Xu Changqing

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Xu Changqing (徐长青)
Alias(es)	Ruthless; Emotionless; Wuqing; Heavenly Demon; Nameless
Species/Race	Human; reincarnated from Earth
Gender	Male
Occupation/Role	Cultivator; Emperor; later Reincarnation Dao Ancestor
Status	Alive; continues travelling through Chaos with the Empress 283
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Divine Bridge Realm	1	Entered the cultivation world after retiring from the army.
Dao Palace Realm	1	Began pursuing secret realms and stronger techniques.
Four Extremes Realm	1	Was captured by a demonic cultivator during his breakthrough and rescued by Mu Miaomiao.
Severing Dao	3 5 10	Severed his emotions amid an extreme heavenly tribulation; created the Supreme Heartless Body and emerged at the Half-Saint level.
Saint Realm	25	Broke through after three transformations in Emperor Daoyan's Strongest Treasure Liquid.
Saint King Realm	48 54 61	Underwent a Saint King tribulation, reached the eighth heaven after recovering for over thirty years, then refined his techniques at the realm's peak.
Great Sage Realm	78	Survived a two-day tribulation and left behind a reformed, seven-colored bone saber.
Minor Sage Ninth Heaven	82	Reached the ninth layer through repeated tribulations and the absorption of Emotion Power.
Great Sage Fourth Heaven	83	Identified as being at the fourth heaven while negotiating with the Sacred Emperor Pagoda.
Quasi-Emperor physical body	87	Tempered his body with Taiyin and Taiyang energies until his physical body alone could shatter the firmament.
Quasi-Emperor combat power	91 92	Triggered Divine Prohibitions and fought multiple Quasi-Emperors, including Saint Spirits.
Quasi-Emperor Second Heaven	95	Advanced by using a Quasi-Emperor tribulation to kill and absorb two Feathered Divine Nest Quasi-Emperors.
Quasi-Emperor First Level	103	Recovered in the Nine-Colored Immortal Pool and overcame a fourth-level Quasi-Emperor tribulation; this stated level follows an earlier Second Heaven account.
Alternative Dao Attainment	115	Achieved alternative Dao attainment after studying forbidden zones and enduring three layers of heavenly tribulation.
Emperor	120	Retrieved and fused with his own corpse, then established an Emperor Formation around his dojo.
Peak Great Emperor Realm	182	Reached the realm's peak after more than three thousand years tempering himself in Chaos.
Temporary Immortal Dao power	186	Forced his strength into the Immortal Dao level long enough to annihilate an Immortal Dao Weird Fiend Spirit.
Immortal King physical body	213	Returned from the River of Time with an Immortal King-level body and a Primordial Spirit close to breakthrough.
Peak Immortal King	244	Completed nine transformations and attained a wisp of Emperor Light after a 400,000-year seclusion.
Quasi-Immortal Emperor / Reincarnation Dao Ancestor	257 260	Forged and absorbed a Path of Reincarnation into himself, then fought nine Weird Dao Ancestors.

Background / History

Xu Changqing was reincarnated from Earth into a world defined by war, slavery, cultivation, and betrayal. After joining the army and entering cultivation at the Divine Bridge Realm, he spent centuries seeking techniques and secret-realm opportunities, only to be ambushed repeatedly and stripped of his gains. During his Four Extremes breakthrough, a demonic cultivator captured him to refine him into a blood pill; Mu Miaomiao rescued him, becoming his confidante and savior 1.

He married Lin Siyu and had a son, Xu An, but Lin Siyu left to cultivate and did not return. His later life was marked by attempted assassinations, the loss of friends and family ties, and three hundred years of wandering. These experiences hardened his Dao heart and led him to view emotional attachment as a vulnerability rather than a source of strength 1.

Xu Changqing spent more than two hundred years developing the framework of a cultivation method suited to his mortal body. He distributed an early version to a Golden Frog, who took the name Xu Jin and regarded Xu Changqing as his master despite never being formally acknowledged as a disciple 3.

