Dai Mubai

Biodata

Background / History

Dai Mubai belongs to the Star Luo Empire’s royal family. His royal upbringing includes specialized training in endurance and self-control, which he later invokes while restraining Tang San from acting rashly against Chen Jue 40.

He is engaged to Zhu Zhuqing through a political marriage arrangement. Before their reunion, he leaves for a small city in the Heaven Dou Empire, where he pursues other women while she faces pursuit by her family. Zhu Zhuqing initially still intends to find him and attend Shrek Academy, but seeing him with two women at the Rose Hotel prompts her to reject the engagement 8 11 12.

Her declaration does not end the family pressure behind the arrangement. The Zhu family subsequently orders her to marry Dai Mubai after graduation and threatens to send powerful soul masters to retrieve her if she refuses 36.

Appearance

• Blond hair: Chen Jue refers to him as “that little blond” 12.
• Youthful appearance: Xiao Wu estimates that he looks about fifteen when he reveals his Soul Elder cultivation 13.
• Handsome: His two female companions praise his looks alongside his strength and wealth 13.

Personality

Dai Mubai is boastful and quick to treat challenges as affronts to his status. At the Rose Hotel, he assumes that someone his own age cannot surpass him, then threatens to kill Chen Jue and Zhu Zhuqing. Chen Jue’s superior martial soul pressure immediately overturns that confidence 13.

His attitude toward Zhu Zhuqing is possessive rather than faithful. He initially denies knowing his two companions, then admits to having multiple partners and accuses her of equivalent wrongdoing. Even after she rejects him, he continues to imagine claiming her through their marriage arrangement and retaliating against her for supporting Chen Jue 13 15 45.

Although anger repeatedly overwhelms him, he can also be calculating. He recruits teachers to confront an opponent he cannot defeat himself and later proposes killing Chen Jue in the Star Dou Great Forest, where soul beasts could conceal their involvement 14 15 40.

Abilities & Skills

White Tiger Martial Soul

Dai Mubai manifests a powerful White Tiger phantom with a fierce, intimidating presence 13 14.

• Uses it to threaten Chen Jue during the Rose Hotel confrontation 13.
• Intimidates an applicant’s parents when they request a registration-fee refund at Shrek Academy 14.
• Is heavily suppressed by Chen Jue’s Dragon God martial soul; the White Tiger trembles, and Dai Mubai drops to his knees before Chen Jue launches an attack 13.

Soul Elder Cultivation

His three-ring configuration—two yellow rings and one purple—initially impresses Xiao Wu and Tang San. Tang San, then a Soul Grandmaster, considers the gap between their ranks substantial 13.

• No named White Tiger Soul Skills are demonstrated in the supplied passages 13 14.
• His cultivation does not prevent exhaustion during training without soul power: he struggles with the thirty-lap challenge and later collapses after ten laps of a forty-lap punishment 24 26 27.

Royal Training

His royal training gives him greater patience than Tang San when planning retaliation 40.

• Stops Tang San’s attempts to poison Chen Jue because an investigation could implicate them.
• Suggests using soul beasts to kill Chen Jue during the forest expedition instead 40.

Equipment / Items

• Soul Tool: Used to store his Gold Soul Coins. During the roadside restaurant visit, he discovers that the money has disappeared 41 42.
• Gold Soul Coins: Intended to cover Tang San’s extravagant meal bill. Chen Jue secretly steals the coins with his Black Gloves and uses them to pay for the meal himself 41 42.

Relationships

• Zhu Zhuqing — Former fiancée. She rejects him after witnessing his infidelity; he continues to regard her as someone he can eventually claim through the political marriage 12 13 36 45.
• Chen Jue — Romantic rival and intended murder target. Their conflict begins over Zhu Zhuqing and develops into admission sabotage, attempts to secure disciplinary punishment, and a forest assassination plan 13 15 32 40.
• Tang San — Close ally against Chen Jue and companion on brothel visits. Their cooperation becomes strained when Dai Mubai cannot fund the restaurant bill because his coins have been stolen 40 41 42 45.
• Li Yusong — Shrek teacher whom Dai Mubai persuades to block Chen Jue’s admission and demand a fight as an entrance condition 14 15.
• Flender — Academy dean. Initially defends Dai Mubai’s character, but accepts witness testimony against him and promises to require an apology 17.
• Zhao Wuji — Instructor who supervises his punishment and later reprimands him for failing to defend the girls from Canghui Academy students 27 45.
• Xiao Wu — Witness to his conduct at the hotel and academy. She loses her remaining goodwill toward him after recognizing his admission sabotage and confirms Chen Jue’s account to Flender 15 17.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Trivia

• His princely title is inconsistent: one passage calls him the Star Luo Empire’s Second Prince, while Zhu Zhuqing and the restaurant narration identify him as the Third Prince 32 36 41.
• He incorrectly concludes that Chen Jue is Zhao Wuji’s illegitimate son after witnessing the instructor’s unusually deferential treatment 24.