Xing Lie

**Xing Lie** is one of the minor characters in *Immortal Swordsman In The Reverse World*.

Lie is the mother of Xing Tao and Xing You. She's Head of the Xing Family and current ruler of Jing Men City. She also takes control of the Cheng Fang Army.

## Background

   Originally, Lie was a prince living in the Imperial Capital. She was the apprentice to Xi Ning's mother studying the invisibility techniques becoming a hidden teacher. However, when her master and Ning rebelled against the Empire with Xuan Nu Palace, Lie was restrained not allowed to teach the hidden techniques to anyone.

After the rebellion, Lie had the opportunity to be elected as the 3rd Duchess but was rejected by the Empress. She resigned her title and escape from the capital with a man she wanted to be with named Liu Feng. Together the two went to Jing Men and started a family. However, she keeps Feng a secret from the outside world for no one to know about him.

## Appearance

* A young Lie as a prince.
* Lie without her glassess.
1/2Lie has brown hair and eyes. She wears a purple design scarf, white shirt, black business jacket, skirt, white pearl necklace, golden ring, and high heel shoes. She also wears glasses.

In her past as a prince, Lie wore a long black sleeve coat with gold lines, black pants, black high heal boots, and a white shirt.

## Personality

Lie is shown to be calm but has a desire to kill Qing's sister finding out she was sleeping with her son. She worries about Feng hoping that no one from the outside would discover her connection with him.

Lie is influenced by Qing seeing how the young man can do what he wants coming to believe that men are not inferior to women which Xing Wei had noticed on her behavior. Lie shows great interest in Qing watching his every move. There are times she can get angry at Qing when he calls her "Old Fox" almost wanting to kill him.

## Synopsis

### Jing Men Arc

Lie learned about that her son has slept with Chu Xiao, Chu Qing's sister and forbid him to be together with her. Because of this, she ordered Meng Zui to kill Xiao but backfired.

During her meeting with Qing, Lie fought him and soon comes to an agreement after Qing found out about Feng. Lie tells him that if his sister is able to purchase a house within a certain date, she'll have her son marry her, but if she fails, Xiao will be married into the Xing family.

During the Li Family's revenge, Lie has been keeping an eye out on Qing, even making a point that out of all the people she catches on to, he is her absolute favorite. During her 2nd meeting with Qing, she reveals to him about Li Yan and Huang Kai Shan's relationship and other powers involved as well.

On the news, Lie learns about the dragon at Yunjiang River. Wei gives her a golden scale that was found at the river. She soon exposes about the dragon on the news using the fake golden scale.

After the battle between the Ye and Li families, Lie is furious that Tang Jie had a good opportunity to defeat the Ye Family. She also mentions about marrying her son to someone but hasn't found a marriage partner yet. A day after, she discovers that Qing and his family have moved to Vermillion Bird Road.sp. Lie is soon visited by Qing having their agreement of her son and his sister marry each other until the Chinese New Year. To make things joyful, Lie advises Qing to marry her daughter though Qing denies it. She scares Qing off when he accidentally calls her "Old Xing". Not long after, Lie sends Xing Wei to the Chu Family's house to bring Qing to her. At the Xing house, Lie attacks Qing when news spread about a real dragon at Yunjiang River. She tells him that a group of people from the 2nd generation in the Imperial Capital came to the house wanting her to hand over Qing to them. Qing asks her to hold them off in exchange to give Lie a part of the dragon when he catches it.

A month later, Lie is approached by Qing asking her where the location of Xuan Nu Palace is, but she refuses to answer him since she doesn't know where it is and advises him to forget about it due to the Empire and the Empress being afraid of it. Lie informs him the establishment of the National University is inextricably linked to the Xuan Nu Palace and he may find clues there.

### Empire Versus Xuan Nu Palace Arc

Months later, Jing Men is attacked and destroyed by the Xuan Nu Palace and Lie manages to save Qing's parents and sister bring them to her underground dugout. Lie is contact by Qing through video to see his family is unharmed and safe. Lie asks Qing to get the King of Supervision and General to mobilize the nearest military envoy and military support and the Empress orders Gong Nian to get her army and Ji Min around Jing Men to support immediately. The signals were soon cut off.

Two days later, Lie is brought to the Chu house by Qing's family being safe for now. Qing arrives to the house with Zui, Jie, and the Tang family. Lie reunites the family with Qing while apologizes to Zui for mistreating her all this time after learning Zui being a member of the royal family. Zui states that those who do not know are innocent. Qing asks Lie where her children are to which Lie answers Xing You was sent to the imperial capital by her a long time ago and since Xing Tao and Liu Feng are not warriors they've both have already entered the demilitarized zone. Lie gives a background about the demilitarized zone saying when warriors and ordinary people decided to coexist, they lay down the rules with the warrior war cannot affect ordinary people and to protect the rights and interests of ordinary people to survive, the establishment of a demilitarized zone and after the ten strongest enchantresses developed a special enchantment and set it up in the demilitarized zone, the enchantress committed suicide to ensure that no one could break the enchantment. Qing asks since his dad and sister are ordinary why they didn't enter the zone, but Lie angrily asks him what kind of hatred did he have with Xuan Nu Palace since they sent elders out to capture his family. Lie states in order to forcibly open the demilitarized zone, she has already abolished the power of nine bulls and two tigers, and because of his family, she was chased by the little girls in the Xuan Nu Palace and ran around in the gutter. Zui asks Lie if she use stealth just now and during the war between the Empire and the Xuan Nu Palace, the locals brought all the grinders they could bring and those who can't take them are killed asking Lie what is your situation though Lie says it's a long story.

