Arc 44Dragon Palace and Peach Banquet

Bai Yujun defeated the Gray Flood Dragon and the Evil God, then traveled to the East Sea Dragon Palace and the Three Immortal Islands before performing at the Peach Banquet. As the Heavenly Court faced mounting danger, she was named among the generals sent with King Zhao to the netherworld.

  • Bai Yujun defeated the Gray Flood Dragon, learned that Xiao had killed a young blue divine dragon, and destroyed the Evil God responsible for a plague massacre.
  • Bai Yujun rescued Xia Lan’s party from rogue immortals, then returned to the Heavenly Court and received an appointment guarding the South Heavenly Gate.
  • Bai Yujun traveled east, explored abandoned dragon lands beneath the sea, and discovered Qing Shao and the imprisoned East Sea Dragon Palace.
  • Qing Shao told Bai Yujun how war had destroyed the Dragon Palace and warned her that Xiao was a traitor, so Bai Yujun left without learning how to see the past and future.
  • Bai Yujun delivered Peach Banquet invitations to the Three Immortal Islands, investigated a wrecked Heavenly Court cargo ship, and learned she had been assigned to dance at the banquet.
  • Bai Yujun gave Chang'e dragon flame hidden in a block of salt, then performed a battle dance depicting the Heavenly Army fighting the Devil Race.
  • Bai Yujun fought a half-demonized beast and destroyed an unauthorized tower ship at the South Heavenly Gate as signs of disorder spread through the Immortal Realm.
  • The Heavenly Court ordered King Zhao to lead one hundred thousand soldiers to the netherworld and named Bai Yujun among the accompanying generals.
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Ch. 1077Turning Hostile

Bai Yujun confronted the flood dragon demon in its cavern, drove off the evil god, and destroyed the demon’s traps before fighting it. She fled through the underground river with the flood dragon demon in pursuit, and the passage began collapsing around them.

  • Bai Yujun persuaded the flood dragon demon to let the evil god leave, then challenged it over the Divine Dragon Hall’s dealings with demons.
  • The flood dragon demon mocked Bai Yujun and demanded her Dragon Pearl and dragon blood, but she revealed that its traps were useless and used a clone to draw it outside.
  • Bai Yujun shattered the mountain containing the cavern and fought the flood dragon demon as the Xia Clan’s immortals arrived.
  • Bai Yujun escaped into the underground river, and the flood dragon demon followed after her, hoping to seize her True Dragon Bloodline.
  • The flood dragon demon pursued Bai Yujun beyond Kui City, then discovered that the underground river passage was collapsing around it.

Ch. 1078Beasts at War

Bai Yujun fought the Gray Flood Dragon across a desolate mountain, first struggling against it in human form before revealing her enormous White Divine Dragon form and overpowering it. The battle continued in human form by a lake, where Bai Yujun began thinking of the demon as a meal.

  • Bai Yujun used the mountain’s Water Vein to attack the Gray Flood Dragon, but it broke through the ground in its giant beast form.
  • Bai Yujun fought the Gray Flood Dragon with her saber and shield, but its size and strength repeatedly sent her crashing into trees and cliffs.
  • Bai Yujun rose into the clouds, transformed into a White Divine Dragon over two hundred and forty zhang long, and seized the Gray Flood Dragon with her claw.
  • Bai Yujun battered the Gray Flood Dragon with her claws, tail, and dragonflame until it abandoned its giant form and fled as a human.
  • Bai Yujun also returned to human form and pursued the Gray Flood Dragon with her sabers, destroying a hidden corpse-raising cave as their fight moved toward a lake.
  • Bai Yujun fought the Gray Flood Dragon by the lake and considered eating it after remembering how long it had been since she had eaten her fill.

Ch. 1079Dragon Scales

Bai Yujun fought a flood dragon demon and used an azure dragon scale to witness Xiao slaughtering a young blue divine dragon. After driving off the demon and scattering the greedy spectators, she left to kill the evil god.

