Lin Yiyun

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Childhood and Student Life

Lin Yiyun grew up dependent on her grandfather, Old Lin. Both parents were initially reported dead, and she earned her own university tuition through work. Old Lin worried about leaving her alone after his death and hoped she would find a dependable partner 37.

She lived on Wutong Street beside Su Yi’s courtyard and balanced university classes with night work. Their neighboring homes and shared journeys to school brought them into frequent contact 52 142.

Her mother was later revealed to be alive and the Tang Family’s eldest young lady. Although Lin Yiyun wanted to remain with her grandfather, he urged her to spend time with her mother. She reluctantly left, promised to return often, and asked Su Yi to watch over him 209.

Friendship with Su Yi

Su Yi initially approached Lin Yiyun because she resembled a woman he had known across many reincarnations. He protected her when Zhao Yin tried to grab her, and she later accepted his WeChat request despite uncertainty about his background 32 35.

At the Sober Bar, Xu Chuan and shareholder Fan Jia pressured her to drink. Su Yi intervened when Fan Jia attempted to take liberties with her. Lin Yiyun tried to stop the ensuing fight and called the police; afterward, Su Yi arranged for them to work at a friend’s bookstore 74 76.

Their relationship developed through bookstore shifts, meals, and rides home. Ye Xiaxuan acted as Su Yi’s wingwoman, but Lin Yiyun eventually said she had no romantic feelings for him. Hearing this, Su Yi accepted that she was an independent person rather than someone destined to renew an old relationship 91 97 109 153.

Awakened Memories and Business Expansion

Lin Yiyun wrote a historical webnovel from recurring dreams containing Su Yi’s deeds from more than two thousand years earlier. Written from Yin Lihua’s perspective, the book initially reinforced the apparent connection between Lin Yiyun and Su Yi’s former wife 206 207.

Su Yi ultimately identified her as Guo Shengtong’s reincarnation. He concluded that Guo Shengtong’s jealousy and fixation on Yin Lihua had distorted the inherited memories and even shaped Lin Yiyun’s appearance. Lin Yiyun later recognized herself as Guo Shengtong 244 281.

After reaching Nascent Soul, she left the bookstore and founded a finance company. With the Tang Family’s former assets and nationwide asset-sale proceeds at her disposal, she rapidly expanded into Qingzhou’s major industries through the Yiyun Group 206 245.

She attempted to reconnect romantically with Su Yi, treating their meeting as fate and believing him to be Liu Xiu’s reincarnation. He rejected her, insisted that the past should remain in the past, and reminded her that she was Lin Yiyun—not Yin Lihua 247.

Old Lin’s Death and the Break with Su Yi

When Old Lin died, Lin Yiyun flew directly to his courtyard. After spending the morning inside, she emerged with a colder presence and a stronger aura. Su Yi recognized the influence of the Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor’s Severing Emotion Art 280.

She struck Su Yi over the heart in an attempt to kill him and attain her Dao, but he remained unharmed. After learning that he was Liu Xiu himself rather than a reincarnation, she acknowledged her own identity as Guo Shengtong’s reincarnation and asked to end their contact. She nevertheless assured him that Ding Miaomiao would always remain her best friend 280 281.

Her ambitions shifted toward becoming an empress in her own right. She sought economic dominance first in Qingzhou, then nationally and internationally, while using Human Realm Immortals to generate funds abroad. Su Yi warned her that he would intervene if she threatened his peaceful life 282 286 287.

Cultivation Conflicts and Loss of Power

Lin Yiyun’s expansion helped disrupt the boundary between cultivation society and ordinary business. Other cultivation families used her example to justify entering the secular world. Following Su Yi’s intervention, she retained much of Qingzhou’s market but stopped driving competitors to complete ruin 292 309.

During a struggle involving Li Youyou and a Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Vine, Lin Yiyun ordered a retreat upon seeing Su Yi. Thirty Human Realm Immortals disobeyed and attacked; Su Yi secretly killed them. She departed with the six Human Realm Immortals and rogue cultivators who had obeyed her 347.

