Arch-Immortal Plumdark

Arch-Immortal Plumdark is the matriarch of the Dark Serenity Sect and later the leader of the Green Dark Sect. She becomes one of Xu Qing’s most persistent protectors, teachers, and companions, while maintaining responsibilities that extend beyond him: directing sect affairs, aiding Sea-Sealing County, investigating her own past, and accepting the inheritance connected to the Plumdark Evergreen Lamp. (Chapters 278, 386, 542, 967)

Biography

Meeting Xu Qing and traveling the immortal river

Plumdark officially meets Xu Qing when she catches him and Chen Erniu trespassing near the Dark Serenity Sect. A single command immobilizes both intruders, but she responds with teasing interest instead of punishment and studies Xu Qing closely. Their early exchanges establish her as an experienced sect matriarch whose flirtatious manner can obscure careful judgment: she entertains the younger cultivators while refusing requests when she recognizes the requester’s dubious motives. (Chapters 278–279)

She later gives Xu Qing a command medallion that grants access to the sect’s pocket realm and asks him to carry her aboard Xu Qing’s Dharmaskiff to a secondary Dark Serenity Sect. During that river journey she destroys cultivators conducting illegal sacrifices, helps the mortals they preyed upon, and teaches Xu Qing a flute song. The trip reveals both her severity toward abusers and her sympathy for ordinary people, while music creates a private language that remains important between them. (Chapters 288, 296–300)

Sea-Sealing County and Xu Qing’s cultivation

When the Eight Sect Coalition sends a delegation to Sea-Sealing County, Plumdark takes leadership of its subsidiary sect for a ten-year posting. She guides the group through the dangerous Netherworld Harbor and its ghost galleon, then assumes a senior role among the coalition’s representatives. Her work is institutional as well as personal: she manages the interests of the coalition while helping its swordsages navigate an unfamiliar and politically important county. (Chapters 386–388)

Plumdark also invests directly in Xu Qing’s development. She researches the method for turning an imperial-class technique into a heavenly palace, consulting three sects’ scripture repositories at her own expense, and then protects Xu Qing while he incorporates the Golden Crow into his cultivation. Before a later covert mission, she spends an entire night painting concealment symbols on him with golden blood. Those costly protections continue functioning after he leaves her immediate reach and repeatedly help him evade detection. (Chapters 411, 414, 424, 438–445)

War and the founding of Green Dark Sect

During the war for Sea-Sealing County, Plumdark’s concern does not prevent her from respecting Xu Qing’s duties. She appears as soon as he reports his safety, and each asks the other to protect themselves before their paths separate again. Her concealment symbols remain useful in enemy territory, while she and the coalition commit forces against the dangers surrounding the Forbidden by Zombie. She therefore supports the war both through prior preparation and through her own presence in the county’s defenses. (Chapters 459, 467, 475, 478, 484, 501)

After the crisis, Plumdark tells Xu Qing that she would have stood beside him had she known what he faced, describing that choice as firm and unchanging. She establishes the Green Dark Sect, selects and develops its site, and watches the Swordsage Palace closely enough to be ready to intervene. When Xu Qing prepares to depart secretly, she initially objects with Master Seventh but ultimately equips him for the danger rather than trying to control his decision. (Chapters 541–542, 546, 550)

The phoenix palace and the Evergreen Lamp

A vision inside the Forbidden by Immortal first connects Plumdark to an ancient woman who resembles her and dies before a lamp in a phoenix palace. Much later, ruins beneath Sea-Sealing County call to Plumdark directly. Although she fears what the answer may cost her, she asks Xu Qing to accompany her and opens the sealed place. The shared vision identifies a bond among her, Ancient Emperor Dark Serenity’s family, the palace statue, and the lamp, but Plumdark refuses to pretend that uncertain past-life memories are her present identity. (Chapters 522, 722–725)

Plumdark chooses to interpret herself as the lamp’s wick and decides to recover the Plumdark Evergreen Lamp, which she can sense somewhere in the Imperial Region. She searches independently, pauses only when Xu Qing is badly injured, and combines a blood pill with a geomantic compass to trace the lamp to Planet Ancient Emperor. Her pursuit is therefore not a revelation handed to her by others; it is a sustained investigation shaped by her own intuition, caution, and willingness to confront an inheritance she does not fully understand. (Chapters 725, 750, 757–767, 787, 810)

Reunion and retrieval of the lamp

After a long separation, Plumdark sends word that she would go to Xu Qing if he asked, then reunites with him in the Imperial Capital. Xu Qing gives her hairpins, and they spend seven days together away from public duties. Their intimacy rests on a longer pattern of mutual aid rather than erasing Plumdark’s independence: even while separated, she has continued preparing the secret operation required to reach the lamp on the imperial ancestral altar. (Chapters 929, 931–932)

The eventual theft depends on plans that Plumdark and Xu Qing developed months earlier. She uses secluded cultivation and a secret magic to gather information, while five drops of her essence blood suppress the five imperial coffins guarding the altar. Enemy soul threads later seal her to prevent her intervention, confirming that opponents regard her as an active threat. Once Xu Qing survives with the cracked lamp, Plumdark takes it to the phoenix palace to accept the inheritance, with Patriarch Golden Vajra Warrior assigned to guard her. (Chapters 943–945, 963, 967–968)

