Ji Fenghe

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Power Progression

Appearance

Ji Fenghe is handsome and refined, with a sunny smile and a bearing compared to a jade tree in the breeze 4 18.

• Wears the blue-green robes of an outer disciple 4.
• Habitually carries and waves a folding fan, often fanning faster when agitated or astonished 5 13 19.
• His harmless-looking appearance leads Liang Kuang to underestimate him 43.

Personality

Ji Fenghe is sociable, generous, and eager for companionship. Before Ye Xuan joined Wood Spirit Peak, he and Zheng Huaiyuan had been its only residents for years, leaving him to talk to the medicinal herbs. He welcomes Ye Xuan enthusiastically, freely shares techniques and resources, and takes pride in being addressed as eldest senior brother 5 14.

Although normally laid-back and easily bored by prolonged cultivation, he can work obsessively when challenged. While improving his Qi Gathering Pills, he spends all but four hours each day refining pills. His impatience also becomes an obstacle: Ye Xuan identifies his unsettled mind as his greatest problem 5 16 31.

He enjoys teasing people and playing elaborate pranks. After personally suffering the effects of a Laughing Gas Pill, he promptly learns its formula and spreads the pills through the outer sect with Mo Qi 31 32. He is also competitive and reluctant to lose face, framing his request for Ye Xuan’s help against Mo Qi as a defense of Wood Spirit Peak’s reputation 17 18.

His affection for friends contrasts sharply with his treatment of enemies. He rushes to protect Mo Qi and Xiao Yu, but keeps Liang Kuang captive through repeated, agonizing poison experiments 43 44. His cultivation ambition is equally serious: after seeing Ao Jin, he changes his goal from matching Ling Ziling to reaching the Void Penetration Realm 15.

Abilities & Skills

Alchemy

Ji Fenghe is a talented alchemist who competes with Mo Qi for recognition as the outer sect’s leading alchemist of their generation. His early Qi Gathering Pills contain nearly twenty percent fewer impurities than those of other disciples and are sought after by Wood Moon Peak’s pill shops 4 17.

• Medicinal knowledge: Tests assistants on herb processing and medicinal properties; can identify pill ingredients by their fragrance 4 13 31.
• Training assignment: Receives one hundred pill formulas from Zheng Huaiyuan and a year to master them, including formulas for Foundation Establishment cultivators 13.
• Limitations: Initially uses excessive heat and inadequate purification, with additional problems in liquid condensation and pill formation. He later fails to match Mo Qi’s ninety-five-percent-potency Bone-Strengthening Pills within their three-day contest 5 17.

Poison Refining

Ji Fenghe develops rapidly as a poison specialist after learning about Ye Xuan’s unusual pills. Before entering the Spirit Medicine Realm, he can already concoct poisons that threaten Foundation Establishment cultivators 31 36 39.

• Laughing Gas Pills: Refines more than a dozen batches and grinds some into powder for pranks. The pills cause uncontrollable laughter rather than direct destructive damage 32.
• Mixed poisons: Uses colorless, odorless mixtures that disrupt Spiritual Qi control. His recorded test gives an onset time of ten breaths and a maximum survival time of thirty breaths after onset for an early Foundation Establishment victim without effective treatment 43.
• Antidotes and testing: Administers specially prepared antidotes to keep Liang Kuang alive, records results, and subsequently tests dozens of poisons on him 43 44.
• Area dispersal: Spreads invisible powder across a hundred-zhang radius while directing it around Mo Qi and Xiao Yu 44.
• Wind-assisted delivery: Conceals poison powder within the wind generated by his folding fan 45.
• Limits: His own supply of antidote pills does not immediately counter the poisons accidentally transferred from Ye Xuan’s shoulder 36.

Swordsmanship and Instruction

Ji Fenghe has practiced Azure Feather Swordsmanship for years and teaches Ye Xuan its first level, consisting of thirteen forms 19.

• Took one month to gain an initial grasp of the sword art 19.
• Demonstrates the first level three times, then serves as Ye Xuan’s sparring partner 19.
• Is disarmed in three moves twice, first while using peak sixth-layer strength and then peak seventh-layer strength 19.
• Can imitate much of the second level’s external form after Zheng Huaiyuan demonstrates it, but cannot immediately reproduce its Sword Intent 20.
• Recommends the Azure Feather Mental Cultivation Method, Clear Breeze Steps, and Golden Bone Instruction to build Ye Xuan’s foundations 19.

