Ji Yang

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ji Yang (姬阳)
Alias(es)	Xiao Yang / Little Yang; Brother Yang (Xiao Wu); Ah Yang / A Yang (Ye Lingling); Tower Master 9 13 23 50
Species/Race	Human; transmigrator to the Douluo Continent 5 27
Gender	Male
Age	Ten during his late Soul King cultivation 23
Affiliation	Nuoding Academy, formerly; Pill Tower 1 5 20
Occupation/Role	Soul Master, alchemist, founder and Tower Master of the Pill Tower 20 38 50
Martial Soul	Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace, also called the Bagua Alchemy Furnace; possesses ultimate fire and ultimate metal attributes 1
Innate Soul Power	Level one; cultivation talent later improved through an immortal-herb pill 1 37
Latest Confirmed Cultivation	Level 69 Soul Emperor 38
Status	Alive; selected by the Asura God for a potential succession, but must obtain the Divine Slaughter’s Domain before receiving the Asura Nine Trials 49 50
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Innate Soul Power: Level 1	1	His initial talent severely limited the cultivation potential of his dual-ultimate-attribute martial soul.
Level 10 Prospective Soul Master	1	Reached within one year using Soul Power Pills, chiefly refined from inexpensive Soft Bone Rabbits. Whale Rubber Pills strengthened his body enough to withstand a first ring at least four thousand years old.
Approximately Level 12.5 One-Ring Soul Master	3	Absorbed a fifty-year Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit Pill and obtained Phoenix Fire. Previously accumulated pill energy and meditation supplied most of the level increase.
Approximately Level 14.5; two-thousand-year first Soul Ring	4	Fed numerous Soul Ring Pills to the Phoenix Bird, advancing it directly from fifty to two thousand years. Its advancement also raised his Soul Power.
First Soul Skill transforms into Flame of Life	5	Merging a Blue Silver Grass Soul Skill Pill with Phoenix Fire added healing while preserving its offensive and enhancement effects.
Level 16 Soul Master	17	Described as a recent breakthrough before consuming pills refined from the two scar-faced Soul Masters.
Level 17 Soul Master	17	A Soul Power Pill refined from a Quasi-Soul Ancestor directly increased his cultivation.
Level 19 Soul Master; ten-thousand-year first Soul Ring	17	Soul Ring Pills advanced the Phoenix Bird to ten thousand years. Soul Body Pills raised his physical tolerance accordingly, while Soul God Pills strengthened his Spirit Connection Realm mental power toward the Spirit Sea Realm.
Level 55 Soul King	22	Gained thirty-six levels over three years of secluded cultivation. His Phoenix Bird evolved through Fire Luan into the Radiant Sun Sacred Phoenix, and he acquired the Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Soul Spirit.
Peak Level 55; two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirits and Soul Bones	23	At age ten, he was approaching Level 56. His absorbed Phoenix and True Dragon Soul Bones, including external bones, had reached the Ferocious Beast level.
Level 60 Quasi-Soul Emperor	37	The Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill raised him five levels, widened his meridians, strengthened his foundations, and improved his cultivation talent.
Level 65 Soul Emperor; sixth Soul Ring	37	The Crimson Flame Fire Dragon supplied its third ring. Remaining immortal-herb potency, the Soul Spirit, and previously absorbed Soul Power Pills contributed to the breakthrough. His furnace also gained improved pill potency and yield.
Level 69 Soul Emperor	38	The Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill added four levels, strengthened his furnace’s flames, and unlocked precise control over pill production and trait extraction.

Background / History

Ji Yang transmigrated to the Douluo Continent during the Douluo I era. His knowledge of its characters and future opportunities shaped his plans, including his intention to take Xiao Wu and the Blue Silver Emperor away from Tang San’s future path 5 6.

At Nuoding Academy, his level-one innate Soul Power was offset by the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace’s ability to produce cultivation pills. Limited funds initially forced him to rely on common Soft Bone Rabbits. His diligence earned Director Su’s support, while his financial assistance to local beggar siblings later helped him locate Xiao Wu 1 6.

Appearance

Ji Yang was naturally handsome, but pills refined from beauty-enhancing herbs and materials made his appearance striking enough to immediately attract Xiao Wu’s attention 6.

• Accelerated physical development: At ten years old, his Soul King cultivation made him look approximately seventeen or eighteen 23.
• Storage ring: Wears a ring-shaped Storage Soul Tool on his hand 4.
• External Soul Bones: Possesses Phoenix-wing and dragon-claw external bones 23.

