Qingfeng

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Qingfeng was White Cloud Abbey’s eldest senior brother and initially its only true disciple under Daoist Chongyun. Unlike the nominal disciples, he could address Chongyun as “Master.” He performed rituals for wealthy households and had spent the preceding two years catching Yin Spirits with Chongyun and bringing them back to the abbey for sealing and purification 4 8.

When Wang Yu joined the abbey, Qingfeng was away performing rituals. He returned carrying supplies, including a bundle requested by Dongyue’s father that had required a half-day detour. That night, he enlisted Wang Yu’s help in sealing a Yin Spirit because Wang Yu possessed spiritual perception 4 6 7 8.

The next morning, Qingfeng recognized Wang Yu’s sudden physical transformation as a possible bloodline awakening. He brought him to Chongyun and urged the master to accept him as a direct disciple. After Wang Yu’s acceptance, Qingfeng taught him the basic knowledge needed to begin cultivation 8 9 10.

Death

Qingfeng left the abbey with Chongyun after an Emerald Little Bird arrived. That night, attackers threw his severed head through the abbey gate before ordering Wang Yu and Dongyue killed. A white-robed young man subsequently claimed responsibility for Qingfeng’s death and said Qingfeng had refused him before being killed 12 13.

Chongyun later explained that he had been poisoned during the outing and besieged by several powerful enemies, blaming himself for Qingfeng’s death. The pursuit stemmed from an enemy seeking Chongyun’s Foundation Establishment treasure. Wang Yu, aided by the Taiyuan Auxiliary System, killed the white-robed young man 14 15.

The treasure was Clear Spirit Liquid, the unused remainder of a Foundation Establishment aid Chongyun had obtained before fleeing to Yellowstone City. Chongyun explained that his enemy had tracked him down and bribed local Rogue Cultivators to attack him. Martial Uncle Huang subsequently admitted that the Huang Household had sided with Chongyun’s enemy, although he denied personally joining the ambush. Chongyun killed Huang with Shadow-Splitting Sword Light before dying from his own injuries 15.

Posthumous Influence

Qingfeng’s instruction continued to influence Wang Yu after his death. Wang Yu kept the Thunderwood Sword on his person after learning about Yin Spirits, and Qingfeng’s demonstration of Firefly later prompted him to choose that spell as his first subject of independent spell study 12 20.

When teaching teenagers at a base on Blue Star, Wang Yu repeated Qingfeng’s explanation of spiritual perception, divine sense, and sensing Heaven and Earth spiritual energy. Qingfeng’s introductory cultivation lesson thus became part of Wang Yu’s own teaching 72.

Appearance

Qingfeng appears as a young Daoist in his twenties 6.

• Facial features: Sword-like brows, large eyes, and fair skin 6.
• Equipment worn: A black iron staff strapped to his back when he returns to the abbey 6.

Personality

Qingfeng’s manner is cold and curt, and Dongyue initially describes him as difficult to approach. However, Dongyue also insists that beneath his cold face is a warm heart, citing his willingness to fetch supplies despite the inconvenient detour 4 6.

His treatment of Wang Yu supports that assessment: he offers practical advice, protects him from a charging Yin Spirit, rewards his assistance, and advocates for his admission as Chongyun’s direct disciple. Chongyun explicitly describes Qingfeng as levelheaded 7 8 9.

When entrusted with Wang Yu’s basic cultivation education, Qingfeng explicitly promises not to hold anything back. He also argues that even a half-awakened bodily bloodline makes Wang Yu a valuable prospective disciple and can help him begin practicing certain cultivation methods and secret arts 9 10.

According to the white-robed young man who killed him, Qingfeng remained defiant when questioned, giving a refusal similar to Wang Yu’s denial of knowledge about Chongyun’s treasure 13.

Abilities & Skills

Yin Water Art

Qingfeng cultivates White Cloud Abbey’s foundational Yin Water Art and possesses dharma power 8 11.

• Reached its third level and formed a spiritual root 11.
• Sustained his first cultivation session for one-third longer than Wang Yu’s initial incense-stick-length session 11.
• Informs Wang Yu that the Yin Water Art contains twelve levels 11.
• Chongyun later confirms that Qingfeng belongs to the Qi Refining Realm, the first major realm of immortal cultivation 15.

Spiritual Perception and Cultivation Instruction

Qingfeng can perceive Yin Spirits, which ordinary people without spiritual perception cannot see 8.

