Bai Xiaotian

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Bai Xiaotian (白小天)
Species/Race	Human; genetically modified and bodily mutated through experimentation and fusion 68 201 464
Gender	Male
Age	Nine years old 448
Affiliation	Wu Yu’s Tower team; escaped Welfare Institute children; Resistance Army, which he later decides to leave 200 575 576
Occupation/Role	Tower Climber, ruin explorer, and protector of escaped experimental subjects 200
Talent	Taisui; previously conceals or describes his abilities as Accelerated Learning and dimensional replication 31 201 464
Status	Alive; pursued by Spirit Mountain Technology and other corporate forces 200 214 687
First Appearance	Chapter 2 2

Power Progression

Bai Xiaotian’s development is documented through technique proficiency, talent empowerment, and bodily evolution rather than named cultivation-realm breakthroughs.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Tower talent acquired	2 200	Obtains a talent during the Newcomer Secret Realm. Its power subsequently enables his escape from the Welfare Institute.
Tiger Roar Eight-Slash Saber — proficient	118	Trains on the Martial Training Platform, but childhood modifications and a genetic virus prevent him from reaching minor mastery. Spending more Source Points cannot overcome the defect.
Talent empowerment — tier unspecified	120	Experiments with his strengthened talent after the group explores the Tower’s upgrade systems; no exact upgrade tier is given.
Crimson flesh mini-giant transformation	232	Changes from a child into a giant, breaks through opposition to clear a path, and then hides himself.
Further flesh fusion and genetic evolution	464	His combat strength has increased across successive expeditions. He identifies fusion with powerful creatures’ genes, organs, and monster powers as his chosen route to transcendence.

Background / History

Welfare Institute and Escape

Bai Xiaotian was born in a Welfare Institute and spent his childhood as an experimental subject alongside Bai Xiaoya and other children. Their treatments included Biological Chips, genetic viruses, memory alterations, and flesh transplants. He attributes the production of supposedly flawless commercial injections to the suffering of children in such institutions 68 200.

After gaining power through the Tower, he escaped with his sister. Discovering that their pursuers were tracking something inside his body, he obtained a secondhand Soul Chip, dismantled his own flesh and bones, and separated his soul from his body. Bai Xiaoya disposed of his remains in the Spirit Realm, while talent-created fakes convinced Spirit Mountain Technology that it had killed him 200.

Newcomer Secret Realm

In Redfang Village, Bai Xiaotian and the blue-haired young man were caught attempting to steal silver. Bai blamed the other youth for prompting him. With no money for lodging, their group relied on Yu Tiezhu’s arrangement to haul goods for the innkeeper in exchange for food and shelter 10.

His confrontation with Liu Zheng exposed how misleading his harmless appearance was. Bai concealed his real capabilities behind an alleged Accelerated Learning talent, exhausted Liu’s ammunition and psionic energy, and killed him using simulated defenses and hand-chop attacks. While Bai attempted to open the Silver Chest, Wu Yu ambushed him with explosive Bi Fang Sigil stones and drove him into the darkness 31.

Reconstruction and Rescue of the Children

During a later Tower gathering, Bai’s body was reconstructed on a stone chair. He inserted cybernetic components and restored his condition with a crystal. When Liu Zheng offered official assistance, Bai accused the Inspection Bureau of failing to stop—or being complicit in—the exploitation of orphanage children 68.

After regaining his body and becoming stronger, Bai fought his way back into the Welfare Institute and rescued the children he regarded as his brothers and sisters. He hid them around the city, discovering that multiple companies, not just Spirit Mountain Technology, were involved in their persecution 200.

Three Pure Ones Ruins and Corporate Pursuit

An item purchased from a Hidden Shop helped Bai locate a real-world Three Pure Ones Group site. He and his companions spent two months exploring it at considerable cost. Among their discoveries was the Mystic Capital Spirit Aperture, which he eventually traded to Wu Yu for the Crimson Ritual Technique Card 200 201.

The group survived through repeated relocations and connections built using replicated goods. Their bodies and souls had become so precariously mutated that ordinary medical repairs could be fatal. Bai nevertheless remained determined to destroy Spirit Mountain Technology 201 214.