Personality

Ji Yang is diligent, patient, and willing to sustain a demanding cultivation routine. During his stay in the Star Dou Great Forest, he alternated meditation, Soul Skill practice, and sparring with Xiao Wu. Although forest life bored him, the satisfaction of repeated breakthroughs helped him remain in seclusion 21 24.

He is also calculating and comfortable with deception. He fabricated a connection to Ah Rou to gain Xiao Wu’s trust, attributed his furnace to a deity, and later presented the prerequisite for the Asura Nine Trials as his “First Trial.” His recruitment methods combine valuable benefits with leverage: Ye Lingling was offered relief from her family’s curse, while Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan faced both overwhelming pressure and a promised cure 6 9 18 32 50.

His ruthlessness has a stated boundary. He refined two murderous robbers into pills and recognized that human-derived Soul Power Pills suited him better than beast-derived ones, but rejected indiscriminate killing merely to cultivate faster. He regarded Slaughter City’s criminals and Evil Soul Masters as acceptable future targets 14 16 17.

Despite pursuing personal protection and advancement, he invests heavily in his allies. Sharing pills and helping Da Ming and Er Ming slowed his own cultivation; he nevertheless continued supplying them and promised to seek godhood opportunities for his companions 23 50.

Abilities & Skills

Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace

His martial soul refines soul beasts, human Soul Masters, herbs, and other materials into pills, enhancing the effects of the ingredients during processing 1 16 17 37.

Pill Type	Function
Soul Power Pill	Accelerates cultivation when beast-derived. Human-derived pills are more compatible with humans and can directly increase Ji Yang’s level 1 17.
Soul Ring Pill	Grants a ring appropriate to the recipient’s cultivation realm or increases an existing ring’s age. Rings obtained this way lack an inherent Soul Skill unless supplemented 1 4.
Soul Skill Pill	Supplies a corresponding Soul Skill or modifies an existing skill through fusion 4 5.
Soul Bone Pill	Provides a means of acquiring suitable Soul Bones 23.
Soul Body Pill	Strengthens the body and increases its capacity to withstand older Soul Rings 9 17.
Soul God Pill	Strengthens spiritual or mental power 3 17.
Soul Blood Pill	Strengthens bloodlines and enables Soul Spirit or Soul Bone evolution 22 23 42.
Soul Spirit Pill	Originally combines the seven other pill categories into one pill that produces a corresponding Soul Spirit 3.
Whale Rubber Pill	Strengthens the body; suitable fresh whale rubber can also yield a separate Soul Power Pill 1.

• Dual ultimate attributes: Ultimate fire and ultimate metal suppress related non-ultimate martial souls 1.
• Intrinsic refinement: Alchemy is an inherent furnace ability, not a Soul Skill. Ji Yang therefore expects Slaughter City’s Soul Skill restrictions not to disable it 17.
• Gentler absorption: Soul Ring and Soul Spirit Pills are safer than their conventional equivalents, but exceeding the recipient’s physical and spiritual limits can still cause failed absorption and injury 3.
• Ingredient requirements: Pill output depends on the available material. The scar-faced men yielded no Soul Blood or Soul Bone Pills because they lacked exceptional bloodlines and absorbed Soul Bones 16.
• Fusion limits: An attempted offensive Soul Skill addition to Ye Lingling was assimilated into healing instead, without adding a new skill to her Life Sunflower 21.

Advanced Alchemy

Immortal-herb pills unlocked deeper furnace capabilities rather than simply adding the herbs’ own properties 38.

• Improved potency and yield: After the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill, Ji Yang estimated a thirty-to-fifty-percent potency increase and a possible doubling of pill quantity 37.
• Selective production: After the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill, he could choose the desired pill outputs and produce multiple types from one set of ingredients 38.
• Trait extraction: Can target specific organs, traits, or abilities for refinement into pills that confer those features—for example, a poison gland’s capacity to safely store toxins 38.
• Immortal-herb processing: His furnace bypasses conventional harvesting and consumption restrictions 37.
• Effect identification: Refining the unfamiliar Clear-Origin Dragon Marrow Lotus allowed him to learn its effects through the furnace 39.
• Dragon-origin materials: Repeatedly refined Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well spring water and obtained Soul Blood and essence pills associated with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings 41.

