Nan Gong Hen

Nan Gong Hen is a Shaman Spirit Medium who becomes Su Ming's traveling companion and later the leader of the Fated Kin. His importance comes less from personal rivalry than from organization: he recognizes Su Ming's judgment, rallies stranded Shamans around the identity of Fated Kin, establishes their home, and preserves their loyalty for more than a thousand years. (Chapters 422–503, 662–719, 1236–1373)

Biography

From wary companion to Fated Kin leader

Nan Gong Hen meets Su Ming after the forest outside Shaman City changes and forces him to continue on foot. Realizing that Su Ming anticipated dangers he missed, Nan Gong Hen approaches politely, proposes that their groups travel together, and gives him a detailed territorial map. He also uses his violet spirit eyes and surrounding ghosts to scout. The alliance is practical—each man has knowledge or power the other needs—but Nan Gong Hen's caution quickly becomes respect. (Chapter 422)

In the collapsing World of Nine Yin, Nan Gong Hen helps turn the stranded Shamans into Fated Kin. At the relocation point he names Sky River Mountain as their gathering place and declares Su Ming the respected senior they will worship. His farewell is a commitment rather than flattery: he promises that their descendants will remember the kindness that allowed them to live. This public vow gives a scattered people a common identity, destination, and benefactor. (Chapter 503)

Building a home in South Morning

When Su Ming's call reaches him years later, Nan Gong Hen leaves a master who treated him well because his older oath takes precedence. He leads the Fated Kin to Eastern Wastelands Tower, protects Su Ming during his altered state, and offers the whole group for the dangerous advance. Su Ming refuses to sacrifice them, then gives them the former Great Leaf territory as a homeland. Under Nan Gong Hen, they reshape it into terrain suited to Yin Death power and develop their own vessels and arts. (Chapters 662, 705–719)

Nan Gong Hen's contribution is institutional. He turns zealous gratitude into a functioning community and gives the Fated Kin continuity after the older Great Yu order has passed. His leadership remains subordinate to Su Ming's symbolic role as respected senior and God of Berserkers, but it is Nan Gong Hen who organizes settlement and carries that devotion across generations. (Chapters 705–719)

Return of the God of Berserkers and the dying aeon

More than a thousand years later, Nan Gong Hen is an old, white-haired tribe leader who has remained in seclusion. The instant he senses Su Ming's presence, he smiles for the first time in that long period and rushes toward the Berserkers' holy land, calling the returning presence that of their benefactor and Progenitor. His response fulfills the promise made in the World of Nine Yin: time has changed him, but not the Fated Kin's allegiance. (Chapter 1236)

Near the end of the aeon, Nan Gong Hen leads the gathered Berserkers to Su Ming's wooden house and kneels with them before the River of Forgetfulness. He calls for the people to send off their God. This final communal duty cannot save him from Xuan Zang's intervention; his face is among those replaced when the preserved world and River are shattered, reducing him and the civilization he led to memory. (Chapters 1357, 1373)

Appearance and personality

Nan Gong Hen first appears as a capable middle-aged man left in a sorry state by the changing forest. By his late appearance he is an old man with white hair and bright, energetic eyes. His bearing remains that of a leader: composed in public, courteous toward strength, and capable of turning intense conviction into collective action. (Chapters 422, 1236)

He is pragmatic before he is devotional. Nan Gong Hen does not trust Su Ming blindly at their meeting; he observes that “luck” cannot explain the escape, offers mutually useful cooperation, and supplies a map. Once Su Ming proves himself, that judgment becomes lasting gratitude. He values promises over comfort, leaving a generous master when Su Ming calls and spending his life giving the Fated Kin a home and shared purpose. (Chapters 422–503, 662–719)

Abilities and cultivation

Spirit Medium cultivation. Nan Gong Hen is explicitly a Spirit Medium. By wiping his brow he manifests violet eyes that blink seven times, releases multiple spirits from his body, and forms a scouting vortex tens of thousands of feet across. The ability expands perception and helps detect danger; it does not make him omniscient, as the transformed forest still catches him off guard. (Chapter 422)

Flight and transport. He can fly, carry younger companions through the air, and travel as a long arc over great distances. These are established cultivation applications, but no exact realm or formal advancement is given. His late ability to leave the seabed and rapidly answer Su Ming shows continued power without identifying a new stage. (Chapters 422, 662, 1236)

Leadership and Fated Kin forces. Nan Gong Hen commands hundreds and eventually vast numbers of Fated Kin and Berserkers. Their icy defensive arts, unique vessels, and homeland infrastructure magnify what he can accomplish, but they are collective resources rather than his innate techniques. His authority depends on the people's trust and their shared devotion to Su Ming. (Chapters 705–719, 1357)

No source-confirmed formal progression sequence is shown. At his latest state he is still active and respected immediately before erasure, but the destruction of Su Ming's world overcomes him without a personal contest. (Chapters 1236–1373)

Relationships

Su Ming. Nan Gong Hen begins as a wary peer traveling with “Mo Su,” then becomes his follower and the organizer of a people who worship him. Su Ming's rescue and protection create the debt; Nan Gong Hen repays it through settlement, military support, and remembrance across generations. (Chapters 422–503, 662–719, 1236–1357)

The Fated Kin. Nan Gong Hen gives the stranded Shamans their new name, gathering place, and enduring vow. As tribe leader he converts survivors into a distinct people and guides them from the World of Nine Yin to a permanent South Morning homeland. Their collective kneeling at the end shows that his leadership successfully transmitted their origin story. (Chapters 503, 662–719, 1236–1357)

Lan Lan and Ahu. He meets the young pair while they travel under Su Ming's protection and helps carry the group toward Shaman City. His polite reading of the tension between them and Su Ming demonstrates social awareness, though he does not become their primary guardian. (Chapter 422)

Items

Territorial map slip. Nan Gong Hen gives Su Ming a wooden slip containing a detailed map of a million-li region around Shaman City. It has no stated offensive power, but it provides the local knowledge Su Ming lacks and cements their first alliance. (Chapter 422)

Fated Kin vessels. Under Nan Gong Hen's leadership, the Fated Kin plan and build specialized enchanted vessels, including a gigantic bow, suited to their Yin Death homeland. They belong to the community rather than Nan Gong Hen personally. (Chapter 719)