Hun Tiandi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Thousand-Year Plan

Hun Tiandi pursued the Dou Di realm through a plan spanning a thousand years. The Hun Clan sought the ancient clans’ Ancient Emperor Tuoshe Jade pieces to open the Ancient Emperor’s cave mansion and obtain its Emperor Grade Nascent Pill 138 172.

A thousand years before his final confrontation with the Heavenly Palace Alliance, he exploited Xiao Xuan’s failed Dou Di breakthrough to lead the Hun Clan against the Xiao Clan. He later mocked Gu Yuan for failing to seize that opportunity to destroy the Hun Clan 209.

His pursuit of the pill brought about the destruction of the Shi, Yao, and Ling clans and hostility with the Gu, Yan, and Lei clans. He also ordered Xiao Zhan interrogated because he believed the surviving Xiao family patriarch might know the whereabouts of the Xiao family’s jade 169 203.

Obtaining and Maturing the Embryonic Pill

Inside Ancient Emperor Tuoshe’s cave abode, Hun Tiandi swallowed the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill to escape Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun’s encirclement. Its unfinished state made it dangerous: forcibly refining it offered poor breakthrough prospects, while leaving its violent energy unchecked threatened to burst his body apart. He therefore gathered Hun Clan experts to help suppress it 196.

Li Changqing deliberately exposed a hidden drop of Dou Di Blood, encouraging Hun Tiandi to remove the pill and mature it outside his body. Hun Tiandi accepted Li’s account of finding the blood in ruins beneath the Green Wood Mountain Range and promised rewards after becoming a Dou Di 197 198.

Hun Tiandi expelled the pill over several days, then worked with Void Devouring Flame to cleanse the blood’s resentment. He ordered several million captive descendants of the Shi, Yao, and Ling clans sacrificed to nourish the pill 199 201.

When those sacrifices proved insufficient, he ordered the sacrifice of all one million Hun Clan descendants. He crushed a protesting Five-Star Dou Sheng elder into blood mist and threatened the remaining dissenters into silence. Afterward, a month of refinement incorporated the Dou Di Blood’s origin and completed the pill 201 202.

Theft of the Pill and Destruction of the Soul World

At the moment of completion, Li Changqing seized the pill with Kunpeng Ultimate Speed. He revealed his Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng cultivation and admitted that obtaining the pill had been his purpose from the beginning 202.

Unable to overcome Li directly, Hun Tiandi activated the Ten Thousand Souls Spirit-Severing Formation. It consumed the Soul World’s origin to strengthen him and, later, the other Hun Clan combatants. Their battle and Li’s Yin-Yang Flame attacks ultimately shattered the realm, ending the formation 203 204 205.

Li escaped despite his depleted Dou Qi. As the Soul World crashed into the Dou Qi Continent, Hun Tiandi discovered a genuine Emperor Pill beneath its ruins: damaged sealing runes had finally allowed its presence to escape. With Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun approaching, he fled alongside Void Devouring Flame, who carried roughly one hundred thousand surviving clansmen in his internal space 206.

Dou Di Breakthrough and Central Plains Massacre

Hun Tiandi refined the newly discovered Emperor Pill in seclusion and became the continent’s first Dou Di in ten thousand years. He completed his breakthrough before Li Changqing because his pill was already a well-preserved finished product, while Li also needed time to recover from their earlier battle 207.

Immediately afterward, Hun Tiandi turned against Void Devouring Flame. Revealing that he knew about the flame’s secret control over Hun Clan elders, he killed the controlled elders and swallowed the fleeing flame. He dismissed their deaths as irrelevant now that he alone possessed Dou Di power 207.

Recognizing that Li Changqing would remain a threat after his own breakthrough, Hun Tiandi ordered a continent-wide search and activated the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation. It annihilated humans, magical beasts, and plants across most of the Central Plains, gathering their blood Qi to forge the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade 208.

Final Battle and Defeat

Hun Tiandi attacked the Heavenly Palace Alliance to use its experts as further sacrifices, but the newly advanced Dou Di Li Changqing intervened. Hun Tiandi immediately deployed the Emperor-Slaying Formation, strengthened his blade with additional clan sacrifices and his own essence blood, and manifested his Blood Emperor Body 209 210.

Li’s Lunar Water overcame Void Devouring Flame and froze the enormous body. Hun Tiandi escaped by detonating flames and blood-colored lightning against himself, suffering severe injuries. Rather than retreat, he slaughtered the remaining Hun Clan members to strengthen his blade, leaving himself the clan’s sole survivor. This brought his combat strength into a temporary stalemate with Li 211 212.

Xiao Yan’s arrival as a Dou Di ended that stalemate. Overwhelmed by both opponents, Hun Tiandi attempted to detonate his Blood Emperor Body as cover for his true body’s escape. Xiao Yan carried the exploding body into a spatial rift, while Li intercepted Hun Tiandi, severed his weapon hand, and absorbed the blood blade into the Yin-Yang Sword 212 213.

Hun Tiandi then attempted a genuine self-destruction intended to take the continent with him. Xiao Yan interrupted it, and Li beheaded him before imprisoning his body and soul in a Yin-Yang Flame cauldron. The chapter ends with Li refining him into an Emperor Pill rather than simply killing him 213.

