Qi Yu

**Qi Yu (齐羽)** is a character in novel series *Daomu Biji* and part of the Xisha Archeological Team. Very little information is known about him and much of it is speculation from Wu Xie.

Wu Xie spent over 10 years copying Qi Yu's calligraphy as a child. Wu Xie believes Qi Yu is a member of the Qi family.

## Personality

Wu Erbai knew Qi Yu and thought he was a silent young man who was weak but determined. Qi Yu was the kind of person who would finish things quietly once he made up his mind. He was also stubborn about his ideas and did not get long well with Wu Sanxing.

## History

### Family Origins

Qi Yu's exact birth year is unknown but he is similar in age to Wu Erbai. Qi Yu's parents and the origin of his family are generally unknown.

Wu Xie believes that Qi Yu is "undoubtedly part of the Qi Family." However, Qi Yu may not be blood-related to Qi Tiezui. One reason is that the last person in Qi Tiezui’s family line had long lived overseas. Later, when Hei Yanjing goes to Russia and a young boy from the Qi family dies, he comments that the boy was the last living descendent from the Qi family. Additionally, Qi Tiezui broke the rules set by his ancestors and passed on all of his crafts to a child who wasn't related to him by blood. That child may have been Qi Yu since Qi Yu knows methods of Feng Shui that only someone in the Qi family would know.

### Early Years

There is not much information available on what Qi Yu was doing in the early years of his life. It's speculated that he may have been part of the 1976 archeological expedition to the Zhang Family Tomb with Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling. This is because of the line in *Volume 8* which says the "follow-up archaeological work on the Zhang family’s ancient building was the first gathering of the Mystic Nine’s second generation." Since Qi Yu is thought to be part of the Mystic Nine's second generation, this could have been the first time he met Chen Wenjin and Wu Sanxing. Besides this line, there's no other text that supports this theory.

Qi Yu was a civil servant for a long time. He then became a clerk of a state-owned organization sometime before he went to the South Sea King's Tomb.

### South Sea King's Tomb

Before going to the Xisha tomb, likely in the early 1980s, Qi Yu joined Wu Sanxing, Chen Wenjin, Yang Daguang, and some unnamed others on an archeological exploration of the South Sea King’s tomb. While there Qi Yu may have set up a complex Feng Shui array. The Feng Shui array used a shuikao (a type of diving suit) with Qi Yu's name on it. The reason why Qi Yu set up the Feng Shui array is unknown.

### Xisha Underwater Tomb

Around 1985, Qi Yu joined the Xisha Archeological team to explore Wang Zanghai's underwater tomb. Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen believed that by this time, Qi Yu was part of an organization called “Shigou Diao” where some members eat corpse flesh. The two also thought Qi Yu was taken to Golmud Sanatorium and experimented on, similar to Huo Ling and Chen Wen Jin.

### After Xisha

After Xisha, there were very few clues about Qi Yu. Qi Yu was also very resistant to having his photo taken most of the time. Even if there were photos, they were all side profiles.

## Trivia

* Qi Yu was mentioned in the novel Angry Sea, Hidden Sands. However, in its live-action television adaptation and donghua, he is never mentioned.
* Qi Yu was mentioned throughout the novel *Restart (Chong Qi)*. However, in its television adaptation, he is never mentioned and is instead replaced by Qi Jin, an original character.
* Qi Yu smoked cigarettes.

