Li Xiaoya

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Li Xiaoya (李晓涯)
Alias(es)	Yaya, used by his mother; Ya and Xiao Ya, used by his companions 694 701 1026 1063
Species/Race	Huaxia Human Race 1611
Gender	Male 388 2426
Origin	Origin Continent; raised on the Great Illusion Continent, including Treasure Immortal Town 247 694
Affiliation	Heavenly Dao Sect, Heavenly Capital Peak; temporarily granted legacy-disciple privileges within the Heavenly Demon Race 56 469 1355
Occupation/Role	Cultivator, alchemist, artifact refiner, and master to Qin Xian and Lingyu; commander of the Second Army; eventually Lord of the Immortal Spirit Realm 600 1021 1610 1726 2426
Spiritual Roots	All five elemental attributes; initially poor mixed-root aptitude 17 56 66
Highest Documented Attainment	Immortal Ancestor 2426
Dao Companions	Zhang Hong and Liu Xian’er 896 1068 2327 2426
Parents	Li Mother and Li Muzhi 1217
Status	Alive; Lord of the Immortal Spirit Realm in the latest documented appearance 2426

Power Progression

Cultivation Realms

The table records stated breakthroughs and attained levels; it does not fill in intervening levels whose breakthroughs are not described.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
True Cultivation — first level	66	Senses spiritual qi after more than three months of practice. Liu Hang considers this exceptionally slow despite personal instruction.
True Cultivation — second layer	71	Advances over the following three months with assistance from the Wish Stone and Buddhist Bead.
True Cultivation — fifth-level peak	117	A month of supervised cultivation and Qi-Gathering Powder after Demon Beast Valley raises him to this level; his fireballs become several times stronger.
True Cultivation — eighth level	130	Too low-ranked to compete for the reserved Spiritlight Lake gathering place.
True Cultivation — eighth-level peak	130	Reaches the peak but encounters a bottleneck and worries that his cultivation is slightly declining.
True Cultivation — ninth-layer peak	183	Achieved after more than three months of training; repeated attempts to reach Great Perfection fail.
True Cultivation — Great Perfection	208	Breaks through using a pill and the surge of spiritual qi before Spiritlight Lake opens. Four hours of stabilization increase his magic power by a further third.
Core Condensation — sixth level	278	His unexpectedly rapid advancement astonishes Zhang Hong and Ma Weiqi after his disappearance at Spiritlight Lake.
Core Condensation — Great Perfection	469	Steward Liang identifies his attained realm during their meeting at the Treasure Appraisal Tower.
Golden Core Stage	541	Resumes the Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art; gains formidable defense, physical strength, and substantially improved speed.
Nascent Soul Realm — first layer	812	Documented during his pill-refining period; he is still some twenty or thirty years from the second layer by the chapter’s estimate.
Nascent Soul — late stage, seventh layer	1003	Reached during nearly a century of cultivation alongside major gains in body tempering, elemental arts, and Sword Dao.
Nascent Soul — late stage, ninth-level peak	1067	More than seventy years of concentrated cultivation greatly increase his magic power, although specialized techniques receive less attention.
Spirit Communion Stage	1181	Endures a destructive black-lightning tribulation while holding firm to his inner unity.
Spirit Communion — early stage, third-layer peak	1189	Advances through another century of training, supported by pure five-element qi, elixirs, and the Five-Element Heaven and Earth art.
Great Void Stage	1217	Returns as the Human Realm’s only Great Void cultivator, with the demonic tribulation still threatening his homeland.
Great Void — late stage, eighth layer	1526	Refines the Heart of the Earth and Earth Soul, advancing from the seventh layer in eleven or twelve years. His earth root becomes his strongest.
Great Void — perfection	1569	Reaches perfection in just over eight years using the sealed chamber’s heightened spiritual qi.
Heaven-and-Earth Realm	1569 1570 1572	Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pills initiate the breakthrough, but forcing it causes a crisis. The Five-Element Spirits intervene and contain its celestial phenomenon.
Heaven-and-Earth — second layer	1572	Reaches the second layer after more than a year of absorbing the spirits’ energy and the laws within their five-colored barrier.
Heaven-and-Earth — early-stage peak	1572	Continues advancing within the barrier, reaching this point roughly ninety-seven years after entering the Skyvault Secret Realm.
Heaven-and-Earth — middle stage	1572	Raises the chamber’s qi intensity and uses powerful elixirs to break the third-layer bottleneck. Concern for Liu Xian’er then ends his seclusion.
Heaven-and-Earth — fourth level, approximately three-quarters complete	1610	After nearly fifty further years, realm advancement remains slow despite exceptional gains in physical strength and divine sense.
Heaven-and-Earth — Great Perfection	1894	Breaks through while recovering in seclusion after the Sea Cow Emperor nearly kills him.
Mighty One Stage	1902	Announces his breakthrough to Zhang Hong and Liu Xian’er, who urge him to stabilize his realm.
Mighty One — early stage, second level, nearing its peak	1902	Reached over the next two hundred years through sustained cultivation, rare resources, and the formation’s abundant spiritual energy.
Mighty One — Great Perfection	2195	Overcomes the bottleneck from the stage’s peak more quickly than expected; recent battles and Ten-Thousand-Lifetime Reincarnation improve his mental cultivation.
Immortal Tribulation — middle stage, fifth layer	2339	Identified retrospectively as the starting level of his subsequent thousand-year training period.
Immortal Tribulation — late stage, ninth-layer peak	2339	Advances during a thousand years of training with the Immortal Ancestor’s Life Divine Ring; remains just short of Great Perfection.
Immortal Ancestor	2426	Documented as Lord of the Immortal Spirit Realm; can use Super Star Realm Teleportation Formations without payment.

