Yin Ming

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and history

Corpse Liberation and displacement

Yin Ming cultivated the Corpse Liberation path after conventional Qi Refining and Golden Core methods became ineffective in the Age of Dharma Decline. He reached immortality after roughly twenty years of cultivation, but his path granted an immortal Dao Fruit rather than conventional magical power or overwhelming physical strength. 1 10

Shortly after ascending, he was caught in Viscount Orson's sacrificial ritual and mistaken for an “evil god.” There he encountered Zhu Bajie's avatar, identified the mistranslated names behind the ritual, and sought passage to the Immortal Realm. Zhu Bajie refused to accept him as a disciple, but gave him a Minor Teleportation Talisman, the Primordial God-Devil Forging Art, and a wisp of the law of “Purity” in exchange for a future copy of the world's wizard cultivation method. 3

When three seven-circle wizards besieged the town, Yin Ming recognized that his immortal realm did not make him combat-capable. Zhu Bajie's avatar destroyed the barrier at the cost of its remaining power, allowing Yin Ming to use the talisman and teleport roughly a thousand li away. 4 5

Enslavement at Tulip Manor

After escaping, Yin Ming was drugged by an elderly slave-catching couple, sold to Old John, then resold through Green Forest City's slave market. He was ultimately sent to Tulip Manor in Count Golden Lion's territory, where he lived under the alias Eno. 5 6

While outwardly enduring serf labor and steward Jeroen Hoven's brutality, Yin Ming secretly used Spirit Travel to attend Professor Romandy's lessons and master Wizard Script. He then entered Count Golden Lion's vault, obtained the Vast Sea Meditation Method from a snakeskin inheritance, and decided to rebuild his strength through wizard cultivation. 7

He sacrificed his remaining immortal cultivation to forge the jade-green Corpse-Liberation Gourd into the Innate Spiritual Treasure known as the Scavenger Gourd. The artifact immediately solved his starvation problem by extracting edible Food Essence from black bread and weeds. 8 9

Wizard cultivation and demonic research

Yin Ming enhanced his body through the Scavenger Gourd, purging toxins and hidden injuries before increasing his neural utilization at significant lifespan cost. He then formed his first Mental Rune and became a Junior Wizard Apprentice. 11

After Jeroen Hoven pursued him into the Magic Beast Forest, Yin Ming killed the Low Knight instantly with Wizard's Hand. The black parasite that emerged from Hoven's remains revealed the Quasit bloodline network embedded among the manor's stewards. 13 14

Yin Ming later created a Bloodline Potion from Quasit blood and tested it on a red-nosed macaque. The transformed creature, Red Nose, became an intelligent Quasit; Yin Ming subdued it and forced it to offer a soul fragment as proof of servitude. 18 19

Flame-Burners Association

Following the collapse of the Adams Lineage's territory, Yin Ming left Tulip Manor, aided Randy's escape from serfdom, and saved the wounded Johnny Green in order to study his firearms and alchemical equipment. 25 26

Johnny introduced him to the Flame-Burners Association. Yin Ming initially rejected its ruin-exploration work due to its casualty rate, but joined when he learned it possessed a detailed explanation of basic wizard runes. 28

Using Wizard Script, Demon Tongue, and Immortal Seal Script presented as an unknown lost-civilization language, Yin Ming passed the Association's scholar examination. He became the 3,642nd scholar of the Ember school and received treatment equivalent to a First-Ring wizard. 30

Yin Ming later used his standing and the Association's resources to establish a large wizard laboratory. He recruited Emma Dalton to manage thousands of apprentices and warlocks and hired Roda Manhart to train rune-construction personnel, using the laboratory to deduce the foundational runes of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art. 142 143 149

External cores and later activity

Yin Ming used the External Elixir Art to create metal Primordial Elixirs connected to fragments of his soul. These External Cores allowed him to carry bloodline-based Dharma Forms without surrendering his human body to permanent bloodline erosion. 34 36

He subsequently developed the Lava Troll Form, entered the Nightmare World, and gained Zero-Ring Authority after killing the Void Spirit Xu Jiu. 36 40

By the time he created the Monkey Quasit/Dretch Ancestor Aspect, Yin Ming had condensed four of the Seventy-Two Forms. He remained wary of the Quasit aspect's self-derived rune and its partial connection to the Abyssal Will. 47

On a New Moon Night, Yin Ming used an Abyss Beck Subplane Invitation—after secretly exchanging it with Anthony Silvercoin's identical sphere—and entered the Beck Subplane under layered physical, magical, and masked disguises. 50

