Li Xuanxuan

Li Xuanxuan is Li Changhu's son and one of the Li family's earliest successors. Raised after his father's death, he receives the mirror's cultivation inheritance, governs the growing household, and chooses talisman craft as his contribution to its livelihood. Repeated bereavements turn the gentle chief into an anxious but enduring elder. Even when his grandson Li Ximing and great-grandson Li Zhouwei attain Purple Mansion, the family continues to depend on Xuanxuan's memory, mediation, and concern for its less powerful members. (Chapters 18, 38–39, 84, 169, 1011, 1494, 1728–1729)

Biography

Changhu's orphan and the first succession

Changhu dies before Xuanxuan is born, leaving the child to grow up among relatives who preserve a father he cannot remember. Ren Ping’er chooses his name within the generational naming scheme established by Li Mutian and Li Xiangping. His birth revives Mutian's spirits, but the grandfather's affection remains stern and quiet. Old Xu offers a different intimacy: making grass crickets, drawing pictures, and telling stories about Changhu. When Xuanxuan learns of Old Xu's death, his shock reflects the loss of a companion who helped fill the absence at the center of his childhood. (Chapters 18, 65)

Xiangping's instruction prepares him for succession while making the family's hidden dependence on the mirror unmistakable. Xuanxuan lacks a natural spiritual orifice. Earlier claims about his aptitude and progress conceal that fact until Xiangping reveals the treasure and gives him the Reception Method. He receives the talisman seed after studying for the winter solstice, then grows increasingly capable of understanding why the household must guard Supreme Yin Moonlight rather than sell it. Recognizing the danger also changes his view of Xiangping's suspicion and violence: he begins to understand the fear behind the uncle's insistence on secrecy. (Chapters 38–39, 58)

The emerging successor learns command as well as cultivation. At the third Embryonic Breathing chakra he fights amid clan soldiers, enjoying a cultivator's overwhelming advantage against ordinary tribesmen. By Azure Essence, Xiangping has appointed him clan chief, and his former gentleness gives way to a composure that earns both respect and fear from children. Li Xuanfeng's spectacular strength attracts more public excitement, but Xuanxuan's steadier position suits a different need. The family requires someone to organize its growing people and resources, not only a warrior who can overpower them. (Chapters 80, 84)

A talisman maker chooses the family's livelihood

Xuanxuan's administration links cultivation to ordinary work. He directs labor toward the Ebony Ore Mine, absorbing surplus workers and helping wages rise in the surrounding towns. Alongside these duties, he learns talisman arts from Li Tongya, studying and practising until his attempts become successful. Roughly a decade of practice eventually makes the work profitable. That slow improvement creates a recurring source of income and useful protection, giving the family something that does not depend on finding a single treasure or winning a single battle. (Chapters 121, 135, 147)

His choice of Cave Spring Clear Spirit follows the same purpose. Purple Thunder would require a resource he cannot obtain promptly; River One Qi would duplicate a path better suited to the household's swordsmen. Cave Spring's lively qi favors talisman work, while a diversity of cultivation methods makes it harder for an enemy to exploit the family's shared weaknesses. Tongya accepts the reasoning and provides gathered Cave Spring Clear Qi. Xuanxuan emerges from seclusion with Cave Spring True Essence and Qi Cultivation, visibly rejuvenated and delighted by the vitality and flight the realm brings. His choice has become an actual foundation for craft, rather than merely a plan to make money after cultivating. (Chapters 169, 191)

The breakthrough also permits him to relinquish office. Finding that Li Yuanxiu has managed the household better than expected, Xuanxuan refuses to reclaim the chief's position simply because he now outranks his son in cultivation. He wants to deepen the talisman inheritance and lets Yuanxiu continue governing. Xuanfeng later presses him over his slow advancement, but Xuanxuan explains that combat is already well represented by his brother and Tongya, while his prospects for Foundation Establishment are poor. Choosing a supporting role gives younger relatives resources and protection; it also means accepting that his personal cultivation will remain behind the family's strongest fighters. (Chapters 191, 223)

Children lost and a market reduced to fire

Yuanxiu's murder destroys that early succession. Xuanxuan kneels before Tongya, protesting that the Li family has lost its people yet must still fear whether the stronger Yu family will continue attacking. He stops short of demanding fairness, recognizing that an argument about justice cannot itself make the household strong enough to obtain it. Gathering his son's remains and leading the funeral turns the loss into an immediate administrative crisis as well. Tongya places him back in charge while they consider who can eventually lead, so grief does not free him from responsibility for those who remain. (Chapters 213, 216)

