Ye Yunzhou

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Cangsong Swordsman

Diancang's Fastest Swordsman, one of the most renowned young heroes in the Wulin today, and a frequent subject of the Jianghu Bulletin in recent years.

His swordsmanship talent is outstanding. Not only do his fellow disciples pale beside him, even his own teacher Ting Haisheng admits he cannot match him.

He is humble and courteous, calm and self-possessed. He travels the Jianghu with the Listening Cloud Sword, cutting down the wicked and rooting out evil, and he has never once been drawn to women. His character is upright as a pine, and so he earned the name Cangsong Swordsman.

He dotes on his sister greatly, though when she needs a lesson he does not spare the rod.

Biographies

The old biographies are from before version 1.0.5000 and have been discarded.

Diancang's Fastest Swordsman,
one of the most renowned young heroes in the Wulin today.

The name comes from people praising his backbone: strong and vigorous as a pine, standing firm in the wind without bending.

His swordsmanship talent is outstanding. Since joining the Diancang Mountain sect in his teens, he read through all seventeen sword manuals kept in the Songyun Pavilion of Diancang Mountain in just a few short years.

Not only do his fellow disciples pale beside him, even his own teacher admits he cannot match him.

Though he carries extraordinary skill, he conducts himself with diligence and care, never arrogant or rash.
He never lightly crosses blades with others; when the Listening Cloud Sword leaves its sheath, whoever stands before it dies without mercy.

Since going down the mountain to make his way, there has never been an exception, and even so,
fearless fools keep coming forward in droves to throw their lives away.

Perhaps because he travels with his sister, he is especially careful, and avoids even meeting his fellow disciples.

Superb martial arts, a cool head, a cautious nature,
and handsome features have made Ye Yunzhou a legendary swordsman.
All sorts of fancy titles have been pinned on him without regard for his feelings, but he personally still prefers "Cangsong Swordsman".

Before he met you, his impression of the Tang Clan was not good.

Deep in his heart he hides boiling hot blood. He grips his treasured sword and rehearses the moment of unsheathing it tens of millions of times in his mind.

"Ye" is not actually his family's surname. To keep a promise that may never see the day it is fulfilled, their family gave up its own surname.

The "Ye Yun" in the siblings' names was chosen to commemorate Yue Yun, the lord their great-grandfather served. Even the Listening Cloud Sword means "obeying Yue Yun".

Guarding his sister, who carries the Military Token, is the same as guarding the three generations of ancestral wish. It is as if his life was arranged before he was even born, and his birth was merely to continue the mission.

He loves his sister, and he also hates her for taking over his life.

Everyone says he is a genius with the sword; he does not agree at all. It is the fruit of tireless practice day and night, of painstaking dedication.

One day he will kill every enemy who slaughtered his family, among them the Imperial Court hound who stabbed his parents with a blade that day, the Wulin expert who struck his sister on the back, the muddled Adoptive Father who leaked the secret of the Military Token, and those twelve descendants of the Yue Family Army who sit at their ease waiting for the Military Token.

Deep in his heart he hides boiling hot blood. He grips his treasured sword and rehearses the moment of unsheathing it tens of millions of times in his mind.

"Ye" is not actually his family's surname. To keep a promise that may never see the day it is fulfilled, their family gave up its own surname.

The "Ye Yun" in the siblings' names was chosen to commemorate Yue Yun, the lord their great-grandfather served.

As the third generation of Ye Family men, his life was arranged before he was even born: to be a boat, to serve the country with loyalty, until death.

The world all says that Ye Yunzhou of Diancang is a prodigy with the sword. He himself does not agree at all. Where in this world are there any prodigies? It is the fruit of tireless practice day and night, of painstaking dedication.

He is forever testing you, placing high hopes on you, and at the same time waiting for you to betray him.

The moment you show a greedy face, he will run you through with a single sword stroke, and at the same time extinguish the last shred of his own conscience, becoming a vengeful ghost that hunts down every enemy.

Yet you seem to disappoint his expectations. You are no saint; you simply cling to human feeling far more than treasure could ever draw you, and so he comes to believe that "righteousness" truly exists in this world. He vaguely begins to understand his great-grandfather's selfish decision.

You saved the life of his only kin, and you saved his heart as well, so that he is no longer a walking corpse acting only for revenge, unable to imagine a future. Only now does he begin to live as himself.

