Liu Shuyue

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Liu Shuyue (柳姝月)
Alias(es)	Immortal Master; Ms. Liu; Immortal Master Liu; White-Clad Immortal
Species/Race	Human cultivator
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Lotus Cloud Sect disciple; Ability Store VIP and employee; Mala Village; Yunzhou Liu Family protector; Qingzhou resistance
Occupation/Role	Former Great Qi Auxiliary State Immortal Master; Ability Store employee; protector, organizer, and political leader of Mala Village, Jiufeng City, and Qingzhou’s civilians
Status	Alive
First Appearance	Chapter 3

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Talisman-making — improved	34	Refines talismans with dragon scales; provides Chen Xuan with five sound-transmission talismans and can sense his arrival.
Strong Seize — first combat use	67	Uses Strong Seize to shatter a rogue cultivator’s barrier during the defense of Jiufeng City; later obtains thirty-four abilities through the power, although only eight can be stored or traded due to same-category restrictions. 78
Demon-flesh absorption — temporary use	131	Receives Flesh Thirst and Fission and Fusion from Chen Xuan during the battle against the Flesh Tower, absorbing demonic roots as fuel while resisting consciousness contamination through Callousness. 131 152
Advanced sword and thunder arts	311	Defeats Song Wei despite his Soul Fusion-enhanced Spiritual Energy, using three flying swords, Thousand Mechanisms Lock the Moon, and more than one hundred Heavenly Thunder Command-infused energy swords.
Immortal arts reform and mass cultivation	394	Begins modifying Lotus Cloud Sect techniques and plans to use Great Demon blood and Mala Village’s resources to allow ordinary people to sense qi and cultivate.

Background / History

Liu Shuyue is a disciple of the Lotus Cloud Sect, an orthodox cultivation sect based at the peak of the Kunlun Cloud Sea. Its mountain gate opens once every hundred years, dispatching six disciples to assist the six nations of the world. Liu Shuyue is one of these disciples and is formally assigned to assist Great Qi. 3 14

She has lived in the sect’s cultivation chamber from her earliest memories and initially denies any connection to the Yunzhou Liu family, despite the King of Qi using that family as leverage against her. 35 A later DNA test confirms that she has no blood relation to the Liu family. However, the family’s connection to her was deliberately cultivated by the former Lotus Cloud Sect disciple Liu Zhidong, who arranged for them to publicize her name and sent them portraits through the Smoke-Soul Pillar. 59 73 74

Before descending the mountain, Liu Shuyue became troubled by the absence of records concerning earlier disciples sent to aid the secular world. Although she could have reached Great Qi’s capital within a month, she spent nearly half a year traveling while questioning whether her predecessor had failed—and whether she would repeat that failure. 5

Her first transaction with Chen Xuan gave her Broadly Read Through the Ages in exchange for four cultivation abilities. The ability exposed her to a vast alternate history and its lessons on prosperity, decline, governance, and human nature. It strengthened her resolve to fulfill her duties rather than remain detached from worldly suffering. 4 5

During the Yunzhou crisis, Liu learns that Liu Zhidong had served Great Qi generations earlier and was betrayed by the king he had aided, rogue cultivators, evil cultivators, and an Immortal Master serving neighboring Ning Kingdom. His erased history confirms her fears that Lotus Cloud Sect disciples can become enemies when their assigned kingdoms’ interests conflict. 72

Liu Zhidong later reveals that he survived by exchanging his Three Souls and Seven Po with a Shadow Demon and using the Golden Toad Shedding Its Shell Technique. He attempts to steal Liu Shuyue’s identity through prolonged possession, but she resists him and covertly cooperates with Chen Xuan to expose him. 73 74

Liu Shuyue eventually concludes that the Lotus Cloud Sect’s system may deliberately restrict the cultivation and lifespan of disciples sent down the mountain, replacing Immortal Masters every century and preventing lasting reforms. Although she remains attached to her master’s teachings, she resolves to overturn the system rather than continue competing within its rules. 314 394

Appearance

Liu Shuyue is a young woman whose composed bearing and cultivation attire lead others to recognize her as an Immortal Master. She usually favors loose, comfortable clothing, but wears practical leather and cloth travel gear when crossing the wilderness. 22 30

