Xu Yuan

Biodata

Power Progression

The supplied text also uses “Skin Grinding” and “skin-polishing” for stages within Skin Tempering. Switching cultivation methods requires Xu Yuan to rebuild his foundation under the new art 24 28 32.

Background / History

Previous Life and Transmigration

In his previous life, Xu Yuan owned a small studio. At twenty-six, he intervened when two men attempted to assault a woman in a public restroom and died fighting them, believing he had taken both attackers down with him. He then awakened on Earth Star in the body of a student with the same name 1 27.

His predecessor extorted classmates, abused his mother, and beat his younger sister. Luo Yaoxi accidentally stabbed the predecessor to death with a ballpoint pen while resisting his attempt to force her to get a room with him. The transmigrated Xu Yuan survived the same injuries and inherited the deceased student’s memories 1.

Reforming His Household

Xu Yuan stopped participating in student bullying and told his companions that they must choose their own conduct. At home, he promised Zhang Yaying that he would no longer hit Xu Kexin. Their initial disbelief reflected how thoroughly his predecessor had frightened and alienated them 6 7.

He subsequently defended both of them against Zhang Dahai and Zhang Yu, demanded apologies, and transferred his remaining money to his mother. Later, he bought Zhang Yaying new clothes and gave Xu Kexin snacks and spending money. These actions gradually softened his sister’s hostility and restored warmth to the household 12 25 30 32.

Passing the Martial Arts Assessment

Facing elimination from the martial arts class, Xu Yuan used his new comprehension ability to earn money as a disguised instructor. He purchased divine medicinal liquid and healed his abdominal injury after twenty-four hours of dormancy 9 11 13.

During the assessment, his cultivation results placed him fifty-seventh, but his Transformation Realm Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt earned the maximum martial skill score of fifty points. He passed in ninth place overall, overturning his classmates’ expectations and attracting the school leadership’s attention 16 17 20.

Cultivation-Room Challenges

After students gained the right to fight for better cultivation rooms, Xu Yuan turned access to his Grade B room into a business by auctioning the right to challenge him. Jiang Yong bought the first slot for 20,000 yuan and lost despite being three stages above Xu Yuan 25 28 31 35.

Jiang Yong paid 50,000 yuan for a rematch and returned at Skin Tempering Sixth Stage. Xu Yuan, secretly at Fourth Stage, displayed only Third Stage speed and strength while breaking Jiang Yong’s shoulder and several ribs. The assault raised his Sin Points enough to secure another ranking reward 37 42 47.

Preparing for Beast Hunting

Xu Yuan discovered that the Heaven-Shaking Art could absorb Divine Substance from a dead Weird Beast, giving him a much faster cultivation route than medicinal resources alone. He concealed the absorption from the nearby teachers and Commander Shen 44 45.

After hearing that the Divine Guard Army had found mutated piglets on White Beggar Mountain, he suspected they would become the class’s first hunting targets. He chose to wait for the supervised outing rather than explore alone. Luo Yaoxi then transmitted two third-tier martial techniques to him and began secretly sharing another cultivation method 50.

Personality

Xu Yuan distinguishes his own principles from his predecessor’s crimes. He initially rejects the Evil Demon Ranking’s apparent demand for wrongdoing and recoils when its rewards tempt him to rationalize extortion and fraud. He is nevertheless willing to use intimidation and violence, judging Sun Hao’s offenses insufficient to warrant death while deciding that Zhou Ling should not receive the same opportunity to reduce his sins 2 5 42.

He is calculating, commercially inventive, and often shameless. He uses shills, inflated auction bids, fear-based advertising, and deliberately extended lessons to increase his earnings. He values practical benefits over the prestige of an inconsequential victory, even offering to go easy on Jiang Yong for additional payment 8 24 30 37 42.

His endurance is rooted in hardship from his previous life, including hunger, cold, contempt, and loneliness. He draws on that experience to withstand the Heaven-Shaking Art’s severe pain. Despite his eagerness to grow stronger, he stops absorbing the boar corpse when further gains might strain his body or expose his secret 23 45.

He carefully manages what others know about him. His claim that he had concealed his martial aptitude because he had offended too many people provides an explanation for his sudden improvement without revealing the Martial God’s Brain 5 13 18.

Abilities & Skills

Reincarnation Martial God’s Brain

A ranking reward that takes root within his mental space and supplies extraordinary martial comprehension 1 2 4.

• Observation-based learning: Reproduces a technique’s visible form at minor accomplishment after a single demonstration 4.
• Higher-realm comprehension: Simplifies methods and visualization diagrams so Xu Yuan can understand their deeper principles; it does not directly hand him the answers 4.
• Technique analysis: Identifies flaws in posture, breathing, and movement precisely enough to produce immediate improvements in students 9 10.
• Combat analysis: Makes Jiang Yong’s attacks appear riddled with openings. Xu Yuan’s own movements appear flawless even to Lin Yuan 35 47.
• Limit: Observation alone cannot supply the invisible “spirit,” “intent,” and “Dao” associated with major accomplishment, perfection, and Transformation Realm 4.

