Shi Feiyang

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Shi Feiyang (时飞阳)
Alias(es)	Long Aoyu, his chosen identity at the Ming court; Shi Zhongyu, a martial-world persona; Long Zhengshuo, used when establishing the Yellow Mountain Sect 100 341 515.
Titles	Black Dragon of Dinghu Peak; Dragon Emperor; Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Perfected One, conferred by Emperor Wanli; Imperial Preceptor of the Great Ming 81 175 291 598.
Assumed identities	Impersonates Yue Yun to enter Emei; later presents an identity modeled on Old Man Withered Bamboo 424 515 523.
Species/Race	Dragon, associated with the Kui Flood Dragon’s inherited body and magical power; later masters genuine human and animal transformations 67 336 409.
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Yu imperial dynasty; Nation of Ten Thousand Demons; Yellow Mountain Sect; Ming imperial court; Ming-Yu Immortal Market 173 296 530 598.
Occupation/Role	Cultivator, Daoist teacher, sovereign, imperial preceptor, scripture compiler, and organizer of immortal markets 173 296 509.
Status	Remains in the earthly realm rather than ascending. His cultivation is later described by an opponent as approaching that of a Golden Immortal 409 755.
Ancestry	Shi clan of Shandong, with ancestral roots in Henan; traces his lineage through the Shang royal line to Emperor Ku and the Yellow Emperor 405.

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Early sword and alchemical cultivation	6	Studies the Lesser Book of Heaven, refines Sikong Xuan’s flying sword, practices underwater swordsmanship, and prepares medicines.
White-dragon body	13	Sheds his black-dragon body after surviving Wei Fengniang’s assault; animates the discarded husk with blood and magic.
Altered water and fire inner cores	43	His spinning cores absorb the Star-Absorbing Orb’s remaining nebula and five-colored flames. Their resulting changes are not yet understood.
Spatial projection mastery	45	Masters the Thousand-Li Courtyard-in-a-Pouch Shrinking Projection spell before refining the Dust-Veiling Banner.
Seven-Bird Divine Art	58	Learns Huang Zhang’s celestial-calculation art and briefly perceives a ring of 360 Heavenly Talismans, without fully understanding it.
Initial human transformation	67	Connects the celestial talismans with the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations. Can alternate between his dragon body and his own former human appearance, but cannot yet imitate others.
Greater access to Guang Chengzi’s inheritance	67	His talisman breakthrough opens the remaining layers of the Heavenly Book Jade Casket. He begins deciphering the final Heavenly Book volume and learns to wield the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Ruler.
Heavenly Demon Body-Refining Great Method	178	Removes E Shengfan’s concealed control incantations and masters the method in thirteen days.
Preliminary All-Heavens Esoteric Demon Great Method	178	Removes another set of possession spells, cultivates without E Shengfan detecting him, and later manifests numerous independent demonic shadows.
Primordial embryo formed	223	Retrospectively explains that maintaining a steadfast heart through a twelve-year demonic illusion enabled this breakthrough. The original advancement chapter is not supplied.
Great Five Elements Annihilation cultivation	262	Uses stored five-elements essence to overcome the art’s usual preparatory requirements. Eighty-one days yield power equivalent to roughly twelve years of ordinary Hesha-lineage cultivation.
Dragon Pearl and divine-flame refinement	287	Uses heavenly Qiantian fire to strengthen the Chaos Dragon Pearl and nourish his Purple-Clear Divine Flame; subsequently tempers treasures with tribulation lightning.
Nearly pure-yang primordial spirit	408	Three years of purification with Purple-Green Tusita Fire and ancient divine oil allow his primordial spirit to gather into human form or disperse into qi. His cultivation is described as Heavenly Immortal-level.
Expanded Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations	409	Can become different people and many animals, change size, and grow additional arms. Insects, plants, and inanimate objects remain beyond him.
Systematic Emei cultivation	424	While impersonating Yue Yun, masters the supplied first third of the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture and the full Lesser Purity Secret Manual within a few months.
School-founding attainment	509	Completes the three-volume Purple Ying Immortal Scripture, integrating his previous studies with the Three Sovereigns Great Way and original techniques. The text identifies this as his emergence as a grandmaster capable of founding a cultivation school.
Cultivation approaching Golden Immortal	755	An opponent assesses his cultivation as approaching this level, while emphasizing that he remains an Earth Immortal because he has not ascended.
Seamless integration of immortal and demonic arts	758	Uses Taiyi Pure Yang Immortal Qi to power supreme secret-demon magic without backlash; can create a needed spell on the spot.