• Often carries a long sword. 31
• Has a distinctive osmanthus-like fragrance. 17 36
• Appears calm and unmoved amid danger, including while standing on the railing of Shajiang Bridge during the staged “Immortals” incident. 49
• Can maintain a neat appearance through water-repelling techniques even after traveling through water. 26
• Has worn a fur coat over a plain white dress while traveling in Chang’an. 89
• Has increasingly adopted modern clothing, including a baseball cap, short-sleeved shop uniform, jeans, and a jacket personally selected by Chen Xuan. 95 309

Personality

Liu Shuyue is frank, serious, and initially wary of Chen Xuan’s commercial manner. She dislikes being treated as a customer to be exploited, but comes to respect his reliability after discovering the true value of Broadly Read Through the Ages. 4 5

She is deeply compassionate toward ordinary people. The famine in Qingzhou changes her understanding of demon-slaying: rather than merely killing monsters, she recognizes that preventing people from being driven into monstrous acts is also part of her responsibility. 14

Liu Shuyue is principled enough to defy royal orders, yet practical enough to organize relief, negotiate rent reductions, conceal the source of relief supplies, and cultivate authority among the refugees. 19 22 29

She is curious about unfamiliar worlds and technology, though cautious around people she considers fundamentally alien to her own race and culture. 23 48

Although she once tried to remain detached from court politics to preserve her heart, Liu Shuyue increasingly accepts that neutrality cannot protect the people under her care. She chooses to oppose the King of Qi, resist the wider struggle among Immortal Masters, and actively reshape Qingzhou rather than wait for conflict to reach her. 14 61 312 393

She remains capable of empathy even toward enemies. After defeating Song Wei, she recognizes that his crimes arose partly from the crushing responsibility placed on an Immortal Master serving a weak kingdom, though she still kills him to prevent further harm. 311 312

Liu Shuyue has grown more trusting and less solitary through her relationship with Chen Xuan and the Ability Store. She accepts his invitation to become an employee and companion, framing their connection as a partnership of mutual support rather than a debt. 77

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation and Swordsmanship

Liu Shuyue is an accomplished cultivator capable of flight, sword control, demon extermination, and combat against threats far beyond ordinary fighters.

• Uses a flying sword controlled through hand gestures and qi. 31
• Slays the Azure Dragon Xuan with a single seven-colored sword strike. 31
• Uses the Demon Extermination True Sword, a technique that burns the user’s lifespan in exchange for power. 33
• Her dragon-slaying strike creates a crack in the sky and an apparent mirage visible in Chen Xuan’s world. 31 37
• Previously possessed Spirit Sword Technique LV5 and Thousand Thoughts Sword LV10, both traded to Chen Xuan. 4 16
• Explains that sword techniques improve most effectively through controlled combat against capable opponents rather than slaughtering the weak. 27
• Resumes cultivating the Thousand Thoughts Sword and other foundational sword arts while teaching Mala Village’s cultivators. 199
• Can destroy Song Wei’s paper puppets with three flying swords and create more than one hundred thunder-infused energy swords in a single attack. 311
• Uses Thousand Mechanisms Lock the Moon, a restraining sword technique taught to her by one of her disciples, to drag Song Wei back after he attempts to escape using a Wind Riding Talisman. 311

Talisman Arts and Formations

Liu Shuyue employs talismans and spellcraft for control, defense, movement, and communication.

• Immobilizes guards and refugees with hand seals. 13 15
• Uses an invisibility technique to infiltrate Chinon Castle. 23
• Puts four armored guards to sleep during Joan of Arc’s rescue. 23
• Casts the Eight Gates Formation, which manipulates the life, death, sorrow, and joy of those trapped within it. 26
• Uses water-based teleportation through the Gate of Rest to escape the dungeon with Chen Xuan and Joan of Arc. 26
• Stops cavalry pursuing the refugees by using a thunder talisman to carve a lightning-marked boundary across their path. 29
• Creates sound-transmission talismans from dragon scales. 34
• Can use the Life-and-Death Eight Gates Formation to deceive and trap powerful cultivators, as demonstrated when Song Wei mistakes her apparent defeat for reality. 310 311
• Establishes Array Formations with Xu Xuanling at strategic intersections during major defensive operations. 331
• Modifies Lotus Cloud Sect cultivation methods while teaching Mala Village’s residents, seeking techniques suitable for widespread civilian cultivation. 394

