Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 335 - 332 Punishment Evil Thunder God, Ziwei Dipper

Chapter 335: Chapter 332 Punishment Evil Thunder God, Ziwei Dipper

In the northern part of Junzhou, within Pingkang Prefecture.

In a tiny village on the outskirts of the county town, home to barely a dozen families and long since abandoned by the "Dragon Qi Prohibition."

It was the time when the noon meal should be cooked, yet there was no sound of human voices, nor could one see even a hint of smoke from cooking fires.

An appalling stench, as if it could sear one’s nostrils, enveloped the village from above, casting a dingy, greasy pall over everything within it.

Drip, drop...

There were only the disgusting sounds of slurping and feasting coming from the largest house in the village.

In the dead silence of the village, it sounded all the more sinister and terrifying.

At that moment, a pitch-black cloud rode the wild wind from north to south, rapidly approaching.

Boom! Boom! Boom!...

The thick clouds rolled continuously, with a sound faintly resembling thunderous war drums echoing within.

As the cloud neared the no-name village, it suddenly slowed, turned a corner, and stopped above the village.

Then, a thunderous shout, mingled with the roaring sound of thunder, cascaded down:

"Mighty thunderous officials, wielding human spirits. Flashing brilliantly, the Qiankun fully illuminated! Appear!"

A golden divine light instantly shone down from the clouds, slightly trembling before firmly fixing above the house that emitted the feasting sounds.

The thunderous spell from the clouds shifted once more:

"Generals of heaven and earth, the Turtle and Snake formation takes shape. With my five qis, drift unhallowed. The qi of Wusi, center combining form. With my single qi, lay ambush to the devil spirit.

Should any dare resist, let them be captured by Kui Gang. Hasten, hasten like decree!"

Crack——!!!

A blazing white bolt of lightning, like a divine sword descending from the heavens, struck down from the clouds, fiercely cleaving the house in two.

It was none other than the Thunder God’s special technique, "Heavenly Strike Five Thunders"!

In just an instant, the house collapsed into wreckage, exposing a filthy, charred interior.

Scattered about were hideous corpses, their flesh purple-black, their chests and bellies ripped open, their internal organs hurled asunder. There were old and young, men and women, amounting to dozens.

Clearly, these were all the inhabitants of the village.

And atop their piled corpses, lay a pitch-black creature with the face of a man and the body of a rat, its body exuding an odious stench of char.

It was thoroughly annihilated beneath the "Heavenly Strike Five Thunders."

Without a doubt, it was this monster that had devoured the internal organs of the dead villagers.

Suddenly, a figure in a white robe flashing with lightning swiftly descended from the heavens, landing on the roof of a nearby house.

Standing there, he was like an unbendable long sword, radiating a fierce and compelling presence.

This was the newly appointed Thunder Department Immortal Official, "Punishment Evil Thunder God" Cui Baiyu, who joined the "Nine Soldiers" on the same day as Wang Yuan, causing the Cloud Lord to lose a large bet on "Heavenly Dao’s favor".

The new Thunder God looked down at the carnage below with a very grim expression.

"This one isn’t the main perpetrator, but merely a Human-Faced Rat contaminated by the knowledge of the "Yellow-Skinned Dharma King" after dying of sickness.

In my pursuit, this is already the fourth one.

The misfortune we all hoped to avoid has ultimately not been averted.

Although the "Yellow-Skinned Dharma King" is powerful, it’s nothing more than a Weird that kills people instinctively without a brain."

After infiltrating the Great Yan Kingdom, there must have been other evil outsiders who took it in, concealing its movements, setting up false leads, and scattering the pursuers.

Not only there are the trace of Yellow Seals, but also an unknown number of enemies.

With inside and outside collusion, the trouble has indeed become grave!"

As the weather warmed up, countless unattended corpses began to decay, turning into breeding grounds for Fine Worms and diseases.

As the corpses gradually liquefied, a large number of pathogens followed the Corpse Water into the groundwater or spread into the air, contaminating water sources and the atmosphere.

At the same time, the flies, insects, and rats drawn by the decaying bodies also became the most troublesome sources of infection.

Outbreaks of Plague had already begun to emerge across Great Yan.

At this time, "Heaven Righteous Dharma Dao" fiercely struck another blow to Great Yan.

They released a "Devil" of extreme terror.

Fortunately, due to the intervention of Wang Yuan and Xie Tianke.

They were quite fortunate to seal "Earth Mother Black Heaven" Aoxin in time and slay another four "Yellow-Skinned Dharma Kings."

Significantly reducing the intensity of the Rat Plague by much more than four-fifths.

The subsequent destructive power was no longer enough to give the Naiman tribes an easy opportunity to breach White Cloud Pass.

But for Great Yan, it was still a massive problem.

Especially when the Great Yan Court was busy relocating warlords and preparing replenishments for the heavily injured "No-Life Buddha," showing no interest in disaster relief.

This also pushed Immortal Officials like Xu Zhenzhi, who had descended from the mountains one after another, to the forefront.

After the "Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Net" issued a warning, the nearby "Immortal Officials" were mobilized to pursue and encircle that escaped "Yellow-Skinned Dharma King."

