Lesser Yang

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature and Dao Manifestations

• Metal Position does not mean the Metal element of the Five Phases. Here, “metal” expresses the Great Dao's qualities of eternity, indestructibility, and imperishability 171.
• A True Lord seeks Golden Nature, a condensation of a Dao Fruit, and refines Divine Abilities from it to secure their position 171.
• Recognition as Lesser Yang's successor does not confer True Lord cultivation. Jiang Yi remained a Qi Refining cultivator when Lady Mysterious Maiden received him as its new lord 172.
• A holder's relationship with a Metal Position can shift between master and subordinate. Cultivators must continue matching the position's demands rather than merely acquire its title 178.

The Two Modes

• Yu Shenxiu reinterpreted Lesser Yang through Yin-Yang and the Two Modes, placing it alongside Taiyin and raising it beyond its former subordination to Sun 171.
• This theory challenged the Immortal Dao's principle of constancy by allowing Lesser Yang to stand alongside Sun rather than remain beneath it 152.
• Yu's reconstruction also incorporated the Five Virtues, increasing the position's power while making it especially prone to Calamity Tribulations 285.

History

Yu Shenxiu's Reconstruction and Fall

Yu Shenxiu ascended to Lesser Yang before changing its imagery. Through his own attainment, he transformed a comparatively subordinate position into one capable of challenging Sun. This established the form of Lesser Yang remembered by later cultivators, who consequently regarded him as its “first” lord despite the position's earlier existence 171 285.

His ascension obstructed Ji Fuyao's path. The Three True Supreme Heads arranged circumstances that forced Yu to challenge White Jade Capital, where Ji Fuyao killed him. The Immortal Dao sealed the Great Void and trapped Lesser Yang, eventually shattering its Golden Nature to prevent succession 253 284.

The victory did not completely resolve Ji Fuyao's problem. By forcing three Dao Lords to act against a single True Lord, Yu achieved a display of radiance that fulfilled Lesser Yang's imagery. The position thereafter remembered him like a minister remembering its sovereign and refused to acknowledge another ordinary claimant, leaving Ji Fuyao's Yang Administration incomplete 286.

The Contest over Succession

Profound Mystery True Person preserved Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven and brought it to the Southern Continent. The Great Talisman Sect later arranged for the cat to leave its protected residence, intending for Xuanchanzi to receive the inheritance. Jiang Yi's encounter with the cat disrupted that plan 177 284.

True Lord Tao's subsequent scheme aimed to bring the new Lesser Yang lord into the Great Talisman Sect, where he would assist Zhang Yuansheng and support the attainment of Divine Qi. The Xiantian Sect's Manifest Netherworld Profound Dao Lord intervened by binding his sect's Dao Child position to Lesser Yang 149 169 174 177.

Jiang Yi refused to remain merely an unnoticed piece in those arrangements. He entered the Central Palace of Mysterious Capital, proclaimed his intentions, and drew Lesser Yang's Golden Nature into public view. His display secured sixty years of exclusive favor, but also triggered White Jade Capital's punishment against any returning successor 171 173 174.

Jiang Yi's Recognition and Inheritance

Jiang Yi survived nine bolts of Mysterious Thunder, then wielded Upside Down against Thunder Pivot, wounding the Primordial Response Tribulation Controller True Lord. Lesser Yang's Golden Nature entered him afterward, while the Dao Lords acknowledged him as the Innate Dao Child 177 178.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Jiang Yi entered Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven and learned why succession remained so difficult. Lesser Yang retained Yu Shenxiu's achievements as its standard; inheriting it required more than receiving its power or title 284 285 287.

Within the Position Artifact, Jiang Yi discovered Yu's memorial courtyard and a hidden space containing five Dharma Bodies. These embodied Divine Abilities left for a successor's renewed confrontation with Sun, but their discovery did not resolve the approaching limit on Lesser Yang's favor 286 287.

Abilities & Skills

Golden Nature

Lesser Yang's Golden Nature can recognize, protect, and instruct its successor 171 178.

