Willow Deity

Biodata

Power Progression

Original Self

Burial World Clone

Background / History

Willow Deity originated as the first willow between heaven and earth and lived through five eras beginning with the Chaos Era. She repeatedly underwent nirvana, even severing her original innate body when she came to regard it as an obstacle to transcendence. Her Sacrificial Spirit Method enabled weak human communities to worship powerful spiritual beings in exchange for protection 11 184 533.

During Immortal Ancient, she rose to prominence as a defender of the Primordial Ancient Realm. Her original body invaded the Foreign Realm alone, fighting her way in and out nine times and making its Immortal Kings fear retaliation. She also dispatched avatars to defend threatened regions. One avatar confronted Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and Tai Shi across the Immortal Domain Gate, but was eventually wounded and left as a golden willow in Thunder Abyss 15 457 522 541.

Her search for the truth behind ancient calamities took her into the Boundary Sea and darkness. After another near-fatal nirvana, she lost memories and appeared at Stone Village as a charred willow. She later recognized that her arrival was connected to Xiao Tian and Shi Hao, although the exact karmic circumstances remained unclear to her 18 148.

Forms and Offshoots

Appearance

Willow Deity’s appearance changes with her recovery, ranging from a nearly dead willow to a radiant tree or a human manifestation surrounded by divine worlds 11 147 532.

• Initial tree form: A mostly blackened trunk that two adults can encircle, with one tender green branch. Its gentle radiance forms a halo over Stone Village 11.
• Recovered tree form: By the True Dragon’s Lair expedition, she has 108 crystalline green branches, bark resembling True Dragon scales, and no remaining charring 147.
• Human manifestation: A tall, slender woman with soft features and straight, sword-like brows. Her white robes, drifting mist, and golden halo accompany three thousand surrounding clusters of world-like light 179 532.
• Companion clone: Appears as a graceful immortal maiden in a pale golden gown, veiled in chaos mist 458.
• Dark body: A vast black willow whose leaves resemble miniature dark universes; a single leaf exceeds a star domain in size. On closer approach, it can appear as an ordinary-sized black-jade willow 531.

Personality

Willow Deity is patient and approachable toward those under her protection. She gently explains dangerous artifacts to Xiao Tian, guides the Gourd Vine’s cultivation, and briefly joins Stone Village’s feast rather than remaining aloof from its celebrations. Her concern for Shi Hao is explicitly both that of a master and an adoptive mother 97 150 535.

Her kindness does not extend to aggressors. She strips invading cultivators of their vitality when they attack villagers, and she openly condemns Immortal Domain kings who refused to aid the Primordial Ancient Realm. Despite benefiting from Xiao Tian’s Dao diagrams, she takes pride in forging her own path rather than simply copying another being’s cultivation 18 522 524.

She enjoys battle, but chooses her unborn child’s safety over joining Xiao Tian against the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors. She is also willing to reconsider a dangerous course when Xiao Tian warns her that several such emperors await beyond the Boundary Sea Dam 532 553 554.

Abilities & Skills

Sacrificial Spirit Method and Divine Kingdoms

Willow Deity created the Sacrificial Spirit Method, also called the Divine Path Method, and receives worship from its practitioners throughout many worlds 168 532.

• Her three thousand surrounding lights represent universes containing ancient kingdoms and worshippers 532.
• Avatars spread her method through other universes in the Boundary Sea, increasing the faith and sacrificial power she accumulates over time 533.
• This sacrificial power reinforces both her combat strength and endurance 572.
• The Burial World is connected to one of her three thousand divine kingdoms; its tribes revere the offshoot left there as their ancestral deity 289.
• Her method preserves a connection between her main Primordial Spirit and abandoned physical body across immeasurable distances 532.

Great Dao of Life and Healing

Her innate command of life supports regeneration, medicine refinement, and cultivation baptisms 97 457.