Heavenly Cloud Skill and Divine Eye Method

Liu Shuyue traded Heavenly Cloud Skill LV8 and Divine Eye Method LV9 to Chen Xuan in exchange for Liberty Leading the People. 16

• Is later seen re-cultivating the Heavenly Cloud Skill, demonstrating that traded techniques can be learned again. 23
• The Heavenly Cloud Skill is capable of permanently evolving the body and serves as a foundation for cultivation. 16
• Through Xu Xuanling’s observations, Liu discovers that the Heavenly Cloud Skill contains blocked Spiritual Energy pathways that may restrict a dispatched disciple’s cultivation and lifespan to approximately one hundred years. 314
• Suspects that the Lotus Cloud Sect provides disciples sent down the mountain with an intentionally restricted version of its foundational method. 314

Liberty Leading the People

Liu Shuyue acquires the golden-rarity Liberty Leading the People to lead Qingzhou’s refugees. 16

• Helps her gain the trust and support of people whose interests align with hers. 10 28
• Enables her to establish herself as the refugees’ central authority during relief distribution. 19
• Supports her organization of food distribution, storage, security, and other refugee departments. 19
• Reinforces her decision to lead the refugees south after the government abandons them. 28
• Supports her later efforts to organize Mala Village, defend Jiufeng City, and develop an independent civilian cultivation society. 61 394

Strong Seize

Liu Shuyue uses Strong Seize as an instinctive ability distinct from her learned spells and talisman arts.

• Breaks a rogue cultivator’s defensive barrier during the defense of Jiufeng City. 67
• Acquires thirty-four abilities from defeated opponents, though only eight can be stored by Chen Xuan because many are low-grade derivatives of Lotus Cloud Sect techniques and are restricted by same-category trading rules. 78

Black Magic and Blessed Maiden

After nearly exhausting her lifespan to kill Xuan, Liu Shuyue accepts Black Magic from Chen Xuan to survive. 33

• Performs a life-extending ritual using Xuan’s heart as the sacrificial core. 33
• Initially rejects the technique because of its curse and its implication of becoming inhuman. 33
• Receives Blessed Maiden from Chen Xuan before completing the ritual. 33
• Blessed Maiden grants immunity to curses and darkness, allowing her to dispel the backlash of Black Magic. 10 33
• The ability’s known drawback is increased vulnerability to fire. 10

Demon-Flesh Abilities and Mental Defense

During the battle against the Flesh Tower, Chen Xuan covertly gives Liu Shuyue Flesh Thirst and Fission and Fusion to strengthen the defense against demonic roots. 131

• Uses Fusion to absorb attacking roots and convert their force into fuel for additional uses of the ability. 131
• Experiences mounting consciousness contamination and a loss of self as she absorbs Demon power. 131
• Receives Callousness from Chen Xuan as a mental defense, allowing her to stabilize herself without losing her compassion or concern for others. 131 152
• Returns Flesh Thirst and Fission and Fusion to Chen Xuan after the crisis because she considers their demonic nature deeply unsettling. 136

Historical Knowledge and Relief Administration

Broadly Read Through the Ages gives Liu Shuyue access to extensive historical knowledge that reshapes her political and ethical outlook. 5

• Develops disaster-relief proposals based on historical precedent, including official bonds and work-relief programs. 14
• Uses historical models to organize refugees into specialized departments and impose order on the camp. 19
• Converts relief noodles into a market product, using sales to purchase rice and flour for the refugees. 20
• Records her experiences with Chen Xuan in a travelogue. 27
• Applies her historical and administrative knowledge to Jiufeng City’s recovery, ordering grain distribution, a census, protection of the autumn harvest, and the inclusion of non-Liu officials in local government. 71
• Uses her experience with cultivator-led societies to plan a new Qingzhou order where cultivation can benefit production, medicine, research, trade, and ordinary life rather than remain the privilege of sect disciples and royal courts. 394

