Yu Sheng

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Yu Sheng (于生)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Inn; partner of the Special Operations Bureau
Occupation/Role	Writer; Spirit Realm Detective; leader of the Inn; Shu Ji's Star Guardian
Status	Active

Background / History

Yu Sheng lived what he describes as an ordinary life for more than twenty years before becoming entangled with Otherworlds and Entities. Despite the abilities he later displays, he initially knows little about the supernatural, the wider world beyond Boundary City, or how to handle Entities. He actively seeks guidance from Special Operations Bureau personnel and Little Red Riding Hood 57.

During the Nightfall Valley incident, Yu Sheng is consumed by the Entity known as Hunger, but returns apparently unharmed and without memory of his death. His blood and consciousness trigger Hunger's self-devouring chain reaction, while he gains a subtle connection to the valley and can distinguish the parasitic Dark Angel from the Otherworld itself 54.

After rescuing Huli and taking responsibility for Eileen, Yu Sheng establishes the Inn with them. The group registers as an organization, and the Special Operations Bureau provides a dedicated communication device and later maintains contact through an observation station near No. 66 Wutong Road 85 272.

Yu Sheng repeatedly uses death and rebirth as a means of entering, exploring, and influencing hostile Otherworlds. In the Black Forest, he allows an evil wolf to consume him, infiltrating its spirit and extending his awareness into the Fairy Tale Otherworld 124. He later attempts to reach the Black Forest's deeper “backstage” by communicating with the Hunter and showing it a photograph of the deep-diver team that may have become trapped there 154.

After capturing the Pillar of Order spacecraft, Yu Sheng learns that the Hermetic Society creates Artificial Saintesses and Brass Knights from living people. The discovery becomes a personal vendetta and a long-term goal: to find and oppose the society despite the Inn's limited strength 319.

His connection to Shu Ji eventually deepens until he can perceive locations across the planet and beyond. Yuan Ling and Yuan Hao propose that he become Shu Ji's Star Guardian, a responsibility he accepts 460. He later uses the planet's resources and workforce for technological, industrial, and defensive projects.

Personality

Yu Sheng is candid about what he does not know, curious about unfamiliar phenomena, and inclined to learn by direct experimentation. He often approaches danger with unusual calmness—even treating death, blood loss, and hostile Entities as opportunities to investigate something new 57 104 124.

He is generally easygoing and avoids unnecessary conflict, but becomes serious when others are endangered or exploited. The Hermetic Society's treatment of people as material for Artificial Saintesses and Knights provokes a lasting anger that motivates his campaign against them 272 316 319.

Despite his eccentric methods, Yu Sheng is patient and protective toward the Inn's members. He teaches Huli how to use ordinary household facilities, repairs Eileen's damaged bodies, worries about Zheng Zhi's safety in Mist City, and makes practical plans to improve his companions' chances of survival 58 163 527.

Abilities & Skills

Death and Resurrection

Yu Sheng can return after being killed, though the event may initially be forgotten or only remembered by others after a delay.

• He returns after being consumed by Hunger, with no memory of his death 54.
• He deliberately lets the evil wolf kill and consume him to infiltrate the Black Forest 124.
• His repeated survivals make him difficult for enemies to eliminate permanently; “Yun Qingzi” fails to kill him despite multiple fatal attacks 439.
• His deaths can unsettle or confuse companions, especially when memories of the event return later 148.

Blood Control and Blood Connections

Yu Sheng's blood can contaminate, erode, connect with, and influence beings or environments.

• A being that consumes or contacts his blood may develop a delayed reaction and a connection to him 125.
• He can use blood contact to protect people affected by Fairy Tale, though the method requires him to lose blood 183.
• Blood on his Tetanus Staff erodes targets; repeated contact can establish a link through which Yu Sheng senses changes in an enemy and may interfere with or anticipate its actions 542.
• He can mark objects and vessels with his blood, including a Hermetic Society ship infiltrated under deception 674.
• His blood's effects are dangerous and not fully understood, including to Yu Sheng himself 104.

Otherworld Perception and Manipulation

Yu Sheng can sense and interact with the boundaries, structures, and inhabitants of Otherworlds.

• After the Nightfall Valley incident, he perceives Hunger's entities and identifies the Dark Angel as foreign to the valley 54.
• He can enter Fairy Tale subsets without the effect that restricts ordinary adults, making him uniquely useful to the Special Operations Bureau 154.
• He senses when No. 66 Wutong Road begins “falling” toward the Otherworld and personally investigates the fog boundary 275.
• He can communicate with certain Otherworld entities, including the cats of Dark Alley, by physically interacting with them 595.
• He can create unstable, incomplete World Bridge-like rifts, though he admits they are not yet mature 610.

Spatial Doors and Transport

Yu Sheng creates doors that connect distant locations.

• He uses phantom doors to access the Pillar of Order and chooses routes for convenience 315.
• He can connect remote locations to No. 66 Wutong Road through makeshift portable doors 393.
• He transports the house itself, accidentally relocating No. 66 Wutong Road and a Special Operations Bureau outpost to Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain 341.
• He uses doors to rapidly send companions to safe locations or enter the Special Operations Bureau directly 594.

Consciousness and Planetary Perception

Yu Sheng can extend his consciousness over immense distances and interface with large-scale systems.

