Xiao Clan

Biodata

Organization and Influence

Leadership and Branches

• Blood Ancestor’s authority: The Clan King reports directly to him and obeys his orders to slaughter Mystic City and prepare a delivery to Nine Nether Purgatory 14.
• Branch organization: The Clan King summons the heads of the third, eighth, eleventh, and seventeenth branches for the Mystic City expedition 14.
• Internal discipline: After Xiao Tianyang’s death, his surviving followers believe they will be killed upon returning unless they capture Qi Lin. Xiao Mo later fears punishment from the Blood Ancestor if another promising descendant dies under his protection 2 43.
• Dynastic ambitions: The younger generation is trained to kill from age five and raised with the mission of making the Xiao Clan the overlord of Great Cang 43.

Institutional Influence

Wealth and Military Resources

Holdings

Xiao Tianyang boasts of the following holdings while belittling the Qitian Clan; these figures are his stated account of the clan’s strength 1.

• Mystic City expedition: The Clan King mobilizes 200 Earth Yang Realm fighters and 3,000 clan guards, describing these as only the openly deployed forces 14.
• Ice Mystic Crystal vein: The clan seeks the deposit beneath Pingyang District and the Qitian ancestral hall. Xiao Baidao considers eliminating every outsider in Mystic City preferable for uninterrupted mining 18 20 22.
• Ancestral blood pool: The Blood Ancestor resides in a pool containing blackened blood, human bones, skin, and other remains 14.

Weapons and Cultivation Supplies

• Shimmering Star Armor: Xiao Xuanxing’s Two Aspects Lower Grade armor protects even his throat and forehead. Qi Lin’s First Qi Middle Grade Azure Soul Sword breaks against it 46.
• Rosy Flame: Xiao Ling’er’s First Qi Upper Grade flaming sword, valued at 1,000 taels of gold or ten divine stones. Qi Lin takes it after killing her 26 34.
• Golden Stove Seal: Xiao Chen’s First Qi Upper Grade weapon, which he boasts is worth 5,000 taels of gold 46.
• Qi Explosion Pills: Xiao Xuanxing orders the surviving disciples to take three each while attempting to exhaust Qi Lin 47.

Notable Members

Abilities and Training

Swordsmanship

The clan supplies its descendants with developed sword arts and expensive weapons 26 47.

• Flame sword techniques: Xiao Ling’er combines sword and fire into flower-shaped attacks, eventually threatening Qi Lin’s brow, throat, and heart with a single stroke 26.
• Rushing Thunder Divine Sword: Xiao Leyan’s lightning-based sword art; one of the clan’s renowned First Qi Upper Grade techniques 47.
• Summer Sound Sword Art: Xiao Su’e’s sound-wave sword art, also ranked First Qi Upper Grade 47.

Forbidden and Restrictive Arts

• Lightning confinement: Xiao Mo binds Qi Lin against a wall, preventing him from resisting the disciples’ planned mutilation 43.
• Joint forbidden spell: Ten Xiao Clan elders maintain a lightning barrier that traps Shen Xintang’s apparent body on the lecture platform during the devil attack 41.
• Flame Star: Xiao Yunyi uses this offensive forbidden art to attack Qi Lin and rally disciples affected by Blood-Shining Hell 46 47.
• Limitless Lightning: Xiao Mingxi forms a lightning net to illuminate Qi Lin’s position for the surrounding attackers 47.

Specialized Disciplines

• Alchemy: Xiao Ling’er practices pill refinement. Xiao Yunyi credits years of refining pills for his comparatively strong Soul Power and recognizes Qi Lin’s mental attack as an illusion 34 46.
• Demon-slaying compatibility: High compatibility is a route to status within the clan. Xiao Yao’er’s potential to become a Division Saint is expected to improve her father’s standing and help preserve the clan’s control of Demon-Slaying Headquarters 39 43.

History

Pingyang District Land Seizure

The conflict begins when Xiao Clan martial artists attempt to demolish the Qitian ancestral hall and execute residents resisting the seizure. Xiao Tianyang claims the authority to requisition the land, tortures Lin Xiaoyu and Yang Ting, and mocks the Qitian ancestors. Qi Lin awakens the ancestral spirit tablets, burns away Tianyang’s cultivation, and kills him. He then uses Blood-Shining Hell to slaughter the surrounding Xiao clansmen 1 2.

