Jiang Zhuoxue

Biodata

Power Progression

Jiang Zhuoxue’s documented progression centers on recovering his stolen dragon body, completing his adulthood tribulation, and undergoing later racial transformations.

Appearance

Jiang Zhuoxue has a striking human appearance and can manifest as either a small black dragon or an enormous black dragon 260 268 401.

• Human form: Long, silky black hair, snow-white skin, and handsome features. After recovering from his long unconsciousness, he wore loose black robes 260.
• Damaged eyes: Initially had sightless, smoky-gray or grayish-white eyes, often covered with white gauze; his original dragon eyes had been gouged out 148 260.
• Restored eyes: Later described as bright and lively, like obsidian 413.
• Dragon features: Can reveal scales and beastlike eyes without fully transforming 533.
• Fully demonized form: Retained his handsome face but gained a strange black marking between his brows and a more imposing, unrestrained presence 624.
• Historical clothing: Favored white robes that became stained red during his killings, giving rise to the name “Blood-Robed Devil Dragon” 121.

Personality

Jiang Zhuoxue’s early reputation is that of an unpredictable, ruthless killer who acts according to his mood. Human accounts emphasize his violence, while Demon Beasts revere him for attacking households notorious for persecuting their kind. His companions later reject the accusation that he would slaughter innocents merely to vent his anger 121 155 331.

His fear of pain is genuine and rooted in the mutilation and captivity he endured. He initially distances himself emotionally from the helpless dragon he once was, treating that former self with contempt. His younger self is distrustful, stubborn, and pessimistic, yet easily unsettled by unfamiliar kindness 138 260 341 386 387.

With Sang Ying, he is teasing, clingy, jealous, and deliberately shameless. He plays pitiful to seek her attention and provokes perceived romantic rivals. Nevertheless, he respects her refusal to promise him love, agreeing to remain beside her without demanding an answer. He even finds comfort in the Shared Fate Gu because it makes him the one person able to share her pain 268 291 300 307 410.

Background / History

Birth, betrayal, and exile

Jiang Zhuoxue was born from schemes between Xuan Yu and Boruo rather than mutual affection. Boruo wanted a child carrying both dragon and devil blood to overturn the situation at the Gods and Devils Battlefield; Xuan Yu had his own plan against the Dragon Race. Both parents knew they were using one another 464 466.

Refusing to help destroy the Dragon Race, Jiang Zhuoxue exposed his mixed heritage, his mother’s identity, and his father’s intentions. Boruo fled back to the sealed land, while Xuan Yu was imprisoned and tortured. Despite Jiang Zhuoxue’s actions in their defense, the dragons rejected his bloodline. Faced with proposals to kill or permanently imprison him, he requested exile instead 466 584.

His memories also show him gaining the acknowledgment of a treasure left by the Dragon Ancestor, only to be declared unworthy of inheriting it and cast into the Heavenly River 260.

Mutilation and Sang Ying’s rescue in the past

After reaching the Lower Realm, Jiang Zhuoxue was captured and shackled to a Dragon-Slaying Platform. Cultivators stripped his body of its treasures, including his eyes, scales, teeth, and even nails, before abandoning him near death in a mass grave 148 260 316 319.

Sang Ying eventually traveled ten thousand years into the past and cared for this injured younger Jiang Zhuoxue. Believing she had mistaken him for someone else, he initially planned to exploit her protection to escape the Hidden Nether Realm. Her care gradually wore down his distrust 336 341 357.

They traveled with Gu Wangchuan, became involved with the Yin Mountain Sect, and searched a secret realm for Scarlet Blood Grass. Sang Ying asked Jiang Zhuoxue to remain there for a hundred years to recover and avoid recapture. When she appeared to be buried by a thunder-pellet explosion, he desperately searched the rubble and promised to obey her if she returned 364 388 391 394.

After his rescue, he spent a century recuperating in the secret realm and another century wandering the Hidden Nether Realm while searching for Sang Ying. His longing for her eventually became more important to him than recovering his stolen belongings 453.

The Blood-Robed Devil Dragon

Jiang Zhuoxue later attacked powerful households across several small worlds, accumulating immense wealth. Among humans, these campaigns established his fearsome reputation; among Demon Beasts, particularly snakes and flood dragons, they made him a hero 121 138 155.

Mighty figures from the righteous and devil paths eventually joined forces against him. When they still failed to decisively defeat him, the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s founding patriarch imprisoned him using the sect’s fortune as a formation. Anyone afraid of his release consequently had an incentive to preserve the sect 121 122.

Pact with Sang Ying

At the valley prison, Sang Ying implanted a child Shared Fate Gu in Jiang Zhuoxue, making him share her injuries and death. She used this leverage to demand treatment for her shattered Dantian and passage out of the valley 122.

He could not restore the Dantian itself, but could remove the destructive Golden Core fragments and seal the damage. He also taught her to open Qi Vortexes elsewhere in her body, giving her an alternative means of holding spiritual power 125.

