History Characters / GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShiMiscellaneousCharacters

* AdaptationalSexuality: While the novel describes him as a homosexual, the live-action series enforces a sexuality change due to censorship by making him straight. Thus the rumors state that he made a move on [[spoiler:Qin Su]] instead of [[spoiler:Jin Guangyao]] himself, although there are some hints [[HiddenDepths where not all is at it seems]].

Another illegitimate son of Jin Guangshan taken in by Jin Guangshan after the death of Wei Wuxian. A homosexual ("cut-sleeve" in Chinese parlance), his choice of paramour was [[SiblingIncest Jin Guangyao]] -- which did not bode well for his reputation. Jin Guangyao was, however, one step ahead of him, and chased Mo Xuanyu out of Golden Carp Tower at the first chance, on top of (allegedly) driving Mo Xuanyu insane. However, Mo Xuanyu had read the theory of the sacrificial rite, and used it to summon a villainous ghoul to possess his body, trading his own soul to kill the Mo family.\\

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Zhang Jie (animation), Tong Yin (audio drama), Lu Zhixing (web series)\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/RyoheiKimura (animation), Kazuhisa Nakayama (audio drama)\\
'''Played by:''' Xiao Zhan (web series)

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Xu Jiaqi (animation), Chen Nianru (audio drama), Zhang Yumeng (web series)\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/{{Lynn}} (animation, web series), Creator/MayuMineda (audio drama)\\
'''Played by:''' Wang Yifei (web series) [[note]] Not the same actress as the one who plays Xiao Qing in ''The Living Dead''. [[/note]]

* DependingOnTheArtist: While both her ''donghua'' and ''manhua'' designs feature her in warm pink robes, her hairstyle, hair color, and facial features are completely distinct from the other.

* PinkMeansFeminine: Her character designs in the AnimatedAdaptation and ''manhua'' feature her with pink clothing and hair decorations. Her beauty was enough to catch the interest of the womaniser Wen Chao.

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Bai Xuecen (web series)\\
'''Played by:''' Liu Tingyu (web series)

* MysticalWhiteHair: In the ''manhua'', she's depicted with either white or light grey hair, befitting of her reputation as a powerful and immortal cultivator.

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Chen Nianru (audio drama)

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Wu Hao (audio drama)

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Liao Jing (animation), Chang Rongshan (audio drama)\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Saori Okamoto (animation), Kae Oki (audio drama)\\
'''Voiced by (Korean):''' Sin Gyeong-sun (animation)\\
'''Played by:''' Jia Shuyi (web series)

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Xing Chao (animation), Li Qingyang (audio drama)\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Yusuke Sasaki (animation), Takeshi Nishimura (audio drama)\\
'''Voiced by (Korean):''' Cho Jin-suk (animation)\\
'''Played by:''' Sun Shengxuan (web series)

* ArtisticAge: His character design in the ''donghua'' and ''manhua'' makes him look like an adult like his cousin rather than his actual age of 17 years. This gives him a more intimidating look befitting of an abuser.
* AnArmAndALeg: He loses his left arm after being possessed by an evil spirit.
* AssholeVictim: He dies a horrible death at the hands of the demonic lef arm. It was well-deserved, however, and the only one who mourns his death is his mother -- not even Wei Wuxian feels even a smidgen of pity for his death due to his abusive ways towards his cousin.
* FatBastard: He was abusive to his cousin and has a heavy build in the ''donghua'' and the ''manhua'', unlike in the novel where he's described with a "sickly-looking constitution".

* LaserGuidedKarma: He abused Mo Xuanyu and would often steal his belongings. His cousin intended to get revenge by summoning Wei Wuxian to kill him, but Mo Ziyuan ends up dying from stealing one of the latter's inventions. Wei Wuxian even lampshades how it's almost like poetic justice.

* TooDumbToLive: Despite being instructed clearly and repeatedly by full-fledged cultivators to not go to the courtyard and touch anything, he ignores their warnings and does just that. Sure enough, he's found dead soon after.

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Feng Sheng (audio drama)\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Toru Ichimura (audio drama)\\
'''Played by:''' Liu Daomin (web series)

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Kuo Haojun (audio drama)

* StrugglingSingleMother: She's a prostitute raising her son alone in a brothel, having long been abandoned by the father Jin Guangshan. She spends all her money on expensive sword and (fraudulent) cultivation guides for her son's education. In the one flashback we see of Meng Shi, she's attacked by a customer in a dispute about payment.

