Su Fuyun

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

The Original Novel’s Heroine

In the book Sang Ying reads, The Legend of Fuyun’s Cultivation to Immortality, Su Fuyun is a mortal village girl who unexpectedly enters cultivation. Her journey brings her into contact with a cold, aloof master, a demon venerable, a beast god, and a demon emperor. She and her master develop mutual romantic feelings but suppress them because of their master–disciple relationship. Her suffering eventually produces a heart demon and leads her to succumb to demonic influence; despite their ensuing trials, the story ends happily for the pair 1.

That original storyline also gives Su Fuyun a Heavenly Spirit Root through Sang Ying’s extracted Spirit Root and treasures supplied by her admirers. Sang Ying serves as a doomed supporting character whose suffering advances the central romance. These are events recorded in the book, not accomplishments Su Fuyun has already achieved in the changed storyline 1 15.

Another major opportunity in the original book is an ancient immortal sword obtained on Gleaming Gold Island. It enables Su Fuyun to defeat opponents above her cultivation level and eventually overcome Sang Ying. Repeated defeats and further unfair treatment from Gu Huaiwei then push the original Sang Ying toward obsession and retaliation 59.

Engineered Discipleship and Stolen Fate

Su Fuyun’s admission as Gu Huaiwei’s disciple is later revealed to have involved deliberate scheming rather than a wholly accidental encounter. When the pendant resident reminds her of how she obtained her master, Su Fuyun privately acknowledges that she rose from a farm girl to Immortal Venerable Yanchen’s disciple through manipulation 142.

Gu Huaiwei had justified accepting the orphan Su Fuyun by citing a Heavenly Mystery Palace divination that supposedly established their destined connection. Even the sect master’s initial dislike of her could not prevent her admission under that explanation 506.

A later divination identifies Sang Ying as the person originally destined to meet Yanchen at Fantou Mountain, become his sole disciple, and save the cultivation world. Su Fuyun instead met him there and took the place described in the prophecy. The diviner concludes that Sang Ying’s fortune was stolen, while Sang Ying remembers how the affection of the sect’s elders and disciples shifted away from her after Su Fuyun arrived 473.

Gu Huaiwei eventually suspects that Qi Yaoji arranged Su Fuyun’s arrival in the mountains, although he is unsure whether Qi Yaoji or another person masterminded the scheme 446.

Relationship to Qi Yaoji

The adviser within Su Fuyun’s jade pendant is eventually identified as Qi Yaoji, daughter of the Mara Gate’s master. Although the pendant initially speaks in an aged male voice, later passages identify its resident as a woman who intends to use Su Fuyun’s body 26 126 142 420.

Su Fuyun and Qi Yaoji are distinct individuals. After Su Fuyun’s death, a woman with her appearance is explicitly identified as Qi Yaoji, and a later account states that Qi Yaoji is using Su Fuyun’s body. Its cultivation remains Golden Core; a disguise artifact can make it appear to possess Nascent Soul strength, but it has not actually formed a Nascent Soul 312 420 436. Qi Yaoji subsequently also declares that she is not Su Fuyun 654.

Appearance

• Face and manner: Winsome and charming, with a delicate, vulnerable appearance. Her reddened eyes and tears frequently make others feel protective toward her, though Jiang Yan reacts with impatience instead 5.
• Clothing: Wears white robes when she emerges from her Foundation Establishment breakthrough and continues to use white clothing to cultivate an innocent, unworldly image 39 296.
• Distinguishing accessory: Wears a jade pendant at her neck and often clutches it when seeking reassurance or guidance 3 21 22.
• Facial scar: Sang Ying’s sword leaves a deep facial scar that Gu Huaiwei cannot completely heal. Su Fuyun conceals it with a veil and remains distressed by it; an expensive ointment purchased in the Immortal Spirit Realm also fails to remove it 110 111 184.

