Xiao Tian

Biodata

Power Progression

Xiao Tian develops through feeding, Long Qianming’s Soul Ring absorption, and dragon-aspected medicinal treasures rather than an independently documented Soul Power rank.

Appearance

Xiao Tian changes from a plump, black, pig-like creature into an enormous black-scaled Dark Sacred Dragon 3 11 22 41.

• Initial form: Black fur, a rounded body, fleshy paws or trotters, sharp canine teeth, and a bell on its chest 3 8 10.
• First evolution: Shorter, harder fur; thick legs with scattered dragon scales; and newly formed black claws. Its overall silhouette remains pig-like 11.
• Second evolution: A four-meter, elongated body combining pig, dog, tiger, snake, and emerging dragon features. Its snout shrinks and its ears become shorter and more pointed 22.
• Dragon form: Black scales, powerful claws, an enormous sweeping tail, and cold, fierce eyes. Its claws are already a meter wide during the spar with Dugu Xin 46 47.
• Later size: Reaches thirty meters before the staged encounter with Ling Yuan and one hundred meters after the Abyssal Prison Demon Dragon’s Soul Ring is absorbed 87 120.

Personality

Xiao Tian is intelligent, expressive, and responsive to human speech. It communicates through cries, growls, gestures, and its mental connection with Long Qianming. It also reacts protectively to unfamiliar arrivals, relaxing when its master identifies them as friends 3 8 14.

Food is a persistent priority. Xiao Tian becomes picky after repeated meals of Shadow Tiger meat, bites Lou Gao when he steps on its food, and develops an increasingly large appetite as its dragon transformation progresses. Dragon-aspected treasures attract it especially strongly 7 13 14 41.

Its obedience does not eliminate its pride or mischievousness. It sulks after being summoned infrequently, welcomes an opportunity to repay Long Qianming’s strenuous training during a spar, and growls indignantly when a stronger dragon orders them out of its territory. Later, it visibly sides with Bibi Dong when it considers its master to be bullying her 40 87 108 160.

Abilities & Skills

External Martial Soul Manifestation

Xiao Tian fights as a separate physical combatant rather than requiring conventional Beast Martial Soul possession 14.

• Mental link: Long Qianming can understand what Xiao Tian is attempting to convey without spoken language 8.
• Recall and resummoning: Can return to Long Qianming’s body and be summoned again, including after being dispersed in combat 3 8.
• Resource limits: Repeated summoning depends on Long Qianming retaining sufficient Soul Power and physical endurance 8.
• Range limit: During the encounter with Ling Yuan, traveling five li from Long Qianming causes Xiao Tian to dissolve automatically into black Qi 88.
• Simultaneous combat: Remains able to fight externally while Long Qianming uses the physical transformation of Dragon Body Power 87.

Perception and Tracking

Xiao Tian provides both direct reconnaissance and sensory benefits to its master.

• Enhances Long Qianming’s hearing, smell, and other perceptions 3.
• Its darkness attribute allows Long Qianming to see clearly at night and perceive his surroundings more sharply in darkness 7.
• Scouts ahead, detects approaching visitors, and guards Long Qianming during cultivation or Soul Ring absorption 3 7 11 20.
• Tracks the Black Flame Earth Dragon Python through its flames by scent and locates the concealed Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear with its keen sense of smell 21 86.

Space-Rending Claw

Long Qianming’s First Soul Skill enlarges Xiao Tian’s limbs into ethereal, scaled dragon claws carrying dark Qi 11.

• Shatters a boulder in its first test 11.
• Increases Xiao Tian’s running speed by 50% during the pursuit of the Black Flame Earth Dragon Python 21.
• Supports both close-range claw strikes and projected dark claw attacks; a later use releases six black claw blades 21 88.
• Reaches its fuller potential after Xiao Tian becomes a Dark Sacred Dragon 50.
• With the Third Soul Skill’s enhancement, pierces the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s hardened defensive fur 86.
• Long Qianming can inherit part of the enhancement for one minute; the inherited attack and speed increase is later specified as 10% 11 51.

