Wind God Xie Wuchen

First Meeting1 / 6

A famous young expert of the Emei Sect, known as the "Wind God".
An Emei expert as renowned in the Jianghu as the Tang Clan Flying Hero Tang Buyi, skilled in Leg Techniques.
He styles himself the lifelong rival of your Eldest Senior Brother. Very annoying, he fights on sight, though there is also a fine tale of them roaming the Jianghu together.

Biography

Though Xie Wuchen is one of the righteous factions, he is competitive and loves a fight, and must pester and challenge every famous expert he meets, for which he has suffered no small number of setbacks.

His signature skill, the Wind-Thunder God Kick, evolved from the family art Wind God Steps and Emei's supreme Thunder God Kick combined into one. Unleashed, he can kick and borrow force as he goes, kicking men to death in midair.

The "Wind God" epithet was spread by people he paid five taels of silver to talk him up. Where else would such a dashing title come from?

Tang Buyi

• Ever since the two first entered the Jianghu ten years ago, Tang Buyi has kept him one step behind, turning up wherever he goes and stealing all the spotlight.
• The Twin Elites of Shu, Flying Heaven and Cloud Dragon. Flying Heaven is the Flying Hero Tang Buyi; Cloud Dragon is Xie Wuchen.
• Though he was compared to the Liangshan hero "Dragon in the Clouds", he disliked carrying on an ancestor's epithet. On others' advice he paid ten taels for a scholar to devise a new one, then another five taels to have it spread, and changed it to "Wind God". After the change, it was Tang Buyi who became happy, calling it out with winks and grins all day and even burning incense to him.
• To settle who was better, he once led Imperial Soldiers in a ten-day battle against Tang Buyi, who had seized a water bandits' stronghold. Afterwards he was beaten back up the mountain by the to reflect on his conduct. The Wulin calls it the "Mianyang Marsh Incident".
• He once traveled the Jianghu in a party of five with Tang Buyi, Xiahou Lan, and a pair of shepherd partners in the Jianghu from beyond the passes.
• He never visited a brothel with Tang Buyi, though he was once tricked into paying the bill.^[1]
• In his contests with Tang Buyi, Xie Wuchen has twenty-nine wins, thirty losses, and forty-seven draws. But the contests were not always martial: Tang Buyi would trick him into seeing who could hold his liquor better, then immediately into who could spend more freely, all so he would not have to pay for the drinks.^[1:1]
• He took part in the 's marriage contest, not to win her hand but to vet the 's betrothed for him. He would not touch Tang Buyi's woman. was at first delighted to see such a hero come courting, but after a long talk that night he gave up the notion of entrusting the Junior Martial Sister to him.

Shame of Emei

• Certified by the as the Shame of Emei.
• In the Emei Sect his standing is second only to the , but his irresponsibility rivals Tang Buyi's.^[1:2]
• Though Xiang Wuyou does not want to be Sect Leader, he would never hand the seat to Xie Wuchen, because he is utterly unreliable.^[2]
• Whenever Xie Wuchen is at Emei, the nags him to take disciples and pass on his martial arts. He does not want disciples, since taking them means being responsible for teaching them, so he only puts it off with vague answers. In the end this brought on a guilty conscience, and he dreamed of the Patriarch scolding him. Suspecting something strange about the Secret Manual in his hands, he casually passed one of the Emei Sect's finest arts to .^[3]

Defeats

• In physique and foundation he is sounder than the , yet he often loses in the Jianghu and his record is far worse than the Eldest Senior Brother's. This is because the is cunning by nature: if a fight offers no profit and the opponent is not a sure win, he will not provoke it. Xie Wuchen, by contrast, is martial-minded, combative, and jealous of his reputation. Roaming the Jianghu, whenever he meets a famous hero he must seek instruction, and inevitably runs into a hard case. When the calls him lacking, he means lacking elsewhere, not in martial arts.
• On the day the Shangguan Family held a banquet for the Imperial Court's envoy, he came upon the harassing the common folk. Eager to show off before Shangguan Ying, he blocked Liu E and demanded his execution. But Liu E snatched a passerby's sword and used "Provoking Sword" to beat him so badly he could bring none of his skills to bear, and he coughed blood and conceded in a fury. He was forced to rename the Wind Thunder Divine Leg to "Very Forceful Kick" and ran back to in tears, shutting himself indoors for quite a while.
• At the siege of Jiangling he faced Wang Erzhuang and, after another defeat, loudly declared his retirement. Gang Leader Wang remarked that his Qinggong and Leg Techniques were both first-rate; what he lacked was meditation to cultivate his mind.
• In the Western Wulin he intercepted the Diancang Twin Venerables. He did his utmost and nearly died. Afterwards he proposed to Xiang Wuyou that they create a Combined-Strike Leg Technique, and was flatly refused.

Notes

• If Zhao Huo says he is on good terms with Liu E, he will cut ties at once, very decisively.
• When Xiahou Lan, kidnapped by Tang Buyi and the others, called to Xie Wuchen for help, he was set upon and beaten too. Afterwards he joined the party without being asked, and the five of them roamed the Jianghu together.
• He never took an interest in Xiahou Lan, his former traveling companion, yet looking back he finds his heart stirring a little. Thank goodness the picked fights with him all day back then and kept him distracted.
• When Tang Jiaojiao came to Emei to canvass for the Western Wulin, fighting her way up to the Emei great hall, Xie Wuchen pushed the out in front of him and hid far away.

---

1. Facebook－Original Bird Bear 2024/3/11 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

2. PTT C Chat－[Legend of Mortal] Long Xiang and Strange Trivia P4 ↩︎

3. PTT C Chat－[Legend of Mortal] Secret Manual: Very Forceful Kick ↩︎