Murong Yue

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Murong Yue (慕容月)
Alias(es)	Junior Sister Murong; Sect Master Murong Yue
Species/Race	Human cultivator
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Great Sword Sect (formerly); Sword Sect (Sect Master)
Occupation/Role	Cultivator; leader and administrator of the Sword Sect
Status	Active 248
First Appearance	Chapter 10 10

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Qi Refining	10	Entered the Qi Refining stage within two months of cultivation, displaying her High-grade Spirit Root aptitude.
Late Qi Condensation, ninth layer	114	Reached the ninth layer after receiving meticulous sect training.
Peak Qi Condensation	148	Touched the Foundation Establishment bottleneck after roughly five years.
Foundation Establishment	153	Successfully advanced using a premium Foundation Establishment Pill prepared by Lin Chang'an; her mana became liquid-state.
Mid-stage Foundation Establishment	202	Had advanced to the middle stage, though past pill use, hidden injuries, and pill toxins had slowed her progress.
Foundation Establishment bottleneck resolved	204	Lin Chang'an's spirit liquid cleared her pill toxins and hidden injuries, restoring smoother cultivation.

Background / History

Murong Yue originated from the Murong family of Jiangnan in Great Jin's mortal world. A child with a High-grade Spirit Root, she was deceived and sold into the cultivation world by Old Guan, alongside Lin Chang'an, Li Han, and Qi Feng. The group ultimately entered the Great Sword Sect under its restrictive Spirit Contract 149 153.

Before becoming a cultivator, Murong Yue came from a mortal martial aristocratic family and was an Innate Martial Artist. Though she initially relied on cultivation with Li Han in the Cloud Ridge Mountain Range, she refused to accept a future of simply marrying a Great Sword Sect disciple or barely sustaining herself through farming 10.

Over the years, her treatment by the Great Sword Sect shaped her central ambition: acquiring enough strength to control her own fate. She secretly recruited support against the sect and framed rebellion as “bringing order to the sect by eliminating chaos,” avoiding direct violation of her Spirit Contract 114 122.

During the Great Sword Sect's collapse, Murong Yue led exploited cultivators in rebellion at the Purple Copper Mine and fought Elder Ma. She also poisoned Lu Chang'an, later revealing that she had independently added a further ingredient to the poison as insurance 126 130.

After Lin Chang'an took control, Murong Yue handled the weakened sect's market-town affairs. He subsequently transferred authority over the renamed Sword Sect to her, while she pursued the resources necessary for Foundation Establishment 129 131.

Murong Yue traveled to Tianyuan City to cooperate with Lin Chang'an and exact revenge on Old Guan. With Lin's premium Foundation Establishment Pill, she successfully advanced. She and Lin Chang'an then used Guan Changshou as a human puppet to capture Old Guan, confronting him over his trafficking of spiritually gifted children 152 153 154.

Upon returning to Qingshan Mountain Market, Murong Yue used her new Foundation Establishment cultivation and human puppet to reclaim territory and resources. Within a year, the Sword Sect's influence had nearly recovered to the former Great Sword Sect's level before she shifted to consolidation 156.

Appearance

Murong Yue is repeatedly presented as an elegant, graceful cultivator whose clothing shifts according to circumstance, from formal palace attire to practical black robes and veils.

• Wore an elegant palace gown during the reunion with Lin Chang'an, Li Han, and Qi Feng 114.
• Often travels in black clothing with a bamboo hat or black veil to conceal her identity 149.
• Her black clothing emphasizes her graceful figure; Old Guan describes her as a young female cultivator 149.
• After resolving her cultivation impediments, she is described with a flushed complexion and porcelain-like skin 204.
• Later appears in white at the Sword Sect's former Great Sword Sect residence 224.

Personality

Murong Yue is ambitious, pragmatic, and intensely unwilling to let others dictate her life. Even while still bound to the Great Sword Sect, she viewed high cultivation as insufficient unless it granted genuine control over one's destiny 114.

She is politically astute and cautious. She recruits allies, gathers intelligence, negotiates for advantage, and prepares contingencies—even against nominal allies. Her separate addition to the poison used on Lu Chang'an demonstrates her refusal to rely completely on anyone else's arrangements 121 130.

Her ambition is tempered by realism. Murong Yue favors being powerful in Qingshan Mountain Market over becoming an insignificant cultivator in Tianyuan City, and she repeatedly recognizes when opportunities are too dangerous to pursue directly 149 225 227.

Despite her calculating nature, she retains loyalty to her earliest companions. She preserves her familiar form of address for Li Han after surpassing him in cultivation, and Lin Chang'an considers her reliable because she had repeated opportunities to seize the Sword Sect for herself but did not do so 203.

Abilities & Skills

High-grade Spirit Root

Murong Yue possesses exceptional spiritual-root aptitude, allowing her to progress rapidly when resources and physical condition permit.

• Entered Qi Refining within two months 10.
• Reached late Qi Condensation while receiving sect training 114.
• Her Foundation Establishment success chance was estimated at seventy to eighty percent with Lin Chang'an's enhanced premium pill 152.
• Her advancement later slowed because of hidden injuries and accumulated pill toxins from the Great Sword Sect's exploitative cultivation methods 202.

