Lu Jiangxian

Lu Jiangxian is the consciousness within the fractured Immortal Mirror that enables the Li Family to enter cultivation. His recovery depends on mirror components, sacrificial offerings, and the cultivation of people connected to his talisman seeds. As successive generations build the family's power, he develops from an immobile observer into an unseen patron capable of crossing the great void and constructing a celestial realm. His protection is intertwined with his own need for secrecy, resources, and security. (Chapters 1–9, 130, 619, and 1320)

Biography

The Meiche River and the Li Household

Lu Jiangxian awakens after memories of exhausting work in a rented room, discovering that he can neither open human eyes nor move a human body. A stream's reflection eventually reveals his bluish-gray mirror form. Moonlight supplies his first usable energy, but initially it affords little more than a glow and a small, indistinct field of perception. Fear of being destroyed by an unfamiliar cultivator makes concealment his immediate priority, even as isolation makes an indefinite life at the river bottom intolerable. (Chapter 1)

Li Xiangping's discovery of the mirror gives Lu Jiangxian a possible way out of that isolation. He observes the boy to learn the local language and studies the household before deciding whether to trust it. Li Mutian's caution, the older brothers' competence, and the younger sons' quickness persuade him that the family can help him obtain resources. His attraction to a piece of jade near Moongaze Lake gives that cooperation a concrete first purpose: he guides the brothers toward the component he cannot retrieve himself. (Chapters 2–6)

Absorbing the jade provides cultivation knowledge and substantially extends his divine sense. Lu Jiangxian passes the Supreme Yin teachings to the family and begins distributing Profound Pearl Talisman Seeds. The exchange serves both sides: the Lis gain an opportunity normally denied to mortals without spiritual orifices, while their progress strengthens the mirror. Changhu's death also establishes that their relationship has emotional consequences for him; he mourns rather than treating the family's members as interchangeable sources of cultivation. (Chapters 7–9, 11, and 16)

Restoration, Sacrifice, and the Cost of Concealment

The brothers' advancement gradually restores the mirror's offensive power. Chejing's progress allows Lu Jiangxian to form Supreme Yin Profound Light, while Tongya's later breakthrough strengthens it further. The family can use that light against enemies and formations, but its recovery interval prevents indiscriminate reliance on it. Lu Jiangxian therefore remains a concealed force behind the clan's visible cultivators, letting them make decisions and carry the mirror where it is needed. (Chapters 39, 54–55, and 68–73)

An old Daoist's jade pendant adds a different form of assistance: converting sacrificial talisman qi and moonlight into pills. Lu Jiangxian learns to select the benefits carried by talisman qi for people already bearing his seeds. These discoveries make the family's religious observances materially useful, supplying both cultivation assistance and new means of strengthening its descendants. They also expose the risk in the process. An early resonance with distant powers frightens him into withdrawing his aura rather than announcing what he has recovered. (Chapters 61, 75–77, and 85)

Mutian's death and Xiangping's final crisis make the consequences of his dependence on the clan increasingly personal. He recognizes the absence of the family's founder at the ancestral platform and later struggles to respond to Xiangping's suffering. His growing capabilities do not produce an unrestricted promise to save everyone. He still weighs whether intervention will expose the mirror, a tension that remains central when stronger cultivators begin treating the family's members as instruments in their own advancement. (Chapters 82–83 and 104)

The Mirror World and Tongya's Burden

Newly integrated mirror fragments reveal an interior world, including a desolate mountain and damaged moon-white buildings. Lu Jiangxian can manifest within it and encounters a dreamlike scene in which Li Jiangqun serves a figure with his own face. The resemblance raises questions about his identity and the mirror's earlier master, but it does not turn every deduction about that past into established knowledge. The immediate practical change is clearer: after Chejing's death, the returning seed and recovered components enlarge his power and increase his seed capacity to nine. (Chapters 129–130)

