Shi Mingfeng

Shi Mingfeng is a senior Immortal Temple operative, water specialist, and long-term intermediary with Su Chen. Introduced as a pragmatic negotiator seeking wealth and cultivation resources, he repeatedly converts Su Chen’s inventions and campaigns into opportunities for the Temple. Their alliance survives failed operations, betrayal, and internal factional conflict, eventually supporting Shi Mingfeng’s attempt to transform the Temple from an underground terrorist organization into an acknowledged political force.

Biography

Financing the Three Yangs Medicine

Night Demon introduces Shi Mingfeng as her new superior when Su Chen asks the Immortal Temple to finance a million vials of Three Yangs Medicine. His public reputation as the Xiyuan Rain Master conceals his Temple affiliation, yet he meets Su Chen openly and without the arrogance expected of someone stronger than Ma Renze. Shi Mingfeng refuses to lend five hundred million Origin Stones on trust alone, insisting on knowing the medicine’s purpose and negotiating a fairer share because the Temple would provide capital, alchemists, and distribution. Once Su Chen reveals the commercial plan, Shi Mingfeng recognizes both its feasibility and its enormous value. (Chapter 448)

His reasons are initially personal as much as institutional. Although born into a Bloodline Nobility Clan, Shi Mingfeng values the benefits of his own position more than the distant interests of his lineage; he calculates that the resulting wealth could buy enough resources to make Spirit Burning a realistic goal. He accepts a secret thirty-million-Origin-Stone payment from Su Chen, settles Su Chen’s existing debt to the Temple, and negotiates a sixty-forty division before submitting the arrangement to his superiors. The completed agreement establishes him as the practical manager of a partnership built on profit, guarded trust, and complementary resources rather than shared ideals. (Chapter 449)

After the ten Bloodline Nobility Clans nearly assassinate Su Chen, Shi Mingfeng again offers direct protection and proposes that the Temple destroy the clans in return for another share of the medicine profits. Su Chen refuses because dependence could turn an ally into a member, and Shi Mingfeng accepts the need for distance instead of trying to coerce him. He still supplies intelligence about the clans’ three Light Shaking experts, leaving Su Chen free to choose his own response. Their exchange defines the durable terms of the relationship: Shi Mingfeng will press for organizational advantage, but he can preserve cooperation when Su Chen sets a boundary. (Chapter 461)

West Laina and the Ravager frontier

Shi Mingfeng designs the Immortal Temple’s operation at West Laina Castle around He Xu impersonating a Sand Race officer and drugging Culler so that the expedition can search Kapius’s hidden stores. He treats Su Chen as both an honored guest and a uniquely valuable partner, rebuking Kong Cheng for antagonizing him. When He Xu is exposed, Shi Mingfeng judges an immediate rescue nearly impossible and withdraws to avoid wasting the entire force, but he does not abandon either captive. Instead, he waits for Su Chen’s signal, interrogates You Tianyang, and supplies the information and formation records Su Chen needs to improvise a rescue from inside the castle. (Chapters 509, 516–517, and 520–522)

The operation expands into a temporary alliance with the Zhu Clan and the Sand Race. Shi Mingfeng fights Zhu Baiyu before Su Chen forces negotiations, then personally accepts an Origin Energy vow to guarantee the deal because the original expedition was his plan and the alliance offers its best chance of success. He and Zhu Baiyu hold off powerful Sand Race opponents while Su Chen searches the stores, trusting him because the Temple wants resources and techniques whereas Su Chen primarily wants knowledge. Shi Mingfeng later spreads Su Chen’s corrosive smoke through the Sand army with a wind current and helps capture enemy experts, turning a collapsed infiltration into a successful joint campaign. (Chapters 542–546 and 560–561)

When Su Chen crosses into Ravager territory to find the Heavenly Might Battalion, Shi Mingfeng brokers access to the Rejuvenating Door’s maps, tribal intelligence, and foreign contacts in exchange for Su Chen’s Hemolytic Totem. He accepts that collaboration is more useful than trying to recruit Su Chen, whose independence keeps the Temple out of his public controversies. Later, recognizing that the stranded battalion needs food and supplies, Shi Mingfeng arranges direct trade and sends Night Demon as the contact the soldiers will trust. He and He Xu accompany her partly to protect a woman whose death would destroy the Temple’s relationship with Su Chen, demonstrating how institutional policy has grown around the trust his faction cultivated. (Chapters 605 and 651)

