Yue Hong Bang
Yue Hong Bang is a purple-robed exile in the Western Ring Nebula who survives by recognizing when to fight, submit, or exploit an opportunity. He first meets Su Ming during a lethal gathering around a volcano and accepts him as liege for protection, eliminating companions who might expose the secret. A thousand years of labor and imprisonment do not erase that allegiance; when Su returns, Yue is healed and forced to prove his worth in a ten-breath duel.
Biography
Submission in the Western Ring Nebula
Yue Hong Bang arrives at the volcano with seven followers, but prolonged danger leaves him wounded and only four companions alive. He watches Su's behavior and concludes that the newcomer cannot be an ordinary exile from Yin Death. Rather than challenge an unknown power, he chooses submission and becomes one of the people who best understands Su's temperamental refusal to be constrained by ordinary rules. His loyalty is self-interested: he wants protection and secretly kills most of his own companions so no one can reveal that he is a first-generation criminal. (Chapters 748–763)
A thousand-year promise and brutal restoration
At Su's request Yue gathers a vast quantity of blue stones over centuries and leaves them in Qi Bei Shan's abandoned cave. He advances to become a Lord of a World Plane, but Zhao Guang You defeats and seals him for hundreds of years. Su's return restores Yue's ruined body and refines his initial World Plane cultivation. Yue immediately invokes his liege against Zhao. Su gives him ten breaths to kill the slightly stronger enemy or die with him; Yue burns his cultivation, uses his family's strongest Art, and returns at the final breath with Zhao's head. The victory restores his position but leaves him badly injured and confirms that Su's protection remains conditional on usefulness. (Chapters 853–858)
Appearance and personality
Yue Hong Bang wears purple robes and has a controlled, low-spoken manner. After imprisonment his body is wretched until Su restores it. He is intelligent, opportunistic, secretive, and ruthless toward companions when survival demands it. He recognizes power quickly and can seize a narrow opening, but his loyalty is founded on advantage and fear rather than uncomplicated devotion. (Chapters 748–763, 853–858)
Abilities and cultivation
Yue Hong Bang reaches the initial World Plane Realm after becoming a Lord of a World Plane. Su's life-force restoration heals him and deepens that cultivation, but the gift comes from Su rather than a self-achieved breakthrough shown on page. (Chapters 853–858)
His family's strongest divine ability can kill a peak initial-World-Plane opponent when Yue burns his cultivation and commits everything. The victory takes the entire ten-breath limit and leaves him bloodied and depleted, demonstrating a costly last-resort method rather than ordinary dominance over stronger peers. (Chapter 858)
Relationships
- Su Ming: Liege who protects, heals, commands, and threatens Yue according to usefulness.
- Zhao Guang You: Usurper who seals Yue for centuries and is killed in their final duel.
- Former companions: Followers Yue sacrifices to conceal his background and submission.
Items
- Blue stones: Resources Yue spends centuries gathering for Su Ming. They are stored in Qi Bei Shan's cave rather than used for Yue's own cultivation.
- Crimson Python Phoenix: Associated creature whose later condition Su Ming wonders about; the dossier does not establish its final custody.