After advancing to the First Ring, Yin Ming began combining External Cores, Bloodline Origin Ancestral Talismans, and the Formless Tree into the complete framework of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art. Its transformations remade his human body rather than merely overlaying beastly bloodlines, allowing him to retain his identity while acquiring extraordinary talents and a vastly extended lifespan. 151 153

Undead path and Lady White Moon's legacy

Yin Ming acquired the Divine Jade Bone, Undead Orb, and the Moon Law inheritance of Lucky Star Lucia, also known as Lady White Moon. Through this legacy, he learned undead divine arts and established the White-Bone Soul Banner as the foundation of an expanding undead force. 99 102 181 182

He claimed the Butcher Councilor position and Red Maple Forest, a demon-dismantling facility that he converted into a source of Soul Crystals, bones, death aura, and undead labor. Although he delegated its daily operation to Gallon Ake, he retained authority over corpse inspection and the resulting undead-production network. 111 112 113

Over more than half a year, Yin Ming's undead network expanded into fifteen groups containing thousands of Silver-Bone undead, fifteen Golden-Bone undead, and a Crystal-Bone undead. These forces refined Divine Jade Bone material and enabled the gradual expansion of his Undead Space. 113

Yin Ming later used the White-Bone Soul Banner's Resurrection of the Dead and Undead Enslavement to kill and revive Tree Ancestor Sadi. He retained Sadi's memories, research ability, Green Forest identity, and access to the Twisted Treant Bloodline Origin Ancestral Talisman. 233 234

Limit-breaking cultivation and the End of Dharma

Yin Ming developed the Heavenly Cycle Qi Restriction from Human Meridian Maps, the Cosmic Acupoint Diagram, and Ancient God Power. By opening 364 primary acupoints, he gained roughly thirty-six times the magic-power reserve of an equivalent wizard and created a foundation capable of storing spell runes throughout his body. 207

He refused the conventional Fourth-Ring shortcut of forcing one essence to support the other two. Instead, he successively raised Vital Essence, Qi Essence, and Divine Essence, formed a Yin Spirit, then used the Second Transformation of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art to reach the Fourth Ring with all three foundations intact. 216 218

As the Source Plane entered the End of Dharma, Yin Ming adapted his cultivation toward physical strength, Divine Sense, and self-sufficient energy systems. He tempered his Yin Spirit into a Yang Spirit by repeatedly pursuing dawn across the plane and using Dawn Glow Purple Qi. 298 299

He eventually completed the Seventh Transformation of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art, transformed the Undying Xuanming God from an Internal Avatar into an External Avatar, and emerged as a Seventh-Ring acquired Innate Divine. 354

City of Rest and higher ambitions

Yin Ming established the City of Rest and Endless Bone Sea in the Dark Plane, using liches, Skeleton Kings, and the White Bone Hell Disc as a self-developing undead civilization. He supplied the liches with inherited knowledge while carefully concealing the real world's existence from them. 239 240 309 344

When the Elemental Plane descended fully into the End of Dharma, Yin Ming exploited its Mortal Dust Miasma to weaken pursuers and eliminate the practical advantage of conventional elemental sorcery. He nevertheless remained wary of the Wizard Black Tower and the God Hunter Association, preferring escape and concealment to unnecessary battles. 298 309

Yin Ming later bargained with Yuan and Wuxiang Watson over the Heavenly Demon Realm Consciousness. His cooperation in refining the realm gave him a substantial share of its authority, but he regarded both allies as potential threats and focused on strengthening his own Fate Principles and cultivation method. 400 401 409

After attaining Taiyi fruition, Yin Ming immersed himself in the operation of Heavenly Dao and ultimately merged his consciousness with the Gourd Great World, gaining a glimpse of the Transcendence Realm. 431 433

Personality

Yin Ming is intensely pragmatic and survival-focused. He avoids direct risks whenever possible, preferring concealment, preparation, escape routes, and overwhelming force to fair fights. He considers avoidable danger foolish rather than courageous, a principle reflected in his refusal to join high-casualty expeditions or expose himself to powerful wizards unnecessarily. 28 41

He approaches cultivation as research. His willingness to burn lifespan for insight, dismantle supernatural materials, manipulate bloodlines, and experiment on Red Nose reflects an analytical mindset with few ethical restraints when power or knowledge is at stake. 18 19 32 33

