Zhu Baiyu

Zhu Baiyu is the Sixth Pillar of the Horizontal Mountain Zhu Clan, a Light Shaking Realm cultivator entrusted with protecting Zhu Xianyao during her expedition into Ravager territory. He serves the mission as negotiator, security expert, guide, and principal combatant. Although his first response to Su Chen's infiltration is hostility, practical necessity turns them into allies, and Su Chen's bloodline research eventually makes Baiyu an intermediary between him and the Zhu Clan.

Biography

Negotiations at West Laina Castle

Zhu Baiyu accompanies Zhu Xianyao to negotiate with Pall, leader of the Sand Race group occupying West Laina Castle. The visitors claim that they want to mine Blackrock Gold, but Pall quickly exposes weaknesses in that explanation. At Xianyao's signal, Baiyu supplies a more credible story: the Zhu Clan needs a foothold in Long Sang from which to oppose the Immortal Temple. The second claim is also a cover, because their actual objective is to search the castle for secret stores left by the Spirit Race expert Kapius. Baiyu's ability to shift explanations without disrupting the negotiation establishes him as both Xianyao's senior escort and an active partner in the deception. (Chapters 515–516)

The arrival of the captive Immortal Temple operative He Xu threatens that plan. Baiyu initially refrains from acting when Xianyao signals him to preserve the negotiations, then later returns with He Xu in custody and joins the interrogation. He treats the apparent You Tianyang—actually Su Chen in disguise—with unexpected gentleness, reasoning that the young man is not entirely responsible for the security failure. He is also perceptive enough to read the supposed Tianyang's nervous behavior as genuine affection for Xianyao and teases her that her stated preference sounds more like Su Chen. He Xu's manipulated testimony then persuades the party that Zhu Xianling arranged the infiltration, directing their suspicion toward an internal clan rival rather than Su Chen. (Chapters 516 and 518–519)

After three days of bargaining, Baiyu and Xianyao accept Pall's demand for a ten-million-Origin-Stone down payment but ask for a month to deliver it. The delay gives their people time to search for Kapius's stores. Baiyu personally checks their meeting chamber for surveillance tools and searches everyone before sensitive discussions, but Su Chen's disguise survives those precautions. When the search produces nothing, Baiyu restrains the frustrated guards and accepts that a Spirit Race cache may require extraordinary consciousness power to reveal. His own consciousness measures only about one hundred units: although he is a Light Shaking cultivator, his bloodline branch does not specialize in charm and he has not trained consciousness separately. (Chapters 521–523)

Baiyu proposes compensating for that limitation with Origin Tools and volunteers to obtain them himself. The journey requires him to fly into Long Sang's interior and return within twenty-three days, while leaving Xianyao exposed to the threats the group attributes to Zhu Xianling. He nevertheless judges the trip necessary. His departure removes the expedition's strongest immediate protector and gives Su Chen more freedom to operate, but Baiyu returns after twenty days with a consciousness-enhancing sash, a one-use scroll, a formation disk, and three medicines. He remains elegantly composed and visibly free of blood, yet Su Chen senses a heavy bloody scent on him and infers that the rushed procurement probably involved several killings. The precise victims and methods are not identified. (Chapters 523–524 and 536)

Kapius's Projection Void

The resources Baiyu obtains allow the group to approach the consciousness threshold hiding the cache entrance. When Su Chen reveals an additional consciousness-type Origin Crystal only after consuming limited medicines, Baiyu notices the irrational order. A reusable crystal should have been used before consumables; withholding it makes sense only if the supposed You Tianyang feared exposing an ability inconsistent with his identity. Baiyu does not confront him immediately, allowing the effort to continue until the portal appears. He then seizes the Sand Race observer Culler, fills his body with Origin Energy, binds and marks him, and throws him through as a test subject before sending Culler’s subordinates ahead as expendable scouts. (Chapters 537–538)

Baiyu identifies the destination as a Projection Void: a real projection governed by rules different from ordinary space. Inside, he explains that projected nonliving objects become conscious Inanimate Spirits and warns the party not to touch anything, though one guard ignores the warning and loses a hand. Baiyu questions the castle's animated paintings, pulls the fleeing broom Mair into his grasp from a distance, and joins Xianyao in coercing it for directions. When that guidance instead releases the Darkness Demon Heath, Baiyu orders a retreat, counters the demon's dark wave with blood-colored energy, and shatters its two-sided lance with a finger strike carrying the aura of the Heavenly Fox and a Demonic Emperor. The brilliant force also corrodes and shrinks the demon, but Su Chen ultimately destroys it by exploiting a specialized tool. (Chapters 538–541)