Background / History

Before coming to this world, Shi Feiyang was solitary from childhood, preferred quiet activities, and spent his free time studying numerological divination. His memories include school life, while his later reflections identify his metaphysical knowledge as originating in a later age 191 405.

His arrival placed him in a dragon’s circumstances, with access to the Kui Flood Dragon’s previous three thousand years of magical power. He nevertheless distinguishes instinctively accumulated nonhuman power from the more effective power produced through systematic cultivation 336.

He considers the Yellow Emperor both his ancestor and teacher. The Golden Talisman at Dinghu Peak, Guang Chengzi’s Heavenly Book, and eventually the Haotian Mirror and Nine-Doubt Cauldron form the core of his inheritance of the Three Sovereigns Great Way 405.

His knowledge of the original novel lets him recognize people, reincarnations, treasures, and expected calamities. His interventions also disrupt that expected history, making inherited knowledge an increasingly imperfect guide 190 282 339 530.

Appearance

Shi Feiyang’s human appearance remains youthful despite long periods of cultivation. One later description presents him as eighteen or nineteen, tall and slender, with an ethereal bearing resembling an immortal descended from heaven 576.

• Dragon forms: Appears as a black dragon and, during an early bodily shedding, emerges in a white-dragon form 13 67.
• Human dress: Frequently wears blue-green robes and a jade crown 515 576.
• Later chosen appearance: Models one human form on Old Man Withered Bamboo’s exceptionally handsome physical body 515.
• Adjustable body: Eventually changes appearance, species, size, and number of arms through genuine bodily transformation 409.

Personality

Shi Feiyang is an analytical cultivator who studies a method’s underlying principles before trusting it. He calculates talisman timing under attack, investigates formations rather than blindly striking them, and removes hidden possession mechanisms from demonic scriptures before practicing them 13 43 178. He also conceals his strongest treasures and keeps reserve tactics, making outside assessments of his capabilities unreliable 400.

As a teacher, he is patient, inventive, and attentive to differences between students. Jinxu Nu finds his explanations gentler and more thorough than those of any previous teacher, while Shi repeatedly devises cultivation methods suited to particular bodies and temperaments 93 128 187 235. His care is not always comforting: he deliberately permits hardship and inner trials when he believes protection would impede growth 187 500.

His mercy coexists with calculated ruthlessness. He honors promises to defeated captives and helps vulnerable spirits pursue new lives, but also orders executions, extracts knowledge through torture, and coerces dangerous beings into obedience 58 175 287 416. He judges conduct rather than treating orthodox affiliation or demonic techniques as sufficient proof of righteousness 186 190 325.

He values independence and does not equate generosity with a right to control others’ feelings. His reflections hold that morality should correct oneself rather than become a means of demanding loyalty or love 413. He can nevertheless manipulate pride, attraction, jealousy, and rivalry when assembling useful alliances 516.

Abilities & Skills

Three Sovereigns Great Way

• Core doctrine: Treats the Dao as the source of the universe and living beings, with humanity existing within it rather than apart from it 179.
• Cultivation synthesis: Uses this understanding to integrate ancient scriptures, talisman arts, five-elements methods, and his own discoveries 405 509.
• Teaching: Explains astronomy, calendars, civilization, mythology, and feng shui as connected foundations of spiritual understanding 367.
• Spiritual foundation: Emphasizes understanding the Way and strengthening character rather than relying on techniques or magical power alone 117 339.

