Bai Yu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Bai Yu grew up in Mountain-Venerating Village, a secluded settlement protected by the Mountain God’s mist barrier. The Ancient Wind Chime in its altar chamber rang when she was born, identifying her as someone chosen by the deity. Before she left the village, the priest conveyed the Mountain God’s instruction to protect her wind chime and awaken its hidden power 213.

Her family had not originally intended for her to become a Soul Master, costing her several early years of cultivation. She also spent time soothing Martial Soul fluctuations among the village’s elderly and children. Although this divided her attention, it developed the precision that later distinguished her support 48 50.

At the junior academy, her single-target bell amplification was repeatedly compared with Ye Qingyu’s field-wide zither support. Her Innate Soul Power was one level lower than Ye Qingyu’s, and her slower cultivation became a persistent source of anxiety 26 50.

Appearance

• Wind chime: Usually worn on her wrist with a red cord; she also carries it at her waist during her village journey 26 213.
• Post-third-ring appearance: Her Martial Soul becomes more translucent, with faint silver patterns within its cyan sheen 97.
• Village-journey description: The small chime is approximately finger-length, bronze-colored, and covered in faint patterns 213.
• Mountain God Mark: Pale golden lines cover her left hand and extend along her arm to the outside of her shoulder after the gorge trial 215 218.

Personality

Bai Yu holds herself to demanding standards even when her teammates do not pressure her. Falling behind in cultivation makes her quieter and less willing to smile, but she continues attending training and maintains her support precision. Her central fear is not losing recognition, but holding the team back 48 50.

She is affectionate and playful with people she trusts. She excitedly demonstrates her jingling arena mask to Ye Qingyu, becomes visibly buoyant when approaching home, and slips easily into childhood banter with Bai Rong. When Shi Yan reveals that he has no home, she responds by framing his company as a welcome favor to her rather than treating him with pity 57 213 214.

Her resolve holds under immediate danger. She acts without hesitation against the Snake Fang mercenaries, then steadies her trembling hands afterward. In training, she places herself in front of Su Ran and Shi Yan to absorb an incoming attack despite its ultimate-fire heat 45 105.

Abilities & Skills

Precision Amplification

Bai Yu specializes in concentrating support on an individual at the exact moment their strength is released 24 26.

• Strengthens Zhong Yue’s phantom tortoise shell precisely as he converts it into a charging shield 24.
• Switches support targets during defensive transitions, helping Ji Ning breach Meng Ran’s formation 26.
• Adjusts her chime frequency to match both Lu Hanxiao’s rapid attacks and Lu Qing’s heavier, irregular scythe strikes 59 60.
• Alternates with Ye Qingyu’s area amplification, maintaining support while the other recovers Soul Power 61.
• Prolonged precision work can leave her wrist and fingers trembling 60 61.

Wind Chime · Gale

Her second Soul Skill increases a single teammate’s attack speed 42 49.

• Obtained from the 850-year-old Gale Falcon 42.
• Provides single-target enhancement rather than field-wide amplification 49.

Perception Disruption and Shattered Sound

Her chimes can interfere with an opponent’s perception and interrupt their actions 42 45 61.

• Disrupts a Gale Falcon’s perception and flight rhythm, sharply reducing its speed 42.
• Restrains a mercenary’s perception long enough for Feng Xiaotian to land a killing wind blade 45.
• Shattered Sound strikes Homeward Journey’s healing support during a pause in her rhythm, interrupting the healing 61.

Wind Chime · Wind Protection

Her third Soul Skill condenses ringing into wind-bell phantoms that surround teammates and absorb damage. Its defensive manifestation is also called Wind Guard 97 105.

• Can cover several closely grouped allies from a frontal attack 105.
• Holds back Su Mei’er’s fiery mist for two additional breaths when replenished by Su Ran’s Wind Grain · Life 105.
• Does not completely stop ultimate-fire heat; Bai Yu visibly strains while maintaining it 105.
• Gains at least half a step of protective range after pressure training 107.

Soul Power Sensing and Anticipation

Bai Yu sometimes places her chimes ahead of movements rather than reacting after they begin. She describes this as an unexplained feeling present since childhood 59 61.

• Anticipates Lu Hanxiao’s sudden change of target 59.
• Senses where an opponent’s Soul Power is flowing and when they are about to move 61.
• Anticipates Feng Xiaotian’s dodge direction during high-pressure training 64.
• Cannot initially explain how she makes these judgments; Feng Lingtian records a possible connection to the village’s Mountain God legend 61.

Mountain God Mark

The golden marking links Bai Yu to the Mountain God’s legacy and to Bai Rong’s mountain markings 217 218 220.

