Ye Qingyun

Biodata

Background

Ye Qingyun transmigrated into a cultivation world ten years before the opening chapter. An invisible barrier confined him to a mountaintop, where the Sainthood System taught him music, chess, calligraphy, painting, sciences, engineering, cooking, and animal husbandry—but never cultivation. After mastering its lessons, he received the title All-Purpose Saint 1.

The barrier eventually vanished, allowing him to leave Floating Cloud Mountain. Almost immediately, the system severed its bond with him as punishment for urinating wherever he pleased. His excitement about exploring the world quickly gave way to fear: realizing he had no cultivation, he returned home rather than risk encountering danger 1 2.

Appearance

• General appearance: A plain, unremarkable young man, with no visible indication of an extraordinary background 8 31.
• Cultivation presence: Cultivators cannot detect cultivation fluctuations from him. Some correctly identify him as a mortal; others interpret the same absence as evidence of immeasurable power 2 8 11.
• Combat attire: During Guo Xiaoyun’s rescue, he wears a bulletproof vest and steel helmet and carries firearms 35 37.

Personality

Ye Qingyun is deeply cautious about his own safety. He fears cultivators, tries to cultivate friendships with powerful figures for protection, and readily admits that he cannot fight an army. When threatened directly, he may plead, lie about his identity, or bluff rather than attempt an open confrontation 5 11 31 36 44.

His caution does not prevent him from helping others. Despite believing that confronting evil cultivators could cost him his life, he arms himself and sets out to rescue Guo Xiaoyun. He also treats Bai Suyi’s illness and connects Chu Yanyu with people capable of protecting her family 14 15 29 35.

After ten years of isolation, he welcomes company and enjoys a lively household. He freely offers visitors food and produce, often without understanding their extraordinary value. His practical tastes also differ sharply from those of cultivators: when given a famous sword and precious armor, he privately wishes the emperor had brought something edible instead 2 5 6 15 49.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation Status

Ye Qingyun has no documented cultivation realm or breakthrough in the supplied chapters. His accomplishments come from system-taught skills, equipment, and extraordinary effects surrounding his household—not an established cultivation progression 1 2 42 50.

• He cannot teach Guo Xiaoyun cultivation and instead offers to arrange admission to a cultivation sect 39.
• He needs ordinary sleep and becomes exhausted after telling stories late into the night 18.
• Damao and the rabbit secretly protect him, contributing to observers’ belief that he possesses hidden strength 20 32.
• He explicitly excludes cultivation when boasting that there is nothing he cannot do 50.

Four Arts

System training brought his guqin playing, chess, calligraphy, and painting to an exceptionally high level 50.

• Calligraphy: Handles running, regular, and cursive scripts with grandmaster-level proficiency. Xiao Shi is captivated by his handwriting 20.
• Painting: Produces artwork that Shen Tianhua identifies as containing a supreme Great Dao 21.
• Poetry and painting: The poem accompanying his lotus painting triggers Shen Tianhua’s breakthrough, restoring vitality and extending his lifespan 25.
• Guqin: Even casual plucking produces beautiful music that nearly entrances Guo Xiaoyun and draws the attention of arriving cultivators 50.

Storytelling

Ye Qingyun draws on stories remembered from his former world, particularly The Legend of the Condor Heroes 16.

• Captivates a teahouse audience and outshines the experienced storyteller Old Huang 16 17.
• Offers to pass the complete story to Old Huang so the audience can continue hearing it without his daily attendance 17.
• Writes a shortened version for Xiao Shi in exchange for being released from her carriage 20.

Cooking, Tea, and Agriculture

His apparently ordinary household products have substantial effects on cultivators, though he generally does not recognize their value 2 3 5 26.

Medical Treatment

Ye Qingyun applies methods learned from the system rather than a documented cultivation-based healing art 14 29.

• Fire cupping: Uses eight heated bamboo cups to extract silvery-white poisonous insects from Bai Suyi’s body. He recommends another treatment after half a month 14 15.
• Emergency care: Warms Bai Suyi with heating, hot-water bottles, and quilts when she becomes dangerously cold 29.
• Medicine: Gives her an antibiotic after suspecting the insects are multiplying; she subsequently regains warmth and consciousness 29.

Engineering and Firearms

His system education includes physics, chemistry, machinery, and electronics. During his confinement, he successfully assembled weapons and protective equipment that he keeps as last-resort safeguards 1 35.

• Household automation: Uses a whole-house smart system with a programmed tea-brewing method 3.
• Ventilation: Activating his fresh-air system fills the house with Spiritual Qi, enabling Chu Yanyu to break through 2.
• Marksmanship: Steadies himself after initially trembling and kills twelve black-clad cultivators with a suppressed sniper rifle 35.
• Pistols: Subdues the depleted Old Freak Evil Heaven after the latter catches a rifle bullet 35 36.
• Limitations: Firearms are not guaranteed to overcome stronger cultivators. He also cannot manufacture replacement bullets without the system’s help, making every shot a permanent reduction in his ammunition supply 35 38.

Buddhist Knowledge and Manifestations

Ye Qingyun can recite the entire Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra from memory. His words produce extraordinary Buddhist phenomena, although he does not understand himself to be a Buddhist holy figure 32 33 40.

