Yu Mo

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Early Life and Loss of His Legs

Yu Mo was widely treated as a descendant of Sage Yu Yongyan. That ancestry carried substantial political weight: it helped establish his authority in Sin City and was cited as the reason he should not be executed after the Ink City purges 601 683.

He lost both legs while searching the Divine Ruins for cultivation techniques. This experience informed his recognition of Yu Sheng’s achievement in obtaining a technique for humanity; he told Yu Sheng that the entire Human Race owed him, regardless of his original motives 1011.

Light Group Purges

As the Light Group’s leader, Yu Mo pursued people who used military merit and inherited privilege to commit crimes. He confronted Zhang Qing over murder, abduction, and collusion with the Guard Bureau, then invoked an ancestral Pardon token and killed the Sixth Awakening offender with five swords 268 269.

Yu Mo understood that the purges would make the Light Group hated. After an earlier public bloodshed, he warned that its name might soon become universally reviled 261.

The conflict escalated into mass executions in Ink City. Yu Mo read prisoners’ names while Light Group members carried out the killings, continuing for nearly two hours before he ordered another batch into the square. With the Reserve Corps away on live combat exercises, he held almost unrestricted control unless a Ninth Awakening expert intervened 596.

When the Judgment Squad confronted him, Yu Mo denied being brainwashed or threatened and accepted sole responsibility. He claimed to have acted for fame and profit, while acknowledging that he had tried to overturn the world despite knowing he might fail. The official verdict condemned his actions as abuses of authority and the slaughter of innocents, but invoked Yu Yongyan’s service when explaining why he would not be executed outright 599 601.

Sin City

Yu Mo subsequently entered Sin City with Yu Sheng and Shi Guang as his paid escorts. Many prisoners he had sent there wanted him dead, and his sealed energy left him physically vulnerable. His escorts’ independent decisions repeatedly disrupted his attempts to control his own entrance and public image 603 604 605 606.

Inside the city, he cultivated contacts among influential residents and survived an encounter with the Confucian Scholar, who nearly strangled him. Yu Mo challenged the Scholar’s reasoning and gradually redirected his fixation toward gathering incense and guiding people toward goodness 618 622 659 663.

Yu Mo negotiated five Exit-the-City Quotas from Old Man in exchange for sending 2,000 people into Sin City annually. Control over the promised quotas gave him leverage over residents whose strength far exceeded his own. He also secured Chu Huai’s departure after testing his concern for the people he would leave behind 685 690 702.

Before leaving, Yu Mo reflected that the city’s seal had allowed him an unusual sense of freedom and selfhood. The residents were relieved to see him go, although they admitted that his noisy presence had brought warmth to the city 709.

War Against the Demon Domain

Yu Mo helped direct humanity’s war through intelligence gathering, feints, and resource planning. He exploited information gaps to seek a year of peace, monitored the Demon Domain’s communication speed, and ordered conspicuous reinforcements while secretly watching routes out of human cities 490 492.

He made Yu Sheng central to humanity’s long-term prospects. He entrusted him with retrieving the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit, helped arrange resources for his advancement, and proposed intensive instruction from Eighth Awakening experts followed by a Demon God Demon Crystal. He also told Yu Sheng that he would take over as Ink Pavilion Head after reaching the Seventh Awakening 755 1147 1189.

His strategic rivalry with Old White Ape extended from battlefield maneuvers to telephone exchanges and mutual suspicion. Although willing to host the demon inside Demon-Suppressing Pass, Yu Mo remained alert to intelligence leaks and repeatedly tried to extract information without offering an equivalent concession 1121 1251 1307 1366.

Yu Mo’s confidence had limits. When a Demon God threatened a battlefield involving Yu Sheng, he recognized that his Sixth Awakening strength left him unable to intervene. Having already dispatched the Confucian Scholar elsewhere, he could only pray for Yu Sheng’s safe return 1462.

Later, he encouraged Yu Sheng to pursue his own path and decided to enter the final Grand Feast as an independent third-party force 1495.

Final Actions and Death

As the final conflict approached, Yu Mo continued using the Light Group against powerful human interests. He arranged for influential figures to be sent to Sin City, threatened consequences if their families retaliated, and left Chu Huai to manage the aftermath 1604 1605.

Yu Mo obtained Yu Sheng’s promise to give him a dignified death when the time came. He told Xin Yongfeng that what frightened him was not simply being killed by his many enemies, but failing to die at the hands of the particular person he wanted 1586.

After humanity’s victory, Yu Mo confessed his deceptions to the Confucian Scholar on video. He denied being a Yu Clan descendant and said that some actions and roads had to be undertaken by someone. He asked to be buried where his teacher had stayed, then died at Demon-Suppressing Pass. The Confucian Scholar buried him at Skyvault Ravine and withdrew from the Human Race 1669.

Appearance

• Missing both legs: Uses a wheelchair, usually with a blanket covering his lower body 618 987 1011.
• Pale and physically frail: His lack of energy in Sin City exposed the weakness of his body, including visibly withering arms 269 618.
• Controlled expression: Frequently maintains a gentle smile even while facing hostility, issuing threats, or overseeing executions 595 596 604.
• Staged signs of illness: Dyed his hair salt-and-pepper and arranged his posture and surroundings to appear frail when meeting Yu Sheng 1145.

Personality

Yu Mo combines courtesy, theatricality, and calculated cruelty. His gentle tone rarely indicates leniency: he smiles while threatening opponents, commanding executions, and exploiting emotional weaknesses. He is also willing to use torture, including having steel needles hooked against Sister Wang’s eyelids to prevent her from sleeping during an interrogation 596 702 1233.

