Zhang Lexuan

Biodata

Power Progression

The first simulation and the current timeline have separate cultivation histories; developments from each are identified below.

Appearance

Zhang Lexuan has long, glossy black hair, pale-blue eyes, an oval face, and a tall figure. Her bearing is usually elegant and composed, becoming noticeably colder after Lu Cheng’s apparent betrayal in the first simulation 10 18 88.

• Hair ornament: Frequently wears an emerald-green jade hairpin; its hanging chime is a recognizable feature in the first simulation 5 18 117.
• Clothing: Often wears pale-blue or sea-blue dresses, sometimes with boots or a dark-blue windbreaker 88 117 120.
• Forehead markings: Has a white blossom painted between her brows during the first simulation. After awakening Spirit Eyes in the current timeline, she can reveal a golden vertical eye 10 67.

Personality

As a child, Zhang Lexuan is playful, affectionate, and eager for Lu Cheng’s attention. Although initially frightened by the attack on their clans, she places herself between the wounded Lu Cheng and an assassin, insisting that the attacker kill her first 2 5.

Her response to Lu Cheng’s apparent betrayal is not a clean break. In the first simulation, she rejects other suitors and cultivates obsessively, yet initially intends to defeat and imprison him rather than kill him. Even while treating him as an enemy, she fears for his safety when he confronts Xuan Zi 17 18 20 21.

After remembering the simulation, her attachment becomes openly possessive. She threatens to cripple Lu Cheng if he abandons her again, but her central grievance is his habit of hiding the truth and deciding her future without consulting her. She accepts his apology while demanding that he stop lying to her 71.

Her distrust of Shrek’s leaders develops into deliberate resistance. She investigates the clan massacre, rejects Mu En’s attempts to control her through the promise of office, and accepts that revenge must wait until she and Lu Cheng have sufficient strength 88 108 138 141.

Abilities & Skills

Moon Martial Soul

Her moon-type Martial Soul supports both direct combat and amplification. Its first Soul Skill strengthens her movement speed, defense, and attack while exerting a weakening effect on an opponent. She can also use her Martial Soul to boost allies 4 14.

• Blood-moon transformation: In the current timeline, Yan Shaozhe identifies her blood moon as a mutation of her silver-moon Martial Soul and credits it with her exceptional combat strength 132.
• First-simulation Soul Rings: Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red, red 37.
• Limits against Lu Cheng: His Three-Legged Golden Crow swallows her blood-moon attack, and even her Ninth Soul Skill does not reverse his advantage before his body begins to fail 37.

Spirit Eyes

Spirit Eyes is her second Martial Soul in the current timeline. Its awakening follows the first simulation, in which Lu Cheng transfers his ocular Martial Soul to her 39 40 85.

• Compatible inheritance: Lu Cheng painfully adapts his Martial Soul to her blood beforehand, allowing her to accept it immediately when he transfers it 27 39.
• Manifestation: In the current timeline, a golden pattern opens into a vertical eye on her forehead and releases powerful spiritual energy 67.
• Unspecified techniques: The supplied passages do not establish that she possesses every illusion or pupil technique used by Lu Cheng.

Physical Conditioning

• Childhood foundation: Lu Cheng strengthens her body through medicinal baths and other conditioning, giving her the foundation to absorb an unusually old seventh Soul Ring in the first simulation 19 20.
• Body Sect training: Undergoes exhausting physical tempering to achieve her Martial Soul Second Awakening 188.
• Training others: In the current timeline, she strengthens Lu Cheng with whale rubber and medicinal baths, helping bring his physique to a level comparable to a Soul Saint’s 71.

Leadership & Administration

• Field leadership: Leads Inner Court disciples and serves as a tournament teacher during the first simulation 17 28.
• Protective authority: Provides the powerful senior presence Shrek’s injured tournament group lacks after the Ming Dou Mountain Range disaster 117.
• Sect management: Takes over numerous Body Sect affairs from Du Busi, including work previously handled by Vina, and reviews reports concerning the Sun Moon Empire 204 205.

