Zhou Yi

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Zhou Yi (周易)
Alias(es)	Daoist Chixiao; Chi Xiaozi; Guo Bei Sword Saint; Lu Sheng 15 30 66
Species/Race	Human; operates through multiple Other Selves, including a Spirit Turtle/Dragon Turtle demon form 73 145 203
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Golden Saber Sect (former); Kunlun Sect (founder and sect master); Yellow Springs Holy Cult (disciple); Great Zhou Immortal Court (emperor) 3 232 339 211
Occupation/Role	Cultivator, martial artist, artifact-crafting grandmaster, sect master, and emperor 21 232 355 211
Status	Active 374
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “Gateway to Myriad Wonders”

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
No cultivation → Primordial Chaos Stance, Beginner	2	Used Origin to repair a frail body and immediately master the Golden Saber Sect’s foundational stance.
Primordial Chaos Stance, Perfection	3	Produced the Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound, beginning internal-organ refinement.
Peak Houtian Realm	12	Opened all Eight Extraordinary Meridians and formed a Minor Circulation.
Innate Realm	19	Refined Earth Elemental Spiritual Energy into Purple Sun Sword Qi, condensed True Essence, and gained sword flight.
Qi Induction into Body	21	His status panel records the transition into formal Qi cultivation after his Innate breakthrough.
Mid-stage Qi Induction into Body / peak Foundation Establishment equivalent	102	Reached the Chaotic Star Sea’s peak Foundation Establishment standard through seclusion and resources gathered by his disciples.
Early Nascent Soul	103	As the Turtle Demon, used forty-nine Profound Yin Soul Gathering Banners and the Kunlun Cauldron to defeat Xiao Cha.
Ninth-level demon beast / second Transformation stage	145	Dragon Blood Grass triggered a bloodline metamorphosis into a Dragon Turtle and granted the Baxia Dragon Transformation Scripture.
Qi Refining to Deity Transformation	200	Survived the Nine-Layered Heavenly Tribulation with the Myriad Law Divine Light and Fifth-Grade Thunder Lotus.
Grand Purity Realm	209	A later Other Self controlled the spiritual energy of a hundred-mile radius and killed Imperial Preceptor Xuanyuan.
Three Flowers Gathering at the Top; Five Energies Returning to the Origin	227	Completed a major Essence, Qi, and Spirit convergence after breaking the Arhat curse.
Late Deity Transformation	332	The True Self’s recorded cultivation before entering seclusion to seek Void Return.
Early → mid → late Qi Induction into Body	338 351	A Yellow Springs Holy Cult Other Self rapidly rebuilt cultivation through the Shangqing Luofu method and the Black Lotus Seed.
Qi Refining to Deity Transformation, rebuilt	371	Entering the Yellow Springs Sacred Realm allowed this Other Self to condense a Nascent Soul and advance within three days.

Background

Early life and the Golden Saber Sect

After a frail scholar’s son died, Zhou Yi occupied the body, sold its ancestral land, and traveled to Guo Bei County. He paid the Golden Saber Sect’s entry fee and began training in the Primordial Chaos Stance under Chen Hong. 1 2

He claimed that bandits from Black Wind Mountain had killed his father, Zhou Ye, and committed himself to martial arts for revenge. His exceptional progress secured him formal discipleship under Chen Hong, while Chen Xiangyan recognized him as a rare martial genius. 3

Within half a year, Zhou Yi perfected the Primordial Chaos Stance, mastered multiple saber and palm arts, and surpassed the other Golden Saber disciples. He later married Chen Jinyu through a Chen-family alliance, but declared that he would preserve his primordial yang for an Innate breakthrough rather than consummate the marriage. 4 8

Sword cultivation and Kunlun inheritance

Zhou Yi recovered Xiahou the Swordsman’s legacy, obtaining the Xiahou Sword Scripture and the first-rank Purple Sun Sword Qi Scripture. He used Origin to perfect the latter, gaining sword qi and dramatically accelerating his meridian breakthroughs. 7 10 12

After meeting Yan Chixia at Lanruo Temple, he traded cultivation knowledge for sword-control teachings. Yan Chixia accepted him into the Kunlun lineage as a twenty-fourth-generation disciple and vice sect master. 13

On Earth, Zhou Yi adopted the identities Chi Xiaozi and Daoist Chixiao, taught martial and cultivation methods, recruited disciples, and developed Kunlun Sect around Peach Blossom Mountain. He later formalized the sect into five lineages with dedicated peaks, resources, and chief disciples. 30 232

Chaotic Star Sea and demonic cultivation

Through the Gateway to Myriad Wonders, Zhou Yi entered the Chaotic Star Sea as a Spirit Turtle Other Self with a third-grade Water Spiritual Root. He acquired the fifth-grade Profound Yin Scripture, perfected it through Origin, and built the forty-nine-banner Profound Yin Soul Gathering Array. 73 74 103