Within this refuge, Lu Jiangxian studies shamanic arts and builds up a growing body of cultivation knowledge. He also recovers a limited power of deduction from Liu Changdie. Those calculations shape his restraint: he concludes that using Supreme Yin Profound Light is safer than displaying powerful shamanic spells, and deliberately declines to save Li Yuanxiu when intervention threatens his own exposure. His decision shows the boundary of his patronage. He cares about the clan, but continued survival and concealment remain conditions of his assistance. (Chapters 133, 148, 188, and 217)

Tongya's mature conduct gives their alliance a more deliberate character. Lu Jiangxian understands that Tongya probably suspects a will behind the mirror, yet preserves worship and interprets its behavior favorably for the younger generation. When Buddhist powers threaten Tongya, Lu Jiangxian attempts to manipulate the connected seed and cultivation rather than surrender his family's protector to them. Tongya's death later returns cultivation and experience through that bond, making Lu Jiangxian stronger while ending a partnership that had carried the clan through its first decades. (Chapters 285, 307–308, 321–324, and 348)

Chi Buzi and the Bright Yang Inheritance

Chi Buzi's attempt to search Li Yuanjiao's soul directly threatens the mirror's secrecy. Lu Jiangxian uses the seed connection to force a confrontation inside Buzi's consciousness, exploiting the artifact's high inherent rank even though his usable strength is more limited. His imposing appearance is partly a bluff, and Buzi perceives that limitation. Lu Jiangxian responds by establishing shamanic leverage and closely monitoring the man's thoughts, turning an intrusive enemy into a constrained source of information and offerings. (Chapters 401–408)

The Sun Seeker Ring and related Bright Yang material open a larger field of danger. Lu Jiangxian studies the relationships between metallic essence, cultivation methods, and the powers that control Fruition Attainments. He does not assume that an impressive inheritance guarantees freedom: the fate of Li Qianyuan and successive reincarnations reveals how high cultivators can manipulate a promising person across generations. This knowledge makes the apparent good fortune of the Li Family's future Bright Yang cultivators something to protect and manage carefully. (Chapters 544–545 and 616–617)

Yuanjiao's death and the jade buckle taken from Yu Muxian bring a decisive recovery. The returning seed gives Lu Jiangxian the experience needed to comprehend the True Insight Profound Method; the buckle restores travel through the great void, raises Supreme Yin Profound Light to Purple Mansion strength, and adds three seeds. He applies his new control of Bright Yang metallic essence to Chengliao's unborn child, concealing the intervention so that it will appear to be natural good fortune. The mirror can now move without being carried, but the scrutiny of True Monarchs still governs how openly he uses that freedom. (Chapters 616–619)

Anhuai Heaven and the Fabricated Celestial Court

During the struggle surrounding Anhuai Heaven, Lu Jiangxian uses his concealed divine sense to observe cultivators and read valuable inheritances without exposing his true form. He could seize certain treasures more directly, but refuses to do so when he expects powerful observers in the great void. His calculations depend on the distinction between what his immortal arts allow and what he can safely demonstrate. Even Xuanfeng's participation requires the talisman seeds to be sealed against detection by Mahas and Purple Mansion cultivators. (Chapters 784–785 and 841–845)

Lu Jiangxian turns captured Buddhist and demonic experience into further knowledge and carefully staged relationships. Dangjiang becomes a resident worker within his realm, while Chi Buzi is encouraged to regard that realm as a genuine celestial administration able to reward his pursuit of the Dao. Lu Jiangxian maintains personas such as Zhen'gao and Immortal Official Liu to conduct these dealings. The court's authority is constructed through illusion and controlled appearances; those officials are not independent proof that a real heavenly bureaucracy stands behind him. (Chapters 850–852, 890–891, 1032, and 1082)

