Arc 43The Dragon Hunts the Plague

Bai Yujun uncovered the secrets of an ancient dragon tomb, then returned to a Heavenly Court devastated by war and hunted the evil gods spreading plague. Her pursuit led her to a hidden demonic domain, where she discovered a Divine Dragon Hall demon working with an evil god.

  • Bai Yujun exposed the Wine Worm’s empty tomb and Xiao’s lies, freed the swamp’s cursed souls, and destroyed Gray Shadow after finding a living sprout in the ancient tree’s hollow.
  • Bai Yujun returned to the Heavenly Court, learned it had been crushed by the Demon Realm, and descended with the Female Guard Camp to fight poison ghosts and evil gods.
  • Bai Yujun learned from a Half-Dragon woman that the Divine Dragon Hall had displaced and exploited her people, then promised to tell the true dragon they awaited her return.
  • Bai Yujun battled an evil god through a plague-stricken city and the surrounding mountains, destroyed his monstrous weapon, and killed an evil cultivator as celestial forces drove back the fiends.
  • Bai Yujun traced the Plague Evil God to Kui City, exposed a demonic domain beneath a cultivation sect, and collapsed the altar’s dragon veins and Hell Rift.
  • Bai Yujun infiltrated the evil god’s cave abode and found him drinking with a flood dragon demon from the Divine Dragon Hall, whose ancient dragon scale concealed its aura.
Chapters 1052–1076 Vol. 11 Read

Ch. 1052Subcontracting

Bai Yujun hired the impoverished scholar Zhang Yao to paint a dragon, paying him to capture its form after showing him her true dragon shape. Zhang Yao realized the encounter was real and rushed to Jinshan Mountain to begin painting, where his work stirred the weather.

  • Bai Yujun found Zhang Yao and offered him one hundred taels of silver to paint a dragon for her.
  • Zhang Yao said he needed to see a real dragon to capture its spirit, so Bai Yujun transformed into the White Divine Dragon before him.
  • Bai Yujun gave Zhang Yao a twenty-tael deposit and painting supplies, then sent him to the Jinshan Mountain temple.
  • After finding the silver, brushes, ink, and a lip-marked red leaf, Zhang Yao understood that the encounter had not been a dream and ran to Jinshan Mountain.
  • Zhang Yao began painting at the temple, and the waters near the ferry and Jinshan Mountain grew rough as his work stirred the weather.

Ch. 1053Showing the Way

Bai Yujun enjoyed a quiet day on the lake before seeking out local delicacies in the city. At Jinshan Mountain, Zhang Yao asked Hui Xian whether he could spend his life with the Dragon Lady, then mistook the monk’s struggle with a chicken for advice to persevere.

  • Bai Yujun drifted through the misty lake, ate a lotus flower, and later ordered a table of local specialties in the city.
  • Zhang Yao finished a day’s work on his enormous dragon painting and returned to the divine hall as Hui Xian, Little Stone, and Snake Demon Boy came back with a rescued chicken.
  • Zhang Yao told Hui Xian that he had seen a beautiful Dragon Lady and asked whether he could spend his life with her.
  • While Hui Xian repeatedly tugged the chicken’s rope, Zhang Yao took the scene as a lesson to persevere and thanked the monk for showing him the way.
  • Zhang Yao stayed up late painting, while Hui Xian remained unaware of what Zhang Yao thought he had said.

Ch. 1054Stone Stele

Zhang Yao stopped painting the dragon’s eyes after Old Monk Huixian warned that the dragon-infused painting could bring disaster. Far away, Iron Ball and the monkey investigated a strange gravestone and learned a village legend about a Baxia incarnation frozen by a pregnant woman’s gaze.

  • Old Monk Huixian stopped Zhang Yao from painting the dragon’s eyes and chanted until the storm around Jinshan Mountain calmed.
  • A drunken scholar saw Bai Yujun leap into the lake, mistook her disappearance for a ghostly sign, and fled.
  • Iron Ball and the monkey adjusted their ancient star chart, searched underground for a tomb, and found a puzzling stone stele near a village.
  • Iron Ball and the monkey asked a local elder about the stele, who recounted that a Baxia carrying it had turned to stone after being seen by a pregnant woman with four eyes.

