Ye Han

Biodata

Power Progression

The table includes cultivation realms and explicitly documented technique levels. Combat strength, divine sense, and bodily cultivation are distinguished from his spell-power realm.

Background / History

Ye Han grew up alone in Green Ox Village, without parents or relatives to defend him. Poor food, inadequate sleep, farmwork, and bullying shaped his childhood. He survived through persistence, flattery, well-timed retaliation, and retreat when a fight became unwinnable. His sweet words and diligence persuaded Teacher Lan Qing to teach him reading and writing without the grain normally required as payment 16 50 86.

Upon arriving at the Azure Profound Sect, Ye Han became determined to remain there and cultivate. The Seventh Elder brought him to Seven Mysteries Peak and provided a cave abode, but Ye Han initially exaggerated their relationship to secure Zhang Qingshan’s help. He eventually admitted the truth once he recognized Zhang Qingshan’s genuine concern. By then, their exchange of food, instruction, cultivation space, and the Azure Profound Art had developed into a lasting friendship 8 9 12 15 24.

Ye Han later became the Seventh Elder’s registered disciple. This real backing changed his position on Seven Mysteries Peak: disciples treated him courteously, and the Fifth Elder had to consider the consequences of targeting him. The Seventh Elder subsequently introduced him to Zhang Lingjun, the Fourth Elder, and Qin Minghui while arranging a test of his combat ability 86 160.

His parentage remains unresolved in the supplied material. Azure Phoenix Fairy connected him to the Seventh Elder’s legendary eldest disciple, while his resemblance to Ye Tianyu later caused Murong Xian to mistake him for the subject of a wanted portrait. Ye Han wanted to understand both his possible father and his mother, but no confirmed parentage is supplied. His resentment over being abandoned remained powerful enough to become a trial on the Unfixed Immortal Ladder 310 1368 1369 1764.

The Seventh Elder and Zhang Lingjun identified their eldest senior brother as Ye Tianyu, but could not resolve Ye Han’s questions. Ye Han remembered no parents beyond a shadow occasionally appearing in dreams and considered whether his earliest memories had been lost or erased. He also refused their proposal that he become Seven Mysteries Peak’s new Peak Master after the Seventh Elder reached the Nascent Soul Realm 957.

Ye Han eventually encountered Ye Tianyu directly. When pressed for an explanation, Ye Tianyu claimed that an unusual encounter had deprived him of a considerable amount of his bloodline and that Ye Han might have been born from it. This offers a possible bloodline-based explanation rather than confirmation of an ordinary father-son relationship; Ye Han reacted angrily to the account 1856 1899.

His Ancient Human Race identity later made neutrality in conflicts between the great races impossible. The Ancient Human Race inheritance subsequently protected him from the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s attempt to possess him, purified his accumulated bloodlines, and awakened the ancestral bloodline recognized by the Nethergod Devil Lord 1983 2737 2738 2760.

Appearance

Ye Han changes rapidly from an undernourished, dark-skinned child into a fair-skinned young man through cultivation, impurity expulsion, and the growth-accelerating effects of the Blood Refining Art 50.

• Youthful, handsome face: Qin Jiuzhen is surprised by his true appearance after previously assuming he was older 603.
• Clear eyes and deceptively harmless features: At approximately eleven or twelve, he appears sixteen or seventeen, though Han Yuwan notices that his eyes remain unusually clear 98.
• Resemblance to Ye Tianyu: Strong enough to prompt mistaken identification and questions from Murong Xian and Zhang Qingshan 1369 1895.
• Cultivation transformations: Can enlarge his body to several dozen zhang, with dark-gold, scale-like runes crossing his skin 1542.
• Racial disguises: Has presented himself as an Immortal Race cultivator and a Lionhorn Tribe demon with horns, a lion’s face, and a tail 2229 2991.
• Golden dragon scales: While traveling in the Ancient Dragon Realm, his golden scales are treated as a sign of noble bloodline and lead others to mistake him for a descendant of the Northern Spirit Dragon Emperor 2588 2590.
• Awakened Ancient Human Race appearance: Bloodline purification changes his Immortal Race golden hair and azure eyes to black hair and black eyes 2738 2760.
• Snow Demon disguise: Presents himself as a Body Integration Snow Demon cultivator from the distant Ice and Snow Continent to avoid local scrutiny 3001.

