Bai Su

Bai Su is a Freezing Sky Clan disciple whose resemblance to Bai Ling draws her into the conflict between Su Ming and Si Ma Xin. She initially approaches Su Ming on Si Ma Xin's behalf, intending to exploit that resemblance so Si Ma Xin can plant a Heartless Berserker Seed in him. Daily visits to the Ninth Summit instead give her a life beyond Si Ma Xin's manipulation: she learns drawing from Su Ming, becomes attached to him and the summit, and eventually recognizes how completely her former affection was being used. (Chapters 240–319)

Her final choice completes that reversal. When Morning Dao's forces attack the Ninth Summit, Bai Su refuses to retreat and self-destructs against a Dao Slave to protect Su Ming, leaving only a piece of white fabric. The body that dies is later identified as a projection rather than her ultimate self; a matching woman exists on Osmanthus Planet in True Morning Dao World, and Su Ming comes to understand Bai Ling, Bai Su, and a Phoenix Sect Sacred Lady as linked incarnational stages. A separate mortal Bai Su in Harmonious Morus Alba is another counterpart, not the return of the woman who lived on the Ninth Summit. (Chapters 736–746, 821, 939, 1261–1262)

Biography

Si Ma Xin's intended weapon

Bai Su enters Freezing Sky Clan's conflict with firm loyalty to Si Ma Xin. She tells Su Ming to return what belongs to “big brother Si Ma” and condemns him for taking another person's property. Her hostility is sincere, but it has been cultivated: Si Ma Xin has encouraged her love because her father holds authority inside Heaven Gate, and he wants her influence to open Freezing Sky Cave. When he notices that her face unsettles Su Ming, he devises a second use for her—to make her the emotional hook through which the Great Art of Heartless Berserker Seed can take root. (Chapters 240–246)

Bai Su agrees to visit the Ninth Summit because she believes the plan will save Si Ma Xin from danger in Freezing Sky Cave. She declares that Su Ming cannot avoid the pain caused by the woman in his memories and insists that she will return every day even if he drives her away. Su Ming sees the trap and initially treats her as the battlefield on which Si Ma Xin has chosen to fight him. Yet he also knows that simply killing or rejecting her would make her another victim of the struggle, so he allows her to stay and asks what she actually wants to learn. (Chapters 252–255)

She chooses drawing. At first, her lessons are an instrument: every improvement in her posture, dress, expression, and wild beauty makes her more like Bai Ling and presses harder on Su Ming's old wound. Bai Su even recreates the fur clothes, red hair tie, braids, and forehead ornaments she sees in a dream so that her disguise becomes nearly exact. The effect is not one-sided, however. Su Ming notices the curled little finger she hides from everyone, treats it rather than treating her as a substitute face, and makes her confront the difference between imitating another woman and being herself. (Chapters 255–280)

Becoming herself on the Ninth Summit

Repeated contact changes Bai Su's purpose. She moves from solemn determination to spoiled, lively teasing, enjoys provoking Su Ming with her drawings, and gradually thinks of Si Ma Xin less often. When Si Ma Xin summons her, his familiar charm no longer produces uncomplicated warmth; she pulls her hand away, feels that she should not be there, and finds Su Ming entering her thoughts. Although she has already persuaded her father to grant Si Ma Xin access to Freezing Sky Cave, she interrupts him and leaves exhausted, while his private fury reveals the possessiveness beneath his gentle manner. (Chapters 280–282)

Bai Su also becomes useful to the summit on her own terms. She shares knowledge of Northern Frontier Tribe's customs, accompanies Su Ming and Hu Zi into danger, and returns after periods of doubt rather than abandoning the relationship. Her mediocre cultivation potential does not prevent her from showing courage, but it does keep her dependent on stronger companions in direct confrontation. The connection that began as deception becomes a genuine routine in which she can be wilful, embarrassed, happy, or uncertain without performing Bai Ling for Si Ma Xin's scheme. (Chapters 282–296)