When the Woman in White challenged the Feathered Dynasty through a Dao-Slaying tribulation, Xu Changqing chose the same moment to sever his Dao. His tribulation remade his Sea of Bitterness, implanted his Emotional Origins within his organs, and led to the creation of the Supreme Heartless Body 3 5 6 10.

Appearance

Xu Changqing is a tall, lean man with a broad back, a cold chiseled face, and an oppressive presence. After severing his emotions, his black hair gradually turned white; his expression became notably blank and difficult to read 2 5.

• Usually wears black robes, which give him a demonic or austere appearance beside his white hair 19.
• Has deep, quiet eyes repeatedly compared to a secluded spring beneath moonlight 5 11.
• His body bears white runes and releases immortal mist after the creation of the Supreme Heartless Body 10.
• Uses disguises when necessary, including an ordinary mortal appearance and a black technological combat suit in the Eternal Star Domain 16 104.
• During severe tribulations, his body is often reduced to broken flesh, blood mist, or scattered bones before restoring itself 7 9 30 31.

Personality

Xu Changqing is composed, calculating, and exceptionally difficult to intimidate. He considers strength the surest means of determining truth and survival, and he rarely wastes words on people he considers irrelevant or weak 18 37 40.

His path of “heartlessness” does not mean the absence of ambition. He explicitly rejects romantic love, familial affection, friendship, and brotherhood, regarding them as restraints on his Dao. At the same time, he recognizes that emotions are intrinsic to living beings and uses them as the basis for his later Heavenly Art 10 75.

He is relentlessly self-improving: he studies hostile techniques, refines his own methods through battle, and willingly enters fatal tribulations to advance. His detachment can become cruelty, particularly toward enemies, factions that pursue him, and mortals caught in his suspicions or retaliation 28 29 42 77.

Despite this, he sometimes protects or aids others when it aligns with his choices. He carries the severely wounded Swallowing Heaven from battle, teaches cultivation to Little White, gives healing items to an injured Human Race Guide, and honours his promise to Emperor Daoyan concerning Dao Yi 70 91 104 180.

Abilities & Skills

Supreme Heartless Body

A self-created Near-Dao physique born from Xu Changqing's Dao-Slaying tribulation.

• Possesses a mirror-like Sea of Bitterness free of turbid qi 6 10.
• Houses independent Emotional Deities within the Five Viscera and Six Bowels 5 10.
• Greatly improves cultivation speed, physical strength, and affinity with the Great Dao 10.
• Detects subtle emotional fluctuations, including murderous intent concealed by assassins or schemers 11.
• Can purify resentment and reduce the backlash from devouring vengeful spirits 51.
• Later allows him to suppress opponents' strength in battle 69 71.

Heaven's Will Saber Art

Xu Changqing's principal self-created saber technique, developed to counter extreme movement techniques.

• Described as unavoidable regardless of how an opponent moves 11.
• Was refined during his Dao-Slaying tribulation while fighting Great Emperor Dao Bodies 6.
• Can consume life force when pushed to its strongest form 6.
• Remained powerful enough to threaten the Woman in White, though she later used the Myriad Transformations Saint Art to decipher it 117.

Emperor's Fall Phenomenon

His personal Vision, created from his killings, experiences, and inherited demonic Visions.

• Manifests as a mountain of corpses and sea of blood, with Xu Changqing standing among fallen Ancient Emperors 6 10.
• Contains branded imprints of Ancient Emperors defeated during his tribulation 10.
• Can summon those Dao Body imprints into combat 10 34.
• Serves as both a Vision and a foundational part of the Supreme Heartless Body 10.

Emotion Power and Heavenly Art

Xu Changqing develops Emotion Power into an alternative source of cultivation and combat strength.

