Bu Yingshu

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Bu Yingshu (步影疏)
Alias(es)	Daoist Bu
Species/Race	Immortal Clan; member of the Wanfa Immortal Clan 800 802
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Wanfa Immortal Clan; Myriad Laws Sect; Martial Arts Pavilion 819 940
Occupation/Role	Martial Arts Pavilion Master; Seventh-Rank Sect Affairs Officer 940
Status	Active 1015
First Appearance	Chapter 801

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Sixth-Rank Sect Affairs Officer	826	Identified as a Level 6 Sect Affairs Officer while lending Zhang Yu her Immortal Shuttle. 826
Refining Void Dao Lord	858	Explicitly described as a dangerous Refining Void cultivator. 858
[Wanfa Immortal Clan] Dao Seed, Level 5	915	Repeated breakthroughs in talent and martial-arts comprehension raise her Dao Seed to Level 5. 915
[Great Saint Successor] Chain Law Diagram	918–919	Zhang Yu injects the diagram into her Law Aperture; she gains a surge in cultivation and inadvertently broadcasts a thought across Kunxu Layer 11. 918 919
Seventh-Rank Sect Affairs Officer	940	Promoted from Sixth to Seventh Rank and becomes Pavilion Master of the Martial Arts Pavilion; she remains in the Refining Void Realm despite obtaining a Tribulation Transcendence qualification certificate. 940

Background / History

Bu Yingshu entered Yufa Pavilion’s Special Task Force to review and dismantle the Sect-Guarding cultivation method Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation. She regarded Zhang Yu, then a Second-Rank Sect Affairs Officer, as a potentially useful lower cultivator because of his unusually rapid martial-arts learning. 800 801

While overseeing Zhang Yu’s work, she began personally instructing him in Derivative Cultivation Methods and extracting Immortal Dao Techniques with him. Her talent repeatedly improved during their joint research, leading her to regard Zhang Yu as an exclusive “personal tool” whose value must not be shared with other Immortal Clan members. 803 804

Bu Yingshu eventually extracted all ten Immortal Dao Techniques from Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation. She determined that the method required the equivalent of an eighteen-layer Dao Foundation and proposed a two-person combination method to meet that requirement. She later demonstrated the technique’s effects by merging with Zhang Yu before Yufa Pavilion officials and announced plans to commercialize it. 812 816 818

After the Special Task Force concluded, she publicly marked Zhang Yu as her own by declaring her intent to recruit him for the Martial Arts Pavilion, arranging future promotions, and requiring him to pin a photograph of the two of them to his public profile. 819

When Zhang Yu was reassigned to the dangerous Old Days Graveyard, Bu Yingshu was embarrassed by her failure to secure his transfer and arranged compensation. She later lent him her Immortal Shuttle, defended his seizure of Ying Aikun’s Immortal Inheritance as acting under her authority, and became involved in the Old Days Graveyard’s reconstruction politics. 823 826 846 849

Personality

Bu Yingshu is openly aristocratic and domineering toward lower cultivators. She treats her own needs as sufficient reason for others to accommodate her, expects obedience, and uses fines, payments, and personal authority to command Zhang Yu’s time and labor. 802 804 818

She is intensely ambitious about proving her talent and achieving immortality. Her early breakthroughs convince her that she possesses peerless aptitude, making her increasingly determined to complete Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, improve her Dao Seed, and establish herself within the Martial Arts Pavilion. 803 805 915

Her protectiveness toward Zhang Yu is inseparable from possessiveness. She shields him from investigations, secures privileges for him, and confronts those who harm him, but also attempts to control his career, associations, and contact with Heaven Sword Sect cultivators. 811 819 863 875 881

Despite her confidence, Bu Yingshu is sensitive to humiliation and to the possibility that Zhang Yu may outgrow her influence. His rising authority and cultivation make her increasingly cautious, particularly because she believes he knows the secret of her connection to the Great Saint Successor. 823 915 940

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation-Method Analysis

Bu Yingshu specializes in analyzing, dismantling, and reconstructing cultivation methods, particularly methods involving Immortal Dao Techniques.

• Extracted all ten Immortal Dao Techniques from Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation. 812
• Determined that the method requires the equivalent of an eighteen-layer Dao Foundation to begin cultivation. 816
• Developed a two-person combination approach to simulate the method’s requirements. 816 818
• Uses her improved talent to rapidly comprehend martial arts and contribute increasingly valuable work within the Martial Arts Pavilion. 915

[Wanfa Immortal Clan] Dao Seed

Her Dao Seed develops through repeated cultivation-method research with Zhang Yu.

