Ji Wuchang

Biodata

Power Progression

• Purple Mansion chronology discrepancy: he reaches the Fifth Level in one account, but a later passage explicitly describes him advancing from the Second to the Fourth Level. No intervening regression is explained 238 344.
• Foundation versus realm: Golden Skin, Jade Bones, and Divine Treasury are explicitly described as foundations, not cultivation realms 100.

Background / History

First Life and Lost Memories

Ji Wuchang was born as the son of Ji Yuan and a woman of the Li Family. He was talented even by the standards of the Ji Family’s main lineage. His father brought Qing Shiwei home during his childhood, and the two grew close. Her ability to glimpse the future repeatedly brought lightning punishment upon her; Ji Wuchang would help heal her injuries 387 1306.

When he asked to marry Qing Shiwei, both she and Ji Yuan refused. Qing Shiwei had foreseen that their relationship would bring disaster upon him. Ji Wuchang left the family and was subsequently ambushed and killed. Qing Shiwei gathered his scattered soul and erased part of his memories so that he could live a second life and recover his Primordial Spirit 1306.

Muye City and the Remembered Previous Life

Ji Ping took Ji Wuchang in at ten after recognizing his promising root bone. Three years later, Ji Wuchang passed the Longevity Sect’s recruitment test. By eighteen, he had spent five years in the sect and become an inner disciple 1 2.

At the opening of the story, Ji Wuchang remembers another disastrous course of events: Xiao Fan defeated him in Muye City’s twenty-year family competition and secretly shattered his meridians. Ji Wuchang’s cultivation eventually stalled at a poor-quality Soul Splitting Realm, while Xiao Fan became the Longevity Sect’s Saint Son and later a renowned Quasi-Saint 1 2.

Returning to the same competition with those memories, Ji Wuchang intends to repay Ji Ping’s household without remaining bound to it. He regards winning twenty years of resources for the family as sufficient repayment for his upbringing. Before leaving Muye City, he receives a jade token bearing a millstone and his name—a clue to his origins that he does not remember obtaining previously 2 14.

Longevity Sect

Under Meng Caihong, Ji Wuchang develops a cultivation path centered on strengthening his flesh, bones, internal organs, meridians, and dantian together. System rewards accelerate his progress, but he repeatedly diverts cultivation into his physical foundation rather than simply pursuing higher realms 16 25 100.

Zhen Miaoqing’s master subjects him to crushing pressure and breaks dozens of his bones while questioning his honesty. Ji Wuchang refuses to expose the secret of his second life. The elder then heals and reconstructs his body, completing his true Golden Skin and Jade Bones 48 49.

He later enters the sect’s ancestral land after driving away its third-tier beast guardian. Although he obtains no inheritance there, he leaves with an Immortal-Binding Rope and a cultivation breakthrough. During a subsequent invasion, he offers to fight for the sect that nurtured him 112 114 164.

Yunchuan Academy and the Heavenly Star Competitions

Ji Wuchang travels beyond Boyun Province, competes in Jiang He City, and joins Yunchuan Academy. The academy’s leaders protect information about his strength because they regard him as a hidden trump card whose emergence could attract hostile attention 168 217 231.

Yu Ling becomes his most demanding sparring partner. Even when fighting at equal cultivation, she repeatedly suppresses him, forcing him to refine techniques that the system has already raised to high mastery. His later Dao Discussion Competition victory earns Yunchuan Academy first place 230 238 472.

Zhou Haotian accepts him as his first disciple, initially because of Yu Ling rather than Ji Wuchang’s own achievements. Ji Wuchang follows him to the Heavenly Star Sect, then enters the Heavenly Star Dynasty’s competitions under the name Zhou Wudi. His victories and killings draw the hostility of numerous families while strengthening his association with Li Xueqin 359 370 388 472 482.

Discovering His Birth Family

Unknown to Ji Wuchang, the Ji Family arranges dangerous assessments to determine whether he deserves to return as its young patriarch. Some elders distrust his maternal Li bloodline because the two families are enemies. In his remembered previous life, Ji Boshang inspected him, found him disappointing, and abandoned the prospect of bringing him back 387 388.