The later attack on Cloud Crowned Peak Market exposes the fragility of his own power. At the third Qi layer, he knows he is an inadequate fighter against the devil cultivators surrounding the shops. A bluff with a thunder pearl, inherited movement arts, and repeated Blood Escape help him survive. He also frees a wounded white monkey, restores its jade tools, and gives it healing pills; the monkey subsequently intervenes against a pursuer. Their mutual assistance matters because neither is simply an invulnerable rescuer. Li Yuanyun, Xuanling's mortal son and Qinghong's brother, dies in the attack, adding another loss to Xuanxuan's guilt toward the second lineage. (Chapters 380–387)

Blood Escape leaves Xuanxuan emaciated and aged. The ordeal pushes him to the fourth Qi layer, but his progress remains slow. His relationship with Yuanjiao is also awkward: the son was largely raised by Yuanxiu, and Xuanxuan carries guilt over their distance. Memories of fleeing while Li Xuanling died later erupt in a painful appeal to Xuanling's son Li Xijun. Lu Jiangxian's Holding Profit and Keeping Prosperity blessing supplies a different kind of assistance: it carries him from the fourth to sixth Qi layers and improves his talisman success. That recovery restores usefulness without undoing bereavement. His reluctance before subsequent risky ventures is rooted in having survived situations where family planning, respectable affiliations, and personal goodwill provided little protection. (Chapters 396, 413, 448, 505)

Qingdu rises while Yuanjiao is lost

A growing cultivation household needs a stronger home, and Xuanxuan helps organize the mountain relocation that creates Qingdu as the family's main peak. Kong Yu supplies the specialized talisman and instructions; Xuanxuan contributes mana and Wuxi Sand to plug the earth vein when it surges. Their cooperation develops into a practical friendship involving travel, commerce, and news. The achievement is collective: Xuanxuan's understanding and participation help make the new headquarters usable, but moving the mountain is not an innate art of his own. (Chapters 442–443, 553)

New martial backing through Li Yuanjiao brings hope without relieving Xuanxuan's fear of dangerous ventures. The son ultimately dies in Green Pine Grotto Heaven, and Xuanfeng returns with his belongings. Xuanxuan stands frail and trembling among the assembled family, then closes his eyes at the confirmation. The younger generation's attempts to shield him have not concealed what their expressions already told him. Xuanfeng's return gives him a familiar brother to receive and a stronger presence to lean upon, while also making the death of another child unavoidable. (Chapters 448, 618–619)

The birth of Zhouwei soon adds new duties to the same household. Xuanxuan participates in the family's protective arrangements and comes first when the extraordinary child draws the elders together. Holding and examining the baby with tears in his eyes joins hope to grief rather than replacing one with the other. A new generation requires care before it can supply the security for which the older generation has repeatedly sacrificed. Xuanxuan's place increasingly lies in keeping mourning, instruction, and succession together so that the household can continue functioning after another martial protector is gone. (Chapters 622–623)

The Xi generation and the last brother

As the Xi generation becomes the family's pillars, Xuanxuan remains involved in rites, marriages, and difficult choices. His reassurance over young Zhouwei and his discussion with Ximing show how family policy reaches into intimate relations. He can still comfort descendants, but their expanding power also makes them unfamiliar: looking at his late-Foundation grandson, he sees features partly obscured by radiance. These are the children he watched grow, now making decisions about the family at a scale his own cultivation cannot match. Their success increases the household's means without making its risks fully manageable. (Chapters 665, 820)

Xuanfeng's death removes the cousin he has long treated as a brother and a powerful source of protection. At the funeral, Xuanxuan drinks the Wanglin Blossom brew Xuanfeng had prepared for him, remaining in a stupor for two days. By the time Ximing announces his intention to attempt Purple Mansion, the elder has buried his father, elders, contemporaries, and many younger relatives. Ximing's candid acknowledgment of fear and past failures therefore reaches someone who has carried their consequences for years. Xuanxuan listens, worries that the attempt may be an act of despair, and finally tells him that Yuanping never blamed him. (Chapters 887, 1011)

Ximing's successful advancement gives the family a protector beyond the realm its founding generations reached. It also draws surviving descendants back into the long history Xuanxuan remembers: Minggong's True Flame foundation, for example, belongs to his great-granddaughter rather than to an unrelated new force. The elder's own contribution remains that continuity. He does not acquire his grandson's divine ability or cease needing reassurance, but he can connect the new strength to people who endured the family's earlier vulnerability. The household rises without restoring the brothers, children, and friends whose absence made its protection so urgent. (Chapters 1011, 1023)

