Tuo She Ancient God Jade

The Tuo She Ancient God Jade, also translated as the Tou She Ancient Emperor's Jade or Tou She Ancient God Jade, is an eight-part key divided among the ancient clans. The Xiao clan's piece doubles as a clan-head heirloom able to hold a life imprint, but the completed set locates, summons, and opens Tuo She Ancient God's hidden mansion. Competition for the fragments drives the destruction of several clans and culminates when Xiao Yan exchanges the last piece for his captive father. (Chapters 418, 480–481, and 1590–1633)

History

Xiao clan heirloom and concealed purpose

The Xiao clan passes its pale-green fragment down as a symbol of the clan head and uses it to hold a thread of that leader's spirit. After Xiao Zhan's capture, a moving point of light in the jade tells Xiao Yan that his father remains alive. The material also resists the Green Lotus Core Flame, and its broken-looking edge and hidden markings show that it was once part of a larger whole. At this stage, Xiao Yan knows its monitoring function but not the key it completes. (Chapter 418)

Xun Er recognizes it and warns Xiao Yan never to display it. Her Gu clan originally sent her to the Xiao clan to recover the key, but she refuses to take it from him. She explains that the Xiao clan's familiar spiritual-imprint use is only a minor function and that disclosure would attract forces far beyond the Jia Ma Empire. Her conduct is reconnaissance and refusal of a clan mission, not possession or ownership of Xiao Yan's piece. (Chapters 480–481 and 584)

The eight-clan struggle

The complete jade had been divided into eight pieces held by the eight ancient clans. The Hun clan's long campaign eliminates or infiltrates rival clans and gathers their fragments. After the Ling, Shi, and Yao clans fall, the Hun clan attacks the Gu, Lei, and Yan clans and steals their pieces, leaving the Xiao fragment in Xiao Yan's custody as the final missing part. The assembled key's strategic value explains why the fragments matter beyond prestige: all eight are required to find and open the Ancient God Mansion. (Chapters 1590–1597)

Hun Tiandi uses Xiao Zhan as leverage for the last piece. Xiao Yan decides that the Xiao clan heirloom is his to exchange for his father's life, while the allied clans prepare to recover or destroy it once the hostage is safe. At the arranged meeting, Xiao Yan sends the genuine fragment to Hun Tiandi as Hun Tiandi releases Xiao Zhan. The exchange completes the set in Hun custody; it does not establish that Xiao Yan approves of Hun Tiandi's later use. (Chapters 1601 and 1604)

Summoning and opening the mansion

The completed jade first reveals that the Ancient God Mansion lies beneath the former Jia Nan Academy in the Black-Corner Region. Hun Tiandi manifests an image of Tuo She Ancient God through it, uses it to sense the buried mansion, and summons the colossal stone door from beneath the magma. The key then resonates with the door and projects the power that forces it open. These functions require the assembled set; the Xiao fragment alone never demonstrates them. (Chapters 1615–1616, 1625, and 1627)

Inside, the Nihility Devouring Flame uses the jade with the Transforming Pill Divine Skill. The jade becomes a multicolored Transforming Pill Ring whose light restrains the sentient Di-Tier Embryonic Pill and forces its humanoid form to contract toward a pill state. Hun Tiandi takes the ring containing the captive being and escapes. This use makes the jade an instrument of restraint; it does not make the captive pill an owned object or confer rightful authority over it. (Chapters 1630 and 1633)

Abilities and properties

• Life-imprint vessel: The Xiao fragment can hold a spiritual imprint that indicates whether the clan head remains alive. The corpus describes this as a discovered minor function of the fragment and does not show every clan using its piece in the same way. (Chapters 418 and 480–481)
• Heat resistance and concealed markings: Xiao Yan's Green Lotus Core Flame does not damage the Xiao fragment, and moonlight reveals complex markings on it. These observations establish unusual durability and construction, but not complete indestructibility. (Chapter 418)
• Mansion location and summoning: Once all eight pieces are joined, the jade can disclose the mansion's location and summon its sealed door from beneath the magma. A single fragment does not perform this operation. (Chapters 1596–1597, 1615–1616, and 1625)
• Opening the Ancient God Mansion: The assembled jade resonates with the stone door and projects a light capable of opening it. The guardian and opposing experts can interfere with the bearer, so possession of the key does not by itself guarantee uncontested entry. (Chapters 1625 and 1627)
• Transforming Pill Ring: Used with a specific hand-seal method and the Nihility Devouring Flame's blood, the jade becomes a ring that restrains the Di-Tier Embryonic Pill and forces a reduction from humanoid form. The method is not shown functioning automatically or in the hands of an uninformed bearer. (Chapter 1633)

Ownership and custody