Flower of Evil

Biodata

Power Progression

• Chronology discrepancy: One account says he has occupied the Evil Domain for at least 800,000 years, while another places his advancement to Ninth Grade around 300,000 years earlier. The supplied passages do not reconcile these dates 422 524.

Background / History

Pure Petal and the Lotus Domain

Originally named Pure Petal, the Flower of Evil was born from the same source and at the same time as Lianxin. He lived among the Lotus Domain's petals, while Lianxin occupied the emerald castle at its center. He rejects describing them as biological brothers: both are sacred beings born naturally, without parents 400 519 520.

The Lotus Domain sent Pure Petal, Lianxin, and Lotus Leaf away approximately 900,000 years before the later events. Pure Petal nearly lost himself in the Astral Realm's void before being captured and transported to Fenglie Main City. His original mission was to protect Lianxin, but he eventually forgot it after suffering a severe impact 523 524 528 549.

Captivity and Tian Ting's Betrayal

In Fenglie Main City, Pure Petal was kept inside a transparent box, drained of energy, and subjected to attempts to cut away his petals. The blade could not sever them, but its strikes caused enough pain to render him unconscious. His repeated pleas for release were ignored 545.

Tian Ting cultivated his trust over seventeen years, visiting every few days and answering his questions. Their relationship became like that of father and son, teacher and friend. When Tian Ting offered an escape, Pure Petal agreed to hide in his Spirit Sea, insisting that they must eventually rescue Lianxin as well 546.

Tian Ting actually intended to devour him to secure a more powerful place in the planned new world. Discovering the deception filled Pure Petal with malice, corrupting Tian Ting's Authority of Heavenly Hearing. Pure Petal became the Flower of Evil, killed Divine Venerable Heavenly Hearing, and fled beyond the authorities' easy reach 547.

The Dao of Evil

The Flower of Evil sealed away memories of his innocent past and came to hate Star Wielders. He initially cultivated through devouring people, then increasingly favored malice as nourishment. Before gaining his authority, others repeatedly stole malice he had painstakingly accumulated 422 516 547.

His path eventually led him to the Evil Domain, where he rooted his true body and spread clones throughout the Astral Realm. The Upper Three Realms publicized his atrocities while seeking to eliminate him. Their propaganda exaggerated his reputation, but his descents had genuinely accompanied the ruin of many minor Realm Domains 388 422 547.

Appearance

• Original form: A delicate, snow-white petal, slightly more pointed than Lianxin's rounded true form. He had no human form when first captured 528.
• Preferred human form: Long dark-red hair, broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and long legs; usually wears dark, close-fitting clothes and leather boots 392 407 435.
• Spirit body: Entirely black, even when his outward appearance is gentle or dressed in white 383 400.
• Variable appearance: Can imitate others or alter his presentation. His Li Qingchen-like manifestation reflects Li Yang's thoughts, while another guise attempts to appeal to her preferences 370 379 383.
• Battle appearance: Black-and-red hair tied high, dark-red light armor, and scarlet eyes 557.

Personality

The Flower of Evil is flamboyant, arrogant, foul-mouthed, and easily provoked. He wants chaos rather than order and openly enjoys greed, jealousy, anger, and the malice they produce. Nevertheless, his cultivation requires nourishment, not fame; the title of Evil Domain Holy Lord was promoted by Jiang Nianchu rather than something essential to his power 385 403 450.

His confidence conceals extreme caution. Much of his vast skill collection concerns escape, concealment, and survival. Although ancient and experienced, he is not especially calculating, and Li Yang repeatedly outmaneuvers him in negotiations. He eventually accepts her borrowing his divinity as an advantage rather than a threat 452 470 493 503.

He deeply resents his former innocence and dislikes pity. Li Yang identifies his contempt for Pure Petal as hatred of the self who was deceived and exploited. His later actions also contradict his insistence on selfishness: he shields Huaxia's cultivators and rescues endangered fighters while claiming that he is merely protecting his Evil Domain 547 558 577.

Abilities & Skills

Authority of Evil and Malice Cultivation

Malice is his preferred nourishment and the basis of his divine authority 385 422.

• Draws sustenance from emotions and impulses such as jealousy, greed, anger, and indulgence 385 465.
• Malice from higher-realm cultivators is more concentrated 451.
• Must continually obtain the power associated with his authority to maintain it; Divine Venerable status is not permanently self-sustaining 450.
• Another malice cultivator cannot claim the same divine station while he lives. Xuan Yi therefore seeks his death to advance 422 435.
• Can readily sense Laws of Heaven and Earth, with a particular affinity for emotion-related laws 465.

