Wei Wuxian is the founder of the Demonic Cultivation and a former disciple of the Yunmeng Jiang Sect. The son of Cangse-Sanren and Wei Changze. Also known as the Yiling Patriarch, he died in the first siege of the Burial Mounds thirteen years prior to the start of the story. He was then reincarnated into the body of Mo Xuanyu through a sacrificial ritual.