Kunlun

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Kunlun (昆仑)
Alias(es)	Kunlun Mountains; Kunlun Mountain; Kunlun Void 101
Type	Mountain range and cultivation-sect headquarters 101 232
Location	Earth; connected to the three southwestern provinces through Wentian City 297
Affiliation	Kunlun Sect 101 232
Role	Sacred Daoist mountain, cultivation estate, and recruitment site 101 243 299
First Appearance	Kunlun Mountain is mentioned in Yan Chixia’s account of obtaining his inheritance 20

Geography

• Mountain range: Kunlun consists of snowy peaks extending in an undulating, seemingly endless chain. Zhou Yi’s initial exploration takes place deep in winter, in an area without human traces 101.
• Spirit-vein convergence: The valley chosen for the Kunlun Outer Sect contains dense spiritual energy and several large earth veins converging underground 101.
• Five Peaks: The developed sect estate includes five mountains, each over a thousand zhang high 232.
• Central plain: The plain between the peaks stretches over twenty kilometers east–west and approximately fifteen to sixteen kilometers north–south. With the sect’s early population, much of this land remains unoccupied 232.
• Outer-sect climate: Despite the surrounding snowy mountains, the outer sect maintains a perpetually spring-like climate 300.
• Wildlife: Spirit Monsters and Demonic Beasts inhabit the mountains. Zheng Daqian encounters a Snow Harrier and a one-horned Snow Leopard while approaching the sect 233.

Cultural Significance

• Kunlun is described as Daoism’s foremost sacred mountain and the “ancestor of all mountains,” with numerous legends associated with immortals 101.
• Within the Great Dynasty’s mythology, it is the ancestor of China’s dragon veins and the location of the Primeval Lord of Heaven’s Jade Void Palace. Legends of the Yellow Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West are also associated with it 127.
• The Zhongnan mountain range is described as rising from Kunlun and extending toward Mount Song 155.
• The mountain’s reputation helps Zhou Yi’s claims about the Kunlun Sect appear credible to officials investigating its origins 127.

History

Yan Chixia’s Inheritance

In the world of A Chinese Ghost Story, Yan Chixia passes Kunlun Mountain while seeking a way to advance beyond Minor Circulation. An avalanche causes him to fall into a predecessor’s Cave Mansion, where he obtains cultivation texts. He later identifies this encounter as his connection to Kunlun 20.

Establishment on Earth

Zhou Yi and the Treasure Seeking Rat explore Earth’s Kunlun Mountains and locate a spiritually rich valley. Zhou Yi establishes the Kunlun Outer Sect there, installs protective and concealing formations, and plants a spirit field. He subsequently asks the Peach Spirit Fangfei to manage the field; she accepts, preferring its seclusion to the increasingly noisy Peach Blossom Mountain 101.

As the estate develops, Zhou Yi teaches his disciples beneath a peach tree and refines puppet clones to assist with sect affairs. He later completes the Five Elements Grand Array, linking the mountain peaks and concentrating spiritual energy across a thousand-mile area 154 161.

Opening the Mountain Gates

After eliminating Earth’s hidden dangers, Zhou Yi reorganizes Kunlun into five lineages and directs the allocation of its cultivation resources. He assigns Duan Houdao to organize the estate’s earth veins and construct Cave Mansions at spiritual-vein nodes 232.

The opening attracts cultivators seeking entry into the inner sect. More than three hundred disciples gather at the mountain’s foot before competitions to select chief disciples, elders, and protectors. A later ceremony reveals the cloud-hidden mountain path and brings the assembled disciples before Zhou Yi 236 243.

Following the appearance of Magic Crystals, Zhou Yi announces that Kunlun will open its gates to anyone with the required destiny. Recruitment becomes international, and Wentian City is subsequently built below the mountain to connect the sect with the mortal world 261 297 299.

Layout and Facilities

Site	Description
Outer Sect	The original valley estate established by Zhou Yi. Later recruits live in stone houses, cultivate spiritual medicine, and attend lectures 101 300.
Five Peaks	The estate’s principal mountains, associated with its five-lineage organization. Their size allows for far more disciples than the sect initially houses 232.
Water and Fire Peaks	The mountain staircase passes between these two peaks on its way into the sect 243.
Five Elements Peak	An inner-sect destination to which a senior disciple returns after answering new recruits’ questions 300.
Ascension Jade Steps	The ascent attempted by applicants seeking admission to Kunlun 299.
Mountain staircase	Contains 129,600 steps, corresponding to the number of the primordial unit; leads between Water and Fire Peaks into the sect 243.
Jade Mountain Gate	The entrance where Zhang Xiaowu encounters the Kunlun Mirror’s admission trial 300.
Assembly square	Equipped with more than a thousand meditation cushions. Protector elders occupy the first row during Zhou Yi’s meeting with disciples 243.
Cave Mansions	Planned cultivation residences at the estate’s spiritual-vein nodes, with construction assigned to Duan Houdao 232.

