Gu Shaoan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Gu Shaoan (顾少安)
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Age	Eleven 23
Affiliation	Emei Sect
Occupation/Role	Abbess Miejue's direct disciple 3
Status	Active 50
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Qi Foundation sensed	4 5	Perceived and began circulating Qi during his first lesson in the Emei Breathing and Meditation Technique.
Willow Catkin Sword Technique — Initial Glimpse	5	Recalled all forty-nine stances and their mind-method incantations after one viewing of Zhou Zhiruo's demonstration.
Willow Catkin Sword Technique — Entering the Hall	6	Reached the realm after seven repetitions with a wooden sword.
[Sword Drawn Like a Rainbow] acquired	6 7	Purple trait granting sword-drawing knowledge and arm conditioning comparable to twenty years of specialized training.
First wisp of Internal Energy condensed	9	Formed origin Internal Energy after five days of cultivation.
Emei Nine Yangs Technique, First Layer — Beginner	10	Completed the technique's first full circulation; Internal Energy became hotter and increased.
Willow Catkin Sword Technique — Mastery	12 13	Internal Energy enhanced the technique's speed, variation, and force.
Golden Summit Cotton Palm — Initial Glimpse	16 18	Advanced from Beginner to Initial Glimpse shortly after receiving the art.
Emei Nine Yangs Technique, First Layer — Perfection	17 18	Opened a hidden meridian; Internal Energy became thread-like and more condensed.
Postnatal Realm	18	Listed on his status panel after one month at Emei.
Sunset Swordplay — Initial Glimpse	18	One of three advanced arts brought to Initial Glimpse within a month.
Three Manifestations of the Divine Dragon — Initial Glimpse	18	Reached Initial Glimpse alongside his swordplay and palm technique.
Emei Nine Yangs Technique, Second Layer — Beginner	20	Completed a full circulation of the substantially more complex second-layer route.
Willow Catkin Sword Technique — Perfected	39	United will, sword, and Internal Energy, achieving complete fluidity in the technique.
Bodhi Exquisite Pill enhancement	41	Greatly strengthened his Internal Energy origin, physique, and movement ability.
Emei Nine Yangs Technique, Second Layer — Perfection	42	Reached Perfection after using a Twenty Year Power Card, opening multiple hidden meridians.
Three Manifestations of the Divine Dragon — Entering the Hall	50	Revealed this advancement during a later confrontation.

Background / History

Gu Shaoan is a transmigrated game developer who arrived in a world based on a game he helped create. Possessing the golden talent [Abbess's Favor], he chose Emei as a refuge and initially sought only a safe place to stay. 1 3

Three months before Emei's recruitment, Master Juechen encountered him at a mountain temple, where he offered her a meal. His account was that he came from a scholarly Jiangnan family that was later slaughtered by mountain bandits; Juechen rescued him and brought him to Mount Emei. 1

During Emei's entrance examinations, he calmly climbed the obstructed stone steps and was the first applicant to leave the bamboo forest, having identified the exit through the bamboo's direction of growth. 2 His roots were assessed as Good on his status panel, while his meridians were recognized as unusually strong. 3

Abbess Miejue personally accepted him as her direct disciple, unlocking his cultivation path, a second talent slot, and the Achievement Point Roulette. 3 He thereafter resided in a bamboo courtyard on Emei's rear mountain alongside Miejue's other disciples. 4 6

Appearance

Gu Shaoan is a handsome, refined boy with the composed bearing and scholarly air associated with his claimed upbringing. At eleven, he stands just over four feet tall. 3 23 44

• Usually wears Emei's blue-and-white disciple robes. 7
• Keeps his black hair tied back with a blue ribbon or headband. 7 22
• Has a straight-backed, steady posture that elders and disciples repeatedly notice. 2 23
• His small stature made his nearly three-foot sword look oversized, prompting laughter from other Emei disciples. 23

Personality

Gu Shaoan is notably calm, patient, and difficult to provoke. He endures slow internal cultivation without impatience, remains composed under attention, and does not become arrogant despite his rapid gains. 6 10 14

He is analytical and cautious in the jianghu. Before acting against the Blackwood Mountain bandits, he supports gathering intelligence; at Yunlai Inn, he tests Miejue's tea for poison rather than assuming it is safe. 24 25 After gaining twenty years of cultivation through a card, he deliberately conceals the increase as a trump card instead of displaying it. 42 43

He is respectful toward his elders and grateful to those who aid him, particularly Juechen. He also takes a protective, instructive role toward Zhou Zhiruo, discussing the burdens of sect leadership and encouraging her to understand Miejue's responsibilities. 23 37 38

Abilities & Skills

Emei Nine Yangs Technique

Emei's foremost internal cultivation method is Gu Shaoan's primary foundation. It develops powerful, hot Internal Energy, improves the five senses, accelerates energy recovery, and can provide healing properties at high attainment. 9 10 36

• Perfected the First Layer within roughly one month, opening a hidden meridian and condensing his Internal Energy into threads. 17 18
• Cultivated the Second Layer to Perfection after using a Twenty Year Power Card. 42
• Can suppress his visible cultivation by sealing opened meridians and vessels. 43
• Its increasingly pure Internal Energy allows him to cultivate longer each day and recover quickly after combat. 36 41

Willow Catkin Sword Technique

Emei's foundational sword art, emphasizing yielding, softness, agility, and resilience. Gu Shaoan turned it from a basic discipline into his first Perfected martial skill. 6 39

• Memorized its forty-nine stances and incantations after a single viewing. 5
• Uses its clinging, redirecting force to deflect armed attacks and disrupt opponents' balance. 27
• Defeated Wudang disciple Zhang Yuting without drawing his sword, using its principles alongside his palm defense. 47
• Reached Perfected, merging intent, Internal Energy, and sword movement. 39

