Yuanfeng

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Human form: A graceful woman with exquisite features, commanding phoenix eyes, and a naturally regal bearing 6 74 117.
• Clothing: Wears fiery-red gowns, seven-colored cloud or feather robes, and a magnificent crimson-gold phoenix robe 6 47 48 117.
• Phoenix form: Transforms into a phoenix accompanied by a cry reaching across the nine heavens. During her Dao breakthrough, a sky-obscuring phoenix manifestation appears amid flames 48 117.

Personality

Yuanfeng is proud and protective of her clan, but capable of restraining its anger. Although accusations against the Dragon Clan initially enrage her, she accepts calls for investigation and later stops her warriors from launching an impulsive attack that could serve an enemy’s scheme 5 6 15.

Her hospitality can conceal political calculation. After entertaining Chu Feng and giving him a spiritual treasure, she privately admits that she does not yet believe his claims. She nevertheless recognizes his potential, seeks a favorable connection, and orders her elders to verify his warning 10 11.

With Chu Feng, she becomes affectionate, teasing, and occasionally jealous. She complains when he makes protective talismans for their daughters before making one for her, yet readily supports extending the same protection to Ancestral Dragon and First Qilin 70 130.

As a mother, she values independence and discipline. She sends Kunpeng and Kong Xuan out to find their own fortunes and insists that her daughters show gratitude for Chu Feng’s gifts. Her severity softens when Kunpeng submits to punishment, prompting her to plead for leniency 71 129 150 151.

History

Dragon-Phoenix Calamity

Yuanfeng leads the Phoenix Clan from the Volcano of Immortality during its conflict with the Dragon Clan. Investigating the deaths of Phoenix cultivators, she confronts Ancestral Dragon, only to learn that the dragons accuse her clan of similar killings. Their encounter escalates into battle, while Luohu’s agents continue spreading rumors and provoking both sides 5 6 7 9.

Chu Feng brings evidence identifying Luohu as the instigator. Yuanfeng publicly thanks him and welcomes him as a guest, while privately arranging to investigate his claims. She later restrains calls for immediate retaliation against the dragons and agrees to a temporary truce after Ao Ling helps expose the plot 10 11 15.

When Chu Feng explains the calamity’s intended outcome, Yuanfeng chooses to trust him rather than gamble with her clansmen’s lives. She persuades Ancestral Dragon and First Qilin to cooperate in staging the conflict and making carefully worded Heavenly Dao oaths. Yuanfeng vows to suppress the Volcano of Immortality and harmonize Heaven and Earth, taking phoenix form to subdue its Earth Fire. The clans survive with their foundations preserved, though the Heavenly Dao punishes their evasion by reducing their cultivation 19 20.

Children and Marriage

The Heavenly Dao causes Yuanfeng to conceive Kunpeng and Kong Xuan without her knowingly using a conception technique. They are born as two spiritual eggs, fulfilling a destined event that eases the Phoenix Clan’s suppression. Yuanfeng then permits her clansmen to leave their territory but orders them to avoid the coming calamity 24 35.

Chu Feng later proposes marriage and offers ten Hunyuan Golden Immortal Dao Fruits as a betrothal gift. Yuanfeng consumes one, restores her former peak cultivation, and accepts. She subsequently helps him seek First Qilin as another Dao Companion, supporting the union of the three clans under Chu Feng despite her continuing rivalry with Ancestral Dragon 47 48 49.

Yuanfeng later conceives a child through dual cultivation with Chu Feng. He remains beside her until she gives birth to their Golden-Winged Great Peng daughter 85.

Protecting the Phoenix Clan

When Di Jun’s army attacks the Volcano of Immortality, Yuanfeng reveals her restored power and gravely injures Ji Meng and Ying Zhao. Rather than destroy the invading leadership, she forces Di Jun to surrender three Top-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures and withdraw 62 63.

Following Chu Feng’s advice, she sends selected karma-burdened clansmen into the Demon Court while keeping the Phoenix Clan’s core elites outside the Witch-Demon Calamity. Sharing the burden with the Demon Clan improves cultivation conditions for the phoenixes, while worsening the demons’ own karmic difficulties 71 73.

She also takes responsibility for Liu’er’s cultivation when Chu Feng is summoned away. Later, she reports that the disciple has reached the late Daluo Golden Immortal stage 74 116.

Achieving the Dao and Later Events

Yuanfeng achieves the Dao alongside Ancestral Dragon and First Qilin through Chu Feng’s Dao Fruits. He also supplies treasures and resources to strengthen their clans 117.

As the Witch-Demon Calamity approaches its climax, she learns that Kunpeng incited the Golden Crows, contributing to the deaths of nine of them. Yuanfeng summons and reprimands her daughter, but asks Chu Feng to spare her after she admits fault. Chu Feng instead confines Kunpeng to cultivation at the Volcano of Immortality 150 151.