Personality

Ye Han is ambitious, resourceful, and strongly motivated by the desire to escape helplessness. His early goal is to become powerful enough that others cannot bully him and to make his name known throughout the world. Although initially lacking impressive spirit-root aptitude, he shows an unusually steadfast commitment to cultivation and endures demanding physical training 8 37 69 169 956.

He conceals his strengths, bargains aggressively, and readily exploits an opponent’s assumptions. Han Yuwan repeatedly finds him greedy and difficult to outmaneuver, while enemies underestimate his harmless appearance at their peril. Nevertheless, caution usually outweighs pride: he retreats from superior opponents and refuses to risk his life merely to improve his mindset 96 107 149 919 2713.

His pragmatism does not erase gratitude or attachment. He remembers kindness, values trusted companions, and does not cultivate a path of heartlessness. His love of books is equally persistent: he brings food to the Scripture Pavilion so hunger will not interrupt his reading, and later seeks access to the Yuwen Lineage’s library to understand the Heavenly Spirit Realm 43 92 1587 2058 2339.

He has a particular attachment to his real name and prefers to use it unless concealment makes another identity necessary. This attachment derives from his childhood wish that the name Ye Han would one day shake the world 651.

His early understanding of romance is limited, despite his considerable insight into danger and bargaining. The love-and-death trials of the heaven-earth secret realms later teach him that even long-lived cultivators can lose their chance to acknowledge their feelings, helping him recognize his affection for Fairy Jade Orchid. He nevertheless dislikes abandoning the search for opportunities in favor of a settled life with a companion 107 285 921 1602.

In battle, he is decisive rather than merciful toward enemies he judges necessary to kill. Companions observe that he strikes immediately and does not pause for pleas or offers of cooperation. By his True Immortal period, continued survival matters more to him than abstract immortality, since the immediate threat of exhausting his lifespan has receded 2084 3646.

Abilities & Skills

Purple Cauldron and Heaven-Devouring Cauldron

The cauldron is the foundation of Ye Han’s extraordinary endurance and much of his ability to fight above his realm.

• Spell-power restoration: Continuously replenishes his aura and spell power while sufficient stored energy remains 198 1647 2289.
• Internal cultivation space: Houses spirit medicines and Heavenly Treasures; transplanting a medicine garden expands the Purple Cauldron Space to more than three times its previous size before it reaches its current limit 1256.
• Soul confinement: Pulls the false Heavenly Secret Daoist into its space after the intruder attempts possession 629.
• Containment and refuge: Receives allies for Soul Suppression and captures the Four-Armed Buddha 2824 3164.
• Realm storage: Eventually contains the entire Earth Realm within Ye Han’s secret-realm space 3283.
• Limits: Requires replenishment, can suffer backlash, and does not automatically let him unleash a treasure’s full power without sufficient cultivation and mastery 2712 3298 3388.
• Crafting enhancement: Purple-Gold Runes associated with the cauldron increase his crafted talismans’ power by thirty percent and improve his treasure-refining success rate, although the latter improvement is not initially quantified 537.
• Possession danger: After devouring the Wilds Ancient Stele, the cauldron reveals that it has concealed power for an attempt to seize his body. Its seal breaks to twenty-five percent before golden inheritance runes stop the attack 2737 2738.
• Immortal-power conversion: Can continually convert stored energy into chaos Heavenly Dao laws immortal power, allowing Ye Han to unleash True Immortal-level abilities before formally completing his advancement, at substantial resource cost 3605.
• Law comprehension through pills: Later enables him to comprehend laws by devouring and absorbing pill aura. Ordinary laws improve extremely quickly, but the benefit to the three supreme laws remains negligible 3774.

