#yilong

Fun fact !! Despite appearances, the iconic weapons used by each Sect are based on creatures from Chinese mythology, with some major embellishment

For instance, the Heping Weishi's most iconic weaponry are their swarms of six-legged, four-winged drones, each equipped with deadly-sharp claws empowered with shining Fire qi - the Hundun swarms, feared by all the Sects. It's said that once a Hundun swarm is unleashed, they MUST taste blood or cause chaos, lest they turn on their regiment-master. They draw qi from either their regiment-master or the environment around them, depending on if they’re piloted or unpiloted

In stark contrast, the Eternal Line's most iconic weapons are the Qinglong, or Azure Dragons, giant, meticulously-crafted mechas shaped like twisting, wingless, five-clawed long - Chinese dragons. Known as a symbol of the Imperial authority of the Eternal Line's leadership, who claim descent from Qin Shi Huang himself, the Qinglong are comprised of two parts - the skeleton, and the Cradle. The skeleton itself is a thing of grey metal, every inch of it carved with water radicals at each pressure point. On it's own, it is lifeless, connected to the Cradle through its meridians

The Cradles are shining white cocoons carved with Metal radicals, the better to conduct the Water qi of the Yilong, whose name is derived from the mythological Yu and Ying Lung, and also means "According to the Dragon", The Yilong, the pilot of the Qinglong, seat themselves within the Cradle, at which point acupuncture needles puncture their spines, drawing out yin qi, and with it, Water qi, conducting both inwards and downwards to the hangar. The Metal radicals light up with shining white Metal qi, which then proceeds to start generating dark, cold, Water qi, and back in the hangar, the Qinglong skeletons activate, water wrapping around its body, glowing a dark blue, bringing it to life.

Notably, as Water qi moves inwards, the Qinglong can't breathe water unless piloted by a Yilong with exceptionally potent Fire or Wood qi. Instead, it's claws and teeth are deadly enough to match the threats of the Hundun and the Octafleet

They are also treated as sacred within the Line itself, with acceptance into a Yilong Academy being referred to as "becoming a Renxian", acceptance into the position of a Xiao-Yilong (or Ji-Yilong) being referred to as Dixian, and ascension to the position of Grand General of the Yilong (Jiao-Yilong or Da-Yilong) being referred to as Shenxian

Oddly enough, though the Line are descendants of the very-sexist Qin dynasty, the Qinglong mainly use water qi, water being the most yin of all elements. This means that it needs to draw yin qi from its pilots, yin qi being feminine in nature

This creates an odd dynamic where, despite everyday culture being misogynistic as all fuck, female and feminine-presenting Yilong are not only allowed, they are PREFERRED

At first glance, the Wumu Zhi Ren may seem to lack any ties to traditional Chinese mythology, with their weapon - the flying formation of eight mighty warships, each armed with cannons - known as the Octafleet seemingly having no mythological basis. Each warship is powerful, yes, being manned by two cannons upfront known as the Dragon Fangs, and two at the back called the Twin Flames, all four being able to cycle between blasts of a variety of different types of qi - though they favor Wood qi over all

Notably, these cannons are "radical cannons", looking like long, oversized rods of metal encircled by swirling, glowing rings of radicals - the color of the light directly correspondng to the type of radical powering. On being fired, the radicals swirl together to either form a character or an oversized radical, which shoots out through the rod's tip as a blast of qi

But that's just until you learn that the Grand Admiral of the Wumu Zhi Ren, the one who leads the Commandants of all the ships of the Octafleet, is known as the Jiuweihu, his traditional attire being a black fox mask with golden accents, and a skintight matching black-and-gold hanfu.