  • The evil god entered a small town, spread gray poison, devastated its inhabitants, and killed the local Land God before it could send a warning.
  • Bai Yujun battled the flood dragon demon in a swamp, using lightning and snow as she gradually gained the upper hand.
  • Bai Yujun knocked an azure dragon scale from the flood dragon demon and used it to witness Xiao killing and harvesting a gravely injured young blue divine dragon.
  • Bai Yujun roared Xiao's name in fury, frightening the flood dragon demon into fleeing.
  • Wandering immortals gathered to seize or kill Bai Yujun, but her dragon roar scattered them and overturned their flying vessels.
  • Bai Yujun concealed her tracks and set out to completely kill the evil god.

Ch. 1080Blessing Prayer

The White Dragon ambushed and defeated the evil god responsible for slaughtering an entire county with plague. Bai Yujun tortured him with a Daoist blessing ritual until he agreed to reveal why he had ordered the massacre.

  • An official sent a memorial describing the plague’s devastation, then hanged himself as the county’s people and yamen runners lay dead.
  • The evil god admired his appearance on the Drum Tower, unaware that the White Dragon had arrived and was about to attack.
  • The White Dragon struck the evil god with lightning, weakened his fate through a true covenant, and burned him with dragonfire.
  • Bai Yujun transformed into human form, slapped the defeated evil god, and demanded to know why he had launched the massacre.
  • Bai Yujun began reciting Daoist scriptures and performing a blessing ritual over the evil god, who finally agreed to tell her everything.

Ch. 1081Slaying Evil

Bai Yujun executed the Evil God and watched his death lift the plague from the county town, then resumed her hunt against the forces threatening the mortal world. Elsewhere, Miss Lan left Kui City aboard a flying vessel to search for the white Dragon Girl, while a furtive figure followed the travelers.

  • Bai Yujun learned that a powerful, unidentified expert had ordered the Evil God to spread plagues and that the Gray Flood Dragon had helped set a trap for her.
  • Bai Yujun sentenced the Evil God for his crimes and destroyed his divine body with a lightning-charged blade.
  • Bai Yujun saw the Evil God's death dissipate the poison and Filth Qi, free the ghosts, and allow surviving victims to recover before she set out again.
  • Miss Lan left Kui City aboard a flying vessel with her companions and persuaded them to keep searching for the white Dragon Girl.
  • The vessel crossed Cloud Concealing Ridge into Heavenly Court territory, where Miss Lan's party saw heavenly soldiers fighting poisonous ghosts.
  • The middle-aged female immortal noticed a furtive figure following their vessel.

Ch. 1082Support

A Heavenly Soldier squad was caught in an ambush against the Xia Clan and fought alongside the clan’s survivors. When the attackers overwhelmed them, Bai Yujun answered their plea for aid and began cutting down the masked rogue immortals.

  • Heavenly Soldiers exterminated a group of poison ghosts, then saw a Xia Clan flying vessel crash nearby as its passengers fought off mysterious attackers.
  • A Xia Clan woman brought the young miss and her guards to the Heavenly Soldiers for protection, and the squad joined their defense against the masked rogue immortals.
  • The Heavenly Soldiers formed a shield wall that withstood an attack, but the attackers eventually shattered their formation and wounded the squad.
  • Bai Yujun arrived after receiving the squad’s call for aid, killed one attacker, and used her dragon might to force the rogue immortals to the ground.
  • Bai Yujun invoked Heavenly Court law and killed the attackers one by one, sending one opponent’s true spirit to the underworld rather than destroying it.

Ch. 1083Xia Lan

Bai Yujun met Xia Lan while clearing demons, then returned to the Heavenly Court after three years of missions as the mortal realm’s turmoil eased. She was appointed a divine general and permanently assigned to command the South Heavenly Gate.

  • Bai Yujun looted the fallen enemies, sniffed around Xia Lan, and recognized her name from a tragic Fate Line.
  • Xia Lan excitedly identified Bai Yujun as the Mythical Beast White Dragon, and they talked about dragons, phoenixes, and Xia Lan’s handsome elder brothers.
  • Bai Yujun declined to pursue Xia Lan’s brothers, joked that she might eat them, and left when Xia Lan’s family approached.
  • Bai Yujun continued suppressing demons across the mortal realm as the war with the Demon Realm shifted toward defense.
  • Three years later, Bai Yujun returned to the South Heavenly Gate and was formally appointed a divine general in command there.