World-Burning Black Flame

The Second Soul Skill allows Xiao Tian to breathe black flames inherited from the Black Flame Earth Dragon Python 22.

• Growth potential: Its power increases with Xiao Tian’s strength and accumulated darkness origin 22.
• Destructive heat: Melts Lou Gao’s shield into molten iron and threatens his Eight Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor 22 23.
• Breath attacks: Overwhelms the Jasper Poison Dragon’s breath in the clash that breaks Dugu Xin and Su Qing’er’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill 47.
• Area control: Vaporizes incoming ice attacks and becomes especially dangerous in a confined cave 50.
• Persistent burning: Later uses of Inextinguishable Black Flame keep the Bone Dragon trapped in a burning pit 64.
• Precision heating: Maintains furnace temperatures during pill refining and assists in producing Snow Goose Poison Cores 111 119.

Dark Night Wandering Dragon Transformation

The Third Soul Skill supplies a 150% increase to speed and attack 51.

• Initially lasts five minutes and can be used at most four times with Long Qianming’s Soul Power at that stage 51.
• Long Qianming inherits one-fifth of its enhancement, granting him a 30% boost 51.
• Xiao Tian’s flight path carries dark ice Qi extending five meters outward, briefly impairing breathing and mobility 51.
• Sustained flight itself becomes innate after the third ring, requiring Soul Power but no active Soul Skill 51.

Ring Fusion

Long Qianming can merge Soul Rings into Xiao Tian to strengthen it and allow flexible skill combinations 79.

• Xiao Tian freely alternates between the skills contained in the fused rings instead of relying on one selected attack 79.
• Each deployed skill consumes half as much Soul Power 79.
• Combining six rings temporarily brings Xiao Tian’s presence close to that of a sixty-thousand-year Soul Beast, although this is insufficient against the Abyssal Prison Demon Dragon 108.
• A later combination increases the attack and scorching effects of its black flames by 150% against Tang Chi 131.

Dragon Physique and Suppression

Xiao Tian’s mature body provides substantial strength, resilience, and bloodline pressure.

• Dugu Xin’s poison claws fail to wound its scales or inflict substantial poison damage 47.
• Its tail breaks two of Long Qianming’s ribs during their staged confrontation, while Ling Yuan’s meteor shower leaves it visibly uninjured 88.
• Lesser-dragon Soul Beasts with inferior bloodlines submit or flee in its presence 107 108.
• Five energy-dragon constructs reduce an opponent’s attributes by 20% 108 131.
• Defensive Soul Skill effects help it survive the Abyssal Prison Demon Dragon’s attacks and take Tang Chi’s Avatar-enhanced Sky-Piercing Strike with only superficial injuries 108 119 131.

Spiritual Protection and Absorption Support

Xiao Tian helps Long Qianming withstand dangerous Soul Ring absorption.

• Long Qianming relies on it to share excess ring energy and help tolerate rings beyond conventional age limits 10 21 23.
• Assists with absorbing the Dark Wood Dragon Beast’s twenty-thousand-year ring 64.
• Enters Long Qianming’s spiritual sea and crushes the attacking soul of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, converting it into energy that strengthens his spiritual power 86.

Eternal Silence: Suspended Annihilation

• Creates a black hole that engulfs the surrounding area during the rematch with the Abyssal Prison Demon Dragon 119.
• The attack does not kill the demon dragon, which survives and regains consciousness 119.

History

Early Companionship and Hunting

Long Qianming names his black Luo Sanpao “Tian,” addressing it as Xiao Tian and promising that they will grow stronger and survive together. Xiao Tian becomes his guard and companion while he establishes himself in Gengxin City 3 7.

