Ling Yu
Swallowed Star: Ten-Thousandfold Returns for Taking DisciplesContents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 3.1Childhood and Entry into the Ganwu Mystic Region
- 3.2Lu Qingshan’s Disciple and the Genius Battle
- 3.3Chaos City and Blood Luo Continent
- 3.4Company Trials and the Outer Domain Battlefield
- 3.5Assassination and Revenge
- 3.6Universe Master and Later Exploration
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Time and Space Origin Laws
- 6.2Thunderlight Flash
- 6.3Wind Thunder Sword
- 6.4Path of the Beast God
- 6.5One-Horned Ghost King Bloodline
- 6.6Soul Defense and Body Amplification
- 7Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 7.1Weapons and Protective Treasures
- 7.2Cultivation Resources
- 7.3Other Assets
- 8Relationships
- 9Notable Quotes
- 10Trivia
Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 3.1Childhood and Entry into the Ganwu Mystic Region
- 3.2Lu Qingshan’s Disciple and the Genius Battle
- 3.3Chaos City and Blood Luo Continent
- 3.4Company Trials and the Outer Domain Battlefield
- 3.5Assassination and Revenge
- 3.6Universe Master and Later Exploration
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Time and Space Origin Laws
- 6.2Thunderlight Flash
- 6.3Wind Thunder Sword
- 6.4Path of the Beast God
- 6.5One-Horned Ghost King Bloodline
- 6.6Soul Defense and Body Amplification
- 7Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 7.1Weapons and Protective Treasures
- 7.2Cultivation Resources
- 7.3Other Assets
- 8Relationships
- 9Notable Quotes
- 10Trivia
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Ling Yu (灵羽) |
| Alias(es) | Angel Ling Yu; Purple Feather King; Purple Feather Star Master 111 373 703 |
| Species/Race | Human with the One-Horned Ghost King bloodline 41 374 |
| Gender | Female 41 |
| Age | 36 at her first documented assessment 41 |
| Affiliation | Virtual Universe Company; Myriad Laws Lineage; Hongmeng Alliance; Ancestral God Religion inheritors 146 562 610 |
| Occupation/Role | Cultivator; disciple of Lu Qingshan and the Chaos City Lord; Genius Battle champion 92 233 286 |
| Family | Ling Xi— younger sister; unnamed parents 79 672 |
| Status | Alive; True God 895 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 41 in the provided passages 41 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Star Level Nine; Second-Class Genius | 41 44 | Initially possesses two ninth-level domains, 0.1% Wind Law comprehension, and 1.2% Lightning Law comprehension. Her unawakened bloodline is detected by Lu Qingshan’s system, which assigns her a thousandfold return multiplier. |
| Thunderlight Flash—seven phantom bodies | 43 | Lu Qingshan’s instructional recording improves her transitions, making the phantoms difficult to distinguish without sufficiently advanced space or time comprehension. |
| Nine Illusory Bodies | 45 | Reaches nine phantom bodies after half a year of alternating instruction from Lu Qingshan and Bai Mei. |
| Thunderlight Flash—perfected second layer | 47 | Perfects the nine-body movement pattern and receives the third-layer manual. |
| Initial Time Origin Law comprehension | 50 | After five years of pursuit, enters enlightenment and manifests ten phantom bodies seemingly occupying different temporal dimensions. |
| Time-enhanced Wind Thunder Thrust | 59 | Finds the point of convergence between her sword technique and the Time Law after intensive practice with Lu Qingshan. |
| First bloodline awakening | 60 61 | Contact with the One-Horned Ghost King’s horn awakens a trace of bloodline power; restored Time Law patterns on the horn support further study. |
| Twenty-eight Temporal Phantoms | 65 | Combines advanced evasion with an improved Wind Thunder Thrust whose power exceeds the original sword technique’s third layer. |
| Thirty-six phantom bodies; Eye of the Void | 67 | Advances the third layer of Thunderlight Flash and successfully condenses the Eye of the Void within her soul. |
