Chi Yu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Chi Yu comes from a wealthy family whose business-minded parents spend most of their time abroad. His grandparents raise him, first in a village and later in the city so he can attend school. Their preference for doing household work themselves teaches him cooking, housekeeping, and thrift despite his financial security 3 21.

Before transmigrating, he is a popular, high-achieving student who enjoys sports and expects to take the college entrance examination. His parents’ prolonged absences leave him far closer to his grandparents than to them 34 89 91 267.

He enters the world of the novel Divine Path with a system-assigned mission to kill its central villain, Xie Xiyi. The proposed shortcut is to become Xie Xiyi’s most trusted person, seize his fortune, and attack once that fortune falls below Chi Yu’s own. Early attempts instead end with Xie Xiyi killing him 1 3.

Appearance

Chi Yu has a delicate, youthful face and a slender frame that becomes stronger and more refined through cultivation 1 59 91.

• Build: Long limbs, a narrow waist, and lean muscle developed through sword practice and body tempering 44 89 91.
• Features: Soft facial contours, thick eyelashes, fair skin, and rosy lips. Foundation Establishment makes his features more defined and his complexion clearer 59 258.
• Eyes: Eventually turn gold; after returning to Earth, he chooses not to conceal them with contact lenses 266.
• Hair: Arrives with short hair, later grows it to his shoulders and wears it in a high ponytail, then cuts it back into a lightly parted fringe on Earth 1 76 266.
• Changing stature: Rejuvenation reduces his height to approximately 1.67 meters early on, but he subsequently grows taller 7 127.
• Earthly appearance: His transformed looks and otherworldly bearing surprise his classmates. Even with his spiritual pressure restrained, his presence makes them hesitant to approach 266 267.

Personality

Chi Yu is cheerful, sociable, and generous without the arrogance expected of a wealthy child. He makes friends easily, enjoys ordinary chores, and frequently recasts setbacks as evidence that he is living a heroic “Long Aotian” story. His humor is a coping strategy rather than an absence of fear: he recognizes danger but sees little value in dwelling on emotions that cannot help him 3 17 46 267.

His kindness extends beyond friends. He buries the dead respectfully even while taking useful belongings from their bodies, considers the safety of ordinary people when offered a powerful treasure, and insists that resolving resentment requires understanding the wronged person’s wishes 1 113 131.

Despite his easygoing manner, he is intelligent and unusually clear about his priorities. His performance at the Mind-Certifying Terrace shows that he can pursue success wholeheartedly and relinquish it when necessary. Neither immortality nor extraordinary power displaces his wish to return to his grandparents 34 45 117 218.

His compassion does not mean unconditional tolerance. He warns Wu Yunsu that preying on people will make them enemies, and eventually accepts lethal combat when refusing to fight would mean death. His reluctance to kill human cultivators nevertheless remains a significant obstacle during his early sword training 80 111 247.

Romantically inexperienced, Chi Yu initially understands Xuanji’s care as friendship and familial protection. He becomes deeply attached while resisting the idea that love should require abandoning his own world. Even after recognizing his feelings, he struggles to reconcile them with his determination to go home 89 118 147 218 234.

Abilities & Skills

System and Rejuvenation

Chi Yu possesses an unreliable system that supplies mission information and several auxiliary functions 3 5.

• Rejuvenation: Allows him to return from death, but reduces his physical and bone age. He initially calculates that he has only eighteen lives rather than unlimited resurrection 5 7.
• Cultivation benefit: Becoming younger widens his closing qi apertures and increases the speed at which spiritual energy enters his body 7.
• Tracking: Displays Xie Xiyi’s coordinates. Repeatedly striking the malfunctioning system improves its updates from monthly to real time 5 13.
• Affection display: Provides a favorability reading for Xie Xiyi, which remains at zero during the early story 5 13.
• Limitations: Tracking can disappear, and Chi Yu later reserves Rejuvenation for situations in which he has no other choice 27 152.

Swordsmanship

Xie Xiyi personally guides Chi Yu from basic practice to effective combat swordsmanship 41 56 234.

• Initially benefits from excellent coordination, but his polished movements lack sword intent and killing intent 44.
• Learns forms including Plucking Stars and Replacing the Dipper and Skanda Offering the Pestle under live combat instruction 56.
• Develops speed, reactions, and practical judgment through hunting Yaomo 97 100.
• Completes a major gap in his technique after killing Qingxuan, gaining the killing intent needed to make his swordsmanship more fluid 215.
• Eventually dispatches demonic cultivators at the Golden Core Realm and below with swift, decisive attacks 234.
• Still knows relatively few techniques at Nascent Soul; his strongest combat asset is the swordsmanship Xuanji taught him 215.

Divine Sense and Spiritual Communion

Chi Yu trains an initially underdeveloped Divine Sense, later strengthening it through Spiritual Resonance with Xie Xiyi 38 44 106.

