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Ecang

Primordial tree-lifewielder and source of Divine Essencelater the basis of Su Ming's Ecang clone

Ecang is an ancient, universe-scale tree-life born from the remains and Divine Essence of Sui Chen Zi. Sui Chen Zi shattered and sealed the newborn being before it could mature, leaving ten colored fragments with separate wills. The purple fragment survives in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land until Su Ming Possesses it, destroying its original will and turning its body into one of his principal clones.

Biography

Divine Essence and Ecang

Ecang first confronts Su Ming as a gravely injured purplish-golden tree whose body extends through one hundred thousand cultivation planets and galaxies. It immediately recognizes the Bald Crane as an ancient “traitor” and “failure,” while the crane remembers Ecang with fear and insists that Sui Chen Zi had not killed it. Ecang's priority is recovery: it intends to swallow the weakened crane, restore itself through the Divine Essence in the foreign land, and eventually devour the other nine colored fragments so that the true Ecang can exist again. Its confidence rests on a real disparity in scale, since Su Ming initially discovers that taking half of one tree is only a minute part of Possessing the entire fragment. (Chapters 827–830)

Su Ming's invasion turns that recovery into a struggle for identity. Ecang attacks his soul throughout the network of golden venous pathways, reverses part of his occupation, and tries to outlast the burning of his soul. The bald crane's sacrifice, four protective divine thoughts, and laws left by Sui Chen Zi repeatedly prevent Ecang from simply erasing the intruder. Once Su Ming reaches the final portion of the Possession, Ecang invokes the Great Ecang Art, sacrifices nearly ten thousand cultivators tied to its stone monuments, and gathers the resulting purple smoke into its soul-tree. It would rather lose its consciousness and its chance to reunite with the other fragments than let Su Ming take its body. (Chapters 828–834)

The resistance fails when the Seed of Life Extermination creates one hundred million indistinguishable hearts and costs Ecang the few breaths it needs to locate Su Ming. Ecang calls on the other nine wills to avenge it, but Su Ming completes the Abyss Builder form of Possession, which takes the target's body, soul, and life Brand rather than merely occupying an empty shell. The purple will withers and disappears; from that point onward, the purple tree is Su Ming's clone, not an independently surviving Ecang personality. The other fragments hesitate because the new clone carries Ecang's presence closely enough to resemble their former counterpart. (Chapters 834–835)

Su Ming completes the clone across the fragment's one hundred thousand galaxies and chooses to leave it inside Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. Remaining there provides the safest environment for growth, maintains access to Sui Chen Zi's protective laws, and preserves the possibility of consuming the other fragments. The clone restores the depleted stone-monument system and turns it toward Su Ming's purposes, while its Divine Essence can still reinforce his separated bodies outside. Thus Ecang's defeat has a lasting consequence: its old recovery mechanism becomes the foundation from which its conqueror cultivates and projects power. (Chapters 836–839)

The Fifth Furnace and Morning Dao

For a time, the Ecang clone remains one powerful fragment rather than the restored primordial whole. Su Ming uses its worlds and Divine Essence to strengthen his other bodies, resist higher-realm pressure, and supplement attacks beyond his true cultivation. Distance remains a practical limit: leaving the foreign land for long periods would sacrifice its best environment for growth, while remote power sent to Su Ming is not identical to bringing the complete tree-body into battle. The clone therefore functions as a reserve, refuge, and power source while Su Ming travels through Divine Essence Star Ocean and the fifth furnace. (Chapters 839–1002)

Su Ming eventually crosses the barriers separating the colored regions and begins devouring the other wills. He consumes the blue fragment in an instant, increasing his domain from one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand purple galaxies, and then hunts further colors. Several Ecangs erase their own consciousness rather than be taken whole, dividing their origins of power among the survivors; yellow and indigo fragments scatter into thousands of pieces. Su Ming still reaches a completed Ecang state in kind, but the text distinguishes that completed identity from the full cultivation and maturity of the original ten-colored being. Time and further nourishment are required before his clone could equal, much less surpass, primordial Ecang at its height. (Chapters 1036–1041, 1066)

Once Su Ming has replaced completed Ecang, he can conceal the tree's presence, manifest branches through his limbs, drain a target into a corpse, and withstand force that would badly injure an ordinary cultivator at his recorded realm. These applications belong to Su Ming operating Ecang's body and inherited memories. They do not reverse the extinction of the purple will, nor do they establish that the former Ecang chose to aid him. Later accounts place primordial Ecang among the extraordinary beings of an earlier era and use its lost strength to illustrate how much of the old cultivation inheritance had disappeared. (Chapters 1041–1066, 1185)

