Laojun

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## Laojun

* Manhua
* Webseries

## Powers and abilities

### Skills

* Healing
* Teleportation
* Force field
* Elemental manipulation

## Appearances

* Lanxi Zhen (Chapter 1)
* The Legend of Luo Xiaohei (Episode 10)
* The Legend of Hei (mentioned)

## Image gallery

**Laojun** (老君, *Lǎojūn*) is Li Qingning's shifu and the deuteragonist of Lanxi Zhen. An immortal who has lived for over a thousand years, he owns the spirit realm wherein the town resides. During hard times, Laojun travels around and takes refugees with him to live under his shelter, giving them the freedom to stay or leave as they wish. He currently lives in seclusion on top of Laojun Mountain after taking a vow to neither leave his pavilion for a hundred years, nor interfere with any external affairs. He still has about 60-70 years left of this vow.

Along with Nezha, Yanming, and Emperor Yan, he is one of the four deities that founded the Elfin Guild.

## Appearance

Laojun has blue layered hair and blue eyes, and wears blue-themed clothing as well. He has a pair of large disc earrings, which are actually the Blue Jade Plates that he uses for teleporting. His hair is often tied back into a low ponytail. He is occasionally seen holding a pipe in his adult form.

In his current form, he takes on the appearance of a child but his voice remains that of an adult, an oddity that is pointed out by Luo Xiaobai. He calls this child form his "power-saving mode." He wears his hair loose and dons adult-sized clothes that look loose and disheveled on him. He sits on top of a floating platform, using it to get around.

He has a true form that is implied to look different from his current appearance, but he has said prefers his human form more.

## History

Laojun is already over a thousand years old and has been providing sanctuary in Lanxi Town for several generations already at the start of the manhua.

He has made several vows, recording them as "Oath Records". Those who complete the vows can get prizes. For example, there is a prize for those who do something to force Laojun.

## Personality

Laojun has an aloof, easy-going, seemingly imperturbable personality. He claims to not care about the life and death of humans and elfins, considering them to be the same as animals, but he continues going around war-torn areas to try to save as many people as he can anyway. Though he removes himself from the town’s affairs and does not interfere with their business, he admits a handful of times that he does care a lot for the people of Lanxi Town.

Currently, he spends his seclusion watching anime, reading manga, playing games, and issuing vows and challenges to people out of boredom. He has become even more easy-going than ever, sometimes even forgetting the challenges he himself made and treating the vows nonchalantly, though he’s serious about fulfilling them. He has not made new vows in decades due to being distracted by the internet. He seems to turn contemplative at the mention of the Fairy Qingning.

Though demonstrably capable of caring deeply for others, he has expressed having no capacity for feeling romantic attraction, despite the amount of people that have confessed their love for him throughout the centuries.

## Abilities

### Healing

He can restore another person's health instantly with a snap of his fingers, even from a distance away. However, he claims that healing is not actually his forte.

### Teleportation

He uses the Blue Jade Plate to teleport to saved coordinates, even going as far as the moon, but can teleport well enough on his own if it's just a short distance away.

### Force field

He can make impenetrable barriers around himself and others.

### Remote viewing

He uses spirit butterflies to observe other places and people. Wuxian has taken notice of this and expressed disapproval of Laojun's spying on him, so Laojun has been careful not to observe him through such means anymore.

### Elemental manipulation

He is able to manipulate elements to a limited degree, such as using fire to explode a log and restoring Wuxian's sword after it got broken while sparring with Xuanli.

### Telepathic empathy

He can experience other people's emotions telepathically despite not feeling the same emotions for himself.

## Relationships

### Li Qingning

Qingning has been dedicated to following Laojun ever since he saved her and her village from military bandits. She successfully passed his rigorous conditions for her to become his disciple and soon proved to be a natural talent at cultivating. Eventually, Qingning's affection for her shifu turned changed in nature and she confesses her feelings to him, but Laojun couldn't reciprocate her romantic attraction despite caring deeply about her. They continue being a close pair of master and disciple after that, with Laojun being especially protective of Qingning due to her being an extremely rare healing type.

Due to unknown circumstances, Qingning's whereabouts are currently unknown and Laojun is depicted to be heavily affected by it, keeping pieces of Qingning's wishes and memories alive by carving their first meeting on the Fire Borrower's Stone and keeping the Starry Night Lake in eternal nighttime. Asking or reminding him about the Fairy Qingning gives him pause, and the official MV of the theme song "Hush" depicts a scene of Laojun crying at the Fire Borrower's Stone.

### Xuanli

Laojun and Xuanli had known each other for over 60 years at the start of the manhua. Xuanli follows him around and happily serves as a sort of attack dog. They banter with each other frequently and easily. Due to unknown circumstances, Xuanli has left Lanxi Town and they now very rarely see each other.

### Diting

Diting was aggressive towards him at their first meeting, being extremely annoyed when Laojun keeps healing him during a fight and striving to attack him despite his impenetrable barrier. Somewhere down the line, he began working for Laojun instead, even acting as a sort of housekeeper tidying up the pavillion and errand runner acquiring merch from the outside world for him, since Laojun can't leave the mountain.

### Wuxian

Laojun took interest in Wuxian after seeing him at a siege in Luo City and started observing him through spirit butterflies since then. This proved helpful when Wuxian later got beaten up and had to be rescued and healed. They have mutual understanding and respect for each other's strength, with Wuxian coming to Laojun for help with his matters and Laojun considering Wuxian the most powerful being to ever exist.

### Lanxi Town residents

The Lanxi Town residents treat Laojun with reverence from having saved them from their circumstances and offering them a sanctuary completely free of charge and without any restrictions save for never being able to go back once they leave. In turn, Laojun cares deeply about them, being wistful when they age without him noticing and even stating that he would be so much sadder if the day comes that everyone leaves.

### Luo Xiaobai

Laojun and Xiaobai bond over their love for ACG, with Xiaobai promising to bring him more manga the next time they meet. Laojun genuinely enjoys her company and even lends her the Blue Jade Plate so she can come visit once a month.

## Trivia

* Laojun is a fictionalized version of Daode Tianzun (also known as Taishan Laojun).

## References

1. ↑ *The Legend of Luo Xiaohei*, CAT.11
2. ↑ *The Legend of Luo Xiaohei*, CAT.10
3. ↑ *Lanxi Zhen*, Chapter 15
4. ↑ *The Legend of Luo Xiaohei*, CAT.12
5. ↑ *Lanxi Zhen*, Chapter 77

## See Also

* Appearances of Laojun
* Mentions of Laojun