Jingting

Biodata

Power Progression

Jingting’s documented development involves martial arts training rather than named cultivation realms.

Background / History

Jingting is an orphan who grew up without ever seeing his parents. He lived with his elderly master at a mountain temple and rarely left it. His schooling was brief and irregular, leaving him without a complete compulsory education 11 53 84.

After his master died and their temple was forcibly demolished, Jingting wandered without a fixed home. Daoist Chang Kong eventually brought him to Clear Breeze Temple, where Yun Zhaozhao allowed him to stay and temporarily share Chang Kong’s room 8 11 44.

Initially, he had few practical religious skills to offer. Yun Zhaozhao assigned him cleaning and guard duties while Chang Kong handled the cooking. Jingting accepted without complaint: he had nowhere else to go, and the temple provided food he enjoyed 8 9.

His earlier losses later shape his attitude toward money. He says that, had he not been penniless, his temple would not have been demolished and his old master would not have died in such miserable circumstances. He wants to earn enough to support Qingxin in old age 134.

Appearance

• Build: Extremely thin and small; his youthful appearance makes Yun Zhaozhao doubt his claim to adulthood 36 41.
• Clothing: Usually wears Daoist robes 16 44.
• Hair: Wears a topknot secured with a hairpin. After receiving praise for his looks, he once uses hair wax and carefully selects a newly made hairpin for a livestream 57 58.
• Public impression: Can look respectable when silent. Xu Tingting initially remembers him as a quiet, hardworking “sweeping monk,” rather than the outspoken streamer others know 16 41.

Personality

Jingting is sharp-tongued, argumentative, and fiercely partisan toward people he considers his own. He explicitly tells Chang Kong that he sides with his own people rather than whoever is right. Nevertheless, he is patient with vulnerable visitors, including elderly people, sick people, and pregnant women; he brings a chair to a heavily pregnant devotee before hearing her troubles 9 16.

His confidence coexists with insecurity about his place at Clear Breeze Temple. When further training elsewhere becomes a possibility, he worries that Yun Zhaozhao considers him expendable and would gladly exchange him for Qingxin. He is deeply moved by Qingxin’s generosity because few people outside his old master and the temple residents have treated him kindly 44 52.

He is playful, easily flattered, and enthusiastic about food. His appetite frequently interrupts his work, and his only stated requirement for food is that it be cooked. Over time, however, he becomes more conscious of shared responsibilities, agreeing to sell products because the temple’s development cannot depend on one person alone 20 25 128.

Abilities & Skills

Verbal Sparring and Proxy Scolding

Jingting’s signature talent is delivering insults and comebacks on behalf of others 19 84.

• Initially charges five yuan per online commission, with an additional fee for making the target cry; his service later becomes free 19 41 42.
• Handles complaints involving disrespectful service providers, difficult relatives, parenting pressures, and neighborhood disputes 19 24 47 58.
• Adapts his delivery while training: holding horse stance makes him tired and shortens his formerly rambling insults into more direct attacks 47.
• His provocations can escalate conflict. Villagers attempt to attack him during the bamboo-shoot dispute, requiring police intervention 12.
• His profanity during a haunted-house stream earns a platform suspension warning 43.

Livestreaming and Publicity

Jingting develops from an irregular streamer looking for conversation into Clear Breeze Temple’s publicity officer 21 72.

• Promotes temple food, flower sales, activities, the official website, and the agricultural base 24 55 83 84 117.
• Records Daoist Cen’s sparring match and edits it together with gentler tai chi footage, attracting attention through the contrast 72 73.
• Reaches nearly 50,000 followers by Ma Ke’s visit 69.
• Retains substantial gaps in computer knowledge: viewers must guide him through the temple website step by step during its launch stream 84.
• Later conducts weekly product-sales streams with Wen Xu 129.

Daoist Practice and Ghost-Related Work

Jingting gains practical exposure through Qingxin, but accompanying an expert does not make him an accomplished exorcist 43 55.

• Assists at religious rites by copying Qingxin’s actions 55.
• Cannot see ghosts and asks whether Qingxin can open his heavenly eye; Qingxin cannot grant that ability 55.
• Berates a ghost while Qingxin handles the actual expulsion. After Qingxin removes it without telling him, Jingting continues lecturing the empty corner 44.
• Has no demonstrated genuine fortune-telling ability: his early fortune-stick readings use a tube containing only supreme-luck sticks, and he later describes another apparent reading as bluffing 16 58.
• His first proposed “talismans” are plainly written labels such as “Guaranteed-pass talisman” and “Beauty talisman,” which Yun Zhaozhao treats as a marketing idea 18.

