Fan Daoyi

Biodata

Background and History

Guixu and the Present World

Fan Daoyi created Guixu. After awakening with a damaged origin and gaps in his memory, he found that his subordinates’ mismanagement of its games had left him losing more Origin Source than he absorbed. He sought fear to replenish it and punished creatures who rebelled against him 2 4 73 110.

Unable to enter and leave Guixu freely in his weakened state, he entered the Present World through a passage and accepted a student identity arranged by Xuan Miao. He enrolled at Qingyun City No. 1 High School and considered Dawnlight Academy as a route back into Guixu 5.

[Eight Trigrams] and Guixu’s Schemes

Fan Daoyi joined [Eight Trigrams] as Tai Chi, concealing the breadth of his abilities. He worked with its members on incidents including the Wang family investigation and an insect infestation, while also manipulating events and arranging alibis for his own actions 32 36 40.

During another Guixu game, he revealed himself as the Troublemaker, the person controlling events behind the scenes. After returning to the Present World, he helped investigate the Insect Disaster and discovered that Guixu’s forces were involved 54 55 59.

Azure Dragon staged an investigation and dream trial to draw out a suspected mastermind. Fan Daoyi, who had decided his possessed body should die, was stabbed through the heart by a masked assailant claiming to be Taowu. Kan Water saved him after breaking through to a higher realm 70 73 74.

The Insect Disaster and the End

Fan Daoyi confronted his Guixu subordinates over the Insect Disaster. Xuan Miao revealed that someone identified as ■ was behind the scheme and that something had been removed from Fan Daoyi’s awareness. During the battle against the Insect Mother, Fan Daoyi used Balance to strengthen the opposing warriors and direct their attacks 76 96 97.

He later learned that the Insect Disaster scheme had been laid by his former self. His final deception used Dao, Dao Er, and the purported Dao San to let him stand in absolute neutrality and disappear from the world. Savvis erased the sorrow associated with him, the dead returned to life, and Fan Daoyi subsequently met Lin Huai 101 110.

Appearance

Fan Daoyi presents himself as a frail young man, often leaning on a bamboo cane 5.

• His hair fades from black to white, and he wears black-and-white clothing 32.
• His initial student appearance is pale and sickly 5.
• He sometimes wears a fur cloak with a long decorative sash 87.

Personality

Fan Daoyi is calculating and enjoys controlling how others interpret events. He often offers hope before undermining it, as when he led a black-robed attacker to believe he wanted to join the attacker’s organization, then killed him for the fear he generated 8.

He takes his promises literally. After promising not to punish the Barrier Ghost, he played its testimony to the subordinates it had denounced and left them to settle their grievances themselves 2 4.

He also values leisure and deliberately conceals capabilities to avoid being given more work. Despite his manipulation, he becomes a dependable presence to [Eight Trigrams], helping with experiments, management, training, and everyday activities 32 71.

Abilities and Skills

Balance

Fan Daoyi’s Balance can equalize strength between individuals or on the scale of worlds. He manifests it as enormous phantom scales 96 101.

• Against the Insect Mother, the scales suppressed the swarm and empowered the opposing warriors, pushing them toward the Limit Break Realm 96 97.
• Silver threads linked the fighters, allowing him to coordinate their attacks and move them through space 97.
• He told [Eight Trigrams] that his power carried a price, but the passage identifies that explanation as a lie 101.

Spatial Manipulation

Fan Daoyi uses teleportation and other spatial techniques in combat and travel.

• He teleports himself and others, including He Piaojian during the fight against an insect mother 40.
• He separated a pursuing swarm into individual spaces and crushed the insects 88.
• He claimed that transporting another person required physical contact and that repeated long-distance travel strained his body; he gave these restrictions while concealing his abilities 32.
• Teleportation was blocked inside the island’s secret realm 63.

Origin Source and Fear

Fan Daoyi sought fear to replenish his damaged origin and used Origin Source for a range of effects 2 8.

• He revived subordinates he had killed, bound their souls, and stripped away their consciousness as punishment 4.
• He absorbed knowledge from schoolbooks using his origin 5.
• In his weakened state, using power in the Present World could consume more Origin Source than the fear it produced replenished 8.

Ability Control and Analysis

Fan Daoyi can interfere with abilities and recognize their workings.

• Wang Long observed that Fan Daoyi’s ability could steal supernatural abilities and control living beings 24.
• Fan Daoyi used Analysis when trapped in an unfamiliar bubble 94.
• He used Azure Dragon’s illusion technique to create a false dream, setting it to release people before hypothermia 75.

Combat and Strategy

Fan Daoyi combines observation, weapon use, and manipulation of opponents.

• He severed parasitized insects’ antennae after realizing they used them to find targets 40.
• He completed the highest-difficulty agility course and took first place in its rankings 32.
• He concealed his strength during exhibition matches, using teleportation to knock opponents from the arena 80.

Equipment and Items

• Bamboo cane — A shapeshifting weapon that has taken the forms of a dagger, longsword, and umbrella. Its transformed sword initially failed to respond to He Piaojian’s sword ability until Fan Daoyi instructed it to cooperate 4 14 24 36.
• Shovel — A tool coated in hallucinogenic pollen. Fan Daoyi used its effects to support a false claim about mental control, then traded it to Olivia Clark for a cane 46 49.

Relationships

• He Piaojian — Fellow [Eight Trigrams] member and frequent partner. He trusts Fan Daoyi, defends him against suspicion, and accompanies him on investigations 40 68 87.
• Dao Er — A personality of Fan Daoyi that formed an individual self. Dao Er helps stage deceptions, including impersonations of Four Fiends Cult members, though he complains about Fan Daoyi’s scripts 36 38 89.
• Xuan Miao — An associate who arranged Fan Daoyi’s student identity and communicated with him through his consciousness. Xuan Miao later revealed that his awareness had been altered 5 76.
• Qian Heaven — Leader of [Eight Trigrams], who welcomed Fan Daoyi into the organization. Fan Daoyi later learned that Qian Heaven had returned to the Four Fiends Cult 32 104.
• Azure Dragon — An official who considered Fan Daoyi a potential successor and worked with him on a staged investigation. Fan Daoyi later warned him that resurrected people would begin dying 70 73 104.
• Guixu’s bosses — Subordinates including Apothecary, Flower Tender, and Vase Woman. Fan Daoyi punished them for rebellion and later confronted them over their role in the Insect Disaster 4 76.
• Lin Huai — The person with whom Dao Yi made a deal. They reunited after Dao Yi escaped the world 110.

Notable Quotes

“I keep my word.” 2

“Balance and Return to One, Covenant for Ten Thousand Generations.” 96

“And Dao Yi exists at no point on the timeline. I will be completely forgotten among everyone.” 110