Yu Tianjun

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Yu Tianjun (玉天钧)
Alias(es)	Jun Tianyu, his concealed identity at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy; Dark Qilin; the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s Second Brother 6 30 47
Gender	Male 1 11
Age	Ten at the beginning of his guiding career; eleven after his first three months at the Sun Moon academy 3 34
Origin	A transmigrator reborn into the Douluo world; raised in Dragon City 1
Affiliation	Heavenly Dragon Sect; Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy; Deming Class; leader of an alliance whose members address him as “boss” 1 30 54 56
Occupation/Role	Soul Master, advanced bounty hunter, soul-hunting guide, Level 2 Soul Engineer, and Deming Class monitor 6 11 36 56
Martial Soul	Ultimate Dark Qilin, concealed through a Five-Element Qilin form 1 4
Latest Documented Cultivation	Level 50, awaiting his fifth soul ring 54 56
Status	Alive; falsely reported killed alongside Yu Xiaoying in Death Canyon 26 36 54
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Ultimate Dark Qilin awakening; innate full soul power	1	Awakens a rare ultimate martial soul with Darkness Escape Technique as its first innate talent. His sect conceals him to prevent hunters and the Holy Spirit Cult from targeting him.
Myriad Forms awakening	1 22	Pesticide-assisted cultivation stimulates his second innate talent, enabling elemental expression and the Five-Element Qilin disguise.
Level 35 — Soul Elder	1 3	Reaches this level at age ten, four years after awakening. Already possesses three rings and a transformed right Qilin arm.
First documented deep-meditation enhancement	17 19	A week of meditation after treating Yu Yuanjue widens his meridians, strengthens spiritual power and elemental affinity, and deepens the Dark Qilin’s origin.
Level 40 — Quasi-Soul Ancestor	22	Reaches the fourth-ring threshold before turning eleven, following six months of cultivation and repeated refinement of his grandfather’s evil soul power.
Qilin core refinement; Ruinous Devour awakening	22	Refines the Black Jade Qilin Core over three days. His physique and darkness improve, his domain expands to a hundred meters, and his third innate talent awakens.
Level 43 — Soul Ancestor	23 24	Absorbs the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s ten-thousand-year fourth ring and refines its Evil God Pearl. Gains Evil God Wings, wind and lightning attributes, and Qilin Transformation of his left arm.
Refinement of Bi Yangde	28 33	Devouring the Death Spider Emperor Soul Saint strengthens his spiritual power, vital energy, and martial-soul bloodline, improving his ability to shape elements.
Level 2 Soul Engineer	36	Attains this engineering rank within three months of entering the Sun Moon academy.
Level 46 — Soul Ancestor	41	Breaks through while cultivating during the Star Dou expedition’s aftermath.
Ultimate metal manifestation	46	Uses five-element generation to concentrate his Five-Element Qilin into ultimate metal, allowing him to suppress the energy obstructing Zhang Lexuan’s recovery.
Great Five-Element Divine Light perfected	48 51	Completes a self-created fusion of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Its consumption limits sustained use to approximately three minutes without a Soul Core.
Level 47 — Soul Ancestor	51	Five days of deep meditation after Electrolux awakens also open a second Sea of Consciousness for his teacher.
Level 49 — Soul Ancestor	53 54	Gains power from defeating and purifying Evil Soul Masters alongside Ye Guyi through their martial soul fusion skill.
Level 50 — fifth-ring threshold	54 56	Absorbs Dark Gold Terrorclaw palm bones under ultimate-metal suppression. Later plans to seek his fifth ring in three months.

Background / History

Yu Tianjun is reborn as the younger son of the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s master. His memories warn him that the sect will eventually be destroyed, prompting him to cultivate for survival and seek a different future for his family. A Holy Spirit Cult attempt to abduct Nan Shuishui during an Earth Dragon Sect funeral exposes him early to the threat of powerful Evil Soul Masters 1.

