White No-Face/History

## Bai Wuxiang

* Manhua
* Donghua

## Crown Prince of Wuyong

Two thousand years ago, White No-Face was born as the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Wuyong. He was revered and admired, said to be exceedingly glorious and esteemed. He ascended early and appointed his four vassals, one of which was Mei Nianqing, to the heavens as his deputy gods.

*"Without any exaggeration, even within the sea of gods in the heavenly realm, he was also like the sun, shining so brightly that others next to him would lose their colours."*

In his dreams, White No-Face foresaw the volcano erupting and destroying the kingdom of Wuyong, so he and his vassals started to make plans for how to save the people. They couldn't stop the volcano, so the only option for the people was to migrate somewhere else.

White No-Face forbid the army to invade and slaughter other kingdoms for the sake of Wuyong's people, but the kingdom still dispatched troops. He was enraged when he found out and descended to the battlefield to punish the soldiers. This angered Wuyong's nobles, and they began to call for the burning of his temples and desecration of his statues.

### Heaven Crossing Bridge

White No-Face remained loyal to his kingdom and would defend it no matter what, but he asked the people to wait with war until he had built the Heaven Crossing Bridge. The bridge would let the people into the heavens to shelter them from the volcano eruption. He was met with opposition, but he was convinced he could accomplish this task.

The bridge required an enormous amount of time and spiritual powers. White No-Face stopped doing anything, including answering prayers, and fully concentrated on building the bridge. At first people supported him, but they soon felt like he wasn't as powerful and dedicated as before. They started to worship other gods, causing the decrease of White No-Face's own spiritual powers.

Mei Niangqing and the other vassals tried to convince the people to believe in White No-Face and although some returned to their faith in him, the majority prayed to other gods as White No-Face couldn't fulfill their individual wishes due to constructing the bridge. Jun Wu asked his vassals to cease trying, and he continued to support the bridge with his own powers. This ordeal took a mental toll on him, and he became more closed off and silent.

Three years after starting the construction, the volcano erupted and the people fled to the bridge. At first, it was stable, but as more masses rushed onto the bridge and because of his depleted spiritual powers, White No-Face grew weaker until the bridge finally collapsed. White No-Face watched all the people who had been on the bridge fall into the sea of flames, while others were engulfed by the lava and ashes. The remaining people went mad and burned his temples, toppled his statues, pierced his heart to mush with blades and cursed him. He questioned Heavenly Officials as to why they didn't help him but in the end, he was banished from the heavens.

### Descend into Madness

After banishment, White No-Face tried to cultivate and ascend anew, but it was difficult for him to do so as he had lost all his devotees and was met with hate and rejection. He tried to help the people of Wuyong during the crisis after the volcano outbreak, but he couldn't compare to the Heavenly Officials that lent aid.

The only people to still support him were his four vassals, but when he told them the method of sacrificing lives to stop the volcano, they had a huge fight. White No-Face wanted to throw bad citizens into the Kiln to pacify the fire, thus three vassals left him. They were still worried however and returned to him right as he was guiding people to the Kiln. They tried to stop him, but White No-Face killed them and threw them down the Kiln along with the other people.

The resentful spirits of the vassals took his body as a host and the faces of the three vassals grew on his own face; thus, he started to cover his face and became the first case of the Human Face Disease.

In front of Mei Nianqing and the public however, he simply conducted a ritual near the Kiln. As the volcano started to calm due to the sacrifice, the people believed it was him who tamed the volcano, and they started to worship him again and his cultivation became successful again. Mei Nianqing found the covering of his face as well as his extreme mood swings odd. He also started to hear voices until one day he discovered White No-Face's face and the truth about what happened to the vassals. White No-Face had become incredibly emotionally unstable at that point, but still let Mei Nianqing run away.

Soon, the volcano erupted once again and destroyed the entire kingdom of Wuyong.

## Martial God Heavenly Emperor

### Legend of Origin

Later on, White No-Face managed to wipe out all Heavenly Officials to eradicate the existence of Wuyong from history. He took the position of Heavenly Emperor and created a new Heavenly Court, as well as a fake name and legend about his own origin.

He created a false legend about how his new persona named "Jun Wu" was a famed general of a warring era who later proclaimed himself king and ascended after ruling for some time. It is said that a few hundred years before his birth, the gods caused a great calamity and eradicated themselves in a chaotic battle. Jun Wu created a new dynasty of gods and formed a new stable Heavenly Court.

### Perfect Successor

Jun Wu took interest in Xie Lian due to their similarities, planning to make him his perfect successor. As White No-Face, he caused the fall of Xianle Kingdom and terrorized Xie Lian to mold him into someone he wanted Xie Lian to be, trying to get him to trust him and never betray him. However, he failed, and Xie Lian remained unchanged; thus, Jun Wu grew extremely vexed.

This journey of terrorization began with the first encounter between the Guoshi of Xianle and Jun Wu. As the link between the heavens and the mortal realm, the two spoke regularly from then onwards. Things began to take a turn when Jun Wu's interest in Xie Lian piqued when he saved a small boy from falling to his death during the God-Pleasing ceremony. It is said by Guoshi that Jun Wu wanted to appoint Xie Lian to the heavens, but Guoshi always aggressively denied him.

It came to a point where Xie Lian defeated the demon ghost of Yi Nian Bridge and quickly ascended. It is believed that Jun Wu had a part to play in this. Soon thereafter, Yong'an and Xianle's water shortage became a huge problem, and the amount of refugees was simply too much for the King to handle. The Kingdom of Xianle was struggling to cope with the rampant growth in population and was forced to expel the refugees outside the kingdom gates. During this time, White No-Face orchestrated an event wherein a family of three were killed due to Xianle refusing to allow them inside.

It was revealed that White No-Face set this up with three empty shells, thus directly acting as the catalyst of the following war.

### The Kiln

It is speculated by Guoshi that the Kiln acts as an outlet for White No-Face to harness his suppressed, unstable emotions and manifest them into entities. All monsters formed were a result of his extreme hatred and resentment. Adding to this speculation, it is also heavily suggested that the Kiln births new Supremes every 100 years to create balance in the mortal realm. The more havoc they wreak, the more mortals will pray to the heavens - namely, Jun Wu.

The Venerable of Empty Words and the ghost of Yi Nian Bridge were both monsters produced by the Kiln.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Novel, Book 5, Chapter 217: Hundred Years of Pain; Thousand Years of Suffering
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Novel, Book 5, Chapter 218: Hundred Years of Pain; Thousand Years of Suffering II
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Novel, Book 5, Chapter 219: Hundred Years of Pain; Thousand Years of Suffering III
4. ↑ Novel, Book 3, Chapter 151: Panic Left and Right; East or West Undecided
5. ↑ Novel, Book 5, Chapter 220: The White Emperor Sets Life and Death Riddles in Secret