The Xuan Nu Palace arrive at the house breaking down the hidden door ban by seventh elder, Xi Ning and Granny Dan to continue their search for Qing's family as they brought two master sensors. As they enter in, Lie puts up a hidden boundary as long as the group doesn't use their energy and spiritual power, they won't be found by Ning on the opposite side. As the sensors can't detect any movement, Ning uses Gu Worms she'd borrowed from Mo Chan. Qing tells the group it's level one Gu Worms not to be afraid as they can't touch them at all. However, one of the Tang members is afraid of bugs since childhood and deflects one of them with her power which causes the sensors to pick up the movement pointing right at them. Seven warriors fire a rainbow beam forcing Qing to cast a boundary around everyone appearing to the enemies. Lie senses there are hidden circles everywhere as more warriors appear. Ning orders to attack and capture Qing's family and allies. Qing goes forth cutting down most of the enemies. However, Lie and the others are surrounded by more warriors and Qing can't get to them due to Dan blocking and fighting him. Dan's ability of skulls fall down on to the people turning them into skeletal zombies. Qing joins them after he defeats Dan. They need Lie to use stealth to escape due to too many enemies, but before the could, Ning holds Jie hostage. Qing gives a signal to Lie and she and the group escape while Qing stays behind to rescue Jie. Lie takes everyone to Yunjiang Village for safety.

At Yunjiang Village right after Qing returns with Jie and Tang Nian, she introduces to Qing and Zui Zhang Fei, Minister of the Military Supervision Department of Renhua City and Wan Ya, Colonel of the Local Army by Lie. Fei and Wan tell Qing and Zui that their people are incompetent and failed to break the Fifth Elder enchantment of Xuan Nu Palace, Bai Ling and not being safe preparing a helicopter for the pair and with that, Qing and Zui fly back to the Imperial Capital.

A few days later, Lie brings Qing's family to the Royal Palace in the Capital. As Qing's family is welcomed by the Empress and Zui, Lie busts into the Palace being furious at Xiao. Lie reminds Xiao she made a promise with her son to be by his side at demilitarized zone though Xiao wants to live in the palace. Xiao is forced to go as Lie's guards take her away. Lie approaches the Empress who invites her to serve her once again putting their past problems behind them. Lie pledges her loyalty to her and is to report to Wu Su. The Empress is grateful that Lie opened the demilitarized zone.

The next day, Lie and Cheng Qian Shan are approached by Qing and Chen Hua Hua. Qing asks Lie if she can tell him the principle of the invisibility technique and wants to study the method of cracking it. Qian Shan mentions that Lie's master is Xi Ning's mother, but when both Ning and her mother decided to rebel, Lie was restrained and later she broke through the restriction with her own will causing the restriction to be loosen and can be used, but is not possible to teach it, otherwise the Empire would not have only one hidden master. Qing is told about invisibility which is a low-level version of invisibility which can only be used by oneself and they've been working on breakthroughs from invisibility to invisibility with little success. Qing asks to be teach invisibility and Qian Shan decides to let Han Shuang teach him who's been in the room all this time being invisible.

At Dark Guard Basement on the 5th Floor Training Room, Lie interrupts Qing's training with Shuang when she overheard him saying he wants to go to Xuan Nu Palace to "find something". Lie tells Qing with his his current tricks, he can't escape the eyes of a high-level concealment master and she will practice with him and sends Shuang away. Lie and Qing engage in a battle. Qing makes himself invisible, but Lie can easily detect him stating his presence is so conspicuous landing punches and blows onto his face. As Lie prepares to strike again, Qing goes invisible once more. Lie cannot feel him at all thus he passes the first level. Now they continue with the second level as Lie makes herself invisible and Qing has to find her. Her attacks are blocked as Qing can sense her. By learning well, he's able to find Lie. She asks how did he find out to which Qing says there'll be a slight distortion where the invisibility technique is cast, although it's only for a moment, but can capture it and with this Qing training in invisibility is complete. Lie states in mind that due to Qing being a genius, the day of the rise of men will come very soon.

Four days after in the Empress's office, Lie, Zui, and the Empress get information by the consort saying there's a powerful Holy Stone in Xuan Nu Palace, Qing was seriously injured by it, and his whereabouts are unknown as palace warriors are gathering the strength of the whole palace to find him. Zui wants to go and help, but Lie states to Zui she's the future of the Empire and not to take risks. The Empress gives Lie a Peony Order to Jing Men to mobilize all the troops along the way, surround Yunshan, frighten Xuan Nu Palace, and to make sure Qing comes back alive.

On the helipad, Lie boards the helicopter, but notices Zui in disguises as one of the pilots. Lie tells Zui she doesn't need to pretend as her mother knows that she has to go, letting her go to the front line with dignity, and boost her morale to which Zui says it's good. They both arrive on the battlefield to see that Qing has become victorious by destroying the holy stone and ending the war.

## Strength

As a material artist, Lie's powers have surpassed the 10 Great Experts in Jinmen City being a Fourth Grade Master and being in the Realm of Transformation. She's able to defeat Qing with ease during their first meeting. It is later revealed that Lie is the most powerful hidden teacher in the Empire.

## Trivia

* In Chapter - 160, it is implied that Lie may have a sexual interest in Qing in a way that is stated by Zui.
* In Chapter - 367, during the time Lie lived in the Royal Palace, she had seen dragons.