Dongfang Minghui

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Dongfang Minghui (东方明惠)
Alias(es)	Qian Minghui; Ninth Young Miss / Ninth Sister; Little Minghui; Little Nine; Little Witch / Shaman. Later referred to as Jian Tong Yao 22 93 189 233 390 549.
Species/Race	Longevity Tribe bloodline; a transmigrator inhabiting Dongfang Minghui’s body 99 285 388.
Gender	Female 21 366.
Affiliation	Dongfang Family; Royal Academy’s Medicine Department; the Longevity Tribe. Closely associated with the Qian Family through Qian Wanyu 26 93 446 549.
Occupation/Role	Doctor before transmigration; certified junior pharmacist/potionist; Situ Hongying’s disciple; healer and medical instructor 32 46 77 105 467.
Spiritual Attribute	Wood-type, characterized by unusually pure, life-infused spiritual energy. After her revival, she is shown cultivating water-type energy 147 189 543.
Status	Alive after being brought back to life; has lost her memories. Qian Wanyu identifies her as her wife, with their wedding ceremony still to come 543 549.
Partner	Qian Wanyu, formerly known as Dongfang Wanyu and addressed by Minghui as “Seventh Sister” 108 549.

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level-two Spirit User	4	Advances from level one using peony essence and a Foundation Stabilizing Pill. Her aura becomes more attractive to low-level plants.
Meridian opening and recovery	21	A medicinal bath, peony stamens, and Purple-Green Grass open three meridians and restore part of her depleted spiritual power. No new realm is confirmed.
Rank-two Spirit Master	32	Advances from rank one while condensing herbs into a pill during her junior-pharmacist assessment. Wanyu guards her breakthrough.
Great Spirit Master	73	Combining eyesight and hand-speed drills with Silver Needle practice triggers a three-day breakthrough. Spiritual power opens acupoints in her hands, and she gains access to the second volume of Goddess Scatters Flowers.
Spirit Warrior	77	An uncontrolled surge restores her exhausted spiritual power and raises her from Great Spirit Master to Spirit Warrior.
Spirit King	77	The same surge immediately carries her into Spirit King, with her power still rising. This is followed by severe backlash; later chapters again identify her as a Great Spirit Master.
Level-five Great Spirit Master	105	The hidden realm’s Life Tree overwhelms her with energy, raising her from level two to level five. The rapid advancement causes severe pain and bleeding; the Heart-Guarding Mirror protects her.
Ninth-level Great Spirit Master	147	Reaches this level while repeatedly suppressing her cultivation. Wanyu assures her that her exceptionally pure spiritual power makes further advancement possible.
Advancement; resulting rank unspecified	271	Pure spiritual energy in elven territory cleanses and widens her meridians. She advances naturally, releasing green light across dozens of miles.
Fifth-level Spirit King	329	Repeated cultivation gains arise from mutually nourishing the Dragon-Trapping Seal over three years.

• The uncontrolled Spirit King surge does not establish a lasting rank: the later Life Tree breakthrough explicitly ends at level-five Great Spirit Master 77 105.
• During dual cultivation in Blade Mountain, Minghui feels capable of another breakthrough but deliberately suppresses it 153.

Background / History

The body’s original owner was the Dongfang Family’s favored Ninth Young Miss, daughter of Second Madam Qin Qin. She had been considered a prodigy before a spiritual-power test at the main family residence. After returning, her temperament changed, and she began tormenting Wanyu and other sisters. Qin Qin’s favored position helped shield her from consequences 93.

The transmigrated Minghui remembers working as a doctor and recognizes her new world as a novel. She initially regards herself as doomed “cannon fodder” and tries to survive by winning the heroine’s goodwill. Her knowledge includes future tragedies, male leads, and family conflicts, but her interventions progressively change the expected plot 5 11 50 77 105.

Her plant affinity is first suspected to connect her to the vanished Longevity Tribe. Sang Ye later recalls sheltering a pregnant tribeswoman a century earlier and recognizes the same aura in Minghui. Records on white silk identify the body’s bloodline as the tribe’s last faint remnant, carrying a duty to kill its betrayers. Minghui struggles with whether inheriting the original owner’s body also obliges her to inherit that responsibility 24 237 285.