His family descends from Yu Tianheng, a survivor of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. According to Tianjun’s account, Yu Xiaogang arranged Tianheng’s political marriage after the family rejected Dugu Yan as a future matriarch. Tianheng eventually left to found the Heavenly Dragon Sect near the Far North, severing ties with the rebuilt Blue Lightning Family and Shrek 12 13.

The sect hides Tianjun after his Ultimate Dark Qilin awakens, fearing both persecution and recruitment by the Holy Spirit Cult. Myriad Forms later allows him to pass as a Five-Element Qilin Soul Master—even his grandfather cannot initially see through the disguise—and begin working outside the sect 1.

Appearance

Tianjun is black-haired and exceptionally handsome, with bright, clear eyes. Dragon City residents regard him as their younger generation’s most beautiful youth, contrasting his appearance with his elder brother Yu Tianlong’s reputation for talent 11 13 45.

• Five-Element Qilin possession: Five strands of hair change to elemental colors; colorful scales appear on his wrists and neck. During the Far North battle, his height increases to approximately 1.8 meters 3.
• Dark Qilin possession: His appearance becomes ominous, surrounded by darkness and sinister energy resembling an Evil Soul Master prodigy 4 24.
• Qilin Transformation: His arms enlarge and become muscular and scale-covered 3 24.
• Evil God Wings: Fallen-looking wings extend from his back, accompanied by purplish-black spatial ripples 24.

Personality

Tianjun’s easygoing manner conceals a strong concern for security. He calls himself an “idler,” prefers paid work to political disputes, and repeatedly rejects recruitment offers when his own sect can provide comparable support. He also limits his guiding assignments once publicity threatens to attract enemies 3 14.

He treats bargains seriously and favors reciprocity over dependence. He exchanges unsuitable treasures for useful resources, repays Meng Hongchen’s gifts, and gives Jing Hongchen a valuable external soul bone rather than simply accepting another defensive tool 5 13 36.

Family loyalty consistently outweighs prestige. He exhausts himself treating his grandfather, postpones academy decisions until that treatment is addressed, and refuses imperial cooperation that could place fellow disciples on a war footing. Within the sect, his generosity and overwhelming strength help sustain an unusually relaxed culture 6 19 21.

The Death Canyon attack turns his distrust of Shrek into a commitment to revenge. Although anger leads him to threaten becoming an Evil Soul Master king, he later rejects that path and distinguishes attacking Shrek from betraying his homeland. Electrolux encourages him to preserve his affection for people and the world without pretending his hatred does not exist 26 28 30 51.

Abilities & Skills

Ultimate Dark Qilin and Refinement

His martial soul combines ultimate darkness with a divine-beast bloodline. It can refine substances and hostile energies that ordinary Soul Masters cannot safely use 1 28 30.

• Absorbs beneficial components from pesticide, providing a cheap alternative to rare cultivation treasures 1 19 22.
• Refines evil soul power into gains for his bloodline, spiritual power, and physique 19 33.
• Purifies the evil power he devours rather than cultivating it through ordinary evil methods, according to Long Xiaoyao 28.
• Can potentially bestow ultimate darkness upon Yu Xiaoying; Tianjun regards this as an emergency trump card rather than a routine measure 14.

Darkness Escape Technique

His first innate talent allows him to enter darkness, move through it, and manipulate dark power 3.

• Can emerge from an opponent’s shadow to attack and immediately withdraw 4.
• Combines with Myriad Forms to become the Five-Element Escape Technique, including movement through water-rich air 3.
• Enables teleportation within his domain 22.
• Allows him to hide in Ye Guyi’s shadow during infiltration 51.
• Its ability to disregard attacks from darkness Soul Masters has a stated limit: it does not apply against those more than two ranks above him 3.

Myriad Forms

His second innate talent expresses darkness through other elements and creates the appearance of a Five-Element Qilin 3 4.

