Liu Mei

Liu Mei is a gifted cultivator whose beauty and illusion domain conceal a deliberately cultivated ruthlessness. She begins as one of Mu Bingmei's many avatar lives, but the self formed through that life develops emotions, karma, and a claim to identity that cannot be dismissed as a disposable projection. Her attempt to imprint herself on Wang Lin's dao heart creates one of his most painful ties and leads to the birth of their son, Wang Ping.

Biography

Xuan Dao disciple

Liu Mei is introduced as the leader of the Xuan Dao Sect's inner disciples during its visit to the Heng Yue Sect. She is already confident in an innate charm that draws the attention of nearly every young cultivator present. Wang Lin stands out because he recovers before the others and treats the effect as something to resist rather than an invitation. Their first encounter is minor beside later events, but it establishes the pattern of Liu Mei noticing the one person who does not respond as her cultivation expects. (Chapters 40–52)

The young disciple is later revealed to be one of a thousand avatars placed into different lives and sects. Those avatars are part of the Thousand Illusion Ruthless Domain: each encounters distinct relationships and laws, then contributes experience to a supposedly cold central self. The Xuan Dao Liu Mei is therefore created for cultivation, yet the years she lives are not unreal. Memory, habit, and emotion accumulate in the avatar until the distinction between tool and person becomes unstable. (Chapter 367)

Candidate for Suzaku

As Zhuque Zi's disciple, Liu Mei becomes a candidate to inherit the title of Suzaku. Her principal rival is Qian Feng, whose own ambition and use of cultivation furnaces reveal how expendable the candidates are to the existing order. Liu Mei pities Red Butterfly after Qian Feng strips away her domain and turns her into a puppet, recognizing a possible version of her own fate. That pity is one of the first signs that the ruthless core she cultivates does not erase identification with another person's suffering. (Chapters 367–368)

Zhuque Zi directs Liu Mei to use Wang Lin as a cultivation furnace. By leaving a mark on his dao heart and taking in his life-and-death domain, she is supposed to strengthen herself for the succession struggle. Wang Lin was not the scheme's original intended subject; Zhou Yi had first occupied that role, but later circumstances redirect Liu Mei toward the cultivator she had met in Zhao. The order turns an old recognition into a calculated approach. (Chapter 367)

Liu Mei appears before Wang Lin with concern, familiarity, and restrained warmth. She believes disobedience is impossible even when she warns him to leave. Wang Lin, whose domain is built from experienced life and death rather than performed sentiment, sees the contradiction between her gestures and the ruthless intention beneath them. Their confrontation is thus a clash of methods: Liu Mei imitates and collects emotional lives in order to remain untouched, while Wang Lin's dao depends on accepting that lived feeling has consequences. (Chapters 381–386)

Their contest becomes intimate and destructive. Liu Mei succeeds in creating a karmic wound, but the act does not leave her outside it. The feelings her domain treats as illusions begin to alter the cultivator who is supposed to remain ruthless. Wang Lin remembers the encounter as violation and hostility rather than romance, and the resulting bond cannot be reduced to mutual affection. Liu Mei later gives birth to their son, Wang Ping, making the consequence of the scheme an independent life neither parent's cultivation can treat as an abstraction. (Chapters 386–395 and 688)

Planet Thousand Illusions

Liu Mei leaves planet Suzaku and becomes associated with the Huan family on planet Thousand Illusions. She attempts to develop the Ten Thousand Illusion Heavenly Devil Dao, an extension of the path built through her avatars. Pregnancy and her unresolved feelings toward Wang Lin interfere with its completion. Hatred, attachment, fear, and concern no longer remain masks that can be adopted and discarded; they enter the origin soul and weaken the separation on which the ruthless domain depends. (Chapters 673–688)

By the time Wang Lin reaches her again, the Huan ancestor Huan Wuqing intends to devour Liu Mei's domain and origin soul. Liu Mei asks him to kill Wang Lin if he can. Yet she also prepares a storage bag to be given to Wang Lin if the attempt fails. The bag contains a pill compounded as an antidote for the resentment surrounding Wang Ping, together with a jade message acknowledging that she did, after all, leave her mark on Wang Lin. The two instructions—kill him, or give him the means to help their child—express the division her cultivation can no longer suppress. (Chapter 688)

