Shaozhu of a little known ascetic sect on his first (unauthorized) trip down the mountain. A carefully raised sect heir with a solid moral foundation and very little real life acumen. Sort of like a puppy with really powerful wugong.

• Simple hair, simple clothes
• Wears light colors
• Uses a peachwood sword
• Average height, average weight
• Clear-eyed and fresh-faced

• Naïve and inexperienced
• Grand, romantic ideals
• Strong sense of right and wrong
• Wants to believe the best of people
• Easily embarrassed
• Generally sweet-tempered but easily riled
• Impulsive
• Deflates when upset

• Extremely powerful neili
• Highly honed and unusual martial arts technique
• Peachwood sword multiplies, surrounds, and burns with qi
• Special tracking skill passed down from his sect
• Passable qinggong
• Decent at the four noble arts
• Well read

• Raised on a secluded mountaintop
• Only child of an only child
• Trained as sect heir from a young age
• Has basically done nothing in his life but study and train
• Grew up with romantic stories of the jianghu from the few sect disciples allowed out into the world
• Spent years plotting his escape down the mountain to have his own adventure
• Met and was tricked by Mu Canglan
• Tracked him down angrily but ended up being fascinated by him

Mu Canglan: Min's first love; convinced of his innate goodness and wants to travel jianghu with him

Qin Yuzhu: Likes him because he's helpful to Canglan

Murong Xue: Sees him as being in the way of his and Canglan's grand adventure and therefore does not like him

Murong Yu: Cannot tell the difference between him and Murong Xue