Pu Yao

Pu Yao is an ancient Sky Yao who escapes three thousand years of imprisonment and becomes a co-resident of Zuo Mo's consciousness. He begins as a coercive, wounded survivor who treats knowledge as currency and Zuo Mo as a convenient host. Their bargains gradually become mentorship and mutual dependence, while Pu Yao's instruction produces battle generals, yao-art students, and long-term agents whose influence extends far beyond his inability to maintain an ordinary physical body.

Biography

Escape, coercion, and the first bargains

Pu Yao enters Zuo Mo's life through a black dandelion seed lodged in the young xiuzhe's sea of consciousness. The seed can reproduce Xin Yan's sword essence, and Zuo Mo injures his own spirit by repeatedly provoking it. After an older voice in the consciousness fails to compel Zuo Mo into an oath, the seed changes into Pu's humanlike manifestation. Pu introduces himself, gives Zuo Mo the Embryonic Breathing Spiritual Cultivation needed to repair the damage, and immediately reveals the unequal terms of their coexistence: Zuo Mo's sea of consciousness is shelter, but Pu can expel him from it and punish resistance. (Chapters 16–18)

The apparent invader is himself a damaged survivor. Later evidence establishes that Pu had been imprisoned and refined beneath a Yao Forging Tower for three thousand years, leaving his spirit badly wounded. He can manifest outside Zuo Mo's consciousness and manipulate objects, but he has no normal body and depends on spiritual resources to recover. Jingshi, yin energy, souls, golden cores, and later Golden Souls are therefore not merely expressions of greed. They sustain or restore an existence whose survival is tied first to the gravestone armor and then to Zuo Mo's continued life. (Chapters 18, 69–70, 388)

Pu initially tries to turn Zuo Mo's desire for strength into a supply of human souls. Zuo Mo refuses to kill strangers for instruction even when Pu immobilizes and tortures him. The gravestone intervenes when Pu reaches for the five-element glass bead in Zuo Mo's body, forcing a stalemate that reveals Pu is not the only power within the shared consciousness. Pu relents and proposes an alternative: Zuo Mo can hunt naturally formed yin fiends rather than murder people. This compromise establishes the pattern of their early relationship—Pu applies fear and temptation, Zuo Mo negotiates around the moral cost, and both adapt because neither can simply discard the other. (Chapter 31)

The Sword Test period turns those transactions into a harsh education. Pu stores Xin Yan's sword essence so Zuo Mo can experience it repeatedly, teaches him to treat pain and danger as instruction, and sells techniques or advice for jingshi. His methods can be cruel enough to endanger his host, but he also intervenes during Zuo Mo's foundation establishment and gives the gravestone's chosen successor a chance to survive. By the conference, Zuo Mo's consciousness control, yao seed, mo matrix, and unorthodox combination of low-level methods all bear Pu's influence, even when Zuo Mo reaches solutions that Pu did not predict. (Chapters 26–32, 45–46, 110, 126–127, 152–153)

Little Mountain Jie and an improvised faction

The collapse of Bloody Sky Metropolis and the invasion of Sky Moon Jie confirm a war Pu recognizes before the sheltered local cultivators do. He warns Zuo Mo that the sect elders will choose survival over a fixed mountain and that the first yaomo invaders, though dismissed as minor by him, can outfight ordinary ningmai xiuzhe. His advice does not make him loyal to Wu Kong Sword Sect, but it pressures Zuo Mo to prepare for displacement rather than wait for institutional rescue. Pu's ancient perspective is useful precisely because he has already lived through a civilization-breaking war, although three thousand years of change also makes some of his commercial and tactical assumptions obsolete. (Chapters 18, 70–74, 196)

On Desolate Wood Reef, Pu turns captured Black Wind bandits into resources for the emerging group. He keeps most as labor for a Nether Pool and transforms three ningmai captives into Golden Armor Guards with ancient dragon bone, Golden Crow Fire, black pond water, and techniques that disguise their nature as yao guards. The work demonstrates both his practical mastery and his lack of ordinary scruple: the captives' consent is irrelevant to him. At the same time, the guards materially improve Zuo Mo's chance of surviving enemies far above his cultivation, so Pu's experimentation becomes part of the group's defensive foundation. (Chapters 193–195)