Specialized Training

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Marrow cleansing	73	Uses Marrow-Washing Liquid for more than four hours, expelling black impurities and improving his cultivation constitution.
Talisman Refinement — second tier	130	Reached in just over half a year; Liu Hang rewards him with the Fire Spirit Thread.
Overlord Art — first level	231	Masters the painful Devil Race body-tempering method after months of practice; strength and defense improve substantially.
Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art — sixth level	795	Long cultivation and heavenly-starstone tempering increase his physical strength by nearly a third.
Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art — eighth layer	1003	Attained during nearly a century of cultivation.
Beast Qi-Concealment Art — first level	1354	Mastered in more than ten days; improves his control and refinement of Earth Demon Dragon essence blood.
Demon-Suppressing Divine Art — entry level	1610	Even preliminary mastery increases divine sense by nearly thirty percent and provides protection against soul attacks.
Tianyuan Sword Formula — fourth level	1854	Mastered after several months of training under Tianyuan.
Tianyuan Sword Formula — fifth level	1854	More than a year of contemplation raises his sword techniques’ might to four or five times their former strength.
Tianyuan Sword Formula — seventh layer	1902	Reached during two hundred years of Mighty One cultivation; he still suspects Tianyuan has entered the theoretical eighth layer.
Perfect five-element balance	2097	The Five-Element Balancing Pill harmonizes his elemental spiritual powers and removes the need to switch methods between elements.
Life law 60%; power law 50%; Sword Dao 10%	2339	Documented after his thousand-year training period; all five elemental clones have also reached Immortal Tribulation.

Background / History

Treasure Immortal Town

Li Xiaoya grew up on the Great Illusion Continent despite originating from the Origin Continent. As a ten-year-old in Treasure Immortal Town, he looked penniless but could bargain, provoke adults, and exploit concerns over reputation. At Zhang Dafu’s restaurant, he produced a genuine five-tael silver ingot to secure a meal, then challenged the owner over a cockroach on his plate. An elderly cultivator noticed his immortal root but judged its mixed aptitude poor 17 694.

Years later, he returned without seeking revenge against Zhang Dafu or Xu Er. The two men had arranged for Xu Dagang to beat him and feared his reaction, but Xiaoya warmly reconciled with them. He concealed his cultivation history behind a story about a martial arts master and thanked Zhang for the care he had received as a child 247.