Counsel beneath two Daoist Masters

Purple Mansion authority does not settle the treatment of weaker branches. Xuanxuan shares Li Qinghong's sympathy for Shuwan's disadvantaged family and gives the child material to study. Zhouwei answers that loosening restraints on favored cultivators could merely let them oppress mortals instead. The disagreement leaves a real tension in Xuanxuan's care: helping kin is necessary, but special favor can move harm from one powerless group to another. He continues to work within the family's system rather than imagining that affection alone can remove the inequalities it manages. (Chapter 972)

His advice to Li Xinghan develops that argument further. Many cultivators reach the end of their likely advancement early, then have decades or centuries left to seek wealth, pleasures, and advantage for descendants. He explains the offices and reciprocal restraints Xijun created as a way to keep such people occupied and limit worse abuses. Xinghan questions whether this is righteous; Xuanxuan admits the arrangement is imperfect and hopes a future generation may find better means. His position combines compassion with the troubling belief that greed must sometimes be redirected because it cannot yet be eliminated. (Chapter 1183)

The admission of Li Queyi and Li Quexi to Purple Smoke Gate requires him to negotiate that care across institutional boundaries. He accepts the gate's insistence that the girls' marriages cannot be pledged away by the family and explains that he has already blocked unwilling political matches at the lake. Qinghong and Minggong's success gives younger women respected precedents, but admission still brings unequal circumstances and possible grievances. Xuanxuan responds with caution and gratitude rather than treating sect patronage as a guarantee that every child will be favored equally. (Chapter 1190)

When Chenghuai emerges from Foundation seclusion, Xuanxuan delivers his parents' entrusted gifts and explains the constraints that prevented them from caring for him more openly. Remembering his own bereavements, he urges the younger man to cherish what remains and speak honestly between father and son. Marriage discussions with Li Wushao similarly require willingness on both sides and attention to the family's changing sect relationships. In private, even Zhouwei brings his fears to the elder's courtyard. Xuanxuan reassures him that Ximing entrusted him with the family's authority and that his decisions carry its support. Addressing his descendants as Daoist Master steadies the old man's heart; it does not make their higher realm his own. His remaining authority rests on trust and remembered obligations, allowing people of far greater cultivation to speak to him as kin rather than only as rulers. (Chapters 1047, 1219, 1494)

The old elder's unfinished watch

Xuanxuan studies the younger generation closely enough to worry about the thoughts hidden beneath talent. With Li Suining, he asks whether the family has treated the boy unfairly, taking seriously how an orphan's losses might shape resentment. After Zhouwei is injured, the elder is also one of the few relatives able to inquire personally into the ruler's condition. Zhouwei entrusts him with a medicinal gift for the wounded and instructs that Sun Bai administer it according to injury and dosage. The ruler's extraordinary power still needs someone to translate it into practical care for people around the lake. (Chapters 1618, 1713–1714)

His concern for harmony becomes more explicit as Suining prepares for another advance. Xuanxuan regards Li Suiqing's failings as a problem of character, not merely childish unruliness, and doubts how long he can restrain them. News that Li Qiuyang is dying breaks through the conversation. On the way to his friend's bedside, Xuanxuan asks who will preserve harmony among the four lineages after he is gone: Qingdu is arrogant, Jade Court is severe, and the Daoist Masters concentrate on the matters above them. His fear concerns the structure of a powerful family, not simply his own lifespan. (Chapter 1728)

Qiuyang's final warning concerns the Jiang family's closeness to the Li household. Xuanxuan understands the reference but reasons that while the family continues to rise under its Purple Mansion protectors, such an internal danger seems less urgent; if all those protectors vanished, destruction would already loom. That thought does not resolve the warning before Qiuyang dies. Xuanxuan remains alive, grieving beside Chen Donghe and dismissing the noisy unfamiliar descendants whose mourning gives way to whispers. The loss removes another companion from the desperate market years, leaving the elder's ongoing watch lonelier and his question about a successor unanswered. (Chapter 1729)

