Yang Yi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Ancient Jade Lake Saintess

Yang Yi was Jade Lake’s Saintess ten thousand years before Su Yu’s era. A recognized genius of the Eastern Wasteland, she reached Great Accomplishment King during a cultivation journey spanning centuries. She loved Zhang Lin, the Fifth Generation Source Heavenly Master, and entered Purple Mountain seeking him. Her inscription announcing that search remained visible ten thousand years later 143 148 191.

Su Yu discovered her sealed in Source while exploring Purple Mountain with Jiang Taixu and took the block away 16.

Revival and Confinement

Divine Spring Liquid alone failed to revive Yang Yi, so Su Yu used his last Sacred Fruit. She regained consciousness within a quarter of an hour, but he immediately suppressed her with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and bound her primordial spirit with an Emperor Qi Thought Restriction to protect his secrets 64.

Learning that Zhang Lin remained alive restored her desire to live. Unable to leave and indebted for her revival, she accepted the position of medicine garden maid. She nevertheless privately resolved to resist any attempt to make her submit sexually 64 66.

Her work included watering Immortal Divine Medicines, tending medicinal fields, and planting spiritual flora. Daily opportunities for Dao comprehension and access to Divine Spring water accelerated her cultivation. Despite her captivity, she gradually began treating the Chaos Small World as her home 139.

Sainthood and Return to Purple Mountain

Yang Yi became an instructor to the women living in Su Yu’s medicine garden, guiding Yan Ruyu and Qin Yao and teaching Zixia the Western Emperor Scripture. She later shared that scripture with Su Yu after he demonstrated possession of Great Emperor Wushi’s inheritance 80 103 138.

After attaining sainthood, she helped relocate the Void Small World using borrowed Emperor Weapons. Before returning to Purple Mountain, she opened a Bitter Sea for Fifth Master Zhang and left him an ancient medicine to prolong his life 141 142 143.

Inside Purple Mountain, Yang Yi appealed to the red-haired Zhang Lin while Su Yu restrained him with the Demon Jar. Her voice briefly stirred his memories, but neither could restore his senses. Overcome with grief, she declared that the Zhang Lin she loved had died ten thousand years earlier. Su Yu carried her out and promised to protect his descendant and help him when sufficiently powerful 144.

Freedom and Partnership with Su Yu

After their Purple Mountain journey, Su Yu removed Yang Yi’s Emperor Qi Thought Restriction. He also passed on three of the Nine Secrets, eight imperial scriptures, and a hundred strands of Black and Yellow Qi. Their relationship subsequently developed beyond captivity into affection 153.

The pair plundered the Immortal Abode Small World, collecting medicines, divine terrain, and a Chaos Pure Land. Yang Yi transported entire mountains and lakes with the Bronze Emperor Coffin, leaving an abyss three thousand zhang deep. She later wielded the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar against opponents carrying the Taihuang Sword and Jiuli Diagram 151 153 154.

By this period, Su Yu regarded Yang Yi as the person he trusted most, placing her ahead of Jiang Taixu 187.

Ziwei Campaign

Yang Yi repaired the Five-Colored Altar used for Su Yu’s journey to Ziwei Ancient Star. Her knowledge of imperial scriptures and complete Extreme Dao formation patterns made her a formidable Saint even before that expedition 216 218.

On Ziwei, she fought the divine dynasty’s ancient ancestor, deployed formations derived from imperial inheritances, and joined Su Yu in destroying a Saint King’s spirit body. She also subdued Great Accomplishment Kings and captured their weapons using the Lihuo Divine Furnace 223 224 226 244.

After obtaining the Taiyin True Scripture, she copied it for Jiang Tingting and studied it alongside the Taiyang Scripture. Her reflections on Su Yu, past lives, and others’ fates deepened her understanding of karma and preceded her breakthrough to Saint Fifth Heaven 283.

Later Activities

Yang Yi continued assisting Su Yu’s forces, wielding the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon against a Saint King and helping secure the submission of captured Ancient Saints. She also received the rescued descendants of the Human Emperor of the Moon, explaining their heritage and ordering them to stop kneeling before her 293 296 307.