Ximing's Purple Mansion breakthrough produces another large feedback event. The mirror world expands and gains more vivid phenomena, while Supreme Yin Profound Light surpasses ordinary Purple Mansion strength without becoming equivalent to a True Monarch. Lu Jiangxian uses the improved realm to organize servants, knowledge, and rewards more convincingly. He follows and protects Xijun’s already preserved soul through its talisman-seed connection, which remains intact while the soul endures. His study of the Underworld’s handling of spirits likewise shows that his bond to the Li Family now involves more than raising cultivators and supplying weapons. (Chapters 932–934 and 1031–1032)

A Realm of Sun and Moon and the Calculated Futures

The Hunyi Golden Core Mysterious Method supplies a means of constructing a new immortal realm through inherent rank and divine-ability mana. Lu Jiangxian distinguishes this method from simply opening the mirror's original world, which might announce a hidden Supreme Yin Fruition Attainment to the authorities watching the world. His new domain is illuminated by sun and moon, roughly two hundred kilometers across, and isolated from the great void. That isolation provides safety at the cost of requiring him to supply its spiritual energy himself. (Chapters 1319–1320)

The Registering Name Stone gives him a powerful means of receiving and controlling souls. Lu Jiangxian studies its range and its dependence on talisman seeds before arranging limited access for the family. Through Zhen'gao, he introduces Ximing to the celestial realm and offers a way to seek techniques while warning him against revealing its connection to powers at the level of True Monarch. The arrangement preserves an important asymmetry: the family receives practical benefits while Lu Jiangxian continues to control how much it learns about its benefactor. (Chapters 1401–1406)

The collapse of another grotto heaven forces Lu Jiangxian to confront the limits of waiting and concealment. With the Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Scripture, he calculates 1,891 possible futures and experiments with intervention. All eventually end in catastrophe. In 519, Xizhi’s accommodation with Luoxia initially spares some descendants, but even these survivors are ultimately exterminated. His attachment to the family makes another five hundred years of passive hiding intolerable: the century of upheaval must become an opportunity to change their fate. He accelerates Jiangchun’s contact with Chejing’s sword intent, continually suppressing it while the young cultivator earns its recognition. (Chapters 1604–1605)

The calculations also change his understanding of himself. Lu Jiangxian concludes that the earlier master associated with Green Pine Temple deliberately erased his memories and arranged the present circumstances, including Liu Changdie’s involvement. He treats the doomed futures as a prompt to create new variables rather than accept the designs of the great powers. Before severing his link to the scripture, he gathers a mass of memories and sends it through a hidden passage, seeking a descendant who can act with an apparent understanding of the future. Soon afterward, Li Suining awakens with memories of the family’s later destruction and believes he has returned to his youth. These memories become a means of changing decisions in the present. (Chapters 1605–1606)

Appearance and personality

Lu Jiangxian's physical vessel begins as a palm-sized bluish-gray mirror, broken into pieces held together by a dark frame, with symbols engraved on its back. The mirror gathers moonlight and carries twelve runes around its frame. Integration of components changes its light and restores functions without immediately repairing every visible crack. His moonlight form inside the mirror has deeper eye sockets and a shallow scar on the left cheek, and can handle objects and perform seals. Dreams of the earlier immortal master show a figure with his face, long white hair, and elaborate white-jade surroundings. Those dream appearances do not establish that his original human life had those traits. (Chapters 1–2, 55, 77, and 129–130)

He is curious, patient, and highly protective of his concealment. Early helplessness makes him study people and language before attempting contact; increasing strength makes him more deliberate rather than uniformly bolder. His grief over members of the Li Family coexists with exploitative choices, including declining a dangerous rescue and using Chi Buzi's ambitions to obtain offerings. His constructed court also displays a dry sense of humor, particularly in his management of the talkative Dangjiang. (Chapters 2–5, 16, 83, 217, 1032, and 1310–1311)

