Wang Lin/Relationships

## Love Interests

Whether it was Red Butterfly, Xi Zifeng, Liu Mei, Mu Bingmei, Lu Yanfei, or just some he had brief encounters with.
These women all passed by, but in the end, only Li Muwan, Liu Mei and Li Qianmei had entered his heart. The changes early on in his life had made him into a murderous devil, and both of his hands were soaked in blood. Even those self-proclaimed devils couldn’t compare to Wang Lin.
He didn’t understand love. If he ever did, he only had an ignorant understanding of it back when he was a youth and hadn’t started cultivating yet. He imagined he would one day pass the test and become an official. He would then return home with a wife by his side. Together they would accompany his parents until they were old. However, after the incident with the Teng family, Wang Lin even died once, and this changed his personality greatly. The sorrow enlightened him. Cultivation, cultivation, the cultivation world only cared about the strong!
Wang Lin didn’t know his feelings for Li Muwan at all. After Li Muwan died, he spent over a 1,000 years in solitude. He walked through the void alone in a daze, and as he walked down his path toward cultivation, he constantly recalled a feeling… Gradually, as he grew older, he understood.
Li Muwan had walked into his heart as he recalled these past 1,000 years. She had entered very deep, very deep.
The other woman, Liu Mei, had also walked into Wang Lin’s heart, but her path was very different. It was very painful. In the end, Liu Mei still won. But this victory was her tearing a hole in Wang Lin’s dead heart and burying herself inside.

### Li Qian Mei

Li Qian Mei wouldn’t steal Li Muwan’s place in Wang Lin’s heart or replace Li Muwan. She only did this because of a dream about her past life.

She only wanted this. Such a woman, a woman named Li Qianmei silently gave her everything… Perhaps she didn’t wait for hundreds of years like Li Muwan or ripped Wang Lin’s heart open like Liu Mei, but she had made Wang Lin feel guilty with the 10 years he could never pay back. This made Wang Lin’s heart feel pain.

Later, she reincarnated in the Ancient Clan and stayed by Wang Lin Avatar's side at the end of the story.

### Li MuWan

Wang Lin first met Li Muwan when he was still in the body of Ma Liang. The second time Wang Lin meets with Li Muwan is when she was being chased by a Xuan Wu Double Cultivation Sect Elder for her Heavenly Li Dan. To escape from the Fire Beast, Wang Lin flew into the Sea of Devils. Wang Lin saves her but regarded her as a pill furnace. While at the Sea of Devils, Li Muwan spent most of her time refining the Heavenly Li Dan while Wang Lin spent his time on his cultivation. For the better chance of success in refining, Wang Lin went to Nan Dou City to buy a Dan Furnace. Resulting in some of the greedy Elder's to chase him to the cave where Li Muwan and himself are living for his treasure. At the same time Li Muwan finishes refining the Heavenly Li Dan (using the Demon Blood Vine).

After Wang Lin takes the Heavenly Li Dan into his body, he whispers to Li Muwan, "Don’t move. I’m taking you to kill people.” After Wang Lin killed more than tens of thousand cultivator, he successfully defeats the Fighting Evil Sect master and becomes the Sect Master. After a few days, Wang Lin asks Li Muwan to send herself back to Huo Fen but Li Muwan asked for a few days to complete the Jade Strips. After she completed the Jade Strips, Wang Lin sends her back to Huo Fen while being chase by Duan Mu Ji. He leaves her at Huo Fen while Wang Lin knew her name but not her.

After 200 hundred years, Li Muwan is still waiting for Wang Lin (Ma Liang). Wang Lin's avatar enters the Cloud Sky Sect being the disciple of Li Muwan's disciple. When Wang Lin went to meet with his Master's teacher, he was shocked to see Li Muwan but remained calm. Li Muwan recalled the old memories from listening to Wang Lin's voice but denied them because the blood that Wang Lin (Ma Liang) left for her didn't respond to him.

A few months later, Wang Lin's real body appears in Cloud Sky Sect. While Li Muwan was looking for him, Wang Lin left but reappeared when Li Muwan said, “Wan Er doesn’t ask for anything else, but to see you once. In these 200 years, Wan Er has depended on that bottle of spirit liquid to keep my vitality. If you aren’t willing to come out, then Wan Er will kill herself right now to release myself from this obsession.” Alas, Wang Lin left after congratulating Li Muwan on her wedding with Sun Zhanwei.

