Zha Wuren
Genderbend Marriage: Even a Vicious Immortal Cultivator Has to Be Coveted by Her Disciple?
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Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Zha Wuren (查武仁) |
| Alias(es) | First Senior Brother; Eldest Senior Brother 20 21 |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | Azure Cloud Sect 22 |
| Occupation/Role | Golden Core elder; Su Fuxi’s eldest senior brother 20 22 |
| Status | Deceased; throat cut by Su Fuxi 30 |
| First Appearance | Named appearance in 20; his Dao-companion proposal is mentioned beforehand in 16 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Half-Step Nascent Soul — former cultivation | 25 | A Pine Mountain Sect cultivator recalls him holding this realm at the Three Kingdoms Immortal Sects Conference. |
| Mid Golden Core — after regression | 20 25 | Severe earlier injuries damaged his foundation, and he had not recovered his former cultivation. He sought healing through dual cultivation and, later, the Pill Pavilion’s medicines 20 26. |
Background / History
Earlier Secret-Realm Expedition
Zha Wuren and Su Fuxi had survived an earlier expedition into the Lost Land Secret Realm. When a destruction restriction manifested spears that killed at least twenty Golden Core cultivators, Su Fuxi slapped him out of his stupor and prompted him to activate his teleportation treasure, allowing them to escape 23.
Their mutual assistance contributed to his interest in her. However, his motives also included treating his lingering ailments: he possessed a secret healing art requiring primal yin and considered Su Fuxi’s centuries-preserved primal yin an ideal catalyst 20.
Pursuit of Su Fuxi
Zha Wuren first had the sect leader convey his proposal for Su Fuxi to become his Dao companion for dual cultivation. She refused 16.
Before the next secret-realm expedition, he waited outside the sect along her route and pretended their meeting was accidental. Despite her attempts to avoid traveling with him, he persuaded her and Lin Sui to board his flying boat. He then invited her into the main room while excluding Lin Sui 20.
He claimed that returning to the secret realm would help him stabilize his clouded Dao heart and prove his Dao anew. When he renewed his proposal, Su Fuxi explicitly told him not to raise it again. His insistence that they discuss it after returning convinced her that he meant her harm and prompted her concealed killing intent 20.
Su Fuxi and Lin Sui disembarked outside Crane Capital. Finding the spirit stones she had left as payment, Zha Wuren interpreted them as a rejection of his intended favor and smashed the guest-room table 21.
Pill Pavilion Expedition
Inside the secret realm, Zha Wuren reunited with Su Fuxi and three other Azure Cloud Sect elders. They traveled together to the central ruins before separating to explore 22 23.
He later guided two junior sect members through an astral-wind restriction. Deliberately leaving Fang Yun trapped as the restriction’s stabilizing “eye,” he passed safely with the male cultivator. He promised to return for her despite having no intention of undertaking the extensive work needed to rescue her 25.
At the Pill Pavilion, he waited for Su Fuxi to help open its restrictions. He supported the assembled cultivators’ pressure on her, believing their numbers would prevent resistance. She demanded everyone’s marked storage bags and ten thousand spirit stones apiece; he reluctantly included his own bag, hoping the pavilion’s pills could repair his foundation and Dao heart 25 26.
After three months, Su Fuxi deliberately triggered the destruction restriction. Zha Wuren recognized its fluctuations and escaped the initial strike with his teleportation treasure, but the spear’s pressure severely injured his mind and spirit. Su Fuxi also struck him as he fled, though he escaped the ruins alive 28.
Betrayal and Death
Zha Wuren planned to heal, capture Su Fuxi, and use her as a cultivation cauldron before the secret realm closed. Instead, the Peak Golden Core Gu Sheng surrounded him with Spirit-Corroding Insects. Unable to escape while injured, he offered to lead Gu Sheng to Su Fuxi, advertising both her beauty and the storage bags she carried 29.
During the resulting ambush, Su Fuxi wounded him with a spike, forcing Gu Sheng to intervene. While fighting Gu Sheng, she seized an opening to cut Zha Wuren’s throat with a single sword stroke before fleeing 30.
When Su Fuxi later revisited the battlefield, only his bones and broken insect wings remained. She recovered his teleportation artifact from Gu Sheng’s possessions and eventually returned it to Li Yuanqing, reporting that the destruction restriction had killed her eldest senior brother 38 42 45.
Appearance
- Handsome face: He presents a warm smile when attempting to secure Su Fuxi’s company 20.
- Purple sect clothing: He wears purple alongside the other Azure Cloud Sect cultivators arriving at the ruins 22.
Personality
Zha Wuren conceals self-serving intentions behind courtesy and seniority. His apparently coincidental meeting with Su Fuxi was arranged in advance, and his pursuit combined attraction with plans to exploit her primal yin for healing. Her refusal did not deter him, while her payment for passage provoked a destructive outburst 20 21.
He readily sacrifices sect loyalties for personal advantage. He knowingly abandoned Fang Yun, supported coercing Su Fuxi into opening the Pill Pavilion, and later offered her to Gu Sheng to save himself. After his escape from the ruins, his intentions escalated from seeking a Dao companion to forcibly using her as a cultivation cauldron 25 26 29.
Abilities & Skills
Restriction Expertise
Zha Wuren understands the ruins’ restrictions, though he acknowledges that Su Fuxi’s mastery surpasses his 26.
- Navigates the astral-wind region by following a precise sequence of steps 25.
- Uses a trapped cultivator to stabilize the wind restriction while others cross 25.
- Opens six passages during the Pill Pavilion investigation 28.
- Recognizes the destruction restriction’s activation before the other gathered cultivators react 28.
Defensive Spellcasting
- Forms a seal to block Su Fuxi’s attacking spike, but cannot withstand her assault without Gu Sheng’s intervention 30.
Equipment / Weapons / Items
- Teleportation dharma treasure: A life-saving treasure supplied by the sect master, composed of three concentric jade rings. It enables his escape during both ruin expeditions, although the second escape still leaves him severely wounded. Gu Sheng takes it after his death; Su Fuxi later recovers and returns it 23 25 28 30 38 42 45.
- Flying boat / small cloud boat: Carries him, Su Fuxi, and Lin Sui toward Wood Crane. Its accommodations include a main room and a guest room. Su Fuxi later uses a small cloud boat taken from his storage bag for the return journey 20 45.
- Storage bag: Handed to Su Fuxi as security during the Pill Pavilion negotiations, despite his attempt to obtain an exemption 26.
Relationships
- Su Fuxi — Junior sect sister and former expedition partner. His unwanted proposals and attempts to exploit her turn their association into lethal hostility; she ultimately kills him 20 23 29 30.
- Lin Sui — Martial nephew. Zha Wuren initially ignores him and later mocks Su Fuxi’s attentiveness toward him; Lin Sui responds with visible hostility 20 21.
- Fang Yun — Junior sect sister whom he deliberately abandons inside an astral-wind restriction. Su Fuxi later rescues her 25 28 29.
- Gu Sheng / Red Robe Daoist — Captor turned accomplice. Zha Wuren leads him to Su Fuxi in exchange for mercy; Gu Sheng briefly protects him during the ambush 29 30.
- Li Yuanqing — Azure Cloud Sect master and source of his life-saving teleportation treasure, which Su Fuxi returns after his death 25 42 45.