Phoenix Fire, Flame of Life, and Phoenix Sacred Fire

His first Soul Skill began as Phoenix Fire, gained healing through Blue Silver Grass skill fusion, and eventually evolved into Phoenix Sacred Fire with the Radiant Sun Sacred Phoenix 3 5 22.

Documented Form	Fire-Type Offensive Skill Boost	Temporary Total Soul Power Increase	Duration
Thousand-year Phoenix Fire	125%	50%	Ten minutes 4
Ten-thousand-year first Soul Skill	150%	80%	Twelve minutes 17

• Attack and healing modes: Flame of Life lets him change the nature of his furnace flames between damaging enemies and healing injuries 5.
• Soul Power recovery: Healing others restores a small amount of their Soul Power; self-healing does not restore his own 5.
• Purification: Phoenix Sacred Fire purged Dugu Bo’s poison and restored him to peak condition 36.
• Barrier removal: Used Phoenix Sacred Fire to burn a passage through Dugu Bo’s poisonous mist 31.

Soul Spirits

Soul Spirit	Origin and Development	Confirmed Strength
Radiant Sun Sacred Phoenix	Began as a fifty-year Phoenix Bird; evolved into a Fire Luan after a Fire Luan Soul Blood Pill, then into a pure-blooded sacred phoenix through stronger Phoenix bloodlines 3 22.	Two-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast Soul Spirit; described as having Level 95 Super Douluo strength 23 28.
Crimson Flame Fire Dragon	Refined from a seventy-thousand-year Flame Tyrannosaurus with substantial True Dragon blood. Furnace enhancement produced a pure-blooded dragon 22.	Two-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast Soul Spirit; described as having Level 95 Super Douluo strength 23 28.

• Ring provision: The Crimson Flame Fire Dragon supplied Ji Yang’s sixth Soul Ring, its third provided ring 37.
• Independent growth: Soul Ring and Soul Blood Pills increase Soul Spirit age and improve bloodline quality 4 22.
• Further evolution remains speculative: Ji Yang considered using the Fire Dragon King’s surviving bloodline to evolve the Crimson Flame Fire Dragon; the supplied chapters do not confirm that transformation 22 41.

Spiritual Power and Combat

His spiritual power substantially exceeds what his Soul Power rank would suggest. Qian Renxue judged his spiritual pressure to be near that of a Limit Douluo; Dugu Bo similarly mistook it for the power of a Level 98-or-higher spiritual specialist 30 32.

• Mental probing and interference: By Level 19, he could project mental power for short-range probes and weak Mental Interference 17.
• Remote detection: Detected Qian Renxue’s group hunting a Holy Light Lion beneath a nearby cliff 29.
• Intimidation: Overwhelmed Qian Renxue and her two Douluo escorts, then separately forced Dugu Bo to recognize the disparity between them 30 32.
• Above-rank combat resources: His two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Skills and Soul Bones made him confident of seriously hurting a Titled Douluo even while he was a Soul King 27.
• Not invincible in sparring: Against Xiao Wu, he rarely won outright; surrounding himself with furnace flames sometimes allowed a mutual defeat 21.

Cultivation Knowledge

• Soul core instruction: Explained soul core formation to Dugu Bo and refined his core bead into a Core Bead Pill to assist condensation 33 36.
• Poison remedies: Offered poison storage in a Soul Bone, purification, Martial Soul evolution, or poison storage in a soul core as four solutions to the Dugu family’s toxicity 33.
• Tailored evolution: Selected Earth Dragon Golden Melon Pills for Dugu Yan and specialized immortal-herb pills for his other companions 39.
• Future-informed planning: Used his knowledge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s terrain, immortal herbs, and divine succession opportunities to guide his actions 22 29 50.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ring-shaped Storage Soul Tool — Holds his pills and important belongings, allowing him to leave Nuoding Academy without returning to his dormitory 4 5.
• Phoenix left-arm Soul Bone — Acquired through a Soul Bone Pill, purified into a true Phoenix bone, and elevated to two hundred thousand years 23.
• True Dragon right-arm Soul Bone — Acquired through a Soul Bone Pill and similarly purified and elevated 23.
• Phoenix-wing External Soul Bone — Elevated to the two-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast level 23.
• Dragon-claw palm External Soul Bones — Elevated alongside his other absorbed bones 23.
• Ice and Fire Dragon King pills — Possessed their Soul Blood and essence pills while investigating whether their remains also contained divine sparks, divinities, spiritual energy, or laws 41.