Water, Fire, and Five-Elements Arts

• Dual inner cores: Alternates water and fire attacks, creates pincer bombardments, and manifests a large water-and-fire Taiji Diagram 27 43.
• Innate true-yang fire: Counters Old Lady Red Flower’s acquired five-elements flames, although her acquired fire remains more destructive 43.
• Elemental precision: Uses water qi and hail to defeat Wu Qingyang’s hunters without exposing the clam to harmful fire 53.
• Great Five Elements Annihilation: Cultivates Hesha’s advanced art through accumulated elemental resources rather than following its ordinary centuries-long preparation 262.
• Five-Colored Divine Light: Captures or restrains opponents and can inflict severe pain without leaving physical wounds 416 461.
• Five-elements sword qi: Wields powerful pre-heaven and post-heaven sword qi, later using ten streams against Ancestor Haha’s forces 521 527.

Transformation and Spatial Movement

• Genuine bodily transformation: Progresses from recovering his own human appearance to impersonating other people and assuming many animal forms 67 409.
• Infiltration: His transformation into Yue Yun passes Emei’s scrutiny when combined with concealed heavenly calculations 424.
• Size alteration: Can become a small dragon capable of riding in Geng Peng’s hand 43.
• Spatial projection: Uses Thousand-Li Courtyard-in-a-Pouch Shrinking Projection to escape Zheng Yuan Gui 45 53.
• Rapid transport: Carries Lei Xun over a thousand li directly to his sworn brother’s captors 465.
• Recorded limits: At the expanded stage documented in Chapter 409, cannot become insects, plants, or inanimate objects 409.

Divination, Fate Concealment, and Formation Analysis

• Celestial calculation: Identifies the active Golden Seal Heavenly Talisman and uses its protection to neutralize Wei Fengniang’s spells 13.
• Formation analysis: Reads elemental and spatial distortions to locate escape routes; uses sun, moon, and star phantoms while probing hostile formations 43 109.
• Counter-divination: Disrupts numerology, fabricates illusory realms, and reverses yin and yang during his remote contest with Yideng 215.
• False identities in fate: Places his aura and a spirit talisman in a martial hero so sensing and divination identify the hero as Shi Feiyang 339.
• Protective concealment: Masks Zhu Changyuan’s fate before sending him to rescue Bai Guanhong 661.
• Emei formation escape: Uses intimate knowledge of the Two-Polarity Dust-Mote Formation and the Haotian Mirror to disrupt its space-time transformations 424 464.
• Limits: Rival masters can falsify divinatory information; he cannot prevent every calamity or reverse every chain of events 388 530.

Demonic Arts and Spirit Control

• Selective practice: Understands many demonic manuals but leaves most cruel, heaven-offending methods uncultivated, adapting or inventing spells for specific circumstances 220.
• Control-spell removal: Detects and strips E Shengfan’s concealed links to his body and primordial spirit 178.
• Demonic manifestations: Produces independent shadows through the All-Heavens Esoteric Demon Great Method 178.
• Secret Demon Mantra: Addresses enslaved demons directly through their souls and turns their hatred of Yideng into rebellion 220.
• Spirit-Binding Soul-Seizing Great Method: Improvises a technique that reduces five serpent gods’ primordial spirits to tiny obedient forms 512.
• Possession: Temporarily occupies a child’s consciousness to speak remotely, compensating him with immortal qi and bodily cleansing 733.
• Integrated practice: Eventually powers demonic techniques with pure immortal qi without the catastrophic backlash expected for another practitioner 758.