Elemental Cultivation and Spirit Roots

• Cultivates techniques of all five elements simultaneously, producing exceptional spell power at enormous resource cost 430 536.
• Switches attributes to counter enemy spells; his four immortal roots are decisive when fighting two Foundation Establishment opponents 329.
• Can independently operate a five-element ancient-treasure formation because of his spirit roots and the cauldron’s energy supply 490.
• Later possesses five-element roots and five variant roots. He suspects his activated Ancient Human Race bloodline contributes to his ability to absorb so many techniques and cauldron fruits 2739.
• Practices the Five Elements Legacy Cultivation Method alongside numerous bodily and weapon techniques 1148.
• Makes a notable breakthrough in the ice-attribute Cold Art during his years studying the Central Star Palace chess puzzle 1675.

Body and Bone Refining

• Blood Refining Art: Develops strength, defense, and accelerated physical growth; the early version taught by Zhang Qingshan is incomplete 27 50.
• Eightfold Bone Refining Art: Strengthens his bones and Bone-Refining Bone Swords through multiplied enhancement 1201.
• Dharma-body dual cultivation: Develops both spell-power cultivation and physical cultivation to an exceptional standard 1471.
• Brute-force applications: Smashes apart the Earthshaker Demon Emperor’s body and can lift tens of millions of jin when exerting both arms 1471 1542.
• Later defenses: His combined physical techniques produce defenses comparable to the finest Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasures 2494.
• Combined bodily arts: Activates the Nine-Turn Vajra Art, Eightfold Bone Refining Art, and Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art together to break a force suppressing his divine soul 1694.
• Vajra Fire God Art: Contributes to his later physical defenses and reaches a high enough level to impress powerful Immortal Emperors 2494 3309.
• Baleful Ghost Body: Uses it when the Blood Souls Wraith’s blade-light prevents his escape, enduring an attack directed at his soul and divine sense 1768.

Divine Sense

• Initially one of his strongest innate talents, though concealed cultivators above his realm can escape his detection 157.
• Improves through the Mind-Clearing Art and Puppet God Technique, reaching Golden Core-level strength before his spell-power cultivation does 676.
• Controls six ancient treasures and the Immortal-Slaying Yin-Yang Sword Formation simultaneously, with capacity remaining 729.
• At half-step True Immortal, can severely injure a hostile cultivator through divine sense alone 3063.
• His early Golden Core-level comparison relies on the enhancement of his two divine-sense secret methods rather than his unenhanced divine sense 672.
• Uses twin divine souls, Dao Follows Nature, the Seventy-Two Tongling Chapters, and the Soul Suppression Divine Art to resist the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s possession attempt. These measures alone are insufficient, but the subsequent inheritance intervention strengthens his divine soul and divine sense 2737.

Swordsmanship

• Azure Profound Sword Technique: Initially struggles to master it, then deploys its sword formation to instantly kill an eleventh-layer demonized cultivator 97 189.
• Great Geng Sword Art and Divine Insight Swordsmanship: Studies both as his Sword Dao develops 617 1256.
• Combat learning: Uses Sword Twenty-Nine as a whetstone, progressively improving his attacks and defenses during their duel 1083.
• Temporary enhancement: The White Jade Bamboo Shoot grants a single-use Sword Dao boost rather than permanent mastery of Great Geng Divine Insight Swordsmanship 1093.
• Immortal-Extinguishing Sword Art: Studies the half provided by the Nethergod Devil Lord to improve his use of the Absolute Frost Divine Sword 2769.
• Golden Vast Swordsmanship: Uses it with the Bone-Refining Bone Swords and Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder against the Blood Souls Wraith 1768.
• Sword-Intent Clone: Its cultivation and comprehension eventually allow him to perfect Great Geng Divine Insight Swordsmanship, Divine Insight Swordsmanship, Great Geng Sword Art, and Sword Emperor Swordsmanship. This is a later genuine improvement, distinct from the White Jade Bamboo Shoot’s temporary effect 2465.

