Night Burst: Round Five [2:30PM TO 8AM CST]

Body: Being a dedicated female Martial Arts Practitioner, Chao Yuexian possesses a fit yet slender body. As a cultivator, muscle mass is no appropriate indication of actual strength on top of feminine genes keeping her thin. At the same time, as someone who trained her body before her ability to use psionic enhancement, with the habit of physical training carrying on since her transcendence into immortality, her body is tight and sturdy. Past her naturally supple skin lies inexplicably hard muscle that, when strained and flexed, feels to be in possession of the constitution of a mountain. Of course, without actually straining her muscles Chao Yue’s body is as squishy as ever. That smooth and soft skin of hers further serves to hide the true potential lying beneath it.

In accordance to how she was trained, often with tools and methods that others would consider abusive, it’s expected that her body is coarse, rough, and filled with boundless power to call upon at a moment’s notice. While the latter is naturally true, the methods used to train the body were tweaked to ensure the maintenance of her body. For example, the swinging of a sword to developed Chao Yue’s arms and familiarity with the weapon; usually, one could come to expect calices to form on her palm. Or in the case of practicing hand to hand combat, the punches and kicks performed may lead to coarseness of the knuckles, knees, etc..

WIth the use of magic-enhanced wear and cultivation methods, such as gloves that took the damage of plunging one’s hands into a pot of sand over and over again, but let the feeling and grating pain through, or a coating aura to mitigate some force to prevent bruising and by extension imbalances in the constitution of different parts of the body. In actuality, most of these methods were some forms of defense in actual battle. The aura that mitigated force was obviously an outright physical defense, and the gloves were a way to prevent being cut off from using weapons or talismans, while retaining the sense of touch to use many utilities and weapons to their fullest extent.

So, suffice to say, Chao Yue’s body is by no means physically weak, while still lacking certain deficiencies and imperfections as a whole. But, what of the actual body’s appearance? In terms of body shape, an accurate word to describe would be “desirable”. In whole, Chao Yue’s body is an hourglass. Starting from her slender shoulders and their back, to a moderate but full chest, thin waist--and tight yet soft abdomen--and somewhat conservative hips. While the actual mass on her chest and rear aren’t particularly large, both are exaggerated considering her training, in reference to next-level squats and powerful chest workouts, which lie under her breasts and therefore allow them to protrude.

Considering her height of 5’6, overall Chao Yue isn’t particularly tall, though neither short. That being said, she certainly looks fairly tall. Chao Yue’s already slender enough; combine that with her fairly thin and long legs, and she looks taller than she should. As expected, these thin legs still deter others from knowing exactly how much power they really hold. Her muscles are also incredibly flexible. As a martial artist, what use is there in developing powerful muscles and physical strength, if they can’t be used to their fullest extent?

While her skin is flawless, thoroughly even throughout her body in skin tone and feeling, Chao Yue

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» Personality: A moderately sociable person, Yue doesn’t shy away from conversation; conversely, she doesn’t actually mind the silence of solitude. Either situation can be comfortable, though generally that’s only as a result of controlling it. That is to say, in conversation Yue actively gears things towards her preferred direction, at her own pace. In terms of solitude, there isn’t really anyone but her to control the situation, so that’s simply a given. Usually, Yue is the one approached for one reason or another, but a solid and confident response is easy to muster.

After years of experience and training, ideals don’t occupy Yue’s thoughts all too often. Not to say that she holds onto some ideals, but the rigorous lifestyle led up ‘til now has also discouraged any baseless hope. Miracles are generated through circumstance, luck, and effort. Such a cultivator instead keeps reality and the present in mind; contrary to her apparent age, Yue rarely ever loses herself in thought. Partially a result of combative instinct, as well as wisdom from experience, the girl constantly vigilant towards her surroundings. Or rather, she’s particularly attentive even without much effort, though not to some supernatural extent of instantly deducing everything about a person at a glance--but, a decent amount can be inferred with inspection.

Simply for courtesy’s sake, Chao Yuexian likes to be prompt and cordial in any situation. Putting in an effort to do so is another matter altogether, as persons at her level generally assume eccentric personalities and lofty actions. It’s the thought that counts? This is especially true when it comes to receiving any sort of greeting, letter, or any sort of long-distance communication. Why specifically that? Although Yue is one of the many that can be at almost any place at any time, following the aforementioned trend of eccentricity Yue enjoys the novelty of communication at long-distance. Especially letters; while not particularly invested in writing, to occasionally put her thoughts down on paper is an appreciated passing of time. Despite that, Yuexian makes no use of diaries or journals.

