Wei Sheng

Biography

The sword servant who chose hardship

Wei Sheng begins as the strongest outer disciple of Wu Kong Sword Sect, yet his position is less comfortable than the title suggests. He serves as Luo Li's sword servant, cleaning battlefields and assisting in combat so that he can observe better sword arts at close range. Rumored to be an orphan, he has little status or wealth to rely on. What distinguishes him is the deliberate nature of his hardship: rather than resent menial work, he uses it as a route toward the sword, and his reputation among the outer disciples rests as much on his conduct as on his cultivation. (Chapters 10, 16, 19)

His first direct dealings with Zuo Mo show the warmth beneath his austere habits. Wei Sheng entrusts Zuo Mo with a volatile third-grade Fire Dragon Grass needed for his foundation establishment, and then gives him a jade scroll containing the experiences of his own dangerous travels and repeated brushes with death. The gift is not a display of seniority. Wei Sheng recognizes another outer disciple struggling without guidance and gives him the kind of practical foundation he himself lacked. His later gift of a Fire Dragon Grass seed and his encouragement that Zuo Mo should also establish his foundation make their shixiong-shidi bond concrete before either understands how long it will endure. (Chapters 19–20, 25)

Foundation establishment makes Wei Sheng's nature impossible for the sect elders to overlook. Uncontrolled sword essence cuts the area around him even before his breakthrough, and the resulting sword energy pierces the heavens. Pei Yuan Ran accepts him as a disciple, Xin Yan becomes his principal sword instructor, and the sect grants him the fourth-grade Splitting Rainbow sword. Wei Sheng nevertheless keeps his rough clothes and plain manner. Entry into the inner sect changes his resources, not the purpose for which he uses them. (Chapters 23–25)

He immediately enters the eighteen-level Sword Cave, built both to temper sword essence and to recover the lost complete Void Sword Scripture. The elders expect danger; Wei Sheng accepts it because danger is precisely what makes the cave useful. He fights every fiend step by step rather than seeking a shortcut, reaches depths previously associated with ningmai cultivators while still at zhuji, and develops sword essence through combat before receiving a complete scripture. The scars he carries out of the cave are therefore not incidental injuries. They are the visible cost of making understanding, rather than inherited technique, the basis of his sword path. (Chapters 26, 50, 72, 85)

Sword Test Conference and the burden of Eldest Shixiong

After emerging from the Sword Cave and entering ningmai, Wei Sheng immediately detects the disguised Lin Qian near Wu Kong Mountain and pursues him for hundreds of li. Lin Qian escapes the lock of the Void Sword, but the encounter establishes the contrast that will later define them: Wei Sheng is the obscure disciple of a small sect who trusts the perception of his sword, while Lin Qian carries the resources and strategic purpose of Kun Lun. Wei Sheng reports the intrusion and then enters the Sword Test Conference because its experts offer another chance to test himself. (Chapters 121–122)

His most important conference battle is against Gu Rong Ping and the entangling Heart Lake Sword. Wei Sheng is lower in cultivation and suffers innumerable wounds, but he recognizes that the opponent's refined control also consumes endurance. He refuses to be hurried into a reckless finish, withstands hours of pressure, and lets his Heart Turn sword essence and abnormal resilience turn attrition into an advantage. By the end, Gu Rong Ping has also been cut repeatedly. The match displays the pattern that governs Wei Sheng's later breakthroughs: hardship does not merely fail to deter him; sustained hardship strips away everything inessential to his sword. (Chapters 143, 151, 153, 156)

Wei Sheng accepts second place without grievance when the judges decide Gu Rong Ping would hold a slight advantage in a fight to the death. He values what the battle taught him more than the ranking. At the same time, he checks on Luo Li, explains sword-spirit cultivation, and counsels Zuo Mo. Luo Li, once the inner disciple whom Wei Sheng served, now acknowledges him without reservation as Eldest Shixiong. The reversal matters because Wei Sheng never uses it to humiliate Luo Li; his authority comes from steadiness and example rather than repayment of old slights. (Chapters 156–157)

