Tao Fa

Tao Fa is a celestial being created to study sexual cultivation as a path to immortality.

She is known for her constant bright smile, mood-maker personality, and terrifying brutality in combat.

Tao Fa’s divine title is Ratna Great Sage, but she openly dislikes it.

She wishes she had a cuter name, something like “La-La-La Great Teacher.”

Although she appears carefree and playful, Tao Fa has lived for around a thousand years.

Her cheerfulness hides deep emotional exhaustion and doubt about her endless research.

She is strongly associated with the wood attribute among the Tensen.

Her Tao and abilities reflect growth, vitality, and crushing physical power.

Name: Tao Fa

Divine Title: Ratna Great Sage (disliked by herself)

Species: Tensen (celestial being)

Gender Presentation: Prefers female form (can switch sex like other Tensen)

Birthday: September 1

Height: 173–185 cm (varies with Tensen body change)

Age: Approximately 1000 years

Tao Attribute: Wood

Occupation/Role: Tensen researcher of sexual cultivation, guardian of the Chamber of Sexual Cultivation

Voice Actors: Junichi Suwabe / Yuko Kaida

Tao Fa outwardly behaves bright, sunny, and innocent, almost childlike in her energy.

Among the Tensen, she often acts as a mood maker, lifting the atmosphere with her smiles and teasing.

She loves living creatures, caring equally for little birds and minor household spirits like stove gods.

This affection clashes painfully with her role, since Tensen routinely sacrifice living beings such as Hōko as materials for their elixirs.

Unable to stop the experiments yet unable to accept them, she deeply grieves the loss of living beings used as “elixir ingredients.”

Her endless smile is a form of armor, a forced cheerfulness to keep herself from mentally collapsing.

Over centuries of training and research without a visible end, her heart has been worn down.

Moments of weakness reveal that her laughter may be a symptom of madness or a desperate defense against it.

Beneath her cute demeanor lies a disturbingly ruthless combatant.

She often smiles sweetly while showing cruelty, reflecting the void and conflict inside her.

Tao Fa manipulates wood-attributed Tao, using it both for invisible attacks and enhanced physical power.

She can strike with Tao so refined that opponents who cannot sense Tao are hit by seemingly “invisible” blows.

Despite her dainty and charming appearance, Tao Fa favors a brute-force fighting style.

She relies on astonishing physical strength paired with precise Tao strikes to overwhelm enemies.

During battle she remains playful and smiling, which makes her sudden brutality even more unsettling.

Her fighting reflects her inner emptiness, mixing joy, frustration, and cruelty into a single, dangerous presence.

When opponents begin to grasp Tao, her advantage of unseen attacks diminishes.

Even then, her raw strength, speed, and combat experience accumulated over centuries make her a formidable foe.

Tao Fa was created alongside Ju Fa specifically to research sexual cultivation—seeking immortality through sexual practices and union.

The two form a pair, frequently engaging in sexual acts as part of their experiments and training.

Like other Tensen, Tao Fa can change between male and female forms.

However, she personally prefers and usually maintains a female appearance.

Within the Tensen hierarchy, she is not merely a fighter but also a specialist researcher.

Her work centers on using sexual energy, Tao circulation, and dual cultivation as an alternative path to perfect immortality.

Her centuries of research have yielded techniques and insights, but no satisfying conclusion.

The lack of an attainable end goal feeds her sense of futility and despair.

Tao Fa’s greatest inner conflict arises from the Tensen’s practice of using living beings as alchemical materials.

Creatures like Hōko and other life forms are converted into elixirs or used as fuel for research.

Because she genuinely loves animals and small spirits, this routine cruelty troubles her deeply.

She feels guilt and sorrow for every life sacrificed in the name of eternal youth and immortality.

The burden of these deaths gradually wears her down over hundreds of years.

Her once-genuine cheer turns into an increasingly shaky façade.

Eventually, unable to keep killing only the island’s own transformed beings, she conceives a new, chilling idea.

She suggests luring humans from the outside world to the island, effectively turning outsiders into fresh “resources.”

This idea marks a significant moral decline, pushed by despair rather than simple malice.

Tao Fa tries to escape the guilt of killing familiar beings by shifting the sacrifice onto strangers.