After accompanying her away, he supplied funds, cultivation advice, and the remembered design of a High Antiquity Teleportation Array. He also helped rescue Cang Lian, who recognized him as the hero he had admired since childhood 135 146 155.

Recovery and the Limitless Sect

Sang Ying’s voice and Spiritual Qi drew Jiang Zhuoxue out of a prolonged unconsciousness. With his human transformation restored, he located Cang Lian through Divine Sense and proposed visiting Delusion-Breaking City to retrieve his stolen eyes 260.

In the Black Tortoise Realm, he recovered scales that Sect Master Wu had fashioned into battle armor and emptied the Limitless Sect’s treasure displays. After discovering his identity, the sect’s leaders seized him and prepared another dragon slaying 317 319 321 323.

Sang Ying staged an argument with him to delay the execution, then revealed the Dragon Abyss Sword and cut his chains. As enemies closed in, Jiang Zhuoxue sent her through a passage to the world of ten thousand years earlier, asking her to save his past self 335 336.

When she returned, he recovered his buried memories. He confessed that he had loved her since their meeting ten thousand years ago. Sang Ying could not promise a romantic response while prioritizing cultivation, but agreed that he could remain beside her 401 410.

Adulthood and return to the Hidden Nether Realm

Having recovered his scales and most of his teeth, Jiang Zhuoxue resolved to undergo his adulthood tribulation so that he could better protect Sang Ying. After succeeding, he stopped the injured Gu Huaiwei from taking her away and defeated him 425 444.

During the following peaceful centuries, he remained with Sang Ying and gradually earned Sang Zheng’s trust. The pair later returned to the Hidden Nether Realm to recover more of his stolen possessions 452 453.

There, Jiang Zhuoxue removed dangerous dragon blood from Min Renjie. He and Sang Ying later extended that treatment across the realm: her vast formation and his blood-extraction ability ended the Curse afflicting its people 468 504.

Upper Realm and Devil Race transformation

Returning to the Upper Realm, Jiang Zhuoxue reaffirmed that he had chosen to protect the Dragon Race despite Xuan Yu’s condemnation. He fought alongside Bai Nianchou on the Gods and Devils Battlefield and helped treat his injuries 565 566 576 584.

In the Devil Domain, Jiang Zhuoxue recognized Boruo. After an immortal-powered black-robed man abducted Sang Ying, his desperation pushed him toward complete devil transformation. He entered the Fire of Tempering, subdued the Devil Master’s remaining Devil Core, and gained control of Netherfire 593 595 596 612 624.

Boruo later intercepted a fatal attack intended for him. Jiang Zhuoxue escaped with her, but could not save her after Gu Huaiwei stole her heart. Sang Ying returned to comfort him and affirmed her acceptance of him despite his changed nature 634 635.

World crisis and ascension

Jiang Zhuoxue helped investigate a life-draining sandstorm and the expanding black hole at its source. After following Sang Ying into the separated Beastmen World, he was severely injured by the crossing. With no Demonic Qi there, his recovery was slow, but he still offered his knowledge to help her find a route home 640 644 667 676.

He stood guard outside the cave during the events that reunited the two worlds. After later receiving the purified Heart of the Devil God from Sang Ying, he became capable of pursuing ascension without retaining his former Devil Race nature. He followed her to the Immortal Realm before their other companions and helped found a new immortal sect 683 689 707.

Abilities & Skills

Dragon Physiology and Transformation

• Variable forms: Can assume human form, a small black dragon form, or an enormous dragon body 260 268 401.
• Physical defense: His scales provide natural armor; recovering them restored protection he had lacked since his mutilation 317 401.
• Regeneration: Minor injuries heal quickly, although severe damage can require prolonged recovery 388 391.
• Draconic might: His dragon breath can drive away even hidden insects and animals throughout an enclosed area 472.
• Adulthood requirement: A dragon must endure heavenly lightning before revealing its true adult form. His weakened condition delayed this tribulation 425.

Qi Conversion and Concealment

• Dual-energy cultivation: In his hybrid state, he could absorb both Spiritual Qi and Demonic Qi 124.
• Energy conversion: Could convert either energy into the other and purify the Hidden Nether Realm’s impure Spiritual Qi 459.
• Concealment: Used spiritual power to hide Sang Ying while she followed other cultivators 459.
• Later limitation: After becoming fully devil-like, the Beastmen World’s lack of Demonic Qi greatly slowed his healing 676.

Divine Sense and Dragon Eyes

• Long-range detection: Surveyed the northern snowfields with Divine Sense and distinguished Cang Lian’s presence among countless competing traces 260.
• Dragon eyes: His stolen eyes enabled the Gong Household’s inherited position of “Illusion Piercer.” He describes dragon eyes as capable of seeing through everything 148.
• Limits: Heavy Divine Sense use can impede recovery or cause pain when overextended 391 634.