His strength helps Wu Kong expand after the conference. Wei Sheng first fights under Xin Yan and then leads his own group without a defeat, becoming the foremost ningmai sword xiu in Sky Moon Jie. Yet leadership also exposes the narrowness of his earlier life. He cares deeply for his fellow disciples but has spent so much of himself on cultivation that routine institutional duties do not come naturally. His development as Eldest Shixiong is therefore not a move away from the sword; it is the gradual discovery that devotion creates obligations to the people who place their trust in him. (Chapters 166, 188, 239)

Abandoned Sky Moon and the sealed battlefield

The yao invasion of Sky Moon Jie breaks the hopeful future Wei Sheng saw after the conference. Under sect orders, he escorts Lin Qian's elite force into the Sword Cave while Wu Kong retreats. He is troubled by the sect's abandonment and suspicion of Zuo Mo and privately longs for the smaller, more candid Wu Kong of the past. When he learns that Zuo Mo is alive and rules Golden Crow City, he rejects Lin Qian's easy suspicion that a mo physique proves betrayal. Wei Sheng has already concluded that the war between xiuzhe and yaomo is driven by resources rather than moral purity, a judgment that places loyalty to a known person above sectarian labels. (Chapters 277, 328)

At the cave's deepest point, he finds an ancient jade pendant whose presence inspired Wu Kong's founder to create the Void Sword Scripture. Activating the hidden formation transports him away just as the Sword Cave is lost. He arrives alone in a sealed ancient battlefield filled with blood mist, scarce ling energy, soul beasts, and illusions. A tall black sword found there can consume the source of fiend souls and resist the mist, but its violent presence repels him. He carries it out of necessity and uses that repulsion as another object against which to temper his resolve. (Chapters 328, 341)

Isolation frees Wei Sheng from immediate sect duties but confronts him with their psychological weight. Severely wounded and nearly empty of ling power, he survives through simple sword motions repeated until they arise without conscious thought. In the decisive inner trial, memories of obligation tighten around him like a net until he remembers his childhood desire beneath the stars: he wanted, simply, to cultivate the sword. Accepting that original desire does not erase his responsibilities; it clears the fear and self-accusation that had made them burdens. His sword heart condenses, power floods his ruined channels, and the resulting worldly apparition marks his breakthrough to jindan. (Chapters 353, 359, 361, 376, 393)

Zuo Mo's Li Water sword essence leads Wei Sheng through the mist to an emotional reunion. Over wine, Wei Sheng states the goal that survived every institutional loss: in this life, he will pursue the pinnacle of the sword. Zuo Mo offers him battles and resources, and Wei Sheng joins him without surrendering that goal. The choice makes Mo Cloud Sea a fellowship rather than a replacement sect. He remains Wu Kong's Eldest Shixiong, but he can now pursue the sword alongside people whose loyalty has been proven by action. (Chapters 364–365)

Teacher of Vermillion Bird Camp

Wei Sheng establishes a Sword Lecture Hall for Vermillion Bird Camp because its fighters remind him of outer disciples who possess grit but lack systematic instruction. He teaches generously, gives the ancient pendant to Zuo Mo for study, and explains that combat should temper the sword heart rather than substitute for fundamentals. When he defeats experienced camp members using only lianqi-level power and basic movements, the lesson is not that advanced techniques are useless. It is that technique without a stable foundation cannot survive an opponent whose every simple motion expresses understanding. (Chapters 370, 376)

Teaching becomes part of Wei Sheng's own cultivation. He practices physical sword forms without ling power until complete exhaustion, meditates, and then lectures; having to make principles clear for others reveals gaps in his own comprehension. Xie Shan follows his example, and the whole camp returns to its basics. Wei Sheng also helps shield Zong Ru's core formation, showing that the solitary sword xiu of the battlefield now instinctively makes space for another person's advance. (Chapters 390, 393)

