Su Keji

Su Keji is identified as the Second Elder of Northface City’s Su Clan, the father of Su Qing and Su Qian, and Su Chen’s second uncle. He turns concern over the clan’s future into a campaign to redirect resources from his blinded nephew to his own sons, escalating from rule changes and household pressure to bribery, poison, and factional manipulation. (Chapters 2–6, 76, and 84–89)

Biography

Recasting a blind heir as wasted investment

Su Keji first treats Su Chen’s blindness as an opportunity to advance his own branch of the family. He argues that a blind cultivator cannot use the resources awarded through the Su Clan’s end-of-year evaluations and persuades Su Cheng’an to pressure his son into withdrawing. When Su Chen refuses, Su Keji supports changing the evaluation from a formal display of strength to direct combat, a structure more likely to punish blindness. He presents the change as a correction made for the clan’s benefit, but his anger at resistance and his focus on his own children reveal the personal interest inside that argument. (Chapters 2–3)

He also encourages Su Cheng’an to take more concubines and offers a Three Pool Spring baptism reserved for his weak younger son Su Lin in exchange for concessions benefiting a new heir in Su Cheng’an’s household. The transaction is shrewd because Su Keji trades a resource he does not expect to yield much value while weakening Su Chen’s position. He later cultivates allies inside the clan and reaches into Su Chen’s own household through Jianxin, creating a network able to obstruct transport, leak information, and support repeated provocations. These methods turn a dispute over cultivation resources into organized family persecution. (Chapters 4–6 and 24–28)

Escalation through his sons

Su Keji’s plans repeatedly depend on making one of his sons strong enough to defeat Su Chen publicly. Early coaching teaches Su Qian to avoid grappling and to regard exploitative tactics as practical reality, but Su Chen still defeats him. When Su Qian later asks to stop opposing his cousin, Su Keji refuses to let fear or reconciliation end the contest. He spends heavily on Origin Energy Medicine and commits the Su Clan’s valuable access to the Treasure Light Illusion Realm, accepting that he will surrender his clan shares if Su Qian fails to enter the Hidden Dragon Institute. His devotion is genuine—he is willing to sacrifice his fortune for his son—but it is entangled with wounded pride and revenge. (Chapters 11–12, 66–67, and 76–86)

That combination leads him to prepare Black Anesthesia for Su Chen before the last end-of-year competition. The poison is designed to leave outward strength intact while slowing thought and reaction, making a defeat appear legitimate and leaving lingering physical harm. Su Chen learns of the purchase, stages a visit to observe the medicine’s delivery, and replaces it through Jianxin. Su Keji correctly deduces that Su Chen has probably reached the Qi Drawing Realm and warns Su Qian not to underestimate him, yet his strategic caution remains distorted by his need to control the outcome rather than accept the stronger candidate. (Chapters 76 and 84–86)

Public defeat and withdrawal

Su Qian’s enhanced training and medicine fail. Su Chen defeats him with humiliating ease, which means Su Keji loses both the end-of-year struggle and the inheritance shares risked on his son’s future. He initially turns the public punishment into a performance of honor, insisting on crawling around the stage so that witnesses will respect his willingness to honor a wager. Su Chen punctures that recovery by loudly calling for Jianxin, reminding Su Keji that the servant involved in the poison plot has fled and exposing the unresolved betrayal behind the spectacle. (Chapters 87–89)

Su Keji returns three days later covered in blood. Elder Tong’s body is released that night, while Jianxin’s exact fate is not established. From then on, Su Keji withdraws into seclusion, relinquishes his businesses, and abandons the competition for clan power. He is later subjected to Su Changche’s discipline along with other relatives who mistreated Su Chen, and his final direct reaction is to turn deathly pale when the Hidden Dragon examination rankings prove that the supposedly blind Su Chen is the formidable Demon Face. Later mentions recall his earlier fall rather than documenting a return to power, a death, or a change of allegiance. (Chapters 89, 97, and 124)

Appearance and personality

The corpus does not provide a stable physical description of Su Keji’s face, hair, age, or build. In domestic scenes he carries a favored red-sand Spring Flat Stone Jar, rests in a large rocking chair, and hums opera, suggesting a comfortable senior-clan lifestyle before his political collapse. His face is described as deathly pale when Su Chen’s hidden strength is finally confirmed. (Chapters 84 and 124)

