Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Hun Clan (魂族) 1 |
| Alias(es) | Soul Clan 7 |
| Affiliation | The Soul Hall is backed by the Hun Clan 18. |
| Occupation/Role | One of the Eight Ancient Clans; led by Hun Tiandi 7 66. |
| Home | The Soul Realm in the Central Plains 7. |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1, through the Hun Clan energy body Hun Diao 1. |
Background
A thousand years before the main events, Hun Tiandi led Hun Clan experts in a sneak attack on Xiao Xuan after his failed attempt to reach Dou Di. Xiao Xuan fell, and the Xiao Clan subsequently declined 1. The Hun Clan later sent several Dou Saints after the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade when the diminished clan left the Ancient Clan’s protection 8.
The clan remained a major rival of the Ancient Clan. Their disputes were largely limited to minor skirmishes until attacks on Soul Hall branches and reprisals against Ancient Clan experts escalated the conflict 18 29 35.
Organization and Resources
- Hun Tiandi — clan patriarch, whose plans center on obtaining the Tou She Ancient God Jade and reaching Dou Di 7 56.
- Soul Hall — an organization backed by the Hun Clan. Its branches collect soul bodies; Hun Miesheng serves as Hall Master 18 29 48.
- Four Elders — senior Hun Clan figures who had died once and were later revived through secret techniques. Two remained by the time of the assault on the Ancient Clan 7 8 63.
- Four Demon Saints — senior fighters summoned for the assault on the Ancient Clan; Hun Tu is among them 56 63.
- Soul imprints — jade tablets in the clan’s hall reveal whether experts away from the Soul Realm are alive or dead 7.
- Intelligence network — agents were planted in other clans, including Hun Yang, who lived within the Ancient Clan as Gu Yang for over a century 6 7 56.
Story Role
Espionage and the Ancient Clan conflict
Xiao Xuan exposed Hun Yang’s cover in the Ancient Clan and intercepted most of his final message. The fragment that reached the Soul Realm warned of a traitor within the Hun Clan, prompting Hun Tiandi to order an internal investigation 6 7 8.
As the Ancient Clan and Soul Hall traded attacks, Xiao Xuan secretly encouraged the fighting. He manipulated Ancient Clan elders while occupying Gu Shan’s body and attacked a Hun Clan position on the Demonic Flame Plains, leaving evidence intended to implicate the Ancient Clan 35 37.
War and the raid on the Soul Realm
Hun Tiandi brought the Four Demon Saints, the surviving elders, nearly twenty Dou Saints, and numerous Dou Venerables to demand the Ancient Clan’s jade. The Hun Clan gained the upper hand over more than a dozen days of fighting, and Hun Tiandi obtained the jade after Gu Yuan threw it into a spatial rift. The clan captured Ancient Clan members left behind when Gu Yuan fled 63 64.
With much of the Hun Clan’s strength away, Xiao Xuan raided the Soul Realm. He killed members gathered at Soul Emperor Plaza, broke into a protected tower, and took the clan’s Ancient Jade. Hun Tiandi returned to find widespread losses and ordered captured Ancient Clan members and fallen Hun clansmen placed in a Blood Sacrifice Array 64. He subsequently used the array to condense a Blood Pill 65.
The Ancient Emperor’s Cave
Hun Tiandi recruited Southern Isle magical beast clans as allies and proposed that his forces and Xiao Xuan’s open the Ancient Emperor’s Cave together 72. Inside, he ordered Hun Clan experts to delay Xiao Xuan while he pursued the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill; Hun Tu and other clan members fell during the confrontation 74. Hun Tiandi later sacrificed his Southern Isle allies to strengthen the pill, but Xiao Xuan defeated and killed him 76 77.
Relationships
- Xiao Clan — longstanding enemy. The Hun Clan’s attack on Xiao Xuan preceded the Xiao Clan’s decline; Xiao Xuan later pledged to destroy the Hun Clan and raided its home realm 1 12 64.
- Ancient Clan — rival infiltrated by Hun Yang. Their conflict grew into open war over the Tou She Ancient God Jade 7 29 63.
- Nihility Devouring Flame — worked with Hun Tiandi on the clan’s plans, including its pursuit of the jade and the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill 35 51 56.
- Southern Isle magical beast clans — allied with Hun Tiandi after he killed their enemy, the Bloodthirsty Sharp-Horn Clan; he later sacrificed them to advance the pill 72 76.