Bai Zhenzhen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Bai Zhenzhen attended Songyang High School, where her extraordinary martial aptitude was apparent early: she could reproduce nine demonstrated martial arts after a single viewing and later chose the Martial Dao track because the True Spirit Root gave her her greatest talent there. 20 125

Her friendship with Zhang Yu initially developed through sharing loan information: she had been his microloan upline, and both relied on borrowing to sustain their cultivation. Despite asking him for help with her own overdue debt, she transferred him five hundred yuan after learning that his finances were even worse than hers. 2

She concealed her unusual Spirit Root from childhood. After Zhang Pianpian discovered it, Bai Zhenzhen considered using Zhang Pianpian’s name as cover to claim that she rented a Spirit Root, allowing her to cultivate openly for many more hours each day. Zhang Pianpian also arranged an internship for her with the Songyang City Patrol Team. 60 83

She and Zhang Yu became cultivation partners, privately sparring, exchanging the True Spirit Root, sharing training expenses, and driving each other’s progress. Their shared cultivation improved her Body Tempering by carrying over effects from Zhang Yu’s Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi. 38 100 102

During the Foundation Establishment examination, she analyzed Yun Jing’s Dharma Skeleton and combat data, then specialized her derived arts around a single supersonic sword strike. The victory earned her a Foundation Establishment Certificate. 234 235

At Heaven Sword University, Bai Zhenzhen became the direct disciple of the Seven Emotions Divine Lord. The Divine Lord equipped and promoted her rapidly, while Bai Zhenzhen gained a military post, access to Military Grade methods and Spirit Roots, and public prominence in flying-sword competition. 370 372

After the Seven Emotions Divine Lord’s departure, Bai Zhenzhen protected the Sword Repository entrusted to her despite pressure from Heaven Sword University to surrender it. Her refusal resulted in house arrest. 716

A high-ranking but unidentified Heaven Sword Sect figure later accelerated her advancement, arranged her Sect Affairs position, and guided her sword cultivation. Bai Zhenzhen recognizes this patron’s malice and fears being raised only to be destroyed for the figure’s amusement. 857 880

As her ability to upgrade sword arts developed, she decided to reveal a portion of her talent to increase her income and avoid falling too far behind Zhang Yu. The Mysterious Person introduced her to senior Heaven Sword cultivators, who invested in her and arranged to promote her as a new-generation female Sword God. Their plan required her to claim authorship of new True Inheritance sword-art versions even if the seniors ultimately supplied the derivations themselves. 999 1002

Appearance

During the Flying Sword Competition, Bai Zhenzhen wore a white-and-gold competition uniform and projected a sharp, heroic presence. Her formerly black hair had become white-gold from constantly manifested Essence Metal Qi. 370

• Long, heavily trained legs and a physique conditioned through Body Tempering. 98 102
• White-gold hair whose individual strands can become Essence Gold Flying Swords. 370
• Lightning flashes through her eyes and across her body when using awakened lightning power. 188
• Rebuilt physical body after the Top Ten League; she considered its slimmer build inferior to her previous physique. 677
• A naturally cold, aloof expression that can make her appear displeased even when speaking normally. 2
• A green lotus-like mark on her lower abdomen associated with her evolving Spirit Root. 157 270
• Remained fit and slender after entering the Sect, though Zhang Yu noticed persistent gloom between her brows during the Mysterious Person’s interference. 857 880

Personality

Bai Zhenzhen is intensely competitive, particularly where Zhang Yu is concerned. She responds to his advances by pushing herself harder, treating their relationship as both companionship and a friendly rivalry. 21 87

She is pragmatic and financially conscious. She pursued teaching work, sought cheap housing, and has repeatedly treated money as a necessary means to continue cultivating. 98 653

In combat, Bai Zhenzhen is observant, calculating, and willing to take extreme risks. She researches opponents’ equipment and data in detail, sets ambushes, and will gamble her life when she believes it is necessary to win. 234 256 659

