Hong Gui

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

Hong Gui has long black hair, fair skin, a voluptuous figure, and long, straight legs. Her eyes are described as bewitching or peach-blossom-shaped, with a faint silver gleam 627 628 629 679.

• Signature clothing: A dark purple, high-collared trench coat and high heels 627.
• Combat clothing: A fitted black combat uniform, worn while serving as a Li Family representative maintaining order 647.
• Fox-themed outfits: Occasionally wears artificial fox ears and a tail; these are costume accessories 691 711.
• Later attire: Owns a red gauze outfit made from Illusory Sea Ice Silkworm Silk that changes color with body temperature 729.

Personality

Hong Gui is playful, provocative, and intensely competitive. She uses flirtation to unsettle others, challenges Dongfang Yueming when he dismisses the need for the Resisters, and becomes frustrated when her attacks cannot touch him. Her apparent confidence can conceal genuine shock, particularly when she recognizes the quality of his true qi and techniques 628 630 631.

Despite her privileged upbringing, she openly condemns aristocratic exploitation of commoner students and confronts her father over the use of humans as food for mutants. She is also candid about the Resisters’ mixed motives, explaining that idealists, thrill-seeking aristocrats, and families protecting their interests all sustain the organization 627 629 639.

Her attachment to Dongfang Yueming develops into affection, concern, and a strong desire to improve herself. Although initially jealous of Baihu, she later cultivates and travels alongside her. After witnessing Dongfang Yueming’s overwhelming strength, Hong Gui explicitly rejects the prospect of remaining a decorative dependent sheltered beneath his protection 651 652 658 678 683.

Abilities & Skills

Qi Seeking · Source Tracing

A tracking technique that releases a subtle, highly sensitive mental wave 628.

• Traces Dongfang Yueming’s route from Gray Wolf’s corpse to an abandoned air-raid shelter 628.
• Supports her analysis of residual qi, including recognition that Gray Wolf’s wounds required unusually pure cold energy 628.
• Cannot penetrate Dongfang Yueming’s Heaven and Earth Assimilation; when the trail disappears, she relies on intuition and a deceptive lure instead 628.

Purple Gauze Heavenly Net: Thousandfold Flower Baleful Qi

Her principal documented offensive technique, an Earth-Grade Qi Technique that forms deep-purple roses with cutting petals 630.

• Produces a sweeping storm of sharp petals for broad-area attacks 630.
• At Soul Condensation Sixth Stage, combines her spiritual power and true qi into an enormous rose phantom 684.
• Shreds the azure flames and armored scales of Three-Headed Azure-Scaled Beasts, whose strength rivals Peak True Power cultivators 683 684.
• Fails to prevent Dongfang Yueming from using concealment to flank and restrain her during their initial duel 630.

Palm, Claw, and Seal Techniques

Hong Gui fights with dense true qi, rapid palm strikes, claw attacks, and difficult attack angles 630.

• Her opening palm strike blasts a deep crater into a stone wall 630.
• Sustains more than a hundred attacks during her test of Dongfang Yueming, though his movement techniques evade them 630.
• Learned the Earth-Grade Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal, taking a month of practice to reach Entry 643.

Dual Cultivation and Law Reception

Hong Gui’s later advancement relies heavily on cultivating with Dongfang Yueming and receiving power through his increasingly advanced arts 653 679 712 730.

• Supplies the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art and six Yellow-Grade techniques that he perfects and fuses into the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Good Fortune Art 652.
• Receives converted True Power through Good Fortune Replenishment, enabling breakthroughs across minor and major realms 653 679.
• Receives origin-returning creation power during her transition from Golden Core to Dharma Manifestation 715.
• Participates in the Taixu Yin-Yang Limitless Creation Immortal Canon, receiving creation-law power and insights through Law Sharing 729 730.

Infiltration and Tactical Judgment

Hong Gui combines covert movement, deception, and practical knowledge of powerful organizations 621 627 653 689.

• Evades Demon Blade’s attempts to track her despite his position as a Star-Rank investigator 621.
• Enters Dongfang Yueming’s dormitory unnoticed and moves past Blood Refining students without attracting their attention 627.
• Uses a decoy formation in her bedroom to conceal her escape from confinement 653.
• Proposes that Dongfang Yueming impersonate a slain Shangyin Academy disciple, using the academy’s prestige to obtain techniques more safely 689.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Long whip — Wielded while directing her rose-petal attack against the Three-Headed Azure-Scaled Beasts 684.
• Custom communications terminal — Receives encrypted intelligence and accesses a hidden Martial Dao database through her Li Family clearance 627 652.
• Storage bag — Used to store the Ziwei True Power Art jade slip 654.
• Azure Wood Nether-Penetrating Art jade slip — A Profound-Grade Meridian Opening method she hands over after losing her test of Dongfang Yueming 631.
• Li Family Earth-Grade Meridian Opening method — A core family inheritance she takes from home and gives to Dongfang Yueming 642.
• Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal jade slip — An Earth-Grade offensive seal technique she also gives him 643.
• Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art jade slip — A rare Profound-Grade dual cultivation technique taken from her family’s restricted scripture collection 652.
• Ziwei True Power Art jade slip — The Li Family’s Profound-Grade core inheritance, granted by Li Canghai after she demonstrates Upper-Tier Meridian Opening Perfection 654.