Pu's most consequential contribution in Little Mountain Jie is indirect. He supplies the rules and experience behind war chess, then becomes the hidden opponent who repeatedly defeats Gongsun Cha. Those defeats teach Gongsun timing, deception, concentrated attack, and the refusal to waste words before battle. When refugee survival requires a real army, Gongsun translates the lessons into a disciplined troop and eventually Vermillion Bird Camp. Pu does not command those first field battles himself, but the habits he forces into Gongsun let Zuo Mo's scattered followers defeat stronger forces and protect the evacuation from Golden Crow City. (Chapters 205–216, 294–303)

The same period exposes a less theatrical part of Pu's history. When Zuo Mo rescues flower slaves implanted with parasitic ling flowers, Pu provides the Flower Yao Coexistence Art rather than treating the victims as disposable. He explains that the art was created during the earlier war for rescued yaomo who otherwise died from similar implantation, and his unusual heaviness shows the memory is personal even though the corpus does not identify the original victims. The decision preserves the slaves' minds and allows them to live with the flowers, revealing that Pu's cruelty toward enemies and pupils coexists with loyalty to people marked by the disasters of his own era. (Chapters 310–315)

Ten Finger Prison, inheritance, and the gravestone rival

After a golden core restores part of his strength, Pu pulls a thread of Zuo Mo's primary soul into the Ten Finger Prison. The act is another unilateral experiment, but its goal is no longer simple payment: the prison can strengthen the soul required by Zuo Mo's Great Day mo physique and teach the yao arts that the xiuzhe world cannot. Pu explains the first prison, demonstrates how to deconstruct its thirteen thousand component arts, and acknowledges a four-hour limit imposed by Zuo Mo's consciousness. The trip reconnects Pu with yao society while giving his host access to a culture from which he would otherwise be excluded. (Chapters 323–326)

In the ancient battlefield, Zuo Mo accidentally reproduces the Archaic Wasteland Sacrificial Art and Divine Summoning Art by combining opposed little yao arts. Pu recognizes the inheritance of his own teacher and momentarily loses his habitual coldness. He then faces a real pedagogical choice: Zuo Mo is suited to the archaic yao succession but has already cultivated the dangerous Great Day mo physique. Rather than demand purity, Pu permits the experiment of simultaneous yao and mo cultivation, partly from curiosity and partly because refusing would end the gravestone's line of succession. The decision helps set Zuo Mo on the unprecedented path of merging three powers, but Pu openly admits that the result is unpredictable. (Chapters 334–336)

Pu also uses Zuo Mo's accidental access to recruit Nan Yue. He recognizes her declining Wisteria Clan and offers its lost South Sky Arrow Art in return for a century of service, but refuses the formal title of teacher because he says he lacks the qualification. He initially makes Zuo Mo teach the fundamentals, turning the host's fresh understanding of deconstruction into Nan Yue's training. As Nan Yue, Cang Ze, and other yao gather, Pu eventually instructs them directly through difficult illusions and foundational drills. His standards are abrasive, yet the students regard the opportunity as extraordinary because his control and breadth exceed their yao-art houses. (Chapters 339–346, 388–400, 507)

The appearance of Wei finally explains the power beneath Pu's seat and the limits on his freedom. Wei is the spirit of the gravestone armor; Pu is a similar spiritual existence, although he is not confined inside the armor in the same way. Their three-thousand-year connection means they share nourishment and cannot destroy each other. Pu resents an armor spirit occupying an equal position, while Wei challenges his competence in mo cultivation and eventually wins control of Guard Camp through a wager. Their rivalry is genuine, but it also gives Zuo Mo two ancient advisers who test each other's claims and jointly protect the host whose death would destroy them both. (Chapters 388, 400, 419, 476–479)

Teacher Pu and the seeds of a future order

Once Zuo Mo's faction becomes stable, Pu's attention expands from one host to a distributed school. He uses Sun Fruits and Sun Seeds to strengthen the yao pupils training in the Wasteland Beast Chessboard and builds punishing illusions suited to their weaknesses. His original hope of making a camp comparable to Guard Camp proves unrealistic, so he abandons the shortcut and rebuilds their individual foundations. This adjustment is important: Pu remains impatient, but he learns to teach the students he actually has instead of measuring every greenhorn against the mature soldiers he lost to Wei. (Chapter 507)

