Nine Heavens Martial Venerable

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Nine Heavens Martial Venerable (九天武尊)
Alias(es)	Nine Heavens; guardian of Daxia
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Daxia; Martial Emperor Hall; Kui Xing Training Camp
Occupation/Role	Third Grade Martial Venerable; guardian of Daxia; chief examiner of the Palace Examination
Status	Alive
First Appearance	Chapter 121

Background / History

The Nine Heavens Martial Venerable is one of Daxia's foremost Martial Venerables and the master of Ji Qingyue. She presides over Kui Xing Training Camp and possesses enough authority to alter the college entrance examination by adding the Palace Examination, personally serving as its chief examiner. She also orders Li Taisui and Qin Kunpeng into the Beast Den as punishment for Bai He's death 121. The Palace Examination is later described as a joint decision of the Martial Emperor Hall and the Martial Venerables, rather than a measure directed specifically at Jiang Li 138.

While assessing Jiang Li's examination results, she judges that the eighteen-year-old Grandmaster has the potential to become a Martial Venerable. Her thoughts subsequently reveal a hidden instability: she speaks as though another soul or will urges her to surrender to the Demon Kings and abandon humanity 121.

During the Palace Examination at Yan Mountain, she reveals herself while disguised as a young girl and confronts the Demon King Tengshe. She identifies that the examination has drawn out both lesser demons and a major threat, then fights Tengshe with her divine sword 134. After Tengshe's spatial attack transports her and Jiang Li to Yang City Mountain, she is gravely injured and her abnormal personality becomes dominant 136 137.

The Martial Venerable later attempts to kill Jiang Li on the Great Wall, believing his potential makes him an inevitable future threat. Jiang Li resists her Mysterious Bird Town Seal with the Human Emperor Physique and Heaven and Earth Fortune, but the clash is interrupted by the emergence of her alternate personality 148 149.

Despite their enmity, she awards Jiang Li the title of Daxia Martial Champion and personally obtains the SSS-Class Heaven Mending Technique for him. She considers this the politically advantageous choice for the Martial Emperor Hall and the examination's public legitimacy 218. The award also serves a concealed purpose: she intends the demanding technique to hinder Jiang Li's growth, a scheme she explains to Ji Qingyue 218.

She later intercepts the Golden Winged Peng King and fights it at Qi Mountain, protecting Jiang Li despite treating him as a danger. The Peng King notes that she has left her post near a spatial passage, while she insists that its fate is her own concern 305 306. During the Yun Province Beast Tide, she supports exchanging the Peng King's corpse for that of the fallen Nanjia Martial Venerable to protect the defenders' morale. Jiang Li's willingness to undertake the dangerous exchange surprises her and prompts her to admit that she underestimated him 316.

By the confrontation at Tongtian Platform, Jiang Li has surpassed her in direct combat. Although she activates her full power, SSS-Class talent, and nine-layered domain, he defeats and publicly humiliates her, settling the resentment created by her earlier attempt on his life 445 446 447. She had spent more than a month in seclusion at the platform attempting to break through to Second Grade Great Martial Venerable, but had not succeeded when Jiang Li arrived 444.

Appearance

The Nine Heavens Martial Venerable is renowned as the most beautiful woman in Daxia a century earlier. Her bearing is typically cold, proud, and remote, likened to an immortal descending from a painting 134.

• Long black hair and a peerlessly beautiful face 134.
• Usually wears golden-threaded white robes, a blue jade belt, and white jade sleeves 134.
• Bears a Mysterious Bird Divine Mark on her brow when exerting Martial Venerable Power 139.
• Wears profound golden Third Grade Martial Venerable battle armor when fighting at full strength 445.
• Her eyes turn deep black when she activates the Nine Heavens Black Bird 445.

Personality

In her usual state, the Nine Heavens Martial Venerable is aloof, calculating, and authoritarian. She views political consequences and Daxia's broader stability as more important than personal grievances, as shown when she makes Jiang Li the Martial Champion despite his disrespect toward her and Kui Xing Training Camp 218. Her choice of reward also shows her willingness to use public honors to constrain an adversary 218.

She is also deeply prideful. Jiang Li's refusal to respect her, his rapid rise, and the existence of Xuanpin provoke intense hostility. When she judges Jiang Li too dangerous to leave alive, she attempts to eliminate him before he can become strong enough to retaliate 148. On hearing that Jiang Li has been poisoned, she calls his plight the consequence of his recklessness, while Xuanpin urges her to save him 284.

Her mind contains an alternate personality, later identified as Xuanpin, born from a wisp of her evil thought and empowered by the Demon Book. Xuanpin is erratic, seductive, provocative, and openly resentful of the original personality's purity and status 137 149 445. The original personality considers Xuanpin an existence she most detests 445.

Abilities & Skills

Martial Venerable Power

As a peak Third Grade Martial Venerable, Nine Heavens possesses overwhelming Martial Venerable Power and can merge it with heaven and earth to form a domain 306 445.

• Can suppress lower-ranked martial artists' movement, True Qi, Dantian, and Heavenly Apertures 148.
• Her condensed Blood Essence leaks virtually no power when she fights seriously 445.
• Her recovery speed and combat power rise sharply after activating her Martial Way ability 445 446.

Nine Heavens Black Bird

An SSS-Class Martial Way ability represented by the cry and manifestation of a black bird 445.