Martial Arts

• His physique is not especially strong.
• In a one-on-one Duel, it still comes down to whose weapon reaches the vital point first; the cleverness of the force and the brilliance of the moves are what decide victory. If there is any exception, it lies only in speed.
• His strikes are extremely fast. The Listening Cloud Sword leaves and returns to its sheath, and the one cut down does not know he is already dead; he can still say a few words before his head leaves his shoulders.
• Because Breakthrough of Cloud Pass is so famous, his image in fan works has been affected too

The Ye Family

• The name Yunzhou means to be a boat for Marshal Yue, to carry him across the raging waves.
• His great-grandfather was a subordinate of Lord Yue Yun, the Military Commissioner of Wukang, and was deeply trusted. He was granted the treasured sword Listening Cloud, which became the Ye Family's heirloom. The Listening Cloud Sword means "obeying Yue Yun".
• The original surname was "Hua".^[1]
• Ye Yunzhou's serious and cautious nature comes from his upbringing. But children are children, and he loved hide-and-seek. Only after tragedy struck the Ye Family did he have to pull himself together and take a father's place for his sister, and from then on he became serious.^[2]

Ye Yunshang

• A ballad of long-term care
• He feels he owes his a great deal, and is deeply guilty about it. He dotes on her, but when she needs a spanking he still gives one.
• If his dies, he falls to madness and becomes the Diancang Sword Ghost, the Mad Swordsman Ye Yunzhou. He hunts down his enemies everywhere, slaughtering those who once hounded her with cruel words. He makes no distinction of degree: anyone who ever said a single word against his sister dies without mercy. In the end he is cut down by the Diancang Twin Venerables.
• Because his is picky about food, he begged for recipes and worked hard at studying them, but his results were mediocre.^[3]
• He knows the value of the jewelry his wears, but cannot bear to take what she loves. Even for buying medicine he insists on paying himself.
• Out of concern for the Ye Family's honor, he never told the doctor of 's true condition. The Pills he went to every length to obtain only kept her well for a time, while also feeding the Foreign True Qi. Only when Tang Fang pointed it out did he realize he had been harming his sister.

Duan Zhixiu

• He and Duan Zhixiu shared the same misfortune and swore brotherhood under different surnames. Learning that was to be married off to Tubo, he went with two other Diancang Disciples, four in all, to abduct her. But Duan Zhixiu changed his mind and no one came to meet them, and they nearly lost their lives.
• He crippled Duan Zhixiu's right hand with one sword stroke, so that he could never use a sword again.
• When Ye Yunzhou held the Diancang Twin Venerables in check at the Western Wulin Assembly, Duan Zhixiu came to lend a hand if present, and the Twin Venerables mocked their coordination as an utter mess. Afterwards Ye Yunzhou sent him away, and the two never reconciled.

Debts

• He felt no guilt over owing Zhao Huo money that a friend repaid for him, but he will always quietly repay the favor in other ways.^[4]
• Continuing from above, he will repay the money, and he will find all sorts of ways to do it.^[5]
• In version v1.0.5000.8, he really did repay it! He even got a line of his own in the update notes! Link
• While living at the Outer Fort, he served as a guard to pay his rent.^[3:1]
• Promotional copy for the Ye Yunzhou Wanted Warrant folder: Source

  Wanted: the Diancang Sword Ghost Ye Yunzhou
  Hunted for vengeance and murder, utterly vicious
  Whoever tears down this notice and takes this man
  Shall report to the Chengdu Prefecture yamen
  A reward of one thousand taels of silver is offered
  Any who harbor him or know and fail to report
  Shall be punished as the criminal himself
  Chengdu Prefecture Yamen

Notes

• Introduction by Bird Bear on Facebook: Link
• He is interested in medicine, and in one ending becomes a notorious quack doctor, famous for how bad his medical skill is.

  Bear's explanation is as follows:
  There are many reasons. First, he is very cautious and earnest, and does not know how to adapt. Then, the Song Dynasty's medical books and medical theory had not been verified by the ages; many of their claims cannot be fully trusted, and those who trust them fully die.
  What Zhao Huo taught him was not medicine either, but closer to the basic common sense of identifying herbs, along with some introductory Poison Technique and pharmacology.
  So is it not only human nature that Ye Yunzhou, with no teacher to pass anything down, follows the books to the letter and accidentally doctors someone to death?^[6]

• scolded him as a handsome good-for-nothing who does not know how to please anyone and does not do any honest work. So bitter.

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