Lan Ling

> *Being evil means doing whatever you want. Doctrines, rules, comrades are all worth shit! I only showed a slight interest in you because you said you womanized Untitled Sages. Who the fuck do you think you are?***Lan Ling** to Ye Yan in "Can't Deceive Anymore..."

## Biographical Information

### Alias

Lan Ling Fairy (兰灵仙子)
Chaotic Evil Sage (乱世邪修)
Senpai (前辈) by Gu Xiaohua
Ling (灵儿) by her senpai

## Debut

### Manhua Debut

Chapter 172

**Lan Ling** was the daughter of a branch sect Untitled Sage and a monster. She later succumbed to evil after a series of events and massacred countless people before being defeated by three Grand Masters from main sage sects and thrown into the Sage Prison.

## Background

Lan Ling was born to a branch sect Untitled Sage and a monster, having inherited her father's pointy ears. Due to being born as a female, she was accepted into the sage sect. Her monster heritage drew prejudice towards her due to the entire sanctum being humans, which motivated her to become stronger than others so they won't have the confidence to discriminate her. In fact, Lan Ling was far more talented than other people in her generation, and her power grew far faster as well. Her strength eventually earned her the position as a candidate for the successor to the Grand Master in the sanctum, however everyone in the sanctum still discriminated against her and only feared her for her strength. The only exception was her senpai.

Lan Ling's senpai was the son of the Grand Master and the only man in the sect. He was kept in the sanctum as an exception due to the Grand Master's love for him. He was the only person in the sanctum who doesn't discriminate Lan Ling because of her heritage, in fact he even admired her for her strength due to lacking in power himself. Due to being a male, Lan Ling's senpai wasn't as talented as the others and constantly asked for Lan Ling's tutorage. These interactions caused other girls to become jealous. Realizing that strength was her only advantage, she vowed to become stronger so her senpai will like her more.

One autumn afternoon, Lan Ling's senpai confessed his love to Lan Ling, stating that Lan Ling was different from the other girls and that he likes girls who are strong willed and strive to become better. However, Lan Ling's sense of inferiority caused her to feel unworthy of her senpai's love and realize that deep down in her heart, she even held prejudice against herself. Instead of responding to her senpai, Lan Ling decided to run away, wishing to become more powerful so she can feel confident enough to be worthy of his love.

Perfectly timed, a grimoire containing a difficult but strong secret technique passed down through generations in the sanctum was given to the successor candidates to learn. Being the strongest out of all the candidates, Lan Ling believed that learning the technique will allow her to acquire the highest rank in the sanctum and secure her position as the future Grand Master, which would make her strong and confident enough to accept her senpai's love. Just when all was planned out, two of the most talented and beautiful seniors in the sanctum confessed their love to her senpai.

Lan Ling's senpai didn't want to hurt the feelings of the two girls, so instead of rejecting their confession, he hinted at his affection towards Lan Ling and promised to treat the two seniors better and more as siblings than lovers. However, the two seniors misunderstood Lan Ling's senpai's intentions and started to interact with him more intimately, believing that Lan Ling just wants to use her senpai's position to climb the ranks in the sanctum. When she sees them interact, Lan Ling secretly thinks that her seniors are better matches for her senpai than herself. During her breaks while training, Lan Ling would still talk with her senpai by avoiding topics on their relationship and interacting like friends, and her senpai would still treat her with lots of care and love. These interactions angered the two seniors, who were willing to accept the presence of each other but couldn't accept Lan Ling due to her heritage. Their initial scorn towards Lan Ling soon evolved into loathing, then hatred, and eventually their hatred towards Lan Ling peaked to the point where they would only feel better if she was dead. Knowing that they can't directly defeat Lan Ling even if they teamed up, they plotted to wait for the right time to kill her.

Eventually, that time came. On the day when Lan Ling was about to master the secret technique, the two seniors relentlessly attacked her room when she was at her weakest. Lan Ling's room burned down, and a sword that was meant to pierce her accidentally pierced her senpai, who was accompanying her in her training. Lan Ling's vision went blurry and her mind went blank, by the time she woke up, everyone in the sanctum was massacred by her. After witnessing all the blood and gore, Lan Ling didn't feel fear, but instead felt excitement. She realized that she obtained far more power than intended, believing it to be caused by either the emotional impact of her senpai's death or her father's blood, but also realized that she "went mad" as a result. Though mad, she was still able to think. Lan Ling thought about the tragedy and concluded that it was all caused by prejudice. Because of prejudice, she felt inferior and wouldn't accept her senpai's love; because of prejudice, her two seniors felt superior and believed that killing someone inferior wouldn't be a big deal. From that point on, Lan Ling despised prejudice and superiority, and vowed to kill all the people who felt superior about themselves and discriminated against others. Since then, she traveled the world and specifically attacked clans that thought highly of themselves, massacring another branch Sage sanctum and three great clans in one year. The deaths of countless people eventually earned her the epithet: Chaotic Evil Sage. Twenty years before the current timeline, she learned how to operate a computer with a mouse, in the same year she learned how to open her Heaven's Eye, and was captured and thrown into the Sage Prison in the Hollow Jade Peak by three main branch Grand Masters who fought her for two days and one night.