His progress remains inseparable from risk. He clashes with an advanced fiend corpse at speeds most companions cannot follow and voluntarily enters a Golden Crystal sandstorm to stabilize his new cultivation. At Turtle Island, a single Void Sword strike turns the sky into a field of stars and silently kills an attacker, frightening hostile groups into retreat. Yet he is equally candid when the Masked Assassin exceeds his perception. Wei Sheng's confidence never requires pretending that the next boundary has already been crossed. (Chapters 414–418, 488–489)

The black sword changes as it absorbs cloud essence, shrinking from a massive, crude blade into a narrow weapon that fits his hand and hides its former vicious aura. Wei Sheng's own Void sword essence approaches a domain: it clears mist, corrodes spatial defenses, and can consume cold cloud energy. He helps Zuo Mo and Zong Ru fight the yuanying Ding Zhen, protects Zuo Mo and A Gui during the water-cloud-embryo expedition, and searches urgently when Zuo Mo disappears. His apology to the mist clan after threatening them in that search is characteristic—fear for his shidi can make him harsh, but it does not make him incapable of recognizing wrongdoing. (Chapters 525–529, 535–536)

The lone road through mo territory

When Zuo Mo remains missing, Wei Sheng leaves Turtle Island alone for the mo world. His reasoning is both simple and extreme: friendship must be real when it carries a cost, and if Zuo Mo needs the Nether Spring, Wei Sheng will cross hostile territory and lend him one sword. Gongsun Cha regards the journey as madness, but Wei Sheng also sees it as the purest available cultivation. Every opponent between him and the Nether Spring can temper his sword. (Chapter 556)

The God-Killing Blood Sword begins to reveal its nature on this road. It drinks the blood of bandits and grows, while Wei Sheng deliberately searches for opponents strong enough to resist him. Under a mo kill warrant, he defeats more than thirty challengers in four days, usually with one strike. When hidden attacks and exhaustion become the greater danger, he publicly challenges mo experts and relies on their martial pride to force open contests. Despite the lethal gauntlet, deaths are rare in his later expert challenges, and mo observers respect his restraint, honesty, frugality, and visible devotion to the sword. (Chapters 591, 663–666, 682)

News from Da Ling Feng that Wu Kong may have been destroyed by Kun Lun transforms the journey. Wei Sheng defeats her, destroys her cultivation, and sends a message to Lin Qian, but only after swearing by his sword that he will destroy Kun Lun if his teachers died because of it. Confirmation by a Kun Lun assassin brings grief strong enough to resonate with the blood sword. Wei Sheng breaks through to yuanying, forms a red Void Sword Domain, learns the weapon's name, and discovers blood streaks carrying the shen power of ancient totem warriors. He kills the assassin and offers the blood to his dead masters. Vengeance becomes part of his sword, though never its entire meaning. (Chapters 674, 682)

Zuo Mo sends Wei Sheng a shen-power method, which he synthesizes with his existing cultivation. By refining the God-Killing Blood Sword with mind, he makes his essence more ethereal and conceals its oppressive presence. Against Lei Yi and two Kun Lun disciples, he combines all his ling power, a small quantity of shen power, and one fifth of his own blood into a single Blood Curtain strike. It cuts through the Sky Lightning Branch and all three enemies, but leaves him powerless and near death. The sword saves him by pulling him underground and returning stored blood, revealing that their relationship is no longer merely that of user and object. (Chapters 687, 719–722)

That rescue becomes a more dangerous transformation underground. Inside a blood cocoon, the sword replaces every drop of Wei Sheng's own blood with blood stored from ancient warriors. Each drop carries power together with its former owner's belief and hatred—an inheritance poisonous to an ordinary soul. Wei Sheng survives because his resolve holds his identity together, emerging with a deeper bodily bond to the weapon but also with more of its ancient burden inside him. (Chapter 733)

