun insulted Hu Meier and tried to slap her, so Mu Bai stopped him and challenged him to a fight.
• Mu Bai and Chi Lun clashed with elemental creatures and in close combat, until Mu Bai wounded Chi Lun.
• Chi Lun summoned Scarlet Qilin Armor and a Scarlet Flame Spear, while Mu Bai summoned Demonic Qi Armor, Golden Wings, and a demonic longsword.
• Mu Bai and Chi Lun launched into another exchange, churning the marsh's mist as the spectators watched in shock.

Mu Bai nearly defeated Chi Lun before Demon Marshal Red Qilin intervened, but Qi Zhenzi saved his disciple and forced Red Qilin to submit. Qi Zhenzi gave Mu Bai Gu Chen’s Star Sword and took him toward Eastern Ridge, with Hu Meier following.

• Mu Bai wounded Chi Lun in their fierce duel, but Red Qilin arrived and attacked him for injuring his son.
• Qi Zhenzi appeared, shattered Red Qilin’s palm, and forced him to beg forgiveness for bullying Mu Bai.
• Qi Zhenzi raised the waters of White Smoke Long Marsh and forged them into Gu Chen’s Star Sword, which he gave to Mu Bai.
• Mu Bai returned to his original appearance, called Qi Zhenzi Master, and left Huang De and Nangong Zhan shaken by his identity.
• Qi Zhenzi opened a portal to Eastern Ridge and entered it with Mu Bai and Hu Meier; Red Qilin then gathered Chi Lun and fled the dried marsh.

Mu Bai returned to Eastern Ridge with Qi Zhenzi and Hu Meier during the Heavenly Prodigy Battle, where sects and tribes competed for territories. After Qi Zhenzi startled the leaders and ancestors gathered at Tianmu Mountain, the crowd condemned Mu Bai for bringing a Beast Race fox demon, leaving him facing hostility.

• Qi Zhenzi brought Mu Bai and Hu Meier to Tianmu Mountain while the Eastern Ridge Heavenly Prodigy Battle was underway.
• The chapter described the contest's separate Northern and Southern Peak rankings and the factions competing for territories.
• Qi Zhenzi appeared on the Northern Peak, where Rao Xing recognized him and Lu Ping and Hundred Virtues summoned their ancestors.
• Lu Tuo and Bai Ying arrived, and Qi Zhenzi spoke familiarly to them before sharing Dao Enlightenment Fruits with Mu Bai.
• The crowd recognized Mu Bai but denounced him as a Human Race traitor for arriving with Hu Meier, a Beast Race fox demon.

Mu Bai was admitted to the prodigy tournament and challenged Lu Ling to prove he could fight a Dao Zun despite being only a Xiu Zun. Their battle began with Mu Bai evading her nearly complete Inner World, leaving his ability to counterattack untested.

• Qi Zhenzi brought Mu Bai before the ancestors, and Mu Bai identified himself as a member of Mu Lan Pavilion, drawing the crowd's anger.
• The sect masters debated which competition Mu Bai could enter, and Rao Xing argued that he could challenge a Dao Zun despite lacking an Inner World.
• Mu Bai accepted the challenge and named Lu Ling, a veteran Dao Zun of the Primordial Soul Sect, as his opponent.
• Lu Ling tested Mu Bai's Spatial Law, then unleashed mountains and rivers from her Inner World, forcing him to dodge while he studied her fighting style.

Mu Bai turned the tide against Dao Zun Lu Ling by enduring her lightning and trapping her in the Void Beast’s world, where she conceded defeat. The Kunling Sect challenged the result, and Hao Feng stepped forward to fight Mu Bai.

• Mu Bai recovered from Lu Ling’s attacks and used the True Method of Controlling Thunder to absorb her lightning and temper his body.
• Mu Bai summoned the Void Beast and brought Lu Ling into its world, where he overwhelmed her with thunder and broke her World Force defense.
• Lu Ling conceded that Mu Bai had won, and Rao Lin recognized him as a true opponent.
• Hundred Virtues disputed the outcome, and Rao Xing suggested that the Kunling Sect send another challenger.
• Hundred Virtues chose Hao Feng to accept Mu Bai’s challenge, and Hao Feng agreed to fight.