She later brought the unconscious Jiangzhu’er to Mother Ye on Flying Snow Island. There, she explained the dangerous imbalance between the seven daughters’ pure yin and Ye Yu’s pure yang. She also maintained contact with Zhang Lin through a letter delivered by Su Yu 456 473.

By a later visit from Su Yu, Yang Yi was residing in the Jade Lake Secret Realm in Great Luo Heaven. Her eventual consumption of an immortal fruit transformed her aptitude and enabled her rise to the Quasi-Emperor Realm 583 699.

Appearance

Yang Yi is portrayed as an otherworldly beauty whose usual white clothing contrasts with her silver combat armor 103 190.

• Hair: Turns purple after her comprehension of the Qilin Immortal Medicine; later descriptions range from waist-length pale-purple hair to ankle-length hair shimmering with starlight 103 227 293.
• Complexion: Lustrous, jade-white skin, repeatedly compared to an exquisitely carved jade figure 103 227.
• Usual dress: Plain white robes or gowns; later appears in a white dress inlaid with jade and patterned in purple 77 456.
• Accessories: A purple-gold hairpin and, on Flying Snow Island, a silver moon crown 195 456.
• Battle attire: A silver garment that separates into fitted armor, giving her the appearance of a goddess of war 190 223.

Personality

Yang Yi is reserved and composed, recovering her calm even while restrained immediately after revival. Su Yu initially considers her an “ice woman,” but she shows a gentler manner toward those she teaches 64 77 80.

Her devotion to Zhang Lin survives ten thousand years of separation. Even after reluctantly accepting her confinement, rescuing him remains her overriding concern; she is prepared to sacrifice herself for that chance 138.

She is compassionate toward people in vulnerable positions. She comforts Zixia, sympathizes with Yu Zi after learning that she too carries an Emperor Qi Thought Restriction, and reacts with pity and anger to the treatment of the Taiyin descendants 103 192 307.

As she grows closer to Su Yu, Yang Yi becomes more openly teasing and critical of his excuses for pursuing women. Her affection does not erase her discomfort with his conduct or with sharing intimate situations alongside younger Jade Lake women 192 196 583.

Abilities & Skills

Imperial Scriptures and Secret Arts

Yang Yi’s foundation is the Western Emperor Scripture, which she can both teach and employ in combat. After her revival, her studies expand to more than ten Emperor Scriptures 103 216 243.

• Receives the Dao Scripture’s Wheel Sea Scroll from Su Yu 141.
• Learns the Number Secret, All Secret, and incomplete Movement Secret 153.
• Uses the Void Emperor’s forbidden Void Great Hand Seal, supported by a manifested Dao body 152.
• Employs a forbidden chapter of the Wushi Scripture, described as returning things to their origin 155.
• Combines the Taiyin and Taiyang powers into a Taiji Life and Death Diagram 283.

Spatial Manipulation

Yang Yi uses spatial Dao laws for movement, transport, and the collection of large territories 77 141 151.

• Carries Su Yu across tens of thousands of li in one step while still a Half-Saint 77.
• Opens spatial passages and travels between locations through the void 155 213.
• Relocates the Void Small World by working with its world heart and borrowed Emperor Weapon power 141 142.
• Collects immortal mountains, divine lakes, and extensive terrain using the Bronze Emperor Coffin 151.
• Limit: Can remove the Chaos Pure Land but cannot take the entire Immortal Abode Small World; its deeper spatial laws obstruct her 153.

Formation Mastery

Yang Yi combines her original knowledge of the Western Emperor’s formation patterns with the Ruthless One’s complete killing formation 226.

• Prepares formations intended for the Golden Crow Clan and Taiyin Divine Sect 226.
• Seals the Immortal Abode Small World against intruders 151.
• Engraves spatial formations into Saint equipment 190.
• Repairs the Five-Colored Altar used for interstellar travel 216.

Heavenly Eye and Divine Perception

Her cultivated Heavenly Eye allows her to perceive concealed physical traits and recognize unusual constitutions 80 103.

• Identifies Zixia’s Innate Dao Embryo at a glance 103.
• Recognizes rare plants, including ancient Qilan trees and Spirit Bright Jade Bamboo 77.
• Identifies the phenomenon gathering at the Yin-Yang Divine Pool as the legendary Source of the Dao 191.

Karma and Foreknowledge

Yang Yi develops insight into cause and effect, eventually reaching minor mastery of the Great Dao of karma 283.

