Qi Bei Shan

Qi Bei Shan is a cautious but predatory Heaven Cultivator in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. His pursuit of Yue Hong Bang brings him into conflict with Su Ming, while the blue-stone cave abode and rare Soul Crystal he has accumulated make him a target worth confronting.

Biography

South Morning and the Immortal conflict

Qi Bei Shan first encounters Su Ming while chasing Yue Hong Bang. Like many survivors in the Barren Lands, he avoids a fight he cannot confidently win: he retreats, addresses Su Ming as senior, and offers a gift. Yue Hong Bang then explains that Qi Bei Shan killed his companions and possesses a cave abode built amid the blue stones Su Ming needs. When Su Ming's group comes for the stones, Qi Bei Shan seals himself behind a blood-red Rune powered by stored crystals. The Crimson Python Phoenix disintegrates the barrier, forcing him into direct flight and combat. (Chapters 754–756)

Qi Bei Shan manifests a black six-armed shadow to restrain Yue Hong Bang and sacrifices his own right arm to explode it when the bald crane begins devouring it. The crane responds by offering a rare spirit stone for his head, turning surrounding observers into pursuers. Cornered, Qi Bei Shan uses his life-bound Soul Crystal for the fatal third time and burns his soul to freeze the crowd and the Crimson Python Phoenix. He attacks Su Ming in a last attempt to strand Yue Hong Bang, but Su Ming reverses his sequence with Destiny until the crystal reaches eight colors. The Python then disintegrates Qi Bei Shan; he turns to ash with an expression of release, and Su Ming claims the crystal. (Chapters 756–757)

Divine Essence and Ecang

Centuries later, Qi Bei Shan's abandoned cave abode remains unoccupied and filled with blue stones accumulated under Su Ming's earlier arrangement with Yue Hong Bang. Its continued identification by its dead master's name is his only later legacy. (Chapter 853)

Appearance and personality

Qi Bei Shan is an old man. He initially presents a smiling, deferential caution, but this politeness is survival behavior rather than kindness: he has killed Yue Hong Bang's companions and plans revenge once escape becomes possible. When trapped, caution turns to malice and despair, though his final expression suggests relief when the struggle ends.

Abilities and cultivation

Qi Bei Shan is explicitly in the Heaven Cultivation Realm, below World Paragons but above Su Ming's displayed Earth Cultivation at the time. His learned Arts include a black six-armed shadow and a cave-defending blood Rune powered by crystals. The shadow can restrain an equal-realm enemy and be detonated with a matching bodily sacrifice; the Rune fails completely against the Crimson Python Phoenix. His Soul Crystal freezes nearby souls briefly, a tactically decisive but temporary effect. It is bound to his life: the third activation guarantees death, and burning his soul strengthens the effect but cannot overcome Su Ming's time reversal. (Chapters 755–757)

Relationships

• Yue Hong Bang: Their grudge drives the conflict. Qi Bei Shan kills Yue's companions and tries to ensure Yue will be helpless after his own death. (Chapters 754–757)
• Su Ming: Qi Bei Shan first avoids him, then fights desperately when Su Ming breaches his cave. Su Ming's Destiny Art traps him in repeated reversals before the Python kills him. (Chapters 754–757)
• Bald crane: The crane consumes part of Qi Bei Shan's shadow and puts a bounty on him, converting neutral spectators into attackers. (Chapter 756)

Items

• Soul Crystal: A life-bound crystal that briefly freezes souls. Each activation carries cumulative mortal cost, and the third use condemns Qi Bei Shan to death. Su Ming recovers its eight-colored form. (Chapter 757)
• Blue stones and Rune crystals: Stored resources sustain the cave's defense; most powering crystals shatter when the barrier is destroyed. The blue-stone cave remains after Qi Bei Shan's death. (Chapters 754–756, 853)