• Grants extraordinary self-healing ability 445 446.
• Merges into her body to enhance her combat state 446.
• Can concentrate the Power of Heaven and Earth into attacks resembling black-bird wings 445.

Nine Heavens Realm

Her Martial Venerable Domain is among the top three in Daxia 446.

• Contains nine layers, effectively combining nine spatial Martial Venerable Domains into one 446.
• Produces absolute suppressive force centered on herself 446.
• Was ultimately suppressed by Jiang Li's Colorless Martial Venerable Domain 446.

Mysterious Bird Town Seal

A sealing martial art that manifests an ancient Mysterious Bird totem around its target 148.

• Immobilizes opponents and suppresses their internal power 148.
• Jiang Li's Human Emperor Physique and Heaven and Earth Fortune were able to shake, but not break, the seal at the Grandmaster level 148.

Swordsmanship

Nine Heavens is an elite sword wielder whose divine sword can be summoned from a soldier's box at the Great Wall 134.

• Her Sword Qi can take the form of a massive Black Bird and annihilate falling meteor-like attacks 136.
• A full-power sword strike split the sky for three hundred zhang and left a mark on Jiang Li's exceptionally durable body 446.
• She repelled the Golden Winged Peng King's attacks and held her own against its Demon Venerable form 306.

Nine Heavens Divine Maiden Step

An ultimate movement technique described by Xuanpin, who retains Nine Heavens' memories. Each step absorbs the Power of Heaven and Earth to reinforce the user's strength; stacking nine steps can multiply that strength severalfold 392.

Power Progression

Stage	Development
Third Grade Martial Venerable	Holds the authority to preside over Kui Xing Training Camp and serve as chief examiner of the Palace Examination 121.
Peak Third Grade Martial Venerable	Demonstrates a Martial Venerable Domain against the Golden Winged Peng King; later reveals the SSS-Class Nine Heavens Black Bird and the nine-layered Nine Heavens Realm 306 445 446.
Attempted Second Grade breakthrough	Spends more than a month in seclusion at Tongtian Platform seeking to become a Great Martial Venerable, but remains short of a breakthrough 444.

Relationships

• Jiang Li — Initially recognizes his potential, then attempts to eliminate him as a future threat. She later awards him the Martial Champion title, but intends the Heaven Mending Technique reward to impede his growth. Their conflict culminates in her defeat at his hands 121 148 218 445 447.
• Xuanpin — Her alternate personality, born from her evil thought and empowered by the Demon Book; Nine Heavens considers Xuanpin hateful and intolerable. By the time of the Tongtian Platform confrontation, Xuanpin appears before her independently 149 445.
• Ji Qingyue — Her sole direct disciple and loyal defender, though Nine Heavens reprimands her for failing to judge political circumstances rationally and explains the hidden purpose of Jiang Li's reward to her 218.
• Luo Lian — Subordinate at Kui Xing Training Camp who receives her orders and serves her during the Palace Examination 121 146.
• Demon King Tengshe — Enemy encountered at Yan Mountain; Tengshe attempts to recruit her into the Great Sage's consorts, provoking her wrath 134.
• Bi Fang — An old acquaintance and Third Grade Demon King; she tries to protect Jiang Li from Bi Fang despite her severe injuries 139.
• Golden Winged Peng King — Third Grade enemy whom she confronts at Qi Mountain while protecting Jiang Li 305 306.
• Empress Zheng Yue — Addresses Zheng Yue as “Master,” though Zheng Yue challenges the presumption of that title. Zheng Yue later states that Nine Heavens is to become Daxia's tenth Great Martial Venerable and that no one may interfere with her path 361 375.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Palace Examination

• Announces and oversees the newly established Palace Examination 121.
• Uses the event to expose hidden demonic forces in Yan Mountain 134.
• Is severely injured by Tengshe's spatial teleportation attack and transported with Jiang Li to Yang City Mountain 136 137.
• Receives treatment after Bi Fang's attack and returns to Kyoto to complete the examination 139 146.

Jiang Li's Rise

• Evaluates Jiang Li as a future Martial Venerable, then comes to regard him as a pivotal variable in humanity's war against Exotic Beasts 121 148.
• Attempts to kill him on the Great Wall before his power can grow beyond her control 148.
• Later legitimizes his rise by granting him the Martial Champion title and the Heaven Mending Technique, while privately intending the reward to restrict his progress 218.
• Is surprised when he accepts the perilous mission to exchange the Golden Winged Peng King's corpse for Nanjia Martial Venerable's remains 316.

Conflict with Jiang Li

• Intervenes against the Golden Winged Peng King and demonstrates strength greater than she displayed while injured at Yan Mountain 305 306.
• Faces Jiang Li at Tongtian Platform after he has become a Third Grade Martial Venerable and while she is attempting a breakthrough to Second Grade 444 445.
• Activates the Nine Heavens Black Bird and Nine Heavens Realm, but is decisively defeated, restrained, and humiliated by Jiang Li 445 446 447.
• Witnesses Jiang Li publicly pledge to protect Xuanpin from anyone seeking her death 447.

Trivia

• She was universally acknowledged as Daxia's most beautiful woman a hundred years before the Yan Mountain incident 134.
• Her power was once sufficient for Jiang Li to conclude that he could not withstand even one of her sword strikes 136.
• Her domain's nine-layer structure is exceptional among Daxia's Martial Venerables 446.
• Xuanpin describes her original self as a girl from a small village in Guandong before her rise to prominence 149.