Song Chi

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Hair: Originally develops snow-white hair after absorbing black crystals. Continued absorption makes it grow to his waist and beyond; he later ties it up with a wooden hairpin 223 224 237.
• Face: Has a tear mole at the corner of his eye. Deliberately positions himself to display his jawline and profile under favorable lighting 131 231.
• Build: His muscles are sharply defined by years of battle, with old scars and fresh wounds visible during his ruined battlefield ordeal 224.
• Sword marks: The Nine Swords manifest as nine sword-shaped markings across his body, including his chest and arms 226 227 231.
• Aura: Black mist initially surrounds him and even escapes from his eyes and breath. During the Soaring Cloud Realm crisis, immortal energy occupies one side of his body and demonic energy the other; both withdraw after treatment 223 224 475 479.
• Clothing: Frequently presents himself in white robes with cascading silver hair. After ten thousand years in a sword formation, he retains this white-robed, sage-like appearance 471 518 648.

Personality

Song Chi treats combat as a performance. He rehearses poses, times entrances, recites poetry, and carefully arranges his profile for spectators. His need for an audience becomes painfully apparent on the ruined battlefield, where silent enemies offer no response to his elaborate swordplay. He particularly resents opponents who fight without honor or interrupt his speeches 116 131 222 224.

His vanity does not erase his competence. When the battlefield shadows begin learning from him, he abandons decorative moves for killing techniques refined through life-and-death combat. During the giant’s pursuit, he moves away from the Immortal Ships to avoid drawing the attack onto other cultivators 222 518.

He deeply admires Si Chen, imitates his dramatic fighting style, and prizes his approval. Beneath his boasting, Song Chi wants to stand beside his friends rather than remain someone they must protect. His decision to shelter the Filth Demons’ obsessions likewise comes from experiencing their suffering as his own, not merely from seeking another spectacle 132 383 473 474.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship and Sword Intent

Song Chi’s theatrical manner conceals substantial technical skill. Taking up his sword changes his bearing immediately, while his sword intent is later praised by an Immortal Emperor 130 277.

• Defeats Xiao Lin with Thousand Swords Become One, answering Blood Sea: Deluge with a decisive strike 132.
• Uses practical killing techniques when opponents adapt to his more decorative swordplay 222.
• First wields all nine inherited swords in full while confronting ten Emperor Realm experts 355.
• Possesses a body described as rivaling a Body Cultivator’s by the time of his Immortal King tribulation 565.

Formless Sword Scripture and Formless Sword Domain

The Formless Sword Scripture circulates energy through his body, while the Formless Sword Domain creates multiple sword projections 222 223.

• Normally produces numerous sword silhouettes, but the ruined battlefield’s suppression initially reduces the domain to three flickering swords 222.
• Channels the shadows’ black crystal energy through the scripture, producing denser, faster black sword qi and increasing his movement speed 223.
• Expands the domain to dozens of black swords as he absorbs more crystals 223.
• The black energy causes severe meridian pain, changes his hair color, and introduces a dangerous demonic influence 223 224.

Immortal–Demonic Power

Song Chi carries both Jiang Taibai’s sword inheritance and Demon Venerable Cang Xuan’s origin essence 228 342.

• Initially survives through an uneasy division: the Nine Swords occupy his main meridians, Cang Xuan’s source permeates part of his primordial spirit, and his own awareness occupies his sea of consciousness 228.
• Can invoke Cang Xuan’s power to influence Filth Demons and attempt to enslave them 474 520.
• Early use threatens his reason with overwhelming killing intent; activating the Nine Swords can worsen the conflict 230 232.
• Maintaining both inheritances together consumes enormous amounts of Divine Sense and Immortal Essence 473.
• Following the Great Dream Dao treatment, the previously incompatible energies become harmonized 479.

Sword Formations

Song Chi develops formations combining immortal and demonic sword power 472 474.

• Uses the Four Extremes Sword Formation during the Soaring Cloud Realm battle 474.
• Forms the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation through four sword pillars, trapping the black giant with sword qi 520.
• Requires ten breaths of protection from Floating Net Heaven’s forces to establish the formation against the giant 520.
• Later deploys the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation after merging his battered sword clones 597.
• Si Chen criticizes his dependence on inherited power, asking where his own “rice bowl” is; the formation cannot injure Si Chen during their demonstration 482.

