Han Tianyi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Body Sect and Battle Armor

Han Tianyi belongs to the Body Sect while serving as an elder of the Spirit Pagoda. His institutional position does not sever his sect relationships: Mu Ye, the Body Sect’s sect master, remains his martial nephew despite working at the Blacksmith’s Association headquarters 6 7.

He originally studied forging and mecha manufacturing to investigate how the Star Luo Empire’s Imperial Preceptor had nurtured four-word battle armor without a Divine Craftsman’s heavenly-refined metals. During these studies, he befriended Zhen Hua before the latter became a Divine Craftsman. After Zhen Hua’s breakthrough, Zhen Hua supplied the heavenly-refined metals for Han Tianyi’s own armor 3.

Accepting Jiang Xia

Finding a suitable successor was difficult because Brain martial souls were rare, and their possessors seldom chose illusions. Through Yao Hongchen’s introduction, Han Tianyi met Jiang Xia, whose Broken Dream martial soul and innate full soul power attracted his interest. He accepted the boy after Hongchen investigated his background, becoming especially pleased with Broken Dream’s ability to connect to mental wills 2.

Han Tianyi brought Jiang Xia to his private floor at the Spirit Pagoda headquarters and initially regarded him as a natural illusionist. When Jiang Xia instead proposed using dreams and virtual-world technology to influence reality, Han Tianyi listened rather than rejecting the idea. Their discussion gave him a new direction for his own illusion-to-reality methods 3 4.

Arranging Jiang Xia’s Training

Han Tianyi organized a cultivation plan combining dream construction, three secondary professions, physical conditioning, and a specially cultivated first Soul Spirit. He brought Jiang Xia to Mu Ye for nourishing meals and to Zhen Hua for a forging assessment, deliberately arranging the latter encounter so Zhen Hua could recognize the boy’s talent firsthand 5 7 8.

He also commissioned a high-aptitude Ice Silkworm Soul Spirit from the Spirit Pagoda. When researchers proposed crossing Ice Silkworms with Evil Eyes, he recommended proceeding but personally monitored the work for concealed risks. Eight months after Jiang Xia’s awakening, the project produced the Soul Spirit Han Tianyi named the Ice Fire Silkworm 10 11 12.

Eastsea Academy and Political Caution

Han Tianyi took Jiang Xia to Eastsea City to witness Leng Yaozhu accept Gu Yue as her disciple. Beyond curiosity, he wanted the students to become acquainted and hoped to strengthen Jiang Xia’s future position within the Spirit Pagoda 19.

After discussing the pagoda’s internal turmoil with Leng Yaozhu, he decided Jiang Xia should avoid its affairs while building his foundations. Learning that Wu Zhangkong taught at Eastsea Academy, he arranged for Jiang Xia to study there alongside Gu Yue 20.

Pursuing Limit Douluo

Han Tianyi later entered seclusion while preparing to overcome the barrier to rank 99. He had condensed his Spiritual Soul Core first, but his physical constitution remained insufficient for a breakthrough 48.

After emerging, he helped Jiang Xia construct an illusion-to-reality model within Broken Dream. Jiang Xia used it to manifest a Four-Element Vortex and condense Blood Essence Power. The successful physical enhancement reassured Han Tianyi that the same approach could make his own breakthrough smoother 48 49.

Appearance

• Age: Described as an old man 2.
• Voice: Introduced through a hearty voice 2.

Personality

Han Tianyi is a meticulous and protective teacher. Rather than insisting on handling every subject himself, he recruits specialists, plans Jiang Xia’s future training, and personally checks potentially dangerous research. He recognizes that researchers’ assurances alone are insufficient when his disciple’s safety is involved 8 11.

He is deeply attached to illusions but willing to revise his expectations. Although initially stern when Jiang Xia rejects the illusionist’s path, he hears the proposal out and openly acknowledges learning from his disciple. Later, he briefly mourns the loss of illusions as the center of their lessons, then commits to teaching the path Jiang Xia actually needs 4 37.

His treatment of Mu Ye mixes seniority, teasing, and genuine concern. He criticizes Mu Ye’s stalled cultivation and repeatedly recruits him to support Jiang Xia, yet freely acknowledges his exceptional mecha expertise and nourishing cuisine 6 8 10.

Abilities & Skills

Brain Martial Soul and Spiritual Power

Han Tianyi’s Brain martial soul underpins his reputation as the continent’s foremost mental master. His advanced Spirit Domain Realm spiritual power surpasses that of many Limit Douluos 2 12.