That trade mission exposes Astin’s betrayal. Shi Mingfeng is suspicious enough to conceal a paired communication disk from him, but still hopes the foreign operative is loyal until Ferocious Race troops arrive. He then anchors Su Chen’s countertrap at the Uhayan Pool, using its earth essence to hold off Bayan’s force, erect walls, and complete an Origin Formation around the Flowerless Door. The battle badly strains him even with the pool’s amplification, yet his preparation traps and destroys the attackers and lets the group escape through the door when Danba arrives. His survival of the ensuing raid on a Demonic Emperor’s palace preserves the partnership, while the Temple afterward restricts access to Su Chen largely to Shi Mingfeng’s established circle. (Chapters 656–676 and 728)

Turning internal conflict into leverage

After Sun Mo’s actions threaten to expose Su Chen’s connection to the Immortal Temple, Shi Mingfeng visits the newly founded Boundless Sect to apologize and prevent Su Chen from ending their cooperation. He explains that Sun Mo was sent by An Sili, a hostile Temple chairman and Shi Mingfeng’s old enemy, and that An Sili’s attack on a valuable partner violated the organization’s unwritten rules. Rather than beginning an internal purge that might spread into a wider civil conflict, Shi Mingfeng asks Su Chen to remove the rival faction. The request reveals both his vulnerability inside the Temple and his willingness to use an external ally to reshape its balance of power. (Chapter 743)

Su Chen rejects Shi Mingfeng’s first attempt to portray the assassination as revenge or a chance to prove loyalty to Long Sang, forcing him to negotiate plainly. Shi Mingfeng then agrees to transfer An Sili’s business interests to the Boundless Sect and provides his location, after which Su Chen’s subordinates eliminate the chairman and seize his records. The bargain removes an enemy of Shi Mingfeng’s faction, compensates Su Chen, and gives the Boundless Sect an external commercial network. It also shows that their alliance remains transactional even after years of cooperation: Shi Mingfeng understands Su Chen well enough to abandon moral pressure once a concrete exchange becomes necessary. (Chapter 744)

Bringing the Immortal Temple into the open

Shi Mingfeng later becomes a leading advocate for transforming the Immortal Temple from an underground terrorist organization into one able to operate publicly. Facing deep hostility from the human countries and opposition within his own organization, he sends Night Demon to seek open participation in the Boundless Sect’s sea expedition. Su Chen initially refuses to risk his relationship with Long Sang and avoids giving her an answer, but Shi Mingfeng’s decision to oppose the majority and sustain a two-year diplomatic mission is vindicated when Long Sang attacks the Boundless Sect. The altered political situation finally gives the Temple the opening he had sought. (Chapters 924 and 963)

Su Chen connects Shi Mingfeng with Lin Zuiliu, whose attempt to depose Long Sang’s ruler offers the Temple a route toward legal political alignment rather than permanent secrecy. Although visibly uneasy at discussing rebellion in public, Shi Mingfeng proceeds to negotiations and accompanies the effort to recruit the Moonkin. He explains the conflict between the Boundless Sect and the Lin Clan to Night Elegance, adding the Temple and its allies to the developing coalition. His latest direct appearance therefore leaves him alive and acting as a political organizer, with the reform project underway but its final success and his own future rank not established. (Chapters 963–964)

Appearance and personality

Shi Mingfeng is a polite-looking, graceful middle-aged man whose courteous bearing contrasts with the powerful waves of energy Su Chen senses from him. His public identity is sufficiently respectable that he can travel openly despite secretly holding senior rank in the Immortal Temple. The corpus gives no more precise description of his height, build, clothing, hair, or facial features. (Chapter 448)

He is pragmatic, status-conscious, and highly sensitive to risk and profit. Early on, money and the resources needed for his own advancement matter more to him than his clan or abstract benefit to humanity. Nevertheless, he is capable of long-term loyalty: he respects Su Chen’s boundaries, protects Night Demon and He Xu, and preserves partnerships after plans fail. Normally calm and calculating, he can become violent when a subordinate jeopardizes an operation, as when he slams Kong Cheng into a wall for continuing to provoke Su Chen. His later campaign to legitimize the Temple shows a broader institutional ambition beyond the personal enrichment that first motivates him. (Chapters 449, 461, 509, 517, 527, and 963)

Abilities and cultivation

Shi Mingfeng is a four-platform Light Shaking Realm cultivator best known for water-type Origin Skills. His title reflects a battlefield style that saturates an area with rain, fog, and marsh-like conditions, while later scenes show limited use of earth, wind, Origin Formations, and intelligence tools. The corpus does not name a bloodline, cultivation technique, or instructor for most of these abilities, so their precise origins should not be inferred.

