A Thousand Li: The Third Realm characters

Also known as Expert Long

Appears from the start

A wandering herb gatherer and jian practitioner newly advanced to Core Formation. He travels to the Pan clan lands with the Pan sisters and Liu Ping, still learning to control the unsteady flight granted by his wind core.

Appears from the start

A Pan sister returning to her clan alongside Wu Ying. She remains attentive to the clan's interests during the journey home.

Appears from the start

A sixteen-year-old Pan clan spear cultivator whose tournament success is celebrated when she returns home. She treats Wu Ying with the easy familiarity of a younger sister.

Appears from the start

A mid-stage Core Formation spear cultivator who receives the returning party. He recognizes Wu Ying as Expert Long, the Verdant Gatherer.

First appears in chapter 3

The Pan clan chief and father of the Pan sisters. He negotiates an exchange of herbs, instruction, and cultivation resources with Wu Ying while affirming the protections owed to a guest.

First appears in chapter 3

A Pan clan elder who handles the clan's need for spiritual herbs. He helps negotiate its barter and teaching arrangement with Wu Ying.

First appears in chapter 3

A Pan clan child with exceptional sword insight and the Heart of the Sword. The clan asks Wu Ying to teach him the Long family style.

Appears from the start

Wu Ying's travelling companion, made stronger and more vigilant by a bear bloodline enhancement. She continues to grieve.

First appears in chapter 9

A fierce member of the Pan clan expedition who relishes close combat. She delivers the final blow to the mortally wounded nascent-soul snake and claims its spirit stone.

First appears in chapter 12

An unidentified older woman or spirit who directs Wu Ying to excavate a ruined temple, then vanishes before explaining her identity or purpose. A jade box apparently left as payment awaits him after he honors the dead.

First appears in chapter 13

A sect specialist who identifies Wu Ying's ancient pill and arranges access to cultivation facilities in exchange for studying it. The agreement draws objections from other sect elders.

First appears in chapter 15

A teenage swordsman fleeing an outpost gang after its master allegedly killed his father and took the family sword. He accepts Wu Ying's aid and leaves the outpost with him.

First appears in chapter 16

The damaged Core Formation leader of a desert outpost. He seeks the teenage swordsman's Saint Jian and accepts a public three-opponent contest in spring as the means of settling the dispute.

First appears in chapter 20

The thunder-and-lightning cultivator who leads a mobile northern tribe. Far stronger than Wu Ying, she confronts him for taking a thunder thistle without the required offering and takes him to her people to arrange restitution.

First appears in chapter 21

Wu Ying's assigned language teacher and intermediary during his constrained service to the northern tribe. He helps Wu Ying teach herb lore while learning the tribe's customs and speech.

First appears in chapter 23

An upper-rank body cultivator of the northern tribe with a water aspect. She begins a consensual relationship with Wu Ying under customs that differ from those of his homeland.

First appears in chapter 24

A hostile Core Formation cultivator who uses mist techniques. During a ritualized inter-tribal raid, she separates from the main fighting and advances toward the host camp.

First appears in chapter 31

The nine-year-old ruler of Baixia and its province. After divination foretells the Verdant Gatherer's arrival, she asks Wu Ying to recover seven serpent pearls required as tribute to preserve her household's standing.

First appears in chapter 30

A loyal senior officer of the Viscount's household whose core and immortal soul are damaged. He treats Wu Ying's arrival from the wilds as a security concern and escorts him into Baixia.

First appears in chapter 32

The Baixia household's exacting diving instructor. Though only a high body-cleansing cultivator, the instructor has the specialized skill to train Wu Ying in breath control, underwater movement, and sea gathering.

First appears in chapter 36

A coastal fisherman who recognizes Wu Ying as a cultivator and reluctantly accepts his unpaid help. He keeps the gatherer manual once used by his late wife but makes no promise to share it.

First appears in chapter 39

A Nascent Soul cultivator who runs a neutral mountain inn and trading post with his wife and daughters. He helps enforce the sanctuary's rules and can overwhelm Wu Ying through the pressure of a Tao clash.

First appears in chapter 39

The innkeeper's wife and fellow Nascent Soul cultivator. She enforces the inn's strict neutrality, halts violence on its grounds, and offers assistance after Wu Ying is injured by a clash among stronger cultivators.

First appears in chapter 39

A Nascent Soul wanderer whose arrival at the neutral inn leads to a contest of Tao and will with its married proprietors. He is powerful enough to contend with both of them at once.

Also known as Master Cheng

Appears from the start

Wu Ying's demanding sword master at Verdant Green Waters and one of his established protectors. His teaching and their martial bond remain important parts of Wu Ying's life beyond the sect.

Appears from the start

Wu Ying's elder martial sister and a member of his Verdant Green Waters martial family. Her connection to him remains part of the sect ties he carries into his wandering.

Appears from the start

Wu Ying's former-monk friend and an allied fire-staff cultivator. He has been seeking a way to repair his damaged cultivation.