Her Extreme Emotion Sword Dao makes her feelings both a source of strength and a danger. Strong emotion can trigger Sword Qi without Magical Power consumption, while her inability to fully control it has caused accidental attacks and concerns about Qi Deviation. 489 604 764

Beneath her aloof appearance, she is playful and shameless with trusted companions. She and Zhang Yu repeatedly exchange jokes about being one another’s parent, while her willingness to kneel or flatter benefactors reflects a practical disregard for dignity when resources or opportunities are at stake. 2 9 60 880

Her loyalty to Zhang Yu persists despite differences in wealth and status. She offered to support him financially after entering university and explicitly refused to obstruct his progress for the sake of her own cultivation. She identifies him as both her cultivation partner and the person whose support changed her fate. 278 659 721

By the time her True Spirit Root reached Level 6, she could separate her thinking from the emotions powering her swordsmanship, becoming outwardly calm while still using those feelings as fuel. This represented a major improvement over her earlier susceptibility to emotional Sword Qi eruptions. 1034

Abilities & Skills

True Spirit Root / Divine Spiritual Root

Bai Zhenzhen’s evolving Spirit Root is the basis of her exceptional martial aptitude and adaptability.

• Enhances her understanding of cultivation methods and enables her to derive improved versions of them. 157
• Strengthens her physical body, muscle coordination, explosive force, endurance, and resistance. 102 371
• Adapts to her body, Nascent Soul, and Sea of Consciousness after becoming an Immortal Spiritual Root. 778
• Conceals both her own presence and her flying swords; she can fully hide the Spirit Root within her body. 371 778
• Her evolved attacks adapt to targets struck repeatedly, increasing their destructive power over sustained exchanges. 711
• Can move between her body and Zhang Yu’s, adapting to each host and carrying beneficial cultivation effects back to the other. They named it the True Spirit Root after testing this ability. 99 100
• Its early evolution was accelerated by repeated exposure to Zhang Yu’s Level 10 cultivation techniques. 156 158
• After Immortal Spiritual Root evolution, she and Zhang Yu could transmit their roots between one another and transfer Magical Power through their connection. 778
• Helps her suppress and control her Sect Examination Clone. 778
• Allows her to raise cultivation-technique grades, including elevating Military Grade sword arts to Immortal Sect True Disciple Grade. 860 920 990
• Continually adapts to the Spirit Transformation Dao Body, increasing her learning speed and generating insights for sword-art versions better suited to herself. 990
• At Level 6, absorbs emotions as nourishment, improves their conversion into sword power, and transforms different emotional powers into one another while leaving her thoughts unaffected. Examples include Ultimate Bliss, shock, grief, and Extreme Emotion. 1034

Lightning Special Magical Power

Her awakened potential gave her lightning-aspected Magical Power.

• Stimulates her muscles and nervous system to raise reaction speed, agility, explosive power, and mobility. 188
• Improves her cultivation of Thunderclap True Body and Electro-optic Step. 188
• Can replenish Magical Power and temper her body by drawing electricity from power outlets. 188
• Supports explosive movement through Thunder Walk Nine Heavens Step and all-out strikes through Thunder God Thunderbolt Art. 256
• Her derived Thunderclap True Body improves physical resilience and provides buffering and energy absorption during high-speed movement. 189
• Thunder Walk Nine Heavens Step leaves Thunder Magical Power on the ground to build an accelerating electric field; her derivation extends how long that power persists. 235
• Her derived Thunder God Thunderbolt Art can discharge her Thunder Magical Power in a single strike beyond her normal limits. Later training let her preserve a circulating thread of Magical Power and recover without becoming completely exhausted. 235 256

Swordsmanship and Derived Arts

Bai Zhenzhen combines natural sword talent with derived techniques tailored to individual opponents.