At the academy, Lin Yiyun volunteered to spar with Su Yi. He disarmed her with one flick of his wooden sword and dispersed her cultivation, stating that she should become an ordinary person 451 452.

Dijiang’s Disciple and Later Return

Rather than abandon cultivation, Lin Yiyun accepted Dijiang’s offer to learn witchcraft. Her first medicinal bath caused unconsciousness, intense pain, and severe scalding, but she continued enduring it. By midnight, her skin had fully recovered and her strength had begun to grow 453 454.

Over the next five years, she cultivated witchcraft to its pinnacle, learned the Law of Space, and rose to tenth on the Human Ranking. Her comeback was attributed to sustained, punishing effort rather than merely possessing powerful equipment 770.

She later sought Su Yi out to settle their past, admitting that she might still like him and suggesting friendship. He refused because Ye Xiaxuan might be unhappy and asked her not to seek him out again 772.

At Spirit Wood Town, Lin Yiyun helped design a treasure-exchange system to encourage cultivators and ability users to fight mutant beasts, rescue civilians, and train disciples. Her proposals received unanimous support at the meeting and were quickly incorporated into official policy 803 804 805.

Appearance

• Early appearance: Harmonious features, soft facial contours, and lively, clear eyes. At her first visit to Su Yi’s home, she wears a plain T-shirt without makeup 80.
• After reaching Nascent Soul: Her formerly timid bearing becomes confident and spirited 206.
• As Yiyun Group chairwoman: Wears tailored office clothing and refined makeup, combining a youthful face with an imposing presence 246.
• During body tempering: Her face is temporarily covered in scalds, blisters, and red marks; these injuries heal completely by the end of the bath 453 454.
• Five years later: Retains her beauty but has a more distinctive, mature bearing, neither as innocent as her student self nor as cold as immediately after awakening Guo Shengtong’s memories 772.

Personality

Initially hardworking, reserved, and self-reliant, Lin Yiyun pays her own tuition and is reluctant to accept direct financial help. She can be quiet under social pressure, but is playful and teasing with Ding Miaomiao 37 52 115.

Inherited memories, wealth, and cultivation dramatically change her behavior. She becomes commanding, politically perceptive, and increasingly motivated by personal advantage. She pursues acquisitions aggressively and begins imagining herself as the ruling empress of her era 245 246 256 282 344.

Her ruthlessness is tempered by calculation. She knows when to retreat, refuses to challenge Su Yi without confidence of victory, and abandons a valuable treasure rather than confront him recklessly. Her attachment to him also survives her attempts to sever emotion 345 347.

Her strongest enduring qualities are determination and endurance. After losing her cultivation, she tolerates agonizing body tempering and spends five years rebuilding her strength. By their later reunion, she is able to discuss her failed relationship with Su Yi more openly and seeks to bring it to a close 453 770 772.

Abilities and Skills

Blood-Essence-Enhanced Constitution

Su Yi’s blood essence is the foundation of her extraordinary cultivation potential 206 805.

• Initially removes her exhaustion after a night of work 52.
• Enables exceptionally rapid advancement to Nascent Soul and beyond 206 407.
• Leaves her constitution stronger than that of other cultivators even after her cultivation is dispersed 453.
• Contains latent power that Dijiang’s witchcraft can awaken 805.

Severing Emotion Art

The Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor teaches her a method also called the Severing Emotion Formula and Emotion-Forsaking Art 280 453 583.

• Seeks advancement through severing emotional attachments 280.
• Leads her to believe that killing Su Yi will allow her to prove her Dao 453.
• Cannot reach perfection while her attachment to Su Yi remains unresolved; she cannot overcome him even with a full-force attack 280 281.
• Her later loss of cultivation severs her karmic ties with the Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor 583.

Witchcraft and Body Tempering

Dijiang’s teachings provide a new cultivation path after her original cultivation is destroyed 453.