He cultivated Dragon Blood Grass for decades, transformed his Spiritual Turtle bloodline into a Dragon Turtle, and received the Baxia Dragon Transformation Scripture. 145

Zhou Yi fought in the destruction of Heavenly Star Palace, refined the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light, subdued or negotiated with major demon powers, and became influential enough that the Human Realm’s demons later recognized him as their leader. 164 166 188

Great Zhou Immortal Court

A later Other Self possessed the sickly body of Great Zhou’s Crown Prince of Han, sealed the original soul, and retained his Nascent Soul and cultivation knowledge. 203

After defeating Imperial Preceptor Xuanyuan, Zhou Yi forced Emperor Zhou Ye to abdicate and took the throne. He used the Heart-Questioning Technique to expose corrupt officials, founded an Immortal Court, and used its national resources to fuel cultivation and expansion. 209 210 211 218

Yellow Springs Holy Cult

Another Other Self entered the Yellow Springs Holy Cult after Kuron God Monarch discovered his superior Wood Spiritual Root. He returned to the Zhou family with a Yellow Springs Token, protected his younger sister Zhou Nian’s exceptional spiritual roots, and brought her toward the Holy Cult. 339 341

Within Black Wind Valley, Zhou Yi built a reputation as an artifact-crafting prodigy. He refined fourth- through sixth-tier treasures, collected Five Elements essences for the Five Spirits True Body, and rose from “Yellow Springs Holy Cult’s Number One Boaster” to a feared chief disciple. 351 353 355 362

Appearance

In his Guo Bei incarnation, Zhou Yi appears as a tall, slender young man of roughly twenty, with ordinary features, warm jade-like complexion, a green-pine bearing, and clear yet abyss-deep eyes. 15

• His stance training transformed an initially frail scholar’s body into a broad-shouldered, bronze-skinned martial physique. 2 3
• He can alter his form through the Appearance and Bone Changing Art, once posing as the nearly seven-foot-tall, bald, dark-faced Guardian Deity Lu Sheng. 66
• His Dragon Turtle form bears a dragon’s head, claws, tail, golden scales, and a dark-green shell marked by golden patterns. 145

Personality

Zhou Yi treats cultivation as a survival problem. He prepares extensively, values superior resources and information, and considers any advantage meaningful in a life-or-death struggle. 58 166

He is ruthlessly pragmatic toward threats. He prefers eliminating enemies before they can retaliate, as shown when he annihilated the Desheng Ward Chief’s family after their plot against him. 372 His violence is not indiscriminate: he spared Mr. Ghost in exchange for the Ghost Path inheritance and left Li Feiyang to the Investigation Bureau rather than kill him. 125 225

As a teacher and sect master, Zhou Yi is demanding but useful to those who prove their worth. He shares techniques, gives disciples access to resources, and organizes Kunlun primarily as a system for collecting cultivation materials and developing capable subordinates. 67 197 232

Abilities & Skills

Gateway to Myriad Wonders

The Gateway to Myriad Wonders is Zhou Yi’s defining treasure. It enables travel between worlds through Other Selves and converts absorbed spiritual energy and materials into Origin Points. 1 2 72

• Origin can repair physical defects, strengthen the body, and instantly raise technique proficiency. 2
• The Gateway can identify treasures and cultivation methods, including the Great Shaman’s Medicine Pestle and high-rank inheritances. 352 365
• It is damaged to 56.12%, making its restoration a long-term concern for Zhou Yi. 338

Martial arts and body refinement

Zhou Yi began as a martial artist and merged thirty-six perfected mortal arts into the Martial Canon. 21

• Perfected the Primordial Chaos Stance and attained the Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound. 3
• Developed sword, saber, palm, claw, movement, and body-tempering arts into a comprehensive close-combat foundation. 21
• Cultivates the Six Revolutions Great Strength Demonic God Art and later the Nine Revolutions Great Strength Divine Demon Art, emphasizing physical resilience and brute force. 182 333
• Body-refining methods require long-term accumulation even after their principles are understood. 182

Myriad Law Divine Light

Derived from the fifth-rank Myriad Law Heavenly Merit, the Myriad Law Divine Light unifies a vast number of perfected spells into a single torrent. 168 174

• Its power is amplified by the integration of more than thirteen hundred perfected spells. 174
• It can overwhelm high-level defensive techniques and defeat cultivators above Zhou Yi’s nominal realm. 177 369
• Zhou Yi uses it as his principal technique when magic treasures are unavailable or prohibited. 369

Primordial Magnetic Divine Light

A sixth-rank spell based on Primal Magnetic Force, cultivated after Zhou Yi completed his Five Elements spiritual roots. 166

• Reverses and disperses Houtian Five Elements spells. 166
• Can dissolve enemy magic treasures and combine with Myriad Law Divine Light for decisive attacks. 173 174
• Its cultivation consumed immense Origin and rare Five Elements spiritual items. 166

