Liu Xiyan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Liu Xiyan (刘惜言)
Alias(es)	Senior Sister Liu; Senior Sister Xiyan 322
Gender	Female 326
Affiliation	Blade Tower Lineage, nominally incorporated into the Five Elements Sect 331 345
Occupation/Role	Blade cultivator; eldest senior sister of the Blade Tower’s current generation; handles cooking and blade airing 258 323 331
Master	Bai Zhi 322
Cultivation	Mid-stage Core Condensation; approaching late-stage after the Blade Mound trial 326 344
Status	Alive; present during Mo Yun’s spar with Bai Zhi 412
First Appearance	First documented appearance in the supplied context: 247

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Early Core Condensation	323	Had entered Core Condensation two or three years earlier. Mo Yun senses that she is on the verge of reaching the middle stage.
Mid-stage Core Condensation	326	Breaks through two days before the Ruins expedition. Chooses not to delay her advancement because her main objective is the Blade Tower’s original-site trial, rather than the Ruins’ cultivation benefits.
Mid-stage Core Condensation, nearing late-stage	344	Clears six stages of the Blade Mound trial over twenty-one days. Each cleared stage supplies Blade Intent and Blade Momentum; she estimates that a few more months of training could bring her to late Core Condensation. No completed late-stage breakthrough is documented.

Background / History

Liu Xiyan was orphaned as a child and wandered for several years. When she was close to starving, Bai Zhi encountered her while away from the mountain and brought her to the Blade Tower. Her reluctance to waste food stems from this period of hunger 250 323.

By the time Mo Yun visits the Tower, she has practiced blade concealment for ten years. She describes herself as accustomed to its pain and initially urges him to save an expensive Golden Spirit Fruit for the newly initiated Lin Qingxue instead 258.

As the Tower’s eldest senior sister, Liu Xiyan works to recruit promising successors while attending to its daily needs. Its limited support is reflected in her modest diet: pickled vegetables and steamed buns, with meat only occasionally 247 258 331 345.

Appearance

• Clothing: Usually wears a long emerald-green dress 247 300 326.
• Features: Exquisite facial features, almond-shaped eyes, and two shallow dimples that become prominent when she smiles 247 258 322.
• Complexion: Initially noticeably pale, giving her a sickly appearance. Her complexion later improves, though some pallor remains 322 326.
• Expressions: Usually radiant and approachable; when angered, her eyes become sharp enough to be compared to unsheathed divine sabers 322 327.

Personality

Liu Xiyan is talkative, theatrical, and openly affectionate. She repeatedly calls Mo Yun “handsome junior brother,” plays along with his demands to address him as Tower Master, and asks him to call her simply “Xiyan” to make their relationship feel less distant. Her enthusiasm can become extravagant: Lin Qingxue’s Blade Saint potential moves her to tears, and she pricks her own cheek with blade light to check whether she is dreaming 250 300 322 326.

Her devotion to the Blade Tower sometimes leads her to manipulate prospective recruits. She understates her own talent and exaggerates Xu Wei’s importance to persuade him to stay. After he leaves, she acknowledges Bai Zhi’s warning that disciples recruited through lies eventually depart, while taking comfort that he will avoid the dangers of the Blade Dao 251.

Despite her flighty manner, she is perceptive and practical. She recognizes Lin Qingxue’s feelings for Mo Yun, firmly intervenes against other women’s advances, and explains why delaying her own breakthrough would accomplish little. Mo Yun’s extraordinary progress occasionally discourages her, but she continues training and aspires to become a Blade Saint herself 326 327 337 349 394.

Abilities & Skills

Blade Dao Talent

• Resonated with six Ancient Blades, substantially exceeding the four she had claimed when recruiting Xu Wei 251.
• Understands the Ancient Blade testing process and instructs Lin Qingxue to extend her spiritual perception toward the inscriptions 247.
• Recognizes exceptional resonance as evidence of potential for Primordial Unity or Blade Saint cultivation 248 250.

Blade Light and Combat

• Releases dazzling silvery-white blade light capable of cutting down groups of early- and middle-Core-Condensation aberrations with ease 329.
• At mid-stage Core Condensation, demonstrates combat strength well above Xu Wudi, Lu Chang Kong, and Xu Zhiyi 329.
• Remains effective against peak-Core-Condensation Eerie during the journey to the Blade Mound 339.
• Can release a threatening cultivation aura accompanied by spreading saber light 327.
• Prepares to use a secret art to condense her strongest blade radiance against two peak-Core-Condensation enemies, but Mo Yun defeats them before she acts 338.

