The character known as the Older Disciple in the anime Sennin Buraku is the Taoist pupil Zhi Huang, who lives alongside his master in the village of Taoyuan, a settlement inhabited entirely by ascetics devoted to the spiritual life. His background is that of a young apprentice under the village's eldest sage, Lao Shi, an elder who dedicates himself to serious research into magic and alchemy. Where Lao Shi embodies the scholarly and disciplined side of their hermit community, Zhi Huang stands in clear contrast, showing little enthusiasm for study and far more interest in worldly matters, especially the pleasures of the flesh. He is defined by his infatuation with three beautiful sisters who live near the village, and his romantic pursuit of them is the driving motivation behind much of his behavior. This places him in frequent conflict with his master, who regards the disciple's preoccupations with annoyance and repeatedly finds himself exasperated by the younger man's inability to focus on the spiritual path. In the story, Zhi Huang serves as the main source of romantic comedy and much of the series' risqué humor, since his desires, schemes, and distractions routinely undermine the serene atmosphere of the hermit settlement and collide with the expectations of ascetic life. His key relationships are with Lao Shi, whose authority and dedication he constantly tests, and with the three sisters, whose affection he seeks and who draw him away from his duties. As a resident of Taoyuan, Zhi Huang belongs to a community of immortals who use various supernatural arts in their daily lives, and he shares in that world of magic, though detailed accounts of his individual abilities are limited. Because the series unfolds as short, gag-driven episodes, his development remains largely static in the anime, with the humor stemming from his unchanging nature rather than from any meaningful growth; he stays a consistently pleasure-seeking disciple whose longings repeatedly set him against the sober expectations of his master and his surroundings.