Thousand Lantern Tower
A legendary assassin organization, its existence is unknown to the world, whether it still exists or has disintegrated with the downfall of the old demonic sect. In reality, they are everywhere, lurking in the shadows, and no one has ever seen the true face of a Thousand Lantern Tower assassin and lived to tell the tale.
The Thousand Lantern Tower kidnaps children and trains them from a young age to become cold-blooded assassins, feeding them with corpse heart gu, causing excruciating pain when activated, ensuring their obedience. Furthermore, they have people secretly monitoring them, ready to erase all traces at the first sign of death or betrayal.
The Tower Master is the reincarnation of the former Blissful Sect leader, Shen Tulong, who ranks disciples based on the number of incense sticks burned during the ceremony. When making an incision, he would chant:
"Whose tomb is buried in the ancient temple, how many incense sticks are burned in the Thousand Lantern Tower?"
"A hundred years of life sealed in history, the Thousand Lantern Tower burns two incense sticks."
It is known that Jin Wu Shangren is the Head Instructor, second only to the Tower Master with five incense sticks, while Yu Xiaomei holds four incense sticks, and lower-ranking members must not disobey their superiors.
Thousand-Faced Demon
Not recognizing the true face of Lushan, Yama passes by as a stranger; If you recognize the true face of Lushan, who will come to cry at the lonely grave.
A legendary assassin of the Thousand Lantern Tower, rumored to have a thousand faces of demons, skilled in disguise, poison arts, trickery, rhetoric, and even capable of bewitching minds with illusion techniques. Their practice of the Formless Divine Art can mimic the internal energy traits of various martial arts schools, deceiving others with false appearances.
The Thousand-Faced Demon is just a title, an inherited name, as long as the Thousand Lantern Tower exists, the Thousand-Faced Demon will always endure. Known Thousand-Faced Demons include:
The first generation Thousand-Faced Demon, Monk Wunian, the Formless Ancestor, suspected to be linked to the senior monk Juehui of the Songshan Sect and the Xinghua Forest.
The second generation Thousand-Faced Demon, ||Hua Zhongxian. Sister of Lady Wen, posing as a senior sister of the Tang Sect and a disciple of the Jinxiang Palace, playing both sides. During the Fengyu Mountain incident, under Lady Wen's orders, Lady Wen disguised herself as a demon head, while Hua Zhongxian pretended to be Lady Wen captured by the demon head, staging a performance to allow the palace residents to escape the siege of the martial arts community.|| (v3206 unpublished information, requires decryption)
The third generation Thousand-Faced Demon, Yang Xuanqi. In pursuit of the former martial arts alliance leader Long Yuan, he disguised himself as a waiter at the Meishan Zhenchuan Inn for three years, married the innkeeper's daughter, who already had children. After hearing a statement from Long Yuan and presenting a secret message obtained from the Xinghua Forest, he decided to defect, leading to a fierce battle with the Thousand Lantern Tower assassins to lure them out and arranging for Yang's family to go to the Jinxiang Palace. Unfortunately, they could not escape the grasp of the Thousand Lantern Tower and were forced to participate in the Western Wulin battle to attack the Tang Sect.
The fourth generation Thousand-Faced Demon, Yu Xiaomei, a direct disciple of the Feitian Gate of the Kongtong Sect. A four-incense stick assassin of the Thousand Lantern Tower, secretly dividing the Kongtong Sect's four gates, seducing and killing numerous talents of the sect with her beauty, waiting for the right moment to overthrow the mighty Kongtong Sect.
Notes
Renamed to Thousand Roots Tower in the second creation- The Tower Master of the Thousand Lantern Tower most fears , calling her "highly intelligent and close to demonic, suspected not to be human."
- After the siege of Jiangling, ordered the Thousand Lantern Tower assassins to attack various sect bases, framing the Mud Sect. This indicates that Xinghua Xian has a certain level of control over the Thousand Lantern Tower.
- The Thousand Lantern Tower greatly fears the Tang Sect. The Tang Sect is skilled in poisoning and using hidden weapons to kill invisibly. If they turn light into darkness and disperse to various locations, they would be the most terrifying assassin organization on earth.
- Although most texts describe as the fourth generation, she is referred to as the fifth generation in front of Shen Tulong, for unknown reasons.
- was scolded by Shen Tulong as the worst among all generations of Thousand-Faced Demons, lacking determination and strength.
- Zhao Huo's face is too ugly, suspected to be a Thousand-Faced Demon wearing a human skin mask.
- Currently, the Thousand Lantern Tower's power in the plot seems weak, but Niao Xiong states that they are a mysterious assassin organization that will not easily reveal themselves to the public. [1]
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