Flower Branch

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Flower Branch (花枝)
Alias(es)	Demonic Vine; Demonic Vine Black Toad; Demon Heart Vine
Species/Race	Demon Heart Vine; vine demon and spirit beast 245 547
Gender	Female 575
Affiliation	Yuan Ming; founder of the Sacred Spirit Society; administrator of White Emperor City 831 995
Occupation/Role	Yuan Ming's spirit beast and disciple; combatant, scout, collector of spirit materials, and organizer 260 831 995
Status	Active; a Level Seven Great Demon 1068
First Appearance	Chapter 245 245

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Rank Two, intermediate stage	262	Broke through after hunting and absorbing numerous demonic beasts in the Rain Ruins Marsh; Yuan Ming's Fire Cloud Secret Technique helped her overcome an Ink Lizard Beast's defenses.
Level Three	384 492	Absorbed the Level Four Blood Willow's demonic energy; afterward developed a refined body-splitting clone ability.
Level Four	569 570	Successfully advanced with Yuan Ming's aid after an earlier interrupted attempt; awakened the Parasite spore ability.
Level Five	775	Advanced during Yuan Ming's sixty-year seclusion; her spores evolved into distinct poisonous and healing forms.
Level Seven Great Demon	1068	Had reached this level by the time Yuan Ming entrusted her with the Spatial Token.

Background / History

Flower Branch originated as Yuan Ming's dormant Demonic Vine Black Toad. When released from his Spirit Beast Bag, it had lost its former toad-like form and become a mass of thorned purple-black vines covered in pale-red flowers. It subsequently formed a humanoid body, awakened intelligence, and accepted the name Yuan Ming gave it: Flower Branch. 245

Yuan Ming initially stationed Flower Branch beneath the General's Mansion as a guard. He later released her into the Rain Ruins Marsh to hunt demonic beasts, gather spirit materials, and build a force of lesser demonic-beast subordinates. Her aggressive hunting rapidly strengthened her, while her subordinates collected plants, herbs, and other materials for Yuan Ming. 245 260 262

Di Chen attempted to capture Flower Branch as his spirit beast after binding her with Flame Chains. Yuan Ming arrived, forced Di Chen to release her, and declined to pursue him, reinforcing Flower Branch's reliance on and loyalty to her master. 289

Appearance

Flower Branch's original humanoid form is built from living vines rather than flesh. She can alter her body extensively, including converting limbs into weapons, roots, or underground vines. 245 492

• A human-height vine person with unusually slender limbs and a peculiar face. 245
• Purple-black vines covered in sharp thorns, with pale-red vine flowers growing among them. 245
• Her first humanoid head had flower-shaped eyes, piled vines forming facial features, buds for ears, and shed vine skin resembling long hair. 245
• Later appeared as a petite, beautiful young woman when acting among Nascent Soul cultivators. 575
• At higher cultivation, parts of her body revert to vine form and bloom with large, vibrant flowers carrying a dense life aura. 1005

Personality

Flower Branch is lively, excitable, and openly proud of her growth. Immediately after receiving her name, she eagerly demonstrated her abilities and sought Yuan Ming's praise. 245 She is intensely loyal to Yuan Ming, repeatedly volunteering for dangerous tasks and treating his protection and gifts as signs of trust. 289 492 319

Her devotion does not prevent independent ambition. She enjoys hunting, gathers and commands demonic beasts, founded the Sacred Spirit Society, and argued that she had learned enough from Xiying to organize and develop it properly. 260 775 831 She can also be mischievous: after secretly placing a spore-clone trap inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, she was severely reprimanded by Yuan Ming and tearfully promised not to repeat the act. 616

Abilities & Skills

Wood-Element Spells and Vine Combat

Flower Branch can use Yuan Ming's wood-element spells and reshape her own vines into weapons, restraints, shields, and subterranean attacks. She is limited to wood-element techniques. 245

• Forms purple-black vine longswords from her arms. 245
• Casts Wood Prison Art, rapidly growing grass into a restraining cage. 245
• Creates volleys of Wooden Flying Swords and can drag or wield physical blades with her vines. 278 289
• Burrows through earth, attacks from below, and can pull restrained enemies underground. 278 492
• An Earth Solidifying Talisman can prevent her from escaping underground. 289
• Ordinary flames became far less threatening after her Level Four advancement, but black flame capable of burning spiritual power can still destroy her vines. 578

Devouring and Symbiotic Assimilation

As a Demon Heart Vine, Flower Branch can consume living targets, absorb their life essence, and assimilate divine abilities through symbiosis. 547

• Drains prey's blood and vitality until only a dry husk remains. 260
• Gained poison-devouring and poison-producing abilities after absorbing the Black Toad's life essence. 262 547
• Produces purple-black spiritual flowers containing potent poison, which Yuan Ming intended to refine into poison incense. 262
• Merged symbiotically with Purple Extreme Tai Sui, allowing her to employ its transparent poisonous droplets against protective barriers. 576
• Her poison-drawing ability could not remove Lei He's Sandman Poison from Yuan Ming. 547

Regeneration and Clones

Flower Branch possesses exceptional regenerative ability and can divide portions of her body into combat-capable clones. 492

• Regenerates damage from the Starry Sky Beasts' falling starlight, though doing so consumes substantial demonic power. 492
• Created a smaller clone after reaching Level Three; it carried part of her demonic power and could endure poisonous mist temporarily. 492
• Used repeated underground vine attacks to delay Starry Sky Strange Bulls long enough for Yuan Ming's escape. 492
• Her advanced spore clone is formed from nearly a hundred spores and can fuse undetectably with plants or living beings; an individual spore lacks sufficient intelligence to function alone. 616

