He Mu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Origin and Dao Attainment

He Mu remembered reading Shrouding the Heavens before transmigrating into its world. Born on Ziwei during the Mythological Era, he found that knowledge of the novel offered little practical help. His cultivation depended on opportunities and repeated narrow escapes from death rather than reliable foreknowledge 2.

After seven hundred years of cultivation, he faced the Path-Proving Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier. He defeated lightning-formed sacred beasts and three supreme figures, endured attacks manifested through Immortal Medicines, and gathered the myriad Daos for his final strike. After surviving, he replenished himself with vital essence from neighboring star regions 1 2.

The Immortal Corpse and the Black Mist

Longevity Heavenly Venerable invited He Mu into the North Sea Eye to discuss an opportunity involving the immortal Dao. Their investigation led to Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s sealed ruins, where a giant severed arm lay bound by sword qi 3 5.

He Mu shattered the unattended Lingbao Sword Formation, exposing sinister black vapor within the arm. His World-Cleansing Great Mill damaged it, but the ensuing clash nearly destroyed the Blood Sea World. He and Longevity attacked its escape routes; three streams nevertheless fled into chaos, while He Mu retained a fragment for investigation 5 6.

Daode Heavenly Venerable later identified the captured vapor as belonging to the Evil Immortal he had once fought. He Mu eventually concluded that the mist had possessed the Spiritually Awakened Immortal Corpse and survived the destruction of its vitality. Its possible connection to the Eerie Clan remained a grave concern rather than a confirmed fact 13 18 31.

Rule and Protection of the Universe

He Mu announced a Dao sanctuary on Ziwei and welcomed the universe’s races to pay their respects. His first nine-day discourse benefited cultivators and mortals alike and drew the faith that became a major subject of his research 6 8.

Over subsequent millennia, he restored earth veins, regulated vital energy, opened worlds within chaos, and encouraged the revival of the myriad Daos. He killed a rampaging Great Perfection Saint Spirit with one palm strike and returned its body to the world as nourishment. Wuliang Dao spread the scriptures and cultivation arts he created 11.

He later discovered Undying Mountain, claimed it as his personal cultivation sanctuary, and enclosed it within a Heavenly Venerable Grand Array. He left the Saint Spirit gestating in its immortal tear green gold mine undisturbed 14 15.

Battles Against Hidden Threats

When Demon Shadow emerged at the Cosmic Frontier and slaughtered living beings, He Mu confronted him immediately. He defeated the armored figure and erased its primordial spirit, but suffered wounds himself. The victory did not eliminate the original black mist 17 18.

After his failed attempt to transcend the Heavenly Heart, rumors spread that he was dying. He deliberately reinforced that impression to draw out enemies. Demon Sound Supreme, Divine Flame Supreme, and Chaos Supreme emerged, intending to harvest living beings; He Mu revealed his deception and fought them at the Cosmic Frontier 22 25 26.

He subsequently demanded compensation from the Flying Immortal Forbidden Zone. After demonstrating his strength against a resisting Supreme’s cavern, he obtained the White Tiger Immortal Medicine and a block of Feathered Green Gold. He then spent three hundred years reassuring the races and preaching before returning to prepare for rebirth 27 28.

Second Lifetime and Lingbao’s Recovery

Following his rebirth, He Mu resumed investigating Lingbao’s ruins. Longevity revealed that Lingbao had attempted to absorb an Immortal Corpse’s origin through corpse dissolution, failed, and survived. He Mu followed Lingbao’s golden origin light into the Chaos Dragon Nest and returned it to its owner 30 37 40.

Lingbao’s awakening initially exhausted his remaining strength. He Mu refined chaos qi into Great Dao origin power to replenish him, enabling his recovery. The two subsequently devised plans concerning the black mist 41 43.

Before proceeding, He Mu traced Longevity’s relocation to the Underworld and investigated his condition. Finding him deeply secluded in Changsheng Hall, He Mu left after exchanging historical knowledge with Lunzhuan Supreme 44 47.

His next preparations concerned Lingbao’s sealed disciples. At the Jade Roaming Palace, he met its sole surviving disciple, Wenxin, searched Heavenly Passage Ancient Star, and located the hidden small world containing Lingbao’s disciples. He brought Wenxin inside, intending to awaken the disciples and secretly prepare them for war against the Black Qi 49.