Once Su Chen's disguise can no longer be maintained, Baiyu presents the crystal-use sequence as proof that he had already detected the substitution. He moves to defend Xianyao, only for Shi Mingfeng to intercept him with suspended raindrops. Baiyu releases a massive shockwave that keeps the rain away, but the appearance of the Immortal Temple force makes him fear that the entire Zhu mission has been compromised. His first reaction is to threaten the infiltrators for plotting against Zhu Clan interests. He stops short, however, when Shi points out that the Zhu Clan originally stole the information about Kapius's stores from the Immortal Temple. That correction reduces his anger enough for negotiation to replace an immediate fight. (Chapters 542–543)

Baiyu still refuses a temporary alliance with Su Chen until the other side supplies terms he can trust. He demands Su Chen's true identity and notes that his own past killing of Immortal Temple members has not prevented peace talks, while an anonymous participant cannot be held accountable. Su Chen instead offers Shi Mingfeng's Origin Energy oath that You Tianyang will be returned unharmed. With Pall approaching, Baiyu accepts cooperation against the common enemy. He and Shi meet the Sand Race leader together; Baiyu's blood-colored glow combines with Shi's rain to stop Pall's advancing sandstorm. Pall's five Lotus Platforms initially match their combined power, and a second Light Shaking Sand Race cultivator puts them under pressure, but Baiyu continues holding the front while Su Chen searches for the cache. (Chapters 543–545)

Retreat and the Zhu Clan research agreement

When the Projection Void collapses, Baiyu's battle with Pall continues in the physical castle. Pall has five Lotus Platforms, yet Baiyu's Demonic Emperor bloodline lets him fight the Sand Race leader on apparently even terms while their exchange shakes the building. After the party escapes, Baiyu waits for Xianyao and expresses relief when she returns. He is less reassured by her insistence that Su Chen accompany them and later comforts the rejected You Tianyang, explaining that affection cannot be forced and that temperament, rather than appearance, decides such attachments. His observations show that he understands Xianyao's feelings before she openly acts on them. (Chapters 553–555)

The retreat becomes another joint campaign when Sand Race scouts locate the procession. Baiyu and Shi fly to intercept them but are initially occupied by opposing Light Shaking cultivators. When Su Chen identifies one priority target, both senior cultivators accept his reasoning despite owing him no formal obedience and concentrate their attacks accordingly. Baiyu is disturbed rather than amused when Su Chen asks that the opponent be preserved as a research subject. Days later, he scouts Pall's larger pursuing army, witnesses Su Chen's Corpse Spirit Flower poison destroy thousands of soldiers, and asks to buy some for the Zhu Clan. He accepts Su Chen's refusal once they agree that widespread access could turn the poison into a disaster. (Chapters 557–558 and 560)

Baiyu takes Su Chen's combat medicines and faces Pall again, judging the five-platform opponent difficult but manageable with the supplied support. The Sand Race force is destroyed, and Baiyu successfully captures his assigned Light Shaking adversary alive. This victory ends the immediate reason for the Zhu Clan and Immortal Temple to remain allied, but shared battles have already softened their hostility. Baiyu prepares to take his party away at Mountain Overlook City while remaining deeply troubled by Xianyao's relationship with Su Chen. He changes course only when Su Chen proposes researching a medicine capable of strengthening the Heavenly Fox bloodline and affecting targets above the user's realm. Baiyu understands both its clan-wide value and its potential to offset the punishment Xianyao may face. (Chapters 560–563)

The proposed work lasts more than half a year and produces a hereditary improvement that lets Xianyao permanently control stronger targets at a cultivation cost. Baiyu reports both the research and her wish to remain with Su Chen to the Zhu Clan. The clan accepts every condition because stronger control techniques are more valuable to it than the social objections surrounding their relationship, and Baiyu raises no objection to the pair living publicly like husband and wife during the project. At the eventual farewell, he and Zhao Jingwen pull the reluctant Xianyao back into the departing carriage. This is Baiyu's final direct appearance; the corpus does not establish his later advancement, retirement, or death. (Chapters 563–567)

Appearance and personality

The corpus gives few physical details about Zhu Baiyu. After a twenty-day flight and a likely violent search for consciousness resources, he returns without visible bloodstains and still carries himself with his usual elegance. He is an adult man whom Zhu Xianyao addresses as “Sixth Uncle,” but the text does not specify his age, height, build, facial features, hair, eyes, or normal clothing. His most consistent visual marker in combat is the blood-colored energy associated with his Demonic Emperor bloodline. (Chapters 536, 541, and 545)

