Jin Yang

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Jin Yang is a transmigrant from Sunward Village who enters Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy as a work-study student. He regards himself as an adult despite his young body. His low innate Soul Power and unsettling Martial Soul leave him isolated in Dorm Seven, but he develops a cultivation routine around the sunlight and nectar it produces 1 2.

After Tang San attacks him, Jin Yang defeats him and publicly confronts Tang San’s teacher, Yu Xiaogang. He uses the academy crowd as witnesses when Yu attempts to seize and attack him. The feud draws a threat from Tang Hao, Tang San’s father, who orders Jin Yang to stay away from his son 2 3 5.

Su Yuntao later helps Jin Yang obtain his First Soul Ring. Jin Yang initially conceals its ability to increase Soul Ring age. Huisinuo takes an interest in his progress and offers a recommendation to a plant-focused advanced academy 6 9. Tang Hao subsequently orders Jin Yang to fight Tang San regularly as a form of training, then ends the arrangement four years later and gives Jin Yang a technique manual 13 17.

At thirteen, Jin Yang graduates from Nuoding and enrolls at Plant Advanced Soul Master Academy with level 37 Soul Power. There, he decides to reveal his First Soul Skill and demonstrates it by permanently improving his roommate Jiang Yan’s first ring 17 19 21.

Personality

Jin Yang is practical about danger: he holds back against Tang San because he fears Tang Hao’s retaliation, and he seeks academy guidance rather than hunting powerful plant Soul Beasts alone 5 15. He is also openly provocative when challenged, particularly toward Tang San and Yu Xiaogang 3 14.

Although he calls himself a support Soul Master, Jin Yang takes pride in his physical strength. He keeps his ring-improving skill secret while he considers it dangerous to disclose, then shares it when academy training makes secrecy impractical 6 21.

Abilities and Skills

Smiling Sunflower Martial Soul

Jin Yang’s animated, Light-attribute sunflower produces edible sunlight and beneficial nectar. Soul Ring absorption makes it larger and tougher; by graduation, it stands about three meters tall and can carry him on its root-like legs 1 6 8 17.

• Sunlight — Replenishes Soul Power and gradually strengthens his body. Its effects become more potent after his First Soul Ring 1 6.
• Nectar — Supports meditation and faster cultivation 6.
• Combat use — Its durable flower head serves as a shield or striking weapon; its reinforced seed-teeth can tear into a tree trunk 14 17.

First Soul Skill: Soul Ring Age Increase

Activated with the incantation “Sunflower sprouts, higher by the node!”, this skill increases the age of Jin Yang’s rings or another Soul Master’s rings. Much of an increase is temporary, but a portion can remain permanently; the retained amount improves as his First Soul Ring grows older 6 7 21.

• Jin Yang raises his first two rings from hundred-year to thousand-year rings through repeated use 17 21.
• One use raises Jiang Yan’s ninety-year ring temporarily to six hundred years; it settles permanently at one hundred years after an hour 21.

Second Soul Skill: Physical Boost

The Sunflower summons smaller sunflowers to sing, increasing nearby allies’ strength, speed, and recovery by thirty percent for five minutes. The effect does not stack 17.

Third Soul Skill: Group Healing

The Sunflower gains healing power by swallowing sunlight. It can heal a group, though Jin Yang considers the amount modest 17.

Physical Strength and Combat

Sunlight consumption gives Jin Yang strength and durability beyond what his low innate Soul Power suggests. By graduation, ordinary attacks barely break his skin, and Tang San’s Sleeve Arrows cannot pierce it. Years of fighting also improve his combat skill; Tang Hao gives him a manual for the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique 2 17 18.

Equipment and Items

• Spirit Hall badge — Given by Huisinuo 9.
• Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer manual — Given by Tang Hao after Jin Yang stops the arranged fights with Tang San 17.
• Storage Soul Tool — Huisinuo’s farewell gift before Jin Yang leaves Nuoding City 18 19.
• Recommendation letter — Written by Huisinuo for Jin Yang’s advanced education 18 20.

Relationships

• Tang San — Bitter rival whom Jin Yang repeatedly defeats; their hostility continues through graduation 2 17.
• Tang Hao — Threatens Jin Yang, later orders him to fight Tang San, and eventually gives him a technique manual 5 13 17.
• Xiao Wu — Initially challenges and fears Jin Yang’s Sunflower. She later apologizes for her own actions and is willing to spar with him 2 5 16.
• Su Yuntao — Oversees Jin Yang’s Martial Soul awakening and helps him hunt and absorb his First Soul Ring 4 6 8.
• Huisinuo — Supports Jin Yang’s education and gives him a recommendation and a Storage Soul Tool before their farewell 9 18 19.
• Jiang Yan — Plant Academy roommate whose first Soul Ring Jin Yang improves; Jiang Yan then pledges to follow his lead 20 21.