Personality

Su Fuyun cultivates a reputation for gentleness, innocence, and consideration. She treats ordinary disciples courteously, winning supporters such as Chen Xiu, and repeatedly uses tearful apologies to soften criticism. Jiang Yan recognizes a contrast between that presentation and her conduct, warning Chen Xiu that Su Fuyun is calculating and should be avoided 5 6 12.

Her attachment to Gu Huaiwei drives her cultivation ambitions. She fears dying after only a few hundred years while he lives on and eventually replaces her with another disciple. Although Sang Ying explicitly disclaims any interest in his affection, Su Fuyun continues to regard her as a rival and interprets her demand for justice as an attempt to turn their master against her 1 11 21.

Su Fuyun resents both punishment and the loss of resources she considers hers. After the secret-realm incident, she seeks another way to advance, encourages Zhou Heng’an to provide spiritual treasures, and ultimately accepts a cultivation method with serious drawbacks rather than fall behind Sang Ying 22 25 26.

Her treatment of admirers becomes increasingly transactional. She dismisses the Gong Household’s third young master once she judges him useless, kills Hai Pingge after draining him, and keeps Shen Yu partly because his looks rival Gu Huaiwei’s. Her public courtesy contrasts with the contempt she displays among her own attendants 97 100 153 263.

She is capable of calculated cruelty toward fellow disciples. To preserve Chi Yan’s usefulness in the sect competition, she threatens a medical cultivator’s family until he agrees to administer a pill that will kill Chi Yan within ten days 235.

Despite her hostility toward Sang Ying, repeated defeats leave her deeply afraid of her former junior sister. Their reunion in the Immortal Spirit Realm exposes that fear even after Su Fuyun has prepared for years and obtained the Mara Gate’s backing. At the end of her life, she abandons her pride and secrets, pleading for survival and offering to surrender both Gu Huaiwei and information about the Mara Gate 218 312.

Abilities & Skills

Water Spirit Root

• Possesses a defective Water Spirit Root and poor cultivation aptitude; without intervention, she believes Foundation Establishment may be her lifetime limit 5 11.
• According to Sang Ying’s knowledge, the legendary Nüwa Spirit Soil or Sang Ying’s nearly full-value Ice Spirit Root can make her root whole 5.
• Seeks the thousand-year Ice Lotus to improve her constitution. The jade pendant tells her that medicine made from it will allow a safe Foundation Establishment breakthrough 3 11.
• Her eventual Foundation Establishment cultivation is described as having been built up with spiritual treasures, specifically stolen Spirit Crystals and an Ice Lotus obtained by Gu Huaiwei. She recognizes that her actual combat ability is limited and accepts Zhao Yunhe’s protection when traveling 52.

Swordsmanship

• Modified Flowing Light Swordsmanship: Gu Huaiwei personally adapts the sect’s elementary sword art to accommodate her weak aptitude 3.
• Unidentified sword art: Uses unfamiliar techniques during the sect competition. She tells Gu Huaiwei that Zhou Heng’an found a long-lost sword art for her, and Gu permits its use provided it harms neither her nor others 3.
• Documented result: Places second after Sang Ying disarms and defeats her 2 3.

Jade Pendant Resident’s Cultivation Method

• The resident of her pendant offers a self-created method intended to compensate for her Spirit Root’s shortcomings and produce rapid growth 26.
• Su Fuyun knows it has enormous drawbacks but resolves to practice it after losing the Ice Lotus and entering confinement 26.
• The method is initially unnamed and its specific costs unexplained. Her Foundation Establishment breakthrough occurs afterward, while a later account also identifies spiritual treasures as essential to that advancement 26 39 52.
• The pendant subsequently confirms that its cultivation method can transfer a man’s cultivation to her. Su Fuyun uses this power on Hai Pingge, drains him, and throws him into a lava pool 97 100.