Thunder Arts and Movement

• Ghost Step Pace: Combines evasive movement with sword formations and binding spells during his Qi Refining period 198 295.
• Thunder Escape Technique: Eventually surpasses a Blood Escape Talisman in instantaneous speed and distance; useful for pursuit as well as escape 428.
• Thunder-Control Divine Art: Combines it with Thunderclap Shoes and a Flying Wing Talisman while fleeing the Bronze Guardian 1693.
• Thunder-enhanced body: Uses thunder aura to stimulate bodily strength and speed, synchronizing it with his Life-Bound cudgel 2170.
• Consumption: His early thunder techniques are powerful but demand substantial spell power 430.
• Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder and Demon-Extinguishing Thunder Art: Their power increases as his refinement of the Thunderous Heaven-Shaking Trident advances 2733.
• Tribulation absorption: Forcibly devours immortal-tribulation power, substantially strengthening his thunder laws and heavenly tribulation power 3724.

Staff and Spear Techniques

• Studies staff, five-element, and thunder laws through the Great Dream Dao Scripture, strengthening his use of the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel 2524.
• Employs the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art alongside swords and other treasures 1647.
• Uses the Abyss-Slaying Art with the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd 2289.
• Obtains God-Splitting Spearmanship, an immortal-treasure-compatible technique needed to draw greater power from his spear treasure; ordinary spear arts are insufficient 2838.

Life, Death, and Other Laws

• Everlasting Immortal Flower Art: Releases life-law power around an injured hand and destroys dragon-headed demon-beast souls 2494 2575.
• Death laws: Comprehends a trace while approaching death during breakthrough attempts; fusing it with life-law insight enables his ninth-layer Mahayana advancement 2956.
• Light laws: The Moon God Inheritance deepens his understanding and strengthens his light-attribute root and spells 1734.
• Chaos sword qi: Gains increasing control over its law power during his later secluded cultivation 3612.
• Dao Follows Nature: Calms his mind after his failed immortal breakthrough and stirs his connection with Heavenly Dao laws. The everlasting immortal flower then pulls at the golden lotus, causing it to begin releasing sealed Heavenly Dao power 3635.
• Space, time, and life laws: By his True Immortal period, his comprehension of these three supreme laws far exceeds that of an ordinary True Immortal 3774.
• Ordinary-law development: The cauldron’s pill-absorption ability rapidly improves sword Dao, fist barrier qi, power, staff-method, and ice laws, strengthening his techniques and formations 3774.
• Fairy Xuhua’s law technique: Examines the offered portion of her Heavenly Dao Spirit Art and recognizes its potential to extend and strengthen his law comprehension, although it is difficult to cultivate. He agrees to learn her art as part of the proposed pill bargain; completed mastery is not documented 3776.

Artifact Refinement and Crafting

• Treasure Refining Art: Accelerates refinement, increases treasure power, lowers operating costs, and establishes harder-to-remove Divine Sense Marks 97.
• Artifact creation: Becomes an accomplished Artifact Refiner with a high success rate for ordinary Spirit Artifacts after extensive puppet and material work 653.
• Supporting disciplines: Studies formations, talismans, puppet construction, and puppet control; these repeatedly help him survive danger 537.
• Illusion-realm training: Gains substantial experience in alchemy, artifact refining, talisman refining, puppet crafting, formations, and physical cultivation 919.
• Immortal Artifact Refining Formula: Later refines Immortal Treasures twenty to thirty percent faster, with a corresponding increase in spell-power consumption 3390.
• Alchemical fire control: Receives instruction from Teacher Lan Qing while gathering spirit medicines and expanding his cauldron garden 1256.
• Heaven-Unlocking Art and Heaven-Unlocking Hammer: Develops them to their utmost level, allowing him to unseal and completely harvest Heavenly Treasures. Using chaos immortal qi also reduces their consumption compared with earlier practice 3610 3612.
• Puppet legacy: Leaves Puppet Arts in the Azure Profound Sect and later returns to investigate how they have developed 3266.

Concealment and Disguise

• Uses the Red Mask and Myriad Images Mask to conceal his appearance and aura 561 676.
• Adopts different faces and races while trading treasures for pills, making his activity difficult to trace 3298.
• Uses the Yin-Yang Divine Formula to conceal his aura while following the True Immortal’s Hand 3546.
• His later disguises resist detection by all but exceptionally powerful half-step True Immortals or True Immortals 2991 3298.
• Combines concealment and sealing methods with retreat inside the Black Flying Boat, remaining undisturbed for more than five hundred years while refining the Skyflying Race True Immortal’s heart 3559.