• Uses Divine Sense to examine memories during the investigation of Ke Boss and the Book Repairer 119.
• Can shape it into a cat teaser to play with Xie Xiyi’s manifested Divine Sense 270.
• Spiritual Communion creates a powerful psychological craving; Dharma Lotus Clear Liquid eventually becomes inadequate to suppress it, while Mind-Clearing Enlightenment Tea provides relief 137 203 204.
• Contact between cultivators’ Divine Senses can be dangerous, and Xie Xiyi warns him against casually attempting it with others 81.

Secret Realm Control

Chi Yu gains control of the treasure secret realm refined by Xue Yi 130 131 204 208.

• Moves the Mortal City away before confining Xie Xiyi in the realm’s red wasteland 204.
• Suppresses Xie Xiyi’s black mist and can temporarily prevent him from using Forbidden Curses 204 208.
• Controls the passage of time inside the realm 208.
• Avoids excessive pressure because Xie Xiyi might respond by destroying the realm 208.

Cultivation and Practical Skills

• Spiritual-energy absorption: Drains a top-grade spirit stone in his hand until only white powder remains 7.
• Elemental arts: Studies Water and Fire Elemental Arts, interpreting their effects through the movement and reactions of spiritual energy 43.
• Body tempering: Uses a manual provided by Xie Xiyi and develops greater physical toughness alongside his other training 50 111.
• Thought concealment: Uses his cultivation technique to hide thoughts about deceiving Xie Xiyi 192.
• Music: Obtains the Buddhist Sect’s Righteous Object from the Azure Luan by playing music 166.
• Domestic skills: An accomplished cook and housekeeper; also makes clothing and styles Wu Yunsu’s hair 3 7 73 83.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Phantom Lightning — Xie Xiyi’s growing spirit sword, refined from a Golden Core cultivator’s spine. It is unusually affectionate toward Chi Yu and permits him to handle it; an early test releases enough power to destroy half an inn room 5 8 11.
• Mid-grade spirit sword — Purchased for regular training because his unstable cultivation and limited understanding prevent him from refining a Life-Bound Spirit Sword at that stage 41.
• Sumeru Ring — Stores weapons, supplies, food, and spirit-stone-powered cooking utensils 3 41.
• Protective robes — Includes enchanted clothing that automatically adjusts to changes in his height and physique 1 5.
• Red gemstone stud — A gift from Xie Xiyi that automatically protects him when attacked. Its stored power supports twenty attacks against Unorthodox Cultivators below Nascent Soul and demons below the third level of Nascent Soul 106.
• Flying artifact — Used for travel and hunting. Sustaining it initially taxes his spiritual reserves; repeated use improves his control 46 100.
• Forbidden Curses left by Xie Xiyi — Emergency protection against opponents whose cultivation exceeds his own 215 240.
• Bone-refined protective artifact — Made from Xie Xiyi’s bones; resolves demonic qi that enters Chi Yu’s meridians during combat 240.
• Dharma Lotus Clear Liquid and Mind-Clearing Enlightenment Tea — Used to manage the craving caused by Spiritual Communion 203 204.
• Dragon-and-tiger embroidered screen — A gift from Xie Xiyi’s former Eastern Palace quarters that Chi Yu intends to make a family heirloom 136.

Relationships

• Xie Xiyi / Xuanji — Initially his assassination target, killer, and master; later his teacher, protector, beloved, and bonded companion. Their relationship includes coercion and serious harm as well as devotion, and Xie Xiyi eventually asks for an opportunity to atone 3 6 127 187 216 254.
• Grandpa and Grandma — His primary caregivers and strongest connection to Earth. Returning to them remains central to his choices; he ultimately brings Xie Xiyi home and openly seeks their blessing 21 218 270.
• Parents — Financially supportive but emotionally distant, with increasingly infrequent visits during his childhood 21 89.
• Xiaoqiu / Xie Tinghan — A younger-brother figure whom he comforts and protects. Chi Yu brings him to Earth, presents him as his little brother, and helps him adapt to modern life 40 106 266.
• Wu Yunsu — A demon who calls him “Dad.” Chi Yu provides clothes, affection, and cultivation support while insisting that he reject predation on humans 73 80 83.
• Ling Hezhou — His first patient instructor in cultivation fundamentals and an early companion 34 41.
• Zhiguan / Ling Zhenbai — A younger friend who divines the whereabouts of his missing Soul Pearl. Learning that Zhiguan is Ling Hezhou’s father reinforces Chi Yu’s realization that he has traveled five hundred years into the past 27 144.
• Suoluo and Qiye — Initially hired to search for his Soul Pearl; remain friends whom he greets warmly at his bonding celebration 27 255.
• Qingxuan — An apparently helpful acquaintance whose gifts and offers of protection Chi Yu increasingly keeps at a distance. He later recognizes Qingxuan’s manipulative nature and ultimately kills him 145 152 180 215.
• Lianchi — A senior brother and fellow investigator who works with him on the resentment secret realm and later fights beside him 113 119 234.
• Xue Yi — A remnant consciousness who values his gentleness and concern for ordinary people. She advises him and assists with his decision to offer half his heart for Xuanji 130 131 202.
• Duyu and Xiao Jingyu — Friends in the Yu Dynasty. Chi Yu helps them with cultivation resources, and Xiao Jingyu later writes his bonding-ceremony invitations 94 254.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Survival Beside the Villain

