Xu Yang

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Xu Yang (许阳)
Alias(es)	Li Qingshan; Xu Xian / Qingyang; Xu Qingyang; Li Jianchen; Li Liuxian; Shi Jian; Kong Xuan; Zhenyuanzi; Li Xuanyuan; Gan Jin 6 27 97 98 341 345 406 416
Species/Race	Human transmigrator; has also acted through dream incarnations, possessed bodies, and avatars—including a Green Fish/Dragon Seed body 1 5 62 341
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Founder and Dao Master of the Myriad Dao Academy; associated with White Jade Capital and Wuzhuang Temple 166 236 345
Occupation/Role	Cultivator, martial artist, physician, teacher, artifact refiner, strategist, and faction leader 27 28 354
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
No cultivation	1	Initially possesses no formal cultivation, but his Attribute Panel has already granted exceptional physical condition and a lifespan of 145 years.
Internal Energy Realm	14	Reaches the Internal Energy Realm as Li Qingshan while building Qing Feng Village and developing Hundred Broken Mountain.
Gang Qi Realm	20	Attains Gang Qi Realm after decades of martial practice, martial study, and teaching.
True Gang Realm	28	Restores his cultivation to True Gang Realm while operating Bao'an Hall in Xuzhou.
Spirit Condensation Realm	36	Forms himself as his Dao through Spirit Condensation Dao Integration and comprehends Martial Dao Divine Intent.
Divine Gang Realm	44	Develops the Heavenly Human Integration trait and can mobilize the power of heaven and earth.
Muscle and Bone Realm (Green Fish body)	66	Reaches the demon-cultivation realm and awakens the Summon Thunder and Lightning talent.
Rebirth Realm (Green Fish body)	69	Deduces a new stage after being stalled for three years by the limits of his prior technique.
Spirit Condensation Mortal Shell (Green Fish body)	71	Uses cultivated electric eels and lightning tempering to force breakthroughs through multiple Body Tempering stages.
Foundation Establishment Middle Stage	89	Establishes his foundation with a Top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill and the Electric Yuan Transforming Dragon Array.
Daoist Magic True Person / Foundation Establishment pinnacle	130	Reaches the peak of Daoist magic True Person cultivation and Foundation Establishment while developing Guo Bei Academy.
Four Laws Golden Core	189	Consolidates Inner Primordial Core, Outer Primordial Embryo, Dharma Path Yang God, and Primordial Spirit Golden Core.
Nascent Soul Realm	192	Advances through the Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and uses the tribulation to forge the Three Mountains Five Peaks Lightning Fire Sky-Flipping Seal.
Great Perfection Foundation Establishment (Li Suhong body)	234	Reaches completion in martial, body, Daoist, and immortal cultivation systems after ten years of development.
Golden Core Realm (Li Suhong body)	236	Forms a Five Elements Golden Core, refines the Five Elements Pearl, and establishes the identity of Kong Xuan.
Embracing the Core Realm (Xu Qingyang body)	267	Returns to the preserved body and cultivation of Xu Qingyang after awakening from the Profound Ice Coffin.
Core Pill Realm (Xu Qingyang body)	273	Uses the Evil Emperor's Sarira to advance to the martial Core Pill Realm.
Golden Core cultivator (Xu Qingyang body)	278	Defeats Divine Bridge Grandmaster Zhou Fengyu in one move using Daoist magic and formations.
Immortal Path Nascent Soul / Martial Path Core Pill	285	Reaches Nascent Soul on the Immortal Path and Core Pill on the Martial Path after thirty-eight years of accumulation.
Void Returning Realm	319	Defeats late-stage Void Returning Array Master Chen Yanqi with a single sword strike.
Great Vehicle Realm	349	Survives the Great Vehicle Heavenly Tribulation and condenses a thread of Immortal Spirit Mechanism.
Calamity Realm	528	Passes the Calamity Realm tribulation and becomes a Calamity Realm Immortal.
True Immortal-level power	578	Attains True Immortal power after defeating Agni, Surya, and Susanoo with the Heavenly Punishment Saber.
Temporary Eleventh-rank Heavenly Immortal	714	Uses the Innate Primordial Qi Taiqing Divine Talisman to obtain the Taiqing Dao Fruit and Heavenly Immortal authority.
Heavenly Immortal (Divine Martial Body)	742	Perfects a unique Divine Martial Body through the Martial Scripture Hammering Dao and Pangu's True Form Method.

