Feng Xu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Li Yuanchu awoke alone in the Great Wilderness after a disorienting encounter in an unknown hall, finding himself dressed only in a grass skirt amid primordial forests. He discovered that the Merit Mall was formed from a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation combined with Human Dao Destiny, and that becoming the Human Ancestor could earn him an ownerless Primordial Treasure. 1 2

After joining the Wind-Fire Tribe, he taught pottery-making, writing, and organized labor. He created a script resembling Oracle Bone Script, assigned personal names to the tribe, abandoned the name Li Yuanchu, and became Feng Xu. Feng Sui subsequently named him the tribe’s wise man and placed its work under his direction. 3

His former-life knowledge includes university Taiji training, farming experience from childhood, and information recalled from online videos. Cultivating Spirit Sense sharpened his memory, allowing him to recover previously forgotten practical knowledge. 4 17 33

During his uncertain Purple Cloud Palace experience, Hongjun told him that the Great Dao had selected him to enter this world. Although the vision’s cultivation vanished, its knowledge and experience remained important to his later cultivation and innovations. 30 33

Feng Xu eventually left the Eastern Wilderness at Qu Shan’s invitation to contribute to the Central Wilderness Tribe. His work there expanded from Blood Pool construction into education, welfare, industry, military organization, and governance. After the southern calamity, Yunfeng proposed him as Human Ancestor, and the assembly proclaimed him to that role. 46 48 50 53 54 87 88

Appearance

Feng Xu is depicted as a youth, reaching sixteen years old by the time of the insect-swarm crisis. He initially wore only a grass skirt, while later clothing had to be designed to survive his Bloodline Power transformations. 1 21 36

• His Bloodline Power can enlarge him to roughly eight zhang tall. 21
• During the battle against the Pig Demon, he enlarged himself to nearly the demon’s height. 29
• His transformed body can destroy ordinary clothing, prompting him to develop size-changing artifact clothing. 21 24
• By his visit to Commander Mang’s territory, he was about seven chi, or over two meters, tall, with a well-proportioned build. This height was considered ordinary in the Great Wilderness. 57
• Heaven and Earth Manifestation produces a giant form ten thousand zhang tall. 86
• After the southern campaign, he returned with loose, disheveled hair and an overpowering stench of blood, though his eyes had regained their calm. 86
• At his proclamation as Human Ancestor, he wore long robes and displayed a sharp, intimidating gaze. 88

Personality

Feng Xu is intensely pragmatic. He uses trade, quotas, military discipline, technological advantages, and carefully structured incentives to turn scattered survivors into organized communities. He is willing to manipulate rivals and allies alike when he believes it protects the Human Race. 12 17 35

Despite this utilitarian streak, he repeatedly questions his own conduct. While considering children as potential laborers, he recognizes the danger of treating people as resources and asks Feng Xi to correct him if he becomes morally detached. 14

He is also impatient and risk-prone in cultivation, repeatedly opening later cycles before stabilizing earlier ones. His willingness to absorb baleful energy to save others demonstrates both his sense of responsibility and his readiness to endanger himself. 21 25 38

Feng Xu retains a mischievous, irreverent side: he staged Lin Feng’s hunting “victory” to preserve the youth’s pride, and defeated a giant ape with an underhanded strike rather than accepting its preferred fair duel. 36 41

His loyalty to the Wind-Fire Tribe initially makes him reluctant to accept Qu Shan’s invitation. He considers gratitude and complete mutual trust essential to effective leadership, and doubts that an unfamiliar, factionalized tribe will support him as Feng Sui does. 46

In the Central Wilderness, his political methods become more sophisticated. He redirects hostile rumors toward suspect commanders, uses childcare arrangements to divide potential opposition, and turns food, employment, and production into instruments of cooperation and central authority. At the same time, his lectures encourage independent reasoning rather than mere obedience to his answers. 58 63