Blade Cultivation and Tower Maintenance

• Cultivates by refining Blade Intent and tempering her body with Blade Momentum. Absorbing primordial energy also helps, but offers comparatively limited improvement 334.
• Has ten years of experience in blade concealment 258.
• Airs the Tower’s preserved blades on the first and fifteenth of each month, when its Field Domain is weakest. Handling them at other times risks serious injury or death 258 262.
• Explains that consciousness traces preserved in generations of disciples’ blades strengthen the Tower’s protective field, which can suppress Saint Realm beings 258.

Teamwork and Instruction

• Coordinates with Mo Yun to attack an aberration-filled village from opposite ends and rapidly clear it 330.
• Helps rescue Xu Zhiyi, Gu Shuiyue, and Nangong Ling during the Ruins expedition 330 331.
• Gives Xu Zhiyi practical combat guidance, improving her decisiveness and efficiency against Eerie 331.
• Warns Mo Yun to retreat if they encounter enemies beyond their capabilities and cautions him against the Ruins’ dangerous central structure 333 337.

Cooking

• Regularly cooks for the Blade Tower and enjoys the work, but her food tastes unpleasant despite looking and smelling appetizing 323.
• Insists that leftovers should not be wasted, reflecting her childhood experience of hunger 323.
• After tasting Mo Yun’s braised pork, decides to learn cooking from him 388.

Relationships

• Bai Zhi — Master and childhood rescuer. Brings her to the Blade Tower, arranges her place in the Ruins, and stresses the importance of the original-site trial 250 323 326.
• Ge Xuanyi — Grandmaster Ancestor and the old Blade Saint. Liu Xiyan speaks familiarly with him but seeks his judgment when Mo Yun fights Bai Zhi 262 412.
• Lin Qingxue — Junior sister, affectionately called “pretty junior sister” or “Xue’er.” Liu Xiyan looks after her cultivation and actively supports her apparent feelings for Mo Yun 258 327 349 379.
• Mo Yun — “Handsome junior brother,” friend, benefactor, and prospective Tower Master. His gifts and visits strengthen their bond; she worries intensely when he disappears into a separate Blade Mound trial 258 300 344 386.
• Xu Wei — Former recruitment prospect. She conceals her superior talent to encourage him to remain, but ultimately accepts his return to the Fire Lineage as the safer choice 251.
• Xu Zhiyi — Ruins teammate and later recipient of her combat guidance. Initially refuses to teach her, then agrees after helping rescue her 327 330 331.
• Gu Shuiyue and Nangong Ling — Ruins teammates. Liu Xiyan clashes with Nangong Ling over her advances toward Mo Yun, but later helps rescue both women 327 331.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Recruiting Successors

• Offers Mo Yun thirty Origin Crystals in exchange for testing his Blade Dao talent and considering the Tower if his results are exceptional 247 248.
• Becomes ecstatic when Lin Qingxue lights the seventh Ancient Blade, identifying genuine Blade Saint potential 250.
• Witnesses Mo Yun’s unprecedented results and later rushes to see his resonance with the ninth Ancient Blade 251 262.
• Begins treating Lin Qingxue and Mo Yun as the successors who could free the Tower from having to recruit through deception 251.

Ruins Expedition and Blade Mound Trial

• Joins a five-person team with Mo Yun, Xu Zhiyi, Gu Shuiyue, and Nangong Ling 326 327.
• Helps reunite the scattered team, clear Eerie, and reach the city gate before continuing toward the Blade Mound with Mo Yun 330 331 337.
• Enters a different trial from Mo Yun and clears six stages, gaining enough cultivation progress to approach late Core Condensation 344.
• Receives 200,000 merit points when their team finishes first 345.
• Returns to the Blade Tower with Mo Yun to report his discovery concerning its inheritance 345 346.

Blade Tower Household

• Continues training alongside Lin Qingxue and Mo Yun while teasing them about a possible future marriage 349 379.
• Welcomes Mo Yun’s move into the Tower, initially hoping he has come to succeed as Tower Master 386.
• Declares her own ambition to become a Blade Saint, though she privately doubts her talent compared with the other Tower members 394.
• Watches Mo Yun fight Bai Zhi and struggles to reconcile his Primordial Unity cultivation with his ability to contend against a Blade Saint 412.

Notable Quotes

“I've been practicing blade concealment for ten years now. I'm long used to it~” 258

“For us, we still need to refine our blade intent and temper our bodies with blade momentum.” 334

“Someday, I'll prove my Dao and become a Blade Saint too!” 394

Trivia

• Mo Yun interprets her name as “Liu the Sparing of Words” and jokes internally that “Liu Cluck-and-Cackle” would better suit her constant chatter 247.
• She describes the Blade Tower’s current generation as having “two and a half” disciples, counting Mo Yun as the half 331.
• Her invitations to visit the Tower combine genuine hospitality with the hope of finding more promising Blade Dao recruits 345.