Black-Robed Elder

Biodata

Power Progression

The passages record different realm descriptions under this designation, but do not show a breakthrough or explain continuity between the encounters.

Appearance

• Black robe: His robe billows while he stands unharmed in midair after exchanging sword attacks with Yi Chen 192.
• Giant combat form: During the Demon Dragon Hall battle, he grows to more than forty zhang tall; his skin shrivels and dim patterns illuminate beneath it 138.
• Black Demon form: In a later encounter, he becomes a hundred-zhang Black Demon surrounded by a demonic-qi shield 196.

Personality

The elder treats defiance as an insult to his authority. He initially trusts his trump cards enough to believe he can withstand several attacks from a demigod-level expert, but becomes furious when Yi Chen wounds him, dispels his secret art, and destroys his weapon 159.

His confidence repeatedly gives way to fear when Yi Chen exceeds his expectations. Despite acknowledging Yi Chen’s talent, he insists on killing him to answer to his Sect Master. When immobilized by the Golden Needle, he first threatens retaliation from the Holy City, then admits defeat and offers to negotiate 194 197.

Abilities & Skills

Blacklight Chains

The elder produces restraining chains that seize both weapons and their wielder 138.

• Holds the Thunderfire Divine Spear and later binds Yi Chen’s arm and body.
• Attacks with additional chains emerging from the void.
• Loses control when Yi Chen releases enough soul power to dim the chains 138.

Giant Transformations

Black mist and illuminated bodily patterns accompany his transformation into a giant more than forty zhang tall. This increases his strength by more than a hundredfold 138.

• Uses a massive sword blade while transformed 138.
• Later assumes a hundred-zhang Black Demon form with a demonic-qi shield.
• Yi Chen punches a large breach through that shield 196.

Concealment and Mist Escape

The elder can disappear from sight during combat and convert his body into smoke or mist 138 195 198.

• Vanishes into the air and attacks Yi Chen from concealed positions 138.
• Escapes as smoke after Yi Chen cripples his arm 195.
• Converts his flesh into black mist and enters the Black Long Spear to flee after being immobilized 198.

Secret Arts, Illusions, and Formations

His techniques include an illusion-related secret art, a restraining formation, and an art that interferes with an opponent’s movement 159 193 194 196.

• Uses golden light to disappear during a sword attack; Yi Chen subsequently breaks the secret art 159.
• Claims that Yi Chen cannot break the formation he has laid down 193.
• Recognizes that Yi Chen has survived his Illusion Realm and worries that further attacks could damage his own origin 194.
• Hinders Yi Chen’s movements while pursuing him with men in black 196.

Black-Light and Demonic-Qi Attacks

The elder forms attacks through hand seals, runes, and condensed demonic energy 160 193 196.

• Launches runes that shatter Yi Chen’s Soul-Guarding Defensive Shield 160.
• Creates a black-light net that withstands the Thunderous Might Fist without damage 193.
• Produces arrows from demonic essence, including an arrow expelled from his mouth 196.
• Is identified by Yi Chen as an expert in hidden weapons 196.

Beast-Shaped Attacks

The elder manifests a flaming lion and a giant black dragon 159 193.

• Flaming lion: Takes shape from his surging aura and is destroyed by Yi Chen 159.
• Black dragon: Initially forms from countless black longswords and reduces a mountain peak to ashes 193.
• Enlarges the dragon through hand seals and infusions of soul power 194.
• The later passage describes it as a genuine demonic beast, though not a true dragon, and one of his strongest defensive means. Yi Chen ultimately punches through it 195.

Physical Durability

The elder withstands a sword strike carrying the full power of a Three-Star Martial Venerable from the Seven Star Sect without injury 192.

