Duan Feng

Duan Feng is an Origin Bureau officer in Clear River City who becomes one of Su Chen's earliest committed subordinates. Previously suppressed after offending Bureau Head Liu Wuya, he recognizes Su's authority after Liu's death and serves him through investigations, political retaliation, arrest, and the campaign against the local noble clans. (Chapters 366–493)

Biography

Choosing Su Chen

Duan Feng is among the first officers to accept Su's command after Liu Wuya dies. The choice is not safe: Su is young, his formal position is unsettled, and the city's established powers have every reason to resist him. Duan nevertheless concludes that Su would not have acted without confidence and places himself openly on the new Bureau Head's side. He then accompanies Su through official meetings and helps investigate Liu Jiyun's murder, tracing responsibility through the Long Clear Gang to the Lai Clan. (Chapters 366 and 372–374)

Arrest and return to service

When Xing Shabei becomes City Head, he targets Duan and three other loyal officers with a fabricated accusation of colluding with pirates. Duan is imprisoned, tortured, and wounded. Su does not storm the jail; he attacks the dossier's procedural and evidentiary failures until Xing is forced to release the prisoners. Duan immediately wants retaliation, revealing both loyalty and temper, but Su orders him to recover before returning to the struggle. (Chapters 401–403)

Duan later arrests Qian Rongbo for abusing a young woman and expresses regret that he arrived too late to prevent the harm. By his last direct scene he is back at Su's side while the Origin Bureau mobilizes around the Lin Residence. He remains alive, but the corpus does not specify his office, cultivation, or fate after Chapter 493. (Chapters 487 and 493)

Appearance and personality

The supplied corpus does not provide stable details for Duan Feng's face, age, clothing, height, hair, or build. His injuries after imprisonment are described as the result of torture, not as enduring identifying features. (Chapters 401–403)

Duan is decisive, loyal, direct, and sometimes hot-blooded. He commits to Su before the new political balance is secure and continues serving after personal punishment. His anger on release shows a desire for immediate revenge, while his regret in Qian Rongbo's case shows that his law-enforcement role is not purely factional: he is disturbed by failing to protect a victim in time. (Chapters 366, 403, and 487)

Abilities and cultivation

Duan is identified as an Origin Qi Scholar, but the corpus does not state his exact cultivation realm, bloodline, weapon, named Origin Skill, or combat progression. He survives imprisonment and resumes duty, yet no isolated fight establishes how he compares with other cultivators. Any more precise martial classification would therefore be speculative. (Chapters 366–493)

His best-demonstrated capabilities are investigative and administrative. He gathers intelligence on Liu Jiyun's murder, reports the Lai Clan and Long Clear Gang connection, carries out arrests, and participates in Bureau mobilization. These are professional skills exercised through the institution and its personnel; they do not imply a supernatural detection technique or independent command of the entire Origin Bureau. (Chapters 372–374, 487, and 493)

Relationships

• Su Chen: Duan's superior and chosen political patron. Duan recognizes Su's authority early, investigates for him, endures punishment for remaining loyal, and returns to his side after Su secures his release. (Chapters 366–493)
• Liu Wuya: The former Bureau Head who suppressed Duan after being offended by him. Liu's death removes that barrier and creates the opening in which Duan chooses Su. (Chapter 366)
• Xing Shabei: The City Head who imprisons and tortures Duan on fabricated evidence as part of the campaign against Su's loyalists. (Chapters 401–403)

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