• Resonated with Jiang Yi's Divine Sense while he was only at the Seventh Level of Qi Refining—an event described as unprecedented 171.
• Nourished his damaged Divine Sense and conveyed profound cultivation insights comparable to a True Lord-level transmission 178.
• Protected his Origin Gate and Divine Sense within the Great Void, where his cultivation alone would not have sustained him 178 228.
• Shielded him from the lethal radiance surrounding Yu Shenxiu's five Divine Abilities 287.

Renewal through Waxing and Waning

Its imagery supports restoration after extreme decline, provided the successor is not completely extinguished 178.

• Jiang Yi relied on this principle when Upside Down cut through his own body, removing the Mysterious Thunder's residual Tribulation Qi and Lifespan-Cutting Calamity 178.
• The descending Golden Nature began repairing his damaged Furnace Cauldron afterward 177.
• Jiang Yi later understood Lesser Yang as growing increasingly powerful through ordeals it survives 251.

Bing-Ding Seizing Brilliance

The associated Dao inheritance includes Scarlet Radiance Divine Light, which jointly refines Bing and Ding Fire 171.

• Bing Fire expresses fierce, outward-burning Yang.
• Ding Fire expresses inward-held radiance and concealment.
• Their successful joint refinement can damage Destiny Nature.
• Jiang Yi connected “seizing brilliance” with the position's central requirement: competing with Sun's radiance 171.

Requirements and Limitations

• Sixty-year window: Jiang Yi secured exclusive attention for one sexagenary cycle. Failure to attain the position within that period could cause Lesser Yang to turn away and succession to pass elsewhere 174 248 287.
• Yu Shenxiu's precedent: A successor must imitate his spirit and reenact achievements sufficient to gain the position's recognition. Possession of the inheritance alone does not erase that standard 285 287.
• Calamity-prone imagery: Yu's reconstruction strengthened Lesser Yang but made it unusually susceptible to Calamity Tribulations 285.
• Mysterious Thunder punishment: Ji Fuyao inscribed the prophecy “Profound Thunder of Lesser Yang's Execution.” A renewed manifestation or successor could therefore draw heavenly punishment through Thunder Pivot 174.
• Continuing Immortal Dao hostility: The Primordial Response Tribulation Controller True Lord issued a Demon-Suppressing Order directing Eastern Victory Continent cultivators to kill Jiang Yi, identifying Lesser Yang's resurgence as a future threat to Sun 233.

Associated Artifact

• Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven — Lesser Yang's Position Artifact. The Immortal Dao failed to seize it even after shattering the position 284.
  • A Position Artifact can eventually recover from destruction so long as its Metal Position remains 284.
  • Its central inscription expresses the veneration of Yin-Yang and the mutual transformation of Sun and Moon, embodying Yu Shenxiu's cultivation 285.
  • It contains Yu's recreated memorial courtyard and five Dharma Bodies manifested from his Divine Abilities 286 287.
  • Jiang Yi believed decades of cultivating these abilities could perfect his Destiny Nature and provide a direct route toward Lesser Yang 287.

Relationships

• Yu Shenxiu — Former holder and architect of its present form. Its enduring recognition of his achievements is both the basis of its power and the central obstacle to succession 285 286 287.
• Jiang Yi — Chosen successor, joined inseparably with a thread of its Golden Nature; not yet established as a True Lord occupying the complete position 178 287.
• Sun / Ji Fuyao — Former superior position and principal rival. Lesser Yang's resistance obstructs Ji Fuyao's completion of Yang Administration 171 285 286.
• Taiyin / Lady Mysterious Maiden — Counterpart within the reshaped Yin-Yang framework. Lady Mysterious Maiden pledged that Taiyin would follow Lesser Yang in death should it cease to exist 171 188.
• Profound Mystery True Person — Yu Shenxiu's former companion, custodian of the Position Artifact, and Jiang Yi's guide to the inheritance 171 284 286.
• Manifest Netherworld Profound Dao Lord — Bound Lesser Yang to the Xiantian Sect's Dao Child position, wagering the sect's fortunes on its restoration through Jiang Yi 169 174 178.