• Reaches Level 5 after successive breakthroughs in talent and comprehension. 915
• Raises her efficiency in martial-arts study and research. 915
• Makes Zhang Yu strategically valuable to her, since their joint work repeatedly stimulates her advancement. 804 918

Great Saint Successor Manifestation

Zhang Yu injects the [Great Saint Successor] Chain Law Diagram into Bu Yingshu’s Law Aperture.

• Gives her a powerful surge in cultivation and perception. 918
• Allows her thoughts to extend across Kunxu Layer 11, unintentionally producing a Spirit Realm-wide broadcast. 919
• Improves her control over power connected to the Desolate Ox Demon Saint, though the phenomenon causes her distress and attracts Orthodox Gods’ attention. 919

Immortal Clan Authority

Bu Yingshu’s status grants her exceptional institutional influence and coercive power.

• Seals Lu Hengzhang’s Dharma Skeletons and Dharma Treasures in a single move, then repeatedly fines him. 803 804
• Compels the approval of Zhang Yu’s applications for an entire year. 803
• Publicly protects Zhang Yu from memory searches and claims she can compensate him if Sect rules punish him. 811 812
• Uses her standing to intervene in disputes involving Yufa Pavilion, the Old Days Graveyard, and the Management Committee. 819 863

Equipment / Items

• Immortal Shuttle — A conspicuous Immortal Clan vehicle she lends to Zhang Yu; she later pilots it into the Youxin Department building, killing Ying Aikun. 826 832
• Homicide License — Faintly activates when she believes Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen have deceived her, then recedes after Zhang Yu calms her suspicion. 858 881
• Tribulation Transcendence qualification certificate — Obtained upon her promotion to Seventh Rank, though she has not yet broken through from Refining Void. 940

Relationships

• Zhang Yu — Research partner, subordinate, and the catalyst for her talent growth. She initially treats him as a personal tool, then publicly marks him as her person, protects him from outside pressure, and seeks to bind him to her through promotion, investment, and marriage offers. 804 819 915 951
• Bu Yuangui — Her father, an Ascension Realm, Tenth-Rank Sect Affairs Officer. He advises her to stop treating Zhang Yu as an ordinary subordinate once Zhang Yu gains major influence. 849 915
• Bu Zhenting — Her Immortal Clan cousin and longtime rival. He formerly considered her talent inadequate and was shocked when she successfully verified Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation. 822 823
• Bai Zhenzhen — A Heaven Sword Sect cultivator whom Bu Yingshu distrusts and instinctively dislikes. Her possessiveness toward Zhang Yu repeatedly brings her into conflict with Bai. 857 858 881
• Yang Kaitai — Yufa Pavilion’s Deputy Pavilion Master, who opposes continuing the Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation review and pressures Zhang Yu to report on Bu Yingshu’s progress. 804 805
• Zheng Meng — A lower cultivator initially involved in Bu Yingshu’s experiments and cultivation-method review; Bu Yingshu discards her in favor of working directly with Zhang Yu. 800 803 804
• Xie Lanyin — A Management Committee rival whom Bu Yingshu confronts after Xie attacks Zhang Yu. 863 885

Story Role / Major Arcs

Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation

Bu Yingshu drives the Special Task Force’s attempt to validate Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation. Her collaboration with Zhang Yu lets her extract its Immortal Dao Techniques, overcome the project’s technical barriers, and present a two-person simulation of the method to Yufa Pavilion. 800 812 816 818

Claiming Zhang Yu

After completing the review, Bu Yingshu openly claims Zhang Yu as her favored talent. She promises him a transfer to the Martial Arts Pavilion and advancement to Fourth Rank, then turns their public association into a deterrent against other Sect factions. 819

Old Days Graveyard Intervention

Bu Yingshu remains a decisive source of backing after Zhang Yu’s reassignment to the Old Days Graveyard. Her Immortal Shuttle and public defense help him seize Ying Aikun’s inheritance and survive conflicts with the Heavenly Devil Sect and local management factions. 826 832 846

Soul Cultivation Industry

Bu Yingshu works with Zhang Yu as the Myriad Laws Sect moves into the Soul Cultivation Industry. Her apparent recklessness causes opponents to attribute extensive strategic planning to her, treating her as the hidden architect behind Zhang Yu’s expansion. 892 914

Third-Generation Legislation

Bu Yingshu enters the Third-Generation Legislation process with a proposal for One Certification, Temporary Certification, intended to preserve competition and pressure cultivators to keep advancing. She seeks Zhang Yu’s support and offers marriage and Immortal Clan elevation as incentives. 949 951

Notable Quotes

“Stay properly by my side from now on. So long as I protect you, I can ensure your peace for ten thousand generations.” 810

“You are my person.” 819

“Little Yu, did you think that once you broke through to Refining Void, you'd be in the same realm as me?” 940