Sunset Swordplay

An advanced Emei sword art combining principles of the Nine Yangs Divine Skill with Buddhist concepts. 14

• Memorized all thirty-six movements after watching Miejue perform the technique once. 14 15
• Reached Initial Glimpse within his first month at Emei. 18
• Its power increased substantially after the Bodhi Exquisite Pill strengthened his Internal Energy and body. 41

Golden Summit Cotton Palm

An Emei supreme palm art that Gu Shaoan practices with focused refinement of individual moves before linking them together. 16

• Advanced from Beginner to Initial Glimpse in a short time. 16 18
• Used it in Miejue's one-month assessment, countering her palm techniques and combining it with swordplay. 19
• Employed its defensive stance and controlled counterattacks to defeat Zhang Yuting. 47

Three Manifestations of the Divine Dragon

Emei's supreme Qinggong technique, designed for airborne turning, circling, and unpredictable movement. 16

• Reached Initial Glimpse within one month and later Entering the Hall. 18 50
• Enables bursts of speed sufficient to cross roughly fifteen meters in moments. 27
• After the Bodhi Exquisite Pill, he could leap over twenty feet with a single jump. 41

Talent Traits and System

Gu Shaoan possesses a game-like system that displays proficiency, awards Achievement Points, and grants roulette rewards. 3 11

• [Abbess's Favor] (Gold) — His original talent, which causes abbesses to notice him. 1 3
• [Anointing] (Gold) — Greatly improves martial-art learning efficiency when triggered; its listed trigger rate is thirty percent. 3 6 13
• [Sword Drawn Like a Rainbow] (Purple) — Provides drawing-sword techniques and physical conditioning equivalent to twenty years of dedicated training. 7 29
• Twenty Year Power Card — Added twenty years of cultivation without damaging his foundation. 42 43

Medicine

After drawing a High-Level Physician Sub-profession Card, Gu Shaoan became an Advanced-Level physician. 20

• Created powders capable of testing tea for poison. 24 25
• Shared his poison-detection formula with Miejue for Emei's benefit. 25
• Earned a thousand Achievement Points by studying a medical text. 42

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wooden sword — Gifted by Zhou Zhiruo because real weapons were considered too dangerous for them at the time. 8
• Sword — Carries a nearly three-foot precious sword during the expedition against the mountain bandits. 23
• Poison-testing powders — Self-concocted medical powders used to check food and drink for poison. 24 25
• Bodhi Exquisite Pill — One of Emei's remaining ancestral pills; strengthened his Internal Energy origin, body, and physical strength. 40 41

Relationships

• Abbess Miejue — Master and sect leader. She accepted him as her direct disciple, personally teaches him Emei's highest arts, and places Emei's future hopes in him. 3 11 40
• Master Juechen — Rescuer and benefactor who brought him to Emei after the bandit attack; Gu Shaoan treats her with deep gratitude and respect. 1 23
• Zhao Jingxuan — Eldest senior sister. She guides him around Emei and adopts a serious, responsible mentor-like role. 4 6 8
• Zhou Zhiruo — Fourth senior sister and close companion. She gives him his first wooden sword, cares for him after training, and looks to him for advice and protection. 8 17 37 43
• Ding Minjun — Senior sister whose jealousy of his talent manifests as hostility and sharp reprimands. 13 22
• Bei Jinyi — Senior sister who recognizes his extraordinary talent and future importance to Emei. 13
• Zhang Yuting — Wudang inner disciple whom Gu Shaoan defeats in ten moves without drawing his sword. 46 47
• Song Qingshu — Wudang disciple whose interest in Zhou Zhiruo draws Gu Shaoan's intervention and develops into rivalry. 43 48

Story Role / Major Arcs

Emei Entrance and Direct Discipleship

Gu Shaoan enters Emei's selection trials, places first in the bamboo-forest test, and is personally claimed by Miejue as her direct disciple. 2 3 His exceptional comprehension rapidly establishes him as an Emei Heavenly Prodigy in Miejue's eyes. 6

Early Cultivation

Under Miejue's personal instruction, he learns the Emei Breathing and Meditation Technique, Emei Nine Yangs Technique, Willow Catkin Sword Technique, Sunset Swordplay, Golden Summit Cotton Palm, and Three Manifestations of the Divine Dragon. 4 9 14 16 He passes Miejue's one-month assessment by combining his three advanced martial skills in combat. 18 19

Blackwood Mountain Bandit Suppression

Miejue selects Gu Shaoan for the operation against the Yushan City bandits so that he can gain practical combat experience. 19 23 He helps plan cautiously, tests their inn's tea for poison, and uses Qinggong, swordplay, and palm techniques in the assault on the bandit stronghold. 24 27

Wudang Exchange

After the bandit operation, Gu Shaoan travels with Miejue and Zhou Zhiruo to Wudang. He is interested in the Heavenly Sword and the martial secrets he believes its treasure map can lead to. 41 45 Miejue stakes the final inter-sect match on the Heavenly Sword's return to Emei; Gu Shaoan defeats Zhang Yuting, securing Emei's victory. 46 47

Trivia

• Gu Shaoan originally joined Emei partly because he knew the Heavenly Sword concealed a treasure map connected to the complete Nine Yin Manual and Essence of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms. 45
• Although he had already perfected the First Layer of the Emei Nine Yangs Technique, he reported only Major Accomplishment to Miejue to avoid drawing suspicion. 17 19
• He consciously hides his later twenty-year increase in cultivation, considering it a trump card. 43
• His short height compared with his sword became a source of amusement among Emei's disciples during the bandit expedition. 23