Su Keji is temperamental, suspicious, persistent, and capable of both political calculation and rapid tactical inference. He identifies weaknesses in the clan’s evaluation system, recognizes that missing business funds may indicate secret cultivation, and understands how public humiliation can be reframed as honorable endurance. At the same time, pride repeatedly overrules proportion: he treats a few bottles of Verdant Wood Essence as a multiyear feud, beats or kills subordinates when enraged, and pursues revenge even after Su Qian wants peace. His love for his sons is real but controlling, because their accomplishments are made to carry his status and vindicate his choices. (Chapters 3–5, 66–67, 84–89)

Abilities and cultivation

Su Keji belongs to the senior generation of an Origin-cultivating clan, but the supplied corpus does not state his cultivation realm, bloodline, cultivation technique, named Origin Skills, or personal combat record. His demonstrated capabilities are political and logistical rather than supernatural, so no combat mechanics or progression can be assigned without speculation.

Clan politics and resource allocation

Su Keji understands how to convert family rules, succession fears, and scarce cultivation opportunities into leverage. He frames resource seizure as institutional reform, trades Su Lin’s Three Pool Spring baptism for influence over Su Cheng’an’s household, gathers supporters, and stakes his own shares to secure the Treasure Light Illusion Realm for Su Qian. These methods can produce concrete advantages, but they depend on other people accepting his premise that Su Chen has no future. Once Su Chen proves his sight, wealth, and cultivation, the same network becomes evidence of factional abuse and loses the patriarch’s protection. (Chapters 3–6, 25, 76, and 86–89)

Planning, medicine, and operational limits

He uses intermediaries to purchase Origin Energy Medicine and Black Anesthesia, understands their intended applications, and prepares layered advantages rather than relying only on Su Qian’s skill. He also sees through Su Chen’s likely hidden breakthrough earlier than several relatives. These are planning abilities, not alchemy: the corpus does not say that he creates either medicine or possesses specialist medical knowledge. His operational limit is secrecy. The purchase leaks through outside clan connections, Su Chen observes the delivery, and Jianxin can be turned against him. Once those information channels fail, Su Keji has no demonstrated personal technique capable of reversing the result. (Chapters 76 and 84–89)

Relationships

• Su Chen: Su Keji recasts his blinded nephew as a waste of clan resources, engineers rules and schemes against him, and eventually attempts to poison his reactions before a public match. Su Chen anticipates the plan, defeats Su Qian, and turns Su Keji’s public punishment into a lasting political collapse. (Chapters 2–6, 11, 24–30, and 76–89)
• Su Qian: Su Keji spends his fortune, clan shares, medicines, and a rare illusion-training opportunity to make Su Qian a successful cultivator. He is affectionate and perceptive about the danger Su Qian faces, but ignores his son’s request for peace and makes the final competition carry his own need for revenge. (Chapters 11, 66–67, and 76–89)
• Su Cheng’an: Su Keji persuades his elder brother that a blind heir should yield resources and encourages him to produce replacement sons. Their cooperation serves Su Keji’s faction while accelerating the collapse of Su Cheng’an’s relationship with Su Chen. (Chapters 3–6)
• Su Feihu: Su Feihu repeatedly opposes Su Keji’s attempts to take Su Chen’s resources and challenges the idea that Su Qian’s costly preparation reflects natural talent. Their wager culminates in Su Keji crawling around the competition stage after his son loses. (Chapters 87–89)

Items

• Spring Flat Stone Jar: Su Keji’s favored red-sand jar, carried during his afternoon rest. No supernatural properties are stated. (Chapter 84)
• Origin Energy Medicine: Purchased to raise Su Qian’s cultivation before the final competition. Su Keji acquires and administers it but does not make it. (Chapters 76 and 86)
• Black Anesthesia: A concealed poison prepared for Su Chen that slows thought and reaction without visibly reducing strength. The plan is compromised before the competition, and Su Keji never personally uses it in a demonstrated scene. (Chapters 76 and 84–89)