Despite his utilitarian habits, Yin Ming maintains selected personal loyalties. He treated Randy's injuries, helped him escape serfdom with money and supplies, and declined to punish Jack after Jack traded Yin Ming's hemostatic-powder knowledge for an Apprentice Knight position. 10 16 25

His later actions reveal an increasingly managerial form of pragmatism. He delegates work to Gallon Ake, Emma Dalton, Roda Manhart, Tree Ancestor Sadi, liches, and undead subordinates, reserving his own effort for irreplaceable research and cultivation. 113 141 143 241

Yin Ming is capable of calculated cruelty when control or long-term value is involved. He killed and resurrected Sadi rather than allowing a talented researcher to remain an enemy, and later consumed the accumulated power of Skeleton Kings to advance the Heavenly Demon Realm Consciousness. 233 401

Abilities & skills

Corpse Liberation techniques

Before sacrificing his cultivation, Yin Ming possessed the immortal Dao Fruit of a Corpse-Liberation Immortal.

• Could send his Primordial Spirit out through the Corpse-Liberation Gourd for Spirit Travel, reconnaissance, and eavesdropping. 1 5 7
• Had night vision from the Void Lightning Realm and spiritual sense from the Yin Spirit and Yang Spirit stages. 1
• His former immortal state was severely limited in direct combat; he could not break ordinary hemp restraints or withstand massed knights. 1
• Burned his accumulated cultivation as fuel for the Scavenger Gourd's forging. 8 9
• Reconstructed an advanced spirit path through the True Mirror Meditation Method, forming a Yin Soul, Yin Spirit, and eventually a Yang Spirit. 216 218 299
• His refined Divine Sense can inspect matter with exceptional precision, perceive residual historical traces, and operate independently of elemental energy. 345 346

Scavenger Gourd

The Scavenger Gourd is Yin Ming's Innate Spiritual Treasure, forged from his former Corpse-Liberation Artifact. It possesses one complete Divine Restriction and is a support treasure rather than a combat weapon. 9

• Analyzes, decomposes, purifies, extracts, and recombines materials to maximize their usable value. 9 14
• Converts food and plant matter into Grain-Repelling Pills, hemostatic powder, poisons, and other extracted products. 9 10
• Purged toxins and hidden injuries from Yin Ming's body, raising his natural lifespan limit from 45 to 99 years. 11
• Can enhance bodily functions, including neural utilization, but does not protect its user from the resulting energy consumption or lifespan loss. 11
• Extracted Mental Essence, inheritance memories, bloodline materials, and unknown energy from the Quasit parasite core. 14
• Produces Element Crystals from ambient elemental energy once Yin Ming's spiritual power exceeds the required threshold. 26
• Cannot store objects containing self-will, including soulstones and certain blood-source materials. 20 47
• Provides a concealed Gourd Space used for cultivation, material storage, magical-plant cultivation, undead research, and the construction of a separate lich civilization. 151 240 261
• Can conceal dangerous artifacts and suppress their detectable aura, including the Mirror World Fragment and later high-grade supernatural items. 60 215

Wizard cultivation and spells

Yin Ming originally cultivated through the Vast Sea Meditation Method, using Mental Runes to transform elemental energy into magic power. He later surpassed its available stages through the Heavenly Cycle Qi Restriction and his self-created True Mirror Meditation Method. 207 215 216

• Wizard's Hand — Creates an invisible telekinetic hand. Its early recorded grip strength was approximately 3,000 kg at a 12-meter range for roughly 15 seconds; after further rune development, its upper strength limit reached 8,000 kg. 12 25
• Flesh Strengthening — Permanently improves Yin Ming's physique until reaching its current bottleneck; its first use raised his physique by three points. 15
• Crimson Flame Ring — Generates crimson flame and can melt precious metals into unmarked currency. 21 25
• Shadow Touch and Touch of Corrosion — Zero-Ring wizardries obtained by devouring Nightmare World memories. 41
• Abyssal Summoning and Abyssal Sacrifice — Demonic runes learned through Red Nose's inherited knowledge; Yin Ming used them to send Red Nose back to the Abyss and later summon him. 20 21 48
• Great Light Technique / Golden Light Spell — A First-Ring defensive spell developed into a law-assisted purifying white flame through the Purity Law Fragment. It can protect Yin Ming's consciousness against undead resentment and corruption. 58 225
• Five-Elements Escape Technique — A Third-Ring elemental escape spell that permits rapid movement through material obstacles. 210
• Five Elements Grand Escape — A Sixth-Ring escape technique that uses Divine Sense markers as destinations, effectively functioning as a high-speed teleportation method. 329
• Samadhi True Fire — A composite divine fire consisting of Qi Flame, Essence Flame, and Divine Flame, used for refinement, purification, and cultivation. 71 210 218