Relationships

• Dongfang Yueming — Initially a potential Resisters recruit and the subject of her investigation. Their contest develops into an intimate partnership; she provides techniques and tactical advice, while he protects her and repeatedly advances her cultivation. She vows to follow him to the Immortal Realm 627 629 630 642 645 689 744.
• Li Canghai — Her father and the Li Family patriarch. She challenges his political decisions and defies his confinement, but remains concerned for his safety. He ultimately permits her to leave with Dongfang Yueming 639 650 653 666.
• Baihu — Initially a dangerous Night Watchers investigator whom Hong Gui warns Dongfang Yueming about, then a romantic rival and fellow companion. They later compete to cultivate with him and travel together across worlds 648 649 651 683.
• Lu Qingxue — A fellow companion whom Hong Gui frequently teases and encourages to express her attraction to Dongfang Yueming. Both reach Emperor Realm Perfection before his ascension 700 703 711 744.
• Demon Blade — A Night Watchers investigator frustrated by her elusive movements and potential ability to shelter the mysterious killer 621.

History

Resisters Activities and First Contact

Hong Gui operates prominently in Demon Capital’s underground world as a senior Resisters member. While seeking contact with the mysterious killer from Jinling, she searches Dongfang Yueming’s university room and follows intelligence about Gray Wolf’s death to the eastern ruins 621 627.

After tracking him to an abandoned shelter, she cannot detect his concealed presence and instead draws him out with a seductive ruse. She introduces the Resisters and explains their sources of support, but he refuses to join. Intrigued by his confidence, she offers intelligence and a personal favor if he can defeat her; he wins their ensuing fight 628 629 630.

Conflict with the Li Family

Hong Gui discovers that the three great families have destroyed the Pan Family and fed its experts to the Wu Family’s mutants. She confronts Li Canghai, warning that the creatures may eventually turn on their keepers. Her father defends the massacre as necessary to preserve the Demon Capital’s political balance 639.

She subsequently supplies Dongfang Yueming with her family’s Earth-Grade Meridian Opening method. When she later requests a True Power technique for him, Li Canghai refuses and confines her at home. She escapes using a decoy formation, then returns after reaching Upper-Tier Meridian Opening Perfection; her breakthrough persuades him to grant her the Ziwei True Power Art, though he still denies access to the Sea of Consciousness art 642 650 653 654.

Leaving Great Xia

When Long Batian threatens the Li Family, Hong Gui fears the casualties that resistance would cause. Dongfang Yueming drives him away, and she bids her father farewell before departing for Central Capital with him and Baihu 666.

Following the suppression of Central Capital’s hidden demonic threats, she accompanies Dongfang Yueming toward the front lines. After entering the True Power Realm, she chooses to cross the damaged Boundary barrier with him and Baihu, reaching the ancient battlefield beyond it 672 679.

Crimson Profound World

Months of cultivation raise Hong Gui to Soul Condensation Sixth Stage. Dongfang Yueming then opens a passage through the Demon Cave gate and brings her and Baihu into the Crimson Profound World, where they immediately encounter powerful beasts. Hong Gui helps fight them with her rose-petal technique 683 684.

After Dongfang Yueming kills an outer disciple of Shangyin Academy, Hong Gui suggests preserving the man’s robe and identity token for impersonation. Her plan gives Dongfang Yueming a prestigious identity under which to approach sects and obtain cultivation methods 687 689.

She continues traveling with him through Southern Abyss City and the central region, guards his seclusion with Baihu, and accompanies him to Heaven-Reaching City while Baihu and Lu Qingxue visit the Taibai Sword Sect. When the Heavenly One Pavilion master follows and attacks them, Dongfang Yueming kills him before they rejoin their companions 694 699 713 718.

Emperor Realm and Separation

During the final campaign in the Crimson Profound World, Dongfang Yueming and his companions spend three months eradicating Variants, demonic puppets, and Demon Caves. He raises Hong Gui, Baihu, and Lu Qingxue to Emperor Realm Perfection 744.

Before ascending, he reveals that he is a Quasi-Immortal Emperor from the Immortal Realm and tells them to seek Qin Rushuang, Su Wurao, and his other wives after their own ascensions. Hong Gui and her companions resolve to ascend and reunite with him 744.