Lin Bai

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Life at the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion

Lin Bai transmigrated into the world of Peerless Tang Sect five years before the opening events. The White Tiger Duke’s elderly steward found him near the mansion and took him in. Lin Bai discovered that the original story’s Huo Yuhao was instead a girl named Huo Yutong 1.

On his second day there, he found a crying six-year-old Qian Renxue in the nearby woods. He brought her home, warned her to conceal her identity, and later registered her under the name Qian Xue. She grew up alongside him and Huo Yutong 1 2 4.

With the steward’s protection, Lin Bai helped stop the mansion’s servants from mistreating Huo Yutong and Huo Yun’er. His financial support improved their living conditions and gave Huo Yutong access to nutrition and cultivation resources she had lacked 4 5.

Writing Career

Lin Bai financed the trio’s cultivation by publishing commercially successful adult novels through the Four Seas Trading Company. Because he began writing at six, he invented “Teacher Awei” and presented himself as the author’s manuscript-delivering disciple to avoid suspicion 5.

His works included Young Asan, Young Married Woman Xiaogang, Desert Storm, Crystal Love, and Zither God. Their sales extended across both the Douluo and Sun Moon continents. Before leaving Star Luo City, he received 100,000 Gold Soul Coins in manuscript fees and a permit allowing passage through the Ming Dou Mountain Range 5.

Departure and the Star Dou Great Forest

Lin Bai chose the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy over Shrek Academy. He considered its Soul Tool research ideal for Huo Yutong’s Spirit Eyes, while the Sun Moon Empire’s Evil Soul Masters offered opportunities for Qian Renxue’s growth. Privately, he also intended to remove Huo Yutong from the route he believed Tang San had prepared for her 8.

Before departing, he arranged for Huo Yun’er to return to her old home rather than remain vulnerable at the duke’s mansion. He also enlisted village matchmakers to help her move on from Dai Hao 9.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, Lin Bai refused Tang Ya and Bei Bei’s request for food, deliberately avoiding the encounter that had drawn the original protagonist toward the Tang Sect. He then directed Huo Yutong toward the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, captured Electrolux’s descending consciousness fragment for himself, and gave Qian Renxue the broken Angel Holy Sword that initiated her first Angel God trial 10 11 12.

Journey to Mingdu

When Tang Ya approached again, Lin Bai purchased the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eye for 10,000 Gold Soul Coins each rather than joining her sect. He rejected Bei Bei’s recommendation to Shrek and advised Tang Ya to modernize the Tang Sect by combining its secret arts with Soul Tools 13 14.

At the Ming Dou Mountain Range checkpoint, Lin Bai supported Huo Yutong through an unexpected encounter with Dai Hao. He described her father’s abandonment without revealing that Dai Hao himself was the man responsible, prompting the duke to promise an investigation and allow them through 15.

After crossing the border, Lin Bai impressed Jing Hongchen with his proposals for rare-metal refining and Soul Tool development. Jing Hongchen brought the group to Mingdu and arranged a meeting with Kong Deming. Lin Bai’s Soul Guidance Computer proposal earned him a discipleship and a chief consultancy; he accepted after Kong Deming agreed to take in both girls as well 16 17 18 19.

Early Academy Life

At the academy, Lin Bai accepted Ji Juechen’s invitation to a swordsmanship contest. He defeated him with the Cloud-Soaring Ambition Wind-Following Sword Art, then offered to teach it under conditions to be discussed the following morning. He viewed the exchange as a way to gain both a capable ally and a friend 21 22 23 24.

Lin Bai later stressed that Ji Juechen possessed the deeper foundation in sword dao: his own victory depended on his superior sword art. He encouraged Illustrious Virtue Hall to invest in Ji Juechen’s future rather than judge him by his modest innate talent 25 26.

Appearance

• Face: Delicate, handsome features; Meng Hongchen, Ju Zi, and Keke all notice his looks 1 14 20.
• Clothing: Introduced wearing a white martial outfit 1.

Personality

Lin Bai is attentive and protective toward Qian Renxue and Huo Yutong. He carefully balances their gifts and opportunities, finishes Qian Renxue’s painfully bitter porridge rather than hurt her feelings, and buys Huo Yutong an expensive necklace because it makes her happy. Yue Guan and Gui Mei explicitly praise his ability to leave neither girl feeling neglected 2 6.

His generosity is selective rather than indiscriminate. He refuses Tang Ya and Bei Bei because he sees their involvement as a danger to Huo Yutong, rejects Shrek’s use of students’ lives to accumulate honor, and negotiates benefits for his companions when powerful figures offer him opportunities 10 14 19.

Although he often acts lazy and jokes about relying on the girls’ future achievements, Qian Renxue calls him the hardest-working of the three. He also acknowledges the limits of his own victory over Ji Juechen, distinguishing superior technique from a deeper understanding of the sword 8 12 23 26.

Abilities & Skills

Passionate Sword

His first Martial Soul specializes in control and mental interference 4.

• Appearance: A three-foot sword, silver like water 10.
• Known Soul Rings: One yellow and one purple 10.
• First Soul Skill — Suffering of Birth: Creates hallucinations that make a living target experience the helplessness and fear of infancy. Lin Bai uses it to send a Wind Baboon fleeing 10.
• Unrevealed skill: The supplied events do not identify his second Soul Skill 10.

Ruthless Sword

His second Martial Soul specializes in attack and killing. It appears as an ancient, ink-black longsword without a visible cutting edge 4 11.

• Killing sword intent: Matches Ji Juechen’s deathly still sword intent during their initial clash 21.
• Innate Sword Flight: Allows Lin Bai to stand on the sword and fly briefly 11.
• Flight limitation: Places a severe drain on both Soul Power and spiritual power; he uses it for a short pursuit rather than sustained travel 11.
• Concealment: Kept secret during his early life, then exposed to Sky Screen viewers when he pursued Electrolux’s fragment 4 11.