Dao-Heart and Immortal Fire

• Resistance to illusion: Maintains his resolve through a twelve-year demonic illusion; later remains unmoved when a god-demon depicts him as a bloodthirsty killer 223.
• Twelve sparks of immortal fire: Burns god-demons from within and prevents escape, including when their bodies disperse into demonic light 223.
• Tribulation refinement: Draws heavenly fire into his Dragon Pearl and uses lightning to temper weapons rather than merely endure the ordeal 287.
• Yang-spirit manifestation: Can gather his primordial spirit into form or scatter it into qi, though its purification is not yet completely perfected at that stage 408 409.

Swordsmanship and Martial-Arts Compilation

• Multiple traditions: Defeats Yue Yun using sword styles associated with Wutai, Kunlun, Green City, Snow Mountain, Mount Hua, and Emei 416.
• Technique reconstruction: Extracts roughly eighty percent of Yue Yun’s methods, then deduces a more extensive, internally consistent system based on Lianshan’s lineage 419.
• Curriculum design: Expands Bai Qi’s swordsmanship from thirty-six to sixty-four sequences and reorganizes Li Zhenchuan’s palm art around the five elements 349.
• Cross-sect synthesis: Compiles martial repositories for both Wutai and Emei, including mutual counters and cooperative combined-sword techniques 438.
• Earlier limitation: Despite knowing sword arts, he initially lacks ordinary close-combat techniques; superior perception and reflexes compensate against martial-world fighters 341.

Alchemy, Body Reconstruction, and Soul Restoration

• Alchemy: Prepares medicines and refines advanced pills whose fire control requires sustained mental concentration 6.
• Human rebirth: Stabilizes Wu Qingyang’s primordial embryo and places it in a pregnant fisherwoman’s womb, preserving a means for later memory recovery 58.
• Body construction: Rebuilds Fire Wuhai’s body from five-elements essence, using spiritual medicine and Heavenly One True Water 187.
• Transformation guidance: Improves Bai Guanhong’s foundation and prepares elemental materials while protecting him from external demons 237.
• Soul restoration: Separates Chiyou’s shattered spirit from trapped souls and restores more than 1,300 primordial spirits, though many retain damage or memory loss 738.
• Gu removal: Uses captured serpent gods, needles, and a measured poisonous medicine to remove parasites and their remaining eggs from the Wu Zhong Twin Heroes 515.

Treasure Refinement and Scripture Authorship

• Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Swords: Leads a hundred-day forging process, binding 729 demon heads into nine sword blanks with dragon blood, spells, essence qi, and golden flowers from the Primordial Yang Ruler 320.
• Heavenly Palace Treasure Mirror: Refines fifteen captured Heavenly Lust Cult Master incarnations into a shifting nine-palace arrangement they cannot escape 465.
• Taiyi Hunyuan Scripture: Combines Wutai teachings, ancient texts, and his own understanding into a completed scripture 339.
• Purple Ying Immortal Scripture: Produces three volumes containing cultivation methods, spells, and alchemical formulas, each incorporating his own contributions 509.
• Treasure redesign: Reforges the Zhoutian Cosmic Light Disc with Guang Chengzi’s Compass and converts dangerous explosive components into five elemental beads 409.

Heavenly Dragon Eight Tones

• Long-range performance: His zither music follows Han E for more than a thousand li, although its actual target is the coastal crisis to the east 664.
• Coastal defense: Breaks waves and storms and disperses wind-and-rain attacks from Chiyou’s engineered sea demons 664.
• Mirror amplification: Through the Haotian Mirror, spreads heavenly music across tens of thousands of miles to disperse falling flames, light, and frozen qi 684.