Equipment & Items

• Jade-green hairpin: Lu Cheng’s birthday gift to her in the first simulation. It has a matching hanging chime; she keeps it through their estrangement and ultimately uses it to pierce her heart after his death. An emerald-green hairpin is also part of her current-timeline appearance 5 18 39 117.
• Blood-Eroding Devil Python Soul Bone: A hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone absorbed alongside the beast’s Soul Ring in the first simulation 29.
• Immortal Herb: Brings one back to Shrek after staying with Lu Cheng near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Its existence prompts the Sea God Pavilion elders to question her about its source 29.
• Inspection Corps uniform: Wears the corps’ dark-green cloak and a Shrek Academy badge during her current-timeline reunion with Lu Cheng 70.

History

First Simulation: Clan Massacre and Shrek Academy

Zhang Lexuan grows up as Lu Cheng’s childhood sweetheart. Their families are wealthy enough to leave them with outside ties, which conflicts with Mu En’s desire for a successor wholly dependent on Shrek. During her birthday, an explosion destroys their bamboo house, and Evil Soul Masters pursue them as the Lu and Zhang Clans are attacked 4 5.

Lu Cheng saves her despite orders that only he should survive. He later confronts Mu En over the plan to make her a future Sea God Pavilion successor, and the pair eventually enter Shrek Academy together 5 6 9.

At Shrek, Zhang Lexuan becomes a powerful Inner Court disciple and tries to establish a romantic relationship with Lu Cheng. He rejects her before carrying out his staged exposure as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son. During the Inspection Corps’ pursuit, she recognizes his jade pendant; once his identity is revealed, she begs him to return home with her 10 11 14 15.

Lu Cheng falsely claims responsibility for their families’ destruction. Mu En reinforces the deception with a recording crystal, driving her into seclusion and relentless cultivation 17.

First Simulation: Estrangement and Forced Training

Three years later, Zhang Lexuan has become the Inner Court’s eldest senior sister. She plans to defeat Lu Cheng, break his cultivation, and imprison him in Heaven Dou City as atonement for their families’ deaths 17 18.

During a Star Dou Great Forest expedition, Xuan Zi leaves the group without her knowledge. A hundred-thousand-year Blood-Eroding Devil Python overwhelms the disciples, and Lu Cheng intervenes. Zhang Lexuan agrees to go with him in exchange for the others’ freedom 19 20.

Lu Cheng then subjects her to illusions of her parents’ deaths and repeated battles intended to intensify her hatred and cultivation. She grows stronger through months of defeats, eventually returning to Shrek with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, a Soul Bone, and an Immortal Herb 26 27 29.

Her silence about the resources’ origin creates tension with Shrek’s elders. Ma Xiaotao’s subsequent departure for the Holy Spirit Cult brings further criticism, though Zhang Lexuan retains her position as the designated successor 29.

First Simulation: Final Battle and Death

By the final confrontation with Lu Cheng, Zhang Lexuan is identified as the current Sea God Pavilion Master. Believing him responsible for her parents’ deaths and Mu En’s death, she attacks with her full nine-ring strength. His Golden Crow overwhelms her moon abilities until his body suddenly begins to collapse 36 37.

Jiaojiao reveals that Mu En colluded with the Holy Spirit Cult in the clan massacre and that Lu Cheng sacrificed his reputation to keep Zhang Lexuan alive. As she reconsiders their past, the apparent inconsistencies in his betrayal finally make sense 38 39.

Lu Cheng gives her his Martial Soul and dies in her arms. When Shrek’s elders arrive, Zhang Lexuan says that he overlooked her inability to live without him and kills herself with her hairpin 39.

Current Timeline: Memories and Reunion

Zhang Lexuan awakens at Shrek with the simulation’s memories and an eye appearing on her forehead. Initially questioning whether the experience was a dream, she eventually spends two years searching Evil Soul Master hideouts across much of the Sun Moon Empire for Lu Cheng 40 66 67.