Arid Triad and the dying aeon

The Ecang clone becomes one of the great powers protecting the Ninth Summit after the collapse of Morning Dao Sect's old order. It does not seek ordinary sect administration, leaving that responsibility to Su Ming's second senior brother, but it intervenes when the Ninth Summit's expansion meets New Dao Sect. Its battle with Dao Zong forces it to reveal its tree form and leaves both combatants badly wounded, ending either faction's ability to overwhelm the other. This is a concrete limit on the clone: even its vast life and will can be damaged by opponents of sufficient strength. (Chapters 1204–1205)

When New Dao Sect renews the war, the already wounded clone fights under the plans of the Ninth Summit's leadership. It kills three of five yellow-robed enemies and gravely wounds Dao Zong, but nearly dies in exchange and returns as a huge tree on the verge of shattering. The episode turns Ecang's inherited scale into a defensive resource for Su Ming's chosen home, a purpose opposite to the original will's predatory use of lives and stone monuments. It also shows why the clone's achievements cannot be treated as limitless simply because its species once stood above ordinary cosmic cultivation. (Chapters 1204–1213)

By Su Ming's later return to the former domain of the one hundred thousand Ecangs, his state of being has surpassed the old conflict. He sees a figure manifesting Ecang but regards their animosity as a childish quarrel and moves on to the stone-monument world. Ecang remains part of the history and structure of his power, yet it is no longer the central rival that determines his choices during the last aeon. (Chapter 1358)

Ancient Zang and the final truth

In Ancient Zang, Su Ming encounters an ancient tree whose presence awakens something associated with Ecang in his soul. The narration is careful about the direction of that resemblance: the tree may carry a hint of Ecang, or the past Ecang may have carried a hint of this older tree. Parts of the tree had become Sacred Wood and other branches had produced lives after the Emperor of Ancient Zang brought it back from another world, but the reason for the connection is not resolved. It therefore expands Ecang's possible lineage without establishing that the Ancient Zang tree and Ecang are the same being. (Chapter 1448)

After the final struggle, Su Ming searches the cycles of life and death for those connected to his past. He finds an ordinary tree and the narration explicitly states that it is not Ecang. No restored independent Ecang is confirmed at the endpoint; what endures is the tree-life that Su Ming incorporated, its memories and Divine Essence within his path, and an unresolved resemblance to older cosmic trees. (Chapter 1481)

Appearance and personality

The complete newborn Ecang is an immeasurably vast tree shining with ten colors, large enough to occupy an enormous portion of the surrounding void. After Sui Chen Zi shatters it, each colored will is distributed through its own immense region. The fragment Su Ming encounters is purplish gold: one hundred thousand golden seas hold one hundred thousand planets and trees, their trunks filled with golden venous pathways and death-filled hearts. Its gathered soul appears as a gigantic purple tree, while Su Ming's completed clone can use a humanoid form and manifest a colossal purple tree-shadow behind it. (Chapters 829, 833–839)

The original purple will is proud, contemptuous, and fiercely possessive of its identity. It calls itself noble and unique, treats cultivators as lesser lives, and responds to encroachment with rage and derision. That arrogance does not make it passive: it is calculating enough to exploit the stone-monument system and Sui Chen Zi's Divine Essence for recovery. When defeat becomes unavoidable, fear and despair sharpen into self-destructive resolve. Later calm, loyalty to the Ninth Summit, and Su Ming's tactical restraint belong to the possessed clone's controller rather than to a demonstrated change in Ecang's own personality. (Chapters 827–835, 1204–1205)

Abilities and cultivation

Ecang's capabilities arise from its nature as a primordial tree-life and from the Divine Essence absorbed at its birth. Its original will, each separated colored fragment, and Su Ming's later clone are related but not interchangeable power states. The corpus does not dramatize a complete formal cultivation sequence for Ecang, so its established powers are described without a progression table.

Primordial body and fragmented existence

Ecang germinates from the dead Sui Chen Zi's shattered cosmos and consumes the remaining Divine Essence as nourishment. The newborn is complete and possesses all ten colors, but it is still compared to an infant that has not fully grown. Sui Chen Zi divides it into ten colors and one million sealed pieces, causing ten separate wills to develop. Each will controls a colored region of one hundred thousand galaxies and can grow by consuming life and Divine Essence. Reassembling the true being requires the fragments to devour or fuse with one another; before Su Ming's intervention, they agree to recover first so that the eventual whole will not be born damaged. (Chapters 833–835)

Fragmentation is both Ecang's survival mechanism and its central weakness. A single tenth remains vast enough to overwhelm most intruders, but it is gravely injured and cannot reproduce the original being's full power. The fragments are also potential predators to one another, and once one begins consuming the rest, their shared origin does not protect their individual consciousness. Some choose to erase themselves and distribute their origin power rather than be Possessed. Even Su Ming's completed replacement still needs time to attain the cultivation of primordial Ecang. (Chapters 835, 1036–1041, 1066)