Cloud-Soaring Ambition Wind-Following Sword Art

Lin Bai purchased this Seven Kill Sword lineage inheritance for 30,000 Gold Soul Coins. It is a complete collection of Self-Created Soul Skills rather than merely a sequence of sword strikes 23.

• Accelerating offense: Uses the recoil and momentum of successive clashes to produce increasingly fast attacks 22.
• Dark Netherworld Protection, the Iron Sword Unrivaled: A defensive stance that surrounds him with raging wind, simultaneously shielding his body and battering an approaching weapon 23.
• Documented feat: Stops Ji Juechen’s Sweeping Slash and wins their swordsmanship contest 23.
• Match limitation: The victory occurs under a swordsmanship-only agreement, not an unrestricted contest of cultivation. Ji Juechen could have broken the defensive barrier with his Soul Ancestor-level Soul Power 21 23.
• Mastery: Chen Xin recognizes that Lin Bai has grasped part of the art’s true meaning 23.

Soul Tool Research

Lin Bai applies his previous-life computer science education to Soul Guidance technology, despite having only elementary hands-on crafting experience 19.

• Rare-metal refining: Proposes forging rare metals to reduce waste, strengthen materials, and raise the upper limit of Soul Tools 16 17.
• Binary information encoding: Demonstrates four switch-controlled Soul Guidance circuits, using flowing and blocked Soul Power to represent ones and zeros 19.
• Soul Guidance Computer: Proposes expanding these circuits to encode numbers and characters and perform calculations 19.
• Military application: Suggests using computer-assisted calculations to improve the accuracy of Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells 19.
• Development status: His demonstration establishes the concept; a completed high-performance computer is not shown 19.

Foreknowledge and Planning

Lin Bai recognizes people, opportunities, and threats through his knowledge of the original story 1 8 16.

• Arranges the forest journey around Huo Yutong’s encounter with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm 8 10.
• Identifies and intercepts Electrolux’s consciousness fragment 11.
• Recognizes Jing Hongchen and Meng Hongchen before their formal introduction 16.
• Plans to use the danger surrounding Electrolux’s necromancy to lure Evil Soul Masters into becoming opportunities for Qian Renxue’s cultivation and trial 12.

Equipment / Items

• Storage Soul Tool Ring — Carries manuscripts, funds, supplies, the broken Angel Holy Sword, and his experimental Soul Guidance devices 5 11 19.
• Electrolux’s divine consciousness fragment — Resides in his Sea of Consciousness as a gray sphere. No active necromantic technique is demonstrated in the supplied events 11 12.
• Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eye manuals — Purchased from Tang Ya to obtain methods for steadily improving Soul Power and mental power 13.
• Cultivation supplies — Funds Whale Rubber, supporting herbs, Mystic Water Pills, Soul Ascension Pills, and medicinal Soul Beast meals for all three companions 5.
• Angel Holy Sword remnant — Acquired near Jialing Pass and later given to Qian Renxue, triggering her first Angel God trial 2 11 12.
• Gifts for his companions — Gives Huo Yutong the Ice God’s Heart storage necklace and Qian Renxue the Angel’s Wings storage necklace; buys each second-level inner armor and a second-level Soul Tool Shield 6.

Relationships

• Qian Renxue — His younger-sister figure, not a stated blood relative. He shelters her after finding her, protects her identity, and supports her renewed Angel God inheritance 1 2 4 12.
• Huo Yutong — Childhood friend and close companion. He helps protect her family, finances her cultivation, and seeks to keep her outside Tang San’s planned influence 4 5 8 9.
• Old Jack — The White Tiger Duke’s steward who takes Lin Bai in. Lin Bai and Qian Renxue regard him as family and address him as a grandfather 1 9.
• Huo Yun’er — Huo Yutong’s mother, whom he addresses as Aunt Huo. He arranges her relocation before the trio leaves for school 9.
• Kong Deming — His teacher and the senior figure who appoints him chief consultant for the Soul Guidance Computer project 19.
• Jing Hongchen — Patron and research contact who recognizes his ideas, brings him to Mingdu, and promises Illustrious Virtue Hall’s protection 16 17.
• Ji Juechen — Swordsmanship rival and prospective student. Lin Bai offers instruction after their duel and advocates investment in his long-term potential 23 24 26.
• Meng Hongchen — Academy acquaintance who is attracted to him and takes his assessment of Ji Juechen seriously 14 16 26.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei — Tang Sect representatives whose recruitment efforts he rejects. He nevertheless purchases useful secret arts from Tang Ya and offers advice on the sect’s future 10 13 14.
• Tang San — An anticipated adversary whom Lin Bai believes is manipulating Huo Yutong’s destined path 8 10.

Story Role

• Parallel-world broadcast subject: Lin Bai’s life with Qian Renxue and Huo Yutong is shown by the Sky Screen to a Douluo Continent ten thousand years earlier 1 3.
• Unintended source of technological change: His shopping trip exposes Soul Tools to Ning Fengzhi, prompting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to search for craftsmen 4.
• Target of cross-world interest: After watching the forest encounters, Bibi Dong orders preparations to seize both the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s power and the mysterious gray current Lin Bai absorbed 12.
• Critic of inherited reputations: His rejection of Shrek and criticism of Yu Xiaogang challenge figures revered in Huo Yutong’s era; Yu Xiaogang reacts by attacking the Sky Screen and is punished by it 14 24 25.

Notable Quotes

“You have to choose who you’re generous with. Sometimes, generosity can end up harming you instead.” 10

“His foundation in the sword dao is far deeper than mine. I won because of my sword art, not my sword dao!” 26