• Recasts his soul skills into elemental versions rather than changing their underlying dark origin 4.
• Supports elemental barriers, claws, projectiles, clones, and escape techniques 3 4 33.
• Incorporates wind and lightning after refinement of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s power 24.
• Becomes harder to use as concealment after his fourth-ring breakthrough: his strengthened origin requires purer five-element power to cover it 24.

Qilin Transformation

Tianjun adapts the sect’s Dragon Transformation by stimulating his Qilin bloodline instead of a dragon bloodline 3.

• His transformed right arm doubles its strength, attack, and defense 3 16.
• The Five-Element version doubles the arm’s elemental affinity; the Dark Qilin version multiplies its darkness power severalfold 3 16.
• Ultimate darkness protects him from abnormal conditions 16.
• After becoming a Soul Ancestor, he can transform both arms and express lightning through the right and wind through the left 24.

Soul-Ring Skills

His documented ring configuration is yellow, purple, purple, black 23 24.

Ring	Skill	Effects
First — hundred-year	Darkness Origin Return; disguised as Five Elements Return to Origin	Dark form raises all attributes by 50% and refines one-third of an opponent’s resisting soul power. Five-Element form raises attributes by 30% and recovers one-fifth instead 4 16.
Second — thousand-year	Five-Element Space-Splitting Slash; later called Sky-Rending Slash	Merges five claw-like blades into a spatial cutting attack that ignores 20% of defense 3 54.
Third — thousand-year	Darkness Clone; disguised as Five-Element Clones	Produces six darkness clones at 60% of his aura, or five elemental clones at 50%. Darkness clones consume more power 4 16.
Fourth — ten-thousand-year	Unnamed in the supplied passages	Obtained from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger; Tianjun expresses satisfaction with the resulting skill 23 24.

• Combines his skills into the Five Elements Combined Void-Splitting Slash, which kills the ten-thousand-year Condensing Water Cold Luan King 4.
• Adapts sect techniques such as Thunder Dragon Claw, Thunderous Might, and Blue Lightning Divine Dragon Rush into Qilin-based attacks 4.
• Darkness Origin Return remains effective unless an individual strike exceeds his endurance limit 4.

Qilin’s Sovereign Domain

His innate domain extends a hundred meters after Qilin core refinement, creating a battlefield governed by ultimate darkness 22.

• Removes light and sound and prevents enemies from extending soul-power perception 22.
• Disrupts spiritual detection and spiritual locking 22.
• Causes enemies to leak soul power, replenishing his expenditure 22.
• Suppresses lesser darkness powers particularly strongly 22.
• Can severely restrict light and holy Soul Masters, though ultimate light and the Holy Angel are identified as exceptions to its ordinary attribute dominance 22.
• Conceals the aftermath of his battle against the Zhongli brothers 53.

Ruinous Devour

His third innate talent creates a miniature black hole capable of swallowing a target and erasing or devouring everything belonging to them 22.

• Activates his divine-beast bloodline and merges his body into darkness during use 22.
• Consumes all his soul power, making it a costly last resort 22.
• His devouring of Bi Yangde produces substantial physical, spiritual, and bloodline gains, but also draws scrutiny from Ye Guyi and concern from Long Xiaoyao 28 33.

Ultimate Metal

Through five-element generation, Tianjun concentrates his elemental power into ultimate metal 46.

• Suppresses and extracts the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s lingering energy from Zhang Lexuan’s shattered martial soul 46.
• Absorbing the extracted energy provides a small cultivation benefit 46.
• Facilitates his absorption of Dark Gold Terrorclaw palm bones 54.
• Liao Mengkai assesses that Tianjun may currently be limited to expressing one generated ultimate element at a time 46.

Great Five-Element Divine Light

A self-created technique that perfectly unifies metal, wood, water, fire, and earth into a single divine light 48 51.

• Draws surrounding elemental energy toward him and grants powerful control over all five elements 51.
• Uses Five-Colored Stone Gloves to make elemental currents easier to control 51.
• Can be maintained for approximately three minutes without a Soul Core 51.
• Tianjun anticipates that increasing cultivation alone will not extend that duration, because both its power and consumption rise together 51.