The conflict reaches its personal conclusion when Bai Su understands that Si Ma Xin's care was a means to Heaven Gate and his Berserker art. Her father, Bai Chang Zai, removes her from the immediate struggle and sends the injured Si Ma Xin into Freezing Sky Cave, where survival will determine whether he is fit even to serve her. Bai Su admits that she has come to hate Si Ma Xin, but she also looks back toward the Ninth Summit with regret and well wishes, wishing she could begin again. She has escaped his hold, though the emotional damage and her uncertainty about Su Ming remain. (Chapter 319)

Separation, return, and the Bai family's fate

Bai Su does not accompany Su Ming through the World of Nine Yin. Her importance in this phase is measured through absence: Su Ming remembers her as one of the women who left the deepest impression on him, but also believes she did not take the route back that he made available. His refusal to pursue her reflects his larger fear of emotional bonds, while her absence prevents the affection born on the Ninth Summit from becoming a settled partnership. (Chapters 455–523)

When they meet again after Su Ming returns to the land of Berserkers, Bai Su quietly wipes his tears as he emerges from a painful confrontation with the unreliability of Dark Mountain. She watches his Life Cultivation presence spread and remains on the Ninth Summit when he later departs. By then she understands that she loves him and that separation has engraved the feeling more deeply, but she does not demand an answer. Her restraint is tied to the Bai family's inherited Principles of Life: she knows their lineage is said to be fated to solitude, even though she has not practiced the strange art contained in the family's black wooden block. (Chapters 577–578)

This stage therefore develops Bai Su without resolving her future. She has rejected Si Ma Xin and found a home among people she chose, but Su Ming continues onward and she believes her family inheritance may make lasting companionship impossible. Her decision to remain at the Ninth Summit becomes crucial later, because it places her among the people who defend it when the Immortals arrive. (Chapters 523, 577–578)

The Ninth Summit's last defense

Years later, Bai Su greets Su Ming on his return in a purple gauze dress, then quietly assesses Yu Xuan, whose place beside him awakens jealousy in both women. The tension is gentle rather than hostile: they exchange smiles, share the summit's domestic life, and even laugh together over Hu Zi's embarrassing illustrated beast skin. These scenes show what Bai Su gained after her initial visits—membership in a household where she can be playful rather than a pawn positioned between two men. (Chapters 723–725)

When Morning Dao's ship attacks, Bai Su refuses to leave with the people who might save themselves. She remains silent among the summit's defenders, but her presence states that she is prepared to die there; she thinks that falling in battle beside Su Ming would leave her with few regrets. As Su Ming tries to hold the dying Yu Xuan and a Dao Slave closes in, Bai Su steps from the distortions behind him, smiles with the wild beauty that once made her resemble Bai Ling, and self-destructs. Her last words—“I can, too”—make her death an assertion of equal agency: she too can choose whom and what she will protect. (Chapters 735–741)

The blast leaves a single piece of white fabric. Su Ming cannot seize it without releasing Yu Xuan, but after his own body is destroyed his remaining hand catches the cloth. He later buries it outside his sunken cave as Bai Su's grave. Her death intensifies his hatred of the Immortals and his anguish over being made to watch those around him disappear; when he later names his first change of heart, he identifies it with his affection for Bai Su and ties a grass doll in the image of her turning back with a smile. (Chapters 741–762)

The real self behind the projection

During the battle, the souls within Su Ming reveal that Bai Su's destroyed body was not an ordinary Berserker body. Her soul was a projection, and they show him a matching woman in white inside a distant cultivation world's tower. On Osmanthus Planet, that external self plays a zither and experiences Bai Su's life as a strange dream filled with Su Ming's laughter and grief. This revelation preserves the reality of the projection's feelings and sacrifice while separating them from the continued bodily existence of the cultivator who cast or sustained it. (Chapters 741–742, 821)

