Chu Xisheng

Biodata

Power Progression

• Reputation is not cultivation: his early panel lists an illusory upper ninth-rank reputation while his actual origin cultivation is lower ninth rank. Later reputation entries can likewise exceed his cultivation 35 98 588.

Background and History

Chu Zheng and the Ghost Marriage

Chu Xisheng’s identity is connected to Chu Zheng, the legitimate son of the Jingxi Chu Family’s Eldest Branch. After his mother died, his father resigned from office and died of grief six months later. The original owner of the body was subsequently bullied, controlled, and sent into a ghost marriage, suffocating inside a coffin 122 429.

Chu Ming later states that Emperor Jianyuan ordered the ghost marriage to Qin Muge and that all branches of the Chu Family agreed to sacrifice him. Chu Xisheng’s own investigation leaves the exact nature of his transmigration unresolved: the artifact involved would preferentially gather soul substance connected to Chu Zheng, making a complete separation between their identities uncertain 532 564.

Zhengyang Martial Academy

Living in poverty and poor health with Chu Yunyun, Chu Xisheng sought admission to Zhengyang Martial Academy. Ye Zhiqiu accepted his money, covered the remaining expense herself, and obtained Academy Master Lei Yuan’s approval for admission without examination. Her public praise also activated his system 1.

He cultivated both martial ability and reputation, explaining that the Formless Divine Sect’s advanced methods offered a chance to treat his condition and prolong his life. He became chief inner disciple and refused Shangguan Longjian’s demand that he surrender his opportunity in the True Inheritance Trial 64 94 100.

Secret Realm and True Inheritance Trial

The Linhai Zhou Family recruited him for a ninth-rank secret realm contest, providing protection and resources. He entered despite the danger because he wanted the Divine Origin Rejuvenation Pill. During the expedition, he absorbed medicinal power from a breached pool and awakened the Zangtian bloodline 95 104 135.

He later defeated Luo Li in the True Inheritance Trial without moving from his position, using wind blades and lightning. His rewards included Thunderclap, Luan Blood Inner Armor, and medicine for the fifth layer of Origin-Nourishing Art 181.

West Mountain Hall and the Iron Banner Gang

As West Mountain Hall master, Chu Xisheng became a major martial-world figure in Xiushui Commandery. His forces destroyed Wen Family Fort, routed commandery troops, razed Cloud Crane Manor, and forced the North-Guarding Dan Family to submit 193 204.

His standing expanded beyond Eastern Province after he escorted Zuo Qingyun’s family toward the capital. Reports credited him with joining the Ten Divine Talented Young Blades, defeating the capital’s Three Blades, and beating Mo Qilin with one slash 213 233.

Following the crisis at Mi Family Manor, he rallied the Iron Banner Gang against its enemies. He stormed the Clear Sea Gang’s stronghold and killed Lin Shi and Long Heng. He admitted afterward that he had been prepared for a confrontation ending either in the gang’s destruction or government amnesty 242 257 259.

Blood-Yazi Inheritance

The Formless Divine Sect selected Chu Xisheng as a Blood-Yazi Candidate. Though Chu Ming produced a stronger visible response during blood testing, informed sect members understood that the sect trusted him more 272 282.

In the Time Secret Realm, he challenged the assembled sect elites, rapidly developed his cultivation, and gained the Wooden Sword Immortal’s support. His final trial involved nearly four hours of combat with Qin Muge, after which he reached the Blood Maple’s summit 283 296 317.

He later revealed his Yazi bloodline against Gu Yuanchen, shattered the White Bone Yuanchen puppet, and beheaded him. Gu Yuanchen recognized him as the Formless Divine Sect’s Blood-Yazi Saint Inheritor before dying 368.

Opposition to Great Ning

Chu Xisheng’s concealed identity endangered everyone associated with him: he expected the Imperial Court to destroy the Iron Banner Gang if it learned he was Chu Zheng. Once that identity became public, Emperor Jianyuan’s determination to kill him intensified 429 484.

His political planning extended beyond defeating the emperor. He intended to remove the Iron Mountain Qin Clan’s entrenched elders so that they could not threaten a future dynasty. Chu Yunyun regarded this foresight as evidence that he possessed the makings of an emperor 512.