• His durability does not prevent Yi Chen from severely injuring his body or crippling his arm in subsequent exchanges 194 195.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Greatsword / Black Sword — Used for large-scale slashes, black sword light, and attacks aimed at Yi Chen’s throat 138 139.
• Long Spear — Produces a storm of weapon shadows. The elder intends to develop it into a Divine-Grade Treasure, but Yi Chen shatters it with his physical strength 159 160.
• Black Long Spear — Pierces Yi Chen’s chest and later serves as the vessel for the elder’s mist-form escape 193 198.
• Black Demon Tower — A saint artifact the elder says he refined. It emits a black pillar of light and withstands Yi Chen’s punch, sending him backward 195.
• Jade token — Raises a white-radiant demonic-qi barrier. The passage states that even a Peak Douluo would pay a heavy price to tear it apart in one strike 196.
• Black Javelin — Emerges from black radiance released from his sleeve and carries a sinister soul aura. Yi Chen knocks it away with a palm strike 197.
• Corpse Puppet Technique — A technique associated with the elder; Yi Chen demands its location while interrogating him 197 198.

Relationships

• Yi Chen — Principal adversary across the supplied encounters. Their conflicts involve the Demon Dragon Hall, the Glazed Tile Pagoda, and the Corpse Puppet Technique 138 193 197.
• Xiao Wu — Attacked by an elder identified as black-robed in part of the scene and gray-robed elsewhere 143.
• Unnamed Sect Master — Authority to whom the elder says he must answer if he fails to kill Yi Chen 194.
• Men in black — Subordinates who obey his order to pursue Yi Chen 196.
• Beautiful Woman — Accompanies the elder and blocks Yi Chen’s retreat during their confrontation; her precise relationship to the elder is not stated 196 197.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Demon Dragon Hall Confrontation

After Yi Chen tears through the Demon Dragon Hall’s fighters, the elder intervenes with Blacklight Chains. He transforms into a giant and attacks from concealment, but becomes alarmed when Yi Chen’s soul power overwhelms his restraints. Yi Chen then kills him with the Thunderfire Divine Spear, smashing his body into pulp 138 139.

Spear Duel

A later opponent bearing the same designation confronts Yi Chen with a spear, secret arts, and a flaming lion. Yi Chen destroys his weapon and attacks with a golden flood dragon. Despite breaking Yi Chen’s defensive shield with runes, the elder is killed when Yi Chen places a golden character on his forehead. Yi Chen collects a drop of Essence Fluid from his remains 159 160.

Glazed Tile Pagoda Pursuit

In a sealed-space encounter, the elder leaves Yi Chen badly wounded while remaining unharmed. He recognizes the aura of Yi Chen’s jade pendant and demands the Glazed Tile Pagoda. Yi Chen refuses, prompting a pursuit involving a black-light net, the Black Long Spear, and a giant black dragon 192 193.

Yi Chen’s God-Demon Body withstands the dragon’s assault. The elder reveals the Black Demon Tower after his other attacks fail, but Yi Chen cripples his arm, forcing him to escape as smoke 194 195.

Interrogation and Escape

Yi Chen catches the fleeing elder, who responds with a defensive token, movement-hindering techniques, and demonic-qi arrows. After the accompanying woman blocks Yi Chen’s retreat, Yi Chen counterattacks and immobilizes the elder with a Golden Needle 196 197.

The elder invokes his position as a Holy City deacon, then offers to negotiate. Yi Chen instead demands the Corpse Puppet Technique’s location. Under renewed attack, the elder converts his body into mist and enters the Black Long Spear, threatening revenge once he recovers 197 198.

Continuity Notes

• The designation appears again after explicit deaths in both earlier confrontations. The supplied passages do not establish resurrection or confirm that every appearance refers to one individual 139 159 160 192.
• Xiao Wu’s attacker is called both Black-Robed Elder and gray-robed elder within the same scene 143.
• The elder’s spear is described as personally refined and purchased from someone else; it also appears in use after passages describing its destruction 160.
• The coveted treasure is called both the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and the Seven-Colored Glazed Tile Pagoda during the pursuit 192 193.