Beiling

Beiling is a Great Leaf Immortal Sect prodigy whose appearance was used in the constructed Dark Mountain past as the model for Bei Ling. The two names have the same pronunciation in translation but are written differently and refer to canonically distinct people. Beiling first descends into South Morning with Chenxin, oppresses the surviving Berserkers at Freezing Sky, and later confronts Su Ming through a Divine Clone. His real self rises to command a vast Immortals' Union force, yet remains unable to overcome Su Ming when they meet again. (Chapters 571–580, 619–715, 1057–1058)

Biography

The Immortal behind a borrowed familiar face

Beiling arrives near Freezing Sky Clan with Chenxin after the Berserkers' Disaster. Their Great Leaf Immortal Sect expects little resistance because Di Tian's projection has died and its own missing elder appears to have met with disaster. Beiling treats the ruined land as the site of an Immortal trial and uses his advantage over its survivors to occupy and humiliate them. His confidence rests on sect power and on belonging to the group of elite descendants sent to search for the second God of Berserkers' sealed limbs and the opportunity expected to emerge from the disaster. (Chapters 571–572)

His face creates a more personal crisis for Su Ming. Beiling resembles the older brother Su Ming remembers from Dark Mountain, but Su Ming refuses to let that resemblance replace the distinction between them: he names the man before him Beiling, not Bei Ling. The confrontation helps Su Ming understand that real Immortal prodigies supplied models for people in his manufactured past. Once Su Ming breaks Beiling's oppression, the displaced Berserkers return to the ninth summit and receive a home there, reversing the order Beiling tried to impose. (Chapters 577–580)

Divine Clones and the South Morning conflict

The Immortal sects' expedition reveals that the figures blending into Su Ming's Dark Mountain memories were Divine Clones sent into the land of the Berserkers. Beiling is one of those elite candidates, alongside prodigies from other sects, and his clone serves Great Leaf Immortal Sect's search and trial. When the clone attacks Su Ming with a black knife, Su Ming stops the weapon and shatters it, then kills the clone. The ease of that defeat shows that the familiar face and earlier authority no longer give Beiling leverage over him. (Chapters 619–645, 714)

Chenxin later explains that only Beiling's Divine Clone died and that his real self remains safe. As her own clone is destroyed for breaking its oath, she asks Su Ming not to blame Beiling because he is “no longer himself.” Her plea introduces a limit to how completely Beiling's choices can be separated from sect control, but it does not absolve his oppression or attack. The immediate consequence is survival at a distance: his projection is gone, while the person behind it continues elsewhere. (Chapters 714–715)

Command of the Immortals' Union and defeat by Su Ming

Beiling's real self later appears in the galaxy at the head of tens of thousands of Immortals' Union cultivators. He has reached the later stage of the World Plane Realm and stands just short of great completion, giving him genuine command authority and power far beyond that of his South Morning manifestation. Even so, meeting Su Ming's gaze makes him pale and stagger; he must erupt with his cultivation merely to steady himself. The encounter makes the distance between their later paths unmistakable before either launches an attack. (Chapter 1057)

Beiling orders subordinates to use Sun Destroying Lightnings, then draws the ordinary-looking longbow on his back. Its released arrow multiplies into a rain of one hundred thousand, but Su Ming walks through without injury, seizes the bow, and throws Beiling away rather than killing him. Beiling protests because the weapon carries special meaning, yet recognizes that continued resistance is hopeless. He tears apart a jade slip and escapes the battlefield. His last direct state is therefore alive and still highly cultivated, but stripped of the object linking him to Su Ming's Dark Mountain memory and decisively outmatched. (Chapters 1057–1058)

Appearance and personality

Beiling is first striking because he looks like an older, more mature version of Bei Ling from Dark Mountain. That resemblance is intentional within the story's construction, but it is not identity: Su Ming explicitly separates the two. In the later galactic encounter, Beiling carries a longbow on his back and stands before a massed army as a mature commander. His paling face and involuntary retreat under Su Ming's gaze visibly betray fear beneath the authority of his office. (Chapters 571–580, 1057)