That partnership remains dangerous. Against an ancient octopus in the Black Sea, the sword attacks Wei Sheng's mind and attempts a backlash. He anchors his sword heart in memory and relationship, takes control, and releases a red sword energy that splits the ocean for dozens of li and cleaves the creature apart. He can bargain with the weapon by feeding it beast blood, and it can extract shen power from flesh for him, but its hunger and savagery never cease to be limits he must actively govern. (Chapters 776–777)

Central Plains sacrifice and return

By the great-sect war, Wei Sheng is regarded as one of the world's strongest people and the foremost sword xiu outside Kun Lun. He guards Zhong De at Zuo Mo's request and refuses to abandon that duty when Tian Huan's Chief Elder attacks. Faced with a god-level opponent, he asks to fight because only direct trial can answer whether his sword path has reached its next boundary. The choice is not private recklessness: Chief Elder threatens Zuo Mo and everyone present, so proving the sword and protecting his companions become the same act. (Chapters 824, 834–836)

Chief Elder's power repeatedly destroys Wei Sheng's attacks, but resistance only sharpens him. The God-Killing Blood Sword wakes fully, pours the blood and fighting instincts of ancient warriors into his body, and at times takes control. Wei Sheng eventually reasserts himself because the sword's inherited savagery cannot express his understanding of sword essence as precisely as he can. He compresses Void sword essence into hair-thin attacks, turns the simplest practiced stab into a threat even Chief Elder must respect, and pushes his comprehension beyond its previous bottleneck. (Chapters 837–845)

The cost is catastrophic. Wei Sheng intends to defeat Chief Elder and, if possible, transfer his remaining power to Zuo Mo so that his shidi can escape. He helps destroy the enclosing shen glyphs, is left bloodless and barely conscious, and still orders Zuo Mo to go. Zuo Mo refuses, seals Wei Sheng and four other companions in shen-wood coffins, and spends ten years seeking the materials needed to preserve and awaken them. Wei Sheng's attempt to spend his life for Zuo Mo is answered by Zuo Mo spending a decade refusing to accept that sacrifice. (Chapters 850–855)

Shi places a dragon heart inside Wei Sheng, pairing its unmatched blood production with the God-Killing Blood Sword. When Wei Sheng awakens, he understands what Zuo Mo endured while dragging the coffins through the void, and their reunion reduces both men to tears. Wei Sheng then returns with Zong Ru, Luo Li, Wo Li, and Ceng Lian'er to Mo Cloud Sea. His presence restores the faction's high-level striking power and, more importantly, convinces its people that Zuo Mo is alive and will follow. (Chapters 880, 891, 896)

The Sword God and the return to Wu Kong

Wei Sheng reaches god-level after his recovery and races to stop Lin Qian from destroying Mo Cloud Sea's commanders. Finding Gu Liang Dao already dead, he refuses Lin Qian's invitation to frame their encounter as a neutral contest between sword paths. Wei Sheng states plainly that he swore to avenge Wu Kong and will not give an enemy the psychological or tactical shelter of a supposedly fair duel. Lin Qian finally recognizes the two men as equal representatives of their sects: Kun Lun's Eldest Shixiong against Wu Kong's. (Chapters 902–903)

The dragon heart lets Wei Sheng sustain the blood sword, while years of undivided devotion make his sword essence slightly purer than Lin Qian's. During their clash, he finally sees that even the strongest sword cannot restore the dead. Its meaning is to guard the living happiness still within reach—his brothers, his family, and the promises that bind them. This realization clears the last savagery and hatred from his sword essence, replacing them with a peaceful, open, and far heavier resolve. Lin Qian, already lightly wounded, can no longer hold the contest and retreats. (Chapter 905)

Wei Sheng then crosses the void into Kun Lun. The sect destroys transportation formations and sends disciples against him, but neither measure can stop a god-level expert. Standing more than one hundred and fifty li from Kun Lun's main peak, he remembers remote Wu Kong Mountain and strikes in its name. One blood-red sword energy crosses space, breaks generations of defenses, and cuts down the mountain that symbolizes Kun Lun's supremacy. The world thereafter calls him the peerless Sword God, but the act means more to Wei Sheng as the fulfillment of an Eldest Shixiong's oath. (Chapter 909)