Spore Forms

Flower Branch's Level Four and Level Five advancements greatly expanded her spore-based abilities. 570 775

• Parasite — Spores implanted during an earlier attack can bloom as fleshy red flowers inside targets, rapidly draining their mana. 570
• Poisonous Form — Spores can lethally poison targets, leaving corpses covered in vivid flowers; even Void Return cultivators must expend considerable effort to suppress the toxin. 775
• Healing Form — Spores absorb and store enemies' spiritual power, then produce non-poisonous white flowers that restore stamina and mana when consumed. 775

Detection and Spirit-Plant Handling

Flower Branch's connection to earth and vegetation makes her effective at locating hidden mechanisms and managing spiritual plants. 579

• Detected and destroyed the underground energy-supplying array sustaining the Eight Directions Return to Origin Array. 579
• Can root into the ground to drain spiritual energy from herbs and trees. 579
• Excavated the Spirit Source Tree with its roots and soil for transplantation into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron. 579
• Identified poison in tea by consuming a leaf from the cup and testing it directly. 317

Master-Assisted Empowerment

Yuan Ming can reinforce Flower Branch through the Golden Sunflower Beast Taming Art, lending her mana and selected divine abilities. 577 578

• Yuan Ming's mana raised her combat output to Level Four mid-stage while she fought the Blood Realm Venerable. 577
• With Yuan Ming's support and the Purple Star Nine Dragon Spear, she broke the Blood Spirit Great Law's pressure and severed the Blood Realm Venerable's arm. 577
• Yuan Ming lent her the Golden Sunflower Beast Taming Art's soul-searching capability against Zhu Yu, though the treant's body contained no soul. 578

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Purple Star Nine Dragon Spear — Yuan Ming's Magic Treasure, loaned to Flower Branch on Penglai Island; she used it to break protective barriers and defeat the Blood Realm Venerable. 576 577
• Blood-Red Orb — A temporary Magic Treasure given by Yuan Ming; it absorbs essence and blood, complements her devouring nature, and helped her pierce the Blood Willow's body. 378 383
• True Water Ring — Supportive Magic Tool that protected her vines against fire during Di Chen's attack. 289
• Evil Averting Talisman — A costly talisman Yuan Ming gave her for protection. 319
• Two Mountain River Scenery Paintings — Two portions of a four-piece, Nine-Rune water-and-earth Magic Treasure set acquired in Penglai Immortal Palace. 576 577
• Spatial Token — A token refined by Yuan Ming from the Three Realms Immortal Ship's residual power, his mana, and World Tree power; it can open the Heaven-Questioning Secret Realm. 1068

Relationships

• Yuan Ming — Master, benefactor, and primary partner. He named Flower Branch, nurtured her cultivation, lends her power in battle, and later entrusts her with major responsibilities. 245 577 995
• King Kong — Fellow disciple and friendly rival. They cooperate in Yuan Ming's service, though Flower Branch has jokingly expressed interest in taking him as a mount. 384 831
• Thunder Rain — Fellow disciple and occasional rival. Flower Branch guarded Thunder Rain during its breakthrough attempt and dismissively called it a “foolish bird.” 618 831
• Wulu — Friend and ally during the Penglai Island expedition; Flower Branch's group fled the Undying Tree demon while Wulu was left behind. 589
• Black Bamboo Old Man — Ally during the Penglai Island crisis; they coordinated defensive formations and escapes against treant puppets. 589
• Yin Kong — Former enemy whom Flower Branch invited into her group when alliances became necessary against the Undying Tree demon. 584
• Serpent-Eyed Demon — Personal enemy; Flower Branch confronted him in the war to avenge her mother. 1063

Story Role / Major Arcs

Rain Ruins Marsh

Flower Branch functions as Yuan Ming's independent hunter and gatherer in the Rain Ruins Marsh. She defeats demonic beasts, builds a growing force of lesser demons, and supplies Yuan Ming with spirit materials while pursuing her own cultivation. 260 296

Secret-Realm Exploration

During the secret-realm expedition, Flower Branch's clone and regeneration enable Yuan Ming's group to escape Starry Sky Strange Bulls. She later finds a poisonous pool and defeats a Level Three lizard demonic beast to restore the demonic power spent during the escape. 492

Penglai Island

Flower Branch becomes one of the expedition's most effective treasure-seekers. With Yuan Ming's guidance, she claims spirit materials, obtains two landscape paintings, destroys a hidden support array beneath the Evergreen Garden, and stands against the Blood Realm Venerable's attempted robbery. 576 577 579

Sacred Spirit Society

After attaining Level Five, Flower Branch proposes using her intelligent demonic-beast followers as believers in the Nether Moon God to generate Wish Power. She subsequently establishes and seeks to formalize the Sacred Spirit Society despite Yuan Ming's concerns about its lack of structure and visibility. 775 831

White Emperor City

Yuan Ming appoints Flower Branch to manage White Emperor City, trusting her resourcefulness while warning her to conceal her demonic aura and consult Wang Fulong in local matters. She relocates willing Sacred Spirit Society members to the city and leaves trusted subordinates to manage the society's remaining influence in the East Pole Sea. 995

Demon War and Later Duties

Flower Branch fights the Serpent-Eyed Demon during the war, driven by vengeance for her mother. After reaching Level Seven, she receives the Spatial Token and responsibility for access to the Heaven-Questioning Secret Realm. 1063 1068