#I have embraced the Turk nature of Qian Jiu

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Back to oc Peak Lords for a bit!

Some of them *eyes the fifth peak lord* went and added themselves to a small story I have been working on the side, so Notes!

WARNING! If you are reading my story Secrets Hidden in Red Smoke on Ao3 and want to avoid spoilers for future chapters please pass along. (Will be hiding spoilers under Read More just in case.)

So where are the Other Three Peaks/Lords during PIDW/Svsss? Well...

Ming Qingyue (12th peak: agriculture/horticulture)- off working with the mortal world with the vast majority of her peak. Very little contact with the sect.

Yun Qingfeixing (11th peak: falconry)- peak mostly closed from the outside world, only heads out for mandatory missions or whichever ones take them north and far from the sect.

Min Qinghe (5th peak: An Ding's sister peak/Turks)- Dead... And the turning point of a lot of things pre-canon.

Okay so, the Airplane in my head isn't the type of person to just have one of his villains be evil simply because of being overworked and underappreciated. (Although those are perfectly fine reasons for villainy. (^^)) Especially when he can make it tragic~.

Thus, why would Shang Qinghua be willing to burn the whole sect to the ground? He first joined Mobei Jun because of the treatment of An Ding and of himself, sure. But he had plans regarding that alliance and wasn't completely sold on slaughtering the whole sect (from elder to child). So what would make him not resist Luo Binghe's command to destroy Cang Qiong and even hand over the information needed to have it succeed?

Feeling betrayed by the sect. But how would he be betrayed? The more reasonable the feeling the better. It's the tipping point after all. Make it dramatic!

The death and abandonment of his dearest person. That would be a dramatic turning point. (And a point of irony/contention in Svsss)

So Min Qinghe was crafted in Airplane's head as an answer to who and how while filling out the other peak lords. (He was working backwards from Shang Qinghua is a Peak Lord with demon connections so can be the spy. So didn't figure out all the details on how both Min Qinghe and Shang Qinghua became peak lords until long passed the destruction of Cang Qiong. So he just kept it in his head as fun background knowledge.) She's Shang Qinghua's single confidant and the only person he would bring himself to call friend and family. His other half. (Not necessarily romantic or anything like that. More like a co-dependant relationship that has no true boundaries or definition but makes them happy.)

(Airplane tried not to get attached. He knew what would happen to her... But it is really hard not to get attached to the person who is made to be everything you need and you are everything they need in return. It doesn't help that he is questioning if she isn't another transmigrator with how she talks and acts at times. He always ends up attached and closes his heart even more than the Og after her death.)

Now how is she the turning point? Well, her death for one. While on a mission with Yun Qingfeixing they run into a Black Moon Rhinoeros-Python. Now know that these two are out with a small group of disciples so even if they thought they could fight this beast they can't without risking the students. So they focus on getting away more than fighting. But this is a demonic beast currently furious and lashing out.

So, in desperation to save her friend and their disciples Min Qinghe takes a stand. Aiming to distract and lure the beast away from the group of fleeing disciples. Yun Qingfeixing goes with the disciples but lends her falcon, Hayabusa, to act as a second pair of eyes and as backup.

Min Qinghe ends up dying in this fight. She and Hayabusa were about to retreat as the beast was far enough from the others that they might be able to slip away now and everything would be fine.

But Hayabusa accidentally caught the beast's eye. And Min Qinghe who knows how precious the familiar is to her friend immediately jumps in to save the bird.

Hayabusa lives. But Ming Qinghe is speared through by the beast's horn.

Yun Qingfeixing gets her bird back with the report on what happened. Is devastated that her best friend is dead but ultimately makes the call as a peak lord to get the disciples back to the sect before reporting what happened so they can have the others come to help fight the beast.

Yue Qingyuan leaves to fight this beast along with Yun Qingfeixing, Liu Qingge, and Zhen Qingxun (Ku Xing). By the time they get to where the beast is it is slipping away into the Abyss via portal. So it is no longer a threat.

Yue Qingyuan makes the decision that they would not be searching for Min Qinghe's remains. As he believes that it is very possible the woman was pulled into the Abyss if there is any at all. Thus he wishes to keep his martial siblings from going on a wild goose chase and only get hurt. Never mind the fact they might run into the Black Moon Rhinoerous-Python and they would have another dead on their hands.

This is not a decision taken well. Yun Qingfeixing wanting to immediately go find her friend and lay her to rest. Liu Qingge understanding the logic (not that Yue Qingyuan actually explained his reasoning) but feeling honor-bound to at least look and see if they could find something to bury. Zhen Qingxun remaining neutral on the matter but does inquire if Yue Qingyuan realizes what he has done with this decision.

Because Yue Qingyuan had just made himself a massive target for Shang Qinghua to lash out at.

Yue Qingyuan acknowledges that and says he will handle it.

Little does he know Shang Qinghua's anger is a quiet thing that is hidden behind lies of acceptance, sad smiles, and An Ding's assistance being slowly pulled from the other peaks. Under the excuse that Shang Qinghua had to run two peaks now. When in truth he has been making the sect forced to learn how to do their basic chores themselves and started shuffling his disciples and Min Qinghe's disciples into a single unit with plans to break from the sect.

After all, if they don't care for the people in charge of the little things, the caretakers of the sect (their so-called servants), then why should they give them anything more than the bare minimum? This is part of the reason Shen Qingqiu's abuse towards Luo Binghe wasn't talked about much besides Yue Qingyuan being an enabler. The other peaks did not know the full extent of it without An Ding and Qian Jiu gossiping about it.

Liu Qingge begins to train even more and ignoring his limits in his desperation to get stronger.

Yun Qingfeixing feels a deep never-ending guilt and ends up being locked away on her peak for a while in an attempt to keep her from disobeying Yue Qingyuan's order.

Ming Qingyue starts following Shang Qinghua's example and begins distancing her peak from the sect.

There is no funeral. There is no memorial. Those closest to Min Qinghe are furious but keep silent as they do not believe they would be heard or that their sect leader cares.

The outside world wonders what happened to one of the Lords, but no answer is ever given.

(Airplane is furious and laughing at the fact that of course, they would do anything for Shen Qingqiu. Cucumber-bro or not that man was always meant more to the sect. The hypocrisy is never called upon in Svsss [Because facing Luo Binghe was far more dangerous than searching the countryside for a dead body or facing a Black Moon Rhinoerous-Python.] and Airplane just stews in his grief before shoving it into a box and forcing himself to move on with this 'happy ending'.)

I did not mean for this silly side character (who ended up being a second Airplane at times) to be such a big deal in my worldbuilding/headcanons. ¯\(ツ)/¯ But here you go! ~(^^~)