Xiang Dong

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Xiang Dong transmigrated into the Primordial World as a sunflower. After absorbing the first light of creation, he became an Innate Spirit Root and gained spiritual intelligence. With no teacher or cultivation method, he spent an immense period alone, talking and singing to himself until loneliness drove him toward madness 1 14.

He provoked the Six-Winged Golden Cicada and fought it for many primordial cycles. When the battle exhausted him, he detonated his life source to injure it. His scattered seeds grew into a sea of sunflowers, among which he eventually revived 1.

After Yang Mei taught him the basics of the Space Great Dao, Xiang Dong set out for Buzhou Mountain to prevent its future collapse. Pangu’s Will guided him into Pangu Hall, where he began purifying the blood pool in which the Twelve Ancestral Witches were gestating 3 4 9 10.

Appearance

Xiang Dong has appeared as a sunflower, a figure made of light, and a human 1 3 42.

• His first humanlike form was a palm-sized person of light. His origin was dispersed among his sunflower clones, limiting its size 3 4.
• After merging his sunflower true body with the figure, he stood about two meters tall and bore a sun totem on his chest 5.
• His later human form was a handsome young man in a long golden robe, with bright eyes and a sun mark on his forehead 42.

Personality

Xiang Dong is outspoken, playful, and fond of jokes, songs, and theatrical names for his techniques. He readily offers sunflower seeds to new acquaintances and initially revealed Yang Mei’s identity without considering the danger 2 6 10.

His humor masks profound loneliness and a long-standing wish to die. He kept his scattered sunflower clones rather than reclaim their origin because their company made him feel less alone; Fuxi’s sorrowful music later brought that loneliness to the surface 4 41.

Despite seeking death, Xiang Dong acts to protect others and change the Primordial World’s future. Witnessing the three-clan war through his sunflowers moved him to intervene, while Pangu’s words rekindled a sense of hope and responsibility he thought he had lost 34 44 45.

Abilities and Skills

Regeneration and sunflower clones

• Xiang Dong can revive from his scattered sunflower seeds and believes that he cannot die as long as light remains. His belief that only a Sage might destroy him is unconfirmed 1 3.
• His clones contain portions of his origin. He created an internal space in his true body to carry a sea of them and concentrate their light 4 5.
• He scattered downgraded Acquired sunflower seeds across the Primordial Land. Their hardiness and fast growth allowed him to establish an extensive network 18.
• Through light and his sunflowers, he could perceive distant events; during the three-clan war, he initially could only watch while his body and consciousness were dispersed 28 33.

Light and purification

• Core Impact: Fires golden light from his sun totem. He used it to purify Hou’s Sha Qi and drive the fierce beast away 6.
• Full Moon Light Wave: Uses yin-aspected light for purification. It initially had little effect on the immense Sha Qi and Turbid Qi in Pangu Hall’s blood pool 10.
• Sun Fist: Produces a blinding flash; Xiang Dong used it to escape pursuing dragons with Nuwa 24.
• His sunflower seeds can purify Sha Qi. After the Six-Winged Golden Cicada ate them, its Sha Qi was purified and its mind cleared 1 7.
• He condensed Pure Yang True Fire after absorbing a small amount of the extreme yang Qi nurturing Dongwanggong 22.

Space and movement

• Yang Mei taught Xiang Dong the basics of the Space Great Dao. Xiang Dong said one teleport could cover 108,000 li 3 4.
• He developed Flash through repeated use, shortening its intervals and increasing its range while fleeing an Earth Qilin with Nuwa 19.
• Pangu’s Pressure prevented him from using spatial movement abilities near Buzhou Mountain 4 8.

Creation and Principles

• Xiang Dong used the Light and Creation Principles to make a light screen and create a Peashooter from light and Primordial Xirang. The demonstration helped Nuwa recognize creation and living beings as the direction of her Dao 15.
• Di Jiang’s heart’s blood helped him form a Space Principle imprint; Zhu Jiuyin later gave him a Time Principle imprint 28 31.
• His Enlightenment Tea epiphany accelerated his comprehension of multiple Principles. The imprints given by the Twelve Ancestral Witches ultimately formed a circle around Light, with Creation linking them 43 44.

Taichu

Pangu’s Heart Blood and Jade Marrow fused with Xiang Dong’s body in the blood pool, creating a gestating alternate self. It developed a separate Primordial Spirit but shared memories and abilities with Xiang Dong. Pangu named it Taichu and made it the thirteenth Ancestral Witch 11 14 42 44.