Clones and Puppet Support

• Acquires Purple Jade Slips containing the Yin-Yang Two Forms Art, Multiple Clone Technique, and Wood Spirit Transformation Art while seeking safer ways to increase his strength 2712 2713.
• Uses four clone puppets whose Immortal Treasures and combat strength can be developed using immortal qi supplied by the Body Integration immortal vine, without drawing on the cauldron’s restorative aura 2762.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Purple Cauldron / Heaven-Devouring Cauldron — His central cultivation treasure, energy reserve, and internal space; the later passages use the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron name 198 2824.
• Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel — His Life-Bound Treasure; grows through enhancement and cultivation, eventually becoming one of his strongest weapons 2170 3659.
• Absolute Frost Divine Sword — A major offensive treasure whose power he develops through the Immortal-Extinguishing Sword Art 2769.
• Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd — Channels the Abyss-Slaying Art’s fifth-layer secret method 2289.
• Bone-Refining Bone Swords — Enhanced through bone cultivation and wielded as paired swords during his self-image trials 1201 2607.
• Flying-sword sets — Uses six Wood Spirit Flying Swords, eight Millennium Ironwood Swords, and later twelve Azure Profound Divine Swords 198 403 1647.
• Thorn Bracelet and Wood Dragon Staff — Supreme-grade magic artifacts with mutually reinforcing attributes; the bracelet produces enormous restraining Vine Hands 205 362.
• Ghost Skull Mirror — An Ancient Treasure that grows more effective with refinement; its later Golden-Light Bone Dragons devour soul remnants 428 3659.
• Thunder treasures — Includes the Heavenly Thunder Drum and Thunderous Heaven-Shaking Trident, the latter supporting his divine thunder arts 729 2733.
• Defensive treasures — Includes the early Black Bone Shield, the Creation Heaven Cube, the Absolute Yin Treasure Shield, and the Darkness Divine Armor 139 332 2769 3485.
• Red Mask and Myriad Images Mask — Concealment treasures refined to support stronger disguises 561 676.
• Treasure Refining Furnace — Breaks down treasures and materials for artifact and puppet work 653.
• True Immortal’s Hand — Strengthens his law power and resonates with locations and remains connected to its origins 3390 3546 3559.
• Purple-Gold Gourd — Captures the Humanoid Magic Beast; contains the Purple Jade Sky Tiger and Heaven-Devouring Cauldron during the ensuing attack 3493.
• Three Realms Gourd — A concealed treasure capable of enabling Upper Realm ascension; Ye Han fears disclosure would draw Spirit Transformation cultivators against him 1320.
• Movement and substitution talismans — Uses a Flying Wing Talisman against the Bronze Guardian and a High-Grade Substitute Talisman before attacking the mysterious sword 1693 2213.
• Mysterious Secret Realm key — A rune-marked, crescent-shaped stone key for the Mysterious Secret Realm of Great Hell; the Glacier Immortal Emperor possesses a similar key with a different orientation 3327.
• Azure Profound Divine Palace — A cultivation and trial site whose operation Elder Liu teaches him in detail 952 1155.
• Water Spirit Coffin — Contains the Mysterious Woman; Ye Han deliberately conceals it and the Purple Cauldron from Elder Liu 1155 1256.
• Demon-Binding Chains — Activates them alongside the Ghost Skull Mirror using spell power, nascent soul power, and the power of the stars 1467.
• Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and Exquisite Treasure Pagoda — Treasures he continues refining during his Golden Core period; the bell remains part of his later multi-treasure attacks 1177 1647.
• Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda, White Dragon Sky-Viewing Goblet, and Rebirth Gourd — Receive substantial refinement alongside his other high-tier treasures 2274.
• Death God Armor — Its death-law cultivation methods and divine abilities provide the basis for his eventual comprehension of a trace of death law 2956.
• Immortal Flame Refining Heaven Furnace — One of the Immortal Treasures he primarily refines during his later cultivation 2762.
• Black profound geng metal — Obtained from Empty Demon Old Ancestor and used to reinforce the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, greatly increasing its toughness, weight, and ability to break techniques through sheer strength 3037.
• Black Flying Boat — Serves as his secluded refuge while cleansing and absorbing the Skyflying Race True Immortal’s heart 3559.
• Heaven-Unlocking Hammer — Paired with the Heaven-Unlocking Art to unravel Heaven-Sealing Power and harvest sealed Heavenly Treasures 3610 3612.
• Cultivation pills — Receives ten Eight-Turn Primordial Unity Pills from Teacher Lan Qing; later loses a Nine-Turn True Immortal Pill’s benefit to an interrupted breakthrough and fully absorbs a Heavenly Profound Immortal Spirit Pill during post-tribulation recovery 1256 3635 3724.

