Mo Family

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Mo Family (墨家)
Occupation/Role	Cultivator family with guards, spies, and regional branches; described as one of Wutan City’s three major families 5 6 35.
Base of Operations	Wutan City, with additional forces operating around Black Rock City and the Tagor Desert 31 33.
Affiliation	Collaborates with the Wolf Head Mercenary Group and seeks an alliance with an unnamed Black Rock City faction 13 16 40.
Status	Mountain pursuers and desert forces eliminated; remaining Wutan City members rendered amnesiac and removed from their base rather than exterminated 19 31 40.
First Appearance	Three guards intercept Xiao Yan during his journey into the Magical Beast Mountain Range 5.

Organization and Forces

• Regional branches: The family maintains a headquarters and multiple branches. Its Black Iron Token serves as a credential for mobilizing those branches 35 37.
• Wutan City leadership: Mo Feng directs local operations, with Mo Kui serving as second-in-command 33 36.
• Intelligence network: Agents monitor the Xiao Residence, follow Xiao Yan into the mountains, and report on his behavior inside the Xiao Clan 6 11 37.
• Combat personnel: Deployed forces range from Dou Qi-stage scouts to Dou Zhe, Dou Shi, and Dou Ling cultivators 5 6 7 12 16.
• Outside backing: Xiao Zhan states that a greater force supports the family, but that force is not identified in the supplied passages 34.

Known Members

Member	Position / Cultivation	Notable Details
Mo Feng	Initially introduced as guard captain; later head of Wutan City operations. Mid-stage Dou Ling.	Leads the first interception of Xiao Yan and later organizes bounties and efforts to recover the Black Iron Token 5 33 34 38.
Mo Kui	Wutan City deputy; Peak Dou Master.	Assaults Xiao Shi and demands the token from Xiao Yan. Withdraws after Xiao Zhan intervenes 36.
Mo Cheng	Identified as the family’s young master.	The family accuses Xiao Yan of killing him; Xiao Yan denies the accusation. His death is not directly shown in the supplied account 33.
Brother Zhang	Pursuit-team leader; One-Star Dou Ling.	Commands two Dou Zhe and attacks with a Dou Qi-coated short axe. All three are swallowed by a spatial rift 7.
Unnamed elderly Dou Shi	Surviving elder; later associated with rumors of a vanished Dou Shi ancestor.	Attempts to avenge the family with a spike-lined trap, but is killed by Red-Eyed Demon Wolves 19 20.
Unnamed desert leader	Mid-stage Dou Ling.	Announces a bounty in Black Rock City, then leads more than a dozen members into Xiao Yan’s canyon ambush 31.

History

Feud with the Xiao Clan

The Mo Family has a long-standing feud with the Xiao Clan. Xiao Yan recalls Mo Cheng’s desire for the Xiao Clan heirloom as a motive for targeting him in the original storyline. During the first mountain interception, Mo Feng demands that Xiao Yan surrender that heirloom, kneel, and kowtow three times 5.

After Nalan Yanran breaks her engagement, Mo Family agents linger outside the Xiao Residence. They subsequently exploit Xiao Yan’s apparently weak cultivation to pursue him while he is traveling alone 6.

Magical Beast Mountain Range Pursuit

The first three guards are eliminated without an open battle: Xiao Yan kills one with soul power and draws Mo Feng and the other into a spatial rift. Two more informants die in another rift, followed by Brother Zhang’s three-man team. The system accepts the rift deaths as natural accidents, preserving Xiao Yan’s disguise 5 6 7.

Later scouts encounter staged falls and rockslides. One seventh-stage Dou Qi watcher falls down a steep slope; two companions are trapped in a mountain hollow. Xiao Yan anticipates that a trapped scout may subsequently fall into an underground river, but that outcome is not directly confirmed 11 12.

The family also collaborates with the Wolf Head Mercenary Group against Xiao Yan. During pursuit by three Dou Shi, Xiao Yan discovers a letter outlining a planned attack on the Xiao Clan’s businesses in three months, timed for the old patriarch’s seclusion and supported by an unnamed Black Rock City faction 13 16.

An elderly Dou Shi makes a final mountain ambush using a deep, spike-lined pit. Xiao Yan deliberately enters the trap, then provokes nearby Red-Eyed Demon Wolves into attacking the elder. The elder’s death ends this mountain pursuit; subsequent rumors attribute the family’s losses to magical beasts 19 20.

