Yun Sheng

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Yun Sheng (云笙)
Alias(es)	Elder Yun; Sword Immortal Yun Sheng 495 682
Species/Race	Human cultivator 682
Gender	Female 469
Age	150 years old during her early stay in Chen Family Village 476 494
Affiliation	Originally Shennong Blessed Land, also called Shennongjia Blessed Land; later Chen Family Village and Chen Lin’s household 469 477 592
Occupation/Role	Sword cultivator; Chen Family Village’s Security Team Captain; cultivation instructor to Chen Lin’s companions 477 520 529
Cultivation	Early Earth Immortal, her latest individually documented realm in the supplied passages 742
First Appearance	Enters Chen Family Village in 469

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Eighth layer of Qi Refining	501	Retrospectively states that reaching this level from qi induction took five years, despite her master’s extensive support.
Core Formation	530	Reached Core Formation at age 100 and was hailed as a sword genius.
Late / peak Core Formation before possession attempt	470 476	Her account places a late Core Formation breakthrough fifty years before meeting Chen Lin; a later passage describes her pre-injury cultivation as peak Core Formation.
Late Core Formation after cultivation damage	470 476	Detonated her life-bound artifact to escape Madam Yun’s possession formation. The resulting injuries damaged her meridians and lowered her cultivation; she spent fifty years preventing further deterioration.
Late Core Formation, injuries healed	476	Core Formation demon-beast meat completely healed her lingering injuries, restored her damaged meridians, and modestly increased her cultivation.
Peak of late Core Formation	529	Identifies herself at this level before sparring with the newly advanced Chen Lin.
Early Nascent Soul	561 562	Began forming her nascent soul inside the Mountains and Rivers Painting, then completed the breakthrough outside, where she could receive the world’s laws. Chen Lin protected her from the Sea Tribe.
Late Nascent Soul	667 674	Confirmed as her realm before receiving Han Yi’s inheritance; the intervening advancement is not detailed.
Early Deity Transformation	667	Han Yi’s Integration inheritance supplied pure Extreme Cold law power. With Chen Lin’s guidance, she broke through without undergoing a tribulation.
Late Deity Transformation	693	Identified as her existing realm immediately before her next breakthrough; its attainment is not separately described.
Early Void Refinement	693	Broke through on the fifteenth day of intensive cultivation with spirit crystals, releasing an ice-blue sword qi that split the clouds.
Early Great Vehicle / Mahayana	731	Advanced during eight years of cultivation inside Cangyuan Hall, using its accelerated time flow and high-grade spirit crystals.
Early Earth Immortal	742	Reached this realm during a further twenty years of seclusion while Cangyuan Hall was being reconstituted.

Background / History

Madam Yun, an early Nascent Soul cultivator, trained Yun Sheng and supplied her with cultivation resources and arts. Her purpose was to possess Yun Sheng’s pure yin body once her own lifespan and physical vitality approached their limits 470.

Fifty years before Yun Sheng’s arrival in Chen Family Village, Madam Yun entered her cultivation chamber under the pretext of protecting a breakthrough and activated a Soul Possession Secret Art. Yun Sheng had prepared a contingency: she detonated her life-bound artifact to escape the formation, then destroyed Madam Yun’s weakened, disembodied soul with a hidden Thunderfire Talisman. She regarded the killing as self-defense, although the stigma attached to killing one’s master made her fear rejection by other cultivators 470.

The escape left her cultivation and meridians badly damaged. Shennong Blessed Land lacked the spiritual energy needed for recovery, forcing her to spend fifty years merely keeping the injuries from worsening 476.

Twenty years before joining Chen Family Village, she found Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue in a war-torn region while searching for spiritual herbs. She brought the siblings back and trained them as her disciples 472.

Appearance

• Clothing: First appears in a spotless white Wide-Sleeved Immortal Skirt; later wears blue robes while carrying the Cloudborne Sword 469 529.
• Hair: Black hair, initially arranged in a flying-immortal bun 469 564.
• Bearing: Exquisite beauty and a cold, otherworldly presence shaped by years away from worldly affairs 469.
• Physique: Firm, balanced muscles developed through long-term sword practice 563.
• Cultivation manifestations: Blue-green sword images swirl in her pupils after reaching Nascent Soul. Han Yi’s inheritance later gives her an even colder, ice-and-snow sword-immortal bearing 562 667.

Personality

Yun Sheng is proud of both her talent and her independence. She initially finds employment as a security captain beneath her dignity and rejects the idea of becoming dependent on a man as a cultivation cauldron. Nevertheless, she is practical enough to accept Chen Lin’s offer once its salary, accommodation, and resources become clear 476 477.

Her master’s betrayal made her deeply vigilant. Even in Chen Lin’s courtyard, she installs a warning formation that detects anyone approaching within ten meters. Her habitual readiness to defend herself persists after she becomes close to him 471 592.

Debts and obligations carry particular weight for her. Chen Lin’s healing, resources, and protection move her to save him through the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art, despite her embarrassment and earlier contempt for the method 563 564.

