Xu Yunfan

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Xu Yunfan (徐云帆)
Species/Race	Human; possesses an activated trace of ancestral True Blood 12
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Former servant of the Jiang Family; True Inheritance Disciple of Heavenly Crafting Cave's Casting Hall; disciple of both Zhan Yan and Dao Sect Master Bi Yuan; Peak Master of Divine Firmament Peak in the Primal Beginning Sect 117 279 423 707
Occupation/Role	Martial artist, artifact refiner, formation master, and Golden Core True Monarch 120 566 707
Status	Alive; leads Divine Firmament Mountain as a True Monarch 707
First Appearance	Chapter 2: Killing the Master 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Mining — Beginner	2	The Attribute Panel begins recording his mining proficiency while he is forced to work in a mine. 2
Crimson Flame Copper Body Art — Beginner	5	Gains insight while mining; demonstrates the breakthrough by smashing bluestone and extracting iron ore with a strike. 5
Crimson Flame Copper Body Art — Minor Mastery	18	Gains vigorous blood qi, leather-like skin, and increased physical strength. 18
Crimson Flame Copper Body Art and Cloak Hammer — Great Accomplishment	35	Develops iron-hard skin and resistance to sharp weapons. 35
Bone Training initiated	58	Comprehends the Iron Bridge Town Suppression Bone Training Chapter and begins tempering his bones. 58
Fleet Foot, Crimson Flame Copper Body Art, and Cloak Hammer — Mastery	58	Reaches mastery in all three arts through an intensive daily training routine. 58
Bone Training — Great Accomplishment	77	Completes a major stage of bone tempering before leaving North Ye City. 77
Crimson Flame Copper Body Art and Cloak Hammer — Perfected	99	Becomes impervious to ordinary blades and spears; his overall strength at least doubles. 99
Golden Skin State	100	Completes Skin Tempering. 100
Second Tempering of Tendons and Skin — Perfected	117	Displays a perfected second tempering during the True Inheritance Ceremony. 117
Third Tempering — Perfection	139	Perfects tendons, bones, and skin; the Lin Stance drives his physical output beyond normal limits. 139
External Three Harmonies Realm	147	Achieves increasingly precise coordination of tendons, bones, skin, and force transmission. 147
Pure Yang One Qi Art — Minor Mastery	168	Gains a substantial increase in strength and judges that Su Zhenhe can be defeated within ten moves. 168
Flesh Refining Realm; Pure Yang One Qi Art — Major Mastery	197	Merges Pure Yang Inner Breath with Crimson Dragon Force, gaining force projection and major physical transformation. 197
Blood Exchange Realm	231	Defeats an Elephant Demon and demonized Qi Huan with ease. 231
Marrow Cleansing Realm	278	Reaches the realm before reuniting with Zhan Yan at the Dao Sect. 278
Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique — Perfected	279	Returns from the Small World Secret Realm having perfected the technique. 279
Pure Yang One Qi Art — Perfection	295	Condenses Pure Yang True Qi and overwhelms five consecutive arena challengers. 295
Ninth Realm Qi Refining	343	Fights Chu Sheng and Mountain Gazing Taoist simultaneously, holding the upper hand against both veteran Ninth Realm experts. 343
Land Immortal Realm	362	Awakens the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, a divine ability associated with the Land Immortal Realm. 362
Ten Extremes Martial Dao — Limit Break	376	Refines foreign true qi into his own and pushes the Ten Extremes Martial Dao beyond its former limits. 376
Divine Martial Dao Foundation / Foundation Establishment	423	Forges a Divine Martial Dao Foundation and becomes a Peak Master within the Primal Beginning Sect. 423
Mid Foundation Establishment	431	Returns to the Dao Sect and kills Mid Foundation Establishment True Person Zhou Xing with a single sword stroke. 431
Cave Heaven Prototype	538	Condenses a Cave Heaven Prototype after twenty years of seclusion, advancing toward Golden Core. 538
Late Foundation Establishment	594	Easily captures Early Foundation Establishment True Person Zimo and refines his soul into the Zhou Tian Star Spirit Banner. 594
Foundation Establishment Perfection / Great True Person	641	Claims to have reached the rank of Great True Person after advancing his intent and cultivation. 641
Golden Core True Monarch	706	Attains Golden Core through the intertwining of thunder and fire Dao Fruits. 706

