Qi Yun

Biodata

Power Progression

History

Transmigration and sect recruitment

Qi Yun arrived in the cultivation world two years before his first appearance. His birth parents sold him to a human trafficker for three taels of silver; after changing hands several times, he became a reserve recruit of the Limitless Devil Sect. With below-average aptitude, he survived four assessments through restraint and careful judgment 1 4.

The Law Technique Panel gave him a way to overcome his disadvantages. He learned Basic Sword Qi from materials taken from Tang Shun, then used its upgrades to turn an ordinary technique into an increasingly dangerous weapon. He later pawned Tang Shun’s belongings and deliberately drew him outside the city to eliminate the threat he posed 6 9 10 12 20.

Outer Mansion struggles

Qi Yun invested in reference books, spiritual objects, and talisman production to close the information gap between himself and disciples with powerful families. His success as Human Origin Champion also attracted hostility from fellow disciples 17 47.

When Zheng Yi pursued him through Drifting Remains Mountain, Qi Yun led him to a sealed golden coffin, struck it open, and killed himself with Sword Qi, leaving Zheng Yi trapped with the released corpse-bound figure. The supplied account does not explain the mechanism by which Qi Yun subsequently returned 32.

His growing strength brought him into conflict with Yue Rong and the Punishment Hall. A soul-search of surviving witnesses cleared him of accusations of killing fellow disciples, while Li Chong privately proposed cooperation against Yue Rong 50. Deng Yin subsequently offered cultivation resources in exchange for Qi Yun protecting him after reincarnation, giving Qi Yun his first explicit Foundation Establishment backer 81.

Inner sect advancement

Qi Yun became the next outer disciple after Minghuang, three hundred and seventy years earlier, to earn the title of Triple First-Place Champion 117.

During operations against the Yellow Springs Netherworld, he upgraded Profound Communion and Life Seizure into Stealing and Devouring Gu and fought his way out of Ghost-Crying Market. He continued cultivating away from major political flashpoints, opened additional apertures, and accepted Li Hanyan’s commission to kill Chang Qing after learning that the assassination concerned a dispute over a Dao Foundation 129 139 146 153 162.

For Foundation Establishment, he rejected the safer Primordial Heaven path and chose Great Luo. He overcame its predecessor’s resentment through his own understanding of the Dao, endured the calamities, and completed his breakthrough after Deng Yin intervened against hostile attackers 192 195 196 199 200.

Sect politics and the Southern Yin conflict

As a True Person, Qi Yun challenged Black Mountain’s influence through negotiation as well as force. He secured Qingli’s abstention in the deputy sect master nomination by addressing his daughter’s future and repaying an earlier karmic debt with Undying True Blood 230 231.

During Southern Yin’s northern expedition, he infiltrated righteous cultivator circles as Yun Zhongzi, distributing talismans and gaining their trust. He investigated the expedition’s concealed search for a Great Tang Imperial Weapon before revealing his identity as the Wuji Sacred Sect’s Great Luo True Person 252 253 254 257.

He acquired an Armaments Gold Innate Treasure Coin and used it to summon a Great Tang army when the Southern Yin crown prince disrupted his breakthrough. The resulting opening allowed him to reach Foundation Establishment Middle Stage 271 284.

Other realms and Dharma Bodies

Desolate Halberd True Lord sent Qi Yun to Azure Gate to retrieve a lost Fruition Status, ordering him not to use means originating from the Xuanhuang Home Realm. Before leaving, Qi Yun entrusted Green Mountain Daoist Temple to allies and opened its treasure pavilion to them 303.

In Azure Gate, he trained cultivators while secretly planting Demon Seeds to prevent them from becoming weapons against him. The realm’s True Heaven’s Will later empowered him against the Fruition Status that had usurped its authority 313 314 319.

After developing Primordial True Body, Qi Yun explored its ability to imitate other lineages and separate Dharma Bodies. His Buddhist Dharma Body became Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord; its intervention secured his appointment as deputy sect master. He later sent the blood-path Dharma Body Youquan to recover Deng Yin’s reincarnation, whom he eventually welcomed as Xuanming 324 337 367 371 379.