Feng Xu’s strategic caution can conflict with others’ moral urgency. He initially opposes the southern rescue because he believes it will sacrifice the rescuers without overcoming the demons’ superiority, but still pleads with the Mountain God for weapons to help them. Iron Pillar’s death brings grief, guilt, and renewed doubts about his responsibilities; he ultimately travels south himself. 79 82

The southern victory leaves him psychologically changed. He admits that he did things he hated and became someone he disliked, and turns away from the Immortal Dao to seek another path. Later, Yunfeng’s death and the burdens of governing lead him to seek solitude, though he continues teaching and accepts new disciples. 86 88

Abilities & Skills

Eight-Nine Mystical Art

A body-and-spirit cultivation art created by Yuanshi Tianzun, purchased through the Merit Mall.

• Allows simultaneous cultivation of multiple physical and spiritual cycles after they are opened. 21
• Develops physical endurance, meridians, internal organs, blood, Spirit Sense, and Primordial Spirit. 4 21 25
• Its early stages cannot be freely passed to the tribe because of the method’s severe karmic consequences and their limited literacy. 25
• Feng Xu’s repeated early breakthroughs left his foundation unstable and nearly caused cultivation deviation. 21 25
• Later adapts the portion before True Immortal into foundational Battle Marks intended for children from age five, initially keeping the system within his own tribes. 32
• His own True Immortal-level Battle Mark allows constant cultivation and opens later Grotto-Heavens ahead of his actual realm. His retained vision experience reduces the danger, but the process still causes pain while his body recovers. 33
• By the rematch with the White Ape, improved familiarity gives his giant-form fighting much greater speed and control. 59
• At Mysterious Immortal, its Dharma Aspect and Divine Aspect cycles imitate the Great Dao through the body and Primordial Spirit, resonate with one another, and begin formal law cultivation. 86

Spirit Sense and Primordial Spirit

Feng Xu cultivates his spirit alongside his body.

• Uses Spirit Sense meditation in place of sleep, leaving him energized rather than fatigued. 4
• Formed a Primordial Spirit with the aid of the Heaven-Hanging Ruler. 25
• Retained cultivation experience from his Purple Cloud Palace vision despite losing its realm advancements. 30 33
• Can inspect others with his Primordial Spirit and sense hidden changes in his own body. 31 42
• His strengthened memory recovers practical details from his former life, including the construction of siege equipment. 17

Bloodline Power

Feng Xu awakened a human bloodline transformation through Blood Refinement.

• Enlarges his body into a giant form and sharply increases his combat strength. 21
• Can physically engage opponents far stronger than his apparent cultivation would suggest. 29
• His transformation initially destroyed his clothing, motivating the creation of size-changing garments. 21 24
• Combined cultivation of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art and Nine-Turn Origin Art gives him physical strength approaching that of a Heavenly Immortal while his actual realm remains Late Earth Immortal. 48

Taiji Fist and Martial Arts

Feng Xu practices Taiji Fist, combining physical technique with qi and blood circulation.

• Redirects force instead of opposing it directly. 4 29
• Exploited the Pig Demon’s unstable center of gravity to repeatedly throw it and interrupt its Devouring ability. 29
• Uses Taiji principles to reconcile conflicting mana and baleful energy within his body. 38
• Developed the Martial Dao during his Purple Cloud Palace vision, though the vision’s cultivation was not retained. 30
• Eventually uses Taiji to harmonize simultaneous cultivation of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art and Nine-Turn Origin Art. 76
• His Taiji reaches perfection, allowing him to control a War Shaman’s attacks through borrowed force despite his Early Mysterious Immortal realm. He judges that, in fist technique alone, he need fear no one except Laojun personally. 93
• Passes Taiji Fist to Yun Tian and Baji Fist to Sifu. 93

Blood Pool and Battle Marks

Feng Xu adapted the Witchblood Secret Art into systems suitable for the Human Race.