Su Ming later recognizes a larger pattern: Bai Ling in youth, Bai Su in adulthood, and a Phoenix Sect Sacred Lady in an ancient phase are connected incarnations or projections within an obsession woven across a thousand years. He does not confuse their immediate personalities—he can explicitly distinguish Bai Ling from Bai Su—but understands that they arise from one deeper external design. Bai Su's death remains meaningful because the consciousness that lived with the Ninth Summit made her own final decision, even if the true body survives elsewhere. (Chapter 939)

The Fifth Furnace period contains no new action by Bai Su. Instead, Su Ming recalls failing to catch her as he falls into another abyss, pairing the unreachable cloth with other loved ones he could not save. Her role in this arc is memory: the cost of his earlier avoidance and a lasting measure of the pain that follows him beyond the land of Berserkers. (Chapter 1007)

A mortal counterpart in Harmonious Morus Alba

In Harmonious Morus Alba, Qian Chen reports another Bai Su. She was a mortal woman from a great family on a cultivation planet in True Sky Hill World and would have died naturally more than a thousand years earlier. Her existence confirms that Bai Su, unlike people native only to Yin Death Vortex, has versions beyond Arid Triad. It does not make this mortal the Ninth Summit projection or the external cultivator seen on Osmanthus Planet. (Chapters 1261–1262)

Su Ming agrees to visit the place associated with her, but Qian Chen has deliberately used Bai Su's name to draw him there for help. Su Ming recognizes the maneuver and does not treat the dead mortal as a recovered lover. He aids a woman whose face somewhat resembles Bai Su by placing the Celestial Maiden's soul into her unborn child, then asks Qian Chen to state his real need directly. The episode closes Bai Su's supplied arc through echoes and counterparts rather than a literal resurrection. (Chapter 1262)

Appearance and personality

Bai Su is an exceptionally beautiful young woman whose face is almost identical to Bai Ling's and whose bearing has a pronounced wild quality. She commonly appears in white or purple and has long dark hair. While acting out Si Ma Xin's plan, she deliberately copies Bai Ling's fur clothing, beast-skin boots, red straw hair tie, side braids, and glittering forehead crystals. One small bodily detail distinguishes her from the idealized image: her right little finger is curled and cannot straighten, a vulnerability she hides even from Si Ma Xin. (Chapters 240–241, 273–280, 723, 741)

She begins proud, impulsive, and stubbornly loyal. Bai Su will return daily after being expelled, lift her chin when challenged, and commit herself to a dangerous scheme because she believes someone she loves needs her. Those same qualities allow her to change: once daily experience contradicts Si Ma Xin's cultivated image, she does not suppress the doubt forever. On the Ninth Summit she becomes mischievous, outspoken, easily embarrassed, and capable of warm domestic happiness. (Chapters 240–282, 723–725)

Bai Su's courage is emotional as much as martial. She acknowledges confusion rather than blaming Su Ming, accepts that her affection has changed, and remains at the Ninth Summit without assurance that Su Ming will reciprocate. Her last act is self-sacrifice, but it is not passive devotion: the wording and timing emphasize her determination to participate in the defense rather than merely be protected. The external real self is more aloof and dreamlike in her limited scene, so the projection's full personality should not automatically be assigned to that body. (Chapters 319, 577–578, 736–742, 821)

Abilities and cultivation

Berserker cultivation. Bai Su says she has only recently Awakened when she begins visiting the Ninth Summit. Other observers describe her potential as mediocre, and the supplied material does not show the stages by which she reached Awakening or a later formal advancement. She can travel with stronger Berserkers and endure danger, but she is not presented as their equal in direct combat. Her most destructive confirmed application is self-destruction, which converts her entire projected body and cultivation into an explosion; it is fatal to that projection and therefore cannot be treated as a repeatable attack. (Chapters 246, 254–255, 282–296, 741)

Bai family inheritance. Bai Su inherits the Principles of Life associated with the river in the sky. She knows the Bai family tradition predicts lifelong solitude and has heard about the strange art in a black wooden block, but she explicitly has not practiced that art. The corpus does not give her an on-page technique derived from these Principles, so the inheritance is a metaphysical and familial condition rather than a demonstrated combat power. (Chapters 577–578)

