Medicine Elder

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Medicine Elder was once a renowned powerhouse of the Dou Qi Continent and co-founded the Star Meteor Pavilion with his friends. He was a first-rate power in his homeland, though still below the Central Plains’ peak forces and the ancient clans. He was also a seventh-grade alchemist and regarded himself as the Dou Qi Continent’s number one alchemist 1. His early cultivation of the Three-Flower Fire Gathering Technique later became the foundation for his advancement into a ninth-grade alchemist and Dou Saint 6.

His former disciple, Han Feng, betrayed him by collaborating with the Soul Hall and ambushing him. Medicine Elder’s physical body was destroyed; he escaped as a soul using a secret technique and hid within a ring 1. Medicine Elder later recalls that Old Man Mu Gu manipulated Han Feng into believing that his master was withholding the Burning Mantra. After Medicine Elder had raised Han Feng like a son, supplied him with resources, and even neglected his own romantic life for his sake, Han Feng poisoned him, severed his head, and left him trapped as a soul within the Bone Flame Ring 92.

The ring later passed to Phoenix King. Energy released during Phoenix King’s birth awakened Medicine Elder and allowed his soul to remain active. After observing the young Heavenly Demon Phoenix for several years, Medicine Elder overcame his distrust of disciples and accepted him as his student when Phoenix King turned three 1.

After arriving in the Star Dou Forest, Medicine Elder revealed himself to Gu Yuena and explained the Dou Qi Continent’s cultivation system. He accepted her offer of medicinal resources and Life Gold in exchange for teaching the soul beasts methods of cultivation, alchemy, and power development 1.

Appearance

Medicine Elder manifests as a footless remnant soul rather than a living body.

• Has no feet, resembling a ghost in Dugu Yan’s eyes 14.
• Resides within the ring worn by Phoenix King 1.
• His soul form cannot eat physical food 13.
• Conceals his soul form while accompanying Phoenix King in the human world and observing Nuoding Academy 57.

Personality

Medicine Elder is strict with Phoenix King’s training, correcting his posture and imposing doubled practice when assigned cycles are not completed. Despite this discipline, Phoenix King considers him genuinely kind and protective 1.

Han Feng’s betrayal left Medicine Elder reluctant to trust another disciple. He accepted Phoenix King only after judging him to be kind to those close to him and unlike Han Feng 1. He remains especially sensitive to an apprentice’s character and openly condemns disloyalty 24.

Medicine Elder’s memories of Han Feng also reveal a deeply regretful and vulnerable side. He had treated Han Feng as a son and sacrificed much of his own personal life for him, making Han Feng’s betrayal the defining regret of his life 92.

He is curious, analytical, and often critical of the Douluo Continent’s reliance on primitive strength. He pushes the soul beasts to develop alchemy, cultivation methods, Soul Guidance Devices, intelligence gathering, and human talent recruitment rather than relying solely on bloodline and force 1.

He is also pragmatic about long-term goals. He insists that Phoenix King enter the human world to study and grow rather than remain sheltered by Gu Yuena, arguing that their shared struggle against the God Realm requires discipline instead of complacency 51.

Abilities & Skills

Alchemy

Medicine Elder is a high-level alchemist capable of refining pills from Douluo Continent resources.

• Identifies himself as the Dou Qi Continent’s number one alchemist 1.
• Can refine pills up to the seventh grade 1.
• His cultivation foundation later enabled him to become a ninth-grade alchemist 6.
• Uses soul-restoring medicine to aid his own recovery 4.
• Promises the Auspicious Beast his best pills due to its potential and importance to soul beast fortune 3.
• Believes the Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well can be used to produce superior pills 13.
• Proposes creating artificial flames, including composite flames stronger than ordinary Beast Fire 7.
• Refines medicinal treatment from ordinary herbs to rapidly stabilize a severely injured woman’s wounds 91.
• Promises Phoenix King a medicinal pill to stabilize his foundation after the latter awakens a Racial Battle Skill 90.

Heavenly Flame

Medicine Elder retains Heavenly Flame despite his incomplete recovery.

• Considers Heavenly Flame a rare and formidable force even by Dou Qi Continent standards 4.
• Retains the Bone Chilling Flame, ranked eleventh among Heavenly Flames; it provides defensive, freezing, and soul-burning properties especially effective for a soul body 74.
• Offers to use it to remove the accumulated poison affecting the Dugu family, conditional on their cooperation 14.
• Cannot teach Phoenix King the Burning Mantra effectively because the Douluo Continent appears to lack Heavenly Flames 5.
• Explains that Beast Fires, artificial flames, and Heavenly Flames differ fundamentally in origin, temperature, special abilities, growth potential, and rank suppression 72.