Soul, clones, and possession

Zhou Yi’s spiritual cultivation is built around the Great Evolution Art and several soul-based techniques. 142 178

• The Great Evolution Art divides Spiritual Sense into hundreds or thousands of portions for multitasking and puppet control. 142 145
• He refined a humanoid puppet with a thread of his own soul, allowing it to pass as a living person. 151 152
• His Other Selves can occupy bodies across worlds, retaining memories and cultivation insight even when their new bodies are weak. 203 372
• Daoist Jian Chen gave him the incomplete eighth-rank Heavenly Demon Strategy, whose Myriad Manifestations of Spiritual Sense can create vast numbers of clones. 365

Profound Yin and Blood Demon arts

Zhou Yi cultivates the Profound Yin Scripture alongside orthodox Daoist methods and demon bloodline techniques. 74 141

• Controls forty-nine Profound Yin Soul Gathering Banners to establish a sealed Profound Yin domain and summon demon gods. 103 115
• Refined the Blood Demon Banner and its Indestructible Blood River into the Blood Demon Realm, capable of melting trapped cultivators into the banner. 362
• His Dragon Turtle bloodline grants extraordinary physical strength, water affinity, and a foundation for further transformation. 145 185

Artifact crafting, alchemy, and formations

Zhou Yi is a grandmaster artifact refiner with broad knowledge of alchemy, talismans, and arrays. 52 95 355

• Refined fourth-tier White Bone Demon Gods and later accepted commissions for fifth- and sixth-tier supreme treasures. 353 355
• Built the Five Elements Grand Array from five linked third-tier formations to protect Kunlun Mountain. 160 161
• Uses alchemy and pill refinement to convert demon cores and spiritual medicines into cultivation resources. 53 102
• Created original items such as Mother-Child Sound Transmission Artifacts and Tribulation Lightning Beads. 95 338

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Gateway to Myriad Wonders — damaged Great Luo Dao fruit and Zhou Yi’s means of traversal, Origin conversion, and item identification. 1 338
• Five Spirits Wonderful Tree — fourth-tier natal magic treasure with Five Elements Spirit Light, Wood Spirit Liquid, Ice Spirit Pearl, and the ability to cleanse Postnatal Five Elements items. 130
• Kunlun Cauldron — imitation Void Sky Cauldron used for combat, storage, and artifact refinement. 85 103
• Profound Yin Soul Gathering Banners — forty-nine banners that form the Profound Yin Soul Gathering Array and command demon souls. 103 115
• Reflecting Void Tai Yin Divine Mirror — sixth-tier Heavenly Connecting Spirit Treasure that reflects and traps divine souls. 181 187
• Blood Demon Banner — demonic banner that manifests the Indestructible Blood River and Blood Demon Realm. 362 369
• Purple Lightning Sword — Xiahou the Swordsman’s sword, used with the Xiahou Sword Scripture and Sword Control Technique. 7 17
• Five Dragon Furnace — second-tier Five Elements furnace for alchemy and crushing attacks. 53
• Great Shaman’s Medicine Pestle — unranked ancient treasure that condenses the essence of herbs and trees. 352

Relationships

• Chen Hong — Golden Saber Sect instructor and formal master; Chen Hong treated Zhou Yi like a son and received the Purple Sun Sword Qi Scripture from him. 3 12
• Chen Jinyu — Wife through a Chen-family marriage alliance; their relationship began as a practical arrangement and later became a bittersweet separation shaped by their diverging paths. 8 48
• Yan Chixia — Senior brother, cultivation guide, and Kunlun ally; he admitted Zhou Yi into Kunlun and repeatedly exchanged inheritance knowledge with him. 13 53
• Li Zhu — Disciple and Crown Prince of Great Jing; Zhou Yi trained him harshly, prepared him for rulership, and sent protection for his northern campaign. 43 48
• Zhou Fangfei — Peach Spirit companion and foremost disciple; after taking human form, she adopted Zhou Yi’s surname and helped manage Kunlun Sect. 160 188
• Duan Houdao — Second personal disciple with the Earth Virtue Physique; Zhou Yi healed his soul injury and later entrusted him with Kunlun affairs. 125 197
• Kuron God Monarch — Yellow Springs Holy Cult master who accepted Zhou Yi due to his Wood Spiritual Root and approved of his survival through fellow disciples’ deaths. 339 348
• Zhou Nian — Younger sister of a later Other Self; Zhou Yi sealed her exceptional Wood Spirit Body to protect her and supported her entry into the Yellow Springs Holy Cult. 341 356
• Han Li — Initially a confined collaborator forced to cultivate Dragon Blood Grass; later a useful ally and exchange partner in high-level conflicts. 145 185
• Xiao Cha — Temporary accomplice and eventual rival; Zhou Yi later defeated him after Xiao Cha attempted to erase their shared history. 76 103