Spores, Possession, and Clones

His spores provide both a means of controlling others and a vast network of remote manifestations 402 403 421.

• Accumulated spores can coalesce into a clone; each clone serves as a connection point for his consciousness 402 403.
• Spores planted in a person's Spirit Sea can enable control, especially after the target accepts his counterfeit sacred flowers 391 424.
• Can suppress speech and Spirit Connection, as demonstrated against Jiang Nianchu 391.
• Destroying a clone does not damage his true body. Removing spores, however, eliminates the corresponding connection points 403 421.
• Complete control can prevent a victim from bringing out their full strength 391.

Beguilement

He excels at exploiting desire and lapses in self-control 423.

• Uses the promise of Ninth Grade sacred objects to tempt cultivators into accepting his influence 423 424.
• Projects a soothing mental influence through manifestations; Li Yang resists it with Lianxin's assistance 140.
• Manifests to Li Yang through spores in her heart, rather than possessing Li Qingchen as she initially fears 371.
• Li Yang's contract with Lianxin prevents him from simply harming her through that manifestation 371.

Heart Guardian Defense

As a Heart Guardian, he possesses exceptional defensive power 558.

• Unfurls enormous white petals to shield multiple people from every direction 558.
• Blocks an all-out strike from the Divine Venerable of Fire 558.
• Encloses Si Kui within his petals and combines his space-fusion ability with Lianxin's Spatial Teleportation to evacuate her safely 576.

Star Skills and Divine Skills

• Specialization: His repertoire favors escape and self-preservation over direct offense 470 493.
• Fire limitation: Is poorly suited to cultivating fire-type Star Skills, though this does not mean his Divine Venerable form is simply afraid of fire 527.
• Knowledge limit: Despite his spatially useful techniques, he admits that he cannot understand or sense the particular Power of Space Li Yang is investigating 555.

Symbiosis with Li Yang

Their Symbiotic Contract lets Li Yang borrow his skills and divinity, while he gains access to the malice generated around her 450 452 493.

• A Spacetime Puppet can conceal his aura; his ultimate yin can balance Lianxin's ultimate yang to hide both from Daowu 450.
• Li Yang's Malice Subsystem exchanges lifespan for malice at a one-to-one rate and uses it to unlock his abilities or temporarily borrow his Divine Venerable status 452.
• The borrowing is costly in lifespan and is limited by his current state. When he sets aside his authority, Li Yang can only rise to Ninth Grade through his subsystem 520 541.
• Lianxin monitors Li Yang's Spirit Sea for leaking malice because she fears contamination from the Flower of Evil 450.
• Their eventual payment arrangement grants Li Yang one genuine Ninth Grade Sacred Heart Flower per three million malice collected 459.

Domain & Items

Evil Domain

• True-body sanctuary: His true body is rooted in the Evil Domain. He states that he will endure as long as the domain remains unharmed 422.
• Appearance: Bright and peaceful-looking, contrary to Li Yang's expectation of darkness and pervasive spores 425.
• Defenses: Suppresses cultivation and contains enormous numbers of his clones; the distant villagers Li Yang sees are all manifestations of him 425.
• Vulnerability: Enemies plan to destroy it from outside rather than invade its clone-filled interior 425.
• Relocation: Its coordinates can be changed only at a steep cost 425 426.
• Personal value: He considers the domain more precious than even numerous Authorities of God because he has painstakingly shaped its landscape 564.

Sacred Flowers and Other Resources

• Genuine Ninth Grade Sacred Heart Flowers — Precious innate sacred objects used in advancing to and cultivating within Ninth-Grade Supreme. Their form cannot be altered or disguised 423 436.
• All-attribute nature — Genuine Sacred Heart Flowers become whatever attribute the recipient needs; “all attributes” does not mean an inferior mixture of attributes 515.
• Counterfeit spore flowers — The supposed Sacred Heart Flowers supplied to Jiang Nianchu are constructed from spores, not genuine flowers. They provide a route for parasitism and control 391 436.
• Spacetime Puppets — Used to house his consciousness and conceal his presence; recalling many of them substantially improves his condition before battle 451 557.
• Teleportation Anchor — Receives one from Xuanyuan alongside the invitation to the Mystifying Space Gathering 403.

