Dongfang Yueming

Biodata

Power Progression

Technique mastery and cultivation realms are listed separately where the text distinguishes them.

Background and History

Early Life and Academy Enrollment

Dongfang Yueming is a transmigrator who lives as an orphan without family support. He pays his academy tuition using relief payments and initially cannot afford the cultivation resources sold to his classmates 2 7.

His childhood memories include a strong little girl nicknamed “Little Stone,” who followed him around. He remembers himself as the children’s mischievous ringleader and recalls making an embarrassing promise to appoint her as a great general in his future “harem” 29.

At the academy, Gao Hu deliberately strikes and humiliates him after seeing Lin Qingyao speak to him. Recognizing that he cannot win an immediate fight, Dongfang challenges Gao Hu to an arena match one month later. The sight of severely injured senior students soon reinforces that cultivation is necessary for survival, not merely revenge 2 3.

City Patrol Service

Seeking contribution points, Dongfang accepts a temporary patrol job. After he reports Greater Skin Tempering strength, the offered wage doubles from three to six contribution points per day 5.

He joins the East City Security Patrol Third Squad and partners with Li Yue. A newcomer test arranged by Captain Wang Zhen and carried out by Zhang Meng places three Carrion Rats in their path. Dongfang kills all three without injury and receives thirty contribution points in beast rewards, establishing his credibility within the squad 9 10 11.

During a later patrol, two Flesh Refining Realm Azure-Scaled Leopards ambush the pair and injure Li Yue. Dongfang kills both, then encourages her to report their victory as a joint effort. She subsequently transfers her forty-point reward to him, believing that he deserves it 20 21.

Zhang Meng’s jealousy eventually leads him to hire Scorpion to assassinate Dongfang. Dongfang suspects Zhang Meng during the confrontation; later passages confirm that he killed Scorpion and acquired his poisoned dagger 23 27 38.

The Shi Family Gathering

Qian Jingming supplies Dongfang with the Layered Wave Skin Tempering Method and repeatedly urges him to attend a gathering. At the manor, Dongfang learns that Shi Qing arranged both the invitation and the technique’s delivery. He thanks her and accepts her invitation to dance, later recognizing her as his childhood companion Little Stone 14 28 29.

Afterward, Shi Qing’s uncle tests Dongfang’s combat ability. Despite using his perfected saber and movement techniques together, Dongfang cannot overcome the elder’s casual defenses. The elder reveals that he is a Qi Refining Realm expert and explains that the Shi family’s main lineage suffers from accelerated aging 30 31.

The elder asks Dongfang to reach Marrow Cleansing within six months. Dongfang considers the goal potentially achievable but requests top-tier Bone Forging and Tendon Transformation methods. Although the elder cannot provide a cultivation technique, he gives Dongfang a saber from his youth 31 32.

Journey to the Beast Defense Frontier

Unable to find publicly available Bone Forging methods, Dongfang decides to pursue military merit at the Beast Defense Frontier. He resigns from the patrol squad and learns that Zhang Meng has already left for the same destination, strengthening his conviction that Zhang Meng arranged Scorpion’s attack 34 37 38.

At recruitment, Dongfang silences mockery by lifting the Greater Flesh Refining stone lock with one hand. He receives a military merit terminal and boards the frontier train 38 39.

Traveling under the name Dongfang Ri, he joins Hongxiu, Zhou Tong, Tie Shan, and Tie Zhu. During a beast attack, he kills several mortal beasts and survives Zhou Tong’s attempt to endanger him by drawing an Iron-Armored Rhinoceros into his path. His protection of Hongxiu changes her initially calculating interest into genuine trust 41 43 44.

With Hongxiu’s support, Dongfang becomes the temporary squad’s captain. He registers ninety-nine military merit points and distributes them as follows: thirty-four to himself, twenty to Hongxiu, nineteen to Zhou Tong, and thirteen each to the Tie brothers 45.

When bandits try to rob him, he breaks their leader’s arm without drawing his saber and takes thirty-two military merit points from them 47 48.

Black Stone Fortress

At Black Stone Fortress, Hongxiu gives Dongfang the Hundred Beasts Flesh Refining Method and Hundred Beasts Bone Tempering Method as thanks for protecting her 49.

Dongfang then dissolves the temporary squad, explaining to the Tie brothers that they each have their own paths. He spends one military merit point to rent a stone house and begins cultivating the Hundred Beasts Bone Tempering Method. The provided passage describes rapid advancement but does not identify the resulting mastery level or realm 50.

Appearance

• Build: Tall and well-proportioned, standing over 1.8 meters tall 13 28.
• Face and bearing: Repeatedly described as handsome, with a calm, composed demeanor 9 13 28.
• Clothing: Initially dresses plainly; his fitted dark blue patrol uniform gives him a more capable, martial appearance 9 13.
• Cultivated physique: Jade Skin leaves his skin flawless and exceptionally resilient despite its outwardly smooth appearance 16.

Personality

Dongfang refuses to accept humiliation but generally distinguishes defiance from a fight he cannot win. His delayed challenge to Gao Hu gives him time to prepare, and he later refuses Lin Qingyao’s offer to resolve the dispute for him 2 35.

He is pragmatic about both cultivation and combat. Difficult techniques attract him when their perfected forms offer exceptional returns, while weapons are tools for compensating for human physical disadvantages. He also conceals his rapid growth and uses an assumed name when disclosure could create unnecessary trouble 5 30 33 41.

His resourcefulness can become shameless opportunism: he pressures Qian Jingming into financing his saber and prioritizes acquiring cultivation methods over repaying that debt. With allies, however, he shares credit, honors promises of protection, and expresses gratitude for assistance 8 21 22 28 44.

