Cao Xing

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Before entering the frozen world, Cao Xing lived in Xiangjiang and worked as Chen Jiang’s personal driver for the Everlasting Prosperity Group. Despite having followed Chen Jiang for years, he felt little attachment to him, describing their relationship as employment rather than a genuine bond. He was alone, had no one to rely on, and struggled to make a living 1.

Cao Xing played the hardcore survival game Icebound Era on his tablet before the public beta began. His familiarity with its construction, recruitment, resource, and technology systems gives him an early advantage, though unfamiliar races and unexplored content still surprise him 1 4 5 8.

Appearance

• Build: A young man with well-built muscles, which Liu Muxue notices when he removes his shirt 11 18.
• Initial clothing: Initially travels through the snow in a short-sleeved shirt and shorts; later uses a wolf-fur coat and fur-covered Snow Boots for warmth 7 8 18.
• Protective effects: Scale Armor is normally invisible and manifests when he is attacked; both it and Ice Armor appear when absorbing Barrett’s recoil 6 15.

Personality

Cao Xing is pragmatic and quick to adapt. He prioritizes shelter, heat, food, and labor before pursuing larger projects, then uses his game knowledge to identify opportunities other survivors overlook. He also enjoys building his territory, taking satisfaction in its expanding workforce and structures 2 8 31.

He bargains aggressively but is not indifferent to hardship. After negotiating down the price of Ice Armor, he adds bread when the seller mentions feeding his family. He also feeds newly rescued residents before assigning them work and provides food to Xia Yanni and Tong Chuchu 11 31.

His generosity has firm boundaries. He refuses Liu Muxue’s parents’ demands for supplies, warns against encouraging repeated dependency, and rejects the Three Heroes Association’s attempt to control regional trade. When threatened, he uses mockery, blacklisting, and deception rather than yielding 11 20 46.

Although he can misjudge his own marksmanship, he remains composed when danger becomes immediate. After missing the charging Thunder Bear, he deliberately steadies himself and continues firing rather than panicking 15.

Abilities & Skills

Eternal Power

A hidden unique talent activated because Cao Xing’s fate is compatible with the world. Its stated effect makes temporary enhancements received by allied territory units permanent 1.

• Broad compatibility: Works on healing, magical armor, speed enhancements, and an equipment-applied movement buff 4 6 11 37.
• Human compatibility: Liu Muxue receives permanent effects despite being a human survivor rather than a recruited native 4.
• Mechanical compatibility: Ice Healing becomes permanent on a repaired Burrowing Robot 44.
• Buff replacement: Recasting the same skill with stronger attributes replaces the weaker effect rather than adding another copy 18.
• Survivability limit: Continuous healing does not prevent an enemy from killing its recipient with a sufficiently powerful single attack 4.

Frost Magic

• Early casting limit: Two Ice Healing casts initially leave him dizzy and nearly unconscious, preventing an immediate third cast on himself 4.
• Improved endurance: Increased Spirit strengthens his healing and lets him cast repeatedly without the same early dizziness 18.

Permanent Enhancements

Leadership and Territory Development

• Construction planning: Organizes shelter, heating, logging, mining, manufacturing, markets, and defensive construction 8 18 31.
• Workforce management: Assigns residents according to available labor and talents; appoints Cao Yi to supervise his group and tasks Big Flower with planting wheat 29 31.
• Follower development: Uses advancement items to promote Asam and Winter to Tier 2, and Demon Spider Essence to evolve Asam into an elite creature 16 41 42.
• Scouting: Sends Asam to survey the area within ten kilometers and mark resource points and monsters 12 18 34.
• Trading: Exchanges surplus meat for equipment, blueprints, skill books, and construction materials. One trading period leaves him with over 20,000 wood, 11,000 stone, and 1,000 iron 13 21.
• Basic instruction: Teaches Liu Muxue shield positioning and the sword movements thrust, slash, and chop 14.

Robot Repair and Animal Contracting

• Robot repair: Restores defeated mining robots as friendly units, beginning with a Burrowing Robot that adds one to his territory population 44.
• Additional machines: Repairs a Shovel Robot, Tracked Robot, and another Burrowing Robot; uses the Tracked Robot to transport his party across the snow 47.
• Pet contract: Contracts the injured Icefield Mammoth Big White, consuming five territory population. With Liu Muxue and Andrew’s help, he restores it to health 50.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ancient Weapon: Barrett — Purple, Rare firearm awarded for the server’s first resource-point claim. Has 967–993 attack and a two-second firing interval. Armor-Piercing has a 50% chance to ignore 100 armor; Headshot adds 50% damage when striking the head. Initially comes with only ten rounds 8.
• Believer’s Staff — Early Green-grade staff with 15–18 attack and +3 Spirit. Its Believer’s Grasp effect has a 20% chance on attack to increase Spirit by 10 8.
• Demon Spider Staff — Blue staff equipped after the Cave Spider battle. Provides 31–37 attack, +10 Spirit, and a 40% chance to increase a magic attack’s damage by 10%. Can summon five level 10 Tier 1 Demon Spiders for 60 seconds, with a 300-second cooldown 42.
• Black-Iron Bracer — Green equipment providing 7–9 armor, +4 Constitution, and 20% greater attack range 18.
• Molemen Overseer’s Whip — Green special equipment with 13–15 attack. Its movement-speed effect becomes permanent through Eternal Power; Pain Intensification makes each strike 50% more painful 37.
• Snow Boots — Fur-covered footwear that improves cold resistance and movement through snow and ice 8.
• Scale Armor Pants — Green equipment given to him by Sarah and equipped after Big White’s rescue 50.
• Goblin Treasury Key — Points toward a treasury roughly forty kilometers from the Hunter Camp. He postpones the trip because of transport limitations and the warning of danger 28.