Ch. 1055Visitors

Ironball and the monkey searched for the ancient tomb by tracing Baxia’s long journey, while Zhang Yao’s dragon mural drew a crowd at Jinshan Mountain. Snake Demon Boy confronted two demons with dragon aura at the dock and was wounded before Little Stone charged to defend him.

  • The monkey realized Old Barren Mountain was only one stop in Baxia’s journey, and Ironball used a map to estimate where the ancient tomb might be.
  • Zhang Yao continued painting four dragons on the temple wall as Hui Xian sat before the mural, and visitors praised the work while a scholar criticized the dragons’ blank eyes.
  • Little Stone told Hui Xian that two uninvited guests had arrived, and Hui Xian left the temple with him.
  • At the dock, Snake Demon Boy refused to let a man and woman with dragon aura pass and drew his sword when they threatened him.
  • Snake Demon Boy fought the pair, was struck in the chest, and staggered back bleeding.
  • Little Stone charged at the two demons, vowing to kill them for hurting his brother.

Ch. 1056Dragon Painting Eye-Dotting

Snake Demon Boy and Little Stone fought two demons until Hui Xian made them leave, while Bai Yujun slept beneath the lake. Three days later, Zhang Yao dotted the eyes of two dragons in his mural, bringing them to life before they eventually vanished into the clouds.

  • Snake Demon Boy and Little Stone battled two demons by the riverside until Hui Xian arrived and persuaded the demons to leave.
  • Hui Xian settled the disturbance, and he and his disciples went into Jinling City to seek alms.
  • Zhang Yao prepared to dot the eyes of his dragon mural as crowds gathered at Jinshan Mountain to watch.
  • Zhang Yao painted eyes on two dragons, which broke free of the mural and flew into the storm clouds.
  • The painted dragons dissipated, leaving two blank spaces in the mural, and eighty taels of silver appeared before Zhang Yao.

Ch. 1057Story

Bai Yujun emerged from the lake and explored Jinling, where she heard mortal stories that portrayed the Heavenly Court as cruel and noticed factions searching the city after the painted dragon on Jinshan Mountain flew away. She reunited with Old Hui Xian and his companions, who decided to return to Bamboo Spring Temple.

  • Bai Yujun left the lake, warned a little girl to stay away from its monsters, and disguised herself as an ordinary person.
  • Bai Yujun listened to a storyteller retell Dong and the Purple-robed Fairy Maiden’s tale, recognized its attack on the Heavenly Court, and left.
  • Bai Yujun heard more stories criticizing the Heavenly Court and ate at a food stall while considering the motives of the factions gathering in Jinling.
  • Bai Yujun spotted a demonic beast tied to the Divine Dragon Hall and several low-cultivation beings with faint Dragon Bloodline searching the city.
  • Old Hui Xian and the other two found Bai Yujun, and the trio decided to return to Bamboo Spring Temple.

Ch. 1058Mountain Range

Bai Yujun followed the monkey and Iron Ball into a secluded realm containing a suspected Dragon Tomb. She found them trapped asleep in a vat of ancient immortal wine, woke them with a Dragon’s Roar, and warned that the place held an unknown danger.

  • Bai Yujun traced the monkey and Iron Ball’s route from the broken stele to a mountain raised from underground, where she sensed their dragon scales.
  • Bai Yujun climbed the mountain’s inverted cliff path and followed the pair through a cave into a secluded realm with a golden tomb gate.
  • Bai Yujun sent clones through the tomb gate and discovered the monkey and Iron Ball asleep in a giant Wine Vat filled with fragrant Aged Immortal Liquid.
  • Bai Yujun dispersed the wine fragrance, awakened the pair with a Dragon’s Roar, and pulled them from the vat when the sticky wine trapped them.
  • Bai Yujun led the monkey and Iron Ball away from the wine and warned them that something about the Dragon Tomb was wrong.