Martial Soul Fusion

Tianjun and Ye Guyi perform Dark Qilin Commands Radiance and Decrees Heaven’s Judgment, combining ultimate darkness with sacred light 53.

• Doubles the strength of his domain and introduces sacred light within it 53.
• Purifies captive Beast Souls and kills the Evil Soul Saints Zhongli Di and Zhongli Ren 53.
• Allows both partners to absorb cultivation gains obtained through purification 53.
• Tianjun also displays a fusion response with Zhang Lexuan, but no completed named fusion skill with her is documented 44 45.

Healing and Soul Knowledge

Tianjun applies attribute suppression and refinement to injuries, curses, and martial-soul disorders 12 16 22 46.

• Uses Qilin Demon Flame to burn away the evil phoenix and dragon power lodged in Yu Yuanjue, while his grandfather suppresses the hostile energy 16 19.
• Cleanses the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade’s curse, exposing its restorative life energy 22.
• Advises Jing Hongchen to channel Meng’s poisonous power into suitable soul bones; warns that capacity is limited and head or torso bones would be dangerously risky 12.
• Becomes Electrolux’s student and receives his agreement to teach Purifying Flame for combating the abuse of souls 51.

Soul Engineering and Practical Skills

Tianjun studies soul tools as support for his martial abilities rather than pursuing complete engineering mastery 34 56.

• Becomes a Level 2 Soul Engineer in three months 36.
• Develops civilian thermal lamps and water heaters, displayed at the academy’s new-semester ceremony 56.
• Focuses primarily on civilian and melee applications 56.
• Uses maps, illustrated beast references, habitat knowledge, and route planning in his Far North guiding work 11.
• Develops beginner swordsmanship through repeated sparring with Ji Juechen 45.
• Studies recipes himself because his sect and Dragon City lack food-type Soul Masters 33.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Evil God Wings — External soul bone produced by refining the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Evil God Pearl 24.
• Dark Gold Terrorclaw palm bones — Absorbed under ultimate-metal suppression; intended to strengthen his explosive attacks and combine with Sky-Rending Slash 54.
• Red Dust Protection — Jing Hongchen’s Level 9 triggered defensive soul tool, usable without cultivation restrictions. Helps Tianjun and Xiaoying survive Yan Shaozhe’s final attack 13 26.
• Sun Moon Formless — Level 9 defensive and concealment tool; when fully charged, automatically blocks two powerful attacks 36.
• Mortal Dust Hundred Forms — Level 6 disguise tool that hides appearance and soul-power fluctuations. Soul Masters below Soul Douluo cannot detect the concealed aura; Titled Douluos can see through it immediately 12.
• Five-Colored Stone Gloves — Provided by Kong Deming; help stabilize elemental currents during five-element fusion 48 51.
• Void Emblem — One-use Level 9 teleportation device obtained from Xiao Hongchen in exchange for a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear left-arm bone 41.
• Blade of Life’s Watch — The cleansed Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade; its life energy restores Tianjun’s and Yu Yuanjue’s vitality 22.
• Royal tokens — Personal tokens from Vina and Xu Jiujiu, used to challenge the Shrek graduates’ claimed authority in Death Canyon 21 24.
• Level 5 Flying Soul Tool — Meng Hongchen’s farewell gift after her soul hunt 13.
• Level 5 Invincible Shield — Received from Jing Hongchen and later given to Ling Luochen 12 14.
• Black Jade Qilin Core — Vina’s gift, also described as an Ink Jade Qilin inner core; consumed to strengthen his martial soul and awaken Ruinous Devour 21 22.
• Pesticide cultivation supplies — An inexpensive recurring source of refined cultivation resources 1 22 30.