Its first documented Soul Beast battle is against a wounded male Shadow Tiger. Its clumsy attacks initially accomplish little, but its rounded body absorbs much of a counterattack’s impact. Long Qianming coaches it through repeated harassment until the tiger collapses from exhaustion 8.

After years of fighting together, Xiao Tian reacts immediately when the Nine Netherworlds Devil Tiger injures Long Qianming, distracting the beast and buying him time. The subsequent first-ring absorption begins its visible transformation toward a dragon 10 11.

Becoming a Dark Sacred Dragon

Xiao Tian helps pursue and disable the Black Flame Earth Dragon Python, attacking its wounds and blinding its left eye. The resulting second-ring evolution gives it a much longer body and black-flame breath 21 22.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, it eats Earth Dragon Golden Melon rind before sharing the Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma with Long Qianming. The ganoderma’s dragon essence completes its evolution into a Dark Sacred Dragon 40 41.

Its new strength is demonstrated against Dugu Xin and Su Qing’er’s Jasper Poison Dragon fusion. It later helps hunt the Snow Moon Dragon Eagles, kills the Dark Wood Dragon Beast, and assists in imprisoning the Bone Dragon 47 50 63 64.

Independent Skill Use and the Staged Dragon Attack

Ring Fusion allows Xiao Tian to deploy its skills more freely. It subsequently kills the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and protects Long Qianming from the bear’s spiritual attack during absorption 79 86.

After growing to thirty meters, it spars with Long Qianming. When Ling Yuan approaches, they turn the fight into a performance that makes Xiao Tian appear to be a hostile wild dragon. It attacks its master, withstands Ling Yuan’s counterattack, and flies away until its manifestation reaches its distance limit 87 88.

Dragon Valley and Later Battles

In Dragon Valley, Long Qianming and Xiao Tian attempt to claim a dark-attribute mountain range. The resident Abyssal Prison Demon Dragon defeats Xiao Tian so severely that it disappears into its master, forcing Long Qianming to escape 108.

After assisting with pill refining, Xiao Tian returns for the rematch and helps Long Qianming poison and defeat the demon dragon. Absorbing its hundred-thousand-year ring expands Xiao Tian’s body to one hundred meters 111 119 120.

It later withstands Tang Chi’s strongest hammer strike, helps hunt the ninety-thousand-year Flowing Earth Jade Poison Flood Dragon, and kills the ten-thousand-year Wolf Bandit leader 131 139 144. Its black flames also burn Yu Yuanzhen nearly to death during Long Qianming’s destruction of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan 189.

During the Dragon Valley revival project, Long Qianming summons Xiao Tian alongside the Nether Thunder Azure Dragon and dragon souls when six Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts arrive to meet the newly born Golden Qilin 193.

Relationships

• Long Qianming — Master, mental partner, and primary companion. He calls Xiao Tian his “good brother,” trains its combat technique, and fights alongside it while developing his own dragon body 3 7 8 87.
• Bibi Dong — Carries her with Long Qianming during their travels. Xiao Tian later expresses displeasure on her behalf when it considers its master to be bullying her 158 160.
• Lou Gao — Initially mistakes Xiao Tian for an unusual pet or Soul Beast. After being bitten for stepping on its food, he witnesses its evolution and tests its black flames 14 22 23.
• Dugu Xin and Su Qing’er — Sparring opponents whose Jasper Poison Dragon fusion is broken during its clash with Xiao Tian’s black flames 46 47.
• Dugu Bo — Cooperates with Xiao Tian in dragon hunts and the capture and imprisonment of the Bone Dragon 63 64 139.
• Treasure-Seeking Rat — Grooms Xiao Tian by removing bugs and grime from between its scales. Works alongside it in Long Qianming’s herb-gathering and pill-refining operation 111.
• Abyssal Prison Demon Dragon — Territorial enemy that initially overwhelms Xiao Tian. Their rematch ends in its defeat, and its Soul Ring fuels Xiao Tian’s next major growth 108 119 120.