Training at Heavenly Capital Peak

At the Heavenly Dao Sect, Liu Hang supervised Xiaoya on behalf of Heavenly Venerable Daoling. Xiaoya learned literacy, meridians, sect rules, and cultivation theory readily, but found meditation tedious and repeatedly fell asleep. After discovering his five-element roots, Liu Hang consulted Daoling and allowed him to choose an elemental art; Xiaoya selected fire because it offered a route into alchemy 56 57.

His early aim was practical: earn spirit stones, buy a flying artifact, and return to Treasure Immortal Town. That ambition encouraged him to study alchemy and talisman refinement, and gradually made him take cultivation more seriously. Liu Hang nevertheless punished his unauthorized Demon Beast Valley excursion with a month of supervised reflection and training 66 71 117.

Zhang Facai later subjected him to demanding combat instruction, purified his magic power, and strengthened his meridians. By the end, his meridians rivaled those of a Core Condensation cultivator, while his mental resilience and combat experience exceeded his actual realm 168 171 172.

Spiritlight Lake and Feng Chenzi

Xiaoya reached True Cultivation Great Perfection immediately before Spiritlight Lake opened, then disappeared during the gathering. Daoling monitored his strengthening Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamp and dispatched Liu Yulan to find him 208 230.

Trapped in a sealed white space, Xiaoya relied on Feng Chenzi for instruction and a possible escape. Feng taught him the Overlord Art while secretly intending it as a trap. Xiaoya continued practicing even after learning its Devil Race origin because he believed greater physical strength would help him escape 230 231.

Family Reunion on the Origin Continent

After fighting the Devastation Devil Lord and becoming stranded on the Origin Continent, Xiaoya discovered his parents’ circumstances. Li San guided him through a hidden formation in the Mistshadow Sea to a peach-blossom-covered island, where he met his mother 620 705.

His father remained imprisoned, and Xiaoya promised to rescue him once he was strong enough. He later received intelligence identifying his father’s place of captivity; subsequent chapters show both parents free and advancing in cultivation 701 925 980 1217.

Return to the Sect and Public Responsibility

The Heavenly Dao Sect increasingly treated Xiaoya as a potential future savior. He received privileged cultivation opportunities, developed into a military leader, and learned that the sect contained factional disputes as well as the supportive community he cherished. His relationships with Zhang Hong and Liu Xian’er were eventually publicly recognized, with Daoling and Qingxia attending their partnership gathering 701 845 849 896 1021.

As the demonic threat widened, he reported Elder Ma’s teaching of demonic methods and information about the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor to Qianshan. After reaching Great Void, he returned to a homeland facing demonic tribulation and took a leading role among its senior cultivators 1064 1217 1220.

Ascension and the Search for Zhang Hong’s Cure

Xiaoya brought the incapacitated Zhang Hong toward the Upper Realm. A secret art from the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma let him control her body and temporarily raise her power enough to trigger her own Ascension Tribulation. The procedure consumed a third of his magic power and divine sense before he faced his own tribulation 1303.

In the Thirty-Three Star Realm, his need to save Zhang Hong drove him to pursue stronger body cultivation and, eventually, the twin-pole netherflower in the Hell Tower. He accepted temporary legacy-disciple privileges within the Heavenly Demon Race, while remaining wary of the obligations attached to its patronage 1331 1354 1355 1552.

After Zhang Hong recovered from severe soul injuries, Xiaoya patiently reconstructed more than a thousand years of their history for her. Her missing memories revived earlier jealousy, but his explanations helped her reconnect with both him and Liu Xian’er 1729 1730 1732.

Fallen Immortal Grounds

Severely injured and unable to use his normal powers fully, Xiaoya studied local blood-circulation methods to restore his mobility. He improved the arts of Young Master Yang and Young Master Tianshang, then combined their principles to produce hot and cold energies that aided his recovery 1817 1820 1821.

Tianyuan became his swordsmanship mentor. Although Xiaoya’s skill increased rapidly, the Sea Cow Emperor nearly killed him, and Tianyuan had to intervene. The encounter exposed his overconfidence and inability to sustain the advanced Fire Dragon Sword, prompting renewed secluded cultivation on Illusory Spirit Island 1854 1894.

