Yang Xiao

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Yang Xiao (杨霄)
Alias(es)	Xiao; Brother Xiao 6 30
Gender	Male
Age	Approximately eighteen at the beginning of his cultivation journey; lived twenty-five years in his previous life 6 49
Origin	Transmigrator from twenty-first-century Earth; raised in Ancient Sand Town on the Star River Continent 7 39 49
Affiliation	Carefree Sect; Sky Marquis’s household; Slaughter Heaven City’s Punishment Hall 15 35 40
Occupation/Role	Former desert corpse collector and guide; cultivator; Heavenly Master and Earth Master; Punishment Hall worker 2 40 46
Bloodline	Peak demonic will, also described as “supreme demonic intent”; an additional moonlike manifestation remains unidentified 5 6 8 41
Cultivation	Sea Condensation Realm as of the confrontation with Gongsun Tuo 50
Residence	Plum Court in the Winter Residence of Slaughter Heaven City’s city lord estate 35
Status	Alive; injured but expecting a rapid recovery after killing Gongsun Tuo 50
First Appearance	Chapter 2, “The desert corpse collector,” in the supplied material 2

Power Progression

The million-li Qi Sea is Yang Xiao’s capacity, not the amount of magical power he initially possesses. Early measurements track the spiritual energy filling that space; after Sea Condensation, they describe his condensed Spirit Sea 8 16 33.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Bloodline eruption	5	A mortal threat triggers scarlet eyes and frenzied power, exposing his previously hidden bloodline.
Peak demonic will awakened	6	Drinks the scarred enemy’s divine blood after choosing cultivation; black mist appears and his physical strength increases.
Qi Gathering Realm — 5 li of spiritual energy	8	Discovers his million-li capacity. Five Qi-Gathering Pills provide five li after the Great Martial Canon’s ninefold tempering.
Qi Gathering Realm — 20 li	9	Cultivates while traveling on Little Blue.
Qi Gathering Realm — 50 li	9	Continues pill-assisted cultivation during the flight.
Qi Gathering Realm — 110 li	9	Reaches this amount before arriving near Falling Blossom City.
Qi Gathering Realm — 200 li	13	Gains a surge of spiritual energy from Dragon Horse meat.
Dual Heavenly Master–Earth Master aptitude demonstrated	13	Quickly masters Gather Earth to Build a House and Heaven’s Eye Opening Technique, earning access to the Scripture Pavilion.
Qi Gathering Realm — 250 li	15	Demonic-beast meat increases his reserves despite Shen Laodao and Wang Huhu eating most of the meal.
Qi Gathering Realm — 2,250 li	16	Absorbs twenty low-grade earth-vein crystals. Each adds only one hundred li because of his cultivation method’s intensive tempering.
Qi Gathering Realm — further expansion	19	Absorbs all three hundred low-grade crystals he possesses; the chapter describes a four-percent increase, still insufficient for breakthrough.
Qi Gathering Realm — 400,000 li	24	A month of cultivation exhausts his remaining earth-vein crystals.
Peak Qi Gathering Realm — 1,000,000 li	33	Fills his entire Qi Sea during the journey toward Slaughter Heaven City.
Sea Condensation Realm — 10,000-li foundation	33	Uses a Vermilion Fruit to liquefy his spiritual energy. Rather than stop at a 100,000-li ocean, he compresses it further to ten thousand li.
Sea Condensation Realm — 20,000 li	33	Expands his black ocean through cultivation and treasure gathering before reaching the city.
Sea Condensation Realm — 50,000 li	42	Advances after a month of secluded cultivation.
Sea Condensation Realm — 100,000 li	47	Absorbs more than a thousand earth-vein crystals. The expanded sea is initially insubstantial, limiting him to roughly ninety percent of his strength.
Sea Condensation Realm — foundation solidified	48	His battle against the Mountain Turtle stabilizes the hundred-thousand-li Spirit Sea, allowing further cultivation.
Sea Condensation Realm — additional 100 li	49	Records another night’s increase before visiting the Hundred Arts Tower.
Great Kui Star — preliminary mastery	50	Seven days of practice allow him to summon a starlight figure whose punch collapses a small hill.

Background / History

Yang Xiao is a transmigrator whose previous life lasted twenty-five years. He remembers Earth’s modern society and compulsory education, but the supplied material does not explain how he entered the Star River Continent. Finding the Analects in this world leads him to consider whether another transmigrator preceded him or someone traveled between worlds 39 49.