Innate Martial Arts

Before cultivating, Murong Yue was a genuine Innate Martial Artist.

• Her close-combat strength was comparable to an early Qi Condensation cultivator 10.
• Her martial background made her and Li Han a formidable pair during their early resource-gathering expeditions 10.

Fire and Poison Techniques

Murong Yue employs direct offensive methods as well as covert poisoning.

• Launched a fireball at Lu Chang'an during the Purple Copper Mine rebellion 126.
• Poisoned Lu Chang'an and independently reinforced the poison with an additional ingredient 126 130.
• Participated with Lin Chang'an in a feigned conflict before redirecting their attacks at Monk Liao Kong 155.

Sect Leadership and Political Strategy

As Sword Sect leader, Murong Yue combines cultivation strength with territorial and economic planning.

• Organized cultivators against Elder Ma during the Purple Copper Mine uprising 126.
• Managed the sect and market-town businesses after the Great Sword Sect's collapse 129 131.
• Reclaimed former territory and annexed weaker factions after reaching Foundation Establishment 156.
• Coordinated multiple families seeking to redistribute the weakened Zhou Family's market interests 202.

Human Puppet Control

Murong Yue controls Guan Changshou after he is transformed into a human puppet.

• Used the puppet as part of the plan to capture Old Guan 153 154.
• Returned to Qingshan Mountain Market with the puppet after Foundation Establishment 156.
• Her own Foundation Establishment cultivation plus the puppet effectively gave the Sword Sect the force of two Foundation Establishment combatants 156.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Foundation Establishment human puppet — Guan Changshou, used in Murong Yue's revenge against Old Guan and in the Sword Sect's expansion 153 156.
• Top-grade defensive magic item — received from Lin Chang'an after the secret-realm expedition 237.
• Top-grade weapon-type magic item — received alongside a new cultivation method after the expedition 237.
• Sound transmission talismans — used to coordinate with Lin Chang'an and Li Han in the secret realm 228.

Relationships

• Lin Chang'an — Early companion, political ally, and benefactor in her Foundation Establishment breakthrough. They jointly take revenge on Old Guan and repeatedly cooperate in sect affairs and secret-realm ventures 10 149 153 204.
• Li Han — Fellow victim of Old Guan's trafficking and one of Murong Yue's oldest companions. She shares her Foundation Establishment insights with him and continues to address him familiarly despite their cultivation gap 114 203.
• Qi Feng — One of the four original companions. Murong Yue mourns his death and advises his son, Qi Shan, to keep the family restrained during unstable times 114 226.
• Old Guan — Her former captor and a primary target of her revenge. Murong Yue confronts him as the Murong family girl he had sold into the sect system 149 153 154.
• Guan Changshou — Old Guan's grandson, whom Murong Yue and Lin Chang'an turn into a human puppet for their revenge plan 153 154.
• Elder Ma — Great Sword Sect elder opposed by Murong Yue during the Purple Copper Mine rebellion 126.
• Qi Shan — Qi Feng's son. Murong Yue warns him to restrain the Qi family, but he later joins an ambush against her, Lin Chang'an, and Li Han 226 238 239.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Great Sword Sect Disciple

Murong Yue begins as a high-potential disciple bound by the Great Sword Sect's Spirit Contract. She cultivates with Li Han, gathers spirit herbs, and forms an early mutually beneficial alliance with Lin Chang'an 10.

Plotting the Sect Rebellion

After years of cultivation, Murong Yue secretly seeks a path out of the Great Sword Sect. She recruits support around the former Sect Master's faction, gathers intelligence, and helps engineer the internal conflict that destroys the sect's former order 114 121 122.

Rise of the Sword Sect

Murong Yue becomes Lin Chang'an's key supporter after the Great Sword Sect's collapse. She accepts responsibility for the Sword Sect, manages its resources, and seeks Foundation Establishment to secure her autonomy and the sect's future 129 130 131.

Tianyuan City and Revenge on Old Guan

In Tianyuan City, Murong Yue negotiates Foundation Establishment Pill distribution with Old Guan, receives a premium pill from Lin Chang'an, and succeeds in breaking through. She then joins Lin in turning Guan Changshou into a human puppet and confronting Old Guan over his past crimes 149 152 153 154.

Consolidation of Qingshan Mountain Market

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator and Sword Sect Master, Murong Yue expands the sect, then consolidates its gains. Later, she mobilizes support among local families to reduce the weakened Zhou Family's dominance and obtain more cultivation resources 156 202.

Secret-Realm Expeditions

Murong Yue accepts Lin Chang'an's proposal to prepare for a secret realm and potentially pursue resources relevant to the Golden Core stage. She joins Lin and Li Han in entering a Golden Core cultivator's ruins, survives its dangers, and fights alongside them during the subsequent robber-cultivator ambush 204 227 228 239.

Trivia

• Murong Yue was thirty years old when she attempted Foundation Establishment 149 152.
• She cannot have children, a factor in her early refusal to simply marry within the Great Sword Sect 10.
• She deliberately kept the Sword Sect's residence unchanged from Elder Lu's former mansion as a reminder of her past helplessness 224.
• Murong Yue notices Nu Ba's disguised gender through details including her figure, behavior, red-painted nails, and fixation on Lin Chang'an 248.