Relationships

Family and Sect

• Yu Xiaokong — Father and Heavenly Dragon Sect master; supports his training and manages visitors while Tianjun meditates 1 17.
• Yu Yuanjue / Thunderclap Douluo — Grandfather and former sect leader. Protects Tianjun’s independence and conceals his achievements; Tianjun’s treatment helps restore his vitality and permits his eventual advancement to Level 97 5 19 22 56.
• Yu Tianlong — Elder brother born of the same mother; Tianjun identifies him as a talented potential future recruit for the Sun Moon academy 11 30.
• Yu Xiaoying — Second uncle and covert protector. Helps secure Tianjun’s fourth ring and sacrifices his right leg to make their escape from Yan Shaozhe convincing 5 23 26.
• Xing Yan — Reckless senior brother, companion, and frequent target of Tianjun’s teasing; interested in soul tools 1 30.
• Nan Qiuqiu — Earth Dragon Sect acquaintance with a romantic interest in him; attempts to catch him during a playful raid on his sect 16.

Friends and Partners

• Ling Luochen — Chosen older sister and guiding partner. Receives a powerful soul bone from him, settles near the sect, and later accompanies him to the Sun Moon academy 10 14 30.
• Vina — Former guiding client, persistent recruiter, and genuine friend. Gives him cultivation resources and a royal token; mourns him after receiving the false report of his death 5 14 21 36.
• Mu Xue — Guiding client and witness to his hidden combat strength; participates in the secrecy bargain during the Luan King battle 4.
• Xu Jiujiu — Star Luo princess seeking ties with him and his sect; offers access to Medical Immortal if his grandfather’s treatment fails 21.
• Meng Hongchen — Former guiding client, close friend, and study companion who openly admires him. Tianjun helps address her poison backlash and supplies the Death Spider Emperor external soul bone for her benefit 12 13 34 36.
• Xiao Hongchen — Competitive study companion and trading partner. Tianjun repeatedly teases him but accepts his challenges and includes him in soul-hunting work 34 36 41.
• Ji Juechen — Study companion and relentless sparring partner; Tianjun guides his sixth-ring hunt 36 45.
• Ye Guyi — Roommate, anti-cult partner, and martial soul fusion partner. Their initially uneasy light–dark association develops into close cooperation 28 44 51 53.
• Zhang Lexuan — Injured Shrek chief disciple whom he brings to safety and treats; shares a martial soul fusion response with him and later becomes an academy librarian 42 45 46 56.
• Han Ruoruo — Recruited as a practical-combat teaching assistant after witnessing his anti-cult battle. Her recruitment includes strict secrecy conditions 53 54 56.
• Nana — Initially investigated as a Holy Spirit Cult mole; becomes an ally after revealing her victimization by the cult and following Ye Guyi 51.

Mentors and Protectors

• Long Xiaoyao — Rescuer and family protector, bound by an old promise to safeguard his teacher’s descendants. Warns Tianjun against joining Evil Soul Masters 26 28.
• Jing Hongchen — Generous former client and academy patron. Provides admission, protection, equipment, and resources in exchange for Tianjun’s help challenging Shrek 12 13 30 56.
• Kong Deming — Senior patron who arranges protection, cultivation resources, specialized tools, and personal guidance without forcing him into engineering 31 48.
• Liao Mengkai — Assigned bodyguard and close-combat instructor; works with Yu Yuanjue to develop Tianjun’s physical and elemental training 33 43 51.
• Electrolux — Teacher residing in his second Sea of Consciousness. Offers purification knowledge and guidance on balancing hatred with attachment to life 51.

