Jin Huayao

**Jin Huayao** (金花葯要, *Jīn Huáyào*), also known as the **Qinglong Sword** (青龍劍, *Qīnglóng Jiàn*), is a minor character in *Sacred Sword of the Heavenly Individuals*, the preceeding story to *Beautiful Orchid of Eye* as well as a side character in *Beautiful Orchid of Eye*. He is the founder and first Sect Master of the Ancient Azusa Mountain Sect, along with being the Lord of Yin Liu Peak. He is reputed to have been the most powerful cultivator of his era, to the extent that he was rumored to be one of the fabled Dragon Soverigns.

In the story of Sacred Sword, Jin Huayao is depicted as a lonesome individual that was predeceased by almost everybody he had ever loved due to a blood curse maliciously cast onto his family for unknown reasons.

## Appearance & Personality

In the novel, Jin Huayao is described as an young and handsome looking man with an air akin to a mischevious younger brother. He dressed in mainly free-flowing and light-weight silver, white, and gold robes of the xuan duan style, making him appear similar to that of a gentle and compassionate young high-born maiden. His eyes were reportably pure snow white, due to a severe case of the magical plague Meizhou robbing him of his eyesight from a young age.

In the donghua, Jin Huayao was depicted with a far more feminine style of clothing and was noted to posess the strange habit of cross-dressing which scandelized some of his clan's members.

### Personality

He is said to be gentle and compassionate to the members of his sect. As depicted in the novel, he is a peaceful soul that rarely if ever engages in either verbal or physical combat due to his dislike for bloodshed. He hides his pain from the loss of almost all of his family members behind a facade of serenity and calmness, although his facade is completely shattered when he is enraged or driven to a beserker-like state. When reduced to such a state, he is incapable of regulating himself and lashes out in an uncontrollable manner. His fellow Zodiac Lords describe it as a "loathsome state", in which a person is unable to comprehend the depths of their rage and hatred towards the world and as such, they become angry without truly knowing why.

His love for his younger siblings led to him taking on the rearing of their orphaned children, though he is just as harsh on them as he is on his younger siblings.

## History

Jin Huayao was born into the prosperous cultivation clan of Jin, located in the Xuan Su Mountains and whom practiced the Shadowflash style of swordsmanship, growing up practicing his clan's unique style of swordsmanship.

## Abilities & Equipment

* **Cultivation** -
* **Jin Bloodline** - Those who have any amount of Jin blood flowing through their body posess what is known as the Jin Bloodline, a inheritance that allows them to utilize Shadowflash Swordsmanship to it's fullest apex.
* **Fast Regeneration** -
* **Strength** -
* **Shadowflash Swordsmanship** - A style of swordsmanship unique to the Jin and their main bloodline's members that combines the usage of 'shadow step' and 'qi-sensing' to create a new product. Users of this style of swordsmanship are physically faster, stronger, lighter, and better able to adapt to change on the battlefield. Their movements are not impeded by the mere switching around of the battlefield, with their capabilities becoming greatly enhanced in shadowed or areas that posess a great amount of cover to a scouting individual. When in usage, a user's five senses are greatly enhanced, almost to their apex at the height of a human's prime and they are capable of great feat.

### Equipment

* **Qinglong** (青龍, *Qīnglóng*) - His sword and main weapon,

## Trivia

* Jin Huayao is statistically the shortest of the Zodiac Lords at only 4'11" while Jiang Xialuote is the tallest of the Lords at 6'7".
* He has a sweet tooth though denies it quite violently when asked about it.
* His weakness is his siblings' children whom he protects fiercely.