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Yan Meme (audio drama)\\
'''Played by:''' Su Yue (web series)

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Yang Neng[[note]]Credited as Mie Mie[[/note]] (audio drama)

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Chen Nianru (audio drama)\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Madoka Hirade (audio drama)\\
'''Played by:''' Zhang Linran (web series)

!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Feng Ming (audio drama)

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Little Apple is still overall prickly in the ''manhua'', but a few panels show it to be more affectionate towards Wei Wuxian. When the two see each other after the conclusion of the Yi City arc, Little Apple starts running to him with tears in its eyes as if to say it missed its owner.

* PickyEater: According to the narration, it's very particular about what kind of grass it eats.
-->''Although it was only a donkey, it would exclusively eat fresh, young grass with dewdrops still hanging off them. If the tip of the grass had a streak of yellow, it wouldn't eat it... If it didn't eat high-quality food, it wouldn't budge, and it'd lose its temper and kick around.''

* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the novel, both the original rabbits Wei Wuxian gave Lan Wangji are described to have white fur. The ''donghua'' and the ''manhua'' depict the pair as one of a black and a white rabbit, respectively.

!!!'''Played by:''' Yu Zikuan (web series)

!!!'''Played by:''' Wang Yifei (web series) [[note]]Not the same actress as the one who plays Mianmian in ''The Untamed''.[[/note]]

!!!'''Played by:''' Gao Han (web series)

!!!'''Played by:''' He Longlong (web series)

* DeaderThanDead: The ritual he used to summon Wei Wuxian's soul requires the destruction of his own, meaning his soul can never return to the mortal world.

* TheDogBitesBack: After suffering from his family's abuse for years and being ridiculed as a lunatic, Mo Xuanyu eventually had enough of their abuse and summoned none other than the [[TheDreaded Yiling Patriarch]] to kill them.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: In the ''donghua'', instead of a DepravedHomosexual, rumor is that he would harass anyone and ''anything'' he found pretty, including animals, plants, and his own half-brother. It's never confirmed if this was true or merely the result of gossips exaggerating his homosexuality (or whatever his actual sexuality was).

* IncestantAdmirer: At least allegedly, Mo Xuanyu was kicked out of the Jin Sect by his half-brother Jin Guangyao for harassing him.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: The events of the book are centered around the sacrifice that brought Wei Wuxian back into the world.

* ActionGirl: Strongly implied. She managed to cultivate to immortality, and her students are all said to be highly skilled swordsmen.

* DemonicPossession: She is last of the Mo family to get possessed by the ghost arm.

* ArtisticAge: His character design in the ''donghua/manhua'' makes him look like an adult like his cousin rather than his actual age of 17 years. This gives him a more intimidating look befitting of an abuser.

* AssholeVictim: The only one who mourns his death is his mother. Not even Wei Wuxian feels even a smidgen of pity for his death due to his abusive ways towards his cousin.
* BackFromTheDead: Wei Wuxian briefly brings him back as a fierce corpse to fight the possessed Madam Mo.

* DemonicPossession: He's the first victim of the Mo family to get possessed by the ghost arm.

[[folder:A-Tong (阿通)]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Zhang Fuzheng (animation), Zhang Enze (audio drama)\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Yu Okano (animation), Keiji Nanae (audio drama)\\
'''Played by:''' Du Shihie (web series)

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A servant of the Mo household, and he is one of the many who abuses Mo Xuanyu.

* DemonicPossession: He's the second victim of the demonic arm haunting the Mo household.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the novel, he snaps his own neck in half after getting possessed by the ghost arm. In the ''donghua'', he immediately becomes a fierce corpse after his possession, and he's finished off by a possessed Madam Mo when she impales him in the chest with her bare hands.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's introduced treating Mo Xuanyu like crap, which tells the viewer more than enough about him.

!!Yunping City
[[folder:Meng Shi (孟诗)]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Kuo Haojun (audio drama)

