Su Xian

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Su Xian (苏闲)
Alias(es)	Su Fan 60
Species/Race	Human; his bloodline was verified as purely human by the Demon Hunters. 94 116
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Blazing Sun Martial Arts School; Demon Hunters, later a Silver Bell Demon Hunter. 4 94 96
Occupation/Role	Martial artist; demon hunter
Status	Active 124
First Appearance	Chapter 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Skin Tempering Realm — Early Stage	5	Perfected the Pure Yang Stance, comprehended Qi and Blood Power, and gained ten years of lifespan.
Skin Tempering Realm — Mid Stage	5	Advanced after ten years of continued Pure Yang Art cultivation.
Skin Tempering Realm — Late Stage	5	Reached through further Qi-and-Blood body tempering.
Skin Tempering Realm — Perfection	5	His skin became tough enough to resist ordinary blades; a saber left only a fading white mark.
Muscle Forging Realm — Early Stage	8	Broke through after consuming 37 years of Demon Lifespan; his strength nearly doubled from the preceding realm.
Marrow Forging / Body Forging Realm — Perfection	9	The Demon Strategy records him reaching perfection after raising his vital energy and body tempering to their limits.
Tendon Refining Realm — Early Stage	14	Refined tendons greatly increased his explosive force, speed, perception, and hearing.
Bone Tempering Realm — Early Stage	23	Spent 200 years of Demon Lifespan to overcome the Tendon Refining bottleneck; gained 20 years of lifespan.
Bone Tempering Realm — Great Accomplishment	36	Improved the Savage Dragon Bone Tempering Force, strengthening his body and resilience.
Bone Tempering Realm — Peak	36	Reached peak after further cultivation; his bones became clear and jade-like, completing Ice Muscle Jade Bone.
Viscera Nourishing Realm — Early Stage	37	Strengthened and transformed his five internal organs; gained 30 years of lifespan.
Viscera Nourishing Realm — Peak	41	Fully tempered internal organs gave him greater endurance, explosive output, and resistance to internal-force attacks.
Aperture Opening Realm — Peak	45	Had reached the peak of the realm and gained 50 years of lifespan upon entering it.
Jade Liquid Realm — Peak	66	Reached peak through the Vajra Body Refining Method and Jade Liquid Spiritual Flower Scripture.
Physique — Core Condensation Realm level	66	His body-refining gains made him formidable even against peak Jade Liquid Realm martial artists.
Physique — Embracing Core Realm	88	Perfected the Nine Dragons Body Refining Scripture beyond its limits and awakened Nine Dragon Power.
Core Condensation Realm — Early Stage	93 94	Cultivated the Profound Origin Core Condensation Method and gained 60 years of lifespan.
Core Condensation Realm — Peak	97	Advanced from the initial stage to the peak using 358 years of Demon Lifespan.
Physique — Embracing Core Realm Peak	104	Perfected the Dragon Elephant Body Refining Scripture, drastically improving strength, speed, and defense.
Physique — Shattering Core Realm, Early Stage	105 106	Pushed the Dragon Elephant Body Refining Scripture beyond its limit, awakening further traits after a 1,300-year investment.
Embracing Core Realm	124	Formed a Primordial Martial Golden Core and awakened Primordial Limitless Spiritual Essence.

Background / History

Su Xian began with only one year of remaining lifespan. After learning that martial arts cultivation could extend life, he made survival and the acquisition of cultivation methods his immediate priorities. He slew a Cat Demon on Green Dragon Mountain, gaining 123 years of lifespan and enough security to pursue martial arts in Blackwater County. 2

He entered the Blazing Sun Martial Arts School after obtaining the required fee. Master Zhao Lie provided the first-grade Pure Yang Art and Blazing Sun Fist, while senior disciple Cui Hao became Su Xian's instructor. 4

Su Xian discovered that his innate aptitude for realm cultivation was exceptionally poor: advancing from perfected Skin Tempering to early Muscle Forging required 37 years of Demon Lifespan. Conversely, he possessed extraordinary talent for martial skills, rapidly perfecting and evolving techniques once their manuals were recorded in the Demon Strategy. 5 8 17