Supreme contention and later conflicts

Refining the Supreme Sovereign Mystic Firmament Dao Foundation placed Qi Yun on a path of contention between Supreme Dao Foundation bearers, with only one ultimately remaining 389.

He infiltrated Lingyong by killing Zhou Zimo and reproducing his identity and Realm Mark. There, he accumulated Divine Dao authority, defeated the Lord of Han Province, and began campaigning to unite the nine provinces 417 420 421 422.

Qi Yun later faced twelve Supreme incarnations inside Great Luo Heaven. With Cai Kun’s replenishment and Canyi’s intervention, he defeated their attacks, defended his Dao before the Great Luo incarnation, and absorbed their origins 451.

After refining the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit, he followed a remnant thought west toward ancient Chang’an. On returning, he continued digesting four strands of Sword Dao that had merged into one 481 482 483. His subsequent Pure Land assault split vow-power golden light, gravely wounded four bodhisattvas, and destroyed the Grand Reception Formation; more extravagant versions of the incident circulated as rumors 486.

In the latest supplied events, Qi Yun sits at the center of a formation involving dozens of True Lords while the blue sky behind him recovers. He later confronts True Lord Contemplating the One directly, forcing a gap through silver threads and aiming his sword at the True Lord’s brow 490 494.

Appearance

• Features: Exceptionally handsome, with refined bone structure and sharply defined features. His eyes show composure beyond his apparent age, while his expression occasionally carries a wicked edge acquired through sect life 62.
• Usual later attire: A dark-blue Daoist robe; his black hair is loosely tied with a wooden hairpin in a later appearance 379 484.
• Eyes: Described with blue-gold radiance during his Great True Person period and flowing colors in later appearances 409 484.
• Disguises: Can present himself as a gentle Confucian scholar, an apparently compassionate Buddhist master, or an exact copy of another cultivator 62 330 417.

Personality

Qi Yun is cautious, pragmatic, and strongly concerned with survival. Early on, he avoids unfamiliar terrain rather than wandering into danger; even after reaching the seventh layer, witnessing stronger cultivators’ abilities keeps him wary of pursuit. He deliberately builds his fighting methods around escape, protective techniques, and controlling engagement distance 4 26 55 139.

His caution does not prevent calculated audacity. He exploits chaos, uses opponents’ assumptions against them, and treats valuable resources as opportunities to improve his own position. He is willing to consume a borrowed flying sword for an upgrade, manipulate political loyalties, and secretly condition trainees through Demon Seeding in the Dao Heart 26 131 231 313.

Qi Yun values self-determination over obedience to inherited paths. He chooses Great Luo despite its dangers and later defines his Dao through the choices of his own enduring self. Alongside this ruthlessness, he repays protection and friendship: he recognizes Qianxin’s aid as a debt and makes recovering Deng Yin’s reincarnation an urgent priority 192 208 371 451.

Abilities & Skills

Law Technique Panel

A personal panel automatically updates his Law Techniques, adding mechanics or improving their underlying attributes 3 18 26.

• Refines compatible spiritual objects to advance update progress; conflicting Dao resonances can make an object unsuitable 6 17.
• Grants effects beyond ordinary versions, including instant casting, tracking, attack evasion, and self-healing 10 18 36.
• Does not guarantee rapid improvement: Profound Communion and Life Seizure stagnated when suitable materials were unavailable 129.
• Upgraded techniques are not automatically teachable to others; Qi Yun identifies this limitation for his enhanced Basic Sword Qi 26.

Basic Sword Qi

His principal early offensive technique begins as a commonplace metal-element art and develops into a means of drawing upon the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit 9 439.

Clear Breeze Technique and Gather Form and Disperse Qi

His earliest movement technique develops from concealed breeze transformation into a method capable of leaving lifelike doubles 3 90 172.