Fortune Seizure

• Possesses a body particularly suited to taking other people’s fortune. Both the Mara Gate’s master and Qi Yaoji value her body for this purpose rather than for Su Fuyun herself 263 298.
• Follows the pendant’s instructions to seize things belonging to Sang Ying, thereby obtaining her fortune. The pendant later insists that further theft is necessary for her continued cultivation advancement 298 308.
• Absorbed fortune causes Sang Ying’s sword strikes to veer away, frees Su Fuyun from restraining ice, and replenishes her Spiritual Qi during their competition match 223.
• Refuses to draw on more than thirty percent of the fortune she has absorbed during that match 223.
• Fortune also corrects the trajectory of an otherwise inaccurate arrow aimed at the Demon Beast Bag containing a Primordial Azure Ox calf 243.
• Her fortune-based cultivation does not make her disregard the consequences of oaths; she invokes her own name when promising to take Shen Yu back to the Mara Gate 243.

Bewitching Influence and White Silk Combat

• Possesses a strange power capable of bewitching people’s hearts, which her handlers intend to exploit after bringing her to the Immortal Spirit Realm 131.
• Later replaces her sword with a white silk Law Artifact better suited to her abilities. She uses it to attack Sang Ying, including cutting her during their match, but it can be torn by Sang Ying’s unrestrained sword techniques 222 223.

Equipment & Items

• Jade pendant — Houses a being who initially speaks in an aged, hoarse male voice. It guides her toward opportunities, including the Ice Lotus and Gale Hound, and supplies cultivation advice. Su Fuyun initially does not know the pendant’s origin 3 7 11 26. The resident is later identified as Qi Yaoji. Its black mist repeatedly protects Su Fuyun, transports her away from Gleaming Gold Island, and resists Sang Ying’s attacks. Sang Ying ultimately destroys the pendant and its black-mist guardian before killing her 108 109 110 312 420.
• Red-grade spirit sword — Identified in Sang Ying’s recollection of the original book as Gu Huaiwei’s first-meeting gift to Su Fuyun; red-grade spirit swords are rare treasures 1.
• Protective Law Treasures — Gifts from Gu Huaiwei that she cites when arguing she can safely enter the Qishan Secret Realm 3.
• Raising Beast Ring — A low-grade artifact used to house Amo. It is inside the Storage Bag she gives Sang Ying during the Ice Flood Dragon attack 14 20.
• Thousand-year Ice Lotus — Taken from the Ice Flood Dragon despite the retreat order; subsequently awarded to Sang Ying in the sect master’s settlement 11 22.
• Box of spirit crystals — Supplied by Zhou Heng’an before her confinement. The pendant resident warns against immediately using them because his father could discover their whereabouts 25 26. A later account confirms that Zhou Heng’an stole the crystals and that they contributed to her Foundation Establishment breakthrough 52.
• Replacement Ice Lotus — Obtained by Gu Huaiwei with sect contribution points and used to support her Foundation Establishment advancement 52.
• Veil and medicinal ointment — Uses a veil to conceal her facial scar and later spends nearly all her savings on a precious ointment costing ten Spirit Crystals per box. The treatment does not remove the scar 111 184.
• Sound-recording stone — Uses a recording of the sect master’s wrongdoing against the Sang Household to blackmail him. She claims to have entrusted it to a reliable friend so that killing her will not suppress the evidence 115 117.
• White silk Law Artifact — Her principal weapon during the later match against Sang Ying 222 223.
• Concealment Law Artifact — Allows her group to approach the allied cultivators unnoticed during the Primordial Azure Ox plot 242.
• Bow-shaped Law Artifact — Supplied by a disciple and used to shoot at the Demon Beast Bag containing the calf 243.
• High-grade communication talisman — Obtained from the sect master and used to direct Shen Yu during the competition scheme 243.
• Beast-Luring Powder — Secretly stockpiles it before traveling to the Black Tortoise Realm and uses it in her final attempt to endanger Sang Ying 308.
• Mara Gate Law Treasure and formation plates — Relies on these to shelter alone in the Hidden Moon Forest. They fail to protect her when Sang Ying returns to kill her 311 312.

