Quan Xiaotong

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Quan Xiaotong (全晓通)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Dengque Tower; Supervision Department
Occupation/Role	Tower Master of Dengque Tower; intelligence chief and strategist for the Supervision Department 165 210 424
Cultivation	Transcendence Realm 451
Status	Active 1002
First Appearance	Chapter 156

Background / History

Quan Xiaotong rose through Dengque Tower under Gao Feng's instruction. As a young recruit, he received lessons alongside newcomers from the cultivator academy and specially cultivated Tower personnel; Gao Feng's teaching remained influential enough for Quan Xiaotong to invoke it years later 243.

As Tower Master, he personally reviews and confirms intelligence reports from Supervision Departments across different regions, including unusual tales, sect news, and major cases. The work is exhaustive, and his difficulty in finding a successor stems from the focus the position demands 165.

Appearance

After emerging from seclusion while investigating Yanluo Hall's formations, Quan Xiaotong appeared markedly disheveled: his white hair and beard were unkempt, his scholar's robe was filthy, and he wore one boot while the other foot was bare 657.

• Usually associated with scholar's robes and stacks of case files 243 657.
• Maintains a composed, smiling demeanor even during tense negotiations 156 174.
• His eyes became notably sharp when he believed he had located a formation core 657.

Personality

Quan Xiaotong is a calculating strategist who considers his planning—not his cultivation—the source of his greatest pride. Yin Mang recognizes him as a kindred spirit for his ability to view events as a chessboard and make moves on a broad scale 959.

He is practical and transactional. Dengque Tower does not conduct losing business under his leadership: he trades intelligence, seals sensitive files, and leverages favors to obtain guards, pill formulas, and other resources for the imperial court 156 174. He is also willing to manipulate allies for a larger objective, such as using sixty years of fortune to keep Hanyu in the East Sea Realm long enough to interrogate a captured Soul Split 481.

Despite this ruthlessness, Quan Xiaotong consistently prioritizes the Central Continent's survival. He seeks to eradicate the Corpse Refining Sect for refining living people into corpses, mobilizes reinforcements during crises, and supports Hanyu without framing his requests as obligations of righteousness 157 210 587.

Abilities & Skills

Intelligence Analysis and Deduction

Quan Xiaotong processes regional intelligence personally and specializes in connecting seemingly unrelated information.

• Organizes reports concerning bizarre incidents, sect affairs, and major cases before personally reviewing them 165.
• Investigates storybooks and legends for phenomena that may have real counterparts, including a divine brush and techniques resembling scattering beans to create soldiers 243.
• Reconstructed portions of the Corpse Refining lineage's organizational structure and identified its potential scale across multiple prefectures 210.
• Deduced the historical relationship between Central Continent cultivators, the Heavenly Beings, Heavenly Dao Sect, and Yanluo Hall from fragmented information and his own reasoning 497 498.
• Developed a method to locate Yanluo Hall's formation core by linking activated and inactive formation nodes like spreading ink 657.

Strategic Planning

Quan Xiaotong coordinates personnel and factions through Dengque Tower's intelligence network.

• Proposed searching the Southern Border for the Corpse Refining Sect's remnants; Che Dapao granted him command over Prefectural Yamens throughout the region for the operation 157.
• Secretly arranged the Nine Great Sects' ambush against Qi Bai in Dongling City, eliminating Qi Bai's local spies before the battle 210.
• Mobilized cultivators from the Prefectural Guard, Supervision Department, and Lingjing Tower to reinforce Dongling City against the Corpse Refining lineage 210.
• Seeks cooperation with the Mohist School to research and counter advanced enemy magic treasures 243.
• Uses coded exchanges with Ling Wuce to interpret divinations and prepare for incoming attacks 615.

Mind Reading

Quan Xiaotong can read another person's thoughts, using the ability to pressure and assess negotiators.

• Revealed knowledge that caused Liu Zongyuan to realize his thoughts could be read 497.
• Used information gained from Soul Seizer's mind alongside his own deductions to outline the cultivator world's history 497.