• Created Blood Pools using beast blood, refined essence blood, and medicinal herbs to help cultivators break through bloodline bottlenecks. 23 24
• Personally tested the Blood Pool before allowing others to use it. 23
• Improved the Witch Battle Mark system into the Bloodline Secret Art, allowing even illiterate humans to cultivate through inscriptions. 32
• Developed three Battle Mark categories: cultivation-method marks, divine-ability marks, and transformation marks. 32
• Plans to give children foundational cultivation marks based on the early Eight-Nine Mystical Art. 32
• Cultivation-method marks replace ordinary daily practice, not personal comprehension of breakthrough timing. A person can use only one of the three Battle Mark categories at a time; the inscriptions fade, but their effects on mana circulation remain. 32
• Compiles the art into a booklet and trains Blood Pool managers, using the Five Qi Transformation Art and Soul-Nurturing Formula as broadly applicable foundational methods. 47
• Upgrades the Eastern Wilderness Blood Pool and supervises its managers in maintenance; the three visiting Central Wilderness envoys all advance to Mid Heavenly Immortal after using it. 47
• Builds a Central Wilderness Blood Pool with powerful beast blood and abundant medicinal herbs, then inscribes the Five Qi Transformation Art and Soul-Nurturing Formula on Qu Shan. Qu Shan’s subsequent True Immortal breakthrough makes the pool a strategic resource sought by commanders. 51 53
• Blood Pool access does not guarantee advancement, especially for cultivators who lack the accompanying Battle Marks. 53
• Constructs another Blood Pool on Lakeheart Island using the island’s blood energy, protective formation, Demon King blood essence, and contributions from other demons. 69

Nine-Turn Origin Art and Baleful Qi

Feng Xu reverse-engineered the Nine-Turn Origin Art from the Eight-Nine Mystical Art and uses it to confront baleful corruption.

• Merges part of his Primordial Spirit into his body to cultivate the body-and-soul method. 38
• Extracted baleful energy from Kunmu and other injured tribespeople, then inscribed a Battle Mark on Kunmu to manage remaining corruption. 38
• Uses Devouring to draw Baleful Qi from corrupted beasts. 41
• Condensed the absorbed energy into a Baleful Core; this grants power but may become uncontrollable if it grows too strong. 38 40
• Uses the Mind-Cleansing Spirit Incantation to suppress mental instability during an early Baleful Qi crisis. 38
• Distinguishes sealing and controlling Baleful Qi from purifying it. He initially refuses broad dissemination of his method because uncontrolled use could corrupt people, create puppets, and potentially contribute to an Infinite Tribulation Cycle. 56
• His seven-turn refined Qi can suppress ordinary Baleful Qi. He uses this property while teaching Yunfeng the Nine-Turn Origin Art. 62
• Can sense and mark concealed Baleful Qi hideouts, organize their locations into maps, and support coordinated extermination campaigns. 57 59 60
• The Nine-Turn Baleful Core incorporates Destruction Law refinement, but he initially cannot wield its destructive power without further advancement and Destruction Dao comprehension. Completing it also leaves his Merit Points at zero. 73
• Can use his core to agitate Baleful Qi inside an enemy, as demonstrated against Sun-Swallowing. 86

Artifact Refinement and Practical Innovation

Feng Xu combines artifact refinement with practical knowledge from his former life.