• Learned High School Basic Swordsmanship and incorporates Sword Finger attacks into unarmed exchanges. 38
• Accelerated her sword beyond the sound barrier to defeat Yun Jing in the Foundation Establishment examination. 235
• Uses Frost Soul Ice Heart Art to remain analytical under extreme Magical Power circulation and battlefield pressure. 165 169
• Studies enemy equipment, weaknesses, and combat data before building specialized countermeasures. 234
• Uses Level 10 Body Piercing Sword Qi to release attacks from across her body, creating an offensive and defensive layer of invisible Sword Qi. 133
• Cultivates Formless Sword Art to conceal Sword Qi, killing intent, and sound. Its derived application also helps create electric fields that reduce resistance to her sword strikes. 133 203
• The derived Ten Thousand Swords Without End Art accelerates successive strikes with Thunder Magical Power; its fifteenth strike broke the sound barrier in her decisive battle with Yun Jing. 235
• Learned basic hidden-weapon techniques under Spark True Person to exploit her speed in ranged combat and retreating attacks. 273
• Prefers purchasing Military Grade sword arts and raising their grades herself rather than directly buying higher-grade versions, producing techniques more compatible with her own abilities. 990
• Believes her developing talent may eventually let her raise sword arts to Strategic Grade, Sect-Protecting Grade, and Heaven-Opening Grade, though these remain future ambitions rather than demonstrated achievements. 999

Flying Sword Control

Her Azure Lotus Sword Embryo and Divine Spiritual Root make her a high-level flying-sword combatant.

• Controls Essence Gold Flying Swords created from strands of her hair. 370 372
• Defeated opponents with seven flying swords, then deployed a concealed formation of 108 swords against Military Grade Flying Swords. 372
• Can simultaneously use seventy-two swords defensively and thirty-six swords for remote suppression. 372
• Uses her Dharma Skeleton and Patrolling Sky Swords for targeting data, aerial images, wind direction, altitude, and other combat parameters. 372
• Used Sword-Human Unity with the Yuhuan Sword to transform her physical body into a pure-white Spiral Longsword. Her soul temporarily acted as a Sword Spirit and controlled the transformed body through its Dharma Skeleton, Thunder Magical Power, and Spirit Realm signals. 659

Extreme Emotion Sword Dao

An incomplete Immortal Sect sword art that transforms emotion into Sword Qi and combat power.

• Intensifies as her fighting spirit, attachment, grief, or anger rise. 537 630
• Produced crimson, black, and later white Sword Qi capable of affecting more than Spiritual Energy, including Astral Qi and Magical Power. 489 610 707
• Reached Level 30 after sustained combat and emotional cultivation on Kunxu’s Third Layer. 707
• Can activate involuntarily and is difficult to control; its emotional sword intents can clash and lead toward Qi Deviation. 489 764 920
• Her Spirit Transformation Dao Body enhancement gave her the insight to begin reconciling Extreme Emotion, Pain, and Extreme Joy sword arts. 920
• During the Top Ten League, she understood sacrifice as a realm beyond destruction and produced white Sword Qi after surrendering her physical body to Sword-Human Unity. 659
• Her Divine Spiritual Root gradually adapted to the art’s incomplete form, letting her release its power with almost no loss by the time she reached Level 30. 707
• Her root later upgraded her Lower Realm version to Immortal Sect True Disciple Grade. This version developed separately from the Heaven Sword Sect’s contemporary Extreme Emotion Sword Dao. 860 882 920
• Seeks to fuse multiple emotional sword arts so that every shift in thought or feeling can strengthen her power instead of causing conflicting sword intents. 920
• Both her Extreme Emotion and Extreme Joy sword arts surpassed Level 55 under the combined enhancement of the Grand Void Dao Body and Azure Lotus Sword Embryo. 1033
• Her Level 6 True Spirit Root further improved this approach by converting feelings into interchangeable emotional power without compromising her mental calm. 1034