This courtesy of hers, and favourable position on letters, have progressively turned Yuexian to actively be organised. Though a cultivator doesn’t frequently occupy themselves with too many material things, what little she does get her hands on, Yue makes it a point to keep orderly. At this point, it’s more so a habit to be tidy, and at times she may exhibit OCD characteristics, to the point of reprimanding others for being messy. As a matter of course this preference is focused on her own belongings, so things really only go to the extent of reprimanding.

Life is a many perilous trials; especially for Chao Yuexian, though that’s mainly her fault. That is to say, pressure was an entity she constantly handled, even at a terribly young age. Combined with her somewhat aloof personality and eccentric nature? Under typically any sort of pressure, ranging from physical to psychological, Yue can keep focus. Though it’s not to the extent of being calm, cool, and collected--as that’s not quite her type of personality--her prior experiences are enough for her to be relaxed and careless. Sometimes, to a fault.

As mentioned before, Yue doesn’t often initiate conversation, despite having no problem doing so. She possesses a decent level of social skills, more than enough to get her by, but through and through Yue is an introvert. Surprisingly, she actually finds comfort and enjoyment in social situations and being around people. Her introvert status is more or less at her core, where her thoughts and feelings are expressed, but at the same time kept to herself. The scales are gauged through comfortability on an individual basis. The more she’s familiar with you? The easier it is for her to open up, allowing you to see exactly how introverted she is. Ironically, the closer you are to Yue, the further she distances herself, simply because she’s comfortable with the thought of not keeping you company out of social convention and politeness. At that point, her actions seem a lot more genuine and sincere. In the flip side, the further you are, the more sociable she is. If it’s not necessary, she probably won’t approach anyone of her own volition, but when she does, an outgoing persona comes out.

Despite the reversal of how people usually are, becoming closer to you as they open up and find comfort in your presence, the other party’s feelings are by no means distantly understood. Longevity offers numerous experiences and chances to feel every emotion on a spectrum equal to the number of colours in the world. You can’t call her empathic, but Chao Yuexian can in the very least come to some vague understanding of how someone’s feeling, simply through relating to them. There’s no super-power involved here, or extreme talent in deduction. Just, relating to the person, plain and simple.

Curiosity killed the Chao. Sheer interest in any number of trivial things has easily driven Yuexian into the most troublesome scenarios. Constantly mentioned is the benefits granted to her from experience and wisdom, and yet she still has yet to find any control when it comes to the unknown. Without prudence or concern, Yue might just abandon whatever she was doing on the spot to confront the subject of interest, though such an extreme action is only solicited by a substantially curious matter.

The social convention of modesty and humility is widely recognised, even by the “do-what-I-want” Chao Yuexian. In fact, that’s just being polite--the basics of etiquette. Deep down inside? For good reason, Yue finds herself generally superior to the overwhelming many. Of course, that’s just personal opinion, and she recognises that, so unless seriously questioned by a close enough associate, Yue wouldn’t convey these thoughts. Overall, though? Without a doubt, she places herself not only above others in terms of many subjects of talent, but importance in the weighing of lives. An individual often places themselves as priority, right? The precedence Yue sets herself extends to a many fields and circumstances. Although looked at somewhat disdainfully for that, it’s a matter of fact that this selfishness was often times the trait that set her apart from a form of bones and dust.

Of course, the politeness is always extended towards unfamiliar faces. Along getting to know you is a devolving speech-pattern that gets into gritty, dry-humour remarks that would sound angry if she ever raised her voice. Of course, as aforementioned not quite calm and composed, on basis at least she’ll stray from being rude. But familiarity brings out a true face, and that true face is snark and biting statements that chip at even the thicker skinned people. Of course she doesn’t say these things out of malice, and in fact says insults lovingly, hence the differentiation between those she knows, and those she doesn’t. So in the end, oddly enough being insulted by her should in turn be flattery, as Yue considers the subject as a close relation.