• Refined pottery tools, weaponry, clothing, rulers, bows, carts, threshing machines, and defensive equipment. 12 15 24 34
• Designed systems for iron smelting, brickmaking, farming, sanitation, transport, fortifications, literacy, and livestock management. 12 14 32 34
• Deliberately keeps some inventions simple enough for ordinary humans to reproduce and improve independently. 34
• Establishes a Dharma Artifact factory using blacksmiths and tailors with dharma power. Its divided production process allows complete artifact sets to be manufactured without requiring every worker to be a traditional artifact refiner. 47 51
• Teaches Iron Pillar basic mana refinement, including sensing a material’s structure and shaping wood through spiritual power. 50
• Refines True Immortal beast essence blood into medicinal tonics and uses such medicines both as compensation and to strengthen relationships. 56 57
• Upgrades the White Bone Whip to absorb and store Baleful Qi, increasing its strength while imposing a backlash risk if overloaded. 62
• Forges the Seventy-Two Blood Sabers as a separable and combinable formation set, secretly incorporating resentment and Baleful Qi to endanger an insufficiently powerful wielder. 69
• Plans a large ship with Dharma Artifact propulsion resembling a steam engine, defensive arrays, weapons, and expanded storage; also considers future flying transport. 76
• Advocates agricultural Dharma Artifacts that would let people without cultivation clear land on a large scale. 78
• Demonstrates advanced transformation and control of refined objects by changing a wooden pointer into an azure dragon and then a silver ring during a lesson. 90

Human Dao System and Fortune

After Iron Pillar’s death, Feng Xu receives the Human Dao System, which merges with his Merit Mall. Its connection to Human Dao Destiny gives him both personal power and tools for influencing the race’s development. 80 82

• Can temporarily raise his cultivation to the highest realm attained among humans. A use described during the southern journey costs one million fortune points. 82
• Fortune and Merit convert at a one-to-one ratio. Although he can allocate other humans’ fortune, he refuses to appropriate it for his personal expenses. 82
• Distributes fortune and Merit to support disciples’ growth; Yun Tian receives substantial assistance, though Feng Xu later acknowledges that accelerated cultivation has affected his foundation. 89 97
• By the later development period, the Human Race’s cultivation speed has increased by one hundred percent, while Feng Xu’s has increased by two hundred percent. 89
• A breakthrough beyond the Human Race’s previous cultivation ceiling substantially raises its collective fortune, as he verifies after Qing Xuan reaches Golden Immortal. 98

Heaven and Earth Manifestation

Heaven and Earth Manifestation is a great divine ability awakened by combining the Eight-Nine Mystical Art’s bodily Dharma Aspect and spiritual Divine Aspect. 86

• Draws upon the power of the Great Dao through mutually resonant bodily and spiritual aspects. 86
• Produces a giant ten thousand zhang tall, with an emergence powerful enough to throw Sun-Swallowing away. 86
• Combined with the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler, allows Feng Xu to kill the Golden Immortal Sun-Swallowing Demon King. 86

Sword Control and Formations

Feng Xu possesses refined sword-control skills based on understanding and resonating with the weapon rather than relying only on mana quantity. 97

• Controls seventy-two enormous swords simultaneously without first refining them, scattering and combining them through ordered, changing formations. 97
• Uses Sword Qi and a state beyond simple unity of man and sword to reduce mana expenditure and handle the weapons naturally. 97
• Sets the same exercise for Yun Tian to temper his foundation, emphasizing mana and Primordial Spirit control rather than physical strength or ownership refinement. 97

Education, Philosophy, and Governance

Feng Xu treats knowledge preservation and institutional development as essential complements to individual cultivation. 50 57 62

• Explains writing as a means of preserving experience and cultivation inheritances, transmitting intelligence, documenting regional conditions, and maintaining social order. 50
• Compiles practical medicine, artifact-refining instruction, and a simplified code of conduct inspired by the Book of Rites; plans to establish rites before formal law. 46
• Teaches Yunfeng principles from the Dao De Jing and outlines a progression through Dao, virtue, rites, and laws. 57
• Conducts public Dao lectures that teach cultivation principles, natural knowledge, and independent reasoning. His later winter lectures become an annual event. 58 98
• Reforms education through revised curricula, stricter examinations, new subjects, a research group, and illustrated books based on his travels. 87
• As Human Ancestor, organizes fifteen districts and establishes the Ritual Bureau and Security Bureau to promote social order, distribute resources, maintain safety, and defend the people. 88
• Teaches all sixty-four Book of Changes hexagrams through accessible explanations, distinguishing Fuxi’s Primordial Bagua, which concerns underlying nature, from the Human Race’s more practically applicable Postnatal Bagua. 98

