#Baoshan Sanren

[alightbuthappypen]

A happy ending, eventually.

This was my original idea for the Close Quarters Exchange (for the tag 'immortal together'), but I changed my mind when I wasn't sure I'd be able to hit the deadline (and also that my giftee may prefer a wangxian that fit more in the spirit of the classic 'close quarters' trope). Which was correct! But also then I decided to do it anyway, in one day. So forgive any rough edges.

#lan yi #baoshan sanren #if they have a ship name someone let me know so I can tag it #mxtxnet #the untamed #cql #the untamed fanart #my art #baoyi #apparently!

[red-pearl-white-flower]

My third prompt for the MDZS Gotcha for Gaza event! Nyan_wushi asked for Baoshan Sanren as remembered by her disciples! I threw in a nice young Xiao Xingcheng in the mix!

#mdzs #mdzs gotcha for gaza #baoshan sanren #xiao xingchen #my art #mdzs art #mdzs fanart #mxtx #mxtx mdzs

[porcupine-girl]

Saw this post doing this meme with DMBJ characters, had to make a CQL version.

#I'm guessing that middle line comes off differently when you don't have canonically immortal/undead characters lol #I can't decide if I should switch wen ning and bssr #the untamed #cql #the untamed meme #lan sizhui #jin guangyao #lan wangji #baoshan sanren #wen ning #wei wuxian #jin zixun #lan jingyi #nie huaisang #notes

[symphonyofsilence]

#mdzs #cql #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #chen qing ling #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #xue yang #xiao xingchen #a qing #xuexiao #yi city #yunmeng shuangjie #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #baoshan sanren #lan yi #my two cents

[a-d-f]

Baoshan Sanren with her kids

#fanart #mdzs #baoshan sanren

[americandumpster-f1re]

Wait guys, food for thought!

In MZDS, only the most powerful cultivators become immortal. In a crossover, wouldn’t that make Shang Qinghua more powerful than literally every MZDS character because he’s not only immortal, but a Peak Lord? Would there be legends about him and the other Peak Lords, since they’re immortal cultivators like Baoshan Sanren?

#shang qinghua #mdzs #mxtx svsss #crossover #cang qiong mountain sect #scum villian self saving system #mo dao zu shi #baoshan sanren

[wifiwuxians]

as well as being xiao xingchen's birthday, it's a full moon tonight - the quiet moon! so @sugarapplebaby and i decided to collab on another piece set in the threads that bind us fic verse! they did the linework, and i did the coloring, and turning it into a gif sadly reduced the quality a bit haha but it was an absolute pleasure to work on this 🌕💗 we came up with the idea for this fic together, so it was extra special to create this together!

i think xingchen deserves all the full moons in the world, don't you?

[ID: a gif cycling through two scenes depicting modern yi city characters from behind, gazing up at the full moon. in one scene, xiao xingchen, song lan, a-qing and xue yang are depicted as teenagers and young adults. a-qing is to the very left, beside xiao xingchen, who is beside song lan, who has his arm around him and is also patting xue yang's head to the right. in the other scene, the same characters are depicted as children and are now accompanied by baoshan sanren. xue yang is to the very left this time, next to a-qing, with xiao xingchen pointing up at the moon while seated in baoshan sanren's lap, and with song lan at the right end. baoshan sanren has her arms around all of them. the scene is bathed in blue. /end ID]

#xiao xingchen #song lan #xue yang #a-qing #yi city #baoshan sanren #mdzs #my art #collab #fic in replies! #id go into more detail with the outfits and descriptions but we would be here all year... #maybe i do an extended ID LOL

[robininthelabyrinth]

Soo, funny story, turns out celestial mountains can move? So JC finds BSSR and instead of receiving his brother's core and tragedy ensuing, he gets his core fixed, has an illuminating weekend with his brother's extended family, and maybe comes back with backup.

ao3

Untamed

"All right, you all know your parts," Wei Wuxian said, pacing back and forth in a tight circle. "We've got everything we need for the transfer. We're ready."

"We are exactly as ready as we were the last time you said that," Wen Qing said waspishly. Despite her harsh tone, due was clearly nervous, alternating between fiddling with her tools and fingering the veiled hat Wei Wuxian had given her to hide her true identity - the story Wei Wuxian had spun to throw Jiang Cheng off the scent of what was really going to happen would only work if he sincerely believed that she was the fabled Baoshan Sanren. "He won't know a thing. Stop fretting."

"I'm not fretting -"

"Why isn't he here yet?" Wen Ning wondered. "It's not that long a path up the mountain. Even if he was blindfolded, shouldn't he be here already?"