He grows up with Yang Zhan in Ancient Sand Town, believing his grandfather and Aunt Lü to be his only family. Yang Zhan secretly seals his cultivation aptitude to give him an ordinary life. Before learning the truth, Yang Xiao earns a living collecting desert corpses and guiding travelers, while enduring violent episodes that require confinement in a cellar 2 6 8.

Appearance

• Handsome young man with black hair, which he ties up when preparing to visit Lei Miaoyan 10 23.
• Frequently wears black robes, including fine clothes purchased during his early travels 8 10 47.
• Silver Storage Ring worn on his right index finger; initially carries a conspicuous coil of jute rope at his waist 10.
• Scarlet eyes and black mist accompany his bloodline manifestations and episodes of madness 17 33 50.
• Rapidly healed skin can leave him looking uninjured only a day after wounds that would incapacitate another person 23.

Personality

Yang Xiao is ambitious but unwilling to treat poor aptitude as a final judgment. He presses Butcher for instruction despite being told his talent is inadequate, then accepts his grandfather’s warning about the dangers of peak demonic will. His pursuit of longevity includes the hope that he might eventually preserve the lives of people he loves 4 6 7.

His compassion is practical rather than ceremonial. He compensates vendors for Little Blue’s thefts, warns Yang You’er against taking food that villagers need to survive, and improves Creek Mountain Village without accepting its remaining crystals. Nevertheless, he rejects the label of “good person,” arguing that good people have difficulty surviving 10 33 40.

He is also vindictive, opportunistic, and comfortable with deception. He kills Gu Chen for attempting to cause his death, fabricates a Heavenly Master Oath to obtain cultivation resources, and turns an unsuccessful search of his Storage Ring into a profitable wager. Against organized pursuers, he uses ambushes and lethal retaliation rather than trusting offers of reconciliation 7 15 41 42 43.

His confidence in combat contrasts with his romantic inexperience. He had never dated in either life before meeting Lei Miaoyan, whose kindness leaves him blushing and unable to accept her offer to accompany him. Li Xunhua’s more assertive flirtation repeatedly sends him retreating, although he recognizes her as a useful ally 21 34 48.

Abilities & Skills

Peak Demonic Will

A rare inherited bloodline that makes its possessors natural cultivators. Its black-sun manifestation transforms absorbed spiritual energy into black energy 6 8.

• Power absorption: Black mist draws magical power from opponents; during the Mountain Turtle battle, surrounding cultivators and beasts replenish his reserves 43 47.
• Intimidation: Its presence frightens Luo Kedi and unsettles more advanced cultivators 22 43.
• Long-term danger: Yang Zhan warns of a demonic tribulation that may drive its bearer to commit the act they will regret most 6.
• Secrecy: Butcher initially orders him never to expose the bloodline to outsiders and to kill anyone who discovers it 8.

Regeneration

Yang Xiao possesses extraordinary healing even before formal cultivation 2.

• Breaks his hand to escape a shackle, relying on recovery afterward 2.
• Heals severe injuries from Luo Kedi’s attack within a day 23.
• Expects a night’s sleep to repair the back injury caused by Gongsun Tuo’s collapsing mountain 50.
• Healing does not remove the need to replenish exhausted magical power or recover from poisoning 22 26.

Great Martial Canon

His foundational cultivation manual tempers absorbed spiritual energy nine times, greatly increasing its purity while reducing the volume gained from pills and crystals 8 16.

• Turning Magic into Weapons: Shapes magical power into weapons, including gauntlets and a Spell Blade 8 22.
• Exceptional purity: His magical power is described as nine times purer than that of others at his level 43.
• Resource burden: Filling his million-li capacity requires far more supplies than ordinary Qi Gathering cultivation 9 16.
• Incomplete copy: Yang Zhan removes the manual’s later sections before Butcher gives it to him 6.

Earth Master Arts

Yang Xiao manipulates earth-vein qi for construction, mobility, detection, combat, and public works 13 17 40.