• Allows Bai Rong to sense her exertion through the gorge’s rock walls 217.
• Receives Soul Power sent through Bai Rong’s markings, helping her continue when exhausted 218.
• Warms near the disturbed northern ruin and reacts strongly to its patterned stone tablet 220.
• Accompanies her ability to find a route through the village’s mist barrier and guide an outsider safely through it 213.

Equipment & Items

• Dagger / short blade — Carried at her waist and used to kill the Soul Beasts whose rings she absorbs 42 97.
• Bell mask — Nameless disguise decorated with tiny silver pieces that jingle when she moves 57.
• Illusory Form Pill — Used with her teammates to alter her appearance and Martial Soul for Nameless’s arena activities 57.
• Flexibility Strengthening Pill; Nurturing Grace and Supporting Splendor Pill — Strengthened her meridians and Martial Soul quality, supporting her absorption of an unusually old Third Soul Ring 97.
• Rice-ear pendant — Gift from Zhong Yue during a shopping outing 144.
• Trial lamp — Lent by the village priest; contains a dark stone rather than oil. Its extinguishing would indicate that she had remained in the trial too long 216.
• Patterned stone tablet — Palm-sized Mountain God relic recovered from the disturbed northern ruin and carried back for the priest to examine 220.

Relationships

• Ye Qingyu — Close friend and complementary support partner. Ye Qingyu helps her reject unfavorable comparisons, encourages her in the arena, and shares alternating support duties with her 26 53 57 61.
• Zhong Yue — Defensive partner with signs of romantic interest. He comforts her after training, guards her ring absorption, objects nervously to her pairing with another support, and later gives her a pendant. Bai Yu responds warmly, but no formal relationship is established in the provided material 15 42 45 50 144.
• Feng Xiaotian — Captain and mentor. Tests her as the sole support, reassures her about slower cultivation, and encourages her not to hold herself back 26 48.
• Feng Lingtian — Teammate who prepares medicinal-bath prescriptions for her and studies her anticipatory chime timing 26 61 64.
• Shi Yan — Teammate and traveling companion. Accompanies her home, waits outside the altar, and sends Heart Protection through the gorge to support her trial 213 215 218.
• Bai Rong — Paternal cousin, four years older, whom she calls “Brother Bai Rong.” Her childhood companion becomes her Guardian after helping her complete the gorge trial 214 218 219.
• Mountain God — Patron deity who chose her at birth, entrusted her with awakening the wind chime, and later assigned her a First Trial in the northern mountains 213 219 220.
• Village priest — Oversees the first manifestation of her Golden Thread and directs her to the gorge trial 215 216.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Establishing Her Support Role

Initially named a substitute in Godwind Academy’s thirteen-member tournament team, Bai Yu proves herself when Feng Xiaotian fields her as the only support against Meng Ran’s second-string team. Her precisely redirected amplification dismantles the opposing defense, helping her recognize that her specialty complements rather than imitates Ye Qingyu’s 23 26.

Sunset Forest and Arena Competition

During the Sunset Forest expedition, Bai Yu helps hunt Soul Beasts and obtains her second ring. The return journey brings her first involvement in killing people when the group confronts surviving Snake Fang mercenaries. Though shaken, she regains her composure and shares water with Zhong Yue afterward 42 45.

She subsequently competes alongside Ye Qingyu in the victory over Iron Wolf Team and joins the disguised Nameless team. Against Homeward Journey, their alternating support outlasts an attrition-focused formation, while her interruption of the enemy healer creates a decisive opening 53 57 61.

Tournament Preliminaries

Bai Yu travels with Godwind Academy to Heaven Dou City for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament. Opponents identify her rear-line position as a possible weakness, but Godwind’s coordination protects her. Tang San’s attempts to target her and Jiang Lin fail during Shrek Academy’s defeat 127 128 130.

Return to Mountain-Venerating Village

Bai Yu returns home with Shi Yan and undergoes an altar examination that manifests the Golden Thread. Guided by Bai Rong, she then enters a pressure-filled gorge. Shi Yan’s protective bell and Bai Rong’s transferred Soul Power help her reach the end, complete her arm marking, and awaken the long-silent chime 213 215 216 218.

The village welcomes her success. That night, the Mountain God tells her that this is only the first step and that she must continue her journey. Bai Rong is separately recognized as a Guardian for protecting her 219.

The Northern Ruin

For her formally assigned First Trial, Bai Yu investigates a Mountain God ruin disturbed by an outside force. She finds a patterned tablet that resonates with her mark and evidence that intruders tried to remove it. Rather than pursue them north, she prioritizes safeguarding the relic and returns toward the village with Shi Yan and Bai Rong 220.

Notable Quotes

“You provide breadth, and I provide precision. Together, we make a whole net.” 26

“I’ll do everything I can to reach the end.” 219