Relationships

• Gu Huaiwei / Immortal Venerable Yanchen — Master and principal emotional attachment. He favors and protects her, but eventually questions whether she deliberately pushed Sang Ying and refuses to overturn her punishment. Their eventual romance belongs to the original book’s storyline 1 23 26. He later expends more than half his spiritual power healing her after Sang Ying pierces her heart. Su Fuyun subsequently seeks treatment for his own critical injuries and takes him to the Devil Realm when other options fail 109 110 117 123.
• Sang Ying — Junior sister and perceived rival. Su Fuyun’s attempts to implicate her in the Ice Lotus incident lead to a formal confrontation before the sect master 13 20 21 22. Their conflict becomes an explicit mortal enmity, extending through Su Fuyun’s efforts to have Sang Ying expelled, steal her fortune, and harm her new sect. Sang Ying ultimately kills her 108 111 241 308 312.
• Zhou Heng’an — Devoted junior who defends her, brings spirit crystals, and agrees to report on Sang Ying during her confinement 24 25 26. After Su Fuyun’s ten-year absence, his father has improved his judgment enough for him to acknowledge that she wronged Sang Ying, although he still attempts to protect her 109.
• Jade pendant resident / Qi Yaoji — Adviser on whom she relies despite disdainful treatment 7 11 26. Qi Yaoji directs her fortune theft, intends to use her body, and later appears in that body after Su Fuyun’s death. In her final confrontation with Sang Ying, Su Fuyun blames the pendant for prompting her actions and surrenders it in an unsuccessful effort to survive 142 298 312 420 436.
• Amo — Her Gale Hound pup, purchased for ninety mid-grade Spirit Stones borrowed from Sang Ying. After a month with Sang Ying, it eagerly returns to Su Fuyun 7 20. At their later inn encounter, however, it hesitates and looks to Sang Ying before obeying Su Fuyun, then visits Sang Ying’s room that night. Su Fuyun later proposes giving up the beast when pressed to repay her debt 55 63.
• Lin Shu — Supporter who accuses Sang Ying of bullying her. At the hearing, Su Fuyun attributes his allegations to his own misunderstanding, visibly shocking him 20 22.
• Jun Heng — Purple Firmament Sect cultivator whose strength she recruits to obtain the Ice Lotus. He questions her conduct after Sang Ying falls into the underground river 11 13.
• Cang Lian — The Ice Flood Dragon whose lotus she takes. Sang Ying later identifies Su Fuyun to him and supplies a recognizable portrait 18.
• Zhao Yunhe — Cloud Cauldron Sect cultivator she befriends in Yunzhou City. When they meet again, he invites her to travel with him, protects her from criticism, and accepts her account that Sang Ying ran away from the sect 8 52 55. His dismissive behavior toward the white-bearded boatman prevents Su Fuyun from pursuing a connection to the Golden Summit 60.
• Gu Hongyi — Zhao Yunhe’s junior sister, whom Su Fuyun initially supports in the market dispute. Their later relationship is antagonistic: Gu Hongyi questions her punishment and resents Zhao Yunhe’s protective treatment of her 8 55.
• Hai Pingge — A man whose cultivation she drains using the pendant’s method before throwing him into a lava pool. She subsequently denies knowing his whereabouts when Hai Tingzhou asks 97 100.
• Fan Nanjun — Devil Lord and admirer who protects her, supplies valuable treasures, and agrees to help implement her plan to have Sang Ying expelled. He later shelters Su Fuyun and the critically injured Gu Huaiwei in his palace 111 123 126.
• He Lianyi — Fan Nanjun’s subordinate who attacks Su Fuyun during his absence. Fan Nanjun punishes her but does not kill her, prompting Su Fuyun’s jealous complaints 111.
• Zhou Chenshan / Sect Master Zhou Chengyi — Initially judges the Ice Lotus dispute and orders her confinement. She later blackmails him with evidence of his actions against the Sang Household and pressures him to save Gu Huaiwei 22 115 117.
• Mara Gate’s master — Elevates her to Holy Maiden and provides abundant resources, but considers her body a tool for taking fortune and a future vessel for a more suitable occupant. He orders her whipped after her competition failures 142 263.
• Gong Household’s third young master — Courts her in the Immortal Spirit Realm. The pendant directs her to obtain information about the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly from him; she later has him turned away as worthless 142 153.
• Chi Yan — Mara Gate disciple whose participation she secures by coercing a medical cultivator into administering a fatal pill. He subsequently cooperates in her Primordial Azure Ox scheme 235 241 243.
• Medical Cultivator Chen — The medical cultivator involved in Chi Yan’s fatal treatment and the subsequent plan to destroy his corpse. Jing He overhears the disposal plan 235 255.
• Jing He — Retrieves Chi Yan’s corpse after overhearing Su Fuyun’s plan to destroy it and leaves to seek power and revenge against the Mara Gate. Su Fuyun dismisses his disappearance as disloyal desertion 255.
• Shen Yu — Assists her attempt to kill the Primordial Azure Ox calf in exchange for admission to the Mara Gate. She later keeps him in her rear courtyard, attracted partly by his resemblance in beauty to Gu Huaiwei, but has him locked up when his attention displeases her 243 263.
• Luo Jin — Her deputy during the Black Tortoise Realm expedition. His support preserves some of her authority over the reluctant Mara Gate disciples, and she plans to request his rescue after being abandoned in the forest 294 311.
• Fu Shuangjiang — Rejects her attempts to gain his approval or sympathy during the Black Tortoise Realm crisis and bluntly criticizes her ill-timed remarks 296 301.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Sect Competition and Departure