• After repeated deaths, Chi Yu abandons his original approach and reveals the system’s mission to Xie Xiyi in an attempt to survive 1.
• Becomes Xie Xiyi’s sword slave, receives a curse mark, and is confined near his cave 7.
• Establishes his usefulness through Phantom Lightning’s unusual attachment to him 11.

Five Hundred Years in the Past

• Loses Xie Xiyi’s system coordinates and arrives on Zizai Continent, where Zhiguan tells him that his missing Soul Pearl is still on him 27.
• Studies at the Luopo Chan Sect under the name Long Aotian and grows close to Senior Brother Xuanji 29 37 69.
• Chooses to save Xuanji rather than cling to the mission of killing Xie Xiyi, accepting that cultivation might offer another route home 64.
• Investigates a resentment-born secret realm with Lianchi and gains access to Xue Yi’s realm-controlling treasure 113 119 130 131.
• Leaves the Tiangang Secret Realm despite a warning that returning to his own world is unlikely and that the attempt could kill him 166.

Confronting the Later Xie Xiyi

• On returning five hundred years forward, discovers the Immortal Alliance’s exploitation of the Xie Clan and declares that he wants the Alliance 177 180.
• Attempts to restrain Xie Xiyi’s violence while dealing with the coercive effects of renewed Spiritual Communion 187 192 204.
• Offers half his heart, placing Xuanji above his own prospects of ascension 202.
• Confines Xie Xiyi inside the secret realm and appeals to the divinity he believes remains beneath the demonic heart 204 208.
• Reunites with Xie Xiyi after his memories return, but questions how their relationship can continue after the harm between them 216.

War and Bonding

• Fights demonic cultivators beside Xie Xiyi and Lianchi, demonstrating the swordsmanship developed over two years 234.
• Continues fighting through the Demon Realm conflict, relying on Xie Xiyi’s protections against stronger enemies and demonic contamination 240.
• Holds a bonding ceremony with Xie Xiyi and invites friends from across his time in the cultivation world 254 255 257.
• Learns that an undetected Forbidden Curse has been influencing his resistance to intimacy; Xie Xiyi removes it 258 259.

Return to Earth

• Returns home with Xiaoqiu, resumes modern dress, and helps him establish an ordinary household while waiting for Xie Xiyi 266.
• Reenters school as a Nascent Soul cultivator, where his changed appearance and imperfectly concealed spiritual presence unsettle his classmates 267.
• Reunites with Xie Xiyi outside school and brings him home to meet his grandparents 268 270.
• Makes their relationship explicit rather than passing Xie Xiyi off as an honorary brother, telling his grandmother that a husband would be closer 270.

Other Versions and Histories

• Demon-Slaying Army counterpart: Another version of Chi Yu leads the Demon-Slaying Army and has earned military honors by killing demonic and human cultivators. Xie Xiyi contrasts that hardened figure with the less experienced Chi Yu he encounters in the Tiangang Secret Realm 165.
• Ascension scene observed through the laws: Xie Xiyi witnesses a history in which Chi Yu endures an immortal ascension tribulation, believing that ascending will let him return home. This is distinct from the main storyline’s return to Earth at Nascent Soul 267 269.

Notable Quotes

“My real name actually isn't Long Aotian. Long Aotian is just the identity I gave myself out in the world, and the person I hope to become in this world.” 69

“But, Senior, there are things more important than the Great Dao and power.” 202

“Although I never thought of becoming a savior, I never thought of becoming an evil villain either.” 247

Trivia

• Chi Yu explains his name as Chi, “a creature in a pond,” and Yu, “happy.” Xie Xiyi notes that Yu also sounds like “fish” 69.
• He initially keeps working on school examination papers alongside cultivation, but eventually stops as becoming stronger takes priority 37 66.
• His grandmother took him to have his left ear pierced when he was a child; it is his only piercing 263.
• Although roughly two years of cultivation transform him, his friends on Earth initially perceive the change as having occurred in only two days 266 267.
• Xie Xiyi gives him a doll containing the Haoyuan Realm’s Heavenly Dao. Upon learning what it is, Chi Yu immediately kicks it in retaliation for his experiences 270.