Physical Agility and Basic Martial Arts

• Excels at climbing mountains and trees after growing up in the mountains; helps Chang Kong gather wild hawthorns 12.
• Claims he can run fast enough to escape dogs, even while admitting he cannot match trained fighters 65.
• Practices horse stance and demonstrates a breathing exercise described in his manual as calming the mind and promoting longevity 44 58.
• Does not demonstrate mastery of the Wudang Fist or Pure Yang Continuous Sword techniques he later wants the temple to learn 142.

Music

• Learned some erhu from his original master and offers to provide mournful playing for funerals 30.
• Also practices the suona, although his livestream audience finds his playing terrible 31.

Equipment / Items

• Merit wooden fish — Made by Chang Kong and inscribed with “Boundless merit.” Jingting uses it on stream and becomes known for tapping it after scolding people 21 41.
• Two martial arts manuals — Beginner and advanced instructional texts supplied by Qingxin 52 53.
• One Hundred Ways to Insult People Without Swearing — A stack of papers he brings as his supposed backup plan for a haunted-house visit 43.
• Hairpin — A Chang Kong-made accessory selected for a livestream after fans praise his appearance 58.
• Phone and filming equipment — Begins streaming with his phone; later brings professional equipment and a crew for the temple’s anti-fraud video 43 175.

Relationships

• Unnamed original master — Raised and taught Jingting. Jingting initially believes lifelong loyalty means he should never take another master; his death remains a source of grief and regret 8 43 134.
• Yun Zhaozhao — Temple master who gives him a home, assigns his work, and keeps his savings. His teasing and backtalk coexist with loyalty to her and the temple 8 9 44 52.
• Daoist Chang Kong — Senior brother, initial roommate, and the person who brings him to Clear Breeze Temple. Jingting defends him against disrespectful language but also regularly teases him 8 11 44 47.
• Daoist Qingxin — Mentor and later “junior master.” Gives him manuals, takes him on paid work, and comes to regard him as his disciple. Jingting reciprocates with food, flattery, a gift hairpin, and plans to support him financially 52 53 55 83 134.
• Wen Xu — Weekly livestream-sales partner and close confidant. Jingting tells him things he is too embarrassed to tell Yun Zhaozhao 129 139.
• Lin Banxia — Fellow temple resident and frequent target of his acupuncture jokes. She assists with one of his viewer requests and later needles his calf in an attempt to help him grow taller 31 36 37.
• Xiaojiu — Asked to supervise him during reception duty. She becomes angry after discovering that his flattering fortune-stick readings rely on every stick promising supreme luck 16.
• The young Daoists — Call him “Second Senior Brother.” He accepts the title from them despite disliking its association with Zhu Bajie when others use it 93.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Temple Work and Online Breakthrough

• Bamboo-shoot dispute: While selling cakes outside Qingfeng Park, Jingting confronts villagers damaging the bamboo groves. Police escort him home after the argument escalates; afterward, most of the villagers stop digging there 11 12.
• Proxy-scolding business: Helping a pregnant devotee confront her husband leads him toward scolding on others’ behalf. His online commissions then develop into a popular livestream format 19 47.
• Food promotion: Yun Zhaozhao positions his stream beside the kitchen window. He shows Chang Kong’s hands rather than his face while promoting the cooking—and helping himself to the food 24 25.

Qingxin’s Apprentice

• First haunted house: A ghost slaps him, overturning his assumptions about the supernatural and prompting his decision to train 43.
• First ghost-related earnings: Qingxin gives him 1,000 yuan, which he hands to Yun Zhaozhao for safekeeping. Together with his earlier savings, this brings his recorded total to 2,000 yuan 44.
• Expanding responsibilities: He accompanies Qingxin on further haunted-house jobs and religious rites, then persuades him to visit Clear Breeze Temple periodically 55.
• Temple defense: Concerned that the temple’s wealth has outgrown its fighting strength, he recruits Qingxin to teach martial arts. Qingxin brings Daoist Baiyun to provide stronger instruction 142.

Publicity, Commerce, and Teaching

• Animal welfare: Uses his audience to criticize pet abandonment and offers a struggling rescuer free room and board in exchange for helping care for animals 83.
• Commercial partnership: Moves beyond his earlier refusal to become a sales streamer, selling co-branded chicken products and Clear Breeze Tea with Wen Xu 128 129 130.
• “Master Jingting”: Gains prestige among visiting Daoists studying livestreaming, while attending reading and writing lessons alongside elementary-school children at night 172.
• Anti-fraud campaign: Takes a leading role with Chang Kong in producing an anti-fraud video for Officer Xiao Deng, supplying professional equipment and a filming crew 175.

Notable Quotes

“I know perfectly well who's one of us and who's an outsider. Don't worry. I side with my own, not with whoever's right.” 16

“I just want to earn a little more, so if my younger master gets old someday, I'll have the money to support him.” 134