Ji Wuchang first learns substantial information about the powerful Ji Family by interrogating Ji Xiao. His performance gradually wins Ji Boshang’s approval, but learning that the family could have treated his former meridian injuries leaves him deeply resentful. He resolves to return as a powerhouse rather than depend on its acceptance 421 537 576.

While searching for the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus, he encounters further clues to his missing childhood. Chi Qianzhu recognizes him from before the gaps in his memory and promises to help him obtain the lotus. Qing Shiwei eventually restores the erased memories and reveals the circumstances of his original death 630 1306.

Return as Young Master

After cultivating at Jiangshan Academy and Heavenly Chen Academy, Ji Wuchang returns to the Ji Family with Ji Zhiyi. She introduces him to the family’s internal structure and brings him home to meet their daughter, Ji Qinglan 875 1018 1308 1312.

Reaching the ninety-ninth step in the family’s trial secures his claim to the young master’s position. He then demands severe punishment for branches that colluded with outside enemies. The ten ancestors approve the extermination of the branches led by Ji Feng, Ji Tong, and Ji Chengshan, and formally authorize him to represent the patriarch 1312 1313 1314 1315.

Nine Nether Conflict and Later Life

Ji Wuchang proposes the Zhan Clan as the family’s next target, partly to settle Ji Yaoyao’s longstanding enmity. He later personally intervenes when rebellious lineages attempt to bring the Nine Nether Lineage into the Heavenly Chen Imperial Dynasty’s capital. His campaign includes killing three Half-Saints, greatly increasing the family’s admiration for him 1317 1346 1359.

Following the major war, the Ji Family remains the continent’s foremost aristocratic clan. Ji Yuan brings Ji Wuchang’s mother home, and Ji Wuchang travels across the continent with his wives and children, revisiting the sects and academies where he cultivated. After returning, he spends ten years in seclusion and breaks through to Great Emperor 1382.

Personality

Ji Wuchang is calculating and cautious about exposing his identity or resources. He uses disguises, aliases, and expendable puppet clones to misdirect enemies, and he avoids confronting powers he cannot yet overcome. His decision to use Jiang Qiye’s name in Long River Province is specifically intended to prevent the Hou Clan from discovering him 207 291 601.

He is exceptionally ruthless toward enemies and rarely treats surrender as sufficient reason for mercy. He notices that his killing intent has become far stronger since his rebirth, and several battles push him into an increasingly bloodthirsty state. He also routinely collects defeated opponents’ storage rings and weapons 180 298 413 436 437.

His pragmatism does not exclude gratitude. He recognizes the debt he owes Zhen Miaoqing’s master, fights for the Longevity Sect because it nurtured him, and seeks to eliminate the Zhan Clan for Ji Yaoyao’s sake. As a family leader, he accepts internal competition but draws an absolute line at collusion with outside enemies 49 164 1313 1317.

Despite the speed of his advancement, he values actual strength over nominal cultivation. He deliberately restrains realm growth to protect his foundation and recognizes that system-granted mastery cannot replace combat experience. His repeated defeats against Yu Ling fuel determination rather than resignation 100 230 238 344.

His family life reveals a gentler side. He feels guilty for having neglected Ji Qinglan before meeting her, becomes nervous at their first encounter, and later spends substantial time playing with her and making up for his absence from Ji Zhiyi’s life 1308 1312 1314 1318.

Abilities & Skills

System: Copying, Check-ins, and Cultivation Allocation

• Technique copying: successfully copies the veiled woman’s World-Destroying Millstone Fist; Mountain Fist is also identified as a technique copied from Yu Ling 531 599.
• Check-in rewards: receives Fortune Points and stored years of cultivation from locations such as sect peaks, cities, secret realms, and cultivation facilities 10 45 114 241.
• Cultivation allocation: spends stored cultivation on either his main cultivation art or individual combat techniques 152 153 344.
• Fortune rewards: defeating or killing people of substantial fortune can award points, although ordinary kills do not necessarily do so 153 180 413.
• Diminishing returns: repeated check-ins at the same location can yield progressively poorer rewards 26 58.

Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art and Physical Foundation

• Balanced development: divides spiritual power among his organs, flesh and bones, dantian, and meridians rather than concentrating exclusively on realm advancement 100.
• Golden Skin and Jade Bones: provide exceptional strength and resilience; both respond automatically when Jiang Yuanxiong subjects him to pressure 42 48 311.
• Divine Treasury: develops through five-element spiritual objects and organ tempering, forming part of his foundational cultivation 97 100 124.
• Ice Barbarian Battle Body: activates during his later spar with Yu Ling to withstand her attacks 970.
• Compatibility limitation: eventually recognizes that most of his powerful combat techniques do not fully integrate with the Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art 973.

Movement and Spatial Techniques

• Eight Trigrams Wandering Dragon Steps: reaches greater mastery in under an hour by drawing on previous-life insights; its speed makes his movements difficult for Ji Ping to follow 10.
• Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps: develops through repeated cultivation investment, eventually becoming quieter as its mastery improves 168 254.
• Shrinking the Ground to an Inch: enables near-instant movement. Its documented range grows to ten thousand zhang and later eight hundred li after further breakthroughs 254 441.
• Great Void Phantom Technique: matches his presence to the fluctuations of surrounding space, enabling concealment; he also uses it to cross a barrier 372 696.
• Myriad Transformations Space Technique: reaches great perfection after 150 years of allocated cultivation and condenses a spatial origin 1231.
• Known limitation: Liu Feng’s Dark Night Cage prevents his spatial escape, forcing him to reappear inside it 1100.

Heart-Treading Steps and Heaven-Treading Steps

• Heart-Treading Steps: an offensive footwork technique whose steps bear down upon an opponent’s heart. Additional steps unlock as his cultivation advances 49 152 219.
• Fourth step: reaches great perfection after ten years of allocated cultivation 344.
• Later killing step: has power equal to three times the combined force of all preceding steps; Ji Wuchang estimates it could burst a Celestial Phenomenon Ninth Level opponent’s heart 881.
• Heaven-Treading Steps: used with soul attacks and the Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique to kill Li Chongshan; later raised to grand perfection 474 504.
• Dharma Aspect destruction: uses Heaven-Treading Steps to smash Liu Feng’s Dharma Aspect 1100.

Fist, Palm, and Seal Techniques

• His later repertoire also includes Life and Death Wheel, Seven Sha Cloud-Severing Palm, and Mysterious Yang Heaven-Slaying Technique 970 973.
• His thunder-and-fire millstone grinds away most of a combined assault, but the remaining attacks still wound him badly 571.

Swordsmanship

• Shadow Sword Art: a supreme-grade Earth Rank art with four moves, emphasizing silent sword draws and Sword Qi compressed into a thread 49.
• Six Swords of Fission: a six-form slaughter art in which successive strikes double the preceding form’s power; the fourth sword splits into eight sword lights 199 227.
• Azure Sparrow Nine Sword Art: creates attacking azure sparrows from sword light; he later manifests blood-red variants while fighting Ji Zhiyi 311 534.
• Mixed combat: combines sword attacks with movement, fists, and soul techniques rather than relying on swordsmanship alone 238 333 531.
• Lethal precision: kills Zhuo Caijun by driving his sword through the Baihui acupoint and shattering his divine soul 434.

Divine Soul Techniques

• Divine Soul Devouring: strengthens his divine soul by consuming the souls of fierce beasts; works alongside his Divine Soul Dao Platform 124.
• Split souls: manifests three split souls against Jia Ba’s five Primordial Spirit clones 333.
• Divine Soul Spikes: used in the attack that kills Li Chongshan 474.
• Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique: cracks the veiled woman’s soul-protecting golden bead 531.
• Soul Annihilation Technique: forms a Soul Annihilation Spike that nearly shatters the Crimson Dragon’s beast soul 1137.
• Lightning execution: destroys Wu Yong’s captured Primordial Spirit with lightning 298.

Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique

• Amplifies his power thirtyfold during the fighting on Star-Chasing Mountain; its achievable multiplier increases with his cultivation 397.
• Combines with other killing techniques for overwhelming burst attacks 474.
• Causes expenditure that requires recovery, though he has recovered from one use by the time further enemies gather in the capital 495.

Puppet Clones, Disguises, and Restriction Arts

• Puppet Clone Technique: creates an expendable clone from an ordinary drop of blood. The documented decoy has no fighting strength, and its destruction causes him no meaningful loss 291.
• Disguises: changes his appearance sufficiently to pass as a potbellied man in his fifties or sixties while a clone occupies his enemies’ attention 207.
• Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art: briefly immobilizes Yu Ling, though his follow-up hits only a phantom 970.
• Demonic Dao Blood-Disrupting Three Bows Technique: reaches great perfection after nine years of allocated cultivation 599.

Origins, Flames, and Special Eyes

• Lightning origin: forms a dragon within his Purple Mansion and increases the strength of his lightning 298 459.
• Origin of Fire: strengthens his body and cultivation while expelling cold accumulated within him 731.
• Glacial Glazed Fire: develops while he repeatedly resolves Rongcheng Yiyun’s cold-Qi flare-ups; once fully formed, it can grow independently and devour extreme cold Qi 370 799.
• World-Destroying King Yu’s Heavenly Eye: listed as transforming in earlier panels and fully named without that qualifier later 504 676.
• Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil: appears among his recorded special abilities by the time he leaves Jiangshan Academy 916.
• Three-Legged Golden Crow: manifests as a phantom during Great Sun Divine Fist and is summoned during his later spar with Yu Ling 203 970.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Jade identity token — Bears a millstone on one side and his name on the other. Ji Ping found it on him when taking him in 14.
• Meng Caihong’s longsword — A low-grade magic artifact formerly used by his master in her youth and given to him upon becoming her disciple 19.
• Clear Water Sword — Used against the black wolf pack in the secret realm 60.
• Netherworld Sword — A principal later weapon; recognized by Bu Yixian and connected to the sword Ji Wuchang displays as a top-tier spirit weapon 311 434.
• Six small swords — Used alongside the Netherworld Sword, including to intercept Jiang Yuanxiong’s saber light 311.
• Blood Wave Sword — Decapitates the Crimson Dragon 1137.
• Immortal-Binding Rope — Obtained in the Longevity Sect’s ancestral land 114.
• Myriad Souls Hall iron chains — Capture and destroy Primordial Spirits while supplementing his sword’s close-range attacks with longer-range strikes 522 793.
• Earthenware jar — A Supreme Weapon that begins merging with Zhao Rongyang’s jar; later absorbs a wisp of Supreme presence 769 799.
• Coffin — Eyewitness reports credit it with much of the power used to kill Supreme First Level Qin Tianyang while Ji Wuchang was still in Dao Severing 918.
• Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities — Stored together with a broken Supreme Weapon containing abundant Sha Qi 962.
• Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus — Obtains and refuses to sell despite an offer of fifteen million low-grade spirit stones 696.
• Emergency Jade Slip — Given by Nan Cai’er before the rescue mission to Five Plains City 1018.

