Chapter Summaries

Sang Ying prepared for her trip to Gleaming Gold Island, bought talismans and Law Artifacts at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, and received an invitation to its auction. As she was leaving, she heard Su Fuyun trying to calm a woman who was causing a scene over a stolen Storage Bag.

• Sang Ying prepared a supply list for her upcoming trip to Gleaming Gold Island and welcomed Xiao Liu, who brought her congee.
• Sang Ying asked Xiao Liu where to buy talismans and Law Artifacts, and he recommended the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion over the Idle Cloud Pavilion.
• Sang Ying visited the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, bought the supplies she needed, and accepted an invitation to its auction in two months.
• The shopkeeper and Sang Ying heard that a young woman was demanding compensation because her Storage Bag had been stolen in the shop.
• Sang Ying recognized Su Fuyun telling Hongyi to stop making a scene and return with him before Brother Zhao became angry.

At the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, Gu Hongyi was caught on an Image-Retaining Stone causing damage and had to pay compensation, while Su Fuyun tried to make Sang Ying cover the cost. Sang Ying refused and reminded Su Fuyun that she still owed money for the Gale Hound, leaving the beast stunned in its Beast Ring.

• The shopkeeper showed an Image-Retaining Stone recording that proved Gu Hongyi had caused the commotion and damage, then demanded one high-grade Spirit Stone in compensation.
• Gu Hongyi agreed to pay but asked Su Fuyun to contact her senior brother, then urged Su Fuyun to get Sang Ying to help cover the bill.
• Su Fuyun tried to stop Sang Ying from leaving, and Gu Hongyi asked Sang Ying to lend her Spirit Stones with a promise to repay tenfold.
• Sang Ying told the shopkeeper she was not familiar with the two women and refused to pay for them.
• Sang Ying reminded Su Fuyun that she had already borrowed Spirit Stones to buy the Gale Hound and asked whether she could repay that debt.

Sang Ying exposed Su Fuyun’s unpaid debt and gave her three days to repay one hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones. After returning to her courtyard, Sang Ying was approached by a young man who asked to look around.

• Su Fuyun tried to portray herself as the victim, and a male cultivator offered to pay her debt before fleeing when Sang Ying demanded one hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Sang Ying gave Su Fuyun three days to repay the full debt and left the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
• Sang Ying told Gu Shu she intended to grow stronger, form her Golden Core, and eventually leave Gu Huaiwei’s tutelage.
• Sang Ying returned to her courtyard, where a young man in green robes asked to look around.

Hai Tingzhou visited Sang Ying to investigate the powerful Spirit Gathering Formation in her courtyard and, impressed by her explanation, tried to make her his master. Sang Ying refused and sent him away, then worried that befriending a Hai Household heir could draw her into a succession dispute.

• Hai Tingzhou showed Sang Ying his Hai Household identity plaque and persuaded her to let him inspect the formation from the courtyard.
• Sang Ying explained how a small change to the formation’s eye reduced its burden and helped it gather Spiritual Qi.
• Hai Tingzhou knelt and insisted that Sang Ying take him as her master, but she refused and told him she had not modified the formation.
• Hai Tingzhou apologized and asked permission to return to study the formation, but Sang Ying sent him and Meng Luosheng away for the day.
• Gu Shu asked why Sang Ying had not accepted Hai Tingzhou, and Sang Ying privately worried that he might lose the Hai Household succession contest.

Hai Tingzhou waited for Sang Ying, then witnessed Steward Li try to repay Su Fuyun’s debt with Spirit Stones while insulting Sang Ying. Sang Ying refused the money and asked Hai Tingzhou whether he had considered becoming the next family head, leaving him stunned.

• Hai Tingzhou bought the courtyard next to Sang Ying’s and waited for her to emerge from meditation.
• Steward Li brought one hundred and ten mid-grade Spirit Stones to repay Su Fuyun’s debt and mocked Sang Ying and Hai Tingzhou.
• Sang Ying warned Steward Li that she could appeal to the city lord, causing him to abandon his arrogance and apologize.
• Sang Ying refused the Spirit Stones and told Steward Li to make Su Fuyun repay her herself or return the demon pet.
• Sang Ying asked Hai Tingzhou whether he had considered becoming the next family head, and he dropped his fan in surprise.

Sang Ying offered Hai Tingzhou a chance to become head of the Hai Household by helping him prepare for a test and find a treasure on Gleaming Gold Island. Meanwhile, Hai Pingge admitted that Su Fuyun had an uncanny influence over him and dismissed Gu Huaiwei and the Flowing Light Sword Sect as threats.