So in light of all that’s been said upto now, obviously Chao Yuexian--though better the opposite--doesn’t mind being the centre of attention in any situation. Yue will handle it accordingly. Publically, sure there’ll be some elegance portrayed, but step into her comfort zone and something along the lines of “Oi, fuck’er you lookin’ at?” Again, she generally says harsh words lovingly, sometimes with a smile and chuckle as she teases you. The thing is, it’s fairly difficult to ascertain this. Yuexian’s sass stays on the same level even when she’s legitimately hostile and angry. The only way to differentiate is typically by body-language and expressions, like anyone else, as only the rare occasions garner a change in tone.

Following the thought-train, it’s awfully difficult to enrage the woman; you don’t typically see your elders getting angry, lest that just be their personality, right? At times, Yuexian may just get to the point of being annoyed, but it takes a lot of time spent prodding and progressively getting on her bad-side to actually bring out any legitimate hostility. Especially putting into effect her superiority-complex, overall casual emittance, and tempered characteristics. So generally, get her to that point and you may just be calling all hell to reign on you.

In the end, as a stable person Yuexian rarely ever change moods towards any direction--not just sobriety from anger. You can’t quite call her at an emotionally neutral. More accurately, she puts on--and legitimately feels--amused airs most of the time. If there’s nothing to actually be amused with? She’ll think up something, or find discrepancies in anything to keep her lifted. Life’s no fun when you’re down in the dumps, so stay out of the alleyway. This isn’t baseless optimism, but the effects of experience telling her: be tempted by negativity, and you’ll burn through something you’d rather keep alive and well. Lift your spirits too high, and you’ll either find false hope on the scaffold or be too broken by the next letdown.

A good question to ask is, in the end, does Chao Yuexian ever worry about the consequences? So far it’s been stated that she worries about the consequences of the future on herself, but what about others? She’s at times polite and considerate towards strangers, a free mouth alongside friends, and--tentatively--a wise woman with a lofty standpoint in mind. She acts without reserve at times, or holds back depending on the situation. But generally, that’s all in her own self-interest. Especially when putting forth care for another. That ‘other’ is someone Chao Yuexian values, for most intents and purposes. In selfishness, she acts. So when it comes to the wellbeing of others? Her actions aren’t often committed with that in mind.

Put Chao Yuexian on the line of creativity and practicality: she’ll lean towards neither side. At different points in time, Yuexian was one or the other, sometimes both when considering all factors. At this point? Her actions just apply what’s familiar. She believes herself to long-since touch reached, or at least glossed, the pinnacle for some time. Though she’s priming, an already predetermined path--of her own volition of course--has been laid out before her. Yuexian simply follows her own guidelines and understanding. So on the side of creativity? She’s exhausted any originality and discoveries, in her view. In terms of practicality, by no conventional means does she actually follow reasonable guidelines either.

The guideline and path aforementioned for the most part only refers to her growth; Chao Yuexian is most certainly not the greatest in overall foresight. Especially when it comes to the specifics of future plans. To the point of roaming location-wise, the woman’s trips typically follow intuition, or in the very least she aims for generalised areas that are believed to be in line with her endgoal ambitions. The intricacies of the future are not of any interest to Yuexian at this point.

» Likes: Simply for courtesy’s sake, Chao Yuexian likes to be prompt and cordial in any situation. Putting in an effort to do so is another matter altogether, as persons at her level generally assume eccentric personalities and lofty actions. It’s the thought that counts? This is especially true when it comes to receiving any sort of greeting, letter, or any sort of long-distance communication. Why specifically that? Although Yue is one of the many that can be at almost any place at any time, following the aforementioned trend of eccentricity Yue enjoys the novelty of communication at long-distance. Especially letters; while not particularly invested in writing, to occasionally put her thoughts down on paper is an appreciated passing of time. Despite that, Yuexian makes no use of diaries or journals.

This courtesy of hers, and favourable position on letters, have progressively turned Yuexian to actively be organised. Though a cultivator doesn’t frequently occupy themselves with too many material things, what little she does get her hands on, Yue makes it a point to keep orderly. At this point, it’s more so a habit to be tidy, and at times she may exhibit OCD characteristics, to the point of reprimanding others for being messy. As a matter of course this preference is focused on her own belongings, so things really only go to the extent of reprimanding.