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Long sword — Used for sword control and the killing strike against Xuan. 31
• Meridian Cleansing Pill — A limited Lotus Cloud Sect medicine; restores Joan of Arc’s disrupted qi circulation and abilities. 24
• Sound-transmission talismans — Five dragon-scale talismans left with Chen Xuan so he can contact her in emergencies. 34
• Room 201 key card — Connects her Ability Store guest room to residences she designates in her own world. 17 34
• Warning talisman — Placed on the door of her Zhangwei lodging to alert her when someone approaches. 27
• Blood Oranges — Used as emergency medicine to treat You’er’s severe wound during the attack on the Liu family estate. 58
• Smoke-Soul Pillar — A Liu family ritual artifact that transmitted images and messages connected to Liu Zhidong’s hidden location. 59
• Jade passage token — A token made by Ji Yun and given to Liu Shuyue by Chen Xuan as a possible means of entering Kunlun Mountain and investigating the Lotus Cloud Sect. 313
• Communications tower — A Mala Village project built from dragon bones, beast horns, demon sinews, and reflective metal sheets to enable real-time communication with the Yunzhou Liu family. 309

Relationships

• Chen Xuan — Ability Store shopkeeper, business partner, fellow Daoist, employer, and trusted ally. Their relationship begins with tense negotiations but develops into mutual reliance through the Qingzhou crisis, dragon-slaying, the Yunzhou affair, Liu Zhidong’s possession attempt, and her decision to join the Ability Store as an employee. 3 4 5 16 31 36 74 77
• Shen Fang — Prefect of Zhangwei. Liu Shuyue initially clashes with him over famine relief, but later accepts his help transporting refugees to Mala Village. He subsequently becomes a cautious political collaborator, advising her on how to establish public legitimacy for her Qingzhou plan. 13 14 15 35 393 394
• Qingzhou disaster victims — People under her protection. They regard her as an Immortal Master and follow her south after the government abandons them. 19 28 33
• Gong Lingwu — General who attempts to enforce the King of Qi’s order against her. Liu Shuyue defies him and protects the refugees from his cavalry. 29
• Joan of Arc — A fellow Ability Store guest rescued with Liu Shuyue’s help. Liu Shuyue provides the Meridian Cleansing Pill that restores Joan’s powers. 22 23 24
• Gilles de Rais — Joan of Arc’s ally; Liu Shuyue assists his rescue effort after negotiating a reduction in her VIP room fee. 22
• Lin Qing — Ability Store employee and close associate. Liu Shuyue treats Lin Qing after her arrival, helps her obtain suitable clothing, learns modern technology and military strategy from her, and works alongside her to defend Mala Village and the store. 40 42 48 67
• Lan Qin — Liu Shuyue’s senior sister and a major adversary. Lan Qin manipulates the rulers of Luo and Qi through Soul-Transference and court intrigue, seeks Liu Shuyue’s death, and intends to unify the nations under her control. 109 310
• King of Qi — Her political adversary after she defies his decree and establishes Mala Village. He threatens the Yunzhou Liu family and local civilians to force her surrender; his court later falls under Jiang Ning and Lan Qin’s influence. 29 35 36 109
• Liu Zhiyuan — Head of the Yunzhou Liu family, who regards Liu Shuyue as his daughter despite their lack of blood relation. He becomes her administrator in Jiufeng City and follows her orders for the city’s recovery. 59 71 74
• Liu Qing and You’er — Younger members of the Yunzhou Liu family whom Liu Shuyue rescues from rogue cultivators. Liu Qing treats her as an elder sister, while You’er’s grief over those Liu failed to save forces her to confront the limits of an Immortal Master’s responsibility. 58
• Liu Zhidong — A previous Lotus Cloud Sect disciple and ancestor of the Yunzhou Liu family’s cultivation tradition. His hidden history initially helps Liu understand the sect’s past, but his Shadow Demon-based possession attempt makes him a direct enemy. 72 73 74
• Fu Jiaolu — Mala Village hunter, trusted aide, and commander among its cultivators. He assists Liu Shuyue during the Jiufeng conflict, witnesses her battle with Song Wei, and helps manage village affairs. 48 61 311 312
• A Jiu and A Hua — Exceptionally talented young cultivators trained under Liu Shuyue. A Jiu sees protecting her as repayment for saving his life, while both siblings are willing to sacrifice lifespan through the Demon Extermination True Sword. 119 131
• Xu Xuanling — Liu Shuyue’s disciple. Xu initially fears that Liu held back her teachings, but they reconcile after Liu explains the differing flow of time in the Immortal Realm. 311 313 314
• Song Wei — Fellow Lotus Cloud Sect disciple and Xia Kingdom’s Immortal Master. He initially approaches Liu Shuyue as an ally, then poisons and attacks her in an attempt to steal her Spiritual Energy. Liu defeats and kills him after learning that he murdered Li Taoyao and used Soul Fusion. 309 310 311 312
• Ji Yun and Ji Lian — Dao names of Wei Jiu and Wei Hua, former associates of Liu Shuyue who later become founders of a future Lotus Cloud Sect. Their connection to the sect’s legacy unsettles Liu and raises questions about history and causality. 209 313