At Wang’an City’s Meridian Gate, he broke Yu Kunlun’s suppression, killed Yuwen Ba, injured other first-rank experts, and fought Yu Kunlun to a standstill. He withdrew when Zong Shenhua’s Sunflame Power approached 566.

Great Law Dynasty and the Final Calamity

As ruler of the Great Law Dynasty, Chu Xisheng enforced land, tax, and household reforms and suppressed resistance. He also mobilized national resources to support the creation of cultivation Battle Diagrams 607 659.

Against Rahū, he turned an attempted possession into a trap within his soul sea, using Wish-Fulfillment power and the Eastern Emperor Mirror to extract source essence stolen from humanity 676.

In the final battle, he confronted Destroy alongside White Emperor’s Son, Eastern Emperor, Zangtian, and other allies. While Chu Yunyun completed Heaven-Creation and restored the Heavenly Dao, he endured Destroy’s attacks and used Yazi’s Retribution to help wound the enemy. Destroy fled beyond the world, leaving Chu Xisheng in control of the remaining transcendent divine body 754.

Appearance

At his introduction, Chu Xisheng is tall and slender, with refined, handsome features and an unusually sickly pallor. Later transformations preserve his facial structure while making his beauty appear almost inhuman 1 340.

• Eyes: Long, narrow phoenix eyes that seem to hold laughter even when he is not smiling 1.
• Early complexion: Almost translucent skin without a trace of healthy color 1.
• Early clothing: Coarse cloth washed until it has faded white 1.
• Battle Diagram: Carries a Blood-Yazi Battle Diagram tattooed on his back 429.
• Concealed scales: Fine scales beneath his skin undergo reconstruction as his bloodlines strengthen 582.

Personality

Chu Xisheng combines public chivalry with calculated deception. His loyalty and righteous reputation attract followers throughout Eastern Province, but close observers recognize his fondness for hidden schemes. He wins one tournament match by cutting He Chao’s belt, forcing his opponent to fight while holding up his trousers 41 247 276 285.

His apparently effortless confidence can conceal anxiety. During the secret realm contest, he maintains an expert’s composure while privately fearing the danger; concern for his reputation even prevents him from changing to a safer route 106 113.

He is loyal to friends and conscious of debts. He protects Zuo Qingyun’s family despite the danger and treats Zhou Xiongba as an elder rather than accepting formal obeisance. His guilt over Tie Kuangren also strengthens his determination to gain enough power to prevent similar losses 213 319 429.

As a commander, he is pragmatic and capable of ruthlessness. He understands how material interests motivate soldiers and refuses mercy when he believes it will allow a threatening enemy force to regroup. Nevertheless, he prefers to befriend opponents without lasting hostility rather than accumulate unnecessary enemies 242 244 356.

Abilities & Skills

System and Martial Dao Treasury

• Reputation-based growth: Publicity and widely reported victories generate Martial Dao Points or Blood Essence Points; the spread of a victory can be more valuable than the fight itself 35 356.
• Redeemable enhancements: Exchanges points for bloodline talents, character cards, supernatural-power cards, and other resources 177 274 407.
• Dreamscape training: Practices martial arts in dreams and uses Qin Muge simulation cards for combat training 146 296.
• Follower management: Establishing a personal faction unlocks a dedicated management module 190.
• Later resources: The Treasury also offers weapons, divine artifacts, and fragments of the Book of Laws 714.

Yazi Saber and Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber

• Hostility as strength: Enemy hostility stimulates his saber intent; facing more enemies can make him stronger rather than overwhelm him 94 356.
• Reflection: Redirects arrows, hidden weapons, martial force, and Martial Intent against their sources 82 187 535.
• Intent-based attacks: Uses Divine-Intent Saber against both individual experts and massed forces; he considers a fleet of 230,000 troops vulnerable to it 445 456.
• Combined offense: Fuses Yazi reflection with Heaven-Executing Saber, punishing enemies whether they resist or leave his attacks unanswered 535.
• Suppression and recovery: Yu Kunlun suppresses his Yazi power through dream-based methods, but Chu Xisheng restores his Silver-Mirror Saber Astral Force with Wish-Fulfillment 566.