Similar to so many others, Yue’s reaction towards being right in a debate differs according to who she’s having a debate with. To appease the opposition, if they don’t stress themselves falsely right too aggressively, Yue will let the debate go to prevent anyone--including herself--from getting too upset. It’s far too troublesome otherwise; however, only in the case of anyone at the level of acquaintance and below. For a more familiar face, if she’s right, and knows it? Yuexian will push and push, placing more importance on being right than the other side’s feelings. Of course, that’s because their relationship is close enough to mend itself even after a heated argument, so establishing intellectual dominance can take precedence this time around. The triumphant feeling afterwards is pure bliss, after all--something of an incomparable joy.

» Dislikes: The eccentric Chao Yuexian: such a word is often mentioned, mainly because of how rooted her personality is towards this adjective. Truly aloof and aberrant, Yue takes on an energetic personality. After all, life is such a boor when you’re mucking around in an emotional dump. Though she isn’t one to be optimistic, a depressive attitude gives Yue a frown--whether Yue is the melancholic one, or someone nearby.

Like anyone else, Yuexian disdains in being wrong, though she can accept it at times. What’s more difficult to accept, is a stubborn person. Or rather, to be more specific Yue dislikes someone wrong, incessantly professing themselves right. Though not violent in nature, these kinds of people are one of the few to actually set her off. Of course, acting this way on purpose isn’t going to generate much of a reaction from her. Yuexian’s an introvert, but she isn’t socially stupid. Unless confronted with a particularly good liar, fake incompetence isn’t going to get far with her. In fact, while she also finds strong dislike in such a person, these actions instead solicit her curious side. She’d far sooner inquire why someone was, by her definition, acting stupid, than get angry at them for thinking they could fool her.

As a result of her superior-complex and aforementioned incompetents, having to justify herself is unpleasant. There’s an understanding that some people need things explained to them, but especially in the case of her proving right in any number of situations with the person present, being questioned instead of garnering their faith becomes a tiresome thing. Her actions have on occasion made her heretical to the public’s eyes, especially out of defiance of preconceived “truths”. The act of justifying herself brings Chao Yuexian back to those moments, if only in thought--not to the extent of some sort of PTSD reaction.

Following the development of organisation is the prioritised work environment. While her home is preferably kept clean at all times, to some extent there’s the allowance of negligence. Any sort of work-relative area or office, or something along those lines, is kept much more in order. Mainly for the sake of professionalism, but Chao Yuexian--albeit not focusing on how others see her--combined with her preference for etiquette, sees something like an office or official workplace as not hers, but the organisations. Not that Yue is an active worker given her point in life, but responsibility is something which runs strong through her, and in turn dislikes when she--or others--have disrespect for their allegiances through presentation of the environment… ironically. Maybe it’s just the hypocrisy speaking when Yue provides her heavy snide comments?

Motivations: conversely holds a pervasive fear of reaching true potential, and overall closure. Hates goodbyes and endings. (nothing is sad until it’s over; then everything is sad)

Fears: Being organised is only a habit formed from some other trait, yes? Thus, this habit can be superseded by a more core characteristic, such as adaptability. By a wide margin, Yuexian prioritises adaptability over organisation. As a matter of fact, she takes pride in her ability to go with the flow and change her stance in accordance. She also likes the feeling of changing to fit her circumstances. To Yue, this represents growth. Her experiences and years lived up until now is more than enough to fill dozens of lifetimes, and admittedly there are times she feels that her life has been too long. After all, there may be unlimited sources of entertainment, but not all of them can be accessed by just one person. Despite desperately clinging to life in the hopes of finding such lost sources, boredom frequently overwhelms her. Thus, the prospects of growth mean all the more to an old bat like her. In other words, Chao Yuexian also has a pervasive fear towards stagnancy; the life of one such as herself must keep moving forward, or else face a lack of meaning to that very same longevity characters of her disposition would have craved and empowered themselves with in their youth.

As a result of her superior-complex and aforementioned incompetents, having to justify herself is unpleasant. There’s an understanding that some people need things explained to them, but especially in the case of her proving right in any number of situations with the person present, being questioned instead of garnering their faith becomes a tiresome thing. Her actions have on occasion made her heretical to the public’s eyes, especially out of defiance of preconceived “truths”. The act of justifying herself brings Chao Yuexian back to those moments, if only in thought--not to the extent of some sort of PTSD reaction. Conversely, the prospect of futility in her efforts despite having come such a long way--similarly to the meaninglessness aforementioned--is a fearsome thought to Yuexian.