• Teaches Wang Yu meridians, acupoints, cultivation precautions, and the use of a Spirit Seed to sense spiritual energy 10.
• Guides Wang Yu until he successfully perceives spiritual energy through divine sense 10.
• Recognizes signs of bloodline awakening, but leaves the identification of Wang Yu’s specific bloodline to Chongyun 8 9.
• Explains spiritual perception as the mind’s sense of touch and divine sense as the union of mind and spiritual perception, a form of active consciousness that can be used and depleted. His exercise asks the learner to put aside distractions, imagine an empty void, and carefully sense what exists around them; Wang Yu later repeats this instruction to his own students 72.

Yin Spirit Suppression

Qingfeng captures, suppresses, and seals Yin Spirits for later purification 8.

• Activates a lightning-struck wooden token with dharma power to repel and weaken a Yin Spirit 7 8.
• Drives the weakened spirit into bloody meat, then uses Wang Yu’s Thunderwood Sword strike and a yellow talisman to immobilize it 7 8.
• Checks the seals on the abbey’s stored Yin Spirits 8.
• Removes the talismans securing the stone building’s bronze lock with a murmured utterance and a hand movement that produces faint white light, then opens the lock with a key 7.
• Offers to teach Wang Yu non-secret suppression methods because he urgently needs another helper with spiritual perception. Chongyun later replaces this proposed instruction with foundational cultivation training 8 9.
• Explains that Yin Spirits are instinct-driven, low-intelligence vicious spirits born from yin energy, capable of causing serious illness or death if they enter an ordinary person. He also notes that their numbers have increased in recent years for unspecified special reasons 8.

Firefly Spell

Qingfeng demonstrates Firefly, a basic Parlor Trick Art 11.

• Produces a tiny flame on his finger after reciting an incantation 11.
• His demonstration makes Firefly Wang Yu’s first choice when studying spells independently 20.

Martial Arts

• Dongyue regards Qingfeng’s martial skill as superior to his own 4.
• Qingfeng carries a black iron staff, though the provided passages do not identify his staff technique 6.
• After Wang Yu lifts a stone cauldron estimated to weigh three or four hundred jin, Qingfeng tests it by gripping its rim with one hand. He can only make it rock slightly, prompting him to take Wang Yu to Chongyun immediately 8.

Medicinal Meat Knowledge

• Advises Wang Yu that medicinal meat has its strongest effects during the first few uses; later improvements require sustained consumption over a longer period 7.
• Recommends exercising extensively over the following days to make the most of a first serving 7.
• Recognizes that medicinal meat alone cannot explain Wang Yu’s drastic overnight changes in height and appearance 8.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Lightning-struck wooden token — Made from hundred-year-old lightning-struck wood; releases lightning when activated with dharma power. The lightning used against the Yin Spirit comes from this object, not a spell 8.
• Thunderwood Sword — A small black wooden sword made from scraps of lightning-struck wood. It wards off evil but cannot release lightning because it lacks inscriptions. Qingfeng gives it to Wang Yu as payment for his help 7 8. Wang Yu subsequently keeps it on his person as protection against Yin Spirits 12.
• Yellow talismans — Used to seal Yin Spirits and secure the abbey’s stone building 7 8.
• Yellow jar — A talisman-sealed container with a cloth-covered mouth, used to hold a captured Yin Spirit 7 8.
• Bronze mirror — Lent to Wang Yu to inspect his changed face, then left with Chongyun for further examination 8 9.
• Black iron staff — Carried on his back upon his return to the abbey 6.

Relationships

• Daoist Chongyun — Master. Captures Yin Spirits alongside Qingfeng, trusts his judgment, and later expresses responsibility for his death 4 8 14. Chongyun confirms that Qingfeng and Wang Yu were the only two direct disciples he accepted at White Cloud Abbey 15.
• Wang Yu / Autumn Leaf — Junior brother and cultivation student. Qingfeng protects him, gives him an evil-warding sword, and helps secure his acceptance as Chongyun’s second direct disciple 7 8 9 10. Wang Yu later passes Qingfeng’s explanation of spiritual perception and divine sense on to students on Blue Star 72.
• Dongyue — Junior abbey disciple. Qingfeng calls him lazy but retrieves supplies for him; Dongyue defends Qingfeng’s kindness despite his cold manner 6.
• White-robed young man — His self-confessed killer, later identified as Martial Uncle Huang’s nephew. Threatens Wang Yu with the same fate before being killed through Taiyuan’s intervention 13 14 15.
• Martial Uncle Huang — An acquaintance of Chongyun who refers to Qingfeng as his martial nephew during a visit to White Cloud Abbey. His nephew later claims to have killed Qingfeng, and Huang admits that his household aligned itself with Chongyun’s enemy 11 13 15.

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