Xu Bai

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Xu Bai (徐白)
Alias(es)	King Xu; Prince Xu; “Blood Slaughtering Saber Wielder”
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Great Chu Kingdom; ruler of the Barbarian Territory
Occupation/Role	Unaffiliated cultivator; saber wielder; King Xu
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 13

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Ninth Rank Martial Artist; Ninth Rank Diviner	23	Completed the Wild Divination Scripture, gaining the Four Xun movement, heart-sutra, and array arts.
Eighth Rank Loose Cultivator	23	Fused True Qi and Essence into True Yuan Power, proving he could cultivate multiple paths simultaneously.
Fifth Rank Loose Cultivator	103	Fused the Purple Firmament Control Art with Inverted Yin and Yang Chaos in All Directions, greatly expanding his True Yuan Power.
Fourth Rank Loose Cultivator	136	Reached Fourth Rank; his fused skills included the Tier 6 Chess Saber Four Styles and Ingenious Craft Puppet Technique.
Third Rank Loose Cultivator	142	Completed another Nameless Saber Scripture, strengthening his cultivation art to Tier 7.
First Rank	172	Completed all fifteen Nameless Saber Scriptures and reached First Rank before entering the Capital City.
Transcendent Realm, First Rank	174	Advanced into the Transcendent Realm; his cultivation method became the Myriad Aspects Heavenly Art.
Transcendent Realm, Second Rank	179	Advanced while traveling through princely estates and collecting further progress bars.
Transcendent Realm, Third Rank	191	Reached Transcendent Realm Third Rank after the Buddhist campaign and skill fusions.
Metamorphosis Realm, Third Rank	195	Obtained Blade Sword Three Absolutes and advanced to the third rank of the Metamorphosis Realm.
Transcendent Realm, Sixth Grade	201	Advanced through the Mountain Sect Deity Summoning Method.
Transcendent Mortal Realm, Eighth Rank	207	His Myriad Aspects Heavenly Attraction Mountain Sea Art and Deity Summoning Method advanced substantially.
Extraordinary Realm, First Rank	215	Reached the Extraordinary Realm; several core techniques rose to Extraordinary Rank 1.
Extraordinary Realm, Ninth Rank	227	Maxed a vast number of Extraordinary Rank 9 manuals during a year of seclusion.
Entering Sainthood	268	Entered Sainthood after relentlessly completing progress bars in the Royal Palace Treasury.
Entering Sainthood, Fifth Grade	295	Fused Entering Sainthood Failure Insights, raising all six principal “Myriad” skills to Tier 5.
Entering Sainthood, Seventh Grade	302	Maxed his skills and advanced to Entering Sainthood Seventh Grade.
Exiting Sainthood	322	Completed the available progress bars, reached Exiting Sainthood, and gained the ability to create an equal-strength clone.

Background / History

Xu Bai rose from humble beginnings through a unique “golden finger” that manifests progress bars over people, objects, manuals, and even locations. By studying or observing these targets until their bars fill, he obtains their techniques at maximum proficiency; this drove his early fixation on Yun Xiang’s Maple Leaf Tattoo and Iron Calculation Immortal’s book 13 23.

His cultivation broke conventional occupational limits when he discovered Essence, fused it with True Qi into True Yuan Power, and began combining abilities from martial, Daoist, Buddhist, scholarly, divination, poison, puppet-making, and other paths 23 125. His continued pursuit of progress bars eventually made him a figure of national importance rather than the obscure cultivator he had intended to be 225.

Personality

Xu Bai is intensely pragmatic. He treats alliances as reciprocal arrangements, openly telling Yun Zihai that helping him also serves Xu Bai’s own interests 102. He values freedom and repeatedly rejects being bound to imperial succession struggles, even when the Ninth Princess attempts to recruit him 89 99.

He is observant, patient, and methodical when investigating threats. He can identify traps from minute behavioral details, wait for hidden enemies to act, and exploit opponents’ mistakes rather than force immediate confrontations 123 164. His reputation for ruthlessness is deserved: he interrogates enemies brutally, kills threats he judges too dangerous to spare, and refuses to leave future dangers unresolved 92 123 183.