• Sang Ying led Hai Tingzhou into an isolated courtyard and said she wanted to prevent Hai Pingge from becoming household head.
• Hai Tingzhou admitted that he wanted to compete for the position, and Sang Ying gave him a Jade Slip to study before a test in three days.
• Sang Ying planned to accept Hai Tingzhou as her mother's disciple if he understood the Jade Slip and to help him find a mysterious treasure on Gleaming Gold Island.
• Steward Li told Hai Pingge that Sang Ying had returned the Spirit Stones and said Su Fuyun should pay for them herself.
• Hai Pingge explained that Su Fuyun's strange influence drew him toward her, then scoffed at Gu Huaiwei and predicted the Flowing Light Sword Sect would soon decline.

Sang Ying tested Hai Tingzhou’s array skills and made him the personal disciple of her mother, Wen Miaoshu. Afterward, she encountered Su Fuyun and Zhao Yunhe arguing aboard the ship bound for Gleaming Gold Island.

• Sang Ying boarded the Golden Summit with Hai Tingzhou and learned that its spatial arrays concealed a corridor of rooms inside the ship.
• Sang Ying tested Hai Tingzhou with the Seven Kills Formation and found his talent for arrays exceptional.
• Sang Ying gave Hai Tingzhou her mother’s inheritance and announced that he was now Wen Miaoshu’s personal disciple.
• Sang Ying went onto the deck and saw Su Fuyun trying to calm Zhao Yunhe while Hai Pingge stood behind her.
• Zhao Yunhe accused Su Fuyun of abandoning their plans, while Gu Hongyi said Su Fuyun had refused to return with her and Su Fuyun denied it.

Sang Ying confronted Su Fuyun over her unpaid debt while meeting Fang Chi of Layered Heavens Palace. The Golden Summit sailed for Gleaming Gold Island, where Sang Ying intended to claim the divine weapon Su Fuyun had once used to defeat her.

• Fang Chi introduced herself to Sang Ying and mocked Su Fuyun as a white lotus.
• Hai Pingge forced Zhao Yunhe and his junior sister to back down, and Zhao Yunhe left after giving Su Fuyun a searching look.
• Sang Ying demanded that Su Fuyun repay the hundred Spirit Stones she owed, and Su Fuyun retreated after Sang Ying threatened her with a sword.
• Fang Chi asked Sang Ying for a chance to speak with Su Fuyun, and Sang Ying agreed.
• The white-bearded old man transformed the Golden Summit into a vast ship and set sail with the passengers for Gleaming Gold Island.

Sang Ying, Hai Tingzhou, and Fang Chi entered Gleaming Gold Island’s secret realm and sought the altar that opened the Great Yang Underground Palace. Sang Ying offered her blood, triggering the altar and releasing a huge creature, which left a massive hole behind.

• Sang Ying and Fang Chi stepped onto Gleaming Gold Island, where boiling crimson seawater and scorching earth revealed how dangerous the island was.
• After the secret realm opened, Hai Pingge and Su Fuyun headed toward the island’s center while Sang Ying chose a shortcut with Hai Tingzhou and Fang Chi.
• Sang Ying led her companions around the dense forest and across the sea of sand to find the Great Yang Underground Palace’s altar.
• The three discovered the altar with twelve jade pillars, and Sang Ying cut her palm to offer blood on its center.
• A huge creature burst from the altar and swept the surrounding sand away with its tail, leaving a large hole in the altar.

Sang Ying and her companions entered a hidden underground palace on Gleaming Gold Island, where Sang Ying lost consciousness and awoke inside a dragon egg in an illusion of the White Dragon Clan. She learned that she had been born with her mother’s help, leaving her with mediocre aptitude and placing the clan’s hopes for survival in doubt.

• After a dragon cried out across Gleaming Gold Island, the Demon Beasts bowed, and Hai Pingge led the other cultivators toward the sound.
• Sang Ying, Fang Chi, and Hai Tingzhou entered the passage beneath the altar and explored the cold underground palace.
• Sang Ying became separated from her companions and lost consciousness as the path ahead disappeared into mist.
• Sang Ying awoke trapped inside an egg and heard a woman and an old man discuss Qinglong’s deadline to hatch and the threat of the Fallen Dragon Pit.
• The woman, A Lan, cracked Sang Ying’s shell, and the old man warned her to keep the hatchling’s assisted birth secret.
• Sang Ying realized she had been reborn as a White Dragon hatchling whose assisted hatching meant she would have mediocre aptitude.

