Ni Yang

Ni Yang is a level-eight Mystic Immortal whose posthumous inheritance changes Qin Yu from an unusually capable mortal cultivator into the holder of resources coveted across the Immortal, Devil, and Demon Realms. His recorded messages initially present him as a proud, playful master of deadly treasure grounds. The final message in Ni Yang Realm reveals a more focused design: he built the trials to select a courageous, disciplined, tactically careful successor who might survive conflict with Emperor Yu and Xuan Xi, the Mystic Emperor.

Biography

Rise, pursuit, and fatal expedition

Before his death, Ni Yang becomes a top sword immortal through a combination of level-eight Mystic Immortal cultivation and divine equipment. The Bewitching God Painting gives him safe routes through the outer Bewitching God Temple, where his first expedition yields twelve divine artifacts. He keeps such treasures as the Divine Sword Sky Piercer and Black Frozen Snow armor, gives others to friends, and builds a reputation strong enough to contend with the leading Immortal Realm powers. His prominence is therefore founded on bold exploration and unusually valuable discoveries, not on having forged the divine artifacts himself. (Chapters 301–302, 318, 385)

Ni Yang's confidence eventually creates a vulnerability. The secret of the Bewitching God Painting leaks through a trusted subordinate, and Emperor Yu, Xuan Xi, and other experts pursue him when he returns to the temple. He escapes their immediate pursuit and reaches the inner region, only to step on the corpse of a Divine Realm poisonous insect. Its barb penetrates his foot and its poison attacks his soul; neither his cultivation nor divine armor saves him. He holds himself together for roughly a thousand years, using that remaining time to arrange an inheritance and a delayed answer to his enemies. (Chapters 301, 333, 385)

The Nine Swords Immortal Mansion

The first layer of Ni Yang's legacy is the Nine Swords Immortal Mansion, where prerecorded messages and restrictive formations assess entrants rather than converse with them. The Hallucinatory Magic Land tests whether candidates can retain determination amid emotionally controlling flute music. Survivors then enter the Qingyu Immortal Mansion, whose obvious mansion-guarding stele is a decoy. The true core is elemental holy essence hidden elsewhere, and Ni Yang's safeguards remove the strongest offensive formations if the new owner tries to slaughter the other contestants, quietly testing restraint alongside perception. (Chapters 197–207)

Once the decoy contest ends, Ni Yang divides each survivor between secure confinement in Peach Blossom Land and the lethal Road of Death. The choice measures willingness to risk life for advancement; later clues explain that this courage is necessary for confronting his enemies. His arrangements are deliberately cruel and mischievous—he anticipates entrants fighting over false or incomplete prizes—but they are not random. The survivors who persist reach the Treasure-Storing Tower, where the obvious immortal equipment and three Heaven-Sundering Diagrams conceal a more valuable test of observation and luck. (Chapters 207–214, 301)

Qin Yu notices the Lord of Black Flame's Ring hidden behind Ni Yang's statue and becomes the intended route into the deeper realm. The ring contains a complete map, Heaven-Sundering Sword Energy able to admit nine people, and fields created by Ni Yang's friend, the Lord of Black Flame. Ni Yang does not pretend that merit alone determines this reward: he repeatedly elevates luck because his own death came from catastrophic misfortune. He nevertheless warns that anyone below Dacheng-stage power who enters Ni Yang Realm will certainly die, placing a minimum limit on even the fortunate inheritor. (Chapters 214–215)

Ni Yang Realm and the chosen successor

Ni Yang Realm expands the same selection philosophy. Entry requires either the sword energy carried by the three diagrams or the greater allotment stored in the Black Flame ring, preventing brute-force entry even by much stronger outsiders. The Realm of Clear Mind punishes noise and violence; the Scattered Treasures Cliff tempts visitors with high-grade and finest-grade equipment carrying lethal blood-contract traps; and the Blue Clouds Road tests each entrant alone. Ni Yang even reduces the original realm's broader dangers for this group, showing that the purpose is selection rather than indiscriminate extermination. (Chapters 285–294)

Those who survive find the Ten Thousand Beasts Atlas behind a gravitational restriction. The contest appears to reward whoever seizes it, and the subsequent challenge appears to rank entrants for the upper floors of Nine Heavens. Both appearances are incomplete. Ni Yang has instructed Wu Lan to ensure that the Atlas's owner reaches the ninth floor regardless of nominal ranking. This manipulation concentrates the mobile forces and treasures needed for revenge in one successor's hands, while the earlier trials filter for the judgment and resolve required to use them. (Chapters 295–301)

Ni Yang's final projection drops the playful tone. Acknowledging that he is dead and cannot compel obedience, he asks Qin Yu to humiliate, injure, or kill Emperor Yu and Xuan Xi. He explains that the Hallucinatory Magic Land measured firmness, the life-or-death choice measured courage, the treasure traps measured caution, and the Blue Clouds Road measured strength. Qin Yu accepts out of gratitude for the inheritance. Ni Yang then leaves him Sky Piercer, Black Frozen Snow, the Bewitching God Painting, and a vast treasury, transforming a personal grievance into a continuing posthumous campaign. (Chapters 301–302)