Background

Xu Yang is a transmigrator who regained his past-life memories at eighteen. For twenty-seven years, he concealed himself as an elderly fisherman on Dongting Lake, judging that openly displaying unusual abilities in a rigid feudal society would invite disaster. His Attribute Panel gradually converted repeated mundane acts—eating, sleeping, breathing, fishing, farming, and disguise—into permanent skills and traits. 1

His first major ability to leave his original life came from Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly, which let him enter another world through dreams and inhabit Li Qingshan's body. As Li Qingshan, he protected Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu, seized Hundred Broken Mountain, built a power base, gathered martial arts, and ultimately used collective organization to establish Great Zhou and spread martial practice. 5 12 15 23

Across successive worlds and identities, Xu Yang repeatedly applies the same model: secure survival, gather resources and knowledge, cultivate skills to their limit, create a reliable base, and use teaching, production, formations, medicine, and armed force to expand that base. This approach eventually produces Guo Bei Academy, White Jade Capital, Wuzhuang Temple, and the wider Myriad Dao Academy. 130 166 236 345

Appearance

Xu Yang deliberately alters his appearance according to the identity and world he occupies. His original public persona was a frail, hunched old fisherman, while his undisguised form was young, robust, and physically imposing. 1 3

• As “Old Xu Tou,” he wears a bamboo hat, straw cloak, and a convincingly aged disguise. 1
• His Disguise skill includes Camouflage, Voice Change, Bone Shrinking, and Breath Concealment. 3
• His restored and cultivated bodies are consistently described as strong, muscular, and difficult to ignore. 36 416
• His incarnations can differ radically, including Li Qingshan, Li Liuxian, Kong Xuan, Zhenyuanzi, Gan Jin, and a six-foot Green Fish. 62 99 236 345 416

Personality

Xu Yang is cautious, patient, and intensely security-minded. He spent decades concealing his advantages, avoids exposing his true foundation without need, and generally prepares routes for advance, retreat, or escape before committing to conflict. 1 57 217

He is decisive and ruthless once he judges someone to be a genuine threat. He killed the Zhang family after discovering their plan to prey on him, eliminated hostile members of the Li and Lu families, and repeatedly treats direct threats to his survival as matters requiring immediate resolution. 4 12 73

His ruthlessness is tempered by long-term pragmatism. Xu Yang does not kill for minor slights, seeks to convert wealth into cultivation and organized strength, and prefers useful captives, allies, disciples, and institutions over wasteful destruction. 12 15 196 369

He values knowledge, self-improvement, and teaching. He studies the systems of every world he enters, shares methods when doing so serves his larger goals, and believes cultivation should not be restricted by species, origin, or social station so long as one does not commit evil. 23 100 354 356

Abilities & Skills

Attribute Panel

Xu Yang's defining advantage is an Attribute Panel that turns sustained practice into skills and traits.

• Repetition, rather than quests or allocated points, causes skills to solidify. 1
• Even ordinary activities can develop extraordinary effects, including enhanced digestion, longevity, body strengthening, healing, stealth, and craftsmanship. 1 10
• His skills can continue developing over decades and may produce high-grade traits such as Martial Path Reaches Divinity, Teacher for All Generations, and Unity of Heaven and Man. 20 56
• He can transfer certain traits between worlds and incarnations at the cost of soul power. 56 130

Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly

A Dreaming trait that allows Xu Yang to cross worlds and act through other bodies.

• Enables possession of a body in another world through dreams. 5
• Grants extraordinary combat awareness; he can perceive opponents' movements, flaws, and vital points before they act. 11
• Later develops Reincarnation and Rebirth and Spirit Roaming Myriad Worlds, enabling reincarnation support and projection of clones into visited worlds. 56 86
• Requires substantial soul power, and large transfers can cost him skills and traits. 56

Martial Scripture

Xu Yang's foundational martial inheritance, created from accumulated martial knowledge and later enriched by the War God's Catalogue.

• Integrates cultivation, combat, weapon, and life-preserving methods. 27
• Supports martial cultivation even in environments with little or no heaven-and-earth spiritual energy. 75
• Includes techniques such as Dragon Subduing Palm, Tai Chi, Nine Yang Divine Skill, Nine Yin Manual, Divine Sword arts, spear techniques, and body-tempering methods. 20
• Serves as the basis for his Blood Essence Martial Path and later Divine Martial Body. 505 742

Martial Path Reaches Divinity

A trait and cultivated principle that gives martial arts divine intent and supernatural effects.