Ch. 1059Exploring Again

Bai Yujun and her companions confronted a Wine Worm and a gray phantom after the Dragon Tomb valley fell into darkness. She identified the phantom as a dragon-blood-and-scale clone and tried to persuade it to open the tomb before declaring she would relocate the grave.

  • Bai Yujun suspected the wine-filled vat housed a Wine Worm and prepared to burn it, but the valley abruptly plunged into darkness.
  • A gray phantom appeared beside the vat, warned the trespassers away, and fought the monkey and Iron Ball with two battered Pumpkin Hammers.
  • Bai Yujun used dragon flame to make the Wine Worm surrender, then held it in place with her paper umbrella while the battle continued.
  • Bai Yujun found dragon scales and blood aura on the ground and realized Gray Shadow was likely a clone made from dragon materials.
  • Bai Yujun asked Gray Shadow to open the tomb chamber, but after he refused, she said she had come to help him relocate his grave.

Ch. 1060Catching the Worm

Bai Yujun uncovered that the Dragon Tomb was an empty secret realm where the ancient dragon Xiao had faked his death, and learned of dangers deeper inside. While her companions drank with the Wine Worm, she discovered the Wine Vat was an artifact stolen from the Ancient Heavenly Court.

  • Gray Shadow vanished after warning Bai Yujun and her companions to leave, while Bai Yujun's True Sight failed to reveal the tomb's secrets.
  • Bai Yujun kicked the Wine Vat until the Wine Worm emerged, then questioned it about the tomb.
  • The Wine Worm revealed that the tomb was empty, Xiao was not dead, and the site had once been a dragon's secret realm.
  • The Wine Worm warned that a dangerous swamp lay ahead and that the mausoleum's central area could only be entered at night.
  • The Wine Worm served its aged immortal wine while Bai Yujun kept watch and used Gaze into the Future.
  • The Wine Worm told Bai Yujun that Xiao had stolen the Wine Vat from the Ancient Heavenly Court, and Bai Yujun recognized the artifact.

Ch. 1061Swamp

Bai Yujun herded the forest in her Small World, then led the monkey and Iron Ball through a haunted swamp toward Xiao’s mausoleum. After finding a safe path, they encountered a corpse that tried to lure them into the water.

  • Bai Yujun seized the ancient Wine Vat and stored it in her Little Broken Ball World.
  • Bai Yujun played her bamboo flute to make plants take root and spread the forest across the wasteland.
  • Bai Yujun, the monkey, Iron Ball, and the Wine Worm searched the swamp for a safe route to the mausoleum.
  • The monkey sent out hair-clone monkeys, which found a solid path formed by a lifeless tree root.
  • Bai Yujun led the group along the root path and destroyed a submerged corpse that tried to beguile Iron Ball.
  • The monkey uncovered more ancient creature corpses beneath the aquatic plants.

Ch. 1062Dissolving the Curse

Bai Yujun confronted the resentful souls guarding the swamp and learned Xiao had cursed them to serve his false Dragon Tomb. After she lifted the curse, the mist cleared and revealed a ring of pillars surrounding the burial chamber, where an ominous mystery remained.

  • Bai Yujun held back the monkey and Iron Ball as the resentful souls surrounded them, then used her dragon might to repel the phantoms.
  • A tall man arrived and told Bai Yujun that Xiao had killed and cursed the souls, and that only a true dragon could free them.
  • Bai Yujun revealed that the ancient races had vanished and promised the souls they could rest in peace, lifting Xiao's curse.
  • The tall man warned Bai Yujun to beware of Xiao before he and the other souls disappeared, causing the swamp mist to disperse.
  • Bai Yujun saw stone pillars around the swamp's center, and the Wine Worm said Xiao had placed them before Bai Yujun led the group toward them.

Ch. 1063Decay

Bai Yujun discovered that the Dragon Tomb was a deathly prison built around a decayed ancient tree tied to dragonkind, and she rescued the tiny sprout hidden in its heart. Suspecting Xiao had lied about the secret realm, she destroyed the marsh and struck down Gray Shadow before leaving the valley in flames.