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Merit Mall — A system formed from a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation and Human Dao Destiny. It grants access to techniques, knowledge, and treasures through Merit Points; much of its exchange access changed after Feng Xu’s Purple Cloud Palace vision. It later merges with the Human Dao System inherited after Iron Pillar’s death. 2 31 80 82
• Heavenly Net and Earthly Web — Low-grade Houtian Merit Spirit Treasure refined from bark and rope. It can trap enormous creatures, reverse a river’s flow, and collect resources across a wide area. Feng Xu lends it to Commander Zeng to restrain a mutated Black Tiger and later to Chen for the Baleful Qi campaign; by then, he has refined all its restrictions and does not fear it being taken. 9 11 56 62
• Heaven-Hanging Ruler / Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler — Originally a mid-grade Houtian Merit Spirit Treasure refined from Feng Xu’s wooden ruler. It can change size and weight, become flexible, fly, support attacks, and nourish the soul. By the Nine-Turn Baleful Core ordeal, an observer identifies it as a Merit Supreme Treasure; its restorative power saves Feng Xu and Iron Pillar. It later transforms into the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler and is used to kill Sun-Swallowing. 24 25 32 73 86
• Dragon-Snake Bow — Originally a top-grade Houtian Dharma Artifact made from materials taken from the Golden Carp, boar demon, snake demon, and Eagle King. Feng Xu later upgrades it to a lower-grade Dharma Treasure using the two-headed crocodile’s remaining materials. 15 54
• Mysterious Feather Arrows — Twenty reusable arrows combining the Golden Carp’s water spiritual power with eagle feathers’ wind force; they return to Feng Xu after being fired. The arrow equipment is later upgraded alongside the Dragon-Snake Bow to lower-grade Dharma Treasure status. 15 54
• Snakeskin sack — Storage container used to carry supplies, trade goods, weapons, and captured creatures. 7 34
• Black-Scaled Armor — Mid-grade Houtian Dharma Treasure refined from the two-headed crocodile’s hide, possessing exceptionally strong defense. 54
• Giant-Fang Sword — Lower-grade Houtian Dharma Treasure refined from the crocodile’s fangs; awarded to Iron Pillar for his agricultural achievements. 54
• White Bone Whip — Mid-grade Houtian Dharma Treasure refined from the crocodile’s spine. Feng Xu later upgrades Chen’s whip to absorb and store Baleful Qi, with increased power and a risk of backlash at its limit. 54 62
• Seventy-Two Blood Sabers — A formation-compatible set forged for the Sky Wolf Demon King Ling. Feng Xu secretly designs them to require superior Baleful Qi control and to turn against a wielder who cannot suppress their violent Qi and resentment. He later seeks permission to use them for the southern rescue, collects them during the southern victory, and asks the Mountain God to reseal them afterward. 69 79 86
• **Seventy-Two Profound Truth Swords (dream/vision) ** — The natal Dharma Treasure he creates from the Merit Mall’s Jade Disc of Creation fragment during the Purple Cloud Palace vision. The swords correspond to the Eight-Nine Mystical Art’s seventy-two transformations, but the completed dream treasure is not retained in that form on awakening. 30 31
• Seventy-two training swords — Enormous swords used in a later demonstration of Sword Qi and formation control; entrusted to Yun Tian for foundation-tempering exercises without prior refinement. 97
• Chaos Bead — Primordial Treasure discovered after a falling star leads Feng Xu to it on the night of his proclamation as Human Ancestor. 88
• Dao De Jing and Book of Changes — Texts he transmits and teaches as foundations for philosophical study, governance, cultivation insight, and cultural inheritance. 57 59 98