Her words made Wang Lin realize his feelings for Li Muwan and he couldn't hold his heart and he went to see her using his avatar to tell her the truth. Li Muwan was relieved and begin helping Wang Lin refining the pill that could help him achieve Yuan Ying Stage (Nascent Soul). At the day of the wedding for Li Muwan and Sun Zhanwei was also the day for Wang Lin's breakthrough. After his breakthrough, he rushes into the ceremony to kill Sun Zhanwei and to run away with Li Muwan. He kills Sun Zhanwei but didn't run because his Nascent Soul wasn't stable due to Ji Realm. He becomes the Sect Master of Cloud Sky Sect after killing Chen Bailiang and hands over his position to Li Muwan. He then collects the blood essence of all elders and gives to Li Muwan to be returned after 500 years. She doesn't departs with Wang Lin and stays in the sect to make pills.

She is waiting for Wang Lin as 100 years have passed and tried to breakthrough 3 times from Core Formation Stage to Nascent Soul Stage (to increase lifespan) but fails which makes her body feeble and weak. When Wang Lin arrives back in Chu and meets her, he comforts her that she wouldn't die. He then uses his spiritual energy to keep her vitality and obtains a rank 6 pill recipe from Treasure Pavilion in auction to help Li Muwan break through to Nascent Soul, and just as Li Muwan's body could not take it anymore, the pill was completed and JUST as she dies she formed her Nascent Soul and Wang Lin defies the heavens reincarnation cycle to put her soul into a baby that did not form a soul yet, just like what he did with Wang Zhao. While that was happening his main body fought with the "messenger of heaven" who appeared to make sure that Li Muwan's soul gets sent back to the reincarnation cycle.

Li Muwan dies due to old age (500). Wang Lin saves her soul and body to journey for a way to revive her. Wang Lin kept Li Muwan's Nascent soul inside Heaven Defying Bead for 700 years. He used Qi Xi spell on himself and sacrificed his vitality which is the key to lifespan to resurrect her and form flesh out of her Nascent soul which failed and didn't pass the 4th day out of 7 days. Wang Lin’s face revealed bitterness. He silently pondered for a while before revealing a decisive expression. He slapped his bag of holding and the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin flew out. The crystal coffin gave off a dazzling glow and was extremely gorgeous. Wang Lin’s hand trembled as he took Li Muwan’s nascent soul out from the Heaven Defying bead. Although he had made up his mind, now he silently pondered once more. To let go or not to let go...Looking at Li Muwan’s quickly-dissipating nascent soul, Wang Lin placed Li it inside the coffin. The moment her nascent soul landed in the coffin, she went from sitting down to lying down. Wang Lin stared intently. He forgot about everything else around him. Right now only Li Muwan existed.

The moment Li Muwan lied down, a mysterious force filled the coffin. This power surrounded the entire coffin. When it swept by, Li Muwan’s nascent soul trembled and showed signs of collapse. However, just at this moment, the sliver of life force inside Li Muwan’s nascent soul began to move and the collapse slowed. Eventually, a five-colored light came from inside the coffin. At this moment, Wang Lin’s heart experienced a huge change. He took a deep breath. With his intelligence, he immediately understood. If Li Muwan didn’t have that trace of life force, she would have collapsed inside this Heaven-Avoiding Coffin!

She was resurrected at the end of the story by Wang Lin and didn't let off his hands.

### Liu Mei/Mu Bingmei

Liu Mei gained a passing interest in Wang Lin when her Avatar met him in the Heng Yue Sect, countless years later her main self tried multiple times to steal his domain by proverbially clawing her way into his Dao Heart. During her last attempt however Wang Lin tricks her instead into consuming a Lust Domain, this results in her Charm ability affecting them both. As a result of this she ends up conceiving Wang Ping. Liu Mei's hatred for Wang Lin grows vastly from this incident. In her madness, she turned their son into a resentful spirit which led to her downfall starting by Wang Lin's revenge and finally, her death by the hand of her teacher. Her last, possibly redeeming, act was to tell Wang Lin how Wang Ping could be cured. She was seen to regularly bring up Li Muwan to torture Wang Lin emotionally, often asking if she truly is all his heart has room for. However given the complicated nature of their relationship it's hard to know whether or not this phrase was indicating a sense of jealousy on Liu Mei's part or just pure sadism.