Baiyu is calm, observant, protective, and politically adaptable. He can improvise a negotiation cover, read romantic behavior, identify Su Chen's disguise from the order in which he uses resources, and reconsider hostility when Shi Mingfeng exposes a flaw in the Zhu Clan's claim. He also gives Xianyao room to lead: he follows her signal not to intervene, worries when her decisions put her at risk, but ultimately communicates her wishes to the clan rather than simply overruling her. His restrained consolation of You Tianyang shows a gentler manner than his battlefield role suggests. (Chapters 515–519, 542–544, 555, and 567)

That composure coexists with ruthlessness. Baiyu threatens Culler with immediate death, uses Sand Race captives to test an unknown portal and its hazards, acknowledges having killed Immortal Temple members, and may have killed several people to acquire the expedition's tools on time. These actions consistently serve Zhu Clan interests rather than personal cruelty, and he can cooperate with enemies or accept limits on dangerous weapons when the strategic reasoning is sound. His loyalty is therefore pragmatic and clan-centered: he protects people under his charge, but does not extend the same concern to those he regards as hostile or expendable. (Chapters 536–540, 544, 558, and 560)

Abilities and cultivation

Zhu Baiyu combines Light Shaking cultivation with a Demonic Emperor bloodline, unnamed blood-colored energy techniques, and extensive practical knowledge. His demonstrated strength makes him the Zhu expedition's primary direct combatant, while his limited consciousness is a clearly stated weakness rather than a general measure of his cultivation.

Light Shaking cultivation and Demonic Emperor bloodline

Baiyu is introduced as the Zhu Clan's Sixth Pillar and a Light Shaking Realm existence. He can fly across long distances, exert Origin Energy through another person's entire body, move or restrain targets with gestures, and release force across a broad area. His Demonic Emperor bloodline gives him combat power beyond an ordinary cultivator of the same realm: after the Projection Void collapses, he fights five-Lotus-Platform Pall on apparently even terms. The corpus never states Baiyu's own number of Lotus Platforms, later realm, or the formal name of his particular bloodline branch. (Chapters 517, 523, 538, 542, and 553)

The same strength does not make every engagement effortless. Baiyu and Shi Mingfeng together stop Pall's sandstorm, but Pall initially matches their combined attack, and the intervention of a second Light Shaking opponent puts both humans under pressure. During the retreat, one enemy of his own realm can occupy Baiyu long enough to prevent him from immediately protecting the ground party. With medicines from Su Chen, he later helps eliminate Pall's remaining elites and captures a Light Shaking target alive. These encounters establish high combat effectiveness without making him categorically superior to every cultivator at his realm. (Chapters 545, 557, and 560–561)

Blood-colored energy and finger strike

Baiyu manifests blood-colored energy as both defense and large-scale resistance. It meets the Darkness Demon's corrosive dark wave and clashes with it strongly enough to threaten everything nearby. Against Pall, the same colored glow intertwines with Shi Mingfeng's rain and stops an expanding sandstorm. The scenes associate the power with Baiyu and immediately emphasize his Demonic Emperor bloodline, but they do not give the energy a technique name, activation cost, range, or independent explanation. (Chapters 541 and 545)

His clearest focused attack is an unnamed finger jab against the Darkness Demon. The strike carries the bewitching aura of the Heavenly Fox and the power of a Demonic Emperor, explodes in brilliant light on contact, breaks a massive darkness lance back into fog, and corrodes the demon until it shrinks. This resembles the Zhu Clan's bloodline-based finger arts, but the chapter does not call Baiyu's version Heavenly Fox Finger or establish that its effect on other targets is identical. Its performance is therefore confirmed only against Heath's darkness-based body. (Chapter 541)

Force projection, restraint, and control

Baiyu can translate his cultivation into precise physical control. He grabs Culler by the throat before the man can resist, channels Origin Energy through the captive's body, and binds him for a portal test. A later gesture sweeps several Sand Race captives through the opening at once. Within the Projection Void, he raises a hand to pull the fleeing Mair backward into his firm grasp, and he holds another captive immobile during a blood sacrifice. None of these applications receives a separate technique name. (Chapters 537–540)

He also releases a massive shockwave when Shi Mingfeng's suspended raindrops threaten to reach him. The wave repels the rain and lets Baiyu redirect an interrupted attack away from Su Chen. These feats show both area force and fine restraint rather than only close-range strength. Their limits are demonstrated by peers: Shi's rain still produces enough pressure to demand Baiyu's full attention, and Light Shaking Sand Race opponents can hold him in direct engagements. (Chapters 542, 545, and 557)

Consciousness and spatial knowledge

Baiyu's natural consciousness power is only about one hundred units despite his cultivation realm. The narrative explains that his bloodline branch lacks the charm abilities associated with Xianyao's branch and that he has never deliberately cultivated consciousness. He therefore cannot personally meet Kapius's extreme threshold and must acquire external resources. His twenty-day journey produces the tools that let the group amplify Su Chen instead, demonstrating logistical effectiveness rather than an innate consciousness technique. (Chapters 523 and 536–537)

