Peddler

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Peddler (貨郎)
Alias(es)	Lord of Pro; First Boss of Snowflake Port
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Pro State; Snowflake Port (First Boss) 574
Occupation/Role	Traveling merchant, supplier of Entry Medicine Powder, contract-maker, and defender of Pro State
Status	Presumed dead after the Battle of Mist Prison Valley 839
First Appearance	Chapter 15

Background / History

The Peddler travels Pro State with a handcart of sundries and cultivation goods. He sells ordinary household wares alongside Entry Medicine Powder, offering newly exposed “White Lambs” a choice of cultivation paths—for a price. His powders can initiate cultivators into different Dao Gates, making him central to the survival and growth of many paths. 15 567

He is the publicly known First Boss of Snowflake Port, with Master Kong Fang and Du Wenming identified as his direct disciples. 574 His influence extends beyond commerce: he personally reshaped Pro State’s social order so that its rules are strict for the powerful and lenient for ordinary people, the reverse of the order prevalent elsewhere. 681

The Peddler governs through bargains, obligations, and contracts rather than open rulership. He insists that gains and losses must balance, yet accepts costly deals when Pro State’s people, territory, or future are at stake. 455 616 617

Appearance

The Peddler is first described as a man in his thirties. He commonly wears a blue cloth vest even in freezing weather and travels with a handcart carrying a two-tier wooden cabinet. 15 455

• Pushes a cart stocked with sundries, Magical Treasures, medicinal powders, and contracts. 15 617
• Uses a red lantern and a pellet drum while calling out his wares. 15
• Often carries a Feather Duster, which he can use as both a merchant’s tool and a weapon. 133 617
• Smokes rolled cigarettes during conversations and after battles. 616 700

Personality

The Peddler frames nearly every decision as business. He values fair exchange, rejects unpaid favors, and evaluates events through profit, loss, capital, and repayment. His fairness can be merciless: he refuses to bend contracts for sympathy and is willing to let an unsalvageable territory fail rather than pretend it can be saved. 456 606 617

Despite this detachment, he repeatedly assumes responsibility for Pro State’s crises. He intervenes against plagues, foreign infiltrators, collapsing Proper Lands, the Great Totem, and invading armies. He also rescues old companions such as Face Not Big and plans dangerous operations personally when he believes others should not bear the risk. 133 582 681 809

He can be casually humorous and impatient with Li Banfeng, but becomes severe when confronting those who break Pro State’s rules or endanger its people. 454 617 701

“Winning some, losing some, no debts owed.” 616

Abilities & Skills

Merchant Cultivation and Entry Medicine Powder

The Peddler controls access to numerous Dao Gates through his supply of Entry Medicine Powder.

• Offers powders for cultivation paths including Farming, Joy, Food, Travel, House, Martial, Scholar, Fire, Water, and Gold Cultivation, though his stock varies. 15 577
• Is regarded as capable of determining which Dao Gates prosper or decline by choosing whether to supply their entry medicines. 567
• Uses Honesty with Old and Young, his unique Merchant Cultivator skill, to counter Fool Cultivator techniques and substitution methods. 539 694
• His secret art is associated with Iron Tendon Bamboo and its “iron bones,” though its full method is not disclosed. 567

Contracts and Fair Trade

The Peddler creates and enforces agreements with exceptional precision.

• Uses contracts to restrict dangerous individuals while preserving a balance of obligations and compensation. 606
• Required Green Flower to return to his dwelling after receiving alms from three people, preventing him from freely spreading plague. 606
• Entrusted Li Banfeng with twelve paired contracts and six individual contracts after the Year Wasteland conflict. 701
• Formed a Blood Sacrifice as Alliance Contract with Mist Prison Valley, creating a stone forest that trapped the Totem Army. 838

Multi-Path Cultivation

The Peddler demonstrates mastery of techniques from numerous Dao Gates rather than relying on a single path.

• Used Oil, Wind, Arrow, Herb, Cold, Body, Mud, and Travel Cultivation techniques against the Totem Army. 838
• Can use the environment as an extension of his combat power through his Life Contract with Mist Prison Valley. Damage sustained by the valley during battle is transferred to him. 837 838
• Employs Carefree and Unrestrained movement to evade attacks and pass through obstacles. 708
• Uses a pellet drum to disrupt hostile cultivation, including shattering ice beneath him and cracking an opponent’s ice armor. 809

Lock Cultivation

The Peddler possesses techniques from the extinct Lock Cultivator Dao Gate.

• Locked the souls of Blow Broken Hair and Wrist Kai Shan inside their skulls, preventing their return to the Inner State’s Furnace. 701
• Can lock down a piece of land after mastering the art. 701
• Sealed the inn containing a Year Wasteland exit sought by the Demon Lord’s forces. 701

Combat Improvisation

His cart’s wares can become decisive weapons.

