Ying Huaixu

Biodata

Power Progression

Spiritual Root and Cultivation

Technique and Alchemy Milestones

Background / History

Before entering the cultivation world, Ying Huaixu spent most of his time in a nutrient pod playing Primordial Immortal Cultivation Record. After losing his family support, he stopped socializing and relied on grinding the game to earn money. He created numerous starter and resource accounts and could carry other players through raids even with poor equipment 9 17 20.

A later background check shown by the Heavenly Dao provides a more specific account of his family circumstances. His mother became seriously ill and died when he was in his twenties. His father subsequently neglected him, found another partner, lost his money to her deception, became despondent, and disappeared; this account does not establish his father’s death. The same record describes Ying Huaixu as a likable childhood troublemaker who consistently ranked among the top ten students despite rarely studying properly 478.

Before playing the full-immersion game, he deliberately studied Daoist martial arts to obtain an advantage. That training helped him injure a player ranked among the world’s top ten in PvP. He also read Daoist scriptures in his spare time 443.

His latest account was intended for sale to help repay his loans. He selected Hongmeng difficulty, accepted the permanent-death warning without reading it carefully, and chose a longsword to increase his chances of obtaining a valuable sword-related spiritual root. Only after awakening the Dao Sword Spiritual Root did he discover that the exit button was missing and the world was real 1 2.

The world also contained an apparent history for him that contradicted his understanding of his customized, backstory-free character. Records examined by Lü Qingyi described him as an orphaned descendant of a fallen clan who trained at a martial arts school, escaped pursuit by the Evil Fiend, and fell from a cliff before Ye Ningshuang rescued him 4 11.

His identity remains more complicated than his initial explanation of transmigration. A shadow examining him found that he was neither a possessing cultivator nor an ordinary reincarnated powerhouse, and that strange formations protected his soul. Later, Lü Qingyi used a stone that displayed his background as a native and explicitly greeted him as such 184 441.

Heavenly Dao’s Counterfactual Simulation

The Heavenly Dao creates a simulation in which Ying Huaixu takes Lü Qingyi’s place in her early circumstances. The simulated Ying Huaixu experiments with All Rivers Run to the Sea, kills the cultivator threatening him, joins the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, and rapidly cultivates to Quasi-Emperor before leaving the universe to seek Immortal Emperorhood elsewhere. These are simulated events, not achievements of the main-story Ying Huaixu 460 461.

The Heavenly Dao uses this comparison to explain how Lü Qingyi’s reforms changed the sect’s atmosphere and helped the actual Ying Huaixu develop attachment to it. Lü Qingyi is pleased to learn that her actions helped shape the person he became 461.

Appearance

• Face: Extremely handsome, with delicate skin and beauty compared to a woman’s; he had personally customized his character’s face and body 4 8 9.
• Clothing: Initially wore the familiar commoner starter outfit; later wore Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciple robes 1 34.
• Cultivation manifestation: At Body Tempering’s ninth layer, blue streaks appeared across his skin as ice-attributed power radiated from his flesh and bones 32.
• Cultivation-method transformation: Advancing his frost cultivation method temporarily turned his eyes ice blue and his hair snowy white. He returned to normal after switching off the passive manifestation 174.
• Spirit Aspect mark: Upon entering Spirit Aspect, an ice lotus supporting a sword appeared on his forehead 366.
• Later bearing: Tai Wangshu compares his Spirit Aspect-stage presence to a sharp sword concealing its edge, contrasting it with the conspicuous chill and sharpness he previously radiated 379.

Personality

Ying Huaixu is impatient, efficiency-minded, and strongly motivated by experience rewards. He skips lengthy quest explanations, uses running and climbing shortcuts, and evaluates cultivation arts by their return on investment. His habit of treating marked enemies as experience sources can make his sudden violence unnerving to companions 12 20 29 41.

His confidence in combat coexists with a strong desire to survive. Familiar encounters initially encourage him to think like a player, but blood, intelligent enemies, and genuine realm differences repeatedly force him to reconsider. After nearly dying against the city lord, he commits to keeping a low profile rather than displaying his abilities publicly 15 32 49.

Although he calls himself selfish and hopes to benefit from Ye Ningshuang’s future accomplishments, he also shows consideration for others. He insists that she share meals with him, worries about her reputation, respects He Xiuyuan’s willingness to sacrifice himself, and gives both companions substantial financial support 6 37 42.

His enthusiasm for measurable improvement can override severe discomfort. During He Xixiang’s training, simply seeing a progress bar advance makes him forget the pain and itching, leaving him more concerned with the bar’s speed than his suffering 219.