• Absorbs fear, anger, sorrow, joy, and other emotions from living beings 75 80.
• Gradually replaces ordinary Spiritual Energy with Emotion Power while retaining weakened Spiritual Energy within his body 80.
• Can draw upon the emotions of all living beings for a decisive enhancement 77.
• Excessive absorption darkens his state of mind and requires constant refinement 75.

Mind Reincarnation

A secret technique built from the emotional power nurtured in his organs.

• Forces targets into their most painful or sweetest memories, briefly disrupting their focus 11.
• Is intended as a single-use decisive technique rather than a repeatedly applicable method 11.
• Successfully affects Swallowing Heaven during their peak battle by drawing her toward old memories 117.

Movement and Recovery Techniques

Xu Changqing repeatedly develops methods to overcome the weaknesses of his early life-consuming healing arts.

• Emperor's Walk — a refined movement technique that allows rapid movement across starfields and instantaneous repositioning 61 69.
• Heavenly Mend — his self-created healing secret technique 61.
• Uses inherited Demonic Great Sage and Quasi-Emperor healing methods, though they initially cost lifespan or restore him too slowly 6 7.
• Can reassemble from scattered flesh and bone after tribulations by comprehending the vitality within destruction 31.

Reincarnation Path

In his later life, Xu Changqing develops a path based on reincarnation across worlds and eras.

• Mirrors the cultivation systems of several eras and evolves them into interconnected paths 244.
• Pulls a united Path of Reincarnation into his body after merging with his Dao Fruit 257.
• Reincarnates repeatedly through broken epochs to repair damaged Paths of Reincarnation 264 265.
• Eventually severs most of his reincarnation memories because invincibility and accumulated lives leave him numb and detached 270.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Bone Saber / Ruthless Blade — Xu Changqing's signature weapon; tempered in heavenly tribulation, later fused with multiple kinds of Immortal Gold, and eventually reformed with seven-colored patterns 5 31 78.
• Chaos Heavenly Saber — a black saber forged from Chaos Immortal Marrow for his journey through Chaos 180 184.
• Dao Tribulation Immortal Robe — recovered through Emperor Daoyan's true scripture; protects him against attacks that would otherwise kill him 90 93.
• Immortal Slaying Killing Swords and Formation Diagram — acquired at the Mythical Shore; used to suppress Supreme Beings and Emperor-level enemies 109 112.
• Fusang Divine Tree — merged into his Sea of Suffering; aids recovery, provides essence energy, and accompanies him in major battles 87 99.
• Yin-Yang Disk / Wheel — a peculiar Yin-Yang construct used against heavenly tribulation and later associated with the myriad states of living beings 86 104.
• Ten Thousand Ghosts Formation Flag — a dark-red flag that releases vengeful spirits across the Eternal Star Domain 26.
• Great Sage's Soul Slaying Nail — used to kill an elder Saint King during the Eternal Star Domain massacre 29.

Relationships

• Mu Miaomiao — confidante and savior who rescued him from a demonic cultivator; she remains deeply concerned for him after his Dao-Slaying tribulation and apparent death 1 5 9.
• Lin Siyu — former lover and mother of Xu An; she watches Xu Changqing's tribulation with regret and later leaves her Holy Land to seek him 6 53.
• Xu An — identified as Xu Changqing's son; fears encountering him on the Emperor's Road after their past conflict 11 39.
• Xu Jin — Golden Frog who received Xu Changqing's cultivation method and surname; considers himself Xu Changqing's disciple and later seeks him on the Emperor's Road 3 54.
• Woman in White — fellow Dao-Slaying cultivator and Xu Changqing's central rival on the Emperor's Road; they repeatedly spar, fight, and drive one another's growth 5 36 117.
• Swallowing Heaven — an opponent and intermittent ally. Xu Changqing protects her during a Great Sage siege, later fights her in a year-long peak battle, and eventually defeats her again after she reaches the Quasi-Emperor Fourth Heaven 70 114 117.
• The Empress — later companion with whom Xu Changqing discusses Dao, explores the worlds, and travels through Chaos; their relationship is intimate but initially undefined 124 151 283.
• Emperor Daoyan — his legacy corrects Xu Changqing's arrogance toward external objects. Xu Changqing accepts Daoyan's conditions and later fulfils his promise concerning Dao Yi 24 180.
• Duan De — initially a treasure-seeking associate, later revealed to have betrayed Xu Changqing, contributing to the Underworld's pursuit 65 98.
• Little White — a white ox Xu Changqing purchases, names, teaches cultivation, and takes travelling through the starry sky 104 108.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Dao-Slaying and the Feathered Dynasty