Appearance

Minghui’s cultivation progressively makes her complexion fairer and her skin smoother. She later appears in a child-sized form, though the supplied passages do not explain the transformation 40 54 187.

• Changing complexion: Wanyu, Situ Hao, and Bai Lu notice her increasingly striking appearance as her technique improves 40 54.
• Early male disguise: Travels in men’s clothing and is mistaken for Wanyu’s younger brother. She abandons the disguise when the Azure Mist Sect begins searching for a sister-and-brother pair 12 21.
• Pharmacist attire: Receives junior-pharmacist robes and a Medicine Department emblem after certification; her later Potion Master robes have protective functions 32 105.
• Clothing preferences: Shows little concern for her own wardrobe. Wanyu considers pale and bright colors suitable for her lively appearance 87.

Personality

Minghui is timid in danger but rarely quiet about it. Her sharp tongue provokes an attacker even when she cannot summon plants, and her fear of Wanyu initially produces exaggerated flattery, apologies, and attempts to remain constantly nearby. She also uses deception effectively, reversing Lizhu’s scheme and later staging conversations for the Qian Family’s eavesdroppers 2 3 4 132.

Compassion repeatedly overrides her instinct for self-preservation. She defends the Lightning Mouse, insists on rescuing Nan Nan, comforts the aggressive Blue Star Dream, and treats people who have been hostile toward her. She is particularly attentive to plants, children, and injured companions 11 22 24 446 475.

Her confidence develops through practice rather than effortless expertise. She experiments with unfamiliar potion techniques, trains for at least ten hours a day, and accepts the Little Beans’ humiliating victories as evidence that she needs better survival skills. By her departure from the Cass Tribe, she can express gratitude without accepting confinement as the price of others’ kindness 32 71 73 467.

In love, she is shy but increasingly possessive. She refuses Wei Junlan’s proposal to restore Wanyu’s original romance plot, explicitly confesses her exclusive affection, and later worries about providing suitable betrothal gifts 105 108 366.

Abilities & Skills

Plant Communication

• Communicates with ordinary vegetation and intelligent spirit herbs, learning their medicinal properties directly from them 4 24 242.
• Negotiates for leaves, stamens, seeds, and flower cores without destroying the plants 4 13 24.
• Uses plants to locate herbs, obtain local information, find routes, and restrain opponents 13 24 428 470.
• Befriends Blue Star Dream by understanding its loneliness rather than forcing it into submission 24.
• Her soothing aura attracts child immortal bodies so strongly that they regard her as one of their own 237.
• The gift can expose her unusual heritage; Wanyu recognizes that public knowledge of it could endanger her 24.

Medicine and Diagnosis

• Uses life star grass to stop bleeding and clear bruises, recording its properties on the mountain cave’s wall 12.
• Identifies mild poisoning through questioning and examination, defeating Xu Lian’s incorrect diagnosis during certification 32.
• Sends wood-type spiritual power into a consenting patient’s body to examine organs, meridians, and internal damage 233 436 467.
• Detects that another person’s protective spiritual power is obstructing Qian Mo’s treatment 237.
• Recognizes Lance’s apparent death as possible suspended animation and proposes the Night Fox Clan’s War Song as a means of reaching him 465.
• Treats living-dead beast bites and explains that untreated injuries can drain spiritual power and eventually destroy reason 481.
• Compiles illustrated medical notes and trains apprentices to identify herbs safely 467.

Potion and Pill Refinement

• Learns to balance strong and weak herbal energies through trial and error; combining excessively strong energies causes eruptions 32.
• Produces Marrow-Cleansing Pills that stir Li Yunan’s long-stagnant spiritual power and alleviate his hidden injuries 50.
• Uses Love Blossom’s knowledge to find a Swallowing Silkworm and awaken a patient drugged with three-day drunk 60.
• Records black-mist experiments and distinguishes devouring dark-type energy from gentler dark energy 99.
• Restores Toothless’s forepaws, but cannot initially reproduce the treatment because the plant materials may have mixed together. She later states that the cure consumed a rare Love Blossom seed 103 105.
• Formal potion formulas remain an early weakness; she delegates a tournament brewing round to Liu Qi 60.