Power and Attainment Limits

• Magical power is not cultivation rank: The narrative explicitly distinguishes spiritual attainment from accumulated combat power 156.
• Inherited power is inefficient: His dragon’s three thousand years of instinctive power do not equal three thousand years of human cultivation 336 377.
• Uneven assessments: Chapters 408–409 describe Heavenly Immortal-level cultivation and a formed yang spirit, while a later comparison places his Elixir Dao cultivation outside the Heavenly Immortal threshold and below Li Jingxu. These are not presented as a simple sequence of named realm promotions 408 409 569.
• Earthly classification: Refusing ascension leaves him an Earth Immortal even when his abilities approach higher levels 409 755.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Core Treasures

• Golden Seal Heavenly Talismans / Zhou Tian Golden Talisman — Foundation of his celestial understanding; provides timed spell protection and contributes to transformation and scripture decipherment 13 67 405.
• Water and fire inner cores — Early combat instruments that later absorb the Star-Absorbing Orb’s nebula and five-colored flames 27 43.
• Chaos Dragon Pearl / Primordial Chaos Dragon Pearl — Strengthened through tribulation fire; later used with the Haotian Treasure Mirror to sort Chiyou’s shattered spirit and trapped souls 287 738.
• Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Ruler — Ancient treasure recovered from the Heavenly Book Jade Casket; wards off demons, supports sword refinement, and removes mystic yin poison 67 237 320 461.
• Haotian Mirror / Haotian Treasure Mirror — Suppresses artifacts, breaks spells, reveals cosmic workings, and disrupts hostile space-time transformations. Shi regards it as the most important treasure gained from the Sacred Mausoleum expedition 408 409 464.
• Nine-Doubt Cauldron — Captures opponents and drains their power with primordial chaos qi. Its chaos core is a surviving seed of creation capable, in principle, of generating a universe 408 416 461.
• Zhoutian Cosmic Light Disc — Alters yin and yang, disorders the five elements, and creates false celestial and divinatory signs; later combined with Guang Chengzi’s Compass 400 409.
• Dongling Zither — Destructive musical treasure used in a specially warded chamber during early study and later for large-scale defense 45 684.

Other Notable Possessions

• Iron Umbrella / Primordial Umbrella — Uses 360 talismans to imprison Deng Bagu in an overwhelming illusion; later receives tribulation lightning 117 287.
• Three Suns One Qi Sword — Greater Yang, Middle Yang, and Lesser Yang swords linked by one qi; a major personal weapon eventually given to Qiu Yuan 223 468.
• Nine Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Swords — Powerful demon weapons whose forging also becomes spiritual training for his helpers 320.
• Heavenly Book Jade Casket — Holds ancient scriptures, pills, and the Primordial Yang Ruler; also serves as storage for collected spiritual creatures 67 235.
• Dust-Veiling Banner — Spatial treasure obtained among Lady Baoxiang’s possessions and refined after mastering its associated spell 45.
• Yu’s Cauldron and Great Yin Earth Net — Retrieves the net from Wild Goose Lake and uses stored cauldron water to restore the lake; shelters three Azure Flood Dragons inside the cauldron 81.
• All-Heavens Mystic-Demon Divine Lamp — Refined through Yideng’s reconstructed spirit-body; later used to control Yue Yun and train him through demonic illusion 228 462 464.
• Heavenly Palace Treasure Mirror — Seals captured Heavenly Lust Cult Master incarnations in an ordered formation 464 465.
• Green Bamboo Staff — Formerly Six Roots Purity Bamboo, later refined by Old Man Withered Bamboo into taiyi azure spirit bamboo; protects Shi against formidable sword qi 521.
• Heavenly Heart Rings — Paired communication treasures linking him with Shi Sheng after ascension; Shi retains the yang ring and Shi Sheng carries the yin ring 657 695 696.
• Xuanyuan Nine Swords — Secures them after the Savage Mountain conflict and later promises them to Shi Zhu 465 509.
• Blood God Scripture’s Good Book — Holds an unexplained connection with the Evil Book possessed by Deng Yin 523.
• Haotian Mirror relinquishment — During the Yi family crisis, permits Gu Chen to take the mirror while intervening to protect people and prevent a larger catastrophe 614.