He treats emotional performance as a practical tool. He fabricates family histories, stages illness, and produces carefully timed tears to influence others. Yu Sheng’s restrained responses repeatedly frustrate him, while Shi Guang’s indifference can collapse an elaborate tragic story into bored silence 754 990 1145 1261.

His public reputation does not fully describe his private conduct. People who work closely with him can find him considerate, humorous, and committed to humanity, but the public generally interprets favorable accounts as attempts to repair his image. Yu Mo considers maintaining a villainous performance at every moment unnecessary and exhausting 1253.

Beneath his confidence, he experiences guilt and isolation. He questions whether accepting another person’s death has made him genuinely part of the darkness he claims to oppose. He also recognizes a similarity between himself and Yu Sheng: both want to embrace the world, yet neither can completely trust it 1284 1459.

Abilities & Skills

Sword Awakening Object

Yu Mo manifests a blood-red longsword that splits into multiple independently controlled swords. Unlike the conventional Fourth Awakening method he describes, he does not merge his Awakening Object into his body 269.

• Remote attacks: Pursues fleeing targets while Yu Mo remains seated 269.
• Sword formations: Coordinates several swords to confine an opponent and restrict movement 984.
• Defensive control: Combines four swords into a shield while directing two others toward an enemy’s eyes 985.
• Limits: Rui broke his six-sword formation through brute force, overturned his wheelchair, and left him with a broken rib and internal injuries 985 987.
• Variable summoning order: Shadowless is the fifth sword used against Zhang Qing but the third named against Rui 269 984.

Strategy and Intelligence Analysis

Yu Mo builds plans around enemy psychology, information asymmetry, and the coordination of stronger allies.

• Battlefield deception: Orders highly visible reinforcements to create an impression of urgency 492.
• Counterintelligence: Investigates Soul Hunt’s infiltration of Spirit Mind Academy and proposes detaining the Lawless Outlaws Specialty Store’s owner 386.
• Ability deduction: Compares Yu Sheng’s publicly known skills and aura to suggest that he may possess a dual awakening 329.
• Long-term preparation: Incorporates cultivation techniques, resource stockpiles, and Yu Sheng’s growth into plans for a future counterattack 905 966 1147.
• Limits: Cannot reliably compensate for overwhelming power; he explicitly acknowledges this when a Demon God threatens to overturn his plans 1462.

Negotiation and Psychological Manipulation

Yu Mo alternates between incentives, flattery, deception, and intimidation according to his target.

• Uses coveted exit quotas to command attention from Sin City’s strongest residents 683 685.
• Encourages the Confucian Scholar’s pursuit of incense to redirect his behavior 659 663.
• Fabricates stories of being Yu Sheng’s and Shi Guang’s biological older brother 754 990.
• Threatens an expert’s granddaughter to force cooperation in identifying a recorded creature 1329.
• Can misjudge experienced opponents: both Yu Sanshui and the Black Market’s founder recognize attempts to manipulate them 846 1600.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wheelchair: A powered chair with buttons, remote-control operation, and a reclining configuration for sleep. Shi Guang can maneuver it during combat; Yu Mo can also use energy to control it 605 606 618 1276.
• Ancestral Pardon token: Presented as allowing him to kill without criminal liability; used when confronting Zhang Qing and a Guard Bureau official 269.
• Sage Yu Yongyan’s medal: Used to persuade Demon-Suppressing Pass’s garrison commander to admit Old White Ape 1121.
• Five Red Threads: Left in his hand after his agreement with Old Man over five Exit-the-City Quotas 690.
• Demon Lord Level Demon Crystals: Offered to the Black Market’s founder as payment for business instruction 1598.

Relationships

• Yu Sheng — Trusted ally whom Yu Mo persistently calls his little brother. His claim of biological brotherhood was fabricated; he later justified the title through his relationship with Yu Sanshui. He supports Yu Sheng’s cultivation, encourages his attachment to friends, and entrusts him with humanity’s hopes 754 755 910 1011 1147.
• Confucian Scholar — Powerful companion and bodyguard recruited in Sin City. Yu Mo manipulates his beliefs, but the relationship develops into lasting attachment. The Scholar protects him when able, transports his wheelchair, and ultimately buries him 659 696 1305 1669.
• Shi Guang — Escort and ally who operates his wheelchair and repeatedly undermines his theatrical presentations. Yu Mo unsuccessfully tries to draw emotional reactions from her with invented family stories 604 606 984 990.
• Yu Sanshui — Godfather and dangerous conversational opponent. Yu Mo eagerly accepts the connection to a Ninth Awakening expert, but Yu Sanshui sees through his flattery and fabricated accounts 846 858 1300.
• Chu Huai — Recruited from Sin City and entrusted with difficult operations, including pursuing Soul Hunt and handling the consequences of Yu Mo’s purges 702 1495 1605.
• Sun Yingxiong — Senior collaborator in Ink Pavilion affairs. Sun explicitly states that he trusts Yu Mo for who he is, rather than because of his surname 325 746.
• Old White Ape — Strategic rival with whom he exchanges hospitality, threats, information offers, and layers of mutual suspicion 1121 1251 1307 1366.
• Yu Yongyan — Sage publicly identified as Yu Mo’s ancestor. Yu Mo uses the connection’s authority but rejects the idea that ancestry determines his character; he denies the lineage in his final confession 599 601 702 1669.
• Zong Ren — Sin City operative whom Yu Mo sends on further missions despite his injuries, while arranging treatment through the Confucian Scholar 663.

Notable Quotes

“He was himself. I am myself. You can’t lump us together. I am Yu Mo.” 599

“I have. But I still had to try.”
— Answering whether he had considered that he alone could not overturn the world 599

“Some things have to be done by someone. Some roads have to be walked by someone.” 1669