Relationships

• Feng Sui — Wind-Fire Tribe chief who recognized Feng Xu as the tribe’s wise man; later becomes one of the strongest beneficiaries of Feng Xu’s Blood Pool system. Their complete mutual trust is central to Feng Xu’s loyalty. Feng Sui encourages him to serve the wider Human Race, becomes chief of the merged East Wilderness Tribe, and promises that the Eastern Wilderness will always support his return. 3 24 46 47 48
• Feng Xi — Feng Sui’s younger brother, Feng Xu’s closest protector and frequent expedition companion. Feng Xi guards Feng Xu during seclusion, carries him home after his Primordial Spirit breakthrough, and handles major trade missions. He later trains disciplined Earth Immortal patrol warriors. 4 25 33 44
• Feng Ling — Feng Sui’s mother and a key collaborator in thread-making, clothing production, and livestock treatment. She gives Feng Xu affectionate, parental advice before his departure for the Central Wilderness. 3 23 33 48
• Feng Yuqi — Former sacrificial child rescued by Feng Xu, who gives her a name and makes her part of the Wind-Fire Tribe. She later becomes its most educated teacher besides Feng Xu. He relies on her to reproduce teaching materials, administer education, and implement major reforms. Her romantic attachment is revealed at his departure, but no mutual romantic relationship is established. After the southern calamity, he urges her to seek someone else; she refuses, explaining that she wants to understand the different world in his heart. 9 13 33 46 48 76 87
• Bai Hao / Little White — A white wolf pup Feng Xu forcibly domesticated. Bai Hao becomes his mount, tracker, and reluctant companion during the baleful-aura crisis. Bai Hao fears returning to the Heavenly Wolf Demon Race; later information suggests he is Ling’s estranged son. Ling disowns him rather than challenge Feng Xu over his life among humans. 11 16 39 46 69
• Iron Mountain — Formerly the second-in-command of a splinter group. Feng Xu grants him authority over the Red Iron Tribe while retaining Wind-Fire oversight; their relationship develops from distrust to respect. 12 24
• Eagle King — A powerful mountain ruler who fought alongside Feng Xu against the Snake Demon, helped capture the Wolf King, and rescued Feng Yuqi and Tie Song. 6 14 20
• Qu Shan — Envoy of the Great Wilderness Lord. After witnessing Feng Xu’s ability to absorb Baleful Qi and the eastern tribes’ development, Qu Shan becomes a potential ally and trade partner. He later recruits Feng Xu, advocates for him before Yunfeng, and helps arrange his work in the Central Wilderness. Feng Xu’s Blood Pool and Battle Marks enable Qu Shan’s True Immortal breakthrough. 42 43 44 46 49 50 51 53
• Iron Pillar — Northern Wilderness genius, fellow transmigrator, housemate, agricultural collaborator, and close friend. Feng Xu initially suspects his origins, then learns that Iron Pillar’s System Advisor knew about the Merit Mall recipient. He teaches Iron Pillar genuine cultivation to overcome dependence on automatically granted abilities. Their disagreement over the southern rescue does not erase their friendship; Iron Pillar entrusts Xi Feng and Sifu to him before departing. His death leaves Feng Xu deeply grieving, and his Human Dao System passes to Feng Xu. 48 49 50 60 79 80 82 87