Appearance and personality

As a teenager Xuanxuan has slightly long eyebrows and gentle eyes resembling Changhu's. His composure changes after appointment as chief: by Azure Essence he wears a mustache and commands respect and fear. Qi Cultivation later rejuvenates him, bringing renewed vitality and a younger appearance. Those benefits do not prevent the emaciation and aging caused by repeated Blood Escape. In much later life he wears a pale-blue robe, has a flowing white beard, and carries a talisman brush used for nearly a century. (Chapters 65, 84, 191, 413, 1011)

His kindness is enduring but increasingly anxious. He helps a wounded monkey when escape is already difficult, celebrates descendants' progress, and takes grief and unequal treatment seriously. Repeated losses reduce his willingness to gamble lives on distant opportunities. At the same time, he accepts restrictions and duties that can feel harsh, believing that uncontrolled cultivators would make the mortal world worse. His late fear is that the household's most powerful people will look beyond the ordinary descendants while no one remains to keep those descendants together. (Chapters 383, 448, 1183, 1728–1729)

Abilities and cultivation

Mirror seed and Supreme Yin inheritance

The Profound Pearl Talisman Seed opens Xuanxuan's cultivation despite his lack of a natural spiritual orifice. After preparing the Reception Method, he receives the seed at the winter solstice and cultivates through the mirror's bestowed inheritance. Outsiders' belief that he possesses an innate orifice is part of concealing that dependence. His early progress reaches Embryonic Breathing's chakras, but the seed does not make his aptitude equal to the household's most talented cultivators. (Chapters 38–39, 49, 65, 84)

The inheritance also constrains disclosure. When he attempts to speak of the family's secret, the seed prevents the prohibited revelation, reinforcing the secrecy he already advocates over Supreme Yin Moonlight. That restraint does not supply general immunity to Fate or prevent the tragedies of his later life. His eventual highest confirmed cultivation is the ninth Qi layer. He neither establishes Foundation nor personally receives the Purple Mansion powers possessed by Ximing and Zhouwei. (Chapters 58, 106, 1178)

Cave Spring Clear Spirit and True Essence

Xuanxuan chooses Cave Spring Clear Spirit because Cave Spring Clear Qi is lively and suited to regulating qi and drawing talismans. Its availability through Tongya matters alongside its compatibility with craft, while avoiding uniform River Pure Qi cultivation reduces the family's shared exposure to counters. Refining it produces pale-blue Cave Spring True Essence, bringing him into Qi Cultivation with rejuvenated vitality and the ability to ride the winds. The realm's ordinary lifespan is two hundred years; it does not guarantee that he will avoid the costs of wounds or dangerous escape techniques. (Chapters 169, 191)

His true essence supports craft more securely than combat. After reaching Qi Cultivation, he continues practising talismans and recognizes his limited martial talent beside Xuanfeng and Tongya. His success rate remains bounded even when improved, and the slow pace of later advancement makes early Foundation prospects remote in his own judgment. Continued cultivation and the mirror blessing eventually bring him to the ninth Qi layer, without an additional demonstrated breakthrough into Foundation Establishment. (Chapters 222–223, 381, 413, 1178)

Talisman craft

Tongya's instruction and the family's manuals give Xuanxuan a craft requiring repeated expenditure of paper, ink, brushwork, and mana. First successful attempts follow years of learning; roughly a decade of practice is necessary before his success rate reliably produces profit. Craft therefore supplies an inheritance built by accumulated experience rather than an automatic property of receiving a seed. His decision to specialize lets the household earn resources and issue protective consumables while stronger relatives carry much of its fighting. (Chapters 135, 147, 169, 223)

His Shield Essence Talisman demonstrates an actual Qi Cultivation craft from the Spiritual Talisman Method. The household's Autumn Talisman Notes contain more difficult techniques he has not yet mastered at that point. Holding Profit and Keeping Prosperity subsequently improves his success rate, while his later talisman brush marks a long working life. Possessing Foundation-grade artifacts or keeping gifts for stronger relatives does not establish that he personally makes talismans of those grades. No named artifact receives an invented history of being forged or inscribed by him solely because he is the family's senior craftsman. (Chapters 283, 413, 1011)

Holding Profit and Keeping Prosperity

Lu Jiangxian grants this gray talisman qi after a family sacrifice, combining its weaker offering with saved reserves and selecting Xuanxuan because he already has a seed and has suffered severely. The blessing stirs his Shenyang Mansion and produces an immediate surge of mana. After settling cross-legged, he advances from the fourth through the sixth Qi layers within the time taken for a stick of incense to burn. He also recognizes that its effect improves his talisman crafting, making the gift directly useful to the life he has chosen. (Chapter 413)