| Universe Level | 95 | Breaks through within hours at Lu Qingshan’s instruction, shortly before departing for the Virtual Universe Company headquarters. |
| First Time Origin Law essence; Heavenly Bridge floors two and three | 111 | Masters the first essence after seven years in Chaos City, then clears both floors with swift sword attacks. |
| Heavenly Bridge floor four | 128 | Reports the achievement after her thirty-year stay in Chaos City. |
| Eighth and ninth Time essences | 146 | Comprehends both with the help of explanations sent by Lu Qingshan, surprising Spirit Charm King. |
| Second bloodline awakening; eighty-one Time essences | 160 | Her third Blood Luo Crystal and the Ancient God Ruins’ baleful energy trigger another awakening. After a prolonged unconscious period, she reports severalfold faster law comprehension and eight fused crystals. |
| Domain Lord Ninth Stage | 175 | Returns from company trials with sufficient foundation to advance to World Lord. |
| World Lord; all 108 Time essences | 190 194 | Becomes a World Lord Level Primal Secret Region member and completes her analysis of the Time Origin Law’s essences. |
| Black Warrior; fourteenfold genes | 231 232 | Flesh Lingzhi raises her genetic level to sixfold. Fusing two more Blood Luo Crystals brings her total to ten and produces fourteenfold genes when she circulates Blood Luo Power. |
| Eight Fists of the Thunder Beast—peak first layer | 309 | Reports reaching the first layer’s peak while studying lightning-time fusion. |
| Heavenly Bridge floor sixteen | 324 | Attains High-level Marquis law comprehension roughly twenty thousand years after competing at Star Level. |
| First-Class Genius; approximately fiftyfold genes | 382 | Emerges from a ten-year blood cocoon after absorbing the Heart of Netherworld. Her system return multiplier rises to ten thousand, and her Space Law affinity comes to rival her Time Law affinity. She remains a World Lord with Initial King-level combat strength. |
| All 108 Space Origin Law essences | 425 | Completes their analysis and approaches the Space Origin Law’s acknowledgment while keeping the Path of the Beast God as her main combat route. |
| Heavenly Bridge floor twenty; Primal Heavenly Mountain cleared | 453 | Initially fails the mountain, then passes in under a minute after targeted illusion, soul-defense, and movement training. |
| Body of Time—initial grasp | 454 | Begins the body-amplification technique under Zhen Yan Venerable’s guidance, with supplementary resources from Lu Qingshan. |
| King-level Immortal God | 456 457 | Reveals her new realm during her confrontation on Canglan Star. |
| Invincible King; peak third-layer Beast God comprehension | 561 | Reaches Invincible King strength before departing for formal Beast God inheritance training. |
| Peak fourth-layer lightning-time fusion | 608 609 | After more than six thousand years and over a hundred inheritances, approaches fourth-layer perfection. Her foundation includes hundredfold genes and hundredfold body amplitude. |
| Perfected fourth layer; fifth-layer threshold; Universe Venerable | 610 | A bestowed Beast God Heart completes the fourth layer. After one hundred thousand years in the Time Temple, she reaches the fifth-layer threshold and overcomes the Time Law bottleneck. |
| Seventh-layer Thunder-Time Path; Beast God Heart comprehended | 651 | Her attainment establishes her qualifications to decide the disposition of her Qi Mirror Stone. |
| Peak seventh layer | 652 | Alternates three inheritance sessions with Time Temple cultivation over a thousand years. |
| Universe Master | 672 | Perfects seventh-layer lightning-time fusion after two hundred million years of Time Temple cultivation—nearly twenty thousand years outside—and converts over half her divine body during the breakthrough. |
| Second-tier Universe Master combat strength | 674 | Improves from first-tier strength within a century outside. Without Sword River Luo, she can match the weakest second-tier Universe Masters; willpower and secret techniques remain shortcomings. |