His desire to remain a passive observer repeatedly conflicts with the responsibility his abilities place on him. By the time he understands more of the world’s predicament, he feels that relaxing might allow the entire world to be destroyed. He rejects the idea of letting unseen enemies kill Lü Qingyi, He Xixiang, Ye Ningshuang, and the other people he has come to regard as real companions 306 328.

Later, his opposition to the Outsiders becomes explicitly personal and protective of Hongmeng. Rather than acting from an elaborate idealistic plan, he describes himself as angry and stubborn: the more the Outsiders interfere, the more determined he becomes to stop them, regarding Hongmeng as his own world 492.

He remains capable of renewed overconfidence, but consciously checks it. After easily clearing multiple hostile worlds, he recalls how badly he underestimated the Azure Fox Lady and deliberately slows down before confronting stronger enemies 386.

Abilities & Skills

Game-System Interface

Ying Huaixu retains numerous game functions after entering the real world 5 7 21.

• Experience-based advancement: Can spend experience directly on cultivation and technique proficiency instead of relying solely on conventional training 20 26 31.
• Instant learning: Manuals and pill formulas can transfer their contents directly into his mind. Learning Doctor Li’s formula did not destroy the physical document 5 7.
• Skill slots: Equipping a learned technique grants smooth, practiced execution. Unequipping Flying Snow Sword preserved his knowledge but made its use clumsy 7.
• No cooldowns: Techniques and consumables can be used repeatedly, subject to available resources 7 32.
• Quest tracking and maps: Can follow objective markers, reveal maps, track companions’ portraits, and locate concealed enemies 8 20 39 46.
• Additional functions: Unlocks the mailbox, True Spirit Eye, Sect Activity, and shop; also possesses equipment enhancement and advancement functions 21 38.
• Restrictions: Sect Activity permits only one activity per day. His Townstone’s teleportation function was unavailable during the journey toward Falling Radiance City 22 27.
• Cultivation repair: Can repair an inferior realm obtained through conventional cultivation. His repaired Meridian Opening second layer possessed a stable foundation and substantially greater strength than his unaided result 62 63.
• Passive experience: Advanced cultivation methods generate experience automatically, allowing him to accumulate the final resources for breakthroughs even during prolonged battles 174 196 202.
• Automated production: Uses automatic talisman crafting and artifact refining as well as Automatic Alchemy. Tai Wangshu’s partial replication of these processes shows that aspects of them can be understood and reproduced by exceptional cultivators 321 386.
• Party communication and trading: After separated teammates meet in person, Party Chat and Party Trading can reconnect, allowing him to send Ye Ningshuang pills remotely through their tokens 300.
• Quest acceptance: States that he chooses which quests to accept, rather than being compelled to carry out every task another person presents 524.
• Tracking limits: A target can be outside tracking range. Quest navigation may also lead only to search circles without revealing how to trigger the objective 230 524.
• Changing functions: Notices that the Multiplayer Icon has disappeared 212.
• Version restrictions: His advanced cultivation method produces Immortal Dao experience that must be stored rather than used, while further development of its initial Frost Laws is locked behind a version update 477.

Combat Mechanics and Swordsmanship

His high-level player experience remains a major advantage in fights where he can perceive the enemy’s movements 9 32.

• Attack trajectory displays: Uses visible attack indicators to dodge, parry, and disarm opponents 9.
• Dodge invincibility frames: Confirms that the game’s temporary invulnerability during dodges still functions 15.
• Dodge counters: Can close the distance almost instantaneously with a guaranteed-hit strike that leaves an opening for follow-up attacks 15.
• Pattern recognition: Exploits known boss windups, interrupts charged attacks, and avoids overcommitting during damage windows 32.
• Spell parrying: After entering Meridian Opening, cuts through the city lord’s blood-red light attack while sending sword energy back at him 48.
• Training others: Exposes He Xiuyuan’s predictable attack patterns through sparring, repeatedly dodging and countering his moves 50.
• Flexible spiritual-power use: Can increase sword-flight speed by increasing spiritual-power output, freeze objects without casting a fixed skill, and form icicles or usable ice swords directly from spiritual power 67.
• Unarmed sword effects: After the awakening during the Azure Fox fight, his punches can trigger Frost Annihilation’s effects and his Dao Sword Spiritual Root’s passive 198.
• Physical-force adaptation: Against enemies developing immunity to spells and Divine Abilities, uses the sheer force and weight of his flying sword to continue inflicting damage 417.
• Higher-realm combat: At Spirit Aspect’s eighth level, his improved reactions, invincibility mechanics, and counterattacks allow him to fight a Return to True opponent despite the realm gap 423 424.
• Independent technique execution: During Lü Qingyi’s training, learns to reconstruct attacks from his understanding rather than relying on an active skill bar. He develops ways to bypass windups through Return to True’s restorative and unifying properties 457 458.
• Automatic sword defense: Establishes his own criteria for what constitutes a threat and programs his Sword Flight Technique to defend automatically 462.