Abilities and Skills

Point-Allocation System

Dongfang’s system converts accumulated points into cultivation progress and martial understanding, allowing breakthroughs in moments rather than through prolonged conventional training 4 6.

• Techniques appear on the panel after he memorizes or receives their contents 3 14 25.
• Allocations can grant bodily strengthening, technical understanding, and muscle memory 4 6 26.
• Daily income increases with realm advancement: one point as a mortal, two in Skin Tempering, and six in Flesh Refining 2 6 26.
• A perfected technique does not automatically produce the highest possible realm foundation; the Crimson Sun method stops at Dragon Elephant’s Force rather than Heaven-Splitting Body 26.
• Higher initiation costs lead him to judge a technique as potentially higher-grade 14 36.

Skin Tempering and Physical Defense

His perfected Basic and Layered Wave methods establish a Jade Skin foundation 17.

• Greatly increases skin toughness and resistance to impacts 4 16.
• Improves basic physical condition and recovery 19.
• Does not erase the power gap against a Qi Refining expert, who easily overcomes his strongest attacks 30 31.

Flesh Refining

The Crimson Sun Flesh Refining Method grants Dragon Elephant’s Force; Nine-Turn Coiled Dragon Force subsequently raises him to Heaven-Splitting Body 26 36.

• Enhances strength, explosive power, endurance, and muscular resilience 26 36.
• Allows him to disable a bandit leader barehanded before the surrounding men can react 48.
• His public claim of Greater Flesh Refining conceals his actual perfected foundation 41 46.

Basic Thirteen Fast Saber Forms

At perfection, the technique emphasizes extreme speed and fluid variations rather than thirteen rigidly separated forms 6.

• Supports precise, rapid killing strikes against mortal beasts 10 43.
• Combines with Gale Movement Technique to attack during an opponent’s recovery between movements 20.
• Enables him to kill beasts above his then-current Skin Tempering realm 20.

Gale Movement Technique

His perfected movement technique provides silent acceleration, abrupt directional changes, and maneuverability within narrow spaces 17.

• Used to evade two attacking Azure-Scaled Leopards before counterattacking 20.
• Complements the speed-focused saber forms 17 20.
• Cannot evade the spatially restrictive grappling technique used by Shi Qing’s uncle 30.

Other Recorded Techniques

• Venomous Snake Dagger Technique: Listed on his panel but remains uninitiated in the latest supplied panel 36 50.
• Hundred Beasts Flesh Refining Method: Received from Hongxiu; no cultivation of it is documented in the supplied passages 49.
• Hundred Beasts Bone Tempering Method: Registered on his panel with a ten-point initiation requirement; he begins cultivating it in seclusion 50.

Equipment and Items

• E-rank saber: His first weapon, purchased for one thousand Federation coins at Qian Jingming’s expense. He is still shown using an E-grade saber during the frontier train’s beast battle 8 43.
• Light Snow: A saber gifted by Shi Qing’s uncle. It has a long, narrow blade, exceptional sharpness, and lingering blood traces from its former owner’s battles 32 33.
• Poisoned dagger: Taken from Scorpion and concealed in his boot as an additional precaution before the gathering 27.
• Personal terminal: An aging device used to access academy information, obtain manuals, and communicate with others 4 7 35.
• Military merit terminal: Issued upon frontier registration; records military merit and provides access to military services 39.
• Patrol uniform and “East Three” token: Issued by the Third Squad and returned when he resigns 13 38.

Relationships

• Gao Hu — Academy rival whose jealousy initiates their conflict. Their one-month arena challenge remains unresolved in the supplied chapters 2 3 35.
• Lin Qingyao — Classmate and benefactor. Offers to intervene against Gao Hu and gives Dongfang Nine-Turn Coiled Dragon Force 2 35.
• Qian Jingming — Merchant-minded intermediary whom Dongfang pressures for equipment and techniques; also carries out Shi Qing’s invitation arrangements 8 25 28.
• Li Yue — Former patrol partner who becomes openly affectionate toward him and kisses his cheek after he saves her 20 21.
• Wang Zhen — Former patrol captain who rewards his performance and accepts that the small squad cannot retain a cultivator of his potential 11 38.
• Zhao Tieniu — Fellow academy student and patrol colleague, impressed by Dongfang’s composure and saber skill 9 11.
• Zhang Meng — Jealous former colleague who hires Scorpion against him. Dongfang intends to settle the matter when he has sufficient strength and evidence 23 33 38.
• Scorpion — Assassin hired to kill him; Dongfang kills him and takes his poisoned dagger 23 27 38.
• Shi Qing — Childhood companion Little Stone and academy senior; secretly arranges the delivery of his advanced skin-tempering method 28 29.
• Shi Qing’s uncle — Qi Refining expert who tests him, requests that he reach Marrow Cleansing within six months, and gifts him Light Snow 31 32 33.
• Hongxiu — Frontier companion whose strategic interest develops into trust and affection. Rewards his protection with two cultivation methods 44 49.
• Zhou Tong — Hostile temporary teammate who deliberately draws a beast toward him and later contests control of the squad’s spoils 43 45.
• Tie Shan and Tie Zhu — Cooperative temporary teammates who accept his leadership and part from him peacefully at Black Stone Fortress 45 50.

Notable Quotes

“One month from now! In the Martial Arts Academy’s arena! Do you dare to come?!” 2

“Weapons are tools that make up for that disadvantage, allowing us to use our strength more effectively and with greater killing power!” 30

“You have your own paths to walk, and I have my own plans.” 50