Xiao Tian

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

In his previous life, Xiao Tian studied architecture at a university of science and technology and worked during summer vacations to support his studies. He never met his father and was raised by his mother. After entering university, he kept in occasional contact with her while respecting her new relationship 2.

He was reborn with the same name into the Xiao Clan in the lower realm’s savage wilderness. Seven-colored light, a vast mountain vision, and a Gourd Vine accompanied his birth, but examination revealed neither a Supreme Bone nor innate Dao patterns. His newborn strength nevertheless convinced his grandfather that he had the makings of a Venerable 1.

Although the Xiao Clan had more than a hundred million people and the protection of Silver Mountain, its current generation lacked a King-Sealing expert. His parents and grandfather therefore concealed his gifts while directing substantial resources toward his cultivation 1 2 4.

Xiao Tian recognized the world through the system’s Willow Deity check-in notice. Familiar with Shi Hao from the novel and animated adaptation, he deliberately sought Stone Village both to meet him and to obtain the Willow Deity’s guidance 2 5 6.

Appearance

• Hair and eyes: Glossy black hair, often reaching his shoulders; dark, bright eyes 3 5.
• Face: Fair skin, delicate but well-defined features, and dimples when smiling. His unsmiling expression makes him look serious and older than his age 3 5.
• Childhood height: About 1.2 meters at four, 1.45 meters at seven, and 1.5 meters at eight 3 6 15.
• Clothing: Wears black clothing in the clan, crimson action-ready clothing with a jade-bound ponytail near Stone Village, and blue robes when approaching Deer-Chasing Academy 3 6 24.
• Li Xiaoyao disguise: Adopts the appearance of the character from his previous life’s Sword and Fairy, with fitted black clothing and a black iron sword. This guise stands about 1.8 meters tall 25 26.

Personality

Xiao Tian favors quiet cultivation and concealment, but understands that displaying enough talent secures his position and resources within the clan. He uses knowledge of the original storyline to plan encounters and opportunities, including arranging a natural invitation into Stone Village rather than appearing without explanation 5 6.

He is generous with allies and unusually willing to share treasure arts. He treats Shi Hao as a younger brother, teaches him, tests his progress, and emphasizes becoming strong enough to protect loved ones. He also intervenes when older disciples attempt to bully Shi Qingfeng 7 15 26 27 31.

His protective side coexists with ruthlessness, vanity, and a pronounced grudge-bearing streak. He kills hostile raiders without hesitation and repeatedly challenges academy disciples who speak ill of him. His pursuit of Yu Meiren is brazen and intrusive, beginning with an unsolicited kiss and continuing through teasing and physical confrontations 12 22 23 24 34.

Abilities & Skills

Great Dream System

• Grants Calabash Brother talent panels and rewards for completing check-ins at designated locations 1 14 19 32.
• The Willow Deity and Heaven Mending Pavilion’s ancient vine check-ins each require three minutes at the location 1 11 21.
• Can issue hidden survival challenges, including surviving one hour during the Great Wilderness catastrophe 18 19.
• Later assigns a check-in at the Divine Medicine Garden in the Hundred Broken Mountains; its completion is not shown in the supplied chapters 33.

Innate Divine Strength

• Da Wa’s talent strengthens his physical constitution as he grows. Learned bone text becomes incorporated into his innate abilities without preventing him from using other treasure techniques 2 4.
• At four, lifts 90,000 jin through physical strength alone 4.
• Defeats Bei Village’s three-grotto Wolf-Companion Beast while still in the Blood Moving Realm 13 14.
• Later overwhelms a Spirit Transformation Realm Fish-Dragon with an enlarged body before decapitating it 44.
• Estimates that his continuing growth has raised his underlying Blood Moving strength to at least 129,999 jin; this is his assessment, not a measured test 39.

Size at Will

• Shrinks to flea, ant, or thumb size for evasion, concealment, infiltration, and harvesting resources 2 7 18 39.
• His early giant forms grow from nine meters at age two to twenty meters at three and forty-five meters at four 3.
• Initially consumes enormous amounts of vital essence: his first use causes a day-long blackout, and his second leaves him weak for half a day 3.
• By the extreme Blood Moving boundary, can maintain a small form for a full day if he avoids combat 7.
• Initially cannot resize ordinary clothing. Later extends the ability to clothing, held weapons, and other people, shrinking seven academy disciples to soybean size for evacuation 3 19 37.

