Sun Shi Han

He answers Hei Lou Lan on Dong Fang rear army distance and urges waiting until Hei rear forces gather before crushing the enemy in one move. On the day of battle he stands behind Hei Lou Lan as a trusted aide. ^{ch. 508} Hei Lou Lan’s delay for that rear gather follows cunning gentleman’s counsel and gives Dong Fang Yu Liang time to bury potato Gu under the first defense line. ^{ch. 515}

He later brings Chang Biao’s challenge letter to Fang Yuan and presses that alliance higher-ups want a kin duel to prove innocence before releasing a mutated wolf group and lurking soul coat Gu. ^{ch. 529} In Imperial Court blessed land he delivers Pan Ping’s complaint against Wolf King Chang Shan Yin and urges punishment; Hei Lou Lan refuses and tells him not to bother with such matters again. ^{ch. 552}

Fang Yuan beats him in a public scuffle without Gu worms after Sun Shi Han needles him over Chang tribe kin; crowd talk still classes Sun Shi Han as a rank four expert with some strength path foundation, and Hei Lou Lan treats the beating as a slap to his own face because Sun Shi Han is his man. ^{ch. 530} Against the flying bear he is named an investigative Gu Master when he first spots the bear’s mouth trace. ^{ch. 584} By the later flying bear fight he is already an external elder of Hei tribe, and he withholds advising a death-warrior sacrifice plan because that would soil his reputation inside the tribe. ^{ch. 585}