Background / History

Xu Yunfan began as a servant of the Jiang Family, forced to mine ore under starvation-level conditions. His survival changed when his Attribute Panel began converting repeated labor and insight into measurable proficiency. Li Haomiao recognized his physical aptitude and taught him the Crimson Flame Copper Body Art, a body-tempering technique suited to mining. 2 4

He rapidly turned mining skill into martial strength. After reaching the beginner stage of the Crimson Flame Copper Body Art, he crushed stone and easily defeated Cui Ye and his companions, reversing the mine’s power hierarchy. 5 He later left the mine, settled briefly in North Ye City, bought Clear River Residence, commissioned a custom warhammer, and pursued advanced body-tempering methods. 36 58

After repeated sect rejections in Changyi because of his age and mixed martial foundation, Xu Yunfan reached Heavenly Crafting Cave. There he met Zhan Yan, a former Divine Weapon Ridge expert, and eventually accepted the position of Casting Hall True Inheritance Disciple. 72 101 117

Xu Yunfan remained loyal to Heavenly Crafting Cave even when the Nine Luminaries Sect attempted to recruit him. Later, Bi Yuan accepted him into the Dao Sect without severing his existing master-disciple bond with Zhan Yan, making him a disciple of two lineages. 117 270 279

Following the fall of the Divine Martial Realm’s established order, Xu Yunfan entered the Taihua Spiritual Void Realm and joined the Primal Beginning Sect. He established Divine Firmament Peak after forging his Divine Martial Dao Foundation, then rose from Peak Master to Golden Core True Monarch. 423 538 706 707

Appearance

Xu Yunfan is a tall, heavily built martial artist whose physique has been repeatedly reforged through body-tempering arts. After the Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique reshaped his body, his frame compressed to approximately 1.89 meters while becoming denser and more refined. 77 213

• Broad shoulders, narrow waist, and exceptionally developed muscles shaped for force transmission rather than appearance. 147 399
• Skin and flesh tempered to resist blades, spears, heavy impacts, and divine-weapon force. 35 99 343
• Often carries a long-handled heavy hammer and wears Dragon Scale Armor. 77 218
• Later described as handsome and upright, with a restrained aura containing lightning power. 612

Personality

Xu Yunfan is intensely diligent and treats cultivation as his overriding priority. He keeps punishing training schedules, treats every fight as combat experience, and uses the Attribute Panel to turn even routine labor into advancement. 87 196 451

He is practical, calculating, and strongly self-preserving. He refused to endanger himself for Li Miaoyun, intimidates or kills threats when secrecy demands it, and deliberately targets opponents’ emotional vulnerabilities when pursuing an advantage. 31 241 247

His ruthlessness coexists with deep loyalty to people he recognizes as his own. He refuses to abandon Zhan Yan or Heavenly Crafting Cave for a more prestigious sect, considers the Cave’s forge the origin of his martial path, and remains protective of allies such as Ye Xuan. 270 280 617

The Lin Character Secret allows him to suppress emotional disturbances to an extreme degree. In the Lin Stance, he becomes calm, highly analytical, and capable of exerting precise control over every movement and fraction of strength. 65 706

Abilities & Skills

Attribute Panel

Xu Yunfan possesses an Attribute Panel that records proficiency gains and accelerates the growth of skills through repeated use, insight, cultivation memories, and external instruction. 2 18 451

• Converts mining, martial practice, forging, and other repeated actions into measurable proficiency. 2 18
• Lets him rapidly master arts that ordinarily require years of training. 120 143 244
• Maintains a control link over his Cloud Scroll incarnation, Han Shi. 662 729

Body Tempering and Ten Extremes Martial Dao

Xu Yunfan’s foundation is extreme physical cultivation, beginning with the Crimson Flame Copper Body Art and developing into the Ten Extremes Martial Dao, a system that integrates multiple supreme techniques through “Myriad Arts Return to the Source.” 99 342 376

• Possesses overwhelming strength, durability, blood qi, and resistance to weapons. 99 343
• Can absorb, refine, and assimilate foreign true qi into Ten Extremes True Qi. 352 376
• Uses Borrowing Strength to Neutralize Force to redirect enemy attacks and turn their power against them. 353
• Reached the state of Condensing Qi into Form, manifesting true qi as tangible phenomena. 350

Lin Character Secret and Lin Stance

The Lin Character Secret is Xu Yunfan’s primary mental cultivation art. It manifests a Self-God within his consciousness and grants exceptional control over body, mind, and technique. 65 246