• Gather Earth to Build a House: Creates stone residences and concealed underground chambers; advanced applications include defensive and soundproofing formations 13 17 45.
• Shrinking Earth to Inches: Rapid ground movement used for evasion and pursuit. His early training progresses from half-meter movement to ten-meter steps 15 16.
• Earth Vein Sealing limitation: Luo Kedi blocks his access to this movement art by sealing the earth veins 22.
• Crystal-Seeking Art: Detects earth-vein resources underground; he studies it when his initial supplies run low 17.
• Earth Chains: Restrains soldiers, enemies, and himself during impending episodes 33 34 50.
• Earth’s Right Hand: Forms a massive stone palm; dense earth-vein terrain strengthens it enough to kill Murong Chong 38 44.
• Mountain Moving Array: Relocates a mountain in three stages, at considerable magical and mental cost 40.
• Soil improvement: Uses earth veins to enrich poor farmland 40.

Heavenly Master Arts

His Heavenly Master techniques include aerial movement, weather control, observation, and searching 23 26 37.

• Heaven’s Eye Opening Technique: Surveys surroundings, searches for missing people, and helps him evade pursuit 13 25 39.
• Void Stroll: Walks through the air on supporting wind. Initially slower than Shrinking Earth to Inches, it later enables quiet movement without touching the ground 23 43.
• Wind and rain summoning: Relieves drought and produces a recruitment-test storm with clouds spanning one hundred li 33 37.
• Myriad Heavens Soul Search: Locates someone through a long-used possession. His effective range is ten thousand li, and the material used is destroyed 26.
• Heavenly Eye Summoning Order: Calls the Carefree Sect’s searching disciples back to the mountain 26.
• Heaven’s Left Hand: Used alongside thunder formations against a Soul Seed Realm elder 43.

Combat Arts and Formations

• Azure Wolf Fist: Produces attacking Direwolf phantoms. Seven phantoms represent his full-strength limit during early training; he later strikes a Corpse Soul Mountain disciple with nine 16 25.
• Nine Thunder Formation: Initially limited to three bolts; later enables nine-bolt attacks, destroys spirit corpses, and strengthens forged artifacts 16 21 25 23.
• Nine-Thunder Chain Formation: With the Thundercloud Fan, links nine formations into eighty-one bolts and doubles their power 43.
• Great Kui Star: A high-grade fist art that draws on starlight and scales with magical strength, making it particularly suitable for his immense reserves 49 50.

Artifact Forging

Yang Xiao combines Earth Master forging methods with Heavenly Master lightning refinement 23 46.

• Successfully crafts the Hundred-Spirit Spider Rope after correcting an initial failure caused by excessive magical output 23.
• Adds a crude outer shell to disguise the Windbreaking Spear without reforging its high-grade interior 23.
• Crafts two additional Hundred-Spirit Spider Ropes in the forest 45.
• Condenses earth-vein flame in Sea Condensation Realm, although ordinary Earth Masters require Soul Seed Realm to master it 45.
• Refines a high-grade Thousand-Spirit Spider Rope and strengthens it with repeated lightning strikes 46.

Recurring Madness

His violent illness remains active after awakening and cultivation; its precise cause is unresolved 17 33.

• Episodes produce scarlet eyes, black mist, roaring, and indiscriminate destruction 17.
• The Sea Condensation breakthrough triggers an episode capable of controlling his magical power and breaking Earth Vein Chains 33.
• He briefly regains control after seizing Yang You’er’s throat, releases her, and flees to keep her safe 33.
• Awakens after that episode among slain beasts, including a Soul Seed Realm tiger demon 33.
• Knocking him unconscious is unsafe: an earlier attempt nearly allowed the frenzied will to seize his body completely 33.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Storage Ring — Given by Butcher. Storing the Dragon Horn nearly exhausts his first night’s cultivation gains 8.
• Dragon Horn — former trump card — Recovered in Severed Dragon Valley; repels ghosts, frightens Little Blue, and summons a lethal white dragon. Its use heavily drains his power. He relinquishes it to the veiled woman to survive 5 9 22 26 46.
• White Scale — Token from the veiled woman, redeemable once for her help. He preserves it rather than spending it to escape the forest 46 47.
• Hundred-Spirit Spider Ropes — Self-forged poisonous restraints that dissolve victims into black liquid; his first lightning-enhanced rope approaches high-grade power 23 45.
• Thousand-Spirit Spider Rope — High-grade, five-meter black rope refined with earth-vein flame and heavenly lightning. Sea Condensation beasts dissolve after merely being brushed by it 46.
• Thundercloud Fan — former equipment — High-grade Heavenly Master artifact taken from Huangfu Shenghua; amplifies thunder formations. Later included among his surplus artifacts sold at the pavilion 42 43 48.
• Windbreaking Spear — former equipment — High-grade spear passed to him by Shen Laodao and concealed beneath a fiery-red shell; later included in his surplus sale 23 48.
• Black-Gold Spirit Blade — traded away — Huangfu Qi’s supreme-grade saber, recovered after the veiled woman kills its owner. Yang Xiao trades it rather than retain a weapon for which he knows no saber arts 47 49.
• Calamity Weapon — Supreme-grade gauntlets acquired for the Black-Gold Spirit Blade plus five hundred high-grade crystals. Forged from a young Zhu Yan’s heart; reportedly an ancient Immortal Artifact diminished by time 49.
• Lei Miaoyan’s notebook — Borrowed for directions to a poison spider; one page is sacrificed to locate her. He privately regards it as a possible love token 21 26.
• Earth-vein crystals and Qi-Gathering Pills — Principal cultivation supplies, obtained through gifts, prospecting, bargaining, wagers, and artifact sales 8 15 32 41 48.