Despite this, Xu Bai distinguishes between enemies and those he accepts as his own. He spared Liu Xu and Wu Hua because of their character and their role in Xiao Yue’s affairs, and he later stated plainly that he does not attack his own people 60 223. Those close to him recognize that he is considerate and protective toward allies even if his outward manner is blunt 108 160.

Abilities & Skills

Explosive Comprehension

Xu Bai’s defining ability is the perception and completion of golden progress bars. Once a bar is filled through study, observation, or sustained attention, he receives the corresponding knowledge and skill at maximum level 13 23.

• Can trigger progress bars from manuals, tattoos, weapons, trees, buildings, coffins, books, and marked pages 13 86 146 161 320.
• His progress bars accelerated after an encounter in the Human-Strange Entity Market 171.
• He can fuse compatible skills into more powerful composite techniques 23 79 140 191.
• His pursuit of progress bars is the main driver behind many journeys, investigations, and bargains 195 255.

Multi-Path Cultivation

Xu Bai possesses Essence in addition to True Qi, allowing him to cultivate normally incompatible professional paths. Their fusion produces True Yuan Power 23.

• His primary cultivation method continuously absorbed and fused martial, Daoist, wind, yin-yang, mountain-sea, and other attributes before evolving into the Myriad Aspects Heavenly Attraction Mountain Sea Art 103 109 174 201.
• The Myriad Aspects method can freely draw upon attributes from his other techniques rather than being confined to one nature 174.
• His True Yuan reserves were initially insufficient to sustain high-tier abilities for long periods 79 191.

Saber Arts

Xu Bai is a highly accomplished saber wielder whose techniques evolved from the low-tier Bone Severing Blade Technique into a series of fused saber arts.

• Chess Saber Five Styles possesses Saber Intent and reached a level corresponding to Third Rank 140.
• Swordless Saber Grand Technique became his principal Transcendent Realm saber art 174.
• Blade Sword Three Absolutes includes Overturning Earth, a move capable of defeating an Extraordinary Realm opponent in one strike 195 213.
• He later used Overturning Heaven to grievously injure the Great Yue Emperor, enabling the Emperor’s eventual death 223.

Defensive and Recovery Arts

Xu Bai combines unusually strong defense, damage redirection, healing, and energy reserves.

• Vajra Heart Demon Body fuses external Vajra protection with internal Heart Demon protection; its black radiance can reinforce both his body and attacks 79 107.
• Grafting Flowers onto Trees reduces damage by redirecting injuries, especially when paired with his Vajra body art 159.
• Undying Body provides powerful recovery, though it was initially incomplete 118 159.
• Strengthening Kidney Gathering Art stores reserve True Yuan Power and helps replenish him during extended combat 84 159.
• Undying Demon Soul Buddha Body covers him in golden and grayish-white patterns and substantially enhances his defense, though it has high True Yuan consumption 191 192.

Movement, Control, and Ranged Combat

Xu Bai possesses numerous battlefield-control techniques beyond saber combat.

• Four-Directional Step Technique combines the Four Xun Movement Technique with Marching Step for higher-grade mobility 89.
• Cosmic Shift is one of his concealed abilities and was unknown even to opponents who had thoroughly investigated him 107.
• Maple Leaves Like Rain lets him launch copper coins as concealed weapons; reinforced with Vajra black light, they become destructive ranged projectiles 101.
• His cultivation method can transform True Yuan Power into gale wind 109.

Divination, Craftsmanship, Poison, and Soul Arts

Xu Bai’s multi-path cultivation grants him broad utility outside direct combat.

