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Since then, Jin GuangYao would travel from Lanling to Qinghe every few days, playing Sound of Lucidity to help quell Nie MingJue rage. He tried his hardest, without speaking even a single word of complaint. Sound of Lucidity was indeed effective. Wei WuXian could clearly feel that the hostile energy within Nie MingJue was being suppressed.
The Nie have corpses about to turn buried with their swords, just to calm the resentment of the weapon and that was a secret. Their cultivation technique and the affect it has on them was a secret as well. We found this out during the course of the novel.
- Youth
- Demonic Cultivation with the Lanling Jin Clan
- Massacre of the Yueyang Chang Clan
- Initial Imprisonment
- Release and Revenge
Xue Yang grew up on the streets, without parents or money. He adored sweets but could rarely eat them.
When he was seven, he encounters Chang Ci'an, the leader of Yueyang Chang Clan. Chang Ci'an promises Xue Yang a plate of pastries if he delivered a letter for him, and Xue Yang happily agrees.
Unfortunately, the letter is a taunt to a brawny man with whom Chang Ci'an had a conflict. The brawny man beats Xue Yang and drags him by his hair back to the shop where he had seen Chang Ci'an.
Of course, Chang Ci'an is gone, and there are no pastries for Xue Yang. Eventually, a waiter throws him out of the shop, and Xue Yang happens to run into Chang Ci'an again. When Xue Yang clinds to his leg and asks for the pastries he was promised, Chang Ci'an kicks him away.
Distressed, Xue Yang runs after Chang Ci'an's ox cart, even jumping in front of it to force him to stop. Out of patience, Chang Ci'an takes the driver's whip and strikes Xue Yang before running the wheel of the ox cart over the child's hand, crushing his bones and reducing his little finger to battered flesh.
In his later youth, Xue Yang becomes infamous for his delinquency in Kuizhou.
Shortly after the end of the Sunshot Campaign, Jin Guangyao recommends Xue Yang to his father, Jin Guangshan, as a possible demonic cultivator. Xue Yang is the only recruit to show talent in the demonic arts, and he spends much of his time experimenting at a training area not far from Golden Carp Tower.
While experimenting on Fierce Corpses, Xue Yang shows his love for the macabre as he tries to serve Jin Guangyao tongue-infused tea.
Xue Yang participates in the extermination of the Tingshan He Clan, which had been framed for conspiring to assassinate Jin Guangshan after opposing his appointment as chief cultivator. When the leader of Tingshan He Clan, He Su, insults Jin Guangyao as the son of a prostitute, Xue Yang retaliates by removing his tongue before tossing him alive into the cages of fierce corpses, while He Su's younger brothers and sisters screamed in horror.
That same day, Xue Yang accompanies Jin Guangyao to a brothel to collect Jin Guangshan. After hearing Jin Guangshan tell a prostitute why he did not redeem Jin Guangyao's mother Meng Shi, Jin Guangyao asks Xue Yang for a favor – to burn down the brothel he grew up in. Xue Yang warns Jin Guangyao what that means, that he will not leave even animals alive.
When Xue Yang vandalizes a vendor's cart for a second time that day, Song Lan intervenes. Though he is disturbed by Xue Yang's savage style, Song Lan is pacified by Jin Guangyao and Xiao Xingchen's excuse of his youth.
Once Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen depart, Xue Yang declares that he despises both of them because he felt they looked down on him. Jin Guangyao warns him not to cross them again.
After Xue Yang managed to recreate the other half of the Yin Tiger Tally, he most likely chose to test it on Yueyang Chang Clan in revenge for Chang Ci'an's cruelty as a child, even though Chang Ci'an was no longer living.
Xue Yang destroys the clan's protective array to allow a group of powerful evil spirits inside. He leaves little evidence, and the only survivors of Yueyang Chang Clan are those who had been away night-hunting, including their leader Chang Ping, the son of Chang Ci'an.
Xiao Xingchen chases Xue Yang through three provinces before apprehending him for the massacre of the Yueyang Chang Clan. Xue Yang is then brought before a Discussion Conference at Golden Carp Tower. After presenting a straightforward list of evidence, Xiao Xingchen demands severe punishment.
Though all of the other clans agree, the Lanling Jin Clan is determined to protect Xue Yang due to his useful skills in demonic cultivation. As the stalemate continues, Nie Mingjue appears and unsheathes his saber on the spot with the intention of killing Xue Yang. When Jin Guangyao attempts to ease the situation, he orders the latter to leave.
In the end, the Lanling Jin Clan gives in, locking away the still-smiling Xue Yang. Before he is taken away, Xue Yang speaks affectionately to Xiao Xingchen: "Daozhang, you wouldn't forget me, would you? Let's wait and see."
Although the Lanling Jin Clan promises to execute Xue Yang, when Nie Mingjue leaves, Jin Guangshan commutes his death sentence to life imprisonment. Shortly afterward, Nie Mingjue conveniently passes away.
The powerful Lanling Jin Clan pressures Chang Ping to recant his words against Xue Yang. Fearing for the survival of the weakened Yueyang Chang Clan, Chang Ping eventually agrees to announce that the massacre had nothing to do with Xue Yang.
Xue Yang is freed, and he immediately sets out to gain revenge on Xiao Xingchen by targeting his close friend Song Lan. Xue Yang blinds Song Lan and massacres the temple he was raised in, Baixue Temple. As a result, Xiao Xingchen gives up his own eyes to restore Song Lan's sight.
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Nie Mingjue was born the son of Clan Leader Nie and his wife. After the death of Nie Mingjue's mother, his father raised a concubine to the status of wife – the mother of Nie Huaisang.[1] When Nie Mingjue is a teenager, he joins his father for a typical night-hunt. Both are unaware that a jealous Wen Ruohan has sabotaged his father's saber, and Nie Mingjue watches in horror as his father's ...
Jiang Fengmian kept his head down and complied with the Wens' demands because he was afraid of them, and closer to home, ignored his wife's verbal abuse of their children and physical abuse of his ward. JC is even worse: he does not send disciples out on nighthunts until someone has died.
↑ Back-calculated from Nie Mingjue’s age in comparison to Nie Huaisang, and his age at his father’s death. ↑ Novel, Chapter 21; ↑ Author Interview; ↑ Back-calculated from Xue Yang's age; see Sunshot Campaign. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Novel, Chapter 41; ↑ Back-calculated from Jin Guangyao’s age; see Sunshot Campaign. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Novel ...
Having made his name as a hooligan in Kuizhou, Xue Yang's massacre of the Yueyang Chang Clan and his eventual arrest by Xiao Xingchen was the point where the Nie and Jin Clans began to fall out. Xue Yang was imprisoned in Koi Tower until the death of Nie Mingjue, after which Jin Guangshan began to pressure the remnants of the Chang Clan to ...
