Gu Yang

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Life in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect

Gu Yang is a transmigrator raised within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as Gu Rong’s grandson. Before awakening his Martial Soul, he maintained a disciplined physical-training routine for years and surpassed the sect’s other children of his age in fighting skills. He also sought guidance from Sword Douluo Chen Xin 1 2 3.

On the eve of his awakening, his AI predicted a 98% chance of a poor mutated Martial Soul and a 98% chance of only 0.5 innate Soul Power. He feared losing the sect’s support, particularly because he had previously disciplined Ning Rongrong twice. His actual awakening instead revealed Innate Full Soul Power and Shikotsumyaku 1 2.

Ning Fengzhi subsequently regarded him as a future successor to the sect’s aging protectors and pledged its resources to his development. Gu Yang’s training combined personalized AI guidance, a mimicry cultivation environment, and high-quality medicinal herbs 3 4 8.

Soul Ring Hunts

Gu Yang chose the Power Attack System without committing himself exclusively to swordsmanship. His longer-term objective was to gather the elemental powers needed to attempt Shikotsumyaku’s evolution into All-Killing Ash Bones 3 4.

His fourth-ring hunt nearly killed him. After trapping and detonating bones against the Dark Devil Tiger, he suffered extensive fractures and required two days of recovery before attempting absorption. Although the AI gave the ring only a 53% success rate, he proceeded; the Heavenly Dragon Horse’s remnant soul weakened the tiger’s power enough for him to succeed 16 17.

For his fifth ring, the sect helped locate the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. It pulled him into its Life and Death Arena, but its age-regression effect failed to alter him while reducing the tiger itself to a juvenile state. Gu Yang killed it, secured its pearl, and absorbed both the ring and pearl 22 23 24 25.

Shrek Academy

Gu Yang initially saw little benefit in attending Shrek Academy: the sect already supplied resources, knowledgeable mentors, and assistance with Soul Rings and Soul Bones, while his AI handled cultivation planning. He eventually accompanied Ning Rongrong after Ning Fengzhi sought his help in improving her disposition 21 27.

During admissions, he defended Oscar against ridicule over his sausage-making incantation, earning Zhao Wuji’s approval and exemption from the assessment. He then requested an extended leave, arguing that the academy had nothing to teach him 29 30.

When Flender made leave conditional on a combat challenge, Gu Yang chose to defeat Zhao Wuji rather than merely endure his attacks. He stunned Zhao with Fear Roar, restrained him with a jointed bone whip, and detonated it, forcing the Soul Saint to concede 30.

Operation Against Tang Hao

Gu Yang identified Tang San as Tang Hao’s son and directed the sect’s attention toward Tang Hao’s likely presence, hundred-thousand-year ring, and Soul Bones. He attributed part of his information to the Clear Sky Secret Records, although Ning Fengzhi later acknowledged that the cited passage did not exist 32.

During the ensuing confrontation, Gu Yang protected Ning Fengzhi from Tang Hao’s redirected Clear Sky Hammer attack. With Ning Fengzhi’s defensive amplification, his skeletal protection endured the strike, allowing Sword Douluo to finish Tang Hao 34.

Offered all seven recovered Soul Bones, Gu Yang selected only the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. He suppressed its resisting will with Shikotsumyaku and forcibly fused with it 35.

Blue Silver Forest

After absorbing the right leg bone, Gu Yang began hearing Blue Silver Grass address him as its king. He followed these spiritual signals into the Blue Silver Forest, where the Blue Silver King sensed a faint but superior bloodline within him 36 37.

Gu Yang deliberately feigned ignorance to secure the Blue Silver King’s cooperation. The king and the forest’s Blue Silver Grass then gathered their power to awaken his bloodline, surrounding him with a blue halo as his sixth Soul Ring began condensing 37.

Appearance

Gu Yang is described as ruggedly handsome, with resolute features. When traveling to Suotuo City, he wears luxurious, fitted clothing 25 27.

• Changed bearing: The Evil God Pearl gives him a noticeable air of wicked charm 27.
• Post-transformation presence: Immediately after consuming the pearl, he radiates coldness, dominance, evil, and an uncanny oppressive force. He can suppress this presence 25.
• Awakening appearance: His outward appearance does not change during the Blue Silver awakening shown in the forest 37.

Personality

Gu Yang is disciplined, independent, and strongly focused on cultivation. He follows training tailored to his physical condition rather than exhausting himself indiscriminately, and he refuses to restrict his versatile Martial Soul to a single weapon or conventional development path 2 3 8.