Sang Ying defeats Su Fuyun in the sword competition and wins the Frost Condensation Flower, but Gu Huaiwei requires Sang Ying to surrender it to her senior sister. Su Fuyun then persuades him to reserve her a place in the Qishan Secret Realm expedition, hoping to obtain an Ice Lotus that will improve her constitution 2 3.

Before departure, she remains in Qi Refining while Sang Ying has already reached Foundation Establishment. On the flying boat, she interrupts Sang Ying’s meditation and advises her not to rush toward a breakthrough, only to learn that the breakthrough has already happened 4 5 6.

Yunzhou City

At the market, the pendant resident urges Su Fuyun to buy a Gale Hound pup as a valuable opportunity. Reluctant to spend ninety mid-grade Spirit Stones—half her savings—she borrows the money from Sang Ying and records a promise of repayment in a Jade Slip 7.

She subsequently sides with Gu Hongyi in a dispute over a booklet before establishing what happened, apologizing on Sang Ying’s behalf and urging her to surrender the item. The stallholder instead defends Sang Ying’s purchase 8.

Qishan Secret Realm

Su Fuyun persuades a group of cultivators to cooperate in obtaining a thousand-year Ice Lotus. When its guardian proves to be a seventh-tier Ice Flood Dragon, Jun Heng orders a retreat. She nevertheless picks the lotus, provoking an attack that injures several companions 11.

After Sang Ying helps the group escape, Su Fuyun tearfully attributes her disobedience to fear and confusion. When the dragon finds their refuge, she pushes a Storage Bag onto Sang Ying and sends her toward it while announcing that she is handing over the lotus. Sang Ying is struck into an underground river; the bag actually contains the Raising Beast Ring and Amo, not the flower 12 13 14.

Su Fuyun later appears outside Immortal Lord Fusheng’s inheritance hall, knowing whose inheritance it contains and seeking its medicinal canon. Sang Ying has already received the inheritance through another entrance 15 16.

Exposure and Punishment

Outside the secret realm, Su Fuyun reports Sang Ying dead and claims she handed over the lotus at Sang Ying’s request. Sang Ying’s return exposes the discrepancy between that account and the bag’s contents. Su Fuyun then claims she accidentally handed over the wrong Storage Bag 19 20.

At the sect hearing, she denies wrongdoing but refuses Sang Ying’s challenge to swear a Heart Demon Oath. Her silence raises suspicion, and the sect master proposes transferring the Ice Lotus to Sang Ying and confining Su Fuyun for six months. Gu Huaiwei subsequently declines to spare her the punishment 22 26.