Relationships

• Liu Muxue — His former employer’s intended bride, survival partner, and eventual lover. He protects her from her family’s demands, equips and trains her, and promises that they will face life in the new world together 1 11 14 22.
• Ilena — Recruited Snakefolk Priest whose buffs work especially well with Eternal Power. She supports expeditions, strengthens new workers, and guards the territory while he attacks the Hunter Camp 5 6 18 26.
• Asam — Frost Wolf Knight, scout, and protector. Cao Xing repeatedly strengthens him; Asam reaches 100 loyalty after the Cave Spider battle 12 16 41.
• Winter — Asam’s Frost Wolf mount. Receives permanent healing and armor from Cao Xing, who later provides the item for its Tier 2 advancement 18 42.
• Andrew — Icefield Druid and frontline fighter. Assists with the mine expedition and Big White’s recovery; Cao Xing reassures him that freeing the dead from spider cocoons honors them 25 42 50.
• Sarah Blade Dance — Dark Elf Phantom Assassin. Initially doubts his ability to bless her, but pledges loyalty after receiving five permanent buffs 35.
• Dazhuang and the Polar Folk — His early workforce. Dazhuang becomes his first demonstrated permanent-healing recipient; the workers gather materials and construct the expanding settlement 2 4 13.
• Tong Chuchu and Xia Yanni — Rescued child and her mother. Cao Xing accepts both into his territory and provides food and protection 28 30 31.
• Big White — Icefield Mammoth pet. Becomes affectionate toward Cao Xing after treatment, reaching 90 loyalty while its mount function remains locked 50.
• Fang Long — Rival and hostile Three Heroes Association leader. Tries to restrict Cao Xing’s trade and locate his camp; Cao Xing publicly rejects his authority 20 21 46.
• Liu Zhenjie — Liu Muxue’s father. Cao Xing refuses his demands for food and later supplies misleading coordinates when he suspects Zhenjie is seeking the camp’s location for Fang Long 11 46.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Establishing the Territory

• Repairs the Lord’s Hut to unlock the territory interface, learns Ice Healing, and recruits his first four Polar Folk 2.
• Discovers that Eternal Power applies to healing while treating the poisoned Dazhuang, then leads the group against the Snowfield Viper threatening their wood supply 4.
• Claims the Small Coal Mine and receives Barrett as a first-claim reward. Establishes a Logging Mill, Market, and shelter before nightfall 8.

Elite Hunting and Regional Trade

• Recruits Asam and kills the level 15 Snowfield Thunder Bear with five Barrett shots, one of which misses. The victory provides experience, advancement materials, and the Icefield Druid Recruitment Scroll 12 15.
• Turns the bear-meat surplus into a large stockpile of construction resources and equipment 19 21.
• Defies Fang Long’s trading restrictions. More than two hundred abusive association members receive three-day chat bans from the system, and Cao Xing excludes them from future trades 20.
• Becomes intimate with Liu Muxue and reassures her that he will not abandon her 22.

Hunter Camp and Refugee Recruitment

• Attacks the Hunter Camp to gain experience for the Level Leaderboard, leaving Ilena to defend his territory 26.
• Finds ritual victims, seven surviving captives, the Goblin Treasury Key, and wheat seeds 28 29.
• Recruits six native captives, then brings Tong Chuchu and Xia Yanni into his faction. Claims their abandoned camp and collects Tong Guangrong’s remaining supplies 29 30.
• Returns to a Level 5 Campfire and organizes farming, new shelters, a Cafeteria, and a Lesser Elemental Arrow Tower 31.

Moleman Mine Expedition

• Brings Liu Muxue, Asam, Andrew, and Sarah into the mine, salvaging rails, minecarts, mana torches, and valuable ores 35 38.
• Helps defeat the Cave Spider, reaches Level 5, and equips the Demon Spider Staff 39 41 42.
• Repairs defeated robots and fights the Moleman reinforcements while protecting Liu Muxue and concealing his camp’s true coordinates 44 46 47.

Big White’s Rescue

• Encounters Hunters attacking a trapped young Icefield Mammoth 47.
• Contracts the dying mammoth, names it Big White, and coordinates purification, healing, weapon removal, and treatment of its broken leg until it recovers 50.

Notable Quotes

“Holy crap! I've got cheats!”
— On receiving Eternal Power 1

“By helping you, I'm helping myself too.”
— To Liu Muxue about surviving together 11

“This isn't Blue Star anymore, so why the hell are you still acting tough?”
— Rejecting Fang Long’s attempt to control regional trade 20