Ruo Lin

Biodata

Appearance

Ruo Lin has a gentle, captivating bearing and a mature, voluptuous figure 22.

• Long hair falling over her shoulders 22
• Wears green when she confronts Xiao Yao at the reception quarters 22

Personality

Ruo Lin is usually gentle with her students, but she is prepared to assert her authority to protect them. When Xiao Yao challenges the recruitment team, she pulls a student out of danger and orders the others to retreat. After their fight, she agrees to speak with him privately to keep the students out of harm’s way 22 24.

She takes recruitment seriously and refuses to admit unqualified applicants through favoritism, believing that forcing them into the academy could harm them. She also actively supports promising students: she recommends Xiao Yao for the Inner Academy Selection Tournament and seeks preferential treatment for him 26 28 38.

Abilities & Skills

Water-Attribute Dou Qi

Ruo Lin fights with water-attribute Dou Qi and specializes in defense rather than offense 21 29.

• She can use her water techniques while controlling her whip, dividing her attention between attack and defense 23.
• Xiao Yao’s Yang-Attribute Dou Qi counters her water attribute, evaporating her traps and attacks during their fight 23 24.

Force-Dispelling Water Mirror

A water-attribute Dou Technique that forms a protective mirror of flowing water 21 23.

• Its current disperses the force of incoming stone fragments 23.
• Ruo Lin creates a larger mirror to shield herself and her students from the heat of Xiao Yao’s attack, exhausting her remaining Dou Qi 23.

Water-Spreading Datura

A mid-level Xuan-rank Dou Technique that channels Dou Qi through Ruo Lin’s whip to form a water snake 23.

• At full strength, the snake is nearly ten meters long and can sweep at an opponent 23.
• Droplets falling from the snake make the ground sticky, restricting movement 23.
• Xiao Yao’s blazing attack evaporates the snake and chars the whip supporting it 23.

Whip Combat

Ruo Lin wields an azure whip with enough reach to threaten an area more than ten meters around her 23.

• She uses it to attack from unexpected angles and coil around an opponent’s weapon 23.
• Water splashed from the whip can create sticky patches that hinder movement 23.

Bone-Age Assessment

As a recruitment instructor, Ruo Lin knows a secret technique for checking an applicant’s age by probing the vitality in their bones with Dou Qi. She uses it to verify Xiao Yao’s age before admitting him 24.

Equipment & Items

• Azure whip — A weapon fitted with a water-blue Magic Core. It is charred during her fight with Xiao Yao 22 23.
• Burst-type pills — Pills she carries as a means to continue fighting after exhausting her Dou Qi 24.
• Crystal ball — Used during the journey to identify herself to a group of flying magical beasts 28.
• Storage Ring — Holds her weapon while traveling 28.

Relationships

• Xiao Yao — Her student and former opponent. After accepting his unconventional admissions challenge, she keeps his identity secret, recommends him for the Inner Academy Selection Tournament, and helps secure better access to cultivation methods 24 28 41.
• Xiao Xun’er and Xiao Yi Xian — Applicants she admits after testing their strength and ages 26 27.
• Xiao Yu — A Jia Nan Academy student who helps confirm Xiao Yao’s identity and vouches for Xun’er’s talent 26.
• Liu Qing — A fellow instructor who once pursued Ruo Lin and was rejected. They remain outwardly courteous but sometimes compete; she challenges him to test Xiao Yao after he questions her account of the bear’s death 29.

Story Role

Wutan City Recruitment

While leading Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment team, Ruo Lin confronts a cloaked Xiao Yao at the reception quarters. Despite her higher cultivation, she loses their spar after his blazing attack destroys her Water-Spreading Datura and leaves her unable to continue 22 23.

Xiao Yao reveals that he challenged her as an admissions test. Ruo Lin verifies his bone age, accepts him, and agrees to conceal his identity until the recruitment group leaves Wutan City. He gives her a gold deposit card for her damaged weapon; she intends to return it because the academy can reimburse necessary losses 24 25.

She later verifies his identity with Xiao Yu, tests Xun’er and Xiao Yi Xian, and admits them. Once recruitment ends, she leads the students aboard flying magical beasts bound for the academy 26 27.

Journey and Tournament

During a patrol on the journey, Ruo Lin recommends that Xiao Yao enter the Inner Academy Selection Tournament. They encounter a third-tier giant bear, which Xiao Yao kills; Ruo Lin announces his feat at camp and proposes that the skeptical Liu Qing test him 28 29.

At Jia Nan Academy, Ruo Lin provides Xiao Yao with an approval certificate for the Library Hall and encourages his tournament entry. After he wins, she congratulates him and confirms that the academy will let him browse higher-tier cultivation methods 32 33 41.

Notable Quotes

“No matter what your purpose is, the people behind me are my students! I absolutely will not let you hurt them!” 22

“I can’t show favoritism when it comes to recruitment. For someone without enough talent, forcing their way into the academy would do them more harm than good.” 26