Pu's recovered access to the Ten Finger Prison also lets him reactivate obligations that survived his imprisonment. A yao summons brings him Youqin Lie, the last member of a family carrying an old mission. Pu tests the imprisoned young man's character, gives him the method needed to escape a maximum-security jail, and sets a ten-day deadline. Youqin Lie later becomes a deeply placed agent whose access to the yao leadership allows Zuo Mo to force negotiations at the end of the war. Pu's method is coercive, but it is strategically patient: he plants a capable person years before the value of the placement becomes visible. (Chapters 565–567, 901, 912)

Under the name Pu Pu, he creates Pu Pu's Home for Battle Generals, a loose school open to candidates dismissed as failures. Its simulations are more demanding than ordinary war chess, and Pu personally crushes students until their instincts develop into conscious strategy. His most important recruit is Liang Wei, a disgraced field commander whom Pu recognizes as too talented to waste. He offers Liang Wei a return to real war with a battalion built from the school's students, on the condition that the commander begin again rather than inherit an established force. That choice eventually gives Zuo Mo a disciplined army in the Nether Realm after ten years without contact. (Chapters 749, 878–881)

Pu and Wei increasingly operate as Zuo Mo's strategic council. They advise on concealment from divination, supply rare jinzhi and mo-matrix knowledge to Golden Crow Camp, assess unfamiliar shen power cautiously, and place blood summons or other “seeds” where future crises may activate them. Their knowledge is not infallible: neither fully understands Zuo Mo's merged power, Undying Shen Power, or the returning shen system, and Pu is visibly unsettled when specialists from that older order exceed him. His value comes from recognizing those limits and recalculating rather than pretending that the world remains the one he knew. (Chapters 432, 507, 554, 596, 718–719)

Sacrifice, imprisonment, and return

During the journey through the shen-power ruins, Pu can still identify places and objects studied by his teacher, including the Totem Coliseum and Mist Eye Tablet. He warns Zuo Mo against treating ancient treasures as unguarded prizes, but he does not claim complete understanding of the system. When news of Tian Huan's attack on Mo Cloud Sea reaches him through the Ten Finger Prison, Pu and Wei recognize that their faction faces a coordinated strategic crisis while they are far away. Their information network can warn Zuo Mo, but their bodiless condition prevents them from simply returning as an independent army or corporeal expert. (Chapters 790, 811–813)

The confrontation with Tian Huan's Chief Elder turns dependence into voluntary sacrifice. Zuo Mo shatters the Sun Crystal Seed and takes in more burning sun flow than his body and consciousness can survive. Pu and Wei expose the altar beneath the gravestone, accept its ancient sacrificial oath, and use the resulting power to split Zuo Mo's sea of consciousness so the growing sun tree can absorb part of the flow. Pu describes the decision as repayment of overdue rent, disguising attachment as account-keeping, but the consequence is explicit: he and Wei save Zuo Mo at the cost of being sealed as bodiless sacrifices within the gravestone. (Chapters 848–850)

Pu leaves a fragment of black fire carrying the promise that Zuo Mo can save them after becoming stronger. Zuo Mo spends ten years preserving their companions and rebuilding enough god-level power to overcome the gravestone's sacrificial smoke. Inside it he finds Pu and Wei fixed to separate altar pillars among innumerable imprisoned souls. Pu endures eighty-one layers of restraint before Zuo Mo burns them away; his first response is triumphant mockery and an attempt to provoke Wei, evidence that imprisonment has not altered his defining pride. Zuo Mo removes both souls and places them in the Mist Eye Tablet, but no new physical body is established. (Chapters 849, 864, 879–880)

Freedom lets Pu meet the consequences of decisions made before the sacrifice. Liang Wei returns as a seasoned commander after maintaining a battalion through ten leaderless years, and Pu responds with pride, concern, and practical warning rather than another trial. Youqin Lie's position helps bring the yao leadership under Zuo Mo's control, while the military “seeds” placed by Pu and Wei become important to the final campaign. The corpus closes with Pu active again and Pu Pu's Home for Battle Generals named as one of the two schools that will train famed yao commanders for the next thousand years. His end state is therefore not restored embodiment but an enduring instructional and strategic legacy. (Chapters 881, 901, 912–913)

