Master Fu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Fu Yun came from a humble family and studied alongside Qin Zheng and Zhao Jianchen. Qin Zheng once regarded kingdom law as his faith, while Fu Yun later remembered his association with Zhao Jianchen as an education in humiliation and rigid class divisions 27 49.

He and Shen Xintang were lovers in their youth but separated. Their feelings endured for more than twenty years, during which Fu Yun repeatedly cited the difference between her illustrious Shen Clan background and his own low birth as a reason they could not marry 36 37.

For more than a decade, Fu Yun avoided fighting and quietly devoted himself to tending flowers and reading the Great Cang Kingdom Law. Although Xiao Mo and the manor’s students treated him as someone they could bully, he concealed Heavenly Dominion cultivation and possessed two Demon-Slaying Blades 44 48.

Appearance

• Ordinary appearance: A middle-aged man with meticulously combed hair, a stern, rigid face, and an imposing presence. He is initially neat and properly dressed 25 44.
• During his retaliation: His hair is disheveled, his thin robe is soaked with rain, and his expression appears lifeless and consumed by grief 44 45.
• After fighting Zhao Jianchen: His body is covered in sword wounds, and he can barely stand without leaning on his blades 48.

Personality

Fu Yun remains devoted to kingdom law despite its declining authority. He considers Divine Strategy Manor the law’s birthplace and sacred ground, and refuses to abandon his teaching post because he believes the kingdom cannot survive the death of its laws 27 36.

His convictions coexist with fear and resignation. He initially does not dare fully block Xiao Ling’er’s attack, struggles to confront powerful students, and warns Shen Xintang against openly criticizing the Nation-Protecting Divine Church. Privately, he believes powerful clans and Prison Devils benefit from prolonged disorder rather than the kingdom’s outright destruction 25 36.

He is compassionate without excusing wrongdoing. After Qin Zheng’s death, he gathers what remains of his former classmate for the sake of Qin’s terminally ill mother, while acknowledging that Qin committed evil to preserve his position 30.

With Shen Xintang, Fu Yun is affectionate but deeply self-deprecating. He tends flowers associated with her, arranges her hair ornaments, and insists that he is unworthy of marriage. Alone, he admits that he considers himself crippled and fears he may have little time left. Believing her dead finally drives him to expose his strength and retaliate against those responsible 36 44.

Abilities & Skills

Kingdom Law

Fu Yun teaches the Great Cang Kingdom Law, including the distinction between prohibited combat and legitimate self-defense 25.

• Explains that someone attacked in a combat-prohibited area may kill without criminal liability if the attacker ignores three successive warnings 25.
• Confirms that Qi Lin’s actions would be lawful under those conditions and accepts Tang Biao’s supporting testimony 28.
• Distinguishes justified self-defense from taking the dead attackers’ possessions, warning that the latter could undermine Qi Lin’s moral standing and the empress’s ability to defend him 30.

Twin-Blade Combat

Fu Yun combines two Demon-Slaying Blades with overwhelming speed and Heavenly Dominion power 44.

• Kills Xiao Mo with a single strike and rapidly cuts down the Xiao Clan’s martial masters and punishment masters 44 45.
• According to Tang Biao, he was Great Cang’s first demon-forbidding master to possess two Demon-Slaying Blades 44.
• Can use the blades against humans without losing their effectiveness 44.
• Suffers severe injuries against Zhao Jianchen, whose Third-Level Heavenly Dominion cultivation exceeds his own by one level 45 48.

Concealed Wind-Blade Forbidden Art

Fu Yun can leave a hidden forbidden art beneath a target’s feet 45.

• Uses concealed wind blades to sever Xiao Qian’s legs when she attempts to leave and attack Qi Lin 45.
• Keeps her immobilized so that she must watch his confrontation with Zhao Jianchen 45.

Mortal World Crane

Mortal World Crane is a high-grade Three Lives forbidden technique that transforms the pages of Fu Yun’s law book into black-and-white immortal cranes 48.

• Channels Soul Essence through hundreds of pages, producing a torrent of cranes that overwhelms Zhao Jianchen 48.
• Shatters Zhao’s forbidden techniques, sword techniques, and essence artifacts, allowing Fu Yun to cut him in half with his blades 48.
• Astonishes Zhao because a technique of this grade would normally require peak Heavenly Dominion cultivation and more than ten years of dedicated practice 48.
• Fu Yun states that he spent a year carving into the law book specifically to kill people like Zhao Jianchen 48.