Appearance

• Clothing: Wears white robes when suppressing the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill 196.
• Eyes: Emit golden light when he opens them after subduing the pill’s energy 197.
• Blood Emperor Body: A blood-red, flesh-and-blood giant ten thousand zhang tall, manifested after his Dou Di breakthrough 210.

Personality

Hun Tiandi is patient and calculating enough to pursue a single breakthrough plan for a millennium. He can also adopt a courteous, transactional manner: when Void Devouring Flame threatened Li Changqing, Hun Tiandi restrained him and offered extravagant rewards in exchange for the Dou Di Blood 172 198.

His ambition overrides clan loyalty. He sacrifices descendants, kills an elder who objects, and ultimately destroys the remaining Hun Clan to empower his weapon. After becoming a Dou Di, he explicitly treats his own survival as sufficient to preserve the clan’s importance, regardless of how many elders die 201 207 212.

His hatred of Li does not entirely erase his judgment: he recognizes that he would lose a direct contest after Li becomes a Dou Di and prepares accordingly. When defeat becomes unavoidable, however, that calculation gives way to an attempt to destroy the continent with him 208 213.

Abilities & Skills

Dou Qi Combat

• Produces blood-colored fist seals, defensive shields, ghostly hands, and a gigantic humanoid construct 203 205.
• Condenses blood-colored sabers and replaces one after Li Changqing’s Yin-Yang Flame destroys it 204.
• As a Dou Di, draws on the energy of heaven and earth to form barriers; his pressure forces most Heavenly Palace Alliance members to the ground 209 210.

Ten Thousand Souls Spirit-Severing Formation

• Activated through Hun Tiandi’s ancient token and matching, smaller tokens held by clan elders 204.
• Draws black mist and power from the Soul World’s origin, enhancing Hun Tiandi and other Hun Clan experts 204 205.
• Overtaxes the realm and weakens its barrier; destruction of the Soul World terminates the enhancement 204 205.

Blood-Sacrifice Formations

• Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation: Converts victims into blood mist or blood Qi, supporting both the pill’s maturation and the later weapon-forging operation 201 208.
• Emperor-Slaying Formation: Unites formations across the Central Plains and condenses their accumulated sea of blood into a blade 210.
• Limitation: Even the completed blood blade initially fails to overcome Li Changqing; sacrificing the remaining Hun Clan is required to reach a stalemate 211 212.

Blood Emperor Body

• A true flesh-and-blood Emperor Body rather than a Dou Qi construct 210.
• Channels black flames and blood-colored lightning into attacks through the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade 211.
• Can be detonated separately while Hun Tiandi escapes in his true body, though leaving power behind makes that true body extremely weak 213.
• Vulnerable to Li Changqing’s Lunar Water, which freezes it despite protection from Void Devouring Flame 211.

Void Devouring Flame

• Acquired by overpowering and swallowing his former ally after reaching Dou Di 207.
• Used as an intensely hot black flame against Lunar Water 211.
• Failed to stop the water, forcing Hun Tiandi to injure himself to escape freezing 211.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade — Blood-sacrifice weapon strengthened with Central Plains blood Qi, Hun Clan lives, and Hun Tiandi’s essence blood. Ultimately swallowed and refined by Li Changqing’s Yin-Yang Sword 208 210 212 213.
• Ancient black token — Rune-covered formation token, larger than those carried by the Hun Clan elders 204.
• Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill — Obtained from Ancient Emperor Tuoshe’s cave abode and painstakingly matured, only to be stolen by Li Changqing 196 202.
• Dou Di Blood — Supplied by Li Changqing; its origin was incorporated into the embryonic pill after its resentment was removed 198 199 202.
• Genuine Emperor Pill — Discovered beneath the destroyed Soul World and used for his successful Dou Di breakthrough. Its original owner or purpose is not established 206 207.

Relationships

• Li Changqing — Infiltrator turned principal enemy. Exploited the Hun Clan’s resources, stole the completed embryonic pill, and ultimately captured Hun Tiandi for refinement 202 213.
• Void Devouring Flame — Long-standing ally whose secret control of clan elders undermined their pact. Hun Tiandi killed the controlled elders and devoured him after becoming a Dou Di 207.
• Hun Xuzi — Hun Clan chief alchemist; directed the alchemists maturing the pill and continued serving Hun Tiandi after the Soul World’s destruction 167 199 208.
• Gu Yuan — Ancient-clan rival who attempted to block his escape from the cave abode. Hun Tiandi later derided his indecision and attacked the alliance he helped lead 196 209.
• Zhu Kun — Opponent who joined Gu Yuan’s blockade and later searched for him after the Soul World collapsed 196 206 207.
• Xiao Yan — Final opponent alongside Li Changqing. Contained the Blood Emperor Body’s explosion and interrupted Hun Tiandi’s last self-destruction attempt 212 213.

Notable Quotes

“I have already become a Dou Di. As long as I remain, there can never be any talk of the Hun Clan’s vitality being gravely wounded!” 207

“Retribution? I am the first Dou Di the Dou Qi Continent has seen in ten thousand years. Even if heaven wishes to destroy me, I have no fear!” 209

“I refuse to accept this! A thousand-year plan, ruined for want of one final basket of earth! I refuse to accept this!” 213