Jiang Yuqing

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Jiang Yuqing comes from a remote branch of the Jiang Family, a wealthy family established in the pill business. His parents are Third Grade Star Wielders with little standing within the family. He obtains the Shock System during his final year of high school and begins experimenting with ways to collect points, including using the contrast between his feminine appearance and male identity 28 113 116.

He ranks among Donghua Province’s top twenty practical-exam scorers. While the other nineteen choose Zhongdu Military Academy, he applies to Star-Slaying Military Academy because the Jiang Family’s base is in Star Slaying. His pill-refining ability attracts the family’s attention after enrollment, and its business begins promoting him as a Heavenly Fortune Bearer 28 115 123.

His relationship with the family remains pragmatic. He does not credit its resources for his initial success, and its regard for him is described as greater in name than in substance. Nevertheless, he remains committed to the Pill Dao rather than transferring into the Nature Department 123 227 333.

Appearance

Jiang Yuqing has delicate, feminine features and a clear male voice whose contrast frequently surprises people meeting him for the first time 116 117.

• Build: Tall enough to stand slightly above a companion who is at least 185 centimeters tall 115.
• Hair: Tousled, shoulder-length hair 115 117.
• Complexion: Fair, smooth skin 115.
• Eyes: Pronounced dark circles resembling smoky eye makeup 117.
• Clothing: Initially appears in a plain white long shirt or robe; later wears a clean white Pill Department uniform trimmed with gold 115 117 210 211.
• Usual expression: Listless and world-weary, though his excitement over Shock Points can transform his expression into an exuberant smile 117 148.

Personality

Jiang Yuqing’s aloof appearance conceals a flamboyant, curious, and frequently theatrical personality. He provokes rivals, performs arrogance, and accepts public embarrassment when doing so will earn Shock Points. Although he would prefer to keep his unusual abilities private, the system rewards conspicuous behavior, giving him a practical reason to seek attention 116 117 146 441.

He is cautious about direct combat but eager to witness extraordinary events. His fear of falling behind Li Yang is driven partly by realm restrictions: if he cannot enter the places she visits, he loses both her company and his richest source of Shock Points. He consequently cultivates with considerable urgency despite repeatedly describing himself as a frail alchemist 170 252 287 304.

His initially transactional friendship with Li Yang develops into sincere loyalty. When she risks her life to rescue him from the Sword Tomb, he resolves to refine whatever she needs without haggling over payment. Qingchen likewise regards him as someone of sound character who is loyal to his friends 240 249.

Abilities & Skills

Shock System

The Shock System awards Jiang Yuqing Shock Points when his actions astonish others. Its two established uses are accelerating pill refinement and spiritual cultivation 116 147.

• Point generation: His appearance, pill-making, provocations, and public performances can all generate points 116 146 201.
• Time field: Spending points creates a field in which time flows faster, compressing processes that would normally require hours or days 147.
• Spiritual growth: Accelerates the development of Spirit Points, but cannot directly increase Physique Points 147.
• Identification: System notifications identify contributors by name or category; he uses this to recognize the Steel Majesty as a Masterless Sword 172 234.
• Variable returns: Familiar spectacles and easily impressed individuals produce very different yields. Wei Cang continues giving points after seeing the same pill-refining demonstration dozens of times 116.
• Knowledge limits: Jiang Yuqing discovers the system’s functions through experimentation rather than receiving a complete explanation of its mechanics 147.

Self-Generated Shock Points

After meeting Li Yang, Jiang Yuqing discovers that his own astonishment at her can generate Shock Points. Attempts to reproduce this effect through other people fail, even when their actions genuinely surprise him 144 170.

• Can earn points from hearing reports, remembering events, or imagining the implications of Li Yang’s achievements 190 246 268.
• Does not need to witness every event personally; Li Yaowan later learns that he can receive points from Li Yang in real time while remaining with her 461.
• Earns increasingly large individual rewards, including 20,000 points upon hearing about her cooperation with the Flower of Evil 441.
• Jiang Chunhua’s explanation of the Nature Department’s fortune leads him to suspect that Li Yang enables this exception. Li Yaowan later suggests that his heavenly fortune has been drawn toward her 170 441.

Shock Subsystem

Jiang Yuqing invites Li Yang to bind a subsystem, giving her access to Shock Point collection and pill-related functions 404 405.

• Its panel identifies people and tracks their Shock Points 405.
• Li Yang’s separate lifespan system can convert 2,000 Shock Points into 1,000 years of lifespan; this conversion is not established as Jiang Yuqing’s own ability 405.
• His researched pill formulas can be recorded in her subsystem after she reads them 543.

Alchemy and Formula Research

Jiang Yuqing combines strong alchemical knowledge with accelerated experimentation. A pill that takes another alchemist three hours can take him three seconds, allowing him to test far more ingredient combinations 175.

• Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills: Produces pills valued at 100 merit points each during the Star Ash Mystic Realm contest 125.
• Ingredient substitution: Develops suitable Star Recovery Pill and Realm-Breaking Pill formulas from unfamiliar materials by spending 2,000 Shock Points 175.
• Formula diversity: Eventually develops hundreds of formulas for the common Star-Attracting Pill, emphasizing different materials for the same result 543.
• Mass production: Refines 100,000 Star Recovery Pills for Li Yaowan’s research into healing injured Star Souls 442 443.
• Other preparations: Supplies Body-Tempering, Speed-Boosting, Fasting, Aperture-Cleansing, Star Soul, and Realm-Breaking Pills 174 252 274 333 361.
• Limits: Higher-grade production still requires a sufficient cultivation realm. His own pill-based advancement also encounters pill toxins and diminishing returns 147 287 367.

Combat and Spirit Coordination

• Fire-type Star Magic combo: Learns a fire-based combination suited to an alchemist’s cultivation and uses it against an attacker in the Divine Miracle 172.
• Spirit Connection: Works with Wang Ruika to coordinate the Nature Department and Masterless Swords against the Bone Peach mother tree 274.
• Combat limitations: Lacks the fighting experience and immediate offensive strength of dedicated combatants. Watching Sixth Grade Peak contestants convinces him that pills would not save him if an opponent killed him before he could take one 170 304.

Publicity

• Brand recognition: The Jiang Family places his likeness on pill trademarks and promotes him as its ambassador 201.
• Reporting: Writes a detailed account of the Divine Miracle that publicizes Li Yang’s protection of the explorers 190.
• Media access: Connects Li Yang with a Jiang Family-invested media company for her public-opinion campaign 203.
• Battle commentary: Explains the role of his recovery pills in sustaining the Nature Department’s Star Plant defenses, simultaneously earning Shock Points from viewers 207.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Exquisite Furnace — Used to refine Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills in the Star Ash Mystic Realm 123.
• Pill furnaces — Uses multiple expensive furnaces during the Nature Pavilion’s beast-tide defense, destroying two or three through intensive production. Early in the story, he has no natal pill furnace because his rise was too recent for the family to nurture one 115 207.
• Qiankun Bag — Carries pills, medicinal materials, and his communicator. Remains in his possession during Chen Ri’s imprisonment of him 237 238 274.
• Teleportation Star Curses — Carries two short-range escape curses during the Divine Miracle. One costs a million and moves him only slightly more than a meter 171.
• Teleportation Anchor — Receives one from Li Yang before entering the Master-level cultivation realm domain 333.
• Separate cult phone — Receives internal Descending Star Cult notices through another phone while operating undercover 144.

Relationships

• Li Yang — Rival turned close friend and principal source of Shock Points. Their mutually beneficial arrangement becomes a genuine bond after she repeatedly protects him. He supplies her department with pills and gives her his researched formulas 117 145 240 319 543.
• Jiang Chunhua — Teacher who reassures him after his defeat in the Star Ash Mystic Realm. Encourages him to associate with Li Yang, while worrying that his loyalties may shift toward Li Yaowan 143 170 260 333.
• Li Yaowan — Senior alchemist who recognizes his improvement, protects the secrecy of his mass-production ability, and later keeps him beside her for personal instruction 314 442 461.
• Li Qingchen — Fellow alchemist and Sword Tomb comrade. Jiang Yuqing initially fears being replaced as Li Yang’s traveling alchemist, but Qingchen recognizes his loyalty and speaks on his behalf at the Nature Pavilion 238 249 252.
• Wei Cang — Companion and unusually reliable source of repeated Shock Points from pill-refining demonstrations 116 122.
• Yu Hongyuan — Resents Jiang Yuqing’s closeness to Li Yang and treats his extravagant praise as competition for the position of her foremost follower 201 314 401 513.
• Lin Zhaoqin — Fellow Donghua student who initially mistakes him for a girl and invites him home as a “sister” 116.
• Chen Ri — The Life Domain’s Steel Majesty, who imprisons him and intends to strip away his free will. His attacks and poisons fail against her; he later recounts the ordeal while she is present among Li Yang’s companions 234 237 250.
• Feng Yiqiao, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao — Promises to supply all three with Star-Attracting Pills when they return to rebuild Zhongdu’s Agronomy Department 333.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“Call me Qingqing.” 116

“No! Not at all! Give me liberty or give me death!” 237

“Please keep messing with me next time!” 361

Trivia

• His earlier cross-dressing is explicitly motivated by earning Shock Points, not a particular fetish. He largely abandons it once following Li Yang becomes more profitable 286.
• He shares the name “Jiang Qingqing” with a young member of the Plow Ox Clan and enthusiastically uses the coincidence to introduce his preferred nickname 202.
• Despite becoming the Nature Department’s contracted alchemist, he has no interest in farming himself 252 319.