Confinement and Breakthrough

Before entering the quiet chamber, Su Fuyun receives spirit crystals from Zhou Heng’an and arranges for him to monitor Sang Ying. Once confined, the pendant resident urges her to adopt his dangerous cultivation method instead of immediately using the crystals 26.

She later reaches Foundation Establishment Early Stage in a breakthrough that destroys the chamber. Greeting Zhou Heng’an amid the rubble, she privately anticipates being able to seek out Sang Ying 39.

The subsequent account of her travels credits her advancement to the Spirit Crystals Zhou Heng’an stole and an Ice Lotus Gu Huaiwei purchased with sect contribution points. She leaves the sect to gain experience shortly after her breakthrough, before the full confinement period has elapsed 52 55.

Travel with Zhao Yunhe and the Unpaid Debt

Su Fuyun meets Zhao Yunhe again and accepts his invitation to travel together, recognizing that her treasure-supported cultivation offers little security on her own. She describes Sang Ying’s authorized training journey as running away from the sect and presents herself as a concerned senior sister searching for her 52.

At an inn, Sang Ying challenges that account and asks how Su Fuyun left her quiet-room punishment early. Gu Hongyi questions Su Fuyun’s claims, while Zhao Yunhe intervenes on her behalf. Amo later seeks out Sang Ying privately 55.

Su Fuyun subsequently attempts to attach herself to Sang Ying’s journey at the docks. Sang Ying refuses, and the white-bearded boatman mocks Zhao Yunhe’s arrogance. Su Fuyun recognizes his connection to the Golden Summit, but Zhao Yunhe pulls her away before she can pursue it 60.

Sang Ying publicly demands repayment of one hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones and gives her three days to pay. Su Fuyun asks whether she can instead give up the Demon Beast. The dispute continues before departure for Gleaming Gold Island, where Sang Ying again demands payment and drives her away with a sword threat 63 68.

Gleaming Gold Island

During the island expedition, Su Fuyun confirms that the pendant’s method can make another person’s cultivation hers. She drains Hai Pingge and throws him into a lava pool, later denying knowledge of his whereabouts 97 100.

After obtaining Liu Wu’s protection, Sang Ying forces Zhao San’s followers to hand Su Fuyun over. She takes Su Fuyun into the forest and attacks despite her pleas and threats invoking Gu Huaiwei 102.

The pendant’s black mist saves Su Fuyun and transports her away from Gleaming Gold Island to a town shared by humans and demons. Sang Ying reports her possible devil connections to the sect master, but his later evasiveness prevents a clear resolution 108 110.

Return to Crimson Snow Peak

Su Fuyun returns to the sect after a ten-year absence, claiming that a Devil Cultivator injured her and that she spent the intervening years recovering. Sang Ying rejects the sect master’s description of their conflict as a misunderstanding and declares that they are mortal enemies 108.

Sang Ying breaks into Su Fuyun’s residence, wounds her repeatedly, and uses a prepared śarīra to repel the pendant’s protective black mist. Her sword eventually pierces Su Fuyun’s heart, but Gu Huaiwei arrives and heals her with spiritual power and pills 109.

Su Fuyun survives with a deep facial scar and a lingering chest injury. Fan Nanjun visits her, promises retaliation, and agrees to her proposal to have Sang Ying expelled rather than immediately killed. Su Fuyun privately regards the scheme as a calculated gift to her enemy 110 111.

Blackmail and Flight to the Devil Realm

Su Fuyun uses a sound-recording stone to blackmail the sect master over his actions against the Sang Household. Even after he follows her instructions, she refuses to surrender the recording and claims that a friend will release it if she dies. During the same period, she attempts to take the Dragon Abyss Sword, only for its Sword Qi to injure her hand 115.

After Gu Huaiwei is gravely injured, she again invokes the recording to demand that the sect master save him. She brings him to the Plain Robe Pavilion, but Sect Leader Meng recognizes him and orders their expulsion. The public revelation of his condition attracts repeated attacks while she seeks other treatment 117 123.

