Ji Ying

As the 5th and publicly declared final disciple of the Wondrous Pill Great Emperor, Ji Ying is an extremely accomplished Emperor Grade Alchemist upon first meeting Yang Kai outside of High Heaven Palace.

## Appearance

Ji Ying is described as a dignified and scholarly looking man.

## Personality

Ji Ying has an honorable, proud, and somewhat measured personality unless his Pill Refining is disturbed. He is generally open to new ways of thinking and takes his position as a disciple of Wondrous Pill Great Emperor quite seriously.

## Background

As a disciple of the Wondrous Pill Great Emperor, Ji Ying is an incredibly skilled Alchemist. This is shown when he is able to match Yang Kai's feat of refining 9 Emperor Pills at once, with one producing Pill Marks.

## History

### High Heaven Palace

Ji Ying is first seen at Fire Dragon Palace with its Sect Master, Li Jiao, and the Full Sky Sect Sect Master, Mi Qi, waiting for a Dragon Blood Flower to bloom. While they are enjoying the flower, he gets a message from one of his disciples, Li Xuan, that the latter has been beaten up and robbed at High Heaven Palace. Ji Ying, enraged, immediately heads there with the 3rd Order Emperors, Li Jiao and Mi Qi. On the way to High Heaven Palace, Li Xuan further lies and exaggerates the details of his visit to Ji Ying in order to further enrage the latter.

When the group arrives at High Heaven Palace, they are forced to wait outside its Sect Protecting Array. Eventually, after Dragon Island's Zhu Qing teaches Mi Qi a lesson, Yang Kai arrives to allow the visiting party through the Array and invites them inside, where he informs Ji Ying that he apparently does not have a good eye for disciples. Before Ji Ying understands, Nanmen Da Jun arrives and reveals both Li Xuan's arrogant demeanor and the fact that he sexually harassed Zhu Qing through a recording Array. Embarrassed and shamed, Ji Ying then immediately denounces Li Xuan as one of his disciples before expelling him from Medicine Pill Valley.

After hearing Yang Kai say he is an Emperor Grade Alchemist, Ji Ying finds it impossible to believe. Yang Kai manages to use this to draw Ji Ying into a Alchemy competition with the bet that he has to serve as his Chief Alchemy Expert upon losing. Ji Ying, annoyed that Yang Kai is apparently looking down on him, eventually agrees. Li Jiao and Mi Qi also take part in the bet, with each betting 50 years worth of income on Ji Ying winning. After Yang Kai takes out his pill furnace, Ji Ying immediately recognizes it as having belonged to Gongsun Mu. Both Ji Ying and Yang Kai manage to produce 9 pills, with one each producing Pill Veins. Ji Ying personally tastes both sets of pills and shockingly determines that Yang Kai is the winner. Li Jiao and Mi Qi, horrified, dare to question Ji Ying's judgement, to which he declares that they will never again receive pills from him. From this moment on, Ji Ying becomes the Chief Alchemy Expert of High Heaven Palace.

### New Disciple

After Yang Kai helps him to recover the corpse of the posthumously redeemed Gongsun Mu in Southern Territory to be delivered to Medicine Pill Valley, Ji Ying and his disciples take on all of the Alchemy-related duties of High Heaven Palace. Later, after Yang Kai returns to Star Boundary from the Heng Luo Star Field, he introduces Ji Ying to his wife, Xia Ning Chang. Though at first doubtful that such a young woman could be on the level of Yang Kai, Ji Ying is blown away when he discovers Xia Ning Chang possesses the legendary Sacred Spirit Medicine Body. Ji Ying then expresses to Yang Kai that he will introduce her to his Honored Master, but notifies him that his Honored Master has also very publicly declared that he would never take another disciple. Later, Ji Ying informs Yang Kai that Xia Ning Chang was placed as his own disciple in name only, as the Wondrous Pill Great Emperor actually treats her as his 6th disciple.

### Demon War

During the Demon War, High Heaven Palace is turned into a major base of operations after Yang Kai is declared to have Become Devil and revolted against Star Boundary. Ji Ying then leads all the best Alchemist in the war effort in the supreme safety of High Heaven Palace. One day, Ji Ying is watching as Xia Ning Chang is in the final stages of crafting a high grade pill. He is then extremely enraged when Xia Ning Chang senses the return of Yang Kai, who is calling for her, and ends up ruining the pill she was refining. Ji Ying rushes to admonish Yang Kai when one of the other Alchemist, by the name of Grandmaster Zhou, dares to call Yang Kai a traitor before telling him to let Xia Ning Chang go free.

Eventually, the Great Emperors send Yao Si, the son of the Serene Soul Great Emperor, to deliver an edict declaring Yang Kai as a hero of Star Boundary and as the newly formed 6th Stem Army’s Army Commander. After this arrangement, Ji Ying has a horrified Grandmaster Zhou sent to Seven Mist Sea, which is under the command of Li Wu Yi, where he could possibly be sent to the frontlines. Grandmaster Zhou then has no choice but to accept this assignment, as it would no longer be safe for him to stay in High Heaven Palace. Later, Ji Ying and the other Alchemists hide out in the World Beads refined by Yang Kai during the war as the Star Boundary eventually achieves victory.

### Void Land

When Yang Kai returns to Star Boundary from the Outer Universe with the World Tree subtree, he decides to gather at least 500,000 of Star Boundary's most talented people back to Void Land for training. As the Chief Pill Master of High Heaven Palace, Ji Ying would be responsible for selecting the talented up and coming Alchemists. Upon arriving in Void Land, Ji Ying would be part of its massively important and successful Pill Refining division along with his Master.

## Trivia

* In the original web novel, Yang Kai uses Gongsun Mu’s Emperor Grade Alchemy Furnace, called the Purple Origin Furnace, in his contest with Ji Ying, and it is subsequently recognized by the latter. DDL changes this Furnace to the Black Jade Furnace in their translation.
* Likewise, DDL’s translation changes the fact that Ji Ying recognized Yang Kai’s Alchemy Furnace as belonging to Gongsun Mu, and he only makes the connection from the similar Pill Recipe Yang Kai used instead.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 2792
2. ↑ Chapter 2729
3. ↑ Chapter 2736
4. ↑ Chapter 2742
5. ↑ Chapter 2739