• Breeze form: Turns his body into formless clear Qi with innate concealment 3.
• Evasion: Avoids one attack while in breeze form, ending that state afterward; the passage does not establish its upper power limit 18.
• Self-healing: Version 5.0 continuously heals him while transformed 36.
• Suppressed presence: Version 6.0 strengthens concealment and passively reduces his presence 41.
• Doubles and infiltration: Gather Form and Disperse Qi leaves a convincing double while his true body slips through narrow openings 172.

Wield Myriad Laws

A Divine Ability of his Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation that seizes and controls the principles underlying other methods 202.

• Reverses the nature of wind and fire calamities to temper his body and Divine Soul 199.
• Captures black coffin phantoms and combines their burial power against He Sha 216.
• Tears apart Jinchi’s Dao Foundation before Qi Yun suppresses him in Great Luo Heaven 340.
• The seized coffin phantoms contain only a small fraction of the central Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin’s power; their defeat does not establish mastery over the complete coffin 216.

Great Luo Heaven and related Divine Abilities

Great Luo Heaven supports his creation of methods, confinement of enemies, and assimilation of other Dao principles 233 340 389.

• Great Luo Edict: Converts Qi Refining techniques into Foundation Establishment techniques, but requires substantial recovery after use 207.
• Myriad Laws Incarnation: Revives him in peak condition through one of his own Law Techniques. A safe technique imprint provides a return point, but the ability has a cooldown 285.
• Seize Profound Meaning: Permanently takes a portion of the essential Dao intent from a method stripped away by Wield Myriad Laws 285.
• Immediate Execution by Beheading: A killing Divine Ability derived from the Supreme Sovereign Dao Foundation 389 450.

Primordial True Body and Dharma Bodies

Primordial True Body uses Primordial Immortal Light and Great Luo Heaven to imitate other lineages and separate Dharma Bodies 324 337.

• Reproduces another lineage’s Law Power, presence, and Divine Ability traits while preserving Qi Yun’s self-awareness 337.
• Copies Zhou Zimo’s appearance, clothing, presence, and soul-bound Realm Mark closely enough to approach Lingyong under his identity 417.
• Produces the Buddhist Dharma Body associated with Fahai and later Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord 337 338 346 367.
• Produces Youquan, a blood-path Dharma Body, and a later sword Dao incarnation 370 371 449.
• By the time of the True Lords’ intervention in the conflict, Qi Yun has two True Lord incarnations, both newly advanced 409.

Devouring and cultivation support

• Essence Devouring: White-bone skulls drain enemies’ cultivation and blood essence, returning the essence to Qi Yun 102.
• Stealing and Devouring Gu: An upgraded form of Profound Communion and Life Seizure that gathers ambient Qi and returns it as cultivation 129.
• Cinnabar Cicada Womb Treasury: Absorbs impure battlefield essence and transforms it into jade marrow capable of improving aptitude 102.
• These replenishment methods support sustained fighting alongside his concealment, Wood Phase Command Method, and Iron Sand Method 130.

Iron Sand Method

Controls Sunken Abyss Iron Sand as flexible weapons, barriers, and confined killing spaces 57 129 139.

• Forms detailed weapons that respond directly to his thoughts 57.
• Creates shields and an iron-sand cage used with Millstone Hell to crush an assassin 129 139.
• Early sword-flight experiments are limited by his insufficient True Qi 57.

Divination and karmic perception

Blood-Guided Profound Mysteries introduces him to divination and deduction 81 84.

• Calculates fortune and danger before entering uncertain locations 106 124.
• Traces the Southern Yin crown prince through a remnant of Supreme Qi 284.
• Deduces aspects of Youquan’s overseas journey, although tangled karma prevents a clear reading 371.

Talismans and Treasure Creation Incantation

• Produces talismans in large quantities and combines thousands of Evil-Dispelling and Baleful Intent-Breaking talismans into a sword 17 166.
• Uses the Supreme Mystery Register to supply righteous disciples with talismans while disguised as Yun Zhongzi 253.
• Treasure Creation Incantation temporarily gives tangible treasure form to Dao intent, demonstrated through a Southern Ming Li Fire Sword 233.
• Created treasures disperse when the incantation’s power ends; they are not permanent artifacts 233.