• Feng Shui Arithmetic reached a level equivalent to First Rank and allows him to identify hidden connections and dangers 156 162.
• Ingenious Craft Puppet Technique allows him to dismantle, rebuild, and enhance paper figures; he created a Fourth-Rank puppet capable of basic saber techniques 136.
• His poison arts progressed from Hundred Poisons True Explanation to the Poison Compendium and later the Myriad Poisons Compendium 92 179 227.
• He can control weakened targets through their divine souls and extract information from them 213 214.
• Thousand Wonders Myriad Faces Art enables him to imitate others’ appearances and abilities up to the Transcendent Realm, though it cannot overcome its gender restriction 211.

Entering Sainthood “Myriad” Arts

Through the fusion of numerous high-level manuals, Xu Bai consolidated much of his arsenal into six core “Myriad” techniques.

• Myriad Attacks and Myriad Defenses govern his offensive and defensive arts 235 237.
• Myriad Miscellaneous Arts combines poison, puppetry, water adaptation, Feng Shui, disguises, Deity Summoning, and corpse control 237.
• Myriad Assistance merges stored True Yuan reserves with the combat enhancement of Yin Yang Coexistence 237.
• Myriad Strange Arts encompasses his remaining specialized abilities 235 264.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ghost-Head Saber — Xu Bai’s early saber; Liu Xu and Wu Hua used it to identify him 60.
• Hundred Rifts / Black Saber Hundred Rends — His later saber, carried during his rise to King Xu 184 186.
• Evil Eye — An Entering Sainthood Supreme Treasure blade received from Chief Mu as compensation 217.
• Iron Sword — A space-cutting sword lent to Xu Bai by Gu Yao for a mission 257.
• Sun and Moon Daoist Robe — Given to him by the Female Daoist Abbot 171.
• Human-skin mask — Used with his disguise art to infiltrate the Dark Building 203 211.
• Puppets — Includes a Fourth-Rank paper figure and an Above First Rank puppet 136 189.

Relationships

• Yun Xiang — Proprietress of the Welcoming Inn; her Maple Leaf Tattoo and a rigged book became early sources of Xu Bai’s progress bars 13 23.
• Liu Xu — Azure Cloud Academy scholar and longtime ally. She recognized Xu Bai’s exceptional nature early, later sought his help over prophetic dreams, and was saved from withdrawing into her own soul 60 183 265.
• Wu Hua — Vajra Temple monk and sworn friend. Wu Hua deeply admires Xu Bai, while Xu Bai repeatedly exploits Wu Hua’s Buddhist knowledge and the Black Lotus for progress bars 62 191 227.
• Yun Zihai — Sheng County magistrate and trusted collaborator. They agreed to jointly control the Shadow Courier Station and Yunlai Prefecture’s major affairs 102 109.
• Ye Zi — Xu Bai’s wife and closest companion. Her music supports and strengthens him in battle, including against the Half-Step Transcendent strange entity 159 328.
• Chu Yu — Rising Dusk King’s daughter and Xu Bai’s student. He taught her how to survive the martial world; he later agreed to marry her to secure Gu Yao’s support 103 257.
• Chu Ling — Xu Bai’s partner and mother of his daughter, Xu Ling. She traveled with him to govern the Barbarian Territory 227 237.
• Xu Ling — Xu Bai’s daughter. He disciplines her firmly but personally teaches her a profession’s ability 274.
• Qing Xue — The Ninth Princess’s maid. Xu Bai saved her, refused recruitment into the Ninth Princess’s faction, and later deferred an answer to her confession 89 99 237.
• Female Daoist Abbot — A recurring ally and trading partner. She taught Xu Bai Grafting Flowers onto Trees and gave him the Sun and Moon Daoist Robe 171 228.
• Eunuch Wei — Friend, political intermediary, and ally in the campaign against Great Yue. He helped secure Xu Bai’s rewards and provided rare Entering Sainthood insights 178 223 234.
• Rising Dusk King — Influential supporter who supplied Xu Bai with cultivation manuals, a merchant identity for Great Yue, and political backing 196 203.
• Miao Xiao — Miao Sect cultivator and fervent admirer of Xu Bai who becomes an ally in investigations involving the Gu God Sect and Miao Sect 164 249.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Sheng County

Xu Bai begins as a low-ranking cultivator seeking progress bars in Sheng County. His study of Yun Xiang’s tattoo, Iron Calculation Immortal’s Wild Divination Scripture, and Buddhist materials establishes his ability to rapidly accumulate and fuse techniques 13 23 79.

