Yu Shuying

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Witch Gu Sect Experiments

The Witch Gu Sect captured everyone in Yu Shuying’s village to test combinations of Gu insects and herbs. Her parents, older sister, and the other villagers were tortured to death; she alone survived. Wu Xiu happened upon her while collecting unusual insects and rescued her 1264.

An Other-Mind Gu remained inside her brain, granting her mind-reading ability. It eventually became symbiotic with her: killing or removing it would also kill her, and even Wu Xiu could not resolve the condition. Yu Shuying remains deeply grateful to her master despite never receiving Wu Xiu’s true legacy 1264.

She grew up alongside Lin Qingluo. Both were disciples of Heaven’s Will Palace members and carried blood feuds, which became the foundation of their friendship. Yu Shuying particularly admired Lin Qingluo’s ability to comfort others without constantly displaying her own hatred 306.

School and Early Missions

Yu Shuying initially integrated quietly into her class. She disliked socializing but completed assigned group work conscientiously. Her arena match with Si Ming ended with classmates regarding her as the winner, yet she remained openly hostile toward him afterward 248.

Their early missions exposed a sharp ethical divide. When helping an abused mother, Yu Shuying pressed scissors into her hands and urged her to kill her tormentor, attacking her reasons for keeping her child nearby. Si Ming objected to her cruelty; Yu Shuying admitted that she wanted to observe changes in the human heart 255 256.

During the Black Earth Gang conflict, she demonstrated apparent mind-reading by revealing Lian Jun’s mistress and illegitimate son. She subsequently organized operations against Huyan Lie, using his sons as hostages and manipulating their family rivalry. Although her planning was crucial, public credit favored the stronger combatants 267 274 280 281 295.

Wei Chunxi later exposed the limitations of her mind-reading and Reverse Countering Marvelous Art, defeated her, and tried to make her drink Metal Cells Liquid. She refused and broke his suppression, but the encounter badly damaged her confidence 298 300 304.

Learning to Build an Organization

After repeated failed missions, Yu Shuying fell into despair upon hearing about Si Ming’s successes on the Barbarian Continent. His advice about friendship led her to reconsider her reliance on rigid plans and unreliable subordinates. She concluded that trust and resilience mattered more than trying to eliminate every possible variable 519 520.

As leader of the Green Snake Gang, she sought to reform the underworld by reducing protection fees and banning drugs. Rapid expansion created a funding shortage, prompting her to ask Si Ming for a sustainable source of income rather than temporary debt-collection or eviction work 526 528 529.

She recruited Auntie Liu as her company’s president, giving her forty-five percent of its shares. By the time Diao Bao reported on the business, its claw machines had spread to neighboring states, orders extended through March of the following year, and factory wages and benefits were drawing gang members into legitimate employment 553 956.

Nation of Valor and Smokeless Island

Yu Shuying accompanied Si Ming to study in the Nation of Valor, advising him on its disciplined culture and the importance of speaking directly. During the confrontation with Sun Wu University, she handled negotiations and refused to cancel the arena fight, arguing that Huyan Lie needed to face meaningful consequences 861 889.

On Smokeless Island, she and Si Ming divided the island into search areas to gather its inhabitants ahead of a demon tide. Later, she warned that his growing confidence and fame could expose both him and his companions to an ambush, helping him prepare a counterplot 909 935.

Barbarian Continent and Sorcery

Yu Shuying departed for the Barbarian Continent with Hualiu, carrying Si Ming’s Wheel-Turning King Sword as evidence of her authority and connection to him. Her assignment included investigating the Heavenly Martial Alliance and assisting fallen heroes’ families 971.

What Si Ming expected to be a half-year stay became a residence lasting two and a half years. The continent’s less regulated martial society suited her scheming, while her position as acting alliance leader allowed her to expand its influence and suppress noble clans and sects. Hongdou helped her unite the Monster Race 1105.

There she discovered exceptional talent for sorcery and devoted herself to Blood Abyss Sect techniques. Rapid cultivation initially made her more sinister and extreme, requiring Si Ming’s intervention to remove harmful Qi and heart demons. She continued cultivating with his assistance and gradually gained better control over the side effects 1105 1166.

Tu Wangyue and the Heaven-Defying Society

Working with Hongdou, Yu Shuying captured the wounded Tu Wangyue. She argued that exposing the holy maiden’s involvement in the demon tides could fracture the Mohist School and destroy public trust, proposing a sacrifice to protect the greater number while refusing to accept blame that would implicate Si Ming 1220.