Seventy-Two Forms and External Cores

Yin Ming adapted the Eight-Nine Mystical Art into the wizard-compatible Seventy-Two Forms. The art uses External Cores and bloodline potions to manifest Dharma Aspects while insulating his human body from bloodline corruption. 32 33 34

• Lava Troll Form — His first Dharma Form; created through a Lava Troll King Potion and a First-Ring True Name Rune. It has lava armor, extreme heat, and strength comparable to a First-Ring sorcerer. 36
• Twisted Treant and Winged Serpent — Existing Dharma Aspects with Second-Ring potential, though Yin Ming lacks their Second-Ring True Name Totems. 47
• Monkey Quasit / False Dretch Ancestor Aspect — His fourth Dharma Aspect. It permits a possession-like shared consciousness and vision, and contains a hidden ancestral rune partly tied to the Abyssal Will. 47
• The Seventy-Two Forms currently stands at four completed forms out of seventy-two, with a recorded Second-Ring limit. 47
• Myriad Things Mimicry — The First Transformation's nine-in-one talent. It enhances spiritual imitation, concealment, and Yin Ming's capacity to blend with and comprehend external phenomena. 151
• Elemental Transformation — The Second Transformation's talent, allowing Yin Ming to transform his body into elemental form and support the Five-Elements Escape Technique. 218
• Rebirth from a Drop of Blood — The Third Transformation's talent, granting exceptional vitality and regenerative potential. 261
• Wind Spirit's Words — A later talent obtained through Wind Bird bloodline development and recorded among his divine abilities. 314
• Undying Xuanming External Avatar — Yin Ming's Seventh-Ring Extraordinary Magic Beast form, created by externalizing the Undying Xuanming God and connecting it to the bloodline power of hundreds of millions of undead. 354

Nightmare World Authority

Yin Ming originally held Zero-Ring Authority in the Nightmare World after killing the Void Spirit Xu Jiu. 40

• Can access the Zero-Ring region and perceive nearby Crystal Wall Bubbles belonging to wizard apprentices. 41
• Uses the dreamscape's conditions to test manifested weapons and large-scale constructs without bringing them into reality. 41
• Obtains memories and extraordinary knowledge from defeated targets, including a First-Ring meditation method and magical-plant cultivation knowledge. 40 41
• The permanent Nightmare Rune cost seven points of spiritual power, reducing his maximum capacity from 25 to 21 at the time it formed. 40
• Later gained dominion authority over the Nightmare World's second layer through the White-Bone Soul Banner and planned to exploit the computational power of its wizard inhabitants. 182 206
• Uses True Illusions and the White-Bone Soul Banner to combat opponents whose dream injuries can become real injuries. 223 225

Undead authority and divine arts

Yin Ming controls the White-Bone Soul Banner, an undead divine artifact empowered by the Moon Law Fragment and Divine Jade Bone. 181 182

• Undead Revival — Converts suitable corpses into new undead beings. 112
• Undead Enslavement — Brands undead with an enforceable command mark controlling their life, death, and actions. 112 233
• Resurrection of the Dead — Restores a dead target as an undead retaining its former memories, unlike ordinary Undead Revival. 233
• Undead Possession — A Second-Ring witchcraft that allows Yin Ming to read and merge with residual mental traces or the memories of undead under his control. 169 227
• Moon Bind — A Seventh-Ring moon-law divine art capable of freezing, purifying, or annihilating undead targets and inflicting fatal damage through True Illusions. 224 225
• Undead Shield — A Seventh-Ring defensive divine art empowered by the Moon Law Fragment. 225
• Necromantic Beam — An offensive undead spell later adapted from elemental to baleful energy for effectiveness in the Dark Plane. 292
• Undead Calamity — A large-scale lich-developed ritual that creates an Undead Space across a Crystal Wall and converts living targets into undead. Yin Ming considers it strategically powerful but too conspicuous for ordinary use. 262
• The White-Bone Soul Banner can ultimately contain approximately ten million undead, though Yin Ming considers this insufficient for his intended life-death reincarnation system. 262

Fate, domains, and higher cultivation

Yin Ming integrates Fate Principles, thought models, and immortal cultivation concepts into his personal path.