Wentian City

Feature	Details
Position	Below Kunlun Mountain, on a plateau between the mountains and the three southwestern provinces 297.
Construction	Built in half a year despite altered terrain and difficult roads 297.
Area and plan	Covers more than three thousand mu, with nine north–south streets and nine east–west streets dividing it into eighty-one blocks 297.
Architecture	Qin-style buildings and rows of shops rather than skyscrapers 297.
Sect connection	Intended to connect mortal society with Kunlun and help attract promising disciples 297.
Protection	Zhou Fangfei provides a formation disk in exchange for the Huang family granting Kunlun 51% of the city’s dry shares 297.
Commerce	Rent can be paid with Spirit Medicine, Demon Cores, or Spirit Ore rather than money 297.

Formations and Defenses

Five Elements Grand Array

The estate’s principal defensive and energy-gathering formation links five mountain peaks through their earth veins 161.

• Its five component arrays merge into five-colored clouds covering the sky 161.
• Zhou Yi tests it by controlling the arrays through puppet clones while attacking with his main body; he cannot break through its defenses 161.
• It gathers Kunlun Mountain’s spiritual energy from a thousand-mile area, allowing the estate to develop into a blessed land through continued accumulation 161.

Concealment and Controlled Access

Protective and concealing arrays are installed when Zhou Yi first establishes the valley estate 101.

• The mountain path can remain hidden within clouds until opened for an admission ceremony 243.
• The protective formation automatically opens a passage for Zhao Li’s return to the sect 190.
• Sect formations do not prevent dangerous wildlife from inhabiting the surrounding mountain approaches, as Zheng Daqian’s encounter demonstrates 233.

Cultivation Resources

Kunlun’s cultivation resources address enlightenment, physical refinement, Mana, and the Spiritual Soul. Together, its four principal treasures help produce hundreds of Qi Induction into Body cultivators within a few years 332.

Resource	Function
Spirit fields	Grow spirit fruits and spiritual medicine; Fangfei is recruited to manage the original field 101 300.
Spiritual-vein nodes	Provide locations for cultivation Cave Mansions 232.
Kunlun Divine Mirror	Nourishes Spiritual Souls and accelerates cultivation. It also supplies the illusion trial used in admission 300 332.
Insight Tea Grove	Assists comprehension of profound cultivation techniques and spells 332.
White Bone Fiend essence	Tempers the physical body and Dharma body 332.
Heavenly Star Cauldron	Refines pills used to enhance Mana 332.

• Enlightenment Tea Garden: A subsidiary courtyard on Mount Tianzhu rather than within Kunlun Mountain itself. It contains several hundred Enlightenment Tea Trees produced by the Origin of the reincarnated True Immortal Ku Cha 232.

Admission and Daily Life

Entry Trials

• Applicants ascend the Ascension Jade Steps before attempting the mountain-gate trial 299 300.
• The Kunlun Mirror subjects applicants to illusions that test their inner character; Zhang Xiaowu enters the outer sect after passing this second trial 300.
• People of any nationality may attempt admission. At the time described, however, no applicant from outside China has successfully joined 299.
• Reaching the summit does not guarantee acceptance: Lü Lie fails the mirror trial and receives only the Kunlun Stance 316.

Outer-Sect Life

• New disciples receive blood-bound Kunlun Tokens displaying their identity, cultivation, cultivation method, contribution balance, and tasks 300.
• Flying Boats transport groups of disciples within the estate 300.
• Daily instruction covers martial cultivation, while disciples also farm spiritual medicine and tend their fields 300.
• After expansion, all outer-sect martial methods become accessible, while inner disciples directly study immortal-path Qi Refining and Body Refining methods 300.

Associated Characters

• Zhou Yi — Establishes the Earth estate, builds its formations, teaches disciples, and oversees its expansion 101 161 232.
• Zhou Fangfei — Manages the original spirit field and later handles sect administration and Wentian City’s protective arrangement 101 188 297.
• Duan Houdao — Charged with organizing Kunlun’s earth veins and constructing Cave Mansions 232.
• Treasure Seeking Rat — Helps locate the spirit-vein convergence chosen for the sect’s valley headquarters 101.
• Gu Yu and Jiang Xiaozhai — Early disciples who spread Kunlun’s name through demon-slaying journeys and later attend the mountain’s opening ceremony 154 243.
• Wang Chao — Attends the mountain gathering with his personal disciple Zheng Daqian 236.
• Protector Chihuan — Rescues Zheng Daqian from a one-horned Snow Leopard during his approach to Kunlun 233.