Appearance

• Robes: Wore blue-green feathered robes during his Path-Proving Tribulation; appeared in bloodstained white robes after defeating Demon Shadow 1 17.
• Hair and face: His formerly black hair turned gray during prolonged cultivation, while his face remained youthful and unmarked by age 19.
• Eyes: After seclusion, his pupils displayed visions resembling an entire universe, including worlds being born and destroyed 19.
• Manifestations: Often accompanied by immortal light, the Four Spirits and Four Symbols, and myriad Daos bowing around him 14 33.
• Divine Self Body: Wears a purple-gold Heaven-Pacifying Crown with twelve strands of Chaos Jewels, a black Heavenly Emperor Robe bearing the Twelve Emblems, and an Azure-Gold Longsword 32.

Personality

He Mu combines confidence in battle with caution toward poorly understood powers. He dismissed the unattended Lingbao formation as a lifeless obstacle, yet treated the entity within the Immortal Corpse’s arm seriously. He likewise regarded faith as valuable to study but dangerous to depend upon because of its karmic ties to living beings 5 6 8.

His rule is strongly protective. He restores damaged environments, teaches widely, and reacts furiously to attacks on ordinary lives. Against the Forbidden Zone Supremes, he uses deception and intimidation rather than waiting passively for their attacks 11 17 22 25.

Although the possibility of Eerie Clan involvement deeply unsettled him, he redirected that fear into cultivation. He recognized that supremacy within his own universe did not make him qualified to participate in conflicts on a much greater scale 18.

Abilities & Skills

Wuliang Great Dao

His personal Dao expresses boundlessness through the creation and destruction of worlds 13 34.

• Evolves earth, water, fire, and wind through the Four Extremes into a vision of heaven’s creation 13 34.
• Incorporates faith research and the Great Dao of the mortal world into his developing Dao Fruit 21 34.
• Remains subject to unresolved integration: he considers a third lifetime crucial to removing its remaining flaws 34.

Battle Saint Method — Nine Secrets: Dou

A supreme combat art that He Mu drives to its limit against the lightning-formed supreme figures of his tribulation. The text identifies Nine Secrets: Dou as his own forbidden divine ability, destined to rank among the Nine Secrets in later ages 1 29.

• Channels Great Dao laws into devastating combat techniques 1.
• Serves as the benchmark for the offensive strength of his White Tiger World-Destroying Art 29.

Tribulation Light

He Mu’s Wuliang Tribulation Light attacks the myriad Daos and can be released through the Wuliang Dao Wheel 17.

• Incorporates the Dao-dissolving mysteries of Feathered Green Gold into Feathered Tribulation Light 29 35.
• Manifests the Feathered Divine Tribulation and Heavenly Punishment Dao Diagram during his contest with Longevity 35.
• Can threaten the divine soul and Immortal Platform through feathered-ascension power 29.
• Nirvana Immortal Light is described as a possible perfected development, not a confirmed attained technique 29.

Faith and the Divine Self Body

He Mu gathers mortal prayer power, studies its karmic connections, and uses faith to create a body that can handle his governing duties 8 11 31 32.

• Perceives mortals’ prayers and thoughts through their connection to him 11.
• Leaves his Divine Self Body at Faith Divine Heaven to monitor Forbidden Zones and comfort the races 43.
• Merges with Faith Divine Heaven to examine Longevity’s movements over the preceding thousand years 44.
• Treats faith as an external resource rather than something his cultivation should depend upon 8.

Heavenly Heart Imprint

As the reigning Heavenly Venerable, He Mu can unite his divine sense with the Heavenly Heart Imprint and use it to comprehend the universe’s laws 8 9.

• Reorganizes disturbed laws and calms the myriad Daos after his failed transcendence attempt 22.
• Manipulates its fluctuations to create the impression that his life is ending 22 25.
• Cannot simply rise above it while his own Dao remains a fundamental component of the imprint 22.

