Mo Xi/History

## Mo Xi

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* Novel (CN)
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Yaoling Dongjun
曜灵东君 *Yàolíng Dōngjūn*

	+ Northern Frontier Army (commander, former)
* Wangshu Academy

## History

### Early Childhood

Mo Xi was born to Mo Qingchi, the head of the Mo Family and the commander of Chonghua's troops who is also known as Fuling-jun, and Madam Mo. He came from a prestigious bloodline, as his maternal grandfather, paternal grandfater, and Mo Qingchi himself were generals of Chonghua.

When Mo Xi was still a young and inexperienced child, he did not know what the flames of war and found fighting and war attractive solely because of his father. He idolized him. Mo Xi would often ask his father questions about his spiritual weapons Shuairan and Xiaoyue. After learning that he would get his own spiritual weapon by joining the Cultivation Academy at age seven, the five-year-old Mo Xi eagerly counted the days until his seventh birthday. He wanted to join the academy as soon as possible because it would let him be one step closer to fighting shoulder to shoulder with his father on the battlefield.

Seven hundred days passed since Mo Xi first decided he wanted to join the academy and the fated day of his seventh birthday had approached. The day that supposed to be the happiest day of his life was met with calamity. A report had come in and it was declared that his father, Mo Qingchi, had died. Mo Qingchi had been brutally murdered by his second-in-command and died without an intact corpse with his spiritual core dug out.

#### Mo Qingchi's Death

Mo Xi recalls that as a child he did not understand the words and praises people used to describe his father's death. They called him a "martyr" and a "heroic soul" but he did not know what it meant; all he wanted was for his father to be home with him. He regretted rushing these past two years thinking they were boring because now, he could never get back those moments he spent with his father. Mo Xi, at age seven, finally learned what "death" meant.

Everything seemed normal as Mo Xi's "wolf-hearted" uncle, Mo Xianting, prepared Mo Qingchi's funeral for Mo Xi and Madam Mo, who had been crying "unseemly". Soon however, scandal after scandal begin piling up one after another, as Madam Mo marries Mo Xianting and Mo Xianting stages a coup, causing the Mo Family's reputation to catastrophically plummet. The exact timing of the coup is unclear, but it is confirmed that his uncle stayed alive until Mo Xi joined the army and received the title of Xihe-jun. It is also to be noted that Madam Mo had not been faithful to Mo Qingchi and had an affair with Mo Xianting prior to his death. The young Mo Xi witnessed their affair and developed extreme mysophobia about relationships.

During this time Mo Xi had to be constantly wary about everyone because the servants in the manor all reported back to his uncle, and everyone outside avoided and would have liked nothing more than to "wipe him out like mud on the bottom of their shoe." Mo Xianting also repeatedly delayed his entrance into the Cultivation Academy to make things difficult for him, saying that Mo Xi would *"observe the mourning period for his father for three years"* or that he had a weak constitution. Mo Xi did not know what he done wrong to deserve all that was happening to him and suffered constantly without a single person he could trust or find comfort in. It is amidst the gossip of the Mo Family's assured demise, that the late emperor thought that he could not delay his studies anymore, and Mo Xi finally entered the Cultivation Academy.

#### Tuntian

It is revealed later that Tuntian, the Spiritblessed Beast, chose Mo Xi as his master when Mo Xi was a child and had also had a prophecy that Mo Qingchi would die soon, his family would collapse, and that *"the only thing to keep his son safe form abuse was the strongest magic-itself."* Knowing this, Mo Qingchi sealed the Spiritblessed Beast's spirit pearl in Mo Xi's body before he died, which kept him safe and allowed him to possess unnaturally large amounts of innate power and ability.

### Cultivation Academy

Due to Mo Xi's immense spiritual energy and innate talent, he was recognized by the Academy's most ruthless elders almost immediately after entering the Cultivation Academy. He burned down ten of the Academy's spiritual power testing pillars at ten-years-old. Dedicated to his studies, Mo Xi was the picture of diligence and would practice spiritual techniques in the shooting range until late in the night. Although he was always seen alone and was not very talkative, and due to his family status and abilities, Mo Xi was always the subject of many rumors that spread among the disciples of the Academy. Disciples would complain about his attitude saying that he was arrogant, faking diligence, and didn't have to work that hard because he was favored by the headmaster. Lastly, the disciples would wonder about the source of Mo Xi's tremendous spiritual power and would speculate that he used some mysterious dark magic to get so strong.

It was there at the Cultivation Academy that he met Gu Mang as well.

Later on, Mo Xi got involved in a serious incident where he was punished for breaking the biggest taboo in the cultivation academy: interacting with slaves. Mo Xi had been training in drill ground, when two slaved sneaked up to him and tried to steal his money pouch which prompted him to summon his holy weapon, Shuairan. These slaves had been hired by Murong Lian to bait Mo Xi into helping them so that Murong Lian could report Mo Xi for breaking a taboo. Oblivious to Murong Lian's plot, once Mo Xi heard the slaves desperate pleading, he withdrew Shuairan, silently gave them his money pouch, and left. These slaves then obediently reported back to Murong Lian who gleefully filed a complaint against Mo Xi to the academy's regulation elder, stating that that Mo Xi had openly defied academy rules and privately interacted with slaves. Mo Xi was punished by getting whipped and beaten and took it silently without a word of complaint.

Days later, a worried Gu Mang who had witnessed the whole thing from afar, gazed at Mo Xi from behind a tree. When Mo Xi spotted him, Gu Mang immediately felt nervous and ran away after being called over by Lu Zhanxing.

Mo Xi began seeing Gu Mang more often in exorcism missions at the Cultivation Academy and though he was easily prone to anger and treated Gu Mang rudely, Gu Mang would always respond back to him with a smile and bore no ill-will towards Mo Xi. This was the first time after experiencing a period of hardship and betrayal that Mo Xi met someone who wanted to befriend him with no ulterior motives. Gu Mang's kindness eventually thawed Mo Xi's heart and freeing him from a mind filled of hatred and rekindling his hope in humanity.

#### Slave Collar

It was during one of those exorcism missions that Gu Mang came across a village suffering from sickness. Gu Mang, motivated by kindness, impersonated Murong Lian to compel the imperial healers to prescribe medicine for them. When Murong Lian found out, he punished Gu Mang by whipping him 80 times and ordering him to kneel on the academy walkway for 20 days straight. On a rainy-day Mo Xi walked near the academy walkway when and saw Gu Mang obediently kneeling in the rain as onlookers passed by. Knowing what had happened, Mo Xi swiftly covered Gu Mang with is umbrella and then went to Murong Lian to ask for leniency on Gu Mang's behalf. Murong Lian ignored Mo Xi's protests of anger and instead put a slave collar on Gu Mang, torturing him till he was lying in a pool of his own blood. Finally, Murong Lian agreed to stop under the condition that in the coming cultivation tournament on New Year's Eve, Mo Xi would purposefully lose to Murong Lian. Mo Xi accepted the conditions without complaint to prevent no further harm from befalling Gu Mang.

## References

2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Novel, Chapter 67: Trust Me Once More
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Novel, Chapter 64: Mo Xi Can Hold His Drink
4. ↑ Novel, Chapter 25: I Want a Home
5. ↑ Novel, Chapter 100: Xi-Mei Wronged
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Novel, Extras, Chapter 197: Dream of Youth (1)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Novel, Chapter 16: Suspicion
8. ↑ Novel, Chapter 193: With You
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Novel, Chapter 102: Sharing A Room
10. ↑ Novel, Chapter 11: Slave Collar
11. ↑ Novel, Chapter 12: Murong Lian