Abilities and cultivation

Lu Jiangxian does not advance through the ordinary human cultivation ladder in the same way as the Lis. The mirror's inherent rank, repaired components, Supreme Yin moonlight, sacrifices, and feedback from connected cultivators determine what he can actually use. Statements comparing an attack with a cultivation realm describe usable strength rather than proving that he personally formed the corresponding human immortal foundation or Golden Core. (Chapters 7, 130, 619, and 1031)

Supreme Yin Moonlight and Profound Light

Moonlight supplies the mirror's first energy and continues to underpin its cultivation assistance and attacks. The initial recovery is limited: Lu Jiangxian can glow and perceive nearby surroundings, but his energy stops growing until further circumstances and components change. Feedback through the seeds eventually lets him condense Supreme Yin Profound Light. Its first stated strength corresponds to a concentrated Jade Capital attack, with a reach beyond his then-current divine sense. (Chapters 1–2 and 39)

The family activates the light through an invocation and the illuminated runes on the mirror. At the early stage, it requires a twelve-day recovery interval and offerings after use. Tongya uses it to destroy a protected formation despite the resistance of its barrier, demonstrating that it can attack objects as well as living enemies. Its potency increases with restoration; after the jade buckle returns, Lu Jiangxian can project it through the great void and seed connections. (Chapters 54–55 and 619)

Later feedback raises the light beyond ordinary Purple Mansion power, but Lu Jiangxian explicitly judges the gap to Golden Core to remain immense: at best, it could injure a True Monarch. Tactical restraint therefore remains essential. He avoids spectacular uses when observers might discover the mirror or its Dao lineage, even when he possesses sufficient force to defeat the immediate opponent. (Chapters 765, 845, and 1031)

Profound Pearl Talisman Seeds and Sacrificial Talisman Qi

The seeds connect their recipients to the mirror through cultivation, soul, and fate. They can enable a mortal without a spiritual orifice to cultivate and accelerate a person who already possesses one. The resulting benefit is accompanied by dependence: Lu Jiangxian receives feedback as connected cultivators advance and can influence the bond when their souls or fate are attacked. His choice between strengthening ordinary family members and exceptionally gifted descendants consequently affects the clan's long-term development. (Chapters 9, 11, 68, and 403)

The mirror initially holds six seeds, increases to nine after the recovery associated with Chejing, and reaches twelve after the jade-buckle recovery. Lu Jiangxian sometimes conceals the new capacity until a plausible family breakthrough can explain it. Seed allocation is therefore both a finite-resource decision and a matter of managing what the clan knows about him. Later, he reserves several seeds for functions of the celestial realm rather than placing every available one in a descendant. (Chapters 8–9, 130, 138, 217, 617, and 1404)

Sacrifice converts suitable offerings into talisman qi, which can improve cultivation, senses, bodily strength, and aptitude. For existing seed-bearers, Lu Jiangxian can select a particular benefit; for other recipients, its effects are less specifically directed. The jade pendant also lets him combine this qi with Supreme Yin moonlight to produce talisman pills. A cultivator can use only one such pill per major realm, and it leaves a talisman mark in the Shenyang Mansion. These are powerful aids with defined limits, not an unlimited substitute for cultivation. (Chapters 61, 75–77, and 85)

Divine Sense, Soul Connections, and the Great Void

Lu Jiangxian's divine sense begins as an indistinct view only about a meter around the submerged mirror. Absorbing the first jade expands it to sixty-six meters, and later recoveries allow observation over much larger areas. He can inspect spiritual structures and follow seed connections, but perception must be distinguished from physical manipulation: while observing Anhuai Heaven as a wisp of divine sense, he cannot simply move spiritual items without employing a separate immortal art or revealing his form. (Chapters 1, 7, 133, and 845)

The jade buckle restores independent movement through the great void. The mirror can then travel without a bearer, descend through any connected seed, and communicate or strike through those connections. Its concealment makes it extraordinarily difficult for lower cultivators to reach him. That safety does not justify treating him as undetectable to every power: the possibility of scrutiny by True Monarchs repeatedly constrains where he acts and which methods he reveals. (Chapters 619, 765, 845, and 1371)