Unable to obtain a cure and frightened by Sang Zheng and Wen Miaoshu’s return, Su Fuyun takes Gu Huaiwei to Fan Nanjun’s Devil Realm 123.

Liu Wu later forces his way into the Devil Palace and questions her about Sang Ying. Under threat, she admits that the sect master falsely accused Sang Ying of colluding with devils and threatened her Golden Core, prompting her leap into the fissure. Liu Wu knocks Su Fuyun unconscious and escapes. A hidden intruder then addresses the pendant resident as “Young Master” and receives orders to take Su Fuyun’s body to the resident’s father 126.

Holy Maiden of the Mara Gate

Su Fuyun is secretly brought to the Immortal Spirit Realm, where her power to bewitch people is intended for further use. The Mara Gate’s master makes her its new Holy Maiden and provides luxurious treatment 131 142.

The pendant directs her to cultivate and obtain the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly’s attendee list from the Gong Household’s third young master. Although she enjoys the resources and status, the resident reminds her that her original discipleship was obtained through scheming and privately anticipates using her body 142.

She later discards the Gong young master as useless. Her increased resources also fail to resolve her resentment over her facial scar, which remains visible after an expensive medicinal treatment 153 184.

Reunion and Competition with Sang Ying

Su Fuyun meets Sang Ying again during a dispute over guest accommodations. Despite years of preparation and the Mara Gate’s backing, she finds herself frightened by the woman who repeatedly nearly killed her. She attempts to blame Ten Thousand Daos Born for the courtyard disturbance, only to learn that the superior Swan Courtyard was reserved for them rather than the Mara Gate 218 219.

The two later face one another on a fighting platform. Su Fuyun uses white silk and absorbed fortune to deflect sword strikes, escape Sang Ying’s ice, and restore her Spiritual Qi. Sang Ying nevertheless unleashes a sword technique that shatters the platform and leaves Su Fuyun in the rubble. Elder Luo declares the Mara Gate the winner despite Sang Ying remaining upright over her opponent 222 223.

Su Fuyun’s confidence remains fragile. Seeing the consequences of an injury that reduces a stronger cultivator’s realm, she fears what comparable damage would do to her own Golden Core cultivation 225.

Chi Yan and the Primordial Azure Ox Scheme

When Chi Yan’s injuries threaten to prevent his participation in the sect competition, Su Fuyun forces a medical cultivator to administer a pill that will consume his Essence Blood and kill him within ten days. She threatens the cultivator’s family and orders him to conceal Chi Yan’s recovery until the competition 235.

She then proposes driving a Primordial Azure Ox herd toward the combined forces of Ten Thousand Daos Born, Buddha Sound Temple, and Taotie Gate. Killing a calf in their midst would provoke the herd and destroy the alliance’s weaker members 241.

Using a concealment artifact, Su Fuyun’s party approaches the targets. She throws the calf’s Demon Beast Bag toward them and shoots an arrow whose trajectory is aided by stolen fortune, but Bai Kejin intercepts it. Su Fuyun directs Shen Yu to kill the calf instead, promising to bring him back to the Mara Gate 242 243.

Before she can escape, Sang Ying stabs her through the Dantian from behind and eliminates her from the competition’s small world. Although she is not truly dying there, the experience terrifies her 243.

After Chi Yan’s death, Jing He overhears Su Fuyun and Medical Cultivator Chen planning to destroy his corpse. He secretly retrieves the body and departs to seek revenge. Su Fuyun dismisses the disappearance of Jing He and another disciple as desertion 255.

The Mara Gate’s master punishes her with ten lashes and closed-door reflection. In private, he tells Elder Rong Ji that her body remains useful for taking fortune and should eventually receive a more suitable master 263.

Black Tortoise Realm and Hidden Moon Forest

Su Fuyun accepts command of a reinforcement team sent to the Black Tortoise Realm, hoping to restore her standing and take enough fortune to reach Nascent Soul. Other Mara Gate disciples oppose her appointment because she has consumed extensive resources without advancing and has diverted benefits to Shen Yu. Only Luo Jin’s consistent support preserves her limited authority 287 290 291 294.