  • Bai Yujun, the monkey, and the iron ball waded through the death-soaked marsh and found a towering, long-dead ancient tree.
  • Bai Yujun accused Gray Shadow of killing the tree, but he claimed he had failed to save it and sealed the place afterward.
  • Bai Yujun gathered the tree’s decayed wood and found a living sprout in its hollow Tree Heart, then nurtured it in her Small World.
  • Gray Shadow said the other victim had been a Dragon Girl, and Bai Yujun concluded that Xiao had lied about owning the secret realm.
  • Bai Yujun returned to the marsh, transformed into her true dragon form, and burned the valley and its evil remains.
  • Gray Shadow tried to escape the dragonfire, but Bai Yujun’s Taiji Diagram and dragon claw struck him down, leaving a lifeless dragon scale in her claw print.

Ch. 1064Descending to the Mortal Realm

After returning from a three-hundred-year patrol, Bai Yujun learned that the Heavenly Court had suffered a devastating defeat and that plague was ravaging the mortal realm. The Female Guard Camp mobilized to hunt the Evil God Poison Ghosts, and Bai Yujun descended with them to the mortal realm.

  • Bai Yujun returned to the Heavenly Court and found its gates, mission hall, and Female Guard Camp deserted and heavily guarded.
  • The Great General told Bai Yujun that the Demon Realm had invaded eighty years earlier, the Heavenly Court had been crushed, and the Female Guard Camp had suffered heavy losses.
  • Bai Yujun returned to her quarters, but an urgent war drum summoned her to assemble with the Female Guard Camp.
  • The Great General ordered the soldiers to descend to the mortal realm, slay the evil gods, destroy the poison ghosts, and stop the plague.
  • Bai Yujun joined more than forty thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals at the Immortal Bridge and leaped down toward the mortal realm.

Ch. 1065Inside the City

Bai Yujun descended into a plague-stricken city and learned from its City God that seven Evil God Poison Ghosts were inside, while more threats lurked beyond the walls. She destroyed the city’s poison ghosts and sensed that the evil god responsible for killing loose immortals might still be nearby.

  • Bai Yujun descended through the clouds and found Filth Qi spreading through villages and the city, which began to clear wherever she stood.
  • Bai Yujun visited the City God Temple and asked the City God about the Evil God Poison Ghosts and the threats outside the city.
  • The City God told Bai Yujun that seven poison ghosts were inside the city and that demons might be supporting them, but he knew little about the dangers beyond his jurisdiction.
  • Bai Yujun refused the City God's offered treasure and sent seven translucent avatars across the city to hunt the poison ghosts.
  • Bai Yujun's avatars killed the poison ghosts, and she sensed that the evil god who had slain loose immortals might still be nearby as thunder and lightning cleared the Filth Qi.

Ch. 1066Mountain God Temple

Bai Yujun searched for Evil God Poison Ghosts, rescuing a group of cultivators at a Mountain God Temple and discovering that one woman was a Half-Dragon Person. She isolated the woman from the others and made her reveal her identity.

  • Bai Yujun swept across the plague-stricken land with storm and lightning, destroying Poison Ghosts as she searched for more.
  • A Poison Ghost chased four cultivators to a ruined Mountain God Temple, where the weak Mountain God could offer little help.
  • Bai Yujun killed the Poison Ghost with a blast and burned five more to ashes, dispersing the poison in the wounded cultivators.
  • Bai Yujun recognized the woman’s faint Dragon Bloodline, halted time for the others, and asked who she was.
  • The woman involuntarily revealed that she and her people were the Half-Dragon People.

Ch. 1067Half-Dragon People

Bai Yujun met a Half-Dragon woman sheltering in a dilapidated temple and learned how the Divine Dragon Hall had exploited and hunted her people. After promising to pass along the Half-Dragon People’s message to the true dragon, Bai Yujun vanished, leaving the others confused when time resumed.

