Golden Cudgel

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Golden Cudgel
Alias(es)	Ruyi Golden Cudgel; Ocean-Stabilizing Needle; “Embroidery Needle”
Type	Tool martial soul
Affiliation	Bai Yi
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Initial manifestation	1	Appears as an embroidery-needle-sized golden rod; can enlarge into a massive pillar weighing a thousand catties or more.
First soul ring	3	Obtained from a three-thousand-year Black Gold Mysterious Armor Bear; unlocks Mountain Crushing Peak Suppressing.
Second soul ring	4 8	Bai Yi possesses two thousand-year soul rings; the second skill is Earth Fire Dragon Breath.
Third soul ring	12	Obtained from the thirty-thousand-year Golden-Winged Thunder Roc; unlocks Thunder Wings and lightning-based staff attacks.
Fourth soul ring	34	Obtained from a seventy-thousand-year Nine-Headed Heaven-Rending Flood Dragon; unlocks Nine-Headed Space-Rending Formation, a spatial sealing and restraining formation.
Hundred-thousand-year empowerment	41	Following the Titan Giant Ape's sacrifice, the Golden Cudgel becomes at least twice as heavy; its raw weight alone can threaten a Title Douluo.
Myriad Phenomena Domain	60 82	Bai Yi channels gravity laws through the cudgel, allowing its strikes to carry stacked gravitational force while restricting opponents' movement.
Sixth-ring era	77 80	By the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Bai Yi wields six rings, including two red rings. His sixth Heaven-Equaling Trial grants a million-year ring and Heavenly Law, Earthly Form, enabling large-scale clone attacks with Golden Cudgels amplified by lightning and gravity.

Appearance

In its compact state, the Golden Cudgel resembles a small embroidery needle that Bai Yi can tuck behind his ear. When manifested fully, it is a crimson staff inlaid with gold, bearing faint flowing seal-script patterns. 1 28

• Can shrink to needle size and return to Bai Yi’s hand. 1 24
• Expands into a huge golden pillar on Bai Yi’s command: “Grow.” 1 24
• Its size increase also amplifies its weight and power. 1 24
• After the Titan Giant Ape's sacrifice, its base weight increases by at least twofold. 41
• Can be reshaped into a long spear through the Seventy-Two Transformations. 11
• Can be coated in earth-fire flames or golden lightning. 8 13
• Can be stored inside the spatial world of Buddha Kingdom in the Palm and summoned directly into Bai Yi's hand. 42

Abilities & Skills

Size Manipulation

The cudgel can freely change between a needle-like form and a giant pillar.

• Pinned Yu Xiaogang beneath it after expanding hundreds of times in size. 1
• Weighed a thousand catties even at its standard enlarged size; Yu Xiaogang could not move it. 1
• Its pressure continued to increase while pinning Yu Xiaogang down. 1
• Expanded to a diameter of several dozen meters during the battle with Chrysanthemum Douluo. 24
• A colossal strike against Chrysanthemum Douluo nearly exhausted all of Bai Yi’s mana. 24
• Expanded beyond one hundred meters when Bai Yi used it to erase Zhou Yue and his subordinates. 60
• Its enlarged form can pin down a manifested Hell White Tiger with mountain-like pressure. 77

Martial Soul Durability and Striking Power

The Golden Cudgel serves as Bai Yi’s primary melee weapon, with sufficient force to overwhelm stronger opponents and break defensive techniques.

• Defeated Tang San with one extending strike through Blue Silver Entanglement. 1
• Allowed Bai Yi, before gaining a soul ring, to exploit and repeatedly strike the weak point of a three-thousand-year Black Gold Mysterious Armor Bear. 3
• Broke Yu Tianheng’s dragon claws and scales in a single exchange. 5
• Crushed shields and knocked down multiple Heaven Dou Class students during Bai Yi’s one-against-seven battle. 8
• Parried Feng Xiaotian’s wind blades, leaving Feng’s wrist numb from the impact. 14
• Severely injured Chrysanthemum Douluo with an enlarged, fire-and-lightning-wreathed strike. 24
• Sent Soul Sage Zhao Wuji flying through a thick tree with a lightning-coated aerial sweep. 33
• Its post-sacrifice weight can threaten Title Douluos even without further size expansion. 41
• Killed a tiger-clawed Soul Sage with an extending thrust and smashed a second Soul Sage into the ground. 60
• Blocked Guang Ling Douluo's Heaven-Breaking Arrow and crushed the level 97 Titled Douluo. 89