Wei Wuxian started, then exchanged worried glances with Wen Qing. They hurried to the overlook point of the cliff, but no matter how they looked, they couldn't see a single trace of Jiang Cheng, not even his shadow.

-

"Uuuuuh no you're not," the lady said when Jiang Cheng told her he was Wei Wuxian. "You don't - you don't have the right face for it, okay? Cangse Sanren was a bit more - her face - there was this indefinable sort of - listen, I'm not possessed with an overwhelming desire to smack you right now so you can’t be him."

Despite the seriousness of the situation, Jiang Cheng found himself having to swallow down a snort of agreement - Wei Wuxian really did have that indefinable sort of quality.

"I could take after my father?" he suggested, though he'd mostly given it up as hopeless already.

Sure enough, the lady let out a bark of laughter - it sounded oddly like a bird's call - and said, "No way. Not that much! Anyway, why does it matter who you are?"

At that point, because Jiang Cheng was exhausted and hurting and blindfolded and still managed to see all his barely-resurrected hopes dying in front of him regardless, he burst into tears.

"Oh no," Baoshan Sanren said, sounding distinctly alarmed in a way that - if Jiang Cheng wasn't currently in the middle of humiliating himself - would have made him laugh because of how similar it was to Wei Wuxian being confronted by an emotion. "No, no, no, don't- please - I hate crying - just tell me what the matter is - someone help he's still crying -"

Eventually Jiang Cheng managed to squeeze the whole stupid story out, aided by the kind hands and helpful (or not so helpful) translations being offered by Baoshan Sanren's disciples.

"You can help him, right?" the littlest one asked, tugging on Jiang Cheng's sleeve defensively. He was twelve or thirteen or something - the others called him Xiao-shidi, so that was either his surname or a nickname - but he was a sweetheart that reminded Jiang Cheng of his sister. "Shifu, you'll help him, won't you?"

"I'm talented but no one can make golden cores out of nothing," Baoshan Sanren protested, but the little Xiao started crying, too. "No! No tears! Stop that -"

"But it's just so sad," he wailed, and then one of the other disciples, a girl who had a manner of speaking that suggested Wei Wuxian only tougher by far, gave a loud and thoughtful sniff.

"Don't you dare," Baoshan Sanren hissed. "Don't give me that, you're not even upset! You don't cry over anything, you little beast. You're just trying to bully your shifu!"

"Is it working?" the girl asked, sounding amused. "I could squeeze out some for the cause."

"It's all right, you don't have to," Jiang Cheng said, hating how his voice was still all watery and breaking even though he was finding this pretty funny. "If there's nothing she can do, there's no point, just leave her alone -"

"That's worse," Baoshan Sanren wailed. "No! Not the self-sacrificing routine!”

It wasn’t a routine!

“That’s the problem! I can handle everything but sincerity - ahhh, I hate this. All right, all right, you win, you brats. I'll fix him."

"But you said -" Jiang Cheng started to say.

"I know what I said," she cut him off, grumbling. "And I can't grow one from nothing. But – and I’m going to tell you in advance, this will be unpleasant – I can go get yours from the moment before you lost it and give it back to you."

"What? How does that work? I don't understand..."

"Time doesn't work right on the mountain. It's always the same time, even when it's not; that's why no one can come back after they've left," the girl said, sounding arrogant and carefree in a most familiar way, and Jiang Cheng's grief-fuzzed brain made a connection there that was so appalling that it couldn't possibly be true. "You up for some pain and agony if it gets you your core back, my friend?"

"Y-yeah? I mean, yes. Anything."

"All right," Baoshan Sanren said. Her raspy voice had turned into even more of a croak: it was like listening to a crow try to speak. Also, Jiang Cheng couldn't see, having not removed the useless blindfold, but he had the strangest feeling that she was smaller than before - he'd already assumed she was a wizened old thing, but for a moment she seemed no larger than a especially plump chicken. "Hold on tight, boy - here we go!"

-

"I greatly appreciate all your efforts on behalf of the Sunshot Campaign," Nie Mingjue said, and Wei Wuxian wondered if his greatest strength as the grand commander of the unified forces of the cultivation world wasn’t his saber or his command but his ability to sound completely sincere. "Murdering Wen-dogs by the score, going after critical targets, providing intelligence, even getting Mistress Wen and her brother to defect...but have you considered giving it a rest?"

Wei Wuxian choked.