Projection existence. The Bai Su who cultivates as a Berserker is a soul projection connected to a real body in True Morning Dao World. This condition permits an externally existing cultivator to experience a life in the land of Berserkers, but its mechanics are not fully explained. Destruction of the projected body does not kill the external self; conversely, the real self experiences the projection's existence like a dream and is not shown controlling Bai Su moment by moment. Their power, memories, and cultivation levels should therefore remain distinct. (Chapters 741–742, 821, 939)

Drawing and observation. Bai Su learns drawing from Su Ming and uses repeated observation to reproduce expressions and details associated with Bai Ling. This is a learned artistic skill and part of the psychological contest, not a supernatural illusion art. It works because of her natural resemblance and deliberate costume, and its effect weakens as Su Ming learns to see Bai Su as an individual. (Chapters 255–296)

At her latest attributable state, the Ninth Summit projection remains deceased while the external real self has been shown alive earlier in True Morning Dao World. No later scene establishes that the real self inherits the projection's Awakening cultivation, memories in full, or relationships. The mortal Harmonious Morus Alba counterpart died in the ordinary course of time and is a separate version. (Chapters 821, 939, 1261–1262)

Relationships

Su Ming. Bai Su approaches him as Si Ma Xin's instrument and as a living reminder of Bai Ling. Their drawing lessons teach Su Ming to distinguish her from that memory and give Bai Su space to become herself. She falls in love with him, joins his home, and dies protecting him. Su Ming's avoidance leaves the relationship unresolved, but her death becomes one of his deepest regrets and the first change of heart he names in his cultivation. (Chapters 240–319, 523–578, 723–762, 1007)

Si Ma Xin. Si Ma Xin cultivates Bai Su's love to gain Heaven Gate access and later positions her as the hook for a Heartless Berserker Seed aimed at Su Ming. Bai Su initially calls him elder brother and risks herself for him, but daily life away from his influence reveals the manipulation. Her affection fades into unease and hatred; her father then punishes Si Ma Xin and removes Bai Su from his immediate control. (Chapters 240–319)

Bai Ling. Their identical faces first make Bai Su a trigger for Su Ming's memories. Bai Su consciously imitates Bai Ling, but Su Ming gradually recognizes the personal details that separate them. Later revelations identify Bai Ling and Bai Su as linked incarnational stages of an external obsession, without erasing their distinct lived personalities. (Chapters 240–296, 939)

Bai Chang Zai. Bai Su's father is an authority within Heaven Gate and treats her with open affection. His power makes her useful to Si Ma Xin, but it also provides protection when he recognizes the situation: he sends Si Ma Xin into Freezing Sky Cave under lethal conditions and takes his grieving daughter home. (Chapters 244, 319)

The Ninth Summit and Yu Xuan. The summit becomes Bai Su's chosen community. She shares its jokes and routines and later stands with its defenders. Yu Xuan's arrival creates mutual romantic appraisal, but not open enmity; the two exchange smiles and spend time together before both risk their lives in the same attack. (Chapters 577–578, 723–741)

Items

Drawing boards and pictures. Bai Su's lessons with Su Ming center on boards and images through which she first imitates Bai Ling and later expresses her own lively temperament. They carry emotional importance but no confirmed supernatural properties. (Chapters 243–319)

Red hair tie and copied clothing. Bai Su uses a red straw tie, fur clothing, beast-skin boots, braids, and forehead crystals to reproduce the girl she sees in a dream. These are costume elements in Si Ma Xin's psychological strategy, not enchanted equipment. (Chapters 273–282)

Black wooden block. This Bai family object contains a strange art connected to the lineage's Principles of Life. Bai Su knows of it but has not practiced the art, so the block is an inherited association rather than a source of her demonstrated abilities. (Chapter 578)

White fabric remnant. A piece of Bai Su's white clothing is all that remains after her projection self-destructs. Su Ming catches it after his own body is shattered, and the Bald Crane preserves it until he can bury it beside his underwater cave as her grave marker. It has no stated power; its significance is memorial. (Chapters 741–746)