Her comment, “If I don’t keep smiling, I’ll lose my mind! Or maybe I’m smiling because I’m already crazy,” captures this spiral.

The line reveals her awareness that her cheerfulness may itself be a sign of mental fracture.

Ju Fa

Tao Fa is closely paired with Ju Fa, another Tensen created to research sexual cultivation.

They frequently engage in sexual acts not just for pleasure, but as experimental practice in their field.

Their relationship is both professional and intimate.

They share centuries of research, ritual, and combat experience together.

Ju Fa and Tao Fa mirror one another as complementary halves of the same project.

Their bond is central to their role among the Tensen and to Tao Fa’s daily existence.

Other Tensen

Tao Fa appears alongside Mùdān and other Tensen during regular report gatherings.

In these settings, she often lightens the mood with her bubbly presence.

Despite this, she is still bound by the same ruthless priorities as the rest of the Tensen.

Her camaraderie with them coexists uneasily with her personal doubts.

First Appearance

Tao Fa first appears while engaged in sexual activity with Ju Fa.

In the middle of their coupling, they encounter the Aza brothers, bringing the Tensen directly into conflict with the intruders.

This sudden interruption shows how deeply their research and sexual acts are intertwined.

Even their intimate moments are part of the large-scale project of immortality on the island.

Presence in Regular Meetings

Later, Tao Fa is seen during routine reports with fellow Tensen such as Mùdān.

These meetings show the Tensen coordinating their efforts, monitoring intruders, and maintaining the island’s systems.

In these scenes, her playful charm contrasts with the cold, administrative tone of other Tensen.

She seems to be the one who keeps things from feeling too stiff, even in serious discussions.

Battle in the Chamber of Sexual Cultivation

Tao Fa’s major battle takes place in the Chamber of Sexual Cultivation.

There she faces Tamiya Gantetsusai and Fuchi in a decisive confrontation.

Tamiya, notorious for his love of women, is delighted to fight such an attractive opponent.

Tao Fa’s appearance and playful demeanor only amp up his excitement.

Tao Fa uses her monstrous strength and invisible Tao attacks to dominate the early phase of the battle.

Since Tamiya and Fuchi initially cannot fully wield Tao, they are pushed to the brink.

Her mastery of invisible Tao is especially lethal against opponents who cannot perceive the flow of energy.

Blows appear from nowhere, and defenses seem useless.

As she presses them, Tamiya’s words unexpectedly strike a nerve in Tao Fa.

He speaks in a way that resonates with her accumulated frustration and despair about her research.

For a brief moment, her ever-present smile fades, revealing raw vulnerability.

She voices her fear that her work is endless and meaningless, her cheer nothing but a fragile mask.

She exclaims something to the effect of:

“If I’m not laughing, I’ll go insane! Or maybe I’m laughing because I’m already insane.”

After that confession, she hurls herself at them with renewed, almost hysterical violence.

She beats Tamiya and Fuchi down, venting her emotional turmoil through raw force.

Despite the beating, Tamiya and Fuchi rise again, eyes shining with joy.

They are thrilled by the discovery of Tao as a new technique and by the rare chance to face such a powerful enemy.

Their genuine excitement and willingness to push beyond their limits shake up the battle’s rhythm.

In response to Tao Fa’s overwhelming power, Tamiya resorts to a brutal tactic: gouging out his own eyes.

By destroying his ordinary sight, he sharpens his perception of Tao itself.

This shocking move allows him to finally sense Tao and read her once-invisible attacks.

With Tamiya now capable of perceiving Tao, the fight resets back to even ground.

Tao Fa’s initial advantage disappears, and the clash enters a new, more balanced phase.

Tao Fa’s character embodies the cost of endless pursuit of immortality.

Her story explores how a quest for eternal life can erode empathy, sanity, and moral boundaries over centuries.

Her love for living beings versus her participation in their sacrifice creates constant cognitive dissonance.

This tension explains why she must either keep smiling or risk breaking down entirely.

Her battle with Tamiya and Fuchi highlights the contrast between jaded immortals and passionate mortals.

Where she sees only an endless, exhausting experiment, they see wonder, challenge, and joy in growth.

Tao Fa’s arc is not about redemption but about exposure.

It peels back the pretty façade of the Tensen and shows the emotional scars hidden underneath their divine calm and beauty.