Appearance and personality

Pu's manifested appearance is explicitly androgynous and exceptionally handsome. He has a high nose, raven-black hair that covers his left eye, a narrow blade-like right eye with a serene crimson pupil, thin wide lips, and dark-red rhombus crystals in his earlobes. His close-fitting black clothing has a smooth dark sheen. During the sacrificial ceremony, black mist filled with wailing faces appears in his left eye, and the altar's power gives him slender armor marked with red triangular sacrificial glyphs and threads of flame. These descriptions concern his spiritual manifestation; the corpus later states directly that he has no body. (Chapters 17, 849)

His manner is proud, theatrical, sharp-tongued, and deliberately unsettling. He likes sound tablets, beauty, dramatic threats, and transactions structured so that he controls the price. Pain interests him both as a weapon and as an uncompromising training method. Yet he is not merely capricious. He reads motives quickly, changes plans when evidence disproves them, and hides attachment behind mockery, rent, or professional pride. The contrast is clearest in his students: he calls them weak, imposes cruel standards, and then spends rare resources and years of planning to create opportunities they could not obtain alone. (Chapters 17–20, 70–74, 507, 849, 881)

Pu's hostility toward inherited status shapes both his cruelty and his generosity. He has little patience for prestigious families, formal reputations, or students protected from consequence. He is drawn instead to stubborn survivors such as Zuo Mo, Nan Yue, Youqin Lie, and Liang Wei, especially when institutions have discarded them. His teaching does not become gentle, but it becomes increasingly purposeful: early coercion extracts survival resources, while later trials are designed to expose a student's specific weakness and give that student a path into real responsibility. (Chapters 31, 339, 565, 749)

Abilities and cultivation

Sky Yao cultivation and bodiless existence

Pu is explicitly identified as a Sky Yao, but the story never presents a complete ladder of his cultivation or a technical account of how he originally reached that level. Yao principally cultivate consciousness, and Pu's demonstrated authority lies in spiritual pressure, perception, illusion, fire, and control over soul-related spaces. Even while badly wounded, he can tear apart the consciousness of low-level Zuo Mo, manifest inside and outside the sea of consciousness, take objects, project stored sword essence, and suppress or immobilize the host within that mental domain. These acts establish effect and scale against early Zuo Mo; they do not establish Pu's original peak range. (Chapters 16–18, 31, 69–70)

Later narration resolves his ontology more precisely. Pu is a soul without a physical body, spiritually connected to the gravestone armor and its spirit Wei. He is less confined than Wei and can enter the Ten Finger Prison or appear beside Zuo Mo, but the two share nourishment and cannot destroy one another. Their continued existence also becomes tied to Zuo Mo: when strongly yang Great Day Banded Flame severs the connection, they cannot intervene, and if it consumes the host they will die with him. His apparent mobility is therefore not independent corporeal life. (Chapters 388, 400, 419)

Pu's recovery consumes external spiritual resources. Jingshi and yin energy restore or sustain him early; he can absorb wounded yin fiends and their souls, a golden core makes him substantially more active, and Golden Souls directly replenish both him and Wei. The exact conversion rate is never given, and several resources cannot be kept exclusively because their shared existence diverts a portion to Wei. Strong yang forces are a demonstrated counter, while sacrificial imprisonment can bind him regardless of his ordinary ability to move outside the armor. (Chapters 69–70, 84, 112–115, 323–324, 388, 419, 849)

At the latest point in the corpus, Zuo Mo has broken Pu out of the gravestone's altar and transferred him with Wei into the Mist Eye Tablet. Pu can again enter Pu Pu's Home for Battle Generals, speak with Liang Wei, advise Zuo Mo, and quarrel with Wei. No chapter demonstrates a newly grown fleshly body, release from the underlying soul condition, or a post-rescue cultivation breakthrough. His latest established state is therefore active and influential but still spiritual. (Chapters 880–881, 912–913)

Consciousness arts, illusion, and Sky Yao fire

Pu can construct detailed mental environments and impose them on consciousness. Night Restriction begins as a black point that expands until it swallows the surrounding mental space, leaving the target immobile in a void. In the Wasteland Beast Chessboard he produces cultivation illusions with a wave of the hand and hides the training area from most observers. He also disrupts divination through a method exchanged for Sun Fruits and Sun Seeds. The source demonstrates these as specialized yao or consciousness arts but does not state their maximum physical radius, duration against equal Sky Yao opponents, or cost when Pu is fully restored. (Chapters 323, 507)