Equipment & Items

• Twin-Blade Judgment — A pair of enormous Demon-Slaying Blades, one black and one white. Their forms resemble both blades and spinal columns, with bony spikes along their edges. Made from bone and blood, they conduct power like extensions of the body 44.
• Great Cang Kingdom Law — His treasured teaching text and the medium for Mortal World Crane. He carefully cleans it after the classroom killings, although the absorbed blood cannot be wiped away 25 30 48.
• Begonias / flowering crabapples — Cultivates a courtyard of red, pink, and white flowers. After Shen Xintang destroys them, he buys a pale-yellow variety called Evening Breeze; she later returns carrying a pot of the same variety 35 36 37 49.

Story Role / Major Arcs

The Kingdom Law Classroom

Fu Yun’s self-defense lesson gives Qi Lin the legal basis for resisting Xiao Ling’er and Lan Ming. His request that the new student identify his hometown inadvertently exposes Qi Lin’s connection to Qi Tianji and triggers Xiao Ling’er’s hostility. Unable to stop her, Fu Yun leaves to seek help from the Law Enforcement Hall 25.

He urges Qin Zheng to hurry, but his former classmate deliberately delays. After discovering that Qi Lin survived and killed his attackers, Fu Yun confirms the relevant law despite pressure from the Xiao Clan. Empress Huangxi subsequently intervenes against the false witnesses and Qin Zheng 27 28 29.

While cleaning the classroom with Qi Lin, Fu Yun explains the late emperor’s murder, the destruction of the imperial family, and the use of forty-nine royal children’s blood puppets to suppress Great Cang’s fortune. He credits the Nation-Protecting Divine Church with preserving Huangxi and securing her accession 30.

Shen Xintang’s Visit

Before dawn, Shen Xintang asks Fu Yun to leave the manor and join the Demon-Slaying Division. He refuses to abandon kingdom law, then rejects her marriage proposal. Hurt by his repeated excuses, she slaps him and destroys his flowers. Only after she leaves does he confess his fear that his crippled condition leaves him little time to live 35 36.

Later, a flower seller’s insistence that the “Evening Breeze” is not too late prompts him to return and buy a pot of the pale-yellow begonias 37.

Retaliation Against the Xiao Clan

Believing Shen Xintang has been killed, Fu Yun stops Xiao Xuanxing from attacking Qi Lin and kills Xiao Mo. When Xiao Qian admits to planting the Boundless Flag and trapping Shen Xintang, he attacks the Xiao Clan experts at the Cloud-Watching Tower 44.

After slaughtering the other experts, he severs Xiao Qian’s legs and fights her husband, Zhao Jianchen. Despite being badly wounded, he uses Mortal World Crane to overcome Zhao’s higher cultivation, bisects him, and ultimately beheads him 45 48 49.

As Fu Yun mourns Shen Xintang and prepares to kill Xiao Qian, Shen returns alive with an Evening Breeze begonia. She reveals that her uncle made a human puppet that she controlled during the lecture, deceiving the assassins. After Xiao Qian dies, Shen asks Fu Yun to marry her again; his answer is not provided in the supplied account 49.

Relationships

• Shen Xintang — His former lover and enduring romantic attachment. He calls her “Xiao Tang”; she calls him the “god of begonia flowers.” Her apparent death provokes his retaliation, and her return brings a renewed marriage proposal 36 44 49.
• Qi Lin — His student. Fu Yun teaches him self-defense law, supports his legal innocence, warns him about displaying looted treasures, and later intervenes to protect him 25 28 30 44.
• Qin Zheng — His former classmate and fellow man of humble birth. Fu Yun condemns Qin’s abandonment of their youthful ideals but gathers his remains for his dying mother 27 30.
• Empress Huangxi — The sovereign he respects as Great Cang’s surviving imperial hope. He explains to Qi Lin how her accession prolonged the kingdom’s survival 29 30.
• Xiao Qian — An enemy who claims responsibility for Shen Xintang’s apparent death. Fu Yun cripples her and forces her to witness Zhao Jianchen’s defeat 44 45 48.
• Zhao Jianchen — A former classmate and later opponent. Fu Yun rejects his appeals to their shared past and kills him after their duel 45 48 49.

Notable Quotes

“If the law dies, the kingdom dies. I must stay at the Divine Strategy Manor and uphold the dignity of the Great Cang Kingdom Law.” 36

“Now that you're here, the whole garden of crabapples has come to life.” 36

“The Great Cang Kingdom Law must not be insulted!” 48