Bai Suzhen, a thousand-year-old white snake, descends from the mountains with her medical skills. Using the radiance of a celestial herb, she saves the people of Lin’an from a plague, but at the Bao’an Hall she meets Xu Xian, a gentle scholar. After searching for medicine on a rainy night and exchanging lantern messages at the Qixi Festival, she believes she has found her true love. Then, pregnant with a celestial child and weakened in power, she sees her once-tender husband bring fabricated evidence and summon Fahai with his alms bowl to destroy the clinic and accuse her of being a “demon who brings calamity upon the world.”
Who has been whispering in Xu Xian’s ear? What poisonous scheme lies behind the wealthy Liu Ruyan’s friendly overtures? Is there more to Fahai’s obsession with “exorcising demons” than meets the eye? Xiaoqing braves danger to find a magical treasure and save her sister. On the night of the battle beneath Leifeng Pagoda, the sword that cleaves through the Buddha’s light also cuts through the layers of disguise concealing the wickedness in people’s hearts.
As the betrayer weeps with remorse and the schemer suffers the consequences of their own plot, Bai Suzhen retreats to Mount Qingcheng with her young son. Yet the legend of the “White Healer” of Lin’an still conceals a secret no one knows, a tale of love and calculation…