Sixth Brother’s Spatial Talents

• Conceals his presence and aura so thoroughly that even Venerables cannot detect him 16 18.
• The Void Acupoint draws in spatial power and gives him an affinity with the Dao of space 15.
• The Sky Acupoint lets him become intangible and merge into the void of different parallel planes, rendering ordinary attacks ineffective 15.
• Uses void travel to escape the battling Venerables and infiltrate Bee King Valley 19 39.
• Combines invisibility, ant-sized movement, and Stone Village’s White Tiger treasure bone to attack enemies unseen 17.

Linked Bodies

• Splits into independently active bodies that store one another’s memories for later review 23.
• Attends Deer-Chasing Academy as himself while his Red Baby body enters Heaven Mending Pavilion as Li Xiaoyao 23 25 27.
• Operates three bodies in the Hundred Broken Mountains: Da Wa accompanies Shi Hao, Sixth Brother follows the academy’s map, and Seventh Brother explores independently 39.
• His Seventh Brother body can also use Da Wa’s and Sixth Brother’s innate abilities and his other treasure arts 39.
• Can merge the bodies again, as he does before opening his twelfth grotto 47.

Heavenly Eye

• Arises from the eleventh grotto between his brows and manifests as a purple eye or Dao marking 32 33.
• Discerns the origins of things and sees through transformations, illusions, and obscuring formations 32.
• Fires destructive light capable of breaking stone and directly damaging an opponent’s soul 32.
• Detects hidden attackers and locates void divine copper 36 47.
• Blasts through a Spiritual Silver Race genius’s arm and chest before the Treasure Gourd absorbs him 38.

Treasure Arts

• Dragon-lineage synthesis: Works to combine Suanni and Pulao toward a True Dragon Treasure Technique. Joint deduction by his Da Wa and Sixth Brother bodies produces a developing five-clawed golden dragon manifestation; the completed True Dragon art is not established 28 29.
• Swordsmanship: Uses Startling Sword Art against Zhou Yuhao and Heaven-Shattering Draw-Sword Slash to break Yu Feng’s fish-dragon technique 27.
• Limit: Fails to understand the Original True Explanation when examining it, and later acknowledges that Shi Hao surpasses him in its direct physical combat methods 15 31.

Medicinal Cooking

• Combines beast meat and spiritual herbs into meals that heal injuries and support cultivation 36 41.
• His cooking restores Big Red’s severed wing and helps the treefolk recover and approach another grotto opening 36.
• Plans to use his Classic of Mountains and Seas cookbook and the Hundred Broken Mountains’ resources to pursue the Spirit Transformation Realm 21 31.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Innate Treasure Gourd — Seventh Brother’s companion treasure, which grows with him and has power one major realm above his own. Absorbs enemies and artifacts, stores living beings, and refines captives into essence through yin and yang energies. Its storage area is two hundred meters in diameter when described in Bee King Valley 32 38 39 46.
• Mutated Ruyi Jingu Bang — Obtained from the successful hidden check-in during the wilderness catastrophe 19.
• Food God Saber / cooking cleaver — A golden blade decorated with creatures and medicinal herbs. Used to butcher beasts, decapitate the Fish-Dragon, and cut apart the Rain Clan’s escape treasures 36 44 46.
• Silver cauldron artifact — Given to him by Silver Mountain after secluded cultivation 23.
• Black Iron Sword — Carried by his Li Xiaoyao identity and used in the duels defending Shi Qingfeng 25 27.
• Precious milk flask — Contains a Sumeru Space holding one hundred jin of beast milk, allowing him to replenish the energy consumed by his early innate abilities 3.
• Zhongwan grotto storage — Uses his abdominal grotto to carry medicinal fruit and cooking utensils. It reaches a spherical diameter of three meters 19 35.
• White Tiger Remnant Treasure Bone — Stone Village’s ancestral artifact, temporarily entrusted to him during the clan invasion. Combined with his innate abilities, it raises his combat strength to the Spirit Transformation level 17.

