Lin Ying

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Power Progression

Beauty Cultivation Plan

• Ultimate objective: Develop Lin Ying into an Immortal Emperor of the Dao of Alchemy. This is a long-term system goal, not an attained title or realm 77.
• First-stage requirements: Reach Foundation Establishment, become a second-tier Alchemist, and refine a supreme-grade second-tier pill. The stage is completed by Chapter 423 77 423.
• Documented random objectives: Refine a Supreme-Grade Yellow Dragon Pill, later refine a High-Grade Origin-Nurturing Pill, and independently obtain Golden-Thread Lingzhi from the Ancient Yue Secret Realm 77 230 335.
• Shared benefits: Both Lin Ying and Lu Yang receive mission rewards; twenty percent of her cultivation gains transfer to him 77.

Background and History

Early Life and Sect Training

Lin Ying grew up in a small cultivation lineage in the Yuan Kingdom’s Taibai Mountain Range. Recognizing her childhood talent for alchemy, her great-grandmother Lin Qiaohua committed the household’s resources to her education despite objections from other members. This support enabled her to enter the Golden Rainbow Sword Sect’s Pill Peak 49 70 71.

She remained grateful to her family, saving pills to bring home every New Year. Supporting the household left her comparatively short of money despite her profession. Her pills were highly sought after, and prospective suitors began visiting her family annually after she turned twenty; Lin Qiaohua declined to arrange a match that might obstruct her cultivation 49 69.

By her early meetings with Lu Yang, Lin Ying had been an outer disciple for more than twelve years. Her ambition was to reach Foundation Establishment, enter the inner sect, and improve her family’s circumstances. She considered becoming a Golden Core pill-refining elder far beyond what her resources could support 9 12.

Becoming Lu Yang’s Dao Companion

Lin Ying’s relationship with Lu Yang develops through pill transactions, shared meals, and frequent voice transmissions. She initially refuses his extraordinarily valuable Purple Cloud Pill-Nurturing Robe, accepting only when he presents it as a loan she can repay with pills 9 15 49.

They first dual cultivate at her residence after she invites him to receive a New Year’s gift. She later introduces him to her family explicitly as her dao companion. His respectful treatment of Lin Qiaohua moves her deeply, since her great-grandmother’s support had made her alchemy career possible 54 70 71.

Lu Yang subsequently provides cultivation resources, equipment, protectors, and opportunities for advanced study. He also arranges for Guan Qiu of Miaoshou Pharmacy to teach her alchemy during her stay at home 79 85 103 121.

Authority Within the Lin Household

Lin Ying’s relationship with Lu Yang brings the Lin Household closer to Miaoshou Pharmacy and earns it courteous treatment from Golden Core-level powers. The household reserves its future leadership for her, while grooming Lin Mingyue, Lin Jin, and Lin Ling as successors in its affairs 301 302.

After returning home at Foundation Establishment, she discovers that relatives have used Lu Yang’s name while becoming bandit cultivators. Furious at the damage this could do to his reputation, she personally intervenes. She prevents a premature attack on Lin Qi and orders Wang Liu to search the cousins’ memories without harming them, establishing what they actually did before punishment is decided 302 303 308.

Ancient Yue Secret Realm

Lin Ying enters the Ancient Yue Secret Realm to obtain Golden-Thread Lingzhi at Lu Yang’s request, although she would rather remain at home refining pills. There, she helps the injured Heavenly Melody Pavilion twins Wenren Yu and Wenren Ge against a Foundation Establishment Perfection White Bone Demon 335 350 351 354.

The three explore a Kun Essence Mountain inheritance, defeat its trial guardians, and recover cultivation manuals, Pill Formulas, materials, and treasures. Lin Ying allows the sisters to copy the written inheritances and gives each a Supreme-Grade Spirit Artifact. After completing her Lingzhi task, she continues helping them search for Perilla Flowers needed to save their mother 358 359.

She later brings their request to Lu Yang. He agrees to provide a Perilla Flower and help arrange the necessary pill refinement 395 414 415.

