Ye Fan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Life in the Jade Cloud Sect

Ye Fan was born into a prominent cultivation family: his grandfather was the Jade Cloud Sect’s master, his father an elder, and his older brother an elite disciple. His birth coincided with the Violet Star’s fall and extraordinary heavenly phenomena, leading the sect to expect a prodigy. At five, however, he was found to have no spiritual roots 1.

His family continued to support him, and he freely accessed the sect’s scripture pavilion. After reading every scroll, he became an expert in cultivation theory. His advice helped his mother, Jiang Hanzhu, reach Golden Core, increased the alchemy elder’s success rate by twenty percentage points, and helped Ye Qixian master the Nine Heavens Sword Art 1.

Despite his knowledge and nine-colored divine soul, he could not cultivate. While traveling to end an engagement arranged before his birth, he was caught in a fight between two Foundation Establishment cultivators and killed by their battle’s shock waves 1.

Transmigration to Earth

Ye Fan awakened in the hospitalized body of a man with the same name. Within five days, he integrated the original owner’s memories and discovered that his new body could cultivate 1.

The original owner was the son of Ye Hongwen of the Ye Family and Wu Ying of the Wu Family. Wu Ying died giving birth to him, and he grew up under the care of his scheming stepmother, Wang Xiaofei. A staged prostitution scandal led to his expulsion from the Ye Family; his death from sleeping pills was misrepresented as recreational drug use. Ye Zhize’s later account confirms that he had arranged the “Beauty Trap” that ruined Ye Fan’s reputation 1 11 33.

Ye Fan inherited roughly five hundred thousand yuan and an apartment left by his mother. He chose not to accept the Ye Family’s authority or reconcile with Ye Hongwen, recognizing only his previous-life father, Ye Hongcheng, as his father 1 5 34.

Appearance

• Handsome young man: Both hospital staff and Master Yuan comment on his good looks 1 3.
• Changed expression and bearing: After transmigration, his bright eyes and cheerful manner contrast with the original owner’s gloomy, downcast demeanor 2.
• Informal clothing: Appears in casual clothes at his talisman stall and receives visitors in cartoon pajamas 3 12.
• Conspicuous hairstyle: Travels to Capital City with a flashy hairstyle, then asks to have it dyed black after Bai Yunxi compares him to a wild pheasant 36 39.

Personality

Ye Fan is exuberantly confident in his intelligence, appearance, and abilities. He openly calls himself a genius and often assumes that other people find him attractive. His bluntness and poor social tact repeatedly offend others, particularly Bai Yunxi’s relatives, even when he intends to impress or reassure them 6 10 23 42 45.

He is practical about money because cultivation consumes expensive medicinal resources. He bargains over purchases, charges substantial fees for supernatural treatment, and sometimes demands payment upfront. Nevertheless, he gives protective items to relatives and allies, including Wu Haoqiang and Bai Momo 3 13 28 40 48.

He reacts fiercely to humiliation and intrusion. Having experienced the dangers of interrupted cultivation, he treats Ye Yinglan’s forced entry as a serious threat and violently expels her party. In contrast, his pursuit of Bai Yunxi is persistent and openly affectionate, with gifts and medical care accompanying his boastful declarations 13 17 38.

Abilities & Skills

Nine-Colored Divine Soul

His divine soul provides exceptional memory and resistance to ordinary soul attacks 6 27.

• Remembers anything he sees and reads illustrated plant guides at extraordinary speed 6.
• Withstands the Palace-Dressed Zombie’s soul attack without dodging; the attacking construct disintegrates, injuring her ghostly soul 27.
• Is associated with rare talent in alchemy, artifact refinement, talisman crafting, formations, and beast taming, although his original lack of cultivation prevented him from fully using that potential 1.

Nine Heavens Myriad Things Art

The Heavenly Dao transmitted this cultivation art to Ye Fan at birth. It refines all things and is suited to mixed spiritual roots containing all eight attributes 47.

• His Earth body has metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, and ice roots 47.
• These roots ordinarily indicate extremely poor cultivation aptitude, but provide more abundant spiritual qi than peers at the same level 47.
• He supplements scarce ambient qi with medicinal baths, blood ginseng, and the Qi-Gathering Turtle 2 5 11.
• Corpse qi becomes another usable cultivation resource after he treats the special forces soldiers 46.

Cultivation Theory and Analysis

His scripture-pavilion studies give him knowledge far beyond his initial cultivation level 1.

• Identifies bottlenecks in cultivation, alchemy, and sword techniques 1.
• Recognizes spiritual herbs and materials, including blood ginseng, purple bloodwood, darkening wood, and yin soul thread 9 31 47.
• Detects ghostly energy, dangerous yin concentrations, and a depleted spiritual vein 6 23.
• Deciphers a tomb inscription at a glance and identifies its associated antique as an evil artifact 22.

