Wuming

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Wuming cultivated at the Great Forest Temple from childhood. When he went out to gain experience, an elder sent him to the Azure Dragon Domain 259.

He initially declined to discuss his origins with Lu Ping, who introduced himself as Li Feiyu. After rescuing Lu Ping from the Zhao Household’s pursuit, Wuming revealed that he came from the Great Forest Temple in the northern Black Tortoise Domain, also known as the Domain of Chaos 49 83.

Appearance

Wuming is a handsome, bald monk with serene features 66 83 271.

• He wears white or moon-white monk’s robes 66 83 271.
• He commonly carries or fingers a string of wooden prayer beads 66 67 271.

Personality

Wuming values compassion and loyalty. At Red Refining Mountain, he defended the apparently wounded Lu Ping against two companions who wanted to murder him for his possessions. After Lu Ping killed the attackers, Wuming regarded their deaths as the karmic consequence of greed and said he felt neither regret nor resentment 216.

He is generous with those he considers to share a karmic bond, though he is not indifferent to material gains. He split the Earth Core Fire evenly with Lu Ping and later gave him healing pills, while acknowledging that their association had also brought him opportunities 49 84.

Wuming repeatedly invited Lu Ping to join the Great Forest Temple, even after Lu Ping declined. Having spent his childhood at the temple and relied on its supplies, he was unfamiliar with ordinary market prices in the Domain of Chaos 83 84 259.

Abilities & Skills

Buddhist Incantations

Wuming uses scripture and incantations to counter spiritual threats 67 69.

• Purifying Heart Incantation: Dispersed gray vapor from his body and drove back the mind-bewildering yellow mist 67.
• Rebirth Incantation: Calmed lingering spirits at Soul-Severing Stream, causing them to disperse as golden light 67.
• Karmic Fire Rebirth Incantation: Ignited and purified the Golden Core remnant soul within a Corpse Fiend while Lu Ping occupied it 69.

Curse Removal

Wuming erased the Zhao Household’s blood curse from Lu Ping’s arm using scripture, Buddha light, and an apparition of a mountain temple and peach blossoms. The effort left him pale and his Qi unsteady 84.

Alms Bowl Combat

Wuming uses a golden alms bowl both offensively and defensively 68 69 216.

• He fought the Zhao Household’s old servant with it 68.
• Against the Golden Core Corpse Fiend, he enlarged the bowl and struck its forehead, though the clash forced him back 69.
• He used it to defend Lu Ping from the sword and staff cultivators at Red Refining Mountain 216.

Equipment & Items

• Wooden prayer beads — Used while reciting scriptures and in other Buddhist techniques 67 69 84.
• Golden Light alms bowl — A weapon and defensive implement 68 216.
• Random Teleportation Talismans — Wuming supplied two to escape the Yellow Fang Secret Realm 70.
• Star River Talisman — A gift from Lu Ping that Wuming used to seriously wound the Zhao Household Ancestor 217 256.

Relationships

• Lu Ping — An ally whom Wuming first knew as Li Feiyu. Across Lu Ping’s simulations, they rescue and support one another; Wuming also helps him seek the Great Forest Temple’s seal inheritance 49 83 216 256 272.
• Zhao Mingchuan — A rival for the Yellow Fang Secret Realm’s ganoderma. In another simulation, his death leads the Zhao Household to pursue Wuming 66 67 256.
• Li Shi — An Azure Cloud Sect disciple assigned by Lu Ping to secretly protect Wuming and his companions at Red-Silk Mountain 304 348.

Story Role

Yellow Fang Secret Realm

Wuming and Lu Ping divide ten strands of Earth Core Fire at Red Refining Mountain and agree to explore a secret realm together eleven years later 49.

At the Yellow Fang Secret Realm, Wuming shares intelligence about the Zhao Household and clears the mind-bewildering mist while Lu Ping’s Fire Crow scouts. They confront Zhao Mingchuan’s group, then cooperate against a Golden Core Corpse Fiend. Lu Ping refines six Yellow Fang Pills from the ganoderma they obtain and gives Wuming three 66 67 68 69.

Rescue of Lu Ping

After achieving Core Formation, Wuming follows the Zhao Household’s pursuit of Lu Ping and finds him gravely injured. He removes the household’s blood curse, offers a possible way to rebuild Lu Ping’s damaged foundation at the Great Forest Temple, and escorts him toward the Greenwood Sect. Before parting, he gives Lu Ping three Peach Blossom Meridian-Calming Pills 83 84.

A Different Simulation

In a later simulation, Lu Ping again approaches Wuming at Red Refining Mountain under the name Li Feiyu. Wuming admits him to a party and protects him when their other companions turn against him. Lu Ping reveals his Nascent Soul cultivation, kills the attackers, and asks Wuming for help obtaining the general principles of the As-If-Original Seal. They arrange to meet in Qingyang City eleven years later 214 215 216 217.

At the appointed time, Lu Ping finds Wuming pursued by the Zhao Household. Wuming badly wounds its ancestor with Lu Ping’s talisman, and Lu Ping kills the ancestor. They travel toward the Domain of Chaos before parting at Doushu City; Wuming gives Lu Ping prayer beads and a map to the Great Forest Temple 256 257 259.

After Lu Ping reaches the temple, Wuming guides him to Buddha Palm Cliff and explains that the complete Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method is hidden in a secret realm that opens when fate arrives 271 272.

Later, Lu Ping arranges for Li Shi to protect Wuming’s party secretly at Red-Silk Mountain and posts a follow-up protection mission for Broken Sunset Valley eleven years afterward 304 348.

Notable Quotes

“All living beings dwell in ignorance. To know one’s own ignorance is already to be close to enlightenment.” 83

“Bearing Wisdom King Fire, walking through the Ghostly Realm. This humble monk has neither regret nor resentment.” 216

Trivia

• In the Buddhist Sect, Wuming’s monastic name means ignorance and a lack of wisdom. Lu Ping initially suspected it was a false name 83.
• Great Forest Temple representatives are not selected by cultivation level; Si Wangshu knew Wuming as the temple’s representative of his generation 104.