| 6,800-fold genes | 691 | Reports her genetic level to the Chaos City Lord and states that she can reach the perfect level of 10,081-fold. |
| Perfect genes; fourth-tier combat strength | 703 | Reaches the perfect genetic level and possesses a Universe Master’s strongest innate secret technique. |
| Wind-Time Fusion Law—seventh-layer entry | 888 | Her second Beast God route stalls here, preventing her from creating a Sixth-Order Secret Technique at that time. |
| Perfected Wind-Time Fusion Law; Sixth-Order Secret Technique; True God | 895 | The Dao Comprehension Purple Ultimate Flower helps her complete wind-time fusion. She later creates her own Sixth-Order Secret Technique and becomes a True God after two hundred billion eras. |
Background / History
Childhood and Entry into the Ganwu Mystic Region
Ling Yu’s gravely injured father brought her and the infant Ling Xi to Spirit Soul Star, leaving them with their uncle’s family before disappearing. Although she was only a few years old, Ling Yu remembered his bitterness when he spoke the name “Marquis Canglan.” Marquis Silvermoon later discovered the sisters, brought them into the Ganwu Mystic Region, and accepted Ling Yu as a disciple because of her talent 452.
Spirit Soul Star was subsequently renamed Ling Yu Star. Ling Yu continued sending money to the relatives who had raised the sisters, unaware that they were committing atrocities in her name 175.
Lu Qingshan’s Disciple and the Genius Battle
Ling Xi sent Ling Yu the movement technique Thunderlight Flash, which became the starting point of her instruction under Lu Qingshan. Bai Mei initially doubted a Domain Lord instructor’s ability to teach her, but Lu Qingshan’s results eventually won his respect. The two instructors divided their work: Lu Qingshan taught movement, while Bai Mei taught the Wind Thunder Sword 41 45 46.
Ling Yu insisted on pursuing the Time Origin Law despite warnings that the investment might jeopardize her preparation for the Genius Battle. Her breakthrough forced Marquis Silvermoon to acknowledge that she had underestimated her disciple 47 50.
Her original goal of entering the universe’s top thousand grew into a determination to take first place. She ultimately won the Genius Battle, retained her respect for Lu Qingshan, and entered the Virtual Universe Company’s Primal Secret Region 61 92 146.
Chaos City and Blood Luo Continent
In Chaos City, Ling Yu devoted most of six years to studying the Qingshan manuals alongside the Time Law patterns on the Ghost King horn. Her subsequent Heavenly Bridge performance attracted powerful observers interested in recruiting her. After thirty years in the city, she chose Spirit Charm King over Enlightening Light King on Lu Qingshan’s advice 111 128.
During a mission on Blood Luo Continent, her bloodline awakening left her unconscious for over a thousand years. Dense baleful energy discouraged intruders, while her Domain Lord Ninth Stage Cloud-Touching Vine guarded the cave. Her disappearance alarmed both Lu Qingshan and Spirit Charm King until Tian Shi Palace confirmed that she remained alive 154 156 160.
Company Trials and the Outer Domain Battlefield
Ling Yu’s company trials included destroying the Treasure Pavilion, eliminating an alien base, and capturing a Marquis-level Immortal. She nearly died in a Fire God Origin Crystal explosion, surviving because her guard captain quickly sheltered her in a World Ring 175.
Her final assignment exposed her uncle’s family’s crimes on Ling Yu Star. Unable to sentence the relatives herself, she handed them to local authorities and received a low passing score. Lu Qingshan reassured her that their teacher–disciple bond did not depend on the company’s judgment 175.
On the Outer Domain Battlefield, Ling Yu adopted the winged identity “Purple Feather King.” She used her bloodline’s disguise ability to conceal her origins and earned the title while still a World Lord. She later credited the Chaos City Lord’s Ice Soul Crystal with saving her during several crises 374 382 383.