Enemies

• Yan Shaozhe — Attempts to kill Tianjun and Xiaoying after their confrontation with Shrek graduates; becomes the central personal target of Tianjun’s revenge 24 25 26.
• Shi Xing, Mo Yun, and Bi Yangde — Shrek graduates who demand access to his martial soul, skills, and soul bone, then pursue him under Yan’s direction. Tianjun ultimately devours Bi Yangde 24 28.
• Holy Spirit Cult — Threatens his family and seeks powers like his; Tianjun actively joins Ye Guyi in attacking its Mingdu branch 1 14 51 53.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Far North Guiding Career

• Rejects Heaven Dou Imperial Academy’s recruitment pitch while guiding Vina’s party, explaining that his sect already supplies strong teachers and resources 3.
• Saves Vina and Mu Xue from Frost Luans, then kills the ten-thousand-year Luan King after securing a million-coin reward and promises of secrecy 3 4.
• Trades the resulting left-arm soul bone for life-energy-rich cultivation resources; Yu Yuanjue takes credit for the kill to conceal his grandson’s strength 5.
• Guides Ling Luochen and Meng Hongchen, expanding his connections across Shrek, the royal family, and the Sun Moon academy 10 11 12.
• Asks Vina to stop paying for positive reviews and restricts future commissions because fame could attract the Holy Spirit Cult 14.

Restoring Thunderclap Douluo

• Burns away the evil phoenix and dragon power lodged in Yu Yuanjue, gaining combat experience and strengthening his own martial soul through refinement 16 19.
• Declines deeper royal cooperation rather than expose his sect to a future war 21.
• Uses the cleansed Blade of Life’s Watch to restore vitality after six months of treatment, giving his grandfather a viable opportunity to advance 22.

Death Canyon and the Break with Shrek

• Hunts the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with Yu Xiaoying and emerges as a Level 43 Soul Ancestor with a ten-thousand-year fourth ring and external soul bone 23 24.
• Rejects Shrek graduates’ demands for inspection and recruitment, using royal tokens to defend his sect’s standing 24.
• Survives Yan Shaozhe’s pursuit through defensive equipment, Darkness Escape, discarded soul bones, and Xiaoying’s self-sacrifice 25 26.
• Receives aid from Long Xiaoyao while outsiders accept the pair’s apparent deaths 26 36.

Refuge in Mingdu

• Enrolls as Jun Tianyu, offering Jing Hongchen two tournament championships in return for safety and cultivation support 30.
• Brings Ye Guyi and Ling Luochen into the academy under negotiated conditions 30.
• Passes political screening and receives individualized study arrangements, broad access to academy facilities, and three study companions 34.
• Defeats Ke Ke and Ju Zi without relying on soul-ring skills, demonstrating elemental control while protecting his opponents 33.

Star Dou Expedition and Zhang Lexuan’s Recovery

• Leads Ji Juechen’s sixth-ring hunt with Xiao Hongchen and Liao Mengkai 36.
• Trades a rare bear soul bone for Xiao’s Void Emblem and reaches Level 46 during the expedition’s aftermath 41.
• Returns home carrying the injured Zhang Lexuan, then travels back to Mingdu with Yu Yuanjue 42 43.
• Uses ultimate metal to begin repairing Lexuan’s martial soul while insisting that his abilities remain secret 46.

Anti-Cult Campaign and Deming Class

• Perfects Great Five-Element Divine Light and becomes Electrolux’s student 51.
• Combines with Ye Guyi to purify Beast Souls and kill the Zhongli brothers at the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu branch 53.
• Recruits Han Ruoruo, absorbs Dark Gold Terrorclaw palm bones, and reaches Level 50 54.
• Arranges academy employment for Han Ruoruo, Zhang Lexuan, and Wu Ming; seeks a custom Level 9 tool for his grandfather 56.
• Accepts the Deming Class monitor position after learning it includes a valuable beast-core reward. His civilian inventions are exhibited at the new-semester ceremony 56.

Notable Quotes

“I'm an idler. I don't much like getting mixed up in disputes. For now, how about I just do the job I'm paid for?” 3

“I'm personally very willing to maintain a lasting friendship with Your Highness, but I can't drag my fellow disciples onto a war chariot because of personal feelings. That would be irresponsible toward their lives.” 21

“When in hardship, perfect yourself; when successful, help all under heaven. That is my creed. If Sun Moon does not fail me, I will not fail Sun Moon.” 34