A Thousand Li: The Fourth Fall characters

Also known as Verdant Gatherer

Appears from the start

A returning Verdant Green Waters elder, swordsman, and leader of the wandering gatherers. His cultivation joins the sword to the Seven Winds body art, while his position binds him to students, sect duties, and the search for rare spiritual resources.

Also known as Merchant ally

Appears from the start

Wu Ying's close companion, a wood cultivator and formation theorist with extensive trading connections. Her practical judgment and independent outlook complement his wandering path, while her commercial network reaches beyond the sect.

Appears from the start

A former monk, Verdant Green Waters elder, and fire-staff cultivator. He is a trusted friend of Wu Ying and a formidable practitioner of flame techniques.

Appears from the start

A Verdant Green Waters elder and Wu Ying's martial sister. Fairy Yang moves between sect affairs, intelligence work, and direct cultivation matters with a firm concern for discipline.

Appears from the start

Verdant Green Waters' leading apothecarist and a longstanding ally of Wu Ying. She is a trusted source of medical and alchemical expertise whose work supports both individual cultivators and the sect's wider advancement.

Appears from the start

The Nascent Soul leader of Verdant Green Waters, responsible for its cultivators, political standing, and long-term survival. The sect head balances formidable personal power with the demands of administration and succession.

First appears in chapter 9

A Verdant Green Waters official responsible for intelligence and foreign affairs. The guardian approaches Wu Ying during his training to discuss a diplomatic mission involving Wei and Tsui.

First appears in chapter 11

A returning Shen nobleman and cultivator who has integrated a demonic replacement eye and arm. He joins the embassy at Wei's request while facing unresolved family, political, and cultivation obligations.

First appears in chapter 13

A Core Formation prince whom Wu Ying once rescued and offended. He accepts an expensive pill as reparation without abandoning his hostility, and his place in the royal delegation makes Wu Ying partly responsible for his security.

First appears in chapter 14

A disguised attacker who targets the fourth prince with poison during Wei's reception. The assassin conceals their cultivation, sacrifices an arm to escape Wu Ying, and uses a specialized dagger to breach a forming containment ward.

First appears in chapter 16

A young royal of Wei who cultivates water with notable promise. Her planned union with Shen's fourth prince supports the alliance, although court expectations may narrow her future advancement.

First appears in chapter 16

A Nascent Soul cultivator who secretly guards Wei's king. Her Tao was shaped by grief surrounding her husband's betrayal and death.

First appears in chapter 16

Three surviving Wei swordsmen from a tradition known for mediation and defensive swordwork. Each has attained the heart of the sword, and one asks to test swords with Wu Ying after noticing his weapon.

First appears in chapter 18

Wei's first prince is initially assessed as a pill-supported cultivator of limited martial importance. He remains part of the royal and political landscape surrounding the new alliance and the approaching talks with Tsui.

First appears in chapter 19

A senior Shen representative carrying the kingdom's political burdens at the Tsui talks. He must manage an unexpectedly altered balance of powerful cultivators and makes hard choices about the fourth prince's continued presence.

First appears in chapter 19

A feared Nascent Soul field commander announced as part of Tsui's unusually powerful negotiating party. Reports portray the general as formidable, though the delegation has not yet confirmed the stories about their methods.

First appears in chapter 20

An aged formation cultivator travelling with Verdant Green Waters. Despite infirmity and a cultivation base strained by age, he accompanies the delegation to the border negotiations.

First appears in chapter 26

Tsui's king and the central power behind its delegation. He arrives with a compact, disciplined vanguard and projects a dominating aura strong enough to require several allied Nascent Soul cultivators to answer him.

First appears in chapter 29

An allied patriarch skilled in formations and writing-based cultivation. He detects covert illusion workings around the negotiations, quietly disrupts them, and advises Wu Ying about the martial challenges being arranged.