Nie Kexin

**Nie Kexin** (聂可信, *Niè Kěxìn*) is one of the most legendary pupils of the peerless immortal known only as the Celestial, a rogue cultivator and the martial sister of Song Yaling and other unnamed rogue cultivators. Ultimately after acclimating back into human civilation, she married into a cultivation sect and became **Madame Nie** (聂夫人, *Niè-fūrén*). She was the stepmother of Nie Huaisang, Nie Ling, Nie Haoyu, the biological mother of Nie Minjue, and the mother-in-law of Xiao Sizhui as well as Cangse Zhi.

After her believed death, Nie Kexin had contracted amnesia and subsequently returned to the mountain of her immortal master the Celestial, having resumed her life underneath her wings. She then later married into the Shenzhou Shizune as their **Madame Shizune** (寧音夫人, *Jìngyīn-fūrén*), later-on giving birth to twins Shizune Mei and Shizune Kai. She later on died in a night hunt leaving her husband to take care of her children.

## Appearance

Startingly beautiful, Nie Kexin radiated nobility and strength, being regarded as the only woman of the Nie Clan who's appearance remained unchanged by everday events in her life. As the Madame of the Nie Sect, she wore the browns and darker yellows sported by her husband's clan members, adorning her hair with an ox headpiece to repersent the strength and resilance of her clan.

Her return to the mountain of her teacher caused her to change in flowing, war-like robes befitting of her station as the Head Disciple of her immortal master.

## Personality

Elegant as the lily flowers of her homeland, Nie Kexin was a woman of a scholarly air noted to be quite emotionally detached from the world at large, having viewed the world through those of disinterest and disdain. Though she was often described as coming across as somewhat distant and cold on occasion due to the emotional disassociation of her home sect, she was not a "touchy-feely person" and often devalued the opinion of other people in regards to their existing emotional intelligence, belitting them for signs of weakness and scorning it as a sign of immaturity. Most notable was her disdain towards "meat-headed" idiots, considering those of the Nie to be the most heavy-headed meat-heads that she ever had the displeasure of meeting with. This disdain faded gradually after falling in love with Nie Minjue and Nie Huaisang's father, though it made it's appearance known throughout their marriage.

Due to contracting an severe case of amnesia, Nie Kexin has reverted to a calm, introverted and aloof persona and is extremely prone to outbursts of rage and hatred at the most unexpected of moments. This is mostly due to her uncured Qi deviations, which are incredibly fatal if left untreated and since her unexpected return to the mountain, have remained untreated for the most part, simply due to Kexin's reluctance and lingering trauma left over.

> To an ordinary person, a blade that cleaves nothing but those with evil intentions may be an impossible feat to master but for me, I find comfort in this weapon for it is the very item that allowed me to fufill my master's wishes. In her name I devote my life to serving the common people and protecting them from harm, for it was one of her dearest wishes.
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> Kexin's view on her teacher

Devoted to the wishes of her master, Kexin is a strict and

## History

### Youth

#### Early Years

Eldest daughter of Xiao Qingqiu and Liu Xiyan, both reknown cultivators of the Shenzhou Xiao Clan - Shenzhou being the residence of the peerless and immortal Celestial, a rogue cultivator of great strength and prestige - their deaths during a Night Hunt leaving the young ten-year old all alone. Subsequently, she was adopted by the Celestial as one of her elder students and grew up in the foggy, inaccasiable mountains of the Shenzhou region, where many rogue cultivators banded themselves underneath the rulership of the Celestial. At the time of their deaths, rogue cultivators were dying in massive hordes due to unknown causes and the common people of the Shenzhou region and elsewhere were panicked. Believing this to be a curse from the divine themselves, many prominent cultivation sects refused to admit any further members into their ranks, as a way to prevent themselves from becoming the newest target. This doesn't stop the Shenzhou Clans from being targeted and in underneath a forenight, the isolated Shenzhou Xiao Clan found themselves the newest targets with their clan leader and madame killed brutally and one child from the main household surviving from the massacre.

The aftermath of this incident led to the relatively unusual activity of the Celestial, the rogue cultivator that ruled over the Shenzhou region and it's clans, who for the first time in seventy-six millenniums descended from her nearly-inaccesable mountain in order to retrieve the Shenzhou Xiao Clan resettling them and their remnants on her mountain in order to prevent them from being further destroyed. One of her fellow childhood disciples was Nie Fang, a distant cousin of the Qinghe Nie Clan's main household that was believed to have been killed in a landslide, only to be found by the Celestial and raised by her to be a rogue cultivator. The two were close friends and later on, Nie Fang would depart from the mountain alongside Nie Kexin as they searched for a place to call home.

### Cloud Recesses

As the eldest disciple of her immortal teacher, Kexin attended Lan Qiren's lectures three years in a row as a way to prepare for her future incoming depature from the mountain, in the process meeting Nie Rong. Nie Fang, one of her fellow disciples that had accompanied her, heavily disapproved of the Nie Clan as a marriage prospect reportably even suggesting other disciples from the mountain of their marriage. Over the heavy disapproval and disappointment of both Nie Fang and her master, Kexin accepted the courting suit of the future Nie Clan leader. After their return to the mountain, Nie Fang expressed his disbelief that his sworn martial sister would go for such a meat-head which Kexin scolded him for playfully.

### Wedding and Marriage

On July 17 (an aspicious date in the calender of Shenzhou), Nie Rong and the future Madame Nie (now named Nie Kexin) consumated their marriage by three bows in front of their parents and ancestors, as well as a ceremony in which their hands were tied to each other by a ribbon. During the wedding, Nie Fang gifted his new martial brother, a sigil of protection from Kexin and Fang's master as a wedding present to protect the newly wedded couple and jokingly told his new martial brother to watch out for Kexin's insanely high strength.

## Aftermath

### Return to Cultivation

Upon return to the mountain inhabitated by her immortal master, Kexin reverted to the life