As a result of all of this, Liu Mei's progenitor and true main body, Saintess Mu Bingmei, has complicated feelings towards Wang Lin. She can be thought of both as an extension to Liu Mei and an individual. She took Zhou Ru as a disciple because of Wang Lin and saved him from the All Seer because of these complicated feelings. Eventually she decides that ultimately she is Wang Ping's mother, whatever else, and completes her Dao Heart. She knows Wang Lin and Wang Ping both cannot forget her existence however and was more than willing to die to set them free of that during Wang Lin's revenge against Daoist Water. However Wang Lin himself had more or less reconciled his own feelings towards her by then and chose to save her life instead.

During the final battle of the war between the Sealed and Outer Realms, Wang Lin corrected one of his enemies by noting Bingmei was not his woman, but she is the mother of his son.

Around the end, she experienced Wang Lin's Dream Dao, where she lived an ordinary life as Liu Mei and married Wang Lin. After the dream, Wang Lin had his avatar accompany her.

## Friends and Allies

**Du Tian** - “From now on, I’ll hand the Soul Refining Sect to you…” On planet Suzaku, the Soul Refining Sect’s master, Dun Tian, placed the Soul Refining Sect’s treasure in Wang Lin's hands before passing away. After placing the inheritance of the Soul Refining Sect on his shoulders, Dun Tian closed his eyes, smiling…

**Situ Nan** had given up the chance to take away the Heaven Defying Bead and had accompanied Wang Lin for hundreds of years. He had taught Wang Lin cultivation from Wang Lin’s youth. A teacher, a brother, and also a friend… If there was no Situ, there would be no Wang Lin! Wang Lin once said something about Situ that represented all the gratitude he felt toward Situ! “I, Wang Lin, would never kneel to the heavens, only in respect for Situ!”

**Zhou Yi** was lovestruck for his entire live; nothing could cover his thousand-year obsession. He had given Wang Lin a fortune that had allowed Wang Lin to avoid death! Zhou Yi was obsessed with Qing Shuang.  “I, Zhou Yi, only want to do one thing in my life: to accompany Qing Shuang until the end of time…”

Brother **Qing Shui** had a cold face but a warm heart. Once he decided that Wang Lin was a cross generation disciple of Bai Fan, he was willing to do anything to make sure no one harmed Wang Lin! “Since he is my junior brother, no one can harm him. If you hurt one of his fingers, I will seek your life!” Qing Shui’s madness, which had caused him to kill his wife, brought all his grief and indignation, was due to the machinations of Seven-Colored Daoist which he simply viewed as amusement.

There was also the **fifth generation Vermillion Bird**. He was clearly at the end of his lifespan, but he was still willing to help Wang Lin recover. He had even handed the Vermillion Bird Divine Sect to Wang Lin. His kind gaze would forever linger in Wang Lin’s heart. “This old man, Lu Yun, has lived his entire life for the Vermillion Bird Divine Sect… Even though  I will soon die, I can now die with a smile… You’re excellent, take care of the Vermillion Bird Divine Sect for me.”

## Quote

More than 2,000 years but less than 3,000 years. It had been very long but also very short. Just like how the wind continued to blow across this prairie since ancient times.
A sigh echoed. Wang Lin walked on the prairie of this foreign continent. Perhaps because his injuries hadn’t healed, there was a hint of loneliness in his heart.
I cover the world in fire only so you won’t have a reason to be cold.
I shook the entire world with thunder only so you could hear my voice.
I walked millions and millions of kilometers across worlds only to find your breath.
I entered the devil dao to kill, defied the heavens, and killed celestials. I’ll subverted the heavens and earth and stand before you with my lonely figure only to make you open your eyes.
Wang looked at the darkness in the distance and silently walked.
He liked the darkness and the night because the dark night could cover up his bleakness. In the darkness, others couldn’t see his loneliness.
Everyone’s heart had a box. This box contained the memory of a person. This memory could be sweet and it could be bitter.
Some people lost this box along with themselves and couldn’t find it.
Some people locked the box and swallowed the sky. They don’t want to open it and wouldn’t allow others to touch it.
Some people always held the box in their hands, telling themselves not to forget.
Some people buried the box deep underground and waited for that day… When the spring flowers bloom, that beautiful flower will bloom as well.
The box contained the love for a person and a cup of sweet and bitter water...

## Links and References

1. ↑ Chapter 1177
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1433