Relationships

• Zhang Qingshan — Closest senior-brother figure and early cultivation guide. Their initially self-interested arrangement becomes genuine affection; Zhang Qingshan treats him like a younger brother 24 213 887.
• Seventh Elder — Master and protector. Gives him a cave abode, instruction, and later a Protective Treasure before entering seclusion; Ye Han gives him ten stalks of black-gold dragonwhisker grass in thanks 86 169 520.
• Teacher Lan Qing — Childhood literacy teacher and later cultivation and alchemy adviser. Provides ten Eight-Turn Primordial Unity Pills and promises more if Ye Han rescues his true body 16 1256.
• Elder Liu — Powerful sect elder who selects him as a true disciple and sends him on important assignments. Explains the sect’s precautions against Upper Realm surveillance but refuses to treat his arm because of his own secrets. Later provides intensive instruction in his techniques, divine abilities, and operation of the Azure Profound Divine Palace, although Ye Han continues hiding the cauldron and Water Spirit Coffin from him 859 952 1155.
• Han Yuwan — One of his closest fellow disciples and long-standing partners in life-and-death situations. Teaches him treasure refinement; he supports her Foundation Establishment mission and breakthrough 96 281 604 952. She refuses to let their difference in realm distance them, insisting that he continue calling her Senior Sister. Their reunions display considerable affection, and Ye Han’s intense reaction to news of her disappearance makes the sect elders recognize that their relationship is unusual 174 281 1148 1422.
• White Snow — Flying companion, investigator, and caretaker. Pulls him out of a dangerously absorbing illusion, gathers news, and manages affairs around his cave abode 520 920 1425.
• Fairy Jade Orchid — Develops a romantic and dual-cultivation relationship with him after he uses the Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Method to help her withstand qi deviation 921. When she declines his invitation to cultivate in the Heavenly Secret Hall in favor of attempting her Golden Core breakthrough in the sect, he supplies resources and Dustfall Pills 1155.
• Fairy Ningyu — Ally connected to his revenge confrontation with Sword Twenty-Nine. After Ye Han saves her, she embraces him and realizes she cannot let him go 1083 1482.
• Ye Tianyu — Possible paternal or bloodline connection, not conclusively confirmed in the supplied passages. Their resemblance matters deeply to Ye Han’s investigation of his origins, though he later verbally denies any relationship. Ye Tianyu subsequently claims that Ye Han might have been born from bloodline taken during an unusual encounter, an explanation Ye Han finds deeply unsatisfactory 1369 1895 1899.
• Azure Phoenix Fairy / Qing Feng — Raises the connection between Ye Han and the legendary eldest senior brother, prompting him to investigate his past 310.
• Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator — Recurring traveling ally. Helps defeat the Great Star Divine Emperor, entrusts himself to Ye Han’s cauldron space, and provides an escape method for the Immortal Palace 1680 1693 2824.
• Three Swords Child — Sword spirit whom Ye Han befriends in the Divine Sword Hall; explains that Ye Han must learn the Three Sword Techniques and defeat him to leave 2375.
• Moon-Chasing Rabbit — Companion whose Fortune and Disaster Prediction Divine Ability identifies a trap and guides him toward a hidden barrier 2575.
• Fairy Fire Spirit and Fairy Water Dew — Cultivation and dual-cultivation partners. Leave after thirty-eight years when local resources and the benefits of their cultivation together have diminished 3298.