Cultivation and progression

Shi Mingfeng is already a Light Shaking cultivator when Su Chen meets him. During the West Laina expedition he states that he reached four Lotus Platforms two years earlier by benefiting from Su Chen’s success, referring to the private thirty-million-Origin-Stone payment associated with the Three Yangs Medicine transaction. The money supplied resources that helped him overcome a bottleneck, directly connecting his cultivation progress to his commercial alliance with Su Chen. No later chapter explicitly confirms a fifth platform, Spirit Burning breakthrough, or loss of cultivation, so four-platform Light Shaking remains his latest verified level. (Chapters 448–449 and 513)

Light Shaking grants him flight and direct influence over environmental Origin Energy, but his control is more distinctive than raw realm alone. He can shape a stone shelter by moving earth Origin Energy through will rather than a prepared technique, an act requiring unusually deep understanding and fine manipulation. His public rank is marquis within the Immortal Temple, but this is an organizational title rather than a cultivation stage; the text separately identifies Night Demon as a viscount and does not claim that either title automatically corresponds to a fixed combat level. (Chapters 510 and 656)

Rain, fog, and water shaping

Shi Mingfeng’s signature water control changes the battlefield itself. A dense fog filled with water Origin Energy can press down like a river and dissolve Sand Race bodies, while suspended raindrops can descend as penetrating projectiles whose cold seeps into cracks and chills the target. He can also merge rain into a broad, curved wall of water that cleanly separates opposing groups without indiscriminately striking allies. These applications support his title and demonstrate offense, area control, and precise partitioning, but the corpus does not provide formal technique names, acquisition methods, ranges, or stated activation rituals. (Chapters 448, 513, and 542–543)

The water skills are powerful rather than irresistible. Zhu Baiyu can force the descending rain back with a sufficiently strong shockwave, while powerful Sand Race opponents and a second Light Shaking combatant can pressure Shi Mingfeng even when he cooperates with Zhu Baiyu. He can combine his gentle wind and rain with an ally’s attack and can exploit terrain saturated with water, but there is no evidence that every battlefield literally becomes a marsh or that environmental conversion occurs instantly. His latest direct scenes are political rather than martial, so no upgraded water variant after the Ravager campaign is confirmed. (Chapters 542 and 545)

Earth manipulation and the Uhayan Pool

Shi Mingfeng can raise mud barriers, form a mud colossus, produce stone walls, and manipulate earth Origin Energy with enough precision to create a shelter. His strongest demonstrated earth-based performance depends on the Uhayan Pool, a naturally occurring deposit of dirty earth essence that cannot be transported or refined into ordinary treasures and can be controlled only at its source by someone talented in water manipulation. Using the pool multiplies his effective strength and lets him form three mud colossi, making him briefly feel comparable to a Spirit Burning cultivator; this is an environmental amplification, not evidence of a permanent breakthrough. (Chapters 510 and 671–672)

The enhancement has clear costs and counters. Under normal conditions, forming one mud colossus is extremely taxing; even with the pool, continually replacing three constructs while fighting hundreds of Ferocious Race soldiers leaves Shi Mingfeng sweating, and he estimates only even odds against Bayan without the terrain advantage. He ultimately uses the constructs to stir the pool and expose the Flowerless Door rather than defeat the whole army directly. The pool therefore supplies exceptional localized power, but its immobility, compatibility requirement, sustained burden, and inability to offset overwhelming numbers sharply limit the application. (Chapter 672)

Formations, wind, and operational skills

During the Uhayan Pool ambush, Shi Mingfeng secretly constructs an Origin Formation centered on the Flowerless Door. When activated, the formation raises pressurized stone walls, impedes flight, and confines the Ferocious Race soldiers within the expanding darkness. Elsewhere he generates a wind current that distributes Su Chen’s corrosive smoke through an enemy army. These feats show prepared containment and battlefield support beyond his famous rain, but the text does not identify the formation’s school, construction time, independent energy cost, or a reusable named wind technique. (Chapters 560 and 673)

