Xiang Yi

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Xiang Yi (项翼)
Alias(es)	Xiao Yi
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Age	10 at the time of his fall; identified as 12 in later events 1 10
Affiliation	Xiang family; founder and leader of the Hidden Star Court 50
Occupation/Role	Middle-school student; host of the Honor of Kings Summoning System; strategist and summoner 11 31
Status	Alive; repeatedly afflicted by severe mental, spiritual, and physical backlash from system use 30 45 48
First Appearance	1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Mental Power Lv.0 — 13.5/100	3	Initial documented state after the system binds to him; he is recovering from severe injuries and concussion.
Mental Power Lv.0 — 15/100	4	Reaches 15 through his first successful meditation attempt.
Mental Power — 21	5	Raises his power through overnight cultivation, unlocking access to Hero Summoning requirements.
Mental Power — 110/110	6	A mission reward restores and expands his limit to 110 while granting 100 Energy Points.
Mental Power limit — 120	9	Absorbs a Basic Energy Crystal despite intense pain, filling his power to 120.
Spiritual Power limit — 130	15	His expanded perception is demonstrated while he purifies Lanling King's contamination.
Mental Power limit — 150	20	Documented during the freighter operation; maintaining links with multiple heroes drives him into a critical state.
Mental Strength limit — 170	23	Recorded while he recovers using a Pure Energy Crystal amid S.H.I.E.L.D. surveillance.
Soul Core breakthrough	30	His soul core survives near-destruction and stabilizes after he guides Vibranium energy to save Lanling King.
Mental Power limit — 300	31	Reaches 270/300 while operating from the Kunlun base.
Spiritual Power limit — 310	32	Uses 287/310 to operate the Xuan Weizi Core against a U.S. satellite.
Mental Power limit — 360	33	Recorded after the Afghanistan operation; summoning Ming Shiyin reduces his current reserves to 150/360.

Background

Xiang Yi was a timid child until a lightning storm on his tenth birthday knocked him from a boardwalk and left him near death. While unconscious, he was flooded with memories of another life as an office worker who loved Marvel games; the collision of identities nearly destroyed his mind, but also gave him knowledge of the dangerous world around him 1 3.

A mysterious Honor of Kings Summoning System bound to him while he was dying, preserving his life at the cost of forcing its rules and functions directly into his consciousness 2. After awakening in hospital, he concealed both his recovered memories and his system from his parents, presenting himself as an injured, confused child while quietly preparing for the threats he knew were coming 3 4.

Appearance

Xiang Yi is a thin, pale boy whose frail appearance is often convincing enough to conceal the strain of his abilities. He frequently looks bloodless or exhausted after using mental power, and his injuries can leave him trembling, nosebleeding, or barely able to stand 3 26 42.

• Dark eyes that become notably cold and focused when planning or issuing commands.
• Thick lashes and pale cheeks, reinforcing his harmless student persona.
• Usually wears a school uniform or ordinary child’s clothing in public.
• Uses oversized, dirty clothing, blood, dust, and a battered cap when disguising himself as a street urchin 24 25.
• Develops dark-blue patterns and veins after severe backlash from the Ancient One’s shackles and related rule disturbances 45 48.

Personality

Xiang Yi is defined by an intense will to survive. His fear of death does not make him passive; when cornered, he becomes calculating, ruthless, and willing to endure extreme pain for power, information, or the safety of people under his protection 1 6 30.

Despite his age, he thinks like a strategist. He studies markets, criminal logistics, power structures, and possible future threats, then assigns his summoned heroes specialized tasks rather than relying on brute force 11 31 35. He is also highly conscious of appearances, maintaining the role of a frail but gifted student to mislead both his family and S.H.I.E.L.D. 42 43.

His ruthlessness has limits. He exploits criminals, steals from hostile factions, and makes lethal decisions in combat, but he refuses to treat loyal subordinates as disposable tools. His willingness to risk his own life for Lanling King, Guiguzi, and Ming Shiyin marks the shift from a summoner commanding assets to a leader accepting responsibility for them 15 30 33. He is similarly alarmed by any plan that could consume Xiao Yu’s life force for his benefit 43.

Abilities & Skills

Honor of Kings Summoning System

Xiang Yi’s system grants access to heroes, skills, Energy Points, cultivation methods, and missions. Summoning and maintaining heroes consumes mental power, and excessive use can cause collapse, lasting damage, or forced unconsciousness 2 6 28.

• Summons heroes through the Hero Pool using Energy Points and mental power.
• Receives missions that can grant Energy Points, higher mental-power limits, techniques, and other resources.
• Can take emergency Energy Point loans, but these carry severe penalties, including possible loss of power capacity or hero skills 28.
• System rewards include an Offshore Company Template and a Zhao Yun Hero Fragment; the latter cannot safely be awakened without Uru Metal or high-purity Vibranium 35 50.

