Huang Peihua
"This little sister is Huang Peihua, disciple of the former Sect Leader of Mystic Skill. By rank, below the Sect Leader and the Guardians, Peihua holds first place in name only."
A disciple of the former Sect Leader of the Kongtong Sect's Mystic Skill Gate, ranked first below the Sect Leader and the Guardians, and the one Danxiazi calls "the Former Sect Leader's niece by marriage." During the Kongtong succession struggle she served as captain of the Wind-Fire Volunteers' "Mystic Counsel Company," working under ; after the battle she took up the post of Mystic Skill Gate Guardian.
In Early May Year 3, during the Kongtong succession struggle, she and the Wind-Fire Volunteers greet at Nangou Gathering at the foot of the mountain. She explains that besides the twelve of the Mystic Counsel Company, Sect Leader Wei has led two hundred disciples of Mystic Skill Gate to form the "Zhihming Office," which handles logistics and military planning, and she brings out a terrain map to report the situation: everything north of the Central Terrace has already fallen, and though the rebels number fewer than two hundred, they hold the high ground and fight fiercely, while among the three gates' allied forces the Iron Fist Gate is mostly the old, the weak, and women and children, and Mystic Skill Gate is poor at fighting in a melee, leaving them on the defensive. She also explains that by ancestral rule the Guardians must judge the candidates for Sect Leader on their own authority and may not consult with their teachers, and she reports where each Guardian has gone (Water Guardian Yu Lin was defeated and surrendered, Earth Guardian Tong Dachong attends Sect Leader Wei, Wind Guardian Ju Dongyin and Xiahou Lan are missing), warning Danxiazi to beware Jing Hong, the Soul-Stealing Gate's Eldest Disciple, who slaughters her own fellow disciples.
Hearing the report, Zhao Huo deduces that it is Sect Leader Wei herself who drew the fighting toward Colorless Square and plots to seize the Ascension Palace in the chaos. She is greatly alarmed and hurriedly defends Sect Leader Wei, saying she had no choice. She had suggested that Danxiazi slip in through the cave mouth on Wangjia Mountain to join them, but seeing that Danxiazi insists on walking through all four gates in order from the south gate, she recognizes it as the "Four Gates Pilgrimage," the rite of assuming the Sect Leader's seat. After leading Danxiazi to join Sect Leader Wei, she assures her that the missing Senior Sister Ju would never defect; later, when Senior Brother Guo rushes to the Great Smithy pale as death with news and Sect Leader Wei orders her to gather the disciples, she suggests first sending Senior Brother Guo up to Banyu Terrace to meet Danxiazi, but Sect Leader Wei does not take the suggestion.
On the route where Zhao Huo becomes Kongtong Sect Leader, she is rather taken aback to learn that the eleventh Sect Leader is Zhao Huo; in Late Feb Year 4, when Zhao Huo goes down the mountain to visit his allies, she politely declines the vinegar-steamed bun and congee that Danxiazi made with his aged, scorched, salty fish, and thanks for bringing the food box with the courtesy due the Sect Leader's Wife. On the eve of the Wulin Alliance's assault on the Tang Clan, she goes with the other Guardians to the Tang Clan's aid as the "new Guardian of Mystic Skill Gate," and reports Kongtong's discovery of Western Xia's plot to borrow passage through Jin and collude with the Supreme Bliss Cult to seize the Shu region. Sect Leader Wei and Danxiazi then split the Kongtong forces in two: one part stays with Danxiazi to support the imperial army against Xia, and the other is led by the Guardians to rescue the Tang Clan (if Yan Jiang is still alive and is rude to , she also hushes him in a low voice). In the defense of the Tang Clan and the sortie, she takes on Wood Immortal Maiden, stops Wanli Pengcheng when he would step out of the ranks to challenge the Sect Leader, and arranges for Kongtong disciples to escort the poisoned heroes of the Tang Clan to the rear, assuring Zhao Huo that Danxiazi's relief force will strike from behind the enemy within half a day.