The seizure follows the Su Family’s sale of Pingyang District in exchange for Su Lianxi’s place at the Divine Strategy Manor. Its underlying objective is the Ice Mystic Crystal vein beneath the district. After exposing the transaction, Qi Tianji declares the district under his protection and challenges the Xiao Clan to attack the ancestral hall 3 11 18.

Mystic City Blockade

Learning of Tianyang’s death, the Blood Ancestor orders Mystic City slaughtered. The Clan King gathers thousands of fighters and accompanies the expedition. The arriving forces seal the city and threaten everyone bearing the Qi surname 14 20.

Xiao Baidao explains that the delay before the assault is intended to draw out Qi Tianji’s allies and eliminate them together. A Qitian woman in pink kills him before that plan succeeds. The clan subsequently announces a slaughter in three days, but its patriarch later orders the city destroyed immediately, with victims’ heads sent to the Tang and Shen clans 21 22 32.

Conflict at the Divine Strategy Manor

Qi Tianji sends Qi Lin to the Divine Strategy Manor specifically to kill Xiao Clan prodigies while the elders fight in Mystic City. There, Qi Lin kills Xiao Ling’er in self-defense and clashes with Xiao Chiyan, who attempts to discredit supporting testimony and threatens him with the destruction of his home city 20 26 28 30.

After Chiyan develops Fire Burning Disease, his father kills him and vows revenge through a sacrifice at the Hall of Law Enforcement. Xiao Qian plants a Boundless Flag before Shen Xintang’s lesson, and Xiao Clan elders trap the lecturer as Yang Devils emerge. The apparent Shen Xintang is stabbed, but the real woman later reveals that her uncle supplied a human puppet which she controlled remotely 37 38 41 49.

Destruction of the Young Geniuses

During the ensuing chaos, thirty-five Xiao Clan youths surround Qi Lin and Tang Biao. They assault Tang Biao before Qi Lin kills Xiao Yao’er. Xiao Mo then restrains Qi Lin and orders the disciples to cut away his flesh without killing him 42 43.

Fu Yun intervenes, kills Xiao Mo, and attacks the remaining elders. Nine of the ten Xiao Clan experts die, leaving Xiao Qian alive but with both legs severed. Her husband, Zhao Jianchen, engages Fu Yun while Xiao Xuanxing leads the remaining youths back against Qi Lin 44 45.

Qi Lin survives their coordinated sword attacks, forbidden arts, and superior equipment through Blood-Shining Hell and the newly awakened Blood Hell Azure Dragon. All thirty-five young geniuses die. Fu Yun also cuts Zhao Jianchen in half, leaving him alive but gravely wounded 46 47 48.

Jiang Xinghai later finds Qi Lin atop the disciples’ corpses. Tang Biao testifies that the Xiao youths attacked first, while penal officers discover that their belongings have already been taken 50.

External Relationships

• Qitian Clan — Enemy. The attempted seizure of its ancestral hall develops into simultaneous conflicts in Mystic City and the Divine Strategy Manor 1 20.
• Su Family — Local collaborators who trade Pingyang District for Su Lianxi’s admission to the manor and help enforce the seizure 3 5 11.
• Prison Devils / Nine Nether Purgatory — Covert partners. The Blood Ancestor orders a delivery to Nine Nether Purgatory, and Xiao Qian facilitates a devil incursion. Shen Xintang also identifies the clan as involved in guiding Prison Devils during the events surrounding the late emperor’s death 14 36 41.
• Shen Clan — Rival faction within the demon-slaying establishment. Shen Xintang’s uncle is the only division sage outside the Xiao faction, and the clan repeatedly seeks her death 36 49.
• Tang Clan — Hostile power. Xiao Baidao attacks Tang Wenwan over her assistance to the clan’s enemies, and the patriarch orders Mystic City victims’ heads delivered to the Tang Clan 21 32.
• Zhao Jianchen — Connected through his marriage to Xiao Qian. He intervenes against Fu Yun to protect her and their son, Xiao Xuanxing 45 48.
• Fu Yun — Enemy who rescues Qi Lin and devastates the clan’s manor-based experts after the apparent killing of Shen Xintang 44 45.