Yu Bu'e

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Yu Bu'e grew up in an old apartment building and inherited the family apartment after his parents died. One parent had been a doctor and the other a university professor; their savings could support him through university if carefully managed 2.

Three years before the main events, a demon beast attack killed his parents. His younger sister, Yu Xiaoxi, disappeared, and her body was never found 6. At fifteen, he struggled with grief, considered ending his life, and saw his grades deteriorate. After he entered high school, Gu Ming and his wife provided meals, clothes, and private lessons, helping him regain hope and learn to live independently 29.

Despite limited martial aptitude, Yu Bu'e practiced the Meridian-Opening Fist almost every day, through both summer heat and winter cold. His academic achievements earned him guaranteed admission to the Insight Academy, but he continued pursuing the Martial Arts Academy as a route into the Demon-Slaying Army 1 2 3.

By Chapter 2, his system had been bound to him for seven days. Initially, he had collected only 650 Jealousy Points; publicly holding hands with Luo Feixuan raised that total to 7,810 and allowed him to begin drawing prizes 2.

Appearance

Yu Bu'e is described as clean-cut, with a sharply defined profile 1 2.

• Height: Six feet tall 1.
• Hair and features: Neat, short hair, bright eyes, and a straight nose 1.
• After body tempering: More defined muscles and a healthier complexion 36.
• Recognizable accessory: Wears eight Meridian-Opening Pills threaded into a necklace to attract attention 4.

Personality

Yu Bu'e’s conspicuous boasting is largely deliberate: he provokes jealousy because it directly funds his cultivation. He adjusts his methods when classmates become accustomed to his displays, moving from academic bragging and apparent romance to pills, awards, and demon beast trophies. Wu Yang notes that this attention-seeking behavior differs from his previous habits 1 8 12 21.

He is persistent in training but does not blindly equate effort with success. After his breakthrough, he privately questions Bai Qingqu’s claim that hard work alone guarantees achievement, remembering how little his earlier diligence had accomplished 2 24.

His gratitude and consideration can outweigh his desire for points. He arranges help for Gu Ming without forcing his teacher to accept an obvious favor, respects Luo Feixuan’s privacy, and conceals his stay at her apartment to protect her reputation—even though revealing it would earn substantial jealousy 29 36 37.

Although confident when teasing classmates, he becomes visibly flustered by Luo Feixuan’s direct romantic advances. His usual gentleness also gives way to intense aggression toward demon beasts or anyone who insults his dead parents 6 23 38 40.

Abilities & Skills

Jealousy-Point System

An unnamed system converts other people’s jealousy into points that Yu Bu'e can spend on prizes or martial arts improvement 1.

• Lucky Prize Wheel: Costs 1,000 Jealousy Points per spin; documented rewards include Meridian-Opening Pills and Evil-Slayer 1 3 18.
• Martial arts infusion: Invests points into techniques he already knows, transmitting knowledge and improving proficiency 1 5.
• Increasing costs: Higher proficiency requires more points; advancing beyond Complete mastery takes 35,000 additional points 17.
• Locked shop: Initially unavailable and requires a system upgrade 1.
• Declining returns: Repeated displays become less effective as his classmates grow accustomed to them 8.
• Privacy precautions: Performs draws and infusion at home because he worries about unusual effects and interruption; his first major infusion takes approximately half an hour 2 5.

Meridian-Opening Fist

Originally a basic school-taught exercise, Yu Bu'e’s system-enhanced version becomes an effective combat technique and a means of opening his remaining meridians 5 18 19.

• Mobilizes blood and vital energy with precise timing and power generation 5 7.
• Produces a temporary blood-and-qi reading of 1.7, which returns to normal after the routine 11.
• At its higher proficiency, improves qi awareness, breathing control, and perception; his practice creates air currents that lift fallen leaves 18.
• Uses fluid footwork and unexpected striking angles against an assassin at the ninth level of the Qi Refining Realm 32.
• Does not provide the qi-guiding method needed to absorb spiritual energy after entering the Qi Refining Realm 19.

Demon Race Research and Analysis

Yu Bu'e’s knowledge of demons is strong enough to secure guaranteed Insight Academy admission 1.

• Identifies a Spotted Blaze from its build, markings, toes, and tail 25.
• Recalls its maximum speed of 170 kilometers per hour and weaknesses: poor stamina, weak defenses around the abdomen, and fear of loud noises 25.

Combat Improvisation

Yu Bu'e combines his enhanced fist technique with opportunistic tactics rather than relying on raw strength alone 32.

• Redirects an ambushing dagger with a cookie tin, then counterattacks 32.
• Shouts for help both to attract assistance and to pressure his attacker 32.
• Conceals Evil-Slayer until the assassin has pinned him against a wall, then stabs the attacker in the neck 32.
• Remains physically outmatched by the ninth-level assassin, whose experience and strength allow him to corner and wound Yu Bu'e 32.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Evil-Slayer: A system-drawn short blade made entirely of kindling, including its handle. Its listed specifications are 20 cm long, 3 cm wide, 6 kg, and 100 durability. It has a deep-blue blade, dragon-scale patterns, a central groove, a diamond-patterned grip, and a leather sheath. Its edge cuts deeply into wood and slices rusty sheet metal with ease 18.
• Green Jade token: Obtained after the assassin’s death. Uncle Qing identifies it as both Shadowfeather Pavilion membership proof and a small storage artifact. It accepts metal objects: Yu Bu'e stores Evil-Slayer inside, but the sheath remains outside 32 33.
• Meridian-Opening Pills: Repeated prize-wheel rewards that he consumes, displays, sells, and offers for trade. His own pill improves his aptitude and contributes to opening three additional spirit meridians; claims that the pills revive the dead are student rumors, not demonstrated effects 3 10 15 49.
• Body-Tempering Medicine: Two packets prepared by Elder Guan for one million yuan, prescribed one packet per use with ten days between uses. His first medicinal bath heals his injuries 30 35.
• Family photograph: A picture of Yu Bu'e, his parents, and Yu Xiaoxi, kept beside a written declaration of his ambition to slay demons 3.
• Night Watch commendation: Receives a commemorative banner, certificate, and 50,000 yuan for helping kill a Two-Stripe Demon Beast 13 14.

