Duan Yuxian

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Duan Yuxian grew up in True Martial Hall and cultivated from childhood under its Hall Master. As his most prized pupil and the successor to the True Martial Inheritance, she became well known among the younger generation of cultivators. At a sword tournament, selected Giant Qu Door disciples could not withstand three of her moves, while their senior disciple fell in fewer than ten 51 63 66.

She is the same age as Su Tingxue but entered school a year earlier. She passed the entrance examination for Chang'an University specifically to make visiting Su Tingxue easier. Her master preferred that she remain in the sect to cultivate, so she persuaded him that university would help her understand modern society 55 88.

During summer vacation, she used Su Tingxue’s duel invitation to secure an early departure from Wudang Mountain. She had Su send a misleading three-day deadline, deleted the messages explaining their arrangement, and showed the remaining chat to her master. Her suitcase, sword, and high-speed rail ticket were already prepared before he granted permission 55.

Appearance

Duan Yuxian is nearly five feet seven inches tall, with delicate features, long, straight jet-black hair, and an upright, striking bearing 60 62.

• Eyes: Bright and expressive, often the only visible part of her face beneath her mask 60 76 97.
• Public demeanor: Cool and reserved; her bearing resembles Su Tingxue’s 51 76.
• Usual accessories: A face mask and a large guitar bag concealing her sword 60 61.
• Clothing: Practical sportswear for her duel and a bright yellow uniform while delivering takeout 76 107.
• After Foundation Establishment: Zhou You notices that her skin appears fairer and more delicate 83.

Personality

Duan Yuxian’s aloof public image contrasts sharply with her private behavior. Around Zhou You, she lounges on his bed, plays games, enjoys snacks, and repeatedly seeks refuge from the rooftop heat in his air-conditioned bedroom. She is genuinely reserved with strangers, but her carefully maintained image hides a much livelier personality 55 60 63 64 76.

She is competitive and actively seeks opponents. She considers Su Tingxue the only worthy rival among their generation and is more interested in discussing their relative strength than continuing a game. Her confidence rests on her inheritance and swordsmanship, though she reassesses her chances after learning that Su Tingxue’s Heavenly Eye has evolved 55 64.

Keeping promises matters to her. Even after losing her entire living allowance, she insists on paying Zhou You the thousand yuan she offered for his spell demonstration. She is also quick-witted and protective of her reputation, inventing explanations for her secret lodging and disguising her familiarity with him 61 62 77 83 109.

Her response to Guoguo reveals both compassion and fierce anger. She holds the hungry ghost despite being bitten, promises to reunite her with her mother, and later risks her life to defeat the man responsible for her suffering 90 92.

Abilities & Skills

True Martial Sword Technique

Her principal combat art combines graceful movements with lethal precision 64.

• Defeated elite sword cultivators at the same level in very few exchanges 66.
• Uses a single sword to counter varied talisman attacks rather than matching them with separate techniques 79.
• Gains the force of spirit her master considered lacking when she confronts Yu Haochen with genuine killing intent 92.
• Her first life-or-death victory leaves her temporarily weaker than an ordinary mortal from exhaustion 93.

Sword Qi

Duan Yuxian attained Sword Qi before Foundation Establishment, then substantially improved its strength and control during her breakthrough 79 80 81.

• Spell destruction: Cuts fireballs into fragments and tears apart talisman-generated attacks 79 80.
• Lightning severing: Bisects Yu Haochen’s Thunderbolt Lightning Pythons and shatters his Sheling Evil Thunder 91 92.
• Bone-Drilling Sword Qi: Invades a wound, causes marrow-piercing pain, and shreds regenerating flesh to prevent limb reattachment 92.
• Fine control: Condenses a tiny wisp at her fingertip to open a Mystery Box 109.

True Martial Breathing Method

A closely guarded inner-disciple technique said to have been passed down by the True Martial Emperor. It aids cultivation, suppresses inner demons, and tempers the Dao heart 75.

• Calms her after losing her living allowance 61.
• Helps her control guilt and embarrassment while maintaining her public persona 75 76 81.
• Works alongside her footwork during close pursuit 80.
• Her breakthrough’s decisive tranquility comes from her own state of mind, not the breathing method 80.

Movement and Defense

• Black Emperor Heaven-Treading Steps: Used to pursue Su Tingxue and evade attacks she cannot cut apart 80.
• Agility: Climbs a poplar tree and silently leaps onto Zhou You’s rooftop 62.
• Sword Flight: Masters her first flight with apparent ease; Foundation Establishment divine sense allows her to ride an object through the air 94.
• Gang qi protection: Withstands a direct Heavenly Lightning Talisman strike without injury, although it severely drains her spiritual power 80.

Martial Instruction and Cultivation Knowledge

She has read the entire scripture library of True Martial Hall and recognizes techniques such as Sheling Evil Thunder 89 92.