He is also skilled in planning, interrogation, covert communication, and remote observation. He uses a Clairvoyance Crystal or mirror to monitor infiltrators, operates transmission tools, forces a captive to reproduce restricted formation diagrams, and conceals a paired tracking disk when he suspects Astin. These are trained operational competencies aided by equipment rather than innate supernatural powers. They can fail when his information is incomplete—the West Laina infiltration collapses despite his preparation—and his caution does not always detect betrayal early enough to prevent danger. (Chapters 509, 514, 520–522, 532, and 656–671)

Power progression

Relationships

• Su Chen: Shi Mingfeng begins as the Temple superior evaluating Su Chen’s request for financing and becomes one of his longest-serving organizational intermediaries. He profits from Su Chen’s medicines, supports his rescue and military plans, respects his refusal to join the Temple, and later relies on the Boundless Sect to remove An Sili and support institutional reform. Their relationship is durable but explicitly transactional: both men preserve cooperation by stating boundaries, exchanging concrete benefits, and accepting that neither fully controls the other. (Chapters 448–461, 509–563, 605, 672–676, 743–744, and 963–964)
• Night Demon: Night Demon serves under Shi Mingfeng and introduces him to Su Chen. He repeatedly chooses her as the Temple’s messenger because Su Chen trusts her, protects her during the Ravager trade mission, and opposes the organization’s majority to send her on a two-year diplomatic effort. Her eventual success provides the opening for his plan to bring the Temple into public life, making her apparent simplicity a central asset in his strategy. (Chapters 448, 651, 656, 924, and 963)
• He Xu: Shi Mingfeng assigns He Xu the central infiltration role at West Laina and, after the disguise fails, refuses to treat him as expendable despite initially judging direct rescue impossible. He later brings He Xu to protect Night Demon and work around Astin without revealing every safeguard. Their relationship is primarily commander and specialist, with Shi Mingfeng depending on He Xu’s disguise skills while accepting responsibility for extracting him when a plan collapses. (Chapters 509, 516–522, 651, and 656–667)
• Zhu Baiyu: Initially an enemy at West Laina, Zhu Baiyu becomes Shi Mingfeng’s temporary ally after Su Chen engineers a broader agreement. Shi Mingfeng backs the negotiations with an Origin Energy vow, combines wind and rain with Zhu Baiyu against Sand Race experts, and helps him capture opposing cultivators. Their cooperation is tactical rather than intimate, but it is essential to converting Shi Mingfeng’s failed infiltration into a victory. (Chapters 542–546 and 560–561)
• Kong Cheng: Kong Cheng is a hostile subordinate whose family connection makes him difficult to discipline. Shi Mingfeng orders him not to antagonize Su Chen and later violently subdues him when his complaints endanger the mission. The conflict reveals that Shi Mingfeng’s courteous manner does not prevent harsh internal enforcement when a subordinate threatens a valuable alliance. (Chapters 509 and 527)
• Astin: Shi Mingfeng works with Astin through the Rejuvenating Door but grows suspicious of his insistence on meeting Su Chen. He conceals the party’s paired tracking disk and helps test Astin’s intentions, yet still hopes his doubts are wrong until Astin directs Ferocious Race troops toward them. The betrayal hardens Shi Mingfeng’s caution and forces him to become the principal combatant in Su Chen’s counterambush. (Chapters 656–673)
• Lin Zuiliu: Su Chen introduces Shi Mingfeng to Lin Zuiliu when their respective interests align against Long Sang’s ruler. Shi Mingfeng is intimidated by the King of Chaos and uncomfortable discussing rebellion openly, but he brings him into the Temple’s negotiations and helps present the proposed coalition to the Moonkin. Their latest interaction positions Shi Mingfeng as the careful institutional organizer beside Lin Zuiliu’s more provocative leadership. (Chapters 963–964)

Items

No individually owned notable item is confirmed for Shi Mingfeng in the supplied corpus. He uses organizational or mission-specific devices—including remote-viewing crystals, transmission tools, and a paired tracking disk—but the text does not establish any of them as a signature personal possession or retainable inventory item. (Chapters 514, 532, and 656–657)