Immortal Court and Later Attainment

In the Immortal Court, Xiaoya reunited with Liu Xian’er and learned that the Immortal Sovereign had accepted her as a Formation Dao disciple. Her decision to remain there disrupted his hoped-for return to the Thirty-Three Star Realm 2327.

He subsequently completed a thousand-year training period that raised his main body to the ninth-layer peak of late Immortal Tribulation and reunited all five of his elemental clones. His later documented appearance identifies him as the Immortal Ancestor and Lord of the Immortal Spirit Realm, still together with Zhang Hong and Liu Xian’er 2339 2426.

Appearance

• Adult build: Tall and strongly built, with sword-like brows, star-bright eyes, a prominent nose bridge, broad back, and sturdy waist. Zhang Hong also notices a scholarly refinement in his bearing 388 638.
• Recognizable expression: His mischievous eyes help an old acquaintance identify him despite his transformed appearance 272.
• Clothing: Wears white robes after concealing the visible effects of his body-tempering cultivation 1611.
• Body-tempering markings: Golden threadlike lines form demon-beast images across his skin, including an Earth Demon Dragon on his back. He can withdraw these markings beneath the skin 1611.
• Defensive transformation: Dense, rice-grain-sized golden dragon scales can appear across his arm 1768.
• Blood: Turns golden-red after prolonged refinement of demon-beast essence blood 1610.

Personality

Xiaoya is clever, irreverent, and fond of teasing. As a child, he used bargaining, calculated generosity, and public embarrassment to control encounters with adults. That mischievous streak persists even after he becomes a respected senior cultivator, although he grows more composed when handling challenges to his identity or status 17 461 1731.

His attitude toward cultivation changes sharply. Initially, he values freedom and an enjoyable life more than longevity, distrusts unusually generous treatment, and struggles with repetitive meditation. Later, painful training and danger teach him patience, self-reliance, and the importance of facing responsibilities rather than escaping them 57 231 1610 1732.

He is generous toward vulnerable people, but often disguises compassion with rough humor. He helps Lingyu despite suspecting deception, distinguishes Zhao Xiaoqing’s coerced misconduct from deliberate malice, and resolves Ling Yuyu’s constitutional problem without accepting him as a disciple 630 803.

His romantic conduct is less careful than his cultivation planning. He sincerely loves both Zhang Hong and Liu Xian’er, yet evasive explanations and exaggerated flattery repeatedly hurt them. Later, he becomes more candid and patient, particularly while helping Zhang Hong cope with memory loss 708 768 1729 1732.

Growing power occasionally makes him complacent. Daoling worries about his arrogance, and his near-death encounter with the Sea Cow Emperor forces him to reassess the gap between exceptional techniques and sufficient cultivation 784 1894.

Abilities & Skills

Five-Element Cultivation

• Possesses roots for fire, water, wood, metal, and earth, allowing him to practice arts of every element 56.
• Initially uses the fire-based True Yang Art, with the True Sun Formula forming part of his early training 56 57.
• Liu Hang’s Five Elements Method converts his specialized magic power into other elements, but loses considerable power during conversion 130.
• Later develops comparatively balanced elemental methods; by late Nascent Soul, his magic power is twice that of an ordinary cultivator of that stage 1003.
• Refines earth origin power, enabling silent Earth Escape and complete merging with the earth 1526.
• Perfect five-element balance strengthens elemental spells by more than thirty percent. He estimates that it may increase cultivation and pill-refining speed by nearly half 2097.

Fire Techniques

• Lesser Fireball Art / Fireball Technique: An early offensive spell; by fifth-level peak, his fireballs are human-head-sized and several times stronger than before 71 117.
• Cross Flame Blade: Zhang Facai improves its speed and power and teaches it to split or merge for attacks from multiple angles. Producing myriad blades requires at least peak Golden Core cultivation 168.
• God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave: Develops dual- and triple-attribute versions before completing the five-element version he originally envisioned. Their destructive power comes with staggering magic-power consumption 1003.