  • Bai Yujun lit a fire and asked the Half-Dragon woman about her distant homeland and her kin.
  • The Half-Dragon woman explained that the Divine Dragon Hall had forced her people from their homes and used them as spies to search for a true dragon in the Heavenly Court.
  • The woman revealed that the Divine Dragon Hall demanded tribute each year, including spirit herbs, ores, and young women, and that her people held a deep grudge against them.
  • The Half-Dragon woman asked Bai Yujun to tell the true dragon that her people awaited her return, and Bai Yujun agreed.
  • Bai Yujun left the temple, and the three people and one god regained awareness, puzzled by the fire and taro peels.

Ch. 1068Evil God

Bai Yujun tracked a plague-spreading evil god to a city and confronted him as he poisoned its people. When he tried to use the mortals as leverage, she refused to show concern, leaving him stunned.

  • Bai Yujun followed the evil poison’s trail into a city and found an evil god creating poisonous ghosts from resentful souls.
  • The evil god spread more poison to provoke Heavenly Court, and Bai Yujun descended from the clouds to confront him.
  • The evil god recognized Bai Yujun, boasted about the bounty on her, and offered to let her submit to him.
  • Bai Yujun threatened to execute the evil god, but he released a wave of Filth Qi that sickened the surviving townspeople.
  • The evil god expected Bai Yujun to panic over the mortals’ suffering, but she said she was not human and asked why she should care.

Ch. 1069Blooming

Bai Yujun battled the plague-spreading evil god, weakening his Filth Qi with wind, rain, and freezing snow until she could locate him. After the evil god tried to lure her out by attacking survivors, Bai Yujun’s avatar disappeared, and she summoned an immense Ice Snow Dragon to descend upon the city.

  • Bai Yujun unleashed wind and rain to weaken the evil god’s Filth Qi, then froze the city with her paper umbrella and discovered his location.
  • Bai Yujun attacked the evil god’s skull and drove him back into the thinning Filth Qi, but poison ghosts and his concealment made him difficult to track.
  • The evil god sent poison ghosts after a crying girl to force Bai Yujun to reveal herself, and she destroyed the ghosts before his plague spell trapped her.
  • Bai Yujun’s trapped figure dispersed into starlight, revealing it was an avatar, while a Dragon’s Roar sounded across the city.
  • Bai Yujun appeared atop a colossal Ice Snow Dragon and declared the evil god was dead as the dragon descended.

Ch. 1070Divine War

Bai Yujun fought the evil god and his plague-born monster while protecting the townsfolk from the Divine War. By nightfall, the battle still raged above the ruined city as the townsfolk watched from outside.

  • The evil god unleashed Filth Qi that formed a huge monster, and Bai Yujun attacked with her Ice Snow Giant Dragon and dragon flame.
  • A Dragon Scale Clone rescued a little girl as Filth Qi and flying ice swept through the city.
  • Bai Yujun discovered that the evil god controlled the monster through his skull, and that destroying the monster also damaged the artifact.
  • Bai Yujun used lightning to destroy the monster again, then turned to pursue the evil god.
  • The City God and his followers fled, while surviving townsfolk escaped the city as Bai Yujun continued fighting until nightfall.

Ch. 1071Chaotic Battle

Bai Yujun fought the evil god through the night, then faced a chaotic melee as fiends and wandering immortals arrived. After burning the fat monster to ash, she saw Heavenly Soldiers and Generals descend.

  • Heavenly Court officials saw the battle through a bronze mirror and decided to alert Heavenly King He and dispatch reinforcements.
  • Wandering immortals headed toward the ruined city, while Bai Yujun continued fighting the evil god until dawn and the battle shifted into the mountains.
  • Fiends and wandering immortals joined the fight, and Bai Yujun charged into the fiends’ ranks, killing one with her blade.
  • Bai Yujun caught the fat monster’s iron chains, pulled it toward her, and burned it to ash with dragon flame.
  • Bai Yujun left the battle as streaks of flame-tailed Heavenly Soldiers and Generals descended.

Ch. 1072Snow Melted

Bai Yujun helped defeat the evil fiends, executed a captured cultivator, and returned to the devastated city. After seeing the civilian casualties, she set out to hunt the fleeing evil gods and felt drawn toward the Xia Clan's territory.