Assassination and Revenge
On Manka Star, Shadow Kill Venerable failed to enslave Ling Yu’s soul and then attacked her. Lu Qingshan’s Black Sand Domain weakened the strike, Zhen Yan Venerable rescued her, and Lu Qingshan killed the assassin. Her soul damage was minor but temporarily affected her cultivation 403 425.
After obtaining Universe Venerable-level information access, Ling Yu learned that her father had died on Canglan Star and that her original family had been destroyed. She kept this history secret even from Ling Xi. Once she became a King-level Immortal, she killed Canglan King, provoking his teacher, Demon Shadow Venerable. Lu Qingshan supported her and told her to remain in the Ganwu Mystic Region while the dispute was resolved 452 456 457.
Universe Master and Later Exploration
After becoming a Universe Master, Ling Yu reversed time and space to resurrect both parents. She and Ling Xi spent several years with them on Spirit Soul Star before arranging for their parents to cultivate safely in the Initial Universe 672 673.
Her later expeditions included the Primal Stars, the Inner Domain of Universe Boat, and several visits to the Jin World. Although she maintained a low profile, her Universe Ocean outings established her reputation. She had not joined the Jin World’s army and regarded her principal gains there as combat experience rather than major opportunities 715 888.
Appearance
- Long purple hair remains a consistent feature throughout her development 160 381 610.
- Faint green light in her eyes appears after her second bloodline awakening, giving her an uncanny charm. Ling Yu initially dislikes the change and hopes becoming Immortal might restore her former appearance 160 175.
- Purple wings form part of her Purple Feather King presentation. The original pair consists of metal-framed King Rank equipment made convincing by her disguise ability 373 374.
- Clothing includes a pale-purple dress during visits to Lu Qingshan and purple battle armor during her later Universe Ocean career 309 888.
Personality
Ling Yu is ambitious and exceptionally persistent. She refuses to settle for a movement technique merely sufficient for the Genius Battle and continues pursuing the Time Law despite the risk of falling behind. Her willingness to spend years in solitary contemplation—and eventually two hundred million years cultivating in the Time Temple—supports that determination 46 50 111 672.
She remains grateful to her teachers rather than treating success as proof of independence. She openly tells Lu Qingshan about her bloodline opportunity, offers to seek Marquis Silvermoon’s help during his conflict with Kunshaluo, and repeatedly credits his instruction for her achievements 61 65 324.
Her protectiveness toward Ling Xi contrasts with her decisiveness in battle. She arranges for Lu Qingshan to shelter her younger sister, worries about Ling Xi’s lack of worldly experience, and later becomes concerned when her sister stops responding during secluded research. Her difficulty sentencing the uncle who raised them also reveals the limits of her otherwise forceful temperament 79 86 175 561.
Abilities & Skills
Time and Space Origin Laws
Ling Yu initially specializes in time, then develops substantial spatial talent after absorbing the Heart of Netherworld 382 425.
- Essence analysis: Masters all 108 essences of both the Time and Space Origin Laws, using Lu Qingshan’s manuals and explanations as major study aids 194 425.
- Time manipulation: Follows the Time Stop route while also demonstrating proficient Time Acceleration 454.
- Reverse Time and Space: Uses this Universe Master ability to locate and resurrect her parents 672 673.
- Priority: Before becoming Immortal, she treats spatial study as supplementary and relies primarily on the Path of the Beast God for combat 425.
Thunderlight Flash
A movement technique created by Lu Qingshan that develops from Lightning Law applications into the use of time 43 47.
- Produces increasingly numerous phantom bodies for evasion and repositioning 45 50 67.
- Makes her true position difficult to identify through ordinary observation 43.
- Remains important during her later training to overcome the Primal Heavenly Mountain’s coordinated defenders 453.
Wind Thunder Sword
Her early offensive discipline, taught by Bai Mei and substantially improved through Lu Qingshan’s Time Law instruction 46 59 65.