The ships are the nine tails of the Admiral's Nine-Tailed Fox. However, one got grounded in a confrontation with the Eternal Line sometime in 1996, leading to it being renamed to the Octafleet. However, the Wumu remember when they used to have nine ships, and to this day refer to the fleet as the Jiudingshao, the nine tails, and hate the Eternal Line for it

The Jiudingshao draw power from the environment around them. Unfortunately, this often leads to unbalanced natural qi, as displayed when the warship Shuilong drew so much qi from the environment around it that it triggered a massive storm, one that was only calmed when a Qinglong exploded in the middle of it, releasing its own qi back into nature and killing its Yilong

This also means that the place where the Jiudingshao are most often docked - the Yellow Mountains - are dry, dusty and grey, almost completely drained of qi by the warships. In fact, most people refer to them as the Pillars of Death because of this

Most of the Jiudingshao dock there temporarily. However, one ship - the flagship Daoren - stands there as a permanent fixture, a floating city above the mountains. This is because Daoren is IMMENSE, easily the size of Chang’an, and houses most of the Wumu Zhi REN’s members and their families in the city on its deck.

This means that, despite its shining hull, bristling with literally THOUSANDS of radical cannons, the Daoren is too valuable to risk in battle, meaning that the Wumu most often fight using lesser tails like the second-class Shuilong, or the third-class Huolong

And as for the Heiyubai, and the Golden Lotus ?

Well, the Heiyubai - a sect devoted to Daoism and the maintenance of balance - are pacifists, as are the Buddhist Golden Lotus, meaning that they use no Sect-wide weaponry

જ   ⃔ . . . 𝒁𝑯𝑼 𝒀𝑰𝑳𝑶𝑵𝑮, actor.

Pairing: Reaper! Yilong x Mentee! Reader

Genre: Supernatural! AU; Fluff; Mild Angst

They probably thought that reapers have it easy. Just collecting souls and what not but it isn't all that.

Each reaper is taught how to properly collect souls and they are assigned to mentors.

You were one of the more cheery type of reaper.

Unlike the other junior reapers, you tried to make friends and what not.

Some would say that you would probably fail as a reaper because you would be too sad for the soul to take it.

You hoped that you actually would be paired with a mentor that was not as deep and sullen like your fellow reapers.

And as if the world heard your prayer, you were paired with Wang Yilong. One of the kindest and most handsome senior reapers.

He smiled as soon as he met you and you could just feel fireworks going off in your head.

Was this what humans called love at first sight?

He was very warm and he jumped into discussing about what he had planned to teach you.

The other mentors rolled their eyes at the both of you. You were like two peas in a pod.

But there was a side to him that you didn't know.

When you two were just basing on books, he was very kind and gente. Like he couldn't even hurt a fly if it landed on him.

But out on the field...

You had watches as he swung his scythe and ripped through a soul before collecting it in a vial.

You have never been so aghast.

His features were sullen like the rest of the reapers.

He was just like the others.

This had been one of the reasons why you stopped attending your classes with him.

This made him worried that's why he visited you at home.

You were wary of letting him inside so you pretended that you were not there.

If you stopped the process of being a reaper, you would be turned into an ordinary soul for the reapers to "practice" on.

Yilong did not want that to happen.

He may or may have grown fond of you too.

That's why it was just so important to be able to save you.

He tried that everyday.

Knocking at your home.

No answer.

Until he finally felt like he had to intrude.

"What's wrong?" He asked as he saw you wrapped in a blanket.

"I can't be...like you. I can just tear up souls..." you whimpered as you inched away from him.

He knew he probably scared you.

But he used to be scared too.

He pulled you into an embrace and that caused you to get flustered.

He had told you that he was once like you and he had been scared too but he had to be who he was to protect his own life.

He told you how there were a lot of thigs in life that you had to face and this was one of them.

"If you ever get scared, you can always lean on me. I'll protect you from your own worries." He smiled softly as you started to calm down.

He spent the next few days training you.

You eventually faced your fear.

To everyone's surprise.

But they were all curious why Yilong kept spending his collection with you.

Like he never wanted anyone else to take shifts with you.

They all thought you two were just dating.

Well, they're not completely wrong.

Since Yilong and you were both very efficient in collection, you two would try to blend in as humans.

Touring all the nice stores to destress after the soul-ripping part.

《 BOOM BOOM BOOM  》cover by ZOOM, COSMOS, and Hongyi

featuring: He Dongdong, Yang Feitong, Wang Yilong, Zhang Dayuan, Chen Minghao, Chen Siqi, Xu Heni