Her aloofness often conceals frustration or affection. She sarcastically criticizes Chen Lin’s sexual escapades when they disturb her cultivation, but later arranges secret meetings with him rather than openly competing for attention within his household 494 495 682.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship and Azure Origin Sword Art

Yun Sheng specializes in lethal sword combat and was recognized as a sword prodigy after reaching Core Formation at age 100 529 530.

• Uses concentrated sword qi, rapid thrusts, and sword intent; her thrust during the spar with Chen Lin breaks the sound barrier 487 529.
• Cut down Japanese warships with individual sword swings, according to Qin Chuxia 529.
• Originally learned an incomplete Azure Origin Sword Art from Chen Lin, then received its complete inheritance in the Sword Mound 655.
• The complete art includes Sword Qi Thunderclap, Sword Light Division, Sword of Laws, and ultimately One Sword Creates a World at Mahayana. These are stages of the inherited method, not all demonstrated techniques 655.
• Her sword intuition detects pure sword intent inside the Immortal Palace where ordinary observation is obstructed 654.

Great Geng Sword Formation

Uses thirty-six Azure Cloud flying swords with the Great Geng Sword Formation perfected by Chen Lin 652.

• Combines the swords into a river of blades or a three-hundred-foot purple-gold greatsword 652 661.
• Produces killing power beyond her own cultivation realm when used with the Sword-Nurturing Gourd 652.
• Causes the Sword Mound’s hostile sword energy to part and its phantoms to salute her 655.
• Cannot automatically overcome stronger defenses: a half-step Deity Transformation Dragon Carp withstands its strikes without being pierced in one attack 652.

Extreme Cold Laws

Han Yi’s inheritance grants Yun Sheng powerful frost-law energy, which she channels into her sword formation through the Azure Origin Sword Art 667.

• Coats her thirty-six swords in deep-blue mystic ice 667.
• Freezes the surrounding air and produces fine cracks in space 667.
• Halts the surrounding wind and snow at the moment of her Deity Transformation breakthrough 667.

Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art

Learns the dual-cultivation method while instructing Song Qiuya and Chen Lin’s other companions 563.

• Uses her Nascent Soul-level Pure Yin Qi to restore Chen Lin’s depleted sea of consciousness and help him advance to middle Core Formation 563 564.
• Uses the art’s fourth level to merge their divine senses and repair his severely damaged divine soul 591.
• The second treatment requires her to open her own sea of consciousness, making it an act of trust as well as healing 591.

Divine Sense and Formation Work

• Surveys Chen Family Village through divine sense and identifies its Great Spirit-Gathering Formation, although she cannot locate the Formation Eye 469.
• Establishes warning and soundproof barriers 471 472.
• Works with Changqingzi to modify the Great Spirit-Gathering Formation at the Special Operations Base after the Mountains and Rivers Painting is destroyed 590.
• Uses a Heaven-Severing Earth-Sealing Formation to conceal her private meetings with Chen Lin, including from divine-sense probing 682.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Original life-bound artifact — Sacrificed to escape Madam Yun’s possession formation. Its destruction contributed to Yun Sheng’s lasting cultivation injuries 470 476.
• Thunderfire Talisman — Hidden contingency used to destroy Madam Yun’s exposed divine soul 470.
• Cloudborne Sword — Wind-attribute, high-grade magic treasure given by Chen Lin before her mission to Chiyoda Ward. Replaced the low-grade flying sword she had previously relied on 484.
• Reforged life-bound flying sword — Reforged using materials supplied by Chen Lin 563.
• Sword-Nurturing Gourd and thirty-six Azure Cloud flying swords — Used to deploy the Great Geng Sword Formation; the gourd is described as a peak Nascent Soul magic treasure 652.
• East Emperor Bell — Its chime manifests Space-Time law waves capable of locking lake water in place and opening an attack opportunity 652.
• Primordial Sword Furnace — Forms a bond of control with Yun Sheng when she receives the complete sword-art inheritance. She subsequently commands the Sword Mound’s broken swords as an enormous Iron Sword River 655 656.
• Sumeru Heart-Probing Disk — Claimed after she destroys its illusion, erases its residual consciousness, and marks it as her own 657.
• Frostbite Broken Sword — Fragment of Han Yi’s Integration-stage spirit treasure. Yun Sheng carries it during her travels and her Void Refinement breakthrough 667 682 693 718.
• Frost Condensation / Frost Congealment — Supreme-grade, ice-aspected Void Refinement flying sword supplied through Fatty Wang’s gift and handed to her by Chen Lin. At least doubles her combat strength upon acceptance 696 697 698.
• Lower-grade immortal artifact — Receives one of the two artifacts taken from slain Earth Immortals after the Blackwind Pass mission. She also notices the resentment of tens of thousands of beings sealed inside the Bloodshadow Sword 731.