Black Rock City and Desert Losses

Despite reports that its desert expedition has disappeared, the family continues searching for Xiao Yan. Its agents bring his portrait to Black Rock City’s Mercenary Guild and offer rewards for information or capture 31.

Xiao Yan plants conspicuous tracks in the desert, drawing more than a dozen family members and their Dou Ling leader into a canyon. A prepared fire formation combines the Green Lotus Core Flame with geothermal heat to destroy the pursuing force. Xiao Zhan later reports that the family’s Black Rock City power has been uprooted 31 33.

Black Iron Token Dispute

In Wutan City, Mo Feng suspects that Xiao Yan has a hidden protector. Rather than attack the Xiao Clan openly, he spreads an accusation that Xiao Yan stole an ancestral treasure and offers a bounty intended to draw out that protector 34.

Xiao Yan retaliates by actually stealing the Black Iron Token from the family’s deposits at the Mittel Auction House. The loss disrupts the family’s branch-mobilization arrangements and drives an urgent recovery effort. Mo Kui’s attempt to reclaim it at the Xiao estate ends in public humiliation after Xiao Yan engineers two seemingly accidental falls 35 36.

Xiao Yan then plants misleading spiritual traces and places the token at the hidden Misty Cloud Sect elder’s residence, marked with the sect’s Calming Heart Powder. Mo Feng concludes that the sect stole it. The resulting clash costs the family several core members and injures Mo Feng 37 38 39.

Neutralization of the Wutan City Branch

The family hires surviving Wolf Head mercenaries to attack the Xiao Clan, but Xiao Yan kills them with a concealed flame trap. He then settles the remaining local threat without another massacre 40.

Using Phantom Flame Marks, Xiao Yan guides the Mo Family members in their sleep to an abandoned mine outside Wutan City. They awaken as amnesiac wanderers unable to threaten the Xiao Clan. Their deserted base and scorched entrance leave townspeople divided between rumors of extermination and flight 40.

Bounties

Location	Reward for Information	Reward for Capture	Stated Basis
Black Rock City	100 gold coins	1,000 gold coins and a dose of Qi Gathering Powder	Public search using Xiao Yan’s portrait; guild gossip links the pursuit to the death of the Third Elder’s grandson 31.
Wutan City	Not specified	1,000 taels of gold and one Dou Technique	Mo Feng claims Xiao Yan stole the family’s ancestral treasure 34.

Equipment and Items

• Black Iron Token — Credential used to mobilize regional branches. Stolen from the Mittel Auction House by Xiao Yan, then planted to implicate the Misty Cloud Sect elder and recovered by Mo Feng 35 38.
• Bronze Mo token — Worn identification token engraved with the character “Mo.” Xiao Yan finds one after Brother Zhang’s team disappears and uses it to establish the pursuers’ affiliation 7.
• Alliance letter — Hide document written in special ink, carried in a black brocade pouch. Reveals the proposed joint attack on Xiao Clan businesses 16.
• Xiao Yan’s portrait — Circulated at the Mercenary Guild to support the family’s capture bounty 31.

Relationships

• Xiao Clan — Long-standing rival and intended target of both economic attacks and threats against its members 5 16 36.
• Xiao Yan — Principal target of the family’s pursuit. His apparent weakness repeatedly conceals the methods responsible for its losses 5 7 31 40.
• Wolf Head Mercenary Group — Collaborator and later hired attacker, although some mercenaries resent the family’s attempts to absorb smaller groups 13 31 40.
• Unnamed Black Rock City faction — Prospective ally in the planned strike against Xiao Clan businesses 16.
• Mittel Auction House — Holds the family’s deposited goods, including the Black Iron Token. Becomes a target of investigation and confrontation after the theft 35 37 38.
• Hidden Misty Cloud Sect elder — Drawn into conflict through Xiao Yan’s planted evidence; his attacks injure Mo Feng and kill several core members 38 39.

Continuity Notes

• Mo Feng is swallowed by a spatial rift in the first mountain encounter, but later chapters present a character of the same name and cultivation directing Wutan City operations. The supplied account does not explain his reappearance 5 33.
• References to the Mo Family’s eradicated “remnants” concern earlier pursuit forces, not a confirmed extermination of every branch. Later chapters show active desert and Wutan City members, and explicitly state that the final Wutan City group survives 19 31 33 40.