Fifth Qingrou, male, is a character in the novel “Otherworldly Evil Monarch” and its related derivative works.

A mysterious strategist, highly skilled in martial arts, capable of winning battles from afar, and manipulating the imperial court. Truly a generation’s hegemon.

Character Overview

Name: Fifth Qingrou

Chinese Name: 第五輕柔

Alias: Fifth Qingtian

Gender: Male

Source: Novel “Otherworldly Evil Monarch” and its related derivative works.

Background

Fifth Qingrou comes from the Fifth Family, one of the nine great families of the Nine Heavens, and a vassal family of the Zhuge Family. His original name was Fifth Qingtian, but due to the Fifth Family’s strict rules, those who cultivate martial arts are domineering, and those who cultivate literary arts are gentle. Literary people must not be stained with blood, but must pacify the world with wisdom and resolve karma with wisdom. Therefore, he changed his name to Fifth Qingrou to remind himself of his identity as a scholar.

The Fifth Family is the only family in the Nine Heavens that has produced two Nine Tribulations Masterminds in tens of thousands of years. One of the Fifth Family’s ancestors, Fifth Chou Chang, was the strategist of the sixth generation Nine Tribulations Sword Master, Qin Fang, and designed an escape plan during the “Nine Tribulations Mending the Heavens” ceremony. After the seventh generation Nine Tribulations Sword Master, Lin Zun, appeared, a member of the Fifth Family, Fifth Tianxia, due to his close relationship with Lin Zun, continued to become the Nine Tribulations Mastermind inheriting Fifth Chou Chang (but not the seventh generation Nine Tribulations Mastermind, because according to Chapter 659 of Part Eight and other chapters, the second to ninth generation Nine Tribulations Masterminds were: Zuo Qiu Yin Chou, Ximen Wanli, Xuan Yuan Changkong, Zhu/Zhuge Weixiao, Dongfang Duwu, Dugu Wulei, Fifth Chou Chang, Mo Tianji, while the name of the first generation Mastermind is unknown). Therefore, the Fifth Family continued its glory for another ten thousand years (Fifth Tianxia briefly appears in Chapter 901 of Part Eight).

After two thousand years of glory, the Fifth Family gradually declined and was almost exterminated by the eighth generation Nine Tribulations Sword Master. At this time, Fifth Chou Chang and Dongfang Badao came forward to negotiate, prompting the Zhu/Zhuge Family to accept the Fifth Family as a vassal, thus preserving the family’s bloodline. However, the Zhuge Family dared not underestimate the Fifth Family and constantly monitored and oppressed them to prevent the Fifth Family from rising again.

Experiences

In order to change the family’s situation of being controlled, Fifth Qingrou came to the Lower Three Heavens to participate in the war for hegemony in the dynasty, in order to improve the family’s destiny.

In the Lower Three Heavens, Fifth Qingrou joined the Great Zhao Dynasty. He deliberately held back in the war against the Iron Cloud Kingdom, keeping the Iron Cloud Kingdom in a difficult situation. He used this situation to constantly gain merit on the battlefield, relying on military merit to expand his political team, while using the Iron Cloud Kingdom to eliminate political enemies in the court, eventually gaining actual power in the Great Zhao and preparing to deliver a fatal blow to the Iron Cloud Kingdom.

However, Chu Yang’s unexpected appearance broke Fifth Qingrou’s plan. In several secret contests with Chu Yang, Fifth Qingrou not only did not gain any advantage, but suffered repeated defeats, and Chu Yang severely disrupted Zhongzhou City of Great Zhao.

After a series of defeats, Fifth Qingrou weighed the situation and decided to mobilize troops to chase Chu Yang back to the Iron Cloud Kingdom from Zhongzhou City, while also mobilizing all the troops of Great Zhao to attack the Iron Cloud Kingdom. However, Chu Yang relied on his own luck and talent to escape Fifth Qingrou’s pursuit again, returned to the Iron Cloud Kingdom, and constantly defeated the Great Zhao army on the battlefield.