• Yunfeng — Lord of the Central Wilderness Tribe, initially skeptical of Feng Xu’s innovations. Their relationship develops into close political cooperation and a teacher-student relationship as Yunfeng accepts Feng Xu’s explanations of writing, governance, and the Dao De Jing. Feng Xu teaches him the Nine-Turn Origin Art. Yunfeng’s sacrificial Mysterious Immortal breakthrough helps Feng Xu defeat Sun-Swallowing; afterward, he arranges Feng Xu’s proclamation as Human Ancestor. Feng Xu mourns his later death. 49 50 57 62 86 87 88
• Dashan — Central Wilderness envoy, guide, worker supervisor, and expedition companion. He helps Feng Xu gather herbs, administer construction, redirect rumors, and transport grain between regions. 47 50 51 58 60
• Commander Zeng — A commander who saves Feng Xu and receives medicinal tonic in repayment. They investigate a Baleful Qi secret realm together, with Zeng using Feng Xu’s Heavenly Net and Earthly Web while Feng Xu absorbs the surviving Black Tiger’s corruption. 56
• Deputy Commander Chen — Ally in the Central Wilderness leadership’s anti-Baleful Qi campaign. Feng Xu improves his White Bone Whip and lends him the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web. 62
• Sky Wolf Demon King Ling — A demon ruler who commissions Feng Xu’s Blood Sabers while secretly planning to kill him. Feng Xu outwardly cooperates but designs the weapons to undermine him. Ling dies after living Baleful Qi overwhelms him and he attempts to self-destruct, with Feng Xu protecting Iron Pillar from the blast. 69 73
• Mountain God — Powerful guardian associated with sealing the Seventy-Two Blood Sabers. He refuses Feng Xu’s plea to release them for the southern rescue, fearing that demons might obtain them. After Feng Xu’s return, he responds with pity and wariness and receives Feng Xu’s request to seal the sabers again. 79 86
• Sifu — Son of Iron Pillar and Xi Feng, who calls Feng Xu “Uncle.” Feng Xu later accepts him as a disciple and teaches him powerful abilities and Baji Fist. 76 79 88 93
• Yun Tian — Yunfeng’s son and Feng Xu’s disciple. He seeks the practical wisdom to improve people’s lives; Feng Xu teaches him Taiji, cultivation, and sword techniques, grants fortune and Merit to aid his progress, and later assigns foundation-tempering sword exercises. 88 89 93 97
• Fang Daoyun — Reclusive tribal chief and gifted Primordial Dao Embryo who becomes Feng Xu’s Go companion and intellectual peer. Fang’s superior Go results do not diminish their mutual respect. They later discuss the Book of Changes and Primordial Bagua, which Fang learned from Fuxi. 88 89 98
• Qing Xuan — Cultivator whose study of Feng Xu’s writings helps him reach Golden Immortal. He discusses the Dao De Jing with Feng Xu and credits the Human Ancestor’s teachings for his breakthrough. 98
• Qing Feng — Young learner brought by Qing Xuan who chooses to remain near Feng Xu. Feng Xu gives him the Book of Changes and Dao De Jing, permits him to ask questions, and assigns him to learn from Yun Fei with a view toward recording Human history. 98

