Moji.

Among the Pillars of Kunlun Moji is the youngest, and in the Mandate Encampment he is the most beloved figure, a scholar and swordsman whose absence colours the camp you battle through.

Third disciple of the Kunlun Sect, he is mild and relaxed, equally skilled with brush and blade, and capable of untangling a whole web of grievances through conversation. Together with his senior sister Yuyin and second brother Huangxing, he made up the three Pillars of Kunlun, whose martial ability was level and whose fame spread jointly throughout the Wulin.

His presence is felt through his followers, the objects they preserved for him and the sites that carry his name. Zhao Di, Zhuge Feng, Wei Sanchuan and Liu Yi are four of his disciples, and once you retrieve his sword it turns into the Ink Cut Phantom Edge.

Three Pillars and an Oath

Yuyin burned hot, Huangxing kept his silence, and Moji was mild. Nobody outmatched anyone in ability, and so the Wulin bowed to the first, dreaded the second and cherished the third. A calmer era would have made Moji a poet and a scholar.

After the Maskwalker uprising began, the Mandate dispatched the trio to the Ye Town region, tasked with uniting the weaker sects and destroying what remained of the Maskwalkers. They vowed there that they would never rest while a single Maskwalker lived.

The Rift With Huangxing

Yuyin then disappeared, and the trio's balance fell apart. Moji and his brother grew distant. Huangxing encountered a mysterious figure known as the Young Master, and afterwards commanded those nearest him to go through Perfect Transcension. Moji said no: to fight evil by means of evil would leave them indistinguishable from the Maskwalkers.

Before leaving, he spent his last night collecting his earlier notes into one volume. In it he wrote out everything about the alliance with the Order from the year before, leaving the reader to decide. He also marked on a map the northern range, the place where Huangxing would meet the Young Master and the source of the weeping.

A Brother Sealed in the Shrine

The brothers eventually stood against one another, weapons drawn. With his own hands Huangxing walled Moji up inside the statue in the shrine of the Lady of the Veil, so all the world can now see of Moji is a motionless figure. A cenotaph in his memory is kept at the Encampment.

Huangxing's edict afterwards recast what happened to Moji's senior sister and why he went away. It says Yuyin died fighting, and it denounces Moji as a coward who ran from combat and betrayed the alliance. Disciples of Moji refuse to accept this; they charge Huangxing with their master's murder.

Legacy Held by the Disciples

Zhao Di spent days searching for his missing master and came back with no remains and no proof. He, Zhuge Feng and Wei Sanchuan then put their names to a declaration branding Huangxing a traitor to the Mandate. Prior to leaving, Moji had given Wei Sanchuan a spare key for the outer gate of the Encampment, and Wei Sanchuan took it out of the camp.

Moji's house belongs to this story too. During his time there nobody ever locked the door, and visitors who wished to learn, call or test a blade were received. When he vanished, his disciples took to locking it, and its key can be picked up from a chest in the Encampment as a collectible.

The Sword in the Cage

The sword came from Lijian Manor; its tip was blunt and plain, yet a mere breath could propel it to sweep filth aside. Maskwalkers held a cave where it was discovered, soaked in blood. Liu Yi, his disciple, took it back and sacrificed his life for the blade. To finish the side quest Hero's Lament, lift the Bloodstained Sword out of a lowered cage on the Mountain of Imprisonment and carry it to Liu Yi.

Lijian Manor produced Moji's sword, plain and blunt-tipped, which breath by itself could propel to scrub filth off. Within the game it is named Moji's Bloodstained Sword, and after Liu Yi gets it back it becomes the Ink Cut Phantom Edge. A jet-black blade once wielded by Moji, Ink Cut is listed with 400 damage and 324 guard break.

The Mandate Encampment is where Moji belongs: his house sits on the road between the valley gate and the outer gate, and Moji's Cenotaph commemorates him there. A bell on the Encampment route is also found at the Cenotaph. Further along, on the Mountain of Imprisonment, are his relics.

Lines attributed to Moji

“Qianqian, you're always chasing stories instead of focusing on your training.”

One of the voiced lines of Moji.

“Qianqian... I'm telling you this so you won't lose yourself in the legends of the Wulin.”

Advice against losing oneself in stories.

“And Master Huangxing... he seems more withdrawn than ever these days...”

About the change in how his brother acts.