Heaven-Executing, Wish-Fulfillment, and Hundun Saber Arts

• Heaven-Executing Saber: One of his principal offensive lineages, later integrated with Yazi, Hundun, and Wish-Fulfillment into a coherent fighting system 316 535.
• Wish-Fulfillment Heart-Following Saber: Makes surrounding things increasingly obey his will; Divine Heart provides its greatest enhancement 489.
• Hundun Method: Extracts and incorporates different martial styles and Heavenly Order powers, enabling countless transformations 707.
• Mirror Reflection Heaven and Earth: Draws power from the world; adding Heaven-Returning reflects enemy power and Heavenly Orders into heaven and earth 637.
• Saber Twenty-Nine: Ten Thousand: A late-stage technique praised by White Emperor’s Son, who nevertheless identifies its flaws and breaks it. Chu Xisheng hopes to progress toward a future Saber Thirty named Dao 707.

Zangtian Divine Blood

• Dance of Zangtian: Escalates through injury-triggered stages, reaching its third stage under severe wounds 257.
• Thirty-breath protection: Ninth-rank Zangtian grants a period during which he cannot die or suffer injury 305.
• Divine Power Rekindling: Repeatedly reignites divine power to increase his combat strength; it helps him open the Mortal-Divine Boundary 535 584.
• Essence Devouring: His variant bloodline incorporates Rahū’s ability to consume Origin Power, including baleful power, for his own use 504.

Blood of Eternal Ages and Body Refinement

• Restoration: Rapidly replenishes blood and enables recovery after devastating saber attacks 274 445.
• Purple-Gold Body: Absorbs diverse baleful forces to strengthen External Astral Force and improve resistance to different powers 304 305.
• Innate Divine Body: Formed during his lower second-rank breakthrough 584.
• Hundun Tyrant Body: Withstands a combined attempt by three Ancestral Gods to tear him apart, after which his body rapidly recovers 746.

Perception and Movement

• Divine-Intent Saber Heart: Detects hostility across a vast area; by one documented stage, its range reaches 1,200 li 532.
• Blood-Yazi Double Pupils: Dispel most illusions, perceive force trajectories and traces of causality and retribution, and reflect external powers through his gaze 637.
• Divine War Eye: Reads an opponent’s martial arts, anticipates moves, and identifies weaknesses 637.
• Time-Step: Travels through space within his perception range; his Nine Luminaries swords can serve as spatial beacons across 5,000 li 532 535.
• Limits: Both ocular abilities fail to reveal openings or causal traces in White Emperor’s Son 637.

Sword Control and Supporting Arts

• Nine-Wheel Sword-Controlling True Art: Taught by the Wooden Sword Immortal to address his shortage of long-range attacks 321.
• Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Sword: Houses his nine divided spirits; its sealed power unlocks progressively with cultivation 348.
• Saber-finger techniques: Lightning-Pursuing Finger kills Ge Ping’an after Chu Xisheng loses his blade. Its advanced successor, Divine Thunder Insight-Piercing Finger, allows his fingers to support Heaven-Executing and Yazi saber techniques 82 363.
• Cold-Sealing arts: Ice River Age freezes Yu Kunlun’s dragon claw, Emperor Jianyuan’s golden sword, and numerous Imperial Court experts 566.
• Divine Sorrow: Counters Giant Spirits and spellcasters and interferes with spells and divine arts, though its effect on Yu Kunlun proves limited 535.

