Qin Yu

Main character of **Refining the Mountains and Rivers**Novel.

## Appearance

With his thin body and eyebrows, he couldn’t be considered handsome. There were a few faint spots that marred his looks, but even so he seemed inexplicably kind. He also had a paler complexion than others and so was called *sick ghost*.

## Personality

He was an orphan, and ever since he was young he had understood the truth of the fist – that strength was what mattered in this world, so he would never provoke unnecessary trouble.

## Background

He is an outer disciple of the Eastern Mountain Sect who, that due to an illness and an injury to his body that was not cared for, because he was poor, could not advance his cultivation, having reached only the 2st layer of Energy Refining and not being able to fully recover was on the verge of returning to the 1st layer of Energy Refining.

Two years ago a wild boar invaded the herb garden he was responsible for and nearly killed him, but after searching for a long time for clues to his whereabouts he finally found it in a secluded valley near the sect, where he set a trap for catch it. His aim was not just revenge, but to capture and eat this boar, which was said to have a flesh with a great deal of spiritual energy by eating the herbs of the garden over the years, hoping that it could cure its disease.

After a fruitless cultivation season when he was about to return to his room to rest he could detect a noise from the secluded valley of his trap being set. In the midst of his excitement he ran into the secluded valley, only to meet Wei Wei and Han Dong, the Master Sect's chief disciple who were seriously injured after fighting with each other.

Seeing Qin Yu's arrival each tried to persuade him to kill the other and split his possessions, but in the end Wei Wei was eventually killed by Han Dong and the latter was killed by the boar, leaving Qin Yu as the only one to profit in the end.

After everything calmed down, he immediately went to Wei Wei's corpse, which emitted a faint blue light from within his robes, which was precisely the cause of the mortal conflict between the two disciples. After another near-death tribulation he managed to obtain the item that saved his life and would change his destiny forever, a Little Blue Lamp.

Using the nine level crystal pagoda as the standard, Qin Yu’s initial talent had been first level. (1 is the lowest 9 is the highest.)

## Trivia (*Contains Spoiler*)

* He had cultivated diligently for the last seven years without missing a single day and had barely managed to reach the second level of the Energy Refining realm.

* He obtained the inheritance of alchemy of Cang Mangzi, a Wandering Cultivator who walked the dao of alchemy, but was eventually arrested in the Eastern Mountain Sect after being plotted by someone and died of old age at the Pill Disposal Department.
* Taking pills to promote cultivation was not recommended, as it could affect the cultivator's foundation, however his cultivation was built on a pile of pills and, as a foundation ... he never had anything like it to begin with, so after taking three Foundation Establishment Pill, that it was equal to taking 10 ordinary ones, he successfully advanced to the Foundation Establishment realm.
* After successfully managing to attract Blacksky Demon away from Ning Ling he prepared to sacrifice himself to buy time for her, however due to a twist of fate Blacksky Demon ended up dying and he obtained all his possessions and soon after he got a chance encounter and successfully managed to cultivate the Demon Body, which was known as the technique in which a hundred attempts meant a hundred deaths, a thousand attempts meant a thousand perishing.
* According to You Qi, the main reason why Qin Yu failed to invade the Golden Core realm is that he cultivated the Demon Body. Which is a law of transformation of the body arrogantly tyrannical and does not allow anything to overcome it in force. So, in order to advance, he needs to further evolve his Demon Body before increasing his magic power and reaching the Golden Core. For the Demon Body to evolve, it will need to swallow powerful demonic blood to get your advance.
* He participated in the Grand Alchemy Meeting organised by the Immortal Eclipse Valley in order to obtain a part of the root of Radiant Red Wood and the Purpleback Bluewing Ant that were guardian beasts of the Immortal Eclipse Valley, however due to a bizarre twist of fate he ended up becoming the junior apprentice brother of the Old Ancestor of the Immortal Eclipse Valley, Pill Crucible and received the title of Immortal Eclipse Valley's Junior Uncle with the same status as Pill Crucible in the Immortal Eclipse Valley.
* During his time at the Immortal Eclipse Valley, Qin Yu encountered both dangers and opportunities. He became the common enemy of the Eclipse Clan after successfully refining the Eighth Furnace, one of the ancestral treasures of the Eclipse Clan, and indirectly killing one of the members of the Eclipse Clan with rage. However, he also gained a great opportunity by refining the Eighth Furnace, the Samsara Inheritance, which consists of the life experience of all previous owners of the furnace, and when combined with the jade slip containing all of his pill experiences that the Daoist Wang passed him on, his pill base reached another level. After getting other treasures like the Soul Mushroom, the Five Element Sword Array cultivation method and the numerous pills he obtained from the Pill Disposal Department, he realised it was time to leave and return to Severed Spirit Mountain.
* After leaving the Immortal Eclipse Valley, Qin Yu returned to his base on Severed Spirit Mountain, however the problems followed him in the form of Wang Zifeng and Yun Xueqing who ended up finding secrets from the Demonic Path and ended up involving Qin Yu, but in the end Qin Yu ended up obtaining all the inheritance from the ancient Nascent Soul cultivator. Subsequently in order to be able to practice the Five Element Sword Array, Qin Yu became involved once again with the Heavenseek Pavilion, which gave him information on where to find the spiritual objects of the elements, leading him to go head-to-head with the Sea Monster Royal Family and the two Saint Sons of the Demonic Path who were sent to the Netherworld Realm in the Netherworld Sea to obtain a treasure for the Saint Lord of the Demonic Path, however what shocked Qin Yu was that one of the Saint Sons was his old friend, given as killed Lang Tu, who now took the name Shan Wugu.
* Qin Yu made huge gains in the Sea Spirit Teacher Competition, the most notable being defeating Grandmaster Wu Zetian and taking his place among the Purple Cards and winning a bet of 200 million spiritual stones. But in the end his biggest gain was in sea spirit baptism, which lasted almost ten hours, but greatly increased his soul strength, making it comparable to an ordinary nascent soul, in addition to significantly tempering his mortal body making him more potent and tenacious, however none of this is so important compared to the update that the little blue lamp underwent, with the area that the blue light covered was probably the surrounding 1.2 feet.
* After a lot of time and effort, Qin Yun finally managed to absorb and gather the spiritual objects of five elements within his Dantian Sea, however, sometimes with luck the disaster lurks and the unexpected happened that caused a transformation in Qin Yun and a huge commotion in the Sea Race’s Capital City.
* When Qin Yu believed that the worst was over after he integrated with the five spiritual objects and almost lost his life as a result, he had to face the celestial tribulation, however that was not the real problem, but that during tribulation his disguise was revealed in front of everyone and his true identity as a human made him the target of the Whale Sovereign, who remembered the humiliation that Qin Yu had made him pass previously gone through in the case of Princess Lushy's kidnapping, in addition to having his plans hampered over and over again by Qin Yu.
* His Talent later increased to the Third Grade after consuming several talent-increasing items.
* Qin Yu later marries Ling Ning and You Qi Together.(Chapter 648)
* The reason his talent was so poor was because of his bloodline being stripped away at birth. As his bloodline strengthened during fusing with the egg embryo, his talent and foundation also increased incredibly.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1
2. ↑ Chapter 7
3. ↑ Chapter 9
4. ↑ Chapter 31
5. ↑ Chapter 53
6. ↑ Chapter 72
7. ↑ Chapter 89
8. ↑ Chapter 115
9. ↑ Chapter 160
10. ↑ Chapter 167
11. ↑ Chapter 174