• Eliminates wasted movement and enables precise control over his physical output. 65 165
• Suppresses fear, distraction, negative emotions, and bodily desires. 246 283
• Extends his combat awareness so that “within three zhang, all is within the self.” 220
• Serves as the mental basis for his later Dharma-body-level calculation and control. 706

Martial Dao Heavenly Eye

Xu Yunfan awakened a blood-red vertical eye after reaching the Land Immortal Realm. 362

• Perceives qi flow, muscular changes, killing intent, and other minute battlefield information within a hundred zhang. 362
• Predicts an opponent’s likely follow-up moves and identifies weaknesses before they are fully revealed. 362
• Rapidly analyzes martial arts and processes large quantities of cultivation information. 369

Hammer and Mace Arts

Xu Yunfan specializes in crushing, force-dispersing weapon styles based on heavy hammers and maces. His central techniques include the Cloak Hammer Art, Thousand Jun Mountain Shaking Hammer Technique, and Nine Profound Dragon Subduing Mace Art. 114 168 213

• Starfall Heavenly River — a decisive Thousand Jun hammer move capable of defeating Blood Exchange Realm opponents. 209
• Mountain-Splitting Form — a Cloak Hammer strike that shattered Qi Huan’s sword through accumulated momentum. 114
• Nine Profound Dragon Subduing Mace Art — used with the Gilded Mace to kill a Trueblood general in nine strikes. 213
• Can transmit Crimson Dragon Coiling Mountain Strength as a fine vibration that pulverizes armored targets. 211

Artifact Forging and Formation Dao

Xu Yunfan is an exceptional weapon forger and later a formation specialist. His mastery comes from both physical control and rapid technical comprehension. 120 566

• Successfully forged a weapon in midair within twenty-seven breaths during Zhan Yan’s test. 120
• Masters the Melting Gold Forging Iron Art and uses bone-vibration techniques in refining. 120 143
• Refines artifacts through the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi, including Heavenly Machine Supreme Treasures. 480 481
• Deploys high-level formations capable of killing or refining stronger Foundation Establishment opponents. 566 613

True Martial and Divine Vault Thunder Arts

After entering the Primal Beginning Sect, Xu Yunfan developed cultivation methods centered on the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture and Divine Vault lightning. 399 572

• Battle Character Art — an innate combat divine ability that converts true essence into sword qi, shields, formations, or concentrated killing force; it grows stronger through battle. 424
• True Martial Subduing Demon Sword — a demon-slaying sword art capable of cleaving through Foundation Establishment defenses and Five Elements Dao Foundations. 430 431
• Cosmic Dipper Golden Splitting Fiend Sword Qi — a lightning-infused sword art that forms countless fine violet-gold sword fiends. 572
• Northern Pole Ziwei Suppressing Fiend Profound Qi — enhances his defensive and offensive divine abilities, allowing him to remain dominant against opponents of the same realm. 484

Cloud Scroll Incarnation Technique

The Eight Sceneries of Xuan Capital Heaven-Refining Creation Cloud Scroll allows Xu Yunfan to transform cloud qi into practical constructs and create independent incarnations. 480

• Forms cloud armor, shields, ropes, and weapons. 480
• Supports advanced artifact refinement and spiritual-treasure creation. 480
• Created Han Shi, an incarnation embodying Xu Yunfan’s stripped negative emotions and possessing an independent personality. 480 621
• Retains absolute control over Han Shi through the Attribute Panel despite the incarnation’s rebellion. 662

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Thunder Fire Qilin Hammer — Xu Yunfan’s signature Precious Artifact, later used as a chain hammer through its segmented handle mechanism. 111
• Drumming Weng Gold Hammer — an earlier heavy hammer used throughout his North Ye City period. 48 81
• Gilded Mace — a divine weapon used with the Nine Profound Dragon Subduing Mace Art. 96 213
• Dragon Scale Armor — eighth-order divine treasure armor that draws on blood qi, greatly enhances defense, and can devour divine weapons or armor essence. 218 233 247
• Crimson Fire Dragon Devouring Mace — divine mace used alongside Pure Yang True Qi and Ten Extremes True Qi. 293 343
• Mountain Shaking Sea Suppressing Hammer — heavy divine weapon used during his Ninth Realm battles. 341
• Rift Sky Piercing Cloud Bow — divine bow used to kill Ci E with an Armor Piercing Arrow. 307 350
• True Martial Sword — top-tier killing treasure used in his True Martial and Divine Vault sword arts. 431 572
• Zhou Tian Star Spirit Banner — banner used to absorb souls and refine them into Banner Spirits. 594 598
• Primordial Veil Star Ring — Heavenly Machine Supreme Treasure that conceals heavenly secrets and muddles karma. 481