Relationships

• Yang Zhan — Grandfather and childhood guardian. Seals Yang Xiao’s aptitude, later accepts his choice to cultivate, and leaves because remaining nearby would endanger him 5 6.
• Butcher / Sky Marquis Tu — Uncle, protector, and early cultivation mentor. Supplies resources, intervenes against powerful enemies, and shelters him in Slaughter Heaven City 7 9 24 35 48.
• Martial Master — Renowned grandmaster ancestor revealed by Butcher; reportedly overcame a ten-li Qi Sea and became famous for his divine fists 8.
• Aunt Lü — Family-like caregiver who feeds and protects him. His departure for cultivation leaves her grieving 2 7.
• Chen Wuyou — Carefree Sect master. Recognizes his dual talent, mobilizes disciples to rescue him, and entrusts him with securing protection for the sect’s survivors 15 26 32.
• Shen Buyu / Shen Laodao — Comic companion, rival, and dangerous ally. Shares information and equipment, but flees overwhelming danger; later weakens Gongsun Tuo and Feng Su for Yang Xiao’s ambush 10 23 26 50.
• Lei Miaoyan — Senior sister and romantic interest. Her kindness inspires his affection; he searches for her and guards her recovery underground 21 24 26.
• Lei Jiuchen — Lei Miaoyan’s protective brother. Briefly entrusts her to Yang Xiao but later takes her away when the sect disperses 30 32.
• Wang Huhu — Junior sister and close friend. Accompanies expeditions, worries over his survival, and bites him to confirm that he has returned alive 17 26.
• Dongfang Mingyue — Fellow disciple whose protectiveness toward Huhu often puts her at odds with him. Also assists him when he is injured 14 24.
• Yang You’er — Amnesiac companion whom he names and treats as a younger sister or cousin. She becomes his protector, while he fears her remembering that he killed her father, the Corpse Lord 30 33 35 50.
• Little Blue — Butcher’s messenger bird and Yang Xiao’s mischievous transport. Their early feud gives way to dependable courier service 9 10 19.
• Lord Pinghui — Deputy city lord and Punishment Hall superior. Protects him from Fu Shi, approves his acquisition of the Heart of the Earth, and assigns civic work 38 39 40.
• Li Xunhua — Flirtatious merchant ally at the Perching Phoenix Pavilion. Supplies materials, a map, and favorable equipment trades, though Yang Xiao remains alert to her business motives 23 32 49.
• Steward Li / Old Li — Household guardian and adviser. Helps arrange You’er’s education and warns Yang Xiao against entering the Hundred Arts Tower’s fifth floor 36 49.
• Veiled woman — Mysterious demonic Immortal who kills Huangfu Qi, takes the Dragon Horn, and grants Yang Xiao a one-use token for assistance 46 47.
• Gongsun Tuo — Earth Master Hall leader and principal enemy in the Slaughter Heaven City conflict. Yang Xiao kills him after Shen Laodao reduces his strength 42 47 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Desert Life and the First Awakening

Yang Xiao accepts a dangerous guiding job near Severed Dragon Valley for two hundred taels of gold. During the journey, a jackal attack reveals Gu Chen’s sabotage, while Butcher introduces him to cultivation. Inside the valley, hostage-taking triggers his hidden power, and Yang Zhan arrives to rescue him 2 4 5.

