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Golden Thread Sacred Bat

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The Golden Thread Sacred Bat leads a mass attack on the weakened Shaman survivors in the World of Nine Yin. Stronger than the previous Golden Thread seen there, he tries to seize an altar and gather slain outsiders as offerings, but Su Ming overwhelms his followers and turns the Sacred Bats' own moon worship against him.

Biography

The Shamans and the World of Nine Yin

After fifteen years of attrition, the Shamans have lost most of their powerful warriors and fear the Sacred Bats deeply. The Golden Thread leader descends with hundreds of his kind, harvesting the souls, blood, and flesh of the dead while seeking control of the altar. Su Ming interrupts the massacre, disperses the leader's palm with one finger, and kills Violet Threads so easily that the rest recoil. The Golden Thread Bat attempts to retreat behind threats about his race's power, then abandons his kin and flees when a dying Shaman asks Su Ming to kill them. (Chapters 484–486)

Su Ming catches him and breaks through wing shields, a blood-formed bat, ripples, and a golden scimitar. The wounded leader casts his strongest inherited techniques: feathers become golden rays, a huge origin monument bears down as defense, and he burns blood while bowing to the moon progenitor. These measures consume blood and life force, yet Su Ming performs a more authentic version of the same moon Art. Shock and Su Ming's divine-sense interrogation break the Sacred Bat's will, drawing out references to Eternal Li Mountain before Su Ming kills him. A later comparison confirms that Su Ming had not needed his full power for the victory. (Chapters 487–493)

Appearance and personality

The creature has wings that can fold into a shield and golden feathers whose shedding becomes an attack. He speaks in a sharp, aloof voice and initially treats outsiders with contempt. Once confronted by superior power, pride becomes fear, bluffing, flight, and finally mental collapse. He is ruthless toward outsiders and opportunistic toward his own followers, abandoning them when survival demands it.

Abilities and cultivation

His realm is not named. Innately, he can fly, shield himself with his wings, shed golden feathers as projectiles, and use blood to form an attacking golden bat. Learned Sacred Bat Arts include ripples shaped like an evil face, the mountain-bearing Eternal Autumn Rain that manifests a thousand-foot origin monument, and worship of the moon. Moon worship is restricted to Golden Thread direct inheritors and borrows power from the moon progenitor; burning blood is a stronger method normally taught only to the Great Elder and chief. Its costs are severe: one bow leaves him unable to endure comfortably and erupts violet fire from his body, while repeated wounds and blood use drain life force. None can match Su Ming's version, and the monument merely consumes part of Su Ming's whirlwind before shattering. (Chapters 487–488)

Relationships

  • Su Ming: The bat first regards him as prey or obstacle, then fears him as a superior bearer of the moon Art. Su Ming defeats, interrogates, and kills him. (Chapters 484–493)
  • Sacred Bats: He commands Golden, Violet, and lesser Threads during the massacre but deserts surviving followers when threatened. (Chapters 484–487)
  • Moon progenitor: He worships this ancestral figure and must borrow its power for his strongest Art; his knowledge is inherited and incomplete. (Chapter 488)

Items

  • Spherical golden scimitar: A summoned weapon that releases golden light during the Bat's hurried defense. It does not stop Su Ming's finger strike. (Chapter 487)
  • Origin stone monument: Manifested by the mountain-bearing Art rather than shown as a carried artifact. It absorbs part of Su Ming's whirlwind but cracks and shatters. (Chapter 487)