Teach All Without Discrimination

Rather than following Cang Xuan’s method of absolute suppression, Song Chi opens himself to the shattered souls and obsessions within the Filth Demons 474.

• Uses sword intent as a bridge and demonic qi as a medium to receive them 474.
• Quiets the Filth Demons and saves the Soaring Cloud Realm, but collapses under the memories and suffering he has accepted 474 475.
• Nine strands of sword intent preserve the last clarity of his spiritual terrace during the crisis 474.
• After recovery, summons thousands of loyal Obsessions from his shadow, calling them his “disciples” 518.
• Attempts to apply the method to the black giant, but discovers that its sole obsession is killing him and that Luo Hou has already branded its consciousness 520.

World-Linked Power

After the creation of the new world, Song Chi’s power no longer resembles Spiritual Energy or Immortal Essence 624.

• Strengthens with the prosperity of the world whose Heavenly Dao he partly embodies 624.
• Finds the new power easier to use than Immortal Essence and exchanges blows with Luo Hou without injury 625.
• Summons millions of illusory swords, combines their remnants into a giant blade, and clashes with Luo Hou’s demonic spear 626.
• Uses a shouted “Sword” as a distraction for Xie Changsheng’s coordinated attack 626.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Late Arrival: The sword he names after defeating Xiao Lin. His original sword had accompanied him since Foundation Establishment and is destroyed when the ruined space collapses 132 228.
• Nine Swords: Nine damaged swords that acknowledge him as their master and become sword marks on his body. Zhu Yao identifies them as Jiang Taibai’s inheritance; they are later described as nine Extreme Dao Imperial Weapons 225 342 473.
  • Shadowstrike: Governs speed, enabling extraordinary evasive movement. It also forcibly pulls him free of the Filth Demons’ grasp 472 518.
  • Startling Swan: Associated with his sword-clone techniques. He manifests three hundred clones sharing their vision during the Heavenly Balance Sect confrontation, and later deploys three thousand Startling Swan Sword clones 231 342 597.
  • Azure Mist: An emerald-green sword that calms his mind, suppresses killing intent, and heals wounds and broken bones. It cannot eliminate Cang Xuan’s deeply entangled origin source 232.
• Storage Ring: His original Lower Realm ring is destroyed alongside his sword during the ruined space’s collapse. He later carries another ring containing spare clothing 228 472.
• Communication Talisman: Allows him to speak with his companions across different planes, including while surrounded by Filth Demons 470 471.

Relationships

• Si Chen — Admired friend and protector. Song Chi copies his fighting style; Si Chen helps restore him as a True Immortal, defends him against forced discipleship, and later challenges his reliance on inherited power 132 235 277 482.
• Xie Changsheng — Rival and close friend. Initially Song Chi’s intended ranking opponent, he later fights Song Chi to exhaust the demonic power threatening his sanity. Their friendship includes relentless teasing and physical scuffles 115 235 344.
• Zhou Yan — Longstanding companion who insists Song Chi is not a bad person. Supplies clothing after his rescue and later saves him from a Filth Demon’s attack 116 237 597.
• Zhao Wuji — Master and sect leader. Song Chi’s attempts to demonstrate his Mystic Immortal swordsmanship terrorize him, but Song Chi sincerely promises to make Hidden Edge Mountain renowned throughout the Immortal Realm 311 312.
• Luo Hongyi — Companion whose Great Dream Dao music resolves the obsessions overwhelming him and helps harmonize his energies 477 478 479.
• Han Ling — Golden Immortal army commander who protects him in the Soaring Cloud Realm and carries him toward Undying Mountain after his collapse 472 475.
• Little Lei — Helps him form an Immortal Physique. Later administers his harsh Immortal King tribulation and blasts him again when he protests the gentler treatment given to Luo Hongyi 235 565.
• Black Mountain and Red Wind — Fellow Eastern Region companions who mock his theatrics and help persuade him to stop tormenting his master with “instruction” requests 131 312 525.
• Cang Xuan — Source of Song Chi’s demonic inheritance. The remnant soul’s transfer of power endangers his body and sanity; Song Chi later insists it was willingly given in admiration of his Dao 227 228 342.
• Luo Hou — Enemy who recognizes Cang Xuan’s power in Song Chi and vows to kill him when Song Chi attempts to seize the black giant. They later fight in the Void 520 624 625.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Eastern Region and Great Yin

Song Chi enters the story intending to challenge Xie Changsheng for first place on the Azure Profound Ranking. His carefully timed arrival comes after the Mistveil Valley crisis has already ended because time flowed differently inside the Small World. Si Chen knocks him unconscious before he can finish his boastful poem 115 116.

