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Appearance

In her youth, Rien had violet eyes and hair, which formed a large, single fringe hanging down the left side of her face. After living for a millennium, Rien had become extremely old. She had lost her hair and showed traces of branches and leaves sprouting from her head due to Arborization.

The Taoist puppets that Rien controlled reflected his former youthful appearance and wore the same clothes: a white robe, a matching long-sleeved hanfu, hakama, and black boots. For his departure to Japan, Rien had his main puppet change clothes and wear a Taoist robe with a pattern decorated on the collar and belt, as well as a crown on its head. After the hijacking of his ship, Rien abandons these garments to fight his enemies more comfortably, opting to leave his upper body exposed, wearing a beaded necklace and revealing his hidden gold bracelets. A ribbon also floated freely around him.

In his Kishikai, Rien gained two additional pairs of arms with their own golden armbands and three new pairs of eyes: one pair below the originals and one on his forehead. His skin darkened, and his body received a heart-shaped mark below his collarbones and two flaming crown-like marks where his abdomen, or tanden, is located. A ring of flowers appeared on the nape of his neck. After surviving the destruction of his plant egg by Sagiri, a large part of Rien's body transformed into a cluster of lotus flowers, which included a pair of misshapen wings on his back, seemingly remnants of his extra arms.

Personality

Rien crying Rien wishes Jofuku would return to her. Rien possessed a sociopathic personality, having spent countless years attempting to achieve her goal of reviving her deceased husband, Jofuku, resorting to horrific acts involving the lives of humans. She felt nothing for humanity, viewing humans as inferior beings whose only redeeming quality was their Tao, which she could use to create Tan without a shred of guilt or remorse, and was more than willing to sacrifice all human life in Japan if it meant having Jofuku back in her life. This callous attitude also applied to other living beings, such as the Hōko, whom she used in her research against their will and allowed the Tensen to absorb their Tao.

Although Rien generally maintained a calm and serene composure, she was not immune to feelings such as irritation and anger, which usually arose when she encountered obstacles in her plans. During her departure for Japan, Rien wept before Jofuku's golden corpse and embraced it, expressing her desire to see him again. Later, she showed happiness at the thought that her plans were finally nearing completion and made preparations for the memorable occasion, arranging items for a wedding. In fact, the only times she remembers being happy were when Jofuku was still by her side. In the past, Rien was considered by the Tensen to be a much kinder and more caring person. However, after the start of her Arborification, Rien's apathetic personality developed, as she realized that time was running out to complete her research.

“How irritating. Listen carefully, you human scum. I am Shinsen. All hermits transcend humanity, and I am the hermit of the highest class. By nature, an insect like you cannot touch me.” — Rien expressing his superiority over Shugen.

Rien looking down Rien watches Shugen from above, while she sits casually on her sword. Since acquiring transcendent powers, Rien developed a severe goddess complex, believing that all mortals were inferior to her and that none of them would be able to even scratch her in an act of defiance. Like her colleague Zhu Jin, Rien was often irritated by having to deal with troublesome humans who dared to fight her, as she found it absurd that the surviving humans of Kotaku had the audacity to think that their inferior abilities would stand a chance against a Sennin like herself. Despite her low opinion of humans, Rien recognized that not all were weak and that there were some rare individuals with superior abilities, such as Gabimaru, Aza Chōbei, and Shija.

Despite being seen as cold and calculating, Rien demonstrated a sense of camaraderie and compassion on a few rare occasions. After discovering Mu Dan's corpse, Rien left Hōrai with the purpose of finding his killer and expressed her vengeful attitude upon encountering Chōbei, asking if he was responsible for her subordinate's death. After taking Chōbei in to Lord Tensen, Rien agreed to the human's request to have his brother excluded from the Consummation ritual, after cooperating with Lord Tensen. Even with her disregard for humans, Rien demonstrated the little compassion she possessed by wishing Gabimaru sweet dreams as he transformed into Arbor. After receiving words of condolence from Gabimaru, now married, Rien finally learned to accept Jofuku's death and showed mercy, healing the wounds she inflicted on Gabimaru and Sagiri before passing on to the afterlife.

