Changxi

Changxi is the Kong Family ancestor and Purple Mansion protector of Profound Peak Gate. Unable to complete his inheritance before his lifespan ends, he seeks to leave both improved techniques and political safeguards for the descendants who must survive without him. (Chapters 1037–1038, 1064, 1086)

Biography

Securing a lineage beyond his lifespan

Changxi sustains a small gate whose Earth Virtue inheritance lacks the status and resources of the great orthodox lineages. His own early Purple Mansion cultivation stagnates as he spends decades seeking a higher technique, then turns to inferior Foundation methods and the incomplete techniques Tingyun copies from the Three Drums Wall. He reconstructs part of one inheritance over half a century, too late to use it himself but hoping later generations can cultivate a second divine ability more easily. This pressure also shapes his dealings with the Lis: he directs Tingyun’s early connections with Yuanjiao and later arranges compensation after the Wang Fu affair exposes the family to an unforeseen disaster. As his end approaches, he urges his strongest descendants into breakthrough seclusion, leaving their success uncertain while the gate loses its available defenders. (Chapters 934, 1037–1038, 1064)

Ximing’s advancement gives Changxi another potential protector. He offers the Mountain-Charging Sea-Pacing Tiger, explains his arrangements with Xuanmiao Temple and Jingyi Mountain, and gradually reveals the family’s hidden candidates. Ximing’s willingness to help because of Tingyun’s sincere ties, rather than simply accepting payment, impresses him. Together they move against Hidden Cloud Cave and confront Yehui. Changxi’s presence helps deter an immediate duel, but he must admit that his own divine ability cannot securely entangle Yehui’s Body Divine Ability, and that attacking Baiye would invite intervention against the destruction of Jiangbei’s cultivated land. His concealed account of Kong Haiying’s feud also strains Ximing’s trust. He therefore supplies written instructions and a testament, trying to make succession less dependent on personal understandings. (Chapters 1035–1038, 1063–1067, 1071–1072)

After Fu En’s failed breakthrough, Changxi knows that his remaining time has become very short. He transfers the tiger artifact to Ximing and chooses Xuanmiao Temple for his death, so the mountain created by his Earth Virtue will not merely enrich a future enemy. On the way he reveals the Essence Stone Devil Fetus he has secretly refined for two centuries to prolong life, then hands it to Sumian in return for renewed protection of Profound Peak. His final words bitterly describe how the slaughter of his kin by a reborn True Monarch shifted fortune onto him, and how supposedly orthodox hierarchies pass incomplete techniques down to their dependents. He nevertheless directs Kong Guxi to obey Ximing. Changxi then painfully transforms into the mineral-rich mountain and peaks he has just described, leaving his robe as a final remnant of the old protector. (Chapters 1085–1086)

Appearance and personality

Changxi has radiant white hair and a jade ornament at his chest. Near death, his features fluctuate between a middle-aged appearance and a frail, aged face as his divine ability waxes and weakens. He is courteous, shrewd, and sometimes evasive, yet his final bitterness exposes years of frustrated cultivation and fear for his family’s future. (Chapters 923, 1035, 1037, 1064–1065, 1086)

Abilities and cultivation

Fool’s Mountain Chase and Earth Virtue

Changxi’s spell divine ability is subtle rather than well suited to direct dueling. He inscribes characters with divine energy that become as heavy and solid as stone: a short testament written on spirit cloth weighs over a thousand catties, and a copy of his writing can assist another cultivator in moving mountains. The art cannot adequately suppress or entangle Yehui’s Body Divine Ability, limiting its value in a pursuit despite its physical transformations. (Chapter 1072)

His Earth Virtue also makes his death a transformation of the land. He precisely describes the mountain’s peaks, minerals, spring, vegetation, and creatures before they emerge, and selects its location as a final political resource. This is his death phenomenon, not a successful new realm. His account of the Essence Stone Devil Fetus establishes an ill-reputed life-extending secret with many drawbacks; its long refinement does not prevent his eventual death. (Chapters 1085–1086)

An incomplete inheritance

Changxi never completes the hoped-for second divine ability. Years spent searching for higher techniques and revising damaged methods leave him only a partly reconstructed inheritance for descendants. He openly regrets the time lost to pride and overreaching, warning Ximing that an incomplete Dao cannot be cultivated like a fully backed orthodox lineage. The possibility that later descendants might attain mid-stage Purple Mansion remains a hope for their future. (Chapter 1064)

Relationships

• Kong Tingyun: Descendant and disciple whose relationships and copied techniques are vital to his succession plans.
• Li Ximing: Future protector whom he entrusts with instructions and the tiger artifact.
• Kong Guxi: Gate master told to obey Ximing after Changxi’s death.
• Bai Ziyu: Yehui, whose power and grudge threaten the gate.
• Xuanyi: Jingyi Mountain master connected to one of his alternative arrangements. (Chapters 1037–1038, 1071–1072, 1086)

Items

Changxi first offers and ultimately transfers the Mountain-Charging Sea-Pacing Tiger to Ximing, voluntarily withdrawing control to ease refinement. He gives the Essence Stone Devil Fetus to Sumian and leaves a testament beneath the chief seat of Stillness Peak Hall, with another written copy supplied to Ximing. The tiger’s transfer is a specific custodial succession; the secret fetus is a separate artifact with a different recipient. (Chapters 1072, 1085–1086)