Lu interprets the blessing as able to balance fortune, calm storms, mitigate turmoil, and help Xuanxuan live longer. Those expectations are broader than the demonstrated advancement and improvement in craft; they do not establish a measured additional lifespan or control over every disaster around the family. The blessing belongs to the mirror's talisman system and does not amount to Xuanxuan attaining a Purple Mansion divine ability. He remains visibly old in later years and continues losing people he hopes to protect. (Chapters 413, 1728–1729)

River Crossing Torrential Step and Blood Escape

Tongya insists that the direct lineage study River Crossing Torrential Step and its accompanying Blood Escape Technique. The movement art is complex enough that Xuanxuan cannot master it instantly even while diligently practising other crafts. During the market disaster, his repeated escapes demonstrate why that instruction mattered. Blood Escape carries him away in a crimson trail, while movement, cover, talismans, and the white monkey's intervention help him evade successive pursuers. His survival is the combined outcome of those means, rather than a victory over all the enemies who attack him. (Chapters 147, 380–387)

The escape exacts a physical price. Repeated use leaves him emaciated and aged, and the ordeal does not let him rescue Yuanyun or reverse Xuanling's earlier death. A bluff involving Qiu Ji's thunder pearl also relies on a limitation: Xuanxuan cannot truly detonate it without the necessary spell and mantra, so he attaches a talisman to imitate danger and delay pursuit. Both examples show a survivor exploiting the moment he can obtain, rather than possessing an unrestricted art that resolves every threatening situation. (Chapters 380–381, 387, 413, 505)

Formation operation and practical coordination

Xuanxuan participates in formations as a cultivator working with supplied objects and instruction. When Liu Changdie plans the Sun Rite Profound Light Formation, Tongya assigns Liu and Xuanxuan jointly to take charge; Liu directs the layout and construction, while Xuanxuan coordinates the family’s participation. During Qingdu's relocation, Kong Yu tells him to infuse Wuxi Sand with mana and plug the earth vein when it gushes. The specialized mountain-moving talisman and other components supply the means of relocation. Xuanxuan's contribution requires timing and cooperation; it does not give him an independent ability to lift a mountain or prove that he designed either formation. (Chapters 134, 442–443)

Similar practical work helps the household extract resources and protect vulnerable members. He and Xijun cooperate over several days to extract water, taking turns to rest, while the arrangements around Zhouwei's birth use seals and protective preparation. Such tasks establish competence in operating the family's available means within his mana and endurance. They remain distinct from designing a Foundation formation alone, supplying every external component, or adopting the stronger powers of the cultivators whose methods make the operation possible. (Chapters 511, 622)

Power progression

Relationships

• Li Changhu, Ren Ping’er, and Li Mutian: His father dies before his birth, his mother chooses his name, and his grandfather raises him with affection expressed through a stern manner. Old Xu's stories give the child another connection to Changhu. (Chapters 18, 65)
• Li Xiangping and Li Tongya: Uncles who prepare him for the family's future. Xiangping reveals the mirror and trains a successor; Tongya teaches cultivation and talisman craft, provides Cave Spring Clear Qi, and insists on escape arts that later save his life. (Chapters 38–39, 135, 169, 387)
• Li Xuanfeng: Cousin treated as a younger brother, whose martial strength balances Xuanxuan's supporting craft. They can disagree over cultivation priorities without losing affection. Xuanfeng's return with Yuanjiao's belongings and his own later death mark two of Xuanxuan's deepest bereavements. (Chapters 223, 618, 887)
• Madam Dou and Mu Yalu: Women of his household and mothers of his children. Yuanxiu is his first wife's son; Mu Yalu's son Yuanjiao is born within Xuanxuan's household and later adopted into Chejing's line. That lineage arrangement does not make Xuanxuan a stranger to him. (Chapters 135, 216, 238, 414)
• Li Yuanxiu, Li Yuanjiao, and Li Yuanping: Sons whose different strengths shape the family. Yuanxiu's administration lets Xuanxuan leave office before his murder; Yuanjiao supplies martial leadership but dies in the grotto heaven; Yuanping's memory remains present when Xuanxuan reassures Ximing before his Purple Mansion attempt. (Chapters 191, 216, 618, 1011)
• Li Qinghong and Li Xijun: Children of Xuanling's line. Qinghong helps protect the family and recover the market's survivors. Xuanxuan's guilt over Xuanling's death makes his conversation with Xijun painfully personal even after the household's situation improves. (Chapters 386–387, 505)
• Li Wushao: The white monkey helped during the market disaster, whose intervention also protects Xuanxuan. Their association continues into later family affairs and marriage discussions. He is a sentient companion and fellow cultivator, not a possession. (Chapters 383–385, 1219)
• Li Ximing and Li Zhouwei: Grandson and great-grandson who become Daoist Masters. They bring the household extraordinary power while continuing to seek the old elder's care and reassurance. His kinship permits private conversations that his Qi Cultivation rank alone could not demand. (Chapters 1011, 1494, 1713–1714)
• Kong Yu: A practical friend whose mountain-moving assistance and knowledge help the family develop Qingdu. Kong Yu's later report of Xuanxuan's well-being gives Xuanfeng news of his absent brother. (Chapters 442–443, 553)
• Li Qiuyang and Chen Donghe: Longstanding companions connecting him to the household's vulnerable beginnings. Qiuyang's deathbed warning reaches Xuanxuan through their shared history, while Donghe remains beside him in the grief that follows. (Chapter 1729)
• Li Suining: A young descendant whose will and grievances Xuanxuan considers carefully. Suining supports the elder on the way to Qiuyang and hears his unresolved fear for harmony among the four lineages. (Chapters 1618, 1728)