• Identifies cultivators through changes in posture, breathing, and gait 60.
• Teaches Zhou You broadly applicable force-generation techniques, breathing adjustments, and punches and kicks without initially sharing the sect’s inheritance 65.
• Avoids teaching him hastily learned sword moves, explaining that poorly mastered techniques could hinder him in combat 65.
• Recognizes the possibility of a ghost domain and recommends searching for its attachment object as an alternative to destroying the apartment 89.
• Explains the recorded battle between White Rainbow Dao Lord and Demon Venerable Guiji 75.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Spirit Sword — A three-foot blade with two phoenixes engraved on each side of its ridge; a phoenix carved into the hilt holds the guard in its beak. Used for sword techniques, Sword Qi, and flight 61 94.
• Guitar bag — Conceals and carries her sword; the weapon can fly directly from it into her hand 55 77.
• Face mask — Hides her recognizable face while she investigates Zhou You, undertakes commissions, and works 60 88 97 107.
• Rooftop tent and bedding — Supplied with Zhou You’s help after she becomes penniless; heat and heavy rain repeatedly drive her indoors 62 63 69.
• True Martial Combat Method — A disciple-only cultivation book she secretly places in Zhou You’s Mystery Box and subsequently offers to teach him 109.

Relationships

• Zhou You — Secret host, martial student, and fellow investigator. He provides lodging and food after his Poverty Ghost Ability consumes her allowance. She admires his talent and hopes to bring him into the True Martial Inner Sect as her junior martial brother 61 62 65 88 109.
• Su Tingxue — Close friend and favored rival. Duan Yuxian chooses Chang'an University partly to visit her, but conceals both her poverty and her acquaintance with Zhou You. Su Tingxue wins their duel after both reach Foundation Establishment 55 62 76 81 83.
• Daoist Southern Dipper / True Person Nandou — Master and Hall Master. Gives her a hundred-thousand-yuan semester allowance, insists on summer cultivation, and rejects her proposal to run an internet cable through the sect-protecting formation 55 58 61 81 108.
• Chu Xiaoyao — Zhou You’s deskmate and founder of the Carefree Sect. Lends her Ghost-Seeing Glasses; later meets her under the identity “Su Xian,” supposedly Zhou You’s new neighbor 76 107.
• Nuomi — A vengeful ghost whom she initially sees through borrowed glasses. Duan Yuxian’s enthusiasm for Nuomi’s cooling chill makes the ghost wary of her 76 77.
• Sun Cheng — A devoted fan who credits her tournament performance with restoring his confidence. His order for 520 lemon teas overwhelms her first workplace and helps prompt her resignation 66 97 98.
• Guoguo and Fang Qi — Hungry-ghost daughter and vengeful-ghost mother whom she helps reunite. Assists Zhou You in sealing them together and placing Guoguo’s remains beside her mother 90 93.
• Yu Haochen — Enemy responsible for exploiting Guoguo’s suffering. She defeats him in her first life-or-death battle, but he escapes through a Witchcraft Puppet 92 93.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Poverty Ghost Demonstration and Secret Lodging

• Tracks Zhou You down to investigate the unusual spell Su Tingxue described and offers a thousand yuan for a demonstration 58 60.
• Demands a full-strength attempt after failing to detect the spell. The resulting purchases consume her hundred-thousand-yuan semester allowance 61.
• Cannot request replacement funds without exposing her earlier deception to her master, so she accepts a rooftop tent above Zhou You’s home 61 62.
• Repeatedly enters his bedroom for air conditioning and shelters there during a storm, keeping her presence hidden from his mother and Su Tingxue 63 69 70.

Duel with Su Tingxue

• Coaches Zhou You before his confrontation with one of her fans 64 65.
• Rehearses pretending to meet him for the first time so Su Tingxue will not discover their secret acquaintance 75 76 83.
• Seeks a thousand-yuan prize to repay her debt, breaks through midbattle, but loses when Su Tingxue immobilizes her with a talisman 80 81.
• Accepts the public announcement of her narrow defeat. When footage of the battle appears online, she proposes seeking sect assistance and hiring paid posters to divert attention 83.

Guoguo Investigation

• Accompanies Zhou You on a commission under the alias Su Xian and becomes trapped with him in an apartment’s ghost domain 88 89.
• Witnesses Guoguo’s final memories and learns that the child starved while waiting for her mother 90.
• Defeats Yu Haochen despite his greater experience at Foundation Establishment, then helps reunite and jointly bury mother and daughter 92 93.
• Tries Sword Flight for the first time when the late hour leaves them without a bus home 94.

Work and Recruitment

• Takes a job at Herbal Medicine Milk Tea to support herself and repay Zhou You, but quits after one exhausting day making more than five hundred drinks 97 98.
• Begins delivering takeout and continues using the Su Xian identity when meeting Chu Xiaoyao 101 107.
• Secretly replaces Zhou You’s Mystery Box spirit stone fragment with the True Martial Combat Method. She offers instruction, hoping his talent will persuade her master or martial uncle to admit him to the inner sect 109.

Notable Quotes

“It's not that I suck! My internet's just awful!” 55

“I keep my word.” 62

“Tingxue, forgive me. This time, I have a reason I can't lose.” 80

“So what?” — Her response to being targeted by Sheling Evil Thunder 92

Trivia

• Before accompanying Zhou You on a commission, she had never ridden a bus; she normally traveled by taxi or with senior sect disciples driving her 88.
• She habitually sleeps in and usually needs at least half an hour after waking to become fully alert 63.
• She previously bought Mystery Boxes through her master’s account. Most contained spirit stone fragments, although she once obtained a gold bar 108.