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Shang Tianci

Prodigy, captive convert, and reconnaissance operative / Golden Core at eighteenMountains and Rivers Pavilion

Shang Tianci is an eighteen-year-old Golden Core prodigy whose paired Heavenly Scene Treasure Gourds make him valuable to Li Fan's emerging Federation.

Biography

Chapter 813

Shang Tianci first appears as a talented Mountains and Rivers Pavilion cultivator carrying paired landscape gourds. Li Fan captures him and applies Bloodline Transmission, forcibly reshaping his loyalties until the former opponent becomes an ardent supporter of the anti-Alliance Federation. Shang then uses the green gourd to record distant terrain and move through stored scenes, providing reconnaissance and helping establish the Federation's headquarters. The purple gourd can reproduce recorded terrain, but his available energy limits the scale; at his demonstrated strength, even materializing a lake roughly one hundred miles across approaches the practical ceiling. His later usefulness is therefore real but built on coerced conversion and bounded reserves. (Chapters 813–815, 831, 871, and 884–885)

Appearance and personality

The text stresses Shang Tianci's youth—only eighteen despite Golden Core cultivation—more than a fixed facial portrait. Initially proud of his sect and treasures, he becomes intensely committed to the Federation after Bloodline Transmission; that zeal reflects imposed ideological change rather than a naturally documented reversal. (Chapters 813–815 and 831)

Abilities and cultivation

Green Heavenly Scene Treasure Gourd

The green gourd records landscapes and lets Shang Tianci travel through or return to those stored scenes. It supports long-range scouting, but it requires a scene to be captured and does not amount to unrestricted movement anywhere. (Chapters 813–815 and 871)

Purple Heavenly Scene Treasure Gourd

The purple gourd materializes terrain recorded by its partner. Energy consumption grows with the scene's scale, placing a hard practical limit on reproduction; Shang's demonstrated upper bound is approximately a hundred-mile lake. (Chapters 813–815)

Relationships

  • Li Fan captures and forcibly converts Shang before employing his talents for the Federation.
  • The Mountains and Rivers Pavilion is Shang's original sect and the source context for his paired gourds.

Items

  • Green Heavenly Scene Treasure Gourd — Remains paired with Shang and is used for recording and reconnaissance.
  • Purple Heavenly Scene Treasure Gourd — Remains in Shang's operational custody and reproduces the green gourd's stored terrain. (Chapters 813–815 and 871)