Mu Bai fought Hao Feng in a second consecutive duel, matching the Kunling Sect prodigy’s righteous sword arts with demonic qi and the Green Duckweed Sword Art. When Hao Feng unleashed a vast attack of golden characters, Mu Bai countered with a Blood Pool and Dao Ling Golden Bones, which Rao Xing recognized as the remains of Nanqing Sect ancestor Yu Lin.

• Rao Xing questioned whether Mu Bai had enough strength for another fight, but Mu Bai accepted Hao Feng’s challenge and returned to the Mu Viewing Platform.
• Mu Bai summoned his Demonic Qi Armor and fought Hao Feng, whose Haoran Righteousness Sword Art clashed with Mu Bai’s demonic sword techniques for more than a dozen exchanges.
• Hao Feng brought out an iron scroll and sword, turning ten thousand golden characters into mountains, rivers, the sun, and the moon to attack Mu Bai.
• Mu Bai summoned the Blood Pool and Golden Bones, draining the color and power from Hao Feng’s golden character-soldiers.
• Lu Ping and Bai Ying identified the remains as Dao Ling Golden Bones, and Rao Xing recognized them as the Golden Body of Nanqing Sect ancestor Yu Lin.

Mu Bai defeated Hao Feng in close combat after using his golden bones and Demonic Qi, then reunited with Mu Lan and the others. When Kunling Sect enforcers tried to seize them, Mu Bai intervened and trapped three Dao Zun Elders in the Cloud Luo Heavenly Net.

• Mu Bai broke Hao Feng's sword technique, then knocked him off the Mu Viewing Platform with an elbow strike.
• Mu Bai apologized to Hao Feng, who acknowledged the defeat while remaining resentful of Mu Bai's use of filthy blood.
• Mu Lan, Zeng Yuan, Xi Bazì, Sweet Potato Boy, and the others cheered as they reunited with Mu Bai after years apart.
• Bai Yan Dao Zun ordered the Kunling Sect enforcement team to seize Mu Lan's group, and Mu Bai rushed to protect them.
• Mu Bai fought Bai An and ignored the three Dao Zun Elders sent by Hundred Virtues Yuan Zun to seize him.
• Mu Bai's Cloud Luo Heavenly Net appeared and caught the three advancing Dao Zun Elders.

Mu Bai captured Bai An and three Kunling Sect elders, then challenged the Kunling Sect while reuniting with Mu Lan and the others. He negotiated an advance to the final eight in exchange for releasing the elders, but Hundred Virtues warned him to watch himself.

• Mu Bai pulled Bai An and the three trapped Kunling Sect elders into the Void Beast Belly, then dared the Kunling Sect to attack him.
• Hundred Virtues attacked Mu Bai, but Rao Xing intercepted him, and Lu Ping urged the sect masters to avoid restarting a war.
• Mu Bai reunited with Mu Lan, Xi Bazì, Sweet Potato Boy, and the others, then threatened anyone who complained about their reunion.
• Mu Bai refused Hundred Virtues's demand to release the elders and argued that he had earned the right to compete and capture the Kunling Sect's intruders.
• Mu Bai demanded a direct place in the contest for the final four; Hundred Virtues, Lu Ping, and Rao Xing agreed to let him advance directly, and Hundred Virtues pressed him to release the elders.
• Hundred Virtues warned Mu Bai that his strength justified his arrogance but that he was still inexperienced and should be careful.

Mu Bai returned to Tianmu Mountain South Peak and reunited with Xing Yun during her competition bout. He saved her from a sword thrust by taking the wound himself, while Du Xiang fled in fear at his return.

• Mu Bai insisted that the captives would remain imprisoned until the competition ended, then left the Northern Peak with Mu Lan and the others.
• Mu Bai hurried to the South Peak, where Xing Yun was fighting a black-clad woman, and his companions realized she was his sweetheart.
• Xing Yun spotted Mu Bai and turned toward him, leaving herself exposed to her opponent’s sword.
• Mu Bai tore through the void, embraced Xing Yun, and took the sword thrust in his back to protect her.
• Du Xiang recognized Mu Bai and fled Tianmu Mountain with Du Zhong and the other tribespeople.
• Xing Yun noticed Mu Bai’s bleeding wound, but he remained focused on holding her while the black-clad woman urged them to stop the bleeding.