Ma Xiaotao’s message that Lu Cheng has been found brings her back. Their reunion forces him to confront the consequences of his earlier deceptions: Zhang Lexuan makes clear that she will not accept another abandonment disguised as protection 66 67 71.

She resumes investigating the Zhang Clan massacre, using the remembered truth to guide her search. Although she wants revenge, she agrees that directly challenging Shrek before they have enough strength would be reckless 71 88.

Current Timeline: Break with Shrek

Mu En attempts to retain influence over her by linking her future as Sea God Pavilion Master to choosing a partner from Shrek. Zhang Lexuan privately rejects the offer and objects to placing the tournament team under Xuan Zi because of his past failure in the Star Dou Great Forest 108.

After news of the Ming Dou Mountain Range casualties reaches Shrek, she leaves to find Lu Cheng. She initially suspects that he manipulated the disaster to free her from the academy, but he denies having the strength to control Xuan Zi in this lifetime 115 117.

At the tournament, she publicly shields Lu Cheng from Yan Shaozhe’s threats. She subsequently presents Holy Spirit Cult tokens as evidence connecting Shrek’s leaders to her clan’s destruction and declares her intention to take revenge on Mu En and Xuan Zi 132 138.

She leaves Shrek for the Body Sect. Her defection damages the academy beyond the loss of her combat strength: her unmatched prestige among Inner Court disciples causes others to question their allegiance 137 138 140.

Current Timeline: Body Sect Holy Maiden

As the Body Sect’s Holy Maiden, Zhang Lexuan stands prominently among its disciples while continuing to support Lu Cheng. Revenge is postponed after he explains the danger posed by the Limit Douluo backing Shrek 141.

She achieves a Martial Soul Second Awakening through physical tempering and accompanies the Body Sect’s operation against Illustrious Virtue Hall. The raid targets equipment and classified research while sparing researchers 188.

Du Busi later entrusts her with extensive sect administration. She reports on the Sun Moon Empire’s movements, participates in discussions about its tournament trap, and remains committed to Shrek’s disbandment and the deaths of Mu En and Xuan Zi 204 205 226.

When Lu Cheng returns after a lengthy absence, she receives his account of destroying a Holy Spirit Cult branch and securing resources from the seabed 250.

Relationships

• Lu Cheng — Childhood sweetheart in the first simulation and lover in the current timeline. She calls him “Brother,” regards him as her only remaining family, and occupies the recognized principal-wife position among his partners 5 71 88 204.
• Mu En — Former patron who selected her as a future Sea God Pavilion successor. His involvement in the Zhang Clan massacre turns her loyalty into hatred; she rejects both his matchmaking and his use of the succession as leverage 6 108 138.
• Yan Shaozhe — Former academy superior. He pressures her for information about Immortal Herbs in the simulation and later threatens her succession when she defends Lu Cheng in public 29 132.
• Xuan Zi — Shrek elder whose abandonment of the first-simulation forest expedition exposes her team to disaster. In the current timeline, she opposes entrusting students to him and names him among her revenge targets 19 108 138.
• Ruomu — Senior sister, confidante, and protector during the first simulation. Offers to die in her place when Lu Cheng confronts their expedition; Zhang Lexuan later surpasses her in combat 11 17 20.
• Ma Xiaotao — Close junior who alerts her to Lu Cheng’s whereabouts in the current timeline. Zhang Lexuan greets her warmly when joining the tournament group 66 117.
• Bei Bei — Mu En’s intended match for her, not an accepted partner. She rejects him in the first simulation and shows no romantic interest in him in the current timeline 17 88.
• Du Busi — Body Sect master who backs her against Yan Shaozhe and later entrusts her with much of the sect’s administrative work 138 204.

Notable Quotes

“Brother, our positions have switched now. I’m no longer that little girl you could fool however you pleased.” 71

“I wasn’t uncovering a mystery, merely looking for the process with the answer already in hand.” 88

“I told you, Lu Cheng is mine. You have no right to pass judgment on or threaten someone of mine.” 132