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So we have the setup for why JGY wanted to play for NMJ instead of LXC. LXC knows that the song was needed to help calm NMJ's spirit, but it isn't a cure all for his eventual qi deviation. LXC may have expected this to happen eventually. He knew NMJ and JGY's relationship was rough at that point, but he had no reason to doubt JGY in what he was ...
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.
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- Inheriting The Qinghe Nie Clan
- Sunshot Campaign
- Fall of Wei Wuxian
- Saber Spirit
- Thirteen Years Later
- Animation Divergence
- Web Series Divergence
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. 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 Mi...
Hejian
Nie Mingjue leads the front at Hejian during the Sunshot Campaign where he beheads Wen Xu, the eldest son of Wen Ruohan. To strike fear into the Qishan Wen Clan cultivators, Nie Mingjue commands Wen Xu's head to be displayed and his body trampled into the earth. When he inquires after the cultivator who cleans up the battlefields, he is directed to Jin Guangyao, then known as Meng Yao, a well-known joke in the cultivation world. Meng Yao is the bastard son of a prostitute and Jin Guangshan, t...
Langya
Several months later, Nie Mingjue leads his cultivators to aid Jin Guangshan in Langya. When Nie Mingjue inquires after Meng Yao, Jin Guangshan pretends not to recognize the name, to Nie Mingjue's irritation. Nie Mingjue begins to look throughout the battlefield, sure that Meng Yao will be cleaning up as he has always done. To his fury, Nie Mingjue witnesses Meng Yao use the techniques of the Qishan Wen Clan to kill a commander of the Lanling Jin Clan. He confronts Meng Yao, who pleads a mome...
Lan Xichen begins to receive letters from a spy in Nightless City, which he often passes to Nie Mingjue, leading him to win victory after victory. However, more members of the Qishan Wen Clan are present than expected during a surprise attack on Yangquan.Nie Mingjue is heavily injured, and he and several subordinates are captured and brought before Wen Ruohan in Nightless City. Nie Mingjue then learns that Wen Ruohan's right-hand man is none other than Meng Yao. When one of his subordinates r...
Nie Mingjue is one of over fifty clan leaders and other cultivators present at Golden Carp Tower's emergency meeting in the aftermath of Wei Wuxian freeing the remnants of the Qishan Wen Clan from the Lanling Jin Clan's forced labor camp at Qiongqi Path. The abusive nature of the camp is denied by the overseers and thus treated as speculation by th...
Lan Xichen teaches Jin Guangyao to play Purification Tone on to counter the power of Nie Mingjue's growing saber spirit. As Lan Xichen was busy with the rebuilding of the Cloud Recesses at the time, Jin Guangyao takes over playing for Nie Mingjue, and their relationship begins to improve.
Massacre of Yueyang Chang Clan
Although Nie Mingjue had not intended to attend the Discussion Conference at Golden Carp Tower, he comes after hearing that Xiao Xingchen has amassed solid evidence that the Lanling Jin Clan's guest disciple Xue Yangwas responsible for massacring the Yueyang Chang Clan. Every other clan had agreed that Xue Yang should be executed, but the Lanling Jin Clan refused. Nie Mingjue delivers an angry lecture towards Jin Guangshan, and even presses Baxia against Xue Yang's throat, threatening to kill...
Death
Wei Wuxian strongly implies that Jin Guangyao elects to kill Nie Mingjue after being called the "son of a prostitute."Moreover, Jin Guangyao hints that Jin Guangshan had also desired Nie Mingjue's death for political convenience. Jin Guangyao visits Nie Mingjue the day after their argument on the stairs, bringing along presents for Nie Huaisang. Frustrated by Nie Huaisang's affection for Jin Guangyao and his inability to learn saber techniques, Nie Mingjue berates his young brother before ord...
After Mo Xuanyu sacrifices his body to summon Wei Wuxian, Nie Huaisang throws Nie Mingjue's arm into Mo Village, where the arm alone kills three members of the Mo family and a servant. The junior disciples of the Gusu Lan Clan are unable to suppress its power, and call on Lan Wangjito save the village. Lan Wangji returns the arm to the Cloud Recesses for examination. When he, Lan Qiren, and several elders attempt Evocation, only for the arm to badly injure everyone save Lan Wangji. He and Wei...
Nie Mingjue's legs are placed with the body of a different corpse in the Qinghe Nie Clan's ancestral hall,meaning his resentful energy would have been battling with the sabers of his own ancestors.
Yueyang Chang Clan Cemetery
Nie Mingjue's torso is recovered from the cemetery of the Yueyang Chang Clan, although Lan Wangji battles the Gravedigger for it.Presumably, the Gravedigger had realized that Nie Mingjue's body parts were being collected and wishes to thwart their efforts for the sake of his friend Jin Guangyao.
In the animation, Meng Yao kills Wen Ruohan to assist Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue as they fight against him side-by-side, rather than to save the captured Nie Mingjue.
In the Web Series, Meng Yao is appointed to be Nie Mingjue's right-hand man prior to the start of the Sunshot Campaign. The relationship between Nie Mingjue and Meng Yao falls out during an attack by Wen Chao and Wen Zhuliu, when Meng Yao seizes the opportunity to kill a general of Nie Clan who bullied him, as part of an implied plot to free Xue Ya...
As a junior disciple of the Lanling Jin Clan, Xue Yang views the cultivators around him with contempt and shows no fear in the presence of the intimidating Nie Mingjue. Xue Yang seems particularly sensitive to the notion that people look down on him, often reacting with killing intent.
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 ...
↑ 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 ...
Feb 27, 2019 · Nie Mingjue was a former leader of the Qinghe Nie Sect and the older half-brother and predecessor of Nie Huaisang. He is also known by his title Chifeng-zun. Nie Mingjue's personality was defined by strictness, a bad temper and an intolerance for anything deviating from the moral good. His temper only worsens over the years, as the saber spirit ...