• Allows martial techniques to gain “divine intent” and become more than ordinary martial arts. 23
• Can transform Dragon Subduing Palm into a dragon-shadow attack with increased range, power, and intimidation. 23
• Xu Yang eventually understands its underlying principle: the martial path is founded on the self—“I am martial, martial is me.” 36
• Stacks with his personally cultivated Martial Dao Divine Intent. 36

Daoist Magic and Lightning Law

Xu Yang practices Daoist magic alongside martial and immortal cultivation.

• Uses lightning arts, talismans, altars, ghost-commanding methods, divination, and rituals. 56 97 112
• Possesses the innate lightning talent Summon Lightning and Hold Electricity. 88 89
• Can perform the Grand Ceremony of Luo Tian, a costly ritual that gathers vast external power for large-scale combat or development. 167 654
• His Lightning Law King trait and later Daoist methods make lightning a central offensive specialty. 105 441

Mystic Light Eye Technique

A spiritual-eye art used for investigation, divination, and combat intelligence.

• Opens a spiritual eye and creates a Mystic Light Mirror capable of examining objects and potential futures. 106
• Develops into the Exalted Eye of Heaven, allowing observation across the Three Realms and Six Paths. 131 142
• Helps conceal his own irregular origins by allowing him to identify surveillance, traps, and hostile schemes first. 131
• Later combines with Five Elements cultivation into the Five Elements Profound Spirit Exalted Eye of Heaven. 248

Five Elements Divine Light

A high-level Five Elements supernatural ability.

• Uses the principles of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth for offense, restraint, collection, and formation-breaking. 223 248
• Can seize a mid-grade Spirit Treasure flying sword with Xin Metal energy. 248
• Defeats six Calamity Realm Great Powers and captures King Linghui. 563
• Supports Xu Yang's impersonation of a Five Elements Immortal Sect Holy Son due to its overwhelming authenticity and power. 316

Teaching and Development

Xu Yang's Teacher skill makes instruction a major part of his cultivation and faction-building.

• Traits include Earnest Teachings, Teaching and Learning Promote Each Other, Lead by Example, Everyone Is Like a Dragon, and Teacher for All Generations. 56 130
• Improves disciples' aptitude, comprehension, and cultivation efficiency. 37
• Allows him to develop medical halls, academies, production systems, and large numbers of cultivators at exceptional speed. 28 130 285
• He teaches without discrimination between humans and righteous demons or spirits. 100

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Xuanyuan Divine Sword / Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword — Xu Yang's principal natal sword, nurtured through the Three Laws of Heaven, Earth, and Man; eventually evolves into a Merit Treasure and then the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword. 144 369 672
• Sword Box — Houses and nourishes the Xuanyuan Divine Sword through accumulated sword artifacts, metal essence, lightning, merit, and spiritual materials. 144 463
• Three Mountains Five Peaks Lightning Fire Sky-Flipping Seal — Mid-grade Spirit Treasure forged through heavenly tribulation to break powerful formations. 182 192
• Spirit Treasure Mecha / Shattering War God Mecha — Artifact-refining construct that lets Xu Yang contest opponents above his cultivation realm. 203 292 331
• Five Elements Pearl — Low-grade Spirit Treasure formed by merging five Five Elements magic treasures. 236
• Evil Emperor's Sarira — A major cultivation resource used to accumulate power and advance martial cultivation. 50 272
• He Shi Bi — Imperial Seal transported across worlds; used to cleanse and reinforce Xu Yang's mind and soul. 56
• Heavenly Punishment Saber — Weapon used to defeat top True Gods within the Solar God Cult's divine realm. 578
• Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda — A Great Dao artifact forged from Innate Profound Yellow Qi; protects Xu Yang's Dao Body from heretical and evil forces. 743

Relationships

• Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu — Li Qingshan's younger siblings. Xu Yang hides them in a mountain stronghold and prepares for conflict to keep them safe. 12
• Old Six — Initially a cormorant companion; later a loyal spirit beast who returns with spoils from the Azure Jade Sect treasury. 3 179
• Fu Junzhuo — Patient who exchanges the Longevity Art for treatment; Xu Yang heals her severe injury but does not become entangled in her family’s fate. 29 37
• Shi Feixuan / Meng Fanyin — A significant emotional connection across reincarnations. Xu Yang later reunites with her, shares a supernatural ability, and urges her not to sever her emotions for cultivation. 54 410
• Xin Shisiniang — Fox spirit and long-term companion whose relationship with Xu Yang deepens over time. 100 110 130
• Yin Mountain Daoist — Sworn elder brother. Xu Yang publicly vouches for his character despite concerns over his ghost-controlling arts. 104
• True Person Ziyang, Sword Lord Chun Jun, Fairy Peony, and Great Peng King — Allies and fellow Dao discussants at Wuzhuang Temple; Xu Yang later forms sworn brotherhood with the Great Peng King. 354 356 374
• Li Cangwu — Sword-cultivator friend. Xu Yang refines the Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords for him and later gives him the Xuanyuan Divine Sword Art and Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Method. 324 402
• Hua Mulan — Hero contracted under Xu Yang in the Tongtian Tower; becomes a leading military subordinate and receives cultivation guidance and martial manuals from him. 597 603 633
• Lu Qiling — Epic hero summoned by Xu Yang; trains and cultivates alongside him and Hua Mulan. 612 633
• Gongshu Ling — Legendary construction, forging, and mechanical-arts hero; a key figure in Xu Yang's technological and territorial development. 623 666