His hunt for Demon Lifespan led him through Green Dragon Mountain, Blackwater County's underworld, the Black Tiger Gang, and eventually the Demon Hunter organization in Qingyang County. He steadily shifted from seeking mere survival to gathering martial foundations, body-refining methods, and the means to forge his own high-level techniques. 19 50 60 62

Appearance

Su Xian's ordinary form is about 1.85 meters tall. He can conceal his aura so completely that he appears to be an ordinary person, and can alter his body through muscular control, bone shrinking, masks, clothing, and voice changes. 11 38 88

• Can thicken his limbs, reshape his face, and change his voice for disguises. 11
• Can use bone shrinking to alter his height, build, appearance, and voice. 38
• Nine Dragon Power and Dragon Elephant Incarnation can enlarge him to roughly 2.5–3 meters in combat. 106 116
• Ordinary clothing may tear when Nine Dragon Power enlarges his body; he seeks elastic monster-hide clothing to compensate. 88

Personality

Su Xian is pragmatic, calculating, and intensely focused on survival. Faced with a one-year lifespan, he immediately chose to pursue martial arts and treated Demon Lifespan as a resource to be spent where it would yield the greatest advantage. 2 17

He is cautious when risks are unclear, using disguises to infiltrate the Azure Cloud Medical Hall operation rather than joining its vulnerable herb-gathering group. He also evaluates his limitations realistically, recognizing that his cultivation aptitude is poor and that creating a cultivation method requires more foundation than he initially possesses. 11 23 38

In combat, Su Xian is decisive and merciless toward active threats. He kills ambushers, bandits, and demons without hesitation, but also protects those he has accepted responsibility for, notably sheltering the Liu Family after their conflict with the Black Tiger Gang. 17 35 45

Abilities & Skills

Demon Strategy

Su Xian possesses the Demon Strategy, a system that turns slain demons' remaining lifespan into a resource for cultivation and martial-skill development. 2 21

• Records martial skills and cultivation methods after he reads them, allowing him to retain manuals without physically keeping them. 16 94
• Uses Demon Lifespan to accelerate cultivation, force breakthroughs, perfect skills, and fuse techniques into stronger arts. 23 51 97
• Can instantly restore depleted Jade Liquid true essence and heal minor injuries by investing lifespan. 75
• Its lifespan supply depends on hunting demons; killing three Cat Demons at Green Dragon Mountain earned him 379 years. 19

Martial Skill Talent

Although his realm-cultivation aptitude is poor, Su Xian learns and innovates martial skills at an exceptional rate. He can perfect unfamiliar techniques in short spans of Demon Lifespan and merge their principles into higher-grade arts. 5 17 97

• Evolved Blazing Sun Fist into the second-grade Blazing Sun Tiger Subduing Fist. 5
• Perfected the third-grade Spiritual Fox Nine Revolutions and developed Gale Six Slashes from Wind and Cloud Six Slashes. 17 18
• Created the fourth-grade Lightning Flowing Fire Slash, with power capable of rivaling the Viscera Nourishing Realm. 33
• Created Aperture Opening-level techniques including Yang Lei Three Tribulations Saber, Blazing Sun Sky Breaking Fist, and Nine Heavens Mad Thunder Steps. 51
• Created Embracing Core Realm arts including Heavenly Incineration Demon Slaying Slash, Crimson Refined Lock Gold Hand, and Divine Movement Nine Transformations. 97 98

Blade and Unarmed Combat

Su Xian favors sabers in battle, though he has cultivated a broad range of weapon disciplines and can use sabers, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, and forks. His saber proficiency remains his strongest combat specialty. 16 60

• Crimson Refined Lock Gold Hand lets him melt metal and sever iron with his bare hands. 98
• Lightning Flowing Fire Slash defeated the notorious Ghost Shadow Twin Blades with ease during its first field test. 35
• Myriad Demon Tribulation was formed by refining and combining 25 Viscera Nourishing Realm saber skills. 62
• His martial skills can be sustained by his unusually large spiritual-essence reserves after reaching the Embracing Core Realm. 124

Body Refinement and Traits

Su Xian repeatedly prioritizes body-refining cultivation, allowing his physical body to outpace his formal realm progression. 66 88 104