Xu Changqing emerges from centuries of loss determined to sever his emotions. He joins the Woman in White's attack on the Feathered Dynasty, undergoes an unprecedented tribulation, and creates the Supreme Heartless Body while confronting the Dao Bodies of past Great Emperors 3 5 6 10.

Eternal Star Domain

He defeats Lin Qianyu, surpasses Emperor Daoyan's name on the inheritance pillar, obtains Daoyan's legacy, and advances to Saint. When the Eternal Star Domain's forces attempt to seize him, he retaliates with tribulation, technological weapons, and the Ten Thousand Ghosts Formation Flag, massacring the factions that joined against him 19 21 25 26 28 29.

Emperor's Road

Taking the name “Ruthlessness,” Xu Changqing charges through the Human Race Ancient Trial Path. His reputation spreads after years of solitary fighting, ambushes, executions, and counterattacks; by the forty-ninth pass, most cultivators and commanders fear provoking him 11 37 39 40.

Holy Spirit Ancient Road and Heavenly Art

After reaching Saint King, Xu Changqing enters the Holy Spirit Ancient Road to seek revenge and resources. He slaughters Holy Spirits, absorbs their essence and emotions, and turns the Holy Spirit curse upon himself into a golden mark while perfecting the Heavenly Art 54 56 75.

Rise to Quasi-Emperor

Xu Changqing acquires the Sun Sacred Emperor's teachings, cultivates Taiyin and Taiyang energies, and tempers his physical body to the Quasi-Emperor level. He subsequently retrieves the Dao Tribulation Immortal Robe and the Immortal Slaying Swords, enabling him to confront Quasi-Emperors and Supreme Beings 83 87 90 109 112.

Emperor and Transformation Path

After achieving alternative Dao attainment and becoming an Emperor, Xu Changqing chooses seclusion and research rather than immediate war against the Underworld or forbidden zones. He develops a corpse-fusion transformation path across multiple lives, studies reincarnation, and eventually leaves for Chaos to seek the Immortal King realm 115 120 125 135 180.

Chaos, Upper Heaven, and Reincarnation

In Chaos, Xu Changqing refines a True Immortal's hand into his Black Saber, breaks an ancient battlefield formation, and temporarily reaches Immortal Dao power to destroy an Immortal Dao Weird Fiend Spirit 182 184 186. He later enters the Immortal Realm, joins the Heavenly Court's struggle in Upper Heaven, becomes the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor, and battles Weird Dao Ancestors across the River of Time and the Chaotic Ancient Era 235 245 257 260.

Notable Quotes

“Nothing can defeat me. Perhaps something can bring me down, but it cannot make me submit or concede!” 1

“In the name of Ruthlessness, I shall campaign on the Emperor's Road!” 11

“Whether success or failure, I have no sorrow, no dejection. As long as I have tried, that is enough.” 11

Trivia

• Xu Changqing’s original desire to cross the starry sky came from his life on Earth; even after becoming powerful, he deliberately preserves that curiosity 12.
• He spent over two hundred years establishing the basic framework of his personal cultivation method 3.
• He is one of the first figures in the Eternal Star Domain to surpass Emperor Daoyan's youthful name on the inheritance pillar, where he leaves the name “Ruthless” 21.
• He once teaches Little White cultivation methods from demon races and Holy Spirits, allowing the ox to learn speech and accompany him as a traveller 104.