Kong She

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Feature	Value
Name	Kong She (孔慑)
Alias(es)	Elder Kong
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Heaven Defying Sect
Occupation/Role	Alchemy master; owner of the Wonderful Pill Workshop
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 42

Appearance

Kong She is a white-haired old man who usually works before an alchemy furnace in his workshop. His speech is measured and earnest, contrasting with the more erratic demeanors of some other Heaven Defying Sect elders. 42

• White hair. 42
• Uses a deep, methodical speaking voice. 42
• Commonly seen refining pills in the Wonderful Pill Workshop’s alchemy room. 42 48

Personality

Kong She is serious about alchemy, teaching, and the Heaven-Defying Path. He addresses Ning Ri as “Grandmaster” despite Ning Ri’s discomfort with the title, treating Ning’s potential as worthy of direct investment. 43

He values traditional hands-on alchemy over reliance on auxiliary tools, though his own methods can be highly unconventional. His workshop uses fabricated sounds and pill aromas to draw customers, while his long-term goal is to use false pill aroma to deceive anomalies and heavenly tribulations. 44 45 46

Kong She is generous but awkward about showing it openly. He secretly added ten pills to Ning Ri’s medicine bottle as a gift, then became deeply shaken when Ning Ri’s pill separation exceeded what Kong believed possible. 46 47

Abilities & Skills

Alchemy

Kong She is the Heaven Defying Sect’s alchemy master and possesses extensive knowledge of Qi Refining-stage pill refinement, including fire starting, material melting, rune carving, pill condensation, separation, and maintenance. 42 44

• Authored the formula for the Qi Replenishing Pill. 48
• Can refine Qi Replenishing Pills using Qi Refining-stage techniques and separate fourteen pills from a batch through his own ability. 46
• Refined 154 Qi Replenishing Pills over half a day while attempting to reproduce Ning Ri’s pill-separation result. 48
• Can demonstrate techniques at both Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment levels. 46

Traditional Refining Methods

Kong She favors direct cultivation-based techniques rather than automated or auxiliary alchemy tools. His essential techniques include fire starting, material melting, and rune carving. 44

• Uses a plain bronze pill cauldron without light-emitting runes or mechanisms. 46
• Performs simultaneous fire control, ingredient preheating, spiritual-sense rune inscription, and pill processing with high precision. 46
• Maintains collections of his disciples’ alchemy notes and failures to identify common mistakes among Qi Refining alchemists. 43

False Pill Aroma

Kong She developed a method that creates false pill-refining sounds and aromas throughout the Wonderful Pill Workshop. 45 46

• The workshop’s apparent ongoing pill refinement is partly a customer-attraction strategy; no one may be refining inside despite the sounds and smells. 45
• He originally developed the method to misdirect anomalies and heavenly tribulations away from genuinely powerful pills. 46
• His goal is to refine the false aroma until it can deceive every visitor, then potentially deceive anomalies themselves. 46
• He has not yet succeeded in using the method to evade tribulations or anomalies. 46

Equipment / Items

• Bronze pill cauldron — A plain, traditional cauldron used for Qi Refining-stage pill refinement. 46
• Alchemy jade slips — Kong She’s own techniques, insights, and sealed records left by his disciples after their advancement. 43
• Greeting Chair — An aggressively designed but harmless artifact creation kept in his alchemy room. 43

Relationships

• Ning Ri — Treats him as “Grandmaster” and personally teaches him alchemy, hoping to help him comprehend the Heaven-Defying Path and eventually reach Golden Core. Kong She later recognizes that Ning Ri’s talent exceeds his ability to teach. 42 43 47
• Zhou Hai — Fellow Heaven Defying Sect elder. Zhou arranged for Kong She to guide Ning Ri; Kong later reports Ning Ri’s twenty-three-pill separation to him. 43 48
• Xun Zang — Fellow elder who accompanies Zhou Hai to investigate Kong She’s obsessive pill refinement after Ning Ri leaves the workshop. 48
• Yan Han — Kong She’s cold and distant disciple, who delivers the invitation for Ning Ri to visit the Wonderful Pill Workshop. 42
• Mo Cuidao — Fellow elder whose disciple created the Greeting Chair in Kong She’s alchemy room. 43

Story Role / Major Arcs

Wonderful Pill Workshop Invitation

Kong She summons Ning Ri to the Wonderful Pill Workshop after Ning becomes the Heaven Defying Sect’s Grandmaster. He offers to help Ning bypass conventional expectations and begin preparing for Golden Core despite Ning not yet reaching Foundation Establishment. 42 43

Alchemy Instruction

He provides Ning with a large collection of alchemy jade slips, including his own methods and the retained insights of past disciples. He evaluates Ning’s understanding of alchemy and supports Ning’s decision to learn it as part of his Heaven-Defying Path. 43 44

Qi Replenishing Pill Demonstration

Kong She refines Qi Replenishing Pills for Ning to observe and helps Ning identify the conditions under which Ning’s skills gain points: nearby refinement must be at Ning’s own level. 46

Pill Separation Revelation

After secretly supplementing his own fourteen-pill result with ten gifted pills, Kong She is stunned when Ning deliberately separates twenty-three pills. He realizes Ning had held back to avoid surpassing him, then gives Ning all forty-seven Qi Replenishing Pills and asks him to return when establishing his foundation. 46 47

Attempt to Replicate Ning Ri’s Result

Unable to accept Ning’s feat, Kong She repeatedly refines Qi Replenishing Pills in an attempt to reproduce the separation result. Zhou Hai and Xun Zang eventually interrupt him after he produces 154 pills in half a day. 48

Notable Quotes

“If you have astonishing alchemy talent, you can directly refine a Golden Core in your Dantian.” 43

“If I can deceive everyone who enters the Wonderful Pill Workshop, then perhaps I can try to deceive the anomalies.” 46

“Grandmaster Ning is creating new history.” 48

Trivia

• The Wonderful Pill Workshop is housed within a mushroom-shaped building. 42
• Kong She offered to arrange a repeat of Ning Ri’s bandit-and-maiden trial scenario because he believed it might help reproduce Ning’s learning ability. 43
• He secretly added ten extra Qi Replenishing Pills to his own batch so he could give Ning Ri a gift without making the exchange awkward. 46 47