Dao Body Enhancements

• Spirit Transformation Dao Body — Implanted by Zhang Yu into her law aperture through Evil God Power to share a portion of his talent, improve cultivation efficiency, and support Primordial Spirit nourishment through the Spirit Transformation Pool. 920
• Reciprocal cultivation feedback — Cultivating the enhancement’s related methods can feed back into Zhang Yu and improve his talent as well. Bai Zhenzhen therefore cultivated in his Immortal Grotto-Heaven daily to benefit them both while keeping the secret concealed. 936
• Grand Void Dao Body enhancement — Combined with the Azure Lotus Sword Embryo to accelerate her emotional sword arts beyond Level 55 and generate further insights into raising their grades. 1033

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Essence Gold Flying Swords — Flying swords refined from her white-gold hair. 370 372
• Dharma Skeleton / Eye Skeleton — Provides flying-sword combat data and sensory information. 274 372
• Military Grade Dharma Skeleton and Flying Sword — Used during the Top Ten League. 653
• Yuhuan Sword — Powerful sword used to defeat Cang Shenyu; its Sword Spirit can draw her into an illusion realm. Its spirit is Lian Yuhuan, the Seven Emotions Divine Lord’s daughter, whose failed attempt to create a new Extreme Emotion Sword Dao left her transformed into a sword. Its Sword-Human Unity ability enabled Bai Zhenzhen’s final transformation against Kuang Tianqing. 650 659
• Magnetic Oscillation Sword — Enterprise Grade Law Treasure selected for her battle against Yun Jing; vibrates at high frequency when supplied with Magical Power. 234
• Sword Repository — A repository entrusted to her by the Seven Emotions Divine Lord, which Bai Zhenzhen refused to surrender for disposal. 716
• Power Banks — Charged from school outlets to support her electricity-based cultivation. 189
• Six emotional sword-art authorizations — Heaven Sword cultivators approved Military Grade versions of sword techniques associated with anger, lust, hatred, disgust, shame, and fear as additional investment in her development venture. 1002

Relationships

• Zhang Yu — Her closest companion and long-term cultivation partner. They exchanged Spirit Roots, trained together, and repeatedly protected one another; Bai Zhenzhen calls their three high-school years the happiest of her life. Their friendship began through sharing borrowing information, and she later identified him as the most important person in her life. He provided Dao Body enhancements and continued nourishing her root, helping it reach Level 6. 2 100 275 605 659 920 1033 1034
• Seven Emotions Divine Lord — Her master and benefactor, who made her a direct disciple, funded her advancement, and entrusted the Sword Repository to her. 370 716
• Wen Wuya — Heaven Sword Sect associate who tried to become closer to her, later served as her subordinate in the Old Days Graveyard, and remains aware of her connection to Zhang Yu. Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu once arranged for Zhang Yu to manage Wen Wuya’s messages to her while receiving payment for relationship advice. 371 374 857
• Fu Ji — Evil God associated with Zhang Yu who can communicate directly with Bai Zhenzhen and participated in awakening her potential. 188 881
• Yun Jing — Foundation Establishment examination opponent defeated by Bai Zhenzhen’s supersonic sword strike. 234 235
• Kuang Tianqing — Top Ten League rival. Bai Zhenzhen risked her life to challenge her and later continued to regard her as a central opponent. 653 659
• Bu Yingshu — Initially hostile toward Bai Zhenzhen because of Heaven Sword Sect affiliations; later met her to clear up misunderstandings. Their rivalry continued to fuel Bai Zhenzhen’s emotional sword cultivation. By Chapter 1033, Bu Yingshu had yielded to her at the Immortal Grotto-Heaven after Bu Yuangui refused to allow further interference. 881 920 936 1033
• The Mysterious Person — An unidentified senior figure in Heaven Sword Sect who advanced Bai Zhenzhen’s career and sword cultivation while seemingly manipulating her life for an unknown purpose. Only Bai Zhenzhen could see the figure when it first appeared to her after she entered the Sect. The patron later introduced her to senior cultivators and participated in constructing her public image as a sword-path genius. 857 880 911 999 1002
• Zhang Pianpian — Early benefactor who discovered her concealed Spirit Root and arranged her Songyang City Patrol Team internship. Bai Zhenzhen jokingly offered to acknowledge her as a godmother in gratitude. 60 83
• Lian Yuhuan — Sword Spirit of the Yuhuan Sword and daughter of the Seven Emotions Divine Lord. Bai Zhenzhen addresses her as Senior Sister and relied on her help to achieve Sword-Human Unity against Kuang Tianqing. 650 659
• Spark True Person — Guided her toward ranged combat and basic hidden-weapon training after her Foundation Establishment breakthrough. 273