• Provides golden spirit dew that enlarges Xiao Tian’s first heavenly grotto to fifteen cun 14.
• Refines medicinal and divine essences for baptisms without damaging recipients’ foundations 97.
• Uses immortal dew to repair damaged foundations and support the transformations of Xiao Tian, Shi Hao, Huo Ling’er, Yu Meiren, and Xiao Xun’er 97.
• Overflowing life energy accelerates medicinal plants, revives withered vegetation, restores missing limbs, and grants Stone Village’s elderly more than twenty additional years of life 97.

Willow Deity Method and the Dao of Death

The present-life Willow Deity Method includes the Great Dao of Death in addition to life, reflecting the cycle of withering, rebirth, and seeking life within destruction 305.

• Willow branches function like Order Divine Chains, cutting through opponents and stripping away their vital essence 18.
• Practitioners can manifest branches inside an enemy’s body and consume that body as nourishment 311 330.
• The Burial World clone teaches Xiao Tian the Immortal Ancient version; he teaches her the present-life version in return 305.
• The clone absorbs Black-and-White Life-and-Death Light through a protective branch and later controls the collected power as a trump card 413 459.
• Purifying her darkened body deepens the original self’s understanding of life and death, helping her cultivate quasi-Immortal Emperor light 532.

Nirvana, Avatars, and Survival

Repeated nirvana and numerous offshoots make Willow Deity unusually difficult to destroy 184 533.

• Branches can develop into independent offshoots carrying portions of her memories and consciousness 289 305.
• Compatible remnants share the same origin and can merge without rejection, restoring lost foundations and cultivation 411 458.
• Her powerful Primordial Spirit and knowledge of life and death allow her to condense another physical body 533.
• An abandoned body can remain a contingency even after the main self moves onward 531 533.
• Offshoots are not invulnerable: the Burial World clone begins fading after using power beyond its capacity, while the Golden Willow avatar exhausts its vital essence fighting Peak Immortal Kings 305 457.

Formations, Movement, and Cultivation Guidance

Willow Deity combines formation expertise with techniques that reveal past events and facilitate travel 18 21 168.

• Uses the Origin Heaven Secret Technique to draw earth veins into Stone Village and construct a Supreme-level array combining defense, offense, and teleportation 168.
• Relocates Stone Village using order runes before the wilderness catastrophe overtakes it 18.
• Retraces fragments of Shi Hao’s past through his memories, revealing the theft of his Supreme Bone 21.
• Opens access to the Void God Realm and transports Xiao Tian’s party toward the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital 98 125.
• Allows Xiao Tian’s gourd forms to hang from her branches and study her Dao traces, exposing him to thousands of battles and high-level cultivation methods 95 169.
• Warns Xiao Tian against relying excessively on medicines or physical strength while neglecting Dao comprehension and Bone Text 100.

Divine Abilities Learned from Xiao Tian

Xiao Tian teaches her additional techniques after she reaches the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm 547 548.

• Creation from Nothing: Chosen for its compatibility with her abilities 547.
• Flowers Bloom in an Instant: Controls growth, blooming, and withering; deeper applications include explosive power amplification and petals that consume an opponent’s vitality, spirit, and essence 547 548.
• Scatter Beans to Create Soldiers: Especially suited to her willow catkins and capable of greatly strengthening her battlefield presence 548.
• Golden Light Across the Earth: A rapid movement technique taught to improve her ability to escape Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors 553.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Diamond Bracelet — Forged from World Mountain according to Xiao Tian’s Dao diagram. Its refinement accompanies her recovery to early Immortal King cultivation 184.
• Willow Branch Dao Diagram — Received from Xiao Tian; embodies profound spatial and life principles. She studies it as inspiration while insisting on developing her own path 524.
• Four Dao-Protecting Willow Branches — Given to Xiao Tian as safeguards, each containing a sealed Immortal King-domain strike. One becomes the vessel for the Burial World clone’s surviving consciousness 305.
• Black-and-White Life-and-Death Light — Collected and controlled by the companion clone as a trump card, with further comprehension still required 413 459.