Mental and Spiritual Cultivation

Xiang Yi cultivates mental power through the Returning to the Hidden Formula and develops bodily control through the Basic Body-Tempering Art: Star Scar 4 11.

• Basic Meditation — increases his mental-power limit and recovery rate.
• Returning to the Hidden Formula · Beginner — grants meditation recovery of +1.5 mental power per minute 11.
• Star Scar — improves physical control, neural reflexes, balance, and evasive movement despite his physically immature body 11.
• His enhanced perception lets him notice subtle sounds, movement, light refraction, and minute changes in his surroundings 11.
• Overdrawing power can cause bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth; unconsciousness; soul-core damage; and mental fractures 20 30 47.

Mental Link and Remote Command

Xiang Yi maintains direct consciousness links with his summoned heroes, allowing him to issue commands, share information, observe through their senses, and coordinate operations at a distance 7 20 26.

• Uses shared perception to direct Lanling King through guarded facilities and camera blind spots.
• Coordinates multi-hero infiltration plans in real time.
• Feels backlash from a linked hero’s injuries, poison, or combat stress.
• Can remotely support allies with psychic force, including creating a shield against poisoned darts and killing a ninja during the shipyard escape 26.
• Sustained links can rapidly drain his reserves; Lanling King alone initially consumes one mental-power point per minute while summoned 6 7.

Psychic Techniques

Xiang Yi can directly channel mental or spiritual power for offense, defense, suppression, and energy manipulation.

• Ghost Ward — releases an electromagnetic pulse capable of disabling electronics and disrupting psychic attacks 14.
• Can suppress Ten Rings contamination temporarily, though doing so nearly kills him 22.
• Guided Vibranium energy through Lanling King’s heart meridians to counter lethal poison, triggering his soul-core breakthrough 30.
• Uses mental power to sustain barriers and interfere with surveillance alongside Guiguzi 16 23.
• His power is constrained by the Ancient One’s Dimensional Shackles, which can inflict backlash when he exerts himself or attempts to breach dimensional restrictions 42 48.

Strategy, Analysis, and Deception

Xiang Yi combines adult memories, heightened cognition, and careful social performance to operate from the shadows.

• Builds market and logistics models from public information to locate black-market artifacts and system resources 11.
• Plans infiltration routes around guard patrols, sensor grids, ventilation systems, and escape paths 20 28.
• Uses deliberately imperfect academic performances and visible illness to appear “smart but harmless” under S.H.I.E.L.D. observation 42 43.
• Adopts disguises and stages evidence to evade identification during covert operations 25.
• Exploits fear, resentment, and financial collapse as strategic tools, including the creation of Cygnus Holdings 35 47.

Summoned Heroes

Hero	Role	Key Contributions
Lanling King	Shadow assassin and bodyguard	Stealth, infiltration, shadow travel, reconnaissance, and lethal close combat. His Shadow Dagger can pierce defenses and release space-cutting Shadow Erosion 6.
Guiguzi	Sage, strategist, and support specialist	Deploys Xuan Weizi for reconnaissance, data interference, barriers, illusions, and cognitive disruption fields 16 23.
A Ke	Assassin	Executes covert eliminations and high-risk infiltration missions with blood-red twin daggers and Phantom Dance 28.
Ming Shiyin	Diviner	Uses hexagrams and his divination disk to identify future threats, including the predicted factory calamity and Xiao Yu’s significance 33 43.

Equipment & Resources

• Ten-Ring Pattern Jade Pendant / Kunlun Ancient Jade — acquired from Ghost Ward; awakens violently when exposed to Xiang Yi’s psychic power and serves as an Energy Crystal carrier 13 14.
• Dagger with a diamond mark — provides passive mental-power replenishment and helps stabilize Xiang Yi’s fractured consciousness, though Ming Shiyin warns that its power is dangerous 46.
• Vibranium fragment — used to neutralize Ten Rings poison within Lanling King’s body 30.
• Energy Crystals and Pure Energy Crystals — consumed or exchanged for power recovery, limit increases, and system resources 9 20.
• Cygnus Holdings — Xiang Yi’s first financial weapon, developed using stolen criminal funds, clean offshore identities, and Stark Industries market turmoil 35.
• Hidden Star Court — Xiang Yi’s organization and headquarters. Its original Kunlun outpost is abandoned after the Ancient One’s scan, while a renovated warehouse becomes its new root and banner 45 47 50.

