Gui Dashan

Gui Dashan is the former leader of Tortoiseshell Camp and the strongest of the first five Shadow Servants serving Su Chen. Captured as a Blood Boiling bandit, he becomes a covert enforcer, field leader, and increasingly loyal subordinate whose cultivation rises to Yang Opening under Su Chen’s training.

Biography

From camp leader to Shadow Servant

Gui first appears among more than a hundred captured mountain bandits being marched through the Four Flats. Onlookers recognize Iron Hammer Gui Dashan, the Blood Boiling leader of Tortoiseshell Camp, by the massive hammer that serves as his trademark. After entering Su Chen’s service, he receives Shadow Substance and becomes the top-ranked of five servants capable of fading from sight. Su Chen assigns him covert investigations, including tracing the bodies connected to the Li Clan’s stillbirth case. (Chapters 344 and 347)

The arrangement initially depends on control more than trust. Gui and the other former bandits gain training, resources, and exposure to a wider world, while Su Chen remains aware that years of lawlessness have not made them instinctively loyal. Gui nevertheless follows orders, warns Su Chen when Yuan Lieyang seems able to sense concealed killers, and gradually treats service as a path to advancement rather than merely captivity. (Chapter 366)

Clear River enforcer

Gui leads the Shadow Servants in an ambush on the Yang Opening cultivator Shi Zhongwei. As the strongest of the five, his hammer caves in the back of the target’s head while the group’s coordinated Armor-Piercing Awls and Raging Inferno Fists create several simultaneous wounds. One servant dies in the broader operation; Gui is deeply relieved when Su Chen promises long-term support for the dead man’s wife and children, strengthening the former bandits’ attachment to their new master. (Chapters 394 and 398)

Gui also develops into an intermediary who understands Su Chen’s intent. When villagers fear the Bloodline Nobility Clans, one glance prompts him to explain that protection requires an exchange rather than charity, though he stops short of setting terms without authorization. His combination of bandit bluntness and subordinate caution helps convert rescued communities into Su Chen’s supply network. (Chapter 398)

Trials, advancement, and departure

Gui’s group later confronts Yu Wei, a Spirit Race puppet whose clarity and consciousness attacks overcome their assumptions about realm advantage. Gui is thrown aside despite being a peak Blood Boiling cultivator, then fights through dizziness, a stab wound, and hostile fiends to keep Yu Wei from escaping until Su Chen arrives. Shadow Concealment initially hides the servants from the fiends, but stronger manifestations eventually penetrate it, exposing the technique’s limits. One more servant dies; Gui survives, burns the enemy storehouse, and accepts further resources for the remaining group. (Chapters 434–436)

By the time Su Chen leaves Clear River, Gui has reached the Yang Opening Realm without a bloodline and remains among his most effective followers. He joins the relocation from the Su Residence and departs aboard the Flood Dragon Emperor shuttle with Su Chen’s household. The corpus does not directly track him after that journey, so his later office, realm, and fate remain unknown. (Chapter 571)

Appearance and personality

Gui is associated with a massive hammer and is addressed as a large, physically powerful former bandit. He wears a black cloak during early Shadow Servant work, but the corpus does not establish stable details for his face, hair, eyes, or later clothing. (Chapters 344 and 347)

He is rough, practical, and loyal to his brothers. Gui readily uses intimidation and violence, sometimes presses an advantage too long, and retains the stubbornness of a mountain-bandit leader. At the same time, he understands hierarchy, avoids making promises on Su Chen’s behalf, and values care for fallen comrades’ families. Repeated training and fair treatment turn controlled service into genuine commitment. (Chapters 398, 434–436, and 571)

Abilities and cultivation

Cultivation and strength

Gui begins at the Blood Boiling Realm and is the strongest of Su Chen’s first five Shadow Servants. His physical power lets a hammer blow seriously injure a Yang Opening target during a coordinated ambush and later force Yu Wei back in a direct collision despite the puppet’s superior technique. By Chapter 571, he has reached Yang Opening without a bloodline. (Chapters 344, 394, 434–435, and 571)

Realm advantage is not sufficient on its own. Yu Wei’s consciousness interference makes Gui react slowly, throws him aside while still at Qi Drawing, and lands a serious stab. Gui survives through preparation, numbers, endurance, and Su Chen’s later rescue rather than overwhelming technique. The corpus shows no higher realm after Yang Opening. (Chapters 434–436 and 571)

Shadow Concealment

Shadow Substance and Hemolytic Totem inscriptions let Gui conceal his entire body almost instantly, unlike tool-mediated versions that must spread from one limb. The technique is useful for investigation and coordinated ambushes and can initially prevent the Imprisoned Fiend Fog’s creatures from locating him. It does not erase heat, heartbeat, breathing, footsteps, killing intent, or every supernatural means of detection; skilled or specially equipped enemies can still locate and strike him. (Chapters 347, 366, 420, and 434–435)

Hammer and coordinated assault

Gui’s trademark weapon is a massive octagonal hammer. He uses it for crushing ambushes and direct contests of strength, while Su Chen’s instruction teaches the Shadow Servants to combine concealment with Armor-Piercing Awls and Raging Inferno Fists for an explosive first strike. The group is most effective when every member attacks a different weak point at once. If that opening fails, as against Yu Wei, their limited resistance to consciousness effects leaves them dependent on mutual rescue. (Chapters 344, 394, and 434–435)

Relationships

• Su Chen: Gui’s captor, master, trainer, and patron. Su Chen gives him Shadow Substance, instruction, cultivation resources, and support for fallen comrades’ families, gradually earning effective loyalty. (Chapters 344–347, 366, 394–398, 436, and 571)
• Iron Cliff: A senior fellow subordinate whose injury Gui and the other Shadow Servants attempt to avenge in their battle with Yu Wei. (Chapters 434–436)
• Old Second Cheng, Old Third Feng, Old Fourth Li, and Old Fifth Jin: Gui’s fellow former Tortoiseshell leaders and first Shadow Servants. He fights beside them, mourns their deaths, and acts as the surviving group’s field leader. (Chapters 344, 394–398, and 434–436)

Items

No finalized signature-item entry is assigned to Gui Dashan in the supplied catalog. His massive hammer is repeatedly associated with him but has no finalized proper-name item article.