Ji Qiong

Ji Qiong is an ancient species of world-devouring fierce beast, and this article primarily follows the eighteen-headed specimen sleeping in the Land of the Ancient God. It devours one of Wang Lin's avatars, grows a head in his image, and leaves behind a skull that later carries evidence central to Wang Lin's final plan.

Biography

Origin of a world-devouring species

Ancient legend says that the human-shaped spirit Ji was created rather than born, matured in three days, defied heaven, and died by decapitation. A monster called Ji Qiong emerged from its corpse. Each member begins with one head and gains another head and new spells whenever it devours a world. The species can sleep for ages and grows powerful enough to attack ancient gods: Tu Si's memory preserves a thirty-six-headed specimen roaring at and charging one. Other records call Ji Qiong an emperor among beasts and associate it with six beast companions, including the Nine Abyss Dragon. (Chapters 1112, 1126, and 1292–1294)

Awakening in the Land of the Ancient God

The specimen beneath planet Suzaku awakens during the origin-energy disturbances surrounding Tuo Sen and the Four Divine Sect. It stands about twenty feet tall with a burly humanoid body and eighteen python-like neck branches, each ending in a different human head—male and female, young and old. Wang Lin encounters it feeding on corpses and initially tries to withdraw. One head's hunger overrides the others' hesitation, and the entire beast begins a relentless pursuit through the trials of the Land of the Ancient God. (Chapters 1112 and 1125–1126)

Pursuit through the trials

Ji Qiong matches Wang Lin's teleportation, seals space when he tries to escape, and uses coordinated head-spells to accelerate inside a black storm. Wang Lin's fire, thunder, and concentrated slaughter energy delay it but barely injure it. In the sword graveyard, its heads combine water and cold into a glacier, raise rune defenses, and release golden fire. Wang Lin uses that fire to close the distance and cuts off the most aggressive middle-aged head with an ancient iron sword. The wound enrages rather than defeats the beast. (Chapters 1126–1127)

Devouring Wang Lin's avatar

Reduced to seventeen heads, Ji Qiong invokes its deeper inheritance: a gigantic head associated with the original spirit Ji appears above it. The manifestation freezes Wang Lin's cultivation, pulls matter and the surrounding world toward its mouth, and overwhelms even the speed of two wither tattoos. A purple handprint descends in response, revealing that the beast is sealed and that using its real strength triggers restraint. Ji Qiong accepts the punishment and devours Wang Lin's rock avatar. A new head with Wang Lin's face then grows from its body, restoring the count to eighteen. Nine heads contain porcelain fragments connected to the restraint, but their exact origin is not explained. (Chapter 1128)

Death, skeleton, and the preserved message

The beast remains in the ancient space after Tuo Sen's departure and dies at an unknown time. When Wang Lin returns much later, only its skeleton remains, including the small human-like skull associated with the head it grew from his devoured divine sense. Contact with that skull causes a similar skull obtained elsewhere to dissolve, and the surviving bone contains characters and a divine-sense message left through Wang Lin's slaughter avatar. That message helps Wang Lin distinguish the present from a supposed previous life and reveals part of the method prepared to awaken Li Muwan. The Ji Qiong's final importance therefore comes not from surviving as a companion, but from preserving information across the altered past. (Chapters 2078, 2080, and 2086)

Appearance and personality

The Land of the Ancient God specimen has a twenty-foot, heavily built humanoid torso and eighteen enormous, snake-like necks. Its human heads differ in age, sex, hair, and expression, yet act as one predatory organism. They display individual impulses—one head can insist on pursuit while others continue feeding—and cooperate when chanting or combining spells. Its dominant behavior is hunger sharpened by cunning: it weighs whether Wang Lin is worth leaving its meal, learns his escape pattern, seals teleportation, and risks activating its own restraint rather than let living prey go. (Chapters 1112 and 1125–1128)

Abilities and cultivation

Growth through devouring

A Ji Qiong is born with one head and gains a head plus new spell inheritance each time it devours a world. The local specimen also grows a Wang Lin-shaped head after consuming his avatar and divine sense, showing that lesser prey can be reproduced in its anatomy even when the event is not a world-level evolution. Head count therefore measures accumulated devouring, but the source does not provide a cultivator-style realm for the beast. (Chapters 1112 and 1128)

Extreme body and pursuit speed

Wang Lin's fire, thunder, and Celestial Slaughter Art can slow Ji Qiong but do almost no lasting harm. It teleports directly after him and, when ordinary flight resumes, closes distance at a speed he cannot match without special tattoos. A heavy strike from the ancient iron sword is required to sever one neck. Its durability and speed explain why even powerful ancient gods treat mature specimens as serious threats. (Chapters 1126–1128)

Independent and combined head-spells

Different heads retain different techniques. Demonstrated powers include sword energy from the mouth, blood runes that seal heaven and earth against teleportation, black wind accelerated by chanted runes, a rune shield, golden fire hot enough to melt the sword graveyard, an ocean-producing water art, and cold breath that freezes that ocean together with thunder and flame trapped inside it. The heads can cast alone or coordinate effects, making the creature's repertoire broader than a single beast art. (Chapters 1126–1127)

Spirit Ji manifestation

Its strongest shown method summons a gigantic head tied to the primordial spirit Ji. The manifestation arrests a target's cultivation and generates suction capable of tearing at the surrounding world before devouring it. This power is not freely usable: its appearance calls down a purple restraining handprint, and porcelain fragments embedded in nine heads appear connected to the seal. Even so, the beast chooses to complete the attack, sacrificing freedom or suffering restraint in exchange for consuming Wang Lin's avatar. (Chapter 1128)

Emperor-of-beasts aura

Inherited memories identify Ji Qiong as an emperor among fierce beasts. Later Ji Qiong remains and ancestral souls appear in ruins, battle chariots, and visions, confirming that the individual on planet Suzaku belongs to a wider ancient lineage rather than being the species' sole survivor. A nine-headed fog beast used by Gu Dao resembles it, but the corpus does not identify that spell-form as the same physical specimen. (Chapters 1292–1294, 1499, 1578, 1670, and 2062)

Relationships

• Wang Lin: Ji Qiong hunts and devours Wang Lin's first scouting avatar. The head formed from that act later preserves a skull and divine sense that become essential to Wang Lin's understanding of his slaughter avatar's work. (Chapters 1125–1128 and 2078–2086)
• The spirit Ji: Ji Qiong originates from Ji's corpse and can summon a gigantic head associated with that ancestral being as its deepest devouring power. (Chapters 1112 and 1128)
• Ancient gods: Mature Ji Qiong dare to attack ancient gods. Wang Lin initially imagines making the local specimen an ancient-god beast companion, then recognizes that he lacks the strength to capture it. (Chapter 1126)

Items

• Porcelain seal fragments: Nine of the specimen's heads contain porcelain fragments visible when the purple restraint makes its body transparent. Their exact maker and full mechanics remain unidentified. (Chapter 1128)
• Ji Qiong skull: A fist-sized skull from the Wang Lin-shaped head survives the beast's death. It carries characters, killing intent, and the slaughter avatar's preserved divine sense, which Wang Lin uses in his final explanation of the altered past. (Chapters 2078 and 2086)