It wasn't that he was surprised by the request - he'd heard it whispered for a while that he was doing too much, too fast, too viciously. He'd hunted down Wen Chao and Wen Zhuliu and harried them into the Burial Mounds, using the power there to tear them to pieces despite their army - if it hadn't been for Wen Qing helping him, he might have torn himself apart in the process. It wasn't healthy for someone with a golden core to use resentful energy the way he did, she had explained. She at one point told him that she was essentially using a bucket to scoop it out of his meridians like a boat that had taken on water.

Yet he kept using it - hunting squads, battalions of Wen, supporting the other sects from the shadows, months of effort - and never mind the worried expressions on Wen Qing's face, on Wen Ning's face, even Lan Wangji, who had just turned up at their camp one day and refused to leave...no, Wei Wuxian wasn't surprised by the request.

He just hadn't expected it to be phrased like that.

"I can't," he said, recovering a moment later. "As long as there are Wen-dogs out there - from the other side, I mean - the Jiang sect hasn't been avenged."

"I know that," Nie Mingjue said with...admirable restraint, actually. Wei Wuxian cringed a little as he remembered that Nie Mingjue was involved in this war for the purpose of avenging his father's death at Wen Ruohan’s hands. "But that's not your job. It's time to stop playing lone wolf and return to the sect that raised you. If nothing else, Jiang Wanyin could use a right hand man."

Wei Wuxian stared. He'd searched furiously for Jiang Cheng without success, days and nights stretching out endlessly only for hope to fade and be replaced by a frantic need for revenge; it had been that desperation, mixed with guilt over losing her prospective patient, that had convinced Wen Qing to officially defect. And now Nie Mingjue was saying - what? That he, Wei Wuxian, was the one missing in action? 

That he knew where Jiang Cheng was?

"...he's been recruiting to resurrect the Jiang sect for the last month down by Qingjiao. Did you not know?"

Wei Wuxian hadn't. Jiang Cheng was - fine? All right? How could he have gotten to Qingjiao in the state he'd been in?

And...recruiting? How could someone without a golden core recruit? Nie Mingjue didn't seem to know about the loss, or he would have mentioned it, surely - everyone would be talking about it - had Jiang Cheng found some other way? But how? And why hadn't he come to find Wei Wuxian?

Well, in fairness, Wei Wuxian wasn't making himself easy to find, traveling in secret with only his few companions. But still...

"He really does need support," Nie Mingjue said. "He has Mistress Jiang, but she's not the martial type, and that little sworn brother he picked up from who-knows-where might be a brilliant talent and a hero for the ages in the making, but Baoshan Sanren's disciple or not, the kid is still only half-grown -"

"Baoshan Sanren's what?!"

"Jiang Wanyin's little sworn brother. His name is Xiao Xingchen, and he's twelve. Maybe fourteen. Far too young, in my opinion -"

"I'm sorry," Wei Wuxian interrupted. "I have to go now. Right now."

-

"About time you showed up," Jiang Cheng said, though his snide words were belied by the wide grin on his face and the way he pulled Wei Wuxian into a fierce hug. "I heard you've been doing wonders in the three months and a day I was gone, and in the month since I’ve been back...you got those Wen to defect, invented a new type of cultivation...what's this I hear about you and Lan Wangji sharing a camp, huh? I thought he hated you."

"Uh, no, turns out that was a misunderstanding," Wei Wuxian - who was currently sharing a lot more than a camp with Lan Wangji once that misunderstanding had been cleared up after Wen Qing had lost patience with what she termed their 'ridiculous mutual pining' - said blankly. It was probably just his imagination, but he fancied that he could feel the golden core under Jiang Cheng's skin, shining bright, as familiar as his own. If he hadn't known what he knew, he would never have thought... "What happened? How did you...?"

"Baoshan Sanren fixed it! Just like you said...though you went to such lengths, with the blindfold and pretending to be you and all that. Apparently it wasn’t necessary at all!"

"Uh, right. My…mistake."

Jiang Cheng pulled him into another hug, nice and tight, and whispered into his ear, "You had better not have been planning to transfer me yours, you bastard."

Wei Wuxian blanched. How had he figured it out..?

"Yeah, that's what I thought," Jiang Cheng said, releasing him and rolling his eyes. "You're a lot like your mother, you know?"

"My mother? What are you talking about?"

Jiang Cheng's crooked grin was the most wonderful thing Wei Wuxian had ever seen. 

"It's a long story," he said. "Probably as long as yours, for explaining everything you've been up to for the past few months...but we'll have time to talk it over. Baoshan Sanren is big fan of talking things over, almost to the point of ridiculousness, but I think she has a point, even if none of her disciples agree. It's made me feel better these past few months, anyway, talking about what happened, whether with the Wen sect or even just frustrations I had growing up..."