Sang Ying rejected a marriage alliance that would make her the Black Dragon Clan leader’s wife and insisted that her fiancé marry into the declining White Dragon Tribe instead. After four hundred years of cultivation and service on the Gods and Devils Battlefield, the Black Dragon Clan’s representative arrived to discuss breaking off the engagement.

• Sang Ying defied Bai Shou’s attempts to stop her from practicing with a wooden sword and told him to obey her or leave her courtyard.
• Sang Ying overheard the honored guest propose a marriage between the Black Dragon Clan’s young clan leader and her, and told old clan leader Bai she would only accept if the fiancé married into the White Dragon Tribe.
• Old clan leader Bai arranged the betrothal for four hundred years later and sent Sang Ying away to study under a master.
• Sang Ying went to the Gods and Devils Battlefield with another young white dragon and asked the scarred general to let her serve as a soldier for four hundred years.
• Four hundred years later, the honored guest returned to the White Dragon clan leader’s residence and said he had come to discuss breaking off the engagement.

Madam Lanxin and Old Patriarch Bai learned that Xuan Jingshan’s clan had sent Xuan Han to break his engagement to Bai Qinglong. Old Patriarch Bai accepted the breakup and sent a letter urging Bai Qinglong to return, while the steward looked forward to her arrival.

• Madam Lanxin cursed Xuan Jingshan for breaking off the engagement and planned to introduce Bai Qinglong to a young White Dragon general returning from the Gods and Devils Battlefield.
• Xuan Han told Old Patriarch Bai that the Black Dragon Clan’s young master had fallen for another woman and returned the engagement token.
• Old Patriarch Bai returned the Dragon Pearl and declared that Bai Qinglong had no further ties to Xuan Jingshan’s young master.
• After Xuan Han left, the steward ordered the tea set he had used burned.
• Old Patriarch Bai gave the steward a letter for Bai Qinglong, warning that she could collect his corpse if she still refused to return.

Sang Ying led the White Dragon Tribe warriors to defeat a group of Devil Creatures on the Gods and Devils Battlefield, then learned from the patriarch’s letter that he wanted her to return to the tribal lands. She agreed, unaware that her engagement had already been broken off, and prepared to leave with Bai Shou.

• Sang Ying led her squad in killing the Devil Creatures, and she pulled Bai Shou out of danger when he lost focus.
• After the rift closed, Sang Ying received a letter from the patriarch urging her to return to the tribal lands.
• Sang Ying told Bai Shou she would go back and deal with her engagement, not knowing it had already been broken off.
• The camp mourned Sang Ying’s departure, while the messenger celebrated and wondered whether the Black Dragon Clan’s young master would still reject her after seeing her now.

Xuan Han returned the Dragon Pearl to Patriarch Xuan, while Xuan Jingshan announced plans to challenge the White Dragon Tribe at the coming competition. Meanwhile, Sang Ying returned from the Gods and Devils Battlefield and revealed herself as Bai Qinglong, leaving Madam Lanxin shocked that her daughter was not the son-in-law she had expected.

• Xuan Han presented the Dragon Pearl to Patriarch Xuan and questioned why the marriage alliance with the White Dragon Tribe had been abandoned.
• Xuan Jingshan confirmed his plans to form a marriage alliance with the Red Dragon Clan and defeat the White Dragon Tribe at the upcoming competition.
• Patriarch Xuan worried that his son's confidence could lead the Black Dragon Clan into a costly conflict.
• Sang Ying led the returning White Dragon Tribe warriors toward the patriarch's residence as tribespeople admired her imposing presence.
• Old Patriarch Bai and Madam Lanxin waited at the residence, and Sang Ying greeted them as she arrived.
• Madam Lanxin recognized Sang Ying as her daughter Bai Qinglong and lamented that the son-in-law she had hoped for was gone.

Sang Ying returned to the White Dragon Clan and reunited with her mother, while Old Patriarch Bai revealed that the Black Dragon Clan had broken her engagement and smeared her reputation. He asked her to retaliate at the Dragon Clan Grand Competition by keeping the Xuan Household’s boys out of the top ten.

• Old Patriarch Bai welcomed Sang Ying home and scolded her for being away for hundreds of years.
• Madam Lanxin learned Sang Ying had been on the Gods and Devils Battlefield, and Sang Ying reassured her that she had grown stronger.
• Sang Ying told Madam Lanxin she would have chosen the battlefield even if her father and brothers had survived.
• Old Patriarch Bai showed Sang Ying the betrothal ring returned by the Black Dragon Clan and explained how they had blamed her for the broken engagement.
• Old Patriarch Bai asked Sang Ying to beat the Xuan Household’s boys at the Dragon Clan Grand Competition and keep them out of the top ten.