Limits: Skill alone cannot overcome every realm difference. At Body Tempering’s fifth layer, he could not clearly follow the Phantom Night Wolf’s movements; at the ninth layer, he could not defeat the city lord before breaking through. Real enemies can retreat, improvise, and repeatedly use abilities rather than follow fixed game behavior 15 32 49.

His later higher-realm performance still depends on being able to perceive and react to attacks. The Azure Fox encounters remain an important reminder that impressive statistics do not guarantee victory against unfamiliar bosses 231 386 423.

Dao Sword Spiritual Root

The hidden root possesses a mutated ice attribute but registers as merely low-grade during the sect’s spiritual-root test 2 10.

• According to an official game post Ying Huaixu had read, its sword attacks heal the user and add true damage calculated from percentages of both the opponent’s health and the user’s health. These were initially described properties rather than a separately verified status readout of his hidden root 2.
• While holding the Ice Spirit Sword, he senses its construction and instinctively understands how to release its full power; he suspects this is the root’s influence 21.
• Lü Qingyi observes Human-Sword Unity in his fighting despite the low-grade test result 16.
• Middle-grade Sword Intent: Improving the root with Primordial Qi grants a 35% increase to all sword technique power and reduces cultivation advancement costs by 20,000 experience 63.
• High-grade effects: After consuming an Innate Ice Spirit Fruit, the panel lists a 35% increase to sword technique damage, true damage equal to 3% of his own health, healing equal to 5% of damage dealt, and a 15% reduction in cultivation experience requirements 133.
• Emergency awakening: Near death against the Half-Demon Azure Fox, silvery-white power originating from fruit He Xixiang had fed him merges with the root, heals him, and allows his fists to activate its passive alongside Frost Annihilation 198.
• Later synergy: Its health-based true damage remains part of his build alongside health-consuming sword techniques, frost passives, and defense-shattering weapon effects 359 477.

Ice Techniques

Cultivation Methods and Inherited Passives

Dao Seals, Spirit Aspects, and Return to True

• Extreme Ice Dao Palace: At heaven grade, increases frost damage by 400% and provides Red Lotus Blossoming. Its Frost’s Wound passive reduces an enemy’s attack power by 5% per stack, up to ten stacks 288.
• Way Sword Saint Palace: His second Dao Seal. Its Sword Mark passive increases piercing damage by 5% per stack, allowing repeated attacks to progressively overcome defensive treasures 288 371.
• Guanghan Palace: Immortal-grade perfected form of his Extreme Ice Dao Palace, obtained by spending nearly a hundred thousand Dao Stones 365.
• Sword Master Form: His Second Spirit Aspect continuously condenses Sword Qi behind him. Against Great Thousand, he combines it with Frost Annihilation dispersed throughout the surrounding space 423.
• Overhealing shield: During the same higher-realm fight, excess healing converts into a protective layer of white light around him 423.
• Return to True unification: His previous Dao Palace and Spirit Aspect forms become his normal condition, with their former active and passive abilities operating continuously without expenditure 452.
• Inner World influence: Learns to project developments within his Inner World onto the Outer World through Heaven-and-Earth Power, describing the process as altering the outside world’s underlying code 462.
• Integrated passives: Can attach Frost Annihilation’s passive to Sword Qi and fill passive stacks almost immediately through the movement of that qi 462.

Alchemy

His refinement speed and batch sizes astonish Huang Tianqi 24 49.

• Produces seven Supreme-grade Spirit-Breaking Pills in one refinement session 24.
• Refines two hundred Bone-Strengthening Pills at once, later exchanging them for spirit stones 24 25.
• Receives access to the outer sect Pill Room and ingredients needed for his formulas through his alchemist token 24.
• Learns formulas for Sweet Dew Pills, Second-Tier Spirit-Returning Pills, and Qi-Gathering Pills; automates Sweet Dew Pill and Qi-Gathering Pill production 49.
• Devotes entire days to refining supplies after the Azure Fox battles, aiming to overwhelm future bosses through preparation 212.
• Supplies teammates with Revival Pills and Recovery Pills before difficult encounters 321.
• Teaches alchemy without withholding knowledge from Huang Ergou, Huang Tianqi’s father, who accompanies his later expedition partly to learn from him 520.