Relationships

Disciples and Dependents

• Lin Han — Formal male disciple and senior successor figure. Shi creates the small river chariot method for him and later appoints him teacher to Tang Shi and Sui Yin 88 493.
• Shi Sheng — Formal male disciple chosen for exceptional aptitude and karmic connections. After ascending, gathers heavenly intelligence and maintains secret contact with his master 125 468 696.
• Xiong Manniang — Eldest female disciple. Shi values her solid Mystic Sect foundation and eventually requires three years of yang-spirit purification before ascension 117 657.
• Deng Bagu — Second female disciple, accepted after her voluntary surrender. Receives healing, cultivation correction, and guidance for surviving tribulation 117.
• Jinxu Nu — Formal nonhuman disciple deeply attached to Shi’s patient teaching. Entrusted with the Heaven and Earth Creation Furnace when repeated encouragement to ascend makes him fear rejection 128 468 657.
• Yuan Hua — Formal nonhuman disciple; later instructed to select a site for Chiyou’s palace and War God Temple 468 738.
• Fire Wuhai — Formal nonhuman disciple whose flawed cultivation Shi corrects before reconstructing his body 186 187 468.
• Qiu Yuan — Named his final disciple at the time of acceptance; receives the Three Suns One Qi Sword and sustained personal training 468 500.
• Shi Zhu — Later accepted as a disciple despite their hostility in his previous life. Shi sets aside the old grudge and promises him the Xuanyuan Nine Swords 500 509.
• Bai Guanhong — Stone silkworm spirit whom Shi hatched and helped transform. Regards Shi almost as a father, but resents not being treated as a son or direct disciple 237 515.
• Mo Zhui — Described as Shi’s child. Shi searches for him and supports the imperial recognition of his White Yang Kingdom 468 493.
• Han E — Calls him “Uncle” and seeks belonging and reassurance from him. Their bond combines teaching, affection, rebellion, and repeated misunderstandings over his protective decisions 367 387 664.

Allies and Associates

• Jiang Shu — Adoptive/sworn brother and one of his most devoted allies. Shi repeatedly guides his cultivation, supplies treasures, and helps restore his foundations; Jiang protects Shi against outside enemies 232 325 387.
• Geng Peng — Rescues him from Old Lady Red Flower’s formation. Shi preserves his frozen body and seeks pills capable of restoring his soul 43 45.
• Wu Qingyang — Eastern Sea acquaintance whom Shi rescues and later helps enter human rebirth 53 58.
• Zhu Zaiyu — Respected scholar and collaborator. Shi approaches him with unusual humility and later works with him to reinforce the Sacred Mausoleum 103 408.
• Xu Feiniang — Former combat opponent turned diplomatic and commercial ally. Advocates cooperation despite the deaths of Wutai disciples and helps establish a Wutai presence in his market 296.
• Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan — Moves from potential avenger to collaborator in scripture study and demon-sword refinement. His later union with Chiyou becomes a danger Shi must address 255 339 387.
• Ni Fangxian — Gains respect for Shi through discussion of the Dao and body reconstruction; allies with him against the Green-Robed Ancestor 240.
• Li Jingxu — Powerful ally whose Elixir Dao attainment exceeds Shi’s in a direct comparison. Later entrusts Qin Yu’s future to him 569 533.
• Shi Longgu — Associate strengthened by his teaching, attracted to him, and repeatedly recruited through her pride and personal rivalries 301 408 468 516.
• Ming emperors — Serve as patrons and political partners. Wanli builds Primordial Yang Palace in his honor; Taichang supports his market; Zhu Yitai welcomes him as Imperial Preceptor 291 293 657.