Command and Statecraft

• Military leadership: Expands West Mountain Hall’s influence and assembles a force of 19,000 against Nine-Blade Stronghold 239.
• Political restraint: Avoids capturing Xiushui Commandery City when doing so would turn an uprising into open rebellion and unsettle his followers 244.
• Recruitment: Attracts martial talent through his reputation and evaluates specialists for reliability as well as strength 247.
• Administration: Directs military funding, supplies, and personnel arrangements; later enforces dynasty-wide reforms 456 607.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Thunderclap: A Wild Goose Feather Saber awarded after the True Inheritance Trial 181.
• Luan Blood Inner Armor: Protective equipment received with his trial rewards 181.
• Divine-Concealing Chain: Enchanted equipment surrendered by the Zhou Family as compensation after an assassination attempt 104.
• Golden Wind Jade Dew Sabers: Weapons used during his Rahū bloodline development and subsequent battles 340 368.
• Nine Luminaries Divine Wheel Sword: Nine swords protecting his divided spirits, with sealed power sufficient for them to become first-rank divine weapons 348.
• Blood-Yazi Divine Saber: Raised to transcendent rank using Taichu Mother Qi. Even then, White Emperor’s Son later judges it too weak to bear the full power of Saber Twenty-Nine 607 707.
• Myriad Manifestations Star Disc: Another artifact elevated to transcendent rank with Taichu Mother Qi 607.
• Eastern Emperor Mirror: Helps trap Rahū in his soul sea and grind away his spiritual sense 676.
• Heaven’s Will Mirror: His complete control of it inspires a plan to retrieve scattered pages of the Two Books of Precepts and Laws through Wish-Fulfillment 714.
• Hundun Divine Saber: The weapon with which he meets Destroy’s black hand in the final battle 754.
• God-Defying Banner Pennant: Obtained through Ghost Shadow He Qi and handed to Chu Yunyun, awakening her suppressed bloodline talents 467.

Relationships

• Chu Yunyun — Initially presented as his frail younger sister; later explicitly his wife and a central partner in cultivation, politics, and battle. She completes Heaven-Creation while he resists Destroy 1 512 527 754.
• Ye Zhiqiu — Instructor, early sponsor, and protector. Secures his academy admission and later secretly escorts him toward the capital 1 229.
• Lei Yuan — Zhengyang Martial Academy’s master. Approves his admission exemption, arranges cultivation resources, and warns him about Shangguan Shenhao 1 181.
• Jian Zangfeng — Sect ally and protector whose Heaven-Pacifying Sword supports several dangerous battles 181 360 368.
• Zhou Liangchen — Former opponent turned close companion. His admiration sometimes pushes Chu Xisheng into unwanted danger, but he keeps the siblings’ identities secret even from his father 95 113 429.
• Zhou Xiongba — Benefactor whom Chu Xisheng addresses as “Uncle Zhou.” The Zhou Family supplies early secret medicines and the Blood-Yazi Battle Diagram 429.
• Tie Kuangren — Iron Banner Gang leader for whom Chu Xisheng is regarded as successor in all but name. His guilt concerning Tie Kuangren becomes a motive for pursuing greater strength 242 319.
• Zuo Qingyun — Close friend. Chu Xisheng protects him and his family during their dangerous journey toward the capital 213.
• Lu Luanli — Longstanding companion and combat ally. Kills Yun Kaiyang during the gorge battle and later pursues mastery of the Heaven-Pacifying Sword 187 509.
• Bai Xiao Zhao — Demonic companion whom he helps develop through Treasury resources. Her blood-drinking relieves pressure during the medicine-pool incident; she later fights alongside him in Chenghuang form 135 296 535.
• Wooden Sword Immortal — Benefactor and martial teacher. Provides sword-control instruction, pine branches, and assistance that addresses weaknesses in Chu Xisheng’s fighting style 317 321 358.
• Zangtian — Divine patron associated with his bloodline awakening and subsequent enhancements 135 305.
• Chu Ming — Fellow Blood-Yazi Candidate and hostile Jingxi Chu Family relative. Later addresses herself as his slave and accepts orders against former family interests 272 278 601.
• Emperor Jianyuan — Principal political enemy, responsible for ordering the ghost marriage and determined to eliminate Chu Xisheng after his identity is exposed 484 564.
• White Emperor’s Son — Rival, examiner, and eventual ally. Repeatedly tests his saber arts, exposes their weaknesses, and joins the defense against Destroy 637 707 754.

Notable Quotes

“Today is perfect. Before the Time Secret Realm opens, with all your talents gathered here, I challenge you all to battle. Grant me a defeat!” 283

“Everyone pursues profit! For gains right before their eyes, people will often disregard life and death. I only told them they still had a chance to protect their rice bowls. Then there's no need to worry that they won't fight with their lives.” 242