Huan Wuqing consumes her domain and the origin soul fused with it, and her visible body breaks into fragments. The scene is framed with uncertainty about whether Liu Mei has truly died. It decisively ends her independent bodily presence in that arc, but later revelations prevent the event from being treated as the simple death of a wholly separate woman. The identity that lived as Liu Mei remains entangled with Mu Bingmei. (Chapter 688)

Liu Mei and Mu Bingmei

Mu Bingmei later explains the relationship directly: Liu Mei is her, and she is Liu Mei. The Brilliant Void inheritance allowed Mu Bingmei to cultivate avatars as a shortcut, but the weakening caused by Liu Mei's experiences made her forget or suppress the Mu Bingmei identity and desire to become Liu Mei completely. This does not mean every early action can be reassigned to a continuously self-aware Mu Bingmei. The point is that an avatar life developed enough autonomy that the supposed original could no longer place it safely outside herself. (Chapter 1515)

Wang Ping is central to that convergence. Mu Bingmei and Wang Lin repeatedly experience the familiarity of people who share profound karma yet stand like strangers. When Mu Bingmei appears later with precisely Liu Mei's appearance, the narration describes her as Liu Mei more accurately than as a merely similar woman. Accepting the son she once treated through the logic of cultivation requires accepting that Liu Mei's choices, injuries, and obligations are her own. (Chapters 1515 and 1789)

Wang Lin's later comprehension of karma returns to Liu Mei when he confronts the fact of Wang Ping's parentage and suffering. His understanding does not transform the earlier wound into a conventional love story. Instead, it recognizes that fatherhood, anger, responsibility, and the lives produced by cultivation schemes remain causally real even when memory and reincarnation change the people involved. (Chapter 1902)

Near the end, Wang Lin enters a long dream with Mu Bingmei in which Liu Mei's name and memories remain part of their shared identity. The dream offers another life and a gentler context, but it does not retroactively erase what happened on Suzaku or planet Thousand Illusions. Liu Mei survives most fully as the self Mu Bingmei can no longer disown. (Chapter 2080)

Appearance and personality

Liu Mei is repeatedly described as extraordinarily beautiful, with long black hair, pale skin, and an elegant figure. During her time under Suzaku she wears a pale-pink inner dress beneath white outer robes, creating an impression that is alluring and cold at once. Her beauty is both a natural trait and an instrument amplified by charm and illusion. Later, Mu Bingmei appears with Liu Mei's exact appearance, visually confirming the identity she has accepted. (Chapters 367 and 1789)

Her manner shifts between warmth, reserve, vulnerability, and ruthless calculation. At first these seem to be roles selected by a cultivator of illusion. The tragedy of her path is that performed emotion still becomes experience. Pity for Red Butterfly, hesitation before Wang Lin, hatred after their conflict, and provision for Wang Ping all enter the self that was meant to stay untouched. Liu Mei can be manipulative and cruel without being emotionally empty; the failure of that emptiness is the central limit of her dao. (Chapters 367–386 and 688)

Abilities and cultivation

Thousand avatars and the Ruthless Domain

Liu Mei's Thousand Illusion Ruthless Domain is built through one thousand avatars sent to cultivate in different sects and countries. Each life encounters different laws, social roles, and emotional pressures, while the central method tries to turn those experiences into comprehension without surrendering an inwardly ruthless core. The Xuan Dao disciple whom Wang Lin meets is one such avatar; centuries later the central Liu Mei remembers him only indistinctly, demonstrating how the distributed lives provide information without preserving equal personal continuity. (Chapter 367)

The domain's combat is a contest over the dao heart rather than only a visible illusion. Liu Mei displays sympathy, concern, or intimacy while claiming that her heart remains ruthless, intending to leave her image inside Wang Lin's dao heart without admitting him into hers. Her surface emotion is therefore an active cultivation instrument: if the target accepts the performed relationship as genuine, the mark changes how he understands himself and her. Wang Lin's suspicion and attention to inconsistent personalities let him see through the structure, much as he later identifies the domain by comparing two disciples whose behavior does not fit one seamless self. (Chapters 386 and 553)

Innate charm and emotional projection

Liu Mei possesses natural charm before the mature domain is explained. As a young Xuan Dao disciple, her appearance and manner pull the surrounding disciples' attention toward her without the text presenting this as a separately learned charm spell. Wang Lin is affected but regains clarity faster than the others. That distinction matters: her beauty and presence supply an innate social advantage, while the later Ruthless Domain deliberately weaponizes emotion and identification. (Chapter 40)