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Wind-Fire Tribe’s transformation — Establishes his new identity, introduces names and writing, improves pottery, and becomes the tribe’s wise man. 3 4
• Exploration and settlement building — Travels among neighboring tribes, builds safer treehouses for the Lin Tribe, discovers iron ore, and founds the Red Iron Tribe around the mine. 5 6 11 12
• Wolf-pack campaign — Builds fortifications and weapons, forges the Dragon-Snake Bow, organizes allied tribes, captures the Wolf King, and distributes the spoils among the surviving settlements. 15 17 18 20
• Human cultivation system — Creates the Blood Pool, enables Feng Sui and Feng Xi to reach the Earth Immortal realm, and develops Battle Marks for widespread human cultivation. 23 24 25 32
• Wild Boar Ridge expansion — Survives the Pig Demon incident and Purple Cloud Palace vision, then turns Wild Boar Ridge into the basis for farming, housing, trade, and population growth. 29 31 33 35
• Baleful-aura crisis — Treats victims of the insect swarm, studies and destroys the mutated Flower Jade Bee hive, absorbs Baleful Qi, and helps coordinate a regional extermination campaign. 37 38 40 42
• Regional leader — By Qu Shan’s visit, Feng Xu’s farming, trade, writing, infrastructure, and cultivation systems have helped unite more than a hundred eastern tribes. 42 43
• Trade and Eastern Wilderness reforms — Negotiates favorable artifact-for-beast exchanges with Qu Shan while concealing sensitive production information. Before departing, supports the merger of five major tribes into the East Wilderness Tribe, upgrades Blood Pool management, expands educational materials, and establishes a Dharma Artifact factory. 44 46 47
• Arrival in the Central Wilderness — Travels with Dashan’s delegation, meets Iron Pillar, encounters factional hostility, and wins Yunfeng’s attention by explaining writing’s administrative and military value. Begins granary, Blood Pool, and farming construction with local workers. 48 49 50 51
• Central Wilderness welfare and industry — Establishes a school and nursery, gathers neglected children, develops workshops, and helps organize an army. More than twenty thousand children eventually enter the expanded nursery, later called Nurturing Mountain. 53 54 57 58
• Seven-turn refinement and internal conspiracy — Survives a deliberately tampered beast core, completes the Seven-Turn Baleful Core, investigates hidden experimentation sites, and organizes evidence implicating possible commander involvement. His maps support a coordinated purge, but he warns that the source and full network remain unresolved. 54 56 57 60 62
• Sage and political reformer — Redirects rumors against suspect commanders, delivers a three-day Dao lecture, and is appointed Sage by Yunfeng. Later helps devise communal dining halls, employment tokens, childcare arrangements, and territorial reforms that strengthen central authority. 58 63
• Lakeheart Island and the Blood Sabers — Builds a demon Blood Pool, forges seventy-two formation sabers under a pretense of cooperation with Ling, secretly warns the Human Race to prepare for battle, and survives Ling’s fatal self-destruction. Completes the Nine-Turn Baleful Core through the Jade Disc fragment’s Dao resonance. 69 73
• Century of development — Oversees expanding agriculture, education, textiles, artifact production, and shipbuilding. By Feng Yuqi’s report, the population exceeds five million and fifteen childcare centers serve roughly five hundred thousand children. Plans improved transport and agricultural artifacts to extend development beyond the Great Wilderness. 76 78
• Southern rescue crisis and Human Dao succession — Opposes a militarily desperate rescue while trying to obtain the Blood Sabers for it. After Iron Pillar’s sacrifice, inherits the Human Dao System, retrieves his body, and eventually resolves to travel south alone despite the cost of temporary realm elevation. 79 80 82
• Southern calamity and rejection of the Immortal Dao — Infiltrates the demon camp in disguise, confronts Sun-Swallowing, and gains the strength to kill him after Yunfeng’s Mysterious Immortal breakthrough. Uses Heaven and Earth Manifestation and the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler, destroys the southern demon forces, and returns three years later morally scarred by the campaign. 82 86
• Human Ancestor and ritual order — Resumes educational reform, is proposed and proclaimed Human Ancestor, organizes fifteen districts, and establishes the Ritual and Security Bureaus. Discovers the Chaos Bead on the night of his proclamation. 87 88
• Loss, disciples, and new companionship — Ten years later, withdraws after Yunfeng’s death, accepts Sifu and Yun Tian as disciples, and befriends Fang Daoyun through Go. 88
• Later diplomacy and cultural leadership — Uses perfected Taiji in a confrontation with a War Shaman, personally takes up a murder case, trains Yun Tian in advanced sword control, and spreads philosophical learning through annual lectures. His Book of Changes teaching leads to exchanges with Qing Xuan and Fang Daoyun and the acceptance of Qing Feng as a resident learner. 93 95 97 98

Notable Quotes

“Feng Xi, if you ever think I’ve done something wrong, you must remind me.” 14

“If you properly protect the humans along the river, then we Human Race will not mistreat you either.” 10

“Back then, you saved me, and I saved you. Whatever I did, you gave me your full support. But there are so many people in the Great Wilderness. They have never even met me, so how could they trust me as you do?” 46

“Writing can preserve life experience and cultivation method inheritances. It can also record the actual conditions in every region. Even without leaving his home, the Lord could know everything happening throughout the tribe.” 50

“The Human Race’s development needed both an elite path and progress for all.” 62

“All cultivators believe the Dao is far removed from us, that even Daluo Golden Immortals have only glimpsed a corner of it. But it is actually very close. Even someone with no cultivation can touch and use it.” 90

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