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Jin Guangyao's mother, and a formerly famous prostitute in Yunmeng.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Despite her profession, she wholeheartedly loved her son and was one of the very few positive influences in Jin Guangyao's life. In return, she is one of the few people who he truly loved and cared for, and [[spoiler:the only person who he never dared to trick or manipulate. The statue at Guanyin Temple is his way of paying tribute to her]].
* HiddenDepths: She was known to be rather well-educated for a prostitute, as she could read and write poems, sing, paint, play the guqin and chess. Not that many think it amounted to much because in the eyes of the public, the stigma of her profession outweighed her talents.
* HighClassCallGirl: She was once a prominent and well-respected prostitute, but her worth dwindled after she gave birth.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In her defense, she was not the first to be blind to Jin Guangshan's true character and how he didn't care for any of his mistresses nor the children he conceived with them.
* ParentsAsPeople: She never mistreated Jin Guangyao and did her best to take care of him in spite of the environment they lived in. However, she made the (albeit innocent and well-meaning) mistake of telling him about who his father was and instilling in him her hope that he would eventually be accepted into the Jin Clan so they would escape their life of difficulty and poverty. Long after she died, Jin Guangyao never got rid of that hope, [[spoiler:which ended up being his undoing]].
* PosthumousCharacter: She's dead outside of a single instance of Empathy back to Jin Guangyao's childhood days.
* StrugglingSingleMother: She's a prostitute raising her son alone in a brothel, having long been abandoned by the father Jin Guangshan. She spends all her money on expensive sword and (fraudulent) cultivation guides for her son's education. In the one flashback we see of Meng Shi, she's attacked by a customer in a dispute about payment.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Meng Shi meant well when she encouraged her son to earn Jin Guangshan's favor, likely from the belief that climbing up the social ladder of the cultivation world would solve their problems with regards to their status and life in poverty. However, it only ended up making way for the ruin and downfall of many people, [[spoiler: including her own son's]].

[[folder:Sisi (思思)]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Yan Meme (audio drama)\\
'''Played by:''' Su Yue (web series)

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->''"When I saw that the man was dead, I knew that we were done. We wouldn't be able to escape either."''
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A prostitute who wears a veil around her face to hide the scars underneath. She was kept prisoner for years, until she was set free and sent to Yunmeng to inform the cultivation clans what she knows about her captor.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: It requires a lot of kindness for someone to show concern towards people everyone else either slandered or treated poorly. And whenever she defended those people, it usually involved her yelling at the others to piss off or getting into a violent {{catfight}} with someone who decided to get a little too mouthy.
* BrutalHonesty:
** While she was the only one in the brothel who showed kindness to Meng Shi, she didn't hesitate to tell her that she should change her prideful ways if she wants to retain her value as a prostitute and avoid getting scorned by her clients. After Meng Shi got beaten up by a john, Sisi was sympathetic but also scolded her friend with a tone that clearly spoke, "What did I tell you?"
** When she introduces herself to the cultivators in Lotus Pier, she doesn't hesitate to tell them that she is a prostitute and why her face is scarred in spite of their scandalized reactions.
* CoveredInScars: Her face is full of cuts, and in the novel they are said to be so gruesome that the others are immediately crept out. This is why she covers up her scarred face with a veil.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the AnimatedAdaptation, she and Bicao still approach the cultivators to inform them of Jin Guangyao's crimes. The difference is that [[spoiler:they were ambushed along the way, and only Bicao survived the attack. However, Sisi's side of the story still manages to be told through using Inquiry to interact with the remains of her soul]].
* DemotedToExtra: In the drama, she is still needed to expose [[spoiler:Jin Guangyao]]'s misdeeds, but the adaptation never shows [[spoiler:Jin Guangyao's flashback during his life in the brothel]] which would have explained why [[spoiler:he spared only her and not the other prostitutes]].
* HairTriggerTemper: Anxin described to a customer how Sisi had a fierce personality. The fact that the latter defended Meng Shi from any mocking onlookers by yelling at them to quit gawking and keep moving along attested to this. After her time in captivity, her personality has become more mellow, although speaking to an entire room of high-ranking cultivators is easier said than done.
* ProperlyParanoid: She was the only one who realized how suspicious it was for someone to hire several prostitutes who were past their prime and take them to a basically a palace without informing anyone else. [[spoiler:She is also the only one who gets spared, albeit for a completely different reason.]]

[[folder:Anxin (安心)]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Yang Neng[[note]]Credited as Mie Mie[[/note]] (audio drama)
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A prostitute from the same brothel where Meng Shi worked at.
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* AdaptedOut: As neither the AnimatedAdaptation nor ''Series/TheUntamed'' show much of Jin Guangyao's past when growing up with his mother at the brothel, Anxin doesn't show up in the flashbacks of either adaptation.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:While the story shows that there are many more unpleasant ways to die, being burned alive is still far from a merciful way to go.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: From what little the reader knows of her, Anxin was catty, unpleasant, and talked about people behind their backs.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Anxin was just a BitCharacter, but it is through her memories that the main cast realize more vital information about [[spoiler:Jin Guangyao]].
[[/folder]]