Cosmic will, venous pathways, and the Great Ecang Art

The purple fragment projects one will simultaneously through the trees and golden venous pathways of its one hundred thousand galaxies. Within that body it can contest an invading soul at every point, exert pressure across the entire region, and force occupied pathways to regress. Its awareness and memory are similarly distributed: Possessing successive portions exposes Su Ming to ancient scenes preserved in the tree. The scale does not make Ecang omnipotent, because Sui Chen Zi's surviving laws restrict when its will may kill cultivators in the stone-monument world and protect certain failed possessors. (Chapters 829–833, 839)

The Great Ecang Art converts lives bound to Ecang's monuments into immediate strength. Near defeat, the purple will consumes almost ten thousand cultivators—their flesh, blood, life, and associated monuments—and gathers their purple smoke into a soul-tree for a final collision. The effect is powerful but costly and destructive: it permanently reduces the monument population and sacrifices the very lives Ecang had been using for recovery. The Seed of Life Extermination counters the attack indirectly by multiplying indistinguishable false hearts, delaying Ecang's search rather than overpowering the tree head-on. (Chapter 834)

Divine Essence and world-scale applications

Divine Essence is intrinsic to Ecang's birth and growth, though the remaining power is also governed by the legacy and laws of Sui Chen Zi. Through it, Ecang can awaken or direct the Essence of Worlds across its planetary cosmos and exert a will capable of suppressing disasters within Su Ming's other body. When Su Ming leaves the clone in the foreign land, their shared soul allows him to draw on that power from afar. The resulting boost is conditional and borrowed from the separated Ecang body; it does not permanently raise the cultivation base of whichever body receives it. (Chapters 837–839, 907–918, 926–950)

After replacing Ecang, Su Ming demonstrates further uses of the body: branches can pierce and wither living targets, the clone can hide its distinctive presence, and its vast vitality improves survival when his bodies fuse. The clone can also arrive from its remote domain during a crisis, but maintaining it away from Western Ring Nebula for long periods gives up the safest environment and slows its intended growth. Strong opponents can injure the tree directly, and the clone is nearly shattered during the wars around the Ninth Summit. These feats are inherited and controlled by Su Ming, not actions of the extinct purple will. (Chapters 838, 1041–1066, 1204–1205)

Stone monuments, nourishment, and control

The foreign land's one hundred thousand stone monuments are divided among the ten colored wills, ten thousand to each. Growth recorded by a monument gives its corresponding Ecang access to the cultivator's time and power, turning the apparent trial into a recovery system. Ecang can pay Divine Essence to invoke Sui Chen Zi's law against people there, but that law has higher rules and can refuse its request. The purple will manipulates its share of the system when no suitable cultivator reaches the required height, revealing both patience and dependence on external lives. (Chapters 834, 838–839)

Su Ming inherits this mechanism and restores the ten thousand monuments destroyed by the Great Ecang Art, marking the replacements as his own. He then plans to suppress the growth of other colors while feeding the purple region, making future devouring easier. The system can therefore cultivate an Ecang fragment over long periods, but it is neither spontaneous nor free: it relies on bound participants, the foreign land, and the surviving framework of Sui Chen Zi's law. (Chapters 838–839, 1002, 1036–1041)

Relationships

  • Su Ming: Su Ming is first Ecang's invader and destroyer, then the continuing identity that controls its body. His Abyss Builder Possession extinguishes the purple will but preserves its form, memories, life Brand, and Divine Essence as a clone.
  • Bald Crane: Ecang recognizes the crane from the ancient era and condemns it as a traitor. The crane's fragmented memories contain fear of Ecang, yet it burns its soul to restrain the tree and buy Su Ming time during the Possession.
  • Sui Chen Zi: Ecang is born by feeding on Sui Chen Zi's dead cosmos and Divine Essence. Sui Chen Zi responds by shattering and sealing the infant being, while his surviving laws later aid Su Ming and constrain what the fragments may do.
  • The other nine Ecang wills: The colored fragments share one origin and initially agree to recover before reuniting. They are nevertheless destined to devour one another; after purple Ecang's fall, some oppose Su Ming while others erase themselves rather than let him take them intact.
  • Second Senior Brother: Under Su Ming's control, the Ecang clone leaves sect administration to his second senior brother and fights according to the Ninth Summit's defensive plans.

Items

  • Seed of Life Extermination: Su Ming uses the fragment to create false hearts that Ecang cannot immediately distinguish from the real ones. Ecang recognizes the legacy but never owns or controls it.
  • God Ascension Nectar: The nectar is Su Ming's resource, used alongside Ecang's presence and worlds during later cultivation; it is not an innate product or possession of Ecang.