Relationships

• Xiao Wu — Close companion whose trust he initially gained through a false claim of knowing Ah Rou. He supports her cultivation and promises to help the Soul Beast Clan. Their bond deepens over three years, and she becomes openly jealous of Ye Lingling’s affection for him 6 9 23 50.
• Ye Lingling — Early Pill Tower recruit and beneficiary of his pills, Soul Bones, and Martial Soul evolution. She credits him with freeing her from the Nine Heart Begonia curse and enabling the Goddess of Life’s selection; her gratitude develops into affection 18 20 23 50.
• Da Ming / Sky Azure Bull Python — Initially suspicious ally whom Ji Yang sought as a “Dao Protector.” Pill-assisted growth makes Da Ming a committed protector and supplier of refinement materials 6 12 18.
• Er Ming / Titan Giant Ape — Protector and principal collector of soul beasts and hostile human Soul Masters for Ji Yang’s experiments and cultivation 14 15 18 21.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion — Traveling companion persuaded to behave through Soul Power Pills and the threat of being returned to Di Tian 27.
• Dugu Bo — Pill Tower recruit initially coerced through superior force, then won over by solutions to his family’s poison and promised cultivation benefits 32 33 36.
• Dugu Yan — Pill Tower member whose Jade Phosphor Snake evolves into the Earth Saint Dragon through Ji Yang’s pills. He also offers to help her seek a divine position 33 39 41 50.
• Ah Rou — Xiao Wu’s deceased mother, whom Ji Yang falsely claimed had helped his family. He later promised to revive her if he became a god 6 12.
• Director Su — Nuoding Academy mentor who favored Ji Yang’s diligence and offered to help him obtain a suitable first Soul Ring 1.
• Tang San — Target of Ji Yang’s deliberate interference; Ji Yang intended to seize opportunities associated with Xiao Wu and the Blue Silver Emperor 5 6.
• Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong — Spirit Hall adversaries. Ji Yang sent Bibi Dong a warning through Qian Renxue, prompting Spirit Hall to investigate his group 30 40.
• Asura God — Recognized Ji Yang as a promising candidate, personally supported his prospective succession, and directed him toward Slaughter City 48 49.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Departure from Nuoding

• Obtains his first Soul Spirit and rapidly increases its age through stored pills 3 4.
• Watches Tang San enter Nuoding Academy, then leaves under a fabricated early-graduation explanation 5.
• Uses the local beggar network to intercept Xiao Wu and persuades her to return to the Star Dou Great Forest with him 6 7 8.

Star Dou Great Forest and the Pill Tower

• Secures Da Ming and Er Ming’s cooperation by demonstrating his furnace’s benefits and promising Ah Rou’s eventual revival 12 15 18.
• Tests Soul Spirit Pills on two murderous robbers, then refines the men into additional pills 14 15 16.
• Recruits Ye Lingling and names their organization the Pill Tower, rejecting Xiao Wu’s proposed “Star Dou Wu Yang Grand Alliance” 18 20.
• Undertakes three years of secluded cultivation while developing his allies, Soul Spirits, and Soul Bones 22 23.
• Leaves with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion after Da Ming and Er Ming become Ferocious Beasts 26 27.

Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well

• Confronts Qian Renxue’s group in the Sunset Forest and sends a blood-debt warning to Bibi Dong 29 30.
• Claims Dugu Bo’s Medicine Garden and recruits both Dugu family members into the Pill Tower 32 33.
• Uses immortal herbs to overcome his poor cultivation talent, reach Level 69, and unlock deeper alchemical control 37 38.
• Distributes tailored pills that transform his companions’ cultivation and Martial Souls 39 41 42 43.
• Investigates the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remaining power as a possible route to future godhood; becoming the Fire Dragon King remains a contingency, not an achieved transformation 41.

Divine Succession Prospects

• Receives the Asura God’s instruction to obtain the Divine Slaughter’s Domain before beginning the Asura Nine Trials 49.
• Considers refining Tang Chen to obtain the accumulated benefits of his first eight Asura trials; this remains a proposed shortcut 49.
• Presents obtaining the domain to his companions as his “First Trial,” although it is actually a prerequisite 50.
• Promises to explore divine succession opportunities for other Pill Tower members 50.

Notable Quotes

“In that sense, we’re helping each other! Helping the other soul beasts is just something that comes along with it.” 12

“Ha, now I really am an all-purpose alchemist!” 38