Cultivation

Quan Xiaotong is a Transcendence Realm cultivator, though he considers strategy more important than personal strength 451 959.

Relationships

• Gao Feng — Former mentor and enduring adviser. Gao Feng trained Quan Xiaotong in Dengque Tower, later assists his investigations, and openly challenges his more dangerous decisions 243 199 210.
• Che Dapao — Senior ally and commander of Chongming Tower. Che Dapao authorizes Quan Xiaotong's Southern Border operation and executes the Dongling City ambush built around Quan Xiaotong's plan 157 210.
• Hanyu — A crucial but difficult strategic partner. Quan Xiaotong trades resources and fortune cultivators for Hanyu's cooperation, protects knowledge of Hanyu's secrets, and places exceptional faith in his potential 283 481 726 917.
• Ling Wuce — Trusted colleague and intelligence operative. The two communicate through cryptic phrases and coordinate Supervision Department operations 195 615.
• Soul Chaser — Informant and uneasy collaborator. Quan Xiaotong questions him about higher cultivation systems and agrees to help him obtain a more lifelike Spiritual Treasure Body 559 581.
• Xia Wuyou and Wang Yu — Central Continent leaders who join Quan Xiaotong in a Sacrificial Dao Oath to protect Hanyu's secrets 726.
• Mo Xiuwen — Valued Mohist innovator. Quan Xiaotong supports his mechanisms and regards his work as essential to strengthening the Central Continent 638 646 958.
• Yin Mang — Strategic counterpart. Yin Mang acknowledges Quan Xiaotong as someone who also governs through large-scale planning rather than raw power alone 959.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• King Ginseng dossier — Quan Xiaotong withholds information about the King Ginseng in exchange for Corpse Refining Sect cultivators to guard three prefectures, then seals the sensitive portion of Hanyu's file as Top Secret rather than destroying it 156 174.
• Corpse Refining Sect investigation — He initiates a Southern Border search, recognizes the danger of the sect's hidden infrastructure, and seeks Ghost Dao techniques to improve the Supervision Department's countermeasures 157 177 210.
• Dongling City operation — Quan Xiaotong allows tensions surrounding Hanyu's pills to develop, then engineers an ambush involving the Nine Great Sects against Qi Bai and mobilizes reinforcements after the conflict escalates 206 210.
• Hanyu recruitment and support — He offers Hanyu fortune cultivators for attending the Genius Ranking, later provides sixty additional years of fortune while using the arrangement to delay Hanyu for an interrogation 283 481.
• Central Continent crisis — As Yanluo Hall's threat expands, he investigates the cultivation system, negotiates with Soul Chaser, and asks Hanyu for assistance while explicitly preserving Hanyu's right to refuse 497 559 587.
• Formation-core investigation — After seclusion, he presents a potential method for locating Yanluo Hall's formation core and continues to assess the enemy's larger strategy 657 660.
• Protection of Hanyu's secrets — Quan Xiaotong helps conceal Hanyu's origins and unusual power, joins Xia Wuyou and Wang Yu in a Sacrificial Dao Oath, and arranges supplies and a concealed refuge for Hanyu's allies 726 736.
• Later Central Continent defense — He supports Hanyu as the Central Continent's decisive high-end combatant, devises methods against the Faceless Ones, and explores ways to use Heavenly Dao items to return Hanyu to the Soul Realm 917 935 976.

Notable Quotes

“Dengque Tower never did business at a loss.” 156

“Central Continent can't do much, but we will always support you from behind.” 736

Trivia

• Quan Xiaotong once appeared to neglect a person-high pile of intelligence files in favor of reading the Thousand Year Miscellany, because he was searching its strange stories for real-world clues 243.
• He deliberately allows his own performance to appear lacking so that whoever succeeds him will have a more comfortable position 186.
• Hanyu's files are classified at Heavenly Pavilion Class A, the highest authority level, accessible only to Quan Xiaotong 424.