He becomes entangled with Liu Xu and Wu Hua through Xiao Yue’s case and the Extreme Life Sect. Although initially prepared to kill them after his identity is exposed, he spares them because they acted honorably toward Xiao Yue 60.

Yunlai Prefecture and the Shadow Courier Station

Xu Bai allies with Yun Zihai to investigate threats surrounding Yunlai Prefecture, agreeing that the prefecture’s administration and the Shadow Courier Station would become their respective spheres of influence 102.

During this period, he mentors Chu Yu, investigates the Dark Building and Chen Family, defeats Ghost Seven, and accumulates powerful cultivation methods, saber arts, and puppetry techniques 103 107 110 136.

Wind Chime Prefecture and Soaring Cloud Prefecture

Xu Bai works with Ye Zi, the Ye Family, and local powers while pursuing enemies such as Lin Yong and City Lord Huang. He uses ingenious craft structures to divert the XunLe River, exposes a hideout, and later defeats the First-Rank demon ghoul City Lord Huang 146 151.

On the road toward the Capital, he confronts the Gu God Sect’s schemes, investigates a gu-afflicted village, and gains the open admiration of Miao Xiao and other Miao Sect youths 164 166.

Rise in the Capital

After reaching First Rank, Xu Bai faces thousands of cultivators attempting to intercept him and arrives in the Capital City as a major figure in the martial world 172. He enters the Imperial Treasury, advances into the Transcendent Realm, and becomes a decisive force in imperial politics 174 178.

The Emperor enfeoffs him as King Xu, granting him authority over vassal kings. His fame and political influence continue to grow as he travels through Great Chu 179.

Buddhist Crisis and Great Yue Campaign

Xu Bai helps end the Saint Buddha’s reign of terror and becomes a benefactor revered by Buddhist sects. By studying Wu Hua’s Black Lotus, he creates the Undying Demon Soul Buddha Body 190 191.

He later infiltrates Great Yue under a merchant identity, enters Three Lives Mountain, acquires disguise techniques, and destroys the Great Yue Emperor’s power structure. With Eunuch Wei’s support, Xu Bai survives an attack from an Entering Sainthood Ninth Grade opponent and deals the decisive blow that kills the Emperor 203 211 223.

Ruler of the Barbarian Territory

Following a year of seclusion, Xu Bai reaches the pinnacle of the Extraordinary Realm. Great Chu assigns him the former Barbarian Tribe’s territory to govern, where he oversees a new royal palace, treasury, and the influx of martial forces 227 228.

He spends extensive periods in the Royal Palace Treasury completing manuals, fusing the “Myriad” techniques, and ultimately entering Sainthood 237 268.

Ghost Market and the Supreme Saint

Xu Bai enters the Ghost Market to gather intelligence and progress bars ahead of the conflict involving the Supreme Saint. He remains there to strengthen himself, reaches Entering Sainthood Seventh Grade, and searches for new sources of progress through worlds that submitted to the Supreme Saint 287 302 319.

After reaching Exiting Sainthood, he creates an equal-strength clone to deceive the Supreme Saint. His clone enters the Winged Race’s world, is destroyed, and later returns, while Xu Bai continues preparing a broader resistance against the Supreme Saint 322 326 328.

Notable Quotes

“Helping you is helping myself.” 102

“I, Xu Bai, have always meant what I said.” 92

“I do not attack my own people.” 223

Trivia

• Xu Bai strongly dislikes the alias “Blood Slaughtering Saber Wielder” and threatens people who repeat it in front of him 153 164.
• He considers progress bars more valuable than conventional treasures; rare manuals and strange objects immediately attract his attention 79 195.
• He initially hoped to remain obscure and quietly cultivate, but became famous across the world instead 225.
• He is known for repeatedly giving his cultivation methods increasingly long names after fusions 109.