Liu Jianghe

Liu Jianghe is the former lord of Paradise Pavilion.

He was attacked by an alliance of established sects and had his spirit core removed, and faked his death by jumping off Qianxing cliff in order to escape. He suffered severe injuries and made his way to Peach Blossom Wharf in order to obtain Lu Jiu's help.

He claims to know something about Lu Jiu's past, but hasn't yet elaborated, instead asking Lu Jiu to help him kill Zhou Zikun before he'll answer. He claims the only reason he still has the will to live is because of his desire to kill Zhou Zikun.

He is currently in possession of a mind demon for reasons related to Penglai.

## History

### Childhood and Early Adulthood

Liu Jianghe grew up on an island with his older martial brother Zhou Zikun and their master. Zhou Zikun once brought a lamb back from Penglai for Liu Jianghe, telling him that he had to keep it a secret from their master or it would be killed. Liu Jianghe's exact relationship with Penglai is unclear: he refers to Zhou Zikun as a "true disciple of Penglai" in contrast to himself.

As the lord of Paradise Pavilion, Liu Jianghe was notorious for having committed numerous crimes. At some point Liu Jianghe took on Liu Jueming as a disciple. During this time he was very well-off, even splurging at Red Leaf Manor.

### Qingshan City

During what Liu Jianghe referred to as "the Qingshan City incident", along with Liu Jueming's help, Liu Jianghe possessed a random cultivator inside of Qingshan City in order to get inside himself. This cultivator happened to be Lu Jiu. Liu Jianghe entered the city in order to kill the many civilians under the influence of meat ganoderma, though due to the incomplete possession, Lu Jiu mistakenly attributed Liu Jianghe's actions to himself.

Xie Qingxuan came across Liu Jianghe and recognized the living possession technique he was using, and told him to get out of Lu Jiu's body. Liu Jianghe killed Xie Qingxuan instead.

### Removal of his Spirit Core

Liu Jianghe allegedly burned down Yanyu Hall, resulting in Zhou Zikun issuing a kill order against him, however Liu Jianghe has implied that the incident wasn't his doing. As a result an alliance of established sects attacked Paradise Pavilion.

Liu Jianghe was poisoned with bamboo incense by Xie Renyu, allowing for the attackers to remove his spirit core, which was then given to Liu Jueming. This seems to have been an intentional plan in order to allow Liu Jueming to absorb Liu Jianghe's spirit core, however Zhou Zikun interfered and prevented Liu Jueming from absorbing the spirit core completely. As part of this plan, Liu Jianghe needed to locate a living host with a mind demon.

With his spirit core gone, Liu Jianghe faked his death by jumping off Qianxing cliff in order to escape. He suffered severe injuries and made his way to Peach Blossom Wharf in order to get closer to Lu Jiu and obtain his help.

### Peach Blossom Wharf and Red Leaf Manor

Liu Jianghe appeared outside of Lu Jiu's medical hall at Peach Blossom Wharf and coerced him into treating him by establishing a life and death contract with him. After Lu Jiu was kidnapped by Liu Yuan, Liu Jianghe secretly broke this contract and rescued him, heavily injuring himself in the process.

Afterwards the two of them headed to Red Leaf Manor in search of a Kunshan blood lotus to treat Liu Jianghe. During this trip, Lu Jiu secretly planted an evil puppet gu in Liu Jianghe. After Lu Jiu was heavily injured during the Lighting of the Moon, Liu Jianghe learned some of his backstory from the Red Leaf Manor sisters.

### Qinghua Mansion

Qu Jianglin escorted Liu Jianghe and Lu Jiu to Qinghua Mansion, then kept an eye on Liu Jianghe while Lu Jiu talked to Xie Qingshuang. Xie Qingshuang activated the evil puppet gu, causing Liu Jianghe to vomit blood and pass out. Under pressure from Lu Jiu and wanting Liu Jianghe alive for her own reasons, Xie Qingshuang then suppressed the gu and used her medicinal blood to quell Liu Jianghe's chaotic qi.

After Xie Renyu's assassination, Liu Jianghe and Lu Jiu were moved to  Luxian Pavilion to hide them. Liu Jianghe realized that Xie Qingshuang was injured, and threw himself from a balcony in order to force Xie Qingshuang to restore the ancient Kunshan jade in Lu Jiu's wrists, so that he could save Liu Jianghe from dying while Xie Qingshuang was too weak to do it herself.

While treating Liu Jianghe, Lu Jiu entered into his consciousness in order to learn how to make a life and death contract. Liu Jianghe taught him, but then Lu Jiu had to leave his consciousness in order to fight Qu Jianglin. Liu Jianghe regained consciousness enough to form the life and death contract for him, stopping Qu Jianglin from being able to kill Lu Jiu, then hid himself in Lu Jiu's consciousness.

Having vacated his own consciousness, Liu Jianghe appeared to have lost all of his memories. He and Lu Jiu attempted to convince Xie Qingshuang that Lu Jiu needed to further treat him, and Xie Qingshuang allowed Lu Jiu to do so, but had the two relocate to Sumu Estate. While they were fleeing Liu Jianghe tricked Lu Jiu into believing Zhou Zikun was nearby, convincing him to unlock the seal on his memories restraining his mind demon so the two could hide their consciousnesses inside.

### Sumu Estate

In order to leave Lu Jiu's sealed memories the two of them would have to watch the memories from beginning to end, so Lu Jiu and Liu Jianghe entered them together. However due to an issue with his body in the real world Lu Jiu's memories started to be corrupted, forcing Liu Jianghe to reveal his ability to leave the memories freely so he could wake up and stop the Shadow Guards, Su Tuntun and Si Yuyan, who had brought them to Sumu Estate from accidentally killing Lu Jiu.