At higher cultivation she can make apparent tenderness feel convincing enough to create uncertainty in an experienced opponent. The effect works through suggestion, relationship, and the target's own desires rather than demonstrated absolute mind control. Wang Lin can resist because he distrusts the assignment behind her approach and subjects the emotional performance to his own life-and-death comprehension. Her method is most dangerous when a target supplies the belief that completes it; awareness, incompatible domain insight, and contradictions between avatars are meaningful counters. (Chapters 367–395)

Ten Thousand Illusion Heavenly Devil Dao

On planet Thousand Illusions, Liu Mei develops the path into the Ten Thousand Illusion Heavenly Devil Dao. Its intended completion would allow Huan Wuqing to devour the domain and derive an Identityless Heavenly Devil state: the self disappears, the evil intent of living beings is gathered, and innumerable devil illusions can manifest. Liu Mei's contribution remains incomplete, so Huan Wuqing obtains only a sliver after consuming it. The resulting phantoms are individually powerful, but a genuine scattered devil recognizes them as nourishment and devours them. (Chapter 688)

The failure comes from more than insufficient quantity. Liu Mei cannot determine which feelings are performed and which belong to her true self. Hatred for Wang Lin, memory of his tenderness toward Li Muwan, pregnancy, and concern for her child all survive inside a method premised on ruthless detachment. Ruthlessness and sentiment remain emotions rather than clean opposites, so multiplying illusion cannot solve the contradiction. Completion also requires Liu Mei to yield the domain willingly; otherwise it may collapse during extraction. Her unresolved will is therefore both the flaw in the technique and one of its defenses against appropriation. (Chapter 688)

Ascendant fusion and fatal extraction

Liu Mei reaches Ascendant, the stage at which domain and origin soul have fused. This makes her domain part of her spiritual existence instead of an external layer that can be surrendered without bodily consequence. When Huan Wuqing devours the incomplete Heavenly Devil Dao, he simultaneously devours her fused origin soul: her body loses vitality, and she cannot simply rebuild the domain from ordinary cultivation afterward. (Chapter 688)

She leaves an antidote connected to Wang Ping before that destruction, showing that technical preparation and maternal hesitation survive her proclaimed ruthlessness. Her later reconciliation with Mu Bingmei clarifies the deepest cost of avatar cultivation. The many identities were never perfectly disposable masks; memory, emotion, and responsibility pass across them until Mu Bingmei can state that Liu Mei is herself and she is Liu Mei. This is identity integration, not a newly demonstrated combat power, and the corpus does not credit Liu Mei with abilities Mu Bingmei acquires through unrelated later bonds. (Chapters 688 and 1515)

Power progression

Relationships

• Wang Lin: Liu Mei first notices him as a disciple who resists her charm, later targets his dao heart under Zhuque Zi's order, and becomes bound to him through hostility, intimacy, and Wang Ping. Their eventual shared dream softens the setting without erasing the original harm. (Chapters 40–52, 367–395, 688, and 2080)
• Wang Ping: Their son is the living consequence of a cultivation scheme both parents initially approach through pain. Liu Mei's handling of his resentful soul becomes Wang Lin's deepest grievance; her antidote and Mu Bingmei's later acceptance acknowledge a maternal duty she had tried to subordinate to dao. (Chapters 688, 1515, 1789, and 1902)
• Mu Bingmei: The cultivator who creates the Liu Mei avatar and later discovers that the avatar identity cannot be cleanly separated from herself. Their reconciliation is an acceptance of shared memory and responsibility, not proof that Liu Mei was never an individual. (Chapters 1515 and 1789)
• Zhuque Zi: Her master and the ruler who makes her a Suzaku candidate, then orders her to use Wang Lin as a furnace. His command turns her ruthless cultivation into a political instrument and helps create the karma that destabilizes it. (Chapters 367–386)
• Qian Feng and Red Butterfly: Qian Feng is her succession rival and a warning of what victory within Zhuque Zi's system demands. Red Butterfly's enslavement provokes Liu Mei's pity and reveals an emotional response her domain is meant to deny. (Chapters 367–368)

Items

Liu Mei leaves a storage bag containing an antidote pill and a jade message for Wang Lin. The pill is meant to counter the resentment affecting Wang Ping if Huan Wuqing fails to kill Wang Lin; the message admits that Liu Mei has left an enduring mark despite her ruthless cultivation. None of these objects has a public item page in the supplied manifest. (Chapter 688)