Talisman Crafting, Artifact Refining, and Logistics

• Talisman stockpiling: Spends nights drawing talismans and carries them into boss fights, applying buffs such as Mighty Strength and Lightness before engaging 212 346.
• Automated talisman crafting: Uses system-assisted automatic production. Tai Wangshu studies it and creates a Mental Strength-based method that moves a Spirit Brush automatically 321.
• Artifact refining: Can automatically forge Flying Swords, and personally teaches Tai Wangshu artifact refining 386.
• Lifebound treasure design: Repeatedly refines a sword scabbard until he obtains the desired Sword Cultivator’s Heart attributes, then binds it 211.
• Formation limitation: Cannot learn formations in the same manner as his other crafts, prompting him to recruit Chen Zhiyuan as a specialist 212.
• Team support: His companions regard him as a mobile treasury and powerful logistical support, with broad mastery of nearly everything except formations 285.

Resource Management and Recovery

• Automatic medicine use: Equipped healing pills activate automatically during breakthroughs and combat. He can adjust their activation threshold 7 21 48.
• Recovery limitations: Advancement causes genuine pain and physical depletion. During the city lord fight, pills keep him alive, but sustained attacks still exhaust his stamina 7 21 48.
• Instance farming: Clears the Nether Capital Merchant Guild’s Spirit Stone, Medicinal Herb, and Equipment Materials instances for currency and supplies 38.
• Shared mission experience: Receives experience from Ye Ningshuang’s kills and from other sect disciples fighting during the world mission, making his plan to gain experience from the sidelines viable 40 45.
• Sin-value perception: States that he can see condemned inmates’ sin values and warns He Xiuyuan not to kill indiscriminately 41.
• One-time consumable experience: Spiritual fruit and tea can grant experience, but repeated consumption of the same qualifying item does not necessarily repeat the reward 83.
• Beast-fighting investment: Raises the Three-Tailed Cat Eight Chi through the Merchant Guild event and wagers on its fights, exchanging a share of betting funds for Xiaohe’s information 94.
• Soul protection: Strange formation patterns prevent outside soul power from touching his soul. The examining shadow concludes that he cannot be possessed and suspects soul attacks would also be ineffective 184.
• Health lock and revival timing: During the four-fox battle, his health locks for fifteen seconds and he receives options to await teammate healing or revive. He deliberately times revival near the end of that window 202.
• Revival Pills: Repeatedly uses revival and associated invincibility periods to withstand the Star-Devouring Leader’s otherwise fatal Star-Killing Starlight 349.
• Treasure collection: Uses navigation and exploration knowledge to gather seabed treasures and salvage a shipwreck; dismantles a massive ore chunk into twenty million spirit stones and distributes much of the other loot to companions 244.
• Dao-scar repair: Uses the system to remove Tai Wangshu’s Dao scars and gains 100 million experience for doing so 393.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ice Spirit Sword — Supreme-grade ice spirit weapon. Obtained from the Yin Soul Secret Realm; Lü Qingyi removed its restrictions and black energy and enhanced it into an ice-blue longsword 16 21.
• Phantom Night Wolf Pattern jade pendant — Adaptive defensive artifact awarded for completing the wolf-pack side quest 32.
• Outer disciple token — Granted by Lü Qingyi; includes a guidance function he uses after registering at the sect 10 18.
• Second-grade alchemist token — Grants access to the Pill Room and formula ingredients 24.
• Storage Bag — His equipped basic bag adds twenty inventory slots 21.
• Blood-Coagulating Pills and Qi-Recovery Pills — Regularly purchased from the system shop and equipped in medicine slots 39.
• Bone-Strengthening Pills — Used in his advancement preparations; their requirements appear in the higher Body Tempering upgrade interface 26 31.
• Nether Capital Merchant Guild VIP token — Provides a twenty-percent discount 38.
• Refined ores and tempering stones — Bought in bulk for the equipment enhancement and advancement systems, at prices lower than he remembered from the game 38.
• Frost Annihilation — A central weapon in his later frost build. At supreme-quality tier-one Magic Treasure, each attack creates an ice-frost blade worth 15% of current frost damage; thirty stacks detonate with an additional 100% detonation-damage increase 133.
• Frost Spirit Pendant — Advanced to supreme-quality Magic Treasure. Increases frost damage by 15% and provides a Frost Shield that absorbs 10% of damage 133.
• Innate Ice Spirit Fruit — Consumed to raise the Dao Sword Spiritual Root to high grade 133.
• Profound-Breaking Pill — Supplied by He Xixiang for his Sea of Qi breakthrough 126.
• Heavenly Palace Index Map Fragment — Quest item given to him by Xu Yaoyang before the associated quest formally appears. He remembers Ye Ningshuang supplying the same item in the game 147.
• Lifebound sword scabbard — Bound within his Spirit Sea; bears Sword Cultivator’s Heart, increasing swordsmanship damage by 20% and critical damage by an additional 35%. The binding function allows its treasure to improve with his realm without further advancement materials 211.
• Flying Boat — Used to transport the merfolk child and his companions toward the Merfolk Clan 244.
• Spatial Bracelet — Includes a minimap used to search for scattered companions 289 300.
• Revival Pills, Recovery Pills, and buff talismans — Major components of his later raid preparations and survivability 321 346 349.
• Heavenly Tribulation Pearl — Given by Lü Qingyi to help complete his tribulation 365.
• Frost Annihilation–Moonlight — Later advanced to a Supreme-Quality Spirit Treasure with the soul of Moonlight. Grants 45% increased attack power, 80% increased critical damage, and 300% increased ice damage. Frost erosion removes 5% of all enemy defenses per stack, up to twenty stacks, followed by a frost-damage detonation. Against enemies with zero defense, frost rust reduces all speeds by 5% per stack and ultimately freezes them regardless of defenses 477.
• Adjustable weapon-weight modifier — Frost Annihilation later gains 3% additional damage for every ten thousand jin of weight, at a corresponding speed cost. He tests a six-million-jin setting that remains manageable and sufficiently fast under Sword Flight 485.