Luohu’s return brings a new household conflict. Yuanfeng challenges her claim to seniority by pointing out that she has borne Chu Feng’s child, but Luohu suppresses her with her aura and threatens to refine her. Yuanfeng yields, remaining resentful but afraid to challenge Luohu again 167 171.

Before the next calamity, Yuanfeng accepts further resources and agrees to keep her clan’s core elites uninvolved. At the Three Sects’ competition, she rewards the top ten disciples with personally refined phoenix feathers. She later accompanies Chu Feng and Luohu to the Demon Realm, then asks Chu Feng to take her and the other clan leaders back to the Primordial World 193 217 231.

Abilities & Skills

Law of Fire and Southern Bright Lihuo

• Manifests heaven-burning flames through the Law of Fire, clashing directly with Ancestral Dragon’s Law of Water 48.
• Shapes Southern Bright Lihuo into ten flaming phoenixes to attack the Ten Great Demon Marshals 62.
• Overwhelms the marshals’ defenses and gravely injures Ji Meng and Ying Zhao with a single attack 62.
• Suppresses the rampaging Earth Fire beneath the Volcano of Immortality 19.

Phoenix Transformation and Flight

• Changes between human and phoenix forms 19 48.
• Spreads phoenix feathers around her body and flies swiftly through the clouds 6.
• Uses her phoenix form in direct combat against Ancestral Dragon 48.

Spiritual Perception and Restrictions

• Senses Chu Feng’s arrival at the Volcano of Immortality and appears to receive him 47 70.
• Establishes a restriction before privately discussing her plan with Phoenix Clan members 15.
• Attempts to divine Chu Feng’s origins but cannot uncover them 11.

Treasure Refinement

• Personally refines Phoenix Clan members’ life-bound feathers into treasures combining offense and defense 217.
• Each feather contains a pure origin of Southern Bright Lihuo and can invoke a trace of undying origin to protect its owner in a crisis 217.
• These feathers are not innate treasures; for cultivators below the Great Luo realm, their protection is described as equivalent to an extra life 217.

Equipment & Items

• Protective talisman: Made specifically for Yuanfeng by Chu Feng after she complains about being overlooked. It is described as stronger than the talismans he had just made for their daughters 130.
• Pitch-black short blade — formerly held: A spiritual treasure capable of severing malevolent qi. Yuanfeng gives it to Chu Feng to establish a favorable connection 11.
• Three Top-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures: Obtained from Di Jun as compensation for the attack on the Phoenix Clan 63.
• Innate Spiritual Treasures and cultivation resources: Received from Chu Feng to strengthen the Phoenix Clan after her Dao breakthrough 117.

Relationships

• Chu Feng — Her Dao Companion and the father of Golden-Winged Great Peng. His warnings save her clan from destruction, while his Dao Fruits restore her cultivation and help her achieve the Dao 20 47 85 117.
• Kunpeng — Her daughter. Yuanfeng worries about her ruthless conduct, demands that she respect Chu Feng as her father, and later pleads for mercy when she accepts punishment 71 80 150 151.
• Kong Xuan — Her daughter, born alongside Kunpeng. Yuanfeng praises her accomplishments but insists that she acknowledge Chu Feng’s assistance 35 71 129.
• Golden-Winged Great Peng — Her daughter with Chu Feng. Yuanfeng checks her bold requests for further gifts and reminds her to cultivate without causing trouble 85 129 130.
• Ancestral Dragon — A longstanding rival who becomes an ally and fellow Dao Companion of Chu Feng. Their disputes gradually diminish as the three clans unite 48 62 130 193.
• First Qilin — Fellow ancient clan leader and later family ally. Yuanfeng helps arrange her union with Chu Feng and later asks him to provide her with a Dao Fruit as well 48 49 193.
• Luohu — Initially the hidden instigator threatening her clan; later a more powerful fellow Dao Companion who coerces Yuanfeng into accepting her authority 10 167 171.
• Liu’er / Six-Eared Macaque — Chu Feng’s disciple, whose training Yuanfeng supervises. Although she initially orders the unidentified visitor killed, she later praises Liu’er’s aptitude and encourages her studies 73 74 116.

Notable Quotes

“No one knows whether peaceful coexistence is possible. What we need to do now is prevent others from plotting against us and making us fight until both sides are ruined.” 16

“Children of the Phoenix Clan do not need to grow up under their mother's wings. The Primordial World is vast; whether they become dragons or worms depends entirely on their own fortune.” 71

Notes

• Kunpeng and Kong Xuan’s parentage: Their conception is explicitly attributed to the Heavenly Dao. Yuanfeng later tells Kunpeng that she was born from an earlier encounter with Chu Feng, but the narration identifies this as a story given at Chu Feng’s instruction, not a confirmed account of conception 24 80.
• Realm terminology: Her restored cultivation is called both peak Hunyuan Golden Immortal and perfected Primordial Origin Golden Immortal. A later chapter grants another Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal Dao Fruit despite her already having achieved that named realm earlier 47 49 117 193.