Fifth Qingrou studied the situation through astronomy and other signs and deduced that Chu Yang might be the Nine Tribulations Sword Master. Therefore, for the opportunity to revive the family, Fifth Qingrou decided to go with the flow and deliberately lose in the decisive battle with Chu Yang, both to change the family’s destiny through the fortune of war, and to sell Chu Yang a favor for the family’s long-term plan.

After arranging everything, Fifth Qingrou came to Chu Yang’s camp and delayed time by talking with Chu Yang until the Great Zhao and Iron Cloud armies broke out in a decisive battle as he wished, and Chu Yang had no choice but to participate. After that, Fifth Qingrou left calmly.

After returning to the Lower Three Heavens, Fifth Qingrou concealed the events related to Chu Yang and continued to patiently wait for an opportunity under the shadow of the Zhuge Family.

Before the Myriad Medicines Classic, Fifth Qingrou’s cousin, Fifth Tianyun, came to Fifth Qingrou to discuss revenge after being killed by Chu Yang due to a marriage relationship. Fifth Qingrou took the opportunity to eliminate Fifth Tianyun with the help of Chu Yang, while also secretly warning Chu Yang.

Chu Yang saw through Fifth Qingrou’s warning, as well as his plan to use Chu Yang to eliminate Fifth Tianyun, so he went along with the flow and returned Fifth Tianyun to Fifth Qingrou. As a result, Fifth Qingrou not only had to eliminate Fifth Tianyun himself, but was also sabotaged the Nine Hearts Devouring Heaven ceremony by Fifth Tianyun. In this game, Fifth Qingrou once again did not gain any advantage from Chu Yang.

However, at the auction held by Chu Yang and the Medicine Valley organization, Fifth Qingrou assessed the situation and withdrew from the auction in time, avoiding making enemies with the nine great families, and Chu Yang’s plan to shift the crisis to the Fifth Family failed, which could be regarded as recovering some of the previous losses.

Shortly after the auction, the Law Enforcer and the eight great families (except the Li Family) launched the Extinction of Dao War. In this war, Fifth Qingrou prepared on both sides, mobilizing family experts to participate in the Extinction of Dao War on one hand, and secretly contacting Chu Yang on the other hand, in order to preserve the family’s strength as much as possible. However, this plan ultimately failed, and all the Fifth Family experts who participated in the war were killed.

After the war broke out between the Li Family and other families, the Law Enforcer (Fifth Chou Chang) recommended Fifth Qingrou to be the commander-in-chief of the allied forces to fight against the Li Family. Fifth Qingrou seized this opportunity, and in the war to eliminate the Li Family, he fought wits and courage with Mo Tianji. Although he paid a huge price to eliminate the Li Family, he successfully expanded the Fifth Family’s strength in the process, making the family a force on par with the nine great families, and used the chaos of the appearance of the Heavenly Demons and the Nine Tribulations Sword Master to break away from the Zhuge Family.

During the Law Enforcer’s war of destruction, Fifth Qingrou put the overall situation first and worked hard to promote cooperation between Chu Yang and the nine great families. Although the Fifth Family suffered heavy losses in this catastrophe, Fifth Qingrou still survived, and his wisdom was highly praised by Yue Lingxue and others. Therefore, in the post-war reconstruction of the legal organization, Fifth Qingrou became a powerful figure second only to one person and above ten thousand.

During the Law Enforcer’s war of destruction, Fifth Qingrou also met Ling Hanxue of the Ling Family. Due to their personalities, although they had feelings for each other, they could not express them. Fortunately, before Chu Yang ascended to the Nine Heavens Que, he helped them, and Fifth Qingrou and Ling Hanxue finally came together and became husband and wife.

Later, when Chu Yang returned to the Nine Heavens to visit, he invited Fifth Qingrou to the Heavenly Que to participate in the war to destroy the demons. Fifth Qingrou refused Chu Yang’s invitation, believing that with Mo Tianji’s existence, it was enough to deal with the Heavenly Demons.