Story Role / Major Arcs

Dongting Lake and the Li Qingshan Dream

• Lives as a disguised fisherman while secretly developing skills through the Attribute Panel. 1 3
• Uses Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly to enter Li Qingshan's world, protect his household, and seize Hundred Broken Mountain. 5 12 15
• Builds Great Zhou, spreads martial arts, and creates the Martial Scripture from the knowledge of the world. 23

Great Tang and Bao'an Hall

• Enters the Sui-Tang world as Xu Xian/Qingyang and establishes Bao'an Hall through his medical expertise. 27 28
• Defeats Yuwen Huaji, establishes hidden forces in Xuzhou, and advances to Spirit Condensation. 33 36
• Becomes a dominant martial figure, defeats major sects and Buddhist masters, and seeks to advance beyond the established martial path. 44 48 50

Blackwater and Cultivation-World Expansion

• Reincarnates as a Green Fish, raises aquatic spirit beasts, defeats the Giant Turtle, and develops a Blackwater spiritual land. 62 69 70 86
• Establishes his foundation, develops formations, pills, talismans, spiritual plants, and beast-taming methods, then competes for Dongting Spiritual Land. 89 116 117
• Seizes the Azure Jade Mountain Range and eventually advances through Golden Core and Nascent Soul. 179 189 192

Guo Bei Academy and Myriad Dao Academy

• Enters the Daoist magic world as Li Jianchen and later Shi Jian, building Guo Bei Academy alongside Roaring Firmament Temple and Yin Mountain Temple. 98 104 130
• Slays the Black Mountain Old Demon, confronts Pudu Cihang, and unifies Daoist traditions into the Myriad Dao Academy. 150 166
• Uses the Academy's population, industry, teaching, and ritual systems as a foundation for continued cultivation and warfare. 167 338

White Jade Capital, Wuzhuang Temple, and the Upper Realm

• Establishes White Jade Capital through the Li Suhong/Kong Xuan identity and fights demonic calamities across multiple worlds. 234 236 243
• Ascends as Zhenyuanzi, founds Wuzhuang Temple, advances to Great Vehicle, and uses the Pill Origin Gathering to exchange Dao methods and build alliances. 345 349 354
• Returns with the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword, confronts the Underworld and Heavenly Court, and establishes the Myriad Dao Academy in the Southern Continent. 369 378 395

Tongtian Tower and the Final Wars

• Enters the Tongtian Tower as a lord, develops the Yellow Turban civilization, and rises from a First-rank Lord to Double Crown holder. 584 630 631
• Builds Huang Tian City, defeats major lord coalitions, develops the Ming Xiao Daoists, and secures increasingly powerful divine artifacts. 640 649 672
• Becomes central to the war between the Profound Yellow Realm and the Desire Realm, temporarily gains Heavenly Immortal authority, and leads the assault on the Demonic Abyss. 710 714 721

Notable Quotes

“Those who kill shall be killed!” 119

“The martial path is the path of self. I am martial, martial is me; invincible, supreme in martial arts.” 36

“As long as one is good and righteous, whether human or demon, they are welcome to study here. Anyone who comes to cause trouble will be my enemy, and I will show no mercy!” 100

“I have no interest in being an emperor or a Dao Master; I simply dislike having anyone rule over me.” 295

Trivia

• Xu Yang’s first public identity is deliberately that of a dying old fisherman, despite his true body being far stronger than ordinary young men. 1 3
• His earliest skill traits include a “Smoothness” effect that prevents constipation. 1
• He lacks an innate spiritual root in his original body, but his Martial Scripture and accumulated traits let him cultivate multiple attributes regardless. 88
• His approach to power is explicitly shaped by the principle that collective strength and institutional development surpass individual strength in low- and mid-level worlds. 14 23