Other Combat Techniques

• World-Cleansing Great Mill: Damaged the black vapor, although the vapor wore the mill away and their collision destabilized the Blood Sea World 6.
• Dao Seal: Broke Demon Shadow’s fist seal and grievously wounded him 17.
• Primordial spirit Dao sword: Formed from divine sense to erase Demon Shadow’s remaining primordial spirit 17.
• Heaven-Opening Divine Being: Withstood the three Forbidden Zone Supremes’ combined attack and drove them back wounded 25.
• Heavenly Emperor Dharma Aspect: A thirty-thousand-zhang manifestation used in his final clash with Longevity 35.
• White Tiger World-Destroying Art: A concentrated offensive technique created through studying the White Tiger Immortal Medicine 29.

Arrays, Teaching, and Dao Research

• Breaks the unattended Lingbao Sword Formation, while acknowledging that a formation personally directed by Lingbao would be difficult to overcome 5.
• Uses Undying Mountain’s peaks as array nodes and its earth veins to establish a flawless Heavenly Venerable Grand Array 15.
• Perfects Wuliang Dao’s protective array 16.
• Creates the White Tiger Dao-Evolving Scripture, a cultivation method approaching Dao-attainment level 29.
• Expounds the Daos of Wuliang, Daode, Lingbao, and Changsheng when guiding Pan 45.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wuliang Dao Wheel — His Dao-attainment weapon, strengthened by faith. Releases tribulation light, evolves heaven-opening worlds, and protects Wuliang Dao when stationed there 17 31 39.
• Feathered Green Gold — Obtained from Flying Immortal as compensation; its mysteries inspired Feathered Tribulation Light 28 29.
• White Tiger Immortal Medicine — Studied for longevity and new techniques. He Mu preferred to preserve it as a fallback rather than rely on it for his second lifetime 29.
• Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree — The Immortal Medicine at his sanctuary that repeatedly assists his comprehension and rebirth preparations 14 15 30.
• Soul-Cutting Blade — A Quasi-Venerable-grade weapon forged from great Luo silver essence to carry his White Tiger art and scripture; cast into the universe for a future recipient 29.
• Captured black vapor — A fragment retained from the Blood Sea incident and shown to Daode for identification 6 13.
• Azure-Gold Longsword — Carried by his Divine Self Body; engraved with celestial bodies and natural scenery, with an aura approaching an Extreme Dao Weapon 32.

Relationships

• Wuliang Dao — His affiliated sect and a principal vehicle for spreading his Dao Canon. Its members regard him as their spiritual pillar and supreme object of faith 11 16.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable / Changsheng — Fellow Venerable, investigative companion, and sparring partner. He Mu narrowly wins their balanced avatar contest, gives him nine drops of White Tiger medicine essence, but remains wary of his intentions 3 6 35 37 43.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable — Congenial Dao discussion partner. Identifies the captured black vapor and provides insights that help He Mu develop his own path 13 14 47.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao — Rescued fellow Venerable and ally in preparations against the black mist 40 41 43 49.
• Pan — Cultivator personally guided by He Mu. Receives 108 days of teaching and arrangements to strengthen his foundations, remain sealed until a later age, and eventually pursue the Red Dust Immortal Path 44 45.
• Lunzhuan Supreme — Underworld ruler with whom He Mu finds an unusually congenial rapport and exchanges ancient historical secrets 47.
• Wenxin — Sole surviving disciple of the Jade Roaming Palace. He Mu protects him and brings him into the small world holding Lingbao’s sealed disciples 49.
• Demon Shadow — Enemy destroyed by He Mu; its defeat reveals that the original black mist remains at large 17 18.
• Demon Sound, Divine Flame, and Chaos Supremes — Forbidden Zone enemies drawn out by his feigned decline and confronted over their intended slaughter of living beings 22 25.

Notable Quotes

“Battle heaven! Battle earth! Battle eternity!” 1

“I am the Immeasurable Heaven Venerable. I intend to establish a Dao sanctuary on Ziwei. All races may come to Ziwei to pay their respects!” 6

“My Dao is finally attained.” 20

Trivia

• During his mortal-world cultivation, He Mu lived as a hunter, fortune-teller, innkeeper, coffin-making carpenter, pawnshop owner, and veteran soldier without relying on divine power 20.
• Wenxin initially wonders whether He Mu might be a Dragon Transformation cultivator, unable to imagine the visitor’s actual level of power 49.