Items

Mirror gifts and craft inheritance

Xuanxuan receives the Profound Pearl Talisman Seed through the Immortal Mirror. The seed enables his cultivation, enforces the secret, and provides the channel for later talisman qi. The family's Talisman Pill is among the resources he considers when planning breakthroughs; his intention to use one after the fourth Qi layer or after the sixth does not by itself establish the means or date of a later advance. Holding Profit and Keeping Prosperity supplies the directly demonstrated fourth-to-sixth change. (Chapters 39, 106, 169, 396, 413)

His Spiritual Talisman Method manual contains the Shield Essence Talisman he successfully draws at Qi Cultivation. The more difficult Autumn Talisman Notes also belong to the household, but their presence does not mean he has mastered them at that time. His long-used talisman brush remains a visible part of his working identity when he visits Ximing nearly a century later. (Chapters 117, 283, 1011)

Objects kept for family members

Yuan Huyuan presents the Dragon Coiling Pillar to Xuanxuan as a gift intended for Tongya. Xuanxuan receives the jade-boxed sword in a diplomatic capacity, and Tongya examines it afterward. When Tongya enters seclusion, he gives the sword to Yuanjiao, whom he identifies as the family's most talented swordsman; it is therefore temporary family custody rather than a personal weapon acquired for Xuanxuan's use. The Ebony Bow he holds after Xiangping's death has a different purpose: it is a returned remnant of the campaign, which he delivers to Tongya while reporting the loss. (Chapters 108, 110, 275, 297)

Later gifts pass through his hands for similar reasons. He stores the Sixfold Profound Thunder Punishment Tokens sent for Qinghong and helps distribute the family's gifts after her return. The Upper Feather Night Robe and Night Ghost Secret Talisman are entrusted by Chenghuai's parents, then given to Chenghuai when he completes Foundation. Xuanxuan explicitly does not know the talisman's use. He also holds Ximing's Li Fire Banner for an operation requiring particular Li Fires, and receives the Profound Iteration Calculation Scripture to keep until Suining emerges from seclusion. These acts establish a trusted intermediary, without transferring the intended recipients' artifacts or techniques permanently to him. (Chapters 822, 830, 1001, 1047, 1626)

Market tools, recovered equipment, and restorative resources

In the market ruins Xuanxuan retrieves and returns the white monkey's jade pestle and mortar, restoring tools the monkey soon uses to help save him. Afterward he accepts the offered pestle and Yuanjiao examines the pair for practical use. He also stores the Six-Stone Cloud Plate recovered among the loot; custody of the shield at that moment does not make its later battles his own. Qiu Ji's thunder pearl, meanwhile, is a bluffing instrument during the escape. Xuanxuan produces sparks with an attached talisman, but the pearl is recovered intact by its original holder because he lacks the invocation for a true detonation. (Chapters 380–381, 383–385, 388, 390)

The Wanglin Blossom brew prepared by Xuanfeng lets Xuanxuan drink through mourning with its life-prolonging and sorrow-easing qualities. Its presence after Xuanfeng's funeral makes it both a restorative resource and an expression of care from the dead brother. Neither that consumable nor the mirror blessing removes the aging and loneliness visible at Qiuyang's bedside. (Chapters 887, 1729)