Relationships

• Xiao Tian — Initially addresses her as an elder sister and receives her protection, baptisms, and cultivation guidance. He restores both her clone and original body; they later become dual cultivation partners and expect a child together 95 458 532 535 553.
• Shi Hao — Raised under her care as both a disciple and an adopted son. He regards anything belonging to her as priceless and refuses to trade her branches or leaves 21 289 535.
• Little Tower — Accompanies her through the Gate of Origin and into the Boundary Sea, fights alongside her, and recognizes Xiao Tian when he catches up with them 189 458 532.
• Sacrificial Spirit Gourd Vine — Reveres her as the ancestral deity and Grandmaster of his lineage. She permits him to observe the children’s baptism and offers him cultivation guidance 96 97 168.
• Red Dragon Ge Gu — Entrusts the True Dragon’s last surviving egg to Xiao Tian and merges the vitality of its two dead siblings into it. The egg is subsequently settled beside her tree 147 148.
• Ancient Female Double-Pupil — Receives insight while watching her construct Stone Village’s array; recognizes the legends surrounding the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit 168.
• Burial World tribes — Worship her ancient offshoot and guard it across generations. They seek to recover her scattered branches and leaves for respectful enshrinement 289.
• Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and Tai Shi — Opponents confronted by one of her avatars after she condemned the Immortal Domain’s failure to support the Primordial Ancient Realm 457 522.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Stone Village’s Guardian

• Protects Xiao Tian during his prolonged talent fusion and assists his Cave Heaven Realm breakthrough 14.
• Destroys the clan forces attacking Stone Village, then moves the village away from the catastrophe caused by four Venerable beasts 18.
• Receives Xiao Tian’s rare treasures and shares a mysterious mountain-and-gourd-vine vision with him after thirty-one days of contemplation 95.
• Administers a five-person baptism whose overflowing vitality rejuvenates the village 97.

Recovery and Departure from the Lower Realm

• Locates the concealed True Dragon’s Lair and preserves its last surviving heir 147.
• Prepares Stone Village’s protective array before departing, leaving Shi Hao safeguards against future threats 168.
• Claims part of World Mountain, forges the Diamond Bracelet, and restores Immortal King cultivation 184.
• Sacrifices thirteen figures to open a path through the Gate of Origin and enters with Little Tower. Surviving Upper Realm experts recognize her and abandon their descent plans 189.

The Companion Clone’s Restoration

• The fading Burial World offshoot survives through a consciousness transfer into Xiao Tian’s planted willow branch 305.
• Accompanies and assists Xiao Tian’s cultivation; after he and Shi Hao drunkenly harass her, she hangs them upside down from her branches until they sleep for three days 311 319.
• Merges with the ancestral stump and later the Golden Willow Tree, regaining an independent foundation and Immortal King cultivation 411 458.

Reunion in the Boundary Sea

• Xiao Tian discovers and purifies her darkened original body, then spends a hundred years catching up with her traveling Primordial Spirit 531 532.
• She accepts his warning about the multiple Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors beyond the dam and agrees to return and seek allies 532.
• Their journey develops into a dual cultivation partnership. They return together and reunite with Shi Hao 533 534 535.

Quasi-Immortal Emperor and Motherhood

• Reaches the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, learns new divine abilities, and advances to minor attainment while helping release an Immortal King from a Darkness Cage 546 547 548 551.
• Travels toward the Boundary Sea Dam with Xiao Tian, discovers her pregnancy, and chooses her child’s safety over battle 553.
• Returns to the Immortal Domain while Xiao Tian crosses into the darkness using a body disguised as her. Shi Hao later mourns their apparent deaths, although the real Willow Deity had already withdrawn 554 556.
• Xiao Tian subsequently urges her to remain in their world, telling her that doing so offers a chance to become an Immortal Emperor; no such breakthrough is confirmed in the supplied passages 563.