Madam Shi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Yu Ji was once a disciple of the Armored Soldier Sect. Chief Constable Shi pursued her while they were both in the sect, but she had loved someone else. After a conflict connected to a Dragon Tendon, she withdrew to Stone Rock County for ten years. 33 225

Known publicly as Madam Shi, she initially presents herself as an aloof noblewoman with a private passion for opera. Her encounters with Chu Qing begin when he seeks Secret Medicine from her; his willingness to watch, praise, and repeatedly demand performances pushes her to resume singing despite her self-imposed taboo. 32 33 47

Behind this persona, Yu Ji concealed exceptional cultivation. By the time her Heaven-Connecting Path was revealed, she had already surpassed the Flesh and Viscera Realms assumed by outsiders. Her Dragon Tendon cultivation and Armored Soldier Sect Secret Transmission became the foundation of her future position in the sect and her survival through the Millennial Calamity. 104 145

Appearance

Yu Ji carries herself with the measured bearing of a high-born lady: upright posture, restrained movements, and a perpetually cool expression. Her opera attire contrasts sharply with her usual reserve. 37

• Has a round face and is described as having excellent looks; she had just turned thirty when Chu Qing first met her. 22
• Wears her hair high, decorated with gold and silver hairpieces. 37
• Has appeared in a large red robe with gold trim, compared to a fire phoenix. 37
• Uses elaborate opera makeup and long water sleeves when performing. 37 47
• Often dresses in white in later appearances. 636
• Her cultivation can leave her body and touch ice-cold. 348 1210
• During the infusion of law fragments and Karma Points, the tiny blood vessels beneath her skin turn pale gold. 1839

Personality

Yu Ji is cold, proud, and intensely private. She treats formality and ceremony seriously, particularly in opera, and regularly derides Chu Qing as a “stable boy” when he disregards her standards. Yet her detached demeanor conceals a strong need for recognition as a performer. 145 419 471

She is fiercely ambitious and unwilling to accept inferiority. Being surpassed by Chu Qing repeatedly intensifies her competitive drive; she seeks the Overlord title and the Ancient Mythological Path partly to one day stand above him. 1008 1273

Her loyalty is expressed through decisive, often ruthless action. Despite having hidden in Stone Rock County to avoid danger, she kills enemies pursuing Chu Qing, carries him away when he is unconscious, and repeatedly places herself in danger to protect him. 211 322 323

Her ruthlessness becomes more pronounced after obtaining the Overlord title. While planning to retrieve the Heavenly Court’s resources, she proposes killing their prospective allies to keep the resources and conceal Stone Ridge Mountain’s involvement, but drops the proposal when Chu Qing objects. 1321

Abilities & Skills

Armored Soldier Sect Secret Transmission

Yu Ji cultivates the Armored Soldier Sect’s top-tier Secret Transmission and considers preserving its inheritance a personal responsibility.

• Has opened Heaven-Connecting Paths for unarmed combat, weapons, and esoteric arts. 348 618
• Possesses a method suited to opening a weapons Heaven-Connecting Path, though she rejects the Overlord Spear as unsuitable for herself. 348
• Her technique progressively suppresses her emotions; at the Third Limit, she fears becoming a weapon that knows only killing. 348
• Cannot simply change techniques because doing so would sever the sect’s inheritance. 348

Dragon Tendon Cultivation

Yu Ji possesses deep knowledge of Dragon Tendons beyond their common use in Golden Sinew cultivation.

• Cultivated thirty Dragon Tendons, giving her overwhelming strength against peers. 145
• Shares her Dragon Tendon secret technique with Chu Qing and helps him interpret it alongside another method he obtained. 150 152
• Uses the true Dragon Tendon Method provided by Chu Qing to forge a Flood Dragon Tendon. 1008
• Her Dragon Tendon awakened the latent bloodline that later enabled her God-Demon Path. 1116

God-Demon Transformations

Yu Ji’s bloodline permits her to assume numerous God-Demon forms, each with distinct combat applications.

• Initially gained 1,001 forms from Overlord’s Blood; a slain form recovers after one day while she continues fighting through another. 928
• Improvement in one form also improves her other forms. 928
• Later masters 7,200 transformations. 1210
• Can assume forms including a human-bodied snake-tailed God-Demon, a three-headed six-armed form, winged forms, and a centaur form. 924 928 1274
• Uses a Heavenly Machine God-Demon form to locate Li Feiyang and teleport to him. 1215
• Her transformed body grants immense vitality, Spirit and Energy, and recovery speed. 922 1382
• Further Overlord’s Blood strengthens her God-Demon forms and gives her additional transformation slots. 1339
• Can manifest Innate Gods and Demons from her voice or shed hair. 1579 1605
• After Chu Qing infuses her with law fragments and Karma Points, 108,000 God-Demon projections appear behind her, their eyes showing sparks of sentience. 1839

Overlord Oddity

Yu Ji forged an Oddity from her own God-Demon manifestations.

• Her 7,200 Innate Gods and Demons act without self-awareness and obey orders to kill. 1327
• The Oddity grows by consuming powerful bloodlines and physiques, then feeds its accumulated power back into Yu Ji. 1327
• Destroying individual manifestations does not defeat her; all of them and Yu Ji herself would need to be destroyed at once. 1327
• Chu Qing’s enfeoffment strengthened her bloodline enough to give rise to the Oddity. 1327

Space Traversal and Teleportation

Yu Ji can use Space God-Demon forms and Exotic Treasures for long-distance movement.