Story Role / Major Arcs

First Ability Store Transaction

Liu Shuyue enters Chen Xuan’s shop with hostile intent while seeking a way to better fulfill her role as a Lotus Cloud Sect disciple. She trades four abilities—Heart Calming Incantation, Feng Shui Secrets, Alchemy, and Spirit Sword Technique—for Broadly Read Through the Ages. 3 4 5

Qingzhou Famine Relief

After killing the demon Anba, Liu Shuyue finds that more than 300,000 people face famine. Her proposals to Prefect Shen Fang are rejected, driving her to seek Chen Xuan’s help. 14

She trades powerful cultivation techniques for Liberty Leading the People, becomes a VIP guest of the Ability Store, and works with Chen Xuan to distribute instant noodles as emergency relief. 16 17 18

Liu Shuyue turns the relief camp into an organized community, builds authority among the refugees, and uses noodle sales to create a sustainable food system. 19 20

Exodus from Zhangwei

When Shen Fang reveals that no official relief is coming, Liu Shuyue refuses to abandon the refugees. She leads them south toward the Myriad Mountain Great Wilderness, personally promising to share their fate. 28

She blocks the military’s attempt to seize the refugees’ grain with a thunder talisman and openly defies Gong Lingwu and the King of Qi’s decree. 29

Slaying Xuan and Founding Mala Village

Liu Shuyue confronts Xuan, an Azure Dragon responsible for making the wilderness uninhabitable and devouring countless people. She kills it with a single sword strike, but the life-burning Demon Extermination True Sword leaves her near death. 30 31 33

With Chen Xuan’s intervention, she survives through Black Magic and Blessed Maiden. Xuan’s blood gives the refugees the qualifications to cultivate, while its remains become resources for their new settlement. 33

At Mala Village, Liu Shuyue continues guiding settlement, resource development, refugee relocation, and ability adjustment meetings. 34 36

Yunzhou Threat

The King of Qi threatens to execute the Yunzhou Liu family and their territory’s residents unless Liu Shuyue returns to the Royal City. Although she denies any relation to the family, she resolves to travel to Yunzhou because innocent civilians may be harmed in her name. 35 36

Upon arriving in Jiufeng City, Liu finds it under military intimidation and rescues Liu Qing and You’er from rogue cultivators attacking the Liu estate. Although the family’s claimed relationship confuses her, she refuses to allow Jiufeng’s civilians to be punished for the King of Qi’s political designs. 57 58 59

Defense of Jiufeng City

Liu Shuyue organizes Mala Village’s dragon-blood-awakened hunters and a Liu family militia to defend Jiufeng City. Her strategy relies on harassment, formations, the targeting of commanders and rogue cultivators, and modern weapons acquired through Chen Xuan and Lin Qing’s contacts. 61 67

After the siege, she prevents defeated troops from becoming bandits, permits frightened residents to leave, and directs the reconstruction of Jiufeng’s civil administration, food distribution, census, and harvest protection. 68 71