He laughed at Wei Wuxian's dumbfounded expression.

"Like I said," he said. "Long story. Come meet little Xiao, will you? We're going to need to work together and put in all our efforts to keep him out of trouble -"

"He's a brat, then?"

"No, worse: he's an idealist. You'll understand when you meet him."

Wei Wuxian let himself be dragged along by Jiang Cheng's eagerness, and he was about halfway across the new Jiang sect camp before it suddenly struck him that this was really happening. That Jiang Cheng was back, alive and healthy beyond Wei Wuxian's wildest dreams, whole once more in both mind and body - that they were side by side once more, finally back on track to fulfill his childish promise of them being the Twin Heroes to match the Twin Jades - that his lies had somehow transmuted to truth, and it was all resolved without sacrifice...

The first smile in what felt like months stole across Wei Wuxian's face. 

"All right," he said, laughing and slapping Jiang Cheng on the back as hard as he could. "Show me this new little brother of yours - I can't wait to spoil him rotten!"

"Tease him to death, you mean!"

"No, no, I can be good! Wen Qing has this little cousin, an orphan, I've been helping out with him - I have child-rearing skills -"

"I don't believe a word of it. Is it Mistress Wen or Second Master Lan that does all the work?"

"...Wen Ning, mostly, but that's not the point..."

Life, Wei Wuxian thought to himself, was good once more.

#mdzs #wei wuxian #wen qing #jiang cheng #baoshan sanren #cangse sanren #xiao xingcheng #nie mingjue #my fic #my fics #short old ficlets that I keep forgetting to post

[g0g0mi]

Women of MDZS speedpaints/portraits from a few years ago...

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #minor character appreciation #jiang yanli #a-qing #qin su #wen qing #baoshan sanren #cangse sanren #mian mian #wang lingjiao #yu ziyuan #jinzhu #yinzhu #gogomi art #i did a bunch of these just for practice #then i made a washi tape of them #and i still have so many lol #idk if people care about the ladies but they're all so good honestly #mostly anyway

[any-n-everything]

mdzs au where yanling daoren (YLDR), cangse sanren (CSSR), and xiao xingchen (XXC) are the same person

No wait hear me out

There's this thing in xianxia genre where the immortal master looks for their disciple when they reincarnate so they can train them up again

And I can totally see baoshan sanren being that kind of master because she's probably hoping that "well you went down the mountain now, I hope you've learned your lesson, the mortal world just isn't worth it"

But YLDR (now reborn as CSSR) is stubborn and insists on going down the fucking mountain no matter what happened in their previous life

And in the first few years everything is going well you know. She meets her cultivation partner and they promise to be lovers in this life and in every life that follows. They have a wonderful child that they love. It's all good.

Then they die and FUCK

So CSSR (now XXC) is like "master I need to go down the mountain again, my reincarnated husband and previous life's child needs me"

So XXC meets the reincarnated Wei Changze (who is, surprise surprise, Song Lan) and AGAIN things are going... Not well

Because for one thing, their child is FUCKING DEAD

And then XUE YANG HAPPENS

#this is a tragedy #in case you couldn't tell #mdzs #mdzs angst #mdzs au idea #yanling daoren #cangse sanren #xiao xingchen #baoshan sanren #wei changze #song lan #song zichen #wei wuxian #wei ying #xue yang

[incorrectly-quoting-mxtx]

#poll #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #svsss #scum villian self saving system #qin su #Wei Wuxian #madam yu #madam Jin #cangse sanren #baoshan sanren #jian Lan #su xiyan #jiang yanli #mianmian #luo qingyang #qi qingqi

[themaymoth]

Baoshan Sanren, the magnus archives au

old harmless lady of the archives, which of her assistants is she gonna sacrifice to an ancient horror today

[SUPPLEMENTAL]

•I really wish there were more baoshan sanren visual reference, i didn't want to just draw gertrude robinson but oh well.

•Also so little backstory to work around, i know the mystery is part of her charm and all, but omg give me SOMETHING.

•Yes she's the one who threw Mianmian into the spiral.

•UUuuUuUUu spooky guests who are they

#mdzs #mdzs au #mdzs tma au #mo dao zu shi #mxtx #baoshan sanren #tma au #the magnus archives au #my post #my art

[loud-recesses]

happy birthday from grandma(ster)

couldn’t resist finishing this. Happy (late) birthday, wwx!