## Personality

Lan Ling was extremely evil and ruthless. This was shown when she choked, and almost killed Gu Xiaohua and Ye Yan when they mentioned "fighting together", Lan Ling states that being evil means you can do whatever you want, and that rules, laws and even comrades are considered nothing. This was further shown when she killed Sir Water Mirror, the mastermind behind her escape from the Sage Prison, simply so she can test out the Heaven's Eye Merging Spell for her own benefit.

After being influenced by Li Lingbiao, Lan Ling became addicted to "League of Legends". She became obsessed to the point that she postponed her plan to attack the Department of Night for three days just to get promoted into the Silver League, and was only motivated again when she merged her Heaven's Eye with Sir Water Mirror's. This addiction was further emphasized when Huang Xiaoyan used the Resting Spell on her to create an illusion (her dying wish) of her playing League of Legends with her senpai.

## Appearance

Lan Ling appears overall human, having dark long hair with a hair knot on top of her head, however her monster heritage gave her pointy ears and yellow eyes, which are the source of prejudice drawn towards her. Before she went mad, she wore the standard white robe given to everyone in her sanctum. After going mad, she wore a purple robe and an indigo dress.

Lan Ling in her youth.
## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Lan Ling was an extremely powerful Untitled Sage. She was able to massacre an entire sect of Untitled Sages in her youth, singlehandedly massacre another sect of Untitled Sages along with three powerful mystic clans within a year, fight three main sect Grand Masters for two days before finally being defeated, easily defeat Bao Huajuan's Flag Demon in one minute, defeat seven of Ye Yan's Flag Demons with one attack and overpower the Nightwatcher himself without much effort, and easily defeat Huang Xiaoyan after her Pure Tranquil Sage Mind was deactivated.

**Incredible Strength**: Lan Ling possessed incredible strength. She has been shown easily throwing Gu Xiaohua into the ceiling of a room with one hand, as well as choking and raising her and Ye Yan with one hand.

**Eidetic Memory**: Lan Ling possessed eidetic memory, allowing her to memorize things just by looking at them. She used this ability to memorize all the instructions for the Heaven's Eye Merging Spell written by Sir Water Mirror on a book, as well as use it in conjunction with Multi-Reading to read the Stone Maiden Heart Sutra and Jade Maiden Heart Sutra at the same time.

### Techniques

**Sea of Sage Wisdom** (仙识之海 *Xiān Shí Zhī Hǎi*): The Sea of Sage Wisdom is an innate trait in Untitled Sages and their descendants. It is the origin of the Untitled Sages' magical energy and can be used to store hundreds, thousands or even millions of different types of talisman within in, depending on its capacity which varies among Untitled Sages, which can then be summoned around the Untitled Sage for use. Since one's Sea of Sage Wisdom is directly linked to their consciousness, Sage Hunters can invade it and read an Untitled Sage's focal memories and create illusions that target a weak point in the Untitled Sage's consciousness, causing them to either faint or die from shock.
**Heaven's Eye** (天眼 *Tiān Yǎn*): A powerful technique used by some Untitled Sages and their descendants that opens a third eye on their forehead when activated. When the Heaven's Eye is opened, Untitled Sages are able to see the invisible and through obstructions, discern the cause and effect of events, and amplify their magic power by drawing the power of the heavens into themselves. Untitled Sages that opened their Heaven's Eye for the first time will experience some kind of drawback, and the effects of the drawback either increases or stays the same every time they open it again. For Lan Ling, before absorbing Sir Water Mirror's Heaven's Eye, the drawback for opening her Heaven's Eye was immediate unconsciousness. After absorbing Sir Water Mirror's Heaven's Eye, the drawback for opening her own every time was vomiting blood. She has been seen using her Heaven's Eye to obtain more energy to perform Myriad Transmutation Seal multiple times.

**Myriad Transmutation Talisman** (万化百炼符 *Wàn Huà Bǎi Liàn Fú*): **Lan Ling** was capable of altering the function of a talisman when it is summoned to deal surprise attacks or infinitely use a talisman she favors. The method behind this technique is projection: By storing every talisman of the user's knowledge in their Sea of Sage Wisdom as "origin tags" and storing numerous tags for disposal, Lan Ling can project the "origin tag" onto a summoned talisman and change its function into the function of the "origin tag". Using this technique, Lan Ling was capable of consecutively using Substitution tags without delay by infinitely projecting the one Substitution tag in her Sea of Sage Wisdom onto other talisman, a feat that is normally impossible to achieve. This technique requires lots of energy and was only used as a last resort by Lan Ling twenty years ago. After absorbing Sir Water Mirror's Heaven's Eye, Lan Ling was able to use it more frequently than before by opening her Heaven's Eye.

## Equipment

**Talisman** (灵符 *Líng Fú*): Talisman are paper tags with different inscriptions written on them using cinnabar that represent the type of talisman it is. By spiritually bonding with the tag, Lan Ling can use it or multiply it to greater amounts and store them inside her Sea of Sage Wisdom for later use. After summoning them, Lan Ling can control the direction they fly towards and induce their effects. Using Void Seal Creation, Lan Ling was capable of summoning talisman within a hundred meter radius around her, which is different from other Untitled Sages who are only able to summon talisman around themselves.

## References

*Guardians of Night* Manhua — Chapter 190 (p. 1).
*Guardians of Night* Manhua — Chapter 307 (p. 8-9).
*Guardians of Night* Manhua — Chapter 162 (p. 1).
*Guardians of Night* Manhua — Chapter 162 (p. 2).