Duanmu Yin

Duanmu Siping (Daughter) †

Duanmu Xi (son)

Shenlong Lihua (Lover and Supervisor) †

Duanmu Siyun (Niece)

Duanmu Lian (Sister or cousin) †

Great-grandmother (Grandmother)

Duanmu Luoyue (Ancestor) † (body only)

Yinzhe (Spirit shadow/ Soul image)

**Duanmu Yin** was the 61st Yangming Master and a previous head of the Duanmu family. He was the husband of Situ Lan, with whom he had twin children, Duanmu Siming and Duanmu Siping. He had, also, fathered a son with Shenlong Lihua before his marriage, Duanmu Xi, who later became the 63rd Yangming Master.

At some point, Duanmu Yin befriended Yinzhe, a thousand-year-old fox demon that resided in Jingling mountain, where the Duanmu household was located . After he became the Yangming Master, he wanted to make Yinzhe his spirit shadow, as he considered him the only one who accepted him as he was. Yinzhe initially refused, but Duanmu Yin tricked him by gifting him a knife, inside which he had hidden the soul-locking rings. When Yinzhe saw the rings, he tried to flee by transforming into his fox form, but Yin caught him and forcefully put them on his front legs. Yinzhe decided to accept his fate, since Yin didn't have much time left and was actually quite fond of him as well. That way, Duanmu Yin became the first Yangming Master in history that took a demon as a spirit shadow.

During his short life, Duanmu Yin was a playboy, fooling around with women without taking any responsibilities. But when Shenlong Lihua became his supervisor, without him knowing her true identity, he fell in love with her and eventually convinced her to spend a night with him. After that night, he asked her to marry him but she had to refuse, due to her secretly being his assigned supervisor and so, such a relationship was actually forbidden. She later found out that she was pregnant with his child, due to her mistaking her diet pills for the contraceptive pills. She immediately arranged to have an abortion, but while she was at the clinic listening to the patients' conversations and after a brief encounter with a young Yang Jinghua, she decided to keep this taboo child and leave her previous life as head of the Shenlong family and supervisor of Duanmu Yin behind. After she passed the Shenlong family's power of hypnosis to her younger brother Shenlong Xiren, she left with Quan, a little orphan girl that had been serving her for years and whom she later adopted, to raise her son secretly from the Duanmu household and not shame her own family. Meanwhile, Duanmu Yin's grandmother arranged a marriage between him and Situ Lan, which he tried to refuse by saying that there was someone else he liked. His grandmother, however, told him that if she really loved him she should appear before her and convince her that she deserves to be in the family, otherwise he has to take responsibility as the head of the Duanmu household and produce an heir through this marriage, since he didn't have much time left alive. Lihua never responded to his messages or phone calls, except for a congratulatory message on his wedding day. After that, she disappeared, while he married Situ Lan and soon got her pregnant with twins.

When his son, Duanmu Xi, was born, he had such immense spiritual powers that neither he, nor his mother could control, so he was brought to Duanmu Yin to help suppress his powers. Duanmu Yin, however, refused to take them in and his attempt to suppress Xi's powers didn't work. Yin died shortly afterwards on the altar, not getting to see the birth of his twin children.

Before his death, Duanmu Yin took the soul-locking rings off Yinzhe and asked him to take care of his son, Duanmu Xi, as the last contract between them, proving that he did care about Xi in the end. Since Yinzhe valued his relationship with Yin greatly, he honored that promise by always watching over Duannmu Xi and even giving his 1000-year-old cultivation to restore his body, when Xi committed suicide as a child.