By the Jade Forest Banquet, Song Chi regards Si Chen as a kindred spirit. He steps forward when Xiao Lin challenges Si Chen and wins by imitating the latter’s nine-concessions, one-counterattack performance, despite losing count. He subsequently joins the Eastern Region team’s Storage Ring seizures and defense of their secret realm victory 124 130 132 137 145.

At the Heaven-Worshipping Platform, he chooses a dramatic moment to break through to Spirit Transformation and chases the fleeing Ye Hong into his tribulation lightning. Later accounts inflate the event into a legendary sword technique, while his master bluntly describes it as undergoing tribulation like flying a kite 156 157 162.

Ascension and the Bare Sword Immortal

Song Chi ascends with Si Chen’s group, but the passage splits and scatters them. He lands on a ruined continent, fights regenerating black shadows, and absorbs their crystals under the mistaken belief that they contain high-grade immortal energy 171 221 223 224.

His isolation, demonic influence, and frustration at having no appreciative audience culminate in his stripping naked and declaring this a return to simplicity. He acquires the Nine Swords and Cang Xuan’s origin source, then escapes the collapsing space only to appear naked before a crowded Market 224 225 227 228.

Pursued as a suspected demonic cultivator, he exposes the extraordinary powers of his inherited swords and eventually loses control. Xie Changsheng helps exhaust his power, while Si Chen and Little Lei restore his clarity and complete his transformation into a True Immortal. His public ordeal earns him the unwanted name Bare Sword Immortal 229 231 232 235 252.

Undying Mountain and Hidden Edge Mountain

After five years of cultivation on Undying Mountain, Song Chi departs with the group for Purple Firmament Heaven. At a later gathering, an Immortal Emperor attempts to make him a disciple despite his refusal; Song Chi maintains that he already has a master at Hidden Edge Mountain, and his companions stand in his defense 266 277.

Returning to the Lower Realm as a Mystic Immortal, he enthusiastically seeks “guidance” from his master and elders through overwhelming sword demonstrations. Si Chen collects him after seven days, allowing the relieved sect to resume its routine 296 311 312.

Filth Demons and the Soaring Cloud Realm

Song Chi later recognizes similarities between the Other Race and the regenerating beings he encountered during ascension. Jiang Taibai’s surviving note connects the investigation to dangerous “filth” left behind after cultivators die 384.

During the Soaring Cloud Realm campaign, Filth Demons recognize Cang Xuan’s essence in him and swarm him. Song Chi ultimately receives their obsessions rather than enslaving them, saving the realm at the cost of nearly losing his identity. Luo Hongyi’s Great Dream Dao treatment resolves their suffering and stabilizes him 471 472 474 475 477 478 479.

Giant Battle and Later Transformation

While searching for Time Amber, Song Chi encounters a rapidly strengthening black giant fixated on killing him. He summons his Obsession disciples, establishes the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation with Li Feng’s support, and attempts to take the giant under his command—provoking its existing master, Luo Hou 517 518 520.

After reaching Immortal King, he continues fighting the Filth Demons. The later fusion of the River Chart and Underworld strips him of conventional cultivation but gives him a new power tied to the newborn world. He uses it alongside his companions against Luo Hou 565 597 624 625 626.

In the latest provided passage, Song Chi has sat motionless within a sword formation for ten thousand years, no longer speaking or reciting poetry. Little Lei and Gray Gray interrupt this seclusion with urgent news, though Song Chi initially claims to have severed his worldly ties 648.

Notable Quotes

“Style... comes from the soul!” 222

“My true self?! … Is someone who needs an audience cheering for him!!!” 224

“I have no need for puppets... I feel your unwillingness to accept your fate as my own!” 474

“Since heaven will not receive you, and earth will not shelter you... Then come under my command!” 474