A Thousand Li: The Fourth Wall characters

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A swordsman and traveler of Verdant Green Waters whose failed ascent has left his immortal soul and body dangerously divided. His allies struggle to stabilize him as the two halves repeatedly pull apart.

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Wu Ying's closely bonded companion, a merchant and formation expert who helps sustain him during the crisis after his failed ascent.

Appears from the start

A former monk and fire-dragon staff cultivator who arrives with supplies from Verdant Green Waters to help treat Wu Ying.

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Wu Ying's martial sister, who arrives with Tou He and supplies from Verdant Green Waters to assist with an uncertain treatment.

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Yang Mu's mother and a Nascent Soul cultivator who helps sustain Wu Ying during his initial crisis with healing and balanced spiritual power.

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Yang Mu's father and a Nascent Soul cultivator who lends his strength to the formations keeping Wu Ying alive during the initial crisis.

Appears from the start

An ally who stops Wu Ying's heaven-drawing surge by knocking him unconscious, allowing the others to resume their effort to stabilize him.

First appears in chapter 10

The leader of the Five Harmonies Temple, with authority to evaluate requests for the monastery's spiritual aid and decide whether its instruments can serve a petitioner's path.

First appears in chapter 11

An exceptionally enlightened teacher at the monastery who examines Tou He's cultivation. He guides the former monk toward an understanding that joins dragon blood, heavenly fire, mercy, and Buddhist practice.

First appears in chapter 17

A river traveler who follows an unconventional heretical discipline that cultivates body and soul together without ordinary meridian refinement. His unusual practice gives Wu Ying another model for approaching his own divided state.

First appears in chapter 22

An unnamed immortal who isolates Wu Ying, Yang Mu, and Tou He within a time-and-space barrier. The immortal judges their paths, warns Tou He that higher cultivation brings hierarchy and obligations, and directs Wu Ying to continue searching.

First appears in chapter 24

The official who administers the great library at Yangwen Duan. He offers access to rare records about failed ascensions in return for Yang Mu and Tou He addressing a dangerous mystic-realm portal beneath the institution.

First appears in chapter 26

Powerful representatives of an organized snake-bodied civilization within the library's mystic realm. Their guarded city and several inhabitants near Tou He's level show that the realm holds a society rather than a simple population of monsters.

First appears in chapter 28

A senior translator at the Yangwen Duan library who voluntarily takes on Wu Ying's unusually difficult research. He explains the institution's controlled translation practices and indicates that its opaque funding passes through Overseer Norbu.

First appears in chapter 29

Three senior library leaders who combine their power to activate and reinforce the institution's defenses. After the mystic-realm portal collapses, they detain Wu Ying and his companions within the remaining shields.

First appears in chapter 33

The concealed Nascent Soul leader of an opera troupe traveling with Wu Ying and Yang Mu's caravan. He presses Wu Ying for material about a fallen king and agrees that his performers will help defend the caravan if necessary.

First appears in chapter 34

Yang Mu's sister, whose death alongside her husband and household is reported as part of an attack on Yang Mu's family.

First appears in chapter 37

An elderly member of a physician family whose incomplete soul-body merger has left him with little time. He offers to guide Wu Ying and Yang Mu into a guarded mountain realm if they secretly take him along for his own final attempt at fusion.

First appears in chapter 38

A cultivator of the local physician family who leads part of the pursuit toward the hidden realm. She is trying to stop her elderly father from entering the dangerous trial he believes is his last chance.

First appears in chapter 42

A swift Nascent Soul invader who advances on the mountain realm's portal with three demonic allies. Yang Mu uses improvised water and terrain formations to trap the attacker before it can overwhelm the entrance.

First appears in chapter 42

A Nascent Soul demonic invader advancing on the mountain realm's portal with a feline demon and two allied cultivators.

First appears in chapter 42

Two Core Formation cultivators allied with the Nascent Soul demons in the four-member assault on the mountain realm's entrance.