Rivals and Complicated Bonds

• Deng Yin — Identified as his imprisoned master during the Star Lodge Sea visit; later becomes a sworn brother, ally, rival, and dangerous responsibility. Shi’s friendliness never eliminates his caution about Deng’s power 321 413 523 571.
• Emei Sect — Major rival whose clashes with Shi grow from early attacks and disputed treasures. He infiltrates the sect, later exchanges reconciliation letters, and protects its members because they are needed against the coming calamity 424 534 554 718.
• Yue Yun — Captive and impersonation target whom Shi subjects to coercive control, but also rescues, trains, and grants arts preserving Lianshan’s legacy. Their bond becomes an important bridge to Emei 416 464 533.
• Stone God Princess — Cordial but distrustful associate whose wishes concerning Deng Yin Shi repeatedly refuses or cannot fulfill 530 531 661 738.
• Chiyou — Ancient source of body-refining teachings and later a formidable enemy. After restoring his shattered spirit, Shi appoints him guardian deity and god of war of the Yu Kingdom 93 684 738.
• Ancestor Haha — Long-running enemy whose feud intensifies over the Nine Palaces Divine Swords. Shi eventually kills him permanently 530.
• Old Man Withered Bamboo — Powerful adversary whose earlier defeated incarnation understated his true strength; later submits to Shi 474 493.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Dragon Cultivation and Northern Sea Exile

Shi’s early cultivation combines sword practice, alchemy, talisman study, and his water and fire cores. Against Wei Fengniang, preparation lets him survive poison and recover enough power to shed his dragon body and counterattack 6 13.

After Geng Peng’s intervention against Old Lady Red Flower, Shi settles on Xiuqiong Plain and safeguards his rescuer’s frozen body. Zheng Yuan Gui expels him under a fabricated feng-shui accusation and pursues him beyond the territory; Shi avoids the intended confrontation through spatial escape 43 45 52 53.

In the Northern Sea, he rescues Wu Qingyang, later honors promises to defeated captives, and assists Wu’s human rebirth. His subsequent talisman breakthrough restores access to his original human appearance and opens more of Guang Chengzi’s inheritance 53 58 67.

Disciples, Imperial Contact, and the Yu Dynasty

Returning to Dinghu Peak, Shi discovers that the Golden Flower Church has captured Red Snake and Black Tortoise. After destroying its leadership, he accepts Lin Han and creates a cultivation method suited to him 81 88.

Under the name Long Aoyu, he approaches Emperor Wanli with an offer to heal his legs and stages a spectacular supernatural entrance into the Forbidden City 100. His growing teaching circle includes Xiong Manniang, Deng Bagu, and prospective disciple Shi Sheng 117 125.

He publicly establishes the Yu imperial dynasty at Sun Essence Peak. Its cultivation education accommodates beings with different elemental attributes, while advanced teaching requires individualized guidance in Dao and virtue 173 174.

Wheel-Turning Temple and Demonic Scholarship

Shi learns dangerous demonic arts without accepting their hidden control mechanisms, then employs that knowledge against Revered One Yideng. He coordinates an assault on Wheel-Turning Temple, turns enslaved demons against their master, and personally subdues god-demons with immortal fire 178 215 220 223.

After the victory, he reconstructs Yideng’s spirit into a controlled consciousness-world associated with the All-Heavens Mystic-Demon Divine Lamp 228. His use of demonic methods becomes both a source of rapid strength and a central point of contention with orthodox cultivators 325 336 718.

Immortal Markets and Wutai Cooperation

Shi proposes a temple network to monitor climate and coordinate relief, then develops the Ming-Yu Immortal Market between the capital and Tianjin 291 293.

His Dragon Coin policy seeks to replace gold and silver, influence commerce, and shift wealth toward poorer people. He supplies the emperor with 100,000 coins monthly to encourage adoption, using common necessities and renewable luxury goods to attract different buyers 296.

Xu Feiniang helps turn Wutai grievances into cooperation. Shi forges demon-sword blanks, trades with Chan Master Xiaoyue for the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture, and completes the Taiyi Hunyuan Scripture 296 320 321 339.