Before the Divine Pillar repair operation, she exposed Whirling Nether Saber and Seven Star Venerable as Heaven-Defying Society-controlled spies. Her supposed mind-reading test was a diversion: the pills actually stimulated their Undying Brain Divine Gu. She then revealed her own history with the Witch Gu Sect and declared her intention to kill Fushi Qingcang 1264.

Appearance

• Face and build: Considered beautiful by her classmates; described as having a flat figure, dark hair, and slender brows 248 300 953 1176.
• Strategist costume: During a gang confrontation, wears a pitch-black robe and scholar’s kerchief while carrying a feather fan 544.
• Sorcerous presence: During her early Blood Abyss cultivation, Yin Qi, blood Qi, and Sha Qi coil around her, accompanied by a chilling gaze 1105.

Personality

Yu Shuying is aloof, proud, sharp-tongued, and difficult to approach, but not habitually disruptive. She fulfills ordinary responsibilities without enthusiasm for social attention. She also enjoys difficult problems, dismissing guaranteed success as uninteresting 248 553.

Her methods are ruthlessly pragmatic. Si Ming regards her goals as broadly righteous but her means as unorthodox, in contrast to Murong Qing’s commitment to procedural justice. She readily uses intimidation, poison, personal secrets, and institutional loopholes when they produce results 255 528 544.

Her confidence conceals considerable vulnerability. Wei Chunxi’s criticism leaves her dispirited, and later mission failures provoke an extended collapse into self-loathing. Nevertheless, she accepts responsibility for assigning people poorly and revises her approach rather than merely blaming subordinates 304 519 520.

Although she once preferred relationships based on utility, she develops genuine attachments. She eventually admits that loving Si Ming has made her care about his opinion and want to change for him—feelings she previously associated with foolish women 294 1176.

Abilities & Skills

Mind-Reading Technique

Her mind-reading comes from the Other-Mind Gu in her brain rather than an innate gift, despite claims she sometimes makes while misleading others 1264.

• Combat anticipation: Reads intended individual moves and prepares traps before an opponent acts. Against Si Ming, she redirects force through joints and balance points rather than attempting to overpower his defenses 246.
• Investigation and negotiation: Combines fragments of thought, emotions, and deduction to uncover secrets or infer negotiating positions 267 529 553.
• Psychological amplification: Announcing that she can read minds can make targets panic and relax their mental resistance, exposing more information 298.
• Limited depth: Complete readings require a simple-minded target with low cultivation. Stronger, mentally guarded targets may reveal only emotions or scattered fragments 298.
• Visibility requirement: Cannot read a person completely concealed inside armor 534.
• Not precognition: Cannot anticipate an attack that begins before conscious thought; Huyan Lie’s speed compounds this weakness 280.
• Indirect detection: Recognizes that she is trapped in an illusion by reading Diao Bao’s unaffected observations 957.
• Symbiotic risk: She cannot survive the Other-Mind Gu’s death 1264.

Reverse Countering Marvelous Art

An Internal Cultivation art whose True Qi assumes an attribute opposite to the opponent’s 300.

• With superior Internal Cultivation, the opposing attribute can decisively suppress an enemy’s Qi 300.
• Against a stronger cultivator, the same opposition becomes a liability; Wei Chunxi uses it to restrain her meridians 300.
• Channels counteracting Qi through her water-parting spikes, numbing Daoist Crow’s arms and damaging his muscles and meridians 957.

Martial Arts and Whip Techniques

Yu Shuying controls a difficult iron-cored leather whip with enough precision to make it move like a living snake. Her fighting emphasizes anticipation, changes of direction, and exploitation of openings 243 245 246.

• Auspicious Snow Abundant Spirit Palm: Produces a subtle pushing force that even Si Ming’s Jade-Clad Dharma Body cannot fully dissipate 245.
• Frost-Defying Plum Fist: An alternative fist technique she uses after Si Ming analyzes her palm art 246.
• Heaven and Earth Spin: A whirling aerial descent combined with repeated palm strikes 245.
• Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell: Removes and spins her outer garment into an incoming sword strike, creating an opportunity for a poisoned counterattack 544.
• Iron Plank Bridge: Bends backward to evade Wei Chunxi’s flexible sword 300.
• Limits: Her early martial aptitude is only above average, and she eventually abandons martial cultivation in favor of sorcery 1105.

Poison, Gu, and Medicine

She develops poison arts to compensate for the cultivation gap between herself and older opponents 533.