#mdzs #modaozushi #WWX Birthday #fanart #makings #digital art #baoshan sanren #comic #wangxian #lwj #lan wangji #i came up with this gag literally a year ago #had a blast making this now! #i have no idea what bssr's actual title should be forgive me

[wangxianficrecs]

watch your anger by loosingletters

watch your anger

by loosingletters (@loosingmoreletters)

T, 1k, Cangse Sanren

Summary: Watch your anger, her master used to say, never reprimanding Cangse Sanren for her temper tantrums, mainly reminding her of what she stood to lose if she gave in. Cangse Sanren survives. Wei Changze does not. Kay's comments: Knew this one was going to hurt before going in, but phew did it hurt! I really loved it though. A canon divergence story where Cangse-sanren survives the last night-hunt she went on with her husband, but Wei Changze still dies and we even get to witness how and it's not pretty. I really enjoyed Cangse-sanren't voice in this story and her anger especially. The story follows the time immediately after Wei Changze's death and I also really liked how it shows Cangse-sanren's struggles, e. g. the excerpt below. Excerpt: A-Ying clings to her, starts crying when Cangse Sanren leaves his sight. She can’t go on even a minor nighthunt with him, she cannot tell him to stay behind. Her wounds are far from healed and her hands won’t stop shaking and any craft Baoshan Sanren ever taught her cannot be applied. Cangse Sanren wanted children, a dozen little hands pulling at her skirts and begging for bedtime stories, but she never wanted to raise a child on her own. A-Ying is sweet, but he throws tantrums and she lacks Changze’s patience, his creativity for appropriate games, his steady hand preparing wonderful meals. She lacks all she needs to raise her son safely, far away from the sects.

pov cangse sanren, canon divergence, cangse sanren lives, angst and hurt/comfort, wei wuxian isn't adopted by the jiangs, non-yunmeng wei wuxian, yanling daoren, baoshan sanren, canonical character death

~*~

(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

#Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #Wangxian #MDZS #Kay's Rec #October 2023 #watch your anger #Teen #short fic <15k #loosingletters #pov cangse sanren #canon divergence #cangse sanren lives #angst and hurt/comfort #wei wuxian isn't adopted by the jiangs #non-yunmeng wei wuxian #yanling daoren #baoshan sanren #canonical character death

[mooncheese3]

following the theme of "if ur a woman who gets away from the cultivational world/society you win the entire series" what if baoshan sanren was born in the pidw era, and was a disciple of cang qiong. she was originally a candidate for the head disciple position but she did not want that

shes the sects shijie. everyone knows her, everyone loves her. you need a hairtie? she has one. you find yourself alone with her in an enclosed space while travelling? she will lecture you about life. you accidentally got in trouble with your shizun? dont worry, shes going to coach you on exactly what to say so your shizun is calmed and distracted. shes been through all of it for you (cangse sanren and xxc must have gotten that kind but kind of crazy vibes from somewhere)

now au of this au wherein shes a qjp disciple and is sj's shijie. he is her first pseudo adopted son. her very first kid she picked up from the streets (yq is her second)

thinking about how yq finally isnt the oldest, and how he'll finally have someone older to lean and rely on. sj would absolutely love having an older sister, especially one as smart and reliable as bssr

however he does NOT like how she pushes for him to communicate better >:(. yes he agrees that qige should learn how to communicate better, but sj? hes doing just fine as he is! why does he have to learn about *feelings*

the vibes i envision for her is that shes the alyssa edwards of the jianghu

basically this is how she finds baby qijiu on the streets, about to be trampled by a horse

now im realizing she wouldnt just leave shi wu on the streets either. shes bringing him along as well. no one left behind. he ends up on either baizhan or wanjian

#baoshan sanren #original shen qingqiu #shen jiu #yue qi #alternate universe #qijiu get an older sister

[piosplayhouse]

post cql canon and reunion and confessions and shit wwx just bolts awake in frenzied realization in the middle of the night and shakes lwj awake

wwx: lan zhan, lan zhan

lwj: hmn.?

wwx: lan zhan I think my great grandma and your great grandma had some lesbianisms things going on idk that's just the vibes I got when we were in that cave talking to lan yi do you think

lwj: wei ying. it is 1 am in the morning

wwx: but

lwj: but yes, they were definitely in lesbianisms.

wwx: yess. Knew it

#i don't usually make cql posts but this one came to me like a vision from the heavens #i think . the wangxian dynamic of lwj humoring wwx even if hes being an absolute idiot. so special #i lobe them #cql #the untamed #chen qing ling #lan wangji #lwj #wei wuxian #wwx #lan yi #baoshan sanren #wangxian