Relationships

• Ye Ningshuang — Rescuer, host, fellow disciple, and principal companion. She grows attached to him, while he initially describes them as friends and avoids pursuing romance because he fears her original storyline. He later prioritizes strengthening her so she can safely carry future missions 3 6 17 27 49. She willingly participates in plans to expose enemies and insists that she wants to fight rather than remain an ornament. He nevertheless feels guilty about using her as bait 88. She later kills pursuers and attacks Shura Hall to keep enemies from learning more about him 148. Their abilities become closely linked: she can summon him, models Spirit Aspects on him, and uses a Huaixu Form capable of reproducing Sword Master Form 307 423. He catches her when she collapses after the Chalk battle, and their later exchanges include the possibility of having children, although she remains jealous of Tai Wangshu 425 520.
• Lü Qingyi — Senior sect member who recruits him, rewards his adventure quest, and enhances his sword. His knowledge and combat ability intrigue her, although divination repeatedly labels his future “utterly ordinary.” She orders disciples to keep his unusual behavior secret and covers for his unexplained use of token guidance 10 11 16 18. Later questions how he knew the Thousand Mechanisms Sect’s plans, guards his tribulation, and supplies the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl 83 365. She reveals his classification as a native and personally trains him to fight without relying on the skill bar 441 456 457 458. The Heavenly Dao credits her sect reforms with helping create his present attachment to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect 461.
• He Xiuyuan — Senior brother and trusted mission companion. Ying Huaixu considers changing his originally fatal ending, helps keep him alive, and later demands serious cultivation and combat training. He supplies him with more than three hundred Qi-Gathering Pills and sets a goal of reaching Meridian Opening’s ninth level within two years 27 37 48 50. He continues monitoring He Xiuyuan’s safety and intervenes when his relationship with Cheng Wanshu threatens to reproduce a deadly storyline 141 143 192. Much later, he defeats an overconfident He Xiuyuan in one move in the Illusory Dream Trial and decides to take him monster farming 486.
• Huang Tianqi — Alchemy supporter and fellow disciple who recognizes his talent, awards his alchemist status, provides formulas, and tries unsuccessfully to persuade the Pill Peak Master to recruit him 24 49. Becomes one of his recurring raid companions and recipients of the treasures he distributes 192 244 321.
• Doctor Li — Early source of alchemical knowledge. Ying Huaixu learns the Bone-Strengthening Pill formula from him, supplies other pills for research, and warns him to keep his refinement work secret 5. After the Azure Fox encounters, he returns toward Peaceful Town intending to recruit Doctor Li as an alchemist for his growing supply needs 212.
• Xu Yaoyang — Cultivator associated with Ye Ningshuang’s original game storyline. Ying Huaixu suspects their encounter contains previously unseen history, but accepts Xu Yaoyang’s compensation and conciliatory spirit herb 34 37. Later requests his help with a traitor in an area that suppresses cultivation to Meridian Opening 94 95. Xu Yaoyang seeks his friendship and enjoys his frost aura, leaving Ying Huaixu uncomfortable and undermining his assumptions about Xu Yaoyang’s interest in Ye Ningshuang 114 138 319. Their continued cooperation does not mean Ying Huaixu always regards him as a close friend 192.
• Qiu Shiyi — Sect reinforcement who destroys the city lord’s transformed second phase. Ying Huaixu conceals his own contribution, leaving He Xiuyuan credited with the victory 48. Later helps coordinate the operation involving Xue Si and Ye Ningshuang’s exposed talent, and remains a recurring combat ally 88 417.