Artificial Flames

Medicine Elder applies his alchemical expertise to compensate for the Douluo Continent’s lack of genuine Heavenly Flames.

• Can create artificial flames as substitutes for natural high-grade flames 7.
• Refined the Ultimate Phoenix-Bird Fire for Phoenix King, a quasi-seventh-tier artificial flame intended for cultivation and self-protection 51.
• Later admits that the local world’s resources prevented him from creating the eighth-tier or higher flame he originally sought, limiting the result to the seventh-rank range 73.
• Explains that extracting a magical beast’s life-bound flame can gravely injure or kill the source creature, while the separated flame eventually loses its special properties 73.

Cultivation Instruction

Medicine Elder adapts Dou Qi cultivation to the Douluo Continent and trains both Phoenix King and the soul beasts.

• Requires Phoenix King to build his body and cultivate Spirit Power before attempting Dou Qi 1.
• Has Di Tian guide soul beasts in Dou Qi practice to seek god-level combat strength outside the God Realm’s restrictions 4.
• Modified Phoenix King’s Baji Fist to suit a growing child’s body and establish a stronger foundation 5.
• Offers the Three-Flower Fire Gathering Technique, a slow Yellow-tier method that strengthens Dou Qi, body, and soul beyond one’s peers at the same rank 5.
• Offers the Fire Building Technique, a fire-and-wood foundation method that improves Dou Qi control, alchemical sensitivity, and soul perception at the cost of immense resources 5.
• Provides Phoenix King with the Earth-tier Victorious Fighting Buddha cultivation method and its matching Ruyi Staff Technique 7.
• Plans to begin Phoenix King’s formal Battle Qi instruction after his graduation at age twelve, while using weapon fundamentals and sparring to prepare him beforehand 59.
• Advises Phoenix King not to hastily condense additional soul rings after he successfully produces a red ring approaching one hundred thousand years in quality 60.

Combat Training and Techniques

Medicine Elder provides Phoenix King with practical fighting instruction in addition to cultivation methods.

• Gives Phoenix King the quasi-Earth-tier Dou Technique Six Harmonies Fire alongside the Ultimate Phoenix-Bird Fire 51.
• Explains that quasi-Earth-tier techniques stand below true Earth-tier techniques but surpass ordinary ranked techniques in power and difficulty 68.
• Approves Phoenix King’s prototype claw attack and encourages its refinement into a powerful self-created Soul Skill 89.
• Identifies Phoenix King’s Huangtian Fist as a Yellow-tier Racial Battle Skill, recognizing its potential as a unique inherited ability of magical beast clans 90.

Research and Analysis

Medicine Elder investigates fundamental aspects of Douluo cultivation rather than accepting its conventions.

• Criticizes the soul-ring system as deformed and unsustainable because it depends on hunting soul beasts 2.
• Conducts tests with Dugu Yan to determine why Soul Masters gain spirit rings from slain soul beasts 12.
• Theorizes that a Soul Beast’s inner core forms the basis of a soul ring, raising the possibility that a Soul Master could obtain one by directly absorbing an inner core without killing the beast 13.
• Continues working with Phoenix King toward a method of obtaining soul rings without harming Soul Beasts, intending to support coexistence between humans and soul beasts 59.
• Recognizes that the blue-haired captive sisters’ invisible Martial Souls are likely Body Martial Souls expressed through their hair 75.
• Determines that the Dugu family’s inherited poison likely began when an ancestor absorbed an incompatible poisonous soul ring, causing toxins to accumulate and pass through the bloodline 14.

Weapon Forging

Medicine Elder designs and forges a staff-type weapon for Phoenix King.

• Initially intended to create a weapon approaching divine-artifact quality, while accepting that it would require later upgrades 37 39.
• Selected Soul Bones and rare metals as forging materials 38.
• Planned to integrate Soul Bones into the staff so it could wield their soul skills and later sublimate if Phoenix King became a god 38.
• Selected materials include a 50,000-year Red Fire Soul Bone, a 90,000-year Titan Giant Ape Soul Bone, a 100,000-year Azure Dragon Bloodline Soul Bone, and a 100,000-year Holy Attribute Tiger Soul Bone 38.
• Completed a size-changing Ruyi Staff for Phoenix King before his departure for the human world 51.