He does not confuse that victory with unlimited power. Wei Sheng leaves Kun Lun rather than attempt to slaughter the entire sect alone and returns to protect Gongsun Cha, Bie Han, and the allied commanders. He tells the others honestly that he and Lin Qian are evenly matched: his earlier victory depended on Lin Qian's wound and his own timely epiphany. In the final campaign, he meets Lin Qian in an empty jie to spare bystanders. They fight for ten days and nights until both are exhausted, stopping only when Zuo Mo's arrival confirms Kun Lun's defeat. (Chapters 911, 915)

After the war, Wei Sheng and Zuo Mo return to the overgrown ruins of Wu Kong Mountain and clear the weeds together. The mountain remains, though their teachers do not. Wei Sheng chooses to build a house there, name it Sword House, and live where his path began. The decision completes rather than abandons his journey: after crossing worlds in pursuit of the sword, he makes its final purpose the guardianship of memory, home, and the people who survived. (Chapter 915)

Appearance and personality

Wei Sheng is initially described as not tall, with thick, broad shoulders, a square face, heavy brows, and an honest appearance contradicted only by the sharp light in his eyes. He wears rough, simple clothing even after entering the inner sect. Sword Cave cultivation and later battles leave him heavily scarred, while his posture remains ruler-straight or sword-like even when he is unconscious. At high cultivation, his eyes can resemble bloody glass when he channels the God-Killing Blood Sword, but his ordinary presence remains plain and determined. (Chapters 19, 25, 50, 841)

His defining trait is sincerity. Wei Sheng is quiet, humble, generous with knowledge, and almost incapable of treating rank as personal ornament. He accepts defeat without resentment, admits when an opponent exceeds him, apologizes when urgency makes him unjust, and refuses Lin Qian's rhetorical trap because he can name vengeance honestly. His courage is not an absence of judgment: he calculates an opponent's advantage clearly, but once he decides a hardship is necessary, pain and fear cease to be reasons to turn back. (Chapters 157, 489, 536, 903, 911)

The apparent contradiction in him is that an intensely solitary vocation produces extraordinary loyalty. He repeatedly travels alone and seeks dangerous opponents for cultivation, yet the purposes that survive his deepest breakthroughs are relational: guide disciples who lack teachers, lend Zuo Mo a sword, avenge Wu Kong, protect Mo Cloud Sea's commanders, and return home. By the end, his sword path is neither detached transcendence nor simple revenge. It is belief given form through the willingness to guard what he loves. (Chapters 370, 556, 905, 915)

Abilities and cultivation

Sword heart and cultivation progression

Wei Sheng advances from late lianqi and outer-disciple sword servant to zhuji, ningmai, jindan, yuanying, and finally god-level. His progression is driven less by exceptional starting talent than by a sword heart repeatedly condensed under real danger. Foundation establishment produces heaven-piercing sword energy; survival in the ancient battlefield produces a worldly apparition and jindan; grief for his teachers resonates with the God-Killing Blood Sword and accompanies his yuanying breakthrough; recovery with the dragon heart precedes his ascent to god-level. The exact technical process of his final breakthrough is not explained in full. (Chapters 10, 24, 121, 361, 682, 903)

His sword heart gives exceptional resistance to illusion, despair, killing intent, and weapon backlash. It is not static invulnerability: he can be burdened by duty, bewildered by loss, or pressured by the blood sword. Each major advance comes when he identifies the belief beneath that pressure and acts without self-deception. This lets him control power that overwhelms more naturally gifted cultivators and eventually makes his mind effectively indestructible in his first god-level duel with Lin Qian. (Chapters 353, 361, 776, 842, 905)