Family

Jofuku

Nothing to do with Jofuku Rien and Jofuku. Rien was Jofuku's wife. She was happily married and always supported her husband's dedication to his research throughout their time working together at Kotaku. Over time, Rien cared for him until his death, when his body began to decay. After his passing, Rien couldn't accept the loss and decided to dedicate herself tirelessly to finding a way to resurrect him, no matter the means. After preserving his body in gold, Rien came to regard her husband's corpse as her master and bowed in respect when making her reports. As her plans progressed, Rien was overjoyed at the idea of ​​reuniting with Jofuku after 700 years. However, after receiving words of comfort from Gabimaru, Rien decided to accept Jofuku's death and join him in the afterlife.

Tensen

Mr. Tensen Rien along with the other members of Lord Tensen's group. Rien harbored a genuine attachment to her creations, the Tensen, as she considered them the only family she had left after Jofuku's death and wished they would see each other the same way. Therefore, she detested conflict within the group and believed they should all remain united. After finding Mu Dan's body, Rien felt vengeful and decided to seek out the killer, an action that diverted her from her main objectives.

However, her care for the Tensen had limits. Although she didn't wish any harm to come to the six, Rien made it clear that, as their leader, only she had the right to harm any of them. This was especially true if a Tensen became insubordinate, something Rien did not tolerate. If betrayed, Rien would not hesitate to punish them cruelly, as in Mei's case, when she broke her tanden and sentenced her to practice Bōchū Jutsu with the Dōshi. As a result of her ruthless attitude, the Tensen learned their place, as admitted by Tao Fa, who stated that Rien was too frightening for her to dare challenge them if she chose not to follow her orders to capture the invading humans. Rien was also willing to sacrifice the Tensen if they met their end for following her orders; although her confidence in their abilities made her believe this was unlikely. From Gui Fa's point of view, since the Tensen were simply clones of their creator, Rien would have seen their deaths as a noble sacrifice. Another possible reason for her being willing to risk their lives could be the fact that she knew the Basin could reincarnate them using replica plant eggs.

Although she didn't hesitate to punish one of her own, Rien wasn't exempt from suffering when it came to that point, as Mei remembered her shedding a tear at the moment of her death. Some of the Tensen also pointed out that Rien was known for being much kinder in the past, before her Arborization. Upon discovering from Gui Fa that the Tensen had been killed (along with many other unfortunate events), Rien was distraught, despite stating that she would accept her fate. Her orders to Gui Fa to protect the Basin also demonstrate that she was unwilling to part with them.

History

Past

Nothing in mourning Rien is mourning Jofuku's death. Sometime in the 3rd century BC, Rien married Jofuku and accompanied him on his journey to the East to obtain the Elixir of Life for the ruler of the Qin Dynasty, between 219 BC and 210 BC. Their journey took them to an island where they decided to use their resources and knowledge of Taoism to discover the secrets of immortality, resulting in several experimental creations. As part of her research, Rien used her Tao to create a clone of herself that she could remotely control. After receiving a new body, Rien used the Tao clone to create another artificial clone named Mei, who assisted her, as well as Jofuku, in addition to six artificial newborns. These seven became known as Tensen. Decades later, the elderly Jofuku was infected by the Arborification and eventually died from the disease, leaving Rien alone and heartbroken.

Refusing to accept her husband's death, Rien vowed to resurrect him, beginning by encasing his body in gold to preserve it. With the Tensen she created, Rien formed the group known as Lord Tensen to maintain order on the island and trained the six young people in the ways of the Tao. Eventually, Rien began to suffer from the same illness as her late husband and had to remain bedridden for the rest of her life. Seeing that time was running out, Rien developed a drastic change in behavior, allowing herself to sacrifice the lives of others for the sake of her research. After coming to consider the Outer Path of Tan as a stepping stone in her plans to revive Jofuku, Rien attempted to create an immortality potion by extracting the Tao from the Hōko and allowed the Tensen to do the same to replenish the Tao lost during training. Having realized that her method of sacrificing lives was wrong, Mei tried to stop Rien from proceeding, but was punished for her disobedience. Rien shattered her plant egg, shrunk her body to that of a small child, and sentenced her to participate in the Bōchū Jutsu with the Dōshi. At some point, Rien realized Mei had managed to escape, but didn't bother with her whereabouts.