Mountain Crushing Peak Suppressing

The cudgel’s first soul skill, gained from the Black Gold Mysterious Armor Bear. It enhances the cudgel’s weight and produces a golden ground shockwave. 5 8

• Instantly defeated Yu Tianheng in Bai Yi’s academy entrance challenge. 5
• Breaks enemy formations by forcing back front-line defenders. 8 14
• Can be used by multiple hair-created copies of Bai Yi simultaneously. 11
• Its effective range is primarily short-range despite the shockwave. 15

Earth Fire Dragon Breath

The cudgel’s second soul skill, which ignites it in orange-red flames. 8

• Sweeping strikes leave scorched ground and destroy defensive soul power shields. 8 14
• Can be paired with Mountain Crushing Peak Suppressing to combine a shockwave with erupting flames. 8
• Was used in Bai Yi’s finishing attack against the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc. 11
• Its flames can counter ice-based control techniques by evaporating incoming ice formations. 18
• Can be fused with Thunder Wings to form the high-output Thunder Fire Wing God Strike. 38

Thunder Wings

The cudgel’s third soul skill, obtained from the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc. It creates translucent golden lightning wings and allows Bai Yi to manipulate golden lightning. 12

• Grants high-speed flight and aerial maneuverability. 12 15
• Lightning can coat the cudgel, increasing the speed and force of its attacks. 12 13
• Produces arc-shaped lightning energy blades capable of cutting and cauterizing targets. 13 15
• Can release Thunder Feather Thousand Strikes, firing three lightning bolts from the cudgel’s tip. 15
• Its lightning energy can dismantle elemental attacks with precise ranged cuts. 15
• Can be used as Sky-Sundering Slash, allowing Bai Yi to cross distance as lightning and strike incorporeal targets with evil-breaking force. 37
• When fused with Earth Fire Dragon Breath, it produces Thunder Fire Wing God Strike, a crimson-gold cudgel blast capable of severely wounding Ghost Douluo. 38

Nine-Headed Space-Rending Formation

The cudgel’s fourth soul skill, obtained from the seventy-thousand-year Nine-Headed Heaven-Rending Flood Dragon. Bai Yi plants or drives the cudgel into the ground to create a formation marked by nine dragon heads. 34 38

• Locks and compresses the surrounding space, greatly impeding movement within the formation. 34 38
• Prevented Ghost Douluo from moving freely despite his Martial Soul Avatar. 38
• Provides a restrained target for Bai Yi’s lightning-and-fire fusion attacks. 38

Gravity Enhancement and Myriad Phenomena Domain

The Golden Cudgel can serve as the focal point for the gravity laws of Bai Yi’s Myriad Phenomena Domain. 60 82

• The Titan Giant Ape’s sacrifice doubled the cudgel’s weight and made its basic force dangerous to Title Douluos. 41
• Bai Yi can stack gravitational pressure onto the staff before meeting an opponent’s attack head-on. 82
• The domain drags enemies toward Bai Yi, interferes with their Soul Power circulation, and creates openings for cudgel strikes. 60
• Under Heavenly Law, Earthly Form, the Titan Giant Ape’s gravity can make every clone’s cudgel tip one hundred times heavier. 80

Spatial Storage and Clone Armament

Bai Yi can store the Golden Cudgel within Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, bypassing the delay of drawing or recalling it normally. 42

• The cudgel can be drawn from Bai Yi’s palm in an instant after being stored in the inner space. 42
• Body Outside Body Technique copies can wield duplicate Golden Cudgels and execute coordinated staff attacks. 11 38
• Twelve Bai Yi clones struck Ghost Douluo simultaneously with lightning- and flame-infused cudgels. 38
• During Heavenly Law, Earthly Form, countless clones wielded Golden Cudgels in a sky-covering assault against Bibi Dong. 80

Story Role / Major Arcs

Nuoding Academy Incident

Yu Xiaogang misidentified the Golden Cudgel as an embroidery needle and declared it useless. Bai Yi enlarged it to pin Yu Xiaogang to the ground, then used its extending form to defeat Tang San in one strike. 1