• He Xixiang — Sixth senior sister of the sect and later his master. Although she describes herself as poor at combat and cultivation aptitude, Ying Huaixu knows her strength makes these claims misleading 51 80 135. Feeds him experience-granting fruit, defends him from Lü Qingyi’s questioning, sends his breakthrough pill, and trains him in the Magic Sword inheritance 83 126 219. Power from her fruit saves him against the Half-Demon Azure Fox 198. Their relationship becomes close enough that sleeping beside her grants him experience; she later finds herself unable to sleep after he leaves 365 486.
• Tai Wangshu / Taiyin Saintess — Highly capable teammate whom he initially recognizes as the game’s exceptionally reliable “Sister Yin.” Her analysis and replication of system-like production methods alter his understanding of the world 319 321. Her spatial restrictions are crucial against the Star-Devouring Leader, and he later views her as an indispensable support worth protecting and developing 349 366. They team up for world-level advancement, exchange crafting knowledge, and he repairs her Dao scars 379 386 393. After threats against her, he decides she should no longer live alone; their relationship also involves personal teasing and tension that irritate Ye Ningshuang 446 450 452 520. He accepts her investigation quest in Dream Province’s Secret Realm 524.
• Xiaoxue — Combat pet and companion. Uses Frost Wolf King’s Blessing to enhance his attributes and helps freeze the Falling Star Giant Beast leader before he can self-destruct 260. Ying Huaixu later maximizes her attributes with a pet-upgrade gift pack, after which she takes human form while retaining animal habits 288.
• Eight Chi — Three-Tailed Cat he selects, names, raises, and wagers on in the Merchant Guild’s beast-fighting event 94.
• Xiaohe — Merchant Guild contact who arranges cultivation facilities and supplies. Agrees to provide future guild information in exchange for thirty percent of his beast-fighting betting funds 94 133. Ying Huaixu later requests Merchant Guild proceeds through this contact to fund advancement 251.
• Chen Zhiyuan — Formation Grandmaster whom he recruits to fill his own formation-crafting weakness, offering sect resources if Chen reaches Sea of Qi’s second layer within three months 212. Allows Chen and the others to attempt an upcoming battle without his intervention; Chen later uses a Slowing Formation to support his fight against a Return to True enemy 244 423.
• Heavenly Dragon Princess — Ally who marks him and shares thirty percent of his attributes, while providing maps and intelligence about the Star-Devouring Clan 295. Helps bring about an alliance between the Dragon Clan and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect 306 307.
• Old Ten — Assigned companion whom Lü Qingyi permits him to employ as a laborer and instructs him to take along when going out 367. His Illusory Dream Trial combat teaches her to abandon openings caused by showy technique execution 371.
• Star-Seizing Sect Master — Political and combat ally. Recognizes his growing strength, authority, and connections, while worrying that cooperation may gradually draw the Star-Seizing Sect into the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s orbit 362. Works with him to lure cautious Outsiders using a fabricated Star-Seizing Ancestor relic 494.
• Zhuang Mu — Sect leader and strategic collaborator who comes to regard Ying Huaixu’s influence as having raised Hongmeng’s ability to resist the Outsiders 403 492.
• Lady Nether Capital — Powerful figure who pursues him over an alleged bathing incident. He stops fleeing after seeing her purple Adventure Quest offering a mysterious Spirit Leaf in return for help cultivating lingzhi 393.
• Huang Ergou — Huang Tianqi’s father and an alchemist accompanying his later expedition. Seeks to learn Ying Huaixu’s techniques, which Ying Huaixu teaches openly 520.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Peaceful Town