• Experiences a vision of seven Forbidden Zone Supremes surrounding and killing Su Yu during his tribulation 195.
• Deepens her comprehension by reflecting on her past lives and the fates of Su Yu, Azure Luan, and Xiang Yufei 283.

Weapon Refining

Yang Yi can repair Saint artifacts and forge equipment with multiple forms 152 190.

• Reassembles a broken bronze Saint bell whose weapon spirit remains intact 152.
• Refines Thousand Illusion Star River Sand into a garment capable of becoming armor and a divine sword 190.
• Uses her Saint tribulation to refine her Silver Moon Divine Jade Pagoda into a Saint Dao weapon 141.

Emperor Weapon Combat

Her Saint cultivation allows her to draw substantial power from borrowed Emperor Weapons 154 224.

• Uses the Lihuo Divine Furnace to overwhelm a Half-Step Saint King and suppress enemy weapons 224 244.
• Joins Su Yu in annihilating a Saint King’s spirit body with coordinated soul attacks 226.
• Guides the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon to pierce and destroy a Golden-Winged Roc of the Saint King Realm 293.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Silver Moon Divine Jade Pagoda — Her nine-tiered Saint weapon, refined during her Saint tribulation. It emits moonlike radiance and later displays nine wisps of Mother Qi of All Things 141 223.
• Thousand Illusions Star River Battle Garment — A Saint artifact she forges from star-river sand. It transforms between a silver dress, nine armor pieces, and a divine sword; Su Yu later refines it further 190 191.
• Purple Jade Jar — Opens a passage out of the Chaos Small World, giving her the ability to come and go 141 191.
• Devouring Heaven Demon Jar — Initially the instrument of her suppression; later entrusted to her for combat 64 148 154.
• Bronze Emperor Coffin — Borrowed for transporting palaces and terrain and resisting the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s human skin 141 151 152.
• Green Lotus Emperor Weapon — Used to relocate the Void Small World and fight a Saint King 142 293.
• Lihuo Divine Furnace — Used for battlefield suppression, capturing weapons, and threatening resistant Ancient Saints 244 296.
• Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact — Given to her by Su Yu during his preparations against the Primordial Ancestral Kings 244.

Relationships

• Su Yu — Rescuer, captor, and later lover. He initially enslaves her primordial spirit, subsequently removes the restriction, and comes to regard her as his most trusted companion 64 153 187.
• Zhang Lin — Her ancient beloved, the Fifth Generation Source Heavenly Master. She seeks to restore his senses in Purple Mountain and later sends him a letter through Su Yu 143 144 473.
• Fifth Master Zhang — Zhang Lin’s descendant. Yang Yi opens his Bitter Sea and gives him medicine to extend his life 143.
• Yan Ruyu and Qin Yao — Recipients of her cultivation guidance in the divine medicine garden; their company becomes a welcome change from her isolation 80.
• Zixia — Student in the Western Emperor Scripture. Yang Yi comforts her upon arrival and later leaves her pagoda and a strand of divine consciousness to guard the area 103 149.
• An Miaoyi — Receives guidance and access to the medicine garden while studying the Western Emperor Scripture 138.
• Jiang Tingting — Yang Yi prepares a copy of the Taiyin True Scripture for her; they later receive the rescued Taiyin descendants together 283 307.
• Yu Zi — Yang Yi sympathizes with her experience of being bound by an Emperor Qi Thought Restriction 192.
• Queen Mother of the West and Guishui Palace Master — Younger women of Jade Lake whom Yang Yi outranks by seniority; she feels uncomfortable sharing intimacy with Su Yu alongside them 583.

Notable Quotes

“Yang Yi, Saintess of Jade Lake, seeks Zhang Lin. Written before entering Demon Mountain.”
— Inscription left before her ancient journey into Purple Mountain 143

“But Yu’er, no matter what you do, I’ll stand by your side.”
— Her private resolve concerning Su Yu 222

Trivia

• Su Yu originally chose the title Immortal Sovereign for her. After she vehemently objected, he changed it to Primordial Sovereign 191.
• Her transformed constitution is described as possessing a small portion of Dao Embryo bloodline, although the narration suggests Myriad Dao Body may better describe her natural affinity with countless Daos 699.