After several centuries, the Hōko began to face extinction due to Arborization, leaving the six young Tensen worried about their lives, as they risked dying if they lost their source of Tao. The Tensen then had the idea of ​​using humans from the mainland as substitutes and managed to lure them to the island after sending a boat with an Arborized Hōko. As a result of extracting human Tao, which proved to be more refined than that of the Hōko, Rien managed to create a prototype elixir known as Tan and proceeded with the idea of ​​attracting more humans to the island to create more over the years. Rien then developed a plan to extract Tao from the entire population of Japan to create the perfect Tan elixir and transfer it to Jofuku's golden corpse, successfully reviving him. To realize his plan, Rien created the Banko in his laboratory, but constantly failed in his attempts to keep the flower alive and had to wait centuries for it to bloom again. Rien then continued his work until the Edo period of Japan.

Skills and Powers

As a Tensen, Rien possessed supernatural powers that surpassed those of the other Sennin below her, making her unmatched by any mortal. Her prowess was also far superior to that of the other Tensen she commanded. Therefore, Rien could be considered the greatest threat in the Jigokuraku manga. With little effort, she managed to force Aza Chōbei, a superhuman who had obtained the powers of the Flower Tao, to transform and instantly defeated him with a single Tao attack. Even limiting her power, Rien was able to defend herself against a squad of Iwagakure shinobi. Shija, an Iwa shinobi chosen to become the next strongest shinobi of Iwagakure, admitted that even they didn't stand a chance against Rien in a fair fight and had to resort to trickery. Rien was also able to defeat Yamada Asaemon Shugen, the strongest Asaemon of the Yamada clan, without much difficulty, and subsequently managed to fight simultaneously against him and Gabimaru, the strongest shinobi in Iwagakure's history, with ease. Using his special institution, which he claims to be 100% accurate, Jikka concluded that even if he and the nine human survivors accompanying him fought Rien 10,000 times, there would be no possible strategy to defeat her.

Intelligence

Rien disseca Chobei Rien dissecting Chōbei for his research. Rien was a brilliant researcher with vast knowledge and understanding of Taoism. With her profound understanding of the Tao, coupled with the concept of the Outer Way of the Tao, she was able to cultivate a prototype elixir of immortality and, eventually, a perfected elixir. In addition to the elixir, she also created Banko, another experimental achievement that allowed her to extract more of the Elixir of Life. Other works included converting humans into loyal servants by draining their humanity. Rien also practiced the I Ching, which she used to read a person's current life state and any future prophecies.

Physical Skills

Rien proved to be quite formidable in hand-to-hand combat, being able to overcome Gabimaru and Shugen in a three-way battle with little difficulty, and defended well against the synchronized attacks of Gabimaru and Sagiri. In her Yin body, Rien displayed impressive agility by quickly dodging Shugen's sword attack and balancing on his blade. Using her Yang chi, Rien could opt for an increase in physical strength, as planned to "break" Sagiri, whose Wood Tao served as the "spear" to defeat her, using her six muscular Kishikai arms.

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More information: Tao Tao de Rien Projectile (Anime) Rien forming several Tao projectiles. Rien possessed a remarkably powerful Earth attribute Tao, considered by Chōbei to be far superior to other Tensen, and was a true master of its use. Having spent 1,000 years training in the ways of the Tao, Rien's Tao had become so refined that others could see her abilities as divine. As a Tao user, Rien was able to sense the presence of others, the movements and weaknesses of her opponents, and enhance her physical attacks. With a single Tao strike, Rien was able to easily defeat Chōbei in his Waitanhua Flower Tao transformation. Rien's great control allowed her to fire invisible Tao projectiles with a simple flick of her puppet's fingers, projectiles powerful enough to pierce the bodies of her enemies and inflict considerable damage, and she could launch them in multiple sequences.