Talisman Crafting

Ye Fan knows how to draw difficult talismans, but usable spiritual talismans require enough spiritual power to activate them. During his first attempts on Earth, each successful talisman exhausts his entire supply 3.

• Initially cannot make a Ghost-Expelling Talisman because his cultivation is too low 6.
• Early Peace and Illness-Expelling Talismans can keep Song Bohui alive temporarily, but cannot resolve his possession by themselves 8.

Formations and Artifact Refinement

He engraves formations into jade and other objects to create protective artifacts 15 38.

• Jade pendants: Provide protection and health-enhancing effects; Wu Haoqiang’s pendant repels an attacking dog 15 27.
• Finite protective charge: A pendant stops working when its spiritual radiance is exhausted. After Wu Haoqiang’s first activation, Ye Fan estimates two or three uses remain 28.
• Concealment formations: One bead in Bai Yunxi’s bracelet hides him from ghosts unless he approaches a malicious one closely 46.
• Defensive formations: Protect his entrance during pill refinement and prevent ghosts from interrupting his artifact crafting 35 49.
• Yin Ghost Banner: Captures the ghosts occupying Villa 18 49.

Medicine and Alchemy

His treatments address physical ailments, supernatural contamination, and constitution-related problems 9 13 30 40.

• Writes a yang-restoring herbal prescription after the ghost incident, while warning that stronger medicine would exceed Qian Yu’s tolerance 9 10.
• Recognizes Bai Yunxi’s ice marrow constitution and prescribes medicine to ease his cold attacks 13.
• Refines a Detoxification Pill that cures Tang Yongjin’s poison 30.
• Provides Xiao Chi with Tenfold Tonic Pills, instructing him to take one every seven days 48.
• Extracts Zhang Siliang’s mother-and-child heartbond gu by luring it into a medicinal cauldron 40.

Exorcism and Combat

Ye Fan combines spiritual perception, talismans, artifacts, spells, and physical attacks 8 25 46.

• Forces the Red-Clothed Female Ghost out of Song Bohui, binds her, and seals her in a talisman 8.
• Immobilizes Ye Pengfei and inflicts pain through acupoint pressure 2.
• Pins a venomous snake to a tree with a thrown fruit knife 23.
• Defeats Zhang Xuan first with a spiritually reinforced punch, then with a Wind Break spell 46.
• Avoids pursuing the injured Palace-Dressed Zombie because her eighteen guardians could surround him 27.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Qi-Gathering Turtle — Rare spirit beast purchased from an aquatic livestock shop. Improves his cultivation efficiency, though his body initially reaches its absorption limit after two hours of daily cultivation 5.
• Talisman-making supplies — Talisman Brush, Talisman Paper, Cinnabar Ink, stamp paste, and Fortune Bags purchased for his first business 3.
• Blood ginseng — A three-million-yuan cultivation resource divided into ten portions. Each portion supplies spiritual energy equivalent to four or five days of his usual cultivation 11.
• Purple bloodwood carving — Spiritual material obtained from Tang Yongjin’s collection, sufficient for several Purple Blood Pills; its supplier has no more wood available 31.
• Yin Ghost Banner — Artifact refined after obtaining materials from the military warehouse; used to clear the ghosts from Villa 18 47 49.
• Protective jade artifacts — Made for the Wu Family, Bai Yunxi, Bai Yunfei, and Bai Momo 13 28 42 48.
• Fortune Bead Bracelet — Given to Bai Yunxi as a replacement for his nearly depleted Buddha Amulet; contains protective and concealment formations 38 46.

Relationships

Family

• Ye Hongcheng — Previous-life father and Jade Cloud Sect elder; the only man Ye Fan acknowledges as his father after transmigration 1 34.
• Jiang Hanzhu — Previous-life mother; his guidance helped her overcome a bottleneck and become a Golden Core elder 1.
• Ye Qixian — Older brother in his previous life; benefited from Ye Fan’s guidance on the Nine Heavens Sword Art 1.
• Wu Ying — His Earth body’s mother; died giving birth to the original owner and left him an apartment 1 5 11.
• Ye Hongwen — His Earth body’s father; favors Ye Zhize and fails to clear Ye Fan’s name. Ye Fan rejects his authority and refuses him entry to his villa 11 34.
• Wang Xiaofei — Stepmother who undermined the original owner while maintaining an outwardly caring appearance 1 35.
• Ye Zhize — Half-brother and rival; arranged the scandal that destroyed the original owner’s reputation and later hired people to spread further rumors 2 33.
• Ye Yinglan — Younger sister and repeated antagonist; confronts him over his money and later forces entry into his cultivation space 9 17.
• Ye Dinghong — Earth-side grandfather; defends Ye Fan against Ye Yinglan’s complaints and later urges Ye Hongwen to bring him home 11 33.
• Wu Sihan — Maternal cousin and supporter; gives him a secure villa, arranges medicinal supplies, and increasingly respects his abilities 20 28 34.
• Wu Haoqiang — Young nephew; becomes an enthusiastic admirer of his talismans and is rescued by him from kidnappers 15 20.