His caution coexists with calculated risk-taking. He begins the story frightened by unfavorable predictions, but later questions the AI about the consequences of failed absorption before gambling on the Dark Devil Tiger’s ring. In combat, he deliberately presents openings to lure enemies into hidden bone spikes 1 5 17.

He feels genuine gratitude and belonging toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but resists arrangements that interfere with his progress. His treatment of Ning Rongrong is blunt: he rejects a prospective match and urges her to become a useful support Soul Master rather than continually drawing him away to play 11 21 31.

He is also willing to deceive others to obtain opportunities. He supplies a nonexistent textual source when discussing Tang Hao and plays the bewildered heir before the Blue Silver King 32 37.

Abilities & Skills

Shikotsumyaku

His Martial Soul encompasses every bone in his body, allowing him to extract, reshape, and weaponize them 2.

• Versatile weapons: Forms swords, spikes, bullets, and jointed whips rather than relying on one fixed weapon 2 5 9 30.
• Destructive property: His newly awakened bone sword leaves a shallow, ash-gray damaged mark on Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon Martial Soul 3.
• Regeneration: Replaces damaged bones and supports recovery from severe injuries 16 17.
• Enhanced absorption: His unusually strong body permits Soul Ring absorption far beyond conventional age limits 6 7 8.
• Soul Bone control: Absorbed Soul Bones fall within Shikotsumyaku’s influence. Gu Yang attributes their unusually complete integration and additional skills to this property 12 13 18 35.
• Limits: Bone expenditure, regeneration time, and Soul Power consumption still constrain sustained combat 16.

Bone Armor

His first Soul Skill grows a semi-humanoid skeleton around him. The first ring also doubles his bone strength 7.

• Remains unmarked under Sword Douluo’s level-sixteen and level-thirty test attacks 7 8.
• Suffers a dent at level forty, a breach at forty-five, and spreading cracks at forty-nine 8.
• Is not literally absolute defense: Gu Rong immediately challenges Gu Yang’s claim of complete protection by pointing out attacks from below 7.

Bone Explosion Technique

His second Soul Skill gives his bones the Exploding Bamboo’s explosive property 9 15 16.

• Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets: Uses explosive thrust to fire finger bones as ranged projectiles; the bullets can also explode on impact 9 16.
• Explosive restraints: Allows him to seize an opponent with bone spikes or a whip before detonating the restraint 15 16 30.
• Limits: His bullets cannot curve like guided projectiles. During the Dark Devil Tiger battle, his available hand bones permit at most four volleys, and repeated firing consumes substantial Soul Power 16.

Holy Dragon’s Protection

His third Soul Skill is a light-type ability that removes negative effects and grants immunity to them 14.

• Cancels the Dark Devil Tiger’s intimidating roar 16.
• Dispels the darkness eroding his body during fourth-ring absorption 17.
• Does not prevent the ring’s raw energy from physically damaging his flesh and bones 17.

Fear Roar

His fourth Soul Skill uses sound waves to shake targets’ spiritual power and inflict a group stun 18.

• Prevents affected enemies from taking action.
• Can stun even opponents with exceptionally strong spiritual power for nearly two seconds 18.
• Creates an opening for restraint and explosive attacks, as demonstrated against Zhao Wuji 30.

Flying Evil God Seal

His fifth Soul Skill combines wind, lightning, and space, allowing him to teleport to the location of one of his own bones 26.

• No distance limit: Unlike ordinary teleportation, it can return him to a distant location containing a bone anchor 26.
• Mobile anchors: He demonstrates teleporting beside Gu Rong as a fired finger-bone bullet passes him 26.
• Requirement: A suitable destination must contain one of his bones 26.

Evil God Pearl Abilities

The Innate Evil God Pearl grants abilities beyond his fifth Soul Skill and improves his cultivation speed 26.

• Evil God Domain: Doubles opponents’ Soul Power consumption, drains their Soul Power, and replenishes his own 26.
• Time Rewind: Returns his personal state to an earlier point, allowing him to undo injuries by rewinding minutes, hours, or days 26.

Soul Bone Fusion Skill

His Head Soul Bone and Dark Devil Tail unexpectedly connect with Bone Armor, producing what Gu Yang identifies as a Soul Bone Fusion Skill 18.