When Alan was killed and evidence suggested that his soul had been extracted, Bai revealed that he had already scrambled his companions’ memories and perceptions with a Card. He prepared retaliation using traps at their former location. Later, heavy casualties left him blaming himself for trusting the Black Market’s secrecy and underestimating its willingness to sell people out 265 268 277.

Resistance Army and Change of Priorities

Bai joined the Resistance Army hoping to benefit from the conflict with the corporations. After the army killed a Spirit Mountain Foundation Establishment Adept, corporate retaliation and an Inspection Bureau counterattack destroyed bases, killed many members, and forced survivors underground 564 575.

While exploring underground sites with Bai Xiaoya and their companions, he discovered Three Pure Ones relics, a map pointing toward a Daoist temple, and damaged scriptures. These finds helped Wu Yu connect the temple mystery to North Hill Residential Complex and Mingyun True Person’s missing remains 565 573 575.

The losses changed Bai’s priorities. Admitting that he had underestimated the gulf between ordinary people and major corporations, he accepted Wu Yu’s warning against investigating the suspicious temple personally. He decided to leave the Resistance Army and concentrate on strengthening himself 575 576.

Appearance

Bai Xiaotian normally appears as a small, short-haired boy, but cybernetic implants and flesh transformations make his appearance changeable 70 464.

• Brain-Computer Interface: Visible in his head before he conceals it for travel in True Martial City 68 70.
• Period disguise: Uses period clothing and a hazy visual effect that replaces his short hair and interface with an ancient child’s hairstyle 70.
• Giant forms: Can become a crimson flesh mini-giant or a larger Flesh Giant 232 565.
• Damaged eye: Appears with a smashed eye during one Tower meeting, dismissing the injury as the result of “a little friction” 148.

Personality

Bai Xiaotian combines irreverent humor with intense hostility toward corporations and the Inspection Bureau. He repeatedly mocks Liu Zheng’s privileged background and rejects official promises of help. His distrust is rooted in childhood experimentation and the authorities’ failure to protect the children 68 88 149 214.

He is calculating and willing to endure extreme harm to survive. His self-dismantling escape, false talent claims, replicated decoys, cognitive safeguards, and retaliatory traps show a willingness to use deception rather than rely on straightforward combat 31 200 265.

His ruthlessness coexists with strong loyalty to his fellow experimental subjects. He rescues them, hides them, and takes responsibility when their refuge fails. After the Resistance Army’s losses, his earlier confidence gives way to a more sober belief that personal strength is necessary before he can choose when to fight 200 277 575.

Despite his distrust, Bai revises his judgment of Wu Yu. He initially considers him a sheltered bookworm or another corporate exploiter, but later admires his ability and refusal to abuse his position. His humor remains intact: he complains about being the poorest member of a team filled with wealthy or well-connected people 183 575 687.

Abilities & Skills

Taisui

Bai eventually identifies Taisui as his actual talent after previously presenting his powers as dimensional replication. His development centers on mutation, fusion, and the integration of powerful creatures’ traits 464.

• Incorporates genes and organs from powerful creatures into his body 464.
• Fuses powers obtained from monsters across different Great Ruins worlds 464.
• Produces flesh-giant transformations suitable for breaking through obstacles and opposition 232 565.
• Continues dangerous fusion experiments that worry Bai Xiaoya 574.
• No exact talent grade is confirmed; Liu Zheng only speculates that it may be the rumored gold talent 464.

Simulation and Replication

His earlier demonstrations include simulated weapons, defenses, light, and combat techniques. These abilities are described under several replication or simulation names before the Taisui revelation 31 201 464.

• Produces Psionic Bullets, torchlight, and a transparent shield without a Psionic Belt 31.
• Uses powerful hand-chop attacks against Liu Zheng’s saber and shield 31.
• Creates false remains and a fake head to mislead Spirit Mountain Technology 200.
• Uses replicated goods to establish useful connections in the Lower City District 201.
• Wu Yu suspects substantial expenditure and recovery requirements after observing his fight; these limits are not directly quantified 31.

