Ghost Shaman

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ghost Shaman (鬼巫)
Entity Type	Title
Known Holder	Wu Heng 495 657
Alias(es)	Lord Ghost Shaman; Puppeteer; Doll Master 200 327
Species/Race	Strange Creature/Eerie; one of the “first people” or “first subjects” beneath the Red Moon. His specific species is not disclosed 201 203 268 351.
Gender	Male 119
Affiliation	Initially independent, with no faction or followers; later fights alongside the Opposition Faction 351 355 657.
Occupation/Role	Doll-maker; creator of the Mist Shop; Su Bai’s contractual Betrothed 200
Residence	Fog Mountain 356 363
Status	Alive; proposes completing the traditional marriage ceremony with Su Bai 658.
First Appearance	Title first mentioned in 65; appears in person under the title in 119.

Identity and Other Names

• Ghost Shaman and Puppeteer refer to the same being. The Fog City Lord reveals this connection when confronting Su Bai’s Betrothed in the Mist Shop 200.
• “Puppeteer” describes his renowned Doll-making, not the full extent of his power. The Fog City Lord calls it a name used by the ignorant and regards Doll-making as merely an idle diversion for him 200.
• His origins remain obscure. Even Su Xuan does not know where he came from or the true extent of his strength 627.

Wu Heng stays close to Su Bai through several identities and controlled shells:

Identity / Form	Function and Reveal
Wu Heng	The identity used while accompanying Su Bai as a Player; later explicitly identified with the Ghost Shaman 393 495 515 657.
Xiao Wu	The Thread-Wrapped Doll in the Mist Shop. Initially presented as a servant calling the Ghost Shaman “Master,” it is later understood to be a shell he controls 200 495.
Yao	Another presence through which he accompanies Su Bai. Su Xuan recognizes the Doll’s Ghost Shaman aura, while later passages link Yao’s dormancy to Wu Heng’s other obligations 361 500.
“Master Wang”	A guise Su Bai recognizes by the voice of his contracted Betrothed 286.

Background / History

Su Xuan and the Real World

The Ghost Shaman was an independent resident of Fog Mountain when Su Xuan sought his help reaching another world. After prolonged pestering, he made Su Xuan a child-sized Doll shell and allowed him through a hidden passage to the Real World. He also provided a mirror for communication and eventually permitted Su Xuan to release a little power, enabling him to become part of Lin Wan and Su Bai’s family 351 352.

The shell required repeated adjustments because it could not grow naturally. Its restraints also failed to contain every trace of Su Xuan’s Red Moon power: small leaks accumulated around the family and attracted Strange Creatures when Su Xuan was absent. During one such absence, the Ghost Shaman wore the discarded shell and saved five-year-old Su Bai from a third-floor window. The shell’s little finger broke, leaving an enduring memory that Su Xuan had lost it while rescuing his brother 353 355.

The Ghost Shaman initially forbade Su Xuan from returning because of the danger to the family. He relented after Su Xuan insisted and threatened to attempt the Void Sea himself. Together they upgraded the shell, although the Ghost Shaman estimated that even the improved body would last only about twenty years. They later learned that forces pursuing the Merfolk Remnants might locate Su Xuan in the Real World 356 357.

Su Xuan’s Final Request

In the timeline Su Bai understood as his “previous life,” the Ghost Shaman helped Su Xuan briefly revisit the Real World, where he found Su Bai mourning Lin Wan. When Su Xuan decided to search the Void Sea for a route into the past, the Ghost Shaman warned him that he could become lost permanently. Unable to dissuade him, he secured Su Xuan to Fog Mountain with a white cord and Silver Bells, using their pull and chime to guide him through the Sea’s illusions 359.

Su Xuan ultimately cut the cord and made himself a coordinate anchor in Su Bai’s shadow. His final message asked the Ghost Shaman to use the method he had left behind if Su Bai ever had no way out 359.

Losing Su Bai

Wu Heng initially regarded Su Bai as a responsibility entrusted to him by a friend. When contact with Su Bai broke in the Human-Faced Forest, he experienced panic for the first time and tore through space to reach him in three minutes. The Red Moon Society blocked his path despite his declaration that he had come only to retrieve a human important to him 640.

Finding Su Bai motionless, Wu Heng realized that he had become his only true attachment. His grief nearly unleashed a devastating eruption of power, but Su Xuan’s final message reminded him that another chance remained possible. After hearing this account, Su Bai concluded that there had never been a true rebirth 640.

Appearance

• Cloaked figure: His early appearance beside Su Bai conceals much of him beneath a cloak 119.
• Icy touch: His adult hand is cold and seemingly devoid of life, although touching Su Bai’s face and neck makes Su Bai’s skin grow warm 201.
• Dark red eyes: Revealed when his black robe slips away during the battle against the Red Moon Society 657.
• Variable shells: He appears through childlike Dolls and a human Player shell. The latter was initially made so hastily that it lacked facial features 495 515.
• Concealed appearance: Despite encountering numerous incarnations, Su Bai notes that he has not seen Wu Heng’s true appearance 495.

Personality

The Ghost Shaman is ordinarily aloof, solitary, and difficult to involve in other beings’ affairs. Su Xuan describes him as cold toward almost everyone and historically neutral even when others tried to draw him into their conflicts. He values order and rules, particularly the need to prevent powerful Nightmare World beings from disrupting the Real World 355 622.

His restraint is not indifference to cruelty committed in his name. When the Fog City Lord claims authority over others’ lives, the Ghost Shaman denies possessing such a right himself and condemns the Lord for imprisoning and slaughtering Ghost Creatures while falsely claiming to be his follower 201.

