In the vast and perilous world of Renegade Immortal (仙逆), survival often demands more than sheer personal strength. For the protagonist Wang Lin (王林), a significant part of his power stemmed from a formidable, silent force: his Immortal Guards. These were not mere puppets, but transformed cultivators, born from a ruthless and nearly-lost art. The process to create one was a harrowing ordeal, requiring a willing subject to surrender body and soul, enduring trials that few survived. Against all odds, Wang Lin successfully forged several of these entities. They became his unwavering shields and decisive spears across countless battles, their individual stories weaving a complex tale of power, sacrifice, and unexpected redemption. Their total number might seem small, but their collective impact on his journey was profound.
The Reluctant First
Wang Lin's initial foray into this forbidden craft began not by choice, but from desperate necessity. His first subject was Du Jian (杜建), an arrogant disciple from the Tianyun (天运) Sect who had planned to betray him. Trapped together in the Chaotic Expanse, Wang Lin offered Du Jian a grim bargain: submit to becoming an Immortal Guard in exchange for a chance to break through to the next cultivation stage. Driven by ambition, Du Jian agreed. Wang Lin fused a spectral Ghost King's soul into the disciple's body, creating a hybrid entity with both cultivator power and ghostly abilities.
This first attempt was experimental and imperfect. While Du Jian gained significant power, stabilizing at the Yin Void level, the fusion of disparate souls created inherent flaws. He served as a crucial asset, helping Wang Lin escape the deadly trap and later undertaking a long, silent mission to protect Wang Lin's mortal son, Wang Ping. In this duty, the puppet found a sliver of purpose beyond combat. Ultimately, his unstable form could not withstand a confrontation with the Blood Ancestor and was destroyed.
Despite its eventual demise, the Du Jian guard was pivotal. It proved the art's feasibility for Wang Lin and provided invaluable practical knowledge. More importantly, it established a haunting precedent: these guards were once living beings with their own fates, now bound to a single, relentless will.
The Warrior's Freedom
Among the guards, the story of Ta Shan stands apart as a unique narrative of liberation. He was a warrior from the Xianxuan (仙选) tribe, a people marked by a powerful inherent bloodline but cursed with slave seals. Facing death, Ta Shan (塔山) chose the agonizing transformation into an Immortal Guard as his only path to continued existence. Wang Lin's ritual not only saved him but also dramatically amplified his innate tribal strength, pushing his combat power to the peak of the Yang Real stage.
For a long period, Ta Shan was Wang Lin's most powerful and reliable protector, a stalwart figure in battles across the Demon Spirit Land. His destiny, however, was not to remain a tool. Through a miraculous encounter with an ancestral elder of his own tribe, the slave seal within him was shattered. Ta Shan became the only Immortal Guard to ever regain his complete freedom and original form.
This was not an end, but a new beginning. Freed from his bonds, Ta Shan's cultivation continued to soar, eventually reaching the fabled Celestial Immortal realm. He returned to his people not as a slave or a puppet, but as a redeemed hero. His journey from conscious warrior to bound guard, and finally back to a sovereign being, represents a profound counterpoint to the art's inherent cruelty.
The Ancient Informant
As Wang Lin's own prowess reached celestial heights, so too did the caliber of his creations. His final and most intellectually significant Immortal Guard was not sourced from a contemporary enemy, but from a fragment of ancient memory. Within the remnants of the Seven-Colored Immortal Venerable's consciousness, Wang Lin discovered the soul imprint of Xie Qing (谢青), a cultivator from the mythical Xian Gang (仙罡) continent.
Wang Lin meticulously refined this ancient soul, crafting a guard with power at the Clean Nirvana peak, which later advanced to the Shattered Nirvana stage. Xie Qing's true value, however, lay not in his combat strength—which was considerable—but in his mind. He possessed an innate, deep understanding of the fundamental laws and long-forgotten divine abilities of the higher realm, Xian Gang.
This made him an unparalleled repository of knowledge and strategy. For Wang Lin, Xie Qing was less a soldier and more a living, breathing library of celestial secrets, guiding him through challenges no ordinary cultivator could comprehend. This guard's service lasted until Wang Lin himself ascended to the legendary Fourth Step, achieving a state of self-contained perfection. At that apex of power, Wang Lin released Xie Qing from all bindings, granting him liberty. The dissolution of this final guard symbolically marked Wang Lin's transcendence from relying on external aids to standing utterly complete within himself.
