Xiao Mo

Biodata

Power Progression

• Reported-stage inconsistency: Chapter 5 explicitly places him at the ninth stage, while Chapter 9 retrospectively describes seventh-to-eighth-stage growth. Neither passage explains the discrepancy 5 9.
• False assessment: His eighth-stage result at the coming-of-age ceremony is produced by the Dou Qi Modifier. His actual cultivation is already One-Star Dou Zhe 12 13.

Background / History

Before transmigration, Xiao Mo lived in the modern world, where he had worked in supermarkets and general stores. He was lying in bed rereading Battle Through the Heavens when he suddenly became a spectator at Xiao Yan’s humiliating clan assessment 1 35.

His new body belonged to a boy whose father had been Xiao Zhan’s sworn brother. The upheaval that claimed Xiao Yan’s mother also took Xiao Mo’s parents. Xiao Zhan adopted him, and he changed his surname to Xiao; he is not a blood descendant of the Xiao Clan 1.

Knowing Xiao Yan’s future significance, Xiao Mo initially sees their brotherhood as a route to security and powerful cultivation resources. The Ultimate Best Bro System gives him a direct incentive to support Xiao Yan, but their relationship becomes genuinely affectionate: Xiao Mo comes to regard him as a younger brother and repeatedly protects him at personal risk 1 4 9 43.

Personality

Xiao Mo is adaptable, irreverent, and quick-witted. He accepts transmigration rapidly, answers humiliation with private mockery, and uses humor to lift Xiao Yan’s spirits. His habit of repeatedly summoning Yao Lao merely to tease him earns the old master’s irritation 1 7.

He values practical benefits over public admiration. Rather than reveal his full cultivation at the clan ceremony, he pays to falsify his assessment, reasoning that envy cannot improve his strength and excessive attention could expose Yao Lao 12 13.

His loyalty coexists with a calculating streak. He bargains for rewards, flatters Yao Lao into teaching useful techniques, and manipulates public disputes when straightforward confrontation would put Xiao Yan at a disadvantage. Yao Lao regards him as meticulous and worldly, while Xiao Zhan praises his ability to alternate firmness with tact 22 25 27 29 41.

Although generous, he does not accept being resented for helping. When Xiao Yan reacts angrily to receiving a breakthrough pill, Xiao Mo threatens to withdraw his assistance; he forgives him once Xiao Yan acknowledges his mistake 21.

Abilities & Skills

Ultimate Best Bro System

The system rewards Xiao Mo for helping Xiao Yan grow stronger, gain opportunities, and overcome opposition 1 4 6.

• Reward returns: Giving Xiao Yan the starter Spirit-Gathering Pill triggers rewards including the Ice Soul Body and Ice Cold Art 1 2.
• Shop and lottery: Unlocks a points-based shop, a lottery function, and ten initial draws 2.
• Mission types: Assigns main, side, and random missions involving cultivation, weapons, clan business, and academy leave 6 15 23 47.
• Brotherhood points: Awards points described as good brother affection, intimacy, or good brother points alongside shop currency 6 21 43.
• Limits: Valuable purchases can exceed his resources, and some rewards are unsafe below Dou Zhe. Rejecting the paired-cultivation mission carries an electric-shock penalty 8 10 18 22.
• Secrecy: He conceals the system even from Xiao Yan, using his Storage Ring to explain how he produces items 28.

Ice Soul Body and Ice Manipulation

The Ice Soul Body is a high-grade spiritual physique especially sensitive to water and ice, providing a major cultivation boost 2.

• Creates frost and ice shards for combat 3 4 14.
• Deflects a sword aimed at Xiao Yan while deliberately restricting the move to something compatible with second-stage strength 4.
• Defeats Xiao Shan with precise ice attacks while avoiding serious injury 14.
• Freezes the ground and releases concentrated ice-attribute attacks against Ruo Lin’s waves 47.
• Uses ice energy to regulate an alchemy furnace’s temperature 29.
• Initially suffers a dangerous surge of cold during the physique’s awakening, requiring Xiao Yan’s intervention 2.

Cultivation Arts and Dou Techniques

Alchemy and Soul Power

As a transmigrator, Xiao Mo possesses soul power far beyond that of ordinary humans. Under Yao Lao, he develops both cooperative and independent pill-refining skills 29 48.

• Cooperative refining: Regulates heat with ice while Xiao Yan supplies fire. After two failed batches, they produce pills that Yao Lao judges seemingly a grade above his own 29.
• Improved Rejuvenation Powder: Helps produce purer medicine with fewer herbs and a greater yield, supporting the Xiao Clan’s market recovery 34.
• Wood-attribute support: After taking the Spirit-Molding Pill, his flame control improves enough to complete several batches without ruining a pill 45.
• Independent refining: Uses soul power and soul flame to process ingredients and produce dozens of excellent, impurity-free pills 47 48.
• Early limitation: Yao Lao initially finds his constitution unsuitable for wood-type cultivation; the system pill later overcomes that obstacle 22 45.