When Sang Ying enters the Hidden Moon Forest with Fu Shuangjiang, the pendant urges Su Fuyun to follow. It warns that she may remain trapped at Golden Core without more of Sang Ying’s fortune and appeals to her desire for both immortality and Gu Huaiwei 298 301. Su Fuyun and Jiang Zhuoxue join Sang Ying’s group, and the pendant promises that obtaining Sang Ying’s treasure will turn Jiang Zhuoxue toward her 299.

Near the forest’s exit, Su Fuyun acts on a scheme involving stockpiled Beast-Luring Powder. She and the pendant hope that endangering Sang Ying will force a coveted object to appear so they can seize it. Sang Ying instead repels the beasts with her sword, and an inspection finds no powder on her robes 308 309 310.

The powder is subsequently found on Su Fuyun’s own clothing, while witnesses accuse her of suspicious behavior and pushing Sang Ying during the attack. Sect Master Wu leaves the punishment to Sang Ying, who chooses to abandon her in the forest. Su Fuyun secretly considers this decision foolish mercy and plans to contact Luo Jin for rescue 311.

Death

Sang Ying returns that night, destroys Su Fuyun’s defensive formation, and traps them inside a formation that conceals their presence from outside detection. Su Fuyun’s offensive artifacts and talismans cannot break it, and Sang Ying severs the meridians in both her legs 312.

Unable to escape, Su Fuyun offers Mara Gate secrets and pleads that she will never compete for Gu Huaiwei again. She claims that someone prompted her earlier actions and surrenders the jade pendant. Sang Ying refuses to handle it directly and attacks it instead 312.

The pendant releases black mist that forms a giant beast, but Sang Ying pierces it with golden light and shatters the pendant. She then kills Su Fuyun with her sword and crushes the memories of their past before leaving her dead 312.

Sang Ying later explicitly states that she killed Su Fuyun three hundred years earlier. The subsequent appearance of Su Fuyun’s body belongs to Qi Yaoji’s activities rather than establishing Su Fuyun’s survival 420 436 473.

Alternate “What If” Timeline

In the alternate storyline beginning with Sang Ying’s awakening in the original plot, Su Fuyun is the injured disciple on whose behalf Gu Huaiwei demands Sang Ying’s confession. Sang Ying rejects the accusation and withdraws to Settled Frost Peak, while Gu Huaiwei expels her from his disciples 694.

After Sang Ying reaches Spirit Transformation, Su Fuyun visits her while looking for four male confidants who had gone to the peak. By this point, Su Fuyun has reached Nascent Soul, but Sang Ying remains far stronger 700 702.

Su Fuyun is punished by having to sweep Settled Frost Peak’s long staircase without Spiritual Power. During this period, she learns that her four admirers have become irreconcilable enemies and that their supporting factions are becoming embroiled in the conflict. Furious that Sang Ying has destroyed advantages she worked to obtain, she abandons her broom and confronts her 701 702.

Sang Ying seizes Su Fuyun by the throat with Spiritual Power. Su Fuyun tears a talisman to summon Gu Huaiwei, who rescues her and clashes with Sang Ying before a red-clad young man intervenes on Sang Ying’s behalf 702.

Ten years later, Ten Thousand Daos Born’s cultivators enter Crimson Snow Peak and seize Qi Yaoji’s remnant soul from Su Fuyun’s pendant. Gu Huaiwei learns that the disciple he protected was an impostor in the destined role and severs ties with her. Su Fuyun’s cultivation then regresses, and her formerly endearing aura disappears 705.

Notable Quotes

“Master won't believe you. I'm the one he cares about most!” 21

“Yes, Heng'an, I've finally reached Foundation Establishment!” 39

“Send him away. How could something of no value be worthy of coming to my door?” 153

“Your guess is correct, fellow Daoist. I am the holy maiden of the Mara Gate, Su Fuyun!” 218

“Sang Ying, please spare me. I'll never fight you for Master again. I'll give Master to you; I'll never fight you for him again!” 312