- Wind Thunder Thrust: The second layer and her principal early single-target finishing attack 65.
- Time integration: Raises the first layer to the original second layer’s power and pushes Wind Thunder Thrust beyond the original third layer 65.
- Early limitation: Her Origin Force initially struggles to sustain even the first layer, making stronger techniques impractical without sufficient development 41.
Path of the Beast God
Ling Yu cultivates lightning-time fusion through the Eight Fists of the Thunder Beast, later adding wind-time fusion 252 888.
- Tiger’s Roar: Manifests a ferocious Beast God attack through fused Lightning and Time Laws 252 305.
- Lightning-time route: Becomes the basis of her Universe Master breakthrough 672.
- Wind-time route: Eventually reaches perfection and supports the creation of her own Sixth-Order Secret Technique 895.
- Foundation requirement: Advancing too quickly with the Snow Demon Flower leaves gaps that stall her progress; Lu Qingshan requires her to identify and repair them herself 325.
One-Horned Ghost King Bloodline
Her inherited bloodline begins as an unawakened trace and develops through repeated awakenings and absorption of the Heart of Netherworld 41 61 160 382.
- Accelerates law comprehension after awakening 160.
- Awakens an instinctive disguise ability capable of deceiving ordinary Peak Kings 374.
- Gains greatly improved Space Origin Law affinity after the Heart of Netherworld transformation 382.
Soul Defense and Body Amplification
- Void Eye: A soul secret technique bestowed by Lu Qingshan; she successfully condenses its Eye of the Void within her soul 65 67.
- Illusion resistance: Receives targeted trials under Zhen Yan Venerable after illusion and spirit-reader attacks expose weaknesses at the Primal Heavenly Mountain 453.
- Body of Time: A body-amplification technique capable of a perfect hundredfold increase; Ling Yu later possesses hundredfold body amplitude 454 609.
- Willpower limitation: Her rapid advancement initially leaves her will behind her strength, restricting technique creation, law comprehension, and combat performance even with soul protection 674.
Equipment / Weapons / Items
Weapons and Protective Treasures
- Wind Thunder Sword — Her early sword and the weapon used to practice Wind Thunder Thrust 59.
- King-grade divine sword and Femo Venom — Prepared for an attempt on Soul Chaser King, with Star Illusion King hired to provide immediate transportation afterward 373.
- Purple metal-framed wings — King Rank equipment used with her bloodline disguise to impersonate a Winged Human expert 374.
- Ice Soul Crystal — A True Treasure bestowed by the Chaos City Lord that saves her during multiple battlefield crises 383.
- King-level Immortal armor — Given by Lu Qingshan after her Heart of Netherworld transformation, while she is still a World Lord 382.
- Silvery-white sword — An Ordinary Heavy Treasure among the best of its grade, matched to her attributes and given after she kills Canglan King 457.
- Sword River Luo — One of her major Universe Master combat treasures 674 755.
- Golden Cicada Fish Scale Armor — Peak Supreme Treasure Armor given to improve her survivability against powerful opponents 715.
- Three Talents Palace — A Peak Palace Supreme Treasure bestowed by Lu Qingshan 788.
Cultivation Resources
- One-Horned Ghost King horn — Initially loaned and later permanently given by Lu Qingshan; its Time Law patterns support her early comprehension 61 95 111.
- Qingshan manuals — Receives the initial thirty-six-manual collection and later the Time Advanced Edition 95 194.
- Overview of Time, first three volumes — Purchased by Lu Qingshan for 100,000 points to support her further study 160.
- Heart of Netherworld — The One-Horned Ghost King race’s accompanying Supreme Treasure; its absorption transforms her aptitude 374 382.
- Space Crystal — A large crystal given to assist her Space Origin Law comprehension 425.
- Seven-Colored Heart-Enlightenment Lotus — Loaned for her training before she successfully clears the Primal Heavenly Mountain 453.
- Snow Demon Flower King — Bestowed to help her create secret techniques suited to her own strength 486.