• Choked thousands of Three-Headed People by scattering pepper into the air. 627
• Used an elm shaving to behead Yu Zhuo and later killed Yu Zhuo’s two brothers with the same mundane item. 809
• Stopped the Green Water Beggar’s attempted plague in Blue Poplar Village. 133
• Killed Ge Jun and He Caiyuan after they attempted to deceive him. 454

Equipment / Merchandise

• Peddler’s cart — A mobile storehouse for goods, medicinal powders, contracts, and combat supplies. 15 617
• Two-tier wooden cabinet — Mounted on the cart; holds drawers of Entry Medicine Powder and sundries. 15
• Pellet drum — Used to advertise his arrival and disrupt or intimidate opponents. 15 576 809
• Feather Duster — Sold as an ordinary household item but also carried by the Peddler in dangerous situations. 133 617
• Entry Medicine Powder — The foundation through which many cultivators enter Dao Gates. 15 567
• Contracts — Binding agreements used to regulate cultivation, territory, debts, and alliances. 606 701 838

Relationships

• Li Banfeng — Comrade and self-proclaimed senior brother. The Peddler initiated Li’s path by offering Entry Medicine Powder, gave him the Portable Abode as compensation for a loss at the Dao Gate, and later fought beside him in the Year Wasteland. 15 455 700
• Monkey Qiu — Acquaintance and Joy Cultivator who brought the dying Li Banfeng to the Peddler. 15
• Lu Qianjiao — Lover and fierce protector of the Peddler; she searches for him when he disappears and assists with his operations. 579 624
• Face Not Big — Old friend rescued by the Peddler from an Unnamable place after a difficult search for a viable escape route. 455 582
• Master Kong Fang — Direct disciple and Second Boss of Snowflake Port. 574
• Du Wenming — Direct disciple and Third Boss of Snowflake Port, known within Snowflake Port as the Silver Coin Walker. 574
• Cui Tike — A dangerous but useful subordinate entrusted with the Virtue Praise Cliff crisis; the Peddler refuses to allow him unrestricted freedom. 617
• Heavenly Woman — A figure tied to the Peddler through an old debt and long-running conflict; she returns to Pro State when he is believed dead. 817 839

Story Role / Major Arcs

Li Banfeng’s Initiation

When Li Banfeng is paralyzed after daylight exposure, Monkey Qiu brings him to the Peddler. The Peddler offers five available cultivation paths and their respective prices, establishing cultivation as both salvation and transaction. 15

Blue Poplar Village and the Green Water Beggar

Li Banfeng becomes a recurring customer, purchasing ordinary goods and unusual treasures from the Peddler. When the Green Water Beggar attempts to unleash a plague on Blue Poplar Village, the Peddler intervenes and stops him. 132 133

Ink Fragrance Shop Crisis

The Peddler investigates the appearance of Ge Jun, exposes the breach that allowed him to enter Pro State, and reveals that Murong Gui became the Judge’s Brush. He asks Li Banfeng to become the Ink Fragrance Shop’s Local Earth God and later seeks help rescuing Face Not Big. 454 455

The Peddler’s Disappearance

Rumors of the Peddler’s death cause instability across Pro State. Li Banfeng impersonates him—using the cart and pellet drum to reassure villages—until he confirms that the real Peddler is alive. 576 577 581

Three Heads Junction Rescue

The Peddler partners with Li Banfeng to bring the Three-Headed People into Pro State. He devises the crossing strategy, holds back thousands of Innocent Army soldiers, and confronts the residents of Li Banfeng’s Portable Abode over his past actions. 617 624 627

Year Wasteland Conflict

The Peddler saves Li Banfeng from the Strength Cultivator Chief, joins him in killing the Knife Peddler, and seals an exit sought by the Demon Lord’s forces. He later entrusts Li Banfeng with recovered contracts and reveals that he has gathered old allies against their shared enemies. 700 701

Defense of Pro State

He destroys the Great Totem with Sun Tiecheng, Gui Jianchou, and A-Yi, then prepares to defend Heroes Mountain with Iron Bone Seeds. 809 832

Battle of Mist Prison Valley

Severely wounded while bound to Mist Prison Valley by a Life Contract, the Peddler confronts Qiao Yi’s Totem Army. He turns the valley itself into a battlefield, creates a blood-forged stone forest, and holds the enemy long enough for allied forces to secure the exits. He is presumed dead after collapsing beside his cart. 837 838 839

Trivia

• The legendary Peddler’s Path is rumored to be a way of crossing a border without a Travel Permit, though its true nature is not established. 96
• His presence is considered so reassuring that villages celebrate merely seeing his cart and hearing his sales call. 577
• Li Banfeng cannot convincingly impersonate him for long because he cannot remember the merchandise, prices, or provide medicinal powders. 577
• The Peddler’s movements are difficult to track; even Li Banfeng’s Portable Abode warns that tracking him should not be attempted. 449