## References

1. ↑ Lao Jiu Men, Introduction
2. ↑ Restart, Chapter 62
3. ↑ Bronze Tree of Death (Print), Chapter 15, Page 105
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Restart, Chapter 62
5. ↑ Lao Jiu Men, Introduction
6. ↑ Restart, Chapter 62 (Wu Xie: "Qi Yu was undoubtedly a member of the Qi family."); Restart, Chapter 75 ("Uncle Two had seen the true colors of the legends I could only guess about. According to Uncle Two’s impression, that Qi Yu from the Qi family was a silent young man who was very weak, but very determined.); Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 23 (Woman in the in the old Mystic Nine’s circle: "The person with that posture was named Qi Yu, and he was a descendant of the Qi family.")
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Restart, Chapter 75
8. ↑ Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 27
9. ↑ Restart, Chapter 62 (Wu Xie: “Among the Mystic Nine children who went to Xisha at that time, Qi Yu was undoubtedly a member of the Qi family.”); Restart, Chapter 62 (Wu Xie thinks Qi Yu set up a Feng Shui array using the wetsuit with Qi Yu's name on it. Wu Xie: "Setting up an array in this tomb was probably due to special circumstances at the time, which only someone from the Qi family could handle.”); Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 23; (Xiao Hua imitated Qi Yu’s weird posture (long story) and a woman in her seventies knew someone in the Mystic Nine like that. Wu Xie: “The person with that posture was named Qi Yu, and he was a descendant of the Qi family.”); Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 50 (Xia Wen, an associate of Qi Yu, knew how to use the Qi Family’s special divination method. Also, Qi Tiezui “ broke the rules set by his ancestors and passed on all of his crafts to a child who wasn’t related to him by blood.” This child is very likely Qi Yu); Mystic Nine Relation Chart [Translation] [Screenshot of NPSS reblogging it] [NPSS Weibo Post (iQiYi’s posts get deleted after 6 months, so their post is gone)] (Qi Yu is under the Qi family branch).
10. ↑ Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 39 and 50 (a plan was set in motion by Er Ye, Jiu Ye, and Ba Ye. Their descendants were supposed to carry it out. Xiao Hua was hoping he could stand in as part of Er Ye’s Hong family as well as the Xie family. Wu Xie knew that "the **last person** in Ba Ye’s family line had long lived overseas.” He thought that Qi Yu could instead stand-in since he was kind of part of the Qi family).
11. ↑ Hei Yanjing & Xiaohua Extra, Chapter 6 (Hei Yanjing: “I have a deep relationship with the Qi family, but I’m not a blood relative.”)).
12. ↑ Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 23.
13. ↑ Restart, Chapter 62; Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 50.
14. ↑ The speculation is included on his Baidu page. Qi Yu, Baidu
15. ↑ Volume 8, Chapter 82
16. ↑ Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 23; Restart, Chapter 62 ("Among the Mystic Nine children who went to Xisha at that time, Qi Yu was undoubtedly a member of the Qi family."); Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 47 ("In the second generation of the Mystic Nine, there was a man named Qi Yu who was the only Shigou Diao member among his peers.")
17. ↑ Restart, Chapter 62
18. ↑ Restart, Chapter 62 ("[Qi Yu, Chen Wen Jin, and Uncle Three] must have entered the South Sea King’s tomb after Uncle Three met Chen Wen-Jin but before they went to Xisha."); Volume 8, Chapter 82 ("Around 1985—The archaeological team entered the Xisha undersea tomb"); Restart, Chapter 4 ("[People in the photo, including Chen Wenjin, Uncle Three, and Yang Daguang] were wearing engineering hats from the 1980s); Restart, Chapter 55 ("This [corpse in the South Sea King Tomb]’s clothes must have been from the 1980s."); Restart, Chapter 89 (Wu Xie believed there was a team of "at least six people.")
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Restart, Chapter 89
20. ↑ Restart, Chapter 62; Restart, Chapter 77 (Pangzi: "Don’t forget that Little Brother went to Xisha with your Uncle Three and Qi Yu back then."); Volume 8, Chapter 82 ("Around 1985—The archaeological team entered the Xisha undersea tomb")
21. ↑ Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 27 (Xia Wen confirmed that Qi Yu was a member of the Shigou Diao); Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 47
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Ten Thousand Mountains in the Extreme Night, Chapter 23
23. ↑ Volume 7, Chapter 4