Relationships

• Luo Feixuan — His pretend girlfriend initially agrees to a one-day arrangement for five hundred yuan and an answer about his dedication to martial arts. Their association develops into mutual support and increasingly direct flirtation; she assists his pill sales, cultivation preparations, protection, and recovery. They respect each other’s secrets, while their precise romantic status remains ambiguous 1 2 23 34 37 38.
• Wu Yang — Deskmate and close friend. Frequently becomes a target of Yu Bu'e’s teasing and a source of Jealousy Points, but is prepared to defend him and celebrates his cultivation progress 2 7 10 15.
• Gu Ming — Homeroom teacher whose care helped him recover from his family tragedy. Yu Bu'e plans with Luo Feixuan to get a Meridian-Opening Pill into Gu Ming’s hands without putting him in the position of asking for help 29 42.
• Bai Qingqu — Martial arts teacher who recognizes his diligence, celebrates his breakthrough, and offers further guidance on body tempering 9 24.
• Yu Xiaoxi — Younger sister, missing since the demon beast attack that killed their parents; her body was never recovered 6.
• Wang Chi and Tan Qin — Night Watchers who encounter him killing the wounded demon beast. They investigate his background, arrange his commendation, and later deliver the carcass he requests 6 13 14 21.
• Uncle Qing — Luo Feixuan’s protector, assigned to watch over Yu Bu'e. Rushes to his apartment during the assassination attempt and teaches him how to use the Green Jade token 28 32 33.
• Cheng Ruxin — Rival for Luo Feixuan’s attention. Yu Bu'e considers him bizarre rather than fundamentally bad; Cheng later rejects Zhai Zhili’s attempt to recruit him against Yu Bu'e 7 8 46.
• Xu Hu — Hostile classmate who mocks his martial prospects and resents his successes. Yu Bu'e repeatedly turns these confrontations into opportunities to provoke jealousy 8 10 11.
• Chen Sinian — Purchases a pill for 900,000 yuan and later affirms its value publicly. Warns Yu Bu'e that closeness to Luo Feixuan could bring danger 16 21 22.
• Chen Jiliao and Chen Qiao — Become threats after Yu Bu'e refuses Chen Jiliao’s offers of up to 1.5 million yuan for a pill. Chen Qiao orders that the pill be obtained by any means; Luo Feixuan subsequently suspects Chen Jiliao of hiring the assassin through Shadowfeather Pavilion 27 28 34.
• Tao Wenye and Aunt Xu — Former tutoring student and his mother. Yu Bu'e removes Tao Wenye from the scooter gang’s company and returns him home, acknowledging Aunt Xu’s earlier help 27 28.
• Zhai Zhili — Antagonist who directs classist insults at him. Yu Bu'e attacks him after he insults his dead parents; Zhai later tries to have him expelled from the auction 40 49.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Campus Fame and Pill Sales

• Turns his apparent relationship with Luo Feixuan into his first major source of Jealousy Points, then uses pill displays and cultivation results to sustain campus attention 2 4 11.
• Auctions a Meridian-Opening Pill to Chen Sinian for 900,000 yuan. Luo Feixuan later pays one million yuan for another pill in front of his classmates, as Yu Bu'e specifically requests 16 23.

Two-Stripe Demon Beast Incident

• Charges a wounded demon beast fleeing the Night Watchers and kills it with repeated punches 6.
• Requests that his commendation be held at school, then later borrows the carcass and carries it around campus to attract more attention 6 13 14 21.

Assassination and Recovery

• Survives an apartment ambush through his enhanced fist technique and concealed blade, despite sustaining wounds 32.
• Receives hospital treatment and temporarily stays at Luo Feixuan’s apartment while the Law Enforcement Team remains at his home 34.
• Recovers through medicinal body tempering and returns to school without revealing the overnight stay 35 36.

Brilliant Star Pavilion Auction

• Pursues body-tempering martial arts because studying another qi-guiding art would disqualify him from the Martial Arts Academy. Copyright restrictions also prevent Luo Feixuan from simply teaching him her own technique 23 48.
• Bids 3.5 million yuan on Hundred Demons Frolic, a four-star confidential body-tempering art developed by Xia Chengzhi. The supplied chapters do not establish a completed purchase 48.
• Offers eight Meridian-Opening Pills as trade goods when challenged over payment. Their appearance draws competing interest from guests, and Zhang Qiaosheng proposes an appraisal by Elder Guan 49.

Notable Quotes

“How can doing something you love and working toward your goals be a waste of time?” 2

“I would raise the Evil-Quelling Saber and slay every demon under heaven.”
— Written declaration beside his family photograph 3

“I want to keep a low profile too, but circumstances won't allow it...” 12