Relationships

Family and Partners

• Ji Yuan — Biological father and Ji Family patriarch. Supports his return, gives him authority within the family, and leaves major internal judgments for him to handle 1306 1308 1315.
• Mother, unnamed — A woman of the Li Family whose bloodline complicates his acceptance by the Ji Family. Returns with Ji Yuan after the war at Supreme Ninth Level peak 387 1382.
• Ji Ping — Muye City guardian who took him in at ten and hoped to adopt him formally. Ji Wuchang regards repayment of his upbringing as distinct from continued loyalty to the household 2 3.
• Ji Zhiyi — Adopted daughter of Ji Yuan, romantic partner, and mother of Ji Qinglan and Ji Yuechen. Reunites with him and brings him back to the Ji Family 421 1308 1359.
• Yu Ling — Senior sister, sparring rival, and later partner. Her superior combat ability repeatedly exposes his weaknesses; their later reunions are openly affectionate. Mother of Ji Yuejun 238 970 1260 1375 1382.
• Ji Yaoyao — Longstanding companion, adviser, and later partner. Offers him knowledge and emergency assistance; he makes the Zhan Clan’s destruction a priority for her sake. Mother of Ji Qingyi 48 495 799 1317 1382.
• Qing Shiwei — Childhood companion and beloved, later known as the State Preceptor. Reassembles his soul after his death, erases memories to aid his recovery, and eventually restores them 1306.
• Ji Qinglan — Daughter with Ji Zhiyi. Quickly becomes close to him after their first meeting and begins seeking his protection when her mother disciplines her 1312 1318.
• Ji Yuechen — Son with Ji Zhiyi, born while Ji Wuchang is fighting the Nine Nether Lineage 1359.
• Ji Qingyi — Daughter with Ji Yaoyao. Her name is chosen to convey gentleness, liveliness, wisdom, and tolerance 1382.
• Ji Yuejun — Son with Yu Ling. His name signifies bearing heaven, carrying all things, and shouldering responsibility 1382.

Mentors and Allies

• Meng Caihong — Longevity Sect master who values him highly, gives him a sword, and personally supplies spirit stones during his Foundation Establishment breakthrough 19 100 164.
• Zhou Haotian — Master at the Heavenly Star Sect and vice dean of Jiangshan Academy. Initially accepts him because of Yu Ling, then guides and protects him during his travels 359 540 601.
• Zhen Miaoqing — Senior sister with whom he shares a warm reunion. Warns him against escalating the Nan Family dispute after discovering that his cultivation has surpassed hers 932.
• Zhen Miaoqing’s master — Unnamed Supreme elder who rebuilds his body into true Golden Skin and Jade Bones, earning his sincere gratitude 48 49.
• Ji Boshang — Fifth elder and evaluator who changes from rejecting his previous-life potential to strongly endorsing him as the family’s future leader 388 537 591.
• Ji Yongming — Family-associated protector who accompanies him and arranges further protection during his northern training 916 1155.
• Li Xiaoyuan — Protector associated with his maternal family; insists that Ji Family assessments must not endanger his life 387 496.
• Li Gubei and Cai Ping — Companions during his tournament and academy years. Ji Wuchang warns Li Gubei about dangerous opponents, while Cai Ping knows some of his schemes 195 217.
• Mo Feixue — Frequently quarrels with him. He tricks her into forgiving a humiliating tournament defeat, and she later complains to Yu Ling after he strikes her head 195 298.
• Li Xueqin — Heavenly Star Dynasty princess and later queen. Their association affects her political struggles; she also supplies information about the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus 482 502 601 630.
• Chi Qianzhu — Knows him from his forgotten childhood and helps alert him to his missing memories 630.

Principal Enemies

• Xiao Fan — Previous-life rival whose sabotage shattered his meridians and crippled his prospects 1 2.
• Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall and the Jiang Clan of Lingtai Province — Enemies whose grievances with him are considered irreconcilable 291.
• Hou Clan — Pursues him after conflict with Hou Liangyun; its strength prompts him to conceal his identity in Long River Province 578 601.
• Zhan Clan — Enemy through his ties to Ji Yaoyao, Venerable Fengxing, and Seven Sha Venerable; later selected as a target for Ji Family retaliation 827 1317.
• Nine Nether Lineage — Major late-story adversary. Ji Wuchang battles its cultivators, counters its intervention in the capital, and kills three of its Half-Saints 1100 1346 1359.
• Colluding Ji Family branches — Internal opponents whose cooperation with outside enemies leads him to demand the destruction of three entire branches 1313 1315.