Posthumous consequences

Ni Yang's legacy gives Qin Yu both enemies and the means to survive them. Emperor Yu's faction hunts the successor for the Atlas and the Painting, while Qin Yu uses inherited equipment and beasts to oppose it. After a disciple's death strengthens Qin Yu's personal reasons for fighting, he explicitly joins that grievance to his promise to Ni Yang. Later conflicts eliminate many of Emperor Yu's subordinates and force the emperor himself to retreat, fulfilling the request in substance even though Ni Yang is no longer present to witness it. (Chapters 318–385)

The inheritance also reveals Ni Yang's limits as a master. He leaves the Atlas's beasts alive for his successor instead of killing them at death, but its strongest residents do not regard themselves as obedient servants. Wu Lan had promised Ni Yang only life-saving protection, not general obedience, and Ao Wuxu had accepted only that protection plus one command. Their independence shows that Ni Yang assembled powerful relationships through bargains rather than absolute loyalty. Even so, the Atlas, Painting, divine artifacts, and realm design continue advancing Qin Yu long after Ni Yang's recorded consciousness disappears. (Chapters 299, 325–326, 379–385)

Appearance and personality

Ni Yang's projected form wears a black martial robe, with long flowing hair and cold, discerning eyes. His earlier recordings are haughty, theatrical, and openly amused by contestants who fight over decoys. He boasts about his level-eight rank, hides prizes in blind spots, and treats luck as a legitimate qualification. That playfulness coexists with ruthlessness: his trials can kill entrants, and some punishments are harsher than necessary even when the underlying purpose is psychological evaluation. (Chapters 197–215, 301)

His final projection is more bitter and self-aware. He mocks the absurdity of surviving pursuit only to die from a dead insect, yet his hatred toward Emperor Yu and Xuan Xi remains intense. He is proud enough to design an inheritance around revenge, practical enough to admit that a successor may refuse, and generous enough to leave vast resources and living beasts rather than destroy them with himself. Trusting a subordinate caused his secret to leak, while later bargains with Wu Lan and Ao Wuxu show a more limited, contractual approach to loyalty. (Chapters 299–301, 379–385)

Abilities and cultivation

Sword cultivation and equipment

Ni Yang identifies himself as a level-eight Mystic Immortal, placing him among the uppermost experts who can remain safely below the divine tribulation faced at level nine. He is renowned for exceptional sword offense, but the corpus distinguishes his cultivation from the source of his signature technique. The Heaven-Sundering Sword Technique is embedded in the middle-grade Divine Sword Sky Piercer, while Black Frozen Snow is low-grade divine armor. These artifacts amplify his power; they are discoveries from the Bewitching God Temple rather than works he crafted. (Chapters 207–208, 301–302, 318, 385)

Formations, realms, and recorded mechanisms

Ni Yang constructs or commissions layered restrictions capable of separating entrants, suppressing spiritual senses, punishing prohibited conduct, protecting entire palaces, and adapting attacks to the offender. His gravitational restrictions are particularly noted, though the narrative connects that expertise to knowledge received from the Black Flame Lord and White Profound Lord. The trials also depend on collaborators: Wu Lan controls the final placement, and several formidable beasts serve only under limited agreements. Ni Yang's “appearances” after death are preset messages or projections embedded in formations, not evidence that his soul survives independently. (Chapters 207–215, 286–301)

Demonstrated limits

His best defenses do not make him invulnerable. A Divine Realm insect's soul poison bypasses his bodily power and divine equipment, ultimately killing him despite a thousand-year resistance. His treasure systems likewise impose use limits rather than granting immediate supremacy: the Black Flame ring's fields scale with the wielder's energy, the Painting remains sealed below Mystic Immortal level, and even Qin Yu needs the Atlas and its independently minded experts to make the revenge feasible. Ni Yang's legacy is powerful because its parts accumulate and mature, not because any single formation makes its holder unbeatable. (Chapters 215, 301–302, 379–385)

Relationships

• Qin Yu: His posthumous successor. Ni Yang selects him through layered trials, entrusts him with treasures, and asks him to act against Emperor Yu and Xuan Xi.
• Emperor Yu: A pursuer and the primary target of Ni Yang's vengeance. Competition over the Bewitching God Painting continues through Qin Yu.
• Xuan Xi: The Mystic Emperor and Emperor Yu's ally during the pursuit of Ni Yang; she is named alongside him in Ni Yang's final request.
• Wu Lan: A powerful beast and conditional associate within the Atlas. Ni Yang relies on him to direct the Atlas's owner to the ninth floor, but cannot command him freely.
• Lord of Black Flame and White Profound Lord: Friends of comparable standing who give Ni Yang the two rings and contribute the field and formation knowledge reflected in his legacy.

Items

• Qingyu Immortal Mansion: An outer inheritance controlled through hidden elemental holy essence rather than the decoy mansion-guarding stele.
• Heaven-Sundering Diagrams: Three diagrams that together contain a map, sword art, and entry energy for Ni Yang Realm.
• Lord of Black Flame's Ring: A hidden storage ring containing two scalable fields, a complete map, and an alternate entry allotment for Ni Yang Realm.
• Ten Thousand Beasts Atlas: A special divine artifact holding layered populations of powerful beasts; Ni Yang preserves them for his successor.
• Divine Sword Sky Piercer: Ni Yang's middle-grade divine sword and the source of the Heaven-Sundering Sword Technique.
• Bewitching God Painting: A route guide through the Bewitching God Temple and the most strategically valuable part of Ni Yang's inheritance.