Strategy, Sales, and Foreknowledge

• Plot knowledge: Recognizes key events from Battle Through the Heavens, including the engagement dispute, market crisis, academy recruitment, and Xiao Yi Xian’s treasure search 2 22 45 50.
• Modern sales experience: Applies experience from supermarkets and general stores to free samples, customer registration, and promotional demonstrations 35 36.
• Public persuasion: Redirects criticism away from Xiao Clan disciples, exposes a rival shopkeeper’s concealed pill, and demands witnesses when threatened 24 25 38.
• Risk management: Conceals cultivation and asks Xiao Zhan to hide his and Xiao Yan’s alchemical involvement until they can protect themselves 13 34.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Dou Qi Modifier — A wristband bought for 5,000 shop points. Falsifies testing-stone readings but does not increase actual strength; used to display eighth-stage Dou Qi 12 13.
• Ice Sword — System weapon awarded after Xiao Yan defeats Xiao Ning. The mission advertises a “Frostcold Sword,” while later passages also call the weapon the “Ice and Snow Sword.” Its blade glimmers with deep-blue light and can release ice attacks 15 16 17 20.
• Storage Ring — Holds medicine, equipment, and later the hundred portions of yellow lotus essence purchased in Qingshan Town 28 49.
• Alchemy furnaces — Produces a furnace for his first lessons and later receives a supreme-grade furnace from the system. Yao Lao claims the latter, prompting negotiations for compensation; Xiao Mo subsequently uses a top-grade furnace before departing 27 38 39 47.
• Flame Sword — A high-grade treasured sword obtained during negotiations with Yao Lao and passed to Xiao Yan because Xiao Mo already has an ice weapon 39.
• Yang-Restoring Pill — Third-tier system reward that can temporarily eliminate his bodily injuries when taken in a life-or-death situation 47.
• Supreme-grade Qi-Gathering Pill — Received after Xiao Yan defeats a mercenary during their attempt to join an expedition 49.
• Shop VIP card — Grants twenty percent off future purchases at the Qingshan Town shop where he buys yellow lotus essence 49.

Relationships

• Xiao Yan — Sworn brother, junior fellow disciple, cultivation partner, and alchemy partner. Xiao Mo supports his recovery and protects his opportunities; Xiao Yan stabilizes his physique and respects his undisclosed secrets 1 2 6 17 29.
• Xiao Zhan — Adoptive father and Xiao Clan leader. Protects the young alchemists’ identities, offers each ten percent of Rejuvenation Powder profits, and admires Xiao Mo’s judgment and willingness to take responsibility 1 34 41 43.
• Yao Lao — Master and alchemy teacher. Frequently exasperated by Xiao Mo’s teasing and bargaining, but deeply concerned that his own fire-based expertise may hinder an ice cultivator’s development 6 7 9 19 39.
• Xiao Xun’er — Companion whose affection for Xiao Yan leads her to mistake Xiao Mo for a romantic rival. He insists their bond is brotherly and later recruits her to help promote their medicine 9 19 35 36.
• Xiao Yu — Clashes with Xiao Mo at the coming-of-age ceremony; Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun’er intervene to prevent the quarrel from escalating 10 11.
• Ruo Lin — Jia Nan Academy instructor who tests Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan. Grants their requested three-year leave after they withstand her attacks with Yao Lao’s concealed assistance 46 47.
• Xiao Yi Xian — Encountered near Qingshan Town. Xiao Mo recognizes her from his knowledge of the novel and follows her treasure-searching plans to obtain opportunities for Xiao Yan 49 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Xiao Yan’s Recovery and Apprenticeship

• Gives Xiao Yan his starter pill, then receives the physique and cultivation rewards that begin his own rapid growth 1 2.
• Supplies two Qi Gathering Powder pills to counter the Misty Cloud Sect’s engagement-breaking compensation and saves Xiao Yan from a sword attack 3 4.
• Presses Yao Lao to compensate Xiao Yan for absorbing his Dou Qi; both become the old master’s disciples 5 6.
• Chooses to remain Yao Lao’s disciple when offered the chance to seek a more suitable ice-element master 9.

Coming-of-Age Ceremony and Paired Cultivation

• Conceals his Dou Zhe cultivation, passes with a fabricated eighth-stage reading, and defeats Xiao Shan 12 13 14.
• Notices a gray-eyed figure secretly assisting Xiao Ning and recommends an investigation by Xiao Zhan 16 17.
• Persuades Xiao Yan to accept the Earth Tier ice-and-fire paired method, then uses a purchased breakthrough pill to bring him to Dou Zhe 19 20.
• Resolves Xiao Yan’s resentment over relying on his assistance and resumes their joint training 21.

Xiao Clan Market Revival

• Proposes selling medicine to clan disciples at cost rather than merely banning cheaper outside purchases 26.
• Helps develop superior Rejuvenation Powder, protects its creators’ identities, and promotes it outside the Jia Lie Family Market 29 34 35.
• Exposes sabotage of their medicine demonstration and proves his refining ability when the First Elder challenges him 38 41.
• Completes the market-revival mission when both varieties of Xiao Clan medicine sell out; the separate mission requiring repeated confrontations with the Jia Lie market remains unfinished 43.

Academy Leave and Departure

• Defeats three provocative Jia Nan Academy students and obtains wood-attribute Dou Qi through the Spirit-Molding Pill 45.
• Fights alongside Xiao Yan against Ruo Lin, securing three years of leave. Yao Lao secretly blocks the lethal force of her final attack 46 47.
• Refines supplies for the Xiao Clan before leaving Wutan City. Declines Yao Lao’s offer of a heavy ruler, preferring alchemy and considering a spear more suitable 47 48.

Qingshan Town and the Magical Beast Mountain Range

• Pays for a hundred portions of yellow lotus essence after Yao Lao recognizes their true age as at least a century 49.
• Steers Xiao Yan into Xiao Yi Xian’s mercenary expedition, knowing her treasure is connected to a Flying Dou Technique and a Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map fragment 49.
• Wakes Xiao Yan to follow her nighttime treasure search and directly confronts her about the expedition’s hidden purpose. Acquisition of the treasure is not shown in the supplied passages 50.

Notable Quotes

“No. I gave them to you, so they’re yours. Since when does someone take back a gift?” 5

“Are those envious looks useful? Can they increase my strength or help me cultivate?” 13

“I took the lead in everything that happened before. It had nothing to do with him. If you want to punish someone, Xiao Clan Leader, then punish me.” 43