Body Tempering and Beast Transformations

• Overlord Art: A nine-level Devil Race method taught by Feng Chenzi. Early training is agonizing; using a qi-absorbing stone stele reduces pain but slows progress 230 231.
• Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art: A major combat trump card that strengthens his body, defenses, and speed 541 795.
• Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram: Refines demon-beast essence blood to enhance his body and produce beast-pattern markings 1336 1610 1611.
• Combines the two latter methods into a gigantification ability; before reaching Mighty One, his physical strength already rivals cultivators of that realm 1654.
• Refinement of the twin-pole netherflower improves individual bodily attributes by roughly fifty percent, multiplying his practical combat strength severalfold 1756.
• Later refines the Twelve Demon Kings’ and Light Divine Beast’s essence blood, allowing transformation into their forms and use of their abilities 2339.

Sword Dao

• Practices the Fire Dragon Sword’s techniques, although he repeatedly struggles with its second move during his early confinement 230.
• Tianyuan Sword Formula: Combines Sword Dao with Heavenly Dao laws. Each level from the fourth onward sharply amplifies its power 1854.
• Uses Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash when Tianyuan tests his swordsmanship 1854.
• Masters the formula’s seventh layer, but regards Tianyuan as a possible practitioner of its theoretical eighth layer 1902.
• Even at Mighty One, the evolved Fire Dragon Sword permits only two uses of its Dragon Sword Art or a brief period of sustained sword techniques 1902.

Divine Sense and Soul Defense

• Has unusually powerful divine sense from birth, giving him an advantage even over companions with better spiritual-root aptitude 413.
• Learns and teaches the Sleep God Art to Zhang Hong 413.
• Can eventually cast some low-level spells mentally, without gestures or spoken incantations 230.
• Demon-Suppressing Divine Art: Strengthens divine sense, protects against soul attacks, and weakens Heavenly Demon opponents 1610 1678.
• Uses direct mental transmission to teach revised cultivation methods 1820.

Movement and Concealment

• Immortal Flash Carefree Journey: A difficult movement and combat ability suited to pressuring long-range specialists at close quarters. Even after extensive training, he has not matched Black Old Devil’s former mastery 1003.
• Qi-Concealment Art: Learned during early True Cultivation 71.
• Beast Qi-Concealment Art: Improves control over refined beast essence blood; the first level he receives is only part of a four-level method 1354.
• Detects hidden threats through practical clues as well as spiritual perception, identifying Zhou Xiaoya’s distinctive scent despite her invisibility 196.

Alchemy and Talisman Refinement

• Begins with medicinal-ingredient memorization and simple pills under Liu Hang 71.
• Achieves a thirty-to-forty-percent success rate with Second-Rank True Cultivation Pills—exceptional by ordinary standards, though disappointing to him 130.
• Reaches second-tier talisman refinement and learns Lightning Talisman activation from Liu Qingshan 71 130.
• Successfully refines seven Nine-Turn Spirit Communion Pills, but delays their use until adequate preparation and cultivation make them safer 1063.
• Becomes a master alchemist through accumulated resources, experience, and inherited talent 1610.

Artifact Refinement and Technique Development

• Refines an exceptional-grade magic treasure and understands ancient runes, while concealing Second Better’s assistance 600.
• Improves Cold Blood Spirit Art from upper-tier profound grade to middle-tier earth grade, raising its potential from sixth-rank to eighth-rank cultivation 1820.
• Adapts blood flow, muscle coordination, and meridian-opening principles rather than abandoning his existing cultivation for Tianyuan’s blood method 1820 1854.
• Practices Heaven-and-Earth Attunement to prepare for refining the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm; meeting the realm requirement alone does not make secret-realm creation easy 1771.