In the end, as a stable person Yuexian rarely ever change moods towards any direction--not just sobriety from anger. You can’t quite call her at an emotionally neutral stage. More accurately, she puts on--and legitimately feels--amused airs most of the time. If there’s nothing to actually be amused with? She’ll think up something, or find discrepancies in anything to keep her lifted. Life’s no fun when you’re down in the dumps, so stay out of the alleyway. This isn’t baseless optimism, but the effects of experience telling her: be tempted by negativity, and you’ll burn through something you’d rather keep alive and well. Lift your spirits too high, and you’ll either find false hope on the scaffold or be too broken by the next letdown. Being approached by the concept of either eventualities under the circumstances--to Chao Yuexian, that feeling associates itself to a mental parasite eating at her from within. The imbalance of emotion and passion in turn with her rationale as an adult gives avenue to self-destruction; death itself has a lot less of a presence before the woman, if not less than earlier in her life. Responsibility over her own demise? What person wouldn’t find the object of their end a frightening thing, when it lives within you closer than anything else in the universe?

Death is generally something everyone is, if not scared of, wary of. Usually the root of that wariness is from all sorts of things, which in Yuexian's case, is closure. The long life she's led has brought her to truly only desire a definitive number of things, and reaching the conclusion will finally make her empty. Living only striving for the unreachable, even with all her years of wisdom, for the first time Chao Yue will not know what to do with life. One of the major reasons Yue can control her emotions and not lose herself in rage and love, is due to this pervasive fear of closure. On the spectrum of love, knowing there's an eventual end to thing is a frightening prospect, resulting in straying from getting into an affectionate relationship; on the flip side, flying into a rampage is easier to avoid from the mentality of knowing that her actions generally ends the interaction, even if not doing so brings negative prospects. Chao Yuexian's primary philosophy is despair in finality. Because nothing's really sad, until it's over.

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Born, mother died, switched at birth, assassinated adoptive parents, raised by adoptive grandfather. The inability to train innate techniques from having a severed psionic sense pushed to try practicing physical ability. Inability to use psionic techniques drove her to instead use weapons as her conduit for lethality. Beloved teacher from army and



The visiting Xìnniàn, looking for a disciple as per the promise of late Grand Elder to the Chao family, found interest in Chao Yuexian's ability of weapon handling. With the attraction of seeing they could restore her psionic abilities [false claims ofc] and the prospects of using the Xìnniàn Sect's resources for herself, Yue agrees. Being there, she realised just how different the treatment she received was from prior assumptions. Mistreated as a talentless instructor by fellow instructors and students alike, there were clearly no attempts to restore her psionic abilities. The students verbally mistreated her, though the training of an iron body inherently led her to an iron heart, and since her combative ability was high enough to ward off any physical abuses, there were really no issues. The instructors also didn't actually go so far as physical abuse since that was considered too petty for them to concern themselves with someone so weak, on a political and combative level, in comparison to them.



Upon a visit from her family members half a year into joining the Sect, a visit from the Imperial Empress comes as well. Her beloved uncle somehow disrespects the Princess and demands him to kowtow in apology. Of course, the supposed disrespectful actions he took were pretty baseless, and her uncle was at least relatively proud--not enough to refuse apologising, but enough to simply deeply bow, not kowtow. When the Princess has her guards demand Yuexian's uncle to kowtow or die--at the vehement persuasion to refrain by her head guard since that uncle is still the son of a prominent Prince (essentially the title of chinese Duke equivalents post translation)--Chao Yuexian interfered. Fighting with her was one thing, but touching her family was the proverbial camel-back breaking straw. Upon the princess's execution order as the guard was about to act, Yuexian stepped in the way. Whilst in training in her free-time, the methods taught to her by her teacher in strengthening the body exceeded everyone's expectations by far as she concealed her strength. In fact, it reached the point of question on whether the power she exerted was sheerly through physical capacity. Little did Yuexian know, her conscious control of psions was inhibited from her infantile injury, but the baseline racial ability to produce psions was not. Without knowledge, the methods of her physical training was progressively and constantly fusing psions into her body, strengthening it as if physical strenghtening magic was in perpetual use. With surprising efficiency, Chao Yuexian dispatched the guard, showing mercy by not killing him with the same intent her target exuded. Defiance was never a prevalent action against the Princess of the Empire.