• Paralytic poison: Carries a dark-purple needle capable of paralyzing a target’s entire body 533.
• Qi-Eroding Heart-Refining Gu: Weakens Liu Qingqing and allows Yu Shuying to track her during the race special 718.
• Insect control: Raises Gu insects and summons a hornet-like swarm with a sweet scent 710 718.
• Three Paths Gu: Uses this poison against Daoist Crow; his initial preparations do not render him immune 956 957.
• Medicinal experimentation: Develops medicine after which Liu Qingqing experiences vivid dreams of a life as Lin Qingluo 723.
• Gu detection: Uses specially prepared pills to stimulate Undying Brain Divine Gu and expose controlled infiltrators 1264.

Blood Arts and Sorcery

Daoist Duan Jinsu considers her sorcery talent exceptional: she quickly masters spells and extrapolates from what she learns 1105.

• Cultivated arts: Five Evil Seals, King Bone Purgatory Art, and Li Ban’s Blood Abyss True Scripture 1105.
• Soul attachment: Attaches herself to Hongdou to observe and advise, though delayed communication limits her usefulness in fast-changing combat 1170.
• Bodily control: Later takes control of Hongdou’s body and overwhelms the wounded Tu Wangyue with blood arts 1220.
• Side effects: Accumulating Blood Sha Qi and heart demons can distort her temperament. Si Ming purifies them through physical and spiritual union, using his yang essence, Glazed Pure Body, and Evil-Warding Divine Lightning 1105.
• Growing stability: Improved mastery substantially reduces how often she needs purification 1166.

Strategy and Leadership

• Psychological warfare: Exploits family grievances, concealed secrets, and fear to destabilize opponents 279 281 599.
• Long-term intelligence: Values an embedded informant as leverage over an entire conflict rather than sacrificing that asset for one operation 274.
• Organizational reform: Combines underworld expansion with lower protection fees, drug prohibition, and legitimate employment 528 529 956.
• Recognized limitation: Her early lone-wolf habits undermine teamwork; she later identifies trust as essential to surviving unforeseen developments 418 520.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Long whips — Uses an iron-cored leather whip in the arena and two whips to restrain Huyan Lie’s sons 243 280.
• Water-parting spikes — Paired weapons used to intercept Daoist Crow’s claw attack and deliver counteracting True Qi 956 957.
• Gu container — Carries it at her waist and reaches for it when unexpectedly awakened in the Spring Festival special 707.
• Vermilion Bird Profound Armor — Provides flight during the race special, although the course prevents high-altitude shortcuts 708.
• Phosphorus fire bomb — Uses its flash to signal Si Ming while escaping an illusion-assisted attack 957.
• Wheel-Turning King Sword — Receives it from Si Ming as a credential of authority on the Barbarian Continent 971.
• Filth-Severing Blood Arrow — Prepares it for Hualiu before battle. Its impact triggers an explosion comparable to a Spirit Transformation Grandmaster’s self-destruction and contaminates the target’s soul 1170.

Relationships

• Si Ming — Begins as an ideological opponent and reluctant mission partner, becomes her adviser and romantic partner, and helps control her sorcery’s side effects. She kisses him publicly before leaving for the Barbarian Continent 256 520 971 1105 1176.
• Wu Xiu — Master and rescuer. Yu Shuying remains sincerely grateful to her despite not inheriting her true legacy 1137 1264.
• Lin Qingluo — Childhood friend whose similar history of vengeance creates mutual sympathy; Yu Shuying admires her emotional resilience 306.
• Liu Qingqing — One of her few friends. Even while threatening her with insects during the race special, Yu Shuying avoids an aggressive tone 718.
• Hongdou — Friend and collaborator who forfeits the race to comfort her, later helps unite the Monster Race, and fights alongside her against Tu Wangyue 718 1105 1220.
• Murong Qing — Ideological rival whom she compares to light against her own shadow. She acknowledges Murong Qing’s sincerity and ability and is willing to cooperate against the Remote Heaven Society 541 953.
• Hualiu — Bodyguard and subordinate borrowed from Si Ming; accompanies her to the Barbarian Continent and supports her battle preparations 529 971 1170.
• Auntie Liu — President of her company and holder of forty-five percent of its shares 553.
• Diao Bao — Gang subordinate who reports on the legitimate business and is wounded protecting her from Daoist Crow 956.
• Fushi Qingcang — Target of her revenge as the figure above the Witch Gu Sect responsible for her village’s destruction 1264.

Notable Quotes

“No, because I wanted to witness the changes in a person’s heart. There’s nothing in this world more interesting than that.” 256

“No plan can be perfect and anticipate every variable in advance. So working to reduce variables was the wrong path in itself. The right approach is to improve our ability to withstand them.” 520

“Once I’ve killed Fushi Qingcang, I won’t have any regrets left in this life. It would be nice to settle down and be a housewife. You know, when I was little, I wished to be a beautiful bride.” 1264