Azure Dragon

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Azure Dragon witnessed humanity’s early encounters with Guixu and warned younger fighters not to underestimate its former horrors 70.

He had previously died and returned to life. Aware that Guixu could control those it resurrected, he saw fine threads connected to himself and wondered whether he was a puppet acting under its direction 72 73.

In a flashback, Azure Dragon rescued Yun Wangshu after illegal experiments and abuse drove her to attack other students. He destroyed her collar, ordered the experimenters executed, and arranged for her care 103.

Appearance

Azure Dragon looked to be in his twenties or thirties despite being over a hundred years old 68.

• Hair: Long and dark green, tied behind his head 68.
• Clothing: An azure robe with faint scale-like patterns 68.
• Final appearance: His youthful face wrinkled and his body wasted away as he died 105.

Personality

Azure Dragon could be warm and playful with younger colleagues, joking with Fan Daoyi and protesting when Qian Heaven took his pen. He also deliberately adopted a serious manner when joking 85 100 102.

He was protective of younger people: he wanted Yun Wangshu to have a home, went to rescue people trapped in an illusion on a snowy mountain, and comforted Xun Wind as he himself was dying 77 103 105. His concern for the wider country could also lead to severe decisions, including ordering controlled civilians shot during the Insect Disaster; an invisible barrier stopped the bullets 95.

Abilities & Skills

Illusions and Sinking Dream

Illusions were Azure Dragon’s specialty. He shattered the Illusion Realm triggered by flowers in Fan Daoyi’s home and woke his guards 68.

• Sinking Dream: Drew people weaker than him throughout the country into a dream 69 70.
• Dream trial: Constructed a simulated trial to expose the person framing Fan Daoyi. Within it, he manipulated circumstances and restricted a small portion of the fighters’ abilities 70 72.
• Memory alteration: Erased Kan Water’s and He Piaojian’s conversation about Fan Daoyi’s restorative power and filled the gaps with illusions. He had also modified some of his own memories 86 99.

Mist Painting

Azure Dragon used mist and ink-wash imagery in combat 94 97.

• Turned into mist and moved through rubble and narrow openings 86 94.
• Gathered clouds around the half-bone, half-flesh creature above Azure Cloud City, though its Scales dispersed them 94.
• After reaching Limit Break, trapped the swarm’s poison energy forms in a small world created through Mist Painting, using them to sustain himself 97.

Equipment

• Green-jade folding fan — Used to project an ink-wash landscape over Azure Cloud City as part of its sealing formation 95.
• Sealing item — Used during Fan Daoyi’s staged arrest to restrict teleportation at Eight Trigrams headquarters 68.

Relationships

• Fan Daoyi (Dao Yi) — Azure Dragon approved his admission to Eight Trigrams and wanted him as a successor. They staged an arrest and dream trial together, and Azure Dragon later entrusted him with command of the Four Symbols Guards 68 70 97 100.
• Qian Heaven — A close colleague whose membership in the Four Fiends Cult Azure Dragon said he had known about from the beginning. Kun Earth blamed Azure Dragon for allowing him to join Eight Trigrams 100 102.
• Kun Earth (Yun Wangshu) — Azure Dragon rescued her after her illegal experimentation and arranged for her care. She later confronted him over Qian Heaven 102 103.
• Xun Wind — A younger colleague whom Azure Dragon comforted shortly before dying 103 105.
• He Piaojian — Defended Fan Daoyi against Azure Dragon during the staged trial. Azure Dragon later erased his memory of Fan Daoyi’s unusual restorative ability 71 86.

Story Role

The staged arrest and dream trial

While searching Fan Daoyi’s home, Azure Dragon found that a Guixu contract item had not been activated and broke an illusion hidden in a vase of flowers. Concluding that Fan Daoyi was being framed, he arranged a staged arrest to lure out the culprit 68.

At a temporary base, he cast Sinking Dream and created a public trial within the illusion. He Piaojian and other Eight Trigrams members defended Fan Daoyi; at Fan Daoyi’s suggestion, Azure Dragon intensified the fight to draw out their potential. The trial was left unfinished 69 70 71 72.

The Insect Disaster

Azure Dragon ordered Guixu’s entrances sealed after a ripple spread from a newly created entrance 75. During the attack on Azure Cloud City, he sealed the city with an array and directed its defense. Fan Daoyi’s Balance pushed Azure Dragon and other warriors toward Limit Break, after which Azure Dragon ordered the Four Symbols Guards to follow Fan Daoyi’s command 95 97.

Qian Heaven’s departure and death

After the disaster, Azure Dragon led a meeting assessing the crisis. He later told Eight Trigrams that Qian Heaven had always belonged to the Four Fiends Cult and had chosen to return to it 100 102.

Fan Daoyi warned Azure Dragon that the resurrected would begin dying. Azure Dragon spread the warning, then comforted Xun Wind, cautioned the survivors about the Four Fiends Cult, and entrusted the country’s future to them before dying 104 105.

Notable Quotes

“Perhaps that’s a question only one can see most clearly for oneself.” 72

“This old man is just experiencing old age for once. It’s been so long. Is this what it means to be myself...” 105