Elemental Clones and Laws

• Uses a water-element clone carrying his consciousness for reconnaissance when multiple Immortal Tribulation cultivators threaten his main body 2097.
• Eventually possesses five Immortal Tribulation elemental clones. His earth clone develops independent awareness before being captured, returned, and brought back under his control 2339.
• Life-law power can devastate vegetation and restore it to stronger growth, but cannot yet create living creatures 2339.
• Continues studying the One-Origin Nascent Soul Transformation Art, but fails for more than two hundred years to transform his five-element golden cores into Nascent Souls 1902.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Fire Dragon Sword — Powerful evolving weapon associated with Feng Chenzi’s refinement instruction. Xiaoya and Second Better theorize that it absorbs flesh, blood, and Nascent Souls from beasts with Ancient Dragon bloodlines; this remains difficult to test 340 703.
• Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff — Life-bound weapon strengthened with profound-heaven bright silver and Qianyuan true essence. It cannot be used during the prolonged refinement; after his Mighty One advancement, he repairs and strengthens it beyond exceptional-grade treasures 1610 1902.
• Five-Element Heavenly Venerable Heaven-Shaking Tower — A five-element set whose individual towers are supreme-grade True Immortal Spirit Treasures, especially suited to his roots and cultivation art 1788.
• Hell Crown — Heaven-Opening Treasure whose manifestations and divine powers he studies alongside the tower set 1788.
• Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor — One of the powerful defensive treasures supporting his ability to fight above his realm 1663.
• Azure Wind Leaf — Flying dharma artifact bought with funds from selling spare materials 123.
• Heavenly Feather Wings — Top-grade ancient treasure made from Wind Spirit Bird feathers, famed for speed; gives him a clear advantage while sparring with Dongfang Yi 600 699.
• Immortal Dao Chain / inherited protective necklace — Identifies his protective necklace as an inheritance from his parents; later offers the Immortal Dao Chain to Zhang Hong for protection and cultivation 391 705.
• Secret Realm Necklace — Shelters Zhang Hong during her prolonged incapacitation and houses his companions during later travel 1526 1880.
• Wish Stone — Assists his early cultivation and channels the spiritual qi surge near Spiritlight Lake 71 207.
• Ten-Thousand-Year Agarwood Buddhist Beads — Cultivation aid worn alongside the Wish Stone 207.
• Fire Spirit Thread — Top-grade dharma artifact awarded by Liu Hang for reaching second-tier talisman refinement 130.
• Fourth-tier Invisibility Talisman — Rare talisman given by Daoling; inspires Xiaoya to develop his own talisman-making abilities 130.
• Vacuum Ring — Token from Daoling that proves his identity when sect guards question him 461.
• Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron — Retrieved from Second Better before Xiaoya attempts difficult pills to improve his metal and wood roots 1526.
• Skyvault Skiff — Flying vessel whose pipes draw in large quantities of five-element qi for prolonged cultivation 1610.
• Immortal Ancestor’s Life Divine Ring — Supports his thousand-year period of life-law and realm cultivation 2339.
• Soul lamps — Carries Lingyu’s lamp to monitor her safety; his own Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamp allows Daoling and Liu Yulan to track his condition and proximity 230 799.

Relationships

Family and Dao Companions

• Li Mother — Loving, protective mother. Their reunion fulfills his long-standing desire to find his family; she later warns him about hidden motives behind the sect’s support 620 701.
• Li Muzhi — Father, initially imprisoned. Xiaoya vows to rescue him only when strong enough; both parents are later reunited with him as Spirit Communion cultivators 701 1217.
• Zhang Hong — Senior sister and Dao companion. Their intimacy begins while trapped in the Southwestern Ancient City; she later searches for him for more than a decade. He supports her through prolonged incapacitation, ascension, soul recovery, and memory loss 699 705 768 1303 1729.
• Liu Xian’er / Blue Ice — Childhood affection and eventual Dao companion; Xiaoya later recognizes her activities under the Blue Ice disguise. Their relationship survives Qingxia’s opposition and becomes a lasting partnership, though her Formation Dao training in the Immortal Court changes their travel plans 771 787 896 2327.