• Taichu purified the blood pool from within and could draw on Pangu’s Pressure to suppress Di Jiang until his Sha Qi was purged 11 18.
• Light is Taichu’s core Principle 28 44.

Heavenly Dao authority

As the sole Heavenly Dao Agent, Xiang Dong can access records through a phone-like treasure. Using its browser consumes Primordial Spirit power; lengthy searches can nearly exhaust him 48 49.

• His listed permissions include concealing or revealing heavenly secrets, elementary merit and karmic-force adjudication, and elementary management of living beings’ registration 48.
• Heavenly punishment execution requires an application 48.

Equipment and Items

• Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus — Retrieved from Penglai and placed in the blood pool to accelerate purification. Xiang Dong later summoned it through his sunflower network to purify the three-clan battlefield 24 26 34.
• Nine-Grade Lotus Thrones — Collected to protect the gestating Ancestral Witches’ Primordial Spirits from Sha Qi 24 26.
• Three Lights Divine Water and jade bottle — Collected on Penglai and given to Nuwa; the bottle was a supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure 24.
• Bamboo flute — Made from Nuwa’s Purple Jade Bamboo and became a Merit Spirit Treasure when the Heavenly Dao granted it merit 41.
• Phone-like Acquired Merit Treasure — Given to Xiang Dong by Taichu and used to access Heavenly Dao records and permissions 44 48.

Relationships

• Yang Mei — Taught Xiang Dong the Space Great Dao and gave him Enlightenment Tea. Xiang Dong later sought to recruit him as an ally against the dangers surrounding Hongjun and Luohou 3 48.
• Nuwa — Xiang Dong drove Hou away from her, helped inspire her Dao of creation, and traveled with her to Penglai. She considers him a friend and defended that choice to Fuxi 6 15 16 40.
• Fuxi — Initially attacked Xiang Dong over his contact with Nuwa, causing his light body to explode. Their later encounters included a musical exchange, although Fuxi remained protective of his sister 7 40 41.
• Pangu — Xiang Dong reveres him as Father God. Pangu’s Will guided him to Pangu Hall and Penglai; Pangu’s remnant soul later entrusted him with helping the Ancestral Witches, the Three Pure Ones, and the Primordial World 8 9 20 44.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches — Xiang Dong worked to purify their gestation and protect their Primordial Spirits. They regard Taichu as their youngest brother and vowed to protect him 26 31.
• Hongjun — Xiang Dong’s intervention disrupted Hongjun’s plans, and their competing interests over the Heavenly Dao made them adversaries 38.
• Six-Winged Golden Cicada — Fought Xiang Dong for many primordial cycles and survived his self-detonation. Eating his seeds subsequently purified its Sha Qi 1.

Story Role and Major Arcs

Pangu Hall and Penglai

Xiang Dong asked Pangu for a way into the hidden Pangu Hall and was guided through the mountain’s formations. His first attempt to purify the blood pool was overwhelmed, but Pangu’s Heart Blood and Jade Marrow carried him into the pool, where his alternate body continued the work 8 9 10 11.

His Primordial Spirit awakened in a sunflower cultivated by Nuwa. Following Pangu’s guidance, the two traveled to Penglai, where Xiang Dong collected the White Lotus and lotus platforms needed to protect the Ancestral Witches. He escaped the Dragon Clan’s blockade with Nuwa and returned to the purification project 13 16 24 26.

The three-clan war

Experiencing the destruction of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin conflict through his sunflowers, Xiang Dong activated them as nodes and summoned the White Lotus. Its light cleared Devil Qi and much of the Tribulation Qi from the battlefield, allowing the three leaders to recognize that they had been manipulated 34.

He then created a vast screen showing the war’s catastrophic outcome. The Ancestral Witches, Pangu’s phantom, and Heavenly Dao Power helped stabilize it. His intervention stopped the war before the clans destroyed one another, but exhausted him into a prolonged sleep 35 36 39.

Heavenly Dao Agent

After awakening, Xiang Dong experienced an epiphany and encountered Pangu’s remnant soul, which named his alternate self Taichu and entrusted him with the world’s future. Using his phone-like treasure, he discovered that Taichu was the sole designated Heavenly Dao Agent and began examining its permissions and records 43 44 48.

Trivia

• Xiang Dong’s divine name is a homophone for “facing east,” reflecting the nature of a sunflower 42.
• He roasted seeds from his own clones as snacks and gifts, including five-spice sunflower seeds 2 7.