Rien controlling flames Rien controlling the Tao of flames. Rien also possessed the ability to control the Tao of living and non-living things, which she first demonstrated to Chōbei by lighting incense. During her fight with Shija, Rien controlled the flames released by the shinobi's Ninpō: Hibōshi to fire bullets with enough force to cause considerable damage to the other Iwagakure shinobi reinforcing them. This ability also proved useful when the time came for her departure for Japan, as she remotely controlled the Tao of her ship to set sail. Her mastery over the ship's Tao, as well as over anything else destructively inorganic, made her departure impossible to stop by normal means, as she subdued the Tao of the flames that the Iwagakure shinobi had completely set the ship ablaze, and could instantly repair any damage caused if attacked, such as the great damage caused by Gantetsusai's sword strike, which nearly split the burning vessel in two. By controlling the Tao of living beings, Rien could both kill his opponents, simply by clenching his hand to crush their bodies, and heal their wounds.

Rien also demonstrated the ability to create illusions using her Tao, which she used against the human survivors to create a false moment in reality, in which they were able to defeat her.

Techniques

Tōate (遠当, Literal meaning: Ranged Strike): Rien could launch Tao at a distance as invisible projectiles, strong enough to cause considerable damage to the target's internal organs. Puppets

Rien Clones (Anime) Rien's puppets. Rien possessed the ability to use her Tao to create multiple clones of herself, like puppets, and could remotely control them from another location to act as her doubles. Rien used one puppet as her main body to conduct experiments, command the Tensen, and fight enemies, while also having some puppets to care for her in bed. If one of her puppets was destroyed, Rien could transfer its connection to another. Furthermore, Rien could also create alternative puppets with their own personalities, characteristics, and wills, which were used to create the Tensen. This ability to manipulate the Tao was considered unique, as Gui Fa stated that not even the Tensen were capable of such a feat. To maintain the connection with her puppet, Rien needed to prevent her Tao and its control from weakening.

Regeneration

Like Tensen, the Riens possessed the regenerative abilities of the Tao of Flowers. Rien demonstrated the ability to regenerate its fingers and eyes, as well as survive incineration and fatal injuries, such as sword blows. The limitation of the puppets' regeneration lies in the fact that they can be weakened if they face an opponent using the Tao of the Wood attribute, and the only known way to destroy them is if said user of the Tao of the Wood attribute completely destroys their tandens, or their plant eggs.

Yin-Yang

Rien could also have his puppets switch chi, alternating between Yin and Yang to strengthen his Tao and recover any loss. As the Riens switched chi, their gender changed to correspond to the chi, which was used whenever they trained Bōchū Jutsu. Similar to Tao Fa's fighting style, Rien could choose to perform a partial chi exchange on parts of his puppets' bodies to acquire the specific physical attribute needed for battle, such as strengthening his six Kishikai arms by transforming them into their Yang forms.

Kishikai Transformation

Rien's Kishikai Kishikai Transformation of Rien. Like a Tensen, Rien could cause her puppet to enter a Kishikai state. Upon entering this state, Rien gained six arms, which increased her offensive power. Her Tao abilities were enhanced to such an extent that she could dismantle her entire ship with a wave of power. Rien's perception and reflexes became noticeably sharper, allowing her to surprise Gabimaru the moment he was about to use a technique against her, striking him with a Tao beam converted into lightning, similar to Zhu Jin's ability, before he had a chance to execute it. Her body became more resistant to Wood Release Tao users, to the point that she perceived Sagiri's sword attack against her tanden as merely a scratch. Rien was also able to activate Gabimaru's Arborization by making her Tao resonate with his after physical contact.

Because the Kishikai exerted Tao excessively, Rien could only maintain the transformation for up to half an hour before his body became weakened.

Weapons

Rien fan Rien fan. Rien wielded a feather fan with great cutting power, capable of severing Shugen's right arm, and blunt enough to knock down his opponents.