Romance, Allies, and Clients

• Bai Yunxi — Romantic interest whom Ye Fan falls for at first sight. Ye Fan repeatedly calls himself Bai Yunxi’s boyfriend or refers to him as his wife, but no marriage is established in the supplied chapters. Bai Yunxi trusts his medicine and feels safer in his presence 14 33 42 48.
• Liao Tingting — The original owner’s former fiancée, whose prospective husband changed to Ye Zhize after the scandal. Ye Fan rejects both reconciliation and her later invitation to dine 4 15 36.
• Zhou Jinzhi — Patron who delivers his gift to Bai Yunxi, recommends him for the archaeological expedition, and refers Tang Yongjin for treatment 13 22 28.
• Jiang Hailin, Qian Yu, and Song Bohui — Early customers and supporters connected through the ghost-possession case. Qian Yu also helps obtain medicinal herbs and transport Wu Haoqiang home 6 8 17 20.
• Tang Yongjin — Wealthy patient cured by Ye Fan; pays fifty million yuan and gives him access to his antique collection 30 31 34.
• Zhang Wentao — Dragon Tiger Mountain practitioner, talisman buyer, and intermediary for treating the military’s afflicted soldiers 25 44 46.
• Zhang Xuan — Competitive Dragon Tiger Mountain adept defeated twice by Ye Fan; later accompanies him to investigate the ghost threatening Bai Momo 46 50.
• Xiao Chi — Bai Yunxi’s maternal grandfather; frequently irritated by Ye Fan’s behavior but recognizes his unusual abilities 23 27.
• Bai Momo — Bai Yunxi’s niece; receives a protective pendant and thanks Ye Fan after it saves her from disaster 48 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Establishing a Cultivation Income

• Starts selling talismans beneath the Red Star Building overpass to fund medicinal cultivation 3.
• Sells Jiang Hailin ten talismans for five hundred thousand yuan, then earns twelve million from the case involving Song Bohui’s possession 6 8 9.
• Uses his earnings to obtain blood ginseng and other costly cultivation resources 9 11.

Archaeological Expedition

• Joins the expedition through Zhou Jinzhi’s recommendation and deciphers the inscription describing a princess buried with eighteen husbands 22.
• Warns that the tomb’s dense yin energy could kill expedition members and protects Bai Yunxi from a Millennium Zombie 23 25.
• Helps the team evacuate by supplying Illness-Expelling Talismans, then remains nearby to search for spiritual herbs 25 26 27.

Rising Influence in Cang City

• Cures Tang Yongjin, whose business group subsequently partners with the Wu Family rather than the Liao Family 30.
• Receives a secure villa from Wu Sihan, fifty million yuan for Tang Yongjin’s treatment, and another twenty million from the Wu Family for his contribution to their project 28 34.
• Refuses the Ye Family’s attempts to regain access to him as his reputation improves 34 35.

Capital City and Villa 18

• Moves to Capital City to watch over Bai Yunxi as his Heavenly Yin Constitution begins attracting supernatural threats 36 38.
• Removes Zhang Siliang’s heartbond gu for an agreed fifty-million-yuan fee 40.
• Buys Villa 18 near Bai Yunxi’s company for three million yuan despite its murder history and hauntings. He identifies a Yin-Gathering Formation drawing roughly forty or fifty ghosts to it 43 48.
• Treats corpse-qi-afflicted soldiers in exchange for access to unusual materials, refines the Yin Ghost Banner, and captures the villa’s ghosts 44 46 47 49.
• Begins tracking the Starved Ghost threatening Bai Momo, with Zhang Xuan accompanying him 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“I don't like men. I just happened to fall in love with Young Master Bai at first sight!” 14

“What an idiot! You actually used a soul attack against me.” 27

“Of course I came when you asked! If you're scared, I'll lend you my shoulder. Lean on it all you like.” 48

Trivia

• His enthusiasm for Earth’s food follows more than twenty years of taking Grain-Suppression Pills in the Jade Cloud Sect. The candied hawthorn beside his first stall is for him to eat, not to sell 3.
• Qian Yu invents Bai Yunxi’s supposed requirements—tens of billions in wealth and extraordinary combat ability—and Ye Fan takes them seriously as courtship goals 10 13 14.
• He disguises his own talisman-making ability by telling Yang Fei that an “unrivaled master” gave him the talismans 26.