• Uses medicinal baths containing herbs and ferocious-beast blood to temper the body 453.
• Demands extreme pain tolerance and sustained physical training 453 770.
• Develops bodily toughness ranked among humanity’s strongest 805.
• Includes the Law of Space, learned during her five years under Dijiang; specific applications are not described 770.

Combat and Spiritual Perception

• Qi manipulation: Reverses wine thrown at her, splashing it back onto Yang Yuan 256.
• Flight: Reaches Old Lin’s courtyard from the sky within minutes of being notified of his death 280.
• Divine sense: Scans her surroundings before deciding whether to attack 345.
• Swordsmanship: Performs a strike that Han Zhen considers perfect, although Su Yi defeats it effortlessly 452.
• Cultivation assessment: Reads the apparent realms of Su Yi, Ye Xiaxuan, and Wu Wenze, but cannot accurately judge Su Yi’s true strength 246 280.

Business Strategy and Administration

Her inherited political experience combines with the enhanced memory and analytical ability of a Nascent Soul cultivator 245.

• Rapidly acquires companies across livestreaming, entertainment, real estate, and other industries 245 246 256.
• Negotiates acquisition agreements with five companies worth at least one hundred million yuan each during a brief banquet conversation 256.
• Uses financial pressure to force Yang Yuan to offer Xinli Media for fifty million yuan 256.
• Gains wealthy merchants’ support to lead a revived Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce 299.
• Designs incentives that link access to scarce treasures with combat contributions, rescue work, and teaching 803 804.

Her proposed Spirit Wood Town exchange rates include:

Equipment and Possessions

• Electric scooter — Her regular transport during university; Su Yi frequently rides behind her on their journeys home 52 142.
• Historical webnovel — Written from recurring dreams of the Eastern Han; its inconsistencies help Su Yi identify her actual previous incarnation 206 207 244.
• Yiyun Group and Tang Family assets — The financial base for her rapid expansion across Qingzhou’s industries 245 246.
• Wooden practice sword — Used in her academy spar with Su Yi; knocked from her hand when he disperses her cultivation 451 452.

Relationships

• Old Lin — Her grandfather and primary caregiver. She remains deeply attached to him after becoming wealthy; his death marks a major change in her emotional state and cultivation 37 209 280.
• Her mother — The Tang Family’s eldest young lady. Their reunion brings Lin Yiyun back into contact with the Tang Family; she later warns her mother not to provoke Su Yi 209 282.
• Tang Yaowen — Her maternal grandfather, whose family’s former assets support her business expansion 209 245 255.
• Su Yi / Liu Xiu — Former neighbor, protector, and the husband of her previous incarnation. Their friendship becomes entangled with inherited love and resentment, leading to rejection, attempted murder, and eventual estrangement 32 247 281 451 772.
• Ding Miaomiao — Her closest enduring friend. Lin Yiyun promises not to harm her for cultivation, agrees to handle Zhou Zhan’s coercion scheme, and later takes her away from a distressing confrontation 115 261 281 407.
• Ye Xiaxuan — Initially a close friend and employer who treats Old Lin’s illness and encourages her relationship with Su Yi. Lin Yiyun later regards her as a romantic rival 112 122 181 247.
• Black Water Mystic Nether Great Emperor — Former master who passes down the Severing Emotion Formula. Their karmic connection ends when Su Yi destroys her cultivation 253 583.
• Dijiang — Her second master. Recognizes the potential of her blood-essence-enhanced body and cultivates her through demanding witchcraft training 453 805.
• Gu Tongtong and the Thirteenth Bureau — Investigate the risks posed by her business dominance and Human Realm Immortal followers. Lin Yiyun insists that any punishment must be grounded in law rather than force 246 285 286 287.
• Huang Changyu — Receives her administrative advice at Spirit Wood Town and reports the resulting treasure-distribution plan to his superiors 803 804 805.

Notable Quotes

“Grandpa, I’ll still come back often. This is my home, too.” 209

“If I’ve broken the law, then punish me with the law.” 287

“Don’t worry. Miaomiao will always be my best friend. The strength I have now is enough. It no longer matters whether I become stronger.” 281