He returned to Lu Jiu's memories and Lu Jiu confronted him about how many secrets he was keeping, claiming he still had leverage over Liu Jianghe with evil puppet gu. As they approached a painful memory Lu Jiu asked Liu Jianghe to leave again, and he did. While awake Liu Jianghe had the Shadow Guards plant a wisp of his spiritual sense on another Shadow Guard who would be going to Penglai to treat Liu Jueming, as well as preparing strength-enhancing elixir to help him deal with Lu Jiu when he'd wake up from his memories.

He went back into Lu Jiu's memories just in time to see a memory of Lu Jiu nearly getting killed. Lu Jiu acted upset and tricked Liu Jianghe into trapping himself, at which point Lu Jiu revealed that he'd realized Liu Jianghe was interested in him because of his mind demon. Liu Jianghe managed to escape when the Shadow Guards alerted him with an alarm from outside of his body.

The Shadow Guards woke Liu Jianghe because the Shadow Guard whom he'd attacked his spiritual sense to had gone to Penglai. Liu Jianghe took control of that Shadow Guard and approached Liu Jueming alone in order to share information and for Liu Jianghe to convey orders to him. During this, Liu Jianghe showed hesitation to use Lu Jiu in their plan, knowing it would kill him. Liu Jueming urged him to go forward with it anyway.

From then on Liu Jianghe stopped going into Lu Jiu's consciousness, refraining from doing so until right before Lu Jiu was going to wake up. Before then he sent away the Shadow Guards, stating that they were too weak and would die if they got involved in the fight, though his true intention was to make the two of them separate as far from each other as possible. He returned to Lu Jiu's consciousness and tried to convince him not to fight, however Lu Jiu began attacking him anyway.

As they fought, Lu Jiu focused on the parallels between Liu Jianghe and Xie Qingxuan, which allowed his mind demon to take control of his spiritual sense. Once this happened, Liu Jianghe forcefully ended the fight by throwing Lu Jiu out of his consciousness, absorbing his memories into Wind Rider, and trapping himself and the mind demon in his own consciousness. With Lu Jiu now able to wake up and himself unable to, Liu Jianghe asked Lu Jiu to save Su Tuntun.

He remained trapped in his consciousness with Lu Jiu's mind demon until the memories finished playing out, including his own memories of what occurred during the night of the Qingshan City incident. While watching, he took over as the mind demon's host.

Liu Jianghe expected Lu Jiu to have left him behind at Sumu Estate, and was shocked to see had been relocated and Lu Jiu was present upon waking. After a tense conversation where Lu Jiu refused to hear Liu Jianghe make more excuses, the two were interrupted by Madam Zhang, who had received some meat ganoderma from an unknown cultivator. After listening to her, the two headed out to avoid Su Tuntun's eavesdropping and to get rid of any remains of the meat ganoderma.

## Trivia

* His alias "Lu Shi" was picked by Lu Jiu to match his own name: Jiu is 9 and Shi is 10.
* He and Liu Jueming have almost identical spiritual power, which is normally impossible even between close blood relatives.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 6: Peach Blossom Wharf Drenched in Blood
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chapter 0: Preview
3. ↑ Chapter 39: A Deal
4. ↑ Chapter 99: Caution
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Chapter 84: Choices
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 8: The Moon in the Water
7. ↑ Chapter 59: Crisis
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 62.5: Sect Settings
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Chapter 32: Gu
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 101: All's Well That Ends Well
11. ↑ Chapter 100: Stubborn
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Chapter 102: Awakening
13. ↑ Chapter 15: We Each Have Secrets
14. ↑ Chapter 31: An Exchange Between Sworn Siblings
15. ↑ Chapter 1: Saved the Public Enemy by Mistake, is it Too Late to Kill Him Now?
16. ↑ Chapter 12: Not at Your Mercy
17. ↑ Chapter 29: Ew (Part 2)
18. ↑ Chapter 34: An Argument Between Sworn Siblings
19. ↑ Chapter 35: Of Two Minds (Part 1)
20. ↑ Chapter 44: Countertactics (Part 1)
21. ↑ Chapter 45: Countertactics (Part 2)
22. ↑ Chapter 50: The Sight of Me Reminds Him of His Enemies (Part 1)
23. ↑ Chapter 52: Unreasonable, Yet Forceful (Part 1)
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Chapter 56: The Pair Who Can't Understand Each Other (Part 2)
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Chapter 58: Invalid Deal
26. ↑ Chapter 60: Hopeless
27. ↑ Chapter 64: Beginning
28. ↑ Chapter 77: Problem Solved
29. ↑ Chapter 78: Seven Days
30. ↑ Chapter 80: Start of Disagreement
31. ↑ Chapter 81: Something Cheerful
32. ↑ Chapter 82: Shock
33. ↑ Chapter 83: Master
34. ↑ Chapter 85: Decisions
35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 Chapter 86: Fury
36. ↑ Chapter 91: Unpredictability
37. ↑ Chapter 89: Emotional Appeals and Reasoning are Useless
38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 Chapter 90: Hindrance
39. ↑ Chapter 103: Liu Jianghe, Bow Respectfully to Lu Qingyun
40. ↑ Chapter 104: There Are No Kind Visitors in the Middle of the Night
41. ↑ Chapter 105: Confidence
42. ↑ Chapter 11: Rumors
43. ↑ Chapter 107: White Hair