Combat Ability

• Tournament record: Places in the top hundred of an earlier outer sect competition and later reaches the round of thirty-two in the Spirit Medicine Realm selection 19 36.
• Preparation: Strengthens his foundations for almost a year while remaining at Qi Refinement Peak 35.
• Tactics: Uses poisons to overcome opponents stronger than himself, subduing Liang Kuang despite recognizing the latter’s superior direct strength 43.
• Direct-combat limit: Luo Qi forces him to fight at full effort and retreat. Ji Fenghe nevertheless remains confident because his concealed poisons are already weakening Luo Qi 45.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Folding fan — A supreme-grade Spirit Artifact that releases wind blades and carries invisible poison powder 45.
• Spirit Suppression Ring — An iron wrist ring placed on him by Zheng Huaiyuan to lock his dantian and prevent a premature breakthrough 15.
• Flying gourd — Transports him and Ye Xuan to Wood Spirit Peak during their first assignment together 4.
• Longsword — Used to demonstrate Azure Feather Swordsmanship and spar with Ye Xuan 19.
• Qiankun Bag — Stores pills, formulas, cultivation manuals, and other supplies 13 14 39.
• Spirit Link Jade Pendant — Given to him by Mo Qi; indicates Mo Qi’s direction when the two are within a thousand li 44.
• Protective jade pendants — Gives ten to Mo Qi before engaging Luo Qi 44.
• High-grade Law Artifact Pill Furnace — Gifts it to Ye Xuan upon the latter becoming his junior brother 14.

Relationships

• Zheng Huaiyuan — Master. Recognizes Ji Fenghe’s talent but criticizes his unreliability, sets demanding alchemy assignments, and delays his Foundation Establishment breakthrough for the Spirit Medicine Realm 5 13 14 15.
• Ye Xuan — Initially his hired herbal assistant, later his junior brother. Ji Fenghe teaches him alchemy, introduces him to Zheng Huaiyuan, and accepts that Ye Xuan’s talent surpasses his own. Ye Xuan later places a sliver of divine sense on him for protection during the expedition 4 5 14 20 40.
• Mo Qi — Longstanding alchemy rival and close friend. Their competition is complicated by Mo Qi’s jealousy over Xiao Yu, but they also collaborate on pranks and agree to support one another in the Spirit Medicine Realm 17 18 32 39.
• Xiao Yu — One of his few friends outside Wood Spirit Peak. He recognizes the mutual attraction between her and Mo Qi and protects her when she is wounded 36 39 44.
• Liang Kuang — Captured Blood Demon Sect disciple used as a living poison tester. Ji Fenghe repeatedly saves him from death to continue his experiments 43 44.
• Luo Qi — Blood Demon Sect opponent pursuing Mo Qi and Xiao Yu. Stronger in direct combat, but exposed to Ji Fenghe’s concealed poisons during their fight 44 45.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Recruiting Ye Xuan

• Selects Ye Xuan from three applicants after testing their medicinal knowledge. Their work together improves Ji Fenghe’s alchemy and gives Ye Xuan access to Wood Spirit Peak 4 5.
• Later rehires him for five Spirit Stones per day, promising unrestricted instruction in pill-refining techniques 12.
• Witnesses Ye Xuan produce twenty-four flawless Qi Gathering Pills and eighteen flawless Spirit Concentration Pills. He immediately brings the results to Zheng Huaiyuan, leading to Ye Xuan’s acceptance as a disciple 13 14.

Defending Wood Spirit Peak’s Reputation

• Offers an additional five hundred Spirit Stones for Ye Xuan to defeat Mo Qi’s Bone-Strengthening Pills. Ye Xuan’s flawless pills secure the victory for Wood Spirit Peak, while Ji Fenghe acknowledges his personal loss 17 18 19.
• After failing to teach Ye Xuan through sparring, brings him to Zheng Huaiyuan for personal instruction 19 20.

Pranks and the Inner Sect Move

• Introduces Laughing Gas Pills to Mo Qi; their subsequent distribution culminates in hundreds of disciples laughing uncontrollably during a lecture at Dao Preaching Peak 32.
• Witnesses Zheng Huaiyuan’s Nascent Soul tribulation and remains on Wood Spirit Peak when it is relocated into the inner sect. He and Ye Xuan retain outer-disciple status pending the Spirit Medicine Realm expedition 32 33 34.

Spirit Medicine Realm Expedition

• Qualifies through the outer sect selection and exchanges poison pills and antidotes with his friends before departure 36 39.
• Enters alone, establishes his foundation, and gathers poisonous medicinal ingredients for new concoctions 41 42.
• Captures Liang Kuang, then follows his Spirit Link Jade Pendant to the fleeing Mo Qi and injured Xiao Yu 43 44.
• Holds off Luo Qi while his friends recover. Although forced back in direct combat, he declares that Luo Qi has already lost as the poison begins taking effect 45.

Notable Quotes

“Hehe, well? Though I, Ji Fenghe, lost, Wood Spirit Peak did not!” 18

“Junior brother, should you rise to wealth and glory, don't forget me!” 20

“Don't worry, Mo Qi. Just protect Xiao Yu. Leave the rest to me.” 44