Void Sword Scripture and Void sword essence

The Void Sword Scripture descends from the ancient pendant hidden beneath Wu Kong's Sword Cave. Wei Sheng learns its complete inheritance after first forming his own sword essence through combat, so he uses the scripture as a language for understanding rather than a substitute for it. Early Void Sword attacks can lock targets at long distance. At higher levels, his essence evokes an endless starry void, clears or consumes mist, corrodes spatial shields, and creates lingering cracks connected to empty space. (Chapters 121, 328, 488, 525–529, 845)

His control progresses from broad manifestations to extreme compression. Near the domain boundary, Void sword essence can cover an area and suppress movement; after further comprehension, Wei Sheng condenses it into strands as thin as hair. The smaller attacks are more dangerous because their apparent faintness hides concentrated spatial destruction. In the Central Plains battle, even Chief Elder must avoid the tiny void cracks left around an escape route. (Chapters 528, 682, 837, 845)

Basic swordsmanship and combat method

Wei Sheng treats basic cuts, stabs, footwork, and posture as the permanent core of sword cultivation. He practices them without ling power until physical exhaustion and can defeat experienced fighters while limiting himself to lianqi-level power. In battle, this foundation allows the body to defend instinctively after conscious calculation and spiritual reserves fail. His strongest technique is often a simple stab whose timing, resolve, and compressed essence leave no unnecessary movement. (Chapters 359, 376, 390, 844)

He excels in direct combat, endurance, perception of sword essence, and adaptation under pressure. He can lead a combat group without defeat and has enough formation knowledge to occupy a core position, but he is primarily an individual sword xiu rather than a top battle general. Against stronger enemies he studies the structure and cost of their methods, as in his attritional fight with Gu Rong Ping and his evolving attacks on Chief Elder. His limitation is equally consistent: experiments near a new boundary can leave him gravely wounded or empty of power. (Chapters 153, 166, 721, 810, 845)

Shen power, blood techniques, and the dragon heart

Zuo Mo's shen-power method lets Wei Sheng combine mind, ling power, blood, and the God-Killing Blood Sword. The Blood Curtain strike used against Lei Yi channels nearly everything available into one line of blood-red force capable of cutting a powerful shen technique and multiple opponents. Before receiving the dragon heart, the move consumes one fifth of his blood and leaves him defenseless after a single use. The sword first returns stored blood to save him, then replaces all of his blood inside a cocoon with the blood of ancient warriors, whose power, beliefs, and hatred would destroy an ordinary soul. It can also extract shen power from beast flesh, but these are dangerous transformations and emergency recoveries rather than proof that the costs are negligible. (Chapters 687, 719–722, 733, and 777)

Shi's implanted dragon heart gives Wei Sheng an extraordinary source of blood and forms an ideal pairing with the blood sword. It also leaves a faint draconic presence. At god-level, this allows him to sustain repeated exchanges that fill an entire jie with blood mist without being drained or mentally polluted in the old way. The corpus does not define the heart's precise rate of regeneration or whether it has an upper limit. (Chapters 880, 903, 905)

Domain and god-level swordsmanship

At yuanying, Wei Sheng manifests a red Void Sword Domain that traps an assassin and turns every blood streak within it into a carrier for attack. By god-level, he can travel through the void, absorb the ambient shen power of a jie during combat, split land and sky through clashes, and project a sword strike across more than one hundred and fifty li while bypassing ordinary distance. His duel with Lin Qian demonstrates that god-level contests depend on sword essence, mind, shen power, and resolve more than named techniques. (Chapters 682, 905, 909, 911)

His late sword essence changes qualitatively when he understands the sword as a means of protection. Hatred and savagery disappear from its expression without reducing its force; instead, its peaceful neutrality disrupts Lin Qian's mind and power more effectively. This is Wei Sheng's latest demonstrated path, but it does not make him absolutely superior. He explicitly judges a recovered Lin Qian his equal, and their last battle continues for ten days and nights without a decisive personal victory before the wider war ends. (Chapters 905, 911, 915)