Story Role / Major Arcs

Songyang High School

• Initially appeared as Zhang Yu’s fellow indebted honors student and loan-information contact; after discovering his financial difficulties, she gave him five hundred yuan for utilities. 2
• Demonstrated exceptional aptitude in the Heavenly Human Martial Arts Diagram and became Zhang Yu’s fellow trainee and rival. 20 21
• Introduced Zhang Yu to the Alliance of the Wealth-Haters and sought investment based on his competition prospects. 43
• Was targeted by senior student Lan Ling during practical combat guidance; Zhang Yu intervened with a Detention Talisman. 58
• Signed an internship contract with the Songyang City Patrol Team through Zhang Pianpian’s assistance. 60
• Defeated Xiong Wenwu by identifying a flaw in his attacks, but lost her right arm when he went berserk and subsequently disputed the medical charges for reattachment. 75
• Discovered with Zhang Yu that her Spirit Root could move between them and adapt to different bodies, establishing their long-term cultivation exchange. 99 100
• Joined the Physical Competition Team after reaching Physical Strength Level 2.98 and defeated Li Yong in a pure-strength contest by lifting 2,000 kilograms. 101 102
• Placed fifth overall in the Physical Competition and reached the final four of the steel-ball dodging challenge with Zhang Yu. 109 111

Foundation Establishment Examination

• Selected the Martial Dao track and prepared by rapidly expanding her techniques and derived arts. 125 157
• Mastered the Ten Thousand Swords Without End Art by refining her techniques against a mentally simulated Zhang Yu. 172 174
• Defeated Dai Xingzhi through an all-out exchange followed by renewed attacks while he remained more severely weakened. 203 204
• Defeated Yun Jing in a best-of-three arena battle through opponent analysis and a supersonic final sword, receiving a Foundation Establishment Certificate. 234 235
• Fought Oasis Group pursuers while buying time for Zhang Yu’s Foundation Establishment, ambushing Red River and using the factory district as a battlefield. She delayed them for more than forty minutes before Zhou Yang immobilized her, prompting Zhang Yu’s intervention. 256
• Subsequently purchased a Heavenly Spiritual Root and entered Foundation Establishment herself, triggering another transformation of her True Spirit Root. 270

Heaven Sword University and Flying Sword Competition

• Became a direct disciple of the Seven Emotions Divine Lord and a favorite to place in the Flying Sword Competition’s top ten. 370
• Offered to send Zhang Yu money and supplies after reaching university, maintaining their bond despite their different resources. 278 287
• Reunited privately with Zhang Yu after nearly seventeen months apart and resumed exchanging her Divine Spiritual Root with him. 369 370
• Used invisible flying-sword formations to defeat competitors armed with Military Grade Flying Swords. 372
• Finished eighteenth after aiming for the top twenty, remaining outwardly calm despite the resulting backlash and decline in Seven Emotions Coin value. 373
• Cooperated with Zhang Yu’s paid arrangement to coach Wen Wuya, placing Wen Wuya’s contact under Zhang Yu’s management. 374
• Later found that exchanging and merging Divine Spiritual Roots with Zhang Yu improved her Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, despite her initial intention to abandon the dangerous art for Dual Cultivation. 488
• Struggled with fear that her emotional Sword Qi might injure Zhang Yu; his trust and willingness to approach her repeatedly helped preserve their relationship. 525 602 604

