Long Hai

Long Hai is a True Morning Dao World progenitor who entered the Fifth Kiln and was presumed dead for ten thousand years. The kiln's giant tree instead kept him as a puppet. After Su Ming releases his Nascent Divinity, Long Hai swears a ten-thousand-year service oath and becomes a soul within the Xuan Family's supreme treasure, but his loyalty lasts only until he judges survival impossible.

Biography

Divine Essence and Ecang

Long Hai had once guarded the Barren Lands of Divine Essence for True Morning Dao World. His soul point shattered after he entered the Fifth Kiln, convincing outsiders that he had died. Su Ming's party discovers that he survived in captivity: roots have fused with his feet, and a giant tree commands his body as a cultivated puppet. The tree uses his Mastery Realm strength against intruders, while his body has been nourished for millennia and coveted by other powerful beings. (Chapters 985–987)

When Su Ming temporarily interrupts the tree's control, Long Hai acts quickly to secure freedom. He swears on his fate to serve Su Ming and protect him for ten thousand years if rescued. Su Ming forces the tree to release Long Hai's Nascent Divinity, which then becomes the seventh soul supporting the Xuan Family's supreme-treasure body. This arrangement restores Long Hai's agency but leaves him without his independent physical body; the oath is enforced by the universe rather than by direct puppetry. (Chapters 988–998)

The Fifth Furnace and Morning Dao

Long Hai initially remains with the combined body, lending experience and power as the group moves among the kiln's dimensions. His age and cunning let him anticipate that Su Ming can follow through their oath-bound connection, and his desire for rare opportunities—including God Ascension Nectar—coexists with evident fear of stronger opponents. (Chapters 1001–1026)

That fear decides his allegiance. Faced with a Life Realm threat he believes the group cannot survive, Long Hai chooses escape and abandons his promised service, asking Reng Wu for a path out. Later reports associate him with spreading news of what occurred. He remains alive at the last mention, but his retreat exposes the ten-thousand-year vow as a bargain subordinate to self-preservation. (Chapters 1027, 1083–1085)

Appearance and personality

In captivity, Long Hai appears as an aged cultivator with tree branches fused into his feet, suspended like a puppet on strings. After his release, his active existence is primarily a Nascent Divinity housed in the Xuan supreme treasure. He is observant, farsighted, and opportunistic: he can recognize Su Ming's hidden advantages and make a binding bargain under pressure, yet he is sufficiently pragmatic to desert when the danger exceeds his confidence.

Abilities and cultivation

Mastery Realm cultivation

Long Hai is identified as an Almighty Master of Fate, Lives, and Death and produces the pressure of the Mastery Realm. His cultivation makes him the strongest of the tree's captives, but it does not prevent ten thousand years of imprisonment. His later existence as a disembodied Nascent Divinity and component soul also limits the independence with which that cultivation can be expressed. (Chapters 985–998)

Green dragon and axe manifestations

While controlled by the tree, Long Hai raises a green-dragon shadow from his palm and sends it against Flame Fiends' Progenitor. The same battle includes an axe formed from three thousand leaves, although the tree supplies and directs the arboreal component; the scene therefore does not establish the leaf technique as Long Hai's independent art. His demonstrated attacks are powerful enough to participate in a Mastery Realm clash but not to break his controller's hold. (Chapter 986)

Supreme-treasure soul

After liberation, Long Hai's Nascent Divinity joins the Xuan Family supreme treasure as its seventh soul. This grants the constructed body another powerful contributor and preserves Long Hai without a fleshly body. The power is collective and equipment-mediated: he is neither the sole controller nor shown permanently possessing the construct, and he later leaves the group's cause when survival becomes doubtful. (Chapters 993–1027)

Relationships

• Su Ming: Liberator and temporary master under a fate-bound promise. Long Hai respects his hidden power but ultimately places survival above the oath.
• Xu Hui: Recognizes Long Hai when the group discovers him and later shares the supreme-treasure body with his Nascent Divinity.
• Xuan Shang: Long Hai becomes one of the souls sustaining his family's collective construct.

Items

• Xuan Family supreme treasure: Temporarily houses Long Hai's Nascent Divinity as its seventh soul. It is collective equipment, not his personal possession.