Shamanic Arts and True Insight

Study of Mount Yue's shamanic practices lets Lu Jiangxian develop curses and related spells, eventually reaching the point where they can easily kill a Qi Cultivator. He can also use a shamanic connection to monitor Chi Buzi's thoughts. These abilities supply leverage when brute force would be dangerous, but they are not always safer: his early deductions identify the use of strong shamanic arts as a greater exposure risk than Supreme Yin Profound Light. (Chapters 148, 188, 217, and 405–407)

The True Insight Profound Method changes his control of metallic essence. Experience received through Yuanjiao's returning seed enables him to understand the immortal method, allowing manipulation that had previously been beyond his effective mastery. He uses it to connect Bright Yang essence to Chengliao's unborn child while concealing the alteration within the mirror. This concealment depends on the artifact remaining undiscovered; it is not a claim that an exposed child and exposed mirror would be immune to all investigation. (Chapters 616–619)

Mirror Worlds, Illusions, and Soul Custody

The recovered mirror world permits Lu Jiangxian to manifest, construct moon-white buildings, and organize knowledge in an interior space. Much of the apparent celestial population is illusion under his control. Zhen'gao and Immortal Official Liu are personas he can shape and speak through, while Dangjiang is a genuine resident rather than another piece of scenery. Maintaining that distinction explains both the court's usefulness as a deception and the work involved in continually handling a talkative resident. (Chapters 129–130, 166, 1031–1032, and 1082)

The Hunyi method allows a separate grotto heaven to be formed from inherent rank and divine-ability mana. Its isolation from the great void means spiritual energy does not flow into it automatically: Lu Jiangxian must supply mana and Supreme Yin moonlight. He also declines to open the original mirror world directly, fearing that the response of a possible Supreme Yin Fruition Attainment could alert the wider cultivation world. The hidden realm is consequently a carefully sustained construction rather than an inexhaustible public refuge. (Chapters 1319–1320)

The Registering Name Stone inscribes a trace of true spirit when someone relaxes their mind and receives its profound light; that inscription cannot be erased. Refusing consent is not an absolute defense: when death or attempted rebirth exposes the true spirit through the Shenyang Mansion, illumination can likewise register it. Seed-bearers can use their existing link to enter the realm. Those without seeds can instead become subject to control over their thoughts, life and death, and can have their souls summoned forcibly. Its range remains limited, with distant connections requiring talisman-seed responses. Lu Jiangxian’s control of registered souls consequently differs from an independent person’s willing allegiance. (Chapter 1404)

Deduction and Possible Futures

The silver power recovered from Liu Changdie supports Lu Jiangxian's early calculations about exposure. It is gradually expended rather than operating as an unlimited source of certain predictions, and by the construction of his later grotto heaven only a small remnant remains. That limitation helps explain his caution and his search for further immortal methods. (Chapters 133, 217, and 1320)

The Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Scripture supplies a far greater conditional view of the future. Lu Jiangxian calculates 1,891 possibilities under his assumptions, all ending in destruction; Xizhi’s role merely delays the end in some paths. He judges that the scripture can discern most schemes of the great powers, but cannot clearly resolve the choices of Dao Embryo immortals or his own interventions. The seven paths exposing his true body dissolve into chaos beyond the shattered mainland. He therefore seeks to create further variables, hastening Jiangchun’s development and sending a mass of future memories toward the family. As the Banished Winds move toward the Underworld, he severs the scripture connection, ending that borrowed access while retaining his conclusions and arrangements. Helping Jiangchun has a continuing cost: Lu must personally suppress the sword intent while its recipient earns recognition. (Chapters 1604–1606)