Advanced Alchemy and the Convention

After obtaining the Cinnabar Yang Sect’s extensive alchemy inheritance, Lin Ying devotes herself to its formulas and techniques. She hopes to cultivate the Cinnabar Yang Pearl-Embracing Chapter, but her understanding of the Dao of Alchemy Principle is initially insufficient 436 446.

At Lu Yang’s request, she attends the Dao of Alchemy Convention. During the preliminary refinement of an Origin-Nurturing Pill, she finishes preparing her ingredients in under fifteen minutes while other participants are still processing theirs. Her performance draws on exceptionally strong Spiritual Qi, advanced medicinal knowledge, and techniques from the Cinnabar Yang Pill Scripture 436 458.

Appearance

• General features: A slender, shapely figure, fair skin, dark hair, gentle almond-shaped eyes, and long eyelashes 36 55 76 103.
• Youthful appearance: Looks approximately sixteen when Lu Yang learns that she has already spent more than twelve years in the outer sect 9.
• Clothing: Appears in pale-green dresses and alchemist robes; on one occasion wears her hair loosely secured with a bamboo hairpin 173 426.
• Later changes: Cultivation-plan rewards make her skin increasingly luminous and jade-like, while her features become more harmonious 357 426.

Personality

Lin Ying is gentle, reserved, and courteous, usually keeping her strongest feelings private. Qin Nanyue is initially one of the few people around whom she smiles freely. Lu Yang gradually draws out a more affectionate and playful side, and she becomes noticeably livelier when showing him her childhood home 12 75.

She takes quiet pride in her independence. Early in their relationship, expensive gifts make her uneasy, and she dislikes repeatedly troubling Lu Yang. She also compares her ordinary background unfavorably with his apparent status. As their bond deepens, she stops treating his generosity as a debt and accepts it as part of their shared life 15 36 49 131 426.

Her confidence is strongest in the alchemy chamber. There, her shyness gives way to assurance, careful preparation, and enthusiasm for explaining medicinal principles. Freed from shortages of resources and materials, she is content to spend her days refining pills and studying 54 416.

Her softness does not extend to tolerating abuse of power. She sternly warns her younger brothers against exploiting Lu Yang’s name and later acts decisively against relatives who do exactly that. By then, even senior household members find her anger intimidating 75 303 306.

Abilities & Skills

Dao of Alchemy

Lin Ying is a formally trained Pill Peak alchemist whose early work is already known for exceptional quality 69.

• Carefully weighs and organizes ingredients before refinement, accounting for medicinal roles, age, proportions, and interactions 54.
• Personally refines the peak-grade Foundation Establishment Pill used in preparing her breakthrough 230.
• Can later refine Supreme-Grade Origin-Nurturing Pills with ease; the Origin-Nurturing Pill was her first second-tier pill 458.
• Studies the Azure Radiance Nine Revolutions Pill Essence Essential Technique and later the more advanced Cinnabar Yang Pill Scripture, covering fire control, herb identification, refinement, and pill formation 149 458.
• Uses Dao Comprehension Tea to accelerate her understanding of difficult cultivation and alchemy texts 149 173 458.

Alchemy Fortune Traits

Wood Dao Cultivation and Techniques

• Initially practices the Spring Wood Transformation and Generation Instruction, alongside Wood Thorn, Spring Wood Vine, and Wind Riding Technique 77.
• Later adopts the low-grade Earth Grade Azure Wood Longevity Art 149.
• Cannot freely share certain manuals because of Great Heavenly Dao Oaths 174.
• Wants to study the Cinnabar Yang Pearl-Embracing Chapter, but must first improve her understanding of the Dao of Alchemy Principle 436.

Divine Sense

• Treasure-assisted enhancement brings her Divine Sense close to an ordinary Early Golden Core cultivator’s despite her Early Foundation Establishment cultivation 356.
• Can simultaneously control three Supreme-Grade Spirit Artifacts 356.
• Retains a sensing range of roughly three hundred meters in suppressive black mist, compared with the Wenren sisters’ approximately twenty meters 356.
• Possesses explicitly Golden Core Realm Divine Sense by the convention 458.

Combat

Lin Ying is inexperienced in battle and prefers not to fight, but compensates with powerful equipment and abundant consumables 350 351 352.

