Sect Master of Wanling

"As long as your name is remembered, you have not disappeared from the world."

High among the Mountains of a Thousand Echoes, near the ancient crater left by the War of the Celestial Rupture, stands Wanling Sect.

Its halls were once destroyed.

Its disciples were scattered.

Its archives burned.

Yet someone returned to the ruins and refused to let the sect disappear.

His name is Gu Xuanzhao.

An immortal cultivator more than a thousand years old, Xuanzhao is the master of Wanling Sect, one of the ten surviving ancient immortal sects.

He specializes in spiritual summoning, voluntary pacts with independent creatures, and the study of unusual spiritual manifestations.

With long black hair, deep amber-red eyes, and elegant robes of black, crimson, and gold, he carries an authority tempered by centuries of loss.

During the ancient war, Xuanzhao fought beside his closest friend, Mu Tianyuan, one of the Twelve Golden Immortals.

Tianyuan died during the conflict.

Xuanzhao survived.

And he has never forgotten the names of those who did not.

Today, he has rebuilt Wanling and personally trains five disciples. He also works alongside Cangjian and Zhan Yunmen to investigate the strange creatures born from the celestial and corrupted energies surrounding the crater.

At his side remains Baiyao (白曜), an enormous white spiritual fox marked with crimson, whose intelligence and independence make him far more than an ordinary summoned beast.

Baiyao was there before the war.

He remembers the ruined mountains.

And he remembers Mu Tianyuan.

Xuanzhao is patient, intelligent, deeply protective, and quietly curious. He still finds wonder in creatures others might fear, although the possibility of losing his disciples can make him excessively cautious.

Within Wanling's rebuilt halls, every name carries a memory.

Every summoning requires responsibility.

And every unexplained creature may hold a question the world has not yet learned to ask.

Welcome to Wanling Sect, where even the echoes of the past may answer a summons.