Tie Mu

Tie Mu is a silver-haired Latter Battle Shaman who challenges Su Ming, then known as Mo Su, in Shaman City. He initially uses seniority and reputation to justify a potentially lethal interrogation, but Su's collection of clones and treasures makes victory too costly. Tie Mu withdraws, later lives among the Fated Kin, and dies from wounds sustained during the years they are trapped in the World of Nine Yin.

Biography

A public challenge and reluctant retreat

Tie Mu brushes aside Nan Gong Hen's attempt to defend Mo Su and demands the stranger's tribal background, reasoning that refusal will give him public justification to kill or capture him. Confident that a Medial Shaman cannot endure him, he promises death within five breaths and opens the Four Beast Fist. Su survives each escalating form and reveals Ji Yun Hai's puppet and the Poison Corpse. Tie Mu realizes that even a victory would leave grave injuries and compromise Eastern Goosefoot Tribe's plans, so pragmatism overcomes pride. He ends the battle and disciplines the woman whose complaint helped provoke it. (Chapters 430–455)

Final years among the Fated Kin

During the long separation in the World of Nine Yin, Tie Mu becomes one of the Fated Kin. He suffers wounds so severe that he remains unconscious without adequate medicine, and even waking would cost much of his cultivation. He never recovers. When he dies peacefully in the rain, the entire community mourns, records his Fated Kin affiliation and achievements on a grave monument, and carries the loss into its escape. (Chapters 491–502)

Appearance and personality

Tie Mu is a silver-haired old man with the imposing physical bearing of a Battle Shaman. He is proud, forceful, and attentive to public standing, constructing a moral pretext before attacking and worrying that a prolonged fight will damage his reputation. He is not blindly reckless: once Su's hidden resources change the calculation, he accepts the result and retreats. His honored burial indicates that his later life earned genuine loyalty among the Fated Kin. (Chapters 430–502)

Abilities and cultivation

As a Latter Battle Shaman, Tie Mu's cultivated body possesses strength described as beyond mortal and belonging to saints. He moves through direct leaps and blows, and his physical pressure far exceeds an ordinary Medial Shaman. His confidence is justified against Su alone, but layered puppets and treasures make the matchup unsafe. (Chapters 430–432)

His Four Beast Fist uses consecutive punches to turn surrounding wave-like power into great beasts, including a greenback shark and dark turtle; the fourth gathers raised seawater into a gigantic fist. He also uses Third Ode: Western Sea to expand an oceanic field. These arts provide escalating force, but the Nine-Headed Dragon and Su's combined auxiliaries withstand them long enough to erase Tie Mu's quick-victory advantage. (Chapters 430–432)

Relationships

• Su Ming: Opponent whose concealed resources force Tie Mu to reconsider both his judgment and the cost of victory.
• Nan Gong Hen: Junior who tries to mediate and later mourns at Tie Mu's monument.
• Fated Kin: The community Tie Mu joins and serves until his death.

Items

No unique personal weapon is consistently identified. Tie Mu's documented combat strength comes from his body and Shaman arts rather than a named item.