Beware of Chicken 4: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel characters

Appears from the start

The farmer at the center of Fa Ram and Meiling's husband. He is expanding the farm's harvests, workshops, and practical machinery, but remains uneasy about the conflict that followed the Dueling Peaks.

Also known as Meimei

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Jin's pregnant wife, a healer and leader within Fa Ram. She is preparing a difficult operation to repair Liu Bowu's damaged leg, combining medicinal chi, spiritual herbs, anesthesia, and careful planning.

Also known as Big D

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An awakened rooster, Jin's first disciple, and a defender of Fa Ram. Seeing Jin struggle with the prospect of violence, he resolves that the disciples must become strong enough to share that burden.

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An awakened cat and one of Fa Ram's fighters. She notices Jin's troubled approach to combat training, supports the household's efforts to help him, and remains especially close to Cai Xiulan.

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A cultivator regarded by Jin as sworn family. She is rebuilding her cultivation after a severe earlier injury and joins Tigu and Bi De in helping Jin find a workable way to train.

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A grower, builder, and increasingly capable organizer at Fa Ram. He works with Liu Bowu on the farm's machinery and helps turn Jin's practical ideas into functioning projects.

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A young mortal inventor living at Fa Ram with a badly damaged leg. He contributes to the drop hammer and other mechanical work while Meiling and Ri Zu prepare a possible treatment for his chronic injury.

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An awakened rat, healer, and Meiling's medical apprentice. She assists in assessing Liu Bowu's injured leg and is part of the team developing a treatment that ordinary healing methods cannot provide.

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An artist and Fa Ram ally who records images of medicinal plants for Meiling. He carries the intelligent sword Summer's Sky, which is treated as a companion within the household.

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The sentient sword carried by Yun Ren. Its intelligence is openly recognized at Fa Ram, where it is included as a member of the household rather than regarded as an ordinary weapon.

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An injured awakened snake and skilled glassmaker at Fa Ram. With Yin supplying precisely controlled flame, he is cautiously returning to a craft that once defined his life.

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An awakened rabbit and Fa Ram artisan. She uses her controlled fire to support Miantiao's glassmaking, making her an important partner in one of the farm's new industries.

First appears in chapter 4

Liu Bowu's older sister, who holds the young-mistress position in the Misty Lake Sect. She comes to Hong Yaowu after privately seeking permission from Gou Ren's parents to court him.

First appears in chapter 4

A reclusive monkey artisan whose attention is centered on Bi De's ancient crystal. He nevertheless joins Fa Ram's festival project, helping Tigu carve the household's animated displays.

First appears in chapter 6

A member of Fa Ram who features in Hong Yaowu's Mid-Autumn Festival dragon dance.

First appears in chapter 6

Meiling's father and Jin's father-in-law. He regards Jin as his son.

First appears in chapter 7

Verdant Hill's civic leader. He is wary of the strain created by Jin's roads, visiting cultivators, and growing commercial influence when Jin approaches him to request advice.

First appears in chapter 7

The Lord Magistrate's wife. Care from Hong Yaowu and Meiling has eased the tremors and loss of sensation left by a cultivator.

First appears in chapter 7

A friend of Jin and Meiling in Verdant Hill and the mother of an infant son.

First appears in chapter 16

An awakened boar who handles stable work at Fa Ram. Visiting traders quickly recognize that the quiet household worker is also an exceptionally formidable guardian.

First appears in chapter 17

A senior disciple of the Cloudy Sword Sect who succeeded in finding Jin. He reports that he honored Jin's refusal to return, considers him non-hostile, and has retained a route for future contact.

Also known as the golden-cracked girl, the Fa Ram earth spirit

First appears in chapter 21

The damaged earth spirit linked to Fa Ram's golden network. Frightened that others will exploit her essence, she has struggled alone until Jin, Meiling, and the household answer her need for shelter through the winter.

First appears in chapter 22

The ruler of Fa Ram's hives. She prepares her colony for winter by preserving veteran bees and treats Jin and Bi De as the powerful protectors of her domain.

First appears in chapter 24

Chun Ke's partner and a servant of Jin's household. While helping build the winter snow constructs, she consciously restrains the destructive impulses stirred by threats to Chun Ke.

First appears in chapter 31

A greater fox spirit who appears through an avatar and identifies Yun Ren as his nephew. He is intrigued by Fa Ram and warns that Jin's ancient earth-bound cultivation may favor land and community without granting immortality.

First appears in chapter 32

The central figure in the crystal's ancient record. Exploited by an imperial overseer and his son, he abandons conventional cultivation for farming, where his gratitude toward the land draws the attention of an earth spirit.

First appears in chapter 39

The guardian of an ancient ruler's recorded history. It offers Bi De succession, lost knowledge, and the power attached to that inheritance.

First appears in chapter 42

A retired cultivator and diviner living in Verdant Hill. She tells Bi De that repeated visions led her to seek a suitable person for the crystal, and that she rejected other candidates before giving him the map.

Also known as the Torrent Rider

First appears in chapter 46

A student of Bi De who intervenes when a drunk threatens a local child in Verdant Hill. He then spars with Liu Bowu and begins a friendly exchange of martial and craft knowledge.

First appears in chapter 46

A former cultivator in a gang that shelters poor, elderly, and injured people. Supported by his sworn brother, he is using reparations from the Shrouded Mountain Sect to repair his damaged cultivation.

First appears in chapter 48

Jin's adoptive grandfather, an Imperial-realm cultivator and former member of the Cloudy Sword Sect. He receives Jin's letter rejecting conventional cultivation and plans to visit after the coming demon campaign.

First appears in chapter 55

The healthy unnamed son of Jin and Meiling, born after a rapid and uncomplicated labor.

First appears in chapter 60

The household nickname given to Jin and Meiling's still formally unnamed infant after he imitates Big D's morning crow. The name marks his place within the extended Fa Ram family.