Story Role / Major Arcs

First Conflict with Li Yang

Li Yang interrupts his attempted descent into Huaxia by killing his manifestation inside the Life Guardian Formation. Shen Binghua then destroys the formation and its cultists and catches the released spores 140.

In the Thousand Flowers Realm Domain, he shows Li Yang how the White Fungus Race's prayer for Divine Descent ultimately led to the realm's destruction. He explains that only a Heavenly Fortune Bearer can pray for a true Divine Descent, and that the ruined realm now supplies him with malice. He predicts that Li Yang may one day summon him if she wants a Realm Domain destroyed 371.

Woodbirth Tavern Cooperation

At the Woodbirth Tavern, he offers access to Huoji's hidden captives in exchange for Li Yang creating conflict among the thousand diners. She refuses to sacrifice Huaxia or an innocent Realm Domain but agrees to disrupt the feast without trusting him 385.

He abandons his arrangement with Jiang Nianchu in favor of working with her. By silencing Jiang Nianchu, he helps Li Yang sustain Huoji's mistaken identification of him as Sun, provoking a battle between the two Eighth Grade experts 391.

Lost Space Society's Trap

Xuanyuan offers him an eighth Sage position and access to the Mystifying Space Gathering. The invitation is a trap: the Society intends to occupy his clone while attacking his true body, seizing both his authority and his spore network 403 421 422.

Li Yang warns him and stages evidence of Huaxia military support to deter the attack. He subsequently tracks down and kills Xuan Yi, the rival malice cultivator. Negotiations then turn the bluff into real cooperation, with Sacred Heart Flowers offered in exchange for Huaxia troops 425 435 436 443.

Nature Department Rescue and the Lotus Domain

Through symbiosis, he assists Li Yang's investigation of the Divine Venerable of Time, identifies the Shi Yun puppet connected to the Power of Nature, and advises her on using his Divine Skills. After the rescue operation, the Evil Domain becomes a refuge for the recovered Nature Department Masters 477 493 503 505.

He sets aside his authority to guide Li Yang and Lianxin back to the Lotus Domain. Black monsters overwhelm them there, and the domain ejects the group into separate locations. His memories of Fenglie captivity subsequently give Li Yang a lead for finding Lianxin 518 522 523 528.

Defender of Huaxia

During the attack on the Evil Domain, he disrupts Lost Space Society formations and shields Nature Department cultivators from the Divine Venerable of Fire. He later safeguards four Authorities of God entrusted to him by Li Yang 557 558 564.

At the Greedy Wolf Transit Point, he and Lianxin evacuate Si Kui after she sacrifices her Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul. He also catches Huaxia fighters thrown toward the void during the battle 576 577.

Before Li Yang's next confrontation with Daowu, he entrusts his Authority of Evil to Lianxin and accompanies her to the Lotus Domain under a symbiotic contract 580.

Relationships

• Li Yang — Former target, bargaining partner, and symbiotic companion. Her ability to generate rich malice makes her invaluable to him; over time, he actively supports her battles and wants to witness her becoming Divine Emperor of the Astral Realm 140 412 450 543.
• Lianxin / Pure Lianxin — Fellow Lotus Domain sacred being and the person he was originally meant to protect. He frequently mocks Lianxin, but insisted on rescuing him during his own captivity and later entrusts him with the Authority of Evil 400 546 549 580.
• Tian Ting / Divine Venerable Heavenly Hearing — Trusted companion turned would-be devourer. His seventeen-year deception triggers Pure Petal's transformation into the Flower of Evil 546 547.
• Jiang Nianchu — Mutually exploitative business partner, not originally a genuine believer. Jiang Nianchu spreads his reputation and spores, while the Life-and-Death Battles provide malice; the Flower of Evil ultimately sacrifices their partnership for cooperation with Li Yang 387 388 391 402.
• Sage Xuanyuan — Political enemy who disguises an extermination plot as recruitment into the Lost Space Society 403 421 422.
• Xuan Yi — Rival malice cultivator seeking his divine station. The Flower of Evil kills him after discovering his role in locating the Evil Domain 435.
• Si Kui — Li Yang's teacher. He is nervous around her, but later helps protect and evacuate her following her sacrifice 516 517 576.

Notable Quotes

“Time is merely a shackle that binds people.” 383

“What I need is chaos, evil, and the greed and indulgence of human nature.” 385

“I'm not protecting them. I'm protecting my Evil Domain!” 558