His black or deep-red fire is both an attack and a manifestation of his power. Pu identifies the flame that survives immersion during Zuo Mo's foundation ordeal as Sky Yao Fire and claims even the gravestone's water power cannot extinguish it. Later black flame surrounds Pu, upgrades the Golden Armor Guards, and combines with Wei's sacrificial sword to split the sea of consciousness. The fire can carry a stored message after Pu is sealed. Its demonstrated limits are contextual: Xin Yan wounds the already weakened Pu, the gravestone can oppose him, Great Day Banded Flame is fatal to his kind of existence, and the altar's oath can consume the fire until his armor cracks. (Chapters 45–46, 400, 756, 849)

Pu is exceptionally knowledgeable about souls, consciousness, and spiritual imprints, but the narrative does not treat that knowledge as omniscience. He can consume yin fiends and diagnose some soul injuries. He also proposes extracting Gu Ming Gong's soul so Zuo Mo could receive the captive's memories and comprehensions, while warning that foreign memories could fracture or change Zuo Mo's personality; the extraction is never performed. His two alternative curse jinzhi are unusable in the situation: Purple Netherworld Curse requires a Rahula Yao and risks backlash, while Needle Ghost Curse requires thirteen unavailable yin bone needles. Wei—not Pu—then supplies Soul Setting Divine Light. Pu cannot restore A Gui with the information available to him and repeatedly needs Wei or Zuo Mo's experiments when an ancient shen mechanism falls outside his knowledge. (Chapters 112–115, 302, 476–477, 554)

Teaching, inheritance, and transformative arts

Pu's broadest capability is the ability to convert old knowledge into training. His known instruction includes Embryonic Breathing Spiritual Cultivation, Little Thousand Leaf Hands, consciousness splitting, star spiritual cultivation, yao-art deconstruction, combat simulations, concealment, and selected mo skills. He rarely supplies a complete answer when danger can force the student to understand the principle. That method can produce original insight, as when Zuo Mo derives new formation and consciousness applications, but it also creates avoidable risk and sometimes leaves the pupil unable to distinguish a genuine limitation from Pu's manipulation. (Chapters 17–32, 152–153, 213, 324–336)

He can implant or shape power systems in others. The yao seed improves Zuo Mo's control of consciousness, while the mo matrix filters ling power and tempers the body; Pu deliberately manipulates their development for his own experiment. He constructs a Nether Pool, transforms living captives into Golden Armor Guards, later upgrades those guards with black fiendish energy, and modifies the Great Day Hardship Guard used by Guard Camp. These processes require appropriate bodies, materials, energy, and time. They are not effortless creation: missing bloodlines or unsuitable material reduce the result, and Wei demonstrably surpasses Pu in refining mo cultivation. (Chapters 127, 152, 193–195, 223–226, 400, 476–479)

His inheritance knowledge also preserves people rather than only weaponizing them. Flower Yao Coexistence Art lets rescued flower slaves stabilize a mutually sustaining relationship with implanted ling flowers. He recognizes South Sky Arrow Art and routes it to Nan Yue, identifies the Archaic Wasteland Sacrificial Art inherited from his teacher, and can explain the construction of the Ten Finger Prison's low-level yao arts. Pu's access is broad but historically bounded: some teachings are thousands of years out of date, and he explicitly treats lost ancient information as incomplete rather than proof that he personally mastered every related shen technique. (Chapters 315, 324, 334–339, 790)

Battle-general craft and long-range strategy

Pu is a top-level battle-general instructor whose methods operate through simulation, observation, and pressure. War chess allows him to teach Gongsun Cha the tempo and structure of coordinated combat before either has an army in the field. Later simulation chess at Pu Pu's Home reproduces campaigns closely enough to expose flaws in active commanders. Pu adapts the opponent and exercise to the student: Gongsun learns relentless tactical control, while Liang Wei is pushed beyond instinct toward large-campaign strategy. The simulations do not replace real war, a limitation Pu explicitly acknowledges when he sends Liang Wei to build a battalion from the beginning. (Chapters 205–216, 394–413, 749)

His operational talent includes intelligence placement and delayed contingencies rather than only battlefield command. Through the Ten Finger Prison he can contact dispersed yao, activate old summons, train agents beyond Zuo Mo's physical reach, and maintain schools whose members do not know his full identity. Youqin Lie's infiltration and Liang Wei's Nether battalion are representative applications: both mature over years, remain useful through Pu's decade of imprisonment, and solve crises that immediate force could not. Their success is demonstrated; the exact content of every blood summons or “seed” is not fully enumerated. (Chapters 565, 749, 878–881, 901, 912)