• A Buddha phantom appears while he urges the Song father and son to recognize and correct their wrongdoing 32.
• Reciting the Heart Sutra intensifies the phantom’s radiance and sends Buddhist light into the sky, visible within a thousand li 33.
• His teachings inspire the Song father and son’s repentance and contribute to Huikong’s identification of him as the Buddhist Holy Son 34 40 42.

Equipment & Possessions

• Suppressed sniper rifle — A system-era creation used to kill the twelve cultivators guarding the abducted children 35.
• Two pistols — Backup weapons used against Old Freak Evil Heaven 35 36.
• Bulletproof vest and steel helmet — Protective equipment worn during the rescue 35 37.
• Medicine chest and bamboo cups — Supplies used in Bai Suyi’s treatment 14 29.
• Guqin — A system-trial reward that he regards as an ordinary instrument; he brings it out again after leaving it unused for a long time 50.
• Ancient mystic stone — Received from Shen Tianhua in exchange for the lotus painting 25.
• Heaven-Plundering Sword and soft armor — Imperial gifts subsequently given to Guo Xiaoyun. The sword was forged by Ou Yezi; the armor came from Great Tang in the Eastern Lands 49.

Relationships

• Guo Xiaoyun — Disciple. Ye Qingyun befriends the nameless beggar, gives him a name, rescues him, and takes him in to teach practical skills. He respects the boy’s choice to remain with him rather than enter a cultivation sect 22 30 35 38 39.
• Damao — Canine companion and hidden protector. Ye Qingyun entrusts him with guarding the house and insists on bringing him when Xiao Shi takes him away. Damao secretly suppresses enemies and helps him find both home and the abducted children 1 18 20 21 35.
• Gray rabbit — An injured rabbit demon taken into his household. Ye Qingyun treats it as an ordinary rabbit, while it secretly protects him from the Song Clan 4 32.
• Chu Yanyu — Early visitor who believes him to be a secluded expert. He helps secure imperial and sect support for her threatened family 2 15.
• Bai Suyi — Patient and friend. She credits him with treating her longstanding injury and warns Gongsun Yue against underestimating him 29 37 42.
• Dongfang Su — Martial Emperor of the Heavenly Martial Dynasty. Ye Qingyun hopes for his protection; Dongfang Su instead views Ye Qingyun as a powerful backer for the dynasty 11 49.
• Xu Changfeng — Mystic Sword Sect master and grateful beneficiary of his household’s treasures. Agrees to help Chu Yanyu at Ye Qingyun’s request 15.
• Xiao Shi — Initially abducts him to hear his stories, then releases him after receiving a written version. His artwork later brings her and Shen Tianhua to his home 18 20 24.
• Shen Tianhua — Visitor whose breakthrough is triggered by Ye Qingyun’s lotus painting and poem. Treats his artistic work as profound spiritual guidance 24 25.
• Huikong — Monk who insists that Ye Qingyun is the Buddhist Holy Son despite his protests. Leads monks to build temples at Floating Cloud Mountain and protect him 40 42 44.
• Gongsun Yue — Nine Spirits Sect master who initially dismisses him as a mortal and claims credit for killing Old Freak Evil Heaven. Later attempts to improve their relationship through visits and gifts 37 39.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Reputation on Floating Cloud Mountain

• After his barrier disappears, visitors encounter a seemingly ordinary mortal surrounded by powerful creatures, spiritual resources, and unusual household technology 1 2 4 5.
• Guyue discovers a true dragon in his pond and reports that Ye Qingyun appears to be its unfathomable master 9.
• Dongfang Su, Xu Changfeng, and Chu Yanyu visit together, turning his home into a meeting place for influential figures 11.

Storytelling and the Lotus Painting

• His teahouse performance attracts Xiao Shi, who forces him to accompany her and continue telling The Legend of the Condor Heroes 16 17 18.
• After earning his release through writing and illustration, he becomes lost. Damao arranges for a bear demon to carry him home 20 21.
• Shen Tianhua seeks him out because of the illustration, then experiences a breakthrough through a second painting 21 24 25.

Song Clan Confrontation

• The Song Clan abducts him as the supposed mountain expert. He tries to escape by claiming to be an herb-gatherer named Ouyang Feng 30 31.
• After the rabbit secretly defeats his attackers, the Song father and son beg forgiveness. Ye Qingyun’s Buddhist admonitions and sutra recitation lead them toward repentance 32 33 34.

Rescue of Guo Xiaoyun

• Unable to contact the experts he knows, Ye Qingyun overcomes his fear and personally searches for the abducted boy with Damao 34 35.
• He kills twelve evil cultivators, bluffs under the name Dugu Qiubai, and subdues Old Freak Evil Heaven with pistols. Gongsun Yue arrives and kills the defeated leader 35 36 37.
• Ye Qingyun takes Guo Xiaoyun home and subsequently accepts him as his disciple 37 38 39.

Buddhist Following and the Allied Invasion

• Huikong’s followers establish temples at the mountain’s foot to guard their supposed Holy Son 42.
• When three dynasties invade with a million-strong army, Ye Qingyun refuses Guyue’s request to repel them and prepares to flee with Guo Xiaoyun 44.
• After the attack, he emerges from hiding beneath a bed and thanks the monks for protecting him; they instead believe he saved them through profound cultivation 48.
• News that a true dragon routed the allied army spreads his reputation further. Experts travel to meet him, arriving while he casually plays the guqin 49 50.