Martial Training and Tactical Combat

Bai practices martial arts alongside bodily fusion, but his experimental modifications restrict conventional technique advancement 118 573.

• Reaches proficiency in the Tiger Roar Eight-Slash Saber but cannot attain minor mastery because of bodily defects 118.
• Exhausts an opponent’s ammunition and psionic reserves before finishing the fight 31.
• Prepares traps and retaliatory operations against pursuers 265 268.

Soul Preservation and Cybernetic Restoration

Bai’s survival after dismantling his body depends on technological preparation and the Tower, not a demonstrated unrestricted resurrection ability 68 200.

• Uses a secondhand Soul Chip to preserve his separated soul 200.
• Has his flesh-and-blood body reconstructed in the Tower 68.
• Installs a Brain-Computer Interface and spirit-energy blood vessels into the restored body 68.
• His accumulated bodily and soul mutations make ordinary medical intervention unsafe 201.

Cognitive Safeguards and Ruin Exploration

• Cognitive protection: Uses a Card to scramble his companions’ perceptions and memories, preventing extracted information from accurately exposing the group 265.
• Hidden Shop knowledge: Knows that Hidden Shops can sell items beyond what their surrounding world could normally produce 120.
• Relic recovery: Explores Three Pure Ones facilities and underground sites, recovering prosthetics, records, and cultivation treasures 200 565 575.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Soul Chip — Secondhand device used during his self-dismantling escape 200.
• Brain-Computer Interface and spirit-energy blood vessels — Cybernetic components installed after bodily reconstruction 68.
• Golden Sheepskin Scroll — Identifies Wu Yu as the only person his group can trust and their best chance, prompting Bai’s unusually candid approach to him 201.
• Strange God Ritual — Obtained from Wu Yu in exchange for a gold-quality Divine Origin Pill and 10,000 Great Ruins Source Points 120.
• Crimson Ritual Technique Card — Acquired from Wu Yu for the Mystic Capital Spirit Aperture, with old company documents included in the exchange 201.
• Weird Meat Card — Transcendent purple-grade reward given by Wu Yu to settle a debt; Bai regards it as a delicacy suited to his mutated body 332 333.
• Three Pure Ones stone — Recovered underground and offered to Wu Yu for information about a Daoist temple. It is later carved into the statue used during Wu Yu’s Foundation Establishment preparations 573 574 579.
• Heavenly Spirit Nine-Ring Formation Card — Given to Wu Yu as repayment; consumes Spirit Stones to greatly accelerate Qi Refining 547 556.

Relationships

• Bai Xiaoya — Younger sister and fellow Welfare Institute survivor. Helps dispose of his remains, accompanies his explorations, and asks Wu Yu to discourage his dangerous fusion experiments 200 565 574.
• Wu Yu — Tower teammate, trading partner, and increasingly trusted ally. Their relationship develops from suspicion into practical cooperation, supported by the Sheepskin Scroll’s guidance and Wu Yu’s fair treatment 183 201 575 576.
• Liu Zheng — Antagonistic teammate and representative of the Inspection Bureau. Bai kills him during their early confrontation and later repeatedly rejects his assistance and claims of institutional goodwill 31 68 183 333.
• Liu Yu — Ally against Spirit Mountain Technology. Bai agrees to cover for him while he is being hunted 214 243.
• Chen Lingling — Teammate who helps negotiate Bai’s ritual purchase from Wu Yu. He later plans to speak with her before leaving the Resistance Army 120 576.
• Yu Tiezhu — Teammate frequently criticized for trusting Liu Zheng and the Inspection Bureau 68 148.
• Escaped Welfare Institute children — Found family whom he rescues, shelters, and protects from corporate pursuit 200 201.
• Alan — Companion whose death and apparent soul extraction provoke Bai’s plans for revenge 265.
• Spirit Mountain Technology — Principal enemy; deceived by his faked death and targeted by his declared vow of destruction 200 201.

Notable Quotes

“I'll destroy [Spirit Mountain Technology]!” 201

“But this thing told me that he's the only person we can trust! He's also our best chance.” 201

“Only when you're strong yourself can you take the initiative and choose whether to protect yourself or go on the offensive. The weak can only go with the flow!” 575