Ch. 1084Standing Guard

Bai Yujun stood guard at the South Heavenly Gate, where Erlang Shen unexpectedly chose the side entrance, leaving her to bask in the prestige. The Empress then summoned Bai Yujun and sent her to deliver Peach Banquet invitations to three immortal mountains, with instructions to visit the Dragon Palace on the way.

  • Bai Yujun guarded the South Heavenly Gate and listened as Minor Gods discussed her strength and rank.
  • Erlang Shen arrived with the Howling Celestial Dog, greeted Bai Yujun, and entered through a side gate instead of the central gate.
  • Bai Yujun proudly acted as though Erlang Shen had used the side gate to show her respect.
  • The Great General relieved Bai Yujun and told her the Empress had summoned her to the Jade Pool.
  • The Empress ordered Bai Yujun to deliver Peach Banquet invitations to Penglai, Fanghu, and Yingzhou, and suggested she visit the Dragon Palace while passing through the Eastern Sea.
  • Bai Yujun prepared her supplies and set out from the South Heavenly Gate, still unsettled by the prospect of visiting the Dragon Palace.

Ch. 1085On the Road

Bai Yujun traveled toward the East Sea through the mortal realm, keeping out of sight as she waited for a storm to carry her onward. She stopped to watch an opera in a nearly deserted village and saw that the dead had gathered beneath the stage as spectators.

  • Bai Yujun left the Heavenly Court and chose to travel slowly through the mortal realm rather than use the Teleportation Arrays to reach the East Sea.
  • Bai Yujun fished and ate aboard a small boat before a storm arrived, then transformed and flew more than a hundred li toward the East Sea.
  • An old troupe leader prepared his opera troupe to perform at the Ancestral Hall in Ma Family Gully despite the village’s dwindling population and poor business.
  • The troupe leader insisted the performers finish the show even if no mortals were watching, saying ghosts and gods had taken their seats.
  • Bai Yujun watched the opera and saw the area beneath the stage packed with the souls of the dead.

Ch. 1086Seeking the Tomb

The monkey and Ironball searched a sinkhole for a hidden mausoleum and discovered its entrance beneath an upside-down tombstone. After entering the inverted tomb, they were attacked by winged monsters, which Ironball destroyed with a dragon scale.

  • The monkey and Ironball traveled through a forest, guided by Ironball's compass and joined by the Wine Worm.
  • They followed the sound of a waterfall to a vast sinkhole, then jumped down and searched its dark, overgrown floor.
  • The Wine Worm spotted an upside-down tombstone, and Ironball realized the entire mausoleum was inverted.
  • The monkey smashed open the entrance behind the tombstone and entered the tomb with Ironball.
  • Winged monsters attacked them in the darkness, and Ironball used a dragon scale to burn the creatures to ash.

Ch. 1087Coast

Ironball and the monkey found a Dragon Gate disciple’s corpse hiding a tunnel to hell, then destroyed the passage and sent word to Bai Yujun. On the East Coast, Bai Yujun attended a Dragon King festival and uncovered hints of an ancient ocean war, leaving her with a new question about the dragon dance.

  • Ironball recognized sword designs in the tomb as related to those carried by a Dragon Gate disciple and joined the monkey in smashing their way deeper inside.
  • The monkey and Ironball opened the black jade coffin and found the corpse of a young cultivator matching the disciple Bai Yujun had encountered at the Heavenly Pillar.
  • Ironball found a cold tunnel beneath the corpse, declared that the enemy was in hell, and destroyed the fissure with Bai Yujun’s Lightning Ball.
  • Bai Yujun watched a seaside village’s Dragon King ceremony, ate the offerings, and listened to a dance recounting how the Dragon King defeated a sea demon in ancient times.
  • Bai Yujun recognized the festival song as a clue to an ancient ocean war and noticed a new mystery while watching the dragon dance.

Ch. 1088Into the Sea

Bai Yujun left the village festivities to enjoy the shore, remember her old friend Mu Duo, and transform into a flood dragon in the sea. She ended the chapter joyfully mastering the ocean amid a violent storm.

