Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Dai Huabin (戴华斌) |
| Species/Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | White Tiger Duke Mansion; Shrek Academy Outer Academy 55 65 119 |
| Occupation/Role | White Tiger Duke Mansion's second son; Shrek student and freshman assessment participant 57 65 |
| Status | Deceased; killed by soul beasts in the Extreme North on Huo Yuhao's orders 97 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 55 |
Background / History
Dai Huabin grew up favored for awakening the Evil Eye White Tiger martial soul. By the time he entered Shrek Academy, he was a three-ring Soul Elder and viewed his older brother, Dai Yueheng, as the only person who might threaten his standing in the White Tiger Duke Mansion 60 65.
During a grade-wide assessment, he and Zhu Lu attacked their own classmates at the start of the melee despite his earlier promise to team up with them. His confrontation with Huo Yuhao ended with a deep chest wound. Refusing to concede, Dai Huabin fused martial souls with Zhu Lu to form the Hell White Tiger, but Huo Yuhao's counterattack nearly killed him 57 62 63.
Elder Zhuang saved Dai Huabin's life, but the damage to his martial soul origin and meridians left him unable to advance his cultivation. His mother, the White Tiger Duchess, secured him a temporary Outer Academy core disciple spot; Dai Yueheng nevertheless told him to leave Shrek at the end of the year 65 70.
Dai Huabin then hired six assassins to kill Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong near the Treasure Appreciation Fair. After they survived, Huo Yuhao struck Dai Huabin and secretly planted a Soul Path Mark that subjected him to continuing mental torment 73 76 78 97.
As Dai Huabin's condition and behavior worsened, Zhu Lu distanced herself from him. He came to believe that his brother and mother had abandoned him too. Seeking a death that would give him some final sense of value, he followed Huo Yuhao to the Extreme North, where Huo Yuhao ordered soul beasts to kill him 97.
Appearance
Before his injuries, Dai Huabin carried himself with a high-and-mighty bearing. After the assessment, he was visibly weakened 55 73.
- Build in combat — His body grew taller and more muscular when he activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation 57.
- After the assessment — He had a pale face and unsteady steps while still recovering 73.
Personality
Dai Huabin is proud of his White Tiger lineage and initially dismisses his peers as beneath him, even after seeing Huo Yuhao defeat other assessment participants. He refuses to accept defeat after being wounded, pressing on with Zhu Lu's martial soul fusion 60 62.
Losing his martial soul's strength turns that pride into resentment and desperation. He arranges Huo Yuhao's assassination, then deteriorates further under the Soul Path Mark and the loss of his family's support 76 97.
Abilities & Skills
Evil Eye White Tiger
Dai Huabin inherits the White Tiger Duke Mansion's ancestral martial soul and fights as a three-ring Soul Elder before it is damaged 60 65.
- White Tiger Vajra Transformation — His third soul skill increases his size and muscular strength 57.
- White Tiger Intense Light Wave — His second soul skill releases a white energy attack 61.
- Limit — Damage to his martial soul origin and meridians prevents further cultivation progress 65.
Hell White Tiger
Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu can merge through martial soul fusion to form the Hell White Tiger, a massive white tiger with black stripes and double-pupiled purple eyes 62 63.
- The fusion supplies enough power to suppress Dai Huabin's injuries temporarily and continue the assessment fight 63.
- Huo Yuhao's attack overwhelms it and leaves Dai Huabin near death 63 65.
Relationships
- Huo Yuhao — Enemy whose defeat cripples Dai Huabin. Dai Huabin's failed assassination plot leads to Huo Yuhao planting a Soul Path Mark on him; Huo Yuhao later arranges his death 65 73 78 97.
- Zhu Lu — His fiancée and Hell White Tiger fusion partner. She tends to him during their assessment fight but later distances herself as his condition worsens 62 63 97 119.
- Dai Yueheng — Older brother and rival for standing within the White Tiger Duke Mansion. Dai Yueheng reprimands him, orders him to leave Shrek, and later investigates his disappearance at their father's command 60 70 119.
- White Tiger Duchess — His mother, who initially intervenes after his injuries and obtains a temporary core disciple spot for him. She later orders him home rather than intervene in his dispute with Dai Yueheng 65 70 97.
- Dai Hao — His father, the White Tiger Duke, who orders Dai Yueheng to investigate Dai Huabin's disappearance 119.