Su Yang

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Su Yang was born and raised in Muyang City. Five years before the opening events, his parents disappeared, leaving him the Dead Man’s Book and a note warning him not to search for them. Police found no trace of them after a month-long search 1 22.

After their disappearance, Su Yang lived with his grandmother, who sold vegetables to support them. He collected recyclables before school and kept track of kindnesses he hoped to repay. Despite the family’s difficulties, he became the top student in his grade 2 13 15.

Appearance

Su Yang is described as handsome, with a sharply defined profile 4.

• His earlier body, found in grave number 23, has fair skin, sharply defined features and a faint smile 45.
• His bangs can fall over his face 19.

Personality

Su Yang is protective of his family and attentive to debts of gratitude. After receiving money from the Soul-Reaping Bureau, he prioritized his grandmother’s medical care, accepting a doctor’s criticism and paying for expensive medicine 2 9 15.

Years of frightening whispers and encounters with spirits made him wary but also accustomed to managing fear. During his awakening, he steadied his breathing and tried to speak to Maiden’s Soul rather than panic. Zhao Shengshen praised his composure and said he had the makings of a Demigod 11 18.

Although Su Yang was fond of Ren Yexue, he initially rejected her confession because he feared his supernatural troubles could endanger her. He later risked injury to reach her after finding Teacher Zhao dead 4 35 36.

Abilities & Skills

First Sequence Ability

Zhao Shengshen identified Su Yang as a First Sequence user, a category associated with destruction and direct combat. Su Yang later learned that the authority behind his awakened ability was shared with Ren Yexue 12 13 49.

• Black blade: He can summon or dismiss an ink-black saber, also called a Black Longsword, by thought. Its hilt is cherry red, and black mist curls around it 19 20.
• Enhanced physique: After awakening, he gained immense strength and could control his heartbeat. A full-force slash shattered rocks dozens of meters away 20 29.
• Limit: He could not summon the blade while Ren Yexue was using their shared authority; it became available again after her battle ended 44 49.

Blood Against Mutation

Su Yang discovered that his blood could destroy mutated flesh that otherwise regenerated from repeated cuts 30 31.

• A monster dissolved after consuming earth stained with his blood 30.
• Coating his blade with blood stopped another monster’s flesh from regenerating. He concealed the role of his blood from the Bureau 31 32.

Borrowed Omniscience

Heng Hong lent Su Yang authority for half an hour while he traveled through the city 47.

• The authority ordered his recovered memories and conveyed mysterious knowledge through whispers 47.
• It warned him of dangerous people and guided him away from fatal harm 49.
• Its whispers became fainter after Gai Fengyan took half of the borrowed ability 50.

Study and Observation

Su Yang had taught himself a semester’s coursework and could quickly work out a mathematics problem for Ren Yexue. He also applied his habit of reviewing lessons to analyzing his first battle 10 31.

Equipment & Items

• Dead Man’s Book — A black book left by his parents. Its bloody instructions direct Su Yang to encounters with spirits, which it draws into its pages. After absorbing Maiden’s Soul, it identified her as He Tong and instructed him to investigate her death and settle her karma 1 2 20.
• Soul-Reaping Bureau black jade — A square jade token Gai Fengyan gave him, inscribed with Su Yang’s name and Sword-Bearer role 6.
• Two-Branch Blue Enchantress — A flower Su Yang took from grave number 23 and gave to Ren Yexue. She had previously given one to him; its flower-language meaning is “destiny” 43 47 50.

Relationships

• Grandmother — Raised Su Yang after his parents disappeared. He helped support her and arranged medical treatment once he had the money 2 9.
• Ren Yexue — His deskmate and love interest. She pursued him despite his initial rejection and had quietly helped his grandmother. Su Yang later recovered memories of their earlier relationship and learned that she had revived him 3 4 15 45 46.
• Su Yang’s parents — Disappeared five years before the opening events, leaving him the Dead Man’s Book. Gai Fengyan told him they were alive, though he did not know where they were 1 6.
• Gai Fengyan — A Sword-Bearer who delivered Su Yang’s black jade and news of his parents. He later implied that he and Su Yang had been close before Su Yang’s death 6 50.
• Zhao Shengshen — A fifth-rank Sword Guardian who introduced Su Yang to Sequence Abilities and arranged his awakening. He also deceived Su Yang into entering the cemetery alone for combat practice 11 18 28.
• Lina — A Soul-Reaping Bureau member whose enhancement helped Su Yang survive his first battle. She later tested whether his blade was responsible for destroying mutated flesh 29 32.
• Heng Hong — A Bureau Demigod who revealed the record of Su Yang’s death, restored his sealed memories and temporarily lent him authority 44 46 47.
• Teacher Zhao — Su Yang’s homeroom teacher. Su Yang found him dead after a tentacle attack and alerted the Bureau 10 34 35.

Story Role

Awakening and the Cemetery Mission

Following the Dead Man’s Book’s instructions, Su Yang visited grave number 23 in the Northern Suburb Cemetery and met Gai Fengyan. After receiving his Sword-Bearer jade and five million yuan, he met Zhao Shengshen and learned about the supernatural world 5 6 7 11.

For his awakening, the Bureau left him alone with Maiden’s Soul. The Book absorbed her, and Su Yang awakened his ability. On a later cemetery mission, he fought three regenerating monsters and discovered that his blood could destroy them 18 20 28 29 30 31.

Altered Reality and Recovered Memories

After finding Teacher Zhao dead, Su Yang rushed to Ren Yexue’s home, fearing she was in similar danger. Their conversation exposed contradictory memories: she recalled two years as his deskmate, while he remembered meeting her only a month earlier 34 35 37 39.

Heng Hong later showed Su Yang a record of his death and took him to grave number 23, where he found his earlier body. Heng Hong explained that the God of Fate and Reason had created a parallel world to revive him and then merged the divine kingdom with reality. Heng Hong also restored Su Yang’s sealed memories 44 45 46.

Return to Ren Yexue

As the city fell into chaos after the God War, Su Yang borrowed Heng Hong’s authority and went looking for Ren Yexue. He reached her villa, embraced her and told her he remembered everything. She revealed that her Divine Kingdom had shattered and that she had to leave 47 50.