Fahui

Fahui is a Buddhist monk whose destiny becomes entangled with Li Xuanling’s. He identifies the young cultivator as the serpent of a former life and pursues his death as a step toward mastery, while his own religious certainty permits him to excuse the slaughter of those he judges evil. (Chapters 311–312, 320–327)

Biography

A foretold conversion and an awakening of wrath

Fahui first attacks Xuanling as a supposed heretic at Duanchen Village. He is physically formidable but cannot fly, and Xuanling avoids a prolonged fight rather than let local religious authority trap him. The abbot tells Fahui that he may convert the serpent dragon said to have killed him in a former life, thereby cultivating a land of bliss within his stomach and becoming a Master Monk. The warning also makes clear that the path may kill him. Fahui leaves at once, seeing Xuanling’s departure as both a religious obligation and his own opportunity. (Chapters 311–312)

After pursuing Xuanling for years, Fahui reaches a ruined temple, where the surrounding corpses and his awakened memories convince him that he has caught the serpent again. He kills the Daoists and condemns them as evil despite their coerced role in offering children to a wolf demon. His awakened golden light clouds Xuanling’s judgment with anger; when Lu clears that interference, Fahui’s certainty remains and the combat escalates. He kills Xuanling and draws out the young cultivator’s fate and cultivation, attaining the Master Monk state. The dying monk turns his anger toward Tongya, claiming that his family used Xuanling as bait and denying responsibility for their unequal treatment of him. (Chapters 320–324)

Tongya’s sword cuts Fahui apart, yet the body regrows under the returning Wrathful Maha and the reincarnate progressively takes possession. Speaking through Fahui’s mouth and face, the Maha weaponizes Xuanling’s memories against Tongya, then returns to battle with the strength of its awakened form. Nine Daoist Masters bind it with the Golden Bridge Lock; Daoist Master Shangyuan intervenes to strike it down, and the fall is recognized across Buddhist lands. Fahui’s independent course has ended by the possession; the later battle and defeat belong to the Wrathful Maha acting through his body. (Chapters 324–327)

Appearance and personality

Fahui is physically powerful, hot-tempered and convinced that strict punishment can purify the world. He interprets an involuntary anger toward Xuanling as destiny and takes the prediction of conversion as certainty. His composure before Xuanling hides the violence of this conviction; his claim to moral judgment does not account for the coercion under which the temple’s victims acted. (Chapters 311–312, 321)

Abilities and cultivation

Before his awakening, Fahui uses iron fists, leaps and a hardened body to fight without wind-riding or ordinary mana. The abbot describes him as nearing Master Monk, with a sudden path to that status tied to converting the serpent. At the temple, awakened memories and golden light intensify his strength and project a mist that turns blood and flesh into scenes. The effect overwhelms Xuanling with anger and disorientation until Lu intervenes through the talisman seed. Fahui’s own blows shatter a shield and injure the younger cultivator, but Xuanling’s sharp sword can damage his body. (Chapters 311–312, 320–322)

After consuming Xuanling’s fate and cultivation, Fahui declares attainment of Dharma and manifests a halo and bronze markings. His golden runes, rapid regeneration and patterned short rods allow him to battle Tongya; a Celestial Moon Sword Essence severs an arm and then breaks his body apart. The returning Wrathful Maha restores the limbs and ultimately controls the body. This exceptional recovery is not ordinary Fahui’s survivability, nor evidence that he remains a living independent monk. (Chapters 324–325)

Fahui’s technique can absorb fate and cultivation, but the Profound Pearl Talisman Seed resists until Lu deliberately releases its claim. His progression to Master Monk depends on Xuanling’s death. Possession by the Wrathful Maha increases his power and supplies the larger body’s regeneration; nine Purple Mansion Daoists and the Golden Bridge Lock constrain the Maha, and Shangyuan ends the final resistance with a single sword stroke. The later defeat must not be credited to Fahui as an independent cultivator. (Chapters 324–327)

Relationships

• Li Xuanling: The target Fahui mistakes for the serpent of his former life. Fahui kills and consumes him to advance, then the Maha using Fahui’s body repeats his voice and memories. (Chapters 311, 321–325)
• Li Tongya: Father of Fahui’s victim, whom the monk accuses of engineering his son’s death. Tongya kills Fahui’s restored body before the Maha assumes it, then fights the Maha. (Chapters 324–325)
• The Wrathful Maha: A reincarnate whose return from the void possesses Fahui’s body. It becomes the controlling actor and falls at Zhenhui Temple. (Chapters 324–327)

Items

Fahui receives two patterned short rods from his fellow monks before pursuing Xuanling. After his teeth turn to gold during his breakthrough, they become golden rods that he wields against Tongya. The rods accompany the possessed body’s later battle, which is attributed to the Wrathful Maha. (Chapters 312, 324–325)