Goddess Scatters Flowers and Projectile Techniques

• Flying Leaves: Channels spiritual energy through leaves to cut targets; sustained training eventually lets her cut through a log 48 50 52.
• Silver Needles: Combines spiritual power with improved eyesight and hand speed. Opening hand acupoints strengthens the technique 73.
• Precision disabling: Immobilizes twenty bronze soldiers by striking their joints after studying their movements 149.
• Poisoned projectiles: Uses poisoned needles and poison darts alongside vines and Man-Eating Grass 175 179.
• Technique progression: Must master the first essential formula before proceeding to the second 39 73.

Life-Infused Energy and Blood

• Her spiritual power is unusually pure and carries vitality capable of calming chaotic energy inside Wanyu 147 189.
• During their confrontation with Meng Yixiao’s possessing soul, her energy and blood help drive him from Wanyu’s body 189.
• Her vitality opposes extreme yin energy during the inheritance crisis 395.
• Feeds Ghost-Face Fruit drops of blood essence to raise it as Little Sprout 179.
• Uses her blood together with her uncle’s and medicinal herbs in the Dragon God’s treatment 436.
• The medicinal value of her blood also makes her a potential target for exploitation 342.

Dual Cultivation

• Merges spiritual power with Wanyu to restore energy and support advancement 153 337.
• Helps clear black mist from Wanyu’s soul sea and calm her violent emotions 85.
• During the possession crisis, their cooperation extends to merging substantial portions of their soul seas 189.
• Their linked power also helps them break free of glowworm-induced hallucinations 175.

Survival, Disguise, and Cooking

• Trains with Thieving Hands and the Little Beans in speed, eyesight, concentration, obstacle navigation, and escape 73.
• Uses Love Blossom to conceal her presence, though this encourages risky confidence about infiltrating the Blood Fiend Alliance 85.
• Employs disguise, bluffing, and bargaining when stronger opponents prevent direct confrontation 94 132 429.
• Uses food to attract Ding Ding, earn the Cass Tribe’s War Beasts’ loyalty, and establish rapport with unfamiliar communities 428 465.
• Cooking Flood Dragon meat unexpectedly strengthens some fire-aligned dragons while weakening others whose attributes are incompatible 429.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Peony-shaped Spatial Ring — Wanyu’s gift; holds approximately fifteen cubic meters and recognizes Minghui through a blood imprint 23.
• Compartmentalized storage spaces — Keeps medicines, Toothless, and Love Blossom separately to prevent fighting and organize supplies 60.
• Junior Potionist jade token — Records her spirit-stone balance and identifies her profession with a medicinal-herb emblem 46.
• Silver Needles and jade belt — Carries concealed needles in the belt, using them to escape an attempted drowning 65.
• Heart-Guarding Mirror — Elder Feng’s gift, which merges with her body. While she cultivates, it returns incoming force at twice its strength; its protection is weaker in ordinary combat 105 153.
• Hidden-realm Jade Token — Given by Situ Hongying, who entrusts her with protecting the realm containing the enormous Life Tree 105.
• Silk-Cloth Fan — A defensive weapon equipped with traps, selected from the Qian Family armory 154.
• Soul-Yin Grass Imprint — Guides her toward hidden fruits and absorbs extreme yin energy 388 395.
• Dragon Queen’s token — Retained as a gift and a lasting connection to the Dragonfolk 446.
• Light-Soul Bell — Obtained from Chu Lingge and later worn at her waist while she investigates its workings 480 484.
• Medicine notebook — Carefully compiled, illustrated formulas and ingredient guidance passed to Halin before leaving the Cass Tribe 467.

