Jin Sheng

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Jin Sheng (金盛)
Alias(es)	Lion Light
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Qilin; Demon-Slaying Squad
Occupation/Role	Captain of the Demon-Slaying Squad; Qilin member ranked 89
First Appearance	Chapter 12

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Golden Light Boy Cultivation	Before Ch. 16	Began cultivating it while young. 16
Golden Light Boy Cultivation, mastered	Before Ch. 16	Reached mastery at age eighteen, then changed cultivation paths. 16
Tiger-Subduing Divine Skill	Before Ch. 16	His subsequent martial cultivation method. 16
Golden Light Lion Divine Skill	About five years before Ch. 16	A drop of Pangu’s Blood mutated the Tiger-Subduing Divine Skill into his personal cultivation art and earned him the codename “Lion Light.” 16

Background / History

Jin Sheng entered the Silver City Aberrant Insect investigation alongside his father, Jin Dajun, to verify Yu Xian’s testimony. Jin Dajun publicly revealed that Jin Sheng was a Qilin member ranked 89 under the codename Lion Light. 12

As captain of Qilin’s six-person Demon-Slaying Squad, Jin Sheng personally inducted Yu Xian as rank 6330, “Salty Fish.” He explained that squad members usually work independently and assemble for major missions. 13

When Yu Xian suspected Yu Wei despite finding no proof, Jin Sheng ordered Yu Wei detained and accepted responsibility for allowing the investigation to proceed. This decision led to the exposure and capture of an Aberrant Insect hidden among Yu Wei’s nerve fibers. 13

Jin Sheng later trained Yu Xian in combat, assessed his unusual physical strength, and explained the origins of Lion Light. Their exchange marked a shift from formal command to mutual trust. 15 16

Appearance

Jin Sheng is a young man with an exceptionally imposing presence. Yu Xian compares the feeling of facing him to facing the sun, while describing his heartbeat as the roar of a lion. 12

• Carries a blazing, majestic presence likened to “a lion among men.” 33
• His eyes can emit golden light during supernatural examination. 13
• His martial power manifests as golden radiance and lion-shaped energy. 15 43

Personality

Jin Sheng is a disciplined and protective captain who treats a subordinate’s instincts seriously even when evidence is lacking. His unconditional support for Yu Xian comes from Qilin’s recorded failures, in which captains who dismissed teammates’ concerns caused catastrophic losses. 13

He is practical in both training and command. Jin Sheng stresses that close-combat skill comes from real fighting rather than shortcuts, warns Yu Xian and Zhang Shou against risking themselves for merit, and adapts squad assignments quickly as threats emerge. 16 22 40

He is also notably proud of martial arts. Yu Xian’s casual assumption that martial artists only excel in close combat visibly irritates him, partly because his own fighting ability was forged through years of harsh combat training. 16

Abilities & Skills

Golden Light Lion Divine Skill

Jin Sheng’s personal cultivation art, created when Pangu’s Blood mutated his Tiger-Subduing Divine Skill. It produces golden-lion manifestations and is the basis of his codename. 16

• Produces golden energy and lion-shaped attacks. 15 43
• Possesses strong suppressive power against zombies, vicious ghosts, wronged spirits, and similar entities. 44
• Its golden radiance naturally restrains Deimos, making Jin Sheng a priority target for the demon. 43 44
• Deimos’s demonic power is severely incompatible with Jin Sheng’s own power, leaving him critically injured after their clash. 46

Tiger Form Fist

A martial arts style used in Jin Sheng’s close-quarters combat.

• Jin Sheng can precisely block Yu Xian’s silver threads and attacks while limiting himself to Insect Rank strength. 15
• His experience allows him to predict and overwhelm Yu Xian’s movements despite Yu Xian’s lower Ant Rank physical strength. 15
• He emphasizes that martial artists may fight at range through powerful inner energy as well as in melee. 16

Lion’s Radiance

The ultimate art of Jin Sheng’s Tiger Form Fist.

• Launches a target into the air before forming a massive golden lion from golden particles around them. 15
• The lion strikes the target to the ground with overwhelming force; Jin Sheng used it to shatter every bone in Yu Xian’s body during a sparring evaluation. 15

Lion’s Mighty Light

A powerful golden-lion energy attack used against Deimos.

• Its collision with Deimos produces a massive shockwave. 43
• Jin Sheng suffers internal damage after using it against the Upper Greater Demon. 43

Relationships

• Jin Dajun — Father. Jin Dajun proudly publicizes Jin Sheng’s Qilin rank and later intervenes in the Deimos crisis after Jin Sheng is injured. 12 46
• Yu Xian — Subordinate, trainee, and trusted teammate. Jin Sheng inducts him into Qilin, supports his suspicions without evidence, trains him, and assigns him operational duties. 13 15 35
• Zhang Shou — Teammate recruited by Jin Sheng as the Demon-Slaying Squad’s healer, codenamed Dead Doctor. 20
• Blue Bird — Teammate placed with Yu Xian as support under Jin Sheng’s operational command. 35 36
• Deimos — Enemy and natural opposite; Jin Sheng’s golden radiance restrains the demon, causing Deimos to focus on eliminating him. 43 44
• Gan Jiang and Mo Ye — Allied squad members who rescue Jin Sheng during Deimos’s attack. 44
• Tianxuan — Evacuates Jin Sheng after he is critically injured by Deimos. 46

Story Role / Major Arcs

Silver City Aberrant Insect Incident

• Verifies Yu Xian’s account of the Aberrant Insect conspiracy and initially intends to secure official protection for him. 12
• Recruits Yu Xian into the Demon-Slaying Squad as Salty Fish. 13
• Trusts Yu Xian’s suspicion of Yu Wei, enabling the discovery of the nerve-fiber parasite and a major breakthrough in identifying hidden Aberrant Insects. 13
• Oversees the transfer of Yu Wei’s corpse and the captured parasite to Qilin headquarters for research. 14

Training and Squad Expansion

• Spars with Yu Xian, critiques his crude silver-thread control, and demonstrates the gap between raw power and combat technique with Lion’s Radiance. 15
• Explains his cultivation history and the Pangu’s Blood mutation that created Lion Light. 16
• Recruits Zhang Shou after learning that his healing powers are survivable despite the Seven-Day Life-and-Death Cycle. 20
• Assigns Yu Xian and Zhang Shou to patrol Silver City and monitor potentially dangerous students while he returns to the capital. 22

Zhou Tai Operation

• Returns from Yanjing to warn Yu Xian and Zhang Shou that foreign supernatural forces may target them after the arena incident. 33
• Awards Yu Xian a First-Class Merit Medal and delivers the Pangu’s Blood approved as his special reward. 33
• Deploys Yu Xian and Blue Bird during the Gold Nugget Mountain operation and responds to Yu Xian’s reports on the transformed Zhou Tais. 35 40
• Kills Zhou Tai Number Seven while other squads eliminate or capture the remaining personalities. 42

Deimos Crisis

• Attacks the summoned Upper Greater Demon Deimos with Lion’s Mighty Light after it begins massacring nearby teams. 43
• Is rescued by Gan Jiang and Mo Ye but suffers grave injuries from Deimos’s demonic energy. 44 46
• Remains among the wounded evacuated from the battlefield while Jin Dajun delays Deimos. 46

Notable Quotes

“Then do whatever you need to. Even if you're wrong, I'll take responsibility!” — Jin Sheng to Yu Xian 13

“The only way to improve close-combat ability is through more real combat. There are no other shortcuts.” 16