• Four-Forms Eight-Directions Diagram and Fate Dice — Used to derive auspicious positions, looming danger, and strategic information from Fate Principles. 190
• True Mirror Meditation Method — His Fourth-Ring meditation method, based on an Eight-Trigram Mirror Wondrous Scene containing a symbolic netherworld and heavenly court. It improves thought processing, Fate Principle comprehension, and resistance to Dao transformation. 215 216
• Heavenly Cycle Qi Restriction — Opens acupoints as miniature Magic Cores, creating enormous magic-power storage and allowing spell runes to be fixed throughout his body. 207
• Yellow Court Gods — A later acupoint-based cultivation system through which Yin Ming supports divine arts and develops higher-rank internal structures. 312 314
• Body-Fixing Spell — A perfected Seventh-Ring True-Name Totem technique capable of immobilizing undead movement, energy, and space over a vast range. 371
• Heavenly Demon Realm Consciousness — A realm-scale project combining undead Yin Spirits, demonic qualities, Humanity's Karmic Fire, and Fate Principles. Yin Ming holds a negotiated portion of its authority. 400 409

Scholarship, languages, and potioncraft

Yin Ming combines scholarly knowledge, modern experimental thinking, and the Scavenger Gourd's analysis capabilities.

• Mastered Wizard Script by secretly attending Professor Romandy's lessons and Demon Tongue through Red Nose's inheritance. 7 20
• Used Immortal Seal Script to qualify as a Flame-Burners scholar. 30
• Developed and sold Golden Sore Medicine, a low-cost healing product whose formula's use of mold-based ingredients attracted powerful buyers. 33 37 42
• Created and optimized Bloodline Potions, including Quasit, Lava Troll, and Lava Demon variants. 18 36 42
• Studies rune construction as spell formulas linked by energy circuits, aiming to unify immortal cultivation and wizardry. 32 33
• Created the First-Ring Constitution Enhancement Potion by using Human-Faced Wood Bark to suppress bloodline erosion while preserving beneficial effects. 104 116
• Studies Ancient God rituals, White Bone Script, meridian systems, bloodline origin talismans, Seal Formulas, alchemy civilization knowledge, magical-plant cultivation, plague research, and Fate Studies. 166 207 314
• Uses liches, apprentices, and subordinate researchers as a distributed research system to accelerate rune deduction and cultivation-method development. 141 206 309

Equipment / weapons / items

• Scavenger Gourd — Innate Spiritual Treasure and Yin Ming's primary research, storage, purification, and synthesis tool. 9 11
• Purity Law Fragment — A wisp of Zhu Bajie's law of “Purity,” received as part of their transaction. 3
• External Cores — Metal Primordial Elixirs spiritually refined into vessels for Dharma Aspects. 34 36
• Element Crystals — Condensed ambient elemental energy used for trade, mana recovery, potion work, and experimental weapons. 26 31
• Revolver — Listed among Yin Ming's possessions while residing in the Flame-Burners underground city. 37 47
• Soulstones and Quasit tokens — Used to bind, summon, and negotiate with Red Nose and the Monkey Quasits. 19 20 48
• Abyss Beck Subplane Invitation — A metal sphere activated on the New Moon to transport its bearer to the Beck Subplane. 50
• Mirror World Fragment — A depleted witch-artifact fragment that can connect to the illusory Mirror World and was later fused into the Succubus External Core to provide Spirit Mimicry. 60 83
• Undead Orb — A jade-like artifact created from Divine Jade Bone, containing an Undead Space for death energy and undead skeletons. 102
• White-Bone Soul Banner — Yin Ming's central undead divine artifact, later refined toward the form and function of the White Bone Hell Disc. 181 276
• High Priest Mark — An Evil Moon—Undying Church mark carried by the Undead Succubus External Core; grants access to Undying God Cult sites and a map of the sealed Xu plane. 122
• Fate Dice — A divinatory tool used with Fate Principles and the Four-Forms Eight-Directions Diagram. 190
• Divine Jade Bone Skeletons — Powerful undead guards revived through Lady White Moon's legacy and used as Yin Ming's emergency defensive force. 216
• Golden Pass Jade Lock — A sealing technique and defensive method used to suppress his aura and prevent magical-power leakage. 58 298

