Jin Caiyi

**Jin Caiyi** (金采翼, *Jīn Cǎiyì*) was the mother of Jin Qingni and the missing Shizun of Shi Wu and his martial siblings.

During her youth she apprenticed underneath the cultivation master, Lu Liu, the late father of Lao-Qin and the maternal grandfather of Shi Wu, making her the martial aunt of Lao-Qin and the martial grandaunt of Shi Wu. In addition to her relations to her head disciple, she is the senior martial sister of Lan Rue and younger martial sister of Lan Kayuni.

She hails from Nanshan Sanyan Sect, located in the northern Faman Mountains of the region of Xi'an.

## Appearance

Possessing a rather fragile and sickly appearance, Jin Caiyi, inherited the general overall appearance of the Yuki-onna race. Her pale features combined with that of her human father created her still fairly pale lily-white skin in a far warmer tone, making her appear rather human to the ordinary mortals. Yet to a skilled cultivator, her inhuman characteristics are immediately noticable in the form of her arctic-blue eyes that don't display any visible light displacement and her eternally cold body tempature.

## Personality

Shi Wudu and his martial siblings' headstrong Shizun and a revered warrior in her own right, Jin Caiyi, is often depicted by her students and martial siblings as a no-nonsense, determined, and driven individual. Caring naught for social niceities, she fearlessely charged forward without regarding her own personal safety and was fiercely protective of her disciples, regarding them as if they were her own children. Caiyi's own Shizun Lu Liu once described her as a "mother bear" and saw her as his most honorable student, due to her refusal to tread the crooked path even for her own students.

Her final act for her students before going missing, was the utilization of demonic energy in order to save them from falling into a ravine during her fight with the Demon Emperor's sons and their armies. This showed that she was selfless enough to give up her own life in the line of duty and for the sake of saving her disciples despite their objections.

## Abilities

* **Cultivation**: Jin Caiyi is renowned as a talented cultivator within her generation, with an exceptionally high level of cultivation. She is a master of the techniques from Nanshan Sanyan Sect.
* **Yuki-Onna Bloodline**: Being one of the few individuals that are half-blooded Yuki-Onna's, she carries a specific varient of the main Yuki-Onna Bloodline that is adjusted to fit the constraints of her humanoid body. With this bloodline, she is capable of drastically lowering the tempature of the very molecules in the air around her to absolute zero, a state in which nothing can move and everything is frozen in a prepetual state, treading the line behind life and death.
* **Preception**: Jin Caiyi is quite preceptive.
* **Strength**: As a member of the Nashan Sanyan Sect, Jin Caiyi possesses prodigious arm strength from preforming strengthing excercises and conducting Night Hunts from the time that she was extremely young. As a teenager, she can already haul two peers by the collar with merely one arm. During the various Night Hunts that she reportably conducted at the peak of her career as a young woman, she was capable of flying away her disciples on her back and some on her sword despite being heavily injured herself.
* **Swordsmanship**:
* **Archery**:
* **Cooking**:

## Weapons

* **Yongheng Xingfu** (永恒的幸福, *Yǒnghéng de Xìngfú*): Jin Caiyi's sword. It is strong enough to cut through most spiritual metals with ease and heavy enough for non-cultivators to be unable to wield it. One of the most easily recognizable swords, by the characters carved into it's blade near the top (close to the hilt) that read "Blessed Words of Divinity, Shine Bright and Eradicate All Evil in the World" (神语加持，光明普照，铲除世间一切邪恶, *Shén Yǔ Jiāchí, Guāngmíng Pǔzhào, Chǎnchú Shìjiān Yīqiè Xié'è*). The words are engraved on the sword in a bold warm golden-yellow color, contrasting with the silver-white to icy arctic blue gradient-colour of the sword's blade. The sheath of Yongheng Xingfu is of the same silver-white to icy arctic blue gradient-colour as the blade itself.

Like most swords that originate from the forges of the Nanshan Sanyan Sect, a sword charm is attached to the hilt of Yongheng Xingfu, being carved with a large Lotus flower. After her disappearance, Yongheng Xingfu also disappeared alongside her and presumably is still residing in her care.

* **Youya Xingguang** (优雅星光, *Yōuyǎ Xīngguāng*): Jin Caiyi's relic that carries the power of the Path of the Hunt, it was constructed during the beginning of common cultivation history, inherited from Shen Jiu, one of the Olden God Shen Qingqiu's divine aspects. It takes the form of a spiritual whip, though it is capable of shifting into other weapon forms as the user so wishes and wills. The words of "Purge all darkness" (净化一切黑暗, *Jìnghuà Yīqiè Hēi'àn*) is engraved onto it, as a sign of the relic's purpose in being created. After her death, Youya Xingguang was retrieved from the battlefield by Shi Wu and remains in his posession.
* **Bow & Arrows**: Jin Caiyi's set consisting of a standard bow and quiver of arrows. It boasts the Lotus flower motif of the Nanshan Sanyan Sect.

## Trivia

* She is believed to be descended from the Olden God, Shen Qingqiu, specifically the aspect of Shen Jiu.
	+ She bears a myrtle branch, a symbol traditionally associated with Shen Jiu and wears a dove hairpin, which is another symbol associated with Shen Jiu.
	+ Much like Jin Caiyi, Shen Jiu was a user of the Path of the Hunt and was believed to have created it, in order to better protect the common people.
	+ When utilizing her abilities that derive their power directly from the Path of the Hunt, a silhouette bearing an uncanny resembalance to Shen Jiu is depicted standing behind Jin Caiyi and guiding her weapon arm.