First Soul Ring Hunt

Before receiving any soul ring, Bai Yi used the cudgel to fight a three-thousand-year Black Gold Mysterious Armor Bear. He repeatedly struck its abdomen, immobilized it, then enlarged and thrust the cudgel through its wound to kill it. 3

Heaven Dou Royal Academy Challenges

With Mountain Crushing Peak Suppressing, Bai Yi instantly defeated Yu Tianheng and earned entry into the Heaven Dou Class. The cudgel later enabled him to break the class’s formation and defeat its seven-member team alongside Ye Lingling. 5 8

Golden-Winged Thunder Roc Hunt

Bai Yi transformed the cudgel into a spear during his opening attack on the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc. After exhausting the beast through clones, invisibility, and repeated staff strikes, he killed it with one final blow and gained its spirit ring. 11 12

Academy Exchange Battles

The cudgel’s fire and lightning techniques allowed Bai Yi to fight the combined God Wind and Blazing Fire Academy team. It blocked Feng Xiaotian’s attacks, protected Ye Lingling, dispersed Huo Wu’s techniques, and ended the aerial battle with Thunder Feather Thousand Strikes. 14 15

Battle at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well

Bai Yi combined the cudgel’s growth ability with fire, lightning, and Immobilization Technique to strike Chrysanthemum Douluo. The giant descending staff broke bones and forced Yue Guan to reconsider his opponent’s identity before he retreated from the valley. 24

Nine-Headed Heaven-Rending Flood Dragon Hunt

Bai Yi pursued a seventy-thousand-year Nine-Headed Heaven-Rending Flood Dragon for two months. Using his clones to prevent its spatial escapes and Fiery Eyes to trace residual spatial fluctuations, he finally cornered and killed it, gaining the cudgel’s fourth soul skill. 34

Battle Against Ghost Douluo

Bai Yi used the Golden Cudgel’s Sky-Sundering Slash to injure Ghost Douluo’s true body through his incorporeal defenses. He later trapped Ghost Douluo with Nine-Headed Space-Rending Formation, struck him with Thunder Fire Wing God Strike, and overwhelmed him with twelve simultaneous cudgel attacks from Body Outside Body clones. 37 38

Titan Giant Ape Sacrifice

After Er Ming sacrificed himself to Bai Yi, the Golden Cudgel became substantially heavier. Bai Yi judged that its weight alone could henceforth threaten a Title Douluo, while the Titan Giant Ape’s gravity power became available to augment its strikes. 41 82

Crown Prince Guard Conflict

While protecting Qian Renxue, Bai Yi used the Golden Cudgel to kill two Soul Sages and overpower the eight-ring Soul Douluo Zhou Yue. After trapping Zhou Yue’s group with Myriad Phenomena Domain and Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, Bai Yi enlarged the staff and erased them from the battlefield. 58 60

Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament

Bai Yi used the Golden Cudgel to pin the Star Luo Royal Academy’s Hell White Tiger and protect Zhu Zhuqing. During the later conflict with Spirit Hall, his Heavenly Law, Earthly Form clones filled the sky with lightning- and gravity-enhanced Golden Cudgels, overwhelming Bibi Dong’s Martial Soul Avatar. 77 80

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Rescue

When Guang Ling Douluo’s Heaven-Breaking Arrow threatened the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Bai Yi descended from the sky with the Golden Cudgel. He blocked the attack and crushed Guang Ling Douluo, saving the sect’s defenders. 89

Trivia

• Yu Xiaogang’s “embroidery needle” misidentification became the cudgel’s most notable nickname. 1
• Bai Yi can keep the cudgel behind his ear when it is shrunk to needle size. 1
• It is also identified by Bai Yi as the Ocean-Stabilizing Needle. 3
• Xue Qinghe’s intelligence network considered its grade at least comparable to, and possibly above, the Clear Sky Hammer. 6 8
• Chrysanthemum Douluo associated the cudgel’s pressure with the terror of being struck by the Clear Sky Hammer. 24
• Bibi Dong later concluded that the power of Bai Yi’s massed Golden Cudgel assault exceeded that of the Clear Sky Hammer. 80