Relationships

• Zhu Bajie / Envoy of the Purified Altar — Benefactor and contractual partner. Zhu Bajie's avatar gave Yin Ming the Minor Teleportation Talisman, Primordial God-Devil Forging Art, and Purity Law Fragment, then sacrificed its remaining power to create Yin Ming's escape opportunity. 3 4
• Randy — Former Tulip Manor roommate and one of Yin Ming's few genuine friends. Yin Ming treated Randy's wounds and later gave him funds, Life Essence, Grain-Repelling Pills, and scar-removal lotion to help him escape serfdom. 10 25
• Jack — Former roommate who traded Yin Ming's hemostatic-powder knowledge for an Apprentice Knight position. Yin Ming forgave him and instead requested knight cultivation knowledge and Life Essence. 16 17
• Red Nose — Red-nosed macaque transformed into a Quasit through Yin Ming's Bloodline Potion. Yin Ming forced Red Nose into soul-bound servitude, extracted his inherited knowledge, released him to the Abyss, and later summoned him again. 19 21 48
• Anthony Silvercoin — Flame-Burners exchange official and recurring business intermediary. Anthony facilitates Yin Ming's purchases, sales, bribes, and the Golden Sore Medicine transaction. 31 41 42
• Johnny Green — Wounded Flame-Burner whom Yin Ming rescued to study his firearm and alchemical equipment. Johnny later introduced Yin Ming to the Flame-Burners Association. 25 26 28
• Robert Kava — Ember school chairman who certified Yin Ming as a scholar. Their association is useful but distrustful; both secretly secured advantages after uncovering hidden runes on an ancient stele. 30 36
• Jeroen Hoven — Tulip Manor's abusive steward and Yin Ming's early oppressor. Yin Ming killed him with Wizard's Hand after Hoven attempted to torture him in the Magic Beast Forest. 13
• Ember — Artifact spirit of the Flameburning Fire Seed and a wary collaborator. Ember assists in analysis, fusion, guarding Yin Ming during seclusion, and managing the Gourd Space, while repeatedly cautioning him against reckless use of his treasures. 83 211 216
• Lucky Star Lucia / Lady White Moon — Ancient God benefactor, uneasy ally, and later deceased source of Yin Ming's Moon Law and undead inheritance. Yin Ming advised Lucia on the Undying Scripture, accepted her final inheritance, and agreed to protect those she cared about. 176 179 181
• Gallon Ake — Robert Kava's disciple and Yin Ming's acting manager at Red Maple Forest. Yin Ming delegates routine administration to him while retaining ownership of undead resources and major decisions. 111 113
• Emma Dalton — First-Ring Succubus Warlock hired to manage Yin Ming's wizard laboratory. Their relationship is explicitly transactional, with Emma accepting control of recruitment in exchange for potions and other rewards. 142 143
• Roda Manhart — Elderly First-Ring wizard recruited as a rune-construction instructor. Yin Ming secured his service with Mental Potions and a promised Second-Ring Vast Sea Mental Rune. 141 143 149
• Tree Ancestor Sadi — Former Green Forest ruler, research rival, and later undead subordinate. Yin Ming killed and resurrected Sadi to preserve its research ability, Green Forest influence, and knowledge of Twisted Treant bloodlines and Transcendent Microorganisms. 233 234
• Klee Gler — Wind Bird Warlock who became Yin Ming's mount, guide, and subordinate during investigations of Undying God Cult ruins. Klee understands that discretion is necessary for survival around Yin Ming. 160 161
• Simon Marshall / Eternal Silence's Remains — Recurrent hostile godslayer and undead-path rival. Yin Ming defeated him within a True Illusion using the Seventh-Ring Chaos Undead Skeleton and eventually enslaved his remnant soul. 225 227
• Wuxiang Watson — An ancient, dangerous illusion-path existence whose fragmented soul was associated with the Chaotic Void Spirit. Yin Ming treats him as both a source of knowledge and a major potential threat, later cooperating with him on the Heavenly Demon Realm Consciousness. 204 215 401
• Yuan / Mother of All Snakes — High-level ally, rival, and co-negotiator in the Heavenly Demon Realm project. Yin Ming cooperates with Yuan when interests align but assumes that Yuan would eliminate him if given a safe opportunity. 399 400 409
• Liches of Gourd Continent — Yin Ming's concealed scholar-race and distributed research force. He supplies them with curated inheritance knowledge while controlling their memories and access to the real world. 239 240 309

Notable quotes

“Charging headlong into unavoidable danger made one a warrior; charging headlong into avoidable danger made one a foolhardy brute.” 41