Shiji Niangniang

Shiji Niangniang was a female immortal of the Jiejiao sect who cultivated the Dao at Baigu Cave on Kulou Mountain; originally an ordinary boulder, she absorbed the essence of Heaven and Earth over millennia until attaining immortality. While practicing archery on Kulou Mountain, Nezha accidentally loosed an arrow that killed her acolyte Biyun Tongzi. Shiji Niangniang confronted Li Jing and his son to demand justice, clashing fiercely with them; she seized Nezha’s Qiankun Ring and Hun Tian Ling, forcing him to flee back to Qianyuan Mountain. His master, Taiyi Zhenren, descended from the mountain to protect his disciple and trapped Shiji Niangniang within the Nine-Dragon Divine Fire Urn, reducing her to ashes and revealing her true form—a lifeless stone. During the Investiture of the Gods, she was enfeoffed as the Moon-Sojourning Star. Though she acted solely to uphold principle and redress a grievous wrong, she could not escape her predestined fate—and her tragic, unjust death has moved generations of readers, standing as one of the most poignant illustrations of fatalism in the Investiture of the Gods.