Arrogance and a strong sense of rank characterize his South Morning conduct. He expects weakened Berserkers to offer little resistance and uses his superior position harshly. He is also cautious toward exceptional rivals such as Ye Wang, showing that his confidence is calculating rather than blind. Later, pride remains in his refusal to surrender the bow willingly, but survival wins: after measuring Su Ming's strength, he retreats instead of turning wounded pride into certain death. (Chapters 571–580, 1057–1058)

Abilities and cultivation

Beiling's innate talent is established by his selection as one of the Immortal sects' foremost prodigies. Great Leaf Immortal Sect entrusts him with descent into the Berserker lands and the search connected to the second God of Berserkers, tasks reserved for candidates expected to compete for a greater opportunity. The text does not detail his early foundation or every formal advancement, so his prodigy status should not be translated into an exact early realm. (Chapters 571–572, 619)

His Divine Clone is a learned or sect-enabled extension that can operate independently in South Morning while preserving the real self. It can wield a black knife and attack with lethal intent, but its existence is a major limitation as well as protection: destroying the clone does not kill the true body, yet the clone's power is insufficient against Su Ming and its loss ends Beiling's direct influence there. Chenxin's fate also shows that the clones are bound by oaths whose violation can scatter them. (Chapters 714–715)

By the Fifth Furnace era, the real Beiling is directly identified at the later stage of the World Plane Realm, close to great completion. He can release enough World Plane power to stabilize himself under Su Ming's gaze and commands tens of thousands of cultivators. His bow technique turns one arrow into one hundred thousand, providing wide-area saturation against groups. Against Su Ming, however, every arrow rebounds without causing even a minor wound; the technique's multiplicity cannot compensate for the difference in their realms. (Chapters 1057–1058)

Beiling also uses forces and equipment under his command. He orders two subordinates to throw Sun Destroying Lightnings, but Su Ming kills the wielders before their attack changes the battle. These lightnings belong to the formation's resources rather than a demonstrated innate power of Beiling. His escape by breaking a jade slip is similarly item-derived and apparently single-use: it removes him from danger, but only after he abandons the fight and loses the bow. (Chapters 1057–1058)

Relationships

• Su Ming: Beiling's face recalls someone Su Ming once respected, but Su Ming insists on the distinction and defeats both his clone and real self. He spares the real Beiling while reclaiming the bow associated with Dark Mountain. (Chapters 577–580, 714–715, 1057–1058)
• Bei Ling: Bei Ling is the person from Su Ming's Dark Mountain memories, whereas Beiling is the Great Leaf Immortal whose appearance informed that constructed role. They must not be merged despite the identical pronunciation of their translated names. (Chapters 571–580)
• Chenxin: Chenxin accompanies Beiling and addresses him as an older brother. Her Divine Clone later asks Su Ming not to blame him and says Beiling is no longer himself, indicating loyalty and knowledge of pressures acting on his real self. (Chapters 571–572, 715)
• Great Leaf Immortal Sect and the Immortals' Union: The sect gives Beiling his original mission and elite standing; later he commands a massive Union force. Those institutions amplify his reach, but their numbers and weapons cannot protect him from Su Ming. (Chapters 571–572, 1057–1058)
• Ye Wang: Beiling regards the Justice Heaven Dao prodigy with caution during the Immortals' trial, evidence that even among favored candidates he recognizes dangerous competition. (Chapter 572)

Items

• Longbow: An outwardly ordinary bow carried by Beiling's real self. It has deep personal meaning and corresponds to the bow associated with Dark Mountain's Head of the Guards. Beiling uses it to multiply one shot into one hundred thousand arrows, but Su Ming is unharmed and takes it, saying it does not belong to Beiling. (Chapters 1057–1058)
• Black knife: A weapon used by Beiling's Divine Clone against Su Ming in South Morning. Su Ming freezes or stops its attack and shatters it before killing the clone. It is not shown returning to the real self. (Chapter 714)
• Escape jade slip: Beiling tears the slip apart to disappear from the galaxy after losing the bow. Its demonstrated function is emergency escape; no reusable charge or broader travel mechanism is established. (Chapter 1058)
• Sun Destroying Lightnings: Powerful consumables deployed by Beiling's subordinates on his order. They are assets of his force, not confirmed personal possessions, and Su Ming eliminates their wielders before they decide the confrontation. (Chapters 1057–1058)