Relationships

• Chen Lin — Initially her host, then employer, benefactor, and romantic partner. He heals her injuries, supports her cultivation, and protects her breakthrough; she twice treats his damaged divine sense. They later spend three years secretly trying to conceive 476 477 562 563 591 682.
• Song Qiuya — Student and trusted member of the same household. Song Qiuya welcomes her after she saves Chen Lin and later persuades her to treat him again. Yun Sheng respects her resilience and breadth of vision 520 565 590 591.
• Gu Changfeng — Disciple rescued from a war-torn region. His aptitude is average, and Yun Sheng directs extra resources toward his training. He becomes her deputy in Chen Family Village 472 477.
• Gu Qingxue — Disciple and Gu Changfeng’s sister. Possesses a top-grade water spiritual root and reaches early Foundation Establishment despite less consistent cultivation 472.
• Madam Yun — Former master who attempted to possess her. Yun Sheng killed her in self-defense 470.
• Changqingzi — Fellow village cultivator and formation-work partner. Initially stronger than her, he envies her access to the Mountains and Rivers Painting and later addresses her as “Mistress” 520 590 658.
• Star Moon Demon Saint — Exploration companion who fights alongside her and intervenes when Ji Longxue attacks 652 658 661.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord — Companion during the Sword Mound and Immortal Palace expeditions; his discovery of hidden altars prompts her own underground investigation 602 655 658.
• Han Yi — Inheritance donor whose Integration-level knowledge and frost laws enable Yun Sheng’s Deity Transformation breakthrough 667.
• Ji Longxue — Hostile Hehuan Sect master encountered after Yun Sheng escapes the heart-probing illusion 657 658.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Joining Chen Family Village

• Visits to apologize for Gu Changfeng and Gu Qingxue, then discovers spiritual energy and hidden cultivators far beyond the resources of Shennong Blessed Land 469.
• Reveals her master’s possession attempt; Chen Lin permits her to stay rather than condemning her as a master-slayer 470.
• Accepts the security-captain position for 500 low-grade spirit stones per month, room, board, and cultivation resources. Chen Lin pays the first month in advance with five mid-grade spirit stones 477.
• Receives the Cloudborne Sword and is ordered to raze the emperor’s palace in Chiyoda Ward 484.
• Helps test the national-fortune barrier. Her late Foundation Establishment-strength attack opens a half-meter hole; these deliberately restrained strikes are not her actual cultivation realm 487.
• Attacks Wang Jin after he claims the village and demands that she become his dual-cultivation partner 502.
• Loses a prolonged spar to Chen Lin’s three Azure Cloud Swords. He conceals how much strength he held back to preserve her confidence as security captain 529.

Sea Tribe Conflict and Joining the Household

• Kills a spiritually mutated Megalodon, but an unseen underwater presence blocks a later sword strike and wounds her 533.
• Is critically injured by Shark Crazy’s Nascent Soul-level assault. Chen Lin carries her away and treats her inside the Mountains and Rivers Painting 552 553.
• Completes her Nascent Soul breakthrough under Chen Lin’s protection, then saves him from divine-sense exhaustion through dual cultivation 562 563.
• Initially insists that the treatment settles their debt and tries to leave. Song Qiuya instead welcomes her into the household 564 565.
• Later repairs another severe injury to Chen Lin’s sea of consciousness and accepts his invitation to live in his courtyard 591 592.

Investigations and Combat Training

• Discovers a concealed altar beneath a snowy Changbai peak, surrounded by frozen human and animal remains 602.
• Supervises six women’s wilderness trials under orders not to intervene except in a life-or-death emergency. Their battle with a Two-Headed Demon Vine Ape tests her restraint 617 618.
• Accompanies Chen Lin into Black Divine Mountain, where restrictions disable flight and severely suppress cultivation 631 632.
• Reports that the Blood Demon Array has widened the southern-seas spatial rift to a thousand zhang, with an oppressive military formation beyond it 636.

Immortal Palace and Inheritances

• Leads her companions safely through the Sword Mound, cuts apart Yu Cheng’an’s Golden Dragon Claw, and obtains the complete Azure Origin Sword Art and control bond with the Primordial Sword Furnace 655.
• Commands an Iron Sword River against the Great Yu party, whose escape depends on a Great Displacement Talisman 656.
• Recognizes a false Chen Lin by his missing Dao-law resonance, destroys the illusion, and takes its Formation Disk 657.
• Receives Han Yi’s inheritance and reaches early Deity Transformation. Han Yi warns her not to trust others readily in the Myriad Worlds Battlefield 667.
• Holds off three opponents while her new realm is still unstable, exhausting her true essence and resorting to life-bound essence blood 671.

Travels and Myriad Worlds Battlefield

• Leaves the village under the pretext of stabilizing her sword heart, while secretly meeting Chen Lin each weekend to try to conceive. After three years, she remains unsuccessful 682.
• Reaches Void Refinement through intensive spirit-crystal cultivation and receives a suitable supreme-grade frost sword 693 698.
• Prepares with the squad for its first supply escort to Blackwind Pass 724.
• Uses the post-mission leave and Cangyuan Hall’s accelerated time to reach early Great Vehicle, then early Earth Immortal during the hall’s subsequent restoration 731 742.

Notable Quotes

“It was self-defense.” 470

“I, Yun Sheng, don’t leave debts unpaid.” 564

“My boss doesn’t need to beg to have me.” 657