Sacred Mausoleum and Treasure Expeditions

Shi delegates his expanding businesses before undertaking a three-year guardianship of the Xuanyuan Sacred Mausoleum. He organizes simultaneous operations at the Yuan River, Western Kongtong, and Ming-Yu Immortal Market as rival masters scramble for treasures and distort divination 367 387 388.

After the expeditions, he rewards contributors, reinforces Bridge Mountain with Zhu Zaiyu, and enters prolonged seclusion. The Haotian Mirror and Nine-Doubt Cauldron deepen his cosmological understanding, while purification and transformation practice substantially expand his abilities 408 409.

Emei Infiltration and Savage Mountain

Shi imprisons Yue Yun, studies his techniques and habits, and uses perfected transformation to enter Emei under his identity. He acquires orthodox teachings and investigates the sect’s defensive formation without approaching its most dangerous region too closely 416 424.

As “Yue Yun,” he establishes a subsidiary monastery, selects eighty-nine recruits, and develops its martial curriculum. He later leads Emei’s forces against Lie Baduo, deliberately directing the pursuit toward Ancestor Haha’s stronghold 438 448.

During the resulting crisis, he admits that he released the demonic threat and drew Emei into danger, arguing that intervention prevented a worse future catastrophe. He ultimately trains and returns Yue Yun, escapes Emei’s formation, and secures the Xuanyuan Nine Swords and many Heavenly Lust Cult Master incarnations 461 464 465.

White Yang Mountain and the Yellow Mountain Sect

Shi rescues Qiu Yuan, accepts him as a disciple, and gives him the Three Suns One Qi Sword. He also quietly offers protection to former followers of cruel demonic masters 468 473 474.

After the White Yang Mountain fighting, he secures the valley, supports Mo Zhui’s recognized kingdom, and places Tang Shi and Sui Yin under Lin Han rather than taking them directly 493.

He later accepts Shi Zhu despite their past-life enmity and completes the Purple Ying Immortal Scripture. Under the Long Zhengshuo identity, his Yellow Mountain Sect activities also become part of a strategy to contain the Five Poisons Cult 509 515 516.

Reconciliation and Responsibility for Demonic Powers

Shi kills Ancestor Haha but recognizes that Chiyou’s return can no longer be stopped. He warns Deng Yin and Chishi Divine Monarch against losing control of demonic power and prepares for the coming calamity 530.

Emei initiates reconciliation. Shi accepts Qin Yu’s care from Li Jingxu and gives Yue Yun arts honoring Lianshan, helping settle old obligations 532 533 534.

His later interventions increasingly address dangers created by earlier bargains and alliances. He protects Emei from Deng Yin’s intended massacre and acts to prevent catastrophic use of the Mystic-Demon Shuttle, without assuming responsibility for every personal feud surrounding it 554 614 640.

Ascension, Dharma Decline, and Soul Restoration

Shi urges disciples toward ascension while arranging ways to preserve their bonds. The Heavenly Heart Rings let him communicate secretly with Shi Sheng, whose heavenly library post provides information about celestial institutions and travel restrictions 657 695 696.

Facing the Dharma Decline Age, Shi develops three possible refuges for Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain and its inhabitants: ascension, relocation to another world, and an independent cave-heaven 696.

He defends the coast against Chiyou’s engineered demons through zither music and later restores more than 1,300 spirits trapped within Chiyou. Rather than destroy the memory-damaged warlord, he assigns him a protective divine role in the Yu Kingdom 664 684 738.

Notable Quotes

“You must not judge superiority by magical power or arrogantly look down on her. Otherwise, you will create another obstacle to your cultivation.”
— To Deng Bagu regarding Xiong Manniang 117

“I truly hope we can be friends and brothers and get along well. I hope you'll conduct yourself properly and not disappoint me.”
— To Deng Yin 413

“I won't hold your past actions against you, and you have forgotten our old grudges. Let us begin anew. Cultivate diligently under my guidance, and I will give you the Xuanyuan Nine Swords.”
— To Shi Zhu 509