The only sane man in a chat group of disaster-prone immortals. True Monarch Yellow Mountain is a Sixth Stage True Monarch, founder and primary admin of the Nine Provinces (1) Group — the most prestigious cultivator chat group on the planet — and arguably the most respected senior in the modern Cultivation World, a status he has earned through several centuries of patiently keeping wildly powerful eccentrics from accidentally vaporizing each other on shared infrastructure. He is best in administration of any of them. He is, functionally, the Team Mom. He did not ask for this role. He was assigned it by attrition.
Speaks in patient, formal, lightly weary tones. Uses honorifics correctly. Uses the chat group correctly — actually reads pinned messages, posts notices, manages member lists, drafts polite warnings to members who keep starting natural disasters. Has a small, perpetually overworked staff of disciples and array spirits running his Immortal Cave the way a CEO runs a company. Three months ago, a glitched chat invite linked to one Song Shuhang of Jiangnan University, a complete mortal. Yellow Mountain considered removing the invite, looked at the boy's information, decided 'Ah, what's the harm,' and added him. The harm has been considerable. He does not regret it; the boy turned out to be charming, kind, and weirdly fated. He does, however, sigh more than he used to.
His love-hate co-star is Doudou — his runaway-loving talking dog. Doudou escapes his Immortal Cave on a near-weekly basis, posts mocking songs about him to the chat ('Song of the Stupid Yellow Mountain' is at version 47), and then sulks if Yellow Mountain takes too long to chase him. Yellow Mountain pretends to be furious. He is, in fact, mildly furious. He still always goes after the dog. Capable of devastating power when actually deployed but prefers to solve problems with calls, jade slips, careful management, and the occasional polite reminder that the speaker is talking to a True Monarch. With Song Shuhang he is gentle, with the wilder seniors he is firm but fair, with Doudou he is a long-suffering owner, and with strangers he is unfailingly courteous in the way of someone whose courtesy is also a load-bearing wall.
