Dai Huabin

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Dai Huabin (戴华斌)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	White Tiger Duke’s Mansion; formerly Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul Department 53 93 106
Occupation/Role	Second son of the White Tiger Duke; formerly the favored successor to the dukedom and an Outer Court student 53 100 110 123
Martial Soul	White Tiger 110 112
Status	Alive but crippled, with his cultivation ruined; expelled from Shrek Academy. No successful recovery is documented 106 110 123
First Appearance	Encountered by Huo Yuhao at Shrek Academy 52

Background

Dai Huabin is the second son of White Tiger Duke Dai Hao and the younger brother of Dai Yueheng. Huo Yuhao is his paternal half-brother. Despite Yueheng’s greater age and cultivation, Huabin initially holds the advantage in the succession because he can perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Zhu Lu 53 93 100 104.

The White Tiger lineage treats access to a fusion skill as a decisive qualification for inheritance. Huabin’s ability earns him preferential treatment from both parents and reinforces his belief that his elder brother must yield to him 104 110.

Personality

Huabin is arrogant, volatile, and contemptuous of those he considers beneath his noble standing. Winning Shrek’s Freshman Assessment intensifies these traits: he begins gathering followers and treating the academy as territory he can control. Hidden interference also feeds his worst impulses 93 104.

Defeat makes him more hostile rather than reflective. After Huang Qiuqiu beats him, he seeks retaliation through his family’s guards. Even after Huo Yuhao gravely injures him, he threatens to kill Yuhao later and assumes hesitation means fear of the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion 100 105.

His treatment of followers is coercive rather than reciprocal. Zhao Long describes being forced to join, receiving no benefits, and being made to violate academy rules while facing the prospect of taking the blame. Huabin later shifts responsibility for his own downfall onto Yueheng 106 110.

Abilities & Skills

White Tiger Martial Soul

• Huabin possesses the White Tiger Martial Soul inherited through his father’s lineage 110 112.
• Martial Soul Possession requires activation; Huo Yuhao’s copied Hell White Tiger strikes before Huabin can complete it 104.
• His exact Soul Power level and individual Soul Skills are not specified in the provided record.

Hell White Tiger

• A Martial Soul Fusion Skill performed with Zhu Lu, whose Nether Civet Martial Soul is compatible with the White Tiger 104 112.
• Huabin and Zhu Lu use it during the Freshman Assessment tournament. Their team takes first place 61 104.
• The skill is the central basis of Huabin’s initial succession advantage over Yueheng 100 104 110.
• Huo Yuhao records it with Imprint and later reproduces it against Huabin without Zhu Lu’s participation 104.
• Yueheng believes repeated fusion has made Zhu Lu emotionally dependent on Huabin, complicating his attempt to win her away 112.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Freshman Assessment Victory

Huabin and Zhu Lu’s team wins Shrek Academy’s Freshman Assessment, bringing them considerable attention. Their victory angers Huo Yuhao and renews his determination to cultivate 61.

Building an Academy Faction

Huabin initiates a clash with Huo Yuhao during the Class Advancement Assessment. By then, his following has spread from Martial Soul Department freshmen into the Soul Tool Department. With roughly a hundred Outer Court students backing Huabin, Yuhao is injured while withholding his hidden abilities 93.

The academy’s lack of intervention is deliberate at the leadership level. Mu En allows Huabin’s misconduct to continue so that the conflict will temper Yuhao, sever his prospects of reconciliation with the duke’s household, and bind him more closely to Shrek 93.

Huang Qiuqiu subsequently beats Huabin for bullying Yuhao and Xiao Xiao. When Yueheng does not answer his appeal for help, Huabin turns to guards from home to retaliate against her 95 100.

Defeat and Expulsion

Huo Yuhao publicly confronts Huabin over bullying, resource theft, rule violations, and an alleged student death. The confrontation explicitly treats some accusations as charges being placed on Huabin rather than established facts 104.

Huabin dismisses Yuhao’s apparently weak Soul Rings, only to face a copied Hell White Tiger. The attack breaks his bones and throws him into a wall. His threats and orders fail to rally his followers; Ning Tian’s financial offers and sect backing instead draw them away 104 105 106.

Yuhao reveals his Ultimate Ice Martial Soul and prepares to cripple him. Wang Dong acts first, using her Clear Sky Hammer to cripple Huabin with one blow and accepting responsibility. Shrek expels him that same day 106.

Family Retaliation and Succession Collapse

The assassins arranged through Huabin’s mother continue their mission against Huang Qiuqiu, unaware of his expulsion and incapacitation. Their defeat prompts Huang Jinxu to threaten the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion unless it provides a satisfactory explanation 106 107.

Dai Hao initially promises to spare no expense restoring Huabin and rejects Yueheng’s hopes of inheriting. Huabin and their mother also blame Yueheng for failing to protect him. This favoritism pushes Yueheng toward taking Zhu Lu and securing a fusion skill of his own 110 111.

Zhu Lu eventually forms a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Yueheng, though she retains feelings for Huabin. Meanwhile, after Huang Jinxu confronts the household, Dai Hao threatens to execute Huabin as part of a compensation offer, then abandons his plans for all his existing sons as heirs 122 123.

Relationships

• Dai Hao — Father. Initially favors Huabin’s succession because of his fusion skill and promises to restore him; later threatens his execution and gives up on his existing sons as heirs 110 122 123.
• The White Tiger Duke’s wife — Mother. Sends guards in response to his grievances and supports his accusations against Yueheng 107 110.
• Dai Yueheng — Elder brother and succession rival. Deliberately declines to intervene, privately welcomes Huabin’s downfall, and later takes Zhu Lu as his own fusion partner 100 109 111 123.
• Huo Yuhao — Paternal half-brother and enemy. Yuhao blames Huabin for his mother’s death and ultimately defeats him using his own copied fusion skill 93 104.
• Zhu Lu — Fiancée and original fusion partner. Cares for him after his crippling, but is later manipulated into a relationship with Yueheng; some attachment to Huabin remains 106 110 112 123.
• Huang Qiuqiu — Retaliates against his bullying. Huabin’s attempt to have her attacked draws her father directly into the dispute 95 100 107.
• Wang Dong — Cripples him with the Clear Sky Hammer before Yuhao can act 106.
• Ning Tian — Opposes his faction by offering his followers safer, materially supported membership in the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect 105 106.

Notable Quotes

“If you don't kill me today, I, Dai Huabin, swear I'll find a chance to kill you.” 105