Sang Ying trained for the Dragon Race’s grand competition and traveled with Madam Lanxin to Jialan City, where the White Dragon Tribe faced mockery from other dragons. The chapter ended when Sang Ying and her mother encountered Hong Miao, whose familiar bearing puzzled Sang Ying.

• Sang Ying trained diligently in the tribe’s forbidden grounds for a month, while Bai Shou worried that he could no longer keep up with her.
• Old Patriarch Bai sent Madam Lanxin with Sang Ying to attend the grand competition in Jialan City.
• When Sang Ying’s party arrived, other dragons mocked the White Dragon Tribe and doubted that Sang Ying could compete.
• Madam Lanxin urged Sang Ying to challenge Xuan Jingshan and silence the critics, and Sang Ying agreed.
• Sang Ying secluded herself to practice swordsmanship until Madam Lanxin took her out shopping, where they came face-to-face with Hong Miao.

Sang Ying rejected Hong Miao’s attempt to claim kinship, while Madam Lanxin insulted Hong Miao and Xuan Jingshan. After Xuan Jingshan ordered that no White Dragon Tribe members reach the top hundred, Sang Ying went to reclaim the martial courtyard and confronted Hong Yan.

• Sang Ying drew her sword on Hong Miao when she blocked the way, then Madam Lanxin told Hong Miao to stop calling Sang Ying her little sister and criticized Xuan Jingshan.
• Xuan Jingshan heard about the confrontation and ordered that no White Dragon Tribe member be allowed into the top hundred of the grand competition.
• After shopping with Madam Lanxin, Sang Ying learned the Red Dragon Clan had been keeping the White Dragon Tribe from using the martial courtyard and went there to demand access.
• Sang Ying found Hong Yan had defeated the men in the courtyard, then told him she had come to take it back.

Sang Ying challenged Hong Yan for control of the martial courtyard and defeated him in a weapon fight. The Red Dragon Clan conceded the courtyard to the White Dragon Tribe, and Hong Yan acknowledged Sang Ying’s strength.

• Sang Ying knocked down a Red Dragon clansman who mocked her, then challenged Hong Yan for the martial courtyard.
• Sang Ying drew her spirit sword and fought Hong Yan, forcing him to draw his halberd when her strikes threatened his arm.
• Sang Ying defeated Hong Yan and held her sword at his throat until he admitted defeat.
• Sang Ying claimed the martial courtyard for the White Dragon Tribe, and the Red Dragon clansmen gathered their things and left.
• Hong Yan told Sang Ying that Xuan Jingshan was not worthy of her, and Sang Ying said she already knew.

As rumors spread about Sang Ying's victory over Hong Yan, Xuan Jingshan dismissed them and prepared to target the White Dragon Tribe at the grand competition. He accepted Sang Ying's challenge, only for Hong Yan's warning to reveal that he was worried she might kill Xuan Jingshan.

• The Red Dragon Clan withdrew to cultivate after Hong Yan's defeat, while the White Dragon Tribe returned to the martial academy and Sang Ying urged them not to overwork themselves.
• Xuan Jingshan dismissed reports that Sang Ying had defeated Hong Yan, believing she was too frail to possess such strength.
• The grand competition began in Jialan City's martial hall, and Xuan Jingshan ordered his clansmen to eliminate the White Dragon Tribe's competitors quickly.
• Xuan Jingshan questioned Hong Yan about the academy fight, but Hong Yan rebuffed him and walked away.
• After learning Sang Ying had challenged him, Xuan Jingshan accepted and gathered his clansmen to watch.
• Hong Yan stopped Sang Ying before she entered the platform and told her to be careful, then added, “Don't beat him to death!”

Sang Ying defeated Xuan Jingshan and swept through the competition preliminaries, while the White Dragon Tribe advanced and the Black Dragon Clan faltered. Far away, a Devil Creature appeared on the Gods and Devils Battlefield, and the Devil-Sealing Pearl shattered.

• Sang Ying defeated Xuan Jingshan after driving him off the platform, and the referee declared Bai Qinglong the winner.
• An elderly observer praised Sang Ying as Bai Yi's daughter, and she went on to claim thirty consecutive victories and pass the preliminaries.
• More than half of the White Dragon Tribe advanced to the second round, while few Black Dragon Clan members advanced after the Red and Golden Dragon Clans joined the White Dragon Tribe in targeting them.
• A warrior on the Gods and Devils Battlefield spotted a black shadow and vanished, leaving his weapon and a pool of blood behind.
• The Devil-Sealing Pearl in the White Dragon Tribe general's tent suddenly fell and shattered.