Teaching

Wei Sheng can diagnose weak foundations and translate combat experience into practical training. His Sword Lecture Hall pushes Vermillion Bird Camp back toward basic movements, controlled power, physical repetition, meditation, and the tempering of sword heart through real conflict. Teaching also sharpens his own comprehension because explanation forces him to organize instinct into principles. His students' respect survives his decade-long absence, as shown when Liao Lin still calls him Teacher Wei on his return. (Chapters 370, 376, 390, 896)

Power progression

Relationships

• Zuo Mo: Wei Sheng first aids Zuo Mo as a generous senior disciple, then becomes his closest sworn-by-action companion. He joins Zuo Mo's group without giving up his own path, crosses the mo territories to help him, and tries to sacrifice his life so Zuo Mo can escape. Zuo Mo answers by preserving him for ten years. Their final return to Wu Kong Mountain frames the relationship as brotherhood rooted in shared beginnings rather than formal rank. (Chapters 19–20, 365, 556, 850, 915)
• Luo Li: Wei Sheng once serves as Luo Li's sword servant, but surpasses him through the Sword Cave and conference. Luo Li eventually acknowledges Wei Sheng as Eldest Shixiong, and Wei Sheng treats him with concern rather than triumph. They later fight and survive as members of the same circle. (Chapters 10, 156, 891)
• Xin Yan and Pei Yuan Ran: Pei Yuan Ran formally accepts Wei Sheng, while Xin Yan gives him his central sword instruction. Wei Sheng's later oath against Kun Lun is motivated by their deaths and by the destruction of the sect they entrusted to his generation. (Chapters 24–26, 674, 682)
• Lin Qian: Lin Qian is Wei Sheng's great foil: a supremely gifted heir who subordinates nearly everything to Kun Lun, opposed to an obscure disciple whose loyalty grows from personal belief. Their conflict progresses from wary pursuit to sect vengeance and two god-level duels. Wei Sheng defeats him once after an epiphany but later recognizes him as an equal. (Chapters 121, 328, 903–905, 911, 915)
• Gongsun Cha: Gongsun Cha regards Wei Sheng's lone journey as extreme even by Mo Cloud Sea standards, but trusts his fighting power. In the final war, Wei Sheng makes protecting Gongsun Cha and the other top commanders his primary mission. (Chapters 556, 911, 915)
• Zong Ru: Zong Ru is a frequent companion in high-level combat. Wei Sheng helps protect his core formation, fights beside him against Ding Zhen and Tian Huan's Chief Elder, and awakens with him after the ten-year sealing. (Chapters 393, 535, 850, 896)
• Xie Shan: Xie Shan becomes one of the clearest followers of Wei Sheng's training method, practicing to exhaustion and treating him as a model for rebuilding sword fundamentals. (Chapter 390)

Items

• God-Killing Blood Sword: Wei Sheng finds the weapon as a huge black sword in the sealed ancient battlefield and remains its wielder through the end of the novel. It consumes fiend-source energy, cloud essence, and blood; stores and returns blood; carries the shen power and fighting instincts of ancient warriors; and can corrode other weapons. Its sentient hunger repeatedly challenges Wei Sheng's mind, but it ultimately accepts his resolve and becomes most powerful when guided by his own sword understanding. (Chapters 341, 525–526, 682, 721–722, 776–777, 838–845, 905)
• Splitting Rainbow sword: A fourth-grade flying sword granted by Wu Kong Sword Sect after Wei Sheng's foundation establishment. It represents his first formal recognition as an inner disciple, before the ancient blood sword becomes his defining weapon. (Chapter 24)
• Ancient jade pendant: Found beneath the deepest Sword Cave, its presence inspired Wu Kong's founder to develop the Void Sword Scripture. It also activates the formation that sends Wei Sheng to the ancient battlefield; he later entrusts it to Zuo Mo for study. (Chapters 328, 370)