Relationships

• Qian Wanyu — Initially the heroine Minghui fears and tries to appease; becomes her protector, cultivation partner, lover, and wife. Minghui explicitly confesses, “I like you. Only you,” and receives family approval for their relationship 5 108 366 549.
• Qin Qin — The original body’s mother and the Dongfang Family’s Second Madam. Shows strong maternal concern; later recovered memories suggest she knew Wanyu’s identity and tried to keep the original Minghui away from her 2 366.
• Dongfang Lizhu — Fourth sister and early rival. Minghui reverses her scheme, leaving Lizhu implicated in a scandal and ordered to marry Young Master Lai as a concubine 3 4.
• Cui’er — Personal attendant who fetches help, gathers plants, and guards Minghui’s cultivation 2 4.
• Situ Hongying — Medicine Department dean and formal master. Recognizes her talent, defends her against accusations, and entrusts her with the hidden medicinal realm 30 79 105.
• Thieving Hands and the Little Beans — Mentors and training partners who expose the limitations of her speed and precision. Her formal apprenticeship remains under discussion during her recovery 73 74 79.
• Little Color / Chubby Doll — Contracted demon-plant companion, adviser, and combat support. Their bond can transmit the consequences of Little Color’s exhaustion to Minghui; Little Color originally chose her partly for her blood 20 21 179 342.
• Love Blossom — Spirit-plant companion with extensive herbal knowledge, concealment abilities, and rare medicinal seeds 60 85 105.
• Toothless / Xuan’er — Dragonfolk companion raised with maternal care. Protects Minghui, calls her “Mother,” and eventually accepts their separation to fulfill her own responsibilities among the Dragonfolk 390 436 446.
• Pig Immortal Grass — Intelligent, manipulative companion and adviser. Helps save her from Mei Wu’s trap but refuses to explain its history with Xiu Qi 103 366 390.
• Ding Ding — Longevity Cauldron’s weapon spirit, which calls her “Little Nine.” She feeds, supervises, and disciplines it, recognizing the danger of a childlike spirit wielding enormous power 390 396 481.
• Little Chubby and Little Sprout — Creatures Minghui regards as children she has raised. She nurtures Little Sprout and seeks treatment for its baleful energy 179 480 486.
• Qian Yiling and Lance — Wanyu’s parents, who welcome Minghui into their family. Yiling asks her to call her “Mother”; Minghui later calls Lance “Father” and works to preserve his failing life 253 366 467.
• Qian Ziyan / Blockhead — Living Dead patient who initially recognizes only Minghui. She protects the secret of his condition and pursues a cure with the Qian Family’s support 134.
• Wei Junlan — Fellow transmigrator whose desire to restore the original plot conflicts with Minghui’s attachment to Wanyu. Minghui later discovers that Junlan is a woman disguised as a man 105 108.
• Nan Nan and Nan Fei — Friends she helps after arriving in Snow Capital. Obtains a path toward treating Nan Fei’s poisoned meridians; his long-standing affection later yields to acceptance of her marriage 22 40 549.
• Situ Hao — Secures her herb-attendant position after she befriends Blue Star Dream, then accompanies her on dangerous herb-gathering and training journeys 24 26 40.
• Yong Xing — Friend whose painful experiences with Xu Lian make Minghui’s insistence on treating him as a genuine companion meaningful 32.
• Liu Qi and Bai Lu — Medicine Department teammates. Liu Qi contributes reliable brewing skills and later repairs their strained trust; Bai Lu repeatedly insults and sabotages Minghui 54 60 65.
• Xuanzhu — Mischievous ally involved in the Thieving Hands recruitment scheme. Later becomes a medical collaborator and traveling companion 71 73 237 481.
• Mu Sheng and Lü Xing — Loyal companions. Mu Sheng assists her medical work and admires her healing; Minghui seeks an elf-route map to help Lü Xing return home 253 460 481.
• Lien — Rescues him after the teleportation accident despite their language barrier; later discovers his connection to Qian Ying’s inheritance 189 388.