• He merges his consciousness with the Pillar of Order and pilots it through a successful long-distance warp jump 314.
• Direct contact with hyperspace allows him to perceive foundational structures of the world, though the process is dangerous due to the density of information 389.
• As Shu Ji's Star Guardian, he senses the planet's regions, infrastructure, atmosphere, and activity while practicing precise control over each sensory endpoint 460.
• He can survey Shu Ji's interior while acting elsewhere and activate ancient industrial infrastructure 469.

Combat

Yu Sheng primarily fights at close range but has developed ranged blood-based weaponry.

• He uses a reinforced wolf-tooth club, the Tetanus Staff, in direct combat 297.
• He can shatter spatial barriers to expose concealed enemies 397.
• He relies on resilience, improvisation, and immediate action when facing hostile entities and cultivators 397 439.
• He uses a Blood Needle Launcher against Hermetic Society forces, exploiting their Power Armor against them 622.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Tetanus Staff — A wolf-tooth club reinforced and repaired by Huli; later coated with Yu Sheng's blood to erode and connect with targets 297 542.
• Blood Needle Launcher — Fires pre-drawn blood stored in needle-like ammunition for ranged attacks and blood projection 526 622.
• Blood gun and blood storage tanks — Planned ranged tools intended to spray or deploy stored blood without requiring Yu Sheng to bleed during every encounter 526.
• Blood grenades — Blood-filled devices that release mist targeting hostile living beings 622.
• Pillar of Order — Captured Hermetic Society spacecraft that Yu Sheng pilots, keeps as Inn property, and docks in Nightfall Valley 314 319.
• Holy Coffin — An artifact Yu Sheng keeps aboard the Pillar of Order and intends to assist once it awakens 319.
• Portable door — A makeshift device that links temporary locations back to No. 66 Wutong Road 393.

Relationships

• Eileen — Close companion and Inn co-founder. Yu Sheng repairs and designs her bodies, while Eileen openly worries about his repeated deaths and often accompanies him into danger 58 163 172.
• Huli — Rescued demon fox who calls Yu Sheng “Benefactor.” He teaches and cares for her; she is fiercely loyal and offers to fight beside him when he is angry or threatened 58 316.
• Little Red Riding Hood — Spirit Realm Detective and ally connected to the Fairy Tale Otherworld. Yu Sheng's blood establishes a connection to the wolf-related curse affecting her 125.
• Baili Qing — Director of the Special Operations Bureau and a trusted collaborator. They exchange intelligence, coordinate investigations, and discuss Yu Sheng's campaigns against the Hermetic Society 154 319 595.
• Li Lin — Special Operations Bureau agent who first encounters Yu Sheng in Nightfall Valley and later acts as a continuing contact around No. 66 Wutong Road 54 272.
• Xu Jiali / Xuan Che — Special Operations Bureau agent and skilled practitioner who initially regards Yu Sheng with caution; later travels and investigates alongside him 54 340.
• Luna — Artificial Saintess and combat companion. Yu Sheng trusts her to protect him in battle and seeks to help her gain revenge and find a way home 622 594.
• Luo — Former Black Dot Group supervisor recruited by Yu Sheng as an intelligence asset within her former organization 600 609.
• Zheng Zhi — Yu Sheng's nephew and a Special Operations Bureau sentinel assigned near him. Yu Sheng worries about his safety in anomalous environments 341 527.
• Mo Ran — Shu Ji's City Lord fairy and a subordinate who supports Yu Sheng's production plans and follows his instructions 526 609.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Nightfall Valley

Yu Sheng enters Nightfall Valley to find Huli, protects Eileen during the journey, and reunites with Huli in the ruined temple 47. After being consumed by Hunger, he returns and unintentionally causes the valley's entities to devour themselves, forcing the Dark Angel parasitizing the sky to retreat 54.

Formation of the Inn

Yu Sheng establishes formal contact with the Special Operations Bureau and Little Red Riding Hood, while taking Huli into his home and repairing Eileen's body 57 58. He later registers the Inn with Eileen and Huli as its founding members 85.

Fairy Tale and the Black Forest

Yu Sheng investigates Fairy Tale through repeated death-and-return expeditions, connects with the evil wolf, and seeks the hidden “story source” behind the Black Forest 124 154. He works with Baili Qing to investigate whether the Hunter is connected to a lost deep-diver team and attempts to restore its remaining humanity through the team's photograph 154.

War Against the Hermetic Society

After taking the Pillar of Order and learning the origins of Artificial Saintesses and Brass Knights, Yu Sheng commits himself to opposing the Hermetic Society 315 319. He later infiltrates one of its ships with an Angel Catalyst as bait, tracks its route to a Star Gate, and joins the Unified Fleet's assault on the society's homeworld 674 696.

Star Guardian of Shu Ji

Yu Sheng's consciousness becomes linked to Shu Ji, leading Yuan Ling and Yuan Hao to propose him as the planet's Star Guardian 460. He accepts responsibility for its people, activates ancient industrial systems, and uses Shu Ji's resources for the Inn's weapons and infrastructure 469 526.

Trivia

• Yu Sheng is a published writer whose works include the Night Blade series and the character Lin Qi; Ren Wenwen is an enthusiastic fan 85.
• He is concerned that the strange events around him could damage his literary reputation 272.
• He routinely treats dangerous blood loss as an inconvenience, once describing the likely consequence of a plan as needing “two more bowls of brown sugar water” 183.
• The Special Operations Bureau considers it essential that personnel treat Yu Sheng as a human under all circumstances 272.