Relationships

• Zhan Yan — First master and Hall Master of Heavenly Crafting Cave’s Casting Hall. Zhan Yan treats Xu Yunfan as a son, entrusts him with Divine Weapon Ridge’s legacy, and accepts his dual-lineage arrangement with Bi Yuan for Xu Yunfan’s future. 101 213 279
• Bi Yuan — Dao Sect Master and Xu Yunfan’s second master. He recognizes Xu Yunfan’s potential, grants him Dao Sect resources, and supports his advancement through the Grand Celestial Ritual. 279 329
• Li Haomiao — The Yan King who first taught Xu Yunfan the Crimson Flame Copper Body Art. Their relationship shifts from instruction to ideological conflict as Xu Yunfan’s power and ruthlessness grow. 4 356
• Fu Jin — Senior brother in Heavenly Crafting Cave who investigates Xu Yunfan’s past, guides him after his arrival, and remains concerned for his well-being. 105 177
• Fang Mushan — Companion during Xu Yunfan’s journey through the Barren River Ice Field; later joins the Dao Sect. 27 31
• Yan Yuwei — Chief disciple of Melting Gold Hall who teaches Xu Yunfan the Melting Gold Forging Iron Art; their teacher-student dynamic develops into competition and mutual respect. 128 143
• Qi Huan — Rival from Hidden Edge Pavilion who later becomes demonized. Xu Yunfan initially travels with him in the secret realm, then kills him to eliminate a witness. 114 233 247
• Pei Yan — Sword Pavilion Walker whose Empty Clarity Sword Art Xu Yunfan covets. Their temporary cooperation ends when Xu Yunfan kills Pei Yan and devours his armor’s essence. 241 244 247
• Yu Congling — Remnant will within the Apex Path Remains. She protects Xu Yunfan’s consciousness from a primordial spirit’s attempted possession. 261
• Chu Chengnan — Hundred Peaks True Person and later a subordinate who returns to serve Xu Yunfan at Divine Firmament Palace. 423 707
• Zhang Ziyang — Former Dao Sect Master whose godhead and new Dao body Xu Yunfan helps create; in return, Zhang provides guidance in Dao arts and planning. 640 641

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Mine escape and early martial growth — Develops the Attribute Panel’s mining proficiency, learns the Crimson Flame Copper Body Art from Li Haomiao, and defeats mine bullies who once controlled him. 2 4 5
• North Ye City period — Establishes Clear River Residence, trains body-tempering arts, acquires heavy weapons, and prepares to seek a sect. 36 58
• Heavenly Crafting Cave apprenticeship — Meets Zhan Yan, earns True Inheritance status, defeats rivals in the ceremony, and becomes a leading disciple of the Casting Hall. 101 115 117
• Divine Weapon Ridge conflict — Defends the Divine Weapon Ridge legacy, reaches higher body-tempering realms, and battles Great Qian forces and rival martial experts. 205 213 220
• Dao Sect and Great Zhou upheaval — Becomes Bi Yuan’s disciple, wins sect arenas, reaches the Ninth Realm, and confronts imperial and sect forces in Jade Capital. 279 295 341 344
• Transition to the Taihua Spiritual Void Realm — Faces Outer Realm cultivators, enters the Primal Beginning Sect, and forges the Divine Martial Dao Foundation. 362 423
• Divine Firmament Peak — Builds a personal lineage, advances through Foundation Establishment, develops formations and artifact refinement, and leads missions connected to the Heaven Realm. 538 566 567
• Golden Core ascension — Attains Golden Core through thunder-and-fire Dao Fruits and becomes the True Monarch governing Divine Firmament Mountain. 706 707

Notable Quotes

“The anvil of Heavenly Crafting Cave will always be the starting point of my martial path.” 280

“Grasping the sun and moon, plucking stars—there is no one like me beneath heaven.” 272

Trivia

• His name, Yunfan, comes from the line: “The time will come to ride the wind and break the waves, to hang my cloud sail high and cross the vast sea.” 164
• Xu Yunfan’s Cloud Scroll incarnation, Han Shi, embodies the negative emotions Xu Yunfan removed from himself; Han Shi is selfish, brutal, and unrestrained by ordinary morality. 480
• He has repeatedly destroyed or severely damaged his own courtyard while testing new cultivation breakthroughs. 197