• Lila and Halin — Cass Tribe apprentices. Minghui leaves them her knowledge and instructs them to cooperate rather than undermine one another 467.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Minghui’s role
Dongfang household	Conceals Wanyu’s abilities, reverses Lizhu’s plot, begins cultivating her plant affinity, and prepares to accompany Wanyu rather than await the revenge she expects 2 3 4 5.
Mountain training and the Azure Mist Sect	Encourages Mu Qing and Wang Fei’s marriage, develops practical healing skills, disappears during the extraordinary storm, and later refuses to abandon Wanyu during Mu Qing’s attack. The battle leaves her unconscious for ten days 11 12 13 20 21.
Royal Academy admission and certification	Gains entry through her success with Blue Star Dream, starts as a herb attendant, defeats Xu Lian’s accusation, and earns junior-pharmacist certification 24 26 30 32.
Nan Fei’s treatment and valley expedition	Accepts the dangerous mission to obtain Passion Flower Seeds because her plant affinity makes her uniquely suited to gather them 40.
Selection tournament and attacks	Leads the Medicine Department team despite Bai Lu’s sabotage. Repeated abductions and assassination attempts push her toward intensive training with Thieving Hands 52 60 65 71 73.
Backlash and recovery	Suffers paralysis and loss of speech after an uncontrolled power surge. Cultivation beneath the stars gradually restores movement, speech, and the ability to stand 77 79.
Blood Fiend Alliance and romantic commitment	Investigates its spirit herb and the Heaven-Mixing Pill formula, rejects efforts to redirect Wanyu toward male leads, becomes Situ Hongying’s disciple, and openly confesses her love 85 105 108.
Qian Family and Blade Mountain	Treats Qian Ziyan, reunites with Wanyu, adapts her needles to mechanical soldiers, and supports Wanyu through family politics and the inheritance expedition 134 149 153 154.
Inheritance crisis and displacement	Guards Wanyu, helps expel Meng Yixiao’s possessing soul, waits a year for the inheritance to finish, and is separated from Wanyu by a faulty Teleportation Array 175 187 189.
Beastfolk and Longevity origins	Rescues Lien, establishes a reputation as a healer, treats Qian Mo, and confronts evidence that she carries the Longevity Tribe’s surviving bloodline and obligations 189 219 233 237 285.
Dragon-Trapping Valley	Is confirmed to have taken on the Dragon-Trapping Seal to help save Wanyu. Their reciprocal nourishment repeatedly strengthens her, while the valley’s memory and time mysteries remain unresolved for years 314 329 353.
Dragonfolk Territory	Helps retrieve and reunite the Soul-Separation Mirror, bargains for her companions’ release, treats the Dragon God, and confronts Kehan’s betrayal. His identification of her as Xiang Jun remains a disputed identity claim 428 429 436 446.
Lance and the Cass Tribe	Identifies Lance’s suspended animation, trains tribal apprentices, leaves despite increasing surveillance, and begins treatment for his severely depleted life force 465 467.
Kindhearted Town and the Exorcists	Defends the distinction between dark-type power and evil, seeks help for Little Sprout, and establishes a treatment shelter that grows to roughly a hundred patients 480 481.
Return to the Qian Family	Researches treatments while threatened by Master Mo, attempts to escape confinement out of concern for Wanyu, and helps treat women recovered from a hidden cave 507 514 518.
Elf Heart pursuit	Is abducted through Shan Qi under Wenren Liangzhi’s coercion. Wanyu questions why Minghui remains a target when he already holds Second Madam Qin Qin 537.
Revival and marriage	Is brought back to life after a seven-month effort, retaining cultivation talent but losing her memories. Wanyu subsequently calls her her wife and promises a future wedding at the Qian Family estate 543 549.

Notable Quotes

“I like you. Only you.”
— Her confession to Qian Wanyu 108

“The fact that I’m your team leader. If I say we concede, we concede.”
— Defending her strategic decision during the Medicine Department tournament 60

“Thank you for today. Once I’ve gone, let them go. If they hurt you, tell me, and I’ll avenge you.”
— Speaking to the trees that restrained her opponents 470