Yan Luosheng

Yan Luosheng, the Danqing Rakshasa of the Mystic Skill Gate, was once counted among the Kongtong Four Talents together with Danxiazi of the Flying Heaven Gate, Meng Chen, the "White-Browed Tiger" of the Iron Fist Gate, and Di San Xiang of the Soul-Stealing Gate. He mastered the Judge's Pen and was seen as a contender for the position of Sect Leader.

Knowing his strength fell short of Di San Xiang's, he let his ambition rot into idleness, convinced that peerless martial arts lay hidden within paintings and calligraphy. The closer the Sect Leader Election drew, the more he shut out food and sleep to study brush and ink.

Kongtong has long held that the next Sect Leader must wed all four of the "Kongtong Four Maidens" (Mei, Lan, Zhu, and Ju) to keep the four gates in balance. The Mystic Skill Gate's Direct Disciple Huyan Ju and Di San Xiang's betrothed Xiahou Lan were both regarded as "spoils of war" that came with the seat of Sect Leader. Yet with the election at hand, Di San Xiang and Huyan Ju's secret pledge to each other was exposed to Xiahou Lan through Yu Xiaomei's scheming. Xiahou Lan wept and raged, and the scandal spread across the mountain.

Others said only that a young hero taking three wives and four concubines was simply human nature. Only Yan Luosheng, whose prize had been defiled before the contest even began, flew into true fury. In the chaos, the Judge's Pen he swung struck at Xiahou Lan; Huyan Ju shielded her with her own body and perished, while Yan Luosheng himself had his guts hooked out by Di San Xiang and died. Afterwards, the Sect Leader subdued Di San Xiang and Xiahou Lan and imprisoned them on Soul-Stealing Peak.