• Can teleport twice per day after her bloodline evolution. 1210
• Has teleported Chu Qing through an Exotic Treasure while transformed into a primordial Space God-Demon. 1414
• Helps arrange a semi-permanent teleportation ritual to move resources from the Heavenly Court’s treasury to Stone Ridge Mountain. 1321
• Serves as Stone Ridge Mountain’s dispatcher, moving people and resources rapidly across continents. 1537 1634

Fire Seeds

Yu Ji can condense fire seeds through the Morning Star Scripture.

• Uses fire seeds to strengthen the war chariot’s power. 929
• Can recite the Enlightenment Star Scriptures and condense a candle flame, though doing so severely drains her Spirit and Energy. 922

God-Demon Path Development

Yu Ji does not merely cultivate the God-Demon Path; she actively develops it.

• Reaches the end of the path given to her by Chu Qing, then extends it further. 922
• Intends to define its realms, simplify its methods, reduce its resource requirements, and establish it as a stronger cultivation path. 922
• Regards herself as the one paving and widening the God-Demon Dao. 1210
• Rejects Li Feiyang’s authority to define the path’s Destined Realm, defeats and kills him, and becomes the new God Demon Ancestor. 1210 1215

Dao Fruit and Later Techniques

• Condenses twelve-colored Dao Fruits while her Innate Gods and Demons fend off a green hand that attacks during her cultivation. 1579
• Works with Chu Qing to use their Dao Fruits and maidservants’ Golden Cores in the development of Divine Ability Exotic Treasures. 1579
• After visualizing Liuli, manifests a flowing Star River made of small stars beneath her feet. She uses the technique to explore and improve her own capabilities. 1822

Relationships

• Chu Qing — Begins as a provocative audience member for her opera, but becomes her closest ally and a source of both jealousy and competition. Yu Ji provides Secret Medicine, cultivation knowledge, protection, and political support; she also repeatedly risks herself to defend him. They continue to cooperate on cultivation and the development of Divine Ability Exotic Treasures. 47 145 323 1273 1579
• Madam Jin — Close companion and traveling partner. Yu Ji takes responsibility for Madam Jin’s safety, helps her develop her Outsider bloodline, and plans to bring her to the Forbidden Zone once her condition stabilizes. 457 618 637
• Chief Constable Shi — Her husband, whom she openly rebuffs. He pursued her while they were in the Armored Soldier Sect, but she had loved another person. 33
• Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon — Her fiercely loyal dowry maids and attendants, who guard her and challenge those they see as disrespecting her. 33 37
• Li Feiyang — Former God-Demon Path Mythology Old Ancestor. Yu Ji considers him unworthy of defining the path’s Destined Realm, then defeats and kills him to claim the position of God Demon Ancestor. 1210 1215
• Princess Consort — An ally who reunites Yu Ji with Chu Qing and helps suppress hostile New Realm martial artists. They later cooperate to transfer resources to Stone Ridge Mountain. 636 1321
• Tian Buyu — Cooperates with Yu Ji’s group in retrieving the Heavenly Court’s treasury. She questions why his group kept its promise; a potential betrayal had led her and her allies to consider killing them. 1321 1324

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Opera and Secret Medicine — Chu Qing’s demands for Secret Medicine draw him into Yu Ji’s hidden life as an opera performer and expose her desire for a sincere audience. 32 33 47
• Hidden Power and Dragon Tendons — Yu Ji reveals her Heaven-Connecting Path, shares Dragon Tendon knowledge with Chu Qing, and begins cultivating alongside him. 104 145
• Chu Qing’s Protector — She carries the unconscious Chu Qing to safety, defeats Zheng Zhisheng when he attacks, and hunts enemies who intend to replace Chu Qing through human-skin techniques. 186 211 323
• Soul-Severing Treasure Injury — Yu Ji is injured while killing Chu Qing’s enemies, falls unconscious, and is saved after Chu Qing finds an Outsider healer. 322 327
• Armored Soldier Sect Ascension — She leaves Shi State amid sect conflict, eventually masters the Armored Soldier Sect, opens three Heaven-Connecting Paths, and enters the Second Limit. 457 618
• New Realm and Forbidden Zone — After reaching the New Realm, she teaches Chu Qing about its dangers and accompanies him into the Forbidden Zone. 636 637 920
• God-Demon Path — She develops the path, gains thousands of transformations through Overlord’s Blood and enfeoffment, and seeks dominance in the future doctrinal dispute. She later kills Li Feiyang and claims the position of God Demon Ancestor. 922 928 1210 1215
• Overlord and Oddity Forging — After becoming an Overlord, Yu Ji helps retrieve resources from the Heavenly Court’s treasury and forges an Oddity from thousands of Innate Gods and Demons using the bloodlines and physiques of its continent’s inhabitants. 1321 1324 1327
• Dao Fruit Maturation — She withstands an attack on her newly condensed twelve-colored Dao Fruits through endless God-Demon manifestations. She subsequently works with Chu Qing on Divine Ability Exotic Treasures. 1579
• Later Support for Chu Qing — She helps coordinate the movement of people and resources, takes responsibility for arranging a stronger seal on a dangerous hand, and later holds a Command Flag while guarding the operation that supplies Madam Jin’s Progenitor Golden Core refinement. 1537 1611 1937

Notable Quotes

“Please call me Yu Ji!” 618

“I have never been weaker than anyone in my life! And I don't want to be weaker than Chu Qing!” 1008

“I am paving the way for the God-Demon Dao. I am widening the path for the God-Demon Dao!” 1210