Xia Fan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Xia Fan graduated from Human Mystery Martial Arts University and received special training there. After the previous Ninth District guild president died in battle and the post remained vacant for several years, Xia Fan was appointed president. His position was largely symbolic, with Shen Yan handling most guild affairs while Xia Fan spent time in the Wilderness Zone 67 75 563.

He returned from the Wilderness Zone for Jiang Fu’s elite entrance assessment, explaining how the Mystic Light Mirror monitored candidates and assessed their kills. Later, he displaced Shen Yan to accompany Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu into the Wilderness Zone, hoping to curry favor with Shi Jiu 67 68 93.

At sea, Xia Fan became both bait and a scapegoat for the pair. He collected a fare of two hundred billion and three storage items from survivors seeking boat passage. After repeated battles with sea beasts, he broke through to Transcendent; his association with Jiang Fu also earned him the public label “Exam Item” 125 131 148 152.

Appearance

Xia Fan has handsome features and habitually wears a friendly smile 67.

• His resemblance to a rejuvenated Xia Yuncang draws Jiang Fu’s attention before their family connection is revealed 563.
• When frightened or exhausted, his expressionless, melancholy appearance has been mistaken for the composure of an unfathomable expert 143 144.

Personality

Xia Fan is eager to win Shi Jiu’s favor, even competing with Shen Yan for the chance to accompany her and Jiang Fu. He is also acutely conscious of danger: he initially balked at carrying blame that might provoke retaliation in the Wilderness Zone, but agreed rather than give Shen Yan his place 93 97.

His relationship with Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu combines gratitude with exasperation. He values their gifts and the opportunities they bring him, yet expects their plans to leave him exposed or blamed. When faced with an unwanted confrontation, he has even knocked himself unconscious to avoid it 176 184 592 595.

Despite his complaints, Xia Fan can play an imposing public role. He threatened survivors into paying for passage, led the Anti-White-Beard Alliance, and later made the Martial God Hall delegation wait for him as Tianhuang’s principal 125 126 231 706.

Abilities & Skills

Blade Combat

An experienced saber user, Xia Fan fought off a wave of Mutated Beasts by delivering nearly a thousand slashes in an instant 103.

• He refined a Third-Tier War Blade and used it to kill a Level Five marine Mutated Beast with a backhanded slash 176.
• He learned the basics of the Falling Sunset Blade Art, a Heaven-Tier Upper Grade Divine Ability, with help from Jiang Fu’s Multiply by Ten. Its depth made further progress difficult without instruction 184 720.
• Watching Ye Jue perform the art gave Xia Fan an opportunity to study its movements against the original manual, while Jiang Fu enhanced his comprehension 720.

Sequence: Suit Thug

Xia Fan unlocked the Suit Thug Sequence and displayed it during his battle with Ye Tianhe 691 725.

• Its thug puppets can fight opponents directly and can lock an enemy down for five minutes 695.
• Xia Fan and his puppets can scatter in different directions, making it harder to identify his real body 695.

Temporary Divine Power

During the principals’ battle, Xia Fan drank from a thermos and briefly displayed Low God cultivation. His divine pressure immobilized Ye Tianhe, who collapsed unconscious 725.

• The effect ended when Xia Fan left the arena. Jiang Fu warned him that there was only one Godhood Potion and told him to use it sparingly 726.

Equipment and Items

• Third-Tier War Blade — A blade Jiang Fu gave him. Xia Fan refined it and greatly increased the power he could draw from it 176.
• Falling Sunset Blade Art manual — The original manual for the Heaven-Tier Upper Grade Divine Ability, taken from Shi Yuehan’s collection and given to Xia Fan by Jiang Fu 184 720.
• Death-immunity gold token — A token capable of blocking a blow that would certainly kill or defeat him 720.
• Thermos — Contained the potion Xia Fan used to attain temporary divine power against Ye Tianhe 725 726.

Relationships

• Jiang Fu — Xia Fan accompanied his assessment and repeatedly served as his bait, public representative, and scapegoat. Jiang Fu also helped him grow stronger and gave him valuable equipment 93 176 184 563.
• Shi Jiu — Xia Fan calls her the “Little Ancestor” and sought her favor. She encouraged his breakthrough and later selected him as a prospective public spokesperson 93 132 184.
• Shen Yan — His colleague at the Ninth District guild and frequent rival for the pair’s favor. Shen Yan handled most guild affairs and often contrasted his own strength or reliability with Xia Fan’s 67 93 337 600.
• Xia Yuncang — Xia Fan’s granduncle and one of Xia Country’s Silver Mask Saint Entry experts. He said Xia Fan was his only remaining family 563.
• Shi Yuehan — Former principal of Tianhuang. After Xia Fan’s appointment, Shi Yuehan took his appearance and set out intending to kill people while leaving Xia Fan to take the blame 592.
• Youlan — The blue-haired Deity became bound to the Bearded Pirate Group by a Sequence Contract that Xia Fan produced 729.

Story Role and Major Arcs

The Bearded Pirates and Anti-White-Beard Alliance

Xia Fan’s pirate identities became public scapegoats for Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu’s operations. After Lu Zhengxiong was abducted, Xia Fan realized the pair had framed him; he nevertheless maintained the story that the Bearded Pirates had captured Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu and pledged to remain at sea as alliance leader until their return 231.

He also carried out communications for the group. He sent Ling Chu an edited, anonymous recording exposing a plot to smear the Bearded Pirates, and later posted as Black-Bearded Xia to claim the theft of Lingyue Pavilion’s research institute 264 360.

After Lingyue Pavilion removed him from an operation against the pirates and the alliance suffered a crushing defeat, many observers came to regard Xia Fan as a tragic hero whose leadership could have prevented the disaster 579 584.

Principal of Tianhuang

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu planned to make Xia Fan principal so that others would blame him for bringing down Tianhuang Martial Arts University. He received the official appointment and seal, and resolved to prove himself in the position 180 592.

When Martial God Hall sought to establish Shenhuang Martial Arts University in Xia Country, Xia Fan refused to receive its delegation until it passed Tianhuang’s security. The rivalry culminated in a principals’ battle: Xia Fan faced Ye Tianhe himself and won after temporarily displaying Low God power 706 725.

The Abyss and Divine Encounters

Xia Fan joined Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, Huang Qing, and Su Yu on a descent into the Abyss, where an eerie blue light enveloped him. Later, he and Huang Qing drove off an incarnation of a blue-haired Deity, and Jiang Fu placed the Abyss Mother Tree in Xia Fan’s care 679 701.

After Xia Fan’s public display of divine power, the Blue Hair Deity encountered the group again. Xia Fan produced a Sequence Contract already bearing the Deity’s imprint, binding him to the Bearded Pirate Group 725 729.