Heaven-Shaking Art

The “No Immortals, No Gods, Only I, the Evil Demon, Shake the Heavens Art” is his replacement cultivation method. Its recorded creator, Huo, is said to have slain twelve gods through physical strength, though Xu Yuan does not independently verify that account 21 23.

• Expanded cultivation capacity: Holds far more Divine Substance than the Savage Bull Skin-Toughening Method, producing exceptional strength for his realm 24 32.
• Corpse absorption: Its description permits absorbing Divine Substance from human corpses; Xu Yuan confirms that it also works on Weird Beast remains 23 44.
• Resource burden: He initially estimates that completing Skin Tempering through purchased resources would cost more than ten million yuan 24.
• Pain: Cultivation feels like repeated tearing and reconstruction of his flesh. Body-tempering liquid intensifies the pain while accelerating progress 23 28.
• Fourth Stage defense: Dark-gold lines briefly form a net across his body. He judges that an ordinary person wielding a blade could no longer scratch him 45.
• Absorption risk: After his rapid breakthrough, swelling sensations in his blood vessels persuade him to stop rather than force another increase 45.

Demon Descent

A divine ability accompanying the Heaven-Shaking Art, described as allowing instant relocation. Its lifesaving potential is a principal reason Xu Yuan chooses the art 23.

• Requires a Demon Descent Mark, which begins forming automatically after he learns the method 25.
• Mark formation accelerates with cultivation. Reaching Fourth Stage reduces his estimated remaining formation time from fifteen or sixteen days to about eight 45.
• No completed activation is documented in the supplied chapters.

Martial Techniques

Shared Senses and Feline Surveillance

After accidentally binding Little Blackie with the Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman, Xu Yuan can command the cat and share its senses 39.

• Uses Little Blackie’s feline underlings to monitor Lin Yuan 39 40.
• Locates Huang Yun through the cat and copies her academic examination answers, having answered only five questions himself 41.

Evil Demon Ranking

The Evil Demon Ranking, also called the Beast Ranking, tracks Sin Points and grants rewards for high placement. Its initial accusations reflect the predecessor’s crimes, but Xu Yuan’s later actions can also add points 1 21 47.

Rather than relying solely on accumulating sins, Xu Yuan exploits the ranking’s relative positions: making someone above him perform good deeds can lower that person’s score and move him upward. His own reform also lowers his points, complicating this strategy 7 8 21.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman — Ranking reward used to bind Little Blackie as his subordinate 37 39.
• Face of the Thousand-Faced Divine Monkey — Mask received for reaching seventh place. Xu Yuan intends to use it to conceal his identity when dealing with higher-ranked offenders and associates its appearance with the Great Sage 47 49.
• Divine medicinal liquid — Purchased to heal his abdominal wound; recovery requires twenty-four hours of dormancy 11 13.
• First-tier body-tempering liquid — Major cultivation consumable. He spends 40,000 yuan on twenty vials in a single day and later consumes more than eighty vials across three days and nights 28 32.

Relationships

• Zhang Yaying — Mother of his current body. Initially fears his temper; comes to trust him after he protects the family, contributes money, and buys her new clothes 6 12 32.
• Xu Kexin — Seven-year-old younger sister. Keeps a ledger of future beatings she intends to give him, erasing marks as he earns her approval 6 12 25 32.
• Luo Yaoxi — Classmate who revered the predecessor’s childhood self but accidentally killed him while resisting his assault. Welcomes Xu Yuan’s reform; he gives her a phone to celebrate her awakening, and she shares advanced techniques with him 1 13 46 47 50.
• Luo Han / Fatty — Companion who declines to continue Sun Hao’s extortion. Helps Xu Yuan attract teaching customers and inflate challenge-auction bids 6 8 9 30 31.
• Zhang Juye — Class monitor, paying student, and business supporter. Suggests teaching at the base, deduces that Xu Yuan is Master Bao, and keeps that identity secret 7 20 25.
• Sun Hao — Former bullying associate. Xu Yuan forces him to donate his illicit savings and leaves beggars a way to report any attempt to reclaim the money 20 21.
• Lin Yuan — Martial arts teacher. Recognizes Xu Yuan’s extraordinary technique and combat skill, while frequently becoming exasperated with his schemes; Xu Yuan secretly places him under feline surveillance 18 24 35 39.
• Niu Gang — Martial arts department director. Recognizes his Transformation Realm technique and warns him not to squander his talent 17 18.
• Jiang Yong — Paying challenger and recurring opponent. Loses both matches against Xu Yuan, suffering serious injuries in the rematch 31 35 37 47.
• Little Blackie — Bound feline subordinate, sensory proxy, and coordinator of other cats 39 41.
• Sister Wang — Leather-armor supplier. Negotiates an 80,000-yuan cut for Xu Yuan and later thanks him for not revealing her own share when students discover the markup 30 33.
• Zhou Ling — Hostile classmate whose spear demonstration supplies Xu Yuan with a second-tier technique. After seeing his recorded crimes, Xu Yuan chooses him as his next target 4 42.

Notable Quotes

“From today onward, I won't do this kind of thing anymore. As for you two, decide for yourselves.” 6

“A brand-new Xu Yuan.” 13

“If you want to cripple me, you must be prepared to get crippled yourself, right?” 47