Tianshan Tonglao

Tianshan Tonglao (Child Old Woman of Mount Heaven) is Wuyazi's senior and the ruler of Lingjiu Palace on Mount Heaven. She mastered a powerful skill that increased her powers but one of its side effects is that she will maintain her present body size regardless of age.

She is already in her 90s when the events of the novel take place, but since she started practising the skill in her childhood, her body is that of a child's, hence her name. She used the "Life and Death Talisman" to poison many smaller martial arts sects and force them to submit to her.

If they followed her orders, she would periodically give them an antidote to temporarily ease their suffering; if they did not, they would suffer painful deaths. She generally treated them very harshly. The sects cannot tolerate her cruelty and eventually decide to rebel against her. When the rebellion occurred, she is in a temporary state of weakness and is kidnapped from the palace by one of the rebels, Wu Laoda, who does not recognise her.

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Host : Tianshan Tonglao
Chinese : 天山童姥
Gender : Female
Organization : Lingjiu Palace
Status : Ruler of Lingjiu Palace
Senior Brother : Wuyazi (Senior Ruler of Mount Heaven)
Junior Brother : Xuzhu (Student of Wuyazi)
Junior Sister : Li Qiushui
Appeareance(s) : Demi Gods and Semi Devils
Potrayer : Chan On Ying

Xuzhu saves and protects her from the rebels and Li Qiushui. In return, she offers to teach him martial arts but he declines because he sees himself as a Shaolin monk. In order to force Xuzhu to break the Buddhist code of conduct so that he can no longer be a monk.

She captures Princess Yinchuan, tricks her and Xuzhu into consuming aphrodisiac, and lets them make love. Xuzhu is unable to restrain himself and eventually breaks his code and accepts Tianshan Tonglao's tutelage in martial arts. Tianshan Tonglao dies from exhaustion after her final fight with Li Qiushui.