His knowledge is stronger than that raw statistic suggests. Baiyu recognizes a Projection Void, explains that it is a real projection with its own rules, identifies conscious projections of objects as Inanimate Spirits, and correctly warns the group not to apply ordinary assumptions. He also detects Su Chen's impersonation through resource-use logic instead of a supernatural perception skill. The source does not show an ability that directly sees through disguises, and no later chapter records improvement to his consciousness score or defenses. (Chapters 538–542)

Tactical judgment and field leadership

Baiyu operates as a negotiator, security checker, scout, expedition guide, and combat coordinator. He searches for surveillance, inspects participants, improvises cover stories, restrains frustrated subordinates, and obtains specialized equipment under a severe deadline. In danger he orders weaker members back, uses captives to reduce uncertainty, and accepts concentrated attacks on a single target when Su Chen explains their tactical value. These are trained judgments rather than named Origin Skills, but they repeatedly determine whether the expedition can continue. (Chapters 515–523, 536–541, and 557–560)

His judgment remains fallible. Su Chen passes his security checks, He Xu's false testimony redirects his suspicion, the animated broom misleads the party into activating an evil ritual, and his anger at the Immortal Temple initially overlooks that the Zhu Clan stole its information first. Baiyu's strength is not omniscience but correction: once new evidence appears, he can abandon a bad premise, negotiate with an enemy, or accept a dangerous ally's sound reasoning. That adaptability becomes essential to surviving Pall's pursuit and securing the later bloodline research agreement. (Chapters 519, 521, 540, 543–545, and 560–567)

Relationships

• Zhu Xianyao: Xianyao calls Baiyu “Sixth Uncle,” while he acts as her senior protector, adviser, and principal fighter during the West Laina expedition. He follows her operational signals but challenges or worries over decisions that expose her to danger. Baiyu recognizes her attachment to Su Chen before she openly confirms it and ultimately reports her wish to remain for bloodline research rather than forcing her immediate return. (Chapters 515–567)
• Su Chen: Baiyu first knows Su Chen as a disguised You Tianyang and treats him kindly while unknowingly permitting his infiltration. He deduces the substitution from the misuse of consciousness resources, confronts him, and reluctantly accepts an alliance against Pall. Shared battles, Su Chen's tactical judgment, and the offer to strengthen the Zhu bloodline turn suspicion into pragmatic cooperation; Baiyu later serves as the messenger through whom Su's research and relationship with Xianyao receive clan approval. (Chapters 517–567)
• Shi Mingfeng: Baiyu and Shi begin as enemies with blood debts between their organizations. Shi blocks Baiyu from attacking Su Chen, then forces him to reconsider who originally stole the information about Kapius's stores. They subsequently fight as an effective Light Shaking pair against Pall and his forces, scout together, and each capture a high-level opponent alive before their temporary alliance ends peacefully. (Chapters 542–561)
• Pall: Pall is Baiyu's negotiation counterpart and principal battlefield enemy. Each recognizes the other's attempt at deception: Baiyu helps invent reasons for the Zhu presence, while Pall allows the search to proceed so he can seize the result. Their conflict culminates in repeated battles in which Baiyu's Demonic Emperor bloodline offsets Pall's five Lotus Platforms until the combined human force destroys the Sand Race pursuit. (Chapters 515–545 and 553–561)
• You Tianyang: Baiyu is initially considerate toward the man he believes to be You Tianyang and interprets his behavior as sincere love for Xianyao. After the real Tianyang returns and she rejects him, Baiyu pats his shoulder and explains that affection cannot be forced or reduced to physical appearance. His sympathy does not lead him to pressure Xianyao into accepting the proposed match. (Chapters 518–519 and 554–555)
• He Xu: Baiyu captures He Xu after the Immortal Temple operative is exposed and participates in his interrogation. He Xu's controlled testimony successfully convinces Baiyu's party that Zhu Xianling is behind the attack, illustrating a failure in the expedition's counterintelligence despite Baiyu's caution. Their later interests briefly align against Pall, but the corpus does not establish a lasting personal relationship. (Chapters 516–523 and 553)
• Zhao Jingwen: Zhao is the captain of Xianyao's guards and one of Baiyu's regular Zhu Clan partners throughout the expedition. They jointly secure captives, protect Xianyao, fight through the retreat, and finally escort her away from Su Chen after the research concludes. The text presents them as colleagues within the same command structure rather than close personal confidants. (Chapters 517–567)

Items

The finalized item inventory for Zhu Baiyu contains no entries. He procures and transports several consciousness-enhancing tools for the West Laina expedition, but the corpus treats them as mission resources used to open Kapius's cache rather than as persistent signature possessions.