With Su Bai, he is protective and increasingly open about his affection. He carefully avoids hurting him with his overwhelming power, refuses to leave him on blood-soaked ground, and quietly watches him through Xiao Wu’s shell. His usual authority gives way to visible nervousness when he proposes their marriage ceremony 119 200 498 658.

Abilities & Skills

Doll-Making and Remote Incarnations

His Doll-making inspires the Fog City Lord and provides the shells through which both he and Su Xuan interact with humans 200 353 515.

• Remote presence: Controls the Thread-Wrapped Doll called Xiao Wu; its apparent sleep can indicate that he is occupied elsewhere 495.
• Human disguise: A Doll shell can deceive observers into treating him as human. His Player shell does not leak the Ghost Shaman’s identifiable power 515 595.
• Power containment: Develops shells intended to hold immense Strange Creature power without exposing the Real World to dangerous leakage 515.
• Maintenance requirements: Su Xuan’s shells lacked independent consciousness and natural growth, requiring replacement or adjustment 353.
• Capacity limits: An inadequate shell can crack under its occupant’s power; one temporary body supplied to Su Xuan could survive only a dozen or so minutes 359.
• Uncertain reputation: Although legends credit the Puppeteer with conscious Dolls, Su Xuan describes his own shells as unconscious. The supplied accounts do not establish that every Doll shares the same capabilities 200 353.

Passage Between Worlds

He possesses unconventional means of reaching the Real World and created the Mist Shop, which links the two worlds 351 496.

• Hidden passage: Sends Su Xuan across in a restrained Doll body. He tells Su Xuan that the passage can accommodate only a small amount of power 352.
• Mirror connection: Maintains communication and observation across worlds, including a view of the Su Family home 352 355.
• Spatial traversal: Tears through space to reach the Human-Faced Forest in three minutes during an emergency 640.
• Void Sea guidance: Uses a cord anchored to Fog Mountain and Silver Bells to help Su Xuan retain his bearings 359.

Overwhelming Power and Fog

Merely releasing his power fills the Mist Shop with waves strong enough to leave the Fog City Lord’s avatar unable to resist 201.

• Selective pressure: Directs oppressive power around Su Bai without causing him discomfort 200 201.
• Avatar suppression: Silences the Fog City Lord and makes his Doll avatar disappear; the shop subsequently digests the captured portion of Dense Fog’s mind and power 201.
• Battlefield defense: Uses fog to hold back flames from a massive explosion while Su Bai evacuates the surrounding fighters 657.
• Unknown upper limit: His full strength remains unmeasured, including the destructive power that nearly erupts after he loses Su Bai 627 640.

Marriage Contract

The Marriage Contract binds him to Su Bai and carries power far above that of a low-grade confidentiality agreement 461.

• Contract resistance: Its power surfaces inside Su Bai and instantly crushes an invading contract’s influence 461.
• Ceremonial requirement: According to Wu Heng’s people, the marriage only truly takes effect after the traditional ceremony is completed 658.

Equipment / Items

• Mist Shop — His creation, later owned by Su Bai; serves as a connection between worlds and a place where he can appear 200 496.
• Doll shells — Bodies for human disguise, remote companionship, and containment of otherwise dangerous power 353 495 515.
• Communication mirrors — Connect Fog Mountain with the Real World and allow observation of the Su Family home 355 359.
• White cord and Silver Bells — The tether and signal used during Su Xuan’s search through the Void Sea 359.

Relationships

• Su Bai — Contractual Betrothed and eventual partner. What begins as a responsibility to Su Xuan becomes Wu Heng’s central emotional attachment 200 615 640.
• Su Xuan — A fellow solitary Eerie and friend. The Ghost Shaman helps him reach the Real World, supports his dangerous Void Sea journey, and receives his final request to protect Su Bai 351 359.
• Little Fire — Su Bai’s protective companion, who challenges the Ghost Shaman over the Marriage Contract. The Ghost Shaman nevertheless entrusts Su Bai’s recovery to him 119.
• Fog City Lord / Dense Fog — An imitator of his Doll-making who falsely claims to serve him. The Ghost Shaman punishes his interference with Su Bai and atrocities against captive Ghost Creatures 200 201.
• Administrator — Knows the title and Su Bai’s connection to its holder, but declines to explain the Ghost Shaman’s species 65 268.
• Red Moon Society — A hostile organization wary of his strength and interested in his world-crossing abilities. Its interference repeatedly occupies him and causes his remote incarnations to become dormant 500.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc / Event	Role
Early title reveal	The Administrator asks Su Bai to convey his regards to the Ghost Shaman, prompting Su Bai to connect the unfamiliar title with his Marriage Contract 65 66.
Lorimaris Hotel	Appears beside the unconscious Su Bai, holds him, and leaves him in Little Fire’s care because he cannot remain 119.
Fog City confrontation	Revealed as the Puppeteer, Mist Shop creator, and Su Bai’s Betrothed; destroys Dense Fog’s intrusion into the shop 200 201.
Identity uncovered	Su Bai recognizes his voice as “Master Wang,” suspects Wu Heng, and eventually understands the connection between Wu Heng, Xiao Wu, and the Ghost Shaman 286 393 495.
Route 666 Bus	Offers to enter the Real World in a Doll shell so he can count as an ordinary human passenger and help satisfy the bus’s occupancy condition 515.
Honghuai City revelations	Encourages Su Xuan to explain the Red Moon Society’s scam and the Administrator’s role in its server experiment 622.
War against the Red Moon Society	Blocks high-tier enemies from seizing the Fixed Point and shields the battlefield’s evacuation with fog 657.
Marriage proposal	Asks Su Bai to hold the traditional ceremony once everything is over 658.