• Prioritizes defensive talismans and artifacts before attacking 352.
• Uses third-tier Golden Core talismans rather than entering terrain favorable to an ambushing enemy 355.
• Can suppress a Foundation Establishment Perfection White Bone Demon with her artifacts 358.
• Replenishes Spiritual Qi with Supreme-Grade Spirit-Restoring Pills during combat 351.
• Her attacks can be clumsy; against the demon, she relies on artifacts rather than her own cultivated offensive techniques 351 352.

Dual Cultivation

• Practices the Record of Same-Heart Creation with Lu Yang 89 104.
• The Earth Grade Supreme Quality method can, at full mastery, synchronize partners’ Spiritual Qi and temporarily raise their cultivation by up to two minor realms when fighting together, without side effects. Their attainment of this maximum effect is not documented 77.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Purple Cloud Pill-Nurturing Robe — A Supreme-Grade Law Artifact that improves pill refinement, valued at close to one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones. Initially accepted as a loan repayable in pills 15.
• Black stockings — A Supreme-Grade Law Artifact given to her by Lu Yang 55.
• Pill Furnaces — Receives a Supreme-Grade Spirit Artifact furnace early on. By the convention, she uses a Supreme-Grade Law Treasure furnace; Lu Yang has also supplied higher-level furnaces that her cultivation cannot yet support 79 458.
• Three Supreme-Grade Spirit Artifacts — Used together for offense and defense in the Ancient Yue Secret Realm 351 352.
• Third-tier talismans — Golden Core-level consumables used for shielding and confronting dangerous enemies 351 355 356.
• Storage Bag — Holds her robe, combat supplies, and recovered inheritance treasures 15 355 359.
• Cinnabar Yang Sect inheritance — Extensive Pill Formulas and alchemy texts that become central to her later studies 446 458.

Relationships

• Lu Yang — Dao companion and principal supporter. Their relationship develops from pill trading into a lifelong commitment; his system records her affection at 100, described as “inseparable in life and death” 9 70 77.
• Qin Nanyue — Closest friend and fellow Pill Peak entrant of more than ten years. Lin Ying welcomes Qin Nanyue’s love for Lu Yang and reassures her that it is not a betrayal 121 157.
• Lin Qiaohua — Great-grandmother and the household ancestor who championed her alchemy education against opposition 70 71.
• Lin Donglin — Father; proud of her achievements and supportive of her decisions during the household crisis 72 302 303.
• Lu Mian — Mother; privately advises her about intimacy with Lu Yang 72 104.
• Lin Mingyue, Lin Jin, and Lin Ling — Introduced as her younger sister and brothers. She brings them into contact with Lu Yang but warns them against exploiting his influence 74 75.
• Guan Qiu — Alchemy mentor from Miaoshou Pharmacy, assigned by Lu Yang to guide her 85 103.
• Wang Liu and Wang Shijiu — Protectors revealed to be Nascent Soul True Lords. Wang Liu carries out her orders during the investigation of her cousins 306 308.
• Wenren Yu and Wenren Ge — Friends she rescues in the Ancient Yue Secret Realm. She shares inheritance resources with them and helps secure aid for their mother 354 359 395 415.
• Lin Feiyang and Lin Qi — Older cousins whose use of Lu Yang’s name in bandit activities prompts her intervention and investigation 303 308.

Notable Quotes

“If you dare use your brother-in-law's name to bully men and women and commit evil deeds, don't blame me for showing you no mercy!” 75

“I've always enjoyed refining pills. I'm very content with this life.” 416

“If other people knew what kind of man my dao companion is, I'm afraid all the female cultivators in the world would envy me.” 449

Trivia

• As a child, she kept a kitten named Little White. After a Demon Beast killed it, she buried it and carved its name into a memorial stone 75.
• Distance prevents her family’s Sound Transmission Jade Tokens from reliably reaching the sect, so she usually communicates with home by letter 302.
• Her enthusiasm for studying pills persists despite her wealth: during a day of shopping in Crimson Cloud City, she spends about one million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones on pills and Pill Formulas 447 450.