Masters, Mentors, and Collaborators

• Heavenly Venerable Daoling — Master and major patron. Provides cultivation resources, monitors Xiaoya’s lifebound lamp, organizes searches during his disappearance, and places great responsibility on him 56 230 701 785.
• Liu Hang — Second senior brother, foundational instructor, and caretaker. Teaches cultivation and alchemy while balancing discipline with affection; Xiaoya is deeply affected by his reported death and seeks vengeance for him 57 71 117 391 399 1726.
• Zhang Facai — Demanding combat instructor who improves his Cross Flame Blade, meridians, and practical judgment. Xiaoya later surpasses him in sparring 168 171 784.
• Liu Yulan — Fourth senior sister and Zhang Hong’s master. Searches for Xiaoya with his spirit lamp and later relays news between him and Zhang Hong 230 699 703.
• High Person Qianshan — Senior mentor who offers Dao instruction, cultivation facilities, and guidance concerning the demonic threat 699 703 1064.
• Fairy Qingxia — Senior sect figure and Liu Xian’er’s master. Treats Xiaoya warmly during earlier visits but later uses her authority to demand separation from Xian’er 700 785 787.
• Feng Chenzi — Instructor during confinement beneath Spiritlight Lake. Xiaoya trusts his knowledge, but Feng secretly uses the Overlord Art as part of a plan to kill him 230 231.
• Second Better — Close crafting and cultivation collaborator. Helps conceal the source of Xiaoya’s artifact knowledge and works on armor, weapons, vessels, and larger refining projects 600 703 1003.
• Tianyuan — Swordsmanship mentor who shares his formula and rescues Xiaoya from the Sea Cow Emperor. Remains a benchmark for Xiaoya’s strength and discipline 1854 1894 1902.
• Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma — Long-standing companion and source of secret arts and cultivation knowledge. Their bond rests on mutual rescue and repayment, though its true nature remains unclear to Xiaoya 1303 2076 2097.
• Great Immortal Haocang — Deceased immortal whose residual soul knowledge and nine-heavens immortalizing grass contribute to Xiaoya’s extraordinary advancement 1572.
• Qian Lan and the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones — Heavenly Demon Race patrons who provide access and instruction while attaching unclear future obligations 1354 1355.

Friends, Disciples, and Other Ties

• Dong Santong — Fellow cultivator, frequent traveling companion, and rival in sparring. Xiaoya protects him while he is temporarily unable to use magic power and later worries about his disappearance 541 620 1217.
• Liu Qingshan — Friend and talisman instructor. Their shared concern for Zhang Hong draws Xiaoya into investigating Ma Weiqi’s alleged abuse and coercion 71 280.
• Zhou Xiaoya — Friend from the Heavenly Spirit Church, despite their sects’ opposing paths. Their teasing friendship develops into information sharing and help obtaining rare materials 196 451 984.
• Wang Ding and the Four Friends of the Wang — Traveling allies who help him survive in Demon Beast Valley. Wang Ding later introduces him to Huang Hua and Yang Zilin 114 183.
• Lingyu — Disciple first encountered under coercion by a predatory gang. Xiaoya rescues and supports her, then respects her decision to remain on the Origin Continent with her own disciple 630 799 925.
• Qin Xian — Disciple and capable assistant. Xiaoya obtains a Heavenly Dao Pill to help him reach Nascent Soul; he later becomes a Spirit Communion pillar of the sect 1003 1726.
• Yu Linglong — Granddisciple through Lingyu 1068 1726.
• Little White — Bird companion associated with Liu Hang. Plays roughly with Xiaoya and receives body-strengthening pills from him 123 790 1063.
• Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast — Beast servant that guards areas for him and reports Second Better’s whereabouts; grows more deferential after sensing his Heaven-and-Earth strength 1552 1569.
• Ouyang Qianru — Pursues him with encouragement from her mother. Although he shows concern for her cultivation and briefly entertains an arrangement, their relationship does not become a lasting romance; he later acknowledges that he has no particular romantic feelings for her 584 591 594 1072.
• Ma Weiqi — Hostile sectmate linked to Zhang Hong’s pressured partnership and to Xiaoya’s framing. His family’s influence initially suppresses action over the case 280 399 849.

Notable Quotes

“People often have to rely on themselves! Do you understand?” — Explaining to Ouyang Qianru why family protection cannot replace personal strength 594.

“Still, Xian’er, Senior Sister Zhang Hong, and I truly love one another. Please allow us to be together!” — Pleading with Fairy Qingxia 787.

“Martial Aunt! Isn’t this bullying a junior with your seniority?” — Resisting Qingxia’s overwhelming aura during the dispute over Liu Xian’er 787.