Xiang Bei

Biodata

Power Progression

Descriptions before the Golden Tree breakthrough also call Xiang Bei a Five-Ring Soul King; the later account explicitly places his level-50 breakthrough in Chapter 14 3 14.

Background and History

Xiang Bei transmigrated a month before his introduction and discovered a mysterious space that let him communicate and trade with people possessing more advanced technology. He had already acquired theories on Soul Tool production lines and computers when the story began. A golden sky screen showed his activities to an earlier era of the Douluo Continent, identifying Mingde Hall as existing ten thousand years in its future 1.

At Mingde Hall, Xiang Bei helped establish an assembly line that tripled Soul Tool output. He obtained the Snow Empress’s origin for his AI project, creating Xiao Yu and using her to automate production. To address her growing computing and energy demands, he acquired lithography technology and later powered her server with a spatially compressed star 3 4 5 10.

Xiang Bei led the Sun Moon Empire’s exchange students to Shrek Academy. After demonstrating Battle Armor, a lithography machine, and Level 9 shells, he gained Inner Court admission and a Golden Tree branch. He traded the branch for Virtual World, Soul Ring cultivation, and satellite technology, then partnered with Shrek to develop the Virtual World 10 13 14 16.

After a satellite detected unusual mental fluctuations in the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiang Bei found Tian Meng and accepted his sacrifice. He escaped a confrontation with the forest’s Ferocious Beasts, then helped defend Shrek City against a beast tide with automated turrets and an experimental fusion shell 19 20 21.

Personality

Xiang Bei is ambitious and protective of his independence. He concealed the extent of his capabilities while building influence in the Sun Moon Empire and did not intend to submit to Xu Tianran’s rule. He envisioned armies of intelligent machines and an eventual interstellar migration 8 9.

He combines cooperation with calculation: he offered Shrek valuable technology while secretly installing surveillance devices, and chose mining rights over a Level 9 shell after Xiao Yu surveyed the mines’ resources. He is also willing to use overwhelming weapons as leverage, displaying hundreds of shells during his challenge with Xu Sanshi 8 11 12.

Abilities and Skills

Surveying Caliper

Xiang Bei’s Martial Soul is a mechanical-looking ruler called the Surveying Caliper. It enhances his mental faculties, computing ability, and affinity for Soul Tools 16.

• Precision Strike — His fifth Soul Skill forcibly reveals a weak point on a person, Soul Beast, or Soul Tool. Striking that point causes tremendous damage, and the skill ignores cultivation level 16.
• Spiritual Detection, Spiritual Sharing, Soul Shock, and Mental Interference — Four skills gained from Tian Meng’s million-year Soul Ring. They grow with Xiang Bei’s mental power; Spiritual Sharing lets him pass visual information to Xiao Yu and allies 19 20.

Tian Meng also opened Xiang Bei’s Sea of Consciousness and strengthened his body. Tian Meng’s sealed essence unlocks as Xiang Bei’s capacity improves, raising the upper limit of his mental power 19.

Soul Engineering

Xiang Bei specializes in combining Soul Tools with technology obtained through the exchange space. Although he made Level 8 and Level 9 shells, he stated that he had not reached Level 8 as a Soul Engineer and had instead relied on technology 1 13.

• Lithography and chips — Produced Soul Guidance Chips and enabled precise, large-scale engraving of Soul Guidance Arrays 6 7 13.
• Automated defenses — Used Xiao Yu, satellite data, and Spiritual Detection Sharing to coordinate more than a thousand turrets during the beast tide 20 21.
• Fusion shell — Developed an experimental shell whose power approached Level 9. Its blast injured Di Tian and destroyed a tenth of the beast tide, but its effects also caused mutations 21 22.
• Fascia knife — Designed a Soul Tool to relieve physical fatigue when used with a special ointment; without it, the technique could damage muscles 12 29.

Soul Guidance Virtual World

Developed using technology exchanged for the Golden Tree branch, the Virtual World allows users to enter with their consciousness, train, test skills, and fight simulated Soul Beasts to increase Soul Ring ages 14 15.

• Xiao Yu created an artificial Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring for Xiang Bei using nuclear fusion energy 15 16.
• Generating powerful virtual beasts consumes substantial life energy. After a simulated Ten-Thousand-Year beast strained the Golden Tree, Xiang Bei agreed to limit ordinary generation to thousand-year beasts for the time being 15 16.

Equipment and Projects

• One-Word Battle Armor — Experimental armor that raised Xiang Bei’s apparent combat strength from Soul King to Soul Saint. Xuan Ziwen later developed an intelligent version with the help of the lithography machine 3 10 13.
• Fixed Soul Cannon Shells — Xiang Bei carried hundreds of Level 8 shells and demonstrated Level 9 shells made using Controlled Nuclear Fusion 12 13.
• C-13 Satellite Soul Tool — Acquired in the Golden Tree branch trade; Xiang Bei and Meng Hongchen built a replica for launch and surveillance 14 17.
• Azure Luan Communicators — Devices obtained through a trade for a Silent Sleeve Arrow, combining communication, energy storage, and spatial teleportation. Xiang Bei prepared them for mass production and distribution 26 27.
• External Soul Bone — A trophy from a fifty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, fused with his left hand 26.

Relationships

• Xiao Yu — Xiang Bei’s AI creation, formed using the Snow Empress’s origin. She controls connected Soul Tools, assists his research, and addresses him as her master 4 28.
• Xuan Ziwen — A Mingde Hall Soul Engineer who supplied Xiang Bei with the antique crossbow used in an early trade and later developed intelligent Battle Armor 1 10.
• Jing Hongchen — Mingde Hall’s master. He supported Xiang Bei’s AI project and assigned Meng Hongchen as his assistant 3 4.
• Meng Hongchen — His assistant and collaborator. She helped build the satellite, received a communicator from him, and kissed his cheek 4 17 27.
• Jiang Nannan — A Shrek student who helped Xiang Bei learn about Inner Court admission. She later chose to follow him rather than remain with the Tang Sect and kissed him after receiving a communicator 11 18 27.
• Ma Xiaotao — Xiang Bei suppressed her Evil Fire with Xiao Yu’s Ultimate Ice. She thanked him and offered him a favor 17.
• Xu Sanshi — A jealous rival who challenged Xiang Bei after misunderstanding his treatment of Jiang Nannan’s legs. Fan Yu surrendered the match after Xiang Bei revealed his shells 12.
• Mu En and Xian Lin’er — Shrek leaders who supported his work: Mu En granted him Inner Court access, while Xian Lin’er helped arrange the Virtual World partnership 13 28.
• Tian Meng — The million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm who merged with Xiang Bei and resides in his Sea of Consciousness 19.