• Slaughters the bandits threatening Ye Ningshuang while still believing he is playing a game; subsequently awakens his rare spiritual root and discovers that he cannot log out 1 2.
• Tests surviving quest and skill systems, then kills a wanted criminal using attack displays and Flying Snow Sword 5 7 9.
• Receives an outer disciple token and farms local quests before departure, accumulating 12,700 experience 10 12 17.

Yin Soul Secret Realm and Sect Entry

• Uses remembered formation arrangements to enter the Yin Soul Secret Realm. The boss’s faster attacks and eventual retreat reveal that familiar encounters can behave differently in reality 13 14 15.
• Completes Lü Qingyi’s adventure quest, receives rewards, and gains her assistance with his new spirit weapon 16.
• Registers at the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, advances his cultivation, and secures second-grade alchemist status shortly after joining 18 21 24.

Falling Radiance City World Mission

• Joins Ye Ningshuang’s investigation of disappearing villagers, despite its unexpectedly early appearance. An emergency breakthrough lets him defeat the Phantom Night Wolf en route 26 31 32.
• Uses prior game knowledge to uncover the Thousand Mechanisms Sect’s plan to sacrifice Falling Radiance City. His proposed “infiltration” becomes a purge of enemy outposts 40 41.
• Alters the intelligence report to influence the sect’s response. The mission changes into defending the city and killing the Annihilation Envoy’s descending avatar, and unusually strong reinforcements arrive 42.
• Is drawn into the city lord’s underground hall with his companions. When their expected story roles fail to resolve the fight, he advances to Meridian Opening and defeats the first phase before Qiu Shiyi destroys the transformed enemy 46 47 48.
• Later learns that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s territory was exceptional in avoiding the mass casualties suffered elsewhere. His concealment leaves He Xiuyuan publicly celebrated, while Ye Ningshuang receives a Netherworld Pearl 66.

Return and Low-Profile Development

• Abandons his disrupted progression schedule after the near-fatal battle. He chooses to develop Ye Ningshuang, automate pill production, and prepare resources rather than attract attention 49.
• Delays obtaining his next cultivation method to avoid exposing his extraordinary advancement speed, plans weekly merchant-guild farming, and begins forcing He Xiuyuan to train seriously 50.
• Tries conventional cultivation, discovers its inferior result compared with system advancement, repairs his realm, and upgrades his spiritual root to middle grade 62 63.
• Becomes He Xixiang’s disciple and gains a position associated with the Illusory Dream Trial rather than an ordinary participant’s ranking 80 84.

Xue Si and Changing Storylines

• Recognizes the threat posed by the Descender Xue Si and explains that sealing her memories allows her to pass the Questioning Heart Formation, exposing a serious infiltration loophole 74 83.
• Coordinates with Qiu Shiyi over monitoring Xue Si and controlling the information she can obtain, while trying to preserve the experience-rich storyline surrounding Ye Ningshuang’s talent 88.
• Learns that Ye Ningshuang has already arranged to expose her own information, intending to use Xue Si to draw out enemies of the sect 88.
• Unlocks the Merchant Guild’s beast-fighting event and establishes a lasting information arrangement with Xiaohe 94.
• Receives Xu Yaoyang’s request for help against a strangely empowered traitor, another development that does not match his remembered game outline 95.
• While hunted by the Thousand Mechanisms Sect, obtains He Xixiang’s Profound-Breaking Pill and reaches Sea of Qi, reversing the pursuit and killing the disciples chasing him 126.

Cold Pool Secret Realm and the Azure Foxes

• Upgrades Frost Annihilation, obtains the Frost Spirit Pendant, improves his root to high grade, and learns Frost Waltz Slash in preparation for the Cold Pool Secret Realm’s dangerous final boss 133.
• Intervenes in the storyline surrounding He Xiuyuan, Cheng Wanshu, and Meng Wuya rather than allowing the remembered fatal confrontation to occur unchallenged 141 143.
• Leaves an earlier secret-realm expedition while Ye Ningshuang remains behind to eliminate pursuers and retaliate against bounty issuers 148.
• Advances his cultivation method to unlock idle experience, then fights the Black Wolf King using his Frost Concept and follows the fleeing enemy through his map 174 181.
• Reaches Sea of Qi’s sixth layer, then unexpectedly finds himself placed near the final boss while his companions are scattered around the secret realm 183 191 192.
• Refuses the Azure Fox Lady’s demands, stalls for enough experience to reach the seventh layer, and survives near death when power from He Xixiang’s fruit awakens within his root 195 196 198.
• Faces all four foxes rather than relying on his companions to clear their separate opponents. Times his revival mechanics and survives until another breakthrough raises him to the eighth layer 200 202.
• Later explicitly identifies himself, rather than Ye Ningshuang, as the one who cleared the Cold Pool Secret Realm, despite the Main Quest continuing to issue objectives based on the game’s original narrative 230.

Spirit Sea Development and Merfolk Expedition

• Enters Spirit Sea, creates a lifebound treasure, and intensifies pill and talisman production to prevent another supplies crisis 211 212.
• Recruits Chen Zhiyuan as a formation specialist and sets out to recruit Doctor Li as an alchemist 212.
• Completes He Xixiang’s training and acquires Magic Sword tier one, dramatically increasing his offensive power, bodily toughness, and Magic Power 219.
• Advances repeatedly through Spirit Sea while remaining wary that his exceptional strength may simply be necessary to survive Hongmeng difficulty 220 231.
• Transports a merfolk child toward the Merfolk Clan, salvages seabed treasures, distributes loot, and prepares supplies for the next battle 244.
• Defeats the Falling Star Giant Beast leader in close combat, with Xiaoxue’s blessing and freezing preventing the enemy’s attempted self-destruction 260.
• Reaches Spirit Sea’s perfected ninth layer and prepares for tribulation 266.