Top Ten League

• Advanced to the final four after using the Yuhuan Sword against Cang Shenyu. 650
• Prepared to stake her assets and life against Kuang Tianqing, using transfers to strengthen the emotions driving her Sword Dao. 653
• Transformed into a Spiral Longsword in her final attack after being defeated by Kuang Tianqing; her sacrifice allowed Zhang Yu to wield her in the finals. 659 664
• Used the transformation to prevent Kuang Tianqing’s body-targeting Dual Cultivation technique from appropriating her power, then comprehended white Sword Qi associated with sacrifice. 659
• Received a reconstructed physical body after the competition. 677

Heaven Sword Sect Conflict

• Fought through Kunxu’s Third Layer to refine the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao to Level 30. 707
• Became the target of Xiang Shen’s kidnapping operation, which deployed three Nascent Soul cultivators to use her against Zhang Yu and Magnetic Pole. 707
• Resisted Heaven Sword University’s attempt to reclaim the Sword Repository, leading to house arrest. 716
• Joined Zhang Yu in breaking through Righteous Qi Alliance Nascent Soul forces and confronting True Lord Zhanxian, helping secure the Array Core for the Ten Schools. 750
• Used the combined enhancements of her True Spirit Root and Zhang Yu’s Feather Spirit Root during the Heaven Sword Sect examination. Her adaptive attacks and steady emotional Sword Qi impressed an examiner, who suspected she was a Reincarnated Student arranged from above. 769 773
• Gained an Immortal Spiritual Root, improved control over her Sect Examination Clone, and learned the Law-Breaking Talisman from Zhang Yu before his departure for the Sect. 778
• Rose to Divine Transformation and became a Level 4 Sect Affairs Officer under the influence of an unknown Heaven Sword Sect patron. 857 880
• Secretly maintained contact and Spirit Root exchanges with Zhang Yu despite pressure from Bu Yingshu and Heaven Sword Sect forces. 880 920
• Received the Spirit Transformation Dao Body enhancement from Zhang Yu and began more effectively reconciling Extreme Emotion, Pain, and Extreme Joy sword arts. 920
• Began visiting Zhang Yu’s Immortal Grotto-Heaven daily through the Grotto-Heaven Bridge, cultivating methods that both improved her own abilities and fed back into his talent. 936
• Revealed part of her sword-art development talent to seek more income; senior Heaven Sword cultivators invested in six additional emotional sword arts and planned to market her as a new female Sword God. 999 1002
• Explained her Heaven Sword Sect startup venture to Zhang Yu while her Extreme Joy and Extreme Emotion sword arts advanced beyond Level 55. Zhang Yu recommended methods related to the Grand Void Dao Body and continued nourishing her True Spirit Root. 1033
• After her root reached Level 6, discovered that she could convert emotions into sword power while remaining mentally calm and directly transform different emotional powers into one another. 1034

Notable Quotes

“For this sword, I have been gathering strength for more than ten years. I have been accelerating for more than ten years, chasing after you for more than ten years.” 235

“The three years I spent with Zhang Yu were the happiest three years of my life!” 275

“I believe in Zhang Yu.” 485

“Let me remind you: it’s not against the law for me to kill you right now.” 256

“My goal isn't to surpass my opponent, but to defeat him in the arena.” 235

“Before I realized it, Zhang Yu had become the most important person in my life.” 659

“Now, I can treat emotions as pure power and use them to drive my swordsmanship.” 1034

Trivia

• Bai Zhenzhen once disguised herself with tattoo stickers, a wig, padding, and a mask to avoid being recognized while seeking work. 97
• She gained a reputation as a “School Electric Tyrant” for using other classrooms’ outlets to charge her Power Banks and cultivate. 189
• Before gaining resources, she considered the unlimited medical insurance in her examination match unusually luxurious. 234
• Her relationship with Zhang Yu features reciprocal “Dad,” “Mom,” “son,” and “daughter” jokes rather than a fixed parental role. 2 9 278 369
• She once continued cultivating while riding on Zhang Yu’s back and deliberately ignored his attempts to persuade her to take turns carrying him. 104
• The projected Level 60 advancement of her two sword arts in Chapter 1033 is her own expectation, whereas surpassing Level 55 is explicitly demonstrated. 1033