The Demonic Left Arm is a dismembered left arm containing unusually powerful resentful energy. It is eventually revealed to be part of the Fierce Corpse of Nie Mingjue.
History[]
Mo Village[]
The demonic arm is set loose in Mo Village to attack the junior disciples of the Gusu Lan Clan. Desperate to find a replacement body, the Demonic Left Arm kills multiple people in one night, an unprecedented level of ferociousness.[1]
Its four victims – Mo Ziyuan, his father, Madam Mo, and A-Tong – were left as dried husks with missing left arms.[1]
After the discovery of Mo Ziyuan's body, the next victim is Mo Ziyuan’s father, who uncharacteristically pushes his wife with his left arm. When Mo Ziyuan’s father is led outside by A-Tong, he dies and the arm transfers to A-Tong.[1]
The arm then propels A-Tong to involuntarily break his own neck. In the chaos, Madam Mo faints and the arm transfers to her, leading to her demise.[1]
The young disciples of the Gusu Lan Clan are tipped off to what kind of entity they are dealing with by Wei Wuxian, in the body of Mo Xuanyu.[2]
The arm is immune to Talismans and spiritual swords; it is only temporarily subdued by the outer garments of the Gusu Lan Clan disciples because of the spells sewn onto them. Wei Wuxian also attempts to subdue the arm by turning the recently deceased members of the Mo family into fierce corpses and ordering them to attack it, to no avail.[2]
In the end, the arm is only subdued by Lan Wangji’s guqin Wangji.[2]
Cloud Recesses[]
After the arm is subdued, Lan Wangji brings it back to the Cloud Recesses. While he and Lan Qiren attempted to conduct a soul summoning ritual using Evocation, everyone involved collapses and begins bleeding from their seven orifices (eyes, ears, mouth, and nose) – with the notable exception of Lan Wangji. The failed ritual prompts the bell in the Mingshi to ring on its own accord.[3]
Wei Wuxian promptly arrives to join Lan Wangji in an unsuccessful duet of Evocation. After the failure of Evocation, they successfully play Rest to pacify the arm.[3]
Wei Wuxian speculateds that Evocation fails because the person whose body the arm belonged to also had his soul cut into pieces as part of a suppression ritual.[3]
Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji then notice that the arm is pointing to the northwest direction. It continues to point in this direction, even after being physically moved. Wei Wuxian informs Lan Jingyi that the arm is either pointing to the direction of the rest of its body parts or the person who made it this way.[4]
Qinghe[]
After following the direction that the arm pointed to, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji arrive in Qinghe, the territory of the Qinghe Nie Clan. Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji then discover the legs of the corpse that the arm belonged to in the wall of one of the Nie Clan's Stone Castles.[5]
Yueyang Chang Clan Cemetery[]
The arm next directs them to Yueyang, where Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji accidentally witness the torso of the corpse being dug up by an unknown Gravedigger in the Yueyang Chang Clan's cemetery. After a fight with the Gravedigger, they are able to recover the torso.[4]
Yi City[]
Lan Wangji finds the corpse's right arm in Yi City after splitting up with Wei Wuxian.
Tanzhou[]
The arm and the rest of its body parts are able to automatically reassemble themselves as an almost complete body in an abandoned garden in Tanzhou. After fighting the corpse, Lan Xichen recognizes its movements as that of his sworn brother Nie Mingjue.[6]
Web Series Divergence[]
The Web Series replaces the Demonic Left Arm with a sword spirit tainted by the Yin Tiger Tally. The tainted spirit is Baxia, the saber of Nie Mingjue. Like the arm, the sword points their way towards discovering his body.[7]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The arm was unable to point to where its head was, probably due to the forbiddance talismans on its head.[8]
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