Inheritance, awakening, and departure

Plumdark’s inheritance lasts far longer than expected. The phoenix palace remains protected by a stable spell formation, and she instructs her guards not to admit anyone or let Xu Qing interrupt the process, insisting that she will resolve its difficulties herself and find him after succeeding. Xu Qing respects that boundary, leaving a god clone and Patriarch Golden Vajra Warrior nearby. Signs of awareness eventually appear, but her eyes do not fully open until the Evergreen Lamp brightens many years later. (Chapters 1015, 1088, 1181, 1236, 1338)

When Plumdark awakens, Xu Qing enters the palace through waves of space-time that replay their shared past, offers his hand, and takes her to Mount Daybreak. They live there together for decades, with Plumdark worrying over him when he leaves to settle his conflict with Zi Qing. Three hundred years later they are still companions. When Xu Qing decides to walk the Living God Umbilical Cord, Plumdark joins him and Erniu, entering Xu Qing’s protection as they leave Revered Ancient in pursuit of what lies beyond the higher star rings. (Chapters 1339–1340, 1354)

Appearance and personality

Plumdark usually appears as a striking young woman despite the maturity visible in her eyes. At her first meeting with Xu Qing, she has long dark hair loosely bound with a pink ribbon, fair skin compared to peach blossoms, a slender waist, and a violet garment decorated with faintly glowing stars. Other appearances place her in blue-green woven silk, a plum-colored gown, or a gauzy dress, often with elegant ornaments such as a phoenix hairpin. (Chapters 278, 288, 386, 1338)

Her manner combines playfulness, self-command, mercy, and ruthlessness. She enjoys teasing Xu Qing and Erniu, music, wine, and osmanthus cakes, yet she quickly kills cultivators who sacrifice innocents and intervenes when seniors threaten younger disciples. Plumdark can be openly affectionate without surrendering her judgment: she protects Xu Qing fiercely, pauses her own goals when he is hurt, and still insists on facing the dangers of her inheritance by herself. (Chapters 279, 294, 297–300, 757–759, 1088)

Abilities and cultivation

Void Returning cultivation

Plumdark is explicitly identified as a first-stage Void Returning cultivator when the starlight of a thousand streams appears in her eyes. Her demonstrated power includes neutralizing an attack from a sect patriarch and reducing an entire mountain—together with its formations and hostile cultivators—to something like a grain before crushing it. These feats establish overwhelming spatial and destructive control, although the supplied corpus does not assign a precise post-inheritance cultivation rank to her. (Chapters 294, 297, 428)

Cultivation guidance and protection

Her expertise is not limited to direct combat. Plumdark researches heavenly-palace construction for Xu Qing, creates a transformed environment around him while he cultivates, and reproduces the Golden Crow’s dragon chariot in sufficient detail to support his breakthrough. Her golden-blood symbols provide powerful concealment and protection across multiple later missions, but their fading condition shows that the technique consumes a finite resource rather than granting effortless or permanent invisibility. (Chapters 411, 414, 439, 459, 478, 484)

Music and inherited resonance

Plumdark plays the flute and teaches Xu Qing a song that helps him express emotions he normally suppresses; he later uses that musical language far from her. Her connection to the Evergreen Lamp also manifests as inherited resonance. With the aid of a blood pill and geomantic compass she can intensify that perception, and her essence blood can suppress the imperial coffins around the lamp. The full combat capabilities of the inheritance after her awakening are not demonstrated in the supplied chapters. (Chapters 299–300, 566, 725, 766–767, 945, 1338)

Power progression

Relationships

• Xu Qing: Plumdark begins as a teasing senior but becomes Xu Qing’s teacher, protector, confidante, and long-term companion. She supports his cultivation and missions, while he helps uncover her past and retrieves the Evergreen Lamp. After her awakening they establish a home on Mount Daybreak and ultimately leave Revered Ancient together. (Chapters 278–300, 411–445, 722–725, 943–967, 1339, 1354)
• Chen Erniu: Plumdark regards Erniu with amused caution, immobilizes him during their first encounter, and repeatedly sees through his schemes. Their relationship remains comic but functional, and the two later stand with Xu Qing at the entrance to the Living God Umbilical Cord. (Chapters 278–279, 387, 1354)
• Master Seventh: Plumdark and Master Seventh act as senior allies during the Sea-Sealing County war and coordinate in protecting Xu Qing. They remain together for dangerous cleanup operations, jointly oppose Xu Qing’s secret departure before helping him prepare, and share responsibility for safeguarding the institutions around their juniors. (Chapters 501, 541–550)
• Patriarch Golden Vajra Warrior: Xu Qing assigns the patriarch to guard Plumdark when she enters the phoenix palace. He treats that duty seriously through her prolonged inheritance and remains part of her household after she awakens. (Chapters 967, 1015, 1088, 1236, 1339)

Items

• Plumdark Evergreen Lamp: A cracked life-essence lamp linked to Plumdark’s ancient identity and the phoenix palace. She plans its recovery, contributes essence blood to suppress its guards, and uses it while accepting the inheritance that culminates in her awakening. (Chapters 522, 723–725, 766–767, 943–967, 1338)
• Xu Qing’s Dharmaskiff: Plumdark travels aboard Xu Qing’s vessel along the Everlasting Immortal Profundity River. The journey becomes the setting for her intervention against illicit sacrificers and for the flute song that later serves as a durable point of emotional connection between them. (Chapters 296–300, 1339)