• Wang Lan, Wang Chunyang, and Liu Jingzhi — Fellow disciples he rescues and escorts partway toward Demon Mountain Ravine. Wang Chunyang also exchanges body-training insights with him 329 330 754.
• Wang Fa and the Fifth Elder — Sect antagonists. Wang Fa’s defeat by Ye Han fuels lasting resentment and an eventual plot to seize his opportunities 295 304 524 525.
• Black Mountain Cult Leader — Persistent hunter attracted by Ye Han’s treasures; later joins forces with Wang Fa 452 523 524.
• Sword Twenty-Nine — Sword Dao rival and target of Fairy Ningyu’s revenge. Their duel improves Ye Han’s swordsmanship before Sword Twenty-Nine’s eventual death 1083 1093.
• Zhang Lingjun — Third senior brother under the Seventh Elder. Introduces him to the elder’s secluded valley and later helps explain Ye Tianyu’s past; joins the Seventh Elder in proposing that Ye Han take over Seven Mysteries Peak 160 957.
• Zhang Sanlei, Li Zongqing, and Wang Fulai — Early Seven Mysteries Peak antagonists who covet access to his cave abode and trouble him while he remains too weak to confront them openly. Ye Han suspects their involvement in betraying Zhang Qingshan and plans to help his senior brother retaliate 19 43 47 51.
• Ye Lingzhi — Fellow disciple who harbors feelings for him. Their later unexpected reunion allows him to learn news of Han Yuwan 159 603 604.
• Jin Feng — Initially offers reconciliation and thanks Ye Han for indirectly helping him obtain a Foundation Establishment opportunity. Later joins Wang Fa’s pursuit out of jealousy and a desire to seize Ye Han’s cultivation advantages 307 524 525.
• Heavenly Profound Star King — Uses Ye Han for a task in the Three Heavens after investigating his background. Ye Han later defeats him before suffering the cauldron’s possession attempt 2158 2737.
• Nethergod Devil Lord — Ally who recognizes Ye Han’s awakened Ancient Human Race bloodline, observes his exceptional Mahayana strength, and provides part of the Immortal-Extinguishing Sword Art 2760 2769 2779.
• Glacier Immortal Emperor — Dual-cultivation partner who cooperates with him despite knowing his identity, prioritizing her cultivation bottleneck. They also discover that each possesses a key to the Mysterious Secret Realm 3311 3327.
• Xu Lin — Entrusted with the Azure Profound Sect’s Legacy Disciple Token, items, and instructions to seek the Grand Elder’s help finding Purple-Gold Runes 3266.
• Fairy Qing Su — Temporary traveling companion in the Sealed Heaven Land. They part amicably, with her warning him of danger and asking for mercy should they meet again 3546.
• Mysterious Woman in the Water Spirit Coffin — An enigmatic figure whose coffin Ye Han keeps secret from Elder Liu. She awakens during his sword practice and later refuses to disclose her real name or origin, leading Ye Han to challenge her refusal to keep her promise 1155 1256 3754.
• Fairy Xuhua — Prospective alchemy and cultivation collaborator. Offers instruction in her law-related spirit art in exchange for rare Heavenly Treasures; Ye Han demands the resulting Nine-Turn Heavenly Immortal Pills beyond her allotted share and offers two sets of ingredients 3776.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“I must become a cultivator and make everyone under heaven know the name Ye Han.” — Internal resolve upon seeing cultivators fly 8.

“I've been an orphan since I was little. I'm not some child of Eldest Senior Brother!” — To Azure Phoenix Fairy when confronted with a possible explanation of his origins 310.

“Stick with me from now on. If I've got a bite to eat, you'll get one too.” — In a remembered scene after rescuing a white fledgling 3915.

“You want to touch her? Step over my corpse first.” — While protecting a companion from a Nascent Soul opponent in the Life-and-Death Arena 3915.