- Thunder Time Beast God Inheritance Token — Provides access to inheritance training in the Ancestral God Secret Realm 561.
- Beast God Heart — Bestowed to advance her lightning-time fusion and support her eventual breakthrough 610 672.
- Illusory Heart Fruit — Given specifically to temper her deficient willpower after she becomes a Universe Master 674.
- Dao Comprehension Purple Ultimate Flower — Assists law comprehension and secret-technique creation, ultimately helping her complete wind-time fusion 888 895.
Other Assets
- Cloud-Touching Vine — Guards her during her long unconscious period in the Ancient God Ruins; it is Domain Lord Ninth Stage at the time 160.
- E-class spaceship — An escape option Lu Qingshan emphasizes during her Blood Luo Continent mission 146.
- Qi Mirror Stone — Acquired during her Primal Stars career. After Lu Qingshan defends her right to decide its use, she voluntarily leaves it for him at Qingshan Residence 650 651 652.
Relationships
- Lu Qingshan — Her principal long-term mentor. Their teacher–disciple relationship remains intact after she joins the Chaos City Lord’s school; he provides instruction, resources, protection, and support during her family dispute 61 286 457.
- Ling Xi — Younger sister. Ling Yu initially describes her as her only family and arranges for Lu Qingshan to look after her; the sisters later reunite with their resurrected parents 79 673.
- Chaos City Lord — Accepts Ling Yu as a disciple after her Black Warrior transformation. Guides her broader cultivation route and recognizes her battlefield and Universe Master achievements 233 383 425 691.
- Marquis Silvermoon — Discovers the sisters and becomes Ling Yu’s early teacher. Initially doubts her risky Time Law pursuit, then admits she underestimated her 50 452.
- Bai Mei — Early instructor responsible for her Wind Thunder Sword training. Initially skeptical of Lu Qingshan, he later works closely with him 41 45 46.
- Spirit Charm King — Chosen as her teacher after Chaos City. Investigates her disappearance on Blood Luo Continent and takes pride in her subsequent progress 128 154 194.
- Aiwei — Senior sister under Spirit Charm King, assigned to guard Ling Yu before formally welcoming her into their shared school 128.
- White Ape King — Instructor who supervises her early Eight Fists of the Thunder Beast practice 252 258.
- Zhen Yan Venerable — Senior fellow disciple who rescues her from assassination, supervises illusion training, helps her study Body of Time, and escorts her to the Ancestral God Secret Realm 403 453 454 561.
- Luo Feng — Junior fellow disciple. Lu Qingshan identifies the two as prospective strongest disciples, and Ling Yu later takes a seat beside him at a Human Race meeting 610 703.
- Jiu Feng Venerable — Assists her in the Ancestral God Religion and arranges access to glory points purchased on Lu Qingshan’s behalf 562 608.
- Canglan King — Enemy connected to the destruction of her family; Ling Yu kills him after becoming a King-level Immortal 452 457.
- Demon Shadow Venerable — Canglan King’s teacher, who attempts to stop her after the killing and later discovers her Universe Master breakthrough 457 673.
Notable Quotes
“No. If I’m going to do this, I’ll be the strongest!” 46
“Teacher, don’t worry. First place in the universe will be mine!” 61
“My teacher has always taken very good care of his disciples.” 562
Trivia
- Her “Angel Ling Yu” public image attracts fans across the universe; her later bloodline-induced appearance differs markedly from that earlier image 111 160.
- “Purple Feather King” is initially a battlefield identity, not proof that she has become an Immortal: she earns the title while still a World Lord 374 382 383.
- She is Lu Qingshan’s first Second-Class Genius disciple and, for a period, his only First-Class Genius disciple 155 561.
- At the time of her public recognition as a Universe Master, she is the only Human Race member confirmed to have reached that realm through the Path of the Beast God; other human Universe Masters studying it had begun after their breakthroughs 703.