Relationships

• Phoenix King — His disciple. Medicine Elder trains him rigorously, modifies his martial routine, selects cultivation methods for him, forges his Ruyi Staff, provides his Ultimate Phoenix-Bird Fire, and protects his childhood from Di Tian and Gu Yuena’s plans for offspring 1 3 5 7 51.
• Han Feng — Former disciple and senior brother to Phoenix King. Medicine Elder raised Han Feng as a son and expected him to inherit Star Meteor Pavilion, but Han Feng was manipulated by Old Man Mu Gu, poisoned Medicine Elder, and betrayed him with the Soul Hall 1 92.
• Old Man Mu Gu — The manipulator who convinced Han Feng that Medicine Elder was deliberately withholding the Burning Mantra, helping bring about Han Feng’s betrayal 92.
• Gu Yuena — Ally and provider of resources for his recovery. Medicine Elder teaches her faction cultivation and supports her struggle against the God Realm, while regarding her as Phoenix King’s future wife 1 3. He also persuades her to permit Phoenix King’s human-world studies rather than keeping him at her side 51.
• Di Tian — Soul beast ally who respects Medicine Elder’s strength and knowledge. Medicine Elder directs him to guide soul beasts in Dou Qi cultivation and opposes rushing Phoenix King into producing offspring 3 4 10.
• Zi Ji — Phoenix King’s guardian and a trusted training partner. Medicine Elder has her test Phoenix King’s flame control and combat skill, and she assists with his human-world activities 57 90.
• Dugu Yan — Test subject and potential subordinate. Medicine Elder investigates spirit rings through her and offers to cure her inherited poison 12 14.
• Dugu Bo — Captured subordinate of Di Tian whom Medicine Elder chooses to keep alive because he may be useful later; Medicine Elder also offers to treat his family’s poison 12 14.
• Auspicious Beast — Receives Medicine Elder’s promise of high-quality pills due to its exceptional potential and connection to soul beast fortune 3.
• Blue-Haired Sisters — Captive sisters whom Medicine Elder identifies as likely users of hair-type Body Martial Souls and suggests rescuing alongside Phoenix King 75.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arrival in the Douluo Continent

After Han Feng’s betrayal, Medicine Elder escapes as a soul in a ring and accidentally reaches the Douluo Continent. Phoenix King’s birth energy awakens him, leading to years of observation and eventually a master-disciple bond 1.

Alliance with the Star Dou Forest

Medicine Elder reveals his existence to Gu Yuena, exchanges knowledge of the Dou Qi Continent for recovery resources, and joins the soul beast faction’s effort to resist the God Realm 1. He advocates learning from humanity, recruiting talented people, and developing alchemy and technology 1.

Reforming Soul Beast Cultivation

He introduces Dou Qi cultivation to the soul beasts and seeks a path by which they can gain god-level combat power without becoming gods under the God Realm’s system 4.

Phoenix King’s Foundation and Techniques

Medicine Elder refines Phoenix King’s Baji Fist, explains why the Burning Mantra is unsuitable for the local world, and presents multiple cultivation routes, including the Three-Flower Fire Gathering Technique, Fire Building Technique, and Victorious Fighting Buddha 5 7.

Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Research

Following the relocation of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Medicine Elder begins investigating the principle behind soul rings through Dugu Yan. His research leads him to theorize that a Soul Beast’s inner core is central to spirit-ring formation 12 13.

Dugu Family Poison Treatment

Medicine Elder identifies the likely origin of the Dugu family’s inherited poison as an incompatible soul ring absorbed by an ancestor. He offers to remove the poison with Heavenly Flame if Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo remain loyal 14.

Forging Phoenix King’s Staff

Medicine Elder prepares a staff-type weapon designed around Phoenix King’s Ruyi Staff Technique. He selects Soul Bones and special metals, aiming for a weapon that can eventually be sublimated into a divine artifact 37 38. The resulting Ruyi Staff is completed with adjustable size before Phoenix King leaves for the human world 51.

Artificial Flame and Human-World Departure

Medicine Elder refines the Ultimate Phoenix-Bird Fire and gives Phoenix King the Six Harmonies Fire technique before directing him to enter the human world for study. He stresses that Phoenix King must continue developing independently instead of remaining protected within the Star Dou Forest 51.

Nuoding Academy and Nonlethal Soul Rings

While concealed in soul form, Medicine Elder accompanies Phoenix King’s enrollment at Nuoding Academy 57. He continues pursuing a soul-ring system that does not require the killing of Soul Beasts, and later cautions Phoenix King to prioritize stable cultivation after the latter condenses a high-quality red soul ring 59 60.

Flame, Weapon, and Racial-Skill Training

Medicine Elder explains the hierarchy and limitations of local flames, including the risks of taking a beast’s life-bound flame 72 73. He then guides Phoenix King’s combat development, endorsing a self-created claw technique and recognizing Huangtian Fist as a Racial Battle Skill 89 90.

Reckoning with Han Feng’s Betrayal

During a mission with Phoenix King and his companions, Medicine Elder reflects on the irreversible consequences of choosing Han Feng as his disciple. He confides that his misplaced paternal devotion to Han Feng cost him his body, his former life, and opportunities for personal happiness 92.