Relationships

• Xiao Feng — Father and cultivation guardian. Escorts him into the wilderness, protects him fiercely, and occasionally disciplines his overconfident behavior 2 3 17 19.
• Duan Zhiyao — Mother. Recognizes the danger of exposing his gifts and insists that knowledge of them remain within the immediate family 2.
• Xiao Ling / Marquis Ling Tian — Grandfather and principal sponsor. Funds his baptisms, conceals his talent, and supports his later decision to cultivate independently 1 4 5 19.
• Unnamed younger sister — Follows him closely as a toddler. Xiao Tian later hopes to obtain treasures that can advance her cultivation 5 23.
• Silver Mountain — Xiao Clan’s Sacrificial Spirit; source of the clan’s silver treasure art and donor of his cauldron artifact 4 23.
• Shi Hao — Accepted younger brother, fellow explorer, and treasure-art exchange partner. Xiao Tian teaches and protects him while repeatedly testing his strength 7 15 26 31.
• Willow Deity — Protector and cultivation benefactor. Helps complete Sixth Brother’s fusion and supplies spirit dew for his first grotto 14.
• Yu Meiren / War Goddess — Deer-Chasing Academy recruiter and romantic interest. Initially resists his advances; later regards him as a strong candidate for a cultivation partner and travels holding his hand 22 23 26 33.
• Shi Qingfeng — Junior disciple whom Xiao Tian defends from bullying at Heaven Mending Pavilion 27.
• Tao Ye and the pavilion elders — Teachers and expedition sponsors. Initially suspect his Li Xiaoyao identity is the Bear Child, then compensate him with treasure techniques 28 29 31.
• Shi Yi — Rival whom he defeats in the Void God Realm’s Initial Ground, creating the reputation of the mysterious youth who humbled the double-pupiled genius 20 21.
• Huo Ling’er — Fellow explorer and occasional ally during the Hundred Broken Mountains expedition 39 41.
• Liuli — Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly whom he subdues and persuades to accompany him with Earth Spirit Milk and promised treasures. She guides him toward artifact-filled ruins 47.
• Big Red and the treefolk — Recruited followers who receive medicinal meals and promises of cultivation assistance in exchange for finding treasures 36 46.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Stone Village and the Suanni

• Settles in Little Solitary Mountain Town and leaves hunted beast corpses for Stone Village’s people to collect, helping establish contact 6.
• Joins Shi Hao and the Green-Scaled Eagle in watching the old Suanni’s final battle, then gathers blood, bones, and remains from the battlefield 10 11.
• Defends Stone Village against Bei Village and its Wolf-Companion Beast before completing his prolonged talent fusion beneath the Willow Deity 12 13 14.
• Teaches Shi Hao the Luan Bird and Suanni techniques and supplies the village with powerful beast meat 15 17.

Great Wilderness Catastrophe

• Fights invading clan forces alongside his family and Stone Village’s defenders; the Willow Deity destroys the attackers 17 18.
• Leaves during the battle of four Venerable beasts, undertaking the hidden survival check-in while searching for medicinal resources 18 19.
• Escapes through the void, obtains the Mutated Ruyi Jingu Bang, and returns home intending to give his grandfather the Suanni technique as a birthday gift—only to discover that Xiao Feng has already offered the same gift 19 20.

Void God Realm and Dual Enrollment

• Defeats Shi Yi with two punches and earns a Primordial Treasure Bone for a recorded single-arm strength of 109,999 jin 20.
• Leaves the title “Big Brother of the Milk Baby” in the Void God Realm and receives the next check-in assignment at Heaven Mending Pavilion’s ancient vine 21.
• Secures Yu Meiren’s recruitment token, then splits into two bodies to attend both academies 23.
• Enters Heaven Mending Pavilion as Li Xiaoyao, trades treasure arts with Shi Hao, and defeats the disciples bullying Qingfeng 26 27.
• Agrees to seek the Fountain of Youth for the pavilion’s elders and completes the Seventh Brother check-in at the Sacrificial Spirit 31 32.

Hundred Broken Mountains

• Explores through three bodies, gathering medicinal plants, hunting primordial remnants, and protecting the Deer-Chasing Academy disciples 36 37 39.
• Infiltrates Bee King Valley and consumes hundreds of medicinal fruits, but initially fails to open a twelfth grotto 39.
• Destroys Rain Clan forces, distributes Taiyi True Water, and finally opens the sun-aspected twelfth grotto 44 46.
• Captures Liuli and obtains void divine copper with the help of his Seventh Brother body 47.
• Forces a pure-blooded Bi Fang to surrender a leg and an oath against outside retaliation. During the encounter, Shi Hao sees two Xiao Tians together for the first time 49.

Notable Quotes

“You must work hard; if you don't work hard, who will protect your loved ones? You have this kind of talent, while they do not.” 7

“This great hero never changes his name, standing or sitting. Listen well: Li Xiaoyao.” 27

Trivia

• In the original storyline known to the transmigrated Xiao Tian, the character possessed over 80,000 jin of Blood Moving strength and eight Heavenly Grottos. Shi Hao’s ambushes left towering bumps on his head, turning praise for his “promise” into a joke 2 17.
• His Li Xiaoyao appearance is borrowed from Sword and Fairy, not simply an invented name 25.
• Xiao Shan and Xiao Yuan are branch-family grandsons who must call him “Grandpa,” despite being forty-eight and fifty-two years old 6.