• Strengthens Bone Armor’s defense.
• Amplifies his skills and greatly reduces their Soul Power cost 18.
• Develops into a complete, fleshed-out humanoid several meters tall after the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone supplies additional vitality 36.

Corpse Bone Ghost Dragon

Gu Yang’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Gu Rong combines Shikotsumyaku and the Bone Dragon. The AI reports 100% compatibility between them 19 20.

• Manifests an enormous skeletal dragon bearing their combined thirteen Soul Rings 20.
• Uses Holy Dragon’s Protection to resist Sword Douluo’s Seven Kill Domain 20.
• Clashes head-on with Sword Douluo’s Kill Character Technique. Gu Yang nevertheless does not regard the spar as proof of a guaranteed victory in a death match 20 21.

Intelligent AI System and Cultivation

His Intelligent AI System, also addressed as Wisdom AI, analyzes Martial Souls, Soul Beasts, absorption limits, and possible development routes 1 3 4 8.

• Adjusts training to his condition, emphasizing effective exercise without excessive fatigue 8.
• Provides Soul Beast ages, attributes, and absorption-success estimates 14 15 17.
• Works alongside his cultivation of the Scripture of Supreme Mystery, which he circulates during ring absorption 6 9 14 25.
• Is not infallible: its alarming pre-awakening predictions do not match his actual awakening 1 2.

All-Killing Ash Bones — Unachieved Goal

The AI identifies Shikotsumyaku as theoretically capable of evolving into All-Killing Ash Bones, but stresses that the chance is small 3.

• Proposed requirement: Gather water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness, and space attributes through Soul Rings 4.
• No guarantee: Possessing all seven attributes is a necessary condition in the AI’s analysis, not proof that evolution will occur 4.
• Documented collection: He has earth, fire, light, and darkness after his fourth ring; his fifth skill subsequently supplies wind and space alongside lightning 18 26.
• Planned application: Stun enemies with Fear Roar before striking with the evolved bones’ destructive power 18.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• 60,000-year spiritual Head Soul Bone — A birthday gift from Ning Fengzhi. Grants perception extending nearly a hundred meters, Light of Piercing Illusions, and immunity to mental attacks 11 12.
• Dark Devil Tail External Soul Bone — Obtained from the Dark Devil Tiger. Grants Shadow Assault, which conceals his presence even within a Titled Douluo’s perception and strengthens an ambush, and Darkness Domain, which corrodes and weakens enemy Soul Power 17 18.
• Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone — Claimed from Tang Hao’s spoils. Greatly increases vitality and grants three skills under Shikotsumyaku’s influence; their individual names are not supplied in the provided passages 35 36.
• Storage Soul Tool and diary — Uses the tool to store his notebook, in which he records cultivation plans and his time since transmigration 1 10.
• Sect healing pills — Uses them alongside Shikotsumyaku’s self-healing to recover after the Dark Devil Tiger battle 17.

Relationships

• Gu Rong / Bone Douluo — Grandfather, protector, hunting companion, and Martial Soul Fusion partner. Personally oversees his awakening and repeatedly guards his ring absorptions 1 2 17 20.
• Ning Fengzhi — Sect master and principal patron. Invests heavily in his development, gives him the Head Soul Bone, and hopes to strengthen his connection to the sect through Ning Rongrong 4 11 12.
• Chen Xin / Sword Douluo — Combat mentor and frequent tester of his abilities. Guides his swordsmanship and tests both Bone Armor and his explosive attacks 3 7 8 9.
• Ning Rongrong — Attached childhood companion whom he accompanies to Shrek Academy. He rejects their suitability as a match and challenges her to improve her conduct and support abilities 11 21 27 31.
• Oscar — Fellow Shrek student whose food-type ability he defends against the others’ disgust 29.
• Zhao Wuji — Shrek instructor who initially exempts him from assessment, then loses to him in the challenge for extended leave 29 30.
• Tang Hao — Target of the sect operation Gu Yang helps initiate. Gu Yang foils his attack on Ning Fengzhi and later takes the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone from the spoils 32 34 35.
• Blue Silver King — Recognizes a superior Blue Silver bloodline within him and organizes the forest’s power to awaken it, unaware of Gu Yang’s deliberate deception 37.

Notable Quotes

“My bone Martial Soul has many transformations and methods of attack. If I relied solely on a sword, I’d only be limiting myself.” 3

“You’ve lost because you know nothing about me, while I know your abilities like the palm of my hand.” 24