Power progression

Relationships

• Li Mutian and the founding brothers: Their willingness to protect the mirror gives Lu Jiangxian his first lasting connection to the world. He values their abilities and later grieves their losses. (Chapters 3–9, 16, and 83)
• Li Tongya: A farsighted partner who preserves the family's worship of the mirror while apparently recognizing its agency. Lu Jiangxian tries to protect him from Buddhist interference; his death also returns cultivation through their seed connection. (Chapters 285, 321–324, and 348)
• Li Yuanjiao: A capable clan leader whose final confrontation with Yu Muxian brings both a returning seed and the jade buckle that restores movement through the great void. (Chapters 616–619)
• Li Ximing and Li Zhouwei: Bright Yang cultivators whose development becomes central to his long-term protection of the clan. Ximing's Purple Mansion attainment transforms the mirror world, while Lu Jiangxian carefully conceals the origin of Zhouwei's extraordinary starting fortune. (Chapters 619, 1031, and 1401–1406)
• Chi Buzi: An initially dangerous intruder converted into a constrained collaborator. Lu Jiangxian exploits his ambition but later considers how to preserve a useful assistant against Pristine Water's scrutiny. (Chapters 403–407 and 1310–1311)
• Dangjiang: A genuine resident assigned work within the fabricated celestial administration; Lu Jiangxian's control of the court does not make him an ordinary owned object. (Chapters 1032, 1082, and 1137–1138)
• Li Xizhi and Li Jiangchun: In seven futures calculated by the scripture, Xizhi joins Luoxia and his true body is discovered, triggering a war that destroys the Li Family and its allies. Lu responds by forcing Chejing’s sword intent into Jiangchun’s seed to accelerate his sword cultivation. (Chapters 1604–1605)

Items

• Immortal Mirror: Lu Jiangxian's physical vessel and the source of his inherent rank, moonlight powers, and interior world. The family safeguards it, but its resident consciousness has his own motives and agency. (Chapters 1–9 and 129–130)

• Registering Name Stone: A recovered part of the mirror that records true spirits and enables controlled access to the interior realm. (Chapter 1404)

• Jade buckle: The integrated component that restores the mirror's ability to traverse the great void. (Chapters 617–619)

• Bright Yang metallic essence: Held within the mirror and manipulated through True Insight to shape a concealed opportunity for the Li Family. (Chapters 616–619)

• Sun Seeker Ring: An unusual treasure he examines while studying the connection between Bright Yang and the Six Ding Merging Fire Token. (Chapters 544–545)

• First Absorbed Jade: The first recovered jade dissolves into his mirror body, restoring knowledge and capacity rather than remaining a separate possession. (Chapters 6–7)

• Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Scripture: Temporarily borrows its power to investigate and calculate possible futures; the later loss of that access is distinct from his mirror’s inherent abilities. (Chapters 1567–1568 and 1604–1605)

• Introduction to Alchemy: Bestows the introductory alchemical inheritance on Ximing, helping establish the family’s pill-refining tradition. (Chapters 348–351)

• Mirror Jade Buckle: Xuanfeng offers the buckle taken from Yu Muxian; it integrates into Lu’s body and restores travel through the great void. (Chapters 613 and 616–619)

• Old Daoist’s White Jade Pendant: The looted pendant releases stored white qi to him and falls back onto the table depleted; its solid body is not absorbed. (Chapters 75–77)

• Pearl-Encased Mirror Fragment: Lu’s Supreme Yin Profound Light dissolves the pearl enclosure and releases Foundation talisman qi, allowing the fragment’s integration and restoration of further mirror structure. (Chapters 111 and 129–130)

• Profound Pearl Talisman Seeds: Creates seeds that connect recipients to the mirror and enable the family’s cultivation. They are distinct from medicinal Talisman Pills. (Chapters 8–11)

• Talisman Pill: The mirror’s restored pill-making capacity supplies a consequential medicine for the family; receiving a pill is distinct from receiving a talisman seed. (Chapters 77 and 149–150)