Relationships

• Lin Wanqing — Xiang Yi’s mother. Her fear and love repeatedly motivate him to survive and hide the system’s existence from her 2 11.
• Xiang Haishan — Xiang Yi’s father. The family company crisis pushes Xiang Yi to deploy Lanling King and confront the forces behind the frame-up 7 8.
• Lanling King — First summoned hero, shadow guard, and Xiang Yi’s closest protector. Their contractual bond becomes mutual responsibility after Xiang Yi nearly dies purifying his contamination; Lanling King swears his life as Xiang Yi’s shield 15 30.
• Guiguzi — Summoned sage and mentor-like strategist. He teaches Xiang Yi about barriers, supports his intelligence operations, and repeatedly sacrifices his essence to hide the group 16 32 46.
• A Ke — Assassin summoned to save Lanling King. Their relationship begins as commander and operative, but she becomes a trusted defender of the Hidden Star Court 28 45.
• Ming Shiyin — Diviner whose warnings shape Xiang Yi’s strategy. Xiang Yi treats his injuries and counsel with genuine concern rather than as the cost of a summoned tool 33 35.
• Su Rui — A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent placed in Xiang Yi’s class as an undercover student. Xiang Yi recognizes her investigation and deliberately plays into her low-threat assessment 42 43.
• Xiao Yu — A girl identified by Ming Shiyin’s divination as a crucial “Tender Bud” variable. Xiang Yi rejects the prospect of borrowing her life force without regard for the cost 43.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Family Crisis and First Shadow

After learning that Xiang Group has been framed, Xiang Yi summons Lanling King as his first hero and sends him to retrieve evidence against Liu Jinbiao. The operation exposes the Ten Rings Syndicate’s involvement, escalating a corporate crisis into a conflict with major hidden factions 6 7.

Lanling King’s evidence helps resolve the immediate danger to Xiang Yi’s family, earning Xiang Yi Energy Points and a basic body technique. The victory also confirms that survival requires more than simply protecting his home; he must gather power before the larger world closes in 8.

Ghost Ward and the Hand

While attending school and maintaining the appearance of a recovering child, Xiang Yi investigates Ghost Ward, Zhang Tianlin’s smuggling network, and The Hand’s connection to Zhang Hao 10 11. He infiltrates Ghost Ward, steals the Ten-Ring Pattern Jade Pendant, and survives an attack by the Black Serpent Gang and a psychic tracker 13 14.

The pendant’s contamination nearly destroys Lanling King. Xiang Yi saves him by sacrificing his own spiritual power, leading to Lanling King’s oath of unwavering devotion 15.

Building a Hero Network

Xiang Yi summons Guiguzi to conceal the Xiang family villa with cognitive interference and to provide reconnaissance through Xuan Weizi 16. As pressure from The Hand, the Ten Rings, and S.H.I.E.L.D. increases, he adds A Ke to the team to retrieve an antidote from the Sea Serpent freighter 28.

When Lanling King is poisoned again, Xiang Yi uses a Vibranium fragment and risks permanent soul-core damage to guide the treatment himself. The act saves Lanling King but leaves Xiang Yi in a deep coma 30.

Interfering with the Main Storyline

After Tony Stark is abducted, Xiang Yi accepts a mission to observe the Ten Rings Syndicate and begins extending his intelligence network toward Afghanistan 31. He and Guiguzi hack into satellite systems using the Xuan Weizi Core, uncovering connections involving the Ten Rings and Andrei Vanko before escaping S.H.I.E.L.D.’s counterattack 32.

He later summons Ming Shiyin, whose divination warns of a coming factory disaster, advises restraint, and identifies larger forces moving behind the visible conflict 33.

Hidden Star Court and the Ancient One

Xiang Yi turns capital into a weapon by establishing clean offshore identities, taking criminal funds, and creating Cygnus Holdings during Stark Industries’ market collapse 35. He then begins building the Hidden Star Court in the Kunlun Mountains, but the outpost attracts the Ancient One’s attention 37 45.

The Ancient One’s Eye of Rules forces Xiang Yi’s group to abandon the Kunlun base. Guiguzi expends his remaining essence to erase their traces, while Lanling King carries Xiang Yi through the mountains despite severe injuries 45 46.

Relocating to Warehouse Seven, Xiang Yi manipulates local resentment, establishes a new operational base, and attempts to break the Dimensional Shackles. The attempt creates a dangerous spatial rift and nearly kills him 47 48. Once the renovated warehouse is secured, he formally declares it the Hidden Star Court and receives the system’s SS-rated main-quest reward 50.

Notable Quotes

“Your rebirth has begun, Tony. And the curtain on my stage has only just risen.” 31

“From today onward, this is our root, and this name is our banner. We are the chess players hidden beneath the stars.” 50