Blood Manipulation and Treatment

• Dantian stabilization: Dissolved Sang Ying’s shattered Golden Core fragments and sealed her Dantian to stop spiritual-power leakage; could not reverse the damage or restore its storage function 125.
• Dragon-blood extraction: Removed three drops of dragon blood from Min Renjie and later drew the Curse-causing blood out of afflicted people across the Hidden Nether Realm 468 504.
• Basic physical treatment: Reset Bai Nianchou’s broken bones on the battlefield 584.
• Limits: His attempts to save Boruo could not overcome her fatal injuries 635.

Cultivation Knowledge and Arrays

• Qi Vortex method: Taught Sang Ying to establish alternative reservoirs of spiritual power outside her ruined Dantian 125.
• Teleportation knowledge: Memorized a lost small-scale High Antiquity Teleportation Array capable of transporting roughly a dozen people 146.
• Teaching limitation: Remembered the array’s complete design without understanding its principles, making his instruction difficult for Sang Ying to follow 146.
• Other disciplines: Has studied swordsmanship and offered to forge Sang Ying a spirit sword 124 133.

Clones and Realm Travel

• Clones: Created two clones to help arrange a return to the past; separating them substantially weakened his main body 410 425.
• Temporary passages: Opened a tunnel to the Immortal Spirit Realm, but the expenditure forced him back into his weakened original form 148.
• Cross-world limitation: Following Sang Ying bodily into the separated Beastmen World caused severe injuries 667.

Netherfire and Demonic Power

• Netherfire command: Gained control of the Devil Domain’s Netherfire after subduing the Devil Master’s Devil Core 624.
• Tracking flame: Sent a small Netherfire flame to follow the black-robed man’s scent 624.
• Devil Race control: Could command high-ranking Devil Race members, using them to obstruct Gu Huaiwei during his escape with Boruo 634.
• Constructs and defense: Wove Demonic Qi into clothing, a shielding cloud, and defensive barriers 644 647.
• Resistance: His Demonic Qi countered the strange power of the life-draining sandstorm, though stronger monsters could crack his shields 640 647.

Equipment / Items

• Internal storage space — A space refined inside his body, comparable to a high-grade Storage Bag 135.
• Spirit Stone reserves — Wealth accumulated through raids on great clans across several small worlds; he placed his savings at Sang Ying’s disposal 135 138.
• Teleportation array discs — Supplied the materials for Sang Ying’s arrays and carried a paired disc as an escape measure 146 316.
• Green carp-shaped jade pendant — Gave it to Sang Ying’s companions to help persuade the Beast Soul Sect and Array Sect to intervene against the Listening Tide Sect 521.
• Green Vine branch — A branch capable of becoming a small demonic plant; used to carry an Image-Retaining Stone into the dangerous area around the black hole 644.

Relationships

• Sang Ying — Rescuer, cultivation student, Shared Fate Gu partner, and eventual lover. Her care for his younger self sustained him through ten thousand years of separation; they later ascended and founded an immortal sect together 122 125 410 466 707.
• Xuan Yu — Father. Jiang Zhuoxue exposed his plan against the Dragon Race; Xuan Yu tried to kill him for the betrayal and later condemned his continued loyalty to the dragons 466 565 584.
• Boruo — Mother and Devil Race princess. Initially treated him as a tool for her people’s plans, but later protected him from Gu Huaiwei at the cost of her life 466 593 634 635.
• Cang Lian — Dragon companion and devoted admirer who cultivated with the ambition of becoming a second Jiang Zhuoxue 155.
• Green Vine — Demonic plant originally kept at his side. Later roamed with Cang Lian and supplied the branch used in his black-hole investigation 644.
• Gu Shu — Frequently quarrels with him and mocks his attempts to gain Sang Ying’s attention 137 156 260 277.
• Gu Wangchuan — Companion during Sang Ying’s journey into the past. His attempts to act as Jiang Zhuoxue’s protective older brother irritated Jiang Zhuoxue, who also resented his closeness to Sang Ying 357 386.
• Sang Zheng and Wen Miaoshu — Sang Ying’s parents. Jiang Zhuoxue’s long devotion and consideration gradually reduced Sang Zheng’s distrust, leading him to treat Jiang Zhuoxue as one of their own 452.
• Bai Nianchou — Battlefield ally. They fought regenerating Devil Creatures together, and Jiang Zhuoxue treated his broken bones and sharply rejected his talk of dying 576 584.
• Gu Huaiwei — Enemy who repeatedly tried to take Sang Ying away and ultimately killed Boruo. Jiang Zhuoxue defeated his injured incarnation after his adulthood tribulation and later pursued him with Netherfire 444 624 635.
• Sect Master Wu — Possessed armor made from Jiang Zhuoxue’s stolen scales and organized his capture and attempted execution 316 317 321 323.

Notable Quotes

“Yes, I do. I've liked you since ten thousand years ago.” 410

“I'm going to undergo my tribulation and become a more powerful dragon!” 425

“Quite well. I found a sense of belonging there.”
— On his life in the Lower Realm 561