  • Bai Yujun and the celestial forces drove the evil fiends into retreat, while she captured the tall, skinny evil cultivator.
  • Bai Yujun beheaded the captive, destroying his soul, and the Gen Character Camp departed after warning her that people might slander her over the destruction.
  • Bai Yujun dispersed the clouds and melted the ice, then returned to the ruined city as civilians and local gods began restoring order.
  • Bai Yujun left the city to pursue the fleeing evil gods and sensed that she should visit the Xia Clan's territory.

Ch. 1073Tracking

Bai Yujun tracked an evil cultivator through villages and into the Rift Valley underground black market, where she learned the Plague Evil God was in Kui City. She killed her informant and continued her pursuit.

  • Bai Yujun arrived at a village beneath the dark clouds and pulled an evil presence from a woman's body, using it to trace an evil cultivator.
  • Bai Yujun disguised herself as a freckled female Wandering Swordsman and followed the evil cultivators' trail for three days.
  • Bai Yujun tracked one injured evil cultivator to the underground black market of Rift Valley.
  • Bai Yujun confronted the evil cultivator in his secret chamber and demanded to know where the Plague Evil God was.
  • The evil cultivator told Bai Yujun the Plague Evil God was in Kui City, and she crushed his heart and burned him to ashes.

Ch. 1074Underground Lightning

Bai Yujun planted lightning traps in the underground black market, exposing its evil and forcing the Xia Clan to act. She then hunted fiends across the region and infiltrated a cultivation sect, where she found a sinister well that seemed to connect to a layer of Hell.

  • Bai Yujun scattered lightning-filled spheres through the Rift Valley black market and escaped as one detonated, unleashing Yin Energy and Baleful Intent.
  • The Xia Clan moved to eliminate demons after the black market’s hidden evil was exposed, while Bai Yujun left the scene in disguise.
  • Bai Yujun pursued the Plague God’s fiends and saw an illusion of the city destroyed by crimson flames before continuing her hunt.
  • Bai Yujun discovered that a cultivation sect concealed a demonic domain beneath its auspicious grounds and infiltrated it through the earth veins.
  • Bai Yujun killed a fiend in the underground cavern and examined a pitch-black well that felt like a Hell Rift.

Ch. 1075Hell Rift

Bai Yujun discovered an altar in an underground cavern and forced a powerful, bound creature back into its well. She then disrupted the dragon veins sustaining the Hell Rift and escaped through an underground river as the cavern collapsed.

  • Bai Yujun investigated the cavern’s well and treasure materials, and her dragon saliva provoked a reaction from the evil power in the water.
  • A bound monster emerged partway from the well, but Bai Yujun used her dragon might and Ancient Dragon Language to force it back.
  • Bai Yujun recognized the cavern as an altar for summoning evil creatures and sensed the Spirit Vein and Yin evil Killing Intent sustaining a Hell Rift.
  • Bai Yujun shattered a restriction on the surrounding dragon veins, triggering tremors that damaged a nearby sect’s mountain gate and formation.
  • Bai Yujun sank the dragon veins and drained the well, then opened a rock wall and escaped through the underground river as the cavern shook apart.

Ch. 1076Flood Dragon Demon

Bai Yujun infiltrated the Xia Clan estate to hunt the evil god, but discovered he was meeting with a flood dragon demon from the Divine Dragon Hall. She saw through their hidden trap and identified an ancient dragon scale as the source of the demon’s concealed aura, leaving their confrontation poised to begin.

  • Bai Yujun used the Water Vein to gather the river water, disguised herself, and waited at an auspicious old tree until dawn.
  • Bai Yujun used the morning mist, a duplicate, and the Hidden Dragon secret art to slip past the estate’s defenses and enter the cave abode.
  • Bai Yujun found the evil god drinking with a flood dragon demon and recognized the demon as a member of the Divine Dragon Hall.
  • The flood dragon demon invited Bai Yujun to join the Divine Dragon Hall, but she joked that she could become its hall master.
  • Bai Yujun noticed the pair’s eagerness for her to step forward, withdrew her foot, and revealed that she had seen their hidden formation.
  • Bai Yujun identified the ancient dragon scale on the flood dragon demon’s chest as the object concealing its aura.
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