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the ''donghua'', Little Apple appears at the beginning of the story rather than after Wei Wuxian leaves Mo Manor like in the novel.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange:
** The ''donghua'' adds a detail where Wei Wuxian saved one of the rabbits from a group of fierce corpses and caught another the next day (so that the first one would have some company) before giving them both to Lan Wangji.
** In ''Series/TheUntamed'', the rabbits served as companions to Lan Yi, who was trapped in a cave within the Cloud Recesses for some time. After Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji met the latter's predecessor, whose spirit then left the mortal world in peace, Lan Wangji decided to take the rabbits into his own care.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: PlayedForLaughs when after Wei Wuxian gifted two bunnies to Lan Wangji, the bunnies immediately started mating, and the latter freaks out over how both bunnies are male. Wei Wuxian even teases him for paying attention to the bunnies' genitals.

* AdaptationalWimp: While it gives cultivators a lot of trouble at Mount Dafan, in the animated chibi spinoff Wei Wuxian defeats it just by making it beat itself up.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Downplayed. The way it was killed in the ''donghua'' is the same as the novel, only much quicker than six hours -- which was the time Lan Wangji needed to decapitate the monster with his guqin strings.

* OffWithHisHead: It met its demise when Lan Wangji used the Chord Assassination Technique to slice its head off.

[[folder:Measuring Snake (量人蛇)]]
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The Measuring Snake is a beast from the Nanjing region. True to its name, it compares its height to that of the person it encounters; when it's taller, it will eat the other.
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* AscendedExtra: In the novel, they're only mentioned in passing as one of the beasts that Jin Zixuan shot down. The creatures get a larger role in the ''donghua'', as Jiang Yanli's life was nearly endangered by one and Jin Ling attempts to attack one while night-hunting. They also get a moment in the spotlight in the chibi spinoff.
* DependingOnTheArtist: The novel never specifies just how large a Measuring Snake is, but in the ''donghua'' it's portrayed to be as large as a giant anaconda or python. In ''Series/TheUntamed'', it has the size and length of a normal snake instead.
* SnakesAreSinister: It's a snake monster that devours anything it towers over and so look appear fearsome, although according to Jin Zixuan it's one of the less difficult monsters to kill. The mutated variants of the creature are tougher to deal with, however.
[[/folder]]

* CanonForeigner: Xue Chonghai's existence is what influenced the series' canon-divergent plot, which involves the existence of the Yin Iron and why both Wen Ruohan and Xue Yang were practicing demonic cultivation ''before'' Wei Wuxian.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Wen Ning refuses to kill him and states that it's a more fitting punishment for him to live with the consequences of his actions. This fate causes Zhao Yi to scream at his endless suffering.

!!''Fatal Journey''

[[folder:Nie Zonghui (聂宗辉)]]
!!!'''Played by:''' He Xiang (web series)

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Nie Mingjue's second-in-command when he was still alive, and at times he also served as Nie Huaisang's bodyguard.
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* DualWielding: Nie Zonghui fought with two sabres, which is an unusual fighting style in both the Nie Clan and the cultivation world as a whole.
* NumberTwo: He was Nie Mingjue's right-hand man in the film.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's never seen nor mentioned in ''Series/TheUntamed'' yet was a significant figure to the Nie brothers in the movie. His death near the end didn't do him any favours.
* UndyingLoyalty: No matter what happened, his faith in both Nie brothers never wavered.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the novel, he appears in the epilogue. In ''Series/TheUntamed'', he appears shortly before the Second Siege due to rearrangement of events.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: She appears in the penultimate chapter of the novel. However, she appears a few arcs earlier in ''Series/TheUntamed'' due to rearrangement of events.

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* TurtlePower: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanwu real Xuanwu]] was a legendary beast. However, this "fake" version of the mythological creature was basically a large and dangerous beast that resembled the aforementioned divine being. Not that the fact stopped it from still being a massive threat once it was waken from its slumber.

'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/{{Lynn}} (animation, web series), Mayu Mineda (audio drama)\\

'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/{{Lynn}} (animation, web series)\\

* StrugglingSingleMother: She's a prostitute raising her son alone in a brothel, having long been abandoned by the father Jin Guangshan. She spends all her money on expensive sword and (fraudulent) cultivation guides for her son's education. In the one flashback we see of Meng Shi, she's attacked by a customer over a dispute about payment.

* StrugglingSingleMother: She's a prostitute raising her son alone in a brothel, having long been abandoned by the father Jin Guangshan. She spent all her money on expensive sword and (fraudulent) cultivation guides for her son's education. In the one flashback we see of Meng Shi, she's attacked by a customer over a dispute about payment.