Pu's strategic judgment interacts with Wei's knowledge and Zuo Mo's authority. He can propose concealment, identify political pressure points, and provide rare techniques, but he does not independently control Mo Cloud Sea's armies or government. His plans work because Zuo Mo funds them, accepts selected risks, and gives field commanders the authority to act. The latest evidence turns this teaching into an institutional legacy: Pu Pu's Home for Battle Generals continues alongside Bing Lan's school and is said to produce famous yao commanders for a thousand years. (Chapters 507, 600–609, 811–813, 912–913)

Power progression

Relationships

• Zuo Mo: Pu begins as Zuo Mo's coercive co-resident, using wounds, deadlines, and transactions to extract cultivation and resources. Zuo Mo's refusal to become a murderer forces compromise, and repeated shared dangers turn bargaining into mentorship and mutual attachment. Pu eventually sacrifices his freedom to save Zuo Mo; Zuo Mo spends ten years becoming strong enough to release him. (Chapters 17, 31, 388, 419, 849, 880)
• Wei: Wei is the spirit of the gravestone armor with which Pu shares an existence. They compete over Zuo Mo's cultivation and students, cannot kill one another, and constantly attack each other's pride. Beneath the rivalry is tested cooperation: they advise Zuo Mo together, jointly sacrifice themselves, endure imprisonment, and resume their arguments immediately after being rescued. (Chapters 388, 400, 476–479, 849, 880)
• Gongsun Cha: Pu anonymously educates Gongsun through repeated war-chess defeats, then continues testing him after he becomes a gold battle general. Gongsun's command style is his own, but Pu supplies the simulated pressure that turns a butcher into the creator of Vermillion Bird Camp. Pu later regards him as the exceptional student against whom other pupils are measured. (Chapters 205–216, 394–413, 507, 881)
• Nan Yue: Pu recognizes Nan Yue's clan inheritance, arranges for the South Sky Arrow Art to be restored to her, and eventually becomes the direct teacher she calls Teacher Pu. Her persistence helps him build a new community of yao pupils after losing control of Guard Camp. (Chapters 339–346, 388–400, 507)
• Liang Wei: Pu finds Liang Wei after disgrace has cut him off from battle, defeats him repeatedly in simulation, and offers a route back through a battalion built from the school's rejected students. Liang Wei preserves that force for ten years and treats Pu as a teacher even without formal acceptance. Their reunion confirms the long experiment succeeded. (Chapters 749, 878–881)
• Youqin Lie: An inherited summons brings the imprisoned Youqin Lie to Pu. Pu gives him the means and deadline to escape, then uses his talent for intelligence work as a long-term strategic placement. Youqin Lie's eventual betrayal of the yao leadership is one of the seeds that lets Zuo Mo end the war without conquering every yao territory by force. (Chapters 565–567, 901, 912)
• Shu Long and A Wen: Pu contributes to the early Hardship Guard system and recognizes both men's potential, but loses direct control of Guard Camp to Wei, whose mo-cultivation expertise proves superior. The relationship shows an important boundary on Pu's mentorship: he can create a viable foundation across power systems, yet he is not the best teacher in every one of them. (Chapters 400, 476–479, 552)

Items

• Gravestone armor: Pu is not its ordinary owner. The armor is a closed spiritual system whose resident spirit is Wei; Pu's survival becomes connected to it during his three-thousand-year imprisonment, and the two consequently share nourishment and cannot destroy one another. Pu and Wei later use its hidden altar to become sacrifices, after which it imprisons them until Zuo Mo breaks them free. (Chapters 388, 849, 880)
• Inky Black Lotus: Pu neither owns nor takes custody of the fourth-grade Inky Black Lotus seed processed for Zuo Mo's clients. His precise association is instructional and indirect: the ling-power control he had already taught Zuo Mo helps make the dangerous Four-Turn fire processing possible. The clients bring the seed and reclaim the processed seed in its jade bottle; only residual toxin remains in Zuo Mo's fire and later contributes to his derived Inky Black Lava White Fire. None of those materials belongs to Pu. (Chapters 109–111, 161, and 202)