Liu Zhidong and the Possession Incident

Following the smoke-soul trail, Liu Shuyue discovers the preserved remains of Liu Zhidong and learns the hidden history of Great Qi’s previous Immortal Master. 71 72

Zhidong then reveals his use of demonic soul-transference arts and attempts to possess Liu Shuyue’s body and identity. She resists internally, enables Chen Xuan to recognize the impostor, and helps him turn Zhidong’s attempt to exploit her abilities into a trap. 73 74

Ability Store and Modern-World Activities

Liu Shuyue assists Chen Xuan in rescuing Joan of Arc from Chinon Castle and helps counter the witch known as Crazy Thursday. 22 23 24 25 26

She later returns to the Ability Store, meets Lin Qing, helps with preparations for the shop’s public performance, and appears as the woman in white during the Shajiang Bridge “Immortals” incident. 48 49

She gradually becomes more accustomed to Chen Xuan’s world, including modern clothing, food, technology, and ordinary social occasions. Chen invites her to celebrate the New Year with his family because she has few people able to treat her as an equal. 89 251

Joining the Ability Store

After the Liu Zhidong incident intensifies Liu Shuyue’s doubts about the Lotus Cloud Sect, Lin Qing proposes securing a memory-backup implant from an advanced technological world as protection against future threats to her consciousness. 77

Liu initially refuses to burden Chen Xuan further, but he asks her to join the Ability Store as an employee and companion so that they can protect one another. She accepts the partnership. 77

Conflict Among Immortal Masters

Song Wei, the Immortal Master of Xia Kingdom, secretly visits Mala Village and reveals that Lan Qin has manipulated the rulers of both Qi and Luo. He proposes an alliance against her, but Liu Shuyue rejects his political scheming as a betrayal of the Lotus Cloud Sect’s ideals. 309 310

Song Wei poisons and attacks her after she refuses. Liu defeats his Soul Fusion-enhanced form, learns that he killed the Lan Kingdom Immortal Master Li Taoyao, and kills him rather than allow his demonic cultivation to continue. 310 311

His death convinces Liu that she cannot remain detached from the wider conflict among the six Immortal Masters and must actively gather intelligence and prepare for further attacks. 312

Overturning the Chessboard

When the King of Qi and Jiang Ning demand that regional officials send young boys and girls to the Royal City, Liu recognizes the decree as a means of building a rogue cultivator army. She declares that Qingzhou’s cities must not comply and begins planning to take control of the province before it can be turned into a military base. 393

Liu intends to relocate Zhangwei’s population to Mala Village, where she can offer ordinary people a path to sense qi and cultivate. Her ultimate goal is to create a new society—effectively a massive sect or kingdom—where cultivation is broadly accessible and the Lotus Cloud Sect can no longer dominate the mortal world through selected Immortal Masters. 394

Notable Quotes

“No, I will take you all with me.”
— Liu Shuyue to the Qingzhou refugees 28

“Until these disaster victims find a new place to settle, I’m not going anywhere.”
— Liu Shuyue defying Gong Lingwu 29

“Now... destiny is in my hands.”
— Liu Shuyue 29

“When the tree desires stillness, the wind will not cease.”
— Liu Shuyue 312 393

“I will not take your life.”
— Liu Shuyue to Song Wei, immediately before sending him “home” 311

Trivia

• Liu Shuyue finds coffee bitter at first, but gradually begins to drink it more readily during her discussions with Chen Xuan. 14
• She considers the Ability Store’s name, “Mala Tang,” inelegant and vulgar. 5 16
• She privately calls Chen Xuan the Lushan Hermit in her travelogue after reading the origin information on instant-noodle packaging. 27
• Her VIP room, Room 201, manifests as a grotto-heaven with a pool and can connect to residences she designates in her world. 16 17 34
• Liu Shuyue can use Western cutlery with unexpected proficiency and has used Spirit Sword Technique to cut food cleanly during a meal. 199
• She once regarded the title of Great Qi’s Immortal Master as central to her identity, but later states that she would be happy to hand it to a capable successor so she could focus on the Ability Store and Mala Village. 95