After learning about his sealed aptitude and bloodline, Yang Xiao chooses cultivation. His attempt to expose Gu Chen initially fails under local authority, but Butcher’s protection allows him to return and kill the culprit. He leaves Ancient Sand Town despite the pain of parting from Aunt Lü 6 7.

Carefree Sect Training

Butcher directs Yang Xiao toward the Carefree Sect because its teachings could help him secure resources for his enormous Qi Sea. He discovers the hidden introductory text by directing spiritual energy into his eyes, then displays exceptional aptitude in both Heavenly Master and Earth Master arts 9 13.

His training becomes increasingly self-directed: he sells the stone wall’s secret, prospects for crystals, defeats a Sea Condensation Blackwater Mystic Serpent while still in Qi Gathering, and obtains the Carefree Heavenly Master Chapter during the deep-pool expedition 15 17 20.

Luo Kedi and the Corpse Soul Mountain Searches

Luo Kedi ambushes him over jealousy concerning Dongfang Mingyue. Yang Xiao kills him with the Dragon Horn and invents a black-clad killer to conceal his role. Luo Chao’s subsequent attack nearly kills him before Butcher intervenes 22 24.

He then searches for the missing Lei Miaoyan, fights Corpse Soul Mountain disciples, survives pursuit by a Soul Seed spirit corpse, and locates her through Myriad Heavens Soul Search. A later infiltration seeks Wang Huhu, whom the Soul Master intends to exchange for the Carefree Scripture 25 26 28 29.

Sect Dispersal and Slaughter Heaven City

After the Carefree Sect’s destruction, Yang Xiao receives the Divine Kun’s golden pearl to deliver to Butcher and seek protection for surviving disciples. He travels with Yang You’er, reaches Sea Condensation Realm, and survives a breakthrough-related episode that threatens her life 32 33.

Butcher welcomes them into Plum Court. Yang Xiao arranges You’er’s education, demonstrates overwhelming ability at the Heavenly Master recruitment test, and captures the Heart of the Earth during the Earth Master assessment. Pinghui accepts him into the Punishment Hall, where his first major assignment is moving a dangerous mountain away from a village 35 36 37 38 39 40.

Ten Thousand Peaks Manhunt

The Earth Master Hall turns the pre-rampage beast hunt into an organized pursuit of Yang Xiao. He kills the Huangfu brothers, retaliates against pursuing disciples, and directs hundreds of enraged beasts into their camp. A prepared earth-vein battlefield allows him to kill Murong Chong 42 43 44.

Kong Bowen’s tracking technique brings Huangfu Qi to him. Unable to defeat a Living Spirit cultivator with a supreme-grade weapon, Yang Xiao escapes toward dangerous beasts and ultimately reaches the veiled woman. Her intervention saves him, but costs him the Dragon Horn 45 46.

City Defense and Gongsun Tuo’s Death

Yang Xiao follows the annual beast rampage back toward the city and joins its defense. He exposes peak demonic will to stop the Mountain Turtle, then kills Fu Shi after the elder recognizes the bloodline. Butcher shields him from Gongsun Tuo’s accusation 47.

After replacing surplus equipment with the Calamity Weapon and learning Great Kui Star, Yang Xiao uses himself as bait outside the city. Shen Laodao weakens Gongsun Tuo and Feng Su, while Yang You’er provides backup. Yang Xiao fatally punches Gongsun Tuo and narrowly escapes the mountain brought down in the hall master’s final attack 48 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“Anyone who does wrong must face the consequences. I don't care whose son Gu Chen is. Today, I will kill him.” 7

“You'er, don't accept food from them again. This food means little to us, but to them, it might be what keeps them alive.” 33

“I'm no good person. Good people have too hard a time surviving in this world, so my ambition is to be a bad person.” 40

“I have to deal with this person myself.” 49

Trivia

• The narration identifies him as only the second person in history to be both a Heavenly Master and an Earth Master 46.
• He initially suspects the bright moon in his Qi Sea may come from his mother, but neither its bloodline nor his mother’s circumstances are explained 8 41.
• The supplied Chapter 43 passage alternates between Fu Shan and Fu Shi for the elder in his forest duel, while later chapters again feature Fu Shi and place his death during the city defense. These references contain a naming or continuity inconsistency 43 45 47.