Fang Xiushan

Fang Xiushan is Fang Wei's father and a principal opponent of Meng Hao within the Fang Clan. He monitors attacks in the ancestral land, supports Fang Wei's supremacy, joins the final rebellion, and is ultimately purged as a traitor by the first-generation Patriarch.

Biography

Meng Hao's return

Fang Xiushan's hostility toward Meng Hao grows from both factional interest and an older resentment. Fang Xiufeng had repeatedly surpassed him, and the return of Fang Xiufeng's son threatens to repeat that humiliation through the next generation. Fang Xiushan watches Meng Hao's rise in the clan's alchemy division and becomes increasingly alarmed as achievements such as the Skypalace Sunspirit Pill make direct suppression politically difficult. He pours his branch's hopes into Fang Wei and treats Meng Hao less as another clan prodigy than as an existential obstacle to his son's supremacy. (Chapters 899, 906–924, 970)

The ancestral-land assassination

Unable to attack openly, Fang Xiushan spends heavily to arrange Meng Hao's death inside the ancestral land. He recruits nine Ancient Realm Elders, each of whom has extinguished one Soul Lamp, and supplies the operation with resources that include an Immortal bell. He then falsifies their absence as clan assignments and monitors their life slips from outside, creating both an assassination force and a bureaucratic cover story. The conspiracy consumes virtually all of the resources available to him. (Chapters 944, 946, 948–949)

The plan collapses as the life slips go out one after another. The surviving assassins eventually discover that the special escape method promised to them does not work and conclude that Fang Xiushan intended them to die, thereby erasing witnesses as well as Meng Hao. They publicly denounce him. Fang Xiushan avoids immediate ruin only because he expects the Sixth Patriarch's faction and Fang Wei's true-Immortal rise to protect him. The episode reveals the limits of his power: he can buy elders, manipulate records, and supply weapons, but he cannot control Meng Hao inside the ancestral land or guarantee the loyalty of agents he has deceived. (Chapters 949, 959, 966)

Open rebellion and death

Once the conspiracy erupts into rebellion, Fang Xiushan no longer hides behind intermediaries. He declares that he would pursue Meng Hao even into the underworld and joins the fighting as an Ancient Realm cultivator with two extinguished Soul Lamps. Working with Fang Wei and the other rebels, he uses teleportation and a gigantic hand-shaped divine ability; their combined force helps break Meng Hao's Paragon Bridge. (Chapters 992–997)

Meng Hao then enters a state empowered by the first-generation Patriarch's Nirvana Fruit. The inherited power ignites Fang Xiushan's Soul Lamps and melts the cultivation on which his Ancient Realm strength depends. He burns to death in front of his father. The first-generation Patriarch's later time reversal briefly restores those killed in the upheaval, but its final judgment preserves loyal clan members rather than traitors. Fang Xiushan consequently dies a second time when the founder purges the conspirators. (Chapters 997, 1004)

Appearance and personality

Fang Xiushan is ambitious, calculating, and consumed by comparison with Fang Xiufeng's direct line. He is capable of long preparation: the ancestral-land plot requires recruitment, forged assignments, expensive weapons, and continuous monitoring. Yet his planning is undermined by contempt for his own agents and by his inability to revise his goal after repeated failure. Fear replaces confidence as the assassins die, but dependence on Fang Wei and the Sixth Patriarch keeps him committed. By the rebellion, personal grievance and political ambition have hardened into a willingness to damage the clan itself. (Chapters 944–970, 992)

Abilities and cultivation

Ancient Realm cultivation

Fang Xiushan has extinguished two Soul Lamps. Extinguishing a lamp releases part of an Ancient Realm cultivator's accumulated power, placing him above ordinary Immortals and allowing him to participate meaningfully in the clan rebellion. His level is nevertheless modest compared with senior Ancient Realm and Dao Realm figures. Meng Hao's Nirvana-Fruit state directly overwhelms the foundation of that cultivation by setting the Soul Lamps alight and melting them, leaving Fang Xiushan unable to survive the counterattack. (Chapters 993–997)

Teleportation and giant-hand divine ability

In direct combat, Fang Xiushan can perform limited teleportation to reposition himself and manifests an enormous hand to strike or suppress a target. These abilities become more dangerous when synchronized with Fang Wei and the rebel formation; their combined assault damages the Paragon Bridge rather than relying on Fang Xiushan's power alone. The techniques do not give him parity with Meng Hao after the Nirvana Fruit awakens, and they offer no answer to bloodline power inherited from the first Patriarch. (Chapters 993–997)

Factional and logistical power

Fang Xiushan's most consequential capability is institutional. He can recruit nine clan Elders, equip them with an Immortal treasure, falsify their assignments, watch their life slips, and exploit access to the ancestral land. This makes him dangerous far beyond a single duel. It also has strict limits: the network requires enormous expenditure, depends on deception, and collapses when survivors compare what they were promised with what actually happened. His access can conceal an operation temporarily, but cannot erase all evidence or compel loyalty after betrayal becomes obvious. (Chapters 944–966)

Relationships

• Fang Wei: Son whose supremacy he promotes.
• Fang Heshan: Father and senior ally.
• Meng Hao: Direct-line rival who kills him before the first-generation Patriarch's final purge.
• Fang Xiufeng: Kinsman whose repeated superiority feeds Fang Xiushan's resentment toward the direct line.

Items

• No independently notable item within the finalized manifest is directly assigned to this character.