• Ice Muscle Jade Bone — improves cultivation aptitude and martial-skill comprehension speed. 36 38
• Indestructible Vajra Body — reduces physical damage received by 20%; the reduction remains effective as his cultivation rises. 66
• Nine Dragon Power — doubles his pure physical strength when activated. 88
• Dragon Elephant Incarnation — doubles his physical strength, speed, defense, and related attributes again. 105 116
• His Dragon Elephant Body Refining Scripture also granted an additional trait that reduces all incoming damage. 105
• His physical body was strong enough to endure attacks from mid-@@REF_ENTITY_8899246@@ opponents with little visible effect. 90

Primordial Limitless Spiritual Essence

After forming his Primordial Martial Golden Core, Su Xian gained spiritual essence with unusually high volume, recovery, and adaptability. 124

• Can convert between Great Sun Crimson Yang Spiritual Essence and Profound Yin Ice Soul Spiritual Essence. 124
• Has more than three times the spiritual-essence quantity and recovery speed of an ordinary Embracing Core Realm martial artist. 124
• Can collide his opposing spiritual essences to create an explosion comparable to an Embracing Core Realm martial skill. 124
• Can sustainably use attribute-dependent arts such as Crimson Sun Divine Light Ray at greater output. 124

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Saber — Su Xian's preferred weapon; he carries both a precious saber for combat and ordinary blades as less conspicuous cover. 19 27
• Masks and disguise clothing — used to conceal his identity in the Black Market and during dangerous operations. 11 16
• Demon Strategy — his central cultivation aid, used to store techniques and invest Demon Lifespan. 16 94

Relationships

• Zhao Lie — Master of the Blazing Sun Martial Arts School; admitted Su Xian as a paying student and later sheltered the Liu Family at Su Xian's request. 4 45
• Cui Hao — Zhao Lie's eldest disciple and Su Xian's first instructor at the Blazing Sun Martial Arts School. 4
• Liu Xuan — Head of the Liu Family; hired Su Xian to investigate the Fox Demon killings and later expressed gratitude for the Black Tiger Gang's destruction. 24 51
• Guang Yu — Demon Hunter associate who helped Su Xian find housing, explained exchange systems, and introduced the Nine Dragons Body Refining Scripture. 62 71 72
• Ji Xuange — Silver Bell Demon Hunter who intervened against the Qian Family, recognized Su Xian's potential, and supported his advancement within the organization. 70 71 92
• Luo Qiyuan — Gold Bell Demon Hunter who led the Snow Lotus Peak mission; he witnessed Su Xian fight Shattering Core Realm Cao Han. 106 116
• Qian Xiong and Qian Family ancestors — enemies whose conflict with Su Xian escalated from Qian Xiong's broken arm to the Qian Family's collapse. 70 90 92

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Blackwater County survival — With one year left to live, Su Xian kills a Cat Demon, gains Demon Lifespan, and joins the Blazing Sun Martial Arts School to begin cultivation. 2 4
• Green Dragon Mountain hunts — He develops his martial skills, returns to the mountain, and eliminates multiple Cat Demons and a Wolf Demon for lifespan and resources. 19 21
• Black Market growth — He acquires third-grade skills through the Blackwater County Black Market, records them in the Demon Strategy, and uses them to establish a superior combat foundation. 16 18
• Liu Family and Black Tiger Gang conflict — After taking the Liu Family's demon-hunting job, he becomes their protector and ultimately destroys the Black Tiger Gang. 24 45 50
• Demon Hunter career — Su Xian travels to Qingyang County, joins the Demon Hunters, earns contribution points, and exchanges for advanced martial skills and body-refining methods. 60 62 94
• Qian Family confrontation — His overwhelming physique lets him defeat peak Jade Liquid and mid-@@REF_ENTITY_8899246@@ opponents, leading to the Qian Family's downfall. 70 90 92
• White Lotus Cult mission — He joins Luo Qiyuan's team against the White Lotus Cult, battles the Shattering Core Realm-enhanced Cao Han, and acquires an Embracing Core Realm cultivation method from the cult headquarters. 106 116 119

Trivia

• Su Xian's original lifespan rose from one year to more than 200 years through martial breakthroughs alone, before accounting for the life-preserving effects of his advanced physique. 2 94
• He considers his natural realm-cultivation aptitude “terrible,” but regards his martial-skill talent as his greatest advantage. 23 97
• His ability to suppress all aura leakage allows even powerful martial artists to mistake him for an ordinary person. 88