Divine Dao authority

In Lingyong, Qi Yun draws power from divine office, territorial laws, and collective worship 420 421.

• Commands mountains, weather, and subordinate gods within his jurisdiction 420.
• Uses provincial prayer power and a great seal to defeat the Lord of Han Province 421.
• Binds enemies through Swiftly, Swiftly, As the Law Commands and subdues them with Great Luo Dao Sound 421 422.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Blood-Guided Profound Mysteries jade talisman — Deng Yin’s introductory gift, containing divination and deduction methods 81 84.
• Storage bracelet and silver storage ring — Carry his supplies; the ring can interrupt a divination lock and becomes the object of a Seven Kills Sect ambush 104 139.
• Peach branch and Longevity Peach — The branch temporarily shields him from the Peach Garden’s life-draining force, allowing him to obtain a large peach before it fails 106.
• Three Lives Glazed Treasure Mirror — Received from Li Chong following the Chang Qing assassination commission 162 172.
• Treasure-Gathering Bronze Mirror — Supplied by Deng Yin to locate Li Hanyan’s hidden collection; accompanied by stealth resources including the Formless Divine Talisman 172.
• Four Extremes Great Expansion Token — Used to requisition construction materials and additional valuables from Cold Tasting Market 240.
• Human Emperor Banner — Its souls and main souls support Human and Banner as One, temporarily granting middle-stage Foundation Establishment combat power before his actual breakthrough 267.
• Armaments Gold Innate Treasure Coin — One of the twelve heaven-grade golds produced by Wealth Connects to the Divine; summons a Great Tang military unit 271 284.
• Six Realms Heaven — A travel resource provided for the Azure Gate mission; requires roughly three hundred days to recharge after sending him there 303.
• Mountains and Rivers Cauldron — Nurtured by Cai Kun and later carried by Qi Yun on his journey to the Sword Pavilion 476 481.
• Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit — Appears as four inverted ancient swords and possesses power to sever karma and shatter laws; later refined into Primordial Unity 462 481.

Relationships

• Deng Yin / Xuanming — Teacher and early backer. Protects Qi Yun during Foundation Establishment; Qi Yun later arranges the recovery of his reincarnation and still greets him as his teacher 81 199 371 379.
• True Person Qianxin — Martial uncle, protector, and political ally. His friendship with Deng Yin leads him to aid Qi Yun repeatedly 153 208 230 231.
• Cai Kun / Cai Shen — Companion and adviser, identified in the passages with Wealth Connects to the Divine. Helps him obtain military support, advises him on wider opportunities, and replenishes him during the Supreme trials 279 280 284 451 481.
• Li Chong — Offers cooperation against Yue Rong and later acts as intermediary for Li Hanyan’s assassination commission and payment 50 160 162 172.
• Li Hanyan — Commissions Chang Qing’s death while requiring Black Baleful Intent Mountain’s involvement to remain concealed; Qi Yun later infiltrates his treasure collection 162 172.
• Black Mountain True Person — Longstanding enemy and Yue Rong’s father. Nearly ruins Qi Yun’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough and repeatedly opposes his rise 280 298 367.
• Yue Rong — Powerful early rival whose close-combat ability forces Qi Yun to reconsider his tactics 50 55.
• True Person Qingli — An elder whom Qi Yun persuades to abstain from supporting Black Mountain, partly by addressing his daughter’s cultivation prospects 230.
• Southern Yin Crown Prince — Rival Supreme bearer who attacks Qi Yun during his middle-stage breakthrough; Qi Yun subsequently traces him through stolen Dao intent 283 284 285.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord — Assigns the Azure Gate mission and provides travel and emergency resources 303.
• True Lord Qingyuan — Guards Qi Yun while he refines the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit and defends him against interference 481.
• True Lord Contemplating the One — Gives him a warning token, but later becomes his direct opponent 476 486 494.

Notable Quotes

“Only by staying alive could he have a future!” 26

“Where people's loyalties lie can sometimes matter more than Divine Abilities and Law Power.” 231

“My Dao is a mirror, illuminating the myriad laws; my heart is a furnace, refining the myriad Daos.” 451