  • Bai Yujun noticed the dragon dance’s red underside and suspected its color carried a message about fire.
  • Bai Yujun walked to the beach, explored her growing Little Broken Ball World, and spent the night thinking of Mu Duo and her family in the Southern Wilderness.
  • At dawn, Bai Yujun entered the sea and transformed into a white-haired flood dragon with a tail.
  • Bai Yujun raced through the ocean, played with dolphins, and hunted among the coral reefs.
  • On the third day, Bai Yujun reveled in a huge storm and practiced controlling its wind, rain, and towering waves.

Ch. 1089Beneath the Sea

Bai Yujun explored a mysterious world beneath the sea, where whales swam through clouds and ancient Dragon Clan residences lay abandoned. She found traces of a past battle and stone beasts that had nearly lost their spirituality, but no sign of the Dragon Palace.

  • Bai Yujun dived through a cloud layer beneath the seabed and emerged into a vast world of mountains and sky.
  • Bai Yujun watched a whale mother and calf swim through the clouds, then searched the strange realm for the Dragon Palace.
  • Bai Yujun found an abandoned courtyard decorated in Dragon Clan style and discovered an arrow embedded in an ancient banyan tree.
  • Bai Yujun searched more ruins and saw unfamiliar six-legged stone beasts guarding an estate.
  • Bai Yujun placed polished pebbles in the stone beasts' mouths and sensed that they had almost entirely lost their spirituality.

Ch. 1090Dragon Palace

Bai Yujun searched the undersea ruins for the East Sea Dragon Palace and finally reached its magnificent main hall. She forced open the golden doors and saw a tall figure seated on the dragon throne.

  • Bai Yujun explored the abandoned dragon lands, but fragmented Water Veins and an unexplorable region kept her from finding the Dragon Palace.
  • Bai Yujun followed the last trace of a Water Vein across the grasslands and, after three days, found a mountain crowned with a grand palace.
  • Bai Yujun climbed the mountain, avoiding its waterfalls, and called out to the divine dragon whose scent she had sensed.
  • Bai Yujun found the golden main doors shut, forced them open, and saw a tall figure sitting on the dragon throne inside.

Ch. 1091True Dragon Palace

Bai Yujun met the imprisoned East Sea Dragon King in what appeared to be the East Sea Dragon Palace. When he dropped the illusion, she saw that the palace was a cage of lava and ruins, built around his enormous body coiled around a fiery mountain.

  • Bai Yujun entered the palace and found a cyan divine dragon asleep on the throne.
  • The dragon awoke, identified himself as the East Sea Dragon King, and asked whether Bai Yujun served at the Jade Pool in the Heavenly Court.
  • The East Sea Dragon King angrily insisted that he ruled the ocean, then realized Bai Yujun's True Sight had seen through his claims.
  • The East Sea Dragon King dismissed the palace illusion, revealing Iron Cage Purgatory: a ruined mountain of lava and flames beneath a sky of black-red smoke.
  • Bai Yujun saw that the Dragon Palace Main Hall was the dragon's head and the colossal dragon's body coiled around the fiery mountain.

Ch. 1092Dragon King

Bai Yujun met Qing Shao and the three other Dragon Kings, who judged her as a wild dragon before one of them made an unwelcome remark about her as a Dragon Girl. She left the hall, while the Dragon Kings decided she might be the Dragon Clan’s last hope and discussed what her arrival meant.

  • Qing Shao introduced himself as an East Sea Dragon Clan member and used a spell to summon projections of the other three Dragon Kings.
  • The Dragon Kings learned that Bai Yujun had found an unnamed black dragon in a Dragon Tomb beneath the northern Ice Sea.
  • The South Sea Dragon King insulted Bai Yujun’s bloodline, then drew her anger by speaking of her as a Dragon Girl who could continue the Dragon Clan bloodline.
  • Bai Yujun drew her blade, rebuked the Dragon Kings, and left the palace to stand by the lava falls.
  • The Dragon Kings agreed to protect Bai Yujun and discussed whether she was the variable that could restore the Dragon Clan.

Ch. 1093Farewell

Bai Yujun heard Qing Shao’s account of the Dragon Clan’s defeat and learned that the East Sea Dragon Kings faced endless imprisonment. After questioning him about the Divine Dragon Hall and Xiao, she left the palace and returned to the open sea.

  • Bai Yujun brushed aside another attempt to pry into her Fate Line and worried that she might one day be imprisoned like the Dragon Kings.
  • Qing Shao told Bai Yujun how war had destroyed the East Sea Dragon Palace and left its surviving dragons trapped.
  • Bai Yujun asked Qing Shao about learning to see the past and future, and he told her that the Ancient Dragon Empress was said to possess that ability.
  • Qing Shao condemned the Divine Dragon Hall and warned Bai Yujun to be cautious around Xiao, whom he called a traitor whose fate was uncertain.
  • Bai Yujun said farewell to Qing Shao, left the dragon palace, and flew back through the clouds into the deep sea.

Ch. 1094Penglai

Bai Yujun arrived at Penglai to deliver the Queen Mother's invitations and explored the immortal island before meeting its residents the next morning. Elsewhere, a storm destroyed a temple that housed poor gods and evil ghosts, leaving a widow and child in danger until an old monk and his two companions arrived.

  • Bai Yujun reached Penglai at night, identified herself as a divine general of the Queen Mother's Female Guard Camp, and was welcomed by the old turtle guards.
  • Bai Yujun postponed delivering the invitations until morning, then wandered Penglai, ate its fruit and grass, and startled two female immortals.
  • A storm collapsed an abandoned temple filled with poor gods and evil ghosts, driving them into a nearby town in search of shelter.
  • The townspeople burned paper offerings to ward off the displaced spirits, but a poor widow and her child had none and were threatened by an evil ghost.
  • An old monk arrived at the town with a young novice and a strange boy carrying a Ring-pommel Saber, and his chanting calmed the spirits and the townspeople.

Ch. 1095Calling at the Door

Bai Yujun delivered the Yaochi Peach Banquet invitations across the Three Immortal Islands, then received an emergency order to investigate an ambush on a Heavenly Court cargo ship. She reached the wreck in Bamboo Shoot Peak Forest and entered its shattered cabin.

  • Bai Yujun feasted on Penglai’s fruit, spring water, lotus seeds, and roots before delivering invitations to the island’s immortals.
  • Bai Yujun broke a magic barrier at a secluded cottage, handed over another invitation, and continued delivering invitations across Yingzhou and Fanghu.
  • The Three Immortal Islands’ gods and immortals sailed toward the Heavenly Court aboard a tower ship, while a separate Heavenly Court cargo ship carrying rare metal entered a mountain gorge.
  • Masked attackers ambushed the cargo ship from the cliffs, defeated the celestial general, and left the vessel wrecked with dead and wounded scattered through the gorge.
  • Bai Yujun received orders to rescue survivors and investigate, reached the wreck in Bamboo Shoot Peak Forest, and entered the shattered cabin.

Ch. 1096Rehearsal

Bai Yujun investigated the masked attackers who had killed the transport ship’s crew, then returned to the Heavenly Court and was ordered to perform at the Peach Banquet. After changing into a crimson dress and reaching the rehearsal hall, she heard that Fairy Chang'e had arrived.

  • Bai Yujun replayed the cabin’s recent past and watched masked assailants kill the immortal general and heavenly soldiers before looting supplies.
  • Bai Yujun ruled out the Devil Race, demon beasts, ghosts, and monsters, then left a location marker and returned to the Heavenly Court.
  • The Great General sent Bai Yujun to find Wang Su, who told her the Empress had assigned her to dance at the Peach Banquet.
  • Bai Yujun changed into a crimson dress, watched the rehearsals, and recognized that her solo dance carried battle intent.
  • Bai Yujun heard the others announce that Fairy Chang'e had arrived and stared in surprise.

Ch. 1097Chang'e

Bai Yujun watched Chang'e dance, then practiced her own drum dance for the Heavenly Court’s celebration. Wang Su sent her to pick peaches with the Seven Fairy Maidens, bringing her face to face with the fruit she longed to eat.

  • Bai Yujun admired Chang'e, whistled at her, and watched her rehearse before lounging on a couch beside her.
  • Chang'e asked Bai Yujun how she remained calm, smoothed her hair, and left with a sorrowful expression.
  • Bai Yujun practiced dancing atop a giant drum as musicians played.
  • Wang Su sent Bai Yujun to pick peaches with the Seven Fairy Maidens for the celebration at the Jade Pool.
  • Bai Yujun followed the Seven Fairy Maidens toward the peach orchard, caught her horn on a flowering branch, and smelled the peaches nearby.

Ch. 1098Picking Peaches

Bai Yujun joined the Seven Fairy Maidens to pick peaches in the Heavenly Court’s Peach Orchard, secretly eating leaves and grass instead of the forbidden fruit. She then arrived at the Jade Pool banquet, where she looked around at the assembled immortals as the appointed hour approached.

  • The Seven Fairy Maidens entered the Peach Orchard, and Bai Yujun asked the Land God whether Heavenly law forbade eating peach leaves.
  • Bai Yujun picked peaches while eating leaves and weeds, leaving a tree’s lower branches and a ring of lawn bare.
  • The Queen Mother reacted with laughter and exasperation when the orchard’s leaves and grass disappeared.
  • Ziyi noticed green stains on Bai Yujun’s lips, and Bai Yujun rinsed her mouth with immortal spring water before the maidens hurried away.
  • At the Jade Pool, Bai Yujun surveyed the gathered immortals and found no meat dishes as the banquet awaited its appointed start.

Ch. 1099Dance Away All Splendor

At the Peach Banquet, Bai Yujun gave Chang'e a hidden gift after glimpsing danger in her future, then performed a fierce dance that mirrored a battle against the Devil Race. The chapter ended with the Devil Race army surging toward the heavenly army’s fortress as Bai Yujun’s dance foretold the fall of a glorious age.

  • Bai Yujun noticed that Immortal Lord Xia, Immortal Lord Li, and six other Immortal Lords had skipped the Peach Banquet, while Xia Lan attended with Immortal Lord Xia.
  • Bai Yujun gave Chang'e a block of salt concealing a compressed sphere of dragon flame after glimpsing Chang'e being attacked in the future.
  • Chang'e performed her sorrowful dance, then left for Guanghan Palace after greeting Bai Yujun.
  • Immortal Lord Xia told Xia Lan that no one was qualified to marry Bai Yujun because her fate had changed after she fused with the Kunlun Dragon Vein.
  • Bai Yujun danced atop a great red drum, while her performance depicted the heavenly army fighting the Devil Race in the southern Immortal Realm.
  • The Devil Race army surged toward the heavenly army’s fortress as blood-red skirts drifted down from Bai Yujun’s final dance.

Ch. 1100Keep Guarding the Gate

After the Heavenly Army suffered heavy losses in the war against the Demon Realm, Bai Yujun continued guarding the South Heavenly Gate as Heaven’s defenses weakened. When a half-demonized beast appeared amid suspicious disturbances, she transformed into a dragon and began eating it in full view of the watching immortals.

  • Bai Yujun returned to the Female Guard Camp, read letters from the Daoist sect, and wrote replies before resuming her post at the South Heavenly Gate.
  • She saw a funeral ship return with the remains of an annihilated military camp and worried that the Heavenly Army was losing ground.
  • Three months later, Bai Yujun noticed unusual mortal-realm emergencies and discovered that someone was concealing the Heavenly Secrets.
  • Bai Yujun ordered the Female Guard Camp to hold the Immortal Bridge, then struck a half-demonized beast emerging from the sea of clouds.
  • Bai Yujun transformed into a White Divine Dragon, roasted the beast, and began tearing it apart and eating it before the watching immortals.

Ch. 1101Lingxiao Palace

Bai Yujun crushed a tower ship that had provoked the South Heavenly Gate, proving her strength as the Heavenly Court’s authority weakened. Half a month later, she was ordered to join a Heavenly Army expedition to suppress chaos in the netherworld.

  • Bai Yujun charged the tower ship, broke its defensive array, destroyed the vessel, and killed one of its fleeing occupants.
  • Bai Yujun warned that unauthorized arrivals at the South Heavenly Gate would be killed, then returned to cheers from the defenders.
  • Bai Yujun worried that the Heavenly Court’s declining power could plunge the Immortal Realm into chaos.
  • Half a month later, Bai Yujun hurried to Lingxiao Palace after receiving an order to attend the proclamation.
  • The Heavenly Court ordered King Zhao to lead one hundred thousand soldiers to the netherworld, and named Bai Yujun among the accompanying generals.
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