Dao Seals and the Star-Devouring Clan

• Obtains dual Dao Seals, upgrades the Extreme Ice Dao Palace to heaven grade, and raises Xiaoxue’s attributes 288.
• Discovers that the Star-Devouring Clan’s apparent suicide tactics deny him experience, while direct kills can yield Dao Stones 289.
• Determines with He Xiuyuan that the clan is deliberately sacrificing soldiers to strengthen survivors and copy Divine Abilities, then obtains confirmation and further intelligence from the Heavenly Dragon Princess 295.
• Reconnects party trading with Ye Ningshuang and supplies her remotely while both continue fighting in separate locations 300.
• Begins building alliances for future world-level battles, including cooperation with the Dragon Clan and Star-Seizing Sect 306 307.
• Reaches Dao Seal’s third level and completes the Star-Seizing Ancestor’s task through an overwhelming release of frost spiritual energy 313.
• Tai Wangshu’s analysis of his power leads him to suspect that the Main Quest and Heavenly Dao are exposing the world’s hidden potential and steering his encounters 321.
• Rejects abandoning the world’s inhabitants and enters the Main Quest’s “Blood War in the Star Sea” stage 328.
• Battles the Star-Devouring Leader through repeated star-based lives, using Revival Pills and invincibility to survive Star-Killing Starlight while his allies interfere with the enemy’s larger advantages 346 347 349.

Spirit Aspect and Wider-World Expeditions

• Receives Lü Qingyi’s assistance with tribulation, perfects the Guanghan Palace, and completes a heart demon challenge involving an imitation of Lü Qingyi 365.
• Enters Spirit Aspect and develops a new build centered on perfected sword Divine Abilities, teleportation, and Ice Mystic Scripture 366 378.
• Teams up with Tai Wangshu and Old Ten for an instance intended to raise the World Level 379.
• Clears hostile Small Worlds and several major worlds, but deliberately pauses before stronger targets after remembering the consequences of underestimating the Azure Foxes 386.
• Repairs Tai Wangshu’s Dao scars, becomes separated from her, and encounters Lady Nether Capital’s purple Adventure Quest 393.
• Advances to Spirit Aspect’s second layer before Ascension City and receives an unexpected cooperation request from the formerly hostile Shura Hall, whose leader invokes their shared identity as Hongmeng natives 397 403.

Chalk Battles and Return to True

• Adapts to the Chalk enemies’ inherited immunities by emphasizing physical-force sword attacks, but finds even this approach increasingly ineffective as their defenses and healing develop 417.
• Faces Infinite Great Thousand after the enemy forcibly enters Return to True. Activates Sword Master Form and the Blood-Burning Forbidden Technique, then raises himself to Spirit Aspect’s eighth level to close the reaction-speed gap 423.
• Fights the stronger enemy through dodges and counters while Ye Ningshuang reveals her own Spirit Aspects modeled on him. Their victories break the remaining Chalk fighters’ will to resist 424 425.
• Learns that Lü Qingyi can identify him as a native, further complicating his understanding of his arrival 441.
• Protects Tai Wangshu from external threats and works through the temperament requirement for Return to True. Recognizes returning to Earth with his cultivation as a major unfulfilled wish 446 448 449 450.
• Enters Return to True, unifying his previous Dao Palace and Spirit Aspect abilities, then undergoes Lü Qingyi’s training to develop genuine mastery beyond the system’s skill execution 452 456 457 458 462.

Outsider Countermeasures and Heart-Questioning Valley

• Helps coordinate the major factions’ response to Heart-Questioning Valley, contributing to an unusually united Hongmeng World 466.
• Advances Frost Annihilation–Moonlight and his cultivation method, discovering that the latter now produces experience and Laws beyond the usable system version 477.
• Adds adjustable weapon weight to his build and defeats an overconfident He Xiuyuan before taking him back toward practical monster farming 485 486.
• Works with the Star-Seizing Sect Master against Outsiders who repeatedly flee whenever his presence is detected. Proposes a fabricated secret realm and ancestral relic to bait them into acting 492 494.
• Raises his cultivation from Return to True’s first level to its eighth level during a confrontation, shocking both the Outsiders and nearby allies 496.
• Becomes sufficiently notorious among Outsiders that portraits, intelligence about his methods, and dolls capable of reproducing his Divine Abilities circulate widely 500.
• Investigates the strange rules surrounding Heart-Questioning Valley and Dream Province’s Secret Realm with his companions. Accepts Tai Wangshu’s quest to determine what the factions are fighting over, but finds that the tracked search areas do not immediately reveal the objective 520 524.

Notable Quotes

“I just dodged, slashed, and killed him!” 10

“There's nothing wrong with it. As long as everyone's dead, no one will know we snuck in!” 40

“Don't go killing innocent people. I can see their sin values. You can't!” 41

“You think you're the only ones with a third phase?” 202

“This is my world. How dare you run wild here!” 492