• Can inspect mental environments such as Jiang Xia’s Broken Dream 3.
• Uses spiritual materialization to give spiritual power tangible influence over reality 5.
• Can examine Broken Dream through his superior spiritual cultivation, but recognizes that its deeper workings will become harder to probe as Jiang Xia develops 13.

Illusions and Illusory Realms

Han Tianyi can briefly open an illusory world through his martial soul and overlay it onto reality, making small alterations to produce convincing illusions 5.

• Teaches dream construction by allowing Jiang Xia to connect Broken Dream to his illusory realm 5.
• Reproduces the gathering and circulation of primordial Qi within illusions for Jiang Xia to study 13.
• Merges an illusion into Broken Dream to support Jiang Xia’s spiritual capacity during Soul Spirit fusion, without directly linking his spiritual power to the boy’s 12.

Turning Illusion into Reality

Han Tianyi can make illusory effects real, but his original method relies on spiritual power and is limited by what he can comprehend and simulate. Jiang Xia’s proposal reveals a technological alternative using the Spirit Ascension Platform 4.

• Verifies that illusion-generated data can affect real space through the platform’s technology 13.
• Teaches Jiang Xia the technique after the boy establishes sufficient dream-construction foundations 37.
• Serves as the vessel for an illusory space and builds the model used in Jiang Xia’s first successful physical application 48 49.
• Explains that imitating the relevant technologies requires at least Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual power 14.
• Distinguishes this art from spiritual materialization: materialization makes spiritual power tangible, whereas illusion-to-reality techniques manifest an intended result 5.

Spirit Ascension Platform Expertise

Han Tianyi participated in building the Spirit Ascension Platform and specializes in its technology 4 20.

• Explains how its virtual simulations interface with a sealed real space 4.
• Suggests anchoring Broken Dream to a virtual world rather than another soul master to reduce Jiang Xia’s dependence on outside assistance 7.
• Advises on artificial Soul Spirits, targeted mutations, and Soul Spirit Fusion Skill research 5 14 16.

Secondary Professions

Equipment and Facilities

• Four-word battle armor — Made with heavenly-refined metals supplied by Zhen Hua; grants him treatment equivalent to a Limit Douluo 2 3.
• Private headquarters floor — Occupies the entire thirtieth floor of the Spirit Pagoda headquarters, covering at least 10,000 square meters 3.
• Workshops and metal stores — His floor contains forging, mecha design, and mecha manufacturing rooms, alongside storage for common, precious, and special rare metals 3.

Relationships

• Jiang Xia — Personal disciple. Han Tianyi arranges his training, research support, Soul Spirits, and schooling; Jiang Xia’s ideas also reshape his teacher’s understanding of illusion-to-reality techniques 2 4 11 20.
• Mu Ye — Martial nephew and Body Sect sect master. Han Tianyi worries about his cultivation stagnation while relying on his physical-conditioning methods and mecha expertise to help Jiang Xia 6 7 10.
• Zhen Hua — Friend and peer in their personal dealings. Their early forging exchanges benefited Zhen Hua, who later supplied Han Tianyi’s armor metals and agreed to guide Jiang Xia 3 7 8.
• Yao Hongchen — Facilitates Jiang Xia’s apprenticeship and investigates the theft of his family’s estate and the circumstances surrounding his parents’ deaths 2 5 6.
• Leng Yaozhu — Fellow senior Spirit Pagoda figure who respects his spiritual expertise. They coordinate their disciples’ education and discuss keeping them away from internal political conflict 19 20.
• Gu Yue — Leng Yaozhu’s disciple. Han Tianyi admires her elemental and spiritual talent and encourages her association with Jiang Xia 19 37.

Notable Quotes

“Little Jiang, I never expected that before I even began teaching you anything, I’d learn a path to turning illusion into reality from you instead.” 4

“In that case, during your upcoming cultivation, I’ll do my best to teach you the art of turning illusion into reality!” 37

Trivia

• Chapter 18 is an authorial correction establishing Han Tianyi as rank 98, not rank 99. Its suggestions about the placement of his soul cores are speculative; Chapter 48 later explicitly states that he condensed his Spiritual Soul Core first 18 48.
• His martial seniority makes Jiang Xia Mu Ye’s junior martial brother, even though Jiang Xia initially does not belong to the Body Sect. Han Tianyi insists that Mu Ye retain this relationship while allowing Zhen Hua to be addressed separately as “Uncle Zhen Hua” 6.