An Long

**Overview**

A good friend of Song Qingshi, and is in love with him after being saved and nursed back to health. Dislikes Yue Wuhuan as a romantic rival. The Gu King of the Western Forest. An Long is straight, with Song Qingshi being an exception.

Appearance: "More than 1.9 meters tall, with an awe-inspiring body, with a tiger's back and a wolf's waist, wearing skintight black leather armor. His bare right arm was covered in tattoos of the five evils; the poisonous creatures were intertwined with countless bones of the dead. It was both terrifying and fascinating, people couldn’t look away. He was like a proud and overbearing ruffian. He had his hair cut extremely short, making his facial features appear even sharper. His dashing brows reached to his temples, his nose was straight like a peak, and his narrow eyes were like beast’s choosing which person to bite. His thin lips were tightly pursed and his whole body exuded a dangerous aura." (Chapter 19). He is just over five hundred years old in this appearance (not including time spent as a god).

**History**

500 years before the novel, Song Qingshi saved An Long, took him in as a patient and healed him. This event caused An Long to fall in love with him. He was given the Luminous Dragon after it had been healed by Song Qingshi, despite it wishing to become Song Qingshi's spiritual pet. He'd convinced Song Qingshi to go on many adventures with him, often involving trying to teach Song QIngshi how to seduce women. His bad behavior often ended with Song Qingshi getting chased around by angry ladies who assumed he was an accomplice to An Long's playboying. When Song Qingshi finally cultivated the Way of The Heartless, AN Long was deeply upset, running off and not talking to Song Qingshi for a long time to his dashed hopes of ever having a relationship with him. They eventually reconciled with Song Qingshinot finding out why he was upset.

**Personality**

An Long is a very eccentric person, and was often disliked by those around him when he was young for his interest in playing around with insects (gu). As an adult, he is still extremely playful and a womanizer, but is also know for his brutality and violence. He is very widely feared, and has a long line of jilted lovers, but almost no one dares to attack him due to the strength of The Western Gu Sect, which he leads. He often enjoys teasing Song Qingshi, making him upset only just barely within the realm of being forgivable. One of his greatest fears is doing something that will make Song Qingshi no longer allow their friendship, something that happened 500 years before when An Long confessed his love and reacted badly to being rejected.

**Connections**

Song Qingshi: Friend/Crush

Yue Wuhuan: Rival (/Friend when they have their memories as gods)

**Chapter 19-26**

The first time (during the story) that An Long is in Medicine King Valley. When An Long arrived in Medicine King Valley, the first thing Song Qingshi did after greeting him was give a list of rules and regulations about how he should act with Yue Wuhuan, numbering 126 in total.

**Chapter 32:**

An Long kills Gui Yuan after he'd seen some unspecified thing which embarrassed An Long, which was enough for him to be killed. He also had a conversation with a servant there, Si Yao, about getting someone into a relationship with you when they don't love you, and came to the conclusion he would need to get Song Qingshi interested in his power, looks or money if he wanted a relationship, because Song Qingshi's heart was unmovable due to following the Way of The Heartless. He allows the servant to live because the answer pleased him.