Unfortunately, it seemed someone intentionally suppressed the instinct of the "Yellow Robed Dharma King," moving from one place to another, causing the poisonous Rat Plague to blossom in all directions.

The first-level spreaders, upon hearing the Buddhist chant played by the Plague Demon, would fall ill immediately.

Some with weak bodies, the elderly and children, might die within a day, their whole body turning a woeful purple-black as they meet a tragic death.

But whether alive or dead, they would carry a strong contagion, causing an extremely terrifying interpersonal spread.

After secondary transmission, it would revert to a common rat plague.

After being infected, secondary spreaders have an incubation period for the rat plague of about three to nine days; Military Skill Practitioners might have an even longer incubation period, enough to let them live and reach faraway places.

This will also lead to the far-reaching spread of the plague’s fine worms.

And furthermore.

When those first-level spreaders die, there’s a certain chance they will turn into secondary Deceit Monsters·Human-Faced Rats, under the control of the Yellow-Skinned Dharma King, still possessing strong infectiousness.

Many pursuers have been misled by them, scattering more and more in the process of pursuit, and to this day have not been able to find the Yellow-Skinned Dharma King’s figure.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became.

"It must be those traitorous dogs from the sect who have sided with the Heavenly Official!

If I don’t root you all out, how can I face the Star Lord Taibai who has fallen in battle?!"

Cui Baiyu gritted his teeth in anger.

At the time he received the mission, he was in the northern border helping the Firearms Camp repair a batch of damaged Daoist Skill Cannons.

He happened to hear the news from within the Marshal Mansion at White Cloud Pass.

To stop this plague from the source.

The Star Lord Taibai, who had just joined the Nine Soldiers along with him, had already perished along with the Earth Mother’s Black Heaven at the end of February!

Both had fallen into the Earth Gate, the one-way path to the Netherworld since ancient times.

Dead yet not dead, never to return to the mortal world again.

Even though Xie Tianke organized people to erect a monument and memorialize this great man, known for his great compassion, noble character, and spirit of self-sacrifice... it was too late.

Overnight, all the people of the North Border were made to offer sacrifices to Star Lord Taibai, but it was all in vain.

"What a pity, the Senior Brothers said that although the Plague Department is one of the eight Immortal Officers, powerful as they are, they have sparse divine positions and hardly any presence.

Totaling less than ten fingers all together, they are often short-staffed. The few Immortal Officers being scattered across the entire Great Yan Border can’t even make a ripple.

Who knows when they’ll be able to send help.

Relying on them is like hoping for a Dou Department Immortal Official expert in divination to join the chase.

If only we can kill the Yellow-Skinned Dharma King in time, we could reduce the harm of this rat plague by eighty percent!"

Cui Baiyu looked up towards the south.

Further south from here is Central Pass, a fertile land of dense population.

"We must not let the Yellow-Skin Dharma King escape there!"

With a wave, he threw a Fire Talisman, burning the entire village to the ground. The Punishment Evil Thunder God transformed into a lightning bolt, rushing through the sky in a hurry.

...

The night was deep and quiet.

In Yunhe County, Mirror Lake.

The bridal chamber on the small island in the center of the lake, where Wang Yuan and Huang Wu lived, though a scene of great splendor, had not been slept in for more than a few nights.

Lying on an exquisitely crafted Thousand-Worked Step Bed was not the usual Old Master Wang,

but two graceful figures dressed in identical moon-white Phoenix Pattern Silk Robes.

One was delicate and refined, her black hair like ink; the other had silver hair and a sharp, blade-like presence.

At this moment,

Huang Wu curled up in the embrace of Taibai’s avatar, had already fallen into a deep sleep.

On her temples, a silver-grey Calamity Butterfly slowly fluttered its wings, emitting a circle of foggy spirit light, enveloping her entire being, dreamlike and illusory.

The star trace on the brow of Wang Yuan’s Taibai avatar grew increasingly bright, and the distant Hesperus responded with a faint twinkle.

He had already activated the core ability that every Star Lord possesses—Star Entering Life, increasing his power in full.

Then he used all his might to perform the Divination Technique of Ziwei Dipper that every Dou Department Immortal Official could use by nature.

The Seven Killings Star, Po Jun Star, Lianzhen Star, Greedy Wolf Star, Ziwei Star, Heavenly Mansion Star, Mars Star, Heavenly Image Star, Sun Star, Giant Gate Star, Heavenly Mechanism Star, Taiyin Star, Heavenly Liang Star, Tiantong Star,

a total of fourteen main stars cast their light and shadow in the bedroom, forming a complex Ziwei Life Plate, enhancing both Huang Wu and the Calamity Butterfly.

At the same time,

all the Yin Officials and Yin Soldiers in Dengzhou Prefecture had already mobilized upon an order from Old Master Wang.

Streams of divine light, like shooting stars, traced across the night sky one after another, starting a carpet search within their respective jurisdictions for any fish that slipped through the net during the plague.

They held a staunch defense, resolutely keeping it out of Dengzhou